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COLUMBUS TIMES Published Daily (Sundays excepted) at the rate of *4.00 per month, or sl2 tor three months. No subscription received for a longer term tJum hree month*. advertising rates : Advertisements inserted for $2 00 per square for each insertion. Where advertisements axe inserted a month, the •barge will be S3O per square. Announcing candidates S2O, which must invariably paid in advance. CARGO SALE. BY JAMES H. TAYLOR, AUCTIONEER, Corner of Broad and Campbell Streets, AUGUSTA, GA. On Wednesday, 3d August. Commencing at nine o’clock, will be sold in my Store, THE CARGO OF THE *TEAUISIIIP SYREN, Lately Arrived, Consisting of O-ZRzOOEIE^XIES. 82 Barrel Coffee; 45 “ “ Extra; 30 “ Crushed Sugar; 30 “ Brown “ 20 Boxes English Yellow Soap; 50 “ Domestic Family Soap: 20 “ Castle Soap; 50 “ Best Starch; 100 Kits Superior Mackerel: 40 Half Barrels “ 4 Barrels “ yj Gross Windsor Soap ; 20 Cases Suporior Old Cognac Brandy; 2 Barrels Whiskey, 10 Bags Sifted Pepper ; 1 Box Oolong Tea ; 3 Barrels Blacking Powder; 48 Boxes English Candles; 30 Bales Carolina Rice; > 14 Barrels Lard Oil; . IDJEZST GOOIDS -900 Doz. Coats’ Spool Cotton ; 100 Gross Super. Bono Buttons; 4 Cases Fronting Linen; 3 Bales Muslin; 222 Lbs. Blk. Linen Thread; 215 Doz. White Cotton Hose; 240 “ Assorted Gloves; • 250 Pieces Tape Check Muslins; 20 Cases Bleached Shirtings ; 2 Bales Madder Handkerchiefs ; 1 Case Assorted Alpaccas; 2 Cases Mosquito Netting; 2 “ Linen Coats; 2 Bales Cassimere Tweeds: 40 Dozen Hoop 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 Pins; 256 Y'ds Canton Crape; 50 Doz. Linen C. Ild’kfs; 2 Cases Imperial Linen; 2 “ Fancy Madder Prints; 1 Bale Fancy Doe Skin Cassimere; 7 Bales Fancy Union Tweeds; 1 Bale Hair Line Cloths; 50 Doz. Men’s Merino Shirts; 250 Bundles Cotton Yarns; 10 Bales Cotton Drills; 10 “ 3 Shirting; 5 “ i." 10 “ Heavy Osnaburgs. SUXTST-DK/rjES. 18 Coils Hemp Rope ; 250 M. Envelopes; 580 Reams assorted Paper; 100 Doz. pair Cotton Cards ; 45 Gross Load Pencils ; 3000 Pair Leaf Cards; 168 Setts Knives and Forks; 18 Doz. French Calf Skins; 500 Gross Steel Pens; 100 Gross Pen Holders ; 1 Case Straw Hats; 100 Doz. Pocket Knives; 1 Case Wool Hats; 2000 Pairs Children’s Shoes; 39 Bundles Seine Twine; 100 Reams Bath Letter Papor; 100 Packs Hair Pins. DIR/TTCxS &0. 500 Ounces Snip. Quinine; 20 Barrels Epsom Salts ; 100 Casks Sup. Carb. Soda ; 20 Bbls. Sal Soda; 3 Balos Alexandria Senna; 3 Cases Sanders’ Blue Mass; 1 Case lodide Potass; “ Hyd. Cum. Creta; 7 Kegs Alcohol—each 18 gallons; 60 Oz. Morphine—Sulp.; 2 Bbls. Gum Arabic; 1 Bbl. Ivory Black; 2 Bbls. Vinegar. Conditions—CASH. jyl9 eodtd TtCKINGJENIMSj&C. By JAMES H. TAYLOR, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. On Wednesday, Aug. 3d. WILL be sold in my Store, a fine lot of Staple Goods, by recent importations, consisting in part of Bales Bleached Shirting; Bales Blue and Brown Denims; Bales Bed Ticking. —ALSO- Casks of Socket Shovels and Spades: Casks of Knives and 1 orks; Cases of Cut Tacks; Oises of Wood Screws; Cases of Handsaws; Cases of Mill, Saw and Taper I lies : Cases of Cotton Cards, Ac.; Holland Gin in cases; 11 cases Morphine; East India Rhubarb; Cases Carb of Potash: 1 case Bengal Indigo; Cases Powdered Cubebs and Jalap; Ipecac, Oil of Almonds ; (Klotnel, Opium, Arrow Root; Oil of Peppermint; I'foaaf tT— __ Towels ; Corsetts, India Rubber Shoes: Sbo®. vary CONDITIONS CASH. jy 2$ fid MS, Alffl, sm tt, a BY JAMES H. TAYLOR. AUGUSTA, GA. Oil tlie 3d oi August, WILL be sold in my Store, without reseixe, the Ckrgo of the Steamship Prince Albert, just ar rived, to-wit: 28 casks English Copperas: 250 casks Supr Carb Soda: 20 barrels Sal Soda; 17 barrels Epsom Salts: 2 " Alum; 5 bales Hops; 8 casks Alcohol: 39 coils Manilla Rope; 25 bags Sifted Pepper, See. CASM.-S* july 25 td TO HIRE! POR the balance of the s’ ea^£ r f r t^e^ o a^ l e e n ' boaie ' l * jul 28 ts Notice to" Debtors and Cred itors. ILL persons indebted to the estate of .Seaborn A Jones, deceased, are required to make imme diate payment, and those having claims against Saul estate are required to render them in terms oi tne law to the undersigned. , , , SEABORN J. BENNING, Adm’r. Bs MARY H. BENNING, Agent. 3u128 w6t l«s. - w Vol. XI. J. W. WARREN & CO. Proprietors „ J. W. WARREN, Editor Notice. All Omcrss or Men registered as patients in this hospital in private quarters will report Imme diately in Person, or they will be reported to Iheir commands as deserters. W. A. ROBERTSON, jul29 d3t Surg. in charge Lee Hospital. Headquarters Conscript Service,! . Augusta, July 25,1864. j General Orders, 1 ' No. 42. / The following extract from Circular, No. 24, Bu reau of Conscription, (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 the 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, clothing, and the like, to be consumed in family use, 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 tho 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 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. WM. M. BROWNE, „ Commandant. P. Looney, Lt. and Adj’t. jul2B 5t NE W BOOKS JTTST IFUTBIjISIEIIEID BY EVANS & COGSWELL, COLUMBIA, S. C. THE SPIRIT OF MILITARY INSTITUTIONS, By Marshal Marmont. Translated from tho latest Paris edition by Fbank Schaller, olonel *22d Regiment Mississippi Infantry. Price $5. One third off to the trade. INFANTRY TACTICS, For Brigade, Bivision, and Army orps, by Gen Casey, U. S. Army. Pronounced the best work of the kind in the language. Illustrated with 29 Lith ographed Plates, and well bound. Price $5. One third off to the trade. CHISOLM’S SURGERY, Being a third edition of this valuable work. Splen didly illustrated, and finely bound. Price $lO. One third off to the trade. The editions of all of these valuable works arc under 2,000 copies, and those in* want will do well to send in their orders at once. ALSO, General Orders, A. & I. CL’s Office, up to Ist April, 1864. Price $5. One-third off to the trade. Andrew’s Light Artillery Drill Splendidly illustrated. Price $4. One-third off to tho trade. Any of these books will be sent free of postage on receipt es the price, in new issue, or the old at the discount. EVANS & COGSWELL, July 6 3t Publishers. THE DAILY & WEEKWINTELLIGENCEB. Tho undersigned proprietor of the ATLANTA Daily aud Weekly Intelligencer. announces to tho 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 will be furnished as usual with their pa pers : Correspondents, advertisers and all persons hav ing business with tho lITTELLIOEITC EH will pleasse address their communications to The Intelligencer Office, Macon, Georgia. All JOB and GOVERNMENT WORK on hand will be resumed at an early day. JARED I, WHITAKER, - Proprietor. jul27 It Flag of Truce Letters Confederate States of America,) ~ Department, > Bureau of Exchange, ) Richmond, Va., July Ist, 1884. 1. All letters to go North by flag of truce must be sent to this office. 2. Each letter must be inclosed in a separate en velope and addressed to me. Bureau of Exchange, T>;-V 3 \Ta uituinonu, >... 3. No letter must exceed in length one page of ordinary sized letter paper, and its contents be con fined strictly to personal or family matters. No letter alluding to the movements or localities v of troops will be allowed to pass. 4. Each letter must contain a United States post age stamp, or its equivalent in silver or United States currency. These regulations will be rigidly enforced, and no letter transmitted in which they arc not strictly oteorved. RQB , T OCLD Agent of Exchange. (Official,] . _ W H Hatch, Captain and A A G. i july22 6t Shoemakers 7 and Saddlers’ THE UNDERSIGNED having commenced the -*■ 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. Dielard. Mobile Register, Mississippian and August* Con stitutionalist, please copy one month and send bills to this office, mar 30 ts NOTICE. To Planters and Others 2 T WILL EXCHANGE Osnaburg.-, Sheeting and 1 Yarns, for Bacon. Lard, Tallow and Beeswax. I will be found at Robinett <fc Go’s old stand, where I am manufacturing Gandie^and^Lard_g^foi^|a^e. june 2 ts AN and after the ist July, my office and dwelU U ing will be on Broad st., at the residence of the la julyl u" C¥in * S ' W. J. MURRELL. M, D Columbus, 6a. Thurssday Morning, August4.lßß4. NEW GOODS!! NEW GOODS!!! .A. T Mrs. DESSAU’S. ! FROM THE LATE BLOCKADE SALE AT A-ugusta, G-a. The goods arc all superior to what is offered elsewhere, and will be sold lower than lately. In the assortment can be found : I Ladies’ New Hats, New Bonnet Ribbons, New Belts, Bobinet Musquiio Netting, Tucking and Dressing Combs, Ladies’ Hosery, Three y’ds w ide Linen Sheeting, Superior Bleached Shirting, Printed Jackonets, Ginghams, English and French Calicoes, Bombazine, Alpacas, Elegant Leroes. O.A LL SEE. ie 21 ts . Medical Card. DR. E. ATKOSSIf. {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 devotedlto the treatment of the diseases of woinem. Surgical operations performed for Fistula in Ano, Visico-Vaginal fistula, Hydrocele, Congenital and Accidental Phymosis, Varicocele, Hasmorrhoids or Piles, Callous Impas sable strictures, False Passages, Tallapes or Club Foot, and contraction of the fingers, Strabismus or Squinting, Aneurism,’Varix 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 ofthslGenito-Urinary System, comprsing the different stages of Ghonorrhoea, 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 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 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 personsin the city. Address all commuications to DR. E. A. ROSSY. Columbus. Ga, 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 to furnish their own provisions and bed ding. 4®“lwill 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 iu'Europe and America, will form a part of my treatment. febll3m E. A.R. Change of Schedule. Office Engineer and Superintendent, j Charleston and Savannah Railroad, > Charleston, June 7,1864.} AN THURSDAY, June 9,1864, and until further U notice, the Schedule of the Passenger train will be as follow, viz: Leave Charleston...’. '.,.9.45, a. in. Arrive in Savannah 5.40, p. m. Leave Savannah 5,30, a. m. Arrive in Charleston 1.15, p. m. This Train makos direct connections, going north and south, with the Northeastern Railroad at Char leston, and the Central Railroad at the Junction. H. S. HAINES, J une 14 ts . Engineer and Superintendent. FRICTION MATHCES! r PHE Columbus, Ga., Friction Match Company, x have again resumed operations, 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 & Duck, who will be kept constantly supplied. S. D. THOM & CO., Manufacturers. N. B.—lt haring 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* 14,1864 dtf Change of Schedule. . ON and after Sunday, June 19th, the Trqins 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 8 10 P. Mr 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 R, R. “ Notice to Planters and Con sumers of Iron.” WE will keep 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 hanu 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 01 SEVERAL DESCRIP TIONS : SUGAR AND SALT KETTLES—FROM 40 ‘ffO 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 3tf Next o New Bridge, TOWOODCITTE RS! IW ILL Exchange 100 Cords Oak and Pine Wood for the labor ci Catting and Splitting Rails; pri cing each at prices before the war. jul29 4t R. J- MOSE&. FOR SALE! ANO. 1 COOK, "WASHER and IRONER. 28 y’rs old; sold for no fault. Apply to | jul29 ts E. J. PINCKARD & CO ; j FOR SALE ! One of the Most Desirable Resi dences in Wynnton. THE Lot contains forty acres of Land—twenty of 1 which are in the woods. The House is comrno - I dious and convenient; containing six basement t rooms and seven on the first floor. On the premises are good and new out-houses, barns and stables; an orchard filled with selections of choice apples, peaches, apneots. cherries, plums and pears; also a vineyard of grapes in fall bearing. This location is healthy, supplied with excellent water and con venient to the city. Persons desiring to invest will not have as rare chance probably during the war.— Parties wishing to negotiate for-this property will call on E. J. Pmckard, who will give them any in formation desired. Possession given immediately, iui 29 ts J. R. BANKS, Wednesday Eveui :g. Douglas Ambulance Corps. Will fend a messenger with supplies to tbe army Wednesday. Vege tables and H ams are much need ed. Those who have to spare are requested to send contributions to Goodrich & Co’s Store, by two o’clock, p. m., on the above named day. ag22t C. G. HOLMES, Sec'y. Froip Gordon. We have just seen Mr. Smallwood, says the 3fa- Confederate, of the 2d, whe resides in the neigh borhood of Gordon, No. 17, Central Rail Road.— He is from Gordon to-day and says—the damage done by the Yankee Raiders at Gordon was only to burn the warehouse and contents and two store houses, on the same side of the road as the ware house. They also burned several cars and en gines, and left unburnt several engines belonging to the State Rail Road. Very little damage was done to the road from Gordon to Griswoldville, and com paratively little damage done near Griswoldville except to burn some Rail Road machines and roll ing stock—and but little damage above Griswold ville, except within about three miles of this place, where Mr. Massey’s Mills, situated near the Rail Road, were burned. We understand the Oconee Bridge on the Central Rail Road is certainly burned. Tbe Raiders. As many as two Yankee raiding parties, if no more, have certainly come to grief. Stoneman’s chunk has been effectually extinguished by our former fellow-townsman, —tho gallant Iverson. A gentleman who left Macon Monday night informs us that he saw the marauding Yankee chief with eighty officers and six hundred men safely housed, or fenced in at Camp Oglethorpe, on the afterneon of that day. The prisoners were escorted to Macon by a strong guard, while the balance of General Iverson’s command went in pursuit of the scatter ed and flying raiders. It is said that the Yankees lost 200 killed and wounded in the fight that ended in their rout. From all accounts Rosseau has met even a more signal defeat at Newnan. Os the fifteen hundred Yankees with whom he entered that place only three hundred are now at large. Roddy’s dis mounted cavalry happened to be there, en route to Hood, and they with a portion of Wheeler’s caval ry did the business. It is reported that wo c tured nearly all tho horses the Yankees had. W think the raiding programme will be suspended for a while. Capture of* Bro willow’s Raid ers at Newnan. Avery handsome affair occurred at New nan, on the Atlanta and West Point Railroad, yesterday morning, in which the larger por tion of the marauder’s (Brownlow’s) com mand was captured by the opportune arrival of Gen. Roddy’s command at that place. Gen. I Roddy’s Brigade had arrived at Newnan on j the night before and the train was stopped i there during the night in consequence of the | fact that the raiders were probably in the ! vicinity, or had torn up a portion of the track |to Atlanta. After daylight Gen. Roddy, hear ! ing that the Yankee cavalry were advancing i upon the town, deployed his Brigade, outside the limits of the town, in the direction that | the enemy were supposed to be coming, i After waiting for some hours, Gen. Roddy, believing that it was a false alarm, had the "whistle of the locomotive sounded, that being the agreed signal, for his troops to assemble at the train. At that time about fifteen yan kee cavalry came galloping up to him and demanded his surrender. He replied that he had not come there to surrender and called on his escort, who were not far off, to fire into them. The escort rushed to their guns, which were stacked, when the cavalry fired into them, without damage and immediately gal loped off. Gen. Roddy’s command coming up now, and seeing that the main body of the i yankees were advancing from the opposite side of the town, on which his men. had been posted, he went out to charge them. He here had quite a heavy skirmish with them, holding them in check until a body of Confederate cavalry, under Gen. Wheeler, who had been pursuing them, came up in their rear, and having the Yankees surrounded, after an ineffectual effort to move out by the right flank, about six hundred of them vere taken prisoners. Among them is Col. Brown low, who was in command of the party, and who is also reported wounded. He can now have an opportunity of adding a supplement to the notorious Parson Brownlow’s book of his experiences in a Confederate prison. ; These are the same raiders who were on j Friday last engaged in the work of tearing up j the Railroad between this city and Atlanta, ! and of plundering the citizens in tbe vicinity jof Lovejoy’s station. The confidence we have | expressed that the raiders in Georgia would ; t> e chastised by our cavalry has not been mis placed. In a day or two more we expect to chronicle a similar fate having befallen the ! bold raiders who have been playing their pranks about Macon. All of the enemy’s artillery (six pieces) was , captured, and it is believed that many more ; prisoners will be secured. The original force of the raiders is not esti | mated at Headquarters at more than twelve hundred. It will be seen, therefore, that more than half of them are already prisoners, seve ral having been taken at Lovejoy’s. Gallant Affair on the Roanoke. —We arc in possession of fuller and more authentic details of the gallant little affair on the Roanoke river lately alluded t„ by us. The facL are these : signal officer Albert Clarke and Pilot Hopkins, both of the Confederate steamer Albemarle, and private Frank R. O’Brien, of the Montgomery True Blues, Light Artiliary were on a scout seme miles below Plymouth and within a mile of a Yankee gunboat, on the Roanoke, on the morning of the 4th of July. Whilst feeling their way along the bank of the river they perceived a cou ple of canoes, each having three men armed with rifles and each a couple of navy revolvers, j The canoes were stealthily creeping up the river 1 bank and were not perceived until abreast of our scouts. Tbe three gallant Confederates levelled I their guns at the Yankees and ordered them to halt. One of the canoes did so, but the other . made an attempt to escape, on which Signal Offi cer Clark issued orders to some imaginary forces in the bushes to look after “that boat,” when it, too, halted. The Yankees were then ordered to | throw their arms overboard, which they quickly | did. Two of them were then ordered to get into the other canoe, and the remaining man was or ; dered to paddle in shore and take the “Confess” on board. He did so, but exclaimed “The Hell!” | when he saw but three step in. It was too late, however, for that kind of thing, and our heroes seating themselves at the stern of the boat, order ed the party “forward,” and made them “paddle their own canoes” to Plymouth, where they were duly handed over to CapL Maffitt. Our gallant boys then paddled back and fished up six splendid rifles, and twelve pistols, 1 which were generously presented them by Capt. M., with the additional compliment of a fifteen days’ fur j longh each. And they richly deserved it, and | this simple tribute, too.-—Raleigh Journal. Two brothers in New Jersey, have been fined SSOO for obstructing and resisting an officer engaged in collecting the United States In ternal Revenue [54.00 Per Month (From the Intelligencer, 3d inst.) Capture of Stonenian. BATTLE OF SUNSHINE CHURCH. On Monday noon, rumors began to fly through the city that Stonenian and his command were captured and on their way to this city. About five o’clock in the evening, hundreds of people of all sexes and colors flocked to the bridge to see the prisoners as they passed. Gen. Iverson, the captor, with a strong escort, soon came into view, with General Stoneman and staff in custody. The cavalcade passed to Camp Oglethorpe to be registered and placed in guarded quarters. An immense number of curiosity seeks ers followed, exhibiting on their smiling faces the comfort the capture ot the party gave to them. We visited the prisoners at the military prison and by the courtesy of the gentles manly and efficient commandant of the post, Col. Gibbes, was permitted to see and converse with the prisoners. They look much worn and considerably dejec* ted, Stoneman himself complaining of much fatigue. The General is a large, tall, thin man, with a face very much bronzed and rough; somewhat haggard features; sandy whiskers and hair, dark, keen lowering eyes and look, darting sharp, piercing looks occasionally, at his interrogators. He bears the appearance of a man of iron will, who exacts implicit obedjence to his commands and is stern in his decrees. His strong, powerful frame, seems capable of enduring any amount of hardships. His every feature and powerful, wiry motions, indicate the endurance of a Hercules and mark him the leader of desperate enterprises the character of which, have made him his reputation as an inimitable raider. In his capture there has been more gained to us, in the moral effect it produ« ces on us and the enemy, than any other capture of the war. He well knows that the influence it will have will be to cheer up our people and depress the North very much, and it loses to Sherman the great and most dangerous arm of that General’s effectiveness. His capture will place a quietus on the amusement for a long time. For now that the chief of all the raiders has fallen and will not soon be again on the war track, raids will not soon be at tempted again. His ambitious hopes are gone to the winds, and he will be scarcely heard of again during the war, unless he escapes; but we presume such an episode will be too carefully guarded against to ever occur. He informed us he left Sherman’s army ; on the 27th of July, and has been active- ! Iv engaged on the raid constantly since. Gen. Iverson has been on Stoneman’s ] track since Wednesday evening, the 27th7 He overtook the raiding party on Thurs day, at the junction of South and Yellow Rivers, where their junction forms the Ocmulgee, some sixty miles Northwest of this city. A spirited fight ensued. Kel ly’s and Hume’s cavalry fought the com mand that Stoneman detached for the purpose of delaying pursuit. Gen. Iver son suspected the maneuver, and left Kelly and Hume to finish the fight,, whilst he passed around the party and continued the pursuit. Stoneman, when he neared Ma con, detached a party to operate on Mill edgeville and Eaton ton. We learn this evening (Monday) that it was unsuccess-’ ful, the militia having deterred them from attacking, and thereby saved the Capital from destruction. On Saturday night Stoneman discov- 3n. Iverson’s command above Clin ton, disputing his return. He quickly decided that he could not escape on either flank, and determined to fight through the centre. His command numbered nearly twenty-five hundred men, and he thinks if his men had done as he expected them to do, and as they should have done, he would have escaped. On Sunday morning the opposing forces began the battle of Sunshine Church on the Clinton and Eatonton road, and it was furious during the greater part of the day. Toward sunset Stoneman, finding he would be defeated, separated his forces, with or*, ders for tbeiu tu e»u»po if possible. They scattered. A portion under (j-iraid going toward Eatohton, Adams’ cavalry pur*, suing. Our forces consisted of Iverson’s- Geor gia brigade, Adams’ Alabama, and “Cerro Gordo” Williams’ brigade—General Iver son commanding. The enemy had three brigades of well mounted and superbly equipped cavajry. Our forces captured some five or six hundred up to Monday morning and all their artillery and equip*, ments and have been hunting and pursu ing them, since the battle was decided m utter rout. The casualties are considerable on both sides, but much the greatest on the part of the enemy. No estimate has been formed of the losses, but Gen, Iverson knew of over two hundred and fifty Yan kees killed, having been found on the field. The enemy abandoned all his artillery, leaving two pieces on Saturday before Ma con, and having no ammunition for the other pieces on Saturday, he left them on the field.. Thus has ended the great raid on Macon, The greatest, boldest, and hitherto most successful operator in that line, and near ly all of his command are captured j the rest dispersed and lost. The victory has been most successful to Gen. Iverson, and his bold cavaliers, and one that will give to them much credit and reputation. Stoneman thinks Gen. Iverson mans aged the affair very handsomely, and though he is defeated and perhaps dis~ pirited, he acknowledges that to be cap tured by the foroe (thirteen hundred) that Iverson had, is a reputable piece of busi-* ness for the General, and will make him noted as he deserves whilst at the same time, be has struck a blow that will count heavily against the North, for a great deal was expected of his expedition; and though he accomplished much, yet his own cap ture and the discomfiture of his force# } goes far to counterbalance any advantages > he may have gained. -r ! [Special Correspondence of the Rebel.] From the Army of Tennessee Atlanta, Monday morning, Aug. 2. But little has transpired at the front since my last, worthy of note. Unusaal quiet pre vails along the lines this morning. Up to last evening the enemy were supposed to be con tinuing their movements towards our left; we have reason to believe, however, with less confidence of success in their ultimate purpose of cutting us off from our communications. Sherman evidently understands that every inch of the ground will be contested. It is equally evident that he has no thought of testing our breastworks. It becomes, there fore, a work of strategy, in which I have strong hopes he will be defeated by the un surpassed energy of Gen. Hood, and the un equaled gallantry of his troops, unless the problem is worked out by means of his cav alry. Praise and censure on the part of editors and army correspondents, have been so indis criminate on the one hand, and so inconsid erate on the other, that it is with hesitancy 1 indulge in either. The inefficiency of the cavalry of this army, has been too serious a matter, and is too patent to the commonest understanding to require sileuce. If it had been so for a day, or a week, or a month, or if it was wanting in a field for ample operations; or was deficient in material for effective ser vice, we might, in a spirit of charity, find excuse in someone of these reasons. But I am gratified to know, while I am pained to say, that no suclf excuse exists. From personal knowledge, I am prepared to say, that tho ma terial composing the cavalry, connected with this army, is of tho highest order, and I have been assured by various well informed sources, that in point of numbers, it is amply able to cope with that of the enemy. And yet from Fort Donelson on the Cumberland river, to Fayettville and Macon, we have had almost an unbroken line of discouraging and ruin ous inefficiency in that arm of the service under the special charge of Gen. Wheeler. I am not disposed to disparage the merit of this officer. We have ample assurance of his gallantry and patriotism, and we have heard of no complaint against him from either of the distinguished Generals who have respect ively commanded this army. We might con clude, therefore, that whatever inefficiency exists has resulted from their orders, at least to such an extent as to prevent their com plaining. Gen. Wheeler certainly satisfied Gen. Bragg. He seem 9to have satisfied Gen* Johnston, and we have no evidence to the contrary in the case of Gen. Hood. I submit, therefore, that while this continues, if the public complain, they should direet it against the superior and not the subordinate. If our roads are torn up and our communications cut off; if our wagon trains and depots are burned; our towns sacked, our country de vastated and our subsistence destroyed; while the enemy’s communications, running for hun dreds of miles through our territory, remain undisturbed and their rear permitted to enjoy the most peifect repose, the fault, if there is any fault, is with the commander of the army of Tennessee, who either fails to appreciate the inefficiency of Gen Wheeler, or seeing it, is unwilling to take the responsibility of at tempting its correction by the necessary change. I do not makfc these remarks so much in a spirit of censure as to fix responsibility. If Gon. Wheel er—however gallant, however patriotic, however high in rank—is unequal to the task before him, no one has so good a means of knowing the fact as Gen. Hood; and knowing yt, upon him rests the responsibility of a change; and if it is not made, the conclusion is inevitable that he takes upon himself whatever responsibility attaches to that arm of the service under its present loador; either by approving his management of the caval ry, or by his unwillingness to make such charges as will correct the inefficiency, to whomsoever it may be chargeable. It has been a matter of wonder to all military men with whom I have conversed for weeks past— I give but little weight to tho speculations of citi zens—that so little has been done upon the enemy’s rear, in view of the length and exposed condition of his communications. Scarcely an experiment has been made in that direction; on the contrary their cavalry have been permitted to sweep over a wide district of country, extending from Decatur on the Tennessee river to Opelika on the Montgo mery and West Point Railroad, thence around to the Georgia railroad, and last to the Macon and Western Railroad," almost without the show of re sistance, in little time and with trifling loss. I respectfully submit that this ought not to be" permitted, and "that the country should look to Gen. Hood, and not to Gen. Wheeler, to correct it. The latter has shown he cannot. The former can, and such is my faith in his practical energy that 1 believe he will; and if so, the sooner the better. I had the pleasure of a visit to General Carter's Brigade the other day. It was fast-day with the boys. They had made a donation of their ratiens for that day to tho poor of Atlanta. I was told that other brigades had done likewise, but I neg lected te note the particular commands. In his tory what higher eulogy can be passed upon these noble patriots than to record the fact, that, in the midst of their privations from alternate marching, skirmishing and fighting, confronting the enemy, ever watchful, with an incessant play of artillery and picket firing around them, these care-worn veterans, so apparently indifferent to their owu sufferings, can turn a pitying ear to their necessi ties of the unknown poor of the city they are de fending, even to the sharing of their hunger with them: while their own hearthstones, around which cluster that which is most sacred and dear to every heart, are in the lines of the enemy, the daily sub ject of his vandal tread and unchristian outrages. Howevar mysterious may be the workings of a benign Providence, who can doubt that His smile will yet illuuline the path of such heroes, and tho’ it leads them through a furnace of fire, will finally deliver them from the hands of their persecuting enemy, crowned with independence, chastened for their wickedness, but instructed for a higher ap preciation and fuller enjoyment of His blessings. And to our noble women, who have shown so much sympathy for their brave countrymen and ."oulißess to administer to their sufferings, here is an adaaiuuj incentive to be, if possible, more zealous and more sacrificing in tfieir eawta to alleviate the pains of the sick and wounded and to comfort those who chance to come within their doors. And to our fathers and brothers at home, here is a lesson also, which, if properly profited by, will be invaluable to the country. It teaches us that fighting is not the only duty that has to be per formed in the struggle for national independence. . If the same spirit which prompts the soldier, while confronting the enemy, to remember the distresse-. behind him, could take the place in the bosom of every one, of that sordid selfishness which has so disgraced a large portion of our home population, what increased strength and what woneerful stim ulus it would give to our cause. Let the penuri . ous man and the speculator, fattening upon the j life-blood of the country, blush for shame. a Trans-Mississippi Item.— A private letter ; from an officer of Price’s army, at Camden, Ark., says, Gen. Joe Shelby has three or four thousand cavalry, and is occupying Clarendon, White river. Gen. Fagan is on the Arkansas river, .below JPine Bluff, with several thousand cavalry and infantry. The Yankees still hold Little Rock, Pine Bluff and Duvall’s Bluff. The army is rapidly increas , ing in numbers, and guns are much needed. We rather think it is Price’s intention to get the Yan kees out of the Arkansas valley before he crosses i the line. —Meridian Clarion, 28(5. COTTON CARDS! TEN DOZ. COTTON CARDS to Exchange tor ! 1 CoU “ try Pr0ll °"- M 1U BROAD ST. ju!29 d2twlt _ Columbus, Ga. IVegro Teamsters Wanted! • I wish to hire a number of Nepo Teamsters for the Army of Tennessee. Citizenshaving such hands will please notify me immediately; as in this way a number ofseldiers may be relieved to strengthen our struggling army. Apply to , THOS. C. JOHNSON. ju!27 2w Government Transportation Works. §3O Reward. I WILL pay the above reward for 808. a black boy, about 24 years - old. He ha.; been out three or four week?, and is supposed to ba lurking about JNO ’ a ‘ BASS