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Iftoiumte Wimt*. J. W. WARREN* ~ ~ " Editor. Thursday AllgUSt Those persons who. whenever the military situ ation looks a little gloomy or complicated, begin straightway to write or talk about negotiations for peace, should profit by the rebuke which impartial and disinterested observers are constantly adminis tering. The intelligent opinion of England, m - fleeted in the constant advance o riuro an( j curities, should stimulate our hope a ’ urevent that exhibition of weakness and fear we sometimes see on occasions such as we have allu ded to. In Meinoriam.. Capt. .Town K. Redd enlisted as a private in the Columbus Gua.ds early in this struggle. After Col. Semmes of the 2d Georgia Regi ment was promoted to Brigadier General, he selected*(then) private Redd as one of his aids. In this capacity he passed through some of the hardest fought battles in Virginia, distin guished alike for his gallantry and noble bear ing. After two yeurs’a service he received a short leave of absence. He took advantage of this to raise a company for General Cobb s command in Florida, preferring a position in the line of promotion to the staff appointment he held. With the aid of three of his young friends ns lieutenants, who bad themselves seen two years 1 service, he soon completed his company, in the face of greater embarrass- | meats, perhaps, than any other company has j been recruited during the war, owing to the I scarcity of material. This company was at tached to the 64th Ga. Regt., commanded by the lamented Col. John W. Evans, of Bain bridge, Ga.. which suffered much from the malaria of Florida—the casualties from dis ease being greater in that climate than many hard fought battles. Lincoln, in the latter part of last winter, sent his mongrel breed of emissaries to take possession of the’ State of Florida and pro vide for its government. These robbers and armed slaves were met at Olustee by an inferior force under Gen. Colquitt, and utterly routed after a severe battle. The 64th Ga. Regt. was in advance and bore the whole shock of the first part of that engagement, and Capt. Redd’s daring wojxld have been con sidered rashness in a less desperate cause and occasion. He was the first to mount the enemy’s works and capture some of his guns. He re ceived a wound on the head, which would have made an occasion for many, very justly, to lie in a hospital for some months. Not so with him. In a few days he rejoined his com mand, and with it repaired to anew field, of strife in Virginia. The accounts of battles around Petersburg have been meagre, but we have gathered the statement from the Richmond papers, that the G4th Ga. Regt., soon after its arrival, captured four hundred prisoners, and killed large num bers of the euemy, and we have it from pri vate sources that Oapt. Redd, with two of his lieutenants present (Lieuts. Park and Russell, both lately wounded,) bore most conspicuous parts in this brilliant achievement. But, alas ! in this cruel, desolating war, the hero of a dozen battles has not seen the end, and may not live to enjoy the fruits of his toil and his glory. It was thus with Capt. Redd. His regiment had yet another desperate battle to deliver, and though we have as yet no partic ulars save the fearful list of casualties, we are assured by these, it was where it has ever been found when danger was nigh—in the advance. We are further assured that Capt. Redd was where he has ever been in the hour of. battle —at the post duty and of honor. These brief ungarnished facts speak more for the memory of this noble soldier than flowers of rhetoric or studied panegyric. He was a favorite in his regiment and every one was ready to sound his praises. His warm and effectiouate heart, his mild and endear ing manners were the admiration of all.— Though calm and serene in social life he was ardent and enthusiastic iu battle ; his bravery had particularly attracted the attention of his superior officers, and his comrades feel as though they have lost a brother. He posses sed the gentleness and innocence of the dove, and intrepidity of the lion. In him refine ment, courtesy and benignity, entwined with the laurels of the brave. But life, honor, love, have passed to Him who gave them.— Well! thus it is. thou shouldst have died!— with all to live for. A grateful country mourns tor thee—bright eyes shall weep for thee. They that live shall envy thee. Death! glory takes out thy sting.” He sleeps iu the sleep of hon or. His cause was his country's freedom and her faith. He is dead! The cross of the Chris tian knight is ou his breast! Adopting the language of a revolutionary patriot may I not exclaim, Oh ! my couuJ,ry meu! what will our children say, when they read the history of these times, should they find that we tamely gave away, without one uoble struggle, the most invaluable of earthly blessings! As they drag the sraH'"# will they uut execrate us? If we have any re spect for things sacred, any regard to the dearest treasure ou earth : if we have one ten der sent iment for posterity: if we would not be despised by the whole world;—let us, in the most open, solemn manner, and with de termined fortitude, swear—we will die, if we cannot live, freemen ! Yankee Doings near Walnut Creek.— On Saturday, (says the Macon Confederate, es the 2d,) the Yankees while on the other side of Walnut Creek took James Dukes, John Davis, Thos. Wimberly and Mrs. Wimberly prisoners. The three men were paroled and the lady released. At Mr. Massey's they took a number of mules and horses, and destroyed the Factory and Saw Mill. At the house of Mr. Champion they stole everything they ; wanted and destroyed the Swee ney’s house was rifled of everything. They also carried off four negroes, belonging to Mr. I Champion, one or two of Mr. J. A. Thorp, j and one in the employ of Mr. McCall. They ) carried off altogether some forty or fifty ne- j groes. but subsequently permitted all who de- j sired to return. But one negro, we learn, decided to go with them. They visited the house of Capt. S. S. Dunlap, this side of the creek, stole all of his mules and horses, and completely destroyed his farm. His negroes fled before the Yankees reached the house and are non in Capt. Dunlap s possession. wbu.e Blliugton clerks who showed the ssses »? u o£°?. the I IFrom tbe Okalona News, 21at.] our Late Raid--Battle of Har risburg. On Tuesday the 13tk inst., our forces commenced marching towards Pontotoc to meet the enemy, who seemed afraid to come farther South. An attack was in tended next morning, but the Yankees, unwilling to risk an open field fight, moved off during the night in the direction of Tupelo. A strong rear guard being left, t was some time before their movement xraß discovered. Part of our forces were sent in pursuit of the enemy, and the rest endeavored to out him off from Tupelo; but when this force reached the point of intersection of the two roads, it was found that the Federals had already passed most of their trains and secured a strong posi tion. Bell’s brigade, of Buford’s division, being the first to arrive, charged the enes my, but being llanked on both sides was compelled to fall back. Our loss in this charge was considerable, particularly in officers. In Col. Barteau’s regiment, Capt. Eastis was mortally wounded, Capt. McKnight slightly wounded. Col. Rus sel of the 15th Tennessee, received a flesh wound in the arm. The enemy then moved on to Harrisoni burg, a small village two miles west of Tupelo. Here they spent the night in fortifying and well did they improve the time. A strong position was selected, to leach which our troops had to pass over an open field, exposed to the deadly fire of the enemy’s artillery and infantry. We succeeded in driving them from their first line of works but they held the second. Our forces were withdrawn a few hundred yards with the hope of inducing the Yan kee commander to risk a battle out of his fortifications, but the offer was declined. Thursday night Rucker’s brigade at* tacked them at another point. In this engagement which lasted two hours, the* Yankees admit a loss of 500 killed and wounded. On Friday the enemy com> menced a retreat, which was admirably conducted. Gen. Forrest pursued and engaged them a few miles north of Tupe lo, where he received a slight but painful wound in the foot. Our loss in the several engagements will reach nearly 1,000 killed, wounded and missing. Yankees left at Tupelo say their loss, including deaths from diseases and desertions, was 1,700. Had the enemy come nearer to this place, where our infantry would have been brought into action, we believe a victory as great as that of Tishomingo Creek would have followed. The people of this portion of the State owe a debt of gratitude to Gen. Lee and Forrest and the gallant officers and men of their commands, which they can never repay. The destruction of property in th: enemy’s line of march far exceeds that of all other raids in North Mississippi. Families were left entirely destitute of provisions, and some had their clothing taken or destroyed. Harrisburg and Tu pelo were both burned. Many think that another raid will be attempted in a short time. If the Yans kees wish to try it again, let them come The rapidity with which our forces were concentrated on this occasion, shows that our able department commander will al* ways have his forces in the right place. General Forrest will soon be in the saddle again, and wc repeat it, let them come ' Soldiers’ ReliefCoinmittees. The test of experience has proven these in ! stitutions to be the most useful and beneficent ! that have resulted from a state of war. The horrors of war are much ameliorated, the corps of surgeons greatly assisted in their labors, the army encouraged and inspired and human life economised. It cannot be doubt ed that the morale of the army is permanent ly benefitted by the conviction fastened upon the minds of the soldiers that they will be well and tenderly nursed and their comfort cared for by a body of good Samaritans, from the body of the people, who labor day and night, with an assiduity and earnestness that i evinces their appreciation of the duty and ne ! cessity to give to our defenders, when sick | and wounded, all the comforts that their ;• grateful countrymen can bestow, j It should not be forgotten, in this connee j tion, that while the organized relief commit -1 tees, in the field, are laboring’ in their good j work, the ladies along the railways have con- I stituted themselves a vast relief committee, to succor and care for the mutilated and bleed ing heroes, when in transit to the various post hospitals. The compliments of General Hood and Medical Director Foard, which we publish below, just as appropriately refer to them as to the organized committees. These ! compliments are deserved, and we are glad I to see that the Commanding General and the Chief Surgeon of the army set a proper esti mate upon the services of those devoted men and women, who are giving their time and ! energies to our wounded heroes : Headquarters Army of Tennessee, ) Medical Directoi’s Office, .July 28. / Editors Rebel : I send to you for publica tion the following letter, being the speediest mode by which each member of the different Relief Committees may see that, notwithstand- ; ing his multiplied and ardous duties, the Gen eral commanding is not insensible to their valuable services, and that the whole country may know their good deeds are appreciated. In behalf of t.B* oiuK aud wounded, >.lju can attest to their efficiency, I tender to each of the committees sincere thanks, and hope they will see no cause to discontinue or flag in labor so conducive to the safety and comfort of our noble soldiers. Very respectfully. A. J:FOARD, Medical Director. Headquarters Army of Tennessee, J In the Field, July 28th, 1864. j Surgeon A. J. Foard, Medical Director Army of Tennessee ; Doctor : — The commanding General de sires you to thank the proper authorities of the several Relief Associations for the valua ble assistance they have rendered the sick and wounded of this Army. He highly appreciates their efforts, and is glad to assure them they are rendering vast service. T have the honor to be. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, (Signed) F. A. SHOUP. Chief of Staff’. Y'ankee Enlistments in England. —The enlistment of foreigners to serve in the Fed eral army is a proceeding which may be re garded from various points of views, but in no light in which it does not reflect definite discredit on Mr. Lincoln s Government. As it concerns this country, the system which the j Marquis of Cianricarde described and charac terized is operating most injuriously, both as i to the loss we sustain by the immigration and the doubt it throws upon our neutrality. It is : indisputable that the Federal agents are busy 1 m England as in Ireland, and that from both j CO untrie3 able-bodied men are stolen away on false pretences, to be shot down in their own camp if they resist the slavery into which ; they have been decoyed, or if they yield to force, to be pushed forward in masses on the road to Richmond, and mowed down by Con federate artillery. —London Post. The Campaign In Virginia. ANOTHER ARMY MUST BE RAISED. From the Cincinnati Enquirer.] D. W. Bartlett, Esq., Clerk of the Committee on Elections of the House of Representatives, has been the Washington correspondent of The In dependent, Henry Ward Beecher’s paper. The fallowing extract from his letter to The Independ ent may probably arouse those who have been de luded by the nonsense of the Abolition press to a sense of our real situation: Washington, June 2 1, 1864. [From the N. Y. Independent.] ****** * * “A friend asks me why I doubt the result of the present campaign in Virginia, and suggests that the expression of such doubts on my part tends to discourage my readers. This i 3 not my convic r„A BeemS , t 0 me , that half our troubles since the war began have their origin in the vanity of °rL\Tt d +h S ‘ i Mr ‘ ? eward has been too ready 7 to S “ c? se 0f u he war “ three months or a year. Mr. Stanron has at times been too willing .oouceal our losses and defeats. The naked truth should be told to men, that they may make tbe necessary sacrifices for the occasion. In this correspondence I have always endeavored to tell me truth, and, however pleasant it may have been at tunes to claim victories where they were not won, it has seemed to me better to adhere closely to tacts, and not to indulge in boasting in refer-" ence to the future. So, then, 1 say to the reader, e not too certain of immediate success. It grows ess probable that Gen. Grant will succeed in driv ing Lee from Virginia this summer. If the people will give the President three l i thousand men in July and August— which he will probably call for—then a decisive victory in the fall campaign can be confidently expected. Without such reinforcements a great victory is still possible, but we have no right to expect it. I happen to know that these are the views of the President, as expressed to a friend a few days ago. Ol the end he is perfectly confi dent, but he expects that the war will wage furi ously for at least one year more. Let us prepare for it, then. Another army must be raised. Con gress must refuse all unnecessary appropriations. Mr. Chase will ha ve to raise at least one thousand millions moro money. All these things can and will be done. But they never will if the facts of our situation aro concealed. D. W. B. To this the'Albany Atlas and Argus says: “This testimony from Bartlett confirms the state ment of the editor of the Evening Journal, in his correspondence from Washington. With three or four hundred thousand more men ready to take the field by the first of August, the rebels could be forced to succumb, or be annihilated by the first of January. Without such an accession, the war will inevitably pass over to next summer.” “Alas ! alas !” says the Rochester Union, “how often have we been told that if the radical mana gers at Washington were only given 'three or four hundred thousand more men,’ the rebellion would be suppressed instanter? Yet, although they have been furnished with men to the number of between two and three millions—three times as many fight ing men as Mr. Raymond argues can be found in the whole Southern Confederacy—we are now told that the war is a failure, and that 'another army must be raised.’ “Then,” we are told, “we may expect a decisive victory! ” True, may expect it if we are fools and have not profited by experience; but no man liv ing will see a decisive victory so long as Abraham Lincoln is in power, and the policy of his admin istration is sought to be enforced. Still, Abraham Lincoln is held as a candidate to curse us for an other four years! He is supported by all the office holders, cotten contractors and stipendiary papers in the country. Will the people lend themselves to he use of such an imbecile leader and corrupt followers by giving their support to Lincoln for re-election?’- Acts of Vandalism. —The Rousseau raiders, not satisfied with destroying public property in their late tramp through a part of cur State, in many instances ruined private individuals and took off property which would not by any possi bility aid the Confederate cause. At Loaehapoka they utterly destroyed the blacksmith shop of a poor and industrious man, and thus depfived him of his only means of living. They also broke open the Masonic Hall and stole therefrom all the jewels and regalia of the fraternity. There can be no possible pretence that this was public pro perty, or in any way connected with the Confeder ate cause. is simply a contemptible robbery, and the men who perpetrated it, aro highwaymen of the lowest grade, and should be dealt with as such whenever and wherever they are met with.— Mont. Mail. + ■». ♦ Burning of a Baggage Car on the Danville ; Railroad—Great Destruction of Bank De j posits and other Property. —On Saturday ; morning last, about 1 o’clock, as the train from Danville was passing Staunton river bridge, in charge of Conductor Wootten, it was discovered i that the baggage car was in flames and the train was at once stopped. An effort was made to cneck the fire, but the fanning the flames had received from the : momentum of the train hadjignited every part of the car, involving in its destruction an immense amount of property. There were on board the car the deposits of three banks of Staun ton, removed to Danville for safe keeping when the former place was threatened by Hunter. The deposites were being returned to the institutions, which were the Valley bank, the Central bank and a branch bank, not known. The specie alone, gold and silver, belonging to these banks, and on board the ill-fated car, amounted to upwards of throe hundred and fifty thousand dollars. All of the precious metal that was recovered was molten, and reduced from its original shape of coin to great lumps and crude masses of gold and silver metal, which ren down through the bed of the car in a golden and silvery stream upon the track, so eye witnesses affirm, so great was the heat 4 engendered. What amount of paper issue the banks had on board we could not ascertain. Mr. Terrill, the Government messenger of the Southern Express Company, was on hoard in the baggage car with Government funds in his charge to the amount of twenty thousand dollars in gold, and over a half million in Confederate Treasury notes. As soon as the alarm of fire was given he sprang for his box, and, throwing it from the car, followed with a plunge. He lost nothing. The Express Compeny loses on freight and packages about thirty-five thousand dollars. Some of the freight packeges which was only slightly dam aged were received at the Express office on Saiur day. The railroad company sustains a loss of at least one hundred thousand dollars, and perhaps double that sum on the baggage of passengers lost, and for which the passengers held checks. As yet the origin of the ffre is a mystery. The bank deposits destroyed were being carried back to Staunton preparatory to the resumption of bu siness by the banks. It is said there was a guard in the baggage car, and it is probable enopgh, but it is very wonderful, how fire could be com municated under their very noses and suffered to progress to the extent of enveloping the entire car without they knowing it and raising the alarm. It is said a spark from the locomotive fired the ear, which would he plausible enough it the other circumstances were in harmony with it, but they are net. There were several reports on the street in solu tion of the affair. One was that the car was rob bed of its bank deposits, specie and notes, and : the car then fired to cover up the robbery in its ashes and ruins. We presume an official enquiry will be made into the hidden circumstances of this most mysterious crime, if crime it is— Richmond Exminer. * » I, — The Nashville Union of the 19th, editorially says . “The reports of the capture of Atlanta are all premature, though our bold army is in motion, and we expect to hear of its capture in a few days.” Things in this quarter look as if the hopes of the Union would not be ful filled for some time, it ever. Several of the recent motions of that “whole army” have come to grief. The German Press and Fremont. —The Boston Pioneer says that there are only six German papers in the Union which advocate the cause of Lincoln, while twenty-six have hoisted Gen. Fremont’s name, and all the rest seem to prefer him against all other candi dates. In Illinois, Mr. Lincoln’s home, there is only one German paper—the Staats Zeitung supporting his claims. The Helvetia , a Swiss paper, published in Tell City, Indiana, has hoisted Gen. Fremont’s name. Lincoln’s vote among the Germans will be limited and scat | tering. They are almost all against him. ! In many female hearts sympathy and envy ; are such near neighbors that they could be ; virtuous nowhere except in hell, where men have such a frightful time of it; and vicious nowhere except in heaven, where people have more happiness than they know what to do with.—[Jean Paul. A man with a looking glass under his arm j met a boy and thought he would be witty at hisexpense. “Here, boy,” said he, “justcorae and look in this glass and you'll see a mon key.' “Ah ! indeed.” said the boy, “how did vou find that out ?” TELEGRAPHIC. REPORTS OF THE PRESS ASSOCIATION. act Congress in the year rhe DUtriot S rm^ A^ H *l B ’ h n tb ° Jerk’s office of states for dTLANfA, Aug. 3.—Affairs are very quiet this morning. There was some picket firing during the night. Nothing important has occurred. 150 prisoners captured near Newnan, were sent South from East Point yesterday: about 1,000 in all were captured, — « » ♦—l To all letters soliciting his “subscription” to anything Lord Erksine had a regular form of reply, namely—“ Sir, I feel much honored by your application, and beg to subscribe” (here the reader had to turn over a leaf) “my self your obedient servant,” Ac. OBITUARY. “To die is ianding,on some silent shore, Where billows never break, nor tempests roar.” Died, July 25th, 1864, JAMES REDD SMITH, aged eighteen years and nine months—youngest son of H. S. Smith, of Mobile. Verily we are a stricken people, and with melan choly propriety might clothe ourselves in sack-cloth and ashes, while we echo the words of Job: "The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away,—blessed be the name of the Lord.” War, more hideous than the mask of the Red Death, holds high revel through out the borders of our once happy country, chill shadows steal over every household, settling gloom ily at every fireside,—passing breezes chant a re quiem for the good and brave who have fallen,—and sights and sounds of woe, and all the sad insignia of mourning have become frequent and familiar as household words. It would seem that even the all grasping appetite of Death would be satiated with the countless graves which swell the surface of our struggling country,—and that in this vast harvest of gory battle-fields, where ripe ranks of athletic men are mown down, disease would lay aside its sickle, and bate its poisono.us breath; but the re lentless grim reaper nas entered a happy circle, and laid low the youngest, the dearest, the crown of hope and joy,—the father’s darling and pride. Probably, no young man was ever more highly esteemed, and warmly loved by those to whom he was well known, than James Redd Smith, whose early death has so saddened a large circle of friends and relatives.— Distinguished from early childhood by rare magna nimity, extraordinary devotion to truth, unvarying filial obedience, warm clinging affections. sincere, though unobtrusive piety, and inveterate aversion to profanity, his character was rapidly ripening into one of unusual nobility and beauty, when his career was summarily ended, and his family plunged into the deepest affliction by his irreparable loss. Tho tie which bound father and son was peculiarly ten der and lasting, it was touching to observe the de votion of the latter, and as years laid the whitening hand upon the head of the family, he turned con fidingly, hopefully, proudly to the youngest son, who clung fondly to his side, and promised to prove the support of his old age. Leaving school to enter the army, whither he felt that his duty called him, James attached himself to the Pelham Cadets, whose faithful services have endeared them to our citizens, and as a member of that company of youths was universally beloved and valued by his com rades. But a few weeks since, preferring a more active field of service, he obtained a transfer to the Nelson dangers, now operating in Mississippi, and having completed his preparations, was upon the eve of starting to the front, to make his breast a shield for his country, when disease laid her numb ing hand upon him, and consigned him to that bed of suffering from which he was destined never to rise. During a lingering and very painful illness he maintained the gentle spirit that characterized him, expressed the most earnest solicitude for his fellow soldiers who might, like himself, be the victim of pestilence t and manifested touching gratitude for the attentions heaped upon him. Surrounded by those ho loved, and sustained by an unfaltering faith in the mercy of God, and the redemption of our Savior Jesus Christ, his pure spirit passed se renely from the troubled and stormy shores of Time, to the holy rest of eternity, and the smiling face of that Father, whose commandments he had rever ently kept. Singularly exemplary in all his social relations, yet snatched away in the glorious morn ing of life, while paths of usefulness and happiness stretched alluringly before him, his death has fallen stunningly upon the home circle, and especially on the parent to whose heart he was inexpressibly dear. For grief such as his, human sympathy is inad equate, but there remains the blessed promise of eternal reunion in the everlasting city of God, where the afflictions and evils of earth are unknown where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest.” The setting of our earthly hopes is, indeed, like that of the sun, leaving coldness and night be hind, but ere long the star of memory rises, and burns undimmed through all the mists and clouds and tears, of sorrow-laden time. “Sleep soft beloved, we sometimes say. But have no tune to charm away Sad dreams that through the eyelids creep. But never doleful dream again Shall break the happy slumber when, He giveth His beloved sleep.” Mobile, Ala. A FRIEND. Yotfce All Officers or Men registered as patients in this hospital in private quarters will report Imme diately in Person, or they will he reported to Iheir commands as deserters. W. A. ROBERTSON, j ul29 d3t Surg. in charge Lee Hospital. Headquarters Conscript Service, 1 Augusta, July 25, 1864. j General Orders, \ No. 42. J 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 exchauge suck 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 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 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 cr overseer, upon receiving his certificate of exemption, should be informed that the action indicated above will bo 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. jul2S 5t TO WOOD CUTTERS! r WILL Exchange 100 Cords Oak and Pine Wood X for the labor oi Cutting and Splitting Rails; pri cing each at prices before the war. _ „ ju!29 4t R. J. MOSES. FOR SALE! A NO. 1 COOK, WASHER and IRONER, 28 y’rs /A old; sold for no fault. Apply to jul29 ts E. J. PINCKARD & CO. FOR SAIaF ! One of the Most Desirable Resi dences in Wynnton. THE Lot contains forty acres of Land—twenty of which are in the woods. The House is commo dious and convenient; containing si. basement 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, pcache3, apricots, cherries, plums and pears; also a vineyard of grapes in full 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. Pinckard, who will give them any in formation desired. Possession given immediately, jul 29 ts J. R. BANKS. Aegro Teamsters Wanted! I wish to hire a number of Negro Teamsters for the Army of Tennessee. Citizens having such hands will please notify me immediately; as in this way a number of soldiers may be relieved to strengthen our struggling army. Apply to THUS. C. JOHNSON, j jul27 2w Government Transportation Works. SSO Reward. T WILL pay the above rev. rd for 808, a black I boy, about 24 year ■ has been out three or four weeks, and is. I to be lurking about the city. JNO, H. BASS, jy 4tf CITY MATTERS. T. J. JACKSON, LOCAL EDITOR. Southern Express Company. —We are under many obligations to this euterprising company for repeated favors in the way of transmission of ex changes in advance of the mails, during the late derangements in tho railroads. Amid the cheering tidings received during the present week of Confederate successes on Georgia soil comes wafted on the breeze from the “mother of States and statesmen” tho of woe for our noble slain around Petersburg. The gallant Redd has fallen to rise no more, and a Booher and Burch have fought their last fight and sleep the sleep that knows no waking. Thus in the midst of life’s brightest scenes and liveliest joys, comes the cor roding cares of disappointed hopes and blighted prospects; while those pleasures in which we en joy the keenest- zest, are often followed by tho crushing of hearts, and the stunning of the ten derest sensibilities of our nature. Though not intimately acquainted with either of these gallant heroes, we cannot help feeling the loss the cause of freedom has sustained, and to mourn in com mon with the stricken ones in our midst, who must henceforth feel the desolation of blighted hearthstones and withered joys. Returned. —The detailed men of this city, who have been at the Georgia front for the last ten day3 have been released from duty, and most of them returned homo yesterday afternoon in rather a dingy condition, but quite buoyant in spirits. The factory companies, shoe-makers’ battalion, Capt. Youngblood’s Pistol Factory company and Capt. Kent’s oil cloth company have arrived an and there remaius, we believe, only three companies behind—Capt. White’s company and Capts. Brown and Fell’s Arsenal companies. From what we can learn there was only one man killed out of all these companies, an<J that was young Ware, o f Kent’s company, but some twenty others wounded none of them, however, dangerously. The boys have been through the rubbers and seem quite satisfied with their military experience. We no ticed also that the Artillery Company which left here on Saturday to repel the Macon raiders re turned yesterday. We are pleased to chronicle among the arrivals yesterday the indomitable Williams, our whilom friend and oratorical rival in the late Columbus campaign. We understand that while at the front he added undying laurels to his forensic efforts, and besides fought like a “yaller dog.” We fear we shall have to quail before the invincible f>row ess and brilliant logic of this crafty foeman and yield the palm to his superior grit and gifts. We congratulate all the boys on getting off so easy. Gov. Shymour’s Conduct in Organizing the National Guard. —The Washington cor respondent of the Boston Traveller thinks Governor Seymour, of New York, is taking a rkther mean advantage of Lincoln in his dis tress. While tho “rebels’’ are holding his head down, it looks to the correspondent very much like Governor Seymour tvas quietly tying his legs. He says : Governor Seymour is making the General Government trouble. He seems to think that the present moment is his opportunity, and he therefore orders his District Attorney to execute the laws of the State without refer ence to the orders of the President, and Gen. Dix is in hot water. The President will probably give way, as he did in the case of Vallandigham, doubtless being satisfied that the seizure of the World and Journal of Com merce newspapers was a mistake. But the difficulty is to extricate General Dix from his dilemma. He is held by the State authorities, and if punished, it will be because tie obeyed the President. It will be extremely hard, and even coward ly, for the Government to desert him, and it i cannot afford to do it. Yet, Mr. Lincoln is greatly troubled upon the subject. Every body knows that if General Grant had suc ceeded in capturing Richmond, Governor Seymour would not have taken such a defiant stand against the G.eneral Government. Like all cowards, he puts on airs when his oppo nent is in trouble. The rebels are threatening Pennsylvania; New York is called upon to furnish twelve thousand three moaths’ men. General Grant needs reinforcements. A draft is impending. And of course Gov. Seymour is courageous. “My dear hearers,” said a preacher dis coursing on the awful subject of death, “there’s nothing destroys so many lives as death. Some people are killed by accident, and-some are devoured by wild beasts ; but my dear hearers, it is a solemn truth that nothing kills so many as death. Aye, death has been at work ever since sin entered the world, and has destroyed millions and millions of the human family. —— An old friend, whose domestic hearth is somewhat the warmer for his wife’s temper, remarks that, while batchelors like to be con sidered ’cute bargainers, he prefers to con ceal the fact of his being shrew’d. Adj’t & Inspector General’s Office, ) Macon, Ga., August 1,1864. S Special Order, ) No. -. S As there is a misapprehension about the powers of the Inferior Courts in making details for police duty, the following orders are published for the in formation of all concerned : One policeman is allowed for each 500 negroes in each county. All men between 55 and 60, able to ride and carry a gun, are to act as a police force in their respec tive counties. The Aids de Camp are specially in structed to order them upon this duty, and any man between these ages, able for service, who refuses, will be sent to the front. They are to ride all through the county, confining themselves to no par ticular district or plantation, and are to give their whole time to this business. As they can sleep in houses at night, they can do this duty, when they would not be fit for other military service. They will visit the plantations, correct insubordiuatc ne groes, and do ait in their power to protect pioperty and preserve order. It is believed there are but few counties in the State, in which there are not in the county, one man able for service for each 500 negroes. If there should not be that number in any county, the Infe rior Court will recommend for detail a number of men subject to the late call sufficient to make up the deficiency. These should be selected from such overseers and others as have most control over the negroes. The recommendations of the eourts must be sent to these headquarters, where they will be allowed, if the evidence of deficiency in the num ber of old men is satisfactory. The court must accompany the application for the detail by a certificate, giving the following facts: Ist: The number of slaves in the county. 2d. The number and names of the old men be tween 55 and 60 in the county, with the name of each, who is too feeble through the county. 3d. The names of the persons recommended by the courts up the deficiency if any. All details granted by the courts without an order from these headquarters, are valid, and will be so treated by all Aids-de-Camp and other State officers, who will send all such detailed men to the front imme diately. As the late interruption in the railroad transpor tation may have caused some of the militia who had started to Macon to return home for want of ! transportation, all such are required to press for i ward to Macon without delay, as the channels of ! communication will be open again in a day or two. All officers at home will exercise great energy in sending all men subject to the call forward prompt ly, under arrest when necessary. HENRY C. WAYNE, augt 2t Adj’t & Insp. Gen. Large Lot of Fine Irish Potato In lots to suit purchasers. J Lg4lt At 114, BROAD ST. FOR SAXiB -or- WMMMmPMHD -AT 114j Rroad Coffee, Sugar, Soda, Black Pepper, Syrup, Potash, Cotton Cards, Tin-Ware, S au ff Salt, Sugar, Tumblers, Candles, GEORGIA REBEL SNUFF, Pickles, Flysßrush*es, Eggs, Butter, Salt Fish, Cigars, Toilet-Soap, Soft- Soap, Bar-Soap, Chewing ami Smoking Tobacco. aug 2 ts ~ ROOMS TO RENT ! TWO comfortable and well furnished rooms to rent to some order ly and respectable person or per sons in a private house, in the northern part ofth. city. Apply to MRS. DAVID aug4 It* Upper end Oglethorpe st. HOOP SKIRTS Made and Repaired in Good Style, BY MRS. S. E. HERRING, At her Residence, near Camp Montgomery. will please call and examine her work. ag2 3t* TO HIRE. BY the month, or for the balance of the year alt year old Boy, Apply at this Offlce. ag2 6t STOP THE THIEF! SOOO Howard! STOLEN, from my Stable at Oak Mountain Springs. Talbot county, Ga., on the night of the Ist of Aug., 1864, my fine Stallion named STEELE, ten years old ; a dark Mahogany bay; sixteen and a half hands high; a small white spot in his face; a few white hairs in his mane, just where a collar would work; a small scar on tho hinder part of his hag; very straight hind legs, and very high headed and gay in appearance. I will pay five hundred dollars to any person who will apprehend the thief and lodge him in jail, and return to me my horse, or I will pay two hundred and fifty dollars for either the thief or the horse. Address meat Waverly Hall, Harris county, Ga. aug3 lw JESSE MOORE. :o m x> s Os the 500,000,000 Loan for Sale! T AM authorized to offer for sale the 6 per cent. A Coupon or Registered Long Date Bonds of the Five Hundred Million Loan authorized by Act of Congress, February 17, 18(34, in sums to suit pur chasers, at the Confederate States Depository, Co lumbus, Ga. The principal and Inter -t of this Loan are free from Taxation and the <Vi >ors receivable in pay ment for all Import am* Export Duties. Tne/e Bonds are the best se .-uritic-s yet offered by the Gov ernment, and I recommend them to tile favjorable notice of Capitalist. W. H. YOUNG, Agent, augl lm for Confederate States. ' RUNAWAY! ■jVTEGRO boy CHARLEY; about 25years old, yel JA low complexion, hair nearly straight, below or dinary intelligence ; left Mr. Nat. Thompson’s near Box Springs, Talbot county. I bought him of a Mr. Brown, a refugee from Mississippi, who now resides in Tuskegeo, Ala. Ho originally came from Charleston, S. C. A suitable reward will be paid for his delivery at this office, or in any safe jail and information sent to me at this office. JAMES M. RUSSELL. Columbus, Ga., aug 1 ts * COLUM3US TO WEST POINT! On and after the 30th inst., the Passenger Train on the Montgomery <fc West Point R. R. will Leave Columbus 2 40 p. in. Arrive at West Point !.,8 00 “ Leave West Point 350 “ Arrive at Columbus..... 9 10 “ Freight Train will Leave Columbus,..s 50 a. m. Arrive at Columbus 12 23 “ J. E. APPLER, July 23 ts Agent. Headquarters Georgia Reserve, > Macon, Ga., July 23, 1864. i General Orders, ) No. 13. / I. All questions of details from the Reserve for agricultural purposes, on the part of those person; having less than fifteen able-bodied field hands, having been placed under the control and direction of the Commanding Officer of the Reserve Force, it is ordered that the details heretofore granted by the Commandant of Conscripts in this State, shall stand until otherwise ordered from these Head quarters. 11. The Commandant of Conscripts will causo a full an accurate report to bo made to these Head quarters, of all persons of this class who have been thus detailed, stating the residence and ago of each person detailed, and the grounds upon which such details have been made; and they will be immedi ately assigned to companies in the Reserve Force; and be subject to be ordered to the companies to which they may be thus assigned, whenever their details may be suspended or annulled. 111. Enrolling Officers will continue to send for ward all persons liable to duty in the Reserve Corps under, the orders and directions heretofore issued to them by the Commandant of Conscripts, ex cept as these orders and directions may be modi fied or changed by orders from these Headquar ters. IV. County Enrolling Officers will send all such persons to the District Enrolling Officers, who will send them to the Camp of Instruction at this place, where the officer in charge will report daily their arrival to these Headquarters, that they may be promptly assigned and sent forward to their respec tive companies. V. In the case of persons of the Reserve Cla;-; applying for exemption under the third paragraph and first clause of the fourth paragraph of Section Tenth, of the act of Congress, entitled “An Act to organize forces to serve during the war,” approve I February 17th, 1864, the application will be for warded to the Commandant of Conscripts, and the same privilege will be extended to applicants as heretofore allowed. VI. In all cases arising under the second clause Paragraph Fourth, commencing with these word;, “In addition to the foregoing exemptions,' Ac., the applicant will be sent forward as provided in t a Fourth Paragraph of this Order, and no furlough will be allowed, and his application will as soon as practicable be forwarded to these Headquarters oi decision. Enrolling Officers will make in such cases investigations as heretofore, and will as soon &-> practicable be forwarded to these Headquarter- , decision, Enrolling Officers will ma cin u investigations a3 heretofore, and wi or:va | . .. papers to these Headquarter*, with the application . for detail. „ , VII. All applications for details from the Re*erv Force for Government wort., or any other purpose must be made to these Heudouarters. By command Commanding Georgia Reserve. Lamar Cobb, Major and A. A. G. jul 29 6t THOMAS SAVAOE, Agent. (At Mulford’s old Stand,) IsTO. 101, BROAD ST- H(S MB SHE Oil EWHIH Sheetings, Shirtings. Twills, Yarns, Tlnseys. Laguaray Coflfee, Tobacco, Rice, Yails of all size*, &c., &c., &c. I ju!27tf