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flu- tCalumi us Statu.
j. h. W irtltuv. - - " Editor.
Monday Morning) August 8, 1864.
Mobile.
Farragut has certainly made a considerable ad
vance towards Mobile; but the city is not yet in his
possession, and never will be, if its defenders dis
play the proper spirit. The Yankee fleet rides at
anchor in Mobile bay, To get there it had to run
the gauntlet of Fort Morgan and Fort Gaines and
whip or sink the Confederate Navy that contested
its advance. This feat it has accomplished, but
many an obstacle, above and below the water still
lies in the path of its progress to the city. If Far
ragut expects to accomplish his object by a water
attack he mu it proceed further witiiout the assis
tance of hi* Monitors. These cannot possibly pass
Dog river bar. and we very much doubt whether a
less formidable or invulnerable vessel can. We un
derstand that a splendid battery guards that pas- (
sage. We had fears ’for Fort Morgan until we :
learned that it was situated on the main land. It j
can, therefore, be provisioned from Mobile, unless
the enemy land and cut off communication with the
city. Fort Gaines is not so favorably located. It is
on the eastern extremity of Dauphin Island and is
about timst; utile? from Fort Morgan—the two forts
being on opposite f ides of the channel or outlet from
the bay to the Gulf. Fort Gaines is, therefore, al
ready cut Off and its fall, we presume, is onlj a ques
tion of time. Besides those wc have mentioned,
Mobile hits many other defences, the location of
which the enemy will find out a* he approaches the
city. From intimations given in the Mobile Regis
ter of recent dates we regret to learn that there i- a
feeling of insecurity or despair on the part of some
of the commanders of those defences. This shot id
not be. An officer who thinks and says he cannot
hold a position should not be allowed to try. With
out the proper faith we cannot expect the right kind ,
of works. Such an officer should be superceded im
mediately, if need be by a private from the ruins of
old “Sumpter.’' For more than-a year the enemy
has been several miles nearer Charleston than he
now is to Mobile, and if the latter will only exhibit j
the pluck and energy which have immortalized the
former she will never pass under the baleful sway of
die oppressor.
| From the London Times, July Bth.J
The “Fourth of July. ,?
KUIiISH HISTORICAL REMINISCENCES AND PRE
DICTIONS OF THE LONDON TIMES.
Again the Fourth of July has come and
gone, and the war between Federals and Con
federates lingers on with increasing, but still
unavailing slaughter. No one, from an ob
servation of what has been passing on that
hold of war during the present year, can say
that the contest appears any nearer the issue
so long hoped for by the invaders. The last
Fourth of July was an auspicious day for
them. The event which illustrated it changed
tor a time the public opinion of Europe, and
elated the Northerners themselves to a point
which made them ready to submit to all the
labors and sacrifices of anew campaign. Gen.
Grant won his reputation by the capture of
Vicksburg, a piece of strategy, and the great
est blow which had been struck at the inde- i
pendence of the seceded States.
* * * * *
As to predictions o f the future—assurances
that the sun of American freedom is only i
temporarily eclipsed, and will soon shine out.
ns bright as ever, and dazzle the timid eyes of
the Old Country—we are quite prepared for
l hem, and would not willingly see them lose j
their usual place in the proceedings of the *
day. But there is a part of the Fourth of July I
oration which certainly might be abandoned
that which contains the historical reminis
cences ot the Revolutionary war, and the in
vectives against, poor old George TIT, and his
unhappy ministers and generals.
Ihe people ot sense and good taste in the
North must begin t.o think by this time that
the world had heard enough about the Stamp
net. and the Tea tax, the threatened legisla
tures, the imprisoned citizens. Lord North the
Hessians, the Indian allies, the devastated
country, the occupied and oppressed towns,
and the various individual outrages which
with more or less truth, are laid to the charge
of the British. For seventy years these things
have made the staple of every American school
history, and have taught each child in the
Union to feed and cherish hatred against the
land of his forefathers
On the great annual festival especially they
have been set forth with all the exaggerations
which distinguished the eloquence of mere
display. But, with the history of the last
three years before thorn, can any Northern
orator drag up against the tyrannies of the
past and not feel that with a changed name,
the table is being told of himself? George 111,
with his Gid World notions of allegiance and
oi thri duty of kings to maintain their author
ity. thought to coerce the colonies into obe
dience to himself and the Parliament, which
according to all the legal theories of the time,
had a general authority over them. The Fed
evals have gone to war to coerce the inhabi-.
tants of a number of the States of their Union
to keep tip a Government which they have
repudiated, millions of men who constitution
ally arc on equal terms with themselves, and
over whom they have neither legally nor
morally any just control.
This war has been carried on with a cruelty
which far surpasses anything that can belaid
to the charge of England, though the lapse of
eighty years has softened men’s manners and
has caused humanity to be respected even in
camp. Towns have been burned down in
diabolical wantonness, the inhabitants of a
captured city have been put to work in chains
wholesale plunder has impoverished the chief
people oi a conquered State, Congress has
passed acts confiscating the property of an
entire community, and the Executive of Wash
ington has allowed it to be understood that its
armies will, if successful, do what Saracens
and Tartars spared to do—will unseat the
popu uon generally, and divide their lands!
among the conquering .soldiery. But if the '■
rods oi George 111. have become*the scorpions i
0fL,,.„1,K the failure of tbc- lo,h°?,
been more complete than that which a con- I
templatm,, of the state of affairs in the middle
2 - H f t 0 I,ave “trended the efforts j
, Gove, ' nnu ilt - The old boast
ng about Saratoga and Yorktown ought to !
-ee n nomore amOU " il l )e °P le which has ;
wTici a'-i m ‘r* n ' V arm ’ ep defeated in battles j
|. t „rr i ,V LflV< ‘ represented the invading!
.• antl "^ llO ! ‘ )e Confederates have
U, _ - 0--1 part of men fighting for life,
hmvi.j and honor. There is a sad similarity
•e ween Pope and Hooker to-day and some of
the luckless officers of King George in the last
century. Burgoyne may be paralleled -by
Banks, and who knows that Cornwallis and
his little army may not have been the proto
types of some grander failure on the soil of
Virginia '
I be Confederate loss in the recent battle of !
Harrisburg (Miss.) is set down at 1,327 —dis-
tributed as follows: Buford's division, 705 ; !
Chalmer’s division, 315; Mabry's division,
274 ; Morton’s battalion of .artillery 33. The
loss ot the enemy is supposed to be between
800 and 1,000,
Gen. Forrest, at last accounts, was at Co
lumbus. His wound was very painful, al
though not in the least dangerous.
♦ ♦
A meeting of actors has been held in
New York to discuss the proposition of
forming an actors’ union, for the purpose
of compelling managers of theatres to
raise their wages. They accussed a man*
ager at Albany of clearing 035,000 in
nights and alleged that ac
tors were not getting any more pay than
in days when money was worth more.
— 1
ning order*iu'iessthautwod* r ° a ’mlT^ l * >e i* l ruu "
pected through to-narrow U \v®’ The malls a™ ex
onergy that is being tUsplLp i® are t 0 see th ®
™ Vtrafe^nn^theda^
[From the Richmond Dispatch 7
From Petersburg.
Explosion of one of Grant's Mine*—Re
putse of the Enemy—Large Captures
of Prisoners, dV.— The Broach Re
taken.
PETERSBURG; Ya , July, 29,1864.
The whole of the spring and twosthirds
of the summer have past and neither Pe*
tersburg nor Richmond have fallen yet.—
Grant, as you know, still maintains a show
of force along our entire front at this
place, but it is very evident that the
bulk of his force is elsewhere. A part of
it has gone to the Valley and to Washing
ton to confront Early. Another part is
on the other side of the Appomattox, in
front of Bermuda Hundreds, and still I
another has crossed to the North side of 1
the Janies. It is impossible to say where
the hard fighting of the next three months
will occur, but from the stupendous breast
works which both sides have constructed,
it is hardly possible that there will be any I
more serious fighting just here, nor am I
much iudined to the belief that there
will be any very severe campaigning on
the North side of the river.
The Valley of the Shenandoah and the
plains of Manassas, so often baptized in
blood, and so fruitful of victory to the
Southern arms, are more apt to witness
the close of this year’s strife ere yet the
“car and yellow leaves,” shall tinge the
hues of autumn. Grant’s campaign for
Richmond, by the confession of the Yan
kee newspapers and by the knowledge of
Lee’s veterans, is a grand failure; but
let none lay the unction to their hearts
that the fighting is over. Grant is a be-«
liever in Lincoln and that Great Tycoon
of Yankeedom long since announced his
determination to keep “pegging away” at
the rebelliou until it should be crushed.
Like master, like man.
Since Mr. Trenholm’s installation into
the office the quartermastrs have been pro .
vided with funds, and the troops paid up
to the first of May. This has been a per
fect godsend to the mulatto wenches who
vend ice cream and pies.
Considerable complaint exists now
throughout the army in regard to the |
corn meal which is on issue. It is most
ly unbolted, and in some instances musty ?
Somebody is at fault, and whoever he is,
he should be made to do better. Corn is
too plentiful to give soldiers unbolted mus
ty meal.
-Much to the joy of the troops, some of
Early’s beef cattle arrived to-day, and
will be issued to-morrow. It is said to be
excellent beef, and many will no doubt
sing ‘‘Maryland, my Maryland,” while
eating it.
For three or four days there lias been
little or no shelling of the city, and very
little of active hostilities along the lines.
To-day reconnoisances lead to the impres
sion that Grant is holding the front here
with a very slim force, aud is merely “mas
king pretence,” whilst a heavy movement
is on foot against the north side or some
other point.
There is a profound quiet at this writing
on this front, and the heat and dust are
both intolerable. The troops in the'
trenches have many improvised comforts
which persons at a distance little dream
of—though, of course, soldiering is not
the most pleasant business in the world,
even under the most favorable circum*
stances. X.
Petersburg, Va., July 30,1864.
At length there is an end to the lull in
the battle storm hereabouts* and Grant,
tired of the indiscriminate slaughter that
has attended his efforts to destroy Gen.
Lee’s army by assaulting its breastworks,
having some time since betaken himself
to sapping and mining, to-day sprung a
mine near the centre of our lines, in
Bushrod Johnson’s front, on the Baxter
road, about one and a half miles below
town. Our officers were not taken alto
getlier by surprise, and yet the men on
whose line the explosion occurred were
considerably demoralized. As early as 2
o’clock this morning Gen. Lee sent word
around his lines that the enemy were
making demonstrations along the lines in
front of Bermuda Hundred, but that it
was by no means unlikely that the real
attack might be made somewhere else.
In obedience to this suggestion everything
in the department of the Army of North*
ern Virginia was on the qui vice.
About five o’clock this morning, the
mine was sprung on the Baxter road.
The explosion caused a loud, deep noise,
and the fragments of earth were at once
flying in every direction, making a rent
in the liues of some thirty or forty yards i
just at one of these, to us, ill-fated salients.
This sudden explosion scattered the suns
(our pieces of Pegram’s battery, Branch’s
battalion, of this city,) in every direction,
and tore lifeless and limbless some of its
gunners, and buried others in the earth,
along with many of its supports, the poor
fellows of Evan’s South Carolina brigade,
commanded by temporary Brigadier Gen«>
eral Elliott, who, I regret to say, received
a wound in the melee which Is reported
to be a moral one.
No sooner bad the explosion occurred ;
and the fragments reached the earth than !
Burnside’s minions—“black spirits and
gray” —bounded forward with a hellih
yell, pressing back our astonished, ana, I
for a moment, discomfited troops gaining :
possession of the salient, the.four guns,,
and a number of prisoners. The enemy
now held some two hundred yards of our
lines, and could be distinctly seen hurrya
ing up troops from the rear and forming
their lines with the view of passing for
ward and pressing their advantage. A
crisis was now undoubtedly upon us. A
brief space and we might be undone.
; Gen. Mahone was at once apprised of the
disaster by Lieut. Geu. Hill, who, fortu
nately, was on the spot. Gen. M. was
! directed by Gen. H. to bring his own and
Wright’s brigade to the scene of the dis*
aster, and to endeavor, if possible, to re
gain the lost works and to retrieve the
disasters of the day. With lightning
speed the Virginians and Georgians,
moving by the left flank, came to the res
cue, under the lead of their gallant com
mander, be it known, was utterly unac
quainted with *the configuration of the
lines or the nature of, the ground. Bare
ly had General M. placed his old brigade
in position, when the Yankee hordes, with
a fresh yell, bounced forward. Mahone’s
men, like Putnam’s at Bunker Hill, re
served their fire until they saw the whites
of their adversary’s eyes—not a difficult
matter eiuce many of the combatants were
j contrabands of sooty hue. At the word
; fire the Yankees would stagger and begin
I to fall back. The order to charge i3 giv*.
] en, and the men dash forward and the
1 Yankees give back in their sui generis
rapid style into and beyond the line of
breastworks. Our men pursuing, mojmt
the breastworks, and bestow upon the en
emy a plunging fire, which tells with
great success upon their ranks.
Besides driving the enemy back, Mahoue's men
captured and brought off ten colors, forty officers,
including Col. White, 31st Maine, and Qol. Wills,
50th Massachusetts, and four hundred and six
prisoners, including twenty negroes. . In this
charge Col. Weisiger, commanding Mahone's old
brigade, was wounded whilst leading his brigade
with conspicuous gallantry. The conduct of Capt.
J. B. Girardey, A. A. G. to Gen. Mahone, on this
as on a dozen other battle fields of the war, gave
unmistakeable evidence of cool courage and self
possession, and the highest qualities of the skill
ful officer. • j
Rut the work was not ended yet—only a portion
of the lines had been retaken; the salient and the
rent produced by the explosion still remained in
; possession of the enemy. Wright’s Georgia brig
ade was formed and moved forward, but from some
I failure cr misapprehension of orders, as is alleged,
failed to retake the remainder of the works.
Thus ended the fighting, save skirmishing, and
a heavy fire of grape and schrapnel, which the
enemy poured info our lines. Even this ceased
about 0 o’clock. a; and from thenuntil2 o’clock there
was profound qu.et. About this time General
Mahone, having ordered up Sander’s Alabama
brigade, sent it forward to recapture the rest of the
works. Led by their gallant Brigadier, they
me red forward i t splendid style, making one of
thfe grandest charges of the war, and recapturing
every vestige of cur lost ground and our lost guns,
and capturing thirty-five commissioned officers,
including Brig. Gen, Bartlette, commanding first
division, ninth corps; three hundred and twenty
four white and one hundred and fifty negro pri
vates. and two stands of colors.
The enemy made but slight resistance to this
charge, whilst our men swept everything before,
them, even as the stream that feeds the cataract
bears irresistibly forward everything on its bosom.
The Yankee negroes and their white coadjutors
earno forward, exultant with pride and hope, mainly
produced by strong potations of whiskey, crying—
“No quarter! Remember Fort Pillow !”
“But Linden saw another sight,
When the drum beat at dead of night,
Commanding fires of death to light.
The darkness of her scenery.”
The rifle pits and the ground in front of the bat
tle field boriTtestimony to the efficiency of our fire,
and the many ghastly forms of negroes and whites,
in death laid low, showed how the cry of “Remem
ber Fort Pillow!” was responded to by our Spar
tan braves.
The rent made in the earth by the explosion is
one of the. most ghastly, unsightly objects I have
ever witnessed. The ground is torn -as if by an
earthquake, and great boulders of earth are scat
tered here and there, with ever and anon the man,
gled form of some lifeless Confederate protruding
beyond.
Among the brave in battle slain are the gallant
Col. Evans, 64th Georgia, and Capt. Rush, com
manding 22d Georgia regiment. Lieut. Col. Wil
liamson, 4th Virginia, had his arm resected, and
Major Woodhouse, was severely wounded. Capt.
Broadbent, commanding sharpshooters, Mahone’s
brigade, and Capt. McCrea, commanding 3d Geor
gia, were also wounded.
The following is a list of the battle flags cap
tured :
Four large United States flags; one battle tat
tered flag belonging to 11th N. H. V., and inscribed
“Fredericksburg, Vicksburg, Jackson;” another
marked regiment infantry; another belong
ing to 57th Massachusetts; another belonging to
31st regiment infantry ; 58th Massachusetts regi
ment flag staff broken; 20th regiment Michigan
infantry; one guidon and one regimental flag.
And finally, but by no means least, a very hand
some flag belonging to 2Sth colored infantry.
Among our captures are to be mentioned about
two thousand stand of small arms.
The loss of the enemy at the lowest calculation
is at least three thousand five hundred, whilst ours
eanuot be over eight hundred. Mahone’s division
lost about four hundred in all.
The enemy’s prisoners say they have been mining
for over three weeks. This mine of the enemy
was about twenty-five feet below the surface of the
earth.
The prisoners all say that they have other mines,
which they will spring in a few days.
While the contest was going on in Johnson's
front, the enemy made a demonstration in front of
Harris’s Mississippi brigade, demandidg its sur
render, inasmuch as they had broken our line3 at
another point, and were carrying everything be
fore them. General 11. replied that ho would
never surrender the works, but if the enemy wanted
the works, they might come and take them, pro
vided they could.
Among the anecdotes of the day, it is related of
a Captain Richards, of Pennsylvania, that finding
himself about to be taken, he threw himself into a
suppliant attitude and cried: “Take my watch,
my coat, and purse, but for God's sake "save my
life!”
Sunday, 31st.
All quiet to-day. Our wounded are being cared
for, aud the dead of both sides in our lines are
being buried.
Still they come. Saunders has just sent in an
other battle flag, thrown away by the enemy yes
terday, and picked up by Gen. S.’s men this morn
ing.
General Saunders reports that he has buried in j
the mine alone fifty-four negroes and seventy-eight j
Yankees, exclusive of men buried in trenches. I
Levelling Earthworks near
Petersburg.
The correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press, with Grant,s army under date of
the 16th instant says:
The levelling of earthworks to which I
referred in my dispatch of yesterday was
resumed this morning, and they will all
be even with the ground before nightfall.
Hundreds of men for the past two days
have been engaged in the work, and the
spead with which they have accomplished
it is deserving of much praise, Should
we, from some unforseen circumstance, be
compelled as an army movement to vacate
our present position, those re-occupy
ing this ground would find their works
destroyed, and it would be impossible for
them to reconstruct them in a style equal*
ing those now being destroyed by us. They
had been the labor of months, and as I
have previously said,had they been held by
the regular volunteer army of the South,
it would have to a impossibility
for us to have captured them. Outlines
have been considerably contracted on the
left since my last writing. The second
corps levelled their works in the very
teeth of the enemy, who not at
tack the gallant boys. It was the ins
tention of General Hancock to have given
them the chances of a fair field fight, had
they ventured from their trenches but
they evidently expected that something
was in the wind dare not risk such an ex*
periment. What the rebls can imagine by
our movements for the past few days it is
imposible to conceive.
* Horrors of the Chickahominy.—
A correspondent of a Northern paper
writes as follows from the swamps of the
Chickahominy:
Without a single regret, I left the mars
gin of White Oak Swamp and turned my
back upon the Chickahominy. Never
have I so strongly experienced the sensa
tion, of being in a charnel house. Dead
horses strewed our path and odorized the
air. The unwholesome dampness from
the ground settled on the trees and fell in
humid drops from leaf and spray. In
spite of whiskey and quinine the men
shook with ague, and your correspondent,
who had just passed the paroxysm wa3
burning with fever. Dare me to a jaunt
through the ltoman hecatombs, or a stroll
in the Parisian sewers, but ask me not to
linger in the swamps o? the Chickahom'-
in y* _
Yankee prisoners say that Grant is organ
izing a grand raid against the Weldon Rail
road
Th® Stoaeman ißata.
DAMAGE TO TKS CSNTEAL 11AILEOAi>.
We dispatched a reporter down the Central
Railroad on Sunday to take accurate observa
tion of the damage sustained by the Compa
ny, private property destroyed, together with
such other matter of interest as wouldbe nec
essary to publish in the history of the great
Stoceman raid.
On Friday night, the raider# made their ap
. pearance on the road at Walden shanty, one
mile this side of Gordon. Only a small party
appeared there one half hour after the train
conveying Gen. Wayne's command to Milledge
ville passed up the road. They burned the
Railroad Company’s shanty and then passed
on to Gordon. It is known that the force,
now augmented to about three hundred, were
in sight of the depot at Gordon, and from this
hiding place saw Gen. Wayne go off to Mill—
edgeville.
They dashed into Gordon at 10 o’clock,
went into the depot and arrested the agent
! and the telegraph operator, Mr. H. fv. Walker.
They robbed him of SIO,OOO in money and a
gold watch, valued at $2,000. The depot
building was then fired, next the torch was
applied to the passenger shed. The depot con
tained a considerable quantity of Government
bacon aud private freight, some of the latter
belonging to refugees. The passenger shed
was fired throe times, but it refused to burn,
and still stands. The Milledgeville and Eaton
ton train was completely destroyed It was
loaded with valuable trunks and other prop
erty of,citizens of Milledgeville aud Eatonton.
moving away from the enemy; also.five hun
dred small arms The Western and Atlantic
cars had been taken there for safety. They
were burned, with the exception of one batch
and five engines, which were not damaged to
an y great extent. Many of these curs were
occupied by refugees Horn Atlanta, but they
succeeded in saving their effects, the raiders
themselves helping to unload the cars. Two
small store rooms, empty, were burned near
the depot.
About one hundred yards of the track was
slightly damaged near the town. The turn
ing table was burned.
The raiders did not destroy any private !
property at Gordon, and stated" to the citizens j
that that was not their intention.
They then went to Judge Solomon’s mill,
to burn it, but for some reason did not do so.
They took two horses from Judge Jones. One
Aankec got left behind by helping women at
the cars save their property, and on Sunday
morning gave himself up as a prisoner. Three
or four of their horses have been captured by
the citizens of Gordon. All this occupied
about two hours Friday night.
They then passed on to Mclntyre, (No. 16)
burning or destroying a few culverts on the
road. They burned the warehouse at 16, to
gether with a heavy lot of tythe bacon. Go
ing on they burned a part of a trestle over
the O'Bannon marsh, but did not damage it
much. Passing on they next captured No. 15.
burning the depot and Deas & Jackson’s corn
and wheat mill. They also took some hor
ses and negroes from D. &J. They were then
followed by some eight or ten citizens to the
Oconee bridge, about five miles beyond No.
15, but no attack was made, and, on Satur
day morning, the bridge over the Oconee was
fired and its lattice works destroyed. Tts tres
tle did not burn.
The raiders here left the railroad. Our re
porter turned back at that point. Citizens
told him that they crossed the Oconee near
Tucker’s plantation near Scottsborough, and
drowned fifty mules and horses in getting
them over.
On the Milledgeville train at Gordon they
captured a mail bay, which was thrown into
a wagon. Near Tucker’s plantation, the dri
ver stopped and went into a watermelon
patch, when a negro man of the neighborhood
who was watching him, jumped into and
drove it off safely, saving the wagon, mail
and team.
They made Mr Walker, agent at Gordon,
pilot them to No. 16, forcing him to ride a
bare-backed mule.
They burned forty-six cars at Griswoldville.
They captured a train a few miles from Ma
con, burned the oars and opened the throttle
valve of the engine, and started it towards
Griswoldville. The engine ran into the rear
of another train there, splitting one car in two
and running half way through the next. A
portion of the cars at Griswoldville were used
by refugees. No private property was de
stroyed at the town. The track was little dam
aged.
Massey's foundry and mills were burned, five
miles from Macon. The track was consider
ably burned from thence to Walnut bridge, the
lattice work of which was burned, but the
trestle was not damaged.
The damage to the whole road has nearly all
been repaired, and trains are expected to be
running regularly to-day. —Macon Confederate ,
5 th.
[From the St. Louis Evening News, 15th.]
The Situation In Missouri.
The rebels are at the throats of the loyal
ists all over the State, and “confusion worse
confounded” reigns throughout the secession
districts of Missouri. The rebel element of
this State will not be at peace. Col. Ford’s
dispatches to headquarters in this city tell us
that the citizens of Platte and Clay counties
“should not be armed—nine out of ten are
disloyal, and have aided Thornton in recruit
ing his forces.”
“In traveling through these counties,” says
Col. Ford, “I have found no young men: noth
ing but old men and women.” The negroes
say the young massas are in the bush.” Os
this we "have no doubt, nor have we had any
doubt fora long time. W§ know those coun
ties, and besides, we had the authority of Col.
J. H. Moss, for saying that there were not two
hundred men in Clay county that did-not have
sons in Price’s army. Their sons are still with
Price or in the brush, as the negroes assure
Col. Ford.
In Platte county the loyal element is scarce
ly anything, and when we heard of the inten
tion to put arms into the hands of the Platte
citizens we trembled for the consequences.—
Platte and Clay are not the only counties not
to be trusted with arms. There is not a coun
ty south of a line running east from St. Joseph
to the Mississippi river, uor one on the south
side of the river to the Arkansas line that the
indiscriminate arming of citizens will work
well in.
Stewart’s Address
Hix/p.s Stewart's Corps, Army Tenn., )
In the Field, July 24, 1.864. (
Soldiers : Somewhere and sometime we must
make a final stand in this great struggle. If
weaiebrrve men, entitled to independence,
and resolved to win it or perish, any time and
place our commanding General will choose .
will suit us. Can we find a better position
than we now occupy ? Aud is not one day in
the year as good as another? If we so decide, ;
let us resolve that henceforth we read no step
backward—that here and now we stand or
fall.
To succeed We must work hard and fight'
hard, and many! of us must die, you, at least,
who have faced him a hundred times, do not
fear death. I believe, and so do you, in an
overruling, special Providence, that in some
mysterious way guides the course of events
and shapes the destinies of nations. Our
cause is just. Heaven favors it, and will give
us success if we do our duty. Let us put our
trust in God, using the means He has given
us, aud cannot fail.
I appeal to every officer and man to labor
day and night to make our position strong
and impregnable; so that if need be, it can
be held by a small force, while our main body
operates some other way. Let us learn a lcs-
I son from our busy, preserving foe, and em
ploy all the skill and industry we possess,
as well as a high and noble courage, in de
fense of our glorious cause. Let us leave
nothing undone that wc can do. and this ha
ted, cowardly enemy, who makes war upon
women and children, shall be delivered into
our hands, that we may execute upon him the
vengeance of Heaven for his crimes.
[Signed] Alex. P. Stewart,
Lieut. General.
TELEGRAPHIC.
REPORTS OP THB PRESS ASSOCIATION.
aeK £ or <? i S£ to 04 Congress in the year
Thkashkb, j n the Clerk’s office of
the District Court of the Confederate States for
the Northern District of Georgia.
| Atlanta, August 6th.—Brisk, skirmishing
| continued throughout yesterday and last night
j on ourteft.
I A lively artillery duel took place last even
ing between our batteries on Peachtree and
the enemy's. Comparative quiet reigned in
the city last night.
The enemy, continues to concentrate his
force am our left, Palmer’s Corps occupying
the extreme right, his headquarters on the
Sandtown road; and Stailey’s on the left, his
pickets extending to the Georgia railroad.
About 75 prisoners, including a captain and
lieutenant, were brought in yesterday and last
night.
° •
Gen. !\ heeler has issued a Oongratulator?
Order to his cavalry, on the defeat and rout
of the enemy’s raiding party.
All quiet except some sharpshooting this
morning.
Clinton, La., Aug. 5.
New Orleans papers state that the enemy
have entirely evacuated Brownville. Texas
is removing everything.
Our batteries in sinking the steamer Clara
Bell killed and wounded 13 Yankees: the. bal
ance escaped to Skipwith landing.
A National Negro Convention is to be held
at New York on the 4th October.
Yesterday morning at 8 o'clock Col. Scott
captured the Stockade at Doyle’s plantation
on the river below Baton Rouge, without the
loss of a man.
j He secured over one hundred prisoners and
; a large amount of military stores,
i Mobile, Aug. 6.—A special dispatch to the
Advertiser dated Fort Morgan 6th, says that
one of the enemy’s gunboats, with wounded,
left tor Pensacola. Before she left we commu
nicated with her. Admiral Buchanan’s wound
is doing well, His leg may be saved.
On the Tennessee there was two killed and
eight wounded. On the Selma there was
eight killed and seven wounded. On the Mor
gan one slightly wounded.
The garrison ofFort Morgan is iu fine spir
its; loss slight. The enemy are firing wildly.
The gunboat Morgan came up to the city
last night; also the crew of the Gaines.
The enemy lost one monitor and one gun
boat.
In Mobile business is generally suspended.
The city is a military camp.
Three gunboats came within a few miles of
Dog River Bar yesterday evening. They went
back. The enemy have merely carried an
out-post.
T9te Position.
IN GEORGIA.
The Army of Tennessee is rapidly recruiting all
the means that it requires to make it efficient. —
Absentees, with and without leave, are hurrying
forward on all the trains that go to Atlanta. An
extraorninary spirit of emulation seems to have
been infused into the soldiers who have lately been
quietly rusticating and recovering from their
wounds and sickness. The great moment of the
army’s peril approaches, and knowing the danger
and the urgent necessity there is for the presence
of veterans, they are anxiously thronging every
avenue that leads to their commands.
The effective organization and remodeling pro
cess that General Hood instituted and vigorously
enforced, lias rendered each, arm of the service
very effective, and inspired every member of tho
: army with the utmost enthusiasm. With the cor
’ dial assistance of his generals and their brave sol
! diers, success must inevitably be the result of the
I final struggle for the mastery of this portion of
I the country.
Sherman has hitherto walked triumphantly
around and about us, and promised his masters
that ere now the banner of bis country would wave
over the city of Atlanta. Through that great Gate
he promised to pass his cohorts of vandals and
legions of thioves, to despoil the land and inflict
the destruction he conceived and announced as the
only true policy of war. He has been foiled.—
Since the first desperate assault on Atlanta failed,
he has carefully avoided all such foolish and use
| less operations. Since General Hood has proved
to him that flank movements can be met and suc
cessfully opposed by counter strategy, Sherman
j has abandoned the favorite maneuvre. His as
: saults on our works will never be successful.—
! Despite all assertions hitherto made to the contrary,
Atlanta cannot, or rather will not, be flanked.
Now that the Yankees’ great ehief of cavalry 1
and banditti has been captured, and his most ef
fective arm of that service is lost to him, he cannot I
hope to inflict any damage to our rear that would
have the slightest tendency to make us abandon
our present position. His own rear is in great
peril. His transportation has been interfered with
and the railroad rendered untenable. A few enter
prising and rapid operations by our cavalry, inflict
ing severe losses on the Yankee subsistence train,
will soon force Sherman to retreat from his present
dangerous position.
To us, everything looks bright and hopeful. We
are certain that the Yankee army about Atlanta
will abandon its line very shortly, and that Sher
man will be broken, defeated, and, we think it pro
ble, routed. The position is good in Georgia. By
taking up arms against a sea of troubles, we have
almost ended them.
IS MOBILE,
The sky does not seem as cloudless as we wish.
Our dispatches from that quarter indicate successes
on the part of the Yankee fleet, against our de
fences, that we have been assured were invulnerable.
Evidently, the proper commander was not with the
Tennessee, if that vessel was captured. It was
reported to be the monster that should sweep the
marine of the blockading fleet like a storm does
cockle shells. So much for silly boasting again.—
Intelligencer , 7th. #
Funeral Notice.
The relatives and friends of Mr, and Mrs. Cam
den Evans are invited to attend the funeral of the
former at St. Paul’s church this morning at 10
o’clock, Aug. 8, ’64.
TO THE CITIZENS OF HARRIS &
MUSCOGEE COUNTIES.
Columbus, Georgia, Aug. 6, ’64.
1 am authorized by the General Commanding the
Army of Tennessee, to impress
One Thousand Slaves for Teamsters,
for the services of which slaves $25 per month shall
be paid, with clothing, rations and medical attend- ,
ance. You are respectfully requested to deliver to ;
me, Oxe of Every Five Able-Bodied Male I
Slaves, between the ages of 18 and 45. Those of
"Muscogee” county will be received in Columbus,
on the 13th inst; those of “Harris” county, in the
town of Hamilton, on the 16th inst. They should
have one blanket and three days’ rations. In view
; of the fact that these slaves are to take the places of
I one thousand soldiers now out of the ranks as team
j ster3, and of the importance of strengthening the
army as early as possible, it is hoped that no one
i will fail to respond to thi3 call.
Very respectfully,
E. JOHNSON, Cayt.
and Impressing Officer lor Harris, Muscogee,
Chattahoochee and Stewart eo.
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$5,000 REWARD!
THE above reward will be paid for the arrest and
production before the Coroner’s C< urt, Talla
poosa county, Ala., of one WM. A. PAULK, who
murdered my husband, Benjamin Gibson, on non
day night, Ist of August.
Said Paulk is a resident of Macon county, near
Union Springs, aged about 35 years, about o leet.
inches in heignth, stout built, fair complexion, dart
hair and blue eyes, Believed to be a -If erter from
the 2d Ala. cavalry. JULIA A. GlßaO-iN,
Near Tallaesee, Tallapoosa co., Ala.
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A"JGTIOIT SALES.
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos
ON TUESDAY, 9th of August, at 10 o’clock »■*
will sell in iront of our store,
200 lbs. SOLE LEATHER ;
200 ibs. UPPER LEATHER :
75 doz. GLASS JARS, for Pi c fc les
and Preserves ;
ONE CLOSE CARRIAGE!
and Harness.
77 Lamp Chimney’s;
Lot CUT GLASS LAMP SHADES •
30 pr. LADIES SHOES ;
40,000 NEEDLES
—ALSO/
A LIKELY HEORO BOY!
24 years old.
A LIKELI" ALL 1(0 WAY!
40 years old.
1 Cow andL Calf,
ag6 td $24
AUCTION" SAT.Ifv;
At Crawford, Ala.
o^eii V my NESI>AY ’ the 10th of August, I will
ZHIOUSIE .A-ISTID XjOT\
in the town of Crawford, 100 acres of land attachnS
3o acres cleared. Thei house contains 6 rooms, with
all necessary outbuildi*. Water excellent. Now
18 frS° t 0 Purchase a desirable home, cheap
Also, the pi esent growing crop, near 30 in
corn and peas, 2in potatoes, 3 in Chinese cane aid
a large lot of Household and Kitchen Furniture
Mattresses and Bedding of every description- Farm :
ing Tools, a set of Carpenter's Tools; Hogs • 4 Breed
1 holly. Ac.. Ac. toi™™,,at 10o’clk.
Agent.
FOH SAIUS!
-OR
IIHiHIBMi
—AT*-
114, Broad. Street.
Coffee, Sugar,
Soda, Black Pepper,
Syrup, Potash,
Cotton CardLs,
Tin-Ware, Snuff,
Salt, Sugar,
Tumblers, Candles,
GEORGIA REBEL SNFFF,
Pickles, Flysßrushes,
Eggs, Butter,
Salt Fish,
Cigars,
Toilet-Soap,
Soft Soap,
Bar-Soa»,
Chewing' and Smoking Tobacco.
aug 2 ts
“114.”
Large Lot of Fine Irish Poiatoe*,
In lots to suit purchasers.
ag4 It At 114, BROAD ST.
HOOP SKIRTS
Made and Repaired iu Good Style,
BY MRS. S. E. HERRING,
At her Residence, near Gamp Montgomery.
4®*Ladies will please call and examine her work.
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JYotice !
All claims against the steamer MIST, prior to Ist
of July, must be presented to Capt. Whiteside’s,
at the Naval Iron Works, by the 15th of August.
ags3t VAN. MARCUS, Capt.
TO HIKE.
BY the month, or for the balance of the year, a li»
year old Boy, Apply at this Office.
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STOP THE THIEF!
SSOO neward!
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 sacs; a
few white hairs in his mane, just where a collar
would work; a small sear on the hinder part of his
bag / 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 Iw JESSE MOOhE.
BONDS
Os the 500,000,000 Loan for Sale l
T AM authorized to offer for sale the 6 per cent.
Coupon or Registered Long Date Bonds of the
Five Hundred Million Loan authorized by Act of
Congress, February 17, 1864, in sums to suit pur
chasers, at the Confederate States Depository, Co
lumbus, Ga.
The principal and interest of this Loan are free
from Taxation and the Coupons receivable inpay
mont for all Import and Export Duties. These
Bonds are the best securities yet offered by the Gov
ernment, and I recommend them to the. favorable
notice of Capitalist.
W. 11. YOUNG, Agent,
augl lm for Confederate States.
RUNAWAY!
NEGRO boy CHARLEY; about 25 years old, yel
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 Tuskegee, Ala. He 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 *
COLUMBUS TO WEST POINT!
On and after the SOth inst., the Passenger Train
on the Montgomery <fc West Point R. R. will
Leave Columbus 2 40 p. m.
Arrive at West Point 8 00
Leave West Point 3 50
Arrive at Columbus 9 10
Freight Train will Leave Columbus...s 50 a. m.
Arrive at Columbus 12 23
J. E. APPLEK.
July 23 ts Agent.
THOMAS SAVAOE, Agent,
(At Mulford’s old Stand,)
jsro- 101, :b:r,o.a.dd st.
HAS FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE
Sheetings, Shirtings.
Twills, Yarns, Linseys.
Laguaray Coffee,
Tobacco, Rice,
Kails of all sixes,
Ate., &c., &c.
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2ST OTICE.
To Planters and-Others I
r WILL EXCHANGE Osnaburgs, Sheeting and
1 Yarns, for Bacon, Lard, Tallow and Beeswax, 1
will be found at Robinett & Cb’s old stand, where l
am manufacturing Candles and Lard Oil for sale.
L. S. WEIGH 1.
june 2 tt
CIOARS!
UOR SALE by the WARE.
a- __, 106, Broad st.
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A HOUSE wanted.
to Rent from October next a house, or part of a
1 house, for the u*e of a fatmb . „
Addrc- ’ At thus bißoe.
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