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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 Such an officer should be superceded im mediately, if need be by a private from the ruins of old “Sumpter.’'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. | a*B4t $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. agß 1m 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. ag2bt* 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. ag2 6t 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. jul27tf 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. ago 2t 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. agfltf