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*J. W. WARREtf* - - - Editor.
Wednesday Morning, August 10, 1864.
Off Again.
From passengers who came over yesterday
morning from Macon we learn that an official
dispatch had been received there stating that
another raid of formidable preparations had
test Sherman’s lines. The report places the
number at ten thousand. We trust that our
people and authorities, instructed by Stone
man’s late demonstration, will be prepared to
receive them. We should be constantly on
the lookout for such expeditions so long as
Sherman retains hi? present position.
The surrender of Fort Gaines is one ot the
moat disgraceful incidents of the war. Wheth
er the result of cowardice or treason, the con
duct of Col. Anderson is infamous beyond
comparison save with the base surrender of
Cumberland Gap by Frazier. There are some
circumstances connected with the affair which
we are unable to explain. (Jen. Page crossed
over to Fort Gaines on the night preceding
the sui render and found the commander of
the Fort aboard the Yankee fleet arranging
the terms of capitulation. He relieved the
latter of command and returned to Fort Mor
gan. We cannot understand why Gen. Page
did not remain until Anderson returned and
place that gentleman in irons, feuch a course,
perhaps, would have cured the demoralization
of the garrison and saved the Fort. It may
be, however, that the disease had gone too far
to lx* relieved by such treatment. We trust
that our Mobile cotemporaries will be able to
unveil the whole matter.
Tlie lineimy's Movements.
For mouths some of the citizens have in
dulged the. opinion that our fortifications
could not prevent a properly organized fleat
from entering the bay, and their calculations
were based on precisely the same mode which
was adopted by the enemy. Admiral Farra
gut lashed all his tender vessels together and
flanked them with his iron clads, and thus
moved in abreast, with all steam on. The re
sult we have before us. They all got in, not
withstanding the vigorous opposition of Fort
Morgan.
They are within the bay, and now what is
to follow ? Conjecture here may not be at
fault. Fort Powell being evacuated, a few
hours' work will remove the obstructions in
Grant's Pass, and then there will be uninter
rupted communication with New Orleans.
Thence the enemy can supply his vessels with
all that they need. The forts arc of no use
at all to prevent this ; and thence, also, he can
bring as many men as he has at command for
a land attack on the city. The probability is
—if this be his programme—that he will at
tempt a landing somewhere near Dog River,
and march from that point, d’ appni. Then
we shall get him to a position where his ves
sels cannot help him—providing he is not able
to come with them to the city’s front—and
thus we shall have him where the courage
and skill of our troops will be of some avail.
We can meet him there with some advantage
of position, and, we trust, great advantage of
courage and determination.
Tt is impossible to imagine how he will get
the forces necessary to make this kind of ap
proach prudent. But, as we have been often
disappointed in our estimates of his resources,
he may gather troops sufficient to justify him
in making the attempt. It, is by this means,
then, that ho expects to subjugate .Mobile, and
the fact—for it looks like a fact—will show
what our policy is, and what is needed of us
on land. Wc hold it to be totally impossible
for this city to be taken by this process, if
behind its defences there be men of valor and
determination.— Mobile Tribune , Htb.
Aii Eloquent Hiiloi?) of (>reii«i-al
Lee.
In the New York Metropolitan Record of
July 22d, we find an admirably written re
view of the Federal campaign of 1864, copied
from the Montreal Telegraph, from which we
extract the following:
So tar. we repeat, the campaign has failed
at all points. The Federal armies have been
hurled to certain slaughter with a cold-heart
edncss worse than devilish. No General ever
exhibited so great an indifference to the lives
of his soldiers as Grant. It is impossible to
say that his army has not fought well, and
endured all the hardships, dangers and labors
of the campaign with heroism and docility.
They were directed by a butcher, and opposed
by the greatest General of this or any other
age. Posterity will rank General Lee above
Wellington or Napoleon, before Saxe or Tur
renne, above Marlborough or Frederick, be
fore Alexander or Caesar. Careful of the lives
of his men, fertile in resource, a profound
tactician, gifted with the swift intuition which
enables a commander to discern the purpose
of his enemy, and the power of rapid combina
tion which enables him to oppose to it a
prompt resistance : modest, frugal, self-deny
ing, void of arrogance or self-assertion ; trust
ing nothing to chance; among man, noble as
the noblest, in the lofty dignity of the Christian
gentleman . among patriots, less self-seeking,
and as pure as Washington ; and among sol
diers combining the religious simplicity of
Havelock with the genius of Napoleon, the
heroism of Bayard and Sydney, and the un
tiring. never-faltering duty of Washington.
If this great soldier had at his command the
forces and material against which he is called
on to contend, the superiority on land and the
supremacy on water, in six months the whole
Federal States would be prostrated at his
feet. As it is, lie has made his own name,
and that of the Confederacy he serves immor
tal..
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Worthy of Note. —We are informed (says
the Mississippian) that after the sermon of
Rev. J. J. Hutchinson, delivered in the Meth
odist church at Summerfield last Sabbath, a
collection was taken up for the benefit of tbq ;
widows and orphans of soldiers and maimed
soldiers scattered over our country. whenUol.
R. A. Baker and Mr. Davis each subscribed
>5.000. and the handsome sum of $20,000 was '
raised in a few minutes. Such patriotism is ;
commendable, and speaks volumes tor the
patriotic citi/.ens ot our delightful little sister
town of Summerfield.
Lager beer is now retailing in New York at
ten Cents a glass. That is astor shing the
Gentians, who lay the blame on Secretary
Chase.
The Raiders in Covington.—An Oxford corres
pondent of the Augusta Constitutionalist says:
A citizen of Covington, a poor, but honest old
man* named Jones, went out deliberately into the
street as they entered town, and shot down one ot
their men, exclaiming: ‘‘Nobody will fight for m>
country, 1 will.” He turned round the corner ol a
-treet. loading his gun as he went. Entering an
other street, he raised his piece anu shot another
dead, said to be one of the nest scouts m the \an
kee army, nethen clubbed his gun and fought with
that until he fell pierced with bullets and covered
with blood. ,
Another citizen, Mr. George Daniel, of Coving
ton, was taken out of town and shot by them on
'bo pica that they caught him with fire arms. Many
ot the citizens who claim to be cognizant of the
tacts m the case, pronounced his death a cold blood
tttwrdo}’- On Thursday, the 27th, wo were visited
"ii'S sll “ another raid. Stonoinan's division of
count™ u l ough Covington, and town and
.; A e 1 ‘ C, I a second time with consterna-
>d " wereag ain crowded with ref-
Tlie Fi, ,( »w.
From a participate« < lof the C.
S. steamer Gaines we $r e tel lowing
i particulars of the na\ * gagement on
' Friday last:
At about half past 6 o’el ck in the mor
ning the enemy’s ships approached Fort
Morgan three abreast. The first line
nearest to the fort were of monitors, the
next smaller vessels, and the third still
smaller.
One monitor was sunk on the first at
tempt, and all on board went down, except
four men, who were saved by taking to a
small boat and making for the fort. They
represented that she had 117 persons, all
told, on board.
Our informant says that twenty-three
j of the enemy’s vessels succeeded in run*
ning in. As soon as they were fairly in
side they were cut loose from each other,
and the fight commenced, our vessels, the
Tennessee, Gaines, Selma, Morgan, and
also the Fort Morgan, entering spiritedly
| into it. It was carried on most vigorouslv
by all of them for at least two hours and a
! quarter, during which the Gaines was
struck seventeen times in her hull, besides
several times in her upper works. Being
in a linking condition, the men beached
her. She lost two killed and six wounds
j ed. The Selma fought nobly, but was
; overpowered and captured. We are uns
able to ascertain the number lost on her.
The Morgan received but slight injury, |
and got within range of the fort.
After the engagement, the Yankee ships
huddled together some few miles up the
Bay. The Tennessee was then under the
Fort, and after a. pause in the battle of
some half an hour, she steamed up, made
for the enemy, and recommenced the con
test, which is represented to have been
most terrific. It lasted for at least an
hour. During this engagement, her
smokestack was knocked away even with ;
her deck. Her steering apparatus was ’
destroyed, so that she became unmanages ;
able, and the Admiral was compelled to
surrender.
While the fighting was progressing, a
i little low pressure steamer, called the
Phillipi, attempted to take advantage of
1 the excitement and pass the Fort, but a
| shot disabled her and killed one man.
The Morgan then went out and burnt her.
The crew of the Gaines made their way to
the city last night in small boats.
At about eight o’clock last evening a
flag of truce boat was sent from the ene
emy to Fort Morgan, asking permission to
bury their dead at Fort Morgan, and to
send their wounded to Pensacola. Not
being in proper form, it was not assented
to. Others say, that Admiral Farragut
sent a message to Gen. Page si tting that
he had Admiral Buchanan on board with
his leg amputated, and that he wanted
permission to pass the forts to take him to
Pensacola, where his wound would be
better cared for than on board of the ship.
Gen. Page replied that if he would send
Admiral Buchanan to the fort, under pa
role, he would transport him to Mobile,
where he would receive all the attention
required.
Nothing was made known in respect of
the enemy’s loss by the flag of truce, but
it is generally believed by those who par
ticipated that it was very heavy—that at
least 500 or 600 were killed and wounded.
From information received this morn
ing, we learn that two of the enemy’s ves
sels engaged Fort Powell yesterday, (Fri
day,) on the north side,, and had done so
much damage (there being no guns moun
ted to repel an attack from that quarter,)
; that the garrison blowed up all the works
j and got safely off, except one young man,
; (named Richards,) who was on guard on
| the wharf. They are now on their way
jto the city from Cedar Point.— Mobile
Tribune, Bth.
A Thrilling Historical Remin
iscence.
It is related that during the progress
of the French Revolution. the Girondists
attempted to arrfcst the frightful massa- ;
cres in which the Jacobins were engaged. !
The strife between the two parties was
terrible, and Murat, fearing the fall of i
his party, told them they ‘‘must strike in*
to the hearts of our foes.” In the Con
vention the strife knew no bounds, for it
was well known the victorious party would
consign the other to the scaffold. The
Jacobins finally overawed the Girondists
by the mob and declared them guilty of
treason. The city was illuminated by or
der of the convention and the members
traversed the streets, leading the doomed
men. They were placed in the Concire
gerie, where they struggled to sustain and
prepare each other for that fate they
knew to be inevitable. On the 30th of
October, 1793, the prisoners were carried
to the judgment bar surrounded by cav
airy, infantry and artillery. Os course
they were doomed to the guillotine.
When the sentence was pionounced,
Yalaze drew forth a dagger and drove it
; through his heart, falling lifeless to the
floor. Another victim shouted “This is
the most glorious day of my life !” About
midnight the victims were marched back
to the Conciergerie, their voices reverber
; ated through the corridors of the prison
and echoing through the streets as they
chanted the Marsellaise Hymn. The re
mains of Yalaze accompanied them, as it
was decreed an axe should take off his
; lifeless head, and all the trunks would be
interred together.
’Twas past midnight when the leaders i
of the*Girondists returned to the prison
hall. In the morning they were to die.
Some friends resolved to give them a final
funeral banquet, and soon a large oaken
table was covered with luxury and splen •
dor. Viands of meat and wines were in
abundance. Rich and rare flowers bloom
ed before them in vases, and servants
moved about with brilliant lamps supply
ing their wants. France's eloquence and
brilliancy sat around . that table taking
their last repast and conversing until night
commenced casting aside her dark garb.
“We shall sleep to-morrow," said one,
“after the fatigues of the day to wake no
more. Death is but endless slumber
“No," responded Fouchet? annihilation
is not our destiny. There bodies perish.
There thoughts never die. To-monow,
in other words, we shall think, feel act.’
“Death," said the eloquent Vergniuud,
“is the greatest act of life. It introduces
us to a noble existence. Were it net >o,
. there would be something greater than
God. *
God will not suffer Yergniaud to ascend
tomorrow the scaffold but to justify and
avenge him in future ages.’ Day had
crept into the dungeon and (some of the
doomed men sought a little repose, while
others set about preparing last letters to
friends and families. About 4 o’clock the
executioners with their guard came in,
and the long hair was cut from the heads,
that it might qpfe stand in the way of the
ax. Poor Gehsonne stopped and took up
a lock of his to send to his wife. “Tell
her,” said he, “it is the only memorial of
my love which I can transmit to her, and
that my last thoughts in death were hers.”
Yergniaud sent his watch to his betrothed
with a few lines scratched thereon. Soon
the Girondists were in the carts passing
through the streets singing the Marsel*
laise Hymn, while the countless thousands
thronged the streets to take a last look.
Loud and sonorous was the strain as they
neared the scaffold. Arriving they all
embraced it and then resumed the chant,
while one after another ascended the scaf
fold, only giving up the song as the head
was severed from the body. There was
no faltering—no giving way; but as head
after head passed into the basket the song
grew more weak. The brave Yergniaud
soon found himself alone. He stepped
forward and moved slowly but steadily up
the scaffold steps, the song meantime hav
ing died away into a soft mellow sweet
ness, Looking upon the headless bodies
of his numerous comrades below, he coma
menced anew the strain :
Come, children of your country, eome.
The day of glory dawns on high,
and gave himself to the executioner. A
slight pause, the ax fell, the head passed
into the basket and the eloquent lips were
forever sealed. This is about one of the
most thrilling tragedies to be found in the
annals of the French Revolution.
A Biter Bit.
We find the following correspondence in
the Mobile Advertiser & Register :
C. S. Steamer Morgan, |
Off Fort Morgan, Aug. 4,1864. f
Messrs. Clark and Forsyth ,
Editors Advertiser .j- Register :
As your recent essays on the Navy and the
Mobile Squadron, in particular, seem to show
you to be possessed of a courage quite un
common, as well as an acquaintance with
carrying on Naval warfare, quite marvellous
for gentlemen leading peaceable lives like
yourself, I feel particularly anxious to obtain
the services of two such valuable recruits,and
have, therefore, at the suggestion of some of
my brother officers, taken the liberty of ad
dressing you this letter for the purpose of re
questing the favor of your company on board
of my vessel when the expected engagement
with the enemy’s fleet takes place. I prom
ise that you shall have the most conspicuous
position on board and the fullest opportunity
to display your bravery and knowledge. As
patriots you will, lam sure, jump at the op
poitunity thus offered to serve your country.
Very respectfully,
Your ob't servant,
GEO. W. HARRISON,
Commander C. S. N.
A thousand thanks to Capt. Geo. W. Harri
son, of the C. S. steamer “Morgan,” for his
polite invitation, and we have to regret that
it was only received yesterday morning, “the
day after the wedding.” Had it been in our
power to have accepted the invitation and had
we “occupied the most conspicuous position
on board,” we should still have been in the
land of the living to acknowledge his courte
sy, for “the most conspicuous position” ap
pears by the result of the fight to have been
an eminently safe one. Except an engineer,
“slightly wounded,” by a splinter, “nobody
was hurt” on board the Morgan.
We respectfully suggest to Capt. Harrison
that we have no doubt of his full capacity to
manage bis ship without our counsel or assis
tance. and that we are equally competent to
take care of this press craft without his. We
have both our spheres of duty to till,'and it is
no disparagement to his command to say that
ours is largely the broadest and widest when
regarded in connection with the vital interests
of this great struggle. If we have fired a press
bolt at any ot the croakers of the Navy whose
business it has been to run down the prestige
of the Confederate Navy, and to exalt that of
the Yankees on all occasions, and that bolt
has happened to hit Capt. Harrison in some
sensitive part, it is his fault in putting him
self in the way of the shot, and not ours; for
neither he nor his officers, his crew, nor his
ship were in our thoughts. When we de
nounced the croakers in the Navy we spoke
in the interest of the honor and true well be
ing of the ( Navy. Capt. Harrison has not been
able to see this, which is his misfortune, and
not our fault. Like a great many before him
he has excitedly “rushed into print” wh'en he
had better kept out of it.
Bolted and Unbolted Flour.
A correspondent of the Charleston Courier
sends that excellent journal the following,
which we recommend to the attention of our
readers :
1. It is more economical. One bushel of
wheat will make sixty pounds unbolted, but
only forty pounds of bolted flour. We raise
in the Confederacy at least twelve million
bushels of wheat, which is only about two
bushels per'head. If this is ground and bolted
one third or four millions must go to waste in
the form of shorts or bran, but using it unbol
ted it would be saved, and at twenty five dol
lars per bushel, the snug little sum ofone hun
dred million of dollars would be saved*
2. It is healthier and more nourishing than
bolted—the bran and shorts contain the most
nutrition—the bolted flour contains mostly
starch.
3. It is more palatable : it has the natural
sweet taste of wheat,, which is lost by bolt
ing.
4. Any common corn mill can make unbol
ted flour. To bolt flour requires a complica
ted lot of machinery. The army could have
portable mills and maketheirown flour when
ever wanted. The same mill will grind un
bolted flour three times as fast as bolted.
5. Unbolted flour will keep sweet any length j
of time, which is not the case with bolted.
6. Lastly: Unbolted flour is to bolted flour
as a red flannel shirks to a nice ironed linen
shirt with a standing collar. The shirt is
cheaper, healthier and more convenient—the
latter costs more, is not as healthy and more
trouble to be kept in order, but it looks much
nicer, particularly for a dandy.
Now is the time toact upon it. as the wheat
of this year's crop is commenced to be used.
The men in authority should prohibit bolting
flour made of wheat, and I assure you that
such a prohibition would be a real benefit to
every one without exception
Not Aware of It.—During the past few days
the act of suspending the writ of habeas cor- j
pus, has become void by limitation, and that ;
great safe-guard of civil liberty has been re-instated j
in full force and virtue. From the sighs and groans l
uttered over its suspension, we ought to infer that
the people must feel greatly relieved now that
the agony is over: but, truth to tell, we don’t
believe that as many as half £ dozen of them
thought anything about the matter. It was an in
tangible grievance, and the public at large would
never have felt it, except under the eloquent warn- i
ings of the politicians. They were in the case of
the aggrievd suitor at court, who never new what he
had suffered till his counsels told the jury all about
it. But the truth is, no patriotic man had any prae ■ '
deal knowledge of the suspension of the habeascor
pus, and he has as little of its revival. Neverthe
less, rejoice that the great bulwark of Anglo-Saxon
liberty is restored. Dismiss your fears, ve cham
pions of States rights, and popular freedom, and
let us ail feel a? safe and happy as the Yankees will
permit us to do.— Ma-on TO.
Tin- Spanish are thinking of tutting a mar
itime ccual around the Rock of Gilbralter, so
as to supercede the use of the Straits, and the
French are taking up the project. There are
no great engineering difficulties to be encoun
* tered. and the cost is estimated at twenty
'. millions of dollars.
CITY MATTERS.
I T. J. JACKSON. LUUAL EDITOK.
Capt. Faskih Burch.— We learn from the Sun
thjft this gallant young man died at Pttersburg. on
the Ist of August, from the effects of his late wounds.
| Otpt. B. was well feuown in this city, and his loss
I here, a3 well as to the cause, will be seriously felt
Thus one by one are falling t he friends and compan
ions of our earlier and haopicr days
♦ ♦
Death of Lieut. James Hunt.— We learn from
a gentleman just from Atlanta, that L : eut. James
Hunt, of the 46th Ga. Regiment, was killed on Fri
day night last, while on picket duty. Agiin are
we called upon to deplore the loss of a valued citi
zen, and as noble, high m nded a gentlem •» as ever
breathed. Yea, an army such as Sherman’s would
not repay the loss of such a man .—Enq.
Jefferson <fe Hamilton offer for sale a fine lot of
Iron Wire. They also wish to exchange several
useful articles for country produce. Bee advertise
ments.
[for the times ]
Among the Clouds.
BY LESTER WAYNE.
Night unfurled her dark banner to the evening
breeze.
And soon its deep blue field
Was dusted with stars,
Like the diamond bars
Os light, from the warrior’s shield.
Slowly across the guilt sky,
Like a net-work of silver lace.
The white stars blew:
While the stars glanced through.
Like the light through a crystal vase.
Through the mist of fast falling tears
Gleamed softly, a golden glow,—
A path of quivering light
With a pearly radiance bright,
That led frojp the stars to the dark earth below.
Then I caught the gleam of an angel’s brow,
While a voice I had missed for long years,
Said: ‘‘The glimpses of Heaven
That to mortals are given,
Are all seen through the mist of tears!’’
Then I heard the rush of silver wings!
A thick cloud of shadows passed by,
Like a blackened flood.
And alone I stood,
Under the cloud-wreathed sky!
Springs, Aug. 6th, 1864.
From the Southern Field and Fireside.
Mountain Bugle Song for Battle.
BY WM. GILLMORE SIMMS.
Let the Bugle blow along the mountain—
Bugle blow ! Shrilly blow !
We must leave the pleasant grove and fountain:
Arm for battle speedily, and go!
For the storm is gathered on the highlands:
It has swept with fire the plains below,
And up, from green savannas and fair islands,
Pours the foe—pours the cruel foe!
Bugle blow for battle—shrilly blow!
We must meet the foe—the hateful foe!
Blow fearlessly and fast, O! mountain bugle
Blow! blow 1 blow!
See, as blows the Bugle, how they gather!
Bugle blow 1 bugle blow!
There rides up the old and bearded father,
And the son is speeding from below!
We must dye in purple this green heather,
We must free a country from the foe;
And o’er mountain summits clad in snow,
Bugle blow for battle—shrilly blow!
Though we perish, we must strike the foe!
Blow fearlessly and fast, O! mountain bugle.
Blow! blow ! blow!
Lo! they come—the bands from Connesauga !
Bugle blow! bugle blow! •
And the rugged hunters of Watauga—
Rifles ready shotted for the foe !
From the vales of Cumberland they gather.
And from slopes of green Saluda, lo!
There the beardless son and bearded father,
Eager all to grapple with the foe!
Bugle blow for battle—bugle blow I
We must crush the foe—the insolent foe !
Blow fearlessly and fast, O! mountain bugle.
Blow! blow! blow!
—* -♦ *. —_——
A cargo of human bones, shipped from Ge
noa, has been seized at Hull, England. It is
supposed that a large trade is carried on se
cretly in this kind of goods. The bones have !
probably been used to make knife handles,
tooth-picks, 1 and the like.
That all the money is not gone out of the ;
land is proved by a collection of $5,000, new
issue, besides, “a great deal of jewelry.” ta
ken at a single meeting at Tuscaloosa, Ala., by
O. D. Elliott. Chaplain, for - the benefit of the
soldiers. ■
Speaking of the Baptist] Orphan Asylum of
Alabama, D ; r. Summers writes to the South
ern Christian Advocate : “The Baptists of Al
abama have; agents in the field, and are rais
ing immense sums for a kindred object. They
have purchased Shelby Springs tor a great
Central Asylum.
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9th, and may be consulted during the week at
Cook’s Hotel. He pperates with perfect success for
Piles, Fistula, Tumors, Polypi, diseases of Fe
males and all diseases of the Genital Organs.—
He has operated every day in the year, and fer
Piles, prefers to operate in warm weather.
Dr. Clopton has operated on a great many of the
profession, and has the confidence of all intelligent
Physicians where he is known. He has never lost a
patient. Ladies will be visited at their houses.
He will visit patients in the country if they will
furnish him with a comfortable conveyance.
ag9 4tp
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Apply atjthis office. ag93t*
TO THE CITIZENS OF HARRIS &
MUSCOGEE COUNTIES.
ICOLPMBCS, 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
j me, Oxf. of Every Five Able-Bodied Male
Slaves, between the ages of IS 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
i have one blanket and three days' rations. In view
j of the fact that these slaves are to take the places of
one thousand soldiers now out the ranks as team
j sters, and of the importance of strengthening the
! army as early as possible, it is hoped that no one
will fail to respond to this call.
Very respectfully,
E. JOHNSON, O'apt.
i and Impressing Officer tor Harris, Muscogee,
Chattahoochee and Stewart eo.
agS4t
A HOI m; wa vi jko.
TO Rent from October next, a house, or part of a
house, for tne use of a family.
Address “SIGMA,”
• as ' ts At this Office.
Tax in Hind.
Office Post, Quartermaster, l
Americus, Ga., Aug. 1,1864. S
Producers of the 3d Congressional District Ga.,
are now ready to receive the Tithes of the present
crop.
As far as practicable tithes must be assessed be
fore delivered. Those within twelve miles of a de
pot on rail road or navigable streams, must be
hauled to said depot, although there may be an in
terior depot more convenient.
Producers will be paid for the entire distance
which their tithes are hauled. Those who will be
due the Government as much as or more than one
barrel Syrup, will be required to furnish the barrel
or barrels having value of the same deducted from
the amount due. Agents will furnish as many bar
rels as possible.
Tithes will only bo delivered to regular agents :
except as specially authorized by them.
JOHN F. CRAFT,
ag 9 3t Capt. and Post Q. M,
AUCTION SALE
At Crawford, Ala.
ON WEDNESDAY, the 10th of August, I will
sell my
| HOUSE -AUSTIO LOT,
in the town of Crawford, 100 acres of land attached;
35 acres cleared. The house contains 6 rooms, with
all necessary outbuilding. Water excellent. Now
is your time to purchase a desirable home, cheap.
Also, the present growing crop, near 30 acres in
j com and peas, 2 in potatoes, 3 in Chinese cane; and
| a large lot of Household and Kitchen Furniture;
i Mattresses and Bedding of every description; Farm
ing Tools, a set of Carpenter’s Tools; Hogs; 4 Breed
ing Sows, Milch cows, 1 good Buggy and Harneas,
1 Sulky, &e., &c. 4®“Sale to commence at 10 o’clk,
a - F. M. BOYNTON,
j augb 3t Agent.
.
FOR SALE
-OR
-AT-
-114, Broad. Street
Coffee, Sugar,
Soda, Black Pepper,
Syrup, Potash,
Cotton CardLs,
Tin-Ware, Snuff,
Salt, Sugar,
Tumblers, Candles,
GEORGIA REBEL SNLFL
Pickles, Flyxßrushes,
Eggs, Butter,
Salt Fish,
Cigars,
Toilet-Soap,
Soft Soap,
Bar-Soap,
iliewiug ami Smoking Tobacco*
aug 2 ts
“114.”
Large Lol of Fine Irish Potatoes,
In lots to suit purchasers.
ag4 It At 114, BROAD 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. 1
ag2 6t"
Aoticc !
All claims against the steamer MIST, prior to Ist f
of July, must be presented to Capt. Whiteside’s, j
at the Naval Iron Works, by the 15th of August.
ags3t VAN. MARCUS, Capt. ;
TO HIRE.
BY tlie month, or for the balance of the year, a 16
year old Boy, Apply at this Office.
ag2 6t
STOP Tin: THIEF !
SBOO Reward!
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, 1
ten years old; a dark Mahogany bay; sixteen and a <
half hands high; a small white spot in hisfac*,: >»
few white hairs in his mane, just where a collar
would work; a small scar on the hinder part of his ;
bay; 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 j
return *,o me my horse, or I wid pay two hundred i
and fifty dollars for either the thief or the horse.
Address meat Waverly Hall, Harris county, Ga.
aug3 lw JESSE MOORE.
BONDS
Os Hie 500,000,000 Loan for Baie!
' T AM authorized to offer for sale the 6 per cent,
i Coupon or Fegistered Long Date Bonds of the
j Five Hundred Million Loan authorized by Act of
| Congress, February 17, 1864, in sums to suit pur
i chasers, at the Confederate States Depository, Co
lumbus, Ga.
The principal and interest of this Loan are free
from Taxation and the Cbupons receivable in pay
ment 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!
j TYTEGRO boy CHARLEY; about 25 years old, yel-
JN 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
i for his delivery a+ this office, or in any safe jail and
1 information sent to me at this office.
JAMES M. RUSSELL.
Columbus, Ga,., aug 1 ts :
COLUMBUS TO WEST POINT!
On and after the 30th inst., the Passenger Train
on the Montgomery & 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. APPLER,
July 23 ts Agent.
THOMAS SAVAftiE. Agent,
(At Mulford’s old Stand,)
ICTO. 101, BEOAD ST.
lUMUItNRHIM
Sheetings, Shirtings.
Twills, Yarns, Uinseys.
Uaguaray Coffee,
Tobacco, Rice,
Yaftls of all sizes,
&C«, &€.
jul27tf
NOTICE.
To Planters and Others !
j f WILL EXCHANGE Osnaburgs, Sheeting and
1 Yarns, for Bacon, Lard, Tallow and Beeswax. I
i will be found at Robinett & Go’s old stand, where T
! am manufacturing Candles and Lard Oil for sale.
L. S. WRIGHT.
june 2 ts
CIGARS!
{ L?OR SALE by the Thousand at
! r DR. R. A. WARE.
ags 2t 106, Broad st.
$5,000 REWARD!
THE above reward will be pai 1 for the arrest and
production before the Coroner’s Cturt, Talla
poosa county, Ala., of one WM. A. PAULK, who
j murdered my husband. Beniamin Gibson, on Mon
day night, Ist of August.
Said Paulk is a resident of Mac-on county, near
Union Springs, aged about 35 years, about 5 feet 9
i inches inheighth, stout built, fair complexion, dark
hair and blue eyes, Believed to be a deserter irom
the 2d Ala. cavalry. .JULIA A. GIB&ON,
Near Taiv.-see, Tallapoosa eo., Ala.
t agMra
Notice.
All Officers or Men registered a
this hospital in private quarters will report
diatf.ly in Person, or they will be repo q
their commands as deserters.
W. A. ROBERTSON.
jul2f> d3t Surg. in charge Lee Hospital.
Headquarters Conscripi> Slavic* >
Augusta, July 25,1864, ’ j
(general Orders,\
No. 42. J
The following extract from Circular, No. 24, fi
reau of Conscription, (current series,) is
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 o‘
the State, under the Impressment Act, of the ma
ketable surplus remaining after furnishing the Gov
ernment with the stipulated quantity of provision;
j and which he may raise from year to year, while h’
exemption continues, is made by the act of C
gress, approved Febniary 17th, 1864, one o ff \
conditions of exemption allowed to an overseer •
agriculturalist. A claim is asserted by some
those exempted as agriculturalists to exchange %
part of the aforesaid surplus as they may please' f"
supplies of provisions, clothing, and the like, to V
consumed in family use, and to sell to the (} OYCr
ment or to the families of soldiers only what r >
mains of such surplus after making said exchange"
The claim is in of the law ami of the
contract with the Government, and cannot be al
lowed.
Upon satisfactory evidence being furnished that
persons exempted as overseers or agriculturalist
have or are thus disposing of their surplus produc
tions by exchange as aforesaid, Enrolling Officers
will arrest all such persons, forward them to their
nearest camp of instruction, to be retained there
until final action shall be taken and announced in
their cases, and forward through the proper chan
nels of communication to this Bureau a report of
all the facts and circumstances of each. case.
Every agriculturalist or overseer, upon receiving
his certificate of exemption, should bo iuformed
that the action indicated above will be taken in the
event of his not disposing of his marketable sup
plies in accordance with the requirements of the
law.”
By order of
Col. WM. M. BROWNE.
Commandant.
P. Looney, Lt. and Adj’t.
jul2B 5t
NE W BOOKS
o~ursT published
BY
EVANS & COGSWELL,
COLUMBIA, S. C.
THE SPIRIT OF MIMTAIirINSTITUTION,
By Marshal A/armoxt. Translated from the late;
Paris edition by Fbank Schaller, olonel £223
Regiment Mississippi Infantry. Price $5. One
third off to the trade.
INFANTRY TACTICS,
For Brigade, Bivision, and Army orps, by Ge;
Uasey, U. S. Army. Pronounced the best work of
the kind in the language. Illustrated with 29 Lith
ographed Plates, and well bound. Price $5. One
third off to the trade.
CHISOLM’S SURGERY.
Being a third edition of this valuable work. Splen
didly illustrated, and finely bound. Price .$lO. Ore
third off to the trade.
The editions of all of these valuable work- are
under 2,000 copies, and those in want will do we!
to send in their orders at once.
ALSO,
General Orders, A. & I. G.’s
Office, up to Ist April, 1864. Price $5. One-thin
off to the trade,
Andrew’s Eiglit Artillery Orili
Splendidly illustrated. Price .$4. One-third off
the trade.
Any of these books will be sent free of postage or
receipt of the price, in new issue, or the old at tli?
discount.
EVANS & COGSWELL,
Julj 6 3t Publishers.
11l PIPER k BLANK BOOKS
FOR SALE 2
WE have for sale 49 reams ol Letter Paper, an
2,000 small Pocket Blank Books, at Wholesale
or Retail. Paper, SSO per Ream; Blank Books,
retail, 75 cts. wholesale. Apply at
ag6 ts THIS OFFICE.
THE AAT3AA.TTTAA
MIIV 4 WEEUYIIIUHI
The undersigned proprietor of the ATLANTA
Daily ami Weekly Intelligencer.
announces to the public that he has made arrange
ments for the publication of these Journals in this
! city (Macon) and that in a few days subscribers to
i the same will be furnished as usual with their pa -
pers :
Correspondents, advertisers and all persons hav
ing business with the
INTELLIGENC EE
will pleasse address their communications to
The Intelligencer Office.
Macon, Georgia.
All JOB and GOVERNMENT WORK
on hand will be resumed at an early day
JARED I. WHITAKER,
Proprietor
| jul27 It
Flag of Truce Uetters.
Confederate States of America,)
War Department,
Bureau of Exchange. )
Richmond, Va., July Ist, 186 L
1. All letters to go North by flag of truce must be
sent to this office.
2. Each letter must be inclosed in a separate en
velope and addressed to me. Bureau of Exchange.
Richmond, Va.
j 3. No letter must exceed in length one page -A
ordinary sized letter paper, and its contents be con
fined strictly to personal or family matters. Nu
letter alluding to the movements or localities of
troops will be allowed to pass.
4. Each letter must contain a-United Stages
1 age stamp, or its equivalent in silver or Unite
States currency. These regulations will be rigidly
enforced, and no letter transmitted in which thev
arenot strictly observed.
ROB’T OULB,
Agent of Exchange.
Official,]
W II Hatch, Captain and A A G.
july22 6t
I Shoemakers’ and Saddler*'
TOOLS.
TMIE UNDERSIGNED having commenced u.
manufacture of the above named articles in thi
city, are prepared to fill orders for the same.
Office on Angle street, a few doors above C. -
Hospital. HARRISON,JiEDELL k CO.
Reference—Maj. F. W. Dillard.
; Mobile Register, Mississippian and Augusta C ra-
I stitutionalist, please copy one month and send bi
i to this office,
mar 30 ts
ON and after the Ist July, my office and dwe.
ing will be on Broad st.. at the residence of "he
i late Mrs. Cairns,
julyl ts W. J. MURRELL. M. B
FOR SALE !
Our of the Most Desirable Rf>i*
deuces iu Wynnton.
THE Lot contains forty acres of Land— twent
which are in the woods. The House is comic
dious and convenient; containing six basemen
rooms and seven on the first floor. On the premise^
! are good and new out-houses, barns and stables; ft.’
i orchard filled with selections of choice app.e
pcaches, apricots, cherries, pluni3 and pears; also
vineyard of grapes in full bearing. This location
i healthy, supplied With excellent_ water and con
! v-enient to the city. Persons desiring to invest wi
i not have as rare chance probably daring the war,-
i Parti* 3 wishing to negotiate for this property w
call on E. J. Pinekard, who will give them any in
formation desired. Possession given immediate'
i j u! 29 ts J- R- HANK?
WO Reward.
I WILL pay the above reward for 808, ab.»?
i 1 boy, about 24 years old. He has been out three
i or four weeks, and is supposed to be lurking a|oa
the city. JNO. H. BAS
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