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OItfjUMBIS TIMES
.1 paily (Sunday* at the rate of
P° bU? on th, or sl2 lor three months.
received for a loader term than
? ERTISIMG RATES :
( j-ertisements inserted for $2 00 per square for
uVeTeadvertisements are inserted a month, the
-ill be S3O per square.
Announcing candidates S2O. which mustmranably
paid in advance.
Adj't h Inspector General’s Omoi, j
Macon, Ga., August 1,1804. 1
, f ,ecial Order, I
As there is a misapprehension about the powers
fthe Inferior Courts in making details for police j
, tbc following orders are published for the m
‘Ution of all concerned:
i ooJwcDian is allowed for each >OO negroes in
~a c h county.
"\ll men between 55 and 60, able to ride and carry
' are to act as a police force in their respec-
K counties. The Aida dc Camp are specially in
ducted to order them upon this duty, and any man
tween these ages, able for service; who refuses,
«i!l be sent to the front. They arc to ride all
through the county, confining themselves to no par
ticular district or plantation, and are to give their
whole time to this business. As they can sleep in
houses at night, they can do this duty, when they
would not be fit for other military service. They
will visit the plantations, correct insubordinate ne
groes, and do all in their power to protect property
and preserve order.
It is believed there are but few counties in the
.State, in which there are not in the county, one man
able for service for each 500 negroes. If there
hould not be that number in any county, the Info
, Court wilt recommend for detail a number of
men subject to the late call sufficient to make up the
lefioiency. These should be selected from such
overseers and others as have most control over the
negroes. The recommendations of the courts must
he sent to these headquarters, where they will be
allowed, if the evidence of deficiency in the num
ber of old men is satisfactory.
The court must accompany the application for
ihe detail by a certificate, giving the following
facts: :
Ist. The number of slaves in the county.
-d. The number and names of the old men be
tween 55 and 60 in the county, with the name of
o h, who is too feeble through tho county,
id The names of the persons recommended by
iho courts to make up the deficiency if any. All
details granted by the courts without an order from
these headquarters, are valid, and will be so treated
by all Aids-de-Camp and other Stato officers, who
will send nil such detailed men to the front imme
".A.s the late interruption in the railroad transpor
may have caused some of the militia who
hau started to Macon to return home for want of
transportation, all such are required to press for
ward to Macon without delay, as tho channels of
ammunication will be opon again in a day or two.
.-ill officers at home will exercise great energy in
-ending all men subject to the call forward prompt
ly, under arrest when necessary.
HENRY C. WAYNtC
augf 2t Adj’t & Insp. Gen.
J I K \ D<JU ASTERS GEORGIA RESERVE, \
Macon, Ga., July 23, 1864. j
Central Ortlerf, \
No. 13. j
I. ,411 questions oi' details from the Reserve for
agricultural purposes, on the part of those persons
having less than fifteen able-bodied field hands,
having been placed under the control and direction
■ >['the Commanding Officer of the Reserve Force,
it is ordered that tho details heretofore g’-anted by
the Commandant of Conscripts in this State, shall
stand until otherwise ordcrod from these Head
quarters. 4
11. The Commandant of Conscripts will cause a
lull an accurate report to bo made to these Head
quarter--. of all persons of this class who have been
detailed, slating the residence and ago of each
poison detailed, and the grounds upon which such
Mails have been made; and they will be immedi
ately assigned to companies in the Reserve Force,
mid ho subject, to bo ordered to the companies to
which they may be thus assigned, whenever their
details may be suspended or annulled.
11 [. Unrolling Officers will continue to send for
ward a ii persons liable to duty.in tho Reserve Corps
un lei the orders and directions heretofore issued
to them by the Commandant of Conscripts, ex
oopt K vi these orders and directions may be modi
fied or changed by orders from these Headquar
ters. ■ . . . ’
IV. County Unrolling Officers "will scud all such
persons t< the District Enrolling Officers, who will
send them to thwCamp of Instruction at this place,
where the officer in charge will report daily theii
arrival to these Headquarters, that they may be
promptly assigned and sent forward to their respec-
tive companies.
V. In-the case of persons of the Reserve Class j
applying for exemption under the third paragraph ;
and first clause of the fourth paragraph of Section j
tenth, of the act of Congress, entitled “An Act to j
organize forces to serve during the war,” approved
February 17th, 1864, the application will be for
warded to the Commandant of Conscripts, and the
mine privilege will be extended to applicants as
heretofore allowed.
VI. In all cases arising under the second clause
Paragraph Fourth, commencing with these words,
In addition to the foregoing exemptions," Ac., the
applicant will be sent forward as provided in the
Fourth Paragraph of this Order, and no furlough
will bo allowed, and his application will as soon as
practicable be forwarded to these Headquarters for
decision. Enrolling Officers will make in such cases
investigations as heretofore, and will as soon as
• m-acticable be forwarded to those Headquarters for,
decision. Enrolling Officers will make in such cases
investigations as heretofore, and will tor war
papers to these Headquarters, with the application
for detail. „
V 11. Ail applications for details from the Rcsei
Force for Government works, or any other purpose
must be made to these Headquarter?.
By command of
MA J. GEN. IIOWELL COBBr
Commanding Georgia Reserve.
Lamar Cork. Major and A. A. G.
i ul 29 fit
CiISOKOI4— Muscogee County.
WIIIIIRKAS. Mrs. Mary V. Davis, adm'x of Dr.
\\ George S. Davis, dec'll has hied her petition for
leave to sell a negro woman by the name of Maria,
•ihimt 25 years of age and her lour children.
All persons concerned arc hereby notified to show
/if .inv tliev have) vvhv an order should not
at thenoxt September Term of the Court
of Ordinary said county, authorizing the sale of
' Given"under my hand. j^u NSOS
. , Ordinary.
iy 4 2ni %
Martha A. Taylor I Libel for Divorce in Marion
v < v Superior Court. Returnable to
Green U. Taylor. J September Term. 1864.
At Columbus. April 2d, 1861.
| T appearing to the Court by the return oftho Sher-
L iff, that the defendant is not to be found in the
sounty, and it further appearing to the Court by
other evidence that the dofendent does not reside
in the State.
It is therefore ordered by the Court that service
be perfected on the defendant by publication of this
order once a mouth for four months, before the
next tern of the Court, in some newspaper of this
State.
EDMOND 11. WORRILL, J. S. C. C. C.
A true extract from the minutes, this April sth.
1*54 geo. w. McDuffie,
apl 7 mini Clerk.
TO HIRE!
tj’Oh the balance of the year fifteen able-bodied
Negro Men and seventeen Negro Women.
Apply soon to R. M. GT NBY, Ag t.
iul 28 ts ,
Notice to Debtors aiici Cred
itors.
% LL persons indebted to the estate of Neaboru
A Jones, deceased, are required to make lnun
diate payment, and those having claims against saia
•state are required to render them m terms ot tne
law to the undersigned. „ r ,„. lT yn
SEABORN J. BENNJNG, Adm r.
By MARY 11. BKNNINO. Agent.
)Ul2B wfit
ROOM* TO RENT!
IWO comfortable and well furnished rooms to rent
to some ordei ly and respectable persoß or per
sons in a private house, in the northern part ot the
city. Apply to MRS. DAVID,
auet It Upper end Oglethorpe at.
Miniis iimp.
L_i • ■ * b
Vol. XL
J, W. WARREIV & CO. Proprietors j. WARREN, Editor
Headquarters Conscript Service,!
Augusta, July 25,1864. j
General Orders, 1
No. 42. /
The following extract from Circular, No. 24, Bu
reau of Conscription, (current series,) is published
for the information and guidance of all concerned :
11. The sale to the Government or to the families
of soldiers, at prices fixed by the Commissioners of
the State, under the Impressment Act, of the mar
ketable surplus remaining after furnishing the Gov
ernment with the stipulated quantity of provisions,
and which he may raise from year to year, while his
exemption continues, is made by the act of Con
gress, approved February 17th, 1864, one of the
conditions of exemption allowed to an overseer or
agriculturalist. A claim 13 asserted by some of
those exempted as agriculturalists to exchange such
part of the aforesaid surplus as they may please, for
supplies of provisions, clothing, and the like, to be
consumed in family use, and to sell to the Govern
ment or to the families of soldiers only what re
mains of such surplus after making said exchanges.
The claim is in violatian of the laW and of their
contract with the Government, and cannot be al
lowed.
Upon satisfactory evidence being furnished that
persons exempted as overseers or agriculturalists
have or are thus disposing of thoir surplus produc
tions by exchange as aforesaid, Enrolling Officers
will arrest all suoh 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 tho proper chan
nels of communication to this Bureau a report of
all the facts and circumstance? of each case.
Every agriculturalist or overseer, upon receiving
his certificate of exemption, should be informed
that the action indicated above will be taken in the
event of his not disposing of his marketable sup
plies in accordance with the requirements of the
law."
By order of
Col. WM. M. BROWNE,
Commandant.
P. Looney, Lt. and Adj’t.
jul2B 5t
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Andrew’s Light Artillery Drill
Splendidly illustrated. Prico sl. One-third off to
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Any of these books will be sent free of postage on
receipt of the price, in new issue, or the old at the
discount.
EVANS & COGSWELL,
July 6 3t Publishers.
mil PAPER A BLANK BOW
FOR SALE !
WE have for sale 49 reams of Letter Paper, and
2,000 small Pocket Blank Books, at Wholesale
or Retail. Paper, SSO per Ream; Blank Books, sloo
'' O S-J SC,! Wh °' eSa "- AP,,Iy "TIIIS OFFICE.
TIEIZE jATIj-A-ZN-T-A
lAM k WIEM IITEUiKMIR.
The undersigned proprietor of the ATLANTA
Daily aud Weekly Intelligencer,
announces to the public that he has made arrange
ments for the publication of these Journals in this
city (Macon 1 and that in a few days subscribers to
the same will be furnished as usual with their pa
pers :
Correspondents, advertisers and all persons hav
ing business with tho
insrTEHjJ-jicxEisr o er
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. WRIT AKER,
Proprietor
jul‘27 It
Flag of Truce Letters.
Confederate States ok America,)
War Department,
Bureau op Exchange. )
Richmond, Va., July Ist, 1864.
1. All letters to go North by fag of tuice 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.
3. No letter must exceed in length one page of
ordinary sized letter paper, and its contents be con
fined strictly to personal or family matters No
letter alluding to the movements or localities ot
troops will be allowed to pass.
4. Each letter must contain a United States post
age stamp, or its equivalent in silver or United
States currency. These regulations will be rigidly
enforced, and no letter transmitted in which they
are not strictly observed.
ROB’T OULD.
Agent of Exchange.
[Official,]
W II Hatch, Captain and A A G.
july22 6t
Shoemakers’ and Saddlers’
TOOLS.
'PHE UNDERSIGNED having commenced the
f manufacture of the above named articles in this
city, are prepared to fill orders for the same.
Office on Angle street, a few doors above V. S.
Hospital. HARRISON, BEDELL A CO.
Reference —Maj. F- y • Dillard.
Mobile Register, MiSnssippian and August* Con
stitutionalist, please copy one month and send bills
to this office.
mar 30 ts _ ,
0 N andafter the Ist July, my office and dwell
ing will be on Broad st., at the residence of tne
la julyl?f CaXtn? ' W. J. MURRELL. M. D
Negro Teamsters Wanted!
I wish to hire a number of Nepo Teamsters for
the Army of Tennessee, Citizens having such, hanas
will nlease notify me immediately: as in this way
a number of seWiers may be relieved to strengthen
our struggling ftruiy. 4fiU°C. JOHSSOK,
iul2? 2w Government Transportation Works.
Columbus, Ga. Thursday Morning, August 11,1864.
n Ml! Iffl MODS!!!
Mrs. DSSSAU’S.
FROM THE LATE BLOCKADE SALE AT
A.ugusta, Ga.
The goods are all superior to what is
offered elsewhere, and will be sold lower
than lately. In the assortment can be
found :
Ladies’ Sew Hats,
Sew Bonnet Ribbons.
New Belts,
It obi net Musquito Netting,
Tucking and Dressing Combs,
Cadies 7 Iloserj,
Three y’ds wide Linen Sheeting,
Superior Bleached Shirting,
Printed Jackonets,
Ginghams,
English and French Calicoes,
Bombazine, Alpacas,
Elegant Eeroes.
C.A XjXj SEE.
je 21 ts
Notice -
All Officers or Men registered as patients in
this hospital in private quarters will report Imme
diately in Person, or they will he reported to
Iheir commands as deserters.
W. A. ROBERTSON,
ju!29 d3t Surg. in charge Lee Hospital.
Medical Card.
DR. E. A?” ROSS V.
FORMERLY Surgeon to the New Orleans “Fe
r male Infirmary,” tenders his services to the Cit
izens of Columbus in all the branches of his profes
sion.
Special attention will be devotedjtothe treatment
of the diseases ofwomem.
49“ Surgical operations performed for
Fistula in Ano, Visico-Vaginal fistula,
Hydrocele, Congenital and Accidental Phymosis,
Varicocele, Hcemorrhoids or Piles, Callous Impas
sable strictures, False Passages, Tallapes or Club
Foot, and contraction of the fingers, Strabismus or
Squinting, Aneurism,lVarix or dilated veins, Ptery
gium, Cataract and Hair Lip; also for the remov
al of all tumors or abnormal growths part
of the body.
of ths Genito-Urinary System, comprsing
the different stages of Ghonorrhoea, Strictures,
Gravel, Spermatorrhea, Syphilis, in its primary
secondary,tertiary and heriditary forms,will receive
particular attention.
References given whenever desired as well as the
recommendation of many years practice in New Or
leans; Cousultation hours every day at his office
in the Masonic Hall Building, from 10 to 12 o’clock
a, in,, and from 2to 4 o’clock p, m. Patients willdo
well to call precisely at those hours, as before and
after that time will be devoted to visiting persons in
the city.
Address all commuications to
Dli. E. A. ROSSY.
Columbus. Ga,
, a N. 13.—Persons from a distance having servants
requiring surgical or medical treatment, will be
provi lod with comfortable quarters, but in all cases’
will have to furnish their own provisions and bed
ding.
will also bestow particular attention to
rhe treatment of the different forms of Ulcers, Rheu
matism, Gout, Scrofulous affections. Syphilitic erup
tions, and all other chronic diseases of the skin.—
Medicated Fumigations and Steam Sulphurous
Baths, as employed in the hospitals in. Europe and
America, will form a part of my treatment.
feb 11 8m E.A.R.
Change of* Schedule.
Office Engineer and Superintendent, )
Charleston and Savannah Railroad, >
Charleston, June 7,1864.)
I lN THURSDAY, June 9,1864, and until further
V * notice, the Schedulo of the Passenger train will
be as follow, viz:
Leave Charleston 9.45, a. m.
Arrive in Savannah 5.40, p. m.
Leave Savannah 5.30, a. m.
Arrive in Charleston .....1.15, p. in.
This Train makes direct connections, going north
and south, with the Northeastern Railroad at Char
leston, and the Central Railroad at the Junction.
H. S. HAINES,
June 14 ts Engineer and Superintendent.
FRICTION iHATHCES!
I'HE Columbus, Ga., Friction Match Company,
1 have again resumed operations, and will, in a
few days, be prepared to supply them in quantity.—
They also make a superior article of Blacking, which
can be supplied in quantity.
Dealers and others wishing to purchase, can ap -
ply to Messrs. Livingston & Cos., or Messrs. Hull &
Duck, who will bo kept constantly supplied.
S. D. THOM & CO.,
• Manufacturers.
N. B.—lt having cost me about $5,000 in the past
eighteen months, above receipts, to learn how to
make good matches, the public can now rely on get
ting a superior article. S. D. THOM.
Columbus, May 14,1864 dtf
C hange of Schedule.
ON and after Sunday, June 19th, the Trains on
the Muscogee Railroad will run as follows:
PASSENGER TRAIN:
Leave Columbus 6 45 P. M.
Arrive at Macon 3 25 A. M.
Leave Macon 8 10 P. M.
Arrive at Columbus 4 25 A. M.
FREIGHT TRAIN :
Leave Columbus 5 00 A. M,
Arrive at Columbus 4 55 A. M.
W. L. CLARK.
mar 19 ts Supt. Muscogee R, R.
“ Notice to Planters and Con
sumers of Iron.”
\IT E will keep for sale, for Confederate funds, or
VV exchange for country produce—such as Com,
Fodder, Bacon, Lard, Syrup, Peas, Potatoes, Tal
low, Butter, Wheat or Flour—the following articles,
on hand or made to order:
PLOW AND SCOOTER BAR IRON ;
FLAT, ROUND AND SQUARE BAR IRON;
HOOP. HORSE SHOE, NAIL ROD;
IRON COTTON TIES (CHEAPER THAN
HOPE) FOR BALING :
SHOVELS AND SPADES:
FRY PANS;
POT WARE Ot SEVERAL DESCRIP
TIONS ;
SUGAR AND SALT KETTLES—FROM 40
TO 100 GALLONS;
SUGAR MILLS—I3 AND 13 INCH.
We are prepared to receive and fill orders for any
sizes and quantity of Iron, from oar Iron Works
,»d Rolling Mill in AMggn. D GR , Yt 00 _
a nr3tf - Next o New Bridge,
FOR SALE !
One of the Most Desirable Resi
dences in Wynnton.
rHE Lot contains forty acres of Land—twenty of
which are in the woods. The House is commo
diems and convenient: containingalx basement
rooms and seven on the first floor. On the premise
are good and new out-houses, barns and stabler; an
orchard filled with selections of choice apples,
peaches, apricots, cherries, plums and pears; also a
vineyard of grapes in full bearing. This location w
healthy, supplied with excellent water and con
venient to tne city. Persons desiring to invest will
not have as rare chance probably during the war,—
Parties wishing to negotiate for this property will
call on E. J. Pinckard, who will giTe them any in
formation desired. Possession given immediately,
iul 29 ts J. R. BANKS.
SSO Reward.
} WILL pav the above reward for 808, a biaak
I boy, about 24 years old. He has been out three
or four weeks, and is supposed te be larking about
theeity. fcfO- H. VASs.
W 4 ft
Wednesday Evening.
Wanted!
Office Chief Quartermaster,
Columbus, Ga., Aug. 5, ’64.
One Hundred Negro Shoe-makers to work in
Government Shop. Call at once and help me to
shoe the army.
Liberal prices will be paid.
F. W. DILLARD,
aug6 6t Major andQ’r.
Hf.adquartkrs 24th Mii.itia District, 1
Columbus, Ga., Aug. Bth, 1864. J
Special Orders, \
No. -. )
All men claiming foreign protection will report at
these Headquarters at once.
J, J. ABERCROMBIE,
Maj. & Act’g A. D. C.
Per N. W. Garrard, Capt. & 0. 0.
augS 2t
We have before us a copy of a late number
of the Danville (Ky.) Tribune, in which the
condition of things is represented in most
gloomy color?. The editor says that “Ken
tucky is to-day in an infinitely worse condi
tion than she has been since the inauguration
of the present unhappy civil strife. The fu
ture appears more dark and foreboding than
the present."
After indulging in some severe criminations
of the administration, and a somewhat exten
ded examination of the causes by which this
state of things was brought about, the editor
proceeds as follows :
The free-born white men of Kentucky have
been refused for the defence of their own State
and negroes have been accepted in their stead.
The authority of our Governor—loyal, brave
and patriotic—has been virtually set aside by
the declaration of martial law in our State,
and the unlimited-control of matters given in
to the hands of the military.
We are treated as though we were a State
in rebellion, and are cramped and restrained
in the exercise of those rights and privileges
our unquestioned loyalty to the Government
should guarantee us. And while we are
smarting under the imposition of these wrongs,
let us remember who have brought them upon
us—who are the responsible parties.
If the editor had candidly reviewed the
conduct of the men of Kentucky who have
failed to take part in the glorious struggle foi
independence against Federal oppression, he
could no longer have been at a loss to fix the
responsibility for the degredation to which
that noble Commonwealth is now reduced.—
Had they flocked to our standards, as they
should have done, they would not now be sub
jected to the humiliation of obeying negro
masters.— Rebel.
The “Peace Negotiations.”— The
New York Tribune, whose editor,
ley, was one of. the parties to the so-called
“Peace Negotiations” has the following
paragraphs on the subjects. The most
significant part is the last sentence :
The telegraphic stories concerning
Peace Conferences at Niagara Falls have
a slender foundation in fact, hut most of
the details are very wide of the truth.
The editor of this paper has taken part in
and been privy to no further negotiations
than were fully authorized and more than
authorized. But these relate solely to
bringing the antagonists face to face, in
amicable rather than belligerent attitude,
with the view to the initiation of an ear'
nest effort for peace, to be prosecuted at
Washington. The movement has had no
immediate success.
Os course, all reports that the writer
has been engaged in proposing or receiv*
ing or discussing hypothecated terms or
basis of peace, whether with accredited
agents of the Richmond authorities or
others, are utterly mistaken. He has
never had the slightest authorization to do
anything of the sort; and he is quite
aware of those provisions of law which re
late to volunteer negotiations with public
enemies. Those provisions he heartily
approves, and is nowise inclined to vio
late.
More than this he does not feel at lib
erty to state, though he soon may be.
And all that he can now add is his gen
eral inference that the pacification of our
country is neither so difficult nor so dis
tant as seems to be generally supposed.
Tlte Presidential Campaign
The New York News thinks that the
union of the Democracy “to drive the
vandal hosts from the “capital" never
gave a richer promise of success than at
this present time. The News says :
1 ue feeling of the country, showing it»
self in unmistakable signs for peace, has
alarmed the Administration, and the shod*,
dy hordes see clearly, as did the guilty
Belshazzer, that they have been weighed
in the balance and found wanting.
That the candidate nominated at Chi>
cago will be placed on j a peace platform,
the coming events, which cast their shad
ows before, abundantly prove. The feel
ing for peace is a growing one. Already
it is the prevailing sentiment ot the coun
try, and has ceased to be regarded as
among the political chances at Chicago,
for it is as certain as if written in the
book of fate. And still it grows and will
continue to grow until those who profess
to be Democrats, and oppose it, will be
but as exceptions to the general rule that
all are in its favor.
The Democracy must be united to sus'
tain their nominee, and united as one man
they will be, and he who will be lukewarm
or oppose a candidate upon so glorious a
platform will be classed as among those
who have been bought up by the friends
of Lincoln to divide and distract the par
ty.
It will be a glorious sight, to aee the
conservative men of the country united in
the only national party now in existence,
battling against those who have sunk the
Government and wrecked the Union, up
on a platform of peace, where all who
!o?c the republic and reverence the Con
stitution can stand as a band of brothers.
- ♦
Emerson Etheridge is delivering addresses
at different place- in Illinois. Os course in
opposition to Lincoln
$4.00 Per ffont
Gen. Wheeler's Congratulatory
Address to his Soldiers.
Headq’rs, Wheeler’s Cav. Corps, )
Near Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 5, ’64. j
Soldiers ! The Maj. General command
ing thanks his command for the energy
and determined gallantry displayed in
their recent operations. The foiling of a
most stupendous effort on the part of the
enemy, to destroy our country, is due to
your valor and patriotism.
During the present campaign you have
captured and killed a number of the ene
my equaling your own strength. You
have defeated him in every action in
which you have engaged, capturing his
cannon, colors and arms. Your great
commander, Gen. Hood, fully appreciates
your services. Stand together, my brave
soldiers, continue your good conduct, and
the lasting gratitude of your country will
be your reward.
JOS. WHEELER,
Major-General.
Arrival of Three Hundred More
Prisoners. —The Central train yesterday
brought in three hundred more ot Stone
man’s raiders, captured near Athens, Ga.,
by Allen’s Alabama brigade of Iverson’s
division. Alter they were defeated at
Sunshine Church they fled to the right of
the road, and went to Madison, and from
thence to the neighborhood of Athens
where Gen. Allen overtook and captured
the most that were left. It is thought
that only a few of the whole command of
Stoneman remain, and they will be cap
tured by Gen. Allen’s command.
Never did an expedition prove more
disastrous than has this raid of Stoneman.
It is literally and completely destroyed.
Its chief is a prisoner, and his entire com
mand either killed or captured. —Macon
Confederate , 9th.
Another Raid. —Certain information
has been received that the enemy in North
Mississippi is getting ready for another
raid. There are from fifteen to twenty
thousand of them at LaGrange, their ads
vance resting at Holly Springs, with which
they have railroad communication This
news was telegraphed by Gen. Forrest to
the Governor of Mississippi. He stated
that without more force it would be im>
possible for him to check the progress of
the enemy. The news came unexpected*
ly ou the Legislature, which met on the
3d instant, at Macon. —Mobile Register.
A Tough Toast.— Any one who has
been in St. Augustine, Florida, any length
of time, must have seen or heard of old
C , who has, until recently kept a store
in that city, who had the misfortune to be
deaf. He had a stock of good liquor in
the cellar, and the officers at the post of
course cultivated C- ’s acquaintance,
and appeared very friendly, although some
of them disliked him, and thought he was
a little too “stingy,” but they were always
ready to drink when he asked them to
“take something.” On one occasion he
invited a few of them into his back room;
the old “rye” was turned out and the
glasses raised, when one officer who wished
to amuse his companions a little at C ’s
expense, gave the following toast in rath
er a low tone of voice :
“Mr. C , here is hoping that you
will go to h—l.”
Old C did not hear what was said,
but seeing the officer’s lips move, sups
posed that he had paid him the usual com
pliment of drinking his health, and
promptly responded :
“The same to you, sir, and all oi your
family.”
The laugh was turned on the officer,
who was punished for his impoliteness.
Emigration to the West. —The emigration
across the plains was never so large as it is at
this season. The St. Louis papers state that
accounts from all the territories agree in
speaking of the emigration as being beyond
all previous reports or calculation. At one
time during the month of May, upwards of
100,000 were journeying westward, in all sorts
of conveyances, between Denver City, Jules
burg, and the Missouri frontier. The steam
ers between this city and San Francisco never
did so large a business.
It is easy enough to account for thi3
“change of base” on the part of so many of
our people. A land of gold is more attractive
than a land of greenbacks ; peace is preferable
to war, and the pursuits of industry to the
pursuit of arms. Many of the emigrants are
from the unsettled regions of the border
States, and fly to the Pacific shore to escape
the actual horrors of war. We fear that many
of them are not as loyal as they might be,
and that perhaps the influence of these people
upon the future destinies of California and
the embryo States may lead to difficulties in
the future. In any event, this heavy addition
to the population of the mineral-bearing ter
ritories i3 of very great significance and
importance.— Yankee Paper.
How the Monky Goes. —We have frequently
seen a statement of the great weight of lead
required to be fired in a battle for the killing
or wounding of a single man. But does any
body ever reflect, that to free the negroes
emancipated by the war. we have expended
more than double the weight of every individ
ual estimated in hard silver money ? Such is
the actual fact. The cost of the war np to
the present time would amount to over sixty
thousand tons of sterling silver. Averaging
the weight of negroes big and little, at seventy
pounds, and double it in silver as the cost of
each darkie s freedom, and we find that oar
war expenses would pay at that rate for
960,000 “citizens of African decent. That's
the wav the money goes ! —Boston Courier.
Rhmoval. of a Tape-Wohx. —One of the
most remarkable cases we have ever heard of
in medical practice occurred in onr borough
on the 26th alt. It consisted in the success
ful removal of what is knowu in medical
science as a bothria-cephalus lahut, from a
patient by the name of Theressa Herwedel,
who is in the employ of Mr. Valentine Erney.
Dr. John G. Feistel was the physician in at
tendance, and. after considerable careful
attention to the case, succeeded in removing
the tape-worm whole, in a perfect state, meas
uring ninety- feet! The time occupied m
effecting the removal was three I,our =
Strange to say the patient was weil enough
on the following day to resume her ordinary
avocations. — York (P’l. < Press.
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Mobil*. Aug.' oth.—Last night a soldier
train ran into a land slide between Pollard
and Montgomery killing 12 and wounding 57
of the Ist Mississippi Artillery Battalion.
Last night two white men and one negro
were arrested for cutting the wires.
Some few Federal vessels are cruising ia
the Bay.
The garrison in Fort Morgan is in fine spir
its ; otherwise all quiet below.
Atlanta, Aug, 9th.—Last night and this
morning passed without any demonstration on
the part of the enemy.
Some few shells are still thrown into the
city, without doing damage.
The enemy evince no disposition to extend
their right farther, which rests near the Camn
belltown road.
A captain and lieutenant from McCook's
raiders, who deserted from our army last win
ter, were captured yesterday.
Petersburg, Aug. 9. — About noon to-dar
a heavy explosion occurred in the rear of the
enemy’s lines, on the City Point Road : cause
unexplained.
Rather more than usual sharpshooting and
mortar shelling this evening.
Weather sultry: slight rain to-day.
We see by the latest New York papers—
copies of which we received yesterday via
Havana, of the 21st tilt.—that the great land
expedition which was presumed to be organ
izing at New Orleans, was to start from Pen
sacola in order to create a diversion in favor
of Sherman. The object, they think, is to
cut off all communication with Montgomery
by Mobile.
The Steamer Runyan Sunk. —The stea
mer Runyan cleared at this port for St. Louis,
on Wednesday, July 29th. having a full freight
and passenger list.
On the night of Friday, the 2d inst., while
running at her usual rate, she ran on a snag
near Egg Point, and immediately sunk in 1*»
feet water.
The cabin passengers were all saved by the
U. S. gunboat Forrest Rose, which was close
at hand when the accident happened. The
steamer sank so rapidly that the most of the
deck passengers were lost. These consisted
chiefly of soldiers returning home, whose
term of service had expired, and refugee?
going North. From the most reliable state
ments we can get, there are probably 60 or 70
lives lost.
After the Forrest Rose had taken all from
the Runyan which she could get, the cabin of
the Runyan, which had floated off from the
hull some distance down the stream and was
lying on a sand bar, was burned to prevent it
from guerilla visits.— Vicksburg ITerald, 26 th.
Foreigners.— A Yankee correspondent in
Sherman’s army amuses himself with the fol
lowing story of a woman he, or some of his
comrades, met in North Georgia. The old
lady had a very correct idea, in the main, on
the subject of foreigners :
“You'ns fellows don't fight wee’ns fair.' 7
said the old lady, with the air of a Madam
Roland. ♦
“How so ?" said the soldier.
“Why, yqu’ns fight wid bags, and that's
not fair,” said the old lady, drawing a very
indignant puff'from the pipe; “besides,' said
she, “you’ns have forruners iightiu.’ -
“Not that I know.”
“You’ns cain’t come over me that way;
wasn’t there fellows from a place called New
York here to-day ?”
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“For fast our car of triumph comes
Along the grooves of time.”
The lines we have prefixed from Colonel Hawkiu?'
poem, “Behind the Bars,” (which we should be
very glad if our correspondent would furnish us en
tire, arc a text for a sermon beyond our power to
preach. At the sound of such words, not struck
from the chords of the idle, sentimental lyrist, but
swelling forth from the depths of a Yankee prison,
what Southern heart does qpt feel itself expanding
with the grandeur of the idea which inspires, sus
tains and animates our suffering unfortunate sol
diers ?
It is a stern and sublime faith which here speaks,
imaging forth the ultimate result of this dreadful
struggle as an event as fixed as any mechanical
principle. The unerring decrees of destiny—God’s
holy decrees—are urging forward the inevitable
consummation, and no strategem or cunning device
of tho enemy can turn it aside from its course. It
is no erratic purpose of affinite mind which is to be
worked out with such success as attendant circum
stances may permit, but a purpose which “in the
fullness of time” will reach its accomplishment,
along the path which the Almighty has traced out
for it. The broad-winged oak leviathans of the
deep may be swept by the tempest from their un -
stable course, ana dashed upon the rocks; an ob
stacle may divert the locomotive and its train from
the track, and hurl it down the precipice, a pile of
shapeless wreck; but “the grooves of time,” were
cut by no human hand, traced by no finite mind, nor
can human devices divert or stay the progress of
the “car of triumph” which moves along them.
Such is the heroic trust of our imprisoned breth
ren. Let us be worthy of their kinship.— Mobile
Adv. & Ren.
Yankee Women in Arms.—The New Albany
Ledger learns that a most painful tragedy occurred
near Mauckport, Harrison county, Indiana, on Sun
day last. A young lady by :he name of Miller went
to church wearing a kind of “butternut” emblem.—
This created a considerable feeling among some of
the Republican ladies of the congregation, After
the services were over, Mrs. Timberlake, wife of
Henry Timberlake, and nephew of Co]. John Tim
berlake, volunteered to go and take away the em
blem. She rushed towards Miss Miller and a gen
eral fight occurred among the women, when Colonel
John Timberlake came into the crowd, apparently
greatly excited.
A young man named Henry Lohmire, who accom
panied Miss Miller to church, warned Timberlake
not to interfere, Lohmire himself endeavoring to
separate the lady combatants. Timberlake replied
to Lohmire, “you are nothing but a rebel anyhow.”
Lohmire warned Timberlake not to repeat the
language. Timberlake replied in a still more
defiant manner, "you are a d —d rebel. ,”
and, some accounts say, struck Lohmire in the
face, and put his hand to a side pocket a e if to draw
a weapon, whereupon Lohmire drew a pistol and
shot twice, both shots taking effect. The first ball
passed through Timberlake’s band and into hi
shoulder, the second entered his side and passed
through his heart, causing instant death.
The affair, as may be imagined, caused great ex
citement in the neighborhood, where a bad feeling
had prevailed for some time. Timberlake was for
merly Lieut. Colonel of the 81st Indiana. Lohmire
is a young man—a mere boy in fact—who is said by
those who know him to be of gentle disposition. He
at once proceeded to Oorydon, where he surrender
ed himself and was put in jail.— St. Louiu liepubC
can, 14 th.
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