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ttoJuute limis. J. W. WiRRp, - - - Editor. • Thursday Morflißft Angust 11, 1864. The resalt of the Gubernatorial election in North Carolina has most agreeably surprised us. Against Gov. Vance were arrayed all who are opposed to the administration of Presfdent Davis, all who are opposed to the war. or are disaffected to the cause and all the miserable dupes of the idea, so persistently harped upon by Holden, that an honorable peace could be brought about by negotiation. We have been led, by common rumor and the lying boasts of Holden anu his satellites, to suppose that these elements of opposition j combined represented a political power of no mean strength in the State. But the result has scattered these calculations to the wind. The army gave such an overwhelming vote for Vance that Holden's supporters at home became ashamed of themselves and set him slide. They couldn t Hold-on. From parties just from the Georgia front we learn that the enemy, for the past two or three , days, has called a halt in his flanking opera- j tiona oil our left. What movement Sherman j will next essay it is difficult to conjecture. He j has tried cutting our communications and the j flanking process ad nauseam , and it would ! ,-eem that he has nearly reached the point j whence he must go straight forward or back. ; Perhaps he will grow desperate and assault i our works. We wish him no better luck. The Fight at Mobile. We are kindly permitted to make tbe fol lowing extracts from a private letter received in this city, written at Mobile under date of the 7th inst. The writer was a witness of the engagement : ■ : Yoii will have learned ere this of the suc cessful entry of 8 in this Bay. In a few words f will tell you how this happened. On the morning of the sth inst. the Yankee fleet steamed up past Fort3 Morgan and Gaines, both forts opened on them, supported by the Ram Tennessee and the Steamers Morgan, Gaines and Selma. After two hours hard lighting a shot from the enemy carried away the Tennessee’s smokestack flush with the deck. The smoke immediately filled the gun deck and she was obliged to surrender, or all hands would have suffocated in a few moments. Admiral Buchanan had one of his legs frac tured. The Selma fought bravely, and seve ral fine young men were killed, and, perhaps, many more that I have not heard of. She was a total loss and the crew were captured. The Haines fought well, spent all her ammunition and, when the Captain found she was sinking, ho beached her arid the officers and crew are all safe with us. She lost several men killed and wounded. The Morgan was the only vessel left. She succeeded in reaching Mobile last night in safety. The enemy lost one Monitor sunk, one vessel burned, one other sank and four disabled. We are all here now at the upper Mobile, all that is left of us, iron rams, supported by the land batteries, and we must fight it out with the enemy when he has re paired his damages and finds himself ready to deliver the final blow for Mobile. His ships are before us now but still we hope for Mo bile. * * * * The Hartford, Brooklyn. 2 monitors and 4 other ships are in the. bay." More Yankees Last Monday news came to town that live or six hundred Yankees were in the upper part of this county making their way to Sherman’s lines. They were the remnant of the raiding party Roddy thrashed so severely at Newnan last Friday. Their retreat from Newnan direct to their own lines was cut off, and they had to take this round about way to get home. Thev crossed the river at Philpot’S ferry. We un derstand a great many more drowned while attempting to cross, and all their horses cap tured. They were pursued to the river by our cavalry, they are thoroughly demoralized, and are scattered over the whole country, their only object being seemingly to get some thing to eat fhey are being captured in squads of from three to twenty by citizens and our cavalry, A squad of five whites and two niggers were brought to town last Tuesday night, liter were some of the raiders that passed through here two weeks since. They went immediately from here to Marietta, stay ed there one night, and started next day for the Macon railroad, which they cut, and were returning when met at Newnan and routed.— 1 Itese men say Rosseau had taken command of McPherson s corps in Sherman’s army. They were nearly starved when captured, and made no attempt to escape when ffursuedc — Citizens in the vicinity of Rock Mills have owned out generally, and are doing good ser vice in taking them up. This is a fine oppor tunity for the mounted scouts of this county to get their hands in. We hope they will be on the trail soon.— Chambers Tribune. . Lalesi From East Florida Tin following official dispatches were re em ed by Gov. Milton, ou Thursday • Lake City. Aug. 4th—Gov. Milton: The tollou Dig report came in late last night: “A transport with troops from Hilton Head ar met. at Jacksonville on Sunday evening. Anotiitr came down ou Monday ; she had been up wiiti horses; nut known where they were liinued. Another transport went uploaded m ith 'l oops which were supposed to be landed at Green Cove Springs. The enemy are re port.,! to have burned the breastworks around .ul.iw.n on Sunday last. Troops at Camp 'niton. All quiet in front.” ~ Jrmx K. Jackson. Brig. Gen. Lake City. Aug. 4, helmet CUl 'k r>ie^ inson reports that ue met the enemy, about 7* cavalry, and 200 m fan try, lour miles from Palatka on the 2d. and after a hard fight drove them back into he., entrenchments, found tight dead and - apposes, fie killed and wounded many others v> uei< r t!| ken into Palatka, captured five— one of whom is a.first lieutenant. Lost one sergeant (his son C. R. Dickinson) and one oumled. Captured some arms and horses. rJe - r,f* k i nS) at Gainesville, sc vs the ne groes and deserters from Cedar Keys have been roughly handled by Capt. Lilknihal who kiried one and captured another. They have gone back to Cedar Keys. y Dave ,Ixo - K. Jackson, Brig. Gen. fFiorid,un st Journal. Hu m Brandy. —This is another of the very valuable discoveries lately made, and adds to the instances of what can be done from onr own resources. The article before us has a peculiarly rich flavor, pleasant to the taste, and acts upon the system like a sweet cordial, ft i> remarkable for its parity, and is pro nounced by experienced judges superior to An - •''Hide. Charleston Courier. consider 0 ! 3 ?.’ 11 A- Scoville, who has earned York to tVrV ° l a net k* 3 lettcr3 ,r om New tore ot ‘Manhattan Under the signa “ 11,6 It is strange how woH we do without importations. The South consumed be fore tbe war, of goods brought from Eu rope or the North, at prices fixed by the Yankees, between three and four hundred millions of dollars worth, valued in gold. Now, we get nothing but the goods whioh come in accidentally through the block* ade, the total annual value of which a few millions of gold will cover. We practi* cally do without what before cost three hundred and fifty millions of dollars per annum. We used to expend in foreign and Northern merchandise the whole an nual proceeds of six great staple crops — namely: cotton, tobacco, rice, sugar, na* val stores and flour or wheat. The total exportations of the entire United States fell short of what the South produced for sale of her great leading staples, and what she had to spare besides of flour j and wheat. The South sent to Europe j and the North more than the United States at large sent to other countries. ] The total value of these exportations of j the South was about four hundred mil lions in the two years first preceding the war, all of which she received payment for in merchandise. She bartered away her whole surplus produce for property which three years of experience has shown that she can do without. These have been years of war, which exacts more of these things than peace; and we have done without, and done well without them, although we have suffered the severe loss es, the extreme wear and tear, and the j cormorant exactions of war. The war has cost, up to this time, prob> ably thirteen or fourteen hundred mil lions of dollars; or at the rate of about four or five hundred millions of dollars a year, measured in Confederate money; that is to say, about as much as peace im portations would have cost in gold. The truth is, that we have got along without importations, which would have cost each year nearly as much money in gold as Government pays per annum in paper on account of war expenditure. In a cial point of view we have lost nothing by the war; for if,instead of fighting, we had been raising cotton, tobacco, sugar, rice and naval stores, they would have all been bartered for articles of luxury bring ing no essential benefit. The Govern ment obligations do not represent an exs penditure as between nation and nation; it represents the cost of war at home, and the debt owed by Government to its own poople. Our foreign debt is absolutely nothing. The pittance of debt which outstands in foreign lands is represented exclusively by cotton and produce bonds, which are a credit upon shipments and not against the Treasury. The Coafeders acy owes next to nothing abroad. Its debt is a purely domestic debt and fectly manageable. It can be supported after paace with entire convenience, and placed in a course of rapid and easy liquid dation by a proper administration of its enormous resources in export staples. To show how perfectly mauageable this debt is, we have only to consider that if the people of the South could forego the use of imported merchandise for a few years succeeding the ratification of peace as well as they have done during the peri od of war, they would be able to pay off their war debt in as short a period as that in which it was contracted. Nor would the payment operate as a charge against the Confederacy in favor of foreign credi tors ; for it would be a charge against the Confederate Government in favor of the Confederate people , and, as against the country at large, would not be left as a charge at all. It is true that the paper of Government would, during such a period of liquidation, at least as to a portion of it, certainly pass from the hands of Con - | federate citizens into those of foreign | holders; but the paper would bring full ! value (probably a premium value) to tbe | Confederate citizen in the transfer, and the general transaction would, therefore, be the same in effect as if none of the paper should be sold beyond tjie limits of the Confederacy during the process of liquidation. It is not to be supposed that the people will forego the use of foreign merchan dise in a degree at all approaching total abstinence ; but these facts are certain— namely, first, that they readily could do so, if necessary, as the present abstinence fully demonstrates; and, second, that if they did so, the extraordinary exporting capacities of the Confederacy would ena> ble it to liquidate its war debt in the same length of time as that during which it was contracted. It is true that the peo ple will not thus abstain from the use of fpreign merchandise, and for several rea sons ; the leading one among t which is, that a public debt contracted for the ben efit of posterity is not at this day held to be such that the living generation is mor ally bound to liquidate it But the re s * flection that a public debt is capable of being liquidated by the exporting resour* ces of the country alone, in so brief a period of time, certainly serves to relieve any uneasiness which might be felt in re spect to the Confederate debt, and ought to banish all distrust of the capacity of the Confederacy to liquidate its war obli* gations by effectual measures which shall bear very lightly upon the industry and capital of the people. There is no doubt that vast loss and destruction have been suffered from the War, which do not enter into the discus sion of the mere question of public finan ces. These losses are very heavy, and must seriously affect the general wealth and production of the country for several years succeeding a restoration of peace. But none of the mere material losses of war are without compensation in some form. Even the familiiarity with adver sity and privation, to which they subject large classes, generally proves of future value to them ; and considering these losses with respect to the public at large, it wsll hardly be denied that the astonishing growth of home manufactures which has been occasioned by the blockade and ; the consequent domestic privation, will j compensate the South for positive losses I brought upon ber by the war. ' I If the war should end during the pre j sent year, history will afford no example j of the facility with which so large a pub lic debt as that of the Confederacy will have been placed in a course of conven ient liquidation; nor will it afford any i instance of recuperation to compare in , rapidity with that which will be displayed in the example of the Confederacy.— I Rich. Examiner: Prom TlrfSnla. A GHASTLY SCENE. The editor of the Petersburg Express has visited the chasm near that city, caus ed by the enemy's explosion. It appeared to be about forty feet in depth, and some 200 feet in circumference, and resembled more what one would imagine to have been the of a terrible earthquake than anything else to which we could liken it. Immense boulders of earth were piled up rudely, one above the other, and great fragments of bomb proofs, gun car riages, limbers, &c., were lying promiscu ously in every direction. One man was caught between -two boulders, near the surface of the ground, and literally crushed between them. He still re mained in this painful position, with only his head and neck visible, our men not having had the time to extricate him. Life had long been extinct, but the ghast ly looking face was unmarked by a scratch, and the head perfect, but slightly reelin'' ing on the shoulder. The sides aud bottoms of the chasm were literally lined with Yankee dead, and the bodies lay in every conceivable posi tion. In one spot we noticed a corporal of infantry, a sergeant of artillery, and a big, burly negro, piled one upon top of tbe other. Some had evidently been killed with the buts of muskets as their crushed skulls and badly mashed faces too plainly indicated, while the greater por tion were shot, great pools of blood having flowed from their wounds and stained the ground. Between our breastworks and the ene my's, large numbers of dead and wounded were still lying, the latter begging pite ously for water, and praying to be cared for. Our men could not relieve them, as they were in full range of the enemy’s sharpshooters, who had not ceased their firing, even under such appalling circum stances as we have described. THE LABORS OF THE ENEMY. The length of the “sap” made by the enemy is supposed to have been about 600 feet, but the work is not so great, as many unacquainted with the appliances used for such purposes, would suppose. Immense augurs, made specially for such occasions, are brought into requisition, and by this means, we are informed, a vast deal of work can be accomplished in a short space of time. Just where the mine was sprung and the explosion occurred, the earth is formed of a hard substance, such as is generally known as “pipe clay,” and this accounts for the great boulders of earth which were rent asunder and upturned by the force of the explosion. The labors of the enemy in this operas tion have been poorly repaid. The very timely arrival of General Mahone, and the quick perception of his military mind soon placed our gallant boys in position, and retrieved the disaster. The enemy’s losses from all causes are estimated at 3500 men. We have over 1000 prisoners in our possession, 14 bat« tie flags, and upwards of 2000 stands of small arms. We took no cannon, because the enemy brought none with them. The four pieces captured by the explosion, at tached to Pegram’s Battery, were after wards dug up from tbe rubbish uninjured. Our entire loss is ascertained to be about 890. Among the killed, we regret to state are some of our very best men. VARIOUS ITEMS. Since the affair of last Saturday, the Yankees have been rather quiet in front of Petersburg, The white and black officers captured lately at Petersburg, are confined together. Northern papers state that the Federal loss at the late battle of Winchester was over one thousand men. Heavy defalcations have been discov ered in the Treasury Department. The amount is not yet known. From Below. The Yankee forces which came to Whites ville last week landed at Magnolia and marched towards Black creek, a portion of them branch • ing off to Middleburg, on the south prong of the creek. They did not cross immediately, but posted pickets in theswamp. They crossed the creek at Knight’s Bridge, and took sever al persons prisoners, whom they afterwards released. One young man, named Washing ton Branning, hearing a noise and not sus pecting anything, went across and was imme diately taken before Gen. Birney, who asked him what business he had there? The young man replied that he came to see what the matter was. Gen. B. then said that he was a spy, and ordered him to be led to be shot, and men detailed for that purpose. The young man said that he ought not to be shot without a hearing, but the General repeated the order, when young Branning broke loose and ran to the creek, plunged in, when about 50 shots were fired at him. It is supposed that he reached the opposite shore in safety, | as one of the negro troops was heard to say that “the d—d rebel had crossed the river in j two di' r e3." Major G. W. Scott learning that they had I landed, went with a force of 100, and met i them near Whitesville sometime on Sunday, i and threw out a party of 30 skirmishers, who fired upon the enemy and retired across the creek. This was near night. The next morning, the enemy followed in two parties, cavalry and infantry, and another skirmish ensued. Their cavalry got between j our skirmishers and the main body. Our skirmishers finding themselves about to be cut off were obliged to retreat and fall back upon Col. McCormick. Col. McCormick having been apprised of the burning ot tbe trestle in his rear, evacua ted Baldwin, bringing away all of his camp equipage, and Villepigue's artillery, and | crossed the St. Mary’s river at Lang's Ferry, j where a small force of the enemy followed him. A few shots from Villepigue's artillery scattered them and compelled them to retire. Only one man is known to be lost, all the i rest having come in. In the skirmishes, 8 Yankee negroes were] killed and as many wounded. At Whitesville they tore down fences and burned the rails, j turning in horses and cattle to destroy the ; crops. Darby's turpentine Distillery near ! Baldwin they also destroyed, burning with it , a quanity of rosin, valued in good times at $40,000.' On Monday morning about 2 o'clock p. m.. j our citizens were aroused with the astounding report that couriers bad arrived from Col. j McCormick, stating that a force of cavalry had crossed the St. Mary’s river and had flanked him; at the same time the telegraph wires ceased working and no communication could be had with Camp Jackson. This led to the belief that the lines had been cut. Re ports and rumors were circulated without number. Many left in the early part of the dav and all Was confusion until about 4 I o’clock p. m.. when communication was re -established, and the whole aiarm proved a : false one. — Like dig Columbian. Loss of Gsnmals.—Since tha war com menced the Federals have lost 51 Generals, of whom 36 were killed in battle and 36 have died of disease? contracted ia the service. M. &W. Railroad and the New ! lisae. We are at some loss to know upon what | ground the Macon and Western Railroad Com- ! pany can justify its refusal to receive the old issue of Confederate note3 at its discounted value. Is it on the score of inconvenience? Fit i3 not willing to suffer some inconve niences from the war then it seeks exemption from evil, when no man or woman or child in the Confederacy can claim or enjoy a similar blessing. Is it independent of the Govern ment and the people from whom it derives its franchises and protection? We should think not. At this moment the Confederacy has army employed in protecting its inte™t against the devastation of the vandal invader. And yet no soldier composing that army can have* the privilege of traveling on its cars, if he happens to have nothing but old issue. No citizen who pays the taxes to support that array is permitted to travel, if he should be so unfortunate as to have no new issue. The evil will grow until no person, how ever patriotic, can receive it and be able to pay current expenses with it. The circula tion will thus be reduced to the amount of the new issue, suddenly and within a few days, which will involve a money crisis, and all growing out of the unpatriotic action of the overgrown corporation, known as the Ma con and Western Railroad Company. Could Lincoln or Seward have devised a more in genious scheme to add to the embarrassments of our people ? Could Stoneman or McCook, the Y'ankee raiders, have done much more harm, if they had been left to roam at large through the country, and carry on their work of destruction? For shame, we would say to the company, if it had a soul to feel, thus to add to the em barrassments of a suffering and invaded peo ple, instead of assisting them in bearing their heavy burdens. Does this corporation fear that the Govern ment will not redeem its old issue at its dis counted value ? There is no reason to indulge such an apprehension. The Government has been slow in giving circulation to its new is sue, it is true: but then the corporation should have reason, and should remember that the Government has been burdened with tremen dous responsibilities since the passage of the new Treasury bill—it has been engaged in re pelling one of the most gigantic invasions known in history. The capital has been cut off from its communications. It will redeem the old issue, and this old issue is worth just as much as the corporation is asked to take it for. It would be a matter of comparative little importance whether the company should receive it or not, if other corporations, mer cenary traders, market men, hucksters and speculators, will not avail themselves of the example offered them by this huge corpora tion, and will not make it an excuse to refuse the old issue. We feel conscious that any comments the press may make upon this act will not change the policy of the company. But we think the company should suffer the penalty of for feiting some portion of the respect of the country, the people and the soldiers, on ac count of its selfish and unpatriotic policy.— We desire to see it clothed with odium and covered with indignation. We wish an hon est and suffering people to have the consola tion and consciousness of disapprobation m what is so well calculated to produce confu sion and embarrassment, and of feeling an honest scorn for a company which, at s«ch a time, can coldly and deliberately adopt a rule bearing so hardly upon a majority of the honest, patriotic, long suffering community when it can possible lose nothing by uphold ing the Confederate old issue at its discoun ted value.— Rebel. English Judges.—Of the four Puisne Judges of the'Queen’s Bench, not one belongs to the established church. Mr. Justice Crompton is well known as belonging to the Unitarian de nomination. Mr. Justice Blackburn was born and bred, and still remains, a Scotch Presby terian. Mr. Justice Mcller is in like manner associated with the English congregation of dissenters. Mr. Justice Shee is an avowed Roman Catholic; so that ou Sir Alexander Cockburn alone, himself a Scotch baronet, devolves the duty of representing, as one of the Judges, the interests and representation of the Church of England. ♦ -*w- ♦ General Washburne has issued an order ap pointing Aldermen for the different wards of Memphis, who are to receive the usual salary, and, with the Mayor, be known as the Provi sional Mayor and Council of Memphis. [From the London Times (city art.) July 6.] The Yew Tariff of the i nitefi States. The new Tariff Bill just past by the Senate of the United States makes, as far as intention is concerned, a further considerable stride toward a prohibition of foreign commerce. But the total inadequacy of the manufactur ing power of the country to supply the wants of the people and of the army renders it im possible materially to check the demand for European goods, and the chief result, there fore, of each increase of duty is that it ena bles the home manufacturers to increase to that extent their charges for such goods as they have the means of supplying. The altered scale now about to become law raises the duty on woolen articles from thirty-five per cent., its present rate, to forty per cent, ad valorem, which, as it is payable in gold, is equal, in the existing state of the market, to about ninety per cent, in paper currency. Flannels are 1 increased in rate from eighteen to twenty- ; four per cent., several classes of cotton goods I from fifteen to twenty par cent., steel raanu- j factures from thirty-five to forty per cent., and tea from ten pence per pound to ten per ! cent, ad valorem. I Attempt to Escape bt Prisoners at Camp Chase.— On the 4th of July thirty Confederate prisoners at Camp Chase attempted to get through the gate, opened to allow a cart to pass. The guards fired on them, wounding two, one of whom has had an arm amputated, and succeeded in preventing all but a few from passing through the gateway. All were re-captured before they were without the lim its of the camp. There are seventeen hundred prisoners at Camp Chase. Incendiary Cotton.— The Lowell (Mass ) Courier states that in one of the cotton mills of that city was found, a day or two ago, in opening some cotton bales, a little cone shaped article, which was found in the picker room, containing eight or ten percussion caps. On trying them, several exploded, and it is supposed that all are good. Had these caps gone into the machinery with the cotton, it is more than probable that a conflagration would have been the consequence. General Grant. —The North Amer ican is willing, it seems, to sacrifice its favorite general, if the necessities of Mr. Lincoln may require it. It says : The national Government, in its earnest desire to leave nothing undone that could insure the success of General Grant’s campaign in Virginia, has sent him every man he asked for, and even the reserves under Burnside, intended for the defence of Washington, are with him. It has thus yielded up its own ideas, therefore, only to find them correct to its cost. The Philadelphia Age says : It is well known that to the appoint ment of incompetents to the command of the subordinate movements, are we in debted for the failures of the campaign. But to make Lincoln the next President, hia party would sacrifice every soldier and officer in the array. Grant is but another victim CITY MATTERS. T. J. JACKSON, LOCAL EDITOR. Funeral Notice. The funeral services ofCapt. Willis D.Baxks, and j Lieut. Eugenf Banks will be held in St. Luke’s Methodist Church on Sabbath morning. Aug. 14th. augll 3t* Wanted to Rent. —A dwellinglin a convenient portion of tho city, with three or four rooms. For such a place could exchange a pleasant little house with two room3. Enquire at this office. Billy Phklps has sugar to exchange for country produce. Also, for sale, garden seeds, groceries, Ac. Those in want of these things should give him a call. — m • ! Retcrx of Details.— We learn that Captain | White’s wagon-makers returned from the front on | Tuesday evening, and the Arsenal companies yes ! terday evening. It is pleasant to feel that we are full-handed, and that in case of raids we shall be able to make a bolder defense. We think upon the whole, that the war-power failed in accomplishing its objects by sending our detailed men to the front, | as no general engagement has yet come off, and the ! public mechanical interests have suffered. We j think, shoes, guns, wagons, clothing, munitions, &c., ; are as indispensably necessary as men, and that j those engaged in the manufacture of these things I should only be called forth in the last and most des ; peratc extremity. Another Typo Dead.— ln the sanguinary strug gle of Thursday, the 27th July, in front of Atlanta, Felix Lloyd, a member of the 46th Ga,, was killed. Mr. Lloyd belonged toCapt. Cooper’s old company had been in the service about three years—had never, we believe, enjoyed the benefit of a furlough —and was according to report a faithful soldier.— Before the war he was a Columbus printer and worked for several years with General Bethune in the “Corner Stone’’ office in this city. We learn that in addition to his fine soldierly qualities, ho was an exemplary Christian, and that his last days were lit up with the calm and sublime faith of the Gospel. Though he went forth from the humble walks of life, his conduct and character won for him the confidence and esteem of his fellows. Telegraphic Irregularity. —Nome months ago the Press Association or Telegraph Managers estab lished a regular hour for the transmission of tele graphic press reports, to-wit, at 7 o’clock, p. m. We regret to find that this system has been discon tinued, and that we are thrown back upon the old plan of waiting till 10 and 11 o’clock at night. The 7 o’clock arrangement worked admirably on the Press of this city, as by it, we could generally put our papers to press by 11 o’clock at night, and allow our hands time for repose; while the irregular sys tem of having to wait till a late hour for the dis patches involves the necessity of keeping our city papers open till 12 and 1 o'clock, and deprives the printers of needful repose. We trust that the city Press, as well as the Press of the State generally, will urge upon the energetic and accommodating General Agent, Mr. Thrasher, to use his influence in re-establishing the 7 o’clock call hour, as soon as convenient. We feel sure this hour would give gen eral satisfaction throughout the State. The Reign of Terror. —The organ of Andy Johnson at Nashville—the Daily Union —has the following preface to a long article, ehoering on the demoniacs to their work in Tennessee : “The Great Purification. —Within a brief space of time, several very stringent orders have been issued from il/a.jor General Nherman, and some of the subordinate commanders in this Military De partment, relative to the conduct and language of enemies of the Union, living within our lines hav ing in view the diminution of the remarkable fa vors which they have been receiving at our hands, the punishment ol their disloyal acts, and their summary expulsion in other cases, beyond our lines, into the South. We trust that these orders will prove to be not mere idle words, as, unfortunately for the national cause, thoy have been heretofore. We hope, on the contrary, they are but “The first drops of a thunder shower," and that the new era of the Great Purification of the South has begun in good earnest.” Andy Johnson. —A Yankee paper gives a “Sketch of the Life and Services” of J ohnson, the Lincoln candidate for Vice-President. According to this, he was born at Raleigh, N. C., on the 29th Decem ber, 1808. He lost his father in his fourth year.— His family was very poor, and he was apprenticed to a tailor in his native city, with whom he served seven years. He never attended school a single day in his life; but whilst learning his trade, and by aid of the journeymen, he acquired a familiarity with the alphabet. As soon as he could imperfectly read, he borrowed a few books, from which he amassed all the learning he had until he married, which was in his twentieth year. His wife then taught him to write and cipher. He worked for a short tint® at Laurens, C. 11., South Carolina; then returned to Raleigh. Subsequently, he settled in Greenville, Tennessee, and there was alderman and mayor. In 1835, he was elected to the Legislature. In 1840. he was Democratic Elector of Tennessee.— In 1841, he wa3 elected to the State Senate. In 1843, he was sent to Congress, whore he served till 1853. That year ho was elected Governor, and re elected in 1855. In 1857, he was chosen United States Senator, and finished his term last March a year.— He is now military Governor of his State, and may be Vice-President of what is left of the United States. STOLEA! the OWNER of a BLIND HORSE stolen by l a deserter, can hear of him by applying at the Enrolling Office. WM. L. DAVIS asJl lw Capt. & En. Off. DR. J. A. CLOPTON, WILL be at Cook’s Hotel, Columbus, Ga., Aug. 9th,and may be consulted during the week at Cook s Hotel. He operates with perfect success for Piles, Fistula, Tumors, Polydi, diseases of Fe males and all diseases of the Genital Organs.— He has operated every day in the year, and for Piles, prefers to operate in warm weather. Dr. Clopton has operated on a great many o. .he 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 it they win furnish him with a comfortable conveyance. ag9 4tp to hire: B\ ; the month, a smart 15 year old House Girl.— Apply at this office. agy.jtv TO THE CITIZENS OF HARRIS & MUSCOGEE COUNTIES. (Columbus, Georgia, Aug. 6, ’O4. I am authorized by the General Commanding the Army of Tennessee, to impress ! One Thousand Slaves lor Teamsters, : for the services of which slaves $25 per month shall 1 be paid, with clothing, rations and medical attend- I a nce. You are respectfully requested to deliver to I me, One or Every Five Able-Bodied Male 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 one thousand soldiers now out es the ranks as team 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, Gaps, and impressing Officer tor Harris, Muscogee, Chattahoochee and Stewart co. agS4t FOR SALE Or Exchange for Country Produce. BEST COT TOM CARDS . SPiMMTMO WHEELS: CLOCK REELS. agH): w JEFFERSON k HAMILTON. IRON WIRE 2,000 lbs. 8 and 10 Iron Wire J For sale by agio 2w JEFFERSON k HAMILTON. 1.000 Pounds Choice Brown Sugar, TO EXCHANGE FOR f WHEAT, Flour, Corn or Meal, c _ ¥T At 114, BROAD bT. ; ag9dst wit Columbus. Ga. Tax in Hind. Opfic* Post, Quartermaster Arntricaa, Ga., Aug. 1,1364. \ Producers of tho 3d Congressional District Ga are now road.v to receive the Tithe® 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 convenient. Producers will bo paid for the entire distance which their tithes are hauled. Those who will be due the Government as much as or more than on* barrel Syrup, will be required to furnish the barrel or barrels having value of the same deducted from tho amount due. Agents will furnish as many bar rels as possible. Tithes will only be delivered to regular ageru except as specially authorized by them. * JOHN F. CRAFT, ag9 3t Capt. and Post Q.M AUCTION SALE At Crawford, Ala. O^K? NESDAY ' the ]oth of A w i win HOUSE -AHsTID LOT in the town of Crawford, 100 acres rt f i Q „a , ’ 35 acres cleared. The house conmin! if? attachca ■ all necessary outbuilding. Water excellentv ltil is your time to purchase arl esi r«KuF. een , Now Also, the Present growing crof Chea! "- corn and peas, 2in potatoes '/inPhlnL 00 acres u i ft l“°>f ■ Jgjj* rSouTSSSri b“S: 1 Inf°* od Buggy and Harnes*. 1 bulky, &c., &e. 4ts=-Sale to commence at 10 o’e'7 a - F. M. BOYNTON, a ug6 3t Agent, FOH SALE 2 -OR ■II MMffi KIR -AT- Broad. Street- Coffee, Sugar, Soda, Black Pepper, Syrup, Potash, Cotton Cards, Tin-Ware, Snuff, Salt, Sugar, Tumblers, Candles, GEORGIA REBEL SNCFL “ Pickles, Flysßruslies, Eggs, Butter, Salt Fish, Cigars, Toilet-Soao, Soft Soap. Bar-Soap, Chewing and Smoking Tobacco, aug 2 ts “114:.” I,arg« Lot of Fine Irish rotator,, In lots to suit purchasers. ag4lt 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 ag2 fit* Aotice ! All claims against the steamer MIST, prior to Is' of July, must be presented to Capt. Whiteside’s, at the Naval Iron Works, by the 15th of August. ags3t VAN. MARCUS, Capt. TO MIRE. BY the month, or for the balance of the year, a !■> J) year old Boy, Apply at this Office. ag2 fit STOP THE THIEEI S3OO Howard 2 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 half hands high; a small white spot in his faefc; a few white hairs in his mane, just where a colia would work: a small scar on the hinder part of hi? bag; very straight hind legs, and very high head?! and gay in appearance. I will pay five hundred dollars to any person vrli will apprehend the thief and lodge him in jail, and return to me my horse, or I will pay two hundred and fifty dollars for either the thief or the horse, Address meat Waverly Hall, Harris county, Ga. aug3 lw JESSE MOORE. B ONDS Os the 500,000,000 Loan for Male! T AM authorized to offer for sale the 6 per cent. x Coupon or Registered Long Date Bonds of toe Five Hundred Million Loan authorized by Act o. Congress, February 17, 1864, in sums to suit pur chasers, at the Confederate States Depository, _/0~ The principal and interest of this Loan are free from Taxation and the Coupons receivable inpay ment for all Import and Export Duties. The.=e Bonds are the best securities yet offered by thet Gov ernment, and I recommend them to the favorable notice of Capitalist. YQUNG> Agenli augl 1m * for Confederate States. RUNAWAY I NEGRO boy CHARLEY; about 25years old, yel low complexion, hair nearly straight, below or dinary intelligence ; left Mr. Nat. Thompson 3 near Box Springs, Talbot county. I .bought him ot 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. RLSSELL. 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. ui. Arrive at West Point 8 00 “ Leave West Point 350 “ Arrive at Columbus 9 10 “ i Freight Train will Leave Columbus...s 50 a. m. Arrive at Columbus 12 23 " J. E. APPLER. July 23 ts Agent. THOIIAS SAVAGE, A^ent. (At Mulford’s old Stand,) nsro: ioi, st. HAS ME OB ME Sheetings, Shirtings. Twills, Yarns, lansejs. Coffee, Tobacco, Rice, Hails ot all sizes. &€., &C., &C. ju!27tf NOTICE. To Planters and Other* ! f WILL EXCHANGE Osnaburgs, Sheeting and I Yarns, for Bacon, Lard, Tallow and Beeswax. I will be found at Robinett k Go’s old stand, where I am manufacturing Candles and Lard Oil for sale. L. S. WRIGHT jane 2 tl CIGARS! 17OR SALE by the Thousand at £ DR. R. A. WARE. a g s 2t 106, Broad st. so,ooo reward: 'PHE above reward will bo pail for the arrest and i production befoTo the Coroners Court, Talla poosa county, Ala., of < one M M._ A. PAULK, whs murdered my husband, Benjamin Gibson, on Mon day night, Ist of August. Said P \ulk is a resident of Macon county, near Union Springs, aged about 35 years, about 5 feet 1 * inches in heignth, stout built, fair complexion, dart hair and blue eyes, Believed to be a deserter from the 2d Ala. cavalry. JULIA A. GIBSON. Near Tallassee, Tallapoosa co., Ala ag3 Im