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COLUMBIA L'IiMLS vjjgbed Daily (Sunday* exeepted) at the rate of sjo lubscription received for a longer term than he* tn^lk*. IDVERTISING RATES : advertisement* inserted for $2 00 per square for j«U«emtote ara iumrteil a month. th« paid in advance. - ~~APA 1 Special Order, | NO, “** misapprehension about the powers As there is in making details for police “ ro! " tbii, ” ei forth ' i °- c wmation of concerned C Foreman is allowed for each .500 negroes m 'ln men between 55 and 60, able to ride and carry : un , are to act as a police force in their respee !ve counties. The Aids de Camp are specially in -trusted to order them upon this duty, and any man (ietW een these ages, able for service, who refuses. wiU be sent to the front. They are to ride all through tho county, confining themselves to no par ticular district or plantation, and are to give their whole time to this business, As they can sleep m bouses at night, they can do this duty, when they wouldWbe fit for other military service. They will visit the plantations, correct insubordinate ne groes, and do all in their power to protect propert.v “aSkKSuhae „ but fe. counties in the State, in which there are not m the county, one man able for service for each 500 negroes. If there should not be thatnurober in any county, the In.' rior Court will recommend for detail a number " men subject to the late call sufficient to make up the deficiency. These should be selected from such overseers and other* as have most control over the negroes. Tho recommendations of tho courts must be sent to these headquarters, where they will be I allowed, if the evidence of deficiency m the nura- j i, or of old men is satisfactory. , e : The court must accompany the application for ; ih ; detail by « certificate, giving the following j J t ' The number of slaves in thocouuty. The number and names of the old men be 'ween friand 60 in the county, with the name of ;., u . h who is too feeble through the county. ‘id The names of the persons recommended b> the courts to make up the deficiency if W. * l c tails granted by the courts without an order froi , hese headquarters, arc valid, and will be so treated hv ah Aids-de-Camp and other State officers, who will send all such detailed men to the front irnme late interruption in the railroad transpor tation may have caused some of the militia who had started to Macon to return home for want ot transportation, all such are required to press tor ward to Macon without delay, as the channels ot communication will be open again in a day or two. All office** at home will exercise great energy m •ending all men subject to the call forward prompt- Iv under arrest when necessary. HENRY 0. WAYNE, j aug l 2t Adj’t & Insp. Gen. He adqi arters Georgia Reserve, } | Macon, Ga., July 23, 1864. J • general Orders A No. 18. J 1. All questions of details from the Reserve for agricultural purposes, on the part of those persons ' having less than fifteen able-bodied held bands, i having been placed under tho control and direction „f the’eommanding Officer of the Reserve Force, it is ordered that tho dotails heretofore granted by the Commandant of Conscripts in this Stato, shall stand until otherwise ordered from these Head- quarters. XI. The (J oilman dan t of Conscripts will cause a lull -an accurate report to bo made to these Head quarters, of all persons of this class who have been thus detailed, stating the residence and age of each person detailed, and the grounds upon which such details have been made; and they will be iinmodi .itely assigned to companies in the Reserve Force, md be subject to be ordered to the companies to , which they may be thus assigned, whenever their details may be suspended or annulled. iff. Enrolling Officers will continue to send for ward all persons liable to duty in the Reserve Corps under tho orders and directions heretofore issued to them by the Commandant of Conscripts, ex cept as those orders and directions may be modi tied or changed by orders from these Headquar ters. IY. County Enrolling Officers will send all such persons to tho District Enrolling Officers, who will send them to the Camp of Instruction at this place, where the officer in charge will report daily then arrival to these Headquarters, that they may be promptly assigned and sent forward to tlieir respec- five companies. j V. In the case of persons of the .Reserve thiss 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 servo during the war,’ 1 approved ! February 17th, 1864, the application will be for- , warded to tlie Commandant of Conscripts, and the ame privilege will be extended to applicants as j heretofore allowed. VI. In all cases arising under the second clause Paragraph Fourth, commencing with those words, “In addition to the foregoing exemptions,’' &c„ the applicant will be sont forward as provided in the Fourth Paragraph of this Order, and no furlough will be allowed, and his application tvill as soon as practicable be forwarded to these Headquarters for decision. Enrolling Oflicers will make in such cases investigations as heretofore, and will as soon as practicable be forwarded to these Headquarters for, decision. Enrolling Officers will make in such cases investigations as heretofore, and wiU forward the papers to these Headquarters, with the application for detail. „ T ANARUS, VII. All applications for details from the Resen e Force for Government works, or any other purpose must be made to these Headquarters. Bv command of M A.l. GEN. HOWELL COBB. Commanding Georgia Reserve. iiAW ui Coin;, Major and A. A. O. iul 29 61 _____ — ISEOSiCiIA-Muscoget' £ ouiitj. iiTUVir PAS i/r? Mary V* Davis* ;ulm x of Dr. W s: Davis, decM has filed her petition far leave to sell a negro woman by the name of Maria, ihmit 25 years of age and her four children. Ml persons concerned are hereby notified to show (if any they have) why an order should not betmH at thenext September Term of the Court of Ordinary for said county, authorizing the sale of Jul^st. i •>„, Ordinal v. Martha A, Taylor) Libel for Divorce in Marion vs > Superior Court. Returnable to Green B. Taylor. ) September Term. 1864. At Columbus, April 2d, 1864. I X appearing to the Court by the return of the Sher -1 iff, that the defendant is not to be found in the •ountv, and it further appearing to the Court by other'evidence that the defendent 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 onoe a month for four months, before the aext term 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. 1864. GEO. W. AfelM KFIE, apl 7 m4m Clerk. TO HIRE! POK the balance of the year fifteen able-bodied i Negro Men and seventeen Negro Women. * *oon to R. M. GUNBY, Ag’t, *l2s ts notice to Debtor* and Cred itors. * LL persons indebted to the estaU ot' Neaborn A Jones, deceased, are required to make aiate payment, and those having claimsagamAsaid estate are required to render them in terms ot tn to„,o thc Und ||fßOßN .1. BENNINO, Adm'r. Bj MARY H. BENNING, Agent, .rul2b woi £** ~ , ROOHS TO HEAT! TWO comfortable and well furnished rooms to rent 1 to some ordei ly and respectable person or per sons in a private house, in the northern part ot the *ity. Applv to MRS. DAVID, augllt* * Upper end Oglethorpe st, Vol. XI. J. W. WARREN & CO. Proprietors. Headquarters Cokscript Service,) Augusta, July 25,1864. > 1 General Orders, > 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 hefnay 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 is asserted by some of those exempted as agriculturalists to exchange such ' part of the aforesaid surplus as they may please, for COnStH ( ;-.>v y:-.. e o n fl ■ all ■ his -;nfl The undersigned proprietor of the ATLANTA Daily and 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 the same will be furnished as usual with their pa pers : Correspondents, advertisers and all persons hav ing business with the X3SrTBIjXjIC3-E3SrO EB will pleasse address their communications to The Intelligencer Office. . Macon, Georgia. Ail JOB and GOVERNMENT WORK on hand will be resumed at an early day. JARED I. WHITAKER, Proprietor jul27 It Flag of Truce letters- CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA.) War Department, >- Bureau of Exchange. ) Richmond, Va., July Ist, 1864. 1. All letters to go North by flag of mice must be sent to this office. 2, Each letter must be inclosed in a separate en velope and addressed to mo. 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 of 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. R()B , T Agent of Exchange. [Official,! , W II Hatch, Captain and A A G, july 22 ot Shoemaker* 7 and Saddlers’ TOOLS. r r*HE UNDERSIGNED having commenced the * manufacture of the above named artioles in this city, are prepared to fill orders for the same. Office on Angle street, a few doors above C. S. Hospital. HARRISON,.BEDELL & CO. Reference —Maj. F. W. Dii.i.ard. Mobile Register, Mississippi and Augusta Con stitutionalist, please copy one month and send bills to this office. utar 30 ts ON and after the Ist July, my office and dwell ing will be on Broad -t.. at the residence of the la julylH irn? ’ W. J. MURRELL, If. D fteiro Teamster* Wanted! " I wish to hire a number of Negro .Teamsters for the li my of Tennessee.. Citizens bating such hands will nlease notify me immediately; asm this way » iuSSbTofmay be relieved to etrensthee ouretrutsims army. JOHNSON, jul27 2w Government Transportation W©r ks. Columbus, Ga. Friday Homing, August 18,1864. HEW MBS!! IBW MR!!!' .A.T Mrs. DESSiLU’S. FROM THE LATeTIOCRADE SALE AT A-iigiista, Ga. The goods are all superior to what is j offered elsewhere, and will be sold lower ! than lately. In the assortment can be found: • Ladies’ Nevr Hats, lew Boniiet Ribbons, ttfev Belts, Hbinet Musquito Netting. Hckiiih'and Dressing C otnlis, ■lies 7 Hoserj, Vieey’ds wide JLineia sheeting. jßerior Bleached Shirting. IHnted Jackonets, Bgbams, Hslish and I'rencli Calicoe*, Hinbazine, Alpacas. Hgant Leroes. Ifc-A LL A-HSTID SEE. tf H Notice Officers or Men registered as patients in hospital in private quarters will report Imme in Person, or they will be reported to commands as deserters. ■ll W. A. ROBERTSON, 8H129 dot Surg. in charge Lee Hospital. lAedLical Card,. RR. E. A. ROSSI . ERLY Surgeon to theNeW Orleans “Fe*- } Infirmary,” tenders his services to the Cit- Columbus in all the branches of hisprofes il attention will be devotedfto the treatment Lseases ofwomem. Surgical operations performed for in Ano, Visico-Vaginal fistula, ele, Congenital and Accidental Phymosis, elo, Hcemorrhoids or Piles, Callous Impas ;rietures, False Passages, Tallapcs or Club id contraction of the fingers, Strabismus or ag, Aneurism,'Varix or dilated veins, Ptery- Cataract and Hair Lip; also for the rernov tumors or abnormal growths from.any part »ody. ses ofthsGenito-Urinary System, comprsmg ’erent stages of Ghonorrhoea, Strictures, Spermatorrhea, Syphilis, in its primary ,ry,tertiary and heriditary forms,will receive lar attention. ences given whenever desired as well as the tendation of many years practice in New Or- Cousultation hours every day at his office lasonic Hall Building, from 10 to 12 o’clock nd from 2to 4 o’clock p, m. Patients willdo call precisely at those hours, as before and lat, time will be devoted to visiting personsih K fess all commuieations to DR. E. A. ROSSY. Columbus. Ga, . —Persons from a distance having servants ag surgical or medical treatment, will be >d with comfortable quarters, but in all cases ve to furnish their own provisions and bed will also bestow particular attention to itmec t of the different forms of Ulcers, llheu , Gout. Scrofulous affections, Syphilitic erup ,ii.l all other chronic diseases of the skin.— ,ted Fumigations and Steam Sulphurous as employed in the hospitals in Europe and a. will form a part of my treatment. L 3m E. A, K, t Ehange of Schedule. jj Office Engineer and Superintendent, j I Charleston and Savannah Railroad. > Charleston, June 7,1864.) | \N THURSDAY, June 9,1864, and until further 1/ notice, the Schedule of the Passenger train will be as follow, viz: Leave Charleston 9.45, a. in. Arrive in Savannah 5.40, p. m. Leave Savannah 5.30, a. in. Arrive in Charleston 1.15, p. m. This Train makes direct connections, going north md 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 MATHCES! I'HE Columbus, Ga., Friction Match Company, 1 have again resumed operations, and will, in a few days, be preparod 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 be 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 Change 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. 9 ’ WE will keep for sale, for Confederate funds, or exchange for country produce—such as Corn, 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 ROPE) FOR BALING . SHOVELS AND SPADES : FRY PANS: POT WARE Os SEVERAL DESCRIP TIONS ; SUGAR AND SALT KETTLES—FROM 40 TO 100 GALLONS; SUGAR MILLS—I3 AND 15 INCH. We are prepared to receive and fill orders for any «izes and quantity of Iron, from our Iron n orks k„d Rollins Mill in A,ab.m». p cp a.pr 3 ts Next o New Bridge. FOR SALE ! One of the Most Desirable Resi dences in Wynnton. THE Lot contains forty acres of Land—twenty of which are in the woods. The House is commo dious and convenient; containing six basement rooms and seven on the first floor. On the premises are good and new out-houses, barns and stables; an orchard filled with selections of choice apples, peaches, apricots, cherries, plums and pears; also a vineyard of grapes in full bearing. This location is healthy, supplied with excellent water and con venient to the 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 give them any in formation desired. Possession given immediately, jul 29 ts J> R- BANKS. SSO Reward. I WILL pay the above reward for 808, a Mack boy, about 24 year* old. He has been out three or four weeks, and is apposed te be lurking about the city. JNO. H. MAtoo. Iy4tf Thursday 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. Tbe Immediate Front. The Lines.—Since Saturday evening mat" ters have been much more quiet than usual at all points. There has been but little artillery firing going on, and much less waste of am munition with small arms—both parties, it is supposed, having come to tbe conclusion that they have been wasting a vast deal of powder and doing but little execution. Nothing fur ther has transpired as to any mining opera tions being prosecuted by the enemy. Saturday afternoon quite a handsome affair occurred, in which Bates’ division participa ted with success. The enemy were discovered advancing in considerable force, when speedy dispositions were made to give them a proper reception. They were suffered to approach very close, when a withering fire was opened upon them, which had the effect of staggering and throwing them into confusion. This was followed by a charge, which drove them back to their works. The fruits of this affair were two hundred and forty of the enemy killed and wounded, and the capture of forty priso ners and two stand of colors. Our loss very light. The captured flags belonged to the 104th Ohio and the Bth (Federal) Tennessee. We have a rumor that Sherman is being reinforced. This gained currency through a party, a private citizen, who had been to the rear of the Federal army, and witnessed the arrival of a train loaded with troops. The probability is that they were troops sent to the front from hospitals, instead of new levies. All accounts we can obtain represent Sher man busy digging in front of our center and left, and as still massing toward the left. The City.—Saturday afternoon the city was subjected to one of the fiercest fires from the enemy's batteries it has yet sustained. The fire was kept up several hours, the missiles falling in almost the same portion of the city heretofore reached by them. We have a re port of three casualties having occurred, but on investigation conclude it is without foun dation, and that no personal damage was sus tained whatever. The population of Atlanta is at present very small. The business houses are all closed, and many of the residences vacated. Thus far the most damage sustained has been perpetrated by stragglers from the army, who seem to imagine they have license to plunder, and that no rights of property should be re spected. We have heard of a number offatn ilies who have been robbed of their supplies, and gardens are cleaned out every hour. It really seems that with the usual police force, the city battalion, and a large provost guard of regulars, constantly on duty, the citizens should be'protected, and would suggest that an example be made of some of the maraud ers who are occasionally detected, that will deter others from like Vallanies. Sunday was a quiet day throughout. Re ligious services were held as usual in the Catholic church. Not a single shell disturbed the general quiet from Sunday evening up to Ihe hour at which we write—eight o’clock ’ this morning—for which our women and children are thankful. The rain Saturday afternoon disposed of the dust, a flue breeze prevailed throughout the day, and under all circumstances, yesterday was as pleasant a Sabbath as could possibly be expected, so long as the two armies remain in front of the city.— Appeal, Bth. Stoneman, the Raider. The following facts were communica» ted to us by a gentleman whose veracity is unimpeachable, and which illustrates the despicable character ofStoneman, the Raider, now a prisoner in this city. "W hen at the head of a portion of his command in Jones county, but a few miles distant from this city, he entered the house of a highly respectable citizen, who was absent to afvoid capture, and or dered his wife, an accomplished lady, to cook breakfast for him and his attendants. This she did, providing for them the best she could, and which we doubt not was far superior in quantity and quality the brute and his men had ever been accus-> tomed to. Having gorged himself with the good things set before him, this Fed* eral General proceeded next to take a sur vey of the house in which he had been so hospitably, forced though it was, enter* tained. His first amusement was to draw his sword and eut to pieces several of the lady’s dresses that were hanging against the wall of one of the chambers, and hav> ing thus vented his diabolical malice, he next exhibited his licentious and beastly nature, by making dishonorable proposi* tions to the lady of the house herself.— Lucky it was for the lustful beast that the husband was net near to hear the in sult offered to his wife, for if he had been , nothing would have saved him from a deadly revenge. And. this is. thc Gen' eral who must be tendered civilities! This, the distinguished Raider , who must have indulgences extended to him ! Would that we had the power to deal with men of his sort when they fall into our hands. A cell and a shaved head would be the tenderest mercy extended to them. And when convicted of insulting the women of our land, either by base propositions or violence, no' rule of civilized warfare would save them from the rope and the scaffold. Such should be their fate, de spite “the world, the flesh, or the devil.” \_Atlanta Intelligencer, [From the Hartford (Conn.) Times.] The Party Responsible for “Raids.’’ When we are promtedto denounce the Co nfederate raiders as “fiends," etc., for making their raids iuto our territory, it may be well to reflect who set them the example. Editors and their camp correspondents who have glo rified the wanton destruction of the houses, farms, granaries, mills and railroads of the rebels, now speak (see Tribune of Monday) of similar retaliatory actions by the enemy as “fiendish." On this point the Springfield Republican pertinently remarks: “The indignation expended upon the rebels in seme of the telegrams, wherein they are berated as ‘displaying their fiendish passions* upon the railroads and in stealing horses and other property, is rather amusing, considering the amount of glory we lavish on our raiders for doing the same things. But there will be genuine indignation, at th» proper time, vis ited upon those whose neglect has made this destructive and alarming raid possible." $4.00 Per Mouth. J. W. WARREN, Editor Fort Powell—Tlie Navy. Our types on Sunday morning made us say that this fort was given up after “a long bombardment.” We wrote the tford “brief” instead of long, and that word was the proper adjective to qualify the case. If this fort had been held> there had been nothing to regret in the events of the past few days. The fleet fought heroically against fearful odds, and yielded only to an overpowering force, and under circumstances to leave nothing to wish for, nothing to blush for. It was an action of brilliant courage and devotion that has no parallel in naval history, and which has belied all the predictions of the croakers. Both officers and men fought nobly, and, having done so, we have not a thought of regret to waste upon the mere material loss suffered by the Confederacy. We can never cease to regret, however, the loss of the brave men who died nobly at their posts. We have lost the Tennessee and the Selma captured, and the Gaines run ashore, under the guns of Fort Morgan, in a sinking condition, and some three hundred prisoners. The Yankees lost their best monitor, the Tecumseh, Capt. Craven, sunk, with all on board, save a part of a boat load that escaped and four who swam ashore to Fort Morgan, and another iron ship sunk and afterwards burned by our people, and there are good reasons for believing that they lost heavily in killed and wounded. At least 125 men went down with the Yankee monitor. It will be thus seen that notwithstanding the disparity of force, as large a loss in sels, and a much heavier in men has been inflicted on the enemy than we have suf fered. Os course there will be a great shout of triumph raised at the North, over the brilliant feat of overpowering four rebel gunboats with eighteen Federal ships, including four iron clads. They outnumbered us four and a half to one, and as for guns the flag ship Hartford carried more guns than our entire fleet. The moral part of victory is all with us. It proves that both men and officers in our Navy fight as bravely and as skillfully as the Yankee Nary, and that ship to ship and man to man our people are sufficiently “web-footed,” to be their matches if not their masters. We wish we could write as fair a record for the defence of Fort Powell. But the truth, as wc understand it, forbids it. Fort Powell was not reduced by the ene my, but it was evacuated on the judgment of its young commander that it would be reduced. It had thirty days’ supply of water and two months of provisions. If the fire of the enemy was so hot as to drive the cannoneers from their guns, it was easy to withdraw them to their bomb proof, which was literally covered by a mountain of sand, and hold them in read:, iness to meet a boat assault. If, as is alleged, the magazine was in danger, it might have been flooded, or else the barrels rolled into the water. An isolated island fort like that may be held long alter its big guns are silenced. — Sumter was held in that way. Unfortu-* nately the commander thought too much of the safety of his garrison and not enough of the permanent value of the sition as the actual key to the Bay of Mck bile. It was just one of these posts that should have been held to the last extrem ity. It was not, and the consequences are immeasurably more and more to be regretted than the loss of the Navy or the passage of the fleet-by Fort Morgan. If Powell had been held, that fleet would have been forced to go to sea again and the harbor had been in statu quo minus our gunboats. As it is Lieut. Col. Williams has left a safe door of entrance to the ens emy, inviting a land attack on the city. It is a miserable spot of work for us. We hope Lieut. Col. Williams’ official report will be made public, and we sincerely trust that he will be able to vindicate his j military conduct and character from the i condemnation which present appearances j and existing facts must pronounce against ; it. His former defence of Fort Powell was so gallant, that the public surprise j has been so much the greater at this fail- 1 ure. His conduct is not approved at head quarters. He has been relieved from his | command and is under arrest. P. S.—The foregoing was written be* fore we learned of the surrender of Fort Gaines. —Mobile Adv . 6c Register, 9th. Fort Gaines We are pained and humiliated to hate to record the disgraceful capitulation of this strong work, provisioned for six months and with an effective garrison of 600 men. We give the following account, based not upon rumors, but upon official data. On the 7th, Col. Charles Anderson, of the 21st Alabama, being in command of the gar rison, composed of a part of his own regi ment, the battalion of Pelham Cadets, a por tion of Culpepper's Artillery, and some other troops, numbering 600 men, communicated with the enemy's fleet by flag of truce, with out the sanction of hi3 Commanding General, Gen. Page, at Fort Morgan. Gen. Page enquired of him by signal, what his purpose was. No reply or acknowledge ment was returned, although his attention was called by signal guns. He was telegraph ed repeatedly by Gen. Page, “hold on to your fort.’’ On the same night Gen. Page passed over to Fort Gaines in a boat and was aston ished to learn that Col. Anderson was absent in the Yankee fleet for the purpose of arrang ing terms of capitulation. He left peremptory orders for him on his return, if not accompa nied by the enemy, that all terms of surren der were annulled, and himself relieved of his command. On the morning of the Bth he called his attention again from Fort Mor gan by signal guns and telegraphed to the same effect. Still no reply. At half past 9 o'clock the enemy's flag was run up on the fort. His superiors pronounce the conduct of Col. Anderson as “inexplicable and disgrace ful. 1 ' And bo the country will pronounce.— Colonel Anderson had previously telegraphed to Lieut. Colonel Williams of his regiment, at Fort Powell, “if your fort is untenable save your garrison. ’’ The latter part of the order was attended to first, and so two torts have been surrendered to the enemy. It is not thus that the Confederate cause is to be upheld. We must have officers who do not know how to surrender outposts of such im portance entrusted to their courage and dis cretion. The arm}' and the people of Mobile, (and the whole male population is now au tvr my t ) will have to repair by their courage and loyalty these fatal blunders, to call them b J < mildest term?. We have the means to da it: and the evidences arc all around us in the sullen determination of the people that the f. er ” I s also he 1 T «- ls the enemy expect to find the defence oi these two Confederate forts the measure of the resistance he will encounter at the city, he will be greatly disappointed. We haTC now not only to fight for our homes, but J to redeem Confederate honor from the dia- I grace ot these unpardonable defections. [Mobile Adv. £ Rey. TELEGRAPHIC. HF.PORTB OF THK TRESS ASBOCIAVION. Entered according to act of Congress in the yeai 1863, by J. S. Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office ot the District Court of the Confederate States for the Northern District of Georgia. Richmond, 10th.—A flag of truce boat ar rived at Varina last night, bringing 30 sur geons and 2 chaplains. The Baltimore American of the 9th says : Advices from the Upper Potomac state that the rebels have again left Maryland. The re treat was made in great haste, in consequence of a movement of the Federal forces on the Southside of the Potomac threatening their rear. The main rebel force, under Early, is reported retreating to Winchester. Sheridan has been temporarily assigned to the command of the Department of the She nandoah. Kelly reports that Averill overtook the rebels under McCausland atMorefield Sun day and attacked them. He captured all their artillery and 500 prisoners. The American is much elated by this news and reports from Mobile. Nothing important from Grant. Both ar mies are engaged in strengthening their work?. A telegram from Fort Smith claims a vic tory over the Confederates, under Cooper, at Stand wail, on the 31st ult. European advices to the 29th ult., are un important. The Confederate loan is active—at improv ing rates. Latest Gold quotations in New York 257. Atlanta, Aug 11.—Nothing occurred along tha lines yesterday except the usual artillery practice and firing between skirmishers. Maj General Bates received a slight flesh wound in the leg. No serious results apprehended there from. The enemy continues massing on his right and is endeavoring to extend his lines in the direction of the West Point Railroad. A sow shots were fired at the city yesterday. A brisk shelling commenced at II o'clock last night and continued four hours. No personal casualties reported. Petersburg, Aug. 10. The explosion yesterday is still unoxplaincJ. The enemy are contracting their lines on our right (their left) and receding from the direction of tlio Weldon Railroad, and showing themselves in diminished force. Everything indicates that the enemy are throwing themselves on the defen sive. Little or no sharpshooting and scarcely any mortar »r artillery firing to-day. How Hie Electious ill Uie North have been Carried The address of the peace party at tho North boldly arraigns the Administration at Wash ington for military interference with the elec tions in the North, and charges that they have be*n carried and controlled only by means of the most, palpable military terrorism. After ex posing the acts «f the Administration in this way, the address says : e mention elections in New Hampshire. Connecticut and Pennsylvania as instances of such most base and unjust proceeding, by which unscrupulous power has defeated the true expression of popular opinion and ob oblained political advantages which were shameful to it and deeply injurious to the country. * * * * Thousands of qualified persons were prevented from voting at those elections, and in most of those States the result of the election was changed from what it would have been with out military interference. The aged and timid were deterred from attending the elections ; many who attended were kept from approach ing the polls; and, in many cases, actual outrage prevented the legal voter from exer cising his right. The full proof of all this appears in a number of the contested election cases in Congress, in official papers from the Governors of several of the States in question, in reports of committees of the State Legis latures, and from other sources that will not admit of doubt. [From the Washington Intelligencer. J i Curious Case of Burying-Alive A slight mistake was made yesterday in one of the hospitals at City Point, which caused a flutter among the patients. A wounded sol dier was pronounced dead by a surgeon, and the ward master caused him to be put in his Coffin for burial. The brethren of the Christian Commission attended the remains to the grave, opened the coffin, and were proceeding with the burial service, when the soldier's hand was observed to move. On close examination it was dis covered that life wa3 not extinct. The fatigue party detailed to bury the poor fellow refused “to let up on him,’’ saying they had orders to bury the party and must do it. The humane gentlemen of the Commission intimated that they “would make a corpse of hina” who should attempt to bary the man before they were satisfied that he was dead, and he was carried back to the hospital. The surgeon who ordered the burial was called for, who still contended that the man was dead, and the movement of bis fingers was a muscu lar contraction sometimes observed in defunct bodies. Other surgeons, however, discovered pulsa tion. and the man lived till the next morning, when he was buried. APPLE VINEGAR! CABBAGE SEED I ONIONS 2 TUiR/NTIP SEED! ; SYRUP at Retail for sl6 per gallon. agio 2t 114 BROAD BT. A HOUSE WANTED. TO Rent from October next, ahonse, or part *: * house, for the use of a family. • Address “SIGMA” agStf At this Office. STOEEN! THE OWNER of a BLIND HORSE stolen by a deserter, can hear of him by applying at the Enrolling Office. WM. L. DAVIS, agll lw Capt k En. Off. DR. J. A. CLOPTON, | WILL be at Cook’s Hotel. Colurnbur. Ga., Aug. »V 9th, and may be consulted during the week at ; Cook’s Hotel. He operates with perfect success for 1 Piles, Fistula, Tumors, Poltdi, diseases of Fe males and all diseases of the Genital Organs." j 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 of thi 1 profession, and has the confidence of all intelligen Physicians where he is known. He has never 'ost a patient. Ladies will be visited at their houses- He will visit patients in the country if they wn : furnish him with a comfortable conveyance. »g 9 4tp