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j, if. ffARREX, - - - Editor.
Saturday Morning August IS, 1864.
Absent. —The editor, Mr. Warren, will be
absent several days on military duty, during
which the indulgence of the reader is asked
for the lack of usual editorial matter as well
as for all other deficiencies that may be ap
parent in the Times.
It is said that President Davis has telegraphed
to high authority that, if Gen. Hood will only hold
his own a few days longer, he will be abundantly
supported in both front and rear.
From tlie North
THE PLOT.
Indianapolis, July 20tb.—Governor Morton
has authorized the publication of an official
report made to him last June by Gen. Car
rington, military commander of this district,
containing a full exposition of a secret politi
cal order, antagonistic to the Government,
called the Sons of Liberty, of which H. H.
Dodd is Grand Commander of the State ; Hor
ace Hafferu, Deputy Comraauder; and W. M.
Harrison, Secretary. The officers for United
States, are C. L. Vallandigham, Supreme
Grand Commander; Holloway, Deputy, and
Dr. Massy, Secretary. W. A. Bowles, L. P. ,
Mulligan, Andrew Humphrey and J. C. Wal-,j
ker are the Major Generals for Indiana.
THE SOUTH-WESTERN' CONSPIRACY—FI’RTH Elt
DETAILS —VALLANDIGHAM’S PART,
St. Louis, Thursday, July 28th, 1864.—T; e
Democrat publishes a long account of toe
conspiracy for the erection of a North Western
Confederacy, referred to a few days since.
The organization engaged in this conspiracy
is knowa as the “Order of American Knights,”
and it3 real object is to embarrass the Gov
ernment in the conduct of the war. and to
overthrow the Government if necessary, for
the supremacy of the Order. Its professions
and purposes are different in different States,
proclaim a war policy in New York, Pennsyl
vania, New Jersey, and other P’astern States,
while in the West it is for peace. The order
is of Soiuhern origin, being erected on the
ruins of the Knights of the Golden Circle.
The rebel General Sterling Price is Supreme
Commander: Vallandigham, while in Rich
mond, was made Supreme Commander of the
Northern section and a conspiracy was enter
ed into between him and the rebel authorities
to divide the East and West, thus to aid the
Southern rebellion. Vallandigham’s time in
Canada was principally spent in furthering
this scheme. He had a conference with some
of the leading spirits in the North, soon after
his arrival in Canada, and arranged for the
establishment of the order throughout the
loyal States. The names of all who visited
him at the Clifton House are known to the
Government, among whom the names of Wm.
B. Reed, of Philadelphia, Pendleton and Pugh,
Ohio, Kibben, of St. Louis, and Merrie, of Chi
cago, are published. The result of this con
ference was also known to the Government
about the first of January.
Mr. Vallaudigham issued an address to the
lodges in the loyal States, in which he calls
upon the members to renew their vows. He
says the time is fast approaching which will
test their sincerity. He declares that a pros
ecution of the war is a violation of the rights
of the States, and that President Lincoln is a
tyrant and a usurper.
A meeting of the Grand Commanders of the
different States was held in the city of New
York on the 22dday of February', for the pur
pose of organizing an outbreak on the 10th of
March, the day fixed for the draft to take
place, but no definite plan was agreed upon.
The names of these conspiritors are also
known.
The commanders had a conversation with
the Supreme Commander at Windsor, Canada,
early in April, for general consultation.
Among those in attendance at this confer
ence were the Grand Commander in New York;
Chas. L. Hunt, of St. Louis, and Lafayette
Dealing, in Indiana.
The programme adopted at this meeting
was that Mr. Vallandigham should represent
his district in Ohio in the National Demo
cratic Convention, to be held in the city of
Chicago.
Mr. Vallandigham in the Natioual Demo
cratic Convention was to proclaim the doc
trines of the Order of the American Knights,
namely:
Pronounce the existing Administration of
the Government a power usurped, which the
people have aright to expel by force of necesll
- fact to inaugurate a rebellion in the
North—in which he was to be supported by
the Order
Each Commander was to have firily armed
and equipped a Body Guard at the National
Convention in Chicago, for the defense of Mr.
Vailandighara.
This it was thought would precipitate the
people of the Free States into an armed con
flict, which was to be the signal for the
Knights of the American Order to unite against
the lawful authorities, and kill or capture the
Vivil and military authorities.
The Knights were then to seize the arsenals,
arms, and public property of all kinds, and
proclaim the Government overthrown.
There is most Convincing evidence of the
truthfulness of this statement.
The reason of Mr. Vallandigham's sudden
return to Ohio was the fear of being defeated
as a candidate to the National Democratic
Convention to be held at Chicago, and it was
by bis presence in the State that his election
as a candidate was secured.
The uumerical strength of the Knights of
the American Order is over half a million.
One hundred and fifty thousand of this
number arc armed and organized.
The Order in New York is called the “Mc-
Clellan Minute Men,” numbering over 200,000.
The Grand Commander in Missouri is Chas.
L. riant, a nephew of Jas. H. Lucas, and for
many years the Belgian Consul.
The Deputy Grand Commander in this city,
is C. Tv Dunn.
An officer in St. Louis has a long list of the
names of the members of the Order, together
with full information concerning the whole
scheme.
The whole affair lias been thoroughly
brought to light, and the proof of & is in the
hands of the authorities at Washington, and
\vill be given to the public at the proper time.
GEN. MTHEUSOJi’S EUNKRA.Ii. •
Sandusky. July 29. —The funeral of Major
Gcu. McPherson, at Clyde, to-day was very
largely attended. The ceremonies were very
impressive. The body was attended by four
of his personal staff. One company of the
13th l'. S. Infantry, the 24th Ohio Battery,
from Sandusky, and the 128th Ohio volunteer
infantry, from Johnson's Island, formed the
military escort. Rev. T. Hildreth, of the M.
E. Churcu. was the orator. His address was
listened to with breathless interest. Among
the mourners were his mother, grand-mother,
two brothers, two sisters, and other relatives
of the deceased. The number present was
estimated at eight or ten thousand.
Northern Extracts
Bl RSIVG OF CHAMKBRSBUBG, PBKN.
•The outburst of indignation with which the
burning of Chambersburg. by Gen. McCaus
land has been received in the loyal States,
serves to show the appreciation in which all
such acts of vandalism are justly held, how
ever reserved may have been its expressions
when the outrage was committed by our troops
in the South. When Bluffton, in South Car
olina, and Darien, in Georgia and Alexandria,
La., and Washington, X. C., were burned by
onr forces, there were cot wanting those in
the loyal States who deplored these several
acts of wantouness or caliousncssas unworthy
of honorable and Christian warfare: but part
wvnn- 1 i • lcmot ' f 'ness of the scene of 6uch
of in sandf and part *J * rotn a languid sense
time' iff tu!° n m all t i bat colu 'erns the misfor-
i was no Ter y vivid or
° !S AI f, ‘ clin g the subject. And we do
. not doubt that in the Confederates States,
there will be found multitudes who will un
thinkingly applaud the burning of Chambers
burg as an act of righteous retaliation, if not
as commendable in itself.
We do not need to say to our readers that all
such deeds of barbarism, whether committed
by one side or the other, fix a stigma of dis
grace on our national character, and if any
have been unable to realize the atrocity of
these excesses so long as they were exclusive
ly committed by our troops, it is to be hoped
that their native heniousness will be clearly
perceived in the light of the burning homes
of Chambersburg, and that for the credit of
the national name we shall not be called to
chronicle such horrors in the future progress
of the war. — Washington National Inttlligen
ter.
| THE PEACE MOVEMENT.
* Whether the rumor concerning the peace
movement be true or false, or whether it be
partly true and partly false, there is a morale
i to be drawn from it which no thoughtful per
son can fail to understand and appreciate. It
may be accepted as an indication of a ebange
of the popular feeling. These blind move
ments in the direction of peace, irresponsible
as they may be, and wholly authorized as they
are said to have been, do but represent that
longing for a cessation of hostilities which all
classes—with the exception of those who fear
the consequences of their acts, and those who
are enriching themselves in various ways by
the war-*-are beginning to experience, coup
led with the hope that something may be
done to put a stop to that dreadful slaughter
which has blackened all the land with mourn
ing garments.
Wo have spoken lightly of these self-consti
tuted negotiators and their doings, but the
mere announcement of peace conferences,
whether there have been any such or not,
without drawing down upon the alleged ac
tors in them the denunciations so unsparing
ly meted out to even hints of the kind at an
earlier day is more than a step towards a pa
cific adjustment of the quarrel. It may be ac
cepted as an augury that the minds of men are
turning that way, and that these whispers of
peace are but the forerunners of peace in earn
est, as the first warm airs that follow March
winds are the of the coming
spring.— Baltimore Gazette.
EFFORTS OK REPUBLICANS TO HAVE GEN. MC-
CLELLAN RESTORED TO COMMAND.
Avery strong effort is making by Republi
can politicians to induce the Administration
to give Gen, McClellan the command of the
defences of Washington, as urged by the
Herald. They .say that his appointment is
demanded by expediency; that if he can rally
an army of a hundred thousand or a hundred
and fifty thousand men for the defence of Wash
ington and to operate on Lee’s flank, the ad
vantage done to the cause will compensate
for the sacrifice of personal feeling towards
him, while if, as they believe, be should fail
to secure any considerable support from the
people, it will dispose at once and forever of
his claims as a leader, either military or po
litical. Hon. Henry J. Raymond is in Wash
ington, it i3 understood for the purpose of
urging this matter upon the President.— Tele.
Dispatch from Wiashing ton.
DEATH OF GEN. MC PHERSON.
One of Gen. McPherson’s staff fn rushes the
New York Herald with an account of the death
of that officer. After stating that McPherson
had three corps in the fight, he says :
The General had ridden from left to right
in superintending the advance of his skirmish
line, and was returning again to the right,
when a party of rebel bushwhackers, in am
bush, ran from their covert, between the Six
teenth and Seventeenth corps and crying out,
“there they come, give it to them.” fired. A
couple of staff officers and two orderlies ac
companied the General, all of them escaped
except the General, who fell and expired in
stantly, the ball having cut the aorta. The
enemy rushed forward to rifle the body. Offi
ceis and orderlies, meeting Colonel Strong,
Inspector General, and Captain Buell, both of
Gen. McPherson’s staff, accompanied by a few
orderlies, related the circumstance. Colonel
Strong instantly drew the party into line, and
ordered a charge. This handful of brave and
impetuous men, regardless of the foernen in
(rout, dashed gallantly ahead and drove off
the enemy: and, while Captain Buell, with
his revolver, kept them at bay, Colonel Strong,
assisted by the orderlies, lifted the nude body
stripped of every article of clothing save a
glove and sock, to his own horse, and bore it
safely from the field- Beneath the light glove
covering the left hand was a diamond ring
which the enemy failed to discover, and which
will be forwarded to the General’s friends in
i Ohio.
Terms of Peace.
Annexed we republish an editorial ar
ticle from the Richmond Sentinel on
“Terms of Peace.” The relations of the
Sentinel to the administration give an
importance to all which appears editorially
in that paper :
Terms of Peace, —We find the follow
ing in the Washington Chronicle, the or
gan of Mr. Lincoln’s Administration, of a
late d^te.
“Throughout the entire North there is
an undoubted sentiment in favor of peace,
unopposed except by some mean army
contractors or sordid army followers. ”
Indeed, we think it rather oversteps
the modesty of nature. But yesterday
this organ talked of nothing but fire and
sword, and subjugation, and all at once it
begins cooing and as soothingly as the
turtle dove. Like all new converts, its
new born zeal hurries it too far. It de*
nounces all who hold to-day what it held
yesterday as mean and sordid men. This
is going it rather strong, Mr. Forney. We
have no doubt that there are a great ma
ny honest abolitionists, and levellers, and
agrarians, and free lovers, and amulgamas
tionists, who would have the war go on
until their doctrines were carried into
practical effect, or, at least, until the Jews
shall return to Jerusalem. The prospects
of peace are very promising. Nine-tenths
of the people, North and South, are hear
tily tired and sick of the war. But the
prospects are not quite as bright as Mr.
Forney paints them j for,’ unfortunately,
there are a great many people, North and
South, besides army contractors and camp
followers, interested in the continuance
of the war.
Yet we thank the Chronicle for its ads
mission, and accept it in thd kind spirit
in which we hope aud believe it was made.
When both sides desire peace, peace can--
not be very far off. “Where there’s a
will there’s a way.” In the meantime, we
presume, neither side will remit its exer>.
tion, nor lessen its vigilance in prosecu
ting the war. We would respectfully
suggest, however, that it is a little out of
the ordinary course of peace negotiations
to begin with ultimata. They, as their
name implies come last, and shut the door
on further negotiation. Now we want to
treat, to bargain, to negotiate, for peace,
and Mr. Lincoln, who it seems, wants
peace also, will not deign to show his face
to us, much less talk the matter cooly
over ) but slams the door rudely in our
face, just flinging out at the window, at
! the same time, a string of ultimata, which
! any newsboy might pick up, and properly
appropriate as directed to himself, for
peace concerns everybody and anybody.
I Cold comfort will the advocates of peace,
I North or South, derive from this bitterly
sarcastic paper. It closely resembles the
[ lifting of the Silver Veil, aad the disclo
sure to his del. deluded follow
ers of his horrid lemu the Prophet
of Khorassan. Liru me to grin
i with the ecstacy of u revenge, and
|as good as says to 1. .u, .ved followers :
| “Ye have trusted me, and i have betrayed
] you. Without peace ye are ruined, and
i peace ye shall not have.*
Are ye of the North too weak and fee
ble, too tame, submissive and down trod*
den, to oppose the tyrant’s will? He,
with his ultimata, stands in the way of
peace; says there shall be no negotiations
to bring about a peace, and insists, in fact,
on unconditional surrender on our part,
e hope, however, that he will soon be
driven from his position, or, if necessary,
from his seat. We want peace with the
North, and, therefore, shall continue to
make war upon those of either section
who put themselves in the way of a fair
and hoaorable peace—a peace between
equals. Subjugation, submission, is not
peace.
Let peace commissioners be appointed
; by either section, and invested with plena
j ry powers of negotiation, meet on neutral
territory and discuss the terms of peace.
Let all subjeets be open to free discussion
and negotiation. We of the South con*
sider independence as the great and first
object of the war, and that separation is
essential to independence; yet we shall
be willing to listen you have to
say and propose on the other side. You
may offer us something that will secure
our equal rights within the Union. You
may propose to give the slaveholding and
free States equality of votes in Congress
and in the election of President; and
partly to effect this, you may throw all
New England into one State, or give her
to England, or if England won’t have
her, let her secede. Now, this would be
a tempting bait. We don’t say it would
satisfy us; but the subject is worthy of
consideration ! This war was brought on
by New England and New Englanders,
and who knows but that the balance of
the States might live in peace and har
mony, if she were out of the way. But
we do not mean to anticipate or prescribe
the action of the commissioners. Let
them enter into the negotiations untram
melled by ultimata other than that any
terms of peace they may agree on shall
be subject to be rejected or ratified by
their respective Governments.
As to the slavery question we would
leave that to be settled last. The ques
tion of independence concerns us all.
The subject of slavery but part of us.
When all other subjects are disposed of,
the North will find itself embarrassed by
the possession of some half a million of
negroes, who will immediately be murders
ed by mobs if carried North, whom no
nation or people, savage or civilized, will
receive as freemen in their midst, and i
whom the North cannot afford to send off,
if she could find a spot on earth willing
to receive them.
Under these embarrassing circumstan
ces the negoes and the Northern Commis
sions would pray their former masters to
let bygones be bygones, forgivd them, and
let them go home again, happy and de
lighted; to their cabins, their corn and
cotton fields. Poor darkies, it will be the
happiest day of your life, the noblest tri
umph of practical humanity over narrow,
fanatical prejudices the world has ever
witnessed.
The lessons of wisdom and true philan
thropy taught by this war may yet com
pensate for all its cruelties, its privations
and its deaths.
Archbishop Cullen on the Fenian
Brotherhood. —Archbishop Cullen, of
Dublin, has written a pastoral letter, in
which we find the following reference to
the “Fenian Brotherhood,” a secret socie
ty gotten up by the Yankees to entrap
more Irishmen into such slaughter-pens as
Fredericksburg:
Very probably, also, the great projects
proposed by the Fenian Brotherhood and
their doings beyond the seas have no oth
er object but to induce brave young men
to go to America, there to fight the battles
of the States, and to sacrifice their lives
in the swamps of Virginia, or on the bat
tle-fields of Louisiana or Mississippi. At
all events, it is evident that, as those
whose aid we are promised to free us from
oppression cannot terminate their own dis
sension, or re-establish the union of the
country in which they live, we, who are
separated from them by the waters of the
vast ocean, across which it would be al
most impossible to transport a large army,
especially in the face of hostile and pow
erful fleets, we, I say, should hope for no
good results from their promises or inter*
ference. To those who have evil designs
in view, or who hope to 'promote their
wordly prospects by encouraging revolu
tion and violence, it is useless to address
any advice.
But there are good men, young and in
experienced—there are lovers of their
country, led astray by the enthusiasm of
their nature —there are patriots, acting in
good faith and swayed by noble inspiras
tions, but carried away by an over-zealous
desire of serving their country, and to
those when, through want of consider
tion, they embark in dangerous and uto
pian projects, we may address a word of
counsel with the hope of being heard.
As, therefore, persons such as I have
described are under the influence of rea
son and religion, I would exhort them to
be on their guard against interested and
unprincipled men, to take care not to be
led astray by delusive hopes and baseless
promises, not to undertake anything un
lawful, not to enter into dangerous or con
demned brotherhoods and societies, and
not to let themselves be made the dupes
and victims of men who neither love
friends nor country, and who think of
nothing but the gratification of vanity or
self interest.
I would exhort them in a special man
ner to avoid dangerous reading, and to be
on their guard against publications which,
under the pretence ol being the organs of
the Irish people, insult our religion, pro
mote revolutionary doctrines, and endeav
or to drive the country into a foolish war
fare, in which everything would be lost
that has been gained within the present
century, and deprive us of the blessing of
Heaven.
A newspaper reporter states that a lady who died
of chol ra, and was laid out by her friends, was
found the foil. >wiiig nit lit stauding at the cup-board
eating cucumber pickie3, or in other word*—
They left her “a laying in” white.
Prepared for the gr *ve’s quiet slumbers :
But they found her the very next night
“A laying in” pickled cucumbers!
TELEGRAPHIC.
reports op the press association.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year
1863 by J. 8. Thrasher, m the Clerk’s office of
the bistrict Court of the Confederate States for
the Northern District of Georgia.
Mobile, Aug. 11.
Heavy firing reported at Fort Morgan Tuesday,
Wednesday and to-day. The telegraph wire is
cut between the city and the fort. Two vessels
are off Dog River Bar this evening. Bay shore is
covered with the debris of Federal vessels.
Large quantities of tar, pitch and turpentine are
being burned to prevent the enemy .getting pos
session of them. Troops are daily arriving, and
good feeling exists.
Clinton, La., Aug. 11, via Mobile 12.
New Orleans papers of the 9th received, which
say that the Teoumseh struck a torpedo opposite
Fort Morgan, and went down immediately. All
on board perished, including the Captain, except
nine persons.
After passing Fort Morgan, the Tennessee
came up through the wooden vessels of the fleet,
delivering broadsides, and looking for the Hart
ford, the flag ship of Farragut. The Monongehela
bore down and strnck the Tennessee [amidships.— !
The Tennessee and Hartford then got side by side
—the former pouring full broadsides into the -
Hartford’s portholes,causing, the True Delta says,
a fearful loss of life on the latter. The Lacka
man and others came np and fought until the
the Tennessee surrendered.
The papers report that Admiral Buchanan’s leg
will be saved. He told them he would have been
willing to have died two minutes afterwards if he
could have sunk the Hartford.
Lieut Comstock, Confed, and Lieut Pendrcss,
Yankee, are both reported killed.
Atlynta, August 12.
Brisk skirmishing on the extreme left last night
without any important result. The batteries on
Marietta street and east of the State Road, open
ed upon the city at one o’clock this morning, and
continued up to the present. Many houses were
struck on McDonough st. No casualties report
ed. The enemy is reported to be massing on the
left, but making no efforts to extend his right.
Petersburg, Aug. 12.
Northern dates to the 10th received.
Unofficial dispatches claim a great victory for
Averill over McCausland and Bradley Johnson,
on the 7th, near Moorefield, Hardy county.—
Johnson and staff were captured, Jbut escaped.—
Also claim 500 or 600 prisoners, trains, colors
and small arms captured.
The Commercial Advertiser says Sherman and
Thomas have both telegraphed to Washington that
Atlanta will certainly fall this week.
A train of 35 rebel wagons were captured in
Londero county.
Nothing from the Army of the Potomac.
Four expeditions have entered Florida, de
stroyed railroads, burnt bridges ancl committed
other depredations.
Gold 2541-2.
Richmond, Aug. 12.
A special to the Whig from Petersburg says;—
Northern dates to the 10th received. Rebels,
were completely routed in a fight at Moorfield—
with a loss of 600 prisoners. They were pursued
by Averill twenty miles. Bradley Johnson and
staff, colors, artillery, trains and a quantity of
small arms captured, McCausland barely escaped.
Johnson wore no marks of rank and subsequently
escaped. The campaign opened actively.
The Florida is prosecuting great successes un
der Buruey.
Nothing from Grant or Sherman.
All quiet in front of Petersburg.
Headquarter’s 64th Ga. Regiment, )
Wright’s Brigade, >
. July 31st, 1864, j
List of casualties in Company “F,” and “I,” 64th
Ga. Regiment, on the 30th inst.:
j Company "F,” Capt. John K. Redd, comd’g.
Killed—Capt J K Redd, Sergt A C Moore, J A
Parham, J Harrison, J Ryan.
Wounded—Lieut Thomas J Park, face, severely;
Lieut R A Russell, shoulder, slightly.
Missing—Walter Watson and A B Nelson.
Company “I” Capt. J/F. Bird* comd’g/
Killed—Lieut D B Booher, Jno Barnhart, Frank
E Collier, F M Culverhouse, J E Palmer.
Wounded—Capt J F Birch, mortally; Sergt J W
Brooks, mortally; LF W Jenkins, mortally; Thos
Schley, face, severely; W H Levan, mortally.
Missing—W G Culverhouse.
Orders from the Treasury Department,—
The new Secretary of the Treasury has issued the
following orders :
In order to promote as far as practicable the early
liquidation by the Treasury of the outstanding
taxed notes the Treasurer, Assistant Treasurers and
Depositaries in the different States, are hereby au
thorized to receive the said notes except tho SIOO
notes, at sixty-six and two-third per centum on
deposit, issuing for same certificate of loan upon
hypothecation of non-taxable bonds. The said
certificates to be payable on demand, after the ex
piration of ninety days.
And all agents for the sale of the above bonds are
hereby authorised to receive the taxed notes with
the exception of the above named in payment of
bonds, when sold, at the rate of sixty-six and two
third per centum.
Loans on the security of the five hundred million
six per cent, non taxable Bonds under the seventh
section of the currency law.
Deposits on call will be received by the Treasu
rer in this city, the Assistant Treasurers at Charles
ton and Mobile, and the Depositaries at Wilming
ton, Raleigh, Columbia, Savannah, Augusta and
Montgomery; and certificat es will be issued for the
same, bearing interest at the rate of four per cent,
per annum, and secured by the hypothecation of
an amount of the above bonds, equal to the sum of
these loans. The bonds to be set apart by the
Treasurer, and the proceeds when sold, applied ex
clusively to the payment of the said certificates.
The security and convenience afforded to banks
and other corporations and to the public general
ly, by this mode of temporary investment; and the
effect of the measure, if generally adopted, in keep
ing the currency within moderate bounds, it is
hoped will commend it to the favorable considera
tion of the community and secure their prompt co
operation in carrying it into effect.
From Virginia and the North.—
We have by favor of the Southern Ex
press Company, Richmond papers of the
6 th.
Northern dates are to the 4th, by the
Baltimore Gazette.
The Washington correspondent of the
Tribune, World and Herald say that Hook
er has been ordered to report to Wash
ington, as was believed for the purpose of
superceding Meade.
A dispateh from Hagerstown of the 3d,
says that the Confederates were again
crossing the Potomac at dam No. 4. A
deserter from Eany reports his force be-,
tween thirty and forty thousand strong,
engaged in gathering the crops of the
Shenandoah Valley. The force beyond
the Potomac was said to be eight thou
sand cavalry. Three hundred rebels were
in Hagerstown again on Friday, the 29th
ult.
Denmark. —-The steamer Bremen
brought European advices to the 30th.
All the islands on the west coast of
Scheleswig are now in possession of the
Germans, and peace negotiations would
probably be commenced at Vienna on the
19th ult. —Macon Telegraph.
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Patients requiring Medical or Surgical treatment.
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CITY MATTERS.
T. J. JACKSON, LOCAL EDITOR.
Funeral Notice.
The funeral services of Capt. Willis D. Banks,
Lieut. Eugene Banks, and Watxins Banks, will
be held in St. Luke’s Methodist Church on Sab
bath morning. Aug. 14th.
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Attention, Dawson Artillery!
Every member of the Company is summoned to
appear at Camps this morning, at 10 o’clock, on bu
siness of great importance.
R. B. BAKER, Capt
R. B. McKay, O. S.
Take Notice !
Headquarters Dawson Artillerv, »
Camp Benning, Aug. 12, 1864. )
Special Orders, )
No. 3. )
All members of this company, who hare not re
ported, are ordered to do so at once to these Head
quarters. All subject to Gov. Brown’s call who fail
to do so will be turned over to Capt. Garrard, and
all liable to Confederate conscription to the Enroll
ing Officer. 1 • R. B. BAKER,
Captain Comd’g
a sl-3 It Dawson Artillery.
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Fireman’s Guard. —This fine Company, under
Capt Williams, was out on parade and drill yes
terday afternoon, and as usual, executed the vari
ous evolutions in a prompt and spirited manner. ,
Dawson Artillery.— This Company, raised
for the defence of Columbus, went into camp near
the city on Thursday evening, and we under
stand have named their headquarters “Camp Ben
ning,” in honor of our distinguished fellow towns
man, Gen. Benning. It is the purpose of the Com
pany we learn, to procure a splendid battery of
four guns, and perfect themselves as rapidly as
possible in the uso of their guns, so as to be ready
for any emergency that may spring up. The corps
is composed of fine material, and wc feel confident
will do efficient service when the hour arrives.
Much success to them.
It will be seen by advertisement that members
of the Company who fail to report to camps at
once will be turned over to the conscription sffieers-
Removal. —The public will learn from an Ad
vertisement that Dr. T. J. Word has removed his
office to a room over Judge Gunby’s store, where
those wishing his services will find him at the
usual hours. The doctor’s extensive experience in
medicine and surgery will doubtless enable him to
confer entire satisfaction to all who may honor him
with their practice.
The New and Old Currency. —The Columbus
Enquirer of Yesterday morning, expresses some
very sensible views on this subject. The fact that
sundry important corporations in the State, have
refused to receive bills of the old issue in pay
ment of dues, will go far towards influencing oth
ers, as well as private individuals, to the adoption
of a similar course—a course calculated to reflect
discredit upon the Government, to act prejudici
ally towards bills of the old denominations, as
well as work injury to their holders. We are not
the holder of a solitary old bill, (and precious few
of any other sort,) and yet we cannot help feeling
that the Government has intended to act in per
fect good faith in this matter, and that in time,
facilities will be afforded for the redemption of the
last one of these old outstanding notes at the rate
of 665 cents on the dollar. This is the provision
that Congress made, and the Secretary of the
Treasury was specially instructed to issue the new
notes in the proportion of two for three of the old.
In consequence of the troubles by whieh Richmond
has been environed most of the Spring and Sum
mer, we presume it has been out of the question for
the Treasury Department to throw out its new
bills with sufficient rapidity to meet the wants of
the country. Most of those prepared have neces
sarily been used in payment of government dues*
and consequently depositors ha ve not been able to
procure money to redeem the old notes, but that
they will be provided, a3 soon as the exigencies of
the country will allow we have not a doubt.
We fully concur with our cotemporary that the
Department at Richmond should give our people
some speedy, satisfactory evidence that this will
be done, and thereby allay the apprehensions that
may be felt in this matter throughout the coun
try. If it is out of the power of the Treasurer to
draw in these outstanding bills within the time
prescribed, the ensuing Congress will ne doubt
provide for additional time.
In view of these things we would advise holders
of the old issue not to sacrifice, and urge up
on the people to sustain the honor and credit of
the Government, as far as possible, by placing im
plicit faith in its promises and receiving these
bills at their standard value. The refusal of many
persons to take them is wrong, and calculated to
work perniciously towards the Government, which
we believe is doing the very best it can to meet its
obligations.
The Late Negro Impressment. —As the news
paper press is the channel for the expression of
public opinion, we give place to the following com
munication, without endorsing fully, written by a
planter of this county, who feels himself ag
grieved at the conduct of the impressing officers
recently in conscribing negroes to work on the
Montgomery «fc West Point Railroad. There can
be no question of the tyranny of military law in
general, and it is highly probable that the im
pressing agents have transcended discretion and
authority in this instance as they are likely to do
in all such cases, but we cannot concur in the
opinion expressed, that the impressment es negroes
in cases of military necessity, is fraught with so
much mischief and outrage, as this gentleman
alleges. It is certainly no worse, and in our opin
ion not half so bad, as the conscription of white
men to fill up the ranks of the army. This has
been done in thousands of instances and that in
case of poor men who were the only stay and sup
port of large dependent familes. Though the very
idea of conscription is revolting to a people who
have hitherto been blessed with so much personal
liberty, still all right thinking men must admit
that the system has been the very salvation of the
Confederacy, for without a resort to it we should
long since have been subjugated.
COMMUNICATED. ~
Military Outrage.
On last Saturday, after a great many farmers liad
get into town with their produce, their negro dri
vers were suddenly seized and hurried off, leaving,
in some instances, their teams and wagons stand
ing in the street to be pillaged and sacked of their
contents, no matter how valuable. In at least one
instance, a carriage containing young ladies, or
rather girls, and whose home was in Harris county,
was left to the tender mercies of a pair of wild
mules. In most cases these drivers were the most
valuable negroes of any other to the owner, and
now, when overseers are scarce, such as they could
least afford to spare. Many farmers who heard
the news in time, hurried their wagons off without
waiting to dispose of their loads, others who had
not reached town turned back and carried their
fodder Ac., ten, fifteen, aud twenty miles home
again. I saw two wagons empty their loads by
the road side. My own negro left his wagon and
lay out in the woods all night without c- at or
blanket. My neighbor who i.s sick aud partially
deranged, hiul tho only negro man who is able to
do anything for him taken, and the last I heard
of it, which was late in tho evening, his mules and
wagon were standing where ho left them in the
street. I could continue this enumeration <
stances but this will suffice as to the facts
I ask what was all this outrage for, for outr *
certainly was;? Even Beast Butler himself 1
be adding infamy to his already infamous’chT'
ter by such a course of procedure. I l earn .
to do some kind of Government work 0 J
Alabama. Now, is there any law, either in ?
military or civil code, f or f„ rcibly **
my property uom Georgia to Alabama’ u?
is worse, there is no common sense in it
are probably as many negroes in Alabama
Georgia. Neither do I bcliero the exigent
the case even shadow forth such a
this be true, Saturday’s proceedings were 1
outrageous but arbitrary and infamous. ‘
| I would like to hear from some of the >
| ones 011 this P° snt > in common with other!!?
I suffered by the impressment, I feel that w •
! been outraged and imposed on by some Pc /
Military. We feel, too, that if Columbu! *
starve and our produce lie at home an d rot
will not run the risk of having our wagon!’?
teams left in the streets without a protector '
The single article of fodder had fallen in ~
days from ten to five dollars, because the farmer,
had commenced to crowd it in to market in an
ticipation of the new crop, but if I am not mim
ken it will crawl back to something near its 0 H
price. It is but poor apology and poor satigfa
tiontoan outraged and injured farmer, to
that subordinates transcended their orders.
J. M. L.
AUCTION SALES.
By Ellis, Livingston & Ce^
ON TUESDAY, 16th of August, at 10 o’clock, w*
will sell in front of our store,
500 LBS. BEST ENGLISH CAST STEEL
Assorted Sizes.
200 lbs Sole and Upper Leather ;
2 Cans Fine Smoking Tobacco •
12 bbls. SALT;
1 Marble Top 33ureau ;
Lot Summer Clothing;
Lot Furniture.
—ALSO, —
A LIKELY IEGRO BOY,
24 years old—Field Hand, Cook, &e.
AN EXTRA LIKELY NEGRO MAN.
23 years old—splendid Dining Room scr>
vant, Gardener, <£c.
A LIKELY NEGRO MA $
34 years old—Field Hand, Teamster &e.
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TO THE CITIZENS OF HARRIS &
MUSCOGEE COUNTIES.
Columbus, Georgia, Aug. 6, ’6i,
I am authorized by the General Commanding the
Army of Tennessee, to impress
One Thousand Slaves for Teamsters.
for the services of which slaves $25 per month sha ’
be paid, with clothing, rations and medical attend
ance. You are respectfully requested to deliver t
me, One ok Every Five Able-Bodied Mair
Slaves, between the ages of 18 and 45. Those ot
“Muscogee” county will be received in Coluiabu-,
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 »; the ranks as team
sters, and of the importance of strengthening the
army a3 early as possible, it is hoped that no one
will fail to rospond to this call.
Very respectfully,
E. JOHNSON, Capt.
and Impressing Officer lor Harris, Muscogee,
Chattahoochee and Stewart c . .
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GILMOHE cJb 00.
146. llroad Street.
HAS ON HAND AND FOR SALE
Corn, Flour, Bacon, Tobacco,
Candles, Syrup. Sugar. Coffee,
Lard, Peas, Rice, Osnaburgs,
Watches, Sheetings, Brooms,
Spun Thread, Beeswax and Tallow
—ALSO,—
Salt, Sugar, Sheeting and Osnaburgs
TO
EXCHANGE FOR COUNTRV PRODUCE!
—ALSO,—
A Genuine Article of APPLE VINEGAR for sale
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FOR SALE
-OR—
HIIAH MMITM INK
—AT—
-114, Broad Street
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Coffee, Sugar,
Soda, Black Pepper,
Syrup, Potash,
Cotton Cards,
Tin-Ware, Snuff;
Salt, Sugar,
Tumblers, Candles,
GEORGIA REBEL SNUFF
Piekles, Flysßrushes,
Eggs, Butter,
Salt Fish,
Cigars,
Toilet-Soap,
Soft-Soap,
Bar-Soap
(hewing and Smoking Tobaeco>
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FOR SALE
Or Exchange for Country Produce
BE SI COTTON CARDS;
STINNING WHEELS;
CLOCK REELS.
agio 2w JEFFERSON & HAMILTON
TrOA AVI RE
2,000 lbs. 8 and 10 Iron Wire
For sale by
agio 2w JEFFERSON & HAMILTON
1,000 Pounds Choice Brown Sugar*
TO EXCHANGE FOR
WHEAT, Flour, Corn or Meal. , T
At 114, BROAD bl
ag9 dst wit Columbu^J^.
THOMAS SAVAGE. Age' l1 ’
(At Mulford’s old Stand,)
3STO- lOX, BROAD ST'
HAS FOR HALE OH HHIK
Sheetings, Shirtings.
Twills, Yarns, Linseys.
Laguaray Coffee,
Tobacco, Rice,
mails of all
&.C.. &c., &c.
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A HOUSE WANTED
TO Rent from October next, a house, or J> ar '
house, for the use of a family.
Address "SHIMM-,
agstf At thisD 81
• NOTICE.
To Planters and ©tl» t ‘ r *
T WILL EXCHANGE Osnaburgs.
I Yarns, for Bacon, Lard, Tallow and not. • er >
will be found ai Robinett k (Vs o,d . s /^j ! ?L- sala
am manufacturing [’
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