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Adj’t k Inspector General’s Omc*, j
Macon, Ga., August 1,1864. S
Special Order, l
No. -. 5 . _
As there is a misapprehension about the powers
of the Inferior Courts in making details for police
duty, the following orders arc published for the in
formation of all concerned ■
One policeman is allowed for each >OO negroes in
each county.
All men between 55 and 60, able to ride and carry
i gun, are to act as a polico force in their respec
tive counties. The Aide de Camp are specially in
structed to order them upon this duty, and any man
between these ages, able for service, who refuses,
will be sent to the front. They are to ride all j
through the county, confining themselves to no par
ticular district or plantation, and are to give their
wholo time to this business. As they can sleep in j
houses at night, they can do this duty, when they !
would not be fit for other military service. They j
will visit the plantations, correct insubordinate ne- :
groes, and do all in their power to protect property j
and preserve order. .
It is believed there are but few counties in the j
State in which there are not in the county, one man j
able ‘for service for each 500 negroes. If there j
should not be that number in any county, the Inic - ;
rior Court will recommend for detail a number <>t .
men subject to the late call sufficient to make up the
deficiency. These should be selected from such
overseers and others as have most control over the
negroes. The recommendation* of the courts must
be sent to these headquarters, where they will be
allowed, if the evidence of deficiency in the num
ber of old men is satisfactory.
The court must accompany the application lor
,be detail by a certificate, giving the following
foots: .
Ist. The number of slaves in the county. ;
2d. The number and names of the old men be
tween 55 and 60 in the county, with the namo of ;
each, who is too feeble through the county.
:id. The names of the persons recommended by
the courts to make up the deficiency if any. A ,
details granted by the courts without an order from .
these headquarters, arc valid, and will be so treated ,
by all Aids-de-Camp and other State officers, who ,
will send all such detailed men to the front imme
*' Ase- the late interruption in the railroad transpor
tation may have caused some of the militia who
had started to Macon to return home for want of
transportation, all such arc required to press for
ward to Macon without delay, as the channels of
communication will be open again in a day or two.
All officers at home will exercise great energy in
,ending all men subject to the call forward prompt
ly, under arrest when necessary.
HENRY C. WAYNE,
aug4 ot Adj’t & Insp. Gen.
Headquarters Georgia Reserve, |
Macon, Ga., July 23, 1864. j
tjenerul Orders, t
No. 13. j
I. All questions of details from the Reserve tor
agricultural purposes, on the part ot those persons
having less than fifteen able-bodied field hands,
having been placed under the control and direction
„f the Commanding Officer of the Reserve Force,
it is ordered that the details heretofore granted by
the Commandant of Conscripts in this State, shall
stand until otherwise ordered from these Head
quarters. .
11. The Commandant of Conscripts will cause a
full an accurate report to be 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 immedi
ately assigned to companies in the Reserve Force,
and be subject to be ordered to the companies to
which they may be thus assigned, whenever their
details may be suspended or annulled.
111. Enrolling Officers will continue to scud for
ward all persons liable to duty in the Reserve Corps
under the orders and directions heretofore issued
to them by the Commandant of Conscripts, ex
cept as these orders and directions may be modi
lied or changed by orders from these Headquar-
IV. County Enrolling Officers will send all such
persons tc the District Enrolling Officers, who will
-end them to the Camp of Instruction at this place,
where the officer in charge will report daily their
arrival to these Headquarters, that they may be
promptly assigned and sent forward to their respec
tive companies.
V. In the case of persons of the Reserve Class
applying for exemption under the third paragraph
and first clause of the fourth paragraph of Section
Tenth, of the act of Congress, entitled “An Act to
organize forces to serve during the war," approved
February 17th, 1864, the application will be for
warded to the Commandant of Conscripts, and the
*ame privilege will be extended to applicants as
heretofore allowed.
VI. In all cases arising under the second clause
Paragraph Fourth, commencing with these words,
"In addition to the foregoing exemptions," &c., the
applicant will be sent forward as provided in the
Fourth Paragraph of this Order, and no furlough
will be allowed, and his application will as soon as
practicable be forwarded to these Headquarters tor
decision. Enrolling Officers will make in such cases
investigations as heretofore, and will as soon as
practicable bo forwarded to these Headquarters for,
decision. Enrolling Officers will make in such cases
investigations as heretofore, and will forward the
papers to these Headquarters, with the application
for detail.
VII. Ail applications for details from the Reserve
Force for Government works, or any other purpose
must be made to these Headquarters.
Bv command of
}IAJ, GEN, HOWELL COBB.
Commanding Georgia Resen e.
Lamar Cobb. Major and A. A. G.
ml 29 tit j
lIKADQOARTBRS CoySCBIPT SRRMCE.I
Augusta, July 25,1864. > }
(iencratOrders. \
No. 42. i ' , 0 , ;
The following extract from Circular, Ko- - .
vcauof (current «««,)■ published j
for the information and guidance ot ll coneerncuL .
1T The sale to the Government or to the families (
f -ildiers 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 prov lsions,
uni which he may raise from year to year, while his j
exemption continues, is made by the act of Con
gress, approved February 17th, 1864, one of the
conditions of exemption allowed to an overseer r
agriculturalist. A claim is asserted by some of
those exempted as agriculturalists to exchange such
part of the aforesaid surplus as they may please, ioi
supplies of provisions, clothing, and the v hke, to be j
consumed in family use, and to sell to the Govern
ment or to the families of soldiers only what re
mains of such surplus after making said exchanges.
The claim is in violatian of the law and of their
contract with the Government, and cannot be al
lowed. .
Upon satisfactory evidence being furnished that
persons exempted as overseers or agriculturalists
have or are thus disposing of their surplus produc
tions by exchange as aforesaid, Enrolling Officers
will arrest all such persons, forward them to their
nearest camp of instruction, to be retained there
until final action shall be taken and announced in
their cases, and forward through the proper chan
nel, of communication to this Bureau a report ot
all the facts and circumstances of each case.
Every agriculturalist or overseer, upon receiving
his certificate of exemption, should be informc
that the action indicated above will bo taken in the
event of his not disposing of his marketable sap
plies in accordance with the requirements «
law.”
By order of c j AVM M BROWSE.
Commandant.
P. Looxky, Lt. and Adj’t.
jul2B fit
ON and after the Ist July, iny office and dwell
ing will be on Broad Rt., a-t the residence of the
late Airs, fturti.*, T n
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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 (Afacon) 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
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The Intelligencer Office,
Macon, Georgia.
All JOB and GOVERNMENT WORK
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Proprietor
Jul 27 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 truce must be
sent to this office.
2. Each letter must be inclosed in a separate en
velope and addressed to me, Bureau of Exchange,
Richmond, Va.
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
Stale, currency. These regulations will be rigidly
enforced, Lnd no letter transmitted in which they
are not strictly observed. ROB , T OULD>
Agent of Exchange, j
W' inLvicH, Captain and A A G.
and Saddlers’
tools.
'THE UNDERSIGNED having commenced the
H ospftaf a Jngl6 HARRISON, BEDELL V & CO.
SSSKSSS. and Augusta Con
B titutfonalift g please copy one month and send bills
to this office.
mar 30 ts ___
GEORGIA--slusG°gee Counts,
! Sa Gi?en under my hand. JOHNSON,
, , Ordinary.
I jy 42m .
A T-vlnr t Libel for Divorce m Marion
j Martha A, *. * tSuperior Oourt. Returnable to
; Green B. Taylor. ) September Term. 1564.
At Columbus, April 2d, 1864.
1T appearing to the Court by the return of the Sher-
SctorfMt doe, not read,
I nexfterm of the Court, iu some newspaper ot -his
ytate ‘ vnMOND H. WORRILL. J.S. C. C. C.
A true extract from
1864. , WCl '' Clerk.
*pl 7 mien
Columbus, Ga Monday Morning, August 15,1864.
Headquarters Conscript Service, \
Augusta. Ga.. August Ist. 1864. /
j General Orders!
No. 44. /
I. The attention of Enrolling Officers is directed
to Circular No 25, Bureau of Conscription (current
| series) herewith published, withdrawing from this
and transferring to the General Com
manding Reserves, all jurisdiction over persons of
the Reserve classes, except such as are strictly en
titled to exemption under third and the
first clause of the fourth paragraph of the tenth
Section of the Act of Congress, entitled an “Act to
organize Forces to serve during the War.”
11. Enrolling Officers will observe that they are
I placed under, and subject to the orders of the Gen
eral Commanding Reserves, so far as this class of
Conscripts is concerned, with the exceptions above
j stated, and are enjoined to give all his orders and
commands relative thereto prompt attention and
obedience; but they will bear in mind that the per
formance of these duties will in no case excuse them
for the non-performance of their more appropriate
duties as Enrolling Officers.
111. Their attention is further called to General
Orders No. 13, “Headquarters Georgia Reserve,”
and strict compliance with it3 provisions directed.
' District Enrolling Officers will immediately make
i out and forward to these Headquarters a full and
| accurate report as required by second paragraph of
! said oradr.
WM. M. BROWNE,
Colonel and Commd't.
Confederate States of America, \
War Department,
Bureau op Conscription, f
Richmond, Va., June 30,’64. I
Circular, <
No. 25. '
Commandants of Conseripts will forthwith com
municate to Enrolling Officers these instructions
made by order of the Secretary of War. *
Ist. In the class of Reserves Enrolling Officers
will under no circumstances receive applications
for, Qr grant details until after the organization of
the companies, and the transmission of the rolls to
thelGeneral's commanding of the Reserves and then
only under instructions from said Generals com
manding.
By a decision of the Secretary of War the juris
diction of the Conscript authorities over the classes
of Reserves extends simply and exclusively to
granting exemptions prescribed by the Act of Con
gress, entitled an act to organize Forces to serve
during the War.
These exemptions are provided for in the 10th
section of said act, but these shall be excluded from
these exemptions thus authorized to be granted in
the Reserve classes all contained in the last clause
,of the 4th Paragraph of said section from the
words “In addition to tho foregoing exemp
tions to the conclusion of said 4th Paragraph.
Except as herein specified in all matters per
taining to the Reserve classes, Enrolling Officers
j by order of the Secretary of War, are to obey
| the orders of General commanding Reserves, but
; no Enrolling Officer under any plea will be held
: to be excused from the full performance of his reg
ular duties prescribed by and under the orders of
this Bureau, and no assertion that duties under or
ders of the General commanding Reserves have
prevented the due performance of other duties will
be accepted by this Bureau.
The Secretary of War has directed that all de
tails heretofore granted inconsistent with these in
structions, will be promptly revoked and the men
placed on the company rolls.
Paragraph XIV of Circular No. 8, Bureau of Con-
I scription, current series, is hereby revoked.
By command of
Brig, Gen. JOHN S. PRESTON, Sup‘t.
[Signed,]
C. B. Duffikld, A. A.G.
aug!2 5t
Change of Schedule.
Office Engineer and Superintendent, )
Charleston and Savannah Railroad, >-
Charleston, June 7.1864.)
j \N THURSDAY, June 9, 1864, and until further
V/ 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. m. -
Arrive in Charleston 1.15, p. m.
This Train makes direct connections, going north
and south, with the Northeastern Railroad at Char
leston, and the Central Railroad at the Junction.
H. S. HAINES,
June 14 tl Engineer and Superintendent.
Change of Schedule.
AN 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.
COLUMBUS TO WEST POINT!
On and after the 80th inst., the Passenger Train
on the Montgomery & West Point R. R. will
Leave Columbus 2 40 p. m.
Arrive at West Point 8 00 “
Leave West Point 350 “
Arrive at Columbus 9 10 “
Freight Train will Leave Columbus...a 50 a. iu.
Arrive at Columbus 12 23 “
J. E. APPLER,
July 23 ts Agent.
STOJLEH'!
THE OWNER of a BLIND HORSE stolen by
L a deserter, can hear of him by applying at the
Enrolling Office. WM. L. DAVIS,
agll lw Capt. & En. Off.
FOR SAFE !
One of the Most Desirable Resi- j
deuces in Wynnton. .
THE Lot contains forty acres of Land—twenty of
which are in the woods. The House is comrno- j
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
healthv, 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,
jui 29 ts J. R. BANKS.
* 130 Reward.
1 WILL pay the above reward for 808, a black
1 boy, about 24 year3 old. He has been out tnree
or four week,, and is supposed to be lurking about
the city. JNO. li. W ASS.
iy 4 ts ]
TO HIRE!
FOK the balance of the year fifteen able-bodied
Negro ’-cn and seventeen Negro Women.
Apply soon to R. M. GUN BY. Ag t.
jul 28 ts i
Notice to and Frefi
itors.
\ LL persons indebted to the estate of Neaborn
Jones, deceased, are required to make imme
diate payment, and those having claims against said
estate are required to render them in terms of the
law to the undersigned.
SEABORN J. BENNING, Adm’r.
By MARY H. BENNING. Agent.
,iu!2S vs"'
TO HIRE!
1 T>Y the month, a smart 15 year old Horto Girl.—
' D Apply at this office.
Saturday Evening.
Divine Services.
Rev. A. Wright will preach in St Paul's Church,
to-morrow (Sunday) morning at o’clock.
The remains of Mr. Watkins Banks having ar
rived at his father residence in Wynnton, the burial
will take place this afternoon, at 4 o’clock.
Military Promotion.— Brig. Gen. William
Mahone has been appointed Major General in
the Confederate Army, the date of his com
mission to be from the 30th of July, 1864.
Gen. Mahone has been acting Major General
for some time past.
mrntm • —III
The Examiner is pleased to state for the
benefit of the soldiers, that it is reported that
the Government has now secured the services
of honest and competent men in a department
lately complained of, and that hereafter none
but sound tobacco will be issued.
The Confederate Court. —The Confeder
ate Court for Greenville (says the Charleston
Courier, 9th,) commenced its sessions on Tues
day, Judge Magrath presiding. Sentence of
death wa3 passed upon the following persons,
who'had been found guilty at a previous term
of counterfeiting Confederate treasury notes:
Thos. Marquand, Henry Marquez and William
Williams. The first was sentenced to behung
on the 12th, and the others on the 23d of
September next.
Peace. —lt is a little curious, says the Whig,
that while conflict never seemed more imminent
between the respective armies of the beligerent
powers, the people and the press on both sides are
having more than at any former time to say about
peace. The new-born interest on this subject dis
played in the North, coupled with the almost un
interrupted successes of our troops for the last
twelve months, sustains the opinion of those who
have held that the armies of the Confederacy are
our best peace makers. It may he well enough,
therefore, for civilians to consider whether there
is not much likehood of doing more harm than
good, by taking on themselves any part of the
task that belongs to those grim and bronzed ne
gotiators who write with the points of their swords
and speak from the mouths of their cannon. On
another account, too, some degree of taciturnity
on ibis subject would seem best to benefit our
people. Wo have nothing to do with the making
of peace. Our business is to make war. Theene
my only can make peace. They are waging war
upon us, and it is for them to determine how long
they will continue to wage it. We have nothing
to clo but to meet and resist them. When they
choose to cease fighting, there is peace. The
thing is altogether in their hands. We desire
nothing but that thay Shall discontinue hostilli
ties: we claim nothing but the hereditary right
to govern ourselves. These things they refuse us,
and all that is left us is to convince them of our.
ability to make good our demands by force of
arms. Obviously, then, our arms are our (true
pacificators. We are glad to see peace discussions
are going on and a peace party has been formed
on the other side, but, with us, too much may be
said about peace, and the formation of a peace
party here would be treason to the cause. Let
us be prudent and patient, and Lee, Early, Hood,
Kirby Smith and others.will arrange matters for
us,
From tUe Front.
Gen. Wheeler massed his cavalry corps
near Covington, on the xlugusta Railroad,
and on Monday the grand cavalcade of
gay cavaliers started for adventure and
Sherman’s rear. It was rumored in town
yesterday that he had captured Marietta
and burned the Federal stores there, and
had taken an immense number of prison
ers. Be it as it may, it is certain that
the long expected effort to cut Sherman’s
communications is now about to be reali
zed. The Federal cavalry have nearly all
recently been destroyed, and Gen. Wheel
er is now out just at the right time.
„ Night before last the enemy made a
heavy assault upon our works on the left,
no doubt intended for a surprise. The
assault was received by a sheet of flame,
and a hailstorm of bullets and cannister,
which laid a thousand Yankees low in
death iu front of our works, and thrice
as many more were sent limping to the
rear and out of the service, with wounds.
To say that the assaulting column was des
seated, hardly conveys the idea—it was
demolished.
We are assured by gentlemen direct
from headquarters that there is not the
slightest intention entertained there of a
retrograde move or the evacuation of At
lanta. On the other hand, it is expected
that Sherman will be forced to retreat.—
Macon Confederate , 12th.
Latest From the North. —The
following is condensed from the news sum
mary of the Baltimore Gazette of the 4th
inst:
The most important announcement this
morning is the probable change in the
chief command of the Army of the Po*
tomac. The Washington correspondents
of the New York Tribune, the World and
the Herald, all concur in stating that
General Hooker has been ordered to re*
port to the Adjutant General at Wash'
ington, for the purpose, it is supposed, of
succeeding to the command now held by
General Meade.
It is intimated that Gen. Early, whose
forces still occupy such positions West of
Harper’s Ferry as have been selected by
him to protect the Valley of the Shenan
doah against an advance of Federal
troops in that direction, has probably been
reinforced by the troops that were recent
ly sent from Petersburg to the North
bank of James river to meet Hancock’s
threatened attack.
Thf. Fight at Athens. —We yesterday bad a
call from J udge Foute, who participated as a high
private in the fight between the straggling band of
of Stoneman’s raiders, who escaped from Sun
shine Church, and the local forces at Athens, Ga.
ne states that the precise number captured there
and thereabouts was 354. including sixteen officers.
Only a few of them got away, for they only had
about four hundred men iu all, and that besides
j the number taken, many were killed and wounded.
Perhaps fifteen or twenty got baok to Sherman.
, Confederal*
$4.00 Per Month.
The Naval Engagement Down the Bay.
interesting particulars of the fight.
Mobile. Aug. 8, 1864.
Messrs. Bditors : As nothing definite in re
gard to the late naval engagement in Mobile
; Bay has yet been published, I hope the follow
j comprehensive and true account of the
tv hole battle will not be considered amiss.
At 6 o’clock on the morning of the sth, the
enemy’s fleet was observed in line of battle
| coming slowly over the bar, the monitors,
, (which were already inside,) at the same time
moving up to a position in line. As they
came up, the irou-clads, owing to lack of
speed, gradually lost their position ahead, and
dropped off to the westward, but the wooden
, ships, the Richmond at their head, came on in
i unbroken line, and preserving the same rate
of speed throughout.
At near about 7 o clock the fort opened on
j them, and the Tennessee running down close
| to the wharf ran out into the channel to inter
j cept them, while the Morgan, the Gaines and
I the Selma, in the order in which they are
named, turned their prows to the westward
and spread themselves in an oblique line
across the channel for the same purpose. On
came the immense ships of the enemy right
past the Fort without slacking their speed or
disturbing their order of battle, and it was
then that we first discovered that each of the
large ships had a smaller vessel lashed along
side of her opposite to the fort, and that their
sides were protected by chains ‘a la Kearsage.’
As the enemy came within range our little
squadron opened on them and the engagement
soon became general. The Tennessee bestow
ed attention on each one as they passed, and
at last steered right into the middle of them,
while the three other vessels devoted them
selves to the Richmond and Hartford, which
was the second ship in the line. It was at
this moment during the process of straighten
ing up in a line parallel to that of the enemy
that the Selma shot ahead, leaving us in the
centre with the Gaines on our starboard quar
ter. Broadside after broadside did we pour
into the Hartford as we ran along on the star
board bow at a distance of five hundred yards,
and thick and fast burst the shell around and
over us, while showers of grape lashed the
water in every direction and embedded them
selves in the ship’s side, and yet, strange to
say, we were not materially injured, and still
more miraculous there was not a life lost. Our
safety lay principally in the fact of our occu
pying a position so much ahead of the enemy
that he was unable to train his guns upon us,
while the Gaines received his whole broad
side.
After this running light had been kept up
some time the Gaines was observed to round
to and head for the fort, and the Richmond
casting oft the double-ender which had been
lashed along side of her, the latter passed
ahead and came in between us and the Selma,
in doing which she detachr-d herself from the
rest of the fleet and stood over to the east
ward, so as to completely cut off the Selina,
seeing which we immediately left the Hart
fort and steered on a course parallel to hers at
a short distance, the Selma pursuing alike
course on the other side of her. Together. I
have no doubt we damaged her consfderafely,
and eventually might have sunk her, but un
fortunately the Morgan ran aground, and the
double ender then gave her whoje attention
to the Selma, and being a very fast vessel she
was enabled to choose her own position and
rake her opponent fore and aft. In the mean
time one of the enemy’s monitors was sunk
by a torpedo, and the others attempted to get
between the Tennessee and the rest of their
fleet, and being much faster than her, they
partially succeeded. Os the further move
ments of the Tennessee I cannot speak with
any certainty, as a severe rain storm burst
over us just after the Richmond cast off the
"double-ender," which entirely concealed the
fleet. When we got afloat we were about to
proceed again to the assistance of the Selma,
when we observed that she had already hauled
down her colors. We then steamed down to
assist the Gaines, butas we approached it was
found that she had been beached to prevent
her sinking, and that her officers and crew
were already leaving her. It was then that
we boarded and burned the Phillipi, and on
Our return, finding that the Tennessee had
surrendered, we made fast to the wharf, and
began lighting the ship in order to attempt
the run to Mobile that night. At 11.30 P. M.,
we ca3t off from the wharf, and with all the
steam we could muster initiated one of the
most desperate adventures of the war, and af
ter running the gauntlet of the whole Yankee
fleet, and beingchased and fired at successive
ly by two monitors and two double-enders
from Fort Morgan to Dog River bar, we reach
ed the obstructions in safety, having received
but one shot during the chase.
The above account w ill, lam confident, be
substantiated by every eye witness, and al
though this vessel was wonderfully fortunate,
all the witnesses of and participants in the en
gagement with whom I have conversed agree
that our little fleet, without a single exception,
acted with the most noble gallantry.
In conclusion, if your informant of yester
day morning, who styied himself an “Officer
of the Morgan," had been better acquainted
with difference in appearance of the Morgan
and Gaines, he would not have fallen into the
very obvious error under which he seems to
have been laboring.
Respectfully, kc.,
An Officer of the Morgan.
[Mobile Register, 10th.
Siege of Charleston.— Three Hundred and
Ninety eighth day. —Two hundred and fifty shots
were fired at Fort Sumter during the last twenty
fourheurs, closing at six o’clock Wednesday even
ing. Private Faircloth, Company D, 32d Ga.,
was severely wounded Tuesday night, by a frag -
ment of a mortar shell, .and one or two others
slightly wounded. About twelve o’clock Wednes
day, a large side wheel transport, with a signal
flying, came from the South, and passed the bar
going North. The gunboat Pawnee, which was
outside the bar, answered the signals, when the
transport sailed in close to the Pawnee, several
small boats from the fleet then communicated with
the new steamer, after which she took her depar
ture and again sailed North.
Battery Wagner opened fire upon Battery Cbe
ves Wednesday afternoon, firing twenty-two shots,
which was returned by Cheves, firing eleven
Shot3.
Five shots, two of which were fn?e shells, were
fired at Castle Pinckney during the afternoon by
Battery Gregg.
Sixteen shot? were fired at the city.
There was no further change of the fleet.
f Charleston Courier.
New York's Quota Under the Next Draft.
A letter from New York, dated the 29th ultimo,
says:
The steamer that leaves for Newborn to-morrow
takes out several agents from the neighboring
counties duly authorized by Governor Seymour to
recruit in North Carolina. One of these is Mr.
William Turner, who goes as the agent of Queens
county. The city and county of New 1 ork mean
while folds its hands, looks on, and does nothing.
Its Board of Supervisors and rich capitalists seem
to be possessed of an idea that something will turn
up to cause the draft to be deferred till after the
A cebtember, and hence all present effort to
?iL c ' T . ho so " 7 of
this policy maybe apparent when too late.
The Sltuatioh a iiile.
To persons abroad «od c p-iintcd
with the topography of Mobil -twill
be well to explain that Fr. James is
twenty-nine miles from the city, on tho
east end of Dauphin Island, and was in
tended to be one of the defences of the
main entrance to the Bay from the Gulf-
F Morgan is on the opposite shore It
has always been a matter of query what
Fort Gaines was built for. Between it
j ana Fort Morgan there is a water expanse
jof three and a half miles, but the ship
channel is on the Fort Morgan side, and
every heavy vessel passing is obliged to
run within a mile of the guns of Morgan
On the Fort Gaines side the water is shal
i low, and no ship could run within effective
range of its guns. When she fleet ran in
on -Friday, we do not learn that Fort
1 Gaines fired a gun. Fort Powell lies a
little to the west and north of Fort Gaines,
and in the direction of the main land ot
the western Bhoro of the Bay. It is built
on au artificial island, directly on Grant’s
Pass, which it was designed to defend—
that pass leading into Pascagoula Sound
and the lakes in the direction of New Or
leans. Fort Powell is about three quar
ters of a mile from the main land, at Cedar
Point, and at low water is fordable. It
was by this easy route that its garrison
escaped. If there had been no ford it i>
probable that Fort Powell would still be
in our possession. Fort Morgan still
commands the main ship channel to the
Gulf, and by this alone Farragut’s fleet
can get to sea. He can only bring light
vessels and transports through Grant’s
Pass. Fort Gaines was of no practical
value in the defence of the Bay. It adds
to the facilities and .convenience of the
enemy, but was not necessary to his ope
rations. The loss of the garrison is seri
ous, but more serious was the manner of
its surrender—the stain upon our anils.
That is to be wiped out.
With these explanations the stranger
will perceive that the line of our city de
fences carried by the enemy is from 25 to
80 miles distant from Mobile. It has al
ways been a mooted question among mili
tary men whether or not it was wise to try
to hold these points. Many have been in
favor of dismanling all the forts in the
lower Bay and bringing their guns and
garrisons to the inner line nearer the city.
The only or the principal reason for a
contrary course was found in the impor
tance of keeping possession of the shores
of the Bay so as to prevent the enemy
from making a water base near the city
for the advance of an army. The loss of
Grant’s pass gives the enemy this advan
tage. That is, he can now sail up the bay
with his transports loaded with supplies
and troops, thus dispensing with wagon
trains, and land within a short distance of
the city. But when he does this, he ha*
to encounter the inner line of defences.
When he does that he is no nearer to tak
ing Mobile than Grant is to taking Peters
burg, Sherman Atlanta, or Foster Charles
ton. In other words this city is a lon -
ways from “going up.” Gen. Canby does
not command troops enough to take the
city by land, nor Farragut ships to break
through the guns and obstructions on the
water front. —Mobile Register , 10tf..
More of Them.— The train last eve
ning brought in about eighty more of
Stoneman’s raiders, who were captured,
near Boswell. It seems from this that
the thieves have been hotly pursued.
W e heard one of them ask, in conver
sation with a soldier, if Stoneman’s head
was shaved. He said if it was not, he
would like the authorities to give him and
his comrades the pleasure of shaving it
for him. They are all very severe on
Stoneman.— Confederacy 12 (//.
Dr. C. K. Marshall. —We had the
pleasure of meeting Dr. Marshall, at Co
lumbus, Ga., last week. This philanthrop
ic gentleman, although himself suffering
with rheumatism produced by exposure,
is doing all in his power for the ameliora
tion of the condition of the suffering sol
diers. May he live to enjoy the grati
tude of the thousands he has rendered
noble service.— Selma Mississippian.
Notice!
Office Chief Insp’r Field Tkaksp’n,
2d Dist., Macon, Aug. 8, ’B4.
All persons are warned against purchasing cap
tured or branded animals from soldiers, as all such
animals will be seized by my officers and agent
wherever found. NORMAN W. SMITH,
agl3 5t Major and Chief Inspector.
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
ON Tuesday, 16th of August, at 10 o’clock, we will
sell in front of our Auction /loom .
SOO lbs, ASSORTED I HO
Os Excellent Quality.
35 BESHELH COW PEAS.
agl3 td $9
W. H. TIJTT,
WHOLESALE ORU6GIST
316, Broad Street,
Augusta, Ga.
HAS FOR SALE AT LOW PRIC ES!
I,ooolbs. CASTILE SOAP.
200 kegs B. C. Soda
500 ounces Quinine
200 “ Morphine
100 lbs lodide Potash
25 lbs Oil Anise
1 ease Madras Indigo
100 dozen Brown Windsor Soap
3 cases Coleman’3 bustard
125 dozen Mason’s Blacking
100 gross Lilly White
1 case Cantharides,
2 cases Gum Camphor
20 bags Pepper _
1 case Powdered Ipect ;
20 bbls. Eng. Copperas
10 cases Eng. Fig Blue
50 ouncei Lunar Caustic
-50 lbs Po. Rhubarb, in 2 r> bottles
100 lbs Eng. Chlomel, 1 ff» bottles
150 lbs Eng. Blue Mas
-25 bbls Epsom Salts
25 cases Scotch Snuff.
ag!3 3t _
BOND S
Os the 500,000,000 Loau for >ale
1 AM authorized to offer for sale the 6 per cerr.
x Coupon or Registered Long Date Bonds of the
Five Hundred Million Loan authorized by Act o.
Congress, February 17, 1864, in sums to suit pur
chasers, at the Confederate States Depository, Co
lumbus, Ga. ...» .
The principal and interest of this Loan are
from Taxation and the Coupons receivable in Pay
ment for all Import and Export Duties. Thee-*
Bonds are the best securities yet offered by the Gov
ernment and I recommend them to the favorable
u „tice of Capitalist. y()DNG Age „.
augl 1m _ tor Confederate State?
lUMWAY!
VFGRO boy CHARLEY ; about 25 year? oli, yel
iv low complexion, hair nearly straight, below or
dinary intelligence ; left Mr. Nat. Thompson's near
Box Springs, Talbot county. I bought him of a
Mr. Brown, a refugee from Mississippi, who now
resides in Tuskegeo. Ala. He originally etme 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. RUSSELL
Columbos, Ga., au» 1 tf r