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®!u §talnmbns Mimes. 1, nr, ifABBEiI, - - - Editor. Monday Morning, Angnit IS, 1864. :3cr tac ■■"' ■ What Subjugation Means. The Yankee scheme of subjugation contem plates, (says the Richmond Whig of the Oth) so far as any hope of success is yet enter tained, not merely the establishment over us of a government we have repudiated, and the appropriation and division among themselves of onr property and substance, but the over throw of our institutions, the extirpation of our creeds, customs, and mannas, the sub version. in fagt, of our civilization and reli gion, and the substitution of their own there for. Their Parson Beecher disclosed the whole design last year, when he said : “If the war should last twenty years, and I should lose every child, I would regard it a light . sacrifice, for the establishment of New Eng- | land ideas, religions and schools at the south.’’ ' They would no* pnlvrule us politically, but they would revolutionize us socially and mor ally. All that is distinctive in our modes of * life and habits of thought, in our opinions and feelings, our laws and usages, they would ob literate, and re create us in their own image, “a little lower” than their angelic selves, that we might be hewers of wood and drawer.- ot water to them and their children. To t : is end. wherever they have succeeded in over running any portion of our territory, they have stripped churches of their pastors and schools of their teachers, and have undertaken, in the characteristic language of Lincoln, to “run the churches under the ministration of blue nosed sr.caks and canting slyboots, and to deliver up the schools to psalm-singing peda gogues and peaked face schoolmarms. They have seen that either the better lineage or different institutions and culture of the South produce a race superior to themselves, and, despairing of rising to an equality with us, they are determined to crush us down to a level with themselves; nay, to bumble and degrade us into being their slaves. Nothing short ot this will satisfy their malignity and appease their envy. “I intend to crush the proud, rebellious spirit of you Virginians,’ was the language of their General Hunter to a lady at the Sweet Springs. “I organized this raid tor the especial purpose of making the womeu suffer.” “I am coming back,” said the fleeing coward, “to burn your grain fields, to make a desert of the ‘Pride of the Earth,’ to desolate your country, and to starve women and children.” That’s the plan ! The caitiffs cannot face our men of war, but they gloat like demons from the lowest pit over the thought that they can. in the persons ot the innocent and helpless ones we love more than our own lives, strike us blows that we will feel with a far intenser pang than if inflicted on ourselves. They hope, through the wasted forms and hollow eyes and failing voices of those dearest to us on earth, to ad dress to us arguments in favor of submission that we cannot resist. They little know the martyr spirit of the very victims they would ! use to coerce us into surrender and subjection! j As little do they know the sacrificial fortitude j that would sustain our men in dedicating \ those victims to death, sooner than to degra- : dation and infamy. No suffering that the cun- : ning and merciless malignity of our foes could , prepare would weigh in the minds of those upon whom it was visited, nor in the anguish smitten bosoms of their absent fathers and husbands and brothers and sons, against the horror that starts up at the thought of sub mission to a foe so despicable and brutal. If the grave, though reached by the slow torture of starvation, were the only escape from the condition of servitude to the Yankee race, who would not welcome it for himself, or gladly consign to its peaceful shelter those dependent on him ? Submission, if it were only to rob us of property and the protection of our an cestral roofs, might be endured, but the sub mission that at once uproots onr social system, overturns the altars of our faith, desecrates all the sanctities of home, and make forbidden and criminal all the beati tudes of life—that makes menials of those whose habit it has been to command, and compels obedience to a base-born upstart, and cruel master —such submission were infinitely worse than death however painful. “Thank God," said a Virginian lady to one of Hunter’s myrmidons, when passing through Bedford county, “you cannot blockade eternity.''’ That j door of escape is always open. That haven j of repose and safety is always accessible. The women of the South will pever become the servants of Yankee mistresses. The men ■ of the South will never become the toiling ' slaves of Yankee task-masters. The religion { of the South will never be destroyed by Yan- j kee infidelism, nor its morality be polluted by Yankee impurities, nor its civilization be ex- 1 tinguisbed by Yankee conquest. Born a superior race, endowed by Providence with a superior country, permitted to attain a higher ; scale of civilization, and to breathe a purer moral atmosphere, we expect to maintain and j advance our superiority in all these respects j so long as the Yankee race has a recognized being. 'Use Feeling in Maryland. 'Vo ycVcrdoy referred to the ungenerous and unjust charges made against Maryland i bv a portion of the Confederate press. We endeavored to show the true feeling of herpeo- ‘ pie. and why it was that she could not openly make common cause with the South. In ref- ; erenc-e to this subject still further, we make the following extract from a letter addressed to the Wilmington Journal from a participant in the late expedition of Gen. Early. Says this disinterested writer : We saw, for the first time in this campaign, the real sentiment of the peopled Maryland. The sad truth is, they arc sorely oppressed, and with the system of espionage employed bv the United States to keep them in subjec tion. we have but little to hope, except by a successful occupation of the State. They are Kith us! We believe, to day, that the real original elements of the State are n ilh us, anu that their hearts' desire ‘is to unite their des tiny witli ours. Their kindness to us, their prayers for our success, tell us what they feel. Remember, you who stand afar off and call Maryland a Yankee State that yon do her in jusce. An anthem would have been sung in church in Maryland had we been suc voii o UI Cap l tu r i .“2 tl '« Yankee capital. Had Maryland ln!iv ek, lV i • attentions of the lovely tbdwe tould 3 ’ 1 r' U ' w f ll hopes thraldom, you x VOV !n\ C lh !* r State from the ibis corps wa ß been ini Wesscd, as warmest sympathy for . greatcst rt3 pect and ! Without we can rescue her by an army, she is destined to be a mere dependency of the Uni ted States. Recruits come in from all parts ofthe State; whole cavalry brigades were dismounted, and the oppressors of the good people of the State —we mean the Lincolnites—were punished, by being forced to donate their horses and ; provisions for the good of our service. Does that look as if Maryland was a \ an kee State, and deserved to be treated as an enemy ? Does it look as if she needed to be insulted and plundered to make her love the South? We say no, emphatically no 1 And we only wish that every Southern man was as true to the Southern cause and as anxious for the trrumph of Southern rights as the major ity ofthe people of Maryland. We have given and still give, all honor and praise to the he roic citizens of Virginia, for their indomitable courage in defense of their homes. But we cannot endorse censures upon others which we know to be undeserved, and unfair as they j are impolitic.— Mont. Mail. Foreign Gossip • Paris correspondent of the liich* mond Enquirer writes thus under date of Junc 3d: What ever may be thought of the pru dence of Captain Semmes* duel with the Kearsage, there is but .one opinion of the gallantry displayed by him and all his crew. In England he is feted as the lion of the day, and the members of the Ar my and Navy Club have opened a sub scription to present him with a sword stead of that which he dropped into the sea to save it from Yankee hands. Mr. Slidell, who, I had begun to hope,, was growing reconciled to the retirement which is the only fitting position of an unrecognized diplomatist, has taken the opportunity to remind the public of his existence through the “Constitutional” in whose columns he declines all respon sibility in the loss of the Alabama. I heard one ol his good natured friends, and it is astonishing how many he has made here, say that if it had been the Kearsage that had gone to the bottom, he would not have been so ready with his disclaimer. The Captain of the Kearsage, Jno. Winslow, as he signs himself in a very Ajax vein, is baying at France and England for robbing him of his prisoners, and is filling newspapers with his silly threats or regrets. The sea lawyers whom the United States put in command of their vessels have the strangest way of reading international law that was ever heard of. Captain John has a fancy that all the world is a dependency of Fort Warren. He has only been laughed at for his pains. We have had Bishop Lynch of Charles* ton, here for a few days, a man who has impressed all who have seen him most fa* vorably, though not destined to be more successful, diplomatically, than his fore* runners. The only drawback to the fer* tility of Mr. Benjamin’s invention is the length of time he requires in getting up his imitation of Mr. Seward. It is more than two years since Archbishop Hughes came over on a mission from the North, and now comes Bishop Lynch as a sort of corrolary from the South. He was re ceived by the Emperor, and had two in* terviews with M. Drouyn de L’huys; in troduced, not by Mr. Slidell, who seems to have lost even the backstairs entrance he at one time had, but by the Papal ! Nuncio. Both on Emperor and Minister he ■ seems to have made a very favorable im- I pression, but I can send you no particu*' 1 lars, foil, unlike his Southern predeces sors, he has the gift of holding his tongue. We begin to think here that you, must have a large surplus population of diplo's mists, for you seemed already to have a good many more than were of any use on this side of the Atlantic, and the cry is still they come. The arrival of C. C. Clay and G. Thompson is announced as imminent. Much good may it do them, for they are the only persons likely to pro fit by their mission. You may depend upon it that Gen. Lee is the only diplo mist whose labors will have any result. You will receive at least some of the fast papers along with this, and you will have seen how the English ministry have eaten the leek in the matter of Denmark. The Prince of Wales may not like to see a German Fluellen thrust his badge down the throat of his mother’s minister, but he is bound over to silence by the consti tution. Whether it be in the peerage, as Prince Napoleon says, that we must look for the explanation of this humiliation of old England, now governed by old women j of 70 and 80 years, or whether it be due to the influence of the Manchester party, whose philosophy teaches that a profitable bankruptcy is the readiest road to fortune, Ido not venture to say. Between the two, the honor of England is so tarnished that it will cost before long, oceans of blood to wash out the stain. The Amen* can war, fostered by himself, is the excuse put forward by Lord Russell for refrain i ing from the action which his own words had long since announced. Old dogs, when they can no longer bite, can still bark , but it generally ends in their be ing torn to pieces by the younger ones they have provoked. As old men love their rickety children the best, so Canada seems to have become the best jewel in the English crown, and all thought of honor or principle is postponed to its se- curity. Lord Russell without, perhaps, j intending it, gave the best explanation of j his policy in regard to America. He said I what he thought. The Palmerston min- ! istry will stay in power like a roguish tradesman who has so confused Jiis ac counts that his creditors dare not send him through the court, for fear of losing all. The conservatives have no risk to its assignees. The emperor is serenely en joying the inextricable mess his good friends have got into, and, shutting his eyes, opens his mouth to see what°Rhe nish provinces the war will send him, , The Paris correspondent of the Na-! tional Intelligencer, in a recent letter, makes the following speculations on the i Mexican question, based upon M. Paver’s ! speech : The celebrated republican orator, M. Jules T aver, in one ot his recent speeches t't. the C hamber, referred to Mexican af fairs and to American opinion respecting them in a manner which deserves to be | more particularly noticed. After point ing out that the new Emperor Maximil ian was in reality nothing more than a ! lieutenant of France—that the Mexican Empire was a mere romance} that the Mexican Government had undertaken to j make payments which it never could by any possibility accomplish } that its loan was only bolstered up by French credit, and that France must really sustain the Empire by an army of 25,000 men, main tained in Mexico for an indefinite period —M. Jules Favre said that it was impos sible for him to pass over in silence the late declaration of the Congress of the United States. He knew that the deela* | ration was not to be regarded as an official | or diplomatic act of the Government at : Washington, but still it must be regarded as a “manifestation of public opinion which commanded attention and respect.” He then proceeded to read a despatch from the American Secretary of State to Hon. Mr. Dayton, and communicated by the latter to the French Minister of For'* eign Affairs. In this despatch, after ex» pressions of great courtesy to France.— | Mr. Seward says that he nevertheless deems it right that his Government should distinctly state and declare to the Govern ment of France that the real public opin ion of Mexico is in favor of domestic and republican institutions in preference to any monarchial institutions imposed upon them by a Foreign Power. This real opinion of Mexico, the American Minister goes on to say, is chiefly due to the influence of popular opinion in his own country, whose brilliant future desti* nies he considers to be intimately connec ted with the maintenance of free republis can institutions throughout the whole of the American continent. This opinion had been already communicated to the Emperor Napoleon; and, says Mr. Se ward with a voice of dignified warning, “if, after mature reflection, France per sists in a policy opposed to these senti ments, such a policy will breed a germ of jealousy which cannot ultimately fail to de* velop itself into a conflict between France and the United States.” Subsequently, to the intimation from France that a prompt recognition of the Mexican Em-‘ pire would be agreeable— Mr. Seward desires Mr. Dayton to reply that his government has always consider l * cd the establishment of a monarchial gov ernment in* Mexico to be undesirable, and has not changed its opinion; and more over, that it regarded the republican gov ernment in Mexico as still existing, and entertained towards it the most friendly feeling. “Thus,” said M. Jules Favre, commenting on these despatches, “have the germs of defiance and hostility been sown between two countries whose union is so necessary to the grandeur and prosperity of each other.” The above despatches are probably al ready known in America; but their re production in the French Chamber, the attention they excited there, and the sym pathies manifested towards them by the liberal and republican party in this coun try, seem to me to be matters of sufficient importance to warrant me in directing your attention afresh to this portion of the debate. At the present moment more peaceful influences seemed to be in the ascendant. The language of ministers in the Chamber, coupled with that of M. de Persigny out of doors, is taken as indica tive that the Government is really desir ous of peace. There'is a report, too, that M. de Persigny is to return to office to support the views held out in his speech. Some hopes are entertained that, after all, the Conference may be able to effect something. Altogether, therefore, there exists rather more confidence in the pub | lie mind with respect to the preservation of tranquility than when I last wrote. Latest from the t utted Stales. We find the following items in North* cm papers of the sth inst. : FROM GRANT’S ARMY. The following is the latest published from Grant’s army : THE ENEMY REPAIRING THEIR LINES — A COURT OF INQUIRY TO BE CONVEN ED. Headq’rs Army of the Potomac, Tuesday, Aug. 2—P. M. j Nothing of importance has transpired during the last twentysfour hours. Pick et firing in front of the Ninth Corps is kept up almost unceasingly, with some shelling at intervals The enemy have been busy in repairing their lines, and our skirmishers annoy them as much as possible. Little damage, however, can be done them, as they perform most of their labor at night, and cannot be seen on account of the darkpess. A Court of Inquiry is about to be con vened to inquire into the cause of the late disaster. The exact amount of our loss in the action of Saturday is now ascertained to be 5,640. The hospitals are being rapidly cleared of sick and wounded, there being four or five boats engaged in their transportation from City Point. THE INVASION OF PENNSYLVANIA— HIGHLY IMPORTANT —FEINT ON HAR PER’S EERRY. Prom the Washington “Chronicle,” of the 6th, we copy the following : Baltimore, Aug. 5.—A person who left Charlestown, Va., early yesterday morning, reports that a rebel force, compos ed of Morsby’s and Imboden’s cavalry and mounted infantry, estimated at 7,000 strong were then about to make a feint movement upon Harper’s Ferry, whilst Early, with some 12,000 infantry, guard ing trains of plunder and grain at Bun ker Hill, was about starting up the Val ley. Parties were scattered at different points up the alley gathering in the grain and cattle, who would join Ewell in his march. They had conscripted all the men and even the hoys of sixteen, but many had escaped, and were hiding in the moun tain ; and the belief was that as soon as the trains were well advanced, the whole rebel force would return up the Valley. - - The Richmond Sentinel learns from a gen tleman just arrived from the North Neck, that tbc Potomac on Thursday. Friday and Satur day. was covered with transpoi ts cariyiug troops to Washington City. It is estimated that, fully 20,000 soldiers had been sent to Washington bv Grant since Early's last vic tory. He will have use for five times twenty thousand in that quarter before he takes Petersburg. Grast Leaves Petersburg.— A gentleman from Richmond, who arrived here yesterday rnorn ing, states that he was informed by high officers of the Government, just before leaving Richmond. 1 that Grant bad withdrawn the most of his army ; from Petersburg, and that he had gone back to ! Culpepper Courthouse. If this be so. it is singular that the telegraph has not heretofore informed us of it. We tfciuk it \ more than likely that Gen. Leo is reinforcing } Early in the Valley, and that this is forcing Grant I to make corresponding disposition. [Moron Confederate. TELEGRAPHIC. RBPORTS OP THE PRESS ASSOCIATION. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1863, by J. 8. Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office of the District Coart of the Confederate States for the Northern District of Georgia. Mobile, Aug. 14.— Maj. Carrel, agent for ex change of prisoners, went by flag of truce to the fleet in the lower bay to affect an exchange of the Dauphiu island prisoners. Farragut stated that the prisoners were placed at the disposal of Gen. Canby and he could do nothing. An arrangement was made to send packages to prisoners from their friends. Gen. Maury orders all officers and soldiers to remove their families from the city forthwith. Non-comb&ttants are again urged to leave the city. The enemy is busily cruizing in the bay in sight. A heavy force of the enemy is in North Missis sippi. Their destination is reported to be Mobile. Atlanta, Aug. 14.—The enemy opened fire up on the city with six batteries at 8 o’clock last night, their batteries being stationed on Marietta, Peach Tree agd Williams’ Mills roads and in front of the Medical College and Rolling Mill. The fire was very heavy and continued until 4 a. m. About midnight a shell entered the frame store house of Biggers <fc Cos., on Marietta street, be tween Peach Tree and Church, setting fire to some loose cotton. The flames spread rapidly in the building. The fire bell was rung and engine No. 3 repaired promptly to the spot. The enemy im mediately concentrated his fire on the point. The firemen nobly stood their ground despite the rain of shells and succeeded in saving the large ware house of Kyle & Cos. The other buildings on the square were consumed. Not a citizen was injured, the women and children having sought safety in bomb-proofs. But little shelling along the entire line to-day. No movement of the enemy reported. Richmond, July 12.— Baltimore papers of yesterday state that the Yankee cavalry has re-occupied Martinsburg. Sheridan reports his forces moving up the Shenandoah Yalley against the enemy. At 4 o’clock Wednesday skirmishing was going on ten miles from Winchester. Grant has returned to City Point. It is asserted that Staunton has tendered his resignation and that it has been prompt ly accepted by Lincoln. Other Cabinet changes are reported, but there seems to he no doubt that the resignation of Staunton was in consequnce of the quarrel with Blair. Atlanta, Aug. 13. — The enemy yesterday evening advanced his right about one mile, at the same time extending hi3 left a short dis tance, hut hurriedly withdrew them both this morning from some cause yet unknown, to the original position of their line. Their officers attempted frequently, at different points along the line to-day to communicate with ours. In several instances they proposed a cessation of picket firing, which was not entertained, in consequence of not coming through the proper channel. No shells were thrown into the city during the night or to-day. With the exception of slight artillery firing from Bates, no gun was fired. Brig. Gen. John C. Brown, of Tennes see, has been promoted to temporary rank of Major General. Lieut. Col. James Kennard, C. S. Artillery, has been assigned to chief ordnance of the army of Tennessee. \ Latest from the United States FROM THE UPPER POTOMAC. Petersburg, Augusts.—A dispatch has been received here, stating that an engagement was fought yesterday, at 4p. m., with the raiders, at New Creek on the Baltimore and 1 Ohio railroad, twelve miles east of Piedmont, , towards Cumberland. The fight was des -5 perate. Pittsburg, August s.—Gen. Kelley telegraphs j officially to this city : “My forces repulsed the ; enemy yesterday at New Creek, under Mc | Causland and Bradley Johnson. The enemy j attacked our post to-day at 3 o’clock p. m.~ The enemy then retreated leaving their killed and wounded. “Their loss was severe. Ours light— not exceeding 25 killed and GO wounded. The garrison made a gallant resistance.” Gov. Curtin has called for thirty thousand militia. In his proclamation he says : “I cannot too earnestly urge upon the peo ple of this State the necessity for the imme diate presence of this force.'’ Gen. Couch has issued an apppeal to the people of Pennsylvania. He urges them to prepare themselves for defence, to put their guns in order, get in the cover of their corn fields, forests, buildings, &c., as a rebel raid is not impossible at any time during the sum mer. Harrisburg, August s.—Five ~ messengers from Gen. Averill have reached McConnels ville, and report that the rebels, three thous and strong, were crossing the Potomac at Hancock. They farther state, that our pickets were being driven in towards Cumberland. LATER. Intelligence, just received, confirms the fact j that the rebels occupied Hagerstown in force at nine o’clock this morning. The greatest consternation once more pre vails along the Southern portion of the Cum berland Valley. The farmers are hurrying from their homes with their stock, and the population in general is panic stricken by this sudden, and to them unexpected occupation by the rebels. LATER FROM EUROPE. The Saxonia. with dates to the 26th ult. has : arrived. Cotton was unchanged. Breadstuff? ; declining. Lord Palmerston, in the House of Commons in response to an inquiry whether Englaad m . tended acting in concert with other Euiopean powers, in endeavoring to bring about a, sus pension of hostilities in America, stated that he thought no advantage was to be gained jby meddling. , , . * The Bank of England has reduced its rate ! of discount to seven percent. ; It is reported that Mr. Slidell is on a visit ; to the Emperor Napoleon. |_ ♦ ♦ Mrs; Emma Willard Captured by the Rebels. —A dispatch received this morning from Mrs. Phelps, at Baltimore, states that Mrs. E. Willard, of this city, was among the passengers on the train from Baltimore to Philadelphia, which was captured by the rebels wben Major l General Franklin was taken prisoner. Nothing since then has been heard of of Mrs. Willard, but no fears are enters tained by her friends here of her persons al harm, although it may be probabie that she suffered in the loss of property. Mrs. Willard’s, authorship of several valuable standard works and her association with the Troy Female Seminary, have giveu her a wide spread reputation. Her numerous friends here and else where will await further tidings with great interest. Mrs. Willard left the city a few days ago for Baltimore and Wash ington, and was on her return when this , unfortunate incident occurred. Her cap | ture by the reb«-i was hardly one of the j calculations oi tii ourncy.— Troy Thors:, ! Uth July, CITY MATTERS. T. J. JACKSON, LOCAL EDITOR. Notice. Headquarters Post, 1 Columbus, Ga„ Aug. 14, 1804. > General Orders,) No. 5. } I. All officers or soldiers remaining in Columbus over six [6] hours will require a pass from these Headquarters. * 11. All persons between the ages of sixteen [l6] and fifty-five [ss] years, visiting Columbus, [officers of the Navy and .Army stationed at this Post excep ted,] will, in future, be required to procure a pass from the Cbrumandant Post. No other document than the pass specified will be regarded by the offi cers charged with the examination of papers. By order GEO. 0. DAWSON. Major Comd’g Post. agio 7t ♦ Drugs, Medicines, Ac. —The attention of drug gists is invited to a perusal of the advertisement of W. H. Tutt, wholesale druggist, Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia. It will be seen that he has in store a fine assortment of articles, which are in great demand in the Confederacy just at this time. ♦ ♦— Rents. —To all appearances rents are going up in this city te an unprecedented attitude. We have already heard of several houses which in or dinary times, could have been rented at from one to two hundred dollars, which are now being offered at the extremely modmt price of $1,500, $2,000, $2,500, and $3,000. We trust that city property holders will not suffer their love of filthy lucre to override common sense, reason and the dictates of humanity. Do not take advantage of the help lessness and destitution of the soldiers’ families and indigent refugees who are forced to find a shelter in ou* midst, or be turned out among the warring elements. Do not so depreciate and dis honor the currency of your beleaguered and strug gling country as to bo so unreasonable in your demands. It will be far more honorable to your name to come out of this war without one cent, than to bask in the accummulations of such ill gotten gains. In the name of the poor, of hu manity, of God, keep your rents within the bounds ; of reason, of humanity, of Christianity. A Terrible Affliction. —We have had to write no more painful record of the misfortunes that have befallen our community during the progress of this unholy and unrighteous war upon the South, than the announcement of the loss, within the last three months, of three brothers, honored sons of Col. John Banks, of this city, named respectively, Eugene, Willis and Watkins, all of whom have fallen gloriously with the harness of battle on. We regret that we did not enjoy the honor of a personal acquaintance Avith these young men, as we feel that their deaths coming almost a3 rapidly and crushingly as the misfortunes that befel the Patriarch Job, demand the earnest out gushings of public sympathy, while their names and merits arc worthy of a higher eulogy than we can write. We are assured by those who know them well that they all combined the noblest characteristics of the true gentleman and Chris tian, with the zeal and courage of the patriot. May their last rest be SAveet, and the memories of their virtuous deeds and chivalrous actions b 8 embalmed in the hearts of their grateful Country men. To tkeir venerable and honorable father, whom we learn, has yet several other sons in the Confederate army, as well as to their other loved ones we extend our heartfelt condolence, and trust that the Great Giver of all good, will impart grace to enable them to bear up under these un usual crushing misfortunes in the spirit of Chris tian resignation, and that the reflection that they all died nobly and Avell Aviil tend to soften to some extent, the heart-rending griefs which they are thus called upon to suffer. Bo Your own Vt ork. —As many people in these war times haA r e to do their own work, who heretofore have not been under the necessity, it is a matter of interest to all, and especially the lazy, to know hoAV Atork may be done Avith the least personal exertion. It will be seen by an advertisement that A. D. Brown & Cos., of this city, have invented a hand loom, which will Aveave thirty yards of cloth per day. We have seen one of these looms in operation and were struck with the ease, beauty, rapidity and regularity of its motions. It runs as glibly as a clock, and avc think is far superior to the ordinary hand loom. Let those who wish to purchase, call and in spect for themselves. The same firm manufacture also a good article of corn shelters and spinning wheels, each of which are put up in superior style. The Impressment of Negroes. —ln the Satur day morning’s Times, a communication appeared over the signature of J. M. L., a planter of this county, complaining of the recent action of the impressing officers in seizing negroes to work on j the Montgomery and West Point Railroad. In order to prevent a wrong impression from going abroad, we are authorized to state that Major UaAVSon, the commandant of this post was not in j his office, and is therefore in no wise responsible for the transaction. As such things usually ema- s nate from his office and by his authority, it is but j justice to a high toned gentleman and efficient j officer to make this announcement. Wo do not know that there was the exercise of any improp- i er authority in the premises, but if there really , was, as charged in the communication referred to, the blame should attach where it belongs and ! not to the Commandant of Post in this city. We were fully satisfied even before publishing the communication, that if there had been any il legal proceedings in the matter, it was not under I the knowledge or approval of Major Dawson. Atlanta. A friend writes to us that in addition to the list which we published some days ago of the houses in Atlanta, that had been damaged by the shot and shell of the enemy, he noticed that the residence of Judge C. H. Strong, near the Bap tist Church, had been injured. One, too, had passed in at a window of the Washington Hall, and exploded in tbo bar-room, doing considerable damage. One struck the store of Beech Jc P.oot, and the Messrs. Herring on Whitehall street and exploded inside. The residence of E. B. Walker, and also the late residence of Col. A. AL Wallace, both on Ivy street, were struck—the former greatly damaged. The writer continues : '‘But it i3 impossible to enumerate all the build- i ings that have been struck either by shells or fragments. You can find evidences of the ene my’s barbarity in almost every house or lot in the i city, except in the Southern and South-eastern portion of the place. The wonder is, that so few of the citizens have been hnrt. There are a great' many still in the place, but they confine them- ! selves to their premises. I notice the Fire Bat tallion on prorost duty in the city, besides the members of which, a few familiar faces are to be seen on the streets during the intervals of furioas shelling.” "I havo a fragment of a shell which I picked up on the floor of your old sanctum. It passed! iu at the window, breaking a pane of glass, and slightly injuring the plastering on the opposite side of the room. I was standing on Whitehall j street when it went in, and immediately went up and found it. Should Igo to Maccra soon, I will ; leave it with you as a memento of the love that is borne far as by our Notheru brethren.” [lnteUigen’ > >\ ♦ ♦ - ♦ — : The Danville Register states that passenger trains now pass over*the entire line of the Richmond and Danville railroad. The track ! is much better than it was before, the flatiron j having been replaced by the heavy T rail. I AUCTION SALES. Ellis, Livingston & Cos. O^elUu I fPot&foStef’ at 10 ° ,dock ’ we will A FINE ROCKAWAY, (Late Style,) with Tongue and Shafts and ROUele sett harness All of which is Nearly New and veiv de By Ellis, Livingston ON TUESDAY, 16th of August atlft will sell in front of our store 10 ° dock) w « 500 LBS. BEST ENGLISH CAST STEEL, Assorted Sizes. 200 lbs Sole and Upper Leather • 2 Cans Fine Smoking Tobacco• 12bbls. SALT; ’ 1 Marble Top Bureau ; Lot Summer Clothing; Lot Furniture. —ALSO, — A LIKELY VEGRO HOY 24 years old—Field Hand, Cook, &c ’ ! AN EXTRA LIKELY NEGRO MAN. 23 years old—splendid Dining Room set. vant, Gardener, &c. A LIKELY NEGRO MAX, 34 years old—Field Hand, Teamster .te. agl2 td $32 By Ellis, Livingston A Cos. ON Tuesday, 16th of August, at 10 o’clock, wo will sell in front of our Auction Itoova 200 lbs, ASSORTED IRO Y, Os Excellent Quality. 35 BUSHELS COW PEAS. agl3 td $9 BROWN’S FLY SHUTTLE LOOM, (Will Weave 30 Yards per Day.) Card. Haclsjs, SPINNING-WHEELS and CORN-SHELLERS! Manufactured by A. D. BROWN & CO. 43f*0rders received by M. P. Ellis & Co.“®» agl3 lm* reSovalT IHAVE removed my Office to a room over Gun by’s Store, where I will bo pleased to wait oa Patients requiring Medical or Surgical treatment. ag!3 lm* T. J. WORD, M. D. $5,000 REWARD! THE above reward will be pail for the arrest and production before the Coroner’s Court, Talla poosa county, Ala., of one WM. A. PAULK, who murdered my husband, Benjamin Gibson, on Mon day night, Ist ot August. Said Paulk is a resident of Macon county, near Union Springs, aged about 35 years, about 5 feet* inches inheighth, stout built, fair complexion, dark hair and blue eyes, Believed to be a deserter from the 2d Ala. cavalry. JULIA A. GIBSON. Near Tallassee, Tallapoosa co., Ala. ag3 lm GILMORE tto Cos. 146, Broad Street. HAS ON HAND AND FOR SALE: Corn, Flour, Bacon, Tobacco, Candles, Syrup, Sugar, Coffee, Lard. Peas, Rice, Osnaburgs, f Watches, Sheetings, Brooms, Spun Thread, Beeswax and Tailu'*. —also,— Salt, Sugar, Sheeting and Osuaburgs TO EXCHANGE FOR COUNTRY PRODUCE! —ALSO.— A Genuine Article of APPLE VINEGAR for a e agl2 lw* FOR SA£i£l -OR EHWMDITMMM -AT— -114, Broad Street t gti I Coffee, Sugar, Soda, Black Pepper, Syrup, Potasb, Cotton Cards, Tin-Ware, Snuff, Salt, Sugar. Tumblers, Candles, GEORGIA REBEL SMFI Pickles, Flysßrushes, Eggs, Butter, Salt Fish. Cigars, Toilet-Soap, Soft-Soap, Bar-Soap, Chewing and Smoking Tobacco. aug 2 ts FOB. SAXjB Or Exchange for Country Produce. BEST COTTON CARDS; SPINNING WHEELS; CLOCK REELS. agio 2w _ JEFFERSON & HAMILTON^ IJROJ¥ WIRE. 2,000 ihs. 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. At 114, BROAD ST. agO dst wit Columbus, Ga. THOITIAS SAVAGE, Agent, (At Mulford's old Stand,) 3STO. 101, BBOAD ST HAH FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE Sheetings, Shirtings. Twills, Yarns, lAnseys, I/aguaray Coffee, Tobacco, Rice. IVails of all sizes. &c., &c., &c. jul27tf A HOiSE WA A TED, rrO Rent from October next, a house, or part '■ ' A house, for the use of a familv. Address ‘‘SIGMA.” ago ts At this Office. 3NTOTIOJ3. To Planters and Other* ! T WILL EXCHANGE Osnaburgs, Sheeting and 1 Yarns, for Bacon, Lard, Tallow and Beeswax, will be found at Robinett & Cb’s old stand, where am manufacturing Candles and Lard Oil for sale. L. S. WRIGHT june 2 t< BOXZ>S OF the 500,000,000 Loan for hale 1 1 AM authorized to offer for sale the G per cen 1 Coupon or Registered Long Date Bonds of the Five Hundred Million Loan authorized by Act o* Congress, February 17, 1864, in sums to suit put" chasers, at the Confederate States Depository, ' lumbus, Ga. The principal and interest of this Loan are from Taxation and the Coupons receivable in P a >' ment for all Import and Export Duties. The--' Bonds are the best securities yet offered by the Gov eminent, and I recommend them to the favorab! •• notice ol Capitnli-t. , IV. H. \OLNG, Agent, augl In. for Confederate States. DU A AW AY! YEGRu boy CHARLEY; about 2o years old, >'<■'' i\ low complexion, hair nearly straight, below or dinary intelligence; left Afr. Nat. Thompson’s ne i; Box Springs, Talbot county. 1 bought him oi a Mr. Brown, a refugee from Mississippi, who now resides in Tuskegee, Ala. He originally os me iron- Charleston, S. C. A suitable reward will b° P al j , for his delivery at this office, or in any safe jad aT: ’ information sent to me at this office. , .TAMES M. RUSSELL- Columbus, Ga„ aug 1 ts" i r J|