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COLUMBUS TIMES Published Daily (Sundays excepted) at the rate of #4.00 per month, or sl2 tor three months. No subscription received for a longer term than hree went hi. advertising rates : Advertisements inserted for $2 00 per square for each insertion. Where advertisements are inserted a month, the charge will be S3O pot square. Announcing candidatess2o, which must invariably paid in advance. Headquarters Conscript Service, \ Augusta, Ga., August Ist, 1864. J General Orders 1 No. 44. J I. The attention of Enrolling Officers is directed to Circular No 25, Bureau of Conscription (current series) herewith published, withdrawing from this Department 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 paragraph, 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.” TL Enrolling Officers will observe that they aro placed under, and subject to the orders of the Gen eral Commanding Reserves, so far as this class of 1 onscripts is concerned, with the exceptions above stated, and are enjoined to give ail his orders and commands relative thereto prompt attention and bedience; but they will bear in mind that the per formance of these duties will in no case excuse them for the non-perfiormaneo of their more appropriate duties as Enrolling Officers. HI. Their attention is further called to General Orders No. 13, “Headquarters Georgia Reserve,” and strict compliance with its provisions directed. District Enrolling Officers will immediately make out and forward to these Headquarters a full and accurate report as required by second paragraph of said order. WM. M. BROWNE, Colonel and Commd’t. Confederate States of America, 4 War Department, f Bureau of Conscription, [ Richmond, Va., June 30, ’64. J Circular, No. 25. Commandants of Conscripts 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, or grant details until after the organization of the companies, and the transmission of the rolls to t he.Gencral’s commanding of the Reserves and then only under instructions from said Generals com manding. By :i 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 arc provided for in the 10th section of said act, but these shall be excluded from these exemptions thus authorized to be granted in tlio 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 tho Reserve classes, Enrolling Officers by order of the Secretary of War, are to obey the orders of General commanding Reserves, but no Enrolling Officor under any plea will be held to be excused from the full performance of his reg ular duties prescribed by and under tho orders of this Bureau, and no assertion that duties under or ders of the General commanding Reserves have provonted the duo performance of other duties will be accepted by this Bureau. Tho Secretary of War has directed that all de tails heretofore granted inconsistent with these in -< ructions, will be promptly rovoked and the men placed on tho company rolls. Paragraph XIV of Circular No. 8, Bureau of Con scription, current series, is hereby revoked. By command of Brig, Gen. JOHN S, PRESTON. Sup’t. [Signed,] C. B. Duffield, A. A. G. augl2 5t i'liaoage oi* Schedule. 'office Engineer and Superintendent, ) Charleston and Savannah Railroad, > Charleston, June 7,1864.) / iN THURSDAY, June 9,1864, and until further ' ' notice, the Schedule of the Passenger train will be as follow, viz: Leave Charleston 9.45, a. in. Arrive in Savannah .5.40, p. in. Leave Savannah 5.30, a. in. Arrive in Charleston 1.15, p. m. This Train makes direct connections, going north and south, with the Northeastern Railroad at Char leston, and tho Central Railroad at the Junction. H. S. HAINES, June 14 ts Engineer and Superintendent. Change ot Schedule. AN and after Sunday, June 19th, tho Trains on ‘‘the 'Uiscogee Railroad will run as follows : PASSENGER TRAIN: Leave 0 durnbus .6 45 P. M. Arrive ut Macon.... 3 25 A. M. Leave Macon 3 10 P. M. Arrive at Columbus 4 25 A. hi. 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 30th' inst., the Passenger Train on the Montgomery & West Point R. R. will Leave Columbus 2 40 p. in. Arrive at West Point 8 00 Leave West Point 3 50 Arrive at Columbus 9 10 Freight Train will Leave Columbus...s 50 a. m. Arrive at Columbus...;'. 12 23 J. E. APPLER, July 23 ts __ Agent. STOLEN! THE OWNER of a BLIND HORSE stolon by l a deserter, can hear of him by applying at the Enrolling office. WM. L. DAVIS, uffll ]\v Capt. Si En. Oft. FOR SALE ! One oi tli€ Most Desirable Resi dences in Wynutoii. rpHE Lot contains forty acres of Land—twenty of 1 which are in the woods. The House is commo dious and convenient: containing six basement rooms and seven on tho 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 vinevard of grapes in full bearing. This location is healthy, supplied with excellent water and con venient to the city. Persons desiring to invest will not have as rare chanco probably during the war.— Parties wishing to negotiate for this property will call on E. J. Prackard, who will give them any in formation desired. Possession given immediately, jul 29 ts J. R. BANKS. SSO Reward. 1 W ILL pay the above reward for 808. a black ‘ boy, about 24 years old. He has been out three or four weeks, and is supposed to be lurking about the city. JNO. U. HASS, iy 4 * i TO HIRE ! I?OK the balance of the year fifteen able-bodied F Negro Men and seventeen Negro Women. Apply soon to R. M. GUN UY, Ag’t, jul 28 ts Notice to Debtor* and Cred itor*. i LL persous indebted to the e’tate of A lores deceased, are required to make imme diateSSinenL and those having claims against said Mu7'»r» reSuir& to render then, in terms of the law to the j HENNING, Adin'r. By MARY H. BENNING, Agent. .i_ul2S w6t Shoemakers’ and Saddlers’ TOOLS. THE INDERSIGNED having commenced the *■ manufacture of the above named articles in this city.are prepared to fill orders for the same. Office on Angle street, a few doors abov e v. Hospital. HARRISON,‘.BEDELL & CO. Reference—Maj. F. W. Dillard. Mobile Register, Mississippian and Augusta. Con stitutionalist, please copy one month and send bills to this office. uiar 30 ts _____ __ '' l " • Vol. XL J. W. WARREN St CO. Proprietor j. \%\ WARREN, Editor HI GOODS!! MW GW!!! JLT Mrs. DESSAU’S. FROM TIIE LATE BLOCKADE SALE AT -Augusta, G-a. The goods are all superior to what is offered elsewhere, and will be sold lower than lately. In the assortment can be found: Ladies’New Hats, New' Bonnet Ribbons, New Belts, Bobinet Musquito Netting, Tucking and Dressing Combs, Ladies’ Hoser>, Three y’ds wide Linen Sheeting, Superior Bleached Shirting, Printed Jackonets, Ginghams, English and French Caflcoes, Bombazine, Alpacas, Elegant Leroes. OA JuJL. SIEUEJ. ie 21 ts W. II.TUTT, WHOLESALE DRUGGIST 31b, Broad Street, Augusta, Orta. HAS FOR SALE AT LOW PRICES! 1,000 lbs. CASTILE SOAP. 200 kegs B. C. Soda 500 ounces Quinine 200 “ Morphine 100 lbs lodide Potash 25 lbs Oil Anise 1 case Madras Indigo 100 dozen Brown Windsor Soap 3 cases Coleman’s Mustard 125 dozen Mason’s Blacking 100 gross Lilly White 1 case Cantnarides, 2 cases Gum Camphor 20 bags Pepper 1 case Powdered Ipecac 20 bbls. Eng. Copperas 10 cases Eng. Fig Blue 50 ounces Lunar Caustic 50 lbs Po. Rhubarb, in 2 p bottles 100 lbs Eng. (folomel, 1 ft bottles 150 lbs Eng. Blue Mass 25 bbls Epsom Salts 25 cases Scotch Snuff. agl3 3t BROWN’S FLY SHUTTLE LOOM, (Will Weave 30 Yards per Day.) Card Dacls.s, SPINNING-WHEELS and CORN-SHELLERS! Manufactured by A. D. BROWN & CO. 4®=*orders received by M. P. Ellis & agl3 lm* GILMORE c*3 Cos. 146, Broad 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 COUNTRY PRODUCE ! —ALSO,— A Genuine Article of APPLE VINEGAR for sale. ag!2 lw* FOIL SALE -OR- IffllKl MMTH MIH -AT -114, BroadL Street. wm • <— Coffee, Sugar, Soda, Black Pepper, Syrup, Potash, Cotton Cards, Tin-Ware, Snuff, Salt, Sugar, Tumblers, Candles, GEORGIA REBEL SNLFI< Pickles, Flysßrushes, Eggs, Butter, Salt Fish, Cigars, Toilet-Soap, Soft-Soap, Bar-Soap, Chewio# ami Smekiug Tobacco* aug 2 ts FOB SALE Or Exchange for Country Produce. BEST COTTON CARDS: SPINNING WHEELS' CLOCK REELS. agio gw JEFFERSON & HAMILTON. IRON WIRE. 2,000 lbs. 8 and 10 Iron Wire! For sale by f ~ aglO 2w JEFFERSON & HAMILTON. 1,000 Pounds Choice Brown Sugar, TO EXCHANGE FOR WHEAT, Flour. Cbrn or Meal. VY At 114, BROAD ST. ag9 dst wit Columbus, Ga. THOMAS SAVAGE, Agent, (At Mulford’s old Stand,) UNTO. 101, BIRO-A-ID ST. HASMIK (MM Sheetings, Shirtings. Twills, Yarns, Llnseys. I,a gnu ray Coffee, Tobacco, Rice, Rails of all sizes, &c., &c>, &,e. ju!27tl Notice! Office Chief Ixsp’r Field Transp’n, 2d Dist., Macon, Aug. 8, ’64. All persons are warned against purchasing cap tured or branded animals from soldiers, as all such animals will be seized by my officers and agents wherever found. NORMAN W. SMITH, ag l3 5t Major and Chief Inspector. GEORGIA— Muscogee County. W H g“ SouVSo o e SeTnd a h\^fouV°children/ " 18 ’ &b AH arc hereby notified to show Al i they have) why an order should not be U grant f eda y t the next September Term of the Court of Ordinary for said county, authorizing the sale of S4 Given under my Land, JOHNSON, . .., “ Ordinary, jy 4 2iu Columbus, 6a., Tuesday Morning, August 16,1864. Monday Evening. Now is the time for good citizens to stand by the country, says the Confederacy. Let the acts of those who are refusing the currency be con demned by the voice of the people. Let it be done in any manner so as to strike it home to those un patriotic men who have taken this step. It is the duty of the people to protect the Government in the rear. It is a duty.they owe to the soldiers who are standing in arms at the front. It is a duty they owo to the families of those soldiers who are at home toiling day and night for a scanty subsistence. Speak out your open condemnation of those who are refusing this money and force it upon them to take it. Relieve the country at once of the influence of those who aro operating against it, and let these bills buy bread and meat for the poor for the few short months they have to run. [From the Richmond Enquirer. 11th.] The New r s. FROM PETERSBURG. Quiet prevailed on yesterday, with the or dinary exception of occasional shots. The great explosion of Tuesday, within the ene my’s lines, seems to have remained a mystery. The Express of yesterday has the following : HEAVY EXPLOSION IN THE ENEMY’S LINES. About half-past twelve o'clock yesterday, soldiers in the trenches on our centre and left, were startled by an unexpected and very heavy explosion in the rear of the enemy’s front line of breastworks. The report was so distinct as to be heard above the noise in the city, and for miles in the .country, and conjecture was at once set afoot to furnish a reason.— Everybody here was certain that Gen. Beau regard had sprung a mine upon the Yankees, and from the nature ofthe explosion, all agreed that it must have been a very damaging one. To ascertain 4he truth of the matter as near as possible, we walked out to the front yes terday afternoon, and found, upon inquiry, that the Yankees had neither sprung a mine upon us, nor we upon them. Our lines were entire, and, as far as we could judge, the ene my’s were also. The explosion, as near as could be judged by those who saw'and heard it, occurred some distance in the rear of the Yankee lines, rather to the left of Battery No. 5, and to the right of Battery No. 3, on or near the City Point road. It is represented to have been terrific in its pro portions, as the volume of smoke was immense, and ascended to a great height, the flash very brilliant and the shock great. The cause of the explosion is of course unexplained, and it can only be conjectured whether it was intentional or not. The report continued for several seconds. With the knowledge before us that Grant hits depleted his army to a considerable extent by sending troops up the Potomac, it is believed by many that the explosion heard yesterday proceed ed from tho blowing up of some of his rear for tifications, preparatory to his leave taking. But the probability is that it was the accidental de struction of one of his large magazines, or the trial of some experiment by the Yankees, We shall learn the true cause in a few day's. COURT OF INQUIRY. The Court of Inquiry to investigate the causes of the late disaster to the Yankee arms in front of Petersburg, has been convened and is in session at City Point, Major Gen. Hancock—the man whom Makone has so unmercifully drubbed on several occasions—presides. We are very curious to learn the proceedings of this Court, and to hear upon whom the blame of this affair is to be sad dled. Will it be Burnside—the hero of Roanoke Island and of Knoxville, or his negro troops? Surely Burnside will not be the victim, for he has carried out old Abe’s Emancipation Procla mation to the very letter, in hurling forward whole brigades of bewildered and ignorant negro troops to be slaughtered by our broadsides of grape and canister, where they were emancipated with a hearty good will. BRISK FIRING. Between five and six o’clock yesterday afternoon, soitie activity seemed to prevail on the centre.— Picket firing increased to a much heavier degree than usual, and a very lively shelling was in pro gress for the space of an hour. Towards dark, how ever, everything became quiet, and at this writing not a sound can .be heard. FROM THE VALLEY. We have no further details of the affair at Moore field than were given on yesterday. The War De partment received official information on yesterday that nearly all of McCausland’s men, who had es caped to the mountains by scattering, had returned, and also many who were supposed to have been captured. The command, though smarting under the surprise, were in good spirits, and anxious to obliterate the blemish upon their vigilance and gal lantry. We will soon hear from them. The Northern papers reported a few days ago that McCausland had been routed at New Creek. This was false, as will be seen from the following, taken from the Charlottesville “Chronicle” of yesterday: We saw an officer on yesterday direct from Gen. McCausland’s command. He left it at Romney, in Hampshire, where it had retired after one of the most successful raids of the campaign. Instead of sustaining reverses, as reported by the enemy, the expedition was attended Tby uninterrupted success. In numerous engagements he repulsed and routed the enemy’s forces. At one point on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, he captured a blockhouse with 300 prisoners, who were paroled according to the terms of their surrender. This officer knew noth ing of the affair mentioned by the enemy, with Gen. Kelley, at Cumberland. McCausland’s forces are in the saddle again, en route for a section richly stored with spoils, which to our army and cause will be invaluable. We await anxiously further intel ligence from this bold young leader. How tlie Exchange was Effeo / ted. Asa retaliatory measure, for the confine ment of Yankee officers in Charleston, Gener al Foster, commanding the enemy’s forces, had huts constructed on Morris’ Island and Cumming’s Point, where he intended to im prison our officers, thus subjecting them to the fire of all our batteries. Gen. Sam Jones promptly notified him that in case he put his barbarous threat into exe cution every one of the Federal officers then in Charleston would be transferred to Sumter and there exposed on the ramparts to the fire of Gregg and Wagner, and the other works on Morris’ Island. This had the desired effect. Gen. Foster, unwilling to assume the re sponsibility, under the circumstances, referred the matter to the Washington authorities, who instructed him to endeavor to effect an exchange. A correspondence ensued between Gens. Foster and Jones, the result of which was that our officers confined in the transports at Hilton Head were brought to Morris’ Island and exchanged for the Yankee officers in Charleston. Gen. Jones having proven himself such an excellent officer of exchange, we understand that the Government has sent to Charleston five or six hundred more Federal officers to be exchanged for the same number of Confeder ates. Is it not practical for the Government to ef fect in the same way an exchange of the many thousands o< gallant Confederate soldiers now languishing in Northern prisons for the Yan kee prisoners who are at present eating up our subsistence?— Constitutionalist. The crops are now made. The next most impor tant step is to urge upon the planters the impor tance of full crops, such as cabbages, turnips, beets, carrots and parsnips. If every planter will put in I and properly cultivate one quarter of an acre of cabbages and the same of turnips to the hand, it j will add greatly to the comfort of our armies and diminish the necessity for a full supply of other pro ! visions. With a very small allowance of meat and I bread, with plenty of vegetables, our soldiers will ; go through the winter in contentment and comfort, especially if they are led by skillful generals to vic ! tory and the re-acquisition of our territory. {.Charleston Courier. Fort Gaines. Captain Douglass Yass, paymaster of the army, left Fort Gaines on Saturday ! night at 10 o’clock, in a row boat for Fort Morgan, and arrived in the city by the Eastern Shore last night. He gives the 1 following particulars of the condition of affairs when he left: On Thursday a Yankee monitor proached the fort on the Gulf side and opened fire. The fort had three 10 inch columbiads, and in the first shots in reply 1 to the monitor, two of them were dismount ed and disabled by the breaking of their carriages. On Friday the fleet ran by Fort Morgan. Captain Yass had a fine view of the whole scene, and the subse quent naval fight. The Tecumseh, the finest monitor in the Yankee navy, went down almost instantly, a tremendous col umn of water being thrown up around her—evidently the work of a torpedo. Her commander, Craven, was lost in her, for the Yankee truce boat inquired if he was among our prisoners, and finding he was not, they said he went down with his ship. The same monitor which had shelled the fort from the Gulf side, now approached to‘ within half a mile of the wharf and opened again. There was but one 10-inch gun left to fight her, and the carriage of that gun soon became unsafe. Qn Wednesday night, the Yankee troops, estimated from 3,000 to 5,000, landed on the Island and gradually approached to within 400 yards of the fort. They had been confronted from the front by a line of skirmishers thrown out from the fort. The enemy had planted their batteries of. light Parrott guns on a sand hill near the Gulf shore, another midway of the Island in front of the fort, and a thiid on little Dauphin Island. These, with the monL tor in the water front, were enabled to bring a fire to bear upon every part of the work, and with the aid of sharp-shooters, our men were not able to stand at their guns. The bomb-proofs were only capa* ble of covering 250 men out of the gar rison, the rest were exposed to bombard ment. Up to the time Capt Yass left, the commander, Col. Anderson, had said nothing about capitulation, but he saw signs of demoralization in the garrison. Some of the officers expressed decided opinions in favor of surrender, they thought the place would be taken and there would be a frightful waste of life to ! no purpose. The men saw little or no ! hope of relief since the “Tennessee” was i loSt, and they much exhausted by skir- j mishing all day and working in the fort! at night. Capt. Yass states that up to the time he left Col. Anderson behaved with great resolution and spirit, gallantly exposing himself and urging his line of skirmishers to maintain its ground. It was the night after Capt. Y. left that Gen. Page passed over to Fort Gaines. Capt. V. is of the opinion that Fort Morgan will hold out as long as its provis ions do, and that will be the best part of a year. The Yankee fleet was badly crippled. Nearly every ship is careened over, and the whole are busily repairing. It is be> lieved its losses are not less than /50. [Mobile News. Atlanta, Aug. 12, 1864. Editor of the Intelligencer. — Thinking it may be of some interest to your readers to learn how this city is faring under the Yankee bombardment, I will give you some items. The shelling goes on almost constantly. To-day they are screaming and bursting over the Postoffice corner, but doing no damage. Nobody has been hurt within the last few days, nor many houses struck. Vallentine’s store was considerably shattered a few days ago by a shell passing through the wall and ex ploding inside. An incident occurred on Sunday morning which was indeed some what remarkable. A family of six per sons had taken refuge in a cellar, and were preparing their morning meal, when a sheli penetrated the wall, about two feet j from the ground outside, passed through i the ceiling, struck the opposite wall, from which it rebounded back to the ceiling, 1 and then exploded, scattering its own , lragments and those of the ceiling in all! directions; yet, strange to say, no one 1 present was even touched. Nearly all ! who inhabit houses on the back streets 1 are digging caves in their gardens. One of these, on Peachtree street, I saw, and 1 which was skillfully constructed. An ex* j cavation is dug about eight feet deep and three feet wide, proceeding in a westerly j direction; it then turns at right angles and proceeds four feet, when it again I makes another right angle west, where it is made large enough to accommodate ten j persons. A roof of timber and earth six ' feet thick covers the whole. A shell coming in at the entrance and exploding i cannot injure any cf the inmates as the ■ fragments must all strike the clay bank ! opposite. , C . Castor Oil.— Some planters and farmers we believe, have planted the Castor Bean or Palma Christi (or Jonah’s Gourd,) in quantities sufficient to furnish Castor Gil for i their own use. and are now seeking out the beSt mode of extracting or procuring the oiL A good mill or press with di rections for other oils, would be a benefit to many farmers, and we commend the subject to enter- j prising young readers of mechanical pursuits and inclinations. Cannot our friend “L” give us some 1 assistance or hints towards this object? An encyclopedia before us give some remarks on Castor Oil which we present, as they are not in accordance with the prevalent opinion, and we invite reports of actual experiments. We quote as follows : ; To procure the Castor Oil shell the seeds (of the Paima Christi with light blueish stalk, the red stalk not being suitable) and boil them in water— as the oil rises skim it off—or bruise the seeds and boil them. This oil is witqout half taste or smell, and as clear as olive oil. : The oil skitamel off is much purer and may be: kept much longer than that burned by expression, oeeause toe water de tains the mucilage which abounds in the expressed oil and disposes it to spoil sooner. Other accounts, agreeing with the common $4.00 Per Month. opinion represent heat as injurious to the oil, al though heat is mere or less employed even for what is called the “cold drawn” oil. If heat is needed at all we suppose the best form of applying it would be in boiling water.— Char. Covrier. Latest from tlie United States. Ye have the following summary of news from the Baltimore American, of the 9th.— The American is exultant over the news from Mobile “through rebel sources,” and by the small victory in Hardy county, Va.: FROM THE UPPER POTOMAC. Our intelligence from the Upper Potomac asserts that the rebels have again left this State. Hagerstown was re-occupied by our forces on Saturday. The rebel retreat is said to have been made in great haste, the move ment of our forces on the Southside of the Potomac threatening their rear. General Wright’s command, composed of the 6th and 9th corps, crossed into Virginia on Saturday, and the prospect for a battle is, therefore, regarded as imminent. The main rebel force under General Early, is reported to be retreating on Winchester. Before leav ing Hagerstown, the rebels arrested and car ried off two prominent Union citizens. Gen. Sheridan ha3 been temporarily placed in command of the defences of Washington, the Middle Department, including Maryland and the Department of the Shenandoah. Gen. Kelly reports on the authority of a scout that Gen. Averill overtook the rebels at Moorefield, ou Sunday, attacked them, and captured all their artilleiy and five hundred prisoners. FROM GRANT’S ARMY. A dispatch from the Army of the Potomac states that the rebels exploded a mine under one of our works in front of Petersburg, on Friday, but succeeded in doing very little damage. The rebels managed their mining operations very badly, and the explosion took place forty yards in front of our works. They attempted an assault afterwards, but were repulsed with considerable loss. Both armies are engaged in strengthening their defensive works. A few days since fifty rebel deserters at tempted to come into our lines in a body, but our troops, not understanding their intentions, fired on them, and twenty-nine of the number were killed or wounded. MISCELLANEOUS. A dispatch from Fort Smith, Ark., says that the rebels, under Gens. Cooper, Gains, and Standwatie, were defeated near that place on the 31st lilt. They were in full retreat, pur sued by the Union forces. Lincoln has revoked Gen. Hunter’s order banishing rebel sympathizers from Central Maryland. Gen. Hooker has not been assigned to any command yet. He will visit New York. Admiral Daklgren has published a letter attempting to prove that his son Uric did hot write the orders found on bis person. The so-called Gov. Hahn, of Louisiana, has arrived in Washington. The latest quotation of gold in New York, is 257. LATER FROM EUROTE. The steamer Hibernia has arrived with European advices to the 29th nit. It was rumored that a nine months' truce had been agreed upon at Vienna. Consols closed at 88 ji to 90 for money. The Confederate loan was active, at im proving rates. The Late Battle* near Atlanta —Official Dispatch of Thomas- Major General Thomas, second in command •to Sherman, has issued the following stunner in regard to the late battles near Atlanta. Gen. Hood’s telegram, as published, precludes the possibility of Thomas’ account being true. Besides, Thomas, who was known in the old army as an ardent Southern man, having Judas Iscariotized to the Yankees, is naturally to be supposed a liar : Army Headquarters, July 26, 18G4. The Maj. Gen’l commanding the army con gratulates the troops upon the brilliant suc cess attending the Union arms in the late bat tles. In the battle of the 20th inst., in which the 20th corps, one division of the 4th corps and part x»f the 14th corps were engaged, the total Union loss in killed, wounded and miss ing wa3 one thousand seven hundred and thirty-three. In front of the 20th corps there were put out of the fight six thousand rebels, five hundred and sixty-three of the enemy were buried by our own troops, and the rebels were permitted to bury two hundred and fifty. The 2d division of the 4th corps repulsed seven different assaults of the enemy, with slight loss to themselves, and which mu3t have swelled the number of dead buried by the rebels to beyond three hundred. We also captured seven stands of colors. No official report has been received of the part taken in the battle by the 14th corps. In the battle of the 22d instant the total Union loss in killed, wounded and misaing, was three thousand five hundred, and ten pieces of artillery. The rebel loss in prisoners captured was three thousand two hundred. The known dead of the enemy in front of the 15th and 16th corps and one division of the 17th corps, was two thousand one hundred and forty-two. The other divisions of the 17th corps repulsed six assaults of ihe enemy before they fell back, and which will swell the rebel loss in killed to at least three thousand. The latest report states we buried over three thousand two hundred rebels killed in this fight. There were captured from the enemy, in the battle, eighteen stands of colors and five thousand stands of arms, By order of Maj. Gen. THOMAS. W. D. Whipple. A. A. G. The fall effect of this enormous lie i3 lost in unnecessary verbiage. That it3 beauties may be fully appreciated we prune away the foliage of words and present the figures only : In the battles of the 20th : Buried in front of the 20th corps 563 “Rebels permitted to bury” 250 Second division of 4th corps, beyond 300 In the battles of the 22d inst.: “The known dead in front of 15th and 16th corps” 2,142 “Other divisions ' 3,200 Total buried 6,455 Averaging one killed to six wounded, Would give for wounded 38,730 Prisoners 3,200 Total loss on the 20th aDd 22d 41,930 This loss is one corps of Gen. Hood's array. What must be the size of the army in which one corps, after such losses, still retains the field ?— Richmond Enquirer, 9th. Important from Below—the City to be Attacked. —Official information has been re ceived that Fort Morgan has been invested by the enemy’s fleet. and by a land force, and that Ihe fight was to have commenced yes ter day. On the land side the enemy was formed in three lines, and Gen. Page had already engaged them with his skirmishers. The cal culation ot the enemy, is that he will reduce the Fort in four days, and then advance im mediately to the at xck of the city. Next Tueeday is the day fixed for the attack. In another column, and before receiving this ia formation, we have given to our city readers the reasons why they should be moving the women and children from beyond the reach of the enemy's fire. The facts above stated are more potent than any arguments that could be addressed to them. It i 3 believed that the enemy s shot and shell will reach nearly every part of the city, and if it suffer a bombard ment in its preaent crowded condition, the loss of noa.-cwmbatants’ life will be fearful, and greatly aggravate the trials of the defenders of the city. There need be no hope that the city will be surrendered to avoid a bombard ment. Those who remain in that hope will be terribly disappointed. We earnestly ad vise all non-combatants who can get away, to do so without delay. [Advertiser Register. TELEGRAPHIC. REPORTS OF THE PRESS ASSOCIATION. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1563, by J. S. Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office of the District Court of the Confederate States for the Northern District of Georgia. Richmond, July 14.—The New York Herald of the 11th contains five columns of the great mass meeting in favor of McClellan for President; 100,000 people were present. The Queen of England, in prorogueing the Par liament, declares it to be the purpose of her Gov ernment to adhere to the neutrality policy. The Herald says Grant when he visited Washing ton left the Army of the Potomac under the com mand of Butler, and intimates that Grant wants Meade removed, and says if Staunton is removed Butler will be Secretary of War. Petersburg," July 14.—Tho enemy crossed a Di vision of cavalry and porhaps some infantry, to the North side of the James river last night; supposed to be only a demonstration, while the real blow—if any is intended—will bo struck somewhere else.— The cannonading heard hero tho last two days pro ceeds from an engagement between our river bat teries and the enemy’s gunboats. The enemy i attempting to cut a canal across Dutch Gap, ia Turkey Bend, 20 miles below Richmond, at a place where the river is seven miles wide and three fourths of a mile across; our river batteries opened upon the enemy’s working parties and their gun - boats responded. The object of the enemy in cut ting the canal is to flank some of our batteries near Chaffin’s Bluff, on the North side of the James river. In front of Petersburg some little cannonading and picket firing. Matters comparatively quiet. [Special to the Mobile Advertiser & Register ] Near Abbeville, Aug. 12.—The enemy are in large force in our front at Abbeville. Gen. Chalmers has had severe fighting against greatly superior numbers for three or four days. The enemy compelled him to fall back on the 9th by heavy movements on both his flanks, but he has returned. Onr men have fought with stubborn resistance. Gen. Chalmers made a desperate stand with his escort alone, and checked the entire ad vancing line of the enemy. Our loss has been slight. The enemy occupied Oxford twenty-four hours. They did little damage, and retreated in a great panic on the 10th, leaving their sick and wounded, but afterwards sent a heavy detachment back for them. Gen. Forrest has taken the field again, and is in the right place. YIDETTE. [Special to the Mobile Register.] Senatobia, Aug. 12.—The forces now at Memphis, and operating against For* rest are nearly 30,000, half of them vete rans. Regiments of hundred day men are arriving almost daily at Memphis. These new troops are composed almost exclusively of boys, foreigners and ne groes. Washburn has gone to the scene of ac tion, near the Tallahatchie. Private accounts from Arkansas are very encouraging. Eleven new regiments, averaging 800 men, have been raised in the eastern and north-eastern portions of the State. St. Louis papers of the 9th and the Memphis Bulletin of the 11th, received here, contain nothing later than via Pe tersburg, except that a lady from Ken tucky says military arrests and murder are the order of the day there. Confederates are shot down as guerril-’ las wherever found. The southern portion oi the State is swarming with recruits. Public sentiment has undergone a won*, derful change; many advocating Union a few months since being ultra Southern. Over one hundred ladies have been ar« rested to be sent South. Mi » Sigee Matters.— Three Hundred and Ninety*Ninth Day , —The number of shots fired by Battery Gregg at Fort Sumter since our last report has been 201. Bat tery Gregg also threw twenty shells at the city. There was also an interchange of shots between the batteries of Sullivan’s and Morris’ Islands—the former firing 38 and the latter 40 shots. Battery Gregg also fired three shots at Fort Rip ley. During the day three vessels, apparent ly deeply laden, passed the bar, going southward. Four Hundredth Day. —The summa ry of the firing from the harbor batteries yesterday is as follows : Battery Gregg fired at Fort Sumter 66 shots; Battery Gregg at Battery Simkins 14 shots ; Bat teries Simkins and Cheves at Battery Gregg 97 shots; Battery Wagner at Bat tery Simkins 56 shots. There has been no further shelling of the city since our last report. — Mercury , 13(/t. t mm From East Florida.—The latest ac counts from East Florida are to the effect that the Yankees have been largely rein forced at Baldwin, and are fortifying ex tensively. Their numbers are variously estimated at from three or four thousand to six or seven thousand—a considerable number of them being negro troops. Wbat their designs are, no intelligent opinion can yet be formed. All was qui« et in that section up to Wednesday.— Quiacy Dispatch , 1 3th. For Chattahoochee. The steamer Jackson, will leave for the above an I intermediate landings to-morrow morning at 9 o’clock. Attention, Dawson Artillery! Every member of the Company is summoned to appear at Temperance Hall, this evening at 3 o’clk. as business of great importance will be transacted. R. B. BAKER, Capt. R. B. McKay, O. S. * REMOVAL! " r HAVE removed my Office to a room over Gun- L by’s Store, where I will be pleased to wan on Mcd TTord? m°d° ! - *.3.000 REWARD! T'H £ above reward will be pai I for the arrest and production before the Coroner’s Ccurt, Talla poosa county, Ala., of one "WM. A. PAULK, wh 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 9 inches in heighth, stout built, fair complexion, dark hair and blue eyes, Believed to be a deserter from the 2d Ala. cavalry. JULIA A. GIBSON. Near Tallassee, T-tlapoosa eo., Am. a? 8 ltn