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Wednesday Morning, August 17,1864,
Closing Srenes of the War—A Fire in the
Rear of South Carolina'.
We believe, says the Macon Telegraph, the
Confederacy i§ now witnessing the closing
scenes of this protracted and disastrous war;
but if we would make it sure, the progress of
Sherman in Georgia must be arrested—Altan
ta must not fall 2 Remember that all which
now redeems this grand and final campaign of
Lincoln which was to end in the entire sub
jugation of the South, from unmitigated dis
aster, is the advance of Sherman into Georgia.
Here, where we feared nothing—here, where
we met the enemy oh more equaf terms than
in almost any other campaign of the war— j
here is the only spot in the vast theatre of j
hostilities which throws a single ray of re- 1
deeming light on the fortunes of Lincoln’s J
campaigu of subjugation. At every other j
point, defeat, disaster and despair attend the
Federal arms, and could we have met with a ;
reasonable degree of success in Georgia, such
a spectacle of complete and universal frusta- ;
tion would have been presented as never yet j
attended so vast and extensive military oper- I
ations.
What motive, then, is addressed to all the
States of the Confederacy, as well as to the |
Government, to strain every nerve to add the
Georgia campaign to the catalogue of Federal
disasters? Let that be done, and we say
nothing remains to hang a hope of Southern ,
subjugation upon.
But suppose it is not done—suppose Sher
man occupies Atlanta —fortifies and eoutinues
his triumphant career through the heart of
the State, are not South Carolina and Alabama
in equal danger? Have we an interest in this
affair more vital than their own. Georgia has
turned out ever} arms-bearing man to the
rescue, but wfliy should not South Carolina
and Alabama help us ?
Or, if we admit that Alabama has enough
on her hands in the movement against Mobile,
why should not South Carolina alone come to
car aid? We are fighting her battles as well
as our own. Let the enemy holcUMiddle Geor
gia and it would be absolutely more disastrsus
to South Carolina than if he had secured a
lodgment simply upon her own soil. Let the
Confederacy—Government and people—take
a jußt view of the magnitude of this issue and
nerve themselves to the occasion. With Sher
man on the back-track, the repulse weuld be
universal and final. The Lincoln dinasty
would be disgraced and defeated, and a stern
popular demand for peace would wind up the
war honorably and securely for the South.
We make the following extract from a private
letter, leaving out the list of casualties, which
have been published heretofore.
Wright’s Brigade Hospjlal, \
Petersburg, Va., July 31st 1864. j
Dear Brother : —We had a severe fight yes
terday just after the explosion of the mine. Our
coiupauy had seven killed and three wounded. I
myself, among the latter. The reason the propo
tion of killed was so great, was that our boys got
in the ditches with the Yankees and had it hand
to hand. Capt. J. K. Redd was killed with the
colors in his hand leading the charge. Lt. Park
was struck by a piece of shell in the face, break
ing his under jaw and passing out on the opposite
side of his face making a very ugly wound. I
think he will recover with kind treatment. Lt.
Beasly was not hurt.
Capt. Burch was mortally wounded. Colonel
Evans was killed. Lt. Cap Booher was also
killed.
We only had four Captains in the fight, and all
were killed in the field except Capt. Burch. Two
lieutenants were killed and three wounded, making
feu officers killed and woundod out of sixteen in
the fight. The 64th fought with her usual gal
lantry. always carrying the point it attacks. We
killed, wounded and captured about five times our
number. Maj. N. Ely has been very kind to mo
and sends you his regards. My wound is very
sore but I shall not endeavor to get home,
hoping that I may be fit for service again in ten
or fifteen days.
K. A. RUSSELL,
Cos. F, 64th Ga.
“Tut; Thunderer” on American Soldiers.—
The London Times says: It is vne of the most
astonishing incidents in the remarkable struggle.,
# that battles which surprise all Europe by their
fierceness .-kould bo fought by armies and gener
als extemporized for the occasion. It is a lesson
which should be carefully noted. There is hard
ly a regular battalion in the whole of the enor
mous hosts which are contending with such unpar
alled ferocity and resolution. The veteraus who
are occasionally spoken of cannot by possibility
be soldiers of more than three years’ standing.—
Our own volunteers are older troops than those
under Grant or Lee. The whole of the dreadful
fighting has been done by volunteers without as
much traiuiug as our own riflemen. Yet these
raw companies, without professional spirit or regi
mental teaditions, _with captains snatched, from
the counter or the store, and with Generals who
were attorneys a few months ago, are fighting
with as much obstinacy and heroism as Napoleon's
Old Guard of Germany's bravest warriors. There
may be little science in the business, but of all
that makes soldiers there is as much as in any
war of which wc read.
An wins in Indiana.*— A friend in An dor* j
son, savs tin* Macon Telegraph, sends us a let- ’
ler troui one or Stoneman’s raiders, now luxu- ;
dating in that populous retreat. We clip the j
following extracts, (spelling and punctuation j
j-Oi'itfQkdj which serve to illustrate the state
of affairs and feeling in lioosierdom. It is
from a wife to her husband, dated on the 12th j
ult., (as nearly as we can decipher the writing)
at Patricksbtirg. Owen county, Indiana :
“Mother and I have beeu helping Pap har
vest for the hi3t week, and I tell you it is hard
work. But hands are so scarce that the wo
men have to help in their places. Oh, how I
wish this cruel war was over. I wish some- 1
times I was a man, for then I could be a sol
dier, too. But I have to stay here, and it so
lonely. * * It seems like every per
son is dead. * * We have had uo
rain here for so long that the cisterns and
wells are dry. and the corn wont come to much
this year on account of it.
Tbir reads like n letter from a country
heavily drained by the war, and in no condi
tion to respond very heartily to half a million
draft in September.
lhe death of the Rev. Daniel Waldo, at Sy
tacuse, New , i ork, at the advanced age of one
hundred and two years reduces the number of
Revolutionary pensioners to eleven.
Roth o i our Carriers art, sick to-day and our
city subscribers will please call ur send to the
.office for taeir papers.
[From the Richmond! Enquirer, Aug 12 ]
The Horizon
There are pauses in the struggle of war,
when, exhausted by effort, or watchful of
advantage, each combatant economises his
strength, and seeks to inflict some blow
deoisive of the conflict. There is, appa**
rently, such a pause at Atlanta. Sher
man has, with unprecedented audacity,
carried his column seven hundred miles
from his base, and, with incredible good
fortune, has never had his communicas
tions seriously interrupted. Passing des
files and crossing rivers in the presence of
a formidable army, he is now face to face
with the defences of one of our most ims
portant store cities. Adopting the strate
gy of Grant, he sends out mounted infant
try to cut our supply lines, and compel
General Hood to evacuate Atlanta without
the necessity of exposing the Yankee
troops to the repetition of the repulses
heretofore inflicted upon them. In the
meantime, Sherman, like Grant, is secure**
ly fortified in entrenchments; he boasts
that he has environed Atlanta completely,
and only awaits the result of his outside
operations to close the campaign with a
brilliant victory. This is the Yankee
view of the subject. On the other side,
we have repulsed, dispersed, and captured I
the most formidable force of the raiders,
and General Hood’s army seems well sups
plied, strong and confident of its ability
to hold his position. We confess to have
felt the common anxiety when the change !
of commanders indicated a failure in the
retrogade strategy which had brought
Sherman so far into the interior. Re
garding Atlanta as less defencible than j
Chattanooga, Kennesaw, or the Chatta
hoochee, we saw no alternative but a fur
ther retreat or the capture of our forces
by the superior numbers of the enemy.
The successful resistance of Hood, the
gallant response of the Governor and mi
litia of Georgia to the call of honor and
patriotism, and, above all, the sudden
pause in the progress of Sherman, until
Stoneman should carry out his part oi
i the programme, have encouraged us to
i hope that the Yankee Hannibal will be
l foiled, and that Atlanta, like Rome, will
| be destined to behold from her battle
t ments the formidable foe foiled and res
treating.
Grant’s latest movements indicate a pur
pose to intrench himself in safety, and
await the result of the campaign transfer*
red to the Potomac. Os course he will
not admit the failure of his design upon
Richmond by withdrawing his forces.
He would rather the remnant should per
! ish of malaria and musquitoes than opens
ly acknowledge what is palpable to all the
world.
The campaign of the Valley seems a
pronounced purpose to inflict upon the
enemy some of those woes which have
hitherto been the exclusive lot of the
Southern States. Chambeisburg has been
lit up to give the North a view of Alex*
andria, destroyed by the deliberate order
'of Banks. Thousands of cattle and hors
es have been driven to Virginia from Ma-
I ryland and Pennsylvania, to replace it in
1 a small degree, the robberies which the
Yankees have perpetrated. Incidental to
| the policy, will be the redemption of the
Valley from the spoiler, the collection
and security of the teeming harvests, and
the relief of those sterling people who
have borne so much of outrage and pri
vation. It is an inexpressible pleasure
for the old Commonwealth to press ouce
more to her bosom those children whom
she loves so well, and who have endured
so much for their attachment to her.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad—the
teterrima causa of the only infidelity with
in the limits of Virginia—is disabled, not
I as permanently, we fear, as it should be.
; If our corps of sappers and miners, in
stead of exploding their mines “forty
; yards- without the enemy’s works, could
| put a ton or two of gunpowder. into the
i Ivingwood and Boardtree tunnel—if they
could blow in the shafts, apply fowgasses
; to the arched masonry and bring down
the whole interior of these important
j works, it must he many months before the
i road could be repaired and reopened. If
it could be permanently closed it would
be some small atonement for the folly ot
ever having permitted its construction,
j The plan of the Valley campaign seems
j well maintained. It has been committed
to a prudent and resolute officer, and we
have no fear of any serious disaster, but
a confidence of substantial success. It
is proper to advert in this connection to
the surprise said to have been effected by
I Averil upon a portion of McCausland’s
cavalry. With high admiration of the
| latter officer, we are comp€lled to say that
i the cavalry under his command have not
, acquired that confidence which is enjoyed
i by the veterans of Fitzhugh Lee and
Hampton. The cavalry under Imboden
i by no means realizes the expectations of
the country during the raid of Hunter,
and those commanded by the gallant and
; lamented Jones seem equally unfortunate.
| Gen. Hoed is said to have adopted the
excellent plan of dismounting all strag
glers and skulkers, and assigning their
horses and equipments to good infantry
: soldiers.
In viewing the whole military horizon
j within the sweep of our telescope, we
have every reason to hope a favorable ter
mination to the campaign, and a demon
stration to the enemy that he can only
expect to conquer the South after he shall
have slain her last defender, and involved
himself in a common ruin.
From Beloav. —We have reliable information
that a Yankee infantry force has landed at Navy ;
Cove, about three miles and a half from Fort Mor
gan. Their number is not known, but it is sup
posed also that they were getting mortars in po- !
sition.
Yesterday afternoon two vessels were seen near
ing the Eastern Shore in the neighborhood of th«a
place where they landed the day before. —Mobile
Tribunt.
mm •- tm
More Mismanagement—Defalcation in Con
sequence- THF.REOF. —Upon enquiry, we learn
; there is no positively ascertained defalcation in
i the Treasury, though its books and affairs are in
such a condition that large amounts of money
' may have beeu abstracted without the deficit being
i known. This want of order in the Treasury ac
counts is not difficult to explain : the wonder
would be if it did not exist. For the first twelve
months of the war, the Treasury was filled with
clerks who knew nothing about their business,
which was anew one to all our citizens ; from time
! to time since tho first year of the war, clerks who
had acquired experience and become useful aud
i efficient have been conscripted and put iu the army,
leaving their places to be filled by any one who
could be picked up. Clerks were aud are frequent
ly eonscribed whose books have to be writteu up
after their depature from rough memoranda.
We are pleased to learn that vigorous efforts
i are uow being made with every prospect of success
| to get the affairs of the Treasury in order.
[Richmond Whig.
[From the Richmond Enquirer.]
Our Maritime Disasters.
When John Randolph taunted the war part/
of 1812 by saying: “To meet six hundred
ships in commission, you enter the lists with
a three shilling pamphlet,” he marked the dis
parity of naval power between the Yankee
and the Confederate Governments. Without
ships, sailors, navy yard or work shops, we
contend with a people rich in nautical re
sources, and whose only field of fame is on
the water.
The extraordinary impolicy by which South
ern statesmen, foreseeing the assault to be
made upon them, not only failed to prepare
the means ofindependent defence,but actually
gave all their commerce, manufactures and
the products of their industry to strengthen
their enemy, will constitute in the estimates
of posterity a paradox without explanation.
At the commencement of the war the ton
nage of the United States'was about equal to
that of Great Britain. True, a large portion
was employed in the Lake trade, but still it
was the preferred carrier of the world. Why
was this ? The Yankee sailor had been reared
amid storms and icebergs by public bounty.
He was active, energetic and economical.—
His vessels were built for speed, andjhis voya
ges conducted with more dispatch than those
of any other people. But the Yankee sailor
had an advantage far above his personal skill
or the sailing qualities of his ships. He had
the freights upon the greater part of the cot
ton, tobacco and other products of the South
ern States, the coasting trade of a continent,
with the best and cheapest supply of ship tim
ber and marine stores to be found in the
world. He was not only nurtured by the
bounty on fish, but be was protected by a
tonnage duty, which he only renounced when
able to compete with other mariners without
it. The forty millions of dollars freight an
nually paid the Yankee sailor enabled him
always to go from home with a cargo, and
gave him to that extent an advantage over his
foreign rival.
Why was it, however, that the Southern
statesman permitted this monopoly ? Why did
not the South avail itself of the advantages
which have built up that power now blocka
ding its ports, conveying troops and stores to
the South, and carrying back plunder and
slaves? Will it be said that the climate of the
South is unfavorable to commercial pursuits ?
Tyre, Carthage, Venice, Cadiz, Lisbon, have,
in turn, governed the trade of the world.—
Could it have been the want of energy in
Southern men ? The same men had carried
the institution of slavery from the Chesapeake
to Corpus Christi. They had conquered the
savage, cultivated the wilderness, and created
a staple crop which brought the enormous
product of more than. two hundred millions
of dollars. Why, then, had the South no
commerce? The reason is obvious. Her states
men opposed it. They were of opinion that
it was better to hire . ships than to build or
navigate them. They forbore to construct the
ways for collecting and distributing cargoes.
They turned over the whole shipping interest
to their astute and unscrupulous enemies. It
therefore happened that we commenced this
war with scarcely a pilot boat; that our prin
cipal navy yards were seized by our enemies,
and that we have scarcely a ship to a port
available for commerce or defence. We will
be reminded of the gallant vessels which have
held in terror the whole marine of our ene
mies, and of the brave' Merrimac, which rev
olutionized the marine warfare of the world,
and sent hecatombs to destruction before her.
These facts prove the capacity of the South
to construct vessels or command them, but
how much of these gallant achievements have
been domestic? Very little more than the
genius and the gallantry to execute them.—
The machinery, the metals, and the entire
vessel and armament of the Alabama and
Florida have been of foreign production, or
have been built to order. More than this :
We apprehend it will be found that almost
the entire crow of our war vessels are foreign.
So that it was well said by the Yankees, the
fight between the Alabama and the Kearsage
was a fight between English and Yankee
vessels ; since the Alabama was English built,
armed and equpped, and chiefly, we suppose,
manned by English sailors. There was noth
ing about her Confederate but her name, her j
chivalry and her officers. And the blockade !
trade. What portion of this is Confederate ?
The ships are English built, got up on a block
ade model, commanded by adventurers,
manned by men of every nation, and owned
by aliens. The whole machinery is foreign,
and will, after the war, disappear as completely
from the ports of the South as the military
organizations of the enemy will vanish from
her soil.
' It is therefore, that our maritime disasters
! bring us neither despondency or shame. It
is the alien arm of our service. We employ
foreign ships and seamen precisely as the
Yankees hire Dutch and Irish soldiers. We
i have met disaster for precisely the same rea
i son that the Yankees have been disappointed
!in their invasion. Blockade Captains have
| stranded their ships and taken to their long
! boats for the precise reason that the hireling
I shepherd abandoned his flock—because the
| sheep did not belong to him.
; Why does not the government adopt anew
| policy ? Why not assign Confederate naval
officers to the command of all blockade ves
sels ? Why not make this service a school for
naval engineers? Why not adopt the maritime
inscription of France, and draft seamen from
the interior States? What we shall need is a
steam marine. This requires very few skilled
seamen. Twenty per cent—four out oftwen
| ty skilled seamen will answer to navigate a
| steamer. The rest may be active, resolute
j landsmen. If we put Southern officers into
i our blockade vessels they will save the flag
i when mer<*mary navigators would strike it,
! and when we come out of the war we shall
! have men and ships ready to go into commerce,
| and thus secure ourselves in the future from
! the blockade and ravage of our coast, which
has inflicted so much injury upon us.
Fifins in Atlanta—Shelling of
the City.
A friend in Atlanta writes us, on the 14th,
(Sunday) as follows:
“We have had quite a still time from the
shells of the enemy until about 8 o'clock to
night. when the shells commenced falling in
nearly every part of the city, striking many
houses, and doing considerable damage.
About 12 o’clock two shells struck Dr. Biggers’
house on Marietta street, setting it on fire,
destroying it; also Dr. J. F. Alexander’s brick
house adjoining, the house on the east side of
Dr. B’s, and several other small houses adja
cent to those buildings. Mr. Kile’s large brick
building, at the corner of the angle of the
square, was saved only by the energy of Fire
Company No. 3, which was on the spot soon
after the fire broke out. and worked with but
little help and more energy than I have ever
seen firemen work before—several citizens as
sisting them. The other Fire Companies
could not get help enough to keep their en
; gines at work. No. 1 went to the cistern but
i could not get help to work on the brakes, so
they assisted No. 3, and succeeded in saving
all the buildings fronting on Peachtree street.
The wooden house that Mr. Buice did business
i in caught fire two or three times, but it was
put out and saved. While the fire was pro
gressing, the shelts of the enemy fell every half
minute in and about us all the time the houses
were burning. Solid shot were also fired,
falling near the brakes, but the firemen con
tinued to work as though utterly regardless of
them. 1 do not think a man left the place
until the fire was extinguished. I learn that
provisions (much needed here) in some of the
houses, were destroyed, but I think to no con
siderable amount. There was, in fact, and is,
but very little in the city, and since the 22d
j July last, there has been scarcely any provis
ions for sale here. The shelling continued
after the fire, without any intermission until
3 o'clock, this (Sunday) Qiorning.
“What l mean by saying, in the first part of
this letter, that we have had quite a still time
until eight o'clock to-night, is that no shells
fell in the city on the 13th instant, of any con
sequence, but the sharpshooting on the lines
j has been continual.
•‘There is quite a calm this morning (Sun
| day) in the city— not a shell nor a shot to be
i heard, but a continual firing of small arms at
| the front”
, Atlanta, it seems, is to be fired and battered
to the ground, if it cannot be captured by
Sherman. To the Fire Battalion which so
nobly did their duty on Saturday night, great
credit is due. We know most of them person
ally, and a braver set of menkever lived. To
them it seems is entrusted now all the guard
duty of the city, as well as to protect it from
fire. Verily they have the post of danger as
well'as of honor. May the fortunes of war
soon relieve them of the danger, and may they
live long to enjoy the honor they have already
won! — lntelligencer, 1 6 th.
Army Correspondence of the
Savannah Republican.
Richmond, August 8, 1864.
You have already received by telegraph an
account of the experimental mine sprung by
General Beauregard, between six and seven
o’clock Friday evening last, the sth in£t. It
was between the lines in front of Grade’s
brigade of Bushrod Johnson’s division, near
the mine exploded by the enemy on the
80th ult., and not far from the centre of our
lines. It was discovered some days ago that
Grant was constructing other mines—among
them one in front of Grade’s brigade ; where
upon measures were taken by Beauregard to
check this movement; in other words, to coun
termine his adversary. A gallery was soon
run, and a mine arranged below the enemy’s
gallery. The chamber was prepared, the
powder deposited, and the mine sprung at the
time mentioned. The solid earth was heaved
forty feet in the air, carrying up with it the
Federal miners, destroying their gallery, and
creating great alarm. The Yankees imme
diately opened their batteries and manned
their intrenchments, and for a time a furious
cannonading was kept up on both sides. No
oharge was ordered by Beauregard. He had
accomplished all he desired. The experiment
had been entirely successful.
It is not to be supposed that the Confeder
ates will stop with this experiment. If Grant
mines, they will countermine. Fortunately, it
is a game at which two of us can play. Thus
far, the business has proved a losing one to
the Federal commander. In the affair on the
morning of the 30th of July, the enemy, after
seizing a portion of our lines and advancing
beyond, were pushed back against our in
trenchments, and along the sides of the angle
that form the salient to the brink of the crater
torn in the earth by the explosion, and into
which they finally rushed like the swine that
ran down a steep place into the sea. They
leaped into the crater to escape the terrible
converging fire of our infuriated infantrymen,
and once there, they durst not show their
heads above ground, nor attempt to escape to
their friends. Meanwhile, shell, shrapnel,
grape and cannister literally rained in the
bloody, horrid chasm, and the smoke from
bursting shells ascended as if from the bot
tomless pit. They had fallen into the pit
they had dug for others.
There is a confusion of terms in the accounts
that have been published of these mining op
erations. The word sajp a technical term well
understood by military engineers, has been
improperly applied gallery or tunnel
by which Grant gained a point below our
works. A sap is a trench on the surface of
the ground, or an approach made to a fortified
place by digging up to it, There are three
kind of saps : the single sap, whete the earth
taken from the trench is thrown up on the
side next-to the fort you are approaching, thus
reaching a single parapet; the objectof which
is to protect the sappers and miners from the
fire of the fort, the double sap, which has a
parapet on each side, and the flying sap which
is made with gabions, &c. A gabion is a
hollow clinder of wicker work, resembling a
basket, but having no bottom, which is filled
with earth and serves to shelter the workmen i
from the enemy’s fire. Bags of sand and ;
bales of cotton may be used for the same pur- !
pose, A gallery, on the contrary, is a passage j
under ground, or in simple language a tunnel, ;
and is used to reach a work designed to be i
blown up. The chamber is the place #here I
the powder is confined, and is generally of a j
cubical form.
At Petersburg both parties resorted to the
gallery, instead of the sap, each one com
mencing behind his own breastworks, passing
under them and across the space intervening j
between the two armies. Grant exteneed his
gallery until he got under the salient in our
lines, there he constructed a, chamber, con- j
fined his powder (said to be six ions,) closed
the chamber, then retired and sprung his
mine. Beauregard’s gallery was carried only
deep enough and far enough to get under the
new gallery his antagonist was digging. The
dirt was carried out by wheelbarrows along
the passage to its mouth, where it was depos
ited until the chamber wa3 prepared and the
powder placed in it, when it was carried baek
and used in closing the chamber. If the
chamber is not closed effectually the mine,
instead of exploding vertically, will force open
the entrance to the chamber and discharge
itself along the gallery and out at its mouth.
The sap is employed chiefly against perma
nent fortifications, which cannot be removed,
and in the operations against which, there
fore, the same seeresy is not necessary. The
gallery is used principally where concealment
is desirable, as at Petersburg, where a change
of a few feet in the position of troops or the
construction of an inner line would have de
feated the whole object sought to be accom
plished by the mine. p. \y. a..
Tlie Explosion in Manchester.
The following is from the official report of
Lieut. Col. W. Leßoy Broun, commanding C.
S. Arsenal, founded on a personal inspection
immediately after the accident:
Mr. Bradley is a contractor for supplying
rifle and other projectiles. Being out of suit
able iron, he was supplied with projectiles
picked up on the battle field and stored at the
arsenal, “with special injunctions to use all
cautions against accidentally getting in the lot
a loaded shell.
“Mr. Bradley superintended the loading of
the wagons, (Superintendent Smith also being
present at first,) and orders were given to all
concerned to put in no loaded shells.
“Among the projectiles sent in from the
battle field, were a number of loaded percus
sion shells, which were fired by tbe enemy
and failed to explode; some of "these, proba
bly, being mistaken for solid shot, were loaded
in the wagon. From all I could learn the first
shell exploded in the wagon, which was being
unloaded, no doubt by accidentally dropping
on its point. The concussion caused others
to explode in rapid succession, probably not
less than ten.
“I found among the debris, only one unex
ploded percussion shell—a small “Blakely”—
which was readily mistaken for a solid shot.
“The conclusion is that this unfortunate
accident resulted from the loaded percussion
shells which were sent from the battle field,
being mistaken for solid shot, or unloaded
shells.”
Every precaution suggested by past experi
ence is used at the arsenal to prevent acci
dents.—Richmond Enquirer, 11 th.
A Sermon Remembered Eighty
Five Tears.
Luke Short, when about 15 years of age, heard a
sermon from the celebrated Flavel, and soon after
went to America, where he spent the remainder of
his life. He received no immediate impression from
Flavel’s sermon, and lived in carelessness and sin
till he was a century in age. He was now a “sin
ner a hundred years old;” and to all appearances
ready to ‘‘die accursed.” But, sitting one day in a
field, he fell into a busy reflection on his past life:
and recurring to the events of hi3 youth, he thought
of having heard Mr. Flavel preach, and vividly re
collected a large portion of his sermon, and the ex
traordinary earnestness with which it was deliver
ed. Starting a3 if stung by an adder, he instantly
labored under the accusmgs of conscience, and ran
from thought to thoughttillhe arrived at conviction
of sin, and next at an apprehension of the divine
method of saving the Iguilty. He soon after joined
a Congregational church in his vicinity, and to the
day of his death, which happened in the one hun
dred and sixteenth year of his age, gave satisfactory
evidence of being a truly converted and believing
follower of the Savior. Mr. Flavel bad long before
passed to his heavenly rest, and could not, while on
earth, have - apposed that his living voice would 10
long continue to yield its echoes as an instrument
of doing good to a wandering s nner. Ltt minister?
and private Christians, who labor for the spiritual
well-being of their fellow-men cast their bread up
on the waters, in full faith that though they lose
sight of it themselves, it shall bo found after many
days. London ffpfwpfhcof Mitetllany.
TELEGRAPHIC.
REPORTS 09 THE PRESS ASSOCIATION.
awarding to act of Congress in the year
§r Thrasher, in the Clerk's office of
the District Court of the Confederate States for
the Northern District of Georgia.
Mobile, Aug. 15.
• This evening two monitors and five gunboa’s
Crosse i Dog River Bar, coming within two miles
of cur obsauctions and opened fire for three
hours on our batteries and gunboats, doing but
little damage. One of cur gunboats replied very
handsomely. Batteries all silent at sunset. The
enemy hauled off.
A special to the Register from Oxford, 14th
says Chalmers dashed into Abbeville and whip
ped the enemy, capturiog 25 pr soners—then
falling back four miles. The e'cmv attacked"
him and were repulsed. Our loss 25 killed and
wounded. Tbe enemy lest 50 killed, 250 woun
ed and forty prisoners.
Firing heard in the direction of Fort Morgan
this morning.
Petersburg, Aug. 15.
About six o’clock this P. M. considerable mus
ketry and cannonading sprung up all along the
lines and was participated in by both sides—
nothing more however, t&an the discharge of the
guns and small arms of both sides after the rain
which passed over thejeity.
Richmond* Aug. 16.
Col Mosly reports officially that he attacked
the enemy’s supply train near Berryville on the
13th, and captured and destroyed 75 loaded wag
gons, secured over two hundred prisoners, inclu
ding several officers, 500 or 600 beef cattle, many
valuable stores. A considerable number of the
enemy killed and wounded. Mosby lost but two
killed and ;hree wounded.
A duel occurred this morning between Daniel
editor of the Examiner and Elmore of the Con
federate Treasury. Daniel received a flesh w ound
above the ankle. The affair grew out of a publi
cation in the lecal column of the Examiner on the
Ist inst. in reference to the arrest of a Detective
for attempting to bribe another detective, and
suppressing certain facts injurious-to the reputa
tion of a high official in the Treasury Depart
ment.
Tlte Immediate Front.
The Lines.— During the last twenty
four hours there has been more artillery
and picket firing than for several days
previous, but nothing like an assault was
made upon any part of our lines. The
enemy seems to be seeking more advanced
positions for his works, and at a few points
has apparently succeeded; but we are as*
sured they will advantage him nothing.
At many points on the lines the pickets
are so close together that constant inters
course is going on between them, and a
truce as to picket firing agreed upon. The
latter is, of course, a violation of orders.
A few prisoners were brought in during
the day.
The effort of the enemy for some days
past has evidently been directed to the
extension of his lines to his right, in the
direction of the Macon and West Point
roads. Late Friday evening a consider
able force had approached within a mile
of the West Point road, a short distance
below East Point, but early yesterday
morning they fell back over a mile, to their
former position. The obstacles to a flank
movement in that direction were undoubt
edly found more formidable than expected,
but of their nature we are not advised.
For information, application should be
made to Sherman’s headquarters.
' The City.— Yesterday afternoon our
people were but little disturbed by the en
emy’s batteries, and nothing worthy of re
cording occurred. At dark, however, our
citizens were notified of the proximity of
the enemy, by the fire from his guns, and
the shelling wa3 kept up during the night.
Most of the time five different batteries
were in constant play—one located appas
rently about one mile west of the State
railroad, another on the Marietta road,
another near the south side of the Peach*.;
tree road, another on the Williams’ Mill |
road, and the fifth still further to the south.
The firing was incessant during the night,
and hundreds of the missiles were thrown
into the city. About daylight it abated,
and only occasional shots have fallen since.
No personal casualties are reported, al*
though numerous buildings have been
struck, and the almost miraculous escapes
from injury frequent.
About midnight a fire broke out in a
frame building on Marietta street, adjoins
ing the brick building formerly occupied
by Gdh. Wright as headquarters. The
brick building and three frames adjoining
were burned before the flames weresiayed.
One or two of the city engines were on the
ground, and brought into play. During
the progress of the fire the enemy directed
the fire from all his batteries in the direc
tion of the light, but none of the assems
bled crowd were injured. The three
frame buildings belonged to J. 11. Pitts,
Esq., and the brick building to Major
Gunby. The fire originated from a shell
falling among some cotton stored in the
rear of the house occupied by Dr. Bigs
gers.— Appeal , 14 th.
Peace Meeting in the North.—
A public meeting of citizens was held in
New York a few days since to inaugurate
measures preliminary to a suspension of
hostilities between the North and the
South, and to consider the proper steps to
be taken for the pacification of the coun*
try. Besides this, another peace hobnob"
bing is said to be going on at Niagara
Falls, of which the crazy “Colorado Jew
ett” writes from Niagara :
There is now going on a grand
zation and reunion at Clifton House, be-*
tween the following parties: Clay, Hol
combe, Sanders, and other Confederates,
and Dean Richmond, Ben. Wood, Butts,
of the Rochester Union, ex-Governor
Hunt-, ex-Governor Weller, of California;
ex-Governor Noble, of Michigan; Ross,
Auburn, Stewart, of the Nineteeth Ohio
district delegate to the Chicago Conven-.
tion; three delegates from Pennsylvania,
two from lowa, two from Missouri and five
from Kentucky.
The fraternization was complete, and
most extraordinary results will follow.
Among the resolutions adopted at a
meeting of the Mozart Democracy, in New
York, was the following :
Resolved, That the masses of the Dem
ocratic party of this city and State are for
peace, for an immediate cessation of hos*
fcilities, and for the instant inauguration
of negotiations for ending the present
war; and that we demand a platform f
voring an armistice and a convention a
States from the i hicago Presidential Con
volition
CITY MATT KIRS.
T. J. JACKSON, LOCAL EDITOR
Notice.
Headquarters Post, t
Columbus, Ga., Aug. it, Um. \
General Orders,)
No. 5. J
I. All officers or soldiers remaining in Columbui
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, [officer
of the Navy and Army stationed at this Post excep.
ted,] will, in future, be required to procure a p aM
from the Commandant Post. No other documen
than the pass specified will be regarded by the oS
cers charged with the examination of papers.
By order
GEO. O. DAWSON,
Major Comd’g Post.
agio 7t
FOR CHATTAHOOCHEE
The Steamer Indian will leave for Chattahoochee
Thursday morning at 8 o’clock.
Consignees Per Miflßß., Aug. 16.—Maj A'-
en and V W Smith, Maj Dillard, Capt Cothran. 5
W Watt, Scroggins, Gamwell, Jesse Doud, W C
Green, Grant Factory, A C Kervin, R W B Monroe
Eagle Factory, Warnock & Cos., Woodruff. R W Ar
mor, Palace Mills, Factory Warehouse, John Fon
taine, F Reich, M &WPRR, T C Johnson, D It
Fowler.
Auction Prices— At Ellis, Livingston k Co*
auction sale yesterday the following prices were
obtained: One negro wpinan sold for $2,500; one
man, $2,999; another negro man for $3,100; another
for $3,950; another for $4,150; one Rockaway and
harness, $2,580; one Bureau, $300; one Rocking
Chair. sll4, and a great many other articles in pro
portion-showing that somebody has plenty of mo
ney yet.
Hot Weather.— The last few days and nights
have constituted the hottestspell of the season, I‘
is too hot for one to feel comfortable anywhere.—
And to add to our general disquiet the musquitoe.*
have come down upon us like a swarm of hungry
cormorants. Verily, we of the crowded city are hav
ing a select time. There’s ono consolation, how
ever—a great many of us don’t fare half as bad a->
we ought to.
The Old Currencv. —We are gratified to leara
from Mr. Wm. 11. Young, the Depositary in this
city, that he is now prepared to issue certificates to
holders of the old currency for all sums placed
in his hands, and thai: such deposits will be re
deemed in ninety, days. This should give assur
ance to the community that the old issue is to be
redeemed, and restore public confidence. It is
true it would be much better for the laboring
classes if the Department would remit funds to re
deem at once, as in these critical times it requires
every dollar a man can scrape together to enable
him to live ; but if this is not convenient it is at
least pleasant to know that by making a deposit
with Mr. Young the new Ish will be forthcoming
in three months. We trust therefore that we shall
hear no further complaint of the old hills, and of
no further refusals to receive them at their par
value. We are still of opinion that the govern
ment will provide fully for their redemption.
The Louisville Journal,. —We are.iudebted t .
Lt. J. S. Jones of the Tennessee Army, for a
dilapidated copy of this paper. It has passe!
through so many hands that it is of little use.—
Most of its news has been anticipated.
- - —♦ ♦ —••—
Yankee Mementoes. —Two fine ‘steel Yankee
cannon, captured from (be raiders at Newnar
have been the guests of our city for several days
They were sent down iu charge of Lieut. Kobbim
to undergo repairs. Wheu captured they ,wcra
spiked and shotted, and to be relieved of these ob
structions, were sent on a visit to We
understand they arc to be presented to Capt
Croft's Battery—a deserved compliment, as few
batteries have rendered more efficient service dur
iug the war. Wo trust that these guns will be
more effective in their new position than hereto
fore, and will deal havoc to the ranks of those
who have so assiduously been j“shoo tin at us.”
The Sentinel sees “uilmistakablo evi
dences that the war is drawing to a close.” The
Yankees are growing discouraged. They keep Ger
Grant before Petersburg only to prevent a junction
of Lee and Early, and thus avert the threatened
capture of Philadelphia. They press Sherman on
in Georgia only to keep Hood out of Tennessee and
Kentucky. They are in reality on the defensive.—
But after September what will they do ? This is a
question more easily asked than answered. Proba
bly Lee, Beauregard and Hood will have something
to say in solving it.
The City Council of Richmond, by contracts
made directly with owners af beef cattle, have
largely reduced the price of beef.
FOUND!
A MEMORANDUM BOOK containing the De
A. scriptive List and Furlough of Private T. J.
Vance, Cos. A, 57th Ala. Regiment, Vols., Scott’s
Brigade, which the owner can have by calling at the
Enrolling Office, Columbus, Ga.
WM. S. DAVIS,
agl6 3t- Capt. and Enr’g Ofi.
STERUNK EXCHANGE:
* FEW Hundred Pounds of Sterling Exchange
;\ for sale in sums to suit purchasers by
agl6 ts BANK OF COLUMBUS.
ON and after the Ist July, my office and dwell
ing will bo on Broad st.. at the residence of the
ftUrn " W. J. MURRELL, M. D
A HOUSE WANTED.
TO Rent from October next, a house, or part of a
house, for the use of a family.
Address “SIGMA,”
agotf At this Office.
NOTICE.
To Planters and Other*!
T WILL EXCHANGE Osnaburgs, Sheeting and
1 Yarns, for Bacon, Lard, Tallow and Beeswax J
will be found at Robinett <fc Cb’s old stand, wuere •
am manufacturing Candle^and i Lard_0 > i^mr^3iu-3.
jane 2tf _
B ONDS
Os tiie 500,000,000 Loan for Sale!
1 AM authorized to offer for sale the 6 per can
x Coupon or Registered Long Date Bonds ot tha
Five Hundred Million Loan authorized by Act of
Congress, February 17, 1864, in sums to suit pu
chasers, at the Confederate States Depository. Co
lumbus, Ga.
The principal and interest of this Loan are free
from Taxation and the Cbupons receivable inpay
ment for all Import and Export Duties. These
Bonds are the best securities yet offered by the Gov
ernment, and I recommend them to the favorable
notice of Capitalist.
W. H. YOUNG, Agent,
augl lm for Confederate States.
RUNAWAY!
■JVtEGRO boy CHARLEY ; about 25 years old, ye
1v low complexion, hair nearly straight, below o;
dinary intelligence ; left Jfr. Nat. Thompson’s neat
Box Springs, Talbot county. I bought him of 1
Mr. Brown, a refugee from Mississippi, who no w
resides in Tuskegee, Ala. • He originally came fra*
Charleston, S. C. A suitable reward will be pa>»
for his delivery at this office, or in any safe jail » n4
information sent to me at this office. ,
JAMES M. RUSSELL.
Coiuuibu's O a., aug Its * _
ItLMOV V I, !
I HAVE removed my Office to a room over Gun
1 by’s Store, where I will be pleased to wait o
Pa Q t lf° w? qulrinS MediCal °T S J. r WORD!M m D ,'
So.OOO REWARD!
THE above reward will be i»ai 1 for the arrest ap
1 production before the Coroner’s Cturt, laua_
poosacounty, Ala., clone WM. A, PAULK, whe
murdered my husband. Benjamin Gibson, on
day night, Ist oi August. .
Said Paulk is a resident of Macon county, n**-
Union Springs, aged about 35 years, about 3 «est
inches in heighth. stout built, fair complexion, oa ] '•
hair and blue eyes, Believed to be a deserter from
the 2d Ala. -avalry. JULIA A. GIBSON,
Near Tailassee, T«llapoaa» co., A..*-
lui