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lfji> gtoluato Wimu. J, w. WAftßKft. - - ■ Editor. 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