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®hv Columbus Wims.
•i. H. WAUREiV, - - - Editor.
Thorsday Morning, August 18, 18647”
A Picture of the Sieve of Wash
ington as seen from the In
side-Scenes of Three Days.
A letter to the New York Times, from a
soldier who was in "Washington “from the
beginning to the end of the rebel raid,” fur
nishes aver j good description of that city
under its first siege. He says :
At the time of the appearance of the first
Butternut at Rockville, Md., the capital city
had not force enough to man four rifle pits—
it was uncertain at which noin* of the thirty
odd miles the columns of Breckinridge and
BarJy might be hurled. And when it wa3
learned at midnight of Sunday, the 10th inst.,
that the enemy were massing their columns
against Y ort Stevens, with the knowledge of
our weakest point of defense which was the
most alarming feature of the whole affair, the
terror of the citizens amounted almost to par-
At the disposal of Gen. Augur were
a. few hundred days men, unused a3 yet to the
sound of heavy artillery, five thousand of
veteran reserves, men thoroughly capable of
hghting, but utterly incapable of marching at
the double quick from one threatened point
to another.
On Sunday, rumors of the approach of the
enemy set the unfledged artillerymen at anxious
practice with the heavy guns, and filled the
rifle pits with all the veteran reserves around
the city. The report, Sunday night, that the
enemy were at Rockville, eighteen miles dis
tant, brought all the reserves from the Ale -
mdria side. As your correspondent and the
sunlight passed up 14th street, the thunder
of the guns of Fort Reno, which were bellow
ing under the frantic practice of the militia,
was swaying the people to and fro with ex
citement. A broad grin was very hideously
perceptible on the secession mouth, and many
an anxious face looked out from behind a
waving flag, and many a hearty “God bless
you,’’ came from a loyal heart as we marched
up the road.
Arriving at Fort Stevens, in the suburbs
of the city, we found a few regiments scat
tered around in that lazy indifference which
is evinced only by the veteran at such an
hour. The rifle pits were sparsely occupied
and troops slowly coming in, composed only
of dismounted cavalryand convalescents from
hospitals. We were ordered three miles to
the left to Fort Reno, and stationed there in
the rifle pits ; but until one o’clock the grum
bling of the men under the intolerable heat
in that shadeleas plain, “was all the sound we
heard."’ On our arrival one third of the reg
iment and five commissioned officers had been
stricken down with heat and sun stroke. By
two o clock the rebel skirmishers were ap
pearing and disappearing, in that snake in
the grass style so becoming their status, near
the residence of Hon. Frank Blair. By three
o’clock the skirmish line had worked its in
sidious way within pistol shot of the gunners
at the fort, and matters were becoming de
cidedly interesting, sufficiently so to beguile
the President,, the Secretary of State and his
son, many of the Foieign Legations, and all
the military notables of the capital to the
scene.
So close were they that one of the gazers
from Fort Stevens was shot on the parapet,
and the whistle of a bullet was beard close
beside the President’s carriage, which at this
stage of the proceedings, was in a position
enabling its distinguished occupant to crack
a joke in response to the crack of the rebel
rifle. Whether it was this last outrage that
determined the officers in charge or not, we
do not know: but about this time proceed
ings were being taken to put an end to this
rebel recreation. A line of skirmishers, com
posed olthe Veteran Reserves, some dismoun
ted cavalry and hundred day men, were de
ployed in front, and steadily drove back for i
a short distance the whole rebel line.
The scene at this time was one of the rar
est m history. From the elevated position
of theentrenebrnentsthe view was unobseu?ed
for teu miles in every direction by anything
but a lew groups of trees and underbrush.—
The beautihil agricultural region under the
guns of Forts Stevens and Deßussey, were
radiant with the glory of the ripening harvest
and the splendor of unclouded sunlight. Light
puffs of smoke shot out from the dark green
vendure, and great white wreaths Irons the
bursting shells circled against the deep blue
of the sky. From the burning dwellings,
which our skirmishers were destroying, in
order to give range to the artillery, Secession
families were pouring through the lines, wi*h
deep and audible curses, uttered within reach
of the Presidential ear, and loyal families, with
sorrowstriken faces, were hurrying toward
the city.
A vast audience with hushed voices and
earnest gaze were looking out upon the scene,
and there, in sight of the greatest men of
the day, with honest Abraham on one side of
the rifle pits and dishonest John 0. Breckin
ridge on the other, the Postmaster General
saw his house, the headquarters of his former
friend, and now traitor enemy who was strug
gling to destroy the very capital where the
people hiul delighted to do him honor. This
was the last scene your correspondent’s eyes
rested upon as he weut over the breastworks
to get a nearer view in obedience to the or
der, “In Advance March" of his officer. For
the honor of our nation and its immortal de
fenders, let us hope that such sightsandsounds
be never seen or heard again under the shad
ow of the capital.
Down below but little was to be seen, but
considerable was to be done in the line of
sharp lookout and artful dodging. “When -
ever you gee a head hit it,” was the Irish rule
to be adopted. Slowly and steadily the line
progressed, carefully keeping the profile of
the advance, and still more carefully euscon
sing oneself behind any friendly cover. It was
a delightful sight to see a rebel „drop l.ere
and there—agonizing to hear from right or
left the cry of suffering from a stricken com
rade. No charge was yet made, but the line
held.
Two hours of this, and then relief came, j
1 he Sixth Corps had arrived, and the Veteran
Resenes with their smooth bores, with which I
they had fought nobly against the English j
rifles of their opponents, were received with a
• Well done, good and faithful," from the crowd
in the pits, ami the lighting Sixth went in with
a hearty “God bless you. old vets,” from all.
Those grim soldiers went to their work with
a Jrvul that did ones heart good to see.
Dressed in every imaginable costume, with !
battered and uttered- old hats, all sorts of j
tatterdemalion attire, witn the dust of the j
Peninsula and the southside yet upon them, !
chatting and laughing, they sauntered over
;he breast»-- r ’ K3 Ohserrinor some with a
oi-section of a canteen hanging on their sides, j
wc inquired what the tin nondescript was. “A !
spade and a drinking cup,” was s he answer.!
We were more fully enlightened iu the morn
ing, when we saw’ a small rifle pit in front of
each skirmisher, from behind which many a j
messenger of death went to its appropriate
place. i
Stretching out a long, dark lim , the 6th j
rapidly advanced, drove back ihe rebels, and
held the ground for the night. As the dark
ness grew, the sullen roar ot the cannon and
the peppering of the musketry died away into
silence, and Washington lay down to sleep
in anxiety for that which the morrow might
bring forth. In the morning, during a brisk
skirmish, your correspondent was marched
through intolerable dust to Fort Reno, where
the enemy were demonstrating upon the left,
and for the first time bringing, or endeavoring
to bring their artillery into play. A small
battery was playing uncomfortably upon our
picket reserve, and we went after it. Fort
ueno, opening upon them from a distance of
two miles and a half, exploded a 100 pound
shell directly over their heads, and a rapidly
advancing cloud of dust attested the celerity
of their retreat.
At 4 p. m., the skirmishing in front ofFort3
t-ievens and Deßussey brought us back there.
■«5 Scattering picket shot had thickened in
sound, and on our arrival there was every ap
pearance of a brisk engagement. With a mass
of troops of the Sixth and Nineteenth we went
in. The work was hot. Men were picked off
close by the forts, our skirmish line having
been driven in by reinforcements of the rebels.
It was evident that it was the intention of
the enemy to attack in force; but our army
was amply sufficient to meet them fairly.
Parts of the 6th and 9th corps and the Veteran
Reserves rushed upon them. A heavy fire
from the forts opened a rain of shot and shell
upon their main body. Rebel endurance could
stAnd no more, and they decamped, leaving
their dead and wounded on the field, and in
the houses along the road. The sight of the
Potomac veterans, who, like Baaquo’s ghost,
would not down at their bidding, scared their
eye-balls, and they fled away.
Now that the danger is over, some parties
are ridiculing the idea that danger has at any
time menaced the capital. But that must not
be told to a soldier who has been through this
little mill. Prisoners, deserters, citizens from
the scene of their base of operations, concur
in the one statement. Their infantry in front
of Fort Stevens numbered forty thousand at
least. Their artillery was proportionally in
heavier force. None of the farmers who have
seen them, estimate their guns at less than
forty of the heaviest field calibre. Our cavalry
fully agree in the estimate. The arming of all
civilians attached to the Quartermaster’s De
partment attest the belief of the military au
thorities here. Their force in the condition
of things was a terrible threat against the
city, and but for the timely preparations of
Gen. Augur, and the admirable generalship of i
McCook, it would have been fir worse.
We wish the lesson of this brief episode had
been as fatal to the rebels as it is instructive
to us. An insane chuckle has been going the
rounds of the press that Washington is un
covered. Scarcely has it been subdued by the
appearance of the raider in front of Selgel, be
fore a State, needing more than all others our
kindly protection, is plundered in every cor
ner, our railroad communications to the capi
tal cut, our President driven from his home,
and a sblid shot thrown into the streets of the
city. The call for hundred days’ men
ha3 been feebly responded to. In the hour
of our pressing need, when militia are scared
enough to come, Gunpowder bridge is burn
ed, and they can’t get them.
. Grant says if we can take care of the North
jhe will attend to Richmond. No one doubts
the indomitable soldier; but in the nameofall
that is honorable and manly, let U3 defend our
own firesides with the immense means yet at
our disposal. The season for active opera
tions is nearly over. We cannot command
, the sun of this campaign to stand still, but
: we can at least hold up our great Captain’s
I hands until its going down upon our discom
| fitted enemy.
! European J¥ews—lnterview be
tween Earl Russell and the
Manchester Operatives.
The steamer Virginia, from Liverpool on
j the 19th ult., arrived at New York on the 4th
j inst. Her mails furnish the following inter
! eating intelligence:
j
[From the Manchester Examiuer.]
j DEPUTATION OF FACTORY OP BRA TIT 3 TO EARL
!
RUSSELL,
S S. Independence Association, No. 26. »
I Market street, Manchester, July 18, 1864./
Mr. James Niel, Honorable Secretary of the
Southern Independence Association, presents
hi3 compimems to ihe editor of the Examiner
and Times, and begs to hand hitn the enclosed
report of an audience given this afternoon by
Earl Russell to a deputation of factory oper
atives on the subject of the American war.
Yesterday afternoon a deputation of facto
ry operatives, representing Manchester, Stock
port, Preston, Oclam, Macclesfield and other
town3, waited by appointment upon Earl Rus
sell, at the Foieign Office, for the purpose of
presenting to his Lordship, a memorial signed
by upwards of 90,000 persons engaged in the
; cotton manufacture.
The deputation was introduced by Mr. Jas.
Aspinall Turner, M. P., Sir Thomas G. Hes
eth, Bart, M. P., and Mr. W. H. Hornby,
M P.
The prayer of tbe memorial was to the ef
fect, first, that the memorialists having been
supplied prior to the American war with cot
ton of the quality best adapted to (heir wants,
aad that no failure in the supply of such cot
ton had been anticipated, their rate of wages
was based entirely upon its issue. Secondly,
that since the beginning of the war, one half
of their number had been entirely deprived of
work, thereby becoming pauper3 or recipients
of charity, while a large majority of the re
mainder to use inferior cotton, had been, and
still were, earning only about two-thirds their
former wages. And thirdly, considering they
had patiently suffered their severe privations,
owing to the belief that such a state of things
could not last, they were now induced, by the
evident hopelessness of the struggle on the
part of tbe North to subdue tho Southern
States, to represent to his Lordship the claims
of the factory operatives upon tbe favorable
consideration of Her Majesty’s Government,
and to pray that Her Majesty might be ad
vised to enter into coucert with other Euro
pean Powers, with a view !o restore peace on
the American continent, aud to rc-estabiish
i on a sure basis the industrial prosperity of
the manufacturing districts. Earl Russell,
after reading the memorial, was addressed by
several members of the deputation. In the
course of fheir remarks, the speakers dwelt
upon the present unsettled state of the
cotton trade, and produced statictics showing
how largely the important towns had been
drained of factory workers of the best classes,
owing to the powerful inducements held-out
to them by Federal emigration agents—a
state of things which bad led a' large number
of deserving poor to risk a precarious and
hazardous existence in a country not too scru
pulous as to the means of recruiting its wasted
armies. A part, also, from considerations of
their own material welfare, the deputation
hogged to submit to the Foreign Secretary
that in the opinion of the vast majority of the
people of the cotton districts, the Southern
States, as well by superior force of arms as
by the manifestation of the highest capacity
for self-government, Had entitled themselves
to reeoguition as an independent Power.
After listening to the deputation with evi
dent interest bis Lotdship expressed his ad
miration at the conduct of the operatives, his
sympathy with them in their unavoidable suf
ferings, and his earnest desire that the time
would speedily arrive when the Government
might with good effect, offer to mediate be
tween the contending parties.
The deputation then thanked his Lordship
for Ins courteous reception, and withdrew.
[From the London Times, July 19.]
THK QUESTION OF MEDIATION —THE LONDON
TIMES ON THE SUBJECT.
A small body of well intenkioned politicians
still adhere, as we think, most mistakenly, to
the plan of mediation. There is a “Society
for obtaining a cessation of hostilities in Amer
ica,’’ and a deputation from it, consisting of
Lord Clanricarde, the Bishop of Chieester, Mr.
Spence and others, who look upon the war
as a calamity preventive by European 'inter
ference, waited upon Lord Palmerston on Fri
day, for the purpose of urging Her Majesty’s
Government to take steps for the restoration
ofpeace between the belligerents. Wo need
hardly say that with the ultimate objects of
the society we entirely sympathise. We must
also accept of the facts on which they base
their arguments. The evils of this war have
happily not fallen on ourselves with the
weight that was expected, but stiti the uation
suffers, and would gain not a litlle by the end
ing of the strife.
* * * * *
But in anew offer of mediation we can see
no remedy for these eviis. Mr. Spence says
that there is a peace party, and it is growing,
but it has no rallying poiut. The action now
urged would give them a pivot on which to
form; not indeed, the action of England alone,
which was depreciated altogether, but that to
be taken conjointly by several leading powers.
With such assistance the peace party would
rapidly gather strength and numbers, and
! thus might reach the i-sm •
is rather sanguine &nticip.u>o . i
reasoning.
* * * *
Gen. Grant, after losing pro'”'
original army, is reduced to in >. to.. , v
Confederate invasion, or raids, irea,< u> i
Northern States; in Geargia the contest prom
ises nothing permanently' favorable; in the
Southwest the Confederates are slowly recov
ering their overrun territory, and the dimin
ished armies of the North are scarcely strong
enough to bold the central points wnich they
seized in former campaigns. The comment
on all this is one which cannot be suspected
of partiality*
*******
Let the “Society for Obtaining the Cessation
of Hostilities” look at the recent news, and
they will be content with Lord Palmerston's
answer. The best service the Government of
this country can render to the cause of peace,
is to let events run their own course, and not
to interfere in American politics by word or
deed.
Prospects Ahead!
There are many unmistakeable signs
and evidences that the war is fast draw*,
ing to a close. Not, however, that a fors
mal peace is at hand. The North may
cease to carry on active hostilities long
before it will consent to recognize our in**
dependence, and enter into formal terms
of peace with us. Among the signs of
the times none is more encouraging than
the altered and subdued tone of the North
ern press and Northern politicians. We
hear not a word now of crushing the re
bellion in sixfy or ninety days, or even
within the present year. Few, very few,
politicians or editors are so impudent or
impertinent as to hold out hopes of crush
ing it out at all. They are in terrible
dread of an invasion by us on the North,
and*more busy in trying to devise ways
and means to repel such apprehended ins
vasion than in renewed attempts to sub
due the South. They have lost all hope
that Grant will take Richmond, but are
in deadly fear that Early will capture
Washington. They keep Grant’s army,
at this sickly. season in the most sickly
hole in the South, merely to prevent the
junction of Lee’s and EaiJy’s forces, and
the probable capture of Philadelphia that
would follow such junction. In like
manner they keep Sherman in Georgia to
keep Hood out of Tennessee and Ken
tucky. They are faintly hammering away
at Petersburg and Atlanta to save Cinema
nati and Philadelphia. They have been
for some time busy withdrawing their
troops from the Trans-Mississippi, and
from all along either shore of that river,
also, from many points on the Atlantic
coast, and concentrating them at positions
nearer to Washington. They are obvious
ly preparing to defend the North from
apprehended invasion.
Well may they apprehend it, and trem*
ble at its probable consequences. After
the middle of September, what force will
they have with which to repel invasion ?
Their veterans’ term of service will have
expired, and they will have returned
home. The hundred thousaud hundred
days’ men will also have returned home.
A body, composed almost entirely of raw
recruits, deficient in numbers as well as
discipline, will be all the army they will
have with which to repel invasion. Men
will not rush to arms to defend their
homes as they do in the South, for North
ern soldiers are common laborers, without
houses or homes, and who live and sup
port their families from their daily wages.
A war of invasion of the North will sus
pend their wages; their daily pay as sol
diers, in greenbacks, will amount to noth
ing. No bonus is offered to them for en*
listment; no hopes of Southern plunder
will any longer be held out to them, or, if
held out, will any longer delude and de*.
ceive them; the expenses of living will
have quadrupled, and to enlist as soldiers
will be to starve their families. The
North will not rise to defend itself; but
the masses will cry aloud for peace ! For
no matter who conquers, no matter what
the terni3 of peace, peace will give them
employment—without which they cannot
live. The Federal Government is bank
rupt, and has no means left wherewith to
feed and clothe its soldiers and their fam
ilies.
It is not, on the whole, at all improba
ble that we may this fall invade the North,
on her soil dictate the terms of peace.
At all events, it is worth trying. The
North is just about to become bankrupt in
men and in means, and now is the time to
push her to the wall. A just retribution
demands that we retaliate on her the cru>
elties she has inflicted on us. An oppor
tunity of doing so may soon occur.
[Richmond Sentinel.
The Stern Logic of Events
The following predictions appeared in the Ban
gor (Maine) Democrat scon after the commencement
of the war
The rapid fulfilment of all the predictions of De
mocratic speakers and writers, as to what would
take place in our beloved country in tho event of a
sectional triumph in tho election of a President,
need not bo attributed to any gift of prophecy; it is
the result of the stern logic of events. Poorly read
in the history of government, and a poor student of
human nature must he be, who, in the face of the
warfare which tho Black Republican party had
been waging upon the institutions of the Souih,
could not have foretold the disruption of the Union
and the disasters that might attend that disrup
tion.
Now that we have entered upon civil war, let
those who read the story of the future, appeal to the
6ame “stern logic of events.” What does it teach?
We speak by its instructions.
It teaches that, if Abraham Lincoln shall persist
in attempting to carry out the policy indicated in
his reply to the Virginia Commissioners, the fifteen
slave States, numbering more than 12,000,000 of peo
ple, will unite m a common cause of defending their
firesides and homes.
It teaches that every man within their limits ca
pable of wielding a sword or levelling a rifle, will
seek the field determined, like their revolutionary
fathers of old, to repel the invader or die in the at
tempt.
It teaches that, sooner or later, the fate of every
Norihcm army sent within their borders will inev
itably be that which overtook those of the British
tyrant which were landed on our coast to rivet on
our forefathers the chains of slavery.
It teaches that the armies of the North may meet
with occasional triumphs; may burn a few cities
and devastate a few fields; may rob the Southern
mother and her tender children of their peaceful
and quiet home; may here and there incite servile
insurrections; but successes like those will only pro
voke the wrath of Heaven, and raise up, for the
South, “armies to fight their battles for them.”
It teaches that, at last, after one, three, seven or
ten years shall have passed away, after our armies
shall have vanished before the never failing aim of
the Southern rifle, the irresistible charges of South
ern cavalry, and tho terrible ravages of a .Southern
climate; after myraids of northern homos have been
made desolate, and poverty and distress shall begin
to stalk abroad in the streets of our cities and villa
ges, then the hearts of our people will yearn for
pet ce, and peate will come.
It teaches that the independence of the Confeder
ate States will bo recognized, and that the North
will be compelled at last to grant that which, in ac
cordance with the spirit of American liberty, it
should promptly and cheerfully concede.
Such are the teachings of the stern logic of events.
We put them on record and invite all who read this
article to remember the predictions founded upon
them. The authority of the Federal Government
will never again be established within the limits of
the seceded States. The people ofthos9 States will
never again recognize that authority voluntarily,
nor can they be compelled to do so by force.
A large number of Yankee officers, prison
ers of war, arrived in the city (says the
Charleston Mercury, 15th,) on Saturday last.
Amongst them is Stoneman, the famous Major
General of raiding notoriety.
TELEGRAPHIC.
. REPORTS OP TUB PRBBS ASSOCIATION.
Knrered according to act of Congress in the year
1 Slit, by J. S. Thrasher. in the Clerk'* office of
the District Court of the Confederate States for
the Northern District of Georgia.
Petersburg, Aug. 17.
Deserters and prisoners brought in to ay eon
cur in the statemen that Bnrnside and Warren’s
corps are still in our front here, whi e Hancock’s,
the 2d and perhaps other infantry are no* opera
ting on the North side of the James river.
Advices received at headquarters here confirm
thedefea* of <he enemy in th- fight yesterday
near White’s Tavern, on the Nor h side of the
James river. Our lo9S no very large—among
oar losses are G neral Girardy and Chambiss kill -
ed. The fight is supposed to be renewed to some
exten today—firing being heard in that direction.
Offl ia advice from the Valley Department up i
to ye terday recciveid at headquarters. Up to that j
| time no general engagem nt had taken pi ce.
In front of t>is place nothing of interest trans- j
piring. Rain has fallen ev ry day this week, and !
is most grateful to man and bea t.
Richmond, Aug. 17. j
Acting Brig Gen Girardy commanding Wrights J
brigade was shot through he head and killed in j
the ba tie of ye-terday. Hi< body has been ;
brought here and will be rent to Georg a for sep
ulture.
Forrest still maintains his posi ion near Abbe- j
ville. No forward demonstration of the enemy
reported for several days. The Yankees are com- j
mitting many depredations on the people, peacea
ble citizens being killed. Gov Clark has ca ed
out every abL bodied man in the State to assist in
driving the enemy baek.
The He aid of the 13th renews the suggestion
that Lincoln tend Peace Csmmissioners to Rich
mond, and savs, we have arrived at t at sta e in
this exhausting war when every consideration of
wisdom, patriotism and humanity suggests the
propriety of a magnanimous bona fide movement
on the part of the administration in behalf of
peace. The Hera and announces t at the price of
its daily issuo hereafter wi 1 o four cents per co
py. It expected that Fessenden would reform
financial affairs, but in tea f he has plunged the
country deeper into t e sea of pap r money. The
national finances are now more unsetlled than ev
er before. The Herald says it is evident that half
the newspapers in the country will have to stop
publication.
The Baltimore Gazette of yesterday receive!.
Burnside has been relieved of the command of the
18th corps and arrived in Baltimore. Wile 3X has
been temporarily assigned to the corps.
The Federal loss in killed and wounded in. the
action in Mobile bay is estimated at 240 men. No
particulars of the surrender of Fort Gaines.
Sherman >s within one mile of the Macon road.
At every step he has fortified his position very
strongly.
A Confederate force of 2,000 is menacing the
border towns in Indiana. Gen Carrington has
mada a quisition on Gov Morton for 25,000 men.
Various other captures by the Tallahassee are
reported, including the ship Adriatic.
Nothing definite from the Shenandoah Valley.
Dispatches from Grant’s army unimportant.
Atlanta, Aug. 17.
The enemy’s cavalry have retired from the vi
cinity of Fairburn, a portion cro-sing the river
near Campbellton. Trains are running as usual
The enemy is busily engaged in fortifying the
North tide of the Chattahoochee, principally
a ong the Powder Spring and Campbellton roads,
in the vicinity of S«eet Water.
Everything remarkably quiet along the front.
The enemy have opened fire on the city from
another gun, supposed to be a 64 pounder planted
on the Marietta road. Slow fire kept up all nigbt,
re tilting in killing one citizen.
It is generally believed that the Western and
Atlantic railroad was cut at Acworth by a portion
of our cavalry on the 14 h. News from that quar
ter anxiously looked for.
Mobile, Aug. 17.
Maj Gen Frank Gardner assumed command of
the District of the Gulf today. Thß peoplo seem
pleased with him.
Yesterday ev ning the enemy landed at Mon
trose in live launches. Our cavalry fired on them
killing two and wounding several. The enemy
retir and.
La t night Maj Carroll, agent of Exchange, re
turned from the Federal fleet, sending off letters
and packages to the Dauphin Is and prisoners.—
Hopes are entertained of their early exchange.
A force of the enemy rom Pensacola, estima
ted at 2000 crossed the Perdido river yesterday,
, adva cing in the direction of Mo die Bay. All
quiet in the Bay.
Richmond, Aug. 17, 1864.
Jno. J). Stewart :
Your son Hamp is safe. Beasby is not
heard of. Tbe 2nd Ga. not engaged. Col.
Lowtber is wounded.
W. T. HALL.
Canada Affairs
It appears from late Canadian advices
that the Constitution of Canada is to be
changed, and that a Federal Union
tween the States composing the British
Province in America is to be established.
Here is what the correspondence of Jfche
New York Tribune says on the subject:
An event has occurred of the greatest
possible importance to the Province, and
of some consequence to the neighboring
States.
For two or three years the opposing
parties in the Legislature have been very
evenly balanced, and several successive
governments have endeavored to admin
ister affairs with very small majorities.
The present administration, at the head
of which stands Sir E. P. Tacbe, and
which includes among its members Messrs.
Cartier, Galt and John A. Macdonald,
was defeated in the House of Commons
about a week ago; and, it became necess
sary either to dissolve the House, or to
strengthen their position in it. Prefer
ring the latter alternative, Hon, George
Brown, editor of the Toronto Globe, was
approached, and the result of negotiations
with him is, that a Federal Government
is to be established for Canada, with pro
visions for the entry into the new Feder->
al Union of New Brunswick, Nova Sco
tia, Newfoundland, Prince Edward, Ire
land and the Bed River Territory.
Very little is known as yet of the pre- i
cise nature of the scheme to be devised,
but it appears to be this, that members j
are to be elected to sit in the Federal As
sembly in numbers bearing some propor- j
tion to the population and resources of;
the several provinces, these members to
deal with general questions, while sitting
together, and then to resolve themselves
in the same place, (Ottawa) into local 1
legislatures, dealing with local questions.
Thus it is proposed to get rid of the ex
pense of separate local Parliaments. The
Federal body is to have more power than
that existing with you, and the local bod
ies to derive their powers from the Fed
eral Assembly rather to give or delegate
power thereto. A royal commission is to
be issued to arrange details, and to visit
England and the Lower Provinces to pro
cure the assent and adhesion of those in
terested.
It is not unlikely that, simultaneously
with the establishment of the Federal
Union, negotiations may occur with Brit
ain as to the maintenance of military and
naval forces iD this part of America, of
which a share of the expense would have
to be borne by the Provinces.
These measures for carrying this plau
into effect are to be submitted to the next
session of our Provisional Parliament,
and in the interval, Mr. Brown is to enter
the Ministry, or else to be Chairman of
i the b'oyal Commission, in order to help in
! drawing up the new Constitution
CITY MATTERS.
T. J. JACKSON, LOCAL EDITOR.
Notice.
Headquarters Post, ?
Columbus, Ga., Aug. 14, 1564. 4
General Orders,)
No. 5. f
I. All officers or soldiers remaining in 'Columbus
over six {6] hours will require a pass from these
Headquarters.
11. All persons between the ages of sixteen [l6]
and fifty-five [ss] years, visiting Columbus, [officers
of the Navy and Army stationed at this Post excep
ted,] will, in future, be required to procure a pass
from the Commandant Post. No other document
than the pass specified will be regarded by the offi
cers charged with the examination of papers.
By order
GEO. O. DAWSON,
Major Comd’g Post.
agio 7f
Attention, Typo Guards!
You are hereby ordered to meet at the Times Of
fice, on THIS (Thursday) EVENING, at 8 o’clock,
for Company Drill. A full attendance is required.
By order of the Captain.
aglSdlt BARTLETT, 0. S.
Notice.
Confederate States Arsenal,?
Columbus, Ga., Aug. 17, ’64. J
I wouid earnestly request all persons, not belong
ing to regularly organized companies, who have
drawn arms from this Arsenal to return the same
immediately, as they are greatly needed in Mobile.
F. C. HUMPHREYS.
sgtk It Major Comd’g.
Headquarters Post,
Columbus, Ga„ Aug. 17, 1864.
[Extract.]
Special Orders ?
No. 46. {
I. The troops in this city will be reviewed and in
spected in front of the residence of Capt. J. M. Biv
ins, on Friday the 19th inst., at 5 o’cleck p. m.
GEO. O. DAWSON,
asrl6 2t Major, Commanding Post.
Confederate States Depository.
Columbus, Ga., Aug. 17, ’64.
Deposites in New Currency will be received and
Call Certificates issued at this Office, payable on
demand, bearing interest at four per cent per an
num from date.
Deposites in Old Currency at 66 2-3 cents on the
dollar will be received and Certificate issued payable
on demand after ninety days from date in New Cur
rency.
Above Certificates are secured by the hypotheca
tion of an amount of Bonds of the Five Hundred
Million Loan [non-taxable] equal to the sum of
these loans.
I am prepared to sell the 6 per cent Coupon or
Registered Bonds of the $500,000,000 loan at $135
for the new currency or the old at 66 2-3 cents on
the dollar.
The principal and interest of this Loan are free
from Taxation and the Coupons receivable in pay
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 the public.
W. H. YOUNG,
ougl lrn Depositary.
Change of Schedule. —The reader’s ationtion
is referred to the advertisement of tbo change of
schedule on the Mobile & Girard railroad. It
will be seen that hereafter the passenger trains will
leave Girard at 3 p. m. daily, (Sundays excepted)
and arrive at Girard at 10 a. m.
The C urrency;—The special attention of money
holders, (either old or new currency) is called to
the advertisement of Wm. H, Young, Esqr., in
rofcrenco to funding, Ac. It will be seen that
holders of the new are now offered fine opportuni
ties to invest their surplus in non-taxable bonds,
and while thus looking to their own interest by
investing will be conferring aid and comfort to
their government. Holders of the old currency
can have their option of bonding at the nominal
value of their bills, (603 cents on the dollar) or
depositing the same, redeemable in 70 days in
new currency.
«
Roll of Honor. —Wo are indebted to Capt. 8.
H. Hill, the worthy and energetic Agent of the
Southern Express Company 3in this city, for
the following list of those killed in battle qnd
who have died in the service from this city and
vicinity. This roll was copied by Capt. Hill from
memory, and may not be entirely complete. In
many instances the given names are not remem
bered. If any names have been omitted .we will
insert them when furnished by their friends. We
will also insert the given name3 of those published
in this list when furnished. It will be seen that
there are eleven families in the list who have lost
two members, and one which has lost three. All
honor to these glorious names, who have offered
themselves up as martyrs in the]cause of freedom.
P J Semmes, Charles Neuffer,
P H Colquitt, Noble DeVotie,
Thad. B. Scott, .J N Hutchins.
•J A Jones, Wm Cropp,
A H Cooper, -John McCarty.
Van Leonard, Thos Camak,
John Munn, Eugene Banks,
David Munu, John Johnson,
John Goetchius, * Johnson,
II J DeLauny, Harris Johnson,
Tom Sloan, James Ware,
Wm T Nuckolls, Jim Perry,
Theodore Fogle, T Everett,
Richard Patten, John Slade.
John Ferguson, Wm Ellis,
C J Williams, J R Jones,
P Gitttenger, Wm H Young,
Geo Lindsay, Ben Murphy,
Wm H Mitchell, Robert A Chambers
James Mitchell, J M 'Chambers, Jr.
John Lee, James Deckrow,
Charles Phelps, -Robertson.
Levi Phelps. Calhoun.
Banks Shaw, Cash,
Gus. Sport, Robt Eddmon,
James Short, May,
J E Davis, Sam McLary.
Wright, Dauf,
Bacon Dixon, Aguew, .
A Forrester, John D Mcßay,
Lock Weems, Bize,
Armstrong Bailey. Fred Tillman,
Lloyd Bailey, - Tillman,
R W Denton. Lt Col W T Harris.
Lewis Cook. Edward Goetchius.
Ed Booher, Me Sturgis,
Cap Booher, James Ligon,
Thos Spivey, -- Schley,
James Kirvin, Shirley,
Albert Langford, Wm Ware,
Thos Ragland, King,
John Redd, Brittain,
Ed Clapp, Harvy,
Wm Brown, Cupt Surea,
Felix G Lloyd, Watkins Banks,
David Pease, Tom Hunt.
Hill, Evans,
John Lewis, Fannin Burch,
Wm T Patterson, Long,
Amos Banks, Willis Banks,
James Browning, Ed P Wagner.
Lt Raus Wood. Jack Hogue,
Jack Rowland, Wm H Ward.
Joseph David, Julien P Denahs
Geo W Armitage. Geo. Twilley,
Gus Rideahour. Henry Kirabn?,
Frank Collier
(communicated.]
Editor Times: — Dear Sir: Will you alow a
small space in your patriotic sheet, to be dedicated
to a few of your fair readers ?
The sick and wounded soldiers of the Convales
cent Camp of this place, wish to return, not only
their kind respects, but their best heartfelt thanks
for bind and cheering words, sweet
smiles, and baskete filled with good thingt ,
have been so iavisbingly served out by the gentle
hands of the following named ladies : Mrs. Win
ter, Mrs. McKinnie, Mrs. Woolfolk, Mrs. Warren
and last, but not least, Miss Georgia Warren.
So long as the tablet of our memory exists,
you ladies, will be remembered with the feelings
we cherish for our mothers and sisters ; especially
by those of us who have been so long cut off from
relations and friends of other and happier day?,
The day ia near at hand when each of us will
return to our respective posts, and be assured
that each of us will bear in our hearts such grati
tude as cannot be eradicated by the hardships and
cruelties of war. Our prayers are that your path
through life may be free from tribulation.
Trans-Mrssissippr.
! Death’s Mission.
- -
I BY G. W. EVEREST.
Go, Death, to thy mission 1 Tho mandate w *s given,
Aud the echo roiled back through the chambers of
heaven,
Then faint in the distance its mutterings grew,
And a being of horror came forth to my view!
He seemed one commissioned for terrible deeds.
For dark was h s chariot, and pale were uis steeds;
One hand grasped a sceptre, the other a dart..
And the glow of His eye told tbe pride of his heart;
The Sun, at his glance, shed a sicklier ray.
And Nature, astonished, in fear shrank away;
The heavens jrrew black at his pestilent bre ith.
And owned him the monarch invineib e —Death i
He cast a proud glance over Earth’s happy throng,
And breathed to the Nations bis horrible song:
“I am lord of tbo Earth; lam lord of the Main;
All Nature I hold in my withering chain ;
From my shadowy realm, in the chambers of night,
1 will come on my pathway of mildew a>d blight;
The surest destruction 'tis mine to impart;
My armor shall pierce to the manliest heart;
I will shroud man’s proud hopes in the darkness of
gloom,
Aud bear him from all that he loves, to the tomb!
“I will visit the couch of the mother’s first born.
And the mother, despairing, shall sorrow forlorn;
I will tear the fond wife from her little one’s clasp,
She must come at my oall, she mustshrink from t heir
grasp;
The father, though dear to tho group of his heart.
From his wife and infants forever must part;
In the hall of affec ion my banner shall wave —
I am lord of the Earth, I am lord of the Grave!
"I will visit the sage, when, through night’s lonely
hours.
O’er the lore of past ages devoutly he pores;
He shall cease his pursuits, he must rnolder to dust —
No learning can save—l am true to my trust!
I will come to the dungeon, an angel of peace,
And grant to the captives a joyful release;
Thsir chains cannot bind, they will come at iny
call,
And sorrow no longer shall hold them in thrall!
“I will curb mad Ambition, when wading through
blood.
And mounting the throne o’er the hearts of the
good ;
I will call upon avarice, toiling for dust;
His treasures, forsaken, neglected shall rust;
The scoffer shall start at my coming, and quail,
And the stoutest trangress or turn suddenly pale:
‘‘Mortal! proud mortal! prepare for my call:
Thou shalt sleep, at the last, ’neath my curtaining
pall I
I will come —tho dread herald of woe to the gay.
When the giddy and careless will think me away I
I wilt come —and the hall shall be shrouded with
gloom.
And arrayed with the emblems of Death and the
tomb!
Be prepared ! that my summous shall cause no af •
fright—
For my arrow i3 noiseless—my footstep is light 1”
An Inside View into the Management of
our Military Prisons. —Tho Salisbury, N. C.
Watchman shows up, in the following article, the
loose and inefficient management of our military
prisons:
Within tbe present week a women from one of
our Western counties visited her husband in tbe
Confederate States prisons at this place, and
while returning on tbe Western raliroad to her
home, handed to thecouductor of the train several
letters to be mailed. Tbe address of one of them
aroused suspicion in the mind of the conductor
and ho opened and read it: whenlo! be found it
to contain information of the most important na
ture, addressed to a party within the enemy’s lines,
and evidently designed to aid the enemy in a con
templated enterprise against the Confederate cause
of very considerable importance. This lead to the
examination of the other letters this woman had
given him, all of which proved to be mischievous,
and were returned to the commandant of the pris
on, that he might take such action as the case re
quired.
Now, what strikes us as important and requir
es investigation is whether a person mav enter
this prison, hold conference with the inmates, and
bear off, as in this case, papers conveying informa
tion to the enemy of a highly dangerous charac
ter. It seems to have been done in this instance,
and its discovery in time t ■ prevent mischief was
the merest accident. Such incidents are well cal
culated to produce among the citizens here a feel
ing of insecurity, and unexplained a distrust in
the efficiency of those who are responsible.
MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD.
CHiraE OF SCHEDULE.
Girard, Ala., Aug. 22,1864.
ON and after this date Trains on this Road will
Run Daily (Sunday excepted,) as follows:
Passenger Train.
Leave Girard at 3 00 p. m.
Arrive in Union Springs 730 "
Leave Union Springs 5 35 a. m.
Arrive in Girard at 10 00 “
Freight Train.
Leave Girard at ~,..4 00 a. m.
Arrive in Girard, at 6 00 p. m.
_ B. E. WELLS.
Eng. <k Sup't.
JESTKAT SSEiT
up by the subscriber a Creak Colored
1 Horse Mule, about 10 years old: 14% hands
high, with black stripe across the shoulders.*
Tne owner will call and prove property, pay char
ges and take him away.
ag!B 3t R. F. HARRIS.
FOUND!
A MEMORANDUM BOOK containing the De-
Fi 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,
aglS 3t Capt, and Enr’g Oft’.
STEREING EXCHANGE!"
A FEW Hundred Pounds of Sterling Exchange
ft for sale in sums to suit purchasers bv
ag!6 ts BANK OF COLUMBUS.
A HOUSE WANTED.
TO Rent from October next, a house, or part of a
house, for the use of a farnil v.
Address * “SIGMA,”
a *stf At this Office.
NOTICE.
To Planters and Oilier* :
T WILL EXCHANGE Osnaburgs, Sheeting and
1 Yarns, for Bacon, Lard, Tallow and Beeswax. I
wid be found at Robinett & Cb’s old stand, where 1
am manufacturing Candle? and Lard Oil for sale.
L. S. WRIGHT.
June 2 ts
RT i\AWAY!
TVTEGRO boy CHARLEY; about>2s years old, yel
lv low complexion, hair nearly straight, below or
dinary intelligence ; left Mr. Nat. Thompson’s near
Box Springs, Talbot eounty. I bought him of a
Mr. Brown, a refugee from Mississippi, who now
resides in Tuskegee, Ala. He originally came from
Charleston, S. C. A suitable reward will be paid
for his delivery at thig office, or iu any safe jail and
information sent to me at this office.
JAMES M. RUSSELL.
Columbu's G a., aug Its *
REMOVAL!
11l AVE removed my Office to a room over Gun •
by's Store, where I will be pleased to wait on
Patients requiring Medical <>r Surgical treatment.
agl3lm* T- J. WORD. M. D
-55,000 REWARD!
'CUE above reward will be pai 1 for the a rest and
i production before tho Coroner's C* urt. Talla
poosa county, Alu., of one WM. A. PAULK, who
murdered m.v husband, Benjamin Gibson, on Mon
day night, Ist ot August.
Said Pai lk is a resident of Macon county, near
Union Springs, aged about3s years, about 5 teat 9
inches in heigith, stout built, fair complexion, dark
hair and blue eyes. Believed to be a deserter f row
the 2d Ala. cavalrv. JULIA A. GIBSON,
Near Tallassse, T-*Uapon»a co„ Als r
egS lsu.