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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.