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Headquarter Conscript Service, \
Augusta, Ga., August Ist, 1864. f
General Orders!
No. *l4. /
I. The attention of Enrolling Officers is directed
to circular No 25, Bureau of Conscription (current
Sirics) herewith published, withdrawing from this
Department and transferring to the GeneralCom
maading Roscrvcs, all jurisdiction over persons of
iho Reserve classes, except such as are strictly en
titled to exemption under third paragraph, and the
it rat clause of tho fotfrth paragraph of the tenth
Section of the Act of Congress, entitled an “Act to
organize Forces to serve during the War.”
11. Enrolling Officers will observe that they are
placed under, and subject to the orders of tho Gen
eral Commanding Reserves, so far as this class of
Conscripts is concerned, with the exceptions above
-tated, and arc enjoined to give all his orders and
commands relative thereto and
them
ted
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and ’ t.
t.'ONFBOBRATK STATES OF AMERICA, )
War Department, '
Bureau of Conscription, 1
Hi 'hmond, Ya., June 30, 64. '
Circular
No. 25.
Commandants of Conseripta will forthwith com-
inunicatc to Enrolling Officers these instructions ;
made by order of the Secretary of War.
1.-t. In the class of Reserves Enrolling Officers |
will under no circumstances receive applications j
tor, or grant details until after the organization of j
the companies, and the transmission of tho rolls to I
the General’s commanding of the Reserves and then
only under instructions from said Generals com- )
manding.
f',v a decision of the Secretary of M ar the juris- j
diction of the Conscript authorities over the classes !
of Reserves extends simply and exclusively to
-ranting exemptions prescribed by the Act of Con- j
press', entitled an act to organize Forces to serve
during tho War.
These exemptions are provided for in the 10th
section of said act, hut these shall be excluded from
these exemptions thus authorized to be granted in
tho Reserve classes all contained in the last clause
of the fth Paragraph of said section from the
words “In addition to tho foregoing exemp
lions to the conclusion of said 4th Paragraph.
Except as herein specified in all matters per
taining to the Reserve classes, Enrolling Officers
by order of the Secretary of A\ ar, are to obey
the orders of General commanding Reserves, but
no Enrolling Officer under any plea will bo held
to be excused from tho full performance of his reg
ular duties prescribed by and under tho orders of
this Bureau, and no assertion that duaes under or
ders ol tho General commanding Reserves have
prevented the duo performance of other duties will
bo accepted by this Bureau.
The Secretary of War has directed that all de
tails heretofore granted inconsistent with these in
structions, will bo promptly revoked and tho men
placed on tho company rolls.
Paragraph XIV of Circular No. 8, Bureau of Con
scription, current series, is hereby revoked.
By command of
Brig, Gen. JOHN S. PRESTON. Hup’t.
* Signed,]
C. B. DufFlEu*. A. A.G.
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Change Schedule.
"i i'ii'K ENGINEER AND SUPERINTENDENT, j
Gharlestun and Savannah Railroad, >
Charleston, Juno 7,1*64.)
. »N THURSDAY, June9.lß6l,and until further
w notice, the Schedule oft lie Passenger train will
ho as follow, viz:
Leave Charleston 9.45, a. m.
\rrive in Savannah 1 5.40, p. m.
Leave Savannah 5.30, a. in.
Arrive in Charleston 1.15, p. in.
This Train makes direct connections, going north
and south, with tho Northeastern Railroad at Char
leston. and the Central Railroad at the Junction.
H. S. HAINES,
June I t ts Engineer and Superintendent.
Change of Schedule.
t\ N and after Sunday, June 19t.h, the Trains on
' ' the '‘useogee Railroad will run as follows:
PASSENGER TRAIN :
Leave Columbus .5 45 P. M.
Arrive at Macon o 25 A. M.
Leave Macon 8 10 P. M
Arrive at Columbus .... fo A. A*.
FREIGHT TRAIN :
Leave Ooluiubus .5 0? A. M,
Arrive at Columbus ...........4 o;> A. iYL.
IV. L. CLARK,
tußr 10 tl' aupt. Muscogee R. R.
COLUMBUS TO WEST POINT!
On aud after the 30th inst., the Passenger Train
on the Montgomery & West Point R. R. will
Leave Columbus 2 10 P- ,n -
Arrive at West Point 3 00
Leave West Point 3 50
Arrive at Columbus... 9 10
Freight Train will Leave Columbus...s 50 a. in.
Arrive at Columbus ..12 23
J. Ti. APPLER,
J uly 23*tf Agent
STOLEN!
I'll Li OWNER of a BLIND HORSE stolen by
L a deserter, can hoar of him by applying at the
Enrolling Office. WM. L. DA * IS.
agll lw Cav»t. A En. Off. _
RUNAWAY!
VEGRO boy CHARLEY : about 25years old, ycl
ll low complexion, hair nearly Araight, below or
dinary intelligence ; left iur. Nat. Thompson s near
Box Springs. Talbot county. I bought him of a
Mr. Brown, a refugee from Mississippi, who now
resides in Tuskegee, Ala. Ho originally came from
Charleston, S. C. A suitable reward will bo paid
for his delivery at this office, or in any safe jail and
information sent to me at this office.
JAMES M. RUSSELL.
Ooinuibu s tfa., aug Its * _
REMOVAL!
I HAVE removed my Office to a room over Gun-
L bv’s Store, where 1 will be pleased to wait On
‘'“'is 1 l.!» < ‘" iri ‘ l!!
Steward.
I M ILL pa> the above reward for 808, a black
l boy. about 21 years old. He has been out three
or four weeks, and is supposed to be lurking about
the city. JNO. H. HASS,
iy 4 ts
TO HIRL!
L’Uiv the balance of the year fifteen able-bodied
F Negro Mon and seventeen Negro Women.
Apply soon to R. M. GUN BY, Ag't,
jul 28 ts
Notice to Debtors and Cred
itors.
t LL Ler*um> iiwiwbted to tbe estate of Seaborn
\Jones, deceased, are required to make mme-
K.in«vment and those having claims against said
;tt P ’,o m rS»iS to re D d.r tUom » »r m of ,0c
law to the SENSING, Adm’r.
Bj MAEY 11. BKNMNO. Agent.
ial& w6t ~ ,
Shoemakers’ and Saddler*
tools.
THE UNDERSIGNED having commenced
1 manufacture of the above named articles in mu
eity, are prepared to fill orders lor the sa • g
a ofoe o„ Angle ,&tfl CO-
S&KS; & JUrtpPian“»d Augusta Con
stitutioualist, please copy one month ana sena ouib
to this office,
mar 30 ts
CMki ®om
Vol. XI.
J. W. WARREN & CO. Proprietors.
MW MOB!! if MB!!!
-A_T
Mrs. DESSAU’S.
FROM THE IATE BLOCKADE SALE AT
Gra.
The goods are all superior to wlxat is
offered elsewhere, and will be sold lower
than lately. In the assortment can be
found :
Ladies’ New Huts.
New Bonnet Ribbons.
New Belts,
Bobinet Musquito Netting,
Tucking:and Dressing Combs.
Cadies’ Iloseij,
Three y’ds wide Linen Sheeting!,
Superior Bleached Shirting!.
Printed JackonetN,
Ginghams.
English and French Calicoes,
Bombazine, Alpacas,
Elegant Leroes.
OA LL -AJSTD SEE.
,c a ts
W. H. TUTT,
WHOLESALE DRUGGIST
Sib, Broad Street,
Augusta, Gra.
HAH FOR SALE AT LOW PRICES!
1,000 lbs. CASTILE SO.-IP.
200 kegs B. C. Soda
500 ounces Quinine
200 “ Morphine
100 lbs lodide Potash
25 lbs Oil Anise
1 caso Madras Indigo
100 dozen Brown Windsor *oap
3 cases Coleman’s bustard
125 dozen Mason’s Blacking
100 gross Lilly White
1 case Cantharidcs,
2 eases Gum Camphor
20 bags Pepper
1 case Powdered Ipecac
20 bbls. Eng. Copperas
10 eases Eng. Fig Blue
"0 ounce = Lunar Caustic
50 lbs Po. Rhubarb, in 2 p bottles
100 lbs Eng. (Momel, 1 lb bottles
150 lbs Eng. Blue Mass
25 bbls Epsom Salts
25 cases Scotch Snuff.
agl3 St
BROWN’S FLY SHUTTLE LOOM,
(Will Weave 30 Yards per Day.)
Card. BackLs,
SPINNING-WHEELS and fORN-SHELLEKS!
Manufactured by A, D. BROWN & CO.
ASV-Orders received by M. P. Ellis &
agl3 Ira*
QII.MOHE cfc 00.
146, Broad Street.
MAS ON HAND AND FOR SALE!
Corn, Flour, Bacon, Tobacco,
Candles, Syrup, Sugar, Coffee,
Lard, Peas, Rice, Osnaburgs,
Watches, Sheetings, Brooms.
Thread, Beeswax and Tallow.
—ALSO,—
salt, Sugar. Sheeting and Osnaburgs
TO
EXCHANGE FOR COUNTRY PRODUCE !
—ALSO,—
A Genuine Article of APPLE VINEGAR for sale.
agl2 lw*
FOR. SAIjR
-OR
HUGE (ORtOMII PRIME
-AT
-114, Broad. Street.
Coffee, Sugar,
Soda, Black Pepper,
Syrup, Potash,
Cotton Cards,
Tin-Ware, Snuff,
Salt, Sugar,
Tumblers, Candles,
GEORGIA REBEL SNFFU
Pickles, Flyßrushes.
Eggs, Butter,
; Salt Fish,
Cigars,
Toilet-Scap,
Soft-Soap,
Bar-Soap,
Chewing and Smoking Tobacco.
aug 2 t-f
FOR SALE
Or Exchange for Country Produce.
: BES 7 COTTON CARDS;
SPINNING WHEELS:
CRQCK REELS.
aglo2w JEFFERSON & HAMILTON.
[RON WIRE.
2,000 lbs. 8 and 10 Iron Wire!
For sale by
j agio 2*v JEFFERSON k HAMILTON.
1,000 Pounds Choice Brown Sugar.
TO EXCHANGE FOR
WHEAT, Flour, flora or Meal.
YV At 114. BROAD ST.
1 ag9 dst wit Columbus, Ga.
THOMAS SAVAGE, Agent, i
(At Mulford's old Stand,)
ZLsTO- 101, ST.
HIS M W Oil Hi Ml 1
Sheetings, Shirtings.
Twills, Yarns, Kinsey*,
f.nxuaray Coffee,
Tobacco, Rice.
Sails of all sizes, ;
\i',. &C.) Si> c.
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Notice!
OVfi'.-k Chief Ivsp’r Field Tka.n&p'*,
2d Dist., Macon, Aug. 8. ’O4.
All person? are warned against purchasing cap
tured or branded animals from soldiers, as all such
animals will be seised by my officers and agents
wherever found. * NORMAN 11 .SMITH,
agl3 5t Major and Chief Inspector.
: GEORGIA— Muscogee County.
! tttHEREAS, Mrs. Mary V. Davis, adnrx of Dr.
V\ George S. Davis, dec’d has filed her petition for
| leave to sell a negro woman by the name oi Maria,
about 25 years of age and her four children.
\il persons concerned are hereby notified to show
.„,. se (if any they have) why an order should not
be granted at the next September Twm of the Court
of Ordinary for said county, authorising the sale of
"SER*.-»*-*■ Julyw. « tasos
. . - Ordinary.
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Columbus, Ga., Friday Morning, August 19,°1884.
r \
Thursday Evening.
, Providence. —The war. says the Selma Re
: porter, has done much to developc our trust
j in the guardianship of the Great Spirit to
whose protecting care we are more than will
ing to resign our country in this dark hour of
peril. In the beginning of this contest, the
quick succession of Confederate victories was
• calculated to inflate us with the 3elf-sufficien
cy characteristic of short-sighted mortals, who
did not, and perhaps could not, comprehend
the magnitude of the struggle between the
belligerent sections; but now that the war
has progressed more than three long years,
intensifying daily in its aspects of ferocity, we
have been sobered down from the uncalcula
ting enthusiasm that we started with, and
have thrown aside the mere pbrenzy of trust
ing solely to human might in the great enter
prise of founding anew Government.
We do not ignore Southern valor, nor forget
the eclat of our great generals, but we do re
cognize and announce the truth, now being
felt by all, that God alone can give us deliver
ance from the perils that environ us. In this
instance, as in all others where illustrations
of God’s providence are made manifest for the
instruction of the people, it is after—not be
fore—human dependencies are abandoned. It
is a settled principle in the divine administra
tion of the affairs of men, that no effective aid
shall be vouchsafed until all the broken reeds
so apt to be leaned upon by mortals, are given
up. The object is first to show us that we
cannot save ourselves, as thereby we will the
better appreciate the deliverance wrought out
for us by the higher power. But even then it
is difficult to repress the pride of the human
heart, so anxious are we to glorify ourselves,
instead of the Great Being w r ho cradles the
destinies of empires in the hollow of His hand.
We are of the opinion that a devout recogni
tion of the good providence of God would
almost instantly inaugurate the era of peace.
It is said that Grant, after finishing tho reading
of the despatch announcing McPherson's death,
retired to his tent, weeping like a child, and with
tears streaming down his cheeks, declared that the
country had lost its ablest soldier and lie 1m best
friend. McPherson was certainly an able man and
j a gentleman worthy of a better cause.
McClellan.— The New York Post of the 3th in
; stant, publishes a special Washington despatch to
i the effect that the War Department has authorized
| McClellan to raise one hundred thousand men im-
I mediately for special service under his command.—
1 The report is considered very doubtful.
The Lynchburg Republican, of the 10th says that
, four hundred and ninety more Yankees, captured
! by general Early, were brought to that city yes-
I terday on the Orango cars. This makes the num
ber sent hereby Gen. E. foot up about one thou
sand five hundred. Wc learn tha t more arc still to
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. —Wc learn l'rom
tire Washington Chronicle, of the 9th, that Mr.
Spate, President of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal,
arrived in “Washington on Mondtfy last. He states
that the damage done to tho Canal and to tho boats
by the late rebel raid, will keep back over a hun
dred thousand tons of coal from the Washington
market this season. Workmen have been employed
upon the badly damaged section of the Canal at An
tiotam. but the rebel forces in the vicinity have
driven them away.
Major General Gilmore, late commander of
the 10th army corps, U.S. Army, was thrown
from his horse, while charging a detachment
of Gen. Early's command near Washington,
and fractured itis ankle. T’ity it wasn't his
neck.
— MJ - • tm* :
northern Intelligence
Richmond, August 15. Baltimore
papers of the 13th have been received, but
contain nothing definite from the Shenan
doah Valley. It is believed that Early is
retiring before superior forces, which are
advancing against him.
A telegram from New York reports the
capture and destruction of seven vessels,
about sixty miles southwest of Sandy Hook
by the new Confederate steamer Talla
hassee.
An arrival from New Orleans brings a
report that the Confederates are in strong
force outside of Algiers, where they arc
fortifying their position, with the inteu
tion of making it a base of operations.
Guerrillas continue very active in Ken
tucky.
Stanton has not resigned, but says hav
ing been solicited to accept the office, he
wHI not voluntarily relinquish it.
Petitions from Ohio and other States
are in circulation requesting a postpone--
ment of the draft until efforts are attemp
ted by negotiation to secure peace, based
upon the Constitution and the Union.
The Herald thinks the time has arrived
when the Administration, in behalf of
peace and reunion, may advantageously
open the door to an armistice and a con
vention of all the States, and advises Lin
coln to send Commissioners to Richmond.
The Paris press, under reserve, an
nounces the conclusion of peace between
Germany and tymmark. but the terms are
not known.
The Confederate loan is still advancing.
United States stocks are depressed.
Richmond, Aug. 15. —A special to the
Whig from Petersburg to-day says, “The
Washington Chronicle of the 12th has full
accounts of the reeent explosion at City
Point.
Tt savs the explosion was tne most ter
rific of "the kind in the history of gun
powder Two barges loaded with ammu
nition of various kiuds moored near City
Point, were blown to atoms, with all their
contents, consisting of about three thou
; sand barrels. Shot, shell and canister,
. were hurled in all diriections. Anew
warehouse, five huudred feet long and fifty
, feet wide, and one wharf boat loaded with
commissary -tores, was shattered into
fragments.
The Adams Express office, adjoining
the Government buildings, and a train of
cars, were also destroyed. Fifty four per
sons were killed and one hundred and
i eight wounded —mostly black
The Disaster Before Peters
burg.
A CANDID CONFESSION FROM A YANKEE SOURCE.
For once in our life we must give the New
\ ork Tribune credit/or the following remark
ably and candid confession of Grant's
disaster before Petersburg. It is not only in
teresting as telling the truth, but valuable as
exposing the falsehood and deception by
which the Yankee papers try to conceal the
defeats and reverses of their armies :
[From our Special Correspondent.]
Army of the Potomac. Angust 3, 1864.
Twilight yesterday was not dark enough to
hide the shame of the true soldiers of the ar
my of the Potomac, kindled by the reading
of the first accounts in the New York city pa
pers of the last attempt made to take Peters- I
burg by storm. The displayed headings— :
‘‘Explosion of a Mine Under the Rebel i
Works!” “A Battery of Sixteen Guns Blown *
Up!” “The Grand Assault on the Rebel De- i
senses!” “Three Tiers of Earthworks Car- !
ried!”—provoked exclamations of astonish
ment muffled under mortification and sorrow.
Glorious news from Petersburg: Why, oh
swindled people ! the ink that made the lie
that gave to false journalism in New York its
last sensation, was not yet spread on the types,
while every drummer boy and mule-driver in
the army of the Potomac knew thafa crown
ing disaster and a crowing disgrace had hap
pened to it, and the number of our killed,
wounded and missing was whispered among
them to be five thousand.
“Three tiers of earthworks carried!’ Aye,
carried a3 Pharoah’s cavalry and war char
ioteers carried the Red Sea—carried precisely
in that way. You murdered demigods of July
30 the hands of love or of patriotism that seek
your remains must go down full fathoms five.
“Glorious News from Petersburg!” A skill
fully engineered volcanic upheaval of the for
tified earth that should have opened wide to
the Ninth corps the gates of victory, was con
verted by imbecility and cowardice into a
yawning crater of a volcano which swallowed
up with the casualties of battle five thousand
men. “The Grand Assault on the Rebel De
fenses!” Why, oh my poor friends and broth
er men at the North, the very orderlies around
headquarters enquire of each other in under
tones if somebody is not to be hung for that
affair of Saturday, and the negioes who-black
boots and wait on tables, criticise' the crime
and blundering of the 30th, with the feeling
which the useless destruction of soldiers in
spired, and the impatience of men who wit
ness the wanton waste of successes and op
portunities.
No ; Grant’s perfectly devised plan of draw
ing the bulk of Lee's army out of Petersburg
by a feint movement upon Richmond .by the
north bank of the James, and his plan of
opening a passage for his troops into Peters
burg by overturning with gunpowder the
rebel works nearest his own lines—each wise,
each feasible, both perfectly successful—have
both been defeated and wasted by subordi
nates. 1 tell no secret when I say that Grant
wrapped himself in silence on Monday, and
that his heart was guawed at by disgust and
rage—and the statement of this fact is the
measure of a great soldier’s appreciation of
the misconduct which turned an accomplished
victory into a disgraceful and ruinous dis
aster.
What was the affair of Saturday ? I shall
tell it only in the outlines, for it is mydesiie
to do no wrong, yet ray determination to fell
the truth. So. until I gather tho sure facts of
the case, 1 will oaly say generally, that the
commander of the corps charged with the duty
and entrusted with the coverted honor of ma
king the assault, did not accompany the troops
that led it; that not a commander of a divis
ion of the corps accompanied the troops ; that
the work which their absence thus discredit
ed and impaired was left entirely to brigade
commanders; that the charge made by the
leading force not supported for three quarters
of an hour; that when the support came up to
and entered in the crater produced by the ex
plosion of the mine, it found it full of the ad
vance, in a necessarily disordered state; that
the delay in supporting the leading charge
gave the rebels time to recover from the con
fusion and terror caused by the explosion : to
gather oppose the breach all their available
force ; to drive back into the crater the force
that had advanced beyond it; to train upon
tho fatal pit all their artillery ; to rain into it
a fire of musketry, grape and canister that tore
remorselessly and without the possibility of
errflr of aim, the solid mass of wriggling, heav
ing, twisting, crawling, helpless soldiers, black
and white, that, inextricably intermingled, de
fied all attempts to practically extricate them.
The survivors crawled out of the;hell-hole one
by odo. The rebels swooped upon the pit be
fore it could be captured. lam assured that
we left in it of dead and of wounded and cap
! tured, and have under treatment this side of if
of wounded, 5,000 men.
[Special Dispatch to the Chicago Times.]
Civil War In Illinois
Hillsboro’, Montgomery Cos., 111., t
Tuesday, Aug. 2, 1864. /
On Friday morning a baud of citizens from
Montgomery county, 111., numbering about five
hundred men. well mounted and well armed,
unde' 1 the chief command of Deputy Sheriff
Stevenson, with Capts. Spark3, Welis and
Blair, as subordinate commanders, marched in
the direction of Van Burensburg, southeast of
Hillsboro’, against the notorious Col. Clingman
and his band of guerillas. On Friday night
they encamped near the edge of Fayette coun
ty, below Van Burensburg, pickets were
thrown out, aud our men lay all night on
their arms. On Saturday mcruing they march
ed to Green's Creek, and from thence scouted
thoroughly the adjacent territory. They en
countered the enemy several times during the
day. A little east of Van Burensburg our
boys were fired upon by a band of cutthroats,
numbering about thirty: and two men, James
Jeffries and John Ferguson, of Litchfield, were
seriously wounded—the former in the shoul
der and the latter in the thigh, both with
buckshot.
The advance guard encountered a similar
party eight miles northwest of Vandalia, near
Yarbar Springs and received and returned
their fire. Our boys killed one horse and
wounded several guerillas, how many is not
yet known. The rebeD then took to the bu3h.
During Saturday the men were scattered
through the woods and captured about twenty
prisoners, five horses, and a lot of camp equip
page taken from a camp from which the ene
my had hardly departed.
On Sunday the command returned to Hills
boro’. Before leaving they discharged all but
five of the prisoners. The five on their arrival
at Hillsboro] were admitted to bail iu the sum
of SI,OOO each to appear for trial at the next
term of the circuit court to be held in Hills
boro', in September. But Davis, the man who
carries the Democratic party of Montgomery
county in htis breeclr tpocket. bailed the en
tire lot.
There were citiiecs in the vicinity of Van Bu
rensburg who agreed to deliver those of their neigh
bor- who were implicated in these disturbances,
that have distinguished this portion if the State,
to the civil authorities this morning. Some were
thui delivered teat night. More wUI be delivered
to-day, but the great majority have taken to the
s4.oojPer Month
J. W. WARREN, Editor
! Okanr bottoms. These desperadoes are led by a
, man who calls himself Col. Clingman, and claims
to act under a commission from the Confederate
Government, llis men arc sworn in the Confed
erate service.
There isanother band of horse thieves, burglars,
murderers deserters from both armios, and Cop
perheads in the same vicinity, under command of
tho notorious John CarliD, nephew of Dan Morris
on, of Illiuois, and Colonel in the rebel service.
Carlin has been twice a prisoner in our hands—
the Last time at Alton, from which place he broke
prison and escaped about four weeks ago.
The whole country round about this place is
greatly excited. The citizens of Hillsboro’ are in
momentary expectation of attack. The town has
been patrolled nightly for more than a week, aud
all the roads leading thereto strongly)picketed.
They fear tho rebels will execute their throats of
burning the town.
baited States Marshal Phillips, of Springticld, !
is now here, and it is expected a regiment of in- |
fantry will arrive to-day or to-morrow.
Marshal Phillips made an important arrango- j
ment at Ramsey yesterday, of which I have not ‘
yet learned the particulars. The telegraph line I
running through Hillsboro’ is not in operation, i
and I send this by express to Mattoon.
LATER.
Special dispatch to the Chicago Tribune.]
Hillsboro, Montgomery Cos., 111. }
Tuesday, Aug. 2, 1864. ]
The citizens mentioned in a former dispatch who
| to have been delivered up to the civil authori
| ties to-day, have failed to put in an appearance.
A delegation reached this village this momiug
| from the insurgents, in the vicinity of Van Burens
; burg, with a demand from Col. Clingman for the
! return of tho five horses captured by our men on
! Saturday last, and a threat to burn tho town if
! the demaud was not complied with. The horses
! will not be given up.
Tlie Immediate Front.
The Lines. —Yesterday was a quiet
day along the lines. The little artillery
and musketry firing, heard at intervals,
has become monotonous and excites but
little attention, as it is generally conceded
it can contribute but little, it any, to the
solution of the great result now’ being
contended for.
The opinion prevailed yesterday that
the enemy was continuing to mass his
forces in front of our centre, and to some
extent of our right. He continues to
hold his lines in the vicinity of the Sand
town road, but certainly not in such j
strength as during the past week. Slier*
man tried to reach the rear of our army
; by a movement around its right, in which
he was foiled, after a disastrous battle,
i and compelled to contract his lines in that
| direction ; then h? essayed to get round
i our left, but finding preparations made to
! receive him there, that move was aban*'
doned What next ? It is evident, from
; the prevaricating movements of the great
| flanker, he is at last non-plussed and
; brought to a stand-still. Ilis every move
! for the last few days indicates this.
The City. —We have enjoyed another
| twentyffbur hours of comparative quiet,
.so far as the enemy are concerned. Very
j few shells were thrown yesterday, but
during the night their visitations were
; more numerous, though nothing near so
: much so as several previous nights. No
! casualties occurred. A slow fire has been
i kept up this morning. Whether the en*
| emy has found something else necessary
j to maintain his position before the city, or
| lias become ashamed of the practice of
| shelling defenceless women and children,
lis matter of conjecture, but certainly
something has contributed to render him
more quiet.
Throughout the last few nights much
better order has prevailed in the city.
Stringent orders have been issued with
regard to skulkers from the lines, and the
consequence is, a soldier without a com
petent pass is speedily gobbled up, and
his prowling propensities blocked. Scarcer
ly a straggler is to be seen upon the streets
this morning.
Removals from the city are still being
! made, and Atlanta to-day presents but
I few of the busy features witnessed a year
i ago. Tho few citizens now left are fully
| realizing the realities of war.— Memphis
j Appeal , I Qth.
The Case of Manager Oghen.—
Considerable space in the local columns of
the Richmond press have been taken up
during the past two weeks with the trial
of this case before Judge Halyburton, of
the Confederate States District Court.
Mr. Ogden claims exemption from militas
ry service because of being an undomicih
ed Englishman. Judge Halyburton de
livered his decision in the ease on the
llth inst., that the prisoner had never
put himself in motion to return to the
domicil of his origin, therefore he must
resume the domicil of his adoption to be
his place of permanent abode. Under
these circumstances the Judge was of
opinion that accused was not entitled to
his discharge, and he should therefore
remand him to the custody of the enroll-*
ing officer. Judge Lyons took exceptions
to the decision, and the case was continu
ed until the Saturday morning following.
From the facta in the case, as reported, we
do not think though the Judge will find
any cause to change his decision.
A Place to Live At.— The following is an ex
tract from a letter published in the Wilmington
Journal, from Shelbyville, North Carolina, the
writer being new an inmate of a hotel there. As
our readers may have doubts as to whether there is
an such eating in tho world as that described, we
can only state that the Journal i? a respectable and
reliable paper:
At five bells in the morning, all hands are piped
to breakfast. Bill of Fare: Coffee and tea, and
cream, broiled chickens, fried chickens, stewed
chickens, ham and eggs, omelettes, boiled and fried
eg 4B, lamb hash, cold mutton, hot rolls, butter cakes,
tea biscuit, butter biscuit, milk, syrup, cold water,
Ac. At bells, p. m., all hands to dinner—soup,
vegetables, roast mutton, roast fowls, stewed and
fried chickens, cold ham, potatoes in various stjles
onions in various styles, squashes in various styles
cucumbers, beets, biscuits, fresh butter, white fine
bread, apple pies, peach pies, blackberry pies sweet
imlk and butter milk, fruit, desert. At five bells
P. m , tea and all kinds of nice fixings: clean rooms!
clean beds, clean house and a plenty of servants,
and all for ten dollar» a day.
Another Explosion. —lV e learn from the Dem
ocrat, that tho “N. C, Powder Mill,” located twelve
miles from Charlotte, near the Tuekascege Ford,
was again blown up last Thursday. Three more—
one white man and two inularioes wore blown up
in the Mill. The white man; Abernathy, and one
of the negroes, were killed. Others were badly and
probably mortaHy injured, has been but a short
time since the Mill was put m operation after the
first blowing up.
How They j>o It.
The following extract from the New
York correspondence of the London Times
exhibits no unfamiliar feature in the hoa
cussing enlistment! of the Federal army;
Among the many acts of cruelty and
wrong whhh the Federal Government
has encouraged, if it have not authorized,
by ite payment of a capitation fee to every
citizen who brings in a recruit, the fol
lowing, which has just been brought to
my notice, deserves record, not only be»
cause publication of the facts may be the
means of rescuing the victim, but because
;it may put other British subjects npoa
j their guard against the kiduappers of this
city. Some months ago, on the arrival of
the steamship China, a seaman named
William Edwards, a native of Wales, a
respectable' and well conducted man, who
had been six years in the service of the
company, and who had married a young
wife at Liverpool a few months previously,
went ashore to take a warm bath, which
he had been recommended to do by the
doctor. He never returned to the ship,
nor could the most persevering inquiries
elicit any facts to account for his absence
That he had not intended to quit his em
ployment was considered certain, because
lie had left his trunk, clothes and other
little effects behind, aud had not applied
for the wages due to him. It was sup*
posed by some that he had fallen into the
river and been drowned; and by others
that ho had been ‘‘hoenssed” by kidnap
pers and enlisted in the Federal army
while in a state of unconsciousness. The
last supposition proved to be correct. Ilis
wife at Liverpool, after several weeks of
painful auxiety, received a letter from him
in Welsh, dated from Ricker’s Island,
near New York, informing her that, after
taking his bath, he had been accosted in
the street by some gentlemanly looking
persons, who claimed a previous acquaint
ance with him and invited him to take a
drink. He drank with them accordingly,
and remembered nothing more until he
found himself at Ricker’s Island, clad in
the uniform of the Federal army. He
added that he was then under orders with
the rest of the regiment to proceed to
Carolina. Mrs. Edwards transmitted the
letter to Messrs. Cunard & Cos., in thir
dly, by whom application was immediately
made to the British Consul to procure the
man’s releaso from General Dix and the
military authorities in command of the
department. General Dix has promised
to make inquiry, but as the letter of Ed
wards did not state to which of the two
Carolinas he was bound, there are difficul
ties in the ease which may breed delays
The kidnappers doubtless received not on
ly the capitation fee but the bounty money
that would have been payable to the poor
fellow if he had voluntarily enlisted, and
registered him in a false name to diminish
by that mcaus the chances of their own
detection. Any application that may be
made to Gen. Butler in North Carolina
or to the officer in command before
Charleston, in South Carolina—for Ed»
wards may be in either of those States—
will in due course be politely acknowl
edged, to the effect that no such man as
Edwards is known, but that, if discovered,
he will, on proof of his identity, be set at
liberty. In the meantime, however, this
military white slave may either die of
swamp fever, or he killed in battle, fight
ing against his will for the abolition of
black slavery and for the consolidation of
the Federal Government. Is it surprising
that victory does not oftener reward the
Northern cause when its armies are large
ly leavened with material such as this, in
addition to still greater numbers of merce
nary cutthroats, who have no interest in
the strife, and who, without the induces
ment of bounty money, or in their case
blood money, would not lift a hand to sup
port it, were it the holiest cause that evei
ennobled humanity ?
A Happv Surprise. —Tho family of Midship
man Anderson, of Savannah, have received letters
from Europe, which assure then of his safety. He
was not killed on board the Alabama, as reported
i» the English papers, hut escaped unhurt, and at
the date of tho letter was at Southampton, on
duty aud in good health.
Intelligence has also been received of the -afe
ty of Midshipmen Bullock and Maffitt.
A Good W ork. —The Louisville Journal states
that within the month past, the rebels have captur
ed trains and destroyed government property on
the line of the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad
to the amount of several millions of dollars.
Sorgho and Cattle. —Tho question whethet
sorgho sugar cane is injurious to cattle, has been
frequently asserted and as frequently denied.—
The Richmond Enquirer has an instance which
certainly establishes the former position to a de
gree which should warn fanners and others to
keep their cattle away from it. Mr. J, A. Catch
ens, of Nansemond, informs the Enquirer that a
few nights ago, ten of his cattle got into a field of
the sorgho cane, and five out of the ten died from
eating it before day.
strike Among the Grave Diggers.— The
Irish grave diggers employed at the Hollywood
Cemetery at Richmond, recently struck for higher
wages. They were at once discharged without
their demand being complied with, and a set of
negroes put in their places. Soon afterwards the
white grave diggers made a descent upon the ne
groes, beat several very badly, and drove the rc=t
off.
The authorities since then have beeu compel!
ed to obtain workiug hands from the penitentiary,
and the work of interring the dead from that time,
went on without interruption.
Camp Rumors. —During the last forty-eight
hours we have had constant rumors of successes of
a body of Confederate -avalry, said to be opera
ting in the enemy’s rear. One report was that
some two miles of the track had been burned near
Ackwortb, and another that the Etowah bridge
had been burned. We learn nothing of the kind
has been officially ascertained, and, therefore, can
say nothing as to the truth of the report? that are
in circulation. —Appeal 16 th.
Amusing Scknk.—An amusing* scene w as
witnessed on the battle-field of Monocacy.—
After the battle was oyer, and the Yankees
had fled, leaving their dead and wounded up
on the field, a wounded soldier of the Federal
army appealed to a chaplain in our service
for assistance and a draught of water. The
chaplain very promptly gave him water, and
was rendering him assistance, when an
Irishman, belonging to Hays’ Louisiana bat
talion, passing along, asked thechaptain what
he wa3 doing. “Relieving this poor fellow,
said he, “who is badly wounded.’’ “Leave
here, ye spalpeen," replied the Irishman, “get
a musket and go to work, aud don’t be afthtr
trying to bring the divits too afther we’ve
killed ’em.”
Exchange op Prisoners. —We understand
that an exchange of prisoners, stipplemenlarT
to that by which we recently recovered 6°
mauy valuable officers, will take place t.o-da?
at Poit Royal Ferry. The exchange arrange”
meats, on our side, will be conducted by Col
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