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COLbWiiV S i’lMhS Published Daily ('Sundays exacted) at the rate of $4.00 per mouth, or sl2 lor three months. No subscription received for a longer term than hr re months, . ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements inserted for $2 00 per square for each insertion. W here advertisements are inserted a month, the charge will be S3O per square. Announcing candidates S2O, which must invariably paid in advance. Headquarters Conscript Service, 1 Augusta, Ga., August Ist, 1864, / General Orders! No. 44. ; I. The attention of Enrolling Officers is directed to Circular No 25, Bureau of Conscription (current series) herewith published, withdrawing from this Department and transferring to the General Com manding Reserves, all jurisdiction over persons of the Reserve classes, except such as are strictly en titled to exemption under third paragraph, and the first clause of the fourth paragraph of the tenth Section of Act of Congress, entitled an "‘Act to organize Forces to serve during the War.” 11. Enrolling Officers will observe that they are l'laced under, and subject to the order* of the Gen eral Commanding Reserves, so far as this class of Conscripts is concerned, with the exceptions above stated, and are enjoined to give all his orders and commands relative thereto prompt attention and obedience; but they will bear in mind that the per formance of these duties will in no case excuse them (or the non-performance of their more appropriate duties as Enrolling Officers. <ll. Their attention is further called to General Orders No. 13, “Headquarters Georgia Reserve,” and strict compliance with its provisions directed. District Enrolling Officers will immediately m. kc out and forward to these Headquarters a full and accurate report as required by second paragraph of said, order. WM. M. BROWNE, Colonel and Commd’t. Conrk derate States of America, i War Department, Bureau of Conscription, f Richmond, Va., June 30, ’64. ‘ Circular, . No. 25. • Commandants of Conscripts will forthwith com municate to Enrolling Officers those instructions made by order of the Secretary of War. Ist. In the class of Reserves Enrolling Officers will under no circumstances receive applications lor, or grant details until after the organization of the companies, and the transmission of the rolls to the. General’s commanding of tho Reserves and then only under instructions from said Generals com manding. By a dec sion of the Secretary of War the juris diction of the Conscript authorities over the classes of Reserves extends simply and exclusively to grunting exemptions prescribed by the Act of Con gress, entitled an act to organize Forces to serve during the War. These exemptions are provided for in the 10th motion of said act, but these shall be excluded from these exemptions thus authorized to be granted in the Reserve classes all contained in the last clause of the Ith Paragraph of said section from the words “In addition to the foregoing exemp tions 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 tho Secretary of War, are to obey the orders of General commanding Reserves, but no Enrolling Officer under any plea will bo held to be excused from the full performance of his reg ular duties prescribed by and under the orders of this Bureau, and no assertion that duties under or ders of the General commanding Reserves have prevented the duo performance of other duties will be accepted by this Bureau. Tho Secretary of War has directed that all de tails heretofore granted inconsistent with these in fractions, will be promptly revoked and the men placed on the company rolls. Paragraph XIV of Circular No. 8, Bureau of Con -eription, current series, is hereby revoked. By command of Brig, Gen. JOHN S. PRESTON, Sup’t. i Signed,] C. B. Duffield, A. A.G. aug!2 5t diaeigc of Schedule. 1 )('■ eiok Engineer and Superintendent, ) Charleston and Savannah Railroad, > Charleston, June 7,18(54.) : iN THURSDAY, June 9,1864, and until further v" notice, the Schedule of the Passenger train will boas follow, viz: Leave Charleston w 9.45, a. in. Arrive in Savannah 5.40, p. m. Leave Savannah 5.80, a. m. Arrive in Charleston 1.15, p.% m. This Train makes direct connections, going north nd south, with the Northeastern Railroad at Char leston, and the Central Railroad at the Junction. 11. S. HAINES. .lime 14 ts Engineer and Superintendent. Change of Schedule. j kN and after Sunday, June 19th, the Trains on ’ ‘ the >'useogeo Railroad will run as follows: PASSENGER TRAIN : Leave Columbus 6 45 P. M. Arrive :tt Macon ; 3 25 A. M. Leave Macon 8 10 P. M, Arrive at Columbus 4 25 A. &. FREIGHT TRAIN: Leave Columbus 5 00 A. M, Arrive at Columbus 4 55 A. M. W.L. CLARK, mar 19 ts Supt. Muscogee R. R. COLUMBUS TO WEST POINT! On and after the 30th inst., the Passenger Train <*n the Montgomery A West Point R. 11. will Leave Columbus.,.. 2 40 p. m. Arrive at AVcst Point .....8 00 Leave W4el Point 3 50 Arrive at Columbus... 9 10 Freight Train will Leave Columbus...s 50 a. m. Arrive at Columbus 12 23 J. E. APPLER, _July 23 ts ; Agent. STOLEN! j’llE OWNER of a BLIND HORSE stolen by l a desorter* can hear of him by applying at the Enrolling Office. WM. L. DA\ IS. agll lw Capt. A En. Off. Kiwnv v: VfEGRO boy CHARLEY; about 25years old, ycl il low complexion, hair nearly straight, below or dinary intelligence ; left Mr. 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. He originally came from Charleston, S. C. A suitable reward will be paid for his delivery at this office, or in any safe jail and information sent to me at this office. JAMES M. RUSSELL. Co’.umLu’s Gil., aug 1 tf* REMOVAL! » U A.VE removed my Office to a room over Gun -1 by s Stove, where I will be pleased to wait on Patients requiring Medioal or Surgical treatment. aglSlm* , T. J. WORD, M.l). S3O Reward. 1 W ILL pay the above reward for 808, a black * boy, about 21 years old. He has been out three : or four weeks, and is supposed to be lurking about 1 the city. JNO. 11. SASS. iy 4 ts TO HIRE! * FOh the balance of the year fifteen able-bodied Negro Men and seventeen Negro Women. Apply soon to R. M. GI N BY, Ag’t, jol 28 ts Notice to Debtors and Cred itors. i T,T persons indebted to the estate of Ne&born \ Jones, deceased, are required to make linme iu payment, and those having claims against said estate^arerreq uired to render them in terms of the law to the BENNING, Adm’r. By MARY H BENNING. Agent. ju!2B vrOt _ Shoemakers’ and Saddlers’ tools. 'PHE UNDERSIGNED having commenced the -*■ manufacture of the above named articles in tnu city, are prepared to fill orders for the same. Office on Angle street, a few doors above <• ' ■ Hospital. HARRISON, BEDELL & €O. Reference— Maj. F. W. Dillard. Mobile Register, Mississippian and Augusta Con stitutionalist, please copy one month and send bills te this office, mar 30 ts Vol. XL J. W. WARREV & CO. Proprietors j. w . WARREN, Editor NEW GOODS!! NEW GOODS!I! .A.T Mrs. DESSAU’S. FROM THE LATE BLOCKADE SALE AT A/ugusta, Ga. The goods arc all superior to what is offered elsewhere, and will be sold lower than lately. In the assortment can be found : Ladies’ lVew Hat*, New Oonnet Ribbons, New Belts, Bobiuet Musquito Netting, Tucking and Dressing Combs, Cadies’ Hoscit , Three y’ds wide Linen Sheeting, Superior Bleached Shirting, Printed Jackonets, Ginghams, English and French Calicoes, Bombazine, Alpacas, Elegant Ceroes. O.A LL -A-IISriD SIEIE3. je 21 ts W. 11. TI TT, WHOLESALE DRUGGIST 316, Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. HAS FOR SALE AT LOW PRICES! 1,000 lbs. CASTILE SOAP. - - . 200 kegs B. C. Soda 500 ounces Quinine 200 “ Morphine 100 lbs lodide Potash 25 lbs Oil Anise 1 case Madras Indigo 100 dozen Brown Windsor Soap 3 cases Coleman’s Mustard 125 dozen Mason’s Blacking 100 gross Lilly White 1 case Cantharides, 2 cases Gum Camphor 20 bags Pepper 1 case Powdered Ipecac -20 bbls. Eng. Copperas 10 cases Eng. Fig Blue 50 ounces Lunar Caustic 50 lbs Po. Rhubarb, in 2 p bottles 100 lbs Eng. Chlomel, 1 lb bottles 150 lbs Eng. Blue Mass 25 bbls Epsom Salts 25 cases Scotch Snuff. agl3 3t BROWN’S FLY SHUTTLE LOOM, (Will Weave 30 Yards per Day.) Ostrei. Bacls.s 7 SPINNING-WHEELS and CORN-SHELLERS! Manufactured by A. D. BROWN A CO. received by M. P, Eleis A Co.'&Si agl3 lm* CS-XXalkSI <310.33 cte Oo«, 146, Broad Street. HAS ON HAND AND FOR SALE! Corn, Flour, Bacon, Tobacco, • Candles, Syrup, Sugar, Coffee, Lard, Peas, Rice, Osnaburgs, Watches, Sheetings, Brooms, Spun Thread, Beeswax and Tallow. —ALSO.r- Salt, Sugar, Sheeting and Osnaburgs TO EXCHANGE FOR COUNTRY PRODUCE! —ALSO,— A Genuine Article of APPLE VINEGAR for sale. agl2 lw* FOR. SALE -OR EXCHANGE FORCOUNTRY PRODUCE -AT -114, Broad. Street. Coffee, Sugar, Soda, Black Pepper, Syrup, Potash, Cotton Cards, Tin-Ware, Snuff, Salt, Sugar, Tumblers, Candles, GEORGIA REBEL SNFFU Pickles, Flysßrushes, Eggs, Butter, Salt Fish, Cigars, Toilet-Soap, Soft-Soap, Bar-Soap, (hewing and Smoking Tobacco. nug 2 ts * FOR SALE Or Exchange for Country Produce. BES 2 COTTON CARDS: SPINNING WHEELS . CLOCK REELS. agio 2w JEFFERSON A HAMILTON. IRON WIRE. 2,000 lbs. 8 anti 10 Iron Wire! For sale by agio 2 \v JEFFERSON A HAMILTON. 1,000 Pounds Choice Brown Sugar. TO EXCHANGE FOR \V IIEAT, Flour. Corn or Meal. V> At 114, BROAD ST. agO dst wit Columbus, Ga. THOMAS SAVAGE, Agent, (At Mulford’s old Stand,) nsro. 101, :b:ro.a.:d st. Htsmssuf. imaifliNi.! Sheetings, Shirtings. Twills, Yarns, L.lns*eys. Lnsruaray Coffee, Tobacco, Rice. Xalls of all sizes, mam **■’■•%>**■ ‘ Notice! Office Chief Ixsr’R Field Titaxsf’x, 2d Dist., Ma on, Aug. S, ’64. All persons are warned against purchasing cap tured or branded animals from soldiers, as all such animals will be seized by my officers and agents wherever found. NORMAN W . SMI 111, a gl3 5t Major and Chief Inspector. GEORGIA— Muscogee County. WHEREAS, Jfrs. Mary V. Davis, adm’x of Dr. W George S. Davis, dec and has filed her petition -or leave to sell a negro woman by the name ot..'lana, about 25 years ot age and her torn- children. \ll persons concerned are hereby notified .0 .-how can-e (if anv they have) why an order should not be -ranted at the next September Term of the Court of Ordinary for said county, authorizing t.ie sale sa Given under my hand, j? 4 2m * 6rdi * ary ' Columbus, Ga Tuesday Morning, August 23,1864. „ Headquarters Army of Tenn. Office, Chief of Staff, Aug. 13, ’64. Circular: Officers and soldiers belonging to Regiments of this Army now absent, from whatever cause, are ealled upon to returp at once to their commands.— The commanding General promises to use his good offices to obtain pardon for such as may be improp erly absent, where they voluntarily rejoin. By command of Gen. HOOD, F-. A. Shoup, Chief of Staff. 19 3t 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 OM Currency at 662-3 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 $501,000,000 lo.an at $135 for tho new currency or the old at 66 2-3 cents on the dollar. The principal and interest of this Jioan 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, augl lm Depositary. notice. Headquarters Post, / Columbus, Ga., Aug. 14, 1864. S General Orders,) No. 5. } 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. 0. DAWSON, Major Comd’g Post. agls Tt X NEW-BOOKS JTJST PUBLISHED BY EVANS & COGSWELL, COLUMBIA, S. C. THE SPIRIT OF MILITARY" INSTITUTIONS; By Marshal Marmont. Translated from the latest Paris edition by Frank Schaller, olonel 22d Regiment Mississippi Infantry. Price So.- One third off to the trade. IXFAXTRI JL'ACTICS, For Brigade, Bivision, and Army orps, by Gen Casey, U. S. Army. Pronounced the best work of the kind in the language. Illustrated with 29 Lith ographed Plates, and well bound. Price $5. One third off to the trade. CHISOLM’S SlllOClil, Being a third edition of this valuable work. Splen didly illustrated, and finely bound. Price $lO. One third off to the trade. The editions of all of these valuable works me under 2,000 copies, and those in want will do well to send in their orders at once. ALSO; General Orders, A. & I. G.’s Oflice, up to Ist April, 1864. Pri’ce $5. One-third off to the trade. Andrew ’s Light Artillery Drill Splendidly illustrated. Price $4. One-third off to the trade. Any of these books will be sent free of postage on receipt of the price, in new issue, or the old at the discount, EVANS & COGSWELL, Julj 6 3t Publishers. THE ATLANTA MUttßEmiW The undersigned proprietor of the ATLANTA Daily and Weekly Intelligencer, announces to the public that he has made arrange ments for the publication of these Journals in this city (Afaeon) and that in a few days subscribers to the same will be furnished as usual with their pa pers : Correspondents, advertisers and all persons hav ing business with the XnsrTTE!II J T_ I ZC3-EISrO ER will pleasse address their communications to The Intelligencer Oflice, Macon, Georgia. All JOB and GOVERNMENT WORK will be resumed at an early day. JARED I. WHITAKER, Proprietor. jul27 It mtlSißufli FOR SALE! LITE have for sale 49 reams of Letter Paper, and rY 2,000 small Pocket Blank Books, at Wholesale or Retail. Paper, SSO per Ream: Blank Books, $l5O retail, 75 cts. wholesale. Apply at agfftf : THIS OFFICE. STOLE*, IpROM my house, last night, two Cheeks on the Agency of the Union Bank, in this city, drawn by J. M. Mulden, Jr., Lt. Ac.: one No. 185, for SB4O, and the other No. 186, for SI2OO. All persons are warned pgainst trading for said checks, as payment has been stopped and Duplicates applied for. agl9 2t* T. KNOW LES. STRAIT TITLE. T LOST from my office, on Thursday, a small po- I ney built brown mare Mule, eight or nine*years old; in good order; no marks recollected, except a collar mark on the point of her shoulder. A reason able reward will be paid for her. ag2o3t* WILE\ WILLIAMS. 85.000 REWARD! ’THE above reward will be pail for the arrest and L production before the Coroner's C- urt. poosa county, Ala., of one WM. A. PA I LK, who murdered my husband, Benjamin Gib- m, on Mon day night, Ist >t August. Said Paulk is a resident of Macon county, near Union Springs, aged about 55 years, about 5 feet 9 inches inheighth, stout built, fair complexion, dark hair and blue eyes. Believed to be a deserter from the 2d Ala. cavalry. JULIA A. GIBSON, Near Tallassce, Tallapoosa eo., Ala. agS lm 581,000 Reward. OTOLEN from my headquarters near Atlanta. Ga., 0 my Mare, bright bay, bald face, black mane and tail and black legs, with the exception of two small white spots bn the inside : each hind carries a high head and altogether is a very scy looking an imal under the saddle. I will pay >: - for her de livery to me at this place or to Maj. Geri. Cheat ham, Army of Tennessee. >f (■: information so that I can gdt her. And for the detection <1 the thief that stole her. B. J. BUTLER. agl? Iw M aj. and C. S. Holiday Evening. FOR CHATTAHOOCHEE The Steamer Indian will leave for Chattahoochee Tuesday morning at 8 o’clock. *♦ ♦ ♦ Thf. Raid on thf. M. & Rrii. Rqad.—From passengers down from Griffin, we get some further particulars (says the Macon Confederate of the 21st) in regard to the raid on the Macon & Western Railroad. It first appeared at Bear Creek, ten miles the other side of Griffin and immediately com menced destroying the road. At last accounts the Yankees had been attacked by Jackson’s cavalry and a fight was progressing, but none of the particulars were known. The force is estimated at from twelve hundred to three thousand, the highest number not credited by hardly any one. We expect this whole raid to be in Vamp Ogle thorpe in a few days with Gen. Marcus J. Wright as Commander-in-Chief. A vessel in the port of New York has the yel low fever on board, and great fears are entertained by the people that it will spread. It can hardly prove as fatal to the Yankees as the “black” fever which has been raging in the North for years. The people of New .York are dreading a Con federate raid, on Buffalo from Canada. Dix says he is aware of the plot, but has no means to defeat it, and the Mayor of Buffalo has protested against the removal of the 74th legiment from that city. [From the Richmond Whig, 10th.] The News. OPERATIONS ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE JAMES. Either by way of a feint, (and if so, a bold one,) or to escape the bloody shambles of Prince George and Diuwiddie, the Yankees, in heavy .force, have crossed the James, and are now operating with it show ofenergy on the north side. For four days past we have had the usual strategic parryings which pretend something more than mere skirmishing. Hence *we are of the opinion that as the Yan kees show an evident disposition to advance, and we have no idea of permitting them to do so, that many days cannot possibly elapse be fore we hear of an important battle. We have already given the results of the skirmishing up. to yesterday as fully as the vague and un satisfactory rumors which have reached us through couriers, would allow, and we had hoped, only to be disappointed, that before this the War Department would have been able to furnish us, for the benefit of our read ers, something official concerning the opera tions in that now interesting quarter. •'Of the skirmishing yesterday, we learned that in the morning the Yankees advanced on the Charles City road as far as Whitens Tav ern, with the intention of flanking Chaffin’s. Here they were promptly met by our forces, and a lively skirmish enSned, resulting in the repulse of the Yankees, who were driven back, we are informed, about two miles. During the skirmishing a portion of our in fantry, we learn, were in danger of being out flanked by the Yankee infantry, when General Chambliss, with his brigade, was ordered to their relief. Gallantly leading his men, this officer obeyed the order, and while the Yankees were driven back, he, it is presumed, advanced too far, and if not killed was wounded and is now a prisoner in the hands of the Yankees. Gen. Chambliss was formerly Colonel of the 13th Virginia Cavalry. .He is the son of the Hon. John R. Chambliss, of Greenville, Va., who preceded Mr. Whitfield as member of the Confederate Congress Lorn the Norfolk dis trict. We have heard him often spoken of as a brave and accomplished officer. White’s Tavern, the principal point at which the fighting took place yesterday, is on the Charles City road, about seven miles from Richmond and about six miles north-east of Chaffin’s Bluff. The Darbvtown road is be tween the river and the Charles City road, with which it is nearly parallel. Both term inate in what is, known as the Long Bridge road. An official dispatch, received last night, States that the enemy, yesterday, made a de termined attack on our line between the Darbvtown and Charles City Road, and at one time broke through, but he was repulsed and our original positions reoccupied. FROM PETERSBURG. Deserters state that Grant has now only one full corps iu front of Petersburg. Within the past two days he has withdrawn his line of battle several hundred yards back from our centre. His pickets now occupy his front line of breastworks. The Express predicts that ague and billions fever will soon de cimate the Yankee army.. WHISKY RATIONS TO THE YANKEES IN FRONT OF PS rfJRSBUUO. . The Baltimore American of the,l3th con vinces us that the Yankees in front of Peters burg are reaping the full benefit ot the mala ria of the James and Appomattox, ft says, despondingly: ‘•As a sanitary measure, and to counteract the effects of the malaria on the troops serv ing in the Department of the South during the warm months, the Medical Department has directed that whisky, with quinine, in prophylactic doses, shall be issued to the men. particularly those on duty in districts espe cially malarious, or on excessive fatigue duty, only on the recommendation of the senior medical officer of the district in which ser vice is performed. The distribution of whisky to the men performing only ordinary fatigue duty has been discontinued. Ulysses has determined, we learn, to draw his full rations of the prescribed anti-bilious, anti-ague and fever remedies, but. upon the advice of his surgeon, will drink the whisky himself and give the fpiinine to Cufly, his colored orderlv. [Correspondence New York Tribune.} Harper’s Ferry, August lotb, # 18G4. The Shenandoah Valley is again the scene of active offensive operations This time on such scales as gives promise of thorough work. A large force, both of cavalry and in fantry, commanded by General Sheridan, are this A. M. en route for Berryville and Win chester. It is useless to speculate on what will soon be a matter of certainty, but the present position and. strength of the enemy gives no assurance that we cannot advance far without precipitating a battle. Yes, a great battle may have been fought at Win chester before this reaches you. But not to speculate oa possibilities, the forces engaged in this present movement, are such, hat Ihe corning campaign in the Shenandoah Ynlley. will exceed, in magnitude and importance, aav o; the many which have hitherto been made. It is even stated with some confidence that Genera! Lee is himself at present in Win Chester having left the fortifications of Pe tersburg and Richmond under the command of General Beauregard. LoDgstreet is also said to be in, the Valley in front of us. Time, or a battle, will alone develop the real strength of the enemy, for reports are so conßictino'. and trustworthy information ;o .card to ob tain n a section where spies and scouts are otten ... .cog is with the coemi. and the 11a gi-j? no information, except that which if followed would lead to mischief.' But whatever their cumbers, there is strength $4.00 Per Month enough opposed to them this time to make short work of this troublesome Valley of Vir ginia—this Valley of humiliation. Cavalry are leading the advance, shelling the woods as they go. We shall hear more soon. THS PSTERRSBCRG COURT OF ENQUIRY. FrcA persons arriving from City Point wc learn that the Court of Enquiry, of which General Hancock is President, appointed to investigate the tacts and circumstances at tending the recent unsuccessful assault on the enemy's position in front of Petersburg, convened at the headquarters of the Second corps on Monday. Major General Meade, commanding the Army of the Potomac, being the first witness called, gave his testimony, presenting the preliminary correspondence between himself and the Lieutenant General, and all the orders issued from the headquar ters of the army, concerning the assault. The documentary evidence was accompanied by verbal explanations, and all designed to show, that, in so far as making arrangements foi carrying out the view’s of the Lieutenant General anticipating the obatacles to be en countered and giving instructions how to over come them, together with promulgating all orders necessary to insure the entire success of the undertaking are concerned,Jie, as Ma jor General commanding the army, did all that could be done by him, and that he can not be held responsible for its unhappy termi nation. The court again convened the next day. A considerable portion of the session was devo ted to the reading and arranging the volumi nous documentary evidence and verbal testi mony presented on the previous day. Touch ing a question which arose as to whether the investigation should extend to matters which transpired after two P. M., July 30th, when our troops were withdrawn irom the crater in the demolished fort, the court decided that in the order of the President, they were in structed to inquire into all the facts and cir cumstances attending the unsuccessful assault on the enemy’s position on the 30tb. FROM THE WEST. A dispatch from Memphis, of the 9th, says : “General Smith’s expedition is well out. Its destination is unknown. Major General Slocum has been relieved at Vicksburg, and ordered to report to General Sherman. Tho report from the Gulf Deparment is that all is quiet there on the White river. The rebels in the Trans-Mississippi Department are try ing to cross the Mississippi. General Dick Taylor is at Meridian, and commands in place of General S. D. Lee, w’ho is now at Atlanta. T3*e Latest from liie North. Baltimore papers of the 13th were received last night. They furnish the following items of news: Heavy tiring was heard on Thursday last iu the direction of Winchester, ft is questiona ble whether Early will wait and give battle to the superior forces now arrayed against him. Much more probable is the announcement, made yesterday, that he was retiring up the Valley, followed by a portion of Sheridan’s cavalry, and that there had been skirmishes with the rear guard. A telegram from New York, dated last even ing, the 12th, reports the capture and destruc tion of seven vessels, some sixty miles south east of Sandy Hook, by th# new Confederate steamer Tallahassee. Passengers by the Evening Star, which reached New York from New Orleans vester day, report that the Confederates were in strong forge outside of Algiers, within six or seven miles of New Orleans, and that they were fortifying their position with the inten tion of making it a base of operations. In Kentucky the guerrillas continue to be particularly active. The town of Brandens burg was entered by about twenty guerrillas s csteiday, and at last advices fighting was going on there. On Wednesday last a force of Confederates dashed into the town of Hick man, burned all the cotton and tobacco that was stored there, and committed other depre dations. Government officials deny the correctness of the reported difficulties in the Cabinet.— Mr. Stanton has said that it required much solicitation to induce him to accept his office in the first place, and he will not voluntarily relinquish the place. 1 he Se v enty second Pennsylvania regiment, (Baxter s Fire Zouaves] passed through the city today, en route for home, its term of service having expired. This regiment was originally one thousand five hundred strong, and returns home with but one hundred and eighty muskets. A petition is circulating in Ohio and other States requesting Lincoln to defer the draft for half a million more men until an attempt h.as been made by negotiation to secure peace, based on the Constitution and Union. The Herald of Friday last commences its leading editorial with the remark : Considering the desperate straits to which the rebellion is now reduced, we think the time has arrived when the Administration, in behalu of peace and re-union, may advanta geously open the door to an armistice and a convention ot all the States. The contusion of the article is as follows : President Lincoln, therefore, in our opinion, will establish a claim to great sagacity and wis dom as a statesman and politician, in taking the initiative in behalf of peace Ly dispatching three commissioners to Richmond with the overtures su go es i ec h If they fail, this turbulent and demor alizing peace faction of the North will be disarmed and silenced ;if they succeed in an armistice, we may safely hail it as the end of the war, and of the reign of Jeff. Davis, and the end of the Southern Confederacy. The Indian Troubles. A telegram from Omaha City, 10th inst., says that hostile bands of marauding Indians infest the whole line from Fort Kearney to South Pass, a distance of five hundred miles, and daily commit new out rages, making forays on stock and burning trains.— A great number of travellers are now stopping at Fc rt Kearney for protection, and are waiting for arms. The Indians, in bands of ten to one hundred, move with celerity, and, possessing a thorough knowledge of the country, elude pursuit. The following is the address or Gov. Saunders to the citizens of Nebraska: r The news from our Western border is alarming. Numerous trains of emigrants and freight have been attacked and the owners killed, wagons destroyed, and stock run off. No les3 than four different points on the route between our Territory and Denver, were attacked in one day. Tne Indians are now known to be infesting these roads for the distance of several hundred miles. All the available Government troops have been sent forward. Wc need men in order to punish these savages, and to give security to our settlers.— In order to meet the want, I have thought proper to call the able bodied m'.lit a of the Territory to organize a few companies of mioute men—men who can and will, i, necessary, move at a moment’s warn ing to the scene.- ot these depredations, and assist in punishing ;he murderers and robbers, or driving them from 1 he country. I make this«.ppeal to our people, confident that it will be responded to promptly and with willing ness on their part. The Adjutant General has to day issued a special order from these headquarters, giving particulars in regard to the manner of or ganizing and reporting these companies. A i.vrv Batvnyes. Gov. and Commander in ♦ ♦ ♦ 1 \Y> N.rr tioui the Milledgeville Union that ;t consider* b:e force of infantry and artillery 1 arrived there on v "day night, wuich. with the local force, the Ton thinks, is sufficient 1 to meet any raid tu *• sent against us TELEGRAPHIC. REPORTS Or THE PRESS ASSOCIATION. Lotered according to act of Congress in tho ye.ir 1,63. by J. S Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office of the Distrust C urt of the Confederate States hr tho Northern L.strict of Georgia. Ailanta, Aug. 22.—Heavy artillery firing on our centre last night. This morning the a oatteries in front oftheeitv opened a heavy fire which exceeded anything yet wit nessed. A 44-pounder Sawyer shell exploded in a house on Peters street, killing Capt. Gar rison of the 14th Texas cavalry and two chii dren and wounding several ladies. No further damage done. Kilpatrick instead of gdng alter Wheeler i was supposed, turned towards the Atlanta A West Point Railroad, which they struck at Fairburr.. and cut the Railroad dnd Telegraph and have gore in the direction of tho Macon Road. It is sup posed thence to Andorsonville, for the purpose : releasing the prisoners. Force estimated at from 2500 to 3000. Reports from the rear of the enemy are to the effect that Wheeler has burned the bridges at ot °wah, Rasaca and Dalton and blown up the Tun nel. The enemy here are undoubtedly on lr-F ratious. 'm ♦ m A Duel Between the Editor of the Examiner and the Treasurer or the Confederate States. The chivalry, as well as non-combatants, for the first time for many a day, weje thrown in** to an excitement this morning by a Yumor that a hostile meeting had taken place bes tween John M. Daniel, Esq., of the Rich mond Examiner, and E. C. Elmore, Con« federate States Treasurer. The current report is that the meeting took place at 51 o’clock this morning on Dill’s farm, two miles North of the city. Mr. 11. Rives Pollard, of the Examiner, acted as the friend of Mr. Daniel, and Lieut. Thomas Taylor, of S. C., the friend of Mr. Elmore. The weapons used, it is said, were the ordinary smooth bore dueL ing pistol; the distance ten paces. Only two shots were exchanged, Mr. Daniel being wounded at the second fire in the fleshy part of the right leg, a few inche> above the ankle. His wound, though not dangerous, is said to be very painful. The affair grew out of a paragraph which appeared in the local column of the Examiner on the Ist inst., headed “Al leged Defalcation in the Treasury Depart ment —Astonishing Developments.” The paragraph announced that the ars rest of Detective F. W. Boyd, on the charge of attempting to bribe Detective R. B. Craddock “into silence in respect to certain facts concerning a high official” of the Treasury Department, had resulted in bringing to its development “a defaL cation in the Treasury, said to be of a very large amount.” Craddock reported to higher authority, and was instructed to ask SIO,OOO for the suppression of the fact, that he had seen the “high official playing Government funds away at faro, and the gamblers ‘beating him’ out of ini'* mense sums.” It is stated on the street that Mr. EL more addressed a note to Mr. Daniel, rep resenting that public rumor unjustly pointed to him as the “high official” allu-> ded to, and requesting the insertion of a paragraph in the Examiner disclaiming any allusion to the Treasurer. Mr. Dan*, iel, report says, declined to insert the diss claimcr, and further correspondence re sulted in a challenge from Mr. Elmore, which was accepted, —Richmond Win]/. liitei’estin&t from Pails. A letter from Paris, of recent date, says : • The accounts of the crops from all parts of the country are highly favorable, and represent our “corn, wine and oil” as only requiring sunny in fluences to bring them to perfection. The grain crops have already been got in in satisfactory condition. The wheat promised an abundant yield on the wide plains of the Beauce and other granaries of France. The vineyards of Langue doc,of the Bordelais district, as also of Burgundy and Champaign, are announced as promising to equal the famous year 1858 in produce and quali ty. The Rhone district has been slightly injured by heavy rains and late frosts, and will this year be less prolific. But everywhere the ordiumj or grape disease, has either disappeared or shows it self so slightly as to be easily mastered. This is a great time on public work * in Paris, and the extent of building operations in progress is quite remarkable. Miles of new street and boulevards and avenues, are stretching them selves out in every direction, and the hot atmos phere is made yet more suffocating by the dust of excavations and demonitions. The municipality of Paris now disposes of revenues amounting to more.than one hundred and twenty five millions of francs fper annum, and seems disposed at thi.- moment to strain its immense resources to the ut most. Whole quarters of the town are being changed until they can no longer be recognized the old warm and squalid streets being pierced through by princely thoroughfares, which are as speedily lined with magnificent erections, and occupied as fast as they are built. Yet, in spite of all this, rents continue to rise, and twenty an i thirty thousand franc3 is here no unusual sum to pay fora private residence, while stores in gooJ situations fetch twice or three times as much. The population of the French capital,‘accord ing to re'urns just issued by the Hotel de Ville amounts now to 1,696, 151, contained in twenty arrondissements, or districts, each of which is pre sided over by a Mayor. There are, therefore, in Paris, no less than twenty-one Mayors, the Prefect being the Chief Mayor, and presiding over all According to these same returns, which I wa looking over ihe other day, I find that the num ber of births in Paris, last year, was 52,313, of 26,505 were boys, and 25,507 girls. Os the whole number, 14,501 were illegitimate, and 37,72) born in wedlock. The number of deaths w.i --42 185, and the excess of births 10,127. T marriages celebrated, were 15,196. - —■ The compositors of New York have demande sixty cents per thousand ems, instead ot forty-five which they are at present receiving. The New Ycrk Tribune says, in relation to the demand “We do not believe that one-third of our city jour nals are paying their expenses. Such are the cir cumstances under which, after cheerfully agree ing to two advances since 1861, we are' asked : Concede thirty-three percent, further advance the rates now existing. We are not asked to con sider and agree'on anew scale, but are require to adopt if whether we approve it or not. We. therefore give fair notice that we deem it extrava gant and unjust, and that we shall resist it to the extent of our ability.” Assassin Arrested and Lost.—Wm. A. Pauls, who assassinated his father-in-law, Benjamin Gib son, Esq., at Tallassee on the night of the Ist ir. stant, was arrested in Pike county last week an 1 carried back to Tallapoosa and committed to jail but afterwards escaped or disappeared it i= sui posed in like manner with certain Yankee prison ers, who are reported as loslt.—Mon turnery Ad c titer. m■■ ■ By Ellis, Livingston A To ON Tuesday. 23d of August.at 10 o’clock, we w. : « sell in front of our Auction A'oom 1 Share Fern&ndina & Cedar Keys K. ft. Stock 5 Avery hue Buggy aj\d Biding Horse ; 1 Good Buggy and Harness—nearly new ; 1 (rood Top Buggy. —ALSO, — HOIBE AND LOT! One and a half miles from Girard. The House has - rooms, with 40 acres 1-tn i— -15 of which i>. cleared. Now occupied by Mr. Foster, and is known as the Gib son placv, a? 22 td 8!-