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I. W. WiRREA, - - - Editor.
Tuesday Morning, August 21 186 L
i olumbus Battlefield Relief Committee.
General Johnston is reported to have
said that the battle-field relief committees at
the Georgia front were worth to his army
twenty thousand men. We well recollect the
favorable opinion of Gen. Hood, recently pub
lished, regard to their great itnportance.
Gen. Bragg endorsed their great usefulness
when recently in thi3 city, and expressed a
willingness to lend them all the assistance in
his power. Inferior officers to these, together
with non-commissioned officers and privates,
express but one sentiment towards these hu
mane institutions, and that the most favor
able.
One of these committees at the front is from
our county, composed of gentlemen of busi
ness habits, and enlarged liberality and benev
olence. They have been actively engaged for
three months in their node work, and besides
large individual outlays, have given their
whole time and attention in feeding, clothing
and nursing our brave defenders.
Tbe worst cases of wounds aud disease
must be treated near the battle-field, as they
cannot be removed to interior hospitals, and
many noble spirits acknowledge their recovery
to the efforts of these men—while-the dymg
hours of otber3 have been sustained and
soothed far from relations and home. The
knowledge of their presence nerves the arm
of the soldier in battle, with the conscious
feeling that if lie falls kind friends are near
him to care for him, and that in sickness he
will not be passed unnoticed.
it is more important to keep these commit
tees well supplied than even our Interior hos
pitals, inasmuch as they administer to des
perate cases, which could never reach these
hospitals without their attention, and are also
ready to relieve the very men who arc brought
to those hospitals at the time that they most
need assistance.
The committee from Muscogee have done
much themselves, and arc much indebted to
the liberality of others ; but their is still much
more to do, and if the people of the county
do not co-operate with them, as heretofore,
their noble work must cease. Muscogee
county’gets the credit of the faithful work of
tin's committee, and Muscogee county ought
to sustain it and even increase its means of
usefulness.
Other counties are unfaltering in their ef
forts to sustain their committees, and should
Muscogee be behind in her duty ? Our fath
ers, brothers, relatives and friends, who are
now confronting the enemy, and may at any
time need the assistance of this committee,
cry, “no.”
Send in your provisions and they will go
forward twice a week and be faithfully dis
tributed.
(COMMUNICATED.)
Have the people of this city and vicinity fogot
the Columbus Rcief Committee with the army of
Tennessee ? They have bean laboring* incessant
ly since the 2.3d of April last in caring for the
wounded and the sick of that army, and by their
agency, hundreds of boxes, ladened with vegeta
bles and comforts for the soldiers have been dis
tributed, which otherwise would never hitve been
seen by those for whom they were intended. The
organization has therefore become an indispensa
ble institution for the benefit of the soldiers. Ought
it not to be sustained, and if so, how? Not by
good wishes alone. Not by contributions from
only a few, but by help from all. By regular and
systematic deposits of vegetables, flour, bacon,
hams, and in fact anything to eat that will en
courage and strengthen a soldier. Many who can
not give in this way can give money—something
we very much need. Don’t let your sister cities
and counties excell yftu in this good work. Have
you a husband, son, brother or friend in that army?
He looks to this Committee for his share of things
which the Committee daily distribute. Are you
satisfied with staying home and lesson your efforts
towards keeping up a regular weekly supply for
tho-c who aro defending your true interest. We
hope not. Surely not.
Wc shall therefore continue to look for future
appropriations at least ouce a week. Mossemgers
leave every week, taking good care of all supplies
when left at Messrs. Goodrich <fc Co’s store.
TRUTH.
Important to Farmers and
Others.
VALUABLE AXD EXPEDITIOUS METHOD OF PRE
PA UINU LEATHER.
Lieut. FI. W. Field?. 12th Virginia Infantry,
has furnished for the Petersburg Express the
following valuable and expeditious recipe for
preparing leather dressed with the hair on. —
He vouches for the stability and duration of
the leather thus prepared, and refers to high
authority for the truth of his averment, as
well as tosoluiers who have worn shoes made
from it. We. therefore, publish it for the
benefit of fanners ami individuals who may
have hides to tan, and recommend that they
test it. The hides are not only quickly tanned,
but the leather, when prepared, bears a most
favorable comparison with the best produced
by the long and tedious process in vogue in
England and in ibis country. Many of the
soldiers in one. if not in more of the brigades
of this army have used shoes made from ibis
, ‘V months past, and pronounce them
leather w- r 1
'mifort and quality,
superior, as regards v-. 4
to the English and American army shoe :
MODE OF PREPARING LEATHER DRESSED WITH
HAIR OX.
Ist. If hides are old. hard aud dry. soak
them in pure water about two or three days.
2d. When well soaked, or when fresh hides.
tltsh them thoroughly.
od. Prepare a pickle made ot 3 lbs alum,
and 5 pounds common saft to a pint of water,
enough to dissolve the salt for each hide :
this is an average proportion.
For a very large single old hide. J. 1 , lbs allum
aud S lbs salt, may be necessan : whereas for
a small calfs hide, §lb allum and 2 lbs salt
may be enough. But for a pack of 25 hides
unassorted, of all size? and condition*, the
average is as above.
4th. Soak the fleshed this pickle
from 3 to 10 days, more or less,’ according to
condition ofhides.
sth. Soak them again 2or 3 days impure
water to take out the salt.
Oth. When about half dry break them with
the proper currier's breaking knives.
7th. Smoke them, (flesh side down say 8
or lb days over hard wood, (hickon or oak)
smother, continuing to break and roll and
grind them in succession.
din. Boil the Xeutsfeet for oil, save tin; oil
aud lubricate the hides with the jelly and
greasy water, breaking them all the time.
• Kb. Dress and brush oth
i he small hides, thin and fresh, can be fin
ished in from six to eight days. Medium
size hides, in good condition, from twelve to
lißcvn days. The largest and worst condi*
1 tioned hides can bo finished in from eighteen
to tw en.y days. It is recommended to lake
from eighteen to twenty days for all. If you
want the hair off, soak in lime water first, un
til the hair sloughs; but then you must be
careful to thoroughly work the lime out : or it
will eat the fibre of the leather.
ihe leather is best with the hair on. It
makes the best and most comfortable shoes—
soles and all. Put the hair of the uppers in
side; and of the soles—put upper sole hair
out, and outer sole hair in, thus fill the soles
with the best of .water proofing and making
tbe soles the more elastic and lasting.
With the hair on it is especially best for
saddle covers, stirrup leathers, shabracks,
traces, horse collars, caps, gloves, sentinel
coats, halters, trunk covers, and every use
known.
Tlie Terrific Explosion at City
. Point.
The explosion at City Point, was a disas
trous affair— fifty- three persons were Rilled
and one hundred and twenty-six wounded.—
The correspondent of the Xew York Tribune
gives an account of it. from which we make
the following extracts:
City Point, V 4., August 9th.
Your humble correspondent, with many
othei'3, has just come veiy near being blotted
out. After mailing my poor letter this morn
ing on the 10 o’clock mail-boat, and looking
around the town an hour or so, I took the
11:30 freight train, as is my wont, for the
front, where my headquarters and horses are.
I walked well back on the train (up river
wards) when the first thing I knew, I did not
know much of anything. A stunning and
deafening shock, as if of the terrific explosion
of a monster shell near me, and the concus
sion of the air, were bending before the storm,
and it seemed that the concussion would nev
er cease ringing and swaying until it bred
more and more danger.
Every frame bouse in the town was jarred
by the concussion alone to the extent of hav
ing its inside plastering knocked off, beside
other damages by missiles, &c. Against the
houses and other obstructions near the wharf,
and even upon the hill, hundreds, and per
haps thousands, of broken, twisted and splin
tered muskets, and other debris, lay in drifts,
like straw drifted by the wind, and all over
the ground for at least a quarter or a mile
from the scene of the explosion, shell, solid
shot, grape canister, musket and minnie balls,
pieces of shells, nails, screws, bolts and bolt
heads, and fragments of almost everything
wooden, iron and leaden you can think of, are
strewn and drifted like hail and chunks of
ice immediately after a dreadful hail storm
Everywhere are seen the rents, dents, deep
abreeions and scarred furrows of the iron and
leaden storm. The thousandth part cannot
be told.
My first thought was that an ammunition
car had exploded just ahead of the one I was
on, and that it would be of little use to try
to escape the storm that had gone up and
would come down—that one was about as
safe in one place as another, and oh ! how it
didrain and hail all the terrible instruments
of war.
It was not a railraod car, but the ammuni
tion barge J. E. Kendrick, that h M exploded
from the careless handling of percussion shells
or some other kind of ammunition, it is sup
posed. No one that was aboard of the boat
remains to tell the tale of her destruction.—
The splinters that strew the river maybe hers,
or they may be not. The section of the twist
ed ribs of a keel that lie in the most frequen
ted part of the town, on the hill, two hundred
yards distant, may bo hers, or they may be
long to one of her disappeared consorts.
You have read of eruptions of Vesuvius,
such as buried Herculanem and Pompeii.--
You have seen illustrations of them in the
books. This must have been such an explo
sion as one of these, except that instead of
lava and dust and ashes, it rained over ihe
circles of a mile, in whole packages and by
piece meal, everything you can imagine at a
military depot. Entire boxes of fixed ammu
nition came down among the tents in the
town a quarter of a mile distant and scarcely
a tent or house or a boat can be found within
the circle of i# mile that is not riddled by
shell, solid shot, or small ammunition.
How many were blown into atoms into the
river from Kendrick, never to be heard of, is
not known. The Captain of the Kendrick is
safe, having been absent at the time of the
explosion, on another boat. The other boats
entirely destroyed and sunk were the General
Meade and the J. C. Campbell.
The massive pine wharf in front of where
these boats lay, which was bolted down upon
piles and sleepers of pine trees, is brushed
aside for about.a third of its length, as if it
had been made of the paper I write on, while
the substantial plank warehouse, with mas
sive beams, built for at least a quarter of a
century, has been crushed nearly its entire
length, as if it had been a lady’s band box.
The freight train that was just ready to start
when the explosion happened, is shattered in
nearly every car, though not past repair, and
I had ihe uninteresting satisfaction of seeing
where my remains would probably have lain,
on the heads of the whisky barrels, if I had
remained in the carl first occupied.
The pine board row in which were the post
office, Adams’ Express office, and a Quarter
master’s office, was also crushed by the con
cussion and the heavier forces brought against
it, like a band box, but fortunately, or rather,
miraculously, none of its occupants were seri
ously injured. The neighboring sutlers, while
equally unfortunate in the demolition of their
establishments, were equally fortunate, I un
derstand, in the safety of their persons, with
perhaps one or two exceptions, which will be
found in the accompanying list of casualties.
City Point, Aug. 10.— The morning’s sun
shines brightly upon the shattered, riddled,
and blackened town, wharf and shipping.
The only wonder, this morning, is that many
more were not killed and wounded by the ter
rific storm of lead, iron and ragged spikes, ex
ploded timbers, yesterday, than there were.
But a thousand or two laborers are at work
this morning clearing away the debris of the
explosion, and flags and martial music are
afloat to soothe the pang of yesterday's deso
lation.
Various theories are afloat as to the cause
of the explosion. Some say the careless hand
ling of ammunition ; others an old time tor
pedo ; some surmise a rebel spy in the matter:
while others attribute the disaster to a rebel
shell or shot from across the river. The matter
will be thoroughly investigated to-day. The
Government stores in the big warehouse were
considerably injured by water and otherwise,
but to no very great extent.
The entire loss of property bv the explosion
C“!!. two millions. The noise of the
explosion was heard for many miles around,
further than any artillery, add the smoke as
cending was taken thirty or forty miles down
the river for the conflagration of Petersburg
or Richmond. Vast waterspouts were thrown
up, which, mingling with the powder, cinders
and ashes, caused a black pastry shower, with
the other debris.
The McClellan Meeting.
The New York Post, in its editorial notice
of the mass meeting in favor of Gen. McClellan
recently held in that city, says :
That the meeting did not express the senti
ments or meet the approbation of the leaders
of the Democratic party, is clear from the
tact that out of the twenty or more Demo
cratic speakers announced in the handbills
not a single one of the least note was present.
The public were told that they might expect
to hear John Van Bureu,.Gilbert Dean, Oakey
Hall, Judge Daly, General Meagher, Wilson
G. Hunt. Governor Parker, Governor Trice,
Caleb Cushing, S. S. Cox, R. C. Winthrop,
Emerson Etheridge, William D. Murphy, and
many other distinguished men. not a solitary
one of whom stepped upon the stand. How
many persons went to the meeting seduced by
these names we do not kuotv; neither do we
know by what authority their nam<is were
i used without their consent. The fraud, how
ever, had its effect; it decoyed a multitude to
j their meeting, and that was all they desired.
< But they could not decoy any of the recogni
1-. , . r
j party to act either as officers or orators, l'er
j nando Wood and his crew were absent: so
] were the tribes of Tammany; aud so far as we
; could see, the principal personages of this af
fair, professing t-o speak in name of Demo
cracy were old Whigs, Know Nothings, and
: the remnants of the Bell-Everett party..
As the Democratic leaders would not attend
the Democratic masses kept away : the Irish
population in a body, we are told, particular
ly the Roman Catholics, (perhaps in dread of
the Know Nothing who had taken the matter
in hand) refused to come; and there were
none of the old face3 to be seen except the
lookers on. Capt. Rynders. of the Empire
Club, was the only exception. As an expres
sion, therefore, of the Democratic sentiment of
the city, the meeting was a failure; it repre
sented neither the peace nor the war faction ;
the resolutions, apart from a general condem
nation of Mr. Lincoln's policy, have no pith
or pertinency in them; they neither condemn
the rebellion nor the war; they clamor sim
ply for a change, which shall consent of the
ousting of one set of men for another : who
announce as yet no policy or principles.
Our Blockade Runners and our
IVaral Officers.
There is one singular fact connected with our
blockade-runr ing vessels, to which, we think, the
attention of the Navy Department ought to be
directed, if it has not already been. Only a single
one of them has been lefst while under the com
mand ofofficers of the navy! Officers of the navy,
the meanwhile, have commanded many of them
and made many trips. The Coquette, for instance,
which was the most indifferent of all our ships,
and which has now been sold, made nine round
trips under the comrnan and of Lieutenant Carter,
and saved them every one, clearingfor the Govern
ment at least six hundred thousand dollars. The
Robert E. Lee, the best ship we had, was success
ful in all her numerous trips as long as she was
under the command of Lieutenant Wilkinson. The
first trip she made after the command had been
transferred to a person who was not an officer of
the navy she was beached and captured or sunk.
While the officers of the navy have been suc
cessful in all their many trips except one, every
ship not commanded by an officer of the navy has
been lost. The inference is irresistible. None
but officers of the navy ought to command our
blockade ships. They are skillful seamen, good
navigators, men of standing aud character ; the
cause is their cause, and they aro above all the sus
picion that can be attached to others less favor
ably situated.
We would not thrust advice upon the depart
ment, but we ventuee to hope that some attention
will be paid to the striking fact we have laid be
fore the public in this articie.
Important from Turkey.
A letter in the New York Tribune, da
ted Constantinople, 20th ult., says :
All Constantinople is in a ferment.
The greatest excitement prevails among
all classes. On Sunday last all the con
verted Turks who could be found were
suddenly seized and thrown into prison.
On Monday the establishments of the
American Board, the American Bible
Society, the British Bible Society, and all
the English Missionary Societies were
seized by an armed force, the occupants
ejected, and the buildings sealed up.
This summary proceeding was the most
flagrant violation of treaty rights ever
heard of in this city. Aside from all re
ligious questions, this is the most serious
act upon which the Turkish Government
ever ventured.
All the treaties with Turkey make for
eign residents responsible directly to their
embassies or consulates, and a Turkish
police officer has no more right to enter
their doors than he would have to arrest a
man in New York or London.
In the face of this right, which has
never before been disregarded, American
and English citizens were forced by armed
soldiers out of their offices, and their es
tablishments were seized without the
slightest notice, without the notice of then
consuls, and in spite of their solemn pro
tests. If America and- England do not
compel the most ample apologies for this
outrage, there will be no safety for their
citizens in Turkey. This principle is the
Magna Charta of all foreigners in the
land. It is due to the Hon. John P.
Brown, American Charge d’ Affaires, to
say that thus far he has acted in the most
energetic manner, and has won the high
est praise from both English and Ameri
can residents. Sir Henry Bulwer, the
English Embassador, has as yet done
nothing, and the British and Foreign BE
ble Society will have to thank Mr. Brown
for the opening of the rooms, which they
hold in connection with the American
Societies.
There is probably no more thoroughly
contemptible man in Constantinople than
the English Embassador. He is hated in
tensely by all the British residents who
are not in his pay. He is shamefully
immoral. His statesmanship is nothing
but low intrigue, in which he is generally
outwitted by the French and the Turks,
and he holds his place, to the disgrace of
the very language he speaks, because his
wife is connected with the English aris
tocracy in such a way that the Govern
ment dare not turn him out. What a
blessing to a nation is an aristocracy!
These extraordinary outrages upon English
and American citizens were committed by
the Turks five days after he had been
privately informed of what they intended
to do, and had silently acquiesced in it.
It now remains to be seen if the English
have pluck enough to drive him from his
place.
\a>'kee Masons. —The Masonic fraternity
have hitherto been of the opinion that the acts
of vandalism practiced by the Yankee soldiers
in the various Masonic Lodges of Mississippi
weie not the acus of Masons, but of hired sol
diers. incited by a desire of boot} - ; but the}'
have been mistaken. During the last visit of
the enemy to Port Gibson, they visited the
L’odge room, stole the regalia and jewels, and
tore up and destroyed the records and papers
of Washington Lodge No, 3, aud Clinton Chap
ter No. 2. They also destroyed the charter of
said Chapter, issued by the Grand Chapter of
the United States, September 18, 1826, and
signed by DeWitt Clinton. And, as if to add
insult to injury, one of the party left on the
altar a card, on which was inscribed. - Thomas
Price. W. M. of Peoria Lodge. No. 15, Peroia,
Illinois."
In the Revolutionary war, when the charter
of a Lodge and its record had fallen into Brit
ish hands, they were promptly returned by a
flag of truce, neder guard of honor. How dif
ferent the conduct of W. M. Price, who, by
his actions, seemed to have gloried in destroy
ing the records and papers of an Institution
devoted to benevolence ’.
_ « •*
Col. James A. Pringle.—We regret to
chronicle the death of ibis valued citizen,
ich wh took place at his residence in Perry,
Ga.,Jm the 2d inst. Colonel P. was a native
of Charleston, S. C., and m&de his* debut in
the State ofGeorgia as Editor of the Macon
Telegraph. m
telegraphic;
REPORTS OF THE PRESS ASSOCIATION.
Entered, according to act of Congress in the year
136-1. by ,J. S. Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office of
the District Court of the Confederate'States for
the Northern District of Georgia.
Atlanta, Aug. 22d, 1861. Kilpatrick's
raid, composed of 2500 men, crossed the Chat
tahoochee at Campbellton, struck the West
Fairburn 3 o’clock'Friday morn
ing, and destroyed the Road six miles. The
raider then crossed over to tbo Macon Road,
striking the Road at Lovejoy's Friday even
ing. moving towards Jonesboro’. The Fede
eral infantry supposed to be the support which
accompanied Kilpatrick’s cavalry to the West
Point Road, returned and the cavalry pro- (
ceedcd aloue towards the*Macon Road.
Ross’ Brigade skirmished with Kilpatrick's
advance, but was unable to hold the enemy in
check.
The raiders burnt the depot and Provost
Office at Jonesboro', destroying all the pa
pers.
Saturday evening the enemy were surroun
ded between Lovejoy’s and Jonesboro’, by
Reynold s infantry brigade and Armstrong’s
and Ross’ cavalry. A sharp engagement en
sued—Kilpatrick charging at the head of the
column.
The raiders were completely routed ; they
charged Ross’ brigade and cut their wav
out.
Our loss was ten killed ; the enemy's loss
was 25.
The raiders were pursued by two Georgia
regiments of cavalry. They retreated through
McDonough, and escaped.
Only a portion of. the Macon Road was des
troyed. which has been repaired.
The city is very quiet this morning. No
shelling yesterday.
The enemy deny the charge of shelling the
city, and claim that their shots are nil aimed
at it3 defences.
Girard’s division of cavalry has disappeared
from Decatur.
Nothing further from Wheeler.
Columbia, S. C., Aug. 22.—The Baltimore
Gazette of the 18th has been received. It
says, a telegram received late last night states
that telegraphic communication with Dalton
has ceased.
Wheeler attacked the Federal* under Sei
bold at Dalton, drove them out, and occupied
a portion of the town. Reinforcements were
being sent Seibold from Chattanooga.
Four trains for Sherman’s army were com
pelled to halt near Dalton.
Gen. Wheeler’s troops are busily tearing up
the track on both sides of the town. It is
supposed that it is his object to destroy the
tunnel at Tunnel Hill. Other portions of lii#
forces are engaged in cutting the road south
of Dalton.
A train on the way to Sherman was report
ed captured at "Altoona.
Columbia, Aug. 22. —The Richmond Evening
Whig, of the 20th, says an official dispatch has been
received at the War Department that morning, that
Gen. Hill attacked the Yankee sth Corps that af
ternoon previous, at Davis’ house, three miles from
Petersburg, on the Weldon Rail Road, and defeated
them; capturing 2700, including a Brigadier General
and several field officers. Our loss believed ta be
smaller than the enemy's. Gen. Clingman woun
ded in the leg.
A special dispatch to the W big, says the prisoners
captured will number 2200.
There was no fighting on (he evening of the 20th.
The enemy still occupy the Weldon Road and are
fortifying.
The following delayed Press reports were received
here by mail.
Petersburg, Aug. IS. —The enemy’s force en
gaged to-day, consisted of three Brigades of the sth
Corps, with IS pieces of artillery—it is unascertained
thc-force of cavalry, commanded by Gen. Warren.
The enemy engaged our cavalry about 9 o’clock, 4
miles South-west of the town, driving them some
four miles, when our infantry came-into action, dri
ving the enemy back some three quarters of a mile;
night closed the engagement, with the enemy hold -
ing the Weldon Rail Road at a point about three
miles below the city.
The force that engaged our cavalry are reported
and believed to have gone on a raid in the direc
tion of the South side Rail Road.
The loss of the enemy to-day is unascertained
Ours is not heavy,
Among the wounded are Cols. Lyle, of Va., and
Blair, of Miss.
Two hundred prisoners were captured.
Petersburg, Aug. 19.—About 3 o’clock this even
ing, arrangements being completed, our forces at
tacked in front and flank Warren’s sth Yankee
Corps, which had made a temporary lodgement on
the Weldon Rail Road two miles below here, driv
ing them back upwards of two miles and capturing
over 2,000 prisoners; including Brig. Gen. Hayes
and a number of stands of colors.
There has been a heavy fall of rain all day.
Petersburg. Aug. 19.—This morning, about 10
o'clock, it being believed that the enemy were mass
ing in our front, our artillery and mortars opened
a heavy fire upon them, to which they responded
feebly. Thefiring waskept up for two hours, break
ing up the enemy’s intention, if he had any, of
charging our breast-works. Our casualties few.
This morning, just after day, heavy wagon trains
were seen moving to the rear.
The enemy still hold the Weldon Road, about
two and a half miles South of this place.
Our losses in the fight yesterday evening 35u: that
of the enemy was much heavier.
Another Party of Raiders Captured.—
We learn that a party of raiders was captured
in Monroe on Thursday. It is stated that
they numbered about five hundred, and were
probably those who escaped from Gen. Iver
son when Stone man was taken. They were
encamped at the time our troops came upon
them. About fifty of the raiders were killed.
All of the large bodies of raiders, we be
lieve. have now been taken, although the
country we are told is full of small parties—
numbering from ten to fifty. If the citizens
will assist, our forces promptly and energeti
cally. the country will scon be cleared of them.
[Chronicle A Sentinel, Gift.
What the War h l>eiu£ Waged
for.
The Lacrosse Wisconsin Democrat hits the nail
on the head when it says:
Just What the War is For, — Now we under
stand, that everything else being conceded.
Lincoln would continue the war for the solitary
purpose of abolishing slavery in the States. If
we pay hundreds of thousands and pile mortgage
upon mortgage on our property to raise recruits,
we know that we are doing this simply to free the
slaves of the South.
If we volunteer, we know we volunteer to tight
for the negro, if we, or our sons are drafted and
turn from their peaceful pursuits, by force, we
know that the sole object of the cruel procedure is
to free the negroes on the southern plantations.
Our lives must be srerifleed to give freedom to the
negro. Hereafter all this must be understood :
longer concealment is impossible; the President re
fuses to receive peace propositions or to permit a
Peace Commission to eross our lines which does
not stipulate in ad, anee for the “abandonment of
Slavery.”
After the la:ej r c-lamatlon of Lincoln nocue will
dispute that.
Absasszn Abue-aed ano Lost.—Wm. A. Paulk,
who assassinated his father-in-law, Benjamin Gib
son, Ksq., at TuTassce on the night of the Ist in
stant, w is ar ested in Pike county last week and
earri"! * to Tallapoosa and committed to jail,
but aiL Is ctcapcd or disappeared, it is sup
posed in manner with certain Yankee prison
ers, who r oorted as Awvvr
f*«f. kiaasi
CITY MATTERS v
T. J*. JACKSON,... LOCAL EDITOR.
Charles Carrol Hicks. — This gentleman, well
known in our city in years past, while ponfined in
„ the old Capitol prison at Washington a* a Southern
•prisoner, wrote the following spirited and patriotic
lines. They are full of poetic ardor, and breathe
a spirit that will awaken a response in the breasts
of all true patriots. It wifi he rememberod that
Mr. Hicks left this city in 1861 as an officer in
Capt. Ivey’s company. He was afterwrads taken
prisoner, confined as above, and finally paroled
on condition that he should not return to the
United or Confederate States during the war un
der penalty of death. He made his way to Paris,
from whence he encloses a printed copy of the
lines to a relative in Columbus. We believe they
have heretofore appeared in the columns of some
of the Southern press but have lost none of their
beauty or pertinency, and will bear a second
perusal.
Tlie Southron's Oath.
WRITTEN l\ THE OLD CAPITOL PRISON BY C. CAR
ROL IIXCKS, OF GEORGIA.
By the blood which has been
By our heap's of slaughtered dead :
By our rivers running red;
The Union now we sever,—
By the sacred blood of those,
Who fell opposing heartless foes :
By every drop which earth-ward flows,
We never will forgive them—never !
From hill and dale and lonely glen.
From craggy hill and tangled fen.
Arise the wails of murdered men
For vengeance on them—ever!
By orphans’ cries and widows’ moans,
Our blasted fields and blazing homes,
By every comrade’s bleaching bones.
We never will forgive them !—novor.
Then palzied be each coward heart,
His arm fall nerveless ’ere he part.
With memory of the galling smart.
Which fires each Southern—over :
By every hope which Freemen prize.
By breaking hearts and bursting sighs,
By vengeance—pleading to tlie skies,
We never will forgive them—never!
Welcome ruin—Welcome death—
Como desolation’s withering breath
Come dark oblivion—ever;
Alone—deserted—here we stand
Battling for our native land :
We all can die—but by this hand
We never will forgive them—’never !
(communicated.)
Editor Times : — As we committed an almost
unpardonable error in our communication pub
lished in your paper of the 18th inst., we deem it
urgent on ourselves to appear a second time in
your columns, if you will again grant us the lib
erty of so doing.
The sick and wounded soldiers of the Convales
cent Camps in returning their compliments to the
ladies who have been so kind to]us while here, un
intentionally omitted the names of Mrs. Fogle,
and the gentle and amiable Miss Julia Eva is .
These ladies h-ve an equal claim on our gratitude,
for their motherly and sisterly kindness, and we
respectfully ask their pardon for our unintentional
omraission of their names.
Tr axs-M 1 SSI SSI!‘ Pi.
IDXIEID,
In Americas, Ga., on the 4th inst., Mrs. Mary
C. Maddox, in the 37th year of her age.
Asa member of the Methodist Church, her life
was consistent with her profession of the religion of
our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Asa daughter,
she wms all a daughter could bo. Asa mother, she
was kind and affectionate and reasonably indulgent,
blie was mock, gentle, unassuming and charitable
kind to all. She was the love and admiration
or all who knew her; patient and uncomplaining
in all her sufferings. She lingered many weary
weeks, conscious that she was slowly, but surely
approaching that bourne, from whence no traveller
returns. With an humble truet in God's mercy,
she calmly awaited his summons, and when the An
gel of Death threw his darkening shadows around
her, she viewed its approach with no terror, and
quietly and peacefully her spirit passed from earth
to heaven. So passed away one of earth’s purest
daughters, The community, the Church, and above
ail, her husband and children lost much in her
death.
So ended her days, as sets the morning star, which,
goes not down behind the darkened West, nor hides
obscured amid the clouds, but melts away into the
light of heaven.
’Ti3 best! "tis infinitely, be3t!
To go where tempters cannot came ;
Where Saints and Angels, ever blest,
Dwell and enjoy their heavenly home.
Buena Vista, Ga., Aug. 14th. 1864.
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 tho
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.
1 am prepared to sell the 6 per cent Ci/upoh or
Registered Bonds of the $509,000,000 loan at $135
for the new currency or the old at 66 2-3 cents on
the doliar.
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 tM Gov
ernment, and I recommend them to the favorable
notice of the public.
W. H. YOUNG,
augl lm Depositary.
.Stockholder*’ fleeting.
-Muscogee Rail Road Company,
Columbus. Ga., Aug. 22, 1861.
The Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of thi.~
Company will be held at ihe Depot in this city, on
Monday, the sth September next, at 10 o'clock,
a. m. J. M. BIVINS.
a *23 td See’y and.Treas'r.
Dividcxid \o. £l.
Muscogee Rail Road Company,
Columbus, Ga., Aug. 22, lfttW.
The Board of Directors has declared a Dividend
of Ten (10) Dollars per *hare, on the General Stock
of this Company, payable in Confederate Treasury
notes, as soon as the amount due by the Govern ■
mont can he collected, notice of which will be given.
J. M. BIVINS,
ag23 d6t Sec'y and Treas'r.
Battle-Field Relief Association
of Columbus, Ga.
All who are disposed to contribute articles neces
sary for die relief of the sick and wounded in the
Army of Tennessee, are seq nested to leave them at
Goodrich k C*Afcstore by Gxe O'clock, P. M. ev
ery Tuesday and Frida y. when they will be for
warded to and dispensed by out Committee there.
W. li. VOi'XG, Prcsd’t.
0. G, Holmes, Secy. ag23(f
FOR SAFE!
i>) » u'j, . IN GO Ll*. Enquii-' I-'vi, Hr.ad «■!..
’ ■ at B. • Ay K -OX'S,
a* 23 ts
no \e v t otii ia 11)i) i
.*| HE Slave Owners of Russell county, can have
* c Lections made for hired i>r impressed .dares,
to wm kon the defences a,t Mobile, with their sig
nature- utt che i to their orders, signed before a
Justice of the Peace, or Judge ot Probate.
H. K. PALM 1-I’.
imp. Age, \
ag23-t' " Kaesell <•<*., Ala. •
TO SURF!
I POL the balance ••: the year fifteen able-bodied
l 1 Negro Aten ands. "teen Negro V omen.
Apply soon to R- M. *v L\,Ag t,
jul -3 ts
| AUCTION SALES
i
By Iritis ikivitigstbii & Uo
Tuesday, 231 of August, at 10 o'clock, wo will
! v sell in fiont of cur Auction Room
1 Share Fernandina & Cedar Keys 1!
It. Stock;
Avery Hue Buggy and Riding Horse ;
1 Good Buggy auu Harness— nearly
new;
1 Good Top Buggy.
—also, —
HOUSE AUD EOT!
One and a half miles from Girard. Tli»
Hojise ha3 2 rooms, with 40 acres land—
-15 of which is cleared. Now occupied
by Mr. Foster, and is known as the Gib*
son place.
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By Ellis, Livingston A Cos,
ON TUESDAY, 23d August, at 10 o’clock, we wifi
sell in front of our store,
4 Barrels Extra Corn Whiskey!
30 Reams Letter Paper;
60 Pair Ladies Shoes ;
. 1 Fine Gold Chronometer Watch ;
Lot Furniture, Crockery, etc.;
Lot Desirable Hardware and Iron ;
—also, —
Several Likely Negroes!
Avery fine young Mare ; •
1 Side Saddle.
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MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD.
CHANGE 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..a 3 00 p. ni.
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 0 00 p. m.
B. E. WELLS.
aglßtf Eng. & Sup t.
KTOTIOB.
To Planters and Others !
T WILL EXCHANGE Osnaburgs, Sheeting and
1 Yarns, for Bacon, Lard, Tallow and Beeswax, i
will be found at Robinett & Cb’s old stand, whore I
am manufacturing Candles and Lard Oil for sale.
L. S. WRIGHT.
june 2 ts
ESTRAY SiWLir
TAKEN up by the subscriber a Cream Colored
Horse Mule, about 10 years old; hands
high, with black stripe across the shoulders.
The owner will call and prove property, pay char
ges and take him away.
ag!B 3t R, F. HARRIS.
FOIIAD!
A MEMORANDUM BOOK containing the De
ix 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. ,
W iVI. J)Av
agl6 3t Capt. and Enr’g Oil,
STERLIAt; EXCHANGE!
t FEW Hundred Pounds of Sterling Exchantfo
n lor sale in sums to suit purchasers by
agl6 tt BANK OF COLUMBUS.
A HOUSE WANTED.
trO Rent from October next, a house, or rart ot a
I house, for the use of a family.
Address “SIGMA,"
ago ts At this Office
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The editions of all of these valuable work- are
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Any of these books will be sent free of postage oa
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discount.
EYA.YS & (JOGBWGLL,
Juh 6 3t Publishers.
THE A.TXjA.IsrT-A.
DAILY & WEEKLY INTELLIGENCEH.
The undersigned proprietor of the ATLANTA
Daily and Weekly Intelligencer.
announces to the public that he ha.s made arrange
nients for the publication of these Journals in tni
city (Jfacon) and that in a few days subscriber? to
the same will be furnished as usual with their i <
pers :
Correspondents, advertisers and all persons hav
ing business with the
IHSTTEILiX-jIG-ElSr C EEz
will pleasse address their communications to
Tlie Intelligencer Office.
Macon, Georgia.
All JOB and GOVERNMENT WORK
on hand will be resumed at an early day.
JARED 1. WHITAKER.
Proprietor
jul27 It
nil PH k UUH MIS
FOR SAXjF!
WE have for sale 49 reams ot Letter Paper, anr.
2,000 small Pocket Blank Books, at Wholesale
or Retail. Paper, SSO per Ream: Blank Books, $159
retail. 75 ets. wholesale. Apply at
agjjtf THIS OFFICE.
siom:\.
t'ROJI my house, last night, two Checks on the
1 Agency of tbe Uuion Bank, in this city, drawn
by J. M. Mulden, Jr., Lt. &c.; one N>. 185, forsß4').
and the other No. 18b, for SI2OO. All persons are
warned pgainst trading for said checks, as pay met'
has been stot*ped and Duplicates applied for.
agljl2t ‘ T. KNOb’LKs.
RULE.
I from ray office. on Thursday, a small p
1 ney built brown mare Mule, eight <.i nine yea:-
o'd- in good order: no marks recollected, except
collar mark on the point of her shoulder. A reason
able reward will be paid tor her.
Jy'jV' WILEY WILLIAM.'
£I,OOO Reward.
CXOLIiN from my headquarters near Atlanta, G .
O my Mare, bright bay. ball face, black mane acl
tail and bnt.uk L gs. with the exception of two smah
white spots on thojjtside of each hind foot, carries s
high head aud altogether is a very gay looking a
iutal under the saddle. T will pay SSGO for her -
livery to me at this place or to Maj. Gen. Cheat
ham, Army of Tennessee, or for information so that
I can get her. And SSOO for the detection ci the
thief that stole her.
B. J. BUTLER.
agl9 lw Maj. and C. ».