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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
.eries) 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 cf the fourth 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 the Gen
eral Commanding Reserves, so far as this class of
Conscripts is concerned, with the exceptions above
stated, and arc 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
for the non-performance of their more appropriate
duties as Enrolling Officers.
111. 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 make
out and forward to these Headquarters a full and
accurate report as required by second paragraph of
“aid order.
WM. M. BROWNE,
Colonel and Coiniud't.
CoM'KJjKKATH STATES Os AMERICA, )
War Department, '
Bureau of Conscription, f
Richmond, Va„ June 30, ’64. )
Circular,
No. 25.
Commandants of Conscripts will forthwith com
municate to Enrolling Officers these instructions
made by order of the Secretary of War.
Ist. In the class of Reserves Enrolling Officers
will under no circumstances receive applications
(or, or grant details until after the organization of
tho companies, and the transmission of the rolls to
the.Gencral’s commanding of the Reserves and then
only under instructions from said Generals com
manding.
By a decision of the Secretary of War the juris
diction of the Conscript authorities over the classes
of Reserves extends simply and exclusively to
granting exemptions prescribed by the Act of Con
gress, entitled an act to organize Forces to serve
during tho-War.
These exemptions are provided for in the 10th
-oction of said act, but theso shall be excluded from
these exemptions thus authorized to be granted in
tho Reserve classes all contained in the last clause
of the 4th Paragraph of said section from the
words “In addition to tho foregoing exemp
tions to the conclusion of said 4th Paragraph.
Except aa herein specified in all matters per
taining to the Reserve classes, Enrolling Officers
by order of tlio Secretary of War, aro to obey
the orders of General commanding Reserves, but
no Enrolling Officer under any plea will bo bold
to bo excused from tho full performance of his reg
ular duties proscribed by and under the orders of
this Bureau, and no assertion that duties under or
ders of tho General commanding Reserves have
prevented the due performance of other duties will
be accepted by this Bureau.
Tho Secretary of War has directed that all de
tails heretofore granted inconsistent with theso in
structions, will be promptly revoked and tho men
placed on tho company rolls.
Paragraph XIV of Circular No. 8, Bureau of Con;
seription, current scries, is hereby revoked.
By command of
Brig. Gen. JOHN S. PRESTON, Sup’t.
i Signed,] 1
C. B. Duffield, A. A. G.
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Change ofl* Schedule.
Office Engineer and Superintendent, )
Charleston ami Savannah Railroad, >
Charleston, June 7,1864.1
i vN THURSDAY, June 9,1864, and until further
v/ notice, the Schedule of the Passenger train will
be as follow, viz:
Leave Charleston 0.45, a. m.
Arrive in Savannah . 5.40, p. m.
Leave Savannah .5.30, a. in.
Arrive in Charleston .*. 1.15, p. ni.
•This Train makes direct connections, going north
and south, with the Northeastern Railroad at Char
leston, and the Central Railroad at the Junction.
11. S. HAINES,
June 14 if Engineer and Superintendent.
Change ot Schedule.
l\N and after Sunday, June 19th, the Trains on
’ ■ the Muscogee Railroad will run as follows :
PASSENGER TRAIN:
Leave Columbus 6 45 P. M.
Arrive at Macon.i 3 25 A. M.
Leave Macon 8 10 P. M-
Arrive at JColuinbus 4 25 A. K.
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 SOtli inst., the Passenger Train
•n the Montgomery A West Point R. R, will
Leave Columbus 2 40 p. in.
Arrive at West Point 8 00
Leave West 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 If _A gent.
STOLEN!
THE OWNER of a BLIND HORSE stolen by
Ia deserter, can hear of him by applying at the
Enrolling Oflioe. IV M. L. DA\ lb,
agll lw Capt. & Ln. Ofl.
HIVAWAY !
VKGRU boy CHARLEY : about 25 years old, yol
il low complexion, hair nearly straight, below or
dinary intelligence , left Mv. Nat. Thompson’s near
Box Springs, Talbot county. I bought him ol a
Mr. Brown, a refugeo from Mississippi, who now
resides in Tuskegee, Ala. 110 originally came from
Charleston, S. C. A suitable reward will be paid
for his delivery at this oftice, or in any safe jail and
information sent to me at this oSicc.
JAMES M. RUSSELL.
Columbu's On., aug 1 ts *
REMOVAL!
IHAV'E removed my Office to a room over Gun
by’s Store,*where I will be pleased to wait on
Patients requiring Medical or Surgical treatment,
agio lm* T. J. WORD, M. D.
SSO Reward.
1 WILL pay the above reward for 808, a black
I boy, about 24 years old. He has been out three
or four weeks, and is supposed to be lurking about
the city. JNO. H. MASS.
iy 4 ts
Notice tb Debtor* and Cred
itors.
ALL persons indebted to the estate of Neaborn
Jones, deceased, are required to make imme
diate payment, and those having claims n gainst said
estate are required to render them in terms of the
law to the undersigned.
SEABORN J. BENNING, Adrn’r.
By MARY H. BENNING. Agent.
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Shoemakers’ and Saddlers’
TOOLS.
T'Hl UNDERSIGNED having commenced the
* manufacture of the above named articles in this
•ity, are prepared to fill orders lor the same.
ofoen on Angle street, a few doors above C. S.
H«p,“i haSrison. BEDELL A CO.
Reference—Maj. F. W* Dillard. p
Mobile Register, Mississu-Pian and Augusta Con
stitutionalist, please copy one month and .en«t Dills
to this office.
mar 30 ts
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FOR SAIjR!
WE have for sale 49 reams ot Letter Paper, and
2,000 small Pocket Blank Books, at Wholesale
Or Retail. Paper, SSO per Ream; blank Books, $l5O
retail, 75 cts. wholesale. Apply at
a*6 ts vv * THIS OFFICE,
Vol. XI.
J. XV. H AHKIi\ & CO. Proprietors j. W ARISEN, Editor
NEW GOODS!! NEW GOODS!!!
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Mrs. DESSAU’S.
FROM THE IATE BLOCKADE SALE AT
vYiigusta, Git.
The goods are all superior to what is
offered elsewhere, and will be sold
than lately.* Tn the assortment can be
found: . *
Ladies’ Aew Hat*.
New Bonnet Ribbons.
New Belts,
Bobinet Musquito Netting,
Tuck in grand Dressing Combs,
Ladies’ Hosei),
Three y’ds wide Linen Sheeting,
Superior Bleached Shirting,
Printed Jachonets,
Ciinghauis,
English and Prencli Calicoes,
Bombazine, Alpacas,
Elegant Leroes.
OA LL -AuISTID SZEIE
jc 21 ts
W. H. TITTT,
WHOLESALE DRUGGIST
tilbj Broad Street,
Augusta, Oa.
BIAS 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 ease Cantharides,
•2 cases Gum Camphor
20 bags Popper __ ,
1 case Powdered Ipecac
20 bbls. Eng. Copperas
10 cases Eng. Fig Blue
50 ouncei Lunar Caustic
50 lbs Po. Rhubarb, in 2 p bottles
100 lbs Eng. Calomel, 1 lb bottles
150 lbs Eng. Blue Mass
25 bbls Epsom Salts
25 cases Scotch Snuff.
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BROWN’S FLY SHUTTLE LOOM,
(Will Weave 30 Yards per Day.)
Card 33£to3sLis ?
SPINNING-WHEELS and CORN-SHELLERS!
Manufactured by A. D. BROWN k CO.
received by M. P. Ellis & Co.“&*
agl3 lm*
O-TXaMCOra.E db Cos.
146, SSt oad 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,—
Salt, Sugar, Sheeting and Osnaburgs
TO
EXCHANGE FOR COUNTRY PRODUCE !
—ALSO.—
A Genuine Article of APPLE VINEGAR for sale.
agl2 lw*
FOR
-OR
EXCHAN6E FOR COUNTRY PRODUCE
-AT
-114, Rroad. Street.
Coffee, Sugar,
Soda, Dlack Pepper,
Syrup, Potash,
Cotton
Tin-Ware, Snuff,
Salt, Sugar,
Tumblers, Candles,
" GEORGIA REBEL SMTI
Pickles, Flysßrushes,
Eggs, Butter,
Salt Fish,
Cigars,
Toilet-Soap,
Soft-Soap,
Bar-Soap, *
Chewing and Smoking Tobacco.
aug 2 ts
IF'OIEA SALE
Or Exchange for Country Produce.
BEST COTTON CARDS;
SPINNING WHEELS:
CLOCK REELS.
agio 2w JEFFERSON & HAMILTON.
IROI WIRE.
*2,000 lbs. Sand 10 Iron Wire!
For sale by
agio 2w JEFFERSON Jc HAMILTON.
1,000 Pounds Choice Brown Sugar.
TO EXCHANGE FOR
WHEAT. Flour, Oorn or Meal.
VV At 114, BROAD ST.
ag9 dst wit Columbu?, Ga.
THOMAS SAVAGE. Agent,
(At Mulford’s old Stand,)
3STO. 101, BROAD ST.
HAHMIEMM
Sheetings, Shirtings.
Twills, Yarns, L.inseys.
liaguaray Coffee,
Tobacco, Rice.
Xails of all sizes,
xc>. &c*, &c.
Jul27tf
Aotice!
Office Chief Insp’r Field Tbaxsf’x,
2d Dist., Macon, Aug. 8, ’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. SMITH,
ag l3 5t Major and Chief Inspector.
GEORGIA— Muscogee County.
WHEREAS, Mrs. Mary V. Davis, adm’x of Dr.
George S. Davis, dec’d has filed her petition for
I leave to sell a negro woman by the name of Maria,
about 25 years oi age and her four children.
4.11 persons concerned are hereby notified to show
cause, (.if any they have) why an order should not
be granted at the next September Term of the l ourt
ot Ordinary lor said county, authorizing the sale of
said negro. , . T ii * at
Given under my hand, July jsj, -JOHNSON.
jy 4 2m Ordinary.
Columbus, Ga. Wednesday Morning, August 24.1864.
Tuesday Evening,
Our Cotton Abroad. —The London New3
; says that vessels have just arrived at Liver
pool with 15,000 bales of cotton, the proceeds
of w hich are to go towards the sinking fund
for redeeming Confederate bonds and paying
, the dividends on the doming April aewunts,
provisions having already been made for the
September account.
Workingmen’s Strike. —The machinists em
ployed at the Virginia and Tennessee shops in
Lynchburg, ‘‘struck'' tor higher wages Satur
day. Their pay was ten dollars a day, but
they alleged that they could not support their
families with4hat sum, and demanded Sis.
This the company refused to pay, and in con
sequence, the machinists—eleven in number—
quit work and reported themselves to the
Enrolling Officer for service in the army. The
Republican learned late Saturday night that
the difficulty had been, or would most prob
aly be, arranged to the satisfaction of all
parties, and that the strikers would return to
their work Monday morning.
'
Corn. —The whole of Middle and North
Mississippi is represented as a vast cornfield,
and the crop is said to be the finest ever seen
in that region.
A Noble Example. —Three planters of Mon
roe and Clark Counties, Alabama, upon hear
ing of the threatening condition of affairs in
■ Mobile took their hands, to the number of
! three hundred and seventy-five, and tendered
them to the Government, and were accepted.
A few mbre such acts will give enough of
labor without resorting to impressment.
The Credit of the North. —The financial
department of the Government, says a North
ern paper, has been a lie from the beginning.
Chase s whole course has been one of decep
tion and falsehood. The people have been
; told, time and again, that “no further issue of
paper currency would be made by the Gov
ernment,” but the paper has been out till the
dollar is worth now thirty-nine cents, and our
credit in London forty per cent, poorer than
that of the “rebels,” who. at the last account
j were selling their bonds at seventy-seven
| cents on the dollar, while Federal securities
were only fifty-seven.
-
[From the Richmond Dispatch, 19th.]
The War News.
We append a summary of the news received
; since onr last publication :
AFFAIRS BELOW RICHMOND.
We alluded yesterday to a report that Sig
nal Hill was in the possession of the enemy,
and stated that it then lacked confirmation,
but it afterwards turned out to be true. It
appears that the hill was occupied without
opposition on Wednesday morning, and that
the enemy immediately set about fortifying
the position on the front towards Richmond”
Our commander, however, determined that
! the Yankees should not hold quiet possession
i of a position they had taken so easily, and
I arrangements were made to drive them off.—
Accordingly, on Wednesday evening, our iron
clads, under the command of Commander
Mitchell, steamed down the James until they
I got within range of the hill, when they opened
! a furious cannonade, sending shells with accu
-1 racy into the very midst of the enemy’s forces.
| The firing was heavy and rapid, the" report of
the guns being distinctly heard in Richmond.
After some show of resistance, the Yankees
abandoned their position and fled, leaving the
! hill in possession of our troops, and our sig
nal station has since been re-established.—
Signal Hill is on the plantation of Mr. Henry
Cox, about two miles and a half below Chaf
fin’s Bluff. Our little fleet of iron clads per*
I formed their work effectually, and their gal
lant officers and crews are entitled to much
credit for the accuracy of their fire.
The report that Brigadier General Chambliss
was killed in the fight of Tuesday is confirmed.
His dead body was sent into our lines by the
enemy on Wednesday under flag of truce.—
Captain W. Roy Mason, jr., of General Field's
l staff, is badly wounded and a prisoner. He
has been sent to Fortress Monroe. Colonel
| Oates, of Georgia, (Field’s division) and Lieut
Col. Carmichael, of the Twenty-eighth Geor
| gia regiment, was also wounded in
i Tuesday’s battle. Lieut. Lewis, of the
| Eighteenth North Carolina regiment, Lane's
' brigade, was killed.
The enemy has* possession of Newmarket
or Jennings' Hill, at the intersection of the
Newmarket and Long Bridge roads, and occu
pies a line of entrenchments extending from
Riddle’s shop to Willie 7 Church, nearly par
allel to the Quaker road. His right has been
driven across White Oak Swamp, which is u
tributary to the Chickahominy. The Yankees
have advanced up as far as the Drill room, on
John Gathright's place at Newmarket. On
Tuesday they burnt Cornelius Crew’s house,
on Malvern Hill.
The location of the fight on Tuesday was
near Fussell’s mill, between the Darbytown
and Charles City roads. The enemy, in a fu
rious charge, succeeded in breaking through
Wright s brigade, but was speedily driven
back, with terrible slaughter, by Lane’s North
Carolina brigade and some of Anderson’s and
Benning’s Georgians. That portion of the
enemy who held the works to our left were
charged by one hundred and fifty of our men.
driven back, and thus our original lines were
re-established. In this charge we captured
six hundred prisoners, a stand of colors and
several hundred fine arms. Prisoners report
that the Yankee General Ferrero, dancing
master and commander of negro troops, was
killed.
The enemy's force on this side of the river
is said to be composed of the Tenth and Sec
ond corps, with a large body of cavalry.
Officers who were engaged in the on
Tuesday represent that the slaughter of Yan
kees exceeded that of the 30th of July in front
of Petersburg. Indeed, they received such
a severe punishment that they have been con
tented to remain comparatively quiet ever
since.
Last evening about six o clock. heavy can
nonading was heard down the river, which
continued with great rapidity for about an
hour. We learned that this proceeded from
our gunboats shelling the position supposed
to be occupied by the enemy, and the enemy's
gunboats shelling the shore where they sup
posed the rebels were posted. About the
same time there was some heavy skirmishing
near Newmarket Hill, a body of our troops
having been sent forward to a-certain the po
sition of the enemy.
FROM PErBRSBtjKU.
The quiet in front of Petersburg was bro
ken yesterday morning about two o’clock by
our batteries, which opened along the whole
; line upon the enemy, who responded feebly.—
i jThis was kept up for about an hour and a
half, when all became quiet again.
It was reported yesterday morning that
the enemy’s cavalry were making some dem
onstration upon our right, and later in the
! day its object was developed. It is reported
! that they succeeded by a flank movement, in.
i striking the Weldon railroad, six miles from
Petersburg, burnt the Brick House, and prob
ably tore up some portion of the track. Hea
vy firing wa3 heard yesterday afternoon in
that direction, and it is presumed that out
forces were engaged in a conflict with the en
emy. The intention of the raiders is supposed
to be to strike the Southside and Danville
railroads, but the design may be frustrated
by the skill of our officers and the valor of
1 the troops under their command.
Notwithstanding the fact that a large num
ber of the enemy’s troops have been'with
drawn, a heavy force still remains in front of
| Petersburg, and the indications are that they
i have" no intention of abandoning the line of
operations. Their guns are yet mounted as j
i before, except, perhaps, in some positions on !
the left, and their boasted mortars are still in 1
place. Their line of battle, though somewhat j
withdrawn at points, is still unimpaired, and
their pickets aie as active as ever. The hea
| vy rain of Monday washed a large breach in
their works in the rear of Griffith’s farm, (on
; our right,) which, up to Wednesday afternoon.'
j they had been unable to repair. Our pickets.
I opened a heavy fire upon that portion of the
i line as soon as the earth was washed away,
i and the Yankees gave way and fled in confu
sion to their main works,
The sickness in Grant’s army is reported
i to be on the increase, and hospitals have beeh
erected at intervals on the roads leading to
City Point.
After the above was written we received
the Press dispatch, giving an account of op
erations near Petersburg yesterday. It ap
pears that the raiders were met by Walker’s
Virginia and Davis’ Mississippi brigades, and
a fight ensued, in which we captured one hun
-1 dred and fifty-eight prisoners. The latest
new3 is that the enemy was on tho retreat.
FROM THE VALLEY.
We have information from Early’s army as
late as Sunday last. Our forces had been in
, line ot battle for two days, but the Yankees,
| so far from manifesting a disposition to make
an attack, appeared to be withdrawing from
I our immediate front. There is no foundation
for the rumor that a battle took place on Sat
urday, in which the enemy was repulsed with
; considerable loss.
AtNlilioaial irom Use \oilEi
From the latest Northern papers we make some !
j additional extracts : '
CAREER OF THE TALLAHASSEE.
. The Northern press have long accounts of the
performances of the Tallahassee. In addition to
the William Bell, tho'barque Adriatic and the Su
lote, she had captured J;he brig Billow, of Salem ;
tho schooner It. E. Parker, of Richmond, Maine,
| (bonded for $10,000); the barque Glenaloon, from
: Glasgow, for Now York, (destroyed) ; and the
Spokane, of Boston. Captain Sawyer, of the latter,
was on board the Tallahassee six hour3. He rep
resents her to be from eight hundred to one thous
and tons burthen and very fast. Her officers j
boast of having burned sixteen vessels in thirty |
hours, and fifty in all.
Admiral Paulding was notified on Friday even- .
ing of tbc appearance of the new pirate Taliahas • :
see off Fire Island, and at oneo dispatched a tug,
to the lower bay to send from thence a gunboat in j
pursuit of her. The Susquehanna was sent to sea
on Saturday at daylight. Tho Eolus sailed during
the morning, and at tho latest accounts the Grand
Gulf was preparing for sea. The Juniata was
probably dispatched from Hampton Itoads on
Saturday.
The United States gunboat Mcrrimae, six guns,
Acting Volunteer Lieutenant William Budd, sailed
on Saturday from the lower quarantine for tbc
coast of Labrador for tho purpose of destroying the
yellow fever which the crew contracted in the
gulf recently. On her way to the Northern lati
tude she will keep a lookout for the rebel pirate
Tallahassee, which is supposed to be operating
somewhere in the track of homeward-bound ves
sels from Europe. The, Merrimac is to cruise un
til every trace of the epidemic is completely re
moved.
YANKEES IN THE \ ALLEY.
The Herald of tho 15th says :
We have interesting details ot the pursuit of
the rebel General Early by General Sheridan from
Winchester. General Early is said to have stated
before be left Winchester that he was wholly de
tached from General Lee’s army, and had a kind
of roving commission to go where he pleased, and
that he would be back again within five weeks. j
The American of the 16th says ;
Advices from the Shenandoah Valley place our j
advance, on Friday last, at Cedar creek, about ten !
miles beyond Winchester. The rebels continued |
to retreat, showing a strong rear guard! Tho po- j
sition of the two armies is so close that a battle j
may have occurred ere this. Intelligence from j
General Grant’s headquarters is that Lee has sent j
two divisions of infantry and a force of cavalry to |
reinforce the rebel column in the Shenandoah ;
Valley. This will probably make the rebel army i
in that region strong enough to give Sheridan [
battle should he push his advance much further. }
the fight in mobile bay.
Bj\the arrival of the United States mail steam
er Creole yesterday from New Orleans, we have
very full details of the recent r.ttack on the de
fences of Mobile by Admiral Farragut, showing
that our wooden vessels not only subdued the forts,
but the iron-elads of the enemy—in the .case of
the rebel ram Tennessee, which was compelled to
surrender to one of our wooden ships. It was
rumored in New Orleans, with what truth is not
known, that General Beauregard had gone to the
relief of Atlanta with twenty thousand men.
The New Orleans Times of the Bth gives the par
| ticu’ars of the engagement off Mobile. The total
i number of Federal.vessels engaged in the fight was
eighteen, including three iron-elads:
Farragut was lashed to the maintop of the Hart
ford during the fight, and gave orders through a
■ speaking-tube. The Hartford sustained serious
damage.
Higginbotham, secretary to the fleet captain, with
twenty of her crew, was killed, and twenty-six
were wounded. The HarUord was injured by col
liding with the steamer Jfetacomet.
The gunboat Oneida was struck by a shell from
the Tendessee, which passed through her boiler,
scalding thirty men. She was subsequently struck
by the Tennessee and nearly ut in two, and had to
run into shoal water to prevent sinking.
Captain Levy, of the Oneida, is reported to have
i lest an arm. The Tennessee is said to have sur
rendered on account of the demoralization of her
crew. [A Yankee lie.] Captain Giraud now com
mands the Tennessee.
The Times says their loss, including those lost on
the Tecumseh, is about two hundred and forty.—
They claim to have captured two hundred and fifty
prisoners on the Tennessee and Selma alone.
Fort Morgan is reported evacuated, which is
7 probably premature, as before the last dispatch
boat left the fleet, it was about being invested by a
body of infantry, who marched from Pensacola for
that purpose.
The Times also reports the steamer Sciota fired
into by guerillas seven miles above Baton Rouge.
Balls passed through her pilot-house, cabin and
kitchen. No person was injured.
; We copy the following from Admiral Farragut’?
official report:
The Hartford had passed toe forts before 8 o’clk.
7 and finding myself raked by the rebel gunboats, I
ordered the Afetaeomet to cast off and go in pursuit
j of them, one of which the S.el na) she succeeded in
i capturing.
All the vessels had passed the forts by half-past
. eight o’cloch, b t the rebel ram Teunessee was still
: apparently uninjured in our rear.
Signa was at once made to all th° fleet to turn
again and attavk the rain, net only with guns, but
with orders to an her down at full speed S
The »>i>n»ngM.uela was the first that struck her, j
aud th >u sh.- mayh ve injured her badly, yet she I
did not sue in ambling her. .
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The Lackawanna also struck her, but ineffectual
ly, and the tlaj-ship gave her several shots with her
bow guns, and as she passed poured her whole port
broadside into her—solid nine-inch shot and thir
teen pounds of powder at a distance of not more
than twelve feet!
The iron-clads were closing upon her, and the
Hartford and the rest of the fleet were bearing down
upon her, when, at 10 a. m., she surrendered.
The rest of the rebel fleet, viz: the Morgan and
Gaines, succeeded in getting back under the protec
tion of Fort Morgan.
This terminated tho action of the day. Admiral
Buchanan sent me his sword, being himself badly
wounded with a compound fracture of the leg,
which it is supposed will have to be amputated.
Tni; Victory at White's Tavern.— The officer
commanding the Confederate forces on the north
bank of the James must be an exceedingly modest
person, lie is evidently determined to surpass Gen.
Lee in brevity and simpleuoss of statement. His
dispatches produced everywhere the impression that
the battle at White's Tavern was a trilling affair—a
mere advance of the enemy’s skirmishers and their
repulse. Little attention was paid to the phrase
‘ determined attick.”
It turns out that two or more corps of the enemy
made a fiorce assault on our lines, carried a part of
them, and were driven out with heavy slaughter,
especially of negroes, and with the loss of six or eight
hundred prisoners, colors, etc. This was no small
matter, and deserved official notice more pro
nounced than any we have seon.
General Mahone appears to have given so much
of his mmd to fighting that he has forgotten the art
ot writing,® r rather we have not yet learned to in
terpret his dispatches. Hereafter we shall study
more closely. Wo bog, however, to suggest, that
when Gen. M. again whips two corps with two brig
ades, his dispatch would not bo considered at all
prolix if it mentioned the little circumstance.
f Whiff, 1 9th.
♦ *
[From the London Times, July 25.]
The Rebel Invasion.
L’be interest of the American* intelligence
received by the Arabia is derived from every
variety of incident that can illustrate the his
tory of war. Military operations, political
contests or financial difficulties have severally
often given a special importance to the in
stallment of news ; but never before has the
confusion of the time been so vividly repre
sented as by tho brief outline we publish this
morning of the events of a single week. The
invasion of Maryland by the Confederates is in
itself but a repetition of their former aggres
sive movement. But the effects of this attack,
and the spirit in which it is met, give the
incursion anew significance, ft had “assumed
formidable proportions,” and filled the three
chief cities of the North with alarm, extend
ing even to New York.
Baltimore and Washington are “threatened,”
and the war is carried into the very suburbs
of both. The danger is evident to the whole
people of the North, but the reiterated appeal
to them for the means of defence does not find
the same response‘as before. The people of
Maryland itself cannot be relied on by the
Federal Government, and would probably
rather assist the invasion than help to repci
it. But the population of Jersey and Penn
sylvania are now described as apathetic and
disinclined even to three months’ service in
the iuMitia. Massachusetts itself exhibits the
same indisposition to support the war. for
which, at the beginning of the conflict, it was
the most zealous State in the Union. The
civil authorities of New York protest against
the removal of the military from the city, ap
prehending the revival of a riotous spirit in
the ibabitants if the troops are withdrawn. '
The Governor of Pennsylvania is driven to !
word his proclamation to the people, not in j
the old terms of confidence and patriotism, j
but in the harsh language of reproach. He j
actually accuses them of “stupidity,” and that ;
“culpable indifference” which in individuals,
has been stigmatized as treason. These are
indications on the surface of some change
that must have been silently working beneath.
We cannot hope that the Southern invasion
will be a closing incident of the war, but the
different, or rather the abated feeling it ex
cites in the North, gives some feint hope that
a state of opinion is being created which will
not howl down those who speak of peace as
public enemies.
During.these eventSLtke paper price of gold i
varied in a range of 30 per cent. It rose to |
nearly 280, and subsided, when the worst j
period of alarm was over, to 250. It was just [
at this juncture that Mr. Fessenden, the sue- !
cessor of Mr. Chase, arrived in New York, and 1
applied to the bankers for anew loan. He i
wished to obtain a temporary advance of j
850,000,000 Until the Ist of September. The !
cost of the war is thus impressed on the mind
ol the North, at the same moment that .its
dangers are visible on Northern soil and its
difficulty or hopelessness in Virginia. The
lessons of experience of all kinds a*e coming
in quick succession. It will task the invent
ive faculty of the Government press to repre
sent the occurrences of the past week as ether ,
than disastrous. We have never heard that
Charleston or Richmond had been thrown into i
such alarm as Baltimore and Washington have
felt for several days. The Confederacy is .
more formidable as an enemy than ever. Its
Government can engage Grant and his enor- i
mous army while it stretches its arm over him
and deals a blow in the North itself that is !
felt in every section of society. In the lower
classes of the community there appears to be
beginning a dim consciousness of the real i
state of things. The mass-of the people have i
filled the ranks of the army again and again :
they have fought bravely, and given their :
lives freely ; but they cannot endure a con- !
tinued effort that has, no result, or brings
only calamity, and they now begin to shrink
from the useless sacrifice.
~ -
The Harvest Moon.—Many readers who
have enjoyed and admired the mellow bril
liancy and unusual splendor of the moon for
j several nights lately, will be pleased to read
; or re-call the remarks ot William Tlowitt
: (Book of the Seasons) on August:
Whilst speaking of harvest I must not omit
to notice the splendid appearance of the Har
; vest Moon. The circumstance of this moon
rising several night3 successively almost at
the same time, immediately after sunset, has
given it an importance in the eyes of farmers ;
but it is not the less remarkable for its singu
lar and splendid beauty. No moon during
the year can bear any comparison with it.—
At its rising it has a character so peculiarly
i its own, that the more a person is accustomed
to expect aud to observe it, the more it strikes
him with astonishment. I would advise ev
-1 ery one who can go out in the country to
make a practice of watching for its rising.—
The warmth and the dryness of the earth,
the clearness and balmny serenity of the at
mosphere at that season, the sounds of voices,
borne from distant fields, the freshness which
comes with the evening, combine to make the
j twilight walk delicious; and scarcely has the
; sun departed in the West, w hen the moon in
: in.the East rises from beyond some solitary
hill, or from behind the dark rich foliage of
trees, and sails up into the still and transpar
ent air in the full mn.gnificence of a world.—
It comes not as in common, a fair but flat
disc on the face of the sky—we behold it sus
pended iu the crystal air in its greatness and
j rotundity; we perceive the distance beyond
it as sensibly as that before it; and ita appar
ent size is magnificent. In a short time,
i however, it has acquired a considerable alti
tute—its apparent balk has and miaisbed—its
majestic grandeur has waned, and it sails on
i its way calmly beauGfal, but in nothing dis
■ sering from its usual ebaraoter
TELEGRAPHIC.
REPORTS OF TH* PRESS ASSOCIATION.
Entered according to act of Congress in the yea,-
1 J.S Thrasher, in the Clerk's office of
the District Court of tho Confederate States for
the Northern D.-trict of Georgia.
Latest from Virginia.
The Enemy Defeated on the Weldon Uni
by General mil.
Interesting from the North.
. ItC.f &C-
Richmond, August 22d.—Official dispatches
state that Gen. Hill attacked the enemy o*
the Weldon Road, Sunday morning, aad
drove him from his advance lines to his en
trenchments, capturing over three hundred
prisoners; our loss was principally in Hagood's
Brigade, which mounted the enemy’s entrench
ments, but tho supports failing, many were
captured.
Dispatches from Atlanta‘state that the ene
my’s cavalry which struck the Macon Railroad
on the 19th were met on the 20th by a portion
of our forces and retreated, losing two stand
of colors and one piece of artillery.
Richmond, Aug. 22.— The Baltimore Ga
zette of the 20th received. It contains the
following:
: Grant captured five hundred prisoners on
j the north side of the James river. The object
| of the expedition was to prevent our forces
: from drowning his men while cutting a canal
across Dutch Gap. Sheridan,- in his retreat
i from the Valley, had escaped alone along the
! border. There are innumerable rumors as to
the high hopes based on the expedition. Sher
idan lost 500 men captured near Strasburg
| and <2 wagons near Ferryville, forming a
! greater part of his supply trains.
! Telegrams from Middle Tennessee report
that Steadman whipped Wheeler at Dalton—
' another that Wheeler whipped Steadman
' eight miles from Chattanooga.
The Tallahassee, at Halifax, took 300 chal
drons coal. She was forbid by the English
Admiral to-take it.
—
Apprehension of an Invasion
from Canada. .
Gotham is in an evident flutter about
the safety of its frontier. What with
I raids from Canada and the threatened eap>
ture of its harbor by the Tallahassee, New
York seems not to be over safe just now ;
The following important order has been
issued by Governor Seymour with regard
to the frontier defences:
Brigadier General Green publishes a
general order,.in which he assumes com>
mand, and is making details to patrol the
borders of the State :
State of New York, )
Inspector General’s Office,
Albany, Aug. 12, 1864. \
To Brig. Gen. John A. Green , Coni'
mantling 24 th Brig. National Guard ,
Syract 40:
General—The Governor being informed
that refugees, deserters and other evil dis
posed persons are gathered in considerable
numbers in the adjoining Canadian Prov*
inces, and that there is danger that they
may elude the vigilauce of the Canadian
authorities, and make an attack upon
some of our frontier towns, the northern
boundary of the State, from the east line
of the county of Monroe to the west line
of the State of Vermont is placed under
your military charge.
This will embrace the counties of
Wayne, Cayuga, Oswego, Jefferson, St.
Lawrence, Franklin and Clinton, and this
order will continue in force, unless revoke
ed, until the brigades in the several dis
tricts embraced in the above counties shall
respectively report at least two organized
regiments. You will immediately make
such arrangements as will secure to you
the earliest information, and as will, in
your judgment, best enable you to guard
against any invasion of our territory by
marauders.
If it shall become necessary to maintain
a patrol at any point, you will make such
details from the organized regiments of
the National Guard in your brigade, or
from the district patrolled, as may be res
quired for that purpose, reporting your
action in the premises to the commander
in-chief. Contracts for subsistence, should
any become necessary, will be made by
you pursuant to instructions from tbc Ad
jutant General, who will issue such other
and further orders in the premises as the
exigency ot the service may require.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
Josiah T. Miller, Insp’r Gen.
—•- m
Xu Dispute About Hf.u.—Another rover of
the seas, a very swift sailing and staunch vessel,
the “Tallahassee,” has commenced the work of
| devastation upon Yankee commerce. About her
status, neither of the Yankees nor their foreign
sympathsiers can raise any quibble. She was
| armed, equipped, manned and sailed from a Con
federate port, Her officers and men are all Con
federates, and all previously in the Confederate
service. She is commanded by the dashing and
heroic Wood. We will endeavor to obtain a list
of her officers for public information, and, in
deed, for the information, in some cases, it may
be, of their own friends and relatives.
We know of the fitting out and sailing of this
vessel, but in accordance, with our usual course,
kept perfect silence upon the subject. Now that
she has spoken for herself, no further necessity
for concealment exists. Os her force or arma
ment of course we will say nothing. Let that be
found out by the enemy the best way they can.
They will find her powerful enough to do them
harm.— Wilminton Journal.
A German Opinion of Old Abe.—The Lincoln
party has ceased to exist amongst the Germans of
St. Louis. The great violator of the cons itutioE,
and still greater butcher of men, Lincoln, who nei
ther can carry on war nor wants to listen to peace,
the destroyer of the country, who remains untu .ved
in the face of the greatest misery, and who can
crack jokes like a Xero while Rome is burning—
this stupid and heartless man, whom the people, in
an unhappy hour, to their everlasting disgrace and
misfortune, put at the head of this republ c—this is
so-called honest, but in reality an out and out hyp
ocritical, Abraham Lincoln, has no party among c :
the Germans of St. Louis.— St. Louis Anzriger.
Headquarters Army of Tens*.
Offiee, Chief of Staff, Aug. 13, ’64.
Circular:
Officers and soldiers belonging to Regiments of
this Army now absent, from whatever cause, are
called upon to return 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. Shocp. Chief of Stall. 19 3t
*.*.000 REWARD!
rHE above reward will be pail for the arrest and
production before the Coroner’s C< urt Talla
poosa county, Ala., of one \VM. A. PAIiLK who
murdered my husoand, Benjamin Gibson, on Mon
day night, Ist o'. August.
said Paulk is a resident of Macoa county, near
union Springs, aged about 38 years, about 5 feet 9
inches in heighth. stout built, fair complexion, dark
, , ue Relieved to be a deserter from
the 2d Ala. cavalry. JULIA A. GIBSON.
Near Tallassee, Tallapoosa no.. Ala.
agS ltn