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COLUMBUS TIMES Published Daily (Snndays excepted) at the rate of *4.00 per month, or sl2 lor three months. No subscription received for a longer term than hre* month*. ADVERTISING RATES : Advertisements inserted for $2 00 per square for eaoh insertion. Where advertisements are inserted & month, the « barge will be S3O per square. Announcing eandidatees2o, which must invariably paid in advance. llbadquabtkes Conscript Sbrvic*,) 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. aug!2 5t 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. ju!2B w6t 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 m nm i bial mh 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!!! .A. T 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. ag!3 3t 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. . $4.00 Per Month 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