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Augusta, Ga„ August Ist, 1804, /
General Orders)
No. 44. J
I. The attention of Enrolling Officers is directed
:o Circular No 2~, Bureau of Conscription {current
series) herewith published, withdrawing from this
Department and transferring to the General Com
manding Reserves, all jurisdiction over persons of
the Rcservo classes, except such as are strictly en
titled to exemption under third paragraph, and the
rirst clause of 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
-tated, and are enjoined to give all his orders and
commands relative thereto prompt attention*and
obedience; but they will bear in mind that the per
iormancc 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 an l
accurate report as required by second paragraph of
‘aid order.
WM. M. BROWNE,
Colonel and Commd’t.
CoNKKDKRATK STATES OF AMERICA,
War Departmf.nt, *'
Bureau of Conscription, f
Richmond, Ya., June 30,’64. ‘
Circular,
No. 25. 1
Commandants of Conscripts will forthwith com
municate to Enrolling Officers these instructions
nude by order of the Secretary of War.
Ist. In the class of Reserves Enrolling Officers
will under no circumstances receive applications
lor, or grant details until after the organization of
the companies, and the transmission of the rolls to
thc.General’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 the War.
Thcso exemptions are provided for in the 10th
jeetion of said act, but these shall be exoluded from
these exemptions thus authorized to be granted in
the Reserve classes all contained in the last clause
of the 4th Paragraph of said section from the
words “In addition to the foregoing exemp
tions to the conclusion of said 4th Paragraph.
Except as herein specified in all matters per
taining to the Rescrvo classes, Enrolling Officers
by order of the Secretary of War, arc to obey
the orders of General commanding Reserves, but
no Enrolling Officer under any plea will bo held
to be excused from the full performance of his reg
ular duties prescribed by and under the orders of
this Bureau, and no assertion that duties under or
ders of the General commanding Reserves havo
prevented the duo performance of other duties will
be accepted by this Bureau.
The Secretary of War has directed that all de
tails heretofore granted inconsistent with these in
structions, will be promptly revoked and the men
placed on the company rolls.
Paragraph XIV of Circular No. 8, Bureau of Con
icription, current scries, is hereby revoked.
By command of
Brig. Gen. JOHN S. PItESTON, Sup’t.
[Signed,]
C. B. Dufkield, A. A, G.
_ ______ aug!2 5t
Change oi* Schedule.
Office Engineer and Superintendent, i *
Charleston and Savannah Railroad,
Charleston, June 7,1864.)
i |N THURSDAY, Juno 9,1864, and until further
V." notice, the Schodulo of the Passenger train will
he as follow, viz:
Leave Charleston : .'. 9.46, a. in.
Arrive in Savannah 5.40, p. in.
Leave Savanuah 5.30, a. m.
Arrive in Charleston 1.15, p. in.
This Train makes direct connections, going north
sud south, with the Northeastern Railroad at Char
leston and the Central Railroad at the Junction.
11. S. HAINES,
•Juno 14 ti Engineer and Superintendent.
Change of Schedule.
| jN and after Sunday, June 19th, the Trains on
'the 'hiseogee Railroad will run as follows:
PASSENGER TRAIN:
Leave Columbus 6 45 P. M.
Arrive at Macon 3 25 A. M.
Leave Macon 8 10 P. M
Arrive at Columbus 4 25 A. K.
FREIGHT TRAIN:
Leave Columbus 5 00 A. M,
Arrive at Columbus 4 55 A. M.
* W.L. CLARK,
mar 19 tl Supt. Muscogee R, R.
COLUMBUS TO WEST POINT 7
On and after the 30th inst., the Passenger Train
the Montgomery A West Point R. R. will
Leave Columbus 2 40 p. in.
Arrive at West Point., 8 00 11
Leave West Point 350 “
Arrive at Columbus 9 10 “
Freight Train will Leave Columbus...s 50 a. m.
Arrive at Columbus 12 23 “
7. E. APPLER,
July 23 ts Agent.
STOLEN!
THE OWNER of a BLIND HORSE stolon by
1 a deserter, can hear of him by applying at the
Enrolling Office. WM. L. DAVIS,
agll Iw Capt. & En. Off.
rumwayT «
YTEGRO boy CHARLEY; about 25years old, yel
ltl low complexion, hair nearly straight, below or
dinary intelligence ; left Mr. Nat. Thompson’s near
Box Springs, Talbot county. I bought him of a
Mr. Brown, a refugeo from Mississippi, who now
resides in luskegee. Ala. He originally came from
Charleston, S. C. A suitable reward will, be paid
for his delivery at this office, or in any safe jail and
information sent to me at this office.
JAMES M. RUSSELL.
Oolumbu’s tfa., aug 1 ts *
REMOVALr
I HAVE removed my Office to a room over Gun
by’s Store, where I will be pleased to wait on j
Patients requiring Medical or Surgical| treatment. j
agia 1m ‘ I. J. V* OKD, M. D. j
SSO Reward.
1 WILL pav the above reward for 808, a black
boy, about 24 years old. He has been out three
or four weeks, and is supposed to be lurking about
he city. JNO. H. *»ASS.
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Notice to Debtors and Cred
itors.
ALL persons indebted to the estate of Seaborn
Jones, deceased, are required to make imme
diate payment, and those having claims against said
estate are required to render them in t . ins of the
law to the undersigned.
SEABORN J. BENNING, Adm'r.
By MARY 11. BENNING, Agent.
ju!2B vrut _
Shoemakers’ and Saddlers’
TOOLS.
r I'IIE UNDERSIGNED having commenced the
i manufacture of tho above named articles in this
eity are prepared to fill orders lor the same.
8 nn Jnele street, a few doors above C. fc.
IlSSital HARRISON, BEDELL & CO.
“ Reference — Mnj. F. W. Dillard.
KbSe Register, Mississippian and Augusta Con-
Please copy one month and send bills
to this office.
mar 30 ts
n PAH A SIAM 8008
FOR SALE !
WE have for sale 49 reams ol Letter Paper, and
2,000 small Pocket Blank Books, at W hoi wale
or RetaiL Paper, SSO per Ream: blank Books, $l5O
'CUU.TOC. Apply »t Hls oFFICE
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Vol. XI.
WARREN & CO. Proprietors j. w. WARREN, Editor
n GO*!! M WHS!!!
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Mrs. DESSAU’S.
FROM THE LATE BLOCKADE SALE AT
A-ugusta, Gra.
The goods are all superior to what is
offered elsewhere, and will be sold lower
than lately. In the assortment can be
found :
Ladies’ New Hats,
Aew Bonnet Ribbons,
Sew Belts,
Bobinet Dlusquito .Netting,
Tucking and Dressing Combs,
Ladles’ Ilosery,
Three y’ds w ide Linen Sheeting,
Superior Bleached Shirting,
Printed Jackonets,
Cvinihanas,
English and French Calicoes,
Bombazine, Alpacas,
Elegant Leroes.
OA ILL AND SEE.
jc 21 ts
W. 11. TUTT,
WHOLESALE DRUGGIST
316, Broad Street,
Augusta, G-a.
HAS FOR SALE AT LOW PRICES I
1,000 lbs. CASTILE SOAP.
200 kegs B. C. Soda
500 ounces Quinine
200 “ Morphine
100 lbs lodide Potash
25 lbs Oil Anise
1 case Madras Indigo
100 dozen Brown Windsor Soap
3 cases Coleman’s Mustard
125 dozen Mason’s Blacking
100 gross Lilly White
1 case Cantnarides,
2 cases Gum Camphor
20 bags Pepper
1 case Powdered Ipeeae
20 bbls. Eng. Copperas
10 cases Eng.’Fig Blue
50 ounce* Lunar Caustic
50 lbs Po. Rhubarb, in 2 p bottle*
100 lbs Eng. Chlomel, 1 fb bottles
150 lbs Eng. Blue Mass
25 bbls Epsom Salts
25 cases Scotch Snuff.
agl3 3t
BROWN’S FLY SHUTTLE LOOM,
(Will Weave 30 Yards per Day.)
Card. Saclis,
SPINNING-WHEELS and CORN-SHELLERS!
Manufactured by A. D. BROWN & CO.
received by M. P. Ellis &
agl3 lm*
GILMORE c*3 Cos.
146, Broad Street.
HAS ON HAND AND FOU SALE!
Corn, Flour, Bacon, Tobacco,
Candles, Syrup, Sugar, Coffee,
Lard, Peas, Pvico, Osnaburgs,
Watches, Sheetings, Brooms,
Spun Thread, Beeswax and Tallow.
—ALSO,—
Salt, Sugar, Sheeting and Osuaburgs
TO
EXCHANGE FOR COUNTRY PRODUCE!
—ALSO,—
A Genuine Article of APPLE VINEGAR for sale.
ag!2 lw*
FOR. SALE
Or Exchange for Country Produce.
BEST COTTON CARDS;
SPINNING WHEELS;
CLOCK REELS.
agio 2w * JEFFERSON & HAMILTON.
IROJV WIRE,
2,000 lbs. 8 and 10 Iron Wire l
For sale by
agio 2w JEFFERSON k HAMILTON. _
1,000 Pounds Choice Brown Sugar.
TO EXCHANGE FOR
WHEAT, Flour, Corn or Meal.
„ „ , At 114, BROAD ST.
agOdotwlt Columbus, Ga.
THOMAS SAVAGE, A&eiit,
(At Mulford’s old Stand,)
3STO. 101, BROAD ST.
HIS M OR (MM
Sheetings, Shirtings.
Twills, Tarns, Linsey*.
Laguaray Coffee,
Tobacco, Rice,
IVails of all ttizes,
&c., &c., &t.
jul27ti
Notice!
okpick Chief Iksp’r. Ftt;i,i> Tkaxsp’n,
2d Dist., Macon, Aug. 8„ *O4.
All persons arc 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,
agl3 5t Major and Chief Inspector.
GEORGIA-Muscosiee C ounty,
WHEREAS, Mrs. Mary V. Davis, -adm’x of Dr.
George S. Davis, dec’d has filed her petition for
leave to sell a negro woman by the name of Maria,
about 25 years of age and her four children.
All persons concerned are hereby notified to show
cause, (if any they have) why an order should not
bo granted at the next September Term of the Court
of Ordinary for sqid county, authorizing the sale of
said negro.
Given under my hand. July Ist. 54.
JNO. JOHNSON,
jy 4 2m Ordinary.
STOLEV,
Ij’ROM my house, last night, two Checks on the
Agency of the Union Bank, in this city, drawn
by J. M. Mulden, Jr., Lt. &c.; one No. 185, for SB4O.
and tho other No. 186, for SI2OO. All persons are
warned pgainst trading for said checks, as payment
has been stopped and Duplicates applied for.
ng!9 2t* T. KNOMLES.
STRAIT MILE.
f LOST from my office, on Thursday, a small po
-1 ney built brown mare Mule, eight or nine years
old; in good order; no marks recollected, except a
collar mark on the pqint of her shoulder. A reason
able reward will be paid for her.
a«2o3t* WILEY WILLIAMS.
Headquarters Arm y ok Tens.
Office, Chief at'Staff, Aug. 13, '64.
Circular;
Officers and soldiers belor.-,mg to Regiments of
this Army now absent, from whatever cause, are
ealled upon to return at once to their commands.—
The commanding General promises to use his good
offices to obtain pardon for such a- may be improp
erly absent, whero they voluntarily rejoin.
By command of
Gen. HOOD,
F. A. ritoi'i 1 , CL lei at ■>: a kt
TO HIRE!
I?Oh the balance of the year fifteen abLy-bodied
F Negro Men and seventeen Negro Women
Apply soon V B. M. GUN3T. Ar .
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Columbus. Ga, Thursday Homing, August 25,1864.
Wednesday Evening.
Special Correspondence of the Tiittes,
Wheeler and Kilpatrick's Raid—More Yankee
I/ying—The Looldng Glass Dodge, &c., t j c.
Atlanta, Aug. 22.
The absorbing topics of news for the last few
days, are the rumors and facts connected with
the raid of Wheeler upon our side, and that
ol Kilpatrick on the part of the enemy. From
the former, nothing official has been received,
although the heads of Departments, as well as
the whole army, are on the qui vive —each and
all indulging in the fondest hopes of a bril
liant success. Any amount of rumors are
current and have been current, as to Wheel
er's operations and whereabouts. At one
time it was reported, and believed, that he had
burned the bridge over the Etowah, taken
Resaca and Dalton, and blown up the Tunnel
between Dalton and Chattanooga. This seems
to have been premature; still we may hope
that the rumor was but the foreshadowing of
the reality. It is 3trange that, having been
gone now nearly twelve days, something
official has not been received from him.
The raid of Kilpatrick upon the West Point
and Macon roads-—thanks to the energy dis
played by our gallant commanders—ha3
turued out a complete failure: I say complete
failure, inasmuch as he failed entirely in the
programme he had doubtless marked out, al
though he inflicted some little damage upon
both the roads in question, anti destroyed a
small amount of other property.
Starting from the extreme right flank of
the Yankee army, with some 2,500 cavalry, he
crossed the river at Campbleton, supported by
infantry, and struck the West Point road near
Fairburn Friday morning about 3 o’clock.
Stopping only long enough to tear up a small
portion of the track, he cut loose from his
infantry support, and directed his course over
to the Macon road, reaching Lovejoy’s station,
twenty miles from Atlanta, the same evening.
Detaching a small working party, with in
structions to proceed down the road in the
direction of Griffin, and tear up and burn the
track, Kilpatrick moved up his main force in
the direction of Jonesboro. En route he en
countered Ross'brigade of Texas cavalry, who
skirmished with him, but being unable to hold
him in check, the latter fell back through
Jonesboro, which town was soon afterwards
in the possession of the Yankees.
The torch was soon applied to the depot
buildings, the Provost Marshal’s office, and
some ten or twelve unoccupied tenements.
The reflection of the fire Could be seen plainly
in Atlanta, illuminating the southern horizon.
Leaving Jonesboro the Yankees moved
down-the road and were joined by the work
ing party lrotu below, who had, in consequence
of a heavy rain, been unable to burn any por
tion of the road, and only succeeded in turn
ing over about a mile and a half of the track.
They captured and destroyed, however, six
teen box cars, being a portion of the con
struction train, two of the cars being loaded
with wheat.
Next day, Saturday, while engaged in ta
king dinner very quietly and unsuspectingly,
a short distance off the road between Love
joy’s and Jonsboro.’ they were surrounded by
our troop3, consisting ot Reynold’s (Arkansas)
brigade of infantry, Jackson’s brigade of cav
alry and Ross s brigade. They were taken
completely by surprise, but mounting their
horses in hot haste, made a bold dash at the
line held by Ross, and cut their way through.
They were pursued by two regiments, but
succeeded in making good their escape, and
their way back into their lines through De
catur.
Ihe movements of our forces cannot be con
sidered as brilliant. The Yankees lost in
the affair from 30 to 40—our loss about 10
killed and wounded.
Gerard’s (Yankee) Division of cavalry which
has been stationed at Decatur for the pur
pose. it was supposed, of a raid from that
point went back to some other position ves
terdav.
Another characteristic iastanc# of the
proneness of the Yankees to lying, has just
been reported. A miss Hunt, of this city,
obtained a . pass to go through their lines a
i few days since. They refused to allow her to
! pass, and boastingly added that if she would
remain in the city a few days longer she
would have no need for a pass. The young
I lady replied that she was afraid to go back to
the city as her life Was in danger every mo
• ment from their shells. At this statement
they affected to be much surprised and stated
that they had thrown no shells into the city
other than those aimed at our batteries.
Now a more infatuoas falsehood was never ut
tered, for since the investment of Atlanta, they
have shelled the city day and night with slight
intermission—the sheila passing hundreds of
feet over our batteries. Scarcely a house in the
whole city but has been struck, and some several
times. Quite a number of citizens, men women
and children, have been killed in the very heart
of the city ; and to-day a lady was killed nearly
in front of the Express office—the centre of the
city. Is any eomment needed upon such fiendish ;
cruelty and cowardly lying ?
Another Yankee dodge for the protection of
their precious carcasses, has just been discovered
by our boys. I r consists in a small piece of look
ing-glass. which is ingeniously attached to the
stock of the gun. and Scientifically arranged so as
to reflect the sights and any object coming with
in range. With the assistance of this apparatus,
they can place their guns through the head logs
or over the forthi ati t'as, and shoot^backwards, t;s
it were, without exposing an} portion of their
Jodies.
Our boys were first attracted by constant firing
from positions, whore, with the utmost vigilance
they could not obtain a glimpse of the parties tir
ing la tbs pj~ of-soine prisosecs captured a
few davs since, these gh-.-sc - --vcto f-und, and the
truth eooa flashed acres - the to lad? of cur boys,
who could thus account for the A.jgu'ar glLtniag
in the sunlight which they hid 'aught sigh’ of
from time t<> t m This Is ahead of the breast
plate dodge!
The army and the people are very hepeful> and
the' general impression seems to be, that Sher
man like', Grant has failed most signally in his
campaign.
The 29th and the Chicago Convention is almost
uponus. OUTLINE.
A special dispatch to the Mobile Advertiser from
Senatobia, the 22d, says Forrest surprised the ene
my at Memphis, at 4 o’efcck yesterday morning.—
He killed, wounded and captured 400, a large num
ber being officers. One Yankee brigadier is report
ed killed. Our loss slight.
Among our wounded is Col. Robt. McCulloch, of
the 2d Missouri, shot through the breast.
Gen. Forrest found that the enemy outnumbered
him four to one, and he had to fight his way out,
making a narrow escape. Five hundred horses
were captured, besides clothing. Prisoners are ar
riving pert.
Another dispatch says Washburne’s stuff was cap
tured, Wa a hburne escaping.
Forrest’s los j was thirty.
Captain Dickinson Around.— We have to
record (says the Quincy Dispatch, 20th,) an
other brilliant exploit by Capt. Dickinson and
his gallant Company on Tuesday last, between
Baldwin and Gainesville, resulting in the
capture of nearly an entire marauding expe
dition sent towards Gainesville by the Yan
kees. We have not the particulars, but Gen.
Jackson received a dispatch from Captain
Dickinson, stating that he had met and de
feated the enemy, and captured 140 prisoners;
Yankee loss otherwise not known. Capt. D.
had two men killed and four wounded. A
Company of Florida Reserves captured at the
same time, 14 prisoners and 40 horses—a
good beginning.
[From the Richmond Whig, 20th.]
Tlte News from Petersburg—
The Quiet Broken—The Fight
on Tuesday—What Occurred
Yesterday.
The quiet which we have been called upon
to chronicle prevailing for some time back
around Petersburg has proven to be the calm
which precedes a storm. First, on Tuesday,
we had warning of more mining, which, if
true, and why should we, in all earnestness,
entirely discredit it, shows that Grant is at
his old tricks there, On Thursday we have
not a feint, but a bold and well-planned at
tack upon our lines—which only failed be
cause of the numbers and indomitable brave
ry of our men, and the want on the part of
the Yankees of those executive qualities so
requisite to military success.
As formidable as the movement which has
been progressing on the North side, since last
Friday, has appeared, from the developments
of yesterday and the day before, we are forced
to believe that there is a great probability
that it was only a feint upon a grand scale in
stead of a bold and earnest advance upon
Richmond. But it matters not which side of
the river Ulysses selects, for before he gets
through with his forward movement General
Lee will make him wish lie had tried the
other.
From the Express of yesterday, we learn
that.
About 9 o clock, A. M., the enemy, in
; heavy Force ot infantry and cavalry, appeared
at Gurley’s farm, about six miles Southeast
of the city, and three miles East of the rail
road, and throwing forward a strong line of
skirmishers, advanced at once towards the
toad at the \ellow Tavern. They soon en
countered the pickets of General Gearing's
cavalry brigade, who fought them as they re
tired in the direction of the Tavern, where
Gen.._D. fi reserves were encamped.”
From that time until 2 o’clock, Gen. D. ob
stinately fought the enemy, who advanced
upon him >n superior numbers, falling back
step by step until he reached Davis’*farm
two miles nearer the city. During this pe
riod ue made a dashing charge upon the en
emy, capturing two hundred prisoners, inclu- i
ding a Lieut. Colonel and eight other commis- 1
sioned officers.
Here the the enemy threw forward skir
mishers, but were held in check until rein
forcements came up. The Express says at
this point the “enemy occupied both sides of
the road, their left extending several hundred
)ards to the right of it, and their right rest
ing away off to the left amidst the thick woods
and undergrowth. Our line was formed some
four or five hundred in yards in front of the
field occupied by the Yankees."
Our men, when they came up, advanced
qrnckjy, and in turn drove all three lines of
the \ankee skirmishers back, and next met
and lepulsed their whole force, consisting of
four divisions commanded by Gen. Warren—
diiving them nearly a mile.
The laukees, having a heavy force, were
enabled to flank our left, which compelled us
to fail back a short distance. Our men fought
with the most determined braver}-. Our loss i
in killed and wounded was very slight. and in
prisoners only about thirty.
Officers ° f high rank inform ihe Express!
(hat the loss of the enemy in killed and woun
ded is very large, and prisoners themselves
admit that they lost terribly.
The enemy also took 'about two hundred ‘
prisoners.
- There was an artillery duel at Davis Farm
about 5 o’clock, which was followed by a
| charge to dislodge the enemy from the posi
' ( ' on held by them on the left of the road.—
i The Express describes it as “being executed
iin the most brilliant manner. The enemy
; subsequently charged but were repulsed.’
, At 7 o'clock in the evening the skirmishing
ceased, and nothing was heard except the fir”
ing of the pickets.
“ ihe enemy still occupy the Southern road
. with their batteries planted along the line a?
far down as the Yellow Tavern. Their lines
extend on either side, but on the left reach
across the Plank road.”
They commenced strengthening their postion on
xhursday evening by throwing up breastworks.
An officer captured, whom the Express describes
as very intelligent, says the object of this move
ment was two-fold—first to destroy the Southern
road, and, secondly by drawing off our troops
from the mtrenehments i n f ron t of the city, to
make a breach in our lines.
While they have managed, no doubt, to inflict
considerable damage on the road, they have equal
ly failed in the main’ object of their ‘undertaking
The casualties were Col. Blair, of Miss., leo*
broken Col Lyle, of the 47th Va., arm broken”
Adj t. Laird, Maryland battalion, killed ; Capt.
Crane, commanding the same, wounded.
Our telegraph column contains all «f interest
that transpired yesterday around Petersburg.
The Chattanooga Gazette of the 12th ics.ant an
nounces the arrival the previous day of two hun
dred Confederate prisoners, among them eight com
missioned officers. as follows; Capt F A Hill and
Lieuts M Roberts, M B Crawford, W O Reese. W
Luoigbridy and J Hutchinson, of Georgia; ’and
Oi t C Donald and Lieut C Henning, of Florida.—
They were at once sent North.
Gen. Hooker-Fighting Joe-ha, b e «.''removed
from Mierxmiß * army by his ovtl- request. The
reason of it is that Gen. Howard was assigned to
McPherson’s command when he ‘; r
right. Ilowrdv-Hooker a
$4.00 Per Month
The Very Latest from the Uni
ted States.
Northern papers of the 18th have been
received. They contain advices from
Grant’s army to the 16th, inclusive :
THE MOVEMENTS ON THE NORTH«SIDE.
The following press despatches give
some details of the enemy’s recent move
ments on the North side of the James :
Washington, August 16.—0n Satur
day last, Gen. Hancock’s corps was put in
motion on the James river, and by a cir
cuitous route reached the North-side of
the river at Deep Bottom, near Dutch
Gap, on Saturday night.
Turner’s and Tany’s divisions, of the
10th corps, also crossed over to Deep Bot
tom on the same night.
Foster’s division, which has been for
sometime posted at Deep Bottom, was ad-*
vanced by General Birney a little after
sunrise on Sunday, pushing the rebel line
of skirmishers before them for some con
siderable distance, when the 24th Massa
chusetts regiment, Col. Osborne, charged
and broke the rebel line and captured
seventy prisoners.
In the meantime, Gregg’s cavalry had
cleared the roads for Hancock, and he got
his second corps into position on Birney’s
right, on the New Market road, which
leads from Malvern Hill directly to Richs
mond. Gen. Birney made an assault on
the enemy’s front, and carried a line of
his works, which guard the approaches to
Richmond in that quarter. He captured
six pieces of cannon and two mortars.
Some advices state the number of mortars
at two pieces.
A seeond despatch speaking of the
same affair, says:
The first and third divisions, whjch
were in support, lost about 250 in killed
and wounded, from the effects of the rebel
artillery.
The Baltimore Gazette, speaking of
this movement of Grant, says:
The object of Gen, Grant in crossing
the James river to the Peninsula, near
Deep Bottom, appears to have been to as
certain by a reconnoissance in force, the
strength of the Confederates in that quar
ter. Two army corps (the second and
tenth) and Gen. Foster’s division were
engaged in the movement. In its earlier
stages it was qttite successful. A battery,
consisting of four B«.inch Napoleon guns,
wss captured. The Confederate skirmish--j
ers were driven back upon their supports, i
with the loss of seventysfive to a hundred I
men taken prisoners, and a line of rifle 1
pits carried. Here the success of the j
Federal troops terminated. The enemy !
was found to occupy a strong position in
force. An attempt which was made by
tlie second division of the 2d corps, to j
flank the enemy’s works, failed completely. ;
* • * The loss in the se-
, cond division is said to have been at least
■ 300 men. The Ist and 3d divisions, which
were in support, lost about 250.
FROM ATLANTA —BATTLE OF THE GtII—
SHERMAN’S COMMUNICATIONS CUT.
Under its “General News,” the Gazette
says :
There can no longer be any doubt that
the battle of the 6th of August, before
Atlanta, was quite a serious affair. For
several days previous Gen. Sherman had
been massing his troops on the right, and
making all necessary preparations for a
determined assault on Hood’s works. The
object of the Federal commander was to
force his way to the Macon road and com
pel Hood either to accept battle in the
open Held or to evacuate Atlanta.
, The movement was intended to have
been secret, sudden, and it was hoped, de
cisive. Delays, however, occurred. On
the 4th and sth, the troops of the 23d and
| 14th corps were in line of battle, and
positious were assigned them from which
an engagement was to have been brought
j on. On the evening of the sth, the 14th
i corps, supported by a portion of the 23d,
was ordered to advance and drive the en*
emy from a position in front of the Fede
ral line. A misunderstanding on a point
of military etiquette arose between the
commanders, and the movement was not
made. Orders were finally issued for the
columns to advance at daylight on the 6th.
At the appointed time the 14th corps,
supported by the 23d, crossed Utoy Creek,
drove in the enemy’s skirmishers and
pickets, and pushed forward eagerly to
assault the line of earthworks that the
Confederates had thrown up on a success**
ion of hills, and whose possession would
open the way to the Macon railroad. The
Federal troops advanced to within twenty
yards of the works, when the Confederates,
who had reserved their fire, poured into
the assaulting columns a perfect storm of
bullets, which struck the men down by
hundreds. Actuated by a determination
to force the line at any cost, the troops
continued, nevertheless, to press forward,
but the fire was so steady and persistent
that they finally recoiled and fell back,
leaving their dead and wounded in the
hands of the enemy. The loss sustained
in this attack by the first brigade alone is
estimated at 300. In the meantime firing
... . O
had become gradual along the whole line,
till it reached the front of the 15th corps,
which was hotly engaged for more than
an hour, but the results in that quarter
are not given. The 2d. 3d and 20th
corps succeeded, after a seVere engage
ment, in advancing well forward upou the
extreme left of the Confederates, which
was found to extend along th line of the
railroad; but the battle closed without
i each ing. the coveted poiut. Wc learn
irom later despatches that no serious /m
--gageineiit has since taken place.
A dispatch received late last ev ning
states that telegraphic communication with
Dalton has ceased. Wheeler attacked the
.Federal troops under Seibold, a» that
point, drove then.- ut and occupied a por- i
tion of the town. Reinforcements were
being sent to Seibold from Chattanooga
Four trains, intended for Sherfnnn’s army,
were compelled to halt at or near Dalton.
Wheeler’s troop* were busily engaged tear
ing up the track on both sides of th?
town. His -supposed object is to destroy
the tunnel at Tunnel Hill. Other por
i tions of his Foroe are engaged cutting the
road south of Dalton. A train on its way
to Sherman is said to have been captured
at Altoona.
THE TALLAHASSEE.
The Gazette says:
The Tallahassee still continues her dep
redations. A telegram from Yarmouth,
Nova Scotia, reports the capture of seven
vessels on Sunday last. Another telegram
from Thomaston, Maine, announces the
capture of twenty-five vessels off MactinD
cius Rock. All the latter were, most
probably, fishing schooners.
The Tallahassee. —This vessel, under com
mand of the gallant Wood bids fair to rival the
Alabama in sweeping the soas of Yankee com
rnerce. Already she has made her mark in the
capture and destruction of seven Yankee vessels.
Would that wo had half a dozen Tallahassee? afloi*
under the command of such men as Scmrnes, Maf
fit, Wood and other daring sailors. The following
despatch to (he Baltimore American dated New
York, August 12th, gives some gratifying infer
mation of the exploits of the Tallahassee :
While one of the sailing boats attached to the
Surf Hotel was cruising outside this morning, it
discovered a yawl boat making for shore, and
upon running alongside, sixteen persons were
found on board, who belonged to the pilot boa
James Funk, of New York, the brig Estelle, Brig
Sarah Boyce, brig Richard, bark Bobstav and
schooner Atlautie, all captured and burnod by the
Rebel pirate steamer Tallahassee, commanded by
John Taylor Wood, off the coast, yesterday after
noon.
The pilot, who brought up an Italian bark thi.t
afternoon, reports that on Thursday, at 9 A. M.,
about 60 miles southeast of Sandy'Hook, he saw
a steamer showing American colors. She came
close under the bark’s stem but did not hail. She
then sighted the pilot boat James Funk, and, hoist
ing the Rebel flag, captured the pilot boat and
putting a pirate crew on board steared off to war J
the Montauk Point, the pilot boat following. At
the same time saw schooner three miles to the
windward, with all sails cut loose and sinking, the
pirate evidently having scuttled her. The pirate
craft is a small, English built steamer with straight
stem, fore and aft schooner rigged, painted white,
with a red bottom, and carries a pivot gun forward
and aft and four broadside guns. She is very
slow, the pilot boat apparently being able to out
sail her.
The passengers by the steamer Evening Star
Also report that she was chased four hours yes
terday by the pirate, who fired three shots at her,
but outsailed her. This fact was not included in
the pursuer’s report to the press.
T rllow Fevsu at Wilmington. —A gentleman
just from Wilmington informs us that all the block
aders are now stopping about thirty miles below the
city—at Fort Anderson —some thirteen aro now con -
gregated there. All of them have one or more cases
of yellow fever on board. Stevedores have been
sent down and the vessels are unloading their car
goes and reloading at that point.
Late Yankee papers state that W. D. Magill has
been arrested in Pennsylvania and held for trial a->
an incendiary, under the order of Gen. Couch. The
charge being that he is one of the party that se’
Chambersburg on fire. Mr. Magill is a son of Dr.
Magill of Richmond, late of Maryland, and has been,
from the beginning of the Avar, a regular soldier in
the Confederate army.
♦ ♦
Gen. Hood’s Ohder.—General Hood has ordered
every man absent from hi? army to return .iiumed!
ately, and promises to use his influence io procure
forgiveness for those absent Avithout leave Avho re
turn voluntarily.
The Mississippi Senate passed a bill on Monday
List to authorize the Governor to cause to bo pre
pared and printed a sufficient amount of bonds
bearing eight per cent, interest, for the purpose of
calling in and taking up notes issued by law, for
military defence of that State.
It is said, on what wo consider good authority,
that the Electric 6'park, which was captured re
cently by the Confederate cruiser Florida, will bo
put under command of Capt. Setnmes until he can
get a better vessel. She Avas a packet steamer be
tAveen NeAv York and New Orleans, and is said to
be of the first quality, especially in speed.
Grant’s Failure Before Petersuurg.— But if
-te not only the incompetency of two Generate that
wo are-to blame for the fai uro of the attempt that
ought to have given us possession of the rebel city
We must blame also the President and his whole
Gab net, with its nigger worshipping policy. They
who have insisted against all opposition that nig
gers should enter the army are even more to blame
than all others. Niggers are not fit for soldiers.—
Ihey can dig and drive mules; they cannot and
wifi not fight. All the sensation stories in the nig
ger papers to the contrary are mere moonshine
Ihey never have fought in any battle. To insist
that the niggers should be in the army was to insist,
that there should be a weak point in every line of
battle with which we faced the enemy, and the en -
omy found, that weak point on Saturday last. Ab
olitionism is, therefore, the real difficulty now: and
unless the President soon finds out how to do away
with this difficulty he may be sure that the people
will find out how to do away with him.— N. Y. W-r
--ala.
Cotton as a Substitute for Lint. Dt.
Nott, of Mobile recommends cotton as a sub
stitute for lint, in hospitals, for the following
reasons:
i LDs abundance, cheapness, and general
dissemination.
2. Its value in padding splinters where there
are fractures to be treated.
3. Cotton has always been used as a sooth
ing dressing to burns, when the inflammation
is of the highest possible grade.
4. I have used for twenty years on dressing
stumps, wounds of all kinds, including gun
shot, cotton and lint, indiscriminately *aad
could never see any difference, where both
articles were good.
5. Buggrave. Surgeon to the King of Bel
gium, 'has written a volume on the advan
tages of cotton dressings, and other surgeons
in Europe recommend it.
6. Under the name of patent lint, surgeons
have been using, for many years, a kind of
flimsy cotton flannel, which is nothing but
cotton: and the profession has, heretofore
fully sanctioned its use.
Destruction of Another Polish Villao*
by the Russians. —Tbe bararou3 destruction
j of the village of Skuki, in Lithuania, by Mon-
I ravief. who ordered every house in the village
to be razed to the ground, the plough to he
passed over the ruins, and the inhabitants
sent to Siberia, has now found its counterpart
:in the Kingdom of Poland. In the last week
I of May, a spy, who had for some time taken
j up his residence in the village of Pru3hanka
I in the district ol Bielsk, and had made him
| self very obnoxious to bis neighbors by his
close observations of all their actions, which
,he duly reported to the Russian authorities,
gave the villagers such strong provocation by
his infamous conduct that they inflicted sum
mary punishment upon him with a stick. A
few days after some Russian troops suddenly
entered the village and surrounded the houses.
The whole of the population—men, women
and children —were then dragged out of their
houses, not being allowed even to put on the
most necessary articles of clothing, such as
caps, and even ooots or shoe3. and in this
state they were driven into the open space i
the raidd’e of tbe village, where they were
forced to remain until the soldiers had plun
dered their nuu=es of every article of vain-*,
and then burnt tbc whole v illage to the ground
before (heir eyes after which these ruffians
drove the half-naked before them with oaths
and blows to the town of lliel.sk, whence they
nave since been dispatched to Siberia.
ruueral Xotiec.
The friends ami aeqiutlnunccs of Mr. as A Mrs.
S. K. H clues and .'Jr.'. E. 11. ll<«lrc.-, »,? ? scect
fully invited to attend the funeral <-.f Mr. S. K.
Modus*, to-morrow morning at lu o’clock. a. in.
Funeral service at ?t. Luke** Pfinreb.
D S ?A 1,