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COLUMN S TIMES Published Daily (Sundays exeeptod) at the rat* of V 4.00 i>«r month, or sl2 tor three months. No subscription received for a longer term than hre* month*. ( ADVERTISING RATES : for $2 00 per square for cash insertion. Where advertisements are inserted a month, the •barge will be S3O per Square. Announcing candidates S2O, which must invariably paid in adranec. Headquaxtkhs Co.vscbipt Slavic*, ) 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. iy4tf : 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 • Vol. XI. WARREN & CO. Proprietors j. w. WARREN, Editor n GO*!! M WHS!!! .A.T 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 . jul 2S ts 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,