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COLUMBUS TIMES
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Change oT Schedule.
Office Engineer and Superintendent, )
Charleston and Savannah Railroad, >
Charleston, June 7,1564. j
AN THURSDAY. June 9 1864, and until further
y notice, the Schedule of the Pa33©nger train will
be as follow, viz:
Leave Charleston 9.45, a> m;
Arrive in Savannah 5.49, p. m .
Leave Savannah 5 30, a. w.
Arrive in Charleston 1.15, p , m .
This Train makes direct connections, going north
and south, with the Northeastern Railroad at Char
lopton, and tue Contra! Railroad at the Junction.*
_June 11 t: _ Engineer and Superintendent.
Change ol Schedule.
ON and after Sunday, June 19th, the Trains on
tho Muscogee 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 if Supt. Muscogee R, 11.
COLUMBUS TO WEST POINT f.
On and after the 30th inst., the Passenger Train
on the Montgomery & West Point R. R, will
Leave Columbus 2 40 p. m.
Arrive at West P0int....... 8 00 “
Leave West Point 3 50 “
Arrive at Columbus 9 10 “
Freight Train will Leave C01umbu3...5 50 a. m.
Arrive at Columbus 12 23 "
J. E. APPLER,
July 23 ts Agent.
MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE,
Girard, Ala., Aug. 22,1864.
ON and alter this date Trains on. this Road will
Run Daily (Sunday excepted,) as follows:
Passenger Train.
Leave Girard at 3 00 p. ra.
Arrive in Union Springs 730 '*
Leave Union Springs 5 35 a. 111,
Arrive in Girard at 10 00 “
Freight Train.
Leave Girard at 4 00 a. m.
Arrive in Girard at 6 00 p. m.
B. E. WELLS,
_aglßtt Eng. & Sup’t-
BROWN’S FLY SHUTTLE LOOM,
(Will Weave 30 Yards per Day.)
Card. Baols.@,
SPINNING-WHEELS aad CORN-SIIELLERS!
Manufactured by A. D. BROWN & CO.
fIQF-Orders received by M. P, Ellis & Co.“S&
agl3 Im
aiLMOREI tih Cos.
146, Broad Street.
HAS ON HAND AND FOII SALK!
Corn, Flour, Bacon, Tobacco,
Candles, Syrup, Sugar, Coffee,
Lard,,Peas, Rice, Osnaburgs,
Watches, Sheetings, Brooms,
Spun Thread, Beeswax and Tallow.
—ALSO,—
Salt, Sugar* Sfieetiug ami Osnaburgs
TO
EXCHANGE FOR COUNTRY PRODUCE !
—ALSO.—
A Genuine Article of APPLE VINEGAR for sale.
ag!2 lw* _
FOR SEA-XiiES
Or Exchange for Country Produce.
BBS'l COTTON CARDS;
SPINNING WHEELS;
CLOCK REELS\
agio 2w JEFFERSON A HAMILTON.
IRON WIRE.
2,000 lbs. 8 and 10 Iron Wire!
For sale by
agio 2w JEFFERSON & HAMILTON,
1,000 Pounds Choice Brown Sugar,
TO EXCHANGE FOR
•> t y HEAT. Flour, Com or Meal. gT _
ag9 dot wit Columbus, Ga.
THOMAS SAVAGE, Agent,
(At Mulford’s old Stand,)
Into. 101, BIK-O-A-D ST.
HAS 10H SALE OH EXCHANGE
Sheetings, Shirtings.
Twills, Yarns, Eluseya,
f.aguaray Coflee,
Tobacco, Rice,
Kails of all sizes,
&c», &c», stc.
jul27tl
STOLEN!
TUJS OWNER of a BLIND HORSE stolen by
i a deserter, can hear of him by applying at the
Enrolling Office. WM. L-. DAVIto,
agll lw Capt. Sc En. Off.
~ RIIMWAY!
NEGRO boy CHARLEY; about 25years old, yel
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 refugee from Mississippi, who now
resides in Tuskegeo. 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. rrC!o „ r T
, JAMES M. RUSSELL.
Columbu's ffa., aug 1 ts *
REMOVAL!
I HAVE 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.
ag!3 lm* T. J. WORD, M. D.
630 Reward.
I WILL pay the above reward for 808, a blaek
1 bey, about 24 years old. He has been out three
or four weeks, and y supposed to bo lurking about
he city. JNO. H- *ASB.
iy 4 ts
Notice to Debtor* and Cred
itors.
ALL persons indebted to the estate of Neabern
Jones, deceased, are required to make imme
diate payment,. and those having claims against said
estate are required to render them in terms ■of the
'aw to the undersigned.
SEABORN J. BENNING, Adm’r.
By MARY H, BENNING. Agent.
iu\2j wtjt .... --
Shoemakers’ and Saddlers’
TOOLS.
THE UNDERSIGNED having commenced the
A manufacture of the above named articles in this
oity, are prepared to fill orders for the same.
Office on Anglo street, at few doors above 0. b.
Hospital. HARRISON, BEDELL & CO.
Reference—Maj. F. W. Diixabd.
Mobile Register, Mississippian and Augusta Con
stitutionalist, please copy one month ana send bills
ta this office.
max 30 ts
LETTER PAPER k BLANK BOOKS
FOB. SAXjB !
WE have for sale 49 reams of Letter Paper, and
2,000 small Pocket Blank Books, at Wholesale
or Retail. Paper, SSO per Ream; Blank Books, $l5O
retaU.JScts.wholesaie. Apply at mg omcE
GEORGIA— County.
WHEREAS, Mrs. Mary V. Davis, adm’x of Dr.
y 1 George S. Davis, dec’d has filed her petition for
leave to sell a negro woman by the name of Maria,
about 25 years ot age and her four children.
All persons concerned are hereby notified to snow
cause, (if any they have) why an order should not
be granted at the next September Term of the Court
of Ordinary for said county, authorizing the sale of
said negro.
Given under my hand, July Ist. 64.
. > JNQ, JOHNSON,
jy 4 2tu Ordinary.
Vol. XI.
J. W. WARBEA A CO. Proprietors..
Confederate States Depository.
Columbus, Ga., Aug. 17, ’64.
Deposites in New Currency will be received and
Call Certificates issued at this Office, payable on
demand, bearing interest at four per cent per an
num from date.
Deposites in Old Currency at 66 2-3 cent3 on the
dollar will be received and Certificate issued payable
on demand after ninety days from date in New Cur
rency.
Above Certificates are secured by the hypotheca
tion of an amount of Bonds of the Five Hundre
Million Loan [non-taxable] equal to the sum
these loans.
I am prepared to soil the 6 per cent Coupon or
Registered Bonds of the $50),000,009 loan at $135
for the new currency or the old at 66 2-3 cents on
the dollar.
The principal and interest of this Loan arc free
from Taxation and the Coupons receivable in pay
ment for all Import and Export Duties. These
Bonds are the best securities yet offered by tho Gov
ernment, and I recommend them to the favorable
notice of the public.
W. H. YOUNG.
augl lm Depositary.
Battle-Field Relief Association
or Columbus, Ga.
All who are disposed to contribute articles neces
sary for the relief of tho sick and wounded in the
Army of Tennessee, are requested to leave them at
Goodrich & Co’s store by One O’clock, P. M. ev
ery Tuesday and Friday, when they will be for
warded to and dispensed by our Committee there.
W. 11. YOUNG, Preed’t.
C. G. Holmes, Sec’y. ag23tf
To those whom it may Concern!
Office Chief Commissary,
Savannah, Aug. 22, ’64.
The following extract of a letter from the Subsis
tence Department, dated Richmond, August 10th,
is published for tho information of all concerned:
“No more permits or protection will be given by
tho Secretary of War to corporations or private par
ties, except upon condition that they buy at Gov
ernment rates; and all further purchases made by
parties now holding such permits or protections are
required to be made on the same terms. Thus, it is
hoped, speculation in the necessaries of life will be
diminished, prices reduced and some of the difficul
ties under which he havo heretofore labored re
moved.
J. L. LOCKE,
ag26 lw Maj. and Chief Com’y.
Stockholders’ jtfeeHiig.
Muscogee Rail Road Company.
Columbus, Ga., Aug. 22, 1864.
Tho Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of this
Company will bo held at the Depot in this city, on
Monday, the sth September next, at 10 o’clock,
a- J, M. BIVINS.
ag23 td Sec’y and Trcas’r.
Rividcsad Wo. 31.
Muscogee Rail Road Company,
Columbus, Ga., Aug. 22, 1864.
The Board of Directors ha3 declared a Dividend
of Ten (10) Dollars per share, on the General Stock
of this Company, payable in Confederate Treasury
notes, as soon as the amount duo by tho Govern
ment can be collected, notice of which will be given.
J. M. BIVINS,
ag23 dot Sec’y and Trcas’r.
STEAM SAW MILL
—i • -
T OFFER my MILL for sale, situated in a dense
ly covered forest of pine, oak, hi.kory, beech,
poplar and other swamp timbers, immediately on
Mobile and Girard Rail Road, between Stations 4
and 5, and only 30 miles from Columbus, Ga. Said
Mill is under contract with the Confederate States
Government, for the refusal of all Lumber cut
during the war, at remunerating prices, which con
tract, parties purchasing would be required to car
ry out.
TSie DIIII Is in Splendid Sim
riijsg Order, and
of FORTY-HOUSE POWER, capable of CUTTING
SIX to EIGHT THOUSAND FEET PER DAY.
A good chance for refugees or parties desirous of
doing (government work.
Address mo at Guerryton, Ala., or apply to mo in
person on the premises, or at this office.
G. W. OGLESBY.
aug24 2w*
Headquarters Army of Tenn.
Office, 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 command*.—
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. Shoup, Chief of Staff. 19 3t
IVotice.
Headquarters Post, l
Columbus, Ga., Aug. 14,1564. )
General Orders,)
No. 5. J
I, All officers or soldiers remaining in [Columbus
over six [6] hours will require a pass from these
Headquarters.
11. All persons between the agcS of sixteen [l6]
and fifty-five [ss] years, visiting Columbus, [officers
of the Navy and Army stationed at this Post excep
ted,] will, in future, be required to procure a pass
from the Commandant Post. No other document
than the pass specified will be regarded by the offi
cers charged with the examination of papers.
By order
GEO. O. DAWSON.
Major Comd’g Post.
ag!s 7t
TO HIRE!
T?OR the balance of the year fifteen able-bodied
I Negro Men and seventeen Negro Women.
Apply soon to R, M. GUNBY, Ag’t,
jui 28 ts .... ...
STERLING EXCHANGE!
A FEW Hundred Pounds of Sterling Exchange
for sale in sums to suit purchasers by _____
agl6 ts BANK 01 COLUMBUS.
A HOUSE WAITED.
TO Rent from October next, a house, or part of a
house, for the use of a family. „
Address
ftS stf At this Office.
SI,OOO Reward.
CTOLEN from my headquarters near Atlanta,
O my Mare, bright bay, bald face, black mane and
tail and black legs, with the exception ot two small
white spots on the inside of each hind foot, carries a
high head and altogether is a very gay looking an
imal under the saddle. I will pay for her de
livery to me at this place or to Maj. Gen. Cheat
ham. Army of Tennessee, or for information so that
I can get her. And $,500 for the detection es the
thief that stole ber. g j guTLKR.
i w .Waj. and C. S.
STOLEX,
FROM my house, last night, two Checks on the
Agency of the Union Bank, in this city drawn
by J. M. Mulden, Jr., Lt. Ac.; one No. lbo. for &>4O,
and the other No. 186, for SI2OO. All persons are
warned pgainst trading for said checks, as payment,
has been stopped and Duplicates applieA lor.
agl9 2t* T. h.Mn>
STRAY TITLE.
r LOST from my office, on Thursday, a *mall po-
I nev built brown mare Mule, eight or nine years
old- in good order: no marks recollected, except a
collar mirk on the point of her shoulder. A reason
ab ag2o3V rd WUI WILEY WILLIAMS.
Columbus, fla, Saturday Morning, August 27,1864.
Friday Evening.
Special Correspondence of the Times,
Atlanta. Aug. 24, 1864.
I (infeees Still Shilling ike City — lie << dquarters
and Gen. Hood—Fires in the City—The New
Minnie Build described, sc.
The siege still continues to drag it3 slow
length along. The Yankees, ns their rations
are reduced by Wheeler, spitefully increase
the size of their projectiles, and being unable
to make au impression upon the boys in the
trenches, are trying hard to create a panic
among the women and children in their im
promptu bomb proofs in the city.
The Express and Post Offices.and the stores
and dwellings situated between Whitehall
street and the City Hall, are being battered
pretty severely just now, and the quarters of
your correspondent, near the Female College,
which suffered not a little at the commence
ment of the seige from three and six-inch shells
thrown by the batteries upon the right of
Peachtree road, are now comparatively safe.
The city was illuminated by two conflagra
tions last night, the result of exploding shells.
The first fire occurred in a frame dwelling
near the State Road Work Shop, and the last
in McDaniel’s Cotton Warehouse on Hunter
street, between Pryor and Whitehall. Al
tuough the Fire Brigade was out promptly,
both buildings were entirely consumed—the
latter containing some three hundred and fifty
bales of cotton. Although the enemy shelled
the fires rigorously, the firemen stood to their
“brakes” manfully and succeeded in checking
the further progress of the flame3.
Several 22-pound shells exploded immedi
ately over tho burning pile of cotton, but for
tunately none of the boy3 were injured. This
is another commentary upon their denial of
shelling the city.
With the exception of bursting shells, and a
brisk rattle of musketry now and then on
some portion of the picket lines, Atlanta at
present is decidedly, more quiet than any
place in the rear can possibly be. Save an
occasional straggler from the trenches, peering
over fences in search of “garden, truck,” or a
few boys selling grapes, under the cover of
bomb-proof corners, one is not apt to meet
many persons in a morning cr evening stroll.
Gen. Hood’s quarters, in the pretty gothic
cottage formerly occupied by Col. J. S. Thrash
er, would scarcely be distinguished by a
stranger, if he failed to observe the little head
quarters’ battle-flag, which falls lazily around
the white staff at the gate.
There is never any indication' of the least
bustle or excitement there, and save the figure
of the gallant and mild-looking hero, as he
sits, nearly always alone opt upon the balco
ny, puffing great clouds of smoke from hi3
long-stemmed pipe. With now and'then an
officer iu the background, there is nothing
which would mark the place as headquarters.
In times of peace it might bear a very similar
aspect, with the hero in question personating
the elegant country gentleman, enjoying a
post prandial smoke—an occasional friend
dropping ih, on his way from town, to chat
over the latest news and discuss the crops,
while his horse, hitched to the palings of the
front fence, keeps up a lively switching with
liis tail, and loosen not a few of the bricks in
the Squire’s pavement with his stamping—
“ For August brings the blue-tail fly.”
I have been examining recently, the new-fan
gled minnie ball which the Yankees have in
vented, and put in use. It was supposed at
first in consequence of its being composed of
three distinct parts, that it was intended to
wound more effectually than the ordinary
minnie, by separating after entering,-and thus
making it more difficult to extract. Some
people attempted to create the impression
that it contained poison; and in truth there
was no end to surmises indulged in by those
who took no trouble to examine it carefully.
The ball which is only used about every tenth
discharge es the musket simply contains a
zinc washer, which is so arranged as to cleanse
the gun effectually of the orust which forms
from the discharge, or the gum which accu
mulates in the rifle grooves from the use of
•lubre catingails.
Instead of the cup in the base as in other
balls, there is a small hole which extends
about as far up as the cup usually does. This
hole is the receptacle of a small belt, like a
miniature'gimlet, the x ir.c washer (cup-form)
slipping on between the point and tha handle.
The bolt which hold3 the washer when the
ball is placed in the cartridge ready for use,
is not pushed up as far as it will go—this is
reserved for the discharge to accomplish, and
thus forcing home of the bolt by the explosion
of the powder, and consequent expansion of j
the cup-formed zinc washer between the ball
and the head of tha bolt, gives the desired
result. The necessity cf the washer for cleans- 1
ing the gun is at once perceived, and has
long been felt, and the manner of attaching
it to the ball, so that, when landiag, its diam
eter will not be greater than the ball itself, is
the secret of the discovery.
Any amount of rumors have been current
during yesterday and to-day, about Yankee
raid3 upon the Georgia and Macon roads, but
I can learn nothing of a difinite character re
specting them, and am of the opinion that
they are premature. Save the Northern ac
countsby the Press dispatches from Richmond,
we have not a word ot news from Wheeler.
The news of the capture of Memphis,
though coming officially from Gen. JJanry at (
Mobile, is not generally believed here.
OUTLINE, j
Tho Chicago Times sympathizes with the
“dogs and clergymen” of Norfolk, who are
now under Butler’s control.
It is a little singular that the cathedral of
Notre Dame in Paris, though flve*hundred
years old. was aev-r le Heated rill recently.
Correspondence of the Times,
Wayside Home, Augusta, Ga., ) j
August 23d, 1564. j
Dear Times I must jot down a little sketch
of my journey thus far, and being an old Rail
road’ man it grieves me to have to pitch into the
Railroad first. When I stepped aboard tho train
in Columbus I sought in vain for a seat, I looked
into tha Ladies car and saw several of the linen
coat gentry there, enjoying all the’ comforts of
easy seats and the pleasant society of the ladies, j
We called on the Conductor for a seat, who polite
ly showed us into au old box car,. and ushered us
into the society of a dozen big black negroes, some j
smoking, somo singing, and others laughing and
talking. We were placed on tho soft side of a
plank with some other soldiers, to pass tho time
the best we could till we got to Macon. Now, with
some men, if a man wants to be treated like a quad
ruped lot him put on a grey jacket and havre
sack, then the linen coat speculators (and we fear
Some, of the ladies too) are ready to crowd him out,
or treat him with the utmost contempt and neg
lect.
At Maccn we saw visible signs of humanity:
long rows of white couches arranged along the
platform, as a mo3t tempting luxury to the sick
and wounded soldiers. Our stay being short at
Macon, wo saw nothing more of interest until we
passed tho ruins of the depots burned by the Yan
kees in the late raid. In passing dowu the Cen
tral Road, we saw some evidence of the niggardly
economy of Government officials; large quanti
ties of bacon left in the depots entirely devoured
by worms, while the army were suffering for it and
act allowed to have it. AI3O, a considerable quan
tity of fodder rotted on the road side.
We passed over the Macon <fc Savannah Road
to this place. Crops along the line of the road
look very wsll. Soldiers are kindly cared for
here, their wounds are dressed, by a skillful Sur
geon, and the wants of the inner man are attend
ed to by the efficient Superintendent, Maj. Jno,
F. Osborn. TISHOMINGO.
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Hedging.— The fence question will, (says
the Charleston Courier) ere many years, be
forced on the attention of farmers and planters
in some sections of our country. The exten
sion of railroads has, in some portions of the
United States, for some years, forced atten
tions to the pressing scarcity of wood and ex
cited inquiries and experiments towards the
use of coal as a locomotive fuel.
So far as fencing goes, farmers and plan
ters can find a substitute, and may soon be
induced to seek a substitute for the unsightly
and inelegant worm fence, or the enclosures
that arc now used. Before actually pressing
necessity is on them, we hope the enterpris
ing tillers of the soil will consider the claims
and qualities of various plants for hedges,
and will test the values of the many candi
dates that can and will be named. Nothing
so easily within our command would do more
towards enlivening and beautifying our coun
try, and especially our suburban farms, and
tend more towarda attaching the child to the
homestead or farm of the father, and increas
ing and promoting the spirit and resources of
agricultural thrift and enterprise than a gen
eral adoption of hedges for enclosuros.
Have none of our planting friends tried con
clusive experiments cn the merits and claims
of different plants as to durable health in our
climate ?
The Indians and ths Yankshs. —The much
abused Indians are certainly less savage than
the white nation with whom they are at war.
They arc certainly entitled to our sympathies
for the diversion they are making in our favor
by attacking the Yankee savages.
A dispatch, dated Fort Kearny, August.Sth,
says: “Eight hundred Indians attacked an
emigrant train of nine wagons one mile east
of Plumb creek this morning, killed all the
men with the train, burned the wagons, and
drove off the stock.”
They made numerous attacks on other
pieces, burned wagons, whipped the Yankees
sent after them, and, wo are sorry to say, car
ried off two women and four children, thus
following the bad example of the Yankees,
who make war upon women and children.—
But this may be a Yankee slander cn the poor
Indians, who have no one to defend them. - :
:—♦ . »
Fresh Troudlk for Old Ace.—The Governor
of Colorado telegraphs to Washington that he is
apprehensive of a heavy Indian War soon to
break out upon the frontiers of his State, and
sends a piteous whine to Old Abe for help. It is
stated that all the Indian tribes, from Texas to the
British lines are leagusdj together for the pur
pose of rooting out the whites.
i wm
There is a strong current in favor of peace in
the North. The New York Herald, the News, the
Metripolitan Record, the Freeman’s Journal, the
Albany Argus, the Chicago Times, the Cincinnati
Enquirer, the Hartford Times, the Harrisburg Pa
triot, the Columbus (Ohio) Crisis, the Journal of
Commerce, the (N. H.) Patriot, the Concord Stand
ard, the New York World, the New York Day
Book, Herald, and the Beston Courier—all advo
cate peace.
Grant's Losses. —A writer in the National In
telligencer of Washington, computes Grant’s los3
from the crossing es tha Rapidan to the explosion
of the Petersburg mine, at 73,290 killed and
wounded. The losses of Sheridan, Wilson, Butler,
Sigel and Hunter are not included in this estimate,
though it is admitted that they too “have lo3t
heavily.”
The cotton ahed recently burned at Colum
bia, S. C., belonged to Richard O’Neal, and
contained fifteea hundred bales of cottsn. It
was fired by an incendiary, and the loss wa3
$609,000.
♦ ■» ♦
Forty Thousand Pp.isoners. —We
cook two thousand Federal prisoners on
Friday, there are two thousand •at Dan-!
yilie, and other considerable squads scat-;
tered about at Richmond and elsewhere,!
which, added to the 33,000 at the prison
in Georgia will make the round number of i
prisoners held by us, at least 40,090.
— ♦ ♦
“F \*r water hastily in a vessel with a narrow
neck. Jttle eaters: pour sradualiy and by =mail ;
quantities, and the ..vessel is filleb.’’ such i* the I
iiaite emrJqyrd by Quintilian to show the ‘ >!!y of ’
reachm? eh.idren too much at a time.
$4.00 Per Month
J, W. \VAttRE\, editor
Latest from the I'lilted States.
By flag of truce steamer, which arrived
on Friday night at Varina, we havo files
of Northern papers to the 17th inclusive.
Although we have published a summary
of Northern news of the ISth, we yet
find some interesting matter in the papers
before us:
THE CAMPAIGN IN VIRGINIA.
The New York “Tribune,” in its cam
paign article on the 17th, says :
Dispatches from the James give rather
hints than positive intelligence of the
operations on Sunday. Reports of the cap
ture of Fort Darling, circulated yesterday,
tended to confuse the public mind as to
the real object of Gen. Grant’s movement.
So far, we have no account of any demon
stration by our forces except on the north
bank of the James. Hancock’s corps,
employing a similar stratagem to that by
winch Gen. Butler deceived the enemy
at the outset of the campaign, embarked
on transports in broad daylight on Sun
day, and stated down the river as if
bound for Washington. At night they
quietly returned, debarked on the left
bank of the James, joining the 10th
corps, and on the morning of Monday,
the 15th, moved rapidly against the rebel
works above Dutch Gap.
On the face of it, this movement means
co-operation with Gen. Butler’s forces
now engaged in putting the canal across
that peninsula. The James makes an
extraordinary bend at a point beginning
seven miles below Drewry’s Bluff, and
forms a peninsula of which the river cir
cuit is six miles, while the neck of it is
less than a third of a mile in width.
That neck is Dutch Gap. The peninsu
la is known as Farrar’s Island, and its
situation and importance will be seen by
a glance at the map whioh we print this
morning. Under the lee of that island
have been stationed the rebel gunboats,
and at various points of the river’s course
about it are sunk the rebel obstructions
to the channel. To out a canal through
Dutch Gap will leave the rebel fleet high
and dry in the old river bed—supposing
they choose or are forced to remaid—and
will open anew channel beyond the ob
structions. It is said that above this
point there are no obstacles except Fort
Darling to the passage of our fleet up to
Richmond.
We infer that Hancock’s operations
have reference to this canal project. If
they have another purpose it will be de
veloped in due time. It is clear, at any
rate, that a considerable rebel force was
intrenched in the vioinity of this penin
sula, and has been surprised, routed, and
in good part captured, with loss of six or
seven guns. But it does not seem proba
ble there can have been any demonstra
tion near the rebel pontoons which cross
the James close to Fort Darling. That
bridge is strongly protected, and not like
ly to be carried or destroyed by a sudden
assault.
CAPTURE OF MISSISSIPPI STEAMERS.
A despatch from Cairo, 111., on the
15th, says :
About five hundred rebel cavalry, un
der Col. Johnson, crossed the Ohio river
into Illinois, at Saline Bar, on Saturday.
The steamers Kate Robinson, Jimmy
Perkins, Nightingale, Fjmny Brandon,
and Clara Hall were aground at that
place, and were captured by them.
These steamers had a large amount of
stock on board, and those in charge of
them had to pay several thousand dol
lars to save them from destruction.
RECRUITING IN REbEL STATES. ’
An agent sent out by the authorities of
Jersey City to recruit in the rebel States,
from Beaufort writes to Mayor Cleveland
that recruiting agents are far more nu
merous than able bodied blacks desirous
of going into service. The price offered
for recruits range from S3OO to S6OO.
We lake the following items of news
from the Kichmond Enquirer, of the 22d:
FROM DEEP BOTTOM.
This locality resumed its comparative
insignificance on Saturday. The fighting
near Petersburg drew off all the Federal
forces recently landed there, and Foster’s
division, which has been there pretty
much all the time, was once more left alone
in its glory. Thus has this “magnificent
strategic movement,” so brilliantly illumi
nated iu the Northern papers, gone out,
leaving the soil of Henrico enriched with
the blood of the Yankee slain.
FROM THE VALLEY.
An official dispatch from Gen. Early’s
command on Saturday, states that a por*
tion of our forces in the Valley crossed the
Shenandoah, at Front lloyal, on the 16th,
and drove the enemy’s cavalry, which re
treated towards Winchester, burning the
hay and wheat stacks in their route. On
the 17th, Sheridan began to retire from
I his position near Strasburg, was pursued,
and two divisions of the 6th corps, with a
large force of cavalry, were overtaken at
Winchester and driven through the town,
losing over two hundred prisoners. The
enemy fell back towards Harper’s Ferry.
Unofficial advices put the whole force
of Sheridan in the Valley at only forty-one
thousand men.
ORDERED TO DUTY.
The following officers, recently exs
changed by way of Charleston, have been
ordered to report for duty as follows :
Major General Archer, ordered to ie
port to Headquarters of the Army of
Northern Virginia.
Major General Edward Johnson, ois
dered to report to headquarters at Atlanta.
Brig, Geo. Jeff. Thompson, ordered to
report to Lt. Gen. E. Kirby Smith.
A Goo*> Movement.—lt is said that a public bake
ry is to be established at Richmond—the bread .0
be sold to the poor at cost. A good movement, we
think. At least the :iea is a, good one, and if the
businei' is manage - t ongnt to o-. great good
will result- r. rV • •’ •-* ■ ' bablw
b-ker : ib - r < -
Bku*m r Spot*.—Two events *»e about «.•>
happen which will cause the Rebels of M juil j
to rejoice, even though Farragut should b*
raining fire and iron on their heads at tue
time. That is all we can say at present.— Mu
bile Ado, ,j- It,y liter.
By the latest dispatches, Ont of (hen dll
not shine from Fort Morgan.
Mobile, Aug. 2-I.—Fort Morgan is in the
enemy s hands. Whether it was surrendered,
evacuated or blown up, is unknowu. There
are conflicHrtg reports, but nothing reliable.—
Frees Dispatch.
A few day3 ago it was promised that Fort
Morgan could hold out a twelvemonth.
. What a pity that there is not some office!
in command there who would place soldiers,
unconquerable soldiers in the defences.
We suppose it will now be reported that
Fort Morgan was useless to us and was sur
rendered accordingly. We cannot accept that
or any other unsatisfactory reason for its loss.
Our defences by water approaches should be
made A lamos. — ln ielligencer, 26th.
Good News from Sherman's Army.—From
a prominent citizen of Marshall county we
learned some good news yesterday from Sher
man’s rear. He said the information came
from a clergyman of Rome, Ga., who had
been ordered to go North, but was unable to
do it in consequence of the destruction of th
railroad above Rome by our cavalry. It seems
that this minister applied to the Provost Mar
shal for a pass to go North, when he was in
formed that travel in that direction was sus
pended by the operations of Gen. Wheeler's
cavalry, and be was referred to the Yankee
General in command of that place for partic
ulars. Calling upou that officer, be was in
formed that a courier had come iu from above
who reported the destruction of the railroad,
the capture of Dalton, and the blowing up of
Tunnel Hill by Gen Wheeler, thus rendering
travel on the railroad impossible. Our in
formant also said that Wheeler was reported
to have also captured fifteen hundred head of'
Yankee beef cattle, and that Gen. Clanton
had destroyed the railroad from Kingston to
Rome.
The foregoing news appears to be reliable.
We hope to have it confirmed ina day or two.
as well as to hear that Wheeler has succeeded
in doing effectual work as high up as Chat
tanooga and Cleveland.— Mont. Advertiser.
The Immediate Front.
The Lines. — Nothing whatever of importance ha j
occurred along the since our last. The can
nonading hoard was principally fr?m the enemy’s
batteries directed at the city, and-the picket tiring
was Less than usual.
Officers from various parts of the lines inform us
that every movement of the enemy that could be
observed indicates an indecision and uncertainty of
purpose such as has never characterized any of
their qperatiens since the commencement of tho
campaign at Dalton. They are evidently aston
ished at the determination exhibited by Gen. Hood
to retain his position, and frightened at tho formi
dable character of our works. They are non-plusaed
because Atlanta, they have found out, will not be
yilded up without a fight, and not daring to attack
our defences they know not wbat to do. The five
weeks they havespont before tho city have thus
far been profitless of rosults to their advantage,
aud to-day the Federal commander in Georgia
seems fully as far from the accomplishment of his
purpose as does lu3 chief in Virginia. .
The City.— Since yesterday a continual fire has
been kept up on the city from several of the enemy’s
batteries. During the afternoon and up to 11 o’etk
a. m., tho firing was very rapid, and tho shots seem
ed to be directed at no particular locality, as every
part of the city within range was visited. One lady
a Mrs. Cook, was killed on Marietta street, and an
other wounded on Peachtree street, during tho
time. Throughout the latter part of the night
shells were occasionally thrown, but early this
morning a very rapid fire was again commenced.—
No casualties are reported as having occurred dur
ing the night or this morning.
There seems to be at present no scarcity of provi -
sions in tho city, and from the quantity that had
arrived by express we judge there is enough to meet
the wants of our greatly reduced population. The
prices of some articles are high, speculators hold
ing all there is upon the market,, but as a general
thing our market is now but little ahead of those
of other cities.— 23.
“Forte Crayon v »Col. David
Strother, Chtet ot Staffto Gen,
Hunter.
The individual whoso name heads this ar
ticle has during several years past, been well
known to tho South by his writings ana
sketches published in Harper’s Magazine,
under the name of Porte Crayon. He is un
fortunately a Virginian by birth. The misera
able renegade and coward deserted his mother
State, whose thousands of true and chival
rous sons have fought and won the battles of
the South against the despicable Northern
host, with whom Col. Strother now fraterni
ses because Northern money and position pur
chased him, not his soul, for a heartless tory
has no such article in his composition, but
hi3 body and the craven name of David Stroth
er, the renegade Virginian.
What a name to leave as an heir loom to
his family. Asa hissing by-word, in future
let his name be accursed and the people of
our beloved land refuse to sustain the thing,
who has prostituted bis talents to caricaturing
the South, aud his body to desecrating the
mother State against which he has lilted his
despicable hands to destroy according to the
merciful (?) decrees of his Yankee brethren.
From the Lexington Gazette, we append the
following, which indicates how low Strother
the renegade hag fallen :
“This notorious individual accompanied
Hunter on his recent raid through the Valley
of Virginia, employed in sketching scenery.
Ac. We understand that he made three
sketches of the Institute, and Gov. Letcher’s
house—one, before the buildings were fired—
one, while they were burning—and another,
of the ruins—all for Harper’s Weekly. This
man ha3 long been employed in this business,
and figured, conspicuously, at the time of thf
trial and execution of old John Brown. H *
wa3 thoroughly Southern in his principles
then, and cordially approved the execution of
this noted old abolitionist.
About the time of the secession of Virginia,
this same man, (as we are informed, repaired
to Richmond to secure authority to raise a
mounted regiment for service in the cause of
the South. He was fully invested with the
necessary authority, and after figuring about
Richmond several days, left, but the regiment
was not raised. The next that wa3 heard of
him, he wa3 in the Yankee service, assigning
as a reason for his conduct, that he could not
live without the contribution paid to him by
the Harpers.. There was do illustrated paper
in the South at the time, and rather than lose
the money, he determined to become a traitor
to his native State, and if the half we have
heard of him here be true, he Vas one of the
lowest and meanest dogs in Hunter’s kennel.
:; The universal testimony here i3 that the
Virginians in Hunter’s army, were the wors*.
men under his command. They approved of
the stealing and burning, and seemed dispose-!
to encourage in all conceivable ways, the de
struction of public and private property.
Their policy a3 avowed, was t a whip us if they
could, but if not then to starve the people
into subjection. They will fail in both, and
these people will have to submil in the end to
! the legitimate Government of Virginia, or
leave the State.”
The Attemted .’lnsurrection in
Southern Georgia.
The account' which we publish this morning of
the accidental discovery of a plot to set on foot a
negro insurrection in Brooks eoonty, which was
instigated and planned by an infamous white
wretch, and which was no doubt to have been
seconded by deserters, and the enemy in Florida,
should impress the people, especially of the Jsea
board counties, of the necessity of thorough or
ganization and constant watchfulness. Provision
has been made by the Governor through the Infe
rior Courts for the organization of an effective po
lice or patrol force in each county, but in addition
to these every old man and boy, and all exempt*
should be organized a r .d prepared to act at a mo
ment’s warning. The home men of the counties
should adopt measures for a complete surveillance
of their respective localities in order not o&ly tha:
the negroes may be kept iu proper discipline an i
subordination, but that all suspicious white men,
stragglers, deserters j ami Yankee emmUsariej
may be detected and properly dealt with.
Tn this connection we call the special attention
offhe inferior courts, and the civil OtHeers and
Aids, to the order of His Excellency Gov. Brown,
in another column.
’•Ye learn by passengers who arrived by th:
Gulf train last evening, that the patrol in Brooks
county have succeeded in arresting more of the
insurrectionists, and that three of them, one white
•u;r icd > regroe*. were to i- executed yester
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