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COLUMBUS TIMES Published Daily (Sundays excepted) at the rata of $4.00 per month, or sl2. for three months. No subscription received for & loa*er term than h“te months. ADVERTISING RATES : Advertisements iaswtod for $2 00 per square for each insertion. Whore advertisements are inserted a month, the chart© will be S3O per square. Announcing candidatess2o, which must invariably Paid in advance. 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. ♦ ♦ 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 !•»v ... V-2 'l'L.