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j, W. H ABBES, Editor. Moaday Morning, August 19,1861. If we Jo not exonerate th# ralu# of the sue at Kcanss ’ station, reported by Gen. Lee on Saturday laat, it again raises the blockade of the Weldon rood. True, the Yankee* are in force and strongly fortified on that road three miles south of 1 etorsburg, but the affair at Hearns’ reuders that position very critical if not untenable. It can now be availed in front, flank and rear, and it must be a lucky point, indeed, if it cau be. held under such circumstances. ♦ ♦ cm ccbss, )Vin—Dkfeax, PtAoi;.—The Cincin- i nati Crunmorcial was very near right, when, upon the postponement of the time of holding the Chi- i cago (.'onvention to the 29th August, it said; ft brant succeeds at Richmond, and Gherman ! at Atlanta, then the platform wiy be war. If ther are defeated, then pcaco. Iu the former case, Mo- Oiftlbin will be the choice; in the latter, Alex. Long, : or some other equally unconditional peace man. W«i;, brant has not succeeded at Richmond and Sherman Inis bceu holed at Atlanta.' The 29th of ; August is bore and the truth or falsity ©i the Com mercial's predicti"ii will be tested at Chicago to- i da\. Ur belie re the result will proclaim the wis dom of the prophet, and that a pence man will be , nominated and placed on « peace platform. We ■ bebev*-. further. that if wo but bold <uir own till • election 'tuy, tbo Chicago nominee will triumph. ■ Rut w,: shall Mure than “hold onr own.” V/c ‘ shall rocover territory now in the hands of the enemy and, to the extent of the recovery, w# riia.il swell the strength ol the Xorthoin peace partv.—- j Let ouv Generals and armies understand this mat- ; ter. and never forget that » most valuable auxiliary of diplomacy in the i cabinet. * Oorrespoudence »f thr Times, Atlanta, Ga., Aug. . IBC4. h -'-•ran- ( 0 ‘ i)t a se tried fact that Memphis ! i* in our po.saessiou. With Morgan in ivacf i and f'on\rs{ ii; West T<.-niicSsee f !i.nd Wheeler, wrjece he i,\ what may we not expect? The , situation is consolatory—the star of Slier- 1 man's destiny i 3 on the wane—site clouds of ; bu# are darkening and ihickeniuy around.-- ! H*» Huuwieuvcring tor the past two days, show ; an indecision and uncertainty of purpose eu» • lire’y foreign to his military character as de- j ▼eloped in this- campaign. He assumes to b# ' persistent in his deternaination to hare this i city-—Hood appears to boas doggedly resolved • that be shall not. Ailh Sherman, in the pre- | scut attitude of affairs, irts “victory or death:' ! Many writers affect to belief# iiitr# will bo ; a genera! engagement here. On wlmt prem-i ises do iboy reason themselves to the conclu aiou ? With the largest army the North has j •ter mustered for the Western department, Sherman has penetrated into the very heart j o!' Ihc Empire State of the South—be h»s the i prestige of innumerable victories—he has j n*ver met a reverse, ranch ]tp ! * u defeat he | in all appliances of wav—ambh I Wou-. determined, resolute—a man of sense. I whom it is charity to presume, has discernment enough to sec probable death ahead—certain death behind. A .short time siiio#, your colleague of the .Suit (and (litre is no paper whose opinions f respect more) was solicitous that some friend ♦hon'd point him to a .single sign the v.olif ic«! or military zodiac that would encourage a reasonable hope qf an early femiuatien of ilm pending struggle. It i- Due wo cau -on ly reason but from v»h*t we know. Mr. Rope did not. we hope, interdict thr very prevalent fashion oi .?y./•<•„/, i:,,,y open what we believe. I assume, then.—and j tiopc Hu egotism, on my part, will be inferred—that the night and day dream es the. Abolitionist to conquer the vrifh ita concomitants of confiscation and emancipation, is rapidly vanishing.— Northern basliles are being rapidly depopula ted of inmates, persecuted for opinion's take. Iris a i longer treason to iulk ol recognition in the North. Peace in<?u make public speeches, and peace uivetiags Hie publicly held in the North, the Press is no longer subsidized, and the same papers that six mouths ago advocated “war to the knife and the kudo to the hilt, 'comes to us tc-iay bedd i.v proclaiming the peace doctrine. The New 4 ovk Record and News, the New York World, the Poston Traveller, the Koch ester Democrat, and Cincinnati Enquirer—ail Republican Journals, a.mith'o moat prominent iu the North, arc talking of negotiations. Tit# Washington Chrouicle, right under the nose of Old Abe. and always a Republican paper, gravely talks ot negotiation. If is now. as to tilt moil. Fremont and Cnoclirau, v>\ Lincoln ami Jthiiaton. Fremont, undoubtedly, hart the plurality, A Fence Democrat runs in.— lu tbt last election, this party polled over a million ami a half of votes. Then the ptpa- Ur Toiee was muzzled. This is the firtf op portunity that that party has had to vote dn* rin£ the reign oi Liucolu. mid I, for on*, am avers* to the opinion that the Northern people, oradled in the crib of individual right? and fcttue sovereignty, arc so lost to every sense of honor »u*.l ti'oedvin, as to surrender the tast hope of * principle, aud give tbeoioelv#? ever to be trampled under the merciless car cf JaugAuaut in defiance of all tiio *ecariti#» and protection guaramerd them under the very Coastitution they profess to worship.— The peace party in the North is undoubtedly in Die ascendant, and the- chances arc three to one, ii Lincoln does not commit him seif to a peace platform, or ?üß'<°rft psaci plank in terpolated Suit, fce is defeated. It is useless to disguise the fact, li is high time both parties were satiated with the useiese flow of blood. Surrender »principle tet never mil. If Lincoln is elected on the <: B»ltimor« Platform, M the war is continued. The Northern masses are awar* of tho fact: they are a mercenary people; touch their purse string?, aud you touch their heart strings. With the incentive of lucre—fill powerful with them—the right for once, is in the might. We have them whipped ; our brave troops have bat to stand their ground a little while longer and the *£y will begin to appear once more bright aud serene: the dim clouds of war will roll away, and that beauticu* vision of heme, whioL ha? haunted them ?o often by aight *nd by day, will re-appc-Ar with all its blow ing? clustering around DAD BUR NIT.* ’I Le Y ankee General Hunter, surno.med the “fiend,’ is the son of the late Kev. Andrew Hunter, of Fairfax county, Ya. He was born in that county, and is be* tween sixty and sixtynfive years old, con* Aequently it cannot be long before the Devil hae him. : [Corre?pend?:;ce» Southern Confederacy.j i Eale Haftd ou the Macon Hoad. Jonbsboro’, Aug 24, 1864. ! Oa the morning of the 19th, (Friday) we ; h»d rumors of a raid, and scouts were sent ■ oat, between 11 and 12 ’odook. I heard, from reliable authority, that there had been fighting near Mr. McLeroy s about six miles west of Jonesboro', during the forenoon. It was also known that a raid had passed through Fayetteville, on the Griffio road. 0 About 1 P. M., two brigades of cavalry and one brigade, of infantry, arrived fcom the Front, at which time, nothing further having been heard of the raid on the Fairborn road, the cavalry and train of infantry passed down the road towards Griffin, when a raiding party of from two to four hundred, who had struck the road at Bear Creek, was put to flight, j (they bad burnt a construction train and done j slight damage to the road.) We rested perfectly easy here until al\put*3 | P. .V., when we were startled by firing near | the river, (about one and a half miles west) j which proved to be a skirmish between the i main column of the enemy (variously ostima-j ted at from 2,500 to 4,000 strong) and Gen. ! Ross' Texas • brigade of cavalry, which had i been in their front disputing their advance all i the way from Fairborn. After a few rounds, j our men fell back to Jonesboro, and wore fol lowed by the enemy, whose fronteome in view : about 5 P. M. Our men having taken position behind the depot, the railroad embankment, and station ing their gun in front of Dr. Baber’s house, gave them a few rounds, when the enemy, get ting tbeir battery in position, opened upon them and the town, when our ibices imme diately retreated through the town. The en emy then advanced and formed his line on the common, (west of the depot) and commenced shelling through the tuaiu street o; Jonesboro, killing two meu (one a Captain and the oth er a citizen—Wia. Christian) and two horses w ith one shell. Other horses were killed and several houses struck. The Government warehouse was then byukeu open and burned, with about SO bales of cot ton that was in the yard. Captain Elliott's house and Use blacksmith shop was then burned. (Capt. E.’s house was vacant, his family and furniture having left on that mor ning's train.) Mrs. E. Roundtree Haines' house,-with ail her provisions, clothing and furniture; the court Loose, the calliboose, Mr. Kaigler's two storehouses, containing tax in kind; D. If. Rea’s harness shop, L.’ C. Hutchison’s blacksmith shop, and T. Byrnes’ stoic* containing 120 bales of cotton, were all burned. J. Ts. Morrow’s grocery was broken open, and when they had drank as ranch liquor as they wished, they knocked out the heads of the whiskey barrels and turned it loose.— Twice was the building set on fire, blit was put out. Mr< Wrn. Parker's house was fired into and entered, and he was robbed of his watch and SBOO in Confederate money, all his clothes, bacon and ratal. My smokehouse was broken open anu robbed of every piece of meat 1 had. My horse was stolen from the stable, and, as they entered my bouse, » Major rode up and ordered them out. thus saving it from pillage. Mrs. J. J. Haines was robbed of all her bacon, meal, syrup, sugar, etc., and her trunks and drawers broken open, papers destroyed, and dresses and clothing lorn up. The same was the case at the hotel, nr Mr. Key’s and at many other houses. They generally took all'the bacon, meal, flour, knives and forks they could find. They broke up the crockery in several houses burnt two cars, and tore up and burnt the track through town. . . About 11 P. M., our forces having returned, a portion of them opened upon the enemy, who remained until after midnight, when they left on the road towards Lee’s rail}. About a miie and a balfor two miles cast of Ji/uesbor.A, they passed Gen, Ferguson's brig ade of cavalry, (who, 1 learn, had been sent there by tfe.n. Jackson to cut off their retreat.) who suffered them to pass without interrup tion. and a reliable citizen, near whose house. • hey were, says Ferguson’s men made them put out their lights, and told them to keep perfectly still so that the enemy might go past without knowing they were there, (sod that they remained there Saturday, when other portions of our troops were, .fighting within two or three miles, and at other points within hearing. Tbo enemy passed on to near Lee s milt, where they had a ssirmish with a part of our | forces. They then turned towards Lovejoy’s • Station, to which point the infantry had re ; turned from Jonesboro, where they were hand* 1 somelv repulsed with considerable loss. They ! then fell back to the " vicinity or on the plan tations of Thompson, Nash and Ely Dorsey, : where Gen. Jackson got them surrounded.— The enemy finding out the positions around, charged Gen. Ross’ brigade, who were dis mounted and deployed, i:s solemn column •f fours, and so sudden and unexpected was j the onset that they ran over the brigade and : stampeded their horses,not, however, without j losing considerably, while our loss was slight, i Having broke through the net, they made the j best of their way to and through McDonough, j and camped that night, the 2oth, east of Wal i nut Creek, about four miles east of McDonough, ! and on Sunday made their way back to their | lines. If Gen. Ferguson had stationed' bis men along the ridge on which he was and thrown up temporary breastworks of rails, of which there were plenty, and made any fight at all, the enemy could not have passed him, and Gen. Jackson would have pressed them in the reer, and the whole force would have been captured there between two hills, for there was no path for them to get out at unless they cut roads through thick woods. This is, how ever, mere opinion, expressed upon a knowl edge oftbr country aud of the forces opposed. ' G. L. W. Execution of tlie Notorious John Viclterj and Three Hfe fl’OM Quitman. Brooks County, August 23, 1861. Eiikor Monthly News: —Tho citizens of the county were this morning summoned to meet at an early hour at the Court House to decide on the guiit or innocence of the prisoners ar rested and under guard, charged with insur rection. At 10 o'clock, A. m., Capt. Gnnlden was called to the chair, Col. W. B. Bennett acting as Secretory, and Mr. William Hudson as Assistant Secretary. The object of the meeting was stated from the Chair, when Captaiu James L. Moseley moved that a committee of twelve man be appointed by the Chairman to examine the prisoners and decide ou confession and evi dence as to their guilt: and also, the punish ment to he inflicted, and to report their deci sion at 3, p. m. Tbi3 motion met with an unanimous second, and was carried in like manner. At 3 o’clock, in the afternoon, the meeting came to order—Capt. Gaulden presiding— when the committee made the following rs port: Ist. Upon examination of the case of John Vickery, the committee fiud him guilty of arson and inciting negroes to insurrection, and of assisting them to run to the Yankeesj and recommend that he be executed immedi ately by "hanging. 2d. In the .case of train, belonging to Mr. H. A. Derham, the committee find him guilty of insurrection, aud of inducing other ne groes to insurrection, aud recommend that he be immediacy hanged. 3d. In the case of NeLon. belonging to Mr. Mitchell Jones, the committee find him guilty of insurrection, and recommend that be be immediately hanged. 4lb. In the case of George, belonging to Gol. Spain, the committee find him guilty of insurrection, and recommend that he V>e im mediately hanged. sth. In the case, of Warren, belonging to Capt. B. Elliott, the committee is not satisfied in regard to his guilt, and recommend that he be committed to jail until further evidence can be obtained in case. Moved by Dr. Ferrenside* that tbe report ! be adopted by the meeting of»citizens, and ! severally executed according to <U*ei=ion o the committee. . Folsom, and carried. Moved by Capt. Lane, that a committee of five bo appointed to decide on tbo place and time of execution. t -The motion of Capt. Lane was unanimous -1 ly adopted, when the following gentlemen I Were appointed: Capt. It. A. ITasdec, J. W. I Slaiticker, Capt. Culpeper, Judge Creeck, and | J- T. Crawford, with instructions to report iu ! ten minutes. At 5.15 p. m., the committee reported tbo place of execution, and that it should take place ia one hour from that time. ; A scaffold was prepared, and at 6p. m. the four culprits marched' out under a heavv guard, accompanied by the Rev. Mr. Smith, woo performed the ceremonies at the scaffold, j After all was in readiness, Vickery asked for tune to say a few words. The time al- ; lowed him was occupied with abuse and in j proclaiming his innocence to the last. The • negroes had nothing to say, except Sam, who ! said he was guilty and richly deserved the ' rpunishment he was about to receive. Vicke- j ry asked that the cap should be drawn over j his eyes and that the execution should go j ahead. When all things were in readiness j aud the fata! blow about to be struck, Vickery j exclaimed, “God have mercy on me for ray j lies/' He. with his guilty victims, was launch- j ed into eternity at 32 minutes past fi p. m.— i Savannah Nik's, 25. ! All Appeal to Absentee* and Deieifers. Though not furnished tojus as an adver tisement we most cheerfully transfer the following General Order from the incom parable commander of the Army of North ern Virginia, to our columns, and add our own feeble appeal to all men in this State and elsewhere who are absent from the army without leave, to return at once to their commands. This offer of pardon to all who return to duty, is generous on the part of the government authorities, be cause every man who has deliberately I deserted his colors had according to law and the Articles of War, and according : to universal usage m all countries, forfeit ed his life;. and we trust there are none so dead to a sense of duty to their conn* try and to every patriotic impulse as to | refuse a prompt response to the patriotic and generous appeal of Gen. Lee. There ! is nothing connected with deserters but ! disgrace and infamy, we care not what may be the circumstances under which a • man commits the act, and no one who ! has ever taken the false step can ever | hope to obliterate it from his own eon* j science or entirely wipe out the stain frbm ! his character, but a prompt obedience to this call of Gen. Lee, and gallant heroic behavior hereafter will do much to make these unfortunate men respected by tlieir i commander.and honored by the virtuous I and good everywhbre. Let the relatives, acquaintances and 1 friends of sueli persons as have been | guilty of the crime of desertion seek | them out in their lurking places and read this General Order, graciously offering i amnesty for past offences to them, and ap | peal to them to return at once to the ar i my : Headq'rs, Army Northern Va., ) j August 10,1864. j * General Orders, ) No. 54. j All persons connected with this army,; who arc .absent without proper authority, : are enjoined to return to their respective ! commands without delay. This order is intended to embrace those who have remained absent beyond the time limited for their return, or after the ; cause of their absence has ceased. Ad : such persons are admonished that every , day they remain away from their posts, ! ■ adds the dangers and labors of their com- : ! rades, while it increases their own responv i ; sibility to the laws they, are violating. The commanding General deems it only | necessary to remind those who have erred i : through thoughtlessness or negligence, of i ; the shame and disgrace they will bring : upon themselves and their families, if they | shrink from the manful discharge of duty ! 1 in the hour of their country's need, and i leave their homes to be defended and i j their independence to be secured by the ; unaided courage of others, i To those whose &b?enee has been pro\ i | longed until they have incurred the guilt | | of desertion, he can only say that a prompt; | and voluntary return to duty alone can ; paliate their offence and entitle them to i expect any clemency. If arrested and brought back justice to the faithful and true as well as the in • tcrests and safety of the country requires ! that they shall suffer the extreme penalty i of the law. (Signed) R. E. LEE, Gen. ! Official— j J. C. Mcßae, A. A. Gen. j The Peace Flag Hung Out in New I York. —The New York News says : ! On Thursday last, Aug. 4th, Mr. Lin j coin's day of fasting and prayer, a flag. whose sac Semite had not, up to that time, i greeted the vision of New Yorkers, float* |ed proudly from the Cooper institute ! Building, and its appearance was greeted : : with evident signs of satisfaction by all ; who saw it. During the entire day its j ample folds kissed the breeze, and many ; eyes were directed toward it as it waved I amid the summer air. It was a Peace i flag. Its ground was white, aud in the centre was a dove, bearing in its mouth an olive branch. This was the inscription j on it: “Peace on Earth ; Good "Will To ward Meu ?' v A prominent advocate of ! peace raised it on Fast day. When doing iso he was told that a mob would tear it | down within half an hour. He knew the people better. No man molested it; but evident tokens of gratification were given at its appearance, and it floated proudly all day. It was the first Peaoe flag that had been publicly raised in New York since the fratricidal strife commen ced, and graced thq stage of the institute in the evening, when Lindley Spring, Esq., delivered his Peace Lecture. It was the gift cf the ladies of New York to the blessed cause, and carried a bless ing with it. Contrast this incident with the vindictiveness displayed by the people in April, 1861. *Wjio would then have dared to rah-e such a flag ? Who could then safely advise peace? But, thank God, a change—a very perceptible change —has come over the people. The nation l is sick—sick unto death—of war and its attendant horrors. Peace finds eloquent, | earnest advocates, and its banner flaunts : the breeze unmolested. “Straws show which way the wind blows.” A dealer in shell-fish advertise* D>-t t*i« ! oysters- are fresh as a youn» pup jes* *wt | Du- country, and will : r d<»“" *• F ; •= f : ’’i>h \v i ■ (-»rj l>, .. •» . i'**r sl!4S«m‘(. V* a uave advices from Caoniea, A vuu ):-.*?, as lat« as ths 13th of the proscat month. Th* camp of th* veteran Prioa was ia a greai stir. At last '“Old Dad" and his Missourians were un leashed by authority, .uid their heads were turned toward the promised land. By this t’rae they are on their way in very formidable force, and with the brightest promise of augmenting their * umbers at erery step of advance into that tyranny-riUtlen und down-trodden land. The movement is fraught with the greatest" consequence# to the general cause, and from what we have seen of the temper of the Missouri people and the fright of the enemy, there sre the most cheering reasons to hop* for its complete success in th* redemption us that glori ous and long suffering State. Gen. Magruder comes from Texas (o ceuainaml th* Department left by,Gen. Price, 'ion. Gano has demolished a regiment ot Yankees (blacks) near Fert Smith. Gen. Shelby is already in Mis souri with a strong force of cavalry, and his star is “looming up.” We look sobn for glorious tidings from Missouri. Gen. Rosccran# is calling for six months’ men to moot the invasion, but it Is be lieved that seven men will flock to Price's standard where Rose-crane can get one.— Mobil* A-iv., 2 btfr. i 7- Special to the Mobile Register. Muir AbslTvillb, Aug, 24.—The enemy burned Abbeville lastnigut. Their advance passed thro’ Holly Springs at 10 o’clock yesterday morning to ward3 LaGrange. Their wagon train crossed the Tallahatchie and camped at Waterford last night: I their infsn rr are around Abbeville and ate eross j ing to-day. j - Gen. Chalmers ran into their whole iufautvy ! force at Abbeville yesterday evening, and bad a ! sharp fight. Ho captured three wagons a_ud teams, i and a few prisoners. Our loss was about twenty. The pursuit was renewed fins morning, i _ VII) ill IK. j Bsiu.uyT Acuxevimen'f.-Onca move we are ; called upon to chronicle aibrilliaut victory achieved by that gallant arid dashing officer, Capt. Diekisou. Having been notified that the Yaukee?. in consid erable foroe, had made a move in tlie direction of Gainesville, Capt. D„ with bis little command, im mediately started in pursuit, and, we learn, came up with them just after they had entered Gainesville, j By a skillful disposition of his force and a masterly j strategy, he succeeded ia capturing or killing near ! ly the entire party—having, as we arc informed, j taken 187 prisoners, killed 25 cerulean*, beside eap ! tiu-ing a fine 12 couuder howitzer cample #, find a 1 large number of horses. j Our citizens cannot too highly estimate the oon j duct of this meritorious officer, and we hope that ; they will see to it, that some substantial token Os , their appreciation be presented to him. | We regret that we are unable to lay before our ! readers more ol' the particulars of this gallant affair, I but hope to receive the necessary details to do so in j our next issue. ! Betwecn one hundred and seventy and onetnm : dred and eighty passed through this place on their j way to more appropriate quarters. The prisoners ! were guarded from Kewnansvillc to this place by a j detachment of Capt. Niblack’s company of citizens. i Loli? Oi\jj Columbian, 24 th. War 6Y[AMa*R3m;ao was Bu»xt.—This act is j thus explained in a letter from Maryland to the i New York Herald: ! Just before leaving VVLUUuitpoi t, General Early { made some public remarks in regard to the burning of Chambersburg, which are of intorest. He said that he ordered in gold to be demanded of ' the town: that if the demand wa3 not complied ! within three hours, the town was to be burned; ! that the sum of money demanded was to reimburse i Andrew Hunter, Win. Lucas, P. J. Lee and Hon. I Alex. R. Boteler, for their losses caused in thedes j truetion of their property by order of Gen, Hunter, j and that he felt perfectly justified in tho oourso he i had pursued. lie explained how Gon. Hunter had ; burned the house of his (Hunter’s) cousin, in J*f j ferae n county, Virginia, and taken that cousin j ■ Andrew Hunter) oif as a prisoner, and said that ! the act was a brutal one, because the inmates of the j house were not allowed time to save even a portion j oLjtheir clothing. In concluding, he said it would | btrthc future policy of the rebel Government to re j taliatein the severest manner for all barbaritios practiced against them, lie delivered these remark* ; m a calm, firm manner. In a" private conversation ! ho said that no man more than himself deprecated ; the necessity of such an act as the one committed nt Charabersbfuwfbut that he sanctioned it, boliev < ing he was, only doing lus duty to these people who had suffered by Gen. Hunter’s orders, and again, ; because ho believed that by retaliation such bar > barous practices-would be sooner discontinued than j in any ether way. He was particularly severe on ! Gou. Hunter, and said that, should he fall r prison * or into their hands, his lot would be a hard one. ,Statistics or Cahsaok.—A writer in the Jes ; ferson county, New York, Union has made some , calculations relative to the number of men kiiled i thus far in ibis war. and gives the following re ; snßs : : Enough have been already slain to encircle our ; State if their dead bodies were laid in one con tin ; uous line. If they were placed in coffin ; and corded, they ' would count 39,000 cords. ; If laid in a wall twenty-five feet thick and thir i ty feet high, it would be over one and one-fourth miles in length. ii' five feet thick and ten feet high, the pile would reach across the State. If piled upon a ton acre lot, they would be | nearly two hundred feet high. And if laid upon the ground, they would cover j every foot of soil in Jefferson county. Seventy five thousand tons of human blood have been spilled in Dixie’s soil—enough to turn j every spindle in Lowell, and if the tears were ad ■ ded to the flood it would turn the machinery of ! the continent, and the unavailing sighs would fill : every ocean sail. j The cnc-half has r.ot yet been told. The mil , lions of wounded and maimed for life must bq j taken into account in summing up the grand j total of evils iucident to this bloody and fanatical | war. | And the end is not yet. ! Some Time Ago.—The Hartford, Uoimecti j cut. Times, copies tho following; advertise ment from the Kingston, N. 0., Gazette, of j Juutt the 14th, 1500: j “Fon Sags.—The one halt of a saw mill j lying in the town of Rochester. And, also, i a stout, healthy, active negro woman. ! Apply to Jon.\ SnovMAKER, Jr.. At Rochester.” ; The Times mu ken the annexed comment ou ! the above: “And negro men and women were then sold ; all over the Northern States; and there were ' slaves in Connecticut as late as 1818. Isn’t it | now pretty early" for ns up here to resolve that ; we are the saints, and that all slaveholders are ; sinners? That we will whip and subjugate ail | slaveholders, take away their negroes, and oc : cupv the phmtations of their masters? That ! a slaveholder is a sinner, lit only for ——, ; while we, (that is. the “loyal,”) are all saints, j lit for heaven and happiness, and that slave* : holders shall not sit at the communion table with as. nor live in the same Union? This is progression on the part of a class who live | on the money made from the 3lave trade, slave | labor, rum, the war, etc. Why don’t the Lord i answer more speedily the long prayers of all • such loyal folks." i We clip the following from the Charleston | Courier: Editors and others in Georgia, having evi i dence concerning the outrages on persons and property beyond the rules' of wav. committed ■ by any Yankees now in cur hand?, should < furnish the proof in proper form promptly.— ! Our Macon friends of the press will do good ; service bv urging attention to this matter. Peace Commission from the West. ! —lt is stated in some of our exchanges | that a commission from the States of Ohio, Illinois and Indiana is now it* Richmond, in consultation with the Government on ; the subject of a free navigation of the j Mississippi in case of the formation of a North-western Confederacy. If such a commission is in Richmond it is kept as silent as was the visit of the Yankees, | Jacques and Kirke, for neither the press j nor the people are aware of its presence, j an event, however, would not be j surprising, since we are well aware of the j disaffection in ihe West towards a war : which is impoverishing that section while | it is filling the pockets of khe shrewd op* ; erators of New England.— Riel). Dispatch. Tuk Axt Ti’.ai*. —As the season ia now at i hand for these neats, tho ant?, housewives and i others who are troubled with them, may pro bablv y«6 the following trap to ad\ aatf.ge: •'•Procure r. large sponge, wrtsh it well, and ur-:-r« it dry. which will leave the ceils qnite • open, then epritik.ic over it s:-;uc uno white | -eogar, and pluoo it near where ths nuts are : troublesome. They will soon collect upon ] the sponge, and take up their abode :• the ■ cells. It i? only ne-cess art .to din the spoage *in acaidtng water wh •• ./ill wash 4 Y ciri | dead by the tens t ~aod- p- ... ic • 3 ” ' -ftC the '• •|> t.-K %•* .... . -?; ■ pro -. v ‘ ot-ii- i. hi;use of er -r* act I TELEGRAPHIC, IRBPORfS 09 THU PRESS A3SOCIATIOS. Entered according to act of Congress in the year ; lStS3ta by J. P. rasher, in tha Clerk's offioe of the Diatriat Court of tho Confederate States for tha Northern District of Georgia. | OtiTKA, Aug. 27.—-The Yankees commenced i foiling buck from Clinton to-duy taking the Baton I Rouge road. Mobile, Aug. 25.—N0 *haoge in affairs at this point to report. Atlakta, Aog. 27. —The enemy disappeared from our entire front last night, oxeept on th* ex treme left, lie is supposed to be moving up on our left. Picket tiring ceased at midnight, dar ing the rain. Rumors are current this morning that Sherman is crossing the Chattahoochee. , Louisrilie of the 20th state that Col Woodward, of Kentucky, was mortally wounded and taken prisoner on, the I7tb, while making an attack on Hopkinsville. Atlanta, Aug. 27.—The enemy is in force ou our left. There is heavy cannonading in that di rection this evening. Nashville files of the 2.3 th received. Wheeler destroyed tho railroad fifteen miles east side of Athens, Tenn. Hi* iorco is said to be 5,000 cavalry* with 10 pieces of artillery. > The Cincinnati correspondent of th* Chicago Times states that all the Kentucky delegates to tb* ; Chicago Convention have been elected, with in- i struetious i<» vote for Seymour of Connecticut for ; President. *» The Cincinnati Gazette's Chattanooga corres- j pendent of trie 24th says neither G*n. Steadman ; nor Col. Straight were injured at Dalton. Tlie liOve of Country. Breathes there a man with soul so dead, Who never to biinseif hath said, “This is my owd, my native land ?" Whose heart has ne’er within him burned, As home his footstep ho hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand? If such there broatho, go mark him well: For him, no minstrel raptures swell: High though his titles, power or pelf, The wretch, concentrated all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whencehojsprung, Cuwept. unlumored. and unsung. ; Walter Scon. Comp.vrisoks.—Describing his heroine, a writer says, that she possessed, in u great de gree, the strawberry of modesty aud the hot corn of affection. Poetry is the flower of literature: prose is the corn, potatoes and meal; satire is the aquafortis ; wit is the spice and pepper; love letters are the honey and sugar; lettors containing remittances are apple dumplings. An apothecary’s clerk in Chicago was called up at two o’clock the other morning by tlie ringing of the night bell. On opening the door he found a damsel, who told him she was going lo a pic rue that morning, and was out of rouge. The impudent druggist turned her off with the assurance that he hadn’t the stock to cover-a face like hers. Exhuming Musket* and Lead.— For about live weeks past, the Confeder ates in the vicinity of Fredericksburg, consisting mainly of engineers, have been mining. The first day they started this enterprise they struck a paying vein, and have worked it energetically ever since. It seems that a number of neatly arrang ed graves attracted their attention, and, upon examining the head boards, it was found that they were all in commemora tion of “officers.” The proportion of officers to men slumbering upon that par-, ticular field, awakened suspicion, and the Confederates thought they would try a resurrection experiment. The result was they discovered underneath the sod so sacred, numerous boxes of muskets, lead, and other materials of war. They ex tended their labors, and have succeeded in exhuming several thousand excellent weapons and a very large quantity of lead, all of which have boon sent to Richmond. -—Rich. Enq. A correspondent of the Knoxville Iteg i.rier (recently removed from Atlanta to Charlotte, N. C.,) relates the following oc currence in Knoxville, illustrative of the beauties of Yankee rule and negro equal-, it j in the metropolis of East Tennessee : A Mrs. Snapp, the wife of Mr. Samuel Snapp, formerly of Sullivan county, (the same man who was held for a long time as a Federal spy,) from her window saw a burly negro making improper advances to her daughter, a young lady of seventeen years of age. She immediately seized a pistoi and ran out and shot the gentleman of African descent dead in his tracks— for this the mother was at once incarcera ted along with Tom Nelson, a notorious abolition blackguard —as one account has it, to save her from the violence of the negro soldiers; and according to another account to await a trial for murder. Com ment on this sort of a scone is of course unnecessary in a paper published in a country where such a thing] can never occur, 8 because of the proper subording, tion of the negro race. Malaria. —The peculiar poison of malari ous regions tends downward—it hugs the earth; the wind may carry it up and over a hill a thousand feet high, but yet the poison will rarely exist to a hurtful extent beyond a very limited distance from the ground. The importance of even so slight an elevation as fifteen feet was strikingly illustrated in a yel low fever district of the West Indies. It Was ascertained bv scientific investigators that there was three times as much sickness in the first story of dwellings as there was in the second. In another locality of the same re gion, it was found that the air within six feet ot the level of a marsh, was so pestiferous, that a few moments exposure to it at night was almost certain to produce a fatal attack of yellow fever: but an elevation of three hundred feet on the side of a hill close by, a night exposure merely caused a remittent fever—a mild form of the other, very rarely fatal; while the same amount of exposure two hnndr.ed feet high produced scarcely any ill effects. Iu yet another locality, it was ob served that, when the wind blew strongly in a certain direction, it was dangerouSTo occupy a ground floor iu the valley loftily situated between two hills. IIWUMJL JLULUI-——l■■ ■ ■■■! ■II I I ■ ■! !■»■■ ■ TBirMB^MflTTl OBITUARY. Died, after a brief illness, in the sixty-fourth year of his age. on the 21st inat., at Ins residence m Rus sell county. Alt.., Major James Wsioht. The architect of Lis ewn fortune, the subject of this notice possessed many of the attributes of the loftiest of human character. A man of largo means, his groat charity enabled him to dispense unnum bered blessings to the poor and afflicted, ilia ohar ities were unostentatious—his left hand not know ing the charitable functions of the right. Amiable in character, lofty ir. his aspirations to do good among his fellow-men, just, firm, and decided in all his actions; ardent, devoted, and untiring in his efforts in the cause of liberty for wki eh his ceuntrv is struggling, this most excellent man quietly ana serenely quit this mundane sphere, for a better and happier land "where the weary are at rest, and the wicked ceano to trouble.” The writer of this brief notice had not long enjoyed the ac'juU. stance and friendship of the dec<?*» ed, out never m tho course of hie life, had he met a man more worthy of esteem and regard, and pc-fecesing more eminently the elements of (character which go to naako.up the man indeed. NWeyeball he for get tl.u£i«l tltualic boLeldtLcuc.cased, whenui iu* act oi profetffc ki ' *•«, north* last, when a.’ ex !>re«3loi' /ffCHti Me -ho: .> ; -l C . <r *SV . Wf. the-Koeei«t# u • *•»: 1 •.»•*■ :Io;. r•• hi- >ueJJi'■'/ *a 1 pea f« fa.- --sue-. ■ 4 ■'■■■ - A iKiSHO. I TITY matte,hs. j T. J. JACKSON, ...LOCAL EDITOR Funeral Notice. ! The friend* and acquaintances of the Rev W j N. IlawEs era invited to attend th* funeral of hi* ! sister, Mia# Susan A. Hawk?, trow Trinity church j this afternoon at 4 o’clock. _^ (!< * i Tkh Amy Argus asd Crisis.— Mr. R. r, . Jones, news dealer on Broad gtreot, will act «, j Agent for the above named paper, and i3 authori | zed to receive and receipt for subscriptions. 3«ae | copies of the same paper may be bad at his store ' ft few days after publication. Iq consequence of important errors w* rejmbliah j the following: ; Life’s Fitful Fjsvmr O’er.—The following 1 brief record of a family who have all passed from ’ earth in the short space of six months, is but th* history of the race in a nut shell. Generations ; coiuo and go in quick succession, and even th* j memory of th* dead is soon forgotten. Yet, with ; this certainty in view we behold man rushing for ward in the mad parsuit of unsubstantial good,— Seemingly unconscious of tbo brevity of life, it# , transient glories, and the final overthrow and ex tinguiihraont of bis fondest dreams by tho groat leveler, Death. Charles W. Stewart died in this city Jau. 40th, ISJ4, aged 30 years, Emma A. Stewart died March 10th. 1804. aged 2 years and 9 months. Sallie C. Stewart, wife of C. W. Stewart and daughter of A. D. Brown of this city, died in Clark county. Ala., Juno 23th, 1564, aged 28 years. Belle Flournoy Stewart, died in Clark county, Ala., July 3cl, 1884, aged 1 year. Thus have the whole of them’gone, we trust t* bo reunited in a brighter, happier state, where th* “wicked cease from troubling and tho weary ar* at rest." Life ever a doubtful boon, is now less inviting than ever before. To sleep in Jesus ii to sleep well. Who would recall thorn from that blest estate. Losses ix Columbus Arvillkay, dories; the fight with Kilpatrick’s raiders at Jonesboro, 19th inst. Killed—Corpl A F Knight. Wounded—Privts Jesse Brown, severely: Alien McDaniel, dangerously: Fayette Bullard and Wra Wallace, .slightly. Captured—Privts C C MoDaniel. W N McLain, II P Fisher, W J Miewell and Geo. Padgett. It is believed they have all escaped with one exception. ALFRED I. YOUNG. Ist Lt. Comd’g Battery. (AUCTION SALES, |By ESIIi*, laiviiig’sloii Sk Cos ON Tuesday, 30$h of August, at 10 o'clock, w« will sell in front of our Auction /fooin A Very Desi ruble Let oi’ FINE PARLOR FURNITURE! ALL OF WHICH IS NEARLY NEW. We name ia part: Fine Mahogany Sofa, i What>.Not, Ingrain Carpet and llug, Mar ; blc-top Bureau, Wardrobe, Brass and Iron Fire Screens, Window Shades, Card Ta ■ ble, Pictures, Fine Mahogany Parlor i Chairs, Crockery and China-Ware, Cut | Glass G-oblcta j OSE VERY FIVE GVITAH I One Sett Blacksmith’s To©ls J ONE LARGE SUGAR KETTLE» j ag29 2t sl2 By Ellis, Uvirfgston & t o PEREMPTORY SALE 1 . 0 ON TUESDAY, 30th of August, at 10 o’clock, vre will sell in front of our store, ! n Bbls. VERY SUPERIOR WHISKY \ j TO PAY CHARGES AND ADVANCES, 1 ag29 2t $6 ! By Ellis, Livingston A€•», —. 8 ■ ■ j AN TUESDAY, 30th August, at lOo’cioc-k, we will : V sell in front of our store, A good 2 horse Wagon, 2 Setts Fine Double Harness, 2 Setts Fine. Single Harness, . 1 Man's Saddle, i 10 bbls fine Whiskey, ! 1 case Smoking Tobacco, X*ot IPurnitun’o, —ALSO, — A likely Negro Woman, 23 years old, I good field hand, cook, Ac., : A fine Harness Horse, kind and gentle, One bbl fine Apple Brandy, j Aug. 27 td-#lB Through to Montgomery NEW SCHEDULE, j Montgomery anil West Point Rail Roat Company. COLUMBUS, A ugast 27,1804. ON and after August 27th. the Passenger Train oa the Montgomery and Wc s t Point Railroad will Leave Montgomery at 8:00 a. no. Leave West Point »t 7:10 a.m. Arrivo at 6\>lumbus at 5:32 p. m. Leave Cblumbus at 5:50 a. m. Arrive at Montgomery at 3:00 p.m. Arrive at West Potnt at 4130 p.m. • Freight Train leaves Columbus at 8:40 am. Arrive* at 8:27 p m I). 11. CRAM. Sup’t i Eng: t Ug27lßßi—lf m MHIW GOODS!!! GOODRICH Sc CO.. BROAD STREET. j A KK now opening a Splendid Assortment of jIUN nil EM IF MR FRESH FROM EUROPE' via Bermuda, which I they will sell cheap ror. case. aug27—lm WANTED! U<t, Bi-oad. street. COLUMBUS.. CEO 25 Barrels Vinegar; I 25 “ Soft Soap; I* 500 Pounds Good Tallow; 500 “ Beeswax; * | 50 Bushels Irish Potatoes, and othei I Country Produce, for whioh the New I»- I sue will be paid or SALT, SODA, SU GAR, <£c., will be given. aug£o dst w2t f I'His Exercises of this Institution will begin <o» j 1 Tuesday, the 29,h September. Tbe Presidan Rev. T. A. Brown is a gentleman of finished rduea i lion, and long experienced in teaching. H* 1 have associated with him a complete and able hearo oflnstnactios. Mrs. James Callier, who has char** i of the Boarding Department, can accommodate * large number of yor.ng ladies. , „ , ; Board pr month, including washing huJ laal, _ ’ if paid in provisions at old prices,. S ijj J*. *- *’ present prices, 100 W 14 * 4 Osjih fxteir i?sUo,]e 100 0» i Pupils famish Ipr Sheets; 1 pr Pillow Oa*es: > i Bolster Case, and such covering as they derire.- : iioom can make their own arrangements ** ! to combs, brushea, towels, lights, ; Tuition pc:- Term, Priaiiiry Department “ “ Preparatory “ 4o “ “ Collegiate " 80 00 " Musical “ 00 -0 C.-e .J'lr.slrucre. ra per Term, 3 00 Ipei lont-M U\pe:i9f- ** ** 1 W fv fu • iti >i w .-a ri ;r .sl,*v. T. t „ ... p. V. ( •».'• n. ,i. . H. VViR' lj !•, tn - Chin nß ,a * 5 *•