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COLUMBUS TIMES
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paid in advance.
Change oJ* Schedule.
OvriCK EsnixßKa and Scpebintiwdint, )
Charleston and Savannah Railroad, >
Charleston, June 7,1864.)
rmr?z?szrr, i jJUaKSgSBTI
f IN THURSDAY, June 0,1864, and until further
notice, the Schedule of the Passenger train will
Peas follow, viz:
Leave Charleston 9.45, a. in.
Arrive in Savannah .5.40, p. m.
Leave Savannah ; 5.30, a. m.
Arrive in Charleston 1.15, p. m.
This Train makes direct connections, going north
and south, with the Northeastern Railroad at Char
leston, and the Central Pvailroad at the Junction.
, . . H. S. HAINES,
June 14 ts Engineer and Superintendent.
Change of Schedule.
ON and < after Sunday, Juno 19th, the Trains orr
the 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. iL.
FREIGHT TRAIN:
Leave Columbus 5 00 A. M
Arrive at Columbus 4 55 A. M.
W.L. CLARK,
mar 10 tl Supt. Muscogee R, Jt.
Through to Montgomery.
NEW SCHEDULE.
MONTOOMERY & WEST POINT
RAILROAD COMPANY.
COLUMBUS, August 27,1864.
ON and after August 27th. the Passenger Train on
the Montgomery and West Point Railroad will
Leave Montgomery at 8:00 a. m.
Leave West Point at 7:10 a. m.
Arrive at Columbus at 5:32 p. m.
Leave Columbus 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.
Arrives at 8:27 p m
I). H. CRAM, Sup’t & Eng.
ag‘27lß64—tf
MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD.
< of scHEei LG.
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 , T .....3 00 p. ui.
Arrive in Union Springs (....7 30
Leave Union Springs 5 35 a. m.
Arrive in Girard at 10 00 “
Freight Train.
s
Leave Girard at 4 (X) a. m.
Arrive in Girard at 6 00 p. in.
B. E. WELLS.
aglß ts Eng. <S^Sttp’t.
BROWN’S FLY SHUTTLE LOOM,
(Will Weave 30 Yards per Day.)
Card. BaohLs,
SPINNING-WHEELS and (IORN-SHELLEKS!
Manufactured by A. D. BROWN & CO.
ASfir-Orders received by M. P. Ellis & Co."<£44
agl3lm*
THOMAS SAVAGE, AjSfent, |
(At Mulford’s old. Stand,)
asro- 101, broad st. I
IAH t'Oll HALE OR EXCHANGE
Sheeting**, SUirtiugx.
Ttvills, Yarns, Lisiseyw,
Tobacco, lltict*.
Vails of all sixes,
&c., Ate.. &.<;•
jul'27tt
STEAM SAW MILL
FOR SAX.EI!
[OFFER my MILL for sale, situated in a dense- j
ly covered forest of pine, oak, hickory, beech, j
poplar and other swamp timbers, immediately on |
Mobile and Girard Rail Road, between Stations -1 j
and 5, and only 30 miles from Columbus, Ga. Said j
Mill is under contract with the Confederate States ;
Government, for the refusal of all Lumber cut
during the war, at iv. -uueratiug prices, which con
tract, partie> purchasing would be required to car
ry out.
The Mill 5* i» Splendid Stun
ning Order, and
of FORT Y-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 me at Guerryton, Ala,, or apply to me in
person on the premises, or at this oftieo.
• G. W. OGLESBY.
a ug24 2\v • . :
«TFH LB \G E XCHAiTGE!
. FEW Hundred Pounds of Sterling Exchange
A to »k in«»u.
Harm ** Made A Repaired.
r pHE undersigned will Manufacture and Repair all
1 Kinds of Harness. t - ULS()M & CODY,
•j 2 W Under Cookes Hotel.
RUNAWAY!
V EG HO boy CHARLEY : about 25 years old, yel
i\ low complexion, hair nearly straight, below or
tinnrv intelligence : left Afr. Nat. Thompson s near
Box Spring*, f'tltot county. . I .bought him of a
Mr Brown, a refuges from Mississippi, who now
resides in Tuskegee. Ala. He originally came from
Charleston. S. C. A suitable reward will be paid
for his delivery at this office, or m any safe jail and
information sent to me at Uns { office. RUSgELL
Columbu's 0n.., aug 1 ts *
Ri:nov\r r
i 11 AV K removed my Office to a room over Gun
-1 by’s Store, where 1 "'ill be pleased to wait on
Patients requiring Medical
#.lO Reward.
i will 1,-iv the above reward for 808, a black
boy about years old. Ho ha* been out three
or four week*, uii.i >»
he city.
Xotii v to Debtors ami * reil*
itors.
. l 1 neisons indebted to the estate of Seaborn
A l 0D e« deceased, are required to make imme
diate payment. and those havins claims against said
estate are required to render them m terms ot the
l» w t 0 the una sfiSoßX J. BENS ING, Adiu'r.
By M ARY 11. PENNING, Agent.
Shoemakers’ and Saddlers*
tools.
t u ■ jj£j»sgffiSJ!&nsHSfi :&
Mobfle Register, Mississippian and Augusta Con
stiffionaSf p&“c”py one month and send bills
to this office.
mar 30 ts
MU PM 4 HillMß
¥noß SALE l
retail. 75 ct*. wholesale. Apply OFFICE.
County.
WHEREAS. Ur*. Mary V. DadS. admjx of Hr.
M George S. Davis, dee'd has filed her ‘
leave to sell a negro woman by the name ot aiai.a,
about 25 years ot age and her four children.
All persons concerned arc lieypoy notified to snow
cause, (if any they have) why an order snottld mu.
be granted at the next September Term yftho Court
of Ordinary lor said county, authorizing the sale of
said negro.
Given under my baud. .1 ulv Ist. 64.
\ryo. Johnson.
jy 4 2m Ordinary.
(h)luinlm.s floes.
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Vol. XI.
J. XV. WARBEN & CO. Proprietors j. W. W ARREN, Editor
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 cents 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 leans.
I am prepared to sell the 6 per cent Coupon or
Registered Bonds of the $503,000,000 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 are 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 the Gov
ernment, and I recommend them to the favorable
notice of the public.
W. H. YOUNG,
augl lm - Depositary.
Battle-Field Relief Association
of Columbus, Ga.
All who are disposed to contribute articles neces
sary for the relief of the sick and wounded in the
Army of Tennessee, are requested to leave them at
Goodrich Sc Co’s store by Oke O’clock, P. M. ev
ery Tuesday and Friday, when they wilL bo for
warded to anddispensed by our Committee there.
W. H. YOUNG, Presd’t.
C. G. Holmes, See’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 the information of all concerned :
“No more permits or protection will be given by
the Secretary of War to corporations o private par
ties, except upon condition that they buy at Gov
ernment rates; and all further purchases made by*
parties now holding sucb permits'or protections are
required to be made on the sama terrifs. Thus, it is
hoped, speculation in the necessaries of life will be
diminished, prices reduced and some of the difficul
ties under which he have heretofore labored re
moved.
.J. L. LOCKE.
ag26 lw - Ma.i. and Chief Com’y.
Stockholders’ flee ling.
Muscogee Rail Road Company,
Columbus, Ga., Aug. 22,1864.
The Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of this
Company will be held at the Depot in this city, on
Monday, the sth September next, at 10 o’clock,.
a. in. -J. M. BIVINS.
ag23 td Sec’y and Treas’r.
m GOODS!! 1W GOODS!!!
GOODRICH CO.,
BROAD STREET,
RE now opening a .splendid assortment of
STAPLE till run Rf MIR
FRESH FROM EUROPE 4 via Bermuda, which
they will sell cheap for cash. aug27— lm
R EBl*i RTEJD!
CONFEDERATE STATES ARSEXAI,,
Columbus, Ga., Aug. 30, ’(54.
The following employees of this Arsenal, haring
absented :hem?elves from work without leave, are
hereby published as deserters '■
‘ WM. MlLLEß—Conscript—Blacksmith by trade;
aged 31; 5 feet 11 inches high: florid complexion:
black eyes; black hair.
11 It HAYES—Conscript—Tinner by trade; aged
30; 5 feet 6 inches high; dark complexion; dark
eyas; dark hair.
P II THORNTON—Soldier—Moulder by trade
detailed from Company E, 12th Ga. Regiment.
M. 11. WRIGHT,
ag3l lw Colonel CV>md’g._
SI,OOO Reward.
\ CHUNKY, heavy set, black boy by the name
A of WILLIAM, about 24 years old, left Colum
bus on Sunday morning last. I am confident he
was takon off by some white man. I will pay the
above reward for the negro and thief, with evi
dence to convict, or 1 will pay two hundred and
fifty dollars for theaegro delivered to me in Colum
bus. The boy came from Virginia about two years
ago, and says lie is a sailor. I think they left Co
lumbus on foot and took the train at some station
close by. J. 11. BASS,
sepl-tf.
p. S. —1 learn, since the above was written, that
the boy lett Columbus on the Opelika train, on
Sunday morning, in company with a small white
man that limped, and that they were going to West
Point. J.H. B.
MOTIOE.
To Planters and Olliers !
r WILL EXCHANGE Osnaburgs, Sheeting and
1 Yarns, for Bacon, Lard, Tallow and Beeswax. I
will be found at Robinett & Cb’s old stand, where I
am manufacturing Candle? and Lard Oil for sale.
L. S. WEIGHT.
june 2 tl »
Goufederate Knive* and
Fov k * •
W E are manufacturing at our Works in this city
YV a good article of KNIVES AND FORKS in
large quantities, which we offer to the public low
for CASH.
—ALSO—
Sliof Makers and Saddlers Toqjs,
of every description. Xkoe Peg?, Steel Trusses,
Spatulas, Butcher Knives, &e., &e.
The attention of Quartermasters. Uotnraissaries,
and Medical Purveyors, throughout the Confeder
acy is specially invited to the above with whom we
desire to make contracts.
REFERENCES:
Major F. W. Dillard, Columbus, Ga.
Surgeon Vs. H. Prioleau, Macon, Ga.
Surgeon R. Potts, Montgomery, Aia.
HARRISON, BEDELL k CO.
Columbus, Ga„ September 1,1864.
Mobile Register, Augusta Constitutionalist, and
Charleston Courier please copy one month and send
bal to this office.
FOR SALE!
i GOOD Saddle and Harness Ilorse.
Apply to
R. B. MURDOCH,
sep 2-ts _ or, at this office.
\«fice to Debtor* and Cred
itor*.
VOTIVE is hereby given to all persons having
i\ demands against Samuel McClary, late of Mus
cogee countv, deceased, to present them to either of
us, properlv made out. within the time prescribed
by law. All persons indebted to said deceased are
hereby required to make immediate payment to,
either of the undersigned. __ , _ .
H CRAWFORD. Admr
MARIA E McCLARY, Adrnt x
agol wfit* .
lEV'EBT Mill tOItEBE!
r pHE Exercises of this Institution will begin on
*• TuCsdav. the 20th September. The President,
Rev. T. A. Brown is a gentleman of finished educa
tion, and loDg experienced in teaching. He will
have associated with hiiu a complete and able Board
of Instruction. Mrs. James Callier. who has chars?
of the Boarding Department, can accommodate a
large uumber of young ladies.
Board pr month, including fuel, . 1A
if paid in provisions at old prices,.... *lO 00
** *• present prices, 100 00
** “ Cash r new issue,] 100 00
Pupils furnish 1 pr Sheets: .1 pr Pillow Cases: 1
Bolster Case, and such covering as they desire.—
Room mates can make their own arrangements as
to combs, brushes, towels, lights. Ae.
Tuition ner Term, Primary Dep rtmoct »9 O 0
•• ‘ •• '• Preparatory ' » JJJ
•* *’ Collegiate ' CJ 22
>• •* “ Musical *’ *>2®
Use »*f I r.strumoots (Mr Term, > ®
iD For l ihrth« : address Rev. f, A. brown,
or the underlined at
ago'- 2w Churn B'rd TrV
Columbus, Ga. Monday Morning, September 5,1864.
Saturday Evening.
Funeral Notice.
The friends and acquaintances of Mr. Thomas
Saunders and family are invited to attend the fu
neral of hie son, John R. Saunders, at 4 o’clock
this afternoon at St. Luke’s church.
Funeral Notice.
The funeral services of the Rev. Mr. Stickney’s
infant son, Ai.bikt Massey, were postponed in
consequence of bad weather, until K X A o’clock, this
afternoon: -at which time they will be held at Trin
ity Church. Fiends and acquaintances are invited
to attend.
mm • «
Mr. Edward A. Holland, one of the editors of
the Richmond Examiner, captured on the .stea
mer Greyhound, has been released from Fort
Warren. It is said tltat he ha3 been exchanged.
He is now on parole and allowed to wander
as he pleftses in New York and Brooklyn. -
The Georgia Front.
For the past forty-eight hours the enemy
have been seeking to occupy the Macon and
Western Railroad at Jonesboro. They are
within three quarters of a mile of the track
and their minnie balls enter the village, but a
array of veterans is interposed between
it and the enemy. Against our lines the ene
my have kept up an almost continuous fire of
musketry and artillery for the last two days,
and the latter has been heard distinctly from
all the highlands around Macon.
It was very heavy all yesterday morning
from 4 o’clock till noon. Two attempts have
been made to tear up the railway above and
below Jonesboro’; but both were attended
with little or no success.
Some, however, say that the enemy hold the
road above Jonesboro’, but we doubt it.—
The fighting on Wednesday was attended with
no important results. From that of yester
day we have heard nothing at present writing.
[Macon Telegraph , 2d.
Beknett and Prentice.— These two leaders of
Yankee journalism have got to loggerheads, (says
the jßichmond Dispatch,) and are abusing each
other without stint. No two fish women every plied
each other with more unsavory epithets. Bennett
calls Prentice a whiskey battle, and Prentice says
Bennett has had so much leather worn out upon
him in booting and cowhiding that he is acquainted
with every kind of leather, and that his hide is fit
for nothing but tanning. A fine exhibition they
are making before the world of the dignity and
decency of the United States press. What will the
barbarous people of Europe think of such a set-to
between the leading organs of the intelligence and
virtue of “the most enlightened and virtuous peo
ple on the face of the earth!” Is there not danger
that they will think them a nation of imposters and
blackguards? No doubt each has spoken the truth
of the other, but then to speak the truth in such lan
guage is beneath the dignity of Heaven-born Amer
ican freemen. It shocks us to think of it.
Proclamation’ from Gov. Vance. —The
Governor of North Carolina has issued a pro
clamation calling the attention of deserters to
General Order, from General Lee. promising
to deal . leniently with all absentees who
promptly return to duty. The Governor warns
all deserters in that State who refuse to com
ply with the terms proposed by Gen. Lee—
“ That the utmost power of the State will be
exerted to capture them or ilri-ve them frtrni
the borders of a country whose high honor
and spotless renown they disgrace by refusing
to defend, and that the extremest penalties of
the law will be enforced without exception
when caught, as well as against their aiders
and abetters in the civil courts. Simultaneous
ly with this proclamation orders will issue
to the entire militia of the State to turn out
for their arrest, and hope, by timely submis
sion, they will spare me the pains of hunting
down like guilty felons many brave and mis
guided men, who have served their country
well, and could do so again. Deserters from
other States who hide in our woods and assist
the erring in giving our State a bad name, I
can do nothing for ; but to the erring soldiers
of North Carolina \ confidently appeal. And
I earnestly call on all good citizens to assist
me in making this appeal effectual, both by
their exertions as. militia soldiers and their
influence as men, to take pains to seek out all
deserters of their acquaintance, put the pro
clamation in their hand, or in the handsgpf
their relatives and friends,- and urge upon
them to return to she path of duty, which
also the path of safety and of honor.”
A Not for “the Best Hopes of Civiliza
tion” to Crack. —Our Yankee opponents have
ingeniously contrived and used balls to ex
plode inside of the wounds inflicted, so that
Confederate soldiers (as the enemies of civili
zation—not, of course, a3 those of Yankee
monopoly) may be not merely disabled in bat
tle, but destroyed or incurably mutilated.
In a view purely utilitarian, military calcu
lations have actually held that more damage
was inflicted on the enemy by so wounding a
man that unhurt comrades must leave the
fight to care for him, than by making an end
of him at once. Perhaps our enemies have
forgotten the point of economy.
On the questions involved, of morality and
chivalry, in such practices, we invite attention
to the opinions of Generals Howe and Wash
ington, quoted in chap. 53, vol. 6 of the Bos
ton edition of Lord Mahon’s History of Eng
land, The British commander addresses the
as follows:
‘•ln the lines which the Americans Jest on
this occasion were found some hostile imple
ments, such as the common consent of nations
has declared unworthy of civilized or Chris
tian warfare. The common men, it seems, or
the inferior officers, had used them without
the sanction of their chiefs. On this subject
General Howe wrote as follows to Gen. Wash
ington : for by this time, notwithstanding the
punctilio of rank, a correspondence had arisen
between fheni for the exchange of prisoners :
•My aid-de-camp will present to you a ball
cut and fixed to the end of a nail, taken trom
a number of the same kind found in the
encampment quitted by your troops on the
15th, Ido not make auy comment upon such
unwarrantable and malicious practices, being
well assured the contrivance has not come
t to your knowledge.’ Washington promptly
replied: The ball you mention, delivered to
me by your aid-de-camp, was the first of the
kind I ever saw or heard of. You may depend
upon it the contrivance is highly abhorred by
me. and every measure shall be taken to pre
vent so wicked and infamous a practice being
adopted in this army. ”
[Richmond Whio.
um •
Au exchange says gold represent* Democ
racy and greenbacks Republicanism—the one
goes up and the other down. Either, the
former never changes, while the latter will
soon be on, of sight.
I; is said that the gam of tae poach tree,
disoived in water, is superior to the Gum
Arabic for pas Hag envelopes, &o.
AndersonviHe.
A photograph of this place, where between
thirty and forty thousand Yankees are penned
up, ought to be made and preserved. Such a
picture was never before seen on earth, and
we trnst never will be again. Those who
have visted Andersonville will declare that
the spectacle surpasses description.
Four of the prisoners have been permitted
to visit Washington for the purpose of en
lightening Lincoln in regard to the sufferings
of their fellow-prisoners. Their account ex
tracted from the Herald, will be found in an
other column. If the half of what they report
be true, the people of the North ought to force
Lincoln to an exchange of prisoners without
an instant’s delay. Else they are as heartless
as Lincoln himself.
The blame of this appalling misery rfests on
the Abolition administration, and partly, too,
on the people generally of the North. It was
within the power of the people at any time to
have compelled an exchange, but they lent
themselves to the pursuations of Lincoln, who
represented that he had 50,000 Confederate
prisoners, and that, as be was about to deliver
a last crushing blow at the rebellion, it would
be manifestly improper to yield to our earnest
entreaties for an exchange, on almoet any
terms, for by so doing, he would add 50,000
men to our armies, and defeat all the popu
lar hopes of suppressing the rebellion and re
storing the Union. The case of the negro
soldier was a mere pretence—the real obsta
cle to an exchange wa3 the return of so for
midable body of men to the Confederate arm
ies, This it was which hushed up the hue
and cry over the horrors of Belle Isle, which
reverberated in all YankeedOm last spring. The
Northern people, therefore, are not wholely
guiltless; but the damning burthen rests
mainly on the Abolitionists and thsir admin
istration. All the agonies endured by these
prisoners, all the bodily deaths and all the
souls sent untimely to hell, lie at the door of
Lincoln and Seward.
Exchanges are still refused, in spite of fresh
concersions on our part —plainly for the rea
son that the terms of service of most of the
prisoners have expired ; they are useless as
soldiers, and they will be sure to vote against
the brute who left them in prison so long.—
All the world sees this, and appreciates the
causes which constrained the authorities at
Richmond to confine so many men in one en
closure, where a few men could guard them,
and where provisions were abundant and there
was little danger of raids. Indeed, the Con
federates used no excuse. It was simply im
possible for them, in view of the scarcity of
food, the raids upon the railroads, and the
pressure for men to resist the huge hordes of
the barbarous foe,- to have distributed the
prisoners in various States and guarded them
with a multitude of men. We have done the
best we could, and all we could ; in the eyes
of God and man we are blameless. —Richmond
Whig.
.Yortliern Item*.
The New York Times contradicts the report
that an official demand had been made upon the
English Government for the surrender of Captain
Se mines.
A dispatch from Indianapolis, state? that as the
time for the draft approaches, people are becom
ing more excited; and there is great demand for
substitutes of any and all colors.
General Brayman has confiscated the Catholic
Cathedral at Natchez and banished the Bishop to
Louisiana. This act caused, intense excitement
among the old settlers.
The vrar in the West with the Indians contin
ues to grow in interest and magnitude. The in
habitants of the country infested are promiscuous
ly murdered, and the citizen troops are put to vast
amount of trouble, for which they get nothing in
return. Fort Kearney, Denver and other places in
the Kansas and Nebraska Department, are points
of rendezvous for Federal citizen forces, while all
between them the savages run riot.
All the able bodied negroes in the District of
Columbia are to be organized into military com
panies. ■
*Clerks in the Department are resigning on ac
count of low salaries.
An Illinois soldier at Vicksburg describes the
country there »S made with an eye to economy—
the ground being set on edge, so that both sides
might be cultivated.
Mr. John Mullaly, editor of a weekly paper in
New York called the Metropolitan Record, has been
arrested by the United States Deputy Marshall
Pee, on a warrant issued by commissioner Os
borne. The warrant of arrest was issued on the
affidavit of United States District Attorney Smith,
which warrant sets forth that the said Mullaly, in
issue of the Metrapolitan Record, of the fitli of
August last, caused to be printed, issued and pub
lished an article entitled “The Coming Draft” and
another article in which fie counsels one Seymour
and other persons to resist the draft ordered by the
President of the United States, to take place in
September next. His examination was postponed
and he was held to bail in the sum of $2,500.
Exchange of Prisoners. —The correspon
dent of the New York Herald writes from
Fortress Monroe:
The exchange of prisoners, under the man
agement of Major J. E. Mulford, Assistant
Commissioner of Exchange, deputy to Major
Gen. Butler, is again in a fair way of being
successfully resumed. Great hopes are enter
tained that a fair and honorable cartel will
now be agreed upon between our Government
and Col. Robt. Ould,for the general exchange
of prisoners. The suffering among our offi
cers and men confined in Georgia and South
Carolina dungeonsiis described as perfectly
horrible*, and is even worse than prison
or Castle Thunder. ; In the name of suffering
humanity let our Government do all in its
power- to release our men from a living death.
The rebels seem to be willing fb exchange,
and certainly we should not be so very punc
tilious on the subject.
Gen. Scott’s Mother. —ln the opening para
graph of his autobiography, which i3 now in
press, Gen . Scot pays the following beautiful
tribute to hi3 mother. He says:
According to the family Bible, I was bora Juue
13, 1789, on the farm which I inherited, some 14
miles from Petersburg, Virginia. My parents,
William Scott and Ann Mason, beth natives of the
same neighborhood, intermarried in 1730. In my
sixth year I lost ay father, a gallant lieutenant,
captain in the revolutionary army, and a success
ful farmer. Happily, my dear mother was spared
to me eleven years longer, and if, in my protraeted
career, I have achieve I anything worthy of being
written, anything that my countrymen are likely
to honor in the next century, it is from the lessons
of that admirable parent that I derived the inspi
ration.
In the House of Lords, a few days ago, Lord
Brougham predicted that events would take
place in America, within two months, which
would make it expedient, and therefore desi
rable, that the Government should interfere;
and if the British public puts faith in the let
ters of Mr. Mackav. at Mew York. Mr. Lawlay,
at Richmond, and Mr. Se's. wherever he may
happen to be. the general opinion cannot dif
fer much from that expressed i p Lord Broug
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The Emperor Napoleon ordered the re
served portions ox the park to be tar-own cnen
to the public, and walked about for ac-me time
among the crowd, leadinglheJPrince Imperial
by the hand.
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A Convention or all tbe States.
The Yankee papers are agog with this idea.
The matter is effectually set at rest by the
Charleston Mercury—thus :
We think it perfectly plain, that the Demo
cratic, or Peace Party of the United States,
will lay down at the Chicago Convention as
one of the planks in their Platform, the as
sembling of the Confederate and the United
States together iff a convention to reconstruct
a union between them. It is, therefore, time
for the people of the Confederate States to
consider gravely the proposition.
Our Yankee foes have made war upon us
on the ground that the Confederate States are
not States. They have not a particle of sov
ereignty, but are mere districts or counties ot
a great consolidated nation, called the United
States. Os course, they will sec or recoguize
no independence in these States. They will
act as if they are still a part of their great
and consolidated nation; and proposing to
receive them into consultation, they will take
it for granted that that rebellious agency at
Richmond is quite competent to bring them
in. If they have, read the Constitution of the
Confederate States they will naturally infer
that it cannot be'more sacred than their own
Constitution of the United States, which is
only a piece of dirty rotten paper, respected
or observed by nobody. Hence they talk flip
pantly of making a treaty or agreement with
the Confederate Government at Richmond, by
which all the Confederate * States are to be
brought into a convention with them.
Now, it is well for our Yankee foes, as well
as our Government at Richmond, to under
stand that the Constitution of the Confeder
ate States confers no power whatever on their
agency at Richmond, to put any of them into
a convention with any foreign States what
ever. There is but one kind of convention
which it can convoke, and but for one pur
pose—and that is, a Convention of the Con
federate States to amend their Constitution. —
The Constitution says: “Upon the demand
of any three States legally assembled in their
several Conventions, the Congress shall sum
mon a Convention of all the States, to take
into consideration such amendments to the
Constitution as the said States shall concur
in suggesting at the time the said demand is
made, and should any of the proposed amend
ments to the Constitution be agreed on by
said Convention —voting by States—and the
same be ratified by the Legislatures of two
thirds of the several States, or by Conventions
in two thirds thereof—as the one or the other
mode of ratification maybe proposed by the
General Convention—they shall thenceforward
form a part of this Constitution.'
But it may be said—that by the Confederate
States Constitution, the President has the power,
“by and with the advice and consent of the Sen
ate,’’ to make treaties: and if the President makes
a treaty by and with the advice aud consent of
the Senate, providing that the Confederate States
shall go into a Convention with the States of the
United States, to alter and amend their Constitu
tion—are not the Confederate States bound to go
into the Convention? We answer, no! The Con
federate States separate are sovereignties. They
have agreed with each other that the Congress of
the Confederate States may summon them to go
into convention with each other, for one purpose—
and one only. They have agreed with each other,
that their compact of Confederation between them
shall he altered or amended in one way, and in
one way only. To break this compact, and at
tempt to alter or amend it, in auy other way, is a
clear breach of faith. The Confederate agency
may treat with foreign nations concerning auy of
the powers the Constitution confers upon It. It
can make a treaty with foreign nations regulating
the commerce betweeu them, or stipulating terras
of assistance for offence or defence against other
nations, or for the mutual rendition of criminals,
or for abolishing privateering on the high seas.—
These are matters over which, by the Constitution,
it has control. But it has'no control over the ac
tion of the sovereign States, beyond the limited
grant in the Constitution; and can no more order
them into a convention with a foreign nation than
it can extinguish them as sovereignties. ' It is en
trusted with the conduct of our foreign affairs; but
lias no power whatever to convoke the States to
settle them by altering their Constitution. This
would be an usurpation, not relating to our foreign
affairs only, but to our internal affairs in the vital
matter of altering the internal structure of the
Government. To such an usurpation of power
there would, of course, be but one course for the
States to pursue—repudiate and reject it.
Correspondence Charleston Mercury.
JLetter from IlitlinioiHl.
Richmond, Saturday, Afigust 27.
A Change in our Cavalry—Hampton and Ream*
Andersonville— An Incident — Mercury’* An tide
— Benjamin’a Circular, etc., etc.
What a change has come over the* cavalry of
Northern Virginia, 3ince a man of isind and earn
estness took command. Witness the part played
by that arm, from Trevillian’s down to the brilliant
success at Pieams’. South Carolinians are making
reputation fast of late.
We captured prisoners, cannon and a line of
works many in rear of the enemy's front
towards Petersburgr Ho still holds the road, but,
first and last, it has cost him not less than 15,000
men—a little army—in killed, wounded and cap
tured, and the end is not yet. Unfortunately our
plan of attack leaked out. This last affair was
known in Richmond and hinted in two of yester
day’s papers.
From the Herald of the 23d we learn that the
prisoners at Andersonville have sent four of their
number to "Washington, to represent to Lincoln,
tho actual state of that hell on eartu to which his
love of the nigger has condemned .them. There
will be a frenzied howl in the North, but the world
will exonerate us, and the Democrat? will not ba
slow to fix the “blame where it belong*?.
• Fears have been entertained of the rising of the
Andersonville prisoners. There is no danger un
less an outside raid should overcome our garrison.
Not long ago,‘during a torrent fall of rain and
just at dark, fifty feet of the stockade at Anderson
ville was washed away by the rising of the stream
which runs through the pen—fifty feet on two
sides—where the stream ea<lr3 and where it em
erges. So far from attempting to escape, at the
firing of the signal gun, the prisoners huddled to
gether in the middle of the enclosure and raised a
white flag in token of submission.
The Mercury’s article of a convention of all the
States raises »ome points which appear to bas% es
caped notice here, and will, doubtless, attract not
a little attention. But you may rest assured that
the “agency” ha? no thought of acceding to such
a convention.
Mr. Benjamin's “circular” in regard to the visit
of Jacques and Gilmore to Richmond discloses lit
tle that was not already known. These dogs were
sent here by Lincoln, to make party capital—no
doubt of that —and fizzled the whole pffair. so that
the capital wa* made the other way.
The Whig job office has reprinted one of the
Republican clap trap pamphlets against the peace
party, headed “Rebellion in the North ! Extraor
dinary Disclosures!! Vailaudigham's Plan to
Overthrow the Goverament! l etcetr West A
Johnston have “John Marchmont’* Legacy” in
press. For the first time since tho war large au
diences of the better.clMsM are drawn to the The
atre. Miss Ida Vernon, in “East Lynne.” is the
attraction. Negroes are selling Yankee papers in
the streets at $2 each. There is a deal of -ickne«s
in town both among ;oung and old.
Hermes.
A Xkw Catholic Joras-ai.. —Messrs. Walsh
& Bloom have issued a Prospectus o? a Cath
olic Journal, to be published in Augusta, en
titled the - Pacificator.”. The enterprise uaa
the sanction of the Bishop of Navaouali, and
as there is m- other Catholic paper in the Con
federate States, it will doubtless receive a lib
eral support. The Uisbera are geniinmaa
o ’ability.
[Fro® the Southern Punch.]
Stoneiuan
This wretch of a raider, when captured near
Macon, Ga., sat down and gave vent to his disap
mpointment by “a hearty cry.” He has been sent
te Charleston, where our cotoaporaries inform us
•‘an exchange is progressing.” Is he to be sent
home to return ? Tio very thought is disgusting
to I uaoh, who thinks that imprisonment for life
is toe good for Stonaman. These stanzas sntirize
taiitly the mistaken kindness sad chivalry of
some of our leaders :
0, dry your tears, my Stoneman, dear,
Come look fright in the eye,
For you shall soon be free again,
So, Stoneman, don’t yo« cry.
’Tis true your “On to Richmond” once
Was marked with cruel deeds,
But how can warriors win renown,
Unless a country bleeds?
Could Georgia hope for fewer woe*
Than this Dame, Old Dominion,
Whose back is daily scourged by knaves.
Whose arm each thief would pinion ?
’Tis true you burned the widow’s house, •
And stole the orphan’s bread,
Your path still sounds with maiden’s wails,
Still stained with Southern dead.
But dry your tears, my Stoneman, dear,
Come look bright in the eye,
We loose you to return again,
So, Stoneman, don’t you cry.
Woman.
Remember this, my boys. In Eden there
was only one woman, and it is the symbol of
happiness. Would that it had been a pear
adise, for then the apple had not been there.
The source of all evil was apple sauce.
At the first wedding ceremony, the bride
groom slept. How many have since been led
to the altar lulled by some soft soap orific.
Woman shared the apple with man, but she
took the first bite.
Ask a woman what is meant by happiness,
and she will reply, “A velvet dress, with four
teen breadths to the skirt.’’
When cats wash their faces, bad weather is
at hand ; when women use washes to thoir
complexions, it is a true sign that the beauty
of the day is gone.
Many powder their faces, that their skins
may seem white ; it is as a poulterer flours
an old hen, that it may pass for a tender
chicken.
How many women have been ruined by
diamonds, as the bird catchers entice the
lark from heaven to earth with sparkling
glass.
The stepping stone to fortune is not to be
found in a jeweler’s shop.
Some women have hearts brittle as glass ;
he that would engrave his name on them must
use diamonds.
Brilliants of the first water are tho3e given
to stay the wife’s first flood of tears.
Any woman will listen to your suit if you
first give her an’ earring, but it must be an
emerald one.
There are some men who beat their wives
and then seek the baud of forgiveness by pla
cing jewels on their fingers. They follow the
inscription on their street doors, “Knock and
ring.’’
She who dyes her locks, is like a desperate
gambler, who makes his last .venture, and
risks all upon the hazard of the die.
You may tell the ages ofliorses and of wo
men by their teeth—with a horse by looking
at them, with a woman by asking how old she ‘
is, and if she shows her teeth, be sure that
she is advanced in years.
Like the colored bottles in a chemist's win
dow, is rouge on the cheeks of a maiden; it
attracts the passers by, but all know the drug
they advertise.
Shun verrniliion cheeks. They are the red
danger signals on the marriage lines.
Beware of the fare’s foot—it leaves the
footprint of Time behind it.
Showmen hang paintings before
booths, and women carry color on their faces.
Let any examine the inward worth and it 3hall
be nothing to the outward show.
The voice of a virgin is soft as the cooing
of the wood pigeon on St. Valentine’s day.
Her laughter is like the sound of a distant bell
ringing far a wedding.
She is timid as a Highland doe. He who
would creep near to her must do it—as deer.
At the voice ot a man she flies, as a gazelia
at the roaring lion.
But no sooner has she tasted wedding cake,
than she grows bold, as the tiger that has eat
en raw food.
Her voice shall sound like a circus gong at
a fair, telling that the scenes in the ring are
about to commence.
Choose not your wives as you do grapes ;
from the bloom on them.
Store up this truth, O woman ! Be chari
table unto thy fallen sister. Imitate not the
stags, shat chase from their herds their woun
ded companion. —■
Lctiikr’s Praykk for Mklanctuon.— On a
certain occasion a message was sent to Luther
to inform him that Melancthon wa3 dying. He
at once hastened to his sick bed, and found
him presenting the usual premonitory symp
toms of death. He mournfully bent over him,
and, sorrowing, gave utterance to a sorrowful
exclamation, lie aroused Melancthon from
his 3tupor—he looked into she face of Luther,
and said, . .
<! 0 Luther, is this you ?* Why don't you let
me depart in peace?
‘■Me can t spare you yet, Phillip,’’ was the
reply. And turning round he threw himself
upon Ills knees and wrestled with God for his
recovery for upwards of an hour. He went
frorft hjs knees to the bed, and took his friend
by the hand. And again he said,
“Dear Luther, why don't you let me depart
. in peace?”
“No, no, Phillip; we cannot spare you yet,”
was the reply. *
He then ordered some soup, and when
pressed to take it he declined again, and
said,
“Dear Luther, why will you r.ot let me go
home and be at rest ?”
‘•We cannot spare you yet, Philip,” was the
reply, die then added, “Philip take tlrissoup f
or I will excommunicate you.”
He took the soup ; he commenced to grow
better, he soon regained his wonted health,
and labored for years afterwards in the cause
of the Reformation. And when Luther re
turned home, he su'nl to his wife with joy,
“God gave me ray brother Melancthon back
in direct answer to prayer.”
Gkn. Early Retaliatin'*;. The fiend
General Hunter arrested and carried off six
Southern gentlemen from Hodgesville, and as
soon as Gen. Early was informed ofit.be
took six of the most prominent Union men of
Hagerstown, Md., and held them as hostage?
for the release of our citizens.
Thk Y'ankkks wA.NeOsm.^.—So great is the
cry for onions ina<l# in behalf of Grant’s army,
that an “onion fqnd” has been started ia New
York and Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Taqui
rer, in urging the movement say* :
As our brave boys have to subsist mainly upon
salted provisions, tba craving for this esement is
the result of natural causes. The onion, alfhough
to some an unsarory vegetable, is one of the most
useful Und nutritious aorrectives that is known
among our dietary articles. It is anti-scorbutic
and a preventative of dy-entery. It batriahe,
scurvey, and gives strength to those who eat it.—
Refore’the lime of Capt. Cook the greatest obsta
cles to long sea voyages was the breaking oat of
the scurvy, aud other diseases of a similar nature,
among the crews of vessels. But the great navi
gator, by introducing in his messes plentiful sap
plies of onion- and cabbage, succeeded *in main-'
taining the health of hi* crew- to a degree which
almost seemed miraculous. Bince his time ship
owners have profited by tbe and no vesas'
seat out by a careful merchant ever goes to so*
without a full -upplv of these useful vegetables.