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COLUMBUS TIMES Publish*! Daily (Sundays excepte.l) at the rate es $5.00 per month, or 515 lor three mouth*. No subscription received for alouger fern* than hrre month*. ADVERTimG RATES : Advertisements inserted for $2 00 per square for each insertion. Where advertisements are inserted a month, the charge will be S3O per square. Announcing candidatess2o, which must invariably 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. w 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 *2 : i U \ . • 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. $5.00 Per Month 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.