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Change of Schedule.
Office'Esjunker ajtd Superintendent, i
Charleston and Savannah Railroad, v
Charleston, June 7,1564.)
AN THURSDAY, June 0,186#, and until further
J notice, the Schedule of the Passenger train will
be as follow, viz:
Leave Charleston <1.45. a. m.
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 Railroad at the Junction.
• „ H. S. HAINES,
•June 14 ts Engineer and Superintendent.
Change o t Schedule.
AN and after Sunday, Juno 19th, the Trains on
/the 'ttiscogee Railroad will run as follows:
PASSENGER TRAIN :
Leave Columbus..../ 0 45 P, M.
Arrive at Macon 3 25 A. M.
Leave Macon ; : 8 10 P. M
Arrive at Columbus 4 25 A. J..
FREIGHT TRAIN :
Leave Columbus 5 00 A. '•
Am vent Columbus 4 55 A. A
W. L. CLARK,
Snpt. Muscogee R, j
to Montgomery.
NEW SCHEDULE.
MONTGOMERY & WEST POINT
lIAI LUO AD COMPANY.
COLUMBITS, AUgust 27,1804,
ON and after August 27th. the Passenger Train on
the Montgomery and 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 a in.
Arrives at 8:27 p m
1). 11. CRAM, Sup’t & Eng. !
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MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD,
cimci: or schedixe.
Gikahd, Ala., Aug. 22, 1804.
ON and after this date Trains on this Road will
Run Daily (Sunday excepted,) as follows:
Passenger Train
Leave Girard at 3 00 p. m.
Arrive in Union Springs 730 “
Leave Union Springs 5 35 a. m.
Arrive in Girard at 10 00 “
Freight Train.
Leave Girard at 4 00 a. m.
Arrive in Girard at ...0 00 p. m.
B. E. WELLS,
aglß ts _Eng. & Sup’t.
BROWN’S FLY SHUTTLE LOOM,
(Will Weave 06 Yards per Day.)
OfAiT’Cl !X3£I.GISJS,
SPINNING-WHEELS and CORN-SMELLERS!
Manufactured by A. I). BROWN & CO.
460-Ordcrs received by M. P. Ellis & Co.'NBfH
:>gl3 lIIU __
THOMAS »AVA«ErA«cnt,
(At Mulford’s old Stand,)
INTO. 101, IBIRO-AJD ST.
HAS FOR SALE Oil EXCHANGE
sifioetijig-4, Shirting.
Twills, Yarns, Linseys.
I .as ray Coffee,
Tobacco, Rice, *
Nails of sail siy.es,
£tc,, &.V.
jul27U
FOR SALEI S
j OFFER my MILL for sale, situated in a dense
* ly covered forest of pine, oak, hickory, beech,
poplar and other swamp timbers, immediately on
Mobile and Girard Rail Road, between Stations 4
and 5, and only 30 miles from Columbus, Ga. Said
Mill is under contract with the Confederate States
Government, for the refusal of all Lumber cut
luring tiie war, at remunerating prices, which con
tract, parties purchasing would be required to car
ry out.
The »1 ii 1 is saa Si»3en«lid Rsa.*i
11U1U Ordev, a sad
,»t FORTY-HOUSE POWER, capable of CUTTING
SIX to EIGHT THOUSAND FEET PER DAY.
A good chaneo for refugees or parties desirous of
doing Government work.
duress me-at G uerryton, Ala., or apply to mo in
person on tin- premi es, or at this office.
G. W. OGLESBY.
a ug24 2w
STEE Vj 1 iMG EXCHAMIE!
• FEW Hundred Pounds of Sterling Exchange
for sale in sums to suit purchasers by
aglti t, BANK OF COLUMBUS.
Harm's* Slade & Hepaircd.
r Tll E undersign:-. 1 will Manufacture and Repair all
1 Kinds ot Harness.
FULSOM & CODY,
spl 2w Under Cook’s Hotel.
HUMWAI' I
\ EG Ri l F y CHARLEY : about 25 years old, yel
\ low complexion, hair nearly straight, below or
linary intelligence ; left Mr. Nat. Thompson’s near
Box Springs, Talbot county. I bought him of a
Mr Brown, a refugee from Mississippi, who now
resides in Tuskcgee, Ala. lie originally camo from
Charleston, S. C. A suitable reward will be paid
for* hishlelivery at this office, or in any safe jail and
information sent to me at this office.
m,or JAMES M, BUSSELL.
Colunibu’s Ga., aug 1 ts *
REiTIOVAfj !
HA\ i removed my Office to avo >m over. Gun
[ hy’s St re. where I will be pleased to wait on
Patients requiring Medical or Surgical treatment.
j,,w L. J. \\ OKI', M. I'.
SSO Howard.
W ILL pay the above reward for 808, a black
i uiv ■iliout 24 ' ears old. Helms been out three
’j' ;S ’ '1 is supposed to bo lurking about
torn "c» .... JNO. H.IASS.
he city.
Xvilzc t:' to tors and Cred
it or^.
I 1 per-on? indebted to the estate of .Seaborn
A j J U c- deceased, are required to make imrne
b ,te payment, and those having claims agaiast said
estate are required to render them in terms of tuc
! I SEABORX J. BENNING, Adm’r.
By MARY H. BENNING, Agent.
sMßoriMrtkcrs’ and Saddlers’
TOOLS.
'l'llT UNDERSIGNED having commenced the
1 manufacture of the above named articles in this
city are prepared to till orders lor tne same.
A«;dh nn A nsrle street, a few doors a*'>ve C. S.
HoSital A lIARRISON. BEDELL. Sc CO.
” u o fpreiice— Maj. F. W. Dillard. '
Mobile Register. Mississippian and Augusta Con
stitutionalist, please copy one month an 1 send bill.'
to this office.
mar SO ts
ILTTtK I’.iPEB t BUI NKS
POR !
~ , ... w sale 49 reams of Letter Paper, and
\\ o ( ;,' x l | «uvi" pocket Blank Books, at
’v, ' older 550 per Ream; Blank Look?,
or Retail, rapei, <.. i v , r
retail. 75 cts. wholesale. *1 ‘‘ Tlll g OFFICE.
ag6 ts - • ■
OEOKtII 1— Muscogee County.
W‘K“|
leave to sell a negro woman by the * -
about 25 years oi age aud her lour childien. .
All persons concerned are hereby notitied t - -
eau.se, tis any they have) why an order should noi
b e«ra : .u,d at the next September Term of the to art
of Ordinary tv> r suid county, authorizing the sate oi
said negro.
Given under my hand, July Ist. 64.
JNO. JOHNSON,
;y 4 2m Ordinary,
iuliijitos iimts.
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Vol. XI.
J. \V. WARREN & CO. Proprietors J. w. WARREN, Editor
Confeilerate 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.
Deposits ia Old Currency at 68 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 Hundro
Million Loan [non-taxable] equal to the sum
these loans.
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. 0
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.
Slatde-Field Ilclicl Association
of foluuibns, €!a.
All who are disposed to contribute articles neces
sary for the relief of tho sick and wounded in the
Army of Tennessee, are requested to leave them at
Goodrich & Co’s store by One O’clock, P. M. ev
ery Tuesday and Friday, when they will be for
warded to and dispensed by our Committee there.
W. 11. YOUNG, Presd’t.
C. G. Holmes, Sec’y. ag23tf
To Uiose whom it may Concern I
Office Chief Commissary,
Savannah, Aug. 22, ’64.
The following extract of a letter from tho 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 or private par
ties, except upon condition that they buy at Gov
ernment rates; and all further ftirchases made by
parties now holding such permits or protections are
required to be made on the same terms. Thus, it is
hoped, speculation in the necessaries of life will be
diminished, prices reduced and some of the difficul -
ties under which he have heretofore labored re
moved.
J. L. LOCKE.
ag26 hr ' Maj. and Chief Com’y.
Stockholders’ iflccfisig.
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. m. J. M. BIVINS,
ag23 td Sec’y and Treas’r.
fill!! NEW GOODS!!!
BROA I) ST RE E i'.
RE now opening a splendid assortment of
STAPLE Mil FANCY 011! GOODS.
FRESH FROM EUROPE’ via Bermuda, which
they will sell cheap for cash. aug27—lm
DESERTER!
Confederate States Arsen a i.,
Columbus, Ga., Aug. 30, ’64.
The following employees of this Arsenal, having
absented themselves from work without leave, are
hereby published as deserters •
WM. MlLLEß—Conscript—Blacksmith by trade;
aged 34; 5 feet 11 inches high; florid complexion;
black eyes; black hair.
11 R HAYES—Conscript—Tinner by trade; aged
30; 5 feet 6 inches high; dark complexion; dark
eyes; dark hair.
P H THORNTON—Soldier—Moulder b* trade
detailed from Company E, 12th Ga. Regiment.
M. H. WRIGHT,
ag3l lw Colonel Cbmd’g
sl,ooo Steward.
A CHUNKY, heavy set, black boy by the name
of WILLIAM , about 24 years old, left Colum
bus on Sunday morning last. I am confident he
was taken off by some white man. I will pay the
above reward for the negro and thief, with evi
dence to convict, or I will pay two hundred and
fifty dollars for the negro delivered to me in Colum
bus. Tho boy came from Virginia about two years
ago. and says he is a sailor. I think they left Co
lumbus on foot and tool; tho train at some station
close by. J. 11. BASS,
sepl-tf.
P. S.—l 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. 11. B.
’ MOTIONS.
To Planters and Others !
r WILL EXCHANGE Osnaburgs, Sheeting and
1 Yarns, for Bacon, Lard, Tallow and Beeswax. 1
will bo found at Robinett & Co’s old stand, where I
am manufacturing Candles and Lard Oil for sale.
L. S. WRIGHT.
June 2 ts
Confederate Knives* and
For k * •
WfE are manufacturing at our Works in this city
VV a good article of KNIVES AND FORKS in
large quantities, which we offer to the public low
for CASH.
-ALSO-
Slioe Makers and Saddlers Tools,
of every description. Shoe Pegs. Steel Trusses,
Spatulas. Butcher Knives, Ac., Ac.
The attention of Quartermasters, Commissaries,
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 W. 11. Prioleau, Macon, Ga.
Surgeon R. Potts. Montgomery, Ala.
HARRISON, BEDELL & CO.
Columbus, Ga., September 1,1864.
3/obilc Register, Augusta Constitutionalist, and
Charleston Courier please copy one month and send
b~I to Ibis office.
FOB S.liiE!
, <4oop Saddle and Harness Horse,
ii Apply to
R. B. MURDOCH,
zep 2— ts or, at this office.
Notice to Debtor** and Cred
itors.
ATOTICE is hereby given to all persons having
i.\ demands against Samuel McCiary, late pt Mus
cogee county, deceased, to present them to either of
us. properly made out, within the time prescribed
bylaw. All persons indebted to said deceased are
hereby required to make immediate payment to
either of the undersigned. .
B II CRAWFORD. Adm r
MARIA E McCLARY, Admt’x
agol wot'
iMI ME WILKE!
r rllE Exercises of this Institute n will begin on
Tuesday, the 20th September. Tfce President,
Rev. !. A. Brown is a gentleman of finished educa
tion. and loag experienced in teaching. He will
h ive associated with him a complete andaoie Loaid
of Instruction. Mrs. James Collier, who nas charge
of the Boarding Departmen . an avcommouate a
larce number ot young ladies.
Board pr month, including luel.
if paid in provisions at «.viprices.. i.
.*> * • present prices. lIW 1* »
“ “Cash new issue I'M'.p
PupiU furnish Ipr sheets; / pr 1 lllow In^e;; i
TtoHtVr Case and such covering as they Jesire-
Roorn mates can make then own arrangements as
to combs, brushes. toweU/ ‘J 1 're ; .. ne , r apq
, Tuition per Term. 1' : " 'ls m
- I'owan' :: 21 is
! ■■ M«i«i iS
; Use of In/trqnm:pel lefm j j m
' Incidental Expense.' _ p v ... Y Brown,
For further particulars addrCM Rev.
or the undersigned at T.uootton^ oßßlLL .
. Chm’n B'rd Tr
agio -w
Columbus, 6a* Tuesday Moraing* September 6,1864,
Holiday Evening.
From the Front.
1 A messenger from Tyler's Brigade of Har
' dee s Corps, arrived here from the fjeld of bat
tle yesterday evening, having left the army
noon. He furnishes us the following
particulars 01 ti e fight of Wednesday :
The enemy attacked us in our entrench
ments in heavy force and were three times re
pulsed with great slaughter. In their fourth
I charge they flanked tlie extreme right of our
; line which was held by Govan’s and Lewis’
Brigades, and after a bloody struggle succeed
| ed in capturing the greater part of the 6th
: and 7th Arkansas Regiments, of Govan’s
j Brigade,and the 2d and 6th Kv, regiments of
I Lewis’ Brigade, numbering four or five hun
i dred men.
Our army afterwards fell back to a position
| between Jonesboro and Lovejoy’s station,
| where they have fortified a commanding range
j of bills.
| Our informant furnishes us with the follow
j ing list of casualties in Tyler’s brigade on
j Wednesday :
Colonel Grace, lOt'u Tennessee, killed.
Major Guthrie, 20tli Tennessee, killed.
Captain Gholston, 37th Georgia, killed.
! Captain Win. Hutcheson, 37th Georgia,
i wounded.
| G. J. Everhart, 37th Georgia, wounded.
J. C. Halley, 37th Georgia, wounded.
: G. Daniel, 37th Georgia, wounded.
| Capt. Lewis Clark, 10th Tennessee, woun
; ded.
Captain Pendergrast, 10th Tennessee, woun-
I ded.
Lieutenant Cummings, Loth Tennessee,
I wounded.
| Lieutenant Difrham, 20th Tennessee, woun
[ ded.
Lieutenant John Freeman, 20th Tennessee,
I wounded.
j Colonel J, J. Turner, 30th Tennessee, woun
ded.
I Captain Turner, 30th Tennessee, wounded,
j Captain Douglas, A. A. G., wounded,
i Major 37th Tennessee, woun
! ded.
| Colonel Robinson, 2d Tennessee, wounded.
Major Driver, 2d Tennessee, killed.
John Whitaker, Ist Tennessee, killed:
Col. George B. Myers, 24th Mississippi,
killed.
Our informant thinks that fifteen hundred
will cover the entire loss in Hardee’s corps in
the fight of Wednesday.— Griffin Rebel, 3d.
FHe War lews.
j Everything continues quiet iu front of Peters -
| burg. The enemy, after fiercely shelling the
I city on Monday, throwing missiles at times at tho
: rates of one hundred per hour, suddenly calmed
i down-on Tuesday, and during the whole day not
a single shell annoyed the inhabitants. Tho Ex
press describes'the scene after nightfall on Mon
day as “somewhat dangerous to behold, though in
the highest degree attractive, and approaching the
sublime.” We think that is a-sort of “attraction”
possessing few charms, but rather calculated to
create a nervous desire to get away from it by the
earliest opportunity, “Away in tho distance,”
; continues the Express, “could be seen mortar shells
ascending and descending in every direction,- thick
: er far than ever shooting meteors showed them
selves. Some of them seemed to ascend almost to
the very regions of the stars,'and, gracefully curv
ing, would descend with inconceivable rapidity,
their blazing fuses omitting a brilliant light. Oth
ers, loss ambitious, would shpot up an hundred or
two feet and quickly disappear below the horizon,
lightning the heavens with t);e blaze of their ex
plosions.”
All of which makes a very pretty picture on
canvass or paper, but rather more pleasing in tho
imagination than in the reality. It is gratifying
to state that during all this shelling no personal
injury was sustained, and the damage to property
was comparatively slight.
An impression has got abroad that the enemy is
weakening his force on the Weldon railroad; and
some have gone so far as to assert that he is pre
paring to abandon hi3 position altogether. It is
hardly ntfijessary to state that there is no founda
tion whatever for this belief. His pickets still oc
cupy the same position below Petersburg, and are
daily to be seen a short distance this side of
Reams’s'statiou. The prospect is that the Yan
kees will hold the railroad until they are ejected
by General Lee’s veterans.
A brigade of Yankee cavalry is encamped at
Wyatt’s crossing, two miles north of Reams’s and
foraging parties are sent out daily. On Tuesday,
i seven men, who were out on one of these expedi
i tions. were captured by the Ninth Virginia cav
alry.
Hancock bids fair to outstrip all his coadjutors
in the accomplishment of lying. In his official re
port of tho battle on Thursday, while he admits a
defeat, he puts down his loss at twelve to fifteen
hundred ! Now, we know that over two thous
and prisoners have been received here as the fruits
of that engagement, and we have undoubted au
thority for saying that it took the Yankee details
under flag of truce, two days to complete the buri
al of their dead. Their losses on that occassion
certainly number several thousand ; but exactly
how many we shall probably never know. Stan
: ton, taking his cue from Hanooek, asserts that the
| rebels have lost ten thousand men on the Weldon
i railroad in the last two weeks. These enormous
| falsehoods were doubtless made up with a view to
J effect the action of the Chicago Convention.
T A letter from a private soldier “in the trenches”
I in front of Petersburg says that Order 05 is pro
j ducing a wholesome effect upon the Yankee troops.
I Deserters are daily coming in and claiming the
| privileges guaranteed.
wheeler’s operations.
I A report comes to us by way of Bristol and
: Lynchburg that Wheeler has destroyed the Lou
don bridge over the Tennessee river, and succeed
j ed in capturing a large number of prisoners.
THE NORTHERN BORDER.
A Confederate officer, just from Staunton, says
i that the report was current there when he left that
General Early gained a complete victory over the
enemy on Saturday last near Shepherdstown : but
as yet it lacks official confirmation.
* [Richmond Dispatch. Iv.
From Itie Fnited States.
We are indebted to Mr. John James, of Balti
more, who arrived by flag of truce on yestesday,
for Baltimore and New York papers of the 27th.
Wc have already published a brief summary of
Northern news of this date. The most striking
feature of the papers which emphatically lie be
fore us is the singular unanimity with which they
do lie in relation to the disaster which befel Han
cock on Thursday last, and the simultaneity with
which official misrepresentations of the same ter
rible defeats appear in them all. These things
! were evidently designed to operate on the Chicago
j Convention. The rebels, they say, “were repulsed
with terrific slaughter, and abandoned the field,
leaving their dead uuburied and their woqpded in
our possession!” Hancock estimates his loss at
1,200 killed, wounded and missing. The Libby
record, however, credits him with considerably
over two thousand on his “missing” account.—
Meade telegraphs that the holding of the Weldon
railroad is a great thing: that the rebels have lost
i ten thousand men to regain it. He omits the item
that besides killed and wounded he has lost seven
j thousand in prisoners to get and hold i:.
•Joseph Howard, author of the bogus j roelama
tioa, has been released from Fort Lafayette: his
confrere. Mallison, is still detained.
Wm II Rogers, ?f Baltimore: John R H Em
ber:, : Delaware: Braxton Lynn, of Maryland,
and S B Hearn, of Delaware, condemned to be
hung ou Monday last, as spies, Ac., have been the
recipients of Executive clemency. Rodgers is par
* tinned: the others are consigned to prison.— Ri -
>» )nd Rr»ndr- r. 1»*. ~ * *
[From the Wilmington Journal.]
To our Exchanges-Appeal of
tlie Polish Delegation.
We publish to-day, and respectfully request
i our exchanges to copy, the subjoined Appeal.
We can vouch for the fact that it is made by
! a delegation of Poles of high standing and
character, who arrived last week at this port,
and have gone on to Richmond. That the
Appeal is genuine, and that the credentials oi
: the gentlemen issuing it are satisfactory, we
| feel fully authorized to say. We trust that,
j as a matter of courtesy, as well as of human-
I ity, the press of the Confederate States will
! give it general circulation. The language of
I the Appeal bears the impress of a foreign
I idiom, but that we have not thought it proper ,
|to alter. It is the utterance of a suffering j
j and crushed people, and will not pass unheed- !
j ed by those themselves struggling for their ;
1 rights and nationality. We repeat, that if j
we were not satisfied of the character and !
genuineness of the document, wc would not !
make the request that we do.---namely, that it j
be copied by the press of the Confederate i
States ;
Wilmington. N. C., Aug. 26. 1864.
APPEAL
| Os the Delegation of Poles , as resolved to seek
| for an assylum with the Confederate States of
America, to their fellow countrymen establish-
I ed therein.
i
j Brothers
Oflr nation, ejected by violence unexampled
in the annals of the world, out of the paternal
homes which the Almighty has allotted to her
—driven by the ruthless invaders into the icy
deserts of .Siberia, consequently to unavoida
ble destruction—proceeds, in this overwhelm
ing misfortune, to beg of the Confederate
States of America, in the voice of injured
mankind, for a friendly assylum to herself.
The honorable States on which Providence,
in the distribution of her infinite bounties, has
lavished so many goods, has bestowed so much
land, assuredly will not, in their humane feel
ings, refuse a morsel of it to us, the only
refuge now left us.
Our desire is to settle in Texas. There are
several thousand of ift, to transfer what re
mains of our mangled nationality, our fami
lies not yet extinguished, our religion, our
bodies saved from the clutches of the foe, our
destinies in mankind.
Our endeavor most strenuous will be to
conform in all to the general legislation of
the Confederation, but in our actual misera
ble plight ’we are met, for want of means
wrenched from ;us by our Muscovite foe, by
innumerable obstacles to accomplish our first
step of transportation.
Fellow-Countrymen: You who have settled
! in this hospitable country long before us,
when we are grasping this only saving plank
left to us, aid us with efficacious support, with
your experience, your counsel, your interest
and your social relations. Guided by the
the brotherly love,-perhaps some of you would
endeavor to direct our efforts, to fill our hearts'
with solace, to teach us to know the new land
and the new skies, all of which would be to
us as an infinite boon.
I At the present moment we invite you to
| co-operate with us, and to do all that would
jbe requisite to be done. Confer, therefore,
! with us in all what at first is to be provided
| for. Address to the
Polish Delegation.
P. 0., Richmond, V'a.
. Yews from tlie Noith.
MEETING OF THE! UNION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Washington, Aug. 25. —The Executive Commit
tee of the National Union Committee met to-day.
No business of particular importance was trans
acted, and an adjournment until to-morrow took
place. There were present Henry J. Raymond, of
New York; Geerge B. Souter, of Ohio; Marcus
L. Ward, of New Jersey; Samuel A. Purviance,
of Pennsylvania, and John B. Clarke, of New
Hampshire. Messrs. Chalpin, of Massachusetts,
and Sperry, of Connecticut, were absent.
Washington, Aug. 26. —The Executive Com
mittee had a long session to-day, but no business
of a public character was transacted. They will
adjourn to-morrow, and their next meeting will be
held in the city of New York. So far from there
being any probability whatever of President Lin
coln withdrawing from the campaign, as some
have suggested, the gentlemen composing the com
mittee express themselves confident of his re-elec
tion.
Report of dissatisfied Republicans to induce the
withdrawal of Fremont and Lincoln, and to hold
anew Convention.
Boston, Aug. 26. —Several prominent Aboli- j
tionists, including Messrs. E. Wright and <U Howe,
have written to Gen. Fremont, speaking of the dis
satisfaction existing in the Republican ranks, and
advising the Baltimore and Cleveland nominees
both to withdraw their names as Presidential can
didates, and that anew convention be called to
select new candidates. Messrs. Wright and Com
pany conclude their letter as follows :
“Permit us, sir, to ask whether, in case Mr. Lin
coln will withdraw, you will do so, and join your
fellow-citizens in an attempt to place an adminis
tration in power, on the basis broad as the patriot- j
ism of the country and its needs.”
Fremont, under date of Nahant, 25th, replies at ;
considerable length. He does not feel at liberty j
to withdraw his name without the consent of the l
patriotic party who nominated him, but suggests j
that a direct effort he made to obtain an immediate i
understanding between the supporters of the Bal- I
timore and Cleveland nominations, in order that j
the friends of both may acquiesce and unite upon
an early day for holding such a convention. The ,
following is from Fremont’s letter:
“Much has been said about peace, You will i
excuse me if I say what I understand by it: For j
me, peace signifies the integral establishment of !
the Union without slavery, because slavery is the ,
source of all our political dissensions, and I believe |
the institution itself is condemned by the enlight- :
ened, liberal spirit of the age. These are to be the j
essential conditions of peace.”
The Kentucky Elections. —Gov.
Bramlette, of Ivy., lias addressed the fol
lowing circular to the sheriffs and officers,
of elections in the counties composing the i
Second Appellate District: [
The sheriffs and officers in the counties ,
composing the Second Appellate District, J
will immediately respond to the following j
questions :
Thomas E. Bramlett, Governor.
1. Did you receive an order from any
military commander, requiring you, to ex
clude from the poll-books the name of any
candidate ? If so, give a copy of the or
der, or append the original in your answer.
2. Did yoitobey the order at any pre-*
cinct in the county, and what candidate j
was benefited by the order ?
3. How many votes would tlie excluded
candidates have received if no such order
had interferred with from the election?
Answer your best judgment and knowl
edge of the sentiments of the voters.
4. Were the officers of election or the
voters overawed by the presence of, or*
menace of military forces so as to interfere*
with “free suffrage” and a free and equal
election 7 State any additional facts
bearing upon the - abject, not embraced
in the questions, of which you may have
knowledge.
As the district i.- large, we presume
$5.00 Per Month
that responses have not yet been received
from all the counties. Meanwhile, the
inquiry attests the resolution of Gav.
Bramlette to vindicate the broken laws
and the insulted dignity of the Common'
wealth.
The Peace Convention at Syra
cuse-Private Conversations
with the Leaders.
Mr. 0. P. Rrooks, of Syracuse, communi
cates to the Journal of that city, the following
conversations held between himself and sev
eral leading men o£~4he peace party, at the
Voorhees House, the ev#ning after the late
Peace Convention. He suvsr:
Beirig a pefice man myself, as well as a man
in favor of an honorable peace, I was, of
course, deeply interested in the “great peace
movement' of the 18th. But I confess that
my confidence iu the great apostles of peace
received a staggering blow, when, by mere
accidence, I became a listener to the follow
ing words, uttered by one of these apostles, a
prominent public speaker, and addressed to a
select circle of trusty followers :
“I tell you, gentlemen, Jefferson Davis is
fighting the battle of the liberties of our
country, and he must and shall succeed. I
told Governor Seymour so this morning, and
heeaid: I am aware of it ; but what can I
do ? lam powerless. The majority of the
people are against me, and the Administration
have the whole army to back them. Gentle
men, we have got to stop this war. It must
be stopped. And if old Abe shall finally be
elected, we have got to raise a counter revo
lution and overthrow the whole cursed Abo
lition horde.”
Beginning to doubt the sincerity of the
peace professions of these men, l straightway
sought occasion to propound the following
question to several of Vallandigham’s most
confidential and ardent supporters :
First, f asked, in a straightforward way, of
Senator Lawrence, “Are you willing to grant
the South its independence, provided that, in
tha proposed National Convention, its com
missioners demand independence as their ul
timatum, after all honorable terras of peace,
based upon the reconstruction of the whole
Union, have failed ?” “Yes, most certainly,”
was the rtply. “This war must be stopped.—
The Federal Government has no power
to coerce a sovereign State into a union against
its will. A-State has a just right to secede,
provided its constitutional rights are violated.”
T propounded the same ‘query to Senator
Young, wli£ boasted of the honor of having
cast one of the original Secession votes iu the
New York Legislature of 1801, against coer
cion, and I received from him precisely the
same answer.
Emboldened at these unexpected responses,
1 submitted the same question to William If.
Bramlette, of Kentucky, a lelativc of Governor
Bramlette, amt said to be a delegate to the
Chicago Convention, and was again greeted
with a reply similar in every particular. He 1
further stated that “the people of the South j
will fight as long as they have a dollar left an- j
less the North concede them the right of self-, !
government.” 1 afterwards put the same j
question to no less than a dozen participants j
in the convention, with alike result. My reply 1
to each of these gentlemen was, “why did you
not submit this question which involves the
very vital point m the contest, fairly and
squarely to-day in your speeches, to the con
vention, and thus test its wishes ? You de
clared in all your speeches that you were in
favor of peace and Union, while you are will
ing,to accept peaee and disunion-” To this 1
received but one honest answer. A delegate
from Buffalo, whose name I did not learn,
said : “It would not be politic.”
In the conversations with Bramlette and Law
rence I enquired what wore the honorable terms
the peace Democrats would be likely to offer the
South as an inducement to come back into the
Union. Mr. Lawrence said: “We propose to
guarantee them the protection of all their State
rights, one ofvshich he had already affirmed to
be the right of secession : secondly, we propose to
guarantee them the protection of slavery up to or
rig nal linos and throughout all the territories. •’
I submit these statements without comment,
willingly to testify before any court to their cor
rectness, and hoping that unconditional peace men
will stop and think- before they are willing to
blindly adopt such extreme and ruinous opinions
as these.
The Valley of Virginia.—lt is stated that
Sheridan’s troops were greatly demoralized on their
retreat to Harper’s Ferry. They broke up a great
many of their guns, threw others into wells, and ex
hibited every apprehension lest they should be
overtaken by old Jubal’s rebels. All the bay and
grain on their route was burnt, and in some instan
ces barns were fired in order to destroy the contents.
They burnt no dwellings at this time, and assigned
as a reason for burning the hay and grain that the
Confederates had burnt C'hambersburg. The troops
were perfectly lawless, and the worst behaved set of
men the people of that region ever saw. They killed
or drove oft all the cattle, hogs, sheep, horses and
poultry, took wagont, carriages and buggies de
stoyed gardens and stole all the provisions they
could find. Some idea may he formed of their num
bers when we state that they were eleven hours
passing a given point at a double-quick in going
back. A desolate track marked their progress
wherever they went. It is said that Sheridan is
fully impressed with the importance of his position,
and deports himself very like a monarch, lie trav
els in state, riding in a fine carriage drawn by four
splendid gray horses.
Between four hundred and five hundred prison
oners, captured by General Early in the Lower Val
ley, passed through Harrisonburg on Tuesday week.
We are informed that they will not be immediately
carried out of the Valley, but kept conveniently
near at hand, so that in case any of them happen to
be wanted by Gen. Early he can just call for them.—
This would indicate that the law of retaliation is
about to be enforced. Villians who burn barns and
stacks of grain to starve the inhabitants of a coun
try into submission to tyranny deserve to be banged
to the first tree.
A report, which lacks confirmation, was current
yesterday that General Early fought the Yankees
on Saturday last, and defeated them with great
slaughter. It is, doubtless a repetition of the ru
mor of Sunday last. —Richmond Dispatch, 31 t.
Interesting to Officers.—ln answer to an of
ficer who wishes to know, “When an officer is re
tired on the invalid corps, does hi3 successor take
rank from the day on which he is relieved by the
examining board, or from the time the retirement
is approved of by the War Department?” We are
informed, upon inquiring at tke proper department,
that the “successor of a retired officer” takes rank
from the date of approval. We understand there
are no vacancies.—(Sentinel
The -'‘Yankee Trap.”— We have heard of
beaver-traps, wolf-traps, muskrat-traps, rab
bit-traps, etc., but of all the traps known,
that of the Weldop railroad is the most cer
tain to catch Yankees. Onr Confederate- hun
ters toll the enemy into the trap, and when it
is full, Mahone. or some other trapper springs
the trigger, and the Yankee: are caught bj
the thousands. Wo have just seen two hun
dred blue-birds and red-birds fZou&ves) pass
our window, the first installment of over two
thousand trapped on Friday. Good luck to
our gallant sportsmen, the garde is plentiful
and the hunters eager for the sport!
The only drawback is the worthlessness of
the game for useless purposes; they are not as
suitable for food as turkles or partridges, nor
is their pelery as valuable as that taken from
the beaver, the rabbit, the fox and muskrat;
out we suppose they are considered in the
light of woives, skunks and crows, which are
ki 1 led not for their value, but for their mur
derous and thievish propensities.
It is suggested that the name be changed
from the “Weldon, to the --Yiukee i rap
railroad.
>-t the tea; again tJ make another haul!
[Rich mon>l Sentinel.
Atlanta Evacuated —The information re
ceived from Atlanta leaves no room to doubt
that the city was evacuated by our forces ear
ly yesterday morning. The rolling stock of
the railroads, which, by the- occupation of a
portion of the Macon road by the enemy, had
no means of exit, embracing between one
hundred and fifty and two hundred freight
cars anl four locomotives, were destfoyed be
fore our forces left. The explosions hear t
Wednesday night, were caused by the aratnu
.mtion iu the cars which were destroyed.
[Gritfrn Rebel. ,'bi.
The Fighting at Lovejoy.— The canuon
ading in the direction of Lovejoy yoeterday
evening was heavy and continuous, indicating
a battle in progress. At the time of writing
this paragraph we have no news from the
army later than noon. At that time the en
emy were making no heavy attack upon our
fortified lines and our brave boys were
represented to be iu the highest spirits.—
It is supposed that a portion at least, of
our troops from Atlanta, would make
a junction with Hardee last night, and thus
make his pasition entirely secure.
£ Griffin Rebel y o l.
It has just eoino to our knowledge that a party of
seven citizens—Andrew Cox, Ellis Ridley, Charles
Ridley, John L Cox, William Alsoybrook, Morgan
Drummond and WmCate, all of Heard county—
and two .Mississippi soldiers, of Harvey’s scouts,
captured a party of twonty seven Yankees during
the raid some three weeks ago. This only show
what a few determined citizens may <*o. when they
have the courage and energy to protect their homes
[LnGraitor Reporter.
One of the editors of the Missouri Republican
recently made a tour through tho central portion
of that State; including the counties of Randolph,
Howard, Boone, Audrain, Calloway, Monroe.
Montgomery and St Charles. The harvest, a? a
general thing, is short, owing to tho excessive
drought. The eultivatiun of cotton and sorghum
is rapidly ine'rcasing iu these counties. It is also
observed, as an effect of the present high prices,
the loom and spinning wheel were heard in almost
evory house.
Mr. Edward A. Polland, one of the editors of
the Richmond Examiner, captured on the stea
mer Greyhound, has been released from Fort
Warren. It issaid that-he has been exchanged.
He is now on parole and allowed to wander
as he pleases in New York and Brooklyn.
AUCTION SALES.
By Ellis, Livingston A Cos.
A IB ESJ 8.1 Alt tiK lIESISBF.\Xi: 1
W¥.\.\TO\!
AT -A.TJCTTOISr.
ON Tuesday, 13th of September, at 10 o'clock, wo
will sell in front of our Auction 7?oom
A VERY DESIRALE RESIDENCE
in Wynnton, opposite Col. Holt's, former
ly owned by Col. S. Jones, with six good
Rooms and sufficient out buildings, good
water, and Ten Acres of Land attached.
On the town half of the Lot is a Good
Residence with four rooms.
Possession given immediately.
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By Ellis, A Cos,
ON Tuesday, blh September, at 10 o’clock, wo
will sell in front of our store,
TWO VERY LIKELY NEGRO GIRLS
12 and 15 years old.
4=o Xalojs.
sp6 2t $6
By Ellis, Livingston & €o
o
ON TUESDAY, 6th of September, at 10 o’clock, we
will sell in front of our store,
A DESIRABLE lARD!
Five Miles from the City,
on or near the road to Peggy Reid's Bridgo, con
taining 90 acres of Land—thirty-fivo of which is
cleared. On the premises is a comfortable dwelling
and out-liouses, and a good spring of water.
The place adjoins Thomas Ivenny and Mr. Boze
man. Possession given immediately.
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By EBiis, Livingston A Go.
AN TUESDAY, 6th of September at 10 o’clock,
we will sell in front of our store
Avery line Rosewood Piano,
In perfect order—nearly new—can be seen by per
mission of Mrs. Brice, at Mrs. Teasdale’s residence.
10 Gals. Pure Catawba Grape Brandy;
20 lbs. Hops;
1 bbl. Arrow-root;
—ALSO —
A likely Negro Man, 24 years old.
A likely Negro woman, 30 years old,
good cook, washer and ironer, and
her three likely children.
1 Fine Gray Horse;
! Fine o year old Mure;
1 Ladies Saddle;
v 1 Good Fuggy and Harness;
1 bbl. Apple Brandy;
6 bbls. Choice Whisky.
Two Vices, two Blacksmith’s Bellows,
; and two Anvils
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By Bllis, Biviiigsfou & €o.
200 co^vLLonsrs
PiEcimiinmi!
A VERY FINE ARTICLE.
For sale in quantities of 10 Gallons and upward
ag3o ts
•
T7ROJ/ the Lot of Jonathan English, on the Tal
i botton road, a medium sized bay Horse, with
white fore feet, has marks of harness on his shoul
ders and back, is niae>or ten years old. Any infor
mation respecting said horse will be gratefully re
ceived and liberally rewarded, and on the delivery
of the horse and thief to me I will pay one hundre l
dollars.
GEORGE T JOHNSON,
spo 3t* Columbus,lGa
FOR SALE! "
320 Acres of Land on the Mobile &
Girard Rail Road,
WORTY MILES.from Columbus, Georgia, and one
sand a half from Station No. 5; about 130 acre
opened, and cabins for about 30 negroes, with goo t
water, gin house, &c. Apply to Messrs Ellis, L ; /-
ingston & Cos., for term-.
sps lm- D C FREEMAN, Jr.
TJaeon Sheeting Tor Sale,
BY the Bolt at $4 per Yard.
Apply at
Rock Island Paver Mill.- Offjcv.
sps lw
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