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Cftt ialitmlmiS Mims*
M, If. - - Editor.
Thursday Morning, September 8, 1864.
The Evacuation ot Atlanta.
Special Cerrespondehco Chroniclo and Sentinel.
The Evacuation of Atlanta Necessity of the
Movement—Disposition of Government Property
—Reported Desertions and Straggling—gup.
posed position of the Army.
Near Decatur. Friday Morning, 1
Sept. 2, 1804. J
l'he occurrences of Wednesday last have ended
in what I intimated in my last might be the for
tunes of the day—the evacuation of the Gate City,
and tho removal of the forces left iu its trenches
to a point where they could be united with those
who have been acting independently under Gen.
Hardee, tor the last few days.
Early on the morning of the Ist it was officially
ascertained that the disasters on Wednesday eve
ning was fully as serious as first reported and that
tho forces of the enemy on the Macon road con
sisted of five full corps of infantry, with a large
force of cavalry. It was also known that a large
force was south of the Cbattahooehe, in the viein
ity of the railroad bridge. Both of these were
thfeateniag the city, and a- it would have been
folly to attempt to resist both, aa evacuation was
promptly determined upon, while the forces of Gen.
Hardee and Lee should make an attempt to reach
a point where they would be joined by those that
’night be withdrawn from the city.
The removal p{ all the supplies and ammuni
tion that the transportation facilities of the army
would permit, commenced early Thursday, and
was continued throughout the day. Large quanti
ties of provisions%ere also distributed to tho p> o
plo, and at nightfall all on lund stored in ihe
Georgia railroad warehouse, and cars on tho tr.vk.
Throughout the day, also, the several.bodies of
troop3, as they wero withdrawn from the defences
and tiled through the city, were permitted access to
the public stores. The rolling stock of the rail
roads, consisting of about one hundred cars, and
six engines, was concentrated near the rolling mill
beffte dark, and by that hour all tho troops had
passed through, with the exception of the rear
guard, loft to prevent struggling. And bore J
would mention a fact creditable to the State troops.
Their withdrawal was accomplished in good order
and without confusion- or straggling. The regu
!ars acted differently. The order wa3 for the
troops to mass in the vicinity of McDonough, and
the wagon trains and all moved out in that direc
tion. Previous to my leaving the telegraph office
was also closed, and at dark tho oracuation was
completed, with the exception of tho detailed
guard before mentioned.
Os course great excitement prevailed throughout
the day, but a moderate degree of good order ob
tained. A. sow licentious citizens and soldiers em
braced the occasion to display the wickedness of
their natures, but the great mass of both classes
acted with the greatest decorum. The citizens
who had suffered from the malice of the enemy
during the bombardment, looked on sorrowangly,
and indulged in conjectures as to what would bo
their fate when once in the enemy’s power; while
ihe troops lilod through tho streets, with a steady
tread it is true, but nevertheless with sorrow depic
ted on their weather beaten countenances.
As to the scenes that followed through tho night
I can only report second-handed. The order was
to burn only government property left behind, but
this would necessarily involve the destruction of
tho Georgia depot, the rolling stock in the city,
and the rolling mill. A gentleman who loft the
city early this morning informs me tho depot was
fired about eleven o’clock, and the cars, Ac., an
hour or two later. The explosion consequent upon
tho firing of the ordnance train took place about
two o’clock this morning, and was heard and felt
to a great distance. There are various imports as
to the burning of other property, but from the best
information I can gather, no instance of great
outlawry occurred.
Whether the Yankees yet occupy Atlanta, I can
not say, .but presumo the telegraph will inform
you ero this roaches you. I only know that there
was nothing to prevent their making an entry, as
the evacuation was comploto. Many citizens came
out, but thousands remained—some because they
could not get away, but many from choice. At
daybreak this morning tho enemy had not made
their appearance in tho city, but there was noth
ing to prevent their doing it at any moment.
I hear many reports of desertions by wholesale,
and of dissatisfaction and straggling, Some of
this is inevitable, but it is to be hoped it has not
prevailed to tho extent reported. It must be ad
mined that the discipline of the army has not been
so favorable during tho last thirty days as previ
ously ; why it has been so is palpable. The police
regulations of the camp have been much loss strin
gently enforced, and it is to be feared that the
undue license allowed has resulted deplorably in
this emergency.
When you next hear from me 1 hope it will be
from the vicinity of “the front,” for which point I
shall endeavor to make my way as soon ns pos
sible.
The Aominaiior. of Mcliellau,
The New York Tribune of the 30tb, makes
the following editorial comments upon the
nomination of McClellan for the Presidency of
the United States. It is amusing to see how
Greeley snarls over the event:
A Did AT THB DEMOCRACY.
Although the ceremonial of nomination has
not yet been consummated, the proceedings
at Chicago leave no room to doubt that George
B. McClellan will to-day, be formally present
ed to the people as the “Democratic” candi
date for President of the United States—aa
the candidate of that “Democracy’' which
consists in the denial of the fundamental pro
position of our fathers’ immortal Declaration
of Independence—of # that “Democracy”
which maintains that the weak, ignorant and
simple, are, because of their weakness, the
rightful as well as the natural prey of the
cunning and the strong—of that “Democra
cy” whereof Jefferson Davis has ever hitherto
been, and in principle still is, a chief apostle,
and whereof Bishop Hopkins fitly officiate,? as
theological and moral expositor.
lu a single aspect this nomination is grati
fying-. Hostility to the war for the Union, as
at, once unwarranted and needless, is the car
dinal impulse of a decided majority of those
who are expected to vote this Fall the Demo
cratic ticket. That the Union has no right to
‘'coerce a State,” however much that State
may endeavor to coerce the Union, has been
the first article of their creed ever sines it be
came evident that such coercion of States
might work the downfall of Human Slavery. !
Ytt here is their chusen standard bearer fully
on record as a volunteer agent in that coercion ;
which they denounce as unconstitutional, and j
which they hold to be'condemned bv those •fa- j
tnous Kentucky and Virginia Resolves ot
1098- ! 9, which they affect 10 hold in at least
equal reverence with the The Commandments.
And McClellan has notonlybeen a volunteer
agent of coercionhe is distinctly
on record as recommending Federal conscrip
tion in aid of its prosecution, and as having
ordered the arrest of the Maryland Legislature
to preclude their attempting or pretending to
take their State out of the Union. To an earn
est and honest believer to “State Sovereign
ty,” the support of McClellan for President
must be a bitter dose, only to be swallowed
under inexorable compulsion.
m’CLELLAN DEVOTEP TO SLAV ft POWER.
It mil be swallowed, however; for, though Mc-
Clellan has not evinced a consistent and logical
adhesion to the Democratic dogma of “State
Rights,” he has never faltered in his devotion to
the slave power, and that is the real to ehstone of
Democratic orthodoxy. True, ho volunteered for
the war; but be did so to save slavery- from the
effects of its own suicidal madnos3, not to punish
it for its treason. True, he commanded for a timo
the Uuion Grand Army, but no reb3l slaveholder
over justly complained that his chattel was invited
by this General to exchange the service ot treason
for that of his country; and no outnumbered rebel
force ever justly complained that its retreat was
hurried or seriously annoyed by McClellan or any
one under his command. True, be made war ou
the rebels; but he made it so gently, so consider
ately, so languidly, that they habitually praised
his Generalship while it lasted, and regretted it
when it was no more. There wero thousands of
rebels and rebel'sympathisers then among us,
ryery one of whom was loud in his praises; and
ninety-nice hundredths of whom wiii vote —where-
•ver they cun vote at all—to make him President.
Ue will get a good many votes in this city and
vicinuy ; but must of them will bo cast bv meu
who chuckled over all his dcfeatß, and would now
auch rather vote directly tbr Lee or'even Jeff.
» Davis than for him. They will vote for MoCleli&ti,
:eause that is the nearest practical approach to
voting that the rebellion is right, and that tho op
position to it ought to be put down; but they
would much rather go straight to their mark.—
Hvpocrisy, says tho apothegm, is the homage that
Vice pays to Virtue; and the fact that tho anti
war party is obliged to nominate for President a
candidate who has a war varnish upon him, hoping
thereby to catch a portion of the soldiers’ vote, is
a forcible tribute to the loyalty and patriotic intu
itions of the American people. He is not Union
General enough to hurt him with the rebels, who
will help him all they can in the canvass, even
though it be necessary for that purpose to make
a show of denouncing and decrying him; but he
is General enough to catch a number of votes from
soldiers who served under him and Liked his easy
campaigning and courtier-like ways, and who
would abhor the idea of voting for Vallandigham
or Fernando Wood.
The more intense and more pronouncad Cop
perheads can fall back to him, while the rear guard
could not be pricked on to the*position of T. 11.
Seymour or Alexander Long : so the nomination
is, in the obvious sense, a wise one, and will poll
the full party .vote. And it will, after a little pri
vate whispering and nodding, be not merely ac
quiesced in. but heartily approved, even by Val
landigham himself; for tho Slave Power has never
had a more docilo tool. ll* was selected by it to
lead one of the brigades of the army of filibuster*
wherewith General Quitman was on the point of
invading Cuba, expecting to revolutionize it in the
interest of American slavery, and he accepted the
position. Ho was tho first of our Generals to issue
a manifesto tiiftateuing to crush any insurrection
of slaves against their rebel masters. The rebel
journals have charged, and wo have seen no de
niai on Ilia part, that,he offered his sword to the
Confederacy before he did to the Union. He
never even pretended to do anything against the
rebels after the President issued his premonitory
Proclamation of Freedom though his army was
twice as strong as their’s which confronted it, and
which had just been driven out of Maryland, and
though he Lada shorter and easier road to their
base than they had. Wo have beard that he ha?
claimed credit for this in a Grand Convention of
one of the copperhead secret orders. In short,-he
is as devoted to the propping up and perpetuation
of the tottering fabric of Human Bondage as Jeff
Davis himself, and a “Peace” Copperhead who af
fects hesitation or coyness as to his support, ought
forthwith to be kicked out of the party and or-*
dered to stay out.
SOMETHING SADDENING.
Yet there is one aspect of his nomsuatiou which
is saddening. Believing that the Democratic par?
ty has a very considerable chance of success this
, Fall, in case thoir rebel friends shall have good
luck henceforth* to the election, weconkl wish that
they had presented a strong, posiitivc, original,
capable man as their candidate for tho highest
position on this continent, if not on tho globe. All
reflecting men must realize that our high trusts,
and especially this one, have been so ably filled of
late as they wero in the early days of the Repub
lic. Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson,
James Madison : compare these with Polk, Fill
more, Pierce', Buchanan and the falling off is de
plorably manifest, though Mr. Buchanan is apoli
-1 tician of respectable, and Mr. Fillmore one of more
i than average abilities. Vow we do not regard Mr.
, Lincoln as a great man: yet no candid observer
i who knows both will pretend that Gcu. McClellan
is his equal in ability; though Lincoln had scarce
ly any schooling in his youth, which McClellan
received a liberal education at tho public expense.
Timid, hositating, negative, he is a plaything in
the hands of some of the worst and most danger
ous men in the Republic, who hope to achieve
power through his assumed popularity with the
ignorant and thoughtless, and then to lay the
country at the foot of Jeff., Davis, begging him to
indicate the constitutional and other changes that
will reconcile him to the task of governing the
whole Union instead of a part of it. and thus to
place the heel of the Slave Power on the neck of
prostrate Freedom and the inalienable Rights of
Man.
They must be baffled and beaten, or the New
World is surrendered to tho odious spirit of Caste
—to tho irou rule of those who believe hard hands
a badge of servitude, and at once dread and de
test the education of the Children of the Poor.—
Unionists of every State! we adjure you to shake
off your apathy and rally for the imperiled liberty
and life of the Nation!
Further irom the forth.
THIS CANDIDATES AT CHICAGO—A SKETCH OF
THEM.
The New York Tribune has a very long ar
ticle, giving sketches (with a Tribune pencil,
of course,) of the various candidates at Chi
cago. It is interesting as far as it shows the
reeling of t he'Gretuey party to the poiticians
named ; and besides that, it contains a good
deqi of truth. We give sketches of what may
be considered the representative men of the
Anti-Lincoln party in the United States :
Gen. George B. McClellan is the first name
on the list. He relies mainiy upon a feeling
alleged to exist throughout the army and
country, to the effect that injustice has been
done to his military talents by thi3 “imbecile
and blundering Administration.” General
McClellan is the incarnation of hostility to
Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Lincoln’3 policy. He is
an officer of blameless* personal repute, and
was highly thought of before the war by his
brother officers—more especially by those of
strong secession affiliations. He proposes to
run on the War Democratic platform, and will
be bitterly opposed by the ultra “Copper
heads,” or “Peace at any price” faction. Gen
eral McClellan has received much injury
among the older and abler polticians from
efforts made by certain of his less discreet
friends to thurst him down the throat of the
Convention, will they or nill they. This has
been done by a “Mutual Admiration Associa
tion,” of which the Ketchum family appear
to be chief bottle washers—Messrs Barlow,
Marble, Belmont and the other acknowledged
friends of “Little Mac,” repudiating all the
outside efforts in this direction, and General
McClellan himself, it is said, disapproving all
such extra zealous advocacy.
Governor Horatio Seymour is the next on
the list, and will appear as the special cham
pion ot the Central and Western States against
the alleged dictation of the New England Pu
ritans. He is also tojbe provided with a sec
ond string to his bow, as “grand register of
the draft and of arbitrary arrests”—a charac
ter in which many of his “friends" will rec
ognize him as a perfect’master of the situation.
Governor Seymour is a gentleman by birth
and education, a. man, of old family, and pos
sessing a large landed stake in the.peace and
prosperity of the country. He is, therefore,
the less to be pardoned for his sympathies,
which are distinctively of the “Copperhead”
type; and for his course of official action,
which has heretofore mainly tended to pro
duce estrangements between the forces of the
National and State authorities. Apart from
his political tenets, which we hold to be sim
ply execrable, he is a personage who would
reflect no social discredit on the requirements
of the White House. He has all the external
polish on which his eo-partners of the South
ern “Chivalry” place so high a value; and
probably there could be no man nominated by
the Democratic party whose election would
be so fatal to the advocates of progress. In
the election which placed him iu his present
position as Governor of our State, he was
largely and actively aided by Mr. Thurlow
Weed, and all the adherents of the Weed
school of politics. Whet her these gentlemen
would give him the same support while run
ning against Mr. Lincoln may be considered
doubtful. Very certain it is, however, that
in the Central and Western States, Governor
Seymour’s name and antecedents would prove
strong : although, in the army, his vote would
probably fall short of that which General
McClellan could command. Seymour would
run as a positive man on the platform of hos
tility to New England ideas and influences;
while General McCleihm would mainly appear
as typifying a w ant ot confidence in the pres
ent Chief Magistrate and his advisers.
Gen, -John A. Dix would be the strongest
candidate the Conventional Chicago could se
lect. He is. however, much too loyal and up
right an officer to hope for consideration in a
tabernacle giving shelter to so many snakes
of the Copperhead family. Had Gen. Dix
thrown up his commission when ordered to
suppress the World and Journal of Commerce
—had he in other words, been guilty of open
mutiny his chances would have amounted to
absolute certainty of becoming the Democrat
ic choke. Being a. loyal officer,'however, and
.not forgetful of his oath to obey orders, he
contented himself with entering a vigorous
protest against the Ol der of suppression when
first received, giving the true l»nt<>rv of the
forged proclamation in full, and announcing
that be would not executa the commands
sent to him until further advised of tho wishes
of the President. The order of suppression
was then repeated in a more peremptory form,
and General Dix had nothing for it. but either
to obey or resign. To talk of an officer s re
signing when given some distasteful oraer is
absurd, and would be an end of military dis
cipline. No officer’s resignation is of avail
until it has been duly accepted; and, there
fore, even had General Dix tendered his, be
would none the Us# have had to put the or
ders in force. The General, however, is a
soldier of the old school; and, having asserted
his individual opinion by his protest, ho at s
once, and without hesitation, proceeded to
obey she renewed orders of those “in authori
ty over him.” Personally, General Dix is a
gentleman who would do honor to the chief
magistracy of the nation. He is one of the
few surviving representatives of that elder and
better type of statesmanship in which clasical
attainments and the perfect cultivation of the
intellect were not considered derogations from
Democratic soundness. His chances, how
ever, are noy equal to his merits, and his nom
ination would very likely be followed by an
organized “bolt” of the Peace at any price
fraction to be followed by an “unconditional
peace” nomination.
Os the three ether candidates, little need
be saijj. Ex-President Franklin Pierct is
pipe-laying in a very adroit manner to secure
General McClellan's defeat and the reversion
of the McClellan strength. He professes un
bounded devotion to the fortunes of “Little
Mac,” in the fond hope that McClellan be not
successful, his friends will reciprocate fa
vors, and “go solid” for the ex-President,
whose residence is a syuoym for “Peace and
Concord.” Some Democrats think this a very
pretty stratagem, but more pretty than prac
ticable. Apart from the possible accession
of stiength to oe gained in this way, ex-Pres
ident Pierce is wkboul followers or allies.—
As to the two remaining candidates, they
may be quickly disposed of. Judge Nelson is
a man of the past, now nearing his sixty-ninth
year. The party will feel that- it needs a
younger man for the position, and one of ex
ecutive experience, k> face the unspeakable
labors devolving on our National Chief Magis
trate in such a crisis. Fdr the pa3t forty
years Judge Nelson has been issuing judicial
judgments, but performing no executive acts,
uor ever assuming authority incases of doubt
ful precedent. His wholo education, high as
it has been, is of a character to disqualify him
for the office of President; and at bis age it
would be impossible to change the habits of long
life to such a degree as to enable him to dis
charge tho duties of that office in such stormy
times as these. As to Mr. Guthrie, of Kentucky,
there is sufficient objection in his great age
and the infirmities of mind and body thereon
attendant. With this brief review of the
candidates coming prominently before the
Democratic Convention, we may safely and
cheerfully remit their claims and personal
availabilities to the consideration of “whom
it may concern” with something of the phil
osophical indifference of the good women who
waited for the issue of the combat between
her husband and the bear.
TME COMING DRAFT IN THE UNITED STATES—
PREPARATIONS EY THE GOVERNMENT AND
THE PEOPLE FOR NEXT MONDAY.
Monday next, says the Richmond Dispatch,
of the 3d, ought to be quite a lively day in
the United States, if tho signs in the papers
from that country are to be believed. Both
tha Government and the people are prepar
ing lor the draft—the one, to enforce; the
other, to resist it. In New York city there
are rumors of another riot, and the Govern
ment has seut troops there to prevent any up
rising. A New York paper says :
George Dawson’s Washington letter to the
Albany Evening Journal of yesterday, affirm
ing that the draft will certainly be enforced
on the 5s h proximo, and that the proper pre
cautions have been taken to guard against re
sistance to it, is having a much wider reading
here to-day than communications from that
source are usually honored with. Mr. Daw
son is principal proprietor of the Journal, and
as his person! relations with the President are
understood to be iDlimale, he is understood to
speak off - such subjects as if “by authority.”
The effect of his assurances on the public
mind are visible in the general relinquish
ment of the hitherto prevalent idea that the
drawing would be deferred. Apart from Mr.
Dawson’s assurances,however, I may state that
we have satisfactory assurances from higher
official sources that the draft will be enforced on
the day alluded to. Provost-Marshal-General
Fry telegraphs (this day) to General Hayes to
spare no pains to have all the arrangements
perfected by the Ist proximo. There is reason
to believe, also, that an umerous body of Wes
tern troops are now on their way towards this
city with a view to the maintensnefi of order.
In Illinois the revolution fever seems to be
high from the following extract from a letter,
giving- an account of a meeting at Springfield
on the 21st ult.*
The Hon. and Right Rev. Henry Olay Dean
next spoke. He laid it down as a distinct
proposition th&t there were two rebellions
present in this country—that of Davis and
that of Lintwin. We had been fighting the
former, and now he would like to fight the lat
ter a little. He declared that the Democratic
party were responsible for ail the. villainies of
the Administration, The way to correct the
war was to refuse to vote, supplies, as the
Commons in England were wont to check the
King. If this would not suffice, then ireshould
appeal to the higher and a migthier power
that of revolution. He was in favor of Union,
but not the bloody one sought by abolition,-
You could not bring a herd of cattle to one of
their- number freshly slain.
At the second stand, during this time, the-
Hon. Lewis Ross, Hon. Gris. Kribben, of St.
Louis, and Josh Alien, of Williamson county,
addressed a crowd. The speech of Cris. Krib
ben, was & violent secession one, Such as the
Hon. Cris. would find it unhealthy to deliver
at his home in St. Louis. He took the bold
ground that the war m&sprima facie wrong, and
that the Federal Government had no power
and no right to coerce a State. It was such a
speech as should have caused the ears of eve
ry Democrat, hearing it, to tingle with shame j
for listening to a moral traitor.
Altogether the tenor of the assemblage was ;
much more conservative than that at Peoria j
on the 3d.- In point of numbers, I should es- 1
lunate it at about, four thousand. Everything j
passed off in quiet so far as known, I send a j
brief synopsis ot the resolutions passed, to* !
wit :
Resolution first re-affirms the devotion of !
the Democracy to the Constitution and Union, j
and also to the Kentucky and Virginia resolu- ■
lions of 1798 and 1799; further, that the De
mocracy of Illinois reiterate and adopt the
resolutions of the Democratic State Conven- ;
tion of January, 1861, which disapproves of
coercion as bringing on the horrors of civil war. ]
How far the purpose of resistance in Indiana ;
may go, may be gathered; from the fact that j
aa immense amount of arms has been import- \
ed into that State, and by the following ex- j
tract from a letter dated at Indianapolis. Au- j
gust 10th :
Facts, just come to light, put anew face on j
the address of the State Central Committee of j
the Democratic party. Its session of two days j
and nights was one of perplexity and peril, j
On the- one hand was the defection of the '■
peace wing of the party from its non-commit
tal nominees, which had assumed such alarm
ing proportions that the secret Order proposed
revolution at once. There were present at
that meeting, such Congressmen as Yoorbees,
who, more than a year ago. proposed to settle
the issue between his friends and the Govern
ment by the swonL Joseph R. Edgerton, of
the Fort Wayne district, was also with the
committee. On the 6th of June, ISB3, he de
nounced the Burnside and Huscall policy in
Ohio and Indiana, and said : “The end of these
acts of despotism must come, either by Mr.
Lincoln’s administration wholly abandoning
them, or by their resistance by the peo
ple even unto death.” Such were the men
who met to squelch the scheme for revolution
planned by the Sons of Liberty, who fixed the
16th of this month for seizing Gov. Morton
and other officials, getting possession of the
arsenals, liberating rebel prisoners, establish
ing a provisional government, and thus array
ing the Northwest in rebellion.
Bingham, of the Sentinel, and Ristine, State
Auditor, were called up before the committee,
and admitted they belonged to the Order, but
were not in its inner circle, and did not know
ot the plot.
McDonald returned from the North on Sat
urday. He met the committee; and H. H.
Dodd and J. C. Walker, State Agents at New
York, were called before them. At first they
were defiant, but admitted that revolution had
been planned. Athon was to be Provisional
Governor. The Order wa3 to strike, at the
same time, at Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio,
and Chicago, Illinois. That they had recently
met Sanders and Holcombe at Clifton, Canada,
and agreed on this plot. McDonald asked
Dodd, !! How many troops do you think there
are about Indianapolis?" He answered, “Only
a few invalids and veterans?’, “There are
enough/' said McDonald, “to whip you and
clean out your whole Order in the State.”
McDonald and others of the committee pro
tested against revolution now as madness, and
prevailed on Dodd to send a secret circular,by
virtue of his authority as Grand Commander,
ordering the various Lodges to desist from
revolution now. The circular was sent, and
the 16th passed off without the revolution
planned by the Order.
This revelation throws new light on the ad
vice of the State Central Committee to the
Copperheads to form open armed organiza
tions, and proves that the whole intent is- to
put, in the name of law, arms in the hands of
Democrats, and then make them allies of the
secret Order in a revolution which has been
postponed for a more convenient opportunity.
Meantime, these Copperh.eacls will strive for a
provocation for eival war.
TilK ABMISTIOIC WITH THE CONFEDERATES —
LETTER FROM SENATOR WILSON.
A statement, copied from New York papers,
has been telegraphed to New England, to the
effect that 1 had been to Washington to urge
upon the President the policy of an armistice
with tho rebels. There is not the slightest
foundation for the report, as I have .never en
tertained, for a moment, any other thought
than that of conquering a peace by the defeat
of the rebel armies.
No public man connected with the Admin
istration is in favor of an armistice. I per
sonally know that President Lincoln and the
members of his Cabinet have undoubting faith
in the success of our armies in the field ana
the ultimate complete triumph of our cause.
And. with this belief, they will pursue the
most, vigorous measure to raise money and
men. Henry Wilson.
Natick. Aug. 20, 1864.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Anew opera house,, seventy by one hun
dred and sixty feet, is to be built in Baltimore,
The Pennsylvania Legislature has appro
priated §IOO,OOO for the relief of the Cham
bersburg sufferers.
Gen. Brayman has confiscated the Catholic
Cathedral at Natchez. This act causes intense
excitement among old settlers.
Brig. Gen. Hammond, Surgeoa*General of
the United States, has been dismissed from
the service for stealing and lying.
The Union League Club of New York has
presented Admiral Farragufc with a sword for
his Mobile success.
An official letter says that four Confederate
officers have been placed in close confinement
in Fort Delaware to retaliate for Capt. E. M.
Driscoll, now a prisoner in the Confederacy.
The Confederate cruiser Florida, in compa
ny with the Electric Spark, had captured the
Federal merchantman Imfican, Nicholas
Deiiis, bound from California to New York,
having seventy thousand dollars in specie on
board and an extremely valuable cargo. The
Florida took out the treasure and portions of
the cargo and her crew. The vessel and cargo,
valued at £2O,‘OOQ, were then set fire to and
destroyed.
The steamer Crescent has arrived at Hilton
Head, South Carolina, with six hundred Con
federate officers, to be placed under fire off
Charleston. These officers, it is positively
stated, will not be exchanged.
Gen. Sheridan is reported as advancing up
the Valiev on the 29th ult.
* •
An officer from the front, on the 25th, says
that Sherman was moving the bulk of his
army to a position on the Macon and Georgia
railroad, in the rear of Hood’s forces. Heavy
skirmishing is going on.
Gold fell in New York, on the 29th, 10
per cent., and was quoted at 237. The New
York Times says that the prospect of McClel
lan’s nomination did this.
A PROCLAMATION!
By JOSEPH E. BROWN,
Governor of Georgia.
The distracted condition of our country and the
calamities which have befallen us. are evidence
that our individual and national transgressions have
provoked the displeasure of Almighty God who
rules the destinies of nations an t states as well as of
men. He is using for our chas; isement our wicked
but powerful enemy who has overrun a large por
tiors of the territory of our own State, as well as of
the Confederacy, and has laid waste or greatly dam •
aged our cities, towns, villages and fields. God’s
word, however, is full of promise that if we will turn
from the error of our ways and humble ourselves
betore Him, and implore Hi3 pardon for our sins as
a people, and in our aggregate capacity as a State,
as well as in our private character as individuals,
will acknowledge Him as Lord of Lords and King
of Kings, Ijte will hear us in Heaven, his lofty dwel
ling place, and answer us in peace.
In the hope, therefore, in this time of great pub
lic calam ty, if our whole people will unite in the
name and through the merits of our Lord and Sa
viour Jesus Christ, in imploring pardon and divine
aid in our great struggle, that God will bear us. will
give victory to our arms, and by confounding the
counsels of our enemies, and causing terror and
dismay in their ranks, will enable us to triumph
over them, and to drive them from the soil of our
beloved (State, I issue this, my Proclamation, set
ting apart THURSDAY, the loth day of this pres
ent month, as a day of fasting, humiliation and
prayer. And I request that ad secular employment
be suspended on that day, and that all business
houses and public offices be closed, and that the
entire people of this State, both sex, do assemble
at i heir respective places of public worship, and
with all their hearts and their souls, that they in
voke the favor ad aid of Almighty God, And I
especially request the reverend clergy of all sects
and den min;ttiopg v to attend and lead-in religious
exercises uppi xj.,.*.*) to too occasiun. j. »!s«> uu»st
respectfully request that General J. B. Hood, and
the army u'‘der his command, and all other Con
fe erate and State officers and soldiers upon the
s il of Georgia, unite with the people of this State
in the appropriate observance of the day, lor the
purposes ab<ve mentioned. Whilst our enemies
re iy for success vpon their superior numbers and
their groat resources, i we will place our trust in
the God of. Israel, and do our whole duty towards
him and to each other, the day of our deliverance
will be ne r at hand.
Given under my hand and the Great Seal of
the State, at tho Capitol in Milledgeville,
this sth day of September, 1864.
JOSEPH E. BROWN.
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General Orders*
Headq’bs, Govebxhekt Works, [Obd.J I j
Columbus, Ga„ Sept. 5,1884. 1 j
General Orders, 1
No. 4. j
I. In pursuance of Paragraph HI., General Or
ders, No. 15, Headquarters Georgia .Reserve, dated
Macon, Ga., September Ist, 1864, the operatives
connected with this department, and its contractors
will be organized into companies for Local de
fence.
11. The companies organized will be composed
exclusively of the operatives of this department,
111. The several contractors and superintendents
will have their men assembled, in order to form tho
companies and elect their officers, on Saturday next,
the 10th inst., at 2 o’clock p. m., at the Machine
Shop of this Arsenal. Tho organization will be ef
fected under the supervision of two commissioned
officers, who will make report to these Headquar
ters of all proceeuings.
By comrnan i of
Col, M. H. WRIGHT,
A. W. Harris, Adj’t.
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LOST I *
A LARGE BRASS K EY, the finder w‘!l be lib*T
ally rewarded by leu vng it at the Times Office,
or at A. M. Brannon’s Drug Storo
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TELEGRAPHIC.
REPORTS OP THE PREB9 ASSOCIATION.
Entered according: to act of Congress in the year
1863. by J. S brasher, in the Clerk’s office of
the District Court of the Confederate States for
the Northern District of Georgia.
Richmond, Sept. 7.
Gen. Hood reports officially the withdrawal of
the enemy from his front, retreating towards At
lanta.'
Macon, Sept. 7.
The enemy continue to retire his main force on
Macon and Western railfoad towards Atlanta.—
We drove them out of Jonesboro yesterday, and
retook a good Aiany wounded prisoners. [Our 1033
from all causes in the battles of last woek is now
ascertained to hare been only 1500.
Petersburg, Sept. 7th.
The Merld of the sth received.
Stanton telegraphs Dix that Sherman’s official
report shows that he withdrew from Atlanta on
the 30th: made a break in the West Point ltoad,
and reached a good position, from which he struck
the Macon road. His right was commanded by
Howard near Jonesboro, the left under Schofield,
near Rough and Ready, and centre under Thomas
at Couch’s Station. Howard drove tho enemy
from his position near Jonesboro, and after hard
fighting Sherman broke the railroad from Rough
and Ready to Howard’s left, throwing his whole
army between Jonesboro and Atlanta. He made
■ a general attack on the enemy at Jonesboro on
Thursday; the 14th corps under Gen. Jeff Davis
carrying the works in splendid style, taking 10
guns, 1000 prisouers. That night the rebels re
treated to Lovejoy’s Station; the federals follow
ing. Hood finding Sherman between him and
a considerable portion of his army, blew up his
magazines and left the right, when the 20th corps
occupied the place. Sherman says his loss wilj
not exceed 1200, against 300 dead rebels, 350
wounded prisoners and 250 well ones. Slocum
under date of tho 30th telegraphs that the rebels !
destroyed 7 locomotives, 81 cars loaded with am- i
munition, small arms and stores. JIo left fourteen
pieces artillery and a large number of small arms
in Atlanta.
j||The Herald says a division of rebel cavalry
under Lomax attacked a portion of Sheridan's
rear at Bunker Hill ou Saturday and regrets their
being defoated and driven back .0 miles towards
Winchester. The rebel artillery barely escaped
capture: *
The Herald says the victory at Atlanta has put
down the rebolliou, though tho mountains of Vir
ginia may be an unpleasant trip for years to j
come.
Great rejoicing iu Burlington, N. J., Utica, Au
burn, Cleveland, Brooklyn, and in Vermont, over
tho fall of Atlanta.
New York City has been exempted from* the
draft.
ThG morning Jane’s North Carolina pickets
surprised by a flank movement and captured 12
iufantry videttes near Davis’ Houso ou the Wei- j
don railroad. Nothing else of interest.
Headquarters Army Tens., Sept. 7.
The enemy has fallen back beyond Jonesboro, i
The valuable public property destroyed at At- j
lanta, consisted almost only of ordnance stores.— i
Os these not a sufficient amount was lost to in- |
commodo tho army. The first reports were exag- |
gerated. , \
Tlie Man on Horseback.
So McClelland has vaulted into the
saddle, arid the tourney begins. Abe will
command the regular troops of the house
hold. He will control every vote which
power or plunder can influence, Little Mac
all those who have been ejected from
office or disappointed of their expeeta*
tions. He will, besides, lead all those
whom fear of conscription and love of
quiet disposes to hate the war, and desire
some abatement of the strife and excite*
ment. We are very dubious of Mac ; he
may be a “friend of ours,” but we do not
think he has done much to prove it. Still
he may be the man to represent the shift
ing phases of Northern sentiment, or em
ploy power to aggrandise himself and per
secute us, Upon this subject we, howev
er, await the developments of Atlanta and
Petersburg, not forgetting the‘“coming
draft.’
The rumor that Fernando Wood is to
figure in the joust, as the squire of Mac,
wants at this moment confirmation. We
have more confidence in his integrity than
; that of most men of his ilk. He has un*
dergone so much persecution, and has
stood his ground so manfully, we should
not be surprised if he is sincerely the
friend of his country, and wishes to save
her from the shameful abyss opening be
fore her. We do not suppose he would
abandon his principles to secure a nomi
nation, and must think he expects some
how to carry them out through his emi
nent file leader. The “Tribune” speaks
of the nomination as “a peace platform
with a war candidate.” We can offer no i
speculations at present, and content our
selves with chronicling the rumor. No
doubt the resolutions adopted and the
speeches made will illustrate fclm meaning
of the Convention. Wc will endeavor to
analyze its action. —Richmond Enquirer.
Confederate Stales Tax Notice for list
Dish, Muscogee Cos., Ga.
All Tax Payers ic ho are liable to pay Taxes un
der Soetion 4, paragraph 1, 2 and 3, of the "act to
lay additional taxes for the common defence and
support of the Govern ment,” "approved February
17, 1864, will at once come forward and make rc- i
turn of the same to the Assessors. To avoid ques- '
tions to tho Collector and errors in tho Tax Payer,
I copy tho section and paragraphs irfTuU.
Sec. 4. Upon profits made in trade and busing..-,
as follows:
I. On all profits made by buying and selling spir- j
ituous liquors, flour, wheat, corn, rice, sugar, molas- '
ses or syrup, salt, bacon, pork, hogs, beef or beef!
cattle, sheep, oats, hay, fodder, raw hides, leather, i
horses, mules, boot3, shoes, cotton yarns, wool, !
woolen, cotton or mixed cloths, hats, wagons, har
nfss, coal, iron, stoel or nails, at any time between
the first of January, eighteen hundred and sixty- j
three, and tho first of January, eighteen hundred |
and sixty five, ten per cent., in addition to the tax
on such profits as income under the “act to lay tax
es for the common defonoe, and carry on tho Gov
ernment of the Cod federate States,” appfoved April ■
24th, 1863.
11. On all profits made by buying and celling
money, gol 1, silver, foreign exchange, stocks, notes,
debts, credits, or obligations of any kind, not enu
merated in the preceding paragraph, between tho
times named therein, ten per cent., in addition to
the tax on such profits as income, under the oel
aloresaid.
111. On the amount of profits exceeding twenty
five per cent., made during either of the years
eighteen and sixty-three and eighteen hundred and
sixty-four, by anj bank or banking company, insu
rance, canal, navigation, importing an 1 exporting,
telegraph, express, railroad, manuf&eturtng, dry
dock, er other joint stock company of any descrip
tion, whether incorporate or not, twenty five per
cent, on such excess.
Ail who do not come forward and make their
returns within twenty days from this date will be
dealt with as defaulters, and the penalty of the law
visited upon them.
J. A. L. Litil'j,
Collector 41st District of Georgia.
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CITY MATTBftS.
T. J. JACKSON, LOCAL EDITOR.
Raise in Rates.—ln consequence of a hear/
; advance in printing paper, we are compelled to ad
: vance the price of subscription to ourpaner, which
• will, until further notice, he as follows *
| Daily, pex month. - . ' SS>QQ
j For three months, - . iir, (;o
j Hot Weather. —We are still blessed -with
| ardent a spell of weather, as ever falls to tho lot "
|of mortals hereabouts. Too hot to work, too hot
I to play, too hot to eat, too hot to sleep. Verily
i we ar « in a most uncomfortable “stew."
1 •——
A New Tin Cur.—Wo are pleased to annouacs
the arrival in our office of anew tin cup, from
which all hands can quaff ad libitum cooling
draughts-of nature’s nectar—that “beverage pro
| pared by God to nourish and invigorate his crea -
! tures and beautify his footstool.” Time was when
a tin cup was considered a small affair, but now,
when everyting is valued by what it costs, we are
disposed to regard jt as a considerable institution
The old woman who had tho liberty of making
three wishes and took a tin cup every time,
| wouldn’t be considered such a big fool row as
! formerly.
Fast Day.—Wc publish to-day the proclaim
tion of Gov. Brown, setting apart and recommend •
ing the observance of Thursday the 15th inst,, as
a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer in the
State of Georgia. Wc regard the suggestion as
opportune. It is now apparent that divine inter
position accompanying the valor of our arms, alone
can savo us from the chains of the hated foe, and
it is mete and proper that we should thus acknowl
edge our humble reliance upon Him, who holds
in his hands the destinies of nations and indi
viduals.
Our Hospitals and Wounded Soldiers.—Wo
give place to the following communication eharg
ing the Hospital authorities with culpable neglect
of sick and wounded soldiers arriving at the de
pot in this city. Wo have interested.ourself some
what in the matter and learn from the Chief Sur
geon, that it is customary when sick and wounded
soldiers are sent to the hospitals here for hita to
be notified of the fact prior to their arrival by tele
graphic dipatohes, and in such cases lie assures
us he renders every facility within his power to
make them comfortable at the depot, and from
thence to tho various hospitals. Tt frequently hap -
pen?, howover, that large numbers of wounded
are en route for other hospitals and on furlough,
pass through Columbus without tho Surgeon hero
receiving any notification, and consequently in
such cases it is not within his province or ability
to render any aid. While in the latter case, it
ii undoubtedly the duty of somebody to render
assistance in furnishing food and in assisting the
wounded from car to 'car. wo think it haildy fair
that all the blame should attach to the hospital
authorities here, for if they discharge their duty
faithfully to all the wounded sent to tkoir imme
diate care, they will doubtless have their hands
full. Wo think the duty rests on all our citizens
alike to relieve tho distress of those passing
through the city. We make these remarks not t'J
shield any culpability or neglect if.any there be.
but to give the parties assailed fair play.
Do tub Hospital Authorities do their dut*
to the Wounded Soldiers?— lf so someone else
is terribly'at fault, The trains arrive every morn
ing and there are few or none to lift the helpless
and assist tho crippled and groaning soldier to
tho hospitals. Thin is undeniable. To obviate
tho difficulties and dangers of night running and
arrivals at the Depot in tho dark, the Railroad
officers here andiu Macon, recently offered to run
an exclusive “soldiers train” to leave by 5 o’clock
in the morning, and come through by daylight,
and tho offers warn refused, on the ground that
hospital officials could not attend to it so car
ly in the morning !! So tho wounded mast still
suffer in the darkness and arrive bore to find no
aid. Thiftk of it ye who have husbands, fathers;
and sons in the service! Think of it citizens at
home in your comfortable houses! No one oab
afford to take pains enough to lessen sufferering of
this kind. T.
Confederate States Tax Notice.
Many Tax Payers in this district have failed to
givo in their Tax to the Assessors. Notice is new
hereby given to all who have failed to do so, that
if they do not come up and givo in their Tax w th
in the time prescribed by law that they will bo
treated as defaulters.
J. A. L. LEE,
, Collector 41st District of Georgia,
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Confederate Tax Notice.
Ail persons who have paid Specific Tax for 1844,
and all who have paid Quarterly Sales Tax from
Ist January to Ist April, 1864, are hereby notifiod
that they aro duo the Government, one fifth of the
amount paid as soldiers’ Tax to bo paid in new is
sue. lam also prepared to receive the Quarterly
Sales Tax for tho quarter ending oth June, 1364.
and the Soldiers’ Tax on the same.
J. A. L. LEE,
Collector 41st District of Georgia,
SCptS Ift
iituiiUiin, Hsinsoa Artillery i
Every member of the Company is summoned to
appear at Temperance Hall, this evening at 8 o’clk,
on business of great importance.
Tho non-commissioned officers will meet in front
of Jaques’ Shop, at 5 1-2 o'clock, the same after
noon, to receive orders, &e.
By order of ....... ,
it. B. BAKER, Capt
R. B. McKay, O. S. apß It
j A UCTION S ALES,
By Kills, Livingston A €o.
! ' * _ _
: % UEBiUBLE lIESIDEiVI'KfS
WYWTOY!
■A.T -A.TJ OTIO2ST
ON Tuesday, 13th of September, at 10 o’clock,
will sell in front of our Auction Jioom
A VERY DESIRALH RESIDENCE
in Wynntou, 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 i« a Good
Residence with four rooms.
given immediately.
sps td $lB
Bv Ellis, Livingston A
A Valuable Plantation
fob. SAXiB,
\\J h oiler for sale in Chattahoochee
IT miles from Columbus, containing 900 acres vi
Land—3oo of which is good bottom-ba an« Piu.
mixed with oak and acres a ro(rag ,
On the promises is a good dwelling .
out houses for 40 »
running order; Crist n ands an; Tar.
House and two Gin? ; Wheat i auu
Yard, Ac , &c. lA
SSy Livingston & &
200 C3--A.XjXjOTSI l-J
FIK'MT,«fI.I CMK nuin!
A VERY FINE ARTICLE.
For sale : n quantitios of 10 Gallons and upwards,
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