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jTiir. VfARRGM, - - - Editor.
Friday Morning. September 9,1864.
Tbe Retrospect and the Prospect.
Georgia is pretty generally in mourning.
Well, things look pretty gloomy to be sure;
but they are not desperate yet, and if our sol
diers will keep up their spirits and fight as
they do in Virginia—as they do in Texas—as
they did at the opening of the war—Sherman
maybewhipt and badly whipt yet. But to
do themselves, their wives, their mothers,
their sisters and their country justice, they
must not regulate their energies by their es
timate of the President or of their comman
der. No commander can win a battle with a
sluggish, dispirited, demoralized soldiery.—
Any commander can conquer with an army,
every man of which, resolves not to be con
quered. Nor must our soldiers be hunting up
excuses to get out of the ranks. It is lamen
table to see the hundreds of able-bodied men
who are sauntering about the country doing
nothing—worse than nothing—when their
country needs their services so much just
now. Let us hold our own for six months
and our independence is secure. This thought
should hurry every man to the field who is
able to fight, though his wounds be not en
tirely healed, nor his health entirely restored
from camp sickness.
It is mortifying to think of the territory of
the State surrendered to the enemy without a
fight, especially to those who believe it might
have been saved if Johnston had fought with
his known • skill in actual battle ; but after
all, the enemy cannot be said to hold more
than fourteen counties out of the hundred
and thirty (?) of the State. During the Rev
olutionary War the British might be said to
hold every county in the State, and Savannah
to boot. Let us take courage from the exam
ple of our fathers, quit quarreling about Joe
Johnston and Jeff Davis and by-gones, and
every man to the rescue with all his might.
“But Atlanta has fallen!” Well, so has
Knoxville and Memphis and Jackson and
Vicksburg and New Orleans and Little Rock,
and a hundred other towns and villages ; but
we are not conquered yet. Who ever heard
of such a fuss being made over the fall of a
twenty year old town, three hundred miles in
the interior of a State, as we and the Yankees
are making over the evacuation of Atlanta.
If we, of Georgia and Alabama, will do our
duty, and the President will do his, we will
make Atlanta a furnace to Sherman yet.
Death of Col. T. B. Lamar. —Colonel Thomp
son B. Lamar, of Florida, died on the 20th ult., in
Virginia, of pneumonia, contracted by exposure
after severe wounds received in the battle of the
16th ult. Col Lamar was a Georgian by birth
and education —tho only remaining brother of
Col. L. Q. C. Lamar, now of Mississippi—Col.
Jefferson Lamar, another brother, having fallen
on the bloody battle-field of Gettysburg. Col.
T. B. Lamar ©migrated to Florida somf ten years
ago, and his high talents and sterling character
soon brought him into public position.
High Rents. —Tuesday last, the Journal *ayi,
was a big renting day in Wilmington. A* an in
stance, tho store about twenty by forty feet, on tbe
S. E. corner of Market gad Front streets, rent
ed for $20,000, The rooms in the same building
in about the same proportion.- This piece of prop
erty brought over $60,000 rent for the next 12
months, commencing the Ist of October next.
Quick Work. —The Athens Banner of the
24th ult., says that two deserters from Sher
man’s army came to Athens on the 22d inet.,
and delivered themselves to the Provost Mar
shal. They were both Dutch, and one could
not speak a work of English. They left, Liver
pool June 21 st.. They were promised “light
duty” ns bookkeeper and hospital nurse, but
got a hot place near the front, of which they
very soon got tired. They only staid with
Sherman four days. They were auxious to
return to the 'old country. This is the way
the Yankees are enabled to continue the w r ar.
Two Dutchmen leave Liverpool June 21st, and
in two months are in middle Georgia 1 Think
of it
A company has been organized in South
Carolina to work a rich mine of lead, iron,
gold and silver ores, situated in Cherokee
county, N. C. It has been surveyed by an en
gineer of the Confederate Government, whose
report led to the organization of this compa
ny, with a capital of $1,000,000.
The Governor of Louisiana has imported
printing paper enough to supply all newspa
pers in the State, at reasonable rates.
The Richmond Examiner says that General
Jos. E. Johnston is in command of the forces
es the Valley of Virginia.
The Counter Revolution in the
STorth.
The New York Tribune publishes “a n»as» of
eorrespondence” to prove there is a wide spread
organization in the Northwest for the overthrow
of the government, (such as it is,) and adds :
We have no expectitign of keeping, anybody
out of it who is disposed to join it, or of convinc
ing those who are already involved of their duty
to abandon it. But loyal people should under
stand that the determination to organize Northern
revolution is a fixed fact, and. put themselves upon
their guard accordingly. That the government is
„ - „ _ ; l is taking measures to meet it
convince o. it, «uu » r
when it comes, we do not permit ourselves to
doubt.
It was incredible to many excellent people four
year* ago, that tho South could over rise .in re
bellion against the government to which North
and South alike owed allegiance. It took a whole
winter of events, culminating in the bombardment
©f Sumter, to boat the belief into thorn that the
South meant war. It is still more incredible now
that the events of the last four years should have
failed to convince the most short sighted that
Norther® sympathizers with treason are quite as
had, havo the same ends, and will seek them hy
the same means, as Southern traitors. Mason and
Dixon’s line is no bhr to treason ; it is not a crime
of purely Southern growth; the same influences,
the same designs, will nurture it in one lattitude
as well as another. Thq Southern traitor means
War or Disunion ; his Northern sympathizers
means Power or War. If he achieve the
first by peaceful means and restore the old alliance
with the South for their and her purposes, he will
try what force there is in arms, and come to the
aid of the Southern rebellion with Northern bay
onets. An attempt at a Northern revolution,!* no
more unlikely than a Southern rebellion was in
January, 1881. Men of similar character, bound
together by a common sympathy, aiming at the
same end, are likely to resort to similar measures
to attain it. The people of one section first eon
spired, then armed, and tnen broke out in revolt
against the government. A portion of the people
in another section, identified with them in princi
ple and purpose, have first conspired, and are now
providing arms ; and why should they not alse
break out in open revolt, when convinced that in
no other way can they attain to power and reia
■tate the old order of things in conjunction with
their old partisans from whom they have beea
violently parted ? A civil war of three years aad
* half should have taught us, at least that much
wisdom.
Speech of Emerson Etheridge.
The following is a speech delivered by
Emerson Etheridge at a McClellan mass meet
ing in New York:
Fellow Citizens :—I stand before you in
behalf of the many thousands of American
citizens, who, like yourself, have lost the
right to vote in the next Presidential election.
We look to yeu of the North to whom this
right yet remains, so to exercise it, that our
interests may be respected—oar sufferings
compassionated—and the fraternal love which
bound us as one people, may be rekindled un
der the band of an everlasting union. [Loud
cheors.] lam not here to represent that
class at the South, who, with their allies at
the North, have brought this, bloody stnte
upon the nation. Ido not speak for them.—
When you assembled four years ago, as sov
ereign electors and chose Abraham Lincoln
President of the United States, [screams and
hisses] we in the South were as devoteA to the
Union as you in the North. [Applause] The
South being numerically the weaker section,
were naturally jealous of their rights, and
when a long train of circumstances, culmi
nating in the raid of John Brown, had aroused
their fears to the most intense degree, follow
ed as it immediately was, by. the election of a
man who avowed the belief that the Union
could not exist, half slave and half free, they
were led to take an attitude of self defense
against, which they believed before God, then \
menaced their destruction. [Cheer3.] In j
connection with abler men than myself I ;
labored to persuade our people to rely upon i
your patriotism, to restrain within constitu- |
tional bounds your President and prevent ;
any treasonable act, if such be meditated, J
against the rights of the State and the people. !
[Applause and groans for Lincoln.] Conven
tions, however, were obtained, by a majority i
of votes, in most of the States.
But you will recollect that previous to the j
inauguration of Mr. Lincoln only six States
had formally adopted ordinances of secession.
In these a majority of the people were op
posed to a dissolution of the Union. Conven- j
tions assembled in alb the Southern States,
not for the purpose, as the people understood,
of unequivocal separation, but for the settle
ment of the questions of difference, and in the
phraseology of that day, to reconstruct their
Union. At that time Lincoln ' could hare
, overwhelmed the secession party by some sim
ple declarative act, which might have in'
spired confidence in his ability and sincere
intention to maintain the Constitution in its
integrity and wield the powers of government
for the equal rights of all. He was not the
man for the emergency. [Groans.] He met
the entreaties of the earnest men, North and
South, only with snivelling protestations of
good intentions. But this could not quiet
their fears. They remembered the vigorous
language of the old divine, “that the road to
hell is paved with good intentions." Look
ing over the past three years to the broken
columns of States, the mouldering ruins of
cities and towns, the devastation and ruin of
whole populations, to the vast armies of the
dead, to the hundreds of ‘thousands of wid
ows and orphans reduced to slavery, the ques
tion arises whether Lincoln was a traitor at
heart [groans] meditating the dismemberment
of these States and the usurpation of despotic
power at the time he swore, on the Evange
list of Almighty God, to “preserve, protect
and defend the Constitution? [A voice—“He
was a traitor,” and groans.] But have you
considered whether you have the power to day
to change the Administration by the ballot ?
Can you vote Abraham Lincoln out, and place
the government in the hands of a capable and
a true Union man ? Will Lincoln permit you ?
that is the. question. I have been convinced
for more than twelve months that he does
not intend the American people shall ever
again exercise the right of freedom of election.
[Cries —“Let him try it on.”] He has long
designed to continue himself in power, by
force or by fraud,' and he has at his command,
for that purpose, the most loathsome pack
ever bred by the corruption of unrestrained
power. [Loud cheers.]
I do not say he will dare interfere with your
election in this great State of New York by
taking military possession of your polls. But,
I say, he can as effectually do so by striking
down the right of free ballot, in Maryland,
Delaware, Kentucky, or Missouri. For, as it
is in the Kingdom of God, whatsoever injury
is done to the humblest of these States, or the
individuals therein, is done to the State of'
New York. [A voice—“ That’s so.”] Lincoln
intends by the bayonet to carry an electoral
vote for himself in the border slave States;
and if these are insufficient, then he will count
the votes of Arkansas and Louisiana, and
other bogus States, if necessary to make good
his election. Already has the first act in this
appalling drama been performed. He has
seated in Congress, in defiance of the will of
the people, members from the border States I
have just named, in order to count the fraudu
lent elen&riil votes or to elect himself in case
the choice should devolve upon the House of
Representatives. [Hisses.] I therefore sub
mit that, if it be your will to defeat Lincoln,
as I believe it is, you must such a major
ity of votes as will preclude him from the pos
sibility of counting his fraudulent votes against
you; or you must prepare to meet the danger
of which you have been timely warned by
Senator Wade and Winter Davis. [Tremen
dous applause.] Let "me, then, entreat you,
Democrats and Republicans, of whatever
name to combine all your strength—subordi
nate all your minor differences to that almighty
question, the salvation of liberty. [“We’lldo
it,” and loud cheers.] It is not my purpose
to inquire into the merits of the several polit
ieal organizations, each of which is striving,
in its own patriotic way, to bring the country
to a just judgment in the election of a Presi
dent. But I shall very briefly allude to the
resulting effects of your decision upon the
Southern mind. If you of the North would
have a speedy termination of this fractricidal
war and tue constitutional relations of all the
States restored in their integrity, you can do
it by electing Geo. B. McClellan next Presi
dent of the United States. [Cheers for Mc-
Clellan again again.]
On the contrary, if you would have these
States irrevocably divided; if you would have
the independence of the Confederate States
established and recognized by the great pow
ers of Europe, if you would have the slave
trade opened at the South, and the African
race doomed to wear upon this continent the
galling chain of servitude for thousand? of
years to come, you will have accomplished
that by the re-election of Abraham Lincoln.
[Screams and hisses.]
With all deference, let me say that the elec- |
tion of any man upon the platform of “peace
on any terms” would be regarded in the South
as tantamount to a recognition of Southern
independence. It would at once blast the
hopes of a large majority of the Southern
people who are now looking to the Presiden
tial election to open the door for a settlement
of all differences, and an honorable and glo*
rious return to the Union. [ Applause. J T©
perceive the force of the propositions 1 have
stated, it is necessary to have some distinct
idea of the predominating sentiment which
controls the Southern mind. Although that
people are acting in solido , as one vast and
mighty engine of war, they are divided as
they have ever been upon the question of
State, or local self-government, there is no
dissent among the Southern people. But the
masses are not fighting, for separable nation
ality, nor are they fighting for slavery.
With many the question is regarded as no
longer at issue, and there is no wish to cen
sure it. The party who now control the South
are fighting for empire. This party has ex
isted for years, just as your disunionisls have
existed at the North. And these are they who
lighted the torch of civil war. [Cheers ] But
j the whole people are grounded in the theory
; of State rights, and believe it a religious ob
ligation to maintain them against all encroach
j ments of the Government. [Renewed
; and applause.*
It has been difficult at any time to find one
' so ciavenas not to stand ready to slake his
j life for the, defence of these reserved rights
iof the States and the people. [Loud
i cheers.] When, then, the war per
verted to the very destruction of these rights,
can you wonder that they made common cau3e
’ with Jeff. Davis in resisting Lincoln s uncon
stitutional acts? Our peace per se friends
are not authorized to infer from this fact that
the Southern people are committed against a
union with the Northern people. The people,
for instance, in Texas, Louisiana or Arkan
sas, would as readily agree to live with the
States of Illinois or New York under the na
tional Constitution, as they would with Vir
ginia or South Carolina, under the Confede
rate Constitution. The December message of
Lincoln [groans] and .his amnesty proclama
tion, together with his recent letter “To whom it
may concern,” is met with one consuming
blast of ineffable scorn. This claim of a right
in the President of the United States to modi
ify State Constitutions, repeal State laws, and
dictate institutions, coming, as it does, square
ly against the most firmly rooted convictions
of the Southern mild, proves Lincoln, if he is
not the veriest fool that was ever entrusted
with official power, a traitor, and a disunionist.
[“He is both.”] This Union can only be re
stored by a majority of the Southern people
in their corporate capacity, for States can on
ly act by organs recognized and created by
State and Federal Constitutions. This must,
necessarily, be the work of time requiring
great moderation and justice on the part of
the general government. If you will, elect
McClellan this can be accomplished without
the firing of another gun or the lo3g of anoth
er life. *
A Scene in the Chicago Con
vention.
Ons of tho delegates from Ohio, having nomin
ated Hon. Thomas H. Soymour, of Connecticut,
as a candidate for the Presidential chair, Mr. B. G.
Harris, of Maryland, seconded the motion, and
proceeded to eulogize his past services and abili
ties. Mr. Harris continued as follows :
On© man named here to day is a tyrant—[cheers
and hisses] —He who first initiated the policy by
which our rights and liberties were stricken down;
that man is George B. McClellan. [Confusion.]
Maryland, which has suffered so much at the hand
of that man, will not submit to his nomination in
silence. His offences shall be made known. This
convention is a jury appointed by the people to
pass upon the merits of public men whose names
may be presented for the support of the great
Democratic party. General McClellan, I repeat,
is a tyrant. [Great confusion.] He stood here to
iudict him—[A delegate—“l call him to order.”]
The President said he hoped there was ne man
present who would deny the right of free speech;
certainly no Democrat will. At tho same time he
hoped no delegate would feel called upon to pursue
a course of remarks so offensive as to interfere
with the harmony of the convention.
Mr. Harris read McClellan's erder of arrest
against the Maryland Legislature, and proceeded
to comment upon the same, but tho confusion
was so great that the speaker could not be heard,
except to say all the charges of usurpation and
tyranny that can be brought against Lincoln and
Butler he can make and substantiate against Mc-
Clellan. [Hisses, cheers, and cries of “Vote for
Jeff. Davis.”]
The President wished the convention would
come to order; there is no attack made here, he
said, but what can be made elsewhere, and the
gentleman against whom those charges are being
made desires they shall be made now and here, so
that he can moet and explain them. These inter
ruptions do injustice to ourselves, to tho speaker,
and the distinguished gentleman against whom
they are made. Lot the gentleman from Maryland
have a full hearing, and afterwards hear the other
side from gentlemen who are ready and able to
make a full explanation.
Mr. Harris proceeded to say that McClellan was
an assassin of State Rights, a usurper of liberties,
and, if nominated, he would be beaten everywhere,
as ho was at Antietam: He added, he could not
go home and ask the members of that Legislature
to vote for such a man. He would not himself
vete for him. [Hisses.]
Mr. Carrigan, of Pennsylvania, raised a point
of order, that the gentleman having said he would
not *vote for McClellan if nominated, he had ne
right to-take part in the proceedings of the con
vention.
The President decided the point of order well
taken, and, amid the wildest confusion, Mr. Har
ris retired from the stand. When Harris, of
Maryland, was making towards his seat, after
being declared out of order because of his re
mark that, if McClellan was nominated, he would
not support him, a person, not a delegate, although
sitting within the circle, said to him : “You ought
to be turned out of the convention, you traitor!’
whereupon Harris turned round and knocked him
out of his chair. This incident contributed much
to the general confusion which prevailed for several
minutes.
Mr. Wickliffo withdrew the name of Franklin
; Pierce.
Mr. McNeil, of Illinois, on- behalf of a portion
, of the Illinois delegation, and, as he believed, of a
1 majority of the delegates of the great Northwest,
! nominated Horatio Seymour. [Prolonged cheers.]
The President said the motion was out of order.
| Motions to adjourn were made, but declared out
1 of order.
Mr. Long, of Ohio, took the stand in opposition
: to McClellan. Ho said Lincoln had been guilty of
■ interfering with the freedom of elections, and of
! arbitrary arrests. He continued: In your reso-
I lutions yeu have arraigned him before the people
! of the country for these tyrannies and usurpations,
I and yet you propose to nominate a man who has
i gone even farther than Lincoln in perpetrating
| similar tyrannical measures upon the sacred priv
j ileges and rights of the people. McClellan is
j guilty of the arrest of tho Legislature of a sover
! eign State.
He has suspended the writ of habeas corpus,
; and helped to enforce an odious emaucipation pro
clamation of Lincoln; the willing instrument of a
corrupt and tyrannical Administration, aiding,
while possessing military power, all its efforts to
I strip Amorican freemen of their dearest liberties.
| Will you so far stultify yourselves as to make him
! the standard-bearer of the Democracy ? With all
his heart he hoped not. He had never done other
wise, and as betwoen Lincoln and Fremont, and
any man calling himself even half Democrat, he
would have a. choice, and would be found voting
with his friends; hut be begged the convention
n*t to nominate McClellan,
i Almost any other man who claims to be a Dem
ocrat would satisfy him and would satisfy the
Northwest. Weak a3 is your platform in many
respeets, wc will stand up and do all in our power
te maintain it; but, iu God’s name, Jo not add te
its weakness by placing such a man in nomination.
Mr. Carrigan, of Pennsylvania, followed in an
swer to Harris, and quoted from McClellan’s letter
to Burnside, to Halleck and to Buell, when these
gentleman were under him, to show he invariably
admonished them that the only object of tbe war
was to preserve the integrity of the Union and the
majesty of the laws, andjthat he invariably cau
tioned them to strictly guard against any infringe
ment upon the rights of property and person.—.
[Great applause.]
Mr. Cobb, oft Alabama, in Nash
ville, Terns,
Nashville, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 1864. —On Sunday
evening.last, the Hon. R W B Cobb, of Alabama,
arrived in this city by the Nashville and Chatta
nooga railroad. An officer- who accompanied the
gentleman made a requisition on Clipt. Crane, A Q
M., for an ambulance for Mr. Howell Cobb, and the
report soon spread abroad that we had possession
of Major 6'eneral Cobb, of the rebel army. The
gentleman and his attending officer rode to the
City Hotel, when the former registered himself “R
W B Cobb, Alabama —Kansas,” the latter being in
the column of the Hotel register headed “destina
tion.” A man may have at the present time good
and sufficient reasons for leaving Alabama, but why
a member of the rebel Congress should prefer Kan
sas to the locality from which tht* one hailed, even
though badly stirred up by Rosseau’s raid, was a
mystery to all who knew anything of the feeling ex
isting in Kansas against members of the rebel Con
gress.
Mr. Cobb’s appearance, too, was singularly re
markable, and attracted general attention. He is a
tall spare man, with long hair, on this occasion
combed back over his head, without any respect for
the style of parting in vogue among the followers of
Fremont, Lincoln or anybody else, except Madam
Pompalour. He wore a summer suit, of linen —
probably fro in its appearance the suit of 1861. It
dated anterior to the blockade at any rate. He
carried ahuge linen haversack, such as are in vogue •
amdng the rebels, and had it well filled—a custom
not so general among the rebels. His appearcnce
was that of a Southerner in summer, in need of re
pairs.
He yesterday called upon Gens. Johnston and
Heckman. He is spoken of here as a strong Lhiion
man, and is much respected by the Union men from
North Alabama anil of this city.
It leaked out during the day that Mr. Cobb is on
some mission t<f Washington. Perhaps, as he comes
from the same region of country that Clement C.
Clay, who has been figuring in the Greely Jewett
transactions at Niagara, represents, he goes for
ward to ensnare Uncle Abe into another peace pro
position, with the peace left out. You will doubt
less soon hear of him at Washington.
Mr. Cobb is a member of the rebel Congress. He
was held by Rosecrans last year in large bonds not
to take his seat. He professed and professes still to
be a Union man. and doubtless his loyalty is un
questionable. He wanted fiosecrans to allow him
to go Richmond and take his seat, saying that he
thought he would have great influence there, I be
lieve Foote, of this State, at the head of a commit
tee ot rebel Congressmen, reported Cobb disloyal,
but what action the rebel Congress took in this mat
ter I c-annot say.— Car .V Y Tribune.
TELEGRAPHIC.
REPORTS OP THE PRESS ASSOCIATION.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year
1863. by J. S hrasher, in the Clerk s offioe es
the District Court of the Confederate States for
the Northern District of Georgia.
Mobile, Sept. 8.
Last night one of our picket boats was captured
below the obstructions. Another coming to her
asststance she was cut loose and escaped.
Gens Taylor and Forrest arrived here to-day.
Petersburg, Sept. Bth. ,
Washington Chronicle 6th received. Lincoln
has issued a proclamation requesting that thanks
giving be offered next Sunday at all places of pub
lic worship for national existence; also prayer for
the protection of his soldiers; for blessings and
comfort to the sick, wounded and prisoners, and
widows and orphans of those fallen in the serviee
of the country. Also a proclamation to return the
national thanks to Farragut, Canby and Granger
for the reduction jf Forts Powell, Gaines and
Morgan, also to Sherman and men for the capture
of Atlanta.
Immense demonstrations have been held at
Oswego, Troy, Boston, Buffalo, New Londen, Sar
ataga, Rochester and New Haven over the fall of
Atlanta. In most places 100 guiis have been fired
and speeches made. Tho Philadelphia Inquirer
thinks if Johnston had been in command instead
of Hood, the Federal army would have been de
feated before this.
A U. S. frigate seized the pirate Georgia on the
20th ult. 20 miles from Lisbon; took her crew on
board and sedt her to New York.
Telegrams from London say that the capture of
vessels sailing under the British flag has been
protested. The event caused much controversy.
The U. S. frigate Brandywine was burned at
Old Point on Saturday, and involves the loss of
over a million of dollars.
Grant takes decided ground against ,the Chica
go platform, and in favor of Lincoln.
The Washington Correspondent ®f the Phila
delphia Press and Chicago Journal says Vallan
digham wrote the Chicago Platform.
Sherman says his army has been fighting con
tinuously since May and needs rest. Gold 241 £.
Richmond, Sept. 8.
Official dispatches from Heod’s army, 7th, state
that Sherman has left Jonesboro and gone in the
direction of Atlanta. While at Jonesboro Sher
man visited our wounded and hospitals, and sta
ted that he was going to Atlanta and rest nis ar*
my. He would next go to Andersonville.
Northern dates to the 6th received. News un
important.
The steamer Georgia has been destroyed of Lis
bon.
The draft in New York and Brooklyn has been
indefinitely postponed.
Grant will be reinforced at once.
; ♦ ♦— •
Experiments were made at Toulon, with anew
kind of iron clad gunboat improvements which en
abled it to move at a rapid rate either on land or
water. This small vessel sets very low in the water,
and has on deck an iron clad shelter pierced with
six port holes and eighteen embrasures. They can
be taken to pieces in eighteen blocks, including the
engine, and can if required be transported across the
land to any point required with great celerity.
Certain of their Independence.— The Chicago
Times speaking of the war says :
The continuance of this war on present terms is
as certain to result in the independence of the se
ceded States as night and day are to follow each
other.
Price of Rents. —The high price
demauded for rent for the coming year, is
very justly exercising the minds of many
of our citizens who are not property hold'
ers, and those, who forced by the calamis
ties of war, are compelled to take up a
new residence, and seek a friendly shelter
somewhere, if such a place can be found.
We are sorry to say, that Macon does not
seem to be that place. Some owners of
houses are demanding one thousand doL
lars, where one hundred was deemed suf
ficient last year, and advancing their rents
in that proportion generally. Bor build
ings worth last year $l5O, $20(1 and $250,
from SI,BOO to $2,000 are demanded.
All this, in consequence of the misfortunes
that have driven a plundered and .home
less people amongst us. Some have saved
a wreck from their heretofore ample
means—some have nothing but their ins
dustry to sustain them. Is this the way
for a Christian people, fighting for their
freedom to receive the unfortunate ? If
Sherman’s torch were to be applied to such
houses, there would be few mourners, ex
cept those disappointed of their extortion
ate gains, and the question is not so very
distant or improbable that he may settle
this difficulty of rents. Some tenants
threaten to hold over, and take the limit
and terms of the law in these cases. The
operations of the law are now very slow,
and who could blame them for taking that
resort? —Journal and Messenger.
A Heavy Wager. —The flan Francisco Alta
California gives the following account of a
strangely constituted wager. About ten
months since, two gentleman of that city
agreed to the following conditions :
If the Federal forces did not capture Rich
mond within thirty days from that date he
was to give his opponent a single sound eat
able apple, if Richmond held out but sixty,
ha was to give him two apples, and so on,
the number for each month until
Richmond was taken, to the end of time, if
that event did not occur before. Nine months
have passed since the first apple was handed
over, and the list of apples delivered at the
end of the successive months, is as follows:
2,4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 246—total, 511.
Thus far it is all a good joke, and the
loser has paid forfeit regularly with good
grace, but yesterday it ruined a §lO piece to
meet the demand, (apples are 10 to 20 cents
per pound, and it took a 50 pound box.) —
Should Richmond be taken within the present
month, he would get back all the apples he
bad lost and one more, which as the price
will then be at the very high notch, would
make more than even, but should it hold out
a year longer, and he continues to pay his
losses, his last payment would cost him $lO,-
950, and he would be 881,900 out; in three
months more he would be out $686,340 ; and
should the war last from this date as much
longer as it has already lasted since its com
mencement, no nation on earth could begin
to meet the terms of the wager, and tbe pay
ments to be made in greenbacks.
Tbe scandal-mongers of Paris, are busily
employed ia the dissection of that exceedingly
fast woman “Cora,” whom the London Times
immortalized some three years since as the
“Pretty Horsebreaker.” She lives at Paris at
an enormous expenditure—drives the best
horses, has the most elegant equippages, and
completely eclipses the creme de. la creme of
Parisian society. She numbers in her train
all the leading spiri sos Paris, whether of
wealth, fashion, of snobocracy. She is neith
er young nor remarkably handsome : but there
is, or appears to be, a fascination about her
which is perfectly irresistible. It was only
the other day that young Murat was sent as a
sous-lieutenant for patronizing “Cora” too
frequently in public. The Emperor is partic
ular oh these points—the true fact being that
“Cora” will not patronize him. *
CITY MATTERS.
T. J. JACKSON, ...LOCAL EDITOR.
Raise in Rates.—ln consequence of a heavy
advance in printing paper, we are compelled to ad
vance tho price of subscription to our paper, which
will, until further notice, be as follows:
Daily, per month. - - $5,00
For three months, - - $15,00
♦ ♦—* — .
Notice.
Headquarters Post,
Columbus, Ga„ Sept. 8,1864.
Orders, t
No. 1. S
In obedience to Paragraph 11. Special Field Or
ders No. 97, from Headquarters, Army of Tennessee,
I hereby assume command of this Post.
LEON VON ZINKEN,
Colonel Comd’g Post.
sep9 3t
I left my Waiking-stiok in the Post Office yester
day morning, and it was afterwards seen in the
hands of a youth of the place, who will please leave
it at the Times Office. It is - a cedar stick, with a
limb bent from the top and inserted in the body of
the stick, like the guard of a sword. It is peculiar
ly valuable to me as the relic of a departed friend.
A. B. LONGSTREET.
Salt and Sugar Kettles. —Knowing the
great scarcity of these articles, we take interest 1m
calling the attention of those in want to tho ad
vertisement of Johu D. Gray <fc Cos. Wo aro in
formed on good authority, that there is ample tins*
to save all the cane now matured, by stripping it,
and letting it remain in the field for svvon to eight
days, and then cuttiag and housing it in a shady
place for 10 to 20 days and the product of juice
will be much more satisfactory than if ground im
mediately after cutting the cane.
Trb new Post Commandant. —Col.* Leon Von
Zinken, it will be seen, assumed command of this
Post yesterday. We are indebted to a friend in
timately acquainted with the Col. for the following
account of his antecedents. He is tho eldest son
of a distinguished Prussian nobleman and General,
received a thorough military education and enter
ed the Prussian service when only sixteen years
old; resigned his commission and traveled until
1857, when he settled in New Orleans. At thebe
ginning of the war, he acted as drill master for
several companies ; joined Cos. A, (the t St»uben
Guards) of the 20th La. Regt., and wa* mustered
into service as Orderly Sergeant of that company
in February, 1861. This regiment was at that
time commanded by Col Richard formerly Prussian
Consul at N. 0. Col. Zinken was next appointed
Sergeant Major and elected Lieutenant, then ap
pointed Adjutant and elected Major. He acted
with great gallantry at tbe battle of Shiloh, lead
ing several charges, a3 tho official reports. will
show. He was distinguished in the army of Ten
nessee as a strict disciplinarian and efficient officer.
Was acknowledged by Gen. Hardee and other
superiors as one of the best informed and educated
officers in tbe service. Has been in all the battle*
fought by tho Army of Tennessee. Was Inspec
tor General on General Breckinridge’s Staff dur
ing the Mississippi campaign and at tho battle of
Chickamauga. He was wounded in the fight at
Atlanta on tho 28th of July, and was severely in
jured by the falling of his horse on him. Ho hero
led his men to within 30 yards of the Yank#©
works. Wa are assured that this statement is but
simple truth, and that Col. Von Zinken having
cast his lot with the Southern Confederacy and
with Georgia, will U3e every effort to defend
them and their rights. He is ona of Louisiana’*
representative men in all the attributes of chivalry
and high-toned gentility. -Coming among us with
such a prestige we feel an abiding confidence that
our new Commandant will speedily place our city
upon the best possible war footing, and organize
eur local troops with the utmostl-apidity and effici
ency.
To the retired Commandant Muj. Dawson, wa
dosire to return our sincere thanks for his uniform
courtesy to the press, and for his efficiency in per
fecting our local organizations to their present
state, feeling assured that wo hut express the sen
timent* of our people when we say, that from a
disorganized and chaotic mass, ho has during hi*
stay among us, reduced order and efficiency.—
Wherever Maj. Dawson’s lot may be cast be will
carry with him the best wishes of this community.
A Canine Veteran. —We saw at Battery
Gladden yesterday a curiosity in the way of a
small dog. We have read of the “file du reg
iment,” and in the early part of thi3 war we
have seen genuine vivandier3 marching in
military jackets in the ranks of regiments en
route for the front; but we were yesterday
introduced to a “chien du regiment,” in the
shape of a fierce little specimen, who, at the
moment he was pointed out to us, was brist
ling his back and trying to get up a fight with
another dog five times as large a3 himself.
He had lost his left hind leg below the knee.
That was at Shiloh. He had a hole
through his ear, done by a minie ball at Vicks-,
burg. On his body were the marks of a ter
rible wound, received from a piece of shell,
also at Vicksburg. He belonged to the 22d
Louisiana, ar.d had been with the regiment
ever since it was formed. A3 the “dog of the
regiment,” he is of course a great pet, and he
has a game look and mien that doe3 no dis
credit to that fighting corps. —Mobile paper.
Thb Collision. —The Macon Confederate con
tains the following account of the collision at
Barnesville;
The railroad collision at Barnesville was a f&t
more serious affair than at first supposed. We
learn that thirty-one dead bodies were taken from
the wreck killed instantly, and that forty wounded
soldiers were again wounded—many mortally.—-
One lady was killed. Two engines and six carl
were crushed to pieces.
The citizens of the neighborhood came en masse
to the scene of the disaster and rendered every as
sistance they could. There were eighteen Yankee
prisoners on the down train, none of whom were
hurt. As soon as the accident occurred they went
to work and did everything in their power to res
cue the dead bodies and the wounded caught under
the mass of rubbish. This should bo remembered
and the men rewarded by being placed first on the
list for exchange.
All accounts agree that the passenger train was
a few minutes out of time, and that it was design
ed for the other to meet at Barnesville. The col
lision occurred in a cut and a eurve two miles on
the other side of that place, the trains coming to
gether without any one on board either having
the slightest warning until within a few yards of
each other.
Confederate States Tax Notice
Jfany Tax Payers in this district have failed to
give in their Tax to the Assessors. Notice is now
hereby given to all who have failed to do so, that
if they do not come up and give in their Tax with
in the time prescribed by law that they will be
treated as defaulters.
J. A. L. LEE,
Collector 41st District of Georgia.
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Confederate Tax Notice.
All persons who have paid Specific Tax for 1864,
and all who have paid Quarterly Sales Tax from
Ist January to I st April, 1864, are hereby notified
that they are due the Government, one fifth of the
amount paid as soldiers’ Tax to be paid in new is
sue. lam also prepared to receive the Quarterly
Sales Tax for the quarter ending :oth June, 1564,
and the Soldiers’ Tax on the same.
J. A. L. LEE,
* Collector 41st District of Georgia.
septS lw • ——
LOST !
lta t? A'P tvr A KEY, the finder will be liber-
A by leaving it at the Timet OHiee,
cr at A. M. Brannon’s Drug Store.
sep3 4t i
AUCTION SALES.
By Ellis, Livingston A Cos.
0 wiu““1 a in fS oKr'fe aUO °’ olock '’"
FIFTY ACRES LAND
Six or seven miles East of tbe City, near
the old Express Road, formerly belonged
to Jno. C. Mayguirt—lo acres cleared,
balance heavily timbered; well watered
with a Dwelling on the same.
A LIKELY NEGRO WOMAN, 28
years old, Plain Cook, &c., with her 3
Likely Children.
A LIKELY NEGRO WOMAN, 30
years old, a Good Cook, Washer and Iron*
er, and Field Hand, with 3 Children.
A VERY FINE
TWO HORSE SPRING WAGON,
of Superior make.
1 Sett Double Harness.
1 Two Horse Wagon.
1 Bbl. Fine Rye Whiskey.
4 Bbls. Fine Corn Whiskey.
Lot Furniture, Fine Letter Paper, Ac.
sp9 4t S4O
By Ellis,
ON SATURDAY, 10th of September, at 10 o’clock,
we will sell in front of our store,
A Man!
35 y’rs old, good field hand.
Lot Rope;
8 Boxes Tobacco;
3 Barrels Whiskey ;
3 “ Mo lasses;
2 u i l;
—ALSO, —
A VERY FINE CLOSE CARRIAGE!
but little used, with Harness.
PAIR of FINE CARRIAGE HORSES!
kind and gentle.
A Good Cooks ug Stove !
Complete,
Feather Bed and Bedding ;
Chest of Carpenters Tools :
Glass and Crockery Ware;
Standard Books, &c., &c.,
■iKC-The Horses and Carriage can be seen at Har
ris’ Stable. spS tds27
By Ellas, Livingston & Cos,
A DESIRABLE RESIDENCE IN
wynnton:
.A.T .A/CraTIOIN - -
ON Tuesday, 13th of September, at 10 o’clock, we
will sell in front of our Auction lioom
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.
given immediately.
sps td S4B
Bv Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
A Valuable Plantation
FOR »^9lXj33.
WE offer for sale in Chattahoochee county, twelve
miles from Columbus, containing 900 acres of
Land —300 of which is_ good bottom —balance pine
mixed with oak and hickory—3so acres cleared.
On the promises is a good dwelling with 5 rooms;
out houses for4o negroes: a good Saw Mill in good
running order; <7rist Mill, nearly complete; Ghn
House and two (?ins; Wheat Thrash and Fan; Tan
Yard, Ac., &c. sp6 lOt
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
200 G^LLOIsrS
FB atm GBAPE BMW!
A VERY FINE ARTICLE.
For sale in quantities of 10 Gallons and upwards,
ag3o ts .
SUGAR KETTLES AND MILLS!
V! T E have a Lot of 80 and and 100 gallon Sugar
■ v and Salt Kettles on hand and for sale. Parties
in want of them, by forwarding their orders can
have them filled immediately. We are still taking
orders for Sugar Mills.
sep9 7t JOHN D. GRAY & CO.
Confederate States Tax Notice for 41st
hist., Muscogee Cos., Ga.
All Tax Payers who are liable to pay Taxes un
der Section 4, paragraph 1, 2 and 3, of the “act to
lay additional taxes for the common defence and
support of the Government,” approved February
17,1864, will at once come forward and make re
turn of the same to the Assessors. To avoid ques
tions to the Collector and errors in the Tax Payer,
I copy the section and paragraphs in full.
Sec. 4. Upon profits made in trade awl busine;-',
as follows;
I. On all profits made by buying and selling spir
ituous liquors, flour, wheat, corn, rice, sugar, molas
ses or syrup, salt, bacon, pork, hogs, beef or beef
cattle, sheep, oats, hay, fodder, raw hltTes, leather,
horses, mules, boots, shoes, cotton yarns, wool,
woolen, cotton or mixed cloths, bats, wagons, har
ness, coal, iron, steel or nails, at any time between
the first of January, eighteen hundred and sixty
three, and the 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 defence, and carry on tlifc Gov
ernment of the Confederate States,” approved April
24 th, 1863.
11. On all profits mado by buying and selling
money, gol i, silver, foreign exchange, stocks, notes,
debts, credits, or obligations of any kind, ndt enu
merated in the preceding paragraph, between the
times named therein, ten per cent., in addition to
the tax on such profits as income, under the act
aforesaid.
111. On the amount of profits exceeding twenty
five per cent., made during either of the year
eighteen and sixty-three and eighteen hundred and
sixty-four, by any bank or banking company, insu
rance, canal, navigation, importing anl exposing,
telegraph, express, railroad, manufacturing, dry
dock, er other joint stock company of any descrip
tion, whether incorporate or not, twenty-five per
cent, on such excess.
All 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. LEE,
Collector 41st District of Geergia.
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General Orders.
Headq’ss, Government Works, lObd.j \
Columbus, Ga., Sept. 5, '864. >
General Orders, 1
No. 4. J
I. In pursuance of Paragraph 111., General Or
ders, No. 15, Headquarters Georgia Reserve, dated
! Macon, Ga., September Ist, 1864, the operative*
| connected with this department, and its contractors
: will be organized into companies for Local de
jj. The companies organized will be compose!
exclusively of the operatives of this department,
111 The several contractors and superintendents
will have their men assembled, in order to form the
companies and elect their officers, on Saturday next,
the 10th inst., at 2 o’clock p. m., at the Machine
Shop of this Arsenal. The organization will be ef
fected under the supervision of iwo commi33ione i
officers, who will make report to these Headquar-*
ters of all proceedings.
Bv commart 1 of
Cob M. H. WRIGHT.
A. W. Harris, Adj’t.
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