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lift* Wimtz. 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. sepß lw _ 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. sepß d3w 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. sepS 3t