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COLUMBUS TIMES
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Change of Schedule.
Omci Engineer and Superintendent, i
Charleston and Savannah Railroad, >
Charleston. June 7,1864 J
THURSDAY, June9,l*s6l, an i until further
'J notice, the Schedule of the Passenger train will
be as follow, viz:
Leave Charleston 9.45, a. in.
Arrive in Savannah 5.40, p. tn.
Leave Savannah : 5.30, a. in.
Arrive in Charleston 1.15, p. in.
This Train makes direct connections, going north
and south, with the Northeastern Railroad, at Char
leston, and the Central Railroad at the Junction.
if. S. HAINES,
June 14 ts Kngineer and Superintendent.
Chsutgc ol Schedule.
/ i N and after Sunday, June 19th, the Trains on
'/the ouacogee Railroad will run as follows:
PASSENGER TRAIN:
Le»y<* Colnrabus 0 45 P. M.
Arrive at Macon 3 25 A. M.
Leave Macon 8 10 P. M
Arrive at Columbus 4 25 A. M.
FREIGHT TRAIN :
Leave Columbus 5 00 A. K.
A wive at Columbus .4 55 A. A
W. L. CLARK,
roar I 1 .) It Supt. Muscogco R, R.
TSi rough to Montgomery
NEW SCHEDULE.
MONTGOMERY & WEST POINT
RAILROAD COMPANY.
CtfLUMBUS, August27,lß6l.
i VN and after August 27th. the Passenger Train ou
** the Montgomery and West Point Railroad will
Leave Montgomery at 8:00 a. rn.
Leave West Point at 7:10 a.m.
.lrrive at Columbus at 5:32 p.m.
Leave Columbus at 5:50 a.m.
A rrive at Montgomery > at 3:00 p. in,
Arrive at West Potnt at 4130 p. m.
EHeight Train leaves Columbus at 8:40 a in.
Arrives at 8:27 p m
D. H. CRAM, Sup’t x Eng.
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MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD.
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Girard, Ala., Aug. 22, 1864.
. 1 \ and after this date Trains on this Road will
1 f Run Daily (Sunday excepted,) as follows:
Passenger Train
Leave Girard at 3 00 p. m.
Arrive in Union Springs 730 “
Leave Union Springs 5 35 a. m.
Arrive in Girard at 10 00 “
Freight Train.
Leave Girard at. 4 00 a., m.
Arrive in Girard at 6 00 p. m. ;
B. E. WELLS.
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BROWN’S FLY SHUTTLE LOOM,
(Will Weave 30 Yards per Day.)
SPINNING-WHEELS and COM-SHELLERS! i
Manufactured by A. 1). BROWN & CO. !
4Srordcr3 received by M. P. Ellis & Co.*Ns&
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THOMAS SAVAGE, Agent,
(At Mulford’s old Stand,)
NO. 101, J3NOJ±JD ST.
I« UK W tIMMC
Sheeting*, Shirtings.
Twills, Tarns, fi.lusey*,
iatgaaiay Coffee,
Tobacco, Hlce,
Nails of all siy.es, j
&e.. avv«
jul27tf_
Ml WHS!! ift WHS!!!
GOODRICH &. CO.,
BROAD STREET,
now opening a splendid assortment of
sme mii run » whs.
FRESH FROM EUROPE' via Bermuda, which
they will sell cheap; for cahh. _ aug27—lm
STEJfcMNC* EXCHAAR.E!
a FEW Hundred Pounds of Sterling Exchange
M for sale in sums to suit purchasers by
agio tt B ANK OF COLUMBUS.
Harney Rarie A Repaired.
THE undersigned will Manufacture and Repair all
I Kinds'of Harness.
FOLSOM & CODY,
spl 2w Under Cook's Hotel.
KIAAWAY !
V EURO boy Cll ARLEY : about 25 years old, yel
xN low complexion, hair nearly straight, bolow or
dinary intellGence ; left Mr. Nut. Thompson’s near
Box Springs. Talbot county. I bought him of a
Mr. Brown, a refugee from Mississippi, who now
resides in Tusk ogee, Ala. lie originally came from
Charleston. S. C. A suitable reward will be paid
for his delivery at this office, or in any safe jail and
information si'ni to me at this office.
JAMES M. RUSSELL.
Columbu's Gn.. aug 1 If
11l AVK removed my (>fticc to a room over Gun
bv’s Store, where I vrtll be pleased to wait on
Patients requiring Medical or Surgical treatment.
ag!3 lm* T. J. WORD. M. 1).
?soO Reward.
i WILL pay the above reward for 808, a black
1 boy, about 24 years old. He has been out three
or four weeks, and is supposed to be lurking about
lie city. JNO. 11. BASS.
ly 4 ts __
to bebtorx and Cred
itor*.
4 LL persons indebted to the estate of .Seaborn
A Jones, deceased, arc required to make imme
diate payment, and those having claims against said
estate are required to render them in terms of the
law to the undersigned.
SE A BOitN 1. BF.NN IN G, Adtn r.
B? MARY 11. BENNING, Agent.
.1 uLb wdi
is' and Saddler*’
TOOLS.
'PIIE UNDERSIGNED having commenced the
*■ manufacture oftho above named articles in this
o\ty. are prepared to till orders for the same.
Office on .'1 ugle street, a lew doors above C. S.
Hospital. HARRISON, BEDELL & CO.
Reference—-Mai. F. IV. Dillard.
Mobile Register, Mississippiau and Augusta Con
stitutionalist, please copy one month and send bill.-
to this office,
mar 30 ts
HB Ml k MIL BOOK
FOR SAXj3E3!
XfkJ E have for sale 49 reams ol Letter Paper, and
»» 2,000 small Pocket Blank Books, at Wholesale
or Retail. Paper, SSO per Ream: Blank Books, §l5O
retail, 75 cts. wholesale. Apply at
acotf THIS OFFICE.
SI,OOO Reward.
A CHUNKY, heavy set, black boy by the name
of WILLIAM , about 24 years old, left Colum
bus on Sunday morning last. I am confident he
was taken off by some white mau. I will pay the
aboTe reward for the negro aDd thief, with evi
dence to convict, or I will pay two hundred and
fifty dollar.' for the negro delivered to me in Colum
bus. The boy came from Virginia about two years
ago. and says he is a sailor. I think they left Co
lumbus on foot and took the train at some station
close by. J.H.BAbb.
sepl-tf.
P. S. —I learn, since the above was written, tba.
the boy ieit Columbus on the Opelika train, on
Sunday morning, in company with a small tv nil e
man that limped, and that they were gome to est
Point. J.tl- !>•
JxroTio^.
To I'lantei’N and Others !
T EXCHANGE Osnaburgs, Sheeting and
lor Bacon. Lard,Tallow and Beeswax. 1
will be found ay Robiuett A CVs old stand, whero I
am manufacturing Candies and Lard Oil for sale.
h. S. WRIGHT.
june 2tt
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Vol. XL
W. WARREIW & CO. Proprietors..
| Confederate States Tax Notice for 41st
Dist., Muscogee Cos., Ga.
All Tax Payers who are liable to pay Taxes un
i der Section paragraph j. 2 and of t h e *- aet to
lay additional taxes for the common defence and
of tLe Government,” approved February'
J/,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.
Sf.c. 4. Upon profits made in business,
; 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 bee*
r cattle, sheep, oats, hay, fodder, raw hides, lcathei.
; horses, mules, boots, shoos, cotton yarns, wool,
woolen, cotton or mixed cloths, hats, wagons, har
ness, coal, iron, steel or nails, at any time betwjeen
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
esfor tho common defence, and carry on the Gov
; ernmentof the Confederate States,” approved April
24th, 1863.
11. On all profits made by buying and selling
money, gol 1, silver, foreign exchange, stocks, notes,
debts, credits, or obligations of any kind, not 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 tho act
aforesaid.
11l- On the amount of profits exceeding twenty
live per cent., made during either of the years
eighteen and sixty-three and eighteen hundred and
sixty-four, by any bank or banking company, insu
rance, canal, navigation, importing an i exporting,
telegraph, express, railroad, manufacturing, dry
dock, or other joint stock company of any descrip
tion, whether incorporate or not, twenty-five per
c-cnt. on Such excess.
All who do not come forward and make their j
returns within twenty days from this date will be j
dealt with as defaulters, and fhc penalty of the law
visited upon them.
J. A. L. LEE,
Collector list District of Georgia. !
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C/Onfederate -States Tax Notice
Many Tax Payers in this district have failed to j
give 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 give in thei r Tux with- !
in the time prescribed by law that u..-y will be !
treated as defaulters.
J. A. L. LEE,
Collector 41st District of Georgia.
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Coiifedeiate Tax Solice.
All persons who have paid Specific Tax for 1564,
and all who have paid Quarterly Sales Tax from j
Ist January to Ist April, 1864, are hereby notified |
that they are due the Government, one fifth of the i
amount paid as soldiers' Tax to be paid in new is
sue. lam also prepared to receive tho Quarterly i
Sales Tax for the quarter ending oth June, 136-4, i
and the Soldiers’ Tax on tho same.
J. A.’L, LEE,
. Collector list District of Georgia.
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Notice.
Headquarters, 21th Sen. Disr. G. M.
All men subject to the recent call of the Governor ;
of the 9th July, 1864, will report immediately at my
Office, next to Col. /Zincs Hoi .’s, aid thereby save!
methe disagreeable necessity of arrest. AH men in |
Muscogee county, between 55 and 60, will also report i
without any delay, or subject themselves to-be bent ;
to the front. j
By order of H. C, WAYNE.
B A Thornton, A D 0
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Seattle-Field Relief Association '
of’ Columbus, Ga.
All who are disposed to contribute articles neees- j
sary for the relief of tho sick and wounded in the i
Army of Tennessee, are requested to leave them at ’
Goodrich & Go’s store by One O’clock, P. M. ev- j
cry Tuesday and Friday, when they will be for- j
warded to and dispensed by our Committee there.
W. U. YOUNG, Pread’t.
0. G. Holmes, Scc’y. _____ ag23t,f
9MOREWA Rl*!
Office C. S. Naval Iron Works,
Columbus, Ga., Sept. 10, ’64.
UIVF. HUNDRED DOLLARS will be paid for
l tho up prehension and delivery to me of negro
boy WM. KUHN. This boy was employed in the
Rolling Mill as heater—is 35 years of age. about 5 ft.
7 in. bigb, of light brown color and Indian features:
was dressed in light ecat, light pants and felt hat.
He came from ihe Iron Works at Etowah. Ga.,
and is supposed to be making his way back to that
Place. J. H. WARNER,
Chf. Eng, G. S. N.
spl2 3t _ Commanding.
THE Exercises of this Institution will be resumed j
X on the Ist Monday in October, under the contin
ued direction of its present able instructor, Rev. j
Carlisle P. B. Martin- j
Terms of admission will be made known before
the session commences.
E. S. GREENWOOD, Preed’t.
- D. F. WILLCOX, Seo'y.
spl'2 ts _ Board of Trustee?.
FOR SALE !
320 Acres of Land on the Mobile &
Girard Kail Road,
UOKTY MILES from Columbus, Georgia, andoao
L 1 and a half from Station No. 5; about 180 acres
opened, and cabins for about 30 negroes, with good
water, gin house, Ac, Apply to Messrs E4lis, Liv
ingston & Cos., for terms.
_Bpsltu' D C FP.EEMAN, Jr.
Alacon Sheeting for Sale.
BY the Bolt at $4 per Yard.
Apply at
Rock Island Paper Mills Office.
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WAATED!
TO RENT, a House containing five or six rooms,
1 for a family.cxiled from Liouisiana.
Address at THIS OFFICE,
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WAITED!
\ I Hill t<BS. of TALLOW, for which a liberal price
tMJuI/ will be paid. Apply to
F. W. DILLARD,
spT ts » Major and Q. M.
Confederate Knives and
Forks.
' W E are manufacturing at our Works in this city
Hi a good article of KNIVES AND FORKS in
i large quantities, which we offer to the public low
for CASH.
-ALSO
; Shoe Makers and Saddlers Tools,
jof every description. Nhoe Pegs. Steel Trusses,
Spatulas, Butcher Knives, Ac., Ac.
Tho attention of Quartermasters, Cbmuiissaries.
and Medical Purveyors, throughout the Confeder
acy is specially invited to the above with J horn we
desire to make contracts.
REFERENCES: AUj;
Major F. W. Dillard. Columbus, Hxy
Surgeon W. H. Prieleau, Macon, Gh.
Surgeon R. Potts, Montgomery, Ala.
HARRISON, BEDELL Sc CO.
Columbus, Qa., September 1,1864.
Mobile Register, Augusta Constitutionalist, and
Charleston Courier please copy one month and send
bill to ihis office.
FOR SALE!
A GOOD Saddle and Harness Horse.
Apply to
It. B. MURDOCH,
sei , 2-ti or » at l^B
LOST! ,
• 4 LARGE BRASS KEY, the finder will be liber
! il. ally rewarded by leaving it at the Time* Office,
i crat A. M. Brannon's Drug Store.
[ sepS 4t
Columbusj Ga. Tuesday Morning, September 13.1864.
Monday Evening.
[Special Army Correspondence of the Rebel.]
From ttae Front.
Arrival of a Flag of Trace—A Ten Day* Ar
mistice proposed and accepted—Citizens of
Atlanta ordered out—Correspondence between
Ifood and Sherman—Xarthern Xews—Latest
from Wheelpr. etc., etc.
Love joy Station, Sept. 9, 1864.
The well known citizens of Atlanta, Mr. J.
Pv. Crews, Railroad Ticket Agent, and Mr. .fas.
Ball, arrived at Headquarters to-day from that
city, under flag ot*truce, bearing messages
from Sherman. They brought letters from
Gen. Sherman and Mayor Calhoun, of Atlan
j ta > in relation to Southern citizens, remaining
in Atlanta, after the evacuation of that city
; by r our army.
Gen. Sherman's letter notifies Gen. Hood,
j that e\ery. white citizen must remove from
] tiiat city within the space of two weeks, aud
proposes an armistice of ten days, for the
transportation across the lines of such as may
elect to come South. Au order has been is
sued from the Federal Headquarters in Atlan
ta, directing the removal of all citizens, cither
to some point North of the Tennessee river,
not less than five miles from the railroad, or,
south of the Federal lines.
The leasons gi,ven for this inhuman aud
unprecedented military order is, that General j
Sheiman declines to furnish subsistence to
these unfortunates, and that they must seek I
support elsewhere than within the vicinage ol
his garrison and encampment. ,
Gen. Hood’s reply was, in substance, that
the proposed armistice offered no alternative !
and he was compelled to accept it with a pro. i
test against the inhumanity aud barbarity of i
driving from their own homes a whole com- j
munity of defenceless and unfortunate elti- ’
zens.
The exodus of those citizens who -decide to
come South will commence on Monday, from
which day the ten days’ armistice will date.
Gen. Hood will send up a sufficient number of
wagons for their transportation to this end of
the railroad.
The impression is general, that Sherman deter
mines to convert tho Gate City into a military
camp and garrison. .
Mayor Calhoun s letter to General Hood gives a
saddening and fllathetic narration of the condition
of the people.
There is very little army news of interest. The
Federal General Thomas, with three army corps,
is id Atlanta, while Schofield holds Decatur, ami
another Federal commander, whose name is net
remembered, holds East Point.
Our-advance to-day is beyond Jonesborough.—
Lovejoy is still tho military telegraphic station.
The camp is tranquil, aud the troops continue in
cheerful spirits, it is reported that the Federals
have proposed an exchange of prisoners at this
point.
Federal files to the 6th instant has been received
here under flag of truce. The Chattanooga Gazette
of the 6th has dispatches from Genera! Steedraan.
dated Tuliahoma, sth, announcing that
forces had been dispersed, and that the road, clear
through to Nashville, would be in running order
the next day. Gen. Milligan, Supervisor of State
Banks, had been arrested by IVheeler's men near
Lebanon, but was released, as the Gazette states,
to be fired upon as he ran. -lordan Stokes was
also arrested, and the Gazette conclude?, “he is
now in a fair way of having radical ideas knocked
into him, provided he escapes from his amiable
captors.”
Joshua Ellis, living in Walker county, Ga.. was
carried under arrest to Chattanooga, and refusing
ie take the oath was scut North.
The same paper states that the city of Atlanta
was surrendered by the Mayor to a portion of the
20th Army corps, and Gen. Slocum took formal
possession the same day, the Mayor only asking
that private property should be spared. The city
presents a dirty appearance, and all the citizens
have left with the exception of a few negroes and
some few women.
Grant asks only one hundred thousand more
troops promptly furnished, to capture Richmond.
A special to the Baltimore American of the 4th
says Early has not left Charleston, Virginia, and
has no intention of leaving.
Hurridiv, J. JT.
Kiclimond Gossip.
The Richmond correspondent of the Charles
ton Mercury, under 'date of Sent. 3, writes
thus ;
Our papers are not entirely pleased with
the nomination of McClellan and Pendleton on
a Janus faced platform, which may be used
for war or peace, as occasion serves. The
official organ hopes that McClellan may
change his war views, in consequence of the
straits to which Lincoln has reduced the coun
try. and thinks he will be elected. Some of
our politicians declare that the platform is an
out and out peace platform—the very best the
Yankees could have made without an open
declaration against re-union—which, of
course, was uot to be expected. All agree,
however, that our policy is to trust to our
arms and to a vigorous prosecution of the war
between this and November.
One of Rosser's men tells me that in the
late fight at Reams' the Yankees, utterly de-.
moralized by the terrific fire of Pegram's ar
tillery at three hundred yards distance, made
no fight at all, but leaped over their works
and ran forward to deliver themselves up.
Some of the cavalry, unaccustomed to such
wholesale surrendering mistook it for a
charge, fired and killed many of the Yankees
before they discovered they were unarmed.
Hampton commanded in person, and the in
fantry cheered the cavalry a3 they passed.
Hancock. Meade and Grant, all lied egrege
ously about the fight, for we still hoid the
Yankee works, and more than two hundred
of their dead were still unburied a day or two
ago.
A iate Y ankee paper states that Dauigrea
has lent Foster six 11 inch guns, to be placed
on Monislsland,betweenChatfieldandGregg,
to be manned by sailor? and mariners, and
assist with the bombardment there. Here is
a hiiu for our Navy Department to employ
some of its idle guns and men.
A Hard H:r.—-The Progress says;
Me wouldsuagestin a’iserionsnesN that all Chris
tian eoinmuni;i« as emble for one hour, each day.
and pray for the salvation of landlords, of tha own
; er? of houses and tenements; for without some
! softening influence we see nothing for most of them
* bat endless torment with wailing and mathint: of
t-oeth.
Later from the 7¥ortta.
The subjoined summary is made up from
Northern papers of ihe 4th inst. :
stantox’s war bullktin.
War Depar*mknt, )
Washington, September 3. 1864. f
To Major General Dix, Xeic York :
No later intelligence from Atlanta than my
telegram of last night has been received.—
The telegraph lines between Nashville and
Chattanooga were broken last night by Whee
ler, and we have nothing south of Nashville
to-day. This accounts for the absence of la
j ter information from Atlanta.
No doubt is entertained here of the correct
ness of the reports received last night, which
; came from two independent sources, besides
the official dispatch of General Slocum.
An official report this evening from Nash
ville states that the damage done by Wheeler
: to the railroad will be speedily repaired, and
that Wheeler had retreated. Qen. Rosseau is
in pursuit.
In an engagement between Rosseau> and
Wheeler's forces, the rebel Gen. Kelly was
mortally wounded, and is in our hands.
A telegram from General Sheridan states
! that Early has retreated up the Shenandoah
| Valley, and is pursued by Sheridan with his
whole army; and that Avcrill had attacked
Vaughan’s cavalry nod captured twenty wag
ons, two battle-flags, a number of prisoners
and a herd of cattle.
Edwin M. Stanton,
Secretary of War.
j THE NOItIIEUN PRESS ON THE FALL OF ATLANTA.
| As might have been expected, the Northern
I papers are jubilant over the fall ol Atlanta.
The military situation is regarded as- in the
highest degree encouraging, and a nearly over--
j throw of the rebellion is anticipated. The
New Fork Herald heads its news thus :
Sherman—Fall of Atlanta—Brilliant Strat
! egic Movement of the Union Commander—-
Hood Hoodwinked—A Battle fought near East
Point—General Hardee Killed—The Rebels
Assisting Sherman s Plans—Operations of
Wheeler, -Forrest, and Roddy—Rosseau in
close Pursuit of the Cavalry Haiders—Georgia
Virtually Redeemed from Rebel Rule—The
“So-called’’ Confederate States Reduced to
Three.
Sherman began his move on the night of
the 26th with twenty days' rations. Slocum
was left a corps of observation, whilst the
other six corps went on the flank movement.
Editorially, the Herald says the rebel plau
is now to make the longest fight possible in
thir entrenched position.
Jeff. Davis (says the Herald) has done all
that he can do, and the Confederacy now on
ly awaits to see what. Vallandigham can do.
It also says the rebel armies are worn out,
and a contemptible crowd of nerveless old
men and barefooted boys are tho principal re
liance for the defence of certain points in the
Confederacy.
In noticing the capture of Atlanta, the
Washington Chronicle says, editorially :
Sherman is not driven from Atlanta. His
communications have not been destroyed.—
His army is not compelled to fall back, starv
ing and demoralized, before the exultant foe.
Copperhead prediction and rebel hope are
alike gloriously annihilated, for the flag of
the Union at last floats in triumph over the
great central workshop of the Southern Con
federacy. The main objective point of the
brilliant campaign of Sherman has been
achieved. Not In vain has the blood of our
martyrs been spilled. Not in vain has
the valor of our heroes consecrated many a
well-fought field. The veterans who have
hewn their way with their swords to Chatta
nooga to Atlanta, have inflicted a deadly blow
on the rebellion, the force of which can neith
er’fcie palliated nor denied. Their onward
march was vigorously disputed and most des
perately resisted. Every natural advantage
was improved; river banks were guarded;
passes were defended ; mountain heights im
pregnably fortified; but the skill of our leader
and the heroic gallantry of tho rank and file,
compelled the successive abandontmeut of po
sition after position until tho city itself loomed
up in sight of our victorious legions. Then
followed a series of most desperate battles ; and
the grand courage of the enemy commanded
admiration, though itcould not command suc
cess. The prize for which they fought is in
our hands.
Our triumph is complete. The rebels evac
uated this morning at 6 o'clock, and ere long
the Damp of Sherman’s heroes resounded
through the streets. We have not yet the par
ticulars, but there is no doubt of the fact of
which Secretary Staunton has had the grati
fying duty of assuring the public. As the
intelligence of this event is flashed over the
wires and borne through the mails, it will
awaken a burst of exultation in every loyal
bosom: for the dullest will not fail to hail it
as a most promising augury of the impend
ing triumph of order over anarchy, of the
right over violence, of the Union over a
doomed and almost exhausted rebellion.
THE ARMY OK TH* POTOMAC.
The Chronicle says that information from
the Army of the Potomac is to tho effect that
nothing has transpired for some days past.—
Picket firiug is indulged on parts of the line
at night, but almost entirely ceases during
the day.
General Meauei left the front on Thursday
evening on a ten days' leave. General Parke,
being at present Ihe ranking officer in the ar
my, assumes command in General Meade's
absence.
[From the- Newark (New Jersey ) Advertiser.
September I.]
GENERAL M CLELLAX AT HOME.
The usually quiet town of Orange was quite
animated yesterday on the announcement of
the nomination of General McClellan, who has
recently become a resident on the mountain
just back of the town. The event of his nom
ination at Chicago was announced Dy a salute
which was fired in front of the Park House.—
As night approached the streets became
thronged with people, who soon began to move
in the direction of General McClellan’s moun
tain home. About 9 o'clock quite a proces
sion, including a number of citizens of New
ark, accompanied by Itubsam s band, started
for the house, which they reached about ten
o’clock. Gen. McClellan was there entertain
ing some personal friends, and the cottage
was immediately surrounded by a clamorous
crowd. The band struck up a serenade of
spirited music, and a speech of congratulation
was made by Mr. E. L. Foote, of Orange.—
Loud calls were then made for the General,
who was finally induced to appear, and made
a few informal remarks in acknowledgement
of the compliment paid him. He said he did
not believe they expected a speech from him.
nor did he feel disposed to make any extended
remarks at this time. The events of the day
were entirely too new. and he could scarcely
realize tire position in which he-bad been
placed. After again thanking them for the
compliment of their visit, the General with
drew amid the cheers of the assembly and the
music of the band. A number of friends ac
companied him vo the house »ad wre hos
pitably entertained.
It is understood that Up will be waited upon
this evening by a delegation from New York,
a c-orapanied by DodsTorth’s band.
$5.00 Per Mouth
J. W. W4RREM, Editor
The War Xews.
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i in front of Petersburg, matters continue per
: tectly quiet : a state of things, indeed, which ha*
existed for several days past, interrupted only by
tho severo cannonade on Sunday night. Grant
appears to hare commenced housekeeping with his
family at City Point, having appropriated for that
i P ur Pose the mansion of a former resident, and
j seems perfectly indifferent to the laurels won by
1 fals competitor, Sherman, in Georgia. Meade has
• gone North on Jeave of absence, and tho Army
; of the Potomac makes no progress in its “on-to-
Kiekmond” movement, while disease is rapidly
decimating its ranks. It is said that tho hospit
als are filled, and the sanitary boats make daily
trips down James river, loaded with sick and
wounded. Billioua and intermittent fevers are
fvory prevalent, and tho men are dosed, morning
and evening, on rations of quinino and whiskey.
The enemy keeps up a show of moving troops
from one point to another, though with what ob
ject we are at a loss to imagine. Transports are run
ning regularly to Fortress Monroe and back, car
rying troops both ways. It may bo that those
carried down the river are men whose term of ser
vice has expired.'
The Yankees, always up to some uew project,
have constructed a moveable battery by mounting
a fifteen-inch mortar on a railroad oar, which is
occassionally run up ou tho City Point road and
discharged at the city of Petersburg. It makosa
good deal of noise and serves to amuse tho enemy,
but has thus far done no harm.
Tho Express learns that the Yankees are still
“pegging away” on the canal accroes the penin
sula at Dutch Gap. The width of tho land at this
point is one hundred and eighteen yards. The
gauge of the canal is fifty feet in width, and in
depth some fifteen or twenty feet below high-water
mark. The Yankees are protected in their work
by strong breastworks There is a fall of four
inches in the seven miles of water winding around
the peninsula, and with the distance diminished to
one hundred and eighteen yards, it is estimated
that when the canal is finished, (if it is over allow
ed,) the rate of tho current through the new chan
nel will be fully eight miles per hour.
The people residing on the lower James are now
suffering severely from the depredations of Y'an
kee marauders. Horses, negroes and provisions
are stolen, and citizens arrested and carried off.
These expeditions are composed in part of the
Naval Brigade, under the command of the infa
rnous;Graham, the author of the destruction at
Brandon, that well known estate on the James.
Our telegraphic correspondent predicts that ‘‘those
predatory excursions of the enemy will come to
grief yet,” but tnrough what process or in what
manner we are not informed. —Richmond Dis
patch Bth.
Yankee Doings in the Valley.
Bv a private letter, dated August 25th, re
ceived by a gentleman in this citv from
Charlestown, we learn that the Yankees, under
Sheridan, have spread desolation throughout
Jefferson county. Says the writer : “Our
wealthiest farmers are stripped of everything.
Mr. Richard Washington, for instance, had
everything he had taken from him ; even the
ladies’ clothes were torn to pieces. Mr. Robt.
W. Baylor has been served the same way;
also, Messrs. Bushrad W. Herbert, Frank
Hooff, John Hammond, and a number of other
gentlemen. They had commenced their work
of destruction at Mr. Lawrence HoofFs, when,
hearing the firing of our guns, they were
frightened off'. They staid long enough, how
ever, to take five horses and to break up the
furniture, lu the town, they had not com
menced their work of destruction when they
were chased out. Many think that the burn
ing of Chambersburg was the salvation of
this place. Sheridan has sent North, Mr.
Peyton Brown, Mr. George Saddler, Mr. Wru.
Henson and Mr. llarri3on Anderson.”
Mr. JohnS. Robertson, of Martinsburg, who
came to Richmond on the outbreak of the war,
leaving his family, recently returned home on
a visit. When ho reached there Tie found one
of his daughters in a dying condition and an
other very ill. In a few hours after his arrival
one of them died and the other grew worse
while they were burying her sister. The father
was at her grave: and after the funeral cere
monies were oAer, he hastene'd home to wit
ness the sufferings of the other, when he wa3
met a few yards from his house by a band ot
armed Yankees, who placed before him the
alternative of taking the Yankee oath and re
maining with his family, or imprisonment
upon his refusal to do so. He spurned their
conditions, and was dragged away without
even being permitted to bid his only surviving
and dying daughter farewell.
[Richmond Dispatch, Bth.
loipeilant to Holders of Four
Per Cents.
The following loiter lias been handed to the
Charleston Mercury for publication :
Office Commissioner op Taxes, )
Richmond, Aug. 20, 1864. j
J. K. Sass, Esq., President of the Bank of C harles
ton, S. C :
Sir: Your letter of the loth instant to the ad
dress of the Secretary of tho Treasury, has been
referred to this Eureau. You state that it is re
ported there that the Tax Collectors have been in
structed not to receive four percent, certificates in
payment of taxes from any but the original sub
scribers, or in other words, certificates transferred
to a third party, are not available for the payment
of taxes. I aia not aware that any such instruc
tions have ever been issued. lam certain none
such havo emanated from the Department at this
office. On the contrary, you will see from the en
closed copy of regulations, that four per cent, cer
tificates may be transferred indefinitely, and that
the holder may use them in payment of his ta*es,
whether he bq the original holder or a mere assig
nee, by conforming to the requirements of Article
2 of said regulations.
Very respectfully,
T. ALLEN. Commissioner.
The following is the paragraph from the Tax
<'ommissioner’s ‘'regulations” referred to above :
Treasury Department, C. S. A., )
Richmond, April 30,1864. j
When any such four per cent, bond or certi
ficate is U3ed in payment of any tax or taxes,
there must, before the same is received, be writ
ten upon it or upon some paper annexed, an as
signment to the District Collector, who, or which
deputy shall receive it, expressed in terms deno
ting that such assignment is made in payment of
a tax or taxes due from the then holder or holders,
or from partnership, firm or incorporated associa
tion, whereof he is or they are, a member, or
members, or from some member or members
(named) of a partnership, firmer incorporated as
sociation, then holding and about to assign the
same. When the person or persons thus making
an assignment to the District Collector shall not
be the person or persons in whose name or names
3aid bond or certificate was issued, there must,
before the same is received, be written upon it, or
upon some paper annexed, an assignment from
the latter under which either directly, or through
some intermediate assignment or assignments, the
former shall appear to be assignee or assignees
thereof; but it shall suffice, if there is an assign
ment in blank as to the name or names of the as
signee or assignees, which blank may be validly
filled with the name or names of the holder or
holder* at the time of his, her or their transferring
the bond or certificate to the District Collector.
And in every case, before such Collector or his
deputy shall receive auy such bond or certificate,
each assignment thereof, whether in full or in
blank, as aforesaid, must have an authentication
in due form, for which certificate of any District
Collecter, or his deputy, erof any magistrate, or
notary public or clerk of a court of record, in the
words, ‘-executed before me,” or "acknowledged
bel'-re me,”and signed officially, shall suffice.
John M. Daniel’s wound i? more severe than
was supposed. The ball passed through the fleshy
part of the lower leg, and between the two bones,
bruising an artery in i's passage. Au aneurism,
perhaps amputation, miv be the consequence.—
Cor. Charleston iftrevry.
TELEGRAPHIC.
Special Dispatch to the Colnmbus Timet.
Correspondence between Gens. Hood
and Sherman.
Headquarters Army oeTexn., Sept, 11th, '64.
I have just received » copy of the following
correspondence of Gens. Hood and Shennaa :
Headquarters, Military Division op the
j Mississippi, in the Field, Atlanta, Sept. 7th—
J Gen. Hood, Commanding Confederate Army: —
I Gen.: I have deemed it to be tho interest of the
; btate that the citizens now residing ins At
j lanta, should remove—those vrho prefer to go South,
j and the rest to go North. For tho former I can
provide transportation in oars as far as Rough and
Ready, and also wagons, but, that their removal
j may be made of as little discomfort us possible it
| will be necessary for you to help the families fro*
I Rough and Ready to the cars at Lovejoys. If you
consent, I will undertake to remove all the fatni
| lie 3 in Atlanta, who prefer to go South, to Rough
| and Ready, with all their moveable effects, viz :
clothing, trunks, reasonable furniture, bedding,
! Ac., with their servants, white or black, with the
proviso that no force will bo used towards the blacks
in one way or another, but if they want to go with
thoir masters and mistresses tliay may do *o, oth
erwise they will be sent away, unless the men who
may be employed by our quartermasters. Atlanta
.is no placo for families or non combatants.- 1
have no desire to send them North if you will as
sist in conveying them South. If this proposition
meets your views I will consent to a truce in tho
neighborhood of Rough and Ready, stipulating
that any wagon, horses, animals or persons sent
for the purpose stated, shall not in any manner bo
harmed or molested ; you in your turn, agreeing
that any ears, wagons, carriages, persons or ani
mals shall not be interfered with. Each might
send a guard of, say one hundred men, to main
tain order, and to limit the truce to, say ten days,
after a certain timo appointed. I have authoriz
ed the Mayor to choose two citizens to carry this
letter and such other documents as the Mayor may
forward in explanation. I 3ball await your reply.
I have the honor to be your obedient servant,
W. T. Sherman, Maj. Geu.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY TENNESSEE, 1
f September Bth, 1864. }
To Major-General IF. T. Sherman, Commanding
United States Forces in Georgia.
General: Your letter of yesterday's date, borno
by James M. Ball and James It. Crows, citizens
of Atlanta, has been received. You say therein
that you deem it to he to the interest of the Unite*
Stato* that the citizens residing in Atlanta be
removed, Ac. Ido not consider that I have any
alternative in the matter. I accept the proposi
tion to deolare a truce of 10 days, or such a time
as may be necessary to accomplish the purpose
mentioned, and shall render all assistance in my
power to expedite the transportation of citizens
in this direction. I suggest that a Staff officer be
appointed by you to superintend the removal of
citizens to Rough and Ready, wbilo I will appoint
a like officer to control their removal further south;
that a guard of 100 men be sent by each party,
as you propose, to maintain order at that place,
and that the removal begin on Monday. And
now, sir, permit me to say that the unprecedented
measure you proposo transcends in studied and in
genious cruelty all acts ever before brought to my
attention in the dark history of this war. In tho
name of God and humanity I protest and belitvo
you will find yourself wrong in thus expelling
from their homes and firesides the wives and chil
dren of a brave people.
I have the honor to be, Geaeral,
Very respectfully, your ob’t serv't,
J. B. HOOD, General.
[Correspondence of the Rebel.]
Old] Jubal Early, or as Gen. Lee calls him,
big “bad old man,” has won a name during
his sojourn in the valley of Virginia, of which
he is well worthy. Did you ever see him?—
If not, you have missed one of the greatest
curiosities of the war. He is a man of consid
erable corporosity, with a full face, which has
the appearance of the full moon when it is at
height in redness. He is about six feet high,
and of immense structure. His voice sounds
like a cracked Chinese fiddle, and comes from
his mouth sopiewhat on the style of a hard
shell Baptist, with a long drawl, accompanied
with an interpolation of oaths. In the winter
his head is encased in a net striped woollen
skull cap drawn down over his ears, while his
body is contained within the embraces of a
Virginia cloth over-coat, striking his heels.—
His legs are covered by leggins of the same
material, wrapped from the feet upwards as
high as the knees with white tape. He is as
brave as he is homeiy, and as homely as an j
man you ever saw, except Parson Brownlow,
who is said to rival his Satanic Majesty in
his personal appearance. There are many
anecdotes related of old Jubal, but I cannot
at present call to memory but one. During
the battles in the Wilderness on one occa
sion a regiment from South Carolina was or
dered to charge the enemy. For some reason
they 'altered. Old Jubal hearing of it, rode
up to the head of the column, and t in that pe
culiarity of tone for which he is noted, cried
out at the top of his voice, ‘‘Boys, you got us
into this d—d scrape, and by G—d, you shall
help us our. Charge!” The Regiment was
so cut by the remark that they rushed upon
the foe, driving him from every position.
The Yankees have again cut the Weldon
and Petersburg road. We have not as ye*
ascertained the damage done, but presume it
of very ltitle importance.
The Fight at (j^eesville. —We have yet re
ceived but few particulars of the fight at Green
ville, Tennessee. The Lynehburg papers have a
report that our forces, under General Morgan,
were surprised, and that in the fight which ensued
General Morgan was wounded and fell into the
enemy ’s hands. Liter intelligence represents that
the General had died of hig wounds, and that his
body had been sent into our lines.
The enemy’s force was said to number about six
teen hundred. Morgan’s command ie represented
to have been greatly scattered, audit was impossi
ble to arrive at an approximation of our losses.—
Richmond Dispatch, Bth.
Fsrsando Wood.—lt will be remembered that
sometime since it was stated in our columns that
Fernando Wood had been hissed in the House of
Representatives at Washington. From the Dis
patch we learn the reason as annexed:
Mr. Fernando Wood lately delivered a speech in
favor of peace in the Federal House of Representa
tives. On being charged with assisting in the organ
ization of the Mozart regiment m the beginning of
the war, he replied that he did so for the defence of
Washington, and not for the purpose of waging war
against the South, and, upon a member observing
that the Mozart regiment was intended for service
in the South, Mr. Wood said: “If it is true that 1
raised so many men, for such deeds of blood, may
Almighty God forgive me for the sin and crime [” —
This remark was loudly hissed by the /fepublican
members.
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos
beef (smyHj|s, a
AN TUESDAY, 13th of September, at 10 o'clock,
O we will 3ell in front of our store,
15 Head of Pine Beef Cattle ;
5 “ “ “ Milch Cow?.
—ALSO, —
Bbls. Fine Coast Bait;
A NEGRO WOMAN, 40 yearfl old,
good Cook, W asher and Ironer.
sep!2 2tslo
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
a _
ON TUESDA Y, September 13th. at 10 oYlucfc, vru
will sell in front of our store,
3 Excellent Horses ;
2 Good Mules.
sepl2 2t $4