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COLUMBUS TIMES Published Daily (Sundays Oxoepted) at the rate of 15.00 per month, or sls lor three month#. No subscription received for a longer Urm thmn hrre month*. ADVERTISING RATES : AdrortiaemcnU inserted for *2 00 per square for each insertion. T here advertisements are inserted a month, the charge will bo S3O per square. Announcing candidates S2O, which must invariably Paid in advance. 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. ag271.864—tt MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD. < ii t vu: or s< i.i;. 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. aglß ts Eng. & Sup’t. 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& aglSlm* j 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 ===~h r-~ - __ ' 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. ! sepß dlw - j 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. sepß lw 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. sepfb lw 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 spS tl_ __ 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. sp," lw WAATED! TO RENT, a House containing five or six rooms, 1 for a family.cxiled from Liouisiana. Address at THIS OFFICE, spT 3t* j 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. •k 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