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COLUMBUS TIMES
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Change o t Schedule.
OFFICE ExOiyr.Kß a*D ScrEBIJfTEXOKXT. 1
Charles too and Savannah Railroad. >
Charleston, June 7. 1564. j ,
AN THURSDAY. June9.l9ol.and until further !
V' notice, the Schedule of the Pasaengcr train will
beasioUow, viz;
Leave Charleston 9.45, a. ra.
Arrive in Savannah /.40, p. n;.
Leave Savannah 30, a. m.
Arriveiu Charleston 4.15, p. m.
This Train makes direct connections.'going north 1
and south, with the Northeastern Railroad at * har
lestoii, and the Central Railroad at the .Innefton. i
It. S. H. A IN I S
•June 14 ts Engineer and Super.:ntendent.
Change oi Schedule.
iIS and after Sunday, Jane 19th. the Trains on
■ f the •*!uscogee Railroad will ran asXyliows; j
imssengeu traLN V
Leave Cohrubu* * 45 P. M.
Arrive .a hi:,-.,;, * 2> A. .>l.
Arrive at Columbus 4 26 A. 1.,
«• HEIGHT TRAIN :
Leave Ct dumb as 5 -■*> A.' V
Arrive at Coluuibus 4 A*» A. Y
mar 19 if Supt. Museo-rc R. R.
Tlirou;h to llonli-ouiery.
NEW SCfIEDUUC. .
lIALLIiOAD CO XI’AN V.
COLUMBUS, August 27,18*34.
AN and after Atnr ' J7i r. ■ :;e Train on
V/ the Montgomery and West Point iLti road wiil j
Leave Montgniuery at 8:00 a. m.
Leave West Point at 7:10 a. in.
A rrivc at Columbus at 5:42 p. in.
Leave Übfu nbus at 5: ; "t a. m. j
Arrive at Mon gamery at 3:<*j p. m.
Arrive at iVc*t Potnt at 413*) p. m. j
Freight Train leaves Colatnbus at 8:40 a in.
Arrives P ,'P
L>. 11. CRAM, Sup t & Eng.
ag27 1364—ts |
MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD, j
(U4.\(IE OF SCIIrOILE.
Girard, Ala., Aug. 22,1864.
ON and after this date Trains on thi Road will
Run Daily (Sunday excepted.) as iollows:
Passenger Train
Leave Girard at .2 no p. m.
Arrive in Union Springs 7 39
Leave Union Springs 5 45 a.m. ■
’Arrive in Girard at 19 00 “
Freight Train.
Leave Girard at 4 00 a. m.
Arrive in Girard at 6 00 p. in. \
B. E. WELLS.
aglS ts Eng. A Sup’t.
TIMMS A* SAVAGE, Agent,
(Af Mulford’s old Stand.)
IsTO. Id, JB ST.
HAS U)Il SALE OR EXCHANGE
Sheetings, Shillings.
Twills, Yarns, Linseys,
Laguaray toflee,
Tobacco, Rice,
Nails oi ail sizes,
&c.. &€., Rc.
jur27tf
!OT (JOOIIS!! NEW GOODS!!!
G 001)151 t il <& ( 0.,
BROAD STREET,
now opening a splendid assortment of
raw mi F.istv»toons.
FRESH FROM EUROPE’ via Bermuda, which
they will sell cheap for cash. ang27—lm
Weiili.\g exch avgej
A FEW Hundred Pounds of Sterling Exchange
for sale in suns to sud purchasers !-v
aelfi tt (SANK OF i OLjUMBUS.
Ilareiess Hade A: Repaired.
THE undersigned will Manufacture and Repair all
Kinds oi Harness.
* FULSOM Jr CODY,
spl 2w Under Cork's Hotel.
ROAWAYI
vrEGRO boy CHARLEY ; abcut 25 years old, yel-
A low complexion, hail nearly straight, below or
dinary intelligence : left M r. Nat. Thompson’s near
Box Springs. Talbot county. I bought him of a
Mr. Brown, a refugee from Mississippi, who now
resides in Tuskegee, Ala. lie originally came from
Charleston, S. C. .V suitable reward will be paid
for his delivery at this office, or in any safe jail and
information sent to me at this ofiice.
JAMES M. RUSSELL.
Columbu’s Ca., aug 1 if * _
Confederate Knives and
Forks.
\\ r E are manufa tu ing at our Works in this city
\V a good article of KNIVES AND FORKS in
large quantities, which we offer to the public low
for CASH.
-ALSO
- Makers and Saddlers Tools,
of every description. Shoe Pegs, Steel Trusses,
Spatulas, Butcher Knives, Ac., Ac.
The attention of Quartermasters. Commissaries,
and Medical Purveyors, throughout the Confeder
acy is specially invited to the above with whom we
desire to make contracts.
REFERENCES:
Major F. W. Dillard, Columbus, Ga.
Surgeon Vv. li. Prime.iu, Mj v < Ga *
Surgeon R. Potts, Mountain r . Aia.
HARRISON. BEDELL k CO.
Columbus, Ga., September 1.1564.
Afubile Register, Augusta Constitutionalist, and
Charleston t-’ -urier please copy one month and senJ*
bill to i Ids office.
FOR LE!
A GOOD Saddle and Harness Horse,
in Apply to
R. B. MURDOCH,
sep 2-ts ors at this office
SSO Reward.
I WILL pay the above reward for 808, a b!a k
I boy. about 24 years old. He has heen out three
or four weeks, and is supposed to be lurking about
he city. JN O. H. RASS.
iy 4 ts , . *
Shoemakers’ and Saddlers’
TOOLS.
yilE UNDERSIGN Fl' having commenced the
* mat.ul.Kiua oi ihe aoove namnl articles iu this
«ty. are prepared to till orders tor the same.
Office on Angle street, a tew doors above C. S.
Hospital. HARRISON. BEDELL A CO.
Reference —Maj. F. W. Dillard.
MobUe Register, Mississippian aud Augusta Con
ititutionalist, please copy one month and send bills
to this office,
mar R 0 ts
UTTER FMB k BLM BODES
FOR S Ali£3 !
WE have for sale 19 reims ot Letter Paper, and
2,(101) smalt Pocket Blank Books, at Wholesale
or Retail. Paper, S6O per Ream; blank Books, $l5O
retail, 75 cts. wholesale. Apply at
ago tt' THIS OFFICE.
£I,OOO Reward.
A CHUNK 1, heavy set, black boy by the name
of WI'.LIAM, about 24 years old. left Colum
bus on Sun lay morning last. I am confident he
was taken off by some white m&'i. I will pay the
above reward for the ne;:ro and thief, with evi
dence to convict, or I will pay two hundred and
fifty U' liar for the negro deiivere l to me in Colum
bus. The boy came from Virginia about two years
«*,o. and says he is a sailor. I think they left Co
>umh..s cd foot and took the train at s»me station
Clo-e by. J.H.BASS.
jo, 1 lij learn, since the above was written, that
the boy leit 6’olumbus on the OpeLk.i tram, on
Sunday uorning, ,n company w th a smalt white
man that limped, and that they were 'uuifi to eiC
Point. o
3STOTIOB.
To Planter’s anti Others !
I'VILL EXCHANGE 0-naburgS, siieeting and
arcs, for Bacon, Lard, Tallow and Beeswax. 1
will be toun.l at KobiucU A t,V> s oM stand, where I
am manufacturing Caudles and Lani Oil lor sale.
Li. ic. VY lUGiii.
jane 2 if
Vol. XI.
Jf. w. tV VKKKV tt CO. Proprietors jr. W. IVABREY, Cilitor
Confederate States Tax >otire fGr 4ht
Dist., 3’nseogee Cos., tin.
All Tnx Payers **ho are liable to pay Taxes uu
der Soetion 4. par uurapb 5. 2 and 3. of the ’ act to
l.i> additional taxes tor the common defence and
>up port of the Government,” approved February
1.. IS-ii, wiii at once come torward and make re
turn of the same to the As se sors. To avoid qces
t. ens to tho Collector and errors in tu*i Tax Payer,
I c py tuc suction and paragraphs in full.
Sfc. 4. Upon prufii3 made iu trade aud business,
a? so lows;
T. On uL gi t ie by on*, ing and selling spir
ses or syrup, suit, V> i ■ p'u k, hogs, beef or bee*
cat :c, she" p, pats,!. iy,*i..-Jder r,w h des, knthi'i
horses, mules, boots, -lines, e .«t?ou y •.r; s, riy|,
wofJcn, c 'on or mixed «.•••>• ~s. hats, w:ig*,ns. h r
tass, e >ll, iron, s i »>r u.;t; at any time between
the first o* •) anu:.ry, ri iUtcea hundred end sixty
three, aud tho i:r;t of January, eighteen hundred
on such profits as incorne under the ”act t<> lay tax
ernment «f theUuafedcrate Slates,’’ approved A; ril
21th, IStiJ.
11. On all profits made by buying anil selling
money, go! . -i!.-er.»f or-. !.n ex •liange. stock -, notes,
deb s. credits, or obligations of any kind, not enu
merated in tne preceding paragraph, between the
t*uies named til. .’i :ii. Son pov eeiiL, iu :ol ihton to
the tax on such profits as income, under the act
a.oresatd.
111. On the amount t f profi‘3 exceeding twenty
five per cent, nn.de during ei'her of the years
eighteen ami sixty-three and eighteen hundred and
sixty-four, by any bank or banking company, insu
rance, canal, navigation, importing an t exporting,
telegraph, express, railroad, manufacturing, dry
dock, -r other joint stock c nupany of any descrip
tion, whether incorporate or not, twenty-five per
cent, on such excess.
All who do not come forward an3_ mako 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 Georgia.
serß dlw
Confederate State* Tax Notice
3/any Tax Payers in th s district have failed to
give in their Tax to the Assessors. Notice is mw
hereby given to alt who have failed to do so, that
if they do not c me up and give in th* ir Tax w.th
in the time prescribed by law that they will be
treated as defaulters.
J. A. L. LEE,
Collector 41st District of Georgia.
sepS Iw
ioLletleraie ia\ Police.
All persons wh«Ybave paid Ai eeific Tax for IS A.
and all who have paid Quarterly Sales Tax from
Ist January to Ist April, !>J4. are hereby notified
that they are due t m Goverainent, one fifth of the
amount paid as soldiers’ Tux to be paid in ne w is
sue. lam also prepar-d to receive the Quarterly
Sales Tax for the quarter ending • Oth June, 1364.
and the SAuierU Tux on the same.
J. A. L. LEE.
Collector 41st District of Georgia.
septS lw
iVotice.
24th Sen. Dist. G. hi.
All men subject to th; recent call of the Governor
of the 9th July, IS A. will report immediately at my
Office, next to Col. f/ines Hoi. 's, ad thereby sa»e
me the disagreeable neeessiti af arrest. All men in
.Muscogeecounty, betweenssand6o. will also report
without any delay, or subject themselves to be sen;
to the front*.
By ordcr-of 11. C, WAYNE
B A Thornton, A D C
spfi tt ’
EielicS
of Clolsiminis. Ga.
All who are disposed to contribute articles neces
sary for the relief ol the sick and wounded in the
Army of Tennessee, are requested to leave them at
Goodrich k Co's store by One O’clock. P. M. ev
ery Tuesday a .d '■ rida T. when they will be for
warded to anddis; eased ay our Comuiitree there.
\\ T . li. YOUNG. Presd'f.
C. G. lloxmes. See’y agfiotr
FOR SAFE.
i HOUSE and LOT, situated North of She North
TV Commons on the corner oi Troup nrul City Mill
streets: Said Lot contains half acre, with a good
new dwelling house »vith two rooms; kitchen with
two rooms: a very superior well of water —Lnrd-
ly equalled in the vicinity of the city, and a ia-ge
garden. Everything new and in go and order. For
further particulars apply to mo on the premises.
splo lm J J. BO RING.
yya.ytfiiT
BY a Lady Refugee from New Orleans, a situa
tion as Daily Governess iu a family, in or near
the city, to give Instruction is. English and Music,
together wit h the rudiments of French. A few *t»-
.-*• -- a-.>v .. ms ni_- them at their
homes. RetU-renaes given if icquireu.
Apply to THUS. SHIVER^,
Cook's Hotel.
Notice!
ALL pers' us who wish to send Letters to Louis
iana, Texas, or Arkansas, wiil please leave them
at the Times Office, iu this place. My terms for
carrying L-Uers a.c one dulLu -?i’ pci’ Lei. .r. i
will leave this place on the larh of this month. All
Letters from then:her side the M ssi-sippi river will
be brought over an J mailed, if p irtins ml! have me
addressed at J/oatoe, or ,>Urevem-rt. L ;.
WELLS,
Kegular Letter Carrier for Gibson s Brigade.
sp!2 td
FOR SALE !
5,000 LM^ “ DWIRI!
15 000 CARTRIDGE BOX TIXS
Q QQjjGROSS BLCKLBcc, Assorted Sizes.
splQ6t • GUSEV k CO.
£oOO reward:
Office C. S. "Natal Isos Works,
• Columbus, fix, . Sepr. 10, ’6l.
riVE HUN DUE) HOLLARS wil be paid for
r the apprehension an 1 delivery t> mo oi negro
boy WM KUHN. This b«>y was empi yed iii the
Rolling Mill as heaer—is 35 years of age abcn‘ 5 ft.
7 in. high, of light brown col a and Indian features;
was dressed in light era?, light pants and felt hat.
He came from the Iron Works at Etowah, Ga.,
and is supposed to be making his way back to that
place. J. H• WARNER.
Chf. Rue. C. S. N.
«pl 2 3t * btnmarding.
iOLIMBIS FEMALE UAlltM!
THE Exercises of this Institution will be resumed
A on the Ist Monday in October, under the contin
ued direction of its present able instructor, Rev.
Carlisle P. B. Martin
Terms of admission will be male known before
the session commences.
E. S. GREENWOOD. Presd’t.
D. Jb . WILLCOX. Se.-y.
spl2 ts iVard of Trustees.
FOR S ALE !
320 Acres of Land on the Jlobile &
Girard Pail Road,
FORTY MILES from Columbus. Georgia, and one
ana a half fr m Stuioti No. 5: »b at IsJ acres
opened. *iv; cabins (or about-U> uegro s. with good
water, gin h »use. Ae. Apply to Messrs Ellis, Liv
ingston A Cos., for terms. T
sf Alm* T> C FREEMAN, Is.
\VA\TED!
y AAA LB>. ofTALLOW. for which a liberal price
D.UUU will be paid. r ,[ L l XRD,
*p Major ami Q. if,
BLitKSTIITH WAATE D!
wTEADY EMPLGYMENT nna liberal wages.
seplO 2* V>> EAGLE FACTORY.
Columbus, Ga Wednesday Morning, September 14.1864.
Tuesday Evening,
Chkcrixs News from Kentucky.—Captain S.
P. Cnnninitham. of Colonel Adam Johnson's cotu
m m 1 rrrived in /fichmond Monday from the new
Military Department of Southern Kentucky, bring
ing th i War Department the most cheering report
<>t the practical results we hare recently accomplish
ed in r'aat quarter, and the bright prospect that
awaits the progress of our arms in the entire State.
Cos! Jo mston's moroments have been denomina
* t«d by' ie e; my a more raid, and from the absence
oi , - v ad. Lees we have been under a like im
pressi'j: heretofore. It appears however, thai. a
regular Military Department has been erected in
Southern Kecta ky, comprising an area of eight
popuu as euuntie-. .It is seix-supporting, and daily
extending iu boil dary
- - - © -«*»—-
TheKhrevepu t News, ot August 23, says that on
the Saturday bes re, about eight hundred Federal
nr; »'. • , r *- * 1 e ' . a-. L , k OT’-rx
point ot ex \i:r gt is the mouth of Re i river
Ex Mayor of Memphis, was arrested and
lodged rather .ring prison in that city August
lltu, tor using indiscreet language in regard to the
i miiitaiy nu.'horitra?.
Exchange of Officers.— The Petersburg Ex
priss says; Wh cordially unite with our contempo
raries who'have takes this position, in remonstra
; ting against the policy of exchanging officers with
: the Yankees. Under the circumstances, it is one
: of the most uuwise, as well as unjust measures that
' out Government could sanction, and we are as
tonished .hat it .-uould become a party to any ex
tent to such a transaction. It is perfectly notori
ous that Lincoln is anxious to get back all his offi
; cers, who are our prisoners, and would very readi
‘ ly consent to an exchange quod hoc, for the double
, reason that he sWods iu need of their services, and
j that they fovu a respectable andicfluential partof
his people, and most of them belong to the better
class of Northern’society. About the rank and file
he cases not a button.
The Examiner fcaa confirmation of the re
port that Mosby hung thirty Yankees whom
he caught burning residences in Ciark county.
Expelled dy Sherman.— The Macon Tele
graph leart3 that prior to the evacuation of Atlan
ta, Sherman sent a flag of truee to General Hood
with five officers—a colonel, lieutenant colonel,
major and two captains—and a communication
which stated that the officers having been heard to
utter political opinions inimical to Lincoln and his
; Party and which were deemed treasonable, they
bad been expelled from the Federal lines by his
order and sent over to General Hood, for such dis
position as,he thought fit. Our informant states
that the five “Copper-head” officers have been sent
j to Richmond.
——
} The London Times taunts France with having
! deserted Poland after encouraging her to rev9lt,
and seeks to shelter England for her conduct to
wards Denmark behind the example ofNapoleon’s
conduct towards the Poles.
New York papers state that the new privateer
; Electric Spark was off Nassau on the 2d inst., and
was cruising among the islands.
Some malignant slanderer says : “Woman
needs no eulogist—for she speaks for herself."
Gold fell in New York, on the 29th, ten per
■ cent;, and was quoted at 231. The New "York
i Times says that the prospect of McClellan’s nomi
nation did this-
Barnum’s fat woman, Mrs. Jane Fisher, exhibi
ted at his museum, died at her home in Connecti
cut the other day. Her exhibition weight was 680
pounds. Ten men were employed to get her into
her coffin, which was so wide that the door had to
j be enlarged to enable its removal.
Humor never deserts some men, and it is most
common among the privates. After our last trying
ordeal of crcssing the Potomac, wading it at night
breast deep to a tall man, a wet, tattered, bare
footed Georgian, just out of the river, vented his
surplus spirit in exclaiming, as he glanced at his
dripping clothing, "Here’syour in-wader!" Major
pronounced it the best puu of the campaign.
A Double Quotation. —“It is well," says, the
Boston Courier, “to bring forward the similar sen
-1 timeuts of men holding influential positions, cx-
I pressed under other circumstances. Mr, Davis
was certainly prophetic. Mr. Lincoln reminds us
j of Hazaei the Syrion, asking, “Is thy Servant a
| dog,that he*ihould do thi3 great thing?" and
went home and murdered his . master. The fol
lowing is an extract from the Inaugural Address
of Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1S61:
I “Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight al
ways ; and when, after much loss on both sides,and
j no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identi
cal questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again
: upon you. This country, with its institutions, be
l longs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever
j they shall grow weary of the existing gavernment,
j they can exercise their constitutional right of
j amending, or-their revolutionary right to disment
! her or overthrow it."
The following is an extractfrom aspeeeh of Jef
ferson Davis in the United States Senate, Janu
| ary 10, 1861 ;
“If you will not have it thu3 ; if in the pride of
power, if in contempt of reason and reliance upon
force, you say we shall not go, but sajill remain as
j subjects to you, then, gentlemen ofYhe North, a
war is to be inaugurated, the like of which men
huva cot teen. Sufficiently numerous on both sides, j
in close contact with only imaginary lines of divi
sion, and with many means of approach, each sus
tained by productive sections, the people of whieh
‘•will give freely both of money and of store, the
conflicts must be multiplied indefinitely; and
masses of men’ sacrificed to the demon of civil
war, will furnish hecatombs such as the recent
war in Italy did not offer. At the end of all this,
what will you have effected? Destruction upon
both sides; subjugation upon neither; a treaty of
i peace, leaving both torn and bleeding; the wail of j
the widow and the cry of the orphan substituted
for those peaceful notes of domestic happiness that \
: now prevail throughout the land; and then you
| will agree that each is to pursue his seperate
course as best he may. This is to be the end of
the war. Through a long series of years you may j
waste your strength, distress your people, and get
i at last to the position whieh you might have had
; at first, had justice and reason, instead of selfish- I
I ness and passion, felly and crime, dictated your j
course.” I
The French is Mexico.—By the latest arri
vals we are in receipt of important news from
Mexico. The French are gradually, it is assert
ed, gaining ground. They have taken possession
of Saltillo, and were, at last accounts, advancing
with a large force upon Monterey, the provisional
sear of government of President Juarez. The
p 'icy ot the latter seems to be to avoid any gen
eral engagement with the invaders at present, and
to attack their extended lines at their weakest
points. The ’■ unity of Paesidest Juarez has left
Mexico and arrived in New Orleans, a fact which
the agents of .he new Mexican empire will sot
fail to impute to a fear of defeat on the part of
the republicans. We await with interest addi
tional details from Mexico.
[xVcia York Herald 2d,
Hsad'qbs, Ist Dtv. Ga. Militia, J
Is Camp mkam Griffin, Sept. 5, 1854. j
Governor: — l have the honor to inform
you that we arrived at this point last night.—
Un the first of September, I was informed by
Gen. Hood, that the failure of the two corps
sent to Jonesboro for the purpose of driving
the enemy from the line of the railroad, would
compel him to abandon Atlanta. I was order
ed to withdraw the militia from the trenches
around the city after dark that evening, and
march by Decatur and McDonough, guarding
the reserve artillery of the army which moved
by the same road, under our protection. The
line cf skirmishers was withdraw from the
It out at 11 p. m., moved through the city, and
passed out by the Decatur road at 1 o’clock,
a. m., on the '2<f, forming the rear guard. Ua
the 4tb, we reached Griffin with all the artil
lery. More than four filths of the men of inv
command who left the fortifications of Atiati'-
tii marched iftto camp with their muskets.
The ethers were ciihAr tired oi strag
glers. Some few bad been permitted to visit
their homes as we passed ner.” them, and some
perhaps had gone home without permission.
The withdrawal of the army virtually ended
the campaign against Atlanta, and in oue
sense may be considered a limit to the call
under which the men of this command are
now serving.
Before concluding this letter, I will avail
myself of the opportunity to say a few words
in regard to the services and conduct of the
Militia of Georgia engaged in the Confederate
States Army during the time I have had the
honor to command them. Without time for
drill and instruction—with very incomplete
and imperfect organization—inadequately
supplied with transportation, equipments and
all that pertains to the •'Material” of an army,
these men were first distributed upon the
Chattahoochee to guard the passages of the
river lrorn above Roswell to West Point.
When Gea. Johnston held Kenesaw Mountain
with the right of his army we, by Tiis order,
concentrated and crossed the river, taking
position on his left, supporting the cavalry
upon that wing in the vicinity of Marietta.
We fell back with the army to the Chatta
hoochee and then across that river, from
which time until now we have formed a com
ponent part of the army, and have borne our
full proportionate share of ail it3 dangers,
hardships and labors; and I have every reas
on to believe that, upon the battle-field, ou
the line of march, in laboring upon fortffica
tions and defence of intrenchments, the militia
of Georgia, in the past hundred days of active
service, (most of the time in the immediate
presence of the enemy and under fire.) have
won the respect and esteem of the gallaut offi
cers and men composing the regular army
under Gen. Hood. You are well aware of the
embarrassments arising from conffiet in legis
lation upon the part of Congress and the
(y.eorgia Legislature, and can appreciate the
spirit of concession and forgetfuiness of seif,
by which all seem to have been actuated, and
which have resulted in procuring harmony
and concert of action when there was such
opportunity and cause for well founded com
plaint and real difficulty. The recent march
was severe upon men who h;\d no experience
in drill, and were not inured to fatigue. This
was particularly the case with the old men.
The command, however, came into camp iu
good condition. Some were weary and foot*
sore, but all in fine spirits. The number of
effective men, with muskets, present for duty,
is much greater than I had expected. The
militia in this army have done good service,
and are entitled to the thanks of the State of
Georgia and of the Confederate States.
In closing I beg to suggest that the old men
from fifty to fifty-five, who are physically un
fitted for an active campaign of long marches
and rapid movements, be relieved from furth
er service with the army at present, and be
placed upon home duty in their respective
districts under your own orders. I wiil take
another occasion to report to you more in de
tail the full operations and services of this
command.
I remain, very respectfully, your obedient
servant,
G. W. SMITH,
Major General.
To His Excellency, Jos. E. Brown, Governor
of the State of Georgia.
< °
Executive Department, \
Miilodgeville, Sept. 10,1864. j
General J. B. Hood. Commanding Army of
Tennessee.
. General :As the militia of the State were
called out for the defence of Atlanta during
the campaign against it which has terminated
by the fall of the city into the hands of the
enemy, and as many of them left their homes
without preparation, expecting to be gone but
a few weeks, who have remained in service over
three months (most of the time in the trenches)
justice requires that they be permitted, while
the enemy are .preparing for the winter cam
paign, to return to their homes and look, for
a time, after important interests and prepare
; themselves for such servicea3 may be required
when another campaign commences against
other important points in the State. I there
! fore hereby withdraw said organization from
your command, in the hope that I shall be able
to return it with greater numbers and equal
efficiency, when the interest of the public ser
vice requires it. In this connection I beg
leave to tender to you, General,, my sincere
thanks for your impartiality and justice to
the State Troops and for your uniform cour
tesy and kindness to me individually. With,
assurances of my high consideration and es
teem, I am, very respectfully, your obedient
servant. Joseph E. Brown
Executive Department, I ,
Miliedgeville, Sept. 10. 1864. /
To the Militia composing the First Division :
I have this day withdrawn you from the
command of Gen. J. B. Hood. You entered
the service for the defense of Atlanta. That
city has for the time fallen into the hands of \
the enemy. The campaign against it is now
at an end, Mo3t of you entered the service
with but little preparation, leaving important J
interests to suffer, expecting to return home
in a few weeks. Yon have borne thefatigaes
and dangers of the campaign with manly
firmness and heroic valor, and have won for
the “Georgia Militia” a proud name in histo
ry. The fall of Atlanta leaves the Stats ex
posed to further invation. The enemy will ,
fortify that place—accumulate aupplies, and i
prepare for a winter campaign against Macon
and other interior points, which, if taken, will
leave many of your homes and loved ones
within his lines, and expose the homes of oth
ers to the ravage of his raids.
To prevent this, it may soon again be nec
essary far you to lift your strong arms to re
pel his advance. In the meantime, it is dae
to yon that an opportunity be given you to
pat your houses in order and provide as best
you can for the future wants of those depen
oentupooyou. One of the important crops
of the State now needs attention, or a large
quantity of syrup will be lost which is of
great value. It is also due you that you have
an opportunity to return home and bring to the
front with you. any and ail subject and have
avoided or refused to take tbeir just part in *
the dangers and hardship* whieh you have j
endured.
I therefore hereby order and direct that I
each tu.d every officer and soldier in the di j
vision have * furlough oi thirty days, I forth- !
$5.00 Per Month
er order that all persons o*er the age of fifty
years be detailed until further orders, to per
form necessary patrol duty at home, and to
arrest and senu forward, when the division
returns to me field. a!i who are subject who
do not report. All details of persons under
h*ty years of nge, f or patrol service at home.
a * c hereby revoked. anc the men over fifty
y.:.>rs of age are directed to take their places,
and wi.t remain atToiir.e ns long as they failu
fnliv discharge tiie duties above mentioned.
If they neglect them they wdi he ordeiei back,
to the field. Alt details' or furloughs to r.-
main at home granted by anv Aid-de Canr>
or officers exc *pt un
fa ertby declared void—arufi those who Su>id
theta are hereby required rifir t with the
Division at the end o« thirty day*. All fur
loughs grunted at diese Headquarters to per-
in L i i.o employ meat unaii the
certificate ot tire head of any one of the Con
federate Departments in Georgia, are to re
all details of physicians and mtilers heretofore
made upon ihe application of the Justices of
the Inferior Courts of their respective coun
ties.
As furloughs could always be obtained with
much less and tSculty if v ry man wo.dd v -
tui n at Ino tone desigtv&tvu, ami as it is verv
important that the Division re assemble in its
full strength at .the time a: : nt i it is rat
expected that any will be abscent at roll cali.
All who are thus absent will be considered
deserters. Each company is expected to as
semble at the Court House, or some other
place agreed upon in the County of its location,
on the day before it is necessary to start to
the front at the end of the furlough, and the
captain will detail mea to go after and bring
up to die front, all who do not report.
Ihe company is expected to see to it, that every
Qian subject accompanies them back or is brought
up immediately under guard. It is reported that
many persons in the cities of the Suite have avoid
ed service by uniting with what are usually call
ed local companies since the date of my procla-
the 9th July last, ordering all the militia
of the State under fifty-five years ot age into ac
tive service. As it is unjust to those who haVe
undergone the bazzards and fatigues of the late
campaign that these men should in this wav avoid
service at the point of danger, aud as a distinguish -
ed Judge is reported to have decided that the
members of these local companies where not upon
active duty and not snbject to military law as
Confederate s/fdiers in service, which decision
seems tobefounded?n lawand common sense. I fur
ther order, that the militia who are now at the
front from these counties on their return, at the
expiration of their furlough, bring with them un
der arrest, it necessary, all persons subject who
were not members of said companies on the '):.h of
July, together with all persons who remain at
home attending to thefr o. liriary business under
Confederate exemptions or desails who have not
exemptions granted as above mentioned. These
orders so far as they relate to the militia now in
service, will be executed by Maj. Gen’l <j. W.
Smith, who will give all orders necessary to car
ry them into practical effect.
At the end of thirty days the division will re
assemble at Macon,
JOSEPH E. BROWN.
Daily papers in_the State puoii-h once and
send bill to Excutive Department, Milledgeville.
In Memory ot Jlurgao.
A gallant officer of Morgan’s command sends
j the Richmond Enquirer the following brief
review ot the deeds of the lamented chief:
The death of General John H. Morgan—the
gallant hero whose name and fame ia too en
j larged to be confined to one continent—will
cast a pall over the-entire Confederate artnv.
! As an humble follower ot the “Great Chief ’
who was relieved from command of his gal
lant division only to be placed on duty “in
the inner courts of the sanctuary,’’ where
Johnston and Jackson, Bee and Bartow, and
a host of other gallant generals and Chris
tian warriors are now serving, I feel called
upon to mention a few ot the principal feats
of my daring leader and the characteristics of
the :nan, leaving to the pen of the historian
the duty of fully recording his deeds. Brig
, adier Gene’al John H. Morgan, in September,
| ’6l, as captain of a company of partizan r*n
| gers, invented and brought into requisition &
j system of cavalry fighting that has been since
| successfully adopted by a.I cavalry leaders in
i the Confederate States army. I refer to his
system of using the horse only to transport
\ his men, and then dismounting to tight.
In the Spring of 1862, he had raised, equip
j ped, armed and mounted a brigade of cavalry,
all at no expense-to his country, and far in
the rear of the enemy ’s armies. As Colonel
! commanding that brigade, he made, during
\ the month of July, 1862, a reconnoisance into j
I Central Kentucky, • starting from Knoxville,
Tennessee, July 4th, and reaching Sparta Jj
|ly 29th. In twenty-five days passing through
| Centrai Kentucky, killing wounding and cap
j turing scores of the enemy, and returning to
| our lines with his losses but slight, and briDg
| ing out many recruits. To follow up the
work of his‘cotnmacd, while under iLeleader- ‘
ship of General Morgan, would require too
much space in your paper ; but in brief I can
stite. without fear of contradiction, and;
in justification to the memory of this great
and good man, that he recruited more troops
than any V >jor General in the Confederate
States array—that he captured and paroled
more Federals than any Lieutenant General
—killed more Federais, captured more sup
plies, and suffereu less in the loss of mea than
any cavalry brigade or division commander in
thSarmy. As an officer he was great in stmt- !
egy, bold in execution, when the
itjierest of his country or command called for
it. Asa friend, true and firm, kind and con
ciliatory. No subordinate ever approached
his presence but he was met and welcomed in
a genial manner. Morgan’s for
the cause frequently caused him to venture
beyond the literal construction of h*s orders.
But the* Confederacy has had no truer beait
or braver sword battling in her defence, and
Kentucky may be proud to feel, although ma
ny of her sons have basely submitted to the
Ayuant's yoke, that John H. Morgan, her gal
lant son, poured out his life-blood in defence
of Constitutional liberty. Comrades and fol
lowers of the brave lamented dead, his death
calls for vengeance Let us each and every one
strive with renewed zeal and determination
to keep up the great fear that our hated foe i
evinced towards our General and followers, j
and so live that we may meet and serve un
der his leadership again in that bright land ,
where wars cease, and Yankees cannot enter.
S. P. C.
ALErASDRiA Affairs. —The Alexandria State
Journal of September J. says :
“ To he Executed. —Sergeant Conley, company
P, 19th regiment Veteran Reserve?, has been
found guilty, upon trial befora a court martial in
this city, of the eharges of a violation of the 23d
Article of War, and aiding soldiers to desert, and
has been sentenced to be shot to death with mus
ketry. Toe sentence has been approved by the'
President, and Thursday morning at 9 o’clock, the
criminal will pay the forfeit of his crime on the
same spot where private Thompson was executed
a few months since. The troops in this city and
vicinity are, we understand, ordered to witness the
execution.
u De*crt*r» Overhauled —Captain Nickerson, of
the mortar schooner, night besot•» last, hauled up
a suspicious looking craft, and arrested tnree men
on board, who, upon examination before Lionel
Wells, turned oat to be two deserter?, and the tb:rd
an individual who has for some lime been engaged
in aiding the escape of de-erters. They were
promptly* ■•Jfcuu-'ed” at Paptaia Nickerson has
taken charge of ihu sloop.”
ft
A Hook of ilorrmw.
The Federal Congress has recently author
ized the publication of a volume detailing iLs
action with regard to an in ve-digation of what
i* popularly styled the “ Massacre at Fort
Pillow.’’ That terrible power of ftlsebood,
which has been etoko.J from the brginoirg
for our destruction, runs ri-n iti this foul com
pilation, and *»twitb-tamiiug the glaring in
congruities of statement, ifae responsibility
05 !lt^ ro *itaesses, and «h e atm-uce of tho
usual oath, a plausible subtlety percolates
iae naraine amply suffi. tent to captivate the
unthinking and ungenerous multitude. The
! chief object, however, to be obtained by u,ij
congressional ball h of lies was a total sub
' ersisu of the better impulse substi
tuting in the place of mild subordination the
helitsh lusts and beastiv fuivofthe low bar
barian. Finding that ad their predictions aj
to the peculiar lusttiuiion being a “slumber
ing voicana, had proven fallacious, our at
irocious enemy casts about for an approxi
mate fulfillment of his gloomy Horoscope. It
was easy enough, by fraud and violence, to
fi the ranks with black men, but the task of
making warriors of such m tterial not quite
so facile. Physically, the negro population
had been corrupted l>y their -o-cailed friends,
it remained for the abolition demons io cor
rupt their souls. An excellent opportunity
offered alter the capture of Fort Pillow. That
terrible but justifiable sacrifice was made the
theme ot execration everywhere in aud out of
the Pre?s; its tacts distorted, its necessity
explained, its consummation magnified.—
Finally, a formal investigation t y* Congress
ensued culminating m a nai e »uoa which
has no equal ia the breadth of it, design.—
faking a lesson front the crushed w run, it
teaches the negro that, f-r him the last knell
of hope had rang, a urges upon ihe wit*;di
ed --lave ia arms it. -*m> <j cuter f-houid be
his battle-cry and print ipi■■ „f action.
S Miftnei, \*£ have condensed i;'.e>t remarks,
it till give one of the eon ■ mi tug passages,
which presents, in vivid aud truthtnl lan
guage the propable results ot such astounding
perfidy and ferocity i —Augusta ConsSttmion-
A brilliant idea suggested l: j"l\ The phi
losopher’s stone was disc >verct! It had been
a ways that a *•■»» >!-jr ?:• » figi-t -
erffo, a negro, if inspired with the idea the*- was
no hope ot mercy in his submission, or escape
iu bis flight, would make a fine soldier. The
only requisite, therefore, wus to create this
impression. He must be made desperate by
the idea that over him the black flag was al
ways flying. Teach him that uo quarter has
been shown to his coior in the pan, that none
is tobe hoped for ia the future, paint before his
imagination in vivid colors, tne horrors of
some battle-field, where men of his race, in
vain hope ot mercy, have grounded their arras
or sought safety in flight, and a* Lis eyes
open wide, and his lips protrude in terror aud
amazement, let his ears drink in the recital of
the scenes of faithlessness and bloodshed
with which the infuriated Southerners illus
traied that dark and bloody grouud.
Teach him his lesson .veil—leCbina hear the
same story iterated and reiterated from all the
whites around him. The negro is almost as
sensatorial as the Yankee—create a sensation.
He has strong religious sensibilities and weak
religious intelligence—instil into him, as a
matter of religious obligation, the duty of
avenging his slaughtered brethren. T 1 • is very
impressible by parade aud ceremony —marshal
i.i column, and impose a sacred oat- to re-. .
member and be avengei. It will make him
a useful soldier and a terrific scourge. The
sentiment of desperation will o< *sion pto-ii
gies of valor on the field of ’-atVo. Th - senti
ment of vengeance will occasion prodigies of
crime in the undefended iiomsteads of the
South. It matters not if ago and .nfancy if
"maid and matron, fall before his wrath —if
female purity be made to pander ro his lust.
What of it? ILs victims will be among the
mothers and wives, tne sisters and daughters,
the decrepid parents and the ink at children
of the rebel soldiery. I: will be afie in their
rear, more terrible in its anticipation, more
intolerable in its realization, than tue fiercest
blaze of battle in their front.
It may, it muat, orodu e a frenzied feeling
of hate between the races, tempting the whites
of the South to lay heavier ba thetis -and im.
pose more cruel weights upon the slaves uu«*
der their country* ami-i they, too, shall be
provoked to rise against oppressors. And who
shall say that this may not be Uie appointed
means for the liberation of the slave aiyl the
re-estabhshment ot the Union, cleansed uy a
purification of tire trorn the sin of slave"} .
Thus reasons abolitionism, and abolition*
istn reigns at Washington and i.itbe Federal
armies. Well it knows the precedent of Saa
Domingo. It has para led it in speech and
song, in sermon and lecture, in the press and
from the stump ; until every minute detail of
its infernal horrors are famiiia r as household
words. Yet each and every of th*-:n all, it
cherishes the hopes are in reserve for us and
ours. ' •*
Ixdtax Octragks at the N iitTH.—Northern pa
pers state that Ind an ou rages ori the Western
frontier have nereased. A despatch from 8:. Louis
gives the annexed news;
On the 19th a train from Santa Fe tn Leaven
worth was attachedar Cimmerians Spr, ngj. tm men
kill'd and ail tho stock c turc-i. Xke tmin w<u
abandoned.
On the 21st two hundred Indians attacked seve
i rai, trains, iucla ling one belonging to the Govera
! ment, sixty tm;es west of FofC Lamed. One man
was kil.ed and nearlv all the stock captured.
L ir*e bands of Indians are congregating in the
1 neighborhood of I t. Lyoa, ana outrages are oi daily
j occurrence.
; The section of country traversed by the savages
ex lends Iroui tuo Pi.uce r o toe Arkansas rivers,
about four hundred tidies from east to wa-t Our
present force is en'irely in adequate far the work be
fore it, and immediate reinforcements are absolute
ly needed.
Over two thousand personsbv e been murdered on
i the P,atte route a .<1 one mind red on tne Arkansas,
the head waters of the Smoky Hill and Republi
can forks, and three hup Ire 1 thousand dollars
worth of property ce-troyed or caotured. besides
three thousand horses, five hundred mules and twa
thousand oxen.
Idaho and Montana are said to swnrm with dis
nffcctei and disloyal mea. It is esti'nifcl tb it
rwenty thousand men ot this class have gone there
in the past year and a half.
The Mexicans are very unei v along tho entire
mountain range. Rebel and Morin m agents are
said to have been at work among ;hetn.
CONVOYS FOR THF. CALIFORNIA Ma!L STEAMERS. —
An arrangement has been perfected whereby the
California mail steamer- will be convoyed by a can
boa’ from their departure from this nor’ co their
arrival at Asian Wad. and thence b ;e k co this port.
This gives a great se ur ty to specie shipments as
weii as to p.is-engers and freigh r , and wi 1 open a
chan ,el for specie from California waich now goes
to England fr>m Aspinwull in ilrit-sh steamers. —
Mr. D. 3. Allen, the agent < f the route, has been
untiring in his efforts to bring about this arrange
ment for: he benefit of our merch it * .<* •xcilastae
travelling community.—jY Y Herald, 2 1.
Southern Telegraph Compart.—We learn
that Mr. Joseph Tree, formerly of the Norfolk and
Petersburg Railroad Telegraph Line, has been ap
pointed Superintendent of the Southern Telegraph
Company, ta place of Mr. J. R. Dowell, resigned.
While it in a matter of regret that Mr. Dowell’s
valuable services could not have been retained, we
congratulate the company upon the good judg
ment displayed in the appointment of bi3 succes
sor. Mr. Tree is a man of extensive experience
in the telegraph business, and thoroughly compe
tent to discharge the duties of his new position,
Richmond Dispatch.
The Great Ea«tem, which cost $3 000,000, has
been sold for $125,000, which sum wili not be suffi
cient to pay off preferment creditors and. other
expenses.
Attention, Dawson Artillery f
Headq'rs Dawson Artillery,
Columbus, Ga., Sept. 13, 1^64.
Special Orders,
No. y.
The members of this fomnanv will »'«cmble at
TEMPERANCE HALL, THIS EVENING, at 3
o'clock. The Roll will be called precisely at that
In-ur and ad absentees reported.
By order of
R. B. BAKER, Capt.
Jjro Vs Harris, 0 S
aj»l3 It
BELECTS3HDOL
MRS. W = M ARriLE will re-open her School, iii
Forsyth «*r- et. Monday. Uer. 3d
Tuitum SIOJ vK) uer Scholastic year,
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