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DAILY TIMES, J. W. WARREN* - - - Editor. OOLTJMBXJS: Tuesday Mornigg, September 20, 1864. Strup from the Corn Stale.—W* hare beea shown, says the Mebile Advertiser, a rery hand aeme sample of syrup made from con stalks by Mr. Henry Colton, residing about fire miles from the city, who informs us that he manufactured nine gallons from ferr cart loads of stalks. They were cut before the grain had hardened, or at about proper “green corn” stage. It is well known that syrup can be made from corn stalks, and a number of years ago there was considerable expe rimenting in that way, but the present is the first instance of .the manufacture that we have heard of in this section, since the present scarcity of molas ses and sugar has existed. Coal Oil for Woitlds. —An Assistant Surge on says, that what water is to a wound in an in flamed state coal oil is in a suppurating state—it dispels flies, expels vermin, sweetens the wound and promotes a healthy granulation. He states that he has seen two patients whose wounds have been dressed with it asleep before he was through with the third. If it serves to keep away flies, it will add materially to the comfort of the wounded as well as their cure. *r. Nellie Norton: or Southern slavery and the Bible—A Scriptural Refutation of the Principle Arguments upon which the Abolitionists rely— A Vindication of Southern Slavery from the Old and New Testament. The above is the title of a very neatly printed novelette of 208 pages from the press of Burke Boykin & Cos., Macon, Ga., for which we are in debted to the author, Rev. E. W. Warren. The beok is said to tea masterly and convincing ar gument in favor of "lavery, written in a style that cannot fail to instruct as well as interest the i»- tclligent reader. “Peace on the basi3 of the Union,” is the McClellan motto, If disposed at all to accept this peaceful tender, says the Charleston Cou rier, we would ask what Union or what stage or standard of the Union shall we accept? The Union as formed by thirteen States, of whom twelve actually held slaves, and all re cognized slavery ; or the Union of which one large section organized and aided and en** couraged the John Brown raid against the other section, and the homo of The Federal and Confederate Loans. By last foreign advices the Confederate loan in England was far ahead of the Federal loan, commanding, as it did, seventy three, while the latter was hard to gat off at forty one cents in the dollar. The London “Index” gives the following description of the two loans : The United States five twenties, ss called because redemption is optional after five years, and compulsory in twenty years ft cm date, bearing six percent interest, are express ly intended to subserve the purpose of an in direct foreign loan, the direct negotiations, several times attempted, have signally failed. There is a regular machinery for peddling and hawking them about, “in quantities to suit purchasers,” not merely in the great money marts, but among the rural and industrial pop ulations of Europe. In Holland and especially in Germany, where the traditional belief in the fabulous wealth and prosperity of the United States still survives, and where the cause of the North is looked upon as that of a second “Vat erland,” this machinery has worked most es- j fcctfvely, and the very cheapness cf the übiq- i uitous bonds has tempted imprudent invest ments. It is believed that an amount vastly j greater than that of the whole Confederate Foreign Loan has been thus placed in various Continental countries, and, to a more limited extent, also ia Scotland and Ireland. The gold thus drawn, mainly from the hard-earned savings of the poor, has been Mr. Chase’s chief reliance in bis ruinous coup d' elat in the New York specie market, and it has contribu ted to retard the inevitable and long expected crash. We are fully warranted, therefore, in treating these bonds, as to all intents and purposes, an appeal to foreign credit, quite as much so as if the loan, instead of being indi rectly obtained, had been formally negotiated. On the other hand, it would be most unfair to compare securities so placed with the funded domestic debt of a country where, owing to a blockade by sea and land, the pre cious metals have been withdrawn from the operation of the laws of supply and demand, and acquired an altogether arbitrary value, as speculative as that of certain bulbs in the famous tulip mania. The bonds of the Con federate funded debt represent a home cur rency more or less deranged, and measure its fluctuations for better or for worse, but they in nowise represent Confederate credit abroad, for which reasou onlya very insignifi cant portion has ever sought its way into the European market. The Foieign Loan of the Confederate State* derives undoubtedly an inestimable strength from its broad substratum of hypothecated cotton. Thanks to this, it has an invariable standard of its own value, and is wholly inde pendent of, and unaffected by, the capricious price of gold or the redundant issues of treas ury notes in the Confederacy. However poor in the precious metals the Southern States may become, or however disordered their in ternal fiuances, they will always have, so long as they are their own masters, the means to pay from their accumulated store and their inexhaustible soil in a medium the specie val ue of which can never be less than the stipula ted minimum of sixpence per pound. But though this fortunate circumstance ofa double standard ot payment securely shields the for eign debt of the Confederacy from the dan gers attaching to its domestic finances, the ability to pay, even when cotton is substitu ted for gold, depends upon the same condition, that the Confederates should be their owd masters ; in other words, upon the fortunes of a ffi'r of independence—upon the credit of their Govt.un.ent abroad. It is therefore ex posed to the same fluctuations, according to the coarse and tenor of events, as any other national security unsustained by a similar -bstantial pledge. This becomes still more clear wheu we consider the history of the Loan from its inception. By far the greater por tion was subscribed, and is still held, by per* ions in the classes removed from commercial speculative pursuits. Partly, perhaps, from sympathy, partly from abiding confi dence in the ultimate safety of the invest ment, the most tenacious holders are to be found among the landed gentry of England— purchasers at the issue price, who are content to lock up their bonds and bide their time.— It is for this reason that, despite the unusual inducements to speculation, the transactions in the loan have at all times been confined to moderate limits. In fact", it required an ex traordinary accidental depression is the mer chantable value of the bonds to bring the “cotton feature”—that is to say, the reserved strength of their capability of immediate con- version—all into active play. The enterprise which has been prosecuted with such striking success at Mobile and the Texan ports, of exchanging the bonds for cot ton, and running the latter through the block ade, did not commence until the bonds, alter the failure of Gen. Lee's Pennsylvania cajn pmgn, had fallen to the low level now reached by the securities of the United States. Once commenced, success invited continuance, and the prohibitive restrictions of the Confederate Go\ eminent on foreign commerce, by giving the bond-holders a valuable monopoly, im parted a still stronger impulse to this lucra tive business, so that now we behold the unprecedented spectacle of as unrecognized. Government paying not only the interest but redeeming the capital of its foreign indebted ness while struggling against heavy odds. It would be unfair to ignore the healthy effect which this process is exercising upon the quotations of the bonds on the Stock Ex change; but the fact nevertheless remains that to the aggregate of the holders and the public at large these quotations represent, not the value es cotton nor the profits of blockade running, but the measure of confidence in the triumph of Confederate arms, just as the mer chantable value of United States Government securities in foreign markets represents the measure of still lingering hope, on the part of the adherents of the North, in the ultimate success of its scheme of subjugation and ex termination. Both are promises to pay inter est and capital in gold, and both are intended for placement abroad. The only deduction we are called upon to make in contrasting Confederate bonds at 73 with Federals at 41, is that the former pay seven per cent, interest, while the latter pro mise only eix per cent. The interest for the former is payable abroad, for the latter at > home. These are the only real advantages which, judged from a purely financial point of View, the Confederate bond would intrins ically possess over the Federal bond, if the credit of the two governments was equal. This will hardly be considered as compensa* ting for the want of recognition, and the tacit encouragement thus given to the aggressor. Fairly tested, then, by'the infalible barometer us the money markets of the world, the rela tive ability of making good a future promise to pay i3, in the opinion of the most cautious and sagaciously sensitive ole is, decided be-i tween the two American belligerents to be as 73 is to 41, and this disproportion is still rap idly widening. And yet the statesmen of Europe affect to treat the Confederate States as a part of Mr. Lincoln’s dominions, and the Confederate Government representing only “a local insurrection, chiefly adjacent to the Gulf of-Mexico.” An Interview witli the Presi dent—His Views of the Dem ocratic Policy. The Grant County (Wis.) Herald contaias a very interesting letter from Hon. John T. Mills, Judge of the Judicial Circuit, giv ing an account of a recent interview with Mr. Lincoln, with a report of the remarks of the latter in regard to the consequences which would follow the adoption of the war policy urged by the friends of Gen. McClellan. We give the President’s expressed view*, oraittißg the preliminary account of the interview: “I don’t think it is personal vanity or am bition, though I am not free from these in timities, but I canaot but feel that the weal or woe of this great nation will be decided in November. There is no programme offered by any wing of the Democratic party but that must result in the permanent destruction of the Union.” “But, Mr. President, Gen. McClellan is in favor of crushing but the rebellion hy force.— He will be the Chicago candidate. ’ “Sir,” saiji the President, “the slightest knowledge of arithmetic will p 'ove to any man that the rebel armies cannot be des troyed by Democratic strategy. It would sacrifice all the white men of the North to do it. There are now in the service of the Uni ted States near 200,000 able-bodied colored men, most of them under arms, defending and acquiring Union, territory. The Democratic strategy demands that these forces be dis banded, and that the masters be conciliated by restoring them to slavery. The black men who now assist Union prisoners to escape, they are to be converted into our enemies in the vain hope of gaining the good will of their masters. We shall have to fight two nations instead of one. You cannot conciliate the South if you guar anty to. them ultimate success ; and the ex perience of the present war proves their suc cess is inevitable if you fling the compulsory labor of millions of black men into their side of the scale. Will you give our enemies such military advantages as insure success, and then depend on coaxing, flatteiy and conces sion to get them back into the Union ? Aban don all the posts now garrisoned by black men, take two hundred thousand men from our side and put them, in the battlefield or corn-fields against us, and we would be com pelled to abandon the war id three weeks. We have to hold territory in inclement and sickly places; where are the Democrats to do this ? It was a free fight, aud the field was open to the War Democrats to put down this rebellion by fighting against both master and slave long before the present policy was inaugurated. There have been men base enough to pro. pose to me to return to slavery the black war riors of Port Hudson and Olu'stee, and thus win the respect of the masters they fought.— Should I do so, I should deserve to be damned in time and eternity. Come what will, I will keep my faith with frietfd and foe. My ene mies pretend I am now carrying on this war for the sole purpose of abolition. So long as I am President, it-shall be carried on for the sole purpose of restoring the Union. But no human power ean subdue this rebellion with out the use of the emancipation policy, and every other policy calculated to weaken the moral aud physical force of the rebellion. Freedom has given us two hundred thou sand men raised on Southern soil. It will give more yet. Just so much it has subtrac ted from the enemy, and instead of alienating the South, there are now evidences of a fra ternal feeling growing up between our men and the rank and the file of the rebel soldiers. Let my enemies prove to the country that the destruction of Slavery is not necessary to a restoration of the Union. I will abide the issue.” President Pierce on the Presidential Elec tion. —Just before the meeting of the Chicago Con vention, Ex-President Pierce wrote a letter de clining to be a candidate for the nomination. Re" ferring to the conduct of tbe election he says : Whoever may be nominated will, I have no doubt, in obedience te what will be the vote of the Con vention, declare in the name of the Bemecracy of the United States, that the approaching election shall be a free election—an election conducted in obedience t* the laws of the land—with no military presence to overawe the unarmed citizen. And that if in any sovereign State recognizing the au ? thority of the Federal Government, military usur pation shall come to suppress the people in the ex ercise of their rights under the Constitution and enacted laws, we will meet that.military usurpa tion with all the power we command. But if your Convention will act cordially and in harmony there need be no apprehension that bayo nets will attempt to control the judgment of the voters. No audacity in defiance of the Constitution will dare to confront with arms the united Democracy of the Southwestern, Middle, Northwestern and Eastern States. No man, defying the Constitution which he has sworn to. uphold and obey, can bring the army to support open rebellion against a fair and free vote. They will hold that we are a free people yet—let ns be thankful for that—a free people living under a written Constitution, which binds the highest official not less firmly than the humblest citizen of the Republic. Os this I think yon may be sure. The critical—the vital thing will be united action on your part; and that sueh may be the result is my earnest wish. Always yeur friend, (Signed) FRANKLIN PIERCE. George P. Morris, now unhappily no more, made a good deal of capital by his poetical request to a certain “woodman” to spare that tree.” We fear that more than one woodman in our section will make more capital this year by neither “sparing that tree” nor the buyer of the cord wood sticks into which it nny be divided. For our part, wo would reverse the words of the song and say, * Woodman don't spare that tree” nor the other ones. Cut them down and bring them to market, but oh, spare the poor buyers iu town ! Sell the fuel for a less than ts weight in Confeds—let the saints and the sinners here in Wilmington have something to keep the vital warmth.in their bodies for a little while longer. Let them have a stick now and then to cook their victuals. It won’t require much tor that purpose. Upon the whole, we say —we would sing if wo knew how—-Woodman cut that tree, spar* not a single bow, in winter we will need it all, we want a little now. — Wilmington Journal. Interesting European Hews. Our latest English papers give us the following sammary of intelligence: LORD PALMERSTON ON THE AMERICAN WAR. Lord Palmerston had been addressing his con stituents at Tiverton on the .general pelicy of his Government. In the coarse of his remarks, he spoke as follows on the American war: Then there was an American civil war. There is much difference of opinion as te the merits es the contending parties. Seme are fer the Nerth, on the ground of their hatred of slavery. Some are for the South, on the ground es tkeir levees freedom and independence. We might have been involved one way or the ether if we had listened te many of those who urged different courses of action. We might have been involved in the quarrel; but I believe the country is glad we have abstained from following that course. [Cheers.] We could have had nothing to gain, and we should only have added thousands of our own sonste the hecatomb of victims which that calamitous, bloody and slaughtering war has sacrificed. [Cheers.] We may hope that time and reflection—and reeent ad vices from America show some favorable symp toms—aad the fact of the immense losses which have been sustained, and the slight hopes of suc sess which appear on the part of the North, may warrant the hope that many months will not elapse before some progress will be made tewards healing that tremendous breach which now exists. [Cheers.] But of this I am convinced, that if we had yield ed to those who, from the purest motives and from a sincere coh\ ictien, urged us to interfere, to offer our mediation, and to endeavor to reconcile the i turtles before their differences were ripe for adjust ment, we should not Only have failed in accom plishing that object, but we should have embitter ed the feeling between that country and this, aud hare rendered the future establishment es good relations between us and themselves less easy and more difficult—[bear, hear] —therefore, I think mat our neutrality is right. lam sure that it is appreciated by the country at large.” [Cheers.] England's danger from re-united America. [From the London Herald, August 24.] - * * * By our se-called neutrality we have earned the jealous hatrod of both sections es the late Union. The reports that have reached us as t# the proposals of Niagara diplomatists suggest te us the alarming thought that in the next American war we may be called upon, whether we wish it or net, to play a prominent part. The negligent apathy es statesmen has let slip the opportunity es securing the gratitude and friendship es the Southern people. If an alliance for the conquest of Canada should be insisted upon by the North as one es the conditions of peace, we can hardly pre sume to blame the South for acquiescing in the bargain. If we in Europe have withheld the right hand of fellowship, we cannot wonder that j it should agree to an offensive and de fensive, wiih its late enemy in the West. We shall have but ourselves to thank for it, if we should find ourselves helpless on a sudden, in the presence of a powerful conspiracy, to extend the dominion of a rival empire over the whole vast continent between the lakes and the polo. the position Af the belligerents and issues OF THE CONTEST. [From the London Times, August 22.] * * # On all points the presumptions which once inspirited the North have now expired. The South, on the other hand, has lost but a single hepe. The Confederates commenced the struggle with the belief that Europe would not endure the loss of its flotton supplies, and that either the block ade would be raised in the interest of our manu facturers, or that a war so disastrous to trade would be terminated by European intervention.— In this expectation they were deceived, hut they confronted the disappointment with unabated reso lution, and determined to fight the war out them selves. This they have done; and now, in the fourth year of the contest, they find thcmselveg with armies capable of meeting any armies of their enemy, with good credit and an established repu tation. They obtain what they want in spite of the blockade ; they are living under a well-organ ized government; and if they escape disaster in Georgia, they may fairly say that the fourth cam paign of the war leaves them in a better position than ever. Meantime the North is in difficulties about the reinforcement of its armies, and is approaching the crisis of a Presidential election. There is a chance for the South—perhaps the best yet offer ed —in the conflict of opinions which the political struggle will evoke; but it would be vain to spe culate on the actual results either of the election or the campaign. As regards the final issue of the war, we consider the prospects of the Confederates to boas good as ever; but the Federals have shown such insensibility to defeat, and such an inflexible tenacity of .purpose, that we cannot anticipate any early termination of the strife. Perhaps tho suc cess of Sheiman in Georgia, or of Farragut in j Mobile, might counteract the disappointment pro duced by the failure of Grant in Virginia, and once more inspire the Federals with expectations of absolute success; but in Europe we can only em ploy the lessons of this eventful campaign to con firm our convictions of the hopelessness of the war and the necessity of a speedy peace. THE CONFEDERATE WAR VESSELS IN FRANCE. [From the Paris Siecle, August 23.] It may be remembered that not long ago two war-ships, destined lor the Confederate service, were ordered at Nantes. The Phare d* la Loire now tells us that the San Francisco and the Shang hae are yet in the docks there, and that they are, in a mysterious manner, being armed. A label in large characters is posted above the coupe, order ing no stranger to enter either vessel. It is said that in the interior of these ships, on the ono side armed, the machinery hooks are being studded, on which te hang chains in case of an attack. M. Voruly, we are assured, has been authorized by the Minister of Marine to tost these machines; M. Chasseloup Laubat demands that only one ship at a time shall leave the harbor. Tho day on which experimeats are te be made is hot yet fixed. PEACE RUMORS AND THE YANKEE PROSPECTS. The New York correspondent of ,tba London Times, writing from Niagara Falls under date of August Bth, says: “Clifton House has become th# centre of negotiations between the Norther? l'rieuds of peace arid tho Southern agents, which promise a withdrawal of differences from tie arbitrament of the sword.” The correspondent then goes on te explain that an effort is to be made to nominate a Democrat for the Presidency upon a platform fer an armistice and a convention of the States, and to thwart, hy all possible means, the efforts of Mr. Lincoln for a re-election. The Times’ “city article” says “Frankfort ad vices show a loss of faith in the United State* bonds, large sales having depressed price* to 38, which is three per cent below the last quotations from New York.” The Daily News says there are rumors of a pro jected new Confederate loan in Belfast, where there has been no rioting since the 10th. Order has been restored. Kilpatrick’s Raid. The following, from the New York News, gives an idea of the “success” of Kilpatrick’s recent Georgia raid, which does not agree al together with the accounts of some other Northern “papers: Kilpatrick’s raid on the Atlanta and Macon Railroad has proved a disaster. It appears to have been anticipated in every one of its movements. Confronted at all points, attacked in the rear at one and almost surrounded at others, it has been singularly unfortunate. Pursued closely to South River, the raiders, several thousand strong, found it bank full • but with death or the Libby at their heels, all that remained of them struck for the other side by swimming. Men and horses, in con siderable numbers, were drowned in the at tempt, and we may presume, therefore, that the losses of the retreat involved at that point all its artillery and wagons. The number of men and horses that returned does not appear, unless we arp to accept tbe telegraphic an nouncement ‘made some days ago that it amounted to but one hundred ! That enter prise has done very little good, and is thu* seen to have cost dearly. Even according to the bloodiest codes of recog nised war, it is not allowed, we believe, to fire into a city that is not simply and merely a military post, until it has been invested and attacked, and effec tually surrounded by a force aitparently sufficient for occupation when surrendered. Charleston is not besieged in aDy sense approach ing this condition—its land approaches, two rivers and three rail roads, are open and in free use, and the only token of a siege, or summons, or pretext for treating it as a city liable to shells, is a few bat teries only near enough to annoy and alarm and disturb non-combatants, invalids and others, and not to weaken in any way the military defences. The shelling is not —even after Gen. Foster’s em phatic assertion—directed to or at any works, shops, or arsenals, or other military posts—or if so, the Yankees are bad artillerists. Judged by its effects and mode in reference to the rules of war, the shelling of the city can only bo pronounced by impartial witnesses an experimental school of practice in developing new lesults in ar tillery. Are we ready to continue champagne courtesies and frequent flags of truce with persons ordering and approving such shelling, and branding us false ly for cruelties to prisoners whom they will not re lieve by exchange 'l—Courier. TELEGRAPHIC. REPORTS OF TH* PRESS ASSOCIATION. Entered according to act of Congress in tke year 1*63, hy J. S. Thrasher, in tho Clerk’s office of tho District Coart of tho Confederate States for tko Northern District of Georria. Richmond, Sept. 17th.—The N. Y. New* of tho 13th state* that preliminary steps have been taken by tho friends es peace, to call a National Con tention of tho Democratic party, and nominate candidates for President and Vice President. Richmond, Sept. 17th.—The following was re ceived to-day : Hbadqr’s. Army Northern Va., Sept 17th.— Hon* Secretary Seddon. —At daylight yesterday the enemy’s skirmish line, west of Jerusalem Plank Road, was driven hack on their entrench ments along their whole line; at the same time Hampton attacked his position north af Norfolk Railroad near Sycamore Church, and captured about 300 prisoners, some arms, wagons, a large number of horses and 2500 cattle. Gregg attack ed Hampton on his return in the afternoon at Belcher’s Mill, on Jerusalem Plank Road, but was repulsed and driven back. Everything was brought off safely. Our entire loss does not ex ceed fifty men. (Signed) - R..E. LEE. Mobile, Sept. 19.—There is from six to eight blockaders constantly off the bar. A special dispatch to the Register, dated Sena tohia, Sept. 17th, says Quantrell is reported cap tured in Indiana. Shelly with from six to eight thousand men oc cupy Pillot Knob and Ironton, and on the 15th burned Rilty River Bridge seventy miles south of St. Louis. The rebel forces are rapidly augmenting by conscription in South Missouri. A. J. Smith’s command is at Cairo and hound for Georgia. There is considerable uneasiness felt in Memphis in consequence oi Forrest crossing the line. Richmond, Sept. 19. New York papers of the 16th received. Sheridan under date of Berry ville, 13th reports that Wilson’s cavalry charged Kershaw’s division on the Winchester turnpike, capturing the Bth S. C., embracing 16 officers and 145 men; also Col. jiaitwuL, vOmnai'.d’Oflf brigade. Wilson’s loss 20 killed and 3 wounded. Tke New York Democratic Convention renom inated Seymour for Governor and Jones for Lieut. - Governor. The Tribune says the resolutions were a cross between the Chicago platform and McClel lan’s letter, with an effort to go in favor of both. About 50 prominent peace democrats held a con ference in New York, and unanimously adopted a resolution fora convention of Jeffersonian demo crats in the course of the present mouth at Cincin nati for the purpose of nominating a candidate to represent that branch of the democratic party which the letter of McClellan completely ignores. The Herald of the 17th has dispatches from the Soushwest which state that Price with 500 cavalry crossed tho Arkansas river half way between Lit tle Rock and Fort Smith on the Bth en route for Missouri. Brig Gen Cooain of Grant’s army was killed re cently by a fall from his horse. Gold closed 223. A Yankee raiding party burnt the railroad bridge over the Rapidan yesterday afternoon. Intelligence from Winchester is to the afternoon of the 16th. Our forces hold the ground from Winchester to Opequan. The enemy’s infantry, estimated 30,000 strong, remain behind their en trenchments; their cavalry 10,000 strong, dispaly considerable enterprise and activity. Early’s ar my is ia fine condition, enjoying abundant sup plies including fruit and vegetables. A coaflict recently occurred on Main st. Nor folk, between some sailors and negro soldiers. One sailor was killed and 20 badly wounded; one ne gro mox tally wounded. New Orleans dates te th* 6th. The vote for Congressmen iu that city was 4,900 against 568.; § Gold in New York on the 16th opened 229 and closed 228i. Mobile, Sept. 19. Last night the engine of the passenger train on the Mobile and Ohio road blew up, killing the en gineer BDd damaging tho train. Six vessels off the bar. All quiet. Rumors not reliable. What War Teaches. —The Richmond Yfhig says, iu the mouth of one of the characters, in the fragment of aßomanee left by Thackeray, at his death, we find these striking words which have their lesson at this time : “War teaches obedience and contentment under privation ; it fortifies courage ; it tests loyalty ; it gives occasion for showing merci fulness of heart; moderation in victory ; en durance and cheerfulness under defeat. The brave who do battle victoriously in their country’s cause, leave a legacy of honor to their children.” We, at the South, can feel little interest in a contest between Lincoln and McClellan. They both regard U3 as cooks would an ani mal to be prepared for the table. One wants to roast and the other wants'*to boil us. We object to either process. We don’t care which of the cocks whip. If we have a preference, we think Lincoln is the least dangerous, and upon the whole we would prefer his success to that of McClellan.— Exchange. Mr. Chase and the Presidency.— Some of Mr. Chase’s friends lately addressed him a letter of inquiry as to his views on the politi cal situation, but more particularly to ascer tain whether he was opposed to Mr. Lincoln’s re-election. In his reply, Mr. Chase says: I do not see any reason for believing that the great cause to which we are all bound can be promoted any better, or as well, by with drawing support from the nomination made at Baltimore; and no cause of dissatisfaction, however strong, will warrant any sacrifice of that cause. What future circumstances may require or warrant cannot now be foreseen, and need not now be considered. I particu larly desire my friends to do nothing or say nothing that can create the impression that there is any personal difference between Mr. Lincoln and myself, for there is none. All the differences that exist are on public questions, and have no private bearing. Grant and Lee.— Says U. S. Grant to R. E. Lee— “ Surrender Petersburg to me.” Says R. E. Lee to U. S. Grant — “Hare Petersburg? Oh no, you shan’t.” “I shan’t,” said Grant, “Oh, very well— You say I shan’t, I say I shell.” [Yankee paper. Singula* Will.— There lately died in Buenos Ayres man of 78 years, whose will contained a clause leaving ten thousand cigars for those who might attend his funeral. This eecentric testator also expressed his desire that his friends should not leave the house of mourning without drinking to his memory all the wine left m his cellar. It is said the wish of the deceased was perfectly fulfilled. A Patriot. —An old gentleman, from Union county, named Alexander Murray, and up wards of eighty years old, who foaght in the war of 1812 and the Indian wars, visited this place on furlough Monday last, being now in the Confederate army, where the old veteran says he will remain until our independence is acknowledged ! 1: ellow Fever in Charleston.— lt is reported that the yellow fever has made its appearance in Charleston,, and that there are some fifteen cases in the city. It is also said that some deaths have occurred from the disease. [Chronicle Sentinel. TBEB OI TY. T- J. JACKSON LOCAL EDITOR. Fire. — A fir* occurred about 8 *’clock last evening on the premises es Mr. B. G. Stern, corner of Jackson and streets, censuming a small kitchen. Loss trifling. Th* fir* companies were promptly out. Two Blue Bellies Caught. —Capt. Chapman’s Company on duty on tho Muscogee Railroad, overhauled, some twenty miles from th* eity, en Friday last, two cerulean Abdomens, who escaped from the cars at Fort Valley. • They had recently been confined at Andersonville, and were being transported to another point. They were brought to Columbus on Saturday and delivered over t* the Provost Marshal. House to Rent— See advertisement es a very desirable house to rent in a convenient portien of the city. _ Sales To-Day. —lt will be sees by advertise ment, that Ellis, Liringsten & C*., will soil this day at auction desirable real estate, Regrets and other valuable property. Matt. R. Evans. —We invite tho attention of the community to the advertisement of this gen tleman, so long and favorably known to our old citizens. It will he seen that he is engaged in the Commission business at Mobile,and we take pleas ure in recommending hm bouse to all persons hav ing business in this line. Religious. —A series of pretraeted sorrioes have been held during the past week, at the Bap tist Church in this city, resulting in considerable jeligious interest and several accessions ta the church. We understand that service will be con tinued during the present week. Personal. —We were pleased te welceme in eurcity yesterday, th* gifted proprietor and lucky Local of the Eufaula Spirit of the South, Mr. John Black. Notwithstanding the wear aud tear of these war times, he gives evidence of good liv ing, as we have rarely seen him in bettor physi cal condition. He comes among us to look after tho interest of his paper, and wo respectfully com. mend him to the favorable acquaintance of eur citizens. Another part of John’s business up her* is, we learn, to assist us in discussing the merits of a cer tain ham, which ho contends he has a right to do, by virtue of what he construes to he an invitation on our part. Alas! for the infatuation of seme people; If any such invitation has ever been given it was only done in a joke, and not in any expectation or hope of his coming. Besides, said ham has been disintegrated too long ago to talk about. A Plea for the Exiles. —OuPn a number of Atlanta exiles have landed at our depot during the past week, many of them in a most abject and de plorable condition. We are pleased to learn that our citizens have been taking steps to ameliorate their misfortunes to some extent. But while this is the case, wo opine that owing to tho preseat over-crowded and over-burdened condition of our cities, it will be impossible for all those unfortu. nates to find shelter in our midst, and we would most earnestly appeal in their behalf to the plan ters throughout the State to open their doors and hearts to them. Itis true the obligation to relieve their necessities rests upon all classes alike, in ac cordance with their several abilities, but we think there is a great deal more room ia the country than in our surcharged cities, aud wo trust homes may bo provided for these exiles in the rural dis tricts. These unfortunate old men, women aud children, have cast their lot with us, have given in their adhesion to our faith, and have proven by their conduct that they desire to share our politi cal fortunes whether they be good or i’ll. We are, therefore, socially, morally and religiously bound to share with them our blessings and com forts, and even the last morsel of bread, if need be. They are identified with us fully—bono es our bone and flesh of our flesh, baptized in the same baptism and partakers of the same faith. We hope then that all will feel the binding obligations to assist them as far as possible. “Asa Hartz” —His Children. —Who ha3 not read the pithy articles, both poetic and prose of “Asa Hartz”? He has become a general favorite throughout the Confederacy. But unfortunately the Yankees aabed him about the time of the de traction of Jackson, Miss., last year, and be is now a prisoner on Johnson’s Island. His wife died about a week before bis capture and left two very interesting children, Lucy about 10 years, and Johny about three. We are indebted to Mr. F. L. Cherry of Mobile, for the information that they have been cared for and are now in this city in charge of their uncle, Mr. James Woodall, of Montgomery. They will be conveyed to-day to their aunt’s Mrs. William Stewart of Russell Coun ty, where they will find a permanent and pleasant heme. We write this hoping that it may reach their father’s eye and he be relieved of any anxiety he may naturally feel in regard to them. [From tbe Boston Courier.] Tlie “Pirate” Alabama. John Paul, calling himself Jones, commaa-. ded, during the third year of the war of the American Revolution, ah armed ship named the Bonhomme Richard, which ship was nev er in any port of the United States, an 1 was manned (though her chief officers, under her Captain, were Americans)by foreigners, for the most part Irish, Scotch, Portugueese, Norwe gihns and others, with only a few Americans, and all picked up in Europe. The chief busi ness of the Bonhomme Richard was to capture and destroy English merchantmen navigating the British Channel and German Ocean. The Bonhomme Richard was at length destroyed herself, after a desperate engagement on the part of herself and her censorts against the British man-of-war Serapis, commanded by Captain Pearson. John Paul Jones held a captain’s commission from a certain rebel Congress sitting at Philadelphia, or Lancaster or somewhere else in the British Province of Pennsylvania. Query.—Was the Bonhomme Richard a “piratical craft ?” Was she a “privateer ?” — Was John Paul Jones a “pirate?” These enquiries are made under the impres sion of the deluge cf “piratical” phrases which the newspapers of the day pour oq.t on occa sion of the late naval engagement between the Kearsage,‘Captain Winslow, and the Alabama, Capt. Semmes. By the way, it seems that Captain Winslow, of the Kearsage, has paroled the crew of the Alabama. How is that ? Is it customary to parole pirates? One thing more in the same connection.— Wo read occasionally in the Republican jour nals some very hard things about Benedict- Arnold,; the traitor. Are we to undersatnd that a desperato rebel, who repents of his re bellion and returns to his allegiance, is a idH tor ? What of Gen. Gantt, of Arkansas ? In truth, all this calling of foul which pervades the Republican press is of the evil signs of the times. It i3 quite Hl| ural, however, that men who have outgrflraf the Constitution of the United States shHlfl have forgottten the American all its lessons. Thus, and thus only, can we account foflSß fact that Mr. Bancroft and Mr. Molloy, fame as historians and as men rsst upon (KBl respective histories of rebellion, and tion of rebels of such, and especially of JfsSfM great representative persons of robelfH| William of Orango, and George Washing]®") should have settled down into opinions o J _ Ie * gitimacy and of loyalty, and of the divine right of Government, which would have d»- lighted the hearts of Philip II- of au <} George 111. of England, a «^ e^“ ow . fit „! the political atmosphere Os St. Petersburg and Vienna. For Chattahoochee. The steamer Jackson, will leave for the above and intermediate landings this morning at 9 o'clock. sep2o It FRY ’ Capt Notice. Headquarters Post, Columbus, Ga., Sept. 19. 1864. [Circular.] I. The call made by me on the 16th mat., for ne groes to work on tho fortifications, not having been responded to, impressments will be resorted to. 11. Capt C A Redd, A. Q. M., will at once impress 1,000 negroes in the city of Chlumbus, this and ad joining counties within a distance of 30 miles from this point. The impressments to be made under existing orders from the Secretary of War. A suf ficient cavalry force will be detailed to assist in the execution of the impressment. 111. Capt. W W Prudom, Assistant Provost Mar shal, at the office of the Provost Marshal, is alone charged with granting exemptions Irom impress ment. LEON VON ZINKEN, Col. Commanding Post. sp2o 3t Notice! [Extract.] Headquarters Post, Columbus, Ga., Sept. 19,1864. Special Orders, ( No. 12. S VI. In compliance with Paragraph 11, General Orders, No. 15, Headquarters Georgia Reserves, Capt. R. B. Baker, Commanding Battery, will hold an election for commissioned officers of his com pany on TUESDAY, the 20th inst., between the hours of three and four o’clock, p. m„ at Jaques - Carriage Shop. VII. Capt T S Fry, Post Inspector, and CaptW Prudom, Assistant Provost Marshal, will superin tend the election and make out proper returns in writing to this office, By order LEON VON ZINKEN, Col. Comd’g Post. J. A. Cot>y, Adj’t. Capt. Baker, Comd’g Battery. sep2o It Notice! Muscogee Rail Road Company, Columbus, Ga., Sept. 20, 1864. Stockholders can receive the Dividend of $lO 00 per share, declared August 13th, l?' 54 , on aad after Thursday the 22d inst. J. M. BIVINS, scp2o lw Sec’y and Treas’r. For Rent. THE corner formerly occupied by Thos. Brassoll. It is a first rate business corner aad contain? six large rooms and one cellar. For terms apply at sept 20-ts THIS OFFICE. .WATT*, r. KVAIWS, COMMISSION MERCHANT, N«. 64*, Commerce Street, IJIOISMEE, ALABAMA; WILL sell on Commission every description of Vi (roods, Negroes and Produce of all kinds. sp2o lm Sterling* Exchange for Id-old I WILL exchange Sterling for Gold, at par. J. F. WINTER, sep2o lw SSOO Reward. WILL be paid for the apprehension of our boy Truman. Ho is about 24 years ol I. 6 feet high: very black, and weighs about 180 pounds. hundred dollars will bo paid for his confinement i* some jail so that we can get him, or five hundloh dollars for his delivery at the EAGLE FACTORY. Eufaula Spirit of the Souto, Quincy Dispatch, Al bany Patriot, Macon Telegraph, LaGrange Repor ter, and Hamilton Enterprise, publish one mont and send bills to Factory. sep2o 1 m AUCTION SALES. • * "TTTZ-r Hy Ellis, EiYingstoii &Cos ON Tuesday, 20th September, at 101-2 o'clk, wc will sell in front of our store, A VERY FINE YOUNG MULE. sp!9 td $4 By Ellis, Ei rings toil &■ Cos AN TUESDAY, 20th of September, at 10 1-2 o’clk, we will sell in front of our store, A VERY FI YE HARNESS AND SADDLE HORSE, Eight years old, kind and gentle. ?epl9 2t $6 By Ellis, Eivisagstoii & Cos. ON TUESDAY, September 20th, at 10 1-2 o’clk, we will sell iu front of our store, DWELLING HOUSE AND LOT, East of the Muscogee Rail Road Depot; House is new with 4 good rooms ; Collon# ade in front; Kitchen, Smoke-house, and good Well of Water, Lot 1-4 acre—a comfortable residence. —ALSO— . - A VERY FINE PARLOR MIRROR, French plate, 3 by 5 ft. 10.0 REAMS FOOL’S CAP PAPER. 100 Shares Bank of Columbus Slock. 1 GUTTA PERCIIA GIN BAND, 40 feet long and 8 inches wide. —ALSO, — SOI 1-4 Acres Land, Eight miles of the City, being the West lialf of Lot No, 142, in the 9th district, South of the old express road, adjoining the land of Lawrence and Jones —Twenty acres cleared, with a’small Dwelling. —ALSO, — A VERY LIKELY NEGRO BOY! 15 years old, 16 Bbls. COAST SALT; 400 lbs. WRAPPING PAPER. 16 BOXES FINE TOBACCO. sepl6 46 By Ellis, Livingston & Cos. 200 O-A.LXjOIN'S HU (mm (UK HUH! A VERY FINE ARTICLE. For sale in quantities of 10 Gallons and upwards. ag3o ts " BEEF! BEEF!! T HAVE secured the services of an experienced 1 Butcher, au 1 will keep on hand at all times tue best Beef th <t can be found in the country. . *®“Beef ready for sale every morning at dajMsnt. WM. 11. H. PHELPS. spl7st 114, Broad St TO BEAT. SSS2SSST ESt in pencil on the Trunk left by mistake. The person having the Trunk taken from the j^t get the one left, by returning it to Mr. John K s near the Brown House, Macon, Ga. sep!9 2t*