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COLUMBUS TIMES
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kre* month*.
ADVERTISING RATES i
Advertisements inserted for $2 00 per square for
eaeh insertion.
Where advertisements are inserted a month, the
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Announcing candidates S2O, which must invariably
paid in advance. ______
Change ot Schedule.
OrriCß Exsikkib and Scperintwtdixt, )
Charleston and Savannah Railroad, V
Charleston, June 7,1804.)
ON THURSDAY, June 9,1864, and until further
notice, the Schedule of the Passenger train will
be as follow, viz:
Leave Charleston 9.45, a. m.
Arrive in Savannah .5.40, p. m.
Leave Savannah... .5.30, a. in.
Arrive in Charleston 1.15, p. m.
This Train makes direct connections, going north
and south, with the Northeastern Railroad at Char
leston, and the Central Railroad at the Junction.
H. S. HAINES.
June 14 ts Engineer and Superintendent.
Change ol Schedule.
ON and after Sunday, June 19th, the Trains on
the viuscogeo Railroad will run as follows :
PASSENGER TRAIN :
Leave Columbus 6 45 P. M.
Arrive at Macon 3 25 A. M.
Leave Macon 8 10 P. M
Arrive at Columbus 4 25 A. SI.
FREIGHT TRAIN:
Leave Columbus 5 00 A. M
Arrive at Columbus 4 55 A. 3M
W.L. CLARK,
mar loti Supt. Muscogee R, R.
Through to Montgomery.
NEW SCHEDULE.
MONTGOMERY & WEST POINT
RAILROAD COMPANY.
COLUMBUS, August 27,1864.
ON and after August 27th. the Passenger Train on
the Montgomery and West Point Railroad will
Leave Montgomery at 8:00 a. m.
Leave West Point at 7:10 a. m.
Arrive at Columbus at 5:32 p. in.
Leave Columbus at 5:50 a. m.
Arrive at Montgomery at 3:00 p. m,
Arrive at West Potnt at 4130 p. m.
Freight, Train leaves Columbus at 8:40 am.
Arrives at 8:27 p m
I). H. CRAM, Sup’t & Eng.
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MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD.
< >1 t%Ui: OF SCIIEBULE.
Girard, Ala., Aug. 22,1864.
ON and after this date Trains on this Road will
Run Daily (Sunday excepted,) as follows:
Passenger Train.
Leave Girard at.... 3 00 p. m.
Arrive in Union Springs 7 30
Leave Union Springs '....,...5 35 a. f m.
Arrivo 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,
aglStf Eng. & Sup’t.
NEW GOODS!! SEW GOODS!!!
GOODRICH & CO.,
BROAD STREET,
A RE now opening a splendid assortment of
STAPLE Mil I'BV DRV CMS,
FRESH FROM EUROPE* via Bermuda, which
they will soil cheap for cash. aug27—lm
STERLING EXCHANGE!
\ FEW Hundred Pounds of Sterling Exchange
•\gSS te “"‘'"‘^“baniiofcolumbus.
BLACKSMITH WASTED!
STEADY EMPLOYMENT and liberal wages.
Apply at
seplO 2w EAGLE FACTORY.
Confederate Knives and
Forks.
uru iiro manufacturing at our Works in this city
\\ a good article of KNIVES AND FORKS in
large quantities, which we offer to the public low
for CASH.
—A LSO—
Shoe Makers and Saddlers Tools,
of. every description. Nhoe Pegs, Steel Trusses,
Spatulas, Butcher Knives, &c., Ac.
The attention pf 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 W. H. Prioleau, Macon, Ga.
Surgeon R. Potts, Montgomery, Ala.
surgeon „ARISON, BEDELL & CO.
Columbus, Ga., September 1, 1864. ,
Mobile Register, Augusta Constitutionalist, and
Charleston Courier please copy one month and send
bill tol his office.
FOR SALE!
A GOOD Saddle and Harness Horse.
Apply to
R. B. MURDOCH,
sop 2-ts _ or, at this office.
500 \v%ro Mesa Wanted!
Nitre and Mixing Bureau, 1
lleadq’rs Mixing Division, No. 2, V
Selma, Ala., iSept. IS, ’G4. )
]AM dcsiv of Hiring Five Hundred Negro Men,
■•for the Bibb Iron Works, located on tho Alabama
and Tennessee Rivers Rail R< ad. fifty miles; North
of Selma, 150 South of Rome and 70 West of Mont
gomery. I am raying for able-bodied men three
hundred dollars per annum, feeding and clothing
them. Ono woman will be hired to every ten men,
to cook and wash for them. There is on tho place a
hospital with a regular surgeon, who takes charge
of all the sick. If the enemy threatens, the negroes
can be moved West through an inaccessible coun
try. Apply to W P Herring, La Grange, Ga., or
WM, RICHARDSON HUNT,
Lieut. Col. 6’omd g.
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RUNAWAY!
V EURO boy CHARLEY ; about 25 years old, yel
low complexion, hair nearly straight, below or
iinarv intelligence ; left Mr. 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. A suitablo reward will bo paid
for his delivery at this office, or in any safe jail and
information sentto me at this office.
JAMES M. RUSSELL.
Columbu's Ga., aug 1 tf*
S3O Reward,
} WILL pay the above reward for 808, a black
I boy, about 24 years old. He has been out three
or four weeks, and is supposed to be lurking about
ho city. JNO. EL. vASS.
iy 4 tV
and Saddlers’
TOOLS.
'■pilE UNDERSIGNED "having commenced tho
* manufacture ofthe above named articles in this
city, are prepared to fill orders lor the same.
Office on Angle street, a few doors above 0. S.
Hospital. HARRISON, BEDELL CO.
Reference —Maj. F. W. Dillard.
Mobile Register, Mississippian and Augusta Con
stitutionalist, please copy one mouth and send bills
to this office,
mar <SO ts
m P«R k BLAU MHt
FOR (3 /\ liE l
WE have for sale 49 reams o( Letter Paper, and
2,000 small Pocket Blank Books, at V, Wwale
« Retail. Paocr, SSO per Ream; Blank Books, sloU
”^i‘-,? i 'y- wl ‘° IC8 * 1 ' ! ~ Ai ' p ‘ s ’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
wai taken off by some white man. I will pay the
Two reward for the and thief, with evx
lumbus on foot and took the train at some stataon
close by. J. 11. BAhh.
sepl-tf. . ~,
P- S.—l learn, since the above was written, that
ihe boy lett Cblumbus on the Opelika train, on
Sunday morning, in company with & small white
wan that limped, and that they were going to > est
J.H. B.
KTOTIOB.
To Planlcrs and Others !
T WILL EXCHANGE Osnaburgs, Sheeting and
1.1 jxns, for Bacon. Lard, Tallow and Beeswax. 1
will be iOund at Robinett <k Co's old stand, where 1
am manufacturing Candles and Lard Oil for sale.
L. S. WRIGHT.
lane 2 ti
Vol. XI.
J. W. WAUREX &, CO. Proprietors.
SPECIAL NOTICES
loticf.
HeaDQUaRTEP.3 PO3T,
Columbus, Ga., Sept. 19, 1364.
[Circular.]
I. The call made by me on the 16th inst., for ne
groes to work on the fortification?, not having been
responded to, impressments will be resorted'to.
11. Capt C A Redd, A. Q. M. t will at once impress
1,000 negroes in the city of Columbus, 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 Irani impress
ment.
LEON YON ZINKEN,
Col. Commanding Post.
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Notice!
Muscogee Rail Road Company,
Columbus, Ga., Sept. 20,1864.
Stockholders can receive the Dividend of $lO 00
per share, declared August 13th, 1864, on and after
Thursday the 22d inst.
J. M. BIVINS,
sep2o lw Sec’y and Treas’r.
Notice!
Enrolling Office, Muscogee County, \
Columbus, Ga., Sept. 13th, 1864. j
In compliance with General Orders, No. 15, da
ted Headquarters Georgia Reserve, Macon, Sept.
Ist, 1864, all detailed men of thi3 county not al
ready organized into companies, will report to
these Headquarters on Tuesday, the 20th inst., for
organization and election of officers.
Those refusing to join will have their details re
voked and ordered to field duty.
The Captains of organized companies are request
ed to furnish me with a copy of their muster rolls.
JNO. D. ATKINS,
En’rg Off. Muscogee co.
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«f3=.Sun and Enquirer copy
Notice.
Headquarters, 24th Militia Dist.
Columbus, Ga., Se.pt. 16, 1364.
The Captains appointed in the differ ~t Districts
will send to these Headquarters all men who have
not reported at Macon. By order of Gen. W aync.
B. A. THORNTON, A D C.
pr N. W. Garrard, Capt & E 0.
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Battle-Field Relief Association
of Columbus, Ga,
All who are disposed to contribute articles neces
sary for the relief of the sick and wounded in the
Army of Tennessee, are requested to leave them at
Goodrich & Go’s store by One O’clock, P. M. ev
ery Tuesday and Friday, when they will be for
warded to and dispensed by our Committee there.
W. 11. YOUNG, Presd’t.
C. G. Holmes, Sec’y. ag23tf
SSOO Reward.
TV ILL be paid for the apprehension of our boy
\ V Truman. He is about 24 years oil; 6 feet high;
very black, and weighs about 180 pounds. Three
hundred dollars will be paid for his confinement in
some jail so that we can get him, or five hundred
dollars for his delivery at tho^
Eufaula Spirit of the South, Quincy Dispatch, Al
bany Patriot, Macon Telegraph, LaG range Repor
ter, and //ami 1 ton Enterprise, publish one month
and send bills to Factory.
sep2o lm
SSO Reward !
STOLEN, from the Wagon Yard last night, a large
black horse Mule, with the letter “M” branded
on his right hip.
I will give the above reward for said Mule, de
livered to me at Talbotton, Ga.
JAMES INGRAM.
sep!7 fit’-
SSO Reward,
Superintendent’s Office,l
Muscogee R. R. Company, >
Columbus, Ga., Nept. 16,.’e4. ")
* REWARD of SSO will be paid for the delivery
A to me for each of the following negro men :
Charles—Black; about 25 years old: quick spo
ken ; weighs about 150 lbs.; about 5 feet 10 or 11 in.
high.
Hilliard—Black; about 30 years old; 5 ft O inches
high; weighs 1450 r 150 lbs.; blacksmith by trade.—
Probably will go to J ones county where his wife is.
W. L. CLAkIv,
spl7 lm Superintendent.
TIN SMITHS!
CAN FIND EMPLOYMENT WITH
RICHARDSON &' FAULKNER,
MACON, GEORGIA.
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A SOOD INVESTMENT 1
A Desirable Residenc e in Wyant on,
IFaiR, SA.I-.Hi.
1 OFFER for sale the place where I now reside,
containing fifty seven acres of land, about half
cleared, the balance with wood sufficient to supply
a family. A good and well built house, with five
rooms; good kitchen, with three rooms: smoke
house; barn, stable and carriage house; a well of
excellent water, and a fine young Peach orchard.
Two or three good negroes will be taken in part
payment; Posse-sion given immediately if desired.
Apply to me on the place or at the store of Ntaniord
& Co', opposite the Agency of the State Bank.
seplV lw JORDAN L. HOWELL.
FOE SALE.
\ HOUSE and LOT, situated North of the N .rth
A Commons on ihe corner of Troup and City Mill
streets: Said Lot contains half acre, with a good
new dwelling house with two rooms; kiteheiy with
two rooms; a very superior well of water—hard
ly equalled in the vicinity of tho city, and a large
garden. Everything new and in good order. For
lurther particulars apply to me on the premises.
sp!3 lm J. J. BORING.
Aoiice!
4 LL persons who wish to send Letters to Louis-
A iana. Texas, or Arkansas, will please leave them
at the Times Office, in this place. My. terms for
carrying Letters are one dollar ($1) per Letter. I
will ieave this place on the ISth of this month. All
Letter? from the other side the Mississippi river Triil
be brought over and mailed, if parties will nave me
addressed at Monroe, or Shreveport, La.
THOS. W ELLfe,
Regular Letter Carrier for Gibson's Brigade.
spl2 td
WIiiSKMAMW! i
rIE Exercises of this Institution will be resumed
on the Ist Monday in October, under thacontin
ued direction of its present able instructor, Kev.
Carlisle P. B. Martin- _ , , A
Terms of admission will bo mad© known bciorc
the session com««g«|. GREESWOOD . ;
D. E. WILLCOX, secy.
spl2 ts Board of Trustee?.
FOR S ALE!
S2O Acres of Land oil the Mobile &
4, i raid Rail Road,
FORTY MILES from Columbus, Georgia, and one
and a&f from St it ion No. 5; about ISO acres
opened and cabins for about 30 negroes, with rood
gin house, Jtc. Apply to Aessrs EUis, Liv
“fipiTm* 00 '* for termS - p c FREEMAN.Jr.
wasted:
r AAA LBS. ofTALLOW. for which a liberal price
S>UUU will be raid. . dTLLARD,
u' Major and Q. -V. _
SELECT SCHOOL. .
iaws®*" -
Tuition $lO9 00 oer Scholastic yea,.
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Columbus, Ga Wednesday Homing, September 21,1864.
Tuesday Evening,
1 - ■ ■
Special Correspondence of tlie Times,
I The Truce at Rbugh and Heady, and how it is con
ducted.—Families passing through under special
permits. — Telegrams and Letters. — Two Thou
sand Prison* "s to be Exchanged. — Gen. Stoneman
for Gen. Gov tn. d'c. —Andy Johnson calls out the
Militia of Tennessee, dc.,dc.
Lovejoy’s Station, Sept. IS, 1564.
Your readers would probably like to knnw some
thing of the details of the flag of truce, now
f existing at ' Rough and Ready; and which
will expire by ii uitation on Thursday morning
next, the 22d instan:.
The principal object in view in establishing it,
i as you know, was for the purpose, on our side, of
| receiving the Atlanta exiles, and upon the part of
| the Yankees to facilitate their banishment. The
first regular meeting under the flag took place on
j Monday morning last at 10 o’clock at Rough and
Bendy, and at a point midway between the two
i picket lines, which were stationed at a distance of
half a mile apart. The Confederates were repre
| sented Major Ciair, of the Adjutant and In
| spector General’s Department, and the Yankees by
| Lieutenant Coionel Warner, Inspector General.—
Each officer was accompanied by a regiment of
j escorts—the Yankee regiment upon this occasion
j looming up to the size of an ordinary brigade.
Our eseort was clad a3 usual in the ordinary
; grey jackets and'pants, and hats as varied in shape
and color as you could well imagine. The Yankee
j escort on the contrary seemed to have been gotten
| up totally regardless of expense, with bran new
| uniforms complete.
Colonel Warner was accompanied by Col. Catter
son commanding escort, Coi. W. W. Wright mili
tary ongineer, and Col. McCullom mtlitary super
visor of railroads. Major Clare was accompanied
by Col. Anderson, Stn Tennessee, Governor Isham
G. Harris and Mr. Henry Watterson, formerly of
the Chattanooga Rebel and Southern Confederacy
newspapers. Daring Monday, Major Mason and
Major Pattonfia charge of our field transportation,
were also present. Mr, Beckam acted as Secretary
to Major Clair. The officers meet each day, for a
couple of hours, the intercourse being dignified
and courteous, but not familiar. Major Clair man
aged his commission with great tact and judgment.
The first train of exiles arrived at Rough and
Ready on Monday evening, and the caravan of
wagons and ambulances, filled with women and
children and household effects, presented a sad
though novel panoramic picture. , This first train
contained a young lady, who springing lightly out
of a finely cushioned ambulance belonging to Gen.
Sherman's Headquarters, and into one of our
greasy looking plain concerns, said loud enough
for the Yankee officers to hear, that she looked
forward with peculiar pleasure to the “dinner of
herbs/’ for she knew she would enjoy it more than
the ‘‘stalled oxen” of her country’s enemies and
oppressors.
Letters have been passing very freely through
the lines, and the l'ankee officers have allowed
persons tc write North as freely as could be desired.
Mr. Watterson scuta despatch to -somf friends in
Nashville and received an answer the next day.*
Col. Warner in taking charge of several letters
which had been intrusted to Governor Harris for
transmission, placed U. S. postage stamps upon
them himself and insisted upon the Governor’s'
accepting the five cent pieces whieh accompanied
the letters, as mementoes of the occasion.
Each day, at Rough and Ready, is very much
like its predecessors, the arrival and departure of
the ambulances and wagons with the exiles being
the principal feature.
Gen. Sherman has agreed to the proposition of
Gen. Ilood for exchange, to the extent of two thou
sand—upon the basis of man for man. Lieut. Col.
G. A. Henry, of Gen. Hood’s Staff, has charge of
the management of this exchange on our ifide.—
General Stoneman the noted raider is to be speci
ally exchanged for Gen. Govan eur hero brigadier
who was captured at Jonesboro. Col. Smith, who
was captured at the same time, and was reported
killed, is to be exchanged with an equivalent for
Captain Duel (brother-in-law of General John
Adams) whom I reported captured a few days ago.
These are the only special exchanges I know of.
Qiute a number of ladies, have had permission
granted them by Generals Hood and Sherman to
pass through the liees, to the homes of relatives
and friends in the North. Among them I noticed
the wife of Brigadier General Maney of Tennessee.
Capt. E of Tennessee, sent up an applica
tion to General Sherman, asking that hi* family
be&llowed to return home. Colonel Warner en
dorsed upon the application, General Sherman
says that if Captain E will return with .his
wife, and both of them behave themselves half as
well as they known how to do, the application will
be granted.
A subsequent application was sent up by the
lady herself, and it came back endorsed, “certainly
eral's own hand writing. Whether Sherman re
considered his first endorsement, or failed to notice
that it was the same party applying, cannot be
conjectured.
The renegade and apostate Military Governor of
Tennessee, Andrew Johnson, issues his pronunci
arnento in the “Nashville Union” of the lßthinst.,
(a copy of which is before me) ordering all .able
bodied citizens of Tennessee, between the ages of
19 and 50, to be enrolled for militia service, and
held liable to perform military duty in the United
States. This includes all classes and colors. It
is to be hoped that the order will be beneficial in
the way of recruiting our armies.
There was an illumination in Nashville, and a
national salute of one hundred guns on the 12th
instant, in honor of the capture of Atlanta and
“other successes of the Yankee anus,” (to use the
words of the editor of the "Union”).
Attempting Jto excuse the meagre display of
lights tfcis paper says :
“The illumination might hare been more gen
eral, but there were doubtless numbers of persona
(loyal to the core) who did not join it because they
could not meet the expenses.” “Os course the
houses of rebels and rebel sympathizers were
dark.”
I mentioned in my letter day before yesterday,
that there would be work ahead soon. You will
doubtless hear of movements which may surprise
you. It would be imprudent in a news letter to
say more jest bow. You can rest assured though,
that the campaign is looking up, and if future
movements prove as brilliant as are anticipated,
we soaU a.i have cause to forget being obliged to
1 give up Atlanta. General Johnston though would
be worth fifteen thousand reinforcements a: this
‘ present juncture.
The weather which has been dry and delight
ful for the fortnight past has changed this morn
ing, and we are about te experience an old fash
ioned rainy day. General Frank Cheatham who
was absent ujon a 30 days furlough, has returned
and taken command of his Division, again.
OUTLINE.
Letter from Johnson’s Island.
Hbadq’rs Johnson’s Island, 1
Lake Erie, Aug. 25th, 1864. j
Editor Columbus Times — Dear Sir : That
ruy friends may know that I am not dead, but
liveth, lam seated by a long mess-table to
indite you aline. I was captured on the 28th
of July, on the left of our lines, during a hot
engagement. Gipson's Brigade and Johnson’s
(formerly Deas,) failed to connect, thus leav
ing an interval, and hence the capture of my
self, James Baker, J. E. Gilraore, B. Sitze, Jer
ry Sitze, (Privates,) and Serg’t Joseph James ;
the three latter of Company A, —the others of
my cojnpany.
The prison quarters are good; the rations
are sufficiently plentiful for men who do not
take a great deal of exercise, and, I think, of
the right quality to insure health, &c.
It is instructive to see what men can do un
der the mother of invention—necessity. Here
we have every occupation the ingenuity of
man can desire—viz: Fiddle-making is perfect
and that with pocket-knifes; Chairs are made
in quantity ; Watch-cases, finger-rings,
watch-chains. Ring-making absorbs most
time.
The intellectual have an agrfeeable way of
spending time. From various ways a library
has been raised, consisting of a fine variety of
books, which is quite an intellectual feast at
times.
The religious have prayer-meetings nightly
and daily ; we also have bible classes here.—
The religious are not behind others in ad
vancement. I could tell you a good deal of
interest, but no more room is allowed.
Respectfully,
LIEUT. FRANK TATE,
Hatchechubbee, Russell Cos., Cos. B, Bat. S. S.
Tlie War News.
Heavy firing was heard yesterday afternoon
in a southeasterly direction from the city, and
from the unusual distinctness of the reports,
many conjectures were indulged in concern
ing it. Some expressed the belief that it was
at Drewry's Bluff, and others at Chaffin’s ;
but it turned out that all weie wrong. We
have ascertained that the cannonade proceeded
from our guaboatsand land batteries, shelling
Dutch Gap, where the Yankees are cutting a
canal for the purpose of changing the course
of the river. We have no intelligence of the
result, though it may be safely asserted that
the work was suspended for a period. Tb.e
firing ceased about 6 o’clock.
A deserter states that the work on the canal
progresses very slowly, and gives as a reason
that the Confederate shells annoy the laborers
to such an extent that it is with difficulty they
can be kept at work. If this deserter’s story
is true, this canal has already proved the
“last ditch” to many of them ; for he says
that on a recent occasion eighteen were killed
by one shell. Whenever a shell explodes in
their midst they scatter in every direction,
and hours elapse before they can be got to
gether again. Beast Butler will have to con
trive some plan to get rid of the annoyance
if he wishes to finish his canal this season.
FROM PETERSBURG.
Yesterday morning the enemy commenced
shelling Petersburg, throwing heavy missiles
into the town ; and gradually increasing in
violence-until between nine and eleven o’clock,
the cannonade is represented to have been the
severest since the opening of the campaign.
Shells flew and exploded in every direction,
causing some damage to property, but, strange
to say, inflicting no personal injury so far as
our informant could ascertain. Our batter
ies replied with spirit, and, it is hoped, with
some effect upon the euemy. Under this
heavy fire the people of Petersburg maintained
their usual composure. In fact, they have
become so accustomed to this sort of thing
that they have come to regard it almost with
indifference.
With the exception of the cannonade, noth
ing of interest occurred yesterday, and at the
time the train left all was quiet on the lines.
Persons from Petersburg assert with much
confidence that there is not one word of truth
in the rumor ofthe proposed evacuation of
that place. We thought so from the first, and
only mention it now to relieve the minds of
those croakers who were so dismally affected
by the report.
FROM THE VALLEY.
The latest advices from the Valley of Vir*
ginia represent that General Early, on Sat
urday last, the 10th instant, advanced from
bis position at Bunker Hill towards Martins
burg. Thi9 place is in Berkeley county, only
seven miles south of the nearest point on the
Potomac river. The army under Sheridan,
confronting Early, is probably nearly as large
as that before Petersburg. A New York pa
per states that Grant dstached thirty-eight or
forty thousand men from the Army of the Po
tomac and sent them to the Valley, to which
must be added the troops under Hunter, Crook,
Kelly and Averill. Thi3 immense force so far
from being able to drive Early out of the Val
ley. ha3 had enough to do in guarding the
Potomac, in order to prevent our army from
crossing that stream. Meanwhile, our troops
have captured over two thousand prisoners
and inflicted a succession of punishments up
on the Yankees which have kept them in a
state of wholesome dread.
Mosby, ever on the alert, has burnt trains of
wagons, captured horses and mules, and am
bushed and killed many of the enemy. Early
has no fear of Sheridan, and the object of
his late advance may have been to offer battle,
which, judging from past incidents of the
campaign, will hardly be accepted. On the
contrary, we expect to hear of the enemy's re
treat, as usual, to Harper’s Ferry, and per
haps across the Potomac.
The Yankees continue their outrages upon
the people of the Valley, and will doubtless
keep them up so long a3 they are permitted to
remain. Tbey not only barn private dwell
ings, bnt mills and storehouses, and steal or
destroy everything that can sustain life. They
burnt three milis last Friday night. Early
has a long account to settle with them, and
we trust that retaliation may be duly inflicted
north of the Potomac. —Richmond Dispatch, 15.
More Butchery.— An insatiate batcher is Gen.
Grant. Ha on>y wants 109.909 more men to take
Richmond. He has already butchered and maimed,
and killed from disease, orer 25,000 of his soldiers,
and he wants another tenth of a million to add to
the thousands npon thousands whose bodies are rot
ting around Richmond, from the first Manassas to
the last butchery the Weldon road. What in
carnate fiends 1 What blood-thirsty monsters! How
long will the patience of the people of the North
and the humanity of Christendom endure the rav
ening of these wolves Peter tlnn-g Depress.
$5.00 Per Month
J. W. WARREN, Editor
From Petersburg.
Reports reached the city early yesterday
morning that the enemy in strong force—
consisting of infantry, artillery and cavalry,
had broken through our lines on the Vaughan
Road, several miles south of the city, and
were advancing rapidly in the direction of
the Southside railroad. As the day advanced
these rnmor3 were magnified, and it was
eveutually asserted that the enemy had cross
ed the Boydton Plankroad, while another
party had branched off towards Dinwiddie
Courthouse. Accompanying these wild re
ports was another of heavy fighting west of
the railroad, which seemed to be corroborated
by the statements of soldiers and citizens from
the vicinity.
We are fortunately enabled to present a true
account of the affair, which greatly reduces
its importance, though if we can place any
confidence in the statements of prisoners, the
enemy intended a bold strike for the South*
side railroad.
At an early hour yesterday Warren’s {sth
Yankee) Corps, having left their works in the
vicinity of the Weldon railroad, advanced and
broke through Gen. Butler’s lines below Pop*
lar Spring Church. Col. D. D. Ferebee, com
manding Gen. Dearing’s Brigade, met them,
and after fighting them for four hours with
varying successs, finally repulsed them with
considerable loss. The enemy succeeded ia
reaching Poplar Spring Church and threw up
breastworks at that point, but were compelled
to abandon them. Our loss in the affair was
small.
The enemy lost a number in killed and
wounded and several prisoners. These pris*
oners report that this movement was an at
tempt on their part to advance their lines in
the direction of the Southside road, and the
fact that breastworks were thrown up at Pop
lar Spring Church would seem to indicate that
such was indeed their object.
The enemy established a vidette post at the
intersection of the Vaughan and Poplar
Spring Church roads, which is now their most
advanced point of occupation. Meeting with
such stern and vigorous opposition, and find
ing that they were entering upon dangerous
ground, the Yankees, after their repulse by
Colonel Ferebee, retired to their position, and
our original picket line was re-establised.
In military circles, it is believed that this
advance was only a reconnoissance to feel the
strength and position of our forces—a ques
tion upon which, of course, we as civilians,
cannot properly decide.
Matters are assuming an interesting as
pect on and about the Weldon road, and we
shall soon, probably, witness some stirring
scenes there. •
Poplar Spring Church, is situated in Din
widdie county, between the Vaughan and
Boydton Plank .Roads, about two miles west
of the Weldon railroad, and between three
and four miles south of the city.
On other parts of the lines, matters were
comparatively quiet yesterday. There was
considerable picket firing at times, but less
than the usual cannonading. There was no
shelling of the city. The vigorous bombard
ment, to which we were subjected on Wednes
day, will probably satisfy the enemy for a day
or two. —Petersburg Express , 1 6th.
Poor Maryland.
The so-called Constitutional Convention of
Maryland has adopted the Constitution report
ed from the Committee on Revision by a vote
of yeas 53, nays 25. After taking the vote
the Convention adjourned, subject to tlie call
of the President. We copy the following por
tion of the proceedings, during the call of the
roll, on the question of adopting the new Con
stitution :
Mr. Dent, of St. Mary’s, when called to vote
on the final adoption of the Constitution, ex
plained his vote as follows :
I shall vote against this Constitution for the
following reasons :
First. Because I believe that the election by
which this Convention was called, and its
members elected was not free for the legal
voters of the State, but was held and conduct
ed in clear violation of the legal rights of
voters, in consequence of which a majority of
the legal voters of the State was excluded from
the polls.
Second. Because by this Constitution the
cardinal principles of the rights of the State
have been repudiated, and a rapid stride is
taken towards centralization of power in the
Federal Government.
Third. Because by this Constitution citizens
of the State have been unjustly deprived of
millions of dollars worth of property by the
abolition of slavery, and no compensation to
the owners has been provided; and not only
so, but the Legislature is expressly prohibited
from providing compensation hereafter.
My fourth objection is because the right of
suffrage is so impaired, or attempted to be im
paired, by the provisions for submitting this
Constitution to the voters of the State, that
there cannot be a free exercise of the in
valuable right of suffrage on its adoption or
rejection.
Besides these cardinal objections, I have
many comparatively minor objections to this
Constitution, and believe that, taken as a whole
it is an instrument of wrong and oppression,
unparalleled in the history of American Con
stitutions and ought not to be adopted.
Mr. Jones, of Somerset, said he considered
it a violation of the rights of the citizens to
prescibe an oath to 'qualify them to vote for
the new Constitution, and therefore he should
vote “no.”
Mr. Mitchell, of Charles, said that the people
of his county would be affected in a great de
gree by the abolition of slavery—hundreds
would be ruined by it. A great portion of
them would also be disfranchised, and he
would therefore vote “no.” *
Mr. Pugh, of Cecil, remarked that he had
tried hard to be elected a delegate to the Con
vention, and he was proud that ho had suc
ceeded. Never, in his life, had he had an op
portunity for more rejoicing than in casting his
vote in the affirmative on the adoption of the
Constitution.
Mr. Chambers, of Kent, said the new Con
stitution proposed the most unjustifiable seiz
ure of property, and the most wanton attack
on the political rights of those whose property,
liberty, and every political right the Conven
tion had assembled to protect. He would
therefore vote “no.”
Tbe Hour of Trial.
The Nashville correspondent of the New York
Times, in giving a revie# of the situation, dis
cusses the magnitudes of the work the Federal*
have yet to perform and says:
Add to this tbe pending Presidential eontest.
It seems unfortunate that this element—one of
Btrife, and sometimes bitter animosity, even in
peaceful times—should be added just now to the
disturbing forces of the country. We could wish
that it had been otherwise for the present. But
tt is upon ns, and must be met manfully, as every
other crisis bas been. A contest has in .ordinary
time*, shaken t e eoantry from centre to circum
ference. When the storm was over, aud the deep
calm came, and no injury was done the Common
wealth bv the fierce elemental strife, the fact was
pointed at, abroad, as at home, as a splendid
illustration of tbe safe working and seif con
serving potency of republican institutions.
The test soon to fee re-enacted may involve
more real peril than any that has preceded it. A
•
tnifbty eiril war upon our b*nd», whose detormin
ed prosecution, essential te our unity, and hence
ear very salvation, demands the whole energies es
eur country ; the enemies of the Administration,
aided by some who habe ranked hitherto as its
staunches, supporters, atrainmg every nerve to
overturn it, as if that were more important than
to crush armed traitors now, and for years strag
gle to overturn tho Gevernment; personal disap
pointments, p artisan rancor, fierce thirst for power
and place, blended with honest, but misjudgiar,
j?_ a pf rulers, and the inauguration
of a different poliey in conducting affairs, all
these thing? suggest ground* to fear that the cem
iag eontost may proTe one of unexampled bitter
ness, the effects of which upon the country, in this
its greatest trial hour, may prove signelly disas
trous to its interests.
Exckangb or Navy Prisonirs.— We learn says
the Richmond Dispatch, of the 16th instant, that
tho naval authorities on both sides have agreed
to an arrangement to exchange prisoners attached
to the respective navies, the excess on either side to
be credited as army prisoners and exchanged ac
cordingly. It is expected that the arrangement will
be carried into effect at Charleston next week. This
will include the prisoners captured in the naval en
gagement off Mobile, and the gallant old Admiral
Buchanan will be restored to the service.
Late Northern papers state that a powerful pres
sure is being brought to bear upon Lincoln to obtain
his consent to a general exchange of prisoners.
Guerillas in Missouri. —Late arrivals from the
Missouri indicate that the banks ot this river, at
several points, swarm with bushwhackers. In Beone
county, at and near Wocheport, they have become
particularly troublesome. The Sam Qaty was ffred
into at that point as she was descending the river a
few days since. Shortly afterwards, the Mars re
ceived the same treatment as she was going up, and
the guerrillas actually sent off two men in a skiff
to demand the surre*der of the boat. They were
fired upon from the boat, and one killed and the
other wounded. The Mars then returned to Jeffer
son City for troops, brt her hands refusing to make
the trip even with a guard, the boat was obliged to
go back to St. Charles with her freight, which will
be forwarded to At. Joseph by railroad. Thursday
a baud of bushwhackers captured a freight train on
the North Missouri, at Centralia, and stole sixty
horses that were being transported to St. Louis.
[Louisville Journal.
Heavy Defalcation and Reported Escape
To 5 ankee Land. —On Saturday morning last,
Captain Thomas S. Knox, Commissary at
Camp Jackson, formerly of Frederickburg.
Virginia, and George W. Butler, formerly of
Norfolk, Virginia, but recently of New York,
late a teller in the Confederate States Treas
ury Department, left this city, and, it is re
ported, have gone North. Since their sudden
departure it has been ascertained that Capt.
Knox is a defaulter to the extent of $350,000
of Government funds, which he converted in
to sterling exchange, through the negotiations
of ex-teller Butler, at Sutton & Cos. s banking
house. Some time since, Butler resigned his
position in the Treasury Department and was
turned over to Captain Coke for conscription,
but in order to permit him to superintend the
settlement of his accounts as teller, he was
granted sixty days’ furlough, which after
wards was extended fifteen days more.
Since his resignation it had been his prac
tice to appear at the Treasury Department
once a day and continue the examination of
his accounts; but up to last Friday no defal
cation had been discovered against him. The
reasons which induced him to leave the Con
federacy are, therefore, unknown to his friends.
It may have been that he was approaching a
crisis in his accounts with the Government
wherein irregularities occur, or that, as the
time of his extended fuilough had nearly ex
pired, and he had been assured that no furth
er indulgence would be given him, the dread
of going in the army prompted him to leave.
Captain Knox obtained a passport at the
Provo? t-Marshal’s office upon his personal
representation that he had a blind brother he
wished to convey to Fredericksburg, and upon
this false representation merely, without any
papers entitling him or bis blind brother to »
passport, he was furnished with the necessary
important papers to enable him to carry
out his purposes. Butler, it is 3aid, acted as
the blind brother, and succeeded in getting on
the train by wearing deep blue goggles, muff
ling himself up and leaning on the arm of
Capt. Knox. —Richmond Dispatch. \bth.
Macon Landlords in tlie Year
1900
Who is that tottering, decrepit, broken weary
and miserable looking old man, we just passed ?
Oh! that is old Skinflint. In 1564 he wa3 one
of the wealthiest men in Macon. He owned nu
merous houses here and when by the misfortunes
of war, the city was made a place of great resort
by those whose necessities forced them to flee be
fore the vandalism of the Yankees, and when At
lanta was beseiged and the thousands of people
who had crowded that city were again forced to
seek a resting place, this city was one of the few
to which they were obliged to flee for refuge, this
accursed thing took advantage of the times to
make an immense fortune.
His loyalty always was questionable, and his
cowardice thoroughly established. lie made his
want of faith in the stability of the currency of
the Confederacy his excuse for placing on his
houses the largest prices for rent that be could
force from his tenants. lie was middle aged and
vigorous at that time, aud his God was Mammon.
As one of tho worst citizens of tho place, in his
heartless and grasping avarice, uad his utter sel
fishness, he did more to sully the fair name of
Macon than all its other enemies combined. He
tainted with his presence the vary atmosphere of
the city. He made hateful and abominable the
very name of landlord. A hissing and a by-word,
his name will remain forever. He wAs a3 foul a
spot on the face of the fair city as the ink blot a
raven makes on the beautiful blue of the sky. As
an unsavory odor, his very memory stiDks in tho
nostrils.
The tearful widow and tbe sobbing orphan ap
pealed to him in vain, rather their distress was
music to his ears. His marble heart and despic
able avarice made self, self, accursed self, the idol
of his callous and Godless existence.
Hi3 craven heart imprisoned in its dark tomb
nothing but avarice the most contemptible passion
that disgraces the life of man. He ruled with an
iron band the poor and distressed. Infants were
taught to whisper his name. The aged muttered
their curses as he passed by. His portion has been
hate on earth, and the purification by fire through
an eternity in hell, could not make amends for the
wrongs and horrors be entailed on- his victim?.—
When ho dies the little devils will squeak in their
treble tones, “Behold the extortioner 1” The lusty
lunged middle aged devils shout in derision, “Be
hold the extortioner!” The old devils will mutter
in their deep and crackled bass tones, that will for
ever sound in his ears, their supernatural thunder,
“Behold the miser, the extortioner, the bad man l”
That miserable excrescence of tba body of society
has borne the curse and brand of dishonor on bis
brow these many days.
The measure that he meted unto others has been
returned unto him, and his injustice and his heart
lessness have recoiled upon his own devoted heal.
He is detested, avoided and abominated as a loathed
thing, and as he goes along muttering bis maudlin
insanity he holds converse with those on whom he
imposed hardships and distress —the poor and suf
fering victims of the long ago. He talks over to
himself the set phrases with which he issued the
mandates of his affluent hours, when avaricious
greed viled his victims, when he wrenched from the
helpless their last pittance and chuckled over the
distress he created.
Fortune deserted him ; his sons ruined him with
their profligacy, and his daughters—but what boots
it what becomes of hi3 daughters, they fortunately
do not perpetuate his name. His associates of the
olden time abandoned and deserted him. The
church had forgotten him. Little niggers and chil
dren stand in awe of him. and the nurses tell ghost
tales of him ere he dies. Forsaken miserable, de
tested, hated.
. So may it be forever with those who seek to fill the
place on earth or the grave after death of the miser
and extortioner. —Atlanta Intelligencer,
Gov. Gilmore, of New Hampshire, iateiy had
the unpleasant dnty of informing the Legislature
by a Special Message* that he was short of cash,
and had tried without success to borrow $50,000
for three days, to pay State bounties. lie adds :
There i8 at this time not one cent in the Mate
treasury with which to complete the payment of
these bounties and honor the pay rolls of the Sen
ate and House. I have sent messengers to Man-
I chest r and Boston to secure if possible tbe needed
i funds. But I cannot help feeling that it is deaira-
I ble to enable, and if necessary, compel our banks
I to accommodate the State which charters them.
sl*ooo Reward!
CTOLEN, from my residence, in Wynnton. on the
u night of the 19th inst., a Chesnut Sorrel Horse,
about 14 1-2 bands high and 14 years old; he has on
each side, just back of tbe tore-shoulder, the marks
of a blister, which looks very much like a burn: lit
tle white on the left hind leg;' gay, stylish looking
horse and a fast trotter, and had on when taken
shoes »H around. I wih give the above reward for
tbe horse and thief, with proof to convict, or ssov
for the horse. • WM. S. BALFOUR.
gJ6»Maoon Telegraph copy two week?, and send
bill to thi? ofilce. sp292w*
