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COLUMBUS TIMES Published Daily (Sundays excepted) at the rate of M.OO per month, or sls tor three months. No subseription received for alonger lem than kre* month*. ADVERTISING RATES i Advertisements inserted for $2 00 per square for eaeh insertion. Where advertisements are inserted a month, the •harge will be S3O per square. 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. ag27lß64—tf 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. seplT ha 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. sp2o 3t 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. sepl4 lw «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. seplT ts - 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. scplO 10t* 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,. sep!3 2w 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*