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DAILY TIMES.
J. VT. WARREY, - - - Editor.
COLUMBUS:
Wednesday Morning, September 21, 1864,
The Herald’s Plan.— The New York Herald,
•f the 30th »It., has an editorial headed “The New
Plan of Peace—How to Diride the South/’ in
which it diatinctly recommends the policy oflinsti
tuting negotiations with the States separately, for
the purpose of detaching them from the Canfeder
acy. It even goes so far as to indicate North
Carolina as a StAte farorahly situated for the pur
pose of being experimented upon. It says it has
a report that a majority of the recently elected
Legislature are in favor of reunion, and knows that
Governor Vance is not altogether well affected to
wards Jeff. Davis. “If the President were to send
l? him to negotiate in regard to
North Carolina alone, we feel confident that they
would be gladly received, and that much good
would come of it.” We have given the Herald’s
own words ih the parts included between quotation
marks. It further says- “Lot us divide the Con
federacy and split up the rebel armies by negotia
ting separately with the seceded States.”
It was by such tampering aud paltering, says
the Mercury, that Kentucky, Maryland and Mis
souri wore either lost or paralyzed, and are now
bound neck and foot to the car of the usurping
despotism at Washington. Had the people of
those States stood up manfully and at once, the
independence of the Soufk would have been vii lu
ally achieved by that very act. They hesitaiud
and have their reward in being trampled upon by
the vilest es the abolition crow.
We have received (says the Meridian Clar
ion) a long aud most interesting communica
tion from, the itev. C. K. Marshall, in relation
to the condition ot our soldiers in the hospi
tals and in the field, which we will publish in
a tew days. There are few men in the Con*
fedemey who have done more towards furn
ishing needful comforts to the soldiers, and
we speak particularly of our Mississippi
soldiers, or of alleviating their sufferings, than
the Rev. Mr. Marshall, and when peace shall
once more return to our land, the name of C.
K. Marshall will be remembered and cherish
ed by many a soldier who has lain and suffer'
ed in tar distant hospitals and has been cheer
ed by the comforts provided by Mr. Marshall’s
energy.
[From the Petersburg Express, lfith.] .
A Letter from Grant.
Grant has written a letter from Headquarters City
Point, to one of tha Washburne brothers, in which
he endeavors to prove that the North is on the eve
of a great victory, by reason of the total exhaus
tion of the Southern army. This letter is replete
with falsehood, from beginning to end, but the
most glaring is where he states, that “besides what
they lose in frequent skirmishes and battles, they
are now losing from desertions and other causes,
at least one regiment per day.” The letter is da
ted August 16,ju»t one month ago to-day, and
notwithstanding this great depletion, one thous
and per day, making thirty-one thousand in all,
Grant still hugs his breastworks, fearing to ad
vance on General Lee’s miserable apology for an
army. But more than this. Ten days after
Grant’s letter was written, his most celebrated
lighting corps (Hancock’s) were attacked by Gen.
Leo’s remnant, and whipped from earthworks of
the most formidable character, near Beams’ Sta
tion, with a loss of many dead, 2,150 prisoners,
nine cannon, ten caissons, etc. And further, de
spite this great drain up©n Lee’s army —a regi
ment a day—Grant asks Lincoln to send him re
inforcements to the amount of one hundred thous
and men, that ho may stand a slight chance of
using it up. Since the Ist of May he has lost
125,000 men—probably more—in conflicts with an
army which is losing one thousand per day, and
has been so losing for a month past, and now he
asks for only 100,000 reinforcements, to enable
him to finish it up. If Grant could fight as well
as he could lie, he would be the greatest General
of the ago. But it is unnecessary to notice further
this remarkable effusion. Let the public read:
Washington, Sept. 6, 1864.
The following is an extract of a letter from Lt.
Gen. Grant, dated,
lleadq’rs Armies of the United States, I
City Point, Va., Aug, 16, ’64. j
Hon. E. B. Washburne,
Dear Sir : I state to all citizens who visit me
that all we want now to ensure an early restora
tion of the L'nion is a determined unity of senti
ment North. Tbe Rebels have now in their ranks
their last man. The little boys and old men are
guarding prisoners, guarding railroad bridges, and
forming a good part of their garrisons for entrench
ed positions. A man lost by them cannot be re
placed. They have robbed alike the cradle and
the grave to get their present force. Besides what
they lose in frequent skirmishes and battles, they
are now losing from desertions and other causes
at least one regiment per day. With this drain
upon them the end is not far distant if we will
only be true to ourselves. Their only hope now is
a divided North. This might give them reinforce
ments from Tennessee, Kentucky, Maryland and
Missouri, while it would weaken us. With the
draft quietly enforced tho enemy would become
despondent and would make but little resistance.
I have no doubt but the enemy are exceedingly
anxious to hold out until after the Presidential
election. They have many hopes from its effects.
They hope a counterrevolution; they hope elec
tion of a Poace candidate, in fact, like Micawber,
they hope for something to turn up. Our peace
frignds, if they expect peace from separation, are
much mistaken. It would be but the beginning
of war, with thousands of Northern men joining
the South because of our disgrace in allowing sepa
ration. To have “peace on any terms,” the South
would demand the restoration of their slaves al
ready freed. They would demand indemnity for
losses sustained, and they would demand a treaty
which would make the North slave-hunters for
the South. They would demand pay or the re
storation of every slave escaping to the North.
Yours truly,
U. S. Grant.
lfiK Manufacture of Sugar from the Chi
nese Sugar Cane. —The rip* cane alone is suita
ble for manufacturing caue sugar, and this will
deteriorate rapidly \[ much broken or bruised, or
ts allowed to remain long after being gathered.—
It is important that tho juice bo pressed out, strain
ed, clarified and concentrated to about half its
bulk as soon as possible after the plant is cut, in
order to prevent the formation of glucose. The
final concentration should be effected with oaution
over a slow fire to prevent the conversion es crys
talizablo into uncrystalizable sugar, the principal
ingredient in molasses.
In the first place, filter the juice of the plan* as
it comes from the milL in order to remov- the cel
lulose and fibrous matters, and the starch, all of
"which are present in it TfheP. expressed, A big I
filter or a blanket pV e d in a basket will answer
this puxpe*' Next, we must add a safficietlcj
ono ounce to 10 to 15 gallons) of milk of
lime, (that is, lime slaked and mixed with water)
to the juice to render it slightly akaline, as shown
by it changing reddened litmus paper to a blue.—
A small excess of lime is not injurious. After
this addition, the juice should be boiled fbr about
fifteen minutes. A thick greenish scum rapidly
collects on the surface, which is to be removed by
a skimmer, and then the liquid should again be
filtered. It will now beef a pale straw color, and
ready for evaporation. It may now be boiled down
quite rapidly to abeut half its original bulk, after
which the fire must be kept low, the evaporation
to be carried on with great caution, and the syrup
constantly stirred to prevent it from burning the
bottom of the kettle or evaporating pan. Portions
es the syrup are to be taken out, from time to time,
and allowed to ceol to see if it is dense enough to
crystalize. It should be about as sugar-house
melasses, or tar. When it has reached this condi
tion, it may be withdrawn from the evaporating
vessel, and be placed in tubs or casks to granulate.
Crystals of sugar may not begin to form for three
erfour days, or even longer. Cryatalization may
be hastened by adding to the thick syrup, when
cool, a few grains es brown sugar or a lfttle pulver
ized white sugar. After the syrup has crystalized,
it may be*dipped into bags made of coarse open
cloth or canvass, and the molasses allowed to drip
into proper receivers. In this way a good brown
sugar may be formed.
Planters who may be induced to follow these
directions, will confer a favor by communicating
'he result to me at Greensborough, Ala.
N. T. LUPION.
Interesting Correspondence.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 11th, 1864.
Major-General W. T. Sherman:
Sir :—The undersigned, Major and two
Members of Council for the city of Atlanta,
for the time being the only legal organ of the
people of the said city to express their want3
and wishes, ask leave most earnestly but re
spectfully to petition you to reconsider your
order requiring them to leave Atlanta.
At first view it struck ns that the measure
would involve extraordinary hardship and
loss ; but since ire have seen the practical ex
ecution of it, so far as it has progressed, and
the individual condition of many of the peo
ple, and heard their statements as to the in
conveniences, loss and suffering attending it,
we are satisfied that the amount of it will in
volve, in the aggregate, consequences appall
ing and heart-rending.
Many poor women-are in an advanced state
of pregnancy; others now having young
children; and whose husbands, for the great
er part, are either in the army, prisoners or
dead. Some say, “I have such an one sick
at my house. Who will wait on them when
lam gone ?” Others say, “What are we to
do? We have no houses go to, and no
means to build, buy or to rent any—no par*
ents, relatives or friends to go to.” Another
says, “I will try and take this or that article
of property; but such andsach things I must
leave behind, though I need them much.”-
We reply to them, “Gen. Sherman will carry
your property to Rough and Ready, and Gen.
Hood will take it thence on;” and they will
reply to that: “But I want to leave the rail
road at such a place and cannot get convey
ance from here on.”
We only refer to a tew facts to try to illus
trate in part how this measure will operate in
practice. As you advanced the people north
of us fell back, and before you arrived here a
large portion of the people had retired South;
so that the country south of this is already
crowded, and without houses enough to ac
commodate the people; and we are informed
that many are now staying in churches and
out-buildings.
This being so, how is it possible for the peo
ple still here (mostly women and children) to
find any shelter; and how can they live through
the winter in the woods ? No shelter or sub
sistence, in the midst of Btranger*, and with
out the power *c> assist them much, if they
were willing to do so.
This is but a feeble picture of the conse
quences of this measure. You know the woe,
the horror, and the suffering cannot be de
scribed by words. Imagination can only con
ceive of it, and we ask you to take these
things into consideration.
We know your time and mind are constantly
occupied with the duties of your command,
which almost deters us from asking your at
tention to this matter, but thought it might be,
that you had not considered the subject, in all
its awful consequences, and that on more reflec
tion, you, we hope, would not make this people
an exception to all mankind, or we know of
no such instance ever having occurred, surely,
none such in the United States, and what has
this helpless people done, that they should be
driven from their homes to wander as stran
gers, outcasts and exiles and to subeist on
charity.
We do not know, as yet, the number of people
here. Os those who are, if allewe iSo remain
here, we are satisfied a respectable num°
ber, if allowed to remain at home, could sub
sist for months without assistance, and a re
spectable number fora much longer time, and
who might not assistance at any time.
In conclusion we most earnestly and sol
emnly petition you to reconsider this order or
modify it, and suffer this unfortunate people
to remain at home and enjoy what little means
they have. Respectfully submitted.
JAMES M. CALHOUN, Mayor.
E. E. Rawson, j n ..
L. C. Wells, } Counciimen.
Hkadq’rs, Military Div. of the Miss., ]
In the Field, Atlanta, Sept. 12, '64. j
James M. Calhoun, Mayor, E. E. Rawson and
T. C. Wells, representing City Council of
Atlanta:
Gentlemen— l have your letter ofijhe 11th
in the nature of a petition to revoke my orders
removing all the inhabitants from Atlanta. I
haw read it carefully and give full credit to
stateßments of the distress that will be occa
sioned by it, and yet shall not revoke ' my or
ders, simply because my orders are not de
signed to meet the humanities of the case, but
to prepare for future struggles, in which mil
lions, yea hundreds of millions, of good people
outside of Atlanta have a deep interest. We
must have peace, not ODly at Atlanta, but in
all America. To secure this, we muct stop
the war that now desolates our once happy
and favored country. To stop war we must
defeat rebel armies that are arrayed against
the laws and constitution which all must re
spect and obey. To defeat those armies we
must prepare the way to reach them in their
recesses, provided with the arms and instru
ments which enable us to accomplish our pur
pose. Now, I know the vindictive nature of
our enemy, and that we may have many years
of military operations from this quarter, and
therefore deem it wise and prudent to prepare
in time. The use of Atlanta for war-like pur
poses is inconsistent with its character as a
home for families. There will be no manu
factures, commerce or agriculture here for the
maintenance of families, and sooner or later
want will compel the inhabitants to go. Why
not go now, when all the arrangements are
completed for the transfer, instead of waiting
till the plunging shot of contending armies
will renew the scenes of the past month ?
Os course I do not apprehend any such thing at
this moment, but you do not suppose this army
will be here till the war is over. I cannot discuss
this subject with you fairly, because I cannot im
part to you what I propose to do, but I assert that
my military plans make it necessary for the Inhab
itants to go away; and I can only renew my offer
of services to make their exodus in any direction
as easy and comfortable as possible. You cannot
qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is
-enmity, and you cannot refine it; and those who
brought war into our country deserve all the curses
and maledictions a people can pour out. I know
I had no hand in making this war, and I know I
will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you
to secure peace. But you cannot have peace and
a division of our country. If the United States
submits to a division now itjvill not stop, but will
go on till we reap the fate of Mexico, which is
eternal- war. The United States does and must
assert its authority wherever it ever had power; if
it relaxes one bit to pressure it is gone, and I know
that such is the national policy. This policy as
sumes various shapes, but always comes back to
that of Union. Once admit the Union, once more
acknowledge the authority of the national Gov
ernment, and instead es devoting your houses, and
streets, an<i roads to the dread uses of war, I and
th’a army become at once your protectors and sup
porters, shielding you from danger, let it come
from what quarter it may. I know that a few in
dividuals cannot resist a torrent of error and pas
sion, such as swept the South into rebellion, but
you can part out, so that we may know those who
desire a Government and those who insist on war
and its desolation.
You might as well appeal against the thunder
storm as against those terrible hardships of war.—
They are inevitable, only way the people
of Atlanta can hope ence more to live in peace and
quiet at home is to stop the war, which can alone
be done by admitting that it began in error and is
perpetuated in pride. We don’t want your ne
groes, or your horses, or your houses, or your
lands, or anything you have, but we do want and
will have ajust obedience to the laws of the United
States. That we will have, and if it involves the
destruction of your improvements we cannot help
it. You have heretofore read public sentiment in
your newspapers that live by falsehood and on
excitement, and the quicker you seek for truth in
other quarters the better for you.
I repeat, then, that by the original compact es
Government the United States had certain rights
in Georgia which have never been relinquished,
and never will be; that the South began war by
seizing forts, arsenals, mints, custom houses, Ac.,
Ac., long before Mr. Lincoln was installed, and be
fore the South had one jot or title of provocation.
I myself have seen in Missouri, Kentucky, Ten
nessee and Mississippi, hundreds and thousands
of woman and children flying from your armies
and desperation, hungry and with bleeding fe*t.—
In Memphis, Vicksburg and Mississippi we fed
thousands upon thousands of the families of rebel
soldiers left on our hands, and whom we could not
see stare*. Now that war comes home to you, you
feel very different. Yeu deprecate its horrers, hut
did not feel them when you sent car loads of sol
, diers and ammunition, and moulded shells and shot
to carry war into Kentucky »n<l Tennessee, and
desolate the homes of hundreds and thousands of
good people who only asked to live in peace at
their old hemes, and under the Government of
their inheritance.
But these comparisons Are idle, I want peace,
and believe it can now only bo reached through
Union and war, and I will ever conduct war pure
ly with a view to perfect an early success.
But my dear sirs, when that peace does come
you may call on me for anything. Then will I
•hare with you the last cracker, and watch with
you to shield your homes and families against
danger from every quarter.
Now you must go, and take with you the old and
feeble, feed and nurse tbsm, and build for them in
more quiet plaees, proper habitations to shield
them against the weather till the mad passions of
men cool down and allow the Union apd peace
once more to settle on your old homes at Atlanta.
Yours in haste,
W. T. SHERMAN, Maj. Gen.
[From the Richmond Whig, 15th.]
Latest from the North.
Effect of McClellan's Letter of Acceptance —
War Mews unimportant—Decline in Gold ,
. .
We received, yesterday afternoon, the New
York Herald and Tribune of the 12th instant.
The war news is not important. McClellan s
letter of accept mce has greatly excited the
Peace Democracy of the United States, and
it is evident, that he will be repudiated by
them.
OPINION OF THE NEW YORK WORLD.
Geo. B. McClellan was nominated upon a
platform that promises an immediate,cessa
tion of hostilities and a Convention of all the
State-. Does be stand npon that platform to
day ? He does not. He has renounced the
platform in his lettei accepting the nomina
tion. It is as if the bridegroom should ac
cept the bride’s property, but not her person.
A bond like that is nail and void. The peace
parly will not consent to have their principle
betrayed and then do homage to the betrayer.
They demand nil that is nominated in the
bond. Gen. McClellan having rejected the
proposition for a cessation of hostilities and a
Convention of all the States, declined the
Chicago nomination, and stands before the
people self-nominated on a platform of his
own creation. Tbe Democracy must seek a
candidate who will stand upon the platform,
for they cannot consistently support one who
i3 in collision with the Convention that ten
dered him the nomination. If the platform
accords not with the nominee’s convictions of
the right, a due respect for the opinions of
the assemblage that unanimously adopted it
requires that he should give back to the Con
vention the standard of the Democracy. The
Democratic National Convention is not dis
solved. It is ready to convene at the call of
the Executive Committee, and, if General Mc-
Clellan cannot abide by the resolutions enun
ciated, let the Convention re-assemble, and
either remodel their platform to suit their
nominee, or nominate a candidate that will
suit the platform.
THE EDITOR OF THE RECORD ON m’CLBLLAN’S
LETTER.
Metropolitan Record Office, 1
New York, Sept. 9, 1864. /
To the Editor of the N Y. News :
Sir : The undersigned takes advantage of
this, the earliest opportunity he has had since
reading General McClellan’s extraordinary
letter of acceptance, to state that he has been
compelled by a strict sense of duty as a jour
nalist, and in accordance with his principles
as a Peace Democrat, to withdraw the sup
port promised in the last number of The Me
tropolitan Record to the nominee of the Chi
cago Convention for President. That promise
was made in the belief that General McClellan
would accept the platform upon which he was
nominated, and it was given on that condition
alone. In his opinion, this so called Demo
cratic candidate has placed himself in a posi
tion of direct antagonism with the principles
of the American Constitution by declaring his
intention to contiuue the present inlatnous
war upon sovereign States, and which has
been so prolific in evil. In the course he has
thought proper to adopt, he ceases, strictly
speaking, to be a candidate, as the candidate
and the platform have hitherto been regarded
as inseparable. General McClellan cannot
say that he was ignorant of the character of
the platform before he was nominated, as it
was adopted the day before the nomination
wits made. If he could not stand upon that
platform, why did he not inform his friends in
Chicago by telegraph of that fact in time to
prevent the peace delegates from being misled.
Can it be possible that this delay was simply
a settled purpose to entrap them ? Did he and
his advisers suppose that by waiting several
days after the Convention adjourned they
would put it out of the power of the Peace
men to correct their mistake, and thus pre
vent them from placing another candidate be
fore the public?
Gen. McClellan says : “I am happy to know
that when the nomination was made the rec
ord of my public life was kept in view;” but
he certainly cannot be ignorant of the fact
that the “record” of his “public life” was the
great obstacle, to his nomination in the minds
of tbe Peace Democracy and that it was only
upon the assurance that he was in favor of the
immediate cessation of hostilities that they
withdrew their objections to him as a candi
date. It was their wish that his “record”
should be kept out of view, and they believed
that he himself was not desirous ofgivingita
more extended publicity than it had already
obtained; bat they never supposed that he
would refer to it as a matter of pride or satis
faction. Are we to understand by this ill
timed reference to his “record” that he regards
his arrest of the Maryland Legislature as a
justifiable act, and that, if elected, he will
continue the system of arbitrary arrests in
augurated by Abraham Lincoln, and so will
ingly "carried into execution by himself. This
“record” tells us that he is the enemy of ha
beas corpus , and it also informs us in regard to
another very unpleasant fact—particularly
unpleasant to the industrial classes—that be
was the first to urge and press upon tbe Pres
ident that most despotic of all despotic meas
ures of the present Administration, the odious
conscription. As he intimates his intention
to carry on the war, the public should under
stand what that means ; that it means renewed
conscription ; that men shall be forced by the
strong arm of military power from their homes
to wage a war of subjugation against a peo
ple who claim a right which we ourselves
should be the last to resign—the right of self
government. John Mdllaly,
Editor of the Metropolitan Record.
WHAT THE TRIBUNE THINKS OF M CLELLAN S
POSITION.
* * Putting the morality of the procedure
out of sight, we feel confident that Gen. Mc-
Clellan has rendered his canvass less desper- !
ate by bis letter of acceptance. Had he taken
his stand unequivocally on the Chicago plat
form, he was beaten at the start. The fate
of T. H. Seymour, of Woodward, of Vallandig
ham, and of so many others, gave mute but
eloquent warning to all who entered upon
that path. No man can give an instance
wherein a Democratic candidate, standing on
what is called the “Peace” platform, did not
run below his party’s strenght; while there
are instances all around us of Democrats who
owe their success to professions of devotion to
the National cause. Here, for example, are
Messrs. Odell, Winfield, Nelson, Griswold,
Kernan and Ganson—six at least of the sev
enteen Democrats how representing this State
in Congress—who were all elected substan
tially on the basis of Gen. McClellan’s letter,
and would all have been beaten on that of the
Chicago platform. And so with twenty or
thirty others. Horatio Seymour was a beaten
candidate for Governor of our State until, in
his Brooklyn speech, he pledged himself to
the unconditional maintenance of the Union.
All attempts to coax or bully Gen. McClel
lan into a change of his attitude before the
public must fail, for obvious reasons. Noth
ing that he can hereafter say will induce the
Yallandigham faction to put faith in him ; and
they cannot bolt him, however much they may
desire and threaten to do so. They are candi
dates for Governors, &c., Ac., in nearly every
State, and bolting him will put themselves
out of the canvass. A few of them will refuse
| to vote for President, but these will hardly
affect even a local result, and any effort to get
lup a third candidate must prove futile. It is
too late. Either Lincoln or McClellan must
be our next President; and it is hardly prob
able that a single electoral vote could hence*
forth be obtained for any one else. Now, the
thousands of Democrats who would have been
alienated by Gon. McClellan's adherence to
| the Chicago platform would hare voted for
Lincoln, each counting two against tbe Chi
cago ticket; while those who will now bolt
either withhold or throw away their votes
counting but qne each. We shall be disap
pointed if to-day’s result in Maine, as com
pared with that of last Tuesday's election in
Vermont, does not show that McClellan's let
ter has improved his prospects. His party
will of course be beaten in Maine, but we
think not so badly as they were last year;
| whereas in Vermont they were beaten decided
lly worse than last year. We judge that he
cannot be elected, unless the rebels should
win two or three stunning victories; but,
running on his letter as a platform, he will
poll a good vote in nearly every State, and
tyobablv carry fire or six.
The Herald says, editorially :
Our recent victories, the rumors of victories
to come, tbe fact that all the Presidential can
didates are upon tbe war platform, the success
of the new loan, aed various other causes, all
combined to bring down gold to 218 or 219 on
Saturday. This is a fall of twenty-one per
contain a week. If Grant shou and defeat Lee.
as Sherman defeated Hood, there :s no telling
how low gold will fall ; and the gold specula
tors and the speculators in coal, provisions,
silks and cloths will lose very heavily. The
fall of twenty-one per cent, plainly shows the
hollowness of this gold bubble, and convinces
every one that the extravagant premium is
merely a trick of the speculators.
All our merchants and dealers—large and
small, wholesale and retail—have been in
creasing their prices as the'premium on gold
advanced ; but we do not notice that any of
them have lowered their prices now that gold
has fallen. Why is this ? If gold be the
standard for them, and they must adjust their
prices by it, surely goods and provisions ought
to be cheaper now than.t’ney were a week ago*
The fact is that our merchants have become
greedy and unscrupulous speculators as the
Wall street brokers. The most of them have
doubled their prices upon articles purchased
by them before the war. Their talk about the
premium on gold is mere hypocrisy. Let the
people refuse to buy anything they, can get
along without, until the storekeepers reduce
their prices to correspond with the 'fall of
gold.
Conflict of Authority in Keii
fuefey.
PROCLAMATION.
Commonwealth of Kentucky, )
Executive Department, >
Frankfort, September 5, 1864. j
My attention having been called to an order
(No. 20) of Brigadier General Hugh Ewing, in
the words and figures following, viz.
Hkadq'rs 2d. Division, District Ky., 1
Louisville, August 29, 1864* j
general orders—no. 20.
Tho Judge of the Quarterly Court in each county
es this district is required to call together the
Justices composing the County Court within ten
days after the receipt of this order, and, when as
sembled, said court shall levy upon the tax payors
of said county a sum sufficient to arm, mount and
pay fifty men, to bo raised within such county,
and maintained until further orders. After being
organized the Captain will report to these head
quarters his preparation for duty. The Captain,
whose duty it will be to organize the troops, will
be appointed by the cotirt, and subject te the ap
proval of the Circuit Judge, if he can be conveni
ently consulted, and will hold office until the com
pany see fit to elect a successor.
By command of
Brigadier General Hugh Ewins.
E. B. Harran, Lieutenant and A. A. G.
I, as the Chief Executive of the Commonwealth
of Kentucky, do hereby warn the Judges and Jus
tices of the several courts»embraced in said order,
that Brigadier General Ewing has no power or
authority, under any known law, civil or military,
to assume control of the official action of the civil
officers of this Commonwealth; and I further de
clare the said order to be in derogation of the laws
of the State, and in conflict with the rights and
liberties of the laeyal people. You cannot obey
the order without violating the laws which you are
swern and prostituting the civil pow
ers with which you are intrusted to unlawful and
oppressive uses, thereby subjecting yourselves to
the just penalties denounced by law against mal
feasance of office.
It is the duty each owes to himself and to his
country to refuse obedience to such order, or im
mediately resign and let the office be filled by some
one who will fearlessly meet the responsibilities of
duty by refusing obedience to srdars which alike
violate the laws of the land, tho duties of the
officer and the rights es the citizen. .You are
therefore hereby warned against making any such
levy of taxes, and forbidden to do so.
By tho Governor:
THOS. E. BRAMLETTE.
E. L. Van Winkle, Secretary of State.
By Jas. R. Page, Assistant Secretary.
What Denmark has Lost.— The Danish mon
archy consisted, befere its last spoliation by the
Gertnaa powers, of Denmark Proper, tho Duchies
of Sehleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, and the
Danish Polonies in Europe and the West Indies.
The area of Denmark Proper is 15,896 square
miles; that of the Duchies 7,230,- thus the lost terri
tory is nearly equal to one half of what is left. The
population of Denmark Proper in 1850 was 1,407,747;
that of the Duchies, partly in 1850 and partly in
1845, was 689,650, or nearly one half that of Denmark
Proper. Probably had the enumeration through
the Duchies been as recent as that in the Kingdom
Proper the population es the foimer would have
been fully half that of the latter. In 1852 the total
experts were $15,141,112, of which $7,547,503 were
from tha Duchies. The total imports were $20,596,-
573, of which $7,895,819 were to the Duchies. Thus
the ancient and gallant little Kingdom has been
shorn of one-third of its European territory and
population, and nearly one half of its commerce and
resources. Iceland, the Farae Islands, and Green
land have a population es some seventy or eighty
thousand, and a considerable area of ice and snow,
but add nothing to tbe strength or resources of Den
mark. The Danish West Indies consist of Santa
Cruz, famous for rum, (that never came from there)
and St. Thomas, which is a free port. We presume
they have some fifty thousand population. These
still belong to Denmark.— Wilmington Journal.
The Betrayer of Gen. Morgan.—A letter
in the LynchburgWirginian gives the follow
ing facts in relation to thd treachery that led
to Gen. Morgan’s death :
The Mrs. Williams, whose guest he was, is
an old lady, a widow, and a true Southern
woman. She would be the last person in the
world to entrap even an enemy by professions
of friendship and hospitality. She was a per
sonal friend of General Morgan’s. She knew
nothing of the enemy until they had surroun
ded her house, when she at once roused the
General from his sleep and assisted him to
escape from the house. She has a son, an
officer in our cavalry, and has done as much
for our men and suffered as much from the
enemy as any one. The “Mrs. Williams” sus»
pected of betraying Morgan i3 the wife of a
near relation of the old lady, of the game
name, whose husband is at Knoxville. She was
herself a guest of the house, and may, or may
not, have given the information. If she did,
it was a work of supererogation, for the town
was full of tories. From the moment Morgan
reached Greenville, a hundred hostile eyes
were on every motion he made. Instant and
accurate information was sent to the enemy
by messengers more certain than any woman
could be.
Death of Morgan .—This gallant
officer has fallen a victim to treachery.
»< Jael, the wife of Hebe, the Kenite, went
out to meet him,” and said, “turn in, my
Lord, turn in to me, and fear not.” And
when he was “just asleep and weary,” she
rode past to his enemies and said, “Come
and I will show thee the man thou seek
est.” The false creature who thus, in vi
olation of all the soft and gentle prompt'
ings of her sex, has brought the blood of
our princely hero upon her head, deserves
the execrations of friend and foe, the
ceaseless lashings of conscience—if she
has one —and anathemas for time and
eternity.
Affairs in the Shenandoah Vallkv— -The
Washington correspondent of the World says :
The position of the administration in re
gard to the campaign in the Valley is a mesh
humiliaring one. They obliged Gen. Grant
to detach from the Army of tbe Potomac at
least 38,000 or 40,000 troops, including cav
alry, which might otherwise be added to
Grant's present .forces at Petersburg. Yet
this body of veterans, added to the troops un
der Hunter, Crook, Kelly, Aveiill, Wallace
and Couch are absolutely unable to advance
20 miles from Harper's Ferry, but have to hug
the Potomac in order to prevent Early from
crossing that stream. This immense force is
actually unable to drive Early's troops twen
ty miles from the Potomac river. It is no
wonder that the administration should feel
ashamed of this state of things, and should
resort to ail sorts of expedients to explain it
away. It is the administration papers now
that are trying to magnify the rebel force in
the valley. It i3 the administration papers
that uow speak of “two divisions of Breckin
ridge's corps." &c. Breckinridge has no corps.
He commands a single division, which, if it is
full, as I believe it is, numbers five thousand
men ; but if it is not full, numbers less than
that. There are three brigades in his divis
ion, and it was two of these brigades before
which General Ouster’s cavalry brigade was
compelled to fail back on the Opequan river,
on tbe 29th. There is no evidence that Ear
ly's wlioie.force exceeds thirty-five thousand
men, including recent reinforcements.
The supporters ot the administration here
(I do not like to call them Union men. because
they and their party have destroyed tho
Union) are filled with mortification at the ev
ident insanity of Sheridan’s army to drive
Early out of the valley. Tbe American of
this afternoon, does not once mention Sheri
dan’s name, nor has it the slightest mention
of his army. The “loyalists,” as they delight
to call themselves, are very uneasy, and bagin
to grumble at what they call '‘the strange
management of affairs on the Potomac.” They
complain openly, for the campaign
there is managed iu—direct accordance with
General Grant’s instructions, as approved by
the President. It is only another instance of
the glaring incompetency of the administra
tion and its favorite generals.
A Free Ballot or a Free Fight.— The follow
ing is from the Chicago Times:
“Illinois is erected into a military province, and
a,satrap appointed over it. We await the develop
ment of the object of this performance. If the ob
ject.be hosti’e —if the intentien be to re-enact in Il
linois the exploits ©f Burbridge in Kentucky—we
give notice that the people of Illinois are not in the
temper for that sert of thing whatever. In Illinois
there will be ‘a free election or a free fight,’ ”
Tbe New York Tribune has advices from North
Carolina that a “new pirate steamer,” called the
Coquette, was about to leave the port of Wilming
ton, or perhaps had already left, and that she
was considered the most formidable of all the ves
sels of this character.
Perhaps so. The fearful pirato is also remark
able for speed. She goes faster than a mud turtle.
She actually does. , She is heavily armed. Wo
once saw a shot gun aboard.— Wilmington Jour.
mmm ♦ “
[From the Richmond Enquirer.] ,
Peace in Sixty Rays.
Messrs. Editors :—The following meas
ures will fill up our armies immediately,
and bring peace by November next:
Ist. Execute, on twenty days’ notice,
the law of Congress, and put into the
ranks the thousands of men detailed in
the various departments, replacing them
with disabled or partially disabled soldiers,
or by persons over 45 years of age.
2d. Remove to tbe field all the full and
fresh commands now occupying forts, &c.,
guarding bridges, depots, etc., or used for
local and special service, replacing them
by skeleton companies or regiments that
need rest and recruiting.
3d. Transfer, without exception, to in
fantry all cavalrymen who fail, after thirty
days, to mount themselves on serviceable
horses. This measure would secure to
General Lee not less than five thousand
effective men, (cavalry and infantry,) and
to General Hood probably ten thousand.
The cavalry has been much praised of
late. It is not generally known that all
this splendid fighting has been done by a
few gallant and devoted men, (probably
one-filth of their commands,) who are al
ways on hand and ready for duty, while
the number of shirkers, skulkers and
stragglers, (mounted as well as dismount
ed,) is legion. A Soldier.
MALL.
The First Tennessee Band
Have the honor to announce to the public, another
one of their
©RAND OOITSPB.TS
On Wednesday Ev’ngSepl. 21st.
For the BENEFIT of the
Atlanta SsLiles.
■©ST Positively only one night.
MATT. «. EVANS,
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
No. 64, Commerce Street,
MOBILE, ALABAMA.
WILL sell on Commission every description of
Goods, Negroes and Produce of all kinds.
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Sterling Exchange for Gold
I WILL exchange Sterling for Gold, at par.
J. F. WINTER.
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BEEF'! BEEF!!
I HAVE secured the services of an experienced
Butcher, anl will keep on hand at all times the
best Beef that can be found in the country.
ready for sale every morning at daylight.
WM. H. H. PHELPS,
sp!7 5t 114, Broad St.
Notice to Debtors and Cred
itors.
TVTOTICE is hereby given to all persons having
I\ demands against Samuel McClary, late of Mus
cogee county, deceased, to present them to either of
us, properly made out, within the time prescribed
by law. All persons indebted to said deceased are
hereby required to make immediate payment to
either of the undersigned. , ,
B H CRAWFORD, Adm’r
MARIA E MeCLARY, Admt’x
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Columbus High School
FOR
ITQTJISrG- XjA-IDIEIES !
THE above Institution will be re-opened in the
building owned by Mr. Cowderj*, on St. Clair st.,
opposite St. Luke’s Church, on Monday, October 3,
1864.
For Terms, apply to _ T ™
sepl3 m&t 4w W. S. LEE.
FOR SALE !
320 Acres of Land on the Mobile &
Girard Kail Road,
TJORTY MILES from Columbus, Georgia, and one
.T and a half from Station No. 5; about 180 acres
opened, and cabins for about 30 negroes, with good
water, gin house, Ac. Apply to Messrs Ellis, Liv-
C °- fllr D C FREEMAN. J».
WANTED!
C AAA LBS. of TALLOW, for which a liberal price
J»UvU will be paid. Apply to T
F. W. DILLARD,
sp7 ts Major and Q. M.
SELECT SCHOOL
MRS. W S MARBLE will re-open her School, on
Forsyth street, Monday, Oct. 3d.
Tuition SIOO 00 oer Scholastic year.
sepl3 2w
BLACKSMITH U VVTEI)!
OTEADY EMPLOYMENT and liberal wages.
seplO 3 A w PPIY EAGLE FACTORY.
TH E CITY
T- J. JACKSON LOCAL EDITOR.
The lirst Tennessee Band. —-Vie are glad to
see by advertisement, that this popular troupe will
give a grand concert to-night for the benefit of
the Atlinta Exiles. The object is most noble
and patriotic. Let everybody attend.
Auction Sales.— Yesterday at auction, by El
lis, Livingston A Cos., tbe following prices were
realized : One house and lot in the city suburbs,
SSOOO ; one tract of land (101 acres) eight miles
from the city SI4OO ; one negro woman and child,
$4,450; one negro girl, 16 years old $3,225 ; salt
from 72 to 77 cents ber pound ; one horse $1,675 ;
one mule, SIOOO ; one cow and calf, $375 ; one fine
parlor mirror, SS7S ; 75 shares Bank of Columbus
stock, $l9O per share : 2 shares of Merritt’s Im
porting and Exporting stock, SI3OO per share,
and numerous articles of minor importance in pro
portion.
New Advertisements.— Wm. S. Balfour offers
a reward for a horse stolen from his place in Wyn
ton.
J. L. Clay, Adm’r. will sell some valnable prop
erty at public out cry iu Russell county, Alabama,
next Srturday.
See advertisemet of a valuable plantation for
sale at Colbert’s Station, on the Mobile & Girard
Railroad.
Mr. John F. Treutlen, offers a reward for a ne
gro man who recently left his premises near Glen
ville, Ala.
Dull.— Yesterday was a very dull day in our
city, nothing occurring to mar the placidity of an
unusual quiet. Even rumor, with her thousand
tongues was silent, and naught was found to grati
fy the morbid public thirst for the marvellous.—
The day was dark aud murky, while occassionally
slight showers fell, as gently as the the falling
tears of a grief stricken infant. Altogether it was
a day congenial to gloomy feelings and despond
ing thoughts.
More Exiles. —Between fifty and sixty more
tho victims of Sherman’s heartless inhumanity ar
rived at our depot yesterday afternoon, most of
whom will bo objects for the active sympathy and
benevolence of our community. We saw these un
fortunates and the sight awakened emotions of
profound pity. We think even the most callous
and indifferent coald not witness unmoved such a
spectacle. How long will a merciful and righteous
God permit an honorable and brave people to suf
fer such humiliation ? The care of these people
will furnish ample work for tho philanthropic.
Let all our people exert themselves earnestly and
assiduously in a cause which appeals so loudly, as
we know not how soon a simular adversity may
render us the objects of fraternal sympathy
A Heavy Investment, — That incorrigible
joker, firm friend, and popular Local of the Spirit
of the South, John Black, Esq., has gone home—
“gone like a school boy’s dream,” and I don't care
a cent. While here, be it known, he had
his oldest boy with him—Ned, by name, and with
al a very handsome and sprightly boy of thirteen
summers with about as many winters thrown in
New John has two or three other very pretty and
promising children at home in Eufaula, and being
a very thoughtful mau of his loved ones, the
thought struck him that while he and his first
born were abroad it would be a capital idea to buy
something for tbe loved ones at heme, so turning
to Ned, John said, “my sod, hadn’t we better get
somo goodies for the children ?” Yes ! says Ned.’’
“What shall it be?” asked tho musmg father.
“Candy,” chimed in Ned. Well, John gave Ned
a dollar, and off went tho boy to make a purchase
In a short time he returned with rather an abject
look, and disclosed to the father’s enquiring vision
two sticks of candy, each about an inch long.—
Father and son looked at tho treasure and then
at each other as if thunderstruck, at the grasping
avarice of the Columbus shopkeeper, and the last
we saw of the twain they were wrapped in thought
profound. We imagine that a most agreeable sur
prise awaits the little ones at home, when they
come in possession of the costly present. Before
shoving off from the wharf, Ned unbosomed him
self thus : “Columbus is a very purty place but
the people is mighty stingy ; and as for Girard,
its no place at all : it would take a half a dozen
of it to make one Eufaula. Let’s go dad?” And
sure enough they went, and we hope had a pleas
ant trip homo. Allow us John to sympathize
with you in the result of your candy speculation,
and to tender the gratuitous advice that, next
timo you come up you will bring with you S2O and
treat the children to a “hull pound.”
BUGGY FDR §ALE!
AN excellent Buggy and Harness for sale. Ap
ply at this office. sep2l ts
SI,OOO Reward !
Office C. S Nanal Iron Works,
Columbus, Ga., Sept. 10, ’64.
ONE thousand dollars will be paid for the appre
hension and delivery to me of negro boy WM,
KUHN. This boy was employed in tho Rolling
Mill as heater—is 35 years of ago; about 5 feet 7 in.
high; light brown color and Indian features; was
dressed in light coat, light pants and felt hat.
He came from the Iron Works at Etowah, Ga., sflid
is supposed to be makucg his way back to that place.
J II WARNER,
Chf. Eng. C S N
sp2l6t Commanding.
Adiftimistrator’s Sale.
UNDER and by virtue of an order of the Probate
Court, of Russell county, the undersigned will
sell on Saturday, the 24th day of September next,
at the late residence of Jesse Clay, deceased,
all the household and kitchen furniture belonging
to the estate es said J esse Clay, August 31st, 1864.
At the same time and place a house will be rented
containing three rooms and all necessary eut-build
ings and one negro woman hired.
J. L. CLAY, Adm’r.
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PLANTATION FOR SALE
THE subscriber offers to sell hi3 plantation, near
x Colbert’s Station, on the Mobile <fe Girard Rail
Road, 20 miles below Columbus. It comprises 740
acres es Land—a large proportion cleared; a com
modious dwelling house and good out-buildings.—
For further information inquire of Gapt. II D Coth
ran, in Columbus, or of the subscriber on the prem
ises. . A. R. SMITH.
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SSO Reward.
LEFT my plantation near Glennville, Alabama, on
Sunday last, 11th inst., a negro man by the name
of GREEN, who belongs to Col. Samuel Thompson,
near Florence, Ala.
Green is about 33 years old; nearly white; straight
hair; slender frame; near six feet high; inclined
to stoop in the shoulders; short round face, and
talkg slowly. He left my premises without provo
cation, and I have reason to believe that he is at
tempting to make his way to North Alabama, into
the enemy’s lines. He is acquainted about Colum
bus, Ga., having been hired out there by Col. Wm.
Bryan, or Cbl. Sam’l Thompson, for several months
last winter, and may tarry there in quest of employ
ment, 1 will pay fifty dollars reward for his appre
hension and delivery to pie, or confinement in some
jail where I can get him.
sep2l ts JNO. F. TREUTLEN.
For Rent.
mHE corner formerly occupied by Thos. Brassell.
1 It is a first rate business cerner and contains
sixtoreems and one cellar. For term|a^lyat
By Ellis, Livingston Ac Cos.
200 O-.A-XiLOICTS
PURE CATAWBA GRAPE BRANDY!
A VERY FINE ARTICLE.
For sale in quantities of 10 Gallons and upwards.
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TO REJ^T.
A LARGE DWELLING, in the centre.W*
A city, containing five rooms, double kitchen, ne
*■o and smoke-houses sufficient for a lvf• liuiuiv.
For particulars apply at the tin shop under Coot
Hotel. spiy lw