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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. sp2o lm Sterling Exchange for Gold I WILL exchange Sterling for Gold, at par. J. F. WINTER. sep2o lw 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 ag3l w6t* 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. sp2l 4t* 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. sep2l 5t 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. ag3o ts . ■ 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