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COLUMBUS TIMES
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Change ol Schedule.
Orric* Evsnrua 1
Charleston and Savannah Railroad, V
Charleston, .June 7,1864.)
AN THURSDAY, June 9,1864, and until further
notice, tho Schedule of the Passenger train will
be as follow, viz:
Leave Charleston 9.40, a. m.
Arrive in Savannah .5.40, p. m.
Leave Savannah .5.30, a. in.
Arrive in Charleston 1.15, p. m.
This Train makes direct connections, going north
and south, with the Northeastern Railroad at Char
leston, and the Central Raiiroad at the Junction.
T ~ , T . . 11. S. HAINES.
June 14 ts Engineer and Superintendent.
Change ol Schedule.
ON and after Sunday, June 19th, the Trains on
the Muscogee Railroad will run as follows;
PASSENGER TRAIN :
Leave Columbus 6 45 P. JVI.
Arrive at Macon ~ 3 25 A. M.
Leave Macon ••••8 10 P. M
Arrive at Columbus 4 25 A. A».
FREIGHT TRAIN :
Leave Columbus «.5 00 A. M.
Arrive at Columbu3 4 55 A.. M.
W.L. CLARK,
mar 19 ts Supt. Muscogee It, R.
Through to Montgomery.
NEW SCHEDULE.
MONTGOMERY & WEST. POINT
RAILROAD COMPANY.
COLUMBUS, August 27,1864.
ON and after August 27th. the Passenger Train on
tho Montgomery and West Point Railroad will
Leave Montgomery . at 8:00 a. m.
Leave West Point at 7:10 a. m.
Arrive at Columbus at 5:32 p. m.
Leave Columbus at 5:50 a. m.
Arrive at Montgomery at 3:00 p. m.
Arrive at VVest Potnt at 4130 p. m.
Freight Train leaves Columbus at 8:40 a m.
Arrives at 8:27 p m
D. M. CRAM, Sup’t & Eng.
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MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD.
< li i Oil: OF SCHEDULE.
Girard, Ala., Aug. 22, 1864.
ON ami after this date Trains on this Road will
Run Daily (Sunday excepted,) as follows:
Passenger Train.
Lcavo Girard at 3 00* p. m.
Arrive in Union Springs 730 “
Leave Union Springs 5 35 a. m.
Arrive in Girard at 10 00 “
Freight Train.
Leave Girard at : 4 00 a. m.
Arrive in Girard at . 600 p. m.
B. E. WELLS,
aglß ts Eng. & Sup’t.
A<linmisti*afo»'’£ 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 Cay, deceased,
all the household and kitcheh furniture belonging
to the estate of said Jes3e Oay, August 31st, 1864.
At the same time and place a house will be rented
containing three rooms and all necessary out-build
ings and ono negro woman hired.
J. L. CLAY, Adm’r.
sp2l 4t*
SI,OOO Reward!
CTOLEN, from my residence, in Wynnton, on the
O night of tho 19th inst., a Chesnut Sorrel Horse,
about 14 1-2 hands high and 14 years old; ho has on*
, each side, just back of the fore-shoulder, the marks
of a blister, which looks very much like a burn; lit
tlo white ou the left hind leg; gay, stylish looking
horse and a fast trotter, and had on when taken
shoes all around. I will give the above for
tho horse and thief, with proof to convict, or SSOO
for tho horse. WM. S. BALFOUR.
.Macon Telegraph copy two weeks, and send
bill to this office. sp2o2vr*
Steward !
Oi'kick O. S Nanai. Iron Works,
Columbus, Ga., Sept. 10, ’64.
ONE thousand iollars will be pai l for the appre
hension and delivery to Inc of negro boy WM.
KUHN. This boy was employed in the Rolling
Mill as heater—is3s years of age; about 5 feet 7 in.
high; light brown color and Indian features; was
dressed in light coat, light pants and felt hat,
110 came from the Iron Works at Etowah, Ga., and
is supposed to be making his way back to that place.
J II WARNER,
* Chf. Eng. 0 S N
sp2l6t Commanding.
s3© He ward.
{ EFT my plantation near Glcnnvillc, Alabama, on
L Sunday last, 11th inst., a negro man by the name
of GREEN, who belongs to Col. Samuel Thompson,
near Florence, Ala.
Green is about 3S years old; nearly white; straight
hair; slender frame; near six feet high; incliued
to stoop in tho shoulders; short round face, and
talks slowly. 110 loft my premises without provo
cation, and I have reason to beliove that he is at
tempting to make his way to North Alabama, into
the enemy’s lines, lie is acquainted about Colum
bus, Ga., having been hired out there by Col. Wm.
Bryan, or (Ad. Sain’l Thompson, for several mouths
last winter, and may tarry therein quest o
ment, Iv> li pay fifty dollars reward for his appre
hension ayd delivery to me, or confinement in some
jail where 1 can get hint.
sep2l ts JNO. F. TREUTLEN.
500 H€g's*© Mesa Wanted!
Nitrk and Mining Bureau, 1
lleadq’rs Mixing Division, No. 2, >
Selma, Ala., Sept. 13, ’64. J ,
i AM desirou.- of Hi ring Five Hundred Negro Men, !
Lor the liibb Iron "Works, located on the Alabama
and Tcunessee Rivers Rail Re ad, fifty miles North j
of Selina, 150 South of Romo and 70 West of Mont
gomery. I am ;aying for able-bodied men three j
hundred dollars per annum, feeding and clothing |
them. One woman will bo hired to every ten men, ;
to cook and wash for them. There is on the place a ■
hospital with a regular surgeon, who takes charge
of all the sick. If the enemy threatens, the negroes
can bo moved West through au inaccessible coun- ;
try. Apply to W P Herring, La Grange. Ga.. or
WM. lUCIIAftDSON HUNT,
Lieut. Col. Cornd’g.
sep!7 m |
SSOO lie ward.
YUILL be paid for tho apprehension of our boy j
1 1 Truman, lie is about 24 years ol 6 feet high; j
very black, and weighs about 180 pounds. Three '
hundr 'd dollars will be paid for his confinement in
some jail so that we can get him,,or five hundred
dollars for his delivery at the „ ‘ •
EAGLE I ACTORY.
Eufnula Spirit rtf tho South, Quincy Dispatch, Al
bany Patriot, Macon Telegraph, Ladrange Repor
ter, and //auiilton Enterprise, publish one month
and send bills to Factory.
sep2o 1 m
SSO Menard!
ITQI.EN, fr?vr the Wagon Yard last night, a large
O black horse Mule, with the letter M’ branded
on his right hip.
I will give the above reward for said Mule, de
livered to me at Tnlboiton, Ga.
JAMES INGRAM.
_ sep.i i 6t*
S3O Reward.
~SuPESiVjgxDKNI’o Cn’ICK.)
Muscogee R. R. Company, /
Columbus, Ga., .Sopt. 16, ’64. >
A REWARD of SSO will be paid for the delivery
it to me for each of the following negro men :
Charles—Black; about 25 years old; quick spo
ken; weighs about 150 lbs.; about 5 feet 10 or 11 in.
high. »
Hilliard—Black; about 30 years old; 5 ft 9 inches
high; weighs 1450 r 1501b5.; blacksmith y trade. —
Probably will go to Jon< s county wh re As wife is.
W. L. CLARK.
spl7 lsn Superintendent.
SSO Reward.
i WILL pay the above reward for 808, a black
1 bov, about 24 years old. He has been out three
or four weeks, and issupposed to be lurking about
he city. JNO. U.
filiwlis Hngu
Yol. XI.
J. W, WABEEM & CO. Proprietors... j. w> WARREV, Editor
SPECIAL NOTICES
Notice.
Hradquarters Post,
Columbus, Ga., Sept. 19, 1864.
[Circular.]
I. The call made by me on the 16th inst, for ne
groes to work on the fortifications, not having been
responded to, impressments will be resorted to.
11. Capt C A Redd, A. Q. M., will at once impress
1,000 negroes in the city of Cblumbus, this and ad
joining counties within a distance of 30 miles from
this point. The impressments to be made under
existing orders from the Secretary of War. A suf
ficient cavalry force will be detailed to assist in the
execution of the impressment.
111. Capt. W W Prudom, Assistant Provost Mar
shal, at the office of the Provost Marshal, is alone
charged with granting exemptions from impress
ment.
LEON VON ZINKEN,
„„ „ Col. Commanding Post.
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JVotice!
Muscogee Rail Road Company,
Columbus, Ga., Sept. 20,1864.
Stockholders can receive the Dividend of $lO 00
per share, declared August 13th, 1864, on and after
Thursday the 22d inst.
J. M. BIVINS,
sep2o lw Sec’y and Treas’r.
Ifotice.
Headquarters, 24th Militia Dist.
Columbus, Ga., Sept. 16, 1864.
The Captains appointed in the different Districts
will sen i to these Headquarters all men who have
not reported at Macon. By order of Gen. Wayne.
B. A. THORNTON, ADC.
pr N. W. Garrard, Capt & E 0.
Office at MeGehoe’s Auction House.
sepl7 ts
Battle-Field Belief Association
of Columbus, da.
All who are disposed to contribute articles neces
sary for the relief of the sick and wounded in the
Army of Tennessee, are requested to leave thorn at
Goodrich & Co’s store by One O’clock, P. M. ev
ery Tuesday and Friday, when they will be for
warded to and dispensed by our Committee there.
W. 11. YOUNG, Presd’t.
C. G. Holmes, Soc’y. ag23tf
HIATT. It. lEVAAS,
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
No. 64, Commerce Street,
MOBILE, ALABAMA.
WILL sell on Commission every description of
Coods, Negroes and Produqp of all kinds.
sp2o lm
Sterling Exchange Cor CJoM
1 WILL exchange Sterling for Gold, at par.
I J. F. WINTER.
sep2o lw
STEMVXG EXCHANGE !
FEW Hundred Pounds of Sterling Exchange
for sale in sums to suit purchasers by
agl6 ti BANK OF COLUMBUS.
’ z BEEF I BEEF ! f
1 HAVE secured tho services of an experienced
1 Butcher, an 1 will keep on hand at all times the
best Beef tlmt can be found in the country.
4*»“Beef ready for sale every morning at daylight.
WM. 11. H. PHELPS,
spl7 5t 114, Broad St.
F©lt SALE!
320 Acres of Laud oh toe Mobile &
Girard Mail Hoad,
TrORTY MILES from Columbus, Georgia, and one
r and a half from Station No. 5; about 180 acres
opened, and cabins for about 30 negroes, with good
water, gin house, &c. Apply to Messrs Ellis, Liv
ingston & Cos., for terms.
s P S lm* D C FREEMAN, Jr.
'WANTED!
r Ann LBS. of TALLOW, for which a liberal price
J:UUU will be paid. Apply to
F. W. DILL ARD,
sp7 ts Major and Q. .If.
SELECT SCHOOL.
v« RS. W 3 MARBLE will re-open her School, 00
m Forsyth street, Monday, Oct. 3d.
Tuition SIOO 00 i>er Scholastic year.
sepl3 2w
lILA€KSM§TSI WAITED!
STEADY EMPLOYMENT and liberal wages.
10 Apply at .
seplO 2w EAGLE FACTORY.
~’FOft SALE.
A HOUSE and LOT, situated North of the North
11 Commons on the corner of Troup and City Mill
streets: Said Lot contains half acre, with a good
new dwelling house with two rooms; kitchen with
two rooms; a very superior well of water—hard
ly equalled in of the city, and a large
garden. Everything new and in good order. For
iurther particulars apply to mo on the premises.
spl3 lm J. J. BORING.
FOE SALE!
4 GOOD Saddle and Harness Horse,
.’A Apply to
R. B. MURDOCH,
sop 2-ts or, at this office.
Coia federate Knives a sad
F o li s .
VUE are manufacturing at our Works in this city
VY a good article of KNIVES AND FORKS in
large quantities, which we offer to the public low
for CASH.
—ALSO —
Shoe Makers and Saddlers Tools,
of every description. Nhoe Pegs, Steel Trusses,
Spatulas, Butcher Knives, &c., &c.
The attention of Quartermasters, Commissaries,
aud Medical Purveyors, throughout the Confeder
acy is specially invited to the above with whom wo
desire to make contracts.
REFERENCES:
Major F. W. Dillard, Columbus, Ga.
Surgeon IV. 11. Prioleau, -Macon, Ga. •
Surgeon R. Potts, Montgomery. Ala.
HARRISON, BEDELL & CO.
Columbus, Ga., September 1,186 L
Mobile Register, Augusta Constitutionalist, ana
Charleston Courier please copy one monta ana send
bill to 1 his office.
Shoemakers’ and Saddlers’
tools.
,VTIE UNDERSIGNED having coinuiencea the
1 manufacture of the above named articles m this
eity are prepared to fill orders for the same.
aAsIL Jl. ino-in street, a tew doors aoove C. b.
HARRISON. BEDELL & CO.
F. W. Dillard.
Mobile Register, Mississippnm and Augusta Con
stitutionafct please copy one month and send bills
to this office.
mar 30 ts t
HI nm t mu boms
POR sa T ■~E3 !
*\>E haye for sale 49 reams oi Letter Paper, and
Vt 2 000 small Pocket Blank Books,
or Retail. Paper, SSO per Ream; Blank Looks, sloo
retail 75 ets. wholesale. Apply at opFICE
agb tt
(IMS FEMALE AtAMf!
rpirv Exercises of this-Institution will be resumed
“Tim the Ist Monday in October, under the conttn
ued direction of its present aole instructor, Rev.
° llms of admiSon wiU be made known before
the session commences. p r esd’t.
D. J?. WILLCOX, Soc’y.
.B .ard ot Trustees.
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! Jiiid Others!
! . ', n|t y voh\NGE DanaburjiS, Sheeting ana
J MILL Ea^ !1 -v- Tallow and Beeswax. I
: * Yarns, for old stand, where I
} will bo found at Hob«gt JL ofl s^ e>
am manufacturing BRIGHT.
jua# 2 ts
Columbus, Ga Friday Morning, September 23,1864.
Tuesday Evening,
Tennessee Brass Band.— We understand that
the concert given last night at Temperance Hall
by the First Tennessee Brass Band, for the bene
fit es the Atlanta exiles, was largely attended, net
ting about SISOO for the exiles. It is unnecessary
for us to say anything in commendation of this
Band, as the people all know what they are. They
hare consented, by special request, to give another
concert this evening for the benefit of the Ladies’
Aid Society of this city. Let all attend.
Gen. Forrkst, —It is reported that General For
rest has been made Lieutenant General and order
ed to take command of ail the cavalry. It would
be injudicious to speak of the whereabouts of his
command, suffice it to say, he is position to deal
heavy blows to the enemy.
It is well known in official circles, says the
Mississippian, that General Johnston, before
his removal, was anxious for the President ta
send Forrest in Sherman’s rear te disturb his
communications, even at the risk of abandon
ing Northern Mississippi. Mr. Davis deemed
the request extravagant and refused it. But
as Voltaire remarked of King William, that
he never appeared to full advantage but in
difficulties and in full action, so we may
say of Jefferson Davis. Now that the crisis
has become so eritical, his utmost energies
will be brought into requisition, and as we
firmly believe another instance be furnished,
in the history of our young Confederacy,
of the infant Hercules strangling serpents in
his cradle.
Trouble Brewing. —The letter over the signa
ture of “Cantin,” in tke Atlanta Intelligencer,
which reflected severely upon the conduct of sev
eral citizens who remained there after the fall *f
the city, has highly exasperated some of the par
ties whom it misrepresented. Mayer Calhoun we
are informed by parties from Macon, has written a
letter to the edftorofthe Intelligencer demanding
the name of the author of the “ Cantin ” letter, with
a view of holding him to personal accountability
We copy the following interesting intelli
; gence from “Dixie,” from the New Orleans
| Era, of the 13tli in3t., that paper borrowing
I from the Vicksburg Herald, which being so
: near the scene which it describes, must of
I course, be well posted :
Important Rebel Slews.
Large Rebel Forces at Jackson, Mississippi —
Generals Dick Taylor , Forrest and Gholson
there —Heavy Artillery and Pontoon Trains.
From unquestionable authority we have
received intelligence that a very heavy force
of rebel cavalry or mounted infantry is now
at Jackson, Miss., evidently preparing to
strike a sudden and formidable blow at some
porfions of our lines.
Our informant stales that Gens. Forrest,
Dick Taylor and Gholson, are all at Jackson,
and that troops are camped around the city
j for several miles in extent. Forrest is com
pelled to walk upon crutches, as he has not
yet fully recovered from the wouud received
at Tupelo, but is perfectly able to manage a
horse, and is almost constantly in the saddle,
superintending the various movements of the
troops.
Gen. Wirt Adams also tiiere, but his author
| ity is completely ignored, Gens. Taylor and
Forrest assuming entire control and direction
j of affairs.
Their wagon, pontoon and artillery trains
are said to be very extensive, the wagons all
bearing the brand of the U. S., and are those
captured by Forrest from Sturgis, in the fight
at Guutown.
Every movement is said to be conducted
with the greatest secresy, even the changes
from one camp to another being made at
night. None except the Generals are allowed
to know the least thing in regard to the con
templated movements, and no expedition of
similar strength was never more secretly col
lected, or more carefully guarded from outside
observation,
The whole command is said to be in fine
condition ; the animals in excellent order, the
artillery and pontoon trains of the finest de
scription, and the wagons new and substan
tial. The entire force, so far aa cur informant
could judge from the observations he was per
mitted to make, will number some twenty
thousand men.
Whether this commaad has been collected
for the purpose of going to the succor of Mo
bile, or far an offensive, demonstration against i
our lines, is of course only a matter of con- j
jecture; but we have no doubt that ample
preparations will be made for their reception !
at any point they choose to visit.
[Correspondence Advertiser and Register.] ‘
Sniitii’s Atrocities i» ftortl* Mis
sissippi.
Marshall Countt, Miss., Sept. 14, 1864.
Os course you have heard of the unparalleled a- !
troeities committed by General A. J. Smith, in his ;
late march from Memphis to Oxford, with his b#d
jrol army of 25,000 men. The half of the unspeak
able iufamics perpetrate i by them has net been
told, and perhaps never will be. I had intended
to give you a compendious statement of so much of j
their outrages as had come to my knowledge, but,
sooth to say, mv pen recoils from the loathsome j
task. The' whole raid, all along, on both sidos of ;
their line of march, seems to have been nothing ;
but a cowardly onslaught upon woman and chid- |
dren, unarmed, old and disabled men. They did ;
not come out to fight our soldiers, but simply to 1
make war upon women and non-combatants, and :
to turn loose their brutal soldiery—particularly
the negroes and the Dutch—upon a defenceless ana ,
already half-starving community. |
I* there no wav to make these Memphis lankee
raiders conduct the war on civilized principles? j
Oxford and Holly Springs were given to the ,
flames “by order” of “old whisky” Smith himself. ,
Between Lagrange, Tenn., and Oxierd, Miss-, a
distance of 55 miles, not more than a half dozen
residences are left upon the roadside Off the road,
to the distance of 5 or 6 miles on both side,, the
destruction of private property has been equally
•weeping ami atroeiou*. In carrying out this sys- :
t«m «.> destruction, numberless and name,ess acts
of cruelty and assassination were commuted.— }
Ladies of the first respectability were stripped
naked, or h id their clothes turned over their heads
, bv those diabolical ruffians, m their search tor
1 treasure. Wounded and disabled soldiers, dis
charged from our anny. wera shot aowu or nung
! like deg*. Sickmen ana women, m a dying con
tat bmjift *• J-''"*
I thus instantly murdered, the pl-a < • %
sickne-s was a pretence, and that arms ana money, 1
or other valuables were secreted r ;
Dwellings were set on fire, andgrej-baired o. J men
repeatediy fluugiuto the flames, in the mere waq
j tonnoss of diabolism run roafing mad!
The powers which, beside? France, have as yet
recognized the Empire of Mexico, and whose mia
ister resides in the capital of that country, are |
Austria. Bavaria, Prussia, Russia, Belgium and
Holland.
[From the Petersburg Express, 17th.]
From Petersburg.
A portion of the enemy’s skirmish line iu
front of Wilcox’s Division, on our right, was
surprised yesterday morning, and eighty-eight
prisoners, including one commissioned officer,
were taken. The prisoners are mostly from
the Ist and 2d Maryland regiments, and some
few from the sth New York Heavy Artillery,
of Warren’s corps. If no* lately reinforced,
we are of the opinion that Warren’s corps
cannot now muster the strength of
a good division, as his losses on the Weldon
road alone have been enormous.
The Yankees have shown no further dispo
sition to advance their lines in the direction
of the Southside railroad, since their failure
Thursday. They have probably discovered
that a very strong impediment rests in their
way, and they will most assuredly find it
when they strike out again.
The usual heavy cannonading, now of almost
daily occurrence, was heard on the lines yes'*
t«rday—mostly on the ce|be and left—but
nothing was accomplished^
Some few shells—ls-dnch mortars—loaded
with pieces of thick glass, brass, copper, iron
and lead, were thrown into the city yesterday
afternoon, but no damage was done.
BUSY SCENES ABOUT CITY POINT.
Reliable parties who have recently visited
City Point, inform us that the locality would
scarcely be recognized by persons who knew
it intimately three or four months ago. An
immense wharf has h*en erected by Grant’s
orders, extending from the old steamboat
landing on James river, around up the Appo
mattox for a half mile or more. Commissary,
ordnance and quartermaster depots, over 300
feet in length, have been constructed, and
sutler’s shanties innumerable, have sprung up
on every hand. Soldiers and civilians, who
can raise greenbacks, are enabled to purchase
any article they may desire, from a glass of
sarsparilla pop, up to an overcoat, or an um
brella.
The former supurb residence of Dr. Epes,
has been renovated and repaired, and Gen.
Grant, Mrs. Grant, and sundry young Grants,
are now snugly ensconsed therein, upon the
squatter sovereignty principle, about which
we heard So much during the Douglass can
vass in 1860. From the Doctor’s residence up
to Jordan’s farm, in the immediate vicinity of
Petersburg, all the Valley of the Appomattox,
is one vast camp. Citizens who remained
have been tresspassed upon, and all their
horses and cattle appropriated. Indignities
of the grossest character are daily offered, and
everything calculated to render life a burden
is imposed upon these defenceless people. May
we not hope that a change in affairs in that
section is not far distant.
OUTRAGES IN ISLE OF WIGHT.
A highly respectable and intelligent corres-.
pondeut from Isle of Wight county, furnishes
us with a sad picture of the sufferings of the
people of that unfortunate county. Since the
evacuation of this portion of Virginia by our
troops, which took place immediately’after
Gen. Grant crossed to the Southside of James
river, they have been suffering all the insults
and outrages that could be inflicted on a con
quered people, by lawless bands of Yankees,
and runaway negroes who cross the river in
the night from the Peninsula, and plunder,
insult and rob at their pleasure, if the peo
ple attempt to protect theii property or defend
their persons from such outrages, they are at
once reported to the Yankee authorities, and
on the testimony of some negro arrested arid
carried to prison, or probably, and what is
worse—hung. A practical illustration of this
thing took place in Isle of Wight last week.
A party of negroes came to Smithfield, and
were fired into by the citizens; in a day or
two, a gunboat came up to the wharf, and on
the testimony of a negro, four of the principal
citizens were arrested and taken off. The ne
gro, they said, <: was a free man and protected
by their flag.”
Cut off from all communication with their
friends—crushed and ground to the earth, the
government either powerless to relieve them
or deaf to their sufferings, these people are.
undergoing all the ignominy of an oppressed
and conquered province. Poland—a land
rendered classic as the seat of oppression and
wrong, and whose injuries have called down
on its oppressors the just indignation of the
civilized world, is happy compared with
the state of torture they are now enduring.
They are daily insulted and outraged in
their own houses by an inferior race of beings
who, drunk with freedom and drugged with
ardent spirits, know no rule-3 of honor save
their own lawless afid licencious passions.
These deluded and misguided creatures are
urged on by a set of low white men, who seem
to revel with fiendish and Satanic delight in
the misery, desolation and ruin they produce.
The cries of helpless women and children
aroused from their slumbers in the dead of
night, to be stripped of everything, even to
beds and clothing, produce in their bosoms
neither a feeling ot pity or remorse.
These bauds, we learn, usuaiiy composed of
both colors —whites and blacks—break open
the doors, rush into the chambers, and un
ceremoniously appropriate whatever articles
may suit their fancy. They usuaiiy bring
carts and wagons with them, or impress on
the place such teams as may be necessary to
carry off their plunder. During the past week
they robbed a gentleman of Surry ot nearly all
his'household goods, $225 in specie, four fine
watches belonging to his family, and raany
other articles of value. Last Monday night
they robbed Mr. J. S. Wilson (an old man of
seventy) of $9,000 in money, and other prop
erly, amounting in all to $30,000. They
placed a pistol to his temple and gave him five
lainutes to live, if he did not tell where his
gold was concealed. They also brought a
rope and told him to select his place of exe
cution, but they could not intimidate him.—
He proved firm, defied their threats and still
lives—though not unharmed, as one of his
slaves was allowed to strike him with bis
musket.
As winter approaches, it is expected that
the people of these lower counties will be
stripped of everything (hat may be necessary
to their comfort. There are, we learn, many
thousands of negroes on the Peninsula, and
they can only subsist by plundering the citi
zens on the north and south side of the river.
The crops of corn are fine, but in many in
stances will not be gathered for want of labor,
as nearly all the slaves have left, or will do so.
We have given no overdrawn picture above.
It is the naked truth, as fnmishei us by one
who witnesses such outrages in his vicinity
every day, and we give it to let our enters
see how their patriotic fellow citizen*
the Yan.cee line3 are brought to hnicad B*on
and suffering.
General Grder No. 7» b bringing an average of
one hundred Yankees weekly into our lints, and
they are being sent te tte United States, Those
of them that prefer to r main as mechanics and
laborers are provided with employment—the pris
oners now on our hands are the same class of usen,
with far greater reasons for Behaving themselves
and attending to their employment than the de
serter. The latter, if caught iri the United States,
is subject to the death penalty, while the former i*
secure in our shops, his authorities’can never dis
cover that he has given ‘‘aid and comfort/' to our
eau.se by working for us, an > his pay continues Jut
inghis captivity. These motive? render guards un
necessary: his self interest guards against an es
cape, and his co*ifort makes biin contented.
\[Ckarleston Courier.
$5.00 Per Month
The Confederate Taxon Banks
--Important Opinion.
We print below an important opinion affec*
ti ng the liability to taxation, by tha Confed
erate Government, of banke in which State
Government* have aa interest. The opinion
of Acting Attorney General Keyea will give
rise to much discussion:
Department op Justice, 1
Richmond, Va., Aug. 29th, 1864. /
Hon. Geo. A. Trenholm, Sec’y of the Treasury;
Sib : In the absence of the Attorney Gen
eral, I have the honor to give an opinion up
on the case made by the Bank of Cape Fear
and the Banks of North Carolina.
It is said, and assumed to be true, that
“these Banks were established, not merely for
the benefit of the private stockholders, but
are the great fiscal agents of the State, which
is also largely interested in them as stockhol
ders. They are also required by their char
ters to loan money to the State, "to receive the
deposits of the State, and to perform many
other duties that are not required of any oth
er Banks.”
Ihe questions asked by vour directions
are:
First. Has the Confederate Government any
right to impose any tax upon these Banks in
their corporate character.”
Second. “If so, is the interest of the State
therein liable to taxation by the Confederate
Government ?”
It may be assumed without argument, that
Banks are liable to taxation in their corporate
character, unless there is some special exemp°
tion. Providence Bank vs. Billings, 4 Peters
563.
It may also be assumed that the fact that a
Stats is one of the Stockholders of a Bank
does not exempt the Bank from taxation in its
corporate character.
By becoming a corporator, tha State “divests
itself, as far as concerns the transaction of that
Company, of its severeign character, and takes
that of a private citizen. Instead of communicating
t® the Company it* privileges and prerogatives, it
descends to a level with these with whom it asso
ciates itself, and takes the character which be
longs to its associates, and to the business which
is to be transacted.” Bank of the United States
vs. the Planter's Bank of Georgia, 9, Wheat 907.
But the real question in this case seems to be:
Does the fact that these Banks were established as
the fiscal agents of the State, exempt thorn from
Confederate taxation in their corporate character ?
The answer to the question is found in the the
ory of the two governments. That theory as far
as our present purpose is concerned, may be thus
briefly stated: The people of each State, who
aloae have sovereignity, have established two gov
ernments, and to each have delegated certain pow
ers. The two governments are separate, distinct
and independent, though they both act upon the
same persons and the same things. Being separate,
distinct andiadepoudent, neither can, in the exer
cise of its legislative powers, act directly upon the
powers, fixtures or machinery of the other. These
Banks having-been established by the State as its
fiscal agent, are part of the machinery of the
State government, and are not therefore liable to
Confederate taxation in their corporate character.
If we apply the principle involved in the Con
federate taxation of the fiscal agent of a State to
tho Confederate Constitution generally, we shall
find it capable of changing totally the characterof
that instrument ; we shall find it capable of great
ly embarrassing, if not wholly arresting, all the
measures of the government, and of prostrating the
States at the feet of the Confederate Government.
If tbs Confederate Government may tax one
instrument employed by a State in the execution
of its powers, it may tax any and every other in
struulent. It may tax commissions issued under
the great seal of the State; it may tax every judi
cial process issued by a State; it may tax the State
House, the Court House, the County Jails of the
State: it may tax tho revenues of a State ; it may
j tax all the means employed by a State, to an excess
which would impair, if not defeat, the ends of State
Government. This was not intended by the peo
ple of any Cenfederate State. They did not design
to make the State Government dependent on the
Confederate Government; for in thevery preamble
of the Confederate Government, the character of
“sovereign and independent’' is given to each
State. This is not all. If the principle of con
struction involved in the taxatiou of the fiscal
; agent of a State be established, what is to restrain
i the Confederate Government from exercising a
I control over tho independence of a State in any
! shape It may please to give it. The legislative
power of the Confederate Government is not con
fined to taxation. That is not the only mode in
which it might bo displayed. The question is in
truth a question of independence; and if the right
of tho Confederate Government to tax the means
employed by a State be conceded, the declamation
that a State has a separate and independent gov
| eminent, is an empty and unmeaning declaration.
I See McCulloch, cs.tbe State ofMaryland, 1 Wheat,
I 432, 433.
j And here, with the greatest defference, I may be
j allowed to say, that I do not see the necessity for
i the line of argument adopted by the Chief Justice
1 in that and one or two other like cases. Tbeques-
J tion in those cases, as in this, seems to be simply
I one, not of "supremacy,” but, as already stated, of
i tho separate and independent existence of the two
: Governments. Admitting that plain proposition—
! a proposition not susceptible of denial—and the
corollary is inevitable, that the powers and ma.-hi
i ncry of neither Government is within the scope of
. the taxing or other legislative power of the other, j
Cut as the charters of the Banks are not before
me, and as the question is an important, and, so
1 far as I know, in its present shape, a novel one,
and as the means of investigation are very limited
: in the Department, i beg leave to suggest that a
ease be made and submitted for judicial determin
: ation.
Very respectfully, vour ob’t serv’t,
(Signed) ' WADE KEYES,
Acting Attorney General. j
—-—♦ —«*- ♦
Siege of Chasleston.
FOUtt HUNDRED AND THIRTY-NINTH DAY.
The Swamp Angel Eattery fired seventeen and j
Battery Gregg six shots at Fort Sumter during j
Sunday night, after which the enemy ceased firing ;
upon the fort ami had not renewed it up to the !
j hour of closing our report, 9 o’clock Monday even
ing. The firing upon the city continues about the ;
i same. Eighteen shots were fired Suuday night
and twenty-three Monday to six p. m. We heard ;
! of no casualties.
| A large working party were engaged on the bat- j
‘ tery used for shelling the city, and cars and wagons :
employed during tho day hauling from the lower j
end of the Island to Gregg.
A sling carrying a large gun drawn by twenty
horses, arrived at Battery Gregg about 4 o'clock :
i Monday afterneon. The enemy have thrown ap a •
covered way connecting Battery Gregg with the
| sand hills south end of Morris Island.
A large transport with troops came up from the i
i South in the afternoon, and sailed North. \ brig
deeply laden also passed the Bar going South. She •
was followed by a lug with signals flying, which
i passed Southwards.
There were only fbur Monitors inside the Bar '
•i Monday. The Wabash, Flamb - <u, and a propeller I
gunboat left this port some time during Sunday t
night.
Heavy fi ring was heard in the direction of Stono
I during the day.— Courier, 2f Uh
From Trans Mississippi.—We had the pleas
ure of a call from Maj. A. S. Rose, the successful
Tran«-Mis«ssippi courier, who is now on hi?
■ twenty-eighth te p. He left Houston on the 20th of
August, was d'-'.ained at Anderson several days,
passed Shreveport *»c the 29th ultimo, and crossed 1
the Father of Waters on ihe 7 f h inst. He con- ]
firm? all of the previous report? of the satisfactory
: ooD-ii b*r> of affairs in the Trans- Mississippi de- I
parnri-:sr,t. General Magnifier had ione jn*o Ar-
kar.sa? with a h“avy force, and will drive the last
X invader ifoul the ."elate and do other thirty inat •
’• shituld bee* <ren. x rice was
over tb- lk>- in Mis-uiri and t&s brave son? of that
. State wet*- A ,g u iu» standard. Kirby Smith
was at Shreveport, M ' R?*?e U en route for Rich
: mond with official Ji-. • -he? aad will return about >
the Ist of October. —il Ad?.
TELEGRAPHIC.
? REP#STS W TEE PRESS ASSOCIATION.
Entered according U act es Ceagress in the year
S. Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office of
the District Ceart es the Ceafederate States fer
the Northern District of Georgia.
Richmond, Sept. 20.—A flag of truce boat
arrivod at \ arina at noon to-day; brings out
thousand Confedorate prisoners, including
Gen. Walker and 25 other officers.
Richmond, Sept, 20.—Information deemed
reliable, states that the Yankee raiders after
partially destroying the rail road bridge oa
the Rapidan, returned to Culpepper, where
they were ambusoaded by a force of Confed
erate infantry aad badly out up.
Richmond, Sept. 20.—Official information
received to night, says a severe engagement
took place near Winchester yesterday morn
ing. Result not definitely stated.
Rodes, of Alabama, and Goodwin, of North
Carolina, killed.
Richmond, Sept. 21st.—-The Baltimore
American of the afternoon of the 19th, was ob
tained at eur pioket lines near Dutch Gap, to
day. It has telegrams from Cairo, which
says that the Mexican who arrived at New Or
leans on the 20th, reports that Cartinas being
unable to cope with the French, crossed hie
force of two thousand men and sixteen can
non over the Rie Grande and occupied Browns
ville. After driving out the Confederates, he
hoisted the Yankee flag. Cortimas offered to
the Federal commander at Brazos, the services
of himself and army.
Gold in New York on Monday forenoon, 225.
Richmond, 21.—A private reporter went to
\ ariaa to-day with a flag of truce and returned
at 8 o’clock for publication.
Six hundred returned prisoners reached the
city to-night at 8 o’clock. A large crowd of
ladies and others assembled at the wharf to
greet them, but mostly dispersed before the
arrival of the steamer, it being detained at the
obstructions below the tide. The men are in
excellent health. 400 more will be brought
up to-morrow.
Lynchburg, 21. — The remains of General
Rode3 arrived here tosnight. The body will
lay instate at the city Court House until Fri
day morning, when it will be intered.
Petersburg, Sept. 21. — There is no change
in the position along the lines.
The enemy shelled the city furiously this
morning, from sto 6 o’clock. The batteries
replied, and the roar of cannon was incessant
and deafening.
There was loud cheering in the enemy's
camp to-day—cause not transpired—supposed
to be some news from the Valley.
The Herald of the 19th received. It admits
the loss of 2500 head of cattle, taken by Hamp
ton, and the capture of District Columbia cav
alry and some 20 or 30 wagons.
Nothing else of interest.
Riciimoni', 21.—A dispatch from Gen. Lee, says
Early reports that on the morning of the 19th,
the enemy advanced on Winchester, near which
placebo met and attacked them, which was resist
ed from early in the day till near night, when he
was compelled to retire. After night ho fell back
to Fisher’s Hill. Our loss reported severe. Gens.
Rodes and Goodwin were killed, while nobly
doing their duty. Throe pieces of artillery .lost.
The trains and supplies were brought oil in safety.
Unofficial reports say Early had fallen back to
Strassburg.
An Opinion. —We are of the opinion that the
next two months will witness tho bloodiest ctm
fiict that this war has witnessed, and that imme
diately around Richmond will be the theatre of
the conflict. Are our people prepared for this ?
The Army has the Government to look eut for it
— U ut are the people of Richmond prepared for a
seige, with all the rail roads destroyed ? The im
mense population that now crowds the streets of
Richmond had better betake themselves elsewhere.
There will be suffering in Richmond this fall and
winter, which has not been witnessed during this
war. The city may be shelled, for its immense
lines requiro a vast army to defend it; its very
I streets may be the scenes of bloody battle, for it
i will be defended as no other place has been. Up
on holding Richmond depends for u3 everything.
Success and speedy peace, failure and interminable
war, are involved in the coming struggle for Rich
mond. All may be satisfied that tho contest will
be desperate, and all had better make provision
for their comfort elsewhere.
There are required for the defence of the city
many thousand more men, the details must be re
voked, and all men between IS and 4b sent to the
front. But a very short time remains for prepara
tions, the railroads that connect with Atlanta are
being rapidly repaired. ,As soon as they are fin
ished the movements will begin, and in a few
weeks;the conflict will open.
This is all speculation, and may never take
place; but it has probability enough to warn our
people to prepare for a conflict before which the
battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court
House, Gaines Mill and Petersburg are but skir
mishes.—Richmond Enquirer.
Police !
Office Chief Commissary,
Savannah, Sept. 17, ’64.
All commissaries and commissary agents of the
Purchasing Department in this State are authorized
and required to seize and appropriate any sacks,
whether full or empty, bearing the mark of any of
ficer in the Commissary Department, and found in
the possession of unauthorized persons or in tran
situ when shipped by said persons.
« J. L. LOCKE,
sep2l 3t Major and Chief Commissary.
TEMPER AIVCE HALL.
The First Tennessee Band
Have the honor to announce to the public, an
other
GRAND CONCERT
AND POSITIVELY THE LAST,
©si Thursday Evening Sept. 22d.
For the BENEFIT of the
LADIES AID SOCIETY!
<l* Positively only one night.
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
RESIDENCE AT YONGESBORO!
At Auction !
( »N TUESDAY, September 28th, at 10 1-2 o’elk,
v * we will sell in front of our store,
A Very DESIRABLE RESIDENCE
and FARM, at Yongesboro Depot, Rus
sell county, Ala., and at present owned by
C- C Yonge, E<?q.
The D■■veiling has 4 ro>m«; good outhouses, all
nearly new; une hundred and lory acres good land
attached —nearly all fresh; good market garden;
fine orchards. wi*h over 1,000 selected Fruit Trees,
and a Vineyard of about 1,000 choice Grape Vine?,
su r>22 $ *0
3SO Reward.
V EGRO boy CH ARLKY; about 25years old, yel
. > low complexion, hair nearly straight, below or
dinary intelligence ; left Mr. Nat-Thompson’s near
Box Springs. Talbot, county. I bought him of a
-m r. DPjwn. & rein gee fr«yi who now
reside? in Tusk.aree, Ala?. He originally ct.mc from
baric? Km. s. A suitable reward will be paid
tor ms delivery at this office, or in any safe jail and
information sent to me at this office.
_ , . . , JAMES M. RUSSELL.
Columbu » Ga., aug 1 ts *
