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DAILY TIMES,
J. W. WARREN - -4 Editor.
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COLUMBUS:
Friday Morning, September HI, 1864.
Gbnbbal Fobrist.—Th# Yankees in Mem
phis hare it that Forrest has “crossed the
line/’ of coarse into Tennessee or into North
Alabama. If so, (says the Montgomery Ad
▼ertiser) a brighter day will soon dawn upon
the Confederacy. He of all others is qualified
and has the prestige, to break and keep brok
en Sherman’s communication, and compel him
to take up stakes at Atlanta. The Fort Pil
low affair is fresh in the minds of all Yankee
garrisons and troops, so that when Forrest is
reported advanciag, their cowardly hearts fail
them in anticipation of the doom they cer
tainly expect and know they so richly deserve.
If Gen. Forrest has been turned loose with his
invincible band, there will be a rattling of the
bones, not of the dead as in the vision of Ez
ekiel, but among the bones of live Yankees.
His pathway will be a valley of death where
the bones will bleach for years after this war
shall close. Create him Lieutenat General or
place the cavalry of the Army of Tennessee
under his command without orders, and the
legions of Sherman would be fleeing towards
Yankeedom, as if pursued by the besom of
destruction. The whole country demands it,
looking to him as the great cavalry leader
and marked out for the execution of the de
cisive work in the rear. He has proven equal
to any task or exploit upon whieh he has con
sented to enter, whether with a small or a
large force, and always against odds. Fight
with him is to kill and wrench victory from
the enemy. In the new field indicated, we
believe that he will display his great military
genius to more advantage than on any former
occasion, and prove a destroying angel to the
Modern Sennacherib.
From Florida. —All quiet, says the Lake
City Columbian, along the St. Marys, theOlus
tee, the Suwanee, and all other important
tributaries within our own lines, and, so far
as we can learn, upon the great artery of the
St. Johas. We were, however, set somewhat
agog Hist Friday by intelligence that the ene
my were advancing in force towards Gaines
ville, and were in thirty-six miles of that place
—from Green Cove Springs. Military move
ments were put on foot on our side, to meet
this emergency, but it was soon dispatched
that the foice of the enemy had returned, not
perhaps being on an advance movemeot, as
was supposed. Reliable information states
that about three thousand negro troops are at
Green Cove, and three hundred whites, but
few troops at Jacksonville.
Secbsii in the North. —The Newport (Rhode
Island) News complains of the secession sentiment
at that place. On the “fashionable drives the Re
bel cockade is prominently displayed every day by
women who are loud-mouthed in their denuncia
tions of the Northern people and the Union army.
In the parlors these degraded females give expres
sion to sentiments that no respectable woman will
entertain, while the secession brawlers keep gentle •
men away from the clubs.”
ft is not porhaps necessary or proper to inform i
everybody exactly as to the disposition es prison- :
ers 'and the numbers in a place. We may note, ]
however, as a hopeful sign of reform, says the
Charleston Courier, the beginning of measures to ;
change the ill-advised policy es concentration
which was applied to prisoners instead es to our
seldiers. The list at Audersonville, Ga., i3 and
will be largely reduced, and the list in this city
and other places increased.
Chief of the Columbus Detective Corps.—
Mr. Walter C. Wright, who for some months has
been connected with the detective corps, and who
in that department has gained a high reputation,
has, we learn, been appointed chief of the detec
tives in this city by the Commandant of the Post.
Mr. Wright has intelligence, industry and expe
rience, and a gentlemanly deportment, and we
feel confident that he will meet with the highest
success in his department. He is regarded most
highly by his commanding officers.— Sun.
We had a report by telegraph, Jhe other day, that
General Trice had died at Arkadelphia, Ark., of
dystentery. It was Yankee news, and the report
as given in their papers was that Gen. Prentice (not
Gen. Price) had died there, We feel relieved by
this correction. There are very few officers, civil or
military, in tho Confederate service, whose death
the country would more deplore than that of Gen.
Price.
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The Yellow Fever at Key West.—The
Key West correspondent of the Herald, of the
10th, reports the yellow fever as prevailing.
Among the many victims are Brig. Gen. Wood
bury and Surgeon Charles Mitchell, of the
110th N. Y. Regiment.
France.—At the Conference of Nismes, of
the Protestant ministers of France, the Neo
fogrcal prty proved to loe in a majority, and
refused to accept »JY en the Apostle's Creed as
the symbol of their faith—whereupon one
hundred and twenty of the pastors and elders
styled Evangelical quit the Assembly;
Ihe sporting fraternity in New York are
greauy exercised over the great match for
§IO,OOO, over the Fashion track, between
General Butler aad George Wilkes—late Rob
ert Fillingkam. Both horses are said to be in
splendid condition. Immense sums of money
have been staked on the result.
A correspondent of the Mobile Register writing
from Montgomery, under date Sept. 13, says :
We yesterday visited the card factory of tho Rev.
Mr. Davis. We found the machines busy at work.
During the coming week they will be turning out
about fifty pairs per day of as pretty and as sub
stantial cetten cards as need to be looked at. We
learn that the works’foqthe manufacture and draw
ing of the wire are rapidly approaching comp lo
tion, and will soon be able to turn out all that is
needed es this essential article.
So we get on, step by step, relieving ourselves of
that helpless dependency upon Yankee enterprise
which was so long the bane of our country.
Allowed to Pray as They Wish.— The officer
in command at Natchez has reconsidered his order
compelling ministers to pray for Lincoln, and issued
one allowing them te pray as they wish. Here it is:
1. Military Authority haring been, for the time,
vindicated, so much of Special Order No. 11, as re
quires Rev. William Henry Elder, Bishop of Natch
ez, to remain within the military li»es of the Post
of Vidalia, La., is suspended, and he may return to
his home and duties, uetil the pleasure of the War
Department be known, in his case.
And as all solemn appeals to the Supreme Being,
not proceeding from honest hearts and willing
minds, are necessarily offensive to Him, and sub
versive of sound morality, so much of Special Order
No. 31, June 18,1864, as requires public prayer to
be pronounced, in behalf of the President of the
United States and the Union is suspended until fur
ther orders; leaving all persons conducting divine
worship at liberty to manifest such measure of hos
tility as they may feel against the Government and
the Union of these States, and their sympathy with
the rebellion, by omitting such supplication, if so
minded. By order of Brig. Gen. M. Brayman.
The nomination of McClellan ia unsatisfactory
to the Missouri Democracy. They will however,
*tand by it, as they say there is no use of bolting.
(From the Chicago Post.)
Pe Copperhead Covention.
EXTRACTS FROM DISL©YAL SPEECHES.
Our railread contemporary makes the following
extracts from the speeches of the late Copperhead
Convention:
I ernande Wood (tho Aminidab Sleek—the gra
cious peace angel of the Convention,) benignantly
spread his palms from the balcony'of tho Sherman
Honse, like the Pope blessing tho people, and
blandly perorated as follows:
Wo call for peace, God of our fathers Grant us
peace, [Amen] peace in eur hearts and at thine.al
tars; peace en the red waters and ear bigoted
shores; peace for the beleaguered oities and the
bests that war around them; peace for tho widows
and fatherloss, for the sinning and sinned against.
Grant us peace; 0 God, for all and for a distracted
torn and bleeding land. Speed the great time [for
peace.
Ben. Allen, of New York, was kind enough to
inform us: “Slavery is not tho cause of the war;
but the Abolitionists are. To remove the cause
yeu must remove the Abolitionists. There is not
a secessionist per se in the whole Seuth.”
Mr. Whiting, a copperhead spiritualists “want
ed to know if his hearers were going to submit to
conscription to fight their Southren brethren.” Ho
denounced the war as “a war of invasion.”
Henry Clay Dean didn’t like Little Mac. When
asked if he would support him if nominated, he
said t “Before God, fellow citizens, we have one
idiot in the Presidential chair; don’t let us put
another in it.”
Ike Rynders said before the Invincible Club :
“After three years of petty despotism, I stand
a free man before a free people. I know the
South are as gallant, chivalrous and noble a peo
ple as God ever created. lam sorry tho South
hare taken the steps they have, but God knows
they had just cause to act as they did act. He
did not consider it a shame to make peace with
a power who had kept them at bay for three
years.”
“By G —d we must have McClellan nominated.
We must put a stop to this d—n war.” —Bean
Richmond
W. W. O’Brien of Peoria, spoke: We must
struggle for peace, liberty, and our rights. Against
us is fraud, violence and murder. The people tire
es the tyrant’s rule. We will have a free election
or a free fight; and we warn those in pewer that
their blood with pay for any infraction es our
rights.”
Sunset Cox indulged in an inflamatory but
guarded harangue, in which he claimed:
“We are for peace. We deprecate violence; but
there are things even worse than war, that is, tame
and cowardly submission to wrong. Let us en
dure ne longer, but meet the first outrage of our
constitutional rights as our fathers mot the ag
gressors of theirs.”
“The war is an unholy fight. Soon the net is
to be drawn that will gather in it a half million
more to feed the insatiable thirst for blood of the
Negro God. Let us demand a cessation of the
sacrifice until the people shall pronouuce their
great and emphatic verdict for peace, and let the
tyrant understand that the demand comes from
earnest men and must he respected.”— McMastere.
Mr. Johnson t claiming to boa gospel monger
from Missouri, hinted strongly at a Western Con
federacy. He said:
“If it shall be necessary in the settlement of
our difficulties to allow a few stars to form a con
stellation by themselves. I think we can be just
as safe, just as well protected and just as free and
happy under a Union of Republics as we hare been
under a Union of States. I want to see this whole
continent bound together by a grand union of Re
publics. And we will have it, and will have peace
and harmony and self-government with it.”
“Let us hurl that usurper from power. Never
till that day comes when the usurper and his vic
tim meet at the judgment seat can he be punished
for his wrongs, for his conspiracy agaiust Ameri
can liberty.”— Baker of Michigan.
“We will have a free press and free speech. Are
you willing any longer to endure your hardships ?
(No.) Then come up and hurl Mr. Lincoln from
power. This black abortion party has almost
broken up this government. Will you endure it
any longer.”— Mr. Fuller.
“What is this war for ? The nigger. It is for
the nigger against the white man. I think we
don’t want our bosoms stuffed so much with damn
ed nigger this warm weather. I don’t believe the
negro is equal to the white man. Is it not high
time that this infernal war was stopped ? If the
South could bo subjugated by this infornal war the
bayonets would bo turned against the North.—
Come weal or woe, we will be for the sovereignty
of the States and individual right.”— Mr. Sander
son of Pa.
“I advise peace and harmony, but if in the strug
gle it reaches the point that the ballot-box is even
touched with sacriligious hands, I say then and
there, come what will, let the lives and lioner of
alt be pledged to the biggest fight the world ever
saw.— Bishop of Michigan.
“No more arbitrary arrests will be permitted
with impunity. No more Vallahdighams will bo
dragged from the bosom of their families, and
spirited away to a foreign land or dungeon, unless
the attempt easts blood.”— Warren , of Rhode
Island.
“We talk of rebellion and revolution in the South.
There is a worse rebellion in the North. Tho
Southern people all hare an affection for the old
Constitutional Union; but herein the North there
is a [large party who will call the Constitution a
covenant with hell. That's what’s the matter.—
The Democratic party must recognize in their
nomination the doctrine of non-coercion, or it will
not, ought not te be successful. This campaign
will be successful only if conducted upon tho prin
ciples of the old Democratic party, and they wore
peaceable principles. Theso doctrines must be
represented either in the candidate ©r the platform.
Get the candidates if you can, but tho platform at
all events.”— Chau-ncey Burr.
The Hon. 11. C. Claybourn claimed Virginia as
his native State, “the birth place ©f the bravo and
noble Stonewall Jackson.” He thought Mac was
tho man for the hour and the time.
Capt. Kuntz, es Pittsburg, “d—d Mr. Lincoln
as a thief and leader of thieves.” He said “Lin
coln was now played out, the opposition to him
was going to We bold and powerful; there must be
no underhanded work, and if Democrats catch any
of Lincoln’3 b—y satrap spies among them, they
must cut their d—d throats, that’s all. I should
like to seo the noble George B. McClellan as Pre
sident, [cheers,]*and that great Democrat, Horatio
Seymour sheuld occupy the position of Secretary
of State. In the Cabinet I wouldsee the name of
Voorhees and the brilliant galaxy of gentlemen
statesmen who cluster round the Democratic ban
ners.”
“I’ll telhyou about Jeff Davis, Abe Lincoln has
a little difficulty with him, and I make a rule never
to interfere with blackguards. There was never a
crime perpetrated in the history of the world that
has not had its exact the conduct
of Mr. Lincelu, Abe Lincoln is a liar and a pur
jurer, and has petit larceny written all over his
body, frenT the crown of his head to the soles of
his feet.”— Henry Clay Dean.
John Allen, of New York, was decidedly for
peace. War would never produce peace. We
cculd never subjugate the South. The olive branch
of “Democracy,” in the shape of a peace platform,
is all that can restore the Union. He would sup
port McClellan on «uch a platform.
The following are specimen chips of the speech
ifying “hove in” at the ratification meeting held
last Wednesday:
Mr. Sanderson said, “If Abe Lincoln was re
elected, he weuld free the negroes of the South
and then enslave the people. We must maintain
State Rights, &c., ifcc.
Judge Miller, of Ohio, said, “A bloody war has
been waged to elevate the negro to an equality
with the white man. There is no difference be
tween a War Democrat and an Abolitionist. They
are both links in the same sausage, made from
the same dog.”
Mr. Rollins, of Missouri, said, “Hove ©ur South
ern friends. They are a noble, a brave and chival
rous people, although they are trying to break up
the Government.
Mr. Hanna, of Indiana, was heavy on Ben. But
ler, and poured over his devoted head such ven
ornus slime as this:
By whom was Lincoln supported? Prominent
among his supporters is Butler, half devil, one
quarter beast, and less than one-fourth human,
begotten by the Prince of hell, hewed from the
rotten womb of crime and thrown into the lap of
civilization a defermed, unfinished wretch. He
was sent before his time into this breathing world,
less than half made up, and is so hateful looking
that the dogs bark at him as he passes by.
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A Candid Confession —Among the traditions
of Westminster is one of a certain Sergeant Day,
who flourished some centuries back ia a darker
a <r@ than the present. He was accused, once upon
a*time, by bis brethren of the coif, of having de
graded their order by taking from a client a fee in
copper, and on being solemnly arrainged for his
offence in their Common Hall, it appears, from the
unwritten reports of the Court of (Jommon
that he defended himself by the following plea of
confession and avoidance “I fully admit that I
toek a tee from him in copper, and not only one
hut several, and not odly fees in copper, but fees
in silver; but I pledge my honor as a sergeant
that I never took a single fee from him in silver
until I had get all his gold, and that I never took
a single fee from him in copper until I had get
all his silver—and you don’t call that a degrada
tion of our orders.'’
FronYthe United States.
THE TOMBS' THB DEMOCRATIC PRBSS.
Tire Post of the 12th says :
TheYtfrk News has joined the opposi
tion tp ||jMr. McClellan. Thus are the Woods
cafryinjaji|imhe programme arranged with
the leans—namely, first to try to break
up the Ohipago Convention; failing in that,
second, to support McClellan upon
such gsPiSpas would render him obnoxious
to the peojjijffi, this object being exposed, then,
thirdly tly, an opes and avowed op
position tojM election in accordance with the
Republicai|s>de of warfare, falsehood, forgery
and bribery. It is a great relief to the Democ
racy to be rid of such an incubus, and if Val
landigham chooses to follow them he will have
a rough road to travel.
The Philadelphia Age of the 12 th says :
The position taken by the New York News,
if it were assumed by any considerable num
ber of Democrats, would prove absolutely fa
tal to our succesßin November, and fatal,
therefore, as we steadfastly believe, to our last
hope of iiberty and our only prospect of Union.
But an example so fraught with mischief and
ruin as that set by the News will not be fol
lowed at all. TTie Chicago Convention rep
resented the feelings and opinions of the uai
ted Democracy of the North. It made a plat
form acceptable to every man who claimed to
be a Democrat. It has been called a peace
platform—and so it is. Bu#}t meant no dis
graceful peace. It proposed no surrender of
principle, no craven laying down of arms.
DISAFFECTION AMONG- THE REPUBLICANS.
The Cincinnati Times and the Albany States
man (both Republican) predict the defeat of
Mr. Lincoln, and urge his Withdrawal from the
canvass.
The Suffolk (Long Island) Herald, the Win
chester county (N. Y.) Monitor, the Ann Ar
bor (Mich.) Journal and the Sommerset (Me.)
Herald, all formerly refjjhbiican, are out in
fa ,r or of General McClellan.
WHAT THE DAILY NEWS SAYS.
is a Democrat, we feel perfectly free to op
pose any candidate standing on any other
platform than that laid down authoritatively
by the Convention of the party.
“The platform is the subject placed at issue
in a democratic nomination, rather than the
man. To pretend that the nominee is such
in his own person, even though he should re
pudiate every principle he has been selected
to represent, is an outrage upou common sense.
To reject the platform is therefore a practical
rejection of the nomination. If the repudia*
tion of it all make the candidate cease to be
the standard bearer of the party, how can he
be supposed to continue such after he has re
pudiated even a part? The State Rights doc
trine that demands every true and faithful
Democrat to raise his voice against a war tor
the subjugation of sovereign States, is recog
nized, practically, in the enunciation ofprin
ciplea laid down by the Chicago Convention,
but is, on the other bund, directly repudiated
in General McClellan’s avowal of his determi
nation, if eleeted, to compel the sovereignties
of the South to submit to his will by force of
arms.
“The man nominated to represent its prin
ciples is therefore no longer the nominee ofthe
Chicago Convention. Standing, as he does,
before the country, to all intent and purposes
an independent candidate, he has therefore no
claim on the support of the Democracy as
such.
“General McClellan’s voice is for war. Prin
ciple, feeling, consistency, every suggestion
of patriotism, statesmanship, and self-respect,
forbids us, therefore, from giviag him our
support . Four years more of such bloodshed
and destruction as men and gods never before
witnessed, having been made an issue of his
election, we feel bound to resist it with the
most energetic opposition.”
NO MORE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.
The Tribune has the following comments
upon a paragraph in the Washington Union:
If such stuff does any one good, why not
feed them on it ? If “the wary George” ever
“had his fingers burnt,” as above, he certain
ly has not within the last six weeks, as we
have heard nothing from him within that
time. And if any ohe has been “urging that
Peace Commissioners be sent to Richmond,”
we don’t believe they are ‘leading men’ of any
party. We would send Commissioners to
Raleigh, to Milledgeville, to Montgomery, or
almost any other Southern capital rather than
to Richmond in quest of peace.
The Washington correspondent ofthe Herald
says :
The peace commission business appears to
have become an epidemic, like the morus mul
ticaulis fever. Every man who desires neto
riety or wants to make a cotton speculation,
is offering his services as peace ambassador
to Richmond. There are some of this sort
now on hand here preparing to sail through
the lines of both armies, under a flag of truce,
and eclipse the fame of Greeley, Jacques,
Jewett, Sanders and Company. They are
professional President makers, dead broke at
their old business, who hope to make fortunes
in the new trade.
THE MAINE ELECTION.
The Tribune thus editorializes the election
returns from Maine :
The Union success iu Maine is most deci
ded and most gratifying. Whether with rea
son or not, the September vote in this State
is looked upon in the nature of an augury—
and “as goes Maine, so goes the Union,” is a
proverb as old as the Harrison whirlwind of
1840. Our triumph this year is enhanced
by the fact that the day ofelection was stor
my and every way uncomfortable; the very
time when the Democracy makes their boldest
fight, when they expect “silk stocking Whigs”
to be shivering over their stoves at home.—
In spite of these discouragements, and in the
teeth of the most thorough Democratic can
vass ever made in the State, we have achieved
the largest majoiityever given at a gubernit*
tional election —we gain a member of Congress
and have elected about five-sixths of the Leg
islature. In 1862, we had only 6,025 majority ;
now we have about 20,000.-* It will do.
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Northern JVews.
We extract tho following from the summary of
the Richmond Sentinel;
FROM GRANT’S ARMY.
Tho rebels appear to be somewhat confused as to
what to do with Grant’s army before Petersburg.—
They dare not attack his lines in force as that
would bring ©n a general engagement, and their de
feat w*uld certainly be the regult. At the same
time they do not like to lose any of their men with
out an equivalent. The capture of their pickets by
General DeTrobland’s brigade on Friday night, in
censed the rebels so much that they have sine© kept
up a continuous fire on our picket line. It is sta
ted the rebel pickets were asleep wh,en captured;
but it is certain the whele line was surprised.
The Union signal station at Dutch Gap was bom
barded by the rebels on Friday evening. The Union
batteries replied with vigor. The officer at the sta
tion remained at his post during the contest, and
witnessed from aloft the flight of the missiles on
both sides. The station is so constructed that it
would scarcely be possible to inflict a permanent
injury to it by merely artillery firing, although the
occupation might be made exceedingly unpleasant
and dangerous during a bombardment.
CAPTURE OF BLOCKADE RUNNERS.
Two blockade runners have recently been cap
tured off the North Carolina coast. The steamer
A D Vance was taken off Hatteras on Saturday.—
She had onboard 420 bales of cotton, from Wil
mington bound to Halifax. The steamer Elsie was
taken on the sth inst., in lat. 33:10. long. 77:02, with
a cargo of 3,000 bales es cotton, from Wilminrton
bound fqjJs'assau. The latter arrived at this port
yesterdaMfra route for Boston. The vessels and car
goes about half a million. It was report
ed thattlß rebel steamer Edith was about to leave
Wilmington, heavily armed. The fleet are on the
lookout for her appearance.
REPORTED CAPTURE OF QUANTRELL AND DEATH OF
GEN. PRICE.
The capture of the rebel guerrilla and raider,
Quantrell, is announced to have been recently ef
fected in Indianapolis. He was there in disguise,
and was recognized on the street by a refugee.
A report is in circulation at Little Rock, Ark.,
that tho rebel Major Gen. Sterling Price died re
cently at Arkadelphia, of dysentery.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The captured privateer Georgia arrived at Bean
fort. N. C., qb the 9th, and would proceed to Bos
ton.
The steamer Fawn, running upon the Dismal
Canal between Norfolk and North Carolina; was
captured Saturday by a party of rebel raiders and
burned. The crew and passengers were all taken
prisoners.
Xhepo.t at Cairo has been separated from the
District of Western Kentucky and added to that of
Illinois, under Gen. Paine.
Gen. Meredith takes charge of the district of West
Kentucky.
President Davis’ Plantation.
A Yankee chaplain, signing himself James
Peet and writing from Vicksburg, entertains
the readers of the Western Advocate, a relig
ious paper published at Cincinnati, with the
following description of an expedition to the
residence of Preaident Davis. It reads much
like a flunky who had enjoyed the privilege
cf strolling over a gentlemanVpremises in
his absence:
FOURTH Or JULY CELEBRATION.
Some thirty miles below Vicksburg, the
Mississippi river mak9 a very remarkable
bend, forming a peninsula perhaps twelve
miles long and six broad, connected to the
mainland by an iahmus about seven hundred
yards wide. This peninsula is called Da vis’
bend, from the fact of its having been the for
mer residence of thr traitors Jeff, and Joe Da
vis. There is five or six plantations on this
peninsula, which the military authorities of
tho United States have taken into their pos
session, usißg them for the present as homes
for the contrabands. A small number of sol
diers stationed at tho isthmus can easily guard
the place from guerillas, and, while the gun
boats are petroling the river, there is safety.
Hundreds of negroes, mostly old men, women
and children, who have escaped from their
masters, are living on the plantations aban
doned by their owners, and in organized par
ties, under the superintendence of tho mis
sionaries, are cultivating crops that look fine
ly. Government furnishes teams and provis
ions which are to be deducted from tho crops
when harvested.
Oa the morning of the Fourth, an excursion
party, composed mostly of persons connected
in some way with the work among the free
men, went on board a steamboat at Vicks
burg, provided for the» occasion, and took a
free passage down the river to the bend, where
we met the colored people, who came with
carriages, government wagons, and all the old
plantation carts and mules they could muster,
to give us a ride two miles back from the riv
er, to the house of the “Jeff plantation,”
which is the headquarters of Yankee mission
aries and school teachers at Davis’ Bend. I
had not expected to see yards laid out with
beautiful walks and tastefully cultivated
shrubbery surrounding a towering mansion,
where large sums of money had been expend
ed merely to please the eye; but in this I wa3
disappointed. The plantation is indeed a val
uable one, but the shrubbery and flowers
appeared to be mostly of wild and spontaneous
growth. The house is one story high, built
of wood, in Corinthian style, and painted
white. The ground form is like a Roman
capital TANARUS, with its tip points inverted. It has
large verandas both front and back. The
main part of the building is perhaps one hun
dred and twenty feet long and thirty wide, a
good plain, sensible house, worthy of a more
loyal man. The halls and parlors were hand
somely decorated for the occasion with ever
greens and flowers, arranged by the teachers.
On the outside of the building, over the por
tico, in large capital letters, was the following
inscription, namely:
“THE HOUSE JEFF BUILT.”
Arched over the front door ofthe main hall
were letters so arranged as to tell the visitors
that they were
“WELCOME,”
and inside, over the back door of the same
hall, in small characters, were the appropri
ate words:
“EXIT, traitor.”
Numerous Union flags, large and small were
displayed in every direction. The loyal Stars
and Stripes, with eighteen of-the signal color
flags from the gunboat were strung along in
front of the residence, which stands at the
edge of a splendid grove of large live oak trees,
heavy laden with foliage, and the long gray
Spanish moss, so characteristic of this portion
of the Southern States. In this grove, but a
few yards from the arch-traitor’s house, were
held the usual exercises of a loyal Fourth of
Julj celebration. The reading of the Declar
ation of Independence was listened to with
strange wonderment by the colored portion of
the assembly, perhaps for the first time in
their existence. Probably “these truths self
evident” were never before so publicly ex
pressed under those old oaks since our nation
had an existence ; and I wonder if these were
the trees Davis had in his mind some twenty
years ago, when he, in the halls of ©ur Na«
tional Congress, threatened to hang John P.
Hale on an oak tree if he every came down to
the State of Mississippi ?
A sumptuous dinner was served on tables
on the back veranda ofthe house; after which
several patrietic toasts were resorted to, qnd
a song composed for the occasion, entitled
“The House that Jeff Built,” was sung. The
party, after gathering a few flowers and other
little trophies, turned to the river and re -em
barked for Vicksburg.
On the “Joe Davis plantation,” more at
tention had been given to beautifying the
grounds, and the house, which has been de
stroyed by the war, was on© of briok, and is
said to have been much more splendid than
“Jeff’s.”
The Germans Abroad.—The Dutch, high
and low, are investing heavily in Federal
bonds. These are shipped over to Germany
and Holland by the bale, and are purchased
in Amsterdam, Bremen and Hamburg by the
package. The price at first was sixty cents in
the dollar; but it ha3 fallen, with the fall of
greenbacks, to about forty cents. The Ger
mans are said to welcome each fall as a God
send. Far from repining at the fact of having
paid sixty for what is worth only forty, they
take enough at the lower rate to reduce the
average price of the whole to forty-five or
fifty cents, and rejoice in the expectation of
receiving an interest of twelve or fourteen per
cent, on their capital, and a return in twenty
years of a hundred for fifty, or two snug little
German fortunes for one. In fact the Yankees
are in a fair way of shifting their war off upon
the shoulders of the Dutch ; these docile and
credulous people being willing to supply funds
to their treasury and recruits to their armies.
Germany is the most efficient ally of Lincoln
in finance ; and except Cis Atlantic Africa the
most prolific of recruits. Without the negroes
and the Dutch Grant and Sherman would be
in a bad way. The irresistible United States,
with their twenty millions of population, are
unequal to the subjugation of the rebellion,
except by loans from the Dutch and recruits
by the hundred thousand from the German
and African races. —Richmond Examiner ,
Yankee Prisoners.—Last fall Major John
C. Maynard, Quartermaster of this post, hav
ing ne«d of a great number of shoes for the
negroes employed in his department, deter
mined to utilize some of the Yankee skill lying
idle in the Libby. He fitted up a shoe shop
at the Government stable yard on Navy Hill,
and procuring forty odd from
among the Yankee prisoners at the Libby,
who were willing to practice their trade dur
ing their captivity, set them to work. These
men have made all the shoes and boot3 re
quired by the Quartermaster’s Department in
Richmond, and done besides a vast amount of
work for our army and for citizens. The
quality of work turned out at this establish
ment is very superior to any done in the Con
federacy. The Yankees here employed are so
delighted with their condition as to be un
willing to be exchanged ; they desire nothing
better than to live as they are till the end of
the war. They are well fed and comfortably
lodged and clothed. The report of their hap
py condition having spread among the prison
ers at the Libby and on Belle Isle, the arti
zans of all kinds among them have become
anxious to be similarly employed at their
respective trades.
The question presents itself, could not this
disposition on the part of these prisoners be
turned to the advantage of our cause?
* [Richmond Examiner.
The Gen. Marquis de Grouchy, who has just
died at Paris, commenced, a few days before
he died, a libel suit against M. Thiers, for the
statement made by the latter in his “Consu
late and the Empire,” that it was by the fault
of the deceased’s father, Gen. Grouchy, that
the battle of Waterloo was lost.
TELEGRAPHIC.
, BBPOBTB OF MB PRKSS ASSOCIATION.
Entered accordin* to set of Congress in the year
1863.br J. Si hrashkr, in the Clerk’s office es
the District Court of tho Confederate States for
the Northern District of Georgia.
Lynchburg, Sept. 22.
The Virginian has a report es the fight in the
Valley en Monday which is represented to hare
been of great severity. It occurred en the Berry
rille road, two miles from Winchester. The early
part of the engagement is said to hare gene deci
dedly iu our faror, but a flank movement by 1000
of the enemy’s earalry necessitated a retrograde
movement en the part es our forces, which was
perfected iu an erderly manner, without hurry or
confusion. The position te which our army fell
back is Fisher’s Hill, this side es Strasburg, and
is said to be very strong. The losses on both sides
are very severe—enormously se on the part of the
enemy. Gens. Fitz Lee, and Yorka of Louisiana
are wounded—the latter losing an arm, for
mer not believed dangerously. Gen. Rhodes was
killed while selecting a positton for a battery at
Well Gap. A shot struck him behind the ear and
passe 1 through his head, causing death in a few
minutes. All advance on our side except the loss
of ground. The enemy is believed to have num
bered forty thousand, and Grant is reported to
have been in command.
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Northern Items.
Information received in Washington direct from
St. Louis indicates that there is no positive or
organized movement there whose object is to in
terfere with tho prospects of the present Republi
can nominees. Hints are thrown out that a plan
is iu progress in the West te affect the above ob
ject with Chase as their candidate for President
and Frank Blair, Jr., as Vice. There will "per
haps be a secret convention held ia some place not
publicly designated, which will further this move
ment in oppositioh to the Baltimore nominations.
The publication of the Memphis News was sus
pended by Gen. Buokland, for publishing an ar*
tide against military organization, and insinua
ting the acceptance of bribes by officers in com
mand of the Surgeon’s Inspecting Board. The
author of tho article, Mr. Synot, is in Irving
Prison.
The Chicago Times, speaking of the retirement
of Secretary Chase, says: He retires unmasked as
a polished hypocrite—a pretender, who has im
posedmpon public credulity—the bast of a corrupt
and imbecile administration, which, in three short
years, has inflicted upon our flag and nation dis
grace and shame which outweighs their past glo
ries, and which has mortgaged the future to pro
cure the desolation which reigns over the present.
The friends of Mr. Lincoln profess to feel every
confldene that before Presidential election
they will be able te say that he has offered the
very best terms of peace that can be made with
honor to the loyal States and the Government, and
if these are rejected the opponents of the adminis
tration will be classified as peace on any terms
men.
The N. Y. Herald devotes a ponderous leader te
showing that Louis Napoleon, with a view to
make secure the thrones of Europe, is bending
his genius and resources to the establishment of
two empires to be constructed out of the United
and Confederate States, to b# governed as Mexico
is.
More Peace Negotiations. —The Washington
Chronicle of Sept. 10, speaks thus about further
peace negotiation in progreass :
We hear to-day, on the best authority, that
Horace Greeley has again entered into correspon
dence with George N. Sanders, assuring him that
commissioners will be quickly sent, if desired, by
Messrs. Clay & Holcombe, to Richmond, to nego
tiate for peace without conditions precedent. The
wary George, having had his fingers burnt once,
has consulted the above gentlemen, and has writ
ten to Horace that Mr. Lincoln must withdraw
his letter, “To whom it may concern.” He proba
bly will, as it is known that a great many leading
men of the Republican party-have been hero lat
terly urging that peace commissioners be sent to
Richmond.
Locomotivb Explosion.— The locomotive at
tached to the passenger train on the Mobile and
Ohio Railroad, which left the city Sunday evening,
exploded its boiler at Sidney Station, making a per
fect wreck of the engine, and instantly killing the
engineer.
. The concussion was vary severe, the report be
ing heard distinctly a distance of ten ®r twelve
miles.
Ths explosion took place ju3t as the train was.
starting from Sidney. The locomotive was sepa
rated from the tender and lifted entirely from the
track, the upper part of the boiler being blown off
and carried a considerable distance. The unfortu
nate engineer, Mr. James Odom, wa3 fotind lying
on his back, some twenty five feet from the track,
and about ten feet from the engine. Two of the
firemen, who were standing near the locomotive,
were blown a distance of ten feet, but not seriously
injured.
Some of the trucks of the tender were thrown off
the track, and two or three rails were torn up ; oth
erwise the material damage, beyond the loss of the
locomotive, was slight.
During the night an engine was sent up from
Whistler, and the passenger train carried forward
at an early hour Monday morning.
We learn that Mr. Odom was a married man, and
that his family reside in Enterprise, whither his
body was taken by the up passenger train.— Mobile
Reg.
What the War Has Done. —The Macon Con
federate thus philosophies on the evils of the
war:
This war has developed the accursed depravity
es human nature. In the South it has nmnasked
the swindler, the speculator, the extortioner, in
all their hideous deformity. It has taught avarice
to thirst like a vampire for the blood of poverty.
It has made many forgetful of their obligation to
God and their fellow man. In the Mirth it has
emboldened the harlot to walk in the sphere of tho
pure, the beautiful, the innocent. It has done
away with the necessity of darkness to mantle the
deeds of tho mid-night robber and assassin. It
has fired the breast of thousands, with the spirit of
the first born “Cain,” prompting them to slay
without cause, and to murder without provocation.
It has induced vice to brand virtue with its own
shame, without the least semblance of truth. It
has given sin a two-feld sway over the passions of
men, causing them to blaspheme the good and
pure. It has verified man’s inhumanity te man,
in a cruel disregard of humanity. It has develop,
ed corruption in high places, fraud and rascality
in low ones. It has brought reproach en the vir
tuous, wise and good. It has unloosened the
hinges of society, and let forth the demons of mur
der and rapine, to gloat upon the victims they
assail. In short, it has emboldened the devil to
eome forth and assume possession, as if his reign
were already established.
Found a Mare’s Nest — The Author of Junius’
Letters. —Mr. H. Coleby writes to the'Londoa Tel
egraph :
It may not be uninteresting to many of your
readers to know that whilst arranging some papers
for Mrs. Ryves, preparatory t® her case coming on
in November next, in the Probate Court, I acci
dentally found, among other manuscripts, the fol
lowing :
London, January 3, 1772.
Lord Chatham hereby agrees to indemnify Dr.
James Wilmot for all the risks and dangers, that
the said Dr. J. Wilmot may be subject to in the
continuation of the ‘‘Letters of Junius.” Author
izing the payment of £l7O to J. W. on account of
printing and publishing the work.
[Signed] CHATHAM.
PL.AI¥TATIOJ¥ FOR SALE
THE subscriber offers to sell his plantation, near
Colbert’s Station, on the Mobile k. Girard Rail
Road, 20 miles below Columbus. It comprises 740
acres of Land—a large proportion cleared; a com
modious dwelling house and good out-buildings.—
For further information inquire of Capt. IID Coth
ran. in Columbus, or of the subscriber on the prem
ises. A. R. SMITH.
sep2l 5t
TO REWT.
A LARGE DWELLING, in the centre part of the
city, containing fire rooms, double kitchen, ne
f'o and smoke-houses sufficient for a large family.
or particulars apply at the tin shop under Cook’s
Hotel. spl9 lw*
S3O RowardL.
VT EGRO boy CHARLEY; about 25 years old, yel
1* low complexion, hair nearly straight, below or
dinary intelligence ; left Mr. Nat. Thompson’s near
Box Springs, Talbot county. I bought him of a
Mr. Brown, a refugee from Mississippi, who now
resides in Tuskegee, Ala. He originally came from
Charleston, 9. C. A suitable reward will be paid
for his delivery at this office, or in any safe jail and
information sent to me at this office.
JAMES M. RUSSELL.
Columbu‘s Ga„ aug 1 ts *
THE CITY.
T- J. JACKSON LOCAL EDITOR.
Concert Postponed.—The benefit intended for
the Ladies Aid Society, by the Tennessee Bald,
did not come off last night in consequence of in
clement weather. We are requested te state that
the Concert will come off to-night with the pro
gramme intended for last evening.
Hbavt Rains.—We had two es the heaviest
falls of rain yesterday afternoon that have occurred
in this section for a long time.
Exchanged Prisoners. —Several hundred of
our prisoners recently exchanged by Gen. Sherman
arrived here yesterday afternoon from Macon. We
learn they are en route for their respective com
mands.
Confederate State* Tax
I¥otice.
All tax payers in the 23d collection district of
Georgia, who fail to make return and pay the tax
due by the 15th of October next, must expect the
penalty prescribed by law.
All persons doing a Registered business in the
district, who fail to comply strictly with the law,
will, from and after the Ist day of October next,
have to suffer the penalty of the law.
My duty compels me to carry out the law with
all its rigor.
E. f. kirksey,
Collector, 23d dist. of Georgia.
sep23 It
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School Wanted.
BY a Teacher with nine years experience and
good testimonials. Applicants will please state
ages and attainments of proposed pupils. Would
prefer a class of young boys in Latin Grammar,
Arithmetic, <fee.
Terms: One hundred dollars a month and board
ing. Address M. GREENE,
Yongesboro’, Russell co., Ala.
sep23 eod 3t*
I¥otice !
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.
Notice!
Headquarters Georgia Reserves,
Macon, Sept. 18,1364.
General Orders 1
No. 17. j
I. Tho commanding officers of Regiments and
other organizations in this command will, upon the
reception of this Order, publish in one or more
newspapers of tho State the names ofall officers and
men of their respective commands, absent without
leave, offering the usual reward of thirty dollars
for the apprehension and delivery of each one at
their respective posts. A similar publication will
be made at the beginning of each month, and all
persons brought in will bo ordered before a General
Court Martial, to be organized for that purpose, to
be tried as deserters.
11. District and county enrolling officers will use
every effort in their power to aid in the vigilant
and effective execution of this Order.
111. Absentees will have ten days to return to
their respective commands, after which no further
indulgence will be allowed.
| By command of
HOWELL COBB,
«■ Major Genera!.
R. J. Hai.lktt, A. A. G
sep2l 6t
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AUCTION SALES
By .Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
IOESXILJABXjE
RESIDENCE AT YQNOESBORO!
At Auction !
AN TUESDAY, September 28th, at 10 1-2 o’clk,
V we will sell in front of our store,
A Very DESIRABLE RESIDENCE
♦and FARM, at Yongesboro Depot, Rug
sell county, Ala., and at present owned by
C. C* Yonge, Esq.
The Dwelling has 4 rorns; good outhouses, all
nearly new; one hundred and forty acres good land
attached —nearly all fresh; good markot garden:
hne orchards, with over 1,000 selected Fruit Trees,
and a Vineyard of about 1,000 choice Grape Vines.
sep22 S3O
By Ellis, LivaitgstoEi & Cos.
ON FRIDAY, 23d of September, at 101-2 o’clock,
we will sell in front of our Auction Room,
A VERY FINE CLOSE CARRIAGE!
late style, and nearly new.
A No. 1, TWO HORSE WAGON
and Harness.
TiOt CUBA CANOE SYRUP !
A Negro Man !
34 years old, field hand.
IS BOXES VERY FINE TOBACCO,
800 Lbs. BALE ROPE,
Saddles and Bridle*.
CHEST CARPENTER’S TOOLS.
Needies, Clothing, Hats, Shoes, Navy
Pistols, &c., &c.
sep2l 3t $24
By Ellis, Livingston to.
j\. T A-TTCTIOHSr. '
ON FRIDAY, 23d September, at 10 1-2 o’clk, we
will Rent, for cash, in front of our store,
The Desirable Residence, East ol the
Muscogee Rail Road Depot, now occu
pied by B. R. Fulsom—formerly owned
by Judge Abercrombie.
Possesion Ist of October.
sp2l td sls
Bv Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
200 Gr-A-LLOHSTS
PIE (ATAMA GRAPE BRAM!
A VERY FINE ARTICLE.
For 3ale in quantities of 10 Gallons and upwards.
ag3o ts
if GOODS!! HEW »«:!!
GOODRICH & CO.,
BROAD STREET.
now opening a splendid assortment o.
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