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DAILY TIMES, J. W. WARREN - -4 Editor. * v 1 V 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. mga » 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. M « »m 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. - 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. * ♦ ♦ 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 ♦ ♦ ♦ 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 ——— 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. - H