Georgia Historic Newspapers

    COLUMBUS Ti^ILS
Published Daily (Sunday* exeepted) at the rate of
$5.00 per month, or sls tor three month*.
No subscription revived for a longer term thrnn
hree month*.
advertising RATES :
Advertisements inserted for $2 00 per square for
•aeh insertion.
Where advertisements are inserted a month, the
oharge will be S3O per square.
Announcing candidates S2O, which must invariably
paid in advance.
Change <ll Schedule.
Ovric* EKaiKXBR AND SUPERINTENDENT, 1
Charleston and Savannah Railroad, >
Charleston, June 7,1864. j
; vN THURSDAY, June 9,1864, and until further
1/ notice, the Schedule of the Passeuger train will
be as follow, via:
Leave Charleston 9.43, a. m.
Arrive in Savannah 3.40, p. m.
Leave Savannah 3.30, a. m.
Arrivoin Charleston...; 1.15, p. m.
This Train makes direct connections, going north
and south, with tho Northeastern Railroad at Char
leston. and the Central Railroad at the Junction.
H. S. HAINES,
June 14tf Engineer and Superintendent.
Change ol Schedule.
ON and after Sunday, June 19th, the Trains on
the 'uscogeo Railroad will ruq as follows:
PASSENGER TRAIN :
Leave Columbus 6 45 P. M.
Arrive at Macon .'. -J 25 A. M.
Leave Macon 3 16 P. M
Arrive at Columbus 4 25 A. XL.
FREIGHT TRAIN :
Leave Columbus ; 5 00 A. M.
Arrivo at Columbus 4 55 A. M.
W.L. CLARK,
mar 19 ts Supt. Muscogee R, R.
Through to Montgomery.
NEW SCHEDULE.
MONTGOMERY & WEST POINT
RAILROAD COMPANY.
COLUMBUS, August 27,1864.
ON and after August 27th. the Passenger Train 9n
the Montgomery and We*t Point liaiiroad. will
Leave Montgomery at 8:00 a. m.
Leave W est Point at . 7:10 a. m.
Arrive at Columbus at 5:32 p.m.
Leave Columbus at 5:50 a. m.
Arrive at Montgomery at 3:00 p. m,
Arrive at West Potnt at 4130 p, m.
Freight 'Lain leaves Columbus at 8:40 a m.
Arrives at 8:27 p m
D. 11. CRAM, Sup’t & Eng.
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MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
Gikard, Ala., Aug. 22, 1864.
AN and after this date Trains on this Road will
* t Run Daily (Sunday excepted,) as follows:
Passenger Train.
Leave Girard at 3 00 p. m.
Arrive in Union Springs 7 30
Leave Union Springs 5 35 a. m.
Arrivo in Girard nt 10 00
Freight Train.
Leave Girard at 4 00 a. in.
Arrivo ift Girard at 6 00 p. in.
B. E. WELLS.
aglStf Eng. ASjipT.
Sale.
UNDER and by virtue of an order of the Probate
Court, of Russell county, the undersigned will
sell on Saturday, the 24th day of September next,
at the late residence of Jesse Cay. deceased,
all the household and kitchen furniture belonging
to the estatoof said Jesse Cay, August 31sr, 1864.
At the same time and place a house will bo rented
containing three rooms and all necessary out-build
iugs and one negro woman hired.
J. L. CLAY, Adm’r.
Sp 2! 4t*
SI,OOO Keward!
STOLEN, from my residence, in Wynnton, on the
night of tho 19th inst., a Chesnut Sorrel Horse,
about. H 1-2 hands high and 14 years old; he has on
each side, just back of the foie shoulder, tho marks
of a blister, which looks very much like a burn; lit
tle white on the left hind leg; gay, stylish looking
horse and a fast trotter, and had on when taken
shoes all around. I will give the above reward for
the horse and thief, with proof to convict, or SSOO
for tho horse. WM. S. BALFuUR.
tiE3.Ma.con Telegraph copy two weeks, and send
bill to this office. sp2o2w*
SI,OOO He ward!
Office C. S Nanai. Ikon Works,
Columbus, t?a., Sept. 10, ’64.
ANE thousand dollars will bo paid for the appre
‘ » hension and delivery to me of negro boy WM.
KUHN. This boy was employed in the Roiling
Mill as heater—is3syears ot age; about 5 feet 7 in.
high; light brown color and Indian features; was
dressed in light coat, light pants ands It hat.
lie came from the Iron Works at Etowah, Ga., and
is supposed to be making his way back to that place.
J II WARNER,
Chf. Eng. C S N
sp2l6t Commanding.
SSO Reward.
LEFT my plantation near Glennville, Alabama, on
Sunday last, 11th inst., a negro man by the name
of GREEN, who belongs to Col. Samuel Thompson,
near Florence, Ala.
Green is about 33 years old; nearly white; straight
hair; slender fr me; near six feet high; inclined
to stoop in the shoulders; short round face, and
talks slowly. He left my premises without provo
cation, and I have reason to believe that he is at
tempting to make his way to North Alabama, into
the enemy’s lines. He is acquainted about Colum
bus, Ga.. having been hired out there by Col. ffm,
Bryan, or 6’cl. Sam’l Thompson, for several months
last winter, and may tarry therein quest of employ
ment, I wd! pay fifty dollars reward for his appre
hension and delivery to me, or confinement in some
jail where I can get him.
sep2l ts JNO. F. TREUTLEN.
500 Negro Jlen Wanted!
Nitre and Mining Bureau, )
llkadq’rs Mining Division, No. 2, V
Selma, Ala., Sept. 13, ’O4. )
I AM desirous of Hiring Five Hundred Negro Men,
■■for the Bibb Iron Works, located on the Alabama i
and Tennessee Rivers Rail Road, fifty miles North !
of Selma, 150 South of Rome and 70 West of Mont
gomery. I am paying for able-bodied men three
hundred dollars per annum, feeding and clothing
them. One woman will be hired to every ten men,
to cook ana wash for them. There is on the place a
hospital with a regular surgeon, who takes charge
of all the sick. If the enemy threatens, the negroes
can be moved West through an inaccessible coun
try. Apply to W P Herring, La Grange, Ga.. or
WM. RICIIA/fDSON HUNT,
w , Lieut. Col. Cbmd’g. I
seplT i m
S3OO Reward.
\V^ L k® for the apprehension of our boy
1 ' Iranian, lie is about 24 years ol t; 6 feet high;
E b Tf,, and weighs about 180 pounds. Three
;<i , l is s . vvi *be I ,a *d f" r bis confinement in
s ?. th , at we can get him, or five hundred
delivery at the
EAGLE FACTORY.
Eufaula Spirit of the South, Quincy Dispatch, Al
bany Patriot, Macon Telegraph, LaGrange Repor
ter, and Hamilton Enterprise, publish one month
and send bills to Factory.
sep2o 1 m
SSO Reward,
Superintendent’s Office,)
Muscogee R. K. Company, >
Columbus, Ga., Nept. 16, ’64. } j
A REWARD of SSO will be paid for the delivery j
to me for each of the following negro men:
Charles—Black; about 25 years old; quick spo- j
ken; weighs about 150 lbs.; about 5 feet 10 or 11 in. ;
high.
Hill ard—Black; about 30 years old; 5 ft 9 inches j
high; weighs Usor 150 lbs.; blacksmith by trade.— 1
Probably will go to Jones county wh re his wife is. i
. W. L. CLARK. I
gpL 1m Superintendent.
ss© Reward.
I WILL pay the above reward for 808, a black j
i boy, about 24 years old. He has been out three I
at tour weeks, and is supposed to be lurking about
7y c^f f ’ JNO. H. NASS.
SI,OOO Reward.
A CHUNKY, heavy set, black boy by the name
of WILLIAM, about 24 years old, left Colum
feus on Sunday morning last. I am confident he
was taken off by somo white man. I will pay the
above reward for the negro and thief, with evi
dence to convict, or I will pay two hundred and
fifty dollars for the negro delivered to me in Colum
bus. The boy came from Virginia about two years
ago, and says he is a sailor. I think they left Co
lumbus on foot and took the train at some station
(dose by. J. H. BASS,
sepl-tf.
P. S.--I learn, since the above was written, that
the boy lett Oolumbus on the Opelika train, on
Sunday morning, in company with a small white
»an that limped, and that they were going to West
Point. J.H. B.
NOTICE.
To Planters and Others !
T WILL EXCHANGE Osnaburgs. Sheeting and
dui t rD ?’ f° r Bacon, Lard, Tallow and Beeswax. I
« *° f uad a > Ro>nett A Cb’s old stand, where I
am manufacturing Candles and Lard Oil for sale.
. 0 „ L S. WEIGHr.
June 2 ts
Vol. XL
J. W. WARREN & CO. Proprietors . j. W. WARREN, Editor
SPECIALN OTICES
Notice!
Headquarters Georgia Reserves,
, Macon, Sept. 18,1864.
General Orders 1
No. 17. /
I. The commanding officers of Regiments and
other organizations in this command will, upon the
reception of this Order, publish in one or more
newspapers of the 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 be ordered before a General
Court Martial, te 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 General.
R. J. Hallett, A. A. G.
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Notice!
Muscogee Rail Road Company,
Columbus, Ga., Sept. 20,1864.
Stockholders can receive the Dividend of $lO 00
per share, declared August 13th, 1864, on and after
Thursday the 22d inst.
J. M. BIVINS,
sep2o lw Sec’y and Treas’r.
Notice.
Headquarters, 24th Militia Dist.
Columbus, Ga., Sept. 16, 1864.
The Captains appointed in the different Districts
will sen i to these Headquarters all men who have
net reported at Macon. By order of Gen. Wayne.
B. A. THORNTON, ADC.
pr N. W. Garrard, Ctipt & E O.
Office at AfcGehee’s Auction House.
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Battle-Field Relief Association
of Columbus, Ga:
All who aro disposed to contribute articles neces
sary for the relief of the sick and wounded in the
Array of Tennessee, are requested to leave them at
Goodrich & Co’s store by One O’clock, P. M. ev
ery Tuesday and Friday, when they will be for
warded to and dispensed by our Committee there.
W. H. YOUNG, Presd’t.
C. G. Holmes, Sec’y. ag23tf
MATT. K. EVA AS,
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
No. 64, Commerce Street,
MOBILE, ALABAMA.
WILL sell on Commission every description of
Goods, Negroes and Produce of all kinds.
sj2o lm ■
Sterling: Exchange for Gold
I WILL exchange Sterling for Gold, at par.
J. F. WINTER.
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STERLING EXCHANGE!
4 FEW Hundred Pounds of Sterling Exchange
A lor sale in sums to suit purchasers by
agl6 tt BANK OF COLUMBUS.
FOR SALE !
320 Acres of Land on the Mobile &
Girard Kail Road,
FORTY MILES from Columbus, Georgia,undone
and a half from Station No. 5; about 180 acres
opened, and cabins for about 30 negroes, with good
water, gin house, Ac. Apply to Messrs Ellis, Liv
ingston & Cos., for terms.
sps lm* D C FREEMAN, Jr.
WANTED!
K AAA LBS. ofTALLOW, for which a liberal price
cLUI/U will be paid. Apply to
F. W. DILLARD,
sp7 ts Major and Q. M,
SELECT SCHOOL.
MRS. W S MARBLE will re-open her SchooJ, on
Forsyth street, Monday, Oct. 3d.
Tuition SIOO 00 Der Scholastic year.
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BLACKSMITH WANTED!
QTEADY EMPLOYMENT and liberal wages.
iJ Apply at
seplO 2w EAGLE FACTORY.
~ FDR SALE. '
A HOUSE and LOT, situated North of the North
-TV Commons on the corner of Troup and City Mill
streets: Said Lot contains half acre, with a good
new dwelling house with two rooms; kitchen with
two rooms; a very superior well of water—hard
ly equalled in the vicinity of the city, and a large
garden. Everything new and in good order. For
lurthqr particulars apply to me on the premises.
spl3 lm . J. J. BORING.
FOR SALE!
A GOOD Saddle and Harness Horse.
Apply to
R. B. MURDOCH,
sep 2-ts or, at this office.
Confederate Knives and
Forks.
WTE are manufacturing at our Works in this city
YY a good article of KNIVES AND FORKS in
large quantities, which we offer to the public low
for CASH.
—ALSO —
Shoe Makers and Saddlers Tools,
of every description. Nhoe Pegs, Steel Trusses,
Spatulas, Butcher Knives, &c., &c.
The attention of Quartermasters, Commissaries,
and Medical Purveyors, throughout the Confeder- •
acy is specially invited to the whom we
desire to make contracts.
REFERENCES:
Major F. W. Dillard, Columbus, Ga.
Surgeon W. H. Prioleau, Macon, Ga.
Surgeon R. Potts, Montgomery, Ala.
HARRISON, BEDELL & CO.
Columbus, Ga., September 1, 1864. _
Mobile Register, Augusta Constitutionalist, and
Charleston Courier please copy one month and send
bill to this office.
Shoemakers’ and Saddlers’
rB
••';• B
retH
THE Exercises of this Institution will be resumed
1 on the Ist Monday in October, under the contin
ued direction of its present able instructor, Iter.
Carlisle P. B. Martin- , .
Terms of admission will be made known before
the session commences. _ _ ...
E. S. GREENWOOD, Presd t.
D. F. WILLCOX, Sec’y.
sp!2 ts Board of Trustees.
PLAXTATIOiV FOR SALE
THHE subscriber offers to sell his plantation, near
■ Colbert’s Station, on the .Mobile Sc Girard Rau
Road, 20 miles below Columbus. It comprises <4O
a'res of Land—a large pro ; ortion cleared ; a com
modious dwelling house and good out- buildings.—
For further information inquire oi ftipt. H D Coth
ran, in Columbus, or of the subscriber on the prem
ises. A. R. SMITH.
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Columbus, Ga Monday Morning, September 26,1864.
Saturday Evening.
Divine Service,
We are requested to give netice that the i?ev, Mr.
Reid, of Mississippi, will preach in the Presbyterian
church, to-morrow morning and afternoon.
Arrival of the President and Suite. —His
Excellency the President, accompanied by Gens.
Cobb, and Elzy. and Col. Lee and Hon. 8., H. Hill
arrived here this A. M. The President is the
guest of Hon. Martin J. Crawford, and his suite
have taken rooms at the Perry House. We pre
sume an opportunity will be given our citizens du
ring the day to pay their respects to our distin
| gnished guests.
! Since writing the above we have been requested
i to give notice that there will be a meeting of citi
zens at 5 ( o’clock this afternoon at St. Lake’s
Church for the benefit of the Atlanta exiles.—
Among the distinguished speakers expected to be
present are President Davis and Hen. B. H. Hill.
We hope that all business will be suspen !ed and
that there will be a general turn out.
Thr Concert To-Night. —The First Tennes
see Brass Band propose to give oue more and the
last of their series es elegant concerts to-night, at
Temperance Hall. The company have been out
from their command three or four weeks, and dur
ing that time have turned over to the various Re
lief Cojnmittees of the army, between twelve and
fifteen thousand dollars, the nett earnings of their
labors. They propose in the winding up of their
furlough to take a benefit for themselves, and we
hope it will be a substantial one, as wo conceive
that they well deserve it, both on account of the
good they have conferred on others, and their own
intrinsic merits as musicians. Those who have
not yet heard them, should by all means do se to
night. Let them have a full house. Wo have no
hesitation in pronouncing the First Tennessee
the best Brass Band that has been in our city for
many years.
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The following list of casualties in the Rail
road accident at Fort Valley yesterday morn
ing, we copy from this morning’s Sun ;
List of Casualties. — H C Brasset, 4th La.,
Cos. E, severely wounded ; JC Lovengood, 12th
Miss., ditto ; S T Meadows, 2d Ga., Cos B,
slightly; W A Knurer, 18th Tenn., Cos F, do. ;
W S Parswell, 29th Ala., Cos G, severely ; G
S Yerger, 28th Miss., Cos D, slightly; A D
Slayle, 58th N. C., Cos B, severely ; S G Ashley?
7th Ark., Cos G, ditto ; J M W Bards, Ist Ark.,
ditto ; W A Sanders, 40th Ga., Cos G, killed ;
J D L Grubbs, 3d Miss., wounded ; Daniel
Mason, 29th Tenn., ditto; Lt B E Curry, 13th
Tenn., Cos F, ditto; AJ Bu3hart, sth Tenn* Cos
I, killed ; Samuel T Lasuere, Salem,
county, Ala., ditto; L H Darden, 15th Ark.,
ditto; Lt Thomas Kinley, 20th Tenn., Cos. G
ditto ; J B Reid, 6th Ky., Cos B, slightly ; T L
Savage, 38th Ala., Cos C, ditto ; Corporal P T
Coonard, 37th Ala., Cos E, ditto : John Patter
son, 6th Ala., Cos F, severely; J M Tey, 7th
Texas, Cos K, ditto; T J McAlpin, 46th Miss.,
Cos H, ditto; It H Marchville, (colored) La-
Grange, Ga., ditto ; J E Robuck, 29th Miss.,
Cos A, left arm broke and his servant killed ■
one killed, name unknown; William Chan
celly, 30th Georgia, Company A, severely ; G
P Copeland, 41st Georgia, Company I, ditto ;
GW Hall, 30th Tenn.,, Cos H, ditto; Sergeant
J H White, Andersonville, ditto; A J Rich
ardson, 11th Tenn., Cos A, ditto; W J Morton,
50th Ala., Cos B, ditto; J B BlaekmaD, sth Ky.,
Cos F, ditto; RJ Hudson, Massonburg’s Bat.,
ditto ; J F Hunter, Ist S C Artillrey, ditto; G
P Eldred, Charleston, S C, ditto ; B Shirlev,
Ist Ga State Guards, Cos B, slightly wounded.
Wounded—White, 31 ; do. Black, l. Total
32.
Killed—White, 5 ; Black, 1. Total killed
and wounded 38.
Gen. Forrest.
We find that rumors prevail in all the lead
ing cities, that this officer has been promoted
to the rank of Lieutenant General, but as jet
no official announcement of such an event has
been made. That it i3 the almost universal
wish of the people, the press, and, we think, it
can be safely added, of the army, that he
should b,e so rewarded, and thus placed in po
sition to be untramelled by inferiors in mili*
tary prestige who are his superiors in rank,
there is no doubt. He has not only won the
distinction, bat his services are needed in
another sphere, is the verdict of all ; and the
wonder is that official favoritism—if not pre
judice—has so long withstood the pressure
that has demanded the bestowal of the reward
%f eminent merit. •
We learn that on Tuesday evening it was
currently reported in Macon that Gen. F. had
been placed in command of all the cavalry of
South and West—a position similar to that
held by Gen. Hampton, in Gen. Lee’s depart
ment. We would be pleased to learn this was
so, as it would afford us reasonable ground to
hope for greater efficiency in this branch of
the service. — Montgomery Appeal.
A recent English work on National History con
tains the following :
The small pox having spread fearfully amongst
the monkeys of South America, Or Pinckard,
•Secretary to the Bloomsbury Street Vaccination
Society, was struck by the idea of arresting its
MKier progress. Vaccination was, of course, the
of staying the plague, and his scheme for
|H introduction was singularly ingenious. He
Hid two or three boys hand and foot and then
HHrinaled them in the presence of an old monkey,
was observed to be closely attentive to the
He then left a young monkey, with
matter on the table, and beside it a lancet,
that it might not cut too deep by a pro-
piece of steel. The Doctor witnessed the
|Klt from a neighboring room; the old monkey
BHist the young one down, bound him without
and vaccinated him with all the skill of a
||HT'hilst Prentice at Louisville fiings oat his flag
|§H McClellan and Pendleton, Greelv at New York
|Hgs out his for Father Abraham, and say* this
■out
we fly the banner of Abraham Lin
| cola for the next President, choosing that rather
than disunion and a quarter of a century of war,
or the Union and political servitude which our op
ponents world give us.
The Better World.
H all our hopes and all our fears,
Were prisoned in life’s narrow bound;
If, travellers through the vale of tears.
We saw no better world beyond ;
Ob, what could check the rising sigh ?
What earthly thing could pleasure give?
Oh, who would venture, then, to die,
Or who would venture, then, to live g
A Rupture—The Exodus.
Gentlemen from the front, who left Macon
Tuesday evening, advise us that all intercourse be
tween Gens. Hood and Sherman, under the truce
arrangement for the purpose of allowing time to
sen 1 the citizen* of Atlanta beyond the Federal
lines, was abruptly terminated on Sunday last. By
the terms of the agreement the exodus was to be
allowed to go on until daylight Wednesday morn
ing. We are informed, however, that the last in,
tercourse took place on Sunday, and that General
Hood made the first interdiction. The reason as
signed in army circles was that it had been satis-
I factorily ascertained by our commanding general
; that Sherman was employing his time in making
j such dispositions of his forces as would give them
a decided advantage should he determine npoa an
j immediate aad active campaign in Georgia, hold-
I ing Atlanta as his base. This was thought to be
contrary to the spirit, if not the text of the armis
tice arrangement, and hence the rupture.
The last of the exiles came out on Sunday.—
Our informant enjoyed opportunities of convers
ing with many who were compelled to abandon
their homes by the inexorable victor, and although
hejearned they had been treated considerately in
being allowed to bring off their personal effects,
and afforded assistance in doing so in many in
stances, they were universally subjected te all the
contumely and insult that could be bestewed upon
a people supposed te be subjugated. The tales of
outrage in this particular are general and shew
the spirit that actuates the cravens of the tempo
rarily victorious army.
The members of the fire brigade left in the city,
who had been performing local guard duty, and
all such as were liable to eonscription and had
been enrolled and detailed for railroad and other
public service, were considered as prisoners of war,
and arrested. A few of this class succeeded in
running the blockade and make such report.—
Whether those arrested were* sent off as ordinary
prisoners, or paroled, we have not heard stated.
The banished consist almost exclusively of old men
and women and children.
Appeal.
[From the Clarion.]
Wheeler’s Raid.
From a gentleman who was with Wheeler,
we gather some particulars of the late raid
from which so much was expected. Wheeler
left Covington, on the Macon and Augusta
Railroad, on Thursday, the 11th of August,
and passed through Lawrenceville, crossing
the Chattahoochse at Brown’s bridge. Han
non’s brigade, of Kelly’s division, then moved
over by Shakerack and struck the Georgia
State railroad, about Marietta, capturing
twelve hundred and fiftj*bead of cattle, which
were brought off in safety to Athens. Mar
tin’s brigade tapped the road between Mari
etta and Dalton, but the damage done is not
known, while Hume and Kelly pushed on to
the Hiawassee river near Benton, and there
remained for the other troops to come up.
Hume and Kelly next moved to the track in
the vicinity of Dalton, tearing up and burning
the tic-sand breaking the rails. The enemy
appeared here and some slight skirmishing
occurred, but Wheeleris business just then be
ing to destroy railroads and not men, he drove
the Yanks into stockadersat Dalton and went to
work on tho Cleveland road, leaving Williams
to finish tho work on the State road from Tun
nel Hill to the suburbs of Chattanooga, and
then on the road between Chattanooga and
Cleveland. Hume did the work well oa the
East Tennesee road from Calhoun to Athens.
At Calhouu a small body ot Yankees ap
peared, with whom we skirmished while
the track was being destroyed. Finding it
impossible to cross the Tennessee river at Cot
ton Ford, as was costemplated, (Vheeler moved
east, passing around Knoxville and crossing
the Holston at Strawberry Plains. A Yankee
force was met here, which tried to check our
crossing, but the Texans, who crossed the
stream under a heavy fire, soon forced the
Yankees to seek shelter in the stockade, when
the whole command started for Clinch river,
which was orossed between Kingston and Em
ery’s Mountain by way of Crossville, Bon Air
Spring and Sparta. The sth Tennessee reg
iment and 9th Tennessee Battalion were sent
to destroy the Tunnel in the Cumberland
moumains, near Winchester, but finding it of
solid stone, left, after tearing up the railroad
track for a short distance. Wheeler furloughed
Dibbreii’s and a large portion of Ashby’s Ten
nessee command for a few days, and took the
old wagon road for Nashville, sending a small
force to McMinnville. On the 3lst of August,
he struck the Nashville and Chattanooga rail
road near Smyrna and destroyed it for sixteen
miles, while Harrison’s brigade of Texun3 en
gaged a cavalry force of Yankees, supported
by infantry. The work having been comple
ted, Wheeler witndrew on the afternoon of the
Ist inst., in the direction of the Nashville and
Franklin road. At the latter place, on the
following day, (Friday, 2d,) a portion of Kel
ly’s division and Harrison’s brigade encoun
tered a force of the enemy, and severe fight
ing commenced, lasting for about two hours.
The Yankees attempted to cut our train off
from the Franklin and Columbia pike, but
failed.
As soon as the wagon train got safely past,
Wheeler resumed the work ofburning the rail
road leading from Columbia to Decatur, which
was pretty effectually done as low down as
Campbell’s Station. At Campbellville, on the
morning ot the sth, Martin’s brigade, under
General Allen, had a sharp fight with a force
of Yankees who endeavored to cut off oar
train. As soon as it was safe, we withdrew
in the direction of Lawrenceburg. From thi3
point we marched to Lexington and thence to
Florence, on the Tennessee river. At Shoal
Creek, eight mile3 from Florence, a party of
Yankees came in sight and commenced skir
mishing, but soon gave up the chase. On the
9th and 10th Wheeler bade farewell to Ten
nessee, and once more bivouacked on his na
tive heath, Alabama, where he will no doubt
rest his men and recruit bis horses.
In the fight at Franklin, on the 29tb, Gen.
Kelly received a wound which proved fatal.
ourlo3S in men was quite small.
When leaving Clinch river, Williams’ and
Robinson’s brigades took a road leading to
Alexandria —a place some twenty miles dis
tant from Lebanon—and have not been heard
! from since. The Tennessee troops, furloughed
fora few days to visit their families, were not
seen afterwards. To Gen. Williams wa3 as
signed the duty of destroying the Georgia
State Road, Why be failed to do it effectually
our informant was anable to state.
Convention of Cojoiissionkbs. —The Con
vention of Siate Commissioners under the Im
pressment Act of Congress, hag been in ses
sion in this city for three days past. Six States
•re represented, namely: South Carolina,
Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, Alabama and
Mississippi. Hon. Ex-Governor J. J. McCrae,
of Mississippi, is President. The object of the
meeting ii consultation as to seme uniformity
of prices iu the several States. We have not
learned any of their proceedings. From the
high character of the Commissioners, we be
lieve that they are laboring to do justice to
all parties concerned. The Commissioners
of Virginia and North Carolina are not pres
ent ia this Convention having been requested
by the Secretary of War to hold a separate con
vention.
During Paul Jones’ desperate battle with the Se
rapis, he was obliged to call his men from their
guns to extinguish a fire. The captain of the Sera
pis hailed him, and asked if he had surreadered.—
“No,” was Jones’ reply. “I have just begun te
fight” Let such he the answer to all Sherman’s
messages of peace.
$5.00 Per Month.
A Brilliant and Profitable Feat.
The most important capture made by the
1 Army of Northern Virginia (General Lee’s,)
since the war began, is that effeted last week,
by General Hampton—of 2500 bead of beef
cattle, from the rear of Grant’s army. They
( are worth more to ns than six times the nuna
; ber of Yankees. The reader may estimate for
I himself how long such a supply will feed Lee’s
! army. We do not choose to furnish the Yan
kees data for cyphering out his numbers, by
j such a calculation. The successful execution
• of such a feat demanded great wariness, skill
and boldness. The point from which the prize
wa3 taken was, from the route pursued by
| Gen. Hampton, beyond the central rear of the
; enemy. To make bis way unobserved to such
j a point, and bring off so large a number of
j these slow-moving creatures, repelling and
! defeating the assault made for their recapture,
| was an achievement that entitles Gen. H. and
his gallant followers to the grateful thanks of
I the country. The declining fame of Grant
| will suffer a still further collaps* when this
| most damaging prank in his tear is known to
I his people. Doubtless, in addition to the cat
tle, quadrupedal and human, horses, arms,
&c., brought away by Gen. Hampton, he ob
tained information relative to the enemy,
which General Lee will know how to turn to
account, as he did with the information
brought from McClellan’s rear in 1862, by the
lamented Stuart.— Richmond Whig, 19 th.
“We don’t want your negroes, or your hors
es, or your houses, or your lauds, or anything
you have, but we do want and will have a just
obedience to the laws of the United States.'’
— Sherman's Letter to Mayor Calhoun .
Was ever such cool impudence couched in
so few words? And this, too, from a Major
General in the United Statea, fighting under a
Government whose open and avowed object is
the abolition of slavery ! A General whose
peculiar mode of warfare is the stealing of
negroes and horses, and the appropriation and
deva3tatian of houses, cities, towns, and vil
lages ! At one time he sends forth a band of
raiders with orders to “sieze and possess’’ all
the negroes and horses in the land, and coolly
tells you, “we don’t want your negroes, or
your horses.” A conqueror, he enters your
chief city, and his first act is to drive from
their homes old men, women and children,
and all non-combatants, appropriating the
entire city for the use of himself and soldiery,
a thing never heard of in the annals of war
before, and quietly turns around and gracious
ly informs the Mayor of the city, “we don’t
want your negroes, or your horses, or your
houses, or your lands, or anything you have.”
And such is the fate of Atlanta, and such,
oh, Macon, and Columbus, and Savannah, and
Augusta, will be your fate should you allow
this boastful conqueror to enter your proud
streets. Shall it be so ? Better let every man
perish, and every habitation be levelled with
the ground.— Augusta Register.
If the platform of the Chicago Convention wa3
not sufficiently explicit for the satisfaction of the
Black Bepublican leaders, they can certainly find
no room for doubt in General McClellan’s letter of
acceptance. His position is defined with the frank
ness of a soldier. It is, in a word, that “the
Union is the one condition of peace.”
General McClellan proposes to conduct tho war
in a civilized manner. He will not make R.an abo
lition war. These are the only points in which he
differs from Mr. Lincoln. Whether even in theso
there would be much practical difference,is not cer
tain. But admitting that, if elected, the war would
be conducted as all modern nations conduct’ war,
and that slavery would be unmolested, still wo
should have the war. Now, in regard to slavery,
it seems impossible to make our position clear to
the Northern understanding. For the ten thous
andth time we repeat, wo are not fighting for sla
very. The right to say whether wo shall retain
J that species of property, sold to us for a fair con
sideration by the New Englanders and Old Eng
landers, i3, it is true, a right we cannot concede.
The property itself is not more sacred in our eyes
than any other kind of property. There was a
time before the days of abolition, when, in the bor
der States, wo were seriously discussing the ques
tion efits profitableness. For aught we know, it
might have ceased to exist by our own act before
this time but for abolition interference. We are
Hot fighting for thia property now, but we have the
right to say what we shall do with our property,
and, among other rights, that is openly assailed
by Mr. Lincoln. Ho denies us all rights, this in
cluded ;he denies us, in short, the right of self
government, which is all, and includes all, we are
fighting for. We are fighting, not to hold slaves,
but to be freo ourselves.— Rich. Dispatch.
John H. Morgan,
Room —mother earth I—a1 — a little room
To lay another hero down,
Who perished in the very bloom
Os h;S renown.
No more among his native bills
llis voice will echo war’s alarms;
His trumpet’s blare no longer thrills —
His gleaming arms
We cross upon his coffined breast —
Our hearts are crushed! we yield him now
To thee, old earth, to give him rest,
The while we bow
In groaning anguish to the blow
That drew the life-blood from his heart,
And tore the flood -gates of our woe
So wide apart.
Room in the earth to lay him down—
Room in our hearrs to shrine his fame—
Room in the temple oi renown —
To write his name!
Who Gen. McClellaa Is.
To the Eaitor of the Richmond Dispatch.
I noticed in your papei> a few day* ago a para
graph from tho Charleston Courier, stating that
Gen. McClellan was born in Columbia, S Carolina.
It is a mistake. General McClellan wa3 born in
the city of Philadelphia. He is about forty years
of age, and consequently in the prime of life. He
is a graduate of the United States Military Acad
emy at West Point. His father. Dr. Geerg« McClel
lan, w ;s for many years a professor in Jefferson
Medical College, Philadelphia. He was very aris
toc/atie in his bearing and manners, a gentleman of
the old school, a staunch Democrat in his politics,
and a warm friend to the South. No professor in
the medical schools of Philadelphia was more pop
ular with the Southern students than Or. McClel
lan sare, perhaps, eld Dr. Chapman. General Mc-
Clellan is well bred. He graduated at West Point,
and has always been a great favorite with Southern
officers in the old army. While President Davis
was Secretary of War under the Pierce Administra
tion he selected General McClellan to visit the
Crimea during the war between England, France
and Russia in an official character. His report to
the War Department, on the military position of
the European combatants, and on the new engines
ol war breugh into use by them, was held to be an
able document, and was ordered te be published.
His family is ene of the most distinguished in
Pennsylvania. He ranks with such families 5,3 the
Reid’s, Cadwallader’B, Patterson’s, Binny’s, Chap
man’s, the Dallas’s, and others, the very cream ts
Pennsylvania society. Flits.
Carlyle, in his history of Frederick the Great,
says:
“Battle being once seen to be inevitable, it was
Frederick’s plan not to wait for it, but to give it.
* * * * Military people
say: ‘Some countries take six months, some twelve
to get in motion for war; but in three weeks Prus
sia can be across the marshes and upon the throat
es its enemy,’ which is an immense advantage to.
little Prussia among its big neighbors. * *
* * * ‘Some countries have a
longer sword than Prussia, but none can unsheath it
so soon.’ ” -
Was it not this dexterity of movement that dis
tinguished Napoleon above all other generals, and
which has given Stonewall Jackson a name above
all other names in the history of this revolution ?
Brown, better known as A. Ward, showman,
gays ; “If lam drafted I shall resign. Deeply
grateful for the unexpected honor conferred
upon me, I shall feel compelled to resign the
position in favor of some more worthy person.
Modesty is what ails me. That s what keeps
me under.”
Ahon<j mu British Provinces.—
In aa article advocating a confederation of
the British Provinces in America, the Hal
ifax (N. S.) Express says :
Our desire is to be strong, not that we be
aggressive or overbearing, but that we may
ba able at all times to hold our own, and to
hold it with honor. This is, perhaps, the
very strongest points of onion. We hav# but
to look at ourselves, at New Brunswick, and
even at Canada, and then look across the bor
der at a people, ,the same, indeed, in blood
and lineage, but who would have no scrapie
to eogulph us whether we would or would not,
into their Union, if they had the opportunity.
They make no secret of it, so that we are left
in no manner of doubt in the matter. Now
twenty years ago there may have existed a
tort es floating feeling here and there through
out the colonies towards annexation te the
Republic. That has completely
passed away, and from Sarnia to Capo Sable
there is neither party, nationality nor creed,
that would not look upon such a thing not
only as a national misfortune and degrada
tion, as tantamount to the loss of liberty and
honor, but who would not fight against it to
the last dollar and to the last pound of pow
der. But the grave question presents itself,
what measure of successful resistance could
these individual and separate colonies present
to an enemy who can afford to use up some
thing like 100,000 men in half a campaign,
in one out of five or six distinct military de
partments, who can lose 6,000 or 7,000 troops
in an unsuccessful assault, and take the mat
ter almost as coolly as if it were a joust or
tournament. If every able-bodied man in
Novia Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Ed
ward Island, were organized to-morraw, they
would scarcely present a body numerically
equal to that which Grant has lost since he
crossed the Rapidan in May, till the morning
after the last assault oa Petersburg. It is
calculated that were every man capable of
bearing arms enrolled iu these British Prov
inces, we would have close upon a half a mil
lion of men, and if thus united and deter
mined, our subjugation would be as hopeless
as that of the boutb,
Mobile. —The Washington correspondent
of the Chicago Times writes ;
Your readers will remember that when it
was found out is spite of all our boasts and
brags that we could not take Charleston, the
country was coolly informed that we had no
appliances by which the obstructions in Char
leston harbor could be removed l And since
that time no actual attempts have beeu made
to take that city. It is possible that, in spite
of the vaporing and boastings of the adminis
tration in case of Mobile, the President has
reoeived some private advices from that city
to the effect that the obstructions in the harbor
there are of tho same nature as those at Char
leston, and that, either owing to that or sopie
other equally cogent reason, the capture of
Mobile is by no means certain ; for it is now
equally whispered about iu official circles
that, after all, “the mere possession of the
city of Mobile is a matter ot minor importance
and no great solicitude need be felt whether
the city is captured jusc now or not.” What
does this mean? If you see it in the official
organs, depend upon it it is a feeler, put forth
to see how the people will take a repulse at
Mobile, and the abandonment of the whole
expedition.
From Missouri.— Cairo, Sept. 3. —lt is to-day
credibly reported by parties from Charleston, Mo.,
that a rebel force, 5,000 strong, under Shelby, has
mado its appearance at, Chalk Bluffs, 20 miles from
Charleston, and assumed a threatening attitude.—
; One thousand of them are said to be about to cross
the swamp and attack Charleston, while the remain
der dsmonstrate against Capo Girraudeau. Taeir
object scorns to bo to interfere with tho execution
of the draft, and conscript, murder, rob and stoal.
A detachment of the 7th Tennessee Cavalry,
under command of Lieutenant Murray, had a fight
with a gifbrrilla force near Union City. The fight
was with the sabres, and tho rebels were dispersed
with five killed and fifteen captured. We lost
none.
Tun wan in Arkansas. —Cairo, .Sopt. I.—Ac
counts from White river say the country along the
river is alive with guerrillas, who fire into all the
passing boats. . •
On the 23i ult., Joe Shelby’s rebels attacked tha
Federal forces guarding the railroad between
Duvall’s Bluff and Little Rock, and captured near
ly all ot tho 54th Illinois, occupying three stations
on the road. Col. Mitchell is reported killed.
Shelby’s force is threatening Duvall’s Bluff and
St. Charles.
The rebel Gen. Buford is preparing for another
raid into West Kentucky. His advance guard has
entered McCracken county.
Ox Foote. —The Charleston Courier makes the
following short comment upon the letter of our
Tennesseee statesman, which, to say the least of it,
is not amiable :
"•dfter an unusually long silence —which the peo
ple suffered with exemplary p itience— and nothav
mgany opiiortunity of rising, as usual, for a speech,
He*ter Skelt'r Foote has written a long letter on
things in general. Very many persons have not
read it, and some that have read found nothing in
it better than the conclusion which could very ea
sily have been brought noarer to the opening.”
A “Preacher General.” Brigadier General
Lowery, of the Army of Tennessee, is a member of
tho Clerical profession—a fact which is not perhaps
i generally known. We have a letter dated Jones
boro, Ga., September 15th, which says:
We have had the pleasure of listening to a very
impressive and truly eloquent sernaon from Bri{.
Gen.. Lowery. The General is a man of superior
acquirements, and i3 always heard with increasing
interest. A faithful soluier of the cross, as well as
of his country, devout and brave, he unites more
than any living man, perhaps, those cardinal vir
tues of mind and heart which combine to make the
noble, true, conscientious, Christian warrior.
We clip the following paragraph from tho Thibo
daux, (La.,) Sentinel, a Yankee sheet.
“A negro having purchased at a very high price,
a lice ise from the sheriff to keep a drinking saloon
for persons of c< lor, had his stock confiscated, and
shop closed on the first day by tho Provost Marshal,
but by much txlkiag succeeded to obtain permission
to contiuue his business. So now we have, within
our town, a refre-hing salooa expressly for negroes;
where thoso pe sons can buy whiskey by the glass.
Decidedly, this institutioa is oae of the blessings of
civil government, for the military orders consent
ing the sale of liquors were heretofore very severe.
Notice.
C. S. Arsenal,
Columbus, Ga., Sept. 23, 1864.
An intelligent man with a wife, without incum
brance, can hear of a desirable situation, by imme-
at this Arsenal.
F. C. HUMPHREYS,
sep24 Iw Major and Ex. Off,
RAN AWAY!
ON Friday, the 16th inst., my negro bey Gilbert,
aged about 21, dark skin, sfeet 6 or 7 inches high,
weighs about 130 pounds; had on when he left a
dirty cotton shirt, pair soldiers pants. Scotch cap
with visor, and a good pair of shoes. He came from
about Louisville, Barbour county, Ala., and may
have gone in that direction.
A liberal reward will be paid for his arrest and
confinement in any jail where I can get him.
sep24 6t F C HUMPREYS.
Confederate States Tax
Notice.
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 4t
$2200 Reward..
LOST!
DURING the evening of the 22d a POCKET
BOOK, containing about two hundred dollars
and paoers valuable only to the owner. The finder
can retain the Money by returning the papers to
the Office of Lee Hospital.
sep23 2t W. A. ROBERTSON,
and Enquirer copy.
BUGGY FOR SALE!"
AN excellent Buggy and Harness for sale. Ap
ply at this office. sep2l ts