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COLUMBUS TIMES
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Change of Schedule.
Office Engineer and Superintendent, \
Charleston and Savannah Railroad. V
Charleston, June 7,1864.)
. \N THURSDAY, June 9,1864, and until further
\J notice, the Schedule of the Passenger train will
be as follow, viz: ,
Leave Charleston 1 9.45, a. m.
Arrive in Savannah .. . 5.40, p. m.
Leave Savannah 5 30, a. in.
Arrive in Charleston 1.15, p. m.
This Train makes direct connections, going north
and south, with the Northeastern Railroad at Char
leston7an<l the Central Railroad at the Junction.
11. S. HAINES.
June 14 tf_ Engineer and Superintendent.
Change of Schedule.
ON and after Sunday, Juno 19th, the Trains on
the Muscogee Railroad will run as follows:
PASSENGER TRAIN:
Leave Columbus 6 45 P. Al.
Arrive at Macon 3 25 A. M.
Leave Macon 8 10 P. M
Arrive at Columbus 4 25 A, A..
FREIGHT TRAIN :
Leave Columbus 5 00 A.
Arrive at Columbus 4 55 A. A'
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 August27th. the Passenger Train on
the Montgomery and West Point Railroad will
Leave Montgomery at 8:00 a. m.
Leave WcstPoint at 7:10 a. m.
Arrive at 6’olumbus at 5:32 p.m.
Leave Columbus at 5:50 a.m.
Arrive at Mon'gomery at 3:00 p.m.
Arrive at West Potnt at 4130 p. m.
Freight Train leaves Columbus at 8:40 a m.
Arrives at 8:27 p m
1). H. CRAM, Sup’t Sc Eng.
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MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD.
CH.4.V013 Or SCI!KIM I.E.
Girard, Ala., Aug. 22,1864.
ON and after this date Trains on this Road will
Hun Daily (Sunday excepted,) as follows:
Passenger Train-
Leave Girard at 3 00 p. m.
Arrive in Union Springs 730 "
Leave Union Springs 5 35 a. m.
Arrive in Girard at 10 00 “
Freight Train.
Leave Girard at 4 00 a. m.
Arrive in Girard at 6 00 p. in.
B. E. WELLS,
aglß ts ■ Eng. & Sup’t.
Adii2imstrj*i©r ? s §ale.
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 estate of said Jesse Cay, August 31st, 1864.
At the same time and place a house will be rented
containing three rooms and all necessary out-build
ings and one negro woman hired.
J. L. CLAY. Adin’r.
SI,OOO ISeward!
STOLEN, from my residence, in Wynnton, on the
night of the 19tb inst., a Chesnut Sorrel Horse,
about 14 1-2 hands high and 14 years old; he has on
each side, just back of the fore-shoulcler, the 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. T will give the above reward for
the horse and thief, with proof to convict, or SSOO
for the horse. \VAI. S. BALFOUR.
ti'».Macon Telegraph copy two weeks, and send
bill to this
SI,OOO Reward !
Office C. 6 Nanai, Iron Works,
Columbus, On., Sept. 10, ’64.
ONE thousand dollars will be pai! for the appre
hension and delivery to me of negro boy WM.
KUHN. This boy was employed in the Rolling
Mill as healer—is3syears of age; about 5 feet 7 in.
high; light brown color and Indian features; was
dressed in light coat, light pants and felt hat.
He camefroui 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.
1 EFT my plantation near Glennville, Alabama, on
L Sunday last, 11th inst., a negro man by the name
of GREEN, who belongs to Col. Samuel Thompson,
near Florer.ee, Ala.
Green is about 33 years old; nearly white; straight
hair; slender fr.ane; near six feet high; inclined
to stoop in the shoulders; short round face, and
talks slowly. Ho 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, Uu„ having been hired out there by Col. Win.
Bryan, or Col. Sam’l Thompson, for several months
last winter, and may tarry therein quest of employ
ment, I w 11 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 Men W«intecl!
Nitre and Mining Bureau, )
lleadq’rs Mining Division, No. 2, V
Selma, Ala., Sept. 13, ’G4. )
j AM desirous of Hiring Five Hundred Negro Men,
1 for the Bibb Iron Works, located on the Alabama
and Tennessee Rivers Rail Road, fifty miles North
of Selma, 150 Soath of Rome and 70 West of Mont
gomery. I am i aying for able-bodied men three
hundred dollars per annum, feeding and clothing
them. Ono woman will be liirod to every ten men,
to cook and wash for them. There is on the place a
hospital with a regular surgoon, who takes charge
of all the sick. If the enemy threatens, the negroes
can be moved West through an inaccessible eoun
try. Apply to W P Herring, La Grunge, Ga., or
WM. RICHARDSON HUNT,
Lieut. Col. Cbind’g.
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#«>©© Reward.
WILL be paid for the apprehension of our boy
i V Truman. He is about 24 years oil, G feet high;
very black, and weighs about ISO pounds. Three
hundred dollars will be paid for his confinement in
some jail so that we can get him, or five hundred
dollars for his delivery at the
EAGLE FACTORY.
Eufaula Spirit of the South, Quincy Dispatch, Al
bany Patriot, Macon Telegraph, LaGrauge Repor
ter. and /Hamilton Enterprise, publish one month
and send bills to Factory.
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£»>© Reward,
Superintendent's Office,')
Muscogee K. R. Company, >
Columbus, Ga., Nept. IG, ’o4. )
\ REWARD of SSO will be paid for the delivery
* » l 0 me for each of the following negro men :
Charles— Black; about 25 years' old; quick spo
ken ; weighs about 150 lbs.; about 5 feet 10 or 11 in.
high. .
HiiPard—Black; about 30 years old; 5 ft 9 inches
high; weighs 1450 r 150 lbs.; blacksmith by trade.—
Probably will go to Jones county wh re his wife is.
W. L. CLARK,
spl? lui Superintendent.
ss© Reward.
J WILL pay the above reward for 808, a black
1 boy, about 24 years old. lie has been out three
or four weeks, and is supposed to bo lurking about
he city. JNO. 11. RASS.
Jy 4 ts
sl,©©© Reward.
A CHUNKY, heavy set, black boy by the name
of WILLIAM, about 24 years old, left Colum
bus on Sunday morning last. I am confident he
was taken off by some white man. I will pay the
above reward for the negro and thief, with evi
dence to c< nvict, or I will pay two hundred and
fifty dollar? for the negro delivered to me in Colum
bus. The boy came from Virginia about two years
ago, anil says ho is a sailor. I think they left Co
lumbus on foet and took the train at some station
close by. J. H. BAbS.'
sepl-tf.
P. S. —I learn, since the above was written, that
the boy left tblumbus on the Opelika train, on
Sunday morning, in company with a small white
man that limped, and that they were going to West
Point. J.H. B.
DKTQI7XQ-ID.
To Planters and Others !
T 'MbL EXCHANGE Osnaburgs, Sheeting ana
J -ii ? rn f> tor Bacon, Lard, Tallow and Beeswax. I
will oo found at Robinett & Cb’s old stand, where I
am manufacturing Caudles and Lard Oil for sale.
L. S. WRIGrHT.
June 2 ti
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Vol. XL
J. W. WAR REA & CO. Proprietors.
*
SPECIAL NOTICES
Notice! *
Headquarters Georgia Reserves,
Macon, Sept. 18,1864.
General Orders >
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 of all 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 ot each month, and all
persons brought in will be ordered before a General
Court Martial, to be organized for that purpose, to
be tried as deserters.
11. Distriot 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, 1861, 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 send to these Headquarters ail men who have
not reported at Afacon. By order of Gen. Wayne.
B. A. THORNTON. A D C.
pr N. W. Garrard, Oapt & E 0.
Office at AfcGchee’s Auction House.
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Battle-Field Relief Association
of Columbus, Ga.
All who are disposed to contribute articles neces
sary for the relief of the sick and wov’ led in the
Army of Tennessee, are requested to L ive them at
Goodrich & Co’s store by One O’clock, B. 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. R. EVANS,
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
No. 64, Commerce Street,
MOBILE, ALABAMA.
WILL sell on Commission every description of
Goods, Negroes and Produce of all kinds.
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Sterling Exchange for Gold
f WILL exchange Sterling for Gold, at par.
I 1 J. F. WINTER.
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EXCHANGE!
FEW Hundred Pounds of Sterling Exchange
for sale in suns to suit purchasers by
ag!6 ti BANK OF COLUMBUS.
FOR SALE !
32© Acres of Laud ou the Mobile &
Girard Kail Road,
TJORTY MILES from Columbus, Georgia, and one
r and a half from Station No. 5; about 180 acres
opened, and cabins for about 30 negroes, with good
water, gin house, &c. Apply to Messrs Ellis, Liv
ingston & Cos., for terms. „
s P S lm* D C FREEMAN, Jr.
WAITED!
jr AAA LBS. of TALLOW, for which a liberal price
will be paid. Apply to
F. W. DILL ARD,
sp7 ts Major and Q. M,
SELECT SCHOOL.
MRS. \V S MARBLE will re-open her School, on
Forsyth street, Monday, Oct; 3d.
Tuition SIOO 00 ner Scholastic year.
sepl3 2w_
BLACKSMITH WAITED!
QTEADY EMPLOYMENT and liberal wages,
kl Apply at *
scplO 2w _ EAGLE FACTORY.
FOR SALE.
4 HOUSE and LOT, situated North of the N >rth
J i 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 tho vicinity of the city, and a large
garden. Everything new and in good order. For
further particulars apply to me on the premises.
sp!3 lm J. J. BORING. _
FOR SALE!
i GOOD Saddle and Harness Horse.
A Apply to
R. B. MURDOCH,
sep 2-ts or, at this office.
ConJedeiale Knives and
Forks.
\\TE are manufacturing at our Works in this city
VV a good article of KNIVES AND FORKS in
largo quantities, which we offer to the public low
for CASH.
-ALSO-
Shoc Makers and Saddlers Tools,
of every description. Nhoe Pegs, Steel Trusses,
Spatulas, Butcher Knives, &c., «tc.
The attention of Quartermasters, Cbmmissaries,
and Medical Purveyors, throughout the Confeder
acy is specially invited to the above with whom we
desire to mako 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 1.15G4.
Mobile Register, Augusta Constitutionalist, and
Charleston Courier please copy one month and send
bill to this office.
Shoemakers’ and Saddlers’
TOOLS.
I HIE UNDERSIGNED having commenced the
1 manufacture of the above named articles in this
city, are prepared to fill orders tor the same.
Office on Angle street, a few doors above C. S.
Hospital. HARRISON, BEDELL & CO;
Reference— Maj. F. W. Dillard.
Mobile Register, Mississippian and Augusta Con
stitutionalist, please copy ono month and send bills
to this office,
mar 30 ts
nrnuulM
FOR SALE !
WE have for sale 49 reams ot Letter Paper, and
2,000 small Pocket Blank Books, at Wholesale
or Retail. Paper, SSO per Ream: Blank Books, $l5O
- - ' ,|I; -|1M .r, i[ L
Wins up H.tllHl!
THE Exercises of this Institution will be resumed
1 on the Ist Monday ia October, under the contin
ued direction of its present able instructor, Rev.
Carlisle P. B. Martin-
Terms of admission will be made known before
the session commences. _
K.S. GREENWOOD, Presd t.
D. F. WILLCOX, Sec’y.
spl2 ts Board of Trustees.
I>I.A\TtTI«> FOR SALE
THE subscriber offers to sell his plantation, near
1 Colbert’s Station, on the Mobile & Girara Rail
Hoad 20 miles below Columbus. It comprises .40
acres of Land—a i irge proportion cleared; a com
, modious dwelling house and good out-buuuings.
For further information inquire ot Capt. il U cotu
! ran, in Columbus, or of the me^rem
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Columbus, Ga Tuesday Morning. September 27,1864.
Monday Evening’.
Loco motion. —We were shown this morn
ing by Mr. John Cailabnm, of Montgomery, an
artificial leg, which, for symmetry and adap
tion for the use designed, excels anything of
its kind we have ever seen. We understand
that it will to o • exhibition at the office of
Dr. Douglass ; Si. Surgeon of the Post, at three
o’clock tiiis a-'ternoon, and that all physicians
are invited to be present.
Special Correspondence of the Times.
The Scene changed. The nem Base — Future move
ments — The election in the Army dec., dec.
Lovejov Station, Sept. 23rd.
The little bell has sounded underneath the stage,
the members of ibe Oohestra have come out one
by one and taken their feats again, the baton of
the ieuder flourishes iu the air, and us the green
curtain is rising op, the scene with the accompa
nying blasts trom cornet and bogle burst open to
our view.
Your correspondent has been very much like a
parquette lounger, lor several and although
he had a pretty good i lea of what was going on
behind the curtain, during the entr’acte, his good
sense forbade him from wishing to blot any of the
secrets of the green room. Now, however, that
the curtain 13 up he can chat with you as he would
do to the gentleman in the cushioned nex t
to him.
I advised you to keep upon the lookout for an
important move. This move has been accomplish
ed, or at least is being accomplished. The army
has moved a distance of some thirty-five miles to
the westward, without the least attempt of moles
tation on the part of the enemy, principally from
the fact that he know nothing of our change of
base, and only discovered it upon last Tuesday.
A lady exile from Atlanta who came through
yesterday, states that Shetman was completely
taken aback when the news reached him, and de
clared that if Hood forced him out of Atlanta he
would leave the city in ashes. Yesterday the
right of our army, under Goneral Hardee, rested
upon West Point Railroad at Palmetto, and our
left under General Lee, rested near Chattahoochee
river in the direction of Campbelton.
It was supposed that Hood intended to push for
ward, if possible, to Blue Mountain, and establish
a base there, and from that point threaten Sher
man’s rear, but the fact of our army’s stopping in
its present position to fortify, would seem to look
as if the object of tho move wa3 merely to protect
our Alabama and Mississippi'lines of communica
tion. I know that our pontoon trains have gone
forward to the front, and I hope they are to be
used in crossing the river to Blue Mouataiu or
some other point in that direction.
With Furrest to co-operate with our army, I
predict a brilliant fall campaign notwithstanding
the Yankee’s claim to have one hundred and twenty !
thousand meu.
News from Atlanta would seem to indicate that
McClellan was gaining ground in the army. At,
some impromptu elections held in the various corps
the votes are said to have been very nearly equal.
Fremont’s name is never mentioned.
Gen. Thomas, who is a favorite with the army of
the Cumberland, is strongly in favor of McClelland. I
The cause assigned for the increasing popularity of |
McClellan is that, they believo if he is elected j
peace will be made at once. If Lincoln is elected
they have no hopes for peace.
It was reported last night that the flag of truce
would be extended for five days longer, in order to
allow exiles to pass out into our lines. A large
number having been unable to get through up-to j
Wednesday evening.
Several hundred of our exchanged prisoners,
belonging mostly to Lewis’ Kentucky and Govan’s
Arkansas brigades, have passed down the road.—
Some of thorn came direct through from Nashville j
and say thatWheeier did but little permanent inju- i
ry to the road. *
They state that the Southern ladies ia Nash- ;
villa were very kind to them, but that they were
closely watched by the Yankee officials.
The Chattanooga Rebel which was being putt
lished quite successfully at Griffin, has been obli
ged to pack up and enter a box car once more.—
Gov. Brown has succeeded in getting most of the
State cotton away from Griffin. It amounted to
about 40,000 bales when Atlanta was evacuated, j
There was about 4000 still left there up to day j
before yesterday.
The town is being depopulated rapidly, each
train of cars bearing away hundreds. The hospi- j
tals have been moved to Albany, Georgia. What j
do you think of the position of Augusta and
Macon? OUTLINE. '!
The New York correspondent of the London
Times continues to represent that the demand
for peace is on the increase in the North. He
says: ‘-The next month promises to be an
eventful one in both politics and war. and pos
sibly also, in finance. The star of peace is in
the ascendant. The war is an admitted fail
ure. The North has undertaken what it can
not accomplish. It hast already paid more
than it likes in men, money, character and I
substantial blessings of liberty and prosperity, |
and hesitates to make further sacrifices. Were ;
McClellan to come bravely out to declare em
phatically that he was for peace and compro-*
mise. no other candidate could stand before
him. The issue would be between him and
Fremont, and the triumph of either would, in
ail probability, bring compromise if it did not
bring Union."
The Georgia State Troops. —We regret
exceedingly (says the Memphis Appeal) to
observe a disposition on the part of some of
our cotemporaries to ridicule the Georgia t
State troops, because they were permitted a |
furlough The cause assigned for the step
taken by Gov. Brown was not only valid one.
but it was as evident then as it is now that
there would be no urgent demand for their
services during the period for which they were
furloughed. The enemy was too badiy crip
pled to more ahead—his troops needed rest
as much as ours. And we would add that
the good conduct of these meu under the
serene service they were called upon to per
form during the siege, excited the admiration
of all. and secured for them not only the
praise of their own veteran commander. Gen.
Smith, but also that of Gen. Hood, as was
manifested on several occasions. When the
i Georgia State troops again take the field, they
will bb found lacking in but few of the quali
ties of the trfie soldier. _ \ ~
[Reported for the Daily Telegraph Sc Confederate.]
Speecb of President Davis iu
Macon.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends and Fel
low-Citizens :—lt would have gladdened my
heart to have met you in prosperity instead of
adversity. But friends are drawn together in
adversity. The son of a Georgian, who fought
through the first Revolution, I would be un
true to myself if I should, forget the State in
her day of peril.
What, though misfortune has befallen our
arms from Decatur to Jonesboro', our cause
is not lost. Sherman cannot keep up his long ,
line of communication, and retreat, sooner or
later, he mu3t. And when that day comes,
the fate that befel the army of the French
Empire in it3 retreat from Moscow, will be
re-enacted. Our cavalry and our people will
harrass and destroy his army as did the Cos
sacks that of Napoleon, and the Yankee Gen
eral, like him, will escape with only a body
guard.
How can this be the most speedily effected ?
By the absentees ot Hood’s army returning to
their posts. And will they not ? Can they
see the banished exiles, can they hear the wail
of their suffering country-women and child
ren, and not come ? By what influences they
are made to stay away, is not necessary to
speak. If there is one who will stay away at
this hour, he is unworthy of the name of a,
Georgian. To the women no appeal is neces
sary. They are like the Spartan mothers of
old. I know of one who had lost all her sons,
except one of eight years. She wrote me that
she wanted me to reserve a place for him in
the ranks. The venerable General Polk, to
whom I read the letter, knew that woman
well, and said that it was characteristic of
her. But I will not weary you by turning
aside to relate the various incidents of giving
up the last son to the cause of our country
known to me. Wherever we go we find the
heart and hands of our noble women enlisted.
They are seen wherever the eye may fall, or
the step turn. They have one duty tb perform
—to buoy up the hearts of our people.
I know the deep disgrace felt by Georgia at
our army falling back from Dalton to the in
terior oi the State ; but I was not of those
w!jo considered Atlanta lost when our army
crossed the Chattahoochee. I resolved that
it should not, and I then-put a man in com
mand who I knew would strike an honest and
manly blow for the city, and many a Yankee's
blood was made to nourish the soil before the
prize was won.
It does not become us to revert to disaster.
“Let the dead bury the dead.” Let us with
one arm and one effort endeavar to crush
Sherman. lam going to the army to confer
with our Generals. The end must be the de
feat of our enemy. It has been said that I
had abandoned Georgia to her fate. Shame
upon such a falsehood. Where could the
author have been when Walker, when Polk,
and when Gen. Stephen D. Lee was sent to
her assistance. Miserable man. The man
who uttered this was a scoundrel. He was
not a man to save our country.
If I knew that a General did not possess the
right qualities to command, would I not be
wrong if he was not removed? Why, when
our army was falling back from Northern
Georgia, I even heard that I had sent Bragg
with pontoons to cross into Cuba. But we
must be charitable.
The man who can speculate ought to be
made to take up his musket. When the war
is over, and our independence won, (and we
will establish our independence,) who will be
our aristocracy ? I hope the limping soldier.
To the young ladies I would say, when choos
ing between an, empty sleeve and the man who
had remained at home and grown rich, always
take the empty sleeve. Let old men remain at
home and make bread. But should they know
of any young men keeping away from the ser
vice, who cannot be made to go any other
way, let them write to the Executive. I read
all the letters sent me from the people, but
have not the time to-reply to them.
You have not many men between IB*and 45
left. The boys—God bless the boys—are as
rapidly as they become old enough going to
the field. The city of Macon is filled with
stores, sick and wounded. It must not be
abandoned, when thteatened, but when the
enemy comes, instead of calling on Hood's
army for defence, the old men must fight, and
when the enemy is driven beyond Chattanoo
ga, they too can join in the general rejoicing.
Your prisoners are kept as a sort of Yankee
capital. I have heard that one of their Gen
erals said that their exchange would defeat
Sherman. I have tried every means, conceded
everything to effect an exchange to no pur
pose. Butler the Beast, with whom no Com
missioner ofExcbange would hold intercourse,
had published in the newspapers that if we
would consent to an exchange of negroes, all
difficulties might be removed. This is report
ed as an effort of his to get himself white
washed by holding intercourse with gentle
men. If an exchange could be effected, I
don't know but that I mjght be induced to
recognize Butier. But in the future every
effort will be given a3 far as possible, to effect
the end. We want our soldiers in the field,
and we want the sick and wounded to return
home.
It is not proper for me to speak of the num
ber of men in the field. But this I will say,
that two-thirds of the men are absent—some
sick, some wounded, but most of them absent
without leave. The man who repents and
goes back to his commander voluntarily, at
once appeals strongly to executive clemency.
But suppose he stays away until the war is
over and his comrades return home, when ev
ery mans history will be told, where will be
shield himself? It i3 upon these reflections
that I rely to make men return to their duty,
bat after conferring with our Generals at
headquarters, if there be any other remedy
it shall be applied.
I love my friends and I forgive my enemies.
I have been asked to send reinforcements from
Yirginiato Georgia. In Virginia the disparity
in numbers is just as great as it is in Georgia.
Then I have been asked why the army sent to
the Shenandoah Valley was not sent here? It
was because an armv of the enemy had pene
trated that Valley to the very gates of Lynch
burg, and Gen. Early was sent to drive them
back. This he not only successfully did, but,
crossing the Potomac, came well nigh captur
ing Washington itself, and forced Grant to
send two corp3 of his army to protect it. This
the enemy denominated a raid. If so. Sher
man's march into Georgia is a raid. What
would prevent them now, if Early was with
drawn. penetrating down the Valiev and put
ting a complete cordon of men around Rich
mond ? I counselled with that great and grave
soldier, General Lee. upon ail these points.
Mv mind roamed over the whole field.
With this we can succeed. If one-half the
men now absent without leave will return to
duty, we can defeat the enemy. With that
hope lam going to the front. I may not re
alize this hope, but I know there are men
there who have looked death in the face too
often to despond now Let no one despond.
Let no one distrust, and remember that if
genius is the beau ideal, hope is the reality.
The President then alluded to the objects
ior which the meeting had assembled, and ex
pressed the hope that the refugees and exiles
would be well provided for. His Jremarks
were often interrupted by applause.
$5.00 Per Month.
J. VV. WARREN, Editor
From tho Telegraph A Confederate.
Speech of Hon- Ben. H. Hill.
According to promise we publish below the
speech of Hon. B. H. Hill at the Baptist Church on
Friday last. After Mr. Davis had concluded re
peated calls were made for him. He came forward
and said:
Ladiis and Gentlemen; There is one truth that
X would impress upon tho minds of every Georgian,
and that truth can be uttered in a very few words:
That is, there is no greater virtue in a courageous
people than firmness in disaster. When Hannibal
overrun Italy and approached the gates of the
Eternal City, tho Rtmans had only 180,000 men
left: 60,000 of these men were slain in the battles.
The victorious conqueror marched to the very
gates of the city and spit over its walls. Still with
one-third of their army destroyed, and a powerful
enemy thundering at their gates, not one Roman
dared to whisper peace under these circumstances.
After that the nation achieved great glory. The
whole world acknowledged hex sway; no Roman
ever dared to discuss peace with an armed enemy.
I have often asked myself, are Georgians equal to
Romans ? The opportunity is now afforded to de -
ter mine that question. If it is decided in the affir
mative, generations will bless the day that gave the
opportunity. No honorable peace can be attained
for Georgia, until the enemy is crushed. The only
peace which thoinvading army can give, is to make
freemen slaves and slaves freemen.
And we can crush this enemy. I feel that they
are as much our prisoners now as the Y ankees at
Andersonville. How can that be done? Not by
discouraging those.willing to fight, not by specula
ting and extortioning. Not by failing earnestly to
support the organized power, but only by the re
verse of all those propositions. Is it possible we
cannot crush Sherman? He has three hundred
miles of railroad to keep up, which must and can be
destroyed. He must, not himself escape. We have
the means to do this. We must return the absen
tees. They are everywhere. They eat at your ta
bles; you meet them in your parlors; you meet
them on the streets; you all know who they are.—
Cease complaining of the gallant soldiers in the
field and urge forward the absentees. Do that and
the Moon will not wax and wane thrice before
Sherman is defeated and the exiles can go home.
I know that we all want peace, and if God knows
my heart there is no one who more fervently prays
for it than I do. But how can wo make it? Not
with Sherman, who says ho means extermination.—
I recently read a letter from him more intensified
with malignity than ever escaped the lips of man.
He said he meant to destroy the present people and
populate our country with a better people—the
Yankees! You can make with him, or Lineoln,
only one peace—that is submission.
Another reason why you cannot make peace with
Sherman is, our gallant army will not let you—you
have not the power to make a dishonorable peace.
There is no man more anxious to stay the revolu
tion than I am; nor no man who will work more
earnestly to.secure that boon; but I will never ac
knowledge inferiority to Yankees.
Go to Gen. Lee’s army and you will find its spirit
truly animating. Every brigade in it thinks it can
whip Grant. Why thon indulge in despondency.
It can do no good.
Georgians! do not despond. In the midst of dis
aster be strong. Ido not doubt. Sherman in At
lanta must be destroyed. I said twelve months ago
that if the enemy ever got to Atlanta he would be
destroyed. It is true 1 would have preferred his
being'defeated before he got there. But now we
can and will crush the enemy, and that very soon.
If Lincoln is defeated and McClellan elected in
the coming election, wo may have peace. But there
is no peace p irty in the North if we are willing to
be subjugated. All will subjugate us if they can. —
Peace can only come by the defeat of tho enemy.—
McClellan will never be elected unless Sherman is
defeated. The preservation of our honor, the pre
servation of our State, the election of McClellan,
and-the securing of an honorable peace, all depend
upon tho defeat of Sherman. Every ;ood to free
men depends upon his defeat.
♦
A Free Ballot and an Ulterior Fight. —
According to the declarations of a number of Dem
ocratic speakers since the Chicago Convention,
their political canvass i3 only an organization to
seize tho Government by military force, in case
they fail at the elections, as they seem to expect.—
A prominent Democrat at Philadelphia recently
declared this in menacing terms, as has been pub
lished, Mr. Campbell, of Philadelphia, made the
same threat at the McClellan demonstration at
New York, last week. Wo quote rrom the report
in tho New York News :
“If you are cheated in tho common election; I
say, if you are cheated—because if you are falsely
beaten you must submit—but if the Democrats are
beaten bv Lincoln’s greenbacks and the bayonet,
then I expect Geo. B. McClellan will head the Dem
ocracy and drive the abolitionists out of power at
all hazards. [Loud and continued cheers] and if
Geo. B McClellan don’t do that we ought to hang
him like a dog. [Applause.] In New York you
are powerful you can do anything you wish, but I
have to go back to Philadelphia, an abolition town,
and fight a Democratic fight, and I will ask my
sons of fourteen and eighteen to take the rifle and
use it if we do not get fair play. [Applause.]”—
Yankee p n per.
Lika the English, the Yankees have at last come
to confess to the utter impossibility of the restora
tion of the Union. They see that the South will
never submit to anything short of her independ
ence. Even the Yankee correspondent of a London
paper writes:
There is not the slightest probability, not to say
possibility, that the South wilt be willing under any
consideration, to join hands with the hated Yankee
nation. The Southerners hate the Yankees of the
North with a passionifte hatred. A cessation of
hostilities may occur—nay, is now certain to oc
cur—but the armistice will be simply for the pur
pose of aranging terms of separation. Not only
are the Southerners determined to have independ
ence, but a majority of the Northern people see
that they cannot subjugate the Southland they are
not willing to live in close relations with men who*
are or would be virtually their conquerors. The
anti-slavery fanaticism will be employed to prevent
the Northern people ever desiring a union with
their one time political brethren of the South —
with the victorious “slaveholders.”
The Ring of the True Metal. —We commend
most particularly to every man in this Confederacy
the closing words of Gov. Bonham’s late procla
mation. Here they are:
“Citizens of South Carolina! You entered this
contest resolved to live free or perish. Your broth
ers, sons and fathers of the army and State re
serves arc already in the field. Place yourselves
by their sides, and make good your determination
that no foul minion of the despot Lincoln should
ever place, with impunity, his unhallowed foot
print on the soil of your State. Make them rue the
day they attempted to etface you from your herit
age and give it to-others. The ray of Hope which
some sanguine persons supposed they saw in the
Chicago Convention has gone out in darkness.—
Be not deluded. There is nt> prospect of peace
from that quarter. Peace is to be obtained alone,
under the blessing of God, through your fortitude,
your sacrifices and your own strong arms.”
Sambo Gone Back on tub War. — Ihe Troy
(New York) Press has the following:
The negroes are actually “discouraging enlist
ments.” From the report of the “Anglo African,”
edited and printed by colored men in New Y”ork
city, we give the following extraet from recent
observations of Mr. Wells Krown, at a meeting
held in the Twelfth Baptist Church, in this city :
“At first I desired that colored men should go to
the war, to convince this God forsaken nation that
black men are as valiant as other men. But our
people have been so cheated, robbed, deceived and
outraged everywhere, that I cannot urge them to
go. We have an imbecile administration, and the
worst management that is possible to conceive
of.” g.
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Anticipated Invasion of Missouri. — The fol
lowing telegram disclose a speck of war in the far
West :
Cairo, Sept. 15'h.—Gan A. J. Smith’s advance
arrived at Sulphur Springs, about 20 miles below
here, to-day, where they will go into camp, and
probably aw ait the developments of the enemy.
Shelby ’3 advance is in Southeast Missouri, but
nothing definite is known in regard to his designs.
St Louis, Sept. 16.—Reliable information re
ceived here reports that Gen. Price crossed the Ar
kansas river at Dardunells. about halt way between
Little Rock and Fort Smith, on the Sth, with 5,100
rebel eavalrv. evidently destined for % Mi*souri.
Shetbv’s movements in Northeast Arkansas an l
Southeast Missouri seemed t> be aimed at Cape
Girardeau, while Price probably strides at Spring
celd. These places a-.e well fortified, and have
garrisons strong enough to repel any attack.
Where are They to Come fro mi
Iff his last letter, the Richmond correspon
dent of the Augusta Constitutionalist allude*
as follow# to the probable accession of thirty
thousand foreign soldiers to our racks during
the ensuing winter :
I wrote you, a abort time ago, in regard to
x contemplated arrangement between the Con
federate Government and a Commissioner rep*
fesenting a certain European population. I
am now in condition to state that the desired
entente cordiale has been fully established.
The Envoys—consisting, as stated in a pre
vious letter, of two army officers and a cler
gyman of the Catholic church—irere admitted
to an audience with the Preiident, and an ar
rangement was effected that can not be other
wise than conducive to our interests. This
agreement, as I have heard, gives us the ser
vice, moat probably at an early day, of some
thirty thousand soldiers of approved valor and
of a race famous for military endurance. The
President promised to use his influence with
the respective State Governments in the mat
ter of securing for those whom the Commis
sioners represented, as much land as would
suit them for colonizing purposes. Os course
the President could not guarantee the colo
nists the allotment of lands in the States ; and,
as Confederate territorial posses
sions are, for the most part, in but a dubious
occupancy of our arms, it would have been use
less to enter into any compact by which the
immigrating population would have been
compelled to rely upon a comparatively un
protected section for a home. It is, however,
understood that all thoso who enlist in our
armies—and probably nine-tenths of the able
bodied men among the colonists will do so—
are to receive the soldier’s land-bounty, thus
meeting, in a measure, the requirements put
forth by the Commissioners, who are now on
their way to Europe to carry out the arrange
ments of the “treaty.” I understand that
their will be no difficulty in the departure of
these immigrants from their own country, and
as they are expected to arrive during the win
ter months, we may confidently hope (should
nothing occur to mar the plan) to witness, at
the. beginning of the spring campaign, a grand
army of foriegn allies of a race that, centu
ries ago, smote the Saracentic power in Eu
rope and drove back the tide of Turkish ag u
gressions upon Constantinople.
The Cincinnati Enquirer in an article in re
lation to the draft, says:
Nobody wants to be drafted—nobody wants
to go. The parties to the proceeding are a
powerful Government on the one side, and a
frightened, disheartened and reluctant people
on the other. The pressure of the draft is
made by the Administration and its party
leaders—they who are exempt or who can pro
cure exemption, of the first part, #nd they to
whom nothing is left but submission, of the
second. The “proper precautions,” taken by
the President “to guard against resistance,”-
are not against any particular parties, but
against the whole people. There has
been, during past time, in certain quarters, a
demand for “a strong Government.” We
have “a strong« Government.” We have a
strong Government—a despotism not yefc
sapped by its own inherrent rottenness, nor
broken by internal conspiracies—an iron rule
without consciences and without remorse—an
Administration at once weak and cruel, incon
sistent and inexorable.
_ i •- wm
A Yankee Authoress on Mrs. Lincoln. —
“Jennie June ’ thus responds to an erroneous
statement in the New York Express :
To the Editors of the New -York Express :
Gainesville, Wyoming Cos., Aug. 22, 18G4.
—ln this remote region I have had my atten
tion called to a statement in a recent number
of the Evening ExprAs, to the effect that I had
sent a copy of my book, “Talks on Women's
Topics,” to Mrs. Lincoln, accompanied by a
note expressive of appreciation of her virtues,
etc. Will you please do me the justice to de
ny this statement. I never sent a book to
Mrs. Lincoln, never wrote a note to her ex
pressive of any admiration or appreciation
whatever. Mrs. Lincoln can afford to buy her
own books, and hire her own flunkeys, and I
have no idea of supplying her with either one
or the other.
Respectfully, * Jennie June.
Personal. —Lieut. Gen. Dick Taylor, com
manding the Department of East Louisiana,
Mississippi and Alabama, arrived in this city
yesterday.— Montgomery Appeal.
Foreign & Domestic Goods
, -OF
Recent Importations*
By JAMES H. TAYLOR,
Auctioneer,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
On Wednesday, Sept. 38,
Will be sold in. my Store, corner of Broad and
Campbell street"!, Augusta Ga., a large and valuable
assortment of Goods, mostly es direct consignments
from Nassau, to-wit:
1,210 Yards Imperial Irish Linen;
514)4 “ Superior French Doe Skins;
50 “ Canton Crape Super.
20 packages Swiss Muslins;
14 dozen Undershirts;
Lisle Gloves, Hosiery, Ac.;
185 dozen Supr French Calf Skins;
120 pair Ladies' Boots;
30 “ Cavalry Boots;
1200 “ Leaf Cotton Cards;
101-2 gross Hair Pins;
160 dozen Tooth and Hair Brushes;
1200 “ Pen Holders;
152 gross Hooks and Eyes;
500 M, Percussion Caps;
47 dozen English Razors :
40,000 Luttanna Needles;
25 gross Steel Thimbles :
47 " Assorted Pins;
20,000 Coronet Needles;
20,000 Wills A co., Needles Sharps;
326 dozen Assorted Dressing Comb3;
133 “ “ Pocket “
54 " Supr Gutta Percha Dressing Combs;
4 Packs Ribbons Pins.
—ALSO—
-95 Gallons French Brandy ;
6 Packages Mackerell;
56 Kegs Sup. Carb. Soda ;
2 Bbls Epsom Salts;
9 Boxes Ad tinantine Candles
1 Bbl Browa ~ugar
10 Bbls Oil L awenaer
1 Bag Rio Cbffee; *
75 Gross Pressed Tumblers;
30 Kegs 10 and 12 ounce Tack3;
40 Bbls Smoking Tobacco, 1 papers;
20 Gross Shoe Knifes;
1 Case “ Hammers;’
1 “ Butcher Knives ;
Cases Knives and Forks.
■*S“Cbnditions cash on delivery.
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