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COLUMBUS TIMES Published Daily (Sunday* excepted) at the rate of tfi.OOper mouth, or sls tor three mo|ths< No ■ubscription received for a longer term than hret monthi. ADVERTISING RATES : Advertisements inserted for $2 60 per square for each insertion. Where advertisements are inserted a month, the t h arge will be S3O per square. Announcing candidates S2O, which must invariably paid in advance. ~~ .stars -i 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. ag27lß64—tf 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. seplT lm __ #«>©© 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. scp2o 1 m £»>© 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 I - ■' . 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. se>p2l 6t 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. sepl7 ts <• _ _ 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. sp2o lm Sterling Exchange for Gold f WILL exchange Sterling for Gold, at par. I 1 J. F. WINTER. sep2o lw 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 I »ep2l 5t 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. ♦ 2 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. 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