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(SOfcUMBUS TIMES ’t # Published Daily (Sundays excepted) at the rate qf $6.00 per month, or sl6 lor three months. No subscription received for a linger term than hree montht. advertising RATES : Advertisements inserted for $2 00 per square for each insertion. Where advertisements are inserted a month, the charge will be S3O per square. Announcing candidates S2O, which must invariably paid in advanoe. —p—^ Change ©i Schedule. Orri£.K Engineer and Suferintbndent, \ Charleston and Savannah Railroad, > Charleston, June 7,1804. J IN THUTISDAY,June9,IB64, and until further notice, the Schedule of the Passenger train will oe as follow, viz: Leavo Charleston 9.45, a. m. Arrive in Savannah 5.40, p. ui. Leave Savannah 5.30, a. m. Arrive in Charleston 1.15, p. m. This Train makes direct connections, going north and south, with the Northeastern Railroad at Char oston, and the Central Railroad at the Junction. 11. S. HAINES, .June 14 ts Engineer and Superintendent. Dhasige ©I Scßiedaaße. j \N and after Sunday, June 10th, the Trains on 'the Muscogee Railroad will run as follows : PASSENGER TRAIN : Leave Columbus 6 45 P. M. Arrive at Macon 3 25 A. M. Leave Macon 8 10 P. M Arrive at Columbus 4 25 A. hi. FREIGHT TRAIN : Leave Columbus 5 00 A. 61. Arrive at Columbus 4 55 A. Al. W. L. CLARK. mar lOtf Supt. Muscogee R, It. Through to Montgomery NEW SCHEDULE. MONTGOMERY & WEST POINT RAILROAD COMPANY. COLUAIBUS, August 27,1864. / \N and after August 27th. the Passenger Train on j / the Montgomery and West Point Railroad will , Leave Montgomery at 8:00 a. m. Leave West Point at 7:10 a.m. Arrive at Columbus at 5:32 p. m. j Leavo Columbus at 5:50 a. m. Ai’rive at Montgomery at 3:00 p. m, Arrive at West Potnt at 4!30 p. m.' ; Train leaves Columbus at 8:40 a m. Arrives at 8:27 p m D. H. CRAM, Sup’t* Eng. | ag27lß64—tf MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD. CHASSIS OF SCHEMLE. Girard, Ala., Aug. 22, 1864. I and after this date Trains on this Road will * Run Daily (Sunday excepted,) as follows: Passenger Traim. Leave Girard at 3 00 p. in. Arrive in Union Springs 730 “ Leave Union Springs 5 35 a. m. Arrive in Girard at 10 00 “ Freight Train. Leave Girard at 400a. m. • Arrive in Girard at .....1 „..6 00 p. m. 13. E. WELLS, .ig!Btf _ Eng. & Sup’t. SI,OOO Reward! STOLEN, from my residence, in Wynnton, on the night of the 19th inst., a Chesnut Sorrel Horse, about ll 1-2 hands high and 14 years old; ho has on each side, just back of the faro-qhouldev, the marks of a blister, which looks very much like a hum; 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 tho horse and thief, with proof to convict, or SSOO for the horse. WM. S. BALFOUR. it2,Macon Telegraph copy two weeks, and send bill to this office. sp2o2w* ss® Steward. lEFT my plantation near Glennville, Alabama, on J Sunday last, 11th inst., a negro man by tho uamo of GREEN, who belongs to Col. Samuel Thompson, near Florence, Ala. Green is about 33 years old; nearly white; straight hair; slender frnmC; near six feet high; inclined in the shoulders; short round face, and talks slowly, lie left my premises -without provo cation, and I have reason to believe that ho is at tempting to make his way to North Alabama, into the enemy’s li’'"s. lio is acquainted about Colum bus, G..., having boon 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 will pay fifty dollars reward for his appre hension and del ivory to me, or confinement in some jail where Lean get. him. sep2l ts > JNO. F. TREUTLEN. *>oo Negro Men Wanted! Nitre and Mixing Bureau, ) lleadq’rs Mixing Division, No. 2, > Selma, Ala., Sept. 13, ‘64. )«» | AM desirous of Hiring Five Hundred Negro Men, -*for tho Bibb Iron Works, located on the Alabama and Tennessee Rivers Rail Read, fifty miles North of Selma, 150 South of Rome and 70 West of Mont gomery. I am raying for able-bodied men-three hundred dollars per annum, feeding and clothing them. Ono woman will bo hired to every ten men, to cook ami wash for them, There is on the place a hospital with a regular surgeon, who takes charge of all tho sick. If tho enemy threatens, the negroes can be moved West through an inaccessible coun try. Apply to W P Herring,La Grange, Ga., or WM, RICIIAA’D§QN HUNT, Lieut. Col. Cbmd’g. seplT hu SSOO Meward. WILL be paid for the apprehension of our boy Truman. lie is about 24 years oil, 6 feet high; very black, and weighs about 180 pounds. Three hundred dollars will bo paid for his confinement in some jail so that we can got hiua, or five hundred dollars for his delivery at the EAGLE FACTORY. Eufaula Spirit of the South, Quincy Dispatch, Al bany Patriot, Macon Telegraph, LaG range .Repor ter, and //arnilton Enterprise, publish one month and send bills to Factory. / sep2ol m SSO Reward. Superintendent’s Office, I Muscogee K. R. Company, - Columbus, Ga., Yept. 16, ’tiL J A REWARD of SSO will be paid for the delivery dx to 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. ~ Hilliard—Black; about 30 years old; sft 9 inches high; weighs 1450 r 150 lbs.; blacksmith by trade. — Probably will go to Jones county where his wife is. W. L. CLAjRK, sp!7 1 m __ Superintendent. SSO Upward. j WILL pay tho above reward for 808, a black 1 boy, about 24 years old. He has been .out three or four weeks? and is supposed to be lurking about ho city. - JNO. 11. BASS, jy 4 ts . SI,OOO Reward. ,4 CIIUNIvY, heavy set, black boy by the name cL of VfILHAM, 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 eonvict, or I will pay two hundred and fifty dollar# for ihe negro delivered to me in Colum bus. Tho boy came from Virginia about two years ago. and says lie is a sailor. I think they left Co lumbus on foot and took the train at some station close by. J. H. BASS, sepl-tf. P. S.—l learn, since the above was written, that the boy loft Cblumbus 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. i^oTioja. To Planters and Others ! T WILL EXCHANGE Osnaburgs, Sheeting and I Yarns, for Bacon, Lard, Tallow and Beeswax. I will be found at Robinett k Ob's old stand, where I am manufacturing Candles and Lard Oil for sale. L. S. WRIGHT. jane 2 ts Shoemakers’ and Saddlers’ TOOLS. 'TVHE UNDERSIGNED having commenced the * manufacture of the above named articles in this eity, are prepared to fill orders for the same. Office on Anglo 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 one month and send bins to this office. mar 30 ts _ irni PAPER i BUI lons FOR SALE 2 WE have for salo 49 reams ot Letter Paper, and 2,000 small Pocket Blank Books, at Wholesale or ,Retail. Paper, SSO per Ream; Blank Books, $l5O retail, io cts. wholesale. Apply at agStf THIS OFFICE. STERLING EXCHANGE! A FEW Hundred Pounds of Sterling Exchange ■ £X *9J in sums to suit purchasers by ts BANK OF COLUMBUS. —\ i'.' __ ' ' ' • Vol. XL W. WARREV & CO. Proprietors j. w. WAR RE.Editor SPECIAL NOTICES I¥©tiee. 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 diate application at this Arsenal. F. C. HUMPHREYS, _ sep24 lw Major and Ex. 031 WANTED! Cairns Hospital, Columbus, Ga., @ept.t3, ’64. Okra cut and dried by the bushel; green, “ “ “ Butter Beans, dried, " “ “ “ “ green, “ “ “ Sassafras Buds, prepared for Gumbo, by the pound. Cotton Yarns, or Domestics will be exchanged for the above articles or they will be'paid for in cash. , B. C. DALLAS 1 , Cierk. sep24 lw i\©tice! THIRTY CARPENTERS WANTED • I wish to employ for the C. S. Carpenter Shop. Thirty Carpenters, at once. Good wages and steady employment will be given. CIIAS. A. REDD, sep2B 6t * Capt. and A. Q: M. ; JNlotice! WALKER HOSPITAL, | September 27,1861, All patients of this Hospital who have been al lowed the privilege of remaining in private quar- ! ters arc hereby ordered to report, either in person or by medical attendant, without delay. Hereafter ! any patient to whom this favor has been granted j will forfeit it, if he fails to report daily, when once ! forfeited it will not he renewed under ant j CIRCUMSTANCES. CARLISLE TERRY, scp2B 2t Surgeon in charge. 3NTOTICE To Mississippi Soldier* ! THE “MISSISSIPPI DEPOT” and Office of i Agency for the Relief of Mississippi soldiers in the Army of Tennessee, has been removed from Atlanta to Columbus, Ga., and is near Barnard’s corner, between Main st., and the Perry House. Your baggage is there. C. K. MARSHALL, sep2B ts __ Agent. Notice. Headquarters, 24th Militia Dist. | Columbus, Ga., Sept. 16, 1864. The Captains appointed in the different Districts will send to these Headquarters all men who have not reported at Macon. By order of Gen. Wayne. B. A. THORNTON, ADC. pr N. W. Garrard, Capt & E O. Office at McGeheo’s Auction House. sepl7 ts : Battle-Field Belief Association of Columbus, CJa. All who are disposed to contribute articles neces sary for the relief of the sick aud wounded in the Army 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. 11. YOUNG, Presd’t. C. Q. Holmes, Sec’y. ag23tf MATT.' IS. EVAiVS, COMMISSION MERCHANT, No. 64, Commerce Street, MOBILE, ALABAMA. W r ILL sell on Commission every description of (roods, Negroes and Produce of all kinds. sp2o Irn . jSTAILS 1 KAILS!! Wholesale or Retail, —OR— £X€IIAI¥OE for PRODIXE —AT— MILFORD’S OLD STAND, sep26 lw FOE SATJS ! 000 >apers oz acks '• Reams English Letter Paper: 100 " Do " ps '"° " 100 " ” Noi “ JUjj “Ai” English and Do.xtisif-c Envelopes _sep24 iw STANFORD & CO. FOR SALE ! 320 Acres of Land oil the Mobile & Girard Rail Road, I7ORTY MILES from Columbus, Georgia, and one F and a half from Stution’No. 5; about 180 acres opened, and cabins for about 30 negroes, with good water, gin house, Sea. Apply to Messrs Ellis, Liv ingston & Cos., for terms. sps lm* D C FREEMAN, Jr. WANTED! k Ann LBS. of TALLOW, for which a liberal price ibUUu will be paid. Apply to F. W. DILLARD, sp7 ts Major and Q. M, FOR SALE. A HOUSE and LOT, situated North of the North 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 further particulars apply to mo on the premises. sp!3 lm J. J. BORING. SALE! A GOOD Saddle and Harness Horse, - - Apply to "R. B. MURDOCH, sep 2-ti' or, at this office. Confederate Kiaivcs and Fork*. WE are manufacturing at our Works in this city H a good article of KNIVES AND FORKS in large quantities, which we offer to the public low for CASH. -ALSO - Makers ami Saddlers Tools, of every description. N'hoe Pegs, Steel Trusses, Spatulas, Butcher Knives, Ac., Ac. The attention of Quartermasters, Commissaries, and Medical Purveyors, throughout the Confeder acy is specially invited to the aoove with whom we desire to make contracts. REFERENCES: Major F. W.DiHard, Columbus, Ga. Surgeon W. H. Prioleau, Macon, Ga. Surgeon R. Potts, Montgomery, Ala. HARRISON, BEDELL & CO. Columbus, Ga., September 1,1864. J/obile Register, Augusta Constitutionalist, and Charleston Courier please copy one month and send bill to this office. BMBtRIRUCami THE Exercises of this Institution will be resumed on tho Ist Monday in October, under the contin ued direction of its present able instructor, Rev. Carlisle P. B. Martin- Terms of admission will ue rnado known before the session commences. _ _ E. S. GREENWOOD, Presd't. D. F. WILLCOX, See’y. g pl2 ts Board of Trustees. SSO rie warci. VEGRO boy CHARLEY : abcut2syears old, yel i\ low complexion, hair nearly straight, below or dinary inU'Bi once: left Mr. Nut. Thompson s near Box Spring's Xulbot county. £ of ft Mr Brown, a refugee from Mississippi, who now resides h- Tuskceee, Ala. He originally, came from Charleston. E. C. A suitable reward will be paid for his delivery at this office, or in any safe jail and information sent to me at this office. RFSgELt Colurabu‘o 7.i., aug 1 ts * Columbus. Ga., Friday Homing, Ssptembsr 30,1861. Thursday Evening. Correspondence of the Times. Staunton, Sept. 23, 1864. Editor Times: I send you an incomplete list of casualties of my Brigade in ftie action of the 19th, gathered from the wounded who are coming in-to this point. I have just reached here on my return to my command. Gm. Breckinridge, whom I have just seen, as sures me that the accounts which have gone out very much exaggerate our losses on that occasion, and all who were cool observers, say, that beyond doubt, the enemy lost much more heavily in killed and wounded than ourselves. lam satisfied that this is strictly true. We still hold all the impori ant part of the Valley in a very strong position. Very respectfully, yours, C. A. EVANS. Pa- ißiisi of Casualties in Evans’ Brigade in tits b-r’de of the 19 th September, near Winchester, eo . - • idedbg Col. E. N, Atkinson, 26 ** Georgia, 31st Georgia. Colonel J II Lcwe, slightly. Lieutenant Colonel Pride, severely in foot. Adjutant McGinty, severely in arm. Lieutenant Murphy, severely, prisoner. Lieutenant Green, slightly. Company A —Dent, severely; Sergeant Bearing, severely. Company B—B Jones and Cook, severely; F Green, foot amputated. Company C—Sergeant Perry, Cordell and Mc- Alister, severely. • • Company G—J Graham, severely; W Ward, severely and prisoner. Company H —Lambert, severely. Company I—Taylor, Thursby and Knight, se verely. Killed—Smith, of Company A; S Buchanan, Company B. 33th Georgia. Captain Rankin, supposed mortally, prisoner. Company A—Bowers, B B Christian, severely. Company C —Captain Higdon, Story, J F Dix Sergeant Dudaey, Curly, Thompson, all severely. Company G—G Farrer, color bearer, severely. Company K—Autrey, Tweedie, severely. Killed—Sergeant Mullen, Company 0. 13th Georgia . Colonel Baker and Lieutenant Colonel Malt ale, slightly. Company A—Minter, severely. Company B— Owens. Kilgro, Welch, Braatly, Edmundson, Graham. Company F—Travis, severely; Pope,leg shot off. Company I—Berry, in neck, severely. Company K— Tucker, color bearer, through luug. Killed— Captain Mitchell, Company I: Savage, Company B. 12th Georgia Battalion. Captain Auderson, severely, supposed mortal, leit prisoner : Lieutenant Kinmas, severely. Company A—Hollis. Reynolds, severely; Hopps, color bearer, killed. Lieutenant J L Mann, killed. 60th Georgia. . Colonel Jones and Adjutant McFarlin, slight! v. a«iq» 9 C* We copy the following from the Enquirer of this morning, and endorse it. It is a certainly a disa greeable feature in the acts of our military author ities to seize a man’s property, and appropriate it to uses, which arc revolting to the refined sense of his family: A Good Idea. — We are glad to see that our sug gestion about closing the front door of the prison in one of the deGraffenreid tenements, on Oglethorpe street, has been carried out. If these men have not pride or self-respect enough to prevent them, while there, from acting in a disgusting and disgraceful manner, they should bo so confined that they can not,be seen from the street.* Bat seeing as much of their conduct as we have, we sorely sympathize with the highly respectable family whose backyard must be exposed to the view, and whose ears are to be re? aled with tho language of these low men.— We cannot believe, however, that it is right or just that such ruffians should be confined in such close proximity to the residence of refined, intelligent and sensitive ladies, as is the case in this instance. They should be placed in some secluded locality whore their vulgar slang and profanity can only be heard by themselves. Referring to the prisoners, the Constitutionalist says: Some among those removed to Charleston have already accepted service, we learn, and are now on James’ Island, and we believe thousands under the proper representations*would gladly ac cept the proposition, and moreover, make good sol diers. What say you, gentlemen of the Press, will it be to the interest of the Government, at this juncture, to recruit our armies with ten thousand Federal prisoners whose term of service has expired, and who have been ignored as prisoners by the Yankee nation ? Tho Brandon Republican has information from a gentleman from Jefferson county, Mississippi, that twenty five, well armed negroes, were caught by our scouts in Franklin county a few days since, try ing to make their way into the Yankee lines.— Among the number was a colored gentleman with papers showing him to be a yankee recruiting of ficer. Personal.— The Richmond Enquirer of the 24th says, Hon. L. M. Lewis, the newly appointed Sena tor from the Northern District of Missouri, arrived in that city, by flag of truce, on Thursday. He had been for some months confined as a prisoner of war at Johnson's Island. He knew nothing of his ap pointment as Senator, until bi3 arrival. __—. —_—» A Straw.— A vote for the Presidency was taken at the convalescent and recruiting camp in Augus ta, Maine, a few days since. There were present 1,400 soldiers, and the result of the vote was 1,430 for Lincoln and 50 for McClellan. We find the following interesting paragraph in the latest European news. The Lendon Morning Herald reiterates that Lindsey withdrew his mo tion for the recognition of the Confederate States, in consequence of a secret uaderstanding with Lord Palmerston, that gentleman promising Lind sey he would support such a motion hereafter. Lord Brougham remarked on the loth, that in two months it would be expedient for England and France to interpose good effects to put aa end to the Amesiean war. Seizure of Arms at Por.rsHocTa, New Hamp shire. — For some time past efforts have been making by the police of Portsmouth, New Hamp shire, to discover certain arms which, it was al leged, had been received by individuals in that city with the intention of having them distributed among parties inimmieal to Lincoln ani to hi3 measures for the prosecution of the war. The ac count of their discovery is given in ths Chronicle of the S:h instant, which adds : “Tho discovery of these concealed weapons will perhaps open the eyes of some to the real inten tions of our pretended peace loving friends. It i3 stated that eighteen hundred or two thousand Ea fields have been distributed about New Hamp shire for tho use of these nrecieus peace-makers ” [From the Rich maud Dispatch, 24th.] ’ The facts with regard to the battle near i Winchester are becoming better known, and 1 as they gradually develop themselves, the j gloom which at fir3t settled down upon our people disperses. It is evident that General Early made a desperate resistance—that for several hours he had the beet of the battle— that the ‘enemy lost eaormouel/ —that our ! troops were finally compelled to leave the field by a Rank movement, executed by a very superior body of eavalry—and that the move i meat in retreat was executed in the most ex i act order and without the slightest confusion. The statement of the Yankee General, that he* killed or wounded five thousand men. and cap ! tured half that number, is evidently a false j hood : for had the los3 been so groat in an ar my no larger than that under command of i General Early, at least half the train of artil , lery would have been captured; whereas, we j lost but three pieces. The man who makes this statement, it i3 to be recollected, is Sher idan—the same man who claimed a victory at Trcvillians depot, after having been more . shamefully routed than any general of the war: who stated that his loss on that occasion was less than two hundred, killed, wounded ■ and prisoners, whereas, four hundred and ' eighty SBven taken in that fight,were actually at that time prisoners in this city ; and who telegraphed to Stanton that the object of his expedition had been completely accomplished; whereas, that object was to de3toy the tunnel and unite with Hunter, and hl*was routed and turned back before lie had gone half way. it is 3taled by others that Early lost, in all, about tiro thousand five hundred men, of whom about five hundred were reported missing, and even this we believe to be an exageration.— The Yankees appear to have paid dearly for t’ui3 success. Their loss, according to Sheri dan, is two thousand. We suppose it is at I least that, and some five or 3ix thousand more. ; Our men were in aposition, and were attacked -by the Yankees. It is reasonable to infer, therefore, that they killed and wounded avast many more than they lost. Six or eight thousand is a very small estimate. We speak sincerely when we say that we have no fears for Gen. Early. The fact that the enemy did not attempt to pursue him after the day of the battle is significant of another fact, and that is, that he wa3 awfully crippled, and did not feel in a condition to improve his victory. He must get reinforcements before he can push Early, and in the meantime, Early is in a posi tion and a country in which cavalry can do very little service, save as scouts and patrols. We hardly think Sheridan will be able to play his destined role of capturing Lynchburg and {the canal, and the Southside and Danville | railroads, this winter at least. He has but six weeks to do it in, and his movements are hard j ly rapid enough to accomplish it by that time, i In this campaign, notwithstanding the two [ small reverses at Atlanta and Winchester, the ! balance has been greatly in our favor. We ! have frustrated the most tremendous combi- j | nation ever formed against any modern city, j and in frustrating it, have slain or wounded, I or otherwise put hors du combat , at least two 1 I hundred thousand men, of which number i i Giant himself lost,'under his own immediate j : eye, at least one hundred and fifty thousand. I That General himself, acknowledges that he ha3 been awfully beaten when he calls for one ; hundred thousand fresh troops to finish the job which he expected to finish last June.— He is conscious that he does so, and endeavors to explain it away in conversation with one*f the toadies that stuck to him like a leech in his late journey from Harpers Ferry to Phil ; adeldhia. He only wants them, he says, to make the victory more complete, and to di j minish the effusion of blood. Those are the very objects for which «11 commanders seek overwhelming numbers. To state that object is merely to confess that his present numbers are insufficient to effect the object. Now, ta ing in Hunter’s army, and Butler's army, Grant had at least three hundred thousand men engaged in this enterprise. If he still wants one hundred thousand more, it affords the strongest proof that he has been signally j and terribly beaten. We say, then, th’at thus i far the advantage in this campaign has been j prodigiously on our side. We have killed j enormous numbers of, Yankees, and that is the | surest way to bring the rest to their senses.- J It is far better, indeed, than peace congresses |at Niagara or elsewhere. The Yankees are i the most mercenary of God’s creatures. If i i the ministry of our Saviour had been among i | them instead of the Jews, instead of lasting j three years it would not have lasted three days. ! Some Yankee Judas would have sold him in less than that Ijrae. And yet the Yankee loves his life better even than his interest ; and when the universal nation finds that nothing { ' but death is to be gotten by coming here, they | will conclude that it does not pay. and will, j give it up. The best road to peace lies ; through the blood of the Yankees. The more Iwc kill, the nearer we approach peace. Such being the fact, we must be admitted to have made progress in this campaign. They ' have been slaughtered awfully here and eve- < , rywhere else. Fori Delaware. prisoners who returned by the last flag of truce j beat give the usual account of the sufferings of the Confederate soldiers confined at Fort Delaware, ; and of their intense anxiety for an immediate ex : change. They have experienced enough of prison life at the North to make them regard another cap- I ture by the enemy as one of the greatest calamities of the war. The whole number of prisoners there at present is seven thousand seven hundred and twenty-two, including about two thousand Virgi nians. These are assigned to divisions of several hundred each, in which there is not sufficient space for necessary exercise: and their sufferings, it may be wall imagined, are intolerable. Their breakfast is one-fifth of a loaf of bread to each man: their dinner, the 3ame amount of bread, with a small piece of meat and a plate of poor soup, with ono I potato once a week. They have no supper. They are allowed to write only to father, mother, brother, j sister, wife or child, and then only ten lines. A' married sister cannot be written to if she happens ito bear a different napie. They are not allowed to receive any packages except by flag of ftuce, and even that method has. been recently discontinued, packages sent from here on the 22d of August not i having jet been received. Formerly they were allowed to receive presents from friends outside of ths prison, but that has been stopped. The disci i pline of the prison is very strict. The guard is , composed of Ohio militia —the regulars, before per ! farming that duty, having been sent to the field.— ; The winter will bring a grsat additioa to the suffer i iags of the prisoners, as only one blanket i3 allow ed to a man, and some have net even that. The houses are temporary board structures, neither lathed nor plastered, and a division has but one lire. j We are gratified to learn that the sanitary con dition of Fort Delaware has much improved since , laat year, and ths daily average of deaths consider ably diminished. Tobacco is much more desired by the prisoners i than money, as it is a common article of traffic, I and will purchase anything they need. We men tion this as a hint to those persons who desire to ssni any gift to their friends there. [Richmond Id*paten. Sale ;r Tobacco — Goo; Pri es.— Yesterday Mr. Ohamberlayao, the Inspector, sold at the Shoo kdb warehouse, for 0. H. Pcttus. Bs p, of Louisa county Virginia, three hogsheads of tine leaf to bacco a* the following rates No. 1, $36) per 100 pounds; No. 2, SoQO per 100 pounds , No. $286 per 100 pounds. M#S3r3. Christian & Lee, com mission merchants, Main street, ware the purcha sers.—RvPvnond Examiner. $5.00 Per Month. From the Petersburg Express, 24th. From the Front. Yesterday was one es the most quiet days along the lines partially encircling Petersburg, which we have known for several weeks. There was no picket firing and but very few discharges of cannon. So profound and noted was this quiet, that it excited much comment, and many were the enquiries to its cause. Without claiming to know the real cause, we think we may safely suggest one. So long have the combatants been confronting each other, and so constant and incessant has been the firing, that they are doubtless wearied with the monotony which it has produced, and have de termined upon a change, be it eve!: so brief. Not l a few, however, insist upon it, that we are now in the midst of that lull which always precedes a storm, and all such anticipate hot work at a very early day. something astounding on the tapis. A correspondent of a Northern journal writing from Fortress Monroe, on the 19th, says, “a more which is destined to astonish somebody is on the qui vive, the details of which are contraband."— This may serve to explain to some extent, the quiet which we are now enjoying around Peters - burg. ANOTHER YANKEE FRIGHT NEAR SYCAMORE CHURCH. A passenger who reached Baltimore Tuesdav on the mail steamer Vanderbilt, direct from 'City Point, reports: “On Sunday night the movements of the yebels were in the vicinity of Sycamore Church. Indicated preparations for another raid on our communications, for the purpose of getting to City Point, if possible, are apparent. Our troops wore called out and held in readiness, but the night passed without the anticipated demonstra tion by the enemy. Early and active operations under Hancock are expected. He will probably soon make a demonstration on the Danville or South Side Railroad.” General Lee has an eye to this of course, and probably Hancock will leave the two railroads mentioned, should he ever get in their vicinity, more rapidly than he did the Wel don road at Reams’ Station, on the 25th August. FROM THE PENINSULA. Parties from Fortress Monroe say that the Con federate guerrillas have been nnusully active on the Peninsula during the past few weeks. One day last week a party attacked a gang of twenty Yankee negroes employed in repairing the tele graph wire, and scattering the guard, captured the team comprising four valuable horses. CAPTURE OF A SCHOONER. Last Saturday night, about 11 o’clock, a small party of rebels, who afterwards gave their names as John Maxwell and Wm. Hines, Acting Masters, and John F. Moore, Captain in the Confederate States Nayy, surprised and captured tho schooner Jane F. Durfee, E. G. Davis, master, while lying at anchor off tho mouth of Warwick river, a small stream which enters into tho James below James town. The Captain was completely surprised, and .surrendered without resistance. After a consulta tion with the captors, they decided to reloase the vessel on condition of the Captain giving a bond to the amount of $7,313, Willbar F. Stocking, the supercargo, to be held as a hostage until the money [s paid. The captors then helped themselves to 5)2,700 in greenbacks, found on the Captain’s per son, the schooner’s papers, compasses, nautical in struments, the small boat with sail, etc., and then bidding the captain a very affectionate farewell, left in the sail boat in tho direction of Smithfield, on the opposite side of the river. Northern lews. Froin tho Latest Northern files we copy such items as our lack of space will admit. The following is the latest intelligence from Sheridan : “Harper’s Ferry, Sept. 21, '64. “To Hon E M Stanton, Washington : Reliable new3 from tho front. Our army was crossing Cedar creek yesterday at 3p. m. No fight ing. The following list of rebel generals killed and wounded is correct: Generals Rodes, Ramseur, Gordon, Terry, Godwin, Read, Johnson and Fitz Lee. 1* rom all I can learn, the prisoners will ap proximate five thousand. The indications are that the rebels will not make a stand short of Staunton. They are evidently too much demoralized to make another fight. John D. Stevenson, “Brig. Gen.” The schooner Mary B. Smith, which arrived at Beverly on Saturday, reports: “SP° k , e : September 7, latitude 44:40, longitude OcoO, fishing schooner William //Lovett, of Mar blehead, who reported that twenty miles to the eastward saw four or five vessels on fire; that there was a pirate on the banks, and that she (the Lovett) got under weigh immediately to get clear of the pi rate.” - 1 The New York Herald of the 20tb, speaking of Ternando Woods speech, says: “Fernando said that he was opposed to the nomination of McClel n went t<J Chicago to oppose him, because McClellan was a war man. But, on tho other hand, the consistent Fernando declared that he would now support McClellan, because he felt satisfied that McClellan meant peace when he said war, and was not at all in earnest in his letter oi acceptance. 99 Brigadier General Pagois to be “court-martialed” by the Yankees for "spiking the guns of Fort Mor gan after its surrender.” . Brigadier-General Edward Hurl and has been as signed to the temporary command of the District of rtorth Carolina. “Blowing up the Tunnel."— Some weeks ago, a statement appeared in the Telegraph, founded upon the report of a “Courier,” in re-, gard to-the blowing up of the Tunnel beyond Dalton. This statement was extensively copied by the press, and for days thereafter the pub lic rested confidently under the impression that the Tunnel aforesaid had been effectually destroyed. All this, however, was a delusion. The Tunnel was never blown up, and we would have been content to have let that ob stinate contrivance rest unharmed to attest its own solidity entirely, but for injustice done by the statement of the “Courier” to the fair fame of Gen. Martin. It was said in that ac count that Wheeler “ordered General Martin, commanding one of the cavalry divisions, to blow up the Tunnel at Tunnel Hill. This order was not obeyed, nor did Gen. Wheeler learn of it until Martin’s division had left the road and formed a junction with the main body of our forces. As soon, however, as it was ascertained that the order had not been carried into effect, General Martin wa3 placed under arrest and sent back to Atlanta,” &c. Now this whole statement i3 a gross error. General Martin received no orders to blow up the Tunnel, and was not arrested for the breach of such orders, and all the sub sequent accounts of the destruction of the Tunnel itself is sheer fabrication, a3 we are credibly informed. We state so much to dis sipate a prejudice which may have been cre ated against a brave officer for supposed inef ficiency and lack of enterprise and daring. \Telegraph 4* Confederate , 28 th. It is reported (says the Telegraph k Confed erate, 28th.) that on Menday our forces had a fight with the enemy at Vining Station, eleven miles from Atlanta, in which the Yankees were badly beaten. We hope to have some confirmation of it before going to press. + ♦ # Hotel Prices in Washington. —Artemus Ward says : “I went to Washington and put ud at a leading hotel, where, seeing the ‘landlord. I accosted him with ‘How d’ey do squire?’ ‘Fifty cents,’ was his reply. ‘Sir? 7 Haifa dollar. ‘Me charge twenty-five cents for lookin at the landlord, and fifty for speakin' to him. If you want supper, the boy will show you the dining room for twenty-five cents. Your being in the tenth story, it will cost you a dollar to be shown up there. How much do you ax a man for breatbin in this equiuoaiikal tavern ■ 'Tea cents a breath, was the ret " Artemus remark- »ould apply remarkably well to this i&V.tu It*. TELEGRAPHIC. *' ----- - 1 * ■' REPORTS OF THE PRXSS ASSOCIATION. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1863. by J. S. Thrasher, in the Clerk’# offioe of the District Court of ttie Confederate States for the Northern District of Georgia. Forrest Heard from Again. from Tftrglnia. From Sew Orleans. fcULPHLR springs. Ala., nine miles north of Athens, Sept. 25th, via Cherokee, 27th, via' Mobile, 28th.—The invincible and ancon 's enable Forrest has achieved another victory. Tt garrison here, consisting of two block ho i reconsidered the strongest one on the rerd r rom Decatur to Nashville, has been siormed and captured, after three hours severe fighting. Over eight hundred prisoners have been captured, including one lieutenant colonel, two majors, ten captains and twenty two lieutenants; 'also three hundred horses, two pieces of artillery and a large amount of stores of every description. Oar loss in killed and wounded is about thirty-five ; that of the enemy near two hundred, including the colo nel commanding the garrison. The country may expect to hear of other victories in a few days. _ Charlottesville, Sept. 28th.—No tidings of the enemy's cavalry. Firing has been heard to-day by persons at Greenwood Depot. The enemy has a brigade, it is believed, at Waynesboro. All accounts affirm that oue ot our-division3 ambuscaded and destroyed a brigade of the enemy near Swift Run Gap on Monday. Nothing further from the fight of yesterday at Ware's Cave. We whipped them. Everything looks decidedly better. It is conjectured that both armies are near Mount Sidney. Jackson, Miss., Sept. 27th, via Mobile, Sept. 28th.—New Orleans papers of the 24th have been received. Banks has been superceded by Hurlburt, late of Memphis, and has gone North. Before leaving, he published a five column letter in the Era, full of_ lies from beginning to end, about Louisiana. The steamer Colasas, ou the Ohio river, was captured by fourteeu Confederate prisoners on board, who killed three. The others es- with arms. The Missouri campaign is said to be under Magruder, Shelby, Price and Dobbyns. A dispatch from Cairo says they are near Cape Girradeau. The iron-clad gunboat Antelope struck a snag six miles below New Orleans last Friday and sunk. She carried six guns. The steamer Saratoga was fired into on Wednesday nearly opposite Baton Rouge by Confederate batteries. Damage unknown. A negro was shot iu Vicksburg on the 16th for desertion from the army. Canby has issued orders seizing all cotton sold bv the Confederate Government to for eigners and delivered on the Mississippi river. Not a One Horse Proceeding.— The Lynchburg Republican has intelli-. gence from Bristol that Gen. Williams, of Wheeler’s command, was cut off from the main force, has arrived in East Tennessee, bringing with him a large number of re cruits and over 1,500 horses, and a coni siderable number of cattle, from Kens tucky. It would not probably be prudent to say more at this time, than that the number of recruits obtained will shortly speak for themselves.— Rich. Whig. ■r.O © 4IM* Old Abe on Congressmen.—The other day, as the President and a friend were sitting ou the steps of the House of Representatives, the last session closed, and the members filed out in a body. Abraham looked after them with a serious smile. “That reminds me,” said he, “of a little incident when I was a boy. My fiatboat lay up, at Alton, on the Mississip pi, for a day.. I strolled about the town. I saw a large stone building, with massive walls—not so handsome though as this; and while I was looking at it, the iron gateway opened, and a great body of men came out.” “What do you call that ?” I asked a bystander. “That.” said he, “is the State prison, and those are the thieves going home. Their time is up.” The Richmond Examiner of tho 24th says, Grant has recently been reinforced by fifty-five thousand j fresh troops. j By Ellis, Livingston & Cos. ft ; AN FRIDAY, September 30th, at 10 1-2 o’clk, I V/ we will sell m front of our store, Two Horse Wagon aud Harness. HORSES AUD MILES, One btol. 3yrup. LOT PORK, SHOES. &c. sp3o 2tsß 3,000 Cord* Wood Wanted. Office Post Quartermaster, Columbu3, Ga., Sept. 20,1864. j I wish to contract immediately for (3,000) three I thousand cords of Oak and Hickory Wood. A. REDD, seP 29 6t Capt and AQ M. FOR THE LADIES! A FINE ASSORTMENT OF LADIES SHOES! FOB SALE _A_T B. B. THOMPSONS, CONSISTING OF English Gaiters s French Boots; Glove Kid Congress Gaiters. sep2B ts 8800 Reward.! ESTRAYED OR STOLEN, i One a large sorrel horse Mule, na* mane and tail; the other a very large bay mare Mule. Both about seven or eight years old, and estrayed or stolen from Dr. Battle's plantation on North Cowikee, Russell co., Ala., seven miles South of Hatchechubbee Post Olfiee, G. k '*• R- R.* en Sunday night, 20th inst. The above reward will* be paid for both mules, or half the amount for one. ! A suitable reward will be paid for apprehending ' the thief if stolen. THEOPHILUS SPERLOCK. sep2B lw* S3OO REW ARD. CTOLEN from Cook’s Hotel, yesterday morning. ti C . o t? tai ?. msr ee <iles and Spool Thread and Card Clothing for twenty -four pair Cot ton Cards. The truck was found early yesterday morning, near the jail, robbed of its contents. We will pay the above eward for the stolen goods and one aur,dr?d dollars for each of the thieves, as we are continent two persons were engaged in tho dieft. Macon and Montgomery will ba on the watch. • _ SHIVERS, WYNNE A CO., i Proprietors.