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irric* EsaiHaA and Superintendent, 1
Charleston and Savannah Railroad, >
Charleston, June 7,1864. J
!**»?• nxr -T!
',N THURSDAY, June 9,1864, and until further
0 notice, the Schedule ol the Passenger train will
be as foil >w, viz:
Lea- 1 !: Charleston 0.46, a. in.
Arrive in Savannah . 6.40, p. m.
Leave Savannah .5.30, a. in.
Arrive in Charleston 1.15, p. m.
rbi.s Train make* direc' connections, going north
ind south, with the Northeastern Railroad
eston. and the Central Railroad ai the Junction.
H. S. HAINES,
into-!'; ts Cn ; # .iccr m l Superintendent.
Change of Schedule.
iN and after Sunday, June 19th, tlie Trains on
the uscogee Railroad will run as follow.--:
TASSFNGBR TRAIN:
.pave Columbus... 6 45 P. M.
arrive at Macon 3 25 A. M.
Macon 8 10 P. «M
Arrive at Columbus 4 25 A. M.
FRRWHT TRAIN*:
Leave Columbus 5 00 A.
Arrive at. ChlutnhuK.... .4 55 A, A
W. L. CLARK.
uar lytf Supt. Muscogee R, it.
Through to Montgomery
NEW SCHEDULE.
MONTGOMERY & WEST POINT
RAILROAD COMPANY.
COLUMBUS, August 27,1864.
/ kN and after August 27th. the Passenger Train on
' * 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.
Leave Columbus at 5:50 a. ra.
Arrive at Mon'Komery 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 in
D. H. CRAM, Sup’t « Eng.
ag27 1864—ts
MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD.
Vil.tXliE OF SCHEDULE.
Girard, Ala., Aug. 22,1864.
/ vN and after this date Trains on this Road will
V > Run Daily (Sunday excepted,) follows:
Passenger Train.
i ave Girard at 00 p.m.
Arrive in Union Springs 7 30
Leave Union Springs 5 35 a.m.
Arrive in Girard at 10 00
Freight Train.
Leave Girard at 4 00 a. in.
Arrive in Girard at 6 00 p.pi.
B. E. WELLS,
aglß ts ‘ Eng.Jc Sup't.
SSOO Reward.
HANAWAY from Barnesvillo Georgia, on the 20th
. inst., a bright Mulatto Boy named Willis, 17 yrs
old, has large white eyes, with a simple expression
of countenance and shows his upper teeth when not
spoken to. It is thought he was enticed to leave
las he had a desire for camp life) by some Confed
erate soldiers, and may bo with some scouting or
straggling. He had on black cloth pants and dress
coat—thirlattor old fashioned, with forked tail; was
raised at Nashville, Tenn.; has been at Montgom
ery, Selma, Columbus and other places.
The above reward will be paid for his apprehen
sion and delivery to me at Cook’s /Totcl, or to Maj.
John S. Bransford, of the Army of Tenn.; Capt J M
White, Barnesvillo; Capt A J McWhorter, Eaton
ton, Ga„ or confined in any jail so that I can get
him. THOS. L BRANSFORD.
Columbus, Ga., Sept 30 51*
S2OO l
£BTRI¥E» OI& STOLEN,
'I'WO MULES. One a large sorrel horse Mule,
* flax mane and tail; the other a very large bay
mare Mule. Both about seven or eight years old,
and estniyed or stolen from Dr. Bottle’s planta'ion
;.n North Cowikee, Bussell co., Ala., seven miles
South of Hatohechubbee Boat Offiee, G. & R. R.,
on Sunday eight, 20t.h 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.
THEOPIIILLS SPEItLOCK.
sep2B lw* _
SI,OOO fitewai’d I
OTOLEN, from my residence, in Wynnton, on the
O night of the 19th inst., a Chesnut Sorrel Horse,
about 14 1-2 hands high and 14 years old; he has on
each side, Hist back of the foro-shoulder, 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. I will give the above reward for
the horse and thief, with proof to convict, or dsou
for the horse. MM. S. BALFOUR.
19®- Macon Telegraph copy two weeks, and send
bill to this office. sp2o2w
SSO Reward.
LEFT my plantation near Glennville, Alabama, on
Sunday last, 11th inst., a negro man by the name
of GREEN, who belongs to Col. Samuel Thompson
near Florence, Ala.
Green is aJbout33 years old; nearly white; straight
hair; slender lr.imo; noar six feet high; inclined
to stoop in the shoulders; short round face, and
talks slowly. He left my premises without provo
cation, and I havo reason to beliove that he is at
tempting to make his way to North Alabama, into
tho enemy's lines. He is acquainted about Colum
bus, Ga., having been hired out. there by Col. Win.
Bryan, or Col. Sam’l Thompson, for several months
last winter, and may tarry there m quest of employ
ment, I will pay fifty dollars regard for his appro
hension and delivery to mo, or confinement in some
jail where Lean get him.
sep2l ts JNO. F. TREUTLLN.
500 Megro Hen Wanted !
Nitre and Mixing Bureau, )
lleadq’rs Mining Division, No. 2, >
Selma, Ala., Sept. 13, ’64. J
I AM desirous of Hiring Five Hundred Negro "on,
-*for the Bibb Iron Works, located on tho Alabama
and Tennessee Rivers Rail Road, fitty miles North
of Selma, 150 South of Rome and 70 West ot Mont
gomery. I am paying for able-bodiuu men three
hundred dollars per annum, feeding and clothing
them One woman will bo hired to every ten men,
Ho cook and wash for them. There is on the pla**e a.
hospital with a regular surgeon, who takes charge
of all tho sick. If the enemy threatens, the negroes
can be moved West through an inaccessible coun
try. Applv to W P Herring, La Grange, Ga., or
WM. RICHARDSON HUNT,
Lieut. Col. Cbmd’g.
seplT 1m
SSOO Reward.
THILL bo paid for tho apprehension of bur boy
If Truman. He is about 24 years ol l, o feet high;
very black, and weighs about 180 pounds. Ihree
hundred dollars will bo paid for his confinement m
<omc jail so.that we cast get him, or five hundred
dollars for his delivery at FACTORY.
Eufaula Spirit of the South, Quincy Dispatch, Al
bany Patriot, Macon Telegraph. LaGrange Repor
ter, and Hamilton Enterprise, publish one month
and send bills to Factory.
sep2olm_
SSO Reward.
Superintendent’s Office, 1
Muscogee R. R. Company, k
Columbus, Ga., Nept 16, 'o4. )
A REWARD of SSO will be paid for the delivery
il to me for each of the following negro men :
Charles—Black; about 25 years old; quick spo
; weighs about 150 lbs.; about 5 feet 10 or 11 in.
inbCk; abo; t 30 years old: 5 ft 9 inches
"high; weighs 145 or 150 lbs.; blacksmith by trade.—
Probably will go to Jones county where his wife is.
W. L. CLARK,
spl7 lm Superintendent.*
$oO Reward.
I WILL pay the above reward for 808, a black
boy, about 24 years old. He has been out three
er four weeks, and is supposed to be lurking about
he city. "NO. H. **ASc.
iy 4 ts
SI,OOO sitward.
A CHUNKY, heavy ?t ~ bh.ekboy by Cue uauie
of WILLIAM, about 24 years old. left Coif* -
bus ou Sunday morning last. I aml confident he
was taken off by some white man. *\®
above reward for the negro a “ d ™ ei i
dence to convict, or I will pay two hundred rad
fifty dollars forNJne negro delivered to» me nrColum
bus. The boy Came from Virginia about two year,
ago. and says he is a sailor. I ttqpk tje> E
lumbus on foot and took the tram at sieme stati i
eloseby. J. U.LAss.
sepl-tf. ' ... ...
P. S. —I learn, since the was written, mat
lett Cblumbus on tho Opelika tram, on
SuSrti: morning, in company with a small white
limped, and that they were going to i\ est
Poitic, J.H. B.
STERLING EXCHANGE!
A FEW Hundred Pounds of Sterling Exchange
for sale in sums to suit purchasers by
agie ts BANK OF COLUMBUS,
Vol. XI.
J. W. WARREN &. CO. Proprietors J. YV. WARREN, Editor
SPECIAL NOTICES
Confederate States Arsenal.
Columbus, Gsl., Sept. 30, ’64.
Atlanta Arsenal—Notice.
Parties hoi ling claims against the Atlanta Ar»*-
nal, will, after having them approved by Lieut 2
U. Ansley, M S K Ord., now at Charleston Arst
nal, present them at this Office for payment.
M H WRIGHT.
Colonel Coind’g,
oetl 2w* Gov’t Works
iid. Q’rs Government Works, (Ord.
Columbus, Ga., Oct. 1,1864.
Strayed or Stolen.
FROM the Columbus Arsenal Stables, on the 28tb
of September, 1864.
One Black Horse Mule ;
u 11 Mare u
“ small Bay u
A suitable reward will be given for their delivery
at the Office of the Military Storekeeper.
M. 11. WRIGHT, * •
oetl fit Col. OorncPg.
notice!
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.
3,000 l ords Wood Wanted.
Office Post Quartermaster,
Coltfiubus, Ga., Sept. 20,1564.
I wish to contract immediately for (3,000) three
thousand cords of Oak and Hickory Wood.
CIIAS. A. REDD,
sep29 fit Capt and A Q M.
NOTICE
To Mississippi Soldiers!
TIIE “MISSISSIPPI DEPOT” and Office of
L Agency for the Relief of Mississippi soldiers in
the Army of Tennessee, has beeij 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, 21th Militia Dist.
• Columbus, Ga., Sept, i ■, 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. THORN TON, A D C.
pr N. W. Garrard, Capt & E 0.
Office at McGehee’s Auction House.
sepl7 ts
Battle-Field Stetiel Association
of Columbus, Ga.
All who are disposed to contribute articles neces
sary for tho relief of tho sick and wounded in the
Array of Tennessee, are requested to leave them at
Goodrich & Go’s store by ONE O’clock, P. M. ev
ery Tuesday and Friday., when they will be for
warded to and dispensed Jby our Committee there.
W. 11. YOUNG, Presd’t. *
C. G. Holmes. Scot. a.g23tf
Store Mouses for Rent.
} HE three buildings known as the deGraffenreid
i buildings, corner of Oglethorpe and Randolph
streets, are offered to rent from and after Ist Octo -
her. They ave guaranteed against Government im
pressment. E L deQRAFFENREID.
WYIVNTON SCHOOL.
MISS J. L, JEW KTT w 11 resume the exercises of
her Schoo’, at the Wynuton Male Academy, on
Wednesday, Oct. sth. 1864.
TERMS:
Per Quarter (3 months) S4O 00
Incidental Expenses»(per quarter) 10 00
- invariably in advance.
•©SfNo deduction-made, excepting in cases of pro.
traeted illness. sp3o lvv
MATT. It. KVA.YS,'
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
No. 64, Commerce Street,
MOBILE, ALABAMA.
WILL sell on Commission every description of
Roods, Negroes and Produce of all kinds.
sp2o lm
FOrTSaIaE I
320 Acres of Laud on Die Mobile &
Girard Hail Road,
THIRTY MILES from Columbus. Georgia, and one
l 1 and a half from Station No. 5; about 180 acres
opened, and cabins for about 30 negroes, with good
water, gui house, Ac. Apply to Messrs Ellis, Liv
ingston & Cos., for terms.
spalm* _ D C FREEMAN, Jr.
WMTED!
,rr AAA LBS. of TALLOW, for which a liberal price
cMJUI/ 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
TIL 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
sp!3 lm Dr. WOODRUFF.
FOR SALE!
i GOOD Saddle and Harness Horse,
A. Apply to
R. B. MURDOCH,
sep 2—ts or, at this office.
CQWI FEMALE ACADEMY!
THE Exercises of this Institution will be resumed
on the Ist Monday in 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.
E. S. GREENWOOD, Presd't.
D. F. WILLCOX, Sec'y.
spl2 ts Board of Trustees. _
SSO
V EGRO boy CHARLEY; about 25 years old, yel-
A low complexion, hair nearly straight, below or
dinary intelligence ; left Mr. Nat. Thompson’s near
Box Springs, Talbot county. I bought him of a
Mr. Brown, a refugee from Mississippi, who now
resides in Tuskegee, Ala. He originally came from
Charleston, S. C. A suitable reward will be paid
for his delivery at this office, or in any safe jail and
information sent to me at this office.
JAMES M. RUSSELL.
ColumbiFs Ga„ aug 1 ts *
BVGGf FOR SALE!
VN excellent Buggy and Harness for sale. Ap
ply at this office. sep2l ts
■■ ■ 5
n PIPER k BUSK BOOBS
FOR. SAL£3 !
V*' E have for sale 49 reams ot Letter Paper, and
■ 2,000 small Pocket Biank Books, at Wholesale
or Retail. Paper, SSO per Ream: Blank Books, $l5O
retail, 75 cts. wholesale. Apply at
agk ts \ _ # THIS OFFICE.
SOTlb 13.
To Phmtertß ami Others l
\ WILL EXCHANGE Osuaburgs,. Sheeting ana
1 Yarns, for Ba ou. Lard, laliow and Beeswax. 1
■vill be found at Robinett A Cos oidstand, where i
"i, manufact uring Candles and Lard On tor ?aie.
L. S. WRIGHT,
iune 2 tl - ___
S3OO REWAJKD.
STOLEN from Cook’s Hotel, yesterday morning,
27tb, a TRUNK containing Needles auu Spool
Thread and C u and Clothing t->r twenty -four pair Cot
ton Cards. The truck was found early yesteraay
morn ink, near the jail, robbe lof us content*, VV e
will pay the nho*e eward for t.-.e stmen goods,
and one hundred doimrs tor earn ot the thieves, a,
we are continent two persons were engaged m tae
theft. Macon and Montgomery will dc on the
watch. SHIVERS, WYNNE & CO..'
sep23t r. „ Proprietors..
Columbus, Ga., Tuesday Homing,
.Honda y Evening.
- - •
An Order to Increase the Army.— The fol
lowing is a paragraph of General Orders No. 73,
just issued by the Adjutant and Inspector General
at Richmond: “As soon as practicable, all officers
and men now employed in the enrolling service,
whether as enrolling officers, 'conscript guards,
clerks or othc wi e, except such as are retired or
assigned to light duty by the Medical Boards, will
be relieved by details from the reserve forces and
sent to the field.”
LiUiUt/KLH JLYIU\ KMEXT ON dALTMLLC. — iucjljjulu
burg “Republican” s£lys that it is rumored that the
Yankees are ma-sing a large foree in Eastern Ken
tucky for the purpose of destroying the Smythe
county Salt Works, and attempting to overrun
.(Southwestern Virginia. They are said to have
8,000 men at M< unt Sterling and 6,000 at Paints
ville, ail under the command of General Burbridge.
Our authorities are doubtless advised of this intend
ed movement and will make the necessary disposi
tions to checkmate it.
To: Strength of the Reserves.— A cotempo
rary has hit upon an ingenious method of -ascer
taining “the reserved strength of the Confederacy.”
lie says, take a trip over the railroads of the Con
federacy, and when you arrive at a city, town or
village, announce that President Davis or General
Beauregard, or some other famous personage is on
the train, wait half an houf ; then go to the next
town and repeat the announcement. After atrip
of this sort through the States, it will, be easy to
tell where the men may be found to make up the
six or eight hundred thousand. They are all safe,
and the Government is maintaining them.
General Bragg is on a raid. Certain quartermas
ters in Richmond have been ordered to be at rested
as “gu lty parties” who have violated section 9 of
the act of February 17,1864.
The following isjhe section of the law :
“Sec. 9. That any quartermaster or assistant
quartermaster, commissary or assistant oommissary,
(other than those serving in the field,) or officer in
the ordnance bureau, or navy agent, or provost mar
shal, or officer in the conscript service, who shall
hereafter employ or retain in his employment any
person in any of their departments or bureaux, or
in any of the duties mentioned in the Bth section
of this act, in violation of the provisions hereof,
shall, on conviction by a court martial or military
court, be cashiered,” &c.
An Important Order. —Adjutant General Cooper
Las issued the annexed important and stringent
order in regard to army letter writing:
Private letters and communications relative to
military marches an# operations, are frequently
mischievous in design, and their publication gen
erally injurious to the military service. They are,
therefore, strict:'/ forbidden, and any officer or
soldier, or other person serving with the armies of
the Confederate States in the field, who shall be
found guilty of making such communication for
publication, or placing the writing beyond his con
trol so that it finds its way to the press before one
month after the termination of the campaign to
which it relates, shall be punished, according to
the degree of his offence, by the sentence of a
court martial.
Free Speech Illustrated. Boston Jour
nal, a rabid Lincoln sheet, says :
At the recent Union meeting in Fauueil Hall the
Democratic Club of this city furnished a large dele
gation, who called for cheers for J/cClellan with
impunity and without molestation from the police.
Mr. Boutwell offered to yie’d a portion of his time
to any one who would attempt to refute his argu
ment from the platform. This is the Union idea of
free spe ch. At the Democratic meeting Saturday
evening, one of the audience in the gallery called
for cheers for the President, and at once hundreds
of those present, and among them, not unlikely,
those who shouted for McClellan at the previous
meeting, rushed with demoniac howls to "wipeout”
the intruder. The speech of .Judge Abbot was sus
pended five minutes, until the police, who exhibited
remarkable vigilance on this occasion, tumbled the
man down stairs in a very brutal manner. He was
passed down the back stairs, receiving cuffs and
kicks from one of the vice-presidents of the meet
ing as he crossed the platform on the way. This is
the Democratic idea of free speech.
Additional from tlie .\oil3i.
Northern papers of the evening of the 21th give
some further (Yankee) intelligence.
Gold declined in New York on the 24th to 200.
the pursuit of general early—the latest
REPORT FROM SHERIDAN.
The Baltimore American of Saturday evening
contains an account of Gen. Early’s retreat from
Fisher’s Hill on Thursday. The writer says :
After much manoeuvering, Crook’s com
mand, which distinguished itselniy splendid fight
ing before Winchester, furiously attacked the ene
my’s right on North Mountain, carrying every
thing by a magnificent assault, and driving the
enemy in the greatest confusion. The 6th and 19th
corps at the same time attacked the enemy in front,
and their whole line was broken up, and fled in tho
greatest confusion. Nothing but the approach of
darkness —the attack having been made late in the
afternoon —prevented tho entire destruction of
Early’s army.
We capturned 16 pieces of artillery, a great
many caissons, artillery horses, and, it is presumed,
a large number of prisoners, though Gen. Sheri
dan, at the time of his dispatch, did not know how
many. Gen. Sheridan, who knows how to im
prove it victory, was pushing forward after the
enemy, and had also sent two divisions of cavalry
down the Luray Valley to intercept the retreat of
the enemy. Much is expected from this vigorous
pursuit.
The following is the latest dispatch from Sheri
dan :
Headquarters Middle Division, j
Woodstock, Va., September 23, Ba. m. j
Lieutenant General U. S. Grant, City Point:
I cannot, as yet, give any definite account of the
results of the battle of yesterday. Our loss will be
light. General Crook struck the left flank of the
enemy, doubled it up, advancing down along their
lines. General Rickett’s division of* the 6t' n . army
corps swung in and joined General Crook; Getty’s
and Wheaton's divisions, taking up the same move
ment, followed by the whole line, and attacking—
beautifully carrying—tho works of the enemy.—
The rebels threw down their arms and fled in the
greatest confusion, abandoning most of their ar
tillery.
It was dark before the battle ended. I pursued
on after the enemy during the night to this point
with the 6th and 9th corps, and have stopped here
to rest the men and issue rations.
If General Torbert has pushed down the Luray
Valley, according to my directions, he will achieve
great results. Ido not think that there ever was
an army so badly routed. The Valley soldiers are
hiding away and going to their homes.
I cannot "give you any estimate of prisoners. I
pushed on, regardless of everything. The num
ber of pieces of artillery reported captured is 16.
[Signed] P. H. SHERIDAN,
Maj?r General.
The press and the people unite in calls
ing upon the government to place all our
able bodied men in the field. Yet, such
is the Strangeness of human nature, when
the necessary steps are taken, they are
too frequently rewarded with obloquy.—
As fast as the rule is applied, every man
on whom it is brought to bear fetches a
squall, and his friends all join, and de
clare mat.this is a peculiar and should be
a special ease. We may expect a great
deal of such outcry ; but we trust it will
be uo farther regarded than the best in
terests of the service demand, and that
nothing will be yielded to mere clamor
or “influential friends " Public efiigers
will find it a hopelesl undertaking to
please everybody: let them rather do
right and dispense equal justice ‘o all.
f Rich > \tuieL
[Srom the Richmond Enquirer, 29th.]
The News.
FROM PETERSBURG-
The chronic dullness on the front gave evi
dence ol no abatement, on yesterday. The
only parries to anything interesting for the
last few days have been tlie advanced pickets
of the two armies, who have been giving one
another accounts of the doings of Forrest and
Sheridan respectively, and swapping lies gen
erally, with tobacco and newspapers thrown
in- „ „
mi -r-rt ,< j .» nn’viuuu raiuoad.
The Wells house, o n ’
. ri ..uv i/uvis house, winch- latter was
burned by the enemy some time ago, was
destroyed a few nights since, through the
wantonness of the enemy.
Under a barn on the Davis plantation, a box
of silver plate was buried by the family pre
vious to the occupation *>f the place by the
enemy. The barn was buraed with the dwell
ing. Not long since a member of the family
secretly entered the Yankee lines, rescued the
box from und(f the ruins et the barn, and
returned safely with it to Petersburg.
FROM THE VALLEY.
The figln which occurred on Monday, con
cerning which so many rumors have been
afloat, occurred at Milieu’s bridge, a few miles
north of Port Republic, and so far as results
upon the Valley campaign are involved,
amounted to nothing, although the enemy
were repulsed and severely punished. It did
not occur between the main .armies, but, as
far as could be ascertained, it was a cavalry
fight in which our troopers determined to win
back some of their lost lustre. It is probable
that this was the only purpose of the fight, and
when it was over, and the object accomplish
ed, our troops fell back. The enemy is re
ported to have sent a heavy force to Staunton
on Tuesday, on which day large volumes of
smoke were seen ascending from that town.
A report was brought down by passengers on
the Central train last evening that the hostile
column numbered ten thousand and had pass
ed through Staunton and gone towards Lex
ington. The enemy sent a detachment of
several hundred cavalry on the same day to
Waynesboro’, which reached there about 7
o’clock in the morning, and between that hour
and nine destroyed by fire the wood-work of
the elegant bridge over the North river audthe
depot, ticket office and wood house of the
Central Railroad Company. The bridge is an
iron structure, the top or floor, on which the
track was laid, having formed the only wood
work about it. Their subsequent operations are
unknown. A report was current at Char*
lottesvilie that a force of five thousand of the
enemy were advancing on Rockfish Gap, the
point at which the Central tunnel penetrates
the Blue Ridge. This gap is about 18 miles
Southwest of Brown’s Cove, now said to be
held our forces, and, unless General Early
has abandoned the latter place, such a move
on the part of the enemy would appear singu
lar, to say the least of it. But there were
many reports as to the probable and reported
projected movements of the two armies, which
it is unnecessary to repeat. All that is posi
lively known is, to recapitulate, that there has
been no serious fighting since our sources left
New Market, in Shenandoah, that the enemy
ho!,d Staunton and Waynesboro’, and that they
h;tve the strongest army of the two. Brown’s
Gap, or Cove, is about thirteen miles west of
Charlottesville. It is, perhaps, the strongest
•and most defensible position in the Blue
Ridge, if it is as,important as it is strong, as
a military position, it can be held against any
force.
We take the following from the Lynchburg
Republican of Tuesday :
Our news from the Valley this morning is
that Gen. Early made a stand at Brown’s Gap,
about twenty miles Northwest of Charlottes
ville, and about six miles this side of Port
Republic, where he was attacked on yester
day at an early hour by Sheridan. The fight
lasted until 4 o’clock in the evening, and,
while we have no official information of the
result, we may state that we have it upon
highly respectable authority that he succeeded
in repulsing the enemy. We got this intelli
gence from such a source as to lead us to
place much reliance in its correctness.
Notwithstanding the checking- of the Fede
ral force at Brown’s Gap, military gentlemen,
conversant with the* topography of the coun
try, think it not improbable that Gen. Early
may deenn it advisable to retreat further.
Should he do so, it will be for sufficient reas
ons, not now necessary to state, but the wis
dom of which will be made apparent in good
time.
Tlie President.
What good to the country do some of our co
temporaries promise*to themselves, by Seizing the
occasion of the President’s visit to the South to
harshly criticise his blunders and anathematize
and deprecate the “bad luck” he is sure to bring in
his train ? The country would be much obliged
to these censorious brethren of ours if they would
remember that president Davis and Mr. Jefferson
Davis are a separable dual, and that while thej
may glut their wrath upon the man, they can -
not strike at the influence and reputation of, and
the public confidence in, the President, without se
rious injury to otft- struggling cause and giving
valuable ‘find and comfort” to the enemy.- If the
President has made mistakes and exhibited fail
ings from which nothing human is exempt, is this
the time to harp upon them? Do the friends of
General Johnjton or of General Hardee believe
that they commend themselves to the favor of
these patriotic soldiers by such ill-timed attacks
upon the Executive of the Confederacy and the
commander-in chief of its iftmies ? Whatever the
personal feelings and grudges in reference to the
man, neither of these distinguished gentlemen
will ever forget what is due to his official position
and responsibilities, and neither would throw a
pebble’s obstacle in the path of our great cause to
resent their personal wrongs. But, besides that
the spirit is bad, the example evil, and the Occa
sion ill-timed, it is not true that the President al
ways carries ill luck in his train. He has been
more closely associated with Gen. Lee and the
Army of Virginia than with any other, and there
ha3 been no lack of good fortune and victory
there. We cannot have but one President and
one commander in-chief and while ire are not to
expect perfection and infallibility in any mortal
chosen for so trying an ordeal it may be claimed
that it is far better and safer to put up with Mr.
Davis and his infirmities, than to turn over the
military and civil administration of the govern
ment, committed by constitution and law to his
hands, to the experience and wisdom of any twenty
of the most judicious editorial sanctums in the
Confederacy. With all his blunders and ill-luck,
we should prefer to see the power and responeibili
ty remain where it is. Men who are not prudent
enough to use the edged tools of pen and iak with
more discretion and more thoughtfulness for the
public-good, and greater justice and consideration
for the great dials of high public functionaries,
are hJfniiy the men to guide the helm of state
through the sturm that beats upon its straining
hull. We speak in the interest of the country
solely and simply. Our relations are as dissever
ed by ail personal considerations from tho admin
istration as those of any press in the land. «We
hare never been near the seat of government since
it was planted in Richmond, have not received the
smallest fuv frohi it, and, if we know it, have
not a hatche:, much less an axe, to grind. But
we feel it a sacred duty to uphold the authorities,
civil and military, who are constitutionally ap
pointed to conduct us through this terrible ordeal
h fire and battle. They command the ship and
are a par: of its crew. We may not think
them perfect in action and infallible in judgment,
but we stick to mem tor the sake of the craft; for
while tho tempest rages all hands are piped
to “save ship,” it is no-time to mutiny against the
officers.— Mobile Adv; ‘Her d' Register.
$5.00 Per Month.
The Destruction of Jerusalem.
Six j&ears after the birth of our Lord, Judea
and Samaria became a Roman province, uu'
der subordinate governors, the most famous
of whom was Pontius Pilate. These govern
ors became so oppressive that the Jews broke
out into rebellion: and seventy years after
Christ, Jerusalem was finally besieged by
Titus, afterwards Emperor of Rome. No trag
edy on the stage has the same scenes of ap
palling terror as are to be found in the histo
ry of the siege. The city itself was rent by
r — -’— ***'' J — u: —*• —-- —i+k other
—ail the elements of civil hatred had broke
loose—the streets were slippery with the blood
ofeitiz«iis—brother slew brother—the grana
ries were set on fire—famine wasted those
whom the sword did not slay. In the midst
ot these civil massacre*, the Roman armies
appeared before the walls of Jerusalem. Then
for a short time the rival factions united
against the oominon foo; they were again the
gallant countrymen of David and Joshua—
they sallied forth and scattered the eagles of
Rome. But this triumph was brief: the fe
rocity of the ill-fated Jews soon again wasted
itself on each other. And Titus marched on
—encamped his armies close by the walls—
and from the heights the Roman general
gazed with awe on the strength and splendor
of the city of Jehovah.
Let us here pause—and take ourselves, a
mornful glance at Jerusalem, as it then was.
The city was fortified by a triple wall, save on
bae side, where it was protected by deep and
impassable ravines. These walls, of the most
solid masonry, were guarded by strong tow
ers ; opposite to the loftiest of these towers
Titus had encamped. From the height of
that tower the sentinel might have seen
stretched below the whole of that fair terri
tory of Judea, about to pass from the country
men of David. Within these walls was the
palace of the kings—its roof of cedar, its doors
of the rarest marbles, its chambers filled with
the costliest tapestries, and vessels of gold and
silver. Groves and gardens, gfeaming with
fountains, adorned with statutes of bronze, di
vided the courts of the palace itself. But
high above all, upon a precipitous rock, rose
the temple, fortified and adorned by Solomon.
The temple was as strong withaut as a citadel
—within more adorned than a palace. On en
tering you behold porticoes of numberless col
umn, of porphyry, marble and alabaster;
gates adorned with gold and silver, among
which was the wonderful gate called the
Beautiful.
Further on, through the vast arch, was the
sacred portal which admitted into the interior
of* the temple itself—all sheeted ovSr with
gold and overliung by a vino tree of gold, the
branches of which were as large as a man.
The roof of the temple, even on the outside,
was set over with golden spikes to prevent
the birds settling there and defiling the holy
dome. At a distance the whole temple looked
like a mount or snow, fretted with golden pin
nacles. But, alas, the veil of that temple had
been already rent asunder by an inexpiable
crime, and the Lord of Hosts did not fight
with Israel. But the enemy is thundering at
the wall. All around the city rose immense
machines, from which Titus poured down
mighty fragments of rock and showers of fire.
The walls gave way—the city was entered—
the temple itself was stormed. Famine in the
meantime had made such havoc that the be
sieged were more like spectres than living
men ; they devoured the belts to their swords,
the sandals to their feet.
Even nature itself or perished away that a
mother devoured her own infant; fulfilling
the awful words of the warlike prophet who
had first led the Jews towards the land of
proiflise: “The tender and delicate woman
amongst you, who would not venture to set
the sole of her foot upon the ground for deli
cateness and tenderness—her eyes shall be
evil toward her young one and the children
that she shall bear, for she shall cat them for
want of all things secretly in the seige and
straightness wherewith thine enemy shall dis
tress thee in thy gates.” Still, as if the foe
and the famine were not scourge enough, cit«
izens smote and murdered each other as they
metuithe way, fulse prophets ran howling thro'
the streets, every image of despair completed
the ghastly picture of the fall of Jerusalem.—
And now the temple was set on fire, the Jews
rushing through the flames to perish amidst
its ruins. It was a calm summer night—the
10th of August—the whole hill on which
stood the temple was one gigantic blaze of
fire—the roofs of cedar crashed—the golden
pennacles of the dome like spikes of crimson
flame.
Through the lurid atmosphere all was car
nage and slaughter ; the echoes of shrieks and
yells ran back from the hill of Zion and the
Mount of Olives. Among the smoking ruins,
and over piles of the dead, Titus planted the
standard of Rome. Thus were fulfilled the
last avenging prophecies—thus perished Jeru
salem. In that dreadful day men were still
living who might have heard the warning
voice of him they crucified—‘Verily, I say
unto you all these thing? shall come upon this
generation. * * * 0, Jerusalem,
Jerusalem, thou that killest the phrophetsand
stonest them that are sent unto the, *
* behold you* house is left unto
you desolate !’ And thus were the Hebrew
people scattered over the face of the earth,
still retaining to this hour their mysterious
identity—still aliving proof of the truth cf
those prophets they had scattered or slain—
stll, vainly awaiting the Messiah, whose di
vine mission was fulfilled eighteen centuries
ago, upon the Mount of Cavalry.
Sir E. Bulwer Lytton.
A report of the brief address of President Davis,
at Macon, will be found in this morning’s paper.
Mr. Davis was evidently vexed when he delivered
it. How —if he have the ordinary weaknesses of
human nature —could it be otherwise—especially
in Georgia, where malice and ignorance and pre
judice have been trying to impair the confidence of
our people in his virtues? Happily, the malevo
lent or thoughless men who are engaged in this
very unpatriotic business have only provoked more
inquiry, and the-result is an inereased admiration
and respect for the man. We have nothing of
what Carlyle calls “hero-worship”—think that no
man is worth worship of any kind, unless ha show
gome good in the acts which make him great; and,
therefore, shall bo suspected of nothing like idol
izing the president, when we ask where is the man
in the Confedaracy, or elsewhere, that one would
to-day select to perform what he ha* performed?
Even the worst of the croakers would be puzzled
to name a substitute. For our own part, we think
it might he impossible to find the man any where
in any part of the world. If Providence control
the acts of us peor weak creatures, and be on our
side, and not that of the Yankees, we may affirm
that Mr. Davis was set apart for the position he
occupies. Logically, under the premis-, this must
fee true, but wa need fcaidiy resort to any thing
more than the records of the war, witho-i tbr re
condite influences of Providence, to prove what we
honestly believe—that is, that it ir impossible to
honor President Davis too inuck.
f Mobile Tribune.
Whether due to the exertions of the Catholic
clergy, or to the better knowledge of the real state
of the case, or to the offer of greater inducements
elsewhere, or to the exhaustion of the centrifugal
impulse which every now and then causes the Irish
population to fly off at a tangent, even to the ends
of the earth, certain it is that the Irish emigration
to the Northern States has greatly fallen off, if i
ha? not wholly ceased for the present. That is ;o
far encouraging, as it cuts off one suppiy of sol
diers. If the German -- -ould’alao be kept at home
it would be another go they may
be.— State Journal.
Speech of Secretary Chase.
A number of the members of the Lincoln
and Johnson club of Washington last Monday
visited the residence of Searetary Chase, and
serenaded him. After repeated calls, Mr.
Chase addressed the club. After returning
bis thanks for this demonstration, he said :
I propose soon to go to my own great State
in the West, there to advocate the cause fi>
dear to you all. I believe you call yourself
the Lincoln and Johnson club. Those names
represent to us to-day principles and a policy,
designs and purposes, by which alone we be
lieve this country can be saved. Os these
principles I have been an earnest advocate, to
use a legal phrase, for a length of time,
“whereof the memory of man runbeth not to
thecountrary.” I shall not be likely now to
forget them, or cease to inculcate them to my
fellow-citizens. If all the voters would take*
my advice, there would not be a vote cast
except for these two gentlemen. A great
many, no doubt, and, in my humble judgment,
a large majority, will be given for them.
The Baltimore platform,*upon which these
nominees were placed, comprises three great
principles : First, Union, one and indivisible.
That Union embraces in its* extent the whole
country —efery hill, every river, every mouth
of every river, every promontory and cape,
wherever the flag of the Union ever floated.
The next of these principles is, that that
Union has been assaulted by slavery, and
slavery must die the death it deserves. This
principle Was xuuouno.il by the convention,
by, I suppose, a greater degree of unanimity
than any other there connected. Is there a
man here who means to deny this? Is there
one who means to suffer this to be put down ?
The third principle is, the right of Ameri
cans must be respected by all foreign coun
tries. They have no idea of allowing princes
or potentates of any country to interfere with
anything that of right belongs to this country
or the people of this country, or to place any
obstructions in the way of the institutions and
the progress of this country.
The Union can only be maintained by thor
oughly suppressing the rebellion, and pre
serving republican institutions, based upon
these principles. To this end the people pro*
pose to maintain their armies now in the field.
We did not mean to treat them with any hol
low or lip sympathy ; we do not mean to give
any cold cut, but warm, generous sympathy,
warm, generous support to the men who are
fighting under that obstinate fellow Grant;
the men who have acted so splendidly in that
campaign, consummated by that glorious vic
tory under Sherman; the men who, on the
ocean .wave, or in the harbor of that ocean
wherever Farragut leads them, with that gal
lant commander tied to the masthead. We
intend to give them ample supplies of arms,
food, clothing, everything which they need.
And while doing this, we intend to appeal to
them in the name of this great republic, to
save our national honor and our free institu
tions. . t
We want peace, but we want it with a Union
mad© sacred by freedom, and made permanent
by foundations upon freedom and justice.
Which of the planks in our platferm do you
want taken out ? Do you want any one shaved
a single particle ? No, no ; let it stand as it
is. It is all good. Let us maintoin it all.—
Lot us maintain the men who support it.
Mr. Chase concluded by again returning
thanks for the compliments bestowed upon
him, and the crowd dispersed.
What the Tribune says about Peace now.—
The New York Tribune disposes of the peace
question in a paragraph, and thus sounds the la, as
musicians say, on the requiem of the dead re
bellion :
We say little concerning the “Peace” rumors
from day to day set afloat, but the conviction we
expressed two months ago that Peaeo is not dist
ant, it strengthened by subsequent developments.
But for the hope still wildly clung to of a Copper
head triumph in our Presidential contest, we are
confident that no Rebel flag would be flying this
side of the Mississippi on the Ist of November
next.
course, we lay little stress on reports of ne
gotiations opened here or progressing there. They
are not all without foundation; but the hope of
early peace rests not on any of them. The vital
facts that the Rebellion i3 u failure, and that its
military power is very nearly exhausted, have far
greater significance. The rebel chiefs at Rich
mond may try to hold out till after our Presidential
contest is over; but, if they do, they will have lit
tle capital left whereon to base their demands for
favorable terms. The more reasonable presump
tion is, that, if not already intent on a capitulation,
they very soon will be.
Withdrawal of Fremont.—Fre
mont has written a letter withdrawing
from the canvass for the - Presidency for
the sake of unity among those opposed
to slavery. In it he says :
The Chicago platform is simply sepa
ration. General McClellan’s letter of
acceptance is re-establishment with slavery.
The Republican candidate, on the contra*-
ry, is pledged to the re-establishment of
the Union without slavery; and, however
hesitating his policy may be, the pressure
of his party will, we may hope, force him
to it. Between these issues, I think no
man of the liberal party can remain in
doubt; and I believe lam consistent with
my antecedents in withdrawing, not to
aid in the triumph of Mr. Lincoln, but to
do my part towards preventing the elec
tion of the Democratic candidate.
In respect to Mr. Lincoln, I continue
to hold exactly the sentiments contained
in my letter of acceptance. I consider
that his administration has been, political
ly, militarily and financially, a failure, and
that its necessary continuance is a cause
of regret for the country.
Good, if True.— The Mail of this
morning refers to a rumor current in mil
itary circles, of intelligence that anew
military district has been, or is about to
be established, to be called the department
of the Tennessee ; that it is to embrace
all the territory north of the Tennessee
river, and extending through Kentucky
to the mouth of that stream, and into East
Tennessee on the right as far as Cumber
land Gap. And further and better, that
General Forrest is to be made a lieutenant
general and placed in command of this
new department, with authority to raise,
equip and organize as 1 large a force as pos
sible and to operate against the enemy at
discretion.
From, what has come to our knowledge
we are inclined to give more than ordina
ry credit to this rumor, and have reason
to believe that some of the steps indicated
have been taken. We shall not be sur
prised to be called upon to publish Lieut.
Gen. Forrest’s order assuming command
of his department, at an early day.
[Memphis Appeal.
A dispatch from Forrest states that
“after three hours fighting he stormed
and capttu~ r * the fort at Sulphur springs,
with over eight hundred prisoners, two
block houses, three hundred horses, two
pieces of artillery and large quantities of
Quartermaster aud Commissary stores.
The trestle-work at that point, the most
important between Decatur and Nashville,
was completely destroyed. Enemy’s los?
over one hundred killed and wounded, it*-
eluding the Colonel commanding the
Our loss ten killed and about twenty five
wounded. The fight occurred on the 28th
ult.— Selma. Reporter . '