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COLUMBIA S I vi. ;
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Change ol Schedule.
Omen ENeiN*inAnnScrsßi»»MtD*NT. 1
Charleston and Savannah, Batiroad, >
Charleston, June 7,10b4.J
THURSDAY, June 9,1864, and until further
(J notice, the Schedule of the Passenger train will
be as follow, viz: I
Leave Charleston 9.45, a. in.
Arrive in Savannah .5.40, p. m.
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
leston, and the Central Railroad at the Junction.
. H. S. H AINbS,
June 11 ts Engineer arid Superintendent.
Cliai&ge ot Schedule.
iN and after Sunday, June 19th, the Trains on
' * the >'uscogea Railroad will run as follows:
PASSENGER TRAIN:
jeave Columbus d> 45 P. M.
Arrive at Macon qiop'm'
vrrive at Columbus .......A a> A. ....
FREIGHT TRAIN :
Leave Columbus 5 09 A. '-.
Vrrive at Clumta w. L. CLAM?
mar 19 ts Supt. Muscogee R.
Through to Montgomery.
NEW SCHEDULE.
MONTGOMERY & WEST POINT
RAILROAD .COMPANY.
COLUMBUS, August 27,1864.
,\N 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 Cblumbus at 5:32 p. m.
Leave 6’oluuibus at 5:50 a. m.
4 rri vo at Montgomery at 3:00p.m.
Arrive at West Potnt at 4130 p.m.
Freight Train loaves Columbus at 8:40 a m.
4 rrives afc 8:27 P m
D. H. CRAM, Sup’t k Eng.
ag27lß64—tf ;
MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
Girard, Ala., Aug. 22, 1864.
/ \N and after this date Trains on this Road will
' ' Run Daily (Sunday excepted,) as follows:
Passenger Train.
Leave Girafd at 3 00 p. m.
Arrive in Union Springs i 39
Leave Union Springs ..5 •*> a ,P-
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.
SSOO Reward.
UAN A WAY from Barnesville Georgia,on the 20th
1L 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
jpoken to. It is thought he was enticed to leave
(as he had a desire for camp life) by some Confed
erate soldiers, and may be with some scouting or
straggling, lie had on black cloth pants and dress
coat—the latter old fashioned, with forked tail; was
raised at Nashville, Tenn.; lias 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 /Total, or to Maj.
John S. Bransford, of the Army of Tenn.; Capt J M
White, Barnesvillo; Capt A J.McWherter, Eaton
ton, Ga„ or confined in any jail so that I can get
him. THUS. L BRANSFORD.
Columbus, Ga., SeptJQt _ _r>t* _
8200 H.eward !
ESTRAYED OK STOLEN,
r rWO MULES. Quo a large sorrel horse Mule,
* flax mime and tail; the other a very large bay
marc Mulo. Both about seven or eight years old,
and estrayed or stolen from Dr. Battle s plantation
on North Cowikee, Russell cm, Ala., seven miles
South of Ilatehechubbee Post Office, G. & M. R. R
on Sunday eight. 20th inst. The above reward will
tie paid for both mules, or half the amount for one.
A suitable reward will be paid for apprehending
the thief ifstolcn. THEOpuILUS S PERLOCK.
sep2B lw*
#I,OOO Steward!
CTOLEN, from my residence, in Wynnton, on the
O night of the 19th inst., a Chesnut Sorrel Horse,
about It 1-2 hands high and 14 years old; he has on
each side, just back of the fore-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. 1 will give the above reward for
the horse and thief, with proof to convict, or $509
tor the horse. WM. S. BALFOUR.
toS,Maeon Telegraph copy two weeks, and send
bill to this office. sp2o2w*
S3O Reward.
I EFT my plantation near Glennville, Alabama, on
1 j Sunday last, 11th inst., a negro man by the name
of GREEN, who belongs to Col. Samuel Thompson, ,
near Florence, Ala. .
Green is about 33 years old; nearly white; straight ■
hair; slender frame; near six feet high; inclined
to stoop in the shoulders; short round face, and
talks slowly. He left my premises without provo
cation, and I have reason to believe that he is at
tempting to make his way to North Alabama, into
the enemy's lines. 110 is acquainted about Colum
bus, G ~ ha ving been hired out there by Col. Wm.
Bryan, or L'ol. Sain’t Thompson, for several months
last winter, and may tarry there in quest of employ
ment, I w II pay fifty dollars reward for his appre
hension and delivery to mo, or confinement in some
jail where I can get him.
scp2l ts JNO. F. TREUTLEN.
* 300 Megro ffl en Wanted!
Nitre and Mining Bureau, )
lleadq’rs Mining Division, No. 2, >•
Selma, Ala., Sept. 13, ’ti4. j
I AM desirous of Hiring Five Hundred Negro Men,
i for the Bibb Iron Works, located on the Alabama
and Tennessee Rivers Rail Road, fifty miles North
of Selma, 150 South of Rome and <0 West of Mont
gomery. I am paying for able-bodied men three
hundred dollars per annum,. ioeding and clothing
them One woman will be lured to every ten men,
to cook and wash for them, lhere is on the place a
hospital with a regular surgeon, who takes charge
of all the sick. If the enemy threatens, the negroes
can be moved West through an inaccessible coun
try Apply to W P Herring, La Grange. Ga.. or
WM. RICHARDSON HUNT,
Lieut. Col. Cbmd’g,
seplT m
S3OO Reward.
WILL bo paid for the apprehension of our boy
Truman, lie is about 24 years old ; 6 feet high;
very black, and weighs about 180 pounds. Ihree
hundred dollars will bo paid for his confinement in
some jail so that wo can get him, or tive hundred
dollar, for hi. deliver, at tH| AaLE FACTORY .
Eufaula Spirit of the South, Quincy Dispatch, Al
bany Patriot, Macon Telegraph, LaGrange Repor
ter, and Hamilton Enterprise, publish one month
and send bills to Factory.
sep2o i in
S3O Reward,
Superintendent's Ofwlpe,)
Muscogee R. R. Company,
Columbus, Ga., Nept 16, ’64. j
i REWARD of SSO will be paid for the delivery
A to me for each of tho following negro men :
kenVw 150 about 5 fret 10 n r 11 In.
rd—Black; about 30 years old: 5 ft 9 inches
tVh- weighs 145 or 150 lbs.; blacksmith by trade.—
Probably will go to Jones county where his wile is.
splT lm Superintendent.
SSO Reward.
(WILL pay the above reward for 808, a black
boy, about 24 years old. He has been out three
or four weoks, and is supposed to be lurking about
he city. JJNO. 11. ma&s.
jy_4 ts _ -
SI,OOO Reward.
A CHUNKY, heavy set, black boy by the name
A of WILLIAM, about ‘24 years old, left Oolum
bus on Sunday morning last. I am confident ho
taken off by some white man. I 'Jill pay the
tS d Thfboy t came fKm Vir*i»i» »!>»>«JMg!
SS,« and .»iaYt >«*.§«.»
Close by. J. fl.BAb..
P. P S.-I learn, since the above was written, that
♦he boy leit Cblumbus on the Opelika train, on
. ati day morning, In company with a small wane
that lmiped, and that they were going to '' l e«-t
Foin-. J. H ■ t>.
STERLiiSS exchmoe !
A W Hundred Pounds of Sterling Exchange
a for sale in sums to suit purchasers by
agio ti BANK OF COLUMBUS.
u olnmims ®imp.
Vol. XI.
J. W. WARREN 4k CO. Proprietors.
SPECIAL NOTICES
Confederate States Arsenal. j
Columbus, o a.. Sept. 39, ’64.
Atlanta Arsenal—Aotice.
Parties hoi ling claims against the Atlanta Arse- j
nal, will, after having them approved by Lieut J |
U. Anslky, M S K Ord., now at Charleston Arse ,
nal, present them at this Office for pa: ment.
M H WRIGIIT,
Colonel Comd’g,
octl 2w • Gov’t Works
Hd. Q’rs Government Works, (Ord.
Columbus, Ga., Oct. 1,1364.
Strayed or Stolen.
i [?ROM the Columbus Arsenal Stables, on the 280
t of September, 1864.
One Black Horse Mule ;
11 u Mare “
“ small Bay “
A suitable reward will be given for their delivery
at the Office of the Military Storekeeper.
M. 11. WRIGHT,
octl 6t Col. Comd’g.
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.
CHAS. A. REDD,
sep2B 6t Capt. and A. Q. M,
3,000 Cords Wood Wanted.
Office Post Quartermaster,
Columbus, Ga., Sept. 20, 1864.
I wish to contract immediately for (3,p00) three
thousand cords of Oak and Hickory Wood.
CHAS. A. REDD.
sep29 6t Capt and A Q M.
NOTICE
To Mississippi Soldier* !
the “MISSISSIPPI DEPOT’’ and Office of
L 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 uie Perry House.
Your baggage is there.
C. K. MARSHALL,
sep2B ts v Agent.
lAotice.
Headquarters, 24th Mii.'tia Dist.
Columbus, Ga., Sept. 1 •>, 1H64.
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, A D C.
pr N. W. Garrard. (7apt& E 0.
Office at iWcGehee’s Auction House.
seplT if ... ..."
Battle-Field Skelict Association
of’Columbus, Ga.
All who are disposed to contribute articles neces
sary for the relief of the sick and wounded in the
Army of Tennessee, are requested to lea ve them at
Goodrich & Go’s store by One o’ceOcß, P. M. ev
ery Tuesday and Friday, when they will be for
warded to and dispensed by our Committee there.
W. H. YOUNG, Presd’t.
C. G. Holmes, Scc’y. . ag23tf
Store fSosi*e<* for Rent.
*
THE three buildings known as the deGraffenreid
I buildings, corner of Oglethorpe and Randolph
streets, are offered to rent from and after Ist Octo
bcr. They are guaranteed against Government im
pressment. E L (ieGRAFFENREID.
’ WYWIVTOI SCHOOL.
MISS J. L. JEW ETT w 11 resume the exercises of
her School, at the Wynnton Male Academy, on
Wednesday, Oct. stb, 1864.
TERMS:
Per Quarter (3 months) S4O 00
Incidental Expenses (per quavtex) "... 10 00
INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
No deduction made, excepting in cases of pro
tracted illness. sp3Q lw
HIATT. St. EVANS,
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
No. 64, Commerce Street,
>IOISILE, ALABAMA.
WILL sell on Commission every description of
Goods, Negroes and Produce of all kinds.
sp2o lm __
FOR SALE !
320 Acres of Larnl ou the Mobile &
Girard Hail Road,
FORTY MILES from Columbus, Georgia, and one
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.
sps lm* D C FREEMAN, Jr.
WAITED!
C AAA LBS. of TALLOW, for which a liberal price
cHvUv will be paid. Apply to
F. AY. DILLARD,
sp7 ts Major and Q. M,
FOR SALE.
A HOUSE and LOT, situated North of the North
Commons on the comer 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
‘“lllg’lC 111 ™ 1 " 5 al>l>li ' to Dr. WOODRUFF.
FOR SALE!
A GOOD Saddle and Harness Horse.
Apply to
R. B. MURDOCH,
sep 2—ts or, at this office.
»i IMIAIE INSTITUTE.
THE Session begins on Monday, Oct. 3d. A full
corps of experienced and faithful teachers will
be in attendance.
Board will be furnished to ten or fifteen additional
young ladies at reasonable rates.
W. B. SEALS. Pres't.
Applications can be made at Pease’s book store or
Wells & Curtis’ shoe store to Rev. F. R. Starr.
sep23 4sw*
950 Reward.
NEGRO boy CHARLEY; about 25 years old, yel- !
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.
Columbu's Gsl„ aug 1 ts *
BUGGY FOR SALE!
AN excellent Buggy and Harness for sale. Ap
ply at this office. sep-1 ts
LETTER PAPER k BUI BOOKS
FOR SALE !
IXTE have for sale 49 reams of Letter Paper, and
Ts 2,000 small Pocket Blank Books, at Wholesale
or Retail. Paper, S6O per Ream; Blank Books, $l5O
rebul'JScts.whoiesaie, Apply
NOTICE.
To Planters and Others!
r WILL EXCHANGE Osnaburgs, Sheeting and
I Yarns, for Bacon, Lard, Tallow and Beeswax, i
will be found at Robinett A Cb’s oldstand, wnere i
am manufacturing Candles and Laid Oil for sale.
L. 6. Witilrnl.
june 2 ts _
Notice to Debtors and Cred
itors.
A t OTICE is hereby given to all persons having
i\ demands against Samuel Metlary, late ofMus
cogee county, -deceased, to present them to either of
us properly made out, within the time prescribed
bv law. All persons indebted to said deceased are
hereby required to make immediate payment to
either of ft. idm ' r
MARIA E McCLARY. Mdmt x
i aj3l wet*
Columbus, Ga., Wednesday Morning, October 5,1864.
Tuesday Evening,'
Macaeta.—We learn, says the Mobile Tribune,
that the first heavy edition of “Macaria,” by our
gifted townswoman, Miss Evans, has been entirely
exhausted aad anew one of ten thousand copies
been issued. It is more neatly printed than the
first, and all .the typographical errors, which were ,
pretty numerous have bdon corrected.
From the Front.
A letter in the Columbia South Carolinian, dated
Griffin, Sept. 22'!. says :
The supposition here is that Geu. Hood’s des
tination is Middle Tennessee, and that after his ar
rival there he v ill be co-operated with by other
; columns of infa try and cavalry converging to a
certain point. It is well known, both to us and to
I the enemy, tha Gen. Forrest formed a junction
with Wheeler in North Alabama, and moved di
rectly, with the combined command,-upon the line
; of the Nashvill ■ and Chattanooga Railroad. That
t he will crush and annihilate all the force sent to
i oppose him, scarcely admits of a doubt. The ene
my have no cavalry, or cavalry leader in this de
partment, able to oppose him. We must thank
the authorities at Richmond for at least making
that disposition of all our cavalry, which the rea
! son and judgment of every practicable man would
i dictate: for it is utterly impossible for Sherman to
subsistliis vast army of men and animals at Atlan
j ta if our resources are applied to the cutting of hi3
i two hundred miles of railroad, over which all his
I subsistence must be drawn.
I assure you that our army marched out of its
1 camp at Lovejoy’s and Jonesboro’, with its face
turned Northward, with a light tread and merry
I heart. The wonder is not that the spirit of the
soldiers wass low up to that time, but that dernor
| alization was not universal; for it is impossible to
| keep patriotism burning brightly in tliß bosoms of
i men while constantly on the retreat.
Everything in the way of hospitals and stores is
being*rapidly sent to the rear, and in twenty four
hours hence nething of the kind will be found in
this rural little village.
[From the Richraood Dispatch, 20th.]
From tlie Valley.
Rumors from the Valley are plentiful but
most of them are of an unreliable character.
It was reported yesterday that General Early
whipped the enemy on Tuesday at Wever's
cave, but of this there is no confirmation.
From all we can learn, a heavy skirmish-.took
place on Monday at Brown's gap, since which
time there has beiyi no fighting. In this affair
the enemy seems to have made the attack, and
were repulsed. The object of the enemy was,
doubtless, to engage Early's attention while
their cavalry occupied Staunton and went on
raids in various directions. They entered
Staunton, as we have before stated, at live
o'clock on Monday evening, in force variously
estimated at from five hundred to five thous
and men. We heard nothing further from
them until yesterday morning, when, between
eight and nine o'clock, a body of cavalry ad
vanced upon Waynesboro', on the Central
railroad, twelve miles this side of Staunton.
Here they destroyed a splendid iron bridge,
the best on the road, two hundred and thirty
feet in length, and built in the most substan
tial manner. They also burnt the depot, en
gine-house. woodsheds, and in fact, (accord
ing to the best information at hand.) destroy
ed all the railroad property at the station.
Waynesboro 1 , is at the western foot of the
Blue-Ridge. on the South river. We have no
account of the enemy’s subsequent operations,
although it is reported that a party of cavalry
had gone in the direction of Lexington. Be
tween Waynesboro' and Staunton, with the
exception of the iron structure just mentioned,
the only railroad bridges are of wood and
trestle-work, averaging, perhaps, twenty feet
in length. These have probably been destroy
ed. A report reached us last night that the
Yankees were advancing towards the Blue
Ridge tunnel, but this lacks confirmation.
An impression prevails in some quarters
that the enemy contemplates a raid upon
Charlottesville. To accomplish this, however,
they must first pass through Brown’s gap,
which we are confident of our ability to hold.
Meanwhile, although we have no positive in
formation as to General Early’s present posi
tion, there is a report, believed to be authen
tic, that he has started in pursuit of the
enemy, and it is hoped he will bo able to
punish them sufficiently to check their de
structive operations. We’ are assured by a
gentleman from Staunton that there is no
truth in the rumor of the demoralization of
our army in the* Valley. The men were never 1
in better spirits, and. only await their Gener
al’s command to go forward and meet the foe.
Parties who arrived last evening from Me
dium's river info; m us that all the inhabi
tants of Staunton and vicinity, wild could do
so, fled on the approach of the Yankees. It
is represented that the road between Staun
ton and Charlottesville is lined with wagons,
horses, cattle and negroes, their owners all
seeking a place of safety : the whole present
ing, as they move along, the appearance of an
immense caravan. These unfortunate people,
thus driven from their homes, will doubtless
locate temporarily in some of the upper coun
ties until such time as the departure of, the
Yankees (under compulsion, we hope,) shall
leave them free to return.
Asa measure of prudence, the public stores
at Medium's river were yesterday removed.
Should the enemy happen to advance in that
direction, they will find but little to gratify
their thir3t for plunder. Everything of value
belonging to the Government at Staunton
had been removed previous to the occupation
of the town by the Yankees, and the sick and
wounded were carried to Lynchburg.
We add the following to our list ot casual
ties in the Valley: Capt. J. Livingston Massie,
of the Fluvanna artillery, killed ; Sergeant
Major William M. Abell, of Charlottesville,
acting adjutant of the Fifth Virginia cavalry,
killed : Major J.'M. Wilson. Seventh Louisiana
regiment, wounded: Edward C. Minor, of
Charlottesville, a member of the New Kent
cavalry, arm shot off; Lieutenant Colonel
Pendleton, assistant adjutant-general to
General Early, mortally wounded ; Captain
Duncan, of Louisiana, killed: Lieutenant
Henry Long, of the same State, wounded :
Captain Lasley, Company K, Second, Virginia
cavalry, and Hugh Garth, of Albemarle, 3ame
company, killed; Edward Wills, of Lynch
burg, a member of Massie’s battery, killed;
Major Seaton Gales, of North Carolina, cap
tured. Gen. Wharton is reported wounded.
Siege Matters. — Four Hundred and Fiftieth
Day. —. Since last report the bombardment of the
city has continued briskly. The number of shells
fired from 6 9. m. Thursday, to the same hour yes
terday, was 84. During the same interval Battery
Gregg has fired 10 mots and the Swamp Angel Bat
teryTT shots at Fort Sumter. , ,
The only casualty of which we "wc heard yester
day was one negro woman killed.
The flag of truce boat, for the exenange of naval
prisoners will go down the harbor, from C hisholm's
Sill wharf at eight o’clock en -Monday morning.
[ Mercury . I*'.
Sir Roderick Murchison has been informed
■ ihat a fall of manna has recently taken place
in Asia Minor. The manna is a lichen which
: is formed in the steppes of the Kurghis, and
is often carried in these falls far to the west,
across the Ch&spiaa. The grams. which*are
j always perfectly detached, have much the
j form of a raspberry or mulberry, and are
; found frequently to be attached to a stony
j support of granite, sandstone and lime. This
manna is ground into dour and baked mto
| bread, and is known among the Turks by the
j name of herder thoghimz which means wonder
' cs-i 0- grain.
Latest from the t utted States, i
The N. Y. Herald and Tribune of the 26th j
inst. have been received, from which we gath- i
er the following intelligence :
FROM SHERIDAN’S ARMY.
The news published in the Northern papers ;
from Sheridan’s army is ominiously meagre- ;
The Herald contains but one short dispatch
which places Sheridan beyond Woodstock, j
“in hot pursuit of his game.' The Herald al
ways forgets that two can play at such a
game. The dispatch say3 :
! Washington, Sept. 25th.—At the last ac
counts received from General Sheridan he was j
i over one hundred miles from Harper's Ferry, j
closely pursuing the scattered and fleeing
i remnant of Early’s army. He had advanced j
: jo far from the base of operations that commu
nication was hazardous, except with a strong
j escort, sufficient to intimidate the guerrilla i
| bands infesting the route rapidly passed over. ,
For this reason we may not be able to hear
; anything additional to-night.
The warmth of the pursuit, it will be seen,
is not such as to override Sheridan’s whole
some fears for his “hazardous” communica- j
tion with his base.
FROM SHERMAN’S ARMY. j
There is nothing of particular interest from
Sherman’s army, except that, to use the words
of the Hearld, he was “busily prosecuting his
plans at Atlanta, and completing his prepar
ations for future work in hi3 own character
istic way.” So let him do. The Herald makes
the following statement and speculations :
A number of the houses of the town are be
ing torn down, and the lumber frem them is
being used to construct barracks. Heod is
winging his army around so as to cover the
Atlanta and West Point Railroad, with the
i design of preventing the advance of our for
: ees to Mobile.
The Herald’s correspondent says :
Among the guests at the Galt House this
; evening are Major General F. P. Blair, Briga
dier Generals R. A. Smith, Rice and Long.
It appears from a statement in the Herald's
i correspondence that a large number of fur
loughs and leaves of absence were being gran
i ted in Sherman’s army.
FROM GRANT’S ARMY.
Undisturbed quiet reign3 in this region,
and there is a perfect dearth of news in the
army correspondence of the Northern papers,
except that the jubilation over Sheridan's’
victory still continued, and that shotted guns
were Still bdng fired in honor thereof,
Speaking of tho determination of General Lee
to defend his position to tho last, discrediting the
rumor3 of the evacuation of Petersburg bj our
forces, which the correspondent says have gone
abroad, be adds, as an evidence of this determina
tion, that “the enemy are straining every nerve in
the completion of the new terminus of the South
side Railroad. This change will bring the road
into the city from the north side, which side it keeps
for a distance of ten or fifteen miles above the city,
where it crosses the Appomattox by anew bridge.
The construction of this work would seem to imply
that the loss of both the Weldou and Danville
roads will not necessitate the abandonment of the
position, but that the effort will be made to subsist
the army by the Southside road, which, as thoy
calculate, will thus be secure from Grant’s raiders.”
AN UKASE FROM THF. BEAST.
Butler, the brute, having nothing better to do,
indulges his old mania for a war upon the unarmed
and defenceless. The following is his latest ukase:
General Orders —No. 81.
Hd’rs, District of Eastern Va.. )
Norfolk, Va., Sept. 22,1564. j
In pursuance of orders from headquarters depart
ment, all persons withiu the district of Eastern
Virginia over sixteen years of age who have not
taken the oath of allegiance will be sent outside
of tho lines.
This order will be carried into effect on and after
October 15, 1864.
Colonel H. T. Sanders, 19th Wisconsin Volun
teers, Provost Marshal, will make immediate ar
rangements to administer the oath, and will afford
every facility for this purpose.
Colonel Sanders is charged with the execution of
this order. By order of
Brig. Gen. GEORGE F. SHEPLEY.
WicKham Hoffman, Assistant Adjutant General.
From Europe.
The news from Europe, by the North Amer
cau. which left Liverp&ol on the 12tli instant,
is interesting. The English pres3 were still
canvassing the progress of the war and peace
question on this side of the water.
THE CHANCES OF THE YANKEE CANDIDATES.
The London press is discussing the latest
political news from the United States, and
thus speculates on the chances of the Yankee
candidates. The Loudon Times says ;
Never, since the war began, has there been
such a display of vigor and energy on both
sides. Battle succeeds battle with frightful
rapidity. The conflicts are long and bloody—
the victories trifling and idecisive. The most
important part of the news relates to the Chi
cago Convention. Lincoln and his policy
have received a heavy check, that convention
chose McClellan—the man whom Lincoln en
deavored to keep down—the man most able to
repair his errors and arrest the ruin plainly
impending over the great republic. It wild
be observed that the convention speaks of the
preservation of the Union as the principal
object. But this declaration would have had
more weight if the convention had stated
what course it would recommend in case con
ciliation and compromise, which it advised,
should fail in effecting, as assured they will,
the reconstruction of the Union.
The London Post says General McClellan has
always been distinguished by extreme moderation.
If installed unfettered by pledges thero is no reason
to believe he would not assent to any arrange
ment which might bring to a termination a war
which no one knows better than himself is oqually
wicked and profitless.
The London Star thinks the Yankee successes
at Atlanta and Mobile will powerfully stimulate
the war feeling in the Northland inasmuch as
they bear very hardly upon the South, it is possi
ble that the Southern leaders may be much in
clined to listen to compromise before their military
strength is entirely broken. In this view they
would be more inclined to treat with McClellan
than Lincoln. Bat tho Northern people will see
les3 cause for change when administra
tion brings success.
The Loudon News says:
In presence of the great movements in the field
the proceedings es tho Chicago Convention are of
much less importance than otherwise might be.
McClellan’t platform is friendly to the Union, with
efforts for its pacific re-establishment. In point of
fidelity, the Democrats cannot compare with the
Republicans, while nothing could be weaker than
vague aspirations after peace on no basis at all, or
on\ basis which the South has repeatedly dec! ir
ed it will never under any circumstances recognise.
THE COTTON* SUPPLY.
[From the Liverpool Journal, Sept. 10.]
Leaving American politics out of cilculation,
there remains the cotton question. We shall have
1 irge remittances to make to Egypt, Turkey and
India; but their, ameunt will be no more than last
year, if as much. We shall get very little more oot
ton from them, whereas we shall send them a much
greater quantity of manufactures, and it is most
Ukely that we shall pay them less for their cotton.
$5.00 Per Month-
J. W. WARREN, Editor
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while they will have to pay us more for our goods,
as the margin between raw and manufactured cot
ton has been much wider this year than last.—
Through our imports of cotton from China during
the first six months of the year showed an increase
of -£2,776,009, our imports of tea and silk from the
same source in the same time fell off -£1,800,000, while
our shipments of cotton yarn, Ac., goods showed an
increase of nearly. £600,000. The total increase in
our imports of all kinds of produce from Egypt and
Turkey during the same period was £3,500,000, and
the total increase in our exports £2,500,000. With
the Brazils the increase is about the same on both
sides of the account, showing a balance yot due to
this country, if we are to derive any profit from our
trade. With Indiathe trade of the six months was
as follows, compared with the figures of 1862 and
1363:-
Imports. Exports.
1864 £20,503,000 £9,000,000
1863.... 14,200.000 7,560,000
1862 8,176,000 6,967,000
Increase of 1864 over 1863 6,303,000 1,450,000
Increase of 1863 over 1862 6,024,000 583,000
Whatever else may be said of these figures, at all
events they show that our trade is in no worse pos
ition than it was a year ago.
THE COTTON CRISIS ENDED IN FRANCE.
The Paris Moniteur says the cotton crisis is well
nigh passed, and that Oeylon, Algeria, Guiana and
the West Indies will soon produce cotton for France.
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(From the London Standard.)
A Terrible Picture.
We wonder whether Abraham Lincoln, who
drivels jokes while his countrymen are “falling
like gfain” upon the field, is ever visited by a
shadow from the place es Death, which he and his
coadjutors are heaping with unholy carnage;
whether the responsibility of presiding over these
hideous massacres, unprecedented since pagan
days, ever speaks to him from his conscience ;
whether he bethinks himself that net the most exe
crated of the Roman Emperors went to his tomb
more cursed as a destroyer of his speoies than will
the chief the Federal Democracy, who daily sends
thousands of his American youth to glut the rivers
and ditches and morasses of Virginia with their
clay.
The soldiers die, and Abraham Lincoln grins
at the tragedy through his Republican horso collar.
Not he alone, however. Federal America dances to
the Lincoln fiddle. It has adopted the manners
with the brutality of the great French Revolution.
It has its Carmagnole, its Victim Halls, its carni
vals to commemorate slaughter, its Furies, its
Dagger baud*. New York is a reflex es Paris dur
ing the Reign of Terror, only without the execu
tions and tenfold more vulgarized and degraded.
Levity, flippancy, lying and intrigue are supreme,
and when uncounted numbers die in the Virginia
valleys, New York sends forth another batch to
the shambles, drains another glass, and capers but
through another phase of the entertainment.
Seven days of butchery, es horrors, scarcely paral
leled during the retreat of Bonaparte from Mos
cow, no more depress the spirit of New York than
the sight of his victims appals a drunken mur
derer. •
l 801 and brothers of Federal families lie
unburied, as not even the corpses of the Chinese
Imperalists killed in battle do; braggart dispatches
announce these sickening tidings, and New York
is in ecstacy over the fun. Brigades that march
away a thousand strong are cut down to a hand
ful, and New Y r ork is convulsed with rejoicing.
Serious men thero are, undoubtedly, who look with
saddened eyes upon the frightful, wicked, useless
waste of human life; who think that retribution
must follow close upon these enormous crimes;
who pity those cargoes of poor deluded Irish who
land, are bribed by a bounty, and dargged by
audacious falsehoods to go on South and bo hewn
from the earth; who cannot forget all at once
every precept of Christian religion, or every better
prompting of human nature ; who know that these
shouts of triumph are hypocrisies : that the exult
ing messages from Washington, in which Mr.
Staunton luxuriates, are deliberate lies, and who
are ashamed of the commonwealth thus impibusly
exhausting its strength and disappointing the
hopes of freedom.
“Manhattan” i3 fervid, confiding and sanguine.
He understands what ho is writing about, llis
description of Richmond is true to the letter. His
picture of Fredericksburg is pathetic in its rebuke
to the vain and insolent men'who are doing such
work upon the continent of Columbus as was never
-done by Choctaw or Mohican, by Blackfoot or Iro
quois. The scalping knife was barborous. A
thousand times more barbarous is the Lincoln
Cabinet. The conflicts of the tribes were fatal;
but thoy were child’s play in comparison with this
blasphemous devastation of the earth, in which
myriads of God’s creatures are swept off every
week by the hand of man. Is there no power, no
de-sireon tho part of any European government to
assist in abating this worse than emulation of the
most hideous heathen times ? We do not speak of
our own Cabinet. Wo have become accustomed
at last to relj npon France for whatever may be
hoped in the interest of public justfee and civili
zation'.
Nine hundred of the famous Ninth New York
regiment, “Manhattan” tells us, lie stark, decay
ing upon tho field, and tho theatres are overflow
ing. This cries aloud to the decency of the world.
Such a war creates another Dahomey; and the new
Dahomey, let us remember, is near to whore, be
neath a pretty marble tomb, reposes “Mary" the
mother of Washington.” Over her ashes have
trampled the American vandals. And, except in
the utter rout, or rotting away of Grant’s army,
we can discern no glimpses of peace, ardently as
it is prayed for by all Christian men, who believe,
at length, that it can come from tho recognition of
the Confederacy alone. One good result, however,
may be obtained if the Irish at home arc warned
of the fate which awaits them if they enlist in the
Federal ranks. They will go out to be paid in
worthless paper, to live a few weeks of privation
and misery, and to linger in filthy hospitals, or to
die. Os course they will be told, as the men of
Kentucky and Illinois are told, the old story of
“ninety days,” and of “the last campaign,” but let
them not believe it.
They are wanted in order that their blood may
be substituted for the blood of Yankees who prefer
being to being soldiers, and who are
realizing fortunes by the manufacture of shoddy.
They give parties, they dine sumptuously, they
wear purple and fine linen, and they gloat over the
statistics of mortality from the army of the Poto
mac. But all the while assassination is rife: mor
tals are depraved; obscenity and blackguardism
terrorise over society: the worst places of common
resort are crowded with persons of all classes; and
Lincoln upon the pinnacle of this corruption and
demoralization, this basei* than the Lower Roman
licentiousness in the midst of disaster, agonizes
himself to concoct a plan about the rebels of the
“last ditch,” in which some swaggering telegram
from Gen. Grant pronounces them to be dying.—
This is what the New York journals call “glorious
excitement.” The news every hour is, “more kill
ed,” “more wounded,” “another victory,” and then
follows the intelligence that it is no victory at all,
but a calamitous failure. Heaven help the people
so governed and so inspired.
In one sense the Federals fighting in Virginia
may be heroic; in another 3ense, and that the real
one, it is brutal. Carnage, not strategy, is the
principle of the war. Is there no great man in
America, whe can recall his countrymen to their
senses, rise above the miserable adventurers ia
office, suppress the jobbing factions now supreme,
and rescue the commonwealth? There must be
thousands of generous and religious men, whose
consciences are tortured by the crimes and cruel
ties of their fellow-citizens. Eut there are none to
express their sentiments with authority? Assur
edly we are not to think that the whole of the Fed
eral States are 30 lost and so abject, so sunk in vice
and ferocity, so deep in barbarism the more loath
seme because it gilds itself with the luxury and
jests at its own ugliness, as the city of New York
photographed for us by “Mahattan.”
From Rome. —We learn that a gentleman,
direct from the vicinity of Rome, who arrived
here a day or two ago, states that the Yan
kees are evacuating that city rapidly—remov
ing their soldiers and supplies down towards
Marietta. The gentleman referred to is Mr.
0. H P. McLendon. — LaGrange Reporter.
Arab Wisdom. —The Arabs have a saying,
it is not good to jest with God. death or the
devil; for the first neither can or wui oe
mocked ; the second mocks al! men one time
or another : and the . ird puts an eternal ear*
easa'on those who a e too fcmmar "ith him.
TEL HAPh -
•REPORT* OF TSS PRESS Af SOClavijgW.
Entered according to act of Congress ia tas yea
1863. by J. S' - hbaSHER, in the Clera's
rhe District Courfcef the- Confederate State* for
the Nntthern District of Georgia.
Richmond, Oct. 4th.—An official dispatch
trom General Echols, dated SaltvillP. Oct.
says ;
“We whipped the enemy badly at this place
yesterday. He has retired in confnsien. leaf
ing his dead and wounded in our hands ;
among them, Brig. Gen. Goode and maay offi
cers. There were two or three regiments of
negro troops, which were badly cut up. The
reserves and detailed men acted splendidly.
The enemy’s forces numbered about 6,0y0. W»
: are in hot pursuit.”
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[From the Richmond Sentinel.
The men.
BY MAURICE BEI.L.
In the dusk of the forest shade
A sallow and dusty group reclined
Gallops a horseman up the glade,
“Where will I your leader find ?
Tidings I bringhim frern the morning's scout,
I’ve borne them o'er mount, and mbor, and fen”—
“Well, sir, stay not hereabout,
Here are only a few of ‘the men.' •
“Here no collar has bar or star.
No rich lacing adorns a sleeve.
Farther on our officers are.
Let them your roports receive.
Higher up—on the hill up there.
Overlooking this shady glen,
There are their quarters—don't stop be e.
We are only some of‘the men.’
“Yet, stay courier, if you bear
Tidings that the fight is near,
Tell them we’re ready, and that where
They wish us to be we’ll soon appear ;
Tell them only to let us know
Where to form our ranks and when :
And we’li teach the vaunting foe
That they're mot a few of'the men !'
“We’re the men though our clothes are worn.
We’re the men, though we wear no lace, .
We’re the men, who the foe have torn,
And scattered their ranks in dire dirgrace ;
We’re the men who have triumphed before,
We’re the men who will triumph again ;
For the dust, and the smoke, and tha cannon’s roar,
And the clashing bayonets, ‘ice'r* the men /’
“Ye who sneer at the battle-scars,
Os garments faded, and soiled and bare,
Yet who have for the “stars and bars”
Praise and homage and dainty fare.
! Mock the wearer and pass them on,
| Refuse them a kindly word—and then
j Know if your freedom is ever won
i By human agents— these are the men !"
IMPORTANT FROM- MISSOURI. —The
Northern papers say that “advices from
Southeast Missouri and Arkansas go to
show that a concentration of various rebel
detachments, for a strong invasion of Miss
souri, under Gen. Stirling Price, is in
progress.” A despatch dated St. Louis,
the 22d, says:
Colonel Thompson, of the First lowa
I cavalry, who has just arrived from Little
| dock, sap it was understood there 'that
’ 4Wirw twenty thousand to thirty thousand
i- ~ Price, had crossed tlie Ar
rebels, under . T. ittlc Kock and
j Kansas river, between
j Fort Smith, and all oommunicauu..
cut between these points, It was not
known whether Price would strike Fort
i Smith or march directly for this State.
! Shelby had expected to co-operate with
him, and enter the State from the South
est, while he pushes his column in the
i Southwest.
A report from another source says that
Price already has a force of seven thou
sand strong in Barr county, Missouri.
Commissioners’ Schedule Pri
ces.
The late meeting of the Commissioners,
under the Impressment Act, from the
j States of Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
j Mississippi, South Carolina and Tenues
! see, in the city of Montgomery will have
a most salutary effect, we hope, on the
! prices of produce and army supplies
1 They have established a uniform schedule
| of prices for the States, which considera
i bly reduces the prices of leading articles
of supplies m Georgia. For the informa
j scion we give the prices of those leading
! supplies, as agreed on and published by
the board of commissioners, to continue
in force until the first of December next,
commencing the first of October, instant,
viz :
Bacon, from $1.15 to $1.50 per pound;
beef cattle, 26 cents per pound, gross ;
brandy, peach or apple, $3 per gallon ;
corn, shelled, $2.25 —unshelled, $2.13
per bushel; flour, 22 to 30 cents per
pound; hogs, fat, nett, $75, gross, S6O
per hundred pounds; horses, from $450
to $750 ; lard, $1.31 per pound ; country
jeans, $lO per yard; leather, harness,
$3.75 —sole, do.—upper, $4.50 per pound;
oats, baled, $1.58 —unbaled, $1.69 per
hundred pounds—shelled, SI.BB per
bushel; potatoes, sweet, $1.75 —Irish,
$4 per bushel; peas, $8 per bushel; rye,
$3.75 per bushel; rice, 20 cents per
pound; sugar, (various grades) from
$1.75 to $4 per pound; salt, $7.50 per
bushel of 50 pounds; army shoes sls
per pair; tallow $1.31 per pound ; cider
vinegar, $1,50 per gallon; wheat, $5.63
per bushel; whiskey, $3.50 per gallon;
wool, unwashed, $3 —washed, $4 per
pound. —LaGrange Reporter.
The “hugest” Federal lie of the yar is contained
in the following dispatch to the Northern press :
St. Louis, Sept. 20. —Army officers just from
below, bring a report, derived from Gen. Herron’s
adjutant, that Col. Scott, commanding the rebel
troops near Baton Rouge, sent a proposition to
General Herron to surrender 4,000 to 6,000 troops,
provided Herron would grant unconditional pardon
to the general officers of the command.
Negroes Search White Men. —Under the Lin
coln dynasty, negroes search all white gentlemen
and Ladies who cross from Cincinnati into Ken
tucky over the ferries. To this degradation Amer
ican citizens are obliged to submit.
[ Washington Constitutional Union.
Notice!
Columbus, Ga., Oct. 4, ’54,
The Office es the Provost Marshal ha3 been re
moved to “Winter’s old building;” one doer above
the Commandant Post Office.
G. H. FULKERSON.
oc4 3t Capt and P M.
Tax in Kind Notice.
Office Post Quartermaster 1
Americus, Ga., Oct. 1, ’54. J
I. Producers of the 3d District are required to de
liver their tithes of Wheat, Oats. Rye and Wool, by
the Ist day of November proximo. Those failing to
do so will be subject to the fivefold penalty imposed
by the law.
11. Agents will begin receiving the articles con
tained in the second assessment, (corn, rice, fodder,
sugar, molasses, cotton, Ac.,) as soon as they are
assessed.
111. In view of the difficulty of procuring barrels
for the tithe Sorghum Syrup, producers may give
in exchange at the rate of 14 pounds wheat, 39 2-10
fts corn, 44 4-5 f>£ shelled oats, or 2 &>« bieoa for
one gallon syrup.
JNO T CRAFT,
cc 4 eod 2w Chpt and Post Quart’r.