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COLUMBIA S I vi. ; Published Daily (Sundays excepted) at the rata oi . *S.W per mouth, or sls tor three months. No subscription received for .longer term thmn hr** month*. ADVERTISING RATES : Advertisement* inserted for $2 00 per square for ch insertion. Where advertisements are inserted a month, the charge will be S3O per square. Announcing candidates S2O, which must invariably paid in advance. 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 - - - - - ---- -**“••* •• • ■ .(-V _ 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. -♦ ♦ ♦ (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.” * - - ♦ .» • [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.