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DAILY TIMES.
J. W. WARRE\, - - - Editor.
COLUMBUS:
Wednesday Morning, October 5, 1864.
Spirit of the People.
When, after the defeat at Cannae, says the Flor
idian & Journal, which seemed for the time to
have sealed the doom of Rome, Vano, who com
manded in the battle and by whose mismanage
ment it was probably lost, expressed himself as not
despairing of the Republic, the Senate not only
forgave him for his error and bad genoralship, but
(banked him for the hope and'energy that he had
again revived in the government and ihe people of
Rome by "the heroic and hopeful sentiments that he
had expressed. The Roman Senate knew that the
most dangerous consequence of defeat was the
despondency that it produced, and that the best
reparation that Vano could make to the State for
the damage that he had done was to restore that
hope and confidence without which the cause and
the city would be inevitably lost. In the ordinary
events of lift 1 we see the different effects of hope
and despondency. When a man’s heart fails him,
he is incapable of using the powers and reasons
that he has. Had the Romans given up to des
pondency after the defeat at Cannae, their history
would have been brief and inglorious, and the
mighty people who afterwards swayed the world
would hare occupied but a paragraph in history.
Those who are accustomed to success bear mis
fortune with the least patience, and it is only in
the hard school of adversity that men and nations
acquire that heroism of soul which qualifies for
the achievement of great and difficult enterprises.
The people of the Confederate States are, at this
lime, suffering from various calamities. Having
heretofore cDjoyod great prosperity and immunity
from public affliction of every kind, they have
since the commencement of this war been com
pelled to suffer such hardships and display such
warlike capacities as have only been found in the
most illustrious nations and men of which history
gives us uu account. But the Southern people
have been found equal to the greatness of the oc
casion, and m all tho events of this war we recog
nize the spirit of a race of men born free and de
termined to bo indepeudent. The misfortunes, that
we have suffered have not broken the spirit or
weakened t’ue nerves of the Southern people. The
people have become veterans in suffering as well
as the soldiers in battle, and things that, at the
commencement of the war would have produced
despair, are now borne cheerfully and hopefully.
From the first gloom of defeat and misfortune the
minds of our people have reacted, and a determin
ation unalterable and a confidence in our final
success has become the fixed faith of every one.—
This confidence is not baseless. We have in our
midst the elements of success, and if every man
will do his duty as every man did in Rome after
the battle*of Cannie, ive can soon retrieve the
misfortunes under which we are now suffering.
[Communicated.}
T rut Si Is Justice.
The remedy suggested by the “Sun,” of the 30th
ult., falls far short of tho mark: if he had only
grasped the subject fully, I would join him heart
and soul. But that bright Luminary should re
member that, “Persons who live in glass houses
should not throw stones.” Then let us begin at
the root of the evil, and not leave a sod unturned.
The Editors, Express Agents, Railroad Superin
tendants. Government Contractors of all sorts,
where they arc pecuniarily interested, form har
bors for the skulkers. I wonder if the principals
of the above institutions consider seriously the
nature of thoir affidavits which is necessary to re
tain able-bodied men in their s rvice who are not
experts? How much time and trouble would it
cost them to fill these superfluous places with disa
bled men? Then, remember, that every man who
takes advantage of his exemption to screan others
from doing their duty, is censurable to the charge
of reinforcing the Yankees—for every man kept
from the field adds two the enemy. It is alarming
aad disgraceful to see the thousands of able-bodied
uien, all over the country, shrinking from the duty
of protecting their own homes, by hiding under
>ume cloak as above—men of standing that have
heretofore scorned the* idea of boing Printers,
Railroad, or Express Company clerks. Duty de
mands that .these officials disgorge their sanctums
sactorums of these able-bodied sinecures and fill
their places with the disabled patriot and soldier,
numbers of whom can be got from the enrolling
office, who are there only awaiting the opportuni
ty to be made useful elsewhere, and by their tried
patriotism and valor deserve and are by every
sense in the world entitled to such berths.
The rigid laws relative to Quartermasters, Com
missaries and other Post cdices are being, no doubt,
effectively carried out. Aud it is to be presumed
that these sworn officers are better aware of duty
than a dictatorial Editor. But if there are any
delinquents in the department, report them, and
let us be uutiring in getting every able bodied
.man to the front, and if necessary officers too. In
tact it would be very beneficial to many of the
Red Tape post gentry to smell gun powder. Let
these places be filled as justice requires by the dis
abled and maimed patriot and soldier. There is
no soarcity of them and no reason why the num
bers at the Camp of Instruction are not profitably
and judiciously employed. In this way by send
ing every able-bodied man to the front our armies
would be invincible, and Sherman and Grant an
nihilated. He who dallios now is a dastard. Men
are more essential than Generals. No General can
conquer without men, and with the stern fact star
ing us in the face that every defeat is for want of
men, let every man shoulder his musket with the
watchword “conquer or die.” Let the people
awake to their danger and this country, the sunny,
sunny South, is still safe from subjugation, and
before the fall is over we will have the banner of
independence unfurled to the breeze of Nations.
Under the strict discipline of the energetic, effec
tive and chivalrous Commandant of the Post, Col.
Leon Vcti &inken, I think we have nothing to fear
from this point. He will b*Y« the laws executed
to the letter. Then let every man jlo his duty, and
trust te God for the balance, and all will yet be
wen. XERXES.
How Things Become Twisted. —The North*
era papers say: “A private dispatch from
Cincinnati, states that news has been receiv
ed there that Governor Brown, of Georgia,
and Vice President Stephens have asked Gen.
Sherman to grant them an interview, and that
he has consented.
Assignments bt Soldiers.—The Secretary
©f the Treasury announces in a circular that
four per cent, certificates or bonds may be as
signed in presence of the Commanding Officer
or Adjutant of the regiment to whichrthe par
ty holding the same may belong, to be en
dorsed by snch officer in the words, “Executed
"before me,’ - and signed officially.
♦ » »
. A Yank.ee Dodge. —lt seems the rule of the
Yankee service now is, when commissioned
officer* tender their resignation, to make the
following endorsement on the application :
“Dismissed the service for attempting to re
sign is the face of the enemy/’
w« don't know but that is a good idea.
p'T brnord
Tliv ..iitKftign* {’ j
Tbs excessive jubilation: by t cr j
the fall of Atlanta will be greatly taodiGed
when they shall have reached * fun under
standing of the facts: and the undue coafi - \
deice seemingly inspired by that event, in .
their ability te extinguish the “so-called” re- !
hellion, will net be increased by centrnsting
the campaigns es 1864 and their results with
those of the previous years of the war.
If they will accept eur testimony—a point
by the way, on which we are wholly indiffer
ent—there is not a single railway connection
within our lines, which is not as complete !
without the possession of Atlanta as with it.—
The chief yaluo of that city to the Confedera
cy was as a work shop for the preparation of
munitions of war. The implements, tool3,
machinery and material used in this business
at that place were removed to other safe and
almost as convenient points before the evacu
ation, and in this removal the chief impor
tance of tho place and its possession departed.
Simply as a strategic, point, it whs not so good
as Etowah, or Kennesaw, nor better than
Lovejoy’s. When the Incidents, which made
it valuable to us were taken away, it became
as any other epot of ground upon which ar i
niies might move, or bivouac, or encamp. In
getting it the Yankees got no more than this.
It is to us damnum obsque injuria. It is our too
I common error to overrate -the importance of
points and places of no earthly strategic value ;
and to be unduly mortified when such points
; are yielded. In truth since we are engaged
in a war purely of resistance to aggression
j and invasion, the only requirements on our
i part to carry it on are, to ha.be armies in the
| field, munitions to equip and supply them,
clothing for them, and food for them to eat.—
So long as these are present to us, in reason
able proportion to those of the enemy, we are
safe from subjugation as a people. Localities
must, of course, suffer; but this is not com
parable te the dreadful gloom of the eternal
sight which would follow subjugation.
But when we contrast the events of the
campaigns of the present year with those of
- the two preceding, we shall see how utterly
unfounded are the new hopes and expectations
of the foe in our speedy, or even ultimate sub
i jugation. The year 1861 was measurably con
i sumed in preparation for the subsequent
| struggle, iu establishing the lines and land
| marks upon which that struggle was to ensue,
j and taking measure of its magnitude. The
| engagements of that year, compared with those
| that have followed, though splendidly illustra
ting the valor and prowess of our troops, were
| mere skirmishes, exercises in the primary
! school of the art. The war, in all its bloody
magnitude, commenced in 1862.
That year we lost our hold upon Kentucky,
the larger part of Tennessee, considerable por
tions of Virginia, with lesser portions of North
Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi
and Arkansas. Fishing Creek, Forts Henry
andDonelson, Nashville, Columbus, Kentucky,
Fert Pillow, Memphis, New Orleans, the South
Carolina Islands, Fort Pulaski, Roanoke, the
retreat of Beauregard from Corinth, and of
; Johnston from Manassas, and subsequently
! from the Peninsula, constituted such a series
1 of untoward events as were well calculated to
I inspire gloom and dread, if not pc- itive alarm,
| not only with respect to our territory, but for
! ihe safety of the armies of the Confederacy.—
i The energy, then as now, were (jopfident and
j boastful, and scarcely anybody in the Wt-wl e
North believed that there would be a vestige
of rebellion left in the South at the end of
twelve months. But the courage and firmness
of our armies and their leaders were unshak
en. Seven Pines and the Seven Day : s before
this city , the Valley Campaign of Jackson,
Slaughter’s Mountain, Manassas again, Sharps
burg, Fredericksburg, together with the splen •
| did, but ill-fated campaign into Kentucky,
during the summer and autumn, following the
spring of uninterrupted Yankee successes,
rolled back the mighty tide of disaster and
lifted the gloom that temporarily enveloped
the situation. ,
The year 1863 opened with the retreat of
the Army of Tennessee from Murfreesboro',
immediately after a most remarkable and
bloody conflict. This was succeeded, in turn,
by the yielding of Shelbyville, Tullahoma,
Chattanooga. Knoxville and the fortress of
East Tennessee, including Cumberland Gap,
the indecisive victory of Chickamauga, andthe
defeat of Missionary Ridge. In the meantime,
the vandal torch blazed in the capital of Mis
sissippi, Raymond and Bakers creek lost, and
Vicksburg and Port Hudson, with their arms
and untold -war munitions, passed under the
sway of the conqueror. The last barrier on
the Father of Floods was swept from our pos
session, and almost the entire of the States of
Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi, lay sub
ject to the capricious outrages of the victori
! ous enemy. Our triumph at Chancellorsville
| had been followed by the comparatively fruit
i less invasion of Pennsylvania and battle of
Gettysburg. A 'mammoth expedition had
been sent to Texas, and successful footing es
tablished on the Rio Grande, and along the
coast of that State. If ever, during the war. ,
the enemy has had reasonable ground to be
exurberant in joy and confidence and hope of
“pulverizing" the rebellion, it was at this
critical period. In prisioners, and slain, and
disabled, temporarily or permanently, our j
armies had received a shock, which, expressed
| in figures, was alike sickening and appalling.
During the winter of 1863-4, the Army of
I Northern Virginia confronted vastly superior
: numbers on the Rapidan. The Array of Ten
j nessee, shattered, worn and divided, rested at
; Dalton—its remaining part, after an unsuc
j cessful attack on Knoxville, wintering among I
! the inhospitable mountains to the eastward, j
i The skeleton of the Army of Mississippi had:
| retired to Demopolis. While the armies of'
the Trans-Mississippi now almost become a j
terra incognita to the public of this side, were j
scattered in a territory 340,000 square miles ;
in extent, and threatened from Poiut Isabel to
the outer picket post in Arkansas. At this j
conjuncture the enemy was thoroughly, vig- !
orously active. He was exhausting every
| possible effort to recuperate, anefq-estore the
| immense losses he had sustained in achieving
1 so much. Bounties, conscription and drafting,
were employed to fill up his ranks, and our
negroes were organized against us. Nothing
that legislation could grant, or executive j
power usurp and employ, was wanting to ar- j
ray against us the means which, at the open
ing of the season of activity—the campaign
of 1864—would be at once crushing and deci
sive.
The campaign opened beyond the Mississip
pi. The confident legions of the enemy were
broken and hurried' back to the great river.
The armies of the Potomac and of the Cum
berland were moved forward. At the Wilder
ness, Spottsylvania, Turkey Hill, Drury’s
Bluff. Petersburg, in the Crater and at Reams’,
along the whole line, the cohorts of Grant
were cut and broken, repulsed and defeated.
After four months of sleepless toil and daily
combat, Sherman reaches Atlanta. His path
of march was converted into a grave-yard for
his men, and his army worn and shattered is
compelled to stop. In all these operations we
have lost, at the highest figure, not above
40,000 men, whilst that of the enemy, at the
lowest figure, has not been less than 160,000.
At this point, in the midst of the season of
activity, the enemy are stopped shoit in their
career, for want of men. It is not surprising.
No other year of the war has swept away so
many of their troops, while no other year of
the war has spared so many of ours. Really,
therefore, as compared with the condition of
the foe, we are in the better condition at this
moment to make good our defence than at any
previous period of the struggle.
It is true that the political exigencies in the
; United States, now render necessary the most
stringent exertions on the part of our adver
sary. He will be compelled to put forth re
newed efforts. To that end, he is at this mo
ment preparing. He is concentrating in our
front all available force at hi? command, and
in a few days, or weeks, we may witness the
most stupendous struggle of the war for the
possession ot the Confederate capital, if our
> people who are subject to the military !aw
! will do their duty : if when the tag comes we
i can oppose our true strength, the conflict will
t be short and in no sort doubtfu'.
'.Mto* "Fatal Valley "--lie Battle
Hark
A Norther* eerrMpoadeaV describing mili
tary affairs in the Shenaadoah Valley, which
he aptly styles, to far as it applies to the Yan
kee army, the ‘‘fatal Valley. Ibetakes himself
tea pen painting of its scenery and its historic j
battle marks . j
The ruined manse, the time-worn entrance j
to an old estate, the lonely roads and rocky !
fastaesses, the romantic streams and shadowy
parks, that have mention in tragic revolution
ary tales—all are here. Here, too, are the
/secret places, ancient, out-of-the-way retreats,
where the held, and sometimes cowardly, guer
rilla love to make his home. Here, above all,
are the battle marks on field and forest, and
dwellings, wkich many a family will keep un
repaired for the view and meditation of its
descendants. The maiden with a lover ; the
maiden without a lover; the maiden who has
lost her lover, have each a dwelling; and the
levers themselves, Union and rebel—for there j
are both—are here, the former thick as the
oft-quoted leaves in Vallambrosa. Who is
loved among them all it would be hard to tell. ,
These maidens are not of the softest, as I have j
before, and many are the men who have had I
I it to say to themselves since this war began ; :
“it is easier to Ave than to receive."
Treating upon what he calls the guerrilla j
system, he thus undertakes to show that the '
! scions of the highest families in Virginia are
prominent among those who compose the fas ,
j mous guerrilla bands of the Cumberland and 1
! Blue Ilidge. He says :
Compared with other parts of the State, the
l Shenandoah Valley is iababited by compura- ;
lively few “poor white people." Its soil is for
! the most part, divided into estates which have
descended by inheritance from remote gener
' eratious ; and during late years, the vagabond
son3 of decaved gentry, always abounding in
regions where a titled or tolerated “nobility”
have held a lengthy sway .were not few in this.
\ The livelihood of these young men —who were
generally educated to no profession, and were
! too proud or too lazy to work at anything else
: —was got by peculiar means. Provided with
1 a horse, a gun. and a pair of saddle bags, not
i over well stocked with articles of wear, they
■ roved from mansion to farmhouse* visiting for
! a living : or. forming in parties when game
j was plenty, made the mountains their home,
i To these men, whose reckless wanderings
| has made them familiar with every by-path
j and secret retreat of the valley and the heights,
■ tbe war was a most welcome opportunity;
j and to them, above all others, the guerrilla
j system owes its origin and its success. The
| hazardous necessities of such a life made them
; energetic, and what was aimless vagabondism
: before, has been transformed into wild and
j vigorous parsuit.
j Tho gangs of Mosby, Giliaor, Imboden, and
j McCausland—the former more independent and
: notorious than all the rest—count among their
j numbers men, the names of whose sires are known
j throughout Virginia. Several have been captured
| behind whose rough attire, bronzed features, and
; shaggy beards, the manners and habits of “gentle
' men born and bred” have shone forth unmistaka
| bly. I confess to having heard of a few instances
j where the influence of‘such men has done any
l thing to make the deeds of their companions less
ruthless. All the aristocratic blood of the Con
federacy could not suffice to environ the history
of their marches with a romantic interest that
i would vail the naked facts of robbery and murder
j that Ijav? been ?o often proved. Familiarity with
' crime brecuo <i contempt of its horror?. lii®re
are men amongst these bands —piebian or aristo
cratic, whichever is nothing—who do the work of
h< rrors with a boast that only becomes a ruffian.
One of these men, named Mobiais, long notorious.
; i? marked among that class who drive a handsome
trade in the clothing line by stripping the dead
and the living among our soldiers. Stragglers
outside the linos of troops posted in the valley have
frequently been stripped by this fellow of every
article on their persons, and then magnanimously
returned to our camps with instructions to tall
their commanders that "'they had met Moblais-"
According to this ingenious and rather romantic
writer, we would be induced to believe that even
before the war, these sons of the first famines of
Virginia, who were "too proud and too lazy to
work.” had converted the great \ alley into a high
way of murder and rapine, such as we are told da
the banditti of the Appenies or the sinister inhab
itants of Calabria.
After hi? sketch of "Men and Manners.” he pro
ceeds to describe the land marks of the Valley:
There is one Village in the Shenandoah Valley
through which the Union army always passeif,
playing the tune of "Old John Brown.” That vil
lage is Charlestown. I remember the first time
the army entered it. At the very threshold of the
main street all the banqs, silent before, began, :
one by oue, that fantastic strain. The forenoon
was calm, but cloudy. The streets of the town
were illy-peopled at the best; and, as the music
of that song swelled, timed to the tramp of the :
thousands of soldiers who were “marching on" up
the Valley in pursuit of the rebel army that had
fled, half the heads at the windows were drawn
sullenly in. Within sight was the court house
where John Brown was tried, and within musket
shot stood the tree whereou John Brown's body,
before it “mouldered in the ground," was hung.
The residents, some how or another, did not like
to be remembered of these occurrences in this way.
The name of Washington is not infrequent in
the Valley. Young Lushrod Washington, a rela
tive of the original Washington by descent, is a
membgr of the rebel cavalry under Rosser. A
female member of the Washington family, said to
be the nearest relative of the first President now
living, is the wife of a gentleman named Packard,
whose residence the building of which also dates
back to the Revolution, was the scene of, perhaps,
the sharpest portion of the tight which took place
here on the 21st of August. The sharpshooters of
General Getty's division occupied the house which
was shelled by the rebels. Nine shells penetrated
the walls, and a literal storm of bullets raged about
it for several hours,tho entire family of Mr. Pack
ard, together with three young ladies (Misses
Washington, niee«sof Mrs. Packard) occupying
the cellar at the time,
He thus describes the dwelling which he tells
us is certainly a “sight to behold
Examining the rear well, from which direction
the enemy’s shots were fired, one cannot discern a
spot where a human body could hare placed itself
without beinghit. Every square foot of brick has
been chipped by a bullet, aud every shell that
struck pierced the wall entire. The interior is a
scene of desolation. A shell exploded in almost
every room, and the marks of bullets, entering
through the windows, are 3ean in the walls, the
floor, the ceiling, and the furniture. The latter,
in some apartments, is completely ruined. An old
bureau, once owned by General Washington , sits
against the wail where the first shell entered. The
upper portion of it was torn to pieces, and the
splinters have been taken as relics by numerous
victors.
The Burning of Go tenor Letcher's House.
The Yankee papers contain a card of F. 11. Pat
ton, Acting Medical Purveyor to Hunter's army,
in reply to Governor Letcher's description of the
burning of his residence ia Lexington. It is pe
culiarly Yankee. a3 the following extract will
show;
“I was unwell when we entered Lexington, and
being introduced to Mrs. Letcher and family by a
mutual acquaintance, accepted their hospitality
upon invitation, which I should not bare done had
I known the house was to be burned. Instead of
‘telling Lizzie it would be the last meal she would
take in the house/ I endeavored to quiet their ap
prehension by repeatedly assuring them I thought
their house was not in danger, and bidding them
good morning, expecting to dine with them, I was
certainly very astonished upon returning at noon
to find the house in ashes. Asa soldier, Ido not
presume to sit in judgment upon the action of my
superiors, either to approve or condemn ; but if it
is ever right to destroy the property of those who
have been guiity of the blackest treason to their
country and the mo3t atrocious cruelty to prison
ers and loyal citizens of their own State, none
more richly merit this punishment than ex-Gov
ernor Letcher, as scores of our loyal citizens of
West Virginia languishing in the dungeons of
Castle Thunder, victims of his cruelry, hear abun
dant testimony."
We are pleased to state that the road this
side of Meridian has been repaired, and the
trams will now run through as usual to-day.
i This, of course, will gladden the heart3 of
many who have been delayed by the break in
j the road —Missis fibvuzr. Ist.
TELEGRAPHIC.
Npmil Dispatch to the Columbus Timet.
Nxw.max, October 4th.
Wheeler captured Rome yesterday with the en
tire garrison of three thousand negroes. „
Gen. Hood issued a proclamation yesterday to
his troops saying he would hold the railroad ia
Sherman's rear until Sherman wa3 forced out of
A-laaui, and assures the army that the next inarch
would he aerthward. A slight cavalry skirmish
since falliag back.
■ in——
REPORTS OF THE PRESS ASSOCIATION.
Ehtered according to act of Congress in the year
1863, by J. S. Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office of
the District Court of the Confederate States for
the Northern District of Georgia.
Richmond, October 4.
Official dispatches report a small force of the
the enemy’s cavalry and ’some infantry in Cul
pepper county. They are rebuilding the bridge
over the Rappahannock.
All quiet below Richmond to-day.
A St. Louis telegram of the 29th says Potosi
was occnpid by the rebels on the previous night.
Smith’s Headquarters arc at Desoto, where he is
receiving reinforcements.
Nashville dispatches es tho 28th say that For
rest did not attack the Yankees at Pulaski but
moved to words Fayetteville. Kosseuu returned
with his infantry to Nashville.
Gold in Now York on the 28th 201.
Another official dispatch from Saltville ;ays tho
enemy received a bloody repulse. They retreated
during the night in confusion, apparently in the
direction of Sandy River. Early reports the ene
my north of the North liver, his cavalry occupy
ing the north bank of that stream, his infantry
near Harrisonburg. After a slight skirmish the
enemy fell back from Crawford.
The Washington Chronicle of the Ist has a dis
patch from Grant, dated Chaffin’s, 19th.
Ord’s cavalry advanced this morning and car
ried very strong fortifications and a long line es
entrenchments below Chaffin’s Farm, with some
fifteen pieces of. artillery and 200 or 300 prisoners.
Ord was wounded in the leg, not dangerously.—
Baiuey advanced at the same time from Deep Bot
tom, carried the New Market Road entrenchments
marching towards Richmond.
A St Louis telegram of the 30th says that Ew
ing was closely pursued by the Rebels to Harri
son’s Station. The railroad was cut north of that
place. Escaped prisoners arrived at Desoto roport
that Pilot Knob was still held by the rebels.
A Knoxville telegram of tho 30th reports For
rest at Fayetteville on the night of the 28tli. That
morning no communication south of Murfreesboro
* Petersburg, October 5.
The enemy is busy fortifying his new position
near Fort Mcßae, and has shown to
advance to-day or assault our works. All very
quiet along the lines. Persons from Grant’s rear
say he ha3 moved everything and every man up
tho breastworks, and leaving the country belling
his lines uncovered, By the last move Gen Grant
gained one mile in the direction of the Southside
railroad, but is still six miles from it. The ene-
Uiv’s lr-ssoe in the fight of Xhurdav, Friday and
Saturday is estimated at 4,000: ours not one-fifth
of those figures.
CUA HLGTTSVILLE, Oct. 4.
.V* news from tho Valley enoept that our caval
ry drove the enemy’s cavalry from Bridgewater
eight miles south of Harrisonburg. The enemy's
main body seem' tube at Harrisonburg.
Griffin, Octt. 4.
All accounts agree that General Hood’s army is
well in the rear of Atlanta, audit is reported pos
itively that we hold the “rail road between Vining
and Marietta.
A brigade of Yankee cavalry came Fair
burn on tho West Point Railroad yesterday, and
attacked the command of Geu. Iverson, who fell
back after losing one or'two killed and wounded.
They aro reported at Fayetteville this morning,
but this is doubtful.
A prisoner taken in that fight says that no train
has arrived at Atlanta for six days. Military men
believe that Sherman’s army will be forced to
abandon Atlanta and cat its way out in a few days-
Bounties to Soldiers and Sail
ors.
Our brave men in the service may not be
aware that they, or such of them as were on
duty continuously from Ist April to Ist
ber. are now eutitled. each, to a Confederate
six per cent, bond for one hundred dollars.
W<vannex the section of the Act of Congress,
17th February of the present year, providing
for the same :
Section 3. That, at the expiration of six
months from the first day of April next, a
bounty of one hundred dollars, in a six per
cent. Government bond, which the Secretary
of the Treasury is hereby authorized to issue,
shall be paid to every non-commi3sioned oflD
cer, musician and private, who shall then be in
the service, or, in the event of his death pre
vious to the period of such payment, then to
the person or persons who would be entitled
by law tc receive the arrearages of his pay :
but no one shall be entitled to the bouhty
herein provided who shall, at any time dur
ing the period of six month next after the
said first day of April, be absent from his
command without leave.
By Act of the 7th of June, the same provi
sions are extended to “warrant officers, pilots,
seamen, ordinary seamen, landsmen and boys
of the Navy, and to the non-commissioned
officers, musicians and private? of the Marine
corps.”
We are not aware that any instructions have
been issued with regard to the manner in
which applications for the bounty should be
made : we presume, though, on the certificate
of the commanding officer at the Treasury in
Richmond.
A Lesson. —Charles Lamb—who has
not heard of the “gentle Charles ?”—was
much addicted to the wine cup. Hear
his solemn warning :
“The waters have gone over me. But
out of the black depths could I be heard,
I would cry out to all those who have set
a perilous flood. Could the youth to
whom the flavor of his first wine is deliv
cious as the opening scenes of life, or the
entering upon some newly discovered par*
adise, look into my desolation and be made
to understand what a drear thing it is
when a man shall feel himself going down
a precipice with open eyes and passive will
—to see his destruction and have no pow
er to stop it, and yet feel it all the way
emanating from himself; to see all good*
ness emptied out of him, and yet not be
able to forget a time when it was other*
wise; to bear about the piteous spectacle
of his own ruin; could he see my fevered
ey% fevered with last night's drinking,
and feverishly looking for the night's
repetition of the folly ; could he but feel
the body of the death out of which I
hourly, with tender outcry, to be delivered
—it were enough to make him dash the
sparkling beverage to the earth in all the
oride of the mantling temptation
TEE 2E3 CITY.
T- J. JACKSON .LOCAL EDITOR
Tbeatkjs.—lt will be seen by adve/tisement
that Mr. Crisp’s Company will appear to-night in
Shakespeare’s great play of Macbeth—Wra. H.
Crisp as Macbeth, and a fine cast of oharacters.
The bill is calculated te draw a crowd and test the
capabilities of the corps. Those fond of the drama
will doubtless attend without further notice on our
part.
Acctiok Prices* —Ellis, Livingston A Cos., sold
at auction yesterday, fifteen shares Georgia Home
Insurance Company stock at SIOO per share; 240
acres of land in Hurtsville, Ala., at $3,600 ; one
lot in eity, $3,650; corn at from $6 to $7 ; sugar
at $6 : whiskey at $36 ; bacon at $3,25 to $3,50
a fine lot of furniture at very high figures, and
numerous other articles in proportion.:
The Schools. —The schools generally in tho
city are being opened for the fall session, and tit
le masters and misses with satchels in hand are
thick as leaves in autumn. We learn that tho
female department of the free school has been re
sumed by Mrs. McKenzie in the Methodist African
Church, and the Male department under Mr. Sart
well, witt be resumed at the old stand, Wesley
Chapel near the river, in a day or two. Success
to the cause.
A Great Misfortune.
The Federal cause has lately gained an advan
tage, says, the Carolinian, in comparison with
which the fall pf Atlanta is of no importance what
ever. That advantage in the sealing of Lincoln's
mouth* He is not going to talk any more. So,
at least, he said the other day, to a party of sere -
naders before the White House. It must have cost
his friends a world of expostulation to bring him
to this resolution; but if he has really and sin
cerely adopted it, tho end was worth the pains
The Confederacy have no more serviceable auxili
ary than that man’s vulgar tongue. It was eter
nally making, not only himself, but his whole na
tion, ridiculous. It seldom wagged but to com
mit some solecism in taste or language. Now tell
ing pointless stories, and now tangling itself in
some absurd metaphor, at one time jesting above
the dead, at another, addressing with cearse fa
miliarity some grave ambassador, it was continu
ally publishing to the world that the imperial
Kaisar of all Yankeedom was an awkward, ill
bred and uneducated clown. If, however, this
voluble ally of ours had done no more than to
make Lincoln a laughing-stock, fc it would not
have benefitted us much. But the ruler of a na
tion cannot become an object of contempt without
semewhat involving the nation in the same position
with himself. It proved to be eminently so in
this case, because Abraham was not the creature
of an accident, like a hereditary king, but the de
liberate choice of the Yankee people, and because,
by a singular, it might almost be thought a ma
licious, whim of nature* it happens that Lincoln
presents in his own person just such a travesty of
all his nation’s peculiarities, mental and moral
kud physical, as that which has attained an im
mortal absurdity in the pages of Sam Slick, and
the laughable caricatures of Punch. He is tho
very counterpart of the hero of those thousand
stories, in which the meanness, the cunning, the
Vulgarity, the curiosity, the effrontery and the
impertinence of the Yankee character are held up
to the amusement and derision of mankind. Ac
cordingly he has been accepted as the typo of the
race, and, therefore, in the ridicule which he ex
cites, the whole race shares. It ha3 been no small
help to our cause that our enemies have appearod
to the world in this ludicrous and contemptible
Curious Historical Fact. —During
the troubles in the reign of Charles 1., a
country girl came to London in search of
a place as a servant maid, but not sue?
ceeding- she hired herself to carry out
beer from a warehouse,- and was one of
those called tut* women. The brewer ob
serving a good-looking girl in this low oc
cupation, took her into his family as a
servant, and after a short tipae married
her. He died while she was yet a young
woman, and left her the bulk of his for
tune. The business of brewing dropped,
and Mr. Hyde was recommended to the
young woman as a skillful lawyer to ai>
range her husband’s affairs. Hyde, who
was afterwards Earl of Clarendon, finding
the widow’s fortune considerable, married
her. By this marriage there was no o.h
er issue than a daughter, who was after-,
wards the wife of James 11., and mother
of Mary and Anne, Queen of England.
All CTION SALES,
By Rosette, Lawfiton Sk ۩.
SAIT, WHISKEI ali) SEGAII,
AT AUCTION-.
*
WE will sell, on WEDNESDAY, October sth,
at 10 o’clock, in front of our Auction Room
5 SACKS SUGAR,
3 BBLS. WHISKEY,
10 BBLS. SALT,
40 REAMS LETTER PAPER.
oct3-3t
BY ROSETTE, LAWHOY & CO.
SIX 11, FAMM NEGROES!
At Auction !
WE will sell on WEDNESDAY, sth October, at
10 o’clock, in front of our Auction Room
SIX LIKELY NEGROES!
Mary, 28 years old ;
Mariah, 12 “ “
Dick, 10 “ “
Gilbert, 8 “ “
Robert, 4 “ “
Jim, 2 “ “
sepSO 5t
BY ROSETTE, LAWHON & CO.
SILVERWARE
AND
Pearl Handle Knives!
-A.T -ATTOTIOILT.
mm •
WE will sell on WEDNESDAY, sth October, at
10 o’clock, in front of our Auction Room
SIX PIECES SILVER WARE.
Coffee Urn, Cream Pot, Tea Pot Sugar
Dish, Slop Bowl, Water Pitcher.
1 Dozen Pearl Handle Dinner Knives.
1 “ “ “ Dessert “
sepSO 5t l
Plano Instruction.
If RS. T. H. YANDENBURG i3 again prepared
*1 to resume her Inst ruction in Music on the Piano.
Those designing to favor her with their patronage
wi 1 apply at her former residence on Forsyth street.
Terms— Fifty dollars per quarter. .
Mrs. T. would bo pleased to REN'I ROOMb, or
a portion of the house, no w occupied by aersef.
Apply above. oeU4>t
TEMBERAVd; *
MR. WTHCRISP,
accompanied by the numerous and highly
DISTINGUISHED DRAMATIC COMPANY,
which has ptiformed in Mobile for a Season ex
tending over 100 weeks, will commence a limited
series es the highest class, legitimate personations
on ✓
Wednesday Evening, Oct 5
The Great Company of the Confederacy!
SHAKESPEARS’ SUBLIME TRAGEDY
MACBETH,
- KING OF SCOTLAND!
With a distribution of Characters never equalled
in this city, for numbers, or talent.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Crisp as Macbeth & Lady.
Mr. Theodore Hamilton as MacDcff.
Mr. C. Toler Wolfe as Duncax.
Mr. Harry Crisp as Malcolm.
Mr. James Keith as Bax quo.
Mr-. E. Bohen as Rosse.
Ringing Witches, by Mrs. Jessie Clarke (our Jes
sie), Miss Gecelia Crisp, Miss Mary Wheelen, Miss
Maggie Nightingale and others.
.—
To Conclude with the Extravaganza of
JENNY HI COME AGAIN.
OUR JESSIE AS JENNY LIND.
G-alaxy of Talent
Prof. N Giles, Conductor of the Orchestra iu
Mobile, and of the Opera House, New Orleans, ac
companies the Troupe. ~ ,
Box Office, open daily, at the Hall, where seats
can be secured. Tickets can bo obtained at the
Hotels. . , ~
Doors open at 7p. m. The curtain will rise at -
: past 7 precisely.
Tickets $5 each. Sercants $2 each.
No half price.
ss~See Programmes" *4*
ocs It
AUCTION SALES
By Ellis, Livingston A t o,
ON FRIDAY - , October Ttli, at 101 o’clock, we
will sell in front of our store »
2 very fine Mahogany Settees,
6 very fine Mahogany Parloy Chairs,
1 very fine Mahogany Marble Top Cen
tre Table,
4 very fine Window Curtains, Cornice
and Shades,
. 1 pair Brass Andirons, Mantle Orna
ments, Bed Steads, Chair a, Crock*-
ery and Glassware,
17 Boxes Tobacco, assorted,
4 Cases Smoking Tobacco,
50 Bbls. Superior Coast Salt,
200 Empty Corn Sacks,
1 Chest Fine Black Tea, fresh,
1 Close Carriage, nearly new, late-style,
2 Setts Single narness, -
I Fine Tr? Seated Bu S&'>
1 Two Horse Wagon
600 pounds Nails,
Office Chairs, Desks, &c.,«fcc.
octs-3t sls
By Ellis, Livingston A: ( o
200 o-^i J i_.oisrs
rvuTAWBi turnin'!
A VERY FINE ARTICLE.
For sale in quantities of 10 Gallons .and upwards.
ag3o ts
SSOO REWARD
OTOLEN, from Judge Thomas’ stable, near Colurn-
O bus. Ga., on the night of the 3d instant, one
fin* black IIORSE, shoulder slightly rubbed from
collar, mane also rubbed off near his ear by halter,
on his left flank a healing sore, he has on anew
set of shoes with heels. Four hundred dollars will
be given for the delivery of this horse to me at
Columbus.
One hundred dollars wiii be given for the delive
ry to me of a NORREL J/ARE, small blazed face,
one hind foot white, no other marks remembered.
Both horses were taken off together. If any one
living on the different roads leading from t/oluiu
bus can furnish any information respecting these
horsos, they will greatly oblige the subscriber.
octs-4t - J. A. SHINGLEUR
IVotice!
Oo iambus, Ga., Oct. 4th, 1864.
L. T. Bkaddax is authorized te attend to my
business in ray absence from Columbus,
ocolm WILL. S. BALFOUR.
- -•
Notice to Farmers.
Farmers who have not delivered their Tithe of
Fodder are requested te bring it in immediately,
as it is greatly needed at this Post. Those who com
ply with this request can deliver.thcir Fodder with
out baling it. H. D. COTIIi?AN,
Capt. &AQM.
Sun and Enquirer copy 10 days. oc4 lOt
IVotice,
Marsha lb Hospital,
Columbus, Ga., Oct. 4, 1864.
All officers and men, absent from this hospital
“as out patients” will report to this office immedi
ately. T. A. MEANS,
oc4 6t Surg. in charge.
i— • mr*
Pressman Wanted,
A mechanic who understands repairing a Print
ing Press can obtain a job, on liberal terms, at this
office. oct4 ts
Strayed or Stolen.
FROM the Perry House, in this city, a beautiful
Pointer Pup, bluespeckled; with sides of head
and ears liver color; one spot between the eyes and
one large spot between the fore shoulders; about
six months old; well grown.
A liberal reward will be paid for his return to
me. Any of my friends seeing him, will copfer a
great favor by t iking possession and notifying me,
ocs 3t Col. M H WRIGHT.
A SUPERIOR ARTICLE
OF
COFFEE!
Shingle Nails!
AT
MULFORD’S OLD STAND.
oct4-tf
* REMOVAL!
DR. WINGFIELD has removed his office to his
residence, near the Muscogee Rail Road Depot,
immediately in the rear of Dr. Bozeman’s, whore
he may be found during the day or night. unles3
absent on professional duty.
sep29 6t*
SELECT SCHOOL.
MR. GEO- M. DEWN will resume his School with
a limited number of pupils on Monday the 3d
October next.
Tuition for half a scholastic year $125 00, paya
ble in advance. sep29 4t*
WANTED TO HIRE.
FIVE or SIX NEGRO FELLOWS, for which the
highest price will be paid. _
Apply at TIMES 01FICE.
sep29 lw*
WAYTED TO REYT!
ONE or Two Furnished Rooms, with or without
Board—a small family. Best of references given.
Can furnish supplies at low prices^
sep3o ts _ __ - IQ ?' ■
THE Exercises of this Institution will be resume *.
on the Ist Monday in October, under the contin
ued direction of its present able instructor. Rev
Carlisle P.B. Martin- . i
Terms of admission will be made iuown ; > -
the session commences.
E. S. GREENWOOD, Pr sd c
D V. WILLCOX. Seo’y.
spl2tf " Board of Trustee*
