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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*