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DAI hi: T lAIEri. J. W. W iitREX, - - - Editor. CO3LUM:BIJS : Monday Morning, Oetober 10,* 1864. From the Front. * V,' * , » An officer who left Nownan on Saturday morning, report? that Bherxnan had evacuated Atlanta, after burning the greater portion of the city, and had moved up the State road in the direction of Marietta. He also report! that Hood’s army was at or near Big Shanty on Friday morning, and that they would reach the Etowah river k)k night. The destruction of the roau by otir forces is repre sented to be thorough and complete. The superstructure has been burned, the rails bent and the excavations filled up. In order to use it again Sherman wili have to build a railroad “from the stump.” After the capture of Rome, Wheeler is said to have struck the State road at the Kingston junction, and was tearing it up in the direction of Dalton. Forrest is re ported to have tapped the Nashville and Uuat tonooga road and had not grown weary in Well-doing. We are expecting hourly to re ceive full and reliable details from our special correspondent. We are indebted to the enterprising -ompi lers and publishers for a copy of Lloyd’s Southern Railroad Guide, and to some unscru pulous friend for its abstraction from our table. We would thank the latter individual to-returu it. It is a most valuable book to U3 ) for without it we have no means of estimating the celerity of Brice’s advance upon St. Louis, or the wonders that Forrest is working in Tenne.SK* . That was a ..smart trick, friend ft J f thief. We will pay any sort of .a compli ment to your cuteneas if you will return the book Correspondence of Hie Times. In Camps, Gobii County, ( October 3th,, 1804., J Editor Tnfns: It atiords me much pleasure to renew my intercourse with the readers of your time honored journal, though in a sphere not quite so pleasant as in days'past. < < ■/.. • Our army ha3 set down behind the Yanks, our left resting on the railroad at Big Shanty and cutting off his communication with his base, while our right re3ts on the rear of Pow der Springs. The morale of the army i3 much better than I expected to find it. All seem an imated with a great desire to winter in Ten nessee or Kentucky, where rations* will be more plentiful and peace dawning in ihe hor izon. The present movement is regarded as a great one and every prospect of being suc cessful. That it may be so is my earnest desire. Rains have been quite abundant in this section during the past week, and we have had to take several severe wettings. The health of the army is fine. I will write as often as a mail leaves this rear position. PRIVATE. j Letter from tlie Front. Cams Near Lost Mountain,) October sth, 1864. f Dear Fatheh: —We are here in line of bat tle within seven miles of the Atlanta and Chattanooga Railroad, and the same distance of Kenesaw mountain. We are entrenching rapidly, as the Yankees are reported advanc ing. Our line of entrenchments run in no particular direction, but a general direction of North and South. Just assure as the Yan kees attack us here, that sure will they be defeated, and badly too. Our position, I think, is a strong one, and will include Lost Mountain, where we will have some strong batteries. lam still at Brigade Headquarters and am doing finely. Stewart’s corps has been on the Railroad for a couple oTdays, and have torn it up and burnt it for a great distance.— The Yankee army is about equally divided on our right and left, and cannot easily bfe brought together. The general impression amoug our big officers, whom I hear and see every day is that Sherman is for once com pletely nonplused. We have certainly got him in a tight, and his line of communication completely destroyed. This army is rapidly improving for the better. The men are mucfi more hopeful and in a far less demoralised condition than they were a few weeks since. The army is rapidly recruiting from the re covered sick and wounded. Your affectionate son, MILO BOOHER. The Subinisslonlsts. We have been told by persons whose veracity we caunotdoubt, remarks the Montgomery Appeal, that there is such a thing as the submission Ist still remaining in the South ; or in other words, that there are those who are opposed to giving any further aid to the government for the continued prosecution of the war. They desire the war stop ped at once, but do not reflect that Lincoln has a werd to say in the matter. They seem to think that they have only to withheld men and means, and that thereby peace will return. They are promted to this course, no doubt, by the fact that we shall fail in the end, and the hope that in consequence of this position thus taken, they will receive favor at the hands of our con querors. All we have to say to such a creature is, “thou fool,” knowest ttyou not that when Lin* coin comes among us with his confiscation act and auctioneer he will make no distinction of persons? He will not ask the day, the week or the month you took position in favor of stopping the war.— He will not care whether you originally voted —:.,«f cession. The chain and compass will be ----- applied to your lands and they wiit be parcelled out among his mercenary soldiery as well as those of the soldier captured on the last battled field. The position is not only absurd but cowardly.— But it may be said, let us stop the war and treat for peace. Has not every honorable effort that could be made been made to treat forjpeace?— Every effort has been indignantly spurned by Lincoln. He does not want peace, but he wants our lands and property to redeem his greenbacks and reward his soldiery. And these he intends to, and will have, unless his armies are met and suc cessfully resisted. The man who croaks for the stoppage of the war on our part without a corresponding disposition on the part of the enemy to stop it, is not only an ene my to his country but an enemy to himself. If he would save his property and himself from beggary and vagabondism, it is his duty to aid and strength en the arms of his government by every means in is power. He only precipitates the evil day by is croaking and whining, and will curse himself y that evil d ay comes. No; if we . sa . TB our P ro P e rty, our liberty and ourselves ™ must ’ « did the Spaniards during “ 10n ’ . BeUp en drive tne enemy from our soil. I Tub Situation.—The grand manoeuvre, says the Richmond Dispatch, widen the Yan kee papers, been hinting at the lajfegjh ree wefts a||okojit j to be executed. J»rePm n|sot]»b&| that would astouisljalTYhe of mankind, ka; aftiength not “hospitable graves' for mm of Grant's cut throats, black and white. will be the try next ? Why, we suppose he will manu- | which; hjs will announce the mo3t splendid success, ana which will set ther Whole semi-barbarous generation vpre- bp lim H9f WH scr*ammg, danejog,, throwing up their hats, and shouting for old Abe*. That Is" aft hehalHtdffc since he has been'fh of the grand army, and it is pretty much all that he can expect to do hereafter-: Rut that will'not take Richmond, although it may, and no doubt will, assist in electing Lincoln. The Tudden abandonment of Fort Harrison by our troops was a sad affair. It proves that none buVtried veterans ought to be entrusted with the defence of outposts, liable at all times to be suddenly attacked and to be over whelmed before the arrival of assistance. The Yankees will represent the capture of this post as a .great victory, of course. But time will show whether it is so or .not. Italv The Italian Government has jtfst published the result of the fir*t census taken since the annexa tior of, the formerly independent Italian States to Sardinia, and the establishment of the Kingdom of Italy. According to this census, the Kingdom of Italy contains a population of 21, 77*7, 334 souls. It is, consequently, the fifth, Power of Europe, as regard.3 the number of inhabitants, being oluy ex celled by Russia, France, England and Austria- It is superior in this respect, to Spain, of which the territory is twice as extensive, and to Prussia, of which the area is likewise greater. In density of population it exceeds France and Prussia, but remains behind Belgium, the most densely popu lated country of Europe. Lombardy and Sicily are the provinces in which the population has in creased most rapidly of late years. Sardinia and the Neapolitan provinces come next, while in Piedmont the increase has been much less. When Rome and Venice shall be annexed to Italy, which will happen before long, the population of Italy will exceed 25,000,000 of people. But Italy is not merely obe or the first’powers of Europe in point of population. Under the administration of wise statesmen, it is rapidly developing its vast resour ces. It has reorganized the army, and is building up a powerful navy, whlclTwiil rival the glorious times of the republics of Venice and Genoa. Be ing already possessed of all the strength of a great power, it has by common consent bean recognized by the five governments, which hitherto have been regarded as]the great powers of ilurepe, as their equal. . .. v ' The consolidation of the kingdom of Italy is one of the most important results which has thus far attended the aspirations of the dismembered na tionalities of Europe for freedom aud unity. A few years ago a united Italy was only a dream • a dream for which the noblest patriots had long striven and suffered.in vain, bat which noverthe - leg3 did not seem to approach nearer a realization . Then a patriotic king was found, who placed him self at the bead of the national movement, and gave to it a centre: a great statesman (Cavour), with eminent ability, guided the enthusiasm of the nation to a glorious success, while an illustri ous hero (Garibaldi) assisted] him in breaking down the opposition of the greatest of Italian des pots, the king of Naples. Moigasi’s Death. Annexed is an extract, relating to the death of Gen. Morgan, which is copied from a letter written by an officer in Western Virginia : This army is very much exasperated at the manner of Morgan’s death, and swear ven geance on the town of Greenville if they ever get back there. The day Morgan’s remains were brought in to Jonesboro was a solemn one. As his body passed his old Brigade, there was not a dry eye in the entire line. It was one of the most solemn and impressive scenes we ever wit - nessed, to see the “war worn” veterans stand- ; ing with tear bedewed eyes watching the life less frame of one pass by who had often led j them to victory, now a mangled corpse. After Morgan fell, the man that shot, him ; jumped from bis horse, caught him by the heels, and dragged him through the house out into the street and threw him across a horse, | running the animal up and down the streets swearing and yelling, “here-’s your Morgan ; j here’s your Rebel horse-thief, he will not steal ! any more horse's in Kentucky.” After singing and cursing over Morgan awhile the Yankee carried him—lying across the horse—out three miles in the country to Gen. Giliam’s headquarters, and after the ; exhibition was over, they brought him back, j Then his staff—who were all taken but Major ' Basset—got permission to drees him. We are t-old by a nephew of our captain— who was with us aud taken prisoner bufr af terwards turned loose—that it was impossi- j ble to tell what his clothes were made of, for the blood and mud. Brownlow has come out in a flaming arti cle telling the people of Kentucky, and else- j where, that they can leave their stables open, j and need not watch their pastures, for the horse-thief is dead, Since commencing this letter we hear that the enemy at Bull’s Gap have been reiuforced by the addition of another brigade. We ex- j pect they intend a forward movement, by their I getting so many troops—having now abont 6,000 men. The Peticodiao Tide.— Among the lions ex hibited to the American visitors, the other day in New Brunswick was the “boar” or tidal wave of the Peticodiac river. The phenomenon is obser vable to a greater ohl&ss extent in all the rivers flowing into the Bay of Fundy, but it Is perhaps , mere conspicuous in the Peticodiac than in any i other. The appearance of the “boar” on this ; particular occasion is thus described by the - “special” of the Sf. Johli Telegraph : “As the time for its appearance approached much anxiety was manifested to obtain as early a glimpse of it as possible. The crowd on the wharf with eager eyes looked down the river, but still it did not come. The water in the deep cSuhnel aim rusneu downward, or overflowed the muddy hands, and spread in a shallow stream over the sand bars yijyifuiver. Presently a white j speck was seen in the distance, far down the gorge —aad all eyes were turned to the place round the point and up the river the boar came rushing on in one broad wave like a wall of snow. We could see it cutting up the banks on its outward : edge—and bearing a crest of foam like a huge tusk along the rim of the marsh. As it neared t us its roar fell on our ears like the sound of a distant cataract, and could see that it carried upon its front hugelogs and roots and pieces of timber. As it ! passed the wharf where we stood we could see that it was going at the rate of ten miles an hour and the front of the wave was some five or six feet high. Every one present declares that it was a sight worth going half the continent to see.” Mr. Pendletown, candidate for Vice- President of the United States, is report | ted to have used the following language in a late speech at Payton, Ohio: I rejoice that the power of the Gov- J ernmenf wili be again' in the possession of the Democratic party, whose beneficent principles, recently solemnly announced \ in National Convention, will bring us ■ peace. The Georgia Front. All fficouifetx,. from army of Tennessee are of the nature. There ijyio dsj|bt G%e. Hood s army is on the (fj|jkttagi£!fega Railroad, and that it Bptelv3estroTi|M tbßßack as it goes. jfl| fllpirecise location of flp Yaps flight be ofjpnißtage to the enemyHL It is sufficientTSmform the public that SheWf man is cut off from his ba«e of iupplies, and that ha only has one of the two things to do: to cut his way through or to surrender, and that nHtraics have arrived at Atlanta for seven or eight days, that Sherman’s men are nearly out of everything to eat, and that his horses and males are starving. Sherman will unques tionably, if he has not akaady, move all his army except a garrison from Atlanta against Hood in a very few days. He was completely surprised by -cur arynyjigovipg from the Ch|t tahooebee to bis rear. We have nothing new from Forrest or Whee ler. But ojir whole army in all its depart ments is actively at work upon the communi cations of the enemy. [ Telegraph § Confederate. B th. The Front. Mail Office. Montgomery, Ala.,) Thursday Night, 10 o’clock. / Scouts report that two corps of Sherman's army have gone to Chattanooga. Gen. Thom as was in that city on the 4tb. There was then no communication with Nashville, and it is conjectured that Forrest holds the rail road at Wurtrace. The operations of on the State Road have been active and successful; the capture of Dalton obstructs all transit; and the Yankee column en route from the Gate City to the Tennessee river, is supposed to be proceeding over land. The spirit of our troops is said to be of the liveliest description. The line of inarch is cheered by beaming faces and joyous songs. While Gen. Hood’s army .lay overnight cn the Vilarica road about ten miles north of the Chattahoochee, a fearful thunder storm swept over the country, destroying the bridge near Nownan, dismounting the transportation and seriously retarding military operations. A stroke of lightening passed through the camps of the 30th Alabama regiment wound ing over twenty of its gallant members, and killing three. The next day the army continued its forward course, and on the night of the 3d bivouacked upon the old battle ground of New Hope. [Montgomery Mail , 1 1th. —p 1 Latest From tbe United States. Northern dates of the 28th have been re ceived, but contain meagre accounts of what is going on. Sheridan’s movements are check ed by Early. Forrest’s oapture of Blue Sul phur Springs, North Alabama, ia mentioned, and, it is added, be afterwards marched upon Elk River Bridge, which had been abandoned by (ho commandant there. He captured Ath ens on the 24th, Blue Sulphur Springs on the 24th, and Elk River Bridge on the 26th, and his march was still onward. “It is reported that he butchered all the negroes captured in Federal uniform.” Averill ha, been relieved from his command in the Valley. Gen. Price is certainly in Missouri, about to form a junc tion with Shelby. The advance bad ieached Farmington, twenty miles northeast of Pilot Knob, ou the 25th. They have 20.000 men and 16 pieces of artillery. Pilot Knob has been evacuated. Gold, in New York advanced, on the 27th, to 195 J. —Richmond Enquirer , 4 th. North Mississippi. —“ Special” the i Grenada correspondent of the Appeal, j furnishes that paper the following items I from that region. | An expedition has gone to West Ten \ nessee for the purpose of tearing up the ! Memphis and Charleston Railroad, and thus prevent the enemj from following Forrest, at the same time a chosen band under Captain Will Forrest has gone to make a demonstration against Memphis, for the purpose of diverting attention from the other. The results of both will be known before this reaches you. Four Colonels, one Lieutenant Colonel, a Major and Captain are here under ar rest awaiting trial for refusing to serve under a Colonel who had been ordered to take command of the brigade by Forrest, just as he was on the eve of starting on his raid. The military court for Forrest’s cavalry, Col. Alex. McKinstry presiding, arrived here today, and will immediately proceed with the trial. The bone of con tention, I believe, was that these officers thought they had men among them com petent to take command, others say that some of the officers now under arrest ranked the Colonel ordered to the com* m and. The weather during the past two nights has been quite cool, almost enough so for frost, and an overcoat is decidedly sortable in the morning. Since the above was written I have seen Gen. Chalmers, who informs me that the expedition on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, was entirely ful, and that every bridge from Wolf river and culvert had been destroyed to withiu a few miles of the city. The small body of the enemy, who were at LaGrange, having retired, without stand.- ing on the order of going, they met with no resistance at all, and did their work well, so that the Eagle Chief need fear no pursuit from his rear, but may eons tinue his operations also uninterrupted. Gen. Hardee. —An Army Correspondent of the Appeal says : The withdrawal of Gen. Hardee from this ar my will be regretted by very many of his friends and admirers. He will win brighter laurels else where. I am hardly able to explain how it has come about that the absence of 30,'good a soldier,ex cellent a gentleman, and ripe a scholar, should in crease the effectiveness and unity of the army, but it is undoubtedly so. Gen. Hardee is some what peculiar. He is not given to give advice in or out of council. It is said of him that in the councils of war that have been held, he Jias never heartily given the commanders of the army the benefit of his wisdom. Was it want of confidence in himself, or fear of responsibility? A Lieuten ant General should be as fearless in council as in the field. Doing his duty most gallantly in the the field, and obeying orders implicitly, never guilty of a mistake (in war a mistake is a crime), it was still evident to Gen. Hardee that he was not in bis proper place. Carrington was a famous infidel speaker in the West, who was the terror of many of the preachers, unable as they were to meet, at a moment’s notice, the cavils with which he often interrupted them in the of their discourses. He met with his, match, however, in the Rev. Mr. Quickly, who had a dash of eccentricity with his native good sense, making him apopular as well as instructive preach er. He was speaking of the nature and destiny es the immortal soul, when the infidel rose in the crowded house, and said he knew the “Hebrew and the Greek, and the word that is translated soul in the Bible, might just as well be rendered wind, or smelling-bottle, or anything of that sort,- and it was all nonsense to talk about people having a soul in them to live forever.” “Well, well,” said old Mr. Quickly, “let us try how it will read; here is my text: “‘What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his smelling-bottle?’ ” ““ « —♦—* It is said Washburne arrested a ladj in Memphis for waving a white flag on Sunday morning of Forrest's entrance into the city. She promptly replied, “You should not com plain ot that, General, since you set the ex ample. The difference wa3, she waved hers in front, and hi* floated in the rear.— Brandon Republican,. TELEGRAPHIC. ~ -jp —- REPORTS OF THE |itBSS ASSOCIATION. Entered according tfr afft-of CqagTesarjn yegft j-J the District Court .of UU) jwtcsw tne Northern DLirof’if Georgia- J Richmond. -Q|t. sH .IbHIjJH partment itates that the enemy, one thousnnd strong, was advancing up the Manassas Gap road on the 4th With trainw of care loaded with Railroad material and ©ccupieddSal em and Rectortown. Mosby attacked them 40 Selina, capturing 50 prisoners, all their camp equipage, baggage, stores, ko. He killed and wounded a considerable number. His loss wm Two .aitmi *#*€49. Official dispatches to*the War Department say Sheridan is stHI moving dewi) .the Valley with a large force of his cavalry, and was at tacked by us on t£ie 7th, and handsomely driven back. We captured a number of horses, several ambulances, wagons, nine forges with teams and fifty prisoners, besides killing and wounding a number, Petersburg, Oetober 9. Yesterday abouf.noon the enemy moved in force on our right, snpposed at first for the purpose of making an attack on our lines, but it turned out to be nothing more than an ex tension by the enemy of their lines on our right in order to occupy all our lost works, near Fort Mcßae. The eßemy by thi3 move gained nothing in the direction of the South Side Road, and only prolonged their line dri» ring in a few videttes occupying this ground. Heth took only a part of the Works near Fort Mcßae occupid by the enemy. All quiet to day. Weather cloudy and very cold. Augusta, Oct. 9. A letter to the Chronicle and Sentinel says Sherman’s 3d Army corps left A-fHnta and oc cupy a strong position from fining's Station to above Maretta. The Yankees found o“ut Hood's plans and'anricipated him. The head of our column is near Brownsville—not known where we will march. A letter to the sAffire journal states that late dates from AtiaiftSh say there are four Yankee corps in the city. Yankee officers claim 80,- 000 troops and 90 days rations, with railroad iimn enough miles. They also say Sherman will soon move for Macon and Au gusta. Desertor3 from Atlanta say no trains have arrived for eignt days. All accounts from Hood’s army encouraging. Augusta, Oct. Bth. — The yellow fever still prevails in Charleston. New cases are occur-* ring daily ; also many deaths. Augusta, Bth. — The new blockade runner Constance struck the wreck of steamer Mary Bowers, while trying to run into Charleston harbor, and was sunk Wednesday night. One of her crew was drowned ; the remainder, ~ ;t h the DaS3engers, were 5,1 ved. The 4 w i ' ’' » *” • * irvwi*" mer was owned by Collie A Cos. Most of the cargo was on Government account. - » mma [For the Montgomery Mail.] Anecdotes of Stonewall Jack son 1, V hile Stonewall Jackson was on his wav from the Valley,<-in-his celebrated movement on McClellan’s right, he stopped one day at noon, to rest a few hours itt a village on the Virginia Central Railroad. There lived at this village a certain “Home-guard - ;” who loved the defense home gave him, much more than that he gave it; who loved life much better than country, and possessed a vas-t deal more of vanity and presumption than brains and manners. As soon as he heard that the great Stonewall Jackson was so near him, this con-, ceited gentleman must at once see him. Ap proaching near where the General was seated on a bench, he gave him a profound salute, which Gen. Jackson returned with soldierly decorum. Emboldened by this reception, our hero uninvited took a seat beside the General and began a brisk conversation, he being chief speaker. Elated at being treated with that gentle-, manly courtesy, as little expected and so little* deserved, but which General Jackson invaria bly extended to all, he pressed tbe conversa tion, and finally clinched it thus: “Well, General, where do you intend to make vour next strike ?" “Are you a good hand to keep secrets?” asked General Jackson earnestly. “Oh, yes,” breathlessly gasped the fellow, inching close up to the General, to catch the mighty secret, VWell, so ami;’ the General half-whispered in his ears. Home-guard mysteriously vanished, and has never been heard of since. But we presume he is now a good soldier in the ranks of the Confederate army, and that he has never taken it on himself to quiz any more big Generals about their future movements. 2. 1 saw Gen. Jackson on the evening of August 30, 1862, at the second battle of Ma nassas. Riding along with a single courier, he met a wounded soldier, borne on a litter by his comrades. On seeing Gen. Jackson— the sight of whom was always inspiration t© his soldiers—the dying man—for he was such —exclaimed, ‘‘God bless you, my General, the victory is ours !” “And God bless and save you, my poor fellow,” replied the Christian hero, reining ttp» and gazing with teaiswet eyes op the form of that brave but fallen patriot. Passing on, he came to an old railroad cut, well remembered by many a Southern man and Yankee in the history of that battle, which'was filled with wounded men. As he approached, well, wounded and dying, raised their hats and cheered.! I have* seen many thrilling scenes on many fields ; but this was the most solemnly impressive I have ever wit* nessed. To see these poor fellows, mangled as they were, many of them dying, their un conquered spirits of patriotism rising superior to their physical sufferings, and cheering the General whom they loved ! Overcome by emotion, Gen. Jackson halted, bowed his head and wept; but suddenly arousing himself to his duty, he rose in his stirrups, raised his cap in the air, and pointing far across the fields, where the continued yell, the flying bat tle-flags, and the fitful flash, in the twilight, of a thousand ringing rifles, told of victory, he shouted, “Three cheers for the Confederate army L” and putting spurs to his horse, dash ed away to the. front. " “His life was gentle, and the elements So mixed in him, that nature might staad up And say to all the world, This was a man.” “Milis.” • Referring to the recent announcement made in Yankee papers to the effect that a delegation of Poles had been appealing to the government of the United States for refuge and protection against the oppression of Russia, the Richmond Enquirer asks, “are these miserable exiles aware that they have been sent by one despot to another? That they are absolutely enrolled to wreak the same wrongs upon others that they proclaim themselves to have suffered.” Hereupon the Enquirer reproduces a rescript es the Czar, addressed to the grand Duke Constantine, charged with the duty of subjugating Poland. It is a fit pendent to the proclamations of the Butlers, Bankees and others of the ilk in Yankeedom. For eurselves, says the Whig, we cannot but believe that this delegation is a pseudo one, as the notorious amnity between the Czar and the Washington satrap, not to mention the German preponderance in the Yankee army, would deter any true patriot of Poland from asking aid and sympathy from a nation representing all the anti pathies and hatreds of the natural enemies of Poland. Tim delegation represents, doubtless, some dissatisfied element es the Polish Emigration Society, and refusing to act under the authority of the Poloae-American Committee, they hav,e set up for themselves. T. J. JACKSON EDITOE IhovTof and fJgsudSßtfee, through |t lajfl. nrjiftijgfed *PPrcflpv*-llP’ • feared m B gbjjPod flir upcast of CTMgactfly in the first Bazan, thaUppCritp would not. being too far advnncod iirflw for out pre-con coivod idea* of the character, make a very good pereo nation es the wild, rollickiag r *-dissipate4, tfcough brava and chivalrous spendthrift, Den "€*#•** but we ma?t say he acquitted hiHUeff splendidly. The handsome young acter, Mr. Theo. Hamilton, 41 tho intriguing prime raiairiov, til ©xl&j&ly-iweltf |HK acting put of her natural role, rendered the char acter of Maritana, very creditably; while the vef? erau and pupu|ar comedian WoH«, M Marquis d© Rotondo, brought down"the hotfsr, is ustral. The ever popular after-piece, the “Lady and the D — l” was repeatedly iefettbpted with roars of laughter. It is quite refreshing to quiet people to see the excellent order which is maintained in every part of the house, and especially to observe the prompt suppression by the guards, of the “heel and stick accompaniment” to the music, so much in favor with rowdies and hoys, .who no doubt, consider it quite an improvement, but generally not much appreciated by those who have nerves. A Cold Winter Snap. —Without any pre monition or advertisement, old Winter inau gurated his reign in these parts on Saturday. Yesterday was cold enough for big fires and great coats. Woe to those who have neither fuel nor clothing. We tru3t the change may be beneficial to the health of the city, a3 we have of late had considerable sickness in our midst. •*. + Mobile & Girard R. R. Connrction. —We are pleased to notice that the railroad connec tion between the Mobile k Girard and Muscogee roads is progressing finely. The track is be ing laid, and we understand will be complete to the river in two or three weeks. We do not know so well about the bridge, but presume the contractor, Horace Godwin, will put it through with dispatch. The connection will doubtless be complete by first of January, per haps earlier. The public necessities require the work to be done as soon as possible. An Arkansas correspondent makes the pre diction that within three months Forrest will command as large an army as either Hood or Lee, and another, that as a necessary conse quence the war will be transferred to its orig inal starting point, and adds : Forrest sent in to Kentucky, before he crossed the Tennessee, the remnant of a Kentucky brigade with the assurance trom its officers that they would meet him in Tennessee or on his way to Louis ville with three or four thousand men. — ■ ei«i ♦ m The Dayton (Ohio) Empire says the point of daDger is past. There is not and will not be any factious proceedings in the Democrat ic partv azaane* McClellan. ()f course, there are dissatisfied persons. No convention can nominate a canidate to suit everybody. But all will eventually sacrifice prejudice to se cure Democratic success. At the fair in Philadelphia they are voting on “a love of a bonnet,” a leghorn bonnet, valued at $175, which is to be given to the wile of one of the Generals. At last accounts Mrs. Meade had 244 votes, Mrs. Grant 154 and | Mrs. Burnside 150. Where is Mrs. Sickles? i Vote for the ’Presidency.—When the re -1 cent exchange of prisoners made by Forrest and Washburne was effected, each of the bod lies of soldiers and officers was requested to f cast their votes for the Presidency. To a j “an, the Rebels voted for* Lincoln, and the | Yankees for McClellan. Our boys were sup plied with rations and “suthing to drink,” and j departed with three Jeers for old Abe.—Me ! ridian Clarion. The local of this paper, without making any pretensions to great generalship, believes that if President Davis would appoint him com mander of the Army of Tennessee, he could get it whipped, and surrender it as quickly as any other blow hard or street generalissi mo.—South Carolinian. tm • m At the production on the first night of “The Mohicans” at the Paris Gymnase, a loud sno ring arose from one of the boxes on the left, and was heard by the residents of the orch estra, who began to laugh at the incident.— This awoke the sleeper, who knew by instinct that laughter was misplaced at that part, for he wa3 the author—Alexandre Dumas. — ■ mm —- , [From the Montgomery Mail.] OIi! Poor General Rousseau! In Louisville town Lived a “Knight of the Gown”— A Lawyer most cute and obtuse—oh ! 110 abandoned “thejßar” For the glories of war, And rejoiced in the title of—Rousseau ! Oh! Mister Lawyer Rousseau Kentuckians never should do so, Tink-a-tink-tank—Unfortunate Yank — You were sold to the Dutch, Lawyer Rousseau. I He a General was made And headed a Raid And started for Tuskaloos—o ! But like his first “Brief” It soon came to grief And back went General Rousseau ! Ob ! Poor General Rousseau ! That a day should come you would rue so! Tink-a-tink-tank —Vainglorious Yank Unfortunate General Rousseau. For a hundred miles To the county of Giles No “buttermilks” «ver yetiflew so: But he halted his band And here issued command As Department General Rousseau. Oh! Poor General Rousseau, A raid is at best a poor ruse, oh ! Tink-a-tink-tank—What a fleet-footed Yank Was a Poor Major General Rousseau ! Commander of Post With a Mongrel host His Garrison here was so loose, oh ! That “the Wizzard swept” down And he captured the town And nearly took General Rousseau! Oh! Poor General Rousseau Why does Forrest the Bold trouble you so? Tink-a-tink-tank —What a well traveled Yank He’s making of you, Mister Rousseau. To the city of Rocks Hunted down like a Fox By him whom you thought to pursue so, You’ll never get back For he’s torn up the track To make shoes for his horse, Mr. Rousseau. Oh! Poor General Rousseau! The Devil and Forrest’s turned loose, oh! Tink-a-tink-tank—this is h—l on the Yank, But H —ler on General Rousseau. John Happy. In a long review of Parton’s Life of Franklin in the London Athenaeum, the writer closes with this estimate of Franklin: “In no sense of the word was Benjamin Frank lin a philosopher. He was a keen, shrewd, buoy ant, able man, abounding in high spirits and self confidence overbearing but thoroughly honest; egotistic, but truly benevolent. On the whole he is the most remarkable self-taught man on whom modern society has looked ; and it in early life he had received a liberal and systematic education, it is not improbable he would have been a great thinker. But those who judge him as he was, and not as he might have been, must assign him a com paratively humble place amongst eminent charac ters ; and biographers act unwisely who claim for him reverence such as that which is due to Byron and Shakspeare.” DIED. In Columbus, on Tuesday night, 4th instant, of cholera infantum, MARCUS FRANKLIN, aged 13 months and 26 days, second child and only son of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Bennett, of Atlanta, Ga. ' THEATRE. lessee <uid Uaoager ...,W. H. CRISP, Monday. Evening, Oct. 10. Bulwer’s Magnificent Play in Five Acts, entitled ““ . , i LADY OF LYONS, , i-r . . , -08- LOVE AND PRIDE. With a distribution of Uharacters never before Ttih TTifiMh ||||_ , - See tbi. < See (his Ca*« Mr. Theodore Hamilton &£.«•• Melnotte Mr C T Wolfe, a? Colonel Damas Mr Harry Crisp, a5..:........ Claris Master J If e?tfc, : Beausant Miss COcilib Cmp. a#. „.... Paulino Miss Mary Wlmelan, a5..:., Widow Melnotte Mrs W H Crisp, a5...., '.AG...Mad. Deschapei’es Popular Ballad, by Miss Maggie Marshall. To be followed by the Roaring Comedy of ROUGH DIAMOND! Cousie Margery (with Songs) “Our Jessie.’ f 44iPln preparation, tbe romantic drama v: the Lady of the Lake and the prize tragedy of Mzta mora. oc 10 It Or. J. Si. CLARK, DENTIST, FORMERLY OK NEW OKLEAN3, HAS returned, and can be found at 106 Broad street, over Dr. R, A, Ware’s Drug Store, oct 10-dim AUCTION SALES. By Ellis, Eivingston & Cos. ON TUESDAY, 11th October, at 10 1-2 o’clock, we will sell in front of our store I VEIV DESIRABLE RESIBEKE, At Silver Ruin, Alabama, The House has five comfortable rooms with com fortable outbuildings, orchard, garden, Ac. 11 ith it will be sold a detached LOT, containing 40 acres, in the woods. This is a healthy, pleasant and con venient home. Possession given in ten days. octlO 2t $8 By Ellis, Livingston. & Cos. — ♦ • ON TUESDAY, October 11th, at 10 1-2 o’clock. we will sell in front of our store, without re serve, for and on account of whom it may concern 111 BbU. supr. Goast Salt, marked Z; 100 Lbs. Sole and Upper Leather : 1 Sett Pure Silver Castors ; 1 Silver Plated Pitcher and Walter; 1 *“ “ Coffee Pot; 1 “ “ Cake Basket; 1 “ Opera Glass; 1 Dozeu Cottage Chairs ; 1 Fine Duleimo; 1 Fine No Top Buggy—nearly new ; 1 “ Harness and Saddle Ponv • l ° rT r r * norse Buggy & Harness; —ALSO LOT DE&nABLE FURNITURE. —ALSO A Good Two Horse Covered Buggy and Harness ; With Other Valuable Goods. octS 3t sl2 BY ROSETTE, LAWHOY & C O. Administrator’s Sale ! AGREEABLE to an order of the Ordinary of Afus ix cogee county, will be sold on the Ist Tuesday in November next, at 11 oc’clock, in front of our Auc tion Room, Six Negroes, belonging to the estate of John N. Burch, dec'd. 1 NEGRO WOMAN, Martha and her two children. 1 NEGRO BOY, Edward. 1 “ WOMAN, Mary Ann. _ GEO. P. SNIDER, Adm’ri Rosxttk, Lawhon & Cos., Auet’r*. sep24 ltd & wtd Tax in Kind Aolke. Office Post Quartermaster, ) Americus, Ga., Oct. 1, ’64. 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 five fold penalty imposed by the law. 11. Agents will begin-receiving the articles con tained in the second assessment, (corn, rice, fodder, sugar, molasses, cotton, <tc.,) 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 ft>s corn, 44 4-5 lbs shelled oats, or 2 B>s bacon for one gallon syrup. JNO T CRAFT, oc4 eod 2w Gapt and Post Quart’r. Columbus High School FOR THE Exercises of this Institution were resumed on Monday the 3d inst. Terms for the first half of the Scholastic year High School, ------ $125 00 Preparatory School, - - 190 00 Incidental Expenses, - - - - 5 00 W. S. LEE, oc3 , w Principal. TIIE Exercises of thfs Institution were resume! on Monday the 3d inst. The Terms for the first half of the Academic year are First Department, - $125 00 Second “ - 100 09 Incidental Expenses, 5 00 C. P. B. MARTIN, ocS lw Principal. FOR SAFE. CONFEDERATE SCHOOL SLATES AND 3P encils ! At Kenny’s J/arble Yard, Broad st. THOMAS KENNY. octS lw* _ By Ellis, Livingston & Cos. 200 a-^LLOisrs ME CATAWBA GRAPE BRIM! A VERY FINE ARTICLE. For sale in quantities of 10 Gallons .and upwarit ag3o ts Pressman Wanted, A mechanic who understand* repairing a Print ing Press canobtain a job, on liberal terms, at this office. oct4_tf_ I*ew Renting Notice- The Pews in the first Baptist Church w.Ji bo rented, by auction, at the Church, on Monday next, at 11 o’clock, a. m. A SUPERIOR ARTICLE or , COFFEE! Sliin§ 1 g Nails! AT MULFORTYS OLD STAND o«t4-tf