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DAILY TIMES.
J. W. WARRGIV, - - - Editor.
OOIAJMBUS:
Saturday Morning, October I§, 1864.
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There is nothing new in the military situa
tion. Lee is manfully holding up his corner
in "V irginia, and gives Grant a periodical
reminder that the rebellion is not crushed
about Richmond. But a few weeks of active
campaigning remain, and these will doubtless
close with the coveted prize still beyond the
grasp of the Yankee commander.'
Hood’s movements are still a profound
secret. Some of our western exchanges regard
it as certain that the head of liis column is
marching towards Middle Tennessee. Others
locate him in North Georgia, somewhere be
tween Rome and Dalton, engaged in his fa
vorite amusement of destroying Sherman’s
means of transportation. Hi3 whereabouts
Cannot touch longer tie a matter of question.
Ho must turn up somewhere shortly where
the world can see him. In the meantime we
are sanguine in me hope \\ Ht he will close the
fait campaign g Viously.
hqsT*'i t has returned trom Tennessee to
Cherokee, Ala. We presume that he did not
reach the Nashville and Chattanooga Rail
road. He reserved that, doubtless, for another
visit—when he will return upon the right
flank of Hood’s invading aamy. Let us not
grow impatient at the absence of exciting
news. There is a good time in store for us
in the not distant future.
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Glen. J. B. lloetl.
it is disgustiag to hear the rear Gfenerals claim
ing tor Gan. Johnston, Gen. Beauregard, Presi
dent Davis, or somebody else, the suggestion of
the present movement of Gen. Hood. They say
he is simply carrying out a plan long since adopt
ed and matured by sumo one else, and that he de
serves no credit for it.
All this detracts from the influence and fame of
Gen. Hood with his own army and his own people.
-So far as this being the plan of Gen. Johnston,
wc happen to knew that since he was relieved of
the command of the Army of Tonnossee he has
not been consulted upon the course of that amy
ki any particular whatever, but has quietiy re
uiaiued » his residence in Macon. As for Presi
dent Davis and Gan, Beauregard they wore in
Richmond when the great flank movement began,
sad whilst it is certain they had nothing to tie
with inaugurating and suggesting it.
The truth is, the country is iidebtod to Gen.
Jehn B. Hood alone, for conceiving and success
fully executing the placing of his army upon the
north side es Atlanta, between the enemy and his
base of supplies. All efforts to detract from the
genius of that great and good soldier by giving
ether men the credit of his strategy is a species es
injustice and meanness unworthy es the Southern
people.
Gen. Hood has proven himself one ©f the great
est and best generals in the South, and if he is not
sacrificed bj jealousy and hatred he will soon lift
the cloud «f darkness from the west and redeem
all our lost territory, lie assumed command at
Atlanta alter Atlanta was virtually in the hands
el the enemy, and if he not only retakes it but
retakes all Northern Georgia, let the Texas hero
have the praise and not those who lost the coun
try he is now about to redeem.
There are yet people living in the world who
attribute the writings of Washington to Adaias,
to Jcfforson, or to some ene eise: and the world is
iuil of pamphlets stating that Shakspearo never
wrote a play in his life but stole everything he
was thought to be the author of. And net over
half the world believes that Napoleon had much
military genius, but they all say that he was in
debted to Kleber, to Ney, to Lannes, Soult, Murat,
and the rest lor all his successes. People forget
that these men were his military children, created
and fashioned marshals by his own genius.
[t is tds class who are now decrying General
Jlood. They would decry any one ebe in his po
sition.— La Grange Reporter.
[From the London Times.]
TBie illllilar* Situation He
viencd,
A general survey ot the events in America
reveals nothing so distinctly as the incapacity
ot either beiligerent to prevail against the
other At every point one commander is held
in check by another, and neither can obtain
any decisive advantage. In the whole vast
Held ol war there is not a single point at
which events even promise to be decisive. It
is now clear that whereas the Confederates
are as unanimous as ever in their resolution
to resist, the Federals are no longer of the
same mind as to the continuance of the attack,
(’here is a strong party desirous of raising
the great question ot peace or war at the ap
proaching, Presidential election. From the
description which has been given ot their
policy, it is obvious that they are Hot unpre
pared to accept the condition of peaceful sep
aration from the South, if nothing better can
he done. I 1 he resolution is disguised under
a proposal lor a general convention at which
the question may be discussed, but as it is
known tli.it the South will insist on indepen
dence, those who commence a parley with
this conviction must necessarily he prepared
to surrender.
Now, the question to be asked at this mo
ment is, what will be4he effect of such events
as we witness.on the views of the contending
parties? The question will give the ConfedN
ernes two chances against one. A battle
may be either won, or lost, or drawn ; if the
federals win—it Grant takes Richmond,
Sherman Atlanta, and Farragut Mobile—we
may anticipate that the peace party will be
discouraged, and their opponents enabled to
prosecute the war. If, however, the Confed
erates win, and the Federals experience any
signal disaster, the war party will be over
powered, while a similar result would proba
bly follow even it neither party won, and
things remained exactly as they are. This is
the strong point iu favor of the South. If
they can only prevent the balance ironi being
turned decisively against them, the advantage
of the campaign will be theirs.
Mr. Lincoln’s policy, as at present avowed,
is war—war “to the bitter end”—and it is on
the party proles&ing similar views that be has
hitherto relied for support. But this adoption
o she war on the part of one political section
leaves’ ihe othet w Rh do alternative but to
adopt, ir some *»har>f or other, a policy of
J.O..CC. I.t be transformed or concealed
under various disguises, but to this end it
must come at last. Whoever condems Presi
dent Lincoln’s policy must virtually condemn
the war. It if vain to talk of the prosecution
of the war on better military principles or a
J&OW sMUful plan. All plans aud all princi
ples have now been tried. Every general has
had his chance in turn, and all have failed
alike. McClellan’s scientific cautien fared no
better than Grant’s invincible obstinacy, ex
cept that under the former commander there
was not so great a sacrifice of life.
We do not see how the war could hare been
conducted more vigorously. No minister
could have raised more men than Mr. Stanton,
or more money than Mr. ChMe. No chief of
the republic could have kept “pegging away'’
at the war more indefatigably than President
Lincoln, and rejected more bluntly all propo
sals of compromise. If the Republicans, with
their unsparing efforts, could do nothing
against the South, it is not to be imagined
that the Democrats, with their half-and-half
policy, could do any more. * * * Last
autumn the Confederates held their own, but
only to see - the war re-commence in the spring.
If they oan do as much this autumn, next
spring may possibly see affairs in good train
lor peace.
Out of one hundred candidates for admission to
tho Yankee Naval School at Newport, torty-six
failed to pass examination. Twonty-two ©f the
latter were rejected ou account of physical disabili
ty, and most of the others because they did not
saow how to spell correctly.
V a Handighanrs Opinion of Mc -
Clellan and 111* Letter of Ac
ceptance.
He Repudiates the Letter, and Declares that it
has Changed the Issue from Peace to War
His Speech at Sidney, Ohio , etc.
Vnllandigham madt a speech for the dem
ocratic nominee at Sidney, Ohio, on Saturday
last, the 24th instant. The Cincinnati Com
mercial gave, on Mend ay laet, a full report,
occupying five and a half eelumns of that
paper. The following is what he eaye in ref
erence te McClellan’s letter of aceeptanee :
* * * * * lam a plain
and candid man—l will not say a blunt man,
for I endeaver te do plain things in a delicate
way—but you will, I am sure, bear me in the
discussion of public questions in the manner
which in my judgment seems best, end listen
calmly to such things aa ought to be said on
this •cession. First, that there may be no
misapprehension, let me say to you that I in
tend to vo:e on the Bth of November, and
meantime to support, according to the meas
ure of my z*-al and ability, the nominees of the
Chicago Convention—George B McClellan
andGcorge H. Pendleton. (Applause.) Speak
ing thus dietinotly upon that point, I am here
to discuss, net *b«> personal qualifications of
the gentlemen named—one of whom is my
own familiar mend—but to discuss democrat*
ic principles ad submit reasons why the dem
ocratic party is entitled to the support not of
democracy only, but of all men who voald
have part h saving this country from the
hands of the administration which is destroy
ing it
I avail myself of precisely the i.beriy taken
by many democratic speakers in the campaign
of 1863, in regard to myself, when many
speeches were prefaced with the declaration
that the speaker# did not agree in some re
spects with Mr. Vailandigharo. Ido not con
cur in the sentiments expressed ia the letter
of acceptance of General McClellan. What I
shell .say on this subject will meet the appro
bation of many of you ; it may not of all, but
I am here to speak freely and candidly, there
fore 1 allude to the subject. I cannot agree
r/ith tue distinguished gentlemau, my friend,
to whom I have alluded., (Mr. Pugh) that th it
letter is identical with the platform presented
by the Convention. My reading of English lan
guage does not lead me to that interpretation
#f it 1 differ, with all due respect, from him.
And I claim, as a member from Ohio, of the
Committee on Resolutions in that Convention,
to have official personal knowledge that he is
mistaken. The two principal points in that
letter of acceptance to which I object were
brought before that committee. The one, to
the effect that until the States and the people
•f the South had returned to the Union we
would not exhaust these “arts of statesmaa
ship,” as they are called, received but three
votee in that committee, though presetted al
most in the very words of the letter itself. I
say, therefore, it is impossible lor me to sub
scribe to the opinions expressed in that letter.
They are the private opinions, if you please,
of General McClellan, which ha has a perfect
right io entertain and publish. I, having an
equal and perfect right to dissent frem them,
do reject them.
Ido not accept them as an * ■ ressiou of
the sentiments es tha democrat! lift’. ty, but
recognize his right to entertain and express
them on all suitable occasions. Which of
the number of those who are for the opinion
expressed! iu that letter or in the platform is
right and which is wrong the people of this
country must determine. For myself, 1 not
only entertain the opinions expressed in the
Chicago platform, but I recognize that plat
form as containing the law and the prophets
of the democratic party. (Applause.) The
Convention as I have said elsewhere, was she
grandest that ever assembled on this conti
nent since 1787—made up of scholars, states
men, men of large experience, of ample miuu3
—men skilled, not ouly in the science and
philosophy of statesmanship, but in the art
of the politician, met there and laid down
unanimously in committee and unanimously
in convention that which should be the ac
cepted enunciation of democratic doctrines
for the next four years. Dissenting, then,
from thru letter, but according the right to
hold and utter them to' General McClellan, I
plant myself distinctly upon the doctrines of
the party A3 smtncihthCi by its supreme legis
lative assembly met at Chicago. I say this,
too, because somewhat has been said in the
prints of both political parties in regard to
my position—a misunderstanding part and a
misrepresentation in part.
I regret it—the letter of acceptance to
which I have referred—for one reason. It
tended to change the issue from peace and
war to the question of how the war should be
conducted. The direct question should be
piesented to this people. I did believe there
was sense of justice enough in the land, love
of liberty enough, humanity enough, of the
benign religion of Christ, “Peace on earth and
good will to men,” to impel a majority of the
people of the United States to a decision that
this war should cease, and that through peace
able instrumentalities the Union of the States
should be restored. 1 believed, too, that this
administration would not put forth the same
efforts to defeat, by foul means if not fair, a
candidate committed to the great doctrines of
peace. Abraham Lincoln is reported to have
said, after the adjournment of the Convention
and before the letter of acceptance, and the
remark is so natural that, independent of the
authority, I am inclined to believe it,—he is
reported to have said that, if the issue is to be
peace or war, and a majority of the people de
cide for peace, I wili cheerfully acquiesce—and
well he might. [Laughter.] If the war stops
the war power perishes with it.
In the hands of a democratic President, his
head and the heads of those arotrui him would
come to the block. [Applause.] But if the
question is to be merely one of how the war is
to be carried on, who is to conduct it,. said
Mr. Lincoln, I mean to do it, and General Mc-
Clellan will not be permitted to do it. I can
comprehend very well why he should say so;
but I forbear to pursue the remark further, but
avail myself of this opportunity, as a citizen,
to protest that it it should so happen that we
fail to carry this election, it shall not be taken
by the Administration as judgment against
the question of peace. That question still will
remain among the people, and finally, again
in 1868, if this war should continue, (and I
know net how long it will continue,) they
shall be permitted again to speak on it. * * *
While I have frankly declared that I do not
agree with the brave and distinguished gen
tleman who isotir candidate for the Presiden
cy, in some part3 of the sentiments expressed
in his letter of acceptance, I yet yield to him
an earnest support.
I'have told you that if this country is to be
saved, it is through the party that has made
him its candidate. I have the most abiding
and utmost confidence in his patriotism. I
believe he loves his country in every fibre
of his body. I know he has courage and
capacity as a military man. I believe that
that capacity can be and will be rightly and
earnestly directed in the civil service of his
country. I know that he has the power of
endurance, and the earnestness of purpose,
and the fortitude, and persistence which go
to make up a man for the times. [Applause.]
He has borne patiently and uncomplainingly
the persecutions and the obloquy of his foes.
He sacrificed his position at the head of our
armies of the United State3 rather than yield
up the conviction of his judgment as to the
manner in which this war should be prosecu
ted.
Two One Legged Commandkrs. —lt is observed
by those curious in coincidence, that both “the
commanders-in-chief of the confronting armies at
Atlanta, Hood and Sherman, have left a leg on the
battlo-field. Gen.■ Sherman has, however, physi
cally an advantage over his opponent in the use of
both his arms, while Gen. Hood has only a stump
in the place of one of his. General Sherman lost
his leg in the repulse from Port Hudson, General
Hood in the victory at Cnickamauga.
The only thing that spoils the coincidence is,
that W. T. Sherman, the Yankee, General at At
lanta, never lost a leg, while Gen. Hood never lost
an arm, though he has a wounded one. T. W.
Sherman, a Brigadier General under Banks, lost
a leg in May, 1863, at Port Hudson.
! TELEGRAPHIC.
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RBPORTg er rws FRRgS ASSOCIATION.
Entered according t# act es Congress in the year
18d3,by J. S. Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office of
the District Court of the Confederate States for
the Northern District es Geerjria.
Augusta, Oct. 13. —The Board of Directors
of the Press Association having adjourned
from Columbus to Augusta, met here to
day—quorum present. Telegrams were re
ceived from absent directors giving assurance
of their co-operation in the action of the
Board. A resolution directing the President
to correspond with the President of the Sou
thern Telegraph Companies, with a view te
arrange a fair and equitable commutation for
the paymant of tolls for press reports ; also a
resolution directing the President to send a
circular to the members of the Association,
explaining the matters considered at the pres
ent meeting, apprising them of the proposed
action with the Telegraph Company, and the
embarrassment >o the press that may result
therefrom—at the same time assuring them
of the entire confidence of the Board in the
usefulness of the permanency of the present j
orgttutzation.
Augusta, Oct. 14.
The factory of'the Porcelain company at
Kervelon, 6 miles from Augasta, was destroy
ed by fire last night.
Richmond, Oct. 14.
The Whig hr.s received the New York Her
ald of the 11th inst.
Sherman telegraphed Halleek from Alla
toona cn the 0; fa.; says he reached Kennesaw
on ibe 6th, just in time to witness at a dist
ance (he attack upon Allatoona. He antici
pated the attaok and ordered a corps from
Rome as reinforcements.
The attack was met anti repulsed, the ene
my losing two hundred killed, one thousand
wounded and prisoners.
Our loss was seven hundred in the aggre
gate.
The enemy captured small garrisons at
Big Shauty and A ckworth, and have burned
seven miles pf the railroad.
We have aa abundance of provisions at
Allatooca a net-Atlanta.
Hood has moved back to Dallas. Vannest
is watching him in case he tries to reach King
ston or Rome.
Atlanta is perfectly secure.
Sheridan is at Woodstock, he has destroyed
everything in the way of provisions.
Grant has returned from Washington
Gold 198 1-2.
Mosby’s Operations. —Official despatches re
ceived yesterday state that a bo iy es about 1,000
of the enemy moved up the Manassas Gap Rail
road on the 4th, with trains loaded with railroad
material, and occupied Salem and Reetortown.—
Col. Meshy attacked thorn at Salem, defeating
them, capturing their baggage, camp equipage,
stores, Ac., with 150 prisoners, and killing mad
wounding a considerable number. Ilis loss, two
wounded.
Salem is in Faqaier county, and is *n the Ma
nassas Gap railroad, fifty-twe wiles from Alexan
dria. A# Sheridan was falling back towards
Strasburg, it is evident that he cent am plated ma
ki*g that point his base es operations, drawing
his supplies from Alexandria over the Manassas
road to Strasburg. This brilliant achievement of
Colonel Meshy will disconcert Sheridan’s plan
somewhat, and make him w&teh a little mere
closely his communications.
The pleasure es the gailaat Mosby's vietory is
enhanced by the knowledge that his loss was so
insignificant, and that he has se soon had it in
his power to chastise the enemy fer the brutal
murder of several es ins mea.— Richmond Senti
nel, 10 A. .
ankbi Retaliation, —We learn from a
gentleman who left Atlanta a few days ago,
that a man by the name of Larkin Smith waa
suspected by the enemy as having been con
cerned in the hanging of the bridge-burners
of 1862. He was twice arraigned and tried,
but by some means, came outclearboth times.
He afterwards started for our lines, and had
nearly reached Rough and Ready, when he
was overtaken by a file of men and carried
back to Atlanta, where he was soon after
wards hung.
This is but another of the thousands of in
stances of cold-blooded murder that have been
committed by our enemies during this war.
They have become so common that our peo
ple, we fear, are beginning to look upon them
as necessary in the course of things/!
[' Confederacy , 13 th.
A buoT at McClellan.— That very curious
and remarkable Yankee, George Francis Train
is addressing a series of letters te MoOWUn.—
In en* of them ho makes the fallowing centre
shot:
It is a m«au thing to listen at the key-hole. It
is meaner to op or a private letter. It is tho mean
est of all to accept hospitality and abuse the host.
But these mean things are Christian virtues com
pared to the act of accepting the nomination of a
party in order to destroy it. A platform is the
party’s soul. A candidate is the party’s body.
Separate the body from the soul and death en
sues.
Mark my word, General, you will not carry a
single State except New Jersey, and you will sac
rifice seven Democratic members of Congress out
of ten. Look at Vermont. Maine will be the
isme. Indiana will only lead the ether States by
a month.
You will find it as hard as the rebels have to
fight such Democratic names as Foot, Farragut,
Porter and Dupont, on the sea, or Grant, Meade,
Tickles, Hancock, Thomas and Sher
man, on ine land, all of whom are against you.—
James Buchanan said that he was no longer J. B.
but the Cincinnati platform. You reverse it, and
say that you are not the Chicago platferm, but G.
B. Mac.
But to our letter. Bulwer said, the “Pen is
mightier than the sword.” Then he had not made
your acquaintance, General. Nominated on your
record. Yes. The Draft. The Proclamation.
The suspension of habeas corpus. The arrest of
Legislatures. Military at the polls, and disobe
dience of orders. Is not that your public record?
Do you mean, by alluding to your record, that
you will do the same again ?
Take your whole letter, paragraph by para
graph, and dissect it as I havo done this sentence,
and you will find it as weak as dish water—
undecided, inconsistent, ungrammatical and ego
tistical.
The six allusions to the Union remind me ©f
the stereotyped cry in the “Fortunes of Nigel,”
Watches, Clocks, Barnacles. The bright boy who
cried barnacles, watches, clocks, introduced anew
idea into Scotland.
“If a frank, earnerst and persistent effort to ob
tain those objects should fail, the responsibility
for ulterior eonsequencss will fall upon those who
remain in arms against the Union.”
Why not say war right out —not dodge round a
corner this way ? Don’t forget that old Cass
killed himself with the Nicholson letter.
“Believing that the views here expressed are
those of the Convention, and the people yon rep
resent, I accept the nomination’”
You don’t believe anything of the kind. Yon
know better. The Northwest were all peace.
I condense your letter in two lines :
Gentlemen, I accept the nomination, but ae
knowledge myself totally unfit for the position.
I mean nothing unkind in this, General, but
you know that now yeu are a fair mark, not a
largo one, for ail to shoot at.
An Editor on a Bear Hunt. —The editor of
the Abingdon Virginian anticipates his absence on
a bear hunt as follows :
“When this paper is issued, the senior editor
expects to be on a bear hunt in the meuntains. If
he gets a bear, he will tell all about it next week.
If the bear gets him. why, the bear must tell it.
If neither gets the other, the public will lose a long
and tbrilling recital.”'
A despatch from St. Louis, Oct. 7th, says
the enemy appeared before Jefferson City to
day. It i3 not known whether a .battle has
been fought or not.
THE CITY.
T- J. JACKSON LOCAL EDITOE
Blank Books, Lkttkr Paphr, Ac.—lt will be
seen by advertisement that Messrs. J. K. Redd A
Cos , have on consignment a lot of Blank Books,
Letter Paper, Ac. As these articles are very scarce,
those in need should supply themselves at once.
Thi Perky House.— See advertisement of Mr.
Smith of the above fine Hotel. Whilo the travel
ing public will regret to learn the absence of the
gentlemanly proprietor, and fine caterer, Mr. Smith,
they will be pleased to notice that he has associated
with him Mr, Parsons, the well known Atlanta
landlord, whose reputation for doing “things up
brown’, in the JTotel business, is as widespread as
the Confederacy.
Salks To-day.— Ellis, Livingston A Cos., will
have an important sale to-day of negroes, grocer
ies, fine furniture, Ac. See advertisements.
Theatre To-night. —A fine bill is promised to
theatre-goers to-night in Forrest’s great play of
“Metamora,” and the roaring farta of “The Politi
cal Candidate,” to be interspersed with popular
songs. Those who attend will doubtless be well
repaid for their trouble and expense.
Administrator Salb, —Public attention is call
ed to the advertisement of Judge G. E. Thomas,
from which it will be seen, he proposes to sell at
administrator’s sale on the 29th inst., at the auction
store of Ellis, Livingston A Cos., a portion of the
valuable perishable property belonging to the es
tate of the late lamented Judge B. A. Sersby.
Auction Sales. —At auction by Rosette, Law
hon A Cos., yesterday, the following prices ruled:—
Syrup ‘(Chinese, inferior) $4 per gallon ; nails
from $2 75 to $3 50; one cooking stove $575; one
beaureau $400; 1 do $375; 1 do $175; 1 French
bedstead $1000; other items unimportant. The
week has been fruitful in auctions and all the
firms—Ellis, Livingston A Cos., Rosette, Lawhon
A Cos and Johu Quin hare been driving a fine busi
ness. Furniture seems in great request, and much
has been sold at fine prices.
Our City, Business, Ac. —The past week
though remarkably dull in the way of local mat
ters of interest, has been characterized by consid
erable business activity. The market has been
well supplied with country produce, such as bacon,
lard, flour, meal, syrup, poultry, Ac.,, which has
been readily sold at good prices er exchanged fer
salt, domestics, Ac. The ruling retail prices frem
stores are a fraction higher than heretofore and may
be quoted, flour $1 per ib.; meal $8 per bushel; ba
cen $4 per lb.; syrup $lO to 12; beef $1 50 to $2 00;
salt 80c.; lard $3 50 to $4; tallow $3 50 t© $4; to
bacco $1 50 to sls; weolen jeans sl2 to sls ; sheet
ing $3 50 to $4; calico $lO to sls ; pork $1,50 to
$2 00; and other things in the same ratio. These
are selling prices. Purchasing prices are of course
something lower. The boys of the city are driv
ing a thriving trade in ground peas, sugar cane
and chinquapins. Great mainia for auctions.
A Few Questions. —We propound a few ques
tions which we hope our wealthy men won’t all
answer at once :
Where are the poor to get wood for the winter
which is about sotting in?
Whose duty is it i© see that tho poor are fed?
Ought the wives and children of the soldiers to
go half-clad during the winter while the half
clad soldier is in bis comfortless bivouac or fight
ing for our homes?
We copy the above pertinent queries from the
Augusta Register, presuming that the subject mat
ter is quite as applicable to this community as te
any othor in the State or Confederacy. We have
heretefore called attention to the subject es wood
for the poor, but as yet we haveheardne response.
Meanwhile tho cheerless winter winds begin to
admonish us, that, unless some measures are
speedily adopted for the relief of tho widow, or
phan, soldiers’ families and other destitute of the
city, there must inevitably be much suffering.—
There is no use philosophizing or being mealy
mouthed about it, the poor mast be relieved in
some way. It is somebody’s duty to furnish the
poor with wood. Reader, ask yourself if you are
under no obligations to assist in .this matter.
One thing is certain, with wood at from $25 to
SSO per load, the poor must freeze, for they are un
able to buy ? Where is brother DeVotie and his
wood yard ? What is done must be done quickly.
(communicated.)
Mr. Local: “When Greek meets Gree k then
comes the tug of war. When Dutch meets Dutch
then comes the lager beer,”
“Old Dad” is at you again, Tom, with one of
his logical and entirely intelligent letters. I thank
you for the eompliment you gave me. It was
very flattering. You are posted. Give me an
idea. There is a hospital and eight surgeons at
Union Springs. Is there a necessity for them.—■
Gen. Taylor has abolished the passport system
in Alabama. Sensible to tho last, say I. Chat
ham, in the Sun, thinks all the negroes should be
in the army. Will white men fight in the ranks
with them ? Is it not a virtual admission that we
are going up. It is well enough to oppose color
with color, but who are to feed our armies ? Why
is it, that when the military sky commences bright
ening we invariably find soige political Gamaliel?
The brightest day in our national history has
damped, and that writer is no friend to our cause,
or the principles wo defend who dares to cast the
shadow of gloom upon either. From military au
thority, intimately acquainted with Mayor Mon
roe, I am prepared, for that gentleman, to deny the
advocacy of the principles promulgated in Chat
ham’s letter. I may be wrong, but for the sake of
Mayor Munroe’s reputation I hope I am right. Is
Chatham a political aspirant? Why does he dis
guise his name ? That man is to be feared who
disavows his name. DAD BURNITT.
Suppression of a Paper. —The Baltimore
Evening Post was suppressed for the placing of a
bulletin upon its board announcing a “fearful riot
in Cincinnati, during which a Lincoln elub pro
cession from Kentucky fired upon the citizens,
men, women and children, several being killed
end wounded.” The act created great excitement
among the soldiers and citizen*, and the military
eommandant issued an order suppressing the pa
per, “to prevent riot and perhaps bloodshed in
this city, and to save the building, in which the
Post was published, from destruction.
Rip Van Winkle, of the Mobile Register, says
apropros of Washburne: It is said that Hurlburt
is laughing at him for want of success in repelling
Forrest. Hurlburt says he was relieved because
he could not keep Forrest out of Tennessee,
while Washburne cannot even keep him out of his
bedroom.
PRRSONAL.-r-Henry Waterson, Esq., at one time
editor of the Nashville Republican Banner, then
of the Chattanooga Rebel, more recently chief
editor of the Atlanta Southern Confederacy, and
lately army correspondent of this paper, has as
sumed the editorial management of the Mont
gomery Mail. He is assisted by his old friend and
associate Albert Roberts, “John Happy.”
[A fit?. <£’ Reg.
There will be one good result from the Yankee
occupation of Atlanta, should we ever regain the
city, which we have no doubt we shall do. The
order of Sherman, forcing the citizens to remove,
either North or South, has, doubtless, to a great
extent, divided the sheep from the goats. Those
who lived there, and have gone North, have done
so from choice—from the promptings of a heart
treacherous to the South. We mean the most of
them. Some may have had other motives for elec
ing to go North. Those who have gone North by
the promptings of sympathy fur our enemy will
never return to Atlanta to live after we shall have
regained the city. We have believed there were
many disloyal people in Atlanta, and Sherman’s
order has given the proof of it.
[Lagrange Reporter.
WilcUer's Raid in XorUitvcsl
eru Virginia.
We have some further details of this successful
raid, made a few days ago by Liet. Col. n iteher, in
Northwestern Virginia, an official summary of
which has already been given. Col. Witcher is now
at his headquarters in Greenbrier, having forward
ed the spoils of his expedition to a safer locality.
He brought out 400 horses add over 200 fine cattle.
He captured Bulltown, Jacksonville, Weston,
Buchanan ond Walkersville. At Westover he des
troyed a large amount of all kinds of stores. At
Buchanan he captured Major Long, of the 3d (Yan
kee) Virginia cavalry, of Averili’s brigade, with
IQO men and horses and equipments complete, be
sides the quartermaster buildings, containing 1,000
bushels of shelled oats, and at least $1,000,000 worth
of quartermaster, commissary and medical stores,
1,000 stand of small arms and equipments. He also
destroyed the telegraph office, and brought away
the instruments. He also captured the bank at
Weston, with upwards ofss,oooin all kinds of funds,
which will be turned over to the Confederate Gov
ernment. He captured in all about 300 prisoners,
and broke up the home guard organisation every
where he went, and has .returned without the loss
of a man. but has brought out some recruits J
When it is remembered that Lieut. Col. Witcher
had nothing but a small battalion; the feat has not
been surpassed during the war.
[Richmond Enquirer, 12 (h.
A Bill for arming the Negroes.—We under
stand from an authority which we regard as alto
gether reliable that the feature of a bill for arming
the negroes and placing them in the field is being
canvassed by a circle of politicians prior to the in
troduction before the Confederate Congress.
The bill proposes:
Ist. To conscribe all the ablo bodied negroes es
the country between the ages of 18 and 45, respec
tively.
2, To organize this force into regiments, brigades
and divisions, and to arm and equip them thorough
ly as soldiers.
3d, To officer the forces thus organized from mer
itorious soldiers and subalterns now in the field.
And 4th. To offer each negro who serves faithful
ly to the end of the war, his freedom.
It is assumed by the friends es this measure that
its passage will at once supply two hundred and
fifty thousand fresh troops—that it will avert the
necessity for an extension of the existing conscript
ory limits —that it is essential as the only means of
immediate relief that it is justifiable as an expedi
ent—that it will be popular abroad, and that, in
short, it will ensure a successful repulse to the
swolen armies of the North next spring.
The bill will be presented to the House by ono of
the most eloquent and influential of its members,
and is likely to form a prominent arch in the de
bates of the session upon military affairs.
Col. H. B. Montgomery.— We are pleased to
have it in our power to state—e.-pecially as Colonel
Montgomery is now a prisoner in the hands of the
enemy and cannot speak in his own defense, that
th© severe criticism of his conduct in the reoent at
tack on Marianna, which appeared in some of the
Florida papers, and was copied beyond the limits of
that State, is wholly unjust and undeserved. We
have it from tbqvery lighest authority, and as the
result of a military investigation, that, so far from
tailing iu any duty that devolved on him as a com
mander, he did all in iis power with the means at
bis command, and his ga'lantry was the cause of his
having been made a prisoner. His command in the
town did not number over one hundred and fifty,
and were composed of reserves and raw militia, and
this snail force was speedily overpowered by supe
rior numbers, a result which no amount of bravery
and sagacity on the part of their commander could
have prevented, There were three companies of
cavalry within twenty miles of the p!ace, which
were sent for on the first intimation of the approach
of the enemy, but they arrived'teo late to take auy
part in its defence.
We make this statement in behalf of a gallant
soldier, who has no power now to defend himself
against aspersions, and justice te his family upon
whomffie is incapable of bringing dishonor. Those
papers that have copied the Florida article, will
prevent a great wrong by inserting this statement,
the truth of which may be implicitly relied on.
[Savannah Republican,
Administrators Sale.
WILL be so’d on Tuesday, the 25th inst,, in the
V City es Columbus, at the store of Messrs. Ellis,
Livingston A Cos.. Auctioneers, a portion ol the
perishable property of the estate or B. A. Sorsby,
dec’d, consisting of several Hogsheads of Sugar,
Kegs of Nails, B.oxes of Tobacco, Pieces of Osca
burgs. Envelopes) Writing Paper, Buttons, Thread,
Ac. Sold by order of Court. Terms cash, Sale to
commence at 11 o’clack a. m.
G. E, THOMAS.
Oct 14,1834. —oc 15-tilloc2s . Adm’r.
~fojr~sa eeT
{ OFFER for sale tha “Fisher Place,’’ 5 miles
1 south of Glennville, 10 miles from Eufaula, con
sisting ofsoo acres, —200 open. Good itnprenements,
fine spring water. Terms $25,0(0,
For further information apply to the undersigned
at Glennville. E. A. O. WARE,
oc 15-st*
Bv Ellis, Livingston Cos,
THIS DAY, Saturday, 15th October, at 10 1-2
1 o'clock, wo will sell iu front of ©ur store,
ONE CARRIAGE IN GOOD ORDER.
oc 15 11 $2
FEK.E.Y HOUSE.
TIIE undersigned would respectfully inform his
1 old friends, patrons, und the traveling public
generally, that as he has to be absent for a short
time he has been so fortunate as to have associated
with him his well known and worthy friend Mr.
EDWARD PARSONS, late of Atlanta, Ga., whose
reputation and superior tact for business is well
known throughout the Confederacy. This House
is large and commodious, and no pains, nor expense
shall be scared to fit it up in the very best and most
elegant st. le, and to obtain every thing in the line
of substa. tisl eatables and luxuries that this
market a. brds, With these assurances we most
cordially s »licit all our old friends, and the travel
ing, publii generally, to give us a call and an oppor
tunity of r ndering them comfortable.
oc Idlin'- THOS. E. SMITH.
Sioo beward7
OTOLEN b TT a man with an artillery suit of clothes
O on, from near the Lowell Warehouse, about 10
o’clock Saturday morning, a short, heavy set GRAY
PONY, with white tail and mane. A saddle and
bridle was also taken, The saddle is a small black
one, with a horn on the forepart of the tree which
has been broken off and covered with leather; the
hind part of the tree has leather also tacket over it.
2 I will give the above reward for the Pony and
thief, or a. liberal reward for the Pony delivered to
me at my place one and a half miles of Station No.
1, between No. 1 Station and Bethel Church, Mus
cogee road, or to A. Gammell, Columbus, Ga.
oc-12 3t* J. BLOW.
Small Farm ibr Sale.
[ OFFER for sale One Hundred and Thirty-five
I acres, well improved, eight and a half milei from
Station No. 1, Muscogee Railroad. Location very
pleasant and convenient. Price Five Thousand
Dollars, if sold in two weeks, For further particu
lars apply to R. M. Gunby, on Broad street, or to
myself near the farm. Possession given by first of
December. JAMES M. LENNARD.
oc 14 fit*
Land lor Sale.
THE subscriber offers for sale 320 acres of Land on
l the Mobile and Girard Railroad, 21 miles from
Columbus, 150 acres cleared, two good Log Houses,
Negro Cabins, Ac. Good young apple and peach
orchard. 320 acres one and a half miles from the
above place all in woods. 230 acres near Valula,
some cleared land andcabbins on it.
For terms apply to the subscriber on the first
named place. * JAMES WORD,
oc 14 6t*
For Sale.
SIDES Russett Upper Leather.
* 'J ' FOLSOM A CODY,
oc 14 2w
Found.
IN the Istreet, ,‘near .the sOpelika Railrod‘Depot.
on the morning of the Ist October, inst., in a dis
abled condition, a mouse colored JAC'K. The
owner of said Jack can have him by proving pro
perty and paying charges.
Apply at No. 40 Broad street.
Columbus Oct. 13.1864—6 t
Lost.
ON the 11th October, 1864, between the Perrv
House and the Masonic Hail, a Gold Watch Seal,
opens on both sidet, one side has a blue set, and the
other a red set. The finder will be liberally reward
ed by leaving it at this office. loc 13 3t
Half Busliel Measures
PR sale by
JEFFERSON A HAMILTON.
oc 13 6t*
o“Sun and Enquirer copy.
Wanted
A T cnee. FOUR GOOD DINNING ROOM 3ER-
O VANTS, not subject to impressment, for which
good wages will be paid.
SHIVERS, WYNNE A CO.,
oc 13 6t Proprietors Cook’s Hotel.
Strayed or Stolen,
ON SUNDAY morning last, two medium sized
MULES, one a black the other a bay. They
were in fair order and fresh shod. A liberal reward
will be paid lor their deliver? to me at the Perry
House. . THOS. E. SMITH,
oc 13 3t
$25 Dollars Reward.
CTRAYED from my place in Wynnton, a dark
O bay mare MULE, about nine years old, hair
rubbed off of both hips and a large scar on the right
hindquarter. JOHN COOIv.
oc 13 t s
SSOOO in Gold lor Sale.
A PPLY to J. F. WINTER.
A * Exchange Broker.
«e 13 fit At Rock Island Paper Mills Office.
THEATHE.
Saturday Evening, Oct* 15, 1864.
Edwin Forrest’s great prizo Tragedy
METAMORA 2
THE LAST OF TIIE WAMPANOAGS.
Which li s won extraordinary celebrity.
MR. THE©. HAMILTON,
In his mo-t popular character of Metamora.
Mrs. W. 11. Crisp, as Nahmeokee !
Great cast of the Prize Play.
Popular Ballad, by Miss Maggie Marshall.
To be fallowed by the Roaring Farce of the
POLITICAL CANDIDATE!
Reetive, a fretful politiciair. Mr C T Wolfe
Gregory Harry Crisp
Mariana Ramsey with songs Mrs Jessie Clarke
In preparation Lady of the Lake,
oc 15 It
AUCTION SALES
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos.,
Mules, Rockaway and Blasting Powder.
WE will sell on SATURDAY, 15th October, at
10 1-2 o’clock, in front of our Auction Room
A pair Fine Mules,
One Rockaway,
50 pounds Blasting Rowck
oc 142 t $8
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
ON SATURDAY, 15tli October, at 101-2 o’clock,
we will sell in front of our store
10 Kegs Fine French Gun Powder
oc 14 2t $4
By Ellis, Eivin&ston A Cos.
- ♦- m
WE will sell, on SATURDAY, October 15th,
at 10£ o’clock, in front of our Auction Room
5 Boxes Tobacco,
30 Pairs Cotton Cards,
1 Large Plated- Waiter.
00 12 sl2
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
SETT BLACKSMITHS' TOOLS.
AN SATURDAY, October 15th, at 10 1-2 o’clock,
\J we will sell in front of our store,
A First Rate Sett of Blaeksi tilths’ Tools!
including Bellows 38 inches, large Anvil, Yiao,
Hammer*, Tongs, Ac., Ac. All as good as new.
—ALSO —
Two Fine Carpets.
ocll 5t S2O _ _
By Ellis, Livingston A Cos.
Valuable Store House and Loi.
AN TUESDAY, 18th pf October, at 10 1-2 o’elock,
U we will sell in front of our Auction Room,
THE STORE HOUSE AND LOT
No. 22, three doors below the corner of Broad and
Bryan streets, known as the Randal Jones property,
now occupied by A. v elatti. Store fronts 30 feet,
running back 90 feet, with four well finished rooms
un siairs. [oc 11-7 t S3B
By Ellis,
ON SATURDAY, October 15th, at 10} ©’dock,
we will sell in frout of our store
A Splendid China Dinner and Tea Sett,
i embracing 140 pieces. It can be seen at our Store
previous to tho sale. foot 11-5 t sls
By Fills, Liviißpton & i l o.
Homes loi* Refugees.
AN TUESDAY. 18th of Octobor at lOpao’elook,
we will sell in front of our store
House and Lot at Silver Run,
with 53 acres land atrached. The house has two
large rooms, two kitchens, one of which has two
rooms with brick chimueys; stables, cribs, See., with
excellent water —making a very comfortable resi
dence —formerly owned by J M Upshaw.
-ALSQ-
House and Lot at Elion, Ala.,
I our and a half miles from Guorry’s Depot. Tho
house has six rooms with kitchen, smoke house and
fencing nearly new, with fifteen acres land attach
ed. Good water on the place,
oct 10-8 t S4B
By Ellis, Livingston & Vo
Executive Sale of Valuable Property.
AN TUESDAY, 18th of October, between the
v/ usual hours of sale, I will sell in front of Ellis,
Livingston & Cos., Auction Store,
THE DESIRABLE HOUSE AND LOT,
corner of Forsyth and Franklin streets, No, 373,
adjoining Mr. Slade’s Academy, with half acre of
land attached. Improvements good. Sold as the
property of John Bethune, dec’d.
oct 10-8 t $32 CHERRY BETHUNE, Exu’tx.
By Ellis, Livingston & to
Fine Furniture.
AN SATURAY, 15th October, at 10 1-2 o’clock, we
- ' will sell in front of our store,
2 Large Parlor Mirrors, 3x5 (French
Plate.)
2 Fine Mahogany Settees.
12 Fine Mahogany Parlor Chairs.
1 Rocking Chair.
3 Large Cedar Wardrobes.
5 Large new Feather Beds.
3 Mahogany Bureaus.
1 Fine Mantle Clock.
Chairs, Tables, Washstands, Paintings,
&c., &c.
oct 10 6t $36
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
200 GALLONS
PURE CATAWBA GBAPE BRANDY!
A VERY FINE ARTICLE.
For sale in quantities of 10 Gallons and upwards.
ag3o ts
LARGE CONSI GN?I E\T
OF
LETTER PAPER!
AND
IIEIORAUDinfI ISO Ok* !
For sale by
J. K. REDD & CO.
oc 12 ts
Tax in Kind Notice.
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 fivefold penalty imposed
by the law.
11. Agents will begin receiving the articles con
tained in the second assessment, (com, rice, fodder,
sugar, molasses, cotton, Ac.,) as soon as they are
assessed.
111. In view of the difficulty of procuring barrels
for the tithe Sorghum Syrup, producers may give
in exchange at the rate of 14 pounds wheat, 39 2-10
lbs corn. 44 4-5 lbs shelled oats, or 2 tt>s bacon for
one gallon syrup.
JNO T CRAFT,
oc4 eod 2w Chpt and Post Quart’r.