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DAILY TIMES. J. W. WARRGIV, - - - Editor. OOIAJMBUS: Saturday Morning, October I§, 1864. s -~- ~ •*' ——-- —— •■■ imaargaa— 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. « ♦ ♦ —- 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. | ; 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.