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DAILY TIMES.
J. W. WARREN, - - - Editor.
COLUMBUS:
Monday Morning, Oetober 17,1864,
Revocation of Details.
The revocation of details, says the Richmond
Examiner, like many other measures of the War
Department, ought to hare been earlier. If the
Order had been published three weeks age, the
twenty days allotted for forwarding the lists would
bow be expired, and the men from soft places would
this day be pouring into the army. Now that
the necessity of the measure has been at length
teen, it may be hoped that it will be carried out
ihtibxibly and honestly. The meD are really wan
ted; and if we had this moment in the army, the
whole, or even the ono half of those affected by
by this order, and well able to serve, Gen. Lee
could soon make short work of what remains of
this campaign.
Os CO urse judgement and discretion must be
employed in deciding who are employed in indis
pensable work to the army; for no other work is
indispensable at till. Certain artisans, and per
sons employed in providing and forwarding mu
nitions of war, must of course be kept in that
duty. All the country demands is, that there be
no favoritism. Under tho third section of the
Order, those who claim exemption on account ot
physical disability are to be examined by “select
medical boards,” after their arrival at the camp
of instruction. Without disrespect to those m -di
cal officers, we would impress upon them what a
grave duty they will have to discharge in this
matter. “Physical disability” is an uncertain and
variable matter, very subject to exaggeration by
fancy in certain circumstances; and the too hu
mane indulgence of surgeons has exempted thous
ands from service who, though not perhaps equal
to a year’s campaigning, with heavy marching
in snow and sleot, might yot very well do a few
weeks’ duty in our present emergency, uot only
with no injury to their health, but with positive
beueiit.
To the men thomselves who have sought “soft
places” heretofore and obtained them, and remain
snugly coiled up in them up to this hour, it is feared
that there would be no use in appealing. If
the ovi tent and crying need of their country has
not been able to stir and rouse them, and noth
ing but the hand of tho conscript guard upon their
collar can move them from their corners, then let
it be applied at once, and the more roughly the
better. „
There is a large class who will not require such
summons. All men possessing common intelli
gence, and any heart to speak of, know that tho
time has now come when they must do some fight
ing or lose their property and their liberty ; be
come wandorers in the woods or be housed in Yan
kee prisons. It is disagreeable for untrlined old
men to abandon homo and stop business for tho
field ; but it is better to bo in the field for tho next
six weeks than to be plundered of everything
they have in the world by the Yankee army and
sink into the condition of starving slaves. For
the sake of themselves, their property and tho safe
ty of their own live3, all must now shoulder a
muskot who can. Let the call bo enforced, not
merely in Richmond, but on every farm, in every
■bouse and in every cabin of Virginia and of all
the other States; for the loss of Richmond is the
immediate less of Virginia.
Later from Europe. —Tho New York corres.
pendent of tho London Times, writing on tho 9th
September, says that tho Republican party, seeing
the danger wiiieh menaces it from divided coun
cils is rapidly closing up Us ranks —and in con
trasting yho Republican claims of Lincoln and
McClellan, he contends that between them there
0, 23 little to choose on publio grounds.
The London Times correspondent at Richmond,
writing Aug. 13th says there never wa3 a moment
when moreconfideuce as to the result of tho war,
was entertained throughout the South.
The New York correspondent of the Daily News
says that-whoovor may bo elected in November
you have nothing to look for but war. Thero is
so peace party that will weigh in the contest, and
unless some great change comes over tho public
mind, you will see no administration that will dare
to cease lighting as long as the Confederacy is in
existence.
, Th« Northern papefs claim that prepara
tions were made io meet the advance of our
forces in Missouri, inasmuch ns it was‘‘known
for some time by their war authorities that
the rebels in the Trans-Mississippi were mass
ing a considerable force to make an invasion.’'
We fiud a dispatch in the Cincinnatti Com
mtreial which says: ‘-General A. J. Smith’s
command of 25,000 men were recently sent
op from Memphis to counteract this very
movement of the enemy. Other .troops have
been quietly concentrated in the State. They
are to be .under command of Gen. Rcaecrane.”
Gen. Price seems to be having things all
his own way.
Headquarters. —The headquarters.for this
department, now at Selma, where they were
removed temporarily, says the Meridian Cla
rion, will return in a few days to this place,
the object of their removal being accomplish-*
ed, General Taylor has been constantly on
*3se move since he assumed command of this
department. 11 13 energy, wliich is remarkable,
is having a cheering etl’ect upon the people.
[From the Richmond Whig, 11th.]
Tlie News.
.FROM EAST TENNESSEE.
The cheering information already received from
Breckinridge’s command in the Southwest, has an
addition in the news received at the War Depart
ment yesterday evening. The despatch referred to
states that Brig. Gen. Vaughn’s Cavalry drove the
from Kogorseibe. on the Bth of October,
killing and wounding a good many.. It also reports
* that there is no enemy in force this side of Bull’s
Bap. Thus it seems that the tide in the Southwest
aam the Valley of Virginia and North Georgia has
turned, aud ihat we have now only to advance te
reap the fruits of victory.
FROM THE NORTH SIDE.
jfll was again reported quiet on the Northside
yesterday evening by an army officer direct from
the front. From another source we also learned that
the Yankees have over 20 guns in position at Fort
Harrison bearing upon our works whioh front it. —
Whether this be so or not, we are inclined to be
lieve that before long, if not abandoned they will
be captured with the cannoneres who man them.
While we deplore the surprise or reverse, or what
ever it may be called, which gave the Yankees Fort
Harrison, we have met many knowing military peo
ple who see in its capture nothing to he regreted by
the friends of the Confederate cause. After listen
ing to the reasons adduced by them, we have been
forced despite our preconceived opinions to admit
that they are not without force and plausibility.—
The developements of the next ten or twenty days
will betray, unless we are mistaken who was ori
ginally right.
FROM THE VAIiLEY.
We learned by the Central cars last night that
Sheridan is obeying Grant’s letter to destroy every
thing in his passage through the Valley. He has
spared neither barn, mill or corn-crib, and even in
his fastest travelling finds time to apply the torch
to every hay-rick. All accounts from Early repre
sent his men as “ Jubilant ” in their pursuit of bher
idan's column.
Amon,- the acts passed at the latejseasion of the
Alabama Legislature was one which makes the
•rimes of negro stealing, horse stealing, burglary,
xobbery and arson, punishable with death, by hang
ing, without discretion of the jury. Another (and a
*Dod one) to punish, by imprisonment in the peni
tentiary , for a term not exceeding five, years, any
impressing officer, who violates the impressment
Jew, in any shape or form, in the.execution, or pre
tended execution of the same.
The Front.
We have from our special agent, who writes us
from Blue Mountain under date es the 11th, a pret
ty clear resume of operatiois up to that time.
Our earlier reports of the merenponts of our
cavalry were quite correct. Reme was not cap
tured, but merely occupied after the enemy bad
retired.
The Alatooaa affair transpired on the 4th. It
was conducted by General French. The division
of that officer, forming the left wing of Stewart’s
corps, and placed farthest north in the advance
upon the railroad, was ordered forward on a tour
es observation. On reaching the vicinity of Ala
toena, entrenchments were discovered and car
ried with such ease that the reconnoissanee was
oentinued. At every point es defense the resis
tance was light, pad at length ear troops reached
the depot with a comparatively small loss. Here a
council of war was held. It decided to attack the
hills, which rise about a half mile beyond and in
which the enemy was supposed to have fortified
himself. In the assault which followed our casu
allies were more numerous than before, and we
were forced to retire. It was now nearly night,
and there being no reinforcements at band the
lines were contracted to the left of the corps.
In this roconnoissance in force we lost only one
hundred and forty-nine men. The gallantry of
the troops is highly commended by Gen. Hood.
The report of a second attack and capture of the
works by rhoentire corps combined is a mistake of
the press agent at Newnan, who relied upon un
founded and exaggerated rumor3.
At Cartersville the enemy have erected superb
fortifications, rivaling, as Capt. Nutt of the scouts
reports, those around Atlanta. The enemy have
massed large quantities of supplies at this point.
A special note, which will be found in our tele
graphic column, informs us of y,n importanr
movement, which has already gone into effect and
may bring us the most gigantic results. Lay fay
ette, where <>ur armj is at present, is twenty two
miles this side of Chattanooga at the lower end of
Willis’Valley. The enemy are concentrating for
the defense of Chattanooga. Our rear and flank
is under perfect cover, and success is likely to
follow the move.
We shall endeavor to keep our readers fully
and promptly advised of all that transpires, which
is prudent to be made publio, as wehavo establish
ed the most regular means of communication,
and shall be able to present as constant and as re
liable intelligence as can be had. —Montgomery
Mail, 15.
[Correspondence of the Montgomery Mail.]
The Front,
Blue Mountain, Oct. 12,1864.
The movements across the Tennessee river,
an inkling of which 1 dispatched you from
Talladega, has received a checkmate, and our
advance towards Gunter’a landing seems to
be turned in another and more northernly di
rection. I was not premature in my conjec
tures. There is no doubt that but for causes,
which it would not be prudent to mention
ju3t now, our troops would have been by this
time at Fayetteville, in Middle Tennessee.
Gen. Hood has, with great promptitude, and
with a celerity of perception which promises
well, made his dispositions to suit the emer
gencies as they rise; and the sudden flask to
the right toward Will’s Valley has taken the
enemy completely by surprise. The move
ment, as I understand it from officers just in
from the front, was made on Tuesday and
Wednesday. The two army corps of Lee and
Cheatham encamped near the little village of
Centre, in Cherokee county, Ala., ware moved
across the Coosa on the evening of the 11th.
Gen. Stewart, who lay near Rome, pushed for
ward over the Ettovvah above fb-at point. The
columns met somewhere near Will’s Valley
road, and are advancing on Lafayette. The
advance guard is reported tu have entered that
town without opposition.
L’ayfayette will be remembered as the poiat
from which Gen. Bragg marched out to fight
the bffttle of Chickamauga, and the scene of
Gen. Pillow’s cavalry disaster. It is a dirty
little village in Walker county, Georgia, twen
ty-two miles from Chattanooga, at* the ex
tremity of Will’s Valley. General Hood can
march up this valley and tap the railroad
twelve miles from Bridgeport, near the river,
and push forward over the route followed by
Rosecrans upon the Sebastopol of East Ten
nessee. ‘it is understood to be strongly forti
fied, but may be captured by a suddeu dash
over Lookout Mountain. Whether it is the
design of Gen. Hood to a (tempt this, e*- wheth
er he still has designs upon Middle Tennessee,
is a matter of conjecture with your correspon
dent as well as Gen. Sherman, and,, will be
tfeveloped in a few days.
I shall express no opinion as to the move
ment in a military point of view. I do not
pretend to be a critic in the art of war. It
may turn out well or ill, for aught I know.—
But its moral and political effect is a topic of
fair discussion, and in their light the move
ment is a good one. It encourages the troops,
revives the spirit of ]the officers, disarranges
the plans of the enemy, and disturbs the tri
umphant dreams of the people of the North.—
The effect will be beneficial on the election.
The strength of Sherman’s army is various
ly estimated. I have just had a conversation
with a Captain commanding a detachment of
scouts, and he tells me that the popular notion
exaggerates the numbers of the enemy. There
is one corps, eight thousand strong, in Atlan
ta. Thomas has twelve thousand with him
at Bridgeport and Stevenson. There are five
thousand at Cartersville, two thousand at
Ettow&h and about twenty-three thousand at
Chattanooga.
These figures sum up a total of fifty thous
and. This does not include the cavalry. It
is about five thousand strong. If these are
anything like approximate aggregates we are
not so bad off as some people suppose. We
can dispose of them with some assurance.
The Yankees themselves claim a force of one
hundred thousand men. This is gasconade.
General Beauregard has reached army
headquarters and his appearance among the
troops I am told inspires the liveliest enthu
siasm. Shirley.
(Special Correspondence of the Mississippian.)
Visit to Memphis—The Subjugation of the South
—A Federal Officers Opinion—The Presiden
tial Election—No Chance for McClellan — Gen-
Washburne —Confederate Money in Memphis,
$ c -
Mr. Editor: —Having recently (upon busi
ness connected with the exchange of prison
ers) spent several days in Memphis a few
facts may be interesting to your readers. Os
course, I cannot communicate any military
information which I may have gained, as this
would be violative of the confidence which the
enemy reposes in a Confederate officer when
he is admitted through the lines. I carried
about eighty officers and privates to Memphis
for exchange. Upon the way a Federal officer,
as we approached Grenada, said to me, “I
have traveled overthreehundred miles of rail*
road which hitherto has been torn up by our
army. Now, you are running trains unmo
lested over the very lines which we had sup
posed effectually destroyed. Upon either side
I behold evidences of plenty. This work has
all to be done over again. The difficulty in
conquering the South lies in its tenacity ®f
purpose and its immense territorial area.—
When we, by overwhelming numbers, drive
you out of one place, you retire to another ;
by the time we dislodge you from the second
you are ready to go back to the first. As we
advance we have to weaken the invading col
umn to garrison our lines of communication,
continually threatened by your cavalry. The
struggle is a long one, but if the North can
endure, we will conquer you in the end.”—
Barring the last remark, W 8 believe he had a
right conception of our strength. When we
reached Hernando we met the Federal flag of
truce. The officers of the flags on both sides
were elegantly entertained at the residence of
Colonel White, of the Confederate array. Blue
and grey were seated around acommon table,
and the war freely but courteously discussed.
It is a strange sight to see embittered enemies
thus communing together— yet such is the
power of the white flag.
Having several matters of importance to
lay before Major General Washburne, we pro
ceeded to Memphis. We were met at the
picket line bveMajor Burnett, of Gen. Wash
burne’s staff, aud invited to the city. We
were received with great courtesy and treated
in the most genteel manner during our stay.
Gen. Washburne is free and easy in his man
ner and affable in his official intercourse. —
From what we saw and heard of him he is a
representative man of the more humane and
gentlemanly class of Federal officers. We
understand from members of his staff and cit
izens that he greatly depreciated the destruc
tive policy, and was highly incensed at the
burning of Oxford, Miss., by Gea. Smith. Af
ter the retain of that expedition, he ordered
the express companies to send no’packagea or
boxes North, until they could be examined. —
He holds many valuable articles pillaged from
the citizens to be returned to the rightful
owners. In one box was a fine copy of Au
dobon’s Natural History—the property of a
gentleman at Holly Springs. This he has re
turned. A copy of this invaluable contribu
tion to science cost the subscribers .one thous
and dollars each, and i3 very rart, as the
plates have been destroyed.
While in Memphis I became thoroughly
convinced that McClellan has no chance for
election, his own friends and supporters told
me that be would be badly beaten. Among
the prominent papers, however, supporting
bis claim are the St. Louis Republican, Louis
ville Journal, Louisville Democrat, Chicago
Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer and New Y r ork
Metropolitan Record. Vallandigham, Fer*
nan do Wood and Garret Davis, of Kentucky,
were making speeches for him. I consider
ibat the election of McClellan would be the
worst for the South. Partisan spirit would
sustain his administration and thus the revo
lutionary elements would be harmonized to a
war policy. Public patronage would meet
with a freah distribution and the malcontents
subsidized into silence. The election of Mr.
Lincoln would climax the revolutionary spir
it and precipitate civil war in the border and
Northwestern States. Four years of malad
ministration give no prophecy of better suc
cess, and a large class, yielding to despair,
would demand a cessation of usurpation, and
finally of hostilities. The revolutionary party,
though in a hopeful minority at th« ballot
box, knows its power in the field. Sustained
by Southern arms it is a balance of power
which would soon mage itself felt in the
mighty throes of war which are now racking
the American continent. We have only to
hold on tenaciously, and wait for the devel
opment of events in the United States. Peace
will come at last through the efforts of our
arms. I hf«re never seen a Federal officer
that was willing to acknowledge our indepen
dence. We have yet to fight on, but if true to
ourselves the issue is certain.
One thing that surprised me is that Confed
erate money, estimated by its purchasing value
is worth three times a» much in Memphis as
it is in Selma. The brokers win pay seven
teen cents upon the dollar for it in Lnited
States currency, or eight and a third cents
in gold. Calico can be bought in Memphis
for three dollars per yard in Confederate mon
ey which would cost fifteen in Selma. Other
articles in the same proportion. There is a
regular market for Confederate money in Mem
phis. It is also astonishing that in Northern
Mississippi, which has been time and again
overrun by hostile armies, prices rule much
lower than with us. In Seaatobia a day s
board, (and which is much better than is
furnished by our interior hotels) is furnished
for eight dollars in Confederate money with
us the price is twenty dollars. I saw no evi
dences of disloyalty in Northern Mississippi.
Indeed, the patriotism of the people seems to
have been intensified by their insults and
losses. ‘ This is very gratifying. There is as
little, or even less, croaking among them than
with our people who have never yet felt the
bitter wrongs of invasion and devastation.
Let us all pursue a brave, hopeful, enduring
spirit, and peace and liberty will yet dawn and
brighten upon us. Yours, Jfc.,
*• H. A. M. Henderson.
Cahaba, Ala., Oct. 10, 1864.
[Correspondence Savannah Republican.]
Letter from “P. W. A.”
Richmond, Oct. Bth, 1864.
There was a renewal of hostilities before
Richmond yesterday. At an early hour in
the clay ‘Lieut. General Anderson advanced
against the enemy’s lines in fiont of Battery
Harrison and further to the left along the
Darbytown road. On the right the enemy
was driven back nearly a mile under cover of
the guns of Battery Harrison, and on the left
he was forced to abandon two temporary
lines and retreat with considerable haste a
distance ot two miles. Here he wa3 found to
be strongly intrenched and in heavv force.
Our troops charged thi3 position with their
usual gallantry, but owing to the reported
failure of one of the brigades, the attack was
not as successful as it promised to be. Our
chief loss was sustained at this point, though
it is reported to have been inconsiderable al
together Among the slain was Brig. General
Gregg, commanding a Texas brigade in Gen.
Fields’ division. Brig. Gen. Bratton, of South
Carolina, was severely wounded. Col. Has
kell, of the 7th S. C. Cav., received a wound
in the head that will probably prove mortal,
and his brother, Maj. Haskell, ot the artillery,
was also wounded.
- The results of the action may be summed
up in a few words: On the right we drove the
enemy back to Battery Harrison, and on the
left wfc adrascsd Our lines fully two miles,
took ten pieces of artillery and as many cais
sons, with their horses, and made about one
hundred prisoners, including Captain Ashe,
Kautz’s adjutant-general. Gary’s brigade of
cavalry rendered important service in making
these captures and driving in the enemy’s ex
treme left.
The enemy still hold Battery Harrison,
which has become quite an uncomfortable
place to them, being shelled by our laud bat
teries by day and by gunboats at night. Un
fortunately, Chaffin’s Bluff i3 within range of
this work, and our flag staff at that place was
shot away yesterday.
Gen. Early reports that Sheridan, on the
night of the sth, retired from Harrisonburg
back down the Valley, and that our forces had
occupied the town. The operation
guerilla bands upon his line of communica
tions may have forced him to this step, ortho
condition of affairs in Georgia may require
the presence of a part of his forces in that
quarter. A detachment of Federal cavalry
burnt the railway bridge over the Rapidan
yesterday. This, with the retreat of Sheridan,
if not designed to mislead Gen. Early, looks
as if the movement against Lynchburg had
been abandoned.
Price’s advance in Missouri, Forrest’s rig
orous- operations in Tennessee, and Hood’s
new move in Georgia, have doubtless discon
certed the plans of our enemies, and rendered
fresh combinations necessary.
Our success at Saltville, in Southwestern
Virginia, on the 2d inst., seems to have been
complete. The fight commenced at 10 o’clock
in the morning, only a mile and a quarter
from the Salt Works, and continued until
night. The enemy made repeated charges
against our position, but were as often repuU
sed. They commenced their retreat at ten
o’clock at night, leaving their dead, many
wounded, and a large number of small arms,
in our hands. The battle, on our part, was
fought chiefly by the reserves from the neigh
boring counties, their loss being 18 killed, 71
wounded and 21 missing. The regular forces
lost 39 wounded—none killed. The men de
tailed to bury the Federal dead, interred 106
whites and 150 blacks; about bo were left
unburied. Brig. Gen. Henson was wounded
and fell into eur hands. The whole Federal
loss was estimated by the Lynchburg Repub
lican, from which the foregoing facts are ob
tained, at over 1,200. The Republican states
that “Mudwall” Jackson commanded on the
field, and that Gens. Breckinridge and Echols
reached the field after the fight had progressed
sometime. At last advices, the enemy were
in headlong retreat, and the Confederates in
hot pursuit.
Returned prisoners express the opinion that
Mr. Lincoln will be certainly re-elected. Such
is the prevailing opinion in Richmond also.
President Davis has returned to the capital,
and was out on the lines the day after his ar
rival here. P. W. A.
# » »
Tinmen. bales of cotton, contributed by the cit
izens of Yallabusha, Carroll, aad Holmes counties,
for the relief of sick and wounded soldiers from
Mississippi, were sold at auction at Jackson, a few
days since, at an average of S7f cents, and the
amount, $4,119,47, sent to the Rev. C. K. Mar
shall.
TELEGRAPHIC.
*1 PORT* or TMM PBBB9 ASSOCIATION.
Entered according te act es Ceagress in the year
1563, by J. S. Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office es
the District Court es the Confederate States for
the Northern District of Georgia.
SATURDAY NIGHT’S DISPATCHES.
Richmond, Oct. 14.— " Northern papers 12th
were received to-night.
Pennsylvania, Indiana and Ohio have gone
for the Republicans by large majorities.
Sheridan is at Fisher’s Hill.
The Governor General of Nova Scotia visits
Grant.
Nothing later from Sherman.
Richmond, 14th.—The fight has not been
resumed to-day on the north side of the James,
as expected.
Officers from below report all quiet.
Nothing has been received at the War De
partment from any quarter.
Charlottesville, Oct. 5 p. m.—Sheridan
has marched two corps of his army to this
side of the (mountain through Thornton and
Chester Gap. General Early followed and
engaged the remaining corps under General
Crook, and drove it through Strausburg and
across Cedar creek.
Charlottesville, Oct. 15. —Notwithstand-
ing Federal statements that the 6th and 19th
corps had crossed at Thorton's and Chester s
Gaps, it is altogether probable that they did
not pass through Thornton’s but north of that
Gap.
— . ♦—♦ ♦
[Special to th» M#il.]
From the Georgia Front.
Blue Mountain, Oct. 12.—0n Wednesday
the army corps commanded by Gens. Lee and
Cheatham crossed the Coosa at Center, in
Cherokee county, and marched northward.
Gen. Stewart crossed the Etowah above Rome,
simultaneously. The columns have united
and the advance have entered the town of
Lafayette. The flanks are protected by a
heavy force of cavalry, and the enemy are
rapidly falling back to Chattanooga.
E. P.
Lieut. Gon. Taylor was in Jackson, Mississippi,
on the 7th, in consultation with Major Gen. Gard
ner, commanding the District of Mississippi and
East Louisiana, and Brig. Gen. Adams, command
ing all the cavalry in the district. A correspondent
of the Register says: Among the rumors afloat is
one‘that Gen. Taylor is to be transferred to the
Army of Tennessee and to take command of Har
dee’s corps, and one report has it that Gen. Breck
inridge is to succeed him here, and another that
Gen. S. D. Lee is to be sent back. How true these
rumors are I know not, but I find it pretty general
ly believed that Gon. Taylor is to go to Georgia,
though public opinion is divided as to his successor
here. Nous verrona.
Murder of Confederates at Front Royal.
—We have received from a gentleman who was an
eye-witness of the atrocious acts of the Fedoral
troops at Front Royal, the following particulars
of the affair.
The Yankee cavalry under General Torbert, en
tered tho town, and drove out the few Confede
rates on picket, who fell back to Milford. At this
latter point, Gen. Wickham met the Yankee force
and repulsed it.
A part of Mosby’s men, under command of
Captain Chapman, annoyed the enemy very much
on their retufci to Front Royal, which, with the
mortification of their defeat by Wickham, excited
in them such savage feelings as to prompt them to
murder six of our men who fell into their hands.
Anderson, Overby, Love and Rhodes were shot,
and one other, whose name our informant did not
recollect, were hung to the limb of a tree, at the
entrance of the village, with a card attached to
the bodies, threatening with hanging on the same
limb, any one who would remove the corpses from
the tree.
Henry Rhodes was quite a youth, living with
his widowed mother, and supporting her by his
labor. Ho did not belong to Mosby’s command.
His mother entreated them to spare the life es
her son, and treat him as a prisoner of war, but
tho demons answered by whetting their sabrss on
some stones, and declaring they would cut off his
head and her’s, if she came near. They ended
by shooting him iu her very presence.
The murders were committed oa the 22d of
September, Generals Torbert, Merritt and Custar
being present. It is said that Torbert and Merritt
turned the prisoners over to Custar for their fate,
who ordered the execution.
Carter, ono of the two that were hung, died the
death of a brave man, defying his executioners,
and threatening them with the tenfold vengeance
es his comrades. If either of the three generals
in command on that day, who are responsible for
these brutal massacres, should be captured, his
immediate execution by haDging would meet the
demands es justice, and the approval of the peo
ple.—Rich. Sentinel, 11th.
Reconstruction. —This has grown to be the
watchword among demagogues. It used to
impart an obnoxious odor to all movements
towards securing a peace. Let conservative
men be on the alert, and suffer no dust to be
thrown into their eyes. Reconstruction is
simply impossible under any set of imaginable
circumstances. Neither the advocates of free
government in the North er South can, con
sistently, give their sanction to coercion, or a
union of the States by force, since this would
be to yield the great point in the controversy.
There are but two parties in the area covered
by the late United States ;]oneis for a consoli
dated government, the other for States rights,
and a league between them as coequal sove
reigns, usually denominated a confederation,
and necessarily having just such a constitu
tion as we adopted immediately after the act
of secession.— Selma+Reportcr.
A Specimen of Yankee Planters— The Natchez
Courier savs, Lessees of plantations have hads hard
time of it about Vicksburg. They cannot discharge
their hands when they get out of work, when the
■ crop is made and eating is all that can be done. —
They must adopt the “Southern principle” of feed
ing and clothing their hands, even “though worms
destroy the body” of this crop. See what Provost
Marshal Thomas tells them, by authority of General
Dana;
It has been reported to this office that Govern
ment lessees are discharging their Itands and send
ing them to freedom camps, when they are sick, or
their labor is no longer necessary.
The attention of all planters employing freedmen
is called to ti e provision of Order No. 9, issued by
Adjutant General Thomas, requiring planters to
feed and care for all freedmen employed by them
for one year, or until expiration of their lease.
Planters reaping the benefit of freedmen’s labor
during the summer months, will be compelled to
live up to the requirements of their contracts, and
furnish food, care and medical attendance to all
freedmen employed by them for the full time con
templated in their lease.
The Graveyards of Atlanta.
We find the following in a letter to the Cincinnati
Commercial, from Atlanta:
Availing myself of the spirit that is now univer
sally prevalent, to-day, I wandered through the
City Cemetery among the dead, and there found
many a mark to indicate the spot where rests the
hopes of many a doting Southern matron and wife.
The grounds comprise about ten acres, more than
half of which is covered with the victims of war,
Federal and rebel officers and privates, all crowded
so close together that their coffins must touch each
other. The part used as rebel burying ground is
about four acres, and all the graves are marked,
some with neat, yet unassuming marble slabs. At
least eight or ten thousand rebel dead must sleep
in »hose narrow trenches.
In an obscure corner I found the plot set apart for
deceased Federal prisoners, and, halting, I read
upon the headboards many names of families from
Maine to Nebraska, and remembering that at home
in the great North there are scores of crushed hearts
who know not where their dear ones sleep. I felt that
an hour could not be better spent than in decipher
ing the almost obliterated pencil marks upon the
slabs. Upon none of the graves had the rebels in
scribed aught to offend the tender sensibilities of
the friends of the dead who lay there awaiting the
resurrection which alone
“Can awake them to glory again.”
In every instance where the name of the sleeper
is unknown, the inscription is not “an unknown
Yankee,” as formerly, but “a Federal soldier, name
unknown.”
the OI^P-ST
T- J. JACKSON LOCAL EDITOR
Old Type Metal for Sale. —S»ver«l huadred
pounds of old typo raot&l for silo at this ofllco at
moderate prices. Call soon if you wish to pur
chase.
Maj. Allen has a lot of sheop which he wishes
to exchange for beef cattle on Government ac
count. Who wants to swap ?
♦ » ♦ —r
Thbatre. —The play Saturday night was Mcta
mora, a drama on tho terrific order. Never haring
had the pleasure of seeing it before, we do not fool
competent to judge of its merits or demerits, or
the manner in which it was performed. It seemed
though to hare been very well received.
The bill to-night is that popular satirical come
dy, J [onty, to be followed by Pleasant Neighbor,.
Yamkeh Prisoners.— About two hundred yan
kee prisoners captured by French’s division at
Alatooaa, arrived here Saturday evening, and
were sent forward to prison yesterday. They
don’t confirm the fall of Altoona.
Thb Wood Question. —We learn from tne Sun,
that a clergyman of Columbus has received about
SI7OO to supply destitute families of the city with
wood during the approaching winter. Wo are
glad to hoar this, and trust the subscription will
bo swelled to a large amotfut, and second the sug
gestion of the Sun, that all the clergymen of the
city constitute themselves a committee of the
whole to raise funds for this laudable
and while making preparations to keep the needy
from freezing, it would not be a bad idea to col
lect a fund to keep them from starving.
Change op Teachers.— We learn that Mr.
Sartwell, in consequence of failing health has re
signed his place as instructor in the male depart
ment ot the Columbus Free School, and that Rev.
Mr. Littlejohn has been elected to fill the vacancy.
Beautiful October Weather. —During the
last week we have been blessed with one of the
most delightful spells of weather we have seen for
a long time. The nights in addition to being of
that fine temperature so conducive to health and
comfort, have been must charmingly illuminated,
by the smiling countenance of fair Luna, who has
nightly rode the heavens in her silvery chariot,
like a queen of beauty. Ah ! gentle “moonshine,”
how much thou art admired by the idle dreamers
of sickly sentimentality. How many soft words
have been spoken by lips attuned to love, under
thy kindling beams ; how many vows ' been
pledged; how many hearts been knit together in
love’s witching ties ! Roll on sweet goddess of
night, in thy heaven-born mission.
The New York World charges Mr. Lincoln with
drawing $7,000 out of tho Treasury under the head
of “necessaries for the President’s House,” which
wasspentfor aitides ofhis own personal adornment,
Also, that the cutlery bought for his mansion has
been sold or given away.
mm ■ ■
Rumors came down on the train from Newnan.
says tho LaGrange Reporter of the 14th, yesterdiy
evening—one to the effect that Stoneman, the rai
der, has been recaptured on a train of cars, and
another that a fire was seen in Atlanta on Monday
night, and it is supposed the Yankees were prepar
ing to leave and were burning their surplus stores,
♦ » ♦
Pious Vandals.— The New York Christian En
quirer has the following rebuke of some of its less
scrupulous brethren:
In several libraries of New England clergymen
vve have seen choice volumes, of great cost, bearing
the names of Southern ministers, to whom they
still belong, although they have been sent A orth as
gifts from Yankee soldiers who had appropriated
them. Some Massachusetts parlors are said to be
carpeted with spoils of another kind. Now, if any
one asks what has become of the Union party, once
so strong at the South, we answer that, in part, they
have been alienated from the Government by the
unjustifiable outrages committed by wicked or
.houghtless Federal soldiers, At Beaufort, South
Carolinia, tombs were violated. At Holly Springs,
Mississippi, a communion table was used in behalf
of “euchre” and “old sledge.” Such tales of wrong
have many who were disposed to be
friends to the Union, and their righteous indigna
tion has had something to do with reverses that
have overtaken our arms.
The Enquirer also quotes, with indignation, a
letter from an officer, written at Camp Saxon, Beau
fort, South Carolina, in which he says:
The splendid mansion once occupied by that
arch-rebel, T. Butler King, is on a Georgia island,
and we stripped it of everything. I write this letter
on his writing desk, which, with his piano, was pre
sented to me on my return.
Adjutant and Insp’r Gen’s Office,
Richmond, Oct, 5, 1864.
General Orders, }
No. 76. /
***** * *
IV. All men found for light duty, who arc unas
signed, will at once report to tho Camps of Instruc
tion, under the penalty of being forthwith assigned
to the active forces.
By order S. COOPER.
Adj’t and Inspector General.
All men coming under the provision of the above
will report at once to Camp of Instructions, Macon,
Georgia.
LEON VON ZINKEN,
Columbus, Ga., oc 17 3t Col. Comd’g Post.
WMTm '
BY an experienced MLLINER a situation in some
respectable establishment. Good relerence given
if required. Address
MISS M. O’GRADY,
oc 17 3t* Selma, Ala.
TO EXCHANGE!
Sheep for Beef Cattle or Bacon.
T HAVE Two Hundred and Eighty-six (286) head
i- of SHEEP which 1 will exchange for Beef Cat
tle with planters on Government account.
A. M. ALLEN,
Major and C. S.
Apply to Mr. J. A. Tyler at my office,
Columbus, Ga., Oct. 17,1864-6 t
FOR SALE.
F OFEER for sale the “Fisher Place,” 5 miles
1 south of Glennville, 10 miles from Eufaula, con
sisting ofsoo acres, —200 open. Good improvements,
fine spring water. Terms $25,0C0,
For further information apply to the undersigned
at Glennville. E. A. 0. WARE,
oc 15-st*
PERRY HOUSE.
THE undersigned would respectfully inform his
obi 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 t-ict for business is well
known throughout the Confederacy. This House
is large and commodious, and no pains, nor expense
shall be spared to fit it up in the very best and most
elegant style, and to obtain every thing in the line
of substantial eatables and luxuries that this
market: affords, With these assurances we most
cordially solicit all our old friends, and the travel
ing public generally, to give us a call and an oppor
tunity of rendering them comfortable,
oc 15 lm* THOS. E. SMITH.
iYotice.
Headqu’rs Georgia Reserve,)
and Military District of Georgia, >
Macon, October Ist, 1864. j
General Orders \
No. 22. S
In pursuance of orders from the War Department,
I require all Quartermasters, Commissaries of Sub
sistence, Ordnance and other officers who have de
tailed men in their employ to furnish immediately
to the Commandants of conscripts at Augusta, Ga.,
a list of all such detailed men, setting forth their
names, age, residence, county, when detailed, by
whom detailed, and whether found fit for field ser
vice or for light duty by Medical Examining Board.
And it is further ordered that after the 20th of
October, inst., Enrolling officers will not regard as
vajid any certificate of detail issued to the above
mentioned employees, bearing date prior to the date
of this order, but will send them to Camp of In
struction for assignment to duty in he army.
By command of
Maj. Gen. HOWELL COBB.
Lamas Cobb, Major and A A G.
ocf 6t
THEATHEI.
Monday Evening, Oct. 17, 1864,
CONTINUED AND TRIUMPHANT SUCCESS!!
Bulwer's great Satirical Comedy of
AX ONEX!
POVERTY versus RIC HES
Splendid Distribution of Characters.
Mr Theo Hamilton. —C T Wolf*,— Harry Crisp,—
Master J. Keith —E Bohen.
Mrs W H Crisp—" Our Jessee”— Miss Cecelia Crisp
in the cast.
Popular Ballad, by Miss Maggie Marshall.
To be followed by the Roaring Farce *f the
PLEASANT NEIGHBOR!
Christopher Strap Mr C T Wolfe
Nancy Strap "Our Jessie”
In preparation Lady of tho Lake.
• Shakspear’s grand play of KING RICHARD 111,
will soon be repeated. [ec 17 It
AUCTIONSALES
By Ellis, Livingston A Cos.
Valuable Store House and Lot.
AN TUESDAY, ISth of October, at 101-2 o'clock,
V we will sell in front of our Auction iioom,
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. Velatti. Store fronts 30 feet,
running back 90 feet, with four well finished rooms
up siairs. [oc 11-Tt S2B
By Ellis, Livingston A Cos.
Homes for Refugees.
AN TUESDAY, ISth of October at 10%o’clock,
O we will sell in front of our store
House and Lot at Silver Run,
with 53 acres .'land attached. The house has two
largo rooms, two kitchens, one of which has tw »
rooms with brick chimneys; stables, cribs, &c„ with
excellent water —making a very comfortable resi
dence—formerly owned by J M Upshaw.
-ALSO-
House and Lot at Enon, Ala.,
Four and a half miles from Guorry’s Depot. The
house lias 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 & Cos
Executive Sale of Valuable Property.
AN TUESDAY, 18th of October, between the
usual hours of sale, I will sell in front of Ellis,
Livingston & Cos., Auction Store,
THE DESIRABLE HOUSE AND LOT,
corner of Forsyth and Franklir 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 A Cos.
200 a-^_x J x J ©isrs
PURE CATAWBA GRAPE BRANDY!
A VERY FINE ARTICLE.
For sale in quantities of 10 Gallons and upwards,
ag3o ts ’
BY ROSETTE, LiWBIOX & C O.
Administrator’s Sale !
AGREEABLE to an order of the Ordirmryof .Mus
cogee county, will be sold on the Ist Tuesday in
November next, at 11 oc’clock, in front of our Auc
tion Room,
Six INT©g;roes,
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’r.
Rosette, Lawhon & Cos., Auct’rs.
sep24 ltd & wtd
LARGE CONSIGNMENT
OF
LETTER PAPER!
AND
lEMOKANDUfI BOOK& !
For sale by
J. K. REDD A, CO.
oc 12 ts
Tax in Kind Notice.
Office Post Quartermaster, 1
Americus, Ga., Oct. 1, ’64. j
i 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, &c„) 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, 3D 2-10
lbs corn, 44 4-5 ft>s shelled oats, or 2 fl>s bacon for
ono gallon syrup.
JNO T CRAFT,
oc4 eod 2w Ckpt and Post Quart’r.
Small Farm for Sale.
T OFFER for sale One Hundred and Thirty-five
1. acres, well improved, eight and a half miles from
town, and one and a half miles from Station No. 1,
Muscogee Railroad. Location very pleasant and
convenient. Price Five Thousand Dollars, if sold
in two weeks, For further particulars apply to R.
M. Gunby, on Broad street, or to myself near the
farm. Possession given by first of December.
JAMES M. LENNARB.
{ "oc 14 6t*
Land for Sale.
’THE subscriber offers for sale 320 acres of Land on
I the Mobile and Girard Railroad, 22 miles from
Columbus, 150 acres cleared, two good Log House?,
Negro Cabins, &c. Good young apple and peach
orchard. 320 acres one and a half miles from the
above place all in woods. 230 acres near \ alula,
some cleared land and cabbins on it.
For terms apply to the subscriber on the first
named place. JAMES WORD,
oc 14 6t*
For Sale.
7 r SIDES Russett Upper Leather.
ID FOLSOM &CODI.
oc 14 2w
Found.
IN the (street, Inear Ithe lOpelika Railrod IDepot.
1 on the morning of the Ist October, inst., in a dis
abled condition, a mouse colored JACK. 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
Half Bushel Measures
F°R Sal 6ty JEFFERSON & HAMILTON,
oc 13 ot*
Jfef-Sun and Enquirer copy.
Wanted
\ T once, FOUR GOOD DINNING ROOM SER
.'V. VANTS, not subject to impressment, for whic.i
good wages will be paid.
SHIVERS, WYNNE & CO.,
oc 13 6t Proprietors Cook’s Hotel.
Strayed or Stolen,
i \N SUNDAY morning last, two medium sizea
U MULES, one a black the other a bay- they
were in fair order and fresh shod. A libera i e ar
ri m bepaid lor tbeir
oc 13* 3t
£25 Dollars Reward.
oTKAYEO from my place in Wynnton, a dark
iS hav mare MULE, about nine years old, hair
rubbed off of both hips and a large scar on the right
hindquarter. JOHN LOUR.
oc II t*
SSOOO in Gold for Salt*.
t PPLY to J. F. WINTER.
A Exchange Broke..
oc 136 t At Rock Island Paper Mills Qi- 'i-