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DAILY TIMES. J. W. WARREH, - - - Editor. COLUMBUS: Thursday Morning, October 30, 1864. The Progress of Subjugation. Under this heeding in another column of our paper, may be found an article of nnusual interest and ability, taken from the “New York Daily News,” The gigantic efforts and expenditure made by the deluded fanatics of the North, to sub jugate the South are there set forth by a rig orous pen, and are strongly and truthfully contrasted with the meagre and abortire re sults which hare followed. Humiliating and disgraceful as the picture is to the Yankee Armies and Government, it contains much that should be comforting and sustaining to us. We commeuu an attentive perusal of it to our readers, aad to our people—to the weak-kneed and faint-hearted who have gir rn wa; undt r recent and temporary reverges— to those of little faith who hare looked for and predicted our annihilation from the com mencement of the struggle—to the querulous and complaining at, the errors and mishaps which have been incident to our Armies and Administration —to those who look for pence through chanuels as unusual and unconstitu tional as they are wild aud chimerical—to nil who having seen their country's treasure spent, and millions of their brothers’ lives sacrificed in a holy cause, are willing and anx ious to take to their embrace* thejfoul robbers and assassins of the North. But above all these—to “several gentlemen of Middle Geor gia’’ whose nerves of pocket and heart are so weak, that they seek to be written out of this di<f ” j yib a pens of politicians, and are either afraid or ashamed to avow their names to the public and their fellow citizens. Who Rilled Coek Robin ? We underatand that Governor Vance leaves to-day for Augusta, Ga. We do not know lor what, but it is said that he and Governor Brown have agreed to refer the question, which of them is the author of the Georgia platform to Governor William Smith, of Virginia, aad in case he disagrees, to call in Governors Bon ham and Watts, as abitratore. —Raleigh Con federate. We would inform the Raleigh Confederate that the distinguished gentlemen, alluded to above, are now in this city. It is te be hoped that the mooted question may be solved in solemn conclave. —Augusta Constitutionalist, There is another claimant for the honor of having, in advance of Governors Brownj.and Vance, “philosophized” “the Georgia Plat form.” Ilis native modesty, we fear, will pre vent him from pushing his claims before the Gubernatoiial Convention. He don’t reside a thousand miles from hereabouts, and is widely known and respected as the author of the “Art of War” aud the “Road te Peace.”— If the Convention desires to be informed furth er for the purpose of presenting this “Great Man” in a little place with a Leather Medal, we will consent to see the decoration with the honor bestowed upon him to whom the honor is due. Exhaustion iu the North. We publish to-day some significant state- j merits, which, says the Richmond Sentinel, go to show that the ability of our enemies i? not keeping pace with their malice. Their calls for men by the halt' million are becoming like Glendoirer’s call for spirits from the vasty .deep—they will not come. Vast as is the ; population of the hostile States, their lighting | men have been so remorselessly driven to the j slaughter by the Butcher and his predeces sors, that the supply is failing.’" The exposition of the Board of Supervisors of New York shows with what liberality cred its and allowances on the draft are made by the authorities. There is reason for this—it is done to avoid the difficulty of enforcing the draft in an unwilling and compact population. u.t of 23,140 levied upon the county of New York by the late draft, only 733 have been recruited since the call, and of these there is an admitted surplus of 28 men. A credit of 1,137 is allowed for surplus under the former draft; a credit of 19,477 is allowed for naval enlistments, to April ; a further credit of 1,821 is allowed for volunteers in the form of substitutes and re-enlisted men, obtained since the last arid before the present draft. This exhibit explodes t.he*late boastings of th« rapidity of volunteering and the numerous re-enlistments, in advance of the present draft; New York city, out of a population of a mil lion, and with a multitude of soldiers in the field, producing only 1,821 ! The Board of Supervisors furnish further proof of the decay of the war spirit, the scar city of men and the difficulty of raising re cruits. They obtained by their efforts 733 men, at a cost of $400,000 ! They declare that if the number had not been so inconsid' erable. they would have had to pay at least SI,OOO per man ; the whole cost'to the coun try, it the drait had been required without abatement, would have been $23,140,000 for 23,140 men. It follows that the draft will have to be abated in like manner everywhere, or it will either be impossible to meet its de mands, or only by an enormous expenditure, for mercenaries. The New York News recognizes in these small results, obtained in such a place as New York city, signs of great exhaustion on the part of our enemies. New York city, the great entrepot of immigration, crowded and thronged, as it usually is, with adventurers of all nations, besides its own vast population, would seem able to honor almost unlimited calls lor men. Yet nothing less than premia urns of a thousand dollars are requisite to se cure a few thousands even of mercenaries. The News’ argument is a sound one, that it the difficulties be so great in New York city, they must be almost insuperable elsewhere. No wonder Stanton is in despair with the draft, and calls for volunteers. And ao won der that he was in despair with voluateering, and called for the draft. The real difficulty, and one which neither draft nor bounties can cure, is that he has extremely exhausted his fighting population with his immense armies, so that new men are scarce. Printing Without Ink.— Mr. Hancock, of the t.utta Percha Company, London, has been prose cuting a series of experiments, with the view of dispensing with the use of printing ink, and has succeeded in chemically treating the pulp in the man c us printing papers in such a manner tha' ■ paper is impressed upon the unink ed tip- , cbe.cuemieal particles are crushed, and a perfectly black impression. is the result. [From the New York Daily News.] The Progress of Subjugation. The fall of Vicksburg is undone. The Mis sissippi has been once more sealed to the up country merchantman. Confederate guns sink, burn, and destroy, along the line ot the Father of Waters ; and the declaration by the Constitution of ih* Confederacy of the free dom of its navigation, has been annulled, vie et armit, by horse, foot and artillery. And the conqueit of the South, by men of the West, goes bravely oa. Texas has been abandoned. The Rio Grande has been opened for supplies of Con federate material Matamoras is a pert of en try for Southern cotton, and a banking house charged with unlimited transactions in South ern gold I Thus, ye war advocates of these broad States of the North, are the of the Confederates being cut off, and their credit crippled by exolusioa from tbo markets efthe world! The Louisiana of tho Abolitionists was a bread State while its riches were ungarnered by organized rebbery. Like a sucked orange, now that its “loot” has been transferred to Black Republican pockets, it has collapsod.— A ring fence es pickets hedges ia the jurisdic tion of Mr. H abn within a narrow circle around New Orleans, and he has fallen from his high estate below the level of the ambition of Saacho Panza. since his dominions hart ceased to embrace the governorship es even Barataria ! Stand Wattie lords it with his Indians on the Western border. The lands es the Creeks and the Cherokees are once more under the protection of his braves, and he holds sway so far upward toward Kansas to give law proh ably at this moment frem Fort Gibson ! Gen. Steele sleeps at Littie Rock. He is as inoffensive as a Quaker gun. His army appears te be as mythical as Sir John FalstafFs men in buckram. Price moves up on one side into Missouri, and Shelby, Marmaduke, Fagan, had already preceded him on the oth er within seventy or eighty miles of St. Louis. And thus you hopeful advocates of smbjuga tion, doe* the work of conquest progress be yond the Mississippi. Western Tennessee the work of subjugation has compelled us to surrender. The recruit ing ground and storehouse thus opened has given and fed an army for Forrest. The Mem phis and Charleston Railroad has been sur rendered. Memphis has been lately plundered by a few Confederate horsemen ; Vicksburg has recently been threatened by a gathering at Jackson ; and the sovereignty of the Con~ federacy stands unchallenged throughout al most the length and breadth of the great pro ducing region of Mississippi. Forrest is in Middle Tennessee. Killing, capturing, plundering, and not afraid. Cav alrymen of the regular army of the Confeder acy, guerillas, bushwhackers, aad all descrip tions of evil doers, disturb Federal dominion in the fair State of Kentucky. And thu*, you believing imperialists, progresses between the Tennessee and the Ohio the highly democrat ic business of armed repression ! Shennan is in Atlanta. The gallant fellow seems to have been less puzzled as to the mode of taking it, than he is now by the ques tion of what to do with it. One advantage that the war-makers have gained by it is the comforting ’assurance that he sees, from with in its earthworks, a business o; conquest which must go on, he says, for n. ■hv years The great guns fired, and the powder burned for the fall of that den of misery and blood, what has been accomplished, aside from exe cutive clap trap, by this foolish hunting of the ignis Jatuus of Southern subjugation into the jaws of the cannon of Atlanta? Sheridan has won two victories in the Valley. The material result, so far, gives him the posses sion of that region for a distance of about sixty miles from the Potomac—but not until after Early had stripped it very thoroughly of its corn and oil, its flocks and herds. The Federal chief may, it is true, with his overwhelming force—obtained by crippling Grant—press still onward; but unless Sherman abandons his wild-goose chase into Geor gia for a movement on the rear of Richmond, can do so only subject to the danger of such a movement in his rear as that which hurled liuuter to the Kanawha at the head of a starving mob. Grant —oh 1 we bate to think of the thousands of poor victims that now drop around him under the shot and 3hull and breastwork and mine of deadly pestilence! The Lieutenant General, however, still languishes with his shattered army under he tide water fever of Virginia. He is monarch «>f about one hundred square miles of Virginia soil—for which, however, he has recent ly acknowledged his vassalage to the extent of a contribution of twenty-five hundred fat bullocks. All around the coast of the Confederate States the Federalists hbld positions very favorable for killing our men by pestilence. All these, however, are of no use to the work of war, save only so far as they illustrate its barbarities by shelliug a city, burning some houses, and frightening poor women out of their wits. At Mobile and at Charles ton the Federalists have fleets that cut off foreign intercourse at these points after it had been oponed without lot or hindrance, along all the wide bor der of Texas! Vessels by the hundred steam up and down from the Potomac to the Mississigpi around the Southern shores; and pretend to de clare these Federal States masters on the ocean, while the Confederate cruisers make the high seas too hot for the Northern merchantmen ! Such, oh! ye jubilant asserters of conquest, is the pro gress of your work upon the shores and waters of the deep ! And the draft? What of that? A false pre tense! A crimp-sergeant’s trick for winning re cruits ! Abandoned in New York and Brooklyn by confession, it is also abandoned all over the country in actual fact. A make-believe of filling quotas here by volunteering, or of completing them there by conscription the call for five hun dred thousand men has turned out like that of Glendower for spirits that would not come. One hundred thousand men would, we firmly believe, represent more than the total result obtained un der the draft-whip; and that number falls greatly short of the recruits required to bring up our ar mies to their old relative standard of comparison with those of the Confederacy. Expirations of terms of service, prostrations by sickness or death under autumnal fevers, casualties of battle, etc., may bo fairly supposed to have involved a reduc tion in our strength in the field to an extent that permits of but but very moderate expectations from the accessions obtained under the call for five hundred thousand men. The “rebels’* in the meantime, have met our pretended conscription by new levies; and thus do both sides come again together to enter, for the tenth or twelfth time, on a wook of blood which will surely be completed in ninety days. And thus most sapient friends of Imperial Federalism, does the labor of war go bravely on! Religious Papers for Soldiers. The following, we know, will be reaid with pleasure by all who feel an interest in the wel fare of our soldiers. It will be a burning shame, to say nothing more, if people at home allow the brave men, periling their lives in their defense, to want for abundant supply of religieus reading. We earnestly Commend the following extract from the Southern Chris tian Advocate to our readers : We are compelled to announce that the Soldier’s Advocate Fund is exhausted ; and, indeed, that there are more papers going to the army than the fund pays for. Meanwhile, hardly a day passes but some appeal is made to us for other papers, which we cannot send because sur friends have almost ceassd to keep up our fund. But worse is coming. It will be no long before the subscriptions of thousands of papers now going to soldiers already paid out- of this fund will have ex pired. And how are these subscriptions to be renewed, and the papers continued, unless the fund is largely replenished? If any one can solve this problem, he will please forward the solution to us. Friends of the soldier, send him the Ad vocate. We have plenty of testimony to prove that she home religious newspaper is pre ferred to all other religious reading, besides tho Bible If you can send nothing else to read, send the Advocate. Siege Matters'— Font Hundred and Sixty- Sixth Day.— Since 6 p. m., last Friday evening the enemy has thrown 134 shells at the city, ari l .IS at Fort Summer. From 1.30 on Saturday night, until 5.30 Sunday morning, his guns were siieut. On Sunday he was firing 300 pounder Parrott shells troon the city, apparently from anew gu*. On a c»y va deserters from Morris Island cam- -<ur lints.— Charleston Mercury. ! Sherman's Report of the At lanta Campaign. The N. Y. Times contains the following tele graphic dispatch from Washington: General Sherman’s official report sf the At lanta campaign is published ia the official Army and Navy Gazette of this wetk. It is dated September 15, and fills twenty columns of that paper. He estimates tho enemy's strength to have been between forty-five thousand and fifty thousand infantry and ar tillery and ten thousand cavalry. Gsneral Sherman says that he maintained about the same strength during the campaign, the num ber of men joining from furlough and hospit als about compensating for loss in battlo and from sickness. The report is composed in Geaoril Sher man’s terse and trenchant style, and forms a most interesting history of, perhaps, the most brilliant and complete campaign of the war. He terminates his recital with the following deserved tribute to his subordinate com mands : “My three armies in the field were com. manded by able officers, my equals in rank and experience—Major-Generals George H. Thomas, J. M. Schofield, 0. 0. Howard.— With such commanders, I had only to indi cate the object desired, and they accomplished it: I cannot overestimate their services to the country ; and must express my deep and heartfelt thanks that, coming together from different fields, with different interests, they have co-operated with a harmony that haß been produetivc of the greatest amount of suc cess and good f -ding. A more harmonious army does not exist.” At FAIR 5 AROUND RICHMOND. There is hardly a word from the army around Richmond. A dispatch, dated the 10th, says : General Grant aud staff returned last even ing from Washington, accompanied by Major General Doyle, of her Britanic Majesty’s ser vice and Governor General of Nova Scotia.— He is the guest of General Grant, receives marked attention wherever he goes, and im presses every one with being a courteous and unassuming gentleman. the new YORK-GOLD MARKET. ’Gold jumped up in New York on the 11th from one huudredand ninety-eight and three eights to two hundred and three and seven eights, at Much price it closed. The Herald says : There has been a brisk demand from those who recently sold “short” on options, and this, together with rumors to the effect that the indications were in favor of the Pennsyl vania election going in favor of the Republi cans, arrested the natural tendency es tnd market and gave it an upward turn: the in ference drawn by the speculators being that, if Mr. Lincoln is re-elected, the old policy will be pursued'and higher prices may be looked for. MISCELLANEOUS. An exchange of prisoners i» the Trans-Mis sissippi Department hag been agreed upon. Hon. John M. Mott, formerly a member of Congress from New York, died on the 11th instant. General John A. McClernand has come out in a letter for McClellan, who, he is confident, will never stop the war till slavery is wiped out. The Philadelphia Bulletin of Monday, an nounced that Benjamin F. Hancock, father of General Hancock, presided at a Republican meeting at Norristown on the 6th inst. A letter from Newbern, North Carolina, re ports forty deaths a day there from yellow fever. Wilmington. The Wilmington Journal has the following ac count of an attack upon the blockade runner Night Hawk, and Ue complete destruction of a Yankee gunboat: LOSS OE Tin-; NIGHT HAWK. It is proper to state, even at this late date, that the fine steamer Night Hawk, Captain Smiley, from Bermuda, in trying te enter New Inlet bar, about a week ago, grounded on the North break er, about a mile from shore, aud was instantly boardei by a launch from the gunboat Menticello, who proceeded to fill the ship’s boats with her offi cers and erew. The sentinels rn Fort Fisher hearing the distant report of musketry, gave the alarm, and the Com mander of the fort suspecting that the steamer aground had been attacked, immediately lighted her up by means of rockets, and shelled right and left of her. At the first rocket, the enemy took fright and skedaddled, leaving more than half the officers and crew to take care of themselves.— These reached the fort in safety. The Yankees did not leave, however, until they had set the steamer on fire fore and aft, and as the wind was strong the flames spread rapidly. The garrison of Fort Fisher had never seen a ship destroyed under their guns, and were deter mined, as it appears, to rescue this one, and, we are informed, in ?pito of firh fore-and-aft, the gal lant soldiers bearded the steamer 'amidships, and with all the available buckets, commenced to fight the flames. It was not very long before the fire was got under, and with the assistance es boats and crews from other steamers, before noon the next day the fire was entirely subdued. The steamer was in the breakers, and enly half the work of saving her done. The soldiers went to work, unloaded her, and with the aid of negroes at the pumps, enabled the engineers to get up steam, and bring the steamer safely to Wilming ton by her own power. Capt. Smiley was cap tured, but his place was filled by Captain May, first officer of the Falcon, who remained here to get the Night Hawk off. We have given the above facts relative to the Night Hawk, because we think the noble conduct of our troops at Fort Fisher deserve to have some credit for their heroic I efforts in saving a valuable steamer. DESTRUCTION OF A BLOCKADKR — REPULSE OF THE ATTACK ON THE STEAMER CONDeR. It is generally known that the large three-faa uelied steamer Condor, from Halifax, N. S., in en tering New Inlet Bar, a week age, was deceived by the wreck of the Night Hawk, and ran agrennd. It appears that it was in attempting te cease ashore from her in a boat that Mrs. Rose Greonbow was drowned. The Condor has been slowly unloading under the guns of Fort Fishor, and a guard, as usual, has been kept on her at night. On last Friday night tho Yankees made an attempt to board the Condor, to destroy her, but were gallantly repulsed by Lieut. Sowles, of Company A, 39th N. C. Troops, and a detachmont of men. As soon as the attempt was made Lieutenant Sowles communicated the fact to Fort Fiahor, when her heavy guns burst forth to tho right and loft of the Condor. The second shell fired to the loft of the Condor struck a gunboat that had accom panied the boat party in, and so completely rained her that she was run ashore on tho South breaker of the bar and abandoned. The enemy set fire to her in several places, and before morning ghe was totally destroyed, her magazine having ex ploded and torn to pieces. Since this occurrence on Friday night last, we are informed that there has been no sign of the enemy off the bar at night, and the fleet is hull down during the day. Ms. Trenholm.— The London Index speaks thus of our new Secretary of the Treasury: Mr. Trenholm’s acceptance of the pest vacated by Mr. Memminger is, we believe, his first entrance into a political career, but it takes place under the most favorable auspices. His popularity far ex ceeds that ever enjoyed by his predecessor, and the people and press throughout the Confederacy accept him with an almost unbounded confidence in his ability and administrative talent. The head of ene of the ablest and wealthiest merchant firms in Charleston, he is, so to speak, the embodiment of that magnificent idea of direct trade with Europe, which Has been oneef the chief causes of the war. HL firm, in connection with its European branch, may fairly claim the credit of having been the first to organize on a grand scale that trade which now sets th« utmost efforts of the Federal blockade at defiance, and by their enterprise, the held and skill ful use of vast resources, subservient to a lofty sense of patriotic duty, they have undonbtodly ren dered invaluable service to tho country at a time when it most needed them. Such successes as theirs brings of course its pecu niary reward, and the firm has immensely added to its wealth as well as to its prestige. Bnt Mr. Tren holm, with the impulse and nice perceptions of a large minded man. has understood that wealth ac quired. however honorably and patriotically, amidst and through the necessities of a suffering nation, i«, even more than ali other wealth, a trust fund, and h>- has freely given his tithe, and perhaps more than :jis tithe, to the poor, the w'ounded, the sol diers, and tho many unfortunate victims of the war. The popular disfavor with which fortunes accumu lated during a national struggle are generally view ed. lias therefore r.aver attached to Mr. Trenholm, j and his mercantile triumphs were invested with the dignit >' h:‘ enterprise. i TELEGRAPHIC. UPORTS OP TMM PRRSS ASSOCIATION. Entered according to act of Cengress im the year lM3,by J. S. Thrasher, in tho Clerk's oficoof the District Court of tho Confederate States fer the Northern District of Georgia. Mobili, Oct. 19.—The New Orleans Times of the 11th, has been received at Osyka. It claims great suocess for Leo’s raid in Eastern Louisiana, in the destruction of property and capture of prisoners. All accounts agree nearly with our own previously forwarded.— It says additionally that Lieut. Earle, com manding independent scouts, captured a Ma jor en route for Richmond, with fifteen battle flags taken in the Red River expedition, a large number of important dispatches fer the Confederate war office,aad several prisoners, in cluding a Commissary with the rank ot Ma jor. Earle reports the capture of Woodville and a number of prisoners by a force from Danas’ command. It is reported that the rebels would not surrender to the colorod troops, which resulted in many of them being killed . Mobili, Oct. 19.—0n Tuesday Capt. Amos commanding a company in the 15tb Confed erate Cavalry, engaged near Milton, Fla. 500 Federals; fought them four hours, and drove them back. Federal loss 30 or 40. Our loss 3 wofiuded. From North Carolina. —The Goldsboro State Journal says on last Friday an expedi tion from the enemy’s gunboat’s, at Newbern, consisting of about sixty men with two barges —one carrying a twenty-four pound howitzer and the other a twelve pound gun—attacked a portion of Capt. Jones’ Cos. G, sixty-seventh Regiment, then on picket at the mouth of Swift Creek, driving them back and the Yan kees succeeded in landing. Capt. Jones, who was with the balance of his company, some few miles distant, went immediately to their assistance, engaged the enemy and drove them to their gunboats, killing Captain Gordon, U. S. Navy, commanding the expedition and two men, and wounding two others with no loss whatever on our side. Upon competent authority the Raleigh Con federate estimates the forage crop of *Vake county, N. C., raised this year, as follows : 1,087,2G0 pounds of hay, 500,000 bash els of corn, 61,985 bushels shelled oats, 16,355,080 pounds of fodder. The Prospect. The gloom of the enemy, occasioned by their protracted, exhausting and fntile efforts to" con quer us, sometimes leads them to an honest per ception of the truth as to their prospects. The following is from a late speech of Governer Sey mour, of New York : Now, you know that that monstrous army that we gave them nine months ago has been so near ly annihilated that another call for fire hundred thousand men is made upon us, and we are not in as good a condition as we were then. That part of Louisiana and of Arkansas west of the Missis sippi river that was wrested from them has re sumed the often si ve, and invaded Missouri itself. The great army of Sherman that attacked and captured Atlanta, has its rear communications at tacked and endangered by large bodies of rebels. Go into Virginia, and what do you find there ? In stead of the army of Lee reduced down to a skele ton, as it was a year ago, it has susiained itself thus far with full force and great power, and it is strong iu Jnumbers ta-day. Now, I believe that, notwithstanding your political views and political prejudices, you will admit that our armies have done their work. We, in eomrnon with our Re publican friends, have honored the names of Grant and Farragut, Sherman, Sheridan and all the heroes of the war ; but we all cannot deny'that their efforts have been unsuccessful, and the blame is not with our armies. Blow, or Missouri, on Lincoln. Hon. Henry T. Blow, republican, tin a recent speech in St. Louis, thus spoke of Lincoln and the loss of confidence in his administration : He was not great—we doubted; he was not firm— we trembled; he became selfish aud insincere, and we lost all confidence, and ceased to respect him, — We were not alone in this feeling. The journals of Congress show the gradual decline ®f confidence on the part of the members in the Chief Magistrate, and history records that in these days of our great est disasters the President of the United States was engaged with his myriads of office holders perpetu ating his government; for already invested by cir cumstances with and exercising a greater power than that possessed by kings and emperors, ambi tion reigned supreme in that bosom which should have cherished only the loftiest patriotism, The contemplation of the events of the last eight months is sickening, absolutely nauseating. This is strong language; but let those who have been engaged in this unholy crusade for power while their country was in darkness deny it if they dare, and their efforts will be met with the indignation of the honest men of all parties, and refuted by history written in blood and disaster. * * * I know what I am saying, and do not hesitate to declare to the world, that had President Lincoln and his friends devoted themselves from December, 1863, to June, 1864, en tirely to the safety of this Union, instead of woik ing day and night for the perpetuation of their own power over a portion of it (the President seeking relief only in jokes of questionable taste) we would this day be rejoicing in additional victories, our ranks would be filled, our soldiers confident, our na tional currency approximating to gold, and the rebels, destitute of hope, would be knocking for re admission into the Union, which they so basely deserted. Departure of the Militia.— The Burke county militia left on Thursday night last for the frost, carrying with them all who couldn’t conveniently attend to Governor’s Brown’s call before. We un derstand that a number of this class, as well as a few absentees of old members, were hesorod with as escort of a Sergeant and a small squad of men. The men were in fine spirits, evincing a determination to ‘do or die.” Georgia has cause to be proud of her militia, for we have heard it from ovary quarter that no organization of men could have behaved with more gallantry and coolness in front of an en emy than they did, and should they be called upon again to confront the foe, we venture to say that victory and honor will crown thoir standards. We wish thorn a bright career and a joyous return to home and friends. — Warneeboro South. The Express Company. —For several days considerable inconvenionco has been experienced by the public in consequence of the Express Com pany having partially closed business in this city. This was caused by the late order No. 77, issued by tho Seerotary of War, in relation to all dotailod men. We learn that a renewal of tho details has boon applied for, and we trust that, in censidera tion of tho important services that tho men en gaged in this branch of business have always ren dered, not only to tho pnblic, hut also to tho Gov ernment, the looal military authorities will restore them to thoir husinoss until a proper representa tion ean ho made at headquarters. Indeed, tho Express Company is one of tho most important in stitutions of tho country, which renders as much sorviee to tho public and tho Gevernmeat as if tho men wore at tho freat with muskets ia their bauds. Wo hope tho iacoavonionco alluded to will ho hut temporary, aad that ia a day or two tho Company will bo able to servo tho public with its weated fi delity.—Sav. Netct. ‘My brudders,’ said a waggish negro preacher to his congregation, ‘ia all affection, in all ob your troubles, :dar is one place whore you «aa find sympathy.’ ‘Whai ? whar ?’ cried several. ‘ln do dictionary,’ he replied, rolling his eyes up ward. There is an old saw which says that ‘Content is tho true philosopher’s stone.’ Brown says ‘it’s very likely—for nobody has ever found either one or the other.’ Tho London Athenaeum says in tho course of a review of Weiss’ Life of Thoordore Parker, that meek divine, daring tke Fugitive Slave excitement ia Boston, wrote kis sermons with a Tevolvsr lying by him on his desk.’ ‘Sorrow came and left its traces there.’ It don’t say what became of the rest of the ‘gear.* ‘Sal,’ cried a girl looking ou of the upper story window of a small grocery, a: 1 .3 iressing anoth er girl who was trying to enter at the front door, ‘we’ve all boon converted ; so when you want to milk on Sundays you will have to come iu tho back way.’, THE CITY- T. J. JACKSON LOCAL EDITOR Theatre. —The cerps of Mr. Crisp will appear to-night in Bnlwer’a master-piece* of Richelieu, to he followed by the laughable farce “PefoetieH,” and interspersed with sweet songs by Miss Maggie Marshall- It will be >een that a strong cast of characters has been made, and an nnnsnally in teresting time may be expected by theatre-goers. We tall attention to the eard of the Louisiana Relief Committee in to-days paper. The objects therein set forth and the appeal made is most com mendable and should address itself te the active sympathy es every Louisianian, as well as every patriot in the land. .Sales To-day. —Ellis A Cos., will have a sale to-day of furniture, groceries, negreei. Ac.— See advertisements. Religious. —There has been in progress for some weeks at Pierce Chapel in this city a very interesting religious revival, which has been large ly attended by soldiers and citizens, and resulted in the conversion of quite a number of persons. The meeting has been conducted by Baptists and Methodists who have vied with each other in the good work. Subscription for Wood. —Amongst the acts of Council on Monday evening was one appropriating five thousand dollars 10 purchase wood for the poor of the city. This we regard as most oppor tune and commendable,” and agrees with other liberal donations recently made by Council. Our city authorities, as well as citizens, need only to be reminded of their duty and they are ready to meet it in a prompt and benevolent spirit. Let the goed work go en. Much remains to be done. Query. —ls wood was worth S4O per load, yes terday, what is it likely te be worth when tbe freezing temperature arrives ? We saw a negro who sold two leads fer that, and seemed te chnckle in his sleeve that he had it in his power te force that sum out es people whose neeessities compelled them to buy. We have heretofore felt iatereited to know hew the poor were te be kept warm during the approaching winter, but new onr philanthropy goes farther, and we are solicitous to learn hew anybody, rich or poor, are to be supplied, in view of the constantly advancing rates. *Where is con science, where is reason, where is philanthropy, humanity and patriotism ? All must have fled to brutish beasts. If the devil don’t get large rein forcements from this generation he will doubtless fail te get his due. The love es money is the root es all evil, and is fast divesting mankind es all noble and high-minded impulses. Auction Salks.— At auction by Rosette, k Cos., yesterday, the following prices ruled : One negro woman 18 years eld, $3,350; salt 66 to 76 cents; ene sett harness, $525; one carpet, $550 . one do., $350 ; inferior tobacco, $1,05; bacon, $3,10 per lb.; one hundred dollars in silver, at S2O for one ; rice, (damaged) 6 cents per pound; one piano cover, $350 ; one mule, S6OO ; other ar ticles in the same rates. That Brandy. —There are some folks that can’t be knocked down by hints. To this class belong the liberal aud patriotic firm of Goodrich <fc Cos. — Our office was yesterday the recipient of a bottle of the fine brandy previously alluded to in our columns, and the united testimony ©f all hands rep resents it as being what it purports to be, a pure article of ardent ‘‘spirits.” The contents disap peared with miraculous rapidity, and naught new remains but the bottle and the scent, and we wouldn’t wonder if some of the boys swallowed the bottle soon. Reprehensible Conduct. —We understand that it is a practice among a number of bad boys to congregate every morning, beyond the new bridge, on the Summerville road, and board every carriage that passes, to take a ride, and when col ored drivers refuse to let them ride, they send after him a shower of stones. Yesterday morning they attacked a boy in a buggy, broke his whip and considerably bruised him up because he would net let them get on his buggy. Verily times are coming to a pretty pass, when boys are allowed by their parents to indulge in such practice. We have been requested to give these boys notice that the owners of these vehicles and negroes are on the lookout for them, and the first thing they know they’ll know nothing. Butler Phrenologically Developed.— Butler, while in New York a short time ago, was examined by Professor Fowler, who, it is said, gave him a phrenological explanation of the peculiar defect in his moral organization by attributing it to an un healthy development of the organ ofappropriative ness. He remarked, however, immediately after wards in a soothing tone, that this bump in the Great Marlborough’s head was almost, if not quite as large, and that it is and has been in all ages a puculiar characteristic of true greatness, to have petty foibles and trilling.weaknesses. The General greatly gratified replied: Fowler you area smart fellow and a benefit to your race. When lam Pres ident you shall be provided for. What’s in the Wind ?—The Constitutionalist of Sunday last says there is to be a Convention of high functionaries in Augusta’on Monday 17th inst. The object, the Editor says, he is net permitted to make known, but hopes good to the Confederacy may come out of it. i— • fi— The Baptist Church at Macon has resolved to raise its Pastor’s salary to SIO,OOO for the coming year, for which purpose several members subscri bed as high as SI,OOO, and others for half that sum. The Presbyterians of the same city have resolved to give Rev. Dr. Wills, their able Pastor, a house and a support, cost what it will. Meeting of Southern Governors lt was reported on the streets yesterday, that Gov ernor Yance was to leave the city last night to attend a convocation of the Governors of the Southern States at Augusta, Ga., on Monday next. Whether, if this meeting is to take place they are to meet at the instance of Gov. Brown, or the request of the President , we are not apprised; nor are we any better posted as to the object of the consultation to take place. If the object be peace, the prayers of almost the entire people will invoke the bless ings of Heaven on their deliberation; but if it be war, or to devise ways as to the surest means of sacrificing what we have of men and resources left, in the shortest time, but littla interest will be felt in the affair .—Raleigh Progress , 17 th. An absent wife is here called upen te return te ‘bed and board.’ ‘Jane, year absence will ruin all. Think of yeur husband—your parents—yeur children. Return—return—all may be well happy. At any rate, enclese the key es the cup board where the gin is.’ Louisiana Relief Committee of Columbus, Georgia. H. L. Goodrich. Prest E. A. Rossy. Sec. Contributieas are respectfully selicited from Leu isianians in this and adjoining States for the pur pose of providing our brave and suffering soldiers now in the Army of Tennessee, with Shoes, Socks, and other needful articles, as it has;come to the knowledge es this Committee that maay of them are without shoes, and almost destitute es clothing. Prompt action on the part of Louisianians will greatly alletiate the suffering es our noble young men during the approaching winter. Contributions will be thankfully receivsd by our President and Treasurer, Hi L. Goodrich,lof this city. ... P. S. All papers friendly to 'h* above cause will confer a favor to Luuisini V inserting this netiee. E. A. ROSSY. Sec y. Columbus, Ga,. Oct. 20, 1504. tru THEATRE. Thursday Evening, Oet. 20. IH4. Sir E. L. Bulwer’s Masterpiece, the Grand Histori cal Play, RICHELIEU* or the CONSPIRACY! RE-APPEARANCE of Mrs. JESSIE CLARKE 1 Mr. THEODORE HAMILTON, in his admired character es Cardinal Due De Richelieu! Splendid Distribution of Characters! Mr Harry Crisp, a5..... Chevalier de Mauprat Mr C T Wolfe, as The Capuchin Monk, Joseph Mrs Jessie Clarke, as m Julie de Mortemar Popular. Ballad, by Miss Maggi* Marshall. Te be followed by the Elegant Comedy of I? DE JERj IE 1 IE 0 T I O ILT. *‘our Jessie,” as Kate O’Brien Miss Cecelia Crisp, as Su3an oc 20 It AUCTION SALES By Ellis, Livingston & Cos. FINE SINGLE HARNESS.- WE will sell, on SATURDAY, October 22d, at 10i o’clock, in front of our Auction Room ONE SETT SINGLE HARNESS, very fine. oc 20 3t sl2 By Ellis, Livingston & Cos. VALUABLE NEGROES. ON TUESDAY. 25th of October at WA o’clock, 'we will sell in front of our store A likely Negro Man, 46 years old, A likely Negro Woman, 22 years old, and their two children. oc 20 5t S2O By Ellis, Livingston A€», ♦♦ ♦ SALT. ON TUESDAY, 25th of October, at 10 1-2 o'cloak, we will sell in front of our Auction Roova, 90 BARRELS SALT. oc 20 5t sls By Ellis, Livingston & Cos., VERY DESIRABLE NEGROES. WE will sell on THURSDAY, 20th October, at 10 1-2 o’clock, in front of our Auction Room Avery Likely Negro Girl, 25 years old, a No. 1. House Servant. A Likely Negro Man, 27 years old, good field hand and competent Blacksmith, oc 20 It $4 By EHIs, Livingston & Cos. mm • Fine Furniture, &c. AN SATURDAY. 22d October, at 10 o’clock, wo V will sell a very desirable lot of Furniture. We name in part— -1 Mahogany Rocking Chair. 1 Mahogany Arm Chair, 1 Mahogany Centre Table; Work Table, 1 Fine Walnut Music Rack, 1 Fine Walnut Secretary and Book Case, 1 Fine Walnut Office Table, 1 Fine Walnut Dining Table. 6 Fine new Quilts, 4 Fine new Bed Spreads, 6 Extra Bed Blankets, 8 New Counterpains, 1 Large new Brussels Carpet, 1 Large new Worsted Carpet, 20 Yards new Stair Carpet, 20 Yards Straw Matting, 1 New Feather Bed With other desirable Furniture and House Furnishing Goods. —ALSO — A CASE FINE DENTAL INSTRU MENTS with a good lot GOLD FOIL. —ALSO — An extra pair HORSES, 5 and 6 years old, kind and gentle, oc 19 4t S4B By Ellis, Livingston A Cos, — mm mm Salt and Sundries. — WE will sell on THURSDAY, 20th October, at 10% o’clock, in front of our Auction Room 43 BBLS. COST SALT, 1 TWO HORSE BUGGY, Assorted lot Granite Ware, including .Plates, Dishes, Bowls and Pitchers, Lot good Trunks and Hat Boxes, 50,000 Percussion Caps. 15,000 Needles, Lot Bale Rope, 10 pairs Glass Decanters, LOT DESIRABLE HARDWARE, One Trunk of Valuable Clothing, Lot Desirable Furniture, A Splendid New Silk Velvet Mantiiia, A Fine Cow and Yearling, Clothing, Shoes, Navy Pistols, Shot Gun, with a desirable lot of Goods, too nu merous to mention, oc 18 3t. $32 By Ellis, Livingston A Cos. Administrators Sale. ■\T7TLL be so'd on Tuesday, the 25th inst., in the VV City es Columbus, at the store of Messrs- Ellis, Livingston & Cos., Auctioneers, a portion ol tho perishable property of the estate of B. A. Sorsby, dec’d, consisting of several Hogsheads of Sugar, Kegs of Nails, Boxes of Tobacco, Pieces of Osna burgs, Envelopes, Writing Paper, Buttons, Thread, Ac. Sold by order of Court. Terms cash, Sale to commence at 11 o’clock a. m. G. E. THOMAS. 0ct14,1884. —oc 15-tilloc2s Adm’r. GtMIHE FRENCH ISRANDI! For Sale by the Case or Bottle. THE above is warranted a genuine article afid proneunced by judges the best in the city. It is, from its superiority, particularly adapted to the use of invalids, and for medicinal purposes gener ally unsurpassed. Call soot, or it will all be sold, at REDD A JOHNSON’S old stand, Broad street, Columbus, Ga. oc 19 fit 0 Executor’s Motice. TWO months after date application to the Court of Ordinary of Taylor county for leave to sell the Negroes and perishable proper y o, the Estate of Elizabeth T. Johnson, deceased, late of said county. MU£L K- JOHNSON, Ex’r, Oct.2ow2m bAM ° Per TIIOS.D. BRAND. Strayed or Stolen. S3OO lIEWAH/D! ON SATURDAY NIGHT, Bth instant, twu medi um sized MULES, one a black the other a bay. Thev were in fair order and fresh shod. A reward •f S3O) will be paid tor their deliv* t t.> me at the Perry House, Til OF ' SMITH, oc 19 ts *