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CO Lb vi Lit & i IAI i Published Daily (Sundays exeerU'L at the rat# of $5.00 per month, or sls tor three montas. Vo subscription received for ? lender term than Area month*. ADVERTISING RATES : Advertisements inserted lor $2 00 per square for each insertion. Where advertisements are inserted a month, the char re will be S3O per square. Announeinf candidates S3O, which must invariably paid in advance. _________ C hange of Schedule. OFFICE EnuINIEE AND SUPERINTENDENT, ) Charleston and Savannah Railroad, > Charleston, June 7,1864.) ,iN THURSDAY, June 9, 1864, and until further notice, the Schedule of the Passenger train will be as follow, viz: Leave Charleston 1 9.45, a. m. Arrive, in Savannah .5.40, p. in. Leave 5avannah............. .5:40, a. m. Arrive in Charleston 1.15, p. in. This Train makes direct connections, going north •ind south, with the Northeastern Railroad at* har leaton, and the Central Railroad at the Junction. n. S. HAINES, June 14 ts Engineer and SS-perjiiteßdent. ol Schedule. ON and after Sunday, June L'Jth, the Trains on the ' uscogee Railroad will run as follows: PASSENGER TRAIN: Leave Columbus.. 6 45 P. M. Arrive at Macon. 3 25 A. M. Leave Macon 8 10 P. M Arrive at Columbus 4 25 A. A*. FREIGHT TRAIN : Leave Colutnbus 5 <X) A. V Arrive at Columbus 4 55 A. X W. L. CLARK. jaiar 19 ts Supt. Muscogee R, R. Through to Montgomery. NEW SCHEDULE. MONTGOMERY & WEST POINT RAILROAD COMPANY. COLUMIIUS, August 27,1864. ON and after August 27th. the Passenger Train t a the Montgomery and West Point Railroad will Leave Montgomery at 8:00 a. m. Leave West Point at 7:10 a. m. Arrive at Columbus at 5:32 p. in. Leave Columbtts at 5:50 a. in. Arrive at Montgomery at 3:00 p. m. Arrive at West Potnt at 4130 p. m. Freight, Train leaves Columbus at 8:40 am. Arrives at 8:27 p ru I). H. CRAM, Sup’t ling. ag27lß64—tf MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD. change of snn:ui i,K. Girard, Ala., Oct 7, 1864. ON and after 10th inst. Trains on this Road will Run Daily (Sunday excepted,) as follows: Passenger Train. Leave Girard at 1 30 p. m. Arrive in Union Springs 600 “ Leave Union Springs 5 35 a. m. Arrive in Girard at 10 00 "• Freight Train. Leave Girard at 4 00 a. m. Arrive iri Girard at 6 00 p. m. B. E. WELLS. _aglß ts Eng. & Sup’t. Or. J. S. CLARK, DENTIST, FORMERLY OF NKW ORLEANS, HAS returned, and can be found at 106 Broad street, over Dr. R, A, Ware’s Drug Store. octlO-dlm Dr. It, NOBLE, TIST, AT Pemberton A Carter’s old stand, back room of Smith’s Jewelry Store, where ho can be found at all hours, fee 186 m Hands Wanted. AT THE EACrLE factory, COLUMBUS. GEORGIA. IpIFTY young women can find steady work and liberal pay at the oc 11 and Awl in EAGLE FACTORY. WANTED! 5 ill in LBS. o; TALLOW, for which a liberal price *v')' / will bo 'oiid. Apply to F. W. DILLARD, sp7 tt Major and Q. M. TO EXCHANGE! Sliettp Tor Beef Cattle or Bacou. T HAVE Two Hundred and Eighty-six (286) head 1 of SIIEEP which l 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 ofiice. Columbus, Ga., Oct. 17,1864-61 Notice! Goi.umbus, Ga., Oct. 4th, 1864. L. T. Maddux is authorized te attend to my business in my absence from Columbus. 005 lm* WILL. S. BALFOUR. LARGE CONSIGNMENT OF LE' -T E R PAPER! AND nE n O RAN Dl XL BOOKS ! For sale by J. K. REDD & CO. oc 12 ts PEHE.Y sours®. THE undersigned would respectfully inform his l old friends, patrons, und the traveling public generally, that as lie 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’.et 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 if, im >: THUS. E, SMITH, S2OO REWARD. WILL be paid for the apprehension and delivery to us of ouv two Negro Boys, BILL and JIM, who ran off some time since. BILL weighs about 150, is tall and slim, black complexion, hair very short and thin, has a down cast, sullen look, and talks long and drawling, Left us about the Ist of August last. JIM is a fine looking negro, weighs about 180, 5 tees [0 or 11 inches high, black complexion, thin visago ana tngh cheek hones, hair short. Left us about the Ist of October. We will pay the above reward for both, or SIOO for either of the above described negroes, if delivered to us or placed in some safe jail where we can get them. We will also pay SIOO for proof to convict any white person o: harboring them. BEDELL A CO. Columbus. Ga.. Oet. 13, 1864. — lm STERLING EXCHANGE! A FEW Hundred Pounds of Sterling Exchange for sale in sums to suit purchasers by agl6 tt BANK OF COLUMBUS, SIOO Reward. WILL be paid for a negro boy named Henry, who » * ranaway about two months ago. He is about 5 feet 8 inches high; weighs about 160 or 179 lbs.; com- Slexion yellow; fine looking; when laughing has imples in both cheeks. It is probable he went to Atlanta with some of the troops from this city. oc6 ts H. M. CLECKLEY. SSO Reward.. \TEGRO boy CHARLEY; about 25 years old, yel ls low complexion, hair nearly straight, below or dinary intelligence ; left Mr. Nat. Thompson’s near Box Springs-. Talbot county. I bought him of a Mr. Brown, a refugee from Mississippi, who now resides in Tuskegee, Ala. He originally came from Charleston, S. C. A suitable reward will be paid l for his delivery at this office, or in any safe jail and information sent to me at this office. JAMES M. RUSSELL. Columbu’s Ga., aug 1 ts * For Sale. IZ. SIDES Russett Upper Leather. ID FOLSOM k CODY. oc 14 2w $25 Do liars Reward. GRAYED irom my place in Wynnton, a dark u .W mare MULE, about nine years old, hair rubbed off of both hips and a large scar on the right ee l4 & tf ter ’ JOHN Co °^- - ------ _ J ' 1 • Vol. 23. -. W. WARREWf * CO. Proprietors j. W WARREV. SPECIAL NOTICES Louisiana Relief Committee of Columbus, Georgia. 11. L. Goodrich. Prest E. A. Rossy. Sec. Contributiens are respectfully selicited from Lou isianians in this and adjoining States for the pur pose of providing our brave and suffering soldiers now in the Aratyof Tennessee, with Shoes, Socks, and other needful articles, as it haslcome to the knowledge of this Committee that many of them are without sho.es, and almost destitute of clothing. Prompt action on the part of Louisianians will greatly alletiate the suffering of our noble youag men during the approaching winter. Contributions will be thankfully receivsd by our President and Treasurer, HI L. Goodrich,Jof this city. P. S. Ail papers friendly to the above cause will confer a favor to Louisianians by inserting this n®tiee. E. A. ROSSY, Sec’y. Columbus, Ga.. Oct. 20, 186-4.—lm llbadqu’rs Georgia Reserve,) and Military District of Georgia, > -Macon, October 17,1864. J General Orders, ; No. 23. j I. All '’\;t Quartermasters in thi3 District, ex cept at Augusta, Macon and Columbus, will imrne- Taiciy report to Major John L. Morgan, Chief Quartermaster of Georgia Reserve and Military District of Georgia., all property received, issued and remaining on hand during the last quarter. ******* By command of Major General HOWELL COBB, Commanding, &c. Lamar Cobb, Major and A. A. Gen. [oc 19 st. Headquarters Georgia Reserve,) and Military District of Georgia, / Macon, Ga., Oct. 17, 1864. J General Orders I No. 24. j I. The returns of detailed men employed by Quar termasters, Commissaries, other officers and Gov ernment Contractors called for by General Order, No, 22, from these Headquarters, Oct. Ist, 1864, must be made before the 20th inst. 11. The Commandant of Conscripts will order Enrolling officers not to disregard details with such officers and Contractors granted prior to the date £ that order, until further orders from Head quarters, as time is required to issue the men details. By command of Major Gen. IIOWELL COBB, Commanding, Ac. Lamar Cobb, Major and A A G. 0c195t Headquarters, First Division, G. M.l Camp Smith, Oct. 16, 1864. j General Orders, 1 No. 5. ; The following orders are published for the infor mation of the men of this command, who have fail ed as yet to report for duty. I. In accordance with a previous understanding with the Confederate authorities, all'detailed men who ware on duty with the Militia of this btate are required -o report for duty again in this command. All detailed men, therefore, who were in the Militia Setv.ce, who fail to report within ten days after the P' lieation of this order, will be published as de ■ . iers and treated accordingly. 11. No extensions of furloughs are granted, and 1 men absent are regarded as being absent with ut leave, and will bedealt ,wuh accordingly, unless good and sufficient excuse for the same is rendered to these Ileadquartors by the parties in person. 111. No application for a detail will receive any consideration when the person making such appli cation is absent from this command. By command of G. W. SMITH, Major General Commanding. Tuos. Hardeman, Jr., A, A, G. oc 19 6t Notice! Headquarters Post, 1 Columbus, October 18,1864, / The following named NEGRO MEN captured from the enemy at o now in Jail: Annanias, claiming to belong to Dr. Harris, Mar shall ceunty, Ala. Rolla, claiming to belong to Mrs. Smith, Giles, county, Tenn. Stephen, claiming to belong to Mr. Burns, Cherokee county, Ala. Owners upon proving property and paying charges can obtain them. LEON VON ZINKKN, oc 19 3t Col. Commanding Post. Bonds of the 500,000,000 Loaii. I AM authorized to continue the sale of the 6 per cent, long date Non Taxable Bonds of this Loan at the Government rate of One Hundred and Thir ty-five Dollars. . The principal of the Loan being free from Taxa tion and the Coupons receivable lor all Import and Export duties, makes it the most desirable yet offer ed by the Government. I therefore recommend it to the favorable notice of the people. W. H. YOUNG, oc 19 lm Agent for sale of Bonds. . NOTICE To Mississippi Soldiers ! THE "MISSISSIPPI DEPOT” and Office of I Agency for the Relief of Mississippi soldiers in the Army of Tennessee, lias been removed from Atlanta to Columbus, Ga., and is near Barnard’s corner, between Main st., and the Perry tl iuse. Your baggage is there. C. K. MARSHALL, sep2B ts Agent. Battle-Field Belief Association of Columbus, €ia. All who are disposed to contribute articles neces sary for the relief of the sick and wounded in the Army of Tennessee, are requested to leave them at Goodrich & Co’s store by One O’clock, P. M. ev ery Tuesday and Iriday, when they will be for warded to anddispensed by our Committee there. W. H. YOUNG, Presd’t. C. G. Holmes, Sec’y. ag23tf Strayed or Stolen. S3OO REWARD! ON SATURDAY NIGHT, Bth instant, two medi um sized MULES, one a black the ether a bay. They were in fair erder and fresh shod. A reward •f S3OO will be paid lor their delivery to me at the Perry Heuse. THOS. E. SMITH. ec 19 ts IllllllllllCllllillll For Sale by the Case«or Bottle. THE above is warranted a genuine article and pronounced by judges the best iu the city. It is, from its superiority, particularly adapted to the use of invalids, and for medicinal purposes gener ally unsurpaesed. Call soar., or it will all be sold, at REDD & JOHNSON’S old stand. Broad street, Columbus, Ga. oc 20 6t Executor’s Notice. rvo months after date application will be made to the Court of Ordinary of Taylor county, for leave to sell the Negroes and perishable properly of the Estate of Elizabeth T. Johnaon, deceased, late es said county. SAMUEL K. JOHNSON. ExY, Oct. 20 w2m* Per THoS. D. BRAND. Exchange Notice \o. I*2. Richmond, Va., Sept. 20, ’64. All officers aid mep of the Vicksburg capture of July 4th, 1863, who reported for duty at any parole camp east of the Mississippi, prior to September 10th, 1864, are hereby declared exchanged. RO. OULD, oc6 6t Agent of Exchange. Columbus, Ga., Frida, Horning, October 21,1804. Thursday Evening. In comeqmnce of the removal of the tel •graph ©fiice from LaGrange, the publication office of the Daily Bulletin has been removed to West Point. The LaGrange Repci ter will be issued weekly as heretofore. 1 Important Movement.” —For the last few days the Macon papers have been boastfully timing at an important movement that was about to take p;ace in Georgia. Among the rest, the Intelligencer became 30 jubilant that we almost expected to see our old neighbor start for Atlanta at once. The article in that journal indicated plainly enough in-what di rection this movement would be made, but in the Macon correspondence of the Augusta Register we lind something more definite. The writer referred to, says : W hile Hood is operating on the State road in Sherman’s rear, and the enemy are looking after him, leaving Atlanta protected by a comparatively email force, a movement is on foot in this part of the country, which will doubtless wrench *hat city from their hands and make them regret the day they ever saw it A column of six or ten thousand men thrown rapidly against Atlanta would certain ly capture it and its garrison which is believed to be very small. Where this column is to come from, I can’t say—sufficient to know that it will not weaken Hood, aad will be com manded by a gallant and skillful general who knows how and when to strike. It will be a death blow to Sherman’s Georgia campaign, and will tsach Yankee impudence a lesson in regard to Southern arms and Georgia’s reso lution. Everything for the early possession of Atlanta looks bright. Let the Atlanta ex iles cheer up, for they can soon return to their own homes and firesides. The realization of the promises here made, will indeed be joyful news. [Special to the Montgomery Mail.] Jacksonville, Ala,, October 15th.— Last night General Beauregard was serenaded, and appeared before a large audience ot citizens aDd soldiers. He assured them that thus far, all is well, and that our army hae captured Resaca, Dalton and Ringgold. The loss hag been Blight. Reports of cavalry fighting near Rome al lude to losses on our side, but lack confirma tion. Sherman is at Chattanooga, moving his ar my by Rossvilie arid Lookout Valley. E. P. From tiie Front. Mail Office, Montgomery, ) Tuesday, Oct. 18th, 1864. / Our news from the front is interesting. The speech of General Beauregard at Jacksonville, reported by our special correspondent an nounces the capture of Dalton, Resaca and Ringgold, the three most important statious on the State Road (Jacksonville, the point from which we receive our intelligence, is just beyond Blue Mountain, and in direct rear of our army.) General Hoad’s headquarters we are informed were at last accounts near Lee k Gordon’s Mills, whilst Sherman was marching out for Chattanooga by way of Rossville! Thus affairs are shaping chemselves for an other battle upon the field of Chickamauga. May it prove a victory as signal ! May it3 results prove less disastrous ! The capture of the towns indicated, we are assured, was attended with but slight less. Sherman was, doubtless, rapidly retreating, and we had only to encounter his rear guard. Ringgold is twenty-two miles this *ide of Chattanooga, and nine from Lea k Gordon’s Mills, and the same distance fi;om Red House Ford and other points, made historic by frhc events of last year. Rossville is a little cross road station in Lookout Valley, five or six miles out of Chattanooga. Sherman has for*, tified all the passes upon Missionary Ridge; but if we can defeat and drive him before us, we may enter Chattanooga by that broad gap, which is made by the extreme left of Mis sionary Ridge and the base of Lookout Moun tain, which cannot be securely fastened against the entry of an enemy. The force of tiie Federals is estimated to be large ; but we have the choice of ground and are concentrated. The cavalry fighting upon the flanks of the army we imagine amounts to nothing of a de cisive nature.— Montgomery Mail , 19M. [Correspondence Montgomery Advertiser.] Letter from Talladega. Talladega, Oct. 15, 1864. The extraordinary-movement of Gen. Hood has up to this time been successful. It is not for me to give to your readers the precise lo cation of that army, but they may rest assured that all Northern Georgia and even Chatta nooga will either be incur hands before the wane of another moon) or that the Federal garrisons that may be left along the line will be isolated. It took Gen. Sherman six months of march ing and fighting to gain that which he has lost in fourteen days ; for our army has marched from Palmetto one hundred and fifty miles north in that time. The boys have moved divested of everything except a few days’ ra tions in their haversacks, and their arms. Their pace has been quickened by merry hearts at The thought of a forward movement and the consciousness that the campaign would end in the redemption of all the terri tory they have lost in two years’ hard fighting and unheard of privations. And.still forward, onward, northward ! is the watchward and tke order. Atlanta and its sad memories are left far in the rear. Ner need the country regard this as a reckless march and a move of desperation, as the Yan kees do no doubt. General Beauregard is in tbe field, and all the strategy of that renown ed hero will be displayed in the campaign. But we must net fail to give te Gen. Hoot the praise of planning and reward of carrying out this great flank movement. It is fash ionable to give to others the suggestion of this movement, and I have heard that it was tht plan of Gen. Johnstea, of Gea. Bragg, of Gen Beauregard, or es President Davia, all thieL errer. Tbe movement meets with their fu approbation, however. The men moving towards the front are per fectly wild with enthusiasm. On the marc from Palmetto te Gedartown many of thet wore eut and threw away their ahees. The were sent te Blue Mountain to get new ones but upon arriving there nene had come up.- Thej refused te wait for them a few daye, bi pressed forward barefooted, saving tbatGe- Hood might need them and that they were and termined to see this campaign through. My news from the eaemv is that he is marc’ iag up the other side of the Chattanooga a: Atlanta railroad, but has up to this time be unable to at all interfere with our line march. There w&3 a cavalry fight near Ro* onla*t Wednesday and Thursday in which lost 75 men killed and wounded, and t pieces of artillery. The tight was made our part for the purpose of protecting afi over which a train was passing. Tbe f< was protected, but in the fight our troopers were worsted. We get nothing from Forcest later than what you already know. Ho is, or was, con siderably to the west of us, and no commuai. cation between. He will no doubt join Gen. Hood’s main %rmy in a very short while, and then with our whole army concentrated upon the interior line and the enemy scattered in little garrisons from Nashville to Atlanta, what may the country expect? For my part I expect the enemy to be whipped and de stroyed in detail. DUNLEITH. 1 . Army Correspondence Savannah Republican. Richmond, Oct. 14th. At 7 o'clock yesterday morning the enemy en deavored to advance between the Darbytewa and Charles City roads below Richmond, but was re pulsed in every attempt by Fields’ division. Re peated attempts were made between 7 in the morn ing and four in the afternoon, to break through our lines, both by infantry and cavalry, but with eut success. The mest strenuous effert was made about 4 p. m., after which the enemy withdrew, “leaving many dead,” according to Gen. Lee’s of ficial despatch. The same despatch states that our loss is very slight, including, however, Major Willis Jones of Kentucky,, the efficient Adjutaut General es Fields’ Division, who fell early in the action. It is not believe that the enemy expected to gain any very important advantage by this movement. It was probably only a preliminary manoeuvre, and the real assault will follow hereafter, and it may be very soon. Indeed, it is now believed that Grant’s last grand effort will be made within the next ten days—anyhow in time for the Presiden tial election the first week in November,. Rein forcements of new recruits and convalescents from the hospitals continue to reach him, and trans ports laden with troops and supplies pass up and down the river daily and nightly. The Federal authorities are exerting themselves to the uttermost to forward the reinforcements called for by Grant, and without which, as was stated in my last letter, he is reported to have said that ho would have te let go his hold here. Our last advices from be yond L • v. reinfere* The ni the int mands cur here g unlike nally • gia an at thi* The nutnbt States “has b lar ar 1, IS from f have I say 42 and call o' accori 935 a for to force andw never fully bers, ing t now furio wash and the v Be elsev shov mak the f the l whet s«g£ If tb sort ean Uj»o T tien per i plev cen* per. witl tak wht rein job Set fre toe If! but obi cor j rai it t gr< tai or M $5.00 Per Month Latist European Advices. —The Loadon correspondent of the Herald writing under date of September 17th, lays : All sorts of peace rumors are rife here touch - ing American affairs, and the secesh are con siderably depressed at the news from Atlanta and Mobile. Talking of peace, there is a gigantic peti tion now receiving signatures here, to go to the President of the L nited States, praying for poace. It will probably have a million ofsig uatures. Exeter Hall is interested, and of course there is money to carry on the busi ness. Having scattered, firebrands in Ameri ca for years, they are now trying to allav the whirlwind, after they have sown the wind. 1 hope they may repent in time and repair some of the mischief they have formerly done. Mho will show Old Abe a copy of the Ar row. a sort of genteel, high priced Punch, just started here ? It has.*tbe hardest hit and most savage caricature of Abe Lincoln that he has yet been represented in. He is represented confronting the Goddess of Liberty, who has an enormous bundle on her shoulders, labell ed “debt,” “misery,” and he is out at elbows, with his tattered striped trowsers, and a rope around his neck. He gazes sullenly at aa axe and a pile of rails, and the goddess tells him in very good verse that as he failed in the splitting of nations he can now try his old business again, the splitting of rails. The country on all sides is one scene of graves, mounds, headstones, monuments and crosses Nothing else in sight. It is a hard hit. I learn that two cargoes of railway iron are to be shipped during the next ten days or a fortnight, and that the contracts are all com pleted for giving the Southerners a complete supply of iron. Os course it goes through Wilmington. The Abolition papers are trying te frighten Northern citizens from escaping the draft by going to Canada, by publishing the following. * Tr v 'ubt not that it is a sheer fabrication : FROM DETROIT. adian Crusher on the Draft —SkedaddUrs —Governor General's Orders , sc. cial Dispatch to th* Chicago Tribune ] Detroit, Friday, Sept. 30th. ; Advertiser and Tribuse of this city -fternoon published the follewing impor ter from the Governor General of Cat?- which ha3 just been received at Wind- the governor-general’s oudf.r. lleadq'rs, Quebec, Sept. 21. lice is hereby given that all persons from sderal States of America who have taken e in Canada since the Ist of August, 1864, re fit for the performance of military du hat they report themselves to Captain lope Wilkes, of Her Majesty’s service, at ■eadquarters, Clifton House, Clifton, for enrollment into the military service of Majesty’s Government. All persons fai I - refusing to comply with the require ts ot this order will be subject to suninan ■ rest, fine and imprisonment. exiles seeking itie protection of this Gov nent, must lend their aid to strengthen the ernment that gives them protection. By order of . h* sight of this order, now being posted mgiiout Canaan, has created immense ex rnent among the draft runaways, deserters, gees, &c., at Windsor and Sandwich. .i compliance with the above order, one ■dred of them left to-day on the Great Wes- Railray for Clifton. Jen. Wads Hampton. —The Petersburg Ex ss of Thursday, 13th inst., remarks; The reporled capture of General Hampton 1 Staff, which was circulated here some since, has, we see, gained credence in South. The event is noticed in several ulhtrn journals as scarcely admitting ofa übt. We are glad to be able to inform the tire Confederacy that Gea. Hampton and iff are not captured, but safe and in their prepriate places'. We cannot afford to less :oi yet.” Che •' Arrow” is the title of anew satirical perio ral—a sort of genteel, high-priced Punch started London. It has the hardest hit and most savage rricature of Abe Lincoln that he has as yet been presented in. He is represented confronting the ffldess of Liberty, who has an enormous bundle i her shoulders, labelled “debt,” “misery,” and is out at elbows, with his tattered, striped trow rs, and a rope around his neck. He gazes sullen - at an axe and a pile of rails, and the Goddess lls him in very good verse that as he failed in the fitting of nations, he can bow try his old business ain in the splitting of rails. The country on all les is one scene of graves, mounds, head-3tones, onuments and crosses. Nothing else in sight. It a hard hit. —Montgomery Mail. Observing a few days since, a rough looking cus orner in custody of a policeman, and followed by a_ irge concourso of the canaille, I inquired of one ot he crowd, a verdant looking son of Erin, what iffence the culprit had been guilty of. “Sure an’ he attimpted to commit suicide, he did, vas the reply. , . , . “Suicide!” I ejaculated in surprise, by what neans, pray?” ~ _ , ~ , , ~ “Bv batin’ his poor ould father ever the head wia a club until he lay for dead, tire born divil,” rejoin ad my informant. It was some minutes ere I cea3ed to contemplate the depravity of mankind in general, and suicide in particular. Smoking- —Bulwer says: “He what |doth net smoke hath either known no great grief, or re fuses himself the greatest consolation, next te that which comes from heaven. “What, softer than woman ?”whisper3 the young reader. Yeung reader, woman teases as well as consoles. Woman makes half the sorrows which she boasts the privilege io soothe. Woman con soles us, it is true, while we are yeung and hand some ; when we are old and ugly, women snubs and scolds U3. On the whele, then woman in this scale, the weed in that, Jupiter, hang out the bal ance and weigh them both; and if thou giro the preference t© woman, all I can say is, the next time Juno ruffles thee—o Jupiter, try the weed 1” young lady wh© has th© misfortune t© know a little of music, amd yet who is vain es her sing ing, was recently entertaining a party es friends with st ?am«what difficult song* ifc * very shrill voice, when an eld bachelvr, residing in the same house rushed eut of his room to the top es the stairs and shouted, “What are yeu hnrting that pig 1 for ? Turn hica into the yard.” “What pig ?” the lady, so astonished that she stepped singing. The old bachelor descended the stairs, looked" into the room aad said: “I thought I heard a pig squealing in this room. Beg pardon. Tbe ywung lady thought him a wretch and said s«. j 4 t r f y in or •t, >r n- o- ;t- he nt Death of Mrs. Breckinridge.— The venerable mother of General J. C. Breckinridge, of the Confederate army, died in Baltimore on Saturday night last. She had resided in Baltimore for the past two years, with her son-in-law, the Rev. Dr. Bullock, of the Franklin Street Pres byterian Church. — Petersburg Express , 14 th. A country editor having received two gold dol lars in advance for says that he still allows his children to play with other children a. usual. Thore is a storv told of a man who had a rag ged coat thSt he wetr. -o a Quaker meeting-house., “because,” as he said, -where lease is said it is soOßest mended. [From the Selma Reporter.] From Ute Front—The Fight !Vear Rome. Jacksonville, Ala., Oct. 15,1864. Editor Rrporier: On Wednesday our cavalry had a slight engagement with the enemy near Rome, and drove them across the river. On the next day the enemy came across and near Rome had another engagement with our cavalry and drove them bacu. We think none but Armis* tead's brigade were engaged, and it is re ported that they became panic-stricken and many of them were captured, and also three pieces of artillery that were with the brigade. The stragglers to the rear, as usual, in such cases, reported the brigade all killed, wounded and captured, and the enemy advancing in large force. Gen. Hood’s plans seem to be a myste ry to all. Some think he intends crosß-> ing the Tennessee. Everything appears to be going on well for us so far as we can see or learn. Gen. Beauregard s headquarters are here. Gen. M L. Smith, Chief Engi neer of the Army of Tennessee, is also here Yours, &c. F [Correspondence Constitutionalist. Foreign Mews. Nassau, N. P., Oct. Ist, 1864. 1 regret my inability to give you the desired information. The officers and spies ot the l uited States Government are, and have been for some time back, remarkably sharp sighted and constantly on the alert. There is but one news depot here, and its books are of, by no means, a high or der—mostly of the Ned Buntline style ; the papers received thcj diarge for at about three times the cost of importing by mail. We have now but one mail per month from the United States. The Yellow Fever has been very prev alent here this summer. I am just re covering from an attack of it. To citi zens of Yankee land, and other cold clis mates, it has been very fatal. The Yan kee Consul lost his wife here about two weeks after they arrived. He is a sly fox and endeavors to gain the acquaintance of the Dixie folks here and find out what he can in a quiet manner. The Yankees now require passports for parties going to the United States; and as their passports are to define the posi tion of the party, many who were in the habit of going to England by steamer, via New York, will now have to goby sailing vessels direct, as there is no steam communication with England, except via Havana, which consumes a very long time, awing to want of connection at Ha vana and St. Thomas. Business has been quite brisk lately. Blockade vessels arrive and depart, and make no secret of it. The business is thriving. Stocks are growing light, and quite a heavy advance in cotton goods and prints ; also in drugs and medicines. Prints of a suitable character for present shipping are mostly out of the market. I will write you occasionally and more fully. YV Col. Frank Wolforl, ot Kentucky, has taken the stump, an s dealing hard blows against Lincoln. a recent speech he said : We have had tv of more than three years' durat’o och has all the time been getting <• gigantic in its propor tious. Our av ;. still grows larger. The number of our slain still increases, the deep, dark spirit of revenge still widens and expands, and all the horrors of war grow more numerous and more horrible. There is no prospect of peace. Let me ask whose fault is it that the war is not closed, and the Union saved ? It is not the fault of the officers of our army ; for they are faithful and skillful. It is not the fault of the soldiers ; for they are no ble and brave. Our army has proved its skill and valor by defeating the rebels on numerous battle-fields, and capturing sev eral of their armies. It has nobly done its duty and its whole duty. The con* quests of our army has been surprising. We have taken possession of and now occupy large portions of rebel territory; we have captured Nashville, New Orleans, Vicksburg, Knoxville, and planted the Stars and Stripes on the walls of Atlanta; we have driven the rebels to Petersburg and Richmond, and will, I hope, soon have possession of both ; but still the war goes on with' unabated fury, and large drafts are making to furnish men needed for the field. The fault is not in the peo ple ; for they have furnished men and money to carry on the war without stint or measure. The fault is in this : The Pres ident and his counsellors and party, those who rule the Congress, have not had sense enough to see the difference between whipping an army and conquering a peo» pie. The rebel army has been often whipped, but the Southern people are not conquered; nor are they likely to be either conquered or conciliated while the unwise and cruel policy of Mr. Lincoln prevails. The Chicago Times, speaking of the retirement of Secretary Chase, says : He retires unmarked, except as a pol ished hypocrite—a pretender, who has imposed upon public credulity—the best of a corrupt and imbecile Administration, which, in three short years, has inflicted upon onr flag and nation disgrace and shame which outweighs their past glories, and which has mortgaged the future to procure the desolations which reigns over the present. Attention, Sportsmen! AUCTION oi FIIAE STOCK! Montgomery, Ala. WILL be sold at Auction, in front es our store. *a Monday next, October 24th, The fine Carriage ami Harness, formerly owned by Commodore Montgomery; One fine dpen BUGGY, with weather aprea : One Top Buggy, with Shafts and Peie, suitable for on© or two htraos, ©nd just th© artiel© for ft pby -81 Twe setts es Single Harness, and one new sett of light double Hainess; , . . _ „ Also, one aew Trotting Sulky, tne best in the Con federacy : One Bridle and Saddle ; —ALSO — The celebrated ■Trotting Horse “Mood,” abeut ID years old, that has trotted his mile in 2:35 in Louisville, Kentucky. He is perfectly sound and gentle, and the beat road horse in the country • A Bald Hornet Colt, 5 years old. a fast trotter and well broken to harness and saddle; A Canadian Mare, SALLIE, that has trotted her mile fn three minutes, gentle, and a fine road mare. m „ LEE k NORTON, • c "’t Auctioneers.