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Change of Schedule.
Office Engine!* and Superintendent, 1
Charleston and Savannah Railroad, V
Charleston, June 7, 1864. J
.vN THI/RfiD-iy. June9,lßtit,an 1 until fuither j
U notice, the Schedule of the Passenger train will i
be as follow, viz:
Leave Charleston 9.45, a. m.
Arrive in Savannah «6.40, p. m.
Leave Savannah .5 30, a. m.
Arrive in Charleston 1.15, p. m.
This Train makes direct connections, going north
and south, with the Northeastei n Railroad at * : bar- [
leston, and the Central Railroad at the Junction.
11. S. HAINES,
June 14 ts Engineer and Sui>orir.tondcnt.
Change ot Schedule.
ON and after Sunday, Jutn i9th, the Trains on
the ■ uscogee Railroad will run aS follows .
PASSENGER TRAIN:
L eave Columbus... 6 45 P. 34.
ArnvA at Macon. 3 25 A. M.
Leave Macon 8 10 P. M
Arrive at Columbus 4 2-5 A. A..
FREIGHT TRAIN :
Leave Columbus 5 00 A. .V
Arrive at Columbus 4 55 A. W
W. L. CLARK
mar 19 ts Supt. Muscogee R, K.
T9i rough to Montgomery.
NEW SCHEDULE.
MONTGOMERY & WEST POINT
KAILROAD COMPANY.
COLUMBUS, August27,lßo4.
ON and after August 27th. the Passenger Train on j
the Montgomery and West Point Railroad will I
Leave Montgomery at 8:00 a. m.
Leave West Point at 7:10 a. in.
Arrive a t Columbus at 5:32 p. in.
Leave t’elumbus at 5:50 a.m.
drrive at Montgomery at 3:00 p. m,
Arrive at West Point at 4130 i>. m.
Freight Train leaves Columbus at 8:40 a m.
Arrives at 8:27 i> m
I). 11. G'R A M, Sup’t x Eftg.
_ag27l"nl-tf j
MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD.
Cii.VNGE OF SCIIEDirLE.
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 6 00
Leave Union Springs 5 35 a. m.
Arrive in Girard at 10 00
Freight Train.
Leave Girard at 4 00 a., m.
Arrive in Girard at 6 00 p. m.
13. E. WELLS.
ag!B ts Eng. & Sup’t.
Or. J. S. CLARK,
I3EWTIST,
FORMERLY OP NEW ORLEANS,
HAS returned, and can be found at 100 Broad j
street, over Dr. R, A, Ware’s Drug Store.
octlO-dlm |
l>r. R. AORI.E,
JOIEISrTIST, ... j
i T Pemberton & Carter's old stand, back room of ;
H Smith’s Jewelry Store, where he can be found j
at all hour?. [oc 18 6m
AT THE
EAfwftlS FACTORY,
COLUMBUS. GEGRGIA.
T\IFTY young women can find steady work and
I liberal pay at the * „
oc 11 and '. wlm EAGLE F tR\ .
w,% vrcsii
r iiilii LBS. u 1' A LLG'V, for which a liberal price
D)D ' ’ will be paid. Apply to
F. W. DILLARD.
ap7 ts Major and Q. M.
TO EXCBIYYOE!
Sluiep lor Beel' Cattle or Bacou.
I HAVE Two Hundred and Eighty-six (280) head
1 of SHEEP which l will exchange for Beet Cat
tle with on Government account.
A. M. ALLEN,
Major and C. S.
Apply to Mr. J. A. Tyler at suy office.
Columbus. G.i., Oct. l i , 18t)4-fit
Notice!
Columbus, Ga., Oct. 4th, 1854.
L, L\ Maddux L authorized te attend to my
business in my absence from Columbus,
oco 1 in* WILL. S. BALFOUR.
COY^KKYIWEYT
OF
LK T r-.R PAPIS!
And
n u.hohar i>c ?i boors i
Fur sale by
J. K. lIEDD & CO.
«>c 12 tt
PSRR7 EOTJS2,.
THE undersigned would respectfully inform his
1 old friends, patrons, und the traveling public
generally, that as he has tubs absent for a short
time ho has been so fortunate ns 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 welt
known throughout the Confederacy. This House
is Urge and commodious, und no pains, nor expense
shall be spared to fit it up in the very best and most
elegant st>l<‘, aud to obtain every thing in the line
of sii'k-i■:mii: 1 eatables and luxuries that this
market a {fouls, With these assurances we most
cordially ilicit all o r old friends, and the travel
ing # public genet; illy, to gi\*c us aeall and an oppor
tunity . f rendering them comfortable.
• ->'Jb !m* TtlOS. E. SMITH.
S2OO REWARD.
4V' ILL bo paid for the apprehension and delivery
'V ro us nf our two Neg o Boys, BILL and JIM,
who ran off some times nee.
BILL weighs, about 156, 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.
JfM is a tine looking negro, weighs about 180, 5
for, o o<- ' inches lrigh, black complexion, thin
Tisago asm htgu cheek ooues, hair short. Left us
jibont the Ist of October.
Wo mil 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 wo can get
them. We will also pay SIOO for proof to convict
any white person ol harboring them.
BEDELL & CO.
Columbus, Ga;, Oct. 13,1804. —In;
Weku^g'exchmge!
FEW Hundred Pounds of Sterling Exchange
• f*M* >alo in sums to suit purchasers by
aglfi n BANK OF COLUMBUS. _
SIOO Reward.
\Y ILL be paid for a negro boy named Henry, who
. ’ ranaway about two months ago. He is abouto
icct S inches high: weighs aboutlot) or IT 1 lbs.; com
plexion yellow; fine looking: when laughing has
dimples m both cheeks. It is probable he went to
Atlanta with some of the troops from this citv.
ocb ts _• H. M. CLECKLEY.
SOO Howard..
\ E ( 1 Ru boy CHARLEY ; about 25 years old, yel
* low > oiii,.lexk»n, hair nearly straight, below’or
linary iurdii mice : left Mr. Nat. Thompson’s near
Box Si-iv.gs. Talbot county. I bought him of a
Sir. Brown, a refugee from Mississippi, who now
resides in Tuskegee, Ala. He originally came from
Charleston. S. C. A suitable reward will be paid
for his delivery at this office, or in any safe jail and
information sent to me at this office.
JAMES M. RUSSELL.
Col pm bn’s tfa.. aug 1 ts *
For Salt*.
71k SIDES Russett Upper Leather. . ___
Ij FOLSUM&CODI.
_ <>e 14 2w
$23 Dollais Reward.
CT ftAYEU irom my place in Wynnton, a dark
* bay mare MI LE, about nine years old, hair
rubbed off of both hip- und a large scar on the right
hunlquarter. JOHN COOK.
oc 1 $f
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Vol. XI.
J. W. WARKEi\ Sc ce, Proprietors J. W. WARREN, Editor
SPECIAL NOTICES
IVotioe!
Exemption Ghpanted.
Wanted to contract immediately for THREE
THOUSAND (3,000) CORDS OAK WOOD, to be
delivered to me at this Post. Any one making
such contracts will be exempted from service In
C. S. Army. CHAN. A. REDD,
oc 21 6t Capt. and A, Q. \t.
Louisiana Relief Committee of Columbus,
Georgia.
11. L. Goodrich. Prest E. A. Rorsy. Sec.
Contributions are respectfully solicited from Lou
isianians in this and adjoining States for the pur
pose ol providing our brave and suffering soldiers
nowin the Army of Tennessee, with Shoes, Socks,
and other naedful articles, as it has come to tho
knowledge of this Committee that many of them
are without shoes, and almost destitute of clothing.
Prompt action on the part of Louisianians will
greatly alleiiate the suffering of our nobis young
men during thfe approaching winter.
Contributions will be thankfully received by our
President and Treasurer,' L. this
city.
P. S. All papers friendly to the above cause will
confer a favor to Louisianians by inserting this
notice. E. A. ROSSY, Sec’y.
Columbus, Ga.. Oct. 20, 1564.—1 m
Headqu’rs Georgia Reserve,)
aud Military District of Georgia, V
, Mecou, October 17,1864. j
General Orders,
No. 23. I
I. All Post Quartermasters in this District, ex
cept at Augusta, Macon and Columbus, will imme
diately 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, Ac.
Lamar Cobb, Major and A. A. Gen, [pc 19 st.
Headquarters Georgia Reserve,)
and Military District of Georgia, j-*.
Macon, Ga., Oct. 17, 1864. j
General Orders I
No. 24. /
I. The returns of detailed men employed by Quar- ;
termasters, Commissaries, other officers and Gov
ernment Contractors called for by General Order, j
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 f j
that order, until further orders from these! Head
quarters, as time is required to issue the men details. I
By command of • j
Major Gem HOWELL COI3B,
Commanding, &c.
Lamar Cobb, Major and A k G.
Headquarters, First Division, G. M.)
Camp Smith, Oct.ifi, 1864. f
General Orders, 1
No. 5. /
The following orders aro published for theinfor
mation of tho men of this command, who have Veil
ed as yet to report for duty.
I. In accordance with a previous understanding
with the Confederate authorities. alUdetailed men
who were on duty with the Militia of this state are
required o report for duty again in this coimnaud.
All detailed men, therefore, who were in the Militia
I Service, who fail to report within ten days after the
publication of this order, will be published as de
j serters and treated accordingly.
11, No extensions of furloughs are granted, and
! all men absent are regarded as being absent with
i out leave, and will be dealt (with accordingly, unless
good and sufficient excuse for the same is rendered
j to these Headquartors 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.
Thos. Hardeman, Jr., A, A, G.
oc 19 6t
Attention, Sportsmen!
AICTIOIV of FINE STICK!
Montgomery, Ala.
\\I,ILL be sold at Auction, in front «*f out store, on
V > Monday next, October 24th,
The fine Carriage and Harness, formerly owned
by Commodore Montgomery:
One fine open BUGGY, with weather airon :
One Top Buggy, with Shafts and Pob, suitable
for ono or two horses, and just the article for a phy
sician :
Two setts of Single Harness, and onenew sett of
light double Harness;
Also, one new Trotting Sulky, the bestiu the Con
i federacy;
! One Bridle and Saddle;
' —ll. B—
o— celebrated
Trotting Horse “Hood,”
about 10 years eld. that has trotted Iris mile in 2:35
in Louisville, Kentucky. Ho is perfectly sound and
gentle, and the best road horse in the country;
A Bald Hornet Colt, 5 years old, a fast trotter,
and well broken to harntss and saddle;
A Canadian Mare, SALLIE, that has trotted her
mile in throe minutes, gentle, and a fine road mare.
LEE & NORTON,
oc 20 3t Auctioneers^
Bonds of the 300j000,000 Loan.
j F AM authorized to eoatinue the sale of the 6 per
I cent, long date Non Taxable Bonds of this Loan
at the Government rate of One Hundrediand Thir
ty-five Dollars.
The principal of the Loai being free from Taxa
i tion and the Coupons receivable for all Import and
i Export duties, makesit the nost desirable yet offer
ed by the Government. I iherefore recommend it
to the favorable notice of Ob people.
W. H, YOUNG,
oc 19 1m Agint for sale of Bonds.
3STOTIOB
To Mississippi Soldiers !
I THE “MISSISSIPPI DE°OT” and Office of
I Agency for the Relief of Mississippi soldiers in
the Army of Tennessee, has been removed from
Atlanta to Columbus, Ga. aid is near Barnard’s
corner, between Main st„ and the Perry House,
Your baggage is there.
C. K. MARSHALL,
sep2B ts .Agent.
Battle-Field Relief Association
of Columbus, Ga.
All who are disposed to contribute articles neces
sary for the relief of tb e 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 Friday, when they will be for
warded to and dispensed by our Committee there.
W. H. YOUNG. Presd’t.
C. G. Holmes, Sec’y. ag23tf
Strayed or Stolen.
S3OO REWARD!
<)N SATURDAY NIGHT, Bth instant, two medi-
I I um sized MULES, one a black the other a bay.
They were in fair order and fresh shod. A reward
of S3OO will be paid lor their delivery to me at the
Perry House. • * THOS. E. SMITH.
oc 19 ts
■.f\ii\niiF.un lamni:
For Sale by the Case or Bottle.
I’HE above is warranted a genuine article and
pronounced by judges the best in the city. It is,
from its superiority, particularly adapted to the
use of invalids, and for medieinal purposes gener
allv unsurpassed. Call soot, or it will all be sold,
! at ' REDD A JOHNSON’S
old stand, Broad street. Columbus, Ga.
oc 20 fit
Columbus* Ga., Saturday Morning, October 22,1864.
Friday Evening:.
Theatre. —Rather a thin house was in atten
dance at Temperance Hall, last evening, notwith
standing the bill offered. We had read in the
j Richmond papers very lattering notices of Mr.
Hamilton’s Richelieu, and our expectations were
wrought to the highest pitch in regard to it. We
were not in the 1 ast disappointed. His “make
up,” as they s.iy in stage parlance was faultless,
and it was hard (o be convince! that the tottering
old man before us was the same who played Rich
mond the night previous. We heard many en
thusiastic encomiums passed on his personation
of the crafty, and« trepid Cardinal. The audience
appeared much pleased at the reappearance of
Mrs. Clarke. O 'her rendition of Julie we can’t
say much. She was simply over her depth. In
ail the characters she assumes she reminds us of a
tale wo once read of an oriental despot, or some
such worthy, who was wont to divert himself in
the highly innocent amusement of stretching poor
unlucky devils on an iron bedstead of a certaiu
length, and, who, if too short, he caused to bo
stretched out to the proper length ; aud, if too
long, to be chopped off' until they fitted. So with
Mrs. Clarke—she stretches or shortens everything
she undertakes, so as to bring it up to her stand
ard. She is as humorous when playing Julie, as
sho is in Gertrude, in Loan of a Lover. Mrs.
Siddons is said to have had such a tragic air, that
she “stabbed” the potatoes at dinner, and Mrs.
Clarke is utterly unable to take any character,
without throwing in it more or less humor. Nev
ertheless, she is a great favorite, and adds much
to the strength of the corps. Harry Crisp, as
Mauprat, done exceedingly well. Ale is really a
promising young actor, of versatile talents—play
ing tragedy or comedy with equal ease and ex
cellence. A rare thing. Mr. Keith, as Rarradas,
would have done better if he had spoken plainer
and omitted so much extravagant postnrizing,
Messrs. Wolfe, Bohn, Stevenson, Miss Marshall
and Mrs. Wheelnn, in the minor characters, ac
quitted themselves with credit.
We would beg leave to offer two suggestions
which can be taken for what they are worth.—
First, when it is necessary to “double,” let a little
more pains be taken in the “make up” of the in
dividual “doubling,” so that tho audience may
not take them for one and the same. Secondly,
that the drop curtain be not lowered down so sooii
at the end of acts waere tableaux are formed. We
have heard several complain of this. Without
laying any pretensions to being a dramatic quid
nunc, we think it would be a decided improve
rnent.
From site Front.
[Correspondence of the Semla Reporter.]
Jacksonville, Oct. 17 1864.
Editor Reporter: —A courier ar> ed last i
night bringing intelligence that on oroesoc- !
cupied, when he left, all points on toy railroad j
from Ilesaca to Ringgold
At Dalton two hundred and tiHy white and
eight.hundred black Yankees were captured
! 'rithout resistance.
Vt Tilton three hundred surrendered
Whether any more were captured at other
statics I have not learned.
Res:.ca was invested, but found too strong
to be Lken without loss of several thousand
men, huace no attack was made.
There has been no fighting since the array
left Al&toona.
In a reconnoisance, Col. Baker, of Alabama,
was killed, and Major Falconer, of Gen. Hood’s
staff, wag wouaded. F,
[Correspondence Montgomery Advertiser.]
Jacksonville, Ala., Oct. 16, 1864.
\V r e have glorious news from Gen. Hood’s
army this morning. He stormed the fort3 and
entrenchments around Dalton on Friday morn
ing and carried them, capturing immense
booty and tbe material of war generally. Ten
miles of tbe railroad was torn up and destroy
ed ; Resaca invested and expected to fall into
our hands. This is the substance of the offi
cial dispatch from Hood to Beauregard.
Nothing else is known, and nothing of the
amount of loss on either side. But as Dalton
was known to have beeu fortified and heavily
garrisoned it is not to be presumed that it
was given up, without a struggle, or that our
loss was trifling.
Gen. Beauregard was serenaded at his head
quarters last night and made a speech. He
spoke confidently of driving the enemy be
yond the Tennessee river; of the splendid
spirit in which the army was in, and even
said that he expected to force the enemy on
the other side of the Ohio river. I harclly
know how to interpret the meaning of some
of his short and brisk sentences. Talleyrand
said “words were made to conceal men’s
thoughts.” The General was a great deal
more embarrassed while making his speech
than he would have been fighting * pitched
battle.
The details of the cavalry fight of Generals
Armstead and Harrison near Rome on last
Wednesday and Thursday are quite hard to
obtain. But enough is known to state that
on the first day our troopers were badly worst
ed and on the second it was a drawn fight.
The truth is, the cavalry in this department
are nothing but mounted infantry. For the
most part they are armed with a musket and
nothing more, aud in fighting they are pitted
against men armed with seven-shooting rifle,
pistol and sabre ; nor are they kept well in
hand, for I know of" at least one general in the
department who has five thousand on bis
muster rolls, but who has only seventeen hun
dred for duty. They are scattered from the
Tennessee river to the Gulf of Mexico,
doing all sorts of light duty apparently, but
really riding around the country on their
horses.
The most fashionable pretext for their ab
sence is that they are picking up stragglers
and deserters. With the latter class they have
often sharp little skirmishes, and really do
some good in that particular. But at this
crisis wosld it not be far better for every man
in Confederate uniform, from your fat and
sleek Post A. Q. M. to tbe last mau hunting
up stragglers and deserters, to be hunting up
Yankees? That is now a large brigade on duty
at the front could be gathered in this way in
every district in the Confederacy. Gen. Dick
Taylor is smoking them all out in Alabama.
He has cleaned ail the little villages, the
trains, depots, k c., of this real bone and sinew
of war and sent them all to the front.
Jacksonville has suddenly arose from one
of those indolent, lazy, good for nothing little
villages into an important post. It bristles
with buttons and bars, and beats Montgomery
in one particular, and that is it has two post
offices—one for the army and one for the
public. It is situated at the base of a spur of
the Cumberland mountains, from which great
quantities of iron ore. coal and saltpeter are
obtained.
I see a large number of our men detained
here ami returning from the tmrea for the
want of shoes. Tue roads throughout North
ern Georgia and Alabama are very rocky and
rough, and it i3 impossible for these men to
walk over them barefooted, an 1 lau? aformed
that there ar* none at the base of eupplies,
and that these men will be obliged to wait un
til some rear Quartermaster learns to be a lit
tle industrious and forward them. I recollect
hearing an old soldier of Gen. Jackson telling
an anecdote of that famous maoj, and his Chief
Quartermaster. His army had left Huntsville
| for Lookout Mountain, and the General’s or
ders to his Chief Quartermaster was that sup
plies should be sent to that point, by a cers
tain day. But his A. Q. M., not only failed,
but never started them. The General rode
back to Huntsville in person, and meeting
the delinquent officer, drew his sword in per
fect fury, “By the eternal!” roared Jackson,
; “If those supplies are not at Lookout Moun
tain in thirty-six hours I will hang you on the
j highest tree upon it.” It is hardly necessary
to state that there was instantly a great stir
in the department, and that the supplies came
i up to the time designated.
I hope by to-morrow to get full details of
the Dalton fight. DUNLEITH.
i 0
- Jacksonville, Oct. 17, 1864.
Gen. Hood invested Dalton on last Thurs
day, and at once sent in a flag of truce and
demanded its surrender. Col. Johnson, the
Federal commander, came in person to see
our General. “Will you,” said the Colonel,
! “treat the garrison as prisoners of war, if I
surrender ?” “No, sir.” “Wiilyou parole it ?”
I “No, sir ; I will allow you five minutes to sur
! render, and if not complied with, I will put the
I garrison to the sword,” The Colonel ob-
I served that the terms were hard, but that he
I would surrender, which was at once done.—
The prisoners captured were as follows: 800
negroes in full Yankee uniform, 250 white
soldiers, 1 battery of six guns, field artillery,
and 70 cavalry, together with several guns,
mounted in the forts, a large quantity of
stores, ammunition, saddles and blankets.
The negro soldiers were at once divested of
their blankets, overcoats, shoes, hats, and, in
many cases, their breeches, and under a strong
guard with horse-whips, put to work tearing
up the railroad. And this negro garrison
was the reason that General Hood refused
their white Colonel the erdinaiy terms of cap
itulation. Asa general thing the men of the
army were in favor of hanging the last one of
them on the nearest limbs, and as it is, it is
very questionable if many af them are carried
far as prisoners of war.
At Tilton we captured 300 men without fir
ing a gun. At Dug Gap, Major Falconer, Ad
jutant General of the army, and Major Clare,
rode out for the purpose of making a recon
noisance. They suddenly came upon a body
of the enemy, and a heavy volley was fierd at
them. Major F. was shot through the thigh
and Ciare’s horse was killed under him. The
courier reports that Col. Beck, of the 23d Al
abama was killed, but does not state how or
when.
After Dalton was captured, a portion of out
army was vent to make a demonstration upon
Resaoa, which is strongly garrisoned, and the
remainder sent towards Chattanooga., which
is garrisoned by six thousand negroes and
white men, chiefly negroes. I hardly think,
however, that aay attack will be made upon
that place, as it can be easily turned by the
army crossiug the river—well, you will find
out before a great while.
Whilst all this was going on; oa the rail
road, two brigades of our cavalry was amus
ing the great and immortal hero &ed strate
gist. W. T. Sherman, with his whole army at
Rome. ll* drew up his army in front of that
town in regular battle array; threw up en
trenchments: put out flankers and skirmish
ers—made all necessary arrangements for a
general pitched battle, thinking that Hood
was there with his whole strength of rebels.—
Our cavalry, however, gave him a fight which
lasted two days, aad when whipped, they re
tired with colors fiyisg. The 11th Texas and
3d Arkansas regiments greatly ditinguishecl
themselves in that battle.
The courier from Hood’s headquarters re
ports that Forrest had captured a train on the
Nashville and Chattanooga railroad with eight
million greenbacks. ' He said it was freely
talked of at headquarters and generally be
lieved. The news needs confirmation.
The spirit of the array excels anything ever
heard *t. ‘ DUNLEITH.
Tike Continued Advance of
Gen. Frlce in Missouri--Pi*oc
lamation. &c.
From the Democrat’s Jefferson City corres
pondence it seems that the rebel demonstra
tion on that place, on the 7th, was merely to
occupy our forces while the enemy’s main
body crossed the Osage river. After feeling
our fortifications, and finding them strong,
they passed westward during the nignt, some
twenty thousand strong, with sixteen to twen
ty-five cannon and a long train of wagons.
General Pleasanton arrived on the morning
of the Bth aud assumed command, and in the
afternoon followed the rebels with about eight
thousand cavalry. At night reports reached
Jefferson that we had engaged Gen. Price’s
rear, while General Curtis, coming from Kan
sas, was fighting their front.
A courier, just arrived from California,
tiventy-five miles west, brings information
that our cavalry were skirmishing nearly all
day yesterday. In the afternoon the rebels
entered California, burned the railroad depot
and a train of cars.
, About 4 o’clock our forces placed a batte
ry outside of California and drove the rebels
out. We killed, wounded and captured over
one hundred. Our loss only a few weunded.
The rebels have torn up about a mile of the
railroad track on the east side of California,
and it is also torn up in several places on this
side.
The rebel Colonel Standwaite is reported to
have been at Tipton last night, with five
thousand men, moving towards Booneville.—
The rebel Major Bowie and the rebel Lieuten
ant Key have been killed, and Col. Shanks
mortally wounded.
Col. Fletcher, with fifteen men. arrived here
from Rolla to-night, and reports 1500 men re
pairing the southwestern branch of the rail
road ; that the telegraph will be in working
order to-morrow; that the road will be open
from Rolla to Mozelle the day after, and that
all is now snug at Rolla.
The bridge and water tank at Scott’s, eight
miles west of Jefferson City, have been burned
by tbe rebels; also the railroad depot at
Lookout, a few miles beyond.
St. Louis, Mo.. Oct. 11— Intelligence has
been received at headquarters that Prices
army went from California to Boonville, Coo
per county, yesterday, and Shelby sent two
thousand cavalry across the Missouri ri'-er at
that point. General Fisk has gone to Lexing
ton to take command there. General San
born is still pursuing the enemy.
Reports were extensively circulated to-day
that Magruder, with five thousand rebel in
fantry, had entered Southeast Missouri and
occupied Fredericks?own. but they proved to
be unfounded.
Business is suspended at St. Joseph, the
citizens having been called to arms bv Gene
ral Fisk, in anticipation of a visit Irom Price.
The very latest Paris fashion D that *r ‘Broh
dignag' belts and buckles for tbs waist# A ladies,
just about the width of a horse girib, buckles in
proportion, in steel, pearl and jet. This, we pre
sume, is to clasp them, as Sut Lovengood would
say. “where the sus-single goes round a bo#s.” *
$5.00: Per Month
The Political Situation.
The fact cannot be disguised that since
the fall of Atlanta the politicians and the
discord press, in Georgia and Alabama,
have succeeded in sowing the seeds of
discontent among the people, and serious
ly affected the enthusiasm of the army.
The constant discussion of how tostoo the
war without conquering a peace has* mis
led and distracted the public mind. The
army in the field has not been affected,
but the thousands at home on funough,
listening to dismal lamentations of the
people at home, and hearing of the plans
to stop the war independent of the Con-,
federate Government, have naturally felt
disinclined to rejoin their commands.
Not a few, believing that reconstruction
would be the winding up act of the bloody
drama, have not cared to expose them
selves further to the bullets of the ene
my, when the grand aims of the acts of
secession were to be given up. What
man cares to peril his life and suffer all
the privations of the camp and march if
he feels that the people at home are busy
in devising plans to stop the war or treat
for peace on the basis of the Federal Con
stitution, the Convention of the States, or
the Chicago platform ? Our soldiers en.
tered the army, and are willing to fight
for our complete independence of the
Yankee nation. For this thousands have
died nobly; for this thousands endure the
ills of camp and march, and “the inso
lence of office/' cheerfully. Anything
less than this dampens their enthusiasm,
cools their ardor, and would utterly des
troy their efficiency
It is the man at home who has such
horror of blood-letting, and would com
promise with the enemy, not the soldier
in the field. It is the men out of service
who are offering reconstruction resolutions
to the enemy, and calling for a Convert
tion of the States, and not the noble he
roes in the field who are facing the bars
barous foe. We regret to admit that so
far did the fall of Atlanta and the sub
tie machinations of the politicians depress
and demoralize our people at home that
our State Legislators in special session
convened, failed to respond to the wise
and patriotic recommendations of the
Governor, in enacting laws for the better
defence of the State.
But we are glad to see the clouds rising,
and a better tone given to the public mind.
The politicians must again to their caves
and wait for another disaster to our arms.
The army has recovered from its compara
tive demoralization, and, with swelled and
swelling ranks, is fast accomplishing the
destruction of Sherman’s army. The
people are beginning to open their eyes
to the danger and folly of begging for
peace, with the victorious enemy at our
doors.
One word to the discord elements.—
This war is to be carried to the point of
making the Yankee nation concede the
right of self-government, and an acknowl
edgement of our independence as a sep
arate Government. The Government is
firm as a rock, and the better judgment
of the people, with the noble army of
living martyrs now in the field, will sus
tain it. —Selma Dispatch.
A “Friend at Court.”—We find the
following in the foreign correspondence of
the Charleston Courier :
There is one man in ™ngland who,
though not a Confederate by birth, nor
personal or political interest, has identi
fied himself so thoroughly with our cause,
and has labored for it so strenuously in
season and out of season, that his name
should be known throughout our land, and
our children taught love it. I allude
to Mr. W. S. Lindsay, Member of Par
liament From the very commencement
of our war he has been laboring for our
cause with a zeal which has entitled him
to a nation’s gratitude. He is a Scotch
man by birth, and has amassed by busi
ness, a very large fortune. I had the
pleasure, in company with Mr. Mason, of
spending several days at his estate on the
Thames, about two hours ride from Lon
don, and though an entire stranger to
him, my being a Confederate was enough
to ensure the greatest possible kindness.
Os course, the introduction by Mr. Mason
would have insured that, but there was a
genuineness about his manner which
showed that his sympathy for our country
was that of the heart.
It is not at all surprising that Gen
Gordon is ranked high among fighting
Generals. A correspondent referring to
the late disgraceful stampede of a portion
of our forces near Winchester, Va., says:
Mrs. General Gordon, who was in Win- 1
Chester, seized the division headquarters
flag, and rushing into the street, called
upon any of her husband’s division to I
rally round her flag, and that she would
lead them. She succeeded in rallying a I
party of near 200 and sent them to the
field.
Hanging in numberless coils across a book in the
printing department of this journal is a long nar
row slip of paper which has been made up bv pas
ting together from time to time the various lists of
tne dead and wounded that have been published
in the columns of the South Carolinian. It is
kept as a sort of register, bv reference to which
the feretnan is able to avoid tho necrological tau
tology of announcing a death more than once.
Curious to ascertain the iength iri feet and inches
which it had attained we caused it not long ago,
to be measured, when it was found that in this
dark, strange record, wa had rolled up Dot less
than thirty-five feet of elosely printed names.
Since then it has received several additions, and
now probably exceeds forty feet. We might "rack
the world of fancy” ia vain for an image which
would afford a more distinct conception of th<4
horrors of this war than the above houielv fact.
[Columbia South Carolinian.
lfie New Orleans Picayune, of the 11th contains
an announcement of a "mass convention”the
Democrats an 1 Conservatives ■>*' Louisiana h*
held in the St. C'harle- Theatre. The purport, of
he meeting is to de ie upon a course of action
touching the Presidential election.
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The Slcfcat of Gen. fjvvin# sji
Missouri—ills Retreat to kioiaa.
Tiie defeatof Gen. Ewing at Arcadia Vai'oy,
Missouri, by General Sterling Price, ou th> 24th
ult, i« fatly acknowledge by Hie Yankees. On the
25tb Ewing got back to a strung position, General
Price pursuing. A iettur i;i Uie New York Her
ald eays :
About throe o’clock p. m., the rebels eoneeu
*u»d c idently determined to rjsk an assault.
Their Hues were drawn up in three bodies, and
the devoted band, now almost ready to give up ia
despair, prepared to receive the shock, but lof at
that moment a large body of Union cavalry was
seen coming from the direction of Rolla, and in
fifteen minutes it bad broken the posts and pickets
es the enemy in that direction, and was along
side the little garrison. The joy es the latter can
best be imagined; and when the lucky oircum
stance wa»explained by Col. Bevridge, of the
Seventeenth Illinois cavalry, at the head of those
five Bund rod men, and he told the garrison that
he came, upon hearing of their peril from refugees,
the men shouted until the rebels took alarm,
thinking that these reinforcements were but the
advance of an army.
To push out a strong picket up and down the
road, and - move towards Rolla the same night,
was the next thing ; and this was done, and the
position evacuated before the rebels knew which
way tho force went. Thirty miles were made
that night, and in the morning St. James’ Station,
on the South Pacific road was reached where tho
entire command took the cars for Rolla. and reach
ed it in safety, seven hundred strong, after fighi
ing every mile of the way and undergoing such
hardships.as such campaigning involves. Den.
Ewing lost no property, save the ammunition tor
the soige guns in Fort Davidson, which was blown
up; and his entire loss in killed and wounded
will not exceed one hundred and titty. These es
timates are made exclusive of reinforcements from
Rolla, of course.
Tiie Spirit of tlie Army.
The following is an extract from a private let
ter from a soldier in the Confederate army. It
shows the spirit that animates the brave men who
have to confront the foe in deadly strife—who
have witnessed the desolation and atrooities of
the war, and who best understand the characler
of the people with whom they are contending.
The letter was written from Jonesboro’, Georgia ;
If every man in the Confedercy could look
back upon the desolation and ruin that mark the
pathway of the Yankees as they advance, we
could then have a spirit of true harmony, and the
foul breath that lisps that awful word “recon
struction” would be hushed. Let tho man who
would, traitor like, strike hands with those who
have dyed the land with the-blood of the South
ern patriots, visit the right flank of this army,
and I will first show to him the desolated homes
and fields, the desecrated altars from which thous
ands of women and children have been ruthlessly
driven out upon the world, penniless—homeless.
Then I will only ask him to chill his blt>od with
one mere spectacle which the fiendish hearts of
our invaders have wrought. This he can see by
visiting a paint only six miles from where I now
write. There, in a neat cottago, once the scone of
happiness—now misery—grief sits upon the brows
of father and mother, both bowed down with age.
But that which most tends to strike the very spirit
of revenge to the heart is the maniac gaze of a
young girl, aged about seventeen years, the victim
of the hellish appetite es these more than devils.
Three of them, in broad day light, before tho
face of those aged parents, outraged her. Then,
if he ean say reconstruction or union with such a
people, where the negro is elevated, and virtuous
females debauched, ho is a fit subject to join Won
dell Phillips’ amalgamation train.
Siockadc Adventurer*.
We have just listened to an interesting nar
ration ot a passenger in the steamer Condor,
(Major J. L. Tait, an officer in the British
Army,) which recently got aground in at
i tempting to run in at New Inlet at Wilming
| ton Harbor. The Major has become quite an
! adventurous voyager sinGe the blockade sys.
' tern was established by the Yankees and has
made several successful transits across the
Atlantic and through the said blockade. His
last “trip” was through Maryland and was at
tended with so much risk and difficulty
that he has concluded not to try that route
again. He wa3 just fifteen days going from
Richmond to Liverpool—making the quickest
trip on record, and of which mention was
made in the London Times recently, ns evi
dencing the facility with which Lincoln’s
blockade is circumvented. lie remained only
three weeks in Europe, completing in that
brief period a heavy contract, previously en
tered into with parties ou this side and was
again afloat for the blockaded shores of tho
Confederacy with warm clothing and uniforms
for her soldiers. The vessel was to have put
into Bermuda for coal, but fear of the yellow
fever determined the officer to change tho
course and go to Halifax instead, which of
course, prolonged the voyage. Thi3 vessel
was the Condor which recently ruq aground
at New Inlet, and which brought also as a
passenger the ill-fated and lamented Mrs.
Rosa A. Greenkow, who, it will be remember
ed was drowned in trying to reach the shore
in a small boat which swamped in the “rips.”
Major T. was among the passengers who at
tempted to reach the shore in a similar man
ner. Their boat was also 3wamped and the
passengers only saved themselves by clingiag
to the keel while the waves were breaking
over them every moment. Fortunately the
tide was in, and they drifted to the shore
pretty well divested of their clothing, and as
cold as charity. The Major had hoped that
this would conclude his hair breadth escapes
for this trip, but ou the train from Branch
vilie to Augusta, the carriage in which he
was a passenger was thrown from the track
and he narrowly escaped with his life.
What, with the Yankee police detectives in
Maryland, the close pursuits of the blockade
steamers, the dangers of the deep, the Yellow
Fever at Bermuda, and the shipwreck at New
Inlet, to say nothing ®f the insecurity of South
ern railway travel, he has had his measure of
“experiences” and might print a journal not
less interesting than that of hi3 clever coun
tryman and brother officer, Col. Freemantl#
of “the Guards.” —Montgomery Mail.
The Petersburg Express says a superior article
of clothing and shoes is now being issued io the
troops of Lee’s army by the Government, and the
approaching cold weather will find them clad in
every respect, and prepared to stand the vicissi
tudes of the winter.
For Chattahoochee.
The Steamer Mist, Van Marcus, master, will leave
for the above and intermediate landings, on
SATURDAY morning, 22d inst., at 9 o’clock,
Headquarters Georgia Resbbti, and
and Military District Georgia. >•
Macon, Ga. Oct. 19, 1864. )
General Orders, \
No. 26. /
Upon the recommendation of the Commandant
of Conscripts for Georgia, the following named offi
cers are appointed "Inspectors of Conscription”
for their respective Districts:
Ist Lieut. Alfred Prescet, Drill Master, Ist district.
Ist Lieut. C. 11. Winn, Sutt’s Artillery Battalion,
2d district.
Capt. W. S. Davis, company B, 10th Georgia Regi
ment, 3d district.
Lieut. Col. W. B, Wallace, 45th Georgia Regiment,
4th dsstrict.
2d Lieut. Geo. S. Cabaniss, Drill Master, sth district.
2d Lieut. W. T. Martin,*,Drill Master, 6th district.
>t Lieut, and Adjt. B. H. Newton, 4th Georgia
cavalry, 7th and Bth districts.
2d Lieut. J. 11. Morgan, Drill Master. 9tb district.
By command of
Maj. Ge.v. HOWELL COBB.
LAMAR COBB,
Major and A A General.
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