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CO Ij L *iDL' kD i » > i.. Published Daily .Sundays excepted; at the rate oi $5.00 per month, or t>ls tor three months. No subscription received for i longer »eri» than hree ruonthi. ADVERTISING RATES : Advertisements inserted lor $2 00 per square for each insertion. Where advertisements are inserted a month, the charge will be S3O per square. Announcing candidates S2O, which must invariably paid in advance. ______ 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 |j| ■ 1 ' ' ' • 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. s r i- 1 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. 0c22 64