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( . } . v * 'l lM i-*- t ~,n v< >•«!•**: f< dJ-»t the /ate ol -l> »r'«»rae uonttu. Vo ~ü b -' r .ii.>n m- •iv! or - longer term than \rt* month*. 4DVUnTfSI»« RATES: Advertisements inserted tor &2 00 per square for each jusertiou. iVliere advertisement* are inserted a mont’a, the •barge will be S3O per square. \ enouncing candidates S2O, which mult invariably Change oI Schedule. 'JrriCK KNOIKKBB AK» SuyKaiJfTBWDKNT, ) Charleston arid Savannah Railroad, <■ Charleston, June 7,1864.) P5Py» '-V?. ly-**** - r .N T Till ItSDAY, June ■*, IH6l,an 1 until further w nortec. th<> Schedule of the Passenger train will r.c as lott-vv, viz: beave Charleston 0.45, a. in. Arrive in Savannah. „...Jd.4o, p. in. heave Savannah.. I> 30, a. in. Arrive in Charleston ; 1.15, p. m. L'hi.' Train makes direct couneetion*, going north ifid south, vviih t,hc Northeastern Railroad at<'har •eston. and the Central Haiiroad at the .Junction. 11. S. HAINES, June ;4 it Fngim r and Mj|>eri>itendeitt. aunt., «S Schedule. mil itt t Sunoay, ,i an 3 lain, the Trains on • be usoogee Railroad will run as follows ; lASSFNGER TRAIN: 1 care Columbus.. .'. .6 45 P. M. '•rrive ai Ma< on 3 25 A. M. : ca ve Maeoti 3 10 !’■ M Arrive t Colun has 4 25 A, A., FHEIGM'I TRAIN: l.cav. Columbus 5 (X) A. *<• Arrive at folutr.bu.- 4 55 A. A’ W.L. CLARK. mur I*'! Supt. Mnsoogco R, K. Through Montgomery. NEW SCHEDULE MONTGOMERY & WEST POINT H \ II.ROAM COMPANY. COLUMBUS, Auirust 27, 1864. i \N and after August 27th. the Passenger Train on 1 ‘ the Montgomery ami West Point Railroad will Reave .Uouigomery at 8:00 a. in. Leave West Point at 7:10 a. fit. ■ 4rrive at Columbus »t 5:32 p.m. - Leave Columbus at 5:50 a. m. 1 rrive at Mon gummy at 3:00 p. m. Arrive at West Potrit , at 4130 p.m. Freight Train leaves Columbus at 8:40 am. 1 .-rives at 8:27 Ti m U. 11. CRAM, Sup’t k Eng. ,ig27lß64—tf t MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD. 4-«3 S ij«s: n¥ SOaESH liK. Girard, Ala.. Got 7,1864. s . \N and after 10th inst. Trains on this Road will • < Hun Daily (Sunday excepted,) as follows: I’aNNcnger Train. Leave Girard at 1 30 p.jn. Arrive in Union Springs 6 00 Leave Union Springs 5 35 a. m. Arrive in Girard «t 10 00 Treiglit Train. Leave (lirarl at 400a. m. Arrive in Girard at 6 00 p. m. B. E. WELLS, *glß ts Eng. A Sup’t. i*s\ ,1. S. €LAKK, DENTIST, FORMERLY OF NEW ORLEANS, HAS returned, and can be found at 106 Broad street, over Dr. It, A, Ware’s Drug Store. octlO-diin ' Or. it, NOBLE, tDIEX^TIST, \ T Pember on & Carter’s old stand, back room of A Smith’s Jewelry Store, where ho can be found at all hours, Toe 18 6m AT THE EAttLE FACTORY, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. TUFTY young women can find steady work and F liberal pay at the . • r oc 11 dAwlm EAGLE FAUIORY. ~W ANTED! c Artn LBS. ofTALLOW, for which a liberal price ,MMU will be Paid. Apply to ; rj) cp7 ts Major and Q. U. Notice ! Oolumbus, Ga., Oct. 4th, 1861, ■L. T. Maddux is authorized to attend to my business in my absence from Columbus. ocs Im* WILL. S. BALFOUR. laAR<*E €©A*lC*A r i?IEAT OF LETTER PAPER! AND MEMORANDUM BOOKS! For sale by J. K.' REDD & CO. ool2tf PERKY HOUSE. THE undersigned would respectfully inform his 1 old friends, patrons, und the traveling public generally, that as he has to be absent tor a short time helms boon 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 ct 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, aud 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 151 m* TIIOS. E. SMITH. S2OO REWARD. \I7ILL be paid for tbe apprehension and delivery ?V to us of our two Negro Boys, BILL and JIM, who ran off some timosiuce. , , , , , * BILL weighs about 150, is tall and slim, black complexion, hair very short ahd thin, has a down cast. suiten look, and talks long and drawling. Left us about tholst of August.iast. • . JIM is a lino looking negro, weighs about.lbO, 5 feet 10 or 11 inches high', black comoloxmn, thin visage and high chcok bones, hair short. Loft us about the Ist of .October, , Wo will pay the above reward for both, ordpWO for cither of the above described negroes, if delivered to us or placed in some.safe jail where we can jjet them. Wo will also pay> SIOO for proof to convict any white person oi harboring i Columbus. Ga., Oct. 13, 1864. —lm STE RElifO EXCBAiMJE! i FEW Hundred Pounds of Sterling Exchange A for sale in sums to suit purchasers by as!** ts "ANK OF COLUMBUS. *tOO Reward. ■\\riLL be paid for a negro boy named Henry, who W ranaway about two months ago. He is about 5 feet 3 inches high: weighs about 160 or 170 lbs.; com plexion yellow; fine looking; when laughing has dimples in both cheeks. It is probabm he weut to Atlanta with some of the troops from this city. _ oc6 ts H. M. CLECIvLEI. SSO Reward.. NEGRO boy CIIARLEY; about 25 years old, yel 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 trom Charleston, S. C. A suitable reward will be paid tbr his delivery at this office, or in any m ie jail and information sent to me at this office. JAMES M. RUSSELL. Columbu's Ga., aug 1 ts * . For Sale. 7r SIDES Russett Upper Leather. it) FOLSOM & CODY. oc 14 2w _____ $25 Dollars Reward. STR VYED from my place in Wynnton, a dark bay mare MULE, about nine years old, hair rubbed off of both hips and a large scar on the right hindquarter. Jon:s CooK ocl3 ts ■ . HillllFtfiCliliilf! For Sale by the Case or Bottle. THE above is warranted a genuine article and J. pronounced by judges the best in tue c H * 5 > from its superiority, particularly adapted t» tue use of invalids, and for medicinal purposes gener ally unsurpassed. Call soon, or it will all he sold, at REDD k JOHNSON a _ old stand, Broad street, Col ambus, Ga. »e it ii JtiiiiiiS limp* Vol. XI. J. W. WARREN Sl CO. Proprietors..., J. W. WARREN, Editor SPECIAL NOTICES lleauquartkrs Post, 1 Columbus, Ga., October 24,1864, / Order. No. 15. I. All City Passes issued from Post Headquarters, Provost Marshal’s office or any Department or Com pany Headquarters, at this Post, will not be recog nized after tho 28th inst., they wilt have to be re newed by the Provost Marshal and approved by the Post Commandant. 11. All members of tho Dawson Artillery, Fire men’s Guard and Chapman’s Company liable to military duty, who have not reported, will be ar rested and forwarded to their commands. By order LEON VON ZINKEN, Col. Convl’g Post. J. A. Codv, Adjutant, oc 25 3t Notice. OFFICE CHIEF COMMISSARY STATE ) OF GEORGIA, \ Savannah, October IS*, 1864. j The office of the Chief Commissary of the Con federate States for the State of Georgia will be located at Columbus, Georgia, on and after the 24th instant. R. -J. MOSES, oc 24 it Major and Chief Commissary, &c. 11kaiiquarters Georgia Reserve, 4 and Military District Georgia. > Macon, Ga. Oct. 19, 1864. j General Orders, I No. 26. j 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. Alfre 1 Prescot, 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. S, Wallace, 45th Georgia Regiment, 4th dsstrict. 2d Lieut. Geo. S. Cabaniss, Drill Master, sth district. 2d Lieut. W. T. Martin, Drill Master, 6th district. Ist Lieut, and Adjt. B, 11. Newton, 4th Georgia cavalry, 7th and Bth districts. 2d Lieut. J. 11, Morgan, Drill Master. 9tb district. By command of Maj. Gen. HOWELL COBB. LAMAR C-1 88, Major and A A General. 0c22 6t Notice I Government Transportation Works, Columbus, Ga., Oct., 21,1861. Creditors are hereby nrtitiedthat the Government has furnished me with Oertiihal.es of Indebtedness in sums of 5000,1000, 50C and 100 dollars each, to pay their claims against these works. These certi ficates are neatly executed,-—they are non-taxablo both principal and interest—they bear six per cent, interest payable on the first days of January and July each year, and are assignable. It is believed that tney are better than any investment paying 14 per cent.. Parties holding them have nothing to do with Assessors or Tax-gatherers, but lay them aside in their drawers and they are earning an in come night and lay. Til OS. JOHNSON. 0c22 *)t , Special Agent Q. M. Dept. WANTED. Marshall Hospital, Columbus, Ga., October 22.1864. Three gallons Sweet Milk, daily, at this Hospital, for use of the sick and wounded. T. A. MEANS, oc 22 6t Surgeon in Charge. Aotice! E x einp ti on Grran ted. 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. M. Bonds of the 500,000,000 Loan. 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 tho Coupons receivable tor all Import and Export duties, makes it the most desirable yet offer ed by the Government. I therefore recommend it to tho favorable notice of the people. W. H, YOUNG, oc 191 m Agent for sale of Bonds. NOTICE To Mississippi Soldiers! p IIE “MISSISSIPPI DEPOT” and Office of L Agency for the Relief of Mississippi soldiers in the Army of Tennessee, has been removed from Atlanta to Columbus, (fa,, and is near Barnard’s corner, between Main st., and the Perry House. Your baggage is there. C. Iv. MARSHALL. sep2B ts Agent. Strayed or Stolen. SSOO-BEWABD! { \N SATURDAY NIGHT, Bth instant, two medi ' ' 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 deliver? to me at the Perry House. THOS. E. SMITH. 0c.19 ts . , lii Store—Charges Unpaid. TWO GINS. One marked J. Sorrell, Dale county, Ala., been on hand several years, One marked J. J. Reynolds. They will be sold on the 20th November, unless freight and charges are piid previous to that time. R. A. SOLOMON, Columbia, Ala., Ogt, 19,1861 —St Pay Storage and take Cot ton away. I A LL persons having Cbtton in our possession are ; A hereby notified that they must pay charges and ; take it away by first November, prox, as we cannot be responsible for it any longer, as both of us will b© in the army. r BELSER A CO. f&lumbia, Ala., Oct. 24,1864—8 t SORGHUM. \PE will purchase ten barrels choice Serghum »V Syrup, by sample, furnish barrels, and pay in Salt or currency. M. P. ELtIS k CO. oc'22 3t Shot and Powder. JTA BAGS Skat, all numbers! 100 pounds Course Powder; 100 “ Fine Rifle Powder., oc 226 t STAFFORD A CO. FOR SALE. MY plantation containing 960 acres, lying on a J branch of the Cowikee Creek, and 30 miles dis tant southwest from Columbus. Ga., seven miles south from Colbert Depot, Mobile and Girard rail road, and live miles west of Glennville, and 20 miles norte of Eufaula. The place is mostly level, is pro ductive, and in fine state of cultivation, with 560 acres of open land, balance well timbered with oak, hickory and pine. On the premises arc a good framed Dwelling, with two large rooms and framed smoko house, 8 negro cabins, blacksmiths' shop, corn crib, barn, shelters, &c. If desired I would divide the tract and reserve a part. Neighborhood excellent, plenty of the best water. The health of the place is no; surpassed by that of any in East Alabama, Person? wishing to visit the place will get off the train at Silver ; Run and take the (dan;? Hue a to Glennville, where conveyaee can be had. For further particulars apply to the subscriber*>n the premises, or address him af Glennville, Barboar county, Ala. Price S4O per acre. Possession given J - P> 'TRBUTL«f. Columbus, Ga., Wednesday Morning, October 26,1864. Tuesday Evening, Coanignces Per Mobile and Girard Railroad. Girard, Ala., October 25,1864. .Majors Allen, Humphries and Dillard—Captain Cothran—Re read Bridge—Naval Iron Werks—W R Brown—W P Turner—W E Dußose—M ,fc W P R It—Grady—Passenger—J M Watt—Warner—Win A Carlisle—Mu E B Comer—R L Butt—Marshall Hospital—Grcenw od & Gray—Eagle Factory—J 4V Oglesby— V/m Anderson, Montgomery. Ala — Wm Gillispie—R S Crane—J D Stewart—Hughes it Hodges—J P Illgc—lt S Hardaway—R W B Mun roe — Ndrr flvreo i> —(L Napier—John Bass.) A Great Crop.— The Raleigh Confederate esti mates the forage crop of Wake county* N. C., raised this year, at foil nvs: 1,037,260 pounds of hay, 500,- 000 bushels corn, 51,985 bushels shelled oats, 16,355,- OSO pounds of fouler. - ® mem The regular session of the ’Confederate Congress will meet on the 7th of November, the day before the Yankee Presidential election. “Burley,” the correspondent of the Southern Confederacy, writing from Blue Mountain, under date of tt>e 10th inst., says, Gen. Dick Taylor takes command of Gen. Lee’s corps, and Gen. Lea goes to command the department of Mississippi. Missouri. —The Grenada Picket has Memphis papers of the 15th inst., which it says, stated that Gen. Price had captured Jefferson City, and was sweeping everything before him. He was mount ing over four hundred men daily on fresh horses, and bis ranks had been swelled by the accession of thousands. The Federals estimated his force at thirty thousand. The sections through which Hood’s men have lately passed, abounded with good things to eat and in the greatest abundance. At Cedar Town the farmers actually quarrelled with each other as to who should sell the army corn. As the army rose an eminence overlooking Cedar Valley, a greasy butternut at the head of the column was heard to ex claim —“Starve, h— 11! here’s corn enough to feed the Confederacy.” ♦ "♦ ♦ -j The Army of Tennessee. The Yankee reports from Hood’s array, ad vise us that it “left Lafayette, Ga., on the 17th, going south.” They regarded this as a falling back, but by this time they are better advised, we feel confident. Wc have advices up to Tuesday last, at which time the army had been moved, and was at Blue Pond, in excellent marching order and fine spirits. Action was still the word, but in what direc tion general opinion-indicated vve will not state. Blue Pond is forty miles from Jack sonville, on the old stage road to Gunter’s Landing on the Tennessee, and twenty-six miles from the latter point. The Tennessee was reported pretty high, but slowly falling. Gen. Beauregard, with several thousand re in force talents was met fourteen mile’s above Jacksonville. Our informant represents the country through which the army has passed as being completely devastated, and the people suffer ing. Rations were freely divided, momenta rily relieving necessities, but they have no prospect of succor when the army moves away. Heaven help them through the ap proaching winter. The army has been well supplied with ra tions and clothing thus far. The only defi ciency complained of by the men was a want of shoes. The weather thus far has been de lightful, ’out the season should spur the quar termaster's department to extraordinary exer tions.—Memphis Appeal. 24 th. [Correspondence of the Montgomery Mail.] The Campaign In Front. Near Lafayette. Ga., Oct. 10, 1864. OX THE MARCH. To-day is the first our mail agent has vis ited us since we left Dallas, when I wrote you a brief dispatch. Since then we have been having a pretty good time notwithstanding long marches, short rations and cool nights with scant bed-clothing. OUR CAPTURES. Our march on Dalton was perfectly success ful. The railroad was effectually destroyed from Calhoun to within two hundred yards of the bridge at Resaca; and from two hundred yards this side of the bridge the destruction was complete to Tunnel Hill. At Ti.lt.on we captured about three hundred Federals, at Dalton about, two hundred together with one regiment (44th colored Infantry) numbering seven hundred,, besides forty more Yankees in a block house above Dalton. HO ! FOR TENNESSEE. Tunnel Hilt was evacuated beforeour troops reached it. Our cavalry penetrated to Ring gold. We captured four pieces of artillery at Dalton, besides some rations, clothing and other spoils. I think the prospect of spending Christmas in Middle Tennessee encouraging. A POSTSCRIPT. Alpine, Ga., October IS. —Our mail agent did not leave until this morning, so I opened my letter to inform you that we reached this place on the Alabama and Georgia line, yesterday evening, after a march of twenty three and a half miles, which we accomplished by three o’clock, P. M. Pretty good marching, is it not? The enemy were within half a mile of us this morning, when we left the vicinity of Lafayette. If he follows us, we will fight him. If not, our march is for Middle Tennessee direct. We will either fight to-morrow or start to Tennessee. It is hardly supposed that Sherman will follow us, but rather that ho will himself strike for Middle Tennessee. And the joke of it is, we can beat him there. We are only fifty miles from Gunter’s Lan ding, which lam in hopes we will reach on the 21st. “Bully far us.” Don’t you say so ? 1 would write more, but have bo time. I scrib ble this by the light of a pine torch—so the prin ter must make allowances for illegibility. The paper I use is a portion of the spoils I captured at Dalton. I have on hand a good supply, besides a young cargo of Federal stamps. “Scalpel.” Tbe War IVews. Quiet resigned on the lines below Richmond yesterday. The day was both foggy and clondy, and from our work; nearest the Yan kee lines scarcely anything could be seen of the Yankees but their pickets and their camp fires—the -latter indicating their line from Deep Bottom northeast to the Darby town road. For several days the enemy have shown some restiessness in front oi the extreme left of our line, which run; northeast from the Darbytowu towards ! ne Charles City road, crossing the latter about six miles from the southeastern suburbs oi the city ; and on Wed nesday night there was a great rumbling of Yankee wagons and artillery, and a galloping to and fro of their cavalry, in this quarter.— They are either preparing for another “re eonnoteance. or they apprehend an attack from t*. It is certain they have massed sev eral divisions along the Charles City road.— There was a report, about eleven o’clock yes terday morning, that they had attacked us at thi3 point, and that a battle was going on; but tbe story was without foundation —the heavy firing of our batteries at Dutch gap no doubt gave rise to it: the closeness of the at mosphere rendering every sound of the can non distinctly audable in the city. THR BATTLE LAST THURSDAY. The Yankees have very little to say about this affair, and seek to dispose of it by calling it a reconnoisance. We are not surprised at their wishing to put it away. It must be a most unpleasant recollection, and the facts of the business are not of a character to help Mr. Lincoln in the coming election. But to us, this complete little battle and victory is some thing pleasing to dwell upon, and we do not intend that the fight shall be smothered up and shuffled away out of sight by Yankee cor respondnets. These correspondents, who, as everybody knows, will and do lie persistently and to gloss over Yankee de feats and conceal. Yankee losses, say this fight was but a “reconnoisance in force,” and that their “loss about four hundred.” We have reason to believe, from accounts given us by j oflkers who rode over the field after the battle, that their loss was not less than fifteen j hundred the severest loss, as usual, falling upon the negro division. It is possi- ! ble they do not count the loss in the negro regiments; but in saying “about four hun dred,” include only the casualties among the j white troops. This figure may represent the ! loss of whites, as they, of late, always hang back and poke the irrepressible nigger into the thickest of the fight. In this connection, it will be interesting to know our loss upon that day, especially as not even an approximate statement has yet been made of it. We have been at the pains to make inquiries on the subject, and learn offi cially that our entire loss, killed, wounded and missing, in that battle, was but thirty men. We cnll this one of the most complete and_ satisfactory, as it was one of the most impor tant victories of the campaign ; the Yankees may call it. a “reconnoisance,” or what, they please. Whenever they feel in the humor of making anoiher of these reconnoisances, oui troops will afford them the ususal facilities.— They can select their own point on our line, which is now a good one, runnibg from the head of White Oak swamp north of the Charles City road away down —Heaven knows where, into Dinwiddie. If they are sincere in pro fessing to be so greatly pleased with Thurs day’s operations, we aoycely see how they will be able to deny themselves the pleasure and advantage of a repetition. [Richmond Dispatch , 21. From the Northern Papers. The Northern Presidential Canvass—Prominent Democrats Gone Over to the Abolitionists — Letter from Daniel S. Dickinson. The Northern papers chronicle the defection from the McClellan party of many of the great lights of the Democracy. Beast Butler and Dan. Sickles are now loud mouthed support ers ot Lincoln and e \ en that hoary and treach erous demagogue, Dickinson, of New York, comes out in the following letter to a Lincoln mass meeting: Binghampton, N. Y.. (Jet. 10, 1864. Gentlemen : Your kind note, inviting me to address a Union meeting at Seneca Falls at an early day, suited to my convenience, has been received, and I hope you will pardon the liberty I take in returning an answer through the Press, as it enables me to communicate with numerous correspondents at a single writing. My invitations are so numerous, that I could not answer them, even briefly, were I to give my entire time to the subject, nor respond in person, to one in twenty it I could speak daily. My friends, I am sure, under these circum stances, will excuse me from answering them .individually. In speaking within the last few days, in this State and in Pennsyvania, to very large crowds in the open air, during the damp, heavy weather, a cold and hoarseness have fastened upon my throat and lungs which de mand a short indulgence. As soon as consis tent I will enter the lists again, but at present appointments would not be prudent. In the meantime, let me advise every doubt er, if any such there are, to read the Balti more resolutions, which manfully declare for a vigorous prosecution of the war, and the overthrow of the Rebellion by force of arms —more especially to read the famous, if not infamous Chicago Platform, which asserts and proclaims not only to America, but to the malignant and meddling monarchies of Eu rope—not only to the loyal people, bits to peo ple in rebellion—not only to our own brave army, covered over with scars and glory, bat to the starved and ragged wretches who burn and butcher in the name of the “Confederacy,” that the war"is a failure, and, of course, the Rebellion a success ! And then read General McClellan's “conservative war” letter, accept ing the Chicago nomination, upon a distinct and unanimous declaration of. the Convention that the war is a failure, and closing with the assertion he believes the sentiment of his letter to have been the sentiments of the Chi cago Convention ! If all will read carefully these three productions, stump speaking will be in poor request, and public gatherings will only be called to rejoice over the triumphs of truth, and laugh at the impotent and shallow efforts of political gamesters to deceive and betray an intelligent people. Sincerely vours, D. S. DICKINSON. Messrs. H. H. Heath and others, Committee, 4’C., Seneca Falls, N. Y. A Georgian Tunas up at a Re publican Meeting in N. York. It will be recollected that considerable has been said in the Southern papers of oneC. J. Baylor, who was despatched by Gov. Brown, of Georgia, some time ago, on some kind of foreign mission {?) Won derful as it mfiy appear this fellow Baylor has turn ed up in York,cheek and jowl with the Black Republicans, It is so. We find in an account of a “Republican rally at the Cooper Institute,” pub lished in the New York Ilereld, the following, which is copied, word for word; The President then introduced Mr. C. J. Baylor, of Georgia, who, it will be remembered, was appoint ed by the rebels as a commissioner to Europe, but who, on arriving at Bermuda, reflected on the mat ter and abandoned his mission. He stated that his sympathies to a certain extent were with his mis guided brethren of the South; but there was only one side for the patriot to take at the present time. The speaker replied to the accusations made against him in the Richmond papers, He bore the'coniuiis siou of the State of Georgia as the commercial and financial agent of that State in Europe. lie wa3 one of the only four men in Georgia who pronoun ced Jeff Davis's Government a tyranny, and pro ceeded to say that the Unionists were fighting the battle of seven millions of white men at the South. He assured the audience that Jeff. Davis meant dis union and the establishment of a monarchical Gov ernment, and asserted that he Davis) had propo sed to the maratime Powers of Europe an alliance. He was of the opinion, that if the Chicago platform succeeded in the next election and Jeff. Davis was left intact at Richmond, the coun'ry and the liber ties of the people were gone beyond the hope of re demption. In conclusion, the speaker described in vivid language the atrocious conduct of the rebel President, who sent a band of Cherokee Indians to the Southwestern portion of North Carolina to en force the conscription law. lie looked upon him self as the providential means of preventing the United State; Government from tak-ng the fatal step tfajrt the Chicago platform proposed to take; tor when on arriving at Bermuda ho win? - ... the Ame rican Consul and said that lie i- red to return tc the United States and warn the Government against the secret pur pose, of .the Niagara correspondence. He arrived in New York on Saturday, tnd on Sun day afternoon he called upon Mr, Greeley and gave aim the warning. $5.00 Per Month Army Correspondence Savannah Republican. Richmond, Oct. 18th. The prevailing quiet continues unbroken aloug the lines in front of Richmond and Pe tersburg. The enemy is hard at work, and so are we ; but no new move has been made since the date of my last letter. Butler continues “pegging away” at his canal, and iu order to facilitate bis work, and especially to.gratify his Satanic passion, he has placed one hun dred and ten Confederate prisoners “into the canal at Dutch Gap and put them at hard labor,” and be informs Col. Ould that he “shall continue to add to their uuniber until this practice is stopped.” He pretends that he has received information that we have em ployed a like number “of United States col ored soldiers in the trenches near Fort Gil mer:” this is the practice to which he al ludes, and which he says must be “stopped,” or he will place the Confederate prisoners in the canal, where they will be exposed to the fire of our guns. What a “beast” he is ! The town is full of rumors and unofficial accounts of a battle said to have been fought near Strasburg on the 13th or 14th, but up to 12 m. to-day the Government has received no intelligence whatever of any engagement in that quarter. The report is, that Sheridan, having crossed to the east side of the Blue Ridge with two corps of his army, Early fell upon his remaining corps left in the Valley and ppt it to route, capturing many prisoners aud driving it in great confusion towards Winchester. There has probably been some fighting in the Valley, but not of so important a character as it has been represented. On the 14th, the day on which the accounts al lege that Early’s battle occurred, Gen. Lee re ports that “Col. Mosby struck the Baltimore, and Ohio Railroad at Duffield, and dettroyed aU. S. mail train, consisting of a locomotive and ten cars, and securing twenty prisoners and fifteen horses. Among the prisoners are two paymasters, with SIBB,OOO in Government funds.” It is singular, if a victory had been won at Strasburg, that Early should make no report of it, while dispatches from Mosby, op erating fifty miles further north, should have been seent through and published. The last flag of truce brought up over ono hun dred sick and wounded Confederate officers, who were exchanged only because the authorities of the United States believed they would never be able to render further service in the field. Most of them have been confined for several months.— Captain Hatch, of the Exchange Bureau, when ho went down the river to receive them, took with him a band of music. When the prisoners reached the bluff preparatory to embarking for Richmond, the band struck up “Home, sweet Home”; where upon they took off their hats and limped and hob bled on board the steamer with uncovered heads and streaming eye3. They had “faced the can non’s mouth,” and encountered unmoved tho shock of battle; but the sight of the flag under which they had fought, the thought of home, and the outstretched arms that waited to embrace them, were more than these pale and mutilated he roes could bear, and their hearts melted in tears. But their tears were soon succeeded by smiles, as the band commenced to play Dixie and the boat headed up the stream, and at length their joy, growing and swelling, burst forth in chqers that would have done no discredit to a Confederate regiment charging in battle. When they reached the city, they were escorted up Main street, by a large concourse of people, and welcomed by many a waving handkerchief and tearfnl eye. Hard must be the heart that could withhold the tribute of a tear, and a hearty welcome to these lame and bailing veterans, henceforth the pride of a grate ful country. These men come back to us as firm, as brave, and as confident as when they first buckled on the sword. They bring cheering news also from the officers and men who still languish in northern prisons. They say with one voice, “fight on, nev er give up, better all die freemen, than all live as slaves, and never yield a principle for our sakes.” They desire to return to their homes, but rather than the government should sacrifice an import ant principle to procure their release, they are willing to remain and suffer where they are until the end of the war. How noble and self-sacrificing, is their conduct! And how it should shame those people at home, who, because the enemy has gained some advantages and now threatens their homes are ready to give up all as lost. These battle scarred heroes have met our foes on the field and felt their devilish malice and ingenuity in prison—they have drained the ciya of sorrow and suffering to the bottom; and yet their brave spirits do not quail; while others, far removed from danger, cry peace ! peace ! and are ready to bow the neck to the Puritan, the worst tyrant that ever cursed the earth. Gen. Bragg has been ordered to Wilmington, to take charge of the defences of that place. The enemy are bow preparing a formidable expedition at Fortress Monroe, the rendezvous of-the vessels and forces which are to engage in it. Tho recent i visit of Admiral Farrhgut to City Poiqt, and the ; intimations contained in northern papers, are de- I signed, it is believed, to create the impression here ; that the expedition is intended to operate against ; Richmond; but inteiligence from trustworthy | .sources leave hardly any doubt that its real desti -1 nation is Wilmington. It is not supposed hat the enemy will attempt to capture the place, but will rather seek to isolate and possess himself of the forts at the mouth of the river, and thus close the port. It is not understood that Gen.. Bragg leaves Richmond permanently. P. W. A. Akother of the Quartermasters. —We have just had a call from an old friend from Virginia, who, by the way, is a Q. M. And among the many good things he told us is the following hard hit at the Q. M’s, which our friend assures us oc curred on the train between Richmond and this .. city. At a point on tho road, it is not necessary to *ay where, a colportear came aboard with his arms full of religious reading for distribution among the soldiers. Among the passengers on board was a young soldier who had much of the spirit of Momus twinkling in the corners of his eyes. As soon as the colporteur made his appearance at the door of the car, the soldier rushed to him, took his hand and gave him a cordial greeting. “How* are you my friend, how are you ?” said he. lam so glad to see you engaged in this work. It is just what the soldiers need. You, and such as you are, have done an incalculable amount of good by the distribution of religious literature such as you now bear in your arms. lam a member of the 19th Mississippi regiment. They were a good set of fellows when they came out. But alas ! the tempiations of the camp have been too much far them and now they are full of all wiekedaess and immorality, and are sadly-in need of reformation. I would like to have soma of those tracts te dis tribute amongst them. And if you are willing, I will help you now by distributing for you in this car, while you go into the others.” The colporteur, pleased with the manner of the young man. immediately gave him a goodly por tion of his burden, and passed out te his labors ia another ear. The soldier then commenced the work of dii tributing. To the first passenger he caaae to he said, “Here is attract on ‘The Way of Salvation.’ That, my dear friend, I am sure you need, for we all have need of salvation. Take the tract and read it, and I am sure it will and- you .good.” Passing to " the next* one he said., ‘Here is a tract on ‘Repentance.’” You, my iriend. look like a serious than. You look as if you needei the instruction that is contained in these pages. They are written for just such as you. Take the hook and read it carefully, arid mhy you profit by it* instruction. : - Thu? he passed on to several other passengers. At last lie held up one tract and said, “Here i- one entitled ‘The Dying Thief,’ what shall I do with it ?’’ Then looking over the passengers lie <•»: led out, “Is there any Quartermaster aboard V No one answered of course. “Well,” said be, “ I will put it in my pocket and give it to the conductor wliaa he come; through. Perhaps ho needs it. And he then want on - ,berly with his good work, to the intense^ edificati on of tha passenger*. Atre fjiuta BtqUter. «« The I*re#lrientJal IH^rtiors. Address’of the National Union Exicrrrvn Committee. —The “National Union Exe - i*;ve Committee, ’’ from the Astor House a f New York, issued on Friday List, an address con gratulating Hje Liacolnltes on tho results in Ohio. Indium. Rnd Pennsylvania. It was quite cheerful in its tone, but Was issued a little too soon to b_e very reliable, seeing that it set3 out only by claiming fifteen thousand majority ia Pennsylvania. After a half a column of congratulation, it addresses the fol lowing warning to the successful Abolition ists ; Signe are not wanting thitt the ullies of re bellion, represented at Chicago, are prepared, if the contest be close, to resist the verdict of the people now, as it was resisted four years ago, by armed rebellion. Threats of such a purpose have been freely uttered. Secret or ganizations, looking to such a movement, have been perfected. Arms and ammunition have been secretly accumulated in the West ern States. And the Chicago Convention it self refused to adjourn sine die after its legiti mate basiness had-been transacted, but. o:t motion «f Wiekliffe, of Kentucky, an open al ly of the rebellion, and in imitation of the Ja cobin clubs France, resolved itself into a permanent body for the avowed purpose of taking such steps as emergencies might require between now and the 4th of March next. To what do these preparation? look, if not to a repetition on Northern sod of the secession movement in the Southern States? To fresh attempts to arouse rebellion against the will of the people, if that will should be pronounced against them? [From the Charleston Courier.] Efficacy oi' Prayer. “Charleston saved by prayer,’’ was the em phatic and grateful exclamation of many friends of this beleaguered city months ago, on learning the failure and disappointment of one of the attacks which the foe boastful ly and proudly hoped would be the last ani successful. “Charleston saved by prayer’’ is the motto and word of encouragement which supports and strengthens the faith of many in and out of this city—who daily and oftner present it before the Mercy seat. Richmond, Petersburg, Macon and other cities, more or less closply threatened, have also been preserved in answer to prayer, as is devoutly believed by many who do not over look or despise, but gratefully recognize the services and efforts of our incomparable army and their God-fearing chief. In fact, no citi zens or soldiers, we venture to say, have a higher notion of the worth of prayer than our beloved Chief Captain, Lee, and his best lieu tenants or assistants, who believe at all in prayer. Were the choice now offered to Gen. Leo, “take reinforcements, equal to your preseat force, but without prayers continued for you, or go on with the prayers of mothers and wives and sisters and exempted citizens at home”—he would without hesitation say, “give us your prayers without more men, rather than men without prayers.” Richmond, Petersburg and Charleston have severally and repeatedly been exposed ap-i parently to greater danger than Atlanta was —Macon was fearfully exposed, but Macon was, compared with others, a city of prayer, and Macon has been preserved almost won drously and under an apparent disaster in the loss of a bridge. We need not, however, argue the duly or privilege of prayer, for we suppose we write for few readers that do not in some way, in theory at least, if not in practice, recognize prayer. [From the Memphis Argus.] California and the Legal Ten der Question. The validity of tho legal teder clause has been again raised by a recent docision of the Supreme Court of California, affirming the constitutionality of the special contract act of the Legislature of that State. This act provides that, except in tho case of a distinct bargain or understanding to tho contrary, all payments and money obligations shall be discharged in specie. The case has been iorsome time in tho lower court, which decided that the act was contrary to the laws of Congress, and was there fore unconstitutional. The Supreme Court, how ever, has reversed this decision on appeal, and the result is that gold will continue to constitute, in law as in practice, the currency of the State, and proba bly of the entire Pacific slope, until a contrary rul ing shall have been rendered by the United States Supreme Court. That an appeal to the chief tribu nal in Washington will be obtained seems highly probable, and may, indeed, become necessary. Though the question of the unconstitutionality of the legal tender act has not been distinctly raised, yet the ruling of the California judiciary effectual ly throws out the greenback currency. Other States may imitate the action of California, and by the adoption of specific contract bills, compel a return to specie payments. A movement is now on foot in Nevada to constitute that territory into a State, for the purpose, among others, of passing a specific contract law; and there is but little reason to doubt that the Legislature of Oregon will adopt the prin ciples of this act at the next session. It may take a long time for tho legislature of the Atlantic States to imitate this policy,_ and still longer for the sub ject to reach the United States Supreme Court. — But it is highly desirable that the great question of the constitutional authority of Congress to convert paper promises to pay aud evidences of indebted ness into money shall be settled once for all. Addison Brown, of Georgetown has been sen tenced to five years’ imprisonment at Fort Dela ware for giving aid and information to the enemy during the iuvasion of Maryland in July last. * . ■ « HEADERS CONSCRIPT SERVICE, Augusta, Ga., Octobor 20,1864. Circular, No 19‘. It being generally believed that a number o } f Certificates of Exemption and Detail have been fraudulently obtained throughout the State, it is hereby ordered: That all Certificates of Exemption and Detail by whomsoever issued, prior to the 30th of November, 1864, shall be, on and after that date,-revoked, and become null and void. * County Enrolling Officers will immediately pro ceed to collect such Certificates of Exemption and Detail and hold the same until called for by the In spectors of Conscription, whose duty it will be to examine the same closely, and if satisfied of their validity, will issue a receipt for each, which will protect the holder thereof from molestation until the 20th of November, by which time the new Cer tificates of Exemption and Detail will bo forwarde 1 from these Headquarters to all persons entitled thereto. Railroad Companies, Government Officers and Contractors having detailed employees, will collect and forward the Certificates of Exemption and De tail of their employees by Express to tififese Head quarters, where they exchanged for new cer tificates. WM. M. BROWNE, Colonel and Commandant of Conscripts ’ for the State of Georgia. o ;t 24 6t Headquarters, First Division*, G. M.) 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, allMetailed men who were on duty with the Militia of this State are required to report for duty again in this command. All detailed men, therefore, who were in the Militia Service, who fail to report within ten days after the publication of this order, will be published as de serters and treated accordingly. 11. No extensions of furloughs are granted, and all men absent are regarded as being absent with out leave, and will be dealt {with accordingly, unless good and sufficient excuse for is rendered 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. Harlem ax, Jr., A, A, G. oc 19 6t Executor’s Aotice. I'l\ 0 months after date application will be made ’ to the Court of Ordinary of Taylor county, for . leave to sell the -Negroes and perishable property of the Estate of Elizabeth T. Johnson, deceased, late of said county. 1 ISAMUEL K. JQHNSON, JSx’r, | Got. w2m* P#r THOS. D. BRAND.