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DAILY TIMES.
J. W. WAR II EX, - - - Editor.
COLUMBUS:
Wednesday Morning, October 26, 1864.
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Pioneers of Peace.
Before Messrs. Stephens. Brown, Boyce <fc
Cos., laid before the country their plans for a
peaceable solution of our difficulties, the pio
neers had already “blazed the wav.”
Two of these have followed it to its legiti
mate conclusion —Messrs. Baylor and Camp.
The first named of those worthies appeared
in Richmond daring the last printer and in the
columns of nut* of the “dailies - ' of that place
laid down the “Georgia Platform - ’ and claim
ed for himself the honor of being its architect
—an honor which has been stoutly claimed
in this locality.
Deceiving a credulous tew*by the "coiumis
<ion' which he bore from the Executive of this
State, he proceeded in several published ar
ticles to impugn th. patriotism ami loyalty ot
the people of Georgia by declaring himself
the exponent ot their views and sentiments.
Fallowing the “road to Peace,’ he has re
cently arrived in Abolitiondom and rehearsed
his slanders on Georgia at a Black Republi
can meeting.
The last —after laying before an unapprecia
tive public bis views upon the “road to Peac*
through the medium of a Georgia paper, wi;h
which he was connected, took the path be was
persuading others to pursue and has reached
Yankeedom, where, at last accounts, he was
regaling his hearers with “doleful accounts of
Dixie. - ’ f« i‘ strange that honest people hesi
tate to travel a roaa which leads to such a
goal ? Is it uncharitable to express the hope
that Baylor and Camp may soon be followed
by the loved ones left behind?
Onr Hopes.
k is best lor the people of the Confederacy
to understand, once for all, says the Richmond
Dispatch, that their hopes consist in their
arms alone. If victorious, they can command
the issue : if defeated, the issue will very cer- j
tainly command them. I’hey are contendiug
with an enemy who will listen to no terms
short of absolute submission. Let us hear no
more cries for peace, but let every man make
np his mind to war. We have hitherto been
extremely averse to regard the war as any
thing more than a sort of episode in our exis
tence. We must in future look upon it as the
main business of our lives. All our thoughts
must turn in that direction, as they have hith
erto been turned upon the means of procuring
a livelihood and establishing ourselves in life.
Every thing we do must, from this day forth,
have some relation to the conduct of the war.
Our army must be made a regular army;
hitherto it has been nothing more than a body
of volunteers. Our cavalry system must be
reformed. We must give up money'.making
and devote ourselves to the pursuits that will
be-t assist in carrying ou the war. Better to
make a few dollars lees for the time being,
than to make it for the Yankees. We have
become accustomed to hardships and self-de
nial. They will become e*en easier to us than
they are at present. Above all, let not our
people be deluded by the cry of peace. It
has done them an immense deal ot harm al
ready, and it. will do them a great deal more
if they listen to it. There is at present, no
prospect of peace, nor will there be as long as
the Yankees continue to believe themselves
gaining victories every day. There will be
none, until they shall have become convinced
that their efforts to subdue are unavailing.—
This conviction we shall be. compelled te beat
into their heads ; and in order that we may
do so. it is necessary that every man should
be at his post. Rampant as the Yankees now
are for war, their tone would change imme
diately. should one of their armies be de
stroyed : tor they would find it difficult to re
place it. In the meantime, we are convinced
loaf it we can hold our own through this win
ter —most certainly we can —the worst will
have been past. Our enemy can never make
such an effort as he has made and is now ma
king
We trust our citizens will remember to at
tend and hear the address oi Rev. Mr. Holland
at Temperance Ilall to-night, for the benefit
of the Wayside Home. Tickets of admission
can be procured at Spear’s, Acee & Collier s,
Urquhart & Chapman’s and at the Hall door.
Filling ur the Ranks.— -A late order, says
the Richmond Dispatch, of tiie 21st, issued
from the office of the Adjutant and Inspector
General, orders the chiefs of the Bureau of
Ordnance and of the Nitre Bureau to turn
ever, without delay, one-fifth of ail the force
employed in their respective bureaux, includ
ing contractors and other employees.
This oider will put into the field almost as
many men, n not more, than were procured
by the revocation of details of producers—the
whole i umber of men who have been detailed
as farmers on this side of the Mississippi riv
er being, four thousandfour hundred and eighty
five.
The only objection to this order is that por
tion of it which says: Three days are allowed
so: the execution of this order after its recep
tion at any post or station of the different de
partments. This time \yill be too short to
prevent inconvenience to the public service
the sudden cessation of labor and the
inability of contractors to wiud up their af
fairs.
Gen. L>iek Taylor, the great hero of the Trans-
Mississippi, says the Savannah Republican, has
arrived at the Army of Tennessee, and taken com
ntitnd of Gen. Lee’s corps. Gen. Lee. it is said,
goes west to command the Department of Missis
sippi. Thus is the President pulling his strong
est horses in the Georgia team, and if ibey should
fail to draw the wßeel out of the mire, we. had
might as well conclude to let it stay there for a
season at least. Thus far the changes hare worked
admirably, and silenced all caril,
mm • mm —
Mont ABOUT THE CAPTURE OF THE TRAINS AT
Miller’s Landing.— We mentioned in yesterday
morning's paper that tbe rebels on Monday, cap
tured a freight train and three locomotires at Mil
ter’s Landing, and took them west. M r o now hear
that one of the locomotives, being disabled, was
left at the Landing, while the others were run
through Hermann, arid probably to Gasconade
bridge. Railroad men apprehend that the bridge
was burned aud the train run into the river.
We learn, also, that one ot the cars of the train
contained SOO .Vnurpe's rides, and that the rebels,
when the capture was made, went directly to this
mr, showing that they had previous knowledge
es its contents, communicated, no doubt, by some
ofyheir sympathizers it. our midst.— S>. Loui*
J&NWAt \th.
S.hlv’h! from Uic T nited States.
From the New York Herald and Times of
Tuesday', the 18th instant, we take the foliow
ing :
THE SITUATION IN OUOKGIA —TANK Kb VIEW OF
noon’s MOVEMENTS — SHERMAN STARTS IN
PURSUIT OK HIM.
The Yankees claim to have again opened
j communication with Sherman, and are putting
, out rose-colored reports about bis pursuing
Hood, the good condition of his supplies, Ac.,
to calm the people. Stanton’s official, dis
patch, sent off - from Washington on Monday
night, says :
Advices froqj General Sherman to the even
ing of October 16th indicates that Hood, after
having struck the railroad in the neighbor
hood of Dalton and Resaca, has fallen back
before Sherman without fighting, abandoning
his great movement upon our line of corntmi
cations. He has torn up some fifteen miles of
the road from Resaca north, but the injury
will be rep died without difficulty. .The in
terruption will cause no inconvenience to
Sherman’s army, us his stores of supplies
south of the break, as well as north of it. are
ample. Hood has retreated towards the south
west. His rear left Dalton in hast" at six
o’clock on Sunday morning.
A telegram from Louisville, dated the 19th,
announces the capture of nine Confederates
near Lafayette, Ga., and adds:
Some of the prisoners say Wheeler’s whole
command, comprising Martin’s, Roddy’s, i
Jones’s and Patterson's cavalry, aggregating
from eightr to ten thousand, are ail in the j
country towards Chattanooga and Dalton.
The rebels entered Resaca on Wednesday
me ruing, and took prisoners the only troops
there—a colored regiment—by surprise Tire j
rebels immediately thereafter moved upon j
Dalton. On Friday, there was considerable
alarm at Chattanooga, and every able-bodied j
man was put to work on the fortifications. At \
last advices. General Kilpatrick, with his '
cavalry, was at Dalton. No apprehensions j
are now felt for Chattanooga or Knoxville. j
General Sherman has over one hundred
days’ rations at Atlanta. Knoxville has an j
abundance of provisions >.« stand a six months’
siege. At Chattanooga, the Government store
houses are fall of provisions, and large sup
plies besides are on the grounc, covered with
tarpaulins.
Gen. Milroy was at Tullahoma, and General
Schofield at Chattanooga.
A private, trustworthy source says that, on j
Saturday evening. Hood’s army was between j
Dalton and Lafayette, making for the latter i
place, with Sherman pressing him closely.
Prominent military men say Hood’s last move
places him exactly in the position desired by
Sherman.
There was considerable excitement at
Clarksville, Tennessee, in consequence of re
ports brought in by scouts that the rebel
Gen. Lyon intended to attack the place. Gov
ernment employees are all armed fcfr addition
al defence of Clarksville.
Thu Cincinnati Commercial has a special
dispatch from Nashville, which says:
Communication is again open with Sher
man. He was at Tilton, nine miles from Dal
ton, on Saturday at noon.
Ilood left Duilou ou Saturday afternoon,
moving in the direction of Bridgeport.
Sherman has commenced moving in the
same direction, and is close on Hood's rear.
No battle bad been fought at last advices.
Hood had nearly his whole army with him.
The following telegram, signed by “William
Warner, of Gen. Sherman’s staff'. - ’ is dated at
Chattanooga on the 17th :
Gen. Sherman and the army are all right,
| and masters of the situation. Every point
ever held by us is still in our possession. At
lanta is all right, with plenty to eat; and the
short railroad will be repaired in ten days, and
; the telegraph in three days. Hood, thus far,
; has no more tnen than we have, and his raid
has produced no military result.
ADDITIONAL FROM MISSOURI—CAPTURE OF AN
OTHER TOWN —LEXINGTON OCCUPIED.
A dispatch from St. Louis, dated the 16th;
says the Pacific Railroad has been repaired,
and troops are rapidly being sent to Lamiae.
General Pleasanton had gone from the city to
fake command of the cavalry and attempt the
j capture of General Price s trains. Price’s
forces were reported to be divided. General
Sanborn was in pursuit of Jeff Thompson.—
j A later dispatch, dated the 17th, says :
Bill Anderson and forty of his murderous
i crew entered Danville, Montgomery county,
on Friday, murdered five citizens, mortally
I wounded another, and burned eighteen build
i iugs.
A few citizens occupied the block house in
the centre of the town, and undertook to de
fend it, but the rebeb burned the house, with
all the county records, and the law offices and
papers of three prominent lawyers. The reb-
I els then went to High Hill and burned the
railroad property and plundered all the stores.
Ou Saturday afternoon the militia force over
took the miscreants near High Hill, and killed
j 19 and wounded 17 of them.
Lexington was occupied by the rebels on
: Saturday, the Unionists having evacuated it
| the day before. Warrensburg was also occu
pied by the rebels.
The Repulse Before Richmond on Thurs
day.—The truth is gradually leaking out
about the repulse below Richmond on Thurs
day. A correspondent of the New York
Times, writing about the “'reeounoissance,”
says:
At one time it was believed that we had
found the point of the earthworks where the
enemy’s left flank rested. This was over to- :
ward the Charles City road, where Ivautz’s
cavalry were feelingandhad developed a force
of both infantry and cavalry in their front.—
Having made a very perilous personal recon
noissance at this precise spot, General Ames
returned under the impression that here the
rebel woncs stopped. Reporting his belief to
General Terry, an advance of Col. Pond’s brig
ade, of Ames’ division, consisting of the
Eighty-fifth Pennsylvania, Sixty-second and
Sixty-seventh Ohio, and Thirty-ninth Illinois 1
regiments, were ordered, and they charged
gallantly forward. Unfortunately they fell
into a trap, ana were repulsed with a loss of
between one and two hundred men. Instead
of ending here, the rebel line simply deflected
to the rear, presenting a “refused’’ front, and
the works were screened by a growth of scrub
pines. The right of the brigade, in the impe-,
tuosity of their onset, passed beyond the point i
of deflection, and the men were badly cut up
by an enfilading fire. Colonel Pond, finding
himself in this unpleasant position, gave the
order tb fall back, which was executed with
remarkable steadiness and without leaving
many of the killed and wounded on the field.
Arrest ®f Blockade Running Merchants.—
Great consternation was caused in Washington
and Baltimore on Monday by the closing up of
several steres and the arrest of the proprietors
upon the charge of being engaged in running
goods into the Confederacy. The ©peratien was
performed by a guard of soldiers. A telegram
| from Baltimore says :
The seizures are understood to be pursuant to
orders emanating from the War Department.—
Nothing definite is known as to the charges
which iuduced these seizures, but they are
said to be contraband trade, and rebel mail car
rying.
The houses thus far seized are as follows : Messrs.
I Hamilton, Easter A Cos., dry goods, on Baltimore
street; Charles F. Waters A Cos., hardware, 13
Charles street; Jordan A Chase, clothiers, oa
Hauorcr and Baltimore streets; the two ware
i houses of Messrs. Weisenfeldt A Cos., clothiers, on
Baltimore street; Isaac Cole, Jr., A Brothers,
' cats ar.d caps, on Baltimore street: Simon
' Franck A Cos., clothiers; and A. A L. Frederick,
clothiers.
All the proprietors, clerks, and other employ
ees found on tue premises seized, have been
j arrested, and sent to Washington in a special
I train.
It is understood that the War Department has
! ordered other arrests to be matte.
TELEGRAPHIC.
RKPOBT3 OF THE PRESS ASSOCIATION.
Entered according to act of Congress in the yea:
18&!. by J. S Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office of
'he District Court of the Confederate States to
the Northern District es Georiria.
Richmond, Oct. 25th.—The Sentinel this
morning coutains a circular from Secretary
Benjamin, giving an exposition of the fnnd
of the United State*, based upon official data.
He estimate# the debt of the United States up
to the firgt of May next at 240,000,000, in.
volving annual charge upon the treasury,
nearly equal to that accumulated in Great
Britian two centuries ago.
The circular is addreesed to Hon. A. Dudley
Mann, Brussels.
The quietude below Richmond remains im
brekon.
No further demons' ration by the enemy, is
expected until aft er the Presidential election.
Brig. Gen. Archer of Marylard. died in this
city lust night.
Mobile, Oc;. 3.-).—Ou Saturday night the
steamer Senator. Number 2, exploded her star
board boiler near Park’s Landing, and, was
burned up and sunk. Twenty-five killed,
wounded and missing.
A special so she Register dated Seaatobia,
24th, says the St. Louis Republican of the
20th. and Memphis Bulletin of the 22d, say
Price was in possession of the country from
Marshall to Lexington. Federal combinations
say they will compel him to cut his way out
ol the State. He left Booueville on the 16th.
Four thousand of his troops (Missourians) are
at Glasgow. Large accessions made to his
force. Quantrell aud Jackum are reported to
have joined him.
Anderson and Jackman have recruited five
thousand men in five counties north of the
Missouri river. The army is in fine spirits
aud speak of wintering in the State.
The St. Louts Democrat says it cannot con
ceal the fact that the rebel army is assuming
alarmiug proportions—and is constantly gath
ering arms from unsupported garrisons. At
Glasgow, the garrison of 600 was captured,
and 200 citizens surrendered.
Great excitement prevails in Western Kj. t
in consequence of an anticipated raid from
Forrest. A party of raiders attempted to
capture S. P. Chase while speaking at Cov
ington.
Later from Europb. — European dates es the
6th have been received.
We are assured from Lohodu that the EBglish
financial crisis was culminating to a heavy
“crash,” rapidly and with certainty. The only
additional failure reported in Liverpool, is that
of A. Salomons, a Manchester warehouse man.
lli3 cashior has disappeared, with defalcations
and forgeries to the amount of £40,000.*
Miss Slidell was married in Paris to M. Er
langer, the banker and agent of the Confederate
cotton loah, on the 4th of October. The objections
es the Catholic church to the union having been
removed, there was a brilliant assemblage, made
up of Southern, French, English and Jewish
sympathizers, present at the ceremony. The ap
pearance of M. Moquard, private secretary to the
Emperor, was a semi-imperial compliment to the
happy pair.
Henry Dollgghton, Bart., has, it seems, been
interesting himself in circulating a memorial from
the people of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland to the United States of
America, in favor of peace. It is stated that the
signatures to this address were obtained within
three iveeks from the day upon which the first
was appended, and they embrace every class in
the community. The clergy of all denominations
have supported it, especially the Catholic priest
hood of Ireland, from which country we obtained
more than one hundred and thirty thousand sig
natures. This total comprises about three hun
dred and fifty thousand names, extending over
some seven hundred yards of canvass, in four par
allel columns, which, if taken consecutively,
would stretch considerably beyond a mile and a
half in length,
The Confederate cotton loan had declined te
57 @ SS.
“Bill Anderson.” —“An eye witness,’-fur
nishes the St. Louis (Mo.) Journal with some
items in reference to Capt. Bill Anderson and
the affair at Centralia with a description of
the man :
He appears lo be a man about five feet, ten
inches high, rather slim, black beard, long
black hair, inclined to curl, and altogether a
promising looking man of thirty-two years of
age-
He told the Yankees captured that they had
just killed six of his soldiers, scalped them,
and left them on the prairies. He was too
honorable to permit any man to be scalped
but he would show them that he could kill
them with as much rapidity and skill as any
body. Should he fall info Federal hands he
should expect no quarter and ask none—and
all Federal soldiers falling into his hands
would be put to death. It is only due him to
say that his whole family has been murdered
ruthlessly—by men in Federal uniform—even
his mother and sisters. He i3 only retalia
ting.
Yankee Views of Vice-President Stephen's
Letter. —The letter of Vice-President Steph
ens is published in the Northern papers in full
and commented upon at great length. The
New York Times says of it:
When Mr. Stephens sees the election re
turns of Ohio and Indiana, he will appreheud
his mistake in counting on the' 4 Northwest as
an ally in this re-organizing scheme. The
Northwest is as firm a« New England itself for
the old Union, and will tight the South to ex
termination sooner than barter away its birth
right for chimeras of new confederacies which
are floating in the brains of peace men like
him and Vallandigham. The whole North
means to redeem and hold fast to the old her
itage. Neither Southern rebellion nor North
ern conspiracy can shake that determination.
The Herald has a long editorial on it, in
which it says :
It will not need a second perusal, we think,
to satisfy any politician of ordinary intelli
gence that this silly pronunciamento of South
ern secession abstractions is intended for the
encouragement and guidance of the Northern
Copperhead peace faction in this Presidential
canvass. That it will be accepted by this rev
olutionary faction as a model of conciliation
and wisdom we cannot doubt, for it has the
true ring of the peace speeches of Mr: George
H. Pendleton and of the moral philosophy, as
a peace-maker, of the Hon. Ben. Wood.
Partisans on the River.— The Memphis
Argus of the 12th. has paragraphs announc
ing two attacks upon boats on the Mississip
pi. It says :
We learn from reliable sources that the
steamer Eclipse, which arrived here at an
early hour yesterday morning, on her way
down was fired into when opposite Cotton
wood point, from the Arkansas side of the
river, by about 200 guerrillas, who seemed to
be well armed and equipped Tbe boat sus
tained no damage, and. save that a ne
gro had a leg broken by a stray shot, and
that two horses were killed, no injury was
done to any person on board.
The steamer White Cloud No 2, while on
her way up from New Orleans, was fired into,
we learn, by a number of guerrillas when
nearly opposite Greenville. Ark., without,
however, eustaining any damage. This was
by way of finishing the 111-luck that attended
this well-known craft during -the trip, she
having “picked up’’ a snag a few miles this
side of Vicksburg, which entering the hull,
carried away part of the guard and staterooms,
aad completely wrecking he? texas.
"xtiocihj oan?^.
T. J. JACKSON * LOCAL EDITOF
At auction sales yesterday by Ellis k Cos., white
flax thread sold for $32 : drab, $35; black, $54.
j .'hoe thread, S4O ; large foolscap paper, $135 per
| reals: envelopes, $lO5 per thousand; spool
| thread, assorted, $25 per dozen : Augusta eheet
j ing, $3 te $3,50 ; striped osnaburgs, $5,50 per
yard : hickory shirting, $5,50; nails, $2,25 to
! $2,87 ; tobacco, $3,75 to $4 per lb.: sugar, $5,50
; to $5,75 ; one negro woman named Mary, 22 years
old, $4,900 : Francis, 24 years old, $5,550: ene
man, wife, and child, $6,025 ; Zach, 23 years old,
i $3,600 ; ene negro woman, 24 years old, $2,000:
one set harness, $510; ene piano, $3,100; one
barrel machine oil, S2O per gallon ; one barrel
brandy, $62,50 per gallon ; furniture and other
articles in proportion.
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The Wayside Jlome. —Remember the lecture of
Mr. Holland, to-night, at Temperance Hall, for
the benefit of the Soldier’s Home. By attending
you will be delighted, and, at the same time, in
strumental in contributing to a cause which ap
peals te the patronage and liberality of all friends
of their suffering country, and its beroie defend
ers.
Our Citt —The Weather, Ac.— Columbus is
unusually dull at this time, with little transpiring
to mar the placidity es matters and things in
general. About the only source of excitement is
the frequent orders of Col. Browne. Gen. Howell
Cobb, and Commandant Von Ziuken, who seem
to have eeneeived the idea that all men in the
State, are not yet in the service, and that the times
and condition of our armies demand recruifing.—
In this way the equanimity of a portion of our
people is disturbed, and we occasionally hear of
a man that is restless iu his boots at the thought
of sleeping out cold nights and luxuriating on
“hardtack.” Verily, the prospect ahead for this
kind of fun is most promising to us all! Why
don’t they quit this foolishness and let a fellow
draw one or two more easy breaths before going
to that distant bourne from whence there is no
one returns.
The weather continues most charming, with the
exception of being rather dry and dusty. We don’t
recollect to have seen a mere pleasant month fer
years than the present.
m •
Something Good.—Reader, are you partial to
good things? Are you an admirer of the beauti
ful ; a stickler for old land marks, and agt'/t the
infringement of human rights ? If so, call in at
the old Post Office corner and see old daddy
Douthit k Cos., who have some of the “whappin
ist” and best flavored gingercakes in the Confed
eracy. They are as big around as a dinner plate,
and contain all the original ingredients of good
time3. Besides, the best of all is, they only cast a
dollar. Do go and see ’em, and buy one, won’t
j y° u ■
Impressment Prices.
The following, list of leading articles, with
their prices, have been agreed upon by the
Commissioners of Impressments for the States
of Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi and Tennessee. It will be ob
served that they have greatly reduced the
prices of everything from the forme'- sched
ule :
Bacon, sides, per ib $ 1 37
“ hams, 1 31
“ shoulders 1 25
Beef cattle, gross, per lb 26
Brandy, per gal 3 50
Corn, shelled, per bushel 2 25
“ unshelled 2 13
Corn meal per bushel 2 25
Coffee, Rio, per lb G 00
Candles, tallow, per lb 1 40
Flour, superfine, per bbl 30 00
“ fine > 26 50
Fodder, baled, per owl 2 25
“ unbaled .1 205
Hogs, at net, corn fed, per cwt 75 00
“ “ gross “ 60 00
“ unfatted, gross 52 50
Hides, good drv, per lb 1 88
“ green 94
Horses, first class 750 00
“ second class 600 00
“ third class 450 00
Iron, pig, No. 1,2, 3, per gross t0n.... 110 0q
Lard, per lb 1 31
Leather, harness, per lb 3 75
“ sole 3 75
“ upper 4 50
Molasses, Cuba cane per gal 6 00
“ Chinese 3 00
Mules, Ist class GOO 00
“ 2d “ 525 00
“ 3d “ 375 00
Oats, sheaf, baled per cwt 1 88
“ unbaled 1 69
“ shelled, per bush 1 88
Pasturage, per head per month.... 150
Potatoes, Irish, per bush 4 00
“ sweet 1 75
Peas, per bush of 60 lbs 3 00
Salt, per bush of 50 lbs 7 50
Soap, hard per lb 75
“ soft 37
Socks, wool, per pair 2 00
“ cotton 140
Shoes, army, per pair 15 00
Sheep,sheared, each 15 00
“ unsheared 20 00
Tallow, per lb 1 31
Wheat, clean, per bush of 60 lbs 5 63
Whiskey, per gal 3 50
Wool, washed, per lb 4 00
“ unwashed 3 00
Celebrations over the Pennsyl
vania Election.
The Republican papers still continue to
figure out a victory in Pennsylvania by the
aid of the soldiers’ vote. A'telegram from
Harrisburg says :
The commissioners, with a few exceptions,
have returned from the army, bringing with
them returns which show an overwhelming
Union preponderance.
The New York Herald has an account of
two celebrations held there on Monday night
by the Democrats and Republicans, and both
in honor of the 'result in Pennsylvania, It
says :
Last night, in accordance with the procla
mation of Mr. August Belmont, the Democracy
had an illumination in honor of Pennsylva
nia’s redemption. The windows of Old Tam
many were ornamented with sperm candles,
and the immense canvass banners that cover
her front were dotted with brilliant stars,
caused by a liberal expenditure of gas and
tallow in the background. A rakish-looking
little piece, planted in the Park, in front of
the City Hill, let out a hundred roars from its
iron mouth, and gathered together a crowd of
the old-style Democratic sovereigns, who
formed a’ strong chorus to the gunpowder ex
plosions. This was in honor of the Demo
cratic triumph in Pennsylvania.
At the corner ofTbirteenth street and Broad
way, the Republicans held a jubilee at the
same time that their Democratic brethren were
celebrating a victory for their side. At this
place, which was crowded to excess, our re
porter found a Brooklyn minister of the gos
pel haranguing an attentive assembly of Lin
colnites, and glorifying the Lord that Penn
sylvania was true to the Union. He felt sure
that it would be carried on the Bth ot next
month : but if the Democrats attempted vio
lence at the polls, he was in favor of letting
loose a portion of the Union army upon the
Copperheads of the North ; and “then God
help them, was all he had to say. He prayed
God JeS Davis might yet be hanged and had
no doubt that Old Abe would be elected, and
“Small George,’ as he termed Geaeral Mc-
Clellan, be driven into tbe obscurity whence,
in an evil hoar, he emerged. His address
was warmly applauded, especially the peaceful
allusions to Jeff Davis and the Copperheads.
KARaien.
In Tr up county, Ga.. October 4lh, by Rev. .J. B.
McGebee, Rev. JOHJfR. DEARLNG, ot the Geo
; gia Conference to Miss FANNIE ft. COS IX.
In Cttlo Qui<?>.
“Calm on the bosotn of thy God,
f air spirit rest thee now!
E’en while with us :hy footsteps trod.
His seal was on thy brow.”
Died of typhoid fever at Columbus, Geo,, Auerust
13th. 1364, Mrs. MARY OLMSTED MURRELL,
aged 28 years, wife of Dr. William Murrell,
Shorn of her loveliest aud best, our beloved land
has become a wailing Rama, while destruction more
terrible than the Mask of the Red Death stalks,
sickle in hand, through every nook and valley, held-,
ing hideous carnival throughout the country. We
are a stricken people; sights and sounds of woe
have grown habitual as household words, every
breeze chants a requiem for some early dead; chill
shadows crouch at every threshold, and we have be
come sadly familiar with all the sable livery and
touching paraphernalia of gnef; but in the midst
of this vast harvest of death, a shudder crept over
the hearts of many friends and relatives when the
melancholy tidings reached our city that Mrs. Mur
rell had passed away to her eternal rest. Ripe ranks
of stalwart men are ruthlessly mown down on reek
ing bat'lefields—and before the poisonous breath
of disease fair baby fingers stiffen inton marble, and
shining golden heads nestle in violet-crowned tiny
graves; and yet, oh Death ! thy all grasping appe
tite refused to snare that noble young wife and
mother, whose untimely (ate hasentailed such irre
mediable, loss upon friends and family.
A native of Natchez, Miss., Mrs. Murrell’s early
life was spent in Princeton, New Jersey, whither
her father, Mr. George Tyler Olmsted, returned dur
ing her childhood; and there, whiloyeta mere girl,
she manifested that' earnest religious devotion
which subsequently developed into a beautiful yet
singularly unostentatious Christian life. Immedi
ately after her marriage she removed to Mobile, and
soon became' the centre of a circle of ardently at
tached friends, whose hitter grief for her irrepara
ble loss, sufficiently attests her rate excellence, and
remarkable power of fascination. Gifted with ex
traordinary beauty and grace, the winning sweet
ness of her manners disarmed envy and detraction,
and all who entered the circle of her influence ac
knowledged the charm of her society; while to
those who knew her intimately, tfie habitual seren
ity and unselfishness, the concistcncy and loveli
ness of her Christian character rendered her an
object of reverence, as well as deathless affection.
“A being breathing thoughtful breath,
A trevelcr between life and death :
The reason finn, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength and skill;
A perfect woman nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort and command!
And yet, a spirit still, and bright
With something of an angel light.”
Endowed with a heart peculiarly tender avd lov
ing, her friendships were warm and earnest, while
as a wife and mother no woman was ever more de
voted and exemplary in the discharge of those sa
cred duties which make home an oratory of prayer
and praise,—a temple of peace and joy.
“The blessings of her quiet life
Fell on us like the dew,
And good thoughts where her footsteps pressed,
Like fairy blossoms grew.”
Stricken by the numbing hand of disease, in the
midst of a noble and useful career, the idolized
wife and mother was cousigned to that bed of suffer
ing whence, in the inscrutable providence of God,
she was destined never to rise; and during her last
illness evinced the unselfish devotion to her family,
and the holy resignation which had characterized
her life. Surrounded by those she loved, and sooth
ed and cheered by a sublime faith in Jesus our
Saviour, her pure spirit passed serenely from the
stormy chequered shores of Time, to the calm fair
fields of Eternity,— to the pearly gates of the Ever
lasting City of God.
“Alone unto our Father’s will,
One thought hath reconciled,
That He whose love exceedeth ours
Hath taken home His child.
Fold her, oh Father! in thine arms.
And let her henceforth be
A messenger of love between
Our human hearts and Thee!”
Snatched away in the prime of her beautiful wo
manhood, her dealt has fallen stunningly on a large
circle of admiring friends, aud upon the fond hus
band and wailing children who mourn over tho ach
ing void in a once happy home, from which the
crown of joy has been borne. Dssolation grim and
gaunt broods now over the whilom cheerful hearth
stone. and as the bleeding tendrils of affection are
torn rudely from their idol, the bereaved husband
moans:
“Oh death in life! the days that are no more!”
For anguish such as his, human sympathy is utterly
inadequate, and in his terrible affliction the world
grows dark and dreary, while In Memoriam creeps
in sombre ciphers over all he looks upon. Oh,
lonely widowed heart! and prattling sobbing
mourners of the broken home group! would you
snatch your darling dead from the cradling arms of
God! or recall a. star-crowned seraph to the griefs
and trials of this sin and care cursed world ?
“Thine is a grief the depth of which another
May never know,
And <>n thine cars my words of weak condoling
Mlist vainly fall.
The funeral bell which in thy heart is tolling
Sounds over all.
I will not mock iliee with the poor world’s common
And heartless phrase:
Nor wrong the memory of a sainted woman
With idle pra*se.
\ct would I say, what thine own Heart approveth,
Our Father’s will
Calling to Him the dear one whom lie loveth,
Is mercy still.”
The setting of human hopes is like that ofthe sun,
leaving coldness and night behind, and our deso
late, crushed spirits cry piteously :
“Oh fcr the touch of a vanished hand.
And the sound of a voice that is still !”
But in the infinite mercy of God, time has pre
cious healing for stricken souls, and after a season
the star of memory rises from the mists and gloom !
of death, and burns undimmed through all the
clouds and tears of vexed and sorrow laden Earth,
all swallowed up in the golden dawn of the Apoca- .
lyptic Day.
.‘God keeps a niche
In Heaven, to hold our idols : and albeit
He brake them to our faces, and denied
That our close kisses should impain their white—
I know we shall behold them raised, complete,
The dust swept from their beauty—glorified
New Memnons singing in the great God light,”
A FRIEND.
Ink! Ink ! Ink !
\\, E are now manufacturing a splendid article of
■J COPYING and WRITING INK, which we
offer for sale by the Barrel, Gallon, or in Bottles.
Address STANFORD A CO.,
oc 26 6t Agents.
S3OO Reward.
\V ILL be paid for the recovery of a sma 1 white
V> MARE PACING 5 PONY, which was-stolen
from in front of tha Express office in this City, on
Sunday morning last. Should this meet the eye of
any one knowing of her whereabouts they can tele
graph me at this point at mj expense.
•J. J. MEYER.
( olumbus, Ga., Oct. 20—ts
SplcTajl NOTICES
HEADQ’RS CONSCRIPT SERVICE FOR
Georgia, Augusta, Oct. 17th, ISOI.
Circular No. 18.
To County Enrollin'.) Officers:
Pursuant to orders from the Majer General Com
manding the Reserves and District of Georgia, you
and all others engaged in the conscript, service are
commanded to apply yourselves with renewed en
ergy and diligence to the important duties with
which you are charged. The fact is established that
in every county of the State there are numbers of
men between the ages of 17 and 50 who have never
been enrolled and hitherto evaded the service which
they owe their country, which the law obliges them
to render, and which the voice of patriotism, the
importance of the crisis, and the caU of their gal
lant brethren in arms have failed to induce them to
perform. It is your duty to see that these men be
no longer allowed to enjoy this inglorious ease, and
to save them from the shame and degradation
which await them when our independence is won,
in the esteem of those bravemen.and noble women
to whose valor and devotion, under Providence,
these priceless boons will be due.
The ranks of our armies must be filled. The bat
tle scarred veterans, who, for four years have stem*
med the tide of invasion and held at bay the savage
and powerful foe which still pollutes our soil, must
be strengthened and animated by the presence of
fresh men by their side. The glorious battle flags
•which bear upon their tattered folds the names of so
many victories which have rendered our country
famous throughout the world, must be upheld and
supported by the many stout arms whose strength
ha3 not yet been put forth in the defence of their
homes, their fortune and their honur.
Itis also a fact known to all that there are thous
ands of deserters and absentees from the army - -al
tered throughout the State, who, were they now
present beside their faithful comrades, could drive
the enemy beyond our borders, and before the win
ter frests set in, conquer our independence and a
cessation of war.
Itis your duty to have these misguided men ar
rested and returned to their commands. They have
committed the most infamous crime of which a sol
dier can be guilty, and deserve the terrible punish
ment which the laws of their country and the usa
ges of war have awarded to their offences. Their
only hope of clemency at the hands of the Execu
tive depends on their prompt abandonment f their j
present life of lawlessness and peril ar.d their return
to the ranks iu which they swore to serve during
the war. Let constant efforts be directed to the ar- 1
rest of these men. Lst every hole and corner; let ;
ever: and forest in your respective counties 1
U whi m th, j w ; ...
rious shelter, bo searched and perv irated -
selves and your.assietan;?, until every dc-er C' .
been arrested, and your vigilance and energ> r . ’
proved that escape from capture is no longer >o.-
ble. If you need aid in the performance ■ f th„
duty, ceil upon tno sheriff and other civil officer
ot the county, and, under t lie repeated orders of tha
Governor of the Suite, they are obliged to assU>
you. The officers commanding local companies ra
cently organW lin the different counties by orde
of the Major General Commanding the Reserves
are also bound to aid yon. and the great body of the
inhabitants, aware that the safety of their relative
and friends now in the field and of their families a .‘
heme; the possession of their property, their lives
their liberty, depend on the success of our arm* and
eur ability to hold our ground against the vandV
hosts by which we are beset, will assuredly not uq
to second your efforts to send into the ranks ere 7
man who properly belongs to them, whether he bo
one who owes military service and has failed to dis
charge his debt, or ho be one who has Wisely desert -
ed the flag of his country in the face of the enemy
when shemostneeds thebest services of all her sons
The duties entrusted to you are onerous, but they
are eminently honorable when faithfully perform,
ed. Most of you have served with honor and fideli
ty in our army, and the wounds of many atte--
their valor on the field. Let the same spirit tha
animated you in confronting the foe, inspire you
now in tho performance of your present duty, ;in J
let the consciousness that upon you, to a large e:c
tent, depends the speedy and successful tertuina- , 1
of the war, impel you to put forth all your or,
and thus earn the highest reward a soldier can
tain—fhe gratitude of his country.
Hereafter County Enrolling Officer? will rep ,:t
directly to these Headquarters, aud not asheret)-
fore to the District Enrolling Officers, whose offices
have been abolished by ordor of the War Dep t -
ment.
WILLIAM M. BROWNE,
Colonel and Commandant of Conscripts
for the State of Georg. 1.
oc 24 6t
HEADQ’RS CONSCRIPT SERVICE
Augusta, Ga., October 20, 186 i.
I Circular, No 19.
It being generally believed that a number es
I Certificates of Exemption and Detail hav 1. cu
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, an 1
become null and void.
County Enrolling Officers will immediately pro
ceed to collect such Certificates of Exemption ant
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 be forwarded
these Headquarters to all persons entitled
thereto.
Railroad Companies, Government Officers aal
Contractors having detailed employees, will collect
and forward the Certificates of Exemption and Da
tail of their employees by Express to these Head
quarters, where they will be exchanged for new c-j;
tifieates,
WM. M. BROWNE.
Colonel and Commandant of Conscripts
for the State of Georgia.
o ' t 24 Gt
HEADQ’RS CONSCRIPT SERVICE,
Augusta, Ga., October 21, 1364.
Circular, No. 20.
I. The Enrolling Officers of Georgia will ,‘pr ■ reed
vigorously in tho execution of the following Circu
lar, from the Bureau of Conscription :
C. S. OF AMERICA, )
W ak Department, Bureau ou Conscription, >
Richmond. Va., Oct., 7,1861. I
Circular, No. 33,
By. General Orders, No 76, current series, all de
tails heretofore granted under authority of the War
Department, through this Bureau, to persons be
tween the ages of 18 and 45 arc unconditionally re
voked, and by said General Order all such persons
now under such details, are required to report in
person forthwith to such Camps of Instruction of
tho respective States a:s may be designated for as
signment by the General commanding the Reserve
Forces to military service. From this requirement
are excepted rcen detailed and now actually employ
ed in manufacturing, providing, collecting and for
warding munitions and other indispensable supplies
for the army and navy, or in work indispensable to
military operations. Such persons will be allowed
to remain in their employments until their details
are revised. Under this Order, all Farmers, Plan
ters, Mechanics, and others*holding details by au
thority of the War Department, or of local Con
scription Officers, are required forthwith to repair,
to the Camp3of Instruction,
■ Officers engaged in the Conscript service are re
quired promptly and with inexorable rigor to with
draw all such details as are herein indicated, and
move the persons to the Camps of Instruction for
assignment to service. No appeals from this Order
will be entertained by the Secretary of War, unless
approved and forwarded through this Bureau by
the Generals commanding the Reserve Forces.
Applicants for detail will not be furloughed dur
ing the pendency of their applications, but will be
assigned to the army.
- Circular No. 8, Bureau of Conscription, March
18,1864, having been rendered nugatory by subse
quent General Orders from the A. A I. General’s
Office, is hereby revoked.
By command of the Secretary of War,
(Signed l ’ JOHN S. PRESTON,
Brig. Gen. and Supt.
11. In obedence to Orders from the Major Gea
eral commanding the Reserves, Enrolling Officert
will respect, until further orders, all details held by
employees of Government Officers and Contractors.
111. The Secretary of War having directed that
all men detailed from the army, now serving in
Virginia—except those employed ia the Tax in
Kind serviee—who are not pronounced unfit for
field service by a Medical Examining Board, and
who are not certified by various Heads of Depart
ments and Chiefs of Bureaux as absolutely necessa
ry for the continuance of the manufacture of muni
tions and other indispensable supplies for the army,
be immediately returned to the duty with their
commands. Enrolling officers will see that
persons are promptly forwarded.
IV. When a soldier is unable to appear below a
Medical Examining Board, by reason of physiekl
disability, he will forward to the Enrolling offiser a
certificate to this effect, which certificate must alv>
embrace a full and accurate statement of the muh.
The Enrolling Officer xeill, in all caeei, submit the
certificate to a Hospital Examining Board, *r a
Board of Examiners for Conscripts, who, in confer
ence with him, will make upon it such recommen
dations as may be warranted by the facts a-aer -
tained.
WM. M BROWNE,
Colonel and commandant of Conscripts,
oc 24 6t for the State of Georgia.
AUCTION SALES.
By Ellis, Livingston Sc Cos
A PRIVATE SALE.
1,500 Acres unimproved Land on
Spring Creek, Miller county, formerly
Early, will be sold at a bargain
oc 2117 t SSO
BY ROSETTE, LAW HON & CO.
Administrator’s Sale ’
A GREE.4BLE to an order of the Ordinary of Ku<-
A cogee county, will be sold on the Ist Tuesday m
November next, at 11 oc’clock, in front o. our Auc
tion Roern,
Six Wegroes,
belonging te the estate of John N. Burch, deed.
1 N T EGKO WOMAN, Martha and her
two children
1 NEGRO ROY, Edward.
1 “ WOMAN, Mary Ana
GEO. P. SNIDER. Adin'r.
Roasttb, La WHO* ft Cos., Atwm
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