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i'ubi .•!•< » Daily .Sandw* «JC«wpt«4 > tile fate
.u.jjrwi.tM- ido tor three inoutus.
Vo eiihsoripOow received for »longer term </>**
U)VrmTISIXG RiTCh:
Advertkcmenta inserted lor $2 lX> per y<iua.r« for
nscli insertion.
Vhero advertisement* ere inserted a month, the
oharge will be S3O per square.
Annomwifig uaadidateas2o, which must invariably
paid in advance.
Change of Schedule.
Orrie* Engineer asd SurKßiN’rHXDßirr, |
'■’b-arleston and Savannah Railroad. V
Charleston, June 7,1864.)
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, iS' THURSDAY, June9,lß64,an 1 tustjl tui the.
■ / notice, tb » Schedule of the Passenger train will
he as follow, m:
Leave jj’ia leston 9.15. a. m.
Arrive in .lavaunab ......‘...'....5.40, \t. m.
heave Savannah.. . ? 3d, a. :n.
vrriv© in Charleston 1.15, p. no.
This Train make* direct connections, 'goink-iiorlb
tud south, witit the Northeastern Railroad at < bar-
ieslon, an 1 tli• Central Railroad at the .1 unction.
11. S. ft A INKS.
-»u»i ; t ;! r.n.ainecr and Swpuiiittntdffnt
t>i8«8»;;c 06 Schedule.
j and liter .Sun-lay, Juno 13th, the Trains on
.'■he u4fog.ee Railroad will run as follow*:
T* \ SSI? NO EE TRAIN :
i-- r '’oluuilms .6 46 P. M.
. n:ve at Mac-'O A ft A. ,\j.
l eave '.laoou , 8 tj) P. .V
Arriv- - t CoJuu.bu> ..... I 2b .1. R,.
FREIGHT TRAIN:
[ v< : • ■imhv.s 600A. V
Arrive t Cnluwhus 4 55 A. A
W. 1,. CLARK
ii-.ar id tl • Supt. Muscogee H, R.
'!!iioii)sii to Dtoulgrouiery-
NEW SCHEDULE.
MONTGOMERY & WEST POINT
KAILUOAD COMPANY.
COLUMBUS, Aujjust 27,1864.
j\N and alter August27th. the Passenger Train o
w the do.dKomery and West Point Railroad will
Leave Montgomery at 8:00 a. m.
Leave West Point. at 7:10 a. ui.
trrive at Columbus at 5:32 i>. m.
Leave Columbus at 5:50 a. in.
Arrive at Montgomery at 3:00 p. in,
Arrive at West Potut at 4130 p.m.
i'rcitrht Train leaves Columbus at 8:40 am.
trrives at 8:27 v m
D. H. CRAM, Sup’t & Eng.
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MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD.
( Il iAfii: of SCHEIH LE.
Girard, Ain., Oct 7, 1864.
. v\ Hud after 10th inst. Trains on this Road will
’ ' Run Daily (Sunday excepted,) as follows:
I'asNeugei' Train
Leave Girard at 1 30 p. in.
\j rive in Union Springs 600 “
Leave Union Springs 5 35 a. m.
Arrive in Girard at. 10 00
freight Tt ai»».
Leave Girard at 4 00 a. m.
Arrive in Girard at 6 00 p. m.
B. E. WELLS.
ag!B it Eng. k Sup’t.
hr. J. $. CiIKK,
DENTIST,
FORMERLY OF NEW ORLEANS,
HAS returned, and can he found at 106 Broad
street, over Dr. R, A, fare’s Drug Store.
octlO-dlm • _
Hr. R, \OBLE,
XDEIST TIST,
A T Pemberion & Carter’s old stand, back room of
il Smith’s Jewelry Store, where he can be found
at all hours, foe 18 6m
iXazidLs Wanted
AT THE
13 Ali la li FACTOR A,
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
UIFTY young women can find steady work and
r liberal pay at the
oc 11 d&wlm _ LAG LI. I 1 A( IQR\ .
~WAATI3!>!
r AAA LBS. oI'TALI.OAV, for which a liberal price
,)»U' 1U will be .-aid. Apply to
F. W. DILLARD,
ts Major and Q. M.
Hoticc !
Oomjmiuis, tin., Oct. 4th, 1864.
li. T. Maddux is authorized ce attend to my
business in my absence from Columbus.
ocs luv- WILL, S. BALFOUR.
large
OF
LETT $ R PAPER!
AND
H BOOKS l
For sale by
* J. K. REDO & CO.
ec 12 ts , ,
PERRY HOUSE.
UK undersigned would respectfully inform his
old friends, patrons, and lho traveling public
generally, that as ho has to bo absent for a short
time he has been so fortunate as to have associated
with him his well known and worthy friend Mr.
EDWARD PARSONS, late of Atlanta, Ga„ whose
reputation and superior t ct for business is well
known throughout t‘ o Confederacy. This House
is large and commodious, and no pains, nor expense
shall bo spared to lit it up in the very best and most
elegant style, and to obtain every thing in the line
of substantial eatables and luxuries that this
market affords, With these assurances we most
cordially solicit all our old friends, and the travel
ing public generally, to give us acall and an oppor
tunity of rendering them comfortable,
oo 16.1m* THoS. E. SMITH.
S2OO REWAftD.
\I7ILL be paid for the apprehension and delivery
VV to ns of our two Negro Boys, BILL and JIM,
who ran off some time since.
BILL weighs about 15U, is tali and slim, black
complexion, hair very short and thin, has a down
east, sullen look, and talks long and drawling, Left
us about the Ist of August last.
JIM is a fine looking negro, weighs about 180, _ 5
feet 10 or 11 inches high, black complexion, thin
visage and high cheek bones, hair short. Left us
about the Ist of October.
We will pay the above reward for both, or SIOO for
either ot the above described negroes, if delivered
to us or placed in some sate jail where we can get
them. Wo will also pay SIOO for proot to convict
any white person oi harboring them.
BEDELL & CO.
Columbus, Oa., Oct. IS, 1804. —Ini
!»»TERLIIVG EXCSIAI¥GE!
, TEW Hundred Pounds of Sterling Exchange
% for sale in sums to suit purchasers by
&gl3 ti B Aiv Oh COLUMBUS.
SIOO Reward.
WILL be paid for a negro boy named Henry, who
W ranaway about two months ago. He is abouts
feet Binches high; weighs about 100 or 170 lbs.; com
olexion yellow; fine looking: when laughing has
dimples in both cheeks. It is probable he went to
Atlanta with some of th 1 roups from this city.
oc6 ts H. M. CLECKLEY.
NEGRO boy CHARLEY; about 25years old, yel
low complexion, hair nearly straight, below or
dinary intelligence; left Hr. 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. lie 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.
Columbu’s G a., aug Its *
For Sale.
rtu SIDES Russett Upper Leather.
lO FOLSOM & CODY.
ec 14 2w
Dollars Reward.
STRAYED from my place in Wynuton, a dark
bay mare MULE, about nine years old, hair
rubbed of of both hips and a large scar on thermht
bißdquarter. JOHN COOL.
t ec 13 ts
SORGHIH.
WE will purchase ten barrels choice Serghum
Syrup, by sample, : uraish barrels, and pay in
Salt or currency. M. P. ELLIS A CO.
oc 22 3t
Shot and Powder.
KA BAGS Slot, all numbers!
100 pounds Course Powder;
100 " Fine Rifle Powder.: „
*• 3»t STAFFORD * 0
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Vol. XI.
J. W. WARREN & c«. Proprietors j. n. WARREA, Editor
SPECIAL NOTICES
Headqu’rs Georgia Reskrtb,)
and Military District of Georgia, V
** S*aeon, Oetuber 22,1864. )
General Orders,"!
No. 27.
I. In view of the urgent necessity of bringing
into active service every man between the ages of
17 and 50 capable of bearing arms, all appointments
m “Members of Advisory Boards,” held by persons
between the ages of 45 and 50, are hereby revoked,
and all such persons will be at once forwarded to
the Camps of Instruction for assignment to the
Reserve.
11. Hereafter the duty of “Members of the Ad
visory Boar is” must be performed by men over 50
years of age; and the Inspectors of Conscription
will recommend to the commandant of Conscripts,
three suitable persons in each county for appoint
ment to the office.
By command of
- General HOWELL COBB,
Commanding, <kc.
Lamar Conn, Major and A A G.
oc 26 8t
rters Georgia Reserve,)
and Military District Georgia. >
Macon. Ga. Oct. 19, 1864. )
Got era l Orders, )
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. Alfred Prescot, Drill Master, Ist district,
Ist Lieut. 0. 11. AVinn, Butt’s Artillery Battalion,
2d district.
Capt. AY. S. Davis, company B, 10th Georgia Regi
ment. 3d district.
Lieut. Col. AY. 8, Wallace, 45th Georgia Regiment,
4th dsstrict.
2d Lieut. Geo. S. Caban is*. Drill Master, sth district,
2d Lieut. AV. T. Martin,".Drill Master, 6th district.
Ist 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. Gen. "OAVELL COBB.
LAMAR COBB,
Major and A A General.
0c22 6t
I¥oticc!
Government Transportation 'Yorks,
Columbus, Ga., Oe ~ 21,1864.
Creditors arc hereby nrtifiod that the Government
has furnished me with Certificates of Indebtedness
in sum3 of 5000,1000, 500 and 100 dollars each, to
pay their claims against theso^ works. Those certi
ficates arc neatly executed,—they are non-taxable
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 they 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 day.
THOS. JOHNSON,
oc 22 6t Special Agent Q, M. Dept.
WAITED.
Marshall Hospital,
Co.uuibu.-, Ga., October 22. 1864.
Three gallons Sweet Milk, daily, at this Hospital,
for use es the sick and wounded.
T. A. MEANS,
oc 22 ot Surgeon in Charge.
Bonds of the 500«,000,000 Loan.
SAM authorized to eontiuuo the sale of the 6 per
C9nt. long date Non Taxable Bonds of this Loan
at the Government rate of One Hundredland Thir
ty-live Dollars.
The principal of the Loan being free from Taxa
tion and the Coupons receivable lor all Import and
Export duties, tnakesit the most desirable yet offer
ed by the Government. I therefore recommend it
to the favorable notice of the people.
W. H, YOUNG,
oc 19 lm Agent for sale of Bonds.
NOTICE
To Mississippi Soldiers!
TILE "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, Go., and is near Barnard’s
corner, between Main st., and the Perry House.
Your baggage is there.
C. K. MARSHALL,
sep2B ts _ Agent.
Strayed or Stolen.
S3OO REWARD!
( IN SATURDAY NIGHT, Bth instant, two medi
v t um sized MULES, one a black the other a bay.
Thev 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
111 Store—Charges Unpaid.
TWO GINS. One marked J. Sorrell, Dale county,
Ala., been on hand several years,
One marked J. J. Reynolds.
They will-besold on the 20th November, unless
freight and charges are p rid previou|tcHthat^time,
Columbia, Ala., Oct, 19,1864 —6b
Fay Storage and take Cot
ton away.
ALL persons having CoAoninour possession are
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
bo in the army. BELSER & GO.
Cblumbia, Ala., Oct. 24, IS64 —8t
gukl gsik j ljsk!
V'E are now manufacturing a splendid article of
V* COPYING and WRITING INK, which we
offer for sale by the Barrel, Gallon, or in Bottles.
Address . STANFORD & CO.,
oc 26 6t Agents.
$•500 Reward.
WILL be paid for the recovery of a sma 1 white
MARE PACINO PONY, which was stolen
from in front of tho 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 my expense.
J. J. MEYER.
Columbus, Ga., Oct. 26—ts
FOR SALE.
MY plantation containing 960 acres, lying on a
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 five 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 are a good
framed Dwelling, with two large rooms and passage;
framed smoke house, 8 negro cabins, blacksmiths’
corn crib, barn, shelters, &c.
If desired I would divide the tract and reserve a
part. Neighborhood excellent, plenty of the best
water. The hoalth of the place is not surpassed by
that of any in East Alabama,
Persons wishing to visit the place will get off the
train at Silver .Run and take the (daily) Hack to
Glennville, where conveyace can be had.
For further particulars apply to the subscriber on
the premises, or address him af Glennville, Barbour
countv, Ala. Price S4O per acre. Possession given
J. F. IREUIUE.
A GOOD PLANTATION
For Sale.
f N Macon county, Alabama, lying directly on the
L Montgomery and West Point Railroad. The
tract contains 1,200 acres—about 700 cleared. There
is a comfortable Dwelling House on the place, good
Negro cabins with brick chimnics and all the neces
sary out-buildings. The land is productive and
location desirable. Possession given in November.
F„riu«l«r informs ADA „ g _
00 27 lm Cfelumbns, Ga.
4ar Telegraph A Confederate, Macon; Montgo
mery,Advertiser ; (fcaititutiwaalis, Aagwfea, copy.
Columbus. Ga., Frida? Xoruiug, October 28.1864.
Thursday Evening.
The Hour of Total van Wilmington.—Th
Journal *ay»: “AYhat has boas so long threaten
ed and so much talked about seems to have ceme
at last. The long deferred attack on Wilmington
would appear to be at hand. AYe have good rea
son to believe, from information received, that an
attack is annum-at —maybe looked for any day.
Tfee fleet is assembling both at Fortress Monroe
and Beaufort Harbor. N. C.
Such information is regarded as authentic by
our military authorities, and they are extremely
anxious, and, indeed, positively desire that all
non-eomba ants, and especially women and chil
dren, should be removed before the attack actu
ally does take p ace, This is desired for their
ewn sakes, and or the further reason ihat their
presence would have the effect of embarrassing
the defence. It is expected that all the men who
remain will bear their fall part in defending their
homes, and in repelling the invaders of our soil.
Those who do not make up their minds to do what
they can in defence of their homes are expected
to leave, as we presume little sympathy or favor
will bo shown any portion of the mala population
who remain here and who do not array themselves
in defence oi the place. Those properly classed
as non-combatants who intend to remove in case
of an attack had bettor do so before the pressure
of actual attack is felt, as then the difficulty of re--
moval may, and probably will, bo insurmoun
table.”
Victory in the Ciioctaw Nation.— AVe
learn through the Texas papers that official
information from General Cooper’s headquar
ters, Indian territory, state that on the 19th
ult. Greneral fcitandwattie commanding the Ist
Indian and Gano’s brigades, attacked the ene
my’s post at Cabin Creek, and after a six
hour’s fight drove the enemy away, capturing
a train of over 250 wagons and 120 prisoners.
Our loss very slight. The enemy’s loss in
killed, wounded and missing, is over 1206.
The blow will be severely felt by the enemy.
AVe learn from the Richmond Examiner
that Butler gained his point, so far as negroes
are concerned. That journal, of the 19th in
stant, says; “The negro prisoners of war,
sent down by Government order to work on
the batteries at the front; and, as an off set
to whose labors, Beast Butler ordered one
hundred and ten commissioned Confederate
officers to Dutch Gap, with pick and spade,
were yesterday returned to the Libby prison,
and now rest from their labors. This being
all that Butler demanded, we suppose he will
now release our officers from Dutch Gap, and
restore them to the personality of gentlemen
and prisoners of war.
Death of an Ex-Editor and Congressman.
—The Milledgeville Recorder chronicles the
death of Hon. Seaton Grantland, an old and
honored citizen of Baldwin county, at the ad
vanced age of 82 years. He was a native of
Virginia, but moved to Milledgeville early in
the present century, where he established the
Georgia Journal. He subsequently founded
the venerable Southern Recorder, which he
-edited with marked ability for many years.—
He served the State one or two terms as a
Representative in the'U. S. Congress, and was
faithful in all his trusts.
Tlie Vote oil tfieConstitution in
Maryland,
As there are many Marylanders in the coun
try who are anxious to know how the State
behaved in this humiliating farce, we give be
low the detailed results of the recent election.
The army vote is expected to counterbalance
the result, i’he “Marylanders” in the Yankee
army are chiefly New York roughs, and there
can be no doubt of how they will vote:
The result of the vote in this State on the
new constitution cannot be determined until
we have full returns from the counties on the
Eastern and Western shores. These counties,
as we anticipated, have cast a heavy poll
against the adoption of the constitution. In
some of the counties on the Western shore, it
is reported that the judges did not insist on
voters taking the prescribed oath, and that in
some districts two ballot boxes were used—
one for voters who had been sworn, and the
other for those who declined taking the oath.
If these- reports—and we give them only as
reports—are true, they will materially affect
the result, as the Governor will refuse to
count the votes where the oath was not. ad
ministered. Asa matter of speculation, we
give the following table of majorities, report
ed majorities, and estimated majorities :
MAJORITIES and reported majorities.
Counties. For. Against.
Baltimore 800
Baltimore City 7,720
Caroline 200
Queen Annes’ 1,350
Talbot 560
Kent 975
Howard.... 120
Hartford 300
Carroll 100
St. Mary’s 1.000
Cecil # 1
Washington 1,350
Frederick 1,000
Alleghany 1.100
AnneArundel 1,000
Prince George’s 1.000
ESTIMATED MAJORITIES.
Sumerset 1,600
Dorchester I,#oo
Worcester 800
Montgomery 600
Charles 300
Calvert ' 600
11,676 11,800
Wc have put the estimated majorities at the
highest figures we have heard claimed by the
opponents of the constitution, so ns to cover
all probabilities. If the calculation should
prove correct there will tie a majority of about
two lindred against the constitution to be
overcome by the soldiers' vote. This vote,
however, will be light. —Baltimore American.
Muttox Piks.—One freezing* February morning
a negro hawked mutton pies in a basket round Fan
euil Hall Square, roaring out, “Hot mutton pies !
Hot mutton pies !” A teamster bought and tried to
bite one. but found it frozen as solid as the curb
stone. “What do you cal 1 them hot for; you
and blue swindler,” yelk and the teamster to the shiv -
ering pieman ? " Wy—wy—a white man guv ’em to
me hot dis morning’—dey was hot when I got ’em
dismornin’!” “Well, you fool, it didn’t take ten
minutes to freeze them in that old basket. Why
csril them hot now ?” “Wy— God bless you. dat’s
de name ob ’em! —de name ob ’em! If I didn’t
holler de right name nobody wouldn’t tetch ’em !
You want me to holler froze pie?. I ’spose? No,
M I you can’t fool me dat way P
[Correspondence of the Confederacy.}
Letter from the Front.
Blue Mountain, Ala., >
Thursday Morning. Oct. 20, 1864. /
I bear this morning that Kilpatrick and hia
cavalry ar« on a raid to Macon, or in that di
rection. If true, it will give the militia an
other opportunity to win laurels in driving
them back, or capturing and keeping them.
Our army is reported crossing the Tennes
see river somewhere below Bridgeport. I
heard yesterday evening late, that the advance
had already reached Stevenson, Ala., which
very likely anticipates the truth several days.
Gen. Beauregard has gone to direct and
cheer them by his immediate presence.
. A rumor says that in a recent rsconnoisance
Maj. Kinloch Falconer, A. A. G., of General
Hood s staff, was wounded. I sincerely trust
the injury is slight. This gentlemanly officer
has labored perhaps more assiduously for the
last four years, than any in the army. His
object has not been to make personal friends
by showing favors, but has steered with a
clear eye and steady bend in the track where
lay his official duty and his country’s good.*—
He deservses well of his countrymen.
It is repoi and that Col. Beck, of Ala , was
killed at the same time Maj. F. was wounded.
I could not learn the place where it occurred.
“Ttte grey dawn is breaking’" over the high
hills that surround this dismal place, and the
train will soon be starting for Selma. I’ve
told all the rumors and news I know.
Dpn’t you think the following lines are
pretty ? Why don’t someone set them to
music ?
“You ask the dearest place on earth.
Whose simplejoys can never die ;
‘Tis the holy pale of the happy hearth,
Where love doth light each beaming eye 1
While snowry shrouds
Os tempests loud
Around my old tower raise their din
AYhat boots the shout
Os storms without,
fYhile voices sweet resound within ?
“I ask not wealth, I ask not power;
But, gracious Heaven, oh, grant to me
That, when the storms of Fate may lower,
My heart, just like my home, may be !
AYhen in the gale
Poor Hope’s white sail
No haven can for shelter win,
Fate’s darkest skies
The heart defies
Whose still small voice is sweet within !”
I wish you editors would make haste and
arrange those peace measures, so we can all
go home and hear no more of war, but pleas
ant voices always. Who was it said “the pen
is mightier than the sword?” Burley.
Blue Mountain, Ala., "[•
Friday morning, Oct. 21, 1864. j
Yesterday evening late, an old farmer, liv
ing in the direction of Gadsden, told me he
had heard firing all day as if there was in
progress a great artillery battle. He thought
from the sound it must be near Gadsden.—
AA r hat seems strange about this is that I hear
Gen. Hood's Headquarters are there to-night.
If this is true, it may not follow that our ar
my has fallen back.
It is rumored that Sherman inis really evac
uated Atlanta, going via Athens, Ga. I hard
ly credit this, and if true, of course you will
hear its confirmation in Macon long before
this reaches yo-u.
Taking this rumor in connection with the
recent tone of the Macon press, it would be
but fair to conclude that the Yankees got
scared at the boasting hints, thrown out about
the “important movement”—“the column of
six or ten thousand meu which was going to
be suddenly thrown against it,” and all that
—I began to think I’d have to change the di
rection of my letters from Macon to Atlanta)
The Tennessee and Alabama Railroad will
be completed from this point to Jacksonville.
The grading is all done, and nothing is re
quired but to lay the cross-ties and iron down.
This will be a cause for great rejoicing to the
horse and mule flesh, as the road is rough and
very heavy in winter time or during wet wea
ther.
If you could know the circumstances that
surround me, you would excuse the brevity
and want of interest of this bulletin. I prom
ise amends hereafter. Burley.
Blub Mountain, Ala., '»
Saturday Morning, Oct. 22, 1864. /
It is the prevailing opinion here that Slo
cum’s 20th corps of Yankee soldiei’3 still oc
cupy Atlanta, and only that one, but some
prisoners, captured recently, and brought in yes
terday, affirm that there are three corps yet there,
and that Sherman with four more had “headed”
General Hood’s army iu the march for Chattanoo
ga, and turned him back in the direction of this
place. To this delusion of theirs they owed their
capture, as they admitted, having been surprised
by our forces, and they concluded Gen. Hood’s
movements were very mysterious, and that his
army was entirely lost from Sherman. In this
opinion I fully coincide. If it were not for Sher
man’s superior numbers there would be no ri3k in
putting every confidence in General Hood’s suc
cess. There are some who do not doubt it even
now while the disparity in numbers is thought to
be so great.
An officer yesterday told mo that this difference
was daily growing less. Men were making their
appearance in the ranks again, with gun and knap
sack, who had not been heard from before in
.months —lying in hospitals and out of the way.
The tocsin of a forward march has stirred up the
smouldering fires of their patriotism and hope,
and their step is once more firm and hearts buoyant.
The cavalry forces which General Wheeler car
ried into Middle Tennessee with him, some of
which became pretty thoroughly scattered, are
being gathered together again under their old
commanders.
I enclose circular copies of Gen. Beauregard’s
address to the army, and General Order No. 1,
announcing his personal and general staff. Since
these were issued to the army, his headquarters
have been changed from Jacksonville to Gadsden.
The rumor prevalent for several days, and
which I think I have repeated to you, that General
B. takes immediate and personal command of the
army is confirmed.
A raid was reported on Selma and Coosa river
bridge last night, but no one paid any attention
to it, not believing it possible at present.
Burley.
That Two-Thirds.— -The Northern papers are
comforting themselves with a paragraph in one of
the Southern speeches of President Davis, that
two-thirds of th 9 Confederate armies are absent
from their duty. A similar statement was made
by the Secretary of War a year ago: but enough
of them got back to their posts by spring to use
up the brag Ulysses and sweep from the face of
Virginia a hundred and fifty thousand of his
treops. If the Yankees do not believe that the
absentee two thirds returned before the last cam
paign to their duty, they must confess that with
two thirds gone, we have whipped the largest ar
my they can put into the field. ' They may select
which horn of the dilemma they please.
It is natural enough that soldiers, exposed to
the unparalleled hardships of this protracted war.
sheuld yearn for a short period of repose and for
a brief reunion with the loved ones at home. And
tbeir impatience may often get the better of their
patriotic instincts. But it is not in limes of iinmi
nent peril that they leave, nor in times of immi
nent peril—observe the fact, Yankeedom—that
they remain at home. They will come back quite
soon enough to meet the next desperate effort of
an exhausted despotism. We shall neither have
t# rob “the cradle” nor “tho grave’.* to nil up onr
ranks and give Grant and his myrmidons a second
edition .af last sammer’s campaign.— Richmond
Diepatck.
$5.00 Per Month
Nr. Stephens’ Letter.
The New York Tribune copies the late
letter of Vice President Stephens, and
makes thereon the follotving comments.
They will show how much there is to ex»
pect from the party that rules in the Uni
ted States :
Mr. A. H. Stephens, Y'ice President of
Mr. Jeff Davis' Confederacy, wants Peace
—wherein we heartily agree with him.
He further wants if on his own terms—
wherein we agree with him again. lie
thinks the W§r can easily be stopped
whenever his adversaries will accede to
his fundamental doctrines—and there we
are with him once more. In short, we
can have Peace whenever one side or the
other gives up—which is just what we
have always understood.
The Union is now fighting for its right
to exist against the preposterous claim that
any one State may, at its own sheer ea'
price, dissolva and destroy the nation.
Mr. Stephens tells us we can have peace
by admitting and forever establishing that
claim. That is just what we never will,
never can do. If the rebellion can beat
our armies out *of the field, we must yield
to triumphant force ; but we can nevor be
plausibly asked to admit that such a force
was right, Though the rebellion
wrench from us a third of our country,
the nation will remain in its moral, if not
in its territorial integrity; but, should we
ever accede to the rebel assumption of
State sovereignty, w§ should have no
country left, and no chance of ever hav*
ing one.
There is no “ultimate, absolute sover~
eignty of the States/’ any more than of
the counties. Mr. Stephens would seem
never to have read the Federal Constitu
tion or Washington’s Farewell Address,
for he writes as if those important docu
ments had no existence. We are grieved,
deeply grieved, that one who used at least
to pretend to be a Whig, and as such to
have exulted over Webster’s crushing re
ply and rejoinder to Hayne, should now
talk like a born nullifier ; but rather than
follow him in tergivisation,
the loyal States will fight to the bitter
end.
[From the Petersburg Express.]
Tlie Hon. W. W. Boyce’s Letter.
The recent letter of the Hon. VY. AY. Boyce,
of South Carolina, addressed to the President
of the Southern Confederacy, has been receiv
ed by the soldiers and officers of the army from
that State with mortification and shame. That
luch a proposition, based upon such reason
ing, should have emanated from a public man
of South Carolina, is too humiliating. What
does the honorable gentleman mean by a “sat -
isfactoiy peace?” A peace patched upon the
scheme of reconstruction ! His language is
suspiciously vague, already smacks of that
divine policy aiso recommended iu the same
letter, and so characteristic of the great Union
saving—God save the mark—Northern De
mocracy.
The whole idea of the gentleman, and the
specious reasoning on which he bases it, is a
melancholy specimen of foggyism and moral
imbecility. It is nothing more nor less than
the old cry that so often, ere the flash of steel
was heard, miserably deluded many friends
of the South and of civil liberty, the lying as
sertion that Democracy—the great Democrat
ic party of the North—would save the Union
and the country.
After a life and death struggle of nearly four
years, accompanied and blessed with manifes
tations of God’s saver, unparalleled in the his
tory of any people, save the Jews, and at
the very moment that the priceless boon es in
dependence in is the grasp of the South, here
comes a serious proposition from aa honora
ble representative of South Carolina, that the
South should enter again inte a cat and dog
scramble with the miserable wire pulling De
mocracy of Yankeedom, en the vague hypo
thesis that principles and men and Govern
ment are to be managed on this continent ac
cording to the policy and notions of the effete
principalities and dukedoms of Germany. And
actually concludes with a recommendation
that the South should henceforth addict her
self more to policy in the management of her
affairs.
Is the honorable gentleman oblivious of the
fact, that it was the departure from principles
to bend the pregnant knee to policy, that
ruined the old Union, aud must necessarily
and deservedly ruin any country ?
The honorable gentlema-n has been long
known in his own State, as the man who
threw a tub to the whale, lie is at his old
tricks.
An Officer of Wallace’s Brigade.
(Special Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.)
From tiie Vicinity ol Atlanta.
tloN YERS, Ga., O ;t. 19th, 1864.
Messrs. Editors :—For. the information of our
authorities, and in the hope that something will
be done to relieve the people between Yellew and
South rivers, and west of the latter, I write to let
our condition be known. On last Sunday night
six hundred and forty wagons, with a proper
guard, left Atlanta on a foraging expedition, aad
are now foraging in this neighborhood, thirty
miles from Atlanta, taking all the corn, wheat,
hogs, sheep, cattle, and horses in the country, be
sides bed and wearing clothes of ail descriptions,
leaving the families of our brave soldiers, who are
battling for onr liberties, virtually destitute of food
and clothing. This is about the third expedition
made in the past fifteen days. Is there no help ?
Where is Gen. G. W. Smith’s command? What
is the formidable force, said to be at Macon, do
ing ? Will Gov. Brown not send us aid ? Fifteen
hundred mounted men, under the proper General,
could capture the whole party, with wagons, Ac.,
which would entirely cut off ail he enemy’s means
of supplies, and render the evacuation of Atlanta
inevitable. It is believed by ail citizens that, if
something is not done soon, ail (he necessaries of
life will be drawn from the counties within sixty
miles east aucl southwest of Atlanta.
Your subscriber.
Wit. L. Peek.'
From South America Hostilities are
about to be opened between Brazil and Uru
guay. Reclamations have bee;, made upon
the latter Republic for various causes. Uru
guay, being engaged in civil war, has not had
the means es responding to a propositioa that
the causes of dispute should be left to the ar
bitration of a foreign power was declined by
Brazil, and an attack by the latter would be
forthwith made by sea ana land. Uruguay,
having her hands full in consequence of her
domestic troubles, will not have much oppor
tunity to defend herself. Reprisal requent
ly drift into open war. but unless Uruguay is
stronger than supp l - el, she will have to sub
mit to whatever the stronger nation ahoosea
to impose.
I'ed<PM»l Rep»rf* from ITorl^a
Tad New i'ork Herald of Del. loth,
•f tb© military situation in Florida, says :
From Florida, wa have % report that General
llateh bas reeet.ily sent out a force under Colons'
Neble, which proceeded t-» Enterprise, a long 4i*
tanco hwuj. and captured a whole militia meeting
•f Yolosia county, without trouble. The meeting
b»d been advartiied, »«d tbtr news es it eame to
General Hatch, who directed the expedition
against if. The ferce started at night, and after
a long uuu-.ii, succeeded in surrounding the
gathering before anybody suspected bis presence
Twenty-nine men, forty horses and some prop
erty were secured. Among the prisoners was
a Colonel Watson, long known as a sueeessfni
guerrilla chief, whose speciality has been the
obtaining of cattle fro* us. It is believed
that exen and cows will now thrive uader
Union culture anywhere in Eastern es Northern
Florida.
We had ne loss in this expedition, thanks to
the ability of its managers.
Gen. Foster has recently made a tour es the
posts in Florida. At Jacksonville he found
General Hatch completing impregnable worki
outside the city, which he approved. At Mag
nolia and Picelata strong works are also being
constructed. At St. Augustine, General Fester
gave orders for some improvements on the fert,
and at Fernandina some alterations have been
suggested. On the whole, ail the works in Florida
were found in good condition, and the seldiors
garrisoning them would be best pleased by as at -
tack in force.
In regard to the report of yellow fever in Florida.
the New South, published at Hilton Head. 8. v.,
says ;
It is currently reported in the Northern pupc;j
that the yellow fever is committing terrible rava
ges along the coast, and particularly at Jackson
ville and St. Augustine. It is needless to refute
such charges for the department was never in a
more healthy condition than at present. The
weather for the few days past has been cold, an i
the chances of Bronze Jack even making his ap
pearance would be materially lessened.
Our Abseuiees.
The New York News comments as follows on
President Davis’ late remarks with reference to
absentees :
The frankuess of Mr. Jefferson Davis in address
ing the people of tho Confederacy on the subject
of war, contra"'s very favorably with tho system
of popular uup jSLUrc practiced by Mr. Linceln.
Mr. Davis knows, however, that ho is addressing
himself to a population who follows every move
ment of tho war with their hearts *and souls : a.»
indeed they well may, since it has been made ene
of confiscation and enslavement. The Confederate
President knows that they are with him in both
his triumphs and his defeats; and, therefore,
speaks frankly to them of disaster when he re
quires them to make anew effort for wresting vie
tory from the onslaught of battle. The strength
of the Confederacy could receive no mofe conclu
sive proof than the late speech in which its chief
takes counsel, in the hour of gloom, with the hear:
of its people. The cause shown thus to be in
trenched in the passions and devotion of mHliens
of free born men and women was never yet eon
quered, and that it should be
Bequeathed from bleeding eire to soa
Tho’ baffled est is ever won.
Mr. Davis’ statement that bwo-thirds of the ar -
my are at home is no confossion of special weak -
ness. That fact has applied for the last two year.-.
The enthusiasm of the first rush to battle swept to
the front masses of men who very soon discovered
that, the romance of war is, like a groat many
other inventions of the past a very ugly reality.
These dropped by degrees from the ranks; and
while all their feelings are still with the cause of
tho Confederacy, slunk home to their inglorioui
easo. Mr. Secretary Sedden, of the Confederate
War department, declared, in his last report for
last year, that sixty per centum of the Confeder
ate soldiers were absent, and yet had that state af
fact existed twelve months ago, it does not appear
that the belligerent power of the Confederacy hai
shewn any consequent evidence of a real weak
ness ; but on the contrary, will excite throughout
tho Confederacy a determined' effort for recruit
ment that will not at all tend to advantage in the
field.
Siege of Charleston —Four hundred and
Seventy-fourth I)a>/. —Nothing of importanc? hai
eocurrod since our last report. After the few
shot fired at the city during the lire, the enomy
remained perfectly quiet the remainder of the
night. Monday morning a Monitor off Oum
ming’a Point and Battery Greggs re opened fire
on the wrecked steamer Flora, each firing fira
shots.
In the afternoon, Fort Moultrie and Battery
Marion, on Sullivan’s island, opened a warm fitra
on the Monitor and fired forty shots. The Moni
tor was struck several times and finally compell
ed to move off and auchor lower down the #!ian
nel out of range.
There was no firing on Sumter, nor no farfcht
firing on the city.— Courier, 25th.
Forrest’s Plans. —The correspondent of cho
Chicago Journal, in a late letter details the fol
lowing :
One of Forrest’s orderlies was brought into thu
city yesterday a prisoner, and, by permission, we
asked h’tn a few question* :
“Wbat is the of your forces ?”
“From <5 to 8000.”
“Have yeu heard Forrest talk about his plan* to
his staff or any one else ?"
“Yes.”
“Willyou tell tae what they arc?”
“It is his intention to strike the Chattanooga
railroad, about Elk river, and destroy a* smelt
of the track as he can. He will then move
northward and eastward, passing north of Knex -
ville, and cutting off the Union forces at Ball's
Gap, and then proceed to Lynchburg and Rieh
mond and join Lee, whose cavalry has become
very inefficient, and then he would operate as or
dered.”
“But when that was talked of, had yeu hoard »f
Sheridan’s victory ?”
“What viotoi’y?” he asked.
I explained, and he stated that he had heard
nothing of the affair, and expressed his doubts
about the genuineness of the report; but after
seeing the official despatches ho hung his head,
hesitated a while and then broke out: “That has
played the devil with things, sure.”
Another Outrageous Step by the Yankees.—
The Government now sees what comes of its fre
quent threats of “retaliation” and its puerile timi
dity to enforce it. No sooner do we hear of Butler 's
putting our men to work in digging, at Dutch Gap,
than we find this paragraph in the New York Her
ald, given by its Washinyton correspondent:
To-day a number of prominent Alexandria seces
sionists and several of Mosby’s guerrillas, in our
hands, were placed on the Manassas trains, and the
inhabitants living in the vicinity of the road notifi
ed that if attacked by guerillas their friends ani
sympathizers on the cars would be exposed to tho
risk of being killed. The authorities have deter
mined to protect all the trains in a similar manner,
and to inflict immediate punishment on every per -
son caught interfering with the line of eommumca
tion in any manner.
Yankee Deserters.— Deserters in large
numbers continue to come within our line’s
from Grant’s army. They are sent to theli
homes immediatsly. Among those coming in
night before last, was a very intelligent Eng
lishman, who had been in the Federal army
four months. He said there were no troop?
at City Point but negroes. That'a large num
ber of Grant's veterans had gone home, their
terms of elistment having expired; and the;,
places had been filled by raw recruits who
were sent forth to the front. It was believeu
among the men that Grant contemplated an ad
vance this week, and many of them were de
serting to escape the expected fight.
We learn from another source that deser
ters are making their escape thro’ counties iu
the rear of Grant, trusting to their own ef
fort* to escape from the Confederacy.
[Petersburg Express, 22 4
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