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DAILY TIMES. J. W. WAHRUK, - - - Editor. COLUMBUS: Satnrday Morning, October 29,1864. [communicated.] Reynolds, Ga., Oct. 27th, 1864. Editor Columbus Times lam mortified to ice in the public print* that there are some in the Confederacy who advocate placing ne groes in the army to fight for our independ ence. The very discussion of the question shows a state of demoralization in a portion of our people truly deplorable. It is inti mated that the subject will be introduced into our next Congress, and advocated by the most eloquent of its friend*. Ido hope for the dig nity of that body, that no such proposition will be allowed introduced, for no matter how overwhelmingly it tuny he voted down, its very introduction and discussion in that au gust assembly will he a lusting disgrace to evt-rv man, woman mo! child ir the Oort fed i r • • • eraev. The tn'.i.nice wou'.d be s’mtylr ridiiu lom , it the consequences were not. so serious. For wiio does not know that the negro would .teize the first opportunity to gnin his freedom immediately by deserting to the abolitionists? Let us use all the negroes as well as e' try other means at'our disposal, for the bench of the cause, yet keeping them in appro; . i ate sphere. * Let us not forget that the k . stone to the arch ot Southern civilization is t he inferiority of the negro to the white race, and the slave’s perpetual subordination to his master. The mine of the institution..before the disruption ot the Onion, was the number of free negroes' in the Southern State;* where •very negro should be a slave. Fighting the battles of a country should entitle every'soldier to all the privileges of cit izenship. What is to be- done with the ne groes who may be placed in our armies? If wc have so degenerated as to call upon them to help us fight our own battles, we caunot refuse to allow them their freedom and citG zenship a * soon as the war is over. In that, case, who is to confer upon them those inesti mable privileges ? Is it proper, or to be ex pected that the owners make the sacrifice ? It the Government should do it, by what au thority and upon what principles could such a measure be executed ? If consummated in violatmn of law either by impressment or purchase for the purpose, what becomes of the institution of slavery amongst us, when the able-bodied men are made free and citizens and the w.oraen and children continued in servitude? What would be the condition of society under such a state of facts ? Is there a man in the Confederacy who would lie willing to remain in it five minutes if he could get out of it? Let us nip this dis graceful, cowardly project in the bud. Let the negroes be kept at menial service, making provisions for the army and country ; work ing with the spade and pick, in the erection of fortifications ; in driving the wagous, ambulan ces, stocks and herds, and cooking for the army. Some of the women might be employed in the hospitals under the direction of the Surgeons and matrons. But for the sake of our noble cause, lor the sake oi all we bold dear in our system of civilization, for the continued purity of the White blood ami in abhorence of foul and loatkesome miscegenation, tor the respect we owe to our tloble soldiers, lei us not bring eternal disgrace upon all by attempting to make soldiers oi our slaves!!! What, suppose you would become of our noble army, the finest b„civ of men the world lias ever beheld—if such a brand of infamy was attempted as pla - cing negroes—our own, their own slaves up on an equality, yea, even by their aides as xoldit.rs of the Confederacy ? Such a step would do limre to disorganize and demoralize it thou all the recruits mustered by the royal Ape tor a century. It is different with the abolitionists: their ambition is to reach equal »/>/with the negro, as their wisest philoso phers have recently discovered that the negro race is superior (o their oivn. Ido not doubt it. They feel highly honored to fight beside or rather behind the negro, for they thus ex pect to preserve their worthless lives from the Southrons’ bullets by hiding behind the Southrons’ staves. 1 consider the negro con taminated by such association, and he does too, as soon as he finds out his position. Let every man who ought to be at the front, step forward at once without wailing for Gov ernment officials, who should be better em ployed than hunting up delinquents. Leave your little one-horse ash-hoppers, gentlemen, your innumerable and fraudulent details; tear up your exemptions, obtained under false pretenses ; come out ot those bomb-proof places in the rear where you artfdisplayingyour cowardice to the chagrin of your friends and the detriment of your country, and you home generals who have all the wisdom and strategy •and military sagacity of the Confederacy cou eenfrated in yo ir precious persons, hold up your heads like freemen who appreciate the magnitude of the contest, and join, without delay, our-gallant army. Lot our field gene rals have the benefit of your counsels,and leave no excuse for officers or guards to remain in the rear, and my word for it, the abolitionists will soon be brought to reason. We can w hip the fight and establish our independence upon a iuiu.dation never to be shaken by the revolutions of coming ages. As for reconstruction on any terms what ever, the man who suggests it should be bang to the nearest tree by thost who hear him ut ter the foul treason, without waiting for a for mal trial. Let every man feel that his only business is « ar, until we have an honorable peace and in dependence, and the end is not far off. And when it does come,let it not be one of any priv ileges of kind to the abolitionists, Let us have no entangling alliances with them. Let us ask no rarors and grant none. Let it be simply a trea ty of peace and boundary, allowing the States of Missouri, Kentucky and Maryland to decide by ballot untrammeled, with whose destiny they* will link themselves. After the treaty of peace thus made, det the abolitionists re main on their own side ot the line, and us of the Confederate States avoid all intercourse whatever with them. They' have conducted this war with such vindictiveness and in such a reckless viola tion ot all the rules of civilized warfare, that we would be lost to self-respect and deserve the contempt of the civilized world it we ever under any circumstances, have ought to with a people who have so remorselessly bid defiance to all laws, human and divine. Respectfully, ROBERT R, HOWARD. fF:»» n! h $ pec ml Correspondent of the Lon don Telegraph.] Amrriea in the Midst of War. New York, Sept. 17, 1864. Gen. Sherman is a commander who deals in no half measures. His motto is “thorough.” If he be high-handed, he is iron-handed, too; and he has strength to execute that which he has will to conceive. He ba3 not razed the city of Atlanta to the ground, because he wants its houses to shelter his troops while they recruit their exhausted energies; be cause he wants its sheds and warehouses to store his munitions, and its converging rail ways to bring his;supplies South ; and also, perhaps, because he does not think it worth his while to trample under foot the cake for which he has hungered so long, and which has cost him thirty thousand men to win. But he has determined to “bust up” Atlanta notwithstanding. Asa Southern town it is to be -wiped out. Asa home of secession, it is to b “squelched.’ The mode of procedure adopted by General Bhtrtp.au "or bringing this result about is orig inal and i uprecedfeMted. He has simply ex pelled i vei y white citizen from the city which he did not capture, but which surrendered to his mercy. He has made a clean sweep of the townsp.,-oplc. The la ties ran away before he came. He has sent the menfolk after them. Geutic Hiid simple, merchant ami storekeeper. ’ U irfer and mechanic, patriarch and school boy, baby in aim- and bed-ridden pauper, all roust clear out. Those who choose to take the O 'th of allegiance, may go North : those who fefu.-e to take it will be sent South ; but all must go. The negroes only arc permitted to remain. ftiey can bh made useful. They can be turned into drudges and beasts of bur den.,or. with muskets and bayonets in their bands, be initiated into tbemyeteries of “big sojering.’ iyr the rest, the word is ' Match.” Sherman's general order, In which the ex pulsion ot thtv Atlantese is decreed, may here after find a place in the now edition of Long fellow’s Kvangtdine and Goldsmith’s Deserted Village. It contains suggestions quite as pa thetic as can be found in any episode of Aca dia or of Auburn., “The city ot Atlanta, being exclusively for warlike purposes, will be at once vacated by all except the armies of the United States, and such.civilian employees as may be restrained by the proper departments ot the Government.” There is a grandeur of simplicity in the preamble to this ukase which approaches sublimity. “The Pyrenees exist no longer “the House ol’Braganza has ceased to reign,” are nothing to “the city of Atlanta being exclusively for military pur poses." .Since when, oh ! wondcrous Sher man ? Since when did God Almighty ordain that there should be a place upon earth where heretofore his creatures had been per mitted to live and work in peace and comfort and “the pursuit of happiness”—as the De claration of Independence has it—but which, in future, were to be “exclusively" the strong holds of the Devil ? “At the proper time,” continues Sherman, “just arrangements will be made for the sup ply to the troops of all articles they may need, over and above clothing, provisions, etc., fur nished by the go vernment; and on no pretence whatever will traders, manufacturers and sut lers, be allowed to settle in the limits of forti fied places ; and if they manage to come in spite of this notice, the quartet master will sieze their stores and appropriate them to the use of the troops, and deliver the parties, or other unauthorized citizens who thus place their individual interests above that of the United States, over to the Hands of some pro vost marshal, to • be put to labor on the forts, or conscripted with one of the regiments or batteries already in the service. The same general principles will apply to all military posts south of Chattanooga.” When Napoleon escaped from Elba, in 1815, the allied sovereigns assembled at Vienna, solemnly declared him to be “au enemy of the human race.” That ban they thought to be the most aw ful within their power of malison. Does rt not look very much as though General Sherman were anxious to declare war against mankind in gene ral ? You will observe that his decree is not only •actual, but prospective. The principle of exter mination is to apply to all other cities he may capture. The Southerners are literally to be driven from the face of the earth. As Sherman will be probably the idol of tho North during the coming winter, wo may expect, should the re maining stronghold of the Confederacy fall before thp Union arms, to hear that’the cities' of Mo bile, Charleston, Petersburg, and Richmond, "being exclusively for military purposes,” must be vacated by all except the armies "of the United .States. With a cruel ...condescension, the General has j suffered the expelled inhabitants to take with j them such “‘moveable property” as they possess; in other words, they may ju&t contrive to get away from the city with a change of clothes and a few dollars, leaving behind their furniture, their household goods, their live stock, and the houses of which they were lawfully the possessors.— There is no appeal from Sherman. lie is abso lutely and entirely master of the lives and for tunes of the defenceless aud unarmed. His Gov ernment has seemingly no inclination—and if it had, would scarcely dare—to interfere with him. Sherman, alone and supremo, in a solitude of his own creation, reminds one of the warrior monk of Mexico, Torres, who, during the war' of inde pendence, when he had hold of some Spanish for talice was went to cry out, “Yo soy Xcfs dc todo el Mando ” —l give laws to the world. Thus, Sherman at Atlanta. “It shall be no more a city,” he ordains The sound of the church going bell, the voices of woman aud children shall be heard in it no longer. There shall bo no moro trade, no more commerce, no more buying and selling, no more marrying or giving in marriage » It shall be mine aud Lucifer’s —a place only for gunpowder, caissons, big guns, bombshells, swords, bayonets and commissariat rations. The Confederate General Hood has naturally remonstrated with the autocrat of Atlanta. “Per nlit me to say,” he writes, “that tho unprecedented measure you propose transcends in studied and iniquitous cruelty all the acts ever brought to my attention in this dark history of war. In the name of God and humanity, I protest against it, believing that you are expelling from their homes the wives and children of a brave people.” The protest is quite in vain. God and humanity have nothing to do with Atlanta, which is a city “‘ex clusively for warlike purposes.” The press of New York pass this flagitious ordi nance by, either with a smile of satisfaction or without any comment at all. The Herald says : •‘Sherman is determined that his campaign shall not now bo spoiled by meddlers. He has, there fore, ordered all citizens to be removed from his lines, and long ora this they have been sent from Atlanta, either North or South. This may be hard upon some of the late residents of that city: hut ‘military necessity’ is no respecter of persons, and Shermau wants the place for military purpo ses only.” The special correspondent of the World writes : “Atlanta is ours. It has passed through the most profound strategy ever exercised in this, part of the military field, aud to General Shermau is due the entire glory of tho achievement. But the'gcn eral has doubtless received his full meed of praise from every loyal pen in the country, and it is un necessary for mo to add one word to brighten the chaplet which adorns his brow.” Not one word ? It is true that the word might rather darken than brighten the victor’s wroath. from the World, indeed —the Democratic, constitutional World— which was all, the other day, for the “conduct of tho war according to the dictates of civilization” —“for the immediate cessation of hostilities:” and I for “killing and maiming each other like Christian j gentlemen”—we might have expected’ something approaching an expression of censure, or at least of horror, at that which Sherman has done at At lanta. But the World is absorbed in the develop ment of the most miserable party politics, and the chanoes of McClellan against Lincoln are far su perior in the opinion of its conductors, to tho inte rests of these poor “played out” affairs, humanity and civilization. Rebel Sympathizers on Railroad Trains.— The Alexandria, Va., Journal of Tuesday, says: It is said that additional arrests of citizens, to be placed on the rai!road,cars, are to be made. Several citizens living on the line of the railroad, in the adjacent counties, were arrested and sent up yester day, with those irom this place. J. W. Foster, L. D. Means, J. A. Cbchrane, S. Houdershal and J. W.^flinn. Several rebels recently captured as prisoners of war, are in prison here, to be used for the same purpose. It is recommended in a commu nication in the Virginia State Journal, that arrests ot females in this place should be made for the same purpose. Feur cannon, belonging to Mosby s Ilorsc Artil lery, were captured by a detachment of Federal troops, near Rectortown, last week. Several of the artillery men were also captured —among them 1 Morgan and Americus Davis, one of them lately a I clerk in an apothecary’s store in this place. Ame i ricus was sent to the Old Capitol and Morgan is to i be used on )he railroad trains. . TELEGRAPHIC. REPORTS OF THE PRESS ASSOCIATION. Entered according to act of Congress in the yea: 1863. by J. S Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office o? the District Court of tho Confederate States so the Northern District of Oeorsria. Richmond, Oct. 27. —The enemy advanced a heavy force on the north side to-day, and made «everal assaults upon our lines, which were signally repnlaed with a heavy loss.— Five hundred prisoners have already been brought in. Our loss insignificant. Richmond, Oct. 28tb.—Official dispatches from Gen. Lee last night, say the enemy .crossed the Rowantey Creek below Burgess’ Mill and forced back our cavalry in the af ternoon. Heth attacked at first to deceive thorn, but found them in too strong a force ; alters ids the enemy attacked, but were re pulsed. They still hold the plank road at Burgess’ Mill. Heth took some colors and prisoners. The movement of the enemy against our left to-day. va 1 - repulsed. Two attacks ppon our lines wire made—one between Henry's Poor House and the Charles City road and the ! other on the Williamsburg road. Several hundred prisoners and four stands ! of colors were <• iptured. Our loss very slight, j On the 25fh. Mosby, near Bunker Hill, cap tiued Brig. Gin. Duffieid with several other prisoners, and a number of horses and killed a number of the enemy. He sustained no lOSS. r«Tt-;Rfent in;. 28.—La-t night about dark, the ’enemy charged our works on the Baxter road and captured a small portion of them, from which, however, they were quietly dis persed with a loss of about a dozen prisoners. Our loss small. Lieut. Col. Hanson and Wise of Wise’s brigade were captured by the enemy. About ten o’clock last night the en emy charged qur works on Jerusalem Plank Road capturing a post of our picket line, and driving in the rest of it. About 12 o’clock, however, our line was reestablished. In the light yesterday evening on the Boyden Plank Road below here, three battle flags were cap tured from the enemy and about 200 prison ers. Nothing from below this morning. The enemy’s cavalry is on a raid towards the Soutbside railroad. An Invasion of Vermont from the Canada Side—Robbery of Banks—Panic of the Citizens, The Yankees are having a sensation nearer he me than the seat of War. On Wednesday last, says the Richmond Dispatch of the 24th, a band of twenty-five men from Canada “in vaded” the town of St. Albans, in Vermont, and robbed the National Bank of $50,000, the St. Albans Banks of 589.000, and the Frank lin County Bank of a considerable sum.— Some twenty horses were also seized by the desperadoes and carried off. Several oitizens who resisted were deliberately shot; two were seriously wounded, and it is feared fatally— E.J. Morrison, a contractor, and C. H. Hunt ington, a jeweler. Several othors are reported slightly wounded. The attack commenced about 8 P. M., and the opening is thus de scribed by an eye-witness : Several men appeared to be rushing about with pistols, in parties of from five to ten.— One of these gangs met a Mr. Morrison and presented a weapon ; fo’ him, demanding his suriender. “You are joking boys.” * They fired and he fell, weltering in his blood. Our informant saw him throw up his hands and then sink on the ground, and then he realized for the first time that the village was attack ed by an organized body of men, bent on pil lage and regardless of human life. Meanwhile the attack had been simulta neous on the there banks—the First National, Franklin County and St. Albans. Parties entered each. When the teller, or cashier, suspecting no evil, asked-what they desired, the leader presented a pistol, with the excla mation. “You are my prisoner; if you move au inch, we’ll blow you through.” Others of the gang then went to the vault and drawer?, and laid violent hands on all the specie, bills and other articles which they could find, and filled the side satchels, which each wore, as we before described. Os eourse resistance was useless, for the surprise was complete.— At the. Franklin County Banll the raiders pushed the cashier Mr.* Beardsley, and one of the clerks, into the vault and locked them up, and the prisoners were not released until late ia the night. Then commenced a reign of terror in the vil lage. Plunder had been accomplished, and vio lence followed. The raid was brief; but the scene must have been terrible while it lasted. The thir ty or moro marauders rushed up and down the streets, tiring their pistols in every direction. Whenever they saw a citizen or a group of men they would aim in that direction. They had mag nifieent arms—seven-shooters—and as fast as one weapon was unloaded they drew another, and kept up the fusilade. Mr. Baldwin says he can only liken the sounds to the noise of a Fourth of July morning in a large city. There was a continuous bang ! bang ! Os course this reckless use of fire arms could not continue long with nobody hurt. The sheriff of the county soon fell : Mr. Hunting ton was- shot while resisting the robbery of his store ; a woman whose name we could not. learn, fell, and more dastardly than all—as the guerrillas were leaving the town, they saw a little girl in the street and wantonly killed her. And the bul lets were flying around among the buildings in the main street.—nearly all of which bear marks of lead. Windows were broken, blinds chipped and people wounded. It was a scene that beggars all description. Os course the entire population rushed into the streets. They had no idea of the cause of the dis turbance, for they were engaged in their usual av ocations, and the raid was “like thunder from a clear sky.” The guerrillas, as they rushed thro’ the town, stopped all the citizens they met and gathered them in squads under guard of a few men, armed with pistols, retaining them as pris oners on the common. Meanwhile the remainder of the banditti started to secure horses. They took two from Field’s livery stable, five from Ful ler’s several from the Americas and Tremont sta bles, and a twelve hundred dollar span from Mr. Clark, of Rutland—securing about thirty in all. Their adroitness in cutting off harness was mar vellous, and the contents of the saddle-makers’ shops soon enabled the villains to become cavalry instead of foot-pads. Meanwhile their threats were terrible. “We will burn your damned town,” they said. “We will treat you as the people of Atlanta were treated.” They also said, “We are coming back again, and will burn every town in Vermont.” Their imprecations were of a blasphemous character.— They claimed to bo Confederates. Our informant does not think any of the men were Canadians. — They all looked like Americans, and Southerners at that. These demons continued their infernal pistol-firing, killing a man named Morse after they began to “lake prisoners.” All this was the work of twenty minutes.— Conductor Baldwin says. that he can scarcely realize that it all happened, aud that so much was done in so short a time. The guerrillas, having all secured horses and saddles, commenced their retreat. They abandoned the prisoners and rode off northward, firiug their pistols as they proceeded. After the invaders had gone, the citizens turned out and pursued them, capturing the leader, with SIOO,OOO. The Governor-Geaeral of Canada i* also endeavoring to arrest those who escaped inte that province. As the “raiders” passed through Freelisburg, an attempt was made to stop them, and the bailiff of the town was killed. All New England ia crazy over this “barbarous invasion,” and is trying to preve that the men were Confed erate*. THE CITY. T. J. JACKSON LOCAL BDITOB Religious Notice. Rer. James K. Guthrie, late of New Orleans, will deliver Sermons, at the Bynagoge, this Saturday and Sunday, at 10 o’clock, a. m. A number of good and useful articles are adver tised at 114 Bread street. Reader, see the adver tisement and prepare to supply yourself. Sales To-Day. —Ellis k Cos. will have an im portant sale to-day of fine furniture, glass-ware, Jtc. See advertisement. Personal. —We were pleased to meat in eur city yesterday, in good hoalth, Mr. G. A. Cush ing, of that enterprising jenrnal, the Montgomery Mail. A Challenge. —Our Printers take umbrage at Local Jones’ sweeping declaration of having the best set of hands in the Confederacy, and have re quested us to challenge him to the proof. We are opposed to challenges as a general thing— they sometimes lead to unpleasaut occurrences — but for the sake of the reputation of our concern, we must claim some credit iu the way of respecta ble and clever employees, who are uuwilling to play second fiddle to the “Enquirer" or any other office in the State. Joseph should by all means have excepted the Times office. In a Quandary. —A gentleman employed in this city, in h government department at a salary of about SI,BOO per annum, informs us that his landlord has notified him that ho must have $2200 rent for the dilapidated premises on which said tenant lives, lie knows not what to do under the circumstances, as there is no other place that can be got at any price, and thinks for the sake of econemy he will be compelled to die. Verily, ia these graspin : times, mechanics and small salaried men, will bo put up to all they know, to preserve the copartnership between soul and body. Sich is life. Query.—What will this gentleman have left to support his family on, after paying $2200 rent oat of his salary es SIBOO ? He will probably be enabled to live high on the surplus. Don’t you think so reader ? Small Comfort for Canada. —The Londou Times gives Canada fair warning in a very em phatic leader, that she has nothing to expect from England in the way of defeuee. England can do nothing on laud. She did her utmost in the Cri mea. All the troops she could send to Canada would not stand one battle against a Northern army, commanded by General Gram. Whether defeated or not, there would be nothing left of them. As to the Canadians, it seems that they can raise 20,000 men all told, and 4he Times ridi cules the idea of such a force standing for a mo ment before a Federal army. The English of this is, if you want Canada, take it and welcome. — England is ready to give a quit claim to-morrow, as the price of peace. You may conquer the South or not—restore the Union, or fail to restore it—but when you want Canada, there it is, gentle men, help yourselves. A Fleet is said to be fitting out in Hampton Roads to attack Wilmington. It consists of the iron frigate Ironsides, which was stationed sometime at Charleston : the new ironclad ship of the line Dictator, whose armament is of the heavi est calibre and greatest range (some of her guns are said to throw shell within a fraction of six miles :) two monitors ami an immense number of #ooden vessels of war, ammunition and picket boats, etc. W. W. Boyce. —Since.this gentleman has been ostracized by a public meeting of his own Con gressional constituents, as he richly deserved to be for his recant traitorous reconstruction letter to President Davis, what ought to be done with those who applaud the course of Mr. Boyce—who en dorse the sentiments of his atrocious letter, and who openly (although they suppose people fools enough not to know it) advocate what he attempt ed so adroitly to put forth, and to conceal at the same time, to-wit : a reconstruction of the old government ? Spirit of the South . TSie Medical Exam suing Board. For the Third Congressional District, will bo at Hamilton, Harris county »...Nov 11 & 12 Cusseta Chattahoochee c0....N0v 14 & 15 Lumpkin Stewart county Nov 16 &17 Preston Webster county iNov 18 &19 Ellaville Schley county Nov 21 & 22 Buena Vista Marion county -Nov 23 k 24 Columbus... Muscogee county,} ~a . oa November / -o, Talbolton Talbot county Nov. 30 <fc Dec. 1 Butler Taylor county Dec.... 2& 3 Oglethorre Macon county Dec 5 <fc 6 Americus.... Sumter county Dec 7& 8 Georgetown Quitman county Dec 9i 10 for the purpose of Examining all persons between the ages of 17 and 50, who have not been examined subsequent to the Ist day of April, 1864. Each county Enrolling officer will notify all men between tho ages of 17 and .50 to appear at the above mentioned places, for examination, at the time herein specified, aud have a suitable room pre pared for that purpose. ROBT. W. PARK, Surgeon, P. A, O. S. W.T. ABRAHAMS, Surgeon. P. A. C. S. P. B. MINOR, Surgeon, P. A, C. S. oc 29 2w's ATTQTIONSALES. By Rosette, Lawhoii &. Cos. Sugar, Salt and Whisky! _A_T TVTJOTXOIT- + mm yjE will sell on Wednesday, November 2d, at 11 YY o'clock, in front of our Auction Room— -3 Boxes New Orleans Sugar ; 1 Barrel New Orleans Sugar ; 4 Sacks New Orleans Sugar; 25 Barrels Salt; 5 Barrels Whisky; oc 29 4t By Rosette, Lanhon & €o. — « mm WE will sell on Wednesday, November, 2d, at 11 o’clock, in front of our Auction Room— SOFAS; TETE-a-TETE 5 ONE «£LOD£OA! WARDROBES, RAT RACKS; SEWING MACIIIMES; SPOOL THREAD; TABLES; BEDSTEADS; CALF SK.IKTS! MARBLE TOP CENTRE TABLE. oc 29 4t By Rosette, Lawhon A Cos, FALL AND WINTER CLOTHING! At Auoti on 2 m i m* if'E will sell on Wednesday, November 2d, at 11 v * o’clock, in front of our Auction Room— Gents. (ass, and (loth Coats:- do. do. - - Fonts $ do. Silk, Cass, and Cass. Tests. ' 00 29 4t SPECIAL NOTICES HEADQ’RS CONSCRIPT SERVICE FOR Georgia, August*, Oct. 17th, 1861. Circular No. 18. 2b Comity Enrolling Officers: Pursuant to orders from the Major 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 call 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 ifesteem of those brave men and n<>blc women to whose valor and devotion, under Providence, these priceless boons will be due. The ranks of our armies must be tilled. The bat tle scarred veterans, who, for four years have slam med the tide of invasion and held at bay the savage and powerful foe which still pollutes our soil, must be strengthened and auimated 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 has not yet been put forth in the defence of their homes, their fortune and their honor. It is also a tact known to all that there are thous ands of deserters and absentees from the army scat 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 frosts set in, conquer our independence and a cessation of war. It is 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 tho 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 piompt abandonment of their present life of lawlessness and peril and their return to the ranks in which they swore to serve during the war. Let constant efforts be directed to the ar rest of these men. Let evory hole and corner; let every swamp and forest in your respective counties in which these wretched men now find a preca rious shelter, be searched and penetrated by your selves and your assistants, until every deserter has been arrested, aud your vigilance and energy have proved that escape from capture is no longer possi ble. If you need aid in the performance of this duty, call upon the sheriff and other civil officers of the county, and, under the repeated orders of the Governor of the State, they are obliged to assist you. The officers commanding local companies, re cently organized in tho different counties by order of the Major General Commanding the Reserves, are also bound to aid you, and the great body of the inhabitants, awaro that the safety of their relatives and friends now in the field and of their families at home; the possession of their property, their lives, their liberty, depend on the success of our arms and our ability to hold our ground against the vandal hosts by which we are beset, will assuredly not fail to second your efforts to send into the ranks every man who properly belongs to them, whether he be one who owes military service and has failed to dis charge his debt, or he be one who has basely desert ed the flag of his country in the face of the enemy when she most needs the best services of ad her sons. The duties entrusted to you arc 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 attest their valor on the field. Let the same spirit that animated you in confronting the foe, inspire you now in the performance of your present duty, and let the consciousness that upon you, to a large ex tent, depends thespeedy and successful termination of the war, impel you to put forth all your energy arid thus earn the highest reward a Soldier can ob tain—the gratitude of his country. Hereafter County'Enrolling Officers v-'M report directly to these Headquarters, and not a-, hereto fore to the District Enrolling Officers, whose offices have been abolished by order of the War Depart ment.. WILLIAM' M. BIIOWNE. Colonel and Commandant of Conscripts for the State of Georgia. oc 24 6t HEADQ’RS CONSCRIPT SERVICE, Augusta, Ga., Octobor 20, 1864. Circular, No 19. It being generally believed that u number of 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, 1804, 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, aud 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 from these Headquarters to all persons entitled thereto. Railroad Companies, Government Officers and Contractors having detailed employees, jvill collect and forw -rd the Certificates of Exemption and De tail of thrir employees by Express to these Head quarters, where they will be exchanged for new oer tlflCatC"‘ WM. M. BROWNE, Colonel and Commandant of Conscripts for the State of Georgia. o t 24 fit HEADQ-RS CONSCRIPT SERVICE, -Augusta, Ga., October 21,1864. Circular, No. 20. 1. The Enrolling Officers of Georgia will‘proceed vigorously in tho execution of the following Circu lar. from the Bureau of Conscription : C. S. OF AMERICA, ) W\r Department, Bureau op Conscription, > Richmond. Va.. Oct., 7, 1864. ) Circular, No. 33, Med. Ex un’g Board, 3d Congressional Dis. 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 are 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 the respective States as may be designated for as signment by the General commanding the Reserve Forces to military service. From this requirement are excepted men detailed and now actually employ ed in manufacturing, providing, collecting and for warding munitions and otherindispensable supplies for the army and navy, or in work indispensable to military operations. Such persons will be allowed to remain m their employments until their details are revised. Under thi3 Order, all Farmers, Plan ters, Mechanics, and holding details by au thority of the War Department, or of local Con* scription Officers, are required forthwith to repair to the Camps of Instruction. Officers engaged in the Conscript serviee 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 Forees. Applicants fordetail will not be turloughed dur ing the pendency of their applications, bat will be assigned to the army. Circular No. 8. Bureau of Conscription, March 18,1861, having been rendered nugatory by subse quent General Orders from the A. k I. General's Office, is hereby revoked. By command of the Secretary of War, (Signed' JOHN S. PRESTON, Brig. Gen. and Sunt. ZIL In obedenee to Orders from the Major Gen eral commanding the Reserves, Enrolling Officers will respect, until further orders, all details held by employees of Government Office?? and Contractors. 111. The Secretary of War having directed that all men detailed from the army, now serving in Virginia—except tho-o employed in the Tax in Kind service—whe are not pronouneed unit for field service by a Medical Examining Board, and who ajr«i n 1 certified by JL j. ,f j, mentsand Chiefs of Bure mx as absolutely a* ry for the continuance of the manufacture of m(Jr tions and other indispensable supplies lor tho arm* be immediately returned bo the duty with ti !9 , r commands, Enrolling officer-* will see that «uc. persons are promptly forward® l. . 1\ . V hen a soldier is unable to appear before a Medical Examining Board, by reason of phyafcr disability, he will forward to tho Enrolling officei certificate t- this effect, whieh certificate must ak, embrace a full and accurate statement of the The Enrolling Officer will, in all cases, submit certificate to a Hospital Examining Board, Board of Examiners for Conscripts, who, in co n f c . ence with him, will make upon it sueh reeonuncu dations as may be warranted by theJacts at tained. " ' WM. M BROWNE, Colonel and commandant of Conscripts, cc 24 6t . for the State of Georgia. A UCTION SALES’ By Ellis, Livingston & Cos. / iN TUESDAY, November Ist, at 10 1-2 t'eleck '_'we will sell in front of our store, An Extra Likely Negro Woman, 21 years old, good Cook. Washer and Ironer, ac-j her Boy 4 years old. A Fine Blooded Cavalry Horse, 5 years old. oc 29 St sl2 Bv Ellis, Livingston A Cos. VALUABLE STORE Mill Iff AT A_TJOTIOTsT! ON TUESDAY, Bth of November, at 10 J j o’clocx we will sell in front of our Auction Room, The Valuable Store, No, 127. Broad Street, Threo Doors below Hill k DawsouG old corr or. The Lot is 22 feet, front and 147 feet 19 inches doep—Store 11 1 feet deep—with privilege of the Alley. ALSO The following very desirable Stocks; 133 Shares Florida Home Insurance Cos.. S2O per Share paid in. 100 Shares Eufaula Home Insurance Cos., SSO per Share paid in. 50 Shares Georgia Insurance Company, $25 per Share paid in. 500 Shares Southern Insurance Company, Savannah, Bringham, President, $lO per Share paid in. 5 Shares Importing and Exporting Company Stock of Georgia, Lamar. Prest., SI,OOO per Share paid in. 52 Shares “Great Southern Insurant : Company,” S2O per Share paid in. 5 Shares Bank of Colnmbus Sfcoik, SIOO per Share paid in. oc 2& lOt SIBO By Elilik, Livingston A Cos m » - GOOD FARM AT AUCTION WE will sell on TUESDAY, Ist November, at 10y£ o’clock, in front of our Auction Room A Desirable Farm I Three-fourths of a mile from Salem, Ala., known as the "Prewett Place,” containing 320 acros of productive land—nbout 200 acres cleared and under good fences, The Dwelling has Four Good Rooms S with excellent OUT HOUSES. GIN, *t„ and a plentiful supply of good water. ALSO — A likely Negro Man. 28 years old. 1 Field Hand, Ac. oc 27 5t S3O —ALSO— -48 JJbls. Superior Coast Salt; 5 Cases Smoking Tobacco: 1 Bbl. Fine Rum: •* ' Close Carriage, Wagons, Buggies, Horsed &c., &c. oc 29 4t $9 By Ellis, Livingston & Cos AN SATURDAY. 29th of October at U we will sell in front of our store 1 >’uw Parlor Carpet, 2 New Bed-room Carpets, LOT FINE GLASSWARE: Including Goblets, Tumblers, Pitcher*, Cake Stands, &c,, tfcc. 1 pair Fine Globe Lamps, Candlesticks, A lot Elegantly Bound Parlor Volumes, including the best Literary and Poets cal Works, 1 Fine Gray Mare 7 years old, 1 Splendid China Tea Sett, 1 Sett Fine Silver Plated Carriage Hut* ness, nearly new, 1 Shifting Seat Buggy, in good order. 1 Box Oil Paints, for Portraits aai Brushes, 2 Dozen Cottage Chairs, Thirty Bbls. Salt, Lot Paintings, School Books, Bed Stead*, &c., &c. oc 26 4t S4O By Ellis, Livingston & A PR I V ATE SALE. 1,500 Acres unimproved Land on Spring Creek, Miller county, formerly Early, will be sold at a bargain, oc 2117 t $-50 FOB SALE! A t 114 r Broad. Street, | A BUSHELS Fine Sweet Potatoes t:V 20 bushels Fine Eating Apples; JUGS, JARS AND BOWLS! Cedar Tabs and Backets. 3CTTO2T OAHDSi VINEGAR AND SYRUP! 2,000 pounds Fine Flour ; 75 boxes Tobacco; 20 cases Smoking Tobacco; 3 bags Black Pepper; Soda and Spice; Well Rope; CHOICE BACON HAMS and SIDES 1 oc 29 2t WM. H. H. PHELPS. OFFICE SOUTHERN EXPRESS. Columbus, Ga., Oct., 29,1564. NO Freight will be received at the Southern Ex press Company's Office after 3>£ o’clock ?. M. to ('o East on that day, nor will any be received to go West after 4 1 j oVlock r u. oc 29 ts S. 11. HILL, Agent. For the Front. ALL Packages and Letters for Fenner's BaCterr if left at the residence of Mr. Beach, will ha conveyed bj Mr. C. Young, on Monday