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DAi 'u \ t i MLS. J. W. WiKHi;\, - - - K^ltor. COLUMBUS: Wednesday Morning, November!, 18G4. Cnlcnlations of the Enemy. General Grant has declared his .belief, iua letter that has been made public, that the Confederacy is at its last gasp; that the stock of fighting material has been entirely exhaus ted ; that to compose the army which is now facing hi* on tlielioes from Petersburg to Rich mond the Confederacy h»d her** compelled to rob tie orach- and'"t b J : •* wu fotces, on the o her band, are in tne Highest stale of preservation and efficiency : that iua very little -inn; 1 j can pm an extinguisher upon tile war fl <d these staiciuuuts bet-n submit ted to a people enprtDle ot ifaeoning. says the Richmond Whig, many fl ings in them might have seemed incuiis'pfetn with the exisfing fact**. f«>r instn.n-e. if f!i<» rebels were so ne f(\ e.; ban*- J. v>;.• r.Ji-. . nib bold at bay ih; poe -oil and fully organized and equipped >n.y of General Grant?— If the material *.d ibt rabid army oim sis ed oulv yf ol ildren too ydtiug to bear arms, by wbat influence had they been* ena bled to repel a’l the at ticks tlitif had b. . u made upon them? If the demolition oft is force was a thing bu easy of Hccomplishmt <i 11 -i the capture of Richmond was tbe ov- r , throw of the rebellion, why did not General i Gran' proceed at once to gratify the earnest wi-i, of every iitukee heart? Af*ove all, had ti,i public been eiiher curious or critical; they might have asked if it was not in badtatMe for Grant, above ail other men, to make ;>«ch de clarations with regard to an enemy whom lie had been unable to conquer, at the head of ah army t.uly one.eighth smaller than that with whi it Bonaparte invaded Russia—wbpm he had never met in the field but to be beaten by them- from whom lie had been unable to conquer; one foot of the ground they had de fended—ami who still, to all appearances, de fied him a.- confidently and as fearlessly as they had dime six months before ? Rut there was none disposed to dispute liis word, or to doubt.his predictions. All were eager to see the rebellion crushed in reality as it had often been on paper, and men do not like to raise a conflict between their hopes and their doubts, if they can possibly avoid it. They believed, because they were determined to believe, that we were entirely exhausted of men, and it is upon that calculation that they are now pros ecuting the war. That these calculations are false, and will lead to the most disastrous consequences (o the Yankees who make them, is sufficiently clear. Even now, we are enabled to face them everywhere, with equal advantages. At no point are they superior to u«. And yet, if we may trust the researches of Senator Hill, of Georgia, we have not more than one-third of the men between 18 and 43, now in the service. Were all the stragglers and fur loughed men at their posts, we should he able to drive Grant into the river, before the lapse of another month. Why these men are not sent to tbe front, is a question which we are not prepared to answer. But we are assured that, in future, means far more energetic than any heretofore used, will be applied lo bring them up to the mark, f’here is no danger of being conquered for want of men to defend our cause. Os that the Yankees may be as sured. The Press ami Congress. We have heard certain outgivings by gentlemen who profess to know, and they predict that the Congress to meet on the 7th of next mouth, have hostile intentions against the press of the country. All we have to say on this subject is, that if thoy are ready for the conflict, so are we. If the fight is to begin at all, the srmner the better. We only now sound tbo alarm, that the knights of the quill may not be taken unwares and off their guard. The newspaper iu America is so common a thing, is so cheap and so accessible, that its importance has never been fully appreciated, and' we fear never will be until some tyrant arises to restrict it of its fair and noble proportions,and have in each city a censor to whom everything shall be presented hofore publication. The liberty of the Press is not the liberty desired by the wanton de bauchco, the liberty (as they call it) of outraging society, defaming the good by association, and setting at <iotiance all laws, human and divine. This is not liberty, but anarchy. Anything un restricted in its action, either by positive enact ment or social regulation, is anarchy. True liber ty is the right to do right and not the right to do wrong. And the editor who makes his columns the channel for inculcating false sentiment or opinions, to tho detriment of the country and so ciety, and prostitutes hfs priveteges in a time of peace to flooding the land with immorality and abuse, and in a time of war, to such a course Ss would indicate his intention to desert the cause at the first opportunity, should be silenced and de barred the use of an organ to propogate error. It; would be no infrigoment of the rights es the Press but rather a sustaining of it. The true liberty of the Press is good faith, both to the laws of the land and to the requirements of society. ■ ■ H “Williamsburg, Dec. 20, 1776. ••Yaue«nuot eoncoive how our cause fuffers for want of a constant and speedy conveyance of au thentic intelligence from State to State. I hope tho late resolutions of Congress respecting the Posts would have remedied this inconvenience, but un happily it has not been carried tnto execution. Tho tories propagate what lies they please to invent and it is often long before we can contradict them. Seldom before they have made a bad impression somewhere. Many people here were greatly alarmed at the letters which, it is said, yon [and Col. Harrison wrote by the Post, (I have not yet teen them) and seem to think all is lost. But I am ture your letters, and I suppose Colonel Har rison's could never convey such, an idea. For the loss es every tewn in America must* be but a small loss compared to all. Some people, I fear, wish all was lost.” Our fathers had the right view of this. The ; Press, with the mail facilities still left u», are tho sturdy, sentiaols to deny and write down not only the lies propagated by tories, but to sound the alarm of danger, aud to encourage confidence and hope in the gloomy homes. Although printer’s ink has made more-politicians and ephemeral great men than brains, wo yet trust iu the good judgment of the sensible men of Con grossto do justice to the Press of the Confederacy. [Augusta Constitutionalist. The Brooklyn, which lately arrived at the Bos ton navy yard from Mobile, it is stated has fifty nine*ehots iu her sides : seventy-three in ether parts, and twelve hundred pounds of shot and Shell buried in her decks. A gentleman just out from Kentucky states that the Y'ankees concede that Price has re ceived 35,000 reinforcements is Missouri. fonrvpoiMPnec Between Generals Tot* ’find Grant, RSLATIVK TU TUi TEKAT ME N T Oi NEGRO SOL DIERS, ANP THE RETALIATORY MEAS- . I RES OF GEN. BUTLER. Hpq'ns Army Northern Virginia, l October 191b,'1861. j Lieut. Gen. U. S. Grant, Commanding U. S. Armies: Ginebal : In accordance with instructions from the Hon. Secretary of War of the Con federate States, I have the honor to call your attention to the subject of two communications recently addressed by Major General B. F. But ler, an officer under your command, to the Hon. Robert Child. Commissioner for the Ex change of Prisoners. For the better understanding of the matter, 1 enclose I’opies of the communications. You will perceive by one of them that the writer has placed a number of officers and men, belonging to tbe Confederate service, prisoners o: war captured by the United States forces, at labor in the canal at Dutch Gap, in retaliation, .8 is alleged, tor a like number of Federal colored soldiers, prisoners of war in our bauds, yybo are said to have been put to work on our fortifications. The evidence of this fact is found in the iiuiuuvit.s of two deserters from our service. Tiie other leiter refers to a copy of a notice i ued by a Confederate officer commanding a camp near Richmond, calling upon the own ers to come forward and establish their claims to certain negroes ju the custody of that, offi cer. The writer of the letter proceeds to slate that some of the negroes mentioned in the no tine are believed to be soldiers of tbe United j States army captured in arms, and that, upon j ttiat belief, he ha 6 ordered to such manual labor as be deems most fitting to meet the | exigency an equivalent number of prisoners I of war held by the United States, and an j nounces that he will continue to order to la bor captives in war to a number equal to that of all tbe United States soldiers who he has reason to believe are held to service or labor by the Confederate forces, until he shall be notified that the alleged practice on the part of the Confederate authorities has ceased. Before stating the facts with reference to the particular negroes alluded to. I beg to ex plain the policy pursued by the Confederate Government towards this class of persons, when captured by its so ce3. All negroes in the*military or naval service of the United States, taken by us, who are not identified as the property of citzeos or resi*. dents of any of the Confederate States, arc regarded as prisoners of war, being held to be proper subjects of exchange, as I recently had the honor to inform you. No labor is exacted from such prisoners by tbe Confederate authorities. Negroes who owe service or labor to citi zens or residents of the Confederate States, and who, through compulsion, persuasion, or of their own accord, leave their owners, and are placed in the military or naval service of the United States, occupy a different position. The right to the service or labor of negro slaves, in the Confederate States,, is ihe same now a? when those States were members of the Federal Union. The constitutional relations and obligations of the Confederate Government to the owners of this species of properly, are ihe same as those so frequently anil so long recognized as appertaining to the Government of the United States, with reference to the same class of persons, by virtue of its organic law. From the earliest period of the indepen dence of the American States, it has been held that one of the duties incumbent upon the several common governments under which they have, from time to time, been associated, was the return to tbeir lawful owners, of slaves'recaptured from the public enemy. It has been uniformly held that the capture or abduction of a slave, does not impair the right of the owner to sit'd! slave, but that the right attaches to him immediately upon recapture. Such was the practice of the American States during their struggle for independence. The Government under which they were ttien associated restored to the owners slaves ab ducted hy the British forces and subsequently recaptured by the American armies. In the war ot 1812 with Great Britain, the course pursued by tbe United States Governs merit was the same, and it recognized the right ot the owner to slaves recaptured from the enemy. Both the Continental and United States Governments, in fact, denied that the abduction of slaves sas a belligerent right, and the latter power insisted upon, and ulti mately secured by treaty, pecuniary indem nity from the British Government for slaves taken by its forces duriDg the war of 1812. And it is supposed that a negro belonging to a citizen of a §tate in which slavery is re cognized, and which is regarded as one of the United States, weie to escape into the Confed erate States, or be captured or abducted by their armies, the legal right of the owner to reclaim him would be as clear now as in 1812, the Constitution of the United States being unchanged in that particular, and that instru ment having been interpreted in the judicial decisions, .legislative and diplomatic acts and correspondence of the United States, as im posing upon that government the duty of pro tectiug, in all cases coming within the scope of its authority, the owners of sla\es as well as of any other kind of property recognized as such by the several States. The Confederate Government, bound by the same constitutional obligations, considers, as that of the United States did, that the capture or abduction of a negro slave does not pre clude the lawful owner from reclaiming him yfhen captured, and I am instructed to say that ail slaves when properly identified as be longing to citizens vf'&ny of the Oon ederate States, or to persons enjoying the protection of their laws, will be restored, like Other re captured private property, to those etmiled :o them. endeavored to explain the general of the Confederate Government with ■Hard to this subject, I beg leave to state the concerning the particular transactions IMerred to in the enclosed communications. ■Tim negroes recently captured by our forces sent to Richmond with other Federal After their arriv il it was discov |Hd that a number of them ,vere slaves be- to citizens or residents of some of the IBnfederate States, and of this class fiftv- Hie. as I learn, were sent, with other negroes, Mwork on the fortifications around Richmond until their owners should appear and claim them. As soon as I was informed of the fact, less than two days afterwards, not wishing to employ them here, I ordered them to be sent to the interior. By a misapprehension of the engineer offi cer, in charge, they were transferred to our lines south of James river, but when apprized of the error, I repeated the order ft r their re moval. If any negroes were included among this number, who were not identified as the slaves of citizens or residents of some of tbe Confederate States, they were so included without the knowledge or authority of the War Department, as already explained, and the mistake, when discovered, would have been corrected. It only remains for me to say, that negroes employed upon, our fortifications are not al lowed to be placed where they will be exposed to tire and there is no foundation lor any statement to the contrary. The author of the communications referred to has considered himself justified (by the re port of two deserters, who do not allege that the negroes in question were exposed to any danger,) in placing our prisoners at laber in the canal at Dutch Gap. under the fire of our batteries. In vieww»f the explanation of the practice of the Confederate Government above given and of the statement of facts 1 have made, I have now. in accordance with iuy instructions, j respectfully to inquire whether tbe course • pursued towards our prisoners, as set f° r th in , the accompanying letters, has your sanction i and whether it will be maintained Very respectfully, « Your obedient servant. 1 (Signed) . R. E. LEE, General. Headq’rs Arv;es or the UvrrED States. > October 20, 180f. \ Gen. K. b. Lee. C. S. A., Commanding Army of Northern Virginia: General — Understanding, from your letter , of the 19th, that the colored prisoners who were employee at work in the trenches near Fort Gilmer have been withdrawn, I have di rected the withdrawal of the Confederate prisoners employed in the Dutch Gap canal. ; I shall always regret the necessity for retalia» ting for wrongs done our soldiers ; but re gard it my duty to protect all persons received into tbe army of the United States, regardless of color or nationality. When acknowledged soldiers of the Government are captured, they must be treated as prisoners of war, or such treatment as they receive w ill be inflicted up on an equal number of prisoners held by Us. I have nothing to do with the discussion of the slavery question, therefore decline an swering the arguments adduced to show’ the right to return to former owners such negroes a3 are captured from our army. In answer to the question at tbe conclusion of your let ter, I have to state, that all prisoners of war falling into my hands shall receive the kind est possible treatment, consistent with secur ing them, m I have good authority tor believing'any number of our men are being treated otherwise Then, painful as it may be to me, I shall inflict like treatment on an equal numbe of Confederate prisoners. Hoping th"t it may never become my duty to order retaiiatiation upon any man, held as a prisoner of war, « T have the honor to be, , Very respectfully, Your obedient servant. U S. GRANT, Lieut. Gen'l. Lain* from Europe. Father Point, Oet. 2-!,— The steamship Bel gian, from Liverpool, oa the ISth, via Queenstown on.the 14th instant, arrived here at 10:30 o’clock this morning. Her dates are five days later than thus* already received. GREAT BRITAIN. Commercial afi'airs continued to be the princi pal topic of discussion. The depression in com mercial circles shows no diminution, and business, especial!" >n cotton, is almost at a dead lock, and prices eonti .ue to fall. The additional failures which have taken place include Louis Speltz, a large cotton dealer in Liv erpool, with liabilities amounting to £820,000 ; Messrs. Hime, Milnes & Cos., cotton brokers in Liverpool, with considerable liabilities and Messrs. Bendine Jfc Cos., merchants in London, whose liabili ties are small. TheTitqes Paris correspondent says : “Uneasiness in commercial circles has beeu increased by a statement which appeared in the papers that the demand for gold at the Bank of France is increas ing, and that 6,000,000 t were withdrawn during the last two days of the week. Commercial failures are likewise spoken of.” The demand for discount at 'he Bank of England en the 12th instant, showed great subsidence, and there was consequently more steadiness in the funds. The minimum rate of tbe bankwas 9 per cent. The half-monthly settlement in the Confederate loan exhibits a Strang® anomaly, the price in Lon don being 55, in Manchester 50, while at Liver pool, owing to the extent of adverse speculations, it has rebounded to 64. Tho London Times has an editorial on the ad dress. Yvith three hundred thousand signatures, recently sent to Governor Seymour from England, entreating the North to make peace with the South. The Times says: “In three weeks more than three thousand good people have given their names to an address entreating tho Federate to let the Confederates alone and part ic peace. Nearly half of tho signatures are Irish, obtained through the influence of the Roman Catholic priest hood. There is nothing new in tho address, nor need there be, for all that Yvas Yvaated was to ex press the uatural feelings of almost every English man at the successive stages of this jniserable affair.” The Times says the address signed by these three hundred thousand gentlemen can effect just nothing, and thinks the only possible solution of the question is continued war. America has commenced the fiery ordeai of war which settled Europe on its present basis, and terrible as is tbe process, the Times cannot doubt that America will be the he'ter for it in the end. The Times says : The Lord Chancellor and the Commissioners who will be appointed by Her Majesty, assemble in the House of Lords on Thursday next, the 13th, for the purpose of pro roguing Parliament until November 11th. There seems to b* misapprehension in the public mind, and erroneous statements have appeared in several papers in reference to the duration of the preiont Parliament. It was “begun and hidden on the 21st of May, 1359,” and will not legally expire until tho close of the next year. According to the usual practice the dissolution will take place next spring, and the new Parliament assembles in November fol lowing, for a short time, and then adjourns to February or March for the transaction of general business. The Times, in a leader on the intelligence of the Arabia, says : At this moment all the Northern accounts must bo received very cautiously ; every incident in the field is, if possible, made to serve the purpose of the Government party in the Presidential election, and if the brightest account is believed for a few hours the object is gained. FRANCE. The Patrie says that Russia has given its adhe sion to the French policy on tho Roman ques tion. The Paris Bourse was dull aud lower on the 12th ins*ant, and tbe Rentes closed at 65 francs 15 centimes. La France says that the insurrection in Algeria is spreading, aud that the natives there appear to be obeying a summons to a holy war. AUSTRIA. The reports of a Ministerial crisis are consid ered premature, but it is believed that Count Rech berg will tender his resignation on account of com plications in the foreign policy. THE DANISH QUESTION. At the Paris Conference a compromise is said to have been effected on the financial question.— Minor questions were also advanced, and there only remains now tho drtiwing up of the Treaty of Pea'Ad The Paris correspondent of the London Times says that there am govi "rounds for believing that representations have been maud Vienna and Berlin, by England and France, with rssnect to the unwarrantable pretensions of tbe Austrian 9-ad Prussian Plenipotentiaries, ou account of the blockade during tho war, and a Paris paper professes to know that concessions have been made to the Dunes in tbe Conference, and that a larger portion of North Schleswig than expected will be incorporated with Jutland. PRUSSIA. A meeting between the King of Prussia and the Emperor of Russia was about te take place at Darm^nit. TURKEY. A financial crisis is reported at Constantinople. Interest had been raised to 14 per cent., and money was not obtainable at that. NEW ZEALAND. It is officially announced that tbe New Zealand ers have unconditionally submitted to the Queen’s authority, and placed their lands at the Gover nor’s disposal. They were permitted to return to their lands, a small portion of which only will be forfeited. LATEST, via LIVERPOOL. Liverpool, Oct. IS, p. in.—Captain Semmes, ac companied by eight officers of the Alabama, and one hundred men, has left this city, te be trans ferred, with guns, <fcc., to the steamer Ranger, re cently lying at Madeira. Tho following are the latest despatches received by her: London, Oct. 14.—There is a better tone in the money market and funds are firmer, but the heaviness in commercial circles continues. The frigate Niagara had arrived off Shoreham, with the Spanisli ste..mer seized uuder suspicion of being a blockade runner The ship Southern Rights, of Maine, was cap tured on August 22d, by the Confederate steamer Florida, and released under bonds. BRAZIL. The Brazil end llio Plata Mail says : Owing to the war in America, several wealthy Southern planters purp»r« settling in this country. Some hare already arrived and several more are on their way. Dos gentleman from South Caro lina is expected to arrive here with a capital of | 250,090 patacoas. All these parties intend to lo ; cate in Santa Fe. In a few years time the lands I in that province will be worth as much, if net more, i than those of Buenos Ayres. • ' Sl*?:?** wf Miarlftilo:;. touts Hcndued and Sevenv-Eh;ijvn Day During the twenty-four hour* that have | elapsed since our last report, Battery Gregg has fired 81 shells at the city. The enemy’s teams are still busily engaged i' ailing ammunition to Battery Wagner and Cuminings’ Point. Ou Thursday, our police had information that a small boat, freighted with “contra bands,'? would start on an illegal expedition that evening about seven o’clock, from the foot of Hasel street. Acting on this informa tion. Lieutenant Caldwell with a file of his men, with muskets, stationed themselves on the wharf, and at the appointed starting hour seven negroes arrived singly. When about to embark the order to arrest them was given, and some of course fled. Lieutenant Cald well ordered the police to fire on the fleeing negroes but in the dark, and confusion of the moment, they fired in the direction of the Lieutenant, who at the time had one of the negroes in charge, Lieutenant Caldwell had a very narrow escape, one ball passed through his great coat at the waist, another wounding him slightly in the right knee. This unfortu - nate occurrence gave ample time to most of the intended voyagers to escape, and only two were arrested and taken to the guard house. The statement of the two arrested is to the effect that they were engaged during the day by three white men to ferry them over to Mount Pleasant, but the secrecy with which the matter was arranged, the non-appearance of any white man as passenger, the muffled oars, etc., led to the conclusion that the boat was destined for another quarter.— Ch. Mercii. nj, '2oth. Fiiuit Norfolk.— Sutler's late order is driv ing hundreds of refugees from Norfolk and Portsmouth. One of them, who has just reached our lines, gives us a horrible account of the brutal tyranny which now characterizes the government of these two unfortunate ci ties. Every department of business is con trolled or conducted by Yankee squatters. Some of these had vessels loaded with goods for the Richmond market, at the'time Grant sprang his mine at Petersburg, believing, from representations made to them Ivy officers con nected with the Army of the Potomac, that “the Capital of Rebeldom” was bound to fall. The sequel showed that they paid dearly for what they deemed reliable contraband infor mation—and, instead of reaping the fruits of the first monopoly at Richmond were forced for some time afterwards to sell cheap goods in the overstocked Norfolk market.— Richmond Whig. Capture of a Yankee Steamer.— The fast, first class U. S. steamer Ike Davis, 424 tons burthen, left her anchorage off the bar at the mouth of Rio Grande on the 21st iust. at o’clock p. m., with a crew of 32 persons, in cluding 10 contrabands, and five passengers. At 7 o’clock, p. m. the vessel had changed hands, the crew becoming prisoners and the passengers taking charge of the vessel. The head and front of this bold and successful exploit was a choice spirit from New Orleans. The sailing master, after the change in owner*hip, was our Galveston friend, while another participant hails from Old Brazoria. The vessel and passengers were brought safely into Texas waters. The steamer is represented as very fast, making seventeen knots, an hour easy. She wag formerly the “Habanepo,’’ and ran be tween Havana and Matanzas, in opposition to the railroad between those cities. We are informed that the officers and crew of the captured steamer reachedthis place by last night's Ta p road train. —Galveston A ' en-s. Northwestern Virginia. —We have ac counts of a great change having taken place in that portion of Virginia West of the Alle ghany Mountains. A great number of re cruits are joining the Confederate army, and many of the citizens, heretofore considered friends of the Union, are giving aid to our cause. They have had enough of Yankee rulers.— Petersburg Republican. Speech of Mr. Pendleton. Mr. George H. Pendleton, the Democratic candidate for Vice President, was serenaded Monday night, at the New York Hotel. New York, by the McClellan Legion, an association composed of former soldiers of the Army of the Potomac. A large number of persons haviifg assembled, Mr. Pendleton was intro duced by the Hon. John Van Buren. and spoke as follows: I thank you for this manifestation of kind feeling toward myself. I am the more grate ful for it as it comes from men who have stood in the fore fiont of danger and perilled their lives for their country. (Loud cheers.) I accept it as an evidence of your confidence in, and of your sympathy with my devotion to the Union and the constitution. (Three cheers for George H. Pendleton.) * * I was born in Ohio. I have lived all my life in the Northwest. I know the sentiment of the people. I sympathize entirely with it. They are attached by every tie of affection and interest to this Union. (Loud cheering.)— Unlike New York, they have never kuown an other government; they never existed as a political community before this government was formed, and tbeir hearts cling to this gov ernment with indescribable tenacity. Unlike you, they are an inland people, chiefly devoted to agriculture. As an integral and controling portions of the Union they have prestige and power—they fear from disunion isolation from the world, and the loss of that prestige and power. Cheer3. Their interest re quires that they should have speedy and easv communicationwith the ocean, and this they intend to have, both by the Gulf of Mexico aud the city of New York, by conciliation in peace if they can, by all the force and power which a teeming population and a fruitful soil give them if they must. (Loud cheers.) They believe that the first step towards main taining the Union is the election of General Mc- Clellan. (Great cheering.) They believe that the restoration of the democratic party to power will produce union. (Cheers.) They believe the policy of this administration towards both the Southern and Northern States is fatal to the Union. (“That’s so.”) Gen. McClellan, in his Harrison Landing letter, said: “Neither confisca tion of property, nor political execution of per sons, nor territorial organization of States, nor the forcible abolition of slavery, should for one mo ment be thought of.” [Cheers.] In his letter of acceptance he said : “The Union was originally formed by the exercise of a spirit of conciliation and compromise. To restore and preserve it iu a like spirit must prevail in the councils of the country and in the hearts of the people.” (Cheers.) The Democratic party is pledged to an unswerv ing fidelity te the Union under the Constitution. (Cheers.) It is pledged to “the restoration of peace on the basis of the Federal Union of the States. (Loud applause.) We believe—nay, we know —that if this party shall be restored to power —if this policy shall prevail—the Union shall be restored; State after State will return to us, and the echoes of our rdjoicings will come down to us from the vaults of Heaven itself, in token that Deity approves that statesmanship which tempers all its policy with moderation and justice and conciliation. [Cheers.] When next j meet you I hope we may have already entered on that work. Again, gentlemen, I thank you for your attention and wish you good-night. (Loud and long cheers followed the speech.) “Good Lick.’? — A lady and gentleman in Liverpool, England, were disturbed in their slumbers recently by the noise of a move un der the bed. The lady expressed alarm, but her somewhat sleepy caro sposo said, “Oh, it is only one of the dogs and putting hia hands down by the side of the bed, he called, “Lion, Lion,” and his hand being licked, after a moment the pair were satisfied, and they soon slumbered agdin peacefully. In the morning they found that all their money and jewelry had disappeared, and it was clear that the lick had been a dernier resort of an ingenius biped under the bed. The negroes of Chicago have published a protest against the exclusion of their children from the public schools of that eitf. THE CITT. T i. JACKSON LOCAL KDITOE Sales To-Dat.—The reader will find by leak ing over our advertising columns that Rosette, Lawhon A Cos., will hav® an extensive sale of val uable property to day. Look over the articles to bo sold and be sum to attend the salo if you wish to secare bargain?. Auction Sales. —Tho following prices wore ob tained at Ellis A Co’s auction yesterday — One fine gold watch, $1,200 : ono do., $225 ; eno do., $550 ; one do., $450 ; one do., S3SO : one Wheeler and Wilson's sewing machine, $2lO eno negro boy, 20 years old, $3,030 0ne negro man, 30 years eld, $2,500 ; one negro man, about 35 years old, $3,660 : 320 acres land with improve ments, near Salem, Ala.. $5,550 ;• one pair mules, $2,200 : one do,, $l,lOO ; one good sorrel horse, SI,SOO : six boxes sugar (good article) $5 to $5,25 ; salt, 05 to 75 cents : one rockaway and harness, $1,006 : whiskey, $37; and other articles in pro portion. Sergt. R. T. Gray.—A letter from this officer to his wife in this city, dated at Camp Chase, Ohio, Oetobor 2d. 1864, contains the information that he is well, though slightly dispirited, and in want of winter clothing. He is living in hope? of an early exchange, and we earnestly trust ihe poor fellow may md be doomed to disappointment. The prospect of spending the long, cheerless winter in a Yankee prison is anything but encouraging to a Confederate soldier. It will be a pleasure to Mr. Gray’s friends to learn that he still lives, though so unfortunately circumstanced, as it was feared some time ago that he had fallen into the hands of the enemy mortally ivounded. The letter above mentioned contains no other news of importance — • From the 20th Georgia Regiment. Headquarters 20th Georgia Regiment, October 23d, 1864. Editor lntclliyciicer: Sir: You will please publish the enclosed com munication froinCapt. Mims. This loss occurred in about four hundred yards of Fort Harrison. After a double quick of two miles we lacked about this distance of reaching the Fort, when the Federate entered it, and a few militia and others retired.— From our position we opened fire on the enetny, but in a few minutes all the troops between this regi ment and the Fort, being enfiladed, gave way, and the YAnkees came sweeping down on our right and rear, and succeeded in capturing the following list, and a few killed and wounded, (a list of which have heretofore been published by the press.) We retir ed hastily to tho next line, atd with about 200 men repulsed an attack of the 10th and 18th army corps, with a loss, as estimated by their own correspond" ents, of 300 men. Our loss iu this lastTiffair was re makably small. In my regiment one officer and one man killed, and two officers and one man wounded. This Yvas the most complete triumph I have wit nessed since the war, when we compare losses. I am, very sincerely, your friei and, E. M SEAGO, Lieut. Col. commanding. City Point, Va., Oct. 2,1864. Commanding Officer 20th Georgia Regiment, Ben- i ning's Brigade, Field's Division. A. N. V. Sir: Lieuts, R’chards and Adams, now commis sioned officers: Privates, Cos. A, 20th Ga., J Rad cliffe; Cos B, Joe Fuller, S Robinson, Arm strong; Cos C, Pilcher, Mulligan: Cos D. J J Blalock, W M Blalock, McGraw; Cos E, Sergt Jno Henry Williams, privates Bufford, §cott; Cos if, Nerat Graham ; Cos G, corporal Williams, privates McDonald, Wilson, Thompson, Belcher; (Jo I, cor poral Crenshaw, privates Jarret, Jones, Thomas, Tass, Hale; Go K. Pittman and Sellars, all were captured on the 29th September. Mulligan was wounded in the jaw, but not seriously. The rest all well. Please have this list published, so that our friends may. know that we are safe. These are all that Yvere captured from ourßegiuient on tho 29th Sept. Respectfully your obedient servant, C. B. MIMS, Capt, Cos. I, 20th Georgia Regiment. ft'otice. Parties desiring to send Letters or Packages to their friends in Pemberton’s Cavalry can do so by leaving them at J. ENNIS & CO’S Store before the Bth instant, Cooked provisions wilßnot be re ceived. H. A. CHAPMAN, no 2 6t Wanted TO HIKE by the month a GOOD COOK for Head Quarter Mess. LEON VON ZINKEN. nov 2 3t Colonel. &W Sun and Enquirer please copy. Gorenifiient Sheep for Exchange. Qi ;A HEAD SHEEP will be exchanged for Bacon G 'O or Beef. The Sheep rated at $2 00, Bacon 10c., Beef 2c. gross per pound. The Beef to be de livered alive. Apply to J. A. TYLER. Columbus, Nov. 2,1864—ts AUCTION S ALES. By Rosette, Lawhon & Cos. Sugar, Salt and Whisky! -A.T T^TJCTXOIsr. VUE will sell on Wednesday, November 2d. at 11 m o’clock, in front of our Auction Room— -8 Boxes New Orleans Sugar ; 1 Barrel New Orleans Sugar : 4 Sacks New Orleans Sugar; 25 Barrels Salt; 5 Barrels Whisky ; oe 29.4 t By Rosette, Lawhon & Cos. WE will sell on Wednesday, November, 2d, at 11 i ? o’clock, in front of our Auction Room — SOF A S ; r ITETE<i-TETE : OITE REIiODEOIV! WARDROBES, -IAT RACKS; SEWING MACHINES; SPOOL THREAD; ' TABLES; BEDSTEADS; O Jk. Xjb JF" SIS.IBTS’ MARBLE TOP CENTRE TABLE. oc 29 4t By Bosette, Lawhon A Cos,; FALL AND WINTER CLOTHING! • jL 3Lt AuotSon l IX*E will sell on Wednesday, November 2d, at 11 o’clock,, in front of our Auction Room — Gents. Cass, and Cloth Coats; do. do. - - Pants ? do. Silk, Cass, and Cass. Ycsls, j oc 29 4t B¥ ROSETTE, LAWHON & CO. i Administnitoi’N Sale! AGREEABLE to an order of the Ordinary of Mus cogee eounty, will be sold on Wednesday, 2d November next, at 11 oe’clock, in front of our Auc tion Room, Six IKTogpfoojs* belonging to the estate of John N. Burch, dec’d. 1 NEGRO WOMAN, Martha and her two children. 1 NEGRO BOY, Edward. 1 “ WOMAN, Mary Arm. GEO. P. SNIDER, Adm’r. Rosette, Lawhon & Cos., Auet'r*. ,er>24 ltd Jt wtd FOR SAFE. i PLANTATION of Pine land containing 40# fl acres—l6o acresh fresh cleared land, situated in j a first class neighborhood, two miles.from Yallula and 2}-2 miles from the M & G Railroad. Fine well J water and very healthy. Apply to Dr. Sam Powers, . Depot Agent, at Silver Run. Supplies and farm j utensils caa be parokased on tbe place, uov 1 st* i TELEGRAPHIC. j REPORTS or THU FRSSS ASSOCIATION. in?, to , act of Congress in the year ! Jgphte ’5 n 1 rasher, in tho Clerk’s office of , Hi vl fv, 0 * .°f Confederate States for the Northern District of Georgia. Mobile, Nov. Ist.—A special to the Adver- I user, dated Senatobia, Oct. Blst, says 8h j Louis papers of the 26th had been received. Price is reported to be twenty miles south of ! Kansas City fightiDg, and material loss oa j both sides amount to no groat consequence. It is supposed that the main body of Price 1 * | army has not yet been engaged. I The St. Republican says that but little re!i --1 ance can be placed in anything coming from ' Blount and Lane of interest. \ A special to the Democrat, dated Warrens burg, 21st, says Price is making his way through to Kansas, and Smith is following.— The latest news places him beyond the State line with ihe the plunder of twenty counties, causing much mantweriug. } Pleasanton is reported to be waking up the Federals. He lost 300 at Kansas City, and ' claims 500 prisoners. j Wilmington, Ist. — The Journal has received Bermuda advices of the 12th and 19th , containing the trial and release ol Acti g Master J. C. Braine, of the Confederate State:; Navy, aud associates, for the burning of ths steamer Roanoke. They were released oaths 12th and set at liberty, tbe charges against them haviug been withdrawn by the Attorney : General. Richmond, Nov. Ist. The Washington ; Chronicle of the 30th, has been received. A St. Louis telegram of the 29th, says : Late ac counts put Price near Carthage still sked.t t dling. with our cavalry in full pursuit. Pleasanton was slightly wounded by a fall from his horse. A dispatch from St. Joseph says that Biil Anderson and seven of his men were killea on j the 27tb. Gov. Bradford issued a proclamation a:t --j nouncing the adoption of the new Free Sta’o I Constitution. The Maryland Court of Appeals affirmed tho decision of J. T. * Martin refusing to grant a m andamus to retain soldiers' vote. A telegram from Knoxville says Vaughan’s command was routed at Morristown on the 28tb, ny General Giliian, with a loss of 167 prisoners and 6 guns. McCluney's battery was captured entire. The rebel killed and wounded were left *».i .the field. A telegram from Louisville on the 29th says lan attack on PaducahJby Forrest is expected. | All business suspended and good- renroved i to a piacc of safety. The proceeding!* in case of the Vermont ! raiders has been transferred to Montreal and ’"the prisoners remanded to that place. ; Great excitement was produced in the Uui j ted States by the alledged discovery of elec | tion frauds in the N. Y. State Agency. Sey ; mour hs sent three commissioners to Wash ington to investigate the charges. Gold 219. ! Richmond, Nov. Ist.—European advices to i the 2Cth. Political news unimportant. Corn j mercialfailures continue. 20 Liverpool firms have flailed. The Duke of Newcastle is dead. A commercial panic had occurred at Rio jde Janerio. Four banks had suspended. Consols closed ou the 20th at 88] for monov. Petersburg, Nov. I.— All quiet* Negroes are coming in every day to act as drivers and I laborers. The wagons mentioned by Grant j as being captured near Burgess’ mill were pri i vate, not Government property. Their con j tents were left on the roadside. They we .-a j used to haul off the wounded and dead. No Middle Ground. The St. Lc uis Democrat, the Abolition organ ia Mtesc uri, heads an article “No Truce with Slave ry,’’and procaeds to define the Abolition purpose as follows: Tho rebels <lo not offer to resume allegiance pro vided that slavery bo allowed the status it had be fore the war. They make no offer of the kind.— They never will make such an offer in good faith. 1 Therefore the question whether such an offer should be accepted or rejected has no practical pertinen cy—certainly not at, present. The inquiry, “What shall we do wi h Slavery?” must be either under the condition of rebellion or under that of submis sion. These are the only conceivable conditions under which the question can have practical import ance. Pending the rebellion, wc have a right to use the means effective for its destruction, and the ex j termination of slavery is a large part of such means. Pending the rebellion, we have absolutely the right to destroy it finally forever, which cannot be done without annihilating slavery. The war right to terminate a system of atrocity in order to conquer the success of a just cause is indubitable. It is a# clearly the right of the party of that cause to deter mine what shall constitute its genuine and endur ing success, and to refuse to stop short of such su i cess. It is simply impossible that the rebels shall a good faith propose to return to the Union, with slavery as it was. The Union means abolition. The insurgents cannot sincerely accept abolition and in sist upon useless guarnties to slavery. For the con stitutional gu ranties to slavery are useless. They do not preclude its destructiou by an amendment of the constitution, Submission to the Union, as it was therefore mean-acquiescence in the ultimate destruction of slavery, of else such submission is hollow and false. The truth is, the Southern politi dans have for many years been opposed to the Union as it existed, and have boon struggling to revolu tionize it, by establishing such au interpretation of the constitution as should virtually amount to an amendment of that instrument in tbeir favor. Fail ing in this, they are in rebellion. Whenever now they shall resume allegianee to the Union, they will first have made up their minds to part with slavery. So long as they cherished this as an institution - > be perpetuated, so long they must be averse to re ■ sumo a relation ensuring its destruction. If they shall ever come to profess a willingness, to return with slavery to the U nion, it can only be in the hop* of having the constitution amended in they behalf, or of securing for it an interpretation equivalent, if possible, to such amendment. A pro-slavery re bel can never cSase to ba at heart a rebel to the Union, till one or the other of the two things hap pens. Jf he ceases to feel bound in interest to slave ry, he can then sincerely accept the Union, Ori; tae Union shall have slavery incorporated into it ca its corner stone, he can then ceas? rebellion. It i; demonstrable that it is impossible to make the abandonment of slavery a separate and distinct sine quo, non i —aparl from general submiss : ou —to peace and Union. Such submission includes such aband - onment as necessarily part of such submission. By ESI is, Eivmgstofii & €o« L4LUABIE STORETmSE AND LOT AT .oATTOTIOISr I . AN TUESDAY, Bth of November, at 10 Yao’c-loc-a V we will sell in front of our Auction Alooin, Tiie Valuable Store, No, 127. Broad Street, Three Doors below Hill & Dawson’s old corr er. The Lot is 22 feet front and 147 feet 10 inches deep—Store 114 feet deep—with privile - > the Alley. —ALSO — The following very desirable Stocks; 138 Shares Florida Home Insurance Cos., S2O per Share paid in. 100 Shares Eufaula Home Insurance Cos., per Share paid in. 50 Shares Georgia Insurance Company, $25 per Share paid in. 500 Shares Southern lasuranee Company, Savannah, Bringham, President, .f: per Share paid in. 5 Shares Importing and Exporting Company Stock oi Georgia, Lamar, i’.c.st., sl,ooo*per Share paid in. 50 Shares “Great Southern Insui tnee Company,” S2O per Share paid in. 5 Shares Bank ot* Colnmbus Stook, SIOO per Share paid in. oc 28 lOt $l3O