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DAILY TIMES.
J. W. WIRRE\, - - - Editor.
COLUMBUS:
Wednesday Morning, tfoYember 9,1864.
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Abroad.
It is well enough for us occasionally to read
not only what our enemies say of us, but also
to see and ponder what is said in the old
world about our struggle. We have before us
a London Index, the leading article of which,
written previous to, bat in anticipation of,
the nomination of McClellan, takes such a
sensible view of the situation, and offers such
reasonable and sensible advice to both pauies,
that we reproduce it. It say3: “The vision
of peace is not a mirage. It is the real view j
of l?>iid land, full of promise of future pros
perity. and with ample space for Federals and
Confederates. There are two approaches to
it—one, marked out by foolish pride and con- |
cealed by political knavery, which leads to !
certain destruction; the other which it re
quires only common honesty and' patriotic j
purpose to find with ease and safety. In plain j
words, and dropping metaphors, the North,
the aggressor in this war, and by whom,
therefore, the first advance must Vie made, has
two courses open. It may say to the South,
“We are still able to prolong this war; wc do
not even yet abandon all hope ot eventual j
success ; but the war was undertaken under
a fatal misapprehension of its true conditions,
and even success could not now give us what
it was undertaken for. While, therefore, we
have still the power to inflict further injury,
we recognize our error, and offer you a fair
and honorable peace.” To which the South
would reply, “The continent is large enough i
for us both. Since we must occupy it jointly,
I for ray part will not be a bad neighbor. All
our former troubles arose trom our being ar
tificially baked together by a tie which chafed
us both. This broken, there is no cause left
why we should not live side by side in mutual
peace and harmony. It is true I owe you no
favors, but neither do I to the rest of the
world ; and if I.bave any favors to bestow,
they will belong to that Power which recog
nizes my just rights, based upon the logic of
historical facts and the principles of ’govern
ment for which your fathers and mine once
fought the same battles.” There would be
dignity and self-respect in such language
from the North to the South, and there would
be good faith and sincerity in such a reply
from the South.
Or the North may address the South some
what after the fashion that the plotter of a
villainy slily pokes his expected accomplice
in the ribs : “We, the Democrats, are now in
the ascendancy.. The Republicans, silly fanat
ics, were such imbeciles, and got so drunk
with the unaccustomed nectar of patronage
and office, that the country turned them out
in a fit of disgust, and we, your old allies, are
now the North. Come back to us and give us
votes in the Senate and in the House, for with
out it they may come in again when the peo
ple forget their nausea. There, now, we will
hang a few of them, if that pleases you, or at
least so frighten the whole lot that Abe shall
cut his jokes in Exeter Hall, and Butler seek
the .tender mercies of London brewers, and
every cheap hotel in aii Europe be filled with
New England orators and contractors. Have
slavery and any guarantees for it you may
want Have your own way in everything.
Only do come back into the Union.” To
which the South will reply: “Democrats of
the North, who hold this language, you are
self-seekers and time servers, and I know you
of old. You possess not virtues enough among
you even to have a conviction either right or
wrong. It is such professions as these you
now make which delayed separation for twen
ty years only to make it irremediable at last,
and it is your lack of straightforwardness and
moral courage which has caused the inevita
ble event to be accompanied by this horrible
effusion of blood. You have fitly selected as
your representative a man who says one thing
in private and another in public, and who
neither in public or in private dare speak his
own mind, if be have one. You profess to
ascribe the failures ofLincola,not to Southern
valor, but to the incapacity of his chosen gen
erals, proclaim the impersonation of failure,
McClellan, who when at the head of armies
wrote dispatches only less lying and bombas
tic than Pope’s—who with no better fortune
than Grant's, cannot claim Grant’s boldness,
nor the power of sustaining the spirits of his
men—and who, worst of all, still draws his
pay as a general in the army for Southern
subjugation. You, who profess to uphold the
Constitution and the rights of the States, se
lect as your standard bearer the man who
first, at Lincoln’s bidding, set the Constitution
at defiance, and trampled the rights of a sov
ereign State under foot—McClellan, the pliant
tool for the arrest of the Maryland Legislature
and the military occupation of that unfortun
ate State. You may deceive the people of the
North, but you cannot deceive the people of
the South. The best Southern blood was not
shed to establish a party, but to vindicate a
nation !"
Missouri.
jlne Grenada Mo'i'e says we have just bad
a long eonteid, tiUwU wGih a gentleman—an old
friend, and a man knowingly vouch so
who left St. Louis a short time ago. His op
portunities were the very best for Knowing
what was going on in the State.
Gen. Price has a finu foothold in Missouri.
He is virtually in possession of four fifths Os
the State, aud no intelligent Federal officer
believes they can force him out. When our
informant left, General Price had his Head
quarter? at W&verly, and his lines extending
sixt\ miles West. Recruits are flocking to
him daily from all parts of the State old
grey-haired men and young boys mingle in
the ranks with stout, hale men, in the bloom
of youth and prime of life. These recruits
are the ba-si iaer in the State.
Intelligent Federal officers assured our in
formant that not less than 35,000 recruits had
joined “Old Pap’’ up to the 20th of October,
■which would make his forcefully sixty thous s
and strong. Fagan with a small force had
been retiring before a force ot Federals, near
Independence, which gave rise to the oft-re
peated rumor that Price was retreating. 3e
nas never receded au meh since he entered
the btaie. and tins never had a Yankee force
in lus tront able to cope with him or willing
. to attempt it. Clark, Shelby and Bill Ander
are north cf the Missouri river, tearing
! up radrbade, whipping Dutch and “obeying
orders” generally.
In the Sedalia affair Jeff Thompson cap
tured 2,200 men. ‘
Gen. Smith, the worthy who Oxford,
Mississippi, in August last,
ten miles above Charles City for two weeks—
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ms army loaded on seventeen transports—and
awaiting orders from Washington City.
Our friends in the noble old State are in
fine spirits and look upon their deliverance
as certain and immediate. The minions of
the tyrant regard tjieir days as already num
bered in the land they came tQ despoil. The
work goes bravely on.
[From the Richmond Dispatch, 3d.]
The War News.
The qu.et of the lines below Richmond was
yesterday only broken by the thunder of our
guns at Dutch gap and the occasional roar of
heavy guns far away towards Petersburg.—
These 60ucd3 were, owing to a heavy atmos
phere, also distinctly heard in the city; and
in the cour.se of the morning a report was put
in cireulaticn that the enemy had captured
the Hewlett's House battery, which is on the !
south side ot the Jame3 river, some two and :
a half or three miles south of Dutch gap. The j
report was utterly unfounded. From a gen
tleman who left there last evening, we !
learn that not a gun was fired on Geu. Pick
ett’s command yesterday.-
butler’s canal.
This work, while in progress, and all con
cerning it, cannot fail to be of interest. From
persons well acquainted with the geography of
Dutch Gap, through which the canal is being
cut, we have learned some facts which will
enable the reader to understand the character
and magnitude of the work Butler has under
taken. The isthmus known as Dutch gap,
which connects “Farrar’s island - ’ with the
main land or north bank of the river, is ex
actly two hundred yards across, beiug eighty
feet high on the western side, and sloping
down to the river on the east. The channel
of the river run against the west side, strik
ing it obliquely. Just off the shore at this
point the water is from twelve to fifteen feet
deep. The channel being on thi3 side will
greatly aid Butler should he ever complete
his canal, as bad it been iu the middle or on
the opposite side of the river he would have
been obliged to construct a huge breakwater
to turn the stream into the canal. We learn
be is cutting diagonally through the isthmus,
beginning a hundred yards below its narrow
est point, and designing to come out at the
point where the channel strikes the bank.—
This will give his canal, if ever finished a
length of about three hundred yards.
As we stated on a previous occasion, we
have reason to believe that the canal proper
has been begun, the cut to the water’s edge,
which is a necessary preliminary, having not
yet been more than two-thirds completed.
THE BATTLE OF THURSDAY OX THE NORTH SIDE.
We give mucbfof our space this morning to
extracts from Yankee war correspondents de
scribing the fights of last Thursday on the
north side of the James river and southwest
of Petersburg. We recur to the übjeot here
with a particular purpose The correspondent
of the Philadelphia Inquirer gives au account
of the operations of the Eighteenth corps,
which, as far as regards the white divisions
—Marston’s and Hickman’s—is more truthful
than we could have expected from a Yankee;
but when he comes to tell of the “Third (col
ored) division,” (his prolix narrative concern
ing which we regret our "space prevents us
publishing) he conceals the truth by both ly
ing and pretending ignorance. He says Weit
zel, having determined to attack our works
on the Williamsburg road, sent the Tuird
(colored) division across the York River rail
road to the Nine-Mile road with orders to
turn our extreme left; that the Third (colored)
reached the Nine-Mile road and stormed a
portion of our works and captured two guns
which, for some “unknown cause, were not
brought off,” when the division retreated in
obedience to orders ‘from Weitzel. We are
happy to be able to give the correct history
of this affair, after which the reason why the
guns were not brought off by the negroes will
not be unknown. The negro division, on stri
king the Nine-Mile road at White’s old tav
ern, six miles below the city, marched up in
this direction, and finding our outer works
wholly unoccupied marched into them. They
had, however, not been in possession five min
utes before the brave and vigilant General
Gary rushed down upon them and drove them
out in disorder, killing a'large number. Pos
sibly at this moment they may have received
Weitzel’s order to retreat; but if they did, it
was wholly superfluous. They were already
doing the most rapid retreating that they, or
any other negroes, are capable of. This is
why they did not bring off any guns, and this
is the whole story of the fight on the Nine-
Mile road. It is proper to add, for the bene
fit of the reader unacquainted with the coun
try, that the Williamsburg and Nine-Mile roads
meet at Seven Pines, the former leaving the
city through Rocketts and over Tulton’s Hill,
and the latter over Union Hill. At that point,
where the fight just spoken of took place, the
two roads are more than a mile and a half
apart.
FRO At PETERSBURG.
Passengers by last evening’s train report
that not a shot was fired up to the time of
the leaving of the cars for Richmond.
A number of deserters have lately come in
to our lines, embracing every branch of the
Federal service—infantrymen, cavalrymen
and marines. The former report that the
Yankee army was exceedingly demoralized on
their recent retreat from the Bovdton plank
road, Grant’s official statements to the con
trary notwithstanding. They also state that
every available team with tbe army was used
to carry away such of the wounded as could
not walk, and that many of them were so
crowded as to render their condition any
thing but comfortable.
It seems that a most ludicrous mistake oc
curred among tbe lkankees during Grant’s
great reconnoissance. One brigade of Yan
kees, lately arrived in the Army of the James,
and unacquainted with localities, became, sep
arated from tbe rest of tbe troops in the ad
vance on the Boydtown plankaoad. They
wandered around for some time in the hopes
of meeting with their comrades. Suddenly,
however, they came out upon a railroad, of
course—the very road they were looking for.
They set to work upon it in a trice, and enthu
siastically tore up about a mile and a half of
it. Suddenly they hear the whistle of the
trains. They wait for it eagerly, ready to
pounce upon the unwary passengers and sati
ate themselves with plunder ; but tbe engineer
sees danger ahead, and stops the locomotive
with a shriek. Y'he Yankees had torn up a
mile and a half Os Grant’s new railroad, just
laid down from the vicinity of Petersburg to
City Point.
It is said that, in General Mahone’s affair
of Sunday last, some of the Yankees were so
surprised that they were taken by the arm
and informed that they were prisoners before
they were aware of tbe proximity of Confed
erates.
FROM THE VALLEY.
The Valley is still quiet. The enemy are
so glutted with the fruits of their last victory
that they seem to be completely enervated.
A private letter from a lacy in Clark coun
ty gives a sad account of the sufferings of the
people from the Vandals, and the heroism of
our Southern ladies. The letter says that
they left desolation in theirtrack. Many per
sons are without the necessaries of life—and
of course they swept away all luxuries, de
stroyed all grain, and killed or carried off
stock of all kinds. At the house of the writer,
they killed all the sheep except six; took the
only horse on the place ; killed twenty hogs
•\nd fifty turkeys; broke open the meat house
and took all the meat; destroyed all the fruit
trees ; tore the carriage to pieces : and car
ried away all the hay, oats and corn. The
lady toid them to take all, for it would not
subdue her spirit, and that not one tear would
she shed over the loss of anything save friends.
They went to the house of one old lady,
j nearly eighty years old., and robbed her of ev
j erything. For three days she had nothing
to eat but green corn and salt.
Three ladies kept. forty of the brute3 from
entering their house by stationing themselves
in the door with knives in their hands, and
telling them that they would stab the first
man who entered the house. They, before
resorting to tifcese measures, appealed to their
“humanity, asking if there were none present
Who ha»“brOthers and sisters. They only
laughed, and replied they never heard of
such things. The bravery of tbe ladies saved
them, and the Y'ankees did not enter.
PLYMOUTH TAKEN.
The enemy, it appears, have retaken Ply
mouth, N. C. It will be remembered that
this place was stormed last summer by Gen
eral Hoke, at the head of his brigade, and
that, as a reward for his gallantry, he * was
promoted to the rank of major-general in tbe
provisional array. The enemy, after three
days’ hard fighting, passed up Middle River,
and, on the 31st, came down the Roanoke
towards the foris. Our troops in tbe two
forts—one above and the other below Ply
mouth, on the Roanoke—were commanded by
General Baker, who fought until the upper
fort had been passed and the lower one ren
dered useless by tbe dismounting of ail the
guns. We then evacuated the place, under
heavy aheliii g :>om the enemy's gunboats.—
Our loss wa* si:gat.
Plymouth is a place of comparatively little
importance to us except as a check to the
enemy’s gunboat excursions into the interior
ot the Stae.
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From the Front.
A number ot deserters came into our lines
yesterday, embracing every branch of the
Federal service—infantrymen, cavalrymen and
marines. The former report that the Yankee
army was exceedingly demoralized on their
recent retreat from Boydton pfank road,
Grant’s official statements to the contrary,
notwithstanding. They also state that every
available team with the army was used to car
ry away such of the wounded as could not
walk, and that many of them were so crowded
as to render their condition anything but com
fortable.
It is very evident that Grant made this ad
vance with the expectation of fighting a great
and successful battle, as lie came with all of
his best carps commanders, and largely sup
plied with provisions and conveniences for his
wounded. Twenty-five or thirty thousand
men are a heavy force to make a simple re
connoisance. That they did not fight as well
as might be expected from their numbers, is
idlly substantiated by the fact that two or
three small brigades' of Confederates broke
through their thick lines and pierced beyond
the centre of their position. An additional
attacking force of two more such brigades,
would have caused the rout and capture of
half the Yankee army, with Grant in the bar
gain.
Grant, in his official despatch, claims the
capture of several government teams loaded
with supplies from Stony Creek. They hao
pened to be four teams belonging to the South
ern railroad company, en route to Stony Creek,
and loaded with coattmdtwo thousand pounds
of bacon. The coal and bacon were thrown
out on the roan side, and wounded Y'ankees
crowded into the wagons and hurried off to
the rear. Our soldierss subsequently recovered
the bacon, and have no doubt enjoyed many
a hearty meal of it since.
Beyond all doubt, the Yankees were worse
whipped and more thoroughly demoralized in
this battle than in any other of the war. Eve
ry evidence betokens it, and a little more vig
or on our side, would not only have made it
one of the most brilliant victories for us, but
would have swept half of the opposing force
from the field.
The handsome little affair of Sunday night,
in which Mahone so effectually relieved a half
a mile of the enemy’s picket line, is still the
theme of much conversation. But for the
simple fact that some of the prisoners escaped
in the darkness and gave information of the
manner in which things were working at the
front, some two or three more miles of this
picket line would have been swept so clean,
that not a Y'ankee would have been left to tell
the tale of so mysterious a disappearance.
So stealthily did our men pounce upon them,
that not until some of the enemy were taken
by the arm and told to surrender that the fear
ful truth broke upon them that they were
prisoners.
We have nothing to report from the front
this morning. Everything was .remarkably
quiet along the entire lines yesterday, and the
report of arms was scarcely heard.—Peters
burg Express , od.
The South in the Banquet Hall.
At a recent banquet given by the people of
Oldham, Lancashire, England, the following
toasts were proposed:
President Davis and the Confederate Cabi
net —May their efforts be as triumphant as we
desire, and may the success that attends them
be worthy of the noblest cause in which states
men can be engaged.
To the memory of the lamented and immor
tal General “Stonewall” Jackson—Type and
mirror l the patriot, the soldier and Christian.
General Lee, and his illustrious companions
in arms.
The friends of Southern independence in
England, and throughout the civilized world.
The toast of “President Davis and the Con
federate Cabinet,” was given from the chair,
in a speech marked by good sense, good taste,
aud the profoundest admiration and rqspect.
In the course of his remarks, the speaker
brought forward an array of facts, from which
he contended that in all essentials of internal
welfare, and in all the requisites for carrying
on the war, the South was stronger to-day
than they were twelvemonths ago, while their
spirit of resistance would only become more
indomitable the longer the struggle was forced
upon them. On the other hand, the North
were reaching the last stage of weakness, and
they would ultimately have to give up the con
test, rent and torn in their reputation, as well
as in their material condition.
Mr. T. B. Kershaw was called upon to speak
to the same toast, and his appearance was wel
comed with great cheering. He delivered an i
eloquent speech upon the progress of the cam
paign, and saw a" hopeful prospect for the
South in the present condition of affairs. Ad
verting to the news brought by the Europa,
he spoke in a feeling manner of the loss of life
attending Grant's attack upon Petersburg, and
asked how many more hecatombs of slaught
ered husbands, fathers aud sons would be re
quired before the powers of Europe gave way
to the dictates ot humanity. He contrasted
the Northern and Southern armies, and the
mode in which they were severally handled.
To General Lee the live3 of his soldiers seemed
as dear as they were inexpressibly precious to
those beloved ones for whose sake they were i
risked; while to General Grant—emphatically j
the butcher—his horde of hirelings and ne- j
groeswere objects of neither care nor pity, but I
were hurled by him in masses where nothing j
awaited them but sure destruction, without the ■
possibility of their slaughter yielding the j
slightest military advantage.
Political ExciTF.ifF.XT ix Philadelphia.— The |
Oity of Brotherly Love has been disturbed by an
election riot, which is described, in brief, as follows:
The route of the Democratic torch-light parade,
last night idfithh in this city,'.was the scene of great
disorder with much rioting. On Chesnut street,
between 6th and 7th streets, “several buildings were
much injured by the missiles thrown. At this place
a man named James Campbell, aged 65 years, nota
participant in the parade, was struck on the head
with a stone, and died almost instantly. Other citi
zens and many of the police were seriously injured.
There has been considerable excitement in the city
to-day over the affair, and some political fights.—
Nearly one hundred persons were arrested last
night.
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The Loss of the Ram Aleejiakle.— Last Thurs
day night the Cmfederate ram Albemarle was
blown up by a torpedo, near Plymouth, N. C. We
learn thrt a small torpedo boat, manned by sixteen
Yankees, proceeded down the river, capturing the
picket boat, in which were eight pickets, asleep.—
Two men were placed in charge of the prisoners,
while the remaining f urteen proceeded on the ex
pedition. The most remarkable part of the affair,
as related to us is, that none of the crew of the ram
were injured, and twelve out of the fourteen cap
tured. They succeeded in getting off with the eight
pickets.— Richmond Sentinel, 4th.
TELEGRAPHIC.
REPORT*? OP THE PRESS ASSOCIATION.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year
1863, by J. Si Thrasher, in the Clerk's office of
the District Court of the Confederate States for
the Northern District of Georgia.
Richaiond, Nov. 8. Chronicle
of the 6th received,. Gold closed at 245 in
New l'ork on Saturday.
Steamers for Erope took out two millions
in specie.
Three regiments Os regulars arrived at New
York on Saturday. They were quartered in
different part3 of the city. Gen. Peck ha3
gone to the Canada front.
The excitement at Oswego and other bor
der towns continues.
New Orleans to the ; 30th. Several
orders have been published there—one provi
ding for the a general enrollment on the 31st
—all persons not reporting were to be arrested
and punished. Another commands the city
authorities to close all gambling saloons—
gamblers who ply their business after the Ist
November were to be assigned to active regi
i ments as teamsters and cooks.
The steamer Lady Stony, with a cargo of
000 bales cotton was captured off Wilmington
on the 28tli.
Not a word from Sherman.
Richmond, Nov. 7.—The Bpßimore Ameucau
of Saturday afternoon is received.
Ihe story of the depredations of the Tallahas
see, iu Delaware Bay, is pronounced to be a ca
nard.
The Chicamauga is playing havoc with Yankee
merchantmen. She captured the barks Albion
and Lincoln, the ship Shooting Star, and two other
barks, which were burned.
The Confederate steamer Olustee has also de
stroyed one bark and two schooners.
Gold 233 j.
Petersburg, Nov. 7.— Saturday night, between
11 and 12 o’clock, Geu. Grade attacked and cap
tured the enemy’s advance picket line near the City
Point road, takmg about 30 prisoners. This line
Gen. Gracie sti". holds.
About the same hoi”* Holcombe’s Legion, of
Walker’s b.'.gade, captured about a dozen prison
ers. This line they held for two hours and a ha’f,
in the face of a furious bombardment, when, being
attacked by an overwhelming force were com
pelled to retire, losing their prisoners, and 15
killed, 35 wounded and one ir’ssing.
A l ' quiet to-day.
[Special to the Mobile Tribune,]
Senatobia, Nov. 3.— The Memphis Democrat of
the Ist is received here.
There was great excitement at Paducah, Forrest
being reported moving on the city 5000 strong.
The steamer Universe sunk 56 miles above Mem
phis. She had on board 175 Confederate prisoners.
Some lives were lost.
Guerrillas are attacking boats on the Upper Mis
sissippi.
Rosecrans received a dispatch from Pleasanton
announcing a battle on Osage river, Price routed.
Marmaduke and Cabell captured, Fagan killed and
1500 prisoners and ten pieces of artillery captured.
Price blew up his ammunition train and burned 200
wagons. Plcasonton’s force was 6000. Price had
15,000, and is reported retreating through Arkansas,
and Pleasanton pursuing.
Bill Anderson is reported killed.
Major Anderson, with 200 Confederates, occupies
Owensboro’, Ivy. Scantling,
Heavy Movement of Confederates into
Arkansas —Murder of Confederate Sol
diers. —A telegram from St. Louis, of the 30th,
says that Little Rock advices of the 20th. say
that, on the 18th, fifteen thousand to twenty
thousand rebels were crossing the Saline
river northward, just below Benton, 25 miles
south of Little Rock. It adds:
The next morning, reconnoitering parties
were sent out, when part of them were seen
moving south and part of them going west.
There is some appearance of an attack on Lit
tle Rock ; but whether the rebel movement is
designed to co-operate with Price, or fall up-,
on Sieeie, should he weaken his force by
sending troops to intercept Price, and endea
vor to take the lower line of the Arkansas
river, is not known. It is believed, however,
that Steele is strong enough to hold the en
tire line of the Arkansas river and assume the
offensive.
A number of rebel soldiers were shot here
yesterday in retaliation for the murder of
Major Wilson’s men. A rebel major will be
shot for Major Wilson as soon as one reaches
here from the prisoners recently captured by
Pleasanton. **"*’*"
. The Little Rock Democrat of the 17th says
the rebel Legislature of Arkansas met on the
22a of September, with thirteem members
present in the Senate and forty in the House.
J. T. Lowry was chosen Speaker. Governor
Flannigan's message recommends the passage
of a lay allowing soldiers to vote. He says
the election must be full and fair. None
should be held where but a small part of the
people can vote. He doubts whether a free
election can be held in that portion of the
State occupied by the Federals. A. P. Gar
land has been eleeted to the rebel Congress
over Albert Pike, to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of C. Mitchell.
Grant’s Failure Acknowledged.— The New j
York World, commenting ou the general failure of I
Grant’s advance, says : #
It is no longer a secret that the rebels have
again thwarted General Grant's movement for the
capture of Richmond. His intention was to have
accumulated a vast army of three or four hundred
thousand men, with a view to invest Richmond on
every side. After the fall of Atlanta, it is sup
posed he could spare fifty or sixty thousand troops
from the West, and take all the conscripts to be
added to the Army of the Potomac and of the
James. But the invasion of Missouri by Price
and the menacing of St. Louis, the attack of Hood
upon. Sherman’s rear, and the activity of guerrillas
and rebel raiding parties throughout Tennessee
and Kentucky, and last of all, the wonderful vi
tality of the rebel armies in the Shenandoah, have
prevented the concentration of troops in Grant’s
army to be effective in time for the Presidential
election.
A large part of this army is composed of raw
recruits, and Gen. Grant is supposed to be unwill
ing to force them against the strong defences of
Richmond, while he would not have hesitated had
he a sufficient number of Sheridan’s or Sherman’s
veterans. The theory is that, in all probability,
the campaign against Richmond will be postponed
until next Slay ; that another draft for three hun
dred thousand men may. be made after the Sec
tion, which draft will be a real one, and all the
men will be secured and incorporated in the armies
during the coming winter. With these the admin
istration hope to carry: all the important points of
the South.
There is now no harm in stating that at least
two army corps, under Gen. Sheridan, were on the
pay to the Army of the Potomac, when they were
recalled to beat back Loag3treet's force in the Val
ley. While the rebel army bas been defeated,
Lee’s strategy has won a strategic victory in the
wostponement of the campaign.
The Florence Barracks.— A correspondent
of the Edgefield Advertiser writes :
Florence, the military prison, is about three
miles from Florence Depot, which is about one
hundred miles from Columbia, and the same dis
tance from Wilmington, N. C., and from Charles
i ton, S. C. The stockade contains an area of thirty
. two acres, and is built of logs eighteen feet long,
| inserted in the ground to the depth of four feet,
j with a small ditch inside and a large moat or ditch
! outside. The dirt is thrown up against the tim
> bers on the inside of the enclosure, making a solid
! embankment some ten feet high, upon which our
j sentinels are posted day and night. la each cor
j.ner of the stockade there is a large and substan
i tial platform, and on each platform two pieces of
i artillery so arranged as to sweep any direction.
There are about sixteen thousand prisoners con
! fined in this stockade. They represent every State
j of the Lincoln empire, and many other nations
; besides; but the Emerald Isle is more fully rep
resented than any other portion o! the globe,
j About one thousand have taken the oath of alle
■ giaace, and it is said more contemplate doing so*
The greatest mortality per diem since the estab
lishment of the stockade has been fifty-five, and
the smallest about thirty, They bury their dead
with heathenish indifference, and appear neither
to fear God or to regard men.
THE CITY.
T. J. JACKSON LOCAL EDITOB
Rev. Dr. Lipscomb, Chancellor of the University
of Georgia, will deliver a Discourse St. Paul's
Church to-night at 7 o’clock.
Yesterday was another of those peculiarly un
interesting days in which nothing transpired in
our city worthy of note that we heard of. The
day was dark, cheerless, and rainy—nature seemed
to weep profusely over the foibles of man, and
man himself appeared to partake somewhat of the
gloom. Everybody not compelled to be out, pre
ferred to be in. In short, yesterday was propitious
on nothing but young ducks.
Notice to Exempts. —An interesting notice to
persons holding certificates of exemption will be
found in our columns this morning from the En
rolling officer of Muscogee County, by which it
will be seen all such persons are required to turn
over to the Enrolling officer such certificates im
mediately with a view to having them renewed.
Auction Sales. —The following prices were re
alized at the auction sa’e of Ellis, Livingston <fc
: Cos., yesterday :
The Store house and lot on Broad strcst, occu
| pied by J. J. McKendree; $29,900.
133 shares Florida Home Insurance Company,
, SIS to $24 per share—par vs'ue, S2O.
100 shares Eufaula Home Jus. Cos., SSO to $54
per share—par. value, SSO.
50 .shares Georgia Insurance Company stock,
$56 per share—par value, $25.
500 shares Southern Insurance Compauy of
Savannah, sl4 to sls per share—par value, $lO.
5 shares Georgia Exporting and Importing
Company, $1,075 to $1250 per share—par value,
SI,OOO.
52 shares Great Southern Insurance Company,
s2l per share—par value, S2O.
10 shares Bank of Columbus stock, sll3 to
slls per share—par vclue, SIOO.
One negro man named Harper, aged 51, ife
and three children, $6,000 ; Casey, a girl 18 years
old, $3,500 ; Adeline, 12 years old, $3,300; one
negro woman, 26 years old, and three children,
$5,600; negro boy, named Bob, 20 yg3rs old,
$2,776; salt, 63 to 65 cents per pound—other ar
ticles in proportion.
A New Map. —We are indebted to those enter
prising publishers, Messrs. Evans & Cogswell, of
Columbia, S. C., for anew pocket map of Eastern
Virginia and North Carolina, from the United
States Coast Survey. In reality, the map covers
nearly a l l of the two States, and embraces the
whole theatre of military operations in them. The
convenient method of marking distances by cir
cular .lines, of which Richmond is the centre, has
been adopted. The coast line, with the bays, jn
lets, water courses, railroads, mountains, Ac.,
Ac., are distinctly marked in colors, and the whole
method of the map i3 well devised to promote
readiness and accuracy of research. As far as it
goes, we believe it to be the best map now acces
sible to the public.
Columbus Soldiers in Prison. —We notice in
the Enquirer, among a Hst of Confederates con
fined in the old Capitol in Washington, the names
of J. H. Sikes, and C. B. Mims, of this city.
The Southern Express Company. —We think
the public generally will endorse the following
well deserved compliment paid to the Southorn
Express Company, by Hermes, the able correspon
dent of the Charleston Mercury :
Since things have quieted down the mails and
the Express are running regularly again. The
latter is an indispensable institution. It deserves
favor, and its superintendents, so far as I know,
are men of worth. Gibson and Hamilton in Rich
mond, Bullock and O’Brien in Augusta, Small
and Cleland in in Macon, Gillespie in Charlotte,
North Caroiina, and Woodward in your own city,
(and he might have added Bulkley and Cronin,
with all the employees of the office in Savannah,)
are among the most obliging and agreeable gen
tlemen I know. Apart from its managers, the
Express is an admirable business school for
young men. In no other business are habits of
energy, promptness, system and accuracy in ac
counts and politeness of manner so rapidly aud
permanently taught.
“Hermes” might have also included the gentle
manly and energetic Agent, S. H. 'Hill, of this
city, and his attaihees, all of whom are men of
the right 3tamp.
Personal. —We were favored, says the Missis
sippian of the 3rd, with a call this morning from
Major E. S. Eurford, Gen. Beauregard’s chief of
staff, who is now in this city for the purpose of
making arrangements for establishing permanent
ly in this city, the headquarters of the Military De
partment of the West.
He speaks in glowing terms of the spirit of our
troops and the extraordinarily cheering prospect
which now lie before the army of Tennessee. His
few minutes’ conversation thi3 morning has done
more to enliven and cheer us up than all the news
we have had for many a day.
Officers from the lines continue to bring con
firmatory intelligence of the great success which
attended the operations of Thursday, 27th ult., in ;
Virginia. A surgeon of Longstreet’s corps, who
was an eye-witness of the fight on our left, says
he is satisfied that the Eighteenth corps of Grant’s
army, the whole of which was engaged in the
flank movement on the Nine Mile road, must have
lost at the lowest calculation three thousand men
in killed, wounded and missing ; while our own
loss did not exceed twenty wounded and none
killed.
mm •
A woman in Boston was married the other
day. Three days after, she began to manifest
much dislike to her husband, stole from his
coat pocket.a pistol, bid it in her stocking, at
tempted to withdraw it, discharged it by ac
cident, shooting her own'leg, then got crazy,
pointed it at her husband, pulled the trigger,
and shot another woman, who entered the
room at that instant, right in the nose. Then
she subsided.
The Georgia Conference.— Bishop Pierce has
changed the place of holding the next annual Con
ference for this State, from Athens to Milledgeville,
on the 30th inst. This change is made for the con
venience of the Preachers.
The Big State of Texas. —We were amused at
the Yankee canard, started some time ago, says the
Richmond Whig, that Texas, that had already
gained by force her independence before coming
into the old Union, was now seriously threatening
to let the Confederacy slide and setup an independ
ent Trans-Mississippi Republic, of which it is to be
the head and front. The Houston Telegraph, in an
article upon the subject, indignantly denies that
any party in Texas, or any other of the States west
of Texas, entertains the remotest idea of doing any
such thing, and save if it should so happen that we
on this side get whipped out, which it regards as an
impossibility, we can ail go to Texas ; where owing j
to the extent of territory and the lack of navigable !
i rivers, we can keep, not Yankees only, but the
j whole world at bay forever and ever.
I Declined. —Hon. T. A. R. Nelson has de
! dined the use of bis name on the McClellan
!
| electoral ticket in Tennessee. In his letter
he says : “There are thousands of living wit
nesses who know that I have often p ‘ended
th« cause of the American Constitution aud
Union at the risk of my life, and have suffered j
captivity, exile an ! the loss of life in its de-<
fence. ’ Some peo e may be curious to know' .
when and where he iost his life.
t: and indivisible,” the war-cry of
Ij.ncoln. The mob, one and indivisible, i3 th» real
+WA« a^, C i» r of u *urpation. He understands
thoroughiy, or, rather, his master, Seward, under
stands for him, the nature of that beast which, al
ways the same, has reached, in the United States. a
Sitch of beastliness never before approached. The
•spot has evidently adopted that mode of mana
ging the mob whicu all history has demonstrated ef
&ctiv6. ‘Flatter it, and its uncomely visage will
look grimly pleased: lie to it, nnd it will hail you
with obstreperous purring, as of kindred propensi
ties: feel it, and tne gorging animal will slabber
out its brutal satisfaction; scourge it, and it will
rend you to pieces.”
Every on'' of ihese maxims has been illustrated
in the admmistration of Lincoln, which has flatter
ed, lied, fed and scourged the Northern populace,
and finally refuses to trust them for one moment in
the free election of their Chief Magistrate. Seward
has not studied the pastfor nothing. See how the
miserable rabble grin at his flatteries, hurrah over
his lies, grunt over his fat contracts, and cower like
dogs beneath the bloody scourges of his bayonet’
ana conscriptions. Does any one anticipate rebel
lion when he refuses to let them have a fair vote
for the Presidency? It is not of such materials
that.rebollions are born,— Richmond Dispatch.
m • mm i
From the Shenandoah Valljey.—A letter
from the Headquarters of the 19th Army Corps,
dated 27th ult., says :
Quiet reigns supreme in the Army of the Mid
dle Department’. The different corps have re
sumed their old positions, and are becoming quite
comfortable again.
The losses in the 6th and 19th corps in the bat
tie of Friday, as officially stated, amount in round
numbers to five thousand five hundred in killod,
wounded and missing. The wounded in the 19th
corps numbered one thousand, one hundred and
fifty the day after the fight. Our total loss in the
fight will not be less than seven thousan i. The
rebel loss is one-third greater.
A reconnoissance as far as Woodstock failed to
discover the presence of the enemy, although it is
reported that Early is again reorganizing his shat
tered army.
For Cliatfalioocliee.
The Steamer MIST, Abe Fry, master, will leave
for the above and all intermediate landings, This
Morning, at 9 o’clock,
Headquarters Enrolling Office, Muscogee Cos..
Columbus, Nov. Sth, 1864.
In accordance with Circular No. 23, from Com
mandant of Conscripts, State of Georgia, all persons
of Muscogee county holding Certificates of Exemp
tion or Detail, are required to surrender them at
these Headquarters immediately. Receipts for the
same will be given, which will protect the holders
until new certificates are issued.
JNO.D. ATKINS,
nov 9 (it Enrolling Officer, Muscogee co.
LEE HOSPITAL, November?. 1864.
W A IV T E O ,
Six WASHERS and IRONERS. Also four Ne
gro Men to work in the yard.
R. P. HUNT.
Surgeon in Charge.
A. D. Bridgmav, Steward,
nov 7 6t
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS IN
Steamer Shamrock.
On and after to-morrow morning (November Sth)
this Steamer will be at the RISK of her OWNERS,
as all INSURANCE on her will cease at that time.
Individual owners, wishing to Insure will do so at
their own expense. HANSEND & AUSTIN,
nov 7 3t Agent:,.
SSOO Howard. 2
QTOLEN out of my stable, 2 miles from Columbus,
O on the Crawford road, on Thursday night last,
TWO MULES,
one a small bay mare Mule, blind in the right eye.
The other a black mare Mule, medium size, with
whith mouth and white spot on rump. Both in good
order. ZZ
I will pay the above reward for the delivery of
the Mules with the thief, with proof sufficient to
convict, or Two Hundred Dollars for the Mules.
H- M. CLECKLEY.
Columbus. Ga.,Nov. 9,1864 —ts
please copy.
AUCTION SALES
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
ON Thursday. 10th November at 11 o’clock , we
will sell in front of our store
-15 Likely Plantation Negroes ;
1 Likely Negro Woman, 24 years old,
Good Cook, Washer and Ironer,*and
her three children;
285 Dozen Clark’s Spool Thred. 200
' (condemned.)
nov 9 3t sl2
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
GOOD FARM AT AUCTION.
♦
ON Tuesday, 16th November, at 11 o’clock we will
sell in front of our store —
.A. IF 1 -A. IR/ Tv!
About 6 miles from the City, and a half
mile north of the Old Express Road, containing 12Q
acres land—being-the eastern portion of lot No. 4i
in the 9th District. Sixty acres of which i3 cleared—
formerly owned by Aaron Lamb, and adjoining the
plantation formerly owned by M. J. Crawford, Esq.
On the .place is a good Double Log House, out
houses, fine Orchard and Vineyard, Gobi Water,
nov 7 8t S4O
Bv Ellis, Livingston «& Cos.,
tm -♦ m
LARGE SALE OF
Tine Furniture l
Crockery, Glass-Ware and House
FURNISHING GOODS 1
ITTE will sell on Thursday, 10th November, at
m 11 o’clock, in front of our store, for and on ac
count of a Refugee-
Mahogany Wardrobes, Bureaus, Cane-
Seat and Cottage Chairs, Rockers and
Arm Chairs, Sofas and Lounges, Hat-
Racks, Fine Mahogany Book Case,
Marble-top Centre Tables, Card Tables,
Music Stand, Wire Safe, Cooking Stove,
Mahogany and Cottage Bedsteads,
Grover and Baker Sewing Machine,
Wash Stands, Feather Bed and Mat
tresses, Carpets, Bathing Tubs, Large
Mirrors and Fine Paintings.
LARGE LOT FINE
Crockery and Glass-Ware!
TIN WARE, COOKING UTENSELS,
&c., &c., &c.
In short every article wanted in House
keeping. All first class goods, in good
order. Also—
SUGAR, TEA, COFFEE, HAMS and
SIDES.
nov 7 4t S4B
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos
A PRIVATE SALE.
1,500 Acres unimproved Land on
SpriDg Creek, Miller county, formerly
Early, will be sold at a bargain.
oc 21171 $59
To Rent.
A SMALL HOUSE. Also, one half of a house in
Summerville. Apply at THIS OFFICE.
FOR SALE.—I set China Cup3 and Saucers: 1
Straw Cutter; 1 Bathing Tub; 1 Curb-bit Bridle
, g* ,a ‘ te " API,Ijto HULL i DCCK
BCTTIiESI BOTTISSI
\\J ANTED Bottles and Vials of all descriptions,
VV for which a high price T Will co >
novT 6t * No. 78 Broad street.
Cotton Notice.
\ LL Storage not paid in Ten Days, the Cotton
Uovflffi SOld tQ Pay ir ’ CODY A COLBERT.
To Rent.
A App fels or FICE.