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DAILY TIMES. J. W. WIRRE\, - - - Editor. COLUMBUS: Wednesday Morning, tfoYember 9,1864. g ? - 1 ■ - - ~ .-a. 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— * f; ', 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. -i 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. — « ♦ ♦ 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.