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COLUMBUS TIMhS
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Change of Schedule
AN and after Sunday, aafolfowsT^
U the Muscogee Railroad wdl r
PASSENGER TRAIN:
0 15 P. M.
Leave Columbus " _ 2 52 A. M.
Arrii" at Mn-on 9 35 p t
»> a - «■
FREIGHT TRAIN:
] ea'vc Ou’umbus 5 30 A. M.
Afriv ■ .it Columbus t 35 P. M.
A W. L. CLARK.
mar 19 ts Supt. Muscogee R. R.
NEW BOOKS, NEW BOOKS,
JUST RECEIVED!
jVH -A. O-A. RIA!
by tiie author of BEULAH.
For sale by It. 11. .JONES,
apl 26 fit 11'-' Broad street.
DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES.
4 ia, :i|> iiir rash.
$5 Bills taken at par by
apl2s 6t If. FISCHACKER.
, Police to Planters*
l a:n au hy the Government
TO EXCHANGE
Sheetings, Cotton Yarns,
SUGAR AND SSNA6URGS FOR
Bacon Sid Los,
inns a\i» siuin.KKKs,
fur supplying the Array.
JNO. J. McKENDREE,
apl 18 2m Agent.
s. 'W : SIXQ-3BCT,
SUCCKSSOR TO ROBINETT & CO.,
Corner of Broad and Warren Street s, Columbus, Oa.,
MANUFACTURE! OF
Superior Candles and Lard oi3,
AND DEALER IN
GENERAL COUNTRY PRODUCE,
OSNABURGS, Sheetings, Yarns, etc., exchanged
for llacon, Lard, Potatoes, etc.
Tallow and Beeswax Wanted.
It is hoped that the liberal course which will be
adopted will secure a generous patronage,
april 29—1 in
GOODRICH & GO.,
(Formerly of New Orleans,)
74 BHOAD ST.,
COLUMBUS, Ur A.,
WHOLESALE AM) RETAIL
Staple cfc Fancy
DRY-GOODS.
V RE constantly receiving fraffi importations, di
-11 rect from Europe, of staple and fancy DRY
GOODS, which they offer cheap for cash.
fob 5 3m
For Jiul&e oi Probate.
V{ o arc authorized to announce GEORGE 11.
WADDELL, (the present incumbent) for re-election
to the office of Probate Judge of Russell county,
Ala. Election Ist Monday in May,
apl 9 tde
Foa PILLOW’S COMMAND."
IIKAUQUARTKRS CAVALRY, I
Northern District Alabama. J
Limit Eugene C. Gordon is authorized, to raise a
Company of Cavalry, to be attached to Brig Gen
Pillow' comm and, lie may receive persons under
18 and over *5, or any others not suhiee* t*> Muoaiu
tion. The company, when raised, will be paid,
armed and equipped as other Cavalry in the Con
federate service. _
By order of Brig Gen PILLOW.
Jno C Burch, A A G.
I am now absojit'frotn the Army of Northern Vir
ginia, by authority of.the Secretary of War for the
purpose of raising this Company. All persons be
tween the age's of 17 and 18 and 45 and 50, arc invi
ted to join thi ; command, provided they are men ot
good moral habits.
It. is earnestly desired that those of us who asso
ciate ourselves together in this company may again
return to our homes with our morals unimpaired.
Any person desiring to join can do so by reporting
to any enrolling officer, or to Capt. Knight, Provost
Marshal at Columbus, who is authorized to grant
furloughs until the sth day of May, at which time
they will report to me at office Post Commandant at
Columbus, Ga., for the purpose of organizing ai'd
electing officers,
EUGENE C. GORDON,
april 21 —Iw Lieut P A C S, Columbus, ten
IVil O 1 OtfUTL’Cfl
—
im. 13. A. ROSSY.
GOIIMEIILY Surgeon to the New Orleans "Fe
l 1 male Infirmary,” tenders his services to tho Cit
irens of Cnlumbu- in all the branches of his profes
sion.
Sooei.il attontiou will bo devoted .to ihe treatment, I
of the diseases ofwomem. j
b Surgical operations performed for ;
Fistula in Ano, Visico-Vaginal fistula, 1
Hydrocele, Congenital and Accidental Phyraosis, j
Viflticoeele, 11-emorrhoids or Piles, Callous Impas
sable strictures, False Passages, Tallapoaor Club
Foot, and contraction of the fingers. Strabismus or
S limiting. Aneurism, Vurix or dilated veins, Ptery
gium, Cataract Anti Hair Hip; also for the remov
al of all tumors or abnormal growths from any part
of the body.
Diseases of tits Geuite-Urinary System, eomprsiug
tho different stages of Ghtmorrhoea, Strictures,
Gravel, Spermatorrhea. Syphilis, in its primary
secondsi .. .tertiary and kmiditury i'oruis,wtll receive
particular attention.
References given whoiiovcr desired as well its the
rcoomuicu latum of many.years practice in New Or
leans; (’• is.diaiiou hours every day at his office
in the Masonic Hall Building, from 10 to 12 o'clock
a, m„ and trom 4 o'clock p, m, Patients will do
well to call precisely 4t those hours, as before and;
after that lime will be devoted to visitios persons in
the city.
Address all .'.mmuicatious to
DU. E. A. 110SSY.
Columbus. Ob.
„,N. B. —Persons from a distance having servants
requiting surgical <t medical treat incut, will be
provi oil with comfortable quarters, but in all cases
will have o fur. ish tlmir own provisions and bed
ding.
tcir l will also bestow particular attention to
the treatment of the differotu forms of Ulcers, Rheu
t .::stions, SypbHitie erup
tions. r.: t al; ml ' ’tr nie diseases of tae skin.-*
Med'... -ed Eu C an l Steam S;b ’
Baths in ->A Aw'.;,tl» in Europe anu
Ann-, t. •• . ’ ... o uiy treatment.
fob 11 bm E. A. K.
(ity Tims! City Taxes!
1 M . f ’ o found for a few days at the store of li.
1 ''but; ' rook, wlt.-io par ties interested will please
call and lu.tke return" of property taxed by tho city.
-M. M, MOORE,
api 16 2w City Clerk.
IE vpyu.vKTEßs Ksaoi.usa Ofiick,)
bi« < oNOKKSHf.M M.DISTRII .. V
f olumbus, Ga., April 11th, 1864.)
All me; oiwt n t’ne ages of 17 and IS, and 45 and
50, in the Third Congressional District, will rendez
vous at C' ■lum’.us, Ga., on the leth of April, prepar
. itory to mganieiiig themselves into Companies.
W. S. WALLACE.
Captain and Enrolling Officer.
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VUiv 11 aaaislai* ior v.
THE UNDE.REIGNED is; :co arc * io fill a'.iorders
for
O Xa T 7 S3
Os a u , >ll V" ; -Mrcssc
to the ur..;•••'•a I wiffi Cm m mey enclosed, tinle
ordered i, , x , when aiders will be hi id a
|-mpi,l sr.u. u.
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Vol. XI.
J. W. WARREN & C». Proprietors J. w. U AIIREV, Editor
(£itg fltilitarg Dimtorg-
HEADQUARTERS POST —119 Broad Street,
Up Stairs.
Col. J. W. Robertson, Com’g.
Gapt. Chas. Wood, A. A. G.
Capt. J. S. Smith, A A k I G
W. T. McKbkdree, Chief Clerk.
ENR OL LI EG O FFICE.
Capt. W. S. Wallace —rear of Jones’ Building.
ORDNA NCE DEE A R TMENT.
Cor. Olgcthorpe ami St. Clair Sts.
Maj. F. C. Hi Mi’ ll he vs, Com’g.
Capt W. Latham, Ex. Officer.
Lieut. J. M. Mulder, Military Store Keeper
QUARTERMASTER DEFT.
At No. 15 Broad Broad St.
Maj. F. W. Dillard, Corn’g.
Maj. John E. Davis, Post Q. M.
Capt. H. D. Cothran, A. Q. M.
C O MAI IS SAR Y DEF T.
At King, Alien & Cawak’s Warehouse.
Maj. A. M. Allen, Com’g.
Capt. J. 11. Graybill, A. C. S.
ENGINEER 1 S DEFT
Capt. Theodore Mop.Rxo.
Lieut. W. A. llansell.
MEDICAL DEFT.
G. B. Douglass, Post Surgeon.
(Office at Wayside Home.)
J S White, General Hospital Snrg. in Charge.
J P Moore, u “ Surgeon.
L D Carson, “ “ Ass’t Surgeon.
R Fowler, “ “ “ “
W W Dickie, “ u “ “
NAVAL DEFT.
Office near the Old Bridge.
J. 11. Warner, Chf. Engineer.
PR OVO S T MA R SEAL.
Capt. Geo. N. Knight, (East of the Bank of
Columbus.
Examining Board.
J S White, Senior Surgeon.
The Board meets at the General* Hospital on
Tuesdays and Fridays.
C. S. ARSENAL, 1
Columbus, Ga.. April 5, 1864. j
Notice.
I WISH TO EXCHANGE FOR BACON
on equitable terms,
Sugar Mills, *
Sugar and Salt Kettles,
And all kinds PLANTATION IRON;
Also POWDER.
As this Bacon is needed to supply the necessities
of the employees of the Ordnance Department, at
this place and Richmond, it is hoped that holders
wil give the Government the preference.
F. O. HUMPHREYS,
apl 7 ts Maj. Comd’g Arsenal.
“ IVoilce to Planters aisd Coa
ssatiiers «3‘ 1r0n. ,?
VUE Will keep for ,sale, for Confederate funds, or
\V exchange for country produce —such as Corn,
Fodder, Bacon, Lard, Syrup, Peas, Potatoes-, Tal
low, Butter, 'Wheat of Flour —the following articles,
on hand or made to order:
PLOW AND SCOOTER BAR IRON ;
FLAT, ROUND AND SQUARE BAR IRON;
HOOP, HORSE SHOE, NAIL ROD;
IRON COTTON TILS (CHEAPER THAN
ROPE) FOR BALING ;
SHOVELS AND SPADES:
r~iv 1 PANS;
POT WARE OF SEVERAL DESCRIP
TIONS ;
SUGAR AND SALT KETTLES—FROM 40
TO 100 GALLONS;
SUGAR MILLS—I3 AND 15 INCH,
Wo arc prepared to receive and fill orders for any
sizes and quantity of iron, from *our iron Works
and Rolling Mill in Alabama.
JOHN D. GRAY & CO.,
apr 3 ts Next to New Bridge,
Office Mobile and Girard R. R.. )
Columbus, Ga., April 5, 1864. |
Thc'Stockholdcrs of the Mobile &’Girard Railroad
Company, are hereby notified that the five per cent
tax, levied by the law passed February 17th, 1864,
on the value of all shares held in Railroad or other
Companies, will be paid by the Treasurer at this
office and they will therefore emit the stock held in
this Company in their lists to Assessors.
J. M. FRAZER,
aid 6 ts Treasurer.
lIEADQ’RS GEORGIA RESERVES, \
Macon, April 18th, 1564. J
General Orders, 1
No. 5. j
I. Companies and Regiments composed of men
between the ages of 17 and IS, and 45 and 50, will bo
received and mustered into the service, provided
they are organized and tendered within the thirty
days prescribed by law for enrollment, after notice
by the District Enrolling Officer.
11. All such Companies and Regiments must re
port forthwith after bein§ organized, at Macon, Sa
vannah or Atlanta, as required by General Orders
No. 4, from these Headquarters.
111. The Officers, both Field and Company, arc to
be elected by the men—a majority of all the votes
given being necessary to an election. Elections can
be hold by one Justice of the Peace and two free
holders, or by three Commissioned Officers of the
Confederate Army, and tho returns thereof for
warded with the muster rolls to these Headquarters.
By Command of
M A JOR GENERAL HOWELL COBB.
R. J. II vllktt, A. A, General.
apl2s d6t.
Martha A. Taylor) label for Divorce in Marion
vs >Superior Court. Returnable to
Green B. Taylor. ) September Term, 1864.
At Columbus, April 2d, 1864.
I T appearing'to the.CourtJbjfthe return of the Sher-
I iff. that the defendant is not to be found in the
county, and it further appearing to the Court by
other evidence that the dei'endeufc does not reside
ia the State. ,
T ANARUS; is therefore ordered by the Court that service
be perfected on the defendant by publication of this
order once a month for four months, before the
next term of the Court, iu some newspaper of this
EDMOND H. WORRILL, J. S. C. C. C.
A true extract from the minutes, this April sth,
Is,>4. GEO. W. itfoDUFI IE,
apl 7 mint er^'
Shoemakers’ ;md Saddlers’
TOOLS.
fr-HE UNDERSIGNED having commenced the
L manufacture of the above named articles in this
Air. are prepared to fill orders for the saute.
Office on Angle street, a 4 few doors above k. S.
IL o ital. HARRISON. BEDELL & CO.
Reference —Maj. F. W. Dilurd.
Mobile Register, MisA siw iau and Augusta Con
stitutionalist. please copy one mouth and send bills
to "this office.
mar Al ts _
WA\Ti;y.
i w IN Ito hire one hundred NEGRO Labor <;
I Test Mules Teams, 4or 6 mules each, and >
Yoke of Oxen to get and haul Timber for tho FU
road Bridge, over the Tombigbee river, near i
mo polls. ~
1 a’s want to employ iiiteen Hurpeuiers,w..-
mm or negroes for the same work. _
I will pay liberal prices and furntsn rations ana
.IL 1 .., i-aic of Mai. M.
Mvrnwetlier. tin; r , v p B-4RKERi
Ag’t for A. L. Maxwell.
apl 13 dlwAwlm
Columbus, Oa., Thursday Homing, April 28,1864.
Thursday Morning, JApril !8,1864.
FOR CHATTAHOOCHEE.
Steamer Marianna, Captain H. W. Van Veghten,
will leave for C hattahoochee THURSDAY morning
at 8 o’clock. *
Correspondence of the Times.
Dalton, Ga., April 21st, 1864.
Ed. Times Indications in front, es well as ac
tivity in camp, give promise of a renewal of active
operations. Er-- this reaches you we may have
abandoned winwr quarters and again spread our
blankets in lue open air, in line of battle. Placing
our trust in the justness of the cause for which
we tight, with a firm reliance upon Divine appro
val we are prepared, as this army has ever been,
to meet the enemy and defeat him. I scarcely be
lieve, however, that he intends risking a general
engagement here. The object he has in view. I
suspect, is only to hold this army in check whilst
Grant attacks Lee with every available man.
Although the successful invasion of Georgia
and its temporary occupation would do’our pause
incalculable mischief, they would be forced as was
Sherman in Mississippi to retire whipped by nat
ural obstacles if not by force of arms. The last
result would be as probable as the first. With
Longstreet in East Tenuessoe, and the indomita
ble Forrest and Polk in West Tennessee and Mis
sissippi, any force they conld bring to hear would
be crushed and utterly ruined by the combination.
■Sherman’s mule stealing expedition has learned
them a lesson which they will not forget.
The man on horseback has Lee and Richmond
in his eye, and unless his heart fail him will seek
to grasp with his hands that which his ambition
covets. The game is doubtless made up, and if he
can win, Grant is the greatest captain of the age.
All Yankeedom will bend the knee to the new
Csesar, and we, whilst we would detest the princi
ples for which he fights, would be compelled to ad
mire the genius of the man.
I fear that we persistently underrate the strength
of the enemy and the ability of their leaders. Our
constant successes over them in Virginia under
the eye of Gen. Lee has given the country a con
fidence in its invincibility onlyeujoyed by the le
gions of France under Bonaparte. We should re
member that he and they had a Waterloo, and
whilst we hope and pray for his (Gen. Lee’s) usual
success we should so strengthen his arm with ma
terial aid that he shall not be outnumbered in the
impending gigantic struggle. How many
dreds can you spare from your city and adjacent
country ? Cannot a company of dainty-fingered
gentry, who deal pictured pasteboards by night
and obscene oaths on your streets by day, he for
warded by the enrolling officer ? A company of
young bloods might he raised from proprietors of
government distilleries of bad whiskey, which
thank God the government never gets. If these
resources fail, go to the soap makers, coal burners,
hack drivers on mail routes upon which no one
lives or expects to live. In your search after re
eruitsgo whereon the most menial, and in peace,
contemptible occupations were followed, and you
find scions of wealth im l fasluou proclaiming with
open mouths and dirty hands the necessity and
dignity of labor. Urge them to go to the rescue,
turn over the distillation of grain, if ft must be dis
tilled, te grey-haired men. Leave your soap ope
rations to your grandmothers. Let negroes burn
the coal, and come out and be a man, or if you are
alarmed about the consequences to your cowardly
carcass, go hang or bury yourself, and be forgotten
by your countrymen who have surrendered all but
lile, and daily offer that in defence of liberty which
your craven hearts would have surrendered ere the
contest began.
I had occasion in a previous letter to allude to
deserting from the army, and I again take occasion
to'ssiy to the wives, sisters and mothers of soldiers
to forbear in their correspondence saying any thing
calculated to deter men from fulfilling thb obliga
tions which every man owes the country of his
birth or adoption. Misguided or misjudging peo
ple ad home, ready listeners to the most improba
ble stories of cursed eroakere, have unintentional
ly murdered those for whom they* would have uftil.
I am informed by an officer on court-martial duly
that nearly ail who arc tried for this offence plead
in extenuation, exhortation from wives to come
home. A case of this kind has occurred in out
company within the last few days. A man from
Harris county, Alford by name, a conscript, under
the pressing appeals of bis wife, has deserted and
if caught will be shot. I pity from my soul her
c ondition in such an ev nt. Write and write often
to your friends in the army but for their sake do
not encourage desertion. The law is death for the
first offence, and an unauthorized absence for one
day where the intention is to desert makes the of
fence. Beware lest the blood of your kindred be
upon your own hands.
A grand army review occurred on yesterday.—
As column after column passed our admired leader
I thought of the hundreds who must shortly pass
from this scene of pageantry to a review of an en
tirely different character. Let us hope that to the
eye of the great God they are as well prepared for
scrutiny as they were for this martial display.
ORDERLY.
Our luon-Clads. —We learn, says the Wil
mington Journal, that the naval portion of
the expedition against Plymouth was under
the direction of Commander Cooke, who was
on board the iron-clad. Commander James
Taylor Wood had charge of the flotilla of
launches, etc. Commander Wood holds the
military rauk of Colonel, as being a member
of the President's staff.
The results of the expedition against Ply
mouth show us what might be done with our
iron-dads, rs they could only get out. and add
to our regret at seeing them lying here pris
oners. as effectually blockaded by their own
draught of water as they could be by the
whole navy of the United States. During
their progress the Navy Department was im
portuned to permit such a modification ot
their plans as would reduce their draught so
as to enable them to cross the bar, but all in
vain: the original plan was persisted ia and
the result is before us. They coulu have been
made two feet lighter and then would barely
have gone over; as the thing now stands it is
useless to talk about any such thing. We
suppose regrets are useless, but. we can hardly
help indulging in them.
0
The Philadelphia Press, on U.. i -olutions
to expel Long, of Ohio, says :
The Disgrace in Cosgc •>.—•' t two
Stall:- ■ i ~ . . ' \\Q
justice of the rebellion, and advocate the dis
solution of the Union, is shame almost too
monstrous to believe. But that these men
should not be at once expelled, that they
should find other members base enough to
defend, a party strong enough to protect
them, is something more than shame; it is
infamy. Great Heaven! to what have we
come, when treason reveals itself on the floor
of Congress, and successfully defies the pow
er of the law and the indignation of the peo
ple. Either we, the people, have failed in our
duty in this war, or we have been disgrace
fully deceived in sending to Congress the fifty
eigiit representatives who refused to expel
Messrs. Long and Harris for what they dared
to say last week.
[From the Goldsboro' State Journal, 22d.J
Glorious Xews !
Hoke's Guns have Spoken — Php.-iouih Captured
* — Twenty-Jive Hundred Yankee Prisoners —
Two Gunboats Sunk—Our Loss 250 Killed
and Wounded.
We have alluded elsewhere to-day to the
movements of General Hoke, but from a sense
of duty did it darkly. Gen. Hoke, with bis
own guns, has now proclaimed to the enemy
the object of the mission to Plymouth, and we
have nothing now to conceal.
A train which left Tarboro’ yesterday ar
rived here the same evening, bringing us the
gladsome news that Plymouth, with its gar
rison of twenty-five hundred men had been
captured, and two of the enemy’s gunboats
sent to the bottom. Our loss is put down at
two hundred and fifty killed and wounded.—
Among the noble and lamented patriots who
fell, we have only learned the name of the gal
lant Col. Mercer, of the 21st Georgia. The
Lieutenant Colonel of the same regiment is
also reported killed.
We have received none of the particulars of
this glorious achievement, but confidently re
ly on the truth of the main facts stated. It
is also said that half the prisoners captured
are negroes.
We only add for the present, that this i3 not
the first field on which General Hoke has
written his worth as a man, his bravery as a
soldier, his skill as a General, anti his entire
consecration to the cause of his country.—
May the great Ruler of all worlds and all ar
mies preserve his life, and may his adoring
country prove herself worthy of his sublime
exploits.
Os the galiant privates who fought the bat
tle, took the town, captured the prisoners and
sunk the guuboats, how shall we express the
admiration and the gratitude of the country,
whose endurance and patriotism, they so no
bly illustrate by their unrivalled courage.—
These must be manifested by acts —words can
not express them. Let us honor the dead by
words of sympathy and deeds of benefaction
to their mourning relatives, and thus show to
the world and each other that we are all mem
bers of the same body
THE VICTORY CONFIRMED.
Since the foregoing was put in type, we
have received semi-official corroboration of
the statements made therein.
The number of prisoners captured will fully
reach 2,500. The number of the Yankee slain
and wounded, we have not received yet. It
is known, however, that one of the two gun
boats sunk, had cn board one hundred and
twenty men, only seven of whom escaped
death. Our loss is correctly stated at about
two hundred and fifty killed and wounded,
most of them, we are happy to add, but'slight
ly wounded in the legs and arms. These losses
on our side wore chiefly sustained in a re
pulse of our troops received in a charge upon
the town, immediately afterwards, it second
charge was made with complete success —
Ransom’s brigade distinguishing itself in an
especial manner. , __
Our forces captured thirty pJ-ecyi-f of artille
ry. mostly heavy guns, and an immense
amount of ordnance and commissary stores.
Plymouth and its Surroundings. —The
Richmond Enquirer thus speaks of the cap
ture of Plymouth :
Plymouth, iu Washington county, North
Carolina, the capture of which is thus an
nounced, is situated near the entrance.of the
Roanoke river into; Albemarle Sound. From
Albemarle Sound through Croaton Sound, by
Roanoke Island, oup iron-clad gunboat, under
Com. Cooke, can jpass round into Pamlico
Sound—destroy the enemy’s shipping—all
wooden vessels, since no iron-ciad has enter
ed Hatteras Inlet—and take •Nevvbern in the
rear. From Plymouth via Washington to
Newborn, there is a good road—the distance
about fifty miles.
We look for the most important results in
North Carolina in a few dat-s. We are now
again near the scene of our first disaster. As
Hatteras was the first in the series of impor
tant positions captured by the enemy, it would
seem that success was about beginning at the
very point where disaster commenced.
Newbern once more in our possession, would
soon restore Beaufort, and with it all of North
Carolina—the possession of the great sounds
of that State, with Hatteras Inlet, would give
us a port not easily blockaded, and the com
mand of the greatest corn region of the Con
federacy.
How About Hanks?
Grand Ecore is a little village upon Red
River, about four or five miles from Natchi
toches and perhaps 90 miles Southeast of
Mansfield, where we heard of the last previous
great fight between Kirby Smith and Banka
on the Bth April. Between that date and the
15th, if wje may credit Federal accounts as
well as our own, there tvere three heavy en
gagements.
Thus on the Bth the Federals concede that
Banks was defeated near Mansfield, while our
report stated that he was badly whipped with
a loss of 8000 men, 35 cannon, 2000 priso
ners and 200 wagons. On the 9th the Feder
als report that Banks repulsed an attack of
our forcc-s inflicting great loss, bnt that he
thought it prudent to continue his retreat
before the superior forces of the “rebels."
We may credit as much of that account as we
please. If any thing of the kind occurred, we
imagine it will be found that a portion of our
pursuing force may have sustained a tempo
rary check. Continuing bis retreat fifty or
sixty miles further, Banks is again attacked
at Grand Ecore, and in a fight during the 14th
and 15th loses hip camp and 4500 men. accor
ding to Confederate dispatches.
Making every allowance for exaggeration,
therefore, we are justified in believing that
Banks has been very roughly handled and his
whole force is in a-perilous condition. What
reinforcements'he could glean at New O Feans
and Baton Rouge we do not know; but it is
not probable that he left many troops behind
him when he set forth upon this grand Red
River Expedition. Scanty pepper and salt
garrisons we imagine were about all, and un
less he can speedily take water by getting on
board transports it seems to us that bis army
will never get back To Baton Rouge. In a
word, the general current of the Trans-Mis
sissippi news, though very rnuddy and con
fused, warrants the opinion that this Red
River Fxp . lition ha- turned out the most dis
astrously to the Federals of any campaign of
the war.— l~> ~/> Ttb.
*53.50 Per Month.
A Chance. —Another gratifying piece of
intelligence, says the Richmond Whig, is tiial
members of the Yankee House of Representa
tives have shown themselves bold enough to
avow upon the floor, that the Confederate
States are entitled to recognition as an inde
pendent power, raid the House has found it
self unable to expel them for so doing. Two
3 ears or more ago, Senator Bright of Indiana.
was expelled from the Senate by a vole not
far from unanimous for simply writing an or
dinary letter of introduction for a person de
siring to make the acquaintance of President
Davis. Now. a Representative. Mr. Long, of
Ohio, is found, who declares his conviction
that the independence of the Confederate
States should be recognized; another, Mr.
Wood, of New York, avows his concur
rence in the opinion; and a third, Mr. Harris -
of Maryland, goes farther, denounces the war
as infamous and infernal, and invokes the
curse of the Almighty upon it; and yet the
vote necessary to their expulsion cannot bo
obtained. This looks like progress—the de
cadence of national insanity and the return of
reasou.
• A Glorious Achievement In
Worth Carolina.
Y e have the pleasure of commnnicas
ting to our readers the gratifying intelli
gence that a combined land and water
attack made this week upon the Yankees
at Plymouth In this State," by our forces
under Gen. Hoke and Commander Cook,
has been completed successful, resulting in
the capture of the place, with its garrison
30 pieces of artillery, stores and supplies
of all kinds. Two Yankee gunboats were
sunk and one small steamer captured.
The number of prisoners is two thousand
five hundred. The place was taken by
storm.
The Yankee troops at Plymouth were
under the command of Brig. Gen 1 Wessels
an old army officer, along with his com
mand was made prisoner. He is about
now an afflicted Wessell.
We are without particulars and cannot
state the amount of killed and wounded
on either side. Ours, we have heard re
ported, is not large, but for this we have
only a report to depend on and give it for
what in may he worth. What we have
stated above is certain and beyond ques
tion. We trust soon to obtain particu
lars. We think there is a mistake in the
name of the naval Commander. It seems
to us that it ought to be Wood, not Coke.
It will be recollected that it was Com
mander Wood who led the party that
boarded and took a heavy Yankee gun
boat under the protection of the Yankee
batteries at Newborn.
Plymouth is the County seat of Wash- j
ington County, situated on the Roanoke
River, some eight miles from where it
empties into Albermarle Sound. In
1850 its population was 951. At the
commencement of war it was probably
twelve or thiiteen hundred. It must
have been. pretty strongly fortified as is
shown by the number of cannon captur
ed.
The gallant exploit of Gen. Hoke and
his brave men is a glorious relief to the
gloomy record, of our previous failures at
Newbern and Washington. We do not
like venturing criticisms upon military
conduct, but we cannot help expressing
our opinion that, had the late expedition
against Newbern been under the command
of Gen. Hoke, or had that talented and
enterprising young, leader been permitted
to have his own way on that occasion;
Newbern would have been ours. We
do not hold this opinion without a good
reason.
! But let us not dwell upon past failures
| save as beacons to guard us against fu*
' ture errors. Let us look to the present
J and rejoice at the auspicious opening of
I the campaign in North. This well-deliv
ered blow will do much to raise the spii>
its of our own troops and depress those of
the Yankees. It is the first instance in
war where we have been able to re
take from the Yankees a position accessi
ble to their gunboats. We trust that it
will not be the last. Iloke, Ransom,
Kemper and others, have now shown that
it can be done, and we may look for many
brilliant repetitions.
If Mr. Burnside comes along with his
army of fifteen thousand green Yankees
and as many black negroes, he will find
that the ball has fairly opened without
waiting for his presence, and if he stays
he will be compelled to tread a measure
with those who will be so killingly pos
lite.
We would be glad even at this early
moment to give just credit to all who
bore a part in the capture of the Yankees
at Plymouth, but are unable to do so.
Os course we will take pleasure in giving
names and particulars when we can get
them.
Amid the excitement of such news it
is painful to reflect that even the most
glorious victory is clouded by the knowh
edge that there is a long list of killed and
wounded to be made out. Is this the price
of liberty —a terrible price, but one that
has always to be paid.
P. S.—Since writing the above we
have deceived a dispatch from our atteiv
tive friends of the Goldsboro State Jours
nal which communicates the same facts
with those already stated, and adds that
our reported loss is two hundred and fijty.
[ Wilmington Journal.
French Profit or the Mexican Expedition.—
The Paris correspondent of the London Telegraph,
say-;:
The General Transalantic Company’- .-'learner, the
Louisiana, which lately arrived at Saint Nuzaire,
from Mexico,*brought the first lot of bullion and
ingots, sent by way of Vera t'Vur. dnee the com
mencement of hostilities. The roads being now
comparatively secure between the capital and that
port, a first convoy of 1,600,000 piastres—*,OUO,OOUf.—
was able without danger to reach the latter place on
the day before the departure of the ves«'L About
one half of the were retained at Vera Cruz
by the Paymaster General of the French army to
meet the wants ofthe expedition, audit was a sum
0f604.000 piastres, or 3,500,00<jf. which were shipped
on bound, and have been since delivered at Paris.
•a. ALi jL'tm aT vJt m
Reports of the Press Association.
Lntar«.i acconliiiar to rv-t of Cougp-* in llio ye.ir
1-Svl, by J. S. in the Clerk'* office of
tlie District Court of the Confederate Stated for
the Northern District of Georgia.
Gp.axgk C. If.,' 2(>tli. —Two deserters from
Hancock ? 3d Corps entered our lines to-day.
They say Grant and Meade reviewed that
turps ou Friday last, and that orders to move
this week, with five days rations, have been
issued to the Yankee arm}'.
AH quiet in our front to-day.
Not Sa.suiunk.— The Louisville Journal
s less sangune of Grant s success in Virginia
than any Yankee journal we have yet seen.—
It prolesses the inmost confidence iu the mil
itary geuius of Gen Grant, but, at the same
time, has some uaplea-ant misgivings as to
the capture of Richmond. We make a short
extract from Prentices article which will
show him a pretty good reasoner:
Grant may gather two hundred thousand
or three or four hundred thousand men ill
front, but even such a force, advancing to a
direct attack ou Richmond, would in all proba
bility be driven back from (he quad
ruple lines of powerful fortifications, forti
fications within fortifications, constructed up
on the principles of military engineering and
by the incessant labor of a large army ot men
at work stiß. Richmond is fortified far more
formidably than Vicksburg, and yet we must
remember that all of the three or four terrible
assaults made by Gen. Grant's veterans upon
Vicksburg were bloody failures. It is true
that a Federal army mightT>e sent in the rear
of Richmond to cut off rebel supplies from
that city, but the Janies Ri v er would still be
open to the mouth, add, unless the
flauking arm}' should he tremendous iu num
bers. more tremendous, in fact, than we could
render it, Lee, with his whole force, could,
perhaps, make a sudden and overwhelming
dash upon it, for the Federal armies, the one
in front of Richmond and the other in the
rear, would be too widely apart to co-operate
with each other, or even to know each other’s pe
rils and need. It seems hardly possible that,
even with our immense resources, we can fur
nish two -armies, each able of itself to cope
successfully with the vast army that Gen. Lee
can gather at the tremendous stronghold of
Richmond. There does not seem to be much
if any alarm at the rebel capital. If (here
were a good deel more, we should like the in
dication.
The Federal Currency. —The
New \ork Mercury in commenting
upon the certainty of a great financial
smash up at the North, makes the an
nexed remarks about greenbacks:
The best commentary on the quack
legislation by which Congress has at.
tempted to reduce the price of gold, by
adding to the causes which raised it
above the value of paper issues of the
Government, is contained in the latest
quotations of Wall street. The Gold
Bill, which was to bring gold down to
a level with greenbacks, has become a
law and gold goes up more rapidly
than before. The result of this experi
ment ought to satisfy everybody that
other methods must be adopted to
maintain the credit of the currency, or
the country will speedly plunge into
the abyss of National bankruptcy to
ward which it is now hurrying at rail
road speed. Instead of the price of
gold being the result of speculation in
the article, the fact is the other way.
While the precious metal has only
advanced seventy per cent, all other
commodities of traffic have gone up on
an average, at least one hundred per
cent, and many articles have trebled or
quadrupled in value.
The way for Congress to arrest the
downward tendency of the currency is
to pile on taxation to an extent that
will sustain the government and furn
ish a substantial basis for the national
j finances. At the same time, instead
of turning out new issues of government
j promises to pay by steam power, those
' already .afloat should be largely cur
| tailed. Unless this is done, we have the
I practical example of the South before
; our eyes, to show where the present
j system of financiering leads. Like
causes produce like results; and unless
Congress at once sets to work in the
right direction, the time is rot far dis
tant when our paper money will be as
the Assignats of the French Revolution
or the shinplasters of the rebels.
Every advance in the price of gold
marks an increase in the price of the
necessaries of life, which will soon be
beyond the reach of the great mass of
the people. And yet, if tho currency
collapses, everything goes with it.
While these facts are self-evident,
Congress meets the cricis as if they
would quench a conflagration by hea
ping fuel on the flames and go on indul
gingiti Buncombe and billingsgate to
the top of their bent. Let them turn
their attention to practical statesman
ship, and leave oratory for the present
to Miss Dickinson and Daniel Pratt.
The Yankees seem apprehensive of
an attack on San Francisco, California
from the ‘Anglo Chinese’ fleet suppos
ed to have been secured by our Govern
ment. Works have been lately thrown
up at Fort Point and Alcatrez Island,
and the following vessels are kept close
at hand: Sharbrick, 5 guns; Narragan
sett, 11 ; Saranac 9; Monitor, 1 ;
Cyane 18 ; Lancaster, 22; St- Mary’s
22 and Waren, 2. The papers are
urging upon the authorises neces
sity of adding to these 'h'-i -dve and
defensive means, by at os < < i..-log the
guns of the sunken Alonitv Cm .rnnche,
from the hole of the Aquilia, mid moun
ting them in square batteries, or on
some steamer, for temporary service
till the apprehended peril is past.—
W hether their dangers are real or imag
inary remains to be seen.
>’os*4liern Items.
Gen. Forrest crossed the river Cold Water going
&outh. withs,ooo captured horses and nineteen hun
dred wagons of plunder. *
. The latest European advices state that our new
ironclad steamer South Carolina, just .opt.of an
European port, had captured the Yankee ship AV
lianee, valued at one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars.
Forrest s attach upon Fort Pil’ow is regarded as
the boldest and most sanguinary of the war.
The 13th Tennessee Regiment, who were in the
Fort, were cut to pieces. Light hunured were
killed outright, besides three hundred negroes,' with
their horses.
The terror and excitement produced intense feel
ing at the North against the Governor of Illinois,
for granting conuni-cions to officers to command
negro regiments.
Thirty-five French detective- who had arrived in
New York, created much speculation.
The French beet have sailed from .the mouth of
the liio Grande.
