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COLUMBUS TIMES
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Change of Schedule.
AN and after Sunday, March 20th, the Train! on
U the Muscogee Railroad will run as follows .
PASSENGER TRAIN:
Leave Colmnbus 15 P- M.
Arrive at Macon 2 o 2 A. M.
Leave Macon.... 9 35 P. M.
Arrive at Columbus 5 00 A. M.
FREIGHT TRAIN:
Leave Columbus .5 SO A. M.
A" 1 ” « Columbns
inar 19 ts Supt. Muscogee R, R.
Medical Care3l.
UR. E. A. ROSSY.
FORMERLY Surgeon to the New Orleans “Fe
ll male Infirmary,” tenders his services to the Cit
izens of Columbus in all the branches of his profes
sion.
Special attention will bo dovotedjto the treatment
of the diseases of womem.
MW" Surgical operations performed for
Fistula in Ano, Visioo-Vaginal fistula.
Hydrocele, Congenital and Accidental Phymosis,
Varicocele, Haemorrhoids or Piles, Callous Imjpas
<able strictures, False Passages, Tallapesor Club
Foot, and contraction of the tinkers, Strabismus or
Squinting, Aneurism,'Varix or dilated veins, Ptery
gium, Cataract and Hair Lip; also for the remov
al of all tumors or abnormal growths from any part
of the body.
Diseases of ths Genito-Urinary System, comprsiug
the different stages of Ghonorrhoea, Strictures,
Gravel, Spermatorrhea, Syphilis, in its primary
secondary, tertiary and heriditary forms,will receive
particular attention. , . , „
References piven whenever desired as well as the
recommendation of many years practice in New Or
leans; Cousultation hours every day at his office
in the Masonic Hall Building, from 10 to 12 o’clock
am,, and from 2to 4 o’clock p, in. Patients willdo
well 'to call precisely at those hours, as before and
after that time will be devoted to visiting personsin
''‘barb, all R(ffisT
Columbus. Ga,
' N. !L—Persons from a distance having servants
l ing surgical or medical treatment, will be
provi ed with comfortable quarters, but in all cases
will have lo furnish their own provisions and bed
ding.
will also bestow particular attention to
the treatment ofthe different forms of Ulcers, Rheu
matism, Gout. Scrofulous affections, Syphilitic erup
t,ions, and all other chronic diseases of the skin. —
Medi-.ited Fumigations and Steam Sulphurous
Baths as employed in the hospitals in Europe and
America, will form a part of my treatment.
febUdin E. A, R.
To the Planters!
The demand on this Section from the Army for
Corn is pressing and heavy. Our stock on hand is
nearly exhausted.
I earnestly beg every planter to deliver at his
nearest depot, on Rail Road or River, fifty to five
hundred bushels of Shelled Corn, to be consigned to
me within the next ten days; of which notify me.—
Sacks will be forwarded or delivered as ordered.
I know the great press upon Planters at this sea
son in cultivating crops, but the urgent necessity of
our army, at this time, makes the above request
necessary.
I trust every planter will respond promptly, to his
utmost ability.
A. M. ALLEN,
Mai. and C. S.
may 31 5t
“ Notice to Planters and Con
sumers of Iron.”
WE will keep for sale, for Confederate funds, or
exchange for country produce—such as Corn,
Fodder, Bacon, Lard, Syrup, Peas, Potatoes, Tal
low, Butter, Wheat or Flour—the following articles,
on hand or made to order:
PLOW ANI) SCOOTER BAH IRON;
FLAT, ROUND AND SQUARE BAR IRON:
HOOP, HORSE SHOE, NAIL ROD;
IRON COTTON TIES (CHEAPER THAN j
ROPE) FOR BALING ;
SHOVELS AND SPADES;
FRY PANS;
POT WARE OF SEVERAL DESCRIP
TIONS ;
SUGAR AND SALT KETTLES—FROM 40
TO 100 GALLONS;
SUGAR MILLS—I3 AND 15 INCH.
We are prepared to receive and fill orders for any
sizes and quantity of Iron, from our Iron Works
and Rolling Mill in Alabama. „
JOHN I). GRAY CO.,
apr 3 ts Next to New Bridge,
Notice to I*S;sfitters.
f am -authorized by tbe Government
TO EXCHANGE
Sheetings, Cotton Yarns,
SUQA3 AND OSNABURGS FOR
10£^0023.
HAIB ANSP SHOULDERS,
for supp King the Army. *
JNO. J. McKENDREE,
api 18 2m A gem.
FRICTION MATHCES!
'rHE Columbus, Ga., Friction Match Company.
* have again resumed operations, and will, in a
few days, he prepared to supply them in quantity.-
They also make a superior article of Blacking, which
#au be supplied in quantity.
Dealers and others wishing to purchase, can ap
ply t.o Messrs. Livingston A Cos., or Messrs. Hull *
Duck, who will be kept _su^lmd.^
Manufacturer?.
N. B.—lt having cost me about $5,000 in the past
eighteen months, above receipts, to learn how to
make good matches, the public can now rely on get
ting a superior article. 8. D. IIIOjm.
Columbus, May 14,1864 dtf
stotios.
To Planters and Others ! ;
I WILL EXCHANGE Osnaburgs, Sheeting and |
I Yarns, for Bacon, Lard. Tallow and Beeswax. I ,
will be found at Robinett & (<< a old sutnd, w neio i
am manufaet urin g Candles and Lard Oil .«>i |iUe.
L. fe. NViilUIiL.
june 2 If
Shoemakers’ «nd Saddlers’]
TOOIjS.
mite T-vpKIISHINED having commenced the
citv ll |u e U prepared to‘fill onlcr?”tbr the same
3&r ius,c '&&&£&$&&* c 6. s '
Reference- Maj. F. W. Dillard. • r
Mobile Register, Mississippi™ Aug
■titutionalist, please copy one mourn ana acuu 01
to this office.
mar 30 t.f -
LOST!
IN front of John Carughi’s store, a .
1 POCKET BOOK, containing of °id ami
20 of new issue —ami ray foreign fjrotect'on \ -P_-•
The finder will pleas© leave it at this office anu i* -
™ W ”TiISODORE KRIKTSCH.
tVßflOin & Teams U a.atoil!
•fXTE wish to purchase or hire, two or three six
H mule teams, for which wo will pay the Highest
market price: for particulars apply a* our office near
the New Bring*. JOHN D. QAAY it CO.
jelO st* *
" O*KIOI* Moiulf A Girard u. R. i
Obluwbus, Ga., May otn, t>4. >
The Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the
Company, wiirbe held at tha .--.‘llee, Guard, A ! a.,
on ’Wednesday, 6th d;iy of July next, at no<■ ° •
when the election for President and Directors ««-
take place.
By order J. M. FRAZER, Secy.
uiy24 td
WAMTLD I
FIVE NEGRO FELLOWS, to Chop wood on the
Mobile & Girard Road, for which liberal hire
will be paid by the month or day.
Apply to \Y r .C, GRAY,
* m/id 2w at Greenwood A Gray
(Culimte ilutm.
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V-01. XI.
J. W. WARREN &. CO. Proprietors ..J. W. WARREN, Editor
CATALOGUE SALE
OF
UfOR IIMBItS, it, it
-A-T A-TJOTIOIN".
BY BELL & CHRISTIAN.
On TUESDAY, 21st day of June next,
at 11 o’clock, in front of our store, Sa
vannah, Ga.,
The following invoices—
-2 puncheons Genuine Holland Gin, 105 gals each
1 do Pure Bourborn Whiskey, 110 gal*.
10 cases Pure Jamaica Rum, 100 gallons each
14 bbl3 do Bourbon Whiskey, 40 do do
18 chests Preston’s fine Scotch Whiskey
25 cases London Dock Gin
75 boxes do do Port Wine
1 bbl Scotch Whiskey
1 bbl, 4 dozen, Old Rye Whiskey
10 doz Duff Gordon’s Old Brown Sherry
20 doz Superior Old llye Whiskey
5 bbls do do do
2 bbls Jamaica Rum
20 cases Holland Gin
10 cases Cognac Brandy
1 bbl Holland Gin
2 bbls Cognac Brandy
30 bbls Machinery Oil
50 pieces Alex Collie’s Mourning Prints
40 do do do Dark Ground Prints
2 cases Bleached Long Cloth
20 cases Blue Mottled Soap
10 boxes Chemical Works Soap
20 boxes English do
323 yards Bunting
46 pairs Iron Clad Shoes
30 pairs Misses’ Gaiters
2 boxes Borax
Ilalf-bbl Washing Soda
25 doz Fine Tooth‘Combs
10 kegs Bi Carbonate Soda
3 boxes London Double Crown Yellow Soap, 106
pounds each
S boxes White Cocoa Nut Soap
22 boxes London bright Yellow Soap
4 pieces seal skin coating 82 yards.
4 pieces Double Width Grey Cloth.
Terms — In New Currency or its equivalent, or
approved endorsed notes at 60 days with interest
Catalogues will be ready by tho 15th of Juno
next. may 28-til 18th june
AUCTION SALES,,
Specia. Catalogue Sale
OF AN
EXTENSIVE INVOICE
OF
FRENCH CHIN AW ARE!
BY C. B. DAY.
AUCTIONEER.
Corner of Broad and Jackson streets,
,A-uig*uista 3 Gra.
ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22nd.
. ,mm •
Commencing at nine o’clock, a. m„ I will sell at
my store the most extensive, complete and desira
ble assorted invoice of
Choice French Chinaware,
that has been opened within the Confederacy dur
ing the past three years.
It consists of EIGHTEEN CASKS of ware, of di
rect importation from Havre, tho goods having been
selected by an c-rpcrte for tho fancy retail trade of
Richmond and Memphis, in 1861. Arriving in the
latter place just previous to its occupation by the
enemy, they were removed into the interior of North
Mississippi, remaining there until tlieir late removal
to this market.
This Choice Lot of Ware embraces four
Superb Complete and Highly Ornamented
Daßiuet* Setts.
Each containing 318 pieces.
Also, Plain and Ornamental
Breakfast Setts,
Tea Setts, and
Toilet Setts, j
With a varied and extensive Assort- j
ment ot'
PITCHERS, CUPS and SAUCERS,;
SOUP and SAUCE TUREENS,
PLATES, DISHES, SUGARS,
CAKE BASKETS, CREAMS,
BUTTERS, COFFEES, TEA
POTS, VASES, CUSTARD
CUPS AXD STANDS,
CANDLESTICKS,
MUGS, kc.
This rare lot of goods invites not only the atten
! tion of dealers, but of private gentlemen who de
sire to secure a supply of choice table ware, *ueh as
: will probably not be again offered during the days
1 of blockade. They are now being opened, and will
be ready for exhibition in a few days.
The four DINNER SETTS will be offered pri
vately, should any one desire to so purchase them
j previous to the sale.
Catalogues will be ready for distribution the day
i previous to the sale.
, CbXDiTioxs— I Cash on delivery. jelO eodts
WATTED.
TO exchange SUGAR for SPRING CHICKENS.
I at the rate of two pounds o! ea?ar f»r three
i fhiekens The Sugar is a splendid article-much
srueriur to any that can now be found in this mar
k t l will exchange as iuach as o© pounds in the
1 above manner. For further information apply at
the Times Office. • jelO tf*
MrSCOGRH RaLLEOAD OrKICK. 1
Columbus, G*., Juiiel-Üb, istH. j
Notice,
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i■»•"* ‘ a<l ‘w J i"claiik. p
« lit® » A. B. BOSTICK.
FOR SA LE!
a AAA LBS. IRON WIRE, Nos. TANARUS, 8 and 10.
2,000 june 1-. T. S. SPEAR,
Columbus, Ga., Thursday Morning, June 16,1864.
__ _ ________
Wednesday Evening.
Notice.
Hbadquarters Post, \
Columbus, Ga., June 9th, 1864. j
General Order No. 2.
In compliance with Special Orders No. 149, Head
Quarters Department South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida, the undersigned hereby transfers the com
mand of this Post to Major Geo. 0. Dawson,
F. C. HUMPHREYS,
Major, Jtc.
* Headquarters Po3t, \
Columbns, Ga., June 9, ’64. >
General Orders,\
No. l. ;
In pursuance of Special Orders, No. 149, Head
quarters Department, the undersigned hereby as
sumes command of this Post. Existing orders and
regulations will remain in force until further or
ders.
GEO. 0. DAWSON.
Major Comdg.
♦STEnquirer and Sun copy. je9 ts
m -♦ m
Army Correspondence of the
Savannah Republican.
Army of Northxrn Virginia, )
Cold Harbor, June 8, 1864. f
With unimportant exceptions, the hostile
armies occupy the same positions they held at
the date o) my last letter. Grant has not
moved to the right, as was generally supposed
two days ago, but withdrew his right wing
some two miles behind a swamp, where he
immediately went to work *nd intrenched him
self. This swamp and these intrenchraents
render the position of the right wing of his
army unassailable
Why did he make this change in his lines ?
It would seem that he was apprehensive of an
attaok from Lee, and that from the offensive,
he was about to put his army on the defensive.
The true key to his conduct is found in the
fact that the Baltimore Convention assembled
yesterday. He made a bold push to destroy
Lee’s army and reach Richmond in time to
influence the action of the convention, and
fiading that he has done neither, but, on the
contrary, has had his own army pretty effec
tually cut to pieces, he is now disposed to keep
the peace, at lea fer a season, until he can
reorganize and reernit his beaten and demoral
ized forces. If he himself should be the nom
inee of the convention, or his master, Mr.
Lincoln, then more blood will be spilled ; for
the political necessities of the candidate cho
sen by the convention will render it necessary
for the armies to be kept in motion. It is
hoped, however, that neither Grant nor Stan
ton, the Federal Secretary of War, will, now
that the convention has assembled, ever again
find it necessary lo publish Bulletins from the
army which they and every man in the army
knew at the lime to be false in every particu
lar. I can safely affirm, upon my own knowl
edge and upon the evidence that cannot'be
successfully controveited, that the published
telegrams which Grant sent to Washington,
and the telegrams which Stanlon sent from
the latter place to New York, in almost every
instance, have not a particle of foundation in
truth. I may have fallen into occasional er
rors myself*—as, for example, in my estimate
of the casualties of the enemy, and in other
particulars where I have had to rely upon the
reports of others, and especially in matters of
mere judgment—but it may be truthfully as
serted that. any account differing substantially
from that with which you have been furnished
in these letters, is to the extent of that differ
ence incorrect and untrue.
The force of public opinion, or some object
which he hoped to accomplish during the pen
dency of the truce, compelled Grant to come
down from his strife and are Gen. Lee’s per
mission to bury his dead. His request was
granted the moment he put it in proper form,
and from 7 till 10 o’clock night before last was
set apart as the time in which he might perform
his humane duty —a duty which the Confed
erates would hare performed far him, but for
the tire*of his sharpshooters Gen. Lee’s let
ter did not reach him in season, and conse
quently tbe work of interment was necessari
ly postponed until another hour could be des
ignated. His conduct, even in this particular,
was influenced, doubtless, by the necessities
of the party which met in convention yester
day. Had*he applied sooner, the confession
of defeat thereby implied, would have fallen
like a thunderbolt upou the convention and
the people whom he had been endeavoring by
his untruthful bulletins to beguile into the
belief that he had been victorious instead of
having been beaten.
One thing must be confessed, that while
Grant’s plan us campaign lias beeu faultly and
unwise to the last degree, he has, nevertheless,
prosecuted his advance up to the present time
with great eneigy and skill. He, doubtless,
expected when he succeeded in crossing the
Rapidan and turning Lee’s right wing, that
the latter would retire upon Richmond, and
that there wonld be a race between them as
to which o»e should arrive there first. If such
were his calculations he was convinced of his
error at th« Wilderness and Spottsylvania
Court House, where be became satisfied that
the Confederates had not retreated upon the
capital, and that he and his well appointed j
army were not able to force them tiom their
position. This discovery cost him 40,000 men. i
Under these circumstances but two alterna
tives were left him—either to retire and aban- i
don the undertaking, or to imitate the crab
and advance sideways. He adopted the latter
plan, and so conducted his march as at the
same time to cover Washington and threaten
Richmond. Whatever, therefore, Grant swung
round to the right, Lee was compelled to re
tire and take up anew position, unless he had
been willing to “swap queens’’ and give Rich
mond for Washington. But even when he
; advanced most rapidly. Grant so managed his
i arm vas to keep it always between Lee and
the Federal capital, and yet to threaten Rich
’ raond all the while. His manner of advance
enabled him to avoid the necessity of detach
ing a force to cover his capital, as McClellan
i did in 1862, when he, or rather his govern
' ment, placed McDowellat Fredericksburg yith
a column of 40,000 men. And yet McClellan’3
plan of campaign was the better and safer of
1 the two; for he reached Grant's present posi
-1 tion with trifling loss, whereas Grant s loss far
! exceeds the 40,000 men McClellan left at Fred-
J ericksburg, and against which Grant has now
nothing to show. It is his march from Spotts-
vlvania Court Hou ? e only that can be charac
terised as skillful aud energetic; hi* plan of
I campaign was a stupendous blunder, as the
i result has shown.
But if Grant has acted unwisely. Lee has ac
ted most wisely. He took the full measure
Jof Grant at the outest; he knew he was a rap
, id marcher and a rash commander, who cared
but little for the lives of his men, and would
rush them against a wall of iron if it stood in
his way. He very properly, therefore, espe
cially as his antagonist far outnumbered him,
acted on the defensive, and constructed en
trenchments wherever he could, and suffered
* Grant to come up. as he knew he would, and
i dash his brains against our works. The re
sult is, Grant's army has been depleted one
half, while Lee's is still intact, ready to be
used when the proper time comes with terri
ble effect, as the enemy will discover in due
season.
The War Nevrs.
ALL QUIET IX FRONT—SHERIDAN S
RAIDING PARTY.
There is no news of interest from Gefl. Lee’s
army. Grant is reported still to be busily
engaged in fortifying in our front, and evi
dently does not design to accept or offer bat
tle again until he is reinforced; even then
opinions differ as to whether he will fight in
his present position, or attempt to make his
way to James river, where he would have the
co-operation of the gunboats and Butler’s
forces on the Southside. Whatever may be
his intention, our army is, ready to-day to
enter into a general engagement, with the ut
most confidence as to the result.
Accounts from Bottom’s; Bridge represent
everything quiet in that direction.
shiridan’s movements.
. An official dispatch, received yesterday,
states that Sheridan’s forces encamped on
Thursday night at New Market, in Spottsyl
vania eountr, about five miles from Ohiids
burg, and ten miles south of Spottsylvania
Court House. We have good authority tor
stating that General Hampton was between
them and Gordonsville. A citizen of Caro
line aounty, who arrived in this city yester
day, states that Sheridan’s command is about
8,000 strong, with ten pieces of artillery, and
that they moved in three columns. Other
accounts, however, represent the force as con
siderably greater in numerical strength.
A rumor was in circulation yesterday that
Hampton had surprised the enemy’s camp and
put them to rout, but this lacks confirmation.
We only know with certainty that some pris
oners had been captured, who were seen by
a scout yesterday on the way to Richmond.
FROM THE VALLEY OF VIRGINIA.
We have received some further intelligence
from the Valley. Crook and Awerill joined
Hunter on Wednesday at Staunton, at which
time a portion of their forces were on the
Greenville and Middltbrook road. On the
same day, at 3 o’clock p. m., five hundred cav
alry made a demonstration on Waynesboro’,
on the Greenville and Staunton road, and
were repulsed by Gen. Imboden. The enemy
retreated to Staunton, burning the Fishers
ville Depot on the route.
Pope, with a force of 4,000, was reported
moving down the Valley to reinforce Hunter.
The enemy have no supplies, but subsist off
the country. They were doubtless aware of
the richness of the region into which they
have penetrated, and will strip the inhabitants
of everything they possess.
A dispatch from Mountain Top says our
troops are in fine spirits, and anxious to meas
ure strength with the enemy. The Yankee
cavalry made another advanee on Thursday,
but were easily repulsed by Imboden’s in
fantry.—Richmond Dispatch , 11 th.
Thu Tinder Mircies of the Wicked.—
The Vicksburg correspondent of the New York
Tribune gives the following account of the
negroes torn from their homes by Gen. Sher
man in Mississippi :
Some 3,000 slaves, of all ages and colors
reached here yesterday. It was one of the
saddest spectacles witnessed for a long time
in Vicksburg. The women and children were
almost starved and half naked. Such a ter
rible picture of abject want and squalid mis
ery can neither be imagined nor portrayed
with pen. Many of the women and children
were sick with fevers, brought on by the great
fatigue and exposure of the long march from
Meridian, Enterprise, Quitman and other
places. Will not the friends of freedom and
the humane philanthropists of the North come
forward at once, and with their generous
hands rescue these liberated slaves from pre
mature graves.
We learn from the Boston Courier of a later
date that the suffering of these poor homeless
wretches continued in all its intensity. No
more political capital could bo made out of
them, and nothing was done to help them.
They were free to perish.
—. <»—«.
(From the Macon Telegraph.)
From Morgan’s Command.
In Camp, 13 Miles from the Kr. Line, ]
Juno Ist, 1864. j
Mr. Clisbt: —I this morning bid adieu to
“Dixie.” The long wished for orders have come
at last, and we are already one day’s march on
our way to the green waving fields of Kentucky.
Morgan is in the saddle once more, and ere long
the Yanks will tremble at his sudden approach.—
We have 2500 of the best; men that ever drew the
blade in defence of Southern liberties.
We intend to hare whsjt the motto on our ban
ner calls for, “Southern Rights, or Northern
Guts.”
I must bid adieu to you and all my Georgia
friends. Excuse this short epistle, for the shrill
notes of the bugle are blowing “saddle up !
You will hear from me again, if I should be
tunate enough to get back to Dixie once more.
Respectfully,
Eugene Graves,
Morgan’s Command.
-
A Northern Description of the Situation.
—The Washington correspondent of the Cinoin
nati Commercial gets off the following happy hit
at street corner campaigners. We will only re
mark that Washington can hardly be ahead of
Nashville in the conveniences of mud or dust in
which to draw diagrams, and we have »o reason
to think that eur population are at all inferior in
the endowments of intuitive strategy .*
Washington, May 2, 1864.
Everybody in Washington Beems to be afflicted
with “situation on the brain”—which, however, is
but a patriotic anxiety far the success of the Union
army, and a desire to demonstrate how easily it
can be brought about, and how certain it is to bo
achieved. In front of every hotel, and at every
street corner, you will see little groups of honor
able gentlemen, and gentlemen who are not as
honorable as they might be, perhaps, discussing
the relative positions of Lee and Grant with great
vehemence, and demonstrating how Grant will
flank Lee and get to Richmond, or "how Lee will
flank Grant and try to get to Washington—every
proposition happily illustrated by an engraving
with the point es a walking stick in the dust of the
sidewalk. [Washington is a good place for such
| illustrations. You can always sketch out a map
of the word either in the dust or the mud on the
sidewalk.] The “artist" makes a straight line —
“That's Grant's army.”
“Yes, very well,” says the bystander.
Another straight line—“ That’s Lee.”
“Os course, that’s plain enough.”
“Well, here’s Richmond”—and the artist per
forates a little mud heap in the rear of both lines.
The problem is now pretty nearly solved. With
the whole sidewalk to operate on, it would be very
strange if Grant couldn't swing his line around
! into the rear of Lee's and march into the rebel
capital. In the ardor of their patriotism the citi
sen campaigners usually negleet to give Lee a
I chance to fortify—or even to fall back before the
i invinoibie oolumns oftae Union leaders. Here’s
; Grant ; here’s Lee, and here’s Richmond”—ail
done in two strokes and a dot of the walking stiek.
i Carlyle’s “Iliad in a Nutshell” is nowhere, com
pared with this Laconic demonstration of the great
i problem of Giant and Lee. Walking stick strategy
is the thing after all. It will break the back bona
of the rebellion quicker than anything I know of.
■ * ■
Many ladies think themselves utterly unable to
walk a mile, would gladly danca three times that
distance.
$4.00 Fer Month
TELBSR APEIC.
Reports of the Press Association
Entered aecordin* to act of Congress in the yeai
J- S. Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office ol
the District Court of the Confederate States foi
the Northern District of Georgia.
Latest from Virginia!
Official Dispatch from General Lee.
Grant Recreating to the James River.
&c., Ac.
Richmond, June 15.—Headquarters, June
14th, 9 o'clock, P. M. —The force of the enemy
Itentioned in my last dispatch, being on the
Long Bridge road, disappeared during the
night. It was probably advanced to cover the
movement of the main body, mest of which, a*
far as I can learn, crossed the Cbickahominy
at Long Bridge and below, and has reached
James river at Westover and Wilcox’s land
ing.
• A portion of Grant’s army upon leaving our
front at Cold Harbor, is reported to have pro
ceeded to the White House, and embarked at
that place. Everything is said to have been
removed. The Depot at the White House
broken up, cars, engine, railroad iron and
bridge timber brought to that point, were also
re-shipped.
Respectfully,
R. E. LEE, Gen’l.
Richmond, June 14. — Our cavalry yesterday
evening gave back some two miles above Rid
dle’s shop towards Richmond until strength
ened by Wilcox’s and a part of Mahone’s in
fantry, when the enemy’s force, consisting of
two divisions of infantry, artillery and caval
ry, were encountered and driven back some
three or four miles below Riddle’s shop to
wards Long Bridge, thereby recovering the
road to Malvern Hill, which the enemy atone
time held. This move of the enemy was a
mere feint.
Last night they again withdrew from our
front, and are reported to-day to be moving
towards James river at Shirly, on both sides
of the Chickahominy.
Some seventy more prisoners, captured in
their breastworks in the brush of yesterday,
have been brought in.
Grant’s exact whereabouts or intentions
have not been ascertained.
Richmond, June 13.—The Washington Chron
icle of tho 12th has been received.
Gold at the first board, 199 J.
Morgan is reported as leaving Kentucky by
nearly the same direction as ho entered.
Other news unimportant.
Miscellaneous.
A dispatch from Cairo, on the sth, says
the ateamer Missouri, from New Orleans,
was fired into at Columbia by a battery.
Sixty shots were fired at her, eight of
which struck. But one person was woun
ded.
Most of the boats lately burned at New
Orleans belonged to the Government, and
were valued at $250,000. The fire was
the work of an incendiary.
A dispatch from St. Louis, dated June
5, represents the Confederates as very ac
tive in the neighborhood of Cape Girar
deau. On the night of the 2d two hun
dred guerillas were in camp near Pittson,
at a mill, grinding corn. A force of guer*
illas is reported on Cave Island, and an
other band at Doneghan. Col. Rogers,
commanding at Cape Girardeau, thinks
the movements of the guerillas are inten
ded to cover an attack upon some import
tant point, and that Mcßae will probably
make a demonstration on Patterson.
An extract from the Washington cor
respondence of the Herald exhibits in the
strongest light the bankrupt condition of
the Yankee Government. The expenses
of the Government have been run np from
two millions per day, in 1802 and 1863,
to four millions per day in 1864.
A dispatch from Col. Rogers, dated
Cape Girardeau, June 3, says: “The
whole company of guerillas crossed the
river and swamp, and were within eight
miles of here last night. They have cut
the telegraph line to New Madrid.”
The presence of these bands of gueril
las is accounted for by the abandonment
of Batesville and Jackson port by the Uns
ion troops, which leaves the country open
to the rebels of Arkansas.
A daily line of fast Government steam
ers between Washington and White
House, on the Pamunkey, has been estate
lished, making the trip in about twenty
hours. They are to carry officers and sol
diers and light stores to White ‘House,
and bring back wounded.
Fremont and Cochrane, have accepted
the nomination of the Cleveland Conven
tion. Fremont, as a he
says, to accepting the nomination, has re
signed his commission in the army. He
is very bitter on Lincoln in his letter of
acceptance.
Chili is reported to have joined Peru
in the war with Spain. The seizure of
the Chincha Islands by the latter is warm
ly resented by Bolivia also.
Smith’s corps and two divisions of Giil
more’s corps were seat from Butler to
Grant.
The New York World gives an account of
the trigin of anew political and military or
ganization. called the “D. M. D.,” or Defend
ers of the Monroe Doctrine. The movement,
; it is Bail, originated with a New York officer,
while engaged in the Seathwest. He started
a secret clan in Memphis, and 300a after an
other in New Orleans. Another was organ
zed in Buffalo, and others are forming in New
York city. These defenders propose, iL is
said, to aid Jaarez against the French in Mex
i iico.
Nxw Papkh Mills.—The Atlanta Appca
of Saturday, has the following :
Fulton Papke Mills. —We are extremely
delighted yesterday evening on a visit to ih •
Fulton Paper Mills, to witness the energy
with which this valuable enterprise is being
conducted. It is situated on the classic wa
ters of Sugar creek in DeKalb county, about
lii|Biks distant from the Gate City, and sur
rounded by picturesque hills and dales On
the 24th of June, 1863, the work was inaugu
rated by the eotmnenoement of a dam across
tho creek to supply water fer the huge rag
wheel. The dam ie massive and substantial,
affording an abundant supply of water. Ar
rangements are being perfected sot the con
ducting of pure spring water to the building,
for the purpose of aiding in the manufacture
of a whiter and better article of paper. The
buildings and machinery are new and perfect,
and although not complete in alls its detail!,
under the guidance and skill of its energetic
foreman, Mr. T. F. Scully, a veteran in the
business, the mills are turning out an excel
lent article of paper. It is not as white
desired, because they have not, as yes , secured
bleaching powder, but the body is good. Sev
eral months ago, ere they commenced making
felts at Columbus, Mr. Scully, assisted by a
lady, spun the filling and wots the dryer felts
now used in the mill. The felt is equal to th*
best English manufactured, and attests the
capacity of our people to manufacture all nec
essary articles. Capt. G. J. Foreacre, well
known to our citizens for his ability and en
terprize, is superintendent. The success o f
this enterprise is equivalent to a brilliant vic
tory. . . . *
One Plain Question.
There are pauses in the life of nations, as
of men, which compel reflection and self-ques
tioning; pauses mercifully giantcd by a gra
cious Providence te tbe inteat that we may
clearly see our true position, and may then
speed stoutly onward in a course, however
rongh, which is illuminated by the light of
an approving conscience; or, else turn back
and flee in horror and remorse from some
abyss of darkness and destruction. Such a
pause is new. After fearful throes and wres
tlings, we have had a breathing space, and
now the dark-stained sword is leaping from
the scabbard. On the banks of the Potomac
we are mustering countless hosts, perhaps to
perish like their predecessors. From the
Mississippi comes the rautterings of incipient
battle, and the fierce shout of a defiant foe.—
Few weeks can now pass ere the millions of
our people writhe once more in the agonies of
expectation, hope, grief and despair. A few
days more, perhaps, and some, till now, un
heard of field, will have its name stained dark
ly on that calendar of fratricidal blood, whose
first red mark was crimsoned on the brow of
Cain.
But for a moment, we may pause, and if
our voice can yet be heard above the fiddling
of the White House, Ihe wild saturnalia of a
forgotten God and outraged human nature, to
ask: What is all this for? Aye, press the
question home—what is it for ? The track of
the three years past, is marked by devasta
tions, fire and sword. Within our own homes
are th# dark weeds of mourning. In the
dwellings of our enemies, the Eye which guar
ded rebel Israel from Egypt, can alone see
how Rachel weeps for her children, for to us
she wears the proud front of a Judith, or the
noble air of the mother of the Maccabees.—
Our chief boast lately was that she was starv
ing. Look at our trophies. The blazing roof,
the desolated lands, the bloody sod, the crowd
ed hospital, the presidential joke, thousands
upon thousands of maimed cripples, hundred
and hundreds of thousands of millions of
debt.
What it is all for? Assuredly, the Judge
of all the Earth will take no trifling answer
from the authors of these horrors.
The lords of misrule, whose carnival is
graced by those grim bonbons, used to tell us
that the war was for the Union, the suppres
sion of a lawless insurrection and rebellion
and the preservation of the great hope of con
stitutional liberty throughout the world.—
When this hideous war began, they dared not
show the Mephistopheles that grinned behind
this graceful mask of Union patriotism and
world-wide brotherhood. They knew that we
and all mankind would have shrunk back with
execration from the fiend.
They trusted to the bloodsmell that should
make us wild, and craze onr wits, and blind
our eyes to everything but blood. “I knew
they would do it,” Mr. Lincoln is reported to
have said, when informed that Sumter had
been flred cn. And the Abolition Mephisto
pheles laughed gleefully thereat. He knew
what we would do; and, Heaven forgive us.
he tyid only too well gauged our readiness to
do his devilish behests.
But the time has come when, with tbe cool
smile of accomplished villiany, tho mask may
be thrown oft’. “The little job,” as our rev
erend chief magistrate would say, “has paid,
and now the flag of the abolition pirate may
be run up.
“The mask of Mephistophelus is off.” Eve
ry pretence that brought our sons and broth
ers, by the hundred thousand, to be slaugh
tered in the shambles cf the South, is now ac
knowledged by the abolition ruinists to have
been false. We have been mocked, deluded,
hoodwinked. This is not a war for the Union
and Constitution. They are “abrogated.” It is
not a lawful war for the establishment of
constitutional authority. It is professedly an
unconstitutional an unjust war for the con
quest of a free and independent nation of our
own speech and our own blood.
Once, then, again we ask-. What is all this
war of conquest for? What liaTe we made,
what can we make at best, but more blood
shed and more debt? Sir Robert Walpole
used to say that he never read history, for
that he knew was false ; and when we &ck the
question what all this is for, we seek no an
swer from the Abolition Mephistophelies.—
That we certainly false. But from the hon
est, concientious masses who have been de
luded by pretenses and blinded by the mad
ness of the hour—the men who are always
more and more ready to correct than commit
a wrong—the men wh# do not believe in tho
“Anti-LSJavery Bible and the Anti-Slavery
God”—the men who do not believe in a Goa
who is “the author of peace and lover of con
cord,” a God that “verily judgeth the earth”—
the men who feei that we shall ail have yet to
answer for this great “bloodgiltiness”—from
these we do ask that, before they shall again
be blinded with tbe red glare of the lurid war
light, they demanded of their own ( eonscieneea.
as in the sight of God. What is this for?—
And, if there b* no better reason than the
pleasure of blood-thirsty parasites and the
amusement of a toculer Chief Magistrate, then
let them join, with all good men, in hurjing
from their seats the foul conspirators at Wash
ington, who plotted a nation’s folly, andTiave
played upon our noblest impulses and princi
ples to make us tools and playthings of a bloo
dy abolition Moloch.—Y. V. Xews.
m » m
Frem the Memphis Appeal, 13th.
The Front.
But little additional of importance can be repor
tedfrem the front ia Georgia. Sheruian is stated to
be strongly intrenching in his new position, a; if
intending to make it the base of anew combinatiea
of operation*.
Our information from various sources 'l3 that tho
bridge over,tbe Etowah has been rebuit, but wo
have no report that trains have been run to that
point. __
Big Sh inty is occupied by the enemy, who aro
reported by refugees to have been more outrageous
in their conduct towards the citizens than at any
other point.
Our lines extend from the northwest side of Ken
aesaw mountain to a point east of tbe railroad,
crossing the latter ab ‘Ut three milts above Marietta
Polk’s corps was yesterday on the left, Hood’s in the
1 center, and Hardee’s on the richt,
Sheruian appears to be directing his “flank”
movements on our right, and to have abandoned the
( “,,n to Atlanta” movement via Dallas. Os course
i his changes have induced corresponding move
. inents on the part of our forces ; but there is noth -
' ing in the latter to warrant the fears that obtained
i in some quarters in the rear yesterday. A: tho
! front it is understood all is <joing on well.
Ine reply ,of the President to Governor Vance,
i says the Examiner, must be allowod to be consid
| ®red to he exclusive,straight-forward and thorough,
j If there were anything honest in tho whole outcry
j about negotiations for Peace, this letter would id
»ae the remainder of the war.
