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r . * ^ * 4-T25" -v 5* -T ..: '?"? "< , ~-r- - ?r? ? .< _' " * .. . t . .' " * - ' . K; - ** A ': ? * ; '? , .. ' .1" -L ' " .-r_ ?ii - " :|~"r " . ?> =? j. E.&L.M.GEIST, [proprietors |,it |it!)?jjcitbciti Jfamilg ftefospaper: Jfnr % |jra)mrtiim <rf tjje Ijpclitical, JMat, ^.grienltoal anb Cnmnterfial Interests of % S?nt|. . .- | u peb yeab, im advawce. T?? ' ' 1 i , 1 ' rrr^-vj - , ' ' . . T0LUME9. . YORKVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY EVENING/NOVEMBER 11, 1863. NUMBER 45.^ STATE OF 80UTH ( AROLIV A. AgJCTAMT AND I?SMtCTOK-GE.NERAL'j OFFICE Columbia, November 2,1663. GENERJ1L ORDERS NO. 41. T GENERAL ORDERS No. 34 her eJLd tofore Issued from this office, prohibited persons be tween the ages of sixteen and eighteen years from entering any military organizations, except such as are authorized and called for by the Governor and Commahder-inChtef; and in consequence of n card appearing in the papers under the signature of "J. H. ANDREWS,." inviting Krsous under the age of eighteen years, and persons not ,ble to conscription, to join a company for service beyond . - Jhejknltaof this State, said order is hereby reiterated, with the addition, that no person under the age of eighteen years, and no persou not liable to conscription under the acts of Congress, in this State, will be allowed to enter any such organizations. By command: A. C. GARL1NGTON, Adjutant nnd inspector-uenerai, ?. u. November 4 44 2w. ESTATE SATYR YX/ILL be sold at- the late residence IT of JOHN CHAMBERS, deceased, two miles and a half South of Yorkville, on TUESDAY, the 17TH day of NOVEMBER next, the whole personal estate of Testator, consisting of 16 LIKELY NEGROES, Horses, Mules, Cattle, Hogs, Wagons, Corn, Wheat, Oats, Fodder, Farming Utensils, ?c. BANK ana S. C. R. R. STOCK. Also his whole real estate, consisting of a tract containing over EIGHT HUNDRED ACRES, situate within 2% miles of Yorkville?more than 50ft ACRES of which is In WOODLAND, heavily timbered, with ONE HUNDRED ACRES of valuable BOTTOM LAND, with .DWELLING HOUSE. Negro Houses, Gin House and ah necessary outbuildings. Lands as desirable, or of equal vafhe, are rarely in mar ket. Persons wishing to examine said lands or Negroes can apply to Mr. A. H. CHAMBERS, on the premises, or to myself at Yorkville, S. C. '? The property will be sold on a credit of one and two years; but if thejjurchaser wishes,the money will be received. H' be land 1* taken on a credit, the purchaser will be required to give a mortgage of the premises, with two good surities for the payment of the purchase money. S. J. KUYKENDAL, Executor. October 14 41 5t The South Carolinian and Charleston Mercury will copy once a week until day of sale and send bills to the Enquirer Orrtcs. ' Commissioner's Sale. In Equity?York District John D. McLean. JCreeutor, ) t* ' > Bill for Sale of Land. Robert Patrick and OlJicrt. J PST obedience to the order of the Court of Equity, made in this case, I will expose to public sale at YORK COURT HOUSE, on the FIRST MONDAY in DECEM BER next, the tract of land described in the ptead. ings In this case,- situate in the District aforesaid, ana lying on the waters of Mill Creek, hounded by lands of John McGill and others, containing 102 ACRES, more or less. " Terms or Sale.?Cash enough to pay the costs of these proceedings, the balance of the purchase money to be on a credit of twelve months, with Interest lYom day of sale, scoured by the bond of the purchaser, with good sureties and a mortgage of^Re premises. (310) WALTER II. METTS, C. e. v. d November 4 .44 _ It "STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, YORK DI8TRICT. Roddey k. Co., vs W. B. Dunlap.?attachment. T17HEEREAS, the plaintiffs did on \ T the J5th day of October 1863, die their declaration against the defendant, who (as it Is add) is absent from and without the limits of this State, and has neither wife nor attorney known within the niune, upon whom a copy of the said declaration might be served. It Is therefore ordered, that the said defendant do appear and plead to the said declaration, on-or before the ICth day of October, which will he in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty four", otherwise final and absolute judgment will then be awarded against him. ($16) S. E. MOORE, Clerk. . October 15th, 1863. - . November 4 44 qly. QOUTH CAROLINA?YORK DISO TRICT.?Whereas, ESTHER WALLACE has applied to me for Letters of Administration on all and sinzuInr, the goods and chattels, tights" and credits of JOHN J. WALLACE, late of the District, aforesaid, deceased. These arc, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular. the kindred and creditors of the said deceased, to l>e' and appear before me at our next Ordinary's Court for the said District, to ho hoiden at York Court House, ou the 16th day of November next, to shew cause, If any, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand and Seal, this 30tli day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred nnd sixty-three, and in the eighty-eighth year of tin: Independence of South Carolina. . JOHN A. BROWN, Q. Y. I). November-1 44 St ~ mowTsthetdie! I WILL PAY THE HIGHEST CASH PRICES .{"OR ALL CLASSES OF NEGROES. C. J. PRIDE, 4 Rock Hill, S. C. April 1 13 tf SPELLING BOOKS. JUST received, a lot of the "HOME SPELLING ROOK OR MOTHER'S ASSISTANT." This work is published in Greenville, S. C., and for sale at the . ENQUIRER OFFICE. August 12 32 tf $7 per huitored lbs,, IN CA8H, WILL BE PAID FOR CLEAN COTTON OR LI VE) RAGS, AT THE . . ENQUIRER OFFICE. June 10 33 ,, ' tf lOOOlbsTBLUESTONEj JUST RECEIVED, 'And For Sale, by G. R. RATCHFORD. Xorkville, Oct 7.. 40 tf Wanted--5000 lbs. RAGS! THE SUBSCRIBER WANTS TO JL purchase suou pounds 01 clean gunua a.\i> I.INEN RAGS, iuuncdiatcly. G. R. RATCHFORD. Yorkville, October 7 40 tf CARRIAGE SHOP. riHri VfcSLs TIIE Subscriber still continues the CARRIAGE and BUGGY BUSINESS ' at the old STAND. All kiuds of coun try produce taken In exchange for work. ALSO, HORSE 8IIOEING and genera: country WORK done by W. P. McFADDEN. January 23 4 tf T^ENTAL NOTICE^D URIN G XJ my absence from Yorkville, I have made arrange stents with I?r. LESLIE O'WEN, formerly of Charleston to take charge of my OFFICE, adjoining the Enqcirki building, where he will be pleaded to wait on my customers as usual. He is a gentleman of much experience in m; line of business, and will, doubtless, give general siulsfac tion. W. M. WALKER, Dentist. February 25 8 tf ~ EST RA i illUL E~ TROLLED before me, by Edward T, J_ Brandon, living 10 miles East of Yorkville, nea Wright's Ferry, a BROWN HORSE MULE, about fourteci hands Iiigh; supposed to be upwards of twenty years ohl.No marks visible except a very sore back. Appraised a seventv-iive dollars. J. D. P. CURRENCE, Magistrate. October 17 43 im Fob T A X COLLECTOR.?WI are authorized to anmmuccCapt. J. \V. MITCHKL1 a* a Candidate for TAX COLLECTOR. for York Distrlci at the ensuing election. September 30 39 te* atoYice.?corn, Bacon, "Whea: JA and FLOCK wanted for the GOVERNMENT. W. H. McCORKLE, Apent. April 29 17 ??_ For txx collector-wi are authorized to announce SMITH SANDERS as Candidate for the office of TAX COLLECTOR of Yor District, at the ensuing election. November 19, 1862 47 !>'* X'WPPirroFGOOD LETTEI XJL. Envelopes for sale at the "ENQUIRER OFFICE November 86 4& tf Late Operations of the Army of North ern Virginia. ~ . We take pleasure in laying before ou readers the official report of General R. E Lee, of the recent operations in Northeri Virginia, accompanied by reports from Maj Gen. Stewart and Brigadier General Imbo den. Like every paper emanating fron General Lee, this report is a plain and dig nified statement of facts, without straining after effect, which will be read with grea interest by the people. Although the ene my, by retreating on direot roads, while ou: army was marching by circuitous routes managed to avoid a general engagement they did not escape without considerabh loss in men and stores.?Richmond Senti nely 2nd inst. Headq'es Army Northern Virginia Ootober 28,1863. Gen. S. Cooper, Adjt. and hup. General General : In advance of a detailed re port, I have the honor to submit, for the in formation of the department, the following outline of the recent operations of this army With the design of bringing on the en gagement with, the Federal army, wind was encamped around Gulpeper 0. House extending thence to the Rapidan, this ar my orossed that river on the 9th. inst., ant advanced by way of Madison Court House Our progress was necessarily slow, as th< march was by cironitous and concealec roads, in order to avoid'the observation o the enemy. Gen. Fit? Lee, with his.cavalry divisior and a detachment of infantry remained t< hold our lines sooth of the Rapidan; Gen Stuart, with Hampton's division, moved or the right of the column. With a portior of his command he attacked the advance ol the enemy near James City, on tile 10th and drove them back towards Culpeper.? Our main body arrived near that place or the 11th instant and discovered that th< enemy bad retreated towards the Rappa bannock, ruining or destroying his stores We were compelled to halt during the res] of the day to provision the troops, but th( cavalry under Gen. Stuart, continued tc press tho enemy's rear guard towards th< Rappahannock. A large force of Federa cavalry, in the meantime, had crossed th< Rapidan, after our movement begun, bm was repulsed by Gen. Fits Lee, and pursu ed towards Brandy Station. Near that place the commands of Stuar and Lee united, on the afternoon of the 11th l 7 and after a severe engagement, drove th< enemy's cavalry across the Rappahannock with heavy loss. . On*the morning of the 12tb, the armj marohed in two columns, with the desigr of reaching die Orange and "Alexandria rail road, north of the river, and interrupting I the retreat of the enemy. After a skirmish with some of the Federal oavalry at Jeffersonton, we reached tbc Rappahannock at Warrenton Springs, in the afternoon, where the passage of the riv er was disputed by cavalry and artillery.? Tne enemy was quickly driven off by a detachment of our cavalry, aided hy a small force of infantry and a battery. Early nest morning, I3th, the march was resumed, aud the two columns reunited at Warrentoc in the afternoon, when another halt was made to supply the troops with provisions The encmy'fell back rapidly along the line of thc^railroad, and early on the 14th tb< pursuit was continued, a portion of the ar my moving by way oT New Baltimore to wards Bristow Station, and the rest, accorn panied by the main body of the cavalry proceeding to the same point by Aubufi Mills and Greenwich. Near the formei place, a skirmish took placo between Geo Swell's advance and the rear guard of tb< enemy, which was forced back and rapidh pursued. The retreat of the enemy was oonduetec by several direct parallel roads, whil^ou . :.u i? j.-a:-..] (TUUps weiu uuiupcucu cu uiuigu uy uiuiuui and circuitous routes. We were conse quently unable to intercept him. Genera Hill arrived first at Brisiow Station, when his advance, consisting of two brigades be came engaged with a force largely superio in number0, posted ocLind the railroad em baukmect. The particulars of the action hav< not been officially reported, but the brio ades were repulsed with some loss, and fiv pieces of artillery, with a number of prison ers captured. Before the rest of the troop could be brought up, and the position o the enemy ascertained, he retreated acros Broad Run. The next morning he wa reported to be fortifying beyond Bull Rud extending his line towards the Little Rive Turnpike.. . The vicinity of the ehtreuebments aroum Washington and Alexandria rendered i useless to turn his new position, as it wa appareut that he could readily retiro t them, and would decline an engagement un Ins* attacked in his fortifications. A fui | ther advance was therefore deemed unne cessary. and after destroying the railroa ; from Cub Run southwardly to the Rappt bannock, the army returned on the 18t to the line of that river, leaving the cavalr r in the enemy's front. t The cavalry of the latter advanced on tli * following day, and some skirmishing o< f curred at Buckland. General Stuart, wit Hampton's division, retired slowly towarc Wairenton, in order to draw the enemy i that direction, thus exposing his flaok an ' rear to Gen. Lee, who moved from Aubut and attacked him near Buckland. Assoc \ as General Stuart heard the sound of Lee guns, he turned upon the enemy, who, afti . a stubborn resistance, broke, and fled i ' confusion, pursued by General Stuart nea ? ly to Haymarket, and by General Lee j Gainsville. Here, the Federal infantry w: ~' encountered, and after capturing a numbi ; of them during the night, the cavalry slot ! ly retired before their advance on the follow ^ ing day. When the movement of the am a' from the Rappidan commenced, GeD.lt k boden was instructed to advance down tl Valley, and guard the gaps on the mom t tains on our left. This duty was well pc ' formed by that officer, and on the 18th ii -f slant, he marched upon Cbarlestown, and j SQCoeeded, by a well concerted plan,. in r surrounding the place and capturing nearly . the whole force stationed- there, with all i their stores and transportation; only a few . escaped to Harper's Ferry. The enemy . advanced from that place in superior numi hers to attack General Imboden, who re tired, bringing off his prisoners and oaptur* ed property, bis oommand suffering very litt tie loss, and inflicting some damage upon the pursuing oolnmn., In the coarse of r these operations two thousand four hundred , and thirty six prisoners were captured, in, eluding forty one commissioned offioers; of; a the above number, four hundred and thirty - four were taken by Gen. Imboden. A more complete acoount, with a state> ment of our loss in killed, wounded and ( prisoners, will be forwarded as Boon as-the ' necessary official reports have been received. Yery respectfully, "VAVvnflinnf nnunnnf ; R' E. LEE, General. Official: Jho.-Withebs, A. A. G. 1 Buckland, Va., Oct. 20, 1868. , General: After offering some consider able resistance to the advance of the enemy 1 at this point, yesterday, in accordance with . the suggestions of Major General Lee, I re3 tired with Hampton's division slowly 1 before the enemy, until within two miles f and a half of Warrenton, in order that Major General Lee, coming from Anbnrn, , might have an opportunity to attack the ) enemy in flank and rear. The plan proved' successful. The enemy followed slowly , and cautiously after Hampton's division, , when on hearing Major General Lee's guns f on their flank, 1 pressed upon them vigort ously in front. They at first resisted my . attack stubbornly, but onoe broken, the , rout was complete. I pursued them from 3 within three miles of Warrenton to Book. land, the horses at full speed the whole distance/the enemy retreating in confusion. t Maj. Gen. Lee -had attacked them in 3 flank just below Buckland. We captured ) about 200 prisoners, eight wagons and am-' 3 bclsfcces, arms, horses and equipments ? | The rout was the most complete that any 3 cavalry has suffered during this-war. t Crossing at Buckland, Gen. Fitz Lee pushed-down the pike towards Gainesville, while I, with the few men of Gordon's and t Rosser's brigades who oould be collected , after onr unusually long ohase moved round : to our left, and pressed down to Haymarket. , Here I eneountered, besides a large cavalry foroe, the first army corpse who retired a ' short distanoe beyond Haymarket, on the i Carolina road. I attaoked their infantry piokets by moonlight, nud scattered them : over the fields, capturiag many. Gen. Lee pressed down to within a short distanoe of Gainsvilie, when he encountered tbeir in, . tan try, and captured prisoners. fh>m the first i array corps on that road also. The pursuit was oontiuued until after dark. The caval . ry force was commanded by Kilpatrickj and composed of ten regiments. I , -" Most respectfully, ; J. E. B. STUART, Major General. * i Official: Jno. Withers, A. A. G. , Headqua'rters Valley District, > In the Fork of the Shenandoah, ? Near Front Royal, October 19, 1863. . Col. R. I[. Chilton, Chief of Staff, A. N. V. Colonel : Yesterday (Sunday) morning, . at 2 o'clook, I moved from Berryville to , surprise and capture the garrison at Charlesi town. The surprise was complete, the ener my having no suspicion bf our approach uu. til I had the town entirely surrounded. I ; found the en,emy occupying the C. House, j- jail and some contiguous buildings, io the heart of the town, all loop-holed for musket1 ry, and the Court House yard enclosed by r a heavy wall of oak timber. To my demand j t for a surrender, Col. Simpson requested an . hour for 'consideration. I offered him five 1 minutes, to which ho replied, "Take me if 3 you can," I immediately opened on the . building with artillery, at less than two r hundred yards, and with half a dozen shells . drove out the enemy into the streets, where e he formed and fled towards Harper's Ferry. At the edge of town, he was met by the e 18th. cavalry, Col. Imboden'B and Gilmore's i. battalions. 3 One volley was exchanged, when the f enemy threw down his arms and surrender8 ed unconditionally. The Colonel, Lieut. 8 Colonel and five others, who were mount> ed, fled at the first fire, and ran the gauntr let, and escaped towards Harper's Ferry. - The force I captured was the 9th Maryland i regiment and three companies of cavalry, ,t numbering between four and five hundred, s ! men and officers. I have not had time to o j have them counted. In wagons, .horses i-; and mules, arms, ammunition, medicine and r- J clothing there were considerable, all of >- which I have saved, and will have properly d ; accounted for. As I expected, the Hari pcr's Ferry forces, infantry, artillery and h | cavalry appeared at Charlestown in less y j than two hours after I fired the first gun.? | Having promptly sent off the prisoners and ie [ property, I was prepared for them. I res' 1 tired from the town and fell back slowly h ; towards Berryville, fighting the enemy all Is! the way, from 10 o'clock till near sunset, n | My loss, as fat as ascertained, is very small d ?five killed, three or four mortally, and n i fifteen or twenty wounded, more or less.? m Captain Coleman will lose an arm, and ? I r\ r\ 1 L_ J1 _ A.s - i_:_ S v^apiaiu ^unjoei was uuuiy buul iu uiu nip. ur ' I thiuk U few, 10 or 15 broken dowo meD, in : who straggled behind, were captured We r- j killed and wouuded dreadfully several of to ; the enetny in the C. House, inoludiDg the as Adjutant of the 9th Maryland; and ir^the er j figbo along the road tbe enemy's loss was y. considerable, as we ambuscaded them severy. i al times with good effect. I marched nearly ! ly all night, and reached the river here at q. j daybreak. It was quite full, but I have ie effected a safe crossing of tbe north branch, a-1 Very respectfully, your ob't scrv't. r. | J. D. IMBODEN, Brig. General, n-1 Official: John Withers, A. A. G. From the United States. ' We have Northern dates of the . 26th, 27th, 28th and 29th, all of whioh contain the nsaal amount ofYankoe gasconade in regard to the "crashing of the rebellion." While the Eerald, in one column, speaks of the "breaking of the back-bone of .the rebellion," in the very next it thus whines and apologises for the numerous defeats . that have overtaken the Yankee armies: Every embarrassment of our national armies can be traoed directly to Washington City. Every fpilure of our armies to do what the country expeotsthem to do; every one of the many 'stale, flat and unprofitable conclusions' to which campaigns of the brightest promise have been brought, can be traoed to the same source. All of these failures the country may trace to the War Department, and more particularly to Gen. Halleck. For it is but just to give to the radical .character of Mr. Secretary Stanton fall oredit forits particular virtue in pugnacity?Mr. Stanton desires that our army should fight, whether the armies are in the right place or condition, or whether thej are or not, he thinks they onght to fight y and for the failure to annihilate Lee on the Potomac, or to fight him on the Eapidan, Gen. Halleck and not Mr. Stanton is responsible., Throngh this Washington strategy six months have been lost, and we are at |he commencement of another winter. Aro all of these failures honestly the result of military blunders, or are they partly military and partly political ? Is it intended to save the war, so that it may be very grandly put down next year, just in time to make excellent oapital for , the next Presidential election ? THE WAR NEWS. A correspondent of the Herald, writing from Meade's army, says "the rebels are strongly fortifying themselves all along the banks of the Rappahannock, and have made 1 quite a strong position of a fortification thrown up by the Union troops to serve to protect the pontoon bridges formerly thrown across near that point." The same paper says that "it is more than probable that no battle will be fought by the army of the Potomac this fall. One thing is certain? I Lee will not attack us I" WHAT THEY THINK <JP CHATTANOOGA. The following from (he Herald will serve i to show oar readers at what valae the Yankees estimate this point: Chattanooga is too important a point to be relinquished, and the Government shonld , use every effort to hold it, even if it requires the reinforcement of. Thomas sufficiently to enable him to awame the offensive. It will be to us in the future campaign as important, and in tht same sense, as ever was the gate to the fortifications of ancient cities. To us it is an inlet into the richest valley of the Central South. It is to as the key to the campaign against Atlanta, jnst as a prominent point or u lit In hillnolr ia a/imorimna fVin Irnu t.n thn hnt tie-field. It is to us a great bastion, far advanced towards the enemy's line of defence. It is not exactly the MalakofF; for its occupation does not efld thesiegeof war; but it is chief among those smaller Redans which, when taken, hasten the siege forward lo early and successful completion. To the enemy it is a sally-port from which the besieged rebels have once, and can again, if repossessed of it, oapy on an offensive cam paign intyTennessee and Kentnoky; and as suoh the rebels never underrated its value. i THE LATEST FROM TENNESSEE?THE . SITUATION. The Northern papers profess to have in formation of an important movement on the part of Bragg's army. They say there are indications that Bragg is moving in large force upon Cleveland, Tennessee, with the evident purpose of breaking through the Yankee lines in that direction. It is generally believed that this movement is co-ope rated in by a portion of Lee's forces from Virginia, moving down by way of Lynchburg and Bristol, Virginia, with the intention of driving Bnrnside from East Tennessee and turning the flank of Thomas' army, and thus compelling its retirement from Chattanooga. Aside from this rumor, advices from Chattanooga represent the situation of affairs as one of perfect quiescence. The latest dispatch from Chattanooga says : Our position here is perfectly safe, if strong fortifications oan make it sor Chattanooga is encircled by a line of works as formidable as those aronnd Washington.? The same can be said of tbe enemy. If they cannot take Chattanooga from the front, neither can we advance npon them with any success. They hold the moautajin encircling the town, with both their flanks resting upon tbe Tennessee river. No advance can he made by either party,'save bv * flank movement. [This movement has since been made by the Yankees ] The greatest embarrassment is the question of supplies. The late rains have made the roads so bad that the teams have to make a circuit of eighty mi'es, and even then cannot get through. As yet the troops do not suffer, though they have been oq half rations. But the animals are great ly in want of forage, and the common ani mals are dying by scores from hunger.? Bodies of troops have, in consequence, been scattered over a large tract of country to forage. R03ECRAN8 AT CINCINNATI?HE MAKES A SPEECH". Tho latest intelligence we have of Rosecrans is that he bad arrived at Cincinnati, where he was ordered to report. He was "enthusiastically welcomed" and?made a Af nnnrnB. of whinh thn teleeraoh opCGUUj V* WW?; ?-? ? ? ? -g 4 say9: He returned his thanks for the expression of sympathy aud respeet which this public reoeption implied. While he felt flattered by it be could not forget that the heatt of the people did not go oat to indi vidaale alone. It is a principle for whioh we are contending?the straggle for national life that produces such an assemblage.? He asked the people never to ferget their duty to the Government, whatever might ocour to individuals. The question as to how he has been nsed be desires to leave for a future time to answer. Some friends of mine in New York are very solioitious about my health. The army of the Cumberland thinks I am well enough. So do I. As to the question of opium I have taken, oonsult my druggist, fwid the General. New Sork and Wash ingtOD papers have said that Generals Crittenden and M(pCook intended to make charges against me, but they assure me that they regret exceedingly that such false reports should he stated. He said that since'the battle of Ghiokamanga he had received a letter of approval from the President for his action in that affair, and said, whatever oharges appeared in the Eastern papers against him, he was satisfied the Government was in no way responsible for them. He further expressed his readiness to do whatever the Government desires of him. . At the conolusion of his speeoh cheers were given for General Rosecrans and the army'of the Carabe^Iand. THROTTLING THE REBELION. Rosecrans is growing very savage in bis talk, and promises to rival Parson Brownlow. In his speeoh at Cincinnati he said : "RVif T fall Tinn flint. tJia nnlr ivnv ill vh'lflh ~>A" * ? J ? J --J ? we can procure any peace is by throttling the enemy at the South. The people deplore the waTj but they are held by the neok ; the military power has got tbem under its heel. You cannot, therefore, make peace with them. The only way is to keen tightening the cords around them to get them so broken that the conservative people of the Sooth oan help themselves. This they will not attempt until we throttle the military power. Then they will turn to the leaders and say: <We have had enohgh of this apd will give it up.' 4 "STBANQE DEVELOPEMENT." * Under the above oaption the Herald in an editorial article, states that Kosecrans, in a publio speech at the Merchants Exchange, in Cincinnati, on the 26th ultimo, said that "if the forces recently sent to Chattanooga had been ordered there before, ad they ought to have been, the backbone of the rebellion would ere this have been broken." The Herald says Rosecrans was removed "because he could not see with admiration or even patience that pitiful political intrigues were of the first importance to the War Department, and that the-Salvation of the country and the proseoatton of tho war were matters of seoondary consideration. PROMINENT MERCHANTS AND REPUBLICANS SENT TO FORT LAFAYETTE. Among the city items in the Herald we find the following paragrtfph: United States Marshal ivfurray made some very highly important arrests in this city yesterday, and succeeded in getting, with the parties, a large number of documents of a very valuable character The contents of these have not yet been divul ged, nor has it been deemed prudent to give the names of the parties arrested. The subject matter of the papers is said to be most peculiar and to throw light open certain operations relative to VallandighanT and the rebels, with which the general pub lie has not been made acquainted. Some of them may, at some future time be given to the public press; bat are held back at present for "good and sufficient reasons." The parties arrested were yesterday conveyed to Fort Lafayette in carriages, by the proper officers. It may not be contraband to state that three of the parties are well known business men and merchants of this city, and that one of them is a prominent republican. The Situation. The fact must be conceded that just now there is no imperative reason why Bragg should give battle. If he oan choose his ground, and thus equalize the two otoosing armies, there would-be no danger of defeat ?in fact, victory would be absolutely certain. He may now be outnumbered; and it is thought by military men that he should merely hold the enemy at bay, until coming events compel as they must, the retreat of Thomas from Chattanooga. President Davis meant all that he said when he declared that before the oampaign olosed our army would repossess Tennessee. Bat there are accidents in war against which no human genius and forethought can provide. Such an event might ocoar in East Tennessee ; but if we read aright what has been done and the movements now being executed, and no disaster befall detachments of our armies, the withdrawal of Thomas from Chattanooga becomes, at no distant day, inevitable. He will first seek to crash Bragg, but it happens, whatever Bragg's enemies say of him, that they concur in asoribing to ' him those qualities which made Fabian's immortal, and rendered Washington's military reputation as admirable as his unselfish patriotism. Bragg knows when and how to retreat. Tennessee can be redeemed without a battle at Chattanooga. In accomplishing this result a retrograde movement may be made, bat it will be that of a chess-player, who lpses a pawn to catch a "castle." We have no authority for the suggestion that a retrograde movement may occnr, and only speonlate upon facts which appears^ alike in Northern and Southern journals.? Atlanta Register, 5th. . Arrest of a Supposed Spy.?A man on whom suspicion had fallen, was yesterday arrested at Branchville as a spy.? Frnm-nannm in his nnnket it was discovered _ r~r" -~r . 7 that be was an ^officer in the service- of the United States. Upon being arrested, he is said to have evinced much alarm. Charleston Mercuryf 7th. ' *' # v * A Sensible View. Under the caption, "Three hundred Thousand More," the New York Daily News makes the following comments on the late proolamatioh of President Lincoln : After nearly three years of active warfare, the (Government proposes to create an additional military foroe, in itself sufficient in numbers to meet the exigencies of an ordinary warlike occasion. This formidable display of numerical strength argues well for resources of the Republic, but at the same time it suggests most painfully the terrible nature of the task that now taxes the energies of the North. Judging from the immediate past, the events, to come promise a fature of unprecedented horror and desolation. .There are yet some sanguine fanat-. icB who make the President's late proclamation the renewal of those oft repeated and unfilled predictions of the speedy overthrow of the- Confederacy. Experience should have taught them how yain it is to measure prospective miiitary success by the recruiting sergeant's progress; but .as t&ey build upon their hopes, and take uo counsel of realities, with every fresh call for volunteers, we may expect the worn out prophecies to be paraded before the public. When seventy thousand men answered the first call of the President, the oraoles asserted that foroe abundantly, sufficient to crush the rebellion in its cradle. We now contemplate the necessity of a host of nearly one million to arrest the,threatened dis*?/?. r TJ. J i comuiure 01 r eutrrai uruio, uuu yci tuo j?iv pbets cling to tbeir text, and point to the roeeding goal as won. They forget that the spirit of resistance intensifies in proportion as the means of compulsion multiply. As their estimate of Southern endurance erred in the beginning and erred throughout every phase of the struggle, there is good, reason to believe that it.will err to the end \ The swelling of the Federal ranks to ' whatever extent it may be possible to oarry it does not coeroe the inexorable fates ? They will trace the history, of this war ar the dictation of a higer power than that : whioh reigns at Washington. The despots of anoient Asia, in their attempts to subdue the Grecian States, invaded first with two hundred thousand men and afterwards with a million; but it chanced that the more formidable host was the most easily repelled and the most thoroughly destroyed. Napoleon was never so utterly disoomfitted as when he had exerted his utmost influence to bring all the military elements of France into the field. The army that perished amjd the snows of Russia was the mightest that ever marched under the Imperial eagles. :v>- . But if we cannot estimate the result of military movements by the numbers of the combatants, it is not only possible, bnt unavoidable, to realize tlie enormous drain that the sapport of suoh vast armies make npon the substance of the country. It is nnf within the newer nf the mind to com. pate witotber they shall aohieve victory or undergo death ; bat a very plain arithmetic teaches, with appaliog certainty, the cost of their maintenance will impoverish the land. One million of men, transferred from productive industry to the labor of destruction, will accomplish the financial ruin of the North more solely than the political submission of the South. When, also, we take into aooount the blood that must be shed, the suffering that must ensue, the private griefs that will accompany the genera ^misfortune; when we reflect npon the l)iiterness and hatred that must inevitably be 'engendered between the sections, whose almost (entire active manhood is engaged in desperate conflict,j the call for 300,000 more agents of contention suggests the confirmation Of an irrevocable antagonism of sentiment more forcibly than any hopes of a friendly Union. A political companionship that requires to be enforced by a million of armed men cannot be claimed as an illustration of selfgovernment. The resistance that, after three year's strife, must be confronted by suoh an unprecedented military array, gives evidence of an intensity of feeling that can never be accommodated, upon compulsion, to the intention of the United States as constructed by our fathers. It is marvelous that the people of the North do not in* stiuotively comprehend the absurdity:-of seeking to bring together discordant elements by intensifying those qualities, that render them discordant. A raging fire to be subdned, and they heap combustibles upon it. Hatred, distrust and jealousy are to be calmed, and they employ the incentives to those passions. They desire to re cousile a people, and they persist in thofe deeds that caocel every hope of reconcilia tion. What madness more ridiculous?if it were so frightful?as the spectacle of enlightened men struggling liko demons to whip their fellows into ooncord and friendship ! Dealing deathblows to promote friend: ship ! Wielding the implements of hate to build a structure of amity and love! The 300,000 more will enable the North to shed a certain measare more of Southern blood. Will that appease the Southern antipathy? They will help to fill more Southern graves. Will that inspire the survivors with affection for the slayers ? The more desperate our efforts to compel the South to our political embrace, the greater will be its repugnance to the already loathed connection. Advice to Planters.?The recommendation has been made, that the planters . should immediately take measures for winter crops to relieve the demands for grain and provisions, and that they should make their own clothing and supplies. The advice is iiertihenfc. We have a war of oncer tain length before as, and conBeqneQt hard times. Provisions, clothing,ahoes, &c., are high and in dernand. These things oar planters can make. ' Let the planters enlarge the grain crops; sow wheat, rye, barley; save peas, potatoes, pompkins; make their own clothing for family and- negroes; and save bides and make shoes for themselves and slaves.. 1 i " ..-<1 >. . V* . UA I Oleasters in the Churches. There is a counterfeit olive tree in PaDestine. It is called the wild olive, or the oleaster. It is in all points like unto the genuine tree, ezoept that it yields no fruit. Alas! how many wild olives are there in the ohurob ? When I see a man take up large space in Christ's spiritual orchard, and absorbing a vast deal of sunlight and soil, and yielding hot one per cent of good works, I say?there is an oleaster. , When I hear a professor of religion gjjtj> in the stock market, and ^et silent in the nraver meetioer. ready to speak' for his par ty, but never willing to open his lips for Christ, I say?Ah I. What an bleaate'r! When I hear a ^hurch member going from the oommnnion table io thp political caucus, to buy votes and sell principle, to cheat and dicker at the board o? intrigue, I say?BeboldanoIeaSter! When I hear a man pray that he may "provide things honest in the sight, of all men," and then go out of his shop with a rotten piece of broadcloth or a second hand beaver sold for new, X think to myself? Friend,'why cot write on your sign, here lives an oleaster I When I meet a garrulous "sister" at every anniversary meeting, who is profase.of tears for the foundlings of Five Points, and ecstatic over the eloquence of returned missionaries, nod yet goes home to grind a sixpence out of an over-worked seamstress, or turn a sick servant into the streets, I want to whisper to her?Sladam ! what a pity you are nothing bat an oleaster ! Finally, when we encounter a church that is stiff in creed and lax iu character, abounding in doctrine and scarce of good deeds,, extensively laid out in professsion, but sparsely settled with'graces; rich itv purse and empty of principle, biggcted towards everything but sin, and libev^ towards everything but trae religjtpq,.fcbep we behold a whole plantation of oleasters. The end of suoh is buroed, when the Lord will. consume them with thejbreath of His month inibe terrible day of His coming. ... :?>a A South Carolina Negro in Ngjjr York ?a chaplain who, hating beeniloft behind with the wounded Gettysburg, uras carried to New York; flays that but a few of the negroes captured at Gettysburg took the oath of allegiance to the Yankees. Meet of them steadily refused to work or fight for Lincoln." .Ho relates the following conversation between Gen. Morris, H. 8. and Titus, a negro, from South Carolina : . Morris?Well, Titus, are you willing "to enlist and fight for liberty, under the start and stripes? -.a / Titos?No,, sir, you may shoot me .fust, and den I won't fight 'ginst my Government. Morris?Well, Titus, they are goiug to put youAll in tbe^rmy if you^p Sonfch. TUus-r-Dat's jjat wha', I want, sk. ; A Morris?Don't you want .a good suif of clothes ? Titus?Not from your Government, sir; my Government is able to give me clothes. - Morris-r-JOh, pshaw ! your Government's "played out;" your money's worthU^?ta|" # Titus?Cat's all yon kpo.w a'bont it; de money's jist as good in ihe Sonf as 'tis in do Norf; for dar ebrytiug^a^h'ahd money plenty, here aberyting'cheap and money skace. Nigga have a -dollar in de Soof where baokra-dop'fc have adimo io de Norf. Oh, dar, man, I know yon aint talkin when yon asin dis chile to fight gin de Sog^iy; ?-?>??* ?? - ? Bates of Advertising and Subscription.?tn peace times, when paper oquld be bonght for 10 to 12-} cents per ponnd, and labor wa?from 25 to SO cents a thousand ems for composition, the regular rates of advertising in all the, papers of Georgia^ was $1 pei; square for the first insertion and 50 cents for each snbseq'uent one. Now, wben the paper cost $1 per pouud, and oompositioa SO to 90 cents per tbonsand, the' advertising rates, are ?1 per square for each insertion, when on a fair average, it should bp at least $5 per square. Yet we find some men complain pF the. high price they have to pay for advertising^ not. con0;jrt?!n? ??1! Ann AvfuinaAa Tihwa innv/io. gtUCtlUg vuah #? uuf?>|iyiNW ?m? uwniHsed four fold and some. ten fold. So of subscription; the-'price of a daily paper, ought now to be at least 960 dollars per annum, to correspond with the inoreased expenses of printing,' when up to thi* time, only 820 is charged, or $5 fpr three months. We mention those facta to show that there is no substantial reason for the complaint of high prices against the publishers. of J)aily papers. As things now go,a daily newspaper is the cheapest, cpmmodity in' the market. With baooc $2,50 per pound; batter, $3,50; dour $50 per hundred, and other things iD proportion, sac ha complaint from a producer is not entitled to. consideration. Macon Confederate. Wonderful if TauE.-^The following . strange story is going the rounds of the French journals: An English photographer, ftlr. Warner, lately took a photograph of the eve of an ox a few hoars after death, and on examining the impression t^roogh the microscope, distinctly perceived depicted on* the retina the exact deliniatioa of the stones with which the slanghter-honse was paved, being the last object which affected the vision of the animal on bending . down its head to receive' thd fetal blow.? The cooseqaeoce deduced from- this very apoorapbal story is that, if the' eyes of a murdered man be photographed a few boars after death, the likeness of the murderer will be found On his retina, that being the last object he can seen daring the struggle.?.Galignani.: - .,r i I?* Morgan's career may be Bammed ap 8 with truth as follows*: He has fougut sixty-three battles and has jg been successful in fifty seren; took 50,000 || prisoners, killed 20,000, and destroyed ?50,000,000 worth of property,- taken 50, 000 otacbd of smaii arms, and fifty pieces of arriHery^ S0,d00 homes, and traveled 12,- ffl W0 miles,' * .; ^ ^ v *