The daily Chattanooga rebel. [volume] (Griffin, Ga.) 1864-1865, 1864-06-30

Ceres pcndcHce of fise Aobsic AdveFftseT
CosUHpus. June y, Is6I.-It seems 10 be now
settIed point that The notoriously ubiquitous per
EoRage commanding corps in the Federal army,
sad bsarirx tho singular and uncommon name Of
Smith has SuFued up sure enough IN Memphis He
was there wheu ecTtsin muc arrived III the city,
shortly after the great battle Of 1ishomingo Greek,
which said eeEsin ule 10 believed to have carried
astrde bis back tFo valiant generals, to-wit: Gri-
erson and Sturgis. WkcthcT tie fate OF these two
heroes exercised any influence the aforesaid
Smith i'm determining his movements is not yet
knOwa; bat Il Is certaiEly very clear that he Is in
tasf interesting po=iten called qDaEdaTy. IL he
dOat fotlew In tbe footsteps Of his llustTious pre-
deccss0rs, IL sili be equivalent to acknowc1g
mens that he is afraid to do 80, aud it he docs
deTtase the Overland route," be Will end it-as he
Is well aEare--a "hsrd road 90 travel. At the
risk of having charges preferred against me, of
furnishisg iufoFmstion the enemy, will here ia
form Mister Smith thst he como along, just
Whenever he fseis like It. The road Is pretty good
now, aud there are only one or two big "Forrests"
IA which there IL any danger difhculty. True,
these "ForTests" have been found by the yankees
be Impassable heretofore ard IL s supposed they
bad in THE respect ever, "d normorc so. :"
II is said that Lee and Forrest have had "big
talk" lately. If this be 30, tie 'biues" may look
out, for e mesrs danger and disaster TO all Yam
kees.
80 .s=; s; ss ss., s;= ;s.s sv =
two, Eaken his eotumnndup the Mississippi river
from Memphis. e may BE Tsss TO deceive lee
and Forrest, or be may have coBeiuded that the
upper route s more healthy at this season Of the
sse Judge Clayton, of the Confederate district
court will hold term at Macon soon. 1t is
thought if he would inquire into certain tilo iucs-
tions about Columbus and Aberdeen, he could
throw a few thousand dollars into tho Confederate
treasury. I learn there IS property in aud about
each place owned by parties who have gone To-
Yapbecdom aud make it convenient to stay there
And that Is not all. They are said to have cor
respondents within oHF lines. have personal
knowledge in the msttsr but many citizens have,
and will chccrfully afford ali necessary information
if called upon.
Col CIeorse Harris, of this place, has n vcr;ta-
ble Yankee breastplstc complete. Il taken
from the body of dead Yankee on the hntiic-hele
of Fishing creek 1t Is composed OF tw" picoes OF
thin stcn at,iug like the front of vcst. and is
( held in place 10y carved straps fitting over the
shoulders. The pateutec's brand dcnomiuatcs i
'sbufIet-prOof vest" Each piece shows in'iubi,a"lc
evl.nec of the skill Of boys with the rifle. ioi
<i,er,, is sIeep intIentaton on each mafle by bRl
: lets. and doubt the vcarcT wss brought to tn,
ground each time, but he got up again aud the itS
shot took him just above the top "f the vest and
( broke his neck.
7 have seen brcastpIatcs heretofore 10y
them, made of wire, closely woven together but
these are the FIRST have ever seen OF this kiad.-
( Brave men scorn to such things, but we cap
expcct ANYTHING better from tho Yankees, and thei
being patented and manufactured so skiilfolly cna
blcs us TO form some idaa of the extent to which
their use has been carried in the Yankee ARMY
They do not seem to do mreh good, however, for
as has been shown at Tishomingo TAX
thcnn behind their walls of steel and then whiI
them two to one, for there is nc SORT oi question
that the forces of Sturgis aud ricrson more thar
doubled those &c Forrest.
A lady Informs me that she has just received
letter from a friend in New Orleans, who went ovc
from Mobile with pass from tho proper officer il
the latter city, and she. writes that Irish woman
sobtaincd a pass at the same time by Representa-:
herself a. the widow Of CoptederatcsD sDilier, wl'
had recently died of wounds, and that she bad lef
| an only child in New Orleans whSeh she wished I,
20 back for. She got the pass upon further repre-
/ seutation that she had no money and made the trt
/ free Of charge. On arriving at New Orleans lac
husband met her and she gave him bag of sreet
| Hiteh Ehe had brRu>ht al2ns Tvitl -hsS ~.
' bad made to The comma ndant at Mobile, when tn
wretch coolly admitted that il all false, aH
{ her husband had nev CT been out of New Orleans a
/ all, ard in the Yankee service, aud 81,
/ only told the lie TO get the pass.
. There are hundreds, aye thousands, perhaps, q
women, and men, too, within lines for u
good TO cause, and frequently wonder VIII
they permitted t. femain and sometimes pas
back aud forth through the lines
RTP FAS WIxKLE.