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Year: 1864

Correspondence OF the Cincinnati Commercial


NEAR KENEsAw MOUNTAIN, Ga,


June 20th, 1864. I


THE SITUATION.


JohnstOns army is yielding line after
line of works Instead of their bold
and defiant front Of week ago, sweep
ing from Kenesaw to Lost Mountain,
with their center advanced to Pine
Knob, three or four miles north of their
tanks, they are already circumscribed
around their central and last strong
hold-Kenesaw. In army parlance,
they are losing their grip First their
centre at Pine Knob, where General
Polk fell was enfiladed, and their heavy
works were rendered worse than value
less. Next our lines enveloped theirs
on their flanks with such vigorous au-
dacity that they relaxed their hold on
Lost Mountain, the citadel on their LETT
flank. Still the pressure continues.
No sacrifice they make Of position,
lessons the terrible momentum Of
Sherman's army for longer than twenty
four hours. Like the breaking up OF a
broad Ice bound river, this great move
ment progresses. An irresistible supe-
riOrity in force, pushes the enemy back
mile after mile They have abandoned
not less than six or seven parallels,
several of them constructed with great
labor ana aiming in their general con-
fguratiOns to be elabOrately scientific.
This is the precise situation. We crowd
them day and night-push them from
tree, from ridge to ridge, from earth
work to earthwork, from their first po-
sition TO their last A vast skirmish
blazes from morning till night, along
the ten or twelve miles of infantry lines,
and our guns fill the air with round,
erberating oaths drowning often the
spiteful expletives Of the musket The
enemys shaFpshOoters reply bitterly to
ours, but their artillery is very reticent.
They seem 70 be nursing one grand
consuming hope-that we propose to
assault But sherman seems satisfied
with his steady progress, cHd, TO return
to our frigid metaphor, prefers TO let
the ice float down the river in its own
good time, instead Of spending energy
IN accelerating the motion Of any par
ticular foe. II we continue to make
the mile per day which we now notch
behind US regularly, we shall be in At
lanta in twenty-five days by the mile
stones.


Our right wing is now threatening
Marietta, four or five miles in rear oil
the rebel stronghold at Kenesaw. Our
left is also working past Kenesaw.
Both rebel fianks, especially their left,
are bent back, and it would certainly
seem that Johnston should be retreat
ing with his wings back to back, and
by that means get our wings to shooting
each other. 1t is believed certain that
the rebel army must soon retreat south
of the ChattahOochie River, where their
prisoners now say will be made the last
ditch. / cannot but believe, however,
after seeing the strength and number
Of their notifications, and witnessing
the tenacity Of their resistance, that
they may at some time have intended
TO make KeneshaW their last ditch
We shall see. This much is certain
they are too long their hold on the
strongest position between here and
Atlanta.
Year: 1864

My books will show that Tor the past iye months
my practice has increased hundred per cent. over
the last year. until it is not to be surpassed by any
in the State. With my general practice in the city,
treat the following
Year: 1864

Despite the almost incessant rain Of
the 18th, the right wing maintained
continued actiYity-steadily advancing
the lines BY q movement 10 the right
flank thus gradually drawing the lines
Of decentralization closer and closer
around KenesaW Mountain HascalIs
division, the ID, which had been thrown
in reserve by the closing IL together Of
the 20th and 23d corps, was late in the
day thrown in ~ the extreme right


while Hooker's corps relieved in one Of
its divisions, was enabled 10 extend its
ELF in the direction Of the general move
ment This latter Was IN direction
nearly north and south, and at the
same time bearing upon the rebel lines
toward the southeast The lines were
Year: 1864

e We are authorized TO announce Capt. JOHN
BERRY as a candidate to represent the county Of
Orange in the Senate Of the next Legislature.


u We ars authorized to announce WILLIAM
N.PATTERsoN, Esq, as a candidate to represent
the county Of Orange in The House of Commons of
the next Legislature.


n We are authorized and requestedto announce
the name of SAMUEL r. PHILLIPS, Esq, as a
candidate to represent the county Of Orange in the
House Commons Of Of the next Legislature.


q We are authorized and rsauestedto annsunce
The name Of CHARLES WILSON, Esq, as can
didate to represent the County Of Orange in House
Of Commons Of the next Legislature. Mr.. Wilson
is an old line Wing, and strictly conservative.


= We are authorized to announce HUGH B.
GUTHRIE as candidate for reeleetion to the Office
Of Sheriff of the county Of Grange.


~ We are authorized to announce r. M. JONES
as candidate for the Office Of Sheriff Of the county
of0range.


u We are authorized to announce JAMES NJ.
WELLS as a candidate for the Office Of Sheriff for
the county Of Orange.


y We are authorized to announce Gel. B. C..
HOPKINS as candidate for Sheriff Of the county
Of Orange.
Year: 1864

property in the country. This is the price
paid by the country to force domineering
minority upon the majority of the people,
The great mass of the people were always on


the defensive against those whowanted banks,


or protection, or bounties, or internal improve
ments, or special privileges of some descrip-
tion. The whole people presented a solid.
phalanx called the Democratic party. The
restless minority took new name with every
attempt upon the Constitution and popular
rights. For twenty years they steadily 70
mented that sectional discord which was in
tended to give them power at any cost. The


Constitution, the whole wealth of the country,
the liberties of the people were as nothing in
the scale against their criminal ambition, and
when, in 1861, the Peace Congress was pack
ed with delegates from Republican eliques
pledged TO defeat any peace measures that
might be offered, the whole property Of the
country was offered up to CEN ent in blood the
ill-gotten pewer of a party born in treason
and fos 2 red in treachery.
Year: 1864

In his Washington letter of January 21st,
.sMack" of the Cincinnati Commercial does
not give very fattering picture of the Mem
bers Of the present Congress. Here is what
he says of the motives governing that body
in its action on the whisky tax:


The all absorbing topic at the Capital now
is the whisky tax. Nearly every man you
meet, unlike Banquo's ghost, has speculation
in his eye. But they are badly frightened,
since Fernando Woods amendment to the bill
yesterday, putting the additional tax on the
stock on hand as well as that to be manufac-
tured hereafter. - a8iG


The speculation is not confined to outsiders,
but many of the peoples Representatives on
the floor of the Hou are largely interested
directly, and L am sorry to say that, L have
reasen to believe that number of others are
interested indirectly in the way Of premium
on votes. Owen Lovejoy is no doubt a very
honest and conscientious man on the negro
question, but think he is little slippery on
the revenue bill. IF not, his action misrepre-
sents his intentions. When the bill was first
intro duced he delivered a temperance lecture
in the House, wildly portraying the awful
effects of TIE intoxic tug bowl, and advoca-
ting tax on every quart of whisky in the
country. He may have been induced to do.
this from an ambition to oNrun an opposition
line to John B. Cough, who was drawing
large houses at one of the churches in this
city Since iheps however, he has turned
complete summersault, and in a speech made
yesterday, warned the House that if it put an
additional tax on the stock now in the hands
of The snecuistors. it would stop every dstil-
lery in the country, and bring financial ruin
on hundreds of good aud loyal men, Is not
the presumption fair that somebody has been
with Owens conscience


As the bill now stands, it is death 10 specu-
lators. But it is by no means impossible that
the "test votes" heretofore taken, were in
tended to test the plethoric pockets of these
gentlemen, rather to give any correct indi
cation of what the final action would be. The
manner in which the members of the House
have acted thus far, shows them to have been
merely throwing bait to the bulls and bears
to see how they would nibble. The raising of
q revenue for the Government seems only to
have been a secondary consideration with
stsot them; but, as most of them are am
bftions men, and expect to run for Congress
asain-though 1 hope they won't all be re-e-
lected-they ought to know that their con-
stituents will hold them to a strict aecounta-
billy for selling themselves to the specula
tive Philistines.
Year: 1864

The New York Herald, alluding to recent
articles in the Administration papers in that
city, the Tribune and Times, demanding of
Congress increased taxation, says the Goyern-
ment must receive three or four millions year
from taxation, or go by the board. We shall


have 10, tax Ere, mir and water, smoke, light
and love, everything we wear, and everything
we don't wear, everything we like, and every
thing we dislike. From the cradle to the grave
we will have to be taxed, and both in the cra-
ole and the, grave. This is one Of the bounties
for which we have to thank radical belligerent
Abolitionism, and the men in power it has led
by the nose, to their own shame and disgrace
and the ALMOST total ruin of the country. iaal


I al;
Year: 1864

From the Washington Correspondent of the Dub


uque Iowa) Herald.]


So far as the military strength of the South
is concerned, it is greater now than at any
former period, and their armies are on much
more stable basis. Their armies certainly do
not number 400 900 troops, but three-fourths
of these are veterans, who have re, enlisted
for the war. General Lee, in Virginia, and
General Johnston between chattanooga and
Atlanta, will certainly be ready in the spring
TO carry out the plans that arc now being
formed at Richmond The South is full of
corn and wheat and cattle and hogs. have
from the first steadily maintained that the
idea that the South is suffering, or can suffer,
from want of food, is absurd and groundless,
and every cavalry raid that we make confirms
the correctness of this view. They are abund-
antly provided with arms and munitions of
war Finally, they are united as one man in
their determination to fight until their inde-
pendence is acknowledged and they consti-
tute ten millions of people, of the same line
age, and of the same high spirit as ourselves.
Certainly it must be confessed that the pros
pect of conquering and subjuga ting the South
is not very fattering. The work, indeed, is
only begun. When our armies begin to PEN
citrate the interior of the country, the real DIFF
fcultes of the undertaking will begin to, be-
come apparent.
Year: 1864

As we enter upon 1864. who docs not praE
God that it may be less prolific of battle and
bloodshed of sorrow and suffering, Of woe and
want, of reviling and hatred, Of prescription
and persecution, than that just passed Who
does not pray for peace, for restored Union;
for the rehabilitation of the Constitution and
laws, and for assurance not to be doubted, that
the hereditary freedom Of the American pso-
pie is not lost forever, ,-Empirs. 80
Year: 1864

Where are our brave and loved ones We
answer: : many, very many, have gone to that
bourne whence no traveller returns, and are
-esting, we trust, in that spirit land where
here is no war nor shedding of blood, but all
S peace and heavenly union"


No war in heaven! No bustle's hum
Shall DER that glorious landscape come;
No brothers dressed in bright array,
To take each others lives away!


No war in heaven No fields sf gore
Are on that wide expanded shore;
No weary nights of anxious care


Await the war-worn soldier there.
No war in heaven! The battles won
The conqueror's there shall wear the crown
The plumes of victory they shall bear,
And in the joys of heaven shall share.
No war in heaven! No sorrow there
No aching heart, no parting tear;


But all Is calm and pure delight,


The armor ever new and bright.


No war in heavenl No trials there:
No ceaseless aches and thrilling pains
No wasted cheeks, where sorrows tear
Has rolled and left its blighting stains.
No war in heaven! No rebels there:
No cleaning sword, no bloody spear;
The battles there are never lost


No rebel foes there make their boast.
No war in heavenl Our glorious king
Shall hither all his armies bring;


Their names are written on his hand
His subjects come ut his command.


No war in heaven! The tables spread
With heavenly manna-heavenly bread
Clothing you'll have. and food and pay
Come and enlist without delay.
Year: 1864

who lay motionless upon the carpet.
Her betrothed, kneeling and bending
over her, was weeping bitterly and
trying to staunch the blood that we'll.
ed forth from terrible wound under the
lett breast. A surgeon came and de-
clared that Miss Pickens had not
more than two hours to live. We
will not paint the General despair
When the wounded girl recovered her
consciousness, she asked to know her
fate, and when they hesitated to tell
her" Andrew" she said, / beg you
tell me the truth. If l must die, can
die worthy Of you" The young sol.
dier's tears were his answer, and Miss
Anna. summoning all her strength, at
tempted to smile. Nothing could he
more heart rending than to sec the
agony of this brave girl, struggling
in the embrace of death and against
a terrible mortal pang. Gov. Pick
ems, whose courage is known, was al
most without consciousness, and Mrs.
Pickens looked upon her child with
the dry and baggard eye of one whose
reason totters.
Lieut.. de Rochelle was the first to
speak. Anna" he cried, II will die
soon, too, but l would have you die
my wife. There is yet time to unite
u.s."


The young girl did not reply; she
was too weak. A slight flush rose
for an instant to her pale cheek it
could be seen that joy and pain were
struggling in her spirit for the mas.
terry. Lying upon a sofa, her bridal
dress all stained with blood, her hair
disheveled, she had never been more
beautiful. Hopeless as she was,
Lieut.. de Rochelle took her hand and
requested the Rev. Mr.. Dickinson to
proceed with the ceremony. When it
was time for the dying girl to say
Yes, her lips parted several times, but
she could not articulate. At last the
word was spoken, and a slight foam
rested upon her lips. The dying ago
ny was near. The minister sobbed as
he proceeded with the ceremony. An
hour afterward all was over and the
bridal chamber was the chamber of
death. Lieut. dc Rochelle has sworn
to perish in battle against the Yam.
KEGS, and we are sure that he will
keep his oath. He has now o double
motive to hate them and his own ex-
istence.
Year: 1864

campaign for the purpose of lining his
pockets with cotton-thus sacrificing
the efficiency and safety Of his army
and the success of the cause to his
own personal profit. Had he been
successful, he could have defied the
anger Of the Administration, which
his interference with their plans will
excite, and have thrown himself upon
the populace, who ever judge of a
mans actions by the degree of success
which attends them, and not by the
intentions with which they were en-
tered upon whereas his failure will
cause, il no more disastrous result,
his immediate removal from command
and blast his hopes for the Presidcn-


cyo
Year: 1864

BUSH SrREET.-We respectfully call the
attentio" Of the City Council to tho condi-
'ion Of Cush Street, and ask them to cause
the strict to bs graded in accordance with
the original survey. That is one Of the
most extensively travelled streets in the CITY
and it is in q bad condition.
Year: 1864

WE have considerably enlarged TIE DAILY ONO
ST. TATEsMAN, and now print 1t on plain and hand
somo new type, and clear white paper. +1
In Politics, THE OHIO STATESMAN is,'in War as in
Peace for the Country for the Constitution and for
Union Of equal States, with equal privileges and
with equal and exact justice to all its citizens We
are for the Old Flag with not Star Stripe erased
and the Old Union rs far 1t possible to restore it,
aud for the existing Constitution, in its spirit letter
aud purpose. l .r


Upon the coming events Of the year. rest the hopes
ST tho People and Government. We are in the midst
of bloody and protracted civil war. Its duration
and close depend upon wiscr truer and more patri-
otc Policy than have during the present Ad-
ministraton. We owe 1t to the memory Of our Faith
ers and TO the hopes Of Children to the future Of
our Country and To the best interests of mankind to
change Policy which is drifting farther and far
ther from the landmarks Of our patriotic sires.


TEE STATESMAN will do all it can to aid in bring
ing about this change; and hence. the Publishers in
vite support and encouragement from all those who
while wishing for q good NEWSPAPER. also wish to
have q sound Constitutional journal. a.


We publish paper in which we seek 10 give the
TRUTH. Our Commercial Reports, our Markets, our
Political and General News, carefully freed from
the sensational character, and seek to make THE
STATESMAN trustworthy in every particular.


For News. for Instruction for Good Morals for
Sound Political Sentiments, for Steady Defense Of
American Institutions. Take, Read and help to Cir
culate. THE ONO STATESMAN. - l 90


THE WEEKLY OHIO STATESMAN is one Of the
largest. cheapest. and best printed Papers in the
West Each number contains a complete resun'&of
all the Military and Political news Of the week; the
latest telegraphic and market reports; carefully
prepared collection Of literary reading for the home
and family; and an abundance Of paragraphs upon
every topic Of interest or importance. The wide
circulation already obtained by this paper is evil
dence of its popularity, and of its being adapted to
tho wants Of the people.
Year: 1864

TROUBLE IN THE REBEL CAMP-The
rebels in st. Louis have been thrown in a
great cOmmotion in the last twenty four
hours-caused by the arrest of several per-
sons of known sympathy, and the closing
of prominent mercantile house Of the
city What is all this about, ths question
passing from one rcb to another.


We rather guess the military authorities
k,ow what it all means. 1t simply means
that the rebels and rebel houses in st. Louis
are being smoked out, aud that the rose
water policy which has reigned in this city
and department is at an end


There are houses in this city who throw
out hooks for Southern trade, and retain
those in their employ who are most likely
to attract that trade and who know the men
to approach in drumming for the business.
This fact and the houses themselves are
known, and being known, they will, in due
time, feel the salutary restraints of martial
law thrown around them as they should.


1t is known that vast amount of sup
plies reach the enemy through these dis
loyal houses and they are being looked af.
ter, as we'll as are those outsiders who are
known to be curbstone rebels that's what :
the matter now-nothing more.-S. LOUIS
Erentag Ne,rs.
Year: 1864

fa- The petition presented to Congress
a day or two since, in favor of the entire
and immediate abolition of slavery, was
brought in by two stout men in n bushel
basket, which the huge roll just filled. 1t
was signed by 41,71S men and women in all
parts of the Union, fifteen thousand resid-
ing in Philadelphia, and eight thousand in
New York.
Year: 1864

Those clear wells of uudetiIed thought,


what on earth can be more bsautifu Full
of hope. love and curiosity, they meet your
own. In prayer, how earnest; in joy, how
sparkling; in sympathy, how tender! The
man who never tried the companionship Of
little child, has careless = passed by cne Of
the greatest pleasures Of life, as one passe.
a rare flower without plucking it or knowing
its value. A child cannot understand you,
you think. Speak to it of the holy things
Of our religion. Of your grief for the loss of
a friend, Of your love for some one you fear
will not love you in return-it will take, it
is true, no measure or sounding Of Your
thoughts; it will no. Judge how much it
should believe, whether you are worthy or
fit TO attract the love which you se.k k; but in
its whole soul will incline to yours, and in
graft ITSELF rs it were, on the feeling which
is your feeling for the hour.
Year: 1864

Whatever the end might be, did not intend
that Ashby or his friends should see it in my
face, or in my manner of taking leave that
|, for an instant, suspected such terminus
ton to our interview. In fact | had made
up my mind not to be taken without a strug.
gle; as 1t was but a few nights before that
two of our officers had been captured, while
upon visit TO some fair ones outside our
lines, and the incident had served for some
hard jokes on the now imprisoned amoratos.
1t was we'll worth bit of fight, therefore,
to avoid not only being taken prisoner but
being taken in so ignobe wav.


bade my fair entertainers good night.
regretting that it would Le so long eIe
should see them again, and advanced to do
the same by Colonel Ashby and his friends,
but found them on their feet, and also pre-
pairing to depart. | shall never forget the
minute it took us to reach the piazza; it
seemed an age. had picked up my sword
10y the way, having unbuckled and stood it
in a corner of the room when sat down to
chess, and grasped it tightly by the scabbard
in my left hand, prepared to use it on the
slightest demonstration. My horse stood
fastened within few feet, and felt that if |
once got on his back had no fear of the
whole party.


1t was just dark, and we all stood an in
slant, looking out upon the landscape. Every
moment | expected the words: captain,
you are my prisoner" when | noticed look
of intelligence pass between the colonel and
his adJuant. | grasped my sword tighter,
and looked in the direction of their eyes,
and, with great bound of the heart, saw my
own men coming slowly up toward the
house.


Whether they were deceived, and believed
them squad Of their own, in the dim light,
or really knew what they were anI trusted
to my generosity, could not tell, but after
they bad fairly emerged into the road, |
turned towards my companions, and, with
one glance into their inscrutable faces, ex'
tended my hand to Ashby.


Il must bid you good night, Colonel;
see a file of my men coming up after me,
and it might be unpleasant for you to meet
them"


Good night, Captain---I thank you" was
all the response; and, in moment was on
my horse and bad joined my men, who had
returned that they might warn me of several
wandering parties of "rebs" they knew to be
out, aud prevent me from being picked up


never knew whether was prisoner
that evening or not.
Year: 1864

The editor of the Green Bay Advocate
gives the following account of his horse:-
The editor hereof rejoces in the possessions
of horse who seizes every occasion that he
is his own master to go where he lsteth, at
such speed as to him seemeth best. Coming
down the street one day last winter, he cap
sized us into snow bank, and then exhibited
to the astonished denizens of Green Bay
such going as was absolutely marvellous
cutter bottom side up-strewing the road
with all sorts of things. Here was buffalo
and whip, there horsebanket and halter,
and here again another rope, our wife and
some other articles of little value"
Year: 1864

A RARE FISH. y No doubt many have
heretofore supposed, who have enjoyed lob,
ster salad as one Of the epirurean dishes of
the land, that this article of food was ind-
genous to the waters of California. But
such we are informed is not the fact, being
called upon to chronicle the first California
fresh water lobster ever known to have been
discovered 1t was taken few days ago
out of Johnson's Creek, in Marin county
1t is about six inches in length and quite
perfect in its formation, having all the ugly
appendages in the shape Of claws, etc, which
belong to this species of shell fish -F2ag.


These Holsters are found imbedded few
inches deep in the sand at the mouth of San
Pablo creek, Contra Costa county, and are Of
the same size as the one above mentioned. -
In the Steamboat Slough, at Stockton, they
were formerly taken in great numbers, and
we believe are still abundant; they are of a
delicate pink hue and of a most delicious
tlavor.-Sac. Star.