r, informing him at the same time that if he was not liberated very soon they would batter the station-house down and have him out anyhow.
To this language Perrin remonstrated, whereupon the Captain struck him a blow in the face, and then commenced a lively "setto," during which both of the combatants fell into a deep culvert which was being dug near by. After rolling and tumbling about in the mud for some time, however, P. got the better of his antagonist, and dragging him out of the culvert, succeeding in carrying him up stairs and locking him up also.
The natural inquiry will be, what became of policeman Griffin and the companion of the Captain during this engagement?
Well, no sooner had the two first-named hitched, than the other party pitched into Griffin, and on P.'s disposing of his man, and seeing the dilemma in which G. was, he gallantly went to his assistance, the two together soon winding up the ball for the day, by depositing the Captain's friend also in the cage.
War and Matrimony.
--Married, at Griffin, by the Rev. Charles T. Quintard, on the 23d inst., Gen. John C. Brown, of the army of Tennessee, to Miss Bettie Childress, daughter of Major Childress, of Murfreesboro', Tenn. The Rev. Mr. Quintard, who married the couple, had hardly pronounced the benediction, when a telegraphic order from Gen. Joe Johnston was received ordering the happy bridegroom to Dalton.
That night he was far upon his journey to the army.-- Atlanta (Ga.) Register.
from Georgia.
We get some interesting intelligence from late Georgia papers.
Everything seems to have changed in that State from the deepest despondency.
General Hood seems to have brought the people to the liveliest exultation.
This is a very decided point gained, and we presume that the repulse of the enemy on the 27th, (noticed by telegraph,) and the capture of a great flanking raider — Stoneman — will hardly detract from the general joy of the people.
The correspondent of the Griffin (Ga.) Rebel, writing from Atlanta, gives the following:
Position of affairs at Atlanta.
The enemy have shortened their lines considerably since the battle of July 22. Our right is fully two miles in advance of the position it occupied previous to that engagement.
The enemy has three batteries to the right of the Marietta road, between that and the Turner's ferry road, and a Parrott gun near General Johnston's old headquarters, on the Marietta road, which has thrown the principal s
vington, in order to give that Atlanta and Charleston communication another and farewell cutting.
"Madison, Ga.,August 4, 1864.
"The Yankee raiders have been here.
No damage was done to private property.
Colonel W. C. P. Breckinridge pursued with a portion of the Kentucky cavalry brigade, attacked, killed and captured nearly the whole force.
All safe now."
There is still another party out, of considerable strength — report says three thousand men, which has been to Griffin, Georgia, about fifty miles from Atlanta, on the roundabout rout to Savannah.
They cut the road here and have not been heard from since.
The impression that all the parties could meet at Macon with ease, seems to have been very strong.
One of them cut the railroad at Walnut Creek bridge, three miles from the town, and then attacked the town, but were repulsed and went off.
Affairs at Mobile.
In the absence of any official dispatch, the news from Mobile so far is not of a character to
From Georgia — Slight Engagement. Griffin, Ga., September 22.
--There was a brush between General Hood's army and the enemy yesterday afternoon, on the West Point roat, near Fairburn, in which the latter were driven back.
The ten days truce expired to-night.
Telegraphic
From Georgia. Griffin, Georgia, October 1.
--Not a hostile shot has been fired along the Georgia front for many days.
Our army is now upon an offensive campaign, and any day may bring on a general battle.
General Hardee takes command of Charleston, and it is the universal impression that Beauregard will supersede Hood.
Forest is producing the wildest consternation in the rear of Sherman's army.
Up to the latest accounts there had been no general movement of the enemy from Atlanta.
Conscription in Tennessee. Griffin, Georgia, October 1.
--Andy Johnson has issued orders in Tennessee conscribing all while men and negroes between the ages of eighteen and forty-five.
at once.
If Lincoln is elected they have no hopes for peace.
Several hundred of our exchanged prisoners, belonging mostly to Lewis's Kentucky and Govan's Arkansas brigades, have passed down the road.--Some of them came direct through from Nashville, and say that Wheeler did but little permanent injury to the road.
They state that the Southern ladies in Nashville were very kind to them, but that they were closely watched by the Yankee officials.
The Chattanooga Rebel, which was being published quite successfully at Griffin, has been obliged to pack up and enter a box-car once more.
Governor Brown has succeeded in getting most of, the State cotton away from Griffin.
It amounted to about forty thousand bales when Atlanta was evacuated.
Then about four thousand still left there up to-day yesterday.
The being depopulated rapidly, each train of away hundreds.
The hospitals have been to Albany, Georgia.
What do you think of the position of Augusta and Macon!
Affairs in Georgia.
The correspondent of the Columbia Carolinian writes from Griffin thus:
I have been enabled to learn a great deal of information from Sherman's army around Atlanta, and the events that have occurred in the rear during the past two weeks. These men were captured in the unfortunate battle of Jonesboro',could be anything else than a reconstruction.
As for peace, it was not to be thought of, except with submission and re-union.
We understand many citizens of Griffin are leaving that place, not deeming it safe from either a Yankee raid or occupation under the present disposition of the Confederate forces.
A correspondent of the Columbus Times, writing from Lovejoy, says:
The Chattanooga Rebel, which was being published quite successfully at Griffin, has been obliged to pack up and enter a box-car once more.
Governor Brown has succeeded in getting the State cotton away from Griffin.
It amounted to about forty thousand bales when Atlanta was
