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Volume XI.
4'H OF SCBCIII Llj.
MUSCOGEE RAIL FOAD, i
Superintendent's Office, >
Columbus, Dec 3d, 1863.)
ON and after Dec mb ibu Mail Train on this Road
will mil m f Hows ;
Leave Columbus 7:45, I'. M.
Leave Macon ~0:30, P. M.
Arrive at Macon 4:18, A. M.
Arrive at C • uiuhua 3 a. M.
Passenger* e*» now go through to Charleston, via
Savannah, without delay, an ihe Mail Train on the
Charleston and Savannah Railroad makes close con
nection with the Central Railroad at Savafmah.
W, I. CLARK,
Supt. Muscogee R. R
Dec 4 if _
Change of Schedule.
ON AND AITEU December 6th, the Passenger
Train nn the Montgomery if- West Point Railroad
will __
Leave Montgomery at *-.. .....10.30 A. M
•’ West Point, ...............2,30 P. M.
Arrive at (Jouinbiis, ...*..........7,10 P M
Leave Columbus. ............ 330 A M
Arrive at M0nig0mrry..........11,37 A M
“ " West Point .7,50 A M
Making through connections to and from A’lanta.
Freight leaves C01untbu5................8,40 A, M.
*• Arrives at Columbus, 8,00 P M,
|D. 11. CRAM,
. Dec 4if flupl. Sc. Engr.
Notice.
mobile <$• girard railroad. >
Superintendent's Office, Dec, 4, 1663. >
ALL WOOD delivered on the right way of the road
after this dale will be considered the property of the
Company, to be paid for at the advertised rate at the
time < f delivery.
Parties wishing to ship Wood on their own account
are hereby notified that it must be delivered at some
one of the regular Stations on the Road, and subject
to rules g ivernuig other freights.
Dec 5 2w 11. E. WELLS, rtup’t.
Mj ANl> FOR SALJB,
IWILI, sell 640 acres level LAND in the county of
Russell, convenient to ilachachutibee Depot, 340
acres cleared, inline mate for cultivation, with corn
and fodder on the premises. For particulars dll on
the undersigned, seven imles west ol GleunviUe. ♦
£. R. FLLVVELLEN,
Nov. 21, if
Sun copy. ;
jDidisrj: a-il.
4 J ohii Clark, D, O, S.
Professor of “Theory and Practice” in
TUB NEW ORLEANS DENTAL COLLEGE,
CAN be found at his rooms, over Dr. Ware's Drug
Hto e, No. 106, Broad street, Columbus, Ga.
Nov 'l a lm*
a oxjXjisabxjs
DYEING fcSTABLISIIHENT!
THE SUBSCRIBERS having perfected their ar
rangements, are now prepared to do all kinds of
DYING tit
Silk, Wool and Cotton.
Dye (louse on sontti-weal corner of Bridge and
Oglethorpe streets, t inters left at tlie office ol the
Southern Express will meet with prompt attention. —
Parties irom the country can send any aiticle by Ex
press. Address
v \ OIGIIT & HILL
Nov 10 3m.
LAW OFFICE.
JSX. X- HUGH-IES.
Attorney at Law and Notary*
RICHMOND, VA.
Claims of every description against the Confederate
States settled with accuracy and dispatch. Legal
business will receive prompt attention. uuglS ly
A VALUABLE BOOK
OF HISTOHY.
0
TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS
OF THE PRESS ASSOCIATION,
IN MONTHLY PARTS, and
CONVENIENT FOR BINDING.
VOLUME I—AUGUST—DECEMBER, 1863.
PRICE FIVE DOLLARS—
FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY.
ADDRESS
J. 8. THRASHER,
fIUPHmSTBNDBNT PRKSB ASSOCIATION,
*» 8 ts ATLANTA, GA
LOOK QUT BOYS !
Here’s Another Chance !
WE have received authority to raise a Com
pany lor vinjnrT. B. Howard's Battalion ot
Non-Conscripts to be stationed at
COLUMBUS, GA,
FOB. TUB WAB
We invite all yourig men i eiween tho ages nf !5
and 18to join us. Wesnallhave comiortai-le quar
ters and will receive the same pay, clothing. 4-0, that
the legul.r C<>nf< derate troops receive. Tne duty is
light and pleasant
Al. wishing 10 join us will report to Acee A Col
lier’s Drug Store, nr to Maj. T. B. Howard, or to
Camp Hump irey’s, near Columbus. For lunher in
formation apply to
J. B. COLLIER, Capt.
JOHN 8. A EE, Ist Lieut.
3d
dec2l d2m L. DOZIER, Brv. 2tl
Flu liters Look Here !
JARGE. quantity <1 IJ> G BRISTLES wanted tor
_j wh cn ih higlieai uiuiket price will he ;>aid, by
M. BARRINGER,
Opposite Barringer *r. Moitiu ’r O.fi stand.
Dec SI lm*
Estray Notice.
Dickens mccoy, oi the 7tw Db rict n m.
trai ami s to me the following certificate of and
Betray Yoke of **xin: i ne a red and white color,
and the other a wlni- anlhrindle color; marked with
a smooth crop and underhit in both years About
four years old, Appraee.l by A.B. Bo vein and Jo
seph Lawson Higirers. freeholders ol said county un
disiricl Ughc woilti four hundred doUlais.
A n m ili« isiray book, this ’he Sffita
ot December, 1863. A. 1* JONE-t,
Jaii4 —w6lld Clerk, ). C.
S. Marslial Salt 1 ,
WILL be mM on 'he first Tuesday in February
next, between the usual hours 6t sa.e, be to.*
the Court House in Muscogee county, a free four
wheel carriage, levied 1 n 10 satisfy twenty-six fi las
vs Beall 4’Murphy, one ii la vs A A Beall and one
ft fa vs R A Murphy, garnishees in laviA of the Con
federate States of America for interest due on debt
to allien enemies to die 3 Uh August, iSS2.
PHILIP A CLAYTON,
C. S. Marshal,
Columbus, S9<h Dec. 1863. td
UKoUGlA—Hurion county
RULE NISI.— uiiereas, M Butt and William M
But, Administrators upon tin; o tree ol E dridge
C. Butt, dec’d, liavirg applied ior U tiers oi Dismis
siou trom said Administration.— riiese are therefore
to cite and admonish all and sinvuiurihe kindred and
creditors ot said deceased to show cause, :f any they
have, why said applicant should* not be dismissed
from said idmimsii reion.
Given under my hand and official signature, Sep
tember 2d, 1663, MALCOai HAIR,
sept 7, Ul6lll. Ordinary.
GEORG I Marion County:
WHEREAS, Jotei li Belk having applied for let
lers of Adminstraiion upon the estate if Zaciiu
riah Belk, deceased,
There are ihereti re to cite and admonish all and
singular the kindred and creditors of saul recessed,
to be and appear at my office within the lima pre
scribed by law, to slow cau.'O if any they have why
said letters 01 administration should not be granted to
said applicant, cn the 2nd Monday in January next.
Uiven undernty iiand and official Gpnatnre. Nov.
*4:h, 1663. MALCOM HAIR,
Nov 37 40. Ordinary.
AUCTION SALES.
PEREMPTORY
Cargo Sale of
DIRECT IMPORTATION BY
CATALOGUE,
BY WILKES MORRIS. Auctioneer
ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 26TH, 1864,
Commencing at 9 o’clock, A. M., I will sell at my
Sales Rooms, No. 2, Granite Row, Wilmington, N.
C* bv catalogue, the cargoes of tbe Steamships.
PET. LUCY, AND WILD DAYRELL.
With large consignments irom other vessels, via:
DRY GOODS.
68 bales Dark and Fancy Prints, l?chawbe’s and
Hoyle’s
43 bales Black and White do
36 bales and cases Bleached Shirting
14 cases Black Alpacraa
6 cares Super French Black Broad Cloth.
Shales Extra Heavy Wool Coatings
10 cases Caminteres
6cases Fancy Mohairs
t ales Welelt Flannels
4 bales F..ncy Wove Flannels
1 hale Scarlet Fiaunel
4 bales Blue Satinets
2 hales Mixed Seal Skins
3 bales Fancy Tweeds
4 bales Bed Tick
2 eases French Merino
3 cases French Cassiinere ✓
3 cases L C Shirts
1 case Steel Doe Cloth
1 case Pilot Cloth
2 cases Heavy Blue Army Cloth
2 cases Super Blue Broaa Cioath
I case Waterprool Tweeds.
1 case Velvet Pile
3 cases Lindseys
1 case Mo'tlcd Alpacca
1 case Grey DeLaines
2 cases Figured DeLaines
1 case Plaid Knickerbocker
2 cases Fancy Flannel Shins
2 cases Merino Shirts
1 case Merino Drawers
4 cases Merino
1 case Colored Handkerchiefs
1 case Paper Cambrics
3 cases Spool Cotton
3 cases Bone Buttons
1 case Military Buttons
4 cases Pins, Kirby’s
1 case Hair Pins
1 case Stay Binding
1 case Linen Shirt Collars
1 case Long Shawls
2 cases Gloves and Mills
1 case Hoop Skirts
1 caso Assorted Ribbons
BOOTS AND SHOES.
64 cases Gent’s and Ladies’ Shoes
23 cast s Army Bluchers
6 cases Shoe Thread
7ba.es So.eLeather
3 cases French Waxed Calf Skins
STATIONARY.
£6 cases Ca >. Letter and Note Paper
IS cases Pens, Holders and Pencils
8 cases Envelopes, white &Hd buff
3 cases Playing Cards
99 bundles Paste Boards
CARDING, &c.
4 ca.es Card Clothing
47 casts Colton Cards, No. 19
HATS AND CAPS.
SO cases Gents’ Caps
8 1 aies French Frit Hats
GROCERIES,
44 iirls Crushed Sugar
60 bags Jam Coffee
10 halt Chests Young Hyson Tea
5?0 casi s Vinegar
20 cases Pickles
20 cases Sal .and Oil
30 cases Brown Soap
ICO cas-s Wil ts Soap’
fO cares Belmont Sperm Candles
56 b irrelr Mackerel
18 Cartels Salmon
LIQUORS.
fi quarter casks Cognac Brandy, a supeiior article
90 casks Bourbo«i Whiskey
10 half pipes Bouihon Whiskey
8 pipes HoPand Gin
8 casks Old Toni Gin
203 1 ares Geneva Gin
123 cates Old Malt Whiskey
f 5 cases Bourbon Whiskey
18 cases Seheidam Schnapps
20 cases Champagne
18 r ases Pale Ale
915 cases Cognac Brandy, Dupont and other fa
vorite brands
SALT.
300 *arks Liverpool G A Sa't
160 sacks Turk’s Island Salt
2 crates Eariheni Ware
’-'5 cases Glass Ware, Tumblers, Wiue Glasses
hud Dei a liters
HARDWARE <f-o.
10 tons, 400 bundles, fine Nail Rod Iron
80 boxes Terne Plates
44 kegs cut Nails
?560 lbs Hollow Ware
4 rases Knives and Forks
2 rases Scissors and Ra/.ora
1 rase Files, Hammers, Hatchets and Gimlets
H 6 bolt s Window Glass
10 cases Per. Caps
BAGGING AND ROPE.
25 bales Gnnnv Bagging
30 coils Bale Hope
DRUGS.
320 kegs Bi Cab Soda
26 casks Soda Ciyrals
f,O casks Epsom Salts
35 harieia Lu luiu
Columbus, Georgia, C. Tuesday January 26, 1864
6 kegs Pow’d Cream Tartar
2 cases lodide Potass
3 cases Guinine
40 barrels Eng is'i Copers*
100 boxes Extrect Logwood
6 casks Refined Camphor
1 tierce Cerat Resena
1 case Citric Acid
I case Acid Tan
l{tierce Pulv A c&c a
3 ca-ks Flor Sulphur
10 drums Balsam Copaiba
30 casks Alcohol
II Puncheons Alcohol
12 casks Linseed Oil
• 0 (hums Linseed Oil
10 casta Tannin Acid
1 case India Rhubarb
1 keg Chlor Potash
2 kegs Salts Tartar
14 cases Balsam Copaiba
2 cases Pow’d Canth&rides
1 keg Gum Acacia Zinc
6 cases Mustard
3 carboys Sulph Acid
2 carboys Acetic Acid
1 ca«e Pow’d Ipecac
1 case Pulv Fhei Turkey
3 cases Bi Garb Po’.ah
3 cases Pow’d Jalap;;
4 cases India Rhubarb
8 cares Ca tor Oil
10 drums Olive Oil
10 cases Calomel, Pll Hydtalg, and lodide Potass
4 rases Ch.oform,
Jan 14 tds,
ty Petsocs attending this sale, with a view of
purchasing arc hereby notified that no Drafts or ac
ceptances will be received in payment of bills. Only
money or Bunk paper will be received,
headqhauterTpobt, )
Columbus, Ga„ Jan, 19ih, 1684. y
GENERAL OFEEBS, No, 4.
_ Until further orders Cipt. Jno. 8, Smith, P. A. C.
6,, is announced as Acting Assistant Inspector Gen
eral at this Post. 4
He will be obeyed and respected accordingly.
By order of
COL ROBERTSON,
Commanding.
Cn a? Wood, A. A. G.
j«u 3 ts
Shipping Notice.
MUSCOGEE RAIL Poad, 1
SUPERINTENDKNT’S OFFICE, > '
Columbus, Dec, 29d, ’O3. )
Owing to the want of sufficient transportation lor
Government freight, private freight will not be received
at this depot until further riotire.
LW. L. CLARK,
Dec 23 ts gupt.
Wanted.
MUSCOGEE RAIL ROAD, )
SvefiRINTENDEWT’s OFFICE. >
Columbus. Dec. 22d ’63. )
WANTED to hire for the ensuing yer.r (1864)
twenty-five tMt> bodied Negroes to work on the
Muscogee Railroad. Apply to
W.’L. CLARK, Sunt,
or A, B, BOSTICK.
Dec 23,.1m
HEADQUARTERS i
SECOND DISTRICT Gi. bTATE GU ARD, >
Savannah. December 30, 1863. J
General Orders, No. 6.
i. Officers cnmmanclng Regiments and Batialions
comprised in the Second District, Georgia Slate
Guard, will forthwith rendezvous their respective com
mands at points most convenient for railroad trans
portation to this point.
11. They vviil report to these Headquarters the
times and places of rendezvous and the number of
men for whom they require transportation.
111. The horses belonging to cavalry organizations
will be left in their present localities until further
orders.
By command of
Brig. Gen. H. R. JACKSON,
Conid’g Second District G. S. G.
11. Jackson, Capt. and A. A. G.
*
MUSCOGEE SHERIFF SALE.
W r ILL be sold before the Court .House door in the
city of Columbus in saidcaunty of Muscogee,
on the first Tuesday in February next, I etweeii the
legal hours of sale me following property, to-vvit:
Fifty Share of the Capital Stock of the Florida
Home. Insurance Company and an interest of two
thirtieths in me Steamer Marianna, levied on as the
property of Charles Pratt. Also twenty-five Shares
of the Capital (stock of tne Gemgi* Home Insurance
Company, and a negro woman ; lave named Polly of
a dink complexion, about twenty-five years of
raid 25 Share? anrtsard negro levied on as the prop
erty if Daniei tv. Dodge. The whole of the auove
prepony levied on to satisfy a fi fa issued irom the
uperio l Ci.ua of Muscokee County, in lavor 01 At
kins & Dunham vs Pratt if- McKer zte.
JOHN LIGON,
she. iff.
Columbus, Ga., January sth, 1364. td
JstoxicbT
HEADQUARTERS PO«T, )
Columbus, Gj,, Jiiitnry JJth, 160*. J
[GENERAL ORDERS, No. 2.]
* * * #" * •' « *
I. Capt. Ciia?. Wood, A. A G, having reported for
duty m i-ursuauire of orders fro n lien! quarters De
partment rs. C , Ua., and Fla., is announced as As--
sistaut Adjutant General of th • post, and in future all
officia' c-uiiiit'i uicatiuiis directed o these headquar
ers wid be addressed.to hint.
JI. Commanding cfiicers of Companies or outer
military oigan zations at this post wilt make out and
torwaril to these heacquarrers as soon *s p aciicait e,
complete returns of ail members ol their command
present aud ab ent, together with rosters 0; tho com
missioned orticers, and statumenis of the lime whan
and the autho ny by which such organization were
mustered into the service.
111. Officers of the Staff Departments on duty at
this Post will report at these Headquarters in person.
J. W. itOBERTeSON,
jan 12 if Col. Comu’g Post.
320 or 640 Acres of Land for Sale.
1 offer for sale the t.act known as the Mercer ulnce,
about IJ£ miles from siau in No. 5, o( >.he Mobile
v Girard R R. It cuiiuiiis 320 acres, 18 !oi which
is in cultivation, the nalanca timbered land. There
are cabins f>r about 30 negroes, gin house, stables,
Pj e , two well* of good water and a large quiMfty of
light wood convenient to the If. R. The other half
of tiie section, all heavily timbered will be sold if de
sired by the ottreh ser. apply to Greenwood &.
Gray, Colutubus, Ga., for terms. Mr Mercer on the
place will show Hto any one wishing to see it.
D. C. FREEMAN. Jr.
Hjn; '’opy. jan 12 _
fuio 10am
fj'UNED AND REPAIRED in the best style of the
A art by PROFESSOR LOOMIS.
No. 106 Broad street.
Refer to J F Winter, M P Ellis and J N Barneit.
decernber22 w4t
FiS PIAiYO.
IN good order and fine tone f>r sale. Apply to
dec22 w4t QUINN * GRAY,
LKOliftlY-Marlon county:
TWo months after date application will be made to
the Gnu it of Ordinary oi said county, for leave to
seil ihe negroes belonging to ihe restate ot Pollard
J Payne deceased. Dec. 7ih, 1863.
WM. Payne, f
Henry Payne, > Exec’trs.
Pollard J. Payne, j
Dec 14 2m
BEORQlA—Mariou County:
' Jt WO months after date application will be ntsde to
A the Court of Ordinay of Marion county lor reave
to sell a portion of the nsarots belonging to ihe esiaie
of C. W. Ross, deceased.
„ * ARMiNLA P. ROSS,
Dec 15th, )8)3. 2m Adtn’x.
TO DEBTOR'* AND CREDITORS, —Ali
persons having clautis against the estate of Wm
J Patterson, dec’d, are hereby notified to present
Diem within the time prescribed ,by law, and sit per
sons indebted tos»ji estate are requested to ma6e
, immediate pax meat. m’x
HENRIETTA A. PAITBRSOaN, Ad
\ December 28—wet
EVENED EDITION.
afiCCILkPTS.
Tha rtftylion of Iks T-mes, ordered *y
m\U it out receipt f-x ike mont? ; etpeeimi -
Ijt to tkose tukterUnr: for * tee* Imi than a
yemr.
When ruhteriherj 'ttei** the pxper *»ith tint
paragraph marked) they mil under stand it at t«-
s or'Ming them that their subscription :a about to
expire, and that tiuspafiitr *eill ctrtxmiy he stop
junless they ~mzi' J emittane*
For Balnbridge,
The[C. 8. Steamer, Marianna, H. W. V'an Veigbten
Master, will leave for the above and all interme- iate
landii.gs on TUESDAY at 9 o’clock.
FUNERAL NOTICE.
The friends and acquaintances ol Mrs. Malinda
L. Penning, are invited to attend her furrers! a' the
residence of Mr M. L, Pattefsen, Tuesday morning
at 11 o’clock.
- illlUl
Those who enjoy and appreciate such, will do well
to bear in mind that 10-night wild bo the last appear
a.ice of Blind Tom for some time.
A Good Example.—Tho oitizons of Monroe
county, Ga., having been culled upon to know at
what prico they would hold their surplus produce
to be disposed of for tho use of the Conic-erate
army, held a meeting on tho I6ih inst., at which
the following rules were agreed upon without
any objection. The following was the repost of
the committee:
The Committee report that the people of Mon»
roe.couoty ought to put a fair present price upon
their surplus prodn ;te, and furnish all they can
in good faith, for the support of the army duriDg
the year.
The poople ot ,«aid county ought to sell their
leading products at the following rates, to-wit:
Corn at $2 50 per bushel
Wheat 5 00 per bushel
Baoou. 1 90 per pound
Beef L 40c. per pound
Bard.,.. | 100 per pound
Fodder ....2 00 per hundred
Oats 1 50 per bushel
The report was read to the people by the Chair
man of tho Committee, and the poople were oailed
ed to ratify, which was done without dissent.
ESCAPE OF CAPTAIN HINES
Readers of the interesting account of
Morgan’s escape in the Times will recollect
the separation of Captain Himes from Gen.
Morgan, and the fear expressed by the
General that hie gallant comrade had been
murdered by the Yankees. The Captain
has since arrived in Richmond, and the
Examiner gives the following account of
his escape:
In a conversation with Capt Hines, wiio
is a young gentleman of culture, modest
manner?, and about twenty years of age,
we gathered from him the facts embodied
in the following highly interesting narrative
of his own personal experience subsequent
lo his separation from General Morgan, his
escape, and the re-capture of himself. The
event which changed their fortunes into
widely diverging lines occurred on the
south side of the Tennessee river, at Brady
ferry, about twenty miles from Athens, Ga.
Alter crossing the river. Captain Hines was
directed by Gt-netal Morgan to procure a
guide, if possible, the country before being
unknown to noth of them. Captain Hines
rode up to a small house, about one hun-*
dred yard* distunt from where the General
awaited his return, procured a guide, and
was on hia way back when he heard a heavy
cavairy tramp corning in hie rear, fie
turned his horse, and they came up. From
the irregularity of their dress, (they being
without the regulation uniform,) Captain
Hines first, mistook tberxi for Confederate
scouts. When they were within a tew feet
of him, and it was tO'i,late to trust lor safety
to the speed oi his horse,ihe discovered his
error. Though genuine “hlue*beilh and” Fed
eral®, Capt Hines saw that they, too, were
in error, and took him tor a federal. See*
ing his own escape impossible, Capt Hines
thought only oi tils General acd bow best
to proceed m order the better to facilitate
his escape horn tho pajek of byeoas who
were so close upon ins trail. Ha made
pretty familiar on so sa >rt r.n acquaintance,
and riding up to the officer addieseed him;
told him the “rebels” had just gone down
ihe road, pointing in a direction opposite
that his General had taken ; and requesting
the officer of the command to ‘Jbilow him,”
dashed off, declaring Urey would catch them.
By this ruse he drew them on upwards
of a ha 1 milt* before his captors discovered
or rather suspected that in* was a Confed
erate. This delay 01 the pursuit, gave Gen
Morgan tioie to accend the mountain, at the
foot of which io wtts standing wheirCapt
Hines was pounced upon; The Federate,
alter ascertaining to llteif satisfaction that
their guide was a Confederate, threatened
him witit deaih lor having drawn them off
the trail of Gen Morgan, as they had learned
from Union citizens that he was one of the
party. He was dismounted, placed under
a strong guard, and robhpd <n all his pri
vate property —watch, money, etc,—aud
sent, stiff under a m eille.-.Viy strong guard,
back to the north Bide of the Tennessee
liver to the Federal camp, the main body ot
tho Federal cavalry going on like mad
hounds in pursuit ol the “Great Bandit”
and “VVeaaei of the West ” Capt Hines
was kept under guard at the camp until the
next evening (14th Dec’r,) suffering great
anxiety of mind on account of the General,
mini ihe pursuing parly ot enraged Feder
ate returned and reported that they “be
hanged if he hadn’t escaped, or slipped in
to a bole.” Great was the mental relief
and satisfaction this information brought
Captain Hine?; but he did no; allow words
to betray his feed age. Hq was brought up
and underwent a rigid examination before
Capt Taylor, the officer in command of the
First Tennessee mounted infantry. They
soon suspected that he was a Confederate
officer and an escaped prisoner. Availing
himself of their own presumption, Capt
Hines confessed that he was a private in
the Second Kentucky cavairy and had been
separated front his command in Kentucky,
on the raid into Ohio. The wiiv Captain
still further deceived them by assuming the
name of J. T. Bullet, a familiar Kentucky
name.
The examination seemed *0 satisfy Capt
Taylor, ami he im ired Capt Hines to tane
tea with him, attne house of a Union man,
more than a quarter of a tnite irom the
camp. After supper, about 9 o’clock, when
it was quite dark, Capt Tayior proposed
that they should return to cam,*. Alter
geUiug ?=o do twenty steps from ihe resi
dence. Capt Taylor remarked that ha had j
forgotten his shawl, and would «iep back
aud get it He 'started back, leaving Capt
Hines standing in the dark, awaiting his
return.
Captain Hines says he struggled some
time with his better feeling to get their con**
sent to au attempt to escape, Every cir
cumstance favored it. He was alone; had
not yet been placed upon his parole of
honor not to attempt his liberty. It was,
perhaps, now or never with him. A dun*
geon and chains might be his lot on the
morrow. But then, the captain says, from
Captain Taylor’s kindness to him, he felt
himself somewhat in honor bound not to
attempt the escape, but to return to camp
a piisoner with him, which he did.
Cap:. Hines was kept a prisoner at the enemy’s
cainp until next morning, 20th Deo., when he
was sent, atilt under strict guard, to Kingston,
30 miles distant. The journey was made on
horseback, and the guard consisted of a Federal
Lieutenant and ten men, armed with revolvers,
sabres and carbines.
At Kingston, Capt. Hines was confined in a
smalt jail, without fire, end almost without food.
His radons consoled of one army cracker per day,
with a minute bit of very fat pork and oold wa
ter. Hero, however, ho found companionship in
three others of tho parly who accompanied tho
Genernl through Kentucky—pnv ates Robert and
William Church (brothers) and Smith, of
the Third Kentucky c&vslry. The prisoners,
under leadership of Capt Hines, had laid their
plans to overpower, and, if necessary, kill the
prison guard on the ni-htof the 20th Dec., but
on the morning of that day they were al! sent
forward under guard, 111 miles, to Loudon, on the
Ttnne 1 sco river, walking all the distance. At
Loudon they were placed under guard in tho cen*
tre of the camp of the Third Kentucky Infantry,
commanded by Col. Dunlajr. Around thoesmp,
in eve y direotion for three quarters of a mile
timber had been felled. But one open path led
from Ore camp, nod that was strongly guarded,
with the object, Capt. Hines supposed,of keeping
tbe fevr renegade Kentuokians in the regiment
from running away, and at the saoio time to pre*
vent the escape of prisoners. Iu the centre of
theoanp, in a small house, 12^feet by 14, Capt.
Hines and hie twi# companions* were confined.—
Two men were constantly on guard inside, and
in front of tho door, the only way of egress, ten
others were posted at night with loaded mus
bsts.
Having determined in his own mind to attempt
his own escape, Capt. Hines disclosed his plan to
his fellow prisoners, and they agreed to join aud
second him in anything he would suggest. That
nigt (December —) was fixed upon to make the
attempt. All retired earlv, but cone slept; only
slumbered like cats, and with “one eye upon.”—
At moon down, between 5 and 6 o’clook in the
morning, Capt. Hines arose, dressed himself, and
under the pretenoe of suffering from cold, ap«
proaohed the fire, bis companions following the
example of there leader,and ail talking freely with
the guard.
We wilt relate the finale in Captain Hines's
own words, as related to us. Getting a position
near the door, I laid my band, unobserved, upon
the latoh, and lifted it without a creak, at the
same time keeping up a conversation with, and
an eye on, the guard. AH ready, I turns and to
my “companions and remarked, in as cool a
manner as possible, knowiug the bold course was
the best: You gentlemen, have remained here
sufficiently long. All bowed to the guard,
and bid them 'good morning,' and throwing
wide the door, I bounded into the darkness,
and ran towards the mountains, three quarters
of a mile distant. Ab I sprang from the door,
I heard a struggle behind me and I believe my
more unfortunate prison companions were there
captured, and perhaps murdered. Several shots
were fired after me; but knowing there was
safety and succor in the mountains, I ran for
life and, dearer, liberty. I gained the protec
tion of tho mountain, a spur of the Cumberland,
but was followed to its very foot. Until within
one half hour of sunrise on the morning of tbe
21st December, I lay hid in the peak of ihe
mountain. At nightfall I reconnoitered the near
est dwelling, and I found
owner a good ‘Union man,’, but raspeotc
not given to suspicions. I calh -i „ ’
representing myself as an agent oi the uTedorai
Government, on my way to Kingston on busi
ness, This insured me kind .treatment and a
good snpper. Tho gentleman was quite commu
nicative, and gave me the names of some of the
“Benesh,” as he called them, who lived there
about. After supper, tho night being moonlight
and beautiful, I determined to avail myself of
my host's information concerning my “rebel”
friends, and started out to walk a lew miles far
ther on the road. I reached the tiouse of one
gentleman lay entertainer kad named, and he
rendered me all the as3istaaoe in his power, and
gave ma directions to she residence of another
Southern man, fifteen miies fuoher on the road !
to Swoet Water run, aid eigh’een miles from
Kingston. I was now safe.” The remainder of
the distance Capt, Hines travellal by night, aud
met a friend at every post, passing near Sweet
Water, Mad'flonville, creasing the Hiawassa
and the Ocoee rivers, some above Co
lumbui, into Georgia, and reaohiog Dalton and
the oeadquactors of General Joseph E. Johnston
on the night of tho 27 h of Deceoiber.
Wreck of thk Steamer \ r ESTA.—Tbs s'cam--
i-r Vesta, one of the fiaosft boats io tbe blockade
running line, has been wrecked off the Carolina
coast. She left Bermuda on tho 3d inst. For
seven days she was chased over the seas by a ■
number of Yankee cruisers; but Fnoeeeded in
eluding them, and on the 10th instant made the ;
coa3t ?n the vicinity of WTm: igton. Being j
comp-oiled to lay to she was do cried by a Yan- *
kee cruiser, which gav-i chase, and in balF an
hour more, eleven Y nkrea vessels were pouring
down upon fkw suddenly (Uncovered prey. The
Vesta, a' th-ugh apparently suri- unded, ran the
gann'lH m splendid sly ire through one of the
more e irriug rcenes which the war has yet wit
nessed on the water Borne of the cruisers at
ternpie 1 to cross her bows and cat her off ; hut
she WcS too rapid for this raoooe jvre, and at
about ea'f a mile’s distance some of the ernisers
opened, their broadside? upon her, while five oth
ers in chase were constantly using their bow
guns, jxploding shells right over the deck? of
the devoted, vessel. Fortunately, no ono was
hurt and the vessel ran theguantlet, raising her
flag in defiance, ' suffering only from a single
shot, which, though it passed amidships, above
the water line, happily escaped the machinery.
But the trouble seems to have commenced
with what the passengers anticipated to be the
triumphant escape from thrir captors; for the
CaptaTn first officer, Tickler, are report
ed to have become outrageously drunk after the
affair was over and the night had fallen, It is
said that the Captain was asleep on 'he quar
ter deck stupefied wi'h drink, when he should
have put the ship on land: and that at two
o’clock iu the morning bo directed the pilot to
take tbe ship ashore, tell : nz him that the ship
was tea mils? above Fori Fishor, when the fact
was that shs was about forty miles to the south
ward of Frying Pan shoals.
Fifteen minutes afterwards the Vesta made
land, the pilot having run her so hard ashore
it was impossible to get her rff. She was run
aground at Little River Inlet; the passengers
landed in boats minus there baggage; and al
though there were no cruisers in sight, aud not
the least occasion for pree : pifation. the vessel,
with all her valuable cargo, was fired before
daylight by order gs Captain Eustace, and burn*
ed to the waters edge.
The cruisers did not get up to the wreck until
two o’clock on the i-.ftemoon of the next and v.and
then they were attracted to it by the smoke from
the conflagration. a
The cargo of the Vesta was of the most vaiu
abte description ; three fourths of it on Govern
ment account, consisting of army supplies, and
including a very extensive lot of English shoes.
There was also lost by the wreck a splendid uni
form, intended as a present to General Lee by
some of his admirers in London. Nothing of any
accouat was saved.
This ws»s the first trip of the Vesta from Eng
land. She ~as ad 'able sorew steamer, perfect
in all appore-riuents. Captain Eu-tace, her com
mander, was i.n Englishman.—[Riobmofld Ex
aminer.
Three Months, $8
In iila uu Saturday *t th*» of
Music, Henry Ward Beecher objected to the sys
tem of volunteering, on the ground that it was a
mercenary operation, and went in strong for con
scription.
The Amerean ship Winged Racer, which left
Manilla on the 7th of Ootober for New York, and
the Amanda, bound to Fa’mouth, had been
burned off Java Heads by the Alabama, on 10th
November.
Joshua Gunnel], who recently received author
ity from the War Department to visit Richmond,
for the purpose of securing the release of Union
men of Fairfax county, b&s returned, the rebel
authorities refusing to receive him.
Charleston is to be occupied by the Yankees in
sixty days from December SOtb, it everything
works according to the plans laid out. So says
the correspondent of the Boston Herald.
The Yankees have captured Hugh Logan, who
is charged wish having piloted General Lee's
1 army into Pennsylvania. He has been sent to
Pennsylvania for trial.
The Lynchburg Virginian says, a substituted
man in that oity, of considerable means, ap
plied for work in a shop for making wooden
bottomed sboes, and offered to work for fifty oents
a day.
PTATE OF GEORGIA, 1
Adjutant and Inspectum General’* Office. \
Milledgevllle, Jan. 1 dt>4 )
OFNERAL ORDERS, Nj. 3.
Toe Aids-de-Camp of Senatorial Districts are by
this Order, especially charged by the Governor, with
the enforcement, within their respective Districts, o
the Laws of the State, “for the suppression ot uu*
lawful distillation ofgraiu and other commodities.’'
Copies of the Laws passed by the General Assembly
regulating distillation, accompany, this Order; and th«
attention of ihe Aids is called to the Laws en the
same subject, passed by previous Legislatures, and
they are authorized to call out Military .force, if ne«.
essary, to execute them.
Both th* rnonl and physical welfare of the country,
r equire that this Megal practice should be suppressed;
and though in ihi? Order, the Governor especially
charges his Aids-ds-Camp with the duty, he at the
same, orders all Military officers and Militiamen, to
obey their orders for its fulfi lment, and appeals to th*
sense of duty of right minded citizens who have at
heart the interests of their country, and a Christain
regard for the poor around them., to be active in givin g
information and assistance to the Aids in ferreting
out and suppressing this great wrong.
The Law is the common master of us ail, and every
faithful officer and soldier, and good citizen, will not
cavil at its wisdom or propriety, while it remains ;in
use on the Statute Book, but will give every effort in
hit power for its loyal execution.
By orderof the Commander-in Chief.
: HENRY C. WAYNE.
Adjutant. & Inspector General.
_jan_24 It
A Few More Recruits Wanted
FOR
Gen. linboden’s Command,
Horses and Equipment Furnished.
SSO BOUNTY!
I WANT a few more RECRUITS to complete my
Company of
Monnted Riflemen,
for Gen, Iruboden’t? command. Persons who have
substitutes to ihe army ca.i join this company if they
will do so in len days, as at the expiration of that
time volunteering will cease. I will grant furloughs
of from en to fifteen days.
My headquarters are at Camp Montgomery, where
1 can a ways be found or represented.
F P. CRUTCHFIELD, Capt
W. C. WRIGHT, Lieut. •
Janie, dtf
' O LUMBUS GLUE
AMU
PKINTER’3 COMPOSITION
ill A All FACTORY.
YV r E wish to inform our friends and the public la
YV general that the above business will hereafter be
conducted under the name and style of
ZORItOWSKY & CO.,
Dry Glue always on hand. Orders filled promptly,
jan s—lm
NOTIOEi
HEAL QUARTERS OF CONSCRIPTION, J
Mac.,n, Ga., Jan 19 1864. J
Genoa! Otdera, No. 5.
All persons hold.ug Ex mpUm*. other'than those
granted t,y ihe Medical Examining Boards, are hereby
required to present them for revision to iheir County
Enrolling Officers who will forward t , the Chiefs of
Districts, The latter them through the
Commandants of Camps of Inanucupn to the Com-’
mandants ofConscripis, with an expression of opinion
The Enrolling f flicais will give receipts for these
papers when delivered, and reclaim on
returning the papers which, .when returned, will be
invariably endorsed as levised and approved, or dis
approved at a given date.
Until the noth ot February, the receipts issued as
abo*e will protect them from conscription. After
that date, neither the leceipts nor the papers will pro
tect, unless tr>e la ter.he endorsed as revised at a.'date
subsebuent to the iss ie of tlrs order.
I he Enrolling Officers will take special precaution*
against the la«s„of documents.
These demands are made in pursuance of War De
psitmsnl. General Orders Nt. 4, Jan 9, 1664, p*-. vil*
as follow-: “All 'exemptions heretofore gnuted ar*
subject to revision, under instructions from the Bu
reau of <Description, And if found to be improper or
unauthorized by law, will be enrolled.’’
By order of
MAJOR CHAR. J. HARRIS,
Commandant ot Conscripts of Ga.
P. LaOJiKV, j.
Ist Lieut and Actir-g Adjutant,
jan 23-5 t
Just Published.
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(144 pages, 18 rno.,) may be had at all Book
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Price s3—one third off to the trade,
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jan 21—6 t Richmond, V*.
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HEADQUARTER A 24TM SENATORIAL DiST. /
Column.is, Jan. 12, 1864, >
GENERAL ORDER, N0.2.
Dr. T. N. Raines, ot James.own < haitahooehs*
County, Ga., isannounded as having been appoint U
Surgeon by the Comiiiruder-in-Chief for this Dumct,
persons wishit, g > laminations for discharges wi.l ap
ply to him at his headquarters.
P. J. PHILIPS,
jan 14—dAwlt C 01.4 A.D.C.
HEADQUARTERS 24T11 SENATORIAL DIBT. ) L
Columous, Jan. 12, 1854. J
GENERAL ORDF.B, No- 3.
The Enrolling Oiiicets of the various Militia Dis
tiicts appoin:ed by me. for this Sena'orisl District
will furni hme wi.h their Enrollment L:su comple
cd at there Ileadquaueta on Tuesday next.
P. J. PHILIPS,
ran 14 4Aw II Col. 4k A. D. C,