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Volume XI.
SPECIAL NOTICES
NOTICE 1
lIEAI QUAhTERS OF CONSCRIPTION, >
Macon, Ga., Jan. 19, JSf.i. \
Oeut ral Oidera, No. 5.
All persons liolfoug Exemptions. nthe* than those
gran'ed by the Medical Examining Bairds, aie hereby
inquired to present them forreviafon n, |heir County
Enrolling Officers who will foiwatd toVlic Chiefs of
Districts. The latter them through the
Commandants of Camps bf Insrruction to the Com *
mßiidantsofCon.fr, pis, with au expression of opinion
The Enrolling officers will give receipts for these
papers when dedvered, and reclaim the receipts on
returning the papers which, when returned, will be
invariably endowed as revised and approved, or dis
approved at a given date.
Until the UOtta ol February, the receipts issued as
above will protect them ffrom conscription. After
that date, neither the teceipts nor the papers will pro*
tect, unless the latter be endorsed ua revised at a date
lubsebueut to the issue of this order.
The Enrolling Officers will take special precautions
against the documents.
.These demands are made.injpursuance of War I)e
--paitment. General Orders Nc. 4, Jan 9, 1664, par. vii‘
as follows: “All exemptions heretofore granted are
subject to revision, under instructions from the Bu
reau of < onscription,.and if found to be improper or
unauthorized by Jaw, will be enrolled.”
By order of
MAJOR CHAB.J. HARRIS,
Commandant oi Conscripts of Ga.
P. Looney,
Ist Lieut and Acting Adjutant.
jan 23- 6t
lleaoquaktkbs]Enkoi.inu Office, i
3rd Congressional District, >
January 13th, 1064. )
AII men in thtu District who have substitutes in
service will leporl at once to these Headquarters.*>
Those who voluntarily report will be allowed a fur
lough often days before being sent to camps of In.
slruction. W. 8. WALLACE,
Capt. and Enrolling Officer.
jan 15—lOd.
Shipping Notice.
MUSCOGEE RAIL Foad, )
Superintendent's Office; >
Columbus, Dec. 23d, ’63. )
Owing to the want ol sufficient transportation tor
Oovtrmnent freight, private freight will not be received
at this depot until turther notice.
: W. L. CLARK,
Dec S3 it - Supt.
Wanted.
MUSCOGEE! RAIL ROAD, >
S UPERINTENDENT’S OFFICE. >
Columbus. Dec. 33d ‘63. >
WANTED to hire for the ensuing year (1864)
twenty-five able bodied Negroes to work on the
Muscogee Uailtosd. - Apply to
W. L. CLARK. Sudl.
or A. B. BortTICK.
Dec 23 lm
HEADQUARTERS j
SECOND DISTRICT 9A. STATE GUARD, J
Savannah, December 3ti, lec.a ‘j
Gsneral. Orders, No. 6.
< Officeis cunniauding Regi.r.-nta and Battalions
comprised in the M, rond District, Georgia State
tiuard, will forthwith rendezvous their respective com •
inands at points most convenient for railroad traits
portalion to ibis point.
11. They whl report to these Headquarters tlir
times and places of rendezvous and the number of
men for whom they n quire transportation.
HI. The horse* belonging to cavalry organizations
will be left in their present localities until further
orders.
By command of
Brig. Gen. H. R. JACKSON,
Comd’g Second District Q. S. G.
H. Jackson, Cspt. and A. A. G.
NOTICE.
HEADQUARTERS POST, l
Columbus,.Ga., Jamury 11th, 1664,5
(GENERAL ORDERS, No. 3.J
*#*# # # - #
I. Capt. Chas. Wood, A. A: G, having reported for
duty in pursuance of orders from Headquarters De
partmenr » o , Ga., and Fla., is announced as As*
■meant Adjutant General of the post, and in future ail
official communications directed to these headquar
•rs will beadriressed.to him,
11. Commanding officers of Companies or oiher
military organizations at this Post will make out and
forward to these headquarters as soon as practicable,
complete returns ol all members of tbeii command
present and absent, together with rosters o; ihe com
missioned officers, and statements of the time when
and the authority by which such organization were
mustered into the service.
HI. Officers of the Staff Departments on duty at
this Post will report at these Headquarters in person.
J. W. ROBERTSON,
jan 13 if Col. Conm’g Post.
Notice-
The Citizens of Harris County are requested to
meet the first Tuesday fn febmury ujxt, (id mst.,) at
Hamilton for the purpose of meetiug the Commissary
oi this Department, that we may arrange in reference
to subsistence for the army from your county. * •
Let every citizens of H.rris.who feels an interest In
Jala country be present. \
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W.C. JfJUN&ON,
J M. MOBLEY,
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jan 33 td A. T. BROOKS.
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January Ist. 1864
Tennesske.—The Aiianta Appeal copius
a repot tof Andy Johnston’s speech at the
celebration of the Bth of January in Nash
ville. The attendance seems to have been
principally Federal soldiers. Johnson de
nounced slavery as a cancer upon the body
politic which must be removed before health
could be restored. He also contended for
the indestructibility of States, and de
nounced the position that they could be
remanded to the position of territories as a
sanction of secession.
This war is a sifter,says the North Car
olina Argus. It is doing its work. It is
winnowing the chaff from the wheat. It is
bringing out the patriotic and giving them
that place in the hearts of the people which
they will ever hold and adorn, and it is
bringing into unenviable notoriety that class
of our population who never had any pa
triotism, who always were mean, who nev»
er think of the future beyond, and whose
every endard aim is to add dollar to dollar,
Held to field and nigger to nigger, oblivous
of the fact that they must die, ami go out
of the world naked as they came into it.
In Good Taste.— i’he Columbia Guar*
dian says; Advertisements of females for
husbands are not admitted into Hie Guar
dian newspaper upon any terms. The
‘‘respectable young lady, just nineteen,
quite pretty, very intelligent,” etc, ete, who
has sent one to this office from Newberry,
tv G., headed, “Wanted—a husband,”can
recover $5 which acompanied it, on proper
application.
It was the war policy ami the wise polioy of
the Emperor Napoleon, saya the Richmond En
quirer which seizod every article of British manu
facture in the shops of Franco and destroyed
them, rather than permit 1 bem to corrupt and
undermine the purposes and objects of the revolu
tion. The destruction of British fabrics laid the
foundation ol the present French
and made France self^pripnrMug—t r njy Rllc i
really independentr’ He may be said to have
prevailed over the laws, not only of trade and
commerce, but made those of nature yield to the
necessities ot Franea. He caused cotton to grow
in the South of Frauee; and her manufactures of
sugar from the beet exists to this day a rnonu*
meat to the war policy. And will not the
pie of the Confederacy do as muoh lor their lib
erty, and suffer as much for their independence,
as the people of France? The soldiers of France
never iought more gallantry than have those of
the Confederate Slates.
A Model Company.— How many corporations
will seek and endeavor to get letters like that giv
en below ? Such an autograph from Qen. John
ston would be a valuable addition to any divi
dend fund :
Dalton, Jan. 18th, 1864.
John J. Gresham Esq.,
Macon Mnfg. Compyany:
learn from the reports ot the
Chief CftuuHj^ary, that twice iu ihe past thirty
furnished by your company
wii of bacon for the army at $1
per poundprice established by the ooinmis
t* io no 1 8“beFt)3«j3£‘2 20.
In of speculation it is so gratifying
io uio toyviujss such a course, that I cannot re
frain fjpmjjSpressing to you my appreciation of
the patriotism exhibited by yourself and the gens
tCquen oeureriaing the company you control. I
caif' assuretyou, too, of the high sense of your
liberality entertained by this army.
Must” respectfully,
Your ob’t servant,
‘ ; V s J. E. JOHNSTON,
General.
Tire For Jtacksou Euieute.
The rOpprts of this affair were exaggerated
beyond the usual exaggerations which Cumo from
the Mississippi. But there was something in it,
although of no great consequence to any one.—•
The last that we have seen of it in tho Northern
papers is given us follows, in a letter from New
Orleans dated 12th ult., to the Boston Courier:
Oar military authorities have just had a fore*
taste of The wisdom iu trusting important milita
ry. posts to colored troops, by a revolt at Fort
Jackson, which the newspapers in this departs
mout “by authority,” will inform you was “only
an altercation between an officer and some of the
moo; and soon quieted.” I have my information
from the lips of the officer in command of that
post, the garrison of which consisted of fiva hun
dred coiered seldiora and officers, and twenty
white men, though some of the colored men are
as,white as some « f their white officers, and so
serious had boen the revolt that the officers de
clared that had Hoy attemp'ed to exercise any
authori y over their command, every while man
would I.sve been kilted, aud the uegroes have
l>een in possession of the forts which cost tho
United S;ate3 Government so much of Lie and
treasure, many months delay to get-into
our hauds. It has beea decided .hat this regi
ment of “colo-ed men must be mustered out of
the service,” in consequence ol this altercation
between au officer and some u. r tue men.
- ■ ue —
Hon U If. .VreeaiiNS. — Wears informed by
a friend th a this distinguished gentleman is
now at his residence in Crawtordvfile, and has
redo weed from his late severe illness.su much so,
as io be able to walk abou*, and resuqw, to some
extent, correspondence with his friends. Long
may he live to g'Vo wLe and patriotic counsel to
hr* countrymen and to the Government iu which
ho iiol .s to elevated a position! Neither tfie
oia nor the other of these, can afiV.u to dis
pense with his valuable services.—[lntelligencer.
{Jolumbns, Georgia, C. S„ Monday February 1,. 1864
Employment of Free Kegroei and
Slaves in the Army,
Mr. Mile3 moved to take tip from tho calendar
the bill reported Irom the Military Committee, to
be entitled “An Act to increase the efficiency of
the army by tbe employment of free negroes and
slaves in certain capacities.”
The motion was agreed to, and the bill taken
up.
It provides that all male free negroes between
the ages of eighteen and fifty years shall be held
liable to perform such duties in the army, or in
connection with the military defences of the
country, in the way of work upon the fortifi
cations, or in Government works for the produc
tion or preparation of material of war, or in milu
tary hospitals, as the Secretary of War rnayj
from time to time, prescribe; to receive rations,
clothing and eleven dollars per month for suoh
services. It also provides for the employment of
slaves for the same purposes aud upon the same
terms; and in the event of the loss of any, such
slaves, the owners to be entitled to receive their
full value; and the Secretary ofWlr is author
ized to impress slaves, in the event that he shall
be unable to procure their services in any militas
ry department in sufficient numbers for the ne
cessities of the department.
Mr. Gardenhier, of Tennessee, inquired of the
Chairman of tho Military Committee whether,
in case that bill was passed, u would not be
recognizing Lincoln’s right to conscribo our ne
groes.
Mr. Miles replied that he was surprised at
such a question. We bad a right to do what we
pleased with four slaves, and Lincoln had no
control over them.
Mr. Foote, of Tennessee, said that a difficulty
occurred to his mind in relation to the quest ion of
exchange; Suppose any of these negroes were
to be taken prisoners, what would- be dono with
them? Ho approved the object of the hill, and
should support it, but the question he proposed
suggested to bis mind a difficulty in the way.
Mr. Miles replied that that question had not
been considered by llie committee, and he did
not think it proper to embjirra s the bill by tha
suggestion of any feature in regard to it. It
was a question that might arise hereafter, send
might be left to the Commissioners of Exchange
to settle.
Mr. Bouidin, of Virginia, moved to amend
the first section of the bill by adding, “and no
free negro engaged in the production of food
and forage shall be taken under this act.”
Mr. Baldwin said that no exemption law which
had been passed by Congress providod for the
exemption of the produciug class of the coun
try. The only exemption they had was made
and founded altogether upon the idea of police.
In the section that he represented the entire
agricultural interest was conducted by white
people and free negroes, although it was a slave*
holding community. He had it from good au
thority, that thu operation of the substitute law
would reduce one thousand farms from the pro*
duetion of a surplus of food and forage for tho
army down so a sufficient quantity to supply tho
families of the agriculturalists. Tho Valley of
Virginia was the great granery ot Virginia to
supply the army ol Virginia. Tha farmers there
were now selling their personal property and
hiring out their slaves, and preparing t - go into
the army undJfr the provisions of ian,'bill.-
Whatever its might be in bringing in
skulkers in other portions of the ooantry, in his
district it called away from home men engaged
in business, every blow at whioh was a blow nt
the Confederate States. It had swept through
his district like a tornado of destruction. Slaves
had escaped to the Yankees, and farmers nod
supplied their places by free negroes, thus malt
ing useful a class hitherto useless. And now
here comes a bill whioh y, reposes io take away
every free negro between the ages of eighteen anti
fifty years, and free negroes'go in advance of
slaves. In some districts of the State you might
take* very white man, and the women could con
duct the operations of the slaves ; but in his dis
trict, if the white use.i and free.negroes were
taken, it would stop agricultural operations al
together. He thought it time to husband our
resources, and not make any further drain upon
the agricultusai resources of the country. Tha
great question was not the number of men, but
how to supply food and forage for the
The supplies were already scant e*-c!
we were would make
placing them ameng those
"Who were now scantly supplied.
It seemed that there was a sort of stsmpo'o
upon this subject, both in and out of Congress.
The cry was, place everybody in the army and
fight it out; blithe was unwilling to place it
upon the hazard of a single effort. He aud tho
people he represented had embarked in the war
forever if neoessary; and were prepared to fight
it out in spite of every obstacle, and when the
Government comes to the conclusion that the
war is to be fought within interior lines, the
confidence of the people would revive. He urged
it upon Congress to take care of every branch of
industry, and supply the men we have; for tha
people would lose confidence if they saw that
everything they had was to be staked upon a
single effort. He hoped the Government would
set its foot upon any such mad policy, husband
its resources, and protract the war long enough
to secure our independence.
Pending the consideration of the subject, Ihe
House, on motion of Mr. Jones, went into secret
session upon the question of the currency.
[Richmond Examiner.
General Robert "Vance a Prisoner.
The Ashville correspondent of the Col*
umbia Carolinian says that on Wednesday
last General Vance, with about 150 men
entered the village of Sevierville about 28
mil'3 southeast of Knoxville, and captured
a foraging train ol 17 wagons loaded with
flour, &c. He was making his way out in
this direction, and on Thursday had reach
■ed Cosby Creek, when about 1 p. m. he
was attacked by a regiment of Federal cav
alry. Gen Vance and about 75 men were
captured. The Federals then returned in
the direction of Knoxville. He had ordered
Col. Thomas, who was some 20 miles dis»
tant to join him with a portion of his com
mand at Cosby ; but for some reason his
orders were not obeyed. Henry’s cavalry
and our artillery passed the same place the
next day and reached Newport safely.--
They learned from the citizens that General
Vaace had been sent to Knoxville. Couriers
from the same section report that Long
street had been fighting for two days. No
further particulars.
The State Railroad aud General John
stou. . (
A paragraph, we notice, is going the
rounds of the papers, based upon an item
of “Hermes” tho Richmond correspondent
of the Charleston Mercury, to the effect that
General Johnston had in a telegraphic i!is-<
patch to the President announced the ne
cessity of putting the State Road in his pos
session in order to feed his army, and that
it had been determined by the President to
leave the matter to the good sense of Gov.
Brown.
'Flint such a telegram was dispatched by
General Johnston to Richmond, vvu believe
is true, but we have no doubt it was dom
through some misapprehension, or incorrect
information received by the General, lor we
learn, that alter an interview held between
him and the Superintendent of the Road,
lie became satisfied that the State float!
was not chargeable with the default attril>~
uled to it in tbe transportation of supplies,
but that the deiauit laid elsewhere.
[Atlanta Intelligencer.
“When I came into the pulpit, and for
years after,” hays an eccentric minister of
the old school, “religion used *o be the prin*
cipal topic preached upon; now.it is all
rum and niggerst”
[From the Richmond Examiner, 26th.]
.Latest from the North.
We are indebted to the Signal Corps officer
for the use of a Baltimore paper of Tuesday last,
tbe 19th inst. We give a summary of the news
contained :
PROCEEDINGS IN THE YANKEE CONGRESS.
In the Senate, on the 16th, the one million
mer. bill, to release the prisoners at Richmond,
was discussed. Mr. Howe, who offered the bill,
assured tho Senate ha was in earnest. Mr.
Trumbull thought one hundred thousand might
bo raised, but a million was driving it’ a little too
strong. Mr. Wilson thought a hundred thou
sand recruits against Leo’s veterans would stand
no chance at al. The subject was dropped.
M«\ Smith,,of Kentucky, offered resolutions
declaring ihat tho rebellion is “desperate, wicked
and bloody;” that “the safety and security of
perSonal and national liberties depend upon its
utter and absolute extinction;” and that, there
fore, “it is tho political, civil, moral and sacred
duty of the'people to meet it, 'ight jit, and forever
destroy it, thereby establishing perfect and un
alterable liberty.” Tho resolutions wore adopted
—ayes 112, nays 16.
In the Senate, on the ISth, a bill was submit
ted and referred, providing for the establishment
of a .Bureau of Emancipation, under tho Secre
tary of the Treasury. The resolution for the
expttb ion ofSenator Davis, of Kentucky; was
referred to the Judiciary Committee. Joint
reroluiions of thanks to Hooker, Meade, Howard,
Banks and Emns.de were passed.
■
AWFUL DISASTER IN CfIILI.
An awful disaster occurred in Santiago, the
cupiial of Chili, on the Bth of December. The
immaculate Conception was being celebrated io
the chur hos ih, Jesuits. It wasabout7 o’clock
in the evening, and the crescent of light (gae)
that formed the pedestal for the -Virgin Mary
fired the wood upon which it rested, aud the
flames sprurg wildly over the building. There
were ton thousand persons in tho church. The
suddenness of thq the was awlul. The dense
mass of women frightened out of their senses,
numbers fainting, and ai! entangled by their long
swelling dresses, rushed as those who knew that
death was at their heels, to the one door, whioh
so6n became choked up. Fire was everywhere.
Streaming a.ong the wooden ceiling it flung the
oamphene lamps,hung in rowa there, among the
struggling women.
In a moment tho gorgeous church was a sea
of flame, Michael Angelo’s fearful picture of
hell was there but exceeded. Help was ail but
impossible. A Ilorcules might have strained his
strength in vain to pul! one from tbe serried mass
of frenzied wretches who piled orio above another
at they climbed over to reach the air, wildly fas
tening the grip of death upon any one escaping,
in order that they might be dragged out with
them. Woman seized in the embrace of the
flames wore roen to undergo a transformation as
though by un optical delusiou—first dazzling
brigh% ibsa horribly lean and shrunk up, then
black sta-mes rigidly fixed iu a writhing attitude.
Th>. a ' -ris-oned by the immense thickness
•>i ■ -? devoured everything combus
lio ' *k, and then, defying tho sicken
ing v • pi-) came to bok for their lost
ones. The suence, after the piercing screams of
the burning were hu, bi and in death, horrible.
It was the sile. ee of the grave, unbroken but by
the bitter wail of minting cry. Over iwo tbouu
sand souls had leaped through that ordeal of fire
to the judgment seat of God! j
The writer, referring to the fire, handles the
clergy in the most severe manner, and says the
population of Santiago are fired with indesorl*
bable indignation ;u. the monstrous conduct of
tluiprie t;, howling them guilty of the death of
all tease vic.tme, ami particularly the moante*
hank Ugario, ihd inventor ot the “Virgin 1 Post
offi e ’ imposture, which required a bountleaa
number of lights, pasteboard scenery, &o.
When the fire broke out they blocked up the
door of the sacristy, to devote themselves more
undisturbedly to rawing their “ginusraoks.”—
They saved a.gilt image, soma wooden SAf&iSf
cnafce-and a great deal Rutting.
After SAvittg tbeirfrss:*! led away, except
°tta vrSoiavotod the agonized victims
his absolution.
More tbs ;< fire hundred persons of the highest
easts perished ; the graa'ef part young girls be
tween fifteen and twenty years of age. Cfoe mo
ther perished with her five daughters. Two«
thirds'of tha victima were servants. Several
houses have been noticed by the police as empty,
because all their inmites have perished,
The lares; information is that seventeen hun
dred bodies have been recognized., Three thous
and at ieast, were in the building, and it is not
yet known how many have escaped.
Corrpspondents assert positively that
brokers in Richmond have known lor more
than a w eek the lending - features of the
Currency Bill, as it nas virtually been pass
ed in secret session,
How much did they pay for that infor
mation in advance ?
It secret sessions must be the general
rule—and with such a Congress as we now
stiff r, something must be said iu their
favor-"tho people should insist on the in
violable sanctity of the secret. There
should be no confidential whispering from
members or messengers, or clerks or porters
to brokers and dealers. II we must convert
a great struggle lor independence into a
scramble for spoils and fragments of a shat
tered merit: of finance, let u« nil have a
lair chance.— [(hairier.
|
Tun U. S. Government and the In
dian Teibes.—ThcP - New York Observer
shite* that tin: hostility of the Indiana to the
United States is increasing rapidly.
“Oa’e net ol ihe Government, fesbidding
wars among themselves, was regarded as
tyrannical. Aud when in 1861 our country
was plunged into an awful civil war, the
Indians said, “Our Great Father has al
ways told us it was wrong to make war,
yet now he him* •*!:' m making war and kill*
mg a great many. Will you explain this 1
We don’t i.uderst.ujd it,” This watt a home
thrust, and it was hard to make u savage
understand the distinction between the right,
of a white and a red man to go to war.”
Gay Ci.oaks,—The NeW York Ban Jay Times
says : * : .
It is no; too much to say that the pretty pe*
ripat.--i.v- of Broadway present a dazzling spec
tacle. Bright yr-M-'W clocks with scarlet hoods,
seariet cloaks with \« iiow hoods, purple cloaks
with orange hood :, ripe l and checkered cloaks
with rimson hr,o .-, moving continually in pris
rca-lc procession through that great exhibition
thorough'are, threaten wish “color blindness”
th« inao nf u•• k vision who ventures into the
flare. It is not “a sight fur sove eyes,” but is
cal ulo.Ud, l;ke :be glare of an Egyptian desert,
to p:■ '’or* ftpihalmta and inflamatujn of the
xl?.. * « i
The 1 ' "et!. bright red, green, azure, and
•• i) ’ iored feather-, wherewith the
ioi ■ *’ man on decorate their vivandiere
hat-.—plant’Dg the flaming tufts, tike torches, in
thu ‘or c fronts of the same—add much to their
iocv>: nary an 1 fc'Wn aspect-and deepen
the unpi.’- iao; impression prodaeed upon feeble
retina- by ibe ioze of their garments. It really
if New York beauty and iaqhion bad
tkt.numcd to substitute lor the fancy baits that
were $o much in vague last winter, a general
stree tna-qtrerudu
U: •: w.-u’■ i i-• r surmise that a tremendous*
v r was swccpiirg off thousands and tens of
thousands of the very flower of cur population,
were it riot that the splendors:-,61 ttus gorgeous
show are r. tted at intervals!by. grotips and sia
gle wat far- - wat bed ip d*f »pe-r<)ie widowed
wires and -coS* ss mo’flprs, brolthfiriess sis
ter . t e-erphaned daughters, made desolate by
the i
Discipline and Organization,
The following articles from {be Examiner con
tains much of truth and we commend it to the
perusal of the soldiers of ihe army of Tennes*
see :
MarUal virtue is qtitie distinct from the effioi*
er.cy. the Romans were essentially the military
people of the ancient world, though, in bravery
upon the fieid of battle, it was impossible to ex
cel the warriors ot Germany and Gaul. Yet
in the thorough and systematic organization
which prevaded the iegion of Rome, was found
a principle which overcame ail the efforts of de»
sullory bravery, and finally made her mistress of
the world. The (uedal lords of mediaeval Ena
rope displayed conspicuous prowess on every field,
yet were they subject to such complete route as
are unltnowu to .modern discipline, and their
made of fighting became absolute with the in
troduction of improved infantry tactics. #
Francois undoubtedly the first military power
of the present day. Yet, though at Albuera, at
Bidajos and at Waterloo,the steadiness of tho
British infantry maintained tho ground, in tbe
Crimea it was clearly shown how insufficient, for
a great and continued struggle, is the valor which
is only prepared for the brunt of a single battle.
Complete order, all pervading syspem, looking
to the comfort of the soldier, and consequently,
insuring his efti iency in actual combat, were
tbe great military requisites which were eon
spiouousiy displayed in every department of the
army, and which can never fail to secure its ex
cellence in campaigning.
It is impossible to deny the Southern soldier
that bravery which he lias proved on many well
fought fields, but it is equally certain that the
thorough organization of armies is not tbe praise
properly attributed to the Confederacy. Much,
no doubt is to be attributed to the manifold dis
Acuities with which we have had to contend, the
want of so many indisponsible requisites which
go lomake up the complex machine of the army.
Much, however, must be ascribed to official m
competency or negligence. The character of the
soldior h ; mßelf, too, renders it difficult to seoure
that efficiency which marks the perfection of a
discipline - army. The very reckless bravery
which gives'hitn his victorious clan is difficult
t<C§ reconcile with the strict discipline,
the sleepless vigilance, whioh are indispen
sable to success in war. Free-handed and im
provident, tho Southern volunteer is disposed to
bo thoughtless of tho future, and purchase pre
sent convenienos at the price of future hunger
and discomfort. Experience and long campaign
ing have a tendency to correct these faults, but
it is more in the watohful supervision of officers
that we should look for amelioration.
The French soldier, careless by nature, seems
to assume anew character with his uniform. He
becomes alert and cautious. He is provident and
contriving in alleviating the hardships of oamp
and increasing his stock of oomforts. To his su«
perioritv in this respect, as well as to tbe excel
lency of tho French Commissariat, many ot the
advantages enjoyed by the Freneh over tbe Eng
lish in the Crimea arc attributable. Kis
care of cuisine, his dexterity in forag- . ..
skill with which he dressed his fore. •' jpv . I
his soup, contrasted adv&nto: • o * o :u
--providonoe of the British. #vi secured him great
advantages in the exposure ol the bivouao, the
fatigue of the march, and the ordeal of battle.
Three years ol war should have rendered ns a
thoroughly military people. That they have not
produced this effect is evident. Oar troops out
fight the Y’ankees, as they have done from the
beginning; yet the latter have made greater
strides towards the constitution of a thoroughly
organized army. The material they have had to
work with, naturally le * endowed with military
aptitude, is yet more pliant to the moulding ope
ration of discipline, aad thus, with them, art has,
to some extent, supplied tbe deficieaoies of na
ture.
It is important that a simple
should be made it* the mflitafv efficiency of the
Confederacy the possibility of tha
pfoTongatiou of the present war and the
armed attitude of watchfulness which will have
to be maintained in consequence of tho future
ohanged condition of affairs on this continent.—
Enthusiasm and the ardor of high>spirited cour
age must be supported and invigorated by the
bracing hand of a discipline, and a system which
will give concentration of energy without impair
ing individual enterprise and darrng.
Without resorting to the Yankee plan ofim*
molating every officer who is unfortunate, we
may at least, infer from the improvement which
seems to have attended their generalship, that a
stricter accountability and more enacting super
vision of our own officers wonld not fail to pro
duce a de. ided amelioration in the Confederate
army, a military engine, the admirable parts of
which only require to be properly combined and
harmunizai in order to, produce unparalleled
results.
Did Yotr Evkb—Did you ever know a lodg
ing .house landlady who-wouid own to bugs?
Did you ever know a dancing master's daugh
ter who was not to excel Tagliono?
Did you ever know a man who did not
think he could make sallad better than you
eon Id?
Did you ever know a house maid who, on
your discovering a fracture in a valuable China
jar, did not tell you it was "done along time
age?” or that it was "cracked before?”
Did you over know a man who didn't consid
er hia razor a better razor than your razor ?
I>id yocf ever know a shirt maker who was not
prepared to sell you as good a shirt for eighteen
dollars the dozen as tho one you’ve got on at
thirty ?
Did you ever know a red-haired man who had
a'vory clear notion of wheiv scarlet began and
auburn terminated ?
Did you ever know a lady with fine eyes wear
green spectacles ?
Did you ever know an udttieur singer with
out a “horiid bad cold?”
Did you ever see a 000 l fat woman in black
in the dog-days?
Did you ever know an author who had not
been ill-used by the publisher ?
When is a .plant lik e a hog? When it be
gins to root. And when is it like a soldier?
When it begins to shoot. And when is it
like an editor? When it begins to blow.
A correspondent inquires what General
Grant’s initials “U. S.” stand for. From
the best information we have, they stand
for an Unmitigated Scoundrel.—Reoel.
OBITUARY,
Died in the hospital at Kingston, Ga , on the 16th
December, 1863, after a lingering and painful illness,
Privaie T. F. Bish, aged 18 years, 11 months and 16
days
Mr. Bush was from Chattahoochee County, Oa.,
enlisted in the service of the Confederate states over
two years ago as amember of Company D, 40th Ga ,
commanded by tbe heroic and invincible Coiquitt,
was stationed at Charleston, aiterwarda transferred
to 'Mississippi, and lagt.y to upper Georgia, all of
which time be displayed the sterling qualities of the
true soldier. The writer knew him lone and inti
mately, never knew a mote unexceptionable youth,
or one more generally Le oved. He won the confi
dence and esteem ot his comrades in erms a< and those
at the hospital speak ofiumin the highest lertns Ilia
last d%»s were lit up with the bright radience of the
Christian’s hope, and we now entert-in an ab.dir.g
confidence that he res s welt. He leaves h
and many relatives and frien rto mourn _■.? t
Thus sleeps another hero,acd ih- rgh r.--. nt-j
not.be;recqrded in the high camidar of fame, his
memory will be Measured up by a grateful country
while the'.recollection ot his many virtues will be in
delibly ineirihed on ti.e hearts of-those who knew
bnn best and iov<.d him most. His body was brought
home'lor burial A Fbiend, W. H. L. H
jan 30*
GEORGIA Marlon County.
AT|7HEREa?*.B. A. Stary, Administta'or upon the
TT estate of Josjp‘ N. Stary, late of said county,
deceased,; having-replied for letters, oi Dismission
,from said administration. -
These are therefore to cite and admonish all and
singular the kindred and en dttors of said deceased,
to be and appear at my \u.hin the time pre
scribed by ;aw, to show cause. l’uny they have, why
eaid letters of dismi sion , shout l not be grated
to said applicant on the first Monday m Octobornext.
Given unde! nry band and omcal signature. Jan.
22d, 1864. MALCQji 11 AIR.
Jaa vsm6m Ordinary,
For Three Months, $8
AUCTION SALES.
" 11 11 ■■■ 1 ■■■■ M _
By ELLIS, LIVINGSTON Cos.
WE will sell, on Tuesday, ihe *d of February, in
front of our store, at 11 o’clock,
A Very Valuable Family of Negroes,
—consisting of
Willis, negro man, No. 1 field hand, 33 years old.
Caroline, nis wife, :-0 years old.
William, bright and likely boy, 14 years old.
Lucinda, bright and likeiy girl, II years old.
Louisa, bright and likely gul, 10 years old.
E.len, bright and likely gin, S yeais old.
Frances, infant, 1 year old.
febl—2t $8
By ELLIS, LIVINGSTON & CO.
Valuable Plantation at Auction.
ON Tuesday, the 9th February, at 11 o’clock, w#
will sell in front of our Store—
That desirable location formerly owned by Judge
W. W. Livingston, lying 10 miles east of Columbus,
on the east bank of the Upatoie creek, one and a half
miles from Peggy Read’s bridge, on the main road u»
Vista. Said place contains 527 1»2 acres of
land, 300 acres of which are under fencing, and will
be delivered in a good state of repair.
On the place is a neat framed dwelling. 3 good ne
gro cabins, a cribs, siabiing, Ac; a No. t gin-house
and screw, a 40 saw gin with belling, some sugar
works, about two acres in peach orchard, good well
of waier and two very bold and never tailing springs
of water at convenient distances fiom each other on
the plantation. Within one mile of tue dwelling is a
good saw and grist mill, owned by Mrs. Van Horn,
lebt St $32
By ELLIS, LIVINGSTON & CO.
ON Tuesday, the 2d of February, at 11 o’clock we
will sell m front ol our store,
A very.tine no top Buggy and Harness
febl—St $ 4
By ELLIS, LIVINGSTON & CO.
ON TUESDAY, 2d February, at 11 o’clock we
will sell in front of our store,
1 Fine Cavalry Horse,
1 Fine Colt years old,
jan 39 id $4
By ELLIS, LIVINGSTON Cos.
ON TUESDAY, 2d Feb., at 11 o’clock we will
sell m front of our store,
• ::bbla Florida Syrup,
1 Very fine Leather Trunk,
jan 30 id $4
By ELLIS, LIVINGSTON & CO.
Desirable Residence and Farm
AT
AUCTION.
ON TUtSD \ Y, 9th i euruar., at 11 o'clock, we
wilt sen tor casu in trout ot our stoic,
? n 3 3 4 Acre* Land, 4 miles East of
ihe uily known as the Schley place, now owned by
ii . ', Aiaw tn, wiiU 175 tu > - red and under
goo«; f,•:* r-.il* ein tae .v y .s, 9J ncre* .rich bote
torn land on the place.
On tne pieunses H a good dwelling, 6 rooms, closets,
kitchen, siuoae house, crib.-, barn, carnage house,
stables, 4-cwith a good well and spring ot water*
Tnis.isone 01 the most desuabie piaces in the neigh
borhood ot the cuy, Uu ana see tun place before tue
day of sale,
jan 29 td $33
By ELLIS, LIVINGSTON & Cos.
ON TUESDAY, 2d Feb., at 11 o’clock, A. M.» w#
will sell in irom of our auction room,
2 bbls Seed Irish Potatoes.
$s
By ELLIS, LIVINGSTON # CO.
Administrator’s Saie
OP VALUABLE CITY PROPERTY .
ON TUESDAY, February 9th, at 11 o’clock, will be
sold in front ot kails, Livingston & Co’s, auction
room,
. The Store House, Ho. 30,
situated on the ea«t side of Broad street, at present
occupied by the Cuiiieueiaie estates clouting Depart
ment. doiuaatue property of Jonn Warren, dec'u,
JaS W, WAn KEN,
jan S6id S2B Adm’r.
Estray Notice.
JONATHAN ENGLISH, of , he 77ad District G. M ,
transmits to me ihe fo.iowing certificate of aa*
estray steer : a deep red color, supposed to be 3or 4
years old, marked with a crop ana underon in the
rig .teal, and uuderoit and split in ihe left. Appraised
oy James Cooper and Jeremiah Caitiedge.freeuoiaerj,
to i-e worth one hundred doliais.
Aime extract from ihe Estiay Book this 30th Jani
nary, ,804. A. t*. JONEB, (Ji’kl. C.
lebl—tf
Coffee.
I I 88. OLD BROWN lUO. in store and
ItHIW lor sale by GOODRICH 4k CO.
Jan 30th 3t .
Sugsr.
1 || BOXES CHOICE NEW ORLLaNH, instore
M. VT and lor sa;e by GOODRICH o. Cos.
Jan 30 St
wantedT
THREE sober, steady MEN, to serve as Watch
men. No applications received irom parlies sub
ject to military duty. Apply immediately at
Jan 30 ts NAVAL IRON WORK*.
Notice.
HEADQUARTERS PO*T, >
Columbus, Ga., Jan. V 7, 1564, J
GENERAL ORDERS, No. 6.
I. All officers or soldiers remaining 1n Columbus
over 12 hours will require a pass from Hies- Head
quarters. y
11. All persons between the ages of 18 and 45 years
visiting Columbus (Officers of the Navy and Army
stationed at thir Post excepted) will in future be re
quired to procure a pass from the Commandant of
the Post. No other document than the pass specified
will be regarded by the officer charge.) with the exami
nation of passes.
111. Officers and soldiers abse.il from their com*
mands, orcititzens claiming exemption by virtue of
contracts or otherwise, will save themselves annoy
ance by immediately procuring the required pssr.
By order of Col. ROBERTSON.
CHAB. WOOD, A. A. O.
jan 99 ts '
NOTICE.
QUARTERMASTER’S OFFICE, /
Columbus, January i7, 1864. y
On the first of each month, Major Juo. ;E. ;Davis
Pos t Quartermaster, will make payment to ail employ
ees of this department. Also to owners of slaves
hired, and for property rented. Parties interested will
present the r bills to Major Davis monthly.
Tt.e employers of the Transportation Department
will be paid by Capt. H. D. Cothran. All purchases
of supplies and payments therefor will be made by
rnvielf. F W. DILLARD,
Major and Quartermaster,
jan 99 ts
LOST
ON the street, on Tuesday last,* CHILD’B DRESS*
fine white muslin embroidered in French, needle
work up the front with two sco.loped bands on each
side of tbe embroidery, small neat scollops around
the bottom, top of the skirt turned in and gathered. ,
plain infant waist, perfectly new, (never been washed)
sleev embroidered like skirt, pined underneath
with.plain mus in. Drrs* would fit a cbrlrf three years
old. The finder by leaving it at Dr. Billing’s or at
the Times office, will be kindly thinked and suilah v
rewarded.
jan 28 3t
Nails for Sale.
#K EOS NAILS just received and for rale by
jan S7 «t BIDELL * CO,