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Volume XI.
€UANGE OF SIUI IM LE.
MUSCOGEE RAIL HOAD, )
Huperintendeiu’s Office, >
Cdnmbus, Dec. 3.1, 1863, )
ON and aft* r l»* c 6th the Mail Train on thia Road
will ran as ioliows :
Leave Columbus . .7:45, P. M.
Leave Macon.. 6:30, P. M.
Ariive at Macon ....,.... 4:18, A. M.
Arrive at O iimihug...... -. 2 a. M.
Passengers can now go through to Charleston, via
Savannah, without delay, as the Matl Train on the
Charleston and Savannah Railroad makes close con
nection with the Central Railroad at Savalmah
VV, L CLARK,
riupt. Muscogee R. R.
Dec 4 if
Change of Schedule.
ON AND AFTER December 6th, the Passenger
Irani on the Montgomery 4- West Point Railroad
will
Leave Montgomery at -• 10.30 A M
« West Point, 2,30 P.M.
Ariive at C0iumbu5......... 7,10 P M
Leave Goiutubus,.... 230 A M
Ariive at Montgomery .11,37 A M
“ “ West Point -.7,50 A M
Making through connections to and from Atlanta.
Freight leaves Columbus. .......8,40 A, M.
*• Arrives at Columbus .8.00 P. M,
;D. H. CRAM,
.Dec 4 ts Bupt ,&Engr.
Notice.
MOBII.E GIRARD RAILROAD, i
Buperiuieiidenl’s Office, Dec. 4, 1663. \
ALL WOOD delivered on the right way of the road
after this date will be considered the property of the
Company, to be paid for at the advertised rate at the
time of deliveiy.
Parties wishing to ship Wood on iheir own account
arg hereby notified that it must be delivered at some
oimol the regular Stations on the Road, and subject
to rules g venting other freights.
Dec 5 2w 0. E. WELLS, Bup’t.
LAnil FOIt HALE,
IWII.L sell 640 aires level LAND in the county oi
Russell, convenient to Hachachubbee Depot, 340
acres cleared, in fine state for cultivation, with corn
and lodder on the*premises. For particulars call on
the uiidersigneu, seven miles west «f Glennville.
E. 11. FLP.WELLEN,
Nov. at, ts
Bun copy.
320 or 640 Acres of Laud for Sale.
I offer for sale the tmet known as the Mercer vdace,
about 1% miles from station No, 5, oi the Mobile
& Guard U. It It contains 320 acres, 18.: ol which
is in cultivation, the balance limbered land. There
are cabins for about 30 negroes, gin house, stables,
4 tv, two wells of good water and a large quantity of
light wood convenient to the R. R. The other hall
ofthe section, all heavily timbered will be sold if de
sired by the purch ser. Apply to Greenwood &
Gray, i.oluiubu.s, Ga., for terms. Mr Mercer on tne
place will show it to any one wishing to see it.
D. C. FREEMAN, Jr.
Sun Copy, jan 12
MUSCOGEE SHERIFF SALE.
WILL be sold before the Court .House door in the
city of Colnmbu3 in said county of Muscogee,
on the first Tuesday in February next, t etween the
legal hours efsaleute following property , to-wit:
Filty Share of the Capital Stock of the Florida
Home Insurance Company and an interest of two
thittieths in the Steamer. Marianna, levied on as the
property of Charles Pratt. Also twenty-five Shares
oflhe Cjpital stock of the Georgia Home Insurance
Company, and a negro woman t lave turned Polly of
a datk cump'exioti, about twenty-five jeais of age,
said 25 Slnites and said negro levied on as the prop
erty of Daniel K. Dodge. The whole of the above
properly levied on io satisfy a fi la issued Irom the
superior Court of Muscogee County, in tavor of At
kins At Dunham vs Pratt McKenzie.
JOHN LIGON.
She. iff
Columbus, «a., January sth, 1364. td
Estray Notice.
VYIGKENS McCOY, oi the 77Jd District G. M.
J J iranamiis to me the following certificate of and
Estray Yoke of oxen: One a red and white color,
and the other a white andbrindle color; marked whir
a smooth crop and underbit in both yeats. About
four years old. Appraised by A. H. IloYOin and Jo
seph Lawson Diggers, freeholders of said county an
dlstrict to be worth four hundred dolllais,
A tiue extract from the estray book, this the 28th
oi December, 1863. A. P. JoNEd,
Jan4—w6od Clerk, 1. C.
E. S. Marshal Sale,
WILL be sold on the’first Tuesday in February
next, between the usual hours of ait'e, beto.-e
the Court House mi Muscogee county, a line four
wheel carriage, levied on to satisfy twenty-six ii ius
vs Beall 4* Murphy, one fi fa vs A A Beall and one.
fl la vs R A Murphy, garnishees in favoi of the Con
federate States of America for interest uue on debt
to allien enemies to the 30th August, 1862
philip a clavton,
C. fc. Mdislml,
Columbus, 20th Dec. 1863. td
A Few More Kecruits Wanted
FOR
(ten. Iniboden’s Command*
Hones and Equipment Furnished.
S3O BOUNTY !
I WANT a few more RECRUITS to complete my
Company of
Mounted Riflemen,
for Gen, Imbnicu’s .command. Persons who have
substitutes in the army can join this company if they
will do so in ten days, as at the expiration of that
time volunteeriim will cease. 1 will grant furloughs
of from ;en to iifu en days.
My hcaitquarieiH ate at Cani|i Montgomeiy, where
I ran a.ways be found or repre*ruled.
F. P. CRUTCHFIELD, Cant
W, C. WRIGHT, I kui
Jatil6 <lit
tti'liool Notice,
Wynnton Male Academy.
MISS Jlfl.fA C JEWETT will open school for
BUY B uiui 01ß1.8, at lilt 1 above Academy the
first Monday in January.
Temis, pay tide in advance, $55, per term ending
first oi July Contingent expenses jgs.
dec 30 it
MedicalJCard.
to. a. kossv, in. i).,
* OF JVK fV ORLEANS,
TENDERS his set vices to the lit Zens of Columbus
in all the hranrhes of his profession .
IT?* Speci.l at ention.as in New Orleans, will be
devoted t» Surgery, and to the treatment of the M’s
ease peculiar to Females.
Paiienis ir'ona distance requiring Surgical or M.■’i
cal treatiheai will be visited and treatment at lion ■
Utsued
Office, No 14.1, in the Masonic llaii, UP HTAllt
dec 14 tt
Post Office,
Colvmbus, Ga,. Jan. 15, /.(
PROPOSAI.pt for earring the Mails on Route No
• 636 from liiiena Vista, 44a., by Pineville Oien
alta Haiioca iiii.l Water Oak, to Columl us. 40 miles
an.t l ack nm e a week, will fe received at this office
until February Ist, 11 o’clock M
11. M. JETER, P. M.
Jsn 16 d&w till Feb. Ist.
Wanted
90 ABLE-BODIED negro men for Teamsters on
id\J Gcvcinm on Drays.
. , H. D. COTHRAN,
jav 14—ts Capt. & A, Q. M.
GEORGlA—lllarion County s
*1 “ 10,,t * ls a f*er date application will be made to
X. the Court o» OrJinay of Maiion county lor leave
to sella portion of tlie negroes beioncine to the estate
of C. W. Ross, deceased.
ARM NLA P. ROS3,
Dec 16tli, JSI3 8m Adni’x.
Notice to debtors and creditors,— ar
persons having claims against the estate >,i Wnt
J Patterson, dec’d, are hereb, nolitied to ptesei t
them within the time prescribed by law, and all pet
sons indebted to rid estate are riquested to mate
immediate pavuitiil. . m’i
HENRIETTA A. FAITEH3ON, Ad
December lb— tvtit
SPECIAL NOTICES
NOTICE 1
IIE AT QUARTERS OF CONSCRIPTION, I
Macon, Ga., Jan. 19, 1864. )
General Orders, No. 5.
All persons holdiug Exemptions, other than those
granted by the Medical Examining Boards, aie hereby
required to present them for revision ,to their County
Enrolling Officers who will forward to the Chiefs of
Districts. The latter will transmit fhem thr mgh the
Commandants of Camps of Inerructton to the Com -
mandants of Conscripts, with an expression of opinion
The Enrolling Officers will give receipts for these
papers when’delivered, and reclaim the receipts on
returning the papers which, when returned, will be
invariably endorsed as revised aud approved, or dis
approved at a given date.
Until the 20th oi February, the receipts issued as
above will protect them .from conscription. After
that date, neither the receipts nor the papers will pro
tect, unless the latter be endorsed as revised at a date
subsebuent to the issue of this order.
The Enrolling Officers will take special precautions
against the lotayjf documents.
These demands are iqade in.pursuance of War De
pat tment. General Orders No. 4, Jan. 9, 1864, par. vii*
as follows: “All exemptions heretofore granted are
subject to tevision, under instructions from the Bu
reau of Conscription,.and if found to be improper or
unauthorized by law, will be enrolled.”
By order of * »
major ciias.j Harris,
Comma’.dant oi Conscripts of Ua
F, Looney,
Ist Lieut and Acting Adjutant.
jan 22—5i
lleadquartf.bsT nuolino <»ffice, J
3rd 1 "ongressional District, >
January 13th, 1664 )
All men in tins District who have substituus in
set vice will report at once to tlifr-e lleadquarie|s.~
Those who voluntarily report will be allowed a fur
lough often days before being sent to camps of lift*
struction W. 8. WALLACE,
Cspt and Enrolling Officer.
jan (s—lOd.
Shipping Notice.
MUSCOGEE RAIL Hoad, i
Superintendent’s Office, >
Columbus, Dec, 22d, ’63 J
Owing to the want ot sufficient tianaportation for
Government freight, private freight will not be received
at this depot until further notice.
VV. L. CLARK,
Dec 23 ts Supt.
Wanted.
MUSCOGEE RAIL ROAD, i
Superintendent’s Office. >
Columbus* Dec. 22d ’63. j
WANTED to hire for the ensuing year (1864)
twenty-five able bodied Negroes to work on the
Muscogee Railroad. Apply to
W.’L. CLARK, Bur>t.
or A. B. BOSTICK.
DeC23 ,1m
HEADQUARTERS i
SECOND DISTRICT U A STATE GU ARD, >
Savannah, December 30, 1863. j
General Orders, No. 6.
I. Officers commanding Regiments and Battalions'
comprised in the S> cond District, Georgia State
Guard, will forthwith rendezvous their respective coin -
mauds at points most convenient for railroad trans
portation to this point.
If. '• hey wiil 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. 11. R JACKSON,
Comd’g Second District G. S. G.
11. Jackson, Oapt. and A. A. G.
TSTOXIOOEL
HEADQUARTERS POST, )
Columbus, Ga., January 11th, 1864, J
[GENERAL ORDERS, No. 2.]
**##*##
I. Oapt. Clias. Wood, A. A Q, having reported for
duty in pursuance- of orders from Head quarters De
partment H. C , Ga.. and Fla., G announced as As
sistant Adjutant General of th * post, aud in future-all
official c nmnunicatioiis directed to these headquar
era will he addressed to him,
11. Commanding officers of Companies or outer
military organizations at this Post will make out and
iQrtvard to these headquarters as soon as practicable,
comnlc te returns ol all members of their command
piesent and absent, together with testers oi the com
missioned officers, and statements of the time when
and the authority by which such organization weifi
mustered into the setvice.
HI. Officers ofthe tnaflf Departments on duty at
this Post wilt report at these Headquarters in person.
J. W ROBERTSON,
janJUjf Col. Comd’g Post.
Notice-
The Citizens of Harris County are requested to
meet the first Tuesday fn February next, (2d inst.,) at
Hami ton for the purpose of meeting the Commissary
oi this Department, that we may atrange in reference
to subsistence fur the army from your county.
Let eveiy citizens of II nis who feels an interest in
his country be present.
GEO. H BRYANT,
w. cJohnson,
J M. MOBLEY,
j. m, hamsey,
H. W. PITTS,
jan 22 td A. T. BROOKS.
OOIVLTIVISTTS
DYEING ESTABLISHMENT I
* r [4IIE SUBSCRIBERS having perfected their ar~
X rangements, are now prepared iu do all Kinds of
DYING 10
Siila, Wool ;«ii«l l otion.
Dye House on south west corner ot Bridge and
Oglethorpe streets. Otdeis leu at ’be office of the
Southern Express will meet with prompt attention.—
Parties from the country can send an) aitule by Ev
press, address
7 OIGIIT & Him. .
Nov 19 3m,
COLUMBUS GtXaU'E
AND
POINTER’S COMPOSITION
MAJIirjFACTOKY.
VV VV|S *' 10 inform our-friends and the public in
TY s . neral tliai the above business will hereafter be
conducted undei the name and >fyle of
ZORKOWSHY & CO.
Drv Glue always on hand Ordris tilted prompt ly
jau 5-1 m
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE.
2VI X. KCTJCiIiBS,
Attorney at Law and Notary,
• RICHMOND, VA.
Claons ot every description against the Confederate
States settled with accuracy and dispatch. Legal
business will receive prompt atteniioti. augi2 ly
Old Iron Wanted.
WE wish to purebasea large quantity of SCRAP
TF IRt'N both cast and wrought, far which cash
will b - paid. HARRISON, BEDELL & CO.
jan '.7 if
Notice to Debtors aud Creditors
ALL persons having claims against the tstate o
John A. Jones, deceased, are hereby notified to
present them duly authenticated withut tit- time pre
’-ettbed by law, ana all persons 1 deb.ed to said es
tate are requested to make immediate payment.
MARY L. JONES,
dec 4—6 t Adm’rx.
Columbus, Georgia, C. Tuesday February 2, 1864
Estray Notice.
JONATHAN ENGLISH, of the77Jd District G. M.,
transmits to me the following certificate ot an
estray steer: A deep red color, supposed to be 3or 4
years old, marked with a crop and underbit in the
right ear, andniuderbit and split in ityj left. Appraised
by James Cooper and Jeremiah Caitledge, free, ohlers,
to oe worth one hundred dollars.
A uue extract from the Esttay Bonk this 30th Jan
uaiy. 864. A.P. JONES, Ci’kl.C.
iebl— if
Coffee.
I Ak 4 A LBS. OLD BROWN KIO, in etoie and
Uww lor sale by GOODRICH A CO.
Jan 30tb 3t
Sugar.
1 || BOXES CHOICE NEW ORLEANS, in store
and for sale by GOODRICH <v Cos,
Jau 30 3t
WANTED!
THREE sober, steady MEN, to setve as Watch
men No applications received iiontpmtes sub
ject to military duty. Apply immediately «t
Jan 30 ts NAVAL IRON WORKS.
•Notice.
HEADQUARTERS POST, )
Columbus. Ga., Jan. x 7, 18n4. >
GENERAL ORDERS, No. 6.
1. All officers or Boldiers remaining in Columbus
over It hours will require a pass from these Head
quarters.
11. All persons between the ages of 18 and 45 years
visiting Columbus (Officers of the Navy and Army
stationed at this Post excepted) will in futuie be re
quired to procute a pass from the Commandant of
ihe Post. No other document than the pass specified
will be regarded by theofficci charged with the exami
nation ot passes.
111. officers and soldiers absent from their com*
iiiandi, or citit.zens claiming exemption by virtue of
contracts or otherwise, will save themselves aunoy
artce by immediately procuring the required p.iei,
By order of Col. ROBERTSON.
CIIAS. WOOD, A. A, (J,
jan 29 ts
NOTICE.
QUARTERMASTER’S OFFICE, *
Columbus, January. 97, 1864. }
On the first of each month, Major Jno. ;E, ;Davis
Port Quartermaster, will make payment to all employ
ees department. Also to owners ol slaves
hired, and tor property rented. Parlies interested will
present their bills to Major Davrs monthly.
The employees of the Transportation Department
will be paid by Cspt. H. D. Cothran. All purchases
of supplies and payments therefor will be made by
myself, F. W., DILL ARD,
Major and Quartermaster,
jan29tf _
LOST
ON the street, on Tuesday last, a CHILD’S DRESS
tine whitd muslin embroidered in French, needle
woik up the front, with two scolloped bands on each
side of the embroidery, small neat scollops around
the bottom, top of the skirt turned in and gathered,
plain infant waist, peifectly new, (never been washed)
sleeves embroidered like skirt, pined underneath
with,'plain mus in. ’Dress would fit u child three years
old. The finder by leaving it at Dr. Billing’s or at
the Times Office, will be kindly thanked and suitab y
rewarded,
jan 28 3t
Nails for Sale.
Al\ KEGS NAILS just received and serrate by
*7 fit BEDE.I l, a. CO
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
AGREE! ABI.Y to an order ofthe Couit of Ordinary
of Stewart County, will be sold within the legal
liouis ofsale before the Court House door in the town
of Lumpkin, on the first Tuesday in March next.
“Sophie” a negro woman 23 years old and her child
4 years of age, helor ging to the estate of Susan Yar
brough, deceased.
Terms cash, SARAH DEN NARD,
jan 23 td Adtn’x.
GEORGIA—MarIon county:
FYULLNISI. Whereas Carrie James, Adm'rx on
i£»i the estate of Daniel James, Jr., having petitioned
this Court for lettets of dismission from said Admin
istration.
These are tlierelore to cite and admonish all an
singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased to
be and appear at, my office within the time prescribed
by law, and show cause it any they have, why said
Administratrix should not be dismissed from said
Administration on the first Monday in July 1864.
Given under my hand and official signature, this
December the 7th, 1863. MALCOM HaIK,
Dec 14 m6nt Ordinaiy.
GEORGIA—MarIon County
RULE NlSl.—Whereas, M. Butt and William M
But', Administratoi s upon the estate ofEidndge
C- Butt, dec’d, having applied lor letters of Disinis
tiion from said Administration —These are therefore
to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and
creditors oi said deceased to show cause, if any they
have, why said applicant should not be dismissed
from said Administration.
Given under my hand and official signature, Sep
tentber 2d, 1863, MALCOm HAIR,
sept 7, iri6m. Ordinary.
GEORGIA Illarion County’':
WHEREAS, Joseph Belk having applied for let
ters of Admitislration upon the estate ul'Zttcha*
riali Belk, deceased,
These are therefore to cite and admonish all and
singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased,
to be and appear at iny office within the time pre
scribed by law, to show <au.-e if any they have why
said letters 01 administration should not tie granted to
said applicant, cn the 2nd Monday in January next.
Given under nty hand and official signature, Nov.
Nov 27 40. Ordinal y.
GEORGIA—MarIon county:
TWO months after date application will be made to
the Court of Ordinary of said county, tor leave to
seil the negroes belonging to the estate ot Lol ard
J Payne deceased. Dec, 7th, 1863.
WM. Payne, )
Henry Payne, \ Exec’tis.
Pollard J. Payne, )
Dec 14 2m
G£OKGla»9lailou County 1
RULE NlSl.—Whereas, " Airiandt L. Cattle, Ad;
minis). 1 atm upon the Estate of David L. Murry,
deceased, having app.i-d for letters if dismDsion
from said Admit)istration.
These are 1 bore fore tocire and admonish all and
singular, the kindred an 1 creditors of said deceased
to show oause, ts any they have why sai l Admlnis
tratrix should not he dismissed from said administia
lion.
Given {under my hand and official signature, Oc
tober Sth, 1863. MALCOM HAIR,
dec 12 m6m Ordinary.
GACOJK.GIA- Alarlou County.
IX7 HERE AS M, A. E. Mayo having petitioned
YV this Court tor letters of Administration upon
the estate ofG. W. Hillman deceased.
These ate* therefore 11 cite and admonish all and
gular the kindred and creditors of said deceased to
sinand appear at my office, within the time prescribed
be law, and show cause if any they have, why said
administration on the estate of sad deceased should
not he issued to the applicant on the first Monday
in Feoruaryjnext.
Given under my hand and official signature, Dec
17th, 1867. * MALCOM HAIR,
Dec 29 4ftd • Ordinary.
Georgia—Marion county.
U7HEREAS, W B Walker having petitioned this
> V Court for letters of Admini-trauon upon tt>e
estate of Sarah Parker j deceased.
These are theiefjre to cite and admonish all and
singular the kindred and creditors 01 said deoased to
show cause, il any they have, within the time pie
scribed by law, why said letter, of Administration
upon said estate, should not be granted to said appli
cant on the Ist Monday in February 1864.
Given under my hand and official signature, Dec.
19th, 1163. MALCOM HAIR,
dec 22 40d Ordinary.
GEORGIA —Marlon County,
iMTHEREASiB. A. Stary, Adminisftator upon the
vv estate of Josap' N. Sury, late of said county,
deceased,; having applied for letters, of Dismission
from said administration.
These are l!iere<ore to cite and admonish all and
singular the kindred and cieditors of said deceased,
and appear at my office within the time pre
scribed by law. to show cause, if any they have, why
said letters of dismi sion should not be [granted
to said applicant on the first Alondsy in October next.
un<^ei ' my hand and official signature, Jan.
83 T d - , 8M- MALCOM HAIR,
Jan. s§ m6m Ordinary.
EVENING EDITION.
RJCCKIPTS,
The retention of the TW44, wlun ordered
maU, wi U he trur reeetft U* I he money ; especial
ly to those tubs** then for m less ttms than *
year.
When sub st fibers reset os the pssper with this
P* l agroph marked, they wtU under stand it ms in
forming them, that their sub scription is abeut te
«r* ir«i, ana that the paper will certainly be stop
p: * :. rtUse they make a -cnittanes
Advanced Kates.
In consequence of the continued advance iu price
of the mateiial and tabor consumed in conducting our
business, we are compelled to secure ourselves against
loss, to again advance ou prices, which will be until
further notice,:
Daily Paper for three months _..fß 00
“ *‘ ” one 4 ‘ 300
Weely Paper six ” 5 00
“ “ ** three f 300
Single copies 25 cents
THOS GILBERT k CO ,
thus, Ragland,
J. W. WARREN &. CO.
Jamidry Ist, 1864,
We areagaun. forced to beg our patrons to be
a little lenient with us for a few days. Offiug to
the illnes of one of our carriers, some of the sub
scribers will be deprived of having their papers
delivered. Those failing to receive their paper
w 11 please call at the office.
The Greensboto’ Be&oon announces the marri
age, on the 13th inst., at the residence of Major
I. P. Lewis, by ttev. Mr. Beckwith,* Lieut. Gen.
W. J. Hardee, C. S. A , and Miss Mary T.
Lewis.
High. —Coooauuts are selling in Mobile at $lO
a piece. People who can afford to eat them at
that price, ought to be able to stand a pretty
heavy tax for the suport of the war.
If all tho newspaper employees iu the Sou:h»
ern Confederacy—only 572 in all—were placed
in the army it would not be felt; but their ab
sence from the Press could not fail to result in
the total obliteration from the constellation of
Nations tho only germ of Government on earth,
which possesses, as the fixed policy of its people,
one iota of the principles of Kepublioan govern
ments. Take from us this luminary of light, and
tho sun of our young Republic must go down in
Egyptian darkness.
Hard on Lincoln.— The New York News says
that iu public and in private, upon thorough ares
and in social circles, at all times and iu all pla
ces, where citizens are accustomed to speak their
minds freely, any man who |is not wilfully or
actually deaf, may hear Abraham Lincoln do
nouneed as a iow, cunning fanatic, au unscru
pulous partisan and a prejudiced magistrate.
Gkn Lee on the War.-A gentleman who
has just arrived iu Columbia, from Richmond,
brings the cheering intelligence that General Lee,
iu conversation with a bevy bf friends, recently,
made the remark that with twenty thousand ad
ditional troops in his army, and Jorty thousand
additional troops in tho artny of Geri. Johnston,
wo could whip ail the Yanket) troops that may be
brought against us. He further observed, that
if the contest was prolonged until September
next, and we should meet with no grave disas*
tors, (which Gun. Lee did not anticipate,) the
greatest crisis of the war would be successfully
passed.
We agree cordially with the South Carolinian,
in saying that if these opinions ofthe great Cap
tain of the age be faithiulty reported, they are
worthy to be written in gold. We would hold
them up betore the eyes oi every man, woman
and child in the Confederacy, and point to them
as to a day star. Sixty thousand men more, and
our struggle is over! The very thought makes
the heart leap lor joy. Aud now, men, to the
work of strengthening the army. Gather up the
absentees, officers as well as privates; cultivate
your fields and prepare for heavy crops; bring
down Ihe prices of the extortioners; cease for the
nonoe ihe giddy race for weahb; stand by the
Government in its effort ta reduce the currency;
let us once more have spontaniety of aotion—
strong, determined, fervent actios —and the next
spring will, in all probability, see the beginniog
01-our glorious cause.—[Augusta Constitutional*
Ist. m,
Yall a ratio ha u and GAKiiirsoN.—The New
York 13sprees makes the lolloping criticisms up
on the sanitary lair lately held at Cincinnati:
Oae of the (Jinonuati sanitary commission
wrote to Mr Vallandigbam for an autograph let
ter to iie used at the great fair in Cincinnati,but
we are told :
As soon as it became known that a letter from
Mr. V. wasto be sold for the benefit of the com
mission, the chairman of the committee published
an indignant letter, denying that the member of
tho committee who had applied to Mr. V. bad
any authority to do so, and announcing that the
letter tiad been wiibti:awu.
Tho autograph ot IVin Litiyd Garrison was
requested and received without, nbjeciiou. Gar
rison lias always been the avowed enemy of the
Union and the Constitution, j Yallandignam, al
wsifk a Union man, is ezilucl and denounced, —
bo wags *the world.
From Jntkuou,
We have a letter, says the Mississippiac, from
Our intelligent correspondent, "Logan,” who is
now at Jackson, which informs us ihat the Yan
kees have prepared the framework of the bridge
intended for Big Black, aud that they avow their
intention to c’iiuii out to Jackson and occupy
the place permanently. Our dispatches from
Meridian bring the same intelligence. Though
this may be the intention of tho Yankees, it
does not necessarily follow that they will do
exactly what they intend. We are glad to iearn
that they will have to fight for Jackson,
The Siege of Charleston—Two Hun
dred and Fifth Day'.
After another long interval of silence, the
enemy, about mm* o’clock Thursday night,
re-opened with moriars the bombardment
ot Fort Sumter. The firing was from
three 10-inch C'oiuinbiads and a 30-pounder
Parrott, mounted at the middle battery.
During the night one hundred and twenty
three shells were fired, eighty-t woof which
burst in and over the fort. Two Parroit
shots also struck Sumter. The fire of the
enemy was directed principally at the South
angle. The bombauimeut continued heavy
all day Friday, and was still going on at the
hour ot closing our report. I ieut. Colonel
Elliott, however, reports no casualties and
no damage done to the fort.
There has been no further shelling of the
city since Wednesday nicht, aud the ene
my’s operations in that respect have sud
denly ceased altogether.
The position of the fleet and character of
the vessels inside the bar remain about as
usual. In our report Thursday we mens
tioned the Yankees throwing up earthworks
on
Island, opposite Secessiouville.—[Courier,
30ih.
The London Times protests against Yan
kee enlistments iu England. The British
Minister, Craiupton, was kicked out oi
Washington liar enlisting troops in the Uni
ted States for the Crimea, but Abolition
England does not think that the violation
ot their neutrality by the Yankee abolition
ists, in recruiting in Great Britain, a suffi
cient cause to kick the Yankee Minister
Adams, out of London.
The London Times says that the’Schles
> wig Holstein question has reach* r! r si-'
in which the only hope of
moderation ofthe great G .na ' yen
and the checking of the Holstein agitators.
It was reported that England had takeu
a decided stand against the German occu
pation of Schleswig, and, if it was carried
out, would assist Denmark.
The Danese evacuated Reudsburg on the
31st, and 500 Maxon troops immediately en
tered and were enthusiastically received.
The King of Italy in his New Year’s ad*
dress, said 18G4 might bring about events
giving the desired opportunity to Italy.
The Polish insurgents were active.
Great Britain. —The funeral of the great
author, Thackeray, took place at Mansel
Green Cemetery on December 30iii. It
was attended by all the leading authors and
artists. The scene was very affecting.
France . —-The Gazette de France asserts
that Gen Forey will shortly proceed on a
mission to the Archduke Maximilian with
relaiion to Mexico.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Tiie Louisville Democrat ot the 13th inst,
says;
Capt Aaron Jones, tried and acquitted as
a rebel spy, is the Euglish prize tighter who
fought Tom Mayers to a draw, and who
was Heenan’s second in his fight with Mor
rissey.
Jones was Gen. Beauregard’s orderly at
Charleston. We have never heard ot his
capture or desertion, but presume he must
have deserted, being an Englishman, He
enlisted at New Orleans two years ago.
A correspondent of the New York Times,
writing from Fort Jackson, attributes the
blame ofthe negro revolt at Fort Jackson,
La., to Adjutant General Thomas, whose
“indiscreet speech gave the negroes very
exalted ideas ol their position.”
The Navy Department has succeeded at
last in building some of the latest war ves
sels alloat. The Sassacus, one of the
twenty seven vessels last built, has made
seventeen miles an hour, with her engines
not working their full lorce.
LINCOLN LEASING COTTON PLANTATIONS.
Tiie Louisville Democrat of tbe 13th instant,
says:
Tbe transactions of tho Government in leasing
the abandoned plantations on the Mississippi
river, are increasing in magnitude and attracting
the attention of the country. Leasees are said to
be realizing fabulous fortunes. The field is temp
ting, and as some of our reailer* may desire to
invest their means and energies in it, we give for
their benefit the article of agreement to which
they will have to subscribe, and also an exhibit
of expenditure to cultivate each one hundred
acres.
The following is the “Article of Agreement,”
between the Commissioners appointed by
tant General L. Thomas, for leasing plantations
upon tbe Mississippi liver and the lessees who
have cultivated the same. The agreement will
probably be, iu the main, the stuxie for another
year, beginning February 1, 1863, and ending
February 1, 1864. with, perhaps, t!ii« alteration :
that the lessees wiil be required to furnish the
medicine needed for t'ue halide on tii«; plantation,
and a school teacher for the children of every one
thousand acres cultivated, j
Abolition Thieves—A late Washington Union
says:
Last Wednesday, Charles IJ. Cornwall, hold
ing a clerkship of great re3poustbiliiy and oonlL
dence in the office of the Treasurer ofthe United
States, and whoso duty it was to burn in the
presence of witnesses the canceled demand notes
which are previously cut iu two, was discovered
in his dishonesty ami arrested To use the mild
language of a letter to the New York Times, fie
“adroitly managed to slip some of tho packages
from time to time imo his pockets.” The amount
stolen is said to he about SIOO,OOO, and further,
that he had no confederates. Certainly not—it
is every one tor himself, and the devil for tbsm
aii. This case, which scarcely attracts any at
tention in these times of universal plnr.de-,would
have created a great excitement and -x r'tr
terrible indignation, with a tm -r < ? .; -of
“stop thief,” from the bellowing . t ,>:
oiitionists throughout the North, but that it oc
curs iu their own household. It is remarked,
however, that “this fraud, (how gentle,) bus rc«
renewed the comment lor some time silenced,
which lbs incongruity between large expendi
tures and moderate salaries bad excited in
bureaus iD the Treasury building.”
Those damnyag records crowd upon us in fitch
numbers that we might till our paper with them,
but it is a painful subject for onr readers. Tho
people are robbed night and day by their ap
pointed and supposed trusty servant?. The
knavish crew are at their wi>.-k of plunder in
every locality, and the country is as helpless to
prevent it as would be a sick boy confronted by
a band of highwaymen.
We observe that, serious frauds on the Govern
ment have been discovered at the Brooklyn navy
yard, and a board of officers have undertaken
i.fi. ir investigation. So it goes ; crime and cor
ruption every where; and these are the legitimate
fruits of Abolitionism. For the 4 : k of March,
1865, one half of tho Abolition party may com
pose special committees or boards for investiga
ting the larcenies, grand and petty, committed
by the other hall. The demoralization isspread
ing and sweeping along like fire on a prairie.
When the Administration ordered the wholesale
seizure of ail dispatches, old and new, on file in
their telegraph officep, and the violation of their,
security, as also that of private correspondence
in the post offices and elsewhere, which hau in
all past time been regarded as unapproachable,
an incurable wound was inflicted upon wha
little morality was to be !nur,d among its fanati
cal followers. The semi.* were sown, and the
harvest which soon begun is yielding an awful
(merest
Personal - -The wife and daughters of
John Mitchell, Esq., the Irish patriot, have
reached Richmond. Tney were on hoard
a vessel which recently attempted to tun
the blockade at Wilmington. Being hotly
pursued by two of the enemy’s vessels, the
vessel was run on the beach, and burned
by direction of its officers. The crew was
saved, but we regret that Liiat Mrs. Mitch
el lost her baggage, which contained a sup
ply of wearing apparel for herself, husband
and brave sons in the Confederate army.
It is impoeible, says the Charleston Cou
rier,that tyranny and an unrestrained Press
can exist in the same nationality. One or
the other dies. They are most deadly an
tagonisms. Id Hie Press triumphs m the
conflict, liberty is secured; if it goes down,
the rights of the people sink with their
most faithful guardian, and most efficient
protector.
It is an invariable lrw, that the freer the
people the more unrestrained the Pr or
perhaps, it would be more proper to change
the lorm of the expressing and to say, that
the more unrestrained the Press the freer
the people. j
For Three Months, 58
ODE TO THE SOUTH
BT nnOINTTTS HCTCHTN.
Clime beneath whose genial sun
Eutaw’s victory was won,
Where the dust of Washington
Sleeps in glory's bed!
Heroes from their scented shade
For thee have swung the battle-blade ;
Holy men for thee have prayed,
Aud patriotic martyr’s bled.
“Wandering Judah” sinks in gloom,
<i eee scarce rises from fho tomb,
K ii:o h; *h lost her eagle lump,
h at h*r corqaciii * r^me.
Infant nation of the West!
Rise with truer greatuess blest,
Sainted ones whi/re now at rest,
Marked tby path to fame.
Empire ot'the brave and free !
Thy bounds shall reach from sea to sea :
Then who shall bid thee bend the knee
To a tyram s throne?
Knowledge is thy armor bright!
Liberty thy beacon light,
Hod himself tby shield of might,
Bow to Him alone !
[From the Missißsippian.]
Affair* at Huntsville.
We had the pleasure of meeting with a worthy
citizen of Huntsville, an old and highly respec
table gentleman, who, in company with some
eight or ten others, were ordered last week to
leave the city or take an oath which required
the sacrifice of all their manhood and sedf-respect.
He sayß the oppression of the loyal inhabitants
of Huntsville is gradually becoming more and
more gulling.
The gentfotren who were exiled with him are
ail old men, who, by a life of usefulness, won a
position of wealth hnd influence, and some of
them had long since retired from the busy scenes
of life to the quiit enjoyments of their families.
Id some cases the families of the exiles were
ordered by the military to vacate their houses
even while the last adieus were passing between
father and children, and husband and wife. The
weather was extremely cold and sleeting, and
these helpless women and children, so long ao
customed to every imaginable comfort, were, with
a most barbarous and indecent oruelty, turned
out ol their homes, to make room for somabru
tal Yankee provost marshal, alter their only pro
tectors Wore sent out of reach.
But there is a day of vengeance. Let us gird
on our armor anew, sharpen our swords afresh,
and bo ready for tho clash that is forth coming.
The following is the oath required of ail sus«
pected characters, or rather, perhaps, of all who
happen to have a good horse which a Yankee
official may want. The provost marshal says
lie was three days in preparing it, ami thinks it
very mild indeed, aud don’t gee how anybody
.•an refuse to take it. It is a masterpiece, and
its author deserves immortality tor the extraor
dinary genius displayed in its conception. Here
it is:
THE OATH.
I, , of Madison county, State of Ala
bama, do solemnly, sacredly and truly swear,
and without.any montal reservation or evasion,
that 1 will bear true allegiance to the CoustitU"
tion of the United States of America, and obey
all laws in pursuance thereof; that I will not aid
or countenance the so*calied Confederate States
in their rebeiiion against tho same; and that I
will not give any aid or information, or assis
tance to any person claiming authority under or
bearing arms in support of the so styled Cojrfed*
erate States. So help me God!
An AMtrsrNu Stampede.—A correspondent of
the Richmond Examiner, describing the late
raid of Fitz Hugh Lee’s .cavalry into Hardy
county, Va., says:
As the head of the column emerged and oama
in view of the Patterson Creek Valley, t-> the
astonishment and delight of every one, a traiu
of forty wagons was discovered meandering "its
slow length along.” On it came, right into our
ravenous jaws. 4 A
In the rear of the traiu marched an infantry
guard of one hundred men. Ah soon as they
passed our front, Rosser’s brigade darted down
the mountain side after them, leaping fences and
ditches in their course, and galoping with head
long fury over the frozen swamps that tilled the
valley.
Any one who has ever seen a wagon train
stampeded will admit that the war furnighea
nothing more profoundly entertaining to a
philosophic spectator, or more amusing to any
body. There seems to bo a sort of inexplicable
electric chain of communication between the
different drivers of a wagon train. Let the
hindmost one discover danger, and at once the
foremost driver knows of it, as it were, by in*
Rtinet. The mules always keen observers, are
not flow to catch tho general panic, and soon
i became more frightened (fan I heir terrified
irivers, who, with rranti screams at them to
! ~ wry op, and wfh spasmodic applications of
■hj ia-n, endeavor to osc.ipe ts > terrible doom
that pursue them. The wagons themselves seem,
for the time, endowed with vitality. They plunge
and rear with a bind of desperate energy that
make 2 * them srem animated, while a wholo train
thus moving, some fast teams running into
slow ones, wil 1 teams running out of tho road
through the fields, and some contrary ones try
ing to turn round, presents a dioramic view of
life that must ho seen to be appreciated.
As it happened upon this occasion, every wag
oner in the (rain could see Rosser, with his
brigade, dashing like a thumdorbolt down the
mountain side after them, with a war whoop that
penetrated to their very souls as it echoed and
re-echoed along the valley. Presto, chequed
immediately; as if by the power of a magician
the unsuspecting train that was pursuing tho
even tenor of its way became a ••'urging, chaotic
rm-s.
Driver after driver leaped from his post of
duty and ran to tho woods. The mules, however,
in nrny cases did not abate their speed, but
as if shunning a tnte that consigned them to Jhe
short rations of Dixie, redoubled their energy
and refused to bo halted. All tho wagons were
captured and about sixty of tho guard, who at
first r*n without firing, until they had gotten a
position ■ n a hill side flanked by an impassable
ditch, and here they made quite a stubborn re
sistance for a while.
That same evening Gen. Chambliss went up
the creek a short distance, and, having invested
a stockade fort of the one oy, garrisoned with
twenty men, obtained its surrender.
A Washington dispatch says: “Measures will
at once he adopted by our Government which
wilt compel Rebel authorities to recognize Oden.
Butler’s status as an officer of the United States
array; until that is done no propositions relative
10 exchanges mads by the Rebels will be recog
nized/’
A Washington to egram says: “New cotnpli*
cations are said to have arisen in ihe matter of
the removal of the French tobac-o Jtioh
inon.i. It if, believed here that the Rebel Gov
ernment wiil refuse permission to French war
vessels to ascend James river/’
,T >e Ooburn, a New York pugilist, is cut with
a challenge to Tom the victor over Hee
uan, for sf*,tWO a -ide, and < ffering him SI,OOO
towards defraying his expenses to fight in this
country.
Eor Eafaulv
The.C. 8, So amer, Marianna, If. VV. Van Veighten
Maiter, will leave for Eufaula on 'I UESDA Vat 8
o’< I-m k.
HEADQUARTERS cost, >
Columbus, O i., Jan, IVtti, lsC4. J
GENERAL OREEBS, No, 4.
Un il further oiders Capl. Juo. S. Smith, P, A. C.
8„ "s announced as Acting A.-sisian: Inspector Gen
eral at iti s Post.
He will be obeyed and respected accordin'*. y.
By order oi
roi, HuBERrsON,
Coinni indibg.
(.Has. Wood, A, A. G •
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