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MOMTHO EDITION. .f AMES W. WARBES, Editor. — —meßM V ■ ■■ ■ Colimtai, WettowtUy Febrwry 3, 1863. What will they do with »t? The iDdiCfttioaß at praaant ar® that the Con federate currency will be put through a serere ordeal by our present CoDgreis. We do not pre* tend to undoratand the details of the plan con ternplated, but enough may be gleaned from tbe operations of brokers and capitalists in Rich mond and elsewhere to induce the belie! that tbay are apprised of the general outline. A man oan cultivate anyone of his five senses until i's acateness is miraculous. He can expand one organ of the mind, though it be to the neglect and impoverishment of another, until his peroep* tion is quickened in this respect in a most won derful degree. So, we presume, tbe accomplished financier may attain a proficiency in hiß calling that will enable him to snuff coming events on finance and currency in the breeze. We will place this charitable construction on the knowl edge they seem to possess at this time, and, from their operations, draw an imaginary outline of the plan most likely to be adopted by Congress. We notioe among them a general desire for in vestment, and at enormous prices. This would seem to indicate that money will be taxed very high, and then a plan of compulsory funding introduced to retire all the outstanding circula tion not necessary for purposes of legitimate trade. Indeed, the whole of our present 4 circu lation may be retired and anew issue made which shall be a legal tender, or a provision in corporated on the faoe of each note that it shall be taken for taxes and public dues only at its current value. After this, a tax may be levied upon all other property, according to its ability to pay, to sup port the government in the future. When this plan is perfected we shall see grand and lofty tumbling in all commodities. A man who could sell his property to-day for SIOO,OOO, may not be able to realize more than half that amount in two months, and still be richer than to-day.— Persons who have been hoarding provisions will be oompelled to bring them to market to enable them to get money to pay high taies, and others be foroed even to stint themselves and servants to save a surplus for this purpose. Labor and board, and services of all description, will be re» duced in price, and economy, retrenchment and reform take tbe place of wild speculation and ex travagance. If the tax shall bear upon all, ac cording to their ability to pay, who oan com plain ? Tbo people owe this debt, and they have got it to pay. Government should always live off of its people, and not the people off of the government. What prudent man, in managing his private affairs, would let a large debt hang over him in tbe present depredated state of the ourrenoy, when he has ample means to pay ? Would not a prudent man encroach upon the corput of his estate to pay a debt now, rather than have it hang over him to pay it in specie after the war? The finanoial affairs of an indi vidual are but the finanoial affairs of a nation in epitome. Wore it not jhat the revulsion might be so sudden that a panic would ensue that might be ruinous to the oountry, we verily be lieve it would be economy to levy a tax high enough to pay up all we owo at this time, eveu if it took twenty por cent, of our capital; but as this is impracticable, let us tax and fund, and afterwards provide a means to pay or fund before isHuing, as we should have done from tbo be ginning of the government. Let tlyt tax be as high as we oan bear, and fund the balance. The cause of depreciation is redundancy and want of confidence. Would it increase our confidence in the ability of an indi vidual to pay, if he was worth SIO,OOO and had that amount of notes out drawing no interest, when he agreed voluntarily to take up his notes, bearing no interost, by substituting his notes drawing eight por cent. ? Would it increase our confidence in the ability of the Government to pay, when it takes up its notes bearing no inter est and substitutes eight percent, bonds ? Then tax as high as possible and fund as little. If the out my overruns the country you will have nothing left you, and if we succeed, which we think to be as ocrtain as that night shall succeed this day, we certainly will havo acted wisely. If the plan indicated is carried out in its full extent, the soldier can soon buy with his eleven dollars per month nearly as much as he oould buy with speoie; the indigent soldier’s family can buy nearly as much with the sixty dollars per head appropriated by the State to them, as they could with specie; and the detailed man, on his three dollars per day—which was a com petency at the time the law was made, but now amounts almost to starvation—can doie out a morsat of meat with the bresd upon which his family has been subsisting lor months. Perhaps new hope, confidence and energy will be given lo the country and our armies. These are days of sacrifices, and let us do our dnty like- men The man who has no higher motives oould well afford to pay the highest taxes, on the same principle that he would insure his property by paying a high premium. - wmm - t Kxtrsot from a Private Letter The enemy advanced on Gen. Longstreet’s forces on ihe 14th, declaring as they came along that they would drive Longstreot’s forces out of East Tennessee. They bad some reason for this boast, for our oavalry here is so mnefa in want of a dashing leader, that the Yankees by their frequent retreats had learned to believe that it was only necessary to unfuil the And stripes to secure an advanced position. This time, however, Gen. Longstreei plaoed his in/an. try in position and moved himself at the head of the cavalry skirmishers, infosing into them new life and spirit, and by his single presence’ giving to them confidence—the first element of victory. The “sangfroid*’ with which our chief se-, hi? old charger Hero, who has carried him unharmed through an hundred battles, the utter indifference with which they both listen to the music of min nie balls, impresses all around that both horse and rider bear a charmed life, and he would in deed be dead to the influence of example who did not feel nerved anew in his inspiring pres ence. The example was not without its effect for this time our cavalry drove the enemy finely] they managed once to get near enough to Jen kins (iato Hood’*) division, (in which, by the W»y, our 0 luinbus boys are to be found) to feel the shock of battle, but it lasted only for an in stant ; a round or two from our‘veteran soldiers uid the Federals tied in panic. Nothing saved them bat their lloetness, the deep snows and the bare feet of our suffering but gallant men. The infantry bad little chance to fight, not beißg armed with long range guns, the speed of ' the lacktc? ic ii made th.' space toogrc-.it to reach them, hut our cavalry are still after the matt- t cenary wretches, and will either catoh them i r drive them into Knoxville, where starvation will finish them unless they make a successful retreat from East Tennessee. Wo have taken some prisoners, leather, com missary stores, and other things as needful to them as ns. We remain masters of that portion ♦f East Tennessee capable of maintaining an army, and as tbe enemy came against us boast ing and vainglorious and have fled in indecent haste we may congratulate ourselves on an im portant though comparatively bloodless vie'ory. When history shall write the truth of LoDg street’s campaign in East : enuessee, its difficul ties, its importance, and its success, his qualities as a General will begin to be appreciated. (From tbe Chattanoogi (Marietta) Rebel.) The question is often asked, in reply to tbo theory entertained by many in the South, that a money panic in tbe North will bring this war to a dose, why the Northern government cannot stand hs heavy a depreciation in their currency as we have witnessed in ours. Any expreseions of hope based upon the continued and progress ive depreciation of greenbacks, or the advance in gold, whichever expression is preferred, is met with the declaration, that it will require a long , time for greenbacks at the present rate of de cline to fall as low as Confederate currency, and that as we are conducting all our business and prosecuting the war with a currency which bears a relative value to gold of twenty to one, the Northern government can do it also. This sort of an agreement is simply a jumping to the con clusion without investigating the facts. The situation and condition of the two nations is essentially different. The Northern government is prosecuting this war against us, while we are defending ourselves against its assaults. They can stop the war whenever they become weary of it, or become satisfied that it will not pay, while we have no alternative but resistance so long as they press upon us. Hence, it mast result that if we have not mo ney, we must supply its place as best we can. — The issues of the government were found to be the best and most reliable substitute, and they were adopted. It is not pertinent to the argu ment to say that on? finances have been badly managed and that our credit should have been kept at a higher point, for that is not the ques tion we are disoussing. The fact is patent that we adopted treasury notes as our circulating me dium, and that they have greatly depreciated.— The Federal credit has been better sustained in the face of greater expenditures, but there are many reasons for it. They were a commercial people which we wore not. A much larger pro portion of their capital was in ready money.— The trado of the world was open to them, and their vast agricultural riSourcos onabled them to sell for cash or its equivalent, while we were shut out ftom the world, our pbrts blockaded, with all that constituied capital, thrown idle upon our hands. We could not turn our capital into money and wore therefore driven to find a sub stitute fur money. That substitute, as we have explained, was the issuos of our treasury. With the people of tho North the case is en tirely different. In the first place, there is a largo portion of tho population who doubt both the propriety and feasibility of :his war—who were opposed to it in the firs> instance, and who do not sanction tho principles upon whiob it is conducted, or the objects for which it is waged. This olass is, as a matter of course, prepared to stop the war whenever a respectable pretext is presented. Secondly, the immense trade and commerce of the Northern States were readily absotbed with out inconvenience a much larger amount of tbe circulating medium than a nation of people, of even equal numbers situated as we are, could sustain at anything approximating par value.— But there is always a point at which the demands of a community for a paper currency are satis fied, and beyond which the business of the oountry cannot absorb at equivalent rates for gold and silver. Whowever that point is reached, every additional dollar of paper currency thrown upon the country, depfociaies tho wholo body of the circulation. Bo long as the issue is not in excess of the demand, there will bo but little differenoef between its current value and that of gold, and the depreciation is the test of the ex cess. Tho expenses of the Northern government are necessarily enormous, and are paid exclusively with greenbacks, and the rapid depreciation of this currency for the past few months is the very best evidence we could havo that the government has issued and is issuing more ihan the business of the country oan boar. Nor can this process of issue and depreciation Jbe arrested so long as the war continues, and tbe present monstrous ex penditures are persisted in. Consequently green backs must continue to go down until they reach a point when they will not be received in tho ordinary business of tbe country, andpbrn tbe finanoial bubble will burst, and the war will ne cessarily collapse. But we have not yet met the question why the Northern people will not continue the war, even though their currency should becomo as greatly depreciated as ours. Simply for the reason that they will have no desire to do it. Before that time arrives universal bankruptcy will haveswept over that nation and engulphed national and in dividual credit. Their immense,. Foreign trade can only be carried on through the agency of the precieus metals, and the cunency that will not prottire them will be rejected by every class of the community. If our premises are correct, the decline in value of the Federal currency will not only be conti nuous but accelerated,for the reason that public distrust will be continually increased, the cur rency wili be looked upon with each step in its downward progress with more and more c.on, untii, finally, the importer of merchandise will refuse it, tho merchant who buys from him will be compelled to do likewise, tbe laboring classes finding that it will not purchase the ne cessaries of life, will insist upon an equivalent for their labor, and the whole monetary system will be convulsed, ruin and bankruptcy will fol low, and then overwhelmed with their own trou bles, they will eea«e to trouble us. Thev will fiad that their iniquitous warfare upon us has reac od upon themselves, when they will no longer have the power, or it may be the disposition to conti nue it. Therefore, we say, that the higher the quotations for gold in the North, the nearer peace for us. Tbe Constitution, It is a source of distress and appiehen ion to thinking patriots to hear the flip pant ar.d reckless manner in which some persons talk of the violation of constitution al rights, the utter indifference which they express whether tho Constitution be viola ted or not, and their willingness to concur in any measure, whether it be constitutional or not, that promises some temporary ad vantage. This is the most foolish and desperate conduct that can be imagined. The Constitution ol the Confederate .States is tbe band that unites together these States in their confederate and foreign relations, and the Constitution of the Siato makes us one people within its limits. Take these away and we are resolved into an indis criminate, disoiganized mob, without law, order or national existence, each man for himself, until we becom- the vassels’of a more intelligent and better governed peo ple. Whenever Congress shall violate, palpably and designedly, any of the pros visions of the Constitution, and shall take measures to prevent the judiciary from sus» taming and enforcing it, the first step will have been taken to anarchy and ruin. How can intelligent statesmen expect the }>eople to respect, to obey and have confidence rn a government that itself violates the very fundamental law that ea is it into existence? It will never do to talk lightly of constitu tional obligations, as we hear some incon siderable persons doing- There is no meas ure ol temporary expediency that can compensate for a ruined constitution and violated public faith. History may furnish some examples where, in besieged cities or narrow provinces a suspension of civii law has been conducive to the public defence. But there is nothing that can join she scat tered inhabitants of this vast country into one united people except by the constitu tion which our Confederacy has been form ed. Take this away and the whole fabric falls to pieces. Lawlessness will become the order of thr> day, public faith will be destroyed and he will sink beneath the power of our organized enemies and pressure.—J Fioridi&u & Journal. Atrocities of the Enemy ,n North Ala bama. A Colonel, and for the last campaign, a brigade commander, furnishes the following facts, which stamp with eternal infamy the atrocious conduct of the enemy in North A About a twenty five Yankees, headed by one Ben Harris, atory from Madison coun ty, crossed the Tennessee river into Beach Island, and captured Benjamin Baden, an old man, his son, his nephew James Raden *nd his soil, and another man whose name i is forgotten —all private citizens —and shot j them, killing four dead, and threw them into the river, three of whose bodies were atterwards tound. The fifth caught hold of some bushes, when Harris ordered them to cut his bead off with their sabres, which they attempted, but could uot reach him; he then ordered them to knock his brains out with a fence rail, and lading in this, they fired two guns, and he dropped his head in the water as if dead, and the fiends, supposing him dead, departed. The same crowd went to the house of Madison Ritchie the conscripting officer, and took him out of his bed and drove him in front of them some two or three mites to Paint Rock river, and made him wade itt about raid way and shot him, putting seven balls through his body. These were all unoffen ding citizens. Benjamin Raden was an old man sixty three years old. Threy hung an overseer, who had for merly taken the oath to Lincoln, his sole offence consisting m assis'ing his employer to get his stock across the river. They put a notice on the tree that it would be death for any one to taks his body do wn. They went to P. Rallins, formerly a Cap tain in Col Hale’s regiment, who had re signed in consequence of ill health, and rob bed him of several thousand dollars—giv ing him ten minutes to cross tho Tennes see river, and threatening to hang him and< leave him hanging till the buzzards should pick his eyes out, if ho ever returned.— They have issued an order for all to take the oath, or leave their lines. Such are a few of the many atrocities these Yankee fiends—the representatives Sf “the best Goverpment the world ever saw,” are inflicting on the people of North Alabama.—[Richmond Whig. General Congress, Asa general Congress is shortly to be held its Europe, it is a subject of historical curiosity to look back and see when and on what occasions those convocations which have changed the inter national relations of Europe have been hold Tho approaching Congress promises to effect some important modifications of these relations. The first general Congress was that at which the trea ty of Westpblia (1643)became the public law of Europe. It composed the religious dissensions which, arising out of the Reformation, had torn and afflicted Europe for thirty years. It pro* duced this great change: tbe religious passions ceased to agitate Europe. The objects and oc casions of hostility became subsequently com - merce ani the extension of territory. The Congress that formed the treaty of Utrcoht (1713) was the next occasion of a great change. It closed the war of the Spanish succession, and restrained the ambition of Louis XIV, and made extensive changes in the territorial relations of Europe. Tho treaty of Paris (1763) was not productive of farther results thau the closo of the seven years'wa r , and no farther to affect tbe interna tional relations o! Europe than to confiim the claim of Prussia to the rank of a first rate pow er. The general Congress that made the settlement of 1815, upsetting ail the older Napoleon’s terri torial arrangements, was the most important after the treaty of Utrecht, in the annals of di plomacy. The relations towards each other of the States of Europe, as they stood before Bonaparte made tho changes that followed his triumphs, were not restorad to the condition in which they stood Lo foro the French revolution. New a jusiments were made. A different equilibrium was estab lished. Denmark was divested of Norway, and it was transferred to Sweden. The balance, conse quently, between tho Scandinavian Stales was destroyed. A republic, that of Warsaw, was es tablished in Poland, and the wrong done to that power by the partition partially redressed. Tho | German Confederation waj amended, with other ! changes which materially altered the territorial and other relations of the European States to< j wards each other. What wili he tho character of the changes i made, if any, by tho approaching Congress, it is j impossible to forecast. That Louis Napoleon i contemplates some important modifications of | that settlement, is highly probable. He has summoned ail the States of Europe, large and | small, to participate in its deliberations, llis g6nius in diplomacy will be largely exercised on S that occasion. All, it is said,Tavo consented to attend, except Great Britain. That new compli cations will arise, we think highly probable, and the ostensible object appearing to i>e appeasing passions that threaten to kindle anew conflagra tion, may not only be accomplished, but fresh fuel added to the smouldering tires—[Confede racy. We copy thf' conclusion ol a communica tion in the Houston Telegraph from an old veteran of ’36. 1 want fifty men, such as I can pick to begin with, and permission to raise it to one hundred and fifty; and of such men as I may accept, I want devil-daring God fearing men—men who will never ask quar ter nor take a prisoner—men who will ever hold inviolate the purity of woman, be she friend or foe—men who arewiiling to dance to any music the enemy may be pleased to play—in short, men who ate willing to serve only under a “black Hag.” And may our God give victory tu the just. Amen and amen. W. H. Heard, alias “Old Red,’’ Sharp.-—The Mississippian is responsible for the annexed sharp and truthful state ment of facts: “It is said that there are only three ways to get ouf of a quarrel-—fight out, write out or hack ouf; but the safer mode is to keep out. By the same four ways, also, a man may get out of the army. Tim soldiers fight out, the editors write out, the substi* lute buyers back out, and the members of Congress keep out.” Where the Whiskey Comes From Many persona have been puzzled to kDow where the Whiskey, which is to be found in every little town and village comes from. The Rich mond Enquirer throws light upon the subject.— It says : Tho Confederate Government has given cou« tract? for the production, on its account of “proof whi key, to numerous parties, varying in extent to from live to fifty thousand gallons per contract. In some instances these contracts arc still unfilled, although the parties have power to “impress grain for the purpose,” and have beau steadily engaged in the production of whiskey from ths date of their contracts. And the secret is this : the contract calls for “prooi” whiskey, and if the whiskey is not “proof” it is condemned and thrown back upon the distiller’s hands—that i? to say, right on the whiskey market, where he wants it tube. The go-’erntneat pays from two to three dollars per gallon for “proof” by the contract ; the market pays from twenty-five to eighty, whether proof or not. A lady sends the following rejoinder to the want “for women with babies to travel:” Wanted —Five thousand men (princi pally the brass buttoned gentry and specu lation civilians) to travel on all Southern railroads—to occupy he ladies’ car—spit over the floor and render it unfit for the occupattev of ladies. For further parficn fare, apply to the wives of true soldiers, who find traveling necessary to transact the business with which their husbands’ab-» oence necessarily enciynbers them, a?^3X."RGhR-AuI > i3;iO REPORTS (*F THE PBBSB ASSOCIATION. Entered according to act of Congress to the year 1&53. by J. S. Thrashes, in the Clerk • offlee of the Dis trict Conrt of the Confederate States for the Noi t hern IJietrct of Georgia. • Charleston, Feb. 2. Tfee enemy have discontinued firing on Sumter. 136 shots have been fired at the city wince the last report up to 5 o'olock this evening. The sieamor Presto, Capt. Hcrrey, trout Nasssu, 29th, in attempting to run in about 2 o'clock this morning, got ashore off Sullivan’s Islam' and remailred immovab.e. Most of the cargo, which was on Government acount has been saved in good condition. The ene my opened heavy fire on the steamer at day light, and continued all day. It is thought the vessel will be a total wrecl^ Orange C. H., Feb. 1. The enemy’s cavalry, guided by a man uamed Robinson, dashed across Robinson river early Sunday morning and captured smo or our pick-ts. After vid ing Madison C. H., and capturing the contents, they made their way to Culpepper county. The enemy have been busy scouting and changing canp dur ing the past week. Gen. Breckinridge arrived here to-day. He is the guest of Gen. Lee. Richmond, Feb. 1. This evening the jury gavo in a verdict in the case of Forde as guilty o*f murder in the second degree, and fixed the punishment at IS years in the penitentiary, being the full ex* tent of the law in this State for the offence of which he was found guilty. His counsel have v.akeu steps to carry the case before a' Court of Appeal. Dalton, Feb. 2. Official information was received here to day that 6,000 ol Sherman’s corps, chiefly in fantry, and some cavalry and artillery, crossed the Teuuessee river on Jan. 29th and 30th,at Larkin’s landing, midway between Gunter ville and Bellefoute. It is presumed the ob ject in to establish a depot of supplies for future transactions. Mobilf, Feb. 2. A special to the Mobile Register & Adver tiserfrom Como, Ist, says Col. James Mc- Guirb,ofthe 3d Mississippi cavalry, entered yesterday, and occupies it now. — No Federals nearer than Georgetown. Mobile, Feb 2d Special to the Register & Advertiser.—Como, 2d.—27 transports in a!!, averaging 6,800 each, have passed down. Enormous three*tieroe gunboats passed down on the 29th. Clinton, Miss., Feb. 2d. Enthusiastic meetings going on in Jackson’s cavalry on re-enlisting for the war. Morristown, Feb. Ist. Perfect dearth of news here. Situation un changed. Richmond, Feb. 2. The Hotiso went finto secret sesaion a few moments after assembling and remained in se cret all day. Nothing of importance transpired in open session in the Senate. Orangb, C. H,, Fek 2d. Reports received here this evening from sev« eial sources state that Eearly has captured a force of Yankees at Petersburg, Hardy Va., estimated at 300. Tlie Country Running Into Barbarism “Under the above caption the New York Herald has a lengthy artieie on the war, from which we exlraot the subjoined : ♦ The war originated with Abolitionists, who hold that all slaveholders should be killed—and radicals in the south retaliated by banging sun dry Abolitionists. Small fractions in both sec tions fanned the flame of civil discord until it has reached its present tremendous proportions and ferocious concomitants. The system of slavery may not bo the best for the purpose In tended—thoj agricultural development of the south—and other might be substituted with advantage in some communities. Bat it is a matter that belongs to those States and com munition alone. The North has nothing to do with if, muoh less to rai3o a bloody hand either to destroy or propagate it. The radical abo» lition prints of the North aver that the rebel chiefs have determined to murder the officers and kill jho privates in our colored regiments. Our chiefs retort by stopping the exchange of prisoners and, hundreds of our fellows languish and die of and disease in the loath some prisocj'houses of the enemy. Horrors multiply up jm horrors; and retaliation upon re taliation. ifroiu one radical correspondent we learn that oj.ir noble dead remain unburied on tba field of t'hickamauga ; that they lie where they fell, ajppalmg and ghastly objects; that birds of prey settle upon the field, and swine fat ten their way through the fallen ranks of glory ! We repeat, the war is fast the shape of the wars of the dark ages, during the periods of frenzied religious zeal and that the country is rapidly running into a state of barbarism." A Yankee Camp. —A Vioksburg correspond dent writes: _ -Any cno who looks at a map of Mississippi river, can notice, just below Vicksburg, an im mense bend, enclosing a spice of the shape of a horse shoe, with the heels pinched close together. Government has taken possession of the property to establish a oamp for the collection and employ ment of degrees. At the neck of the penii.suia, less than a mile across, an entrenchment will be thrown up and a suitable guard of negro troops will bo k:pt to defend the place againrt guer illas. The Gulp Stream and Cold Weather.— The Boston Courier has the following item : A sea captain of forty years experience, lately arrived, asserts that the Gulf Stream ia several hundred msloa nearer our ooa-:t than usual, and predicts a warm winter in New England, but not at the South, ia consequence. The statement draws support from our iate very warm sou'beast wind, and still more from the unusually norther ly currents, which have caused so much trouble lately.c ft Newfoundland. Sensible. —We take up from our pile of ex changes, which is small to-day, six prominent newspapers, one after another, and find them ail destitute of what is called a leading editorial ar« tide.—[Atlanta ll^g. Avery se nsijble omission, if not too frequent. The old notion that every issue ofa paper miyit have a ‘leader,* is ridiculous and extravagant, unless by ‘leaders' we intended complications and mechanical compends. No daily paper that does not employ at least a half a dozen writer? in doors can be expected to furnish a good original leader evt ry day, and the effortto do so has on ly impaired and corrupted editorial utteranca and introduced muejh of the slip shod writing agaiust space and time, and the excessive exhibition of adjective epithets and phrases of circumlocution which have marred the columns of journal ism. No matter hoyr ably a journal was edited, its readers will desire to see selections from other journals. The amount or quantity of editorial and apparently original matter, is no test of a journal. On the other hand, journalism should be estimated by the quantity and tone of the ed itorials. the labor and discrimination, and appre ciation of variety exhibited in selections, and the matter that is kept out. Much of the labor de voted to compiling police reports and other state ments calculated, it not intended, to make crime familiar or an occasion for laughter, is worse than wasted. It is positively demoralizing to the wr, er and readers. The best simple rule for the a 1.-derate press is to be as little as possible like the reigning journals of Yankeedom. [Ch. Courier. Local. WANTED, Two intelligent boys who ean read writing, at the Telegraph offioe. Apply immediately. Febl—d3t. _ For Chattaheoelice The stt atner Jackson, Csptain Fiy. wilt leave for the above and intermediate landings WEDNESDAY morning at 9 o’clock. feb2 id The Ladies of ihe Soldiets' Friend Society desire to exchange Bhecing tor blankets, to be given to the soldiers. They give fifieen yards of sheeting, or osnaburgs, or if preferred, all the materials for mak ing a quilt, for a rood blanket. Bring or send your blankets, all who cm spare them, to the Soldiers’ Home, every Tuesday morning. The Ladies are now engaged in col'ecting supp’ies for boxes to be sent to Gen. Longstrcet’s corps. E. P. C. Pres. Soldi-rs’ Friend Society. Yesterday was as calm and bright and beau tiful as the smile of a charming maiden. We trust it was but the precursor of a long race of ‘•sioh.” New Advertisements. Mr; J. McCarthy has a house girl to hire.— Read his advertizsment. The Planters’ Warehouse propose to exchange plantation iron for corn, wheal, bacon or lard. See advertizement in another column ol three fine cows for sale. Capt. Wallace gives notice that no furthe r recruiting will be allowed in this ifistriot. All persons liable to oonscription are required to re port to the Camp of Instruction at Maoon. Any officer violating these orders will be arrested and sent to camps. All interested will therefore take due notice and govern themselves accordingly. Remember tlte Soldier. Remember the Soldier ! Far away ftom home and the associations of his dear wife and tender babes, he has much to dishearten and discour age him, many hours of despondency, as he broods over the hardness of his soldier lot. How he longs for the dear sympathy of wife and children, and the friends of home. He often has to bear the pains Si hunger, the fatigue of long and weary marches, the blighting frosts o l winter, and the scorching heat of summer. We at home, who know eomparatively little of the horrors of war, should do all in our power to make his lot comfortable. Remember the sol dier with your money. Remember the soldier in love. He is entitled to your love. He has bourn the burden and heat of the day for your sake. He has sacrificed the comforts of home and the privileges of citizen ship, as well as property, health, perhaps limb, for the purpose'of securing to yon all that is dear to you as American citizens. Will you lightly esteem his sacrifices. No. Rather prove to him by all the kindly office- in your power, that .you appreciate his services, and that yon cannot love him too much for the heroism he has dis played. Remember the soldier in gratitude. Gratitude is one of the highest and holiest principles of the human heart. It is based on a sense of obliga tion to another for favors bestowed. How much are you indebted to the soldier for all the bles sings and privileges you now enjoy. He has stood as a wall of defense betweon you and the most infamous foe that ever disgraced the earth in the records of infamy, shame and violonee. If you now fail to accord to him meed of gratitude you are unworthy the high prerogatives of the free, and should fall a prey to the avarice, the cruel hate and violence of the destroyer. Remember tho soldier in your prayers, Shut without the pale of religious privilege and en joyment, he is constantly exposed to the demor alization of camp life, liable to have his ideas of moral principle and religious virtue subvert ed, and by the constant presence of death, is in danger of losing his soul. All the other evils of’war sink into utter insignificanco in comparison to this. The din of battle, the thunder of the cannon, tho lurid glare of exploding sheila, the clash of bayonets, tho volleys of musketry, although pregnant with awful sublimity, are as but dust in the balance in comparison to the is sues of tho boundless eternity which lies just ahead. The death of the body is nothing to the loss of the soul. Therefore;'pray for the soldier, write him good letters, send him good papers and books, supply him with your best ministers, and let him feel that you have proper regard both for his body and soul. Local Scintillations. I- takt.' ", great deal more of true courage to act right t-an to storm a battery. While the mere anic 1 iustincts may prompt the latter, there is a >■ -al power and heroigm in the form er that is reo y sublime. Ciree possessed the power to transform men into hogs. To accomplish this in these days, thero would bo very little transformation neoes sary vn the case of many men. The best informed peop’o now-a-days are those who take the papers, read them carefully, and pay the printer. Those who are always entertaining fears of being hung, can easily elude the hangman by taking time by the forelock, and drowning them selves. The largest family in the world is the family of fools. They seem to propogate faster and live longer than any other class. Our devil who has recently been jilted, has bad his future life embittered as will be seen from the following proverbs, which he gets off: A lovely woman is like one of old Cyclop's Syrens—there’s musio on htr tongue, but deceit and death in her heart. It is better to eat grass ir. an open field like an ox, than to eat ihe bread of sorrow io a log cab in, under the influence of Candle lectures and the terrors of the broom-stick. There’s joy in the Bunabine and honey in the dew; But to marry ascoldiEg wife, nary a time I’ll do. A poor man is as good as a rich dog, provided he behave? himself; while a brainless fool, with plenty of oash, ia quickly gobbled by the dwell ers in hoop skirts. ‘ Mother, I shouldn’t be surprised if Susan gets choked some day*" “Why, my son ?" “Because John Wipsy twisted his arms around her neck the other night, and if she had not kissed him to let go, he would have strangled Drinking may not affect a man’s standing in the community, but it often ,ffecis his standing on the pavement. - “ J l ?\?* T ! iD e tOD commends- Prince Albert Green? I** 1 ** tohiS natlVelle » and rejecting foreign If the ant gives an example of industry, it is much more than a good many unmes do. Ex-Governor R F W Aliston, of South Carolina, has presented a hand-orne thor oughbred cavalry horse for the use of Gen Morgan, or of any t ffieer of his command whom he may designate. Amende Honorable —The boy who had the conscience to charge us for a match the other day yesterday gave us a cigar to drop the subject! So we have n<» further reflections to make on that gentleman’s character. We have no doubt he’s honest, as we never had any evidence of hi* stealing anything larger than an elephant. The Aimy of the Ocmnigee was discharged from service last Saturday and £ marched out of their camp with all the honors ot war. Al though their winter’s campaign has not been marked by enterprise.-, of pith and moment, we have no doubt they have done the duties as signed them just a8 well as veterans would have done. What is the greatest waste of war? H u . man health ? That is a sad waste of life? That is the saddest of all. Money? Tho waste C ‘ money is some if not more. But the greatest waste of war is wa?tc of time and the army 0 f the Ocmulgee have been illustrating it.—[Macon Telegraph, The Army of the Chattahoochee will be mus tered out of service in a low days. Then wake up substitutes. Advantages of Female Conversation —Talk to women, talk to women as much as you can. This is the best school. This is the way to gain fluency. They, too, will rally vou on many points, and, aMhey are women, you will not be offeuded, Nothing is < f so much importance, and of so much to a young man entering life, as to he well criticised by women. It is impossible to get rid ol those thousand bad habits which we pick up in boyhood without this supervisi ni. Unfortunately you may have no sisters. But never be offended if& woman rally you. Encourage her. Other wise you will never be free trom your awU wardness, or any little oddities, and will certainly neyer learn to dress. To Hire, A House girl. Apply to >ieb s 4l * j. McCarty. HD QRS ENROLLING OFFICE, 3d Congressional District, ■ February 2d, 1864. Notice is hereby given to all Recruiting Oilicera in this District that they are not allowed to receive any one as a recruit be tween the ages of 18 and 45 years. Every man subject to conscription must go to Camps ol Instruction lor assignment by Maj. Harris. Any officer violating this order will be arrested and sent to Macon, Ga. VV. S. WALLACE, Capt. and Enrolling Officer. Feb 3 lot Enquirer copy. Administrator’s Sale. B'tvSw ,°V an 0 der ff , om tbc ®ourt of Ordinary ol Taylor County, will bo sold before the Coui. noitse door of sam county, on tlte fir.t Tuesday in iffr?BOV| W) i t lln 1 ° legl J houra of safe, * valuable negro RO\ by tne name ot Jacob, sixteen years old the properly of The estate of Jambs Montgomery dec’d ftbMM gorge 11. DAVI« Acmr, PLANTATION IRON WILL be exchanged for Corn. Wheat, Bacon ot Laid,at PLANTER'S WAREHOUSE laoiumbus, Ga., Feb. 3d, lw C 03STCERT. ~ 5jU BCOiUimV. CHASE, „‘f !Wl Xf-B. Od., Colquitt h Brigade.would respecttuliy an by Beverai hu-dea and gentlemen of ilie city, be wiu give a Con.ert ior" the benefit of his regiment on 01 Thursday Evening, 4th of February Tickeu can be had at Mr. Spear’s Jewelry Store, for sale. Sj a! n v i.V' UCLE CAdE gold watches. leli 1 il 1 K * STANFORD FOR SALE r P i i“ G ,S sin s <;ovvs with young Calves. One ,i«™ aa d seven pigs. Also a sprightly negro boy, 1 1 years old, to hite, Apply at letl a 11 THIS OFFICE, AUCTION SALES. By ELLIS, LIVINGSTON & CO. ON THURSDAY, 4ih February, at 11 o’clock we wit; sell in from of our store, A Fine Military Suit OF CRENSHAW CASSIMGRE, light blue frock s?x feeUugh. 18 ' nol made cul f - r » man about leu 3 ids * #3 By ELLIS, LIVINGSTON &Tco^ (\N THURSDAY 9th of February, at 11 o’clock \J we win sell m from of our store, 9 ELEGANT AND NEARLY NEW VELVET Ta EsTR\ CaRpeTS; fitting rooms 18 by SO feet. ALSO, A VEFY L KELY Ni GROBOY; 2? vears old for kIUU ° f Vt:r y intelligent. Bold 41 boxes Tobacco, 9 ooxes Choice Sugar. _ Feb 1 tda 850 By ELLIS, LIVINGSTON & CO. Valuable Plantation at Auction. ON Tuesday, the 9ih February, at II o’clock w will selj in from of our Store— Clock, we desirable location tom erlv ownpil hv ind s ro Z",i%Tc d Tl?"‘ ; 3 *°" h d *- of water and two very bold S h , ! d \.& ood well of water at conv, VoT. P"*'* tf.e plantation. Within one mile of!?, 5 r‘ er ■° n e 7e'ii-V“& ••»“«*“y **■ VMuSf’ * By ELLIS, LI VINGSTON & CO. o'clock we wiri ben in front u> our htorc, (tb'i e -Sl f,ne 8°4 t 0 Bugey and llarnfeßa - By ELLIS, LIVINGSTON & CO. Desirable Residence and Farm AT AUCTION. we 303 3-4 Acres Land, 4 miles East of vvoous ' 90 ™ *5 «,.?h thP P re ("ises ii agoed dwelling 6 room* closets jun 59 td 833 By ELLIS, LIVINGSTON efr CO. Admicistrator’s Sale OF VALUABLE CITY PROPERTY ()*snTd 'ESI>A\.February 9th, at 11 o'clock, will be room WU f ulot EU.S, Livingston & Co’s, auction The Store House, No. 36, situated on the east side of Broad greet, at present occupied by the Confederate stales (lolling Depart ment. Sold as the property of John Warren dec’d „„ - JAS W. wakren. * ( Jan 56id 828 *► Adoi’r. WAi¥TJED I*'Sf bli ‘ lfe of J*e year a healthy negro W'O- I MAN accustomed to farm work, without huuiu. T,rm.ee Apply at THIS OFFICE