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Volume XI.
4 HANCJE OF SCHEDULE.
MUSCOGEE RaH. ROAD, )
Sitperinteßtleiii’B o#c«, >
Columbus, Dec. 3il, 1863, J
iN -iiul ..ft r Dec nth tlie Mail Train on thHßoaii
' ' will nut as follow* :
In avr CuhlmbUß ..7:45, P. M.
Macon.. 6:30, P. M.
Ar.ivcat Macon 4:18, A. M.
Arrive at C ilumbiH 3 a.M.
Patßenpers can now go Hi rough to Charleston, via
Hkvannah, without delay, an the Mail -Train on the
Charleston and Savannah itarlroad makes close con
nection with the Central Railroad at Havahnuh
W, L. CI.AUK,
Hupt. Muscogee R. R.
Dec 4 if
Change of Schedule.
ON AND AFTER December 6th, the Passenger
Irani on the Montgomery 4* West Point Railtoud
will
Leave Montgomery at 10.30 A. M
“ West Point, . 3,30 P.M.
Arrive at Columbus, 7,10 j* m
Leave Columbus 230 A M
Ariive at Montgomery 11,37 a M
” “ West Point .7,50 A M
Making through connoctions to an t from Atlanta.
Freight leaves Columbus ......8,40 A, M.
“ arrives at Columbus,... 8,00 P. M,
|i>. 11. CRAM,
Dec 4 If Bupl. A Cngr,
Administrator’s Sale.
BY virtue of an order from the Court of Ordinary of
Taylor County, will be sold before the Court
House door of said county, on the first .Tuesday in
March next, within tne leg.l hours of sale, a valuable
negro ROY by tbe name of Jacob, sixteen years old,
the property of the estate of James Montgomery, d.-.’d
**sss GORGE 11. DAVIS,
teb.3 40d ______ _ Aiim’r.
Estray Notice.
DICKENS McCOY, ot the 77Jd District G. M.
iratiHtni s to me the following certificate of and
Lwir.iy Yoke of Oxen: «'ll: a red and while color,
ami the other a while andbriudle color; maiktd with
11 sinomui rop and underbii in both years. Al>"Ut
four years old. Apprai ed by A. and. Boydin and do
bt-ph I awson Riggers, freeholders of said conniy an-
Uo.ltiri 10 be wortii four hundred dolllais,
A tiue exuact from Hie estray hook, tiiis the 28th
ol Decent!>er, 1863. A. P JoNE-t,
Ja»4—wOUd Clerk. I C.
Astray Notice.
JONATIIAN ENGLISH, of the 773d District G. M.,
transmits to me the following certificate of an
• stray steer: A deep red color, supposed to ho 3or 4
years old, matked with a crop un i undertm in the
iigntear, und underbit and split in the left. Appraised
l>y James Cooperand Jeremiah Cat Hedge, fieeiolilers,
10 i.e worth one hundred dollars.
A true exiract from the Estiay Book this 30th Jails
nary, 861. A.P. JONES, th’kl.C.
febl-if
UEORGIA- Marlon County t
1' WO months after dale application will be made to
the « ouri ot Ordinay of Marion county tor leave
to sol: a p -riion of the negroes belonging to the estate
ol c. w. Ross, deceased.
ARMtNLA P. ROSS,
•Declith, 18i3. 3rn Adm’x.
Notice to debtors and cheditors^ar
peisons having claims against the estate of Win
.1 Patterson, dee’d, are hereby notified to present
them within ttie timepresoihmal by law, and oh per
sons indebted to said estate are requested to matte
immediate payment. m’x
HENRIETTA A. PATTERSON, Ad
December 18— w6t
Notice to Debtors and Creditors
ALL persons having claims against the estate o
John A. Jones, dece oed, are her. by noiilied to
present tin m only auiheii'iculeti within the time pre
eenbed by law, and all persons indebted to said es
*tate are reum sled to make immediate payment.
MARY L. JOiMKB,
<jer 4 _tu Adin'rx.
AD fill NISTR ATOR’S SALE.
AGREEABLY to an order ofthe Couit ol Oidinuty
ot Blew art County, will be sold within the legal
bouts of-ale before the Court House door in the town
of Lumpkin, on the first Tuesday in March next.
-Hoplhe” a negro woman 33 years old and her child
4 years of «g«* teloigtng to ills estate of Busan Yar
biougli, deceased.
Terms cash, BARAH DENNARI),
jan 33 td Adin'x.
UEOKUIA—MarIon county:
RULL NISI. Whereas Carrie James, Adm’rx on
the estate of Daniel James, Jr., having petitioned
this Court for lettetß of dismission hum said Admin
iatration.
These are tlierefore to cite and admontsh all an
singular the kindred ami creditors of said deceased to
be and appear at my office within the tune prescribed
by law, and show cause it any they have, why said
Adiiiinisiiutrjx should not be I'ismiSKed from said
Adiuidlstiation on the first Monday m July 1864.
Given under my hand ami otficial signature, this
December tbe 7th, 1863. M A LOOM II AIR,
Dec 14 m(im Ordinary.
DKOKtilA—Marlon County
RULE NlSl.—Whereas, M- Butt and William M
But, Administrate: s upon the estate ofEidridee
C. Butt, dec’d, having applied lor letters of Dianna
btoii trout said Administration —These are therelote
to cite amt admonish ah ami siuituiarthe kindred and
creditois ot said deceased to show cause, if any they
have, why said applicant should not be dismissed
from said Administration.
Given under my hand and ofiicial signature, Sep
teinber2d, 1863, MALCOiU HAIR,
sept 7, 1116111. Ordinary.
GEORtiH—Marion County:
WHEREAS, Joseph Belle having applied for let
tersof Adminstration upon the estate of Zac.tia«
riah Belk, deceased,
Thete are there lore to cite and admonish all and
singuiur tiie kindred and creditors of said deceased
to he and appear at my odice within the time pie’
scribed by law, to show lau e if any they have why
laid letters 01 administration should not lie granted 10
said applicant, cn the 2nd Monday in January m v.
Given umii rmy hand and ollicial signature, Nov
S4ih, 4863, MAi.COM HA IK.
W 4‘». Ordinary.
GEORGIA Marlon Oounty:
mWO monihs afrerdate application will be made to
X the 1 on it of Ordinary of said county, fm eave to
sell the negroes belonging to the estate ol i’ol aid
J Payne deci aaed. Dec. 7ili. 1863.
WM Payne, )
Henry Payne, > Exec’ira.
PoLi.AUii .1. Payne, )
Dec 11 2 m
UKOUUla—Marlon County t
RU LE NlSl—Whereas. Aniandt L. Catile, Ad"
niiuisuairix upon the Estate of David 1.. Mtury,
ite;ea-ed, having app.ied for letters of dismission
from said Administration
Those a>e therefore to ri e and admonish all and
singular, the kn dred an I'i.reditors of said deceased
to allow <e<ns-', .( any they have why said Adimnis
trains should not be dismissed from saul adminisnu
t ion.
Given inn er my hand and official signature. Oc
tohrr&ih, 1"65. MAI.COM 11 A1 it,
dec 1* mten Ordinary.
UKOUCIA- .Hurloh County.
W' HEREAH M. A. E. Mayo having petitioned
this Court tor letters ol Administratioir upon
the estate ol'G W- Hillman deceased.
These ;i e tie to fore to cite and at m mish all and
gular the kitidr* and and creditors of s id deceased to
sinand appear at icy office, within the time prescribed
be law, ami show cause if any they have, why said
admintslintion * n the estate of sad deceased should
not be issued to the applicant on the first Monday
in Fe iruaiv.oievl
Given under my hand and official aignamre, iVc
17th, 186'. MAI.COM 11A Hi.
lice 29 40<l Ordinary.
GEORGIA MARION COUNTV.
WIIEttFAS, W B Walk* r having petitioned this
Court for lettera of Adtnini traturtr upon tie
estate of Sarah Parker t deceased.
• These are thetefate to cite and admonish all and
singular tin' kindred and credit* rs ot said dec* used to
show cause, it any they have, within the rime pre
scribed t y law, why saiu letters ot Administration
upon sain « state, slion and not i e granted to s *td appli
cant on the Ist Monday m February |n>4.
Given inn er my hand aid otlic.isl s gtiatuie. Dec.
19th, D63. MALCuM 11A IK,
dec2S4od Ordinary.
GEORGIA Harlow County.
WHERE A 4 B. A. Starv, Adurinist'&tor upon the
esint** of Josap N.S*-ry, late of said county,
deceased,! having applied f.r letters of Dismission
from sa*d administration.
These are there ore to cite and admonish all and
•iii'mlar the kindred and r». dltors of said deeesaed,
to he and appear at my office within the time pre
scribed by aw to show catt'<\ ifany the, have, why
said letters of ilismi siow should not be gra aed
to said applicant on the first Monday it Octobor next.
Given uiulet my hand and official signature, Jan.
S3d, lsC4 MAI.COM HAIR.
Jan. V 5 mi.oi (tulle*Ty
PLANTATION IRON
XX7ILL be exchanged for Corn, Wheat, Bacon or
V a,d *i! 1 plant, it s warehouse.
Columbus, Ua., Feb. 3d, !w
ioliwlis jjulw- mm
SPECIAL NOTICES
HDQRS ENROLLING J
3D CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT, >
February 2d, 1864. )
Notice is hereby given to all Recruiting
Officers in this District that they 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 of Instruction tor assignment by
Maj. Harris.
Any officer violating this order will be
arrested and sent to Macon, Ga.
W.S. WALLACE,
Capt. and Enrolling Officer.
Feb 3 lOt
Enquirer copy.
Lumber.
Proposals for supplying the city with lumber for
the present year ate invited, the same to be delivered
in the city.
The party to whom the contract may be awarded
will be required to give bond with aecutily lor tbe
faithful perlotmanceof the contract.
Bids irusl be sent in by Monday. Bth inst., and ad
dress,d to M. M. Mooie, City Clerk.
By order or Council.
W. 11. GRISWOLD,
Chairman Contract Committeer
Feb 4 id
Notice.
HEADQUARTERS POST, )
Columbus, Ga., Jan. 27,1864. J
GENERAL ORDERS, No. 6.
I All oflicets or soldiers remaining m Columbus
over 12 bouts will require a pass from these Head
quarters.
11. All persons between tbe ages of 18 and 45 years
visiting Columbus (Officers of the Navy and Army
stationed at this 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 charged with.thc exami
nation of passes.
111. Officers and soldiers abse.it from their com
mands, or citit.zens claiming exemption by virtue of
contracts or otherwise, will save themselves annoy
ance by immediately procuring the required p .ss.
By order of Col. "ROBERTSON.
CHAS. WOOD, A. A. G.
jan 3!) if
NOTICE.
QUARTERMASTER'S OFFICE, I
Columbus, January ’.7, 1864. - J
On the first of each month, Major J no. _E. 'Davis
Po t Quditeiinasti r, will make payment to all employ
ees department. Also to owners of slaves
hired, and for property rented. Parties interested will
picsent their bills to Major Davis monthly.
The emplo e t a of the Tran-poriation Department
will be paid by Capt. If. D. Cothtan. All purchases
of supplies and pay meals therefor will be made by
myself, F. W. DILLARD,
Major and Quartermaster,
jan 29 ts
Shipping Notice.
MUBCOGEE RAIL Road, )
Boperintenoent’s Offig-k, >
Columbus, Deo. 23d, ’63. )
Owing to the want of sufficient transportation Jor
Government, frtight, private freight will not be received
at this depot until further notice.
W. L. CLARK,
Dec 23 ts Bupt.
Notice
Tlty Citizens of Harris County are requested to
meet ’.he first Tuesday fit February n«xt, (2d mat,) at
Hamiiton fjr the purpose of meeliug the Commissary
ol tiiis Department, that we may arrange in reference
to sub-iisteiice for the army from your county.
Let every citizens of II r<is who feels an interest in
his country be piesent.
GEO. 11. BRYANT,
W. C. JOHNSON,
J. M. MOBLEY,
J. M, RAMSEY,
11. W. PITTB,
jan 22_td_ _ A. T. BROOKS.
Wanted
*YA ABLE-BODIED negro men for Teamsters on
ZU Government Drays.
11. D. COTHRAN,
jav 14—ts Capt. A A.Q. M.
MediealjCard.
K. A. BOSSY, ill. IK,
OF NEIV ORLEANS,
TENDERS his services to the cit zens of Columbus
111 all the branches of his profession.
[£7“ Bse i.»l attention,as in New Orleans, will be
devoted to Surgery, and to the treatment of the !>•*»
i:a4t: peculiar to Females.
Patients from a distance requiring Surgical or Mn-’i
cal treatment will be visited and tieatinent at hone •
dcsiied.
Office, No. 140, in the Masonic, flail, UP STAIIO
dec 13 U
COLUMBUS
MGIS« ESTABLISHMENT !
fjMIE SUBSCRIBERS having perfected their ar-
X ra ngeineats, are now prepared to do all kinds of
DYING in
Silk, Wool and Colton.
Dye House on south-west corner of Bridge and
Oglethorpe streets. Ordets iett at the office oi the
Southern Express will meet with prompt attention
Parties urn in the country can send any article by Ex
press. Address
* OIGIIT St IIII.L
Nov 19 3in. _
COLUMBUS GLUE
AND
PiilNTEll’S COMPOSITION
MX^IIIAi/iOKY.
lli E wi*h to inform our fiiends and the public in
If general that theabuve busieess wdl hereafter be
conducted under the name and style of
ZORKOWSKY & CO.
Dry Glue always on hand. Orders_filh and promptly,
jatt s—l in
LA W AND COLI.KCTiON OFFICE.
IVL. T. HUGHES.
Attorney at Law and Notary,
RICHMOND, VA.
Claims of every description against the Confederate
States rattled with accuracy and dispatch. Legal
business will recetye prompt attention. augl2 ly
Old Iron Wanted.
WE wish to puichase a large quantity of SCRAP
IRON, both cast and wr*>ugh<, far which cash
will be paid. HARRISON, UEUELL & CO.
j in ‘.7 if
320 or 640 Acres of Land for Sale.
I oiler for sale the ttact known as the M«rcer place,
about l\4 miles from station No, 5, ot -be Mobile
a Girard It R. It coni.ins 320 acres, ISJ ot which
is in cultivation, the balance timhei*d land. There
are cabins f.r about 30 negroes, gin house, stables,
J[ r., two well? nf good water and a la*ge quantity of
light wood convenient to the R. R. The other half
of the section, all heavily tyubered will ba sold if de
sired by the purch user. Apply to Greenwood St
Gray, Columbus, Ga., for tenus. Mr Mercer on the
place will show it to any one wish tig to see it.
1> C. FREEMAN. Jr.
Hun Copy, jan 12 ___
To Hire.
A HOUSE GIRL Apply to
fob 3 At* j. McCarty.
Columbus, Georgia, C. S„ Wednesday February 10, 1864
ADJ'Tft INSP’R GENL’B OFPICE, )
Richmond, V*~
[GENERAL ORDERS, No 2.}
The following order ia published for the informa
lion ol all concerned :
Confederate Btatfs of America, >
War Department, Ricnmoud, Feb. i, ’64. J
EXCHANGE NOTICE—No. 3.
1. All prisoners heretofore held by the United
States.’ authorities, whether offlenrs, soldiers or civi
lians, recived at City Point, before the Ist of January
1864, arelhereby declared exchanged.
2- All officers and men of the Vicksburg captured
who reported for duty at Enterprise, .Miss, at any
lime prior to the 14th ot November, 1863, and whose
names were forwarded to me by Maj. Gen. John M
Forney, are declared exchanged.
3. All officers and men ofthe Vicksburg capture
belonging to the Ist Tennessee Heavy Artillery
who reported for( duty at Marietta, Ga., and whose
names were forwarded to me by Col. A. Jackso i,
arc declared exchanged.
RO. OULD,
Agent of Exchange.
By order.
(Signed) s, COOPER,
Adjutant and Inspector General.
feb B —lw
Notice.
LIEUT WALL is hereby ordered to arrest all
members of the 3d Georgia Cavalry, absent from their
commands without leave. He will be assisted in
making such arrests.by the Provost Guard. Persons
who have furnished subsiiiutes will be held respon
sible for the same.
D y o det of r. THOMPSON,
<eb 6 3i Col, Cont’dg 3d Ga., Cavalry.
NOTICE.
The Planters of \luscogee Connty are earnestly re
quested to meet at Tempi ranee Hall in Coinmbus,
on THURSDAY, 11th inst ,to consider supplying
the army, prices, Ac.
Planteis of adjacent counties are invited to attend
Gen. Howell Cobb is expected to address us on the
occasion. a. M. ALLEN,
f«b 6 td Maj. if- C. 8.
Knitting Needles.
SOLD at manufaeturet’s pr.ces, at wholesale and
D, KEITH,
leb 6 lw Agent .
Arrived at Nassau.
Information being received of the arrival of our
Agent at Nassau,the Directors of the Georgia Jnipor
ting and Exporting Company hereby notify the Stock
holders to bring in their Certificates of Stock, and re
ceive new Certificates; representing the money value
thercoi, and teceivc their receipts lor the Colton sub
sCiibed, the ownership and liability for which reverts
front the Stlt mat, to the Stockholder.
P ease call or send forward promptly your Certificates
and receive your Cottoti Receipts.
M. L. PATTERSON,
feb 5 lw Stc’y.
GOODRICH A CO,,
{.FORMERLY OF NEW ORLEANS.)
74: Broad Qtx*o©t,
COLUMBUS GEORGIA.
Wholesale and Retail,
STAPLE & FANCY DRY GOODS.
AllE constantly receiving fresh importations, direct
from Europe, ol staple and fair, y DRY GOOOS,
which they offer cheap for cash,
feb 5 3m
Plantation for Sale.
1 OFFER for sale in Macon Comity, Ala,, on the
Montgomery and West Point R. R, four miles from
Tuskegee, a tine plantation 1200 acres, 600 open and
in a high state of cultivation, well watered and in
every respect a No I larm-
The improvements are a good dwelling house, barn,
giu house, negro cibins with bra k ciii.ntiuys, and iu-
Uted everything which hucli a puce requires anil
needs for immediate occupancy,
fob 8 tit F. W. DILLARD.
Sun copy.
[Notice.
r|MIE notes and accounts of J. H. Daniel & Cos.,
JL have been p ated in out hands for collection
Persons indebted to them and wishing to pay, will
please come forward at once ana do so. Toose who
do not wish to pay we will endeavor to make them.
We are also authoiized to trammel any business for
sjitl hrm, or lor J,H. Daniel,
PEABODY & BRaNNON,
!eb 6 dim Altys at Law.
A Fortune.
HAVING made it my study tecently, I am pr. pared
to give lecetpts for making good and durable
Black Writing Ink.
None ot the dye that is being made in some por
tions of the country If satisfaction is not given, the
money shall be refunded. Price# 6.
Address T A, PHILLIPS,
fob 5 3l* Cotton Valley, Ala
Steam Engine for Sale.
1 OFFER lot sale a No. I Steam Engine and Boilers,
t ut little used—fixtures complete, and all in good
order —ol sixty horse power. Also, two wagons and
harness, one cait, two Fairbank’s Patent Beales, on
wheels, two sets of Black nitn’s tools, ,a large lot ot
cast.iron, 100 pounds best .steed, copper and brass wire
sievs, belting, roping (some very large), one iron safe,
and many other articles of value and much wanted
these times.
The above property tan be seen at Canton, Chero
kee county, Ga. If it is not lieated for at privaiesale,
will be sold at tmbiic out cry in Atlanta, Ga , on the
18th of February next. For farther information apply
to the undersigned in East Macon, Ga.
felt 315 c V. WOOLLEY.
Notice from tlie Commandant
of Conscripts.
For the information of the public, it Is publi lied
that the Enrolling Department of Georgi t is divided
into ten (10) Congressional Districts, each of which is
under charge <> fa District Enrolling Officer.
The Ist, 2d, 3d, 4th and 7th Districts are under the
immediate supervision of Maj. A. M. Rowland, Ma
con, Ga., and the fth, 6th, Btli, 9th and 10th, under
that ol M.ij. Jot n F. Andrews, Demur, Ga. All
special applications tor exemptions or delai 1 , and
communications regarding the Enrolling service, wil
be so. warded through .he county Enrolling Officers
to the Chief of Districts.
The Enrolling Ileadquarteis of the several Dis
tricts are located at the following places, viz :
Ist Congressional District, at Savannah, Ga.
3d do do do Albany, do
3d do do do Columbus, do
4th do do do Macon, do
sth do do do Augusta, do
tnh and r do do Athens, do
7th do do do Gridin, do
Bth do do do Atlanta, do
9th do do do Alpharetta, do
10th do do do’CaitersviLe, do
CHARLES J. HARRIS,
Major and Commandant Conscripts,
feb3 lOt State of Georgia.
W anted.
10 BUSHELS RED PEPPER.
H. D. COTHRAN,
fob 3 9w Capt. and A, Q. M.
SHERMAN & CO.,
MOVED TO MASONIC HALL,
Third Door to the right, on Second Floor.
fiffiStf
EVENING EDITION.
RJCCM.IPVB.
Tk* r»Mptton of tkt Turns, wkon ordsrsd ts
otmtf, still is our rscsvpt tor thi monsy ; sspooisU
ly to thou tuissriiers for a loss tuns than a
fsa*.
Whsn suistriisrs rsseias the paper urith this
paragraph marked, they wiil understand it as in
forming them that their suiseriptum is about to
expire, and that the paper will esrtamly is stop
ped unlsse they make a •'emittanee
Advanced Bates.
In consequence of the continued advance in price
ofthe material and labor consumed itt conducting our
business, we are compelled to secure ourselves against
loss, to again advance our prices, which will be until
further notice j
Daily Paper for three 00
“ one “ 300
Weely Paper six “ _j 500
“ ** “ three “ 300
Single copies 25 cents
THOS. GILBERT & CO.,
THOS. RAGLAND,
, J. W. WARREN A CO.
January Ist, 1834.
For Chattahoochee.
The steamer Jackson, Captain Fty, will leave forthe
above and intermediate landings WEDNESDAY
morning at 8 o’clock.
The Substitute Question—The First De*.
cision. —The first decision that has come to our
knowledge, says the Richmond Whig, under the
late aot of Congress consoribing principals who
have put substitutes in the army, was made by
Judge Frenoh,-at Lumborton, North Carolina,
Friday lust, on a writ of habeas corpus from
Moore oounty. The petitioner, Alexander Wil
liams, was drafted in 1862, and having furnished
a substitute who was accepted, was regularly
discharged. He was arrested by the enrolling
officer of Moore county under the act of Congress,
approved January sth, 1864, alluded to above.
He conoluded that the aot was in violation of
the Constitution, and his arrest illegal, and was
brought before Judge Frenoh under the writ of
habeas corpus.
The Court hffirmod the constitutionality of the
law, and remanded the petitioner to the custody
of tho enrolling ofiioer. This opinion in the
case is elaborate, and appears to be sustained by
analogous decisions of the highest Courts of
Narth Carolina, as well as of the United States.
Arkansas—True Feeling of Her People.
Col. Hawthorne, who is just from the trans-
Missisßippi department, gives to the Mobile
Tribune information as to,the political feeling in
Arkansas entirely different from that heralded
by tho Northern press. He left on the 15th ult.
It is generally supposed among ohr people that
Arkansas is nearly overrun and occupied by the
Yankee forces, and that the people of that State
aro aluiust urusUed Into nulimicjion ta t.h« mnn.
sters who issue their decrees from Washington.
This is more especially supposed from.the unusual
exaltation with which the proceedings of a sub
mission meeting recently held at Little Rook
are spread by the Yankee pipers before their
readers. That meeting was unquestionably held,
but it was oflimited numbers, and not oomposed
of Arkansi tus, but of Yankee followers on ihe
haels of the army, and of other men who have
no interest iu the State and can by no possi
bility be considered as representing its wishes or
character.
Instead of the State being subdtied, it is even
more opposed to an affiliation with the enemy
than it was at the beginning/of a the war. This
is universal of its southern section, where to-day
every man from sixteen to seventy-five years of
ago is enrolled for service either at home or gen
eral dofense. Every mau who can bear a gun
is ready to use it for the cause. A considerable
part of the States is in possession of tho enemy,
and that part of course is not in 1 aims against
him. But this by no means implies acqniesoeDce
with or a disposition to submit to the invader.
The materials of opposition are only helpioss >
not subdued. *
In Arkansas, as in all the border slave States,
the sympathies of the people are undoubtedly
with the South. But in presence of the enemy
—held by laws iu subjugation—how are these
sympathies to be expressed? They must suc
cumb for the time—can find no lenefit to the
cause or people by indiscreet utterances. They
can do nothing but endure the evils which sur
round them. This, however, is not submission.
Force does not change a man’s opinions. It
may make him tolerate what be has no means
of preventing or destroting. Loyalty cannot
be won by force, and no oath adtniq.stored un*
dor duress can be binding either in law or gos
pel.
Special to the Mobile Register.
Jackson, Feb. 5.
Official information to half past four o’clock
last evening, has been received here from Gen.
Lee, who was then nine miles west of Clinton.
The enemy advanced slow)? in linti yesterday,
his force'numbering at least 15,000jinfantry.
There is also a force of the enemy advancing
from Messenger’s Ferry, via Queen’s Hill. The
enemy’s intention seems to be to move on Clina
ton and Jackson.
Our loss in tho engagement yesterday was
about ten killed and a good many wounded.—
Among the latter are several officers* including
the gallant Major Bridges.
I am unable to learn the forco of the enemy on
Queen’s Hill and Clinton Toad. Adanis’ brigade
have fought them and acted gallantly.
Gen. Roes’ Texas brigido made a most gal
lant fight yesterday with the enemy on the Yazoo.
They tought the enemy on foot wi h pistols, at
twelve paces, ropulsing them with severe loss.
The enemy left his killed and wounded in our
bands.
Heavy and continuous firing is hejard cn tho
Yazoo to-day. No report is yet he|re to-day
from Gen. Iloss.
FURTHER FROM JACKSON.
Jackson, Feb. 5,
The enemy have crossed B : g Ciacli, and are
advancing eastward in three columns, supposed
to be about 10,000 men .ach.
This morning Wirt Adams dashed on their
advance at Champion Ililis and captured twelve
prisoners and lost one man killed and one woon
ded.
The enemy’s casualties are unknown, but are
supposed to be considerable.
There has been heavy skirmishing all day.
A letter to the Mobile Register from Oka
loua, Mississippi, says “substitute princi
pals in this part of the country are coming
forward with alacrity and volunteering, sat*
isfied with their long freedom, and now de
termined as any to give the Yankees a
blow. Many companies of boys under con
script age have been raised, and are form
ing themselves into battalions and regi
ments.”
LATEST FROM THE NORTH.
The Richmond papers have received
from the signal corps officer, a copy of the
New York Herald of Monday last, the Ist
inst. The following is a summary of the
news ;
Lincoln's Draft Consolidated- 500,000 Men
Called for—The Real Call being for
200,000. -
Lincoln has issued the following call for
troops;
Executive Mansion, )
Washington, Feb. Ist, 1864. \
Ordered, that a draft for 500,000 men to
serve for three years or during the war be
made on the 10th day of March next, for
the military service of the United States,
crediting and deducting therefrom so many
as may have been enlisted or drafted into
the service prior to the Ist day of March
and not heretofore credited.
Abraham Lincoln,
The Herald says:
“The new order is but a consolidation of
the two calls previously issued for 300,000
men, nearly half of whom were obtained by
volunteering and re-enKstments, and which
number, as well as those enlisted up to the
Ist of March next, will be credited. There
fore the call virtually demands only two
hundred thousand men. If the enlistment
of soldiers is properly and vigorously ad
vanced, there will be no need of any draft
to fill the quota demanded by Mr Lincoln.”
Upon this announcement the Herald has
a characteristic article about having “peace
from Maine to the Rio Grande, and then
••settling with England and France.”
Capture of a Yankee Army Train—Severe
Fight in Hardy County, Va.
The following di«patch is telegraphed to
the New York papers:
Headq’rs Dep’t Western Va., )
January 31, 1864. \
Again we are in the midst of excitement
aud activity, caused by a severe conflict
that took place yesterday afternoon in the
neighborhood of Williamsport, Hardy Cos.,
and which lasted, with considerable persist
tence and severity, for four hours.
On Thursday night a train of about eighty
wagons was sent out from New Creek, Hea
vily laden with commissary stores for the
garrison at Petersburg, and accompanying
the train was an escort of 800 men, being
detachments from the 23d Illinois, (Irish
Brigade,) 4th Virginia cavalry, 2d Maryland,
Ist and 14th Virginia infantry, and 100 of
the Ringgold cavalry battalion, the whole
under command of Col J W Snyder.
Nothing unusual occurred until the train
got about three miles south of Williams
port, when it was suddenly set upon at dif
ferent points by open and concealed forces
of the enemy.
Although somewhat surprised by the
suddenness of the attack, the guard at once
formed aud deployed for action. Then it
was that a hard fight ensued, commencing
at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, and lusting
for over four hours, at the expiration of
which time it was found that we had about
eighty in killed and Wounded, rank and
file. The enemy’s loss is said to be about
one hundred,
In the early part of the fight the rebels
opened fire from four pieces of artillery.
The superiority of the enemy’s strength—
there being in all about 2,000 men—also
gave them an advantage in outflanking
movements, and the enemy exercised his
ingenuity simultaneously to operate on the
front, rear, and flanks of Colonel Snyder’s
command.
The enemy, however, completely failed
of his object, which seemed to be to try to
surround, and if possible, to capture the
whole party. Several times the rebel lines
were broken, and several times the rebel
charges were repulsed.
At last, as night closed, the superior num
bers es the rebels, and not their good fight
ing qualities, gained them a success.
At one time the train was in a fair way
of being entirely saved; but owing to the
excitable skedaddling propensities of some
few of the teamsters, and the effect of their
conduct on others, a kind of panic was the
result. A portion of the train was saved,
notwithstanding the above mentioned mis*
fortunes. On hearing of the engagement,
Col. Mulligan at once sent reinforcements to
Colonel Snyder.
A later dispatch than the above says that
the command of Colonel Thoburn, which
comprised the garrison at Petersburg, had
succeeded in making their escape by a
mountain road, passing between two of our
columns, with all their trains, guns, &c.
dispatch says that the next morning
Gen Early shelled the evacuated fortifies*
tions.
A dispatch from Washington states that
dispatches had been received at the Yankee
War Department, from Gen. Kelly, confirm
ing the capture of the trains above alluded
to.
From East Tennessee.
The latest dispatch from Knoxville an
nouncec that the rebels had captured a*id
driven off 800 head of cattle. Long9treet
has “changed his tront,” and occupied the
rich Valley of the Tennessee, upon which
the Union army depended for subsistence.
Siege of Charleston.
TWO HUNDRED AND TWELFTH DAY,
The enemy’* firing upon the city contin
ues steady. Eighty five shots were fired
from half past five o’clock Thursday to
half past five Friday evening. There has
been no further firing on Fort Sutnter. The
Monitors and land batteries ceased firing
on the wreck Thursday night, the former
moving back to there usual anchorage.
The Yankees are still working on Battery
Gregg, and were also very busy during Fri
day hauling ammunition to Gregg and the
CummiDg’s Poiot batteries. Our batteries
kept up a slow but steady fire at their work
ing parties with some effect. A large fire
was observed on Folly Island all day, sup*
posed to be the burning of a Yankee hospi
tal. A Yankee gunboat in North Edisto
was also reported hard aground Friday, ly
ing high and dry. The Yaukees were raa*
king great efforts Friday night to release
her, but had not succeeded up to a late
hour-
The number of vessels inside the bar con
tinues abuut the same.—[Charleston Courier
6th,
For Three Months, $8
A Declaration for Peace.
In the Yankee House of Representatives
on the 25 ult., Hon Fernando Wood deliv*
ered a speech in opposition to a resolution
explanatory of the confiscation act. His
concluding remasks are reported as follows:
The administration and the party in power
were opposed to the restoration of tho
Union and desired a continuance of the war
by which to accomplish designs of partisan,
apvantage. The ruling elements were
fanaticism and corruption. Thus the war
is sustained. Under the plea of patriotism
the most damnable deeds wers perpetrated.
This war must cease. It was commenced
without cause and has been prosecuted
without glory, and will end in national im*
poverishment, disintegration and ruin.—
Those who favored the war, favored dis
union. Peace is the only hope for restora
tion. It was idle to talk of the policies of
the war. It made no difference what were
the policies. The result would be tho sub
version of republican institutions and utter
destruction. He was opposed to the con
duct of the South, but was equally opposed
to the conduct of the North, under tho
Republican policy. Both wore for disso
lution. Let us, therefore, attempt a peace*
able solution of the difficulty. Pfeace must
come sooner or later. Why not procure it
before both sections were exhausted and all
their material interests destroyed. Mr.
Wood appealed earnestly to the boasted
spirit, ot Christian civilization of progress
and of common humanity, to throw itselt
into the arena and save the American peo
ple.
Peace! peace! God of our fathers, grant us
peace!
Peace if our hearts—at thino altars, peace.
Peace in the rod waters and itioir blighted shores;
Peace for tho I‘ague red citios aud the hoits
That watch and bleed around them and within;
Peace for tho homeless and tho fatherless;
Peace for the captivo on his weary way,
And the rude crowd who jeer his helplessness
Per them that suffer, them that do thus wrong—
Sinning and sinned against—O God, for nil,
For a distracted, torn and bleodiDg land,
Speed the glad tidings—give us, give us peace.
[From the Nassau Guardian Jan. 9th.]
The Neutrality ot the Bahama Wa
ter*.
We rejoice to perceive that the continual
presence ol Federal cruisers within the wa
ters of this colony, iu opposition to that
policy ol neutrality which it has been the
desire of the imperial government to main
tain between the belligerents of America,
has met with strong disapprobation from
the authorities at home, and we hail with
much satisfaction the re-issue, from the
Colonial Office, of her Majesty’s instructions
first published in January, 1862, with tho
view of “preventing, as far as possible, the
use of her Majesty’s harbors, ports and
coasts, and the waters within her Majesty’s
territorial jurisdiction in aid of the warlike
purposes of either belligerent.”
[Here the Guardian reprints the letter of
the Duke of Newcastle to Governor Bayley,
dated October 6, 1863, already published
in our paper.—En. Herat.!!.]
The Nassau Guardian continues;
Our merchantmen have been harrassed
too long by the operations of Federal cru
isers in these waters, and the many instan
ces we have had to record of vessels hav*
ing been laid wait for by them at Stirrup’s
Cay and other places within this govern
ment, give ample proof that, the law of neu
trality has been utterly set at defiance.—
The entrance into neutral territory with a
hostile purpose is held to be unlawful; and
Lord Stowell, in respect to this matter, says:
“There is no oxception to tho rule that eve
ry voluntary entrance into neutral territory
with hostile purpose is absolutely unlawful.
When the fact is established, it overrules
every other consideration. The capture
is done away; the property must be re
stored, notwithstanding that it may actually
belong to the enemy.”
Itc-Enllgtment of Virginia Troops.
It is highly gratifying to us to publish the
fact that among the fn&l toops in Gen Lee’s
army to re-enlist for the war is a Virginia
regiment—the Ist Virginia artillery, Col.
Brown. On the Ist instant the men assem
bled at their camp, near Frederick’s Ilall,
formed in hollow square, and were elo*
quenily addressed by Captain Dance, the
senior captain, Lieut Davis, and others, and
those who desired to re-enlist for the war
were requested to rally around the flags of
tbeir respective batteries. Each company
in a body assembled around its battle flag,
amid the queers of all on the ground. The
regiment is composed of the second and
third companies of Richmond Howitzers,
the Rockbridge, Powhatan and Salem bat
teries. It is particularly gratifying to the
people of Richmond, in which city they
were organized, to find iheee two compa
nies of Howitzers, whose blood has marked
eceiy battlefield from Bethel to Gettysburg,
among the fiist to take their eland lor re
sistance to the end, They -have endeared
themselves to our peoplrrby many acts of
bravery, but by none more than this patriot
ic step —[Rich. Disp., 4th.
The Government has established a horse
infirmary lor broken down stock in the ar-
jny. It is located in Laurens county, Geo.,
twelve miles from Oconee Station, on the
Central Railroad. Three thousand acres
of land are employed for the purpose ; the
stables are adapted to peculiar diseases;
filly negroes and eight white men are em
ployed and two professional vertitiary sur
geons. Thirty cases of glanders, hereto
fore supposed to have been fatal, have been
cured in these hospitals, and of tne wiiole
number of broken down horses' who would
have died iu the field, eighty-five per cent,
have been saved. A similar institution
shoo'd exist in every fitate m the Confed
eracy.
Nut for thf. Croakers.—A Lynchburg
soldier wiiling from the Army of Northern
Virginia !o a relative in that city, says:
“I arrived here on yesterday and was
heartily greeted by my comrades. I have
heard none of the grumbling, croaking and
discontent here that vexed and fretted me
with some of the miserable and cowardly
civilians not exposed to danger at home,
but who are engaged in gobbling up all the
Confederate money that com u s in their
reach and then dare to preach up subjuga
tion, starvation, &c., while at the same
time they are in a more prosperous condi
tion than they ever were before. We are
the sole sufferers, but here you find no
grumbling, At least a dozen members ot
my company are bare-footed now, and no
shoes to be had. and yet they uncomplain
ingly do doty.”
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