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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.” i