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MOENINO EDITION.
J4MES W WARREM, Editor.
Columbis, Wednesday February 24, 1863.
The M*w»
From the West we get nothing except con-
Ihcting speculations as jo Sherman’s movements
and intentions. It is pretty well settled that he
has abandoned (if he ever entertained) the
intention of marching upon Mobile, but whether
he will direct his steps towards Selma, Ala., or
move Northward to form a junction with the
column coming from Memphis or retire, over the
route by which became, to \ lcnaburg, is not
yet developed. Our forces under Gen. I oik arc
in * position to observe and act upon any move
ment he may make, and aro iu sufficient numbers,
we believe, to bring his daring expedition to a
close.
The intelligence from Florida is highly eccour*
aging. The enemy has been severely chastised
for bis insolent invasion of the “land of tl iwerr,”
and from his distance from his gunboats (some
fifty or more miles) wo may hope that all the
fruits of the victory have not yet been gathered.
We notice with pride that Gen, Colquitt, with
his fine brigade of Georgians, and the 64th Ga.»
Col. Evans, togeiher with other troops from this
State, had a plaoe in the picture and with their
gallantry avid prowess sustained the traditional
fame of their glorious old mother.
From every other quarter comes the report of
inactivity and quiet.
Charleston and Savannah Kail Hoad-
Change of Schedule *
The traveling public is greatly interested in
the change of schedule, on the above
noticed in our advertising columns this morning.
Passengers Irom.East and South of Macon for
Charleston will, under (he new programme, not
only pass through Savan uab without detention,
but they will avoid, what is tar more unpleas
ant —tha everlasting jam and squeeze to which
they are tuhjected on the upper route. Besides,
they will pass over a comparatively even aud
delightful road und receive every attention
which polite Conductors and train managers
can offer.
the. military bill-tiik cur
rency HILL—THE TAX ACT
No act or acts of the Conlederate Congress,
passed since the organization of the Government,
says the Richmond Enquirer, are so well quali«
fied to attest the determination of Congress to
successfully achieve the independence of the
country, as tho three great laws which have re*
cently been euactcd tho Aliliiary, Currency and
Tax acts.
The Military Bill devotes to the army, directly
or indirectly, the whole physical power and
energy of the country. Providing, first, recruits
for the ranks by an extended oousciiption, it
then organizes the remaining labor of the coun
try, for the sole use and benefit of the army and
the country’s cause. The great pervading prin
ciple of this military bill is that every man owes
to bis country the duty of defending it, either
in or out of the ranks, and the law provides fur
the discharge of this paramount duty by putting
in the ranks all men capable of bearing arms,
except oertain persons who can be of more ser
vice to the cause out of, than in tho army. Ex
emptions and details are permitted upon the
great and important principle of promoting the
publio service, and not upon any right or favor
to individuals. Recognizing the absolute depen
dence of the country’s cause upon the grea .
agricultural interest, the Congress, while protect
ing this great interest, has trade it contribute to
the support of the army, for tho privilege of its
exemption—thus protecting tho production of ihe
country, without depriving the army of the re
cruits necessary to its reinforcement.
This bill organizes an army of exempts to
co-opeiate with the army of conscripts—thus
devoting to the cause the whole labor uud energy
of tho country. Such an act, earnestly support
ted by the people, cannot fail to exert a happy
influence upon the country, as well as certify to
our enemies, by unmistakable evidence, the pur
pose and determination ot the country to be free
The Currency Bdl is another circumstance in
this evidence of our purpose to accomplish
independence. It is tha sacrifice of tho avarice
of ihe people upon the altar of patriotism—a
sacrifice, with some persons, harder to make than
that even of sons and brothers. But it, never
theless, will be cheerfully made.
The currency was the greatest danger that
beset our cause. Its insidious influence was
undermining public virtue; its ruinous effects
were destroying the power of the Government;
its redundancy was an exhorbitant tax upon the
public energy, more destructive to production
than all tbo acts of the enemy combined. This
danger is met and removed. Tho k nife has been
put in deep, arid all parts of this corroding dis
ease cut away. Tho wound will heal and the
patient take anew lease ot' life, with energy un
impaired.
The Tax Act, providing for ihe future support
of the Government, is not without its importance,
even when separately considered ; bu r , when
taken in connection with the Military and Cur
rency bills, it becomes an important part in the
system of public defence which this Congress has
provided lor the country. It is the machinery
to provide tho ways and means of supporting
the army: of promoting the cause; of effecting
and accomplishing our liberty and independence.
(If equal importance with the other two great
acts, it attests tbs purpose of tbo Congress to do
its duty, and to provide for tha fu ure.
Such lias beeti tbe work of ibe last days of
the Ct'i'gress. It has intrao ed during its t*s
fiiuus severe aeirnad versions; aud, wlule de
serving much o i‘>' harsh er111»*lh, voi candor
and truth demand that tha o.iuniry render it tbe
meed of its grateful thanks.
Congress has Wffl perfotuird its duty ; it has
recruited tho army, it i»»s reduced iho currency,
it has pr- vided against ndundam-y iu tbe future.
The demand of the country was for each of these
measures. Congress has complied with tbe
expressed popular will. The duty ot tbe people
now begins. To cordially support aud earnestly
labor to enforce these laws is tho duty of every
good cidzen. Let every man ascertain what tbe
laws require of him and speedily perform that
duty. If bis duty i* to go to the held, let him
take up bis knapsack and walk ; it to fund his
treasury notes, let him render unto Mr. Meiumin
ger H e things that are bis ; if to pay taxes, let
him cheerfully do so; for it is easier tor a camel
to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich
man to escape this tax law.
Important Kaii.roau Branch.—ThaCeulre
ville (Aia ) Enquirer a.tys a branch railroad is
being budt, commencing at Ashby, (formerly
known as Centreville Depot,) and is designed
to run to the Bibb Iron Worns and from thoDce
to tbe rich coal aud iron reg.o..s on (he Cahaba
river, and ultimately county.
The route has bean surveyed, grading has
been commenced, and the iion will Boon be laid
to the Iron Works, if not the whole distance.
We look upon this work as a most im
portant one, aa it wifi develope the resources
of a section of country, which in mineral value
is not surpassed by any in the Confederacy. It
will give Bibb a prominence which no other
eouuty has yet or ever will attain in inanutac
lectures and ooal aud iron. Asa friend of pr -
grass we are glad to soe this enterprise going
on, and pieiici i.s early completion, it is in
ihe hands of three partus—private individuals,
th. Government, and th e Alabama ± Teauc-
Mo Railroad.
Come up to tike Work.
Citizens of the Confederacy, you have
called lor legislation to save tbe'country.
Your Representatives have responded.
You haw hteii eager; tney have been de
liberate—more so than you thought proper.
Bui they have done their best to meet your
wielies. You have demanded to be taxed
ami taxed heavily. The tax bill is before
you, ample in extent, heavy but not too
heavy in weight. You have cried out
against the redundancy of the currency.
If the currency bill presented for your in
spection yesterday does not, in your opin
ion, diminish sufficiently the volume of
circulation, remember that Congress meets
again in May. You have insisted that the
army should be tilled up. Your Repre
sentatives have complied by putting every
man and boy from 17 to 50 in .the military
service.
Now it will rot be for the want of effi
cient laws that you will become bankrupt
or be beaten in the field. The question is,
will you obey the laws made at \ our request
and obey them cheerfully, or will you begin
to find fault and evade them? Will you
pay your debt—for it is your debt, not the
debt of your Agent here in Richmond —
and will you win your independence by
fighting for it, or will you not ? That’s the
whole question.
Nothing human is perfect; there is no
law without a flaw. You can find faults in
e'very one of these bills, if you hunt lor
them. No difficulty about that. You can
tell lies about your incomes and make false
returns of your sales. In this way, you
can ensure the failure ot the best currency
bill in the world. In like manner, yon can
defeat the military bill. You ean get sick,
dodge, skulk, or in some way escape milita
ry duty at home and so compel your Gov
ernment not to put all its veteran trained
troops in the field, bat io keep them out for
indispensable guard and post duty—per
haps io keep enough of them out to pre
vent us from winning victories.
People of the Confederacy! think of
these things. After all, it rests with you
to redeem your credit 3nd make good your
independence. Corrie up to the work like
man, and the thing is done. Shirk it, and
you and your children are forever done
for.—[Richmond Whig.
Utilizing the Retiring Currency.
Go this subject the Richmond Examiner
makes the following humorous suggestions:
While the currency bill yet Ungers sus*
pended between the Senate and House of
Representatives, and we are not informed
what measures of relief will be adopted for
the redemption of (he Confederate money,
it would, perhaps, bo superfluous to sub
mit any remaiks on the probable effect of
these measures, and we are unwilling to
disturb tbe peace of mind of the Secretary
of the Treasury by suggesting a doubt with
regard to the future ol our finances. But
there is one matter upon which u serious
question will arise as soon as the funding
system has been put in lively operation.—
“What becomes ol the pins?” is an inter-'
rogatory of trifling interest compared with
“What shall be done with our Treasury
notes? ’ We mean, of course, the material
fabric, the paper that has been wasted in
the preparation of Hie promises to pay, the
residuary rags which will soon begin, in a
dirty snow, to come down upon ami over
whelm, Miserrimus Memminger. At this
moment they are scattered over ever so
many hundreds of thousands of square
miles, the representatives of a most uncer
tain value; six mouths hence they will be
massed togetlier in this city, a vast bulk ol
Utterly worthless matter; we saj worthless,
unless, indeed, there sh ill occur lo i! o tor*
tile mind of the political economist some
happy method of unhziti.m. We have
heard of eccentric people who• papered the
walls of their rooms with cancelled postage
stamps, and the cancelled Treasury notes
might possibly be useful iu this kind of up*
holstery, but for the fear that- madness
would supervene upon the wretched occu
pants of apartments so ornamented, and
thus the country be filled with Bedlamites.
To see the faces which adorn these bills
looking down onorie forever with (hat un
changing expression of ineffable melancholy
which the engraver has given to all of them
(for on the best specimens of the Confeder
ate currency Davis is doleful, and Stephens
saturnine, Hunter is heavy, and Clay
clouded with care, Memminger is mourn
ful, and even Benjamin the bouyant is bien
trisle,) and to have constantly m sight Ihe
evidences of the country’s travil aud iiu*
pecuniosity, were enough to dme even a
well regulated mind to lunacy. To make
a burnt sacrifice of them after cancellation,
would, perhaps, oe thought the proper
tiling, it men enough could be soared from
the army to superintend the combustion.—
Bui ibis work would have tobedoue with
great care, and would require many months
to complete it. To set lire to the immense,
mass at once would imperil the sat-iy of
the city. Nor does such flimsy Joel an
swer well tor the furnace and the forge,
however convenient it might prove for heat
ing the baths of a modern Omar. We have
to suggest a disposition o! these notes which
commends, itself to the attention of both
the Conlederate and Riaie Governments;
a twofold disposition, looking to ornament
and defence, which will give a stimulus at
once to mnnnluetures and the fine arts in
the Confederacy.
The impenetrable nature of paper, when
closely packed together in layers of leave-,
is Well knovyn. It is uoi easy to vend a
pistol-bail through a book of live hundred
pages. A testament in the breast-pocket
of a pious soldier has often saved a life up
on the battle field. S ill less ea-y is it. to
pierce a Mioceasiun of laminar pasteboards.
The reader catches at our proposition now
before it is announced. We are hopelessly
anticipated. J,et two-thirds of the waste
paper of tha Conlederate circulation be con
verted into pasteboard, and this substance
aubiiituted for iron io the sheathing of eur
ships of war. Tne superior lightness >.f
the annum wool.t dispel ail fears of sinking
ilo-! vessel. We congratulate Mr. Mallory
upon having the means at his command
lor the speedy completion of his gunboats,
uow hull,iin. in Confederate waters, li it
be said that the power of resi.-taiiee iu
pasteboard to bombardment is an untried
experiment, we can only reply that as alt
our guiib nt s are designed for destruction
by ttieir own commanders, it is really of
v ry little importance whether the carton
would resst a cannon-nail or not.
So much lor two-thirds of the paper
money. As for the other third, let it be re*
duced to pull or papier mache , and let this
be moulded into statues lor the completion
ot the Washington Monument, i'he heioie
figure ol the Secretary ol ihe Treasury
might be placed upon one of the vacant
pedestals, that which was designed for the
Finance ot ihe Revolution in the person o'
Thomas Neleou, Jr. There wouid be a
beantilul fitness in this apotheosis. Noth
ing would then be wau’iugto give a crown
ing grace to the Monument but a motto
appropriate to the tacts, and this we beg to
supply iu a couplet from Wordsworth:
“ 1 h us strives a grateful country to display,
aue mighty debt which nothing can ro pay !’
The stock in irade of must of our merchant
abuut this time is composed of three plugs of
tobacco ami k quart of “goobers.’
The English Court of Exchequer on
tlic Alexandra.
The London Index, of the 14th January,
just to hand by a recent arrival at this port,
devotes a long editorial aiticle to the above
case, upon which it sheds some light not
already given to the Confederate public.
Our space will not permit us to copy the
whole article. We, therefore, confine our«
selves to a statement ol such new facts as
it may contain.
It will be remembered that the British
Government, at the instigation of C. F. Ad
ams, Lincoln’s Minister at London, and up
on information furnished by Lincoln’s spies
at Liverpool, siezed the steamship Alexan
dra, then hi the river Mersey, on the allega
gation that she had been built aud was to be
filled out as a ship-01-war for the service
ol the Confederate Etates, in contravention
of the provisions of the Foreign Enlistment
Act. The case was tried before the chief
Baron and a jury. The jury, under the di
rection ot the chief Baron, found lor the
claimants ot the vessel aud against the
Government. The Government took an
appeal to the Court of Exchequer from this
ruling of one of its Judges. This appeal
came before the Court during the last term,
and it was supposed that the decision
would be given in November. The argu
ments in the case were heard then on a mo
tion for anew triad. Trie Court took time
to consider its judgment, which was pro
nounced on Monday, January 11th, the first
day of the present session. Tne Chief
Baron adhered to his lormer ruling. Mr
Baron Braimvell, the senior of the puisne
judges, agreed with him. Mr Baron Chan
nel! dissented, holding that the direction of
the Chief Baron to the jury had not been
satisfactory, slid that on tnis account a
new trial ought to be granted. The junior
of the Court is Mr Baron Pigott. Mr Baron
Pigott was, when this case commenced at
Liverpool, member of Parliament for the
borough of Reading, and known to entertain
opinions favorable to the government and
opposed to the parties claiming the ship,
lie was appointed, pendente lite, by the
government, one of the parties to the suit.
11 is opinion was given in favor ot anew
trial; but as the Court was thus evenly di
vided, he being the junior, according to eus
tom withdrew his judgment, and the rule
tor anew trial was refused. The effect of
this decision will be to leave the govern
ment at liberty to.appeal to what is called
the Court ol Exchiquer Chamber, where,
in this cause, the Judges of the two other
courts (Queen’s Bench and Common Pieas)
will review the decision of the Court of
Exchequer; and from them there lies a
further appeal to the House oi Lords. It is
pretty certain that, whatever the decision,
the Government will not give up the vessel
until it has exhausted all the resources of
chicanery, and interposed eyerv vexation,
difficulty, and delay that the ingenuity ol
its legal advisers can suggest. It is not
supposed that the English Government has
any hopes of condemning; the Alexandra,
but, by detaining her, they equally serve
the purposes of Sewaai, They know that
her release at this time would bring them
insolent dispatches from Washington, and
they fancy that il might lead to a declara
tion of war ; and therefore it is their policy
to postpone that event as long as possible.
In this point ol view, the division oi opinion
io the. Court of Exchequer is just what they
wanted, and planned to bring about, when
tin y appointed Mr Pigott to the fourtii seat
on the Exchequer bench. It gives them
good cause fora further appeal, and it does
not give them anew trial, which would be
final, and would, in all pr terminate
in lavoi of the defendan's the claimants of
the vessel, and against tbe Govt^nnisnl.
The Index does not charge or even hint
that Air Baron Pigott was influenced in his
opinion iii any way by political feeling But
it plainly intimates that a knowledge of his
opinion on this case, then pending before
the Court of Exchequer, was mainly influ
ential with ihe ministry in causing his
nomination to the vacant place in that court.
No English paper that we have seen ap
pears to entertain the same opinion express
ed by the Richmond Wnig, which charges
that Earl Russell has been bribed by the
| Lincoln Government. Considerable dissat-
I isfaction no doubt exists in England, caused
by the mean, pettifogging course of the Ad
ministration, which is more consonant to
the dealings of the lowest sort of attorneys
than to the usage ol great nations in im
portant causes ot this character. Still to
any questions propounded in Parliament,
Russell or Palmerston or any of their strik
ers will have the all-sufficient answer that
the question is before the courts on its legal
merits. Those who know nothing of the
resources ot l-egai chicanery aud delay may
hirin some idea of how long it will stay
there.— [Wilmington Journal, 19th.
N*S»« Iltot in Mew Orleans.
A correspondent of the New York World,
writing from New Orleans--, furnishes that
paper with the following:
I would advise all recruits who may. here
after join the army with the expectation of
coining out here to get their faces blacked
and join a negro regiment. On Saturday
last a battalion of negroes, which had been
sent out to represent the white men of
Rhode Island in the duty and privilege ol
upholding the Uniou, ami who were yet on
the sb-amship Cahawha in which ihey came
out, went ashore in the upper part of the
city and commenced destroying the shops
and tneir contents in that part of the neigh
borhood. One ot them entered a grocery,
and when the proprietor refused to give
him liquor, which is contrary to military,
made a blow at him with a hatchet, and
cut his face. open, making a dangerous
wound, disfiguring him, at least, for life.—
The police made an effort to arrest him,
when the rest came to his assistance, and
two policemen are so dangerously wouiu
ded that their lives are despaned of.
The police reserves from the whole city
were then called in, hut the negroes with
then side arms were too strong fur them.
At Usl a company of white soldiers were
sent lor, and ai last the negroes retired io
their ship. Their officers hugged and patted
them in vain to coax them into order
bui a sight of lire muskets and fixed bayo»
nets oi the regulars soon quieted them.
On Monday they were tried ; the tetiow
with the hatchet was sentenced to lose two
montns' pay, and the others one month each.
On the same day a white soldier, who got
on a spree aml wandered off from his regt
ment, was sentenced to lose 4 months’ pay.
The like sentence was imposed on
another white soldier who went into a res
taur.Mti to get something to eat, and was
unable to pay for if; and six months hard
labor in the Dry Tortugas was the lot o!
two others who did the same at an oyster
saloon, and assaulted the keeper with a
dull knife. When you undertake to vol
untoer do so as a negro, if you wish for
light punishment and nothing to do.
A Raid that Did not Pat. —There
was a report a tew days since tint a‘
considerable Vankee force was moving up
on Ashville, m North Carolina. The News,
of that place, of the 11th, says of the raid
limit had been known lor some days that
a Yankee raid > from Tennessee, in she
direction of Franklin, Macon countv, was
made last week From the information in
our possession, it was not a paying expo*
dition. It Beams a Yankee force estimated
at 600 invaded North Carolina by way of
the Tennessee river, and got within about
twenty miles of Franklin. But Col. Thom
as’s Indians bushwhacked them so uumer*
cifully that they turned at that point and
hnrriedly retreated, having had one captain
two lieutenants, and a number of prtvates
killed aud a considerable number wounded.
The dead they left lying where they fell,
but curried off the wounded. Good for the
red skins.
Additional from lit* North.
From Now York papers of the 11th inst. we
take some additional intelligence :
O Ktf BOTLEPja BLUNDER—THE LATE ATTACK ON
RICHMOND —SOME ONE HAS BLUNDERED AGAIN.
The late movement on Richmond is acknowl
edged to have been a failure, and old Butler is
in a worse humor than when be run against Ma*
grudor at Bethel. The following telegrams tail
the tale:
Washington, Fed. 10.
The civilli&ns and political critics of the army
are indignaut that the late nash in the direc
tion of Richmond should be attended with such
signal failure. Their plans were all perfect, and
they cannot sea how (he error occurred. A
number of excited individuals have been impor
tuning the committee on the conduct of the war
to report to-morrow that somebody has blun
dered, so that the shortcomings ot the military
officials may be ventilated and another sacrifice
be made.
Washington, Feb. 10.
Rumors prevail of the arrest of prominent of
ficers who had the late raid on Riohmond in
charge.
Foriress Monroe, Feb 10.
The following special order is published by
order of the commanding General :
W. W. Shore, being by his own confession the
correspondent of ihe Now York Daily World and
Daily Times, the articles aod letters from which
papers are copied with approbation into many
of the rebel papers to ihe injury of the Govern
ment and the causa ot the country, is ordered
to leave the department forthwith, And nut to
return under pain of being put to hard, but
honest, labor.
By order of Maj. Gen. Butler.
R. T. Davis, Major and A. A. G.
THE CAMPAIGN IN TUB SOUTHWEST —THE ADVANCE
OP HUKLBUHT AND M'pHBRSON.
The Federal force which is now advancing
into East Mississippi, and before which in re.
tiring General Polk has evacuated Meridian, is
under the command of Gen. Sherman, and con
sists of two aruy corps—the lthb aud 17th,
under Duriburt aud McPherson. The cavalry
to attend the expedition leu Memphis for Cor'
iath on the 3d inst. The St. Louis Republican,
commenting upon the movements in that quar
ter, says :
Promising activity is observable to General
Shariuan’s and Gen. Banks department. Quite a
number of troops have been concentrated in the.
vicinity of Vicksburg, and already our Hues have
bstm advanced towards Jackson, as far as the
nig Black. 4 Posts on the Memphis and Charles
ton Raihoad have been abandoned, and the
garrisons, including those at Corinth and Inks,
brought in. The 15th army corps, Major Gen.
Hurlburt, has been organized for field duty into
four divisions, commanded respectively % by Gen
erals Tuttle, Dodge, J. 5* mith and Veatch. Be
sides the Ifith, preparations for the campaign
have been m ida in the 12th and 13th corps.
A great cavalry expedition has also been ar>
ranged, under Gen. W. L. Smith, General
Grant’s Chief of Cavalry, for a raid into the in
terior of Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, and
has, we learn, already moved npon Holly
Springs, going down the lino ot the Mississippi
Central Railroad. Troops from Cairo, Columbus,
Moscow, Graud Junction, Memphis, and other
points, have reached Vicksburg. They are ex«
pected to go eastward and southward, and form
a junction with tho cavalry column and with a
force setitng out j from Natchez. Jackson, the
capital of Mississippi, will probably be aban
doned by the enemy without a fight Some for
midable resistance might be made to our occu
paton of the city, as the works are- said to have
been considerably strengthened since the cap
ture ol Vicksburg, but the rebels will scarcely
permit themselves to be invested, particularly
when they mi st know by this time that their
presence is wanted in another quarter. It must
be borne ia mind, however, that the progress of
Gen. Sherman’s command will be necessarily
slow for two or three weeks yet. Nor, though
appearances seem now to point to Mobile as the
ultimate destination, is it altogether certain that
tho movement is in reality designed for aervioe
so far away. Iu the existing uncertainty with
regard to the plans of the Confederates, and
while there is at least a possibility that the whole
available strength of the enemy at present in
Virginia may be thrown into Georgia and East
Tennessee, Gen. Sherman will be cautious in
going southward from that line which intersects
Jackson, Meridian Selina, aud Montgomery. It
seems plain that Gen. Sh-rman's troops in tbe
field Bhould, after securing Jackson, prooeed due
east to Meiilian, the junction of the Mobile and
Ohio Railroad with th3 Southern Mississippi.
From Vicksburg to Meridian the distnnoe is
one. hundred and forty miles, which is about
equal to the distance from Meridian to Mobile
We suppose that the railroad connecting Me
ridian vviih the base of supplies at Vicksburg
cau be rapidly placed in running order, and
there is sufficient rolling stock, locomotives, Ac.,
at hand to make it available for transportation;
By the time the road is opened events will prob«
ably have so shaped themselves as to determine
the now doubtful question whether Sherman
should go on down to Mobile or proceed to Selma
and Montgomery in order to co-operate with
Ge». Thomas in a dank movement with Atlanta
in view. Our own belief, which may go for what
it is worth, is that with the indirect assistance
of Gen. Sherman in occupying the attention of
the rebels in Mississippi, Gen. Banks will find
himself amply strong enough, aided by the fleet
in the gulf, to contend against the enemy at Mo
bile and capture that city. Should he do so,
and our vessels secure the passage of the Alaba
ma and rombigbee river, a chain of communica
tion can be evabl'nhed >f the greatest impor
tance in cutting off the States of Mississippi and
Alabama from the Confederacy, and affording
moans for a grand concentration and combina
tion against the remaining parts of the rebel do
main. Tbe campaign is opening very handsome
ly, and we are likely to witness a magnificent
exhibition of military strategy on both sides.
'l'lie Lat« Raid on I lie Btlilmore nnd
Olilo lloßii Ijoss over One Million
of Hollers.
A dispatch dated the 7th inst., from Cum*
berlanil, Maryland, to the New York World,
pays :
Od the 29th ult., a large wagon train was
captured between new Creek and Petersburg ;
but this disaster caused very little excitement
in town; but onj the 2d iust., this raid eulminas
ted. About 'i p. m., uuurries arrived aoaouuc
ing that the North Branch and Patterson Creek
bridges situated respectively six and eight miles
east ot this place, had been burned by tbe rebels.
The long roll summoned the soldiers to arms, who
soon took position about two miles south east of
our town. Soon the supports arrived, but the
“rets” didn't come. They having accwmplUhed
their work, retired without molestation.
The forces at the bridges which made the cap*
ture have been variously estimated at from sixty
to two thousand five hundred men. They cap
tured one company of tbe 54'h Pennsylvania
troops that was guarding the bridges. Casual
ties—one ki'ied, one mortally andp-everal slightly
wounded of the Federals C nfederates none.—
Our forces bivouaeed on th-s chosen field, await
mg the approach of the rebels ; but Rosser bav
ing accomplished his work, fast skedaddle g
to a place of safely. Pursuit then commenced,
buttour forces managed to keep just far enough
in the rear of the rebels not to provoke a col*
lision. W e lost about oue hundred and seven
wagons heavdy laden with rations, clothing and
monitions of war; also, the motive power of this
immense train,'consisting of live hundred or six
hundred horses and mul«is. Also, several can
non and quite a number of prisoners “gobbled”
up on the route, and especially on the field where
the train was captured.
For the last three months the Confederates have
drawn large supplies from this department.* On
the 16 h of November, 1862, they captur and a
valuable train and stores. On the 31 of January
1864, another train was “shoved” off on tbe
bine road; ihe.last that was taken was the most
valuable of all. One million of dollars would
not replace the last raid.
The excitement baa subsided, but the disgrace
remains. We have aga-n relapsed into fancied
security, but we know not wbat ( minute the “raid
ders” may be upon us.
General Kelley has done all that could bo done
to avert these calamities, but his force is insuffi -
dent to protect three hundred miles of railway,
accessible at all points to these dating raiders.
Abolitionists denounce him as incompetent,
and are doing all they can to thwart his pur
poses, and yet they are unwilling to fight for
their homes and firesides, but ever ready to flee
at the first approach of danger.
Gloomy State of Affairs in East
Tennessee . —The New Yoik World of the
7th, says;
Our Nashville correspondence represents
that aflairs are in a sad condition in East
Tennessee. Longetreet has had his own
way in that section, and lias succeeded in
foraging npon the mnst productive portion
of the State, and this too, while the troops
at Knoxville have been compelled to en
dure the privations ol limited rations.
Gen. Schofield has taken command, and
hopes are entertained that a change for
the better will bo the immediate result.
m • m
The Yankee Army at Chattanooga.—
A correspondent of the Louisville Journal,
writing from Nashville, gives quite a som
bre account of the condition of the Yau*
kees at Chattanooga. He saes that the ar
my there is shivering in torpor, and that
fuel is ae scarce in the camps tiiat all the
stumps in the valley have been chipped to
the ground. This correspondent adds ;
A scythe would not shave the grain from
the field more closely thun the axes of the
soldiers the vast forests in Chattanooga
Valley. Wood could be procured near
Missionary Ridge, but we have actually no
animals to draw it to camp. There is no
forage at Chattanooga, and horses and
mules are dying by scores. Lean and fra
gile frames are stalking over the fields and
through the streets of the city as though a
famine were abroad in the land. Dead
horses and mules cumber the streets and
alleys of the city, and their bodies are
rotting in the plains around. Hundreds of
animals, turned out to pick subsistence in
the field, have wandered outside our lines,
and are now tottering over the old battle
field of Chickamauga, the neutral ground
between the two armies. Until the railroad
is completed to Chattanooga, forage and
supplies for the troops will be scarce. 'The
river is running with the ice that will some*
what impede the boats.
The Federal Rio Grande Expedition.
—Letter writers to the New York papers
do not think much of the success ol Banks,
Rio Grand Expedition. They are of the
opiniouthat he has accomplished nothing—
that’s all. The New Orleans correspou**
dent of the New York World comments
thus.
You must abandon any great expecta
tions from the Rio Giaude expedition. It
has accomplished ail it can do as against
the rebellion aud, until the arrival of troopd i
at Matamoras nothing new wiffoccur in that
region. After some little time, a Fetich
Mexican force will appear in the rear ol
Matamoras, and ail the interior of the
State oiTamaulipas wilUdeclare for the in
tervention. Matamoras may hold out for
monfhs; but the ttftons up the river will go
for traid aud intervention with Texas, and
the wagons and carts (will take the direc
tion of Tampico or Sotoda Marina, under
convoy, if necessary. The business then
done will be altogether in neutral Foil and
under neutral flags; safer lhan any ever yet
done at Brownsville; nearly as expeditious
and in these times of expence about
as profitable. If you talk ol sending troops
up the river to prevent it, you will please
them hugely, because you put yourself on
a par with the rebels in difficulty as to sup.
plies and distance from of opera
tions. Take it all in all, we have won an
elephant in the Rio Grande.
F*or I'hattaboochee.
The C. S, Steamer, Marianna, li. W. Van Veghten
Master, willjeave for the above and intermediate
landings WEDNESDAY at 10 o’clock precisely.
Notice to Travellers and Shippers!
Office Muscogee Railroad Company, >
Columbus, Ga., Feb. 22, 18b4. j
On and alter this date persons purchasing lickeis
and Receiving and shipping freights over this road
will be rtqired to furnish the exact change. fea&i
W. L. OLAR*',
feb 24 lm superintendent.
Change ol Schedule.
Office Engineer and Superintendent, I
.Charleston and Savannah Railroad, >
Cliarle.'t >u, Feb. 18,1801. )
ON and .after SUNDAY, Feb. 21st, Passenger
Trains.wtll
Leave Oharleiton 7 15 A. M.
Arrive Savannah ..4 25 p. M.
Leave ;Savoii>iah.... ~7 CO A. M.
Arrive Charleiton.. 4 30 P, M.
Passengers by this route .from Columbus, Moni
gomery, Albany, Euftu'a, Sc c , pa.-s through Sav
annah without detention.
11. S. HAINES,.
feb.24 1 w eod3w Eng’r and Supt.
Piano for Sale.
AVEtIY superior instrument just arrived ,irom the
front, wuti rt quest to sell. Drigg’s patent—
sevjw octave—carve and rosewood finish, and in p> ifect
older. Apply to ti D. COTHRAN,
lcb *24
3STOTIOJB.
lain ready and prepared to tereivt all HURSIS*
TENCE Til TIES due the Covciiimt'iil atllns Post,
and earnestly beg that all parties will send forward
their dues; without delay to the Tithe Agents or my
self. slacks are always ready at my office
A. M. ALLEN,
feb 23 2w Maj. d[- C. t».
Notice to Stockholders in the Bank of
COLUMBUS.
Columbia, Feb. 4il>, 1664.
On the first MONDAY in A mil next, an election
will be held.ii the Rank ng Hjuse tor nine Directors
ot said Dank, h.r the ensuing year
DANIEL GRIFFIN,
leb 18 tdr President.
Office Ga., Impoutimo an■> Expobtinu Company - , )
Columbus, Ga , 17th Feb. ifcrH. \
Tbe Board of Directors have detlned a Dwid.nl
of sixtfeit and two thirds, irf, percent/ on i,,e Capi
tal si u«k of the company, payable ai ii.e riecroiar, s
office oil and alter ihe 19ih inst.
M. L. PATTERSON,
feb IS 6t Secretary.
MUSCOGEE RAIL ROAD COMPANY, )
Colunt us, Ga , Feb 13tn, tool. \
DIN ID END No. S6.
The Board ot Directors have dcclaied a Dividend of
$5 per Share on the General Stock of this Company,
payable on demand. J. M. MVLV-,
itb. 15 fw Sec’y. and Tieaeuur
Beaver Skins Wanted,
fTIHE highest price will be l aid o? Plow S eel given
X in eichaiige for Beaver Skins, a Urge number
wanted. Enquire at
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feb M 4w
Albany, Eufaula, Cuthbert, Biinuridge and B ake y
paper, copy 4w and send bit s.
For Currency.
•B /H llftlk ClGAßS—prime article. IT kegs
eNI'FF. For sa'e cheap, to c:o8«
consignment. M. P. ELLIS A CO.
feb 20 St*
Tel EGRAPHIO
Entered according to art of r .
iiv J H. Tinusnci, i.. hJ < i "•« vear I^3,
met (Joint of the Co'iOWLf'dil lt,e ~ia ‘
District of Georgia. * dim*. r..rtiMs Northern
# Dkmop.ilis, 23J.
The enemy’s forces along the line of the
Mobile A Oh o RailrouJ are niak ng a relirin
movement in the direction of the Mississippi
river. Their mounted infantry in North Mis
sissippi ate also retiring, being closely pur
sued t.y Gen.". Forrest and L”e.
Orangy C. H,, 22j.
A detachment ot Gregg’s cavahy, of the
Yankee force at Warreiuon, dashed into Fa,
quir county fV emietd »y night and captured 4o
men—2o ol Mosby’s command aud ihe rt ; i
from jlteOih Va. Cavalry.
Ten ol Mosby’s men had a fight with a
largo body ol ihe enemy’s cavahy at Upper,
vtlle on Thursday, repulsiug ihem, ami losing
one man.
It is reported that the enemy are concentra
ting a force at Culpeper C. U. for au advance.
Charleston, Feb. 2.1.
123 shells has been fired at the city in the last
twenty-four hours, ending at half past 5 in the
evening.
Several Yankee prisoners, captured on White
Marsh Island, arrived here this evening.
Richmond, Feb. 23.
Baker’s Confederate Coffee Factory was de
stroyed by fire last night. Loss estimated at
SB,OOO including the building.
Baltimore American of the 18th received.
A telegram from San Francisco states that
the nows received by arrival from Japan staiu
that the privateer Alabama w hemmed in at
Pori Amery, China, by the Wyoming and James
town.
The Police of Tycon was burnt on Christmas
day, and on New Year’s day about five hun
dred houses of the better class of tho oily of Yed
do, was destroyed by fire.
On tho ISth a fire ocourred at Glouohcster*
Mass., destroying 75 buildings. At last account!
the tiro was stiil raging unabated.
The steamer Oriental was recently sunk in
tho Mississippi. Twenty Svo lives lost. The
boat was loaded with Government stores.
Proceedings of Congress unimportant.
Gold dull, closing 160 v i,
Richmond, Feb. 23.
This day being the second anniversary of the
inauguration of the Confederate Government was
observed by tho suspension of business in the
various public offices.
Northern dates of tho 17th received.
Nothing important except the further advance
pt gold. Last quotations 161 %.
Tho Banks in this city have given notice that
deposits not withdrawn before the Ist of April
will be paid iu tour per cent Confederate bond?.
No deposits will bo received from the 28th of
March to the Ist of April.
Pho President received a dispatch to-day from
Gov. Milton, of Florida, stating that Gen. Fin
egan reports that ho met tho enemy in full foroe
on the 20th, and defeated him with great los3
captured five pieces of artillery and now holds
possession ot the battle field with the killed and
wounded of the enemy. A large uumbor of pris
oners captured. Confederate loss, 250 in killed
and wounded.
i'riiiUng, Binding,
Panel*, etc.
HAYING construe tea a large; building in Columbia
IS. C., and removed our machinery from Charles’-
ton, vve w’ould mfoim Quartermasters, Hank and
Rauroad Officers and the public, that we are as well
picpaied as before ihe war to execute all orders in our
line. We have been importing from Europe largely
ol articles used in our misincss. and now have on
tides a Et ° Ck co,wi -' ti “£ in P art the following ar
-200 Reams English Double Cap
Writing.
200 Reams English Royal—white,
blue and buff.
200 Reams English Bank Note
Paper.
500 Reams White and Blue French
and English Folio Post.
500 Reams White and Blue Eng
lish Cap.
LOOO Reams White and Blue Eng
lish and French better.
1,000 Reams English Bath (small \
Letter.
2,000 Reams Whited and Blue Note.
Also, Blotting, Copying and Do
mestic Papers.
7,000,000 Assorted Envelopes.
7,000 Gross Gillott’s and other makers* Steel Pens,
Pen Holders, Pencil?, Sealing Wax. »nk, and almost
all articles of Stationary.
ALSO, A SMALL STOCK OF
Rest ENGLISH BLANK BOOK PAPER (Super
Royal and tmperiil not yet arrivedj, which we are
prepared to iiiamiiaelure into any kind of BLANK
BOOKS.
We are now opening the above valuable stock and
advise our old customers, and all others in want, to
send in their orders at once, or the stock may be su
much broken as to prevent us from fifing them prop
eriy. r
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
NOW BEADY.
“ANDREWS’ MOUNTED AND FIELD ARTIL
LERY DRILL, ’ by Lieut. Col. R. S. Andrews, Army
ot Northern Vucinia, illustrated with nearly IDO fine
lithographed cuts, printed on line white paper, and
lull brown cambric This book is pubii-hei under
iiistruciioiis ol the Ordn in e Department, C. and. A ,
aml t <!i olid be in the hands of every Atiillery officer.
Prict *l, one thud off to the trade.
list PRESS,
'and soon to be published:
GENERAL ORDERS, from tile Adjutant and In
sp dor General’s office, up to January I, 1864, with
copi us index and oilier valuable matter. Edited by
Gen. Iti lilies .lonian, Chief oi Gen. Beauregard’s
»Si it t*ii e i55, one third ofTio the trade.
< tiLSUL.M’ef oURGEHY, being a third editiun of
thin valuable work revised and enlarged by the au
Ho r, .(. .1. Chisolm, eurgemr G. ti, A supttbly illus
trated. r 3
,M a RAD tiNT'rt WORK ON MILITARY' SCIENCE
(rarisluied mini the Fiench, by Col. Frank HiilP-i t *
8. A , with notes by the ed.tor. Illustrated " ‘
I’llil.lP, anew Novel,by Wm II Thacktry i ate’y
deceuM and), s,. endid.y lilustratad with portrait ot the
author and other engravings.
OLENDORFF’a new Method ol Learning French,
"**■» a reprint nl this Viiuabie work, now nearly out
ol pr. id, and much needed by the youth of our coup
tty.
Ai o, 100,hi0 copies t.I the New Testament and
I’Sriiiun /. i u-f Cons derate States Bible Society, wttu
seveial v. orks lor ouier Societies and Publishers.
Having arrangements for securing full supplies of
ail kinds of Ptimitig Papers, we are prepared to
undertake the priming and puh.iahiog of any bock of
value to ibeiountry, and expert io continue the pub
Hcation oi Military, school and other useful books.
EVANS & COGSWELL,
Near So. Oa. R R. Depot.
teb 15 13t Columbia, S. C.
1,000 Pair Cotton Cards at
S&ffafX ter Pair, to consumers only. One hun
dred pair wi i be given to medy soldieis’
lamiLes of ;his ar.dadjmuUig counties of Georgia, and
Alabama. e atisfacturv relerences lor such idtiulies
wi Ibe rt quired. ApplF to Cj- yo(JN&
feb 19 4t « M. OUNBV!
Pleasant. Hour,
rjnilS old and well known SALOON we have re
A fitted and opened for business. We have three
Bowling Alleys and necessary fixtures, and shall by
conducting our jbusintss in an oideriy mauuer, hope
to merit a liberal share of patronage
OGLETBEE fc.BARRINGER,
Feb 16 ts