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Thursday Morning, March I, 1864.
Thb Substitute Question. —Judge
r# es South Carolina, made his decision in
regard to the vexed questions which have
arisen out of the recent law putting the prin
elpala of substitutes in the army. There
were several eases before him at Greenville.
His decision affirmed the constitutionality of
the law, and the parties were ordered back to
the custody of the enrolling officers of the
Confederacy.
On the other hand, the Richmond Whig
states that Judge Pear Son, of North Carolina,
on Monday last, rendered a decision at Salis
bury that the act of Congress putting an end
to the exemption of persons by substitution
in the army, was a breach of contract be
tween them and the Government, and uncon
stitutional and void. His attention was then
called to the late act suspending the writ of
habeas corpus, which reached him after his
opinion was prepared, and he held that it did
-not apply to the principals of substitutes.
The case, at his suggestion, will be removed
to the supreme court of the State, for hearing
hy that court, at the next June term. Mean
time, the parties in a large number of cases
wers recognized to await and abide the decis
ion in the caso carried up.
The Raleigh Confederate says the enrolment
•f principals is going on, and great numbers
ars sneing out writs.
It is a faet not generally known, says the
Sslma Reporter , that the Bank of Montgomery,
the oldest free Bank in the State, has never
suspended specie payment. The circulation
bow is about $ 13,000, and the bank is anx.-.
ious to redeem them with coin.
Senator Orr was in Columbia on Tuesday.
Ths Guardian learns that his view of the
prespect before us is very cheerful and buoy
ant. He expects that about 80,000 men will
bs added to the army by the new military bill,
and a revenue of $000,000,000 will be raised
by ths financial measures just adopted.
Ths Ordnance Bureau has imported garden
s«sds which have been distributed for use not for
spssulation. Wo recommend to all intelligent and
snterprising gardnors, farmers and planters the
advantages of an oceasional exchange of seeds.
In any place seeds will “run out” or partially de
generate if continued too long from one stock, and
a ehange even for seed apparently no better, wi*l
©flea prove profitable.
The prisoners or war held in Richmond now
number 9,110, including 1,021 commissioned of
teers, The number has been decreased by 2,400
sent to Amerinds, Georgia.
Mr. Lawly, the correspondent ot the London
Timet, safely ran the blockade of the Fotomac
to New York, and sailed on the 27th ultimo in tho
Ssotio. Be Is probably at this moment in Eng
land.
Sappiness is not in a cottage nor in a palace,
nor in riohos nor in po'verty, nor in learning, nor
in ignorance, nor in passive life, but in doing right
from right motivo.
Thb Finn ur Bl.ucb.aub Huhning.—Tho Yan
kee Navy Department has information of tho cap
ture of Anglo rebel stoamer Cumberland, loaded
with arms and munitions of war, and designed to
run tho Mobile blockade.
The British steamer lona, from the Clyde, for
Nassau, has been sunk off Sucky Island.
ThosNavy Department has also received dis
patches from the East Gulf Blockading Squadron/
announcing the capture of the British schooner
Bliaa, and the British sloop Mary, both from
Nassau, captured while attempting; to run out of
Jupitar Inlet, Florida, with cargoes of cotton.—
The sloop Caroline was also captured while at
tempting to run out of Jupiter Inlent. The British
sloop Young Rover, laden with salt, was run
ashore and destroyed. The schooner .William A.
Kane was captured while waiting an opportunity
to run the blockade, with fifty bales cotton and
nearly 3,000 pounds of tobacco.
Thb Army. —We have nothing from the
front beyond the report that everything was
qaiet up to last evening. We publish a letter
to-day ftom an intelligent gentleman, which
informs us that tho enemy, after retiring from
our immediate front Wednesday night, took
position two miles this side of Tunnel Hill,
where they were reported to be Saturday af
ternoon, by our cavalry.
The late movement from Chattanooga, it is
new generally conceded, was not in such force
as to indicate that the enemy purposed a gen
eral engagement. Yet it was sufficiently for
midable to be threatening, and enable them
to feel Gen. Johnston’s position with compar
ative safety. In the meantime, while atten
tion was thus attracted to the immediate
front, if wo can credit the news from Rich
mond—evidently credited by the War De
partment—Osterhaus is''endeavoring to exe
cute a flank movement. If this is so it is
undoubtedly known at headquarters, and
preparations will be made accordingly. If the
enemy’s plan of the campaign embraces com
bined movements, they will soon be devel
oped.—Memphis Appeal , 2 9th.
Tu§ Lath Demonstration on Newbern.—
From a private letter received here we learn
.that Air. Webb and other gentlemen taken
from Windsor sometime since by the Yankees
have returned. They were at Newbern when
our troops were near that place, and say the
Yankees had only about two thousand men,
and that the place could have been easily
taken, as the Yankees were much frightened.
Thia’agrees with the conclusions to which we
had already come from information gathered
from various sources. Tho Yankees had their
best troops in their advanced posts at Shep
ardsville, Batchelor’s Creek, etc., and those
W« whipped almost with but little effort, and
Newbern we abandoned without any effort at
all. We have been told, we think eorrectly,
that immediately after the return of the expe
dition to Kinston General Barton had been
ordered to report at Richmond. This would
look as though we were not alone in thinking
that “someone had blundered.” —Wilmington
Journal, 21th.
Mr Harl, an abolitionist, lately used the
following language in a public speech in Kan
sas:
“I was once, while believing in no other pos
sible deliverance from same, for separating our
Northern free institutions from the black ban
nered South. The trial of John Brown in Vir
ginia, in which I Was humbly professionally
engaged, made me a sincere hater of the
South. I hate the South to day not only as
my enemy—not only as the enemy of my Gov
ernment, but as the enemy of all mankind,—
i hate her history; I hate her traditions. I
have believed—l still firmly believe—the sun
of another St. Domingo may rise upon her,
and a million of Touissant Louvertures, clad
inthe habillimente of war, and with vengeance
written upon their face, with one desperate
and triumphant stroke, dash in pieces the ac
cursed South.” v
The New Ti ork Commercial shows that since
the war the rise in gold is 67 per cent ; in iron
l*.o per cent.; in coal 108 per cent.; sugar 200
per cent.; coffee 200 per cent.; tea 110 per
sent.; copper 100 per cent.
[Correspondence of the Montgomery Adver
tiser.]
Review of tlie Mississippi
Campaign.
Demopolis, Ala., Feb. 28,1864.
The campaign through which the army
of this Department has just passed has
been fruitful of many incidents, and profi
table in demonstrating the ability of the
South to maintain its independence.
The Federal newspapers have for more
than six weeks been filled with the plans
of the great Southwestern campaign.-
Sherman was to invade Mississippi with
three columns. One —the larger to
leave Vickspurg; another, Western Tenn.,
down the Mobile and Ohio railroad, and
the third was to land at Pascagoula.
These three columns were to unite at
some point, capture Mobile; then Mont
gomery, and occupy all of Mississippi and
that portion of the State of Alabama west
of the Alabama river. To accomplish
this grand object, Sherman was given
seventy thousand veteran troops.
The expedition so largely planned was
inaugurated by the moving of the two
first columns. Sherman left Vicksburg
the Ist of February, at the head of thirty
five thousand infantry, two or three
and cavalry 'and from sixty to eighty
pieces of artilery. Almost simultaneous
ly Grierson or Smith began their march
through North Mississippi with twelve or
fifteen thousand cavalry and mounted in
fantry. Mobile, at the Same time, was
threatened by water with the enemy’s
fleet of gunboats, and by land from Pen
sacola and Pascagoula.
The question naturally arose with those
anxious about the fate of this section,
what was to bo the result? Gen. Polk
had recently been placed in command of
this dapartment. He assumed command
late in December and could scarcely have
more than familiarized himself with the
command, and had had but little time to
organize his troops and collect together all
the energies of his Department; and
whether strong or weak by reason of his
predecessors’ organization, upon that and
that alone he must rely.
The troops in Mobile were those gent
there by the War Department tor its
fence and could only be spared from that
point for temporary use. In this Depart
ment outside of Mobile were only Loring’s
Division, composed of three Brigades, and
French’s Division of two small brigades,
this constituted the infantry foree. The
cavalry force was composed of Lee’s and
Forrest’s commands. Most of Forrest’s
force had been recently organized in West
Tennessee, and many of them are still un
armed,
With ouly this force at his command
Gen. Polk took the field. Forrest was
still detached from the main army, and
must remain so to watch the movements
of Grierson and his cavalry command.
Sherman, with his thiity-five thousand,
could only be opposed by Loring, French
and Lee —not more than one-third of the
enemy’s force.
From Vicksburg the enemy moved
very rapidly and vigorously on to Jack
son, and from that point they threatened
railrutul otJtitcr of llliS JL^C*
paitment. At this time Gen. Polk bor
rowed from the Mobile garrison two or
three brigades to retard the enemy, in
order to enable him to save his supplies
which had accumulated at different points
of the railroads for the past two yoars.
It would have been the height of folly to
have given the enemy battle at any
time under the circumstances. Our force
when strengthen by the reinforcements
from Mobile did not reach over half of
that of the enemy, inclusive of our cav
alry.
At the present stage of our Revolu
tion the loss of an army, however small,
would be extremely disastrous. Caution
and prudence is more needed now than at
any past period of the war.
With the additional force, from Mobile
the enemy was cheeked, enabling the com»
manding General to save his accumulated
stores and protect his supplies. The lit*
tie army of this Department fell back from
Brandon in perfect order—slowly and
successfully. The enemy moved his bod
ies of Infantry, Artillery, and Cavalry,
with caution and| prudence. Lee hung
upon his flanks and compelled him to
move in compact columns, giving him no
time to forage or depredate upon the
country, In the meantime Gen. Polk,
with all of his acknowledged energy, was
moving all his stores from oft the rail
roads,! likely to fall in to the enemy’s
hands.
On Sunday, the 14th, Lt. Gen. Polk
evacuated Meridian, with his little army
heavily pressed by an enemy thirty-five
thousand strong Before the evacuation,
however, every article belonging to the
different departments of the. Government,
had been moved. The rolling stock of
four important rail roads had been saved
—not a car was left, and scarcely a wheel
left. The locomotives andjears belonging
to the Mobile & Ohio road, were safely
housed in Mobile. Those of other roads
were brought to the Tombigbee and safe
ly placed upon this side of thegßiver.
It was a literal and positive evacuation
of this great rail road centre. The little
town of Meridian stood lonely amid the
silence of pine barrens, without a noise
to disturb its solitude or a shrill whistle
to arouse its inhabitants. The garrison
belonging to Mobile had been safely re
turned to their duties there, and Mobile
was as safe as the department at Rich
mond intended it to be. Gen. Polk with
his little band of heroes, retired safely to
this place, ready and prepared for any
emergency.
The enemy, with his strong force of
western troops, marched through the cen
tre of the State of Mississippi, nearly to
its eastern border, and reaped a fruitless
victory. Scrcely, a giain of corn or a
straggling beef repaid him for his toil;
and to-day he is a discomfited enemy re
tracing his steps with as much haste as
he invaded. The other column under
Grierson met the same fate. It was un
able to form a junction with Sherman,
and is now moving back to his strong
hold in Memphis. Forrrst had been
hanging upon his flanks from the time
he entered Mississippi, and Lee is now
sent by the commonding General to unite
with Forrest, and woe be unto him if he
falls between these mill stones.
I have given briefly the facts connec
ted with this campaign, as I have seen,
them, to them to the public that
what was done, was HP done. Bi#tory
will accord to Gen Polk great skill and
energy in the management ot this cam
paign. The army in this department he
he found here; with such materials as he
had, he made the campaign.
We have lost comparitively little in
men, in munitions, or supplies. And in
less than ten days we will have regained
all the Territory through which the en
emy passed; and this was done by the
force in this department without aid
from other quarters. s
JUSTICE.
Synopsis of Funding Scheme of
Ciirrency RUI as to States East
of Mississippi.
NON-INTEREST BEARING $lO 0 NOTES.
Receivable for public dues before April 1, 1864,
at par; from and after April 1, 1864, not receiv
able at all, but
Fund to 4 per ct. bond before Ist April, ’64 at par.
“ •* “ Ist to last day Apl., inc. at 56§
it a a May, “ 56|
“ if a June, u 46§
« an July, “ 36$
« a a Aug. “ 26s
“ “ « Sept. “ 16$
Swept out by monthly tax, Oct. “ 63
Any non-interest bearing SIOO notes held on the
Ist January, 1865, are taxed 100 per cent., thus
destroying every vestige of value.
INTEREST BEARING OR 7.30 SIOO NOTES.
Held from the passage of act as bonds, and not
receivable for public dues. They are, therefore,
now nothing but convenient 7.30 Confederate
States of America bonds.
850, S2O and $lO Notes,
Receivable for public dues before April 1,
1864 par
Receivable for public dues from and after
April 1, at..... 56§
Exchangeable for new treascry notea from
and after April 1, 1864, at $3 old for $2 new.
Fundable in 4 per cent, bonds before Ist of
April, 1864, at par
Fundable in 4 per cent bonds from and after
April 1, until January 1, 1865, at 66$
Convertible to call certificates from and af
ter April 1, at
Said certificates bearing 4 per cent interest,
and payable two years after peace.
$5 Notes.
Receivable and fundable at par until the Ist of
July, 1864; from and after July 1, 1864, reduced
in value at the rate of $3 of old to $2 of new, and
so receivable for dues, fundable in 4 per cent bonds,
exchangeable for new treasury notes, and conver
tible to 4 per cent, call certificates.
$2, $1 and 50 cents Notes.
There is no reference to these notes in the bill
and it is; presumed, therefore, that they will
continue to pass at par.
OLD TREASURY NOTES HBLB BT ANY STATE.
Any State holding treasury notes received be
fore tho time appointed for the reduction of the
value of old notes, are allowed until Ist January,
1865, to fund the same in % per cont bonds, pay
able in twenty years. Notes received after the
time for reducing value of old notes, shall be di
minished in value at the rate of $3 to $2.
UNTAXABLE BONDS $500,000,000.
The Secretary is authorized to issue 6[per cent,
bonds, not exceeding in amount $500,000,000. —
These bonds to be sold and hypetheticated for
treasury notes, as the wants of the treasury may
require, to bo free from taxation both as to princi
pal and interest. The proceeds of import and ex
port duties are pledged for payment of interest ;
principal payable not loss than thirty yoars from
date Import duties now laid J<pay able in specie
sterling exchange or In coupons of the untaxablo
bonds.
ALL CERTIFICATES BASED ON OLD NOTES.
Are fundable and taxed to a reduction in value
of $3 to $2, like the Treasury notes into which
they are convertable; and if held as certificates,
then interest sinks to same rate of $3 to $2, or they
may "be exchanged for new Treasury notes at that
rate.
sac. 10, BANKS ALLOWED TO PAT DEPOSITORS IN
4 per cent bonds.
This provision contemplates the banks paying
depositors in 4 por cent, bonds, which, if presented
to tho Treasury by the payer before the time when
the privilege of funding dL<ui tUeu
mey snail bo paid at tho par value in non-inter
est bearing (old) notes.
N. B.—This sootion is not understood hy tho
writer, or it is entirely dolusivo—thrown a sop to
depositors and bonus to banks.
J. W. R. P.
[From tho Chicago Times, 9th ult.]
Mr. Seward’s Diplomatic Pa
pers.
That would-be Metternich, but actual Cag
liostro of diplomacy, Secretary Seward, has,
if we may infer anything from tho rumors now
current in “high political circles,” for the
fifteenth time at least, gotten himself into dif
ficulty. The profound efforts of Macchiavelli,
or those of Cardinal Richelieu himself, were
the very essence of simplicity, compared to
the mysteries and the complications surround
ing our Foreign Minister, or, rather, with
which he has delighted to surround himself.
We venture the assertion that, since the
publication of the Excerpta Legationem of the
Byzantine dynasty, down to that of the Jaune
Livre of 1863, tho world has never seen Buch
a curious mass of diplomatic effort as that
shown in the volume which contains the cor
respondence with foreign powers by Secretary
Seward. He seems to have been afflicted with
a furious cacoethes scribendi of diplomacy—a
mania which seized every possible pretext to
inundate the powers of Europe and the re
mainder of the world with letters of instruc
tion, explanation, apology, menace, or proph
ecy. Nothing seems to have come amiss as
affording him an opportunity for a diplomatic
circular or a letter of special bearings. If a
breechless rough-rider from tho South came
up through the gap of the Blue Rfdge, and
out a telegraph wire,or stole a horse, on north
ern soil, our Sucking Cavour, iastanter, wrote
to every American Ambassador. Charge
d’Affaires, and resident Consul on the faoe of
the globe, demonstrating that the whole op
eration was either a portion of Federal strat
egy or evidence of Confederate exhaustion.—
If a week passed, and no hprße thieves came
up through tho mountains, it furnished him,
equally well, with an oocasion for letters,
which he improved by instructing Mr. Adams
and Mr. Dayton et als# to inform Earl Russell,
Drouyn de Lhuys el als., that the time had
now arrived in which he could confidently
pronounce that the rebellion would be ended
and the Union restored in sixty days.
Habitually has this American diplomat
combined prevision with the delioate/imwse of
statesmanship; and, as a result, he has not
failed, sinoe his introduction to his present
position, managing other matters, to lav
before foreign nations, at intervals of a month
or six weeks, his reasons for announoing, un
mistakably, that three months, at furthest,
would witness the extinction of the rebellion.
That these forecastings have never been real
ized as truth, seems never to have given the
Secretary one moment’s inquietude, or to have
suggested to him that his enunciations as a
prophet laeked in the essential elements of
fulfillment. In fact this state of things seems
rather to have augmented than lessened his
attempt at oracular utternances, for, the of
tener the result falsified bis predictions, the
more has he attempted to read the enigmas of
the future. His published correspondence
occupies towards modern, the same relation
that did, to anoient ages, tho books offered to
Tarquin by the Sibyl of Cumae; and a further
similarity might be found of benefit, would
Seward follow the example of his mythical
prototype, aud commit the most of his produc
tion to the flames,
It would be interesting to glance at the
character of Seward in other respects. It
might be shown how ho has bullied whenever
it could be done with impunity, and fawned
where “thrift has followed fawning”—how he
roared like a lion at first in the ease of the
Trent, and then “roared you” as “gently as a
sucking dove”at the close of the affair—how
he entreated England to stop the Alexandria,
and the instant he learned that she had done
so, bravely threatened to declare war against
her if she did not detain the vessel—how he
has allowed a foreign monarchy to place its
grasp upon this continent —how he has com
plicated seriously our relations with France
—how, finally, he has succeeded in bringing
us to a condition in which we are cordially
hated by one half of the world, and, with
equal cordiality, despised or laughed at by
the other.
TELEGRAPHIC.
Reports of the Press Association.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year
1863, by J. S, Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office of
the District Court of the Confederate btates lor
the Northern District of Georgia.
Orange C. H., March 2d.
Matters at the upper our lines quiet.
Our loss yesterday in the skirmish near
Madison C.il. was from 15 to 20 killed and
wounded, chiefly of the Ist and 2d Va. Cav.
airy ; also lost some prisoners. The enemy
has certainly crossed Germania Ford in force
not ascertained. Artillery firing was heard
this evening in the direction of Main Run.
Richmond, March 2d.—The firing on the
Westham Road last evening, about 7 o’clock,
was an engagement between the Yankees and
the local defence troops near Green’s Farm.
The Armory Battalion attacked the enemy,
and, having overestimated his force, was re
pulsed. Henly’s Battalion, composed of the
Department clerks, having advanced, were
charged by the enemy. At the first volley,
the Yankees broke and fell back, but in a short
renewed the attack, and was again repulsed.
Loss in Henly’s Battalion 2 or 3 killed, and
several wounded ; Armory Battalion —killed:
Capt. Albert Ellerly, chief clerk in the second
auditor’s office. Nothing definite heard of the
enemy since this affair. It is believed this
morning that the enemy has disappeared from
the immediate vicinity of the city and gone in
the direction of the peninsula.
Weather inclement last night. Clear this
morning.
Richmond, March 2. —ln the attack on the
Westham'Road last evening the Yankees lost lOor
15 killed and about 20 wounded. Our loss four
killed and 15 wounded.
Th# firing beard last night proceeded from the
daring attack of Hampton’s cavalry upon the Yan
kess, 3,000 strong, encamped near Alios, on the
Central Railroad. [About 11 o’clock, with 400
men, chiefly of the first N. C., he dashed into the
Yankee camp, threw the enemy into confusion,
dispersed them through the woods, recovered a
quantity of spoils, took about 100 prisoners and
three cr four hundred horses. A number of strag
glers have been captured. Up to 6 o’olook 171,
including Lieut. Col. Reed, had arrived at the Lib
by. At last accounts the raiders were attempting
to cross the Pamunky at New Castle, with a view
of joining tho forces on the Peninsula.
Macon, March 2.—Secretary Seddon in a dis
patch to Gov. Brown declines, on the rocommae
dation of Gen. Leo, to grant leave of absenco for
the extra session, to officers who are members of
tho Legislature, but says they are entitled to re
sign if they so elect.
Charleston, March 2. —148 shots fired at the
city since last report.
Some few shots fired at Sumter.
Position of tho fleet unchanged.
The Damage Done.
Details of the damage done by Sherman’s
troops in Mississippi can hardly be put down
in figures. Os their depredations south of
Meridian we have already published some
accounts. The Mobile Register states that the
damage done to the Mobile & Ohio Railroad
extends from Lauderdale to two miles below
Quitman, a distance of forty-six miles ; ail the
bridges ami trestlework being destroyed, and
the track torn up for mile3 at intervals, as is
elsewhere stated.
Everything at Lauderdale Springs was de
stroyed.
The Southern road is completely torn up
from Jackson to Meridian.
Our informant states that the enemy com
mitted few depredations upon private proper
ty, besides helping themselves to provisions.
At Quitman they took bed clothing, but their
excuse was that they were misinformed as to
the distance, and came without blankets, ex
pecting to return the same day. They are
supposed to have carried off about 800 ne
groes, selecting the likeliest, and in one or
two instances driving back some lots that
they did not consider elgiblo
Some persons about Enterprise took the
Yankee oath, and accompanied them on their
retreat, but this was entirely voluntary; no
attempts were made to enforce it.
The brigade that visited Quitman conversed
freely of their plans, and inquired if there was
not an attack going on upon the forts below
Mobile. They understoodjjthat to be a part of
the programme, tho object being to divert the
Confederate forces. They said they had no
intention of moving against Mobile, and their
excursion . jto Quitman was only for the pur
pose of destroying the bridge over the Chick
asaha, to prevent troops from coming up the
road, Their plan, as gathered from their
movements and conversation, and from the
statements of prisoners, was, after uniting
with Grierson and Logan, to move upon
Selma and Montgomery. According to the
prisoners, their next scheme is to hasten back
to Grant and march upon Colnmbia, S. C.
♦ [Selma Dispatch , 29 th.
The Execution of the Lawm.
It need hardly be observed that the success
of the late measures of Congress will depend
largely upon the promptness, vigor and energy
with which they are executed. Congress did
its work boldly and faithfully, and in the Tax
Act, the Funding Act, and the Army Act, pro
vided, as far as it was in its power, the means
of redeeming the country from its financial
embarrassments, and placing our armies upon
a footing that will make them not only invin
cible in defence, but irresistable in assault.
But, with the passage of these laws, the
power of Congress ceased, and that of the
executive succeeded. Everything now de
pends upon tho energy and promptness with
which that branch of the Government does its
work. The War Department and the Treas
ury Department are now the two arms of the
Government. If they lack strength, we are
helpless. If they fail to exert every muscle,
the measures of Congress will lack the vigor
of enforcement necessary to their complete
success. The tax assessors and collectors,
and the enrolling officers, have now a respon
sibility devolved upon them second to that
which attaches to very few positions in the
Government. It depends mainly upon the
heads of the Treasury and War Departments,
how this responsibility will be met. The
business of any department of the public
service, through all its ramifications, is gen
erally performed in the spirit and manner of
the chief officer of the same. If he is want
ing in fidelity, in energy or system, the influ
ence of the evil example will percolate through
all the avenues and channels of his Depart-
ment. If the heart sends out diseased blood,
every artery and vein feels its morbific influ
ence, and the whole body becomes charged
with disease. If, on the other side, the head
of a Department exhibits in his own conduct
inflexibility of principle, untiring industry and
energy, system, firmness and zeal, and holds
all his subordinates to a rigid accountability,
the qualities manifested by himself will reap
pear in those who act under him, and impart
their vitalizing and energizing influence to
every division and offshoot of his office.
All concede that the legislation of Congress
is sufficiently comprehensive and radical to
place the whole war making power of the
coentry, in men and means, in the hands of
the Executive. It remains now to be seen
whether the Opportunity afforded by those
who make our laws, will be actively, efficient
ly and fully made use of, by those who ad
minister them. The President and the heads
of Departments will take their places in his
tory, and will make the country’s place in
history, as they may now acquit themselves,
well or ill, iu the discharge of their duties.
[Richmond Whig,
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Crawford.
For Cbattahoochee.
The C. S. Steamer, Marianna, Capt. VanVegh
ten, will leave for tho above and intermediate laiuT
ings, this morning at 9 o’clock.
Funding. —W. H. Young, Esq., gives notice
that he is now prepared to issue certificates which
will entitle the holders to four per cent bonds after
the first of April. Holders therefore of Treasury
notes of current series, who may not wish to suffer
a loss of thirty-three and a third per cent, would
do well to present them at the Depository and re
ceive certificates at once. Tho certificates so re
ceived or the bonds —of which they aro in lieu,
will be receivable for taxes the present year.—
Holders of one hundred dollar notes will learn that
after the first of April these hills will he no longer
receivable for public dues, and can only be fun
ded at a of ten per cent additional for
each month.
See advertisement .of Warehouse men of this
city, who have determined to advance tho rates
of storage on cotton to onedollarper bale from the
Ist of March iust.
Mr. J. F. Winter gives notice that he has a
number of desirable articles of goods which he is
willing to exchange for Confederate money. It
will he seen also that his proposition to exchange
Congress gaiters for shoes to be given as a dona
tion to the soldiers still holds good. Wo had hoped
that the patriotism of some of our people would
have led them to embrace this oiler long since.—
Surely such an opportunity to confer good on the
soldier should uot be lost. Lot seme gentleman
come forward at once and make the exchange.—
The soldiers are needy.
♦ ♦ ♦
Something New. —We are indebted to Messrs.
Charles Kroetz Cos., of the Time# office for a
sample of Commercial Post Letter Paper manu
factured by them, which we have tested and find
to be a fair article. Tho sulface is white and even,
and subserves the uses of letter writing very well.
We find that the ink does not spread or blur. This
linn has just commenced tlminanufacturo of this
article, having only a few reams now ready, but in
the course of a few weeks expect to have a large
quantity on hand for sale. PersonsJwhojmay wish
to purchase can see specimens by calling at this
office. At the present high figures for stationary
we are pleased to chronicle this enterprise, as it
will not only add to the quantity of such material
in market, but will probably tend to keep tho price
within the bounds of reason. Every enterprise of
the kind adds another link tq the chain of inde
pendence, and proves our capacity as a self-sus
taining people.
A Rare Chance. —Any one wishing to pur
chase a plantation at a reasonable prico payable
in Confederate currency, can hoar of an opportu
nity by reference to an advertisement in this pa
per. Tho place is convenient to this city.
What no oun people do on Sunday night ?
Last Sunday night we attended preaching at St.
Paul’s Church, and though the evening was beau
ful, wo were pained to find not more than a couple
dozen of people present. We heard the same re
port from another church. It is melancholy to
witnoss the groat declension in the number of those
who frequent tho sanctuary. Some people seem
to think that a state of war exempts them from all
restraints, as well as from obligations to Heaven.
Surely if there ever was a time when our people
should appreciate the privelege of God’s house it
is now. If an obligation rests on us to keep holy
the Sabbath day, wo know no way in which i t can
better be paid than by availing ourselves of the
privilege conferred by put/lic worship.
That ar Ckukl Bill.— We are indebted to a
friend in Macon, for the following racy burlesque
on the state of things since the passage of tho late
Military Bill by Congress. lie makes some good
hits—hear him.
For the Columbus Times.
That Sweeping Dill.
Aip.—Joe Bowers.
My name it is Re-port-er, just from a Southern
State,
Sent on from there to Richmond the latest nows
to relate ;
But since I have arrived here, in candor I do say,
The hotel lords, so merciless, charge all a man
can pay.
The morn that I arrived here, so full of heat
and dust,
I rubbed and scrubbed, and scoured, for fear I
may rust;
And after I'd fixed my toi-li-et and had Cuffy to
dress my hair,
To the capacious halls of Congri-ess Reporter did
repair.
Arriving at tho bill-du-ing in the middle of Capi
tal Square,
I took a glance around me to see what I could
stare;
But all around me Conscripts looking strong, and
stout and bale,
If that sweeping bill should pass the house, they’d
try to got ‘•detail.”
But all forlorn, their ligering hopes, tho bill did
pass the house,
More sweeping in its nat-ur-er than a fine comb on
a louse;
These Conscript dodgers weeping, then threw up
their hands,
And only asked the privilege of cheering their
commands.
So now I’ve told you all I know about this sweep
ing bill.
And how removing of the secrecy, the army ranks
did fill ;
Aud then tho heartless speculator, who put in a
substitute,
Is now in Johnston’s armi-e—a learning how to
shoot.
Vkry Lucid.— ln the latest volume of Car
lyle’s history of Frederick 11, occurs the fol
lowing fearfully anu wonderfully made sen
tence :
“Let us try and select and extricate into
coherence and visibility, out of these histo
rical dust-heaps, a few of the systematic phe
nomena or physiognamic procedures of Fred
erick in his first weeks of his kingship, by way
of contribution to some protraiture ol his then
inner man.” Certainly.
Military and Political Situation —East
Tennessee. — From our latest advices which
may or may not be reliable, Gen. Longstreet
is now moving towards Bristol. There was
current on Saturday a rumor from Dalton to
the effect that he was advancing on Cleveland
to make a junction with Johnston. If Long
street is now going north, it ia because a Fed-
eral column is advancing fiotn Kentucky into
Last Tennessee, by way ot Cumberland Gan.
Such a movement has been mentioned in
Northern papers. It may be Longsfreet'j
purpose to cross the mountains and enter Mid
dle Tennessee or Kentucky. These are sur
mises merely, while the more creditable
advices indicate that lie is moving South.
[Atlanta Register , 1 at,
- 1 “"swa
By Ellis, Livingston Ar to.
HOUSE AND LOT IN WYNNTON.
AN TUESDAY, Bth of March, at lUa.uloek, we
\J will sell in front of our store,
A HOUSE AND LOT in Wyunton. adjoining the
residence of Mr. Lloyd and M. W. Thwcatt. The
house has 3 rooms, with kitchen smokehouse, Ac.—
Lot about 3 acres,
mar 3 tds sl2
By Ellis, fiiviiigston A Cos.
CLOTHIMO.
ON SATURDAY, sth March, at 11 o’clock, we wilt
..sell in front of our store,
75 Men’s Linen and Marseills Coats, of good >tyle
and rize,
Gold and Silver Watches,
Lot Tobacco, with a general variety of desirable
Goods.
mar 3td $7 50
Southern Mechanics’Union.
A Regular Meeting of tho Southern Mechanics’
Union will be held this (Thursday) Evening, 3d at
the meeting room of the Columbus Fire Company,
No. 1, at 7 o’clock, P. M.
By order of the President."
JOHN R. BIDDERS,
mar 3 —lt Sec’y.
Confederate States Depository.
Columbus, March Ist, 1864.
Holders of Treasury Notes (except those bearing
interest) can now obtain Certificates which will en
title them to four per cent. Bonds, which privilege
will continue until first day of April.for notes oi all
denominations, after that date, all notes above the
denomination of Five dollars can only bo lunded at
sixty-six and two-third cents to the dollar, except
One Hundred Dollar Notes which are no longer re
ceived after that date for public dues and can only
be funded at a further reduction of|ien percent per
month. The Certificates issued, as well as the Bonds
for which they will he exchanged, are receivable in
payment of taxes for the year 1364, and are not sub
ject to the tax imposed as on other Bonds.
Come forward promptly and obtain your Certifi
cates and not run the risk of being excluded by the
presuroltliat will take place towards the end of the
month. W. 11. YOUNG,
i mar 3 till Ist April Depositary.
Enquirer and Sun copy till Ist April and send bill
to me.
Plantation for Sale
TEN MILES EASTOF COLUMBUS,
I.\ MUSCOGEE COI Vn.
A ‘PLANTATION containing 1,2151-2 acres of
good pine land, heavily timbered, is offered for
sale, situated not exceeding ten miles east of Colum
bus, in Muscogee county, and two miles from tho
Muscogee Railroad.
Possession given on the first of January next, and
payment received in our present currency at par, in
advance. A splendid range for cattle, fair farming
land, with a clearing of about four hundred acres,
with near two hundred acres fresh. As the place is
too small for tho force of the occupants, immediate
possession will be given with proper inducements,
though posscssession until January next, is pre
ferred. , , , , ,
Good negro houses and overseer s house on the
premises.
Price moderate as our present currency can be
used at par. Call at this office immediately for fur
ther particulars,
mar 3 ts
SEQUESTRATION
l_a_ktl> sale,
WILL lie so,d, by order of the lion. Edward J.
11 >rden, District Judge, in front ot the Custom
House in the city of Savai nali, at public ouicry, to
the highest bidder, on TUESDAY, the 15ih day of
March next, in (he usual hours of axle, the following
lots of land, nfinely: Lois nun, her (27) twenty seven,
(47) forty seven, (&/) sixty t*o, (155) one hundred and
titty five (167)0ne hundred and sixty seven, (201) two
hundred and one, (224) two hundred aud twenty tour,
(254) two bundled and fifty .lour, (255) two hundrel
and fifty five, (256) two hundred tyid fifty six, (257)
two loir died and fifty seven, (259) two hundred and
tiliy nine, (264) two hundred and sixty four, (a77) two
hundred and seventy seven. (301) llnee hundred and
cue, (303) three hundred aid three, (330) three hun
dred and thirty, (330) three hundred and ihirty nine,
(371) three hundred and seventy one, (411) four hun
dre i and eleven, (157) one hundrod and fifiy seven, all
sitiiHted in the first district ofiniginally Appling now
Coflee county, Uenr is ; Lois number (441) four hun
dred and forty one, (4IO) four hundrod and ten, (343)
three hundred and forty lime (530) five hundred and
tinny.(72) seventy two. (.80) two bundled and eighty,
(305) three hundred and five, (373) three hundred and
seventy three. (519) five hundred and nineteen, (64)
sixty lour [43] tony ihiee, [ssl] five bandied and fifty
one, [34o] ihiee hundred aud forty, [364] three hun
dred and sixty four, [39o] ihiee hundred and ninety
nine, [l3l] one hundred and tidily one, [27l] two hun
dren and seventy one, [49] forty nine, [430( four hull,
dred and tinny six, all in ihe second District oforigi
iillly-Appling co., Ga. Lois number [l2.'] ore hundred
and twenty two, [22]twenty two, [sij fifiy one, [22o]
two bundled ahd twenty, [4Bl] four hundred and
eighty one, [l7B] one hundieu aud seventy eight, 1202]
i*o hundred aud wo. [s2] fifty two, [B3] eighty three,
]6s] sixty five, [29] twenty nine, [HI] one hundred
ane eleven. [6rj tixiy iwo, [SSJ fifty live, [2l4] two
hundred and louileen, [93].ninety ihiee, p/35J two
hundred and thirty five, [3vJ thirty two. [432] four
bundled and thirty two, [394] three bundled ami nine
ty four [297] two hundred aid ninety seven, situate
in the third Disirictol Appling county, Georgia ; Lots
number [B'] eighly iwo, [3»7] three hundred and
seventeen, [ 64] one hummed and sixty four, 27
twenty sev* u. 102, ore hundred and two. 208 two
bundled and eight, 330,three hundred ami Unity 337,
three hundr '* ul ‘d thiny seven, 268, two hundr. and and
sixty eight, 299, two hundred and ninety nine, 265,
two hundred and sixty five, 3b7, three hundred anil
sixty seven, 307, tlnec hundred and seven, 342, thiee
hundred and forty two, 244, two hundred and forty
lour, biluated i>* the fourth District of Appling county
Geo’gia; Lots number 426, four hundred and twenty
six. 245. tw o hundred and loity five, 320, three hun
dred bud twenty* 344,tnree hundred and forty four,
4i2. tour hundred and eighty two. 296, two hundred
ami ninety six 32, one hundred and thiny two, 247,
two trundled and forty seven, 335, three hundri and and
ih rly five, 2to. two nundie t and forty,2ls, two hun
- red and fifteen 353, th: e bundled and fifty three,
258, two hu. died ami fifty e’ght. 272, two bundled
and seventy two, 349, ihree bundled aud foiiy nine,
169, one hundred and Hxty nine, 506, live bundled
and six, 268 two lt<>• dn and and sixty eight. 90. ninety,
s tuate in the fifth 1 i-Die’ < i At pling county, Gem
ma; Lots numb, r 4&5, tom hundred and eignty live,
*2O, two hundred and twenty. 185, om hunared and
eigiity live 384, three hunmed and eighty t u, *tj..
two hundred and sixty seven, 50‘i, five hundred and
two, 497, lour bundled aiid nil ely m veu, 481, lour
bundled and eighty one, 565, five bundled and live,
514, five hundred a ltd f-j rteeu 2( 7, two bundled and
seven, 1. one 93 ninety th . e 301, Hire*, hundred
and one, 45,f ur thirty liv-, 14 4. one hundred and
forty eiglit.'.43, two funded and tort v three, 15, lit
t» en, 503, live hun red and three, 467. four hund and
seven. 410 loui hundred and ten, 363, ihiee hundred
aud sixty iliii e, M‘7 thri e bundled aid sixty m ven,
situate in the sixth di-luct ot o.iginallv App-ing now
t'oflee county Georgia ; Lots cumber 380 tune bun
dled it. and eighly six, 353 tide: Hun-red and liny
three, 423, lour huuuml and iwentv-three, 148, one
hundred.and forty < ight, 284, two hundred and eighty
lour. 308, three honored and eigtu, 24 ’. two hundred
and foity me, 115, four hundied and liftien, ‘45, mie
hundred and forty five, situate in the ven tit dictiii t
ot originally xpp'i'g now Clinch county, Geoign :
i ois number 148. one him 'red and foil* eiglo 8 i .gin
139, one hun* red and thi.ty nine, 3, ihiee. 243, iwo
hundred and foity luee. 0\ one bundled and live,
80, eighty, 87, eighty*seven. -55, two hundred and
fifty five, 306, ilnee hundred and six 409, four bundled
and sixty l ine rituate in the eighth district ot orig
tnaily Aj.pliii.', now Ware c iinty, Geo-ga; Lois
iitimWr 3.9, ihre. hundied and evenly nine, 170, one
hundied and event v, 01, one bundled and one, 190,
one bund ed and nice.y, 15a, one hundred and liity
eight, situate in the ninth District of origin aly Al>
p dig, now Pierce county. Georgia; Lois number 333
t'.ree hundred aud thirty three. 334. three hundred and
thirty four, situate in the twelfth tiisiiici ot miginahy
App.ing, now Clinch county. Georgia, the |.n petty ot
Abraham Colley, Charles W. • utter and leioyt*.
Del!, alien en» mi s; and L .ts number 49, fony nine.
•207, two hundred ai.d seven. *265, two hundred and
sixty live, 108, one .* uinirrd and ninety eight,3y7,thiee
bundled and ninety sevm, 03, ninety ihr.-e, '2 0.
in.min and und nineteen, tituate in ilte filtn ai-nict >»t
Applu g county, Geotg a ; Lots number 481, R>ur
bundled and eighty one, 176,0ne hund. ed uiMseien
ly six, 3.3, three hundred and Unity three . 65, three
bundled and mxtv five, si uat in me « d< Diet oi
Appling county, Georgia; L*t i umber 2W.two hun
dr.'ii and lwe> ly four, situate in the foni'n dj-lrij t u
Applin- county, Georgia; Lot nuniter ..ft4 three
hundred ami ninety four, situate in the six >* l,t “' f
of Coffee County, G ; Luts number 44, lour huuored
and forty seven, 17b, one hut.died and s‘ v euiy. 2J.
two in nd ed and ninety tour M.uate in tbe seVell.h
d.aiict ol Cinch county ; Lois nun.her 4rl.fc.ur
hundred and seventy one, 4,3. four hundred and
seventy three, siiuaie in the eighth dismc «»i Ware
county, Georgia; Lots number 00, sixty, 131, one
Imndred ami ib it* one, Miuaie in the third d.sirif i ol
Applimr county. Georgia ; L >ts number 49 '., lour
Initi lrad and nmi tv six. 60U, ti e hui and ed, 5d five
hundred ami oi <*. 5‘.«. five hui.di. and and two, 503 and""
hund.ed mm three, Su4. live bundled and fom, b-*>
live hundred and l Weill y two, 33", thri e bundled and
thirty nine, 341, thiee hundred and foity one, situ .te
in the iourih dittiq. oi Ap t ling comity, G. i.rgn.
the piopeity ol Abraham Cul.cy, Unbelt Rice alia
others, alien memo s .
sale to continue froiu day to day until all are s u iu.
W. C/UANIELL, Rcveivet.
