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Newspaper Page Textfile burning Wmw. Jf w WARREN, - - - Editor. Saturday Morning, March §, 1864. Not a “Conflict.” A correspondent of the Macon Telegraph thinks that the execution of the recent tax law passed by Congress will bring about a con flict between the Confederate and State Gpv ernraents. His point is as follows: “The second section of the tax act provides thus : Section 2d. On the value of all shares or interests held in any bank, banking company or association, canal, navigation, g, exporting, insurance, manufacturing, te * gragb, express, railroad and dry dock compa nies, and all other joint stock companies of every kind, whether incorporated or not, live value of property taxed under this sec ,ion .iS itLfcd upon the basis of the market value of such property m the neigh borhood where assessed, in such currency as may be in general use there, in the purchase and sale of such property at the time of such ft *Th*capital stock of the Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia, is five, millions dollars, divided into fifty thousand shares of one hundred dollars each. These shares have been selling in open market re cently at $650 each, for Confederate money, hence the tax on each of these 50,000 shares will be $32.50 and on the total capital, will amount to the snug little sum of one million six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; a sum as large, if not larger than the gross annual income of the Company in times of peace and prosperity. The charter of the company says it shall not be taxed more than the half of one per cent, on its net annual in come. But will the Confederate Government, or can it, afford to lose this $1,625,000? We apprehend that the “conflict” here af firmed, is altogether imaginary. The Legis- late of Georgia, in declaring that this Com pany shall “not be taxed more than the half •of one per cent, on its net annual income” in tended to apply this restriction only to itself, or any subsequent Legislature.. It could have intended nothing else, for by a previous com pact it, or the people it represented, had con ferred upon the Congress of the United States the power to tax the property of the people without limit, and the people of Georgia have recently delegated the same power in this re spect to the Congress of the Confederate States. The tax imposed by the Act, we ad mit, operates with much severity upon Rail road Stocks, sweeping away nearly their en tire income, but there is no chance for a “conflict” as above declared. Aftkr Battlb. The Macon Confederate makes the following sensible observations: “The Southern press shows commendable discretion and reserve in withholding from the public the strength and condition of our ar mies before battle is joined with the enemy. But no sooner does a general fight take place, and sometimes after a small skirmish, than they forthwith make haste to herald the names of every regiment, and its strength, the number and calibre of guns of the artillery, and in short, a complete revelation of our force. All this is valuable to the enemy: for a single battle does not often end a campaign, and upon these statements of the press, tLe enemy when defeated, rallies and makes prep arations accordingly. We recently routed the Federals in Florida with a small loss ; since When the minutest details of our military strength at that time, position and condition now, have been pub lished, and there is no question, read with interest and profit in the Yankee camp.— Preparations are making for another advance in that State, and our confreres will, there fore, at once see the error they have just com mitted. The enemy know our resources as perfectly as we do.” A cotemporary requests that those who make so marked a distinction between five dollar bills and those of a higher denomina tion, ought to make a like discrimination in the prices of the commodities which they insist on selling for what they say is the bet ter currency. Let purchasers take notice whether they do. The Comptroller of public accounts of Ala bama, gives notice to tax collectors, judges of probate and others charged with the collection of public dues, that up to the Ist*’of April, they may receive Confederate Treasury Notes of the present issues, at par, for all dues to the State, but that after that time, only at 66f cents on the dollar. Attorney and agents for the collecting of moneys due for 16th sec tion fl re to be governed by the same uot/ice. In reply to the assertion of one of the rad icals, “That because the rebel currency is de preciated therefore the armed resistence of the rebels must soon cease,” Mr. Nesmith, Sena tor from Oregon, recently said in the United Statos Senate—“With their present resources they have the ability to resist our military policy for the next ten years, and, indeed, to protract the war indefinitely.” ♦—<•>—♦ t Congratulatory Order from Gen. Polk. We are indebted to a friend in Demopolis for a copy of the following order : Hkadq’rs DyMQyoi.l3, Ala., i February 2Gtb, 1864. / Genera,! Orders No. 22. • The Lieut. General Commanding offers his congratulations to the Army pn the successful termination of" the campaign just closed. The cheerfulness with which the troops have borne the fatigues and unconsciousness of the march and their ready acquiescence in the orders directing their movements have enti tled them to the highest recommendation. To the firmness and good conduct of the men and the skill and judgment of the officers in checking the enemy’s march, the Commanding General \s indebted for securing the public stores and depriving the enemy of the use of the railroads and other facilities for foraging and subsistence. The concentration of our cavalry on his column of cavalry from West Tennessee forms the turning point of the campaign. That con centration broke down the only means of sub sisting his infantry; his column was defeated and routed and his whole forco compelled to mate a hasty retreat. Never was a great campaign, inaugurated with such pretension, terminated more ingloriously. With a force three times that which was opposed to its ad vance, they have been defeated and forced to u?ave the field with a loss of men and small nr!? 3 . artiUer y. Both of their columns lhe Bqnadroas of our irrateful'thHritt 6 . 116^ 1 c o mn »utiJing offers his that the Wl ‘° lc thinks mui vne opening campaign of the New v M r may be an earnest of the success await us in the future lDe Successes wl *ich Bf r S" d o' Unit. General Polk. [Signed] Thos. it. Z*ck, a. A. G. Farther from the United States.. We continue extracts from late United States papers. . CUMBERLAND GAP COT OTF FROM KNOXVILLE, The Nashville correspondent of the New York Times, says. “I see by a telegraphic dispatch that the Washington Republican states that the com munication with Cumberland Gap and Knox ville is not cut off. That journal la The road has been abandoned nearly tbre weeks. All mails and persons for Knoxville from any pomt North, go cinnati, Louisville, Nashville and Chattanooga. sag -“v° j * garrison at the Gap, from Knoxville, took a drcuitous route, some eighty miles from a di rect line. There is no important news from that section of Tennessee, although our own officers, citizens, prisoners and deserters say that Longstreet is being still heavily rein forced. It is expected that the railroad be tween Loudon and Chattanooga will be com pleted this week. This will give direct rail road communication between the latter place and Knoxville. re-enlistments. The New York Times has the following very improbable story in relation to re-enlist ments. It is known that many re-vOiunteer for the purpose of securing the large bounties and then desert: “The old regiments are returning from their thirty days’ visits to their homes with an av erage of one hundred and forty new recruits each. Very nearly one hundred and ten thou sand new recruits have been formally muster ed into the service since the first of November last, and many more thousands are known to be enlisted, although not yet mustered in.— The last two weeks the enlistments have av eraged 1,800 a day. Os the number formally mustered into the service, New York has fur nished about 16,000, Ohio 16,000, Indiana and Illinois 12,000 each,Missouri about 7,000, and Pennsylvania the same number.” REBEL CRUISERS. The Washington correspondent of the Her ald says : “Something of a sensation was occasioned in the Senate to-day by the statements made by Mr. Conness, relative to the imperative necessity of sending a fleet of war steamers to the Pacific coast without delay. The author ities have positive infoimation to the effect that rebel steamers have left Asia for that coast, and fears are entertained that injury may not only be done our commerce in the Pacific, but that San Francisco may be men aced before our navy can afford the requisite protection.” THE NEW ENROLLMENT BILL. The new Conscription uAct passed by the Yankee Congress, provides that persons en rolled may furnish, at any time before the draft, an acceptable substitute, not liable to military duty, or at any time before going to the place of rendezvous. But in no instance shall any person be exempted no longer than one year by reason of having furnished a sub stitute, at the end of which time he is to be enrolled again. The exemptions from enrollment and draft Comprise those physically or mentally incom petent for military duty ; all in the service at the time of the draft; and all who have served two years in the war and have been honorably discharged. No person of foreign birth shall be exempt who has at any time voted in any State or Territory. All able-bodied male colored residents of the United States, between the ages of 20 and 45 years are to be enrolled and form a part of the national forces. Who*. » slave of a loyal master is drafted, the master shall receive a certificate thereof and a hundred dollars bounty, and the slave shall thereupon be free. The War in Europe Begun. On the first day of February the troops of Ausa-ia crossed the Eider. On the next day the Germans drove the Danes from their out posts before the strong position of Missunde and attacked that place itself, but were repulsed, and the Danes retook their position. Skir mishes, with some loss of life, took place in other localities, and the reports say that on the third of the month an embargo would be placed on all the German shipping in Danish ports. An engagement between two Danish men-of-war and the Prussian artillery had taken place in the Bay of Ekenforde. So far we have the record of the commence ment of hostilities which diplomacy and pa tience have not been able to avert. Tb<* King of Denmark did not object to the occupation of Holstein b} r German troops, because be re garded it as a part of Germany. Not so with Schleswig, divided from Holstein by the river Eider. The passage of that stream by German troops was determined to be casus belli. It has proved so, and the shock of arms has taken place, the Austrian ami Prussian pow ers not permitting the King of Denmark to await the action of his Parliament on the rnand which had been made that the obnox ious Constitution of November, 1863, should be abrogated—a Constitution that incorpor ates the Duchy of Schleswig into the King dom of Denmark. So the sword is to decide whether the Duchies of Schleswig and Hol stein are to be ruled by the present Kang of Denmark of the House of Schleswig-Holstein- Sonderburg-Glucksburg, or by the Duke of Augustenburg, of the House of Schltjswig- Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. Meanwhile this question, to be settled by the gage of battle, is one of the greatest im portance. It will be seen that Queen Vic toria, in her speech on the assembling of Parliament, has given very significant apprehensions as to the probable results from this conflict, those consorted by marriage with her own children being actors in this new European drama. Besides, Louis Napoleon does not let the occasion go by without exultation at the fact that Great Britain, 'that spurned his ap peal for a Congress is to* be a party to the warlike perplexity, while France stands aloof, and watches the course of these events. The United States, too, are no indifferent specta tors ot this drama. Should this war go on the holders of our bonds will be disposed to send them back, that they may realize and invest in the depreciating securities of Euro pean states. Ihe consolidated funds have already fallen to ninety. [New York News, 21 )th. The Fata^ash. —Rev. Dr. Moore, of the first Presbyterian Church, on last Suuday related to the children of the Sunday school an incident which trans pired on the occasion of a visit to Spen cer Deaton, the Yankee spy, who was hung at Castle Thunder last Friday. Deaton in relating the experience of his life insisted that his fate turned on a red sash that once, when he was a boy, he saw worn around the waist of a captain of a malitia company marching past his fa ther’s house. The idea took complete posossion of his soul, and he imagined the acme of happiness and the pinnacle of fame would be gained if he could’be made a captain and wear a red sash. The breaking out of this war presented the long oovet ed opportunity, and fearing that he -could not gain position in the Confederate ser vice, Deaton joined a renegade Tennessee regiment and rose throngh the g rades to the rank of captain, realized the and ream of his youth, and bound his waist wiith a red sash. He wore it but once. Hu was sent into the Confederate lines on speoial service; was taken, condemned and hung as a spy. The red sash was his hfdter. [Ekh, Emminf. The Draft In the North—om clal Statement of the result —Public opinion against it. The draft la the North for 600,000 mm WtM place on the 10th of March, bat it the preceding one., to turn out a con.pleefa.lure The North has found out by actual trial that drafting is the most expensive, the least tire, the most iiritating and eahaustwg of all the processes for recruiting its armies. The results of the last draft were stated in the Yankee Con gress the other day as follows: Exempted for disability, 75,000 ; for other causes, 74,000 ; paid commutation, 41,000, procured sub stitutes, 34,000 ; served, 11,000. This accounts for 224,000 men. There are some 76,000 unac counted for. Out of 300,000 called for, 11,000 came! By dint of bounties, public and private, * Federal, State ami local, 45,000 are, in all ob tained. „ The call of October 17, 1863, was for 300,000 in addition to the number to be drafted. The call of February Ist, 1864, was for 500,000-—which is explained to b 8 200,000. Draft under Act of Congress 300,000 Call of October 17 300,000 Call of February 1 200,000 800,000 That our readers may see how this extraordi nary call falls upon the public of the North, we make a few quotations from the Northern papers : [From the New Haven Register] We are to infer from this new order for a draft, that Mr. Lincoln is not nearer its suppression than when it broke out. The country cannot much longer maintain so fearful a draft on its physical resources. How much better it would be to end the war by the exercise of a little common sense and a faithful adherence to the Constitution. [From the Brooklyn Eagle.] The President’s call will effectually dispel many pleasing delusions in which a majority of the people have suffered themselves to indulge. We have been told that tho rebel army was melting away—the rebellion was tottering to its fall, and it required but one more vigorous effort to “crush” it. The draft will be acquiesced in as a fearful necessity. [From the Boston Courier.] The President’s order for a draft for five hun dred thousand men does not look at all as if the administration considered the rebellion on its last legs. On the contrary, it indicates a conscious ness of more determined resolution in the revolted States, and anything, but that exhaustion and weakness existing there, which republican papers h ave so h arped upon. |[From the Lockport Uni@n.] For tho last two months the daily song of the republican press, from the highest to the lowest, has been that the rebellion was on its last legs— that its armies were deserting and mutinying—that its people were starving and repudiating Jeff Davis—and that before spring tho whole struc ture would fall. For|what ulterior purposes is an army of five hundrred thousand men called for, which cannot by any possibility be got into the field until after the rebellion is crushed, in accor dance with all republican authority. [From the Utica Observer.] The call now issued is the natural fruit of the “amnesty” proclamation and the confiscation measures. To carry out the theories of abolition ism, thousands of lives and millions of treasure must yet be sacrificed, and the restoration of un ion and peace be again indefinitely postponed. [From tho Troy Press.] It seems inoredible that, after tho experience of the past three years, and more especially in view of the failure of the previous draft, the President should order a draft for five hundred thousand men. The emancipation policy demands a mill ion of men and five billions of greenbacks to make it acceptable to the people, who, wo are told, are impatient to avail themselves of its generous terms! [From the Courier Des Etats Times.] The proclamation of the President ordering a draft for 500,000 men on the 10th of March, is a veritable surprise. The Republican press always representing the South as sorely punished, de moralized, divided, and incapable of prolonging tho strife, that the Federal iforces already under arms were entirely ample for tho easy task re maining before them. The people had bee" ueneve iuhi iney were entirely secure from a further draft, from which pleasant sense of securi ty they are rudely wrested by this order of Mr. Lincoln's. [From the Buffalo Courier.] It says something for the nonchalance of the American people; that it should be able to read, without loss of appetite or visible emotion, such an order as that which is served upon the country. But the people have become, in a manner, used to the thing. [From the Springfield Republican.] The draft of half a million will be a clean thing this time, and the chance of every able bodied man to bo counted in will be pretty strong. The Gov ernment, no doubt, makes -this extraordinary de mand because it wants more men, but does not, of course, expect to get half a million, or half of that number, and tho commutation money will he ex ceedingly convenient for the payment of bounties to the re-enlisting veterans which now are a hard draft upon tho treasury. [From the New York World.] Upon the city of New York this draft will come with peculiar severity. We have not yet secured five thousand of the eighteon thousand required of us under the call of October 17, 1863. Under the call over thirty thousand men will he required from the city of New York, and consequently five sixths of our quota will have to bo drafted. [From the New York t Express.] This makes the grand total of all the calls for the army alone, nineteen hundred thousand, taken from the able-bodied men of the country between the ages of eighteen and forty-fivo years. The general'feeling is, that great deceptions have been practised on jjthe people during tho six months past, by holding out hopes not warranted ky the facts. IFrom the Albany Argus.] The proclamation of October was for 300,000, the said draft to commence on the sth of January, 1864. With that singular perversity and indif ference to previous pledges or orders, the dcaft for the sth of January never came off, and nevur was countermanded. The.impending draft of March 10th is for 500,000 more, but has been explained to mean 200,000 in addition to the 300,000 of Oc tober 16th, which was in addition to the 300,000 of July last. This would make an aggregate of 800,000. [From the Utica Observer.] No call for men has been so unexpected and so unaccountable as this. Finances in Columbia, S. C.—The Guardian of the Ist says : “There has been quite a decline in the vahie of the Confederate security since the decline in Richmond of last week. Eight per cent, bonds payable in 1868, which were sold at 130 a 135, were sold yesterday un der 120; seven per cent, bonds sold at 112, and six per cents, which were in ac tive demand at 110 a 112, are now offer ed freely at 110; without finding purchas ers. The Confederate Government agent yesterday opened liis books for the* four per cent, funding, and was busy up to the hour of closing.” One of the Northern Democratic journals alluding to Bank’s order forbidding slaves in Louisanna to leave the plantations, re gards it as the substitution of serfdo m for inasmuch as the general, in his order for an election in that State, abrogated the provisions of its Constitution resp«i cting slavery and says : Gen Banks in Loiiisana and Mr. Lincoln in Arkansas, find them selves possessed of elephants, and don’t konw how to dispose of them ‘They are afraid to turn the slaves Joo.se, and keeping them on plantations excites the hopes of planters, while the pre c*ta rnation of freedom satisfies the fanati cism of Abolitionists. Either the plan theror the Abolitionists must sooin be undeceived. With which of these will the President and genral keep faith? W T endall Phillips’ water-in-pot will 4 t the time sittle the questiou. The Duke of Brunswick has depot vited his diamonds with the Bank of England. His regent robbery frightened him. p TELE GRAPHIC?. Reports of tho Press Association, Entered according to act of Congrees 1863, by J. S, ThhASHER, m the Clerk a office ot the District Court of the Confederate States for the Northern District of Georgia. Richmond, March 4. —The contest on Wednes day night at Walkerton, between a small force of Confederate cavalry and a party of Yankee raiders, resulted in the death of Brig. Gen. Dahlgreen, one of the leaders of the expedition, and the capture of 90 of his men. Several papers were found on Dahlgreen’s person with his signature, stating the object of the undertating to be the release of the prisoners on Belle Island, destruction of the hate ful city, murder of Jeff Davis and traitorous crew, and everything of service to tho rebels to be de stroyed. The documents disclose most vindictive hostility against the Confederacy and have pro duced a profound sensation in this community. U. S. papers of the Ist received. The defeat of Seymour in Florida is admitted. In the House of Representatives on Monday the Peace resolutions were rejected by 70 majority.— Resolutions that the rebellion is wicked, unjusti fiable, and must be put down, unanimously adop ted. Cox’e Ohio resolution, that the rebellion is hereby abolished, adopted with laughter. Pen dleton's resolution stating that the arrest and banishment of Vallandingham was in violation of the Constitutional law, was rejected by 30 ma jority. Other news unimportant. Advices from Europe to the 12th state that the Danes had retreated. Also reported that a con ference had been proposed by England, Russia and Sweden, for a settlement of the Danish ques tion. The Florida left Brest on the 9th. Earl Darby has attacked the policy of (the Ad ministration in regard to Lairard's rams, intima ting that they were seized under the influence of American menaces. Savannah, 4.— Specie! to the Republican.— Detachments from two or three regiments of cav alry and some infantry, all under command of Col. Anderson, of the 50th Ga„ attacked the en emy at Camp Finnegan on Tuesday. The Camp was retaken, the enemy badly whipped and pur sued within three miles of Jacksonville. Our loss 7 killed and 2 wounded. Enemy’s loss very heavy. Capt. Stephens, of tho Florida cavalry killed. Meridian, 4th. —The work of repairing the Railroads destroyed by the euemy is progressing rapidly. Three miles of track and threo bridges burned on the Southern Road, 10 miles of track destroyed on the Selma Road and 35 miles on the Mobile & Ohio Road, Sherman burned a great deal of property hore and at Mdrion, Enterprise, Lockhart and Lauderdale Stations. .All the pub lic buddings and a number of private houses at this place destroyed. Tho Burter House and Rags dale Honse, Railroad Depots and office of Daily Clarion were burned. Tho enemy pillaged every house and carried away everything of any value. Provisions Iskon from almost overy family.— Sherman laid waste all the country through which his army passed on their return to Vicksburg.— Sherman occupied the Ragsdale House for his headquarters while here, and MoPherson Gen. Polk’s old headquarters. Orange C. H. 4th.—The excitement about the raids has subsided. All quiet in this de partment. The cause of the cannon firing at the lower fords has not been ascertained. It is beleivedto have been our artillery shelling. There are feeble demonstrations made by the enemy’s cavalry while retreating. Chavlottsvillo Ijas been burnt also the Page Flour Mills in Green county, and the Bank’s Flour Mills at Madison C. H. The enemy carried off several citizens as prisoners. Dempolis, 4th. —A dispatch from Macon, Miss. 2d. via Cuba 4th, says a dispatch has just been received from Gen. Jackson dated Sharron, 7 miles from Canton Feb. 28th. He overtook the enemy at that point on the 27th, and was skirmishing. The enemy crossed their whole force at Ratcliff’s and Callum’s Ferry and proceeded to Canton where they were reported on short rations and broke down. It was thought would destroy a portion of the rail road north of Canton and go at once to Vicksburg. About 25 had been killed and a number captured. Our cavalry are harrassing them. Charleston, 4th.—loß shells fired at the city during the last 24 hours ending 5 o’clock this evening. One white woman |was severe ly wounded in the leg this'morning. This is the only casualty from 1230 shells fired du ring the last fortnight. The monitors fired a few shots at Fort Sumpter to-day No other news of importance. — We copy the following timely remarks from Ihe Richmond Whig, accompanied by Gen. Lee’s order to his officers and men, requiring them to refrain from the destruction of fences, &c. If the same protection is extended, and we doubt not it will be, to the farmers of North Georgia, we may look for a large yield of grain this year in this fine grain-growing re gion of Georgia: FARMERS AND THE CROP-PROSPECTS. Accounts relative to .‘‘arming prospects are, with the important exception of wheat, of the most gratifying and encouraging character. — The dry weather and “spells” of mild weath er we have had have enabled the farmers to do more ploughing than for years past at so early a period. In this particular, operations are at least a month ahead of last year. Far mers will be able, in consequence, to plant more largely and with more thorough prepar ations, and the advantage of a good start will be lelt all through the growing season and realized in larger products at its end. We hear the best possible accounts, too, of the disposition of the farmers. They intend con fining operations exclusively to the necessa ries of life, and mean to leave no stone un turned to produce the largest amounts possi ble. Under the promptings of patriotism, and in the school of trial, they are learning the unaccustomed lesson of economy, and are pre pared to put forth a degree of industry and energy never before employed. They are sen sible that every other interest depends on them and that all their interests are involved in the success of the eauee. With the forward con dition of their work, with the disposition and purposes entertained, and with the favor of a bountiful Providence, the next harvest will place us beyond all fear of want. In connection with this subject, we publish the following timely and judicious order of Gen. Lee: * Headq’rs. Army Northern Va., 1 January 28th, 1864. / General Orders No. 10. In order to afford every facility and encour agement to the farmers to prepare for planting the coming season, the General commanding directs that particular attention be given to the preservation of fencing, and the closing of roads through &e fields which the owners may desire to cultivate. The gaps in the enclo sures of such fields, which have been made by the army, will be enclosed by the nearest command, and passage across them by per sons mounted or on foot, and by vehicles, will be strictly prohibited. Travel will be con fined to the regular roads of the country as far as practicable. Corps and division commanders will see to the strict enforcement of this order, and give to farmers in their vicinity all the assistance in their power. The General commanding is confident that it is only necessary to remind the army of the importance of a supply of provisions fer its use, and that of the people, to ensure a cheer ful compliance by all. B, E, LEE, General. THE CITY. Old Type Metal for Sale. We have a few hundred pounds of Old Type Metal for sale. Persons wishing to purchase should make immediate application. Apply to the - mar 3 ts TIMES OFFICE. Sales To-Dat. —Ellis, Livingston & Cos., will sell .to-day a valuable negro woman, summer elothing, vehicles, furniture, tobacco, and sundry other articles too numerous to mention. Be on hand and secure bargains. See advertisement of a gold watch lost in Rus sell county, Alabama, by Mrs. Mary Chambers. W. W. Garrard and J. R. Ivey A Cos., adver tise bagging and rope for for which they will receive Confederate money in payment. Higher Is the qbject of desire with the pure, the virtu ous, tho holy. God is the grand embodiment of excellence, and to Him are constantly tending all inferior intelligences, that partake in any meas ure of the elements of His greatnes.:. All the laws of life, of morality, of learning, of science, of re ligion, are progressive, and are continually reach ing to a higher standard. While the powers of evil are seeking to drag downward to a common level the universal family of mankind, the princi ples of God ever attract upward. So this world has been the theatre of tremendous opposing forces and principles, and will doubtless continue so to be until the final consummation of the Redeemer’s kingdom. Then will come the decided triumph, a glorious victory, but not the end, of the rising aspirations of the good. Let us review briefly the workings of this prin ciple. The capacities of the human mind have ever been expanding, as the result of which science has ever made onward strides and achieved new and brilliant successes. Though it would seem that the intellectual conquests of ancient Greece and Rome, had reached the culminating 'point in the world of lettors, such was by no means the case, as modern scienco has demonstrated truths and elucidated principles of which thoso ancient worthies were comparatively ignorant. It is true that the oratoric and poetic efforts of those people, have always and erenow regai'ded as among the mastjr productions of literature, which have clothed the fields of language and thought with new lus tre and beauty. But still the empire of mind stops not here. Though the history of the world would seem to indicate that the onward progress of hu man wisdom and genius has not been uninterrup ted in its triumphal march, yet at each successive stride it has disclosed new wonders and achieved new successes. Thejlore of the ancient Egyptians, the inspired scintilations of Jewish Law-givers and Poets, the intellectual dominion of Athens, the Poetic Age in England, are but successive mile stones in the march of mind. So on down to the last minute of time, the do minion ofmindwill ascend higher, andits triumphs shine brighter. And even in eternity its progress shall know no abatement. But as it becomes di- vested of the clogs and hindrances, that obstruct to a great extent its capacities in this state of ex istence, it shall rise on airy wings to higher and more sublime discoveries. Endowed with super human capacities, it will range illimitable fields of scientific research, becoming more and more as similated in quality to its great author. There is, then, no standing still in tho great laws of mental improvement. Onward and upward, higher und yet higher We must go in the ascending scale. To falter or waver will but result, in stagnation, in death, in hopeless and irretrievable overthrow. As in science, so in religion. These two aro closely allied, and science is but the handmaiden of religion. The march of Christianity, like science has ever been onward. Amid the storms of se verest opposition, it has been transmitted to suc ceeding generations, stamped with indubitable evidences of its own divinity. From the handful that inaugurated the infant Church, its votarie s have increased in volume to a mighty host. And its great conquests are but yet commenced. Its victories will beam with a brighter glow, till the universality of its dominion shall encirclo the earth with a halo of living light and beauty.— While such is the case how important that the student at the shrine of science and religion should seek for higher attainments, until, elevated in the scale of the moral and religious, he becomes fitted for the inspired welcome—“ Come up Higher.”— In that cxhaltedj clime, in addition] to the rap ture which the presence of Jesus, and tho assure ance of salvation will impart, “Higher” will be our watchword, until we approximate in immor tality of vigor and intellectual splendor, to those lofty created fintelligences, which excel alike in wisdom and strength. Col. Howell Cobb, of Houston, died on the 15th ult. aged 69. He was a native of Savan nah, and in early life a practical printer. He is well known as the author of several vol urues of Legal Forms. Curiosities. —A ripple from the fountain of health. Counterfeit mosquito bill. Gravel from the road to ruin. Handle from a blade ot grass. Pieces from a broken promise. Buttons from a coat of arms. A guide board for the path of duty. A mft shell containing the conscience of the man who would not pay the Printer. Who steals a million is only a financier. Who steals half a million is only a defaulter. Who steals a quarter of a million is a swind ler. Who steals a hundred thousand is a rogue. Who steals fifty thousand is a knave. But he who steals a hundred or two is a scoun drel of the deepest dye. Impressment or Oxen. —We are informed, says the Eufaula Spirit of the South, that orders have recently been issned to the Commissary agents of the Government, to impress among other cattle all the oxen in the country, to procure beef for the army. It is scarcely credible that such an act of folly should be ordered, and yet we are assured that there is no question of the fact. It is the climax of all that is objectionable in the system of impressments,. It is a wanton injury to the country, without any corresponding benefit to the country. It will decreaso very greatly the pro ductive capital of the country, and add little or nothing to the commissary stores o’s the aimy. To render oxen at this season of the year, fit for beef, it will require at least three months time at a cost of not less than one hundred and fifty dollars per head. If let alone, they would fatten on range in less time, and serve the purpose of the farmers besides, for that length of time, thus saving the g overnment tens of thousands of dollars unneccs sary outlay. We hope that orders fraught with somnch folly, and with much damage to the ag ricultural interests of the country, will never be enforced. No case of starvation is yet kuown to have occured in Richmond, which the Dispatch attributes to the fact that those who have plenty, eat enough for them selves and for all the rest of the commu nity. Senator Doolittle, of Wisconsin, in the course of some remarks iu the Yankee Congress, on a resolution concerning in vestigation as to department afiairs, de clared that the liberties of the country were in as great danger from the army of plunderers which beset the treasury, as from the Rebels. Broken .Sabbath.—A few .Sabbath mor nings ago, a little boy and gif!, in Cornwall, instead of going to the Sabbath school, went off to rob the nests of the pretty sea gulls.— When the little Sabbath breakers came to the high cliffs between the Cove and Land's End, the boy reached over the edge of the steep rock to get some eggs out of one of the nests and the little girl had hold of him. Sad, snd to say, his foot slipped; the affrighted girl held himaslongas she could, Init her strength failed her. There was no one near to an swer her cries for help; she was compelled to relinquish her hold, and the poor boy fell down tho fearful depth of from 200 to 300 feet, and was dashed to pieces on the rocks ! My heart feels very sad while I write the nccount, buts pray that the affecting death of little William Penrose may prove a solemn warning to thous ands of my yofipg friends. May it urge both parents and- teachers to be more than ever faithful in enforcing the Divine command, “Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy." —Band of Hope Review. LOST. BETWEEN the Oswichee Post Office and tho bridge over the Big Uchee, a tine GOLD WATCH, Geneva make, No. 1,33(5, the maker's name not re collected. All dealers in jewelry are respectfully requested to give notice if it be carried to them. If found and returned a liberal reward will he given and no questions asked. mar 5 It* MRS. MARY CHAMBERS. Removal. I HAVE removed my office to the stoi’e of J. En nis Sc Co'., up stairs, G. E. THOM AS, mar 5 It* Columbus, March 1, 18(54. Stockholders of Columbus Salt Company will meet at Gunby & Co’s store, in this place, on Wednesday, 9th instant, on very important business. P. H. CARNES, mar 5 td Agent. AA D ROPE. ~ BALES INDIA BAGGING, Zi) 1,000 yds Dundee 20 Coils Hemp Rope, For sale for Confederate Treasury Notes. Apply to W. W. GARRARD, mar 5 3t or J. R. IV EY A CO. Naval Iron Works, 1 Columbus, Georgia.) All persons having claims against these Works, are hereby notified to Present the same for pay ment by the 25th of this month. ♦ J. H. WARNER, mar 4 3t Chief Eng. C. S. N. Wile Wanted. The undersigned wishes to enter into a correspon dence with a young lady with a view to matrimony. The lady must be good looking, well educated, of good disposition, not over 17 years of age. Money no object, as the advertiser is posses.se J of an ample fortune and has been honorably discharged from the army. He is 25 years of ago and fine looking.— Also highly cultivated. For full particulars address D. H. J., Feb 29. lw* Box 136, Eufaula, Ala. LOR SALE. MY PREMISES containing tw T o full lots, on which are two cottages, good barn and other houses, with a brick curbed well of never failing water.— Possession can be given in a few days. Call on Dr. W. P. Turner, in my absence, who is authorized to muko the sale. A. 11. DeWITT. mar 3 2w* Plantation and Shovel Iron. I HAVE on consignment 20,000 lbs. of Plantation Iron, and will receive next week some Shovel Iron, which I will exchange for Bacon or sell for Confederate money. W. P. TURNER. mar 81m Confederate Money Wanted in Exchange for BAGGING, Rope, Coffee by the Sack, Cooking Soda, Sal Soda, Starch by the Box, Dried Codfish, Tobacco, 1 Bale Angusta Sheeting; Children’s and Misses’Shoes, No. 1 and under, very fine French Shoe. Also, 100 pair Gent’s English Congress Gai ters wanted to exchange for Soldier’s Shoes for a donation. Apply to, J. F. WINTER, mar 2 Gt AUCTION SALES. By Ellis, Livingston & Cos. Sole Leatlier. ON TUESDAY, Bth of March, at 11 o’clock, we will sell in front of our store, .* , 33 Sides Superior Sole Leather, mar std $5 By Ellis, Livingston, & Cos. ON TUESDAY, Bth of March, at 11 o’clock, we will sell in front of our store, 1 Rockaway and Harness, 1 Fine Buggy and Harness, An Extra No. 1 Buggy Horse, 5 years old. mar 5 td $5 By Ellis, Livingston & Cos. ON TUESDAY, Bth March, atll o’clock, we will sell in-.front of our store, A Likely No. 1 Negro Boy, 20 years old. mar 4td $6 50 _ By Ellis, Livingston A; Cos. HOUSE AND LOTIN WYNNTON. ON TUESDAY, Bth of March, at ll!o.clock, we will sell in front of our store, A HOUSE AND LOT in Wynnton. adjoining the residence of Mr. Lloyd and M. W. Thweatt. the house ha.s 3 rooms, with kitchen smokehouse, Are.— Lot about 3 acres. mar 3 ids sl2 By Ellis, Livingston A Cos. OIiOTIIXIVrGr. ON SATURDAY, sth March, at 11 o’clock, we will t sell in front of our store, 75 Men’s Linen and Marseills Coats, of good style and t ize, Gold and Silver Watches, Lot Tobacco, with a general variety of desirable Goods. mar 3td $7 50 By Elli§, Livingston A Cos. AT PRIVATE SALE. A VALUABLE PLANTATION containing 1,800 acres bottom land, in Macon County, Ala., on the Montgomery & West Point Road, at Clyatt’a Station, 20 miles from Montgomery, lately owned by W. C. Bibb, 1,100 acres cleared, with good dwelling, out houses, gin and screw, ull in good order and ready for cultivation. A lot of valuable negroes will be sold with the place if desired, mar 1 4t sl3 Confederate States Depository. Columbus, March Ist, 18b4. Holders of Treasury Notts (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 of all denominations, after that date, all notes above the denomination of Five dollars can only be funded a sixty-six and two-third cents to the dollar, except One Hundred Dollar Notes which ure no longer re ceived after that date for public dues andean only 0 funded at a further reduction oftem per cent per month. The Certificates issued, as well as the Bomb or which they will be exchanged, are receivable in payment of taxes for the year 1854, 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 presure'that will take place towards the end of the month. W. 11. YOUNG, . mar 3 till Ist April Depositary. Enquirer and Sun copy till Ist April and send bill to me. Plantation tor Sale TEN MILES EAST OF COLUMBUS, IX MUSCOGEE COI VTI . A PLANTATION containing 1,5151-2 acres of good pine land, heavily timbered, is oflered 1 >1 sale, situated not exceeding ten miles east ot Coluin bus, in Muscogee county, and two miles from- the Muscogee Railroad. Possession given on the first of January next, aim payment received in our present currency at par, m 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 1- too small for the force of the occupants, immediate possession will be given with proper inducements, though possessession until January next, is V re ‘ ferred. . Good negro houses and overseer's house on tn premises. , Price moderate as our present currency can used at par. Call at this office immediately lor ‘ Ui ther particulars, mar 3 ti