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J. W. “ ’ “ Editor.
Wednesday Morning, March 9, 1864.
A Better Feeling*
The change which haa recently come over
the apirits of the Southern people illustrates
most strikingly the invineible power of trutlq
and the recuperative energy of a just and
righteous cause. Two months ago, our peo
ple (those who are not in the army) were op
pressed with the deepest despondency. For
seven preceding moon3 fortune had favored
the Federal arms, and it was feared by many
that a settled attachment would be the result
of her long dalliance with the enemy’s stand
ard. Hints of the possibility of subjugation
escaped the lips even of some whose hearts
were true; peace-makers started off in busy
search of new-fangled and fantastic schemes
of adjustment; croaker3, with their ominous
nods and despairing tones thronged our streets
and highways, while the woe-begone expres
sion and downcast look of the good and true
told with solemn emphasis that if the fortress
of hope had not surrendered, it had been
severely assailed.
* But within the last two months a great and
gracious change has been wrought. The rc
enlistment of our glorious veterans first re
vived and energized the failing hope of the
people. The fire which the noble Tennes
seeans lighted spread throughout the army
and the nation’s heart basks and revels in its
light and fervor. The first fruits of this re
animating influence were gathered on the field
of Olustee, where, with less than half their
numbers, our gallant men sent hurling back the
vandal horde who came to convert the ‘‘land of
flowers” into a wilderness of ashes. Follow
ing close upon the heels of this success, the
heroic Forrest, with well-aimed blow, severed
the . trategic cord that Grant had woven with
so much care to bind Selma and Mobile to
Vicksburg. The bright dream was dissipa
ted.—the grand combination fell. The shock
was felt throughout Yankeedom. Thomas
was startled by the crash, and so is Wall
Street. The Herald is in no danger of paying
its offered reward for Lincoln’s jokes. The
incorrigible buffoon will find herein no occa
sion for jest. Nero’s fiddling while Rome was
burning were not a more enforced and unsea
sonable levify.
We would not omit from the -unuraeration
of causes of the happy effect we are consider
ing, the earnest, decided and judicious action
of our late Congress. While it is possible
that some of the measures enacted by that
body are open to criticism, or susceptible of
amendment, on the whole it discharged its
duty well. Expedients for filling the ranks
of the army and supplying it with provisions,
and for the melioration of the currency were
imperatively needed, and we believe that those
adopted will meet the requirement.
Nor are there wanting signs of encourage
ment for our cause in the Northern sky. That
people are just beginning to appreciate the
truth of what the Confederates told them
three years ago—that Lincoln’s promises are
lies. They now comprehend, after a fashion,
the vastness of the work they have undertak
en, ana us magnitude appals them. Despite
the rigorous measures that may be employed
to repress any exhibition of antagonism to
the war, the coming Presidential campaign
will develop a strong current of opposition to
its continuance. Out of that campaign, too,
will spring elements of difficulty which It will
be hard for the “ powers that be ” to meet
and counteract. The steps necessary to re
plenish his wasting armies lie right across the
path of Lincoln’s electioneering policy. He
cannot, with much reason, count upon the
support of those whom, to place in the ranks
of death, he drags from peaceful pursuits and
comfortable homes with the strong hand of
military power. Neither is he, upon natural
principles, likely to receive much favor from
others who remain behind, for they know that
their time must soon come in this relentless
and endless round of butchery. Lincoln,
therefore, finds himself in this uncomfortable
dilemma : a vigorous war policy will lose him
votes, while a weak one will place his armies
at our mercy. Either horn may impale him.
But though the prospect which this picture
presents be bright and cheering, we should
guard with great jealousy and vigilance
against an overweening confidence. The ex
perience of the past three years furnishes
many warnings against the extravagant indul
gence of this feeling. We should remember,
as often as may be necessary to restrain undue
elation, that the first Manassas was followed
by Donelson and Fishing Creek; that the
glories jyround Richs«p4,. and the me
teoric splendors of the imjportal Jackson suf
fered a partial eclipse at Sbarpsburg, and that
Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville were
succeeded by Gettysburg and Vicksburg.
The'enemy's power and resources are still
great. We have still bloody battles to fight—
perhaps to lose. Important positions may
hrve to be surrendered, and the goal of our
hopes may yet be far in the distance. But it
will be reached at last. We must “learn to
labor and to wait.” Courageous endurance
and unwearying perseverance will take us to
the end in safety. A cause has been
so often and signally blessed ot Heaven—
which bears in unmistakable characters the
imprimatur of the Almighty, cannot but
emerge in triumph. And when Liberty shall
put aside her battle-robe, and, clad in the ra
diant habiliments of peace, shall ascend her
throne sustained by the hearts and arms of a
redeemed people, to Him who rules above the
“cedars and the stars” shall all the glory be
give n.
The question is sometimes asked, says the
Charleston Mercury, is it not as advantageous
to a holder to retain the present currency un
til the first of April, and submit to the tax of
one-third, and then invest in six per cent,
bonds. We answer, No. Let us illustrate by
an example : With three thousand dollars the
holder may now procure a four per cent, bond
for that amount. After the Ist £>f April the
same-currency could only buy a bond for two
thousand dollars. The actual interest on
these bonds (the one at four per cent, and the
other at six per cent.) would, indeed, be the
same, but, when pay day shall arrive, the
sums received in redemption of the bonds will
be very different. The four per cent, bond
would yield equal present returns, and a
greater one in prospective: hence it would be
the more valuable.
From the Mobile Advertiser Jfc Register.
Strengthening Plaster for Weak
Knees.
A Leaf from the History of Scotland.
Light Artillery Camp,)
Kingston, Georgia.j *
Mr. Editor; Often observing in the
columns of your journal and others, arti
cles to convince the timid that there is
now no occasion for doubt and desponden
cy, I have come to the conclusion that
there must be a considerable number of
such beings in the rear; that there, are
few or none in the army, I firmly believe
—the response it is now making from the
Potomac to the Rio Grande conclusi\ e y
proves that. It is well, however, in such
times as these, to turn to history, and ob
tain from its pages that instruction which
they so abundantly teach ; for the oppres
sion of the weak by the strong has been
the same in all ages and with every peo
ple, and those nations we at one time
sympathize with in their heroic mainten
ance of liberty, are often again the eppres
sors in their turn. But the results have
invariably been the same, and to use the
forcible and truthful lines of the volun
teer warrior and poet —
“For freedom’s battle once begun,
Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son,
Though baffled oft is ever won.”
By birth and education a Scotchman
and possessing an unbounded love for my
native country, proud of its history, proud
of its people who have so materially con
tributed to populate these States, I think
'that perhaps it may not be amiss to draw
a picture from the history of my country
for the thought and reflection of those
who may be timid or weak kneed.
Nearly six centuries ago the Scots had
apparently succumbed to their wealthier
and more powerful neighbors, their ar
mies dismembered, their country made a
desert, their hero Wallace executed, and
Bruce their King an exile,on the little
isle of Ratlilin with a few brave and de
voted followers, eking out a scanty subsis
tence through that long and gloomy win
ter. In spring he landed on the isle of
Arran, and waited for the first appearance
of a fire upon the opposite coast, a previ
ously conceited signal which a spy would
make. The fire burned. Bruce landed
upon the Scottish coast and found to his
grief and ionsternation, the fire had been
accidentally lit, the strongholds were all
occupied by the enemy, their patrols were
marching all over the country, and the
people Were almost perfectly submissive.
Urged by his friends to return, Bruce was
on the point of consenting, when his at
tention became .fixed upon a spider who
was vainly attempting to cast his web from
one beam to another of the old barn in
which the monarch passed the night. Six
times it failed, but the seventh attempt
was successful. Reflecting that he also
had made six unsuccessful attempts to re
cover his kingdom, Bruce resolved to risk
all upon the seventh; and, raising the
banner of Scottish independence, num
bers flocked around it, victory succeeded
victory, until at length, upon the field of
Bannockburn, liberty and national inde
pendence were permanently secured for
Scotland. Had not the Scottish monarch
made that last desperate effort, who can
tell the results ? Not only unglio tlie
Sootcli Lave remained a subjugated peo
ple, but the English kings, supported by
the regular army, garrisoning Scotland,
might have defied the efforts ol the peo
pie to obtain civil liberty. Would there
have been a revolution in Britain, in 1049,
in 1688, or an American revolution in
1770? Who can tell? History is phi
losophy teaching by example; and bear
ing that fact in mind, let us all, of every
age, sex and condition, take an example
from these Scottish patriots, and feeling
that the eyes of the world are upon us,
and that generations and nations yet un
born will criticise our conduct ; fix our
gaze upon those beacons of civil liberty—
self-government and national indepen
dence —now steadily burning in the dis
tance ; determine to reach them like free
men, or perish in the attempt.
Numberless other instances might be
cited; the patriotic devotion of the an
cient Spartans, Thebans and Athenians ;
the conduct of the Romans in the hour of
their country’s trial; and, in modern
times, the Maid of Orleans and her fol
lowers , the struggles of Frederick against
the powerful combinations formed against
him; the Spanish patriots combating the
gigantic power of Napoleon; the Neth*
arlands; the States of Greece; and last,
but not least, the American revolution.
We can derive much instruction from The
study of each or all of these ; but, I think,
the first ought to be quite sufficient to in
spire us all with courage now, and confi
dence for the future. F. P.
A Foreton Opinion. —The Nassau
Her4l<], of a late date, speakes thus of the
South:
The war in America bids fair to be one
of long duration, and as three years of
strife have as yet failed to bring forth a
single glimmer of light as to its prospec
tive settlement, it will exist as
long as there is any vitality wi t on either
side, an issue that present and past ex
perience places far in the distant future.
The North is impelled to its prosecution
not only by all their brilliant dreams of
wealth and ‘power, but knowingt he insta
bility of the airy castle of prosperity they
now live to see the loss/>f the contest the
foundation taken away from all their
hopes, and every pecuniary consideration
worth fighting for besides. The South is
striving for national existence, laboring to
throw off a yoke so oppressive that every
man, woman, and child, no matter of what
caste or color, groans beueath its oppres
sive burden, with a readiness to sacrifice
all-life, wealth and* even hope if necessary
—in the glorious strife for their homes,
their hearths, their altars, and their.honor.
This Southern Confederacy, now rais
ing its giant head above that political hor
izon, is truly a great one, and possesses
the country, climate, and labor that con
duce to the highest state of civilization—
a civilization that really is what it purports
to be —beneficial to the political as well as
moral advancement of all its people. It
is anew country it is true, and does not
consequently offer theeomfoits to belouud
iu Old England, but so rapidly.were they
improving before the war that in less than
half a century it would have advanced to
such a position as to offer greater political
and moral happiness to its people than any
nation in the New World or many in *the
Old.
*
The East of tlie Raiders—thefr
Retreat down the Peninsula.
In concluding our report yesterday we
stated that the raiders had succeeded in
effecting their escape by crossing the Pa
m-unkey at Piping Tree. Subsequent in
formation has satisfied us that this state
ment was erroneous, and that only a small
portion of the enemy’s forces crossed the
Pamunkey in their retreat. The man
body, after passing Old Church, in Hano
ver county, moved down into New Kent,
on their way, doubtless; to Williamsburg.
Yesterday afternoon Col. Bradley, T.
Johnson, with about forty of his Mary
landers, assisted by a detachment of the
9th Virginia cavalry, which had joined
him, came up with their guard near Tun
stall’s Station, when a skirmish ensued,
resulting in the capture of seventy of the
raiders. This is probably the last heavy
pull that will be made upon them, and it
is understood that the remainder of the
party had pushed on beyond New Kent
Court-House.
Thus ends the great raid which was
designed for the destruction of G en. Lee’ij.
communications and the liberation of the
Yankee prisoners in Richmond. The in
jury to the communications with the Army
of Northern Virginia can be repaired in
three days, and, instead of releasing the
prisoners already in our hands, they have
added not less than two hundred and fifty
to their numbers.
THE YANKEE LCOS IN KILLED AND
WOUNDED.
It is somewhat difficult to ascertain the
exact loss of the raiders in killed and
wounded. It is thought that in the fights
on Hick’s and Green’s farms they had
seventeen killed and it is known that they
had not less than twenty wounded. In
Hampton’s night attack upon them, near
Atlee’s lie killed four or five and wound
ed as many more. In the several engage
ments which occurred they must have lost
at a low estimate, twenty-five in killed
and seventy wounded.
THE LOSS IN PRISONERS.
Their loss in prisoners will reach 250. Up
to 7 o’clock yesterday evening 170 had been
booked at the Libby, and these did not in
clude tiie 70 captured by Col. Johnston in the
neighborhood of Tunstall’s.
THEIR LOSS IN HORSES AND EQUIPMENTS.
their nett loss in horses will amount
to cannot, of course, be estimated, as the num
ber they stole in their line of march will go
far to make up the number captured from
them. They did not lose less than 500 in
killed and captured. Besides the horses they
lost a Napaleon gun, many saddles, carbines,
sabres, pistols, blankets, kc. Altogether the
expedition was rather an expensive one to
Kilpatrick's Government, iaking into consider
ation the results accomplished.
THE DEPARTMENTAL BATTALION.
We were in error as to the name of the offi
cer who commanded this battalion in the re
cent fight with the enemy on Green’s farm.
Oftpt. John McAnerney, and not Mcllhaney, is
his name. He earne to Virginia in the early
part of the war with the lid Alabama' regi
ment, and was wounded in the battles around
Richmond. His wound disabling him, lie was
appointed a clerk in the Post Office Depart
ment. On the day of tlie raid be assumed
command of the battalion as senior Captain,
Major Henly being sick.
OUR WOUNDED.
Tn addition to the names already published
by us we have heard of the following wounded
iu uio late lights: <Jf llenly's battalion —Pri-
vates D. T. Carter, S. McLain, R. B. Green,
and Gray Doswell. Os the Armory battalion —
Lt Truehart, slightly in shoulder; private
Jones, mortally; private Rees badly in the
neck. Among the local troops we understand
our total loss to be: Killed, 3; mortally woun
ded 2: wounded, 12; missing, 5.
THE CENTRAL RAILROAD.
The injury sustained by this road from the
raiders is slight, and only such as to prevent
the running of the trains for a few days. In
the neighborhood of the Chickaliominy they
destroyed the trestle work over the Brook, and
some fifteen feet of what is known as the dry
trestling on the other side of the Chickahom
iny. At Beaver Dam they tore up some hun
dred yards or more of track, and burnt, one or
two important railroad buildings. This is
about Ihe extent of tlie damage inflicted upon
the road.
OUR ARTILLERY AT FREDERICK’S HALL.
Some uneasiness lias been expressed with
reference to our artillery at Frederick’s Hall,
and appreln nsions entertained that it sus
tained some damage from (lie raiders on Mon
day. - The fact that several of the artillery
officers were captured by them exciled these
apprehensions. We are glad to slate, how
ever, that not a single piece was injured, as
the enemy wore not at Frederick’s Ilall at all.
They struck the railroad some three miles be
low that point.
TIIE FUNERAL OF CAPT. ELLERY .
The remains of Capt. Albert Ellery, who fell
in one of the fights on Tuesday night, was in
terred in Hollywood Cemetery. They were
followed to their last resting place bylhcjiat
talion of which he was a member, and Smith’s
Battalion Band, Among the pall bearers we
noticed Marshal Kane and D*. Chas. Magill.
[Dic/mand Dispatch, 4th.
Tax Cpon Stocks.
The new Act levies a tax of five per cent.,
in currency valuation, upon the Lank and
Railway Stocks. The extraordinary opera
tion, of this tax will be, in many cases,
to forfeit to the holder not only all his income
from these stocks, but a heavy line in addition
for the offence of owning them. Take, for
illustration, two leading Railway stocks in
this market: the Central and the South-
Western Railroad. These stocks are not often
in market. They have not been held as spec
ulative stocks, but for permanent investment,
to a great extent of trust funds. The Widow
and the Orphan’s'mite is represented to an
unusually large extent in the share 1 isl 3, and
the high character of these corporations has,
iu this money plethora, pushed quotations far
beyond the range of. what would be consid
ered a promising investment for speculation.
Central Railroad was sold in Savannah at
last Tuesday's sales ror 560 to 615, and South-
Western at 405. Both, however, have sold
higher tvithin a few days iu Macon. South-
Western has brought 600, and Central 650.
Now, the South-Western divided all their nett
earnings last year among stockholders and
declared dividends amounting to seventeen
dollars per share. The Central declared div
idends amounting to twenty-two dollars per
share. Estimating Central stock at 600 the
tax per share will be thirty dollars, eight dol
lars more than the income. Take the South-
Western at 500 and the tax an this stock will
be eight dollars more than the income. Now
conceive of the numerous cases of widows
and minors, who depend upon these dividends
for support, and who may yet be called upon
under this tax act to forfeit not only all their
income, but eight dollars per share over and
above it.
It is evident, remarks the Macon Telegraph,
that such a tax not only takes away their in
come, but destroys the principal. Stock which
brings nothing is generally worth nothing;
but stock which brings the holder in debt is
worse than valueless. Upon this and other
points the new tax act needs revising, and we
hope Congress will correct it next May.—B«u
News.
Druken soldier sitting on a stone step, the
cold wind blowing freezes round the corner :
“If (hie) heaven tempers the (hie) wind to the
shorn lamb, I wish the (hie) sheep was in this
corner.”
TELEGRAPHIO •
Reports of tlie Press Association.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year
1863, by J. S, Thrasher, in the Lierk sotficeot
tho District Court of the Confederate states ba
the Northern District of Georgia.
Charleston, March 8. —131 shells tired at the
city to-day. No other news of interest.
* The amount funded at the Assistant Treasurer’s
office in this city during the last six days, is
$2,200,000.
Richmond* March 8. —At auction to-day there
was a further decline in manufactured smoking
tobacco, cigars and Other articles.
Gen. W. 11. 11. Lee is expected from Fortress
Monroe on the next flag of truce boat.
The capture of tho steamers referred to yester
day, was accomplished by 34 men of the sth Ya.,
•cavalry, under the direction of Acting Master
Burley. They crossed the Chesapeake Bay in
open boats and proceeded to Cherry Stone, boarded
cue steamer, brought off a propeller, scuttled a
schooner,captured 40 prisoners, destroyed a quan
tity of stores, Ac.
Orange C. H., March 8. —The Washington
Chronicle of tho 3d, contains a call for a Repub
lican National Convention, to meet at Baltimore
June 7th, to nominate a candidate for President
and Vice-President. All who favor suppressing
the rebellion and cause thereof, arc invited to send
Delegates. The Chronicle says editorially, it can
not be denied th at bitterness has sprung up
in the ranks of the Republican party, which threat
ens to ripen into something worse than the pre
liminary contest for the nomination. It says good
faith demands that all who send Delegates to the
Baltimore Convention should stand by the nomina
tion.
Macon, March B.—Upwards of two and a half
millions have been funded here in four per cent.
Bonds, and is now going on at the rate «.f half a
million daily.
[From the Southern Confederacy.]
I UoniYont “the Front” and
Hdurn Atfiouted.
I have just returned from the front!
I don’t intend to go back there ! !
Unless—mind you, fanatical humbug ol a
reader—-unless, my presence is absolutely nec
essary to frighten back Ruthless Invader, Esq.,
and General Vandal Horde. If my bleeding
country demauds that l be rendered up an
offering to the hero of Scotch disguises, lhe
author of Proclamations and tlie Inimitable
Jester of th e.Bleek House at Washington, I
submit with becoming meekness. At present
I decline Abe’s Amnesty. Ain “nesty” enough
myself, already, ami a well feathered nest at
that. Prefer it infinitely to a mud couch, and
a fence rail to cover with. Am not such a
fool as the Aztec celebrity, who didn’t know a
bed of hot coals from a divan of roses.
Had a hard time of it “in front” To a man
of my years and wrinkle of physiognomy, who
has’nt had any “field practice” for better than
a twelve month, “cajiupiug out” is not the most
luxurious thing in the world. Old messmates
laughed immoderately at my awkwardness in
reposing on the top of a worm fence, and siesta
eating in a pine tree fork. Found Dalton des
olate, and oppressed with pickets, and limp
ers to the rear, (with bones iu their legs !)
All the bed clothes had gone to the rear, and
all the boysliad been invited out to a little
Fancy Dance, iu which Chattanooga Thomas
and Palmer were vis a vis , Southern rifles the
music and Joe Johnston (lie floor manager —•
Vis a vis made one “forward and back,” but
failed to “right and left through.” Vis a vis
was as badly fooled as the old Darkie fisher
man Ben Hill told me of, over his barracks
fire, the night I reached Dalton.
The old darkie, in question bad caught an
enormous blue cat fish, secured him close to
tlio bank by a bark wyth, and went down
stream to try another haul. In the meantime
another darkie come along with a very small
blue cat, quietly “swapped fish,” and left, the
smallest secured to the wyth, and went his way
rejoicing at the ingenious manoevre. Darkie
number one, at length returned, stooped down
and drew up the bark line,.and looked aghast
with amazement. He cast his distended oc
culars across the stream, ho looked up the
stream then he looked down, he looked be
hind suspiciously, and then lie seeing no one,
he cast his eyes down derisively at the dim
inutive cat fish. “Well,” he exclaimed with
ajong breath “dis am a blue cat, dat’s
true but my God how he liab Swunk!”
Joe Johnston’s army hadn’t “swank” but
but vis a his evidently thought it had, and
was badly surprised to find it had not.
Tlie enemy having prudently retired upon
my approach, I confined to advance steadily
in pursuit. Passed sundry regiments of sol
diers going on the same pilgrimage. One of
them yelled out “kum outer that biled shurt,
you Quottamasters clurk, you!” Respectfully
declined the invitation and was derisively
apostrophised in the name of Longhome.—
“Hey-oh Longliome!” Thereupon I assumed
an expression of court martial, and gazed
sternly upon the interlocutors. This provoked
a laugh, the laugh set fire to a shout and that
broke out into a yell two or three regiments
in length, “lie’s chawed,” suggested oue
creature with no scat to his pantaloons— “he’s
chawed—his face’s red.
If a modest man could run such a gauntlet
of merciless criticism without a red face, lie
must be a man of muscle of brass.
I made frequent interrogatories after com
ing into the territory recently occupied by the
Yanks of tho Federal devastations. Among
other coloq-uys I overheard the following
between a returning refugee and an old maid
en dame whose niece and ward had eloped
with a Federal and had sent back word to
have her wardrobe sent on :
“Well, Miss Nancy, so Sarah Hanes lias left
you.”
“Yes she haiveV' An’l writ her a fierce 1
note: ‘Sa-ry Hanes, fiirth-i-more es you
warnt your close send a dray an git’m.
Nan-cy Jlopicins.’ ”
“Who did she marry, and where has she
gone, Miss Nancy ?’’ our friend modesty sug
gested.
“She liaint married nobody, an’ she haint
gone no whercs—but 1 writ her a fierce note
— she'll nigli forgit to her and) in’ day !”
The subscriber rode on and left, that irate
damsel wafting furious maledictions and an
athemas after the retiring Yankees and the
faithless Sarah Hanes. Wearied, I returned
to Dalton. Had been out to the field to dis
cover that at least three dear] Yankees had
acquired their Southern farm of five feet, and
had settled on it for life. My experience of'
the front in time of impending battle is that a
man may subsist on hard tack and bilge-water
whisky and sleep cosily on a wet log- if he’s
not luxurious in his habits of life ; that he can
hear two hundred and ninety lies in two hun
dred and ninety seconds, and that he can dis
cover more disconsolate females in search of
military husbands, in Dalton than in any
place north of the Gulf, where they most all
come from ; and, finally, that the native bev
erages ol upper Georgia, are strong enough
to corode a ten-penny nail, and that I .discover
to my dismay that, although a man of years
and of abstemious habits, I cannot now swul - j
low a Yankee canteen of Red Eye that it {
doesn’t fly to my head. Oh, Tempera! oh, i
Mores ! oh, d-j—n it! John Happy.
The New York Journal of Commerce
says that on the bloody field of Shiloh,
when the carnage was over, a soldier was
found standing, ilis legs somewhat spread
apart, and his arms thrown convulsively
outward, his posture that of a living man,
agitated, perhaps, by a strong emotion.
He was, nevertheless, stone dead, a ghast
ly monument of seeming life along side
the hecatomb of fallen corpses. Another
body lay partially prostrated on one side,
the right hand holding to the mouth a
piece of cheese which the set teeth were
almost in the act [of grasping.
CITY MATTERS.
T. J JACKSON, Focal Editor
Printer Wanted.
A good, steady Compositor cau find perma
nent work by immediate application at this
office. Price §1.25 per thousand.
For Chattahoochee.
The steamer Indian, Captain Fry, will leave for
the above and intermediate landings on Thursday
at 9 o’clock.
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See General Orders No. 7, of Adjutant and In
spector General Wayne, in regffrd to militia elec
tions, Ac.
Stationery at Auction. — It will be seen by
advertisement that Messrs. Ellis, Livingston A Cos.,
will sell at auction to-morrow 25 reams Commer
cial Note Paper. A good opportunity to invest.
Come up with your Confederate money.
Prices. — For the information and encourage
ment of persons who have anything to buy or sell,
we publishish the following ruling retail prices
yesterday for the articles specified: —Osnaburgs
$3,50 to 4 per yard; bleached shirting so to $S ;
calicoes $3 to sl2; cotton yarns SSO to S6O per
bunch; shoes S3O to $125 ; tobacco $2 to $7 per lb.;
bacon 3,50 to $1 [per lb ; lard $3,50; fresh beef
$1,25; butter $3,50; tallow $4; salt 05 to 75 cts.;
flour sl.oo to $1.25 per lb.; corn meal $7 to $3 per
bushel: potatoes very high and none in market;
everything else in proportion. As we have re
marked before, there is no regulation in prices.—
Everybody has a standard of his own. As flnan
-1 cesmust necessarily become tight, from the Bind
ing process, with little probability of a decline in
the necessaries of life, the prospect for living seems
to be becoming more difficult. Wq can only hope
for an. improvement after the first of April, without
being able to discover the direction from which it
is to come.
The difficulty in making change still continues,
and it is out of the question to procure anything
without either furnishing the exact sum required
or investing your pile. Altogether the prospects
are not very ilattering. But still trade appears ac
tive, and all articles in the way of find
a ready sale at almost any price. The crisis for
jiving is upon us and will require the most rigid
economy among home-stayers. The army must be
cared for, even if we have to resort greater
sacrifices in the way of selt-Uepial. Let us alj
bend every energy to increase the supply of the
necessaries of life.
Auction Sales. —We attended the auction
sales of Ellis, Livingston & Cos., yesterday, and
are rather inclined te the opinion that there is a
slight .decline in the prices es property, owing
probably to the increasing scarcity of money, from
funding operations. Prices are however, still high
enough. If the financial cut tailing procees con
tinues in a corresponding ratio to its commence
ment, there must necessarily he a tumble towards
the last of the month, as the volume of Confed
erate currency becomes absorbed.
By the waj T , speaking of Ellis & Cos., we no
tice that they advertise one of the larget sales of
stocks on next Saturday, that has ever taken place
in this part of tho Confederacy. This sale will
afford a fine opportunity for investment, and cap
italists will do well to make their preparations to
he iu attendance. Persons holding Confederate
notes that they do net wish to fund, will not fail
o availj themselves of this cLuuco to invest. We
are glacl to see that this enterprising firm are
doing suchja fine business. There is probably no
firm in this city, that have displayed more energy
and business capacity since tho commencement of
this war, and none have been more handsomely
remunerated. All members of this firm are clever
gentlemen aud have not only earned, hut deserve
success. If any of our citizens, or others, have
sales to make, they will surely bo enabled to effect
good prices and prompt returns byeutrusting their
business to Ellis, Livingston & Cos., who have
regular auction sales on Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays. Fp r full particulars consult our ad
vertising columns from time to time.
A Concert fob the Soldiers.— li will be seen
by an advertisement that the Columbus Nignt
ingales (colored minstrels) propose Yo give a Con
cert this evening for the benefit of the Columbus
Companies in Bonning’s Brigade, of Longstroet’s
army. Whatever objections may he urged against
granting privileges to this class of persons, k the
object of their present effort is certainly commen
dable, and we trust will meet with that measuaeof
success it deserves. The hardships endured and
services rendered by tho gallant men of Benningjs
Brigade are as familiar as household words, and a
grateful people should not only delight to honor,
but to administer to all their necessities. Could
our people understand the thrill of gratitude that
arises in the hearts of our war-worn veterans, at
the reception of good things from home, it were
certainly unnecessary to urge the necessity of
contributing liberally to all enterprises looking to
their relief and comfort. We saw a letter from
Charleston yesterday expressing the£deep sense oi
obligation the 19th oa., Regiment were under to
our people for the encouragement given to Prof.
Chase’s late Concert, and we feel satisfied that all
efforts in behalf of Columbus Companies in Den
ning's Brigade will ho equally acceptable and as
highly appreciated. *
We are led to anticijiate from past efforts of the
Columbus Nightingales quite an agreeable display
of musical talent, land presume that our people,
aside from the pleasure to be derived from a con
sciousness ot doing good, will he repayed by going
to the Ilall to night. Remember the*soldier, aud
do all you can to make him happy. It is a duty
you owe to him and yourself.
Reader did you ever gel in a tight place? If ho,
you can sympathize with our present condition.
Here we ate at 10 o’clock, and ' have'nt enough
matter to fill out this column by live lines. How
ever this item just fills up.
The large proportion of prisoners taken by For
rest, is partially explained liy the fact that many
of the enemy broke through his lines and then
surrendered,'and partly, we suppose, by the fact
that a good many of his troops are raw recruits
and not yet indoctrinated in his mode of fighting.
He was annoyed, while the army lay ai Tupelo,
by tho inconsiderate habit his men had of captur
ing the enemy by wholesale, and on one occasion
when he w T as going out on a tour he delivered a
short lecture on the art of war. “Now, boys,” said
he, “ War means Fight, and Fight means Kill,
by . What the is the use of taking
prisoners to eat up your rations.” From that
time there was a material falling off of the number
of prisoners taken by Forrest’s men.— Mobile liey
(st er.
i£X>.
,000 Cords fdg lit wood !
Offick C. S. Navai. Ikon Works,
Columbus, Ga., March 5, '64.
I wish to purchase One Thousand Cords of Light
wood to be delivered at these Works, or any conve
nient Depot on either of the Railroads leading to
this city.
A reasonable price will be paid fur large or small
quantities delivered as above.
J, H. WARNER,
mar 7 _ lw Ch’t Eng. C. S. A.
Notice.
ALL kinds of DYEING done at my residence,
opposite Haiinan’s Pistol Manufactory. Pro
visions of any kind taken yOIGHT,
mar 8 lm * *>yer.
. . STATE OF GEORGIA, i
Adjutant and Inspector Gkner vl’s Office, r
Milledfcevillff, March 4th, 1864. j
GENERAL ORDERS, No. 7.
I. The attention of Superintendents of elections
in this State, fur officers of the Militia, under the
"Act to re-organize the Militia of the State of Geor
gia, and for other purposes,” assented to Dec. 14,
1863, is called to the Eighth Section of that act, which
makes the Aids-dc-Camp of the respective Senato
rial or Military Districts of |this State, the chan
nels of communication with this office, on matters
appertaining the Militia. All election returns will
bo forwarded to the Aids-do-Camp accordingly.
11. On receiving the returns of elections the Aids
d e-Camp in com maud of Districts, are charged with
the duty of adjusting and classifying the same by
counties, keeping the returns of each county sepns
rate and distinct. They w ill consolidate the return -
for Company Officers, and for Field Officers of Regi
ments and Battalions, reporting the names of cau
didates, and the votes of each, and will take evi
dence and decide on contested elections, subject to
appeal to this Office by either party dissatisfied. In
which event, the evidence will be forwarded by the
Aids, with the decision rendered.
111. To expedite the organization, the Aids are
directed to forward their reports by mail, and Offi
cers elected, are notified that thoir personal presence
at this Office, will avail nothing, to secure commis
sions out of the regular order of business, or to
change that order in any respect.
By order of tho Commander-in-Chics.
lIENRY C. WAYNE,
mar 9 It Adjutant A Inspector General.
AUCTION SALES.
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
25 REAMS COMMERCIAL NOTE PAPER.
ON Thursday, 10th March, at 11 o’clock, we will sell
..in front of our store,
25 REAMS COMMERCIAL NOTE PAPER.
mar 9 td $3 50
Ely I'llfis liivingstoEi & Cos.
IMPORTANT STOCK SALE!
<AN SATURDAY, 12th}March, at 11 o’clock, we will
V/ sell in front of our store,
5 Shares Central R. IL. Stock,
10 “ South Western R. R. Stock
45 a Muscogee R. It. Stock,
10 “ Atlantic & Gulf R. R Stock
11 11 Augusta & Savannah R.
R. Stock,
G Shares. Mobile & Girard R. R.
Stock,
8 Shares Eagle Factory Stock,
25 “ Macon Western R. R.
Stock,
20 Shares Georgia Home Insurance
Company Stock,
100 Shares Savannah Home jnsnrance
Stock,
SI,OOO Confederate (15,000,000 Loan,)
$3,500 “ Eight per cent Bonds
due 18G8.
SO,OOO Condferate Seven per cent Bonds
due,
500 Georgia Six per cent Fundable
Treasury Notes,
$4 ,00 Shares Bank of Columbus Stock,
2 “ Southern Cotton & Steam
ship Company of Ala., and Fla., Stock,
L. Merrit, Agt,
25 Shares Eufaula Home Insurance
Stock,
1 Share Lamar Exporting Stock.
$3,G00 Georgia Eight per cent Treasury
Note s,
Jss£f’- Sale positive.
Confederate money of all denominations
received in payment,
mar 8 tds $56
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
AT PRIVATE SALE.
4 VALUABLE PLANTATION containing 1,800
J * acres bottom land, in Macon County, Ala., ou
the Montgomery & West Point Road, at Clyatt’s
Station, 20 miles from Montgomery, lately owned
by W. C. Bibb, 1,100 acres cleared, with* good
dwelling, out houses, gin and screw, all in good order
and ready for cultivation. A lot of variable negroes
will be sold with the place if desired,
mar 1 4t sl3
By Ellis, Lhiaiptoii Al Cos.
Him, Willi AD U.ITHER,
Auction 2 »
/ |N THURSDAY 10th March,, we will sell in front
V of our store, at 11 o’clock,
SOO BEiislk Is Coin in tlie Ear,
2 Casks Very Fine Wine,
1 Lot Superior Upper Feather.
mar 8 tds $lO
BACCi\C’ V\l* ROPE.
Off BALES INDIA BAGGING,
-.0 1,000 yds Dundee
20 Coils Hemp Rope,
For sale for Confederate Treasury Notes.
Apply to AV. AV. GARRARD,
mar 5 3t or J. R.,1\ r EY & CO.
Naval Iron AVorks, t
Columbus, Georgia./
All persons having- claims against these AVbrks,
are hereby' notified to present the some for pay
ment by the 25th of this month.
J. 11. WARNER,
mar 4 9t 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 he good looking, well educated, of
good disposition, not over 17 years of age. Money
no object, as the advertiser is possessed es an ample
fortune and has been honorably discharged from
the army. He is 25 years of age and fine looking.—
Also highly cultivated. For full particulars address
' D. H. J.,
Feb 29. Iw* Box 136, Eufaula, Ala.
UOR *ALE.
MY PREMISES containing two full lots, on which
are two cottages, good barn and other houses,
with a brick curbed well of never tailing water,—
Possession can be given in a few days. Call on Dr.
W. P. Turner, in my absence, who is authorized to
make the sale. A. 11. DkWITT.
ma r62w*
Confederate Money Wanted in Exchange for
D AGG TNG, Rope, Coffee by the Sack, Cooking
Soda, Sal Soda, Starch by the Box, Dried Codfish,
Tobacco, 1 Bale Augusta Sheeting ; Children’s and
Misses’ Shoes, No. 1 and under, very fine French
Shoe. Also, 100 pair Gent’s English Congress Gai
ter.-wanted to exchange for Soldier’s Shoe3 for a
donation. Apply to J. F. WINTER,
ma r 2 6t
Columbus, March 1, 1864.
Stockholders of Columbus Salt Company will meet
at Gunby & Go’s store, in this place, Wednesday,
9th instant, on very impel taut business.
P. H. CARNES.
mar 5 td Agent.
Notice.
The undersigned respectfully give notice to all
parties having claims upon them for Deposites, Bank
Balances, Collections, Certificates of Deposit,
Checks, Ac., to come forward and receive payment
for them on or before tho 25th day of March, 1864 ;
failing.to do so, the amounts due them, respectively,
will be funded in Four Per Cent. Confederate Bonds,
according to the recent act of Congress, for their
account unless specially directed to the contrary.
We will continue to rcceivo and pay out Confede
rate Treasury Notes ol all denominations until tho
25th of March next, after that day only those of the
denomination of five dolTurs and under, will he re
ceived and paid out until further notice, and all the
new Treasury Notes intended to replace the present
issue will be received in payment and on deposit and
paid out. J. M. XVATT,
Agent B’k State Ga.
H. H. EPPING,
Agent Union Bank.
Columbus, Ga., March 7,1864—t mar 25,