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COLUMBUS TIMES Published Daily (Sunday.- excepted) at the rate of per uioiitb,or • i lor three months. X„ subscription received for a longer ti'rm than Inn * months. ai>vi:ktisi\«; ii aii s : Advert Dements inserted l'or $2 00 per square for t Ste tii 't in-ertion and $1 50 for each additional. \V here advertisements ar.o inserted a month, the charge will bes2o per square. Announcing candidate.'';j>lU, which uno-i invariably to- paid in advance. '•A deduction of2o percent, will he made on all advertising accounts over .>4), when prompt pay merit is made. 4.l.olU,t.4—Marlon A oiiiitj : * •itJLH X LSI. Whereas, Amanda L Cattle, Ad- j it mini tratrix upon the estate of Da\ id L, Many, | deceased, having applied for letters ol * l l mmission i front said Admiui: (ration. These are therelore to cite and aamnni-h all and i singular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased, j 1,, .now can e, if any they have, why said Adminis- I n.itnx should not be dismissed lroui said adiuinis- j tratu.n. .. Hiven under my hand and official sirnuture, Or- I tober sth, Itstri. MAlitOA. 11A1L, - .l*;c 12 mom Ordinal tiftlOßCilA.—Marion lounlj s \\ 11EREAS, B. A. Stary, Administrate) upon the | V* estate of Joseph N. Stary, lade ot said county, j deceased, having applied tor letters ot difiussion j troin said administration. . ! These are therefore to cite and admonish all and , singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to he and appear at my ottice within the time pre- j scribed hy law, to show cause, if any they nave, why said letters of dismission should not be granted to said applicant on the tirst Monday in October next. tiiven tinder my hand and otticial .-.ignature. Jan. 220, Its>4. A LOOM 11AIK, Jim 2f»m6m Ordinary’. GUORUI A—Marion County : RULE NISI. Whereas Carrie James. Adm’x on the estate of Daniel James, Jr., having peti tioned this Court for letters of dismission from r.aid Administration. . , , . . ~ . These are therelore to cite arid admonish all and singular the? kindred and creditor.-* ot :tnd aeeeasjed to be and appear at ni> office Within the tune pre -t-ribod by law, and show cuui*e it any tney nave, Wh> said Administratrix should not be .Lsmir-icd lroui said Administration on tlie fii-t ivionday in niven under my’ hand and official signature, this December the7th, IS*A. MAL.COM HAIR, dec 14 intim • Ordinary’. Medical Card. St IE E. ft. Ito SHY. I'ORMEKLY Surgeon to the New Orleans “Fe- T nialo infirmary," tenders his services to the Cit izens of Columbus in all Lhe blanches of his proles - ,Special attention will he devotedjtotho treatment of the diseases ofwomeui. t . Surgical operations performed lor Stone in the Bladder,Fistula in Aim, Visieo-Vaginalfistula, Hydrocele, Congenital and Accidental Phymosis, Varicocele, llcemorrhoids or Biles, Callous Impas sable strictures, false Passages, Tallapesor Club foot, and contraction of the lingers, Strabismus or Squinting, Aneurism, Yarix or dilated veins, Ptery gium, Cataract and liair i.ip; also for the remov al of all tumors or abnormal growths from any part of the body. Diseases of ths Genito-Urinary System, couiprsing the different stages of Uhonorrheea, Strictures, Gravel, Spermatorrhea, Syphilis, in its primary secondary,tertiary and heriditary forms,will receive particular attention. References given whenever desired as well as the recommendation of many years practice in New Or leans; Consultation hours every day at Ins pllice in the Masonic Hall Building, from 111 to 12 o’clock a, m,, and from 2to t o’clock p, ui. Patients willdo well to call precisely at those hours, as before and after that time will be devoted to visitiug persons in the city. Address all commuieations to DR. E. A. ROSSY. Columbus. Ga, N. B. —Patrons from a distance will bo visited and treated at home if desired. L shall lie thankful to my professional brethren for any favor they may do mo by sending mo persons requirin' Surgical attention. will also bestow particular attention to the treatment of the different forms of l leers. Rheu matism, Gout. Scrofulous affections, Syphilitic erup tions, and all other chrome diseases of the skin. — Medicated Fumigations and Steam Sulphurous Baths, as employed in the hospitals in Europe and America, will form a part of my treatment, fob 11 IS- A. 11. B*iesi*:aiftf Blour. THIS old and well known SALOON we have re- I fitted and opened for business. We have three Bowling Alleys and necessary fixtures, and hall by eoiiducting our business in an orderly m.inner, hope to merit a liberal share ot patronage. OGLETKEK A BARRINGER. fob 10 ts 4 AEEEft. THIS beautiful and Thorough Bred STALLION will make the ensuing Spring Sea-ion at the CHATTAHOOCHEE COURSE, his old land, near Columbus, Ua., commencing the loth ii.st,, andend iug on the loth ot J line next. I will not attempt here a long pedieree or desertp tion.of FRANK, as his form, blood, beauty, perlor * malices and fame, are too well known to make it necessary. . , Terms —$100 for (be Season in advance, should a mare not prove in foal, she will be entitled to his his services another Season free of ehat> fob Dim P, Yv r . PIIYOR. 150 ll>n. Blue Mass. AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. -A For sale by J. S. PE.VI DERTOiv. fob 18 if Druggist under Cook's Hotel. Oid iron WaaUt'rf, \\7 E wish to purchase a large quantity of SCR VP VV IRON. l 'oth cast and wr-.u. ht, Ico V, If., h . idi will bo paid. HARRISON. BIDELL & CO. jan 27 ts Pino Smoking a ml Chewing Tobacco. A T WHOLESALE AND RETAIL A For sale by J. S. PEMJBER ION, fob 13 tt Druggist under Dook s Hotel. GOOEB.IGH & 00, } of New Orleans,) BFIO AX> EOEWUBIi*, <4A., WHOLESALE - AND ISETAIL Stap I. o c no y DRY-GOO US. ARE constantly receiving fresh imp.qtnliom, di rect from Europe, ol staple and juncy DtiY GOODS, which they offer whe-ap forca- u. fob a 8m Wasiitd, THE highest price will be paid or Plow Steel given i l in exchange for Beaver Skins, A l ove number I wanted. Enquire at feb22 4w L. 11A1MAN A BKO. Albany, Eufaula, Cuthbert. Ilninbridge and pp.ikely papers »'opy 4\v and send bills. Wart* house ON and after the first ilav «>! March next, the charge for storage on Cotton in our V\ arc houses will he ONE DOLLAR per bah per mouth. ■ KING A ALLEN. WA KNOCK A CO., HUGHES A HODGES. J. R. IVEY A CO.. GREENWOOD & GRAY, POWELL. FRAZER & €O. Columbus, Ga., March 2d. 1864. — 1m N. i?!;tfe>Btal TinLL be Sold ou the first Tuesday in April next. VY between the -usual hours of sale, before the Court lli>u«e in .Yl uscogee county, a line tour wheel carriage, levied on to satisfy twenty-six ti fa- \ ■ Beall ,V Murphy, one ti la vs A. A. _ Beall and one ii la vs R. A. Murphy,: aniishees in lavo, ot Die Con federate States of America f.*r inter. •» on debt to allien enemies to the toth .Vu.-i, i. l-v, PHILIP A. CL \ Y'fON, C. S. Marshal. Columbus. March Lt td \ont s:, QUAK'fERMASTER’S oFVICK I t'nl.i'Mi is, January 2',. PfU. j On the first of each month. Major J no, E. Datis, post Ouartermastev, will make payment t . all em ployees of this department, Al-o to owmis Gave hired, and 17*v property r. 01. and. Parti.- in t.-re-t.-d will present their bill- to Maj.u l*.,\i Uluuthly. The employees of thcTransporiaiion Depai tinent will he paid by i'apL 11. D. ColliiaH. All pilivlni- ci ot supplie ■ and payuteip ■ theretof will be made i>> uiyself. E. W. DILLARD. Major and Ouarleruiaster. ian 29 till apl 1 W tiiinl to A GOOD FIELD HAND, Man or woman. Good wages will be paid monthly it desired. Apply at this ofiice. Feb. 2d '' V a Vol. XI. J. \V. IVtRKEX & tO. j_ w U tKKIX, I,lion-. (Itaiigt* ol* Schedule. M! SCOGLE RAILROAD, ) fcl PKHIMTNOEN I ’g OfTU’E, Columbus, Dec. 3d. ISC3.) ON and after Dee. bth the Mail Train on this Rsad will run as follows: Leave Columbus 7 To P. M. Leave Macon 6 30 P. M. Arrive at Macon 4 18 A. M. Arrive at Columbus 2 oO A. Af. j Passengers can now go through to Charleston, via 1 Savannah, without delay, as the Mail Train on the - Charleston and Savannah Railroad makes close ! connection with the Central Railroad at Savannah. W. L. CLARK, Dec 4 ts Supt. Muscogee R, R. (Jliange oi‘Schedule. Office Fxqinef.r and Superixtendent, 1 Chaeleston and Savaxxah Kui rgad, v Charleston, Feb. 18, 18d4.) ON ar,d after SUNDAY, Feb. 21 t, Passenger Trains will Leave Charleston 7 1-5 A. M. Arrive at Savannah 4 25 I‘. M. • Leave Savannah 7 00 A. M. Arrive at Charleston 4 20 P. M. Passengers by this route from Columbus, Mont gomery, Albany’, Fufaula, See., pas through Sav annah without detention. H. S. HAINES, feb 21 lw eoaSw „ Eug’r and Supt. Cshange of Sc hedule. ON and after March 13th, the Passenger Train on the Montgomery Sl West Point Itiiii Road will Leave Montgomery 8 00 A. M. Leave West Point 7 10 A. M. Arrive at Columbus 5 32 P. 3Vi. Leave Columbus f> 50 A. M. Arrive at Montgomery’ 3 00 P. M. Arrive at West Point 4 30 P. M. « Freight leaves Columbus 8 4G, A. M, Freight arrives at Columbus 8 27 P. M. D. H. CRAM, mar 11 til Apl 5 Supt. & Eng’r. No!ice to Travellers and Shippers! Office Muscogee Railroad Company, } Columbus, Ga., Feb. 22, 1804. j On and after this date persons purchasing tiokets and receiving and shipping freights over this road, will be required to furnish the exact change. W. L. CLARK, feb 24 lm Superintendent. OFFICE MOB ILE & GIRAIID R. R. ) Gi raHi), February 20.1801. .1 On and after this date all parties receiving or ship pingfreights over this Road, will be requiredltofur nish the exact change for freight. W. H. WILMIAMS, feb 20 ts Agent Notice to Stockholders in lie Hank of Columbus* Coluairus, U v., Feb.4th. 1864. On the first MONDAY in April next, an election will bo belli at the Banking House for nine Direc tor: of raid Bank, for the ensuing year. DANIEL GRIFFIN, feb tde President. Special Notice to Stockholder*. Muscogee Railroad Company, (. Columbus, Ga., Miureh Ist, 1864.) Alt persons to whom Dividends are due are re quested to call for the same on or before the 26th lil.it. Alt amounts not called for by that time will be held in Confederate Treasury notes of tip- present issues as special deposits for those to whom the same may be due. By order of Board of Directors. J, M. BIVINS., mar 1 till 26th Sec. and Treas. BANK OF COLUMBUS, t Columbus, Ga,, Feb. 25, 1864.) Notice is hereby given that all depositors in this Bank are required, to withdraw their deposits by tlie twenty-fifth day ofMarch next, in order that they may choose for themselves between funding and taxation under the new currency act, before the first day of April following. And that all persons having claims upon this Bard: for Deposits, Bank Balances, Collections, Cei.iti. ale of Deposit, Checks, Dividends or other duo accounts are required to settle them by the 25th March next, othwhe the amounts due them re spcctivcly, wilt be l anded iu four per cent. Bond-), according to the act ot Congress ot l.thinst , tar their account.', unlc ' especially directed to the con trary. D. ADAMS, feb 25 till Ist April. Cashier. Sun and Enquirer copy. it otice. \LL kinds-of DYEING done at my residence, /» opposite ltniinau> l’istol Manufactory. Pro \ i ions ot any kind taken in payment. HENRY VuIGHT, mar 8 lm Dyer. Plantation an<i SlioviJ Iron* }• HAVE on consignment “0.000 lb ', of Plantation Iron, and will receive next week some Shovel Iron, which 1 will exchange tor Bacon or set! tor Confederate money. A\ . P. TURNER, mar > i m Pl.t tv.4 TO PURCHASE 015 BHD ! ON E that will accommodate sixty hand-. Inquire at THIS OFFICE, feb 26 ii KOTIPG. QU ARTERMASTERS OFFICE, l Colun.bu- ; , Ga., At,well It), 1864. \ I WILL PAY A HIGH PRICE FOR -Scrap Copper, -delivered to any Quartermrster in this State, for shipment to me. Post Quartermasters are requested to buy all that is offered, as I want it tor Shoe Rivets. F, AV. DILLARD, mar 111 apl 1 Major &Q. M. To Those Interested. Notice is hereby given to all parties having funds in our hands, thai lUesa-memust be \\ithdvawnprior to tlie I t of April next, or under the law we shall bo . .uupolied to return it, which will subject them to a til.c af thifiii rh,; . <m ,i n limit p.-r cent, on tlie amount. ELLIS, LIVING; TON A CO.. Columbus, Ga.. March 2d. if The undersigned respectfully give notice to all parties huYingejaims upon them f..r Deposited, Bank Balances, Collections, Certificates ot Deposit, Check , Ac., to come forward and receive payment for them >-n or before the 2.>th day ol A/arch, 1864: l'ailin - to do so, the amounts due them, respectively, will be funded in Four Per Cent. Confoderate Bonds, .•..•cording to the recent act of Congress, for their account unless specially directed t* the contrary. A\’e will continue to receive and pay out Confede rate Treasury Notes of alt denominations until the r ub «.i March next, alter ihat Jin only those of the denomination of tii e dollars and under, wiil be re coil ed and paid .on until further notice, and all tire non lica-ury Notes iuicuded to replace the present D' ue will be received in payment and on deposit and paid out. J. M. WATT. Agent B’k State Ga. U. H. EPPING. Agent L ; nion Bank. * Columbus, Ga., March 7,18 4-t mar 25. Columbus, Ga., Tuesday Morning, March 15,1864. Clin HUlitai n Dimtavn HEADQUARTERS POST—II9' Eroad Street, ’ Up Stairs. Col. J. W. Robertson, Com’g. | Gapt. Chas. Wood, A. A. G. Capt. J. S. Smith. A A & I d W. T. MoKi: .GREK, Chief Clerk. • ESH OL LING OF Fit 'E. Capt. W. S. Wallace —rear of Jones’ Buildinjr. > I OR OX A NOE 1) ERA R TMEX T. Cor. Olgethorpe and St. Clair Sts. Maj. F. C. 1! u m pure vs, Com’g. Capt IV. Latham, Ex. utneer. Lieut. J. M. Mulden, Military Store Keeper Q CAR i ERMASTER DEE'T. At No. la Broad Broad St. Maj. F. AV. Dillard, Com’g. Maj. John E. Davis, Post Q. M. CapL. ii. D. Cothran, A. Q. M. COMMISSARY DEP' T. At King, Allen A Camak’s Warehouse. Maj. A. M. Allen, Com’g. Capt. J. 11. Gravbill, A. C. S. ENGINEERS DEFT Capt. Thus. Moreno. Lieut. Wm. Hansell. MEDICAL DEFT. G. B. Douglass, Post Surgeon. (Ottice at Wayside Home.) J S AVhite, General Hospital Snrg. iu Charge. J P Moore, “ “ Surgeon. L D Carson, “ “ Ass’t Surgeon, li Fowler, “ “ “ AV AA r Dickie, “ “ “ “ NAVAL DEFT. Office near the Old Bridge. J. 11. AV ARNE ii, Chf. Engineer. PR OVO ST MA RSHA I. Capt. Geo. N. Knight, (East of the Bank of Columbus. £~thie Hoard. J S White, Senior Surgeon. The Board meets at the General Hospital on Tuesdays and Fridays. AUCTION SALES. 15) lOHis, Livingston & Co* ROPE AND TOBACCO! /AN TUESDAY,,ISth of March.Jat 11 o’clock, we * / will seliiu front of our store, 38 Coils Hemp Rope, 112 Boxes Tobacco, 1 Full ( Jase Grover A Baker Sewing Machine, l Case Kdlickinick Tobacco, 2S) Sides Sole Leather, 60 pail Ladies’ Shoes, 3 bills Rye Whiskey, mar 14 ' $7 '®y ESlis, saig’stoii SL (Do, iiN TTTESDAA . March T>lh, at lljo’clock we will AT sell in front of our store, One \my Fine New Grover A Baker’s Sewing Machine. One Patent Lever Gold Watch, mar 14 $3 50 By Ellis, Livingston «fc C'o- BACON ANSI LARD. ON Tuesday, loth March, at 11 o’clock, we will sell in front of our store, 1,000 3i>s» dboice V.ard, 1,000 iS>s, Choice Macon. mar 11 td $lO By IF His, ltiring §ton & Cos. THIRTEEN LIKELY NEOSOES At Auction i j )N TUESDAY 15th March at 11 o’clock, we will \J sell in front of our store ffel VERY ILfBvEV.V YOEMO MEN, V a vying from IS to 31 years oi age. ■SSS* - Sale positive to close up a Salt Company, mar 14 $7 Hv IGiiiis, iiiviiig’Stoia & Cos. j \N TUESDAY, 15th March, at 11 o'clock, we will soli in front of onr - tore, ISO tLiglit Cloth Caps, 1 Pair Rose Blankets, 1 Excellent Gold Waleli & Chain mar 1 1 $4 ComVdci’Rts) States Depository* Columbus, March Ist, 1864. H olders of Treasury Notes (.except those bearing - 1 inteve t * can now obtain Certificates which will en- , title them to four per cent. Bonds, which privilege < will continue until tirst day of Apriljfor notes of uM i denuiaiiiatinns, after that date, all notes above the j denomination of Five dollars can only be funded a J sixty-six and two-third cents to the dollar, except I One Hundred Dollar Notes which arc no longer re- j ceived after that date for public dues and ean only e funded at a further reduction of .en percent per > month. The Cevtiiieai -s issued, as well as the Bonds ; or which they will be exchanged, are receivable in payment of laxcv for i tie year 1861, and are not sub ject to the tax imposed as on other Bonds. Come forward promptly and obtain your Certifi cates and notrua idle risk oi' being excluded by the pre-lire that will take place towards the end of the month. W. 11. YOUNG, mar 3 till Ist April Depositary. Enquirer and Sun copy till 1-t April and send bill to me. Aotiie. Assistant Quartkrmastf.r's OrFicß, 1 Columbus, Georgia, > March 10, 1864.) Parties holding Certificates of Purchase or Im pressment, made by ihaj. J. F. Waddell, will pre sent their claim- li>r pu>rnent by the 25th inst. 11. D. COTHRAN. mar 10 2w Capt, Sc A. Q. M. Sun copy. To ( oniedciTiU’ Tai Payers. I am instructed to forward to the State GilloeAw allmoney received in payment oi fax •as to reach him before the LV.thinst. On and aLer Monday, the ! 21 «t iust., this office w ill he , 1.-cd for a tew days, amt consequently the present currency will not be re- j reived it par in payment of Confederate Tax. J. A. L. LEE- : C. 8, Tax Col. for l)i.- t. Xu. 41. mail 4 lw Laiui for Sale. 4 Til.l FT of EIGHT HUNDRED acre land, Iv , il\ iug near Spline Hill, in Barbour county- Ala bama. Bet v.ven 2*) ami ot)U acres cl eared, all fresh. ; havhu been in cultivation only two or three years- ThL- section of country is among the best cotton piv ,luring lands in Alabama wr Georgia. Parties wish ing to invest in euoh propei tv amv call mc.W twoen this nnd the 2nth Inst., after that it wiil b« withdraw u Loin market. Apply to \\ m. C. ivii AV . at Greenwood J. Gray •; ‘Alice, i mar it) Gl 2i>tU inav TOR SSAI.ILL MY PREMISES containing two full lots, on whkAi are two cottages, good barn and other houses, j with a brick curbed well of never foiling water. — Possession can be given in a few days. Call on Dr, iW. P. ■Turner, in my absence, who authorized tq | make the sale. A. ii. DeWITT, mar 3 2w* fA floiidny Evening Old Tspi* Octal for Sale. AVe have a few bundled pounds ofOldjType Metal for sale. Persons wishing to pufehasq should make immediate application. Apply to tho mar 3 ts TIMES OFFICE. ■» -a- * TEIEGEAPHIS. Ucjiopts ol tlu* 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 States lor the Northern District of Georgia. Charleston, March 13.—Eight shells have been tired at the city Alice last night.* Nothing else. OF lIIS EXCELLENCY JOSEPH E. BLOWN, 1 TO TIIK EXTRA SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE, CONVENED MARCH I (HU, 1864. [CONTINUED.] 1 have aaitl the South i.s not the guilty ! party in this dreadful carnage, and J. think it not inappropriate that the reaaoiLS should he often repeated at the bar of an intelli gent public opinion; that our own people and the world should have ‘‘line upon line” and “precept upon precept.” “here a little and there a little,” “in season and out of season,” as some may suppose, to show the true nature of this contest —the principles involved—the objects of the war on our side, as well as that of the en emy, that all right minded men every where may see and understand, that this contest is not of our seeking and that, we had no wish or desire to injure those who war against us, except so lar as has been necessary for the protection and preserva tion of ourselves. Our sole object from the beginning has been to defend, main tain and preserve our ancient usages, cus toms, liberties and institutions, as achieved and established by our ancestors in the revolution of 1770. /i'llat Revolution was undertaken to es tablish two great rights—State Sovereign ty— and self-government. Upon these the declaration of Independence was pre dicated, and they were the corner stontf upon which the Constitution rested. The denial of these two great principles cost Great Britain her American Colonies which had so long been her pride. And the denial of them by the Government at Washington ifpivsisted in must cost the people of the Untied Statca ig<> Uwa»t/A* of themselves and their posterity. These are the pillars upon which the temple of Constitutional liberty stand ;, and if the Northern people iu their mad eftoit to de stroy the Sovereignty of the Southern States and take from our people the right of self-government, should he able, with the strength of an ancient Sampson, to lay hold upon the pillars, and overturn the edifice, they must necessarily be crashed beneath its ruins, as the destruction of State Sovereignty and the right of self government, in the Southern States, by the agency of the Federal Government, nec essarily involves the like destruction in the Northern States, as no people can maintain these rights for themselves who will shed the blood of their neighbors to destroy them in others, ft is impossible tor half the States ot the Confederacy, if they assist the central government to de stroy the rights and liberties of the other I half, to maintain their own rights and lib -1 erties, against the central power, after it | has crushed their eo-States. ; The two great truths announced by Mr j Jefferson, in the declaration of ludepen | denee and concurred in hy all tlie great men of the revolution were, Ist, “That. Governments derive their just powers from the consent of Governed.” 2d, “Taut these United Colonies are, and of right ought to he free and independent 1 States. \Vit are not to under,Manil l>y the first \ j'lvat truth that each individul member of j’ the aggregate muss com posing the State must give his consent before ue ean he ) justly governed; «*r that the eonsent ol t each, or a particular class of individuals iin a State is neeessarv. By the governed ! is evidently here meant communities and bodies of me]n capable of organizing and maintaining government. The “consent ol' the governed,” refers to the aggregate rvill of the cijnnnunity or State in its legit imate and jnjopcrly constituted organs. Iu elaborating this great, truth Air. Jef ferson in the declaration ot Independence says that governments are instituted among men to secure certain “inalienaye rights”-—that “among these are life, lib erty and the pursuit of hapjiiuess;” “that : whenever any form of government becomes ! destructive of these ends, it is the right, of i the people to alter or to abolish it, and to I institute a jnew government lay up its ! foundation on such principles, and organ izing its powers in such form, a;> to them shall seem most likely to effect their safe- I ty and happiness.” According to this great fundamental | principle the ooverign States ot Amer ica, North and South, ean only be govern ; ed by their owrt consent, becomes distinc tive of the great ends of which it wa term ed.thcy have a perfect right to “abolish it, hy withdrawing their consent lroui it, as the Uolonies did from the British Bov ernm, ntjand to form a “new Government with its foundations laid on such princi ples, and its powers organized in . ueff form as to them shall seem most likely to | effect their safety and happiness.” t port the application to (Jiepr» fill eoiitroYer of this gre|at principle, to whieli the Northern k S'tate are as firmi\ committed , as the Southern States, Georgia can , proudly challenge New York to trial be j lore the bar of enlightened public opinion, j and impartial his lory’ must write the ve;> i diet in her favor, and triumphantly vin- $3 Per Month. dieate her action in the course she has pursued. Not only all the Sovereign States of America have heretofore recognize, this great truth, hut it ha*) been recognized by j the able and enlightened Kmperor of tlie French who owes las present elevation to the consent of the governed. He was called to the Presidency t.y the free suffrages or consent of the French people, and when he assumed the imperial title he again submitted the question to the “governed at the ballot box, and they gave I heir “consent." At the recent treaty of pence with the Em peror of Austria he ceded an Austrian prov ince to France, and Napoleon refused to “govern it," til) the people at the ballot Imx gave their “consent,' that he should do so. The Northern States of America arc to-day. through the agency of the despotism at \\ ash ington, waging a bloody war upon the .South ern States, to crush out the great American principle, announced and maintained in a seven years war, by our common ancestry. ! alter it ha-' won the approbation of tho ablest and most enlightened Sovereign of Europe. in discussing this great principle, 1 can but remark, how strange is the contrast bt tween the conduct ot the Emperor Napoleon, and that of President Lincoln. Napoleon refuses to govern a province till a majority of the people at the ballot box has given their con sent. Lincoln after hating done all in his power to destroy tin* freedom and parity of the ballot box, announces in his proclamation his determination to govern the Sovereign States of the South bt force, and to recognize and maintain as the Government of these States, not those who at the ballot box can obtain the consent of the '‘governed,’’ or of a majority of the people, but those who can ob tain the consent of one tenth of the people ot the State. Knowing that lie can never govern these States witli “the consent of.the govern ed,' he tramples the declaration of Independ ence under his feet, and proclaims to the v\ orld that he will govern these. States, not by the “consent of the governed” but by military power, so soon as he can lind one tenth of the governed humiliated enough to give their consent. But the world must be struck with the ab surdity of tlie pretext upon which lie bases this extraordinary piefension. Ho says, in substance, the Constitution requires him to guarantee to each State a republican form of Government. And for the purpose of carry ing out this provision ot the Constitution he proclaims tltqt, so soon as'one tenth of the people of each of States shall be found abject enough to take an oath to sup port Ids unconstitutional acts, and at the same time to support the Constitution, and shall do this monstrous deed, tie will permit them to organize a State Government, and will recog nize them as the government of the State, and their office!s as the regular constituted au thorities of the State. These lie will aid in putting down, driving out, expelling, and ex terminating, the other nine tenths, if they do not likewise take the prescribed oath. One tenth of the people of a State put up, and aided by military force, to rule, govern or exterminate idue tenths ! And this to be done it idler vne j’nioc. <>»• orofV- <‘d object of guaranteeing republicanism ! AVbai Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Ad ams. Hancock, or even Hamilton, have said to this kind of republicanism ? What say the conservative Northern .statesmen of tlie pres ent day, it permitted to speak '.' Does such a government as this derive its just powers from the -‘consent of the governed D Is this their understanding of the republican govern ment, which the United Slato3 is to guarantee to each Etate ? If so, what, guaranty have they for the freedom of their posterity? If the government at Washington, guarantees such republicanism as this to Georgia, in 1864, what may be her guaranty to Ohio and other Western States in 1874. The absurdity of such a position on Con stitutional principles or views, is too glaring for comment. AV hen such terms arc offered to thorn, well may the people of these States be nerved to defend their right.-' and liberties at every hazard, under every privation, and to the last extremity. But I must nciice tlie other great truth, promulgated in the declaration of independ ence—“that 11 1 os3 United Colonies are. and of right ought to be, free and independent." George the 111 denied this great truth in 1776, and. sent his armies into Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia, to crush out its advo- cate.s and laaiuLvin over the people, a govei ti ment which did not derive its powers from the * consent of the governed, g President Lin coln in 1861. has made war upon the same States and their Confederates to cm dyout tlie same doctrine by armed iorce. Tet he has none of the apparent justification before the world that the British King hud. The colo nies bad been planted, nurtured and governed by Great Britain. As States, they hud never been independent and never claimed to be. This claim was set up for the tir -t time in the declaration of independence. Under these ci rcti m ;l ances, there was some reason nh' tlie British Grown should resist it. Butth,' smc iI truth proclaimed was more powerlill than the arum*.-’ and navy of Great Britain. On the 4th ol July, U. 76. our father made this declaration of the freedom and ind.-pen.l enee of the States. The revolution was tough i upon this declaration, and on the 3d >la% “i September, I) Si, in the treaty wf peace, “ilis Britanic Majesty, .acknowli'daes tin* -aid l ni ted States, to-wit: New Hsm; - hue. Ma .‘u im setis Bay, Rhode Island and Providence J’bsn tations. Connecticut, New York. New Jfvev. Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland. Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent Stater, that he treats with them a3 such. Lc. On and after that day Georgia stood before the world, clad in all the habiliments, and possessed of all the attributes of sovereignty. When did Georgia lose this sovereignty Was it by virtue of her previous compact with Imr ! sisti r States ’ Certainly no!. The Articles of Confederation between the colonic-, during the struggle, set torth tin- off ■ to be attained, and the nature ot P.u bond between the parties to it. and the sepa rate soveu*ignty of each of the States a p; in to it, wa- expres- lj re efva 1. Was it when she with the otic r States formed the Conyti tntion in 1757 ' Clearly not. The Constiiu tiim was a compact lie-tv* ecn the thirteen States, each of which bad ' yen recognized separately by name, by the British King, as a free, sovereign and independent Si n< The objects and purposes for which the fed j *- r;t | (fowiuvcent was formed, were distinctly | specified and were all set forth in the compact. ' The government created by it was limited in * it- powers by the grant, with an express reser . ration of all” powers not delegated. Thf- great ; attiibute of separate Stale Sovereignty, was not delegated. In this particular, there was i no change from the Articles of Confederation. .Sovereigntj was still i•■'.d and abided , with tin* States i. spectre. i\ li.. mure “perfect Baiun w, ’■« ‘‘d up ui the assumption that it wa-’ f r tic be a m*:r --<-. t ol all the States to enter into it 'vith the additional grfuit of powers and guarantees V each State being bound as a Sovereign to perform and discharge to the othc*. . all the new obligations of the compact It wa ;o submitted to the people of the States respect j ively and so acceded by them. Tho Shriek did not part with their separate sovereignty by the adoption of the Constitu tion. Iu that instrument all the powers dele gated, are specially mentioned. Sovereignty, the greatest ot all others emanate, is not amongst those mentioned. D could not have h en united with except by giant either ex pressed or clearly implied. • The most degra ding act a State can do is to lav down or sur render her sov ercignty. Indeed it can not be done except by deed or grant. The surren der is not to be found in the Constitution amongst the expressly granted powers. It can not be amongst those granted by implica tion ; tor by the terms ot the compact noue are granted by implication except such as are in cidental to, or necessary and proper to exe cute those that are expressly granted. Tha incident can never be greater than the object and ii nothirtg in the powers expressly granted, amounted to sovereignty, that which is the greatest of all powers, can not follow or be carried after a lesser one. as an incident by implication—and then to put the matter at rest forever, it is expressly declared that the powers not delegated, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. Sover eignty the greatest source oi all power, there fore, was left with the States by the compact, loft where King George left it, and left where it has eygr since remained, ana will remain forever if tho people of States are true to Lhem aelves, and true to the great principles which their forefathers achieved at such a cost of blood and treasure, in the war of 1776. The Constitution was only the written con tract or bond between the sovereign States in which the covenants were all plainly express ed. and each State as a sovereign, pledged its faith to its sister States, to observe and keep these covenants. So long as each did this, all were bound by compact. But. it is a rule as well known and universally recognized in savage as in civilized life—as well understood and as generally acquisced in between sov ereign States, as between private individuals, that when one party to a contract refuses to be bound by it and conform to its requirements, the other party is released from further corn-’ pliance. "W ithout entering into an argument toshow the manner in which tue Northern States had perverted the contract, and warped its terms to suit their own interest, in the enactments and enforcements of tariff' laws for the protec tion of their industry at the expeuse of the .South, and in the enactment of internal im provement laws, coast navigation laws, fishery laws, &c., &c., which were intended to enrich them at the expense of the people of the South, 1 need cite but a single instance ot open avow ed, self-confessed, and even boasted violation of the compact of Northern States to prove that the Southern States were released, and discharged from further obligation to the Northern States, by every known rule of law, morality, or camity. One of the express covenants in the written bond, to which the Northern States subscribed, and without which as fs clearly seen by refer ence to the debates in tho Convention which formed the Convention, the Southern States never would have agreed to or formed tho compact, was in these words: “No person held to service or labor in ono State, under the laws thereof escaping into another, shall in consequence of any law or regulation therein be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such seivice or labor may be due.” Massachusetts and other Abolition States, ut terly repudiated and annulled and sot at naught this provision ol the Constitution, and refused either to execute it or to permit the eonstituted authorities of the United States to carry it out, within their limits. This shameful violation by Massachusetts, of tier plighted faith to Georgia, and this refusal to bo bound by the parts of the Constitution which she regarded burdensome to her ami unacceptable to her people, released Georgia according to every principle of international law, from further com pliance on her pari. In other words, the Consti tution was the bond of Union between Georgia and Mo- aehusetts, and when Massachusetts re fused longer to be bound by the Constitution, she thereby dissolved tho Union between her and Georgia. It is truthfully said in the declaration of Inde pendence that “experience hath shown that man kind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.” So it was with Georgia and lief Southern sisters in this case. Though Massachusetts and other northern States, by their faithless acts and repudiation of the compact, had dissolved the union existing be tween the States, the Southern States did not de clare the dissolution, hoping that a returning sense of justice on the part of the northern States might cause them agaiu to observe their Constitu tional obligations. So lar from this being the case, they construed our forbearance into a conscious ness of our weakness and inability to defend our selves, and they organized a great sectional party tv hose political creed was founded in injustice to the South, and whose public declarations and acta sustained the action of Massachusetts and the other faithless States. This party, whose creed was hostility to tho rights of the South, triumphed in the election for President in i a6O. The election of a federal Ex ecutive by a sectional party, upon a platform of avowed hostility to the Constitutional rights of the South, to carry out in the federal administration the doctrines of Massachusetts and other faithless States, left no Aurther ground for hope that the rights of the South would longer he respected by the northern Staffs which had not only the Execu tive, luit a majority of the Congress. The people of the Southern States, each sove reign State acting for itself, then met in conven tion, and in the most solemn manner known to our form of government, resumed the exeroise of the powers which they had delegated to the common agent, now faithless to the trust reposed in it. The right of Georgia, as a member to the original compact, to do thi is too clear for successful de nial. And the right of Alabama and the otfier States which had been admitted into the union since tho adoption of the Constitution, is equally incontrovertible, as each new State came into the union as a sovereign, upon an equal footing, in ill! respects whatever, with the original parties to the compact. ft OTIC E. HEADQUARTERS POST, ( Columbus, Ga., Jan. 27, 1864. j GENERAL ORDERS, No. 6, I. All officer: or soldiers remaining in Columbus over Iffjioui will require a pass from these Head quarters, FI. All persons between the ages of 18 and 45 years vi-dting Coluiu bus (Officers of the Navy and Army tatioued at this Post excepted) wili-iu future be re quired t<> procure a pass front thckCommandimt of ihei’o.-t. No other document than the pass spec ified will be regarded by the officer charged with the examination of passes. 111. Officers and soldiers absent from their com mand.-. or citizens claiming exemption by virtue ol contracts or oth.a wise, will save themselves annoy ance by immediately procuring the required pass. fly order of Col. ROBERTSON. CHAS. WOOD, A. A. G. jan 29 ts OFFICE SOUTHERN EXPRESS COMPANY, (. Com iIBL.S, Ga.. I eh, 14tll, 1864. ) Much complaint being made of lije delays of this ; (’..rupany in forwarding merchandise, 1 am instruc ted t.« advertise that the rules of the Company re quire that 6'-mecii»o?id pafkugaa shall have prece dence over ml otlie. , and next in order packeges ! a warded by friend* or associations to officers and Idler.- in the field or hospitals. The observation ! of this rule together with limited facilities for trans portation, necessarily cause delay in the forwarding of packages for merchants and others. S. 11. IIILL, feb 13 lm Agent, OFFICE SOUTHERN EXPRESS COMPANY. » Augusta, (Fa., 4eb. loth, lsot, J i Legal notice is hereby nice,, to ol!concerned, that I persons who ship packages containing spiiit-, wines and cordials, without informing our Agents of the fact wiil not be entitled to, nor will they receive, the benefit of valuation. Spirits, wines or cordials, will noi j, c forwarded by this. Company except under .pecial contract JAMES SHORTER, Supt. Lb 13 lm Ai ling President. IdU'.Mi AKRI VAL. OF LANDRETH’S GARDEN SEED! A T BOND i HOWELL’S, J~A. Barnett, Chapman & Co’s Old Stand, lw