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liov. Brown’* Message.
. heavily to the task ot
We bring- ourselves ue»> J
r.Ficwing this extraordinary document,
hive great respect for Gov. Brown, and agree
with him in many of his views. H,s patriotic
devotion to the common canse is not to bf
doubted, and the uncommon intelligence an
energy which he has exhibited have already
made his name a shining mark in history.
iB painful to differ with him in marters of the
gravest import. We do so with reluctance
and not without some misgivings that our zea
for the cause of Southern Independence may
blind us a little to the merits of a statesman
ship which stops to adjust the pictures in lie
parlor, and arrange for the poultry m e
barn-yard, whil* incendiary fires are bursting
from the roof of the house, and wrapping Us
foundations in consuming flames !
We must he allowed to take our time with
this message. It- is long very long, and
abounds in plausible implications and rnuendoes,
as well as in solid and elaborate argumenta
tion and tolerable rhetoric. It deals in pas-
sion as well as principle, and without the
slightest trace of courtesy, displays the cour
age of true knighthood. It is nothing to us
that the President owes Gov. Brown nothing,
or that the Congress is treated with tlie ut
most irreverence. Our sole object is to sift
this controversy and see what interest the
common cause and the real country has in i;.
We shall do this fearlessly, frankly, kindly,
and with “an eye single” to the interests—the.
liberties and glory of our country. W e should
despise ourselves, if in a crisis like this, we
could know any man whatever. It is well
enough for us to say once for all that, with all
his faults, we esteem the President very high
ly that Gov. Brown has won an enviable
name and that, in our opinion, the late Con
gress of the Confederate States proved itself
to be alike virtuous and wise, patriotic, prac
tical and prudent, and when rightly under
stood, will receive the grateful plaudits of an
admiring people.
But to the message. The Exordium is we
conceived and well expressed. It is fully up
to the demands of Rhetoric,— Demosthenes
could not have done better. It is short and
as conciliatory as such things ought to be.
The complimentary tone of it is in good taste,
and it will be a very rude Legislature not to
listen with the kindest disposition to so oily
an Advocate as the Governor. There may be
more or less truth in it. That does not con
cern us or any body else, just now. At all
•vents, it is according to the precedents in
such capes. Great orators, in all ages, have
indulged the delusion that these soft words
are worth somewhat, in the estimation of
Senates and Assemblies. Well, perhaps they
are 1 Governor Brown thinks so, and we have
no disposition to question his “competency”
in a matter of this sort ! We do not intend to
insinuate that he is the least bit of a “dema
gogue.” This is the illiberal suggestion of
bis enemies , but we are friends of the Governor;
and speak only of l»io vapactnes as an adioit
advocate. These, all men will acknowledge.
Whether it is fair and manly and straight
forward statesmanship to load down a grave
State paper of this sort, at such a time as
this, with the mere tricks of advocacy , we shall
not stop to consider, as we have not ventured
to say that the Governor has done any such
thing. We could wish that the Exordium had
been longer, if that would have made the
Message itself any shorter. “ While we are,
wishing,” it is as cheap to wish that we had
been spared either !
W« take up the Message in the order of its
numerous titles. It is well arranged, and
presents the beauties of a climax r
Ist. There is a prepossessing air of real
business, in the suggestion that, the gooil earn
est Governor be allowed such control of “the
Railroad' 1 and such “teams and wagons” as
have been bought by the Quartermaster Gen
eral of the State, to facilitate the “transporta
tion of corn to indigent soldiers’ families.” Gov.
“Joe,” is au fait, in matters of this sort. Like
Judge Dooly, he “ understands the principles
of ivagoning.” This is quite important, but it
vraa not for this, or the. tile of this , that the
Legislature was convened in Extra Session !
2. "The Relief Fund for Soldiers' families’' is
not properly distributed. The Governor has
not the “power” over “the Courts, ' and wants
other “agents”—to be commissioned “as offi
cers of this State” and so protected “against
conscription” by the “enrolling officers of the
Confederacy 1”
All this is entirely proper, altho' we con
fess to the vanity of thinking that if we were
Governor, we could devise means to distribute
the Funds without asking for any more State
“officers,” to be exempted from “conscription.”
Au Extra Session of the Legislature at a?/ have
been demanded by this interest, but we find it
difficult to think so. No generous mind will,
for a moment, suspect that the Governor in
tended to make “conscription and “the en
rolling officers of the Confederacy” odious, by
associating them with the idea, that “the sol
diers’ families” are to be deprived of bread by
their agency ! It is the charitable vein to sup
pose our Governor, so greatly affected by the
sympathies he always “ exhibits ” for “the sol
diers' families,” that he cannot brook the
shadows of the3e Confederate “officers ' upon
the soil of Georgia. In truth, th§ Governor
ought io consider these “officers of the Con
federacy his best friends, seeing that they
make soldiers' families,” aud without these the
Governor would be lonesome !
3. Cotton Planting. “One quarter of an acre
to the hand, to the end of the war" is the
magisterial maximum! It makes no difference
whether it produces Jive hundred or fifty
pounds, let it be “highly penal” to plant more
than precisely “one quarter of an acre I" We
have little to say about this, but suggest to
the Governor that just here there is a lapsus
in his message. He will need Surveyors—
“commissioned as officers of the State” and
bo protected “against conscription" and those
ugly fellows “the enrolling officers of the
Confederacy ' It is not too late to send to I lie
Extra Session, a Special Message on this sub
ject. We are a candidate for the office of
Survegor (Jmerit lof the cotton patches!
As to cotton planting during , the war there
is little likelihood that it wilfprevail to any
injurious extent. Public opinion is fixed and
resolute on the subject, and the Governor i s
only echoing the popular prejudice, when lie
talks about “one quarter of an acre to the
hand,” and making it “highly penal” to trans
cend that amount. Any farmer knows that
two acres “to the hand” may be cultivated with
decided adoantaye to the provision crop; and it is
by no means certain that three acres “to the
band” would at all diminish our supply of
food. The Governor invokes this quarter acre
legislation, in the name of the public “liber
ties” and the “independence of the Confed
eracy.”
All this is entirely ludicrous to us, and re
minds us of the maniuc who invoked a thun
derbolt of Jove to crush a Knat! but we feel
bound by our own respect for the Executive
Office in general, and Governor Brown in par
ticular, to say a few' words seriously, on the
subject of cotton planting.
The whole subject, taken de novo , is not
without the most serious difficulties. We
have never gone to any extreme on the sub
ject. Mr. ToombS thought it best to plant a
heavy crop of cotton, and the people very gen
erally condemned him. It, costg the Governor
nothing to keep this issue alive. It can do
him no harm now, and may be useful hereafter,
especially if Mr. Toombs should happen to be
his opponent for a seat in the Confederate
Senate. Governor Brown is clear that a quar
ter of one acre “is the extreme limit of the
cotton planting.” Let us see how this really
stands. A quarter of an acre to the hand
would produce about 150 pounds of seed cot
ton or 50 pounds of lint to the hand. At that
rate it W'ould require ten hands to produce one
bale of 500 pounds. But the “bauds” which
are to produce cotton, count in the population
of one to ten ; to those who consume. So that
in fact one hundred, men, women and children,
W'ould depend upon one bale of cotton, for
clothes and their proportion besides of mat
tresses, beddings , &c. In other words it will
require fully an half acre to every “hand” ac
tually engaged in the growth of cotton to
supply the real domestic wants of the country,
making no allowance whatever for the public
demand growing out of the necessities of the
army—the thousand uses to which cotton
must now be applieed, as rope, canvass, bag
ging, &c., &c. And this view excludes all idea
of the absolute necessities of the Government.
Now 7 , the truth is that we need all the cot
ton we can raise after making a supply of
food for the army and the home population—
and practical farmers know that they can cul
tivate three acres to the hand, without any dim
inution whatever , to their provision crop, and
with positive advantage to the aggregate sup.-
piy-
Let us expiain this: A crop is made by
planting it and cultivating it; cotton may be
planted after corn has been planted, and before
it requires any work. On every farm, there
are “hands” who cannot plow. With good
plowing, corn cultivation requires compara
tively little hoeing. The hoes may, therefore,
“chop through” the cotton stand, and keep it
in tolerable condition until corn has been
“laid by,”—and then, all hands can finish up
a small cotton crop, without any detriment at
all to the production of the corn crop. Let
us see a little farther into the economy of this.
The cotton patch is a good pasture for cows,
sheep and goats, and comes in ai (|i«i ilmo
at ti.o-jear when the farmer has no other pas
ture. In this way, the ftiree acres to the
hand, will save as much corn and fodder as
would have grown upon that, amount. Then,
three acres will produce 180 bushels of seed,
worth, if properly used as food for cows, and
■ oxen and sheep 100 bushels of corn ; while th e
land would have produced only about 50 bush
els of corn. Besides, a little surplus of cotton
seed is important as manure. Here, then,
three acres to the baud, produces in pasture,
milk and butter, twice as much as it would in
corn, and there is, besides a proper supply of
cotton for clothing, bedding, Government and
general uses, bringing in to the farmer a small
amount, of ready cash, to pay t axes withal.—
We are assured by pratical farmers that this
expose, is substantially correct. It is a shallow
simpleton’s question which the “quarter”
horses, in this controversial race, will be ea
ger to asl;, “Why not raise more cotton, then?”
“If it is well to plant three acres , why not ten?”
We content ourselves with a Yankee reply, “If
it is well to plant a quarter of an acre, why
not ten?” “What’s sauce for goose, is sauce
fertile gander.” It is a question of limitation
If a man may eat a partridge, why not a flock
of geese, or a dozen wild turkeys?
Whereupon, we advise everybody to plant
three acres of cotton “to the hand,” and let the
“quarter horses” run wild ou the common,
if that diminishes their supply of corn. Mr.
Toombs’ case, is a different, affair altogether,
and we leave him to settle that with the Gov
ernor, as it may suit bis taste, and as oppor
tunity may arise, conditioinbus quibus videre
tur.
We have not yet found the reason for tlie
call of an extra Session of the Legislature, and
5119.1 l pursue our investigation with the hope
of doing so. We shall follow it up to caput
Xili. In the meantime, we are glad to see
that the Senate Committee does not think it
has anything to do with habeas corpus, ami
glorious old Howell Cobh is “stripped to the
buff in defense of the Confederate Govern
ment, and ilie good cause. He has a right to
be heard. A wise and patriotic people will
listen to his counsels, and shout with delight
every time he “shakes the feathers,” of the
dung-inti roosters from his bloody beak.
AU RE YOU*.
No Symptom of Submission. —The late-ff New
York World, save, the extracts we give from
Southern journals this morning, give no evidence
of any disposition on the part of the Confederates
to give up the struggle. Notwithstanding the ex
ceedingly harsh measures of the rebel Govern
ment, they seem to bo very generally acquiesced
in as necessary under the circumstances. Jeff.
Davis is still the master of the situation so far as
complete control of them eu and means of the South
is concerned : and while that is so, it is idle to ex
pect the rebellion to end until its armies are scat
tered. There is, no doubt, suffering, weariness,
despondency at the South ; but we fail to detect
the first symptoms of submission. It is curious to
notice that, with all the reports of universal star
vation, newspapers and new books are announced
by the Richmond publishers.
A Goon Joke. —lt seems that old age and
Yankee invasions have not diminished the
fondness of our old friend. Judge Sharkey, of
Jackson, for practical jokes. He threw the
streets of Jackson into considerable conster
nation, a few days ago, by riding into town
and reporting that there were two hundred
and fifty Yankees within two miles of the
place. Immediately the liquor-dealers shut
up shop?, and others were engaged in pack
ing up and hiding things, Atter a time the
report was quastioned, then found to be pos
itively untrue. Why did you tell us there
were‘two hundred and fifty Yankees within
two miles of the city 9” asked several.
“There are at least two hundred and fifty,
if not more, within two miles of the city,
coolly responded the Judge, ’ but they are all
b u ri ed.—J tississippuin.
Latest from tlie United States.
Dates to tlie 10 th instant—the Yankee
Press on the Late Attempt to Sark and
Burn Richmond.
The New Yoikarid Philadelphia pa
pers publish the orders found on the per
son of Dahlgren, and a few editorial com
ments thereon from the Richmond papers.
The Herald of March 9th, says:
It is not believed here that the italicised
words, and “Jeff Davis and Cabinet killed,”
were contained in the original order, but
were interpolated by the enemy, in order
to inflame the passions of their own sol
diers, who are becoming lukewarm.
[From the New York World, March 7.]
TIIE RAID TOWARDS RICHMOND.
The failure of General Kilpatrick’s re
cent effort to sack Richmond and release
the Union prisoners at that point should
put a stop to such profitless expeditions,
in the future. The moral effect is bad, as
expectations are raised throughout the
country, which there is very little chance
of realizing, while the risks run are very
large. It is a marvel, for instance, that
General Kilpatrick’s whole force of five
thousand two hundred men were not scat
tered or captured. As it was, from a
thousand to fifteen hundred horses have
been rendered useless, and one hundred
and fifty good Union soldiers are added
to the over crowded prisons of Richmond.
We warned our readers, when first an
nouncing that the raid was under way, that
there was not more than one chance in
fifty of its success; and it has since trans
pired that this was only the opinion of
both Generals Halleck and Meade. Gen
eral Kilpatrick, however, who is an en
thusiastic and hopeful officer, supposed
the thing could he done,, and the Presi
dent, with his usual want of discretion,
told him to go ahead. General Butler, it
seems, did not co-operate with the expe*
dition as he should have done. All the
correspondents agree that had General
Kilpatrick been sure ot co-operation by
way of tlie Janies river, he would at least
have made a fight for the eity. But But
ler was not on hand, and Kilpatrick was
compelled to retire, when within sight of
the city spires. It would be well for the
administration to realize now that Rich
mond can never be taken except by a large
army and an abundance of artillery. It
is, and we believe always has been, im
pregnable to any raid that could be or
ganized against it. Richmond is the
rebel capital, and, as such, the seat of its
military power. There is a constant move
ment of troops to and from the city in ev
ery direction, and a day is sufficient to
bring a very large army within its walls.
The fact that the bulk of the Union pris
oners are kept and fed at Richmond, of
itself necessitates a very large guard ot
rebel troops in that city. The circum
stance also linw lnnli«li tho rumors
which has been put forth from time to
time, that the rebels are about abandon
ing Richmond as their capital. Asa
matter of course, they send their prison
ers to whatever point it will cost least to
feed them. Probably Atlanta, as a great
railway center, would serve the purpose
of the rebel government in this respect as
well; but it is an inconvenient place at
which to keep a large guard. It is evi
dent that if there were any difficulty in
supplying their soldiers with food at
Richmond, the trouble would not be added
to by bringing the prisoners also to that
place. General McClellan, in his grand
plan of tlie campaign against the rebels,
recognized Richmond as being the most
important point, and concentrated his lar
gest army to capture it. Subsequent
events have proved that, after all, it is
the most vital strategic position in the
Confederacy, and greater moral and phy
sical result, would follow its capture than
any other point now in the possession of
the rebel power. But it must be done
by a large and well equipped army, and,
moreover, as General McClellan pointed
out, from the direction of the peninsula.
We hope we have heard the last of these
wasteful, objectless and dangerous raids
upon the rebel capital. The destruction
of the roads in the rebel rear is worth lit
tle or nothing, except in connection with
an attack of General Meade’s army in
front.
Tlie Case Tairly Stated.
The Charleston Courier in noticing
Gov. Brown’s message indulges the follow
ing; remarks.
We have a vital interest in the case
which has been docketed in the stye
Abe. Lincoln via. Jeff. Davie,, We await
the furthey argument of counsel, Lee,
Johnson Beauregard & Cos., with intense
interest.
We have no time or spirit to attend to
lusty mouthed attorneys,or bellowing bel
ligerent pettifoggers, or disappointed as
pirants, or political partizans who persist
in blowing*their trumpets to call attention
to a side, case ut Jar. fimti'n vs. Jeff. Doris
That case can very well keep for another
term of Court —-but if x\be Lincoln, the
plaintiff —the most unrighteous abused
plan tiff, as he styles himself, is not non
suited at least, or thoroughly turned out
of Court, the goods and chattels and avail
able effects to be shared or divided be
tween Joe Brown and Jeff'Davis will not
be worth a quarrel or an order of Court.
There will be no Court but such as Abe
Lincoln himself will establish if he suc
ceeds or is not decisively defeated. “Let
the case of Joe Brown vs. Jeff Davis be
marked continued by consent, and on ac
count of a more important case engaging
the Court. Let there be no detriment to
either party on account of tliis|order.”
What say you gentlemen of the jury
—now under arms—to this order?
Georgia will not and cannot suffer for
such a postponement of trial, and if
there is a citizen of another State
who seeks to injure her individually or
thiough her any sister States, or impair
in anywise the honor, rights and consti
tutional vigor of* a State,'that citizen is not
Jest Davis. W ith all respect, we believe
Georgia could attend profitably a little
more to Joseph E. Johnston and less to
Joseph E, Brown.
TELEG-F. APHIGr.
Reports of the Press Association.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year
1863, by J. S. Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office of
the District Court of the Confederate States for
the Northern District of Georgia.
Milledgkvillk, 19th. —Doth Houses adopted Ste
phens’ resolutions on the terms by which peace
should be sought and on suspension of.tke habeas cor
pua; adopted resolution turning over to the Con
federate Government all persons between the ages of
17 and 18 and 45 and 50. Unanimously adopted a
resolution expressing confidence in the President
and thanks to the Georgia troops who have re-en
listed. The Legislature then adjourned sine die.
Richmod, March 19. —The steamer New York has
arrived at City Point with 1100 men, 60 officers and
four ladies.
Mii.ledgeville. March 19.—The House recon
sidered tne veto passage in Stephens’ resolutions on
the habeas corpus by the casting vote of tho speaker.
Milledgrville, March 19,— The session of the
Legislature is prolonged till 11 o’clock to-night.
Millkdgeyille, March 19.—The House passed
late last night Stephens’* resolution on the habeas
corpus by two majority.
Macon, March 19.—Eight millions five hundred
and fifty thousand dollars have been funded here in
four per cent bonds up to last night.
Richmond, March 19.—The New York Herald of
the 14th contains nothing of importance.
Governor Bramlette, of Kentucky remonstrates
against the enlistmens of slaves in that State and
has notified Lincoln that he will execute the laws of
Kentucky against all who attempt to take slaves
from their owners without their consent.
Gen. Grant will return to Washington in the
course of three weeks.
Gold IGOj
Later from Europe« Humors of
Recognition by France.
Through the Northern papers we have later ad
vices from Europe.
The most interesting feature of the intelligence
from Europe is a rumor to the effect that France
has decided upon an early recognition of the Con
federate States, and is now conferring with the
British Government on that step, with a view of se
curing, if possible, England’s alliance in the matter.
Whether this rumor is worth anything, or is but a
repetition of what we have heard for every sixty
days since the war began, is a problem lor the reader
to solve for himself. The story seems to have origi
nated in this wise. On the arrival of the last steamer
from Europe, a bearer of dispatches from Mr. Day
ton, the United States Minister to France, proceeded
immediately to Washington, taking the very earliest
train after his landing. The said bearer of dis
patches is said to have been quite communicative of
the nature of the communications he bore, and rep
resented them as announcing to the Government at
Washington the early purpose of France to recog
nise the Confederate States. The Emperor had in
timated to Mr. Dayton that,'after waiting long and
patiently, he coukl see no satisfactory evidence of
the ability of the Federal Government to put down
the rebellion and restore the Union; that the in
terest of France continued to suffer severely from
the blockade and the consequent suspension of com
mercial intercourse with the South ; that the for
bearance of the French Government in that partic
ular had been met with only hostile criticism of the
Emperor’s Mexican policy By the Northern journals;
that the notes which the Minister of Foreign Affairs
had recently received through the United States
Minister, in relation to the Confederate steamers
Florida and.Georgia were discourteous and dictato
rial in tone ; and, finally, that it was duo to the
cause of humanity that something should bo done by
some power like France, not unfriendly to either
beligcrent, with a view of terminating a civil war
which has raged so long without any definite results.
Upon thisAntiination from the Emperor, Mr. Day
ton despatched a messenger to his Government at
Washington.
This is the story. 'Whether true or‘not, it seems
to have excited considerable feeling in the North. —
The substance of the above appears in a New York
paper, as a dispatch, double leaded, from Washing
ton, and is followed up by the editorial declaration,
“on the very best authority,” that the relations be
tween the United States Government and France
are in “a very critical condition.” The story more
over assumes an air of probability from the fact that
the Paris'correspondent of tho London Post writes
to the etfect, and the story of recognition seems to
have been received both in Paris and London with
more confidence than ever.
Tho Republican papers of the North treat the
rumor with levity, and say there is no truth in it. —
A dispatch from Washington, as if speaking by offi
cial authority, discredits the whole thing, and says
that it is-but a mere trickof cotton speculators; that
“the relations of the United Stages with both France
and England are peaceful and harmonious, and will
be maintained as such with both powers, oortaialy
with England." Tho N nil counts with certainty
in the case of England, and as an evidence of the
good feeling on her part, at least points to the vote
in the House of Parliament on the motion for the
production of certain papers concerning the seizure
of the steam rams. This, the North regards, was a
test question of the feeling and action of the British
government, and was decided with the following
result: for the motion, one hundred and fifty-three,
and against it one hundred and seventy eight. This
vote, the North urges, settles the ram question in the
British Parliament, and adjusts a matter which
could form “the only point of dispute which could
possibly interrupt the present peaceful relations
between England and the United States.— ltichmond
Examiner.
From Foil gst reefs Command.
We have some interesting intelligence
from Longstreet’s command. Indications
were, a few days since, indicative of an
early engagement between the two armies
of the East Tennessee department, but
they have all disappeared. The enemy
came as far up as Morristown, in consid
erable force—also on the Chucky river;
but qn the appeareance of an advance of
our troops, they retreated hurriedly in the
direction of Knoxville. The latest intel
ligence received from them reported their
rear at Strawberry Plains.
There are no Federal forces on the
Bean’s station valley road nearer than
Blain’s cross-roads.
* Everything is quiet in the direction of
Cumberland Gap. The garrison at that
point is quite small, and keep close in
their fortifications, as the scouts of Jones
hover close around them,
A rumor was in circulation that Grant
had sent twenty-five thousand men into
Kentucky, via Nashville, from Chatta
nooga, to meet the anticipated advance of
Long,street’s army. He is certainly dream
ing.
Our troops are in admirable health and
lull of enthusiasm, and have plenty of
supplies. ■
i Richmond Examiner. 14 th.
Censorious.
The New York Herald of the 10th,
Under the caption of “The Pilgurlie Ex
pedition Against| Richmond,” denounces
the raid as barbarous, and the damage us
mere wanton distraction, that, will
fall upon the people and not the rebel
army. It says no legitimate advantage in
war has been gained, and has only served
|to render the war more bitter. It does
i hot believe Gen. Lee's communications
\jrere interrupted more than three
I days, and-ridicules the idea of getting rid
pf General Lee by starving him out, after
I all the struggles of the Washington iJirec-
; tory and adds:
| Such movements as this are no part of
legitimate warefare. They have no re
sults that are respectable or valuable in
war. They are rare pieces of barbarism.
Barbarous in their origin, in their execu
tion they excite all the worst passions and
let loose all the“barbarity of had men.
Europe was devastated by expeditions of
exactly this character in the fourteenth
century—the hayday of chivalry—and
they belong to those times, but not to ours.
In this war they were begun by that
empty-headed fellow, Jeb Stewart, who
rode round the army of the Potomac
merely to brag about it. Such rides are
worthy the braggadocio spirit of the
Sontherners, from whom we caught the
disposition to make them. Unless made,
as Stoneman’s great one was, in conjunc
tion with the movement of an army, when
we can avail ourselves of the embarrass
ment they may cause, they are worse than
worthless.
Those at headquarters who originate
movements like this should receive only
the severest censure. j
CITY MATTERS.
T. J. JACK SOY, Focal Fdltojv
Land for Sale. —A. C. MeGehee advertises for
sale a valuable tract of land iu Hinds County,
Mississippi. Persons desiring to invest iu such
property will do well to give him a call.
Personal.-*Wc had the pleasure of a visit on
Saturday, from Rev. R. J. Ilavp, Editor of the
Army aud Navy Herald, published at Macon, Ga.
This geutlemuu is engaged in the noble work of
disseminating among the armies of the Confedera
cy a sound and healthy religious literature, and
we trust may be instrumental iu accomplishing
thereby a vast amount of good, llis paper is is
sued semi-monthly by Burke, Boykin &, Cos.
Change of Schedule. —It will be seen by ref
erence to advertisement that the schedule on the
Muscogee Railroad has been changed and trains
will hereaftef leave Columbus for Macon at 6.15
p. m., and arrive from Macon at 5 a. m.
■ —.
The Muscogee Railroad gives notice that all
claims against that corporation must he presented
for payment in present currency by the 2Sth inst.
John Johnson, Ordinary, calls on soldiers’ fam
lies, and teachers to come forward and claim their
dividends for March in present currency prior to
the first of April.
Maj. John E. Davis, Post Quartermaster, gives
notice that all demands against him or officers of
the post, must he presented by the 24th, for pay
ment. Come forward, gentlemen, and get your
money. Why do you stand back for so much per
suasion ?
Mrs. Oeiierai Reatir<eg<£r4).
The painful intelligence of the death of this ludy>
says the Middle Register, published by us a few
days ago, is confirmed by New Orleans papers.—
From AY Court ier Errucuis, ot the sth, we trans
late the following account of the honors paid to
her remains :
Yesterday morning, long before the hour of the
ceremony, anil immense crowd thronged before
tho house of mourning where lay tho corpse of the
pious lady whom we have just lost, aud whom the
base insults of a member of the city press have
rendered yet dearer and more esteemed by uiir
community, it is thus that outrages are turned
to glory.
All the Louisiana population of repute was
there, saddened and silent—all the strangers of
distinction among us had repaired, to the same
rendezvous. It might be said with truth that the
entire city was collected around the mansion
where joy had departed, and where grief holds
henceforth its abode. And all this sea of people
had been gathered to that point by a common sen
timent of love and veneration, spontaneously, for
no special invitation had been extended. The
wretched insulter ol the Era—now the object ot
universal contempt—had contributed more to this
result than all the carriers of funeral notices could
have done.
If the dead retain a consciousness of what passes
around them, the spirit of Madame General Beau
regard would have stirred with satisfaction —a flec
tion had not deserted her tomb ; the coffin closed
upon her iu the presence of a whole people.
It is impossible for us to give an estimate of the
number of persons who made up the long proces
sion ; we can only say that we have rarely' seen
in New Orleans an equal concourse of people, and
especially that no festival, no ball, however attrac
tive, has ever exhibited a greater or more distingue
assemblage of ladies.
The procession began to move about 10 o’clock,
passing down Esplanade street to the Levee. We
cannot say that the balconies were filled —on the
contrary, they were mostly deserted : for once the
curious formed no part of the solemn pageant,
but the friends, everybody or nearly all, in tfiin
2>art of our city, at least, wore following the hearse.
At the foot of Esplanade street was moored the
boat which was to convey the relics of the deceased
to the parish af St. John the Baptist, her birth
place. Everything was done with ‘irreproachable
order, religious solemnity and the utmost dignity*
The corpse being embarked, the steamer got
under way, and as it passed before the deep line
of the cortege, a silence as of death itself was felt;
and the innumerable throng, as if in obedience to
one unanimous thought, bowed with uncovered
heads.
There the procession, that of the ladies in par
ticular, which it might bo supposed would have
dispersed, re-formed, as if by instinct, and along
the levee followed the boat charged with its hal
lowed freight, as if it had been a funeral car, until
it disappeared on the horizou. This pious sugges
tion came from the ladies—the natural growth of
woman’s delicacy of soul.
Tho living tide then silently ebbed away, and
every one returned home with mourning in their
hearts, but yet with the satisfaction of a sacred
duty performed.
We recognized in the procession the officers of
the Catinat, and the Consuls of France, Spain and
Belgium.
Forty or fifty friends of the families of Beaure
gard and Deslonde accompanied the body to the
family tomb; among them have been mentioned
to us Commander Fabre and Lieutenant Lefort of
the Catinat. A French ship, as the steamboat,
conveying the body, passed her, dropped her flag
to balf-mast.
We are informed that, day before yesterday, a
body of the sailors of the Catinat repaired with
one of their officers, to the mansion where the de
ceased lay, where they kneeled around the bier,
and after a fervent prayer strowed flowers upan
the coffin and retired.
The Confederate Tax Law .-Conflic
ting views have been suggested as to the
tithe tax of the farmers. We learn on
good authority, says the Raleigh Proyress
that the following is the proper construc
tion:
The tax of five per cent is due in June
or as soon thereafter as practicable. The
farmers have the right, to deduct the tent h
of their products for ls<s4 out of this five
per cent. Their wheat and oats will come
in first, then potatoes, then corn, fodder,
pork, etc. When the whole is in then a
final settlernnt will be had, and ii the
tithe falls short, of five percent the bal
ance is paid in cash.
Thus every man is stimulated to pro
duce all lie can.
Hi Rosette, Lawhott A Cos.
USD! USD!! USD!!!
ilt iLuction.
VITE will fielTun Wednesday,23d March, in front of
»Y .oar auct ion room
250 acres of LAND, known as the .Maul
Springs place, 4 mik*3 west ot Columbus, in
Russell County Alabama.
200 acres cleared, upon which arc large orchards ;>1
apple*. peaches, almonds, jigs, currents, pomeia a nates
in lull hearing of the choicest variety, fn.m the ear
liest to the latest of every kind; also a large Vine
yard of the best selection of Grapes known; also a
large bed of Strawberies in full bearing. The balance
of the land is in the woods and heavily timbered
The improvements on the premise- are good. The
location for health and good water, of free stone,
sulphur and challybate cannot be ms passed in the
S'Hither n States.
ALSO,
at the same time we will sell a Saw k Grist Mill, to
which is attached four acres land, fourteeu miies
from Columbus, on the Waeoochee C’reek, half mile
from Wacoochee Valley, in Russell county, Ala,—
The Mill is in a eroodjneighborhuod.
mar 21 td
Desirable Land for .Sale.
A TRACT of land in Hines county, Miss., one and
a fourth miles from Raymond containing 800 acres
500 of which are cleared and in a fine state of culti
vation, the! most of which is creek bottoms not sub
ject to overflow, and as fine cotton and grain laud as
any in that portion of the State.
On the premises is a good dwelling house with six
rooms, kitchen, smoke-house, potatoe house, chicken
house, Bor 10 good negro houses, with brick ehirn
neys, good .-tables with 10 or 12 stalls, double cribs,
a good gin house with mill, good overseers' house,
with two rooms, a good cistern and well, with milk
house. „ ... , . .
This land, if not sold in a few days, will be with
drawn from the market. Persons wishing to purchase
should call immediately at the office of A. C, Mc-
Gehee, Broad street,
mar 21 4t
AUCTION sales.
By Jtilli*, Livingston A to.
(} N TUESDAY, 22,1 March, at 11 o’clock, we will
sell mlront of our stun-, 11
A Ao. I llouDle Carriage,
In first rate order, with liarniv* to match,
mar 18 td $6 -0
l*.v Ellis, Livingston ,V to.
LIKELY NEGROES.
i TUESDAY. 22d of March'at 11 o’clock we
v/ will sell in front of our store,
l NEGRO WOMAN. 3d years old. fair
cook and washer, with 0 likely children.
1 NEGRO WOMAN. 22 years eld good
cook, washer and ironer, and her three chil
dren.
1 NEGRO WOMAN, 24 years, fine seam
stress, washer and ironer, and house servant
and 4 children.
These negroes are all extra likely.—.
Sold for no fault and can-be seen anytime be
fore the day of sale,
mar 21 $lO 50
HO FOR SAVANNAH
MUIIT A It Til, MIRV !
TWENTY-FIVE RECRUITS WANTED ■
sr>o bounty.
I lEUT. R. (’. JONES, of Barnwell’s Light Artil-
V levy. Maxwell’s Battalion Light Artillery, sta
tioned at Savannah, is now in this city recruiting
lor his Cbmpany. Now is the time for young men
to join the most desirable arm of the service. You
will reeieve $59 bounty, uniform complete, and
transportation to camps. All wishing to join will
report to him at thefit.oe of Messrs. Aeee A Coiiiej
or to Mr. J. B. Collier, or to Mr. F. W. Aeee at the
Confederate Shoe Shop, lie wilt return on the isth
inst., and will take clothing or provisions to unv
members of his Company,
mar 21 till 28th*
I wish to hire 20 or 25 hands, men or w«uien. to
whom 1 wilt pay the highest government price and
give permanent employment. Enquire at the office
of the Lee Hospital, over Spear’s Jewelry store,
J one’s buildyig. W. ROBERTSON,
mar 21 ts Surgeon in charge Lee Hospital
RANITEVIM i: HOODS ’
TTTTS
OKANITEVILLE Nil W IIH
WILL SELL AT AUCTION ON
THURSDAY, j?V.% HA H £4,
THEIR ’ENTIRE STOCK OF
DOMESTIC GOODS,
Consisting of Upwards of 200 Bales.
Bales 3-4 Shirtings;
Bales 7-8 Shirtings;
Bales Drills;
Bales 4-4 Sheetings;
Bales 8 oz-Osnaburgs.
Sale to take place at Graniteville, S. C., and
commence at fen o’clock.
WILLIAM GREGG,
Ti ■easurer.
Graniteville, S. C., March 12, 1804.—6 t
PUBLIC SALE
or*
IMPOKTED GOODS.
BY JAMES H. TAYLOR.
Ow March ‘A3.
AT 10 o’clock, will be sold, without reserve, in my
Stove, Corner of Campbell and Broad Streets.
Augusta, a very handsome line of freshly imported
Goods, consisting in part of
1 bale Regatta Stripes,
20 pieces Black and White Ginghams,
1 case Melton Cloths,
1 bale Grey Flannels,
7 cases 23 1-2 inch English Prints,
5 casos 23 1-2 inch English Prints Collies’,
26doz French Felt Hats,
50doz Calf Skins, French
200 gross Lead Pencils,
30doz cotton Undershirts, “as are,”
11 bags R.io Coffee, prime,
48 pieces No. 16 black Taffeta Ribbons,
75 pieces No. 12 black Taffeta Ribbons,
5 cases Bleached Cottons, Collies’ C,
scases Bleached Cotton'S, Collies’ H,
5 cases Bleached Cottons, Collies'.X,
2 pieces Scarlet Cloth,
1 piece Beaver Cloth,
180 M Needles, 5 to 10,
20 cases Wool Cards,
1 case Felt Hats, 21 2-12 doz,
7 doz White Cotton Shirts, fancy bosoms,
2 cases Men’s Calf Shoes,
5 bales Gunny Bagging.
1 barrel Turlington’s Balsam,
1 bale Fancy Tweeds,
1 bale Melton Tweeds,
600 pair Cotton Cards,
2 cases Playing Cards,
2 cases Mixed Pins, white,
1 case Legal Cap Paper,
2 cases Hair Pins, i
1 case Melton Cloths,
f. pieces whitoand red Flannel,
ALSO,
1 hhd English prepared Chickory,
1 bag Alspioe,
3 casks assorted Hardware,
3 cases assorted Hardware,
5 cases assorted Shoes.
Conditions cash, in any Confederate Bilk,
mar 17 td JAMES H. TALYOR.
Southern Mechanics* (nion.
A Regular Meeting of the Southern Mechanic
Union will be hel.l itii,; iThursday) Evening, 17th
the meeting room ot the Columbia Fire Compan
No. 1, at 7 o’clock, P. M.
By order of the President.
JOHN P.. BIUGER3,
mar 17—It Eet >
Carpenter* Wanted.
TWENTY CARPENTERS to work on the nev
1 Boat below the Navy Yard, for which the l.u.'-
wages will be given. Apply to
- „ Joseph hanseho.
mar k. ts
Negroes Wauled.
TEN good able-bodied negro men wanted tor two
months, Good wast.; will be given. Apply
H. S. SMITH, Jr..
marl, 1w v or -J. k. REDD.
FOR SALE.
Flour and Meal, fresh ground.
Nails, assorted sizes.
Tobacco of all grads.
(Jsnaburgs and Yarns.
(’operas and Extract of Logwood.
Snuff—Maccaboy and Georgia Be*'?! lB
packages.
Cigars, Needles, Pins, Writing Paper, en
velope's, Yarns, (Isnabnrgs, and a variety
Dry-Goods.
For sale by 11. FLSOH ACKER,
mar J 5 Ivr 104, Broad Street
For Sale.
» NO. 1 CAVALRY HORSE for sale. ~L . V
A Apply to J. K.IU-U
mar 154 t
NOTICE.
Claimants for negro hire on the Columbia
fences are requested to call for payment before
23th inst. THEODORE MOHENO.
Captain of Engineers,
Columbus, Ga„ March 19, 13t>4. It.