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J.wT WARREN, - - - Editor.
Weduesday Morning. March 2b 1864.
Col. L. Q. C. Lamar, of MistsisripFo " ill
address the citizens of Columbus on Wednes
day evening, at Temperance if nil - The ladies
are specially invited to attend.
The Battle ot 01ustee--“ Honor to Whom
Honor is Doe.’ 1
“The credit of the battle of Olustee, Ocean
Pond, or whatever name it may be called, lias
been given entirely to Gen. Finegan. Others
say Gen. Colquitt did all the fighting."
We take the above, except the caption, from
a late number of the Richmond Whig. It
makes no difference to the country or the
cause, to which of the two officers named
above, the credit of the victory, in the battle
referred to, may be given; but it, doubtless,
will make a difference to him who won, and
is entitled to wear, the laurel, and it certainly
does make a diffcrence to the truth of history.
We have seen several wounded officers and
■oldiers who participated in the battle of
“Ocean Pond," and they all concur in the
statement that to Gen. Colquitt, exclusively,
was committed the disposition of the forces
and the conduct of the fight. Gen. Finegan,
it is true, was in command of all the troops
in the District of East Florida, but with the
immediate command of the forces in the bat
tle of Ocean Pond lie had nothing to do. TVy
his own order Gen. Colquitt was placed in
command of all the forces of every branch of
the service, and upon the latter Was devolved
their disposition, the entire conduct of the
battle, and its responsibility.
Gen. Finegan, doubtless, was where ho
should have been—at the post of duty, but he
was not on the battle-field, nor in rifle range
of it, and, we suspect, knew as little of the
position of the various regiments on the field
as we did. To show the way In which this
matter is, or was, understood by the troops
engaged, one of our informants states that,
when the Oglit was over, Gen. Finegan came
upon the field, and in company with General
Colquitt was riding along the lines, when the
men gave “three cheers for Gen. Colquitt."
We do not desire to reflect, in the slightest de
gree, upon the conduct of Gen. Finegan who,
we have no doubt, is a gallant and mcritori-.
ous officer, but we cannot withhold an expres
sion of surprise that he should be willing to
receive all the credit for a victory he never
won. If any one man is the hero of that light,
that man is General Colquitt.
YJbe Old Dominion.
The Mobile Register, in a well written article
portraying the inducements we have to con
tinue the contest in which we are engaged
to the assured triumph that awaits us if we
prosevere,adterts to the physical advantages
of the land we possess as sufficient of them
selves to stimulate the most strenueus exer
tions to save ourselves from beiug robbed of
fair a heritage. In respect, of soil, climate,
variety of agricultural production, mineral re
sources, the natural highways of navigation,
and, in short, everything which seems to make
a people prosperous, happp and independent,
we do verily believe, says the Register , the
sun shines not upon such a country as ours.
“Take Virginia, for example, which is nn«
northern boundary. great State has
the means, within herself, of being indepen
dent of all the world. All the cereals are pro
duced there largely in excess of the wants of
the people. Cattle of every kind roam over
her mountains and her valleys. Cotton is
grown in all the] Southern portion of the State,
almost as easily as in Alabama. There is
scarcely a mineral of any sort which is not
imbeded in her mountains. Those two espec
ially—iron and coal—which have done so
much to increase and build up the prosperity
of England, are found in inexliuustable quan
tities. Four great rivers, the Potomac, the
Rappahannock, the York and the James, fur
nish ship and steamboat navigation far into
the interior; and the most magnificent bay per
haps in the world—the Chesapeake—is broad
side of the State throughout its whole eastern
extent. Water power enough is furnished by
the smaller streams which penetrate the State,
to drive all the machinery of the globe.--
And last, but not least, the Goddess Hygeia
has erected her throne amidst her mountains,
where disease of every description is expelled
from the human system by the healing wa
ters which gush out from the great fountains
placed there by the Almighty Himself in thd
creation of the world. Truly, Virginia, when
she was called “the Old Dominon” in recog
nition of her political power and supremacy
in anti-Re volutionary times, deserves still to
retain the title, in acknowledgment, of her
physical grandeur and natural capacities."
The New lork Time#, of the 10th, accounts for
the rise in gold in thnt city, by saying that on
the previous day, the speculators took advantage
of the modified notion of the 1 louse of Represent
atives to put the price temporarily up to 167 (o
169 per cent., closing ut ICRJ. The action re
ferred to, and the effect of the rise upon congress
ional nervo3, will appear from the fallowing para
graph from the Washington letter from the same
paper :
The Senate Finance committee to-day, unani
mously authorised Senator Sherman to report
back tho House bill allowing the Secretary of the
Treasury to anticipate the payment of the cou
pons by amending so as to allow the Secretary
to sell the surplus gold in the treasury without the
treasury without the live days’ notice. The rapid
rise in gold to-day has induced the Senate Com
mittee to take this action, and it will probably
pass without much opposition.
The Times says the speculation on the Stock
Exchange on the Sth. was higher than on Monday
or Tuesday in most descriptions.
DaHUgren.—They are loth to believe at the
North that Dahlgren was killed on his late raid.
We find the following dispatch in the papers :
Baltimore, March 7.--The Preside!,! received »
dispatch from Fortress Monroe, this afternoon,
stating that Col. Dahlgren, with his hundred men,
had safely arrived within our lines. The Colonel
Was at Fortress Monroe. The President. and Sec
retary Stanton immediately called on Admiral
Dahlgren to convey the glad tidings and congrat
ulate him upon the safety of his sou.
Yankees Deserting in Texas. —The Mobile
Tribune says that a gentleman just from New <>r
leans, informs us that the forces withdrawn from
Texas in order, we suppose, to take part in the
general advance recently made by the enemy in
this section ~f the country were much ’fewer than
Qenerul Banks expected and necce-'srv to mate
the expedition profitable. The reason is that
thousands of them had deserted and gone over to
«- t i Un ( - S fu Vlce^“whethcrto the French or
we are l£i™i t SS°? Untry was nr>t stat « d - But
r o , and th;,t 19 one of the chief reasons whv
Banks failed to move his column in this dneetTon
This story is quite probable. m ‘
Civilized Warfare.
In the treaty of Peace between the U. j
States and Mexico, the following, among
other similar clauses, was inserted :
Upon tiro entrance of the armies of any
nation into the territories of the other,
woman and children, scholars of every
faculty, cultivators of the earth, mer-'
chants, artisans, manufacturers and fisher
men, unarmed and inhabiting the fortified
towns, villages or places, and, in general,
! all persons whose occupations are fur the
common subsistence and benefit of man
; kind, shall be allowed to continue their
employments unmolested in their persons.
Nor shall their houses .or goods be burned
| or otherwise destroyed, nor their cattle ta
ken, nor their fields wasted, by the armed
forces into whose power, by the events of
war, they may happen to fall; but, if the
necessity arises to take anything from them
for the use of such armed force, the same
shall be j>aid for at an equitable price.
All churches, hospitals, schools, colleges,
libraries, and other establishments for
charitable and other purposes, shall be
respected ; and all persons connected with
the same protected in the discharge of
their duties and the pursuit of their vo
cations. '
With a slight alteration this may be re
garded as embodying in brief the recogniz
ed laws of war between civilized belliger
ants. When this treaty was negotiated the
government of the U. S. was in the hands
of Southern men. They had for the most
part composed and led the armies that
brought the war to a successful conclu
sion," and they practised in the progress of
hostilities the principles which they after
wards incorporated in the terms of peace.
The great war in which they are now en
gaged they have waged in the same man
ner and in accordance with the same prin
ciples, in spite of provocations, such as
few people have ever had to pursue a dif
ferent policy. The Yankees on the other
hand have savagely pursued a system the
exact reyerse of that embraced in the ex
tract we have given. They have made
war upon women and children, upon schol
ars, cultivators of the earth, merchants,
artisans, manufacturers, fishermen, and in
general upon all persons whose occupa
tions are for the common subsistence and
benefit of mankind.
They have goods,
killed cattle, wasted fields, destroyed
churches, hospitals, schools, colleges, li
braries, and indeed violated every law,
human and divine, and every sentiment
of humanity, manhood and civilization.
Head the above paragraph and* think of
Butler, McNeil, Turchin, Milroy, Dahl
green and the rest. —Richmond Whig.
A Discontented iJonti ahand.
The following letter, says the Selma Re
porter, was received a short time since, by
Stephen, a colored preacher, belonging to
Dr. P. C. Wynn, well known in this sec
tion of the State. Stephen says every
word of this letter may be believed—it
may not be improper to read it to your
servan ts:
Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 15, 1801.
Uncle Stephen: I know yon will be sur
prised to get a let ter from me here, but I
have a chance ol sending it by one of Mr.
Crutchfield’s women, who says she knowa
you and h‘ ,Q Lc.«.rd you preach often, and
as 1 cannot write myself, a free woman of
this place is kind enough to wrlto tlil«
letter for me. I was very foolish to leave
a good home and kind friends, to come
with the cruel, lying, swindling Yankees,
they will promise anything to get you off
with them, but, they fever fulfill any of
their promises. They told me if I would
go with them I should be free and rich
and have a white wife. They said that
they were dividing ail the land of the Reb
els among the negroes as fast, as t hey got
possession of it. I believed the story and
went, with them, but, like the rich man,
whose fate is recorded in Sacred History,
“in belli lifted up my eyes/being in tor
ment,” and, like him, also, T wish to tes
tify unto my brethren “lest they also come
into this place of torment.” Instead of
being free, I never was so much a slave.
As soon as the Federate got, me off with
them, I was conscripted and assigned to
duty with a regiment of sappers and mi
ners. I work all day in muddy ditches
with a guard over me, who stands at my
back with a loaded musket and fixed bay
onet, ready to thrust me through, and at
night a ball and chain is fastened to my
arms and legs, and I am driven like an ox
to a muddy stall, called a barracks, where
1 spend the night, without fire and al
most without bedding. Every colored
man that comes to the Yankees is putin
the army, ami is required to do them con
stant drudgery in camp and in time ot
battle we are all nut in the front as a
breast work for the protection ot the
whites. I had rather be a Southern slave
arid belong to the meanest master in the
South than to be what they call a colored
free man at the North. I had a good
home and kind mistress, and plenty to eat
and wear, but here everybody is my mas
ter, and L have to feed and clothe my
self; and every negro in this country is
treated more like a vile dumb brute or a
poisonous reptile than as a human being.
If this is freedom, give me slavery for
ever. If ever I get a chance I am coming
home, and every negro here would do the
i same thing if he could. Warn our friends,
lest they also come into this place of tor
ment, and tell them they ought to feel hap
py in having kind Masters and Mistresses.
1 left some clothes in Marion—take care
of them ior me. Tell Mamma and Oliver
howdy for me. Pray tor me, Uncle Ste
phen, and look for me, for I am coining
if ever 1 get this chain off my neck. Give
my iove to all my friends, and tell them
not to come here. »
Your unhappy friend,
John Ward,
Servant of Win. Ward, of Marion, Ala.
The Bichmond Enquirer states that the
Federal prisoners confined at Americus
and Andersonville, Ga., will be delivered
to the Yankee authorities from Savannah
by flag of truce.
Among the Yankees recently released
by exchange at Richmond, are Capts.
Flynn and Sawyer, the parties our Gov-
I one time desided to hang in
retaliation for the two Confederate recuit
| ing officers hung by Burnsids in Ken
tucky. Has there been a back down?
Tlie Employment of Free Ne
groes and Slaves in the Army.
At the last session of Congress a law
was passed to increase the efficiency of the
army by the employment ot free negroes
and slaves in certain capacities. This im
portant law has almost escaped notice, es
pecially as it has remained fora consider
able time unexecuted.
We hear, however, that the conscrip
tion officers have recently been instructed
to carry out the law, and a descent on the
vast herd of free negroes congregated in
tliis city may be momentarily expected.
The law requires that all male free ne
groes and other free persons of color, not
including those who are free under the
treaty of Paris of 18u3, or under the
treaty of Spain of 1819, resident in the
Confederate States, between the ages of
eighteen and fifty years, shall be held lia
ble to perform such duties with tlie army,
or in connection with the military defens
es of the country, in the way of work
upou fortifications or in Government works
for the production or preparation of ma
terials of war, or in military hospitals, as
the Secretary of War or the Commanding
General of the Trans Mississippi Depart
ment may, from time to time, prescribe.
Under the same act of Congress, the
Secretary of War is authorized to employ,
or, if necessary, to impress, tieenty thou
sand slaves for duties similar to those to
which wc have thus referred.
The conditions, as prescribed by recent
general orders, under which this impress
ment of slaves is to be made, are briefly,
jljj fbltnws ’ Ist That ola vud plulll lAUL UtJ
impressed when the services of free ne
groes can be obtained. 2d. Slaves under
the age of 18 and above the age of 50
are exempt. 3d. The hire for slaves im
pressed shall he according to the rates
fixed by the appraisers under the the act
to regulate impressments. 4th. The limi
tation as to the term for which slaves shall
be impressed for service shall be for twelve
months instead of the terms fixed by said
orders, if the exigency shall require it.—
[Rich. Examiner.
Commodore Wilkes to is be court mar
tialed. Among the specifications are
“insubordinate conduct,” “disrespect and
disrespcctlul language to a superior offi
cer,” “refusal of obedience to a lawful or
der and regulation of the Navy Depart
ment,” etc.
A Good Joke. —lt seems that old age
and Yankee invasions have not diminish
ed the fondness ol' our old friend, Judge
Sharkey, of Jackson, for practical jokes.
He threw the streets of Jackson in a con
siderable consternation, a few days ago,
by riding in town and reporting that there
were two hundred and fifty Yankees with
in two miles of this place. Immediately
the liquor dealers shut up shops, and oth
ers were engaged in hiding and packing
up things. After a time the report was
questioned, then found to be positively
untrue. “Why did you tell us there were
two hundred and fifty Yankees within two
miles of the city ?” asked several.
“There are at least tw 7 o hundred and
fifty, if no- more, within two miles of the
city,” coolly responded the Judge, “but
they are all buried: — [Mississippian.
The New York ot* tlie 10th,
lias an article in which is given “a bird’s
eye view' of the battle for the next pres
idency.”
The He arid, says that it. promises to be
“one of the prettiest, political quarrels
ever Shown in history.” The Republi
can party are to have at least four factions
in the field—the Bed Republicans, who
go for Fremont; second, the deep Black
Republicans, who go for Chase; third, the
mulatto Repuli cans, who go for Wendell
Phillips; v fourth, tlie smutty Republicans,
who go for Lincoln. The Hearld says
that McClellan will also be a candidate
for the nomination.
The Tss.scaloosa.
T!w‘ particulars of the seizure of the Tus
caloosa, are thus given in the London Herald
(Derby organ ), of February :
The Tuscaloosa, a Confederate cruiser, was
seized by the Government off the Cape of
Good Hope, under orders from home, in Si
mon’s Bay, on the 2.7 th ot December last. She
was formerly called the Conrad, and after her
capture by the Alabama she was rechristened
and converted into a man-of-war by Captain
Semmes, in the service of the Confederate
States. Some three months ago she had been
allowed to remain unmolested in the harbor
of Simon’s Bay, and had been recognized by
the authorities there as a Confederate man-of
war. She is commanded by Lieut. Lowe, who
reported that since her last visit the Tuscfi
loosa had been cruising between the Cape and
Brazil, and had spoken nearly one hundred
vessels; hut of the number only one was a
Federal, which having an English cargo on
hoard, was released on giving bond. Thus
no act has been committed on her part, which
can render her more liable to seizure than
there was three mouths ago.
Lieut. Lowe, in full confidence in his right
to British hospitality, into Linton’s Bay
with the intention of getting the bottom of j
his vessel re-coppered,- and of taking in sup
plies, but on the day after his arrival the Ad
miral, Sir B. Walker, dispatched from the flag
ship, a Lieufentant with a hoarding party of
twenty-five men to take possession in the,
Queen’s name. Lieut. Lowe immediately |
lodged with the Admiral a formal protest i
against the seizure, which protest, it appears,
has been forwarded to the home government :
And the United States Consul on the other |
hand, lodged a claim to the vessel on behalf j
other former owners, 'which claim has appar
ently been recognized by the government, as
he has been informed by the authorities that j
the Tuscaloosa will only be detained until j
she can be handed over to them.
* - ' The Tuscaloosa, after con
dentmed as a prize, was duly commissioned |
for the Confederate service, and thence for- J
ward, was entitled to all the immunities of
ships-of-war, one of which is freedom from
arrest.
Peace. —We hope the Georgia Legislature
will let this question alone, and turn their at- j
tention to war. The peace talk is designed to j
help the Northern Democrats, but it is a great
mistake. It helps Lincoln, as we shall see to
our sorrow.
An intelligent merchant said to us last night t
that enough had already been said and read j
in the Georgia Legislature to bring a decline 1
of gold in New York. — Savannah Republican, i
The decision of the Supreme Court of St. Johns, j
New Brunswick, in the ease of the captors of the j
Chesapeake, has been rendered, and the release of i
the prisoners ordered, on the ground—
-Ist. That the United States has made no pr oper
requisition t<*i the rendition of the prisoners.
2d. Thai ifsuch a requisition had been made, the
act was not committed within the jurisdiction ofthe
United States, and was not, therefore, such an of
fence, under the extradition treaty, as would re
quire the parties to be given up; and finally, be
cause the police magistrate had no jurisdiction in the
case, or if ne had such jurisdiction, the warrant is
sued for the commitment of the prisoners was in
i sufficient to justify their detention.
TELEGRAPHIC.
Reports of tJie 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.
Dalton, March 22. —The enemy have retired from
ourfront;. their recent movements only supposed to
have been reeonnoisances.
A heavy snow fell last night and to-day; at least
four inee? deep.
The Louisviille Journal of the 19th has been re
ceived. It says Sherman liaa assumed command of
the army of Mississippi. His headquarters are at
Nashville.
Gen. Grant leaves for Washington to-morrow.
Col. Woolford has arrived aud has been placed
under arrest for disobeying orders. He says he will
serve as a private if cashiered.
Issac Murphy has been elected Governor of Ar
kansas. The State has been declared free by a lar
ger vote than required by Lincoln.
Jaeksouport, Arkansas, has been captured by the
Rebels.
Plots have been discovered in the border counties
of Kentucky to hand over the State to the Cqnfed
eracy; a number of prominent citizens are impli
cated. The Journal's tone is very gloomy.
C hattanooga Gazette, of the 20th, received. News
unimportant.
Gen. Johnston’s Official Report of Opera
tions ill the West.
The Richmond papers contain the official
report of Gen. Johnston of the operations of
the army in Mississippi and East Louisiana,
Inst year, culminating in the loss of Vicks
burg. Our space will not permit us to pub
lish the report entire, and we give only the
concluding portion of it. We presume the
public will no longer be in doubt as to where
or upon whom, rests the responsibility for our
disasters in that quarter :
“ The time to strike the enemy, with the
best hope of saving Vicksburg, was when he
was landing near Bruinsburg. To do this,
with any prospect of success, a rapid concen
tration of all the forces should have been
made, and an attack. Under this conviction
I telegraphed to General Pemberton on May
Ist, from Tullahoma: “If Grant’s army lands
on this side of the river, the safety of "Missis
sippi depends on beating him. For that ob
ject you should unite your whole force.’’ And
again on May 2d : “If Grant crosses, unite
the whole force to beat him; success will
give back what was abandoned to win it.”
These instructions were neglected and time
was given Grant to gain a foothold in the
State. At Port Gibson and Raymond de
tachments of our troops were defeated and
driven back by overwhelming numbers of the
enemy.
On the 13th, when I learned that there were
four divisions of the enemy at Clinton, dis
tant twenty miles from the main body of Gen
eral Pemberton’s forces, I gave him orders to
attack them, and notified him that we could
co-operate. This order General Pemberton
disobej'ed, and so reported to me in his letter
of the 17th. I directed him to move twenty
miles to the east, to co-operate with me in
attacking Sherman. He moved to the south,
and made our co-operation and junction im
possible. He claims that this order compelled
him to make the advance beyond the Big
Black, which proved so “disastrous.” Before
I had reached Jackson, and before the o' der
was given, General Pemberton made his first
advance beyond (east, of) the Big Black, to
Edwards’ depot; after the receipt of the order,
in violation of it, ho made his second and lust
advance from that point to the field of Baker's
creek. He further claims that this order
caused the subversion of his “matured plans.''
I do not know what those plans were, but am
startled to find matured plans given up for a
movement in violation of my orders, rejected
by the majority of his council ot war, and
disapproved he states) by himself. On
the lUtli be wrote me that if he could collect
i'orce enough, Edwards’ depot would be the
battle-field. The battle of Baker’s creek was
fought, three or four miles from Edwards’ de
pot. The presence, of thfipne»»y *vua j.opnvioJ
to him the night before. There was no appa
rent obstacle to prevent his resuming his
original position, and carrying out his “ma
tured plans.”
It is anew military principle that when an
officer disobeys a positive order of his supe
rior, that superior becomes responsible for any
measure liis subordinate may choose to sub
stitute for that order.
But had the battle of Baker’s creek not been
fought, Gen. Pemberton’s belief that Vicks
burg was his base rendered his ruin inevit
able. He would still have been besieged, and
therefore captured. The larger force he would
have carried into the lines would have added
to and hastened the catastrophe. His disas
ters were due not merely to his entangling
himself with the advancing columns of a su
perior and unobserved enemy, but to his evi
dent determination to be besieged in Vicks
burg, instead of manceevring to prevent a
siege.
Convinced of the impossibility of collecting
a sufficient force to break the investment of
Vicksburg, should it be completed—apprecia
ting the difficulty of extricating the garrison,
und convinced that Vicksburg and Port Hud
son had lost most of their value by the re
peated passage of armed vessels and trans
ports, I ordered the evacuation of both places,
(fen. Gordon did not receive this order before
the investment of Port Hudson, if at all.—
General Pemberton set aside this order, under
the advice of a council of war ; and though
he had in Vickeburg eight thousand fresh
troops, not demoralized by defeat, decided
that it “was impossible to withdraw the army
from this position] with such morale and ma
terial as to he of further service to the Con
federacy’ ; but “t«>' hold Vicksburg as long as
possible, with thejfirm hope that the Govern
ment may yet be able to assist me in keeping
this obstruction to the enemy’s free navigation
of the Mississippi river.” Vicksburg was
greatly imperilled when my instructions from
Tullahoma, to concentrate, were neglected. It
was lost when my orders of the 13th and 15th
of May were disobeyed. To this loss were
added the labor, privations, and certain cap
ture of a gallant army, when my orders for
its evacuation were set aside.
In this report I have been eompolled“to
enter into many details, and to make some
animadversions upon the conduct of General
Pemberton. The one was no pleasant task—
the other a most painful duty; both have
been forced upon hie by the official report of
General Pemberton, made to the War Depart
ment instead of to; me, to whom it was due.
General Pemberton, by direct assertion and
by implication, puts upon me the responsibil
it v of the movement which led his array to
defeat at Baker’s creek and Big Black bridge
defeats which produced the loss of Vicks
burg and its army.
This statement has been circulated by. the
press in more or less marks of an official char
acter, until my silence would be almost an
acknowledgment of the justice of the charge.
A proper regard for the good opinion of my
Government has compelled me, therefore, to ;
throw aside that delicacy which f woulctglad- j
]y have observed towards a brother officer, ;
suffering much undeserved obloquy, and to. j
show that in his short campaign Gen. Pem- j
berton made not a single movement in ohedi- ;
enee to m_v orders, and regarded none of ray j
instructions; and, finally did not embrace
the only opportunity to save his aiAny, that
given by my order to abandon Vicksburg.
Most respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
JOS. E. JOHNSTON,
General.
The com-I'ondent bf the New York World re-'
ports that--toil after the arrival of Gen. Grant at
Washington, a council of war was held, at which it
wa-determined, on the advice of the new Lieuten
ant General, to make the capture of Richmond the |
primary object of the spring campaign. To effect j
this result, the 11th and 12th corps will be brought !
from Chattanooga to reinforce the army of the Pa- j
tomae, und also two corps from the Mississippi river.
It is believed that an army of 250,000 men may be j
concentrated against Richmond at an early day. j
CITY MATTERS, j
T. J. JACKSON, Local Editor
Col. Lamar’s Speecli To-Niglit.
We trust ttyat none of our readers will neg- j
lect the opportunity to enjoy the treat in store
for those who attend at Temperance Hall to
night. A gentleman who heard Col. Lamar’s
address in Milledgeville says it was the finest
effort he ever listeifcd to. Such, also, is the
statement of the Macon press, and such is the
reasonable expectation which Colonel Lamar’s
reputation as an orator and a man of genius
justifies. We trust he will have the ispiration
of an overflowing house, and we repeat the
invitation to the ladies to grace the occasion
with their presence.
A Good Sign—Three thousand pounds of bacon
and a thousand lbs. lard were sold in this city jes
terday at $3,25 per lb. This is slightly downward
and we regard it as a favorable omen.
Thk Kivf.p..—The Chattahoochee has risen 10
or 12 feet in the last day or two and is now in
spendid boating order.
A Gloomy Dat, &c. —The cold, disagreeabl e
weather continued yesterday, add our city pre
sented little or no indication of business activity _
Everybody seemed content to remain indoors, and
leave the warring elements to their own reflections.
This Local vainly essayed to scare up an item out
of which to fabricate a decent local article, and
our readers can rest assured that if anything wor
thy of note transpired yesterday in Columbus, it
must havfi been behind the scenes, where the light
of our phiz was not permitted to penetrate.
Altogether we have no remembrance of ever
seeingjust such another spell of weather as we are
now having, this late in the season, and if the fruit
and vegetable crops have not already been killed,
we fear March will yet make a finish of them. —
Let our people keep a sharp lookout for their gar
dens, and if their “truck” is killed, let re-planting
be resorted to immediately. Every effort should
be made to secure an abundant crop of vegetables.
[For the Times)
Wliy. is it So ?
The plan adopted by the Surgeon General
of the C. S. A., in furnishing Hospital room,
is to obtain an open field in the vicinity of
tho city, and thereon erect commodious and
comfortable buildings out of the noise, dust,
and away from the of town or city.
The plan has worked Yell. The buildings are
generally about 27 feet wide and nearly 80
feet in length. They stand in rows 26 feet
apart, and at the ends, a broad sheet of 60
feet, separates them.
Now, look at the houses taken, and others
likely to be taken in this city for sick and
convalescent soldiers, und compare the com
fort of Surgeon Moore’s Hospitals with them,
and one cannot help enquiring “Why is it so?”
The Government is now putting up good woo
den buildings for harness shops, etc., and oth
ers are to be built for Government uses ; all
of which could easily be dispensed with, and
the houses and stores in the city, used, and
the lumber be appropriated to the building of
proper hospitals on the outskirts of the city.
It is not impossible for such an accumulation
of sick and wounded soldiers to be made here
us ro stop the course of business. And if cer
tain diseases get fairly started, the city will
be thinned very quick. Is there no remedy ?
ENQUIRER.
the 26th-of August, 1863, we acknow
ledged the receipt of $2500 from the Eagle Manu
facturing Company, of Colnmbus, Ga., accompa
nied with a request that we distribute the same as
we deemed best. In the next issue of the Courier
we reported the disposition we had made of tho
liberal subscription, setting aside SIOOO for the
Georgia soldiers. That sum remained on hand
uncalled for till Tuesday, when it was paid over to
the steward of the First Georgia Hospital. The
Georgians surely are not neglected, as such a sum.
would have been called for long ago. —Charleston
Courier.
has ceased lo back up Butler as
bis exchange agent, which accounts for the recent
operations ofexebanging. The New York Times,
of tho 10th, says : a?
The friends of the Union prisoners in the South
will he gratified to learn that arrangements have
been effected by which regular exchanges of priso
ners will be made hereafter. The Government has
gracefully receded from its determination to force
Gen, Butler upon the Confederates as the only
agent of exchange, and have delegated that au
thority to Major Mulford, whose associations with
Mr. OuUl, the rebel commissioner, have heretofore
been pleasant as well as dignified. The first ex
change has already taken place.
A i*rotest.
The following protest against the Stephens Res
olutions upon the Habeas Corpus, was signed late
last Saturday night in the hurry of the closing
scenes of the Legislature, by forty-one members of
the llouoe:
We, the undersigned members of the House of
Representatives, protest against the passage of.the
foregoing Resolutions :
1. Because we believe the right of Congress to
suspend the writ of Habeas Corpus, is a clearly
recognized power in the Constitution, under limi
tations therein prescribed.
2. That, whilo we believe all arrests of citizens
should be made by warrant, issued upon cause,
supported by oath or affirmation; and the lawapf'
Congress suspending the writ, admits of doubiful
construction, as to the powers granted the Presi
dent under the same, still we believe the construc
tion of this law is the province of the Courts of the
country to determine and not the Legislature.
9. Because the Resolutions in their tendency,
forestall the decision of the Courts upon this sub
ject, which we regard beyond the province of the
Legislature, and an infringement upon the rights
of a co-ordinate branch of the Government.
4. That while we entertain different, opinions re
specting the policy of passing said law, still, as
law-abiding citizens, it is our duty to acquiree in
its enforcement until the Courts shall decide upon
its constitutionality.
o. Because we believe the discussion of these
questions in the present unhappy and distracted
condition of the country is calculated to divide the
people, array them against their government, and
fruitful of much evil.
Thos. Hardeman, jr. D. P. Hill,
Wright Brady, B. B. Moore,
Tho.-. Dixon, J- 1L Huggins,
H. F. Grant, Leroy Sutton,
Win. S. Holt, J• <L Lawson,
W. S. Wallace, John McKinney,
T. A. Parsons, J. D. Matthews, of
John 11. Mitchell, Oglethorpe,
M. Dwinnell, Jn.-. A. Long,
W. G. Horsley, J. T. Wood,
K, J. Warren, H. J. Davenport,
D. 11. Burts, D. M . Brown, o f
A. Nicholson, Houston,
T. H. Hawkins, of Ogle- Daniel Lawton,
thorpe, W. J. Reese,
S-. L>. Love, Wm. Ezzard.
E. D. Taylor, James MeDonaiJ, of
J. It. Hunter, Thomas,
Kineben Rainbo, F. E. Matr on,
N. Hawkins, Isaac Long,
J. B. Jones, David Ogletree,
John T. Jones, . Adam Robin: on.
J. S. Bryan.
[J/aeox Ttrlsyiiijih.
Yankee Draft in Fast Tennessee.— lt is
stated upon the authority of Yankee officials in
East Tennessee, as also upon the authority of that
veracious shret. Brownlow s Whig, that the Fed
eral Government will soon commence enforcing
the Conscript law in Kentucky, Tennessee and
other border States.
Brownlow says this measure will largely increase
the rebel army, and advises Lincoln to let the mat
ter rest for the present.
The PRfisntnExcr—Lincoln and < „
''II \ £
The Washington correspondent of tin q,
Sil Y3 !
The rumors that the relation between -
retnry Chase and \L-. Lincoln had 1, ( ,
Imbed by the present political attitude 0 | c*'
former, will be set at rest by the apm-a,“
ot a correspondence between the two, j u w J) j*
Mr. Chase frankly disavows knowled.r e 0( ’! “ 1
Pomeroy Circular before it appeared,"an ;
forms the President that at the request ot i-'
friends he had consented to become a ear, ■
date for the Presidency. He then :t d, v
Lincoln if lie considers that bia action v*.
incompatible with his position a 0 n ln ,, irj .’
of the Cabinet. The President replug ;
he has not seen tiie circular; and that lie 5 ~
not know of any act of Mr. Chase’s ineoi ls
tent with his position as a member qt |
Cabinet.
MAKimil).
Near Blakely, da., at the residence of the hn i„
mother on the 17th, inst., by the Rev. Mr. .si,,. *
Miss. Mattie L. Alexander, to Mr. p tm , v
Oliver, of Decatur, Cos., Ua.
HO FOR SA V ANN AH?
i.ioiet AE:mi.i:R\ <
TWENTY-FIVE RECRUITS WANTED;
§SO BOUNTY.
LIEUT. R. C. JONES, of Barnwell’s Light Artil
lery, Maxwell’s Battalion Light Artillery, Ra
tioned at Savannah, is now in this city reeruitii.
for his Company. Now is the time for young,
to join the most desirable arm of the service. You
will recieve SSO bounty, uniform complete, and
transportation to camps. All wishing to join will
report to him at the store of Messrs. Acre «fc Collier
or to Mr. J. 15. Collier, or to Mr. F. W. Acoo at the
Confederate Shoe Shop. He will return on the 2mu
inst., and will take clothing or provisions to any
| members of his Company,
mar 21 till 28th*
I wish to L’ro 20 or 25 hands, men or women, u
whom I will pay tho highest government prieo and
give permanent employment. Enquiro at tho office
of the Lee Hospital, over Spear’s Jewelry store,
Jone’s building. Yv r . ROBERTSON,
mar2ltf Surgeon in charge Loo Hospital
RAAITEVILLIi LSOODS.’
THE
(iHMITEVIIiLE MAIFACriSd i
WILL SELL AT AUCTION ON
THURSDAY, MARCH *l,
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 , am]
commence at ten o’clock.
WILLIAM GREGG,
Treasurer.
GranHeville, - S. C., March 12, 1864. (it
PUBLIC SALE
OP
IMPORTED GOODS.
*
BY AAUIES ffi. TAYLOR,
On WEDNESDAY, March 'M.
AT 10 o’clock, will besold, without reserve, in my
Store, 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 cases 23 1-2 inch English Prints, Colliss’,
26 doz French Felt Hats,
50d»z Calf Skins, French
200 gross Lead Pencils,
30 doz cotton Undershirts, "as are,”
11 bags Rio Coffee, prime,
48 pieces No. 16 black lafl’eta Ribbons,
75 pieces No. 12 black Taffeta Ribbons,
5 eases Bleached Cottons, Collies’ C,
scases Bleached Cottons, 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 F’eltllats, 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 Twe«ds,
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,
1 case Melton Cloths,
5 pieces white and red Flannel,
ALSO,
1 h lid English prepared Chickory.
1 bag Alspice,
3 casks assorted Hardware,
3 cases assorted Hardware,
5 cases assorted Shoes.
Conditions cash, in any Confederate Bills,
mar 17 td JAMES H. TALYOR.
Carpeniers Wstisied.
TWENTY CARPENTERS to work on the new
I Boat below the Nn\ y Yard, for which tho highest
wages will begifen. Apply to
JOSEPH IIANSERD,
mar 15 ts
Aegroes Wanted.
r t'LN good able-bodied negro men wanted for two
1 months, Good wage: will be given. Apply to
11. S. SMITH, Jr.,
mar 17 lw* or J. K. REDD.
SAIL 12.
Flour and Meal, fresh ground.
Nails, assorted sizes.
Tobacco pf all grads
Osnaburga and Yarns.
Coperas and Extract of Logwood.
Snuff—Maccaboy and Georgia Rebel—in
packages.
Cigars, Needles. Pins, Writing Paper, En
velopes, Yarns, Osnabtirgs, and a variety ot
Dry-Goods.
For sale by H. FFSCHACKER,
mar 15 l\v 104, Broad Street.
-NOTICE.
Claimants for negro hire on the Columbus De
fences are ro-iuestcd.tocall for payment before the
2sth inst. THEODORE AiuRENO
Captain o: Engineers.
Columbus, Ga.. March 19, ISGL —4t.
Hesirabie Land for £afie.
i TRACT of land in Hines county, Mi?*.. on ‘!
A a fourth Raymond i t
'.1)0 which are cleared and in a fine.state oi cum
ration" the? most ot which is crock bottoms not sub
icct to overflow, und as tine cotton and grain land a*
-j* *
moms,kitchen, - mokc-h.-n?:-, potatoe house.chnme
h.,ti<* negrft s, with Ujh K
nevs. go. and -tables with It.) or T-*«tai.s. u.:uo ; e • -
a good .in house with null, goou
with two moms a toed cistern and well. *>«* w
house. - , „.:u W with-
This laud, if not sold in u few da ; ,s, wm baSt
drawn from the market. ! x l p .Me
should call immediately at the office c*
Gehee, Broad street,
mar 21 4t
