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Ifc* film 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