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buu. 1,-arns, fr»» it ««'»“* '
authority, tto* tl-P «°«it cold wcaßtP, 1..?
not „„„ h damaged tl« wliaat in .U»b,„„,a ami ,
AliMiMipp. It in •'«*• estimated that live
times the quantity of land has been *owh
with it, as compared with last year. Three
raouths from now, if not sooner, hour will,
therefore, begin to be loose in the knees, and
probably let dofn to a living pne*;.
Great Britain. —-The census report of 18K0
has been published. It shows that the area
of the British Empire in 1860 was 4,420,600
square miles, of which but 121,115 constitutes
the United Kingdom. The population of the
Empire was 174,389,300, of which 135,571,-
351 and 62,893 soldiers were in British India.
In the American colonies there were 3,233,50 i r
and the city of London had a population ot
2,803,989.
From Florida. —The Lake City Columbian
has reliable information that a Federal gun
boat ascended the St. John a river on the 19th,
a considerable distance above Palatka, and
captured the steamer 'Sumter. The informant
did not know whether the crew were captured
or whether the steamer was loaded. r l he Sum
ter has been taken to Palatka, The same gun
boat had gone up the river again to. search
for the steamer Untile , but the mission will he
fruitless. The enemy, between 1500 and2&oo
strong, are quietly rendesvnuzirtg at Palatka.
No tbrtifjcetions have been erected there.—
The Yankees desire, by feints to cause Gene
ral Anderson to withdraw a portion of his
forces from their present position. Then the
Yanks will have a better chance to advance.
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The Conscription of tlie Militia
Forces of Virginia.
The Richmond Examiner pul dishes the fol
lowing important letter, addressed by Secre
tary*.S»ddou to Governor Smith, of Virginia.
It is a reply to a proper effort made by. Go
vernor Smith to assign the second class militia
to local duty, and provide against their re
moval from the limits of the Commonwealth.
It will be seen that the Secretary does not
relinquish his claim on this portion of the
militia, but postpones it to “the contingencies
of the future." The other portion of the mi
litia ie peremptorily consoribed :
March, 29, 1804.
Governor Smith :
Your letter of the 22d referred to Gonscripf.
Bureau with following endorsement:
The men iu these militia organizations
come, in my judgment, under the liabilities to
military service, declared by the acts of the
Confederate Congress. They are none of those
“troops of war,” kept by a State in time of
war, in the contemplation of the Constitution.
Beingso liable, those capable of active service
inthe field,bet weenthe ages of 18 and 46 must be
at once consoribed and devoted to the old organ
ization, either by their owu selection or by us- !
signment. Thotie who would belong to the '
reserve forces, being already in organization,
similar in a great degree (though under Btate
authority,) to those contemplated for the re- j
serves, and by their union with others not lia
bie to couscription, holding perhaps together
a larger local force than Miight otherwise be
collected, need not at once be called into Con
federate service, but may be allowed to remain
as they are until further orders. The con
tingencies of the future must determine wheth
er they may not be more usefully employed
ih their present organizations -than the new*
reserve companies, for Confederate service
Very Respectfully,
Your cbedient servant,
A. S&ddon, Secretary oi' War
It is to be presumed the same rule will ap
ply in the other States of tke Confederacy.
The Corruption at the Muitli
Growing out of the war.
The people of the North eem to be at last
awakening to the fraud and corruption that
has been long growing up in the government
under the clonk-of the war. and been glossed
over or hushed up under the pica of “military
necessity.’' Yet some of the bold aud con
servative press will occasionally speak out,
and expose the system of fraud and plunder
ing that is being carried on. The Albany
Argur, speaking of the corruption thai has
prevailed in official eitcles says :
During tin* past four weeks the public have
been made acquainted with a revelation ut
hands, surpassing anything ever before known
in our history, and almost belief. The (level
upments Imw that every department of the
Government is reeking with corruption,—
Millions of dollars is ntoien which the people
mn*>t be taxed to pay, and vet no effort at re
form is made on the part of the Adiniuistra
tion. Officials who show themselves-; unwor
thy nt great trusts tiy careless management
»re not removed, neither uve the culprits
whose knaveries are exposed, brought before
the criminal courts for trial. Not an instance
has yet occurred, among all the robberies that
have been reported, where the guilty parties
have been handed over to the criminal courts
for a public trial!
Everything is bushed up under the pb u of
•'military necessity. '* If ;t poor soldier de
aerls, he is tried according to the laws ot
war, and summaiily condemned in be shot by
tin? side of the rude cutlin that is to cover his !
remains, but the Government official, who !
divided millions with his favorites, or who
leads thousands of men to certain death, and
a great army to as certain defeat, is cither
honored and petted by the Administration, or
r-piiited away to a military prison, in order
that the people may never know the extent of
his crimes or the character of his accomplices.
If any of these parties are tried at all, it is
by a court-martial, where the proceedings are
strictly private, and from which the reporters
of the press are rigidly excluded, resulting ill
a mysterious muddle that the people cannot
undet stand. The fair inferei.ee from this is,
that it is the polit y of the men in power to
prolong the war for the sake of the plunder it
affords.
Let the Palmers the Smalleys, the Corn
wells, and a host of other similar swindlers,
have such a public trial as is awarded w>
ordinary culprits, followed by such a sentence
from the court as their crimes deserve, with a
full publication of the evidence. Nothing;
short of this will satisfy an outraged people |
Let the preliminary examinations and the tti- !
als of the rogues' who deal in millions, be as !
public as for those who steal by hundreds, or !
who commit petit larcenies and bugglaries,
and let the people have what they have a right 1
to demand—the evidence against their equally
guilty abetters and accomplices !
The Albany Statesman, the most ulira of
the Republican press, admits even more than j
tbi. In an article on the .same subject it
reeking wuh‘eorrm £****' “•"'“* W* U> be j
worse, praying * j
T U rt 3t .r P °* ing '£*** rascalities iJJ I
I A pack °% !
mcomgihlp have ;ftstoned upon thTpfiWie '
treasury and depleted it at the rate of millions
monthly ; that the patrouuge of the Federal
Government has been bestowed upon those
With whom the,; elector.-, if allowed an oxer
cise of choice, would have absolutely refused
all dealings—until high places of trust are
held by known and couvicted cormorants, and
nun drive fast horses and live in free store
houses purchased with United States green
backs who ought to be pegging shoes in btate
prisons.
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[From the London Standard.]
The Horrors at the A*ue«dt:an j
War—Hopelessness of the iai- j
fort to Sulijinfate the South—
Duty ofEnglaml \
.Since that long distant day when the |
fathers of our race, stern uud beamed j
warriors migrated to this island trom that
same Schleswig shore which is now re- i
sounding with the tramp, of armed hosts j
no calamity comparable to this war bes
tween North and South lias ever befallen
the men of Anglo-Saxon birth. Twice in
our civil wars has our nobility been all but
exterminated, and in the middle ages the
Black Beath and other plagues swept oft’
their thousands from among those whom
the sword had spared. But we might al
most. count off on our fingers the thousands
of our country’s defenders who have per
ished in the mod disastrous of our foreign
wars. We think we speak below the
mark if we say that in this most gigantic
and most murderous of wars which is now
raging everywhere from the Potomac to
Bio Grande, men die in both armies at
the rate of half a million a year. Lotus
bring into the calculation the countless
widows and orphans who are mourning for
the dead, and introduce into the picture
the wide desolation of a once fertile and
happy country, the ruined towns, the de
serted villages, the blazing homesteads;
let us add to it the moral plagues, the
cruelty, the lust, the unquenchable hate
and lury, which animate the combatants,
the development of the fiendish element
and the eclipse of all tb'at is godlike in the
breasts of the combatants, and we shall
obtain a faint, picture of this Pandemon
ium which has been made of the Ameri
‘ea which under such auspices was coloni
zed by our kinsmen not many years ago.
The Federal Americans must surely
have lost all hope of conquering back the
allegiance of the South, It was just a
year ago that a New York newspaper edi
tor put plainly before his readers the sum
of the advantages which had been reaped
in two years of war. Is the picture any
brighter now than at- the time when the
following description was given of the way
in which the North was “avenging Sum
ter?” The sum total of the Federal loss
being set at 460,000, that of the Confed
erates at 223,000, a comparison infinitely
unsatisfactory to begin with, the writer
continues—But this is not all. We have
spent almost two thousand millions more
of money than they have spent. We have
made 200,000 of our women widows; 1,000,
000 of our children fatherless. We have
destroyed the constitution of our country.
We have brought, the ferocious savagery
of war into every corner of society. We
have demoralized our pulpits so that, our
very religion is a source of immortality
and blood. Instead of being servants of
Christ, our ministers are servants of Satan.
The land is full of contractors, thieves,
provost, marshals, and a thousand other
tools of illegal and despotic power, as
Egypt wa:i of vermin in the days of the
Pharaohs. We are rapidly degenerating
in everything that exalts a nation Our
civilization 13 peri:hihg. We are drifting
into inevitable civil war here in the North
We are turning our homes into eharnal
houses. There is a corpse in every family.
The Angel of Death sits at every door.—
The Devil has removed from Tartarus to
Washington ” With the exception of the
la3t statement, for the strict veracity of
vjhicli we cannot vouch, this graphic de
scription, when penned, was as true as it is
terrible. If after another year of slaugh
ter and misery we cannot add to it, it is
because such darkness does not admit of a
deeper shade.
Are we, then tamely to stand by with
out so much a n lifting up our voice
against the continuance of thy horror?
While America i: rushing to her suicide,
are there none in F.ngland who will even
call out, Hold! It cannot, we trust, be
laid to the charge of this journal that its
writers have been too unmindful of the
sacred duty of iwnmendinp; peaceful
counsel , even when neb advice becomes
wearisome for its very sameness. We
rejoifce, too,to think that there are many
in England who am heartily disposed to
work m the name good tat net*. There are
different ways which they may aim at this
end There are those vvlio, like ourselves
heartily sympathize with the tVmledera
cy in their Irtt !e for
ot such ni.si bus been tunned the South
ern Independence Association, which en
deavors to put an end to the war by
urging upon the European Governments
the duty id‘recognizing ihe South. It is
possible, however that there are many sin
cere Friends of the North who desire a pac
ification as earnestly as those who con
fess to a contrary bias. To include all
these there has been lately set on loot a
“Society for promoting the Cessation of
.H’o.Mililies in America.” His object is
by wide association, by petition by the
publication of papers, by enlisting in its
cause the great mass of the clergy and
ministers of the Gospel, to put all the
moral pressure possible on the people and
Government of Kngland, the peoples and
Governments of America, so as by some
means or other to restore the blessings of
peace to that distracted country. It is a
good work, in which no mqn should wish
to be backward These societies are pre
pared to eo-operJfe without, jealousy.
The only differs nee is, that'the one is a
more enlarged ntrd catholic basis than the
otTier. Every man who deprepates the
continuance of this miserable slaughter
and havoc among those who speak our
language and arc more or less related to
us by ties of blood and kindred, must
fee] that it is not bis duty to stand aloof
any longer. We recommend every man
ot any position or influence to join one
or the other of these societies without
deday, and give at least his mite towards
the furtherance of a humane movement
-VH VU F- or itupWiK, - In the t 'huroh of St. Al
pßUttor . Constance St. ne-ardhe 1 Magazine Market.
FcitfiiA hi ruing, at 3 A.Vlook, :nt oca of high mass.
Will b.' hjful tor ‘the -rriii.se ot the out ot Airs. Gen.
Beaiueffara, who die,l oil Ihe 3d instant, after hav
ing passed ihrmigh a year of intense bodily afflic
tion. Her many shining virtues having endeared
to her thousands ot warm hearts, they will’now
with due humility pay thff tribute to the memory
<4 one wh. . p name will long remain among us as )
Vrtigwicxjcawjihfc--A'wc Orleans Delta. Ma eh
fu-.t:. v, * |
<• [From the Ijielnttoud Sentinel.]
The Georgia Soldiers to Govern*
or Brown Greeting.
Camp 24th Georgia Regiment, )
March 24th, 1864. j f
At a meeting held this day, in the capip
of the 24th Georgiu Regiment, Capt 11.
H. Smith was called to the chair, and
Serg’t D. C. Oliver requested to act as j
Secretary. The object of the meeting j
was Alien explained by the chairman, and
on motion the chair appointed a commit
tee of three to draft a preamble and reso
lutions —the, committee being Captains
Winn, Turk and Smith —they presented
the following preamble and resolutions, to
wit:
Whereas, the Governor of the State of I
Georgia, in his recent message to the leg- |
isluture of that State, takes occasion to ob
ject to the suspension of the writ ol ha- j
beas corpus, recommends propositions lor j
peace to the vile foe with whom we have :
been contending for three years, for our
inalienable rights for self-government; aud
whereas, the Governor of our beloved
State seems to delight in differing with
the Chief Magistrate ol* this Confederacy i
in matters of vital interest which concerns
the welfare of us all, thereby paraliziug
the efforts of the people, in sustaining the
cattle in which her sons are engaged, and
at a moment when all should be united,
we think it would be more appropriate for
the Chief Magistrate of our great, State,
as well as those who represent the people,
with a powerful foe on the northern fron
tier threatening Georgia with the desola-
tion which has overtaken Virginia, Ten
nessee and other portions of the Confed
eracy, and that her rulers would be more
rationally engaged and would better serve
her own interest and the common cause,
if they would employ themselves in blow
ing the war bugle and rallying every re
source of resistance, rather than in shriek
ing at or embarrassing the Confederate
authorities by unjust and certainly un
timely clamors and assaults—therefore,
be it resolved by the 24th Georgia Regi
ment in mass meeting assembled:
1. That we view with alarm and in
dignation the untimely attempt ol* the
Govenor of Georgia to cripple the legisla
tion of the Congress of the Confederate
States as well as his stubborn resistance
to all measures emanating from the Chief
Magistrate of the Confederacy.
2. Tfcat we nnquallifiedly condemn the
reccommendation'of the Governor to Jask
for terms of peace from our vile foe: that
they are the agressors and know full well
that these States ask for nothing but their
inalienable rights to be free; and that
such propositions from ns would be bail
ed by our enemies as an evidence of our
weakness and would stimulate them to
greater efforts for our subjugdtion.
3. That, we repeat, as we have done be
fore our determination to fight the vile
foe as long as the Government has a man
to wield a blade in defence of our homes
and firesides.
4. That the Congress of the Confed
erate States is the true exponent of the
feelings of the people and soldiery, and
that we condemn the attempt of individ
uals to control aud shape the policy ot the
the General Government, except through
her representatives.
5. That we Bail with admiration the
patriotic efforts of Gen, Howell Cobb, in
supporting the Government, not only for
his powerful influence, exerted as an ex
pounder of the true policy for the State
to pursue, but tor his very patriotic dona
tion from his own storhouse to aid materi
ally in the support of the army; that, we
remember him with pride and admiration
as our former commander. *
6. That a copy of this preamble and
resolutions be sent to the Richmnnd (Va)
Sentinal, Macon (Ga.) Telegraph and
Athens (Ga.) Watchman for publication,
and that all papers in Georgia friendly to
<o the cause will copy.
Committee—'Captains Tom E. Winn,
J. N Turk, F. C, Smith.
The meeting after hearing preamble
ane resolutions read unuipmously adop
ted then.
H.H. Smith, Chairman
D. C. Oliver, Secy.
Interesting European Mews.
Mexico City (.inn. 17) Correspondence of Ihe
London Times.
Messrs. Rothschild & Sons have just com
pleted a large contract with the Paymaster of
Ihe French forces, having imported four mil
lions of dollars in American gold (two mil
lions of dollars from California and tWo mil
lions of dollars from New York) for which
they receive bills on the French Treasury.
THE EI.ORIDA IIER KHCAI'K AND CREW.
Paris ( Fell. 38) ('orrespondenee ot the London
Army and Navy Gazette.
For many months the Florida lay in Brest
harbor, undergoing repairs ; and, though . he
lias long been ready for sea, she could not put
out. being in want of hands. Great difficulty
was experienced in getting men. as the Eng
lish market w as almost closed by international
law. The old hands had departed gunwales
down with plunder, but they were either un
able to get back to the saucy craft at Brest or
had shipped for another port. Complete at
last, but with the Kearange close watching
her. the Florida, after trying !he power of her
engines, waited an opportunity of giving the
Federal cruiser the slip. A few' days ago she
left Brest during a fog, and without being per
ceived. The next day the ivearsage set off in
•pursuit: but the sea is wide, and the Florida
had good heels. La France assures its read
ers that before leaving Brest, the Captain of
the Florida called the crew aft and told them
that he had agreed to meet the Federal vessel
outside French waters, and try conclusions
with her.. According to La France, this de
termination, of tl*e skipper was received with
cheers by the crew. However, the statement
of La France is improbable, lor the Florida’s
duty is to damage Uncle Sant in his pocket,
unit not to run the risk of a single combat
with a frigate even of her own size. The
Florida and her depredations will soon be ex
asperating New York and Boston. She has
been titled for sea in a French port, and was
even allowed into an imperial basin by the
Brest authorities. No stir appears to have
been made as yet by the Rappahannock at
Calais.
From the London Post [City Article] Feb. 24.
Advices from Paris state, in more positive
terms than before, that confidential negotia
tions have been entered upon by the French
Government with the Cabinet of S"t. James,
for the recognition of the Southern Confede
rate States of America. It is stated that
France ha3 even expressed itself prepared to
recognize the States alone in the event-of a
negative answer being returned by the British
Government. Although this information
reaches us from reliable quarters, we do not
vouch for its authenticity, notwithstanding it j
lias received corroboration in influential quar- I
ters here, and has for some days past been ,
current in this city.
—— j
Northern *4vicfc3 from Brownsville, report that ’
there no project of fighting there. New roads ■
and fertifieations are being mode.
TEI)EGrRA.FH_ICD
Reports ol the Freu itsoeitUoi.
Entered according to act of Congress “ the. year
1863 hv J S Thrasher, in the Clerk s office of
the’District Court of the Confederate States for
the Northern District of Georgia.
Richmond, April 6. --The aggregate official re
turns of Funding to this date is two hundred mil
lions. •
Governor Smith has declined certifying in fa
vor of the exemption of Justices of the Peace un
der 45 years of age.
£ Weather clear to-day for the first time in ten
days.
No sign of the flag of truce boat expected at City-
Point. The detention is probably caused by the
recent rains.
No sales of bon'd* and toeka in this market since
Ist April.
The <it> elections passed off quietly.
[From the London Morning Post, Feb 15.]
The American War-«A Geolog
ical Simile.
The North has not yet penetrated the crust
of the South. At the point where the great
est efforts have been made by the Federate
they have absolutely made no progress since
McDowell was defeated by Beauregard at Bull
Run in the first great battle of the war, three
years ago. The saihe may be said , with re
spect to the contest so long.ragingat‘Charles
ton. They have come upon the deepest rock
of the Southern crust and cannot perforate it j
it is proof against all the boring tools of the
Gillmore Parnitte and Pahlgrens. A modifi
cation of t his modern type of warfare is to be
seen in the West. There the primitive rocks
did not lio so near the surface. There was
much water in those parts, which was pre
portionately softer. The gnnbhats could make
their way up and down the Mississippi. But
the softer part of the western crust of.Secessia
has non been gone through, and again the
Federate find themselves agaist a solid, im
penetrable mass. If, from the north, the east
and the west, we turn to (he extreme south,
we find that matters have long been in this
condition of fixity. The Federate cannot get
further into the country than Ne.vv Orleans,and
their occupation of this place, which they
have now-Jield so long, is an epitome of what
their occupation of the entire South would be
if they were able to overrun it The waters
of the rivers and the sea which surround the
South are as the arable soil, the clay, the
loam, the sand, the gravel in the earth’s crust.
When a less or greater depth of the soft mat
ter is got through, you come upon solid rock,
upon which you can make no impression, and
which, if-you can penetrate it, would let you
through into the boiling chaos beneath.
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Lincoln on his Cabinet Helps. —The New
York Herald relates the following :
A prominent Senator was remonstrating
with Mr. Lincoln a tew days ago about keep
ing Mr. (’base in his Cabinet, when it was
well known that Mr. C. is opposed, tooth and
nail, to Mr. Lincoln’s re-election.
“Now, see here,” says the President, “when
I was elected 1 resolved to hire my four Presi
dential rivals, pay them their wages and be
their ‘boss.’ These were Seward, Chase, Cam
eron and Rates; but I got rid of Cameron
after he had played himself out. A9 to dis
charging Chase or Seward, don't talk of it. I
pay them their wages and am their boss, and
wouldn’t let either of them out on the loose for
the fee simple of the Alraaden patent.”
Last Words or the Late Bishop Meade.—
Among the persons present at the death of the
late Bishop Meade of Va., was General Lee
The last words spoken by the celebrated div ine
were addressed to that distinguished officer.
We find them |n the Montgomery Advertiser,
as given by p. correspondent. The Bishop
remarked thus :
“For a consjideral period f thought this war
an unjust one and was lor maintaining the
Union. But p lien 1 saw Lincoln’s proclama
tion, my eyes were opened, and I saw nothing
remained to the South, but deepest degrada
tion or war to the bitter end. Since that time
I have done all in my power for the Confede
rate arms. But lean do no more. God calls
and I must go at Iffs summons. General Lee,
yon are engaged in a holy cause—the cause of
liberty, the cause of unborn millions. [ see
it now as I have never seen it before. You are
at the head of a mighty army, to which mil
lions look with untold anxiety and hope.
You are a Christian soldeir, God thus far
owns and blesses yon in year efforts for the
cause of the Houtli’. Trust in God, Gen. Lee,
with all your heart,” and placing his palsied
hands on the' General s head, he added, in a
manner never to be forgotten by the bystand
ers, “you will never be overcome—you can
never be overcome.” , '
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|Special Hi.-'natch to the Mmiisomery Advertiser.}
Tunnel fin.i., April 4.—The Chattanooga
Gazette of the :>d Ims been received: also
Louisville papers, from which we make the
following summary:
*A dispatch from Cairo of the 29th March
says, that Gen. Forrest was reported within
eight miles of Columbus, Ky., last night.
The whide garrison at Union City under
Col. Hawkins, with 7*oo men, surrendered to
Forrest on life 4fh ol March.
On the 26th, Yankee reinforcements were
reported arm ing at Paducah. The town was
riddled with shot and shell, and many houses
were burned. The rebels depended on over
whelming numbers to carry the works by as
sault. The steamer Dacota li was burned.
The loss by the rebels plundering Paducah is
estimated at $250,000. A rebel colonel. A.
P, Thompson, was reported killed.
It was currently reported on the night of
the 29th of March that Forrest had moved
upon the Cumberland river and attacked Fort
Donrlsoii.
A force of rebel cavalry pi'evinu®ly reported
was opposite Canton, 15 miles from Dopelson.
A dispatch from Memphis, noth March, says
that Gen. McCullough was reported near
Jackson, Tenn., with 2500 men, hi route to
reinforce Forrest.
Grierson was watching, hut was too weak
to follow Forrest.
A great riot occurred between the Copper
heads and soldiers in Coles county, Illinois,
on the 28th of March. Col. Mitchell with a
large number of soldiers were badly wound
ed ; a Yankee surgeon and others were killed.
Further outbreaks were anticipated.
At New N ork, on the 2d inst., the City of
Cork arrived from Liverpool with dates of the
-'ytli of March.
The Prussian squadron attacked the Danish
blockading squadron off Gneffswalde, Pomer
ania, tor two hours, when ic withdrew.
The Prussian* attacked the Dane* en~ j
trenched at. Duppel village. There was tight- I
ing all along the lines and terrible cannon
ading on the 17th. The Danes silenced two
batteries and lost a colonel and seventy men
wounded. The Prussian loss was severe.
The Danish army was undaunted.
A dispatch from Washington of the 2d inst.
says, that since the examination of Gen.
Meade by the W ar Committee it is understood
that he will h? retained.
Gen. Baldv Smith is to be Grant’s Chief of
Staff.
Gen. Burnside ha* been appointed Superin
tendent bn leernitinsr negroes in Kentucky. !
lien Mill i* to command the forces in West- ,
ern Virginia. • *
The re-organization of the Yankee army of i
the Potomac is still incomplete owing to the I
non-confirmation of the officers.
The New i urk World’?.New Orleans corres- !
pondent says that Brownsriile and the Rio t
Grande are to be evacuated by the Yankee !
forces. -
GJTY MATTERS.
TANARUS, y EfllU"
Notice to Patrons.
After this date we shall be compelled to make
a deduction of Bs4-3 par cent, from C,.uiV.k-..,;v .
notes of tho old issues almve llninlvt >te nm
taken. Persons having busiuers with the “fitee
will bear this in uiiud.
March lSfll.
For Chattahoochee.
The steamer Indian, Captain Fw, witl leave fi-r
the above and insei'tjuiidiatehu*d»v«gsun t •>; Morrow
[Friday] at 9 o’clock.
CoLSIONEES PER M. A (Y. R. R!* April kill Hill. -
Spencer <£ A.: W.; Wadkins; phiuvhii! A .51
Brannon; A. W. Murphey: Maj Dillard Folson
A Cody; W R W Youngblood: Muj Allen ; Capt
Cothran; W CCox ; J L polhud: J F Marshall: F.
Dudley; 55’ BCox: Gram Factory, J H Butt: II 11
Epping; T S.T ; N J Bank- , a L Harrison; V a. J.
Spencer: JS Colbert; \\ P Turner; Barioger, R.
S Hardaway ; J F Tillman: Eagle FacUirj : X Ea
in*: Sawyer, Foul, Rois.
Notice -Books Wanted.—Persons tm ing cap
ias of a musical work called “The New Lute of Zi
on” will confer a favor bv leaving the -ame with
the Local of the Times, ter the temporary me *of
St. Luke’s (Methodi. t> chuivii. The book: will
bo purchased at a reasonable price, or t,,.y i<• v,• -t ot
the pleasure of the owner.
Would like also a few copie us the “Carmina
Sacra.” Many persons Save these work hmg
idly about their houses, who by letting tn have
them to practice sacred music at the Church will
confer an f special lay or and contribute u> a g«,od
cause.
Wanted. — II will Im seen from an adver
that Major Humphreys still protrers to
exchange plantation iron, sugar mills, salt kettle-:,
powder, Ac,, for the us.* of employee- in hi , de
partment. It is to b§ Imped that person: wishing
to make such au exchange wilt bring forward their
bacon at once.
A On a. SHE for the Better - The weather ln.s
assumed a spring like appearance at last. Although
there was a considerable Trust yesterday morning
the afternoon was .piiie warm, and appearances
would seem to indicate that (Spring is now com
mencing iu earnest. 5Ve trust so at least, for the
sake of crops and vegetables.
Some Conscience Left. -There was a man in
town yesterday selling fine hunches of lettuce for
ten cents. It is really encouraging to think that
this sum is coming in vogue again. It has been
9© long since anything could he bought with this
pitiful amount that we have almost forgotten there
ever was a ten cents. 5Ye know not who this
tleman was, but we would like very well to make
his acquaintance. Ik: would make a good how.
His wonderful regard for conscience is -perfectly
overwhelming in these grasping times. Who ever
expected anything to get down so low '! Hby a
good smell of anything to eat. now is worth ten
times this amount. Certainly this man has just
waked up from a long -deep or is losing bis reuses.
A committee should be appointed to examine his
case; and if not all right he should he trotted ~tt to
the Asylum at once.
Affairs at Beaufort, S. C.—A Yankee, who
has recently arrived iu Boston from In,i t Ttoyal,
furnishes on© oi the journal some information re
specting affairs at Beaufort.
The sale of deserted lauds is resumed, and the
“contrabands” are pre-empting their t wenty acres
each, under the assurance from the Key. Mr.
French that they will be permitted to hold their
claims. There is'little competition at the sale-,
and some of the purchasers make great bargains.
At Beaufort an elegant mans?ou house was old
at auction for a tittle over $900; the informant
bought it the same day for SI2OO, and before tu*ht
sold it for S2OOO, Gen. Saxton had purchased a
magnificent house for s2uUo—not the cost of the
fence around the lot. But one resident of Beau
fort has a regular deed of his place ; he is u New
England man. The place bc-ars many of the
marks of war. The marble covering ot some of the
tombs of the old residents have been removed by
the soldiers to be used in the construction of their
quarters. The work upon the plantations is done
in a very slovenly manner. This is in con se
quence of the insolence ol the negroes aud the
lack of experience of Northern men working plan
tations.
Cotton at New Orleans, — The Picayune, op
March 3d, gives the following as the cuttmi re
ceipts in New Orleans during the previous six
mouths:
’ Bale.-. fcks and Eg-.
Septem her*. 4,1 .'Jo 1,321
October, 10,284 6,0;>3
November,.. ....14,832 9, fiat
December,,..: 3,375 10,158
January, 7,678 9,183
February, ...11,385 3,625
62,190 4 t,S9«
Making in round figures seventy seven thou
and bales. And it is added There have been no
receipts from Red River : perhaps the season may
pass and no material rise in the waters (if thi*
dream, so as to admit communication, mav occur
as in 1865. Up to this moment there i-- no into!
ligence of any movement either in the water- ,<t
Red, or Ouachita rivers or tributaries.
_ __
.toother Proclamation by Lin
coln.
Lincoln ha* issued another proclamation iri re
gard to the residents or the Confederacy. licit. it
:
Whereas, It has become nece=«:irv to delin ' iff
case.? in which insurgent emiuic. are entitled ~
the benefits of the proclamation of the Presi.i l; ;
the United States, which »*> made on tin- Sih das
of December, 18f>2, and ii.< niam.vi in which the\
shall proceed to avail Ihotmelve- of thnsFbouefit;.
and whereas, the objects of that proclamation were
to suppress the insurrection, ami to restore the mi
tborily of the United States: and whereas, the
amnesty therein proposed hy the President, wa
offered with reference to these objects alone :
Now. therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President
of the United States, do hereby proclaim and de
clare that the said proclamation does not apply io
the cases of persons who, at the time, when tiny
seek to obtain the benefits thereof by taking the
oatli thereby prescribed. are in military, naval h
civil confinement or custody, or under bonds or on
parole of ihe civil, military or naval authorities a
agents oi the I nited States, as prisoners of war,
or persons detained for offences of any kind, either
before or after conviction : and that, on the con
trary, it does apply only to those persons who, he
ing yet at large and ftee from any arrest, «online -
meutor duress shall voluntarily come forward and
take the said oath, with the purpose ~i , c
peace and establishing the nation at authority.
Prisoners excluded from the amnc-,tv ofb n-d m the
said proclamation may apply to the President tor
clemency like all other offenders, und their appli
cation wili receive due consideration,
I do further declare and proclaim tLat the oath
prescribed in the aforesaid proclamation of the mL
of December, 1863 may he taken and. subscribed
before any commissioned officer, civil, military o r
naval, in the service of the United States, „j ant
civil or military officer of a State or Tei ri’toi \ u.'t
in insurrection, who, hy the laws thereof, may be
.juulitied tor administering oaths. All officers’who 1
receive such oaths are hereby authorized to gr
certiheate thereon to the persons respectively l.\ |
whom the are made, and such officers : are hereby J
required to transmit the original records ot su, ti
oaths at a9 early a day as may he convenient to the
Department of State, where they will be dep.v-itvd
and remain in the archives of the Government. —
The Secretary of State w ill keep a register thcreqf.
and will, on application in proper . uses, issue c«r
titioates 6f such record* in the customary form of
official ert’tifftates.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto vt iuy
hand, and i a used ibe seal of the Coked Wtaie i u
he affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, the 2fdh day
of Match, in the year »and our Lord, one
eight handled and sixty-four, and
of the independence of the United' States,
the eighty-eighth.
Abraham LisUox.vl c
By the President;
Wat. K. Seward, sec‘y of State.
V ;i j. vu t ti'ji IJii,.? -5V< M|pl |Lv /©G
i R t| f Album \ !
i -*F> ; i‘upj Toni in front of Wash
jDgtuii. the officers of )fie Government
mri ''lA 'd with am h a terrible panic that
they gave in. all Impr <.| t h,.
in i.h uiii ? :V'j» ; »ir of tlic fijulerg
\\ t iDeln.ii,; “Hen i<> blow up ams dej-troY
the Wte kingion \r.--cnal and the -nittmus up
on million- of dollars’ worth of war maUq>?
to prevent ihcni from falling into the hand? of
tip* ffbcl?.”
Thf T’oi liestor Daffy Union, which ptffdi.-hea
the above, claims to have such authority for
tho sbrtenioiit a? to preclude all doubts of its
. correctness, and to warrant the presutuptiun
that it will not be disputed by tlo* only parties
wfidd’afv covnprtf-m 115 hTve testimony on the
subject, to wo. Hie.,high officiate oftfie Gov*,
eminent.
Y> c have no doubt of its truth OT that it
could be established by e\idet»cc‘. k| the
; t'oimuiitees hi ('migtc - had not proved to ba
! eoiuhuialhms for the oppression of truth, ike
IcStimon; ...aid tea dill be brought before
! them.
Incidents of iuk late Battle in Nortubrn
Georgia. —A correspondent of the Atlanta Ap
peal relates the following incidents of tho l»u- bat
tle near Dalton, Ga, ;
I saw Sergeant Davis, of Cos. 11. shout a Yankee
officer through the head at the,distance of at least
live hundred yards. Thi- was not the Sergeaut’d
intiiden hot. lie brought two Yankee color-bear*-
to - to grief oil Lookout .Mountain, and other fields
have attc.-ied his unerring skill as a marksmen.
Company K. Fortieth Alabama, wa-engaged iu
kirmi hing the next day. and here an incident
occurred.that deserve:’ more than a passing notice,
Pat Mathews..i dating little Irishman of his com
pany, concluded to do a little figliiiug on hi* owu
hook, and wentC|i tar ahead of his comrade*,’ un
til. to us..- Lis own language, he “ toldenly. sur
rounded a couple o! 5 ankee spalpeens. ** ft was a
mutual -Inprise, hut Pal. with the ready wit aud
daring oi his race took ijui.-k advantage of it—-
“Surrender, or I’ll blow a hole through both of y«.”
a bev -aw his finger on the trigger, and the Irish
G«r\ i! iu, his e\c. .md after a nioiueut'o hesitation,
down went tlreir guns, and the two big fellows, U.
S. regulars, mieovnlitiojiullj .surrendered them
selvr- prisoners <d war to little Pat. Either one of
them could have taken Pat by the nape of the
neck, and swung him over a ten rail fence, hut he
has a heart that never flinches in the fight. When
lie turned his captive*' over as ordered, he was tuld
that their oil clothes and evria baggage were his
legitimate spoil. “\o, sir,” said he, touching his
hat, **l do pot tight that way." Was there not a
spice of moral heroism here / and does -yiot the
brave fellow deserte additional credit for refusing
to plunder his fallen foe ? When the writer pro
posed to Pat to appq ldr promotion, he modestly
declined and expi. ed hi? preference for the post,
lion of a pliv itie.
G, S. ARSENAL, 1
Columbus, Ga.. Aprils, 1864.)
Notice.
1 WISH TO EXCHANGE FOR BACON
on equitable terms,
Siipr Mill*,
Stellar an <! Salt Kelt!?*,
And all kinds PLANTATION IKON;
Also Pi.)WOKU.
As this Bacon C needed to supidy ihe necessities
of the employees of the Ordnance Department, at
this place aml Kir linn >nd, it i- hoped that holders
will “h e the Government the prefcicm-e.
F. HUMPHREYS.
ai>l 7 ts .Muj. Coind’g Arsenal.
„ OrricE Mobile and Girard R. R.. )
Columbus, Ga., April 5, 1»64. j
The Stockholders of the Mobile Alt i Irani Railroad
* 'ompany, ore hereby notified I hat ihe five per cent
tax, levied by the taw passed February 17th, 1864,
on the v'atue of alt .shares held in Bailroad or other
Companies, wul he paid by the Treasurer at this
otfue .in,! they will therefore omit the stock held in
ihi Company in their tut t<> Assessors.
J. M. FRAZER,
apt 6 It Treasurer.
Muspqgke Railroad Company, t
Columbus, Ga., April6th, 1864. j
The holder -of general stock in the Muscogee Rail
road Company are hereby nolilied that the five ptr
cent tax levied by ihe law passed by the Confeder
ate Congress., 1, .h February, will be giveh in
and.paid by this Company on their stock,
By order of Board of Directors.
J. M. DIVINGS,
Secretary and Treasurer.
apl 6 1 w.
Savannah Republican and Augusta Constitution
alist. will plea v published the above one week and
Junvard bill io thu office
Wanted
Immediately at the C. S. Arsenal, Columbus, Ga.
ID,urn) FEET POPLAR StANTLINC 5x5,
ALSO,
A Quantity of Wheat or Rye Straw.
F. C. HUMPHREYS,
Maj. &. Ord. Officer,
nniii Iw Com Mg Arsenal.
•hejul Naval Iron Works, i
U'ulnmhns, Ua., Ai.ril 4th, 1864. j
I■> tuitid again, t imposition upon the poor and
Hp..ii per-tms ienorant ot such matters, notice Is
hereby civ ( 'ii that the Checks i- ued as change bills
ironi this office Aie redeemable in current Treasury
N.>ie for the pre ent in five dollar- and under, and
with the new i -ue when received. *
J. H. WARNER, i
apt 4 2t
‘ ullt t* to Planters and (on*
'uinivrs oi lioii/’
\\ i. will kci-j. bo .ile. t'ur Confederate funds, or
' V exchange for 'country produce—such u- Corn,
I’'odder, Bacon, Laid, Syrup, Peas, Potatoes, Tal
low, Butter, Wio.it oi Flour — tlie following articles,
on hand in' made to order:
I ’LOW A\D SCOOTER BAR IRON;
J L AT, ROUND AND ,S(jl ARE bah IRON;
Hoop. HORSF SHOE. NAIL ROD;
IRON COTTON TIES THAN
hope) sot: baling ;
SlioYKLs A Ni» SPADES ;
ER'i PANS:
Po'l WARE OF SEVERAL • DRSCRIP
iToNK-
SI CAP AND SI A i.T KETTLES* FROM 40
!(I mo G A LLoNS ;
SUGAR MILLS—I.: AND 15 INCH
\\ c arc prepared to rcociy e and fill orders for any
,/, yN; I, V-‘ |ll;, -i7-ii ,s - '’l J 'on, tr..iu our Iron Work?
arid Boltin- Mill m A t ih.tinn
JOHN D. GUAY A CO.,
’O' l ’ o Next tii New Bridge,
i'opartnerfcliip.
r | HI- * - HER: TONED have this day. entered
nit., .t Ci.paitneiship under the name and
'[ L HdND. J.RD ± AINViTN, for the transac
tniii ..t a general c..miuis-n.n business.
Office No. 13, Broad Street.
JOSEPH HANSFRD.
r THOMAS 11. AUSTIN.
Columbus, Ga., April 1, lout. |y V
Siiocikk;»L« is :in«] Sa<|<!ietV
tools.
r l'lll. I N l»i'.l;>Jt,N'ED having lomuienced the
manuiarture ot the above mum and articles in this
city, arc prepaid! to lilt order? tm the jme.
Office nil All Me ?! i ent, a f few doors ;tbo\e C. S.
11 ii- nit aI. HARR IS ONB E DELL A CO.
Reference— Maj. F. IV. Dim. ran.
Mobile Register, Mesiesippisn and Augusta Con
'titutionulPr, please copy one mouth and send bills
to rhi*- r.ffii e.
mar J M tt
UV’iiilttl litniM*«ltatHv.
HI O i .. i ..It kind-. Also Goat and Coon Skins,
i he tiiehe t price paid t.H trot- Skin?
t to jekferson a Hamilton,
at Troy K needy Ware Room?.
Ilia r ol
l .mitiii ei aiuhSun copy. ,
<Mil St rap Iron Wauled.
W 1 Wl '*‘ lo Purchase old Scrap Wrnuvht Iron.
JEI FERSoN A HAAUEION.
mar ot
Enquirer and Sun copy.
