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gb* g'xrliimlms 1 j. H. KAKREV. - - * * alitor. Thursday Murninr. Iftlf ■ htll - CBoPS-CHKK.ur.o.-The Mob.l« Tri 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. ♦ i#n 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. ■*- » mm [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. ’• j ♦ ♦ 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.” , ' I * mm » |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.