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J. W. WABBES. - - - Editor.
Wednesday Morning, May 11, 1864. \r
Tiie Sick and Wounded Soldier* of Ken
tucky.
We slave already noticed that Mr. Andrew
H. H. pawson will deliver an address in
Temperance Hall this evening for the benefit
of the sick and battle-scarred soldiers of Ken
tucky. As is the invariable custom of Mr.
Dawson, wherever his lecture has been re
peated, the Ladies’ Relief Society will receive
the entire proceeds of the occasion, and ap
ply it to the high and holy uses for which it is
intended. These proceeds consist solely of
the price of admittance to the Hall. No
further contributions will be asked or expec
ted. The speaker has no interest in it what
ever, further than such as every good and
patriotic man must feel and take in the effort
to relieve the sufferings of his unfortunate and
afflicted countryman. Mr. Dawson’s exertions
in this behalf, at other places, we are pleased
to state, have been crowned with the most
abundaut and rrratifying success. The ad
dress has everywhere been received with
marked tokens of approbation ; and the unan
imous verdict of the press in our sister cities,
together with ' • own knowledge of the
speaker’s ability, justify us in promising a
literary repast of rare merit to his audience
this evening. We trust that the citizens of
Columbus will, by an overwhelming demon
stration to-night, testify their appreciation of
the heroic fortitude and self-sacrificing pa
triotism of the sons of this down-trodden, but
soon to be regenerated State.
The Battle in Virginia.
We have accounts of four days of continvt
bus fighting between the opposing armies in
Northern Virginia, and, as yet, no general and
decisive engagement has occurred. The de
lay of this closing act of the tragedy, is a mat
ter of some mystery. It vas thought that
Grant, confiding in the strength of his great
numbers, and the moral force of his own pres
tige, would gather up his whole power and
seek to crush Lee’s army with one overwhel
ming blow. Instead of this, however, he has
been fighting by detachments and in detail,
and seems anxious to postpone the final test.
Whether this policy be wise on his part, we
may not be able to.determine, but it is quite ap
parent that the repeated repulses he receives
from day to day, cannot be improving to the
morale and spirits of his troops. He may,
possibly, expect by this desultory fighting to
wear out the patience and physical energy of
our men, or he may be manoeuverin’g, before
delivering a final battle, to turn Gen. Lee’s
right flank, and thus place himself between
our army and Richmond. The location of
the last battle reported by Gen. Lee, would
seem to declare this to be his object. That
reportstate# that the advance of our army came
up with the enemy at Spottsylvania Court
House. This point is about 15 miles South
west from Fredericksburg, and is in a direct
line to Richmond from where the enemy cross
ed the Radidifi.
V e have no idea that Grant will succeed in
the execution of this design. As he marches
South, Lee will certainly keep pace with him,
until he thinks the time ha3 come for dealing
the decisive blow. As to our means of rein
forcing Gen. Lee we can only conjecture. We
see not why his strength might not be increas
ed, or replenished, from East Tennessee and
South Western Virginia, and, if need be, from
North Carolina. Wo have long since, how
ever, turned over this matter to President
Davis an cl Mr. Secretary Seddon, and there,
for tne present at least, we are willing for the
trust to remain. So far as we can understand
it, every .nature of -‘the situation” is most
cheering.
Governor Brown’s Extra Session,
No. 5.
THE MILITARY BILL.
I have proved that the act suspending the
tv lit of habeas corpus t is constitutional; that
the grounds upca which the Governor aud
Mr. Stephens assail it, never entered into the
brain of man until they were assumed by
them. This fact, of itself, should have con
demned them in the judgment of all who do
cot love men more than truth, and personal
friendships more than the safety and glory of
their country. But at a wearisome length,
both to myself and my readers, I have discuss
ed them and shown their fallacy from be
ginning to end—l have shown that both those
gentlemen encouraged ihe passage of the act
by taking no exceptions to a similar act pass
ed more than a year before this—one of them,
indeed, distinctly admitting its constitution
ality in an official document identical in name
and attribute with that in which he now
denied* it. A few more words upon this head,
and I dismiss it.
I Gv believe, that in the whole range of
Brltisu jurisf.i udenc, a solitary case can be
found vphere a judge ever granted the writ to
bring up a soldier in the army or navy, where
that fact was judicially made known to him
before the issuing of the writ or set him
at iioeity where .t came out at the hearing, j
upon the letarn of the writ. The courts of!
that .country consider the civil and military !
departments of the government as distinct j
and separate fre-m each other. So are they in 1
this country. It would amaze all England to j
hear of a judge granting the writ upon the j
application of one, setting forth in his petition, !
that hew s a soldier in the army, but entitled
to a discharge, &c. It would have amazed
Chiet Justice Marshall, that any one, claiming
to be a lawyer, should have presented such a
petition to him ; and he was the head of the
Courts waicii Lave alone jurisdiction in such
matters, if any court has, but the courts
miiii ■ ry. It would Gave amazed Chancellor
to ice the judge of a State Court gravely
deliberating under the writ of habeas corpus,
waether a scidier in the army was duly ealist
c-... whether he was cf the proper age to en
list—whether Lis time had not run out
v.’.iiufcr tie wus subject to draft, &c., &e. By
tie way. we know something of the views of
ta.s g/ta*, man upon this sub' ♦. Furguson
applied :o -;-. c Court fort t , beas corpus,
eeU.tcg -.oveu-tbat he vr*r , ’ !j, ,- ,-army
c t ■ ’ ,■. -led Sir. 4 . ,
) : *J • • ‘er of
I the United States army; the judges refused
j to grant the writ, as it was a matter aiismg
under, or by color of the authority of the
l United States, and a Judge of the Supreme or
District Courts had clear and unquestionable
jurisdiction in the matter, and could afford
requisite relief. Kent C. J. distinctly denied
the jurisdiction ®f a State Courtin the matter,
and a majority of the court concurred with
him, though one or two of the judges said
they would not commit themselves on the
question of jurisdiction ; but all concurred in
the decision, 9J. R. 239. Scarcely a ground
can now be assumed by a soldier or marine,
for release from army or navy, which will
be found decided adverse to the applicant ia
some of the following cases: 1 J. 0. 136, 1
Mason 71, 11 Serg. & Raw. 93, 1 Burr 339, 16
Eng. Com. Law Rep, 179, 2 Hall’s Law Jour.
192, T. U.P. Chari. R 142, 5 Hill (N.Y.)RI6.
Kent is right beyond controversy. The army
is a creature of Congress. Redress of griev
ances in it must come through them and them
alone. The soldiers in it are not prisoners—
they are not in custody. It is only such that
can be released by habeas corpus , and only by
juicTges whose jurisdiction is co-extensive with
the army, and not by the thousand judges
whom the States may stiek up and fling in
the pathway of the army. Among these there
can be no uniformity of decision. A man may
sue out the writ in every State through which
he is marched ; for the decision in one, will be
no bar to the hearing in another. In the writ
of habeas corpus no judge has authority to de
cide more than that the applicant is in
legal or illegal custody ; but these judges de
cide whether they shall stay in, or come out,
of the army. Was such a use ever made of
the writ, out of the United or Confederate
States? And this is the judiciary, which Gov,
Brown, with a fiery tongue, asks the President
“whether he can no longer trust ?” If they
would keep within their proper boundary,
there should be no need of suspending the
writ; but as they will not, the wisest and
safest coarse that Congress could pursue, to
prevent open collision between the States and
the Confederate Government, was to suspend
the writ entirely. Why does the Governor
put his question to the President ? Did he
suspend the writ ? “No, but he asked that it
might be suspended.” A grand reason, truly,
to come from a man who lays by the side of
his question bn application to the legislature
to pass six unconstitutional laws for his ao
THE MILITARY BILL.
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The following principles of law I presume
no man will deny :
“As war cannot be carried on without sol
diers, it is evident that whoever has the right
of making war has also naturally that of rais
ing troops.”
u Every citizen is bound to serve and defend
the State as far as he is capable.”
“Every man Capable of bearing arms should
take tjiem up at the first order of him who
has the power of making war.”
“In former times and especially in small
States, immediately on a declaration of war,
every man becomes a soldier ; the whole com
munity took up arms and engaged in the war.”
“As every citizen or subject is bound to
serve the State, the Sovereign has a right* to
enlist whom he pleases.”
“No person is naturally exempt from taking
up arms in defence of the State—the obliga
tion of every member of society being the
same.”
Thus speaks Vattei; aud thus speaks every
writer upon the Law of Nations of any note
in the world. These are fundamental princi
ples, with which the framers of all our con
stitutions were perfectly familiar. They
learned from sad experience under the first
government, that it would never do to de
pend upon the States, for the troops necessary
to carry on war, by the United States. When
they framed, therefore, the Constitution of
1787 they gave to Congress the exclusive
power of declaring war, and raising armies
by a direct demand upon the people of all the
States. When they gave that power to Con
gress, they gave it, in all its amplitude, as
fully as any Sovereign in the world possesses
it. This power had to be lodged in some
hands, or the country must become impotent
in war. There were but three departments of
the government to which it could be com
mitted: the States, the President, or Congress.
They had tried it wiih the States, and proved
by sad experience that it would not do to en
trust it to them. To have committed it to the
President (a single man) would have been in
the highest degree dangerous. They there
fore committed it to Congress—the immediate
representatives of the people of ail the States,
whose own interests were iuvolved in a faith
ful exercise of the trust, and who were readily
removable if they abused it. They never
have abused it, and until they lose both their
senses and their relish for office, they never
will. If they have not the power of calling
to the field the whole force of the country,
who may they call out 2 Have they abused
the confidence reposed in them during this
war? No, until the very existence of the
republic was imperiled, until the officers of
the army called for more troops, they were as
liberal in exemptions, as any patriot could
desire them to be. Where were the “more
troops’ to come from ? Those between the
ages of 18 and 45 were exhausted, or nearly
so. The spirit of volunteering was quenched,
desertions from the army were weakening it
every day, all Georgia was sinking in despon
dency ; more troops were needed ; where were
they to come from ?
I agree with Mr. Stephens, that for us to
attempt to keep aa many troops in the field as
our adversaries would be preposterous; not
| more preposterous however than Gov. Brown's
i notion that we should limit the number to
two hundred thousand, and retreat before the
euemy until he exhausts himself; when we
are able to put three hundred and fifty thou
sand in the field, and by bold fighting, drive
him from the country. The Fabian policy
will do as a last resort; but if we had adopted
it at the beginning of this war, we would have
been a ruined people two years ago. But
what I think, or the Governor thinks upon
this matter, is of uo consequence. It belongs
to the President acting under the authority
of Congress, and to him aione to deter
mine not only when the exigency exists
for calling troops to the field, bat for deter
mining the number and kind of troops that
shall be called. So said the Supreme Court
with the great Marshal at its head, in the
case cf Mavtjn and Mott, 12 Wheat. R. 19.
Wo :-ld that the decision in that case could be
road to every man who baa read Governor
Bruwti’s Me— that they might see wlint a
vast diffe.rt.iic*- there is between common sense
and uncommon sense, in the exposition of
constitutional law. Nor is this the only case,
by several, in which the same thing has been
decided. “But it is a most dangerous power.
So the Lupreme Court admits, and it gives a
j most satisfactory answer to the suggestion,
but too long for me to quote. My short an
swer to it, and to*all objections to dangerous
powers given to men by the constitution, is,
blame the framers of the constitution who
gave the power, not their fiduciaries who ex
ercise it. This way of setting the clauses of
the constitution at war with eabh other, by
strained, fhr-fetebed, unheard-of construc
tions—this way of trying to destroy the con
fidence of the people in the government of
their own making by representing two de
partments of it as complotDbg the overthrow
of their liberty simply because those depart
ments have exercised an unquestionable right,
—this way of drawing shocking pictures of
tyranny, oppression and cruelty which may
result from the exercise of a lawful power,
speaking of them as already upon the people,
and encouraging the people to resist the pow
er, as though it had been actually thus abused,
is certainly the boldest stride to anarchy that
ever was taken by reasonable beings, in a free
country. “A sovereign State,” says the Gov
ernor in the language of his compeer of Vir
ginia, without a soldier, and “without the dig
nity of strength, stripped of all her men, and
with only the form and pageantry of power,
would indeed be nothing more than a wretch
ed dependency, to which I should grieve to
see our proud old commonwealth reduced.”
The Sovereign States of Tennessee and Arkan
sas are precisely in this condition ; and Lou
isiana and Mississippi but little better pff.—
Had the Governors of those States enrolled
every effective man in them, including legis
lators, judges and State officers of every des
cription, and united them with the Confede
rate forces sent out to defend them, they might
now have been in the enjoyment of a “Sover
eignty” of some “dignity and strength,” and
not be wanting even “the form and pageantry
of power.” And if Governor Brown, now,
would for a few weeks, uuite the twenty-five
thousand men which he is laboring with all his
might to keep out of the army, or the half of
them, to Johnston’s forces, he would insure
his State from the fate of those just mentioned.
- But no, be must reserve these for State de
fence, and the execution of the laws. A pret
ty defence they will be if Johnston'is van
quished. Put two hundred thousand in the
field, says he, and let the balance go to mak
ing meat and bread for them. This done,
set them trotting before the Yankees, and of
course lei the Yankees come and eat up the
meat and bread, with their thanks to Governor
Brown for supplying them so bountifully!
This is the policy he would pursue, aDd he
would tear up the Confederate Government
root and branch because it ventures to differ
with him!
By the way, I believe Gov. Brown himself,
complains of these meat and bread makers
for the army, that they hold on to it when
made, and will not sell it to the Government
but at ruinous prices ; and he asks of the leg
islature power to make them disgorge upon
reasonable terms. Thus every petard that he
prepares to launch against the central Gov
ernment explodes in his own face.
A. B. LONGSTREET.
Mr. Benjamin A. Grist of Marietta pro
poses to compile and publish in monthly
numbers, in book form, “The Roll ot
Honor; or Biographical Sketches of Geor
gia’s noble Dead,” at sl2 a year or ten
copies for one year SIOO, to be continued
until the Roll is completed, and “until the
name and deeds of each Georgia’s noble
dead are recorded upon the Roll of Hons
or.”
The compiler says that “each Biograph
ical Sketch must be accompanied by the
name of at least one subscriber and ten
dollars to defray the expense and labor in
volved in the preparation and compila
tion of the Sketches, for which a receipt
will be given entitling the holder to a copy
of the work at the subscription price.”
He further says, “the subscription money
will be received until further notice; but
persons desiring the work will please send
on their names, and the Post Office to
which they desire it to be sent.”
From North Georgia. —Sometime
since, Oapt. Turner of Wheeler’s cavalry,
having determined to take a number of
Yankee pickets in out of the wet, sent a
squad of men to the rear of the picket
stand, with instructions to build a fence
across a lane through which the Yankees
would have to pass on their return to
wards Chattanooga. The scrap of fencing
having been completed, Oapt. Turner
made a dash at the pickets, and the pick-,
ets made a dash toward the Yankee en*
campment. Into the lane they went
with Turner and his men at their heels.
We have no record of the number killed
and captured, but!very few of that squad
of pickets reported at regimental head>
quarters next morning.
From Mississippi.— The Meridian
Clarion says the withdrawal of the Yan
kee forces from Big Black shows the ens
emy’s weakness at Vicksburg. There are
not troops enough to hold the point allud
ed to, aud the city from our cavalry. So
General Dennis has gone behind the for
tifications around the city.
According to late advices from Vicks
urg the mortality there is unnaturally
reat for this season
m •
From the Coast. —The Republican of
Saturday says heavy firing was heard from
four until seven o’clock yesterday morn--
ning apparently from the coast but no one
seemed able to settle on the exact direc
tion. Up to last night the authorities
had received no information of its where"
abouts or object. We shall not be sur
prised if the enemy should make a num»
! ber of demonstrations on the coast in the
! next ten days by way of aiding operations
; elsewhere. In this case there was prob-.
ably a blockade runner in the scrape.
From Charleston. —There has been no change
of importance. Seven shells were fired at the city,
and two volleys from the eight mortars on Fort
Snmter.
Some firing through the day was b*ard in the
direction of Stono, the cause of which was not as
certained. The enemy were still at work on the
middle battery.
No change in the fleet.
Five Dollar Bills. —The Muscogee Rail
road has determined to discount five dollar
bills from and after this date.
CELEG-RAPHIC.
* Reports of the Press Association.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year
1863, by J. S, Thrasher, in the Clerks office of
the District Court of the Confederate States for
the Northern District of Georgia.
Latest from the Front !
Wheeler and Grigsby in the Saddle!
Dispatch troiiK General Hood !
General Johnston’s Strategy J
Onr Troops In Fine Spirits S
D altos, M a 7 10.—The enemy cut the railroad
between ihis point and Resaca yesterday evening.
Grigsby’s brigade fought them four miles,
making a stubborn resistance.
The enemy's force was estimated at 10,000, and
was composed of infantry, cavalry and artillery.
Wheeler had a sharp engagement with their
cavalry on the Cleveland read, yesterday after
noon, driving them and captaring 90 prisoners,
including Col. LaG range, commanding a brigade
and It commissioned officers.
The enemy moved last night in the direction
of Resaca with the,majority of their forces.
Our trqqps are in fine spirits.
The Mwkees were circulating handbills through
their commands yesterday, stating that Grant had
routed Lee qpd was marching on Richmond.
Our prospects are very bright. No fears felt in
regard to the result.
Atlanta, May 10.—A telegram from General
Hood to the Superintendent of the Western <fc At
lantic Railroad, says : The road is all clear ; send
trains as usual. The affair at Dalton was a plan
of Gen. Johnston to capture the enemy. Snake
Gap was left open. Troops have been sent to the
rear of it, and everything ir prepared to meet him
in "front.
It is not yet known if the enemy is bagged.
[Special to the Montgomery Advertiser.]
Dalton, May B. —Skirmishing commenced
early this the Cleveland road, on
the right. The Tenth Confederate cavalry
charged the enemy, who, in ambush, killed
and wounded 30 of our men. Wheeler’s escort
then drove the enemy back with our loss
avenged.
The enemy also advanced on our left cen
tre and was repulsed.
A column of cavalry advanced towards
Resaca this morning, but was repulsed and
driven four miles the other side by Grigsby’s
gallant brigade.
A column of infantry is reported marching
towards Rome.
The enemy’s manoeuvres, so far, are com
plicated and deceptive.
The demonstration on our rear is supposed
to be designed to cover an assault in front.
No battle yet. ORA.
Gex. Robert F. Hoke. —The name of this gal
lant officer, the hero of Plymouth, who has re
cently been made a Major General, to date from
the capture of that place, i3 destined to occupy a
prominent position in the history of our struggle
for liberty. From a friend, the Christian Sun ob
tains the following information concerning the
General:
Robert F. Hoko is a native of Lincoln county,
N. C. His father was a candidate for Gov
ernor when he died. Robert was born about 1835,
and is now about twenty nine years of age, and
is therefore next to the youngest Major General
in the Confederate service. At the time of the
breaking up of the Peace Conference he held a
.commission in one of the Governin' irtments
at Washington. He immediate } ,ed aud
went home, to take command of t, y in his
native county, to go to Charleston Tins was be
fore any ordinance of secession i . . .. a passed
by North Carolina.
His company was placed in the .«* Ninth Caro
lina Regiment, under command o ... H. Hill.
At the battle of Bethel, he distin 0 himself,
and was honorably mentioned by the commander
of the regiment. He was some time after promoted
to Major in the 33d Regiment, commanded by
Col. Avery. At the battle of Newbern this regi
ment distinguished itself and Col. Avery was
wounded and captured. The Lieut. Colonel was
also wounded, and the command devolved on Maj.
Hoke. In command of the 33d Regiment, he
fought through the battles around Richmond, and
was soon after promoted to Colonelof the 25th N.
C. Regiment, and placed in Rranch’s Brigade.
Some ttme previous to the battle of Chancellors -
ville, he was promoted to Brigadier General. At
that battle he made a dashing charge with his
brigade upon Sedgwick’s corps, and was wounded
places. He had not sufficiently reeovered
from his wounds to be at Gettysburg, and soon
after the return of his hrigade from Maryland he
was assigned to duty in his native State.
General Hoke is nearly six feet in height, stands
erect, has dark hair and dark eyes, and is noted as
a high toned Christian genlleman, having been for
several years a communicant in the Prstestant
Episcopal Church. He is a pious, praying man.
We record this fact with pleasure, and on it we
found our hope of his rising still higher, and en
dearing himself to the people of North Carolina
-and the whole Confederacy.
Opr Prisoners at Point Lookout. —From
officers who came up by the last flag of truce from
Fortress Monroe, we have some news from our
prisoners at Point Lookout:
Anew horror has been added to prison life at
Point Lookout since the capture of Fort Pillow.—
The post is garrisoned by negroes, and they seem
to have been made perfect demons by the 3tories of
the:i‘massacre” of the blacks at Fort Pillow.—
They not only tyrannize and insult our men, in
every conceivable manner, but they have taken to
shooting our prisoners, on the merest pretext, in
revenge for the Fort Pillow affair. Up to the time
of the leaving of our informant, three of our men
had been shot, one killed, by these negro guards,
and sueh was their revengeful passion and the
wantonness of their firing that our prisoners had
to be guarded lest the slightest pretext might be
seized upon as an excuse for one of these black
savages discharging his musket upon them.
The Yankees continue their game of attempting
to seduce our men into taking the oath of alleg£
ance, but with few exceptional cases, all their al
lurements and blandishments fail to induce our
men to desert our cause.
The Fort Pillow “Massacre”
Messrs. Wade and Gooch, of the Committee on
the Conduct of the War, arrived at Cairo on the
21st ult , to investigate the Fort Pillow “massa
cre.” Generals Hurlbut and Leggett had also
reached there. The Yankees continue their *raw
kead-and-bioody bones stories of the affair. A
despatch from St. Louis adds tho following to the
budget of ridiculous stories .-
Edward B. Beaton, a native of Waltham, Ver
mont, who was in the fort during the Forrest at
tack, was examined at General Rosecrans’ head
quarters on Tuesday last, and fully corroborated
all previous reports of rebel barbarities there, and
made an additional statement, that bloodhounds
were used to discover the hiding places of those
wlo escaped the massacre. He says that reliable
reports state that Major BeadfiJrd was shot and
hung near Covington.
The Northern papers publish a letter written by
a Yankee Colonel to Senator Wilson, in regard to
the affair of Fort Piliow. After reciting all the
particulars and relieving himself of a great storm
of words this belligerent Colonel closes in the fol
lowing savage style:
,1 write to you as a man whose awe of chivalry
wjd not prevent your advocacy of stern measures
of!justice and retaliation. If these wretches or any
portion of them, are ever held as prisoners of war,
injustice is done our army. I wish I was charged
with the execution of five rebels for each ne»ro
murdered at Fort Pillow.
CITY MATTERS.
T. J. JACKSON, LOCAL EDITOR.
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For Chattahoochee.
The Steamer Indian will leave for Chattahoochee
to-morrow f Wednesday] morning at 9 o’clock.
Blind Tom. —lt will be seen that Tom’s secoud
concert at Temperanre Hall takes place next
Thursday night, on which occasion he will per
form several original pieces. Go and hear him.
You will doubtless be pleased. Our Alabama
readers between this and Montgomery will ob
serve that Tom will pay them a visit soon. See
bis appointments and bear them in mind.
The Turf.— The lovers of the sports of the turf
will see by an advertisement elsewhere that the
Spring Races over the Chattahoochee course will
commence on Tuesday the 24th inst., and continue
five days, under the superintendence of C. S. &
P. W. Pryor.
Auction Sales. —The following prices were
obtained at Ellis, Livingston <fc Co.’s auction, yes
terday, for the articles herein enumerated. Salt,
55 to 57 cts. per lb.; sugar, $4,00; tobacco,
smoking, $1,05; gold watches, from S3OO to $550;
one negro boy, $2000; a man and his wife, $5,800 ;
bacon, damaged, $2,00 per lb; shoes, $55; one
rockaway, $975. While these prices indicate that
money is still plentiful, they also exhibit a great
falling off from the figures ruling a few months
ago.
In Memobiam.—Our devil has left us—(who
would have ever thought that his Satanic Majesty
would quit a Local ?) —and wo can no longer
draw from the inexhaustible treasury of his bril
liant endowments. How often we have been in
debted to his playful humor, his unfathomable ge
nius, his blighting sarcasm, his brilliant wit, for
the materials of a readable article. But, alas !we
can no longer soar on borrowed pinionis, no longer
shine with a reflected light. He was a funny devil,
too, and well do we remember his do-funny antics,
and his curious and remarkably cute tricks. But
now he’s “played out,” at least, so far as all ad
vantage to ourself is concerned, and henceforth
others must bask in the sunshine of his smiles, and
draw from the welling fountains of his inimitable
genius. In sadness we exclaim—
“ ’Twas ever thus from childhood’s hour,
I’ve seen my fondest hopes decay,
I never yet loved tree or flower,
But ’twas the first to fade away.”
The Union Prayer Meeting will be held during
the present week at the new Methodist church.—
The public, and especially Christians are invited
to attend.
A Change.— lt will be seen from General Orders
No. 12, that Col. Robertson has transferred the
position of Commandant of Post at this place to
Maj. P. C. Humphreys, who formerly filled the po
sition with credit to himself and satisfaction to the
public.
Important to Militia Officers. —The atten
tion of militia officers in districts and counties
specified are referred to General Orders, No, 18,
from the Adjutant end Inspector General’s office,
at Millcdgeville, dated May 7th, 1864. Officers
enumerated are by these orders relieved from past
immunities, and are now subject to military duty
in the regular army.
A Correction.
Mb. Editor : la justice to one of the religious
denominations please to inform your readers that
the “Good Move” alluded to in your paper yes
terday, for supplying the General Hospital with
religious reading, was “begun” some time since. —
In March last the First Presbyterian Church of
this city provided fifty copies of the Southern
Presbyterian, and seventy-five copies of the Sol
diers’ Visitor, for the use of the same institution.
JUSTICE.
Notice !
WANTED at the C. S. Arsenal, Cblumbus, Ga.,
leather and Hides,;
in large or small quantities, for which the market
price will be paid. Parties shipping such to the un
dersigned will be insured against seizure by officers
or agents of other branches of the Government.
F. C. HUMPHREYS,
may 11 ts Maj. Comdg. Arsenal.
BUND TOM’S
Second. Concert,
ON THURSDAY EVENINO
AT TEMPERANCE HALL,
Tom will play the
Soldier’s Adieu 2
With other Compositions of his own.
Also his great
THE BATTLE OF MANASSAS I
Tom will grive a Concert at :
Auburn, Monday evening, I6th May,
Locbapoka, Tuesday “ 17th n
Notasulga, Wednesday “ 18th “
Tuskegee, Thursday “ 19th “
Montgomery, Friday “ 20th “
Montgomery papers please notice,
may 10 td
HACES 2
CHATTAHOOCHEE. COURSE,
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
ffllHE Race3 over the above Course will com-
X mence on Tuesday, 24th inst., and continue
five days.
First day—Stake for 2 year olds, mile heats,
SSOO entrance—half forfeit.
Second Day—Stake for three year old, mile
heats, SSOO entrance—half forfeit.
Third day—Purse race of SSOO, two mile
heats.
Fourth day—Stake for 3 year olds, two mile
heats, SSOO entrance—half forfeit.
Fifth day—Post Stake, SI,OOO entrance, half for
feit, three'mile heats.
In the Post Stake three good horses will start,
and perhaps four.
C. S. & P. W. PRYOR,
may 11 ts Proprietors.
WAHTED.
A SMALL comfortable dwelling, situated in a con
venient part of the city to business. A liberal
price per moth will be paid for 3uch a place.
Apply at ' THIS OFFICE.
may t lO ts
LOST.
GOLD SPECTACLES and CASE, between the
Quartermaster’s office and Pest Office on Broad
street, about 12 M.,on Monday. The finder will
be liberally rewarded by leaving them at the
office of Maj. Dillard.
10 ts N. J. TISDALE.
Bank of Columbus.
Stockholders are hereby notified that the Oonfed- j
erate Tax, levied by the act of Congress dated Feb. '
17,1864, on the Shares of this Bank, will be paid by j
the Bank. . D. ADAMS, J
Columbus, Ga., May 10. —2w Cashier. |
Exchange Hotter Ho. 9.
Richmond, Va„ May 2d, 1361.
All Confederate officers and men who have been
delivered at City Point, Virginia, at any time pre
vious to the 20th of April, 1865, are hereby declared
to be duly exchanged, RO. CULD,
may 10 6t Agent of t’rcb
iiearq’RSGeorgia up , ,
Miictui.M-.' ci'7”
GbNERaL Ord«Rß. [
No. 7.
I. All persons iiabi: to servo in the //cw.?r vc <Jb-~
and who have not joined some organised company
will report forthwith at ,11a a on. Atlanta or .Sava£
nab, where squads have been formed. They can re
port as such, and companies will be organized
once by uniting them. "
11. The District Enrolling Officers will Ben d f 0
ward—to one of the above points—all at thei
spective Headquarters, who have not beon orgsuT
ized into companies. 8
111. After the expiration of thirty days al
lowed for joining companies in the Reserve Cor
Enrolling Officers will rigidly enforce the law ***
quiring those between 17 and 18 and 45 and 50 to b'
enrolled and their names forwarded to the C
mandant of Conscripts—as they then become liabT
to.be sent to the Army in the field.
By command of
Maj. Gen. HOWELL COBB.
r „ . Commanding Ga. Reserves!
Lamar Cobb, Maj- A a. a. & i. q.
may 6 lw
To the
Bridge.
The City Council having agreed to take the New
Bridge upon certain conditions, it becomes necessa
ry that the Stockholders should meet to consider the
subject. You are therefore earnestly requested ta
meet on Monday next at Williams’ & Iverson’s office
at 4 o’clock p. m. Those who cannot attend in per
son should have proxies.
J. M. WATT,
Columbus, May 9, It Sec’y
Notice*
Muscogee TJailroad Company, )
Columbus, Ga., May 6,1864. j
On and after this instant Confederate Treasury
Notes of the denomination of Fivo Dollars willbt
received only at a discount of 331 per cent.
J M BIVINS. Treas,
may 7—lw
The Douglas Ambulance Corps
Solicit contributions from the citizens of Col
umbus, of lint, old linen, bandages, soap, wineSy
liquors, pickles, preserves, provisions, or any other
articles usually necessary forjthe sick and wounded
on the battle field.
Send to Goodrich & Cos., to be packed immedi
ately. H. L. GOODRICH,
Pres. B. R. C.
may 3 ts Columbus, Ga.
Wot ice.
MRS, MAi?Y H, BENNINGismy duly author
ized Agent for the transaction and settlement
of all business concerning the estate of Col. Seabor*
Jones, deceased,
SEABORN J. BENNING,
Columbus. May 9,4864, lm Adm’r,
“STOVE NIOTEDERS.”
TWO Stove Moulders can get employment at
good wages, by application to
HARRISON, BEDELL A CO.
Columbus, Ga.
Augusta Constitutionalist, and Mississippian,
copy one month and send bills to this office,
may 6 lm
Augusta Sheeting for Corn.
I WILL EXCHANGE
11-4 VARDS OP AUGUSTA SHEETING
FOR
ONE BUSHEL OF CORN.
J. F. WINTER, President
may 6 3t Rock Island Paper Mills.
SSOO REWARD!
I WILL pay a reward of Five Hundred Dollars sot
the apprehension of, with proof to oonviet. the
person or persons who on the night of the 28th Inst.,
stole a 7 inch RUBBER BELT from the Foundry
connected with these Works.
J. H. WARNER,
may 2-3 t Chief Eng. C. S. N
HANDS WANTED.
f IBERAL hire will be paid for five or ten hands
xj by the month or day.
mays-d2w GREENWOOD k GRAY.
CIRCULAR.
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA,)
Quartermaster General’s Office, }■
Richmond, April 23, 1864. j
All Officers and Agents of this Department ar®
hereby notified that in order to introduce proper
uniformity and system in connection with the con
tracts executed with tho Factories on Government
account, and to increase thereby the yield thereof.
Major G. W. Cunningham, Quartermaster, hereto
fore in charge of the Depot at Atlanta, Georgia, in
entrusted, exclusively, withjthc duty, of contracting
in behalf of this Department, with the Factories ia
the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,,
Florida, and Mississippi.
He will respond to requisitions for material, made
upon him by Officers in charge of Depots for th®
manufacture of clothing.
A. R. LAWTON, •
j may 3 lin Quartermaster General,
f ■ - jj»
AUCTION SALES,
By Rosette, Lawhon, & €o
Executors Sale of Household and iitehea
Furniture.
WILL be sold on Friday, the 20th day of May,
in frontofour auction room, at 10 1-2 o’clock,
all the HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN Furnitare
of the late Mrs. Lucinda Salisbury, consisting in
part of
Bureaus, Wardrobes, Bed Sieads,
Mattrasses, Chairs, Tables, Crocker?
Ware,
Silver aud Plated Spoons, Knives and
Forks, &c
One Cooking Stove and Furniture,
One Cow and Calf, Sow and Pigs,
5 Shares Mobile & Girard R. R, Stock;
1 80 acre Land Warrant.
W. L. SALISBURY,
may 9 td ss9i Executor
GREAT SOUTHERN IN SIAM,
Principal Office* Macon, Ga.
STOCKHOLDERS are hereby notified that th®
Tax, levied by the Act of Congress
dated 17th February, 1864, on the Shares of Stock;
will be paid by the Company.
Stockholders arefnrther notified thnt their Annxa!
meeting will beheld at this office on Thursday, the
2d day of June next, when Directors for the ensu
ing year will be elected. C. DAY, Sec’y.
may 2-3 t
Estrayed,
A GRAY MARE, ten years old, medium height,
shod all round, from my residence, in Colum
bus, Georgia, on Sund > evening the Bth day of
May. A liberal reward will be paid for her de
livery to me in Columbus, or for any information
that will lead to her recovery.
May 10 ts NATHAN CROWN.
An Excellent Plantation
For Sale,
SEVEN Hundred and twenty acres, three hun
dred and fifty open, nearly all fresh, in (splen
did repair, excellent fences, gin house, lets, gates,
negro houses, healthy, well watered, nice young
orchards, everything new, 12 miles below Auburn,
near Society Hill, in Macon, ccunty, Ala.; all con
veniently arranged,"with fine outlet and range for
stock, land fertile, soft and easy of cultivation,
excellent neighborhood.
Apply at this office, or to
Wm. F. SAMFORD,
may 9th tf* Auburn, Ala.
Fresh Ground Flour
At ONE DOLLAR per pound.
Ten cents less for needy and soldiers’
families. F"r sale by
!!. FISIIACKER,
PH, Broad Street.
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