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DAILY TIMES.
J. W. WARREH, - - - Editor.
COLUMBUS:
Thursday Morning, October 30, 1864.
The Progress of Subjugation.
Under this heeding in another column of
our paper, may be found an article of nnusual
interest and ability, taken from the “New
York Daily News,”
The gigantic efforts and expenditure made
by the deluded fanatics of the North, to sub
jugate the South are there set forth by a rig
orous pen, and are strongly and truthfully
contrasted with the meagre and abortire re
sults which hare followed. Humiliating and
disgraceful as the picture is to the Yankee
Armies and Government, it contains much
that should be comforting and sustaining to
us. We commeuu an attentive perusal of it
to our readers, aad to our people—to the
weak-kneed and faint-hearted who have gir
rn wa; undt r recent and temporary reverges—
to those of little faith who hare looked for and
predicted our annihilation from the com
mencement of the struggle—to the querulous
and complaining at, the errors and mishaps
which have been incident to our Armies and
Administration —to those who look for pence
through chanuels as unusual and unconstitu
tional as they are wild aud chimerical—to nil
who having seen their country's treasure
spent, and millions of their brothers’ lives
sacrificed in a holy cause, are willing and anx
ious to take to their embrace* thejfoul robbers
and assassins of the North. But above all
these—to “several gentlemen of Middle Geor
gia’’ whose nerves of pocket and heart are so
weak, that they seek to be written out of this
di<f ” j yib a pens of politicians, and are
either afraid or ashamed to avow their names
to the public and their fellow citizens.
Who Rilled Coek Robin ?
We underatand that Governor Vance leaves
to-day for Augusta, Ga. We do not know
lor what, but it is said that he and Governor
Brown have agreed to refer the question, which
of them is the author of the Georgia platform
to Governor William Smith, of Virginia, aad
in case he disagrees, to call in Governors Bon
ham and Watts, as abitratore. —Raleigh Con
federate.
We would inform the Raleigh Confederate
that the distinguished gentlemen, alluded to
above, are now in this city. It is te be hoped
that the mooted question may be solved in
solemn conclave. —Augusta Constitutionalist,
There is another claimant for the honor of
having, in advance of Governors Brownj.and
Vance, “philosophized” “the Georgia Plat
form.” Ilis native modesty, we fear, will pre
vent him from pushing his claims before the
Gubernatoiial Convention. He don’t reside
a thousand miles from hereabouts, and is
widely known and respected as the author of
the “Art of War” aud the “Road te Peace.”—
If the Convention desires to be informed furth
er for the purpose of presenting this “Great
Man” in a little place with a Leather Medal,
we will consent to see the decoration with the
honor bestowed upon him to whom the honor
is due.
Exhaustion iu the North.
We publish to-day some significant state- j
merits, which, says the Richmond Sentinel, go
to show that the ability of our enemies i? not
keeping pace with their malice. Their calls
for men by the halt' million are becoming like
Glendoirer’s call for spirits from the vasty
.deep—they will not come. Vast as is the ;
population of the hostile States, their lighting |
men have been so remorselessly driven to the j
slaughter by the Butcher and his predeces
sors, that the supply is failing.’"
The exposition of the Board of Supervisors
of New York shows with what liberality cred
its and allowances on the draft are made by
the authorities. There is reason for this—it
is done to avoid the difficulty of enforcing the
draft in an unwilling and compact population.
u.t of 23,140 levied upon the county of New
York by the late draft, only 733 have been
recruited since the call, and of these there is
an admitted surplus of 28 men. A credit of
1,137 is allowed for surplus under the former
draft; a credit of 19,477 is allowed for naval
enlistments, to April ; a further credit of
1,821 is allowed for volunteers in the form of
substitutes and re-enlisted men, obtained
since the last arid before the present draft.
This exhibit explodes t.he*late boastings of th«
rapidity of volunteering and the numerous
re-enlistments, in advance of the present draft;
New York city, out of a population of a mil
lion, and with a multitude of soldiers in the
field, producing only 1,821 !
The Board of Supervisors furnish further
proof of the decay of the war spirit, the scar
city of men and the difficulty of raising re
cruits. They obtained by their efforts 733
men, at a cost of $400,000 ! They declare
that if the number had not been so inconsid'
erable. they would have had to pay at least
SI,OOO per man ; the whole cost'to the coun
try, it the drait had been required without
abatement, would have been $23,140,000 for
23,140 men. It follows that the draft will
have to be abated in like manner everywhere,
or it will either be impossible to meet its de
mands, or only by an enormous expenditure,
for mercenaries.
The New York News recognizes in these
small results, obtained in such a place as New
York city, signs of great exhaustion on the
part of our enemies. New York city, the
great entrepot of immigration, crowded and
thronged, as it usually is, with adventurers of
all nations, besides its own vast population,
would seem able to honor almost unlimited
calls lor men. Yet nothing less than premia
urns of a thousand dollars are requisite to se
cure a few thousands even of mercenaries.
The News’ argument is a sound one, that it
the difficulties be so great in New York city,
they must be almost insuperable elsewhere.
No wonder Stanton is in despair with the
draft, and calls for volunteers. And ao won
der that he was in despair with voluateering,
and called for the draft. The real difficulty,
and one which neither draft nor bounties can
cure, is that he has extremely exhausted his
fighting population with his immense armies,
so that new men are scarce.
Printing Without Ink.— Mr. Hancock, of the
t.utta Percha Company, London, has been prose
cuting a series of experiments, with the view of
dispensing with the use of printing ink, and has
succeeded in chemically treating the pulp in the
man c us printing papers in such a manner
tha' ■ paper is impressed upon the unink
ed tip- , cbe.cuemieal particles are crushed, and a
perfectly black impression. is the result.
[From the New York Daily News.]
The Progress of Subjugation.
The fall of Vicksburg is undone. The Mis
sissippi has been once more sealed to the up
country merchantman. Confederate guns
sink, burn, and destroy, along the line ot the
Father of Waters ; and the declaration by the
Constitution of ih* Confederacy of the free
dom of its navigation, has been annulled, vie
et armit, by horse, foot and artillery. And
the conqueit of the South, by men of the
West, goes bravely oa.
Texas has been abandoned. The Rio
Grande has been opened for supplies of Con
federate material Matamoras is a pert of en
try for Southern cotton, and a banking house
charged with unlimited transactions in South
ern gold I Thus, ye war advocates of these
broad States of the North, are the
of the Confederates being cut off, and their
credit crippled by exolusioa from tbo markets
efthe world!
The Louisiana of tho Abolitionists was a
bread State while its riches were ungarnered
by organized rebbery. Like a sucked orange,
now that its “loot” has been transferred to
Black Republican pockets, it has collapsod.—
A ring fence es pickets hedges ia the jurisdic
tion of Mr. H abn within a narrow circle around
New Orleans, and he has fallen from his high
estate below the level of the ambition of
Saacho Panza. since his dominions hart
ceased to embrace the governorship es even
Barataria !
Stand Wattie lords it with his Indians on
the Western border. The lands es the Creeks
and the Cherokees are once more under the
protection of his braves, and he holds sway
so far upward toward Kansas to give law proh
ably at this moment frem Fort Gibson !
Gen. Steele sleeps at Littie Rock. He is
as inoffensive as a Quaker gun. His army
appears te be as mythical as Sir John FalstafFs
men in buckram. Price moves up on one
side into Missouri, and Shelby, Marmaduke,
Fagan, had already preceded him on the oth
er within seventy or eighty miles of St. Louis.
And thus you hopeful advocates of smbjuga
tion, doe* the work of conquest progress be
yond the Mississippi.
Western Tennessee the work of subjugation
has compelled us to surrender. The recruit
ing ground and storehouse thus opened has
given and fed an army for Forrest. The Mem
phis and Charleston Railroad has been sur
rendered. Memphis has been lately plundered
by a few Confederate horsemen ; Vicksburg
has recently been threatened by a gathering
at Jackson ; and the sovereignty of the Con~
federacy stands unchallenged throughout al
most the length and breadth of the great pro
ducing region of Mississippi.
Forrest is in Middle Tennessee. Killing,
capturing, plundering, and not afraid. Cav
alrymen of the regular army of the Confeder
acy, guerillas, bushwhackers, aad all descrip
tions of evil doers, disturb Federal dominion
in the fair State of Kentucky. And thu*, you
believing imperialists, progresses between the
Tennessee and the Ohio the highly democrat
ic business of armed repression !
Shennan is in Atlanta. The gallant fellow
seems to have been less puzzled as to the
mode of taking it, than he is now by the ques
tion of what to do with it. One advantage
that the war-makers have gained by it is the
comforting ’assurance that he sees, from with
in its earthworks, a business o; conquest
which must go on, he says, for n. ■hv years
The great guns fired, and the powder burned
for the fall of that den of misery and blood,
what has been accomplished, aside from exe
cutive clap trap, by this foolish hunting of
the ignis Jatuus of Southern subjugation into
the jaws of the cannon of Atlanta?
Sheridan has won two victories in the Valley.
The material result, so far, gives him the posses
sion of that region for a distance of about sixty
miles from the Potomac—but not until after Early
had stripped it very thoroughly of its corn and
oil, its flocks and herds. The Federal chief may,
it is true, with his overwhelming force—obtained
by crippling Grant—press still onward; but unless
Sherman abandons his wild-goose chase into Geor
gia for a movement on the rear of Richmond,
can do so only subject to the danger of such a
movement in his rear as that which hurled liuuter
to the Kanawha at the head of a starving mob.
Grant —oh 1 we bate to think of the thousands
of poor victims that now drop around him under
the shot and 3hull and breastwork and mine of
deadly pestilence! The Lieutenant General,
however, still languishes with his shattered army
under he tide water fever of Virginia. He is
monarch «>f about one hundred square miles of
Virginia soil—for which, however, he has recent
ly acknowledged his vassalage to the extent of a
contribution of twenty-five hundred fat bullocks.
All around the coast of the Confederate States
the Federalists hbld positions very favorable for
killing our men by pestilence. All these, however,
are of no use to the work of war, save only so far
as they illustrate its barbarities by shelliug a city,
burning some houses, and frightening poor
women out of their wits. At Mobile and at Charles
ton the Federalists have fleets that cut off foreign
intercourse at these points after it had been oponed
without lot or hindrance, along all the wide bor
der of Texas! Vessels by the hundred steam up
and down from the Potomac to the Mississigpi
around the Southern shores; and pretend to de
clare these Federal States masters on the ocean,
while the Confederate cruisers make the high
seas too hot for the Northern merchantmen ! Such,
oh! ye jubilant asserters of conquest, is the pro
gress of your work upon the shores and waters of
the deep !
And the draft? What of that? A false pre
tense! A crimp-sergeant’s trick for winning re
cruits ! Abandoned in New York and Brooklyn
by confession, it is also abandoned all over the
country in actual fact. A make-believe of filling
quotas here by volunteering, or of completing
them there by conscription the call for five hun
dred thousand men has turned out like that of
Glendower for spirits that would not come. One
hundred thousand men would, we firmly believe,
represent more than the total result obtained un
der the draft-whip; and that number falls greatly
short of the recruits required to bring up our ar
mies to their old relative standard of comparison
with those of the Confederacy. Expirations of
terms of service, prostrations by sickness or death
under autumnal fevers, casualties of battle, etc.,
may bo fairly supposed to have involved a reduc
tion in our strength in the field to an extent that
permits of but but very moderate expectations
from the accessions obtained under the call for
five hundred thousand men. The “rebels’* in the
meantime, have met our pretended conscription
by new levies; and thus do both sides come again
together to enter, for the tenth or twelfth time, on
a wook of blood which will surely be completed in
ninety days. And thus most sapient friends of
Imperial Federalism, does the labor of war go
bravely on!
Religious Papers for Soldiers.
The following, we know, will be reaid with
pleasure by all who feel an interest in the wel
fare of our soldiers. It will be a burning
shame, to say nothing more, if people at
home allow the brave men, periling their lives
in their defense, to want for abundant supply
of religieus reading. We earnestly Commend
the following extract from the Southern Chris
tian Advocate to our readers :
We are compelled to announce that the
Soldier’s Advocate Fund is exhausted ; and,
indeed, that there are more papers going to
the army than the fund pays for. Meanwhile,
hardly a day passes but some appeal is made
to us for other papers, which we cannot send
because sur friends have almost ceassd to
keep up our fund. But worse is coming. It
will be no long before the subscriptions
of thousands of papers now going to soldiers
already paid out- of this fund will have ex
pired. And how are these subscriptions to
be renewed, and the papers continued, unless
the fund is largely replenished? If any one
can solve this problem, he will please forward
the solution to us.
Friends of the soldier, send him the Ad
vocate. We have plenty of testimony to prove
that she home religious newspaper is pre
ferred to all other religious reading, besides
tho Bible If you can send nothing else to
read, send the Advocate.
Siege Matters'— Font Hundred and Sixty-
Sixth Day.— Since 6 p. m., last Friday evening
the enemy has thrown 134 shells at the city, ari l
.IS at Fort Summer. From 1.30 on Saturday night,
until 5.30 Sunday morning, his guns were siieut.
On Sunday he was firing 300 pounder Parrott
shells troon the city, apparently from anew gu*.
On a c»y va deserters from Morris Island
cam- -<ur lints.— Charleston Mercury.
! Sherman's Report of the At
lanta Campaign.
The N. Y. Times contains the following tele
graphic dispatch from Washington:
General Sherman’s official report sf the At
lanta campaign is published ia the official
Army and Navy Gazette of this wetk. It is
dated September 15, and fills twenty columns
of that paper. He estimates tho enemy's
strength to have been between forty-five
thousand and fifty thousand infantry and ar
tillery and ten thousand cavalry. Gsneral
Sherman says that he maintained about the
same strength during the campaign, the num
ber of men joining from furlough and hospit
als about compensating for loss in battlo and
from sickness.
The report is composed in Geaoril Sher
man’s terse and trenchant style, and forms a
most interesting history of, perhaps, the most
brilliant and complete campaign of the war.
He terminates his recital with the following
deserved tribute to his subordinate com
mands :
“My three armies in the field were com.
manded by able officers, my equals in rank
and experience—Major-Generals George H.
Thomas, J. M. Schofield, 0. 0. Howard.—
With such commanders, I had only to indi
cate the object desired, and they accomplished
it: I cannot overestimate their services to
the country ; and must express my deep and
heartfelt thanks that, coming together from
different fields, with different interests, they
have co-operated with a harmony that haß
been produetivc of the greatest amount of suc
cess and good f -ding. A more harmonious
army does not exist.”
At FAIR 5 AROUND RICHMOND.
There is hardly a word from the army
around Richmond. A dispatch, dated the
10th, says :
General Grant aud staff returned last even
ing from Washington, accompanied by Major
General Doyle, of her Britanic Majesty’s ser
vice and Governor General of Nova Scotia.—
He is the guest of General Grant, receives
marked attention wherever he goes, and im
presses every one with being a courteous and
unassuming gentleman.
the new YORK-GOLD MARKET.
’Gold jumped up in New York on the 11th
from one huudredand ninety-eight and three
eights to two hundred and three and seven
eights, at Much price it closed. The Herald
says :
There has been a brisk demand from those
who recently sold “short” on options, and
this, together with rumors to the effect that
the indications were in favor of the Pennsyl
vania election going in favor of the Republi
cans, arrested the natural tendency es tnd
market and gave it an upward turn: the in
ference drawn by the speculators being that,
if Mr. Lincoln is re-elected, the old policy will
be pursued'and higher prices may be looked
for.
MISCELLANEOUS.
An exchange of prisoners i» the Trans-Mis
sissippi Department hag been agreed upon.
Hon. John M. Mott, formerly a member of
Congress from New York, died on the 11th
instant.
General John A. McClernand has come out
in a letter for McClellan, who, he is confident,
will never stop the war till slavery is wiped
out.
The Philadelphia Bulletin of Monday, an
nounced that Benjamin F. Hancock, father of
General Hancock, presided at a Republican
meeting at Norristown on the 6th inst.
A letter from Newbern, North Carolina, re
ports forty deaths a day there from yellow
fever.
Wilmington.
The Wilmington Journal has the following ac
count of an attack upon the blockade runner Night
Hawk, and Ue complete destruction of a Yankee
gunboat:
LOSS OE Tin-; NIGHT HAWK.
It is proper to state, even at this late date, that
the fine steamer Night Hawk, Captain Smiley,
from Bermuda, in trying te enter New Inlet bar,
about a week ago, grounded on the North break
er, about a mile from shore, aud was instantly
boardei by a launch from the gunboat Menticello,
who proceeded to fill the ship’s boats with her offi
cers and erew.
The sentinels rn Fort Fisher hearing the distant
report of musketry, gave the alarm, and the Com
mander of the fort suspecting that the steamer
aground had been attacked, immediately lighted
her up by means of rockets, and shelled right and
left of her. At the first rocket, the enemy took
fright and skedaddled, leaving more than half the
officers and crew to take care of themselves.—
These reached the fort in safety. The Yankees
did not leave, however, until they had set the
steamer on fire fore and aft, and as the wind was
strong the flames spread rapidly.
The garrison of Fort Fisher had never seen a
ship destroyed under their guns, and were deter
mined, as it appears, to rescue this one, and, we
are informed, in ?pito of firh fore-and-aft, the gal
lant soldiers bearded the steamer 'amidships, and
with all the available buckets, commenced to fight
the flames. It was not very long before the fire
was got under, and with the assistance es boats
and crews from other steamers, before noon the
next day the fire was entirely subdued.
The steamer was in the breakers, and enly half
the work of saving her done. The soldiers went
to work, unloaded her, and with the aid of negroes
at the pumps, enabled the engineers to get up
steam, and bring the steamer safely to Wilming
ton by her own power. Capt. Smiley was cap
tured, but his place was filled by Captain May,
first officer of the Falcon, who remained here to
get the Night Hawk off. We have given the
above facts relative to the Night Hawk, because
we think the noble conduct of our troops at Fort
Fisher deserve to have some credit for their heroic
I efforts in saving a valuable steamer.
DESTRUCTION OF A BLOCKADKR — REPULSE OF THE
ATTACK ON THE STEAMER CONDeR.
It is generally known that the large three-faa
uelied steamer Condor, from Halifax, N. S., in en
tering New Inlet Bar, a week age, was deceived
by the wreck of the Night Hawk, and ran agrennd.
It appears that it was in attempting te cease
ashore from her in a boat that Mrs. Rose
Greonbow was drowned. The Condor has been
slowly unloading under the guns of Fort Fishor,
and a guard, as usual, has been kept on her at
night. On last Friday night tho Yankees made
an attempt to board the Condor, to destroy her,
but were gallantly repulsed by Lieut. Sowles, of
Company A, 39th N. C. Troops, and a detachmont
of men.
As soon as the attempt was made Lieutenant
Sowles communicated the fact to Fort Fiahor, when
her heavy guns burst forth to tho right and loft
of the Condor. The second shell fired to the loft
of the Condor struck a gunboat that had accom
panied the boat party in, and so completely rained
her that she was run ashore on tho South breaker
of the bar and abandoned. The enemy set fire
to her in several places, and before morning ghe
was totally destroyed, her magazine having ex
ploded and torn to pieces. Since this occurrence
on Friday night last, we are informed that there
has been no sign of the enemy off the bar at night,
and the fleet is hull down during the day.
Ms. Trenholm.— The London Index speaks thus
of our new Secretary of the Treasury:
Mr. Trenholm’s acceptance of the pest vacated by
Mr. Memminger is, we believe, his first entrance
into a political career, but it takes place under the
most favorable auspices. His popularity far ex
ceeds that ever enjoyed by his predecessor, and the
people and press throughout the Confederacy accept
him with an almost unbounded confidence in his
ability and administrative talent. The head of ene
of the ablest and wealthiest merchant firms in
Charleston, he is, so to speak, the embodiment of
that magnificent idea of direct trade with Europe,
which Has been oneef the chief causes of the war.
HL firm, in connection with its European branch,
may fairly claim the credit of having been the first
to organize on a grand scale that trade which now
sets th« utmost efforts of the Federal blockade at
defiance, and by their enterprise, the held and skill
ful use of vast resources, subservient to a lofty
sense of patriotic duty, they have undonbtodly ren
dered invaluable service to tho country at a time
when it most needed them.
Such successes as theirs brings of course its pecu
niary reward, and the firm has immensely added to
its wealth as well as to its prestige. Bnt Mr. Tren
holm, with the impulse and nice perceptions of a
large minded man. has understood that wealth ac
quired. however honorably and patriotically, amidst
and through the necessities of a suffering nation,
i«, even more than ali other wealth, a trust fund,
and h>- has freely given his tithe, and perhaps more
than :jis tithe, to the poor, the w'ounded, the sol
diers, and tho many unfortunate victims of the war.
The popular disfavor with which fortunes accumu
lated during a national struggle are generally view
ed. lias therefore r.aver attached to Mr. Trenholm,
j and his mercantile triumphs were invested with the
dignit >' h:‘ enterprise.
i TELEGRAPHIC.
UPORTS OP TMM PRRSS ASSOCIATION.
Entered according to act of Cengress im the year
lM3,by J. S. Thrasher, in tho Clerk's oficoof
the District Court of tho Confederate States fer
the Northern District of Georgia.
Mobili, Oct. 19.—The New Orleans Times
of the 11th, has been received at Osyka. It
claims great suocess for Leo’s raid in Eastern
Louisiana, in the destruction of property and
capture of prisoners. All accounts agree
nearly with our own previously forwarded.—
It says additionally that Lieut. Earle, com
manding independent scouts, captured a Ma
jor en route for Richmond, with fifteen battle
flags taken in the Red River expedition, a
large number of important dispatches fer the
Confederate war office,aad several prisoners, in
cluding a Commissary with the rank ot Ma
jor.
Earle reports the capture of Woodville and
a number of prisoners by a force from Danas’
command. It is reported that the rebels
would not surrender to the colorod troops,
which resulted in many of them being killed .
Mobili, Oct. 19.—0n Tuesday Capt. Amos
commanding a company in the 15tb Confed
erate Cavalry, engaged near Milton, Fla. 500
Federals; fought them four hours, and drove
them back. Federal loss 30 or 40. Our loss
3 wofiuded.
From North Carolina. —The Goldsboro
State Journal says on last Friday an expedi
tion from the enemy’s gunboat’s, at Newbern,
consisting of about sixty men with two barges
—one carrying a twenty-four pound howitzer
and the other a twelve pound gun—attacked
a portion of Capt. Jones’ Cos. G, sixty-seventh
Regiment, then on picket at the mouth of
Swift Creek, driving them back and the Yan
kees succeeded in landing. Capt. Jones, who
was with the balance of his company, some
few miles distant, went immediately to their
assistance, engaged the enemy and drove them
to their gunboats, killing Captain Gordon, U.
S. Navy, commanding the expedition and two
men, and wounding two others with no loss
whatever on our side.
Upon competent authority the Raleigh Con
federate estimates the forage crop of *Vake
county, N. C., raised this year, as follows :
1,087,2G0 pounds of hay, 500,000 bash els of
corn, 61,985 bushels shelled oats, 16,355,080
pounds of fodder.
The Prospect.
The gloom of the enemy, occasioned by their
protracted, exhausting and fntile efforts to" con
quer us, sometimes leads them to an honest per
ception of the truth as to their prospects. The
following is from a late speech of Governer Sey
mour, of New York :
Now, you know that that monstrous army that
we gave them nine months ago has been so near
ly annihilated that another call for fire hundred
thousand men is made upon us, and we are not in
as good a condition as we were then. That part
of Louisiana and of Arkansas west of the Missis
sippi river that was wrested from them has re
sumed the often si ve, and invaded Missouri itself.
The great army of Sherman that attacked and
captured Atlanta, has its rear communications at
tacked and endangered by large bodies of rebels.
Go into Virginia, and what do you find there ? In
stead of the army of Lee reduced down to a skele
ton, as it was a year ago, it has susiained itself
thus far with full force and great power, and it is
strong iu Jnumbers ta-day. Now, I believe that,
notwithstanding your political views and political
prejudices, you will admit that our armies have
done their work. We, in eomrnon with our Re
publican friends, have honored the names of
Grant and Farragut, Sherman, Sheridan and all
the heroes of the war ; but we all cannot deny'that
their efforts have been unsuccessful, and the blame
is not with our armies.
Blow, or Missouri, on Lincoln.
Hon. Henry T. Blow, republican, tin a recent
speech in St. Louis, thus spoke of Lincoln and the
loss of confidence in his administration :
He was not great—we doubted; he was not firm—
we trembled; he became selfish aud insincere, and
we lost all confidence, and ceased to respect him, —
We were not alone in this feeling. The journals of
Congress show the gradual decline ®f confidence on
the part of the members in the Chief Magistrate,
and history records that in these days of our great
est disasters the President of the United States was
engaged with his myriads of office holders perpetu
ating his government; for already invested by cir
cumstances with and exercising a greater power
than that possessed by kings and emperors, ambi
tion reigned supreme in that bosom which should
have cherished only the loftiest patriotism, The
contemplation of the events of the last eight months
is sickening, absolutely nauseating. This is strong
language; but let those who have been engaged in
this unholy crusade for power while their country
was in darkness deny it if they dare, and their efforts
will be met with the indignation of the honest men
of all parties, and refuted by history written in
blood and disaster. * * * I know what I am
saying, and do not hesitate to declare to the world,
that had President Lincoln and his friends devoted
themselves from December, 1863, to June, 1864, en
tirely to the safety of this Union, instead of woik
ing day and night for the perpetuation of their own
power over a portion of it (the President seeking
relief only in jokes of questionable taste) we would
this day be rejoicing in additional victories, our
ranks would be filled, our soldiers confident, our na
tional currency approximating to gold, and the
rebels, destitute of hope, would be knocking for re
admission into the Union, which they so basely
deserted.
Departure of the Militia.— The Burke county
militia left on Thursday night last for the frost,
carrying with them all who couldn’t conveniently
attend to Governor’s Brown’s call before. We un
derstand that a number of this class, as well as a few
absentees of old members, were hesorod with as
escort of a Sergeant and a small squad of men. The
men were in fine spirits, evincing a determination
to ‘do or die.” Georgia has cause to be proud of
her militia, for we have heard it from ovary quarter
that no organization of men could have behaved
with more gallantry and coolness in front of an en
emy than they did, and should they be called upon
again to confront the foe, we venture to say that
victory and honor will crown thoir standards. We
wish thorn a bright career and a joyous return to
home and friends. — Warneeboro South.
The Express Company. —For several days
considerable inconvenionco has been experienced
by the public in consequence of the Express Com
pany having partially closed business in this city.
This was caused by the late order No. 77, issued
by tho Seerotary of War, in relation to all dotailod
men. We learn that a renewal of tho details has
boon applied for, and we trust that, in censidera
tion of tho important services that tho men en
gaged in this branch of business have always ren
dered, not only to tho pnblic, hut also to tho Gov
ernment, the looal military authorities will restore
them to thoir husinoss until a proper representa
tion ean ho made at headquarters. Indeed, tho
Express Company is one of tho most important in
stitutions of tho country, which renders as much
sorviee to tho public and tho Gevernmeat as if tho
men wore at tho freat with muskets ia their bauds.
Wo hope tho iacoavonionco alluded to will ho hut
temporary, aad that ia a day or two tho Company
will bo able to servo tho public with its weated fi
delity.—Sav. Netct.
‘My brudders,’ said a waggish negro preacher
to his congregation, ‘ia all affection, in all ob
your troubles, :dar is one place whore you «aa
find sympathy.’ ‘Whai ? whar ?’ cried several.
‘ln do dictionary,’ he replied, rolling his eyes up
ward.
There is an old saw which says that ‘Content is
tho true philosopher’s stone.’ Brown says ‘it’s
very likely—for nobody has ever found either one
or the other.’
Tho London Athenaeum says in tho course of a
review of Weiss’ Life of Thoordore Parker, that
meek divine, daring tke Fugitive Slave excitement
ia Boston, wrote kis sermons with a Tevolvsr lying
by him on his desk.’
‘Sorrow came and left its traces there.’ It don’t
say what became of the rest of the ‘gear.*
‘Sal,’ cried a girl looking ou of the upper story
window of a small grocery, a: 1 .3 iressing anoth
er girl who was trying to enter at the front door,
‘we’ve all boon converted ; so when you want to
milk on Sundays you will have to come iu tho
back way.’,
THE CITY-
T. J. JACKSON LOCAL EDITOR
Theatre. —The cerps of Mr. Crisp will appear
to-night in Bnlwer’a master-piece* of Richelieu, to
he followed by the laughable farce “PefoetieH,”
and interspersed with sweet songs by Miss Maggie
Marshall- It will be >een that a strong cast of
characters has been made, and an nnnsnally in
teresting time may be expected by theatre-goers.
We tall attention to the eard of the Louisiana
Relief Committee in to-days paper. The objects
therein set forth and the appeal made is most com
mendable and should address itself te the active
sympathy es every Louisianian, as well as every
patriot in the land.
.Sales To-day. —Ellis A Cos., will have a sale
to-day of furniture, groceries, negreei. Ac.—
See advertisements.
Religious. —There has been in progress for
some weeks at Pierce Chapel in this city a very
interesting religious revival, which has been large
ly attended by soldiers and citizens, and resulted
in the conversion of quite a number of persons.
The meeting has been conducted by Baptists and
Methodists who have vied with each other in the
good work.
Subscription for Wood. —Amongst the acts of
Council on Monday evening was one appropriating
five thousand dollars 10 purchase wood for the
poor of the city. This we regard as most oppor
tune and commendable,” and agrees with other
liberal donations recently made by Council. Our
city authorities, as well as citizens, need only to
be reminded of their duty and they are ready to
meet it in a prompt and benevolent spirit. Let
the goed work go en. Much remains to be done.
Query. —ls wood was worth S4O per load, yes
terday, what is it likely te be worth when tbe
freezing temperature arrives ? We saw a negro
who sold two leads fer that, and seemed te chnckle
in his sleeve that he had it in his power te force
that sum out es people whose neeessities compelled
them to buy. We have heretofore felt iatereited
to know hew the poor were te be kept warm during
the approaching winter, but new onr philanthropy
goes farther, and we are solicitous to learn hew
anybody, rich or poor, are to be supplied, in view
of the constantly advancing rates. *Where is con
science, where is reason, where is philanthropy,
humanity and patriotism ? All must have fled to
brutish beasts. If the devil don’t get large rein
forcements from this generation he will doubtless
fail te get his due. The love es money is the root
es all evil, and is fast divesting mankind es all
noble and high-minded impulses.
Auction Salks.— At auction by Rosette, k
Cos., yesterday, the following prices ruled : One
negro woman 18 years eld, $3,350; salt 66 to 76
cents; ene sett harness, $525; one carpet, $550 .
one do., $350 ; inferior tobacco, $1,05; bacon,
$3,10 per lb.; one hundred dollars in silver, at
S2O for one ; rice, (damaged) 6 cents per pound;
one piano cover, $350 ; one mule, S6OO ; other ar
ticles in the same rates.
That Brandy. —There are some folks that can’t
be knocked down by hints. To this class belong
the liberal aud patriotic firm of Goodrich <fc Cos. —
Our office was yesterday the recipient of a bottle
of the fine brandy previously alluded to in our
columns, and the united testimony ©f all hands rep
resents it as being what it purports to be, a pure
article of ardent ‘‘spirits.” The contents disap
peared with miraculous rapidity, and naught new
remains but the bottle and the scent, and we
wouldn’t wonder if some of the boys swallowed
the bottle soon.
Reprehensible Conduct. —We understand
that it is a practice among a number of bad boys
to congregate every morning, beyond the new
bridge, on the Summerville road, and board every
carriage that passes, to take a ride, and when col
ored drivers refuse to let them ride, they send after
him a shower of stones. Yesterday morning they
attacked a boy in a buggy, broke his whip and
considerably bruised him up because he would net
let them get on his buggy. Verily times are
coming to a pretty pass, when boys are allowed by
their parents to indulge in such practice. We
have been requested to give these boys notice that
the owners of these vehicles and negroes are on
the lookout for them, and the first thing they know
they’ll know nothing.
Butler Phrenologically Developed.— Butler,
while in New York a short time ago, was examined
by Professor Fowler, who, it is said, gave him a
phrenological explanation of the peculiar defect in
his moral organization by attributing it to an un
healthy development of the organ ofappropriative
ness. He remarked, however, immediately after
wards in a soothing tone, that this bump in the
Great Marlborough’s head was almost, if not quite
as large, and that it is and has been in all ages a
puculiar characteristic of true greatness, to have
petty foibles and trilling.weaknesses. The General
greatly gratified replied: Fowler you area smart
fellow and a benefit to your race. When lam Pres
ident you shall be provided for.
What’s in the Wind ?—The Constitutionalist of
Sunday last says there is to be a Convention of high
functionaries in Augusta’on Monday 17th inst. The
object, the Editor says, he is net permitted to make
known, but hopes good to the Confederacy may
come out of it.
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The Baptist Church at Macon has resolved to
raise its Pastor’s salary to SIO,OOO for the coming
year, for which purpose several members subscri
bed as high as SI,OOO, and others for half that sum.
The Presbyterians of the same city have resolved
to give Rev. Dr. Wills, their able Pastor, a house
and a support, cost what it will.
Meeting of Southern Governors lt was
reported on the streets yesterday, that Gov
ernor Yance was to leave the city last night to
attend a convocation of the Governors of the
Southern States at Augusta, Ga., on Monday
next. Whether, if this meeting is to take
place they are to meet at the instance of Gov.
Brown, or the request of the President , we are
not apprised; nor are we any better posted
as to the object of the consultation to take
place. If the object be peace, the prayers of
almost the entire people will invoke the bless
ings of Heaven on their deliberation; but if it
be war, or to devise ways as to the surest
means of sacrificing what we have of men and
resources left, in the shortest time, but littla
interest will be felt in the affair .—Raleigh
Progress , 17 th.
An absent wife is here called upen te return te
‘bed and board.’ ‘Jane, year absence will ruin
all. Think of yeur husband—your parents—yeur
children. Return—return—all may be well
happy. At any rate, enclese the key es the cup
board where the gin is.’
Louisiana Relief Committee of Columbus,
Georgia.
H. L. Goodrich. Prest E. A. Rossy. Sec.
Contributieas are respectfully selicited from Leu
isianians in this and adjoining States for the pur
pose of providing our brave and suffering soldiers
now in the Army of Tennessee, with Shoes, Socks,
and other needful articles, as it has;come to the
knowledge es this Committee that maay of them
are without shoes, and almost destitute es clothing.
Prompt action on the part of Louisianians will
greatly alletiate the suffering es our noble young
men during the approaching winter.
Contributions will be thankfully receivsd by our
President and Treasurer, Hi L. Goodrich,lof this
city. ...
P. S. All papers friendly to 'h* above cause will
confer a favor to Luuisini V inserting this
netiee. E. A. ROSSY. Sec y.
Columbus, Ga,. Oct. 20, 1504. tru
THEATRE.
Thursday Evening, Oet. 20. IH4.
Sir E. L. Bulwer’s Masterpiece, the Grand Histori
cal Play,
RICHELIEU* or the CONSPIRACY!
RE-APPEARANCE of Mrs. JESSIE CLARKE 1
Mr. THEODORE HAMILTON, in his admired
character es
Cardinal Due De Richelieu!
Splendid Distribution of Characters!
Mr Harry Crisp, a5..... Chevalier de Mauprat
Mr C T Wolfe, as The Capuchin Monk, Joseph
Mrs Jessie Clarke, as m Julie de Mortemar
Popular. Ballad, by Miss Maggi* Marshall.
Te be followed by the Elegant Comedy of
I? DE JERj IE 1 IE 0 T I O ILT.
*‘our Jessie,” as Kate O’Brien
Miss Cecelia Crisp, as Su3an
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AUCTION SALES
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
FINE SINGLE HARNESS.-
WE will sell, on SATURDAY, October 22d,
at 10i o’clock, in front of our Auction Room
ONE SETT SINGLE HARNESS,
very fine.
oc 20 3t sl2
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
VALUABLE NEGROES.
ON TUESDAY. 25th of October at WA o’clock,
'we will sell in front of our store
A likely Negro Man, 46 years old,
A likely Negro Woman, 22 years old,
and their two children.
oc 20 5t S2O
By Ellis, Livingston A€»,
♦♦ ♦
SALT.
ON TUESDAY, 25th of October, at 10 1-2 o'cloak,
we will sell in front of our Auction Roova,
90 BARRELS SALT.
oc 20 5t sls
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos.,
VERY DESIRABLE NEGROES.
WE will sell on THURSDAY, 20th October, at
10 1-2 o’clock, in front of our Auction Room
Avery Likely Negro Girl, 25 years old,
a No. 1. House Servant.
A Likely Negro Man, 27 years old, good
field hand and competent Blacksmith,
oc 20 It $4
By EHIs, Livingston & Cos.
mm •
Fine Furniture, &c.
AN SATURDAY. 22d October, at 10 o’clock, wo
V will sell a very desirable lot of Furniture. We
name in part—
-1 Mahogany Rocking Chair.
1 Mahogany Arm Chair,
1 Mahogany Centre Table; Work Table,
1 Fine Walnut Music Rack,
1 Fine Walnut Secretary and Book Case,
1 Fine Walnut Office Table,
1 Fine Walnut Dining Table.
6 Fine new Quilts,
4 Fine new Bed Spreads,
6 Extra Bed Blankets,
8 New Counterpains,
1 Large new Brussels Carpet,
1 Large new Worsted Carpet,
20 Yards new Stair Carpet,
20 Yards Straw Matting,
1 New Feather Bed
With other desirable Furniture and House
Furnishing Goods.
—ALSO —
A CASE FINE DENTAL INSTRU
MENTS with a good lot GOLD FOIL.
—ALSO —
An extra pair HORSES, 5 and 6 years
old, kind and gentle,
oc 19 4t S4B
By Ellis, Livingston A Cos,
— mm mm
Salt and Sundries.
—
WE will sell on THURSDAY, 20th October, at
10% o’clock, in front of our Auction Room
43 BBLS. COST SALT,
1 TWO HORSE BUGGY,
Assorted lot Granite Ware, including
.Plates, Dishes, Bowls and Pitchers,
Lot good Trunks and Hat Boxes,
50,000 Percussion Caps.
15,000 Needles,
Lot Bale Rope,
10 pairs Glass Decanters,
LOT DESIRABLE HARDWARE,
One Trunk of Valuable Clothing,
Lot Desirable Furniture,
A Splendid New Silk Velvet Mantiiia,
A Fine Cow and Yearling,
Clothing, Shoes, Navy Pistols, Shot Gun,
with a desirable lot of Goods, too nu
merous to mention,
oc 18 3t. $32
By Ellis, Livingston A Cos.
Administrators Sale.
■\T7TLL be so'd on Tuesday, the 25th inst., in the
VV City es Columbus, at the store of Messrs- Ellis,
Livingston & Cos., Auctioneers, a portion ol tho
perishable property of the estate of B. A. Sorsby,
dec’d, consisting of several Hogsheads of Sugar,
Kegs of Nails, Boxes of Tobacco, Pieces of Osna
burgs, Envelopes, Writing Paper, Buttons, Thread,
Ac. Sold by order of Court. Terms cash, Sale to
commence at 11 o’clock a. m.
G. E. THOMAS.
0ct14,1884. —oc 15-tilloc2s Adm’r.
GtMIHE FRENCH ISRANDI!
For Sale by the Case or Bottle.
THE above is warranted a genuine article afid
proneunced by judges the best in the city. It is,
from its superiority, particularly adapted to the
use of invalids, and for medicinal purposes gener
ally unsurpassed. Call soot, or it will all be sold,
at REDD A JOHNSON’S
old stand, Broad street, Columbus, Ga.
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0 Executor’s Motice.
TWO months after date application
to the Court of Ordinary of Taylor county for
leave to sell the Negroes and perishable proper y o,
the Estate of Elizabeth T. Johnson, deceased, late
of said county. MU£L K- JOHNSON, Ex’r,
Oct.2ow2m bAM ° Per TIIOS.D. BRAND.
Strayed or Stolen.
S3OO lIEWAH/D!
ON SATURDAY NIGHT, Bth instant, twu medi
um sized MULES, one a black the other a bay.
Thev were in fair order and fresh shod. A reward
•f S3O) will be paid tor their deliv* t t.> me at the
Perry House, Til OF ' SMITH,
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