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DAILY TIMES.
J. W. WAHRUK, - - - Editor.
COLUMBUS:
Satnrday Morning, October 29,1864.
[communicated.]
Reynolds, Ga., Oct. 27th, 1864.
Editor Columbus Times lam mortified to
ice in the public print* that there are some in
the Confederacy who advocate placing ne
groes in the army to fight for our independ
ence. The very discussion of the question
shows a state of demoralization in a portion
of our people truly deplorable. It is inti
mated that the subject will be introduced into
our next Congress, and advocated by the most
eloquent of its friend*. Ido hope for the dig
nity of that body, that no such proposition
will be allowed introduced, for no matter how
overwhelmingly it tuny he voted down, its
very introduction and discussion in that au
gust assembly will he a lusting disgrace
to evt-rv man, woman mo! child ir the Oort fed
i r • • •
eraev. The tn'.i.nice wou'.d be s’mtylr ridiiu
lom , it the consequences were not. so serious.
For wiio does not know that the negro would
.teize the first opportunity to gnin his freedom
immediately by deserting to the abolitionists?
Let us use all the negroes as well as e' try
other means at'our disposal, for the bench of
the cause, yet keeping them in appro; . i
ate sphere. * Let us not forget that the k .
stone to the arch ot Southern civilization is
t he inferiority of the negro to the white race,
and the slave’s perpetual subordination to his
master. The mine of the institution..before
the disruption ot the Onion, was the number
of free negroes' in the Southern State;* where
•very negro should be a slave.
Fighting the battles of a country should
entitle every'soldier to all the privileges of cit
izenship. What is to be- done with the ne
groes who may be placed in our armies? If
wc have so degenerated as to call upon them
to help us fight our own battles, we caunot
refuse to allow them their freedom and citG
zenship a * soon as the war is over. In that,
case, who is to confer upon them those inesti
mable privileges ? Is it proper, or to be ex
pected that the owners make the sacrifice ?
It the Government should do it, by what au
thority and upon what principles could such
a measure be executed ? If consummated in
violatmn of law either by impressment or
purchase for the purpose, what becomes of
the institution of slavery amongst us, when
the able-bodied men are made free and citizens
and the w.oraen and children continued in
servitude? What would be the condition of
society under such a state of facts ? Is there
a man in the Confederacy who would
lie willing to remain in it five minutes
if he could get out of it? Let us nip this dis
graceful, cowardly project in the bud. Let
the negroes be kept at menial service, making
provisions for the army and country ; work
ing with the spade and pick, in the erection of
fortifications ; in driving the wagous, ambulan
ces, stocks and herds, and cooking for the army.
Some of the women might be employed in the
hospitals under the direction of the Surgeons
and matrons. But for the sake of our noble
cause, lor the sake oi all we bold dear in our
system of civilization, for the continued purity
of the White blood ami in abhorence of foul and
loatkesome miscegenation, tor the respect we
owe to our tloble soldiers, lei us not bring
eternal disgrace upon all by attempting to
make soldiers oi our slaves!!! What, suppose
you would become of our noble army, the finest
b„civ of men the world lias ever beheld—if
such a brand of infamy was attempted as pla -
cing negroes—our own, their own slaves up
on an equality, yea, even by their aides as
xoldit.rs of the Confederacy ? Such a step
would do limre to disorganize and demoralize
it thou all the recruits mustered by the royal
Ape tor a century. It is different with the
abolitionists: their ambition is to reach equal
»/>/with the negro, as their wisest philoso
phers have recently discovered that the negro
race is superior (o their oivn. Ido not doubt
it. They feel highly honored to fight beside
or rather behind the negro, for they thus ex
pect to preserve their worthless lives from
the Southrons’ bullets by hiding behind the
Southrons’ staves. 1 consider the negro con
taminated by such association, and he does
too, as soon as he finds out his position.
Let every man who ought to be at the front,
step forward at once without wailing for Gov
ernment officials, who should be better em
ployed than hunting up delinquents. Leave
your little one-horse ash-hoppers, gentlemen,
your innumerable and fraudulent details;
tear up your exemptions, obtained under false
pretenses ; come out ot those bomb-proof
places in the rear where you artfdisplayingyour
cowardice to the chagrin of your friends and
the detriment of your country, and you home
generals who have all the wisdom and strategy
•and military sagacity of the Confederacy cou
eenfrated in yo ir precious persons, hold up
your heads like freemen who appreciate the
magnitude of the contest, and join, without
delay, our-gallant army. Lot our field gene
rals have the benefit of your counsels,and leave
no excuse for officers or guards to remain in
the rear, and my word for it, the abolitionists
will soon be brought to reason. We can
w hip the fight and establish our independence
upon a iuiu.dation never to be shaken by the
revolutions of coming ages.
As for reconstruction on any terms what
ever, the man who suggests it should be bang
to the nearest tree by thost who hear him ut
ter the foul treason, without waiting for a for
mal trial.
Let every man feel that his only business is
« ar, until we have an honorable peace and in
dependence, and the end is not far off. And
when it does come,let it not be one of any priv
ileges of kind to the abolitionists, Let us have
no entangling alliances with them. Let us ask no
rarors and grant none. Let it be simply a trea
ty of peace and boundary, allowing the States
of Missouri, Kentucky and Maryland to decide
by ballot untrammeled, with whose destiny
they* will link themselves. After the treaty
of peace thus made, det the abolitionists re
main on their own side ot the line, and us of
the Confederate States avoid all intercourse
whatever with them.
They' have conducted this war with such
vindictiveness and in such a reckless viola
tion ot all the rules of civilized warfare, that
we would be lost to self-respect and deserve
the contempt of the civilized world it we ever
under any circumstances, have ought to with a
people who have so remorselessly bid defiance
to all laws, human and divine.
Respectfully,
ROBERT R, HOWARD.
fF:»» n! h $ pec ml Correspondent of the Lon
don Telegraph.]
Amrriea in the Midst of War.
New York, Sept. 17, 1864.
Gen. Sherman is a commander who deals in
no half measures. His motto is “thorough.”
If he be high-handed, he is iron-handed, too;
and he has strength to execute that which he
has will to conceive. He ba3 not razed the
city of Atlanta to the ground, because he
wants its houses to shelter his troops while
they recruit their exhausted energies; be
cause he wants its sheds and warehouses to
store his munitions, and its converging rail
ways to bring his;supplies South ; and also,
perhaps, because he does not think it worth
his while to trample under foot the cake for
which he has hungered so long, and which
has cost him thirty thousand men to win.
But he has determined to “bust up” Atlanta
notwithstanding. Asa Southern town it is
to be -wiped out. Asa home of secession,
it is to b “squelched.’
The mode of procedure adopted by General
Bhtrtp.au "or bringing this result about is orig
inal and i uprecedfeMted. He has simply ex
pelled i vei y white citizen from the city which
he did not capture, but which surrendered to
his mercy. He has made a clean sweep of the
townsp.,-oplc. The la ties ran away before he
came. He has sent the menfolk after them.
Geutic Hiid simple, merchant ami storekeeper.
’ U irfer and mechanic, patriarch and school
boy, baby in aim- and bed-ridden pauper, all
roust clear out. Those who choose to take
the O 'th of allegiance, may go North : those
who fefu.-e to take it will be sent South ; but
all must go. The negroes only arc permitted
to remain. ftiey can bh made useful. They
can be turned into drudges and beasts of bur
den.,or. with muskets and bayonets in their
bands, be initiated into tbemyeteries of “big
sojering.’ iyr the rest, the word is ' Match.”
Sherman's general order, In which the ex
pulsion ot thtv Atlantese is decreed, may here
after find a place in the now edition of Long
fellow’s Kvangtdine and Goldsmith’s Deserted
Village. It contains suggestions quite as pa
thetic as can be found in any episode of Aca
dia or of Auburn., “The city ot Atlanta, being
exclusively for warlike purposes, will be at
once vacated by all except the armies of the
United States, and such.civilian employees as
may be restrained by the proper departments
ot the Government.” There is a grandeur of
simplicity in the preamble to this ukase
which approaches sublimity. “The Pyrenees
exist no longer “the House ol’Braganza has
ceased to reign,” are nothing to “the city of
Atlanta being exclusively for military pur
poses." .Since when, oh ! wondcrous Sher
man ? Since when did God Almighty ordain
that there should be a place upon earth
where heretofore his creatures had been per
mitted to live and work in peace and comfort
and “the pursuit of happiness”—as the De
claration of Independence has it—but which,
in future, were to be “exclusively" the strong
holds of the Devil ?
“At the proper time,” continues Sherman,
“just arrangements will be made for the sup
ply to the troops of all articles they may need,
over and above clothing, provisions, etc., fur
nished by the go vernment; and on no pretence
whatever will traders, manufacturers and sut
lers, be allowed to settle in the limits of forti
fied places ; and if they manage to come in
spite of this notice, the quartet master will
sieze their stores and appropriate them to the
use of the troops, and deliver the parties, or
other unauthorized citizens who thus place
their individual interests above that of the
United States, over to the Hands of some pro
vost marshal, to • be put to labor on the
forts, or conscripted with one of the regiments
or batteries already in the service. The same
general principles will apply to all military
posts south of Chattanooga.”
When Napoleon escaped from Elba, in 1815, the
allied sovereigns assembled at Vienna, solemnly
declared him to be “au enemy of the human race.”
That ban they thought to be the most aw
ful within their power of malison. Does rt not
look very much as though General Sherman were
anxious to declare war against mankind in gene
ral ? You will observe that his decree is not only
•actual, but prospective. The principle of exter
mination is to apply to all other cities he may
capture. The Southerners are literally to be
driven from the face of the earth. As Sherman
will be probably the idol of tho North during
the coming winter, wo may expect, should the re
maining stronghold of the Confederacy fall before
thp Union arms, to hear that’the cities' of Mo
bile, Charleston, Petersburg, and Richmond,
"being exclusively for military purposes,” must be
vacated by all except the armies "of the United
.States.
With a cruel ...condescension, the General has j
suffered the expelled inhabitants to take with j
them such “‘moveable property” as they possess;
in other words, they may ju&t contrive to get
away from the city with a change of clothes and a
few dollars, leaving behind their furniture, their
household goods, their live stock, and the houses
of which they were lawfully the possessors.—
There is no appeal from Sherman. lie is abso
lutely and entirely master of the lives and for
tunes of the defenceless aud unarmed. His Gov
ernment has seemingly no inclination—and if it
had, would scarcely dare—to interfere with him.
Sherman, alone and supremo, in a solitude of his
own creation, reminds one of the warrior monk
of Mexico, Torres, who, during the war' of inde
pendence, when he had hold of some Spanish for
talice was went to cry out, “Yo soy Xcfs dc todo
el Mando ” —l give laws to the world. Thus,
Sherman at Atlanta. “It shall be no more a city,”
he ordains The sound of the church going bell,
the voices of woman aud children shall be heard
in it no longer. There shall bo no moro trade, no
more commerce, no more buying and selling, no
more marrying or giving in marriage » It shall be
mine aud Lucifer’s —a place only for gunpowder,
caissons, big guns, bombshells, swords, bayonets
and commissariat rations.
The Confederate General Hood has naturally
remonstrated with the autocrat of Atlanta. “Per
nlit me to say,” he writes, “that tho unprecedented
measure you propose transcends in studied and
iniquitous cruelty all the acts ever brought to my
attention in this dark history of war. In the
name of God and humanity, I protest against it,
believing that you are expelling from their homes
the wives and children of a brave people.” The
protest is quite in vain. God and humanity have
nothing to do with Atlanta, which is a city “‘ex
clusively for warlike purposes.”
The press of New York pass this flagitious ordi
nance by, either with a smile of satisfaction or
without any comment at all. The Herald says :
•‘Sherman is determined that his campaign shall
not now bo spoiled by meddlers. He has, there
fore, ordered all citizens to be removed from his
lines, and long ora this they have been sent from
Atlanta, either North or South. This may be
hard upon some of the late residents of that city:
hut ‘military necessity’ is no respecter of persons,
and Shermau wants the place for military purpo
ses only.”
The special correspondent of the World writes :
“Atlanta is ours. It has passed through the most
profound strategy ever exercised in this, part of
the military field, aud to General Shermau is due
the entire glory of tho achievement. But the'gcn
eral has doubtless received his full meed of praise
from every loyal pen in the country, and it is un
necessary for mo to add one word to brighten the
chaplet which adorns his brow.” Not one word ?
It is true that the word might rather darken than
brighten the victor’s wroath. from the World,
indeed —the Democratic, constitutional World—
which was all, the other day, for the “conduct of
tho war according to the dictates of civilization”
—“for the immediate cessation of hostilities:” and I
for “killing and maiming each other like Christian j
gentlemen”—we might have expected’ something
approaching an expression of censure, or at least
of horror, at that which Sherman has done at At
lanta. But the World is absorbed in the develop
ment of the most miserable party politics, and the
chanoes of McClellan against Lincoln are far su
perior in the opinion of its conductors, to tho inte
rests of these poor “played out” affairs, humanity
and civilization.
Rebel Sympathizers on Railroad Trains.—
The Alexandria, Va., Journal of Tuesday, says:
It is said that additional arrests of citizens, to be
placed on the rai!road,cars, are to be made. Several
citizens living on the line of the railroad, in the
adjacent counties, were arrested and sent up yester
day, with those irom this place. J. W. Foster, L.
D. Means, J. A. Cbchrane, S. Houdershal and J.
W.^flinn. Several rebels recently captured as
prisoners of war, are in prison here, to be used for
the same purpose. It is recommended in a commu
nication in the Virginia State Journal, that arrests
ot females in this place should be made for the
same purpose.
Feur cannon, belonging to Mosby s Ilorsc Artil
lery, were captured by a detachment of Federal
troops, near Rectortown, last week. Several of the
artillery men were also captured —among them
1 Morgan and Americus Davis, one of them lately a
I clerk in an apothecary’s store in this place. Ame
i ricus was sent to the Old Capitol and Morgan is to
i be used on )he railroad trains.
. TELEGRAPHIC.
REPORTS OF THE PRESS ASSOCIATION.
Entered according to act of Congress in the yea:
1863. by J. S Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office o?
the District Court of tho Confederate States so
the Northern District of Oeorsria.
Richmond, Oct. 27. —The enemy advanced
a heavy force on the north side to-day, and
made «everal assaults upon our lines, which
were signally repnlaed with a heavy loss.—
Five hundred prisoners have already been
brought in. Our loss insignificant.
Richmond, Oct. 28tb.—Official dispatches
from Gen. Lee last night, say the enemy
.crossed the Rowantey Creek below Burgess’
Mill and forced back our cavalry in the af
ternoon. Heth attacked at first to deceive
thorn, but found them in too strong a force ;
alters ids the enemy attacked, but were re
pulsed. They still hold the plank road at
Burgess’ Mill.
Heth took some colors and prisoners.
The movement of the enemy against our
left to-day. va 1 - repulsed. Two attacks ppon
our lines wire made—one between Henry's
Poor House and the Charles City road and the !
other on the Williamsburg road.
Several hundred prisoners and four stands !
of colors were <• iptured. Our loss very slight, j
On the 25fh. Mosby, near Bunker Hill, cap
tiued Brig. Gin. Duffieid with several other
prisoners, and a number of horses and killed
a number of the enemy. He sustained no
lOSS.
r«Tt-;Rfent in;. 28.—La-t night about dark,
the ’enemy charged our works on the Baxter
road and captured a small portion of them,
from which, however, they were quietly dis
persed with a loss of about a dozen prisoners.
Our loss small. Lieut. Col. Hanson and
Wise of Wise’s brigade were captured by the
enemy. About ten o’clock last night the en
emy charged qur works on Jerusalem Plank
Road capturing a post of our picket line, and
driving in the rest of it. About 12 o’clock,
however, our line was reestablished. In the
light yesterday evening on the Boyden Plank
Road below here, three battle flags were cap
tured from the enemy and about 200 prison
ers. Nothing from below this morning. The
enemy’s cavalry is on a raid towards the
Soutbside railroad.
An Invasion of Vermont from the Canada
Side—Robbery of Banks—Panic of the
Citizens,
The Yankees are having a sensation nearer
he me than the seat of War. On Wednesday
last, says the Richmond Dispatch of the 24th,
a band of twenty-five men from Canada “in
vaded” the town of St. Albans, in Vermont,
and robbed the National Bank of $50,000, the
St. Albans Banks of 589.000, and the Frank
lin County Bank of a considerable sum.—
Some twenty horses were also seized by the
desperadoes and carried off. Several oitizens
who resisted were deliberately shot; two were
seriously wounded, and it is feared fatally—
E.J. Morrison, a contractor, and C. H. Hunt
ington, a jeweler. Several othors are reported
slightly wounded. The attack commenced
about 8 P. M., and the opening is thus de
scribed by an eye-witness :
Several men appeared to be rushing about
with pistols, in parties of from five to ten.—
One of these gangs met a Mr. Morrison and
presented a weapon ; fo’ him, demanding his
suriender. “You are joking boys.” * They
fired and he fell, weltering in his blood. Our
informant saw him throw up his hands and
then sink on the ground, and then he realized
for the first time that the village was attack
ed by an organized body of men, bent on pil
lage and regardless of human life.
Meanwhile the attack had been simulta
neous on the there banks—the First National,
Franklin County and St. Albans. Parties
entered each. When the teller, or cashier,
suspecting no evil, asked-what they desired,
the leader presented a pistol, with the excla
mation. “You are my prisoner; if you move
au inch, we’ll blow you through.” Others of
the gang then went to the vault and drawer?,
and laid violent hands on all the specie, bills
and other articles which they could find, and
filled the side satchels, which each wore, as
we before described. Os eourse resistance
was useless, for the surprise was complete.—
At the. Franklin County Banll the raiders
pushed the cashier Mr.* Beardsley, and one of
the clerks, into the vault and locked them up,
and the prisoners were not released until late
ia the night.
Then commenced a reign of terror in the vil
lage. Plunder had been accomplished, and vio
lence followed. The raid was brief; but the scene
must have been terrible while it lasted. The thir
ty or moro marauders rushed up and down the
streets, tiring their pistols in every direction.
Whenever they saw a citizen or a group of men
they would aim in that direction. They had mag
nifieent arms—seven-shooters—and as fast as one
weapon was unloaded they drew another, and kept
up the fusilade. Mr. Baldwin says he can only
liken the sounds to the noise of a Fourth of July
morning in a large city. There was a continuous
bang ! bang ! Os course this reckless use of fire
arms could not continue long with nobody hurt.
The sheriff of the county soon fell : Mr. Hunting
ton was- shot while resisting the robbery of his
store ; a woman whose name we could not. learn,
fell, and more dastardly than all—as the guerrillas
were leaving the town, they saw a little girl in
the street and wantonly killed her. And the bul
lets were flying around among the buildings in the
main street.—nearly all of which bear marks of
lead. Windows were broken, blinds chipped and
people wounded. It was a scene that beggars all
description.
Os course the entire population rushed into the
streets. They had no idea of the cause of the dis
turbance, for they were engaged in their usual av
ocations, and the raid was “like thunder from a
clear sky.” The guerrillas, as they rushed thro’
the town, stopped all the citizens they met and
gathered them in squads under guard of a few
men, armed with pistols, retaining them as pris
oners on the common. Meanwhile the remainder
of the banditti started to secure horses. They
took two from Field’s livery stable, five from Ful
ler’s several from the Americas and Tremont sta
bles, and a twelve hundred dollar span from Mr.
Clark, of Rutland—securing about thirty in all.
Their adroitness in cutting off harness was mar
vellous, and the contents of the saddle-makers’
shops soon enabled the villains to become cavalry
instead of foot-pads.
Meanwhile their threats were terrible. “We will
burn your damned town,” they said. “We will
treat you as the people of Atlanta were treated.”
They also said, “We are coming back again,
and will burn every town in Vermont.” Their
imprecations were of a blasphemous character.—
They claimed to bo Confederates. Our informant
does not think any of the men were Canadians. —
They all looked like Americans, and Southerners
at that. These demons continued their infernal
pistol-firing, killing a man named Morse after they
began to “lake prisoners.”
All this was the work of twenty minutes.—
Conductor Baldwin says. that he can scarcely
realize that it all happened, aud that so much
was done in so short a time. The guerrillas,
having all secured horses and saddles, commenced
their retreat. They abandoned the prisoners and
rode off northward, firiug their pistols as they
proceeded.
After the invaders had gone, the citizens turned
out and pursued them, capturing the leader, with
SIOO,OOO. The Governor-Geaeral of Canada i*
also endeavoring to arrest those who escaped inte
that province. As the “raiders” passed through
Freelisburg, an attempt was made to stop them,
and the bailiff of the town was killed. All New
England ia crazy over this “barbarous invasion,”
and is trying to preve that the men were Confed
erate*.
THE CITY.
T. J. JACKSON LOCAL BDITOB
Religious Notice.
Rer. James K. Guthrie, late of New Orleans, will
deliver Sermons, at the Bynagoge, this Saturday
and Sunday, at 10 o’clock, a. m.
A number of good and useful articles are adver
tised at 114 Bread street. Reader, see the adver
tisement and prepare to supply yourself.
Sales To-Day. —Ellis k Cos. will have an im
portant sale to-day of fine furniture, glass-ware,
Jtc. See advertisement.
Personal. —We were pleased to meat in eur
city yesterday, in good hoalth, Mr. G. A. Cush
ing, of that enterprising jenrnal, the Montgomery
Mail.
A Challenge. —Our Printers take umbrage at
Local Jones’ sweeping declaration of having the
best set of hands in the Confederacy, and have re
quested us to challenge him to the proof. We
are opposed to challenges as a general thing—
they sometimes lead to unpleasaut occurrences —
but for the sake of the reputation of our concern,
we must claim some credit iu the way of respecta
ble and clever employees, who are uuwilling to
play second fiddle to the “Enquirer" or any other
office in the State. Joseph should by all means
have excepted the Times office.
In a Quandary. —A gentleman employed in
this city, in h government department at a salary
of about SI,BOO per annum, informs us that his
landlord has notified him that ho must have $2200
rent for the dilapidated premises on which said
tenant lives, lie knows not what to do under the
circumstances, as there is no other place that can
be got at any price, and thinks for the sake of
econemy he will be compelled to die. Verily, ia
these graspin : times, mechanics and small salaried
men, will bo put up to all they know, to preserve
the copartnership between soul and body. Sich
is life. Query.—What will this gentleman have
left to support his family on, after paying $2200
rent oat of his salary es SIBOO ? He will probably
be enabled to live high on the surplus. Don’t you
think so reader ?
Small Comfort for Canada. —The Londou
Times gives Canada fair warning in a very em
phatic leader, that she has nothing to expect from
England in the way of defeuee. England can do
nothing on laud. She did her utmost in the Cri
mea. All the troops she could send to Canada
would not stand one battle against a Northern
army, commanded by General Gram. Whether
defeated or not, there would be nothing left of
them. As to the Canadians, it seems that they
can raise 20,000 men all told, and 4he Times ridi
cules the idea of such a force standing for a mo
ment before a Federal army. The English of this
is, if you want Canada, take it and welcome. —
England is ready to give a quit claim to-morrow,
as the price of peace. You may conquer the
South or not—restore the Union, or fail to restore
it—but when you want Canada, there it is, gentle
men, help yourselves.
A Fleet is said to be fitting out in Hampton
Roads to attack Wilmington. It consists of the
iron frigate Ironsides, which was stationed
sometime at Charleston : the new ironclad ship of
the line Dictator, whose armament is of the heavi
est calibre and greatest range (some of her guns
are said to throw shell within a fraction of six
miles :) two monitors ami an immense number of
#ooden vessels of war, ammunition and picket
boats, etc.
W. W. Boyce. —Since.this gentleman has been
ostracized by a public meeting of his own Con
gressional constituents, as he richly deserved to
be for his recant traitorous reconstruction letter to
President Davis, what ought to be done with those
who applaud the course of Mr. Boyce—who en
dorse the sentiments of his atrocious letter, and
who openly (although they suppose people fools
enough not to know it) advocate what he attempt
ed so adroitly to put forth, and to conceal at the
same time, to-wit : a reconstruction of the old
government ? Spirit of the South .
TSie Medical Exam suing Board.
For the Third Congressional District, will bo at
Hamilton, Harris county »...Nov 11 & 12
Cusseta Chattahoochee c0....N0v 14 & 15
Lumpkin Stewart county Nov 16 &17
Preston Webster county iNov 18 &19
Ellaville Schley county Nov 21 & 22
Buena Vista Marion county -Nov 23 k 24
Columbus... Muscogee county,} ~a . oa
November / -o,
Talbolton Talbot county Nov. 30 <fc Dec. 1
Butler Taylor county Dec.... 2& 3
Oglethorre Macon county Dec 5 <fc 6
Americus.... Sumter county Dec 7& 8
Georgetown Quitman county Dec 9i 10
for the purpose of Examining all persons between
the ages of 17 and 50, who have not been examined
subsequent to the Ist day of April, 1864.
Each county Enrolling officer will notify all men
between tho ages of 17 and .50 to appear at the
above mentioned places, for examination, at the
time herein specified, aud have a suitable room pre
pared for that purpose.
ROBT. W. PARK,
Surgeon, P. A, O. S.
W.T. ABRAHAMS,
Surgeon. P. A. C. S.
P. B. MINOR,
Surgeon, P. A, C. S.
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ATTQTIONSALES.
By Rosette, Lawhoii &. Cos.
Sugar, Salt and Whisky!
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yjE will sell on Wednesday, November 2d, at 11
YY o'clock, in front of our Auction Room—
-3 Boxes New Orleans Sugar ;
1 Barrel New Orleans Sugar ;
4 Sacks New Orleans Sugar;
25 Barrels Salt;
5 Barrels Whisky;
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By Rosette, Lanhon & €o.
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WE will sell on Wednesday, November, 2d, at 11
o’clock, in front of our Auction Room—
SOFAS;
TETE-a-TETE 5
ONE «£LOD£OA!
WARDROBES, RAT RACKS;
SEWING MACIIIMES;
SPOOL THREAD;
TABLES; BEDSTEADS;
CALF SK.IKTS!
MARBLE TOP CENTRE TABLE.
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By Rosette, Lawhon A Cos,
FALL AND WINTER CLOTHING!
At Auoti on 2
m i m*
if'E will sell on Wednesday, November 2d, at 11
v * o’clock, in front of our Auction Room—
Gents. (ass, and (loth Coats:-
do. do. - - Fonts $
do. Silk, Cass, and Cass. Tests.
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SPECIAL NOTICES
HEADQ’RS CONSCRIPT SERVICE FOR
Georgia, August*, Oct. 17th, 1861.
Circular No. 18.
2b Comity Enrolling Officers:
Pursuant to orders from the Major General Com
manding the Reserves and District of Georgia, you
and all others engaged in the conscript service are
commanded to apply yourselves with renewed en
ergy and diligence to the important duties with
which you are charged. The fact is established that
in every county of the State there are numbers of
men between the ages of 17 and 50 who have never
been enrolled and hitherto evaded the service which
they owe their country, which the law obliges them
to render, and which the voice of patriotism, the
importance of the crisis, and the call of their gal
lant brethren in arms have failed to induce them to
perform. It is your duty to see that these men be
no longer allowed to enjoy this inglorious ease, and
to save them from the shame and degradation
which await them when our independence is won,
in the ifesteem of those brave men and n<>blc women
to whose valor and devotion, under Providence,
these priceless boons will be due.
The ranks of our armies must be tilled. The bat
tle scarred veterans, who, for four years have slam
med the tide of invasion and held at bay the savage
and powerful foe which still pollutes our soil, must
be strengthened and auimated by the presence of
fresh men by their side. The glorious battle flags
which bear upon their tattered folds the names of so
many victories which have rendered our country
famous throughout the world, must be upheld and
supported by the many stout arms whose strength
has not yet been put forth in the defence of their
homes, their fortune and their honor.
It is also a tact known to all that there are thous
ands of deserters and absentees from the army scat
tered throughout the State, who. were they now
present beside their faithful comrades, could drive
the enemy beyond our borders, and before the win
ter frosts set in, conquer our independence and a
cessation of war.
It is your duty to have these misguided men ar
rested and returned to their commands. They have
committed the most infamous crime of which a sol •
dier can be guilty, and deserve the terrible punish
ment which tho laws of their country and the usa
ges of war have awarded to their offences. Their
only hope of clemency at the hands of the Execu
tive depends on their piompt abandonment of their
present life of lawlessness and peril and their return
to the ranks in which they swore to serve during
the war. Let constant efforts be directed to the ar
rest of these men. Let evory hole and corner; let
every swamp and forest in your respective counties
in which these wretched men now find a preca
rious shelter, be searched and penetrated by your
selves and your assistants, until every deserter has
been arrested, aud your vigilance and energy have
proved that escape from capture is no longer possi
ble. If you need aid in the performance of this
duty, call upon the sheriff and other civil officers
of the county, and, under the repeated orders of the
Governor of the State, they are obliged to assist
you. The officers commanding local companies, re
cently organized in tho different counties by order
of the Major General Commanding the Reserves,
are also bound to aid you, and the great body of the
inhabitants, awaro that the safety of their relatives
and friends now in the field and of their families at
home; the possession of their property, their lives,
their liberty, depend on the success of our arms and
our ability to hold our ground against the vandal
hosts by which we are beset, will assuredly not fail
to second your efforts to send into the ranks every
man who properly belongs to them, whether he be
one who owes military service and has failed to dis
charge his debt, or he be one who has basely desert
ed the flag of his country in the face of the enemy
when she most needs the best services of ad her sons.
The duties entrusted to you arc onerous, but they
are eminently honorable when faithfully perform
ed. Most of you have served with honor and fideli
ty in our army, and the wounds of many attest
their valor on the field. Let the same spirit that
animated you in confronting the foe, inspire you
now in the performance of your present duty, and
let the consciousness that upon you, to a large ex
tent, depends thespeedy and successful termination
of the war, impel you to put forth all your energy
arid thus earn the highest reward a Soldier can ob
tain—the gratitude of his country.
Hereafter County'Enrolling Officers v-'M report
directly to these Headquarters, and not a-, hereto
fore to the District Enrolling Officers, whose offices
have been abolished by order of the War Depart
ment..
WILLIAM' M. BIIOWNE.
Colonel and Commandant of Conscripts
for the State of Georgia.
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HEADQ’RS CONSCRIPT SERVICE,
Augusta, Ga., Octobor 20, 1864.
Circular, No 19.
It being generally believed that u number of
Certificates of Exemption and Detail have been
fraudulently obtained throughout the State, it is
hereby ordered:
That all Certificates of Exemption and Detail by
whomsoever issued, prior to the 30th of November,
1804, shall be, on and after that date, revoked, and
become null and void.
County Enrolling Officers will immediately pro
ceed to collect such Certificates of Exemption and
Detail and hold the same until called for by the In
spectors of Conscription, whose duty it will be to
examine the same closely, aud if satisfied of their
validity, will issue a receipt for each, which will
protect the holder thereof from molestation until
the 20th of November, by which time the new Cer
tificates of Exemption and Detail will be forwarded
from these Headquarters to all persons entitled
thereto.
Railroad Companies, Government Officers and
Contractors having detailed employees, jvill collect
and forw -rd the Certificates of Exemption and De
tail of thrir employees by Express to these Head
quarters, where they will be exchanged for new oer
tlflCatC"‘ WM. M. BROWNE,
Colonel and Commandant of Conscripts
for the State of Georgia.
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HEADQ-RS CONSCRIPT SERVICE,
-Augusta, Ga., October 21,1864.
Circular, No. 20.
1. The Enrolling Officers of Georgia will‘proceed
vigorously in tho execution of the following Circu
lar. from the Bureau of Conscription :
C. S. OF AMERICA, )
W\r Department, Bureau op Conscription, >
Richmond. Va.. Oct., 7, 1864. )
Circular, No. 33,
Med. Ex un’g Board,
3d Congressional Dis.
By General Orders, No 76, current series, all de
tails heretofore granted under authority of the War
Department, through this Bureau, to persons be
tween the ages of 18 and 45 are unconditionally re
voked, and by said General Order all such persons
now under such details, are required to report in
person forthwith to such Camps of Instruction of
the respective States as may be designated for as
signment by the General commanding the Reserve
Forces to military service. From this requirement
are excepted men detailed and now actually employ
ed in manufacturing, providing, collecting and for
warding munitions and otherindispensable supplies
for the army and navy, or in work indispensable to
military operations. Such persons will be allowed
to remain m their employments until their details
are revised. Under thi3 Order, all Farmers, Plan
ters, Mechanics, and holding details by au
thority of the War Department, or of local Con*
scription Officers, are required forthwith to repair
to the Camps of Instruction.
Officers engaged in the Conscript serviee are re
quired promptly and with inexorable rigor to with
draw all such details as are herein indicated, and
move the persons to the Camps of Instruction for
assignment to service. No appeals from this Order
will be entertained by the Secretary of War, unless
approved and forwarded through this Bureau by
the Generals commanding the Reserve Forees.
Applicants fordetail will not be turloughed dur
ing the pendency of their applications, bat will be
assigned to the army.
Circular No. 8. Bureau of Conscription, March
18,1861, having been rendered nugatory by subse
quent General Orders from the A. k I. General's
Office, is hereby revoked.
By command of the Secretary of War,
(Signed' JOHN S. PRESTON,
Brig. Gen. and Sunt.
ZIL In obedenee to Orders from the Major Gen
eral commanding the Reserves, Enrolling Officers
will respect, until further orders, all details held by
employees of Government Office?? and Contractors.
111. The Secretary of War having directed that
all men detailed from the army, now serving in
Virginia—except tho-o employed in the Tax in
Kind service—whe are not pronouneed unit for
field service by a Medical Examining Board, and
who ajr«i n 1 certified by JL j. ,f j,
mentsand Chiefs of Bure mx as absolutely a*
ry for the continuance of the manufacture of m(Jr
tions and other indispensable supplies lor tho arm*
be immediately returned bo the duty with ti !9 , r
commands, Enrolling officer-* will see that «uc.
persons are promptly forward® l.
. 1\ . V hen a soldier is unable to appear before a
Medical Examining Board, by reason of phyafcr
disability, he will forward to tho Enrolling officei
certificate t- this effect, whieh certificate must ak,
embrace a full and accurate statement of the
The Enrolling Officer will, in all cases, submit
certificate to a Hospital Examining Board,
Board of Examiners for Conscripts, who, in co n f c .
ence with him, will make upon it sueh reeonuncu
dations as may be warranted by theJacts at
tained. " '
WM. M BROWNE,
Colonel and commandant of Conscripts,
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A UCTION SALES’
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
/ iN TUESDAY, November Ist, at 10 1-2 t'eleck
'_'we will sell in front of our store,
An Extra Likely Negro Woman, 21
years old, good Cook. Washer and Ironer, ac-j
her Boy 4 years old.
A Fine Blooded Cavalry Horse, 5 years
old.
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Bv Ellis, Livingston A Cos.
VALUABLE STORE Mill Iff
AT A_TJOTIOTsT!
ON TUESDAY, Bth of November, at 10 J j o’clocx
we will sell in front of our Auction Room,
The Valuable Store, No, 127.
Broad Street, Threo Doors below Hill k DawsouG
old corr or. The Lot is 22 feet, front and 147 feet 19
inches doep—Store 11 1 feet deep—with privilege of
the Alley.
ALSO
The following very desirable Stocks;
133 Shares Florida Home Insurance Cos..
S2O per Share paid in.
100 Shares Eufaula Home Insurance Cos.,
SSO per Share paid in.
50 Shares Georgia Insurance Company,
$25 per Share paid in.
500 Shares Southern Insurance Company,
Savannah, Bringham, President, $lO per
Share paid in.
5 Shares Importing and Exporting
Company Stock of Georgia, Lamar. Prest.,
SI,OOO per Share paid in.
52 Shares “Great Southern Insurant :
Company,” S2O per Share paid in.
5 Shares Bank of Colnmbus Sfcoik,
SIOO per Share paid in.
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By Elilik, Livingston A Cos
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GOOD FARM AT AUCTION
WE will sell on TUESDAY, Ist November, at
10y£ o’clock, in front of our Auction Room
A Desirable Farm I
Three-fourths of a mile from Salem, Ala., known
as the "Prewett Place,” containing 320 acros of
productive land—nbout 200 acres cleared and under
good fences, The
Dwelling has Four Good Rooms S
with excellent OUT HOUSES. GIN, *t„ and a
plentiful supply of good water.
ALSO —
A likely Negro Man. 28 years old. 1
Field Hand, Ac.
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—ALSO—
-48 JJbls. Superior Coast Salt;
5 Cases Smoking Tobacco:
1 Bbl. Fine Rum:
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Close Carriage, Wagons, Buggies, Horsed
&c., &c.
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By Ellis, Livingston & Cos
AN SATURDAY. 29th of October at
U we will sell in front of our store
1 >’uw Parlor Carpet,
2 New Bed-room Carpets,
LOT FINE GLASSWARE:
Including Goblets, Tumblers, Pitcher*,
Cake Stands, &c,, tfcc.
1 pair Fine Globe Lamps, Candlesticks,
A lot Elegantly Bound Parlor Volumes,
including the best Literary and Poets
cal Works,
1 Fine Gray Mare 7 years old,
1 Splendid China Tea Sett,
1 Sett Fine Silver Plated Carriage Hut*
ness, nearly new,
1 Shifting Seat Buggy, in good order.
1 Box Oil Paints, for Portraits aai
Brushes,
2 Dozen Cottage Chairs,
Thirty Bbls. Salt,
Lot Paintings, School Books, Bed Stead*,
&c., &c.
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By Ellis, Livingston &
A PR I V ATE SALE.
1,500 Acres unimproved Land on
Spring Creek, Miller county, formerly
Early, will be sold at a bargain,
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FOB SALE!
A t 114 r Broad. Street,
| A BUSHELS Fine Sweet Potatoes
t:V 20 bushels Fine Eating Apples;
JUGS, JARS AND BOWLS!
Cedar Tabs and Backets.
3CTTO2T OAHDSi
VINEGAR AND SYRUP!
2,000 pounds Fine Flour ;
75 boxes Tobacco;
20 cases Smoking Tobacco;
3 bags Black Pepper;
Soda and Spice;
Well Rope;
CHOICE BACON HAMS and SIDES 1
oc 29 2t WM. H. H. PHELPS.
OFFICE SOUTHERN EXPRESS.
Columbus, Ga., Oct., 29,1564.
NO Freight will be received at the Southern Ex
press Company's Office after 3>£ o’clock ?. M. to
('o East on that day, nor will any be received to go
West after 4 1 j oVlock r u.
oc 29 ts S. 11. HILL, Agent.
For the Front.
ALL Packages and Letters for Fenner's BaCterr
if left at the residence of Mr. Beach, will ha
conveyed bj Mr. C. Young, on Monday