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DAILY TIMES.
J. w. WARRE.V, - - - Editor.
COLUMBUS:
Tuesday Morning, November 8,1864.
Matters at the Trout.
We are inclined to believe a portion of the
news brought by mail from Montgomery yes
terday. Though it has been stated most pos
itively by persons who witnessed the occur
rence, that Decatur was captured by our forces,
our belief is that nothing of the sort has tak
en place. An effort similar to that put forth
at Allatoona was doubtless made, and
with the same result. Gen. Hood, we imag
ine, deemed it imprudent to hazard a heavy
loss of strength in an effort to carry a forti
fied position, the possession of which was not
essential to the execution ofihis further plans.
What these are we Knew not. If it was his
intention ic advance into Middle Tennessee
and upon the Nashville k Chattanooga rail
road, continuing his opefatiens upon Sher
man’s line of communications, it seems to us
that bis line of advance would have been
east of Decatur Having cut loose from
•
Blue Mountain, however, it was necessary to
establish a base of supplies elsewhere anu to
place himself in communication with it. This
he has effected at Tuscumbia, at which pc at
he was last reported to be. He can advai.c ■
thence upon either Nashville or Memphis and
compel tbeeuerny to concentrate and retain a
large force at each place. What his inten
tions are must be developed in a few days.—
The idea that Sherman has reinforced his At
lanta garrison with four corps is all bosh. It
becomes extremely ridiculous aDd absurd
when it is remembered that he had only three
corps ali together. He may have reinforced
that position to some small extent, hut wt
may rely upon it that the condition of affairs
in North Alabama and in Tennessee requires
majority of his force to watch Hood's
movements.
Tiic Peace Question.
LETTER FROM HON. 0. J. BAYLOR TO TUB GOV
ERNOR OF GEORGIA.
Metropolitan Hotel, New York, l
October 17, 18G4. /
Joseph E. Brown, Governor of the Stale of
Georgia :
Sir : In the absence of reliable means of
private communication, I am constrained to
adopt this mode of placing before you and the
people of Georgia important facts bearing up
on the question of peace.
It was my original purpose upon leaving
Georgia, as the European Commissioner of
the State, to have proceeded to Paris, and
there, in connection with my commercial mis
sion, initiate, subject to your approval, nego
tiations for theterminatiou of the war through
State intervention, taking the original Ste
phens resolutions and your measures on the
subjects of peace, as the basis of negotiation.
France, as the .ally of Georgia in the revolu
tionary struggle of 1776, and having formally
reeoguized the independence and sovereignty
of the State, being at the same time the firm
friend of American nationality, seemed to me
to occupy the proper position for bringing
forward the Georgia plan. My former person
al relations with Mr. Dayton, the American
Minister to France, led me to hope that the
truly Conservative and American purpose set
forth in your Message, and embodied in the
original Stephens resolutions, would at least !
receive from him the attention their import- I
ance merited, and that thus the Georgia prop
osition, through the approbation of the Em
peror and the diplomatic medium of the j
American Minister at Paris, would be brought
officially and favorably to the attention of the
Department of the State at Washington for
final consideration. How far the Georgia
proposition would prove admisable or to what
extent it should be modified by the establish
ed facts of the Revolution, were matters of
detail in future, to be adjusted in the course
of the contemplated negotiations, as well as
any irregularity or informality in the negotia
tion itself.
Upon my arrival in Bermuda I sought the
earliest opportunity ot communicating my
views and purposes to the American Consul
at St George’s. I desired through him to
advise the Government at Washington of my
contemplated action in Baris, furnishing the
Secretary of State proper evidence of my
official position as the European Commission-,
er of Gorgia. In the event of the Government
at Washington taking a favorable view of the
proposed negotiation for peace, such a course
would have enabled the American Minister
at Paris to have acted with less reserve.
Pending these consultations with the Ameri
can Consul at St. George’s the Halifax steam
er brought out the proclamation of the Presi
dent of the United States upon the subject of
peace, in response to the semi-official over
tures made at Niagara by the agents of Mr.
Davis. The invitation conveyed in the Presi
dent’s proclamation determined me to change
my course and repair directly to Washington
City, when and where I submitted the Georgia
propositions, subject, of course, to reference
to and approval by yourself.
You will appreciate the reasons which pre
vent my setting forth in this communication
the actual condition of the negotiation. But
I deem it necessary to place you in possession
of some of the leading considerations which
surround and influence this important matter,
and which I embodied in an address delivered
at the Cooper Institute, in this city. The ap
pearance of Mr. Stephens’ letter renders these
explanations the more necessary. I ask for
them, not only from yourself, but from the
intelligent citizens of Georgia, that calm and
dispassionate consideration to which they are
entitled. The question of an immediate, hon
orable, blessed peace, or continuing years of
desolating war, in my opinion, depends upon
the State of Georgia, and chiefly upon your
self as her Executive.
The events of this war have clearly demon
*trated, that sectional consolidation North
and South, supported by the sword, is the in~
evitable result ot disunion, and we know
there can be neither liberty, prosperity or
happiness in the presence of standing armies.
In other words, the question for the American
people South as well as North is this : shall
we have a common government resting upon j
the republican principle of contest, or shall j
we have conflicting nationalities on the mon
archical principle of obedience \ Sectional j
consolidation South begets and necessitates j
sectional consolidation North. These con-' j
tending but corresponding forces react upon
each other and can only co-exist in a state of
perpetual strife. ' The scheme of sectional
nationality must be abandoned. It was con
ceived in folly and has matured in blood and
desolation. It must be abandoned in the in
terest of future liberty. It must be abandon
ed now, as the indispensable preliminary to
peace. The abandonment of this sectional
heresy and the resumption by the States of
the South of their rights as sovereign Ameii
can States, will lead to peace just as the con
solidation of those States into distinct and
threatening sectional nationality led to war.
A recurrence to the historical facts of this
revolution will show how completely the sec
tional d.isunionists of the South have blinded
the people to the real issues involved and the
actual cause of the war. It is said:
That the United States government is wag
ing war upon Sovereign States.
Is this so ?
Gulf States, by their deliberate State
action withdrew from the constitutional com
pact pt 1789. The Senators of these States
and their Representatives at Washington, in
ooe uence to the instructions of- their respec
‘ive State-, peacefully left the capital and re
turned to their homes. The United States
Government did not invade one es the with
drawing States, nor did it molest the retiring
Senators and Representatives. There can be
no greater evidence of the actual liberty and
equality of the States under the Constitution
than was thus exhibited. There is no parallel
to it in all history. The representatives of
the withdrawing States met at Montgomery.—
The United States Government looked on with
parental solicitude, but not a hand was raised
against these sovereign American States. The
Government property was appropriated and
occupied, and still the States proceeded in their
course unmolested. And I hesitate not to de
clare, that if even in that stage of movement
the glorious and patriotic example of Virgin
ia and Kentucky in 1798-99 had been followed,
there would have been no war. What effect
did this forbearance have upon these predeter
mined disunionists ? Inst ad of the appeal
for constitutional reforms, enforced in the last
resort by the impressive exercise of State au
thority, the leaders of sectional disunion de
termined upon the formation of a separate .and
distinct nation, and State action was the
means employed. This nation was formed on
the 4th of February, and aspired to the con
trol at the capital at Washington. On the
4th of March, thereafter Mr. Lincoln was in
augurated as President of the United States.
He found the new nation in full vigor, and
a ready entering upon foreign alliance for the
overthrow of American power on this conti
nent It was a question of States. It was a
questson of nation against nation. The war
I from that day to this, has been a war between
contending nationalities.
I In my communication with the Government
‘ at Washingfcqn, as well as with leading men of
i all shades of political opinion at the North, I
have heard but one sentiment : “ Let the
States of the South abandon their present at
-1 titude of sectionalized nationality, and resume
! their position as sovereign American States,
and the war shall cease, and immediate nego
tiations for the restoration of peace begin ;
but the United States Government will never
consent, under any circumstances, to the over
throw of American nationality.” You may
rely upon it there will be no change of ad
ministration, or of purpose or policy by the
I American people, so long as a rival nation
! aspires to the possession of one inch of what
j was originally a part of the United States.
' The question is now with Georgia, whether
I tbi3 war shall cease and the land be blessed
; with a speedy and honorable peace, or whether
j more blood, more misery and more ruin, is to
i be added to the horrors of the past four years,
| ending at last as the wisest statesmen of the
South predicted sectional disunion would end.
Much is said of §eorgia’s abandoning her sis
ter States. It is quite competent for the oth
er States to follow her example. The Georgia
proposition embodies the extreme demands
of one side. The advocates of complete con
solidation and unlimited power in the central
government, represent the extreme demands
of the other side. In all negotiations conces
sions must be made if a peaceful and mutual
ly satisfactory adjustment is to be accom
plished. Looking at this great problem, there
fore, in the light of experience and in the in
terest of the common good, we must find a
common ground on which both sides can
stand with safety and honor. What is the
common ground between these extreme pre
tentions ? We find it in the experience and
wisdom of our fathers. The Constitution pre
sents the only basis of settlement. Conceived
in a wisdom almost supernatural, the bond of
Union for eighty-four years, we have all learn
ed at last to value its priceless blessings. The
disunionist per se —the man who really re
joiced in the overthrow of American Govern
ment—can have no part in the readjustment.
I do not address myself to such. But the
great mass of the American people, North and
South, desire a restoration of peace under a
Constitution in which, as I have shown, the
States were of fact free and equal, and under
which we ali enjoyed a measure of personal
freedom before unknown.
It only remains for me to assure you. that
in this matter I have simply sought to give
you as the executive of the# great State of
Georgia, an opportunity of interposing your
power between the folly and ambition of the
Richmond leaders and a further and useless
and wicked destruction of life. The respon
sibility of final action is with yourself. I
have done my duty. I know that in every
home in Georgia, the prayers of the people
will ascend to Heaven that He who rules all
things, may enable you to cast aside all prej
udices all sectional resentment and personal
ambition, and give peace to our bleeding
country.
I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully,
C. G. Baylor,
Commissioner ot the State of Georgia.
Northern Extracts.
WHO IS TO BLAME FOR NON-EXCHANGE.
The cartel as agreed upon was first broken
by the Federal authorities, they insisting upon
a course of action which was a direct violation
of that instrument. After resisting for over a
year, the Confederate government agreed to
resume the exchange upon the plan insisted
upon by the Federal authorilies. To two dif
ferent letters expressing a willingness to ac
cede to the terras insisted upon hy our Gov
ernment the Confederate Commissioners have
received no reply.
This is a plain, truthful statement of the
facts connected with the exchange difficulty,
and, in view of it, w v e ask whether the Lincoln
j or the Davis despotism is to blame for the te-
I suit. For every man that suffered in a soutn
| ern prison since July, 1863, tiie Federal gov
j eminent is directly responsible. For every
! man who has remained an hour over ten days
—forevery soldier who, after the tenth day of
his capture, died in a Southern prison, the
Washington authorities are accountable
Let us hear no more about Southern inhu
manity so long as we alone are to blame for
the existence of this.state of affairs. Let the
odium of all this be placed where it belongs,
j and that is upon the head of the Washington
I Government, whose duplicity and want of
faith have alone been the reason why a stop
page has been put to the exchange of prison
ers.—Chicago Times.
TIIE PROSPECT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
We find considerable reaction against Mr.
Lincoln since the vote by which he was elec
ted in 1860. The total majority for Lincoln
in 1860, in the three Central States which
have recently held elections, was 78,340. The
total republican majority, in the same States
at the recent election, is 40.500 ; republican
lob3, 31,840. In this tesulr we have a reac
tion of about forty thousand against Mr. Lins
coin and loss of popularity since bis election.
This change may prove large enough in some
localities to affect the vote of the Electoral
College this year, but it does not reveal in the
detailed result sufficient reaction in itself to
defeat Old Abe.
What may be accomplished by the Democ
racy in November, with the above result in
October to work upon, remains yet to be seen,
j * * * * * * The imbe
-1 cility of Old Abe, his mismanagement of the
| war, and total incompetency exhibited at al
: most every stage of the present struggle with
' the rebellion, has allienatedmany whose sym
pathies are with the republican party, who
may or may not vote for Mr. Lincoln accor
ding to circumstances yet to be developed
* * * We therefore consider the re-
sult of the election on the Bth of November a3
quite doubtful. It may prove that the soldiers
hold the balance of power as in the recent
election of Pennsylvania. The chances on
the surface favor the re-election of Lincoln;
but we are living in revolutionary times, and
it is impossible to tell what upheaviugs may
take place in two weeks. — A’. V. H raid.
Capture of Plymouth. N. C.
Goldsboro’, N. C.—A special despatch to the
State Journal, from near Plymouth, the 31s t, via
Rocky Mount the Ist states that alter three days’
hard 'fighting the enemy passed up Middle river
and came down tire Roanoke thts morning'. Gen.
Baker commanded the garrison o: P ymouth in per
son and fought until the enemy’s gunboats ha a
passed one fort, and dismounted all our guns in the
other. The evacuation was then ordered under
severe shelling, which was effected without much
! loss. Colonel Whitford acted with, conspicuous
gallantry.
The Aflair at Eastpori—True State of the
Case, Etc.
To the Editor of the Missouri Democrat.
Headers 113th Illinois Infantry, John
sonville, Tenn., Oet. 18, 1864. —In your issues
of the 15th instant, your special dispatches
from Paducah give an account of the affair at
Eastport, which is a long way from the truth
in a number of particulars. The truth is bad
enough but it is spread on a little too thick.
We moved up the river on the 10th, on the
transports City of Pekin, Aurora and Kenton,
convoyed by the gunboats Key West and Un
dine. When we had nearly reached Eastport,
we were halted by a detachment of cavalry
on the east bank of the river, who told us that
there was no enemy at Eastport at all. But
there was a squad of twenty men a few miles
out, guarding a bridge. They claimed to be
long to the 3d Tennessee Union cavalry, and
asserted that their information was positive
V e proceeded up to the landing and com
menced to disembark, relying upon our infor
mation. After the infantry had lauded, two
of Col. Hay's staff rode out a few rods to try
their horses, and immediately discovered the
enemy’s pickets, who fired several shots at
them, which they returned from revolvers.
The infantry immediately formed—first, the
113th, then the 120th Illinois; in their rear, the
6th IT. S. colored.
We had ony firmed the lines when the rebs
opened a terrific .ire from a masked battery of
four guns, not more than a hundred yards dis
tant. The 113th and 12oth advanced a few
yards to the cover of a piece of timber, while
the 61st inarched by the right flank and
foamed on the bank of the river, directly in
range of the hottest fire I ever saw. In a
moment or two bey moved further to the right
into a less exposed position. Your corres
pondent says that “the white troops broke and
fled in confusion, while the colored regiment
held its ground, which is not true. The men
stood firm without flinching until an order was
given to retreat to the boats, which was done
rather hastily, white and black making the
best time possible. The boats immediately
cut loose and backed out, by which several
men were knocked overboard, and some five
or six were drowned in consequence.
YY hile at the landing, all three of the boats were
struck hy shells. After backing out, the Aurora
and Kenton were both struck several times, and a
caisson exploded on each, disabling them, and
killing and wounding several, including the cap
tain of the Aurora. They soon drifted out of
range, and the gunboats took good care to keep
behind them all the time, throwing shells at ran
dom, which did as much harm to us as to the ene
my» if not more, f was one of the very last to
leave the landing and retreat down the river, and
I considered mys*if in more danger from their
shells than from those of the enemy.
Your correspondent says that “Colonel Partie
moved his command along the road,” etc. Who
is Colonel Partie? The onlj' person of that name
with us is the pilot of the Aurora, and I am quite
sure that he did not take command of any of the
regiments, but stood bravely to his post in the
pilot house, amid a storm of iron that would make
the bravest turn pale, saving the boat by his
courage and daring. The Aurora was set on fire,
but it was extinguished in five minutes, doing but
'ittle damage. •
Me fired but one gun from the shore, as the
ammunition was not landed in time to serve the
guns. lam at loss to know when the gunboats si
lenced the enemy's batteries, as it did not stop
firing until we were entirely out of ; then
they limbered up and moved to another position
nearer. We were obliged to abandon our artiffery,
because the horses were not off the boat, and the
country was such that we could not gert it off by
hand. Our loss was as follows :
113th Illinois—Two officers, Captain 11. W.
Hoyt and Lieutenant A. Fletcher, twelve men
missing, five wounded and brought off the field.
120th Illinois—Oue officer, seven men missing,
and one officer slightly wounded.
61st l .S. Colored—Nineteen killed, two mis
sing. and one officer and six men wounded and
brought off the field. The colors and eight
meu of the 61st were swept into the river by one
sholl. •
Lee and (irant’s Chirography.
“P. W A. has been examining document
written by Gen. Lee and Gen. Grant, and
writes of them to the Republican as follows :
The correspondence between Gen. Lee and
Gen. Grant is now before me. and I have been
much struck by the handwriting of these two
ablest generals the war has brought forward
on either side. Gen. Lee's handwriting is
bold and rather stiff, his letters being large,
round and very distinct. He bears heavily
upon the pen—probably a goose-squill—and
abbreviates many words, as if writing were a
labor to him. The following is an exact trans
cript of the first sentence in his letter to Gen.
Grant : Gen'i—
I have rec’d your letter of the 18th inst., ac
com’g copies of letters from Judge Child com
m’r of Exchange of Pris’rs on the part of the
Confederate States. & the Honb’le E. M. Stan
ton Sec’y of War and Lt. Col Mulford Asst.
Oornm’r of Exc. of the U. States.”
He doe3 not, as you perceive, punctuate
closely, and no where in his letter does he
write out the word and, but invariably uses
the abbreviation, &. And yet he pauses long
enough to dot all ofjhis i sland cross his t’s. All
his letters are drawn nearly straight up and
down the paper, in other words, they are like
himself, round, full, bold and upright, inclin
ing neither right nor ;ieft, and standing firmly
o n'their base as if they disdained all assistance.
T hey are so clear and precise, so round and
weighty, and distinct, that each letter reminds
one of a solid cannon ball, and each word of
a cluster of grapeshot.
Gen. Grant's handwriting, on the contrary,
though not so bold and distinct, nor the let
ters so large and round and erect, is, never
theless, very legible and very striking. It is
full of energy and action, and his letters all
incline to the right, and follow one after an
other with a little space between them, as if
they represented an equal number of his brig
ades on a rapid march around Lee’s right.—
Among cbirographers his hand would be
called a running hand. The words occupy
much space from left to and still they
are very clear and legible. He pays more at
tention to punctuation than Gen. Lee, abbre
viates less, and is equally careful of his i’s
and ta. It may be the work of imagination,
yet in reading his letter I cannot but picture
the writer as a restless, nervous, energetic
man, full of fire and action, always in motion
and always in a hurry.
- The handwriting of both these great meni3
what would be denominated as experienced
and Neither of them write
well, and be selected to take
charge of a country school, if their selection
depended upon their chirography. Thus we
-have two more witnesses, in two men who oc
cupy more of this world's attention at thi3
time than any other two living, that “great
men write poor hands.”
Horrible Affair .in* North Carolina.—
Our community was shocked on last Tuesday
morning to learn that the wife of Col. Joseph
Y. Bryson, of Henderson county, had been
brutally murdered, and his two daughters se
verely wounded, on Monday night. " The cir
cumstances as we learn them, were substan
tially as follow’s . At an early hour on Mon
day evening eight men called at Col. Bryson’s
gate and asked for him. He happened to be
asleep, and his wife and daughters and a ne
gro man popped out on the porch, when the
men at the gate fired on them, killiag Mrs.
Bryson instantly, and inflicting painful and
dangerous wounds upon the young ladies.
Who the men were, or their motives for
such an act. we suppose is not certainly
known. But the fact that Col. Bryson is an
active Southern man, will, it is presumed, give
a key to the motive for this dark and atroci
ous deed. Mrs. Bryson was a lady highly
esteemed by those who knew her, ’ and her
sad fate, as well as the suffering condition of
her daughters, will excite the liveliest emo
tions of sympathy. Swift and terrible ven
geance will probably overtake the murderers.
[Ashville News.
Yankee Morals. —A young woman in
Jackson. Mich., has been carrying on the re
cruiting business m an original and highly
peculiar manner. Marries a man on condi
tion that he will enlist and give her his boun
ty. She being strikingly handsome, the poor
dupe consents. After he is gone she marries
another. I our men has she thus wedded and
sent to the army. On the fifth occasion she
wa3 detected.
TELEGRAPHIC.
REPORTS OP THE PRESS ASSOCIATION.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year
1363, by J. S. Thrasher, in the Clerk's office of
the District Court of the Confederate States for
the Northern District of Georgia.
i —: —■—
Another Victory by Forrest,
Opposite Johnsonvhe, Tenn., Nov. stb, via
Corinth, Nov. 7th.
Major General Forrest yesterday achieved
another great victory. He placed a battery
above‘Johnsonville; moved up artillery from
below : caught at Johnsonville three gun boats,
ten transports and about twenty barges;
planted his batteries at right ; opened
yesterday with 8 pieces, and after an engage
ment of 10 minutes the gunboats were set on
fire and consumed. The batteries then orien
ed on the transports and barges, ail of which
were set on fire and destroyed. The engage
ment was terrible. The enemy opened with
80 howitzers from fort and gunboats. Not a.
man laltered under the storm of shell. Our
canoneers had rammers shot in two and their
clothes and boots shot off.
Since last Sunday Gen. Forrest has cap
tured and destroyed 14 transports, 4 gunboats,
| 20 barges, 32 pieces of artillery, over 20,000
! ions of freight and over three millions of dol
lars’ worth of stores.
Our loss only 10 meu wounded.
-Johnsonville is still burning. The immense
amount of freight on shore, covering several
acres, will all be consumed, as it is now
burning and the enemy cannot extinguish, as
our batteries command the banks.
Synopsis of the President’s Message,
Richmond. November 7th.—Congress met
to-day, pursuant to adjournment.
The message of the President was received
i and read. It begins with a review of military
operations since the adjournment of Congress
in June, and recognizes the protection of
Providence in enabling us successfully to
withstand the utmost efforts for our subjuga
tion. We have recovered Texas from the ene
my, and Arkansas, with the exception of a few
fortified posts, and nearly the whole of North
ern and Western Mississippi, Northern Ala
bama and Western Tennessee, are.again in
our possession. All attempts to penetrate
the country from the coast have been baffled.
In Southwestern Y'irginia successive armies
have been routed. A portion of Eastern Ten
nessee has been reconquered by our troops.
The main Yankee army, after serious defeats
and the constant repulse of its repeated as
saults, is still engaged in the effort to capture
Petersburg. The army of Gen. Sherman has
succeeded in obtaining possesion of Atlanta,
but is unable to secure any ultimate advan
tage from this success. Had we been com
pelled to evacuate Richmond, as well as At
lanta, the Confederacy -would have remained
as defiant as ever. No military success of the
enemy can accomplish the destruction of the
Confederacy, nor sg.ve the enemy from’ the
coifttant drain of blood and treasure which
must continue until he shall discover no peace
attainable unless based on the recognition of
our undeniable rights.
No change in the conduct ot foreign powers
can be announced. The recognition of our
independence is withheld on the assumption
that recognition, would be valueless without
intervention. We wish no intervention. We
know ourselves fully competent to maintain
our rights and independence. Peace is im
possible without independence, and not to be
expected. The enemy will anticipate neutrals
in the recognition of that independence.
The total amount of the public' debt on the
• Ist of October was $1,120,000,000. No addi
tional appropriations are wanted for meeting
the needs of the public service up to the Ist of
July, as unexpended appropriations exceed es
timates for that time. The Secretary of the
Treasury recommends that the faith of the
Government be pledged that its notes shall
ever remain exempt frem taxation ; that no
issue be made beyond that already author
ized, and that a portion of the receipts of tax
ation and tax in kind be pledged to the grad
ual redemption of the entire circulation.
Referring to the report of the Secretary of
War, the President says the exemption from
military duty of persons in certain specified
pursuits, and professions, is unwise, and not
dispensable in theory. Discretion should be
vested in the military' authorities so that a
sufficient number of those essential to public
service might be detailed, to continue the ex
ercise of their pursuits or professions, but
exemption from service of entire classes should
be wholly abandoned.
Various recommendations of the Secretary
of War are referred to and approved ; among
which is the reorganization and consolidation
of reduced regiments.
In regard to prisoners of war, the President
says each Government will hereafter be allow
ed to provide necessary comforts to its citizens
held captive by the other.
The subject of employing negroes in the
army is discussed at some length. The Pres
ident dissencs from those who advise a general
levy arming slaves for the duty of soldiers,
but recommends the employment of 40,000, to
be employed as pioneer and engineer laborers,
in addition to duties heretofore performed.
He favors the acquisition for the public ser
vice and the right of property in labor in
slaves, the Government engaging to liberate
the negro on his discharge after service faith
fully rendered.
The President closes by reiterating the will
ingness of this Government to negotiate for
peace. Peace is manifestly impossible unless
desired by both parties to this war, a disposi
tion for it among our enemies will behest,
and most certainly evoked by a demonstration
on our part of ability and unshaken determi
nation to defend our rights, and let us then
resolutely continue to devote our united, and
unimpaired energies to the defence of our
homes, our lives and our liberties. Thi3 is the
path to peace—iet us tread it with confidence
in the assured result.
Female Soldiers. —Mary and Moliie Bell, alias
Tom Parker and Bob Morgan, were brought to
this city, via Central cars, last night, dressed in
soldiers’ garbs. Moliie was interesting and
sprightly, and looked every inch a snug little sol
dier boy; her cousin, was rather reserved
and gloomy, and did not make such a favorable
impression as the other. They are from South
western Virginia, have been in the service two
years, and it is said that during that time they
have followed Gen. Early through all his battles,
killing more than a dozen Yankees with their own
guns. Capt. Dosweli, Assistant Provost Marshal,
committed them to Castle Thunder till such time
as other provisions can be made for their welfare.
—Richmond Whig.
The Atlantic Monthly is trying to prove that
the negro is better fitted for liberty than the white
Irishman. That’s the New England idea,
THE CITY
T. J. JACKSON.! LOCAL EDITOR
Auction Sales To-Day. —See advertisements
of Ellis, Livingston & Cos., who will sell this day
valuable real estate, negroes, stock, groceries, &c.
A fine opportunity wi" be afforded capitalists'to
invest.
The same firm propose to se 1 ' on Tnursdav
next, a lot of the most desirable furniture and
housekeeping goods ever offered in this market.
Those wishing to invest in good articles will be
enabled to do so on that day. See advertisement,
and remember the sale.
“Waking Up” Thieves and Desperadoes.—
Considerable activity has prevailed hero dicing
the last day or two among the civ” and military 1
authorities, in ferreting out the set of thieves
and desperadoes who .have been depredating on
this community in a small way for some weeks
past.. We learn that soma forr or five arrests
were made on Sunday, and several yesterday,
and that the prospect is good for putting a stop to
these grievances. ' We are glad to see the authori
ties here waking up in this important matter. If
things are permitted to go on as they have been
going on for some time there w : ’i be no safety to
life or property in this section. It i3 bad epough
truly to be harassed with the evils of the terrible
war now on hand, and if our people have to sub
| mit to the additional spirit of lawlessness and rap
; iue, that seems to be manifesting itself in various
parts of the State, orr country will soon become
a pandemonium from which even death will be a
lucky release. Let our people civ”, and m ;l; tary
arouse to a sense of their danger, and unite as one
man to ciush out the grovUug evils among us
A Business Transaction. —We understand a
gentleman from the up country brought some cot
ton to this market a few days since, sold it to a
broker for a sum something more than a thousand
dollars, but the broker instead of giving the owner
the sum required, unwittingly paid him five thous.-
and. The lucky recipient went off home, and
while, doubtless, chuckling over his good fortune,
was next day overhauled by the broker’s agent,
who demanded a refund of the $4,000 overpaid.—
The owner of the cotton went before a magistrate,
and swore that he had received only the right
money, upon which showing the broker’s agent
returned to this city minus said $4,000.* But con
science so upbraided the guilty man, that, on the
next day he came to the city, acknowledged his
sin, paid back the surplus move? and all expenses
of the transaction. This is the first transaction
that we have heard of since the beginning of the
war in which conscience was permitted to play a
part, and is therefore, we think, worthy of record.
If all men who have illegitimately filled their
purses during the last three or four years, were
actuated by a similar spirit of restitution, there
would be an upheaving on this continent that
would astonish the natives, and place us in the
eyes of heaven, in a much better condition to
hope for success.
[For the Columbus Times.]
“You will Never Win the Fight.
BY JNO. BLACK.
You will never win the fight,
Never, never,
You may. bring your giant might,
Fearful horrors to our sight,—
But our cause shall live in light,
Ever, ever.
You may lay our cities low,
In your power,—
But our souls will scorn the blow,
All the pain and all the woe,
From a most detested foe, —
W e’ll not cower.
We have crossed the fiery sea,
Tinged with blood, —
We have sworn we would be free,
That we’il never bend the knee,
From our oaths we cannot flee,
We’ll bide the flood.
Bring your hosts of armed knaves,
Ever, ever,
We will give them bloody graves,
On the laud or on the waves,
For we never will be slaves
Never, never.
Soon, soon your fate you’ll know,
And sad bemoam,
But your heritage of woe
Will deeper, wider grow,
And the blood you caused to flow,
You’ll then atone.
Eufaula, 1564.
The Richmond Examiner accounts for the bul
letin victories of the enemy by the theory that
“these victories are needed, not so much for the
actual campaign as for the Presidential one ; not
so much to conquer the rebels as to defeat the
Democrats.” To this end, too, Lincoln has order
ed a day of thanksgiving. “It may seem incredi
ble and extravagant to say so,” says the Examin
er, “but the Yankee nation, if it believes in a God
at all, holds that the only use of him is to help in
the Presidential canvass and winning the eiectien.
Prayer and praise are used only as a part of the
grand chorus of Union victory and abolition tri
umph. They employ the Holy Name as a big
drum; play upou it as on a bass fiddle; blow it
like a trombone.”
Political Signs.
Signs are not wanting to give us the hope that the
people of the United States are grudually, but sure
ly, drifting into a civil war. Secret political socie
ties -flourish in all the States, and discovery and
punishment but increase their number.’
A late Cincinnati paper, before us‘ ; contains re
ports of the arre3t, and subsequent escape, of one
Harrison H. Dodd, “Grand Commander” of the
“Sons of Liberty.” The .said Dodd was on trial
under the charge of treason when he made his es
cape. The following address explains itself:
To the People of Indiana:
The exposure of the Sons of Liberty has been
made, Every word is true. Harrison H. Dodd,
Grand Commander for Indiana, has been on trial.
The proof was overwhelming. Dodd was released
from military prison on his parole of honor not to
attempt to escape, and was granted quarters in the
United States Court building. Last night he es
caped from the third-story window by a rope; only
one man was with him; that man was J oseph J,
Bingham. Innocent men do not do so. The act
confesses guilt. Citizens—every day shows that
you were on the threshold of revolution. You can
rebuke this treason. The traitors intended to bring
war to your homes. Meet them at the ballot box,
while Grant and Sherman meet them in the field,—
This is no time to stand back. He who doubts
whether he is for the war, cannot be trusted- The
exposure made will stand upon unimpeachable tes
timony. I know there are unbelievers and skep
tics, but I know that the Sons of Liberty meant i
treason. Not one-fourth of the testimony had
been offered when Dodd fled. Citizens—brand every
man who is party to it, or will not put Ims foot upon :
it, I have been fair to all parties. I have sent
drafted men home to vote, irrespective of party.—
The Government favors a fair ballot, and assertions
to the contrary are false. The war draws to an end.
You must whip the rebellion, or be whipped by it—
choose ve. I am no politician. I know from two
- years labor, what the secret order plots. I am
pledged to pro’le all I have asserted of their plans
and purposes. Believe me or not, I say to all men,
of ail parties, that ;he election in Indiana has be
come a matter of national interest. Defeat trea
son at home, and our armies will rejoice, the rebel
lion will ivither, and you shall have a Union restor
ed. witff perpetual peace. But let the Sons of
Liberty triumph, -and you have no assurances of
victory in front, orsecuritv at home.
You may say that I go oeyond the province of a
soldier. Ido net. Traitors are traitors, wherever j
found, and my profession brings me down upon trai- I
tor s whoever approve s or objects. »> itn you is the
duty aiuLthe CARRINGTON,
Brig. Gen. I. S. \ .
Tribute of Respect,
In the Trenches front of Petersburg, Va.,
October 29th, 13-31.
A. a meeting of the Officers of the 60th Alabama
Regiment, called to pay a Tribute to the memory of
Lieut. JOS. E. BUTT, Company D, 60th Alabama
Regiment, who died at Richmond, Va., on the 9th
September, Is£4, from the effects of a wound receiv
ed while serving in these trenches.
Col. John W. A. Sanford was called to the Ch i
and Lieut, G. Osborn appointed Secretary.
Lieut. Col, D. S. Troy, Major Hatch Cook, Cap .
R. B. Lockhart, and Capt. D. A. Clark, being ap
pointed a committee to present resolutions expres
sive of the sense of the meeting, reported the fol
lowing, which were unanimously adopted.
Resolved, That in the death of Lieut. .Jos. E
Butt, we have lost a companion whom we loved, a
brother officer who for years and months has shared
with us hardships and dangers, joys and sorrows •
and our country has lost a sfldler ever fearless in
battle and faithful in the discharge of every dutv
* Resolved, That we have rarely known any one it
► whom the gallant and efficient officer and Christian
gentleman were se thoroughly combiued as in Lieut.
Butt, or one in wh m the vices incident: to military
life made or slight an impression.
Resolved, That we moui n his loss and tender our
sympathies to those who were drawn to him bv th
good qualities which attracted us, and by the s:ro: ■
ger ties of blood.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meet in,
be published in the papers of Columbus. Ga., and
Montgomery, Ala,
Several members of the meeting expressed their
high appreciation of Lieut. Butt, as a soldier an 1
man, their sorrow at his untimely end.
The meeting then adjourned.
Lieut. GEO. C. OSBORN, see
■US’Enquirer and Sun please copy.
fedy If Dr. McFARLIN, of New
Orleans, La., will address P. W. A. Y., Macon, Ga.,
he will learn much to his interest. Any friend
knowing the whereabouts of said Dr. McFarlir
will please address the Box 192, Macon, Ga.
. nov S It* P. W. A. V.
Colton Notice.
! iLL Storage not paid in Ten Days, the Cotton
i TV. will be sold to pay it.
j nov S lOt CODY & COLBERT.
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AUCTION SALES
By Ellis, Livingston «Jk Cos
ON Tuesday, Bth November at o’clock ,wo
will sell in front of our store
29 Likely Plantation NEGROES.
nov 8 It $2
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos
GOOD. FARM AT AUCTION.
ON Tuesday, 16th November, at 11 o’clock we will
sell in front of our store —
-A_ IF 1 _A_ JE& jVC
About 6 miles from the City, and a half
mile north of the Old Express Road, containing 12c
acres land —being the eastern portion of lot No. 43
in the 9th District. Sixty acres of which is cleared—
iormerly owned by Aaron Lamb, and adjoining the
plantation formerly owned by M. J. Crawford, Esq
On the place is a good Double Log House, out
houses, fine Orchard and Vineyard, Good Water.
nov 7 8t S4O
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos,,
-—* —— • 1
LARGE SALE OF
Fine Furniture !
Crockery, Glass-Ware aud House
FURNISHING GOODS !
\VE will sell on Thursday, 10th November, at
• * 11 o’clock, in front of our store, for and or. ac
count of a Refugee-
Mahogany* Wardrobes, Bureaus, Cane
Seat aud Cottage Chairs, Rockers aud
Arm Chairs, Sofas and Lounges. Hat-
Racks', Fine Mahogany Book Case,
Marble-top Centre Tables, Card Tables,
Music Stand, Wire Safe. Cooking Stove,
Mahogany and Cottage Bedsteads,
Grover and Baker Sewing Machine,
Wash Stands, Feather Bed and Mat
tresses. Carpets, Bathing Tubs. Large
Mirrors and Fine Paintings.
LARGE LOT FINE
Crockery and Gila**-Ware!
TIN WARE. COOKING UTENSELS,
ac., Ac., Ac.
In short every article wanted m House
keeping. All first class goods, in good
order. Also—
SUGAR, TEA, COFFEE, HAMS and
SIDES.
nov 7 4t $43
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos,
AN TUESDAY, November Bth. at 11 o’clock, we
v- will sell in front of our store,
109 Gallons Catawba Brandy,
1 Bbl. Fine Ruin
nov 7 2t $6
By Ellis, Livingston & ( o,
♦ — ?
will sell on TUESDAY, Bth November, at
i» 1034 0 clock, in front of our Auction Room
1 Likely NEGRO BOY, 21 years old ;
1 line Gold Hunting Case Watch
nov 7 2t $o
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
ffIMBMMBU'M
-A.T -A.TTOTIOIN"!
AN TUESDAY, Bth of November, at 10 >e
l / we will sell in front of our Auction Room,
The Valuable Store, No, 127,
Broad Street, Three Doors below Hill & Dawson’'
old cori er. The Lot is 22 feet front and 147 feet 10
inches deep—Store 114 feet deep—with privilege o
the Alley
—ALSO —
The following very desirable Stocks;
133 Shares Florida Home Insurance Go.,
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 importing
Company Stock of Georgia, Lamar, P”? 5:.,
SI,OOO per Share paid in.
52 Shares “Great Southern Insurance
Company,” S2O per Share paid in.
5 Shares Bank of Columbus Stock.
SIOO per Share paid in.
oc 28 lOt $l3O
By Ellis, Livingston «&: C o
A PRIVATE SALE.
1,500 Acres unimproved Land ■/_
SpriDg Creek, Miller county, formerly
Early, will be sold at a bargain,
oc 21 171 SSO _____
To Bent.
i <\r ALL HOUSE. Also, one half of a h
A Summerville. Apply at THIS OFFICE
FOR SALE.—I set China - ups an i Saucer-.
Straw Cutter: 1 Bathing Tub; 1 Curb-bit Br
and superior Halter. Apply to _
nov7 2t* . HULL cc Pi ua.
BOMLasT BOSSLSSi,
WANTED Bottles and Vials of all description?.
" for *w* '“■‘SSnfoSd a- CO..
nov7 St No. 73 Broad sc: set.