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SPECIAL NOTICES
The Medical Exaiuiuiug Board,
For the Third Congressional District, will be at
Hamilton Harris county Nov 11 kl 2
Cusscta Chattahoochee c0....N0y ,14 kl 5
Lumpkin Stewart county Nov 16 &17
Preston Webster county Nov 18 &19
Ellaville ....Schley county.... Nov 21 &22
Butina Vista Marion county --Nov 23 k 24
Columbus Muscogee county,) t,on
November }
Talbolton Talbot county Nov. 30 & Dec. 1
Butler Tayjor county Dec 2 & 3
Oglethorpe Macon county Dee 5 & 6
Americus Sumter county Dec 7 «fc 8
Georgetown Quitman county Dec 9k 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 the ages of 17 and 50 to appear at t ie
above mentioned places, for examination, at the
time herein specified, and have room pre
pared for that purpose.
ROBT. W. PARK,
Surgeon, P. A. C. S.
W.T. ABRAHAMS,
Surgeon. P. A. C. S.
P B. MINOR,
Surgeon, P. A. C. S.,
oc 29 2w’s
Notice.
Parties desiring to send Letters or Packages to
their friends in Pemberton's Cavalry can do so by
leaving them at J. ENNIS k CO’S Store before
the Bth instant, Cooked provisions wilEnot be re
ceived. H. A. CHAPMAN.
no 2 6t .
Government Sheep for Exchange.
MiIEAD SHEEP will be exchanged for Bacon
or Beef. The Sheep rated at $2 00, Bacon
10c., Beef 2c. gross per pound. The Beef to be de
livered alive. Apply to j. a. TYLER.
Columbus, Nov. 2,1861 —ts
Deserted.
Headquarters Government Works (Orj>.)
Columbus, Ga., Oct. 31, 1864.
JAMES PATILLO, a detailed conscript employ
ed at this Arsenal, having absented himself from
work without authority, is horeby published as a
deserter.
Said Patillo is 27 years old, 5 feet 8 inches high,
has dark complexion, gray eyes and dark hair.
M. H. WRIGHT.
nov 1 Gt Colonel Commanding.
OFFICE SOUTHERN EXPRESS.
Columbus, Ga., Oct., 29,1864.
NO Freight will be received at the Southern Ex
press Company’s Office after 3 x /i o’clock p. M.t o
go East on that day, nor will any be received to go
West after i]4 o’clock p M.
oe 29 ts S. H. HILL, Agent.
Notice.
GRAND and Potit Jurors summoned to appear at
the May Term, 1864, of the Scp*rior Court of
Mnscogeo county, are horeby notified to be and ap
pear at the Court House in said county, on the
Fourth Monday in November next.
Witnesses and parties interesied are also notified to
appear on that day.
By order of his Honor E. 11 Worrell, Judge of
said court.
Oct 31, 1864-td F. M. BROOKS, Clerk.
4HP* Enquirer and Sun copy until day.
Bonds of the 500,000,000 Loan.
]A >1 authorized to continue the sale of the 6 per
cent, longdate Non Taxable Bonds of this Loan
at the Government rate of One Hundred and Thir
ty-five Dollars.
The principal of the Loan being free from Taxa
tion and the Coupons reeoivahl%tor all Import and
Export duties, makes it the most desirable yet offer
ed by the Government. I therefore recommend it
to the favorable notice of the people.
W. H, YOUNG,
oc 19 lm Agent for sale of Bonds.
Wanted
110 HIRE—Four or Five able bodied Negroes.—
Good wages given. Apply at our Government
W orks.
oc 28 ts JOHN D. GRAY k CO.
$25 Dollars Reward.
OTRAYED from my placo in Wynnton, a dark
0 bay mare MULE, about nine years old, hair
rubbed off of both hips and a large scar on the right
bindquarter. JOHN COOK,
oc 13 ts
AGOODPIa ANT AT ION
For Sale.
j'N Macon county, Alabama, lying directly on the.
1 Montgomery and West Point Railroad. The
tract contains 1,290 acres—about 700 cleared. There
is acomfortable Dwelling House on the place, good
Negro cabins with brick chimnies and all the neces
sary out-buildings. The laud is productive and
location desirable. Possession given in November.
For further information apply to
DAVID ADAMS.
oc 27 lm Columbus, Ga.
k Confederate, Macon; Montgo
mery Advertiser; Constitutionalis, Augusta, copy.
Wanted to Employ
A GOVERNESS in a private family for a limited
J number of scholars, in the country, a short dist
ance from Columbu.-. Address Box 16.
oc 31 2w’s W. G. W.
To Kent,
i BLACKSMITH SHOP with six or seven Forges.
» all complcto. Apply at
oc 31 ts TIIIS^ OFFICE-
S2OO REWAED.
IX7ILL be paid for the apprehension and delivery
VI to us of our two Negro Boys, BILL and JIM,
who ran off some tiines’iice.
BILL weighs about 150, is tall and slim, black
complexion, hair very short and thin, has a down
cast, sullen look, and talks long and drawling, Left
us about the Ist of August last.
JIM is a fine looking negro, weighs about 180, 5
feet 10 or 11 inches high, black complexion, thin
visage and high cheek bones, hair short. Left us
—about the Ist of October.
Wo will pay the above reward for both, or SIOO for
either of the above described negroes, if delivered
to us or placed in somo sate jail where we can get
them. We will also pay SIOO for proof to convict
any white person o; harboring them.
BEDELL & CO.
Columbus, Ga., Oct. 13,1864. —lm
BTJBRLINA* EXCHANGE!
t FEW Hundred Pounds of Sterling Exchange
A for sale in sums to suit purchasers by
ag!6 tt BANK OF COLUMBUS.
SIOO Reward.
\WILL be paid for a negro boy named Henry, who
ranaway about two months*ago. lie is übouto
tAit-8 inches high; weighs about 160 or 170 lbs.; com
plexion yellow ; tine looking; when laughing has
dimples in both cheeks. It is probable he went to
Atlanta with some of the troops from this eitv.
oc6 ts H. M, CLECKLEY.
330 HewardL.
VTEGRO boy CHARLEY ; abtut 25years old, ycl
low complexion, hair nearly straight, below or
dinary intelligence; left Jfr. Nat, Thompson's near
Box Springs, Talbot county. I bought him of a
Mr. Brown, a refugee from Mississippi, who now
resides in Tuskegec. Ala. lie originally came front
Charleston, S. C. A suitable reward will be paid
JV his delivery at this office, or in any safe jail and
information sent to mo at this office.
JAMES M. RUSSELL.
Columbu*- G a., aug Its *
Strayed or Stolen.
S3OO REWARD!
ON SATURDAY NIGHT, Bth instant, two medi
um sized MULES, one a black the other a bay.
They were in fair order and fresh shod. A reward
of S3OO will be paid lor their delivery to me at the
Perry House. THOS. E. SMITH.
oc 19 ts
Shoe Peg's for Sale.
A BOUT 500 bushels, in quantities to suit purcha
jN sers, at reduced prices. _ T
% Applyto HARRISON, BEDELL A CO.
Columbus, Oct 2S —ts
To Kent.
A STORE on Broad street, Apply at
and. oc3l ts THIS OFFICE
Columbn.*i Iftttp,
VOL. Xl.}
Change of Schedule.
Office Engineer and Superintendent, 1
Charleston and Savannah Railroad, >
Charleston, June 7,1864.)
, jN THURSDAY, June 9,1864, and until further
■ notice, the Schedule of the Passenger train will
be as follow, viz:
Leave Charleston 9.45, a. in.
Arrive in Savannah .5.40, p. in.
Leave Savannah .5.30, a. m.
Arrive in Charleston 1.15, p. m.
This Train makes direct connections, going north
and south, with the Northeastern Railroad at < har
leston, and the Central Railroad at the function.
h. s. Haines,
June 14 ts Engineer and Superintendent.
Change of Schedule.
! \N and after Sunday, June 19th, the Trains on
'the Muscogee Railroad will run as follows:
PASSENGER TRAIN:
Leave Columbus 6 45 P. M.
Arrive at Macon 3 25 A. M.
Leave Macon 8 10 P. M.
Arrive at Columbus 4 25 A. M.
FREIGHT TRAIN:
Leave Columbus 5 00 A. M,
Arrive at Columbus 4 55 A. M.
W. L. CLARK,
mar 19 ts Supt. Muscogee R, R.
Tbrough to "Montgomery.
NEW SCHEDULE.
MONTGOMERY & WEST POINT
RAILROAD COMPANY.
COLUMBUS, August 27,1864.
i AN and after August 27th. the Passenger Train on
' J the Montgomery and West Point Railroad will
Leave Montgomery at 8:00 a. in.
Leave West Point at 7:10 a.m.
Arrive at Columbus at 5:32 p. m.
Leave Columbus at 5:50 a. m.
Arrive at Montgomery at 3:00 p. m.
Arrive at West Potnt at 4130 p. m.
Freight Train leaves Columbus at 8:40 a m.
Arrives at 8:27 p m
I). H. CRAM, Sup’t k Eng.
ag27lß64—tf
Med. Ex.im’g Board,
3d Congressional Dis.
MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
Girard, Ala., Oct 7, 1864.
, \N and after 10th inst. Trains on this Road will
' / Run Daily (Sunday excepted,) as follows:
Passenger Train.
Leave 1 Girard at 1 30 p. in.
Arrive in Union Springs 600 “
Leave Union Springs 5 '5 a^m.
Arrive in Girard at 10 0 “
Freight Train,
Leave Girard at 4 00 a. m.
Arrive in Girard at 6 00 p. in.
B. E. WELLS.
ag!B ts Eng, k Sup’t.
For Chattahoochee.
The new, first class, steamer SHAMROCK, Hez
Wingate, Master, will leave, on her first trip, for
Chattahoochee, and all intermediate landings, on
Tuesday "morning, Sth inst., at 9 o’clock.
For freight .or passage, having superior accom
modations, apply on board, or at the offico of
lIANSERD & AUSTIN,
nov 5 3t Agents.
Notice.
Headquarters Reserve Troops,
Columbus, Ga., Nov., 2,1864.
Circular.
The late members of the “DAWSON ARTIL
LERY,” are requested to meet at the Carriage Shop
of Jaques & Cos., at 4 o’clock, p. m., the sth instant,
for the purpose of organizing anew company.
This has reference only to such members as arc
not subject to duty in the field.
S. L. BISHOP,
nol 2t Major commanding Reservo Troops,
Dr. J. S. CLARK, *
DENTIST,
FORMERLY OF NEW ORLEANS,
HAS returned, and can be found at 106 Broad
street, over Dr. R, A, Ware’s Drug Store.
octlO-dlm
Dr. R, NOBLE,
IDIEIETTIST,
\ T Pemberton k Carter’s old stand, back room of
» Smith’s Jewelry Store, where he can be found
at all hours, _ Toe 186 m
Hands Wanted
AT THE
EAKLE FACTORY,
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
T7IFTY young women can find steady work and
P liberal pay at the
ocll d&wlrn EAGLE FACTORY.
WANTED!
C AAA LBS. of TALLOW, for which a liberal price
J»UUO will be paid. Applyto
F. W. DILLARD,
sp7 ts Major and Q. M.
LAUKE CONSIGNMENT
OF
LETTER PAPER!
AND
MEMO RAN DIT i?I BOOKS !
For sale by
J. K, REDD & CO.
oc 12 ts
NOTICE
To Mississippi Soldier* !
THE “MISSISSIPPI DEPOT” and Office of
l Agency for the Relief of Mississippi soldiers in
the Army of Tennessee, has been removed from
Atlanta to Columbus, Ga., and is near Barnard’s
corner, between Main st., and the Perry House.
Your baggage is there.
C. ,Iv. MARSHALL,
sep2B ts Agent.
FEE,*? HOUSE.
THE undersigned would respectfully inform his
1 old friends, patrons, und the traveling public
generally, that as he has to be absent for a short
time he has been so fortunate as to have associated
with him his well known and worthy friend Mr.
EDWARD PARSONS, late of Atlanta, Ga., whose
reputation and superior t<ct for business is well
known throughout tbe Confederacy. This House
is lsrge and commodious, and no pains, nor expense
shall be spared to fit it up in the very best and most
elegant style, and to obtain every thing in the line
of substantial eatables and luxuries that this
market affords, With these assurances we most
cordially solicit all our old friends, and the travel
ing public generally, to give us acall and an oppor
tunity of rendering them comfortable,
oelolm* THOS. E. SMITH.
Lard
WANTED in exchange for Sheetings, Osnaburgs
* and Yarns, at the „
nov 5 lui EAGLE FACTORY.
Wanted immediately.
A GOVERNESS well educaled and with unex-
A ceptionable references. A liberal salary will be
given. Enquire at
no3 12t THIS OFFICE.
Executor’s Notice.
TWO months after date application will be made
I to the Court of Ordinary of Taylor county, for
leave to sell the Negroes and perishable property of
the Estate of Elizabeth T. Johnson, deceased, late
of said county.
. SAMUEL Iv. JOHNSON, Ex’r
Oct. 20w2nff Per THOS. D. BRAND.
To Resit,
I PVr Confederate Money,
‘ NT ATIONS iu Sumter county, five
4 . . ;v.n miles from Americus.
For further particulars apply to
H. R. JOHNSON k CO.,
nov7 12t’ Americus, Ga.
COLUMBUS, GA., FRIDAY", NOV. 11, 1864.
Thursday Evening.
The Ladies are Invited. —We omitted to
state this morning in our notice of the ex
pected address of Senator Semises at Temper
ance Hall to-night, that the ladies are invited
to attend. The ladies are always invited on
such occasions, and their presence to-night
would be espec illy agreeable to the distin
guished speaker and to everybody else. Let
them have early tea. or no tea at all, and re
pair to the Hall before the appointed hour—
-6| o’clock.
, The Examiner boasts that Richmond is safer
now than it ha- been at any time since the
battle of Williamsburg. So it seems to out
siders. Even the Yankees admit that Lee’s
army is fully up to its original strength, and
Grant's ha3 been depleted vastly—some of
their journals saying to an extent that renders
recuperation to its ability six months ago an
impossibility. There is nothing disastrous
to be apprehended, on our part, fre m Virginia.
General Vaughn has issued an order that
will bring bushwhackers, outlaws and desert
ers, to their senses. He says all bushwhack
ers, outlaws and deserters, in the counties of
Carter, Johnson, Greene, Washington, etc.,
Tennessee, are notified that if any more acts
of robbing or killing are committed, the houses
and property of them and their friends, in the
vicinity of the place where the crime is com
mitted, will be burnt to the ground. He now
has undisputed possession of Upper East Ten
nessee, and will certainly do what he says.
Our Exchanged Prisoners. —We aie pleased,
says the Savannah Republican, to see the spirit
with which our people are looking after the com
fort and welfare of the brave men soon to be re
turned to our shores. The ladies have taken the
matter in hand and seem determined to devote
every spare bed and blanket in the city to the
weary limbs of those unfortunate patriots. They
are now canvassing the city, and we hear have
met with excellent success at almost every house,
Let us keep up the good work, and our country
friends should not fail to como to the rescue.
Consignees Per Mobile and Girard Railroad,
Girard, Ala., November 10,1864.
Majors Allen and Dillard—Rev J S Key—Captain
Cothran —Naval Iron Works—Gas Company—Ken
edy—L J Bruce—Mrs A M Davis—Railroad Bridge—
M J Pittman—A J Nix—Carmicheal—Vicker—R S
Crane—R L Butt—Roberts, Sharp k Co—WP Tur
ner—J D Stewart—J M Frazer—Wells <& Curtis—
Crown & C6—J S Colbert—Dillard P k Co—R W B
Munroe—J D Fondren—Woddle—S L Harris—Mrs
Chalmers—T Ewing—Mrs Pearce—W H Williams—
Greenwood k Gray—J F Winter—D L Booher—T
B Goulding—A Pond—J Autry—Capt Hazlehurst—
Curreh&Co—P Johnson—Estis k Bro—McArthy—
Mrs M' ore —Cannon Hospital.
The Front,
' Montgomery Mail Office, )
Tuesday, Nov. 9, 1864. J
Parties just from the fiont report that our
army was at Tuscumbia on Sunday week last.
Two divisions had crossed the river, when our
informant left and the rest were to follow, was
the general impression. It is reasonable to
suppose that the main force must be north of
the Tennessee by this. The country around
Tuscumbia is represented to be pretty well
divested of forage by the recent occupation of
the Federals. It is believed the supplies for
the army are brought chiefly by the Memphis
and Charleston road, via Corinth.
We have nothing later from Atlanta or fur
ther details of Forrest’s late successful opera
tions on the Tennessee.
♦ ♦ ♦—
From the Front.— We have been favored
with the following items of a private letter of
Nov. 3J, giving intelligence obtained from a
field officer just in from Beauregard’s depart
ment.
Hood’s armj is at Columbia, Tenn., with
Sherman’s force ninety-eight miles in his rear,
and greatly demoralized.
Gen. Forrest is at Paducah, Kentucky, des-.
troyiug Yankee property by the wholesale.—
While Gen. Walker of Magruder’s army, is en
route to join Hood at. Columbia or Nashville,
Tenn., Gen. Beauregard declares he will win
ter his army in Tennessee..
Corinth is our point of concentration to
which place all the hospitals have been or
dered to go immediately from Macon.
Gen ' Pr ’ce has whipped the Yankees at
Kansas City. He will be reinforced 'by Ma
gruder’s command and winter in Missouri.
[Chronicle Sentinel.
Tlie Tennessee Valley.
Reliable information from the army of Ten
nessee, is meager as to the details of its move
ments after leaving Gadsden, but there is no
doubt of its having reached the new base of
supplies provided in safety, and that the com
munications to the rear, from headquarters,
are so direct that no further deficiencies in any
department need be apprehended. A railroad
communication that cannot easily be interrup
ted, to Tuscumbia, is now under control of
Gen. Hood ,• and he is in position to advance
into Middle or West Tennessee, as he may
decide the most promising* of success. For
rest is co-operating successfully in a quarter
that will greatly distract the enemy, and ren
der any concentration against our main forces
almost an impossibility ; and taken altogether
we have every reason to anticipate the most
gratifying results from what has been and
may be accomplished. *
Os the hardships endured by our troops on
the march from Gadsden, we have several re
ports, and all concur in the statement that
they were borne with the greatest fortitude
and cheerfulness.
The rumor of the capture of Decatur was a
canard. Our latest intelligence, which may
be relied upon, is that no assault was made
upon the works of the enemy. The Federal
report states that Gen. Hood was repulsed
twice. The truth is that he was aware of the
strength of the position and its garrison, and
made no general attack ; but, while his army,
trains, etc., was passing westward, within
striking distance had the enemy been unoccu
pied, demonstrations were made upon the
picket lines of the enemy, which were twice
driven in. The casualties on either side
amounted to nothing. The amount of the
whole affair was the enemy were amused with
in their entrenchments, while our army was
safely moved by them, and “nobody hurt.”
Out of this Stanton, however, bulletined a
great victory to Dix. —Memphis Appeal , Sth.
How they' Dread Forrest.— A Yankee officer
was asked by a lady of Oxford, Miss-, why General
Grierson, with his largely superior numbers of cav
alr-. 1 1 not attack General Forrest. He said: —
“Madam, our entire force of seven thousand cavalry
would n t fight one of Forrest’s brigades unless our
infantry was there to support them. No one of our
brigades would fight one of his regiments, no regi
meut a company, and no company would charge a
pair of Forrest’s old boots if they were laying on
the road.”
Army Correspondence Sarannah Republican.
Richmond. Nov. 4th, 1864.
Our armies seem to be resting upon their
arms everywhere except on the Tennessee riv
er and in Missouri. Combats between small
bodies of men at distant and isolated points
and along the skirmish line, may take place
from day to day: but beyond these unimpor
tant conflicts, which are as often accidental as
otherwise, nothing has occurred iu this part
of the Confederacy since Grant’s disastrous
defeat ou the 27th ult.
It is expected, here that Hood's campagn will
extend through the winter, unless—which is
possible, though not probable Sherman
should sooner withdraw his troops from At
lanta. But the latter will not relax his hold
upon that important point as long as
it is possible for him to maintain it. He has
supplies at Chattanooga, at Resaca, and Alla
toona, and he will strive hard to keep open the
railroad and run these supplies down to At
lanta, from time to time, as opportunity may
occur. Even if the railway should not then
be cut by our cavalry, still these accumula
tions of supplies at well-defended points along
the route may enable him to subsist the garri
son at Atlanta as well as the garrisons in
trenched at other points from thence to Chat
tanooga, for some time to come, and' possibly
until next spring. If it took Sherman all the
summer to get possession of Atlanta, we may
well be satisfied if it takes only the YY’iater for
Hood to win it back, especially as he has no
railway in his rear by which to bring supplies
to his troops and has the most unfavorable
season in the year in which to carry on a cam
paign. It is evidently* not his policy to give
battle to Sherman, except under the most ad
vantageous circumstances; he has no ammu
nition to throw away, and but few hospital
supplies; and whether successful or unsuc
cessful, it Yvould be exceedingly difficult in
that mountainous region, amidst a poor popu
lation and far removed from his base, and still
further from his hospitals, to take care of his
wounded and sick. We must be patient, there
fore,* and not grow restless and despondent if
this bold movement of Hood'3 do not bear im
mediate fruit.
Ihe Congress which i3 to assemble here
next week, will be charged with the gravest
and most responsible duties touching the re
organization and increase of the army. It is
understood that Mr. Miles, the energetic and
enlightened Chairman of tbe Committee on
Military Affairs in the House of Representa
tives, has already addressed a letter to Gen.
Lee, soliciting his opinion as to the most ad
visable means to be adopted to increase and
re-organize the array and improve the discip
line of the troops. I understand also that
Gen. Lee's reply is about ready for delivery.
It is not known what plan he will recommend
for the better disciplining of the troops and
the re-organization of the army ; but it is not
improbable that Congress will find it necessa
ry, owing to the reduced numbers of the va
rious commands 'into which the army i3 di
vided, to consolidate not only companies and
regiments, but even brigades and divisions.—
In regard to the reinforcement of the army,
it is reported, and very generally
that Gen. Lee is in favor of enlisting a suffi}
cient number of negroes to. enable us to meet
whatever force the enemy may bring against
us next year. If the enemy do • not increase
his force, then it will not be necessary tor us
to increase odrs, by the enlistment either of
white men or black men. But if he do come
against us next spring with armies like those
with which he assailed us last spring, tben
it is believed that it will become necessary to
send every white man in the Confederacy un
der sixty years of age to the field, or enlist
one or two hundred thousand negroes, or
abandon tbe contest and bow our necks to
the yoke of our northern masters.
Already the report that our Government
would fall back upon the negro population
has had the effect, with other causes, to send
gold up at the North from twelve to fifteen
per cent, higher than it has been recently.—
It is believed too, that the abstraction from
agricultural operations of one hundred thou
sand slaves would not curtail the annual pro
duction of supplies as much as the abstrac
tion of the remaining white male population
between the ages of sixteen and sixty. There
has, however, never been any scarcity of food,
except in particular localities visited by
drought; the chief source of trouble has been
the lack of the means of transportation.
I am informed that Gens. Longstreet, Ewell
and many other distinguished officers in the
Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of
the Valley concur with Gen. Lee in the matter.
Such, too, is said to be the prevailing senti
ment among officers of lower grades, as well
as among the rank and file of these two armies.
The negroes, if conscribed, will never be
placed on an equality with white Southern
troops, and the men thus far have manifested
no objection on that score. They will be or
ganized, doubtless, in separate commands, and
placed under our best white officers; and in
this way, officers who might be displaced by
the consolidation of existing regiments and
brigades, would be retained in service.
But whatever decision the country and the
Government may come to, it behooves us to
discuss this great delicate question with per
fect freedom fromprejudice and passion. Hap
pily, such is the spirit with which it has been
treated thus far by thd press. We are all em
barked upon the same bottom, and must sink
or swim together. In this spirit, I would re
mark that, with a single exception among
leading men, the persons I have met who op
pose the measure are generally quiet men—
men who are retiring in their nature and hab
its, who stay a good deal in their closets
and have particular theories, and who have
not been much in the rush and whirl of this
Seat revolution. The men who favor it, on
e contrary, are, for the most part, men of ac
tion, who have been actively engaged in our
mighty struggle, who have rubbed against the
army and the enemy, and who have felt much
as well a3 thought much. Both classes are
equal'y candid and equally patriotic.
Your readers will be rejoiced to hear that
Major G. M. Sorrel, for three years the effi
cient Assistant Adjutant General of Long
street s division and corps, has been made a
Brigadier General for meritorious service in
the field, and appointed to the command of
Wright’j3 (Georgia) brigade. At the begin
ning of the war, Gen. Sorrel was a quiet
somewhat taciturn teller in the Central Rail
road Bank in Savannah. From that position,
and without previous military education, he
passed into the army, and there, with a single
brief furlough, he has remained ever since,
performing his ardous duties cheerfully, effi
ciently and courageously. His skillful man
agement of three brigades in the great battle
of the Wilderness alone, to say nothing of his
readiuess and gajlantry upon other bloody
fields, entitled him to the promotion now re
ceived. If life and the war last, Georgia will
find further cause to be proud of her voung
brigadier, the bosom friend of tbe gifted Willis'
and the companion in arms of Cobb, Semmes,
Doles, Girardy, Douglas and other heroes who
now sleep beneath the clod.
P. W. A.
Drstbcctive Fire in Charleston.—We
learn from a gentleman who arrived last even
ing from Charleston, that a fire broke cut in
the Confederate Arsenal, in that city, at three
o’clock yesterday morning and did great dam
/FIVE DOLLARS
1 PER MOXTH.
age before it could be subdued. The large
building containing the repairing shops, five
in number, to-wit : the tin shop, saddlery,
armory, blacksmith's and shop for tbe manu*
facture-of friction primers, were all destroyed,
with most of their contents. Tbe loss in val
uable machinery and tools was quite heavy,
aad cannot well be repaired. A large stock
of leather, small arms and cannon were all
destroyed. -
The fire originated in some lightwood in the
engine room, and was doubtless the result of
carelessness.— Savannah Republican.
From the Petersburg Express.
The Final Blow Upon Maryland.
v The Lincoln Satrap of Maryland who goes
under the name and title of “ Governor Brad
ford, ’ has issued his Proclamation, announcing
the adoption of the new anti-slavery constitu
tion by the people of that State, and declaring
that it would go into operation on the Ist day
of this month, on which day, the old one of
course, ceased to have any force. This s*>-
called Governor, who was elected by pretty
much the same kind of process that determin
ed the result of the late constitutional election
—who is a mere creature of Lincoln’s, an abo
litionist, and thoroughly indoctrinated in all
the iniquities of the "Higher Law” school—
tells the people of .Maryland, who now, all of
them, stand in the same relationship with the
Washington Usurper that their negro slaves
| did with themselves before this crowning
I outrage was perpetrated upon them—that
! “upon actually casting up the vote returned
I (to him) for and against such constitution, in
| eluding the soldiers vote aforesaid, it doth ap
! pear that there were 30,174 ballots, for the
| constitution and 29,799 against the constitu
j tion, and there being, therefore, of the aggre
-1 gate vote so cast, a majority in favor of the
! adoption of the said constitution, <fcc.”
j From this official statement it appears that
: the majority, in a total vote of 59,978, was
but 375! How this miserable, contemptible
majority, by which 80,000 black slaves were
made freemen, and upwards of half a million
! of free whites made slaves, was obtained, is
! easily explained, and the wonder is that, with
j the vile means and appliances that were resort
! ed to by the infamous managers, of whom
! Satrap Bradford was chief, it was not a hun
! dred times greater. It had been decided upon
! in Washington long before that Maryland
should be converted into what is known at
the North as a Free State. It was known very
well to Lincoln and this tool of his, that such
a conversion was of impossible accomplish
ment per fas, and it was, therefore, determined
between them that it should be effected per
nefas , which is the prevalent and favorite
method with the W ashing ton tyranny of com
passing its purposes. Accordingly the inde
pendence of the ballot was virtually extin
guished by a system of terrorism, oath taking
I and other lawless practices, by which nearly
| half the suffrage of the State was suppressed
j —honest and conscientious.citizens preferring
to remain at home on the day of the election
to being subjected to the annoyances, vexa
tions and humiliations that they knew they
would have to encounter if they attempted to
cast their votes against a constitution which,
iu their hearts, they abhorred. Out of an ag
gregate legal vote of not less than 90,000.
which could and would have been given but
for the reason above stated, we have it upon
the authority of the Satrap’s own official an
nunciation, that only 59,073 ballots were cast
upon a question calculated above all other
questions to bring out the zvhole vote of a
people—for what question can affect them, as
citizens, more powerfully than that of a change
in their organic law; and a change, too, in
the present case, of a nature the most extra
ordinary that had ever before been known in
the history of their commonwealth ? On the
day of this vote upon the constitution there
were at least 90,000 good and lawful voters in
Maryland,' one-third of •whom declined voting!
Yes, we may safely say three-fourths, for we
have not the shadow of a doubt that the vote
for the constitution, embracing that given at
home and by the soldiers, included tens of
thousands of fraudulent ones. If the veil
could be lilted, and the hidden secrets of this
foul conspiracy between Bradford and his min
ions on the one side and Lincoln on the other,
to enslave a free people, it would be found
that more than half the majority vote was
spurious—more especially that portion of it
called the army vote.
But the deed is done. What signifies charg
ing fraud, force, bribery, terrorism, or any oth
er of the iniquitous agencies which may have
been resorted to, notv upon the guilty wretches
who have thus hurled a noble commonwealth
into the dust ? Maryland is no longer the
Maryland that she was before Lincolnism in
fused itself, like a deadly poison, through her
borders. She is now but the footstool of one
of the most ruthless and vulgar despots that,
in an evil hour for his country and for the
world, was ever elevated to power.
The London Press on Lincoln’s Election. —
The Times," commenting on the state of parties in
the United State-', says “peace has some friends,
but no party which cannot be swept away by the
report of a single victory.” It adds;
On the 4th of March next, Mr. Lincoln will quit
the President’s chair to renew his oath of office and
resume his seat. Any statesman comparing what
the North has gained since March, 1800, with the
price paid for it in life and money, would be appall
ed by the results of the calculation. To the party
politicians of America they appear trifles, and the
future is regarded with exactly the same compla
cence as when they had not written the first leaf of
the tragic volume the history of the wa' has now
swelled into. For ourselves, we look on the pros
pect of four years more of such civil contest at once
horrible and wearying,
Never ending, still beginning;
Fighting still, and still destroying,
as the most melancholy and depressing the whole
world presents, and the greatest reproach to man
kind.
The London Telegraph, on the same subject,
says :
Whether the North elect Lincoln or McClellan—
and certainly, for the time being, the chances are
much in favor of the former—it i3 tolerably clear
that the new President will find in the South none
of that_ “exhaustion” which has been perpetually
prophesied and never proved. The prospects of the
Confederacy have, indeed, been often brighter, but
they have also more than once been darker than
now. Even the first part of the long Northern pro
gramme is a? yet unfulfilled, The recent successes
have been singularly barren of practical results;
the collapse that follows an excessive effort is be
ginning to be visible, andhence New York, despite
all the re-ussuring bulletins of Mr. Secretary Stan
ton, is so far from feeling confidence in the Execu
tive, that gold, which nojt long ago seemed steadily
falling, has again risen To therignificant quotation
of 199,
Fortitcde—Patriotism. —The States of Vir
ginia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mis
souri, have been the theatres of war, in ail its de
vastment of property, desolation aud untold suf
fering. And to-day, these States are more de
voted to independence, and more exalted in their
patriotism thin they were before the invader set
foot upon the soil or their people were involved in
those dire calamities brought upon them by Yan
kee ambition and fanaticism. The money stand
ard does not measure their estimate of the un
bought blessings of constitutional liberty and free
dom from the fierce intermeddling of a vulgar
tyranny, soulless, treacherous, merciless. Having
felt the Ton wheel of the oppressor, they can con
jecture the untathomed depth of ruin and degra
dation which awaits us as the sole alternative to
conquering our independence of our foes. The
example of th-*se States should put the timid eve
rywhere to shame. Conduct uuder disaster is the
criterion of character. A great country like ours,
while the unconquerable will exists, may be over
run : it cannot be conquered. Most to be appre
bended are thnae wbo prate of peac”', "pace, when
there is no peace, but through the swuru, except
tbe peace of scats.— Charleston Mercury.
[From the Richmond Enquirer.]
The Peace Sentiment at the North.
That there are men at the North utterly aad
unequivocally opposed to this war, there can
be no doubt. They belong to an intelligent
class who have looked with indignation upon
the invasion ot the Spates of the South by a
power pretending to represent them, and who
have had the prescience to feel and know that
there is no human force able to enslave a peo
ple determined to be free. They have seen the
fruitless results of every Federal victory, from
the first to this the fourth year of the war;
and now, looking upon the toils which encom
pass and render harmless for good or evil the
‘‘'conquering Sherman;’ - upon the cripled and
inoperative army of “Cavalry Sheridan," and
the beaten and baffled mass of brute-driven
troops in the trenches before Richmond and
Petersburg, they see nothing to induce them
to change their opinions upon the war.
We have before us a letter written by a
prominent merchant in New York city, which
affords a fair illustration of the sentiment o f
this unfortunately small proportion of the
Northern people. To give his name would be
but to consign him to the dungeons of Fort
Lafayette. How the Lincoln friends would
glory in the incarceration, in even the murder,
of the honest man who wrote such words ns
these:
■■ The blood-thirsty scoundrels who have
been for twenty-five years fomenting discord
and most intense feelings of hatred between
the North and South are now in power, ruling
with a rod of iron of the once
powerful United Stales, and prosecuting a
cruel, wicked and subjugating war against
eight millions of unoffending people, to whom
they refused any longer to fulfil their consti
tutional obligations. Finding the war gotten
up by themselves, to perpetuate their political
power, had grown to such vast proportions
that its cost in government issues could never
be paid in coin, they (that is, fully one-third
of the present violent war party,) have re
solved upon the diabolical plan of continuing
the war, if possible, until the whole South is
conquered thoroughly. They will then, under
the confiscation acts, sell out the whole South,
as public lauds are sold, with the proceeds of
which they propose to pay the war debt.
Southern Union men, in that event, will fare
no better, so far as their property is concerned,
than the out-and-out Secessionist.
“Lincoln*may be, and I think will be, elect
ed. But I have strong faith that the good
Providence of God will, in His own good time,
give success to a brave and noble people. * *
“Stand Firm! You are fighting for the
rights of the States— all the States, and
there are tens of thousands of sympathizing
hearts in the North beating in unison with the
hearts of their Southern brethren, who feel
that in additiou to the rights of States you are
fighting for everything that man holds dear in
this world.
“But these ‘good men and true - in the North
can so far aid you only with tlieir best wishes
and their earnest prayers to the God of Bat
tles, that he will give abundantly of His wis
dom to your civil rulers and ‘all others in au
thority'—especially to President Davis. Gen
erals Lee, Johnston, Beauregard, Hood, Long
street aad others, that they may wisely direct
the armies and means under their control in
defense of their holy cause, and that God will
vouchsafe to you complete success.
Peace, Heavenly Peace ! Oh, that God would
in mercy hasten the dawn of the blessed day,
when we can say: “The war is over.”
This letter was written early in October to
a citizen of Richmond.
Habeas Corpus Case.—A writ of Habeas
Corpus was sued out on Tuesday last by John
Flournoy before Judge W, T. Gould, on the
ground that the Relator coaid not be com
pelled to go to the front with the Wheeler
Dragoons, of which company he was a mem
ber. as that company was a local organization
and could not be compelled to go beyond the
limits of Augusta and its vicinity.
Frank H. Miller, Esq., Attorney for the mil
itary authorities, replied -that »he Wheeler
Dragoons, volunteered to go to the
front, vacated their privilege of remaining at
home, and that the Relator being a member
of that company was Oound by the notion of
the company. He also contended that the
Relator being.between the “Reserve” ages was
liable, in the event of his release from the lo
cal company, to be conscripted for service any
where in the State.
The Relator, after some consultation, with
drew his motion for discharge and the writ
was dismissed.— Constitutionalist.
The Blowing up of the Ram Albemarle.—The
following official dispatch is published relative to
the sinking of the Confederate ram Albemarle at
Plymouth, North Carolina :
Fortress Monroe, Nov, 1,1864.
Hon. Gideon Wells, Secretary of the Navy:
I sent Lieut. AY. B. Cushing, on the 17th October,
with picket launch No. 1. to blow up the ram Albe
marle. He returned to-day, and reports to me that
he blew up the Albemarle on the morning of the
28th. The destruction was complete. Picket launch
No. 1 was destroyed by the enemy’s shot and sunk.
One man escaped with Lieutenant Cushing: the
others were captured. Commander Macomb write:
that, “from circumstances which have since occur
red, T am able to inform you that the ram is sunk.”
D. D. PORTER,
Roar Admiral Commanding
North Atlantic Squaoroh.
The New York Times says :
The little vessel which has performed the deed o f
destroying this noted ram is a boat not unlike a
ship’s launch, and about the same dimensions. Six
of them have been built under the superintendence
of Chptain C. S. Boggs, U. S. Navy. Their engines,
boilers, etc,, were put in them at Schenectady, New
York, and were brought down here via canal.
They were designed at first for picket boats exclu
sively, and for the purpose of relieving the seamen
from the hurtful and unhealthy work of pulling
boats on picket in all kinds of weather. Before
they were completed, however, the idea of placing
the torpedo attachment on them was suggested an i
immediately adopted, and the wisdom of the sug
gestion is proven already.
Tribute of Respect.
Muscogee Lodge, No. 6.1. 0. 0. F.,
Columbus. Ga., Nov. 7,1864.
Again ha3 death visited our Lodge and taken from
our Order a bright and beloved brother.
Brother P, G. DANIEL ROWE, is no more.
In harmony with the providence of an All-wise
God, another link in our fraternal chain has bee:
broken, and we are again admonished by this dis
pensation, that
- “Our life’s a dream—
An empty tale — a morning flower
Cut down and withered in an hour.
The life of our deceased brother was one worthv
the truthful imitation of all. In every condition,
whether in prosperity or adversity* in every posi
tion, he sustained a beautilul consistency, and faith
fully exhibited the upright man, the useful citizen,
the pious Christian, the kind husbmd, the fond
father, the good master, and the worthy Odd Fellow.
With naturally a quiet aud reserved disposition,
and a mind well informed, he sought not the bust
ling crowd, but in “the even tenor of his way” cul
tivated and practically carried out every virtuou
sentiment. His gentleness, his kindness his piety
and gentlemanly deportment ever lent a pleasing
and refreshing influence in every circle, and endear
ed him to every one. iie adorned everv walk of
life on which he moved. “A.better man never
lived” is the testimony of all.
To this Lodge this affliction is a severe one. No
more alas! will his voice be heard in our Hall. No
more will our councils be instructed by hit gentle
influence. No more shal we derive profit from hi
experience and teachings in the beautiful and sub
lime principles of Odd Fellowship. But in our
affliction, it becomes us to bow to the Divine will,
and especially when we have an assurance that he
has joined the Grand Lodge above, and is resting
fromtiis labors in the bosom of his Father, and his
God.
Expressive of the feelings of this Lodge under
th.s sa<l and afflicting bereavement, be it
Resolved, That by the death of our beloved
Brother Danioi Rowe, society has lost a member of
inestimable worth—the community one of its inos
valuable citizen —the church one of its
examples of Christian piety, aud Muscogee Lodge
Nq,o, one ot its most useful and worthy brother-.
Resolved, 2d, To the afflicted family of Brother
Rowe, this Lodge tenders a heartfelt sympathy and
condolence in its sore affliction and distress.
Resolved, ‘id, That the members of this Lodge wi.
wear the usual badge of m< urning for thirty day,
and that the Hall be draped for the same time.
Resolved, 4 th, That the Secretary present to the
family of our decerned brother, a copy of these pro
ceedings under the seal of this Lodge.
Resolved, bth. That these pivceed'ngs be publish
ed in the city papers.
WALTON B. HARRIS,)
BENJ. F. COLE AN, -Cm
> .A. POMER' Y, )
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For Cbattalioo
The steamer Jackson, D. Fry, Master, will leave
for the above and intermediate landings, on Sa:ur
day morning, 12th inst., at 9 o’clock.