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DAILY TIMES,
J. W. WARREN, ... Editor.
COLUMBUS:
Friday Morning, November 11, 1864.
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Senetor Semmes’ Speech.
The address delivered by this gentleman to
» crowded house last night, was admirably
conceived, well delivered and appreciatively
received. The justness of the speaker’s views
and the power of his logic produced a visible
effect upon the minds of his audience. Their
general dissemination would encourage and
strengthen the heart and hop? of the patriot,
and would place a dagger in the bqnd of eve
ry man to stab the vagabond heresy of the
extra-Constitutional peace-seekers. We trust
we shall he able to present our readers with
an intelligent and somewhat extended abstract
of Mr. Semmes’ remarks in to-morrow’s pa
per.
iJov. Brown’s Generalship.
Few persons, we imagine, suppose that the
Governor of a State, pursuing the peaceful
routine of his duties, untrained to the art of
war and unused to broils and battles, possess
es that skill and knowledge necessary to plan
or conduct the campaign of a large army.
When Governor Brown, therefore, in bis re
cent message perpetrates the miserable abor
tion of a criticism upon the late campaign fn
North Georgia, he but fulfils the public ex
pectation. The Governor thinks that the
trans-Mississippi army has been playing the
■myabond ever since its brilliant achievements
in the early spring, and that it should have
been brought over to Georgia and put to
work. Does the Governor know the number
of men in that army and the kind and quan
tity of labor they were required to perform in
their own Department? Ha3 the Governor
ever reflected that it is nearly as neces
sary ;*> hold as it is to conquer ? Has it never
occurred to him that upon the soil wrested
from the enemy by the gallant achievements
of our Western soldiery has been grown and
reaped the harvest that must support the lat
ter for another year ; and that all this would
have been surrendered if the troops had been
withdrawn ? But, softly, a broad and rushing
river lica between ! This river is patroled by
Yankee gunboats. How is it to be crossed,
Governor? Have you ever seen the “Father
of Waters?” We doubt it. Now these are
some difficulties that would readily occur to
any man possessing a little common sense and
voprejudice. The Governor of a State, how
ever, in enunciating a great plan, cannot con
descend to notice contemptible details. But
suppose the army on .this side of the river,
would it ever have returned ? We assert that
it would not. The enemy would have double
quadrupled his gunboats on the river to pre
vent such a result, hostile batteries would
have frowned at every available point on the
Western bank, and the
army would have had to be re-christened u cis-
Mississippi.” To strike a balance : we would
have lost three States, but we might have saved
Atlanta and GOVERNOR BROWN'S FEEL
INGS !
Notwitstanding the enemy have overrun j
and plundered a good portion of Mississippi, |
that State has sent large qualities of provis- j
ions to the army. During the year ending]
September Ist, 1864, Major Dameron and his !
agents collected and impressed in this State,
and sent to the army* 39,000 head of beeves,
’ 19,000 head of hogs, 1,649,838 pounds of
bacon exclusive of the hogs, 3,000,000 pounds
ot flour by manufacture, 6,000,000 pounds of
peas and beans, 42,000 pounds of rice in seed,
besides a large quantity of sweet potatoes, &c.
• This is independent of grain and other sup
plies which were forwarded by the Quarter
master's Department, whose consumption of
corn is greater than the Commissary Depart
ment.
The Blockade. —The London Index fur
nishes a statement, “in part,” of the imports
of cotton and tobacco into England from the
Confederate States from the Ist of September
to tlielstofOctober. The total quantity of cot
ton received during that period is reported to
have been 14534 bales, the value which in round
numbers, is about $1,000,000. Os the vessels,
twenty-five cleared from Matamoras, the
quantity brought by them being about five
thousand bales. These figures will serve to
give an idea of the inefficiency and consequent
illegality of the blockade, which nations, pre
tending to conform to a very strict code on the
subject, consent to consider binding. The
time will come when these nations will find
the precedent they are now establishing ex
* ceedingly inconvenient.
Things Left Over. —Says the Charleston
Courier: Editors, compilers and caterers for
the press, who have enjoyed experience and
all the chances andchanges
of the war, and of reduced sheets and dimin
ished force in composition, eaa testify that it
is no easy thing to please everybody and get
in what everybody wants. Even in peace and
prosperity, with full space and printers in
abundance, it was not always easy to please
everybody. The printers and publishers of
newspapers, and the foremen of newspaper
offices, have long been ready and eagerly wil
ling to pay a liberal reward for any invention
or machine or process vhic.h would practical
ly solve the problem of putting a bushel of
wheat into a half bushel sack, and placing
every advertisement at the head of a column,
and find place for exactly the very things,
original or selected, which everybody wanted
in, and leave out exactly what everybody wan
ted out or nobody wanted in.
It is the easiest thing imaginable for those
who have never tried, to conduct a campaign
or discharge the duties of the President, or
preach a sermon, or cure the yellow fever, or
run the blockade, or conduct a newspaper
nut those who have tried any one of these
tasks admit some difficulties.
We have uo doubt that any of our good Gen
erals, including the beloved and trusted Lee,
if permitted to go back aud try again could
and would improve and revise any campaign
ar battle, and any editor, assistant, foreman
and others concerned aud engaged in journal
ism could revise and improve any given issue
if the opportunity was offered.
The “things left over, and tho difficulties
attending the insertion of what goes in, are
not known to readers who have not been at
the newspaper front.
[From the Manchester Guardian, October 15.]
Mr. Gladstone on Non-Intervention.
HIS THEORY OP THE RIGHT OP SECESSION AND
IMPOSSIBILITY OF SUBJUGATION.
1 esterd&y morning an address was present
ed to the Chancellor of the Exchequer by the
corporation of Manchester at the Town Hall.
The members of the corporation occupied re
served seats, and the remainder of the room,
to which admission W 43 granted by circular!
was well filled. Mrs. Gladstone, Lady Armi
tage and several other ladies were accomo
dated with seats upon the platform.
The Mayor, J. M. Bennett, Esq., who pre
sided, having addressed Mr. Gladstone, * the
Chancellor of the Exchequer made a lengthy
speech in reply, reviewing the home policy
and foreign relations of England.
In the course of his address, he said : It is
not special virtue on our part, but the gift of
Providence, which has placed us in a posi
tion with regard to ail other States of Europe,
such as that we cannot possibly have any
other desi-e. except that peace and harmony
should prevail among them, and that they
should adopt for the constant guides of their
conduct the principle of respecting the rights
of one another. (Applause.) That is a happy
position for us to maintain. It places us, as
it were, by the side of every European nation
in the character of a friend to each and all,—
It makes us feel that the time is gone by
when it was the fashion and the custom of
the country to speak of one great nation abroad
in particular as our natural enemy. We have
no natural enemy. (Applause j coun
try of Europe is our natural friend—(ap
plause)—and if to any .country of Europe in
particular we are to look as a country by
j close relations with which we may best pro
-1 mot« the general interests of the civilized
world, it is to that very country which once,
in the blindness of a perhaps excusable and
natural, but unhappy prejudice, it was the
practice to regard as our natural enemy.—
(Applause.)
I trust you think that the conduct of the
Government in the regulation of its foreign
policy has been actuated by a sincere desire
to perform towards all the countries of the
world the offices of friendship. (Hear, hear.)
I am confident you think that that disposition
has been indicated by the Government, and
not specially by the Government; for in this
respect we have been no more than the prac
tical organs of the feeling of the country.—
That disposition to respect the rights of every
country, and to avoid undue interference in
its concerns, has been indicated in regard to
the lamentable war which desolates the conti
nent ot America. (Applause.) England was
a sad sufferer by the war. I do not believe
history records a case in which the internal
dissensions of a country have produced such
wide spread calamity in other nations beyond
its borders. But we have felt it was our duty
to respect American freedom and the discre
tion of the American to deal with their own
affairs amongthemselves--(cheers)—whatever
might be our particular opinions as to the
wisdom of any course they were pursuing, or
as to the practicability of any object they had
in view. (Applause.)
For my own part, I confess I have always
had great doubts as to the practicability of
reducing to subjection any large ; rtion of a
country that manifests a determined disposL
tion to separate. (Continued cheering.) But,
whatever be that opinion, we have no right
to place it in a form which shall make us
the judges of what it is fit for others to do
(Cheers.) Theirs is the responsibilities ; ours
has been in part the suffering. But, alas, if
tve groan over the sufferings experienced by
our own population, let us look at the fright
ful magnitude of the calamities which they
are enduring. (Hear, hear.) It is for them,
as they have the responsibility, to judge of
their own course. (Cheers.)
I entertain, in the first place, this convic
tion—that by partial attempts at placing our
own judgment instead of.tbeirs, we should
have done nothing but embitter a contest al
ready too much exasperated. In the second
place, I feel that the sentiment with which
we ought to most unhappy war is
this—we have no jealousy of Ameaiean great
ness ; we have no cause to fear either that or
any other nation—(oheers) —we feel that they
are our brothers in blood and language; we
know that their continent is calculated to
continue in relations of the most beneficial
intercourse with us ; and we ought to pray
Almighty God that it may please Him in His
mercy to bring that sanguinary contest —,and
if it be His will, at any early period—to such
a termination, be it what it may, as shall be
most for the happiness, the peace and the
permanent welfare and prosperity ot all the
inhabitants of what were once the United
States. (Applause.).
Fight in East Tennessee. —The Knoxville
Register, now published at Bristol, Virginia,
has the following particulars of the late fight
in P]ast Tennessee :
The Federals had been reinforced by the
Eighth Ohio cavalry, eighteen hundred strong,
and the Fourth and Eighth Tennessee infant
ry, sent by Andy Johnson to hold East Ten
nessee until after the election.
Our loss will not reach more than one hun
dred and fifty, and not more than ten killed.
Colonel Rose of the Sixty-first Tennessee, is
missing, and Captain Mayo, of the Sixty-sec
ond Tennessee, also. We hear of several
wounded; Captain Allen, severely; Adjutant
Hawkins, of the Thirty-first,' wounded iu the
arm severely ; Lieutenant Smith, of the same
regiment, killed.
Cols. Liliard and Gillespie, reported killed
or missing, are both safe.
The enemy are at Bull’s Gap, and it is not
believed that they will attempt a further ad
vance at present. The Yankees are evidently
acting on the defensive at Knoxville ; but in
doiug this it is important to hold Bull’s Gap,
because our forces being below’this point en
dangers their communication with Cumber
land Gap. Hence their desperate effort to drive
our forces from Morristown.
While this.disaster is greatly regretted, vve
hear no blame attached to the chief officer in
command, Gen. Vaughn.
Refugees from Richmond. —A gentleman
who was in Now York as recently as ten days
ago, tells us that the North swarms with refugees
from Richmond. They are to be found in Balti
more, in Philadelphia, in New York, and even in
tho Yankee capital itself. But the principal point !
of rendezvous for them is New York. Here many
familiar faces of Richmond may be seed. Promi- j
nent among the recent arrivals from Richmond
were Butler and Kuox—“George and Tom’’ —who i
absconded from here some weeks ago, it will be j
recollected, with about a million of dollars be
tween them of stolen funds from tho Treasury.—
Our informant saw both of them, and they ap
peared to be living like princes off their suddenly
acquired fortunes. Butler was stopping at the
St. Nicholas, one of the most gorgeous hotels in
the city, and cutting a great figure. He was ar
rayed in the most splendid dress, decked off with
dazzling diamonds, and was throwing away his
money with a prodigality that astonished even
the natives of Gotham. One evening Butler en
tered the hotel, where our friend was sitting down
in conversation with a gentleman.
The gentleman turned to him, and pointing to
Butler, said, “Do you know that man?” Our
friend, who is very discreet and cautious, evasive
ly replied, “Who is he?” “Why,” rejoined the
othor gentleman, “be is a defaulting clerk, who
robbed the government at Richmond of a million
of dollars. And he has got the money too—he
is tho biggest swell in the city.” The gamblers,
pickpockets and stool pigeons of New York had
got scent of But.er, and were hovering about him
like vultures, in anticipation of a rich feast. But
ler's purse has probably been considerably light-
ened by them before this.
The refugees that are fleeing to the North will i
not find Yankeeland the bed of roses they imagine j
it to be. They are regarded with great deal of
suspicion, and are already under military surveil
lance. General Dix, in command in New York,
has issued an order that all persons from the
South in that Department, or who come within it
shall report themselves for registry. Those
who fail to comply with this requirement will be
regarded as spies or emissaries. of the authorities
at Richmond, and wilt bo treated according \. -
The registry will contain a complete description of
the persons reporting, and also their places ol
residence, which must not be changed without
notice at the place of registry.— Richmond Ex
aminer.
Hospital GaDgrcae.
(Correspondence of the Mississippian.)
Marion Hospital, )
Marion, Alabama, Oct. It. j
Ot all the diseases that_are destructive of
human life, I know of none that presents a
more bideou3 aspect or is more intolerable to
its victim than that which is known to the
medical profession as Hospital Gangrene—so
called from its frequent occurrence or proba
ble origin in military hospitals. The actual
destruction and eating away of flesh, muscles,
sinews, veins and arteries, whose progress is
visible to the eye, afford a picture of horror
that is sickening and shocking even to the
experienced physician. This mass of suffA
ing and putrefaction Will 3oon become a corpse,
to be transferred from the hospital to the pri
vate soldier s lonely burial ground, unless the
work of death is speedily arrested and baf
fled.
; „ ortunately. for its present and’future suf
j ferers, I think, from what I have witnessed in
this hospital, there is a method of treating it
which will inevitably cure it, if it is commenc
ed before any large vital artery has been des
! troyed. I have seen more than one case res
tored to life and comparative health, of whose
: recovery gentlemen of large professional skill
and practice had entirely despaired. Ido not
know who deserves the credit of originating
the treatment. 1 it the merits of its introduc
tion into this hospital is cheerfully accorded
by its medical staff to Assistant Surgeon John
X. Holman, of Marion, Mississippi.
So uniformly successful has he been (not
having lost "one case) that, by common con
sent, every case of gangrene is committed to
his care. I take pleasure in recording this
fact, as it is equally creditable to the science
and skill of an accomplished, zealous young
physician, and to the candor and liberality of
his professional brethren. Asa lover of man
kind and a friend of the soldier, I deem it my
duty to give publicity to his method of man
aging it, to the efficacy of which every one
here can testify. At the same time it is agree
able to bring before the public the name of a
gentleman who could not enjoy that “thrift
which follows fawning,” and who only aspires
to reputation and position by the faithful dis
charge of his duty and by an independent,
honorable life. Such men are rare and should
be. cherished. He has had the kindness, at
my solicitation, to give me the following in
writing. Trusting that it may be tried in
other hospitals, I have no fear in predicting
the infallible curative power, if anything of
mortal birth deserves this appellation :
The wound is first cleansed with warm wa
ter. Then make a solution of chloride of zinc,
in the proportion of three dracums to an
ounce of water, the wound is then thoroughly
packed with pledgtes of lint perfectly- satura
ted with the solution. The pledgets are al
lowed to remain three or four hours; they
are then removed and new ones applied in the
same way-. If this course is rigidly- pursued,
it is very seldom that more than one or two
dressings are required. The solid stick or
crystal of chloride of zincis to be preferred, if
every part of the wound could be reached by
it, but owing to this uncertainty, and the diffi
culty- of procuring it, it is always best and
most certain to apply- the solution. This
treatment, with the occasional application of
chlorinated soda, (Larabaques's solution,) and
with full diet, (whatever the patient wishes,)
has arrested and will cure the very worst ca
ses. The protracted application of the caus
tic, as above directed, is all important. The
simple mopping of the wound will not do.
The use of turpentine, creosote and other
articles of this class is useless and unreliable,
because they divert the attention of the phys
ician from more active remedies, to whjph he
must ultimately resort. No hospital need be
without this chloride of zinc. Mr. G. P. L.
Reed, one of the dispensary- stewards of this
hospital, who is very- proficient as a practical
chemist and a clever gentleman, informs me
that it can be made in the following manner:
The formufel he tells me, can be found in eve
ry Pharmacebia . I am no chemist myself, but
have no doubt of its truth and accuracy-. It
is so simple and so easily prepared that no
hospital need be without it. Zinc, in small,
clean fragments, added.to muriatic acid,.until
effervescence ceases, will make the remedy,
that Dr.-Holman uses.
I hope, Mr. Editor, that by publishing this
communication, you and I may be humbly in
strumental in doing much good.
Very truly,
EX-EDITOR.
Regulations and instructions in reference to the
receipt of four per cent. Certificates in payment
of the tax on coin, moneys held abroad , Sfc.
Office Commissioner of Taxes, )
Richmond, Nov. 1, 1864. /
1. The CoiifederateStatesDistrictCourt, hav
ing decided that the four per cent, certificates
are receivable in payment of the tax on coin,
moneys held abroad, bills of exchange and
foreign credits, District Collectors are di
rected to receive such taxes, at (he same rates
at which Confederate Treasury notes are re
ceivable under the provisions of article 4of
the instructions 22d June, 1864, issued by this
office. That is, for the tax on gold coin, at
rate of eighteen dollars of four per cent, cer
tificates for one dollar in gold,
dollars in four per cent, certificates for one
dollar iu silver coin, moneys held abroad, bills
of exchange drawn therefor, and foreign cred
its.
2. In ail cases where four per cent, certifi
cates have been tendered in payment of the
above named taxes and refused by the Collec
tor, and the tax has been demanded and paid
in currency of the new issue, the party so
paying in may, at his option, deposit with the
District Collector the amount in four per cent,
certificates properly assigned, and at the same
time make affidavit before some person corns
petent to administer oaths, of the facts in the
case, which certificates and affidavit shall be
transmitted by the District Collector to the
State Collector for his opinion thereon. If the
facts be established to the satisfaction of the
State Collector, he shall refund the
in new issue (without interference with the
soldiers’ fund) if he have it, and if not he shall
procure the funds as follows :
The Slate Collector shall endoiso each cer
tificate or some paper permanently attached
to it, in the following manner: “I certify
that the within (or attached) certificates was
received from in lieu of so much tax wrong
fully collected from him in currency of the
new issue and that the same has been ex
changed for new currency to reimburse him.
He shall then present the certificate or cer
tificates so certified to the Treasurer,. Assis
tant Treasurer or Depositary with whom he
is directed to deposit tax moneys, and it shall
be the duty of such Treasurer, Assistant
Treasurer or Depositary, as the case may be,
to receive the same and pay to the Collector
the amount thereof in currency of the new is
sue, and the Collector shall pay over the same
to the tax payer, taking his receipt, which
receipt shall explain the nature of the trans
action.
3. When tax has been wrongfully collected
iu coin the application to refund and proof
shall be made and submitted by the District
Collector, directly to the Secretary of the
Treasury.
[Signed] Thompson Allen,
Commissioner of Taxes.
Approved:
[Signec] G. A. Trenholm,
Secretary of Treasury.
A New Ism 'and Doodledom. — A new ism has
been introduced into Doodledom, and from the well
known propensities of the Negropholists to embrace
whatever is strange, ungodly and insane, we appre
hend that if nothing that pays better keeps their
mind employed, in a few years it will become the
prevailing ism of that benighted land. The Cali
fornia papers inform us that a Chinese Jose House,
or temple for heathen worship, was dedicated m
San Fr ncisco on the 23d of August. It cost eighty
thousand dollars. A band of tapestry, embroider
ed with feathers and gold and silver thread, which
adorns the place, cost one hundred and fifty dollars
per yard; and the whole building blazes with gold
lea: and tinsel. The priests shout, screech, yell,
groan, spin around amid the opium until they are
quite drunk, when others relieve them. The finger
nails of the chief priests are actually longer than
! his fingers, and are twisted like an auger,
i Asihe Yankees have already advanced far into
infidelity and repudiation of the Christian religion,
we see no reason why Chinese idolatry, if made
convenient and attractive, should not be as preva
lent as Mormonism and Free Loveism, Passional
Attraction, Miscegenation, or any other prevailing
isms. —Savannah iYVtcs.
TELEGRAPHIC.
REPORTS OF THE PRESS ASSOCIATION.
Entered according: to act of Congress in the year
by J. S. Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office of
the District Court of the Confederate States for
the Northern District of Georgia.
Richmond, Nov. 19. —New York papers of
the Bth received. A telegram from Louisville
6th says Sherman’s position and prospects are
satisfactory to himself and all who understand
it. Sherman is equally satisfied with Hood's
position. The Democrat contains an account
of the evacuation of Johnsonville yesterday
by the Union commandant who is reported to
have jlestroyed all the transports and gun
boats near that place to. prevent them falling
into the hands of the rebels. A correspondent
of the Journal sqy-s eight steamboats loaded
with Government stores were burned at John
sonville. Col. Sam Medary died at Columbus
on the 7th A correspondent of the Tribune
reports that Hood's army had crossed the Ten
nessee under pressure of his soldiers who had
threatened to desert unless he led towards the
tortile fields of Tennessee. A telegram from
Chicago reports the arrest in that city- of seve
ral rebels charged with complicity in the de
signs against the frontier cities. Among them
Col. St. Ledger Grampel. The police captur
ed at his home near Chicago 200 stands arms,
and two cartloads revolvers. The Democrat
tic Committee of Chicago have issued an ad
dress declaring that the -whole affair wa3 a
trick of the republicans for placing the polls
under military control on election day. Sher
man and a portion of his staff were recently
poisoned by eating cheese, but recovered un
der medical treatment. Gold 243. A Wash
ington telegram of the 7th says a letter from
an officer at Chattanooga on the Ist, says
Hood and a large portion of his army has
crossed the Tennessee at Florence for the pur
purpose of invading Middle and East Tennes
see. Gross’s Brigade passed here to-day- on
their way- to Athens to head him off. Sher
man is pursuing Gross and flanking Thomas.
A large amount of government stores and con
siderable artillery were captured at Johnson
ville.
Petersburg, Nov. 10.—A gentleman who
went to the front to put a lady through the
lines by flag of truce, was informed by Yan
kee officers that all the States as far as heard
from had gone for Lincoln. Lincoln's major
ity- in Baltimore supposed to be 15,000; in
Boston 6,000; New York City 38;000 for Mc-
Clellan; New York State gone for Lincoln by
7,000 majority.
Richmond, Nov. 10.—The New York Times
of the Bth has a telegram from Boston announ
cing the arrival at that port of the Kearsage from
St. Thomas, with a Surgeon and 8 of the crew
of the Florida captured by the steamer War
liauset in the bay of San Salvador, on the
7th of October. ' Twelve officers and 58 of the
crew of the Florida were captured without
the loss of a man.
The Times contains a report of Seward’s
speech at Auburn on Monday. He says “the
war must continue until we or the enemy give
up the conflict.” He wants no armistice, no
cessation of hostilities, no negotiation with
the rebels in arms. He characterizes the
democrats as a pusillanimous faction of the
minority of the North.
Richmond, Nov. 10.—In the Senate a bill
was introduced as a war measure extending
.the schedule prices for the army to all citizens
of the Confederate States, under penalty—re
ferred to the committee of Judiciary in secret
session, after which the Senate adjourned.
In the House Spear introduced resolutions
relative to the employment of negroes in the
army. Chambers, of Mississippi, spoke an
hour and a half in opposition to the policy.
Foote obtained the floor. The House went
into secret session.
Richmond Gossip. —The Richmond correspond
ent of the Charleston Mercury writes thus under
date of November 2d :
Avery hot wrangle is going on between the Mc-
Clellan men and the Lmcolnites; the latter having
employed one Ferrill to hatch pp a lie about frauds
in the votes of soldiers practiced by the former. —
Gov. Seymour, of New York, has sent a commission
to look into the matter. Seymour’s spine is very
soft, but the quarrel thus thrust on* the Democrats
will ripen fast, and a leader will eventually be
found who has what Seymour has not—backbone.
As the meeting of Congress draws near, certain
newspaper men exhibit some nervousness. They
fear they will be delivered over to the tender mer
cies of the conscript officers, and their shops shut up.
Some go so far as to say it i3 the intention of Con
gress to suppress all newspapers, and publish only
one paper in the land —a mere bulletin of the news —
to be printed and circulated at Government ex
pense. Fiddle, saddle.
Few members have yet arrived. The tenor of the
coming message of the President is barely hinted
at. It is said the Attorney General will recommend
a large distribution of the laws of Congress. Up to
this time, no provision has been made for supply
ing Judge Advocates, and the Judges of the various
State Courts, who are clearly entitled to them.
Our Glass Company, which suspended work for
many months, for want of German clay to make re
tprts, is now full handed, and will soon begin again.
@ne man from each Virginia regiment and battery
is detailed to write up the record of the regiment or
battery. Some go home on a brief furlough; the
majority stay in camp and are liable to be called on
incase active operations are resumed. Weather
warm and cloudy.
Siege of Charleston.—Four Hundred and
Eighty- eighth Day.— During Sunday night forty
one shots were fired at the city and on Monday
thirty-one up to six p. m.
A man and wife, named John and Mary Mullany.
were killed about half past eleven o’clock Sunday
night, by a fragment of shell, which entered the
room where they were sleeping, inflicting mortal
wounds in the abdomens of the unfortunate couple.
It is supposed they were killed almost instantly,
but were not discovered until Monday morning,
when they were found dead, locked together in one
another’s arms.
Battery Gregg and the Swamp Angel keep up a
slow but regular fire on Fort Sumter. About fifty
shots have been fired at the fort since our last re
port. A few scattering shots have be'fen exchanged
between the enemy’s batteries and our batteries on
Sullivan’s Island.
A little af tar one o’clock Monday inorning'Sulli
van’s Island batteries opened on the enemy’s picket
boats, and fired in the course of half an hour from
twelve to fifteen shots.
About eight o’clock Monday evening the enemy
opened a rapid fire upon the city, firing from three
guns simultaneously, both time fuse and percussion
cap shells.
Our scouts report 78 transports off Hilton Head
and ten war vessels, making an increase of ten
transports and one war vessel, This increase is be
lieved to be the vessels with our prisoners.
There was no other change of importance.
[ Courier , Bth.
“God Bless Our Noble President.”— Some Re
publican paper, in its great zeal, exclaims. “God.
bless our noble President.” To this a Western
paper says;-.
God bless our noble President!
And for what ?
Bless him for being the poorest apology for a Chief
Magistrate the world ever saw.
Bles3 our noble President for being the only clown,
buffoon aud story teller ever elevated to a position
of influence in this country.
Bless him for filling the land with smutty jokes—
with foul-mouthed and obscene stories, which even
blackguards by profession are ashamed to repeat.
Bless him for overriding all laws, both human
and divine.
Bless him for his imbecile incompetency and for
his success in ruining a great nation.
Bless him for turning the war for a restoration of
the Union and for the suppression of the rebellion
into a wicked and murderous crusade for cotton,
niggers and power.
Bless him for making a million of widows and
five million of orphans.
Bless him for robbing the North of its bone and
sinew—for using the bodies of those whose servant
he is, to enrich the soil of rebel territory.
Bless him for piling mountains of taxes upon us—
for the stamps we use—for the depreciation of our
currency—for the poverty, ruin and suffering in the
land—for the thousands of women he has forced
into houses of prostitution —for the thousands of
broken hearts —for thousands of orphaned children
who will curse him for ever —for the army of crip
ples—for the corruption in high places—for the
tr • Brg upon the liberties of a free p-ople—for
V negroes by a stroke of his pen—for con
t. inis war till slaves are free, thus proving
the foolishness of his proclamation—for the failure
of our armies —for the deprivation of rights which
have made America the home for all God’s oppressed.
Yes—bless our noble President!
i THE CITY.
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i T. J. JAOKSOy LOCAL EDITOR
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For ChattfeliooelKee.
The steamer Jackson, D. Pry, Master, will leave
■ for the above and intermediate landings, on Satur
day morning, 12th inst., at 9 o’clock.
The weather, so fickle of late, was yesterday
! sunshiny and pleasant—a very agreeable diversion
. from the rain and mud of the past week. May
| to-day be as yesterday, if not more so.
Auction Sales. —At auction yesterday by El
• lis, Livingston <fc Cos., one negro man named Jim,
| about 60 years old, sold for $1,300 ; Ferribv, two
children, and Cherry 65 y&ars, $3,500: Farriss, wife
and’child, $5,200; two mirrors, $l3O each : one do.,
$540; crockery, at enormous prices; 250 dozen
spool thread, (condemned) $24 per dozen ; fine lot
off urniture at high prices.
A Gloomy Prospect. —We are informed by a
member of Council, a gentleman who has during
the war particularly and assiduously interested
himself in behalf of the poor of the city,—that
never has a winter dawned upon the poor with
such cheerless and gloomy prospects. They are
absolutely in a worse condition than ever before,
having nothing to eat, nothing to wear, and no
fuel, and unless our people, and especially those
who have plenty of money, come to the rescue,, a
fearful amount of destitution must inevitably en
sue. The committee for the purchase of wood
have, we learn, a considerable fund on hand but
owing to the difficulties in the. way of procuring
wood have done but little so far. It is evidently
the duty of persons living on the several railroads
leading to the city to assist in some measure in re
lieving the of the poor at this point, for
they have come in here from all points, and this
they can do and ought to do by cutting wood and
putting it on the railroads for transportation, to
be given as contributions or sold as low as the
case requires. , Will they assist in this matter ?
The railroads will haul the wood if cut. Will our
own people inaugurate some mean3 to supply the
poor with food P Where are the ladies? Why
sleepest thou ?
Rev. Dr. Lipscomb. — We had the pleasure in
common with a goodly number of our citizens, on
Wednesday evening, of listening to an admirable
address from this eminent divine and scholar, on
the “Present Revolution in America.” The doc
tor is a clear, forcible speaker, a terse logician,
and as well versed in the science of political econ
omy as in the lore ofclassics and literature. He took
the grouqd that nations like individuals are im
mortal until they have accomplished their day;
that the late United States government had ac
complished in seventy-five years, what it has
usually taken nations from three to five hundred
years to accomplish, namely, the acme of territo
rial greatness, the climax of prosperity, and the
topmost round in the ladder of mechanics and
science ; that it was impossible in the natural or
der of things and in the economy of divine provi
dence that a country of such unbounded limits, of
such diverse and clashing interests should be ce
mented under one grand federal power, and that in
volcanic upheavals like this revolution, new pow
ers mast arise, and new energies be developed,
which Will open up to the continent new and
magnificent fields of progress, in political and
moral power. We trust the Doctor may be as
correct as he is sanguine in his deductions, and
that the day is not far distant, when the South
will arise from her baptism of blood to enter upon
that grand career of national prosperity, so beau
tifully predicted.
Years ago, ere the frosts of age had whitened
the doctor’s head, it was our pleasure to sit en
raptured under his beautiful rhetoric and elo
quence, and we are pleased to find that he has not
abated in his mental vigor.
Mind vs. Stomach.— One of our newsboys who
has been striving for some time to eke out a pre
carious existence byfelling newspapers, has lately
added to his business the traffic in “goobers,” and
he says the lattA 1 pays much better than the for
mer. He can appeal much more successfully to
men’s stomachs than to their minds, as in nine
cases out of ten he can sell a quart of “goobers”
for one dollar, to one newspaper for a quarter.—
Verily, this is encouraging to men of letters, and
especially to one horse Locals who know but lit
tle. Boys, who want to make money, we advise
you to peddle on ginger cakes and ground peas.
To be candid, we must say, says the Charleston
Courier, that Gen. Lee, in his bulletins, like his
unworthy but bloody and butcher-like antagonist,
Grant, does not always tell the exact truth. The
difference is Gen. Lee tells the truth, and nothing
but the truth, but not always the whole truth ;
while Grant tells the truth, and a great deal more
than the truth, and a great deal that is not true.
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In regard to the employment of negro sol
diers, the Sentinel thinks we had better leave
the question to a gradual development and
solution, in the light of experience and ac
cording as Providence shall mark our future
path rather than wrangle over it now.
The New State. —The New York Herald
contains maps of the “new State”—Nevada—
which is styled the “thirty-eighth star’’ of the
“American Union.” It is situated on the Pa
cific, north of California and northwest of
Utah, and has three votes in the electoral col
lege,—all for Lincoln, of course.
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The St. Louis Republican, speaking of the
opening of anew street through the cemetery,
says coffins have been exposed, and boys have
amused themselves with thrusting sticks into
them, and pulling out the bones and battering
them over the ground. In two instances hu«
man skulls have been thus bandied about like
foot balls, and long auburn ringlets, that
years ago were the pride of beauteous maid
ens, lie scattered about the cemetery. Barba
rous.
A man named Blake ha3 been arrested at
Milan, Maine, charged with having murdered
Mr. Parker, the collector of Manchester, New
Hampshire, about twenty years ago, and for
which crime jthe Wentworths, of Saco, Maine,
were tried but acquitted. The arrest was
made in consequence of the deathbed revala
tions of a woffian who recently died in Man
chester. Blake formerly lived in Manches
ter.
Our Indian General's Report. —As we
have but one Indian General in our service—
the brave General Stand Watie—who is said
to be as generous as brave —we insert with
pleasure the first official dispatch we have
seen from him. No one has made greater
sacrifice for the Confederacy than he has :
Bihd Creek, Sept. 21, 1864.
General—On the morning of the 19th, we
captured the enemy’s post at Cabin Creek ;
after a fight of six hours drove the enemy
away. The train wa3 there, which was cap
tured—over 250 wagons—we have now over
100 wagons with us. We have 120 prisoners
along. Our loss is very slight—two men killed
and a few wounded.
The blow will be severely felt by the
enemy.
His loss in killed, wounded and prisoners
i3 over 200.
Your friend, STAND WATIE,
Brigadier General.
A Camp of Captu&sd Negroes. —A corres
pondent of the Montgomery Advertiser, in a
letter from Blue Mountain, Alabama, gives a
description of the camp of six hundred and
fifty negroes who were captured in Dalton,
Ga. He saya:
It was nearly sunset when I first got a
gumpse of them, hudled around large fires in
a deserted field just outside the limits of the
village of Oxford. There they stood, peering
out from beneath Yankee caps with that pe
culiar ludicrous expression which you can im
agine would be upon the countenance of a
corn field negro turned soldier. Their long
tailed blue coats and pants, slung on the
frames unaccustomed to such gear, gave them
the appearance of so many straw®stuffed effi
gies. As the day began to melt into twilight,
and the breeze came sweeping in chilly blasts
from the mountain, the darkies crowded clo
ser and closer, until around the burning logs
preparations commenced for The
corn meal was mixed irf the caps which tkev
wore, and pitched into the ashes to bake,
while not a few of them devoured the do'ugh
without it being cooked.
There wa3 no singing or laughing, nor do I
think I saw a smile upon the face of a single
one in the crowd. The faces all seemed pinch
ed and emaciated with fatigue and hunger, and
altogether presented a most desolate picture
How different from a crowd of some two hun
dred home darkies who were encamped near
bv, belonging to the post. These were en
gaged in singing camp meeting songs or in
dulging in the interim, in loud peals of laugh
ter, such as none but happy, contented South
ern negroes can perpetrate. Os the six hun
dred negroes captured, only six escaped on the
route around to Oxford.
AUCTION SALES.
By Ellis, Livingston Cos,
£
WE wi!l sell on Saturday, 12th November, at
11 o clock, in front of our store
63 Bbls. Coast Salt;
3 Bbls. Sorghum Syrup;
5 Cases Fine Smoking Tobacco;
10 Boxes Fine Chewing Tobacco:
1 Buggy;
4 Milk Cows;
SHOES, CLOTHING, &c.;
90* Dozen White Spool Thread;
Together with many other desirable goods.
—also—
A likely Negro Woman, good House ser*
vant, 24 years old, and her child 4
years old. Sold for no fault,
nov 9 4t $23 *
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. IP A IRo 3VC
About 6 miles from the City, and a half
mile north of the Old Express Road, containing 120
acres Kind—being the eastern portion of lot No. 43
in the 9th District. Sixty acres of which is cleared—
lormerly 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.
A PRIVATE SALE.
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1,500 Acres unimproved Land on
Spring* Creek, Miller county, formerly
Early, will be sold at a bargain,
oc 21 lit SSO
FRESH OYSTERS
I > ECEIVED every morning from Savannah at the
IV first door above the Old Post OfffCe corner. Sold
at wholesale and retail.
nov 11 3t RILEY & CONNOR,
Children’s merino Hose,
WDOZ. Fine article, at
, . STANFORD & CO.,
nov 11 fit No. 73 Broad street.
To Rent
THE Finest Store Room in the city. Corner
A under Cook’s Hotel. Call at
nov 11 lOt CODY & COLBERT.
HEADQ’RS CONSCRIPT SERVICE,
Augusta, Ga., November 7,1334.
Circular, No. 24.
Enrolling Officers will not interfere with Collec
tors of the War Tax, until fuither orders, the Secre
tary of War having directed the suspension of
General Orders No. 77 as regards them, in order that
lists of those between the ages of eighteen and
forty-five years engaged in such collection may be
prepared and furnished to the proper authorities.
WM. M. BROWNE.
Colonel and Commandant of Conscripts
for the State of Georgia.
nov 10 3t
Dr, O, B. HEARD.
(Late Surgeon P. A. C, S.)
OFFERS his Professional Services to the citizens
of Columbus. Office at Dr. Carter’s Drug Store.
Can be found at night at the residence of \Vm. C.
Gray, in Linwood. [nov 10 lap
House and Los tor Sale.
' [’HE subscriber desires to sell a House and Lot ir.
1 Russell county, Ala., on the Crawford and Salem
road, about one mile from the New Bridge. The
House has two comfortable room*, a fire place in
each. There are on the lot also a stable and poultry
house. The lot coatains two acres. For further in
formation apply at the Eagle Factory, to
nov 10-10t* W. S. O’BANNON.
Headquarters Enrolling Office, Muscogee Cos..
• Columbus, Nov. Bth, 1361.
In accordance - with Circular No. 23, from Com
mandantof Conscripts, State of Georgia, all persons
of Muscogee county holding Certificates of Exemp
tion or Detail, are required to surrender them at
these Headquarters immediately. Receipts for the
same will be given, which will protect the holder
until new certificates are issued.
JNO. I). ATKINS,
nov 9 fit Enrolling Officer, Muscogee co.
LEE HOSPITAL, November 7.1361
W ANTED,
Six WASHERS and IROXEHS. Also four Ne
gro Men to work in the yard.
R. P. HUNT.
Surgeon in C harge.
A. D. Bridgman, Steward.
' E JV 7 fit
SSOO Reward. 2
OTOLEN out of my stable, 2 miles from Columbus,
kj on the Crawford road, on Thursday last,
TWO UVUTTILIES,
one a small bay mare Mule, blind in the right eye.
The other a black mare Mule, medium size, with
whith mouth and white spot on rump. Both in good
order.
I will pay the above reward for the delivery of
the Mules with the thief, with proof sufficient to
convict, or Two Hundred Dollars for the Mule
-11 • M. CLECKLEY.
Columbus, Ga., Nov. 9, 1864 —ts
please copy.
BOTTLES' - BOTTLES!
\U ANTED Bottles and Vials of all descriptions,
‘ ' for which a high price will be paid.
STANFORD & CO..
nov7 fit No.lß Broad street.
SSO Reward.
F’OR the recovery aEd delivery to me of a Negro
boy named JIM. Said bo7 weighs 160 lbs,, is
feet 6 inches high, dark color, and belong' to Mr.
Jarret- He was hired to me by F. M. Brooks oi
Columbus. He is probably prowling _ about Dr.
Jeter’s or McCall’s plantation, m Marion county.
The above reward will be paid by me on h s being
delivered, in irons, to me at Salem. Ala.
nov 9 fit A. H, DeWITT.
Cotton iVotice.
\LL Storage not paid in Ten Days, the Cotton
will be sold to pay it,
nov 8 lOt CODY Sc COLBEIVJ.
