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DAILY TIMES, J. W. W ARREN & CO., Proprietors. Published Daily (Sundays excepted) at the rat* of jg.oo p«r month, or sls tor throo months. No zubeoription received for a longer term than l\rr- month*. ADVERTISISG RATES : Advertisements Inserted tor $2 00 per wuare for •eeh insertLol. Where advertisements ere inserted a month, the •barge will be S3O per square. Announcing candidatess3o. which most invariably paid in advunoe. Change of Schedule. QyptCil ESQtNKKR aSD SOPKgOtTgNDgKT, ) Charleston and Savannah Railroad, k Charleston, June 7. 1864.) 1F notice, the Schedule of tue Passenger train will be as follow, viz: Leave Charleston ; 9.45. a. m. Arrive in Savannah .J 5.40, p. in. Leave Savanuaa ...... ..5 30, a.,m. Arrive in Charle-io a 1.15. p. m. j this Tram makes direc: oouaectioos. going north jnd south, with tne Northeastern Railroad at Char iHton. ami the Central Railroad at the Junction. H. J. HAINES, June 14 cl Engineer and Superintendent. Change of Schedule, ON and after Sunday, June 19th, the Trains >n the “uscogee Railroad will run a» follows PASSENGER TRAIN Leave Columbus 5 45 P. M. Arrive at Macon 3 25 A. M. Leave Macon 3 10 P. M Ar rive at Columbus .' 4 25 A. M. FREIGHT TRAIN : Leave Columbus 5 00 A. M. Arrive at Columbus 4 55 A. M. \V . L. CLARK, m *r 19 ts • Supt. Muscogee R. R. Through to Montgomery NEW SCHEDULE. MONTGOMERY & WEST POINT RAILROAD COMPANY.. COLUMBUS, August 27-, 1864. i iN and after August 27th. the Passenger Train on *./ the Montgomery and West Point Railroad wul Leave Montgomery at 8:00 a. m. Leave West Point at 7:10 a. m. Arrive at Oolumbus at 0:32 p. m. Leave Cblumbus at 5:50 a. m. Arrive at Mongoinery at 3:00 p. m. Arrive at West Point at 4.30 p. ®. Freight Train leaves Columbus at »:40 a m. Arrives at 8:27 p m D. H. CRAM, Sup’t At Eng. cg27lß64—tf MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD. CH4SGE OF SCHEDULE. Girard, Ala., Oct 7,1864. OiN and Alter 10th inst. Trains on this Road will R«d» Daily (Sunday excepted,) as follows: Passenger Train Leave Girard at 1 30 p. in. Arrive in Union Springs 6 00 Leave Union Springs 5 35 a. in. Arrive in Girard at..... 10 00 Freight Train. Leave Girard at 4 00 a. m. Arri ve in Girard at 6 00 p. m. B. E. WELLS, ■glsftf ' Eng. k Suf*’t. Dr. R, NOBLE, IDZEirSTTIST, lT Pemberton 3c Carter’s old stand, back room of J c «voiith’s .Jewelry Store, where he can be found *ll xlCL’vo. Toe 18 6m wantedT r i WM \ LBS. Os TALLOW, for a liberal price will be paid. Apply to F*. W. DILLARD, sp7 ts Major and Q. M, Wanted ' TO HIRE—Four or Five able bodied Negroes.— Good wages given. Apply a r our Government Works. _ »c 23 ts JOHN D. GRAY A CO. Wanted to Employ \ GOVERN Es*i in a private family for a limited number of scholars, in the country, a short dist ance from Columbus. Address Box 16. oe 31 2w’s W. G. W. House and Lot lor Sale. G'llE subs riber desbes to sell a House and Lot in * Russoll county, .Ala., on the Crawford and Salem road, about one mile from the New Bridge. The House has two comfortable rooms, a fire place in taeh. There are on the lot also a stable and poultry house. The lot cont ains two acres. For further in formation apply at the Eagle Factory, to nov 10-1 Ot* W. S. O’BANNON. SSOO Howard 2 STOLEN out of my stable, 2 miles from Columbus, 0 on the Crawford road, on Thursday night last, TWO DVCXJIjBS, one a small bay mare Mule, blind in the right eye. The other a black mare Mule, medium size, with wliith 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 Mules. H-M. CLECKLEY. Columbus. Ga.,Nov. 9, 1864 —ts fcifSun please copy. WANTED. ijij ii j BUSHELS CORN, for which we will pay I"'’’' cash or exchange Salt. BOV 126 t JEFFERSON & HAMILTON. «S®*Sun and Enquirer copy. $125 Dollars Reward, U PRAYED from my place in Wynnton, a dark 0 bay mare MULE, about nine ve rs old, hair rubbed otf of both hips and a large scar -m the right hiedquarter. JOHN COOK. oc i t ts SIOO Reward. ILL bo paid for a negro boy named Henry, who »V r ariaway about two months ago. He is about 5 , ieet B inches high; weighs about 160 or 170 lbs.; com- Sfexion yellow; fine looking; when laughing has imples in both cheeks. It is probable ho went to Atlanta with some of the troops from this city. oc6 ts H. M. CLECKLEY. 900 Reward. VEGRO boy CHARLEY ; abiut 25 years old, vel low co uplexion, hair nearly straight, below or din ary intelligence : loft J/r. Nat. Thompson s near Bex Springs, Talbot county. I bought him ot_a Xr. Brown, a refugee from Mississippi, who now resides in Tuskcgee, Ala. He originally came trom Charleston, S. C. A suitable reward will be paid for his delivery at this office, or in any satejailunct •information sent to me at thßotfice. RUSSELL Colutobu*s o a., aug Its Toood plantation For iSalt*. I N Macon county, Alabama, lying directly on the I Montgomery and West Point Railroad. The tract contains 1,200 acres about iOO cleared. Then •.« aeomfortable Dwelling House on the (dace, good Negro cabins with brick chimmes and -il .he neees_ sary out-buildings. The land js productive and location desirable. Possession given in Novembei. For further information ADA j^g i oc 27 lm Columbus, Ga. *i“Telegraph & Confederate, Macon; Montgo mery Advertiser; Gmstitutionalis, Augusta, copy. To Rent, \ BLACKS MITH SHOP with six or seven Forges, ocll tt omi>,ete - APP,y at THIS OFFICE- PERRY HOUSE. )HIE undersigned would respectfully inform his I old friends, patrons, und .lie trawling puolic generally, that as lie has to*bo absent for a snort ! time he has been so fortunate as to have associated i with him his well known and worthy tne;ul Air. ; KDVf AKD PARSONS, late gs Atlanta. Ha., whose i reputation a nl superior t ot for business is well ■ Snown throughout t.e Confederacy. This House is Urge and commodious, and no pa ms, nor expense shall be spared to fit it up in the very best and most i elegant style, and to obtain every thing in the lino ( f)i substantial eatables and luxuries that this i market affords, With these assurances we most j cordially solicit all our old aicods, and iho travel- \ hag.public generally, to give us a call and an O-por- ] tttmty of rendering them cotn'artable. FIIOS. E: SMI IH. ; Executol* ‘a Wt la e. } H uMDih.s after date applip ti'.n "rili ;»c uu 'e * w tue Court of Ordinary of Tayior coflnty, forj r X '“r roc> ,;f' ;,i aabie proper y ol j •V- ■ " ue ' 1 Muubettii. .a, deceased, late .vf.satd county. •• • i SAMUEL k. JOHNSON, Fx’r I 1; Per TIIOS. D. BRAND* i liiiife limp. VOL. Xl.} SPECIAL NOTICES Hbado’rs CoKScatPT Service, Ga,, 1 * Auguata, Ga,, Nov. 11, 1864. J Circular, No. 25. It having L een reported to these Headquarters that there are quite a number of citizens in this State guilty of the crime of harbor ng deserters and persons enrolled for service, it is hereby ordered— That in all cases where the evidence is thought sufficient to convict the parties, the Enrolling Offi cer w ill apply to the nearest Confederate Commis Stoner for a warrant and have them arrested and bound over for trial before the District Cburt of the Confederate States under the provision of the Act of Congress, approved January 22d, 1864, and pro mulgated in General Orders No. 29. A. A I. G. 0., Current Series, which imposes aline of one thousand dollars and imprisonent for two years. * WM. M. BROWNE, Colonel and Oomd’t of Conscripts for Georgia. novis-6t OFFICE SOUTHERN EXPRESS, Columbus, Ga., Oct., 29, 1864. NO Freight will be received at the Southern Ex press Company's Office after 3% o’clock p. g.t o go East on that day, nor will any be received to go West lifter 4% o’clock p it. oc 29 ts S.H. HILL. Agent. Register Your Names. Citizens w 11 take notice that the time allowed for registering their names as voters at the municipal election in December will expire on Saturday, 19th instant. The book ij open at the Council Chamber, over Engine Room No. 3, opposite Odd FeilowSjfHall. novl4 6t M. M. MOORE. Clerk. For Marshal. W. L. ROBINSON is announced as a candidate for the office of Marshal of the city by novls* MANY FRIENDS. ' For Deputy Marshal. At the solicitation 6f many friends, WILLIAM N. ALLEN has consented to become a candidate for the office of Deputy Marshal of the city of Co lumbus, at the ensuing election, and will.be sup ported by MA NY VOTERS. nov!4 te* Produce Wanted, In exchange for Iron suitable for plantation pur poses. Apply to SHERMAN .fc CO., novl4 2w. Masonic Hall,‘.ip. stairs. - ytr; Yotice. The office of Oayt. B. A. THORN TON is removed to Agency Bank of Charleston,'ever Spencer’s Store. novls-st. Bonds of the 500,000,000 Loan. 1 A>l authorized to continue the sale of the 6 per A cent, long date Non Taxable Bonds of this Loan at the Government rate of One Hundred.and Thir ty-five Dol ars. -4 The principal of the Loan being free from Taxa tion and the Coupons receivable tor all Import and Export dutiss, makes it the most desirable yet offer ed by the Government. I therefore recommend it to th« tayorah!* notice of people^ oc 19 1m ' Agent for sale of Bonds. ST E R LllypiCHi^E! FEW Hundred Pounds o: Sterling Exchange tor sale in su. is to suit pur-. by igl6 tt BANK COLUMBUS. NOTICE' To Pflissisislppi Soldiers ! THE "MISSISSIPPI DEPOT” and Office of i 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. K.* MARSHALL, ■ sop2S ts Agent. (xoveruraeut Sheep lor Exchange. Qi;A HEAD SHEEP will be exchanged for Bacon O' 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, IS64—tf Notice. p RAND and Petit Jurors summoned to appear at ‘J the May Term, 1864, of the Scptrior Court of Mnscogee county, are hereby notified to be and ap pear at the Court House in said county, on the Fourth Monday in November next. Witnesses and parties interested are also notified to appear on that day. By order of his Honor E. H. Worrell, Judge of said court. Oct 31. ISo4-td . F. M. BROOKS. Clerk. ■®s~Emiuirer and Sun copy until day. Dr, G, B. HEARD, (Late Surgeon P. A. C, S.) ( iFFERS his Professional Serviees to the citizens ' ' of Columbus. Office at Dr. Carter’s Drugstore. Can be found at night at the residence of Wm. C. Gray, in Lin wood. [nov 10 lm* SI,OOO Reward. STOLEN from the premises of George Kidd, in Troup county, on theSth instant, a sorrel roan mare, about five feet high, five years old . three white feet, two behind and one in front; left hind leg newly scarred between the hock and ancle joint, four or five ii dies in length. White spot on theiorehead about the size of a silver dollar. Scar under the left eye. One thousand dollars will be paid for the detec tion of the thief and the mare, or five hundred for the mare, and no questio-s asked. novl4 7t GEO. KIDD. Cotton Notice. VLL Storage not paid in Ten Days, the Cotton will be sold to pay it. „ nov S lOt CODV & COLBERT. To Rent, For Confederate Money, fWO PLANTATIONS in Sumter county, five i and ten miles from Americus. For further particulars apply to H. R. JOHNSON & CO., nov7 12t* Americus. Ga, Children’s Herino Hose, 1 A DOZ. Fine article, at . 1U STANFORD & CO., nov 11 6t No. 78 Broad street. • To Rent. • 'HE Finest Store Room in the city. Corner 1 under Cbok's Hotel. Call at novlllOt • COD\ «fc COLBERT. Lard ' . ANTED in exchange for Sheetings, Osuaburgs and Yarns, at the rTn „ v nov slm EAGLE FACTORY. EXECUTu It’S "SALET \T'ILL be sold on the 22d of this inst., before the I *1 Court House door in the town of Newnan, i Coweta bounty, Ga., by consent of the heirs inter ! es,tcd, a portion ot the 3»"353 GrJELO JEJ & belongi 'g to the estate ot Harrison MeLarin, dec and, names as follows: Bill. man 35 years of agfe ; su i . i.*.. v, • l-..)ni'ino. 14 years; COLUMBUS, GA., FRIDAY, NOY 18, 1864. Thursday Evening* Consignee* X. & G. Railroad. November 17, 1364. Maj Dillard, Maj Allen, Capt H D Cothran, Warnock k Cos., E tgle Factory, Wm Walker, T A Ross, R Brown, A Nix, A J Nix,. W G Dew bery, John For.dron, Harry Stubbs, A Valati, R R Bridge, Gas Works, Stewart k Cos., P Johnson, T J Davis, J F ;rd, Greenwood k Gray, Bradford J k Snow, Mrs B W Adams. Eatoaton, Ga.; J K Redd, R S Hardaway, J M Frazer, C E Johnson, Pace k Br<r*n, Dr M Woodruff, Dillard, P k Cos., Com Stockston, R S Cran*, Columbus Factory, W P Turner, Wei's A Curtis. i Prom Our Richmond Correspondent. Richmond, Va., Nov. Btb, 1864 i Congress has quietly assembled and as quietly gone to work The Yankees are think iag too much of getting Washington at pre3- etit to pay much attention to Richmond.— The Examiner is advised by private letter from Washington, that a combined land and naval attack is shortly to be made ca Rich mond. The fleet, large and powerful, com prising fifty iron-clads, is now in Hampton Roads. Few people believe it here and none are afraid. The negro soldier question has been introduced jnto Congress and comes up for discussion on Thursday. The discussion may be long sad interesting, or sweetly brief. In either event Cuffee will not be permitted for the present to “lay down the shovel and the hoe.” Mr. Blandford has introduced a sweeping military bill. It provides for the enrollment of everybody, and authorizes necessary de tails only. Some stringent legislation upon thi3 important subject will be adopted, and, from the signs, one may indulge the hope that the Provost Marshals with their retinue of armed guards, together with a large number of other nuisances, will be abated. Apropos of Provost Guards, a friend furnishes an in stance of the necessity of this service and the capacity of those, performing it. He came from Georgia here upon no other paper than an • affidavit of illegality ia a claim case.— Though haltedand scrutinized everywhere, his papers were pronounced genuine and satisfac tory. The currency question being among the important, the report of Secretary Trenholm is much sought after. Those who have read it, admit that he handles the subject like a man familiar with the work before him and confident of the result. The sporting men have been trying to get up some amusement in the way of racing. The one appointed for to-day is postponed on account of the weather. Theatricals dull—Dalton and the old compa ny at the New Theatre in old pieces—nigger minstrels in one or two Halls down town.— The latter branch of the dramatic art has re cently been much aroused at the fate of Tim Meff?* the “Bones” who has been sentenced to a ball for the war because he refused a musk't. Ogden, the levanting man ager, who, if he gets his deserts, will help the “fallen star” to lug the o'sll about, is, at pres ent, in Hospital quarters. Rumor says Mr. Seddon is shortly to va cate the War office for General Kemper. Captain . Ellis, of your town, reports the boys generally weli in camp. JIM. (communicated.) Mr. Editor : The views of your Milledge ville correspondent, in his article of the 12th of November, meet ray hearty approval. And the more would I stress my voice of approba tion of those sentiments expressed with refer ence to the extra expense of a separate State military organization, from the fact that I have failed to find anything on the subject previous to the article in question. With your correspondent I further agree, that all the parade and splutter of sensitive State sover eignty men may be heart-felt but altogether useless. . State pride, with all the machinery of State organization, the stronger attachment of the citizen to his State, when compared to the u-hole country , the voice of the people through their representatives in Congress, are barriers enough against all the strides of Confederate tyranny over State lines and State rights. Then what use for all this double taxation for military purposes ? After paying her propor tion of the Confederate war tax, why should Georgia then have another tax on the top of its mountain weight just to suit the notions of a few extra States right men ? Suppose the war goes on' four years more, how can her people stand it? But anothtr point touched on needs venti lation. I mean the number of Justices of the Peace, Constables, and officers of the Inferior Court that are kept out of the service of the country, to say nothing of the hundreds that would be put in by turning over the State troops to the Confederate service—the hun dreds that are necessary to fill the bomb-'proof offices of separate State organization. All this howl about Confederate tyranny, State rights ! State rights ! tire ! fire ! serves as a wonderful feint to turn the minds of the peo* pie from Georgia movements, though we do not believe it is intended as such. But now, Mr. Editor, we come to the main matter of this communication. How do our wise Legislators reconcile with wisdom and tonsistei; y their course of keeping at home n multiplicity of the couuty officers ai>ove men tioned, and not Living a single teacher. All teachers between lt> and 50 able to beararms, End many um- b•. ate 'sent to the front, and [he children of the land left to grow up in ig lioranee. The plea of military necessity will iiot do. The country could more easily, and ■he people would more willingly, spare half idle officers ibi.ve mentioned,' and leave that lumber of teachers m their plae*. i y-, 1 tors or*, it f r the" freedom of the E, v ••}.,. ;eych. we ryforknowl ir i.ri -or speech itself. The further back you Ir.vce the history of man. the ’ess perfect yon ft. ■• •. (i-- -o inter the ■ . iguagt - oeucc, nearer you redace him to utter ignorance, the i nearer you reduce him to no speech at all.— j While, then, you cry for a tree Press, we cry < for speech itself. Every act extending the military age up to hoary hairs, and down to ! tender youth, renders the necessity for the teacher at home the more imperative. All j told, how many soldiers would all the teach- ! ers in Georgia number ? But every little is a help, the Georgia Soloas say ! Ye3, according to your interpretation, when that little comes from the school rooms, and not from the over full county offices and some other offices in the State that might be mentioned. The more urgently do we make this plea for j the rising sons and daughters of the South, from the faot that it seems the policy settled | upon by our State authorities t© keep the i school rooms closed until the war ends, inas much as it is suggested to appropriate the money usually applied to the education of the poor to the wants of ;he body. And further , wo infer this policy from the spirit ia which the resolution to send teachers home to their schools was received bj the Legislature. Imtnediate.lv following it was one to the ef fect that all the legislators should be armed and equipped to go to the front immediately upon the adjournment of the Legislature, to which there are fewer objections to be found than to the total withdrawal of the mental police force from the country. If the boy does not get his education before sixteen, when will he get it ? If he does not need the restraint of the teacher and of the school room when his father is in the army, when will he need it ? If the father does not give his son an education with his floating Confederate money, while he has it, what, in the vicissitudes of war, may he leave him but poverty and ignorance ? War does not destroy children, but it does increase the necessity for their education. What father would not rath er his legislator should go to the front than his teacher? Substitute cripples and women where you can, but where it cannot be done send the teacher to his patriotic wovk. The great want before the war was for good teachers, and many of thefeiv volunteered for the war. Five members of the Inferior Court left for a'county and not one teacher! Such legislation, in violation of the immortal and spiritual interests of the children, as well as all that State and Confederate legislation in violation of any of the precepts of Holy Writ, ought and will bring injury upon the heads of its authors, if not ruin upon the country. In the name of knowledge and the youth of the land, we protest against such inconsistent and unwise legislation, Davy Crocket. —— —♦ [Correspondence of the Daily Times.] Georgia Legislature. senate. Milledoeville, Ga., November 15. In the Senate, to-day, the following bills were passed. House bill to define the line between Muscogee and Chattahoochee. To authorize the Treasurer to make certain .ad vances. To change the line between Paulding and Car roll. To amend the distillation law3 of this State. * For the relief of warehousemen. Lost. House bill to amend an act relating to allowance made to widows and orphans out of -the estates of deceased husbands and parents. Lost. House resolutions in relation to impressing breeding stock and work oxen. Lost. The following bills were read for the first time: To amend sections of the Code relative to the terms of office of persons appointed to fill the vacancies of Tax Receivers and Collectors. For the relief of the Gwinnett Manufacturing Company. To make members and officers of the General Assembly subject to conscription. To define the currency in which certain con tracts by the State are to be paid. Upon the bill to amend the act restricting the planting of cotton so as to allow five acres per hand to be planted.—Soma debate took place— Messrs. West and Bacon advocated the passage of the bill : Messrs. Pottle and Mabry spoka in opposition. Col. Gaulden made a telling speech in opposition to the bill. Upon its passage the ayes and noes were ordered, and resulted 11 for, and 21 against—so the bill was lost. There being no further bussiness before the body, the Senate adjourned to 10 o’clock Thurs day morning. Both branches agreed by resolution adopted several days ago, to observe to-morrow, Wednes day, 16th, as a day of national prayer, in response to the proclamation of the President. house. . In the House to-day, several bills were dis posed of. To authorize the Governor to impress slaves from this County to work upon the fortifications around the capital was passed. To amend the act to distribute the indigent fund. Allows persons whose protectorsjare in the army and exiles, to draw from the same. Passed. To amend the act for the distribution of clothing to Georgia troops. Passed. To add the county of Worth to s h« South-west ern judicial circuit. Passed. To appropriate $500,000 to the Georgia Relief and Hospital Association. Laid over for the present. To authorize trustees to resign in certain cases. Passed. For the relief of John S. Crockett. Passed. To define the limits of the town of Perry.— Passed. t To exempt blacksmiths from militia duty. LosE For the relief of M. C. Few. Passed. To change certain county lines. Lost. Bills of this character ought not to be enter tertained for a momenti Much vißuable time and money are wasted here every year in considering bills of this kind. To exempt the property of soldiers and widows of soldiers from taxation where the value is not over $2,000. Passed. To amend several sections of the' Code in rela tion to the offence of arson. Lost. To allow administrators and executors t iryike returns, and charset for the same Pasted. /FITE DOLLARS 1 PER MONTH. To authorize the election of County Treasurers by the people for the term of two years. Passed. To repeal section IS3 of the Code. Passed. To adopt the scale of prioes fixed by the Con federate Commissions as the rata for which all articles of necessity shall be sold. Lost. To prescribe the duties of Tax Receivers.— Lost. House adjourned. Troop. From the Front. [Special army correspondence of the Mail.] Tuscumbia, Ala., Nov. 6, 1364. I ant afraid that I will find it a very difficult matter to keep you posted in regard to the doings of this army. We are kept so much in the dark in regard to army movements, that we know nothing of them until it is too late to be called news. I hardly know what to think of the prospect of going to Middle Ten nessee, Sometimes it looks quite flattering, aud then again becomes gloomy. lam pretty well convinced however, that “grand move ments,” ..quite in keeping with those we have just accomplished are yet on the “tapis.” Large quantities of “hard tafck” and bacon are being brought to Tuscumbia ; the trans portation already quite limited, being again reduced—the usual precursors to a move. Sherman was on yesterday reported with hi3 forces lying between Decatur and Huns ‘ ville. To-day I was told that he was moving in the direction of Pulaski. Well; let him move. We can move him back through Middle Tennessee as we did out of Georgia. The Mobile Tribune has private information from Tuscumbia to the 4th inst.: Our scouts repored that 15,000 of the en emy had arrived at Decatur, and were evident ly following up our forces. On the 2d inst., we shelled them at that place. There were then only three thousand there, and we could have captured it easily, but that, was aot in the programme. We captured some thirty or forty prisoners, and killed aud wounded from three to four hundred. Our loss in killed and wounded was about 100. We have Florence fortified The Yankee cavalry is very nume rous on the other side, but exhibit no desire to dispute the. passage of the modern Rubi con. Sherman's troops are scattered as follows : the Ist-eorps, Gen. Osterhaus, is at Atlanta, 15,000 are at Chattanooga, and 6,000 at Bridgeport. There are also some at Steven son, but how many was not ascertained. Gen* Hood has been quite unwell for two or three, days, but is now all right again.— Beauregard is here, but Hood is in command of the array, The Selma Dispatch of the 14th has the fol lowing : The exact whereabouts of Hood ar.d Sher man is difficult to determine. That the larger portion of our army has crossed the Tennessee there is no doubt. It is current that Hood’s headquarters were at Columbia last week. Sherman at the same time is reported to be 90 miles in bi3 rear and his forces greatly de». moralized. Since we were so plainly “sold” on the cap ture #f Decatur, we doubt all except official reports, relating to the army of Tennessee. Gen. Forrest is at Paducah, Kentucky des troying Yankee property by the wholesale, while Gen. Walker, of Magruder’s army, is en route to join Hood at Columbia, or Nashville, Gen. Beauregard declares he will winter his .army in Tennessee. Corinth is our" point of concentration, to which place all the hospitals have been order ed to go immediately from Macon. Gen. Price has whipped the Yankees at Kansas City, He will be reinforced by Magru der’s command and winter in Missouri. letter from the Front. Correspondence Southern Confederacy.] Corinth, Miss., ) . Saturday Morning, Nov 5, 1864. J The march of the army from Gadsden to Tus cumbia was not marked by any event of greater importance than investing Decatur. This was not done for the purpose of taking it —its surrender was not demanded. When the army first came in front of it, there were about two thousand of the enemy in the fortifications, and they could have been carried with the loss of a thousand or two men, which Gen. Hood considered more than it was worth. There were scattered forces, which soon gathered in the works, and this was the main object. Our wagon train was thus left free to pursue its way in peace. After it had passed, the army took up its line of march, which was unin terrupted, until it reached Tuscuinbia. The country through which the army passed, formerly the most fertile in the South, was sadly changed. Vast fields, rich and undulating, were lying idle —no fences and but few improvements left. Buuehes of shrubbery here and there along the line of march, with burnt and charred limbs told eloquent, but sad stories of the happy houses once standing, laid in ashes by a soldiery as bru tal and unfeeling as any that ever disgraced an uniform. Here it was that Turchin’s braves had a sway unchecked by official control, for not only hours, but wretched days and weeks. The people were glad to see and heartily welcomed the greasy rebels once more, but they had nothing but a wel come to give Their substance was gone. The entrance into Florence was something to make the hearts and eyes fill. The women were almost frantic with joy. Just in the midst of re joicing the band of the Ist Tennessee —by-the-by, the best in the army—broke forth in one ot its finest and most stirring pieces, and I leave your imagination to complete the picture. The crossing was effected without any serious opposition. Yankee troops, chiefly cavalry, were on the other bank, but they were lounging about and sleeping, apparently unconscious of the slight est danger. An old warehouse on the opposite bank w’as used as a sort of picket stand, and around this their horses were hitched. When the boat3 were ready our artillery opened on them and several shells went whistling through the building, and around it. Then there was mount ing in hot haste, and skirmishing began. We lost one man. We captured several in the town who were rather too slow in getting away. An incident on the march ;is worth repeating i Several soldiers were mounted, and went off the road for the purpose of seeing the country and get ting something to eat. It was in a neighborhood where few soldiers had wandered before. They rod# up to a house. Avery comfortably dressed, good-looking woman was spinning at the front ! door. One of the party asked could they get din ; 4ier ! Yes, she reckoned they could, and took the band from the wheel and disappeared, while the men fed their horses and washed the signs of march from their faces. The dinner was ready j almost by the time they had finished, and such a dinner ! Fresh butter and milk, warm biscuit and honey, fried chicken and broilt-1 ham, and ju3t such a dinner as you could get in the country be fore the war. You may be certain it was en joyed. After it was eaten, the spokesman of the party asked how much was to pay. The lady delibera ted a moment and thought it was worth fifty cent? apiece ! The expression that came over his face is difficult to define. He thought -lie was making 1 a nominal charge just to keep them from feeling : badly. The impression was soon dispelled. He selected a shinplaster ami handed it to her, which was somewhat torn. She handed it back, saying she did not like torn money. A genuine, fresh is sue, was substituted, and the party rode away in a humor as new md refreshing as the dinner. Sherman is lost. We have heard nothing fr mi him in a week. The weather is od I. and my fingers arc i um >, and the cars are starting. Burley - '. I John Bowers, a pr-minent citizen of Riehui md, ; has been committed * Castle Thunder, tor at ■ tejnptlnsr go to the * nemy TELEGRAPHIC. REPORTS OP TEE PRESS ASSOCIATION Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1863, by J. sT Thresher, in the Clerks office of the District Court of the Confederate States for the Northern District of Georgia. Richmond, Nov. 16.— New York and Baltimore papers of the 14th, received. The Herald says sufficient returns have been re ceived to warrant the announcement that Lincoln has evsr three hundred thousand majority of the popular vote ; has carried all the States’voting bet three, and will have a majority of one hundred aad ninety- two ia the electoral college. The Yankees crow lustily ovsr thsir recent seo cess at Cedartown. They elaim two oaanoa cap tured and one hundred and fifty prisoners but ac knowledge their loss was considerable. They say nothing of their defeat at Middletown. Nothing late in reference to Sherfltan’s opera - tions has been made publio. Jacobs, Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky, has been arrested by the Government, and is now on the way to Washington. The Wachutta arrived at Fortress Monroe on Friday last with the Florida in tow. A despatch from Cairo says the rebels have* disappeared from Johnaonville. Gold in New York, Monday. 244. Mobile, Nov. 16.—A special to the Advertiser from Senatobia of the loth, says the Chicago Times of the 9th ( says that Sherman left Atlanta seven day s ago with seventy-five thousand moo, and will sweep with the power of a tornado into the heart of Georgia and South Carolina to Mobile and Charleston. Ho will march in three columns, well provided with artillery and cavalry, destroy ing roads and bridges in the rear, gathering sup plies in front, and receiving fugitives who will flock to him by thousands. It believes Sherman will arrive at his objective point with reinforce ments to the extent of 50,000 men. Canada despatches of the 10th says effective 3teps have been taken to preserve peace on - * the border. The propeller Georgia, seized at Chambersburg, Canada West, by tho Collector of Custom i, was believed to be fitting out for a privateer. The St. Alt>&3 examination proceeds slowly. A battle is considered imminent in .Shenandoah valley. From Atlanta. By our last most reliable reports front At lanta. we learn that General Schofield was in command with about twenty thousand Yan-« kees in that city, on last Thursday. The forces had been engaged during several days in destroying all articles and material that they could not carry with them. The evii deaces that they were evacuating the place, were very plain, aad there is little doubt that, at the present moment, the enemy is making his retreat with as much rapidity and securi ty as possible. They say there is no reason for their retaining the Gate city any longer, the object ot it3 capture and the influence of their occupation having been only to effect the election. That being secured, there is nothing farther to be gained, therefore the enemy will make good his retreat and penetrate at other points. They have made a-strong depot and fortifi cations at Powder Springs, and exhibit in some of their movements, a disposition to oc cupy that point for awhile, but other manoeu vres indicate to shrewd military observers very distinctly that the real movement is to completely evacuate their late line of opera tions. Another especial indication of this is, that all the sympathizers who affiliated with them, have taken their flight Northward. Dunning, Schofield, Markham, Stone and all the rest of the mongrel curs took: their departure early last week. The curse of their traitorous pres ence will no more disgrace Atlanta, for all o r which we should be devoutly thankful. The Yankees have informed those from whom we get the information, that they will blow up that portion of the cuy that they cannot burn. We cannot imagine how the place can be more effectually destroyed than it has been, for at the present moment it stands in its desolation and ruin the most disastrous wreck,that tlra vandals have made on the continent. All that is wanting to complete its destruction is to sow its stre«ts with salt.— Atlanta Intelligencer , 16M. Freedom of the Press Illustrated, The following edict appears in the Baltimore Amorican. Yankeedoodledom is the -land of the “Free Press.” We have been told so a million of times, and it must be so. But it by no means fol lows that the privilege of uttering falsehoods, “wicked falsehoods,” is free. That valuable right is reserved to the Government and its officials, Staunton, Grant, Sheridan and the rest. Os their wicked falsehoods, the papers may publish as many as they please but none of their own. Here is the law on the subject: Headq’rs Middle Department, 4 Eighth Army Corps, \ Baltimore, Oct. 29th, 1364. j Editors Loyalist Sirs—On the 26th inst., you placarded your bulletin board on Baltimore street, with the an nouncement, in large letters, that another draft had been ordered; that three hundred thousand more men had been called for ; that, under the new call, the substUuto system would be abolished Ac. With these wicked falsehoods you associated the name of the Secretary of War, evidently de signing to give your news an official air. Such bold imposture in the beginning sufficiently ex poses the animus with which your paper will be hereafter conducted. The Loyalist was started by loyal men, but you, and the corps editorial at your back, are disloyal ists. Asa Union paper, it obtained most of its patronage. Its originators, on account of their loyalty, were influential enough to obtain Government printing, which helped to fill up the columns of the very issue that contained the falsehoods in question.— Is it tolerable that you should take pay from a Government of which you are such an unserupu lousenemy ? Ido not think so. You will, therefore, from this date, discontinue the publication of the Loyalist until the war is over. The old conductors of the Transcript, Bulletin, Ac., may as we.l accept notice now that they w; not be allowed to publish a paper in Baltimore, no matter what name or guise they assume. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, (Signed] LEW. WALLACE, Maj. Gen. Com i’g A trueJ(copy : Oliver Mathews, Capt. A. A. G. — • »ii The steamer A. D, Vance, formerly a Con federate blockade runner, but recently cap tured by the Yankees, i« taking in h<-* arma ment at New York as a cruiser, LOST. ON the 16th instant, between Columbus and’Bui! 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