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DAILY TIMES.
J. W. WAKRExV, - - - Editor.
COLUMBUS:
Saturday Morning, November 19, 18G4.
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From Hood’s Army?
We hEVe late and reliable intelligence from
Tuscumbia. An officer who left that place
last Sunday, the 13th inst., reports that Forrest
had reached there during the preceding week,
having destroyed everything on the river from
Fort Hindman to Tuscumbia. Forrest’s cav
alry and Cheatham’s corps crossed over to the
north side on Sunday morning the 13th, and
Stewart s corp3 in the afternoon of the same
day. Lee s corps was already across. Our
informant represents that the army was being
rapidly reinforced from both front and rear.
Recruits from Middle Tennessee were flocking
to it in large, numbers. It was thought that
Hood would immediately move up to Colum
bia. The baggage of the army had been much
reduced and sent to the rear. Thetroop3 were
in light marching trim, in the highest spirits,
and eager for the advance. Gen. Beauregard
reviewed that portion of the army which was
on the south side of the river on Saturday the
42 th inst., and was full of hojta at the pros
pect before it.
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The Clarion has the following in its issue of
the llrh : Wc are requested by D. P. Blair, spe
cial agent of the Postaffice Department, to advise
all postmasters to post-bill and mail-direct all
letters for Gens. Hood or Beauregard’s army, di
recting both post-bill and package to “Army of
Tennessee.” In no case should they be sent to a
Distributing Office. Letters written to persons in
said army should be addressed to “Army of Ten
nessee,” and not to acy particular officer. Not
baing authorized to advertise the above notice,
.Mr. Blair requests editors generally to copy this,
as it will save days and, in some cases weeks of
delay.
The Florida. — The career of the Confeder
ate war steamer Florida, has been an eventful
one, of which the country may well be proud.
She sailed from Liverpool on the 22dof March,
18G2, under the name of Oreto, and arrived at
Nassau, N. P., in April, where she received her
armament, etc. On the 14th of June, 1862,
she was seized by the British 3teamer Grey
hound, but was soon released. On the 9th of
August, 1862, she left Nassau, and proceeded
to Green Bay, where she was fitted out for a
cruiser, her stores, etc., being brought to her
by the English schooner Prince Alfred. She
ran into Mobile on the 4th of September,
1862, and was struck by shot several times
from the guns of the Winona and Oneida, and
ran out on the 17th of January 1863.
After doing much damage to Federal ship
ping, she went into St. George’s channel, in
• August, 1863. In September she entered the
French port of Brest, and on the 11th of that
month was detained by the French Govern
ment. Soon after she captured the steamer
Electric Spark, bound from New York to New
Orleans.. For a time she was a consort of the
Alabama, and acted in conjunction with her
in cruising. She was commanded for a long
time by Lieut. J. N. Maffit, but for the past
year or more she has been commanded by C.
Manigault Morris, formerly of the United
States navy.
The Report of the Secretary of the Treasury.
The Richmond papers bring us the full re
port of the Hon. George A Trenbolm, Secreta
ry of the Treasury, which, was presented to
Congress with the Message of‘President Davis.
This report is an elaborate document, filling
six columns. The following extracts contain
lhe whole ot the Secretary’s proposition for
restoring the currency. The accounts ot re
ceipts and expenditures, which, with some
other matters of less importance, make up the
rest of this report is already sufficiently
known to the general reader from the synop
sis of it in the President’s Message :
The currency demands the immediate and
the gravest consideration of Congress. Un
less a uniform and stable value can be given
the treasury notes, the efforts to carry on the
war through their instrumentality must of ne
cessity be abandoned. Acquiescence in its
deplorable depreciation is to court the ruin
to which it leads. One hundred and thirty
five dollars in currency, the price obtained for
one hundred dollars in six per cent, bonds, is
equal to six dollars only in specie ; and to
sell the bonds at this rate is in reality to dis
pose of them at ninety four per cent, discount ;
or, in other words; to give a bond for one hun
dred dollars in consideration of the loan of
six dollars.
4 There is not a man of property in the coun
try who would not prefer aDy fair measure of
taxation, rather than to procure a temporary
and treacherous prosperity by the sale of mort
gages on iiis estate at this ruinous rate.
The depreciation of the currency, proceed
ing from redundacy, and the want of confi
dence in its ultimate redemption, can only be
corrected by measures that shall both dimin
ish its volume and sustain the public confi
dence.
The measures adopted by Congiess to re
duce the currency, did not combiue these es
sential elements of success. Those who had
taken the old notes, relying on the good faith
of the Government, on finding them suddenly
deprived of one third of their nominal value,
became alarmed and received the new notes
under strong apprehensions of a repetition of
the measure. At the time, too, that the cur
rency act provided for a circulation exceeding
four hundred millions of dollars it circum
scribed and reduced the demand for the notes, ;
by making the four per ceut. bonds receivable
in the payment of taxes. By the first day of
August $70,000,000 of the new notes had al
ready been issued, and less than $10,000,000
sufficed for the payment of the taxes collected
at that date. Depreciation commenced at
once, and proceeded at so rapid a rate, that
by the first day of October gold was selling at
twenty-five dollars for one.
toe necessity of* providing a speedy and
efficient remedy lor this condition of things is
obvious. The bonds have to be sold for this
currency ; the taxes must be collected in it;
and hence all the means of the Government for
the purchase of supplies will consist of this j
medium. Admitting that the amount which .
may be raised from these sources is nominally
equal to the estimated expenditures, there is i
yet no security against such a further decline i
in the value of notes as will disappoint pres
ent calculations, and add enormously to the
accumulation ot tba public debt. The time,
therefore, seems to have arrived when Con-
Sress should take measures to r* stor.e and
sustain the currency, or make provisions for
its honorable redemption, or resort to the use
of specie aud . bank notes. The adoption of
the last alternative, it is feared, would pro
duce great embarrassment in the community
and the impossibility of obtaining an adequate
supply of specie aud bank notes for the wants
of the Government would create the necessity
lor a system of universal impressments fol
lowed by incalculable suffering and distress.
TLat the Government must be supplied with
sufficient means to carry on the war are all
agreed. Our enemy offers us no terms short
of unconditional surrender of life, liberty and
property, and no choice is left us, even if we
were disposed to hesitate, which we are not,
at to continue the war. The adoption, there
fore, of a permanent and efficient system of
hnance is mdispensable to the full develop
xiKn and unrestrained use of our resources,
me return to speoie payment being for the
present impracticable, the enquiry is, whether
vtia possible to restore and maintain the value
of the treasury noses as a currrency. The ac
complishment of this end is of such vast im
portance that it is, of all others, that to which
the resources of the country should be devoted
and applied. Were it possible to anticipate
the productions of future years of peace, and
convert them into money for immediate use,
the expediency ot resorting to such a measure
could not be doubted. May not a near ap
proach to it be made by devoting a portion of
those future productions to the purpose of
imparting to the Treasury notes a high and
stable value? I submit that this may be done,
and respectfully propese a plan for its.accom
plishment.
It is an act pledging the faith .of the Govern
ment against the issue of Treasury notes be
yond the amount authorized by the act of 11th
February, 1864; exempting the notes from
taxation; provided for the application of
twenty per cent, of the taxes annually to the
reduction of that amount until peace be de
clared, or the outstanding 3um be redueed to
$ 150,000,000 ; continuing the tax in kind af
ter the war, and appropriating an ascertained
proportion thereof annually to the redemption
or payment of the circulation, until the whole
shall be retired.
I propose that (he redemption shall be made
from the tithes of cotton, wheat and corn, at
prices fixed by the act, namely : cotton at fifty
cents per pound, wheat at four dollars per
bushel, and corn at two dollars per bushel;
that the notes be received after the war, from
ail persons liable to the tax in kind, in com
mutation of their tithes, and that the Secre
tary of the Treasury be authorized to issue
certificates in exchange for Treasury notes,
per ct. interest, secured tyid redeem
able in the same manner and on the same
terms as the notes themselves, free from taxa
tion, and receivable after the war in payment
of the tax in kind, and that all notes, received
into the Treasury for these certificates be
cancelled.
The effect of this measure would be ihat, at
present prices, the entire population would be
interested in exchanging their productions
for Treasury notes. They would constitute
not only a safe currencey but a profitable in
vestment, for in the ratio of ten dollars for one,
as compared with specie, the produce obtained
in payment at the close of the war, would
cost the following prices, viz: cotton, five
cents per pound ; wheat, forty cents per bush
el, and corn twenty cents. These nominally
low prices would not operate to the prejudice
of the agriculturist, for his tax being in kind,
would neither be increased nor diminished by
the prices. It is truce he would have a col
lateral interest in common with tax payers
generally (for of course all interests will be
taxed,) in the redemption of the notes at a mod
erate rate. In this respect, his interest would
be protected by the prices stipulated by the
act, which are not too low fora time of peace.
But if they were, a full compensation would
accrue to the tax payers in the immediate en
hancement of the notes and consequent reduc
tion of expenses. And the producer would
find a complete indemnity in the sale of a
bushel of corn now at four dollars, and the
application of the money t rt the payment of a
tax hereafter of two bushels.
In suggesting the three articles of cotton,
wheat and corn, as a specific pledge for the
redemption of the currency, no immunity
from their full proportion of taxation is in
tended to be implied, in respect ot other ob
jects of the tax in kind, or any subjects of tax
ation whatsoever, These are only assigned to
this particular office or function because of’
their peculiar adaptation thereto.
The following is an estimate of the resources'
to be thus applied, viz: wheat, twenty-five
million bushels ; Indian corn, two hundred
million bushels, and cotton, two million bales.
A tax of ten per cent, would yield as follows :
Wheat, two million five hundred
thousand bushels, at four dollars,slC,ooo,ooo
Indian corn, twenty millions bush
els, at two dollars, 40,000,000
Cotton, two hundred thousand bales,
at two hundred dollars per bale, 40,000,000
$90,000,000
This amount applied annually would re
deem the notes outstanding in four or five
years.
The leading details of this plan or measure 1
to re-assure the public of the safety of the
currency, and the redemption of it in full, will
consist of a ratio in which the selected staples
should be combined, and of the provision ne
cessary to equalize the value of the postponed
aud preceding instalments. The combination
of the staples as recommended in this report
is 1-9 of wheat, 4-9 of corn and 4-9 of cotton.
The scheme recommended in another place,
for the purpose of harmonizing the value of
the successive instalments, is the substitution
of certificates, bearing interest for the curren
cy, set apart by the holders, in commutation
of the tax, or to purchase the tithes. After
the most careful investigation I am satisfied
that the measure may be successfully' reduced
to practice.
Under the operation of this system a sure
appreciation of the currency may confidently
be expected. All will discern the advantage
to arise from the acquisition of treasury notes
at present prices, and even foreign capital may' !
be expected to absorb a part, for, at the rate
of ten dollars for one of specie, the cost of
cotton would be reduced to five cents per
pound. Confidence may be expected to re
turn ; for those who dread repudiation, and
those who would regard the return to specie
payments with equal alarm, would both be
encouraged and assured. In imparting in
creased value and security to the treasury
notes, greater reliance in the value.of the fun
ded debt would be inspired, for the expendi
tures would be reduced and the accumulation
of debt retarded.
The currency debt being provided
for, the total remainder, to-wit:
the funded debt, would be as al
ready stated $738,340,090
And if to this sum be added the
amount of bonds to be sold be
fore the Ist of January, which
may be estimated at about 40,000,000.
The total sum of interest bearing
debt on the Ist of January,
1865, will be 778,840,090
The value of the real and personal
property in the Confederate
States in 1860, according to the
United States census, taken at
specie value, was $5,202,166,107
Notwithstanding the waste and desolation of
the war, and the amount of property in the
enemy-’s lines, the subjects of taxation under
the act of I7tli February-, 1864, according to
the returns made of the commissioners by the
assessors, under act of 19th August, 1861, is
as follows, viz :
Property employed in agriculture:
Specie va1ue...52,900,758,777
Currency valued
at $5 for $1 '. $14,503,793,880
Other property:
Specie value 1,450,379,379
Currency valued
at $7 for $1 10,152,655,658
Specie value $4,351,138,156
Currency value $24,656,449,548
There is an element of oup national wealth,
taken singly, that exhibits, in a striking view,
the amplitude of our resources to meet our
wants. I refer to the great staple of cotton.
The net proceeds of one bale exported and sold
in England at the present price is about two
hundred dollars iu gold; and at the rate of
| ten dollars in currency for one dollar in gold,
j this is equal to two thousand dollars ; and to
: four thousand of millions of dollars for the two
| millions of bales estimated to be still in the
country —a sum more than five times as great
as the funded debt. The impossibility ol re
alising the full benefit of this resource under
existing circumstances is admitted ; but the
statement exhibits the abundance of our means;
I and every effort should be made to apply this
i great element of wealth and power to the pur
: pose of arresting the progress of depreciation
| and retarding the accumulation of debt.
I propose an additional duty of five cents per
j pound on the exportation of cctt-on and tobacco
and the duplication of the duties on imports —
I payment to be made in coupons ®f the five hun
dred million loan, sterling exchange and specie,
as now provided bj law. The price of cotton in
Liverpool being about sixty cents per pound, the
deduction of five cents for the tax would hardly
have an appreciable effeot upon its value in cur
rency. The duty would fall chiefly on the foreign
i consumer, or be taken from the profits of the ex
ported; and an important financial advantage
would be obtained at a moderate expense to the
I country The increased duty on imports would
be a small tax on this lucrative trade. If paid
j by the importer, it would be free from all objec
tion; and if by the consumer, his ability to bear
it is abundantly proven by the high price paid for
goods. These measures would enhance the value
and enlarge the demand for the five hundred
million loan.
The expenditures for six months, from the Ist of
January to the Ist of July, 1865, with an im
proved currency, may be safely estimated at a
maximum of $300,000,000 ; and for the twelve
months at $600,000,000
To meet this must be added for the
redemption of notes proposed, the
sum of 60,000,000
And for the estimated amount of float
ing debt 114,000,000
$774,000,000
To meet these demands upon the Treasury, I
propose the following scheme of taxation and
loans, viz:
1. Taxation, including the tax in
kind $360,000,000
2. Sale of bonds of the 500 million
loan and certificates of indebted
ness 409,000,000
3. Import and export dues and miscel
laneous receipts 5,000,000
$774,000,000 j
To raise the amount proposed by taxation, I j
recommend the repeal of so much of the act !
amending the act of 17th February, 1864, as will ]
leave the property and income tax in full opera
tion, without the abatements*now allowed, viz : ;
Section 1, paragraph 1, of the amendatory act of
14th of. June, 1864, which provides that the value
of the tax in kind shall be deducted from the ad
valorem tax on agricultural property; and sec
tion 8, paragraph 2, of the same act, which pro
vides that the property tax shall be deducted from
the income tax. By this change the desired
amount of revenue will be secured and the prom
inent inequalities of taxation, now the subject of
complaint, will be redressed.
The tax in kind being ten per cent, and its value
in currency $145,000,000, it follows that the pro
ductions taxed amounted in value to $1,455,000,-
000; and the assessed value of the property from
which these productions are derived being $4,-
900,755,778,40, it is apparent that the gross in
come of $1,450,000,000 is equal to fifty per cent,
of the assessed value of the property, lienee, an
agricultural estate of the value of SIOO,OOO, sub
ject to the ad valorem tax of SSOOO, yielded a
gross income of $50,000. The tithe of this in
come ($5000) paid the property tax, and left un
diminished $45,000 es income. This result was
the consequence of valuing the property for taxa
tion in specie, and the productions received in
payment o's the tax in currency. Had the proper
ty been valued iu the medium in which the tax
was payable, the assessment would have been at
least $500,000, and the tax $25,000; or had the
articles received in kind been valued, as the prop
erty was, in specie, the payment would not have
exceeded S2OOO, and S3OOO more of tax would have
been received in currency.
The inequality of taxation that resulted is ’
made conspicuous by a comparison with invest
ments made in Government securities. The same
sum of SIOO,OOO, in eight per cent, bonds, yield
ing SBOOO per annum interest, paid SSOOO tax, and
left a clear income of only S3OOO. Capital invest
ed in banking presents a contrast equally striking.
One of the banks in Richmond, which is referred
to as an example, on a capital of $2,336,000, paid
$424,400 taxes, the specie being assessed at eigh
teen times the value of 1860 ; and the amount dis
tributed among tbe stockholders as income was
$268,640. On SIOO,OOO, consequently, thus in
■ vested, the tax was SIB,OOO, and the income sll,-
500. These inequalities give rise to grave com
plaints, whilst any amount of taxation equitably
distributed would doubtless be cheerfully met.
The collection of a large sum in taxes is essen
tial to the reform of the currency, and the country
is in a condition the most favorable to bear the
burden. The abundance of money and the high
price of every species of property and supplies
would render the payment easy and free from em
barassment. The Treasury will derive little aid
from this source in the present year. The tax
on the currency brought no revenue operating
only as a reduction of the circulation. The other
taxes, with comparatively little exception, will be
received in lour per cent, bonds. The taxes upon
property and income respectively, are, to some ex
tent, nominal only—the ad valorem tax on prop
erty engaged in agriculture being discharged by
the credit of the tax in kind, and the income tax
on property diminished by the whole sum of the
ad valorem tax. These abatements, and the pay
ments in four per cent, bonds, result in reducing
the revenue from taxation (exclusive of the sol
diers’ tax) to about $40,000,000.
The accompanying able report of the Com
missioner of Taxes is referred to for much valu
able and interesting information on this important
subject.
Computing the property of the country at the
present estimated value, the following is the exist
ing rate of taxation, viz :
Value of real and personal proper
ty in currency, rated at five to
seven times the valuation of
1860, 24,659,449,551
Total amount of taxes, including
the tax in kind, and the soldiers’
tax, 287,000,000
Which is .at the rate of one and one sixth per
cent.
With this estimate of-the resources of the Con
federacy, the taxes proposed for the ensuing year
cannot be deemed necessary. The sum of $360,-
■ 000,000 reduced into specie at twenty dollars for
one dollar, is only $15,000,000, and this amount,
applied to the values of 1860, viz : $4,851,138,157,
is at the rate of less than one half of one per cent.
And if the calculation is made in currency, viz :
$360,000,0J)0, upon an assessment of $24,656,449,-
551, it would amount to one avd a half per cent.
And when it is remembered that with the p’ayment
of the taxes quarterly, a measure which I strongly
recommend, less than one fourth of the currency
will suffice for the quarter’s tax, and the amount
collected iu any one quarter will be restored to the
circulation before another becomes payable, it is
apparent that the resources of the country are
ample to meet the proposed increase of taxes.
It may be objected that the several measures
combined, will unduly reduce the circulation, and
expose tho country to the evils of a declining and
insufficient currency. The reply to this objection
is, that the evils predicated are, to some extent,
inseparable from the reduction of the currency
and the improvement of its value. Any measures
that are successful in effecting the desired reform
must of necessity, be followed by thß trials that
attend upon such a transaction. If Congress does
not interpose, and by some such measures as I
have ventured to recommend to restore the curren
cy, gradually, judiciously, and by means of vol
untary action, it will assuredly rectify itself by
some violent and disastrous convulsion.
To the Editor of the Charleston Mercury :
Re-Organization of the Army.—This sub
ject now attracts attention and various
schemes are afoot. No plan can succeed which
is not based upon the calculation of the num
ber of men each State can maintain for four
I years more, iu the field, (not how many men
can be rushed into the service, as was the case
in 1862) and upon merit. As to details of or
ganization, that is very simple. Suppose, for
instance, it is ascertained that 250,000 men
can be kept in arms—sub-divide inot proper
proportions of artillery—arrange the troops
by States into regiments and battalions, and
officer them with the best men in the service
men who are on the record as competent
for command —not for any such reason as,
that they were elected, perhaps without qual
ificationfor the position. So mnch for the
making up of your army, and when you have
got it, remember that however perfect it may
be, it is worthless without a staff able to
clothe, feed, medicine and instruct it.
When tbe army is solidified and made a
perfect institution, they should demand, as a
right, that men who have been notoriously in
competent in business should not be quarter
; masters and commissaries; that doctors, with
: out professional hopes before the war, should
: not be full surgeons ; and that those engin
! eers who have invariably located their works
! in the worst possible positions, and put them
i up so badly as to cause tbe labor to be re
i peated in a very short time, should no longer
be allowed to waste the money and labor of
the eoußtry.
What the country wants is an intelligent
staff, holding position on merit alone—let
i there be promotion up to high grades, for the
successful administration of affairs. With an
army of veterans, well officered—from lt le
petit corporals up to the highest grades, and
a staff as competent, as we can surely make
it. if we so elect, and without the aid of ne
groes, we can keep an army in the field,
which will achieve our independence, over all
the Yankees and hirelings, that the North can
muster. Charleston.
TELEGRAPHIC.
REPORTS of the press association.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year
1863, by J.. S. Thrash*, in the Clerk's office of
the District Court of the Confederate States for
the Northern District of Georgia.
To the People of Georgia ?
Richmond, Nov. IS. —You have now the best
opportunity ever yet presented to destroy the
enemy. Put everything at the disposal of our
Generals; remove all provisions from the path of
the enemy, and put all obstructions in his path.
Every citizen with his gun, and every negro with
his spade and axe, can do the work of a good
soldier. You can destroy the enemy by retarding
his march. Georgians! be firm, act promptly,
and fear not !
(Signed) B. H. Hill.
I most cordially approve tho above.
Jas. A. Seddon, Sec’y of War.
Macon, Nov. IS. — The excitement in town has
somewhat subsided.
No definite intelligence is known of the where
abouts of the enemy. They are supposed to be
still in the neighbornood of Griffin, burning
everything in their rear.
The enemy will meet a warm reception if they
attempt to come here.
The Yankee Navy.—ln a letter upon the sub
ject of the United States navy, Donald McKay,
the shipbuilder, states that the following vessels
are now in process of construction for the Gov
ernment :
Chattanooga, three thousand tons ; Idaho, three
thousand tons ; Madawaska, Wampanoag, Nesh
aming, Ammononoosae and Pampanoosac, all
wooden vessels of three thousand two hundred
tons, intended to have a speed of sixteen knots per
hour and to carry immense batteries.
Besides, there are in progress of building, twen
ty first-class wooden screw-steamers, of two thous
and two hundred tons each, to have a speed of
thirteen knots, to be full-rigged for ocean steam
ers, and to carry enormous batteries. They are
named the Antietam, Arapaho, Guerriere, Passaic,
Illinois, Java, Iveosauqua, Kewaydin, Manitou,
Minnetonka, Moshola, Ontario, Piscatqua, Push
mataha, Tahgayuta, Wanaloset, Watauga, Wil
liamette, Contoocook and Mondamin, and will
soon be completed. While these vessels are build
ing there have been completed tho Nipsic, Shaw
mut, Nyack, Pequot, Maumee, Kansas, Yantic
and Saco—ail screw vessels of five hundred and
ninety-three tons each.
There are now nearly completed the wooden
iron-clad coast steamers Tonawauda, Miantono
man, Agamentions and Monadnock, of one thous
and five hundred and sixty four tons, drawing
twelve feet of water, and having two turrets each,
carrying two 15 inch guns. The Monadnock has
been tried, and is found capable of achieving a
maximum speed of eleven knots.
There are also in process ot construction four
other iron-clads of the same type, but larger, and
to be faster. They are the Kalamazoo, Passacoli
away, Quinsigamond and Shackamaxon, # each of
three thousand two hundred tons. The depart
ment has also constructed seventy-four wooden
and iron-clad vessels of the Monitor type, with an
aggregate tonnage of seventy-eight thousand one
hundred tons. There are now in the navy, in ac
tive service five hundred and fifty-eight steamers,
with an aggregate tonnage of 408,000 tons,
against the original 26 steamers and 49,700 tons
with which the war commenced. Os this num
ber, 200 steamers, with an aggregate of 241,000
tons, have been built.
The Yankees on the Negro Soldier Ques
tion —The New York Times has an editorial
founded on the presumption that the Confede
ey has determined to put an army of three
hundred thousand slaves in the field, and
argues is an acknowledged failure of the
rebellion, it says:
What the South is now fighting for, the re
fore is the establishment of the Confederacy
not as a slave society, but as a free one ; in
other words, to detach half this cont inent from
the jurisdiction of the United States Govern
ment without reference to the form of politi
cal or social organization which is to exist on
it afterward ; and as the white population has
been too much weakened to effect this, object;
it proposes to accompbish it by the aid of an
army of negroes, dragged against their will
from the plantation to the field of battle. To
this complexion it has come at last.
What the North has now between it and
peace is an] army of negro slaves, bought like
cattle for the service, and fighting under the
lash. We think this news should send a
thrill of joy through the whole country. After
having done and dared so much, after having
met and frustrated a most desperate attempt,
made by one of the most warlike races in the
world, to found a slave empire on our soil, we
are hardly linely to lay down our arms, now
that the integrity of the Union is threatened by
an army of purchased blacks. W hat the mas
ters .have tried in vain, the slaves shall
certainly not accomplish. “We have despised
Catiline’s sword ; we shall certainly not
quail before yours.” If there were any
shrinking now, the dead who perished in the
fiercest of the struggle would mock us from
their graves.
General Lee.—The New York Herald
Says :
“The Rebel General is constantly on the
move. He evidently feels that the crisis is
at length at. hand and the last ditch soon to
be reached. We hear of him all over. To
day he may make his appearance on our front,,
and, after a rapid review of the situation, be
fore night be on the extreme right of the Reb
el position to meet any attempt of General
Grant to occupy the Southside or Weldon
roads. The immense strain that this man
keeps upon his mental and physical system
cannot last much longer. Human nature will
give way, and if the rebellion continues it
will soon be without its General.”
This is a Yankee wish, but the contrary is
tbe fact, so far as General Lee’s health is con
cerned.
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The Chickamauga.—The New York Herald, of
the Bth, in its situation article, says:
We have accounts of further work of the rebel
privateers. The bark Speedwell, which arrived
at Philadelphia yesterday, was boarded on the 2d
instont, in north latitude 40:30, latitude 69:10, by
the Chickamauga, and bonded for eighteen thou
sand dollars. The British bark Victoria, which
also arrived at Philadelphia yesterday, reports
that on the evening of the 31st ult. she saw an
American vessel of about three hundred tons on
fire at sea. No human being-was seen on or near
the burning vessel, and when the Victoria left
her, she was consumed to the water’3 edge.
The schooner Otter, from Bangor to George
town, was destroyed by the Chickamauga about
the last of October, and her captain and crew
arrived at Philadelphia, yesterday, on board the
Speedwell.
The Richmond Examiner states that the
officers controlling the Confederate States mil
itary telegraph are about to open a school in
that city for the instruction of young ladies in
the art of telegraphing. This step towards in
novation is taken in view of the increasing
demand for telegraph operators, and impera D
tive necessity which calls every able-bodied
man into the armies. Can they teach the dear
creatures to keep secrets ?
Skulkers. —A gentleman just from Europe,
via Bermuda and Wilmington, states that he saw
in London and Paris nearly a division of able
bodied “refugees” from the Confederate States,
a large majority of whom are skulkers from mil.
itary duty. Let their names be ascertained and
registered.
Tbe wealthiest English noblemen are the Duke
of Northumberland, the Duke of Cleveland, the
Duke of Bedford, the Duke of Sutherland, the
Marquis of Westminster, and the Earl of Dudley,
neither of whose incomes is le*3 than $200,000 a
year, while some exceed it nearly by one half.
Madam Erlanger, daughter of the Hon. John
Slidell, has announced her intention of getting up
a bazaar in the French capital for the benefit es
Southern soldier? wounded in battle.
I 1 jEX 3E2 CITY.
T. J. JACKSON LOCAL EDITOR.
Auction Sales.— At auction yesterday by Ro
sette, La whon A Cos., one negro woman and three
ohildfen, $5,600 ; one boy, 17 years old, $4,200;
one negro girl, 10 years old, $2,700 ; one house
and lot on Jackson Street, $17,500 ; the Bize lot
in this city, $3,000 ; house and lot near the Mus
cogee Depot, $4,350 ; 70 shares Mobile A Girard
Railroad stock, $l5O per share ; Salt, CO cents;
other articles unimportant.
Tea ! Tea ! —By reference to an advertisement
it will be seen that lovers of genuine black and
green tea can be supplied by application at Mul
ford’s old stand, Broad Street, Columbus, Ga.—
We are indebted to the owners for a sample of
each, and from its appearance and odor, we should
judge it to be equal to the best. Give it a trial
and form your owu opinion of its merits.
Exchanged Prisoners. —A large number of
our exchanged prisoners, averaging over two hun
dred a day, pas 9 through this city, and the greater
number of them are utterly destitute of food and
clothing. Many of them are in such a condition
from badly treated and unhealed wounds and
sickness, that they are in a very helpless condi
tion. To roliovo their distress, and to assist them
on their way home, it would be a Christian charity
for our people to effect arrangements by which
they could be fed and assisted in whatever man-*
her is necessary at the depot, when they change
from one train of cars to another.
Very often, the trains do not rnako connection ;
then the only place they can get food and resting
place is at the Wayside Home. We are informed
that its capacity is daily taxed to the utmost, and
that a great deal of assistance is needed. Food
and raiment will be most acceptable, and is so ne
cessary that the appeal should be heeded by every
one who can help in any manner.
The good people of Savannah have entered into
the work with a noble spirit that should be emu
lated by our citizens with an earnest and devoted
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zeal, worthy of so great and patriotic an object.—
Their efforts to relieve the distress of these men f
exhibit a charity and excellence of heart tha t will
mark for them a prominent place in the history es
this war. Let our people dij their duty as well,
and Providence wiH still provide his blessings
for us.
The Key to Richmond.
AS SUNG BY GENERAL GRANT.
The following, from our contributor, John
Black, has been heretofore published, but will bea r
repetition :
I’ve looked for lo ! these many days,
And sent out men on many ways,
To - find the Key to Richmond.
But they, with one accord, agree
’Twas found and hid by old man Lee,
To keep me back from Richmond.
Old Abo is mad at my delay,
And wants to know what is to pay,
What keeps me out of Richmond ?
He says my troops are very brave,
And don’t hold back my men to save,
But forward on to Richmond.
He does not know what it has cost
To find this Key McClellan lost,
In trying first for Richmond.
One hundred thousand men at least,
And those they killed up for the Beast,
Is my attempt for Richmond.
I told old Abe, in words so fine,
That I would “fight upon this line”
At least a year for Richmond.
But this infernal cuss, old Lee,
He locked that road up with the key,
And kept me out of Richmond.
I’ve tried another—Lee is there—
I wish old Abe was here to share
This pleasant trip to Richmond !
He’d find the lock was hard to pick,
And rebels they were very thick,
That guard the road to Richmond.
Some other plan must now be found
To travel o’er this sacred ground,
The bloody path to Richmond.
The only way that I can see,
Is—ground our arms, and ask friend Lee,
In smiling tones and peaceful Key,
To let us look at Richmond.
[communicated.]
About Peace.
Mr. Editor : No doubt nine-tenths pf the people
of this Cenfederacy desire peace—a lasting and
honorable peace. Some have been looking to the
result of the President’s election in the North,
some to foreign intervention, and some to other
causes; but the solution of the problem is not in
any of these. It is recorded in God’s holy writ
of truth that, “When a nation’s ways please the
Lord, He maketh their enemies to be at peace
with them.” If the people of this Confederacy
would only realize this great truth, and act accord
ingly, wars and bloodshed would soon cease from
among us. God’s truth, which stands firmer than
the foundations of the earth, is pledged to this
Let all who earnestly desire peace enlist to fight
under the banner of the PRINCE OP PEACE.
No wonder the sons of God shouted for joy when,
illuminated by the morning stars, He descended to
earth and tabernacled in clay. The archangel’s
trump sounds the glad tidings of “peace on earth
and good will to man.” All power in heaven and
earth is delivered to Him; and when He who
knoweth the secrets of all hearts sees that we are
prepared to receive the blessing, it will come
Let U3 resolve, then, before we drain the bitter
cup, which is now at our lips, to its dregs, to turn
from our wicked ways, and tr y to please Him
who maketh wars to cease.
Northern Items.
The Globe and Telegraph printing officeein
St. Johns, New Brunswick, were destroyed by
fire on the 6th inst.
A dispatch from Toronto, Canada, dated the
18th inst., says that startling developments
in regard to the secret treasonable doing3
of the body of “ Penian Brotherhood ”
were being made in that city. Secreted
arms had been found and the leaders in
the conspiracy were being arrested. There
was existing a painful feeling of insecurity in
consequence of these disclosures.
Northern papers of the 9th have a report
from New Orleans, that the Confederates re
cently succeeded in crossing a second drove
of fourteen hundred cattle' from the west to
the east side o/the Mississippi river. Simms
port and Morgan’s ferry, Louisiana, are now
held by the Union troops.
The blockaders captured the blockade run
ners steamers Annie and Lucy—the former
on the 31st ult., and the latter ou the 2d inst.
The Annie had on board five hundred bales
of cotton and thirty tons of tobacco, and the
Lucy over four hundred bales of cotton and
twenty-five tons of tobacco.
A dispatch received in Chicago on the. 7th
stated that the Canadian steamer Georgiana
had been fitted out as a Confederate privateer,
and was then cruising on Lake Huron.
The Philadelphia Bulletin has a dispatch
from Cape May, stating that the recent report ,
of the Tallahassee originated from the salute
fired from Fort Delaware on the arrival of the I
United States gunboat Galena.
List of Grand and Petit Jurors for the Nov.
Term L 64 of Muscogee Superior Court.
grand jurors.
Vs™ J P Manlv,*
, E M Clark. W G Woolfolk.
L 1 W aikins, E Schley
.lames Cooper, J C Moses,
John B Baird, J MePhifips,
J A Strother, John McGougb
J J Grant, K C Pearce,
A Hunter, P J Philips,
Win Snow. A B Bostick,
F C Tillman, Emanuel Rich,
J S Colbert, S Rothschild,
J W Sappington, C E Dexter,
G H Betz, Samuel Johnson,
W G Johnson, H T Hall.
John Roqueinore, Watkins Banks,
A II DeWitt, J J Bradford,
W A Beach, S Woodfield,
Thos C Ruse, L G Bowers.
PETIT JURORS.
E C Burns, W Kicker,
U P Miller, James Lovelace,
E W Reeves, J F Tillman,
to Smith, T M Hogan,
John E Lamar, Thos Kidd,
L J Harris, Thos Cary,
Wm Jones, H A Garrett,
W P Coleman, S B Ilodc,
N Miller, D Walstan,
M C AVooten, J L Clark,
John Durkin, George McGinty,
Jerre Jones, A 0 Coleman,
J M Armstrong, AV II Harris,
James Clem, II T Hood,
John Jenkins, T J Willis,
S Wall. J T Campagniac,
T J Doles, N Culpepper,
J T Langford, A Silvers,
G W Crouch, Henry Newsom,
G H Smith, llobt Massey,
James Dent, Wm Jor.es,
AY B Ledgar, J AV Parsons,
C E Johnson, J M Craven,
John AA’amack, John 11 Hull.
A true extract from the Minutes,
novl9-tf F. M. BROOKS, Cleri
On Consignment.
i A BARRELS SUPERIOR WHEAT WHIS-
J_V KEY, and for sale by
novl9-3t HANSERD & AUSTIN
House and Loi Tor Sale.
ON the Ist Tuesday in December next I will sc !
(unless previously sold at private sale) in Ham
ilton the house and lot in that town known as the
late residence of Dr. Gibbs. The lot contains about
one acre, and the houso has ten fine rooms. If not
sold on that day, the premises will bo rented to the
highest bidder for tlio ensuing year.
novl9-6t L. M. DIGGERS
Found.
A BUNCH OF KEYS, which the owner can get by
A calling at THIS OFFICE and paying for adver
tisement. nov!9-tf
BLACK AND GREEN TEASr
1 a HALF-CHESTS BLACK, and five QUARTEIt
-1U CHESTS GREEN. These teas have been se
lected in the London market, and be found
equal to any over offered for sale hero. For sale at
Mulford’s old stand. novl9-6t.
Headquarters Post, \
Columbus, Ga., November 17,1864, /
Order. No. 18.
11. All men retired from service that have report
ed and filed their papers at this office, will report at
these Headquarters on Saturday, 19th inst., at 11
o’clock, a. m., for the purpose of being mustered for
pay. LEON VON ZINKEN,
Col. Comd’g Post.
S. Isidore Guillet, Lieut, and Post Adj’t.
novlß-2t
For Marshal.
THOMAS P. CALLIER is announced as a candi
date for re-election to the office of City Marshal.
novlß-td*
AUCTION SALES,
By Fill*, Livingston & Cos.
ON Saturday, 19th November at 11 o’clock, we
will sell in front of our store
1 Large Iron Sate.
novlß-td $4
Bv Fllis ? Livingston A Cos.
YXTE will sell on Saturday, 19th November, at
U 11 o’clock, in front of our store
65 Bbls. Salt,
13 Boxes Tobacco,
5 Sacks Sugar,
6 Broad Cloth Coats,
20 Pairs French Shoes,
FURNITURE, CROCKERY, BOOKS,
&c., Ac.
novlß-td „ $S
T> IRY <3* O O ID SI .
GROCERIES, AC,,
AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, BY
H. U"is.cliaclicr.
MEAT, FLOUR, SYRUP, SODA, SPICE,
&C., &C.
Copperas, Snuff, Tobacco, Segar.?.
Coffee, Tea, Tumblers, Sleys,
Shakers, Osnaburgs,
Macon Sheetings,
Yarns, Cotton Cards,
Playing Cards,
Mason’s Blacking,
Overshirts, Dress Goods,
Linen, Linen Handkerchiefs, Pin-
Powder, Shot, Caps,
Pencils, Whiting, Toilet and other
Soaps,
Knitting Needles, Flutes,
Hosiery, Debage,
' Writing Paper, Envelopes,
Country Jeans, &c.
novll 6t H. FISCHACHER.
For Sale.
I OFFER for sale my residence in Whites ville.oz.
the LaGrange and Columbus road, fifteen mile;
south of LaGrange—a good and commodious house
with six rooms, four fire places; all necessary out
buildings ; a good garden, and forty acres of land
attached. Possession given immediately.
Also, one fine HARNESS HORSE.
43U Address me at West Point, Georgia.
novlß-10t Captain W. A. ANDREWS
S3O Reward.
THE above reward will be paid for the apprehen
sion and confinement in the jail of Muscogee
of county M. L. Patterson, about forty years of age,
red hair and red whiskers. He was furloughed Aug.
12th, 1864, for 30 days, and has failed to report. He
promised to report to me in this city on Wednesday,
the 16th inst,; but instead of doing so has seat .me
a legal document, of no value in his case, as he is a
deserter. W. L. SALISBURY.
novlß-3t Major, Ac.
sweetoranges7 _
A large lot just received and for sale by
EDWARD BUTT, At 114, Broad St.
novlß-3t
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ON the 16th instant, between Columbus and Bull
_ Creek, on the Talbotton road, a large russet calf
skin POCKET BOOK, containing between seven
teen and eighteen hundred dollars in old issue and
about three hundred and fifty of new issue, and a
number of valuable papers. A liberal reward will
be paid for the pocket book and contents, delivered
at the Times Office, or to me at my residence, nine
miles from Columbus. A. MAGRUDER.
nov!7-3t.
AN EXCELLENT PLANTATION
FOR SALE.
S' EVEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY ACRES
-350 open —nearly all fresh —in splendid repair—
excellent fences. Gin house* lots, gates, cabins:
healthy, well watered, nice young orchard - T every
thing new; 12 miles below Auburn, near Society
Hill, in Macon county, Ala.—all conveniently ar
ranged, with fine outlet and range lor stock. Dana
fertile, soft, and easy of cultivation : an excellent
neighborhood —out of the reach of ordinary raids.
Will take Negroes or Cotton in payment lor hall the
price if purchaser desires it.
Also, ten open Sows, three ordinary Mules, and
five Mitch Cows, that will have calves between this
rime and «Dring. See me at Auburn, Ala.
time aua.pnng W M.F. SAMFORD.
’ Sun copy and send bill to me.
rl6-d3tw t
Dr7G, B. HEARD,
(Late Surgeon P. A. C, S.)
OFFERS his Professional Services to the citizens
of Columbus. Office at Dr. Carter's Drugstore.
Can! be found at night at the residence of Wm. C.
Gray, in Linwood. [novlOlm*