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DAILY TIMES. J. W. WAKRExV, - - - Editor. COLUMBUS: Saturday Morning, November 19, 18G4. g- —— 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. r 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. ♦ ♦ 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 * 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 ______ 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*