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DAILY TIMES,
j, w. WARREN & CO., Proprietors.
•üblished Daily (Sundays excepted) at th® rat® of
ji5.00 per month, or sls tor three months.
No subscription received for a longer term than
t ■' Months*
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
CASUAL DAILY ADVERTISING BATES.
Advertisements inserted once—s 4 per square,
regular daily advertising bates.
First Week—s3 00 per square for each insertion.
Second Week— s 2 00 per square for each insertion.
Thvrd Week—sl 50 por square for each insertion.
Fourth Week—sl 00 per square for each insertion.
Second Month— s-30 per square.
Third Month—s2s per square.
Ijluuige of $4 lit edit le.
•>! Kir : Engineer and Superintendent, )
Ub irleston and Savannah Railroad, >
GharlestoD, June 7,1804. j
,N THU RSDAY, June 9, 1864, and until further
notice, ;he Schedule of the P;issei)ger train will
> -■ as follow, viz:
Leave Charleston...' 9.45, a. m.
Arrive ; : Savannah .5.40, p. m.
Leave Savannah 5.30, a. in.
Arrive in Charleston 1.15, p. m.
Tliin Train makes direct connections, going north
and south, with the Northeastern Railroad at Char
leston, ami the Central Railroad at the Junction.
11. S. HAINES,
.1 r.no 14 ts Engineer and Superintendent.
Change oi Schedule.
, |N and after Sunday, June 19th, the Trains on
' .‘he uscogee Railroad will run as follows :
PASSENGER TRAIN:
Leave Columbus 6 45 P. M.
Arrive at Macon 3 25 A. M.
Leave Macon 8 10 P. M.
Arrive at Columbus 4 25 A. M.
FREIGHT TRAIN:
Lea ve Columbus .5 00 A. M.
U'l'ive at Columbus 4 55 A. M.
W.L. CLARK,
am ,i lats Supt. Muscogee R, R.
Through to Montgomery.
NEW SCHEDULE.
MONTGOMERY & WEST POINT
RAILROAD COMPANY.
COLUMBUS. August 27.1864.
i \N and after August 27th. the Passenger Train 911
*/ the Montgomery ahd West Point Railroad will
Leave M ontgouiery at 8:00 a. m.
Loavo West Point at 7:10 a. in.
Arrive at Columbus at 5:32 p. m.
Ijcavo Columbus at 5:50 a. m.
/Driveat Montgomery at 3:00 p.m.
A rrivo at West Potnt at 4130 p. m.
Freight Train leaves Columbus at 8:40 a m.
drrives at 8:27 p m
D. 11. CRAM, Sup’t & Eng;
ag27lß64—tf
MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE*
Girard, Ala., Oct 7,1864.
ON and aftor 10th inst. Trains on this Road will
Run Daily (Sunday excepted,) as follows:
l’assenger Train.
Leave Girard at 1 30 p. in.
Arrive in Union Springs 600 “
Leave Union Springs 5 35 a. m.
Arrive in Girard at; 10 00
Freight Train.
Leave Girard at 4 00 a. m.
Arrive in Girard at 6 00 p. m.
13. E. WELLS,
aglßt.f ' Eng. & Sup’t.
W-AIsTTED.
A N OVERSEER. One without family, who has
."A lost an arm in the service, and thereby unfit for
military service preferred.
Apply to ROBERT R. HOWARD,
Beynolds, Taylor Gounty.
MRS. CHAS. J. WILLIAMS,
nov2l-tf Columbus, Ga.
WANTED!
r AAA LBS. ofTALLOW, for which a liberal price
J>OUU will bo paid. Apply to
F. W. DILLARD,
sp7 ts Major and Q. M,
Wanted
mO HIRE —Four or Five able bodied Negroes.—
I Good wages given. Apply a: our Government
W orks.
oc 28 ts JOHN D. GRAY k CO.
Wanted to Eanpioy
A GOVERNESS in a private family for a limited
number of scholars, in the country, a short dist
ance from Columbus. Address Box 16.
oo3l2w’s W. G. W.
House and Lot tor Sale,
THE subscriber desires to sell a House and Lot in
A ltussoll 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
each. There are on theloi also a stable and poultry
house. The lot contains two acres. For further in
formation apply at the Eagle Factory, to
nov 10-10t* W. S. O’BANNON.
SOOO HewarcL !
QTOLEN out of my stable, 2 miles from Columbus,
O on tho Crawford road, on Thursday night last,
TWO 3VCXJI_.es,
one a small bay mare Mule, blind in tbo right eye.
The othor a black mare Mule, medium size, with
Avhith mouth and whitp spot on rump. Both in good
order.
I will pay tho above reward for the delivery of
tho Mules with the thief, with proof sufficient to
convict, or Two Hundred Dollars for tho Mules.
11 M. CLECKLEY.
Columbus, Ga., Nov. 9, 1861 —ts
_ <t'*f"Sun please copy.
WANTED.
lAAA BUSHELS CORN, for which we will pay
lvl/1 ‘ cash or exchange Salt,
nov 12 6t JEFFERSON & HAMILTON.
and Enquirer copy.
s‘ls dollars Reward.
QTRAYED from my place in Wynnton, a dark
0 bay mare MULE, about nine years old, hair
rubbed off of both hips and a largo scar on tho right
hindquarter. JOHN COOK.
oc 13 U
SIOO -Reward.
WILL be paid for a negro boy named Henry, who
ranaway about two months ago. lie is about 5
feet 8 inches high; woigfcs about 100 or 170 lbs.; com-
Slexion yellow; fine looking; when laughing has
imples in both cheeks, it is probablo he went to
Atlanta with some of tho troops from this city.
oc6 ts B. M. CLECKLEY.
330
VTEGRu boy CHARLEY ; about 25 years old, yel-
AA low complexion, hair nearly straight, below or
dinary intelligence ; left Mr. Nat. Thompson’s near
Box Springs, Talbot county. T bought him of a
Mr. Brown, a refugee from Mississippi, who now
resides in Tuskeget, Ala, 11 e originally came from
Charleston, S. C. A suitab.o reward will be paid
for his delivery at this office, or in any safe jail and
information sent to mo at tliis office.
JAMES M. RUSSELL.
Columbu’s Ga., aug 1 ts *
A GOOD PLANTATION
Foi* Sale.
| N Macon county, Alabama, lying directly on the
1 Montgomery and West Point Railroad. The
tract contains 1,200 acres—about 700 cleared. There
is a comfortable Dwelling House on the place, good
Negro cabins with brick ehiiuni.es and all the noces
sary out-buildings. Lho land is productive and
location desirable. Possession given in November.
For further information apply to
DAVID ADAMS.
oc 27 lin Cblumbus, Ga.
mery Advertiser; (Amstitntionalis, Augusta, coi>y.
To Dealt,
A BLACKSMITH SHOP vr ith six or seven Forges.
A o. , 3itP P “ t, ‘ Al ’ l ‘ ly '" t THIS '.IfI'ICE.
PERU? SOUSE.
rIE undersigned would respectfully inform his
old friends, patrons, and the traveling public
generally, that as ho has to be absent for a short
time ho has been so fortunate as to have associated
with him his well known and worthy friend Mr.
EDWARD PARSONS, late of Atlanta. Ga., whose
reputation and superior t ct for business is well
known throughout the Confederacy. This House
is large and commodious, and no pains, nor expense
shall be spared to tit it up in the very best and most
elegant style, and to obtain every thing in the line
of substantial eatable* and luxuries that this
market affords. With tu«sse assurances we most
cordially solioit all our old friends, and the travel-
public generally,to give us acall and an oppor
tunity of rendering them comfortable.
oclolm* TUPS. E. SMITH.
Executor’s Notice.
after date application will he ma le
$ f Ordinary of Taylor county, for
Fstnfr 1 J> b £u ie t r 0 ? 8 ,S n £ P®rishable property of
ofsaid coumy LlZabelh Johnßon * deceased, late
n * on o. ** SAMUEL K. JOHNSON, Ex’r
Oct. 20w2m* Per THOS. D. BRAND.
#
VOL. Xl.}
Or. BACON,
HAYING returned to the city, maybe found at
night at the residence of Mr. James A. Chap
man, upper end of Jackson street.
Messages left during the day on the slate at his
office will be attended to. nov2l-2t*
‘ Dr, G, It. HEARD,
(Late Surgeon P. A. C, S.)
OFFERS his Professional Services to the citizens
of Columbus. Office at Dr. Carter’s Drug Store..
Can be found at night at the residence of Win. C.
Gray, in Linwood. [nov 10 lm*
Dr. H, NOBLE,
ZDELsTTIST,
. T PernbertoD & Carter’s old stand, bacx room of
ft Smith’s Jewelry Store, where he can be found
all hours, foe 18 6m
STEHIaIAG EXCHAAWJE!
* FEW Hundred Pounds of Sterling Exchange
» for sale in sums to suit purchasers by
%gl6 tl BANK OF COLUMBUS.
NOTICE
To Mississippi Soldiers!
TIIE “MISSISSIPPI DEPOT” and Office of
« 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,
sep‘2B ts f Agent.
Government Sheep for Exchange.
9i;A HEAD SHEEP will be exchanged for Bacon
and 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. 2,1864—ts
Notice—Lands for Sale.
rHE subscriber offers for sale one of the most val
uable plantations in Florida—containing 1,882
acres in Wakulla county, Florida; about 550 acres
cleared and under good fence —the balance good
oak and hickory, and splendid hatnoc land, suited
for short and long cotton, and tobacco. Good im
provements, dwelling house, two gin houses and
screws, tobacco barns, overseer’s house, and houses
enough to shelter 100 negroes; school house, black
smith shop, cooper shop, &c., <fcc.—lying near the
Gulf, where fish, oysters and foul can be had at any
timo. I will take twenty dollars per acre for the
above described lands, cash paid in hand.
I have a fishery also, in seven miles of the planta
tion, which I will also sell low with the place.
I refer persons to Major Allcd, of Columbus, to
whom I have written all about the lands and their
advantages. J. BRADWELL,
nov2l-3t*
For Sale.
I OFFER for sale my residence in Whitesvillo, on
the LaGrange and Columbus road, fifteen miles
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.
Address me at West Point, Georgia.
novlß-10t Captain W. A. ANDREWS.
S3O Reward.
THE ahove 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 IGtb i us r , ; but instead of doing so has sent mo
a legal document, of no value in his case, as he is a
deserter. W. L. SALISBURY,
novlß-3t Major, &c.
~ LOST.
- \N the 16th instant, between Columbus and Bull
' Creek, on the Talbotton road a large russet calf
skin POCK EX BOOK, co Gaining 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 libiral reward will
bo paid for tho pocket book and contents, delivered
at the Times Oftice, or to me at my residence, nine
miles from Columbus. A. MAGRUDER.
novl7-3t.
AN EXCELLENT PLANTATION
FOB. SAX.B.
tfEVEN 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; 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. . Land
fertile, soft, and easy of cultivation; an excellent
neighborhood— out of the reach of ordinary raids.
Will take Negroes or Cotton in payment for half tho
price if purchaser desires it.
Also, ten open Sows, throe ordinary Mules, and
five Milch Coics, that will have calves between this
time and spring. See me at Auburn, Ala.
WM. F. SAMFORD.
48f ' Sun copy and send bill to me.
,*l6-d3tw t
Notice.
('I RAND and Petit Jurors summoned to appear at
T the May Term, 1864, of the Scpcrior Court of
Mnscogee county, are hereby notified to be and ap
pear at tho 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. Warrell, Judge of
said court.
Oct 31.1864-td F. M. BROOKS, Clerk.
Ag-Enquirer and Sun copy until day.
SI,OOO Reward.
STOLEN from tho premises of George Kidd, in
Troup county, on the Bth instant, a sorrel roan
mare, about five feet high, five years old ; three
white feet, two behind and one in front; left bind
leg newly scarred between the hock and ancle
joint, four or five ir dies in length. White spot on
tho forehead about the size of a silver dollar. Scar
under the left eye.
_ One thousand dollars will bo paid for the detec
tion of the thief and the mare, or five hundred for
the mare, and no questio s asked.
uovl4 7t GEO. KIDD.
House and Lot for Sale.
ON the Ist Tuesday in December next I will sell
(unless previously sold at private sale) in Ham
ilton the house and lot iu that town known as the
late residence of Dr. Gibbs. The lot contains about
one acre, and the house has ten tine rooms. If not
sold on that cay, the pre ises will bo rented to the
highest bidder for the ensuing year.
nov!9-6t L, M- BIGGERS.
Found.
* BUNCH OF KEYS, which theownercan get by
jfx calling at THIS OF FI E and paying for adver
tisement. nov!9-tf
BLACK AND GREEN TEAS.
1 a HALF-CHESTS BLACK, and fiveQUARTER
-1(J CHESTS GREEN. These teas have been se
lected in the London market, and will be found
equal to any ever offered for sale here. For sale at
Mui ford’s old stand. novl9-6t.
To Rent
'PHE Finest Store Room in the city. Corner
* under Cook's Hotel. Call at
nov 11 10c CODY & COLBERT.
Laid
"■ \ ANTED in exchange for Sheetings, Osnaburgs
'? * and Yarns, at the „
nov slm EAGLE FACTORY.
EXECUT US SALE.
•,A t ILL be sold on the 22d of this inst., before the
’t Court House door in the town of Newnan,
Coweta county, Ga., by consent of the heirs inter
ested. a portion ot the
NBGiaoias
belonging to the estate of Harrison McLarin, dec’d,
names as joiK-ws : Bill, m»n do years of age ; Su
san, 35 jears; Sarah, lk ' ears : Edmund, 14 years;
George 10 years; Jennie. 3 ye.rs; Lou, 6 years;
Lizzie, 3 years: Lela. 2 years; Sarah, a woman 26
years; Laura, 10 years; Roscoe, 8 years; Fannie,
5 vears; Cal ie, 2 years; Furuy, a man 4S years:
Linda, 4S years ; Dave, a man 40 years; Perry, 24
years; Calvin, 18 years; George, 13 years. The
above properly sold for the purpose of division.
Terms Cash. - W. H. McLARTN, ?tj >„
Dovlo-ou W. B. SWANN. S** ”•
SALT.
IHJUK’S Island or Aiumn, Coast, and Virginia
Salt f<>r sale, or exchange for country produce,
novlti l w J R. IVEY & CO.
Colton Notice.
A LL Storage not paid in Ten Days, the Cotton
will be sold to pay it. _____
nov S lOt CODA. & COLBERT.
COLUMBUS, GA., TUESDAY, NOV. 22, 1864
SPECIAL JNOTICES
To Printers !
TT’E offer for «ale a complete BOOK BINDERY,
»r (except Ruling Machine,) two hand PRESSES,
and about
1,000 Pounds of Type Metal.
nov2l-tf
[Extract.]
Keadq’rs Army of Tennessee, \
In the Field, Oct. 28th, 1864. j
General Field Orders I
No. 133. j
11. Each District Commander in this Department
will assign Mo duty, with his headquarters, a compe
tent officer, as Dis rict Provost Marshal, who shall,
under the orders of the District Commander, and
the Provost Marshal General of the Department,
have entire control of all matters pertaining to the
Provost Marshal department. He will report to the
Provost Marshal General and bo subject to his or
ders in all matters relating to passports, the arrest,
custody, and disp >sition of officers and soldiers be
longing to the Army of Tennessee. In all other
matters he will be subject only to the orders of the
District Commander, except that the Provost Mar
shal General may call for special reports in regard
to any matter in any way affecting the Army of
Tennessee, to be forwarded through the District
Commander.
By command of Gen. Cobb.
(Signed) JAMES COOPER,
Official: ‘iapt. and A. A. A. G.
E. J. llarvil, Col. and General.
Official: # LAMAR COBB,
Major and A. A. G.
HEADQUARTERS GEORGIA RESERVES,)
and Military District of Georgia, >
Macon, Ga, Nov. 14, 1864.)
general Orders \
No. 28. S
I. In compliance with the above order Captain C.
W. Peden is appointed Provost Marshal of this Dis
trict, to whom all Provost Marshals will report.
By command of
Maj. Gen. HOWELL COBB,
Commanding, Ac.
LAMAR COBB,
nov!8-5t Major and A. A. General.
Insurance Notice.
[7 ROM this date the rates of Insurance upon Cot
l ton in Warehouses in this city, until further
notice, will be as follows: *
1 month, %; 2mos., 1)4; 3 mos„ 4 mos., 2%;
5 mos., 2)4; 6 mos., 3.
D. F. Wilcox, Sec’y and Agent,
H. H. Epping, Agert,
H. W. Edwards, Agent,
L. Livingston. Agent,
John Munn, Agent,
A. Pond, Agent,
Greenwood & Gray, Agents,
David Hudson, Agent. *
Columbus, Ga., Nov. 19,1864. nov2l-lw
OFFICE SOUTHERN EXPRESS,
Columbus, Ga., Oct., 29, 1864.
NO Freight will be received at the Southern Ex
press Company’s Office after 3]4 o’clock p. M.t 0
go East on that day, nor will any be received to go
West after 4J4 o’clock p M.
oc 29 ts S.H. HILL, Agent.
List of Grand and Petit Jurors for the Nov.
Term 1864 of Mnscogee Superior Court.
GRAND JURORS.
Wra Mizoll, .J P Manly,
E M Clark, W G Woolfolk,
L F Watkins, E Schley,
James Cooper, J C Moses,
John B Baird, J McPhilips,
J A Strother, John McGough,
J J Grant, R C Pearce,
A Hunter, P J Philips,
Wm Snow, A B Bostick,
F C Tillman, - Emanuel Rich,
J S Colbert, S Rothschild,
J W Sappington, C E Dexter,
GHBetz, Samuel Johnson,
W G Johnson, H T Hall.
John Roquemore, 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, .
H P Miller, James Lovelace,
E W Reeves, J F Tillman,
S Smith, T M Hogan,
John E Lamar, Thos Kidd,
L J Harris, Thos Cary,
Wm Jones, II A Garrett,
W P Coleman, S B Hodo,
N Miller, D Walstan,
M C Wooten, J L Clark,
John Durkin, George McGinty,
Jerre Jones, AG Coleman,
J M Armstrong, W H Harris,
James Clem, H T Hood,
John Jenkins, T J Willis,
S Wall, J T Campagniao,
T J Doles. N Culpepper,
J T Langford, A Silvers,
G W Crouch, Henry Newsom,
G H Smith, Robt Massey,
James Dent, Wm Jones,
W B Ledgar, J W Parsons,
C E Johnson, J M Graven,
John Wamack, John R Hull.
A true extract from the Minutes,
nov!9-tf F. M. BROOKS, Clerk.
For Marshal.
THOMAS P. CALLIER is announced as a candi
date for re-election to the office of City Marshal.
novlß.-td* __
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 of 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 MANY VOTERS.
novl4 te*
For Se\ton.
ROBERT T. SIMONS is announced as a candi
date for re-election to the office of Sexton at the
ensuing election in December, nov2l-td
Produce Wanted,
In exchange for Iron suitable for plantation pur
poses. Apply to SHERMAN & Co. f
novl4 2w. Masonic Hall, up stairs.
Notice.
The office of Capt. B. A. THORNTON is removed
to Agency Bank of Charleston, over Spencer’s
Store, novls-st.
On Consignment.
-1 A BARRELS SUPERIOR WHEAT WHIS
IU KEY, and for sale by
nov!9-3t HANSERD & AUSTIN.
SWEET ORANGES.
A large lot just received and for.sale by
EDWARD BUTT, At 114, Broad St.
novlß-3t
"Large consignment
OF
LETTER PAPER!
AND
MEMORANDUM BOOKS!
For sale by
J. K. REDD & CO.
oc 12 ts
To Rent,
For Confederate Money,
TWO PLANTATIONS in Sumter county, five
and ten miles from Americus.
For further particulars apply to
H. R, JOHNSON & CO.,
nov7 12t* Americus, Ga.
MoiiHay Evening.
From the Georgia Front.
We have ro definite and positive intelligence
of the movements of Sherman's army, but we
have, instead, a variety of rumors.
The train which left here last evening for
Macon proceeded no farther Eastward than
Butler, where it met the Macon train bound
for Columbus. The passengers on both trains
arrived here this morning. From those who
came from Macon we learn that there was
some fighting between our troops and the
Yankees yesterday on the east side of the
Ocmulgee, and about three miles Jrorn the
city. Two of our men were Killed and several
others wounded.
It was not thought that a serious demon
stration would be made upon Macon. It was
generally believed that only one Yankee corps
(Howard’s) was in that vicinity, and that the
remainder of the army was, on yesterday, at
or near Madison, on the Georgia road, march
ing in the direction of Augusta, Milledge
ville had been evacuated by the Governor and
everybody else, and all moveable public prop
erty carried to a place of safety. Most of the
convicts in the Penitentiary had gone into the
service under a promise of pardon, if they
served faithfully to the end of the war. Our
force at Macon was sufficient to defend the
place. Augusta must get help from the East.
1 ♦—
Rumors are current here, says the Mont
gomery Mail, 19th, that Hood and Thomas
have had an engagement north of the Tennes
see, in which the forces of the latter were re
pulsed. It is rumored in Selma, as we see by
the evening mail, that a courier has been cap
tured with dispatches from Thomas to Sher
man, calling on the latter for reinforcements,
he (Thomas) being hard pressed by Hood.
Correspondence of the Times.
Mobile, Ala., Nov. 15, 1864.
The Yankee fleet is sailing listlessly about the
bay, held to the enchanted spot by a stern sense of
duty, and unable to penetrate the inner mysteries
that hedgp the city around. They have doubtless
discovered that the forts are not the only .defense
that Mobile possesses.
The sickness, which has been prevailing to an
unparalleled and alarming extent in the vicinity
of the city this season, has but little abated,
while the number of deaths resulting from seem
ingly light attacks is truly astonishing. A sim
ple caso of chills not unfrequeutly baffles the skill
of the most experienced doctors, and the unsus
pecting victim soon shakes “off this mortal coil”
in tho delirium of irremedial congestion. Much of
this iportality is no doubt attributable to tho im
purity of the medicines now administered.
There is nothing here in tho news line. Tho
mail is dead—the roads busted. The wires are in
a comatose state, and what is more remarkable
still, rumor is quiet. All the travel eastward is by
way of the river, which, if we are to believe ad
vertisements, is just now well supplied with fine,
fast-going packets. We have not had a mail from
the east in a week or more. Tho first arrival is
expected to-day, by way of Meridian, and 0! what
sweet joy will many feel when they receive letters
from absent friends, and dear ones at home—ten
der missives, freshly breathing the holy incense
of the heart’s purest affection. Letters from homo
are to the soldier the golden chain that binds him
to what of life is most dear. They keep vivid the
flame upon the heart’s altar. Their power is tri
fold—first, he glows in fond anticipation ; then,
he devours the sentences which unseal the foun
tain-spring of affection ; afterward, he lives upon
the placid sea of pleasant memories."
Unlike most threatened cities, Mobile still affects
a dash-of gayety, and assumes an air of cheerful
ness somewhat in keeping with the olden days of
her splendor. Beaux strut as pompously a3 in
days “lang syne,” and young ladies make “plenary
pulchritudes” of themselves, while there be
many—
“ Sore pierced by wintry winds.”
Commissaries eat fat dinners, and quartermas
ters drive fast horses. Fishmongers and cake
pedlars meet you at every corner. Old men totter
to the counting-room and tell their gains, as the
Roman his bead*, in pious devotion, while Young
America assails every market cart to “drive a bar
gain” whereby to “turn a thrifty penny,” while
in turn, the frugal rustic continues to cry, like
the daughters pf the horse-leech, “give ! give !”
Money is the God they all worship, and
“No matter what old hen may hatch the duck’s
eggs,
They’ll run to the water as soon as they’ve
legs.”
DAD BURNITT.
Progress of the Army.
That the army of Tennessee was at or near
Tuscutnbia up to the evening ot Tuesday last,
we presume there is no doubt—at least intel
ligence received almost direct leads us to that
belief. While the high waters had operated
to prevent an advance into Middle Tennessee
—if one was contemplated, —some ten days
longer than the sanguine had expected, the
men was enjoying what was no doubt a wel
come session of rest, after the arduous march
of near five hundred miles, performed very
speedily, from Palmetto to Tuscumbia. The
time, too, was employed in bringing forward
supplies, etc., and repairing the losses of the
march, and it can be confidently asserted the
army was in better condition, and certainly
larger in numbers, a week ago, than it was
when the flanking campaign was inaugura
ted.
Will a move be made into Middle Tennes
see ? This seems to be the opinion of all who
come from the front. The Yankees, be it re
membered. assert that Thomas has forty thou
sand men to oppose Hood, that he is strong
enough not only to prevent Hood’s advance,
but to render his campaign a disastrous one
in other respects, etc. Us course our com
manders have used every possible means to
ascertain the strength, etc., of their opponents,
and upon the knowledge they have obtained
they will act. They may deem it unwise to
advance across a river of such magnitude a3
the Tennessee, particularly at a season of the
year when high stages of water may be antic
ipated at any time, such as would prevent a
recrossing, 3hould it be necessary to fall back.
The idea of re-entering Tennessee is a capti
vating one, that we would like t 0 3ee realized;
but we would not have the attempt made un
less there is almost a moral certainty that it
cannot only be done and the army saved in
almost auy contingency, but also that some
permanent good will result from a campaign
that must be an arduous one at tbis season of
the year, and accompanied with risk. We
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shall not be disappointed if no advance is at
•tempted, north of the river, and can readily
see another field in which quite as important
results may be attained, and under fully as
favorable circumstances. The permanent oc
cupation of West Tennessee and Western Ken
tucky, and an effectual blockade of the Mis
sippi, is not an impossibility.
[ Memphis Appeal.
[Correspondence of the Memphis Appeal.]
Letters from Mississippi.
Corintii, Miss., Nov. 14, 1864.
I will leave this point in the morning for
Meridian, where I expect to remain for some
days. Since % my arrival at this
seen quite a number of Memphis acquaintan
ces. Among the lest is my old friend Dr. J.
B. Cowan, chief surgeon of Forrest’scommand.
He is looking as well as he did in days of yore.
May his star never grow less. He has the
medical department of Forrest’s command well
organized.
The hospital accommodations of this place
are being extended. A great number of sick
men are now being sent through this post to
the rear. Dr. J. M. Hoyle, in charge of the
Cowan Wayside hospital, is a very efficient
officer, and is doing everything in the power
of man to accomdate the sick, now being
shipped through this place, to hospitals in the
rear, and deserves the commendations of the
country.
There is no news here, except the report that
Lincoln, in the recent election at the North,
has carried every State in Yankeedom. How
ever, this will not be news to our people, as
all expected this result. The Federal govern
ment is still determined on war. We had not
the slightest interest in the late election in
the United States. It is true, we would like
to see the advocates of representative govern
ment triumph, but fanaticism rules the day
in Y"ankeedom. This state of things will con
tinue until a season of reflection overtakes the
fanatics of the North. When this will occur,
no one can tell. It may be one year, or it may
be four. We cannot say how long the Feder
al government will make war upon us. The
duration of the war is with the rulers of the
North. We have no voice in making peace.—
We simply ask to be let alone. We ask for
nothing else ; we can accept nothing less.
More in future. Memphis.
. Meridian, Miss., Nov. 16, .1864.
I am again at this post, just from the army.
It would be improper to mention its where
abouts, were there no orders prohibiting us
from doing so. Ere many days shall elapse,
however, you will hear from it through Yan
kee sources. Gen, Forrest is also on the wing,
and will soon strike the enemy where he least
expects.
The latest intelligence from Yankeedom is,
that old Abe is re-elected. The Republicans
claim one hundred and ninety electoral votes.
Tliis result is what has been anticipated by
the South. We all knew that the bayonet
would continue the present occupant of the
Presidential chair of the United States, in
power. There are some in the South who
are inclined to believe that the McClellan, or
Democratic party, will revolt from the power
of the Republicanism-Revolt from the Abe
Lincoln rule. This is really absurd. What
States will revolt? Will Indiana do so?
Never. The election in that State shows the
Republicans have carried it by more than
twenty-five thousand majority. Will Illinois
secede ? That State alßo has been carried for
the Lincoln dynasty by more than thirty thou
sand majority. What States then will break
off from the despotism of the United States?
Can Kentucky, Delaware and New Jersey do
so? It is impossible. There is no such thing
as seceding under the bayonet. The people
of the North, carried away by fanaticism, have
lost their liberties. They are already gone.
Despotism is now fastened upon them.
For many months, the Federal Government has
been recruiting its armies from the Old World.
Tho jails and penitentiaries of Europe hare been
bought to swell the hosts of the vandals, .urged on
with the promise of plunder, in the event of our
subjugation. These hordes from the trans-Atlan
tic, are tractable to military power, hence, they
above all others are preferred by tho despot, who
designs ere long to throw off the mask of repub
licanism and trample under foot the liborties of a
nation. In this event, even, will the once free
people of the United States raise their voice and
sword to throw off the manacles of slavery? No,
they will not! Their manhood has been stolon
away by the plea of necessity. With their eyes
bent on the subjugation of the Southern States,
intending to rob us of all that is dear to man
hood—the boon of liberty—they have by such a
course lost their own freedom. They are dead —
they are lost. “No sound can awake them to
glory again.”
In days of yore they boasted of their liberties.
They rejoiced that their flag was known and re
spected upon every sea. They urged that their
national monuments be reared higher and higher,
in honor of their liberties, that “coming morn and
departing day might linger upon their summits.”
They invited the oppressed Irishman to ieave the
remains of his fathers, entombbd in his dear old
Hibernia, and come to their banquet of freedom—
tho asylum for the oppressed of all climes. The
Englishman, from the white hills of his Albion,
heard the call to the festival of liberty, and came.
The Frenchman left his war like Gaul, the Scotch
man his sweet Caledonia, and the Swiss his ice
bound Helvetia, and followed the setting sun for
the liberties in America. But where now are the
liberties of the United States? They remain only
in history. But better by far that they had no
history, like the lost books of Livy and the miss
ing Pleiades. But, alas! fanaticism rales the
hour, and the usurpations of a tyrant are sustain
ed. MEMPHIS.
From Mosby’s Command.
(Correspondence of the Richmond Enquirer.)
Eagle Hill, near Upperville, \
Fauquier county, Va., Nov. 10, 1864. j
War in its mildest, most civilized form is
certainly the most horrible pestilence that ever
cursed a nation, but when it is reduced to 3uch
measures as the Yankee government seem
prone to, or in fact, have really reduced it, it
is intolerable, almost incomprehensible. Your
readers will remember that a few weeks 3ince,
in a fight near Front Royal, that Mosby’s Bat
talion, on account of overwhelming numbers,
was compelled to retire from the field, (not,
however, until having inflicted heavy loss on
the enemy, without the loss of a man,) leav
ing seven of his bravest men in the hands of
the enemy who had had their horses killed,
and that three of them, after having been tor
tured for hours, were hung, three shot, and
the seventh, in sight of his native home, was
tied to two horses and dragged to death, not
withstanding the presence, appeals, prayers
and tears of his mother.
On the sth of this month, Mosby was so for
tunate as to capture quite a large number of
the wretches who performed this inhuman,
atrocious deed. Colonel Mosby immediately
issued an order ordering seven of them to be
executed, not in that inhuman, barbaric man
ner of the enemy, but “that three should be
hung and four shot.” The order was accord
ingly executed on the night of the 6th, on the
pike, near Newtown, in sight of the \ aiin.ee
camp, with placards explaining the cause. It
is fervently hoped that the enemy will discon
tinue such barbarities Should they not do
so, there will certainly be retaliation. Colonel
Mosby seems fully determined to compel Gen.
Sheridan to recognize him and his men as sol
diers, and to treat them as prisoners of war,
when captured, In which he is evactlv right,
and will be fully sustained by the Uonfederate
Government. Col. Mosby. as usual, has been
active, losing no opportunity to punish the
Yankees in every possible * honorable way.
Not a day or night passes but what Mosby
adds a few more to the Yankee list of killed,
wounded and captured. He has succeeded in
breaking up the Manassas Gap Railroad en
tirely. Alpha.
Sscritaey Trenholm’s New Scheme of
Taxation. —Tbo following passage from the
report of the Secretary of the Treasury sub
mitted to Congress embraces his scheme of
taxation for the ensuing year:
To raise the amount proposed by taxation, I
recommend the repeal of so much of the Act
amending the Act of the 17th February, 1864,
as will leave the property and income tax in
full operation, without the abatements now
allowed, viz: Section 1, paragraph I, of the
amendatory Act of 14th June, 1864, which
provides that the value of taxin kiud shall be
deducted from the ad valorem tax on agricul
tural property ; and section 8, paragraph 3. of
the same Act, which prorides that the proper
ty tax shall be deducted from the income tax.
Bv this change the desired amount of revenue
will be secured, and the prominent inequali
ties of taxation, now the subject of complaint,
will be redressed.
Grant as a Gallipagos Turtle.
-The Wilmington “Journal” makes the follow
ing allusion to a certain General of the United
States Army :
There are some uninhabited islands in tbo Pa
cific some distance from the coast of Chili or
Peru—the former, we think, known as the Gal
lipagos, or Turtle Islands. Ships occasionally
touch at these islands for water, and incidentally
to take some turtle, wherewithal to vary their
salt fare. The islands are volcanic, and aro made
up of sharp ridges and abrupt rocky faces. Some
sailors of a whaling ship recently run ashore on
one of the larger islands, found a big old turtle
with initials and a date branded on the shell of
his back. The date showed that the branding
had been done by some person from Capt. Cook’s
ship over a century before. They had got the old
fellow iato a sort of a pen, with a perpendicular
face of rooks before him, and there he was found
trying to walk over or throagh—climbing up un
til he stood on end and then tumbling flat, only
to renew the attempt. He is now, no doubt, there
yet, doing the same thing, and will bo when Ga
briel blows his trumpet.
Grant’s movements at Richmond remind us
very much of the hard-shell gentleman above al
luded to. He keeps pegging away with the same
pertinacity, and apparently with the same meas
ure of success. H® falls flat on his back from
each repulse, only to crawl up on end again
against the defences of Richmond, so repeating
the process ad injinitum .
A correspondent of the Talladega Reporter
says Hon. W. R. W. Cobb, whose death wc
have noticed, had just returned from Washing
ton but a few days, and intended taking upj his
quarters in Huntsville, as military governor, and
was handling his gun for the purpose of taking
a hunt before entering upon his official duties a$
governor, when it accidentally went off. and
killed him.
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Kentucky. —A Mr. John Donaly, an old resident
of Jackson, Mississippi, who has been residing in
Louisville sinco 1858, and left thatlcity on the 18tb
ult., has given the i/ississippian some information
as to affairs in Kentucky.
He reports the draft as having been completed in
Jefferson county, (Louisville is in this county,) and
the quota filled by negroes and Dutch. The draft
in the other counties, comparatively speaking, has
proven a complete failure, and has been the means
of forcing the people in the Confederate army. The
men in the border counties are flocking to the stan
dard of the South by thousands. Sixteen hundred
wore raised in the counties of Henry, Spencer and
Owen in a few weeks for Gen. Lyon's command.—
Jessie is recruiting largely, and as soon as arms can
be procured, which will soon be done, he will cross
the line with his men.
The United States Government is impressing all
the corn, oats and meat, allowing < uly the pitiful
sum of seven dollars per hundred for meat, and corn
and oats in proportion.
There is no freedom of speech whatever, the true
sentiment of the people, which is intensely South
ern, being suppressed by Yankee bayonets.
A recently arrived blockade runner brings the
story to Richmond that Bill Jones, the.formerly
well known fishmonger and politician, is to be hung
at Butler’s headquarters. Jones ran off from Rich
mond some months ago to avoid conscription. On
reaching Norfolk he was pointed out to the Yankee
authorities as one of the men who raised the first
secession flag in Virginia, and who, with others,
threatened to mob certain Union members of the
Virginia Convention. He was arrested, and after
some kind of trial, was sentenced to be hung
The re-organization of the army i3 the im
perative duty of the Congress, and it were
well if it were speedily discharged. The time
has fully arrived for the abandonment of the
Provisional organization, and the formation of
the Ar»y of the Confederate States. A re
peal of the Provisional organization vacates
all commissions under it, and- does injustice
to rfone ; it would leave all officers upon the
same footing, and the authorities could then
proceed to select for the regular army from
the whole materiel which the war has placed
before them. The Provisional organization
was necessitated by the urgency of our dangers,
and also by the impossibility of knowing the
efficient from the inefficient officer. The same
dangers now warn us to husband our re
sources, and to increase their efficiency by
every appliance of organization and discip
line. The experience of four years has given
to the authorities the knowledge of the at
tainments and efficiency of officers that was
impossible at the beginning of the war
While closing up the ranks by the consolida
tion of regiments and companies in order to
make them better defend our cause, many
valuable officers must necessarily be thrown
out of commissions. This is to be greatly re
gretted, but men who have fought through
this bloody war so far, must have seen the
impossibility of regarding individual cases,
where the interests of the cause are involved
and the patriotism which has suffered and
endured already so much, not for promotion,
but for the cause, will not fail to recognize the
propriety of the change.
The repeal of the Provisional organization,
vacating all commissions, wouid break up the
“bomb-proofs” and enable the Government
to select the best and most efficient officers, as
weil for the staff as for the line.
It would open to meritorious officers, who
have for three years borne the dangers of bat
tle, places where they could be of eervice to
their country without losing their rank and
pay ; and it would at the same time, send to
the front many who hare done less than noth
ing for the cause. The power of selection,
which the appointment of all officers for the
army would give to the President would, in
the knowledge now had of the officers, intro
duce reform and efficiency into the service
which can never be obtained in any other
way. In the army of Northern Virginia.
Gen. Lee is able to designate the officers who
should be retained; and every head of De
partment and Bureau has many officers thev
would gladly get rid of. When the commis’-
sions of all expire alike, there is no partiality
possible, and the duty of appointment, dis’-
charged upon the recommendation of men like
Gen. Lee, would free it from the suspicion of
favoritism. Merit and capacity alone would
govern in all such appointments, and the re
organized army, if without another recruit,
would be far more efficient than the present,
glorious as is its record.
We are in receipt of many communications
from the army urging us to press upon Con
gress the importance of prompt and speedv
action upon this vital subject. If promptly
considered and acted upon, the season of in
active operations now pending, will give am
ple time and opportunity ior the perfection of
the organization and for the army to accomo
date itself to the new order.
[Richmond Enquire
U’t angry with your neighbor, and think
you have not a friend in the world. Shed a
tear or twe, and take a walk in the burial
ground, continually saying to yourseil. “When
shall I be buried'here V