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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 /FIVE DOLLARS l PER MOXTH. 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. —♦—» 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