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DALLY TIMES.
J. H. IV4IIREX, - - - Editor.
COLUMBUS:
Monday Morning, .November 28, 1864.
The Prospect.
It canuot well be doubted, says the Macon
Bulletin, that, the snemy hare given Macon
and yet we are not as yet willing
to advise refugees to return, though we see
no good reason why they should not. Sher
man is aiming for the seabord—perhaps con
templating the ravagpment of Sonth Carolina
and the capture of Charleston, that nest of
the rebellion, ile will pjobrbly capture both
Savarn ■ h and Charleston, if be succeeds in
capturing tilher. it is reported that General
Bragg has arrived in Augusta with a large
force, so that Sherman may find it conven
ient to pass by that city. The destruction ot
the railroads and telegraphs, does not augur
a speedy return on his part to occupy the
country. But shall the gigantic raider suc
ceed aim escape ? Not'it Georgia, fcouth Car
olina and Alabama, will do their duty; not if
they wili rush to arms aid surround him, de
stroy supplies, cut oil' his foraging trains and
obstruct his path. Napoleon's march on
Mosc'ow was not a more daring and hazard
ous move than this ; and yet it proved a laiU
tire —so may this.
Latest fkom the Front—Tun Enemy ue-
Fulbed at Oconee. —Yesterday (says the Sa
vaunah Republican,, of the.24th,) an official
dispatch was received here staling that the
enemy, with a large force, had Hanked Gen.
Wayne at Oconee Bridge, C. R. It., and com
pelled him to retire, and furthermore, that
the former had crossed his forces at Ball’s
Ferry, some four miles below the bridge. This
w.t most unwelcome news, and produced
many long faces.
At a lute hour last right, however, we were
lavored with the following dispatch to Gene
ral Hardee, who is now in the cily, contain
ing the cheering news that the enemy nad
been repulsed and driven across the river. All
honor to c ur gallant young townsman :
Augusta, 9 p. m., Nov. 23.
Lieut. (Jen. Hardee , Savannah :
Muj. Hartridge has driven the enemy back
across the Oconee river. Gen. Wayne has
returned to ihe Bridge and opened the office
there. J. Brenner, Supt.
•
Signs ok the Times.— Silence, says the Char
leston Mercury of yesterday, has reigned in * our
#lty for several days. But the enemy have now
in position on Morris Island some forty pieces of
heavy ordnance, bearing on Sullivan’s Island and
Fert Sumter. They are busy in mortar mount
ing and preparations, and have brigade drills.—
They have buoyed out Bull’s Bay not far to the
northward. They have a fleet of some dozen
monitors at Port Royal, and somewhere on the
Atlantic coast a dozen and a half more, including
ships like the Ironsides and Dictator. These pre
parations indicate an attack on Charleston by the
water approach. The signs are confirmed by the
statements of Northern papers that Charleston is
the point desired and aimed at. And tho rapid
advance of Shormau’s army upon Augusta, which i
is only some six days’ march from here, t°’lies
with all the rest, and warns us that no time is to !
be lost in preparing, to the best of our ability, to
meet the issue which appears to be upon U3. A>®
wo ready for an attack and for a siege ? The
people of Charleston have seen danger more than 1
once before, and are not subject to panics. Let
tho situation be camly scrutinized now with a
viow to th« final result.
Te the above magnificent preparations, _ t forth
by the Mercury, we may add that large fl: ts are
now assembled at Pert Royal, Tybee, and Doboy,
no doubt in preparation for Sherman’s arrival.—
Thus are they prepared to meet him at all points,
showing perfect confidence in the success of his
expedition.
And, with ihe Mercury, we woo'd call upon our
people to avoid everything like undue excitement,
and with calm deliberation bring their minds to"
the great work before them. It is a time for
manhood, not indecision and cowardly fear. We
may have valuable use for all of good judgment
and courage that we possess; let them not bo
neutralized by any thought or act unbecoming
engaged in a great struggle for liberty.
As regards Sherman’s expedition through Geor
gia to the coast, which the Yankees pronounce a
grand military achievement, even after their great
leader has told them he has “no enemy” to oppose
him, we have a word or two to say. Evon should
he succeed in penetrating to the coast, what w ;, l he
have achieved? Neither Savannah nor Charles
ton is of any great strategic importance to the
Federal 3-, and should they get there, our people
will only closo up tho gaps, repair the damage in
his rear, and stand ready to keep him there. He
would have a ready wator communication for his
supplies, but wherein would his advantages dif
fer from those of the Federal commanders who
have foot-holds on the coast of Virginia and
North Carolina? Tb* great heart of the country
would still be intact, and the “rebellion,” instead
of being “crushed out,” would only be ounce
ted and ready for more decisive blows. Twen.y
such “grand expeditions” would not quench the
flame of Southern Liberty, nor unnerve tho stur
dy arms tnat are bared in its defence. X)ur g. t
trouble has been in this war, a multiplicity of
points to be defended. It has scattered our forces
and consequently weakened them. Concentrated
in the interior, they would be stronger than ever
before, and bid defiance to all the arts of their
foes.— Sav. Rep. 24 th.
We copy the following items from the
Macon Telegraph Confederate ot the 26th :
The Situation.—The situation remains j
unchanged. The enemy are below Gordon, !
moving in a southerly direction.
The impression still prevails that they are !
making directly for Savannah.
Sherman was probably in Irwiaton yester- j
day (Friday) morning. •
This city is now considered safe, and refim !
gees are rapidly returning.
Macon is Safe.— We are happy to an
nounce that Macon is considered safe. The i
Commander of the Post has declared the city
upon a peace footing, and the order of Major
General Ocbb, ordering out every man capa- !
ble of bearing anas is withdrawn. This will 1
be pleasing intelligence to those families j
whom the exigencies of the occasion forced j
from their homes. We trust they will at once ■
return, and thus escape the many inconven
iences which are the inevitable fate of the
refugee. The city is perfectly quiet and or
derly. We expect, in a few days, everything
will resume its usual appearance. The storm
of war which threatened us has passed—come i
home and bask it in the sunlight.
Atlanta.—We learn that an order has been
issued to repair the railroad and tele- j
graph line to Atlanta at once. Many of the
citizens of the deserted city are returning to
their homes, and it is to be hoped not soon to
leave them. It is impossible to ascertain the
exact amount of damage done to this city by
the Federals when leaving it, but the prevail
ing opinion seems to be that nothing but
public property was destroyed, and that pri
vate residences are still standing.
A Good Capture.—Captain J. B. Morris,
20th Georgia Regiment, with eight men, while
on a scout yesterday morning, about a mile
from Gordon, saw a drove of beef cattle fol
lowing tbe rear of the euemv s forces.. He
immediately charged the drivers, captured
four prisoners and the whole drove of cattle,
numbering 220. The beeves are in fine order,
and their loss will be severely telt by the ene
my. A few more such captures and Sher
man's forces will be in a bad condition. Hard
tack, without beet, will lie heavy on their
stomachs.
We hear but two houses in Clinton w ere
burned by the enemy. One was the dwelling
ot the Enrolling officer of Jones county, R. \Y.
Bonner, and the other i»u old shop used us an
office by the late Dr. Bowen.
It is stated that the Yankees have been to
Athens.
[From ■' e Richmond Enquirer.]
An liuraniiiielietl Press Legal anti Necessary.
The Constitution of the Confederate States
exieuds to the press, the segis of its protection,
and, selecting it out from all other professions,
gives it an honorable security against even
the Congress of the Confederacy. Coupling
it with the free worship of Almighty God, the
constitution connects it also with the right of
the people peaceably to assemble and petition
the government for redress of grievances. It3
place in the constitution is between the voxdei
and the voxpopuli —subordinate to the one;
superior to the other.
This could not bav® been mere confident;
there must have existed somt reason for this
protection and for this immediate conjunction
with religion and popular petition. We find
this same importance given to the pres3 in the
16th article of the bill of rights, reported by
Mr. Wythe, of the Virginia convention, to the
Federal constitution, a3 follows : “That the
freedom of ihe press is one of the greatest bul«
warks ofliberty, and ought not to be violated.”
What.sori ot a bulwark of liberty would tho
press be with detailed editors—the underlings
ot an underling? It is to this degraded posi
tion that the President has deliberately rec
ommended the Congress to reduce the press.
He dees nit say that the army needs their
services, but. that the exemption by law should
be repealed, and that “a discretion be vested
in the military authorities” to cetail the edi
tor. whensoever and wheresoever those au
thorities may regard them as “essential to ’be
public service.”
Editors as individuals, deserve no more con
sideration from the Congress than “shofma
kers, tanners, blacksmiths, printers, millers,
miners, physicians and telegraph operatives
but as the press, without editors, be
playing llarniet, with the part of Hamlet
omitted, there is something due to the intelli
gence of the people, which demands at the
hands of Congress that the press of the coun
try be not wholly prostrated at the foot of Ex
ecutive power, and forced to petition for exis
tence, and to receive it upon such conditions
as the Executive, or bis detailing subordinate,
may choose f > impose.
Exemption by law gave an honorable posi
tion to the press, secured its independence,
and left no rod suspended over its head, but
such as the people raised by their support or
rejection But an editor emerging from that
cesspool of corruption, the detail system,
would be an'object of oiFense to the virtuous
people of these States, and the paper ho con
ducted cease to be an organ of publie opinion,
and become tho miserable conduit of those to
whose favor he owed his exemplion from the
ranks.
No! for God sake put us in the army, the
trenches, any where ; but save us from the de
graded position of a detailed editor.
Did the President when he recommended
this degradation to the press of the country,
know that neither “telegraph operators, work
men in mines, engineers, shoemakers, tanners,
blacKsmiths, nor millers,” were exempt by
law, ana that his recommendation pointed
only at professors, teachers, physicians, and
the press ot the countiy ?
The exemptions by the law cf February 17,
1864, are : Ministers of religion at the time of
the passage of the act; superintendents and
physicians of asylums ; ona editor for each
newspaper and employees certified on oath
to be indispensably necessary; pu ic printers
of Confederate and State Governments, and
such journey men printers certified on oath to
be indispensable; skilled apothecaries, of
date October 10, 1862; physicians over thirty
years of age and of seven years’ practice;
presidents and teachers of co ,! eges, engaged
a's such two years before the passage of the
law ; overseer or agriculturists of fifteen ne
groes ; presidents, etc., of railroads, and mail
contractors. These are all the “classes” ex
empt by law. There is no exemption to the
law for “telegraph operators, workmen in
mines, engineers, shoemakers, tanners, black
smiths and millers;” and if any of these
“classes” have been exempted, it is the fault,
not. of the law, but. of its administration The
law also gives discretionary power to the Pres
ident, under the “public necessity” cltuse, io
make “additional exemptions,” but is it nec
essary to destroy 7 the pr :s of the country to
to repair he evil consequences shat may
have arisen from mal-a rath
er than defective legislation?
There can be no frauds where exemption is
granted by law ; but when the detail system
or the “public essity” clause is substitu
ted, the door is opened wide t© every species
of corruption. The widest latitude of exemp
tion by law does less injury than the closest
system of detail. The one is open to Hie in
spection of every official and of every citizen ;
the other is known only to the detailed man
and to the officer. There can be no fraud in
the former, there has been much in the latter.
Had the President recommended the Congress
lo abandon all details and substitute a wider
range of exemptions, he would have suggest
ed a measure for the suppression of L .ud and
corruption.
For sixty years the Richmond Enquirer has
existed a newspaper, free, unbought, unpur
chaseable, end never shall it otherwise
With our consent. The support we have here*
'oforc given the President and th-e cause has
been conscientious and free , no other support
can we ever give. If the Congress considers
that the bone and muscle of the press are
worth more than its brains to the. cause, send
us ail to the ranks —there we may do some
service to the country—but as detailed editors,
we may become the tool, the minions of pow
er, but should cease to be the agencies of ex
pression for a free people
The press is not a “class,” it is an institu
tion, as such recognized by enlightened opin
ion ail over the world, and guarded, as we
have shown, by the power of the constitution.
Neither shoemaking, nor tanning, nor black
smithing, nor millering, nor any of the “clas*
ses” with which the president has connected
the press, have any cop Titutional recognition.
Religion and the press, and popular petition, j
is the trinity protected by the constitution
When the President shall have succeeded in
striking the < mral essence from this triune j
guard of public liberty, and deprived religion
of its organs and popular petition of its voice,
he will have added not a hundred men to the
army, bin darkness will brood over the land, i
illumined only by the . ashlights of pensioned
and purchased papers eiPted by details.
The first step toward despotism will have
been taken when the press of the country is
put under the control of the executive details.
The army will not receive one hundred re
cruits from this recommendation to sub titute
detail fer exemption of the press, but the I
world will soon learn what value to set upon !
the voice of the press whose conductors owe
their exemption from service to the favor of a
detail.
Let it be remembered that, unlimited and
unrestrained power corrupted even the psalm
ist oflsiuel, and that under the “universally
recognized paramount political duty of every
member of society" to serve in the army, Uri
ah, the Hittite, was sacrified to the guilty
passions of King David, who sent him to the
army with a letter to the commander, saying :
“Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest
battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be
smitten and die”—a fate easily visited oa an
ob|»oxious editor under the detail system.
Under the Virginia bill of rights the free
dom of the press is guaranteed. We do not
believe that the State of Virginia will quietly
pr emit her press to be wholly destroyed.—
The only pleasure yet left to conductors of
the press is the kind and cheerful support
given ifie.ru by the people. They have un
complainingly home with all the embarrass
ments 'hat have beset the press, and aided
and sustained us ;n aii nur difficulties. We
do not belii-ve they will permit this last dis
grace to be visited upon the press.
!. Accident from a Torpedo.—The Mobile
Tribune, of Saturday last, says: “We are in
formed that on Friday morning, as Dr. Powell
| and Mr. John Bannifer were in a small boat
going on some excursion (fishing or hunting.)
the boat accidently struck on a torpedo, which
blew- the boat to atoms, killed Mr. Ranniter
and very seriously injured Dr, Pu'Veii. The
} latter was picked up by a fisherman, who was
returning to the city. The death of Mr. Ban
j niter will be much regretted by many friends."
ART? CORBUPWiDEXCE
OF THE .3 IVANNA H REPUBLICAN.
RrcHMOND, Nov. 18, 1664.
The condition of affairs in Georgia is so ex
citing .aid so critical that it may well be doubt
ed whether anything that can be written from
this point wiii po.-sess sufficient interest to at
tract attention. Shearman wili have reached
Macon before this can reach you, and the ex
tensive works in that beautiful town will have
been reduced to ashes ere the characters my
pen is now tracing can be put in type and
stamped upon paper.
But is Sherman to be allowed to reach the
coast without an earnest effort being made to
destroy him ? Can nothing be done to embar
rass his movements and stay his march until
hi3 supplies shall have been exhausted? Eve
ry man and boy, white and black, along the
line of his advance should be immediately
called out and put to work to obstruct his pro
gress. Every 7 tree within reach of the roads
by which he is marching should be felled
across the roads : and where there are no trees,
great holes should be dug in the ground, and
barricades of stone and earth erected. Cuts
in the roads should be filled up with stones
and timber, bri Iges destroyed, mines sunk,
and torpedoes placed in every defile. In ad
dition to thiq Lie horses, wagons, stock of
every description, and all kinds of supplies
should be removed beyond his reach or wholly
destroyed, ff this be done, and every marks
man who. has a rifle will make it his business
to give his special attention to Gen. Sherman
as he passes along- the road, his army may be
delayed ands werely punished, if not finally
destroyed, while the commander-in-chief him
self may be de -patched by 7 some lucky shot to
that undiscovered bourne from whence no
traveller ever returns.
The plan here suggested, except so much of
it as relates to Sherman individually, was
submitted to a member of the Cabinet this
morning, and by him immediately- laid before
the President; and lam glad to have it in my
power to staie that the latter sent a telegram
to the officer in command of Georgia, direct
ing him to adopt it as one of his measures of
defense. It is but proper to add, that the plan
had occurred to the President during his late
visit to Georgia, and that he had intimated
his desire that it might be put in execution in
the event the enemy attempted to move further
down into the State.
Grant has shown considerable activity 7 with
in the last few days. There is but little rea
son to doubt that lie is preparing for fresh
offensive operations. All furloughs hereto
fore granted have been revoked, and stringent
orders have been issued for the immediate re
turn to* their respective commands of absent
officers and men. It is reported also, and
generally believed, that the greater part of
Sheridan’s army is now being transferred from
the Valley to the James or York river, and
that a portion of it has already arrived.
Whether these reinforcements will operate on
the north side from the York river as a base,
and move against Richmond from the north
east, or "will be moved around and beyond
Petersburg, with the view to an advance upon
the Soutliside and Danville railways, we have
no means yet of determining. It may be that
the object of Sheridan’s transfer to this part
of Virginia is to prevent Le§’s sending rein
forcements to Georgia, or if he should do so,
of attacking Lira. Meanwhile the Confeder
ates are not idle or unmindful of these move
ments. They continue to deliver a heavy fire
upon the working party at Dutch Gap, and to
strengthen and extend their works on the right
and left. A detachment of our troops moved
out last night against the pieket line of the
enemy in front of Chester Station, on the
Richmond and Petersburg railway, and cap
tured over two hundred prisoners, with scarce
ly any loss on our part.
The resolutions touching the employment of
negroes as soldiers in the army, has not yet
come up again in the House and it is consid
ered not improbable that it will be allowed to
rest where it is ; but if it should be called up,
l have reason to believe that it will be imme
diately referred to the Committee on Military
Affairs, and not the Judiciary Committee, as
was inadvertently stated in a former letter. It
is deemed advisable to give the subject such a
direction as not to commit members in advance,
and to leave them unpledged and free to give
or withhold their votes when the necessity
shall arise of determining whether we shall
introduce the slave into the army and put a
musket in his hands.
That necessity, in the opinion of Congress,
does not yet exist, and until it do arise, it is
deemed best to take no action upon it and
make nc pledges. It may be stated positively
that Gen. Lee and the Army of Northern Vir
ginia generally are in favor of using the ne
gro as a soldier. There is no objection on the
part of the men, and whatever may be thought
of the courage of the African in the abstract,
no doubt is entertained that negroes will do to
fight negroes.
. From all I can learn, there is no disposition
on the part of Congress to put printers in the
army. Printing is considered an art, which
requires much time to learn, and the disposi
t’on of members is to leave a sufficient num
ber to enable newspaper proprietors to carry
on their business. Everybody else about the
office, however, including proprietors, editors,
book-keepers, &c , who are within the con
script age, will, ii is believed, be treated as all
other professions, and if able-bodied, be put
in the array. It is maintained that a measure
of this sort will in no respect touch upon the
liberty or usefulness of the press. Men
enou. h, it is contended, can be found over
forty-five and among disabled soldiers, to con
duct the editorial department of all the papers
in the country. Indeed, it is very rarely that
we see a man who does not believe he can
edit a newspaper; whereas the truth is there
are very few men who possess the requisite
qualifications for that responsible and unen
viable position. P. W. A.
Georgians !
Now is the time and now the hour, for the
sons of the gallant Empire State, to fling
aside all other considerations, and proudly
and defiantly, thrust themselves forward in
the bloody and burning breach, which is daily
growing wider and wider. Eschew, fora short
time, the ease and comforts of home ; leave
behind you the endearments of loved ones,
but while you do so, let those endearments
fire your braiu, and nerve your souls to deeds
of the noblest daring. On other soils you
have behaved nobly. Will you prove unwor
thy when the enemy are thundering at the
gates of your own Troy ? When the swerd
and the firebrand are suspended over your
own homestead, and the feeble voice of inno
cence and virtue, is crying aloud for protec
tion ? Will not Atlanta, the emporium of
your State, with her exiled babes and moth
ers, and her smouldering heaps of blackened
ruins, enkindle the fire of patriotism, and give
to your trusty blades a keener vengeance ?
Do you desire more Griswoldville’s to lick the
fiery flame ? Is the soul 3tirring appeal of
your patriotic Governor, calling you to arms,
to be onh as beautiful in its diction’
but claiming no further share of your feelings
or care ? Georgians ! we feel that you will
prove, as you have ever done, worthy scions
of a high souied ancestry; that you will do
your duty, your whole duty, and nothing but
your duty, and thereby save the Empire State !
[.Macon Bulletin.
The Army of Tennessee.—We understand
an officer of Gen. Hood’s staff has reached the
city direct from the front (says the Montgom
ery Mail, 26th.) who states that the Army of
Tennessee is otieb more advaacing. It started
forward from Florence on last Saturday in
fine trim and the troops in enthusiastic spir
its. General Hood and Gen. Forrest both
addressed the soldiers. Gen. Hood tells his
men he will not turn back. He has taken up
the pontoon bridges, and forward is the word.
The London Satirist contains an excellent car
icature. Persignv, the French minister at Lon
i don, is represented as a sculptor exhibiting to
J ■Liu Bull, a statue of Liberty manacled and muf
fled—.ire foot resting upon a scroll labelled “The
Press. John Bull, with quizzing glass to his
appears to be viewing the statue, and re
marks : “Ah, Monsieur Persigny, if that’s your
j idea of liberty, it’s not mine.”
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REPORTS OF TEIK PRESS ASSOCIATION.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year
1363, by J. S. Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office of
the District Court of tho Confederate States for
the Northern District *>f Georgia.
Macon, Nov. 26. —The enemy left Milledge-.
viiie and Gordon Friday morning. Both col
umns were moving ia the direction of Milen,
destroying the railroad as they proceed.
At Milledgeville, they destroyed the depot,
Penitentiary and the bridges. No private
property burnt.
Latest from the .North.
Richmond, Nov. 23.—Baltimore and New
York papers of the 21st have been received.
A telegram from Buffalo announces the ar
rival of Gen. Darry, Sherman s Chief of Artil
lery. Ho left Sherman at Kingston on the
morning of the 11th. He said the men had
received eight months’ pay and an outfit adap
ted to a rapid and hard campaign. Hood’s
entire forces, including Forrest’s cavalry,
were at Tuscumbia and Florence, watched by
Geu. Thomas. Tke invasion of Tennessee is
deemed impossible.
A Cincinnati telegram says nine hundred
Rebel prisoners arrived at Nashville on Sat
urday from Atlanta. Believing the place
evacuated, they rushed to pillage and were
captured.
The Cincinnati Gazette of Friday says that
Sherman was advancing towards the Savan
nah river in two columns, one to go to Macon
and the other to Augusta. It gives Beaufort
as his ultimate destination, where he intends
to make the South Atlantic blockading squad
ron his future base of supplies.
@nly such buildings in Atlanta as could be
of benefit to the enemy, were destroyed. The
extensive rolling mills, store houses and sta
bles, alone, were destroyed by order of Gen.
Cook. The Hotel at Etowah was also burnt.
Advices of the 12th from New Orleans state
that the French troops had evacuated Meta
moras. At Brownsville there was a small
rebel force.
General Canby’s wound is severe, and he
ivill not be able to take the saddle for six
months.
Everything was quiet at Little Rock on the
9th.
, A Chattanooga telegram of the 19th says :
The Rebels attacked our forces at Strawberry
Plains yesterday. The fighting continued at
intervals all day, the rebels being repulsed in
every attack.
Gen. Galham is safe in Knoxville.
Gold in New York was excited and advanced
to 225, fell to 218, and closed at 223.
Movements in the Valley.
Richmond, Nov. 23.—The following was re
ceived this.a. m.
Headquarters, Nov. 22d.—Hon. J. A. Sed
don: Gen. Early reports that the enemy’s
cavalry, in considerable force, drove in our
cavalry force this morning- and advanced to
Mount Jackson where they crossed the river.
They were met by some infantry and one brig
ade of Rosser's cavalry and driven back.—
Rosser pursued, driving the enemy beyond
Ellinburgin confusion, and compelled him to
abandon his killed and wounded. Early
thinks it was a reconnoissance.
Confederate Congress.
Richmond, Nov. 23.—The Senate passed a
bill conferring the rank if Colonel on the
Commissioner of Exchange, and Lieutenant
Colonel on his Assistant.
Mr. Henry’s declaration resolution were
made the order for Tuesday next. The Sen
ate then went into secret session.
In the Hause Tuesday, bills and resolutions
were introduced, one to abolish the passport
system, after which they went into secret ses
sion.
Pascagoula, Nov. 26.—New Orleans papers
of the 20th received. They contain little of
interest.
GeneialCanby was rapidly recovering from
his wound, and would resume his official
duties in a few days; he is attended by Dr.
Stout.
General Hulburt orders all persons between
the ages of 18 and 45, who have neglected to
be enrolled, to be subject to summary pun
ishment. All persons subject to enrollment,
who hereafter arrive in the city, must report
for such within forty-eight hours after their
arrival.
Another order requites all owners of hor
ses and mules to make returns of how many
they own at the time, professions and ages of
animals, and service they can perform ; fail
ure to do so, subjects the animals to seizure
to confiscation. All sale3 or transfers for
their removal from the parish is forbidden.—
Business men have some hope but few realize
any benefit from the promised removal of the
military embargo by favor of Governor Hahn,
who has been popular in the electitm at Baton
Rouge for municipal officers, and ask if equal
clemency will ever be *bestowed on New Or
leans and Algiers.
mayoralty.
To the Citizens of Columbus ;
From the announcements of candidates for Mayor
of the City, I find it an office to be sought after, and
not feeling disposed to vacate my present position t
I announce myself a candidaso for re-election.
nov 25 tde F. G. WILKINS.
We are authorized to announce B. F. COLE
MAN as a candidate for Mayor of the City of Co
lnmbus at the ensuing municipal election.
nov23—dte
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 i
for the office of Marshal of the city by
nov!s* MANY FRIENDS.
For JYeputy marshal.
At the solicitation of many friends, WILLIAM
N. ALLEN has consented to become a candidate
forthe office of Deputy Marshal of the city of Co- '
lumbus, at the ensuing election, and will be sup- !
ported by MANY VOTERS, j
novl-i te*
For Sexton.
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
Head’qrs Gov. Works,.(Ord.) ?
Columbus, Ga., Nov. 23,1864. J
Notice!
The hands employed in manufacturing small arm
Cartridges, at the,Laboratory, are notified that work
will be resumed en Friday, the 25th inst.
M. H. WRIGHT,
nov 24 2t Col. Uom'dg.
THE! O X h'U if .
T- J. JACKSON LOCAL EDITOR.
All citizens of Columbus not subject to tho call
of the Governor for military duty and who arc
willing to report at an alarm of fire to the Engine
House of the several Fire Companies to which they
will be assigned, are requested to call at tho stole
of Rosette, Lawhon <fc Cos. and enroll themselves
members of the Fire Department during the ab
sence of the Firemen from the city.
J. L. MORTON,
Ch’s Eng. Fire Dcp’f, Columbus, Ga.
Nov. 28th, 1884—3 t
Theatre. —We are promised something
rare at Temperance Hall to-night. Mr. Crisp will
appear in his great character of Richard, which
has received tho unqualified approbation of all
persous of dramatic taste in the South. With
Captain Crisp, as Richard, and Hamilton as Rich
mond, together with a happy distribution ot the
minor characters, wo guarantee a crowded house,
nr.d delighted audience. Ge early, if you wish to
secure comfortable seats.
R. L. Bass, Esq., has reti ed from the candida
cy for the mayoralty of this city.
The Militia.—Wo learn that two companies
have been formed and gone forward under Gover
nor Brown's proclamation, one under Captain
Cheney, and one under Captain Wilkins. Both
are made up of good material and will make thoir
mark if they meet the enemy.
The weather has again moderated. Saturday
and Sunday were very pleasant, and a most agree
able change from tho blighting frosts of the early
part of ihe week. For the sake of the soldier, we
should be delighted with a continuance of fine
weather.
Death of Joseph B. Hill, Esq.—We regret
to learn that this gentleman died on last Satur
day from injuries received at Butler, on Friday
night, from falling between tho cars while at
tempting to' get off the train. He was on his way
to Macon as a member es Captain Cheney’s com
pany, in pursuance of tlm lato proclamation of
Governor Brown, calling out the militia forces of
the State. Mr. Hill was one of our oldest and
most respected citizens, having always been char
acterized as a gentleman, of high-toned principles
—ever among the foremost in advocacy of those
measures, looking to the welfare of eur immedi
ate section, as well as those relating to the State
and Confederacy. He was a gentleman es fine
intellectual gifts, of excellent business qualifica
tions, enlarged beneficence, and was politeness and
good-breeding personified, being ever ready te
greet his acquaintances whether rich or poor, high
or low, with a friendly smile and cordial welcome.
A gentleman of finer qualities of head and heart,
wo have seldom known. Our entire city will
unite with his family in dropping the sympathi
zing tear to his memory, and share with them
their great loss. Tho name of Joseph B. Hill
will long be remembered and his death deeply
lamented. But grim-visaged war is new holding
high carnival, and the great and small are alike
called to do him homage.
Rumored Death of Lieut. Wall.—Rumors
are rife iL this city, that this gentleman wa3 killed
a day or two since by a fall from his horse near
Macon. Lieut. Wall was a member of the 3d Ga.
cavalry, was a heroic and dashing soldier, and
has seen much very hard service since the break
ing out of the war. We hope that these rumors
may prove unfounded but they seem to come so
direct as to be entitled to some credence. He
leaves a wife and children in our city, who are en
titled to and should receive the earnest sympathy
of our people, in a loss which to them as well
to the country at large must prove a serious
one.
Far the Daily Times.
Georgia.
BY OSSIAN D. GORMAN.
The fierce foe sweeps thy fertile lands,
With fire and brand he ready stands
To desolate fair Georgia :
And like a 3ame his minions blast
Our cities’ wealth, and ruin cast
On our great Empire Georgia.
Oh ! shame that dastard Cruelty
Should seek to bind with chains the free
And noble sons of Georgia ;
That Wrong insults the claim of Right,
And Plunder stalks in boasted might
To filch the wealth of Georgia. a
Pale Sorrow reigns in widowed hearts,
And soon will Battle pinnge his dart3
Still deeper into Georgia.
Then rouse thy sons and gird for fight,
Strike for thy homes, for froodom, right—
These are thy jewels, Georgia.
Wake from the ease of quiet life,
All now is bustle, battle, strife ;
Then stand and strike for Georgia :
For by the great, and just, and good,^
Our foe shall drink his own life blood
In passing through fair Georgia !
Talbotton, Ga.
Cairns Hospital, 1
Nov. 21st, 1864./
Wanted.
THREE GALLONS MILK per day, delivered at
the Hospital. BYRD C. DALLIS,
nev 21—lw Clerk.
Sun copy lw »
UNION SPRINGS PROPERTY
FOR SALE!
HOUSE and LOT, the lot contains one acre, the
house is a good framed building with four rooms,
out houses, etc. A great bargain can be had if im
mediate application is made,
nov 23 3t* J. W. WELBORN.
OFFICE C. S. NAVAL IRON WORKS,)
Columrus, Ga. Nov. 25, 1864. /
During the absence of the Reserve .'Forces and
the Militia from this city, the Steam Fire Engine
attached to these works will be used in connection
with the Fire Department of the city. This organ
ization will be under the immediate command of
CaptP Knowles, assisted by Geo W Huckeba.
Citizens living in the vicinity of the works are re
quested to assist in getting the Engine promptly
forward upon the alarm of fire.
J, H, WARNER,
'Chief Eng’r G. S. N. Commanding.
November 26,1864 —d3t.
Headquarters Anderson’s Brigade, )
Wheeler’s Corps ofCavainr, >
Macon, Ga., Nov. 18, 1864. J
Special Ordees, 1
No. 27. J
All officers and men of this Command now absent
will rendezvous at this point immediately.
By command of
Brig. Gen. H. H. ANDERSON.
Geo. L. Barthelixkss, a. a. g.
Augusta, Savannah, Montgomery and Colum
bus papers please copy and send Dill to Captain
Goodrich. nov 22 d3t
Alabama Militia
ORDERED OUT!
We have been shown an official dispatch Tto Capt.
N. D. Guerry, from the Executive office of Alaba
ma, ordering Captains Guerry, Randle and Peddy,
to assemble their respective commands, (2d class
militia) and report for duty at Opelika immediate
ly-
Capt. Guerry orders his command to report for
duty at Opelika on Thursday, 24th inst.
nov 22 2t*
,T T? T :r N* T7* f y rn -w-7 ;
-a~ jL. •. JL, JL ” 8 - l
MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23th.
Mr. W. li. LRISP, by unanimous desire, will ap
pear a- the DUKE of GLOUCESTER, inShak
peare’s Grand Historical Play of
ZIHO RICSHARD III:
UR IHE batile of bos worth field :
Mr. iheo. Hamilton, as.. t ,. .
Mr. 0. T. W so, as.. ...V •• Richmond
Mrs. W’. U. Orisp, as ph ta 2? l ?- 7
Miss Cecilia Crisp, as Lady Anne
Roaring Fare© *
nov2B-it
AUCTION-SALES
By Fills, Livingston ti to,
ON Tl ESDAY, 29th inst., at tl o'cloet
we will sell in front of our store
A Likely Negro Boy, 15 years old,
Two Negro Women, 40 years old ;
good Washers and Ironers.
15 barrels Florida Fish, *!cc.,&e.
nov 26 sl2
BLOCKADE GOODS
BY LATE ARRIVALS.
By James H. Taylor
On Wednesday, Dec. 6, at 9 o’clock,
i TWILL bo sold at my Store, corner of Broad ani
[ if Campbell streets,
| A large assortment of
Foreign and Domestic &oods,
; Particulars in a future advertisement.
Conditions Cash. novJl-eodtfi
A FROCL.AWATIO.A
BY
JOSEPH E. BROWN,
GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA.
STATE OF GEORGIA, )
Executive Department,
Milledgeville, Nov. 19, 1864. }
The whole people understand how imminent i
the danger that threatens tho State. Our cities aro
being burned, our fields laid waste, and our wive;
and children mercilessly driven from their heme
by a powerful enemy' We must strike like men fo
freedom or wemu3t submit to subjugation.
Death is to bo preferred to loss of liberty. A
must rally to tho field forthe present emergency
I the State is overrun.
I therefore by virtue of the authority vested i.i
j me by the statute of this State, hereby order a levy
! en massee of tho whole free white male population
residing or domiciled in this State between sixteon
(16) and fifty-five years of age, except such as arc
physically unablo to bear arms, which physical de
fect must be plain and indisputable, or they mu-:
be sent to camp for examination, and except those
engaged in the Legislature or Judicial Department -
of the govrenmont, which are by the recent act
therLegislature declared exempt from compul- y
service.
All others are absolutely required, and members
of tho Legislature and Judges are invited to report
immediately to Major General G. A Smith, at Jfa
con, or wherever else in Georgia his camp may jb
for forty (40) days service under arms, unless the
emergency is sooner passed.
The statute declares that all person hereby cal le i
out shall be subject after this call to all the rule
and articles of war of the Confederate States, and on
failure to report, shall be subject to the pains ani
penalties of the crime of desertion.
Volunteer organizations formed into companies
battalions, regiments, brigades or divisions will bo
accepted for (40) forty days, if they even approxi
mate to the numbers in each orgaization which >
required by the militia laws of this State which were
in force prior to the late act.
All police companies formed in counties for home
defence will report, leaving at home for the time,
only those over 55 years of age; and all persons hav
ing Confederate details or who, by the
lato decision of the Supreme Court of this State, are
held to be liable to State militia service and bound
to obey the call of the Governor.
All such refusing to report will be arrested by the
police force or by any Aid-de-ftimp, or other officer
of this State,) and carried immediately to the frorr
The necessary employees of Railroads now actively
engaged, and the necessary agents of the Expresi
Company, and telegraph operators are from the ne
cessity for their services in their present position,
excused.
All ordained ministers of religion in charge of a
Ghurch or Synagogue area’so excused.
All Railroad companies in this State will trans
port all persons applying tor transportation to toe
Front, and in case any one refuses, its President
Superintendent, (agents and employees will be iu.
mediately sent to tho front,
All Aides-dc-Cainp and other State officers ar»
required to be active and vigilant in the executioa
of the orders contained in this proclamation, anda”
Confederate officers arc respectfully invited to a i
State officers in their vicinity in sending forward a
persons hereby ordered to tho front.
Tiie enemy has penetrated almost to the centre &;
your State. If every Georgian able to bear arcs'
would rally around him, he could never escape
(Signed) JOSEPH E. BROWN,
Governor.
1131= Each paper in the State will publish the
above Proclamation. nov 22 It
Headquarters, 24th Dist. G. M. \
Columbus, Ga., Nov. 22, 1864. >
Under the Proclamation of the Governor of tho
19th inst., all persons liable to the call, are respeet
fully invited to form Companies or Battalions by
volunteering, which will be accepted immediately
and transportation given. All who do not volunteer
will report to these headquarters without delay >.
be subject to arrest. B. A. THORNTON,
nov 23 3t Act. A. D. C., 24th Dist. G. M
LOST,
AN Friday morning a RED VELVET BOW con-
Vy taining a gold star, with the latter “J.” engra
ed on it.* The finder will be rewarded by
it at this office. nov26—dtf
LARLi; (OYmLYJILYT
OF
LETTER PAPER!
AND
mFmoßAftDum hook* *
For sale by
J. K. REDD & CO.
®c 12 ts
ZVotice to Debtors and Creditor*.
ALL persons having claims against the estate c
Joseph W. Woolfolk, dec’d, late of Muscogee
county, are hereby notified to render them duly
authenticated within the time prescribed by law
and those indebted to said estate are requested to
make immediate payment.
WM. G. WOOLFOLK.
nov 23, 1864 —w4od Adm’r
ftotice!
All letters, packages, Ac., for any of the Reserva
forces sent from here to Macon, should headdress*
“Gare Col. Leon Von Zinken, commanding A
umbus Reserve Forces,” Macon.
S. L. BISHOP.
nov 25 3t Jfaj. Com’dg Poi?
On Consignment.
-I A BARRELS SUPERIOR WHEAT WH'3-
JLU KEY, and for sale by „
novl9-3t HANSERD & ALbTIN
SWEET ORANGES.
A large lot just received and for sale bv
gp'VY ARD BUTT, At 114, Broad S'
novlß-3t
To Rent,
For Confederate Money.
TWO PLANTATIONS in. Sumter «ountv.
I ani ten miles from Americus.
Fer further particulars «J^ SON * CO
nov7l2t* America*.