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SPECIAL NOTICES
To the Citizens of Columbus!
Having announced myself a candidate for re-elec
:ion for Mayor of the city, since which time a por
tion of my fellow citizens calling upon me to take
ommand of them under the recent call of our Gov
ernor, to aid in repelling ihe enemy agarnst our
liomes and families—not feeling disposed to reject
their request—l have consen ed, and shall cast my
destiny &itli them, and in accordance with this de
: emanation, I call upon the cstizens of Columbus,
if my former administration meets their approval,
hat they will remember me and elect me for then
next Mayor.
Mr. R. L. Bags, who goes with me to Abe front,
declines being a candidate for Mayor, in my favor
for which he will please accept my thanks,
nov 29 5t F. G WILKIN!-.
Headquarters Gov. Works, (Obd.) I
Colum us, Ga., Dec. 1, 1864. .1
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FIFTEEN NECKO BLACKSMITHS.
(jooil quarters furnished and li'oeral wages paid.
Ap ,,i y to M. n. WItIGHT,
dec 2_lw Col. Corn'dg.
Headquartirs Military Division I
of the West, >
Macon, Ga., Not. 29th, 1864.)
General Orders, \
No.-. J
All supernumerary Officers of this Military -Givis on
not otherwise assigned to duty, will report to the
Commandant of the Post, Macon, Ga,
fly command of General Beauregard.
A. It. CHISOLM,
l ec 2eid2w A. I>. C. and A. A. A. G.
Headquarters Post, 1
Columbus, Ga., November 29,1864, /
Orders No 19.
„ * * * * *
I. 411 men retired from service that have repor
ted ami tiled their papers at this office, will report
at those headquarters on Saturday, the 3d of De
cember, at 11 o’clock, a. m., for the purpose of being
mustered for pay.
By command _
S. L. BISHOP,
Maj. Com’dg Post.
S. Isidore Guiluct, Post ddj’t.
nov 29 5t ,
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(except Ruing Machine,; two hand PRESSES,
and about
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OFFICE SOUTHERN EXPRESS,
Columbus, Ga., Oct., 29, 1864.
N O Freight will be received at the Southern Ex
press Company’s Office after 3/a o’clock p. M.t o
go East on that day, nor will any be received to go
West after 4}4 o’clock p m.
oc 29 ts S. H. HILL, Agent.
AI¥I¥OIJI¥C EM E3¥TS.
The 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 fooling disposed to vacate my present position
I announce myself a candidate for re-election.
nov 25 tde F. G. AV ILKINS.
We are authorized to announce B. F. COLE
MAN as a candidate for Mayor it the City of On
lnmbus at the ensuing municipal elec!ion.
nov23—dtc
We are authorized to announce W. R. BROWN
as a candidate for Mayor at the ensuing municipal
election. nov 30 to*
For tl;ir*li«*ii.
THOMAS P. CALLIEII is announced as a candi
date for re election to the office of City Marshal.
novlß-td ;
For Marshal.
W. 1.. ROBINSON is announced as a candidate
for the office of Marshal of the city by
nov 15* MANY FRIENDS.
Eoi* Deputy Marshal.
At’he 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.
u0v1.4 te* .
For Stslen
We are authorized to announce R. T. SIMONS
us a candidate for City Sexton, at the ensuing mu
nicipal election.
dec I te .
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oc 31 tt THIS OFFIGK
Notice to Oebiors and Creditors
ALL persons havingclai s again?? the estate Ot
Joseph W. Wooliold, dic'd, late ot .Muscogee
county, are hereby notified t render them du y
authenticated «uhiu tlie limo prescribed by law;
and those indebted to said'estate are requested to
make immediate payment.
WM. G. VVOOI,FOLK.
nov23, 1864—,w40d Adm'r
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VOL. XU
Saturday Evening'.
Frdrbals Landing ox the Coast.-The Chroni
cle & Sentinel ofthc XOth, says it is rumored thattlie
Federal* are landing a force on the Carolina Coast,
i If this rumor is correct it is probably a feint, merely
t'» create a diversion in favor of Sherman.
♦ -*> * i
From Below.— lt is rumored (says the Chroni
cle A Sentinel of the 30th) that Wheeler fought all
day Monday near Wayne-boro with the Federals,
wi th success, capturing over two thousand prisoners.
Everything indicates that there will bestirring
times below in a few days. The prospect now is
that a heavy battle will take place.
From a gentleman who left Waynesboro Tues
day morning we learn that the eohntry around that
place is strewn with dead Yankees and horses. He
al.-o stated that the railroad bridge over Briar creek
was not burned ; neither was the railroad cut this
side of Millen.
Good News from Breckinridge.— A courier
(says the Chronicle Sc Sentinel of the 30th ) has just
arrived with information that in a recent fight Gen.
Breckinridge had defeated the Yankees and cap
tured seven hundred prisoners and one hundred
wagons. No mention is made ol the point at which
the engagement occurred, but we presume it to have
taken place at Strawberry Plains.
From Tennessee—The Bristol Register
of Friday says that passengers from Jonesboro,’
Thursday, could give us but little additional news of
Breckinridge’s movements. He is still pursuing the
enemy and securing the fruits of his victory. The
total number of prisoners captured is reported to
be eight hundred and fifty. Four hundred of these
arc expected to reach here to day. Fifty wagons
and teams, in addition to those already reported,
have fallen into our hands. The enemy are in some
force at Strawberry Plains, eighteen miles from
Knoxville, and it is said that General Vaughn is
again in their rear. Wc expect to hear of another
handsome "bagging" affair in a few days, and then
ho 1 for Knoxville.
Later intelligence received Saturday night as
sures us that our forces held Strawberry Plains, and
that the enemy have retreated to their fortifications
at Knoxville.
From the Mississippi.— The Canton Citizen, 16th,
says : We havo it from the best authority that a
fight took place on the other side of the Mississippi
river, betweed Mil liken Bend and Pecan Grove, a
few days since. The Confederate troops were under
the command of Col. Harrison, and the entire gar
rison of the enemy were either killed, wounded or
captured.
We suspect that the two boat loads of wounded
Giat passed down the river a few days since, and re
ported to be from White river, is the result, rather,
of this fight.
Personal. — Lieut,. (Jew. Dick Taylor, the hero of
the Trans-Mississippi, arrived in the city last night
by tiie Gulf road, and took quarters at the Pulaski
House, We congratulate our citizens on the pros
pect of having so strong an aiin bared in defence
of their bomes. — Sav. liep.
The “Situation.”
Reliable advices received yesterday indiate that
.Sherman has made littlo or no progress with Ihe
main body of his army during the last day or
two. He is still on the railroad some distance be
yond Millen, and apparently replenishing his com
missariat tor a journey through the desert befoie
him. His meu and animals must be desperately
jaded by rhi» time, and but little prepared for the
trials to come We still believe that his intention
is to reach the coast, if possible, by that route
which presents the least danger of a fight.
Theie was uo enemy between here and Millen
yesterday, and although a party of Sherman’s
cavalry had been near the latter place, everything
remained untouched.
Another fight is reported between Wheeler and
Kilpatrick on Monday with the usual result ; the
latter was recently thrashed and driven back in
the direction of the infantry.
It is reliably reported that a force of about one
thousand landed yesterday forenoon from the
Yankee fleet at Boyd’s Landing, on Broad river,
in South Carolina, and some eight miles distant
from the Savannah and Charleston Railroad. A
portion of this command approached the railroad
later iu the day, but subsequently retired. Prepa
ration, believed to be ample, has been made to
meet them, should they attempt to cut the
road, which it was believed they would do last
Bight.
To our friends abroad, we would say that the
skies look brighter in Georgia. The government
has acted with powerful energy to meet -the crisis,
and not many hours will elapse before we shall be
fully prepared for any probable demand upon our
patriotism or valor. We still believe Sherman has
no serious thought of encountering Savannah
with his jaded columns, but will attempt to make
his way to tho coast by the most practicable
route. He will not find it difficult to strike one
that has not “a lion in his path.” Our military
authorities, though, we are glad to see, are acting
on the s umd principle, that the surest plan for
keeping him away from tho city is to make it
impossible for him to get there. —Savannah Re
publican.
From Tennessee.
lu a short interview yesterday evening with
Capi. Reynolds, of Coffee county, Team,' we gath
ered several items of interest from that State and
the army. Capt. Reynolds teas been spending
some weeks at and about his home, and left the
army on Monday week last, the day after it left
Florence.
Ho informs us that threo full regiments from
Keutucky, numbering near three thonsand men,
had joined Gen. Forrest, whose cavalry no w num
bers between ten and fifteen thousand, while that
of the enemy ij very small, the larger portion of
it haring left with Sherman.
Forrest, the captain informs us, moved to the
right and Hood to the left of Pulaiki, and states
that very heavy firing was heard in the direction
of that place for several hours the day he left
Florence. Tie reports Thomas’ force at from twen
ty-one to twenty-five thousand men, while Hood’s
will fall little short es double that number, as he
thinks that not less than ten thousand hare been
added to it since its arrival in North Alabama.
He represents the people of Tennessee as being
alive with zeal And enthusiasm, and says that men
by the hundreds and thousands, de avoid tho draft
into the Federal army, are concealing themselves
in the woods, and awaiting an opportunity to join
oar forces.
While in the neighborhood es Pulaski, he learn
ed, through an old friend, who was on intimate
terms with the Federals in that place, and who
visited the town every day for the purpose of gath
ering the naws, that Rosecraes had telegraphed
the War Department to the effect that if he was
not reinforced he would be compelled to leave the
State of Missouri ; that Price, with a force of for
ty thousand mon, was pressing him, and that the
rebel army was daily growing in strength. The
same officer that imparted this information, a!*e
gave it as his opinion, that tho Federals would ba.
forced to give up the State of Tennessee, stating
that Sherman had left the State comparatively
defenceless, and that while the rebel army was
growing in strength and| spirit, their own was di
minishing in both.
Captain Reynolds also informs us that the day
he lett Cherokee, information was received from
Gen Roddy to the effect that all the Federal posts
southeast of Tull&homa had been called in. inclu
ding Ch .UniinCga, Bridgeport and Stevenson. If
this he true. Knoxville and all East Tennessee
will of necessity be evacuated.
Captain Reynolds furthermore informs us
that nearly all the troops at Memphis had
been sent up the river. Whether they were des
! tined for Missouri or Middle Tennessee was not
known.
Altogetb r, the news is cheering in the highest
degree." We hare every confidence that the people
1 of 'Tennessee and Kentucky will rally to General
Hond in such force as to enable him to maintain
himself in that country. This will most assuredly
! bo the case if Sherman and his army is brought
| to grief, es which there U new great hope.— Mems,
i phi* Appeal, 2A.
COLUMBUS, GA., MONDAY, DEC. 5, 1864.
Sherman’s Movements.
the Washington correspondent of the Times
telegraphs that .Sherman has 60,000 infantry
and 9,000 cava ry, and gives the following
outline* of his expedition :
After arriving at Macon he will probably go
to Miiledgeville, where he will divide his army,
sending a o’ it to Savannah auia part to
Augusta. li * v ill fortify the latter place, and
after receivii g .-applies up the Savannah riv
er, be will i.'c able to move on Columbia or
Charleston. Tiie orogr'amme, if carried out
successfully, completely demolishes the rail
road system of the State of Georgia. The
Western and A;-antic, running from Chatta
nooga to Atlanta, one hundred and thirty
eight mile-*, is almost totally destroyed. It
will take a year to rebuild it, with no incon
venience in ob lining iron. The Georgia rail
road (a Stale institution, as is also the West
ern and Aiiaui •, and to which the Confeder
acy is indebted many a millions of dollars)
running from Ytlanta to Augusta, one hun
dred and seventy-one miles, is destroyed from
Atlanta to Covington, forty-one miles. The
occupation of Augusta will add to its destruc
tion.
The Macon and Western railroad, running
from Atlanta to Macon, one hundred and
three miles, is entirely destroyed. The Geor
gia Central railroad, running from Macon to
Savannah, is me hundred and ninety-one
miles, and this will no doubt receive Sher
man’s attention in a few days. From Augus*
ta to Columbia, S. C., it is one hundred and
forty-one by railroad. Mostly all the manu
factories for shot, shell, fixed ammunition and
cannon are at Macon, Augusta and Columbia.
Half the powder the rebels use is made near
Augusta.
It Beauregard attempts to intercept Sher
man, or follow him, he must send his entire
army, with all its paraphernalia, by rail from
Corinth to Meridian. It must then march
from Meridian to Montgomery, a distance of
about two hundred miles, with only a short
piece of railroad, with no means ol transpor
tation, running from Uniontown to Selma. By
the time Beauregard reaches Macon, Sherman
would be out of his reach. Thomas is watch
ing G. P. T. B , and is being heavily reinforced
(with new troops). In a week from now
Thomas' army will have fifty-five thousand
men, beside A. J. Smith, who is co-operating
with an army of observation.
The Cincinnati Times, on the question ol
subsistence, says:
Sherman has been chiefly occupying his
time in laying in a full supply of hard bread
and beef cattle ; and he has with him, of the
former, sixty days’ full rations and several
thousand head of the cattle. For all things
else he will depend on the country over which
he is to pass. His animals can subsist well.
Corn and sweet potatoes are abundant. Dur
ing the week ending on the sth instant, he
gathered in one thousand seven hundred and
sixty wagon loads of corn, four hundred and
thirty-six loads of sweet potatoes, and a few
horses, without sending his foraging parties
more than thirty miles from Atlanta. He
could manage to live for six months without
communication once with the North. In ref
erence to his cavalry, he feels certain of his
ability to obtain horses enough to keep good
his original stock; and perhaps, he may be
enabled to mount some more men.
The New York Herald of the 20th, says :
We know, positively, that Sherman is in mo
tion, and that is all we know. It is useless to
speculate upon the exact line of his march, or
the exact point that lies at the end of that
line. The significance of his movements is
clear enough. He goes to occupy certain im
portant points in the Southern States, and
they are the points that will best enable him
to hold the country. He may choose what
towns will answer his purpose best, for all are
at his mercy. His operation is one that flows
naturally out of the position that the war now
stands in. The Southern States are absolutely
denuded of all defensive force. Every man is
in the armies that hold the frontier, under
Lee, Early or Beauregard. We matched each
of those armies with equal armies, and hold
them still with equal armies, and for the prac
tical purposes of war this is the same as if we
had put those armies out of existence. Thus
the Southern country lies helpless before us—
practically conquered—and we march in and
“possess it,” just as old Abe promised that we
should in his firs# proclamation.
Concentration ami Dispersion.
The New York Herald remarks upon the “great
difference on many points” between the parties to
tho war, in tho way in which they carry it on.
“Hitherto,” it says, “the difference has been cn
minor points, and now it is on a vital one, and is,
moreover, all in our favor. Within the past year
we have learned to concentrate ; and we have by
the concentration of troops into large masses de
livered within that time those really effective
blows that have put the rebellion where it is; and the
rebel government has within the same period prac
ticcd the wildest dispersion of its forces.”
AH the energies of the Yankee Government, the
Herald says, have been for some months directed
against two great points, Richmond and Atlanta.
“While we have thus waged war,” continues
the Herald,” with purpose and great effect on
these two vital points, what have the rebels done ?
They have resisted us stubbornly on these two
lines, but they have not resisted us so stubbornly
as they might have done, because they have not
resisted us on these two lines with all their forces.
They have frittered their power away in unimpor
tant places; they have divided their energy and
weakened it. They have pursued still that i<jnw>
fatuus es outside subsistence, absurdly imagining
that it was more important to make arguments for
Northern politicians and European agents than to
overthrow eur armies in battle. This policy
tempted them to us3 men, with whom they might
have delivered great blows at Grant, in vain ad
vances down the .Valley and raids into Maryland
and Pennsylvania. Such advances and such raids'
made arguments for theg copperheads, perhaps—
and they enabled rebel agents in Europe to say
that the United States had made no progress in
the war. and that the rebels were nearer, Washing
ton in 1564 than they were in 1861. In that way
these rebel movements kept the rebel loan up, and
kept the copperheads up: but they kept Grant’up
also.
“At tbe present time Breckenridge is in East
Tennessee —probably with not less than 10,000
men. Price is in with 20,000 men.—
There may be 15,000 in Dick Taylor’s army. Only
a few days ago a rebel force threatened Memphis:
there is a considerable force iu Canada engaged in
the organization o f raids, and ua the lt?th inst.
Early had 25,000 men in the Shenandoah Valley.
Here are from 70,000 te 75,000 men. Had thi*
force been added to] Johnson s army, Gherman
would not have taken Atlanta, and we - :<>uld have
been beaten in the West. But the rebel ’govern
ment relinquished a great object like that, merely
to scatter the war ever a wide territory in a vain
attempt to flank us out of the fame es our great
success, and to effect the Northern elections.”
Oi'R City.—The old forrifica ions around
the city are beiEg daily strengthened. New
ones are also being erected, and are rapidly
approaching completion.
Trains of cars continue to arrive day aud
night, loaded with veteran troops. The sub
urbs of the city have become one vast military
camp.
A body of cavalry b 1 ween two and three
thousand strong, "chel across the
country, arrived yester hey were a no
j ble looking body of soldier.*, and their horses
1 were in a line condition.— Chron. t N-w--' 30fA.
Message of Go?. Vavee.
We find, says the Augusta Chronicle & Senti
nel, the message of Governor Vance to the SjXorth
Carolina Legislature in the Wilmington Journal
of Friday last. The message is an able document,
breathing throughout a spirit of patriotic deration
to the Confederate cause. * The Governor com
plains of the Confederate authorities for its inter
fering with the running of the blockade by ihe
States, taking similar grounds in regard to the
restriction imposed upon vessels under State
charter as those taken by Governor Brown in his
late message. The Governor inveighs bitterly
against the policy of sending out as cruisers ves
sels like the Tallahassee. lie attributes the loss
ol the State vessel, the Ad-Vance, to the seizure
of her foreign coal by the Tallahassee, thus
compelling' her to go to sea with North Caro
lina coal unsuitod to her furnaces, and with
which she was unable to make more than
half speed, while the column of black smoko
disclosed her position to the blockading fleet.—
He recommends the legislature to memorialize
Congress for indemnity for the loss of tho Ad
vance.
Governor Y'ance recommends that the Homo
Guards and Militia organizations of the State bo
reorganized and consolidated by the abolition of
the Home Guard organization, and the combina
tion of the skeleton companies of tho militia into
new regiments, having the numbers necessary to
take the field at once. lie opposes the arming
of negroes, or their emancipation by the general
governn*pnt. He goes for putting useless or un
necessary officers into service, and appointing none
as militia officers who are not producers er me
chanics.
We make room for the following concluding
paragraphs of the message :
The war still drags its slow length along.—
General Lee has been materially reinforced, and
all fears of the early capture of Petersburg and
Richmond arc dissipated. Our people and ar
mies, with a wonderful elasticity of spirit, have
recovered from the effects of our reverses in
the Valley of Virginia, and in the Southwest.—
The campaign of 1864, the bloodiest by far of
any yet fought on the continent, bids fair to
close without a particle of vantage to our ene
mies, if not with positive advantage to our
arms.
Nobody has yet starved, and with sufficient
caro nobody will, during the coming season. But
the end of this war aud the return of peace seems
still hid from human vision. When it shall come,
bow it shall be raised, and with what body it shall
eonie, aro questions it is not in my power to an
swer. The glimmering prospects wo thought w#
saw in the spring and early summer seem to have
vanished.
It is a matter of sincere congratulation, however,
that the good sense and conservatism of our people
have rescued our State from the ruin of attempt
ing to seek for it by separate action. Their un
paralleled unanimity at the polls has put to rest
all our apprehensions on that score, and satisfied
our enemies and our friends that North Carolina
wi.l share the fate for weal or woe of her confede
rates. A nobler moral spectacle has seldom been
exhibitad than that of our army and people in rat
ifying anew the plighted honor of their conven
tion, after almost four years of such suffering and
bloodshed as rarely happens to the lot of nations.
Suffering men and women and children at home,
and wearied and blood-stained soldiers on their
knees in the trenches at Petersburg, with she ene
my’s shot crashing though their ranks as they
cast their ballots, vied with each other in the noble
task of upholding tho honor of their State and the
independence of their country. If I have ever
maintained a constant and abiding faith in our
ultimate triumph, I owe that faith more than to
skillful generals, great and gallant armies, ships
of war or fortified cities, to that pure and unself
ish patriotism which glows in the bosoms of our
people. In spite of all we see of tho frailties ©f
human nature—the greed of gain, extortion and
rapacity, selfishness, grinding of the poor, indif
ference t» the agonies of qur country, and 'all the
ways of tho heartless and the raven prophecies ol
the unpatriotic, I have yet, in my two years of
close intercourse with the people of my native
State, ever found a pure and undying flame of
that bright and glorious love of country, which
can make the poorest widow or the humblest boy
a kinsman of the Angels. And I have said, it
cannot be that God will reject all this sacrifice and
count as naught all this patience and long suffer
ing because of the wickedness of some ; that the
little rills of patriotic love, trickling from the
mountain gorge, flowing onward through the
plains and receiving its tributaries of blood in
every valley, must yet reach tho sea, in strength,
and volume mighty enough to hear in triumph the
ark of Southern freedom which we are struggling
to launch upon its bosom.
Let us continue to sustain our government in
all rightful and necessary powers, and give to that
wonderful and victorious aruay every possible
physical and moral support; let us while watch
ing anxiously every visible and reasonable means
of peace, eschew every plausible bypath whose
mile marks point to ruin and dishonor ; let us
accept the simple faith of the patriot in the
justice of our cause which leadeth to salvation,
and avoid the learned skepticism of the doubter,
which taketh hold on hell, and the result will
yet be all that the friends of good gov
ernment and human freedom could desire. A
nation purified by sorrow, strengthened by
suffering and wise from the bloody lessons of
civil war, shall yet, I humbly trust in God, es*
tablish and perpetuate for their more fortunate
children, a government rich in all the traditions
of liberty and civilization.
Zebulon B. Y’ance.
The Election of Lincoln.
The New „York Journal of Commerce gives up.
In its issue of the 10th inst- it declares that it will
abandon political discussion, and devote itself to
the business of commerce and good family read
ing. Here is an extract, which looks like hope
lessness, or the fear thatynilitary law is to prevail
hearafter under the reign of Abe Lincoln :
While it is a remarkable fact that ,in the Ncates
of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as
well as in New Hampshire, Connecticut, and other
parts of the country, the division of the people on
these subjects is very nearly even, it is neverthe
less true that Mr. Lincoln will receive the vote of
a majority of the electoral college, and that the
verdict of the people will thus stand recorded in
favor of his principles- Discussion of those prin
ciples, arguments against them, a repetition of
that which we have so often and steadily urged,
can do no possible good now. We bow to the
verdict. The nation at large must bow to it.
« *' * a- *
They have beaten us at tbe polls. They have the
President, the Senate, the House of Representa
tives, ami a majority of the people in their favor.
They have a right to the whole responsibility, and
they may with propriety decline to receive the
advice of those whom they have out voted ; nor
has the defeated party a right to interfere with any
advice or opposition which could bo regarded as
factious.
Another New York paper thinks that the popu
lar vote of the year, omitting that of the “rebel”
States, wilt be as large nearly as the vote of the
entire Union in 1860. Mr. Lineoin; it is said, will
have a majority of about four hundred thousand,
equivalent to the ninth of the entire rote. The
same States in 16t»0 gave a majority against him
of 138,785.
A Chicago paper, under tbe head of births, an
nounces, “On the 24th of June, the wife of George
Tinker, Esq., Lad a female Tinker—the lady of
Hon. Jainss Cannon, ol a pair of Cannons—the
wife of -Joel Heart, of a little sweet Heart—and
the wife of Gao. W. Bull, es & female Bali !
1 FIVE DOLLARS
X PER MOUTH.
Army Corrfspondeiifc Saraanah Republican.
Richmond, Nov. 23.
Heavy rains have fallen in Virginia since
the date of ray last letter, and the water
courses are much swollen. It is now clear
and cold, the thermometer standing at 22 de
grees Fahrenheit at sunrise this morning:
but it will be some time before the roads will
be in a condition to admit of military opera
tions being undertaken. There was'a slight
fall of snow here last night, and enougb°to
cover the ground last week in the Valley. A
thorough freeze would do much to render the
roads impassable to artillery ordnance trains,
and to render any extended movement ex**
ceedingly hazardous, if not impossible. Forty
miles above Richmond the snow fell last night
to the depth of four or five inches.
The rains have been equivalent to a bond
on the part ot both armies to keep the peace,
and consequently the men, including the
pickets and sharpshooters, have been lookiug
for shelter to protect themselves from the
weather, rather than for an unwary enemy at
whom to discharge their long ranged guns.
General Grant has gone to New Jersey to
take Thanksgiving dinner with his family' to
morrow ; at least, so say Federal newspapers.
The Beast, however, remains behind; not the
beast spoken of in the Apocalypse, having
seven heads and ten horns, but Butler the
Beast, who is still digging away at his canal
at Dutch Gap, and who hopes yet to “raise up
out of the sea’’ and cleave bis way to Richv
mond. No immediate movement is looked
for by either army, and the prevailing opinion
now is that we shall have a quiet time for a
few weeks, if not longer.
The weather does not seem to have restrain
ed the enemy in the Valley, We have a well
authenticated report that the Federal cavalry
showed itself near Early’s army yesterday,
and attacked Rosser's command and a brigade
of infantry, and was very badly beaten. Such
is said to be the official report received by
General Lee, and which will doubtless be
made public to-morrow. No particulars are
given.
A resolution has been adopted by the Sen
ate instructing the Committee on Military Af
fairs to inquire into the causes of the recent
reverses sustained by Confederate arras in the
Valley of Virginia, and what, if any, addi
tional action is required by the legislative
department of the Government to prevent
their recurrence. I hope this inquiry will be
prosecuted with vigor and impartiality, tho’
I fear it will not. The great difficulty in such
investigations grows out of the indisposition
of officers to testify against each other, espe
cially where one of them is charged with in
temperance. If the charge is not sustained,
the accused remains in command, and may
make those who have testified against him
feel the weight of his power.
When this consideration does not control
witnesses, there is an amiable weakness (it
would be nearer the truth to call it a criminal
weakness,) which restrains many of them
from exposing the vices and follies of their
official companions, and which makes them
seek to cover up and make light of their faults,
rather than drag them out to the light of day.
I have heard enough from unimpeachable wit
nesses to satisfy any reasonable man that our
reverses in the Valley were not the result of
the superior numbers or the superior general
ship ot the enemy; and yeti doubt whether
i bis proposed investigation will conduct those
who may engage in it to such a conclusion.
We shall see.
Mr. Henry, from the Military Committee in
the Senate, reported a bill yesterday to au
thorize the Secretary of W.nr to employ, for
the purposes stated in the President’s .Mes
sage, forty thousand negroes, instead of twen
ty thousand as heretofore provided. In case
he shall be unable to procure the services of
that number on hire, the Secretary is author
ized to impress them, or so many as shall be
necessary to make up forty thousand. I infer
from the synopsis of the bill as published in
the morning papers, that free negroes will be
first impressed, and then slaves : and in mak
ing impressments of slaves, that those not en
gaged in agriculture, manufacturing and me
chanical pursuits will be first impressed, and
in case there shall then be any deficiency, that
further impressments of slaves shall be made
by taking them from those persons who have
fifteen or more able-bodied field hands between
sixteen and fifty years of age.
I neglected to state in ray last letter that
Col. Ould, the Confederate Commissioner of
Exchange, has made an arrangement with the
Federal authorities, through Gen. Grant, who
has acted very fairly and liberally in the mat
ter, to ship one thousand bales of cotton from
Mobile to a United States port, the proceeds
of which are to be used in procuring blankets
for our prisoners now at the North. The cot
ton will be taken by a Federal vessel just as
soon as an order to that effect can be sent
from Washington to Mobile, and will be car°
ried free of charge. The blankets al3o will be
transported from the place of purchase to the
points of distribution without charge Arti
cles intended for Federal prisoners in the
South will be delivered by the Confederate
authorities on the same terms. Major Gen.
Trimble, now confined in Fort Warren, will
act as the Confederate agent in the business
of receiving and distributing articles designed
for the Confederate prisoners; and in the
event his health will not permit, then Brig.
Gen. Beale. P. W. A.
Beast Butler Figuring in a Law Suit. —
The New York correspondent of the Philadel
phia Inquirer, in his letter of the 4th inst., say? :
Gen. Butler’s application to prebate the will
of Andrew J. Butler, deceased, came up in the
Surrogate’s Court to-day, and as there was no
opposition made to the admission of t'ue will, the
probate was allowed. Letters testamentary were
issued te the General on the execution of a bond
in the sum of $400,000 by two suScient sure
ties.
Just previous to the signing of the bend, sur
rogate Tucker was servod with a copy of costs of
attachment issued Out of the Court of Common
Pleas some ten days since by Judge Cordoza, is
in a suit wherein Samuel Smith and Andrew H.
Smith are plaintiffs, and Benjamin F. Butler, de
fendant, the claim amounting to one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars, alledged to have risen on a
seizure of gold made by the defendant in M»y.
1862, at New Orleans, La., the plaintiffs then be
ing private bankers in New Orleans, under the
firm name of S. Smith it Cos.
They claim that the defendant forcibly entered
the banking rooms at No. 2i Canal street, in the
aforesaid city, seized all their funds, private ac
counts and *60,000 in gold coin, and retained a
or them until the following July, wnen everything
was returned except the gold, which the defend
ant, it is alleged, converted to his own use.
The summons and complaint in the action to
gether with a copy of the attachment, were served
on the General by Under Sheriff Vuile.
Tbs Sheriff has also attached ail ’he funds be
longing to the defendant from the Government
and now in the sub-treasury, also the money due
to him oh his account at his private bankers.
Good Reasoning. —There is a good deal of
3ouud sense, at times, in the remarks of insane
persons. At a lunatic asylum, a few days since,
a patient was asked if he wu.? toad of ri ling on
horseback ? “No, sir, I ride a hobby. **uhcre
is not much difference between the two, ca;-ioss
ly remarked tbe gentleman. “Oh ! yes there is,”
said the patient, ‘‘uud ui» this : if y u ride ;*
horse, you can stop him and get off, but when you
mount a hobby, you ctn’t stop and you can't get
off.”
TELEGRAPHIC.
REPORTS OP THS PRESS ASSOCIATION.
tu T or A I hK *<*t of Congress in the year
K- ;A. Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office of
°f the C .federate States for
Ue Northern District of Georgia.
Hichmoxd, Nov. 29.— Gen. Joseph E. John
ston arrived here this morning.
George D. Prentice, Editor of the Louis
ville .Tounnl. arrived here last night on a
visit to his son by permission of the Confed
erate authorities.
The Jackson Mississippi.™ is informed by a gen
tleman just from Jackson, Miss., that a force of
1,500 Yankees struck the Mississippi Centra*
Railroad, Sunday evening, at PickerTs Station,
and destroyed a portion of the track. Our forces
are prepariag to drive them back, and it is tho
prevailing opinion that tlioy will be made to ’eavo
before doing much damage to the read.
Persons just from Corinth, Mississippi, state tha t
every soldier m route for the army of Tennessee
*- detained at that piace. An officer informs us
that tho troops collecting there arc being organ
ized into regiments in anticipation of any raid
that may be attemptod by the enemy to cut the
Memphis und Ohio railroad.
General Hood s Address to the Army.
"Mint Julep, the Mail’s special correspondent
with the army of Tennessee, furnishes the fol
lowing copy of Gen. Hood’s Address to the
Army of Tennessee, on the morning of the
forward movement :
Headers Army Tennessee, and
Florence, Ala., Nov. 21, 1861. >
"Soldiers—\ou march to redeem by vour
valor and your arms one of the fairest por
tions of our Confederacy. This can only bo
achieved by battle and by victory.
Summon up, in behalf of a consummation
so glorious, all the elements of soldiership
and all the instincts of manhood, and you will
render the campaign before you full of auspi
cious fruit to your country and lasting renow i
to yourselves. J. B. Geu."
<m • —ii
City of Thebes.
BY A TRAVELLER IN EGYPT.
Thebes must have been the greatest and most
magnificent city in Egypt. Almost as old as tha
fiood. situated in a fertile valley, where it expanded
to a vast and splendid amphitheatre, and adorning
both banks of the Nile, it was in extent; wealth and
architectural glory, the flower und crown of ancient
civilization. Nearly a thousand years before Chris?
liomer sang of its hundred gates, and soma of the
sacred prophets speak of it as being ‘populous” or
containing a niultiiudo.” No ono can visit itt
present unparalleled ruins or linger among tho gor
geous mausoleums of its kings and princes, withou’
being deeply impressed with a sense of its forme'
vast ness and grandeur, and the contrast suggested
a Present tribes, a miserable representition of
Arab fiilth and squalidness is overwhelmingly pow
ertnl, and the imagination is oontiuallv struggling
to restore and re-pcople the city, and look upon its
splendor cro it was devastated by the Persian eou -
queror. But these mournful relics its utter
desolation teach most impressive lessoS?.
Thousands of years have rolled along.
And beheld empires in pride;
And Witnessed scenes of crime and wroDg,
Till men by nations died.
Thousands of summer suns liavFshone,
Till earth grew' bright beneath their sway
Since thou, untenanted and lone,
Wert rendered to decay.
Some of the mud cabins in the presom village of
lhebes are built among and upon the grand old
rums of the temple of Luxor. Magnificent col
umns, covered with hieroglyhics, and still stand
their original positions, are filled around
and half-covered with the accumulated dust and
filth of ages,,while somo are entirely obscured hr
the wretched hovels that cluster about them and
can be seen only by entering these repulsive abodes
amid yelping curs, braying donkeys, cackling fowls
and dirty Arabs. But as you look upon these old
Rhiars of stone, exquisitely chiseled, wander through
the halls that yet remain, and survey their vast gate
an*l colossal statutes, you feel that they
built them were men of genius and power. One of
the most beautiful objects here is an obelisk of red
granite, more than three thousand years old, and
yet its appearance and its hieroglyphics are still
fresh and unimpaired.
A mile and a halt north ol Luxor are the ruins es
the grandest temple in Egypt, if rot in the world
It is impossible to describe it. It is the temple
Karnak. One must see it. or he will have no ade
quate idea ol its astonishing magnitude and beantv.
bach an array of gates, towers, columns, obelisks
and statues, is a perfect marvel. Think of atom
pie, including its various halls and apartments
twelve hundred feet long, and about five hundred
ieot wide, its massive walls rising like palisades, and
its immense pillars like forests with avenues lead
ing to it from each point of the compass along which
in some instances for miles, were ranged double
rows of colossal sphinxes of gray, red and black
granite.
The edifice is said to have occupiediabout 75 acres
it having been enlarged from time to time. In the
grand hall there are still standing over 100 column*
nine feet in diameter, and many of them 60 feet
high. All arecovered with various hicrogljphicai
sculptures and paintings, whose colors are still
bright, after tho lapse ot noaj*ly forty centuries. In
one place you see a group of Jews led captive by an
Egyptian King. The characters interpreted agree
with the Bible account of fehishak’s victory over rhe
Kmg ot Judah, a verification of the sacred record.—
Profound and various are one’s reflections as ha
wanders amidst these sublime relics, fallen columns
broken obelisks and shattered sphinxes. What
immense processions of people once marched along
these avenues, gathered in these halls, aid wor
sniped at the shrine of Ammon! What treasure!
have the votaries lashed upon their gods.
Grand aro the temples] of Luxor and Kernak,
there were others on the opposite or west side of
the river, well worthy of belonging to tho city of a
hundred gates. Passing some two miles over a
fertile plain, once a part of Thebes, and you come
first to tho temple of Koorneh; farther on is the
famous Menmoniuin; and still beyond is a cluster
of temples called Medenet Haboo. 1 group all
these together, though each deserves a separate de
scription, fortheyare certainly grand old structures,
rich in immense columns and various sculptures and
paintings—buildings, “ of which the very ruins ara
tremendous.’* In the last is a hall which was re
modeled and used as a church by the early Chris
tian.-'. Here was a room set apart in a heathen tem
ple for the worship of the true God. Here the dis
ciples of Jesus once offered prayers in His name,
and sang hymns to his praise.
On the border of the green vale or plain not far
from the temples last alluded to, aro two colossal
statues, in a sitting posture, about sixty feet high -
one of which, that on the right as you approach
from the river, is the renowned VocalMomnon.—
It is an immense figure of Remeses, and was repu
ted to give forth a musical sound at the rising es
the sun. It was visited by emperors, philosophers
and poets from all distance, being attracted by its
fame. One of our Arab guides climbed up to a se
cmded spot near its head, where he struck a stone
that had a faint and peculiar jingle, This may
explain the old and wonderful vocal phenomenon,
lhe statue by its side is nameless. {Together they
form striking objects on being approached from the
river.
At the Memnonium there is still a larger statue
of Remeses, once a single block of granite, but now
thrown down and broken into several pieces. If
one marvels, as well as he may, at the human pow
er that mad'’, transported, and setup such stupend
ous monuments, it is scarcely less a matter of won
der how those early invaders could so thorough!*
shatter them.
Headquarters Georgia RiiSKß\j*,j
and Military District Georgia.
Macon. Ga., Nov. 30, 1864. )
[ Extract.!
Special Orders >
No. 149. *
* * * * * * *
11. Major A. M. Rowland, Commandant Camp es
Instruction, will, in that section of the State eat at
from communication with Augusta assume and per
form the duties of Commandant of Conscripts aatH
communication with Col. W. M. Browne, Com
mandant, &c„ can again be resumed.
By command of
Major General HOWELL COB3.
R. J. HaLLKTT, A. A. Gcu.
Hd’qes Camp op Instruction por Ga., <
Camp Cooper, Macon, Nov. 39, l s oi, \
Special Orders,)
No. 322. /
The attention of Enrolling and all otoer OSieer*
connected with the Consciipt service, who are not
in DIRECT communication with Augusta, is calldl
to the above ord*r of Msj. Gen. Cobb.
Until further vrders they will report to these
lieaduuartcrs. A. M. ROWLAND. *
Major and Commandant.
Columbus Times, Albany .Patriot and Li-
Grange Reporter, copy five times and send bill t*
Camp Cooper. dec 2 5t
stop n\ cow.
OTRAVED awrtv on the 20th inst. a BROWN
- t • W with a WHITE CALF. The calf ha= soma
r• i- • Sears, with a re.l ring round its mouth.
The i was bought at the auction room of F. G
Width.-..-oat live mentks ago. A liberal reward
will oe jo id for said cow and calf, or any informa
tion so tat [ her. N B Ji’OYE,
dec 3- !U Front st., near Kridge Row.