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DAILY TIMES, j, W. HI It HEN A 10., Proprietors. 'ablisnc t Daily (Sundays excepted) at the rate of >5.00 per mom i.or >ls for three months. No subscription received tor a longer term than t 'e. months. KATES OF ADVERTISING* CASUAL DAILY ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisements inserted once—s 4 per square. regular daily advertising rates. First Weok—s3 00 per square for oach insertion. Second Week—s 2 00 per square for each insertion. Third Weok—sl 50 per square for each insertion. Fourth Wook—sl 00 per square fur ea*h insertion. Second Month—s3o per square. Third Month—s2s per square. 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 Wanted to Hire ! 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 , To Printers 2 WE offer for sale a complete BOOK BINDER Y, (except Ruing Machine,; two hand PRESSES, and about 1.000 Found* of Type Metal* oqt2l ts 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 . FOR SALE! \ N- IRON GRAY MARE, five years old, can be A seen at tlarris’Stable. Enquire of Jec 23D Lieut. L. W, WALL. Wanted. i, li; Anil FEET ASH TLMIHjiR, iu plank of „a)O.vMjD I'M inch, nr by the cord. Apply at out Government Works. IM , iV . ,j e( . o t s| JOHN D. GRAY & CO. |j 4lie Horse Tihef! SoOO Howard. L TOKEN from the promises of C. P. Levy, across N the new bridge, on the nigth; of 30tn November two BAY HORSES ami one BLACK PONY. Above reward will be paid for the horns and thief. JOHN 1). ORA Y & CO. dee 24 ........ _ _ L \ £ CO3S‘hil* M a..Vß’ OF LETTER PAPER! AND nelo as aji i> uta boo ks i For sale by J. K. REDD & CO. *;too Reward!—Stolen, 1?R0M Room No. 40. Cook's Hotel, a SINGLE- L CASED GOLD WATCH, with the initials M F” carved on the back of if- The Watch has a white face •md steel hands. A reward of S3OO will be paid f r its recovery and no questions asked, by leaving it at the nov 29 dt* SUN OPE ICE, Coffee ! Coffee I *2OO Pol\s>s CHOICE COFFEE ALSO, •fOO lbs. alack Pepper. STANFORD J: CO.. : Re. TO, Broad Street. Lard WANTED in exchange for Sheetings, 0.-naburgs V> and Yarns, at tho „ . (VrnH v nov 51m EAGLE F ALTO It l. 37»c>2F8. •», v , < RES OF LAN D, thirty m cultivation, two OVI hundred an 1 seventy in the w ,o<R Ihis place i- near the ten »»»*#• nrnse •»'». road, and is snugly uuntoved W*■ nov 2) K Columbus, Qa. To Skid, A BLACKSMITH SHU’’ with Ex orseven Forges, ix all complete. Apply at ~, 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 I^^'' 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.