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DAILY TIMES. I. W. WARRFJ, - - - Editor. COLUMBUS: Tuesday Morning, December 6, 1864. Then and Now. Little over two months ago Yankeedom was wild with delight over the fall of Atlanta, which, in the opinion of Yankee theorists, says the Richmond Whig, was the first step towards cutting the Confederacy in two. But in this case, as in that of the fall of New Or leans (which the London Times considered as placing a tourniquet on ‘he jugular of the Confedv racy)'the anatomical figure was des tined to prove a misapplication, whilst it Served t<. point oat the fallacies which milita ry theorists, who direst strategy in the slip pered ease and elegance of the closet, are apt to commit. Nearly three months have elapsed since the ‘Gate Oily” has fallen into the bands of the eacmv arid the hazardous enterprise which Sherman has now so rashly undetaken, far from accomplishing the severance of the COll - leracy, is but leading him on with the irre sistible fascination of those who are foredoom ®d to certain destruction. “Let us but cap° turn Atlanta,”exclaimed the crazed t’neorisisof the North, “and the rebellion, driven, to the wall, will surrender at discretion ” To-day, that they are unable to understand the puzzle of Sherman’s movements, they affect to un derrate what at first they esteemed so highly. The fall of Atlanta is no longer the end all of the rebelli m in the Southwest, but “it was but a grand preliminary to the grander ad vance.” This is the consistency which the Yankee has displayed in all his actions throughout.— He has deluded his people—who willingly an 1 unmurmuring submitted to the deception —by jusf such declarations. “Let us but capture this important point and the rebellion is in its last throes ; and when, by the chances of war, the coveted point falls in their posses sion, finding their progress in the great work of subjugation like that of Sisiphus in his ceaseless task, is to be commenced anew, they seek to cover their deceptive pretences of per manent success by the hypocritical declara tion that the true character of the movements, which lias made them masters of the situation, is being developed, and that the movement itself is but the preliminary of some grander and yet to be accomplished scheme. Thus has if ever been with that people of cheats and impostors and thus will it continue to be to the bitter end until those who are their victims and their dupes shall see fit to rid themselves of their cruel and unrelenting victimizers. It is no concern of ours, and we can but look on while whole communities of free-thin kers are thus wheedled by a handful of de signing and crafty leaders. But there is in this an appeal to the common sense and better knowledge of an enlightened world, which would, under circumstances different from those attending an ineradicable prejudice, have long since unmasked the hollow preten ces and ; alsehood which alone have served to prolong the war beyond the limits assigned it by all expectations. From East Tennbssbb. —There was a ru mor in. Bristol oil the 22d, that Breckinridge had the Yankee? surrounded at Strawberry Plains. : The latest information from Knoxville is, j that. Gillum has hi# headquarters at the Fair j Grounds, and that there is no prospect of his receiving any immediate reinforcements. •» gentleman just, from Europe, via tin and Wilmington, states that he saw in Lon don ind Paris, nearly a division of able-bod ied • refugees” from the Confederate States, a ]avg - majority of whom are skulkers from military duly. Perhaps it would interest these skulkers to know that Congress will at it? present session adopt a law requiring all citizens of the Confederate States now in Eu rope liable to military duty to return by the firsr of Jnlv next under penalty of disfran chisement for life. Too stimulus given to the cotton cultivation in Ksrypt and Syria by the high prices of cot ton. consequent on the American war, ha? caused a considerable emigration of Jewish families from Morocco to the above named ivhrtm lIt"V find profitable employ ment on th° cotton plantations. The present Sultan of Morocco lias abandoned the oppres sive exaction, of one hundred dollars as a li n tisi roe on every Jewess quitting his domin ion?. During the first six months of the present voar 32,044,243 letters passed through the Italian postoffice, being a diminution of 1,757.002 compared with the corresponding pynoti of 1863: The number of journals sent thro-'-d the post was 2,817,082 The Russian minister at Washington has been ordered by the Czai to go to Mexico to congratulate Maximillian upon his quiet ac cession to the throne. The Yankee papers do not liwo this. official proceedings of a court martial, published in the Maw South, Port Royal, we peze ive that Jackson 0. Murray, a citizen of Volusia county, Florida, has been condemed to be hanged, on a charge of assisting in hang ing John Whitney, a citizen of St. Johns coun ty" ou. account of said Whitney’s loyalty to the failed fe’taie*. We have said it so often, says the Eutaw Whig, that we l>ar our readers begin to tire of the itera- j tiou and yet we must say it again, that the peace j party u s ”ihe North was born of the military suc of the South. Ninety-nine out of every hundred men in the North sincerely desire our subjugation and it is only the belief .hat they Mnn.it succeed in the accomplishment ot that ob ject .t h makes any of them desire perce. Con fcden. •. i lories are the vital breath of the North ern pc • iriy, withdraw them and it will die o inan'uljn . nee. Our true peace commissioners ire our great military ladders; our best peace eem c ations are our armies, well fed, well clothed suit o».«tantly increasing by the accessions of new recites. Exn ,wr>.—li will be seen, from the Or der pni .1- <oi in 'mother column, that all pris oners ->: /-ai u w-« delivered previous to «),. and Suv iso-t, *ud all offi vrs autl men . i. • Vicasburg capture, who reported for doty at any parole camp prior to the 18th Not., 1864, have been regularly exchanged.— Sav. . Republican. 1 h<* memory of the Met; -an war. with its little skirmishes of “bites and crows.’’ to use an expression of Milton, sometimes comes over us like the faint impression of a dream. We smile when we recoiled that there was a time when we thought these skirmishes great battles, and the man who commanded the troops a great general. Those were the days of the pigmies in contrast with the gigantic race of the present day, and the gigantic achievements which they have already accom plished, and by which they are to be still more distinctly marked than they yet have been. Mexico, and its Lillipution combats, are fast fading from the memory of mankind. There is one individual, however, that will never forget them. That is General Winfield (or rather Wingfield) Scott. The memory of this old man, with regard to himself and his exploits (such as they were,) is remarkably tenacious. “Oh! oh ! you have forgotten Lundy’s Lane,” said Scott, groaning with af fected pMn, to .Mr. Clay, when, on one occa sion, the veteran orator, in a moment of hilar ity, clapped him upon the shoulder which had been wounded in that much be-praised en gagement “I had forgotten it,” was the re ply. “I had forgotten it, but you never do.” I Scott can never forget the time when he was i accounted a great general, because the peo ple did not know what a real bona fide war was, and when praise from his lips was deem ed a passport to fame. He seems to be in- j sensible of the change around him. Like the : Stuarts and Bourbons, he has learned nothing and forgottoa nothing. Frederick the Great , sent a sword, or some such token, to General Washington, with this ineription upon it : I “From the oldest general in Europe- to the j greatest general in the world.” From the j sublime to the ridiculous is but one step. I The original inscription, when the donor and | the person on whom the gift was bestowed, j not less than the mighty deeds by which both ! had been distinguished, are taken into con sideration, presented an example of moral sublimity which it is impossible not to ad mire. The parody, wanting in ail the essen tials of the other, is simply ridiculous. It is like every word that Scott ever spoke in his i life—puerile, contemptible, and altogether | wanting in the element of truth. “The greatest general in the world!” Grant , “the greatest general in the world 1” Why, the man started, six months ago, with at least two hundred and fifty thousand men, to take this little town, and not only has not done it, but has been flogged at least one dozen times by a force not one-third ns large in the begin ning- as that he brought with him. Is that what Scott calls being the greatest general in the world ? This j udguieni is rendered to the disparagement of General Lee, whose cam paign against the overwhelming odds of Grant places him in the highest rank of captains, living or dead, and to whose genius Scott is indebted for all the credit he derived, so far as able design is concerned, from the Mexican war. Had Grant ever been what his adver sary certainly is, the ablest general in the world, it certainly could become nobody, born in Virginia, but a renegade and traitor, like Scott, to bestow this or udv other compliment upon him. His laurels—such as they are— have been gathered at the expense of his own native land—of that land which, on two oc casions, presented him with a sword for gal lant services in the field. The ve y county in which he was born, and in w ; Ich repose the remains ot his father and mctVr, is oc cupied by the army of Grant, who has filled it with blood and flames and stripped it of everything else. His hands are literally streaming with the blood oi his countrymen. It is difficult for us to conceive how nature could ever have given birth to such a monster of depravity. Bendict Arnold, after he had sold himself to the British, led a party against a town of his native State, surprised it and murdered the garrison, who were his kinsmen and neighbors. Arnold was a Yankee, and acted only after liis kind. But this man is a Virginian. Thank God, however, he is a monster, and does not act after hi3 kind speaking as of the flesh. We have heard—-we know not how truly—that he has, on inure than one occasion, expressed a desire to be buried in Virginia. We know not whether the Leg islature have (be power; but if it have, we hope it will prevent the foul desecration. [Richmond Dispatch. [From the Charlottsville Chronicle;] General Lee never speaks. What does he think about? None of us can read the thoughts of that impenetrable bosom. lie works in silence like some powerful engine—that moves as delicately as if it ware fitting a lady’s glove—but which in re alitj is propelling some vast leviathan or tearing up the bed of some ill-shapen harbor. It is ap propriate that the Hero of this story should not be gorrulous ; the sadness of the time renders it fit ting that the helmsman should guide the ship with few words spoken. When the winds whistle, and the timbers creak under the wrenchings of the storm, the imperturbable reticence of the sun burnt old tar wno sits at the wheel does not dis- | courage, but gives us confidence. The silent shoe- ; maker drives the most pegs. All great exertions of power are {silently performed. The plaunets make no noise in a their_movements around the sun i —and yes some of them proceed at the rate of seventy thousand miles in an hour. Perhaps it is by his very reserve that Gen. Lee has contributed j as much as by any other quality to make the irn- j prossion he has made on his fellow citizens. He ■ came before them at the beginning of the war by to means the American ideal of a groat, man.— Thai personago was expected to appear with a ballabaloo ; he was to descend in a shower of fire works, and environed by a myriad of bursting lights and cracking explosions. For a quiet, un- j demonstrative gentlemau to step upon the scenes was not all to their liking—and, therefore, in the beginning, Gen. Lee was not popular. Beauregard was the hero then—and we mean no disparage : ment —he is a man of ability. The earnest Jack- '< son was not after their fancy then : the American Hero of 1861 uid not pray. That wa3 not suffi ciently fast. A member of Congress used to be our great man : a cat like fellow', tough, audacious, i with nine lives, that throw him as you would, al- j ways came on his feet. He could tell an anecdote, j He never forgot a face. He never pretended to be I better than anybody. Ho took his drink. He knew all about the Missouri Compromise and how Mr. Jeremy Doodle stood on the question of the ■ tistribution of the proceed? of the public lands. He was sound on the rugger. lie wrote aboinina- j bly. Ho spoke indifferently of the “good old county” of Giles and the “good old county” of ■ Accomac —all the counties were “good” and “old.” i His great forte was jab —bo talked incessantly ; he talked in the county court; he talked on the court green ; he talked in the tavern porch ; he talked at the street corners; he talked in the post office; he talked in the cars ; he talked riding to court; he talked riding back from court; he talk ed on the stump ; he talked at the railroad meet ings ; he talked in the session of the bank direct ors; he talked in Richmond ; he talked in Wash ington ; he talked at the springs ; he talked when he was dressing ; he talked after he went to bed ; he talked when he was eating: he talked after dinner; he talked when he was shaving; he talked in his sleep. On court day the people from the country gathered around him, with their mouths open. He was a good fellow, and good fellows did their work. Here comes a man bred in the army. He had been reared a gentleman. He despised humbug. He loved order, add everything and everybody iu bis place. He told the ladies at Culpeper Court House, in 1861, who came out to greet him, to “go home.” In Richmond they said he had no man ners ; he attended to his business and spoke little. Thev sent him to Western Virginia—a small thea tre, when Beauregard was at Manassas and John son was at Winchester; he went and made no comment. The campaign failed—they called him Turvevdrop—he did not attempt to excuse him self. Soon we find him a blaze oi glory, the hero of the battles around Richmond. He is still silent. He marched to Manassas, and achieved another great victory. Not a word escapes him. He takes Winchester, is foiled at Sharpsburg for the - want of men—-defeats Burn.-ide at Fredericksburg Hooker at Chancellors’. iU«-—but he breaks not hi- siSe* '•* He has the ioniblo trial of Gettys burg—beoalv remarked, “>t was my fault and | then in tr.e present year be has con dueled the erreate't of all his campaiges—undoubtediy one I SaT fittest in war. Silent still When will h. tneak’ H?s be nothing to say? M hat does he think of our affairs? Sb-mld he speak how the country would hang up every word that fell ’ from him 1 : The Commissioners tor Georgia hate fixed , ibe price of Corn, fur the months of Nuvem- I ber and December, at s2£. The Commission ■ ers for South Carolina, have establiobed i $4,90 as the price. Quite a difference. Later from the North. New York papers of the 23d instant are received. The "news in them is of little in terest. SUKRHANS RAID TUB ..YANKEE IXTKLMUKXCE FROST HIM. The New York Herald gives a summary of all the Yankees know about Sherman's move ments as follows: Advices were received in Washington yes terday from General Sherman’s army which show that he was, on Saturday last, within thirty miles of Macon, Georgia, which place is supposed to be now in bis possession. He had met with but little opposition, and his cam paign was progressing in the most successful manner. Intelligence from Richmond shows that the rebels have already learned sufficient of Sherman s operations to produce great eou sternation in their minds. They will proba bly soon be informed of much more, as there is but little force to oppose his advance be sides the h istily raised Georgia militia, under Howell Cobb, and these will be but a slight hindrance in the path of the Union veterans. The latest intelligence represents General Hood, with two corps, numbering together about thirty-five thousand men, to be still in the vicinity of Florence, Alabama, on the Ten nessee river T tere are reports that Dick Tay lor has joined him with an additional force of ten thou .and. His latest movements do not indicate an intention of early offensive op erations. Beauregard, with the rebel Gener al Stewart’s corps, was still at Corinth, Mis- I sissippi, when last heard of. General Thom- | as, commanding the Union army designed to check Hood’s advance, is rapidl v v concentra ting bis forces, as though disposed to make an attack on the rebels in some direction. As we have already sfated, the rebel reports of the destruction of government, property at Jobnsonville, cn the Tennessee river, by For rest, were immensely exaggerated. We now learn that there was only one building in th® place destroyed. It is still held by a division of Union troop3. The Chicago Tribune gives the following fancy predictions ; Charleston will be cut off, and Sherman’s army of fifty-five thousand men, will be set free to act as circumstances demand, and will be on the sea-coast, ready for embarkation at a moment’s warning, so that they can be used with Grant or Sheridan, as may be most ad vantageous ; or,- after recruiting, they may be moved through Central South and North Car olina, utterly annihilating every railroad by the way, and thus making Virginia the grave of the rebellion. Can Sherman subsist ? Undoubtedly he can. There are two articles iu the South iu great abundance—com and sweet potatoes ; and he takes with him any amount of hard tack and several thousand cattle. His men will live better than when in camp. ABOUT RICHMOND —BUTLER’B CANAL SOON TO BE OPENED. Persons who arrived in Washington on Tues day, from Cily Point, renew the report of the evacuation of Petersburg by the Confederates. The Yankee Government, though, has received no confirmation of this story, and it is not credited in official circles. It is supposed to have originated iu the trausler of troops from Petersburg to the north side of the James riv er to meet an apprehended attack there by General Grant. All the Union iron-clads previously lying at Fortress Monroe were, on last Friday morning, sent up the James river to Dutch Gap, aud this and other significant movements lead to expectations of stirring events in that vicinity shortly. A dispatch from Washington says : There is information from City Point, dated yesterday morning, that but a short time will elapse before the Dutch Gap canal will be opened. REPORTED INVASION OF KENTUCKY BY BRECKIN RIDGE —THE FATE OF LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR JACOBS. General Breckinridge is suspected of a de sign to march from East Tennessee on an in vasionary expedition into Kentucky, and Gen. Burbridge is making rapid dispositions his forces to prevent the movement. The Baltimore American has the following about the Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky, lately arrested by the Yankee military: The arrest of Colonel Jacobs, Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky, was reported a day or two ago by telegraph. The further report, however, that he had been sent to Washington city under guard, proves to be untrue. Gen. Burbridge, it seems, had taken summary ac tion in the case without the formality of send ing the accused to Washington, and has de*. creed his banishment beyond the Federal lines. Colonel Jacobs passed through Cov ington on Saturday last, en route to the South it- accordance with the order above named. The younger portion of our readers will find both amusement and instruction in the follow ing : The Seven Wonders of the World.— These are : Ist. The brass Colossus ofßhodes, 121 feet in height, built by Cores, A. B. 288, occupying twenty years in making. It stood across the harbor of Rhodes 66 years, and was cast down by an earthquake. It was bought by a Jew from the Saracens, who loaded nine hundred camels with the brass. 2d. The pyramids of Egypt. The largest one engaged three hundred and sixty thou sand workmen, was thirty years in building, and has stood at least three thousand years. 3d. The Aqueducts of Rome, invented by Appius Claudius, the censor. 4th. The Labyrinth of Psammetichus, on the banks of the Nile, containing, within one continued wall, one thousand houses and twelve royal palaces, all covered with marble, the whole having but one entrance. The building was said to contain three thousand chambers, and a hall built of marble adorned with statutes of the gods. . sth. The Pharoe of Alexandria, a tower of Ptolemy Philadelphia, in the year 283 before Christ. It was erected as a lighthouse, and contained magnificent galleries of marble, a large lantern at the top, the light of which was seen nearly a hundred miles off. Mirrors of enormous size were fixed round the galle ries, reflecting everything on the sea. A com mon tower is now erected in its place. 6th. The walls of Babylon, built by order of Semiramis, or Nebuchadnezzar, and finished in one year, by two hundred thousand men.— They were of immense thickness. 7th. The temple of Diana at Ephesus, com pleted in the reign of Servius, the 6th King of Rome. It was 450 feet long, two hundred broad, aud supported by 120 marble pillars. The Bth wonder. The Yankees attempting tt restore the Union by force of arms. More of thb Peace Commissioners Rumor.— A correspondent ot a New York paper, writing from Washington, says: I am told that Mr. Lincoln, taking hint from the message (President Davis’) is disposed to 1 make the first steps, and waiving the point of eti quette aside, to send commissioners to Richmond iu order to ascertain the disposition of Mr. Davis on the subject. The greatest confidence exists here among the friend- ot the administratioa that the day of re conciliation has arrived, that the southern people desire it, and that any advance on the i art of the North in that direction will be welcomed all over the Confederacy, and will lend powerfully to bring both sections together. The Washington correspondent of the Phila delphia Ledger says : A great pressure has already been brought upon thn President to induce him to appoint cominis siunars to Richmond, for the purpose of sounding the authorities in that city npon the subject of peace. The moment is regarded as probably the most fitting during the war. A sh irt time sincefa transport} arrived at New York with one thousand troops on their return from Mexico to France. The transport nut into New York for previsions. The enemy, in their recent march destroyed everything upon Gen. Cobb’s plantation, with the exception of his negro cabins. 1? 33: CITY. T- J. JACKSON.. LOCAL EDITOR. Theatre. —Mr. Crisp's Company will appears to night in Sir Walter Scott’s popular play of “the Lady #f the Lake,” to be followed by a suitable Farce, in both of which pieces there is a fine dis tribution of characters promised. Col. J. M. Chambers offer® a reward of SIOO for a lost trunk. See advertisement. Sales To cat. — Ellis, Livingston A Cos. pro • pose to soli to-day a number of valuable negroes, and other property. See mivertisement. We are again receiving our Richmond exchan ges, marked by “Overland Route.” The latest dates are to the 29th. They contain no news of special importance. See advertisement of a valuable plantation for sale on the Apalachicola River. Persons desious of making a good investment can doubtless do so by purchasing this place. Fire in Petersburg.- -The tobacco factory of Warrington A Brooks, in Petersburg, Virginia, was burned on Wednesday night. The loss in fixtures, building, etc., was SISO,OOO, of which about SBO,OOO was covered by insurance. Besides this, 250,000 pounds of stems, 700 boxes of manu factured tobacco and 5,000 pounds of leaf tobacco, were destroyed. Confederate papers show a great degree of cre dulity in believing the statements of Northern journals, that Sherman’s expedition originated in consequence of the disclosures of the President in his Macon speech, respecting the Augusta powder works, Ac. The President said nothing at all which Sherman did not know before. The whele world had read of the Augusta powder works a year ago, not :r> mention the constant information furnished by spies.” The monster iron clad Dictator, made or at tempted to make, her trial tripjat New York on the 11th. Sho was to hare started at one o’clock, but it was late before she started,and then it required four tugs to lead her, which was as much as they could do, for she steered wildljq and was fre quently stopped to enable the pilot to straighten her out. It requires several men to steer her un der the most favorable circumstances. The World says, “there is no use concealing the fact; she has not came up to the standard promised by her designers.” The Richmond Dispatch opposes making soldiers of slaves on five grounds. First the unconstitutionality of the measure; second, it is a confession of weakness ; third, the ne gro can better feed the army than fight with it; fourth, it would be a powerful stimulant to recruiting for the yaukees; fifth, we give up the whole question when we adopt the measure. A correspondent writing from Clayton, Ala., say3 the farmers of that section have been putting in a larger scope of wheat than they ever did before. Alao, that a great quantity of sorghum was manufactured, which can he obtained at retail at from six to eight dollars per gallon. An excellent article of beef sells at from fifty to seventy-five cents per pound. Autumn Time, Time, like a wrinkled hermit sits. Counting his beads, each bead a day; From his long rosary of years Those beads drop silently away. Or as a sexton, one by one, Puts out the smouldering funeral lamps, And leaves the corpse alone and still, Amid tho charnel’s dripping damps. So doaleth Time, who strips the leaves Os bankrupt summer’s rich array, As jailors strip tho trembling foci, Whose spendthrift wealth has had its day, Yet these are but the feeble types Os higher dooms to sons lof clay, Os shiver’d globes and falling worlds, And earthquakes of the latter day. From Missouri and Louisiana. We are indebted to Ex-Governor WicKliffe, of Louisiana, who arrived here last night, says the Chattanooga Rebel of the 3d, for a copy of the New Orleans Picayune of the 22d, from which we extract the following reports of Yankee officers of events of recent occur rence. It would seem from the report of Gen. San born that he does not consider General Price very badly worsted, nor his army dispersed From St. Louis papers of the 15th, we ex tract the following: Cairo, Nov. 14.—A rebel flag of truce wits sent to Paducah yesterday, requesting an ex change of citizen prisoners they had captured on steamboats. The request was not corns plied with. Official Dispatch. Head’qrs Dist. of Southwestern Missouri, 1 Springfield, Nov. 12, 1864. j To Major General Pleasanton : I haveju3t returned from Cassville, and will forward my official report of the cam paign in a few days. No one has fired a shot at the enemy since the battle of Newtonia, where the enemy gained great advantage over Blunt at first, but my command got up in time to turn the enemy’s right, and the tide of things. The enemy lost very largely in men and horses in Northern Arkansas and the bor der. My idea was and is now, that when we got. him below Newtonia, and the region of grain mills and cattle, we should not crowd him any more, but rather make an effort to hold him in this land of starvation, as we would a garrison out of supplies, until bis army broke up and divided. Deserters were very numer ous while Price was in tbi* section, but I have seen none that have left him since he was pushed off towards his supplies. My own view is that all the efforts of Gen. Curtis to drive the enemy, and they have been great and entitle him to credit, have been to our detriment and the enemy’s advantage, for I believe that one-half of his army would have deserted north ot the Arkansas, had it not been for the fear of the pursuing foe, and the pursuit has been expensive; but the enemy has suffered badly, and all should be satisfied, I suppose. My dispatches from Gen. Thayer indicate that the troops on the Arkansas will not attack Price. John 11. Sanborn, Brigadier General Commanding. The following report of the Yankee General Lee, we presume to be a tolerably fair sum mary of what was accomplished by the raid on Brookhaven: Baton Rouge, Nov. 21, 8 p. u. To Lieut. Col. G. B. Drake, A. A. G. Six Miles East of Port Hudson. —To Brig adier General Denton. Baton Rouge : I am eu route borne and shall arrive to night. Have captured 200 prisoners, including 25 company officers. Had ft strong tight at Liberty, and whipped them badly, capturing one piece of artillery at Liberty and two at Brookhaven. one of them a siege gun, formerly captured at Port Hudson. I have all Gen. Hodges stuff, have from six to eight hundred head of horses and mules rode bv negroc-, md ties troyed immense stores ou the railroad. A. L. Lee. Brigadier Uenorai. Brig. Gen. Lee. wun his whole command, prisoners and captured, &3 previously report ed haa just arrived iu Baton Rouge. W, P. Benton, Brig GenJ Richmond.—Among the delusions in which the Yankees habitually indulge, is that con nested with the capture of Richmond. They attach as much importance to this city as though it bore the same relation to th® Confederacy that Paris does to France. Paris, says Europe, is France. Rich mond, says Yank®edom, is the Confederacy. Cap ture Riehmond'and the Confederacy, which Grant calls a shell—a tolerably bard one he Las found it —will be cracked beyond the power of reunion. There never was a greater fallacy. We have not the remotest idea that Richmond will be, or can be taken by Grant. And yet we hesitate not to pronounce a gross fallacy the idea that its cap ture would have the slightest influence upon the result of the war. It could never have enter ed the heads of the Yankees that it was of such importance had uot the vigor and energy with which it has been defended given it a fictitious value. The moral effect of its fall would for a while certainly be great. But there would be coun tervailing advantages that would more than out weigh it. It would relieve General Lee’s army, who then, having no capital to defend, could manoeuvre as it pleased. Grant would find, if he should take it to-morrow, that he had, indeed, captured the shell, but the kernel was gone. [Bickmond Whig. The “Situation” article iu the N. Y. Herald of the 23d, contains the following : Advices were received iu Washington yesterday from Gen. Sherman’s army, which show that he was on Saturday last, within thirty miles of Ma con Ga., which place is supposed to be now i® his possession. He had met’with little)opposition, und his campaign was progressing in the most successful manner. Intelligence from Richmond shows that the rebels have already learned suffi cient of Sherman’s operations to produce great consternation in their minds. They will proba bly soon be informed of much more, as there is but little force to oppose his advance besides the hastily raised Georgia militia, under Howell Cobb, and these will be but a slight hindrance iu the path of the Union veterans. The latest intelli gence represents General J. B. Hood, with two corps, numbering together about thirty-five thou sand men, to be still in the vicinity of Florence, Alabama, on the Tennessee |rivor. There garo re ports that Dick Taylor ;has joined him with an additional forco of ten thousand. His latest move ments do not indicate an intention of early offen sive operations. Beauregard, with the rebel Gen. Stewart’s corps, was still at Corinth, Mississippi, when last heard of. Gen. Thomas, commanding the Union army designed to check Hood’s advance, is rapidly concentrating bis force, as though dis posed to make an attack on th© rebels in some direction. As we have already stated, the rebel reports of the destruction of government proper ty at Johnsonvilie, on the Tennessee river, by Forrest, was immensely exaggerated. We now iearn that there was only one building in the place destroyed. It is still held by a division of Union troops. The rebel General Breckinridge is suspected of a design to march from East Tennessee on an in vasionary expedition into Kentucky, and General Burbridgc is making rapid disposition of his forces to prevent the movement. There is nothing later from the Shonandoah Valley to notice. The rebels have apparently abandoned the idea, at »east for the present, of further contest with Sheridan for its possession. AN ACT. To authorize all persons in the military service of this State or Confederate States, including those in hos pitals, and detailed service to vote at municipal elections. 1. Sec. I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That all persons in the military service of this State, and the Confederate States, including those in hospitals, and detailed men for any pur pose by the military .authority, citizens of this State, who are now by law entitled to vote, or who may at the time of such election, be entitled to vote at any municipal election in this State, be and they are hereby authorized to assemble at such place as they may be stationed at, and cast their votes, as though they were in the town or city where they reside. 2. Sec. 11. That at said elections it shall be law ful for any two commissioned officers, residents of the State, to preside and hold said election? under the same rules and regulations that are now pre scribed by law for holding such elections, and make returns of the same, as though the said election had been held in the to wn or city of the residence of the voters respectively, sending a copy of the list of voters, and a copy of the tally sheet to either the Mayor, Intondant, Alderman, Couneilmen or War dens of the town or city, where the soldiers voting reside; and all elections thus held shall be accoun ted good and valid; provided, , the returns thereof, shall reach the proper municipal authority, within fifteen days after the day of said election. 3. Sec. 111. Be it further enacted, That the reg istry laws in force for all cities and towns in this State, shall not apply to absent soldiers and de tailed men, voting under the provisions of this Act. 4. Sec. IV. Be it further enacted, Thatsaid com mis-ioned officers authorized to hold the several eleetknis provided for by this Act, shall, before they proceed to hold said elections, subscribe the follow ing statement in writing; (first state the regiment, battalion or company of which they are mem bers, station and date); each and both of us declare on honor, that we will faithfully superintend this day’s election; that we are commissioned officers in the Confederate, or State service, (state the regi ment. battalion or company,) that we will make a just and true return tit we will not know ingly permit any one to vote, unless we befieve he is entitled to do ?o, according to tho laws of Geor gia, nor knowingly prohibit any one from voting, ivho is entitled by law to vote, and we will not di vulge for whom any vote was cast, unless called on under the law to do so; and it shall be the duty of said Superintendents to forward a copy of said state ment, with the copies of the tally sheet and list of voters, and the same shall betaken in lieu of the oath now required by lav r to be taken by Superin tendents of such elections. Sec. V- Repeals conflicting laws. Assented to Dec. Ist, 1863. Administrator’s Sale. ON the first day of January, I will sell at public outcry at the Court House in Marianna, 500 acres (more or less) of pine land, belonging to the estate of John Bird. On the premises is'a fine spring of water, negro cabins, etc. W. S. POPE, dec 6w4t Adm’r. FOR SALE. - TWO FINE BREED SOWS to soil or exchange 1 for pork. Apply at Sherman'A Co’s, up stairs in Masonic building, dec 6 ts Lost Trunk, sßo© Reward. /\N SATURDAY night, the 19th November,at the V 7 depot in Macon, aDE ATH ER TRUNK, marked “R. A. Chambers, Columbus, Ga.,” was mischecked or in some way misplaced. I will pay one hun dred dollars for the recovery of the trunk and con tents. JAMES M. CHAMBERS, dec 6 2U , Columbus, Ga. A Plantation for Sale. r PHE UNDERSIGNED offers for sale a Pianta -1 tion on the Apalachicola river, 25 miles below Chattahoochee, containing 1,590 acres, more or less, embracing 1,200 acres of unsurpassed bottom land, the balance superior pine land. In a favorable season sixty bushels of corn or 2,000 pounds of seed cotton, may be safelylrelied on. On the premises are first rate negro quarters, gir. house, screw aud sta bles. The dwelling is small but.comfortable. There are two orange groves on the place, one|on the river and in full bearing. A portion of the crop of 1863 sold for more than S9OOO. The other grove is young but in good condition, embracing not only oranges but lemons and other tropical fruits. The place is finely watered and healthy. A rare opportunity is offered for the investment of Con federate money if application is made early. Titles perfect. Apply to R. L. B ASS, Columbus, or VAN MARCUS. dec 6 ts Steamer Shamrock. Headquarters Gov. Works, (Obd.) 1 Columbus, Ga., Dec. 1, 1864./ Wanted to Hire ! FIFTEEN 1 NEGRO BLACKSMITHS. Good quarters furnished and liberal wages paid. Apply to M. H. WRIGHT, dec 2lw _____ Col. Com’dg, Headquarters Military Division ) of the West, V Macon, Ga., Nor. 29th, 1864. J General Orders, \ No. j All supernumerary Officers of this Military Division not otherwise assigned to duty, will report to the Commandant of the Post, Mac-on. Ga, Bv command of General Beauregard. A . R. CHISOLM, d<e 2 etd2'.v A. I>. C. and A. A. A. G. Headquarters Posts 1 Columbus, G. t., November 29,1864, ) Orders No 19. * sj: * * * * ♦ I. .4 Il fiien retired from service that have repor ted and file-1 their paper- it tbs . glee, will report at these headquarters on Saturday, the 3d of De cember. at il o’clock, a.h., tor the purpose of being mustered for pay. By command S. L. BISHOP, Maj. Com’dg Post. 8. Isidore luillet, Post Adj't. nov 29 5t OFPICE SOUTHERN EXPRESS, ■'bu?, Ga., Oct., 29, 1864. XTO Freight - t.ived at rhe Southern Ex- . a., press Cmnpaia • 11 v e xfier 3o’clock p. u.t o , go East on that day, fc : wi!i any be received to go ? West after 444 o’clock .* a. rtrTT . . I oc 29 ts S. H. HILL, Agent. ’S? IEX $3 S3 * TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER C'k 'T.' r ' s P s popular adaptation of Sir Walter Scott s exquisitely romantic, wild and ehivalric poem ot tho L A.ID Y OF THE LAKE I Performed at “Crisp's Gaiety •’ New Orleans for TWENTYCONSECUTIVB NIGHTS, to Slant and crowded audiences. Great change in the cast on this occasion. Mr. and Mrs. W. 11. Crisp, iu their original characters of the Knight op Showdown and Blanche of Drvan. Mr. Thao. Hamilton, as Roderick Dhu Miss Cecilia Crisp, The Lady of the Lake Boarlng; Faroe s In preparation, Shakspear’s Romeo and Juliet. dec 6-11 AUCTIONS ALES By Ellis, Livingston A Cos. ON Tuesday, December 6th, at 11 o’clock, we will sell in front of our store, 10 Shares Columbus Bank Stock. dec 5 $6 By Ellis, Livingston & Cos, ON TUESDAY, 6th inst., at 11 o’clock, we will sell in front of our store A Likely Negro Girl, 17 years old, good field hand, dec 2td sl2 By Ellis, Livingston &, Cos, WE will sell on TUESDAY, 6th December, at H 11 o’clock, in front of oar store 1 Negro Woman, 35 years old, Extra No 1 cook washer and ironcr.2 1 Negro Woman, 21 years old, Fin* seamircss and house servant. 1 Likely Negro Boy, 18 years old. 1 Wheeler & Wilson, full ease, Sewing Machine. 50 doz. White Spool Cotton, 2 Fine Parlor Stoves. 1 Case Surgical Instruments. 1 Excellent Open Buggy. 77 bbls. and Sacks Salt. Ready Made Clothing, Furniture. <fcc., &c., &c. dec 2 td $42 BLOCKADE GOODS BY LATE ARRIVALS. By James EL Taylor- On Wednesday, Bee. 6. at 9 o’cloek, WILL bo sold at my Store, corner of Broad and Campbell streets. Augusta, «a., A large assortment of Foreign and Domestic Goods. #3“ Particulars in a future advertisement. Conditions Cash. novffi-eodtfd ■M—aaEMß—B—■ a.niiru ■■ AWWOUWCEJMEWfTS. 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 feeling disposed to vacate my present position I announce myself a candidase for re-election. nov2stde F. G. WILKINS. We are authorized to announce B. F. COLE MAN as a candidate for Mayor of the City of C»- j Inrabus at the ensuing municipal election. nov23—dto We are authorized to announce W. R. BROWN as a candidate for Mayor at the ensuing municipal election. nov 30 te* For Marshal. THOMAS P. CALLIER is announced as a candi date for re-election to the office of City Marshal. nov!8-td* _ For Marshal. W. L. ROBINSON is announced as a candidate for the office of Marshal of the city by dovls* __ MANY FRIENDS. For Marshal. We are authorized to announce JOHN F. CLEG IIORN as a candidate for the office of Marshal at the ensuing municipal election, dec 5 td For Deputy Marshal. At the solicitation of many friends, WILLIAM N. ALLEN has consented to become a candidate for the office of Deputy Marshal of the city of Co lumbus, at the ensuing election, and will be sup ported by MANY VOTERS. nov!4 te* For Sexton. We are authorized to announce R. T. SIMONS as a candidate for City Sexten, at the ensuing mu nicipal election. decl te _ Confederate Tax Notice. I SHALL commence on Monday next, sth inst.., * collecting all Taxes that are due the Confederaey Tax payers must come up promptly and pay, or the penalty of the law will be visited upon them. There are now many delinquents on their Quarterly Sales Tax. Mr. Green, or myself, will at all times be ready to receive the money. J. A. L. LEE, decs 3t - Collector 413 t Dist. Plantation to Rent or Sell, ONE and a half miles north of Union Springs.'Ma con county, Ala. It contains four hundred and eighty acres, a little less than four hundred is cleared. Most of tjjie cleared land is black praria and creek bottoms. For particulars apply to GEORGE STEWART, dec 5 lw Union Springs, Ala. FOR SALE. A SMALL FARM, containing about 100 acres, 60 in the woods and forty cleared, about one mile above the Fountain Factory, on the river. On the place is a good dwelling with three rooms, a large apple aud peach orchard and variety of other fruit trees, good water, &c. For terms apply te Mrs. J. A. JONES, decstf near Columbus. FOR SALE! AN IRON GRAY MARE, five years old, can be ft. seen at Harris’ Stable. Enquire of dec 2 3t* Lieut. L, W. WALL. Wanted. <)na aaA FEET ASH TIMBER, in plank of .t/DiUUU \% inch, or by the cord. Apply at our Government Works, dec 2 6t JOHN D. GRAY A 00. Stop the Horse Tibet*! SSOO Reward. STOLEN from the premises of C. P. Levy, across tho new bridge, on the night of 30th November two BAY HORSES and one BLACK PONY. Above reward will be paid for tho horses and thief. JOHN D. GRAY & CO. dec 2 4t Targe consignment OF LETTER PAPER! AND MEMORAHDEM BOORS ! For sale by * J. K. REDD & CO. oc 12 ts . ___ S3OO Reward ’—Stolen, UROM Room No. 46. Cook’s Hotel, a SINGLE- P CASED GOLD WATCH, with the initials M F” carvod on the backofit- The Watch has a white ta A SSSrtMßofriU b. »U for it. ul “o.'iss’T l>ilted ' b ) '" s ” smn’officb. Coffee! Coffee! -200 POCMDS CHOICE COFFEE ALSO, *2OO lbs. Black Pepper. STANFORD A C 0„ nov 30 3t ‘ No. 78, Broad Street.