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Change of Schedule.
Office Engineer and Suff.kintendent, j
Charleston and Savannah Railroad. V
Caarleston. June 7,1864.)
jN THURSDAY, Junelß6l, and until further
' f notice, the Schedule of the Pa<-engcr train will
be as follow, viz:
Leave Charleston v ...9.45, a. m.
Arriv* in Savannah .5.40, p. tn.
Leave Savannah ;.A3O, a. m.
Arrive in Charh’-r.tn 1.15, p. m.
This Train makes direct connections, going north
and south, with the Northeastern Railroad at U'har
ias ton, and the Central Railroad at the Junction.
H. S. HAINES.
.Tune 14 ts Engineer and Superintendent.
Change of Schedule.
\N and after Sunday, June 19th, the Trains on
* the Muscogee Railroad will run as follows :
PASSENGER TRAIN:
Leave Columbus 6 45 P. L.
Arrive at Macon 3 25 A. M.
Leave Macon 3 10 P. M.
Arrive at Columbus 4 2-5 A. M,
FREIGHT TRAIN:
Leave Columbus 5 00 A. M.
Arrive at Columbus I 55 A. M.
W.L. CLARK
marl9tf Supt. Muscogee R, R.
Through to Montgomery.
NEW SCHEDULE.
MONTGOMERY & WEST POINT
RAILROAD COMPANY.
COLUMBUS. August 27,1864.
ON and after August 27th. the Passenger Train on
the Montgomery and West Point Railroad will
Leave Montgomery at 8:00 a. m.
Leave West Point at 7:10 a.m.
Arrive at Columbus at 5:32 p.m.
Leave Cfolumbus at 5:50 a. m.
Arrive at Montgomery at 3:00 p. m,
Arrive at West Point at 4130 p. m.
Freight Train leaves Columbus at 8:40 a m.
Arrives at 8:27 p m
D. 11. CRAM, Sup’t & Eng.
ag27lß64—tf
MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD.
CJIIAWGE OF SCHEDULE.
Girard, Ala., Oct 7, 1864.
ON and after 10th inst. Trains on this Road will
Run Daily (Sunday excepted,) as follows:
Passenger Train.
Leave Girard at 1 30 p. m.
Arrive in Union Springs 6 00
Leave Union Springs 5 35 a. m.
Arrive in Girard at... 10 00
Freight Train.
Leave Girard at 4 00 a. m.
Arrive in Girard at 6 00 p. m.
B. E. WELLS,
Agl&tf Eng. & Sup’t.
Din G, B. HEARD,
(Late Surgeon P. A. C, S.)
OFFERS his Professional Services to the citizens
of Columbus. Office at Dr. Carter’s Drug Store.
Can be found at night at the residence of Win. C.
Gray, in Lin wood. fnov 10 Ira*
Di\ R NOBLE,
IDSHSTTIST,
4 T Pemberton Sr. Carter’s old stand, back room of
A Smith’s Jewelry Store, where he can be found
all hours, foe 186 m
STERLlifftt
4 FEW Hundred Pounds ot Sterling Exchange |
ft for side in sums to suit purchasers by
aglfi tl BANK OF COLUMBUS.
NOTICE]
To mississippi Soldiers 1,
THE "MISSISSIPPI DEPOT” and Office of
L Agency for the Relief of Mississippi soldiers in
the Army of Tennessee, has been removed from
Atlanta to Columbus, Ga., and is near Barnard’s
corner, between Main st„ and the Perry House.
Your baggage is there.
C. K. MARSHALL,
sep 28 ts Agent.
Government Sheep for Exchange.
Oi |A HE AD SHEEP will bo exchanged for Bacon
DUu or Beef. The Sheep rated at $2 00, Bacon
10c., Beef 2c. gross per pound. The Beef to be de
livered alive. Apply to
J. A. TYLER.
Columbus, Nov. 2,1804—ts _
LOST,
ON Friday morning a RED VELVET BOW con
taining a gold star, with the letter “J.” engrav
ed ot. ir. The tinder will be rewarded by leaving
it at this office. nov26 —dtf
MOTION.
Office Grant Factory, \
Nov. 29, 1564. J
ALL parsons having demands against the estate of
Daniel Grant, deceased, arc hereby requested to
present them to the Grant Factory,
nov 3o ts JOHN J. GRANT.
Sun copy and send bill to office Grant Factory.
Lost or Mislaid.
DOUR SHARES of the G. & A. S. S. Cos., No.
a lbi), in favor of d/rs. J. L. Wilson,
nov 30 ts D. & J. J. GRANT.
To Stent.
HOUSE for rent, possession given 1-t December.
Apply to H. FISIiACKER, ]
nov 30 Ot 104, Broad Street.
WANTOID.
4 N OVERSEER. One without family, who has
A lost an arm in the service, and thereby unfit for
military service preferred. j
Apply to ROBERT R. HOWARD, |
Reynolds, Taylor County.
MRS. CHAS. J. WILLIAMS,
nov2l-tf Columbus, Ga.
WAITED!
r j ip, j L B'S. oi T ALLOW, for which a liberal price
tm/Di) will be. paid. Apply to
F. IV. DILLARD,
gp7 ti Major and Q. M,
Wanted
TO HIRE—Four or Five able bodied Negroes.—
Good wages given. Apply at our Government
JOHN D. GRAY k CO.
WANTED,
A GOOD BUSINESS’ MAN, uutil the first of
January, The best waves paid. A disabled sol
dier preferred, and it matters not how badly muti
lated by wounds so he ha? firmness and judgment.
Apply at the TIMES OIrICE.
nov 30 ts
SSOO Howard. !
STOLEN out of my stable. 2 miles from Columbus,
on the Crawford road, on Thursday night last,
TWO IMITJLiIEJS,
one a small bay mare Mule, blind in the right eye.
The other a black mare Mule, medium size, with
whith mouth and white spot on rump. Both in good
° nay the above reward for the delivery of
the Mules with the thief, with prop! sufficient to
convict, or Two Hundred Dollars for the y Mules.
H- M. CLI * KLLi.
Columbus, Ga,,Nov. 9, 1864 —ti
»'#~Sun please copy.
WANTED.
1 a., BUSHELS CORN, for which we will pay
1* n ! ’ ca-h or exchange Silt. „ m „
noviaSt JEFFERSON A HAMILTON.
40-Sun and Enquirer copy.
dollars Reward.
QTRAYED from my place in Wynn ton, a dark
O bay mnre MULE, about nine years old. hair
robbed off of both hips and a large scar on thermal
hindquarter. JOH> COOK.
©e 13 ts
SOO Reward..
NEGRO boy CHARLEY; about 25year?| old, yel
low complexion, hair nearly straight, below or
dinary intelligence ; left Mr. Nat. Thompson s near
Box St rings. Talbot county. I bought him of a
Mr. Brown, a refugee trom Mississippi, who now
resides in Tuskegee, Ala. lie originally came from
Charleston, c A suitable reward will be paid
for his doliverv at this office, or in anv saie iail and
Information sen. to *t this office.
JAMES V RUSSELL.
Celumbr' <*a. aur . t *
YOL. Xl.}
Headquarters Georgia Reserve, 1
and Military District Georgia. >■
Macon, Ga., Nov. 30, 1864. j
fExtract.3
Special. Orders (
No. 149. <
# ***** *
11. Major A. M. Rowland, Commandant Camp of
Instruction, will, in that section of the State cut off
from communication with Augusta assume and per
form the duties Commandant of Conscripts until
communication with Col. W. M. Browne, Com
mandant, &c„ can again be resumed.
By command of
Major General HOWELL COBB.
R. J. llallett, A. A. Gen.
Hd’qr3 Camp of Instruction fop. Ga.. /
Camp Cooper, Macon, Nov. 30,1864, >
Special Orders, t
No. 322. i
The attention of Enrolling and all other Officers
connected with the Conscript service, >vho are not
in DIRECT communication with Augusta, is called
to the above order of Maj. Gen. Cobb.
Until* further orders thoy will report to these
Headquarters. A. M. ROWLAND,
Major and Commandant.
Columbus Times, Albany i Patriot and La-
Grange Reporter, copy five times and send bill to
Camp Cooper. fi ec 25t
aT P BOE li A.JIATIO A
BY
JOSEPH E. BROWN,
GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA.
STATE OF GEORGIA, )
Executive Department, [
Milledgeville, Nov. 19, 1864.}
The whole people understand how imminent is
the danger that threatens the State. Our cities are
being burned, our fields laid waste, and our wives
and children mercilessly driven from their homes
by a powerful enemy' We must strike like men for
freedom or we must submit to subjugation.
Death i3 to be preferred to loss of liberty. All
must rally to the field for the present emergency or
the State is overrun.
I therefore by virtue of the authority vested in
me by the statute of this State, hereby order a levy
en masses of the whole free white male population
residing or domiciled in this State between sixteen
(16) and fifty-five years of age, except such as are
physically unable to bear arms, which physical de
fect must be plain and indisputable, or they must
be sent to camp for examination, and except those
engaged in the Legislature or Judicial Departments
of the govronment, which are by recent act of
tholLcgislature declared exempt from compulsory
service.
All others are absolutely required, and members
of the Legislature and Judges are invited to report
immediately to Major General G. A Smith, at Ufa
con, or wherever else in Georgia his camp may be
for forty (40) days service under aims, unless tho
emergency is sooner passed.
The statute declares that all persons hereby calleP
out shall be subiec . after this call to all the rules
and articles of war of the Confederate States, and on
failure to report, shall be subject to the pains and
penalties of the crime of desertion.
Volunteer organizations formed into companies
battalions, regiments, brigades or divisions will be
accepted for (40) forty days, if they even approxi
mate to the numbers in each orgaization which is
r quire! by the militia laws of this State which were
in force prior to the late act.
All police companies formed in counties for home
defence will report, leaving at home for the time,
only those over 55 years of age; and all personshav
ing Confederate details or exemptions, who, by the
late decision of the Supreme Court of this State, are
held to be liable to State militia service and bound
to obey the call of the Governor.
All such refusing to report will be arrested by the
police force or by any Aid-de- Camp, or other officer
of this State,’ and carried immediately to the front.
The necessary employees of Railroads now actively
engaged, and the necessary agents of the Express
Company, and telegraph operators are from the ne
cessity for their services in their present position,
excused.
AH ordained ministers of religion in charge of a
Church or Sj nagogue are also excused.
All Railroad companies in this State will trans
port all persons applying for transportation to the
Front, and in case any one refuses, its President
Superintendent, ;agents and employees will be im
mediately sent to the front.
All Aides-de-Camp and other State officers are
required to be active and vigilant in the execution
of the orders contained in this proclamation, and all
Confederate officers are respectfully invited to aid
State officers in their vicinity in sending forward all
persons hereby ordered to the front.
The enemy has penetrated almost to the centre of
your State. If every Georgian able to bear arms
would rally around him, he could never escape.
(Signed) JOSEPH E. BROWN.
Governor.
ti3, Each paper in the State will publish the
above Proclamation. nov 22 It.
Confederate States of America, I
War Department, Ordnance Bureau, >
Richmond, Nov. 11, 1864.)
All officers on Ordnance duty are required
by General Orders, No. 70, Adj’t. & I. G. Office,
Aug. 29, 1961, to report without delay to the Chief
of Ordnance, Richmond, by letter, stating
First. —Their rank.
Second. —Date es commission (or appointment)
giving date from which their rank takes effect.
Third.— Arm of service.
Fourth. —State to which they belong.
Fifth.— Date of assignment to Ordnance duty,’
Sixth. —The authority by which assigned, furnish
ing date, and if possible, copy oforder of assignment
to which will be added.
Seventh— Present duty, and order of assignment.
Officers of the Regular Army will report both their
regular and provisional commissions,; or appoint
ments, conferring temporary rank.
Failure on the part of officers on Ordnance duty
to report immediately as above, will be treated 'as
a delinquency. J* GORGAS,
nov 22 eodlw • Chief of Ordnance.
PERRY HOUSE.
THE undersigned would respectfully inform his
L old friends, patrons, und the traveling public
generallv, that as he has to be absent for a short
time hehas been so fortunate as to have associated
with him his well known and worthy friend Mr.
EDWARD PARSONS, late of Atlanta, Ga., whose
reputation and superior ttet for business is well
known throughout the Confederacy. This House
is large and commodious, and no pains, nor expense
shall bespared to St it up in the very best and most
elegant style, and to obtain every thing in tiro line
of substantial eatables and luxuries that this
market affords. With tuese assurances we most
cordially solicit all our old friends, and the t ,avel
ing public generally, to give us a call and an oppor
tunity of rendering them comfortable,
oc lo lm* THOS. E. SMI.m»
Executor’s Notice.
TWO months after date application will be made
1 to the Court of Ordinary of Taylor county, for
leave to sell the Negroes and perishable property of
the Estate of EVzabeth T. Johnson, deceased, late
of said county. g AMU jj L K . JOHNSON, Ex’r
Oct. 20w2m* Per THOS. D. BRAND.
ITTSOOD PLANTATION
For Sale.
i N Macon county, Alabama, lying directly on the
i Montgomery and West Point Railroad. The
trac r contains 1.200 acres—about 700 cleareu. ..here
is a comfortable Dwelling House on the plac ~oed
Negro cabin® with bnek ehimmes and ail the neces
sary out-buildings. The land is productive and
location desirable. Possession given m November.
For further information , l» D ADAMS .
OC 211 m Columbus, Ga.
Jarlelegraph A Confederate* Macon: Montgo
mery Advertiser: Cmstitutionalis, Augusta, copy.
COLUMBUS, GA., THURSDAY, DEC. 8, 1864.
SPECIAL NOTICES
To the Citizens of Columbus !
Having announced myself a candidate for re-elec
tion for Mayor of the city, since which time a por
tion of my follow citizens calling upon me to take
commar and of them under the recent call of our Gov
ernor, to aid in repelling (he enemy against our
homes and famili s—not feeling disposed to reject
their request—l h ive consented, and shall cast my
destiny with them, and in accordance with this de
termination, I call upon the cstizens~of Columbus,
if my former administration meets their approval,
that they will remember me and elect me for their
next Mayor.
Mr. R. L. Bass, who goes with me to jthe front,
declines being a candidate for Mayor, in my favor
for which he will please accept my thanks,
nov 29 5t F. G. WILKINS.
To Printers !
Ul/E offer for sale a complete BOOK BINDERY,
1 1 (except Rut ng Machine,) two hand PRESSES,
and about
1,000 Bounds of Type Metal.
nuv2l-tf
Headquarters Gov. Works, (Ord.) 1
Coluinhus, Ga., Dec. 1, 1864./
Wanted to Hire !
FIFTEEN NEGRO BLACKSMITHS.
Good quarters furnished and liberal wages paid.
Apply to M. H. WRIGHT,
dec 2 lw Col. Com’dg.
Headquarters Military Division )
of the West, >
Macon, Ga., Nov. 29th, 1864.)
General Orders, 1
No. -. /
All supernumerary Officers of this Military Division
not otherwise assigned to duty, will report to the
Commandant of the Post, Macon, Ga,
By command of General Beauregard.
A. R. CHISOLM,
dec 2 etd2w A. D. C. and A. A. A. G.
Headquarters Post, 1
Columbus, Ga., November 29,1864, /
Orders No 19.
* * * * * * *
I. All men retired from service that have repor
ted and filed their papers at this office, will report
at these 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 Guillet, Post Adj’t.
nov 29 5t __
OFFICE SOUTHERN EXPRESS,
Columbus, Ga., Oct,, 29, 1864.
"VTO Freight will be received at the Southern Ex
1' press Company’s Office after o’clock p. si.t o
go East on that day, nor will any be received to go
West after 4>£ o’clock p M.
oc 29 ts S. 11. HILL, Agent.
Lard
W ANTED in exchange for Sheetings, Osnaburgs
I*' and l’arn.s, at the
nov 5 lm EAGLE FACTORY.
Lost Trunk, SIOO Reward.
ON SATURDAY night, the 19th November, at the
depot in Macon, a LE ATHER TRUNK, marked
"R. A. Chambers, Columbus, Ga.,” was mischeckod
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 2t* Columbus, Ga.
A Plantation for Sale.
npHE UNDERSIGNED offers for sale a Pianta
i tion on the Apalachicola river, 25 miles below
Chattahoochee, containing 1,500 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 safclylrelied on. On the premises are
first rate negro quarters, gin house, screw and 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. BASS,
Columbus, or
VAN MARCUS.
dec 6 ts Steamer Shamrock.
Plantation to Rent or Sell.
ONE and a half miles north of Union Spriugs, Ma
con county, Ala. It contains four hundred and
eighty acres, a little less than four hundred is
cleared. Most of the cleared land is black prarie
and creek bottoms. For particulars anply to
GEORGE STEWART,
dec 5 lw Union Springs, Ala.
FOR SALES.
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 and peach orchard and variety of other fruit
trees, good water, &c. For terms apply to
Mrs, J. A. JONES,
dec 5 ts near Columbus.
Wanted.
‘)AA aaA FEET ASH TIMBER, in plank of
~UU«UUU 1 % inch, or by the cord. Apply at
our Government Works.
dec 2 6t JOHN D. GRAY & CO.
FOR SAFE.
PWO FINE BREED SOWS to sell or exchange
1 for pork. Apply at Sherman & Co’s, up stairs
in Masonic building,
dec 6 ts
Confederate Tax Notice.
I SHALL commence on Monday next, sth inst..,
collecting all Taxes that are due the Confederacy
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 tne money.
J. A. L. Lihjh,
dec 5 3t Collector 41st Dist.
Stop the Horse TTihef!
B*soo Reward.
STOLEN from the premises of C. P. Levy, across
the new bridge, on the night of 30th November
two BAY HORSES and one BLACK PONY.
Above reward will be paid for the horses and
thief. JOHN D. GRAY Jc CO.
dec 2 4t
To Rent,
a BLACKSMITH SHOP with six or seven Forges.
A ,l ff° ml * lete - APP ‘ y at THIS OFFICE.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors
ALL persons having claims against the estate of
it Joseph W. Woolfolk, dec’d, late of Muscogee
county, are herebv notified to render them duly
authenticated witnin the time prescribed by law;
those indebted to said estate are requested to
m,,e immediate a . WOOL FOLK,
nov 23, 1364—w40d Adm’r.
FOR SALE!
A N IRON GRAY MARE, five year? old, can be
a seen at Harris’ Stable. Esquire of
dec 2 St* ___ Lieut. L. W. WALL.
FAROE CONSIGATiEAT
OF
LETTER PAPER!
AND
For sale by
J. K. REDD & CO.
oc 12 ts
FOR SALS!
DA i ACRES OF LAND, thirty in cultivation, two
DIM hundred and seventy in thi woods. This
place is near the ten mile house on the Cusseta
road, and is snugly improved for the times. Appiv
to L. M. RIGGERS.
UCV9Q <r* £,-> umbos Ga
Wednesday Evening.
In Tennessee everything is progressing as pros
perously as heart could wish. The dispatch of
Gov. Harris, says the Memphis Appeal, will send a
thri.l of joy to every heart, and build up anew the
hope and confidence of our people. Just at this
time, the situation of affairs presents more flatter
ing rspecta than at any period within the last
twelve months. Gen. llood’3 army is daily grow
ing in numbers, resolution and spirit, and while.be
is driving the Fedarals out of Middle Tennessee,
Breckinridge is also disputing with them the pos
session of the Eastern portion of that State. .Nor
thern Georgia and Alabama are already clear of
them, and now is the time for every arms bearing
man in these States to hasten to the front if they
would prevent their territory from again becoming
the thoatreof war. This is now transferred to Ten
nessee and may easily be removed to Kentucky and
kept there if the people will but rally and hasten
to the front all those whose duty it is to be there*
Let us but once more get the Cumberland moun
tains and the Tennessee river between us and our
foe, and we are satisfied that these barriers will
never again be wrested from us. As wo have pre
viously remarked, they are worth to us at least an
army of fifty thousand men, and it was an egregi
ous blunder originally, that they were permitted to
slip from our grasp. With these regained, we can
very well afford to let Mr, Sherman escape, if
such must be the case, and still be in a far more
promising position than we were two months
since. Then let not the people of the gulf States,
because the army is far removed from them, depend
too implicitly upon the people of Tennessee and
Kentucky to hold it where it is. These States we
doubt not will do their whrle duty in the premises >
but now is the propitious moment for the States in
the rear to rally to the rescue, and enable General
Hood to push still further on toward the Northern
border. If ho is not thus supported, he will nec
essarily be compelled to fall back, and Jfississippi,
Alabama and Georgii, instead of Kentucky* will
become the theatre of the war. This is a calamity
worthy every exertion in our power to avert. Let
us then cease croaking and whining about peace,
and send forward every available man lo the front,
and the soil of these States will never more bo
polluted with the blasting tread of the detested
Yankee.
Since the foregoing was written, we have re
ceived later intelligence from Tennessee by tele
graph, to which the reader is referred.
The Jackson (Miss.) News of the Ist. inst., says
that on Thursday week last the Yankees reached
Baton Rouge from their old raid on Broekhaven,
with one hundred and fifty Confederate prisoners,
eight hundred negroes, and four hundred horses
and mules, and placed them all in the State peni
tentiary at the above place. About dark on the
same day, the alarm of fire was given, the result
of which was that the State prison, with all the
horses and mules and abou; one hundred negroes
were consumed. In the excitement seventy-five
of our boys made good their escape.
The Richmond Dispatch suggests that it
would be exceedingly valuable to the public
interests, and tend very much to aid Congress
in devising the most advantageous military
measures, to hold a personal conference with
Gen. Lee, that they may learn from him his
views of the wants of the army. His opinions
would have a great,weight, the more particu
larly as his presence would afford the oppor
tunity for those full explanations and answers
to inquiries necessary for a thorough under
standing of matters. Such conference would,
of course, be held in secret session.
♦ ♦♦
The News from Tennessee.
There is no reason to doubt the coirectness
of the dispatch published yesterday from Tus
cumbia announcing a victory of Gen. Hood’s
forces over Thomas’ near Franklin. Rev. Mr.
Browning, upon whose authority the state-,
me'nt i3 made, i3 a good and true Tennesseean,
well acquainted with the army!and country,
and more than ordinary credence may be giv -
en to his report.
The locality at which the buttle is repre
sented to have been fought is such as might
have been expected from all previous acs
counts. Gen. Hood seems to have made the
impression on the Yankees that he would at
tack them at Columbia, and may have divided
bis forces to make a’feint in that direction,
while he moved forward to the left, so as to
intercept them on the line of railroad to Nash
ville. Thomas, seeing this when it was too
late, withdrew from Columbia and fell back
to Franklin, where he fought for bis commii
cation with Nashville and lost it, retreating
across the country to Murfreesboro’, from
which position he might endeavor to keep up
his line through Nashville to Louisville, but
would more probably abandon Nashville and
retreat North by the pike road through Leb
anon and Gallatin.
Franklin is 18 miles south of Nashville, on
the railroad connecting with the Memphis and
Charleston road at Decatur; and Murfrees
boro’, Gen. Bragg's old battle ground, is south
east, 34 miles, on the Nashville and Chatta
nooga road, connecting by Nashville with
Louisville. It is a distance acro33 the coun
try from Franklin to Murfreesboro’ of 22
miles, and Thomas certainly never would
have pursued that route had he not been driv
en of? the direct line by Hood’s army. Brent
wood, at which point the dispatch places Gen.
Forrest, is 9 miles from Nashville on the Co
lumbia pike road between Thomas and the
former place.
The rejoicing of the country over this sig
nal victory of our arms is not unmixed with
sadness, at the loss of the gallant and invinci
ble Cleburne, and so many of his brave as-,
sociaies who have fallen killed or wounded by
his side. Still, we can imagine no prouder
death than that of the military leader whose
spirit sinks to rest amidst the shouts of his
victorious troops. As much as we lament the
death of such a commander and of his noble
comrades who have shared his fate, we are
cheered by the reflection that their lives have
been spent in the noblest of anuses, and that a
victory has been achieved over the enemies of
our country which is worth more at this junc
ture than the lives of men however honored
and valuable. We know that with our brave
defenders, death is preferable ten thousand
times to subjugation. What would life be to
them and their posterity without honor or ;
without liberty ? Shame upon the recreant
that could hint submission and degradation iu ;
the rear of such an army.
[Montgomery Advertiser , Qth.
The Mississippian contradicts the report of the
capture ot Maj. Sebattion and his wagon train of
ordnance stores. Twenty-three boxes crossed the
river and six of theta were captured. The re
maining portion of the 140 boxes are not yet, but
soon wid be crossed. The teams aud wagons were
ordered back to .Jackson.
f FITE DOLLARS
l {PER MONTH.
The Battle of Honey Hill.
In our account of this affair, in Thursday
morning's issue, we spoke of it as a “drawn
battle," both armies having continued the
fight until dark. We wrote with the official
dispatch of Gen. Smith before us, in which
his modesty, which is equal to his merit, led
us into error by withholding the true charac
ter of the contest and the real magnitude of
the victory—for such it was, and for the num
bers engaged, one of the most brilliant and
important of the war. It was clearly a move
ment on the part of the,enemy to co-operate
with Sherman; so large a force would never
have been sent singly to cut the Charl#*:on
Railroad, when the Yankees believed it to be
defended only by a company of cavalry.
Honey Hill is about two and a naif miles
east of the village of Grahamville. Beaufort
District. On the crest of this where the road,
or highway, strikes it, is a semi-circular line
of earthworks, defective though in construc
tion, as they are too high for infantry and
have little or no exterior shape. These works
formed the centre of our line on Wednesday,
whilst our left reached up in the pine lauds
without protection, and our right along aline
of fence that skirts the swamp below the bat
teries. They commanded fully the road iu
front as it passes through the swamp at the
base of the hill, and only some fifty or sixty
yards distant. Through the swamp, during
the winter months, runs a small creek which
spreads up aad down the road for some thirty
or forty yards, but is quite shallow the entire
distance. Some sixtyyards beyond this creek
the main road turns off to the left, making an
obtu3e angle, whilst another and smaller road
makes off to the right from the same point.
The enemy came by the former road and
turned the angle appaientlv before they were
aware of the presence of an opposing force.
They consisted of four regiments of whites
and the same number of blacks. Prisoners,
of which ten or twelve are in our possession,
state that this force was commanded by Gens.
Foster and Hatch ; some of them say Gen.
Foster was also present as chief of command.
The negroes, as usual, formed the advance,
and had nearly reached the creek when our
batteries opened upon them down the road
with a terrible volleyof spherical case.
This threw them into temporary confusion,
but the entire force, estimated at five thousand,
was quickly restored to order and thrown into
a line of battle parallel with our own, up aud
down the margin of the swamp. Thus the
battle raged from 11 a. m. till dark. The ene
my’s centre and loft were most exposed and
suffered terribly. Their right was posted be
hind an old dam that ran through the swamp,
and it maintained it3 position till the close of
the fight. Our left was very much exposed
and an attempt was once or twice made by the
enemy to turn it by advancing through the
swamp and up the hill, but they were driven
back without a prolonged struggle.
The centre and left of the enemy fought
with desperate earnestness. Several attempts
were made to charge our batteries and many
got nearly across the swamp, but were, iu
every instance, forced back by the galling fire
poured into them from our lines. We made
a visit to the field the day following and
found the swamp and road literally strewn
with their dead. Some eight or ten bodies
were floating in the water where the road
crosses, and in a ditch on the roadside just
beyond, we saw six negroes piled one on top
the other. A colonel of one of the. negro
regiments, with his horse, was killed while
fearlessly leading his men across the creek in
a'charge. With that exception, all the dead
and wounded were carried off by the enemy
during the night, traces were left where they
were dragged from the woods to the road and
thrown into ambulances and carts. We
counted some sixty or seventy bodies in the
space of about an acre, many of which were
horribly mutilated by shells ; some with half
their heads shot off, and others completely
disembowelled. The artillery was served with
great accurracy, and we doubt if any battle
field of the war presents such havoc among
the trees and shrubbery. Immense pines and
other growth were wit short off or torn into
shreds.
From all indications it is estimated that the
loss of the enemy is fully five or six hundred.
This is the lowest estimate we have heard.
Many officers are of the opinion that their loss
cannot be les3 than one thousand. Ours was
eight killed outright and thirty-nine wounded,
three or four mortally. The enemy fought to
some disadvantage, as they fired up hill, and
most of their shots ranged too high.
Our infantry behaved with the greatest val
or ; throughout the protracted struggle there
was little or no straggling, nearly every man
standing firmly to his post of duty. The Geor
gia Brigade was commanded by Col. Willis,
whose behavior on the field is highly com
mendable. The Athens battalion, under Maj..
Cook, and Augusta battalion, Major Jackson,
stood manfully to their work. The South
Carolina Artillery also acted most handsome
ly and served their guns with the skill of vet
erans. Great praise is bestowed by the rank
ing officers on Capt. Stewart, of the Beaufort
Artillery, five guns, and on Earl’s and Kana
paux’s batteries, each of which had a gun in
the action.
As before stated, the general command was
vested in Major General Gustavus Smith, of
the Georgia State forces, though the line was
immediately under the direction of Colonel
Colcock, whose conduct on the occasion is
spoken of as beyond all praise. The gallant
Col. Gonzales was an active participant in
the fight, and might have been seen every
where along the lines posting the guns and
encouraging the troops.
So much for the battle of Honey Hill. The
enemy were whipped long before its close, but
they waited for night to save themselves from
the disaster in their retreat. Soon after dark
they made off with all possible speed, and, as
the* evidences show, with the wildest fright
and confusion. Nearly everything was thrown
away in their flight. The road and woods for
mile's was strewed with clothing of every de
scription, canteens, cooking utensils, &c., &0.,
whilst in their camp, about two miles from
the battle-field, they left everything. Any
quantity of provisions, bottles of liquor, pre
served meats, blankets, See., were abandoned
in their hasty retreat. With the exception of
shelling from their gunboats next day. which
was harmless, nothing nas been heard of them
since their galling defeat and inglorious flight.
[Savannah Republican,3d.
A Slight Omission. —In the letter of B. B. De-
Graffenried, Mayor of Milledgville, to Colonel Ira
R. Foster, he returns thanks to the Colonel, to
Mayor Collins and others for the timely and gen
erous contribution of 5,000 rations of meal and IS
beeves for the poor of Milledgeville. Not a w -rd
is said about the Confederate authorities and the
public would naturally suppose that they had '
nothing to do with the gift. Now the fact of the
matter is, the 5,000 rations and 18 beeves belong j
to the Confederate Government and were turned
over by order of Gen. Cobb to the Milledgeville
poor and hauled to them in Government wagons. .
Gen. C<»bb appreciating the necessities ot the peo- ,
pie of Milledgeville, teok the responsibility of
turning over Government property for their use
and to him belongs the credit. We think the
omission of his name in the letter of acknowl
edgement uajust, and would mildly suggest that !
the Mayor of Milledgeville not only acknowledge
the corn but'he Cooo.— [Tel. and Cos ifed.
TELEGRAPHIC.
REPORTS or THR PRESS ASSOCIATION.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year
1863. by J. S. Thrasher, in the Clerk’r office of
the District Court of the Confederate States for
the Northern District of Georgia.
Mobile, Dec. 6th.—A special dispatch to the
Advertiser St Register, dated Senatobia sth,
says:
Northern dates of the 2d received.
The New York Herald’s Washington dis
patch says an order has been issued by th*
Administration surrendering the Florida and
her crew to the Brazillian Government.
Nashville date3 of the 29tli contain nothing
from the front. Thomas wa3 at Franklin
awaiting reinforcements.
Scouts report Steele’s arrival at Memphis to
be false.
Gold in New York on the 29th 232£.
Quite Ltkelt.— The Wilmington Journal says
it is reported that the steamship Advance, cap
tured after leaving that port with a cargo of cet
ton. has made her appearance off the coast in the
character of a Yankee blockader. This is only
what we looked for. She will be a dangerous ves
sel.
The Charleston Courier denies the report that
a Federal forco had crossed the Savannah rivar,
and says that all the boats and other moan? of
crossing have bean removed.
The new capital of Italy, Florence, is to bo for
tified at a cost of thirty million of francs.
Coming Home.
0 brothers and sisters, growing old,
Do you all remember yet
That home in the shade oi the mstling trees,
Where once your household met f
Do you know how we used to come from school,
Through the summer’s pleasant heat;
With the yellow fennel's golden dust
On our tired little feet ?
And sometimes in an idle mood
We loitered by the way ;
And stopped in the woods to gather flowers,
And in the fields to play ?
Till warned by the deep’ning shadows fall
That told of the coming night,
We climbed to the top of the last long hill,
And saw our homo insight?
Aud, brothers and sisters, older now
Than she whose life is o’er,
Do you think of the mother’s loving face,
That looked from the open door ?
Alas, for the changing things of time ;
That home in the dust is low ;
And that loving smile was hid from us,
In the darkness, long ago !
And wo have come to life’s last hill
From which our weary eyes
Can almost look in that home that shines
Eternal in the skies.
So brothers and sisters, as we go.
Still let us move as one ;
Always together keeping step,
Till the march of life is done :
For that mother, who waited for us here,
Wearing a smile so sweet,
Now waits ou the hills of Paradise
For her children’s coming feet ?
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Latest from Hood’s Armay—Occupation of
Columbia, Tenn. —Passengers from the west re
port that the army of Tennessee occupied Colum
bia, Xenn., several days ago. Gen. Forrest was
on ene of Thomas’ flanks, on the north side e*’
Duck river, aud some light skirmishing had oc
curred between the hostile forces. Large num
bers of recruits were flocking to our army and
enlisting under the Confederate banner. Every
thing looks cheerful aud bright, and the Tennes
seeans expect to occupy their Capital in a few
days.— Rebel, 3d.
Yankee Villainies, Like Chickens, Conn:
Home to Roost. —The moral sentiment of tho
Yankee Sodom is greatly shocked at the discovery
of several stupoudeous forgeries recently perpe
trated in the Northern cities. The press of thosa
cities who have almost unanimously commended
a system of villainy on the part of their govern
ment which virtually made every officer and sol
dier in their invading armies a forger and a coun
terfeiter, advertising in their columns counterfeit
Confederate money for sale at the rate of $lO per
SIOOO, finelj executed and warranted to deceive—
these virtuous presses are outraged beyond expres
sion at the fact that there are persons in their
community, (though the New York Herald thinks
they came from England) base enough to commit
the crime of forgery. The Herald says the for
geries are badly done, the names of several large
firms having been signed to chocks to the amount
of several thousands of dollars, and even 'the cer
tificates of the bank cashiers have been counter
feited. “In this way,” says the tho saintly Herald,
“these rascals secured an immense amount, prob
ably $255,000, not only in this oity, but in Alba
ny, Troy and other cities in this State and Penn
sylvania.”
If “those rascals” knowhow to stoal, burn and
rob, and lie, as well as counterfeit, they ought to
be Brigadier Generals in the Y’ankee army.— Sa\
Neivs.
Look Out for Spies and Traitors. —A
fact that should not be overlooked by our
military authorities is the presence of spies it
our midst, through whom Sherman is no
doubt kept constantly advised of everything
important for him to know. A gentleman
who, a few weeks since, was within Sherman s
lines, and had a long interview with him, in
formed us that Sherman was not only well
posted in regard to the condition of our mili
tary affairs, but that he knew even the status
of individual citizens of Savannah better than
he did. With such advantage a less skilful gene
ral would be able to make a display of astona
ishing strategy. We need expect nothing
from the ignorance of our enemy unless we
can adopt mean 9to interrupt his sources of
information. It becomes U3 to be watchful
for spies and traitors.— Savannah News.
For Aldermen of First Ward.
Messrs. Editors, will please announce the name?
of JAMES M. HUGHES and JOHN B. TFRIGHT,
as candidates for Aldermen of the First] Ward,!at the
ensuing municipal election to be held on Saturday.
10th inst, d ec 7
HO FOR ATLANTA!
The Southern Express Company will receive
freight (under forty pounds; each package) and
money parcels for Atlanta via Macon k Western
Railroad, from this date. S. H. HILL,
dee 6 ts Agent.
S3OO Reward !—Stolen.
FROM Room No. 46. Cook’s Hotel, a SINGLE-
T CASED GOLD WATCH, with the initials “ M
F” carved on the back of it- The Watch ha3 a white
face and steel hands.
A reward of S3OO will be paid for its recovery and
no questions asked, by leaving it at the
nov 29 3t* SUN OFFICE.
Coffee! Coffee!
300 POODS CHOICE COFFEE
ALSO,
200 lbs. Black Pepper.
STANFORD x CO..
nov 30 3t No. 78, Broad Street.
Administrator's Sale.
ON the first day of January, I will sell at public
outcry at the Court House in Marianna, 560 acres
ftnore o- less) of pine land, belonging to the estate
of John Bird. Oa the premises is!a fine spring of
water, negro cabins, etc. W. S. POPE,
dec6w4t Adm’r.
Cor Sale.
IQy E. J". BRITT,
114, Broad Street.
OA BOXES fine Tobacco,
Ov/ Large lot Cotten Cards,
Soda, Pepper and Spice.
Smoking Tobacco, (10 cases)
Pad Locks. Brier Root and Clay Pipes,
100 Bu-ffiels Shelled Corn, to arrive this week,
Far and Toilet Soaps.
Tin an 1 Cedar Ware.
Confederate Crockery, Jars, Bowies, etc.
dec 7 dtw2t