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DAILY TIMES, j, w. WARREN A CO., Proprietors. published Daily (Sundays axcepted) at the rate of $5.00 per month, or sls tor three months. No subscription received tor a longer term than l. <* • month*. RATES OF ADVERTISING. CASUAL DAILY ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisements inserted once—s 4 per square. regular daily advertising bates. First Week—s3 00 per square for each insertion. Second Week—s 2 00 per square for each insertion. Third Week—sl 50 per square for each insertion. Fourth Week—sl 00 per square for each insertion. Second Month—s3o per square. Third Month—s2s per square. Change of Schedule. >ffiuk Engineer and Superintendent, } Charleston and Savannah Railroad, > Charleston, June 7,1864.) nmtmf* eft vN THURSDAY, June9.lß64.and until further ‘ notice, the Schedule of the Passenger.train will be as fellow, viz: heave Charleston 9.45, a. m. Arrive in Savannah .5.40, p. m. Leave Savannah .5.30, a. m. Arrivein Charleston 1.15, p. m. This Train makes direct connections, going north and south, with the Northeastern Railroad at <’har laston. and the Central Railroad at the Junction. 11. 8. HAINES, June 14 ts Enginoer and Superintendent. _ ‘ Change of Schedule. i iN and after Sunday, June 19th, the Trains on ' * the Railroad will run as follows : PASSENGER TRAIN : neave Columbus 6 45 P. M. Arrive .it Macon 3 25 A. M. Leave Macon 8 10 P. M. Arrive at Columbus 4 25 A. M. FREIGHT TRAIN : Leave Columbus 5 00 A. M. Arrive at Columbus ...........4 56 A. M. W. L. CLARK, mar 19 ts vSupt. Muscogoe R, R. Through to Montgomery. NEW SCHEDULE. MONTGOMERY & WEST POINT RAILROAD COMPANY. COLUMBUS. August 27,1864. , \N and after August27th. the Passenger Train on yj the Montgomery and West Point Railroad will Leave Montgomery at 8:00 a. m. Leave West Point at (:10 a.m. Arrive at Columbus at 5:32 p. m. Leavo Columbus at 5:-j0 a. m. Arrive at at 3:00 p. m, Airive at West Point at 4130 p. m. Freight Train leaves Columbus at 8:40 a m. Arrives.... .....at 8:27 p m D. H. CRAM, Sup’t & Eng: a*271864 —ts MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD. CHANGE 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 Loave Union Springs 5 35 a. m. Arrive in Girard at 10 00 Freight Train. Leave Girard at 4 00 a. in. Arrive in Girard at 6 00 p. in. B. E. WELLS, aglß ts Eng. & Sup’t. Ur, li, It. HEARD, (Late Surgeon P. A. C, S.) OFF ERS his Professional Services to the citizohs of Columbus. Office at Dr. Carter’s Drug Store. Can bo found at night at the residence of Win. C. Gray, in Linwood. [nov 10 lrn* Dr. R. NOBLE, IDYUnSTTIST, AT Pemberton & Carter’s old stand, back room of Smith’s Jewelry Store, where he can be found all hours, foe 18 6m STERLIWO EXCHANGE! * FEW Hundred Pounds of Sterling Exchange A for sale in sums to suit purchasers bv ag l6 tl BANK OF COLUMBUS. NOTICE To Mississippi Soldiers! 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, *ep2B ts Agent. Government Sheep for Exchange* •JnA HEAD SHEEP will bo exchanged for Bacon DUG 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. 2,1864—ts LOST, ON Friday morning a RED VELVET BOW con taining a gold star, with the letter “J.” engrav ed on it. The finder will be rewarded by leaving it at this office. nov26—dtf WOTIOS. Office Quant Factory, 1 Nov. 20, 1864./ ALL persons having demands against the estate of Daniel Grant, deceased, are hereby requested to present them to the Grant Factory, nov 30tf JOHN J. GRANT. Sun copy and send bill to office (D ant Factory. . Lost or Mislaid. FOUR SHARES of the g. & a. s. S. Cos., No. 160, in favor ol Mrs. J. L. Wilson, nov 30 ts D. & J. J. GRANT. Toßent. HOUSE for rent, possession given I<t December. Apply to H. FISH ACKER, nov 30 6t 104, Broad Street. *W ISTTDEjID. AN OVERSEER. One without family, who has lost an arm in the service, and thereby unfit for military service preferred. Apply to ROBERT R. HOWARD, Beynolds, Taylor County. MRS. CHAS. J. WILLIAMS. nov2l-tf Columbus, Ga. ~ AMTJED , “ 511(111 ÜBS. of TALLOW, for which a liberal price >UUv will be paid. Apply to F. W. DILLARD. sp7 ts Major and Q. M, Wanted TO HIRE—Four or Five able bodied Negroes.— Good wages given. Apply at our Government Work* (VC. 28‘tf JOHN D. GRAY Sc CO. WANTED, 4 GOOD BUSINESS' MAN, until the first of ■a. January. The best wages paid. A disabled sol dier preferred, and it matters not how badly muti lated by wounds so he has firmness and judgment. Apply at the TIMES OFFICE. nov 30 ts SSOO Howard. 2 CjTOLENout of my stable, 2 miles from Columbus, 0 on the Crawford road, on Thursday night last, TWO ZMZTTILES, •ne a small bay imire Mulo, blind in the right eye. The other a black mare Mule, medium size, with whith mouth and white spot on rump. Both in good order. I will pay the above reward for the delivery of the Mules with the thief, with proof sufficient to convict, or Two Hundred Dollars for the Mifles. 11' M. CLiiCKLEY. Columbus, Ga., Not, 9,1864—ts 48*Sun please copy. WANTED. lAAi\ BUSHELS CORN, for which we will pay lU' 1 ’ f cash or exchange Salt, nov 126 t JEFFERSON A HAMILTON. ■JtSTSna and Enquirer copy. s•>.> Dollar* Retvaid. STRAYED from my plaeo in Wynnton, a dark bay mare MULE, about nine years old, hair rubbed ofi' of both hips and a large scar on the right hindquarter. JOHN COOK. oe 13 ts SSO Reward. NEGRO boy CHARLEY; about 25 1 years old, yel low complexion, hair nearly straight, below or dinary mteili cue? : >ft J/r. Nat. Thompson’s near Box Spring- i:i :uty. I bought him of a Mr. Brown, ■ rctugc ir >O. Mississippi, who now resides in fu Kegee, .11 .. Me risinally tame from rew.iH will be paid tests 'Sssrji r ,f * ilU Columbu*? o} .. i AMl£:s ,l bSELL. ~ • YOL. Xl.} Headquarters Georgia Reserve, ) and Military District Georgia. > Macon, Ga., Nov. .30, 1864. J [Extract.] Special Orders < No. 149. < t- * * - * * * 11. Major A. M. Rowland, Com mandant Camp of Instruction, will, in that section fthe State cut off from communication with Augusta assume and per form the duties of Commandant of Conscripts until communication with Col. W. M. Browne, Com mandant, Sec., can again be resumed. By command of Major General HOWELL COBB. R. J. Hallktt, A. A. Gen. Hd’qrs Camp of Instruction for Ga., 1 Camp Cooper, Macon, Nov. 30,1864, S Special Orders, 1 No. 322. I The attention of Enrolling and all other Officers connected with the Conscript service, who are not in DIRECT communication with Augusta, is called to the above order of Maj. Gen. Cobb. Until further orders they will report to these Headquarters. a. M. ROWLAND, Major and Commandant. 4®=“ Columbus Times, Albany Patriot and La- Grange Reporter, copy five times and send bill to Camp Cooper. ec A I» RO €LAHAT I©A BY JOSEPH E. BROWN, GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA. STATE OF GEORGIA, ") Executive Department, > Milledgeville, Nov. 19, 1804. j The whole peoplo 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 j freedom or we must submit to subjugation. Death is 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 massee 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 bo plain and indisputable, or they must be sent to camp for examination, and except those engaged in the Legislature or Judicial Departments of the govrenment, which are by the recent act of thelLegislaturc 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 Ma con, or wherever else in Georgia his camp inSy be for forty (40) days service under arms, unless the emergency is sooner passed. The statute declares that all persons hereby calleP out shall be subject 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* quired by the militia laws of this State which were in force prior to the late act. Ail 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 tho Express Company, and telegraph operators are from the ne cessity for their services in their present position, excused. All ordained ministers of religion in chai'ge of a Church or Sjnagoguo 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 tho execution of tho orders contained in this proclamation, and all Confederate officers arc 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. tS3h. Each paper in the State will publish the abovftDroclamation. nov 22 It. Confederate States of America, ) War Department, Ordnance Bureau, > Richuiond, Nov. 11, 1864.) All officers on Ordnance duty are required by General Orders, No. 70, Adj’t. & I. G. Office, Aug. 29, 1864, to report without delay to the Chief of Ordnance, Richmond, by letter, stating First.—Their rank. Second— Date cf 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.j Sixth.— The authority by which assigned, furnish ing date, and if possible, copy of order 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 repert immediately as above, will be treated (as a delinquency. J. GORGAS, nov 22 cod4w Chief of Ordnance. ~FER.R.Y house. rHE undersigned would respectfully inform his old friends, patrons, und the traveling public generally, that as he has to be absent for a short time he has been so fortunate as to have associated with him his w ell known and worthy friend Mr. EDWARD PARSONS, lat* of Atlanta, Ga., whose reputation and superior tact for business is well known throughout the Confederacy. This House is large and commodious, and no pains, nor expense shall be spared to fit it up in the very best and most elegant style, and to obtain every thing in tb<> line of substantial eatables and luxuries tha* this market affords, With tuese assurances we most cordially solicit all our old friends, and the t ravel ing public generally, to give us a call and an oppor tunity of rendering them comfortable. oc 15 lm* THOS. E. SMITH.. Executor’s Notice. rWO months after date application will be made to the Court of Ordinary of Taylor county, for leave to sell the Negroes and perishable property of the Estate of Elizabeth T. Johnson, deceased, late of said county. SAMUEL K. JOHNSON, Ex’r Oct. 20w2m* Per THOS. D. BRAND. A GOOD PLANTATION For Sale. [ N Macon county, Alabama, lying directly on the 1 Montgomery and West Point Railroad. The tract contains 1,200 acres—about 700 cleared. Jhere is a comfortable Dwelling House on the plac ~ood Negro cabins with brick chimnies and all the neces sary out-building*. The land is productive and location desirable. Possession given in November. For further information apply to DAVID ADAMS. oc 27 lm CblumSus, Ga. <fc Confederate, Macon; Montgo mery Advertiser: Constitutionalis, Augusta, copy.* ! COLUMBUS, GA., FRIDAY, DEC. 9, 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 fellow citizens calling upon me to take command of them under the recent call of our Gov ernor, to aid in repelling the enemy against our homes and fain tie —not feeling disposed to reject their request—l ffi.ve consented, and shall cast my destiny with them, and in accordance with this de termination, I call upon the cstizens of Columbu3, if my former administration meets their approval, that they wi!l remember me and elect me for their next Mayor. Mr. R. L. Bass, who goes with mo to 'the front, declines being ac mdidate for Mayor, in my favor for which ho will please accept my thanks. nov 29 5t F. G WILKINS. To Printers ! ITTE offer for sale a complete BOOK BINDERY, | yy (except Rul eg Machine,) two hand PRESSES, and about 1,000 Pounds of Type Metal. nov2l-tf Headquarters Gov. Works, (Ord.) 1 Columbus, Ga., Dec. 1, 1864.) Wanted to Hire ! FIFTEEN NEGRO BLACKSMITHS. Good quarters furnished and liberal wages paid. Apply to M. H. WRIGHT, dec 21w Col. Com’dg. Headquarters Military Division ) of the West, >- Macon, Ga., Nov. 29th, 1864.) General Orders, ) No. j 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 ccd2w A. D. C. and A. A. A, G. Headquarters Post, \ Columbus, Ga., November 29,1864, J 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. MO Freight will be received at the Southern Ex it press Company’s Office after o’clock p. M.t o go East on that day, nor will any be received to go West after o’clock p m. oc 29 ts S.H. HILL, Agent. Lard WANTED in exchange for Sheetings, Osnaburgs * V and Yarns, at the nov slm EAGLE FACTORY. To Rent, A BLACKSMITH SIIOV with six or seven Forges. all complete. Apply at oc 31 ts THIS OFFICE. Confederate Tax Notice. I SHALL commence on Monday next, sth inst.. A collecting all Taxes that are due the Confederacy, Tax payers must come up promptly and pay, or the penalty of the law will he 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. dec 5 3t Collector 41st Dist. Stop the Borfaie Tihef*! SSOO Reward. CTOLEN from the premises of C. P. Levy, across U 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 & CO. dec 2 4t Lost Trunk, SIOO Reward. ON SATURDAT night, the 19th November, at the depot in Macon, a LEATHER TRUNK, marked “R. A. Chambers, Columbus, Ga..” was misehecked 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. DUE UNDERSIGNED offers for sale a Planta -1 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 safelyirelied 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. B ASS, Columbus, or VAN MARCUS. dec 6 ts Steamer Shamrock. Notice to Debtor* aiul Creditor* All persons having claims against the estate of Joseph W. Wooliolk, dec’d, late of Muscogee county, are hereby notified to render them duly authenticated within the time prescribed by law ; and those indebted to said estate are requested to in? xe immediate payment. WM. G. WOOLFOLK, nov 23, 1864 —w4od Adm’r. FOR SALE! A N IRON GRA1 T MARE, five years old, can be XX seen at Harris’ Stable. Enquire of dec 2 3D Lieut. L. W, WALL. LARGE COASIGAREAT OF LETTER PAPER! AND RERORAADI H BOOKS! For sale by J. K. REDD & CO. oc 12 ts FOR salr: 9Ai | ACRES OF LAND, thirty in cultivation, two DIM hundred and seventy in the woods. This place is near the ten mile house cn the Cusseta road, and L- snugly improved for the time,?. Apply to L. .M. 3IGGERS, nc v ?9 4t* Jo nmbus, Ga 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 the cleared land is black prarie and creek bottoms. For particulars apply to GEORGE STEWART, dec 5 Iw Union Springs, Ala. FOR SALE. A SJ/ALL FARM, containing about 100 acres, 60 ix in the woods and forty cleared, about one mile above the Fountain Fact-ry. on the rDer. On the place is a good dwelling with three rooms, a large apple and peach orchard and variety of other fruit trees, good water, Ac. For terms apply to . _ , Mrs. J. A. JONES, dec 5 ts near Columbus. Wanted. Oftft AftO ?.£ E . T ASH TIMBER, in Plank of l^ 4 inch, or by the cord. Apply at our Government Works dec 2 fit JOHN D. GRAY k CO. F*- " SALE. 'J'WO FINE i, OWS to sell or exchange for pork. Apply at Sherman Sc Co’s, up stairs in Masonic budding, dec 6 ts Thursday Evening. From our Richmond Correspondent. Richmond, Ya., Nov. 22, 1864. Grant is in New Jersey. In the meantime preparations steadily progress for the final as sault on this place, and the quiet along the lines has been unbroken for days save by the shouts of the “Yanks” over their thanksgiving turkies and an occasional scrimmage between the pickets. A few nights since we bagged a hundred or more and advanced our lines over a well wooded piece of land—an important acquisition in this weather. Sherman is in Georgia and rumor says he has the State pretty effectually in hand. The last is that Milledgeville, Gordon and Gris woldville have been burned; that fighting is going on in the neighborhood of Gordon be tween one column of the Yankees and our forces under General Wayne, and that the oth er column is at Union Point on its march to Augusta. We only know certainly that the movement is formidable and that communica tion, railroad and telegraphic, has been cut between Augusta and Macon. I have believed since the inception of the movement that Sher man intends the destruction of the Powder Mills at Augusta, the devastation of the State on his line of march, the embarkation of his troops at Hilton Head and the reinforcement of Grant. The Government is straining every nerve to arrest his progress, and it is thought that if Georgia will turn out her people and they will behave with becoming spirit and energy be may be temporarily checked and ultimately crushed. If the State is to be dis graced by having this Yankee braggart march victoriously from one border to the other she may justly give all the credit of the transaction to her Governor and his associates who have enervated the arms of her people with vain illusions of peace, and who, under the broad panoply of States Rights have weakened the military department of this Government, by factious opposition and every obstacle that a malignant ingenuity could suggest or invent. Dark as the prospect in that quarter looks at present, every Georgian here at least, looks and anxiously hopes for news of a turn in the tide of affairs. In this connection it may be well to call the attention of your people to the protection given by your Governor to those who rightfully owe military service to the country. During a debate in the House, a few days since, the astounding facts were develop ed, which the following figures exhibit: State officers exempted by the Governors or Legislatures : Virginia, 1,400 North Carolina, 15,000 Georgia, 12 to 15,000 including the Governor’s pets—militia not suf fered by him to be enrolled, &c. Alabama, 1,079 Mississippi, no These figures come from the Bureau of Con scription, and may be relied upon. Congress will memorialize the several State Legislatures upon the propriety of reducing these lists. Perhaps after the lesson which the Yankee Peace Commissioner is now read ing to Georgia, she may curtail the authority of his Excellency Governor Brown, to exempt his favorites, and ihus destroy his capacity for securing votes and influence for his re-election. Beast Butler has proposed to send peace commissioners to Richmond, who are to be empowered to receive our acknowledgment of submission. Lincoln is said to favor the mer ciful plan, and gold has jumped down in con sequence. Dr. Ellison of the second Georgia, was gob bled up a few days since bj? Yankee pickets, while out foraging. After several days and nights of heavy rain, the weather has abated into a cold, cloudy, gloomy condition. This goes by private hand. Until commu nication is restored, you may not hear again from JIM. From the Georgia Front. The Constitutionalist of Friday says, the ve ry latest intelligence from the direction of Louisville, reports the enemy as still in statu quo. No move towards this city had been made, the public rumor to the contrary not withstanding. An escaped Confederate prisoner states that he mingled freely with Kilpatrick and his crew. The Yankee* General and his official satelites made no concealment of their objec tive point, which they proclaim to be Savan nah. Our cavalry has been still further reinforced by a large and splendid veteran command. All reliable accounts agree in putting the enemy’s force down at thirty thousand infan try and five thousand cavalry. We are amply able to take care of any such numbers. General Wheeler writes that he ha3 whipped Kilpatrick throughout, doubling him up upon the main body. He has not taken a great ma ny prisoners, because the Yankees feeling that they deserved death have refused to surrender. Avery considerable number have permanent ly leased plantations in the counties of Burke and Jefferson. The main body of Sherman’s army had not ! budged at last accounts. The enemy is repre- I sented as being quite amazed and embarrassed j at his reception in the State of Georgia. Gen. Sherman will find U3 prepared to meet him at any and every point. We know the value of our strategic strongholds, and are prepared to maintain them to the bitter end. So—“lay on Macduff"—etcetera. .j The Southern Telegraph company : 15 com- ! menced rebuilding its line along the Central railroad. Over sixty-five miies has already j been repaired. We are ;t«urecf, says the Ma con Telegraph <£ Confederate, the work will be pushed on as speedily as possible, but as new poles have to be put up and brackets and j insulators provided, some rime must elapse before it can be finished.. General Beaufegard -By reeen* orders, ’ the Department un-lei General Beauregard aas been extended so 33 to include South j Carolina an : tee Atlantic seaboard o? Geor gia. /FIVE DOLLARS X :PER MOXTH. The De3olatkrs. —Sherman's army (says the Savannah Republican of the 4th,) is prov ing a scourge wherever it goe3. No attention is paid by his troops to his general order at j the outset of his expedition. Throughout the whole line of march, the country is made | desolate by pillage and fire. We trust a righteous retribution waits the vandals. A gentleman who reached here from the up-country yesterday, reports that he crossed a Yankee telegraphic wire running through a swamp in the direction of Savannah river. The other end reached probably to their camp above Millen. He tried hard to break it, but did not succeed, having no conveniences at hand for that purpose. - Our informant Shys the countiy in the rear of Sherman’s army is literally swarming with deserters and stragglers, who are either beg ging or pillaging at every house. He thinks an active regiment of cavalry would be able to pick up a thousand of these cut-throats per day. He was a prisoner for a day and in the midst of the Yankee army. He says that many of the officers and men are disgusted with the expedition and the war, and openly express their desire for peace. He heard a lieutenant say that if he had his way, he would break his sword in three pieces and go home per fectly satisfied to have the independence of the Confederacy acknowledged. Sherman has with him from three to four hundred negro men and boys, no women or small childreu. These negroes have no arms and are merely marching along with the army and from time to time slipping off and going back to their homes. The Yankee officers spoke freely of their plans, and said Sherman did not intend to risk an engagement if he could help it, as he had no ammunition to spare. They seemed con tent to make their way peaceably to the coast, at the most practicable point, without a fight. Sherman’s Policy*.—A northern coreespon dent says: “Between leveling a town and losing thousands of loyal lives in a second attempt to capture it, there i3 no likelihood that Sherman will hesitate a single moment. He knows that war is cruelty, and implies not conservatism, but annihilation.” If our peo ple would save their cities and towns, they must fight for them. Capture of a Famous “Guerilla Hunter.” Captain Blazer, a famous partizan leader of the Yankees, was sent out last week to catch and destroy the intrepid Mosby. He came up with his intended victim, who was fully pre pared for the visit. Mosby waited for his charge and just as they were within a few yard3 of him a counter charge was ordered, and in the clash Blazer and his crowd went down ; the whole party were put to rout and dispersed, and their leader, with about half his men, captured. From East Tennessee, —Great results, says the Richmond Enquirer, of the 30th ult., are anticipated from the present movements of General Breckinridge. Having driven the enemy beyond Strawberry Plains on the 9th inst., he has since been improving his time in planning a campaign, which, it is no long er contraband to State, will soon make the historic ground of Kentucky ring more with the shouts of our gallant men under the leadership of her chivalrous son. Bent upon redeeming that down-trodden State, he will strike a telling blow ere the winter’s snows whiten her broad rich fields. On the 18th inst., Gen. Breckinridge visited Abingdon, and after inspecting the positions of the troops in that section, returned to the front, and ere this has commenced his march. By what route he will overcome, flank or evade the blustering Burbridge, remains for that very great general to find out. Already the latter may have felt the flashing steel of his victorious foe; if he has not, the blow is, nevertheless, inevitable, for Breckinridge is master of the situation there, and strike when or where he will, it will be to conquer. Expeditious. —The blockade running stea : mer Hattie, belonging to the Lamar Compa ny, ran into a Confederate port one night last week, with a valuable cargo, discharged her freight, took on an outward bound cargo, and put to sea again the second night after. A Yankee Inkling from Sherman. —The Richmond Whig has received the New York Herald of the 25th. The latest developments in the matter of Sherman is that contained in a sensational dispatch from Philadelphia, of date of the 24th, which says that information had been received at Washington that Sherman had been notified by Governor Brown that Geor- j gia, Alabama and another State, had deter- i mined to return to the Union, and that Sher man had halted in his movements ; also, that .Mr. Stephens desired to meet a commissioner i from the United States in Canada. Doubtless the Yankees have heard that the : “grand movement” is not “sweeping down’, I with the resistless force that was hoped for it ! anu hence the above stuff is given to the Yan- I kee people a3 a reason for the apparent inac tion of Sherman in his current campaign. wm % m Mississippiaxs Rallying. —We learn from a paragraph in the Clarion of Saturday, that the * people are rallying hurriedly in Missi aippi, and turning out with a promptness unparalieied in the history of this war. As desired* by the Govern or’s proclamation, they wait not, but come singly, in squads, by the hundred. Two regiments I of infautry and one of cavalry wer* at Meridian oh Saturday. It will be remembered that on Friday last our dispatches from Clinton, La., reported that a Yan kee torce, estimated at from five to ten thouiand strong, with eighteen pieces of artillery and sev enty-five wagons, had passed Frankiington, twen ty miles west of Pearl river. asd moving east ia good order. The destination of this column was unknown, but it is not at ail tmlikeiy Gov. Clark wili-soon find work for his people. Mississippi can certain 1 .-.- protect her soil from he eouopara tively insignificant bands of plunderers that have been plundering it. and they should do so. Just now the veteran tro ns are needed elsewhere, an! Mississippians wii’ L .re to defend their State. [Appeal. TELEGRAPHIC. REPORTS OF THE PRESS ASSOCSATIOV Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1863. by J. S. Thrasher, in the Clerk s office of tht Disiriot C">urt of the Confederate states' r the Northern District of Georgia. LATE YANKEE NBWS. Richmond, Dec. 3.—The evening edition of ta Baltimore American of the Ist contains a Nash-’ vlUe telegram of the 30th, which announces the arrival of a.train from Chattanooga with several Rebol prisoners, including Brig. General Young, of Cheatham’s command. Th* garrison at Shelby ville was attacked by a body of Rebel cavalry on Monday, but their as sault was repulsed. Subsequently, the Federal? evacuated the place, and it is now occupied by the Rebels. A special dispatch to the New York Times, da ted Nashville, 30th, at miduight, asserts that Ilood, at 4 o’clock p. in., made a heavy attack at Franklin, with two corps, and, after persistent fighting was repulsed at all points, with a loss of six thousaud killed and wounded. The Federal loss was about five hundred. A rebel brigadier and about 1,000 prisoners were captured. An other Louisville telegram announces the arrival of A. J. Smith’s corps. The American’s caption ol this news is, “Reported Repulse of Hood,” imply ! iug doubt of its correctness. The Chicago Tribune is informed by a soldier named Elder, who escaped from Charleston, that Dahlgren and Foster are cognizant of Sherman’s plans and are co-operating with him. Sherman is aiming for Savannah, where there are no forti fications. As soon as tho probable time of Sher man’s attack on Savannah arrives, Foster will make a demonstration on Charleston. THE HONEY HILL FIGHT—GEN. HAR DEE’S OFFICIAL DISPATCH. Richmond, Dec. 3.—The following official dis patch wuS“ received here to day : Grahamville, S. C., Dec. 2, 1564. To General S. Cooper : A force of infantry, artillery and cavalry, un der Foster, attempted to gain the railroad at this point, but were met and repulsed. A force of marines, unCer Admiral Dahlgren, attempted to gain the railroad at Coosawhatchie, but wero met at Bee’s Creek and repulsed. (Signed,) IV. J. Hardee, Lieut. General. MORE VICTORIES FOR ROSSER IN VIR GINIA. Richmond, Dec. 3.—The following dispatch was received last night at headquarters : Gen. Early reported, that Gen. Rosser, with Haynes’ and his own brigades, encountered on the 27th, near Moorefield, a small party of the enemy, and captured forty prisoners and ono piece of artillery. On the 28th he surprised and captured Fort Kelly, at New Creek, with four field pieces, four siege guns and between seven and eight hundred prisoners, a large number of horses and mules, eight stand of colors, and destroyed 200 wagons and a quantity of commissary and ordnance stores. He brought off the field pieces and some wagons, spiked the siege guns, and destroyed the carriages. lie also captured Piedmont, and des troyed all the Government buildings containing a number of engines, and burnt several bridges. He did considerable damage to the railroad. Ho captured seven hundred head of cattle. His loss was two killed and three wounded. The boldness exhibited by Gan. Rosser in the con duct of his men, deserves much praise. FROM MISSISSIPPI. Special to the Meridian Clarion.] Dover, Yazoo county, Dec. 2, via. Canton, Dec. 3.—The fight yesterday was at Concord Church on the Yazoo City road. The Yankee force was two regiments. They were completely routed. Eighteen dead counted, besides wounded. Twenty three prisoners were captured, including a lieutenant. They carried away most of their wounded. Their entire loss is between seventy five and one hundred. Our loss one killed and six wounded. A large quantity of arms and equipments and several horses were captured. The Great Battle in Tennessee. The news from contained in our dispatches thjg morning is 0 f thrilling inter-' est. A great battle has been fought, and, we believe, a glorious victory won. Four thous and of the enemy were killed and wounded, and six thousand captured. They are repor ted to have been routed from their entrench ments, and it is said have retreated to Mur freesboro. If there was no misunderstanding in regard to the particulars of the fight as re* ported, and the gentleman who furnishes the report is known to us and is entirely reliable, the victory achieved is one of great impor tance. The town of Franklin, near which the fight occurred, is a very strong position, well for tified, eighteen miles from Nashville, on the Railroad from Nashville to Columbia. Brent wood, the point at which Forrest was repor ted to be, is eight miles from Nashville on the same road. Murfreesboro, to which point Thomas is reported to have retreated, is thir ty miles from Nashville, on the railroad to Chattanooga. The road from Nashville to Franklin and Columbia, runs almost due South from Nashville, while the Chattanooga road run3 South-east—the two roads thus forming an angle the apex of which is Nash ville. From Franklin, where the battle was fought, to Murfreesboro, which place he was driven back, is twenty-eight miles, and the greater part of the road is very bad. M e have been thus particular in giving these distances and the various points men tioned, in order that the reader may under stand the conclusion to which we arrive in regard to the effect of the battle. | It will be seen that after his defeat at Franklin, where he had lost ten thousand men out of an army never estimated higher than twenty to twenty-five thousand. Gen. Thomas instead of falling back eighteen miles by an excellent turn- I P j ke, to the strong fortifications of Nashville where with his beaten and demoralized army of not more than fifteen thousand mea, he would ! naturally desire to go, he marched by a road ■ almost impassable, twenty-eight miles to Murfrees boro’, where he was twelve miles further from : Nashville than when at Franklin. This move ment must have been the resulf of necessity and ! a T>t of choice. He would clearly not have gone to Murfreesboro’ if he could have gone to“ Nashville, and his doing so, is partly explained by the fact that Forrest, with his cavalry, said to number ten thousand rough riders, was at Brentwood, thus cutting off retreat upon Nashville, and compelling the movement upon Murfreesboro’ as a dernier re sort. If the theory is correct, and if the statements ot the dispatch are true, we cannot see how it can be otherwise, the Federal army is in an exceed ingly precarious and critical position. It-cannot number more than fifteen thousand men, it is cut °tt irom communication with Nashville, its depot or supplies, pnd is at the mercy of Hood's victo nous and enthusiastic army, which cannot number ress than forty thousand of as good soldiers as ever fired a gnD. We shall be surprised if Thomas is not forced to surrender, and of course Nash ville '.Till fall with him. But glorious and impor tant as we conceive :he victory to bo, and if we are not mistaken it will prove to be in its results the most important one of the war, it has been dearly purchased with the blood of such gallant spirit* as Cleburne, Strahl, Granbury, Gist, Gordon and Quarles, and the thirty-five hundred heroes who have fallen on the field. We could but illy afford t;> t es ® t! ? e3 ® glorious and experienced comm anders and their fall shows hew stubborn the conflict r u 'l ~ are beea - We cannot, in this brie*' and Li; IV written article, do justice to their merits, ot mogy ot such mea is verbiage, for their deeds anu their memories are embalmed in the hearts of their country men, and will lire as long as ratriet- ? h r i ' aei vr h»3 a votary—Clottano*- ,jrt Rebel.