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DAILY TIMES, j, W. HARR EX & CO,, Proprietors* Published Daily (Sundays excepted) at the rate of *6.00 per month, or sls tor three months. So subscription received for a longer term than month 9. RATES OF ADVERTISING. CASUAL DAILT ADVERTISING BATES. Advertisements inserted once—s 4 per square, REGDLAR DAILT ADVERTISING RATES. 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. • (■FiCR ENGINEER aSL> SUPERINTENDENT, | Charleston and Savannah Railroad. > Charleston, June 7.1864.) npppjfiillSL iN THURSDAY, June9,lß64, and until further 1 ‘ notice, the Schedule of the Passenger train will oe as follow, vis: Leave Charleston 9.45, a. m. Iriave in Savannah 5.40, p. in. Leave Savannah A 3O, a. m. Arrive in Charleston 1.15, p. m. Phis Train makes direct connections, going north and south, with the Northeastern Railroad at Char lee ton, and the Central Railroad at the Junction. H. S. HA INKS, une 14 ts Engineer and Superintendent. of .Schedule. v \ T and after Sunday, June 19th, the Trains on 1 ' the iißeogee Railroad will run as follows . P\SSKNGER TRAIN: leave Columbus 6 45 P. M. trrive at Macon 3 25 A. M. Ceavo Macon 8 10 P. M \rrivo nt Columbus 4 25 A. hi. FREIGHT TRAIN: Leave Columbus 5 00 A. M. vrriveat Columbus 4 55 A. M, W.L. CLARK, .a a r 19 If Supt. Muscogee R. R. t in'* month*. Tli rough to Montgomery. NEW SCHEDULE. MONTGOMERY & WEST POINT RAILROAD COMPANY. COLUMBUS. August 27,1864. , \N and after August 27th. the Passenger Train on \ I the Montgomery and West Point Railroad will Leave Montgomery at 8:00 a. in. Loavd West Point at <:10 a. m. Arrive at Columbus at 5:32 p. m. Leave Columbus at 5:50 a. in. ,4 rrive at Montgomery at 3:00 p. m, Jniveat West Point at 4130 p. m. Freight Train leaves Columbus at 8:10 a m. Arrives at 8:27 p m D. 11. CRAM, Sup’t & Eng. *g27 1864 —ts MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD. CMANGE OF SCUEDIJLE. Girard, Ala., Oct 7,1864. i\N and after 10th inst. Trains on this Road will ’ " Run Daily (Sunday excepted,) as follows: Passenger Train- Leave Girard at 1 30 p. in. Arrive in Union Springs 600 “ Leave 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. m. B. E. WELLS. sglHtf Eng. & Sup’t. Dr, B. B. BEARD, (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 Yvm. C. Gray, in Linwood. (nov 10 lm* Dr. R. ffOBLE, IDEIsTTIST, A T Pemberton & Carter’s old stand, back room of /A Smith’s Jewelry Store, where he can be found all hours, [oc 186 m ST EBB,EXt'HyiXOE!' i FEW Hundred Pounds of Sterling Exchange \ for sale in sums to suit purchasers by agl6 ts RANK OF COLUMBUS. NOTICE TANARUS« Vli**i««im»i Soldiers! CUE ’‘MISSISSIPPI DEPOT” and Office of l Agency f r the Relief of Mississippi soldiors in the Army of Tennessee, has been removed from Atlanta to Columbus, Gn., and is near Barnard’s corner, between Main st., and tho Perry House. Your baggage is there. 0. K. MARSHALL, sop-28 ts _ Agent. (vovermueiit Sheep for Exchange, •>i ri HEAD SHEEP will be exchanged for Bacon t» or Bcof. The rated at $2 00, Bacon I(k\, Beef 20. grosi per pound. The Beef to be de livered alive. Apply to J. A. TYLER. Columbus, Nov. 2. 1864 —ts XiOST, /\N Friday morning a RED VELVET BOW coa *J ta nin/r a goldstar, with the letter “J.” engrav ed on it. The finder will be rewarded by leaving it at this office. n<>v26— dtf NOTIOJEI. Office Grant Factory, \ Nov. 29. 1864.) a LL per? ms having demands against the estate of j A Daniel Grant, deceased, a*e hereby requested to • present them to the Grant Factory, nov 3o tl JOHN J. GRANT. | Sun copy anti send bill to office Grant F:xetory. _ j Lost or Mislaid. DOUR SHARES of the G. & A. S. S. 00., No. j l 160, in favor of Afrs. J. L. Wil;on. nov 30 rs 1). &J. j. GRANT. | To lU' lit. at) USE for rent, posse sion given I t December. Apply to 11. EISIIACKER. no v 30 6t 104, Broad Street. WA.IsTTEID. \ N OVERSEER. One without family, who has i hist an ami in the service, and thereby unfit for military service preferred. Apply to ROBERT R. HOWARD, Beynolds, Taylor Cbunty. MRS. CHAS. J. WILLrAMS, non Columbus, Ga. \VA i T TED! " jvi. LBS. of TALLOW, far which u liberal price '•' vill be paid. Apply to F. W. DILLARD, tt Major and. Q. M. Wanted i'O HIRE—Four or Five able bodied Xogroos.— I Good wages Avon. Apply at our Government Works. _oe 28 ts JOHN 1). GRAY A CO. W ANTED, • oaoj) rt*~INESN MAN, uutil the first of A January. The best wages paid. A disabled sol dier preferred, and it matters not how badly muti nied by wounds so he has firmness and judgment. Apply at the TIMES OFFICE, nov 30 ts , 3500 Howard. ! CjTOLEN out of my stable, 2 miles from Columbus, O on the Crawford road, ou Thursday night last, TWO MITJXjES, one a small bay mare Mule, blind in the right eye. The other a black inaro Mule, medium size, with whith mouth and white spot on rump. Both m good l 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 Mules. H M. CL,. KLEI. Columbus, Ga., Nov. 9, 1864 —ts please copy. WANTED. W, BUSHELS CORN, for which wo will pay *»' earii ©r exchange Salt. novl2t>t JEFFERSON A. HAMILTON. 4S»Sati and Enquirer copy. CTRAYED from my place in Wynnton, a dark O bay mare MULE, about nine years old, hair rubbed off of both hips and a large scar on the right hindquarter. JOHN LOOK. oc 1.1 ts SSO Howard. VEORO boy CHARLEY : abtut 25years old, yel -y low ootuploxiou, hair nearly straight, below or dinary intelligence : left Mr. Not. near Box Si>rings. To lot, ;ouut>. r bought him of a Mr. brown, a refugee trow. Mir.'is iiipi, who now in fotsh-Koe, 4 la. Ue originally i-bme from Charleston, S. C. A suitable reward will be r aid tor his delivery at this office, or in anv ale iail and information -en t. nu. at this office. JAMES vt s ( >s«*i • I'otUfflbn - ■ ,i. n \ir if * yol. xi.} Headquarters Georgia Reskrvb, ) aod Military District Georgia. j- Macon, Ga., Nov. 30, 1864. j T Extract. 1 Special Orders l 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 of Commandant of Conscripts until communication with Col. W, M. Browne. Com mandant, &c„ can again bo resumed. By command of * Major General HOWELL COBB. R. J. Hallktt, A. A. Gen. lld’qrs Camp of Instruction for Ga., I Camp Cooper, Macon, Nov. 30,1864, S Special Ordors, l No. 322. 1 The attention of Enrolling and ail 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. Columbus Times, Albany .Patriot and La- Grange Reporter, copy five times and send bill to Camp Cooper. doc 2 5t Tproclalatioix BY JOSEPH E. BROWN, GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA. STATE OF GEORGIA, ] Executive Department, > Milledgeville, Nov. 19, 1864. J The whole people understand how imminent is tho danger that threatens the State. Our cities are boing 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 is to be preferred to loss of liberty. All must rally to the held for the present emergency or the State is overrun. I therefore by virtue of tho 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 ufty-five years of age, except such as are physically unable to bear arms, which physical de fect must be plain and indisputable, cr they must be sentto camp for exaD'ination, and except those engaged in the Legislature or Judicial Departments of the govrenment, wh:ch are by the recent act of thelLfgislature 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 may be for forty (40) day3 service under arms, unless the emergency is sooner passed. The statute declares that all persons hereby eallep out shall be subject after this call to all the rules and articles of war of the Confederate States, and on failure to report, shal' be subjeot to the paius 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 iu each orgaization which is rtquired 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 homo for the time, only those over 55 years of age; and all porsonshav ing Confederate details or exemptions, who, by the late docision of the Supremo 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 Mid-de-Oamp, or other officer of this Stated 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 tjieir present position, excused. All ordained ministers of religion in charge of a Church or Synagogue 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. USb. Each paper in the State will publish tho above Proclamation. nov 22 It. CbNFEDKRATE STATES OF AMERICA, 4 4Var Department. Ordnancb Bureau, s Richmond, Nov. 11, 1864.) All officers on Ordnancb duty are required byGouoral Orders. No. 70, Adj’t. A I. G. Office, Aug. 29, 1864, to report without delay to the Chief of Ordnance, Richmond, by letter, stating First. —Their rank. Second, —Date of commission (or appointment) giving date from which their rank takes effect. Third.— Arm of service. Fourth. —State to which they belong. *V<I.-Data of assignment to Ordnance duty.! Sixth.—' The authority by which assigned, furnish ing date, and ifpossible, copy of order of ass gnment 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 eod tw (Thief of Ordnance. PEE.R,? HOUSE. pH B undersigned would respectfully inform his 1 old friends, patrons, und the traveling public generally, that as he has to be absent for a short lime he has been so fortunate as to have associated with him his well known and worthy friend Mr. EDWARD PARSONS, late of Atlanta, Ga„whose reputation ar.cl superior tict for business is well known throughout tho Confederacy. This House is large and commodious, and no pains, nor expense shall besparod to St it up in the very best and most elegant style, aud to obtain every thing in tb*> line of substantial eatables and luxuries that this market affords, With tueso. assurances w< most cordially solicit all our old friends, and the t .avel ing public generally, to give us acall and an oppor tunity of rendering them comfortable. r,e 15 Im* TMOS. E. SMITH. Executor’!* Notice. i-WO mouths after date application will be made ! to the Court of Ordinary of Taylor county, for leave to sc-ll the Negroes and perishable property of •he Estate of Elizabeth T. Johnson, deceased, lata 1 i: " ‘ : SAMUEL K. JOHNSON, Ex’r Oct. 20w2in* _ Per THOS. D. BR AND. 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, .here is tco mfortable Dwelling House on the plao -ood Negro cabins with brick chiinnies and all t ho neces sary out-buildings. The land i3 productive and toeat on desirable. Possession given in November. For further information ADAMg> oc 271 m Oolambus, Qa. •-jrTelegr»ph i: Confederate, Macon; Montgo •‘•ry Advertiser; Cb»»Ututioaaii#, Augusta,copy. COLUMBUS, GA., MONDAY, DEC. 12, 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 fai iili s —not feeling and sposed 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 re nember me and elect me for their next Mayor. Mr. R. L. Bins, who goes with me to Ithe front, declines being a candidate for Mayor, in my favor for which 1 e will please accept my thanks. nov 29 5t F. G. WILKINS. To Printers ! WE offer for .'ale a complete BOOK BINDERY, (except Rul ng Machine,) two hand PRESSES, and about 1,000 Pounds of Type Metal, nov2l-tf Headquarters Gov. Works, (Or».) I (JolumUus, Ga., Dee. 1, 1864. J 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 Order*, I 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 eod2w 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 tiled their papers at this office, will report at these headquarters on Saturday, the 3d of De cember, at 11 o’clock, a. u., for the purpose of being mustered for pay. By command S. L. BISHOP, Maj. Com’dg Post. S. Isidore Guillbt, Post Adj’t. doy 29 5t Stop the florse Tihcf! SSOO Reward, QTOLEN fr jm tho premises of C. P. Levy, across U the new bridge, on tho 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. dco 2 4t Lost Trunk, SIOO Reward. AN SATURDAY night, the 19th November, at the U depot in Macon, a LEATHER 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 2t* Columbus, Ga. A Plantation For Sale, THE 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, tho balance superior pine land. In a favorable season sixty bushels of corn or 2,000 pounds of seed cotton, may bo safelyjrelied on. On the premises a, e first negro quarters, gin house, screw and sta bles. The dwelling is small but comfortable. There aro 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 \SS, Columbus, or VAN MARCUS. dec 6 ts Steamer Shamrock, Wanted. <)AA aaA FEET ASH TIMBER, in plank of UU.UUU V& inch, or by the cord. Apply at our Government Works. dee 2 6t JOHN GRAY k 00. S3OO Reward!—Stolen, J7ROM Room No. 46, Cook's Hotel, a SINGLE f CASED GOLD WATCH, with the initials “ M F” carved on the back of it The W atch has e 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! 200 FOUNDS CHOICE COFFEE ALSO, 200 lbs. Black Pepper. STANFORD & CO., nov 30 3t No. 78, Broad Street. Administrator’s Sale. AN the first day of January, I will sell at public U outcry at the Court House iu 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 Adra’r. FOR SALE i QA | ACRES OF LAND, thirty in cultivation, two DU ' hundred and seventy in the woods. This place is near the ten mile house on the Cusseta road, and is snugly improved for the times. Apply to L. o'. BIGGERS. nc > ’A) 4t* Joi nmhus. Ga Plantation to Rent or Sell. ONE and ahalf 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. To Rent, A BLACKSMITH SIIO.P with six or seven Forges, all complete. Apply at ©o 31 ts THIS OFFICE. Notice to Debtors and Creditors ALL persons having claims against the estate of Joseph W. Wooliolk, dec’d, late of Muscogee ceunty, are hereby notified to render them duly authenticated within the time prescribed by law; those indebted to said estate are requested to mr xe immediate payment. WM. G. WOOLFOLK. nov 23, 1864 —w4od Adm’r, Lard VT7 ANTED in exchange for Sheetings, Osnalurgs Y» and Yarns, at the nov 5 lm EAGLE FACTOR 1. Confederate Tax Xoilce. I SHALL commence on Monday next sth inst.. -*■ collecting all Taxes that are due the Cunfeder icy. Tax payers must come up promptly and pay, oi the penalty of the law will ‘as visited upon them. There are now many delinquents on their Quarterly Sales Tax. Mr. Green, or myself, will at all timet Vs rvitdy to receive the -money. J. A. L. -Ur.fc, dec 5 St Collector 4lst Dist. FOR SALE. TWO FINE BREED SOWS to sell or exchange 1 for pork. Apply at Sherman dr Co’s, up stairs in Masonic building. dee 6 ts , FOR SAXs£]. ASJ/JLL FARM, containing about 10ft acres, bO 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. Ac. For terms apply to rs. J. A. JONES. deeStf Rear Ce’atahiti, Saturday Evening. “Up a Rocket—Down a Stick.” The greatest of Federa 1 raiders, the original inventor of cruelties to the defenceless, GeneraP W. T. Sherman, has doubtless reached the climax of his short lived glory, says the Montgomery Mail, and is about to experience the fate of that “vaulting ambition which o’erleaps it3elf.” Ac cording to the original programme which stole its way to the light through the Yankee papers, he set out for Savannah. The prediction of many Southern prophets fixed his destination at— “grief;” to which, they <'.eclared, he would surely come. That prophecy would seem about to be realized. The delay of the enterprise is most in auspicious from a Northern view, and lively fears of disaster must now begin to excite “the friends and acquaintances”, of the late hero. To the bungling maaner of its execution ; to the energy of his enterprising adversaries, veteran and mili tia ; to the natural obstacles of his course, may be attributed the failure ot’ a raid so brilliaut in conception, s j laring in design. The expedition, which was to have acted in concert from the coa st has been frustrated by Gen. Gustavus W. Smith, and the irrepressible Georgia Reserves. At th is stage of the proceedings, the drama which was to have “ startled the Republic” begins wofully to drag. Tho players aro not up in their parts, and Ulysses, the prompter, is dismally out of ear-shot. In vain rings the curtain-bell but the scenes ob stinately refuse to shift. The Confederate audience of cannoniers and riflemen await the denoument with a grim smile of oentent, and the great “Star,” who “played the Yankee trick” on Hood, is evidently about to die as “Kirby” did, with the American flag around him, amid the jeers and hisses of the Northern galleries, and decisive laughter of the Southern parquette. The noble dust of this modern Alexander may yet fill a vac uum in a South Carolina prison. Alas! “To what base uses do we come at last.” From Mississippi. —Tho Meridian Clarion learns from good authority that the raiding force of Yankees which came out from Baton Rouge and visited Tangipahoa and Franklin ton, after leaving the latter place and march ing northward some miles, crossed Pearl river at or near Fordsville, and is now probably in Marion county, in that State. It is impossible to know the precise point they contem plate reaching, but we imagine they intend striking the Mobile & Ohio railroad at Win chester or Buckatuna. They will never reach those points, or any other points on the rail road, in our opinion. If they attempt it, they will “come to grief;” and should they essay a retrograde movement, if they are properly met on their return, they will encounter certain destruction. So mote it be. The Yankee D^bt.— The Yankee debt on the 30th of September was $1,955,973,410. The increase of debt for the month of Octo ber is by the additions in the published tables, $61,126,099 —nearly two millions a day —which expresses the excess of adjusted expenditures above the revenue of the Government. The money writer in the New York Herald pro fesses to have discovered errors in the addi tions and substraction, which corrected would add upwards of $6,000,000 to the aggregate of the debt. * The pay of the army due on the Ist Novem ber is not included among the accrued debts, and will come into the next monthly state ment. The amount is about $60,000,000. We learn that quite aa extensive intercourse has grown up between Macon and Atlanta. The latter place and vicinity is entirely re lieved from the presence of the enemy, as is, also, the line of the Macon and Western rail road. The trains of the latter run to a point about ten miles above Griffin, and repairs on the intervening distance are progressing as rapidly as possible. The Southern Express company has opened its office; Col. Howard has been making preparations to open the post office, and an early issue -of the Intelligencer is expected. There will, therefore, soon be some evidences of civilization amid the deso lation left by the vandals in the Gate City. Want of Confidence. We notice that some of our cotemporaries ot the Press are exhibiting a very great want of confidence in the result of the present cam paign. Their stomachs appear to be turned and the rebellion with them is at a discount. Sherman’s movements have dislocated their joints and thrown them from their equilibrium. They snuff danger in every gust of wind, and expect the news of disaster by every mail.— We observe in them the singular fact of bone changed to gristle. Their spinal vertebrae has softened and will not hold their bodies erect. They start at shadows and see fright ful gobblins on every side. In their fright and desperation they denounce and villify the administration for notprotecting them against the appearance of these horrid spectres They do not seem to understand that the ter rors which beset them are merely the creatures of a disordered imagination with which the government has nothing to do. They cannot comprehend that Thomas is on the eve of an nihilation and that Sherman is doomed to dis appointment and defeat. The scare upon them has assumed the chronic form and seems to be incurable. We hope that the events of the next two weeks will show that our cause is not in the terrible condition these despond ing patriots apprehend, but the Confederacy is moving along in a cloudless sky of victory, and that our independence is assured. [Chattcmocya Rebel. Latest from Yazoo City. —Through the kindness cf Lieut. Ingraham, we are in pos session of news from the city up to Thursday mqfct. The Lieutenant himself. Willie Cham bers, and five others, were out on a scout, and a .re ambuscaded by a large party of (been* emy and only escaped by e bold charge and firiny their pistols iu the face of toe enemy; 3vt, however, without the loss of two of their nntnber. On Thursday evening last, Maj. Jeff. Davie Bradford, with his battalion, is said to have had a most desperate reconnoitre with the 2d Wisconsin, in which the Major and his men behaved most gallantly, and drove the enemv from the field. Several gunboats aul transports have reached the city from Vicksburg, carrying ~ inforcements and supplies, we sup’-ise enemy speak of holding the place u:.u. can forage the couatry above and around With the forces at hand and 'he reiuforce mentsjOov. Clark € wiil souabaveai command, /FITE DOLLARS \ PER MONTH. the enemy will hare rather a warm time of it in their occupation of the city. They cannot now send parties two miles from town with out having them fired on, and when additional Confederate foroes arrive, if they hold the place the} may expect to fight for it. [Canton Citizen, oth. LATEST FROM THE UNITED STATES. FROM THE JAMES. City Point, Nov. 27, 1864.—Nothing of general interest has occurred beyond the con centration ot all thecolored troops under Gen eral Meade and Butler into one corps, to be commanded by Major General Weitzel; and the sinkiug of our steam dredge by the lebels in the Dutch Gap Canal. The tormer has been contemplated for months ; the latter was accomplished two days ago. The dredge has been undergoing some repairs, and was just ready to resume operations, when a shell ex ploded squarely amidships, and sunk her al« most instantly in water, said by some, to be eleven feet deep, and by others sixteen. Be ing the only steam dredge here it would have seriously delayed the completion ot the canal had it occurred sooner, but the work is so near completion that but little inconvenience will ; result. Measures are being taken to raise j her, or, at least, tow her out of the way. \ General headquarters presented quite an : animated appearance early yesterday morning. Generals Meade, Warren, Gibbon, Crawford, and possibly ono or two others, were in from the Petersburg front, and proceeded by invi tation and arrangement on a visit to Dutch Gap Canal, accompanied by Generals Grant and Ingalls, United States Senator Nesmith, of Oregon, and other notables and visitors, on General Grant’s dispatch boat the M. Martia. i The following shows what harm the “States Convention” men are doing our cause, by ex citing the hopes and zeal of the enemy: organization of a peace party in tiib rebel STATES. Washington, Nov. 28, 1864.—Information has been received here of the organization in the States of Alabama, Georgia and Missis-, sippi, of a strong peace party, under the de-> nomination of a “State Rights Party.” The leaders of this organization are informally in communication with the authorities here, and will probably receive encouragement in their enterprise from the forthcoming message of the President. They claim that the Southern States, each for itself, has the same right to negotiate terms of settlement and retrocession as they had to secede from the United States, and they aim to control the State action, through the Legislatures, to this end. The same party has already shown itself boldly in the rebel Congress. It is known that so much confi dence in the success of this movement is en tertained at the South that prominent seces- i sionists have begged the leaders of the new j party to make with the United States the best j terms possible for the protection of the prop- 1 erty of these who have been active in the re bellion. It is believed that the allusions to this matter will be most interesting, if not the : most important, feature of the President’s j message. FROM THIS SHENANDOAH. Martinsburu, Nov. 28. —Parties arriving from the front to-day proclaim all quiet in thal vicinity. Chief Engineer Moore has the Government railroad completed to Stevnson’s depot, four mile* this side of Winchester. Superintendent Boggs will run trains offer regularly for the Government on and after Tuesday next. The measures taken by order of General Sheridan to protect this road will be seen by reading the following order : The Government of the United States having rebuilt the railroad from Harper’s Ferry to Win. ohestcr, Va., to protect the same from molestation from guerrillas and disloyal citizens along the line of the same, the general commanding is in structed by the major general commanding, in the event that the operations of said railroad are in terferred with “by guerrillas or disloyal citizens, to arrest all male secessionists in the towns of Shepherdstown, Charlestown, Sraithfield and Per ryville. and in the adjacent counties, sending.them to Fort McHenry, Md., there to be confined during the war, and also to burn all grain, destroy all sub sistence, and to drive off all the stock belonging to such individuals, turning over the stock so seized to the treasury agent for the benefit of the Government of the United States. Upon the con tingencies arising requiring the execution of the instructions herein set forth, the same will be ex - ecu ted promptly and thoroughly, by order of Brigadier General Stevenson." We have reports to-day that a rebel force, amounting to fifteen hundred, appeared at New Creek this morning, on the line of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and took possession of the same. Troops are now being sent up to drive them away. Passengers by tbe down mail discredit these re ports, as they saw and heard nothing of them at New Creek, but did hear of a little fight at Mooro field yesterday, in which our force lost some twen ty men. The same force may have come down to New Creek to-day aftor the train passed. A NEW ARET CORPS —HANCOCK TO COMMAND IT. The organization of anew corps, to be styled the First army corps, haß been ordered by the War Department. Major General Hancock, lately commander of the Secondjcorps, in the army of the Potomac, is to take charge of it, and it will be com posed of at least twenty thousand infantry. Its formation will commence on the Ist of December proximo, and be continued till the Ist of January next. The privates admitted to it are all to be able-bodied men who have served honorably not less than two ye rs in the army, ana are to be en listed for one year’s service. Recruits will be paid a*special Government bounty of three hundred dollars, furnished transportation to Washington, and will be credited to the districts of their resi dence. Soldiers of the corps who preserve their arms to the end of their terms may keep them as their own. Hancock is succeded in his late command by Gen. Humphrey. Aq Example for Military Men. In 1808, the Duke of Wellington was placed in command of the important British expedi tion destined to operate in the Peninsula.— He had made all his preparations with the foresight and thoroughness characteristic of the man; and the expedition had actually started, when the Minister determined to su persede him in command. In a very lacenic note, assigning no reasons for the change, Viscount Castlereath, Secretary of State, in formed the Duke (then Sir Arthur Wellesley) that the command of the troops had been as signed to Sir Hugh Dalrymple. with Sir Har ry Burrand second in command. By this op eration, Sir Arthur’s sphere of command was suddenly diminished from an army to a brig ade while iu the very act ot preparing to meet the ecemy. An ordinary soldier would at once have thrown np his commission in dis gust. Though deeply mortified, no doubt, he sacrificed all personal consideration* to pa triotism and princi'd?. a n't * letter, written soon after said : Ci l shall do my ifest to ensure the success of the army; and you may depend on it, that 1 shall not hurry the operations, or commence them one moment sooaer than they ought to be commenced, in order that I may acquire credit of the success. The Govern ment will determine for me in what way they | will employ me hereafter, either here or e,se wb«re r When aeked, by a familiar .rmud ■ .tv he. commanded armies *f forty usand meD, who Lad received the thanks ot , Lament for hi 9 victories, and been elected Kuigut of the Bath ould submit to be re da;;«id to the command of a brigade ot infill- try 9 “For this reason,” w* 11 the reply, “T un nimukwallab, as wo say in ibeKust; l nave ate of the King's salt, and, therefore, I con sider it to be my duty to serve with zeal and promptitude when or wherever the King or his Government may think proper to employ me." A great military principle is here enforced by a great military man, nut only by precept but example. Officers who decline to eerve their country in a capacity which they con sider inferior to their merits may study with advantage this page in the history of Welling ton.— Richmond Dispatch. In the Confederate Senate, op the Ist inst., Mr. Johnson, of Georgia, by leave, presented the following bill which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary: An Act to amend the several acts jow in force on the subject of impressments, and to de fine w hat is “just compensation.” Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the fifth section of “an act to regulate impressments,” approved March 26, 1863, and that all parts of acts now of lorce, which confer appellate jurisdiction and power upon the board of com missioners of the several States, appointed by authority of the said fifth section of the above recited act, be and the same is hereby re pealed. Sec. 2. That “just compensation ’ is hereby declared to be the fair market value of prop erty “taken for public use.” at the time and place of impressment. Sec. 3. That in all cases where property is impressed for the use of the army or navy or for other public use, the same shall be paid for at the time and place of impressment, ac cording to the valuation agreed upon between the parties, or ascertained and determined by the judgment of two loyal and disinterested citizens of the city, county or parish in which such impressment may be made; one to be selected by the owner, one by the impressing officer ; and, in the event of their disagree ment, these two shall choose a third, of like qualification, as umpire between them, whose decision shall be final. The persons thus se lected, after taking an oath to perform their duty, fairly and impartially, (which oath the impressing officer is hereby authorized to ad rniuister and certify,) shall proceed to ascer tain the fair market valuo of the property so impressed ; and the value of the property thus ascertained shall be held and considered as a just compensation to be paid to the owner for the same. Sec 4. That all laws and parts of laws mil itating against this act be and the same are hereby repealed. Attempt to Assassinate Roskcrans A Cos. - Yankee papars state that a few days since the U. 6. Provost Marshal atS«. Louis received an annony mous letter, stating that a conspiracy was in pro gress to assassinate Gens. Rosecrans, JfcNoil, and other officials, and that the leaders could be found at the residence of Mr. George 11. Grover. The United States police proceeded tojthe place named, and arrested George M. Moore, a clerk; Dr. S. F. Mercer, a refugee from southeast Missouri; S. Gilkerson, and MoDowell and Frooman, the twe latter clerks in the British Consul’s office; also three female members of the family. After being examined before the Provost Marshal, part of the prisonors wore released oa bond, and others were sent to the military prison. Acknowledgement, I offer our gratitude to onr friends of Columbus and .vicinity—many personally unknown to me — who have privately made generous contributions of money, etc., towards replacing the losses suffered by my household in the late incendiary fire. These gifts are characteristic of our people, al ways noted for their charity and public spirit. It is the manifestation of such virtues tfcat has ever en deared our citizens to all corners, and made us all happy to call this our "homo.” C. T. t’USIIM A.N. Columbus Ga., Dec. 10,1864. Marshall llolpital, 1 Columbus, Ga., 10th December, j Aolice! All having claims Against the Hospital for hire #f servants, are requested to call for payment. T. A. MEANS. doc 10 3t „ in Charge. Sun copy. By Ellis, Livingston & Cos., wm • m WE will sell on Tuesday, December, 13th, at 11 o’clock, in front of our Auction Room— -1 Close Carriage and Harness, 1 Very Fine Mahogany Piano, * 10 bbls. Corn Whiskey, 100 lbs. Sole Leather, 55 Sacks Salt, 1 Lot Ready-Made 'Clothing, 2 fine Saddle and Carriage Horses, 2 Likely Mules, Cows and Calves, t£o., &c., efcc. dec 10 td $27 By Ellis, Livingston & Cos. GROUND PEAS. ON TUESDAY, 13th of December, atllo’cloek, we will sell in front of our Auction Room, 250 Bushels No. 1 Ground Peas. dec 10 $9 OFFICE SOUTHERN EXPRESS. Columbus, Ga., Oct., 29,1864. VTO Freight will be received at the Southern Ex iA press Company’s Office after 3% o'clock p. M.t o go East on that day, nor will any be received to go West after o’clock p u. oc 29 jf S. H. HILL, Agent. TO GEORGIA EDITORS AND THE IIATLENS ! I WANT rabbit skins, coon skins, fox skins, otter skins, mink skins, beaver skins, and all other skins that have ur upon them. I want them for the pur pose of making hats, and will pay the highest cash prices, or swap bats for them. 1 will give a good rabbit hat for sixty rabbit sains; a good coon hat for two dozen good coon nKins; a good beaver hat for three beaver skins; a good wool hat for two pounds of clean washed wool, free of oockleburrs, and cut from the live sheep’s back, and so on. Tho skins must be taken from the animals in winter and be well stretched before drying. Parcels may be sent by express, and hats in the same wav, J. A. TURNER. Eaton ton, Ga., Dec. 9,1864. N. B.—All Georgia editors who will copy the above notice, four times, including this note, and also the following prospectus, the same number of times, sending me their papers in exchange, with the ad vertisements marked, shall receive by express, free (f charge, a good, soft, rabbit for hat which will bring in tho market $100; provided they will have their beads measured and send me the dimensions' IViles’ Register Revived. PROSPECTUS OF THE COE.WRYMI, \ ILES’ Register, the most useful journal ever J 7 issued in America, has been revived in the pub lication of The Countryman. This journal i a sac simile of its original, in the number and size of its pages, its typography,and all the features which gave value to the standard publications issued by Mr. jfiles. Besides the features of Niles’ Register, the Coun tryman has others which should render it still more attractive—to-wit: a department of elegant litera ture, rejecting the siyle of Y'ankee literary journals, and modeling itself after the best English miscel laneous weeklies, but at the same time, being stamped with an independent, Southern tone, origi nal with and peculiar to itself. . . An altogether novel feature with it, is that it is published in the country on the editor’s plantation, nine miles from any town or village, and devotes much attention to agriculture, rural sports, and everything that interests the country gentleman. The Countryman is a handsome qnarto, ot sixteen pages, published weekly on the editor s plantation, near Eltonton. Ga., to which all communications should be addressed. Our terms are $3 for three months, or S2O per annum. - „ I O.U remtOmoe by express j. A. xURNER, dec 10 d4t Eatonton, Ga. Wanted VI T E ms h to hire for the ensuing year, six good YY Negro Carpenters, on* good Blacksmith anl one wagoner. ee 10 2w JEFFERSON k HAMILTON. Sun and Enquirer copy. Wanted. »>/ti W k LBS. PORK, for wbich we will pay OvvlVy ca.-h or exchange salt. ,«: 10 6 JEFFERSON A HAMITON. . i C qairer copy.