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DAILY TIMES, j, W. W' T & CO., Proprietors. publisheu .. i ->ua,ys excepted) at the rate es 15.00 per month, u. H 5 lor three months. No subscription received for a longer term thorn t tree months. RATES OF ADVERTISING. CASUAL DAILY ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisements inserted once— $4 per square. KEGULAB DAILY 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. Office Engineer and Superintendent, | Charleston and Savannah Railroad, V Charleston, June 7.1864. J , ,N TinntSDdY, Juneo,lßo4,and until further • notice, the Schedule of the Passenger train will he as follow, viz: Leave Charleston 9.45, a. m. \rrive in Savannah .5.40, p. m. Leave Savannah..... A.M, a. m. Arrivoin Charleston 1.15, p. in. This Train makes direct connections, going north and south, with the Northeastern Railroad at Char leston, and the Central Railroad at the Junction. H. S. HAINES, J une 14 ts Engineer and Superintendent. Change oi Schedule. \N and after Sunday, June 19th, the Trains on ’ * ;he uscogee Railroad will run as follows: PASSENGER TR4IN : Leave Columbus ti 45 P. M. Arrive at Macon.. 3 25 A. M. Leave Macon 8 10 P. M, Arrive at Columbus .*. 4 25 A. A!. FREIGHT TRAIN : Leave Columbia A 00 A. M. A riv - at *./<.duu:' us 4 55 A. K. W.L. CLARK, mar 19 ts Supt. Muscogee R, R. Through to Montgomery. NEW SCHEDULE. MONTGOMERY & WEST POINT RAILROAD COMPANY. COLUMBUS. August 27,1864. . and after August 27th. the Passenger Train on i ! the Montgomery and West 1 oint 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 Columbus at 5:50 a. m. Arrive at Montgomery at 3:00 p. m. Arrive at West I’otnt at 4130 p.m. Freight Train leaves Columbus at 8:40 a m. 4 rri it6tt • at 8:27 p m D. H. CRAM, Sup’t & Eng: ag27lß64—tf MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD. CHANGE or 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 . 130 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. aglß ts Eng. & Sup’t. Dr. G, R. HEARD, (Late Surgeon P. A. C, S.) AFFERS his Professional Services to the citizens ' ' of Columbus. Office at Dr. Carter’s Drug Store. Can be found at night at the residence of Wm. C. Gray, in Linweod. [nov 10 lm* Dr. R NOBLE, IDZEUSTTIST, AT Pemberton & Carter’s old stand, back room of Smith’s Jewelry Store, where he can be found all hours, _ _Foclß 6m ST ERIil AG EXCBSSSH! i FE W Hundred Pounds of Sterling Exchange < for sale in sums to suit purchasers by «gl6 tl BANK OF COLUMBUS. KTOTIOB To His*i»si|>i»i Soldiers! THE “MISSISSIPPI DEPOT” and Office of 1 Agency for the Relief of Mississippi soldiers in the Army ot Tennessee, has boon removed from Atlanta to Columbus, Ga., and is near Barnard’s eorner, between Main st., ,und the Perry House. Your baggage is there. C. K. MARSHALL, sep2B ts Agent. Government Sheep for Exchange. 3 j 1 HEAD SHEEP will be exchanged for Bacon '' 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, AN Friday morning a RED VELVET BOW con yJ taming 11 gold star, with the letter "J.” engrav ed oti it. The tinder will be rewarded by leaving it at this office. nov26—dtf motiobT Ofkiob Grant Factory, 1 Nov. 29, 1864./ A LL persons having demands against the estate of Daniel Grant, deceased are 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. T?OUR SHARES of the G. it A. S. S. Cos., No. u Kin, in i,. vor of il/rs. J. L. Wilson, nov 30 ts D. & J. J. GRANT. To Rent. HOUSE for rent, possession given l«t December. Apply to 11. FISH ACKER, nov 30 6t 104, Broad Street. "wanted. i N OVERSEER. One without family, who has * lost an arm iu tho service, and thereby unfit for military service preferred. _ Apply to ROBERT R. HOWARD, Boynolds, Taylor Cfounty. MRS. CHAS. J. WILLIAMS, nov2l-?f Columbus, Ga. WANTED! \ ill li 1 LBS. oi TALLOW, for which a liberal price will be paid. Apply to F. W. DILLARD, sp7 tt Major and Q. M. Wanted f rO HIRE—Four or Five able bodied Negroes.— 1 Good wagi-s riven. Apply at our Government V ociatf JOHN D. GRAY & CO. wanted, A GOOD BUSINESS MAN, uutil the first of A January. The best wages paid. A disabled sol dier preierred. and it matters not how badly muti lated b\ wounds so lie has firmness and judgment. Apply at the TIMES OFFICE. nov 30 ts SSOO Howard X S~ TOLEN out of my stable, 2 miles from Columbus, on the Crawford road, on Thursday night last, TWO MULES, one a small bay mare Mule, blind in the right eye. The other a black mare Mule, medium size, with wbith 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 Mules. H M. CLEOKLEY. Columbus, Ga., Nov. 9, 1864 —ts Sun please copy. WAITED. 1 A j; 1 BUSHELS CORN, for which we will pay 1U ' cash or exchange Salt, nov 126 t JEFFERSON & HAMILTON. and Enquirer copy. Dollars Reward. STRAYED from my place in Wynnton, a dark bay mare MULE, about nine years old, hair rubbed off oi both hips and a large scar on the right hiudquarter. JOHN COOK. _oc 1 i t‘ 950 Howard. V EGRO boy CHARLEY ; about 25years old, yel 4. lew complexion, hair nearly straight, below or dinary mtelii ence : left Mr. Nat. Thompson’s near Box Sprang.- T.t .0 ounty. I bought him of a a rctugoe irom Mississippi, who now resides ui Tuskegee, 41a. He originally came from Charleston. S '. A suitable reward will be paid deliver- at this office, or in any safe jail and information -en to me at this office. IV,lam , , • J , AMKS M - KUSSELL. VOL. Xl.} A PROCEAHATION BY JOSEPH E. BROWN, ! GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA. STATE OF GEORGIA, ) 1 Executive Department, > Milledgeville, Nov. 19, 1864. J 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 lrom their homes 1 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 j must rally to the field for the present emergency or j the State is overrun. I there'ore by virtue of the authority vested in j 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 be plain and indisputable, or they must be sent to camp for examination, and except thoße engaged in the Legislature or Judicial Departments of the govroument. whch are by the recent act of the'L■ gislature 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) 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 required 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 Mid-de-ftimp, 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. 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 tor 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-Cump 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. Each paper in the State will publish the above Proclamation. nov 22 It. CbNFEDKRATB STATES OF AMERICA, ) 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. 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. Fifth— Date of assignment to Ordnance duty.’: Sixth.— The authority by which assigned, furnish ing date, and ifpossible, oopy of order of assgnment 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 eod4w CTiief of Ordnance. PERRY HOUSE. THE 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 well known and worthy friend Mr. EDWARD PARSONS, late of Atlanta, Ga., whose reputation and superior t ict 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 tbe t ravel ing public generally, to give us a call and an oppor tunity of rendering them oomfortable. oc 15 lm* THQS. E. SMITH. Executor’s Hotice. I’WO months after date application will be ma te to the Court of Ordinary of Taylor county, for leave to sell the Negroes and perishable property of the Estate of Elizabeth T ANARUS; Johnson, deceased, late of said county. SAMUEL K. JOHNSON, Ex’r Oct. 20w2m* Per THQS. D. BRAND. A GOOD PLANTATION For Sale. IN Maoon county, Alabama, lying directly on the Montgomery and West Point Railroad. The tract contains 1,200 acres—about 700 cleared, f here is a comfortable Dwelling House on the plac ood Negro cabins with brick chimnies and all the neces sary out-buildings. The land is productive and location desirable. Possession given in November. For further iuform.tion ' oc 27 lm Cblumbus, Ga. «®~Telegraph k Confederate, Macon; Montgo mery Advertiser; Cbnstitutionalis, Augusta, copy. Notice to Debtors aud Creditors ALL'persons having claims against the estate of Mrs, L. ;E. Cairnes, dec’d, late of Muscogee county, are hereby notified to render them duly au thenticated within the time prescribed by law; and those indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment. F-O. TICKNOR, dec 9 w4od -Adm’r. For Sale. By R. J. BRITT, 114, Broad Street. O A BOXES fine Tobacco, OU Large lot Cotton Cards, Soda, Pepper and Spice, Smoking Tobacco, (10 eases) Pad-Locks, Brier Root and Clay Pipes, 100 Bushels Shelled Corn, to arrive this week, Bar and Toilet Soaps, Tin and Cedar Ware, Confederate Crockery, Jars, Bowles, etc. dec 7 dAw2t LARGE CONSIGNMENT OF LETTER PAPER! AND HEIVIORAN DTH BOOKS ! For sale by J. K. REDD k GO. •• 12 ts COLUMBUS, GA., TUESDAY, DEC. 13, 1864. SPECIAL NOTICES To tbe Citizens of Columbus ! Having announced myself a candidate for re-elec- ! tion for Mayor of the city, since which time a pod- ! tion of my fellow citizens calling upon me to take j command of them under the recent call of our Gov- , ernor, to aid in repelling the enemy against our j homes and families— not feeling dspo3ed to reject i their request—l h tve 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 j next Mayor. Mr. R. L. Bas . who goes with me to Jthe front, declines beiug at* indidate for Mayor, in my favor for which he will please accept my thanks. nov 29 5t F. G. WILKINS. Headquarters Conscript Service, ) Georgia, Augusta, Ga., Doc. 2d, 1864. J Circular, [ No. 26. J Enrolling Offieersiof this State are hereby instruc ted not to interfere, uutil further orders, with As sessors and Collectors of Tax in Kind. JNO. F. ANDREWS. Major and Acting Commandant dec 11 6t of Conscpripts for Georgia. Exchange Notice—JXo. 13. Richmond, December 1, 1864. 1. All Confederate officers and men who have been delivered by the Federal authorities at jany place, priorto November 25th, 1864, are hereby declared to be exchanged. 2. All officers and men of tbe Vicksburg capture of July 4th, 1863, who reported at any parole camp, either East or West of the Mississippi river, at any time prior to November Ist, 1864, are hereby de c ared to be exchanged. Ro. OULD, dec 11 6t Agent of Exchange. OFFICE CHIEF QUARTERMASTER, ) Military Division op the West, >• Montgomery, Dec. 3, 1864. J AlFofficors in the Quartermaster’s Department in this Military Divisien, will report by letter to the Chief Quartermaster of this Division, stating, first, rank ; second, date of commission ; third, date of assignment to quartermaster duty; and fourth, the authority by which assigned, furnishing date, land if possible copy of orders of assignment, and where on duty. This report is casted for in pursuance of Circular orders from the Quartermaster General, as all such offioers who have become detached from their commands to which they were originally ap pointed and assigned, will be dropped in pursuance of General order No. 70, Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, series 1863, unless reassigned byjj a special order of the Secretary of War. E. WILLIS, dec 9 4t Chief Quartermaster. HO FOR 4TLAKTA! The Southern Express Company will receive freight (under forty pounds each package) and . money parcels for Atlanta via Macon A: Western Railroad, from this date. S. H. HILL, dec 6 ts . Agent. OFFICE SOUTHERN FXPdSSS, Columbus, Ga., Oct., 29,1864. ]VTO Freight will be received at the Southern Ex 1* 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 4 I A o’clock pu. oc 29 ts S. H. HILL, Agent. Marshall Holpital, ) Columbus, Ga., 10th December. } notice! All having claims against the Hospital for hire of servants, are requested to call for payment. T. A. MEANS. dec 10 3t jSurgeon in Charge. Sun oopy. Lost Trunk, SHOO Reward. t IN SATURDAY night, the 19th November, at the * / depot in Macon, aLE ATHER 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. To Printers ! TffE offer for sale a complete BOOK BINDERY, »V (exceptßul ng Machine,) two hand PRESSES, and about 1,000 Pounds of Type Meta!. nov2l-tf Headquarters Gov. Works, (Ord.) I Oolumnus, Ga., Deo. 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 Divis'on 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 e«.d2w 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 Po3t. S. Isidore Guillet, Post Adj’t. nov 29 5t Stop tlie Horse Tihef*! SSOO 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 <fc CO. dec 2 4t Notice to Debtors and Creditors ALL persons having claims against the estate of Joseph W. Woolfolk, dec’d, late of Muscogee county, are hereby notified to render them duly authenticated within the time prescribed by law; those indebted to said estate are requested to m? xe immediate payment. WM. G. WOOLFOLK, nov 23, 1864—w40d Adm’r. Lard nr ANTED in exchange for Sheetings, Osnaburgs and Yarns, at the nov slm EAGLE FACTORY. Confederate Tax Notice. I SHALL eomnenee on Monday next. stli inst.. collecting all Taxes that are due tbe Confederacy, Tax payers xuustcQme up promptly and pay, or the j penalty of the law will be visited upon them. There are now many delinquents on their Quarterly Sales i Tax. Mr. Green, or myself, will at all times be ready to receive the money. J. A. L. LEE, dec 5 3t : Collec or 41st Dist. FOR SALeT ! TWO FINE BREED SOWS to sell or exchange x for pork. Apply at Sherman * Co’s, up stairs l in Masonic building. dec 6 ts FOR SALE. ASJfA LL 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, Ac. For terms apply to Mrs. J. A. JONES, ■ iee-stf near Columbi*. Monday Evening. The Situation in Mississippi. The Clarion of the Bth says: The situation in this State is exciting and critical. A few thousand Yankee cavalry are marching through the Southern connu.es of the State, destroying everything along their lino of march. Thus far, they have met with very little resistance. Col. Scott, with a small force, hag been harrassing their front and rear, but has been unable to check their pro gress. On Monday morning they burned Col umbia on Pearl river, and started east, march ing in three columns—one on the St. Carmel road, one on the lower Mobile road, and the other on the straight road to Shnbata. It was thought they would cross Leaf river at Windham’s Ferry, about eleven miles below Ellieville, strike the Mobile road somewhere near Shubuta. Clanton’s brigade was sent down to meet them last evening, and other troops will be hurried forward at once. Re inforcements are being sent by rail to this point from all parts of the district, and in twenty four hours we will have Confederate and State troops # enough here to defend the place against any attack from this force. The enemy will probably tap the railroad to-day, and then move up towards Meridian and pass around on the Southern railroad to Vicksburg. Every man connected with the army at this post has been ordered to take a gun, and we hope that every exempt will promptly enroll himself for organization. The time has come when all men capable of carrying a gun should rush to arms. Let there be no sneaking or shirking from duty. Our homes are here and must be defended. Railroad communication between Meridian and the North, East and West, must be maintained. Let every man and boy take up his gun, and as the enemy approach, move out to the creeps and moun tains and stay their progress. Much good can be done in this way. [Correspondence Memphis Appeal.] Letter from Georgia. Macon, Dec. 8, 1864. Editors Appeal: I have just seen (6 p. m.) and conversed with a gentleman who left Sa vannah on Monday, and Thomasville on Tues day, bringing the latest reliable news from Eastern Georgia. He states that Gen. Sherman left 15,000 men at Waynesboro’, who are fortifying there, and that with two columns 15,000 strong, he is marching down the Ogeechee ; that he left the Central road between stations Nos. 5 and 6, and at last accounts was within a few miles of station No 1J on the F. A. and G. railroad, evidently intending to give Savannah the go by and make his egress by way of Darien. Gen. Hardee with a respectable force is in his front, contesting every inch of ground ; but it is feared his numbers are insufficient, and that, after all, the vandals will escape. A equal to that under Hardee is at Augus ta, and is probably two or three times larger than is needed for its defense. Thus this wily strategist loaves fifteen thou sand to menace Augusta, while he marches off with twenty-five thousand, thereby com pelling us to divide our forces. Simultane ously with this the demonstration is made against the Charleston and Savannah road at Honey Hill, by which our forces are still fur ther divided, relieving the pressure which might otherwise be brought to bear upon the retreating foe. The escape of the 25,000 accomplished, the 16,000 will, on some dark night, take a silent departure, and by a rapid march endeavor to make their escape also, in all probability, by the same route, although it is understood they talk about crossing the Savannah and going out through South Carolina. The people of Savannah and vicinity are reported in a somewhat demoralized condition, notwithstanding they do not feel seriously apprehensive of a visit. It is to be hoped, Mr. Editor, that the skill ful generals, brave, intrepid, troops opposed to the vandal horde will yet defeat the pur poses of its savage leader and utterly destroy it. But should Sherman and his cruel and infamous barbarians escape capture oi de struction, it will, although to be regretted; af ford some consolation to know that they are off Georgia soil, and, after all the time, treas ure and blood expended to gain Atlanta and a foothold in Georgia, they have had to relin quish their conquests, and that the lines now stand nearly as they did this time in 1862, with their work to do over again. O. K. Tennessee—Georgia. The United States papers of the 30th, ex tracts from which vve give elsewhere, con tain nothing later from Hood than appeared in the papers of the previous day. “ The wires are down,” south of Nashville, they say. This is a significant sign. “ The wires are down” is an old story, that save the trouble of telling disagreeable things. We under stand it to mean, on the present occasion, that Thomas is down, too, and that Hood is prospering. The story that Hood was whipped on the 26th in attempting to cross the Duck river, is an afterthought to the late news, and, as the New York Herald confesses, harmonizes but indifferently with Thomas' retreat twen ty-five mile3 back! A singular victory, to have such a recoil! The correspondent of the New York Times speculates as follows concerning Hood’s fu ture plans. When the wires get up again or when Hood gets up to the wires, we shall learn more. “Washington, Nov. 29.—Hoods movements in Tennessee seem to reveal the intention of making his way into East Tennessee. The line on which he i3 moving would indicate an attempt to turn Nashville on the East side and make hia way to form a junction with Breck inridge. It is believed that he will then es say the capture of Knoxville, which will give him railroad communication by way of East Tennessee and the Virginia valley with Lynch burg and Richmond. The successful issue of Sherman’s move will have severed communication between the two main rebel armies, and Hood’s present campaign seems to be directed toward secur ing such communication by the line mention ed. Hood’s army in this case would be in position to join Lee’s, should this move be come advisable. From Georgia, the United States papers, of ’ the 30th, have not a word. They say the reb el papers are telling nothing, and they have no olher source of information. They put into the mouth cf Hon. Roger A. Pryor, whom tboy are exhibiting in the principal cities, sundry statements and speculations which are but inventions of their own. They sar be ad mitted that Sherman has captured Macon and Milledgeville, and that there was little, if anv ! doubt, from the rapid progress he was mak- \ ing, that he had captured Augusta; and that J FIVE’DOLLARS \ fPER MOUTH. he would encounter nothing serious to impede his march to the seaboard ; that with Augusta in his possession, the Southwest would be cut off from Richmond, and that no troops could be sent from Lee to reinforce Savannah. [Telegraph $ Confederate. Atlanta as left by the Enemy—Report of General Howard. Atlanta, Qa., December Tth, 1864. To His Excellency, Jos-. E, Brown, Governor of Georgia: In obedieuce to orders of November 25th, to inspect the State property in Atlanta, and the city itself, and protect the same, I have the honor to make the following report. With it, I beg leave to present your Excellency with a pencilled map of the city, showing the posi tion of every house left unburued. The property of the State was destroyed by fire, but a vast deal of valuable material re mains in the ruins. Three-fourths of the bricks are good, and will be suitable for re building if placed under shelter before freez ing weather. There is a quantity of brass in the journals ofburned cars and in the ruins of the various machinery of the extensive rail road shops ; also, a valuable amount of per from the guttering of the State depot, the flue-pipes of destroyed engines, stop cocks of machinery, <Scc., &c. The car wheels that were uninjured by fire were rendered useless by breaking the flanges. In short, every species of machinery that was not destroyed by fire, was most ingeniously broken and made worth less in its original form—the large steam boil ers, the switches, the frogs, &c. Nothing has escaped. The fire engines, except Tallulah No. 3, were sent North. Tallulah has been overhauled and anew company organized. Nos. 1 and 2 fire engiue houses were saved. All the city pumps were destroyed, except one on Marietta street. The car shed, the depots, machine shops, foundries, rolling mills, mer chant mills, arsenals, laboratory, armory, &c., were all burned. In the angle, between Hunter street, com mencing at the City Hall, running east, and McDonough street, running south, all houses were destroyed. The jail and calaboose were burned. All business houses, except on Ala bama street, commencing with the Gate City Hotel, running east to Loyd street, were burn ed. All the hotels, except the Gate City, were burned. By referring to my map, you will find about four hundred houses standing. The scale of the map is four hundred feet to one inch. Taking the car-shed for the centre, de scribe a circle, the diameter of which is twelve inches, and you will perceive that the circle contains about three hundred squares. Then, at a low estimate, ailow three houses to every four hundred feet, and we will have thirty-six hundred houses in the circle. Subtiact the number of houses indicated on the map, as standing, and you will see by this estimate, the enemy have destroyed thirty-two hundred houses. Refer to the exterior of the circle, and you will discover that it is more than half a mile to the city limits, in every direction, which was thickly populated, say nothing of the houses beyond, and you will see that the enemy have destroyed from four to five thou sand houses. Two-thirds of the shade trees in the Park and the city, and of the timber in the suburbs have been destroyed. The suburbs present to the eye one vast, naked, ruined, de- I serted camp. The Masonic Hall is not burned, though the corner stone is badly scar red by some thief, who would have robbed it of its treasure, but for the timely interference of some mystic brother. The City Hall is damaged but not burned. The Neoond Baptist, Second Presbyterian, Trinity and Catholic churches and all the residences adjacent between Mitchell and Peter streets running south of east, and Loyd and Washington strcati run ning south of west, are safe, all attributable to Father O’Riley, who refused to give up his parson age to Yankee officers, who were looking out fine houses for quarters, and there being a large num ber of Catholics in the Yankee army, who vol unteered to protect thoir Church and Parsonage, and would not allow any houses adjacent to be fired that would endanger them. Asa proof of their attachment to their Church and leve for Fa ther O’Riley, a soldier who attempted to fire Col. Calhoun’s house, the burning of which would have endangered the whole block was shot and killed, and his grave is marked. So to Father O’Riley the country is indebted for the protection of the City Hall, Churches, Ac. Dr. Quintard’s Protestant J/ethodist, the Chris tian and African churches were destroyed. All other churches were saved. The Medical College was saved by Dr. D. Alvigny who was left in charge of our wounded. The Female College was torn down for the purpose of obtaining the brick with which to construct winter quarters. All in stitutions of learning were The Afri can church was used as an academy for educating negroes. Roderick Badger, a negro Dentist, and his brother Bob Badger, a train hand on the West : Point & LaGrange Railroad, both well known to j the citizens of Atlanta, were assistant pro'essors i to three philanthropic Northman in this instita ! tion. Very few negroes remained in the city.— Thirteen 33 pound cannon, with eascables and trunions broken off and jammed in the muz zles, remnin near the Georgia Railroad shop. On# well reported to be filled with ammunition. Frag ments of wagons, wheels, axles, bodies, <fcc., Ac., are strewn over the city. Could I have arrived ten days earlier, with a guard of one hundred men, I could have saved the State aud city a million of dollars. there were about two f hundred and fifty wag ons in the city on my arrival loading with pilfered plunder, pianos, mirrors, furntture of all kinds, iron, hides without number, and au incalculable amount of other things, very ’■aluable at the pres ent time. This exportation of stolen property had been going on #v*r since the place had been aban doned by the enemy. Bushwhackers, robbers and deserters, and citizens from the surrounding coun try for a distance of fifty miles have been engaged in this dirty work. Many of the finest houses mysteriously left un burned are filled with the finest furniture, carpets, piones, mirrors, Ac., and occupied by parties, who six months ago lived in humble style. About fifty families remained during the occupancy of the city by the enemy and about the same num ber have returned since its abandonment. From two to three thousand dead carcasses of animals remain in the city limits. Horses were turned loose in the Cemetery to graze upon the grass and shrubbery. The orna ments of graves, such as marble lambs, miniature statuary, souvenirs of departed little ones, are broken and scattered abroad. The crowning act of all their wickedness and villainy was commited by oar ungodly foe in removing the dead from the vaults in the cemetery and robbing the coffins of the silver name plates, and tippings, and de positing their own dead in the vaults. I have the honor to be, respectfully Your obed ent servant, W. P. Howard. Thomasyille. —We are glad to learn, says the | Savannah News, that Capt. C. W. West, A. C. S., j has been assignei to duty at Thomasville It is timely and will be a great relief to the people of j that town, who have had heavy demands upon them for some time past. We are sorry to learn that a few bad men have committed outrages upon the citizens of that place. We have now before us a letter from a highly respectable citizen, ask- j ing that a provost guard be stationed there to pro tect the people and tbeir property. The letter also mentions the important fact that there are some fifty sick soldiers there, being cared for by citizens, who are almost entirely out of anytning , to feed them with. A Hospital or TV avside Home is gready needed there at this time. TV ill not the proper authorities of 'be Hospital and Relief As sociation, look to this matter at once r TELEGRAPHIC. MP >rts or tu puuss association. Km r#d vcoording to act of Congress in the year \> 3. >y J. S. Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office of to*: jvstrict Court of the Confederate State# to the Northern District of Georgia. LATEST FROM lIOOIVS ARMY. Official Pispatch from Gov. Harris* Special to the Memphis Appeal.] Headquarters Army of Tbnnksskb, near Nashville, Dec 5, via Bartow and Mobile, Dec. 10.—We pursued and overtook the enemy at Franklin, where he had that morning thrown up one line of breastworks and had com menced two others. The enemy evidently intended to hold per manently the line of Franklin Murfrees boro’. We attacked him in position about 4 o’clock p. m., and successively carried their two outer lines. At dark, we had reached and stood upon the outer edge of their interior and last line of works, where the fight continued until 11 o’clock. We held our position during the night, ex pecting to renew the fight in the morning, but unfortunately, under cover of the darkness, about 12 o’clock, the enemy retreated, leaving his killed and wounded on the field. We were unable to use our artillery on ac count of the presence of the women and chil dren in the town. We massed about one hundred pieces of ar tillery that night to open on the enemy at day light, expecting the non-combatants to have been gotten out before day. We have lost an unusually large proportion of officers. Gens. Cleburne, Granburry, Adams, Strahl and Gist were killed. Gens. Brown, Quarles, Carter and Scott were wounded. We have captured about thirteen hundred prisoners, and have picked up on the battle field about six thousand stand of arms. We have also captured a large number of colors. We have also captured four locomotives aud trains, and are running the Tennessee and Alabama railroad. Other trains are cut off, which we hope soon to have in our possession. About five thousand of the enemy are cut off at Murfreesboro’. The array is in fine health and excellent spirits, and confident of success. The people are delighted and enthusiastic at our advance. Isham G. Harris. Siege of Charleston— Five Hundred and Fifteenth Day. —The agreement between the Commissioners of exchange on both sides for a suspension of all firing in the harbor and upon the city during the continuance of the exchange of prisoners at this point, was unin tentionally violated by a sharpshooter at Fort Sumter Monday. The arrangement was not to include the intervals in the exchange of prisoners, and the order to the garrison was to cease firing only during flag of truce com munications. One of our men observing a body of men at Gregg, fired his rifle, the ball taking effect upon one of the party, and, it is believed, killing him. The enemy thereupon opened all their batteries upon Fort Sumter, and kept up a heavy fire for about an hour, firing twenty-six shots. As soon as possible the mistake was rectified by Col. Hatch, and an apology tendered by Captain Huguenin, which was accepted as satisfactory by the enemy. The enemy also fired a few shots at the same time at our batteries on James 13- land.— Courier , 6th. ♦ » * Several hundred Yankee prisoners arrived here this morning by the Alabama and Mississippi Railroad. We suppose this is the first installment of the large captures made by Forrest and Hood’s army, recently. These are the hardest looking cases that have ever passed through here. [Selma Dispatch. mm • Consumptive's Reply. BY GEO. D. PRENTICE. It is difficult to imagine how so bad a man as he is represented to be could write so smothly—so solemnly: Yes, dear one, lam dying. Hope at times Has whispered to me in her syren tones. But now alas ! I feel the tide of life Fast ebbing from my heart. I know that soon The green and flo wry curtain of the grave Will close as softly areund my fading form As the calm shadows of the evening hour? Close o’er the fading stream. Oh 1 there are times When my heart’s tears gush wildly at the Thought, that in the fresh, young morning Tide of life, I must resign my breath. To mo The earth is very beautiful. I love its flowers, Its birds, its dews, its rainbows, its glad Streams, its vales, its mountains, its green Waving woods, its moonlight clouds, its sunsets, And its soft and dewy twilight; and I needs Must mourn to think that I shall pass away, Away, and see them nevermore. Weak and low My pulse of life is fluttering at my heart, And soon ’twill cease forever. These faint Words are the last echoes of the spirit’s chords Stirred by the breath of memory. Bear me, love, I pray thee, to yon open window now, That I may look once more on nature’s face And listen to her gentle music tone, Her holy voice of love. How beautiful, How very beautiful, are the earth and sea, And the o’er arching sky, to one whose eyes Are soon to close upon the scenes of time 1 I ne’er before Beheld the earth so green, the sky so blue, The sunset and the stars of eve so bright, And soft, and beautiful. I never felt The dewy twilight breeze so calm and fresh Upon my cheek and brow; I never heard The melodies of wind, and bird, and wave h all with such sweetness on the ear. I know That Heaven is fuli of glory, but a God Os love and mercy will forgive the tears Wrung from the fountain of my frail young heart, By the sad thought of parting with the bright And lovely things of earth. Funeral ffotlce. The friends and acquaintances of Mr. Richard Hunter and Mrs. Anna C. Hunter, are requested to attend the funeral of their only child, Sallih A. Hunter, at the residence of Maj. H. T. Hall, at 10 o’clock, to-morrow morning. FOR CHATTAHOOCHEE AND BAINBRIDGE. The Steamer Shamrock, H. Wingate, master, will leave for the above and intermediate landings, Wednesday morning at 9 o’clock. dec 11 td lld’qrs Camp of Instruction for Ga., ) Camp Cooper, Macon, Dec. 10,1804, J Special Orders, 1 No. 330. / [Extract.] ******* 111. As communication with Col. Wm.M. Brown. Commandant of Gonscripts, is re-established, special order number 321, par. 9, from these headquarters is hereby revoked. A. M. ROWLAND. dec 11 5t Major and Commandant. Wanted, AT Lee Hospital, the lpt of January, ten able bodied NEGROES, men and women. A, D. BRIDGMAN, dec II ts Steward. To Hire, POR next year, a first rate Cook. Washer and F Ironer. She is faithful.,ud h-.nest and'free from incumbrance. Apply at THIS OFFICE declltt Wauled. >OO 000 TIMBER, in plaak or -VO.VUO 1% inch, or by the cord. Arr!y at our Government Works. “ 7 dec26t JOHN GRAY A 0. •