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DAILY TIMES.
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I. W. WARRBX, - - - Editor.
COLUMBUS:
Wednesday Morning, December 14,18G4.
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* No News.— Owing t» th* fact that we received
hut two exchanges yesterday, one from Macon and
one from Tallahassee, our paper this morning i 8
unusually barren of news. From the Tallahassee
paper we learn that a cavalry force of the enemy
had struck the Albany and Gulf road at King’s
bridge and destroyed that bridge. If this be tiue
it will account for the non-reception of Savannah
and other eastern papers for several days, and we
fear will prove to us a scri tu Inc tr -nience. Bui
as arrangements have been maue to run a mail
from Augu-itaio Macon via Eatontou and Mil
ledgevilie, we trust we shall soon be again in com.
munication with our trans-SaVannah friends. We
are totally in the dark as to the present move
ments and operations of Sherman and our own op
posing forces, but trust our suspense will be short.
Meanwhile our readers must remain quiet, and
hopeful.
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Rrsolutiojn vs. Resolutions. — rfotne men
will be known in history, says the Raleigh
Confederate, for their resolution , others for
their resolutions. ** lion. Linton 11. Stephens,
ot Hancock county, Georgia, is one of the last.
His are long enough for a tail to a good s zed
kite, to steady it in a high wind. We do not
know a more profitable use to which tney
could be applied.
General Orders No. 84 authorizes “retired
soldiers who may enter any university, col
1, ~ jo‘. >o »V iw ,v ieir rations ir kind
at the nearest post.”
By order from the yunkee commander at
'Vicksburg, dated the 13th October, the whole
peninsula on the Mississippi known as Davis’
bend, including, the three islands known as
“Hurricane,” “Palmyra” and “Big Black, ’ is
reserved for military purposes, and will be
exclusively devoted to the colonization and
support of freedrnen. This, including the
plantations of President Davis and brother.—
The previous order from the Secretary of War
excepts tbe Quitman and Turner plantations.
A Platform for ail Georgiani.
The resolutions below were to have been of
fered Friday in the House of Representatives
by Hon. Joseph B. Jones, of Burke. They
■breath, says the Augusta Constitutionalist,
the true spirit. We sincerely trust they will
pass the General Assembly without opposi
tion. The triumph of Mr. Lincoln mattes us
a united people. Let past differences be for
gotten. Our great leaders, Stephens, aud
Toombs, and Brown, aud Cobb, and Davis,
and Hill, and others who have hitherto hon
estly differed among themselves as to the beet
mode of conducting the war, and obtaining an
honorable peace; may now, and doubtless will
forget and forgive the past, and unite in one
common and patriotic purpose to defeat the
common enemy :
Whereas, William H. Seward, Secretary of
State of the United States, in his Auburn
speech, just before the late Northern Presi
dential election, pronounced the peace parly
at the North to be but a pusilanimous faction,
and. speakiug for the administration of Mr
Lincoln, declared in advance the purpose of ;
the Federal Government'to prosecute this war j
to the bittei*end, to wage it upon the present |
and past policy of Mr. Lincoln, will) itsEnuan- j
cipation Proclamation, enlistment of negroes, !
and with all its oilier abominations ; Andi
whereas, Mr. Seward, representing his master,
the President of the United States, proclaimed
it to he the unalterable purpose of the Gov
ernment at Washington never to treat with
rebels with arms in their hands, thereby
spurning ail our honest efforts for peace, and
treating, with the utmost contempt, all reso
lutions of former Legislatures of Southern
States, an l all messages of the Governors of
those States, wherein an earnest desire was
expressed to settle onr difficulties with the
Uni:? and States by negotiations, by diplomacy, ;
lev a convention of all the States in their sov- i
ereign capacities, or by Commissioners up- j
pointed by the Governments of the Oonfeder* j
ate-aml of the United States respectively, an 1 ;
to avoid the devastations and horrors of this
present unjust and cruel war by an earnest
and -candid appeal to rhe pen of the statesman, j
rather than by a further and sole reliance up- I
on the sword of the warrior; And whereas, I
the late overwhelming defeat of Gen. McClellan I
amt the ' riumph of Lincoln, by majorities un
precedented in the history of Presidential i
elec um- thereby proving that the principles \
of the Peace Party at the North, ns set forth \
in the Cbicag? Platform, are repudiated with j
scuru by n vast majority of Northern voters, j
have destroyed alt present hope of an early i
sett,lenten* of onr difficulties with the United j
States ei*her through commissioners ap- !
poimed l*y the Governments ot Richmond and i
Washington, upon the basis of the indepen
dence of the Confederate St a tvs, or through
separate State action by a convention or all
the St ites, upon the has;s of the independence
and siu'creignty ot the several States; and i
whereas, the late call of Mr. Lineolu for au- i
other million ot men to prosecute the war, j
proclaims in him a purpose to end the war
t nlv io the reduction of the Southern States j
composing the Confederacy to worse than pro- j
v iu<_;is.-sluge, in the devastation of our
homes with Ere and sword, in the prostration j
of or.v civi and religious liberties, the de
striveti-.n of *ur civilization, in tn; utter, de
inofn ot Suite rights, and in the erection
of a vast and colossal ceutialized power p-nd
military despotism upon tit® ruins of the lib
erties id the descendants or Washington, of
Madison, of Troup, and their compatriots,and
in : i xattauou of himself and minions to
tie ttu tyiautsand oppressors of a free people.
Therefore, the General Assembly of the
'vmeigii State *>t Georgia do resolve:
f-»!. Tr»i«* although tsie State ot Georgia has j
been, and now !?, sincerely desirous of peace, i
and although she Dus been, and now is, earn- j
est and honest in tier efforts to obtain it upon i
honorable terms, the time bus arrived when ;
it v, -,e> ,’y becomes *hc State of Georgia <o j
r. new to the Confederate States, and to her
fiifvr sovereign Sinus of the Confederacy,
nose so'eitiii ffOWS wilsi Viliich we ehterdd up
on this unjust aud cruel war, whereby we
pledged “our lives, oar lortuces, and our sn
ort i honor” to stand firmly to our arms un
fit the independence of the Confederate States
is acknowledged, and the sovereignty of the
gerpral States is placed upon an enduring ba
-2d. That it also emim titiy beco.v s the peo
ple of the Confederate States, in order to pre
sen' t united front to our common enemy, to
bear and forbear with one another wherever ;
n. si. differences of opinion exist as to the
Ik hi i'L of carrying on the war, or ot seen- j
ting an honorable peace.
3 t v put q etßuestij col uuou G o Govt ro-*
ors .in-.i Legislatures ot tbe si vi ral .matei-, aUu ,
the I’?* anient, aud Congress ot the Confeder
ate Slates, and upon all the people of these
Sotitheru Stales, to join heart and hand with
one purpose, with one determination to meet
ihe invader upon our thresholds, and drive
him back, and with one untalteriutr, uncon
qucrubl* resolve to die freemen, rather than
io live slaves.
Five hundred tons of .-hills ana cannon balls
‘nave been taken out of the watet in Frederica
harbor, DcmbarV, and a large quantity yet re-
The Atrocities of the Enemy.
The long i i.erriole senes of atrocities in
which our e jemies have indulged in each aud
every one or their numerous invasions of our
territory, have frequently suggested the in
quiry whether we oi the Confederacy should
regard these outrages as a legitimate part ot
civilized waiiare, and submit to them as the
necessary incidents of a stale ot hostilities, or
whether we do not owe it to ourselves and
our wronged and rumed countrymen and wo
men to inflict upon those who indulge in such
barbarous practices a fearful and bloody ret
ribution.
The people of the United States claim to be
a civilized naiioD, and to be amenable to those
laws of nations recognized by the governments
of the world ; yet they treat us as though we
were wild beasis and savages, aod refuse us
the benefit of those laws which have been re
cognized as just, by all Christum people aud
which were adopted to relieve war of some
of is fio.Tors and to protect' mm-combatahts
and the defenceless from its fury.
It is no part of civilized warfare to destroy
private property, tijsul! women, or desolate
the home ot those not engaged iu actual hos
tilities ; y .:L our enemies are uniformly found
engaged in these enormities. They rob,
burn, instill afid destroy in shoe’ wantonness,
and the march of their armies c n be tracked
by blackened hearthstones arid ruined homes.
Behind them the cries of starring helplessness
aid insulted i hasity ascend to meet the God
of justice id ihe air loaded with imprecations
upon the destroyers and imploring retribution
lor their sins. But the infidel crew who per
petrate these horrors are not influenced by
considerations of punishment beyond the
grave ; only their craven fears of chastisement
here will Uaeh them the’dauger of trampling
upon the- rights of those who have not the
powei to resist.
The evil complained of is growing in mag
nitude, and becoming daily more and more
intolerable. The recent heartless devastation
of vhe Valley of the Shenandoah, is yet fresh
in the minds of all Their own account
claims the destruction of over four of
do]’ worth of property, and the half wawiiot
tnea tola. A fertile territory, peopled by a
prosperous, intelligent and Christian people,
defenseless and helpless, was doomed to des
truction, by a heartless and despotic yankee
commander; and that valley, which so lately’
was blooming like the rose, is now an awful
scene of devastation. Crops were destroyed,
barns and houses burned, cattle killed and
driven off, old age insulted, females outraged,
and the work of devastation made complete.
We are now told that Gen. Sherman, before
his departure from Atlanta, ordered a similar
system of war to be carried out iu East Ten
nessee, and we ipresutne that the minions of
Federal power are even now execuling the
devilish workassigne 1 them.
These two notable instances of Yankee bar
barity are cited merely as an illustration of
the practices uniformly indulged by our ene»
mies. The records of the war are crowded on
every page with the evidences of the heartless
wickedness and atrocious barbarity of the
Yankee invaders
The question to which we desire to call at
tention is, whether we Bhall submit to the
lash so ruthlessly laid upon or
whether we shall inaugurate an inexorable
and implacable system of retaliation ? The
practices of which we complain o not belong
to any recognized system of legitimate war
fare. They are the characteristics of savages
and wild beasts, and those who practice them
put themselves beyond the pale of the courte
sies of war, and should be treated as other
ruffians and other robbers who prey upon the
defenceless, and outrage human laws, and
whose lives are forfeited by their acts.
We maintain that every Yankee soldier
caught in the act of taking or destroying pri
vate property, or oppressing non-combatants
or insulting women, should not be regarded
as prisoners of war, but should be summari
ly swung up on the most convenient limb.—
Let it be officially an bo u need to the Yankee
armies that such will be our policy, and that
there will be no hopes of escape for those
caught in any practices not fairly recognized
by the strictest construction of the usages of
war, and execute the policy thus laid down
without deviation or mercy, and we shall soon
see ti change in the policy of our foes. We
owe it to our own dignity as a people, to the
safety of our defenseless population exposed
to Yankee raids, and to the cause of human
justice, to exact this stern, unshrinking retri a
bulion. Our foes must be taught that if they
will persist in fighting us, they must do it ac
cording to the usages of nations, or we Will be
forced iu self defence to deal with their
people as they deal with ours. And it
may happen that our armies have not made
their last visit to Pennsylvania, Kentucky,
Ohio or Missouri. Our forbearance in our
former invasions of their States has been mis
understood, and unless they desist from their
outrages they must be taught that houses and
crops will burn on their side of the line as
well as on ours. Chattanooga Rebel.
Conscription in France.
From an interesting article in the Temple
Bar Magazine we copy the following:
In France, when a lad arrives at the age of
twenty-one, he is liable to be drafted into the
army. To the poor, fa'e is inexorable ;to the
wealthy she affords u loop bole, a chance of *
escape, in tlm shape of a substitute. Within I
four and twenty hoars of its birth, every in- 1
fatil is carried by its nurse and its father to :
some other relation, to the Mairie, aud there j
its name and sex are duly entered into a va,3t !
volume in the Registry Office. Ir it he a hoy, j
it is followed about by the police all over the j
country. Jeacnot’s parents cannot move from j
one place to another without giving notice to !
the commissaire of his migration ; and when, j
after years of this civic prosecution, be enters j
the threshold of manhood, the luckless lad j
finds himself invited by the Ministry of War j
to present himself at a military bureau.
Too well he knows the meaning cf that
ominous invitation, and with beating heart
and heavy step obeys the summons. He
knows that it must come ; his mother knows
that it must come : Jeannot knows that it 1
must come ; and none the less sorrowful he
goes aud they accompany him to the bureau,
and none the less tearful they behold him de
scending the steps, with the gay colors pinned
to his cap in mockery of his misfortune. For
misfortune it is regarded.
Few, very few Frenchmeu, however valiant
ly they fight on the field, however loudly they
afterwards talk of the glory of arms, rejoice
when they first draw the evil script which
tears them from their home, from their daily
business, from their future career, to run a
will-o'-the-wisp chase after the problematical
marshal’s baton which every French soldier is
told he carries in his knapsack.
If anything could reconcile him t® this lot,
or soften the horrors of this forcible abstrac
tion from bis family, it would be the idea of
promotion—of comparatively easy promotion,
which characterizes the French army ; but
even this fails to cheer, or to compensate him.
for the serious check which his prospects in
i life have received. A cloud has descended
! upon his hopes, upon the delicate little pro
i jects of love and matrimony he has formed ;
and at twenty-one he is compelled to resign
i himself to a‘ barren, if not vicious course of
life he detests, abandoning designs he had
probably cherished from his youth.
Such is the social phase of the conscription. .
Yet 100,000 youths are thus annually torn I
from their homes ; by an imperial decree of j
1857. the number was fixed at this figure, i
Previously it was left at the discretion or ca- 1
price of the War minister, who roi?®d jt. Sub
sntuticn however, is allowed in the French
army. Up to the year 1859 private agencies
i ex i 9 ted where a substitute could be procured
J f 0 i. a stipulated sum j since then, however,
these agencies have been abolished, and the
1 government has entirely monopolized the bus
i iness, with the view of creating a donation
i fund, wherewith to encourage re-enlistment
! when the original term of service has expired.
I The price ot a substitute is fixed annually, and
varies considerably, yet it is at any time a
large Buin tor a youth, ©yen. of the middle
classes, to pay. In 1855, the sum was £ll2 j
1857, £72 ; and in 1862, £92.
i To show how poorly voluntary enlistment
succeeds in France, and bow the true cara-
P tifc ling spirit, is declining, we may record
the fact that, whereas in 1853,8,000 presented
themselves to the recruiting sergeant, not
more than 2,192 displayed their martial zeal
in 1862 ; so little pugnacious is your real
Frenchman if left to himself. No army in the
world offers greater prizes ; and it would not
be fair to the military system of France not to
state that rapid advancement is open to every
soldier, and that no man with superior educa
tion ever remains long in ranks.
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The Work of Subjugation.
M e commend the following article, which we
clip from the New York News, to the attentive
perusal of our people who may be affected with
weakness in the knees :
Some of our cotemporaries do us injustice in
stating that we have made our reviews of the pro
gress of the war in disparagement of the Federal
GeaerMs. The surveys we make from time to
time of the scene of conflict we make as matters
of fact, but do so regardless of all personal pre
dilections, in profound respect and sympathy for
the anxiety with which our readers follow the
fortuni sos armies in their whole hearts are bound
up. So-completely indeed, is the statement of
the Opposition journals unfounded, that we have
been led frequently in our reviews of the conflict
to pas. high encomiums on the dash an i genius
of Farragui .mo Sherman.
The state of he conflict is, however of more
moment than any newspaper misrepresention.—
Some of oui eotemporaries, in condemning our
plain statement of facts, would have the public
believe that the subjugation of the South is mak
ing rapid progress. Let us examine into the truth
of alt that allegation. Last spring the Federal
troops lorded i on the Rio Grande and the shores
of Texas. These lines of invasion are strangers
to their footsteps now. In the beginning of this
year’s campaign, Gen. Banks had to go to the
head of navigation on the Red River to find the
Confederates; he can find them to-day in a few
day’s march oi New Orleans. Steele had to move,
last spring, ore hundred and fifty miles to the
northward to find Southern soldiers, and at this
time they swarui as thick as locusts all around
that city. In Missouri only two weeks ago an army
of twenty-eight thousand Confederates sat eating
the good things of the land in perfect safety, un
der its very nose. That great force is even now
manoeuvering with a view of making a sudden
dash from the luxuriant valley of the Osage, upon
either the political or commercial capital of that
great State. Texas is gone; Louisi na is gone;
Arkansas is gone; and while all this has happened
within six months, we are asked by the Herald
and other city journals to believe that the con
quest of the South is making rapid progress!
In March, Central J/ississippi was under the
heel of Sherman’s advance to the Tombigbee; to
day the troops of the Confederacy sweep up, un
disturbed to almost the guns hat defend the rear
of Vicksburg. Northern Mississippi has passed,
within six mouths, from the domination of troops,
under Dodge or Hurlbut to that of the Confede
rate horsemen under Chalmers. Western Tennes
see, and even the Kentucky part of the peninsula
lying between the Tennessee and Mississipi, know
no sway, outside Paducah, Columbus and Mem
phis, save that of General Forrest. The Memphis
and Charleston Railroad has gone back to the
Confederates. Corinth has, within six months,
changed hands and is now a point of supply for
the army of General Hood. Tuscumbia has gone
back to its owners, and ad of Alabama south of
the Tennessee, with the exception of, perhaps, the
post at Decatur, has reverted to its rightful States
sovereignty. Immense regions that had been
held last spring in Mississippi, in Tennessee, in
Alabama, are thus soon to have been wrested from
the hands of subjugation and placed under contri
bution of men, horses and supplies in the interest
of successful resistance.
In Georgia, the work of subjugation has met
with a peculiar undoing. A line of upwards
of a hundred miles, won at a fearful cost of fife
and limb, had brought Sherman into a village of
Georgia, the “city of Atlanta.” W« were told
that he had “broken the backbone of the rebel
lion,” when suddenly, his triuraphaut army paus
ing in its vain work, is flung back, by a mere
exercise of will, a hundrtd aud fifty miles, to be
gin tho struggle once more in the neighborhood
j of Tennessee.
Hood’s army was at Dalton last April; but it is
| now a hundred and tweuty miles further north.
I Horsemen of the Confederate service are as thick
! as leaves in the woods of Kentucky, and threaten
I to make that State, which has heretofore been
exempt from war, a scene of battle. And thus
has invasion gone back from the heart of Georgia,
not only to the Tennessee, iu fact, but, in pros
j pect to the Ohio.
Eastern Tennessee we held last spring as far as
I the line ot Virginia ; me Confederate troops find,
1 now, ay one to oppose them within even two or
j three days march of Knoxville. In the Valley
■ <>f Virginia, Hunter, a few mouths ago, swept
everything before him to the works covering
I Lyuchburg ; but to day Early is tramping down
; toward the Potomac, with Sheridan tailing back
; before him toward Harper’s Ferry. In May last,
| the Foderal army held the country between the
I Rapidau and the Potomac ; to-day the abandon
i meat of the rail way between Alexandria and Ma
nassas Gap has placed it under the undisputed com
jnand of the Confederates. About five hundred
square miles on the banks of the James River
constitute accessions of territory by the invasion
of Virginia ; but in the Valley and north of the
| Rapidan, the losses of the last few mouths amount
j to four or five thousand square miles.
Resistance stands firm on the James. At all
; others points it has advanced—from Shreveport
:to Now Orleans; from Red River to the Missouri;
| from Central Mississispi to Western Keuluckv ;
I from the Chattahoochee to the Tennessee. Inva
sion has lost hundreds of thousands of square
miles in Louisiana, in Arkansas, in Mississippi,
in Western Tennessee, in Eastern Tennessee, in
Virginia. And j r et with all this overwhelming
evidence to the contrary, the Herald has the
coolness to ask its readers to believe that the
work of subjugation goes bravtdy on !
Position of South Carolina.—The following
resolutions have peen adopted in the lower House
of the South Carolina Legislature now in S; s.-ion at
Columbia:
Resolved, That South Carolina, after many con
servative efforts, having seceded from the United
States, to avoid the degrt dation and ruin of passing
under the dominition of a Government hostile to
the rights and interests of her people, and having
been forced with her confederates into war, is de
termined, with the help'of God, to fight it out to the
accomplishment of a peace of entire independence
for these Confederate States.
Resolved, That the sovereign States composing
the Confederacy of the Confederate States, are not
amenable to the Government of the Confederate
States for their existence, and that any laws passed
by Congress conscribing their officers into the army
es the Confederate States, whe eby the ordinary
operations of the State Governments may be dis
turbed or arrested, are flagrant usurpations, to which
the States should not submit.
Resolved, That by the terms of the Constitution
of the Confeder ito States, Congress ‘‘can make no
law abridging the freedom of the press,” and there
by all legislation by Congress bearing upon either
the material of the press or the persons conducting
it, by which its freedom is abridged, is unconstitu
tional.
Resolved, That the Constitution expressly pre
scribes that “no capitation or other direct tax shall
be laid unless in proportion to the census,” and that
"representation and direct taxes shall be appor
tioned amongst tKe_ States;” any direct taxation,
therefore, which mit gates against these provisions
is plainly unconstitutional.
Resolved, That the institution of African slavery
is exclusively under the jurisdiction and control of
the sovereign States, and any law passed by Con
gress to emancipate a slave in any State, or to ap
propriate money from the Treasury of the Confed
erate States to buy and emancipate slaves, is uncon
stitutional and void.
Resolved, That the Governor of the State of
Sauth Carolina be requested to send to our Sena
tors and Representatives in the Congress of the
Confederate States copies of these resolutions.
Florida Legislature. The Legislature ad
journed last Wednesday night, after a busy session
of sixteen days. The exigencies of the times and
the great expense of board, &0., have considerably
facilitated legislation. We believe, however, that
all matters of importance have been properly ex
amined and considered before action has been taken
uponlthem. Amongst the most important subjects
of legislation may be mentioned the “Act to organ
ize Militia *roops for the State of Florida,” which we
publish to-day in full. The provisions of this Act,
although not perhaps as stringent as they might
have been made, will, nevertheless, produce, we
hope, a more perfect organization of tfc militia and
will secure such organisations of companies as have
already been made.
The act for the relief of soldiers’ families is pretty
much the same as that of last year. The amount
i appropriated for this purpose is $500,000.
Other acts of onT" or le-s importance have been
passed, which we wi.i uotk-e at some futurelume-s
The proceedings ol tne Legislature weie hi-rmoni
i dus, marked wi;h good policy, patriot-sin and an
: earnest desire to do the best for the country.
Gen. Allison presided over the Senate with digni
ty, promptness <md satisfaction to all, at and Col. Dell,
| the Speaker of the House, discharged the duties of
j his position in such a manner as might be expected
| from his ability and experience,
i After the adjournment, on WedntSdaynight.Gov.
; Milton having been requested to address the mem
bers, made a stirring and patriotic address, which
was received with gre t applause. Col. Holland,
the Senator frem Franklin, Ilk. »ise spoke eloquent
ly and well.— Floridian.
Niwspapbes in Alaba -.here are ten
daily and twenty-seven weekly papers in Ala
bama, exempting 163 employees.
Anew book has been published in Paris
called “Paris before Man aud the Universe be
fore Man.” It is a stout octavo volume of
some five hundred pages, and contains pic
tures of the animals that inhabited this earth
ages before the deluge. The book is, in many j
respects, a scientific puzzle, for it gives a good j
deal of sober matter in a very comic dress, and 1
mixes up serious truth with speculation some
thing more than laughable. “One plate rep
resents a fish-like animal with claws and fins,
and a hard tortoise shell upsn its back; an
other gives a frog the size of an elephant—a
pretty thing to hep after a person in a country
lane.” u Ckien gigantesque tersasant un lion"
represents an enormous wolf hound seizing a
lion across the middle as a cat would a mouse ;
plates representing pre-Adamite men and wo
men are still more curious. One Is called
u Derhier Age Palboniologique ” and shows a
man and his wife of the period surrounded by
the snouted and other hideous animals of the
time. Their home is a hole in the side of a
“bluff” or hill, which is reached by a stout
pole after the fashion of an Indian ladder.— j
The woman is outside the cave on a ledge, j
with a stone axe or hammer in her hand. A 1
dog or other di&nestio animal is keeping her j
company. The man is above, one foot on the i
outer branch of a tree, whilst the other is |
stretched backwards, entwined around anoth- '
er branch after the manner of the ringstailed i
monkeys.
mm 9—'
Major General Patrick Cleburne.
The telegraph yesterday brought us the sad
intelligence of the death of this distinguished
officer. He was born near Ballincolig, in Ire
land, and son of a physician. At the age of
fourteen he enlisted in the 41st regiment of
English infantry, and served three*years as a
private. Purchasing his discharge at the end
of this time, he removed to America and set
tled in the State of Arkansas, and commenced
the study and practice of law at Helena. At
the beginning of the war he was elected cap
tain of the company with which he had enlist
ed, and at the organization of the regiment,
he was chosen colonel.
His first experience in Confederate service
was in that portion of the Missouri campaign
conducted by Brigadier Gen. Hardee, where
he occasionally commanded a brigade. After
that force was withdrawn from Missouri and
sent to Columbus and Bowling Green, he was
promoted to a brigadier general, and, after
the battle of Shiloh, was made a major gene
ral. He was about 37 years of age, but looked
much older—his hair having turned gray, and
his face and form generally being lean and
thin. On every battle-field of the west he has
distinguished himself for gallantry, and his
promotion was won by his own merits solely.
He was almost idolized by his men, who
thought him the bravest man in the army of
Tennessee, aud ranked him side by side with
“Stonewall” Jackson. He has sacrificed his
life in behalf of liberty, on a soil that did not
claim his nativity. The Confederacy may well
mourn for him. Columbus (Miss.) Rep.
♦ —
During the recent raid on this place, many
negroes, heretofore considered faithful ser
vants—men, women and children—accompa
nied the Yankees on their return. In great
glee they mounted the stolen horses aud mules
of their owners, and, loaded with plunder,
took their departure for the laud of Abe Lin
coln’s rule.
The vision of the soft rolling carriage, fine
dress, luxurious eating, freedom and equali
ty with their liberators, received the first rude
shock but a few miles from town, when they
were compelled to dismount and trudge through
the mud. Fatigued, hungry and cold, they
strived mightjmd main to keep up with the
mounted apostles of liberty—fear of re-cap
ture by indignant masters stimulating their
fast fading creams of idleness. The weather
became bitter cold, and the negroes suffered
terribly. The first to succumb were the chil
dren, being deserted by their brutish mothers
to perish on the wayside. We hear of one
woman, who, tired of her burden, threw away,
her infant, not a month old, in the wayside
thicket, and left it. We are informed that
twenty-two of these Abe Lincoln milestones
have been found frozen to death’on the roads
travelled by the Yankees on their return, most
ly children.— Broohhaven 7 elegragh.
Tnere is hardly a month in the year the
name of which does not seem to me phoneti
cally expressive of its character. The breath
of cold winds is in every syllable of December,
of January, of February and of March. April
falls from the lips like silvery rain. May is,
of all names, the one which appears best, to
become that beautiful blue-eyed month.
June, sounded with the proper depth of tune,
is exactly like the humming of bees. The
wings of millions of insects buzz in the words
July and August. It may be perhaps, rather
difficult to bear the whistle of an equinoctial
gale in the letters comprising September ;
nevertheless, if the reader has the proper
share of the imaginative faculty, he may de
tect even in them something like the sigh of a
southeaster dying upon the coast. October
has a royal sound about it; it fills the mouth
sonorously, like Plantaganet or Napoleon ;
aud, therefore, fittingly designates a month
that comes to us, clothed like a king, in the
purple and gold of its gorgeous sunsets and
its changing woods. The reader must him
self make what he can of November. We
dou’t like the month, and si all therefore say
nothing about it.
We have seen the phrase “History repeats itself,”
used so often of late, that we feel bound in common
politeness, to believe that history is really doing
something of the kind. Why it does so, unless it
is because it has nothing else to do, we cannot im
agine. Perhaps History is afraid that it will be
forgotten, ana “repeats itself” that it may make
“permanent lodgment in the minds of men. Or
it may be on the principle that a toper “repeats”
his drinks, because it is a good thing to “repeat”
and can’t be repeated too often. But the toper,
when he “repeals” has a slight advantage of His
tory, for af-er he “repeats” a few times he rolls
over, and then he is not only a "repeater” but a
“revolver” also. But if “History repears itself” as
so many of our cotemporaries insist, we would
like to have some of them point out the place
where History ever elected such a thing as Abe
Lincoln to such a position as he occupies, and
when history ever saw such a thing as Sherman’s
march into, but not through Georgia. We could
mention a thousand things we can find no dupli
cates for in History, but as History may sometimes
“repeat itself” on the sly, without letting anyone
know what it is about, we will not dispute a max
im so sage and so well endorsed.— Rebel.
Thb Rag Gatherers’ Ball. —The Toronto
(Canada) Leadar has the following account of a
curious scene in that city:
Tha very unusual entertainment of a rag gath
erers' ball came off in this city on Monday night,
at which there could not have been less than
three hundred rag men and their wives and sweet
hearts and other friends and acquaintances. The
entertainment was given by Mrs. Ashal, a wo
man who has made a good deal of money by Jhe
rag business. Having just built a large brick
shop on Richmond street, a little west of Church
street, on the south side, she determined to enter
tain her customers at a grand ball and sapper;
and not being very particular as to whether the
company should be select, she gave a general in
vitation to all the beggars and rag men in the city
and neighborhood. The gentry fell in with the
idea and freely accepted the invitation. A sump
tuous repast was provided in a large room on the
ground floor, to which the beggars had free access
during the whole evening. A quadrille band sup
plied music for the company in the ball room up
stairs, and “all went merry as a marriage bell.” It
is said to have been a ludicrous sight t« witness i
the company in a quadrille, or pairing off in an
Irish break down or plantation jig. Dancing and
general merriment was kept up until near feur
o'clock in the moving, ?be party separated
aud returned to iiieir hovels and their business in ,
different parts of the city, evidenily highly pleas
ed with the hospitality of their generous hostess.
Everything was conducted in the most orderly
manner, only the presence of a solitary policeman
having been necessary to keep things straight.
E.NTBHPRisrNG. —The New Fork Herald of
November 11th ult., gives the message of
President Davis, delivered on the 7th, in full.
Also the comments thereon indulged in by the
Richmond press of the Bth. Considering the
difficulties of running the blockade, this was
speedy work.
:c
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T- J. JACKSON LOCAL EDITOR.
Auction Sales. —The auction sales of Ellis,
Livingston A Cos., yesterday made two things ap
parent, to-wit: that there is no scarcity of men in
these parts, or lack of Confederate money. The
following are some of the prices obtained. Otto
piano SI6OO ; bed quilts SIOO and upwards; jeans
$23 per yard ; 202 J acres land in Muscogee coun- 1
ty $3,100 ; one rocking chair $240 ; one bureau
$250; one settee $370 ; feathers $3.50 per pound ; j
salt 65 to 70 cts., crockery, glassware, furniture, i
Ac., Ac., at high figures.
Impressment of negroes was in vogue in this
city yesterday. We understand the object to be to
obtain laborers, for important railroad connections
and fortifications.
A Mean Act. — We have often heard of people
mean enough to rob a blind negro, but supposed
such characters the mere ideal creations of de
praved human nature. But some nefarious scamp
actually robbed “Blind Peter” the city colored
goober pea merchant, a night or two ago of four
dollars in specie and about twenty dollars in paper
money. Let the scoundrel -bo handed tdown to
posterity amid the execrations of all honest men.
Louisiana Nai.oon. —Lieut. Caldwell a disa
bled soldier, who has served nearly four years iu
a Louisiana Regiment, has opened an eating and
drinking saloon two doors above the old Post
Office corner, adjoining the millinery store of
Davis, where he proposes to keep for sale fine li
quors, cigars, oysters, etc.
By invitation, we had the pleasure of testing th e
qnalitiy of his oysters on Monday evening in com
pany with other gentlemen of the Press, and we
can without hesitation pronounce them a luxury
“not to be sneezed at,” in these war times- We
are informed that Mr. Caldwell expects a fresh lot
of these delicious bivalves from Mobile in a few
ays, and we cheerfully recommend the hungry to
give them a trial. Mr. C. is a brave soldier and
clever fellow and should be encouraged.
An Important Event to Happen Two Years
Hence. —The date of the end of the world is satis
factorily fixed for the year 1866. There is an
ancient prediction, repeated by Nostrodemus in
his “Centuries,” which says that when St. George
shall crucify the Lord, when St. Mark shall raise
Him, and St. John shall assist at His ascension,
the end of the world shall come. la 1866, it will
happen that Good Friday shall fall on St. George’s
day, Easter Sunday, on St. Mark’s day, and Holy
Thursday, or Ascension Day,will also be the Feast
of St. John the Baptist.
Bahia, near which tho Florida was captured, ii
a maritime city of Brazil, on All Saints Bay, about
eight hundred miles northeast of Rio Janeiro. ,The
narbor is one of the best in America, accessible to
\ a-'sols of the greatest draught, and is protected
by seven forts, one of which—Fort St. Marcellos
—must have covered the anchorage of the Florida-
It has been a favorite resort of the privateers for
coal and supplies, and the Florida was doubtless
there for that purpose when captured and towed
out.
To be Honored Rather than Laughed at.—
During an excursion of George the Fir»t, King of
England, to Hanover, his Secretary, Charles Towns
end, noted the mode of cultivating turnips in that
country, aud afterwards his countrymen adopted it,
for which he was called Turnip Townsend by tho
foolish wits atnut the court. The annual value of
the turnips, chiefly grown on stony lands, or on land
exhausted by previous crops, in England is now es
timated at fourteen millions sterling.
mm • ■ m
Organized Deserters.
Rocky Head, Dale County, Ala., \
November 21, 1864.)
Me. Editor: We, a portion of the militia with
Capt. Brear’s company, think it actually necessary
that you would-give this agreement room in the
Southern Advertiser, which wo captured from a
squad of deserters about the 12tli u l ., where we
found them in their camps, and gave us battle, and
then fled to the river swamp for protection. We
captured about 160 cartridges that they jot from
Capt. Briar’s wagon at the time of killing Lieut.
Spears, and got several other things, besides a fine
chance of buck shot and powder.
Yours, &c., J. A. Black,
ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT. ’
Art. 1. That we will protect an i defend each
other under all circumstances at the risk of our lives.
Art. 2. We do pledge ourselves to strictly observe
and execute all orders given by the leader of the
squad or company.
Art. 3. That we will strictly observe honesty, not
pilfer, steal nor take away anything from or injure
any person’s property unless it becomes necessary
for our support, and then it shall be done by the
consent of the leader or majority of the company.
Art. 4. That no member shall be compelled to as
sist in taking of any secesh that is not in arms
against us.
Art- 5. That no one shall leave the squad or com
pany without consent of the leader.
Art. 6. Any one becoming dissatisfied ancl wishes
to withdraw from the company, shall have the
right to do so upon duly notifying the company,
provided there be no charges against hita.
Art. 7. That we shall not be bound to protect the
person nor property ot any one that has not become
a nlimber of our company.
Art. 8. Any person failing to report any violation
of the rules under bis knowledge, shall bo consid
ered as an accessor, and shall be punished ns such.
Art. 9. That good morality shall be observed and
gambling and card playing prohibited.
Art. lO.jAny person attempt ng to betray u>, shall
be considered guilty of treason and shall be dealt
with as such.
Art. 11. Any one leaving or absenting himself
from this squad or company without leave of the
leader, being at the same time under charge-, shall
be considered and treated as a deserter.
Art. 12. In all cases of offences a committee of
three or more prominent members shaii have the
livht to try any member and report to the leader,
who shall ha ve the right to order the execution of or
decision in any way he may think best.
A rt. 13. If the leader i hall assume any arbitrary
authority that does rot belong to him, in proof
thereof, he shall be cashiered.
The Richmond Dispatch is at a loss to understand
Sherman’s ulterior object. Suppose he gets t ■
Charleston or Savannah, be wifi be much in the
pickle’.llowe w: s when he took Philadelphia, and
Franklin wrote that Philadelphia had taken Howe.
In the Revolutionary war the'British, besides hav
ing possession of Charleston and Georgetown, h- and
posts all through the State. When they were final
ly compelled to abandon these latter, they all re
tired into Charleston and Green held the whole
country, while they attempted no further enterprise.
If Sherman go to either charleston or Savannah,
and there be shut up by our armies, it will probably
be the best thing that can happen to either of these
States, since it will be the means of leaving them
free and uninterrupted by the presence o: the
Our own impression, however, is that tne expedi
tion has been undertaken with a view to render as
sistance, to Grant. Savannah or Charleston once
taken, it would be very easy to transfer sacryian s
whole force to the fines before Richmond a; t Pe
tersburg. Richmond is now the prevailing Yankee
idea: and all other enterprises dwindle into insig
nificance in comparison with that directed imme
diately against Richmond.
For Chattahoochee.
The Steamer Jackson will leave for the above
and intermediate landings, Thursday morning at l
9 o’clock. D. Fry. ;
dec 14 td
FOR CMTTAEBOCUEE AND BAIMRIEGE. j
The Steamer Shamrock, L i. Wingate, master, will
leave for the ab ve and intermediate lauding*,
Wednesday morning at 9 o’clock.
dec 12 td
Hd’qbs Camp or Lsstui ction for Ga.. < j
Camp Cooper, Macon, Dei. 10. 1884, >
Special Older-, .
No. 330. /
(Extract.
*******
111. As communication with Col. Wm. M. Brown,
Commandant of Oonscripts. is re-established,'sq rial
order number 322, from these headquartered- here
by revoked.
A . M. ROWLAND.
dec 12 ot Major and Commandant.
Wanted,
AT Lee Hospital, the Ist of January, tea *Me-
KwmoK,. SafSaMAW.
be* II ts 6t»W»* 1
AHeuitOii Aii6D§.
Youare tospecttully requfs.cd to attend a meet
ing tr. s(M ednesday) evening, at 7 o’clock, at 'Jr.
Johu Oarugbi -\ oil Broad sir et, ior important bu-i
--ne s. ALIEN,
dec 13 It*
To Hire,
OR next year, a first r to Ceok. !Ta«her a*d
Ironer. She is faithful and b. nest and free fliem
incumbrance. Apply at . Til 18 OFFICB.
dec 11 ts
TO GEORGIA EDITORS AND THE
SI Vi'S.Sl !
I WANT rabbit skins, coon skins, fox skins, otter
skins, minkskins,heave -kins, and all otherskins
that have urupon them 1 want them for the pur
pose of making hats, and will pav the highest cash
prices, or swap bats for them. 1 will give a good
rabbit hat for sixty rabb.t smins: a good coon hat
for two dozen good coon skin-; a good beaver hat
for three beaver skins; a good wool hat for two
pounds of clean washed wool, free of cockleburrs,
and cut from the live sheep’s back, and so ou. The
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.
Eatonton.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, tho same number of times,
sending mo their papers in exchange, with the ad
vertisements marked, shall receive by express, free
if charge, a good, soft, rabbit fur hat which will
bring in tho market $100; provided they will have
their heads measured and scud mo the dimensions'
IViles’ Register Revived.
PROSPECTUS OF
THE COUi\TRYMA \,
jVJILES’ Register, tho most useful journal ever
Iv issued in America, has been revived in tho pub
lication of The Countryman. This journal is a sac
simile of its original, in the number aud sizo of its
pages, its typography,aud all the features which gave
value to the standard publications issued by Mr.
Niles.
: Besides the features of Niles’ Register, the Coun
i trjman has others which should render it still more
attractive—to-wit: a department of elegant litera
ture, rejecting the Style o! Yankee 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
-1 nal with and peculiar to itself.
j 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 quarto, of sixteen
pages, published weekly on the editor’s plantation,
| near Eatontou, Ga., to which all communications
' should be addressed.
Our terms are $5 for three months, or S2O per
annum.
Send all remittances by express.
J. A. TURNER,
declOdlt Eatonton, Ga.
Wanted
WE wish to hire for the ensuing year, six good
Negro 6’arpei.tors, one good Blacksmith ami
one wagonor.
dec 10 2w JEFFERSON <fc HAMILTON.
Sun and Enquirer copy.
Wanted.
OAAA LBS. PORK, for which we will
OUUIy cash or exchange salt.
dec 10 6t JEFFERSON & IIAMITOX.
Sun and Enquirer copy.
A Plantation tor Sale.
THE UNDERSIGNED offers for sale a Plani*-
l tion on the Apalachicola river, 25 miles below
Chattahoochee, containing 1,500 acres, more or la*,
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 safely .relied on. On the premises are
firstrate negro quarters, gin house, screw aud sta
bles. Thu dwelling is small butcomfortable.
There are two orange groves ou the place, one on
the river and in full bearing. .4 portion of the erop
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 fruifs.
The place is finely watered and healthy. A rare
opportunity is offered for the investment of C*a
federate money if application is made early.
Titles perfect.
Apply to R. L. B 4SS,
Columbus, or
VAN MARCUS.
dec 6 ts Steamer Shamrock.
S3OO Reward !—Stolen,
GROM Room No. 46, Cook’s Hotel, a SINGLH-
V CASED GOLD WATCH, with the initials “ M
F” carved on the back of it. The Watch has a white
face and steel hands.
A reward of S3OO will be paid for its recovery aad
no questions asked, by leaving it at the
nov 29 3t* SUN OFFICE.
Coffee ! Coffee!
200 FOITWOS CHOICE COFFEE
ALSO,
200 I Os. Black Pegifser.
STANFORD k CO.,
nov 30 3t No. 78. Broad Street.
Admieii&traior’* Sale.
UN the first day of January, I will sell at pubiie
outcry at the Court House in Marianna, 500 avros
(more o; less) of pine land, belonging to the estate
of John Bird. On the premises is a fine spring m
water, negro cabins, etc. W. S. POPI4.
dec 6w4t Adm’r.
FOR SAIjS !
■la j i t'HES OF LAND, thirly incultinatW
O": ’ hundred and seventy in the woods, ais
place is neai the ten mile house cn the Cuawta
road, and is snugly improved for the times.
to L. A*. DIGGERS,
nr t °9 4t* Columbus. Ga
Plantation to Rent or Self,
ANE and a half miles north of-Unicu Spring*. Ma-~
v f con county, Ala. It contains four bandied aufl
eighty acres, a little less than four hund/eai*
cleared. Most of the clear*d land is black praifie
and creek bottoms. For particulars apply to
GEORGE STEWARD
deefilw Union Springs, Ala.
To Stent,
\ BLACKSMITH SHOT* with six orsevwi Kcuves,
L all complete. Apply at
•e 81 ts THIS OFII€B
Wanted.
j )AA aaA FEET ASH TIMBER, i* tlaajtitf
j UU.UUU 1% inch, or by the cord. Appsr
i our Government Works.
dec 2lt JOH» (JRAT <k t>.
To Printers !
WE offer for sale a complete BOOK BINDERY,
(except Ruling Machine,) two hand PRESSES,
| and about
1,000 Pounds of Type Metal.
i nov2l-tf
Headquarters Gov. Works, (Okd.) 1
Colam Dus, Ga., Dec. 1, 1861.1
Wanted to Ifiire !
FIFTEEN NEGRO BLACKSMITHS.
Good quarters furnished and liberal wages paid.
1 Apply to M. n. WRIGHT,
dec 2 Iw Col. Coin’d^.
Headquarters Military Division I
or thr West, r
Macon, Ga., Nov. 29th, 1864. )
! General Ordere, \
I No. -. j
| AH 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 ec d2w A. D. C. and A. A. A. G.
Headquarters Port, >
Columbus, Ga., November 29,1861, /
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 .Id of Da
eember, at 11 o’clock, a.u., for the purpose of fc«ia*
mustered for pay.
By command
S. L. BISHOP,
ilaj. Corn’d*' ”eet.
S. Isidore Guillit, Post Adj't.
nor 29 5t
Stop ilie Xsftef*!
SSOO Reward;
PTOLEN from the premises of C. P. Levy, aere«
V, t h- new bridge, on the night of 30th November
two BAY HORSES and one BLACK PONY.
Above reward will be paid for the horses a*4
thief. JOHN D. GRAY * CO.
dec 2 4t
To Rent.
A SMALL FARM, containing about 100 aarce, 0
in the woods and forty cleared, about one mile
above the Fountain ffactoir, on the river. On the
flaoe ie a good dwelling with three rooms, a
apple and peaeh orchard and variety of other tr&
tree* gveU wafer, *e. For terms apply to
Mrs. J. A. JOh its
aear Ce!*»bi*
