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DAILY TIMES. - - I. W. WARRBX, - - - Editor. COLUMBUS: Wednesday Morning, December 14,18G4. mrrr. " rxznzzzrr,. -—— — l "*■'& * 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. — « -wta*-—■ — 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. *— t # 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 - ~~~ - j 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*