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Change of Schedule.
Ol- KICK ENGINEER AND SUPERIN rKNUKNT, 1
Charleston and Savannah Railroad, V
Charleston, Juno 7,1864.)
,N THURSDAY, June fi, 1804, and until further
’ notice, the Schedule of the Passenger train will
c as follow, viz:
Leave Charleston 9.45, a. in.
irriic n Savannah 3.40, p. in.
Leave Savannah 3.30, a. in.
Arrive in Chiu lestuo 1.15, p. m.
this Train makes direct connections, going north
unU soTith, with the Northeastern Railroad at« har
i-wton, and the Central Railroad at the Junction.
H. S. HAINES,
J une 11 ts Engineer and Superintendent.
Change ot Schedule.
»N and after Sunday, June 19th, the Trains on
1 s h« uscogee Railroad will run as follows :
PASSENGER TRAIN:
i>uuve Columbus .0 45 P. Al.
Arrive at iMacon 3 25 A. M.
Leave Macon 3 10 P. M.
Arrive at Columbus 4 25 A. A*.
FREIGHT TRAIN :
Leave tVlmnbus 3 00 A. M.
A ~ ai iun. to 1 55A. A
W.L. cLARIv.
ma r 19 H Supt. Aluscogeo R, R.
Til rough to illoufgomerj
NEW SCHEDULE.
MONTGOMERY & WEST POINT
RAILROAD COMPANY.
COLUMBUS, August 27, 18(54.
\N and alter August 27th. the Passenger Train on
1 I the Montgomery and We*t Toint Rtulroad will
Leave Montgomery at 8:00 a. m.
Leave West Point at 7:10 a.m.
Arrive at Cblumbus at 5:32 p.m.
Leave Columbus at o:30 a. m.
1 rrivc at Mon tgomery at 3:66 p. m.
Arrive at West Potnt at 4130 p. m.
freight Train leaves Columbus at 8:40 a m.
Arrives at 8:27 p m
i>. 11. CRAM, Sup t k Eng.
ag27lß64—tf
MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD.
change: of s« hi:i»i i.k.
Girard, Ala., Oct 7,1864.
ON and alter 10th inst. Trains on this Road will
Run Daily (Sunday excepted,) as follows:
I*a*Me»»£er TVitlu-
Leave Girard at 1 30 p.m.
Arrive in Union Springs 6 00
Leave Union Springs 5 35 n.an.
Arrive ir. Girard at 10 00
Freight Trail*.
Leave Girard at 4 00 a. m.
Arrive in Girard at 6 00 p. in.
B. E. WELLS,
aglß ts Eng. A Sup’t.
Dr, 85. HEARD,
(Lato Surgeon P. A. C, S.)
OFFERS his Professional Services to the citizens
of Columbus. Office at Dr. Carter’s Drug Store.
Can be found at night at the residence ot Wm. C. ,
Gray, in Linwood. tnuv 10 lm*
Dr. R, mOIILE,
DENTIST,
< T Pembertoo 4 Carter’s old stand, back room of
L \ Smith’s Jewelry Store, where ho can be round
all hours, . i ,,clß6tn
STEREIW" EXC IS AAin E!
. FEW Hundred Pounds of Sterling Exchange '
'if”'*" 10 ’"llsk “Ftolumbus.
BTOTIOB
r i'€> Mississippi Soldiers!
DUE ‘‘MISSISSIPPI DEPOT” and Office of
L Agency fertile Relief of Mississippi soldiers in
the Army of Tennessee, has been removed from
Atlanta to Columbus. Ga„ and is near Barnard s
corner, between .Main st., and the Perry House.
Your brow. MARS „ ALLi |
aep2B ts
Government Sheep for Exchange.
• >i, a HEAD SHEEP will bo exchanged for Bacon
500 or Beef. The Sheep rated at $2 00, Bacon
10c„ Beef 2c. gros< per pound. The Beef to be de j
livered alive. Apply to j. A. TYLER. I
Columbus, Nov. 2,1864 ts j
XaO&i a T , 9
aN Friday morning a RED VELVET BOW con- :
V* tabling a gold star, with the letter J. engrav
ed on it. The finder will be rewarded by leaving
it at this office. n< »v 26 dtt |
N0 3 rio hs.
Office Quant Factory, \
Nov. 29, 1864. j
4LL persons having demands against the estate of
Daniel Grant, deceased, are hereby requested to
present them to the Grant Factory.
nov 30tf JOHN J. GRANT.
Sun copy and send bill to office Grant Factory.
Lost or Mislaid.
UOUR SHARES of the G. it A, S. S. Cos., No.
f 160, in favor ol Mrs. J. L. W ilson,
nov 30 ts D. A J. J. GRANT.
To Rent.
IT OUSE for rent, possession given Ist December.
1 1 Apply to 'll- MsHACKER,
nov 30 6t 104, Broad Street.
W-AII^TTEID
i N OVERSEER. One without family, who has
A lost an arm in the sefvice, and thereby unfit for
military servico preferred. IT/v „.
Applv to ROBERT R. HOWARD,
Reynolds, Taylor County.
MRS. CHAS. J. WILLIAMS,
nov‘2l-tf Columbus, Ga.
WAAT ED!
r AAA LBS. of TALLOW, for which a liberal price
OjUUU will be paid. Apply to
F. \Y . DILLARD,
sp 7 ts Major and Q. M.
Wanted
fllO HIRE—Four or Fire able bodied Negroes.—
1 Good wages given. Apply at our Government
’Sgtf JOHN D. GRAY & CO.
w A X T E I* ,
A GOOD BUSIN ESN MAN, uutil the first of
J anuary. i'ne best wages paid. A disabltd sol
dier preferred, and it matters not how badly muti
lated by wounds so he has firmness and judgment.
Apply at the TIME& Ol l ICE.
nov 30 ts _
SSOO Howard. !
CITOLEN out of my stable, 2 miles from Columbus,
O #n the Crawford road, on Tffureday night last,
TWO ZMZTTXjIES,
ane a small bay mare Mule, blind in the right eye.
The other a black mare Mule, medium size, with
whith mouth and white spot on rump. Loth in good
or s will pay the above reward for the delivery of
the Mules with the thief, with proot sufficient to
convict, or Two Hundred Collars for the Mules.
li . M. A. 1j h ivL. sci i
Columbus, Ga.,Nov. 9, IS64—tf
<£§~Sun please copy.
WAITED.
1 AAA BUSHELS CORN, for which we will pay
iUU'' cash or exchange Salt,
nov 1264 JEFFERSON k HAMILTON.
<a-Sun and Enquirer copy.
$•25 SPoliars Ream'd.
STRAYED from my place in Wyunton, a dark
O bay mare MULE, about nine years old, hair
rubbed off of both hips and a largo sear on the right
hindquarter. JOHN COOK.
oc 13 ts
9130 Howard..
VEGRO boy CHARLEY : ah* ut 25years old, vel
ax low complexion, hair nearly straight, bolow or
dinary intelligence; lett Mr. Nat. Thompson’s near
Box Springs. Tmwo •ounty. I bought him of a
Mr. Brqwn, a refugee trom Mississippi, who now
resides in Tuskegee, .41a. He originally came from
Charleston, S. C. A suitaoie reward will be paid
for his delivery at this office, or in anv -aie iail and
informatiomeni to me at this office.
, lAMEb M RUSSELL.
Colmubu ? uu- 1 t
YOL. Xl.}
SPECIAL NOTICES
CIRCULAR.
Headquarters Georgia Reserve, j
aid Military District of Georgia, J>
Engineer’s Office Macon, Ga., Dec. 14, 1864. j
The public interests require that a large amount
of Slave labor be under the immediate control and
employment of the Engineer Department, and to
that end the recovery of Slaves who have rana*a>
and the additional impressment of one able-bodied
Slave out of every five between the ages of 18 and
45 years, has become necessary,
Thai the interests consulted may be the better
served, it is declared incumbent upon the owners or
employers of runaways, that they secure the prompt
return of such; and that every inducement in their
power be given, that may conduce to the conten
ted performance of the services required of the
Slave.
In all eases where >t may appear evident that the
owners have failed to use proper dilligence in the
return of such as have runaway; the party im
prest ing are ordered to impress from them double
the number they otherwise would be required to
furnish.
Every effort within the control of the Government
is being exerted to render the condition of the slaves
whilst on this duty as comfortable as possible. .Ade
quate hospital accommodations are being prepared
by the Surgeons of this Department for such as may
become sick, and competent assistants will accom
pany all the different divisions, that whenever a
slave is taken sick he may be promptly cared for.
Runaways from the hospital will be classod with
the others, and must in every instance be returned
when their condition will permit.
By command of
Major General HOWELL COBB.
JOHN W. GLENN,
dec 16 6t Captain Engineers P. C. S. A.
Marshall Hospital, 1
Columbus, Ga., Dec. 14, 1864.)
Notice!
Wauted to hire for the ensuing year, fifteen able
bodied NEGRO MEN and ten WOMEN. Negroes
thus employed are not subject to impressment.
DANIEL R. BIZE,
dec 13 till Ist jan. Steward.
lld’qrs Camp op Instruction por Ga.. J
Camp Cooper, Macon, Doc. 10,1804,1
Special Orders, 1
No. 330. /
[Extract-.]
*******
111. As communication with Col. Wm.M.Brow*
Commandant of Conscripts, is ro-established, special
order number 322, from these headquarters’is here
by revoked.
A. M. ROWLAND,
decl2 5t Major and Commandant.
Headquarters Conscript Service, 1
Georgia, Augusta, Ga., Dec. 2d, 1864. J
Circular, (
No. 26. j
Enrolling Officers.ofthis State are hereby instruc
ted not to interfere, until further orders, with As
sessors and Collectors of Tax in Kind.
JNO. F. ANDREWS,
Major and Acting Commandant
dec 11 6t of Conscpripts for Georgia.
Exchange Sfotice--M0.13.
Richmond, December 1, ’864.
1. AH Confederate officers and men who have been
delivered by the Federal authorities at [any place,
prior to November 25th, 1861, a re hereby declared to
be exchanged.
2. Ail officers and men o 1 tbe Vicksburg capture of
July4th, 1863, who reported at any parole camp,
either East or West of the Mississippi river, at any
time prior to November Ist, 1864, are hereby de
caredtobe exchanged. Ro. OULD,
doc 11 6t Agent of Exchange.
ISO I'Oll ATLAXTA!
The Southern Express Company will receive
freight (under forty pounds each package) and
money parcels for Atlanta via Macon & Western
Railroad, from this date. S. H. HILL,
dec 6 tt Agent.
OFFICE SOUTHERN EXPRESSi
Columbus, Ga„oct„ 29,1864.
\TO Freight will be received at the Southern Ex
li press Company’s Office after 3)4 o’clock p. u. o
go East on that day, nor will any be received to go
West after 434 o’clock pm. _ „ TTTrT .
oc 29 ts S. H. HILL, Agent.
(Unfederatr States op America, 4
War Department, Ordnance Bureau, b
Richmond, Nov. 11, 1864.)
All officers on Ordnance duty are required
by General Orders, No. 70, Adi’t. 4 I. G. Office,
Aug. 29. 1864, to report without delay to the Chief
of Ordnance, Richmond, by letter, stating
First, —Their rank.
Second. —Dato of commission (or appointment)
giving date from which their rank takes effect.
Third. —Arm of service.
Fourth. —State to which they belong.
Fifth. —Date of assignment to Ordnance duty,:
Sixth. —The authority by which assigned, furnish
ing date, and if possible, copy of order of assignment
to which will be added.
Seventh.— Present duty, and order of assignment.
Officers of the Regular Army will report both their
regular and provisional commissions,; or appoint
ments, conferring temporary rank.
Failure on the part of officers on Ordnance duty
to report immediately as above, will be treated ias
a delinquency. J. GORQAS,
nov 22 eod4w (Thief of Ordnance.
To Rent, x
t BLACKSMITH SIIOF with six or seven Forges.
yll tf mPlete ‘ Apply at THIS OFFICE.
Wanted.
On A AAA FEET ASH TIMBER, ia plank •!
'UU.UvI/ inch, or by the cord. Apply at
our Government Works. _
dee 26t JOHN @RA\ 4 0.
To Printers !
WE offer for sale a cctoplete BOOK BINDERY,
uexcept Ruling Machine,) two hand PREaSES,
and about
1,000 Pounds of Type Metal,
nov2l-tf _
Xotlceto Oebtors and Creditors
\ LL persons having claims against the estate of
A Joseph W. Woollolk, deo’d, late ©f Muscogee
county, are hereby notified to render them duly
authenticated within the time prescribed by law;
ans those indebted to said estate are requested t©
m? ie immediate payment. „
WM. G. WOOLFOLK,
nov 23, IS64 —w4od ~ - Adm’r.
Lard
\Xf ANTED in exchange for Sheetings, Osnaburgs
Lv a ! 4 il‘ n ‘ 3, “ t '“ eagle factory.
Confederate Tax Xotlce.
1 SHALL commence on Monday next, sth inst..
1 I collecting all Taxes that are due the Confederacy,
Tax payer* must come up promptly and pay, or the
penalty of the law will be visited upon them. There
ate now many delinquents on their Quarterly Sales
Tax. Mr. Green, or myself, will at all times be
ready to receive the money.
J. A. I*. Libra,
dec 5 3t * Collector 41st Dish
To Hire,
I TOR next year, a first rate Cook, Washer and
P Ironer. She is faithfulCafid honest andlfree from
incumbrance. Apply at THIS OFFICE.
dec 11 ts
Wanted,
* WOOD TURNER, white or black. G«od wages
A will be paid for a goodturner.
dec 156 t JEEFERSON 4 HAMILTON.
Sun & Enquirer copy.
COLUMBUS, GA., MONDAY, DEC. 19, 1864.
Saturday Evening.
Latest from Savannah,
We have intelligence from Savannah by a
gentleman who resides some miles below the
city, and who reached Tallahassee yesterday,
(says the Quincy (Fla.) Dispatch of the 14th.)
From him w* lerrn that on Sunday Gen. Sher
nutn made at a,tack upon Savannah at three
difierent points; from the direction of the
Charleston r-ilroad, in front, and on the south
side. The firing was heavy, but the result of
course unknown. Our informant states that
the Confedera e force in the city numbers
thousand effective men, and that the
city is amply provisioned. General Bragg was
believed to be moving from Augusta to the
relief of Savannah with a force sufficient to
raise the siege. Shermams army, it is esti
mated, does not exceed twenty-five thousand
men, and is known to be greatly demoralized;
the stragglers being numerous. It was also
reported that his cavalry under Kilpatrick had
been entirely cat off from the main army by
Wheeler.
It was the general belief that Savannah
could only be taken after a long and desper
ate struggle, such as Sherman had not expect
ed and is unable to maintain. The Confeder
ate authorities were prepared for it, and
would hold the position to the last extremity.
We have reliable information, says the Ma
con Telegraph & Confederate of the 16tb,
from Station No. 3, on the Albany and Gulf
railroad, of the 14th.
At that time the enemy in small force had
come down ou the south side of the Ogeechee,
and cut the road where it crosses the river.
The enemy passed over to the Savannah side
of the river and destroyed the bridge.
Up to that time no demonstration had been
made on Fort McAlister, and it was still held
by our troops. No enemy could be found
south of the Oanooc-hee.
On the morning of the 14th very heavy fir
ing was heard at No. 3, in the direction of
Savannah.
Kentucky. — We conversed jesterday, says
the Mobile Register of the 11th, with a gentle
man who has lately been in Kentucky, which
State he has frequently visited during the pro
gress of the war, who represents the condi
tion of things there as more favorable to the
Confoderate cause than at any previous peri
od. The people are determined, as with one
mind, not to submit to a draft; and if there is
any attempt to enforce it, they will fight, if
fight they must, for the South, not the North.
A great many Yankees, it is true have intru
ded in the last four years, and these are abo
litionists, of course; but the real Kentuckians
are as one man in their sentiments, and draft
or no draft, the presence of our army in the
State will bring thousands of recruits to the
Southern standard.
Meanwhile there is much prosperity in the
State, the negroes in many cases working
quietly on the plantations, while elsewhere
everything is devastated and deserted. Trav
elling is rather hazardous, owing to the gangs
of banditti which infest the roads, plundering
indiscriminately.
Texas. —The Mississippian has had a visit
from Dr. M. C. McGregor, of Austin county,
Texas, who brought across the river, State pa
pers up to tbe 25th ult. Dr. M. gives the
most favorable accounts from the “Lone Star’
State. He says the planters throughout the
State have made most abundant crops, of ev
erything in the subsistence line—in truth,
the present crop of the State of Texas is con
sidered moat abundant, sufficient to sustain
the populaiion of the State for the next three
years. Everything is cheap ; corn four to six
bits per bushel, wheat sl, salt four cents per
pound, and everything else in proportion.
These, we suppose, are specie prices.
From the Southwest and Mexico. —The
New York Herald has New Orleans dates of
the 3d, which state that the rebels are build
ing forts on both sides of Red River, above
the Alexandria falls., .The registered enemies,
recently sent out of the Union lines, have been
conscripted by the rebels. The rebels at
Brownville have put a custom house in oper
ation, and have prohibited the importion
of all kinds of goods except corn, flour and
vegetables. They have recently received an
accession to their artillery of two pieces,
and are expecting four more. There are about
1500 bales cotton there awaiting shipment for
foreign ports. Our returned prisoners from Ty
ler, Texas, state that immense quantities of this
staple have recently passed that place on
wagons, beund from Shreveport to Brown
ville.
The steamer Ike Davis, captured by pirati
cal passengers on her way from a Texan port
to New Orleans, was said to be taking on
board a cargo of cotton in Matagorda bay.—
Guerrilla outrages still continue ia some por
tions of Louisiana. The French and rebels
had a three days fandango in Matamoras to
celebrate the establishment of the imperial
authority there. Our consnl in that town
was still protected from the insults and out
rages of the rebels by a guard of French sol
diers. Deserters from the rebel army were
constantly coming across the Rio Grande and
giving themselves up to him. in one dav
over one hundred reported themselves at his
office.
The greater part of Mississippi, and a large por- ‘
tion of Georgia, have been desolated by the enemy,
at various times, and the result has been the people
of these States have learned te depend upon them
selves, to a great extent, to protect their local in
interests. They have suffered from apathy, untij
they have become fully aroused, and even the timid
and lukewarm are beginning to voluntarily under
take the privations and dangers of a soldier's life,
whenever there is a necessity for it. Energy will
prevent that which cannot be easily endured, and
yet is certain to follow apathy. If, therefore, the j
people of any section hesitate, they invite and i
insure the presence of a ravaging foe.
Southern Mechanics. —It is useless t« disguise
the fact, says the Selma Reporter, that thi» large
and respectable class of our fellow-citizens have
not received that consideration at the hands of
the Confederate Government which it was their
right to expect in respect to the wages paid them
for their labor. They have really been working
upon less than half pay since the organization of
the Government; and although not originally un
true to the Southern cause, thousands of them
have quit the limits of the Confedeiaey because
compelled to do so by sheer necessity. The alter
native wasYo starve or leave : and flesh and blood
gaining supremacy over sentiment they left us
incontinently, however painful it might have been
to tura their backs upon their country. Thou
sands. however, yet remain in the hope that a bet
ter day will come for them. In the multitude of
other subjects of pressing interest, our authorities
overlook them, and thus time passes while their
hearts grow sicker every day, as their claims upon
the country continue to,be ignored. It does seem
to us that the merest smattering of a knowledge
of political economy;ought to teach our authorities
that the support and maintenance of the requisite
number of mechanics in our foundries, arsenals,
and other Government workshops, is essential to
any reaso»able hope of success in a war of such
magnitude as this; for if, while we are blockaded
from the outside world, and thiown wholly upon
our home resources our mechanical branches of
labor perish, how can we keep up the supply of
the munitions of war, and the other material and
appliances so indispensable to the success which
we contemplate? Are not mechanics just as much
entitled to a decent support now as in times of
peace ? Are they of right, any more “hewers of
wood and drawers of water" than aßy class of
gentlemen ? Surely no one will contend that the
Government has a right to impose burihons upon
thorn which it would not fasten upon others. Then,
we say, let Congress at its present session increase
the wages of departments of mechanical labor in
proportion to the exigencies of the hour and the
general depreciation of the currency.
The subject is one of momentous interest, and
it cannot be that our authorities will fail to give it
the proper consideration. We have said this much,
not in the interest of the mechanics as a class, but
simply to conserve the welfare of our boloved Gov
ernment.
Tennessee State Government.— We find it sug
gested in the ftebel, that, as we are now in posses
sion of the greater part of Tennessee, Gov. Harris,
who is now with the army, may soon convene the
Legislature and have his successor installed in office.
It will be remembered that Judge Caruthers was
elected to succeed Gov. Harris, in August, 1863, and
that Gov. Harris is now merely holding over under
the Constitution until his successor is put in legal
possession of the office. This can only be done by
the Legislature, and it so happened, that at the
election in 1864, the Federate being in possession of
the greater part of the State, a sufficient number of
members were not elected to constitute a quorum,
consequently the Governor elect could net be in
stalled-
it is possible now however to hold special elections
and elect members in those counties which were not
able to do so by)reason of the Federal occupation in
1863, and we presume that Gor. Harris will take ad
vantage of the present favorable circumstances to
reorganize the State Government.
-
Among the wounded in the late battle at Frank
lin, Tenn., was Gol. Scott, of the 12th Louisiana
volunteei’3, who was acting Brigadier. Col. Scott’s
wound was severe but not considered dangerou s.—
Col. Nelson, who commanded the 12th Louisiana,
was killed.
The Mississippian gives the names of the follow
ing Mississippians as amofii the list of casualties at
the battle of Franklin: Col. Farrell. 15th Missis
sippi, one leg shot off, the other amputated ; Capt.
Crumpton, of the 14tb, killed; Capt. Worrell, of the
same regiment badly wounded; Col. Rarer, of the
20th, killed.
The ladies of Grenada have $1,500, deposited with
Mr. James G. Allen, for the purpose of buying socks
and gloves for the destitute of Gen. John Adams’
brigade, for which a liberal price will be given.—
This brigade is composed entirely of Mississippi reg
iments.
Gen. Quarles.— On the authority of parties re
cently from the army, the Rebel states that Gen.
Quarles, who was reported mortally wouuded in the
battle of Franklin, will probably recover. He loses
his right arm. Though his many friends will re
gret his painful mutilation, they will be rejoiced to
hear that his life is not in danger.
Mrs. Douglas— The Washington correspondent
of the Cincinnati Commercial, with a meanness
characteristic of the genuine Yankee, drags Mrs.
Judge Douglas and her venerable mother before the
public in the following vulgar style :
The widow of Senator Douglas is living in quiet
retirement with her mother, Mrs. Cutts in the old
homestead near the Capitol building. Her brother,
Capt. Cutts, who was wounded in one of the battles
in Virginia last summer, has not yet recovered, and
is receiving every possible care at her hands. Mrs.
Douglas says little about politics, but her sympa
thies are said to be strongly in the Federal cause.
Mrs. Cutts is as great a rebel as can be found in
Washington City, or even in Richmond, and loses
no opportunity to express political sentiments. —
This will appear a little strange to those who recol
lect that her husband, at the time ot his death, was
in the employ of the “Lincoln Administration, and
that he never earned a dollar in his lile except in a
Government situation,”
But vanity and affection are attributes of unre
generate human nature, and next to being aristo
cratic, there is nothing affords so much pleasure to
some people as pretending to be aristocratic.
Among the old “residents” of Washington City it
is considered a mark of plebian extraction to sym
pathize with the Union cause. Hence the shabby
genteels, with which the city is pretty well stocked,
all prate about Southern gentlemen and Northern
barbarians. When ;the genuine Southern aristoc
racy lived here —until within six or eight year3 ago,
the cl i s s to whom I refer were contented to occupy
tht sphere to which their means and position enti
tled them, but now they claim to be the “only re
maining representatives” of people who never
looked upon them in anylother light than as inferi
ors and even servants. One finds a good deal to be
disgusted at in contemplating the various phases of
Washington City life as it exists at present, but un
questionably the most nauseating- feature the
shabby genteel.
wmm > S
Gen. Williams —ihb Thief.— While the Yan
kees were at Milledgeville, a General Williams and
staff made their headquarters at the house of a
lady, who, hoping her private and personal prop
erty would be protected by the presence of so ,
maßj officers, gave them the best room in the j
house, and dispensed be enforced hospitably with
what grace she could. Gen. Williams promised
her that her property should be respected, and
yet. at the first ineai. ho and the theiving scoun
drels of his staff, stole the silver spoons and forks
‘off the table. In ihe room they occupied was a
bureau belonging to the lady or the house, con
taining a number of dresses and a set of furs. :
After remaining three days, Gen. Williams left, ;
and the lady, goir.g into her r.-om and fir. ling
the bureau unlocked, congratulated heself that
her personal ariparel was. i least unmolested.—
Upon opening the bureau, however, it was found
to be empty. The Yankee thieves had found a
key to fit the lock : and had stolen the dresses
and furs of the iady whose >o<*f sheltered them and
at whose table they were fed. Pettv Ureeny,
however, has become so common with Yankee
officers and men, that it mayjustlv be con-idered
“an institution.’’ and hardly entitled to special
notice.— T«l*ar-.ph £ CV’W*.-*/*..
f FIVE DOLLARS
\ I»ER MONTH.
Nashville —Will it bf Captured ?
W« notice that many ot our cotemporaries
ot the press speak very confidently of tbe abil
ity of Gen. Hood and his army to capture
Nashville, and they seem to anticipate that we
will be in full possession at an early day.—
we have not much doubt that its cap
ture is possible with such an army as Gen.
Hood commands, we have not the slightest 1
idea that he will make the attempt in any j
other mode than by regular seige approaches, ;
which will necessarily consume much time; {
and we doubt whether he will make the at
tempt at all. To attempt to carry the place
by assault would involve a loss oflife for
which the possession ot the city would offer
no adequate compensation. The position is '
one of great natural strength, and it has been
extensively and strongly fortified. The ap
proaches to it in every direction are over flat
plains, in passing which our troops would be
exposed to a murderous fire, through which
jit might prove utterly impossible to carry
them. Besides the position has never been
| considered of much strategy value, and lir* 7 ’ 1
never been contended for by our forces. Al- j
bert Sidney Johnson, in his retreat from Bow
ling Green, though he passed histroops through I
it, did not attempt to make a staud there. Gen.
Bragg once had it entirely isolated from all
intercourse with other points, and could have
taken it, but did not deem it of sufficient, im-
I portance to justify the loss of men it would
require.
j If General Hood captures the place it will j
j be done by the flanking process, which his !
| superior force and his splendid cavalry will j
| enable him to do. He already controls all of j
Middle Tennessee and can close the Cumber- ;
land river. He can also take possession of, or
destroy the Nashville and Louisville Railroad,
and thus cut the beleaguered army off from
all supplies except the stock they now have
with them.
The Yankees evidently expect that he will
attempt to carry the city by assault, but we
are very confident that he will show them a
trick worth two of that. Nashville is not es
sential to our continued occupation of Middle
Tennessee, and we have no men to lose upon
quixotic enterprises which do not advance the
general result for which we are struggling—
the establishment of our independence. We
must be content to practice economy in men
and not rush them against fortifications where
no valuable result is to be attained thereby, or
when the end desired can be secured by other
means. Glory is not what we are fighting
for. Our object is more practical, and should
not be lost sight of. We want success in this
great struggle, and to secure this our armies
must be preserved. Not one man should be
sacrificed unnecessarily or without a valuable
purpose, though the sacrifice would make the
world ring with applause. Aside from the
I actual value of our heroic soldiers to their
j families and their country, we should never
I lose sight of the fact that it is only by preserv
| ing them that we can hope for the triumph of
our cause.— Rebel.
Additional from the North.
THE BATTLE AT FRANKLIN —HOOD’S ARMY.
A special dispatch to the Philadelphia Inquirer,
copied into the New York News, says of the bat
tle at Franklin :
Hood commanded in person, and the assaults
were marked by bis characteristic impetuosity.
After dark he made persistent efforts to drive the
Union army across Ilarpeth river. Our loss in !
! killed and wounded is about one thousand; that ■
| of the enemy must be much larger. The experi- j
ence of to-day’s battle demonstrates that Hood has i
with him a very formidable army, and he brought
into play not less than fifty pieces of artillery.
Our whole army is now concentrated in Nasbviife, j
the strategic point which forms the object of the
next attack by Hood, and which is hourly ex
pected. r
j FROM SHERMAN—HIS ARMY IN A TIGHT PLACE.
| The Washington correspondent of the New York
I News, by far the most candid and truthful of all
; the Yankee correspondents, writes:
The f orebodings expressed editorially by the
j News in regard to the fate of Sherman’s army
will be more than realized in a few days, perhaps
iin a day or two. It is expected here this morning
that gold will go up in New York still higher to
day and if it has done so by the hour that you
get this letter, it will be because unfavorable news
from Sherman has leaked out. That such news
was received here yesterday, I have good reason to
believe. That it was expected and anticipated,
and has been for three days past, I know ; and
that was the cause of the advance in gold yester
day and the day before.
It is not to be wondered at that the people have
! been so deceived in regard to this march of Sher
man’s across the State of Georgia, for every con
| ceivablo expedient has been resorted to in order
!to conceal the truth. The fact is, Sherman’s army
j is in a position of great peril, and nothing but the
| exercise of real genius on his part can save his
I army from disaster- jAftor a while the public will
J awake to a realizing sense of the deceit that has
| been practiced upon them by the Administration.
When this movement began we were told that
; Macon was to be captured sure, the first thing, it'
was such an important railroad centre, etc., and
l Sherman could be there before any troops could
be brought there tor its defense.
Well, Macon is reached, but behold! Confeder
ate troops had got there, and Sherman dares not
attack it ; and then the administration discovers
that Sherman never meant to take Macon, and
! that its capture would have been no use.
ANOTHER DRAFT —THE HARDEST OF ALL.
| The Washington correspondent of the New
York New writes :
The business before Congress has not yet as
| sumed definite shape, but as the session Is a
“short” one, it will also be “sharp and decisive.”
I There will he no half-was measures. This ■is !
i very evident from the tone of those members who |
have the entreof the White House, and who aro
on intimate terms with the permanent master (as
he hopes) of that establishment. There will be,
first of all, a most sweeping and relentless con
! scription.
The next draft will exceed in its merciless hor
rors all those that havepreceded it. It will not spare
| one. The machinery will be all arranged before
hand. The lists will be made out, the names
drawn, and the men seized and mastered in, with
out warning and without preparation. No com
mutation, no substitute, no excuse will be al*
lowed. The insatiatiable maw which has already
devoured two millions, of human beings, demands
300,000 more men, and the men mnst and will be
forthcoming. Such is the decree—such is the
will of—Abraham.
Executions in England.
The hanging of Muller, the murderer, in England,
seems to have afforded a fine field for the display of
the characteristics of the British masses. The de
tails of the attendant scenes remind one of the days
of Jack Sheppard jtfid the pic ures of Hogarth. The
following is a description of what occurred “under
the gallows
The “Times” thus describes the scene at New
gate: “None but those who looked •! >w upon the
awful crowd of Monday will ever believe in the
wholesale, open, broadcast manner in which garro
ting and highway robbery were carried on. We do
not now speak of those whom the mere wanton mis
chief of the crowd led to ‘bonnet’ as they passed, cr
else to pluck their hats from ofi their heads and to-..
th- m over ihe mob, amid roars and snouts ol laugh
ter, as they came from all sides and went :n ai r
recti on s, til sometimes even they fed withi toe
enclosure round the drop, and were kicked under
the gallows by the police. Tb propriety ot such an
amusement at such a time admits ot question to
•=av 'he l*ast, even among such an audience. But
even thi« rough play fails into harm less ness l»e-iue
the open robbery ar 1 violence which yesterday
morning had its way virruady unchecked, in New
gate street. There we: : regular gangs, not so much
n the crowd itself with.a the barriers as along the
avenue? which !• J totfcem, and 11 esc ra*r*ni* ; *nen -
ljr ed*‘bona* t. 1/aoiue'im.-s *r ».*
ways plundered ary person win-se !r* • led them to
think him worth the trouble ; the risk was nothing.
Sometime-thtir victims niA<K,' ' mr-tle resistance,
for a few minutes kept the u 1 :hein vio
lently s.v ay inx to and fro Hi .‘‘ V uproar.
In no instance.-however, <■ r'ain that
'Police!'was ever called. I.i ..•o of the solita
ryinstances in which the' -- ,-;ered at all was
where their aid wts soufht from some houses the
occupants of which saw an o’ 1 firmer, who. after a
long and gal hint struggle with his many assni'anU.
seemed, alter hav ng neen robbed, to be in danger
of serious injury as well. This, however, about the
farmer is#m,ie episode; the rule was such robbing
and ill-treat-nent us made tbe victims only 100 glad
to fly far from the spot where .they had suffered it.
and who. if even then they ventured ou giving any
informati on to the police, could hope for no r- dress
m su*mi a .tow,!. Such wore the nnen pastime* of
tne inob I'roiii day Jig • t till near the time of execu
tion, when the great space around the prison seemed
choked with its vast multitude."
The following passage we take from he account,
of the proceedings on the morning o; the 14th in the
‘‘Daily News:’’ There ware,”says the writer, "ho
st <es thieves and prostitutes, workmen of different
grades, and philanthropic ar.dl professional obser
vers at this execution. But, after carefully estima
ting the behavior of the crowd, we declare it to ba
earthly, sensual .and uevlisb. We cannot recall a
single redeeming incident, or quote either a word or
look oi pity for the soul gone to judgment, and ia
recurring to our experience of the sight, we do so
with a sense of shame and unutterable loathing and
humiliation, such as would be evoked by no other
spectacle on earth." This is a horrible picture: but
there is no exaggeration in it. Mr. Charles Dick
ens’ description of the crowd at the execution of the
.Mannings, some fifteen years ago. was exactly simi
lar in sp rit, and London ruffianism h’s not de
creased in the interval. The prevailing feeling at
tnese sights is that of base enjoyment at the taking
away of hurnsn life; and a public execution is
nothimg better than tho ruffian's and murderer's
saturnalia.
— ♦ ♦
Beyond The River.
There is a river deep and wide ;
And when all along tho banks we siray.
We seeonr lov’d ones o’er its tide
Nail from our sight away, away.
Where are they sped—they who return
No more to glad our longing eves?
They've passed from life’s contracted bourne
To land unseen, unknown ; that lies
Beyond the river ?
’Tis hid from view ; but we may gucs«
How beautiful that real must be;
For gleanings of its loveliness
In visions granted oft we see,
The very clouds that o’er it throw
Their veil uuraised for mortal sight.
With gold and purple tidings glow,
Reflected from the glorious light
Beyond the rivor!
And gentle airs, so sweet, so calm,
Steal sometimes from the viewless sphere
I The mourner feels their breath of balm.
And soothed sorrow 7 dries the tear.
And sometimes listening ear may gain
Entrancing sound that either floats;
Tho echo of a distant strain,
Os harps’ and voices’ blended notas.
Beyond tho river.
There are our loved ones iu their rest ;
They’ve crossed Timo’s river—now no moro
They heed the bubbles on its breast,
Nor feel the storms which sweep its shore ;
But the pure love can live, can last—
They look for us their home to share :
When we iu turn away hkve passed,
What joyful greetings wait us there.
Beyond the river.
[Correspondence of the Mobil# Register.]
A New Steamer.;
* * * Some time in May last,
General Maury ordered Major 11. St. Paul,
brigade quartermaster of the Bay forts and
batteries, to construct a light steamer for tho
purpose of daily rapid and econnomical com
munications between the city and her outer
defenses, and on yesterday that steamer, now
powerfully ai’med, took her first trial trip,
proving herself a complete success in every
way, and combining elegance with strength
and speed. She is named after a lovely child
of our commander, “Rose Maury,” and on
that first cruise reached the wonderful speed
of sixteen miles an hour. A more staunch
and steady vessel was never built here, and
Mobile may well be jiroud of her mechanics,
when we say that everything in her comes
! from their hands. The beautiful model, de
signed by Major St. Paul himself, was execu
ted by our townsman, Mr. Wm. McKay, and
her beautiful low pressure engine comes from
workshop of that rising firm, Park, Lyons k
Keyland. To them, and to John Foster, W.
11. Crippen, and W. H. Bassett, all Mobilians,
is due the credit of having built, out of noth
ing almost, the most perfect machinery ever
, set up here or elsewhere.
I We predict to tbe Rose Maury a long career
j of success, and can only regret that this good
j work should not have been undertaken long
I before.
We were pleased, last evening, to notice ta*i
arrival in our city of Col. Jared I, Whitaker
! with his family.
Many of our old citizens are coining in t«
j make arrangements for the return of their
families, and soon all the houses left in our
j ruined city will be occupied.
[.Atlanta Intelligencer Extra, 16 th.
DIED.
November 2d, 1864, at Tallassee, Ala., Martha
M. Sims, eldest daughter of the late Win- W. Sau*
j aged 15 years.
Fold her gently to thy breast,
Mother Eearth—
Take our weary one to rest.
From our hearth—
Hearth, now desolate and drear—
Oh, forgive this bitter tear 1
Pearls are pure and without hue,
In the sea—
Daisies white and dainty too,
As flowers can be 1
Cold emblems these!—our lost dove
Was purity itself, and love.
Gentle Christian, without stain,
Was our lost,
Murmuring not at any pain,
Tho’ sorely tossed,
God has crewned her sweet young brow
With wreaths of heavenly radience now
Father! our hearts are bowed
Bleeding and tom—
But thou’st the friend avowed,
To such as mourn.
Beloved one, to Heaven we mete thee,
Angel bands are there to greet thee!
Farewell!!
Tallassee, Al*., Nov. 1864
j dec 18 It
For Chattahoochee.
The steamer Indian, Fry, Master, will leave
for the above and intermediate landings, Sunday
morning, at 9 o’clock,
dec 17 td
I Attention Macon County Militia.
By virtue of an order issued from the Executive
Department of Alabama, at 3fontgomery, Company
A, 2d Class State Troops, of Macon county, will as
semble at Chehaw on the 21st inst., also the men
whose details have been revoked by Maj. Charles
Green. Every failure will be promptly reported
and dealt with accordingdo the 10th section ©f Act
of August 29th, 1863.
Transportation will be furnished from Chehaw to
Pollard. THOS. P. RANDLB,
dec 17 3t* Ckpt. Com’dg Company.
Florida Lands fbr Sale.
\ TRACT OF LAND situated in Wakulla county,
A Fla., on Wakulla river, 12 miles routh of Talla
hassee and six miles distant from both Newport anu
St. A! arks; Containing 760 acres, of which If acres
are pine, the remainder hammock. The growth is
liveoak, whiteoak, wateroak, hickory, etc. All un
improved excepting a few acres,
and de^tio^apply^^^
VARAS and OSAfABI’RIxS
TO EXCHANGE FOR
aB-OUNB PEAS,
At the GRANT FACTORY.
d«e 17 ts
SSOO Reward.
OTOLEN from my stable, the Bth inst., a small dap-
O pie cream PONY, white mane and tail, astwion,
very fat, four years old. Will pay S2OO for the pony
and S3OO for the theif. delivered to me in Amenoui.
Ga., or E. J Pinckard, in Columbus, Ga.
dec 15 2w R. C. BLACK..
