Georgia Historic Newspapers

    DA ILY TIMES.
J. W. Witt , - - - Editor.
COLUMBUS:
Monday Morning, December 19, 1864,
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The Situation. —The following report of
operations on the Georgia and South Carolina
coast is tak&n from the Charleston Courier :
The News. —We learn that the enemy made
a demonstration on Savannah Tuesday, and
were repulsed. It is supposed to have been
only a feeler, put forth to ascertain our
strength there. Gen. Hardee, in a dispatch to
Gen. Beauregard, dated Savannah Tuesday,
December 13, reports everything working well,
and that in his opinion the enemy were en
deavoring to reach the coast by way of Gene
sis point and Fort McAllister.
Fort McAllister is reported well garrisoned
and well provisioned, and has been ordered to
hold out to the last extremity. The enemy's
fleet offOssabaw Sound had largely increased.
Arrangements have been made which it is Con
fidently believed will interfere very materially
with Sherman’s progress toward the coast, if
they do not check him altogether. Sherman
has been disappointed in not being able to
cross the Savannah river into South Carolina,
and effect a junction with Foster’s forces at
Pocotaliga or Coosawhatchie. He was there
fore compelled to move down along the Oge
chee. All was quiet along the line of railroad
yesterday,
[Correspondence Telegraph k Confedetate.J
Prom Atlanta.
Atlanta, Dec. 14, 18G4.
Scuuts sent in the direction of Chattanooga*
returned last evening. They report the West
ern and Atlantic Railroad destroyed to Ilesa- j
ca. Tilt cross ties have beeu burned and the
iron burnt and twisted. From Resaca the
iron lias been hauled towards Dalton—none of !
it being seen along the track.
The business portions of all the towns along
the road have been destroyed, either by fire j
or torn down
The depots of the road, with the exception
o! ibe one at Alatoona, have been burned, j
Most of the telegraph wires (two lines) still
remains along the road.
This side of the Etowah, provisions are
scarce—beyond that river they are abundant.
The currency, however, is generally green
backs. In that currency flour is selling at $4 j
per hunured and corn, one dollar per bushel. !
But two cars of any kind, one flat and one 1
box, were left on the road. The scouts went
within six miles of Dalton. They ascertained
from reliable sources that it was occupied by
about three regiments of infantry and some-j
artillery and cavalry. They report that they ;
heard the drums-as the enemy. For some
five days no oue has been allowed to go in or 1
go out, and the impression was that they in- '
tended to evacuate the place. The scouts al- 1
so leport a small force at Chattanooga.
The West Point Road is progressing rapid- .
ly. The cars run to Prjmetto to-day. They
will go to Fairburn in a few days.
The Macon k Western “drags its slow length
along,” and has not reached Jonesboro. The
trains run about one mile this side of Love
j '.Vs.
Col. Glenn, the efficient commander of tire ;
Pest, is doing everything in his power to save
what property was ieti by the Yankees, and
to pi unptiy arrest all deserters and stragglers.
• san. Oobb could not have selected a better ;
man for the position. Sometimes.
The numerous taxes which the present law
requires, and especially those which discrim
inate so exclusively against the mercantile
class in the country, says the Southern Con
federacy, is one or the afflicting evils of the
present svstera oi legislation. The onus of I
l
high prices is saddled pn the speculator as ;
toe bitter cause ot unnumbered evils. It is
tine, that speculation has contributed its!
share in raising prices, yet it is unwise and !
injurious to discriminate against a class as
necessary to the prosperity of a &tate, either |
in peace or war as any other,- excepting only j
producers.
Os coui se the whole population cannot be j
transformed into planters —nor is it desirable
that they should. The necessities of every !
community demand a trading or speculating
class. Then to crush tnis class is to injure
the whole. When merchants have been taxed
five per cent., prices have advanced twenty
live as a consequence.
Every restriction placed upon trade has had
a tendency to driv<> out the honest merchant
and foster a set ot speculators, who have made
taxes placed upon his patriotic calling, a
means of positive profit by evading its re
quirements, while, at the same time, his cus
tomers are required to pay an additional per
centum on the cost of goods in which he deals,
to cover the taxes imposed by the Govern
ment.
Tim more trade is restricted the greater
will be the profits realized by those who are
thus engaged. In the majority of instances
where investments are made now, greater
profits arc realized in a few weeks than for*
ineriv in a year. The tendency of the present
system is to place the circulation of the coun
trv in tlie hands ot dealers, and soon they will
uc auiu to buy and sell at their own prices,
placing the entire population at the mercy of
the few, who, through fortune or favoritism,
ate able to outlive and override the very en
actments which were intended to prevent this
ven end. In the multiplicity of interests
which are to be guarded in the present un
happy state of the country, no one demands
more strongly the wisest consideration of the
statesman than this.
As such, we have briefly called attention \
to it, in the hope that investigation and dis- !
euesion may be the means of eradicating the j
evils under which we seem to labor.
Some people do not understand a hat the
Yankees mean by calling seme of their Mis
sissippi gunboats “tin-clad. It is because
they • sheathed with iron ou yto resist rifle
shot and light artillery. The thickness ot the
iron, wi: understand, is about equal to that of
a su mnboat boiler.
A Grenada correspondent of the Memphis
Appeal, says there is a report current there,
and v- ue.hed tor by numerous parties, that
Maj. G> n Hindman had been arrested by Gen.
Magruder for impressing teams to haul tobac
co with, representing it as government prop
erty and using his wreath for that purpose.—
He has beon torwarded to Gen. Smith under
guard.
Yankee Delusion.
The facility and ingenuity with which the
Northern people have deluded themselves in
regard to the duration of the war, will always
constitute one of the most striking phenome
nas by which it is attended. In the light of
all that has happened since the proclamation
of April, 1860, by' which the Federal Presi
dent called out seventy-five thousand men to
put. down a “rebellion” of eleven sovereign
States and six millions of free people, how
extremely absurd does that proclamation ap
pear! Yet the document itself was a moder
ate utterance, compared with the popular es
timate of the strength and resources of the
Sourh, which was then entertained at the
North. The people there had been educated
for more than a generation to underrate the
South, and to treat the sincere impulses and
sentiments of its people as mere whimsical i
caprices, the best corrective for which would
be some sort of chastisement like that inflicted
upon way ward children. No idea was mere
popular tLau the one frequently suggested by
demagogues, that the South needed a sound
drubbing, followedjup by a wholesome system j
of discipline ; applied in such a manner as to 1
show' these refractory' people how weak, poor
and lielples. they were, compared with the
powerful community which had undertaken
to reduce them to loyalty. The opinion was 1
not confined to the ignorant and uninformed,
but was held by those whose opportunities to
know better had been abundant. None were
more positive or unreserved than Mr. Seward
himself, in fixing short periods of sixty' or
ninety days for the war; or more confident in
the belief that the South must speedily realize
the hopeless feebleness and poverty which
would compel submission.
The contest, which wae to be short, sharp
and decisive, lias already gone on a greater
number of years than its self-deluded authors
supposed that it would consume weeks. Aud
yet, at end of this long period of hope defer
red, we still find gold declining every other
week in New York on the stale and thread
bare expectation ihat the war is about to ter
minate by the submission of the South.
Where a people proposed to be conquered,
evince a determination and indomitable pur
pose of resistance, conquest usually encoun
ters several stages of resistance before final
success 13 reached, if reached at all. The first
stage is the one in which the resistance is con
ducted under the auspices of organized gov
ernment, and by the means of regular armies
in the field, well provided with the usual ap
pliances of war. The second stage is when
the government is unseated from its capital
aud becomes migratory in the straits to which
it is driven by superior force, and when its
army becomes disjoined and unable to conduct
its operations with regularity or under com
plete, organization, and is restricted in sup
plies, arms and Ammunition. The third stage
i3 when the people, thrown upon their own
resources, deprived of the advantages of a
regular government and organized army, are
driven to exert their individual prowess and
resources in carrying on their resistance. Re
flection will teach, and the experience of his
tory confirms the conclusion, that in point of
duration the first of these stages of resistance
is, wherever the assailant power greatly pre
ponderates in population and resources over
the other, much less protracted than either of
the Albers.
An irregular system of warfare can be
lengthened out much more than a regular sys
tem, wherever there is a great preponderance
of power on the side of the 'assailant. The
examples of Switzerland aud Scotland are
prominent instances of a country holding out
in its resistance and finally succeeding in en
forcing an acknowledgment of its indepen
dence, long after all semblances of a formal
government and an established army had dis
appeared. Their irregular resistance of the
powers assailing them lasted for many gener
ations; and although feeble in numbers and
desperately impoverished, they stand out as
striking examples of independence achieved
by irregular effort and individual determina
tion.
The South would not become really uncon
querable until it shall have been rendered ex
tremely poor and desolate. The experience of
the war has abundantly shown that the peo
ple do not become thoroughly and irreconcila
bly Southern until their country is overrun
and ravaged by' the? enemy. So long as men
have large wealth to engage their solicitude,
their avarice disputes interference with their
patriotism. If vve are betrayed at all in this
revolution it will be by' the avarice of the
property-holding classes.
The men in our armies are far more deter- |
mined and confident thau citizens remaining
in charge of their property at home. Sner- 1
man inaugurated his expedition through Geor- !
gia by acts of atrocity well calculated to make ]
heroes and patriots ot persons in that State, j
who, up to that period, had been only prop- j
erty holders. It will only be when the
South shall have been widely desolated by the
enemy, that it will begin to be unconquerable,
for after that large invading armies cannot
be subsisted in the interior, and small ones
will be destroyed by’an infuriated populace.—
If the Southern people should find themselves
in possession of their wealth after the over
throw of their Government and dispersion of
their armies, that wealth might seduce them
to submission ; but happily for their success
and chance of independence, the enemy strikes
first at the wealth, and “thereby insures a pa
triotic and irrepressible resistance unto the
end.
These reflections are so obvious and unim
peachable, that it is strange the public enemy
should have succeeded in deluding themselves
into opposite opinions. It is certainly re
markable that at the great centre of intelli
gence and practical shrewdness in their coun
try, gold should continue to experience re
lapses iu price on the supposition that the
South was about to accept terms of submis
sion at a time when her Government is still
perfect and unchanged in all its parts, and its
armies in the field more efficient and formid
ble than ever. —Richmond Examiner.
♦ ♦
Andy Johnson. —Andrew Johnson, the
Vice President of the Yankee despotism, has
doubtless made tracks before this from Nash
ville, to some more congenial clime, where
; apostacy is respected and niggerology is at a
premium. The Abolition sentiment of his na
tion was strong enough to elevate him, as the
reward of his treachery to his native section
to the second place in his Government, but it
has not been able to prevent his expulsion
from his home. The ragged rebels whom he
: has persecuted and derided, have compelled
I him to pack his carpet bag and break for safer
I quarters. His persecutors have driven many
: better men than himself into dreary exile,but
! he is now able to taste some of the bitterness
1 he has so often commended to others.
Th.e sight of Andy Johnson flying like a
scared dog from the capitol in which he has
so long lorded it with such unmerciful rigor,
was one to make the heart of every true Ten
nesseean leap for joy. He has earned, and he
receives the contempt and execration of all
good men; and though he is now the Vice
President of the United States, no honest man
would desire travel the path of infamy he has
gone over, even to reach a higher elevation.
He is now an exile, and a wanderer from his
home. He has nauseated the State which has
reared and honored him, and she now rejects
and vomits him out upon the world as un
worthy of residence within her borders.
Let him profit by the lesson, and bear in
mind that the Confederate armies, which
drive his Yankee cohorts terror-stricken be
fore them, and expel him from his own capi
tal afford anything but evidence of the ex
haus'ion of the Confederacy, which he pre
sumes to believe that his government can
crush.
Nashville beleagured by a Confederate army.
How glorious the thought. “There is life in
the old land yet,” and it is not impossible that
we may soon water our war steeds and pitch
our tents upon the banks of tlie beautiful
Ohio. — Rebel.
The New York Herald's Washington special
‘ says a large number of major and brigadier
I generals whose appointments and promotions
were secured by political influence, will be
I mustered out of service shortly.
The Monroe Doetrine.
Reference having lately been made io what,
is called the Monroe Doctrine, it seems prop*
er to stale precisely what Mr. Monroe said
upon the subject of foreign interference on this
continent, and the oeeasiou on which it was
said.
The Holy Alliance held a Congress at Lay
bach in 1821, and there laid down the princi
ple that they bad a right to interfere in the
j affairs of another state, and to reform its gov
! ernment in order to prevent the effect of its
bad example. The “bad example’ in question
was free government, for ihey had no objec
j tions to urge against a despotism, provided it
l was legitimate. In 1822, they had another
Congress at Verona. Ferdinand VII, of Spain,
had, in the interval, been overthrown by a
popular revolution, and the Cortez had estab*
| lished a free government upon the ruins of his
despotism. The question of overthrowing the
Cortez and restoring Ferdinand was brought
before the Congress, and Russia, Austria,
Francej and Prussia voted in favor of it. En
gland disserted and protested, but. as usual,
did nothing : so France, to whom the task
was committed, marched an army in the
Spring of the next year into Spain, to over
throw the Cortez, with but very little oppo
sition, and restore Ferdinand. The South
American colonies of Spain, and Mexico, bad
revolted from Spain many years before, and
that power w is, it the time, waging a feeble
and hopeless war against them. In December,
1823, Ferdinand addressed a note to the Courts
of St. Petersburg, Berlin, Vienna and Paris,
inviting them to a solemn conference at Paris,
wi h a view of adjusting the affairs of the col
onies in such manner that they should be
restored to Spt in, and he appealed to the doc
trine luid dowi. at Laytach in support of his
claim to assistance. The conference did not
taae place, in consequence of the firm stand
taken by Mr. .’aiming, at that time Foreign
Secretary of E . yland, who, in October of that
year, held a conference with the French Min
ister in London, in which he informed him
that if the Holy Alliance attempted to inter
fere iu the affairs of the Spanish colonies, En
gland would recognize them at once. In De
cember the Congress of the United States met,
and Mr. Monroe, believing that the allies
would attempt the intervention intimated very
plainly in his message that they could not do
so without finding a lion in their path. This
was a part icular declaration, made on a par
ticular occasion, and designed for a particu
lar purpose. The men who talked about the
Monroe doctrine as justifying the United
Stales in excluding all foreign colinization
from this continent, could hardly found their
opinions upon this passage of the Message of
1823.
But Mr. Monroe, in the same message, or
one preceding it, entered his solemn protest
against the coliuization of any portion of
America by any of the European powers.—
That declaration is, we suppose the founda
tion of the Monroe doctrine, which has been
interpreted to mean that nobody is to appro
priate any part of America but the United
States, and that the United States are at lib
erty to take all, as convenience offers.
It is worthy of remark that the leaders of
the Democratic party in the House of Repre
sentatives in 1820, when this subject came up
incidently upon a bill to appropriate money
to pay the plenipotentiary to Panama, unani
mously repudiated this second breach of the
Monroe doctrine. Rieves, McLane of Dela
ware, McDuffie, Wickliffe, Buchanan, all spoke
against it, and So did Van Buren in the Sen
ate. Mr. McLane offered to the original res
olution lor paying the Ministers*an amend
ment declaring the opinion of the House that
the ministers who were to be sent were to have
diplomatic powers only, and no power to sit,
debate or vote, or enter iuto any stimulations
binding the United Btat.es to lend assistance,
in case of invasion, to “any of the govern
ments aforesaid,” and Mr, King added this
amendment: After the words “aforesaid gov
ernments,” insert “or any compact or engage -
ment by which the United States shall be
pledged to the Spanish American States, to
maintain by force the principle that no part
of the American continent is henceforward to
be subject to unionization by any European
power.” Mr. McDuffie, in the course of the
debate, said that England or any other foreign
power had as much right to buy Cuba as we
had to buy Florida.— Richmond Whig.
The Sleep.
Os all the thoughts of God that are
Borne inward unto souls afar,
Along the Psalmist’s music deep,
Now tell me if that any is
For gift or grace surprising this—
“He giveth His beloved sleep.”
What would we give to our beloved ?
The hero’s heart, to be unmoved—
The poet’s star-tuned harp to weep—
The senate’s shout to patriot’s vows—
The monarch’s crowe, to light the brows?
“He giveth His beloved sleep.”
What do we give to our beloved ?
A little faith, all undispro'-ed—
A little dust to overweep—
And bitter memories to make
The whole earth blasted for our sake !
“He giveth His beloved sleep.”
“Sleep soft, beloved !” we sometimes say,
But have no tune to charm away
Sad dreams that through the eyelids creep,
Bm never dolefal dream again
Shall break the happy slumber when
“He giveth His beloved sleep.”
0 earth, so full of dreary noises !
0 men, with wailing in your voices !
0 delved gold the waders’ heap !
0 strife, 0 curse, that o’er it fall !
God makes a si fence through you all,
“And giveth His beloved sleep.”
His dew drops mutely’on the hill ;
His cloud above it saileth still,
Though on its slope men toil and reap.
More softly than the dew is shed,
Or cloud is floated overhead,
“He giveth His beloved sleep.”
Yea ! men may wonderjwhile they scan
A living, thinking, feeling man
In such a rest his heart to keep ;
But angels say—and through the word
I ween their blessed smile is heard—
“He giveth His beloved sleep.”
For me, my heart that erst did go
Most like a tired child at a show,
That sees through tears the juggler’s leap,
Would now it wearied vision close—
Would, child like, on His love repose
Who “giveth His beloved sleep.”
And friends! —dear friends! —when it shall be
That this low breath is gone from me,
And round my bier ye come to weep,
Let one, most loving of you all,
Say “ Not a tear must o’er her fall”—
“He giveth His beloved sleep.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Distinguished Arrivals. —Our city has
recently been honored by the arrival of a cou
ple of rather distinguished characters—one of
them the notorious R. S. Tharin, who claims
once to have been a law partner of the late W.
L. Yancey, and the other, David Humphries,
Esq., of Huntsville. The former will be re
membered as the crack-brained fellow who
traveled North after the commencement of the
war, and poured out his vials of abuse upon
the people of the South, while the latter
made himself very conspicuous by issuing an
address to the people of North Alabama, ad
vising them to give up slavery, and “bow the
knee to Baal.” He had been disappointed in
his aspirations tor the Confederate Sena’*,
and hence bis desertion'of the c use of his
own section. Both these worthies are now
under arrest. What will be done with them,
we cannot imagine, but tear it will only be a
repetition of what has been done in former in
stances of a similar character.
[Montgomery Advertiser, 16 *h.
Among the wounded in the late battle at Frank
lin, Tenn., was Col. Scott, of the 12th Louisiana
volunteers, who wa- acting Brigadier. Col. Scott’s
wound was severe but not considered dangerous.—
Cbl. Nelson, who commanded the 12th Louisiana,
was killed.
— » - am
The ladies of Grenada have $1,500, deposited with
Mr. James G. Alien, for the purpose of buying socks
and gloves for the destitute of Gen. John Adams'
brigade, for which a libera' price will be given.—
This brigade is composed entirely of Mississippi reg
iments.
TELK-u
RBPOP.TS or THg mass ASSOCIATION.
Entered according to act of Congress in the yea
iS63. by J. S ihraskkb, in the Clerk’s office a!
;fee District Court of the Confederate States IV
rhe Northern District of Georgia.
FROM EAST TENNESSEE.
Lynchburg, Dec. 14.—Passengers by Wes
tern train to night report a raid on the Vir
ginia k Tennessee railroad at Bristol. The
| enemy are supposed to be a portion of Bur
bridge's command from Beans’ Station. They
advanced rapidly, and entered the town about
5 o’clock in the morning.
They destroyed a considerable amount of
government stores, engine and tram of the
East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad, and
the eastward bound passenger train on the
Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, between
Bristol and Abingdon. No positive informa
tion as to the enemy’s numbers, but supposed
to or six thousand, some of whom, it
is said, still occupy the place-
A body of the enemy, returning to Beans’
Station, encountered our force at Zollicoffer, a
station on the East Tennessee Railroad, where
a fight was said to be progressing at last ac
counts.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Richmond, Dec. 13.—The passed
the bil to authorize the transmission of news
papers to soldiers free of charge.
The Senate also passed the bill for the em
ployment of all male free negroes and forty
thousand slaves to work upon the fortification g
and perform other kinds of labor connected
with the defences of the country.
Geu. Joseph E. Johnson occupied a privi
leged seat in the Senate chamber to-day.
In the House the sequestration and curren
cy bills were further di seussed.
[Special the Telegraph and Confederated
Montgomery, Dec. 16.
About 7 o'clock this morning the enemy,
supposed to be about 1000 strong, occupied
Pollard. Gen. Tyler left this morning with a
sufficient force to drive them out. Other
troops are moving from other points, tor the
same purpose. Geu. Clanton, with a small
force fought the enemy for hours, materially
checking his advance. The authorities feel
confident of their ability to drive the enemy
back.
Montgomery, Dec. 17.
The enemy, after burning the depot, &c., at
Pollard, retired in the same direction they
came.
The News from Savannah. —The Charleston
Mercury of the 13th, says :
We are still without any satisfactory intelli
gence of the aspect of affairs at Savannah. The
city yesterday was rife with pleasing rumors of a
bloody repulse having been given to Sherman on
Sunday, etc.; but we could get no official or defi
nite confirmation of the reports prevailing. We
have reason to believe, however, that there cer
taiuly has been heavy fighting in the immediate
neighborhood of Savannah. If anything more
than this is known at headquarters,it has not been
divulged. The enemy have burnt the Charleston
and Savannah Railroad bridge over the Savannah
river, and telegraphic communication between the
bridge and Savannah is cut off. Otherwise, all
is quiet along the line of the Railroad.
From North Carolina Coast. —Information
reached Raleigh on Sunday, that the enemy were
advancing on Kingston in force, and were distant
only ten miles. At seven o’clock in the evening,
after some considerable skirmishing, they had
advanced to within one mile of our works.
Notice to Debtors asa«i Creditors
{ LL persons having claims against the esta'e of
i\ Mrs. L. E. Cairnes, dec’d, late of Muscogee
county, are hereby notified to render them duly au
thenticated within the time prescribed by law; and
those indebted to said estate are requested to make
immediate payment. F. 0. TICKNOR,
dec9w4od Adm r.
For Sale.
By 3E3. J. IBIELITT,
114, Broad Street.
Q A BOXES fine Tobacco,
OU Large lot Cotton Cards,
Shda, Pepper and Spice,
Smoking Tobacco, (10 cases)
Pad-Locks, Brier Root and Clay Pipe*,
100 Bushels Shelled Corn, to arrive this week,
Bar and Toilet Soaps,
Tin and Cedar Ware,
Confederate Crockery, Jars, Bowles, etc.
dec 7 d<fcw2t
LARGE CO^SIGME]¥T
OF
LETTIR PAPIR!
AND
MEMO RAM mm BOOKS !
F®r sale by
J. K. REDD & ’CO.
oe 12 ts _
Administrator’!* Sale.
ON the first day of J anuary, I will sell at public
outcry at the Court House in Marianna, 500 acres
(more or less) of pine land, belonging to the estate
of John Bird. On the premises is (a fine spring of
water, negro cabins, etc. W. S. POPE,
dec 6w4t Adm’r.
Executor’s notice.
pwo months after date application will be made
L to the Court of Ordinary of Taylor county, for
leave to sell the Negroes and perishable property of
the Estate of Elizabeth T. Johnson, deceased, late
of said county.
SAMUEL K. JOHNSON, Ex’r
Oct. 20w2m* Per THOS. D. BB AND.
Office Grant Factory, 1
Nor. 29, 1864. j
i LL persons having demands against the estate of
i Daniel Grant, deceased, are hereby requested to
present them to the Grant Factory,
nov 30 ts JOHN J. GRANT
Sun copy and send bill to office Grant Factory.
Lost or Mislaid.
UOUR SHARES of the G. Sc A. S. S. Cos., No.
r 160, in favor ol Mrs. J. L. Wilson,
nov 30 ts D. Sc J. J. GRANT.
Wanted
r pO HIRE—Four or Five able bodied Negroes.—
' Good wages given. Apply at our Government
Works.
oc 28 ts JOHN D. GRAY & CO.
<£sooo Reward. !
CtTOLEN out of my stable, 2 miles from Columbus,
O on the Crawford road, on Thursday night last,
TWO MITTXjIES,
one 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. Both in good
order.
I will pay the above reward for the delivery of
the Mules with the thief, with proof sufficient to
convict, or Two Hundred Dollars for the Mules.
H M. CLECKLEY.
Columbus, Ga., Nov. 9, 186* —ts
“ please copy.
s*2s Dollars Harvard.
OTRAYED from ray place in Wynnton, a dark
O bay mare MULE, about nine years old, hair
rubbed off of both hips and a large scar on the right
hindquarter. JOHN COOK.
_ oc 13 ts- ,
350 Rcwa-rdL.
VEGRO boy CHARLEY ; about 25 years old, yel-
N low complexion, hair nearly straight, below or
linary intelli. enee : left Mr. Nat.. Thompson’s near
don Springs. Talbot county. 1 bought him of a
Mr. Brown, a refugee from Mississippi, who now
resides in Tuskegce, Ala. He originally came from
Charleston, S. C. A suitable reward will be paid
for his delivery at this office, or in anv • aie iail and
iu f oriu:iOoi> sent to me at this offi'-e.
JAMES-' M USSELL.
Coinra' ■ au- '
TIX-EU OITY.
|T. J. JACKSON LOC'L EDITOR.
Printer Warn <.
A g >od COMPOSITOR can find permanent em
ployment by immediate application at this office,
dec IS ts
n— •
Augusta, Charleston, Pethrsbcrg, Rich
mond ax» Northern Papers. —Wo will feel un
der great obligations to person* who coma into
possession of any of these papers of late dates, if
! they will send them to us to read them. Iu tho
gentral suspension of the Northern mail*, paper*
coming through private channels will be of great
benefit to us and to the public.
Short Handed. —As we are at present short
handed, we shall probably be minus our usual
amount of reading ‘matter fora few days. Our
readers will please overlook any defieincy.
Shot.—A man named Frank Henly, was shot,
(wo understand,) on Saturday night, in the lower
part of the city, by another man ,named Dillon.
Henly's situation we iea.ru is very critical. No
particulars.
mm • —I
Auction Sales. —At auction by Ellss, Living
ston <fc Cos., on Saturday one negro man named Ja
cob, 45 years old was sold for $1428 ; Ellen a
woman aud child $4700 : one set silver castors
$150; feather beads $4; Wilson and Wheeler's
sewing Machine S7OO ; woolen jeans s2] ; sole
leather sll per pound ; upper do $10; whiskey
$33 ; salt 65 cents, and numerous miner articles at
good prices.
CIRCULAR.
Headquarters Georgia Reserve, )
and Military District of Georgia, y
Engineer’s Office Macon, Ga., Dec. 14, 1564. J
The public interests require that a large amount
of Slave labor bounder the immediate control and
employment of the Engineer Department, and to
that end the recovery of Slaves who have runaway
and the additional impressment of one able-bodied
Slave out of every five between the ages of ]8 and
45 years, has become necessary.
That the interests consulted may be the better!
served, it is declared incumbent upon the owners or j
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 cases where it may appear evident that the !
owners have failed to use proper dilligence in the
return of such as have runaway; the party im- !
pressing are ordered to impress from them double i
the number they otherwise would be required to ,
furnish.
Every effort within the control of the Government !
is being exerted to render the condition ofthe slaves
whilst on this duty as comfortable as possible. .Ade
quate hospital accommodations are being
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
s lave is taken sick he may be promptly cared for.
Runaways from the hospital will be classed 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. j
Motice !
Wanted 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 of Instruction for Ga.. I
Camp Cooper, Macon, Dee. 10.186-1, S
Special Orders, 1
No. 330. }
[Extract.]
*******
111. As communication with Col. Wm.M. Brown
Commandant of Conscripts, is re-established, special
order number 322, from tlieso headquarters]is here
by revoked.
A. M. ROWLAND,
dec 12 5t Major and Commandant.
Headquarters Conscript Service, )
Georgia, Augus’a, Ga., Dec. 2d, 1864. j
Circular, |
No. 26. J
Enrolling Officers’of this 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.
Excliaaigc Notice—No. 13.
Richmond, December 1,1864.
1. All Confederate officers and men who have been
delivered by the Federal authorities at auy place,
priorto November 25th, 1861, are hereby declared to
bo exchanged.
2. All officers and men of the Vicksburg capture of
Julylth, 1863, who reported at any parole camp,
either East or West of the Mississippi river, at any
time prior to November Ist, 1864, are hereby de
c ared to be exchanged. Ro. OULD,
. dec 11 6t Agent of Exchange.
HO FOfit AT fu AXTA !
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 ts Agent.
OFFICE SOUTHERN SX* t-186.
Coiambus, Ga., Oct., 29,1861.
]VrO Freight will be received at the Southern Ex
ii press Company’s Office after 3]4 o’clock p. m. o
go East on that day, nor will any be received to go
West after 4% o’clock p m.
oc 29 ts S. 11. HILL, Agent.
Confederate States of America, 1
War Department, Ordnance. Bureau, >
Richmond, Nov. 11, 1864. j
All OFFiCEr.s on Ordnance duty are required
by General Orders, No. 70, Adj’t. Sc I. G. Office,
Aug. 29. 1864, to report without delay to the Chief
of Ordnance, Richmond, by letter, stating
First.— Their rank.
Second. —Date of commission (or appointment)
giving date from which their rank takes effect.
Third.— Arm of service.
Fourth. —State to which they belong.
Fifth.— Date of assignment to Ordnance duty.
Sixth— The authority by which assigned, furnish
ing date, and if possible, copy of order of ass gnment
to which will be added.
Seventh. —Present duty, and order of assignment
Officers of the Regular Army will report both their
regular and provisional commissions,: or appoint
ments, conferring temporary rank.
Failure on the part of officers on Ordnance duty
to report immediately as above, will be treated as
a delinquency. J- GORGA3*
nov 22 eod4w Chief of Ordnance.
To Rent,
* BLACKSMITH SHO’* with six or seven Forges.
V all complete. Apply at
00 31 ts THIS OFFICE.
To Printers !
\\TE offer for sale a complete BOOK BINDERY,
YV (exeept Rul ng Machine,) two hand PRESSES,
and about
1,000 Poaads of Type Mela!.
. nov2l-tf
IVoticeto Debtors and Creditors
ALL persons having claims against the estate of
il Joseph W. Woobolk, dec’d, late of Muscogee
county, are hereby notified to render them da y
authenticated within the time prescribed by law:
ans those indebted to said estate are requested to
m? se immediate payment.
WM. G. WOOLFOLK,
nov 23, 1864—w40d Adm’r
. To Hire,
’’OR next year, a first rate Cook, Washer and
Ironer. She is faitbfuUand honest and'irey. from
incumbrance. Apply at THIS OFF . OR.
and ec 11 ts
Wanted,
A WOOD TURNER, white or black. Go j! wages
A will be paid for a e><«d turner,
dec 156? JEEFEKSON & HAMILTON.
Sun Sc Enquirer copy.
art i: via 131 i no*
WAR ILLUSTRATIONS-
General* a , n , ilour Wltn ,he Confederate
deihi 2t* * ‘•Portly appear at Temperance Hall.
s•*© Reward.
r EFT my lot on Monday last a RED COW
1J dium size, heavy with calf, mark : .-lit and
in or.e ear and slit in the other, with wbHe >n - -,
her face, small horns turned u. wards.
dec 19 fit* John McGovern
Overseer Wanted.
A MAN over fifty five, or one whe is unfit for keid
service, to attend to a plantation r.e r Cblumb**
Apply to J. R. IVEY. ‘
dee lo lw
Attention Macon County Militia.
By virtue of an order issued from the Executive
Department of Alabama, at .Montgomery, 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 according to the 10th section of A<t
of August 29th, 1863.
Transportation will be furnishid from Chehawto
Pollard. Til OS. P. RANDLE,
dec 17 St* Gapt. Com'dg Company.
Florida Lands for Sale.
A TRACT OI LAND situated in Wakulla county,
-A Ha., on Wakulla river, 12 miles south of Talla
hassee and six miles distant from both Newport an t
St. Marks; containing 760 acres, of which l<i>i acres
are pine, the remainder hammock. The growth is
liveoak, whiteoak, wat<roak, hickory, etc. All un
improved excepting a few acres.
For terms and further description applv to •
dec 17 3t HANSERD k AUSTIN.
YARNS and OSNABURGS
TO EXCHANGE FOR
GROTJ3XT33 3F*s3
At the GRANT FACTORY.
dec 17 ts
SSOO Reward.
STOLEN from my stable, the Bth inst., a small da#
pie cream PONY, white mane and tail, astalicm,
very fat, four years old. Will pay S2OO for the pony
and S3OO for the theif, delivered to me in Aineriew*.
Ga., or E. J. Pinckard, in. Columbus, Ga.
dec 15 2w R. C. BLACK.
Wanted,
AT Lee Hospital, the Ist of January, ten able
bodied NEGROES, men and women.
A. D. BRIDGMAN.
dec II ts Steward
TO GEORGIA EDITORS AND THE
IIATLESS !
I WANT rabbit skins, coon skins, fox skins, ottor
skins, mink skins, beaver skins, and all other skins
that have ur upon them. I want them for the pur
pose of making hats, and will pay tho highest cash
prices, or swap hats for them. 1 will give a good
rabbit hat for sixty rabbit skins; a good coon hat
for two dozen good coon skins ; a good beaver hat
for three beaver skins; a good wool hat for two
pounds of clean washed wool, free of coekleburrs,
and cut from the live sheep’s back, ands > on. Tfco
skins must betaken from the animals in winter and
be well stretched before drying. Parcels may bo
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 tho
following prospectus the same number of time*,
sending me their papers in exchange, with tho ad
vertisements marked, shall receive by express, free
c f charge, a good, soft, rabbit fur hat which will
bring in the market $100; provided they will have
their heads measured and seud me tho dimensions*
miles 9 Register Revived.
PROSPECTUS OF
THE COUNTRYMAN,
YjTLES’ Register, the most useful journal ever
1* issued in America, has been revived in tho pub
lication of The Countryman. This journal is a fan
simile of its original, in the number and size of its
piyjes, its typography,and all.llie'featuros which gave
value to the standard publications issued by Mr.
Niles.
Besides the features of Niles’ Register, the Couu -
tryrnan has others which should render it still more
attractive—to-wit: a department of elegant litera
ture, rejecting the siylo of Yankee literaly journals,
and modeling itself after the best English miscel
laneous weeklies, but at the same time, being
stamped with an independent, Southern tone, origi
nal with and peculiar to itself.
An altogether novel feature with it, is that it is
published in the country on the editor’s plantation,
nine miles from any town or village, and devotes
much attention to agriculture, rural sports, and
everything that interests the country gentleman.
The Countryman is a handsome quarto, ofsixteeu
pages, published weekly on tho editor’s plantation,
near Eatonton, Ga., to which all communications
should be addressed.
Our terms are $5 for three mouths, or S2O per
annum.
Send all remittances by express.
J. A. TURNER.
declod4t Eatonton, Ga.
.
Wanted
WE wish to hire for the ensuing year, six good
Negro Carpenters, one good Blacksmith and
one wagoner.
dec 10 2w JEFFERSON A HAMILTON.
Sun and Enquirer copy.
Wanted.
| OAAA LBS- PORK, for which we will pay
OuUl/ cash or exchange salt,
dee 10 6t JEFFERSON & IIAMITON.
Sun and Enquirer copy.
A Plantation for Sale.
I THE UNDERSIGNED offers for sale a Planta
j 1 tion on the Apalachicola river, 25 miles below
Chattahoochee, containing 1,500 acres, more or less,
| embracing 1,200 acres of unsurpassed bottom land,
| the balance superior pine land. In a favorable
: season sixty bushels of corn or 2,000 pounds of seed
j cotton, may be safelylrelied on. On the premises are
i first rate negro quarters, gin house, screw and sta
! files. The dwelling is small but comfortable.
There are two orange groves on the place, one on
j the river and in full bearing. A portion of the erof*
i of 1863 sold for more than S9OOO. The other grovo is
young but in good condition, embracing not «q 1?
i oranges but lemons and other tropical fruits.
The place is finely watered and healthy. A rare
opportunity is offered for the investment of Con
federate money if application is made early.
Titles perfect.
, Apply to R. L. BASS.
Columbus, et
VAN MARCUS,
dec 6 ts Steamer Shamrock.
Stop the Horse Tihef!
SSOO Steward.
j QTOLEN from the premises of C, P. Levy, aard«*
I IJ the new bridge, on the night of 30th November
1 two BAY HORSES and one BLACK PONY.
1 Above reward will be paid for the horses a*i
thief. JOHN D. GRAY Sc CO.
dec 2 4t
To Rent.
A SMALL FARM, containing about 100 aerce.et)
in the woods and forty eleared, about one mue
above the Fountain Factory, on the river. On the
place is a good dwelling with three (rooms, a large
apple and peach orchard and variety of other fruit
trees, good wafer, <fcc. For terms apply to
Mrs. J. A. JONES.
dee near Columbus.
Headquarters Military Division 1
of the West, A
Macon, Ga., Nov. 29th, 18#4. j
General Orders, 1
No. -. J
All supernumerary Officers of this Military Divition
not otherwise assigned to duty, will report to fca
Commandant of the Post, Macon, Ga,
By command of General Beauregard.
A. R. CHISOLM,
dec 2 ecd2w A. D. C. and A. A. A. Q
Headquarters Gov. Works, (Obd) l
Columbus, Ga., Dec. 1, li>s4 )
Wanted to Hire !
FIFTEEN NEGRO BLACKSMITHS.
Good quarters furnished and liberal wages paid.
Apply to M. H. WRIGHT,
dec 2 lw C#k Com A?-
W^ItTTIEJID.
A N OVERSEER. One wHhout family, who nas
A. lost an arm in the service, and thereby unlit 10
military service preferred. rr A \vipn
Annlvto ROBERT R. HOWARD,
Apply to Reynolds. Taylor County.
MRS. CHAS. J. WILLIAMS.
noV2I-tf * Columbus, Ga.
WANTED!
r AAA LBS. of TALLOW, for which a liberal price
o>tH/0 will be pud. AprK-.0, DILL , RI)
S p 7 ts Mai or and Q. M.
WANTED,
A GOOD BUSINESS MAN, uutil the first oi'
A. January. The best wages paid. A disabled bo
dier preferred, and it matters not how badly ;
lated by wounds so he has firmness and judem
Apply at the TIMES Os FILE
aor 30 ts