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DA ILY TIMES. J. W. Witt , - - - Editor. COLUMBUS: Monday Morning, December 19, 1864, £ ~ ■ -ag— - _ ■■■■■■ ■ 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