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DAILY TIMES.
J. W. WtitREN, - - - Editor.
COLUMBUS:
Thursday Morning, December 22, 1864.
Sherman’s Campaign Developing.
?he fail of Fort McAlister, at the mouth of
the Ogeechee, 13 certainly a very serious loss,
says the Telegraph and Confederate, 20th, for
thereby Sherman’s army can be co-operated
with by the fleet in any attempt that General
may make to capture the city. Without that
co-operation his chances of success are very
small ; with it the chance? are t v at he will
succeed, an 1 the principal seaport of Georgia
will be in the enemy’s possession.
But should Sherman, contrary to our hopes
and belief, capture the city, what then? He
simply captures a very pleasant city, but one
which has been of but very little value to us
in a maritime point of view. By its possession
he may he enable J to send raiding parties into
the in: ■ io.. hot by no means to a sufficient
extent to do any great deal 01 The
danger most o be apprehended is, that he will
make it ihe base for inland operations against
Charleston, and a campaign against Augusta.
Sherman’s necessities compelled him to
make a rapid march through Georgia, and
the policy of his government demanded that it
should be marked by wide-spread desolation.
Our people laughed at the idea of his march
ing through Georgia—but he has done it. It
was predicted he would be fought, delayed,
whipped and starved before he reached the
e«jls it he wisely avoided battle, and bns
reached the coast without serious hindrance
or loss. The capture of Fort McAllister vvitc
its garrison, forming a very important part of
the defences of the city, more than compen
sates for his losses, while it diminishes the
chances of failure in his operations against it.
We regard it as impolitic and unwise to lull
our people into a false security in reference to
the safety of Savannah. We have believed all
along that Sherman could take the city if co
operated with by the fleet. We now believe
it to be in bis power to take it, and that the
minds of the public should be prepared for
the disaster, and to meet the consequences.
Having secured Savannah wbat will he do?
Will he remain idle ? He will in nil proba
bility commence operations against Charles
ton on tbe land side, or proceed against
Augusta. The defences of the former city we
doubt not are fully equal to any demands that
may be made upon them, for that city has
been regarded as much coveted by the Feder
al, and has always been looked upon as in
more danger than Savannah or Augusta—
hence her defences have been more complete
and substantial. «
Augusta is, in our opinion, too far inland
to be successfully approached. It could hardly
be reduced without a co-operating gunboat
fleet—and the shallowness of the river, to-'
getber with the frequent bluffs on its sides,
affording the best situations for batteries, will
probably prevent that co-operation. Besides
this Sherman would be compelled to leave a
large garrison at Savannah while ours would
be released; thus he would be weakened
while we would be strengthened.
But suppose he should capture Augusta also
and thus sever the Confederacy on this line —
cutting communications between the States
north of the Savannah river and those south
of it. What then?
We are by no means ruined, while the more
he divides and scatters his forces, the mote
liable he is to be whipped iu detail. It is im
possible for the enemy to garrison every place
he captures, and as soon as he evacuates, we
re-enter and repossess them. This was illus
» trated by Sherman being compelled to with
draw all his garrisons from Atlanta to
Chattanooga, to make up an army for this
expedition, whereby he lost iu thirty days,
territory it had taken months of time, millions
of money, and tens of thousands of lives to
gain. As it was with Northern Georgia, so
it will be with Eastern Georgia, except where
the enemy has the support of his gunboats
As with Northern Georgia, so it is now quite
clear it will be with East Tennessee. That I
country is fast slipping from Federal clutches ;
We may soon expect to hear of the evacuation
of both Chattanooga and Knoxville, for with
Hood and Breckinridge where they are, the
enemy can hardly hold them.
These two points evacuated, the country is
then ours, and in better condition for us than
when we lost it, for thanks to the rapacious
ness of the enemy, Southern feeling has been
intensified and Union feeling materially weak
ened if not destroyed.
But more and better still, communication
between Richmond, and the States South and
West of the Savannah will be again re-estab
lished, and the darling project of the Yankee
President, of dividing the Confederacy east
and west, successfully defeated.
The enemy has the numbers and can flank
us, avoid fighting as he desires, take our im
portant cities and burn them, overrun and
devastate our lands, and destroy our farming
implements. Yet this is neither conquest or
subjugation ; and so long as the people re
main as firm and united as they have been
and are now, there is no fear of their being
either conquered or subjugated. We may be
exterminated, but subjugated—never ! Let
Sherman, then, do his worst; and let the peo
ple prepare to do, dare and suffer, more than
ever, and they will surely, in the end, defeat
the machinations of our merciless foe and
have their efforts crowned with a glorious
success.
The Rebel thus desoribes tbe point where
our batteries are placed on the Cumberland
river:
Harpeth Shoals, the point upon the Cum- j
berland river at which tbe Yankee dispatches
tell u3 our batteries have been established so
as to blockade the river, is forty miles below
Nashville, and twenty above Clarksville. For
miles the river is remarkably rapid, and the <
speed of boats going up necessarily slow : the
bluffs are high and commanding, and affords
excellent sitea for batteries. Unless suppor
ted by a land force, no boats can pass either
up or down the river, if our artillery desire 0
stop them ; and as the river is the route by
which Nashville receives its principal supplies,
the control of its navigation is a very impor
tant advantage gained. We have now only
to cut the Louisville and Nashville and Edgc
fiald and Kentucky railroads, which can easily
be done, and the isolation of Nashville is com
plete.
(From the Richmond Whig.)
('hanges in the System of Warfare.
The French Revolution, among the many
i legacies which it conferred upon civilization—
some for evil, many for good—brought in its
train no greater changes than those to which
the military art was subjected, in giving it its
full development, and preparing it for that
stage of perfection which it has attained in
our da^-.
The movement by which the Revolution had
supplanted the cavalry by the infantry arm of
the service, or, as Thiers says, by which it had
supplanted the knightly nobility by the people
itself, had received from that Revolution,
which was but the outburst of the middle
classes its last and perfecting impulse. And j
hence it was left to that great political com- ,
motion to accomplish a 1 evolution in the sys- j
tcm of warfare, as it was destined to achieve
one in the minds of men.
Great wars occur among nation but rarely,
and when they do take place, they are confined
to nations, men and events of concurrent
1 greatness. The true character of a war is not
limited to the commotions which give rise to
it: for then the devastating wars of the no
madic tribes which overran southern Europe,
or those of the conquerers of Asia, might be
! looked upon as great wars. A war becomes
| great as it is conducted on the principles of
science and a power of combination, which
pre-supposes an energetic and skillful resis
tance against the * conqueror. The page of
history offers to posterity many strikiug points
which well deserve to arrest its attention— j
especially so in its remote periods, when we j
see the greatest of the Roman Generals moving
freely through Gaul, provoking the unskillful j
Gani to battle when he chose. But how sud- j
den he changes his method when in Spain or j
in Epirus, dealing with Romans like himself, i
We see him then exhausting the appliances of i
skillful combinations to accomplish the object j
of his campaign.
In the middle ages we find no such eviden
ces of skillful combinations. The eye wea
ries over an unbroken scene of blood, in which
the human heart uncurbs its usual passions.
We behold a strange commingling of heroes
and of cravens, of virtues and of vices, but
but we vainly seek for a Caesar or a Hannibal.
Here not only do great wars disappear from
the scene, but the art of war is forgotten and
unknown. Throughout this unbroken waste
we may fall upon a great chieftain like Char
lemagne, but we do not meet with a single
great captain. In that age of individual pow
er, poetry itself, the only annals of the times,
assumes the character of the events which it
records, and it celebrates the deeds of the
knightly Paladins warring in the name of
Christ against the Saracens warring in the
name of Mahomet This is the age of chival
ry, the character of which is plainly indicated
by tbe name. That is, it is the age of the
horseman clad in armor, fighting, sword in
hand, in the measure of his skill and his physi
calpporer.w r er. And yet this state of things is
suddenly changed by the progress of European
society.
Commerce and industry, gathering in the
ttities large populations, who become brave
from the instincts of self-defense, gave birth to
the foot soldier, that is, to the infantry. The
Swiss, defending their mountain homes, the
citizens of the Italian cities and the Germans
behind their walls, the Dutch behind their
dykes, constitute the infantry, and give it an
importance which went on steadily increasing.
A great discovery, due to the progress of Eu
ropean society—that of explosive materials—
j powerfully contributed towards the same phe
nomenou. The armor became not only ridicu
lous but dangerous when exposed to projectiles
hurled by gun powder. From that moment,
the soldier divests himself of his ponderous
raiment, and intelligence and collected cour
age supplant mere brutal, physical force, For
the same reasons, the cities whose walls pre
sented a threatening and uncouth aspect, at
once changed their form and appearance.
These walls disappeared to make way for
slightly elevated bastions, with singular and
j square fronts, which ultimately served as a
j model for the unsurpassed modern fortifica
! tion.
i
Not only in this, but in the organization of
| armies themselves, had the changes been go
ing on. Notwithstanding the development*
| which the infantry had undergone, it com
| prised no more than halt of the troops collected
on a battle-field, the cavalry forming the other
half. Artillery w r as very scant—in the propor
tion of a piece to a thousand men, and very
difficult to move.
The order of battle was such as we see it in
the days of Hannibal and of Ciesar—that is,
the infantry was always in the centre, the cav
alry upon the wings, and the artillery (supply
ing the engines and battering rams of the
ancients) on the front, whatever may have been
the character of the ground. The artillery
would first open, then the cavalry on the wings
would charge whatever was opposed to it, and,
if it held the advantage, it would fall back
upon the centre, where the foot soldiers were
engaged, and, attacking the infantry of the
enemy on the flank or in the rear, would finally
defeat them. This is the history of all ba’tles
in the days of Gu3tavus Adolphus, of Turenne,
and of Conde. Such were the battles of Lutz
en, of Rocroy, of the Dunes. How different in
our days. The cavalry is no longer posted on
the wings, nor the infantry in the centre, nor
the artillery in front. Each arm of the service
is posted according to the character of the
ground—the infantry in irregular ground, rhe
cavalry in the plains, and the artillery in any
place where it may be used to advantage.
At the present time the infantry makes up
the four-fifths of the combatants, and it is the
main stay of the army. It is accompanied by
cavalry to clear its way, by artillery to support
it; and if heavy bodies of cavalry and artillery
are held in reserve, it is to strike decisive
i blows.
Frederick the Great, up to the battle of
Mohvitz, had made use of the ancient system
of organization, and,it was but at Leuthen and
at Rosbach that he changed completely the art
of war in subordinating the various arms of
the service to the varying character of the
ground. It was then that he introduced his
favorite tactics of concentrating his attack
against one wing of the opposing army ;
whence arose those famous discussions on the
oblique order, which rang throughout the 18th
century. But it was left to that great political
commotion, called the French Revolution, to
develop to its fullest extent the art of war, and
to introduce those features of warfare which
to this day we have observed.
' It was left for that master mind who by
| chance sprang up at Toulon—he who had been
bred in the schools of the old regime —to star
tie the world with new and dazzling theories,
the successful and repeated applications of
. which well nigh made him the master of the
universe.
Delosire Prospects of Peace. ,
Hear wbat Raymond, of tbe New York
Times (Government organ) says in his issue
of the 2d instant:
There is something really melancholy in
i the propositions made by such men as Gov.
Brown, of Georgia, and Mr. J. T. Leach, of
North Carolina, for a convention of th® States
to agree on term3 of peace in which the inde
pendence and separate sovereignty of each of
them should be fully acknowledged ; because
. they reveal an to comprehend the
temper and opinions of the Northern people,
and their object in prosecuting the war, which
one can hatdly nelp considering incurable.
Re-union secured, after all that has occur
red, in any such way, would be based simply
on an ordinary treaty of peaee, such as, at
this moment, maintains tbe good relations of
Italy aud Austr.a, or Russia and Turkey, vio
lable, of course, whenever the inclination or
convenience of either of the parties call for it.
No such agreement, w e need hardly say,
would constitute a proper basis either for pub
lic credit or for any other purpose needing
united action. Nothing, as the history of the
world shows, will secure what we seek, ex
cept a National Government, against which
it. shall be treason to rebel, and which nothing
but successful revolution can overthrow. The
South has long held that tbe Constitution
was a treaty of alliance, and we see the result
of that doctrine in the rebellion ; and with
that result before our eyes, what should in
duce us to enter into another treaty of al
liance, to be broken probably in a few years,
from causes very similar, and which have
their root not in any institution whatever, but
in human nature itself.
Therefore we shall have no convention of
States; no treaty or arrangements of any
kind with anybody in the Confederacy, which
shall involve tbe smallest iota of concession
that any body of men in the South now in
arm3 are aught else than citizens of the Uni
ted States in revolt against the Government.
To accord them any character of sovereignty
or independence, would be to render all our
fighting just as vain and useless as the ac
knowledgment of Confederate independence.
It would prove one of two things—a dissolu
tion of the Union, or a lengthened armistice.
Either would be fatal to the existence of this
Government.
It would be just a3 well, therefore, if the
peace party at the South would give up at once
and forever all idea of ever fleeing a conven
tion ol “Sovereign States,” in which those of
the North will be represented. They could
not even send delegates-to such a convention,
or enter iDto any agreement with auy South
ern State, or any subject whatever, without
repudiating the Constitution, the authority of
which they have been fighting for four years
to uphold. Section 10, of Article 1, expressly
forbids any State from entering into “any
agreement or campact. with another State, or
with a foreign Power.”
So that whether we regard the Confederate
States as simply in revolt, or as independent
Powers, all attempts to conclude any treaty
or arrangement with them as separate States
•would be revolutionary. Can any sane South
ern man believe, after due reflection on the
evidences of Northern earnestness which he ,
is daily receiving, and which he has received
since 1861, that we would stultify ourselves
to such an extent as to follow the example of
the men we have been so long trying to pun
ish as criminals, unless we were forced into
it? The notion which the Southern recon
structionists seem to entertain, that the offer
to throw Davis and his Government overboard,
and each, as separate States, to negotiate, as
sovereigns , for a peaee, is an offer of# compro
mise—is sheer delusion. We can no more
treat with Georgia as an independent Power
than we can with the whole Confederacy.
Asa Slate which has been in revolt, and is
anxious to stop fighting, and come back to the
Union, of course we should be delighted to
meet her ; but in no other character
meeting her be of any use, and through nfl
other channel than the National GovernmeiM
established at Washington, could we havfl
anything to say to her. This war has beefl
from the outset maintained by delusions cfl
one side or other. There will be peace onS
when they are destroyed, and there could ncH
be a more mischievous one than the idea
the great majority of the Northern people
any resting peace short of re-union ou the ba
sis of the existing Constitution. As soon as
the South abandons it finally, we shall be one
step, and a long one, nearer the end.
How They Live in New York,
How do the mass of the inhabitants live ? Let
facts and figures show. Three-quarters of a mill
ion live in tenement houses. Os 416,000 families
in the city, only 10,000 have an independent home
by themselves, 14,362 families live two in a
5,416 live three in a house. In the 15,964 houses
not included above, 71,388 families live, or rather
stay ; seven families, of thirty-five souls, in each
house. This is the average ; while in the Elev
enth ward, 113 rear houses, or the back ends of
lots reached through alleys, contain 1,653 families,
170 to a house. Others have eighty and some
ninety-fiive persons living in them. In one ward
twenty-nine houses hold 6,447 souls—lß7 persons
|ia a single house. In one house there are 112
families. In another there are 500 low Irish and
! German persons huddled together. Packed into a
j single block are in some cases people enough to
makea city of the size of Utica, New York. To
call these barracks by the name of houses has been
i well described as follows : “A structure of rough
brick, standing upon a lot twenty-five by ono
hundred feet, from four to six stories high, and so
divided internally as to contain four families on
i each floor —each family eating, drinking, sleeping,
cooking, washing and fighting in a room eight
feet by ten; unless indeed, the family renting
thes<- two rooms taKe in another to board, or sub
lets one room to one or even two oiher families.”
Os course, most of the rooms are so dark you can
scarely see iu them of a cloudy day; and as to
ventilation, water and other closets, or any of the
comforts and conveniences of a home, they are
not to bo thought of. Stench, indecency, gloom,
demoralization —these are the attendants. Is it
not strange that the children and adults can live
while crowded into such places? And is it strange
that vice and brutality rage rampant?
A thick pamphlet has just been published
in Yankeedoo.' io prove that Presidents Harri
son and Taylor were assassinated by poison in
the interest ol the South, and that the myste
rious National Hotel epidemic, in 1857, was
the result of a similar attempt on the life of
Mr. Buchanan. i
The Reserve Militia.
Th® following is Governor Brown’s order
j furloughing the Reserve Militia forces en
camped at Macon. It will be seen that he im-
I poses a number of duties upon them at bora®,
which if rightly performed, it is hoped, will
exert quiee a beneficial influence on society :
HEADQUARTERS, l
Macon, Ga., Dec. 19, 1864. /
General Order, No. —.]
I. All parts of the State, except the sea
coast and a small garrisen at Dalton, being
relieved from the presence of the enemy, the
Reserve Militia who have responded to the
last call of the Governor, and are now in
camps of organization, who have not been or
dered to report to Major General Smith, are
hereby furloughed until further orders from
these headquarters.
11. The organizations completed in camp, or
at home under special orders, will be main
tained subject to any future call which necessi
ty may, in the opinion of his Excellency, de
mand. In the meantime, they will, under
the direction of tbe officers commanding in
their respective counties, perform police and
patrol duty for two days, to-wit: Friday and
Saturday in each week. They will extend alj
needful protection to citizens, and special care
will be taken to guard the homes of wives and
families of soldiers who have died, or who
are in service, from depredations of thieves
and marauders. They will arrest all strag
glers and deserters, and send them, if Con
federates, to the nearest military post —or, if
State troops, to the Commandant of the Camp
at Macon.
111. They will arrest all men under fifty
years of age subject to serve with the troops
under Gen. G. W. Smith, and send such to the
Commandant at Macon, to be forwarded to
their command.
IV. They will at all act as a county
police, and arrest all suspicious persons liable
to service, examine their papers, and send all
suoh as are attempting to pass without proper
authority, to the Commandant of the nearest
military post.
V. Officers in command of companies will
report weekly to their superior officers, com
manding Regiments or Battalions ; and these
will make monthly reports to Headquarters
VI. The Militia in any county, who do not
conform promptly to these orders, will be held
for field duty.
VII. All men in the various counties sub
ject to the call of his Excelloncy, of the 19th
ult., and who have failed to report for duty,
will be required to perform such extra service,
in their respective counties, as.the officer com
manding shall deem necessary.
VIII. All armed details, sent to the various
counties to arrest and bring up persons refus
ing to respond, will report to their respective
camps, with the persons arrested, and will de
liver them to the commandants of the camp
to be reported by them to the Commander-in-
Chief for proper action. They will, on their
return, deliver their arms to the commandant
of their camp, and then be released on fur
lough, under these General Orders.
IX. Tbe Commander-in-Chief takes this
occasion to express his thanks to the Reserve
Militia, who have responded with such alac
rity to the call of their State in her hour of
trial.
By order of
■JOSEPH E. BROWN,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
W. K. DeGraffenreid ,
Major and A. A. G.
Burning op Northern Cities.—The following
mysterious call, addressed “to all whom it may
concern,” which we find in the Richmond Whig
of the 7th, has reference, no doubt, to the incen
diary operations in New York city :
The failure of our employees to do their work
recently, with skill, in the city of New York,
makes it necessary for the Brotherhood to meet and
concert measures for a more decisive execution of
the great retaliatory duty they have taken upon
themselves at,this juneture. Our own homes have
been destroyed in violation of all the rules of war,
and we must make our ruthless enemies feel the
weight of our justly aroused vengeance in the very
centres of his resources and wealth. We can do
it—do it effectually.
You are therefore ordered
The darkness grow
The drowsy pipe of evening birds
Was hushed upon the hills;
Athwart the shadows of the vale
Slumbered the men of might,
And one lone sentry paced his rounds
To watch the camp that night.
A grave and solemn man was he,
With deep and 3ombre brow :
The dreamful eyes seemed hoarding up
Some unaccomplished vow ;
The wistful glance peered o’er the plain,
Beneath the stary light,
And with the murmured Name of God,
He watched the camp that night.
The Future opened unto him
Its grand and awful scroll—
Manassas and the Valley march
Game hovering o’er his soul—
Richmond and Sharpsburg thundered by
With that tumultuous flight,
Which gave him to the angel nest
That watched the camp to night.
We mourn for him who died for us,
With one resistless moan,
While up the Valley of the Lord
He marches to the Throne !
He kept the faith of men and saints
Sublime, and pure, and bright—
He sleeps—and all is well with him
Who watched the camp that night.
Brothers ! the midnight of the Cause
Is shrouded in our fate ;
i The Deamon Goths polute our hall
With fire and lust and hate;
Be strong—be valient—be assured—
Strike home for Heaven and Right !
The soul of Jackson stalks abroad,
And guards the camp to-night.
A loyal Northern lady has written an able pa
i per on the crisis, in which she protests against
killing off all the men. She says : “I do not be
i Here in fighting for the country and the flag to
the last man; and it seems to me anybody is an
| idiot who talks such nonsense. What would the
; country be to me or any other woman if the last
! man was gone?”
Nashville is completely invested, and cer
tain to fall into our hands.
T 7 LI 33 OITY
; T- J . JACKSON LOCAL EDITOR.
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dec M ts
A Christmas Fair
For the benefit of the Ladies’ Soldiers’ Aid So
ciety, will bo hold on Thursday evening, Decem
ber, 22d, at Hull <& Duck's old stand.
In connection with the above, will be a supper
which will tempt the taste of the most fastidious,
served by the hand 9 of some of Georgia’s fairest
daughters.
There will also be a variety of articles ofierred
for sale useful and ornamental. And amid the
festivities of tbe evening the gratification of the
juveniles has not been overlooked. A miniature
Christmas Tree brilliantly illuminated will add to
the pleasure of the occasion.
All favorable to the cause we cordially invite to
attend.
Doors open at 6 o’clock.
Tickets of admission can be procured at Mr.
Spear’s store, or at the door.
Thk Holidays and the Negroes. —From the
number of permits granted by Council for balls
and parties, we should judge our sable brethren
are anticipating a jolly time during the approach
ing holidays. We have no objection to their en
joyment of what little pleasure they can derive
from Christmas iu these evil times, provided such
pastimes be conducted so as not to disturb th®
peace and welfare of the neighborhood.
The weather is decidedly coolish, after heavy
rains on Tuesday night. Yesterday noon came in
quite blusteringly, and the prospect now is that
the ladies can furnish ice cream at low figures to
night.
Ladies Fair and Supper.— Remember the
Ladies Fair and Supper to-night for the benefit
of the “Way Side Home.” The Ladies are get
ting up the entertainment in their accustomed
magnificent style, and we have no doubt it will
prove an “astonisher” to all who may attend.
These ladies will doubtless contrive some plan to
get your money, but then you will have the
pleasing consciousness of feeling that it is extort
ed in a good cause—a cause which appeals to
the hearts and purses of all patriots and philan
thropists. The women have done much to relieve
the distresses of the soldier, and will ever be
found faithful to all objects which appeal to the
tender susceptibilities of their natures.
A Christmas Dinner. —Wo have been request
ed to give notice, that in addition to the Christmas
Tree to be gotten up for the benefit of the pupils
of the Columbus Free School, the kind ladies of the
city and vicinity are making preparations to serve
them with a sumptuous dinner on Saturday, and
persons willing to contribute for this cause, can
send in their donations to the church by Friday
afternoon. This is as it should be. Give these
children a regular old fashioned Christmas holi
day—with plenty of presents and plenty of din
ner. Make them happy for once, as they are not
blessed with the means to make themselves happy.
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Mral at sl2 per Bushel. —One of the grati
fying indications that poor folks will soon be out
of their troubles by the interesting process of star
vation, is the fact that meal is selling at the Pal
ace Mills at sl2 per bushel. They give a plea for
their charges that corn is not attainable at any
price. How is this ? Abundant harvests of corn
have been made throughout the country and the
article ought not how to be selling for more than
five dollars per bushel. If we have to submit to
such charges so close upon the heels of harvest
time, is it reasonable to suppose that we shall have
to pay fifty ter corn before the close of next sum
mer ?
We do hope that our people will not so far for
get the claims of humaaity as to pander to the
base desire for speculation in the “staff of life.”
The people must have broad if nothing else.
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Old Abe’s“First.” —As we have often given
Uncle Abe’s “last,” suppose we favor our read
ers with one of his “first” jokes.
The following is said to have occurred long
before Mr. Lincoln had become a man of
note :
Being in the woods hunting, one day, he
fell in with a most truculent looking hunter,
who immediately took a sight on him with a
rifle.
“Hallo !” says Lincoln, “whit are you going
to do, stranger ?” “See here, friend,” said the
hunter, “the folks in my settlement told me
that if I ever saw a man uglier than I was,
then I mu3t shoot him, and I've found him at
last, so look out.”
“Well/’ said Lincoln, alter a good look at
the hunter, “shoot away ; for if I am uglier
than you are, I certainly don’t want tc live any
longer.”
A United States paper says that “a lady in Berk
shire, New York, presented her husband with her
twenty«first child last week. The babies are all
living, but the father is almost cavad in.” Should
not wonder.
Confederate States of America, I
War Department, Ordnance Bureau, k
Richmond, Nov. 11, 1864. J
All officers on Ordnance duty are required
by General Orders, No. 70, Adj’t. Sc I. G. Office,
Aug. 29, 1861, 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 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 .as
a delinquency. *L GORGAS,
nov 22 eod4w Chief ofOrdnanc
Exchange Notice—lVo. 13.
Richmond, December 1, 1864.
1. All Confederate officers and men who have been
delivered by the Federal authorities at .any place,
prior to November 25th, 1864, are hereby declared to
be exchanged.
2. All officers and men of the Vicksburg capture of
July 4th, 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.
Chief Q. M.’s Department, \
Columbus, Ga., Dee. 20, 1801. j
I request that all persons holding certified
claims against the Quartermaster's Department in
this district, will present them to me, for tlia pur
pose of facilitating speedy payment.
F. W. DILLARD,
dec.22 tljan M. and Q. M.
Marshall Hospital. )
Columbus, Ga., Dec. 14, ISH. >
Notice!
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 ISJtill Ist j an. Steward, j
I YARNS and OgN
TO EXCHANGE FOR
GROUND PBAS,
At the GRANT FACTORY.
dec 17 ts
He ward.
CTOLEN from my stable, the Bth inst., a smatl da-
U pie cream PONY, white mane and tail astalikk
very fat, four years old. Will pay S2OO for the
and S3OO for tbe theif, delivered to me in Amenta
Ga., or E. J. Prackard, in. Columbus, Ga. ’
dec 15 2w R. c. BLACI.
S•SO Reward.
LEFT mylot on Monday last a RED COW, me
dium size, heavy with calf, mark : slit and ertu>
in one ear and slit in the other, with white spot « a
hor face, small horns turned upwards.
flee 19 bt* JOHN McGOYERM
$25 Dollars Reward.
v TRAY ED from my place in Wyunton, a dark
J bay mare MULE, about nine years old, hair
rubbed off of both hips and a large scar on the rijrht
airJquarter. JOHN COOK,
oe 13 ts
To Printers !
Y\J E offer for sale a complete BOOK BINDERY,
»» (except Ruling Machine,) two hand PRESSES,
and about
1,000 Pounds of Type Metal.
nov2l-tf
Everybody Look Here.
WILL be sold on the 10th January, 1865, on the
plantation of John Howard, Jr. on Flint
Hive*, on the Columbus branch of the S. W. R.
R., all the corn, fodder, peas, mules, cattle, hog. ai, 1
plantation implements. Terms cash,
At the same time will be rented the plantation :
eight hundred acres, and hired for the year, a like
ly set of plantation negroes, for good notes with a;> •
proved securities. R. R. HOWARD,
dee 20 tds Agent
HO FOR ATLANTA!
The Southern Express Company will receive
freight (under forty pounds each package) and
money paroels for Atlanta via Macon & Western
Railroad, from this date. S. H. HILL,
dec 6 ts ___ Agent.
Headquarters Conscript Service, Ga. 1
Augusta. Dec. 13, 1804- j
Circular' /
No. 27, <
In accordance with lorders from the Bureau of
Conscription, Enrolling Officers will return at once
all reports, directing the arrest of Deserters and ab
sentees from the army, which were issued prior to
the Ist July, 1864 ; with a report of their action thus
far, in endeavoring to secure their arrest.
JNO. F. ANDREWS.
Major and Acting Commd’t
dec 21 3t Conscripts,SGeorgia.
At Home Again,
THOSE wanting cutting done will please call,
I am at your service.
C. H. JONES,
134, Rroad street, Columbus, Ga
dec 21 41
LOST,
4 Confederate States Certificate for 4 per eent.
Bonds, issued by W. H. Young, Depositary, at
Columbus, dated March 14, 1864, and numbered
1238, for Six Thousand Dollars. The public is cau
tioned from trading for said Certificate, as applica
tion has been made for a duplicate.
dec2llm2w* H. BLACKMAN.
Brins' on Your Fur and Wool.
MY HAT SHOP is still in operation notwithstand
ing my absence personally, having been called
away in the army. J. B. GILBERT.
Stewart county, Ga., Dec. 21,1861.
dec 21 2t*
For Sale.
LINSEED OIL CAKE, for stock food, atß4lßroad
street. N. P. NaIL&CQ.
deo 21 lm
Lost or Mislaid.
FOUR SHARES of the G. & A. S. S. Cos., No.
16*\ in favor ol Mrs. J. L. Wihon.
nov 30 ts D. & J- J. GRANT.
Notice to Debtors and Creditor*
ALL persons having claims against the estate of
Joseph W. Woollolk, dcc’d, late of Muscogee
county, are hereby notified to render them duly
authenticated within the time prescribed by law,
ans those indebted to said estate are requested 5e
u immediate
nov 23, 1864 —w4od Adm’r
NOTICE
To Mississippi Soldiers!
PilE “MISSISSIPPI DEPOT” and Office ?f
1 L Agency for the Relief of Mississippi soldiers in
! the Army of Tennessee, has been removed fro si
Atlanta to Columbus, Ga., and is. near Barnard s
corner, between Main st., and the Perry House.
YourbareazeistW R MARSHALL,
sep23 ts Agent.
Government Sheep for Exchange.
OiiA HEAD SHEEP will be exchanged forßacoo
O'iU or Beef. The Sheep rated at $2 00, Bacon
10c., Beef 2c. gross per pound. The Beef to be de
livered alive. Apply to j. TYLSR
Columbus, Nov. 2,1864 —ts
To Hire,
f• OR next year, a first rate Cook, VFasher aal
I 1 Ironer. She is faithful.'and honest and-tree from
incumbrance. Apply at THlt> OiFI-E.
dec 11 ts
To Rent,
\ BLACKSMITH SHOP with six or seven Forgo*.
OC3I tf mll ' et "' Ap|l ' yi ' t TIIIS OFFICE
A Plantation for Sale.
THE UNDERSIGNED offers for sale a Plan a
-1 tion on the Apalachicola river, 25 miles bei« v
Chattahoochee, containing 1,500 acres, more or less,
embracing 1,200 acres of unsurpassed bottom land,
the balance superior pine land. In a tavorapie
season sixty bushels of corn or 2,000 pounds of see<i
cotton, may be safelyjrelied on. On the premises are
first rate negro quarters, gin house, screw and 9 a
bles. The dwelling is small but comfortable.
There are two orange groves on the place, one on
the river and in full bearing. A portion of the croa
of 1863 sold for more than S9OOO. The other grove is
young but in good condition, embracing not ©ctf
oranges but lemons and other tropical fruits.
The place is finely watered and healthy. A rare
opportunity is offered for the investment of C >a
federate money if application is made early.
Titles perfect.
R - L C® umta...,
VAN MARCUS..
dec6 ts Steamer Shamrock.
Florida Earnls for Sale.
\ TRACT OF LAND situated in Wakulla counw,
IA Kla., on Wakulla river, 12 miles south of Tana
hassee and six miles distant from both Newport ana
St. Marks; containing 760 acres, of which 100 acres
are pine, the remainder hammock. The growtn is
liveoak, whiteoak, wateroak, hickory, etc. All un
improved excepting a few acres.
For terms and further description apply to
a ec 17 3t HANSERD k AUr-TIN
Executor’s Notice.
TWO months after date application will be ma ic
1 to the Court of Ordinary of Taylor county. Hr
leave to sell the Negroes and perishable property?!
the Estate of Elizabeth T. Johnson, deceased, I* «
of said county. MUEL K JOHNSON, Ex’r
Oct. 20w2m* Per Til OS. D. BE AND
MOTIOEI.
Office Grant Factory,
Nov. 29, 1884. J
ALL persons having demands against the estate «
Daniel Grant, hereby requested to
present them to the Grant Factory. ,- T
nov 30tf JOHN J. GRAN 1.
Sun copy anil send bill to office Grant Factory
Stop the Horse Tihef!
S3OO Reward.
OTOLEN from the premises of C. P. Levy.
S the new bridge on the night of Nov moor
two BAY HORSES and one BLACK PON T.
b J P OHN f D. «HAyT«
dec2 4t -—— —■
To Rent.
A SMALL FARM, containing about 100 acres..?'!
in the woods and forty cleared, about oiivtm.
above the Fountain Factory, on the river. Un y
place is a good dwelling with three rooms, *
apple and peach orchard and variety ofotntr ■
trees, good water, dec. For \j r ™ 3 j * A -JON £ c
dec ** near Col uni big- _
Notice to Debtors and Credit** *
*!?
',' hereby notified to render them duly aO ,
fhenticated within the time prescribed by law; ar.
SStfSSbtSl to said estate are reqajgg.» ***
immediate payment. TO. iI(K -y i? '
dec 9 w4od
Administrator** Sale.
i »N the first day of January, I will sell at
U outcry at the Court House in Marianna, -x {e
more or less) of pine land, belonging to the -
of John Bird. On the premises U* | a pf,V»k.
water, negro cabins, etc. \ j
dea 6w4t
