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DAILY TIMES, j, W. H 4RBEX Ai CO., Proprietors. 'abii shed Da tfiundays excepted) at the rate of $5.00 per month, or sls for three month*. No tubscrijHio* received for a longer term than t «' mouths. RATES OF ADVERTISING. CASUAL DAILY ADVERTISING .RATRS. Advertisements inserted once—s 4 per square. REGULAR DAILY ADVERTISING RATES. First Week—s3 00 per square for each insertion. Second Week— s 2 00 per square for each insertion. Third Week— sl 50 por square for each Insertion. Fourth Week— sl 00 por square for each insertion. Second Month— S3O per square. Third Month—s2s per square. Ihftiagc of Bch?tliilc. • v.tick SSnqinkkr aid Superintendent, | Charleston ami Savannah Railroad, > Charleston, June 7, 1864.) kN THURSDAY, Jane ft.lß6', sail until further ' notice, the Schedule of the Passenger train will »e as follow, viz: Leave Charleston 9.45, a. m. ttrive In Savannah 5.40, p. in. Leave Savannah J>3o, a. nt. \rrivein Charleston 1.15, p. m. This Train ui&Kes directce iawtions. gcdiiK north *nd south, with the Northoarfern Railroad at <'har los’on, and the Central Railroad at the Junction. 11. .5. HAINES, .June 11 t.f Engineer and Superintendent. (>Ei:ui£e of Schedule. , \ and alter Sunday, June 19th, the Trains on ' hr useogee Railroad will run a j follows : PASSENGER TRAIN: .c. vo Coluiuuue !b 45 P. 51. 1 rrive at Macon 3 25 A. M. i.oave Macon 8 10 P. M. .rrive at Columbus 4 25 A. hi. FREIGHT TRAIN : Leave Columbus 5 00 A. M. ’• lu.. “■ 55 .4. M. W.L. CLARK 19 if Supt. Muscogee R, R. Through to JKoutgomery. NEW SCHEDULE. MONTOOMERY & WEST POINT RAILROAD COMPANY. COLUMBUS, August 27,1864. lN and alter August 27th. the Passenger Train on 1 ‘ the Vlontgoinery and Wed Point ltaiiroad will Leave Montgomery at 8:00 a. m. Leave West Point at 7:10 a.m. 4rrive at Columbus at 5:32 p.m. Leave Columbus • at 5:50 a. m. 4rriveat Mon'gomery at 3:00 p.m. Arrive at West, Potnt at 4130 p. in. Veigh: t rain leaves Columbus at 3:40 a in. lit ires at 8:27 p m D. H. ORAM, Sup’t & Eng. ,ig27lß64—tf MOSUL A GIRARD RAIL ROAD. < ii tua: of schedule. Girard, Ala., Oct 7, 1864. , v and after 10th inst. Trains on this Road will O Run Daily (Sunday excepted,) as follows: Passensrer Train Leave Girard at 1 30 p.^tn. Arrive in Union Springs 6 00 Leave Union Springs 5 35 a. rn. Arrive in Girard at 10 00 Fi’elgSit Traill. Leave Girard at 4 00 a. m. Arrive in Girard at 6 00 p. m. B. E. WELLS. aglßtf _ Eng. ASup't. Dr. It. JYODLE, -jDEii<rTxsa? 7 • \ T l’emberiOD A Carter’s old stand, bank room of t\ Smith’s Jewelry Store, where he can bo found all hours, iQpJS Wt STCjBRLIIf® EXCHANGE i FEW Hundred Pounds of Sterling Exchange *45 U le in ,um ’ *° su « Ink ofvoEhmbu s.. TO GEORGIA EDITORS AND THE II 4TLE3S ! 1 WANT rabbit skins, coon skins, fox skins, otter uiink skins, boAverskins, siud nil other skins that have ur upon them [ wani thorn for the pur pose of making hats, and will pa the highest cash prices, or swap ats lor them. 1 will give a gaud rabbit hat for sixty rabbit snus; a good coon hat for two dozen good coon skins : a good beaver hat for three boavvr skins; a good wool hat for two pounds of eh an washed wool, free of cockleburrs, and cu‘ from the live sheep's back, and so on. lhc skins must betaken from the animals in winter and be well stretched before drying. Parcels may be sent by express, and hais in the same wav, J. A. TURNER. Eatonton, Ga., Dec. 9, 1864. N. B.—All Georgia editors who will copy theabove notice, four times, including this note, and also the following prospectus, the same number of times, sending mo thoir papers in exchange, with too ad vertisements marked, shall receive by express, tree *f charge, a good, soft, rabbit tur hat which will bring in the market $100: provided they "ill have their heads measure • and send me the dimensions Niles’ Register Revived. PROSPECTUS OF THE COI\THVnt\, \ALES’ Register, the most useful journal ever i ■ issued in America, has been revived in the pub- i lication of The Countryman. This journal is afac | simile of its original, in the numbor and size of us pages, its typography,and all tho features which i value to tho standard publications issued by Mr. i ilcs. Besidfs the features of Niles’ Register, the Coun- : tryman has others which should render it still more attractive—to-wit: a department of elegant litera- | ture. rejecting the s ylo oi \ ankce literary journals, ; and modeling itself alter the best English miscel laneous weeklies, but at the satno 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 - j published in the country ou the editor's plantation, j nine miles from any town or village, and devotes ; much intention to agriculture, rural sports, and everything that interests the country gentleman. ; The Countryman is a handsome quarto, ot sixteen | pages, published weekly on the editor s plantation, near Entouton, Ga., to which all communications shonhi be addressed. Our terms aru $5 for three months, *or per annum. fiend all remittances by express. J. A. TURNER, dee 10d4t Eatonton. Ga. For Sale. ByEJ. J. BH.ITT, 114, Broad Streel. QA BOXES liue Tobacco, Oil Large lot Cotton Cards, . Soda, Pepper and Spice, Smoking Tobacco, (10 cases; Pad Locks, Brier Root and Ciay Pipes, 100 Bushels Shelled Corn, to arrive this week, Bar and Toilet S >aps. Tin and Cedar Ware. Confederate Crockery, Jars, Bowies, etc. dee 7 and Aw2r E A iu»s: UO Vai.VUEXT OF LETTER PAP @R! AND IWFRORAiVDU*! BOOK* ! For sale by J. K, REDD & 00. oc 12 ts 3500 Hewarcl ! STOLEN out of my stable, 2 iuiles from Oolumbus, nn the Crawford road, on Thursday night last, TWO IVITT3TEB, one a -mall bay mare Mule, blind in tho right eye The oihor a black mare Mule, mediu size, with whith mouth and white spot on rump, tmth iu good or s will l'*y the above reward for the delivery of the Mules with the thief, with proot sufficient to convict, or Two Hundred Dollars tne^ules. Columbus. Ga., Nov 9, IS64—tf varijun ,nease coi>y. 1 ~SPO Reward. NEGRO ho> CHARLEY; about 25 years oUyel- IN low complexion, hair nearly straight. below or dinary iutellisence ; left ATr. Nut. Thompson s neai Box borings. Talbot county. I bough! him of a Mr. Brown, a refugee from Mississippi, who now resides in Tuskegee, Ala. lie originally c:»tne *rom Charleston, S. C. A suitable reward will be paui for his delivery at this office, or in anv -ate iau and information sent to me at this office. JAMES M HuSSELL. CotU’H* On, nr ' Administrator'* Sale, ON the first day of January, I will sell at public outcry at the Court House in Marianna, S(X) acres (more or less! of pine land, belonging to the estate of John Bird. On the premises is‘a fine spring of v water, negro cabins, etc. W. S. POPB. dec <sw4t Adia’r. VOL. Xl.} WANTS. Wanted. “Negro Laborers and Blacksmiths.*’ T¥7E wish to hire for the ensuing year 25 Laborers m and eight to tt n Blacksmiths, to work in Gov ernment employ, which will exempt negroes from conscription. We will pay ood prices tor smart and active feilows. For particulars apply at our Government Works, near the New Bridge, dec 20 201 JOHN D. GRAY & CO. Wanted, \T Lee Hospital, the Ist of January, ten able bodied NEGROES, men and women. A. D. BRIDGMAN. dee II ts Steward. WANTED. ]?OR the ensuing year 10 or 12 DINING ROOM i SERVANTS and PORTERS, and one superior meat Cook. Also one white Chamber-maid Par ties desiring o continue their servant- at the Ho tel will please call on or before Saturday r xr to in sure their hire. SHIVERS, WYNNE A CO. Proprietors Cook’s Hotel. CdHumbus, Doc. 20—til Ist jan Wanted, A WOOD TURNER, white or black. Go >d wages “ w 11 be paid f>r a good turner, dec 15 6t J EEFERSON A HAMILTON. Sun A Enquirer copy. . winSTTEZ). \ N OVERSEER. One without family, who has \ lost an arm in the service, and thereby unfit for military service preferred. Apply to ROBERT R. HOWARD, Reynolds, Taylor Obunty. MRS. CHAS. J. WILLIAMS, noY2I-.tf Columbus, Ga. "wajntedT C <wm LBS. of TALLOW, for which a liberal price JjUvU will be paid. Apply to F. W. DILLARD, sp7 ts Major and Q. M. W A \ TED, A GOOD BUSINESS MAN, uutil the first of A. January. The best wages paid. A disabled sol dier preferred, and it matters not how badly muti lated by wounds so be has firmnoss and judgment. Apply at the TIMES OFFICE, nov 30 ts Wanted f|«o HIRE—Four or Five able bodied Negroes.— I Good wages given. Apply at our Government Works. oc 28 ts JOHN D. GRAY A CO. Wanted WE wish to hire for the ensuing ye ir, six good Negro Carpenters, one good Bluckzmith and one wagoner. dec 10 2w JEFFERSON <fe HAMILTON. Sun and Enquirer copy. Wanted. QAAA LBS. PORK, for which we will pay OUUU cash or exchango salt. dec 10 fit JEFFERSON & IIAMITON. Sun and Enquirer copy. Overseer Wanted. < MAN over fifty five, or one vvhc is unfit for field service, to attend to a plantation ne ir Columbus. Apply to J. R. IVEY, dec 15 1 w llrapquaktkrs Gov. Works, (Qrd.) t Coluinous, Ga., Doc. 1, 1864.) Wanted to Hire ! FIFTEEN NEGRO BLACKSMITHS. Good quarters furnished and liberal wages paid. Apply to M. H. WRIGHT, dec 2 lw Col. Com’dg. OFFICia SOUTHERN EXPRESS, Columbus, Ga., Oct., 29, 1864. VO Freight will be received at the Southern Ex •iA press Company’s Office after o’clock p. M. o go East on that day, nor will any be received to go West after 414 o'clock rm. „ „ rTTT T . , oc 29 ts S.H. HILL, Agent. Lost or Mislaid. UOUR SHARES of the G. A A. S. S. Cos., No. F 160, in favor oi Mrs. J. LWibon. nov 30 ts D. A J. J. GRAN T. Notice to Debtors and Creditors ALL persons having claims against the estate of Joseph W. Woolmlk, doc’d, late of Muscogee county, are hereby notified to render them duty authenticated within the time prescribed by law; and those indebted to said estate are requested to m, „ iiQluodiiita WOOLpotK> nov 23, 1864—w40d Adm’r. NOTICE To Mississippi Soldiers ! pHE “MISSISSIPPI DEPOT” and Office of l Agency for the Relief of Mississippi soldiers m the Army of Tennessee, has been removed from Atlanta to ColumPus, Ga., and is near Barnard’s corner, between Main st., and the Perry House. Your baggage is there. C. K. MARSHALL. sep2B ts __ Agent. Government Sheep for Exchange. <> i A HEAD SHEEP will be exchanged for Bacon ,Y •U or Beef. Tho Sheep rated at $2 00, Bacon 10c., Beef 2e. gros* per pound. Tue Boet to be de livered alive. Apply to nB .J. A. 1 i' blitv. Columbus, Nov. 2,1664—-ts To Hire, ■ OR next year, a first rate Cook, Washer and i Ironer. She is iaii.hfuband honest andlfree from incumbrance. Apply at THIS OFFICE, dec 11 tt To Rent, > BL ACKSMITH SIIO with six orseven Forges. •,‘jj Aln>li "“ THIS OFFICII- A Plantation for Sate. THE UNDERSIGNED offers for sale a Planta -1 tion on the Apalachicola river, 25 miles below Chattahoochee, containing 1,500 acres, more er 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 cotton, may be safelyirelied on. On the premises are first rate negro quart ers, gin house, screw and sta bles. The dwelling is small but comfortable. There are two orange groves on the place, one oa I the river and in full bearing. A portion of the cro* 1 of 1863 sold for more than $9009. The other grove u young but in good condition, embracing not only oranges but lemons and other tropical fruits. The place is finely watered and healthy. A rare opportunity is offered for investment of Cea federate money if application is made early. Titles perfect. Apply to B. L. B\Sfi, Columbus, oi VAN MARCUS, j cc gtf ' Steamer Shamrock. Florida Lands for Sale. t TRACT OF LAND situated in Wakulla county, A Fla., on Wakulla river, 12 miles south of Talla hassee and six miles distant from both Newport and St Marks; containing 760 acres, of which 160 acre* the remainder hammock. The growth is liveoak, whiteoak, wateroak, hickory, etc. All nn imi>roved excepting a few acres. For terms and further description apply to dec IT St HANSERD & AUSTIN. Esecutor’s Notice. i WO months after date application will ne male ■ to the Court of Ordinary of Taylor county, for ••eave to sell the Negroe- and perishable property es the Estate of Elizabeth X. Johnson, dcceaso-i, late of said county. >AMUBL K. JOHNSON. Ex’r Oet.2ow2in* Per THOS. D. BPAND. JS£ O ‘i? J OJE&l. Office Grant Factory, 1 Nov. 29. 1864. J LL p*rs>>ns having demands against the estate of ; Daniel Grant, deceased, are hereby requested to preseat them to the Grant Factory. nov 3 11 ts John j. grant. Sun copy and send bill t» office G-ant Factory. Slop She Horse Tihef! s*>oo Reward. CTO LEX from the p emi-es of C.P. Levy, acress o the new bridge, on the night ot oOt * tmber two BAY HORSES and one BL ACK PONY. Above reward will be paid for the horses and thief. JOHN D. GRAY k <?s. dec 2 4t COLUMBUS, GA., FRIDAY, DEC. 23. 1864. 1 SPECIAL NOTICES Notice! OrricE Quartermaster's Office, 1 Columbus Ga. / I will HIRE TWO HUNDRED NEGRO SHOE MAKERS; will pay liberal wages, feed, c'othe, aud provide medical attendance. Early applica nmst be made F. W. DILLARD, Major and Chief Quartermaster. December, 20,1864. tjanl Attention Macon County Militia. By virtue of an order issued from the Executive Department of Alabama, at Montgomery, Company A, 2d Class date Troops, of Macon county, will as semble at Chehu w on the 21st inst., also ihe men whose details have been revoked by Maj. Charles Green. Every f. ilure will be promptly reported and dealt with according to the 10th section of Act of August 29tb, 1863. Transportation willbefurnishtd from Chehaw to ! Pollard. THOS. P. RANDLE, dec 17 3t* Oapt. Com’dg Company. Attention Russell County Militia. By virtue of an order from the Executive De partment of Alabama, all members of Capt. Guerry’s , Company are ordered to report at Ilurtville, Rus sell county, on the 21st inst., well mounted with five day’s raiioiis, to repair immediately to Pollard. — Every failure will be promptly reportrd and dealt with according to Sec. 10th of Act of August 29th, 1863. THOMAS BERRY, dec 19 2t* Lieut. Com’dg Company. CIRCULAR. Headquarters Georgia Reserve,'! and Military District of Georgia, > Engineer's Office Macon, Ga., Dec. 14, 1864. J j The public interests require that a large amount of Slave labor be under the immediate control and employment of the Engineer Department, and to that end the recovery of Slaves who have ranaway and the additional impressment of one able-bodied Slave out of every five between the ages of 18 and 45 years, has become necessary. That the interests consulted may be the better served, it is declared incumbent upon the owners or employers of runaways, that they secure the prompt return of such; and that every inducement in their i power be given, that may conduce to the conten | led performance of tbe services required of the j 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 prcsiing are ordered to impress from them double the number they otherwise would be required to furnish. Every effort within the control of the Government is being exerted to render the condition of the slaves whdst on this duty as comfortable as possible. (Ade quate hospital accommodations are being (prepared by the Surgeons of this Department for such as may become sick, and competent assistants will accom pany all the different divisions, that whenever a slave is taken sick he may be promptly cared for. I 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, I dec 16 fit Captain Engineers P. C. S. A. lld’qrs Gamp of Instruction for Ga., I Camp Cooper, Macon, Dec. 10,1864, > i Special Orders, \ | No. 330. J [Extract.J ******* 111. A* communication with Col. Wm. M. Brown Commandant of Conscripts, is re-established, special order number 322, from these headquarterslis here by revoked. A. M. ROWLAND, dec 12 5t Major and Commandant. Headquarters Conscript Service, ) Georgia, Augusta, Ga., Dee. 2d, 1864.) | Circular, f j No. 26. j Enrolling Officers‘.ofthis State are hereby instruc ted not to interfere, until further orders, with As sessors and Collectors of Tax in Kind. JNO. F. ANDREWS, Major and Acting Commandant dec 11 6t of Conscpripts for Georgia. Headquarters Military Division j of thr West, > Macon, Ga., Nov. 29th, 1864.) General Orders, I No. j All supernumerary Officers of this Military Division not otherwise assigned to duty, will report to the Commandant of the Post, Maeon, Ga, Bv command of General Beauregard. A. R. CHISOLM, doc 2 eodsw A. D. C. and .4. A. A. G. CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, 1 War Department, Ordnance Bureau. V Richmond, Nov. 11, 1864.) All officers on Ordnance duty are required by General Orders, No. 70, Adj’t. A I. G. Office, Aug. 29, 1864, to report without delay to the Chief of Ordnance, Richmond, by letter, stating First.— Their rank. Second. —Date cf 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.’ Sixt h— Tho 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 thei>- 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. GORGAS, nov 22 eod4w Chief of Ordnance. Exchange Xotice-Xo. 13. Richmond, December 1, 1864. 1. All Confederate offioers and mm 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 tbe 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, 1854, are hereby de c ared to be exchanged. Ro. OULD, dec 11 6t Agent of Exchange. Chief Q. M.’s Department. \ Columbus. Ga., Dec. 20, 1864,/ I request that all persons holding certified claims against the Quartermaster’s Ds;partment in this district, will present them to me, f< r the pur pose of tacilitatin? speedy payment. F. W. DILLARD, dec 22 tljan M.andQ. M. Marshall Hospital, \ Columbus, Ga., Dec. 14,1864. / i\of ice! Wanted to hire for the eu»uiDg year, fifteen able bodied NEGRO MEN and ten WOMEN. Negroes thus employed are not subject to impressment. DANIEL R. BIZE, dee 13’till Ist jan. Steward. . To Rent. A SMALL FARM, containing about 106 acres, A. in the woods and forty cleared, about one mile above the Fountain Factory, on the river. On the place is a good dwelling witn three room?, a large apple and peach orchard and variety of other Ir*it trees, good water, Ac. For terms apply to ‘ Mrs. J. A. JONES. dev near Columbus, Thursday Evening. From thb Georgia Front. —The only in telligence we have from below, says the Ma con Confederacy, 21st, is taken from a private letter from Augusta dated Monday evening, Dec. 19th. It says that Sherman’s force has communicated with Foster’s, and that Savan nah is surrounded. The prevailing opinion in Augusta is that no attack will be made on Sa vannah, but an attempt to starve the garrison will be made, and thereby compel its surren der. Sherman should know that he has not got a Pemberton surrounded. The letter also brings tbe joyful tidings that Wheeler’s cavalry has been dismounted, and is now doing infantry duty. Let them be kept at this for a few mouths for renovation. We regret that the numerous stragglers that we have observed, for the past few weeks, hurry ing through our streets, eager and anxious to overtake their commands, failed to arrive in time to be fa vored by the transfer. The Augusta papers of the 20th have no news from Savannah. ’ [From the Charleston Mercury, 19th.] From the Coast, As far as we can learn, all remains quiet in and around Savannah. We have received the Savannah Republican of Friday morning. It says: ,! We have nothing new to report from the front. All continued quiet yes terday ; scarcely a gun was fired during the whole day.” The Republican is printed on aquarter sheet, and the Morning News has suspended publi cation. The tone of the Republican is quie’ and confident. No complaint i3 made of any scarcity of provisions in the city ; but notice is given in the local column that the Haber sham Mills will supply the people with rice flour at $4 per bushel. We can get no hint .as to Sherman’s whereabouts and designs. We learn that Col. Young, with about 900 men, went on Friday to Argyle Island, where the enemy, 800 strong, had possession of two rice mills, at one of which he was pounding and the other threshing rice for his own use. With the aid of two Napoleon guns of Earle’s light battery, the Yankees were soon driven off. One mill and several neighboring build ings were burned. and the other-mill rendered useless. Although the enemy’s sharpshooters kept up a constant fire upon us during these operations, not a man on our side was hurt. Next morning, however, the enemy on Argyle Island was reinforced by 200 men. While we are quite in the dark as to the progress of events at Savannah, we are glad to know that we have ample force to hold the line of the Savannah river—nort.hbank—in any emergency. We also hear from good author ity that Gen. Hardee is confident of his ability to hold Savannah. [From the Charleston Courier. 19th.] A friend has favored 113 with the following details of operations near the city since the advance of the Yankees : “On Wednesday, 7th inst., there was considerable skirmishing at Station 2£. The Yankees used their artillery as well as musketry, while the latter only was brought in action on our side. Our men fell back skirmishing to our third lines of en trenchments. Our outer lines, fourteen miles from the city, on account of their extreme length, were indefensible, and were evacuated before daylight Saturday morning, 10th inst. “The sharpshooters of the eeemy were very active at that point, and heavy skirmishing ensued between theti and our troops on the second line of works, which we now hold. At daylight on Sunday, the 11th inst., the enemy attacked our second line, and between nine and ten o’clock made an assault, which was easily repulsed. Monday, the 12th instant, heavy firing wa3 kept up along the line all day. From that time until Friday, the 16th icst., everything remained comparatively quiet, when fighting again commenced and was kept up all day until dark. The firing both by cannon and small arms wa3 very heavy. “The enemy have three lines of entrehch ments, and are in the vicinity of the old Race Course. “It is reported that the enemy have thrown a pontoon bridge across the river abore Sa vannah. They have also succeeded in cutting off one of our gunboats. An effort was made to relieve it, and a small gunboat sent to its assistance. The latter, however, was disabled and it is reported captured. All the places of business have been closed and every one able to bear a musket was in the trenches.” Two rice mills belonging to Mr. Middle and Mr. King, are also reported in the posses sion of the enemy, who, it is said, have set the mills to work pounding out rice for them selves. Persons who left Savannah on Saturday says all wa3 quiet on that day. Gen. Beau regard was reported on a visit to the city, and was in conference with Gen. Hardee. From Dalton. We conversed, last evening, says the Macon Confederacy, with a gentleman who left the vicinity of Dalton on last Thursday. His re port is very encouraging, and speaks volumes of praise for the patriotism of the people of that section, who, though they have endured the most crushing oppression for the past six months, still stand erect in the cause of South ern independence. The garrison at Dalton consists of an infan try regiment of about five hundred, and a cav alry regiment of near one thousand men—all commanded by a Colonel, he thinks. In ad dition to this force, they have ten pieces of artillery. They have not a very good supply of piovisions at the post, but a considerable amount of stores, and the general prevailing opinion is that they will not evacuate the place unless forced. All the able-bodied men in that section are thoroughly organized, and rendering most effi cient service. There are at least 2,090 men /FIVE DOLLARS l PER MONTH. organized between Etowah and Chattanooga, who for. o the Yanks to “remain in doors.” Our informant reports that the road between Aiatoona and Resaca is in better condition than it has been since the commencement of the war—it having beeu relaid with new iron, which the enemy failed to destroy on their re treat. There are also several depots still on the road uninjured north of the Etowah. The citizens from the counties around Dal ton are fast returning to their homes, and are sowing large crops of wheat and also prepar ing to plant regular crops. The people in the immediate vicinity of the own are suffering untold miseries, as a majority of them are liv ing on nothing but bread. Would the people of this section be willing to endure as much for the promotion of the cause? We fear not. The railroad from Dalton to Chattanooga is kept constantly cut by our scouts. No train had passed over the road for ten days previous to the departure of our informant, because of its having been destroyed at some point be tween there and Chattanooga. There are two telegraph wires remaining from Atlanta to Dalton in good condition—one of them is perfectly new. [From the New York Herald, Dec. o.] Northern Items. Lord Lyons leaves Washington to-morrow. It is alleged that he retires on account of ill health; \>ut the fact that the horses, wines and personal effects of the embassy are to be sold at auction within a week, has occasioned much curiosity as to the real reason of his retirement. The sailing of the steamship Corsica, yes terday, from this port, bound for Nassau, was for some time interfered with by officers from the United States marshal’s office, acting un der the orders of Gen. Dix. It was under o stood that several suspected persons, violators of parole, Southern sympathisers and parties under the surveillance of the polioe, as con nected with the late extensive incendiary at tempts in the city, were taking French leave by the Corsica, and directions were given for examination of tho passengers. Ii was thought that a son of General Beauregard was among them; but if this was really so, he succeeded in maintaining his disguise so that not even the detectives could find him out. A good deal of excitement prevailed while the officers were on board ; but no arrests were made, the passengers all proving tbe legitimacy of their departure, with the exception of one person who, attempting to escape in a boat, was pur sued and captured. In the suit against Major Gen. Butler, for alleged trespass, where the defendant's coun sel moved to have the matter sent to a United States court for trial, Judge Cardozo denied the motion yesterday, on the ground that the act of 1789 did not. apply where both parties— the plaintiff and tbe defendant—were non residents. The cause will, therefore, have to be tried in the court of common pleas. The editor of the Eatonton Countryman was visited by Slocum’s column, on its present inarch. He takes it pleasantly enough, as witness the following notice : OCR GUESTS. During the last few days we haye had with us from time to time, some thirty or forty gen tlemen from the United States of North Amer ica, including a few from Europe. We en deavored to make ourselves at home with our distinguished guests. They themselves were quite so. Some specimens of African gentle man, of indigenous growth, (home nigger) al soacted conspicuous parts in the drama which ba3 been played on tbe old plantation for a week past. We may give a further account of these things hereafter. - incidents. We have quite an iuteresting chapter of in cidents to record, touching the passage of the Yankees through this section. We deem it prudent to omit it, for the present, however. The truth is, we don’t know, just now, wheth er we are a subject of Joe Brown, Gov. Logan, Jeff Davis, Old Abe or the King of Dahomey. Judging from the airs which the colored gentry give themselves, about now, we would suppose we belonged to the lagt named scion of an imperial race. — . Soldiers are very prone to play off their jokes on others, but none enjoy it more pleas antly when tbe tables are turned. A corres pondent of the Goldsboro’ Journal, writing from New Market, says: Many amusing incidents occur in camp and on the march. Not many days since, a num ber of gentry belonging to that highly respect able and patriotic class called conscripts, were “nnsedged” from Wilkes and Guilford coun ties, N. C., and brought to this army. When they “hove in sight,” they were greeted with “New issue !” “Come out of them good clothes and take Uncle Jeff's suit of grey!” when one of them replied that, “If lam new issue, I wish it understood there i3 none of your Ce dar Creek discount on me then followed the request of “How do you feel ?” Our army has been much strengthened by the influx of de tails, exempts, hospital rats and “all sich.”— When these reinforcements arrive, the whole camp is alive with. “Somebody come !” “Hos pital has burned down ! “Fresh fish. Scale um!” Come ont of that biled shirt.’’and finally someone is requested to share his stock of “grey backs” with the new comer — • Benefit of Adversitt.—A smoothe sea never makes a skillful mariner. Neither no uninter rupted prosperity and success qualify us for hap piness. The storms of the oceans, rouse the fac ulties and unite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude of the voyager. m • w Arrest ot Southerners.—ln New York, on Sunday, about sixty Southerners were arrested by order of Gen. Dix. After examination, a portion were released, and the rest were sent to Fort La fayette. The reason of the arrest has not been made knowD, but is reported to be en at count of their having knowledge of the incendiary plots. TELEGRAPHIC. RBPORTS OP TBE PRESS ASSOCIATIOB. Ilntered according to act of Congress in the year 1863. by J. S. Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office of the District Coart of the Confederate State* the Northern District of Georgia. LATER FROM THE NORTH. Riceeord, Dec. IS.— Northern papers of the 17th hare be-n received. Admiral Porter’s fleet, with a large co-operating land force under Gen. Weitsel, left Hanpten Roads on Tuesday. * The Baltimore American says it is the moat favorable naval expedition yet sent out. Its’ destination is not yet mentioned. Gan. Butler accompanied the troops. Gen. Crittenden and staff have resigned, and! their resignations have been received. The Attorney General of Canada has given hia opinion that the decision in the case of the St. Albans raiders was wrong, and has ordered the re-arrest of the parties. Private dispatches from Montreal say that there is a per feet panic in Canada among the railroad managers in anticipation of non-intercourse with the United States which is expected to allay the excitement on the border. A Washington telegram says that the demand of the Brazilian Government for reparation for the seizure of the Florida has been received, au4 is decidedly significant. Seward has sent a rej iv, aud without endorsing the capture of the Florida, but indicated a desire to’ have tbe matter properly adjusted according to international law. General Thomas, in his dispatches of the 16th, claims that the enemy have been pressed at all points, in his line of retreat to Brentwood. He also claims the capture of a large number of prisoners and several pieces of artillery, and says, I have ordered pursuit to be continued at daylight. The woods, fields and entrenchments are filled with the enemy’s small arms abandoned ■in their retreat. The Federal loss does not exceed 300. Very | sow killed. i The news caused great rejoicing in Yankee | dom. Gold declinod on the 15th, prices at one o’clock being 237. Richmond, Doc. 19.—Northern papers of the I6th have been A Nashville tolegram of the 16th says that our lines were advanced and engaged tho rebel liuo this morning ; the left occupied the same ground as in the morning, but the right advanced five miles, driving the enomy from the river and from his entrenchments, and lorced back his right and centre. Gen. Thomas in bis official dispatch says: 1 attacked tho enemy’s left centre this morning, and drove it from the city very easily to the Franklin turnpike, a distance of about eight miles. I have captured Gen. Chalmer’s headquarters and a train, with between eight hundred and one thousand prisoners, and sixteen pieces of artillery. I shall attack the enemy again to-morrow. VIRGINIA ON THE WAR. Richmond, Dec. 19. —The House of Delegates of Virginia unanimously adopted a series of rese lutions to-day, declaring that Virginia remains unshaken in her purpose never to submit to the despotism of the North, and that it is tho duty of the Confederate Government to continue to de vote its utmost energies to a vigorous prosecution I of the war, as only by success of arms we can ob tain an honorable peace and preserve the sover eignty of tho States and the people ; and that tho General Assembly will not listen to any proposi tion for suffering any negotiation inconsistent with the Confederate Constitution. CONGRESSIONAL. Richmond, Dec. 19. —The Senate passed the House bill increasing the pay and mileage of the members of Congress, aud the Senate bill regula ting the pay of Postmasters, special route Agents, and the bill increasing the pay of the marine Corps. The Senate then resolved into seeret ses sion. In the House, the peace resolutions were refer red to the Committee on Foreign affairs. The Confiscation and Currency bills were further de bated. Massachusetts is in trouble. Her importations of Swedes, Poles, Germans, Hungarians, Ac., by the cargo, to fill her quotas under the varion* re cent calls for troops, have turned out badly, and the War Department is thinking of refusing to give her credit for the scum thus foisted upon the public service. The fact is that nearly all thoso imported mercenaries have deserted to the enemy, under the liberal terms of Gen. Lee’s proclama tion, and that such as have been unable to desert are utterly unable or unwilling to fight. In a re cent case in the rifle pits before Petersburg, they dropped their arms and lay flat on their bellies in the trench, while a charging celumn of Confede rates swept over them, carrying all that were in the party back te Petersburg as prisoners. They plead in excuse that they know nothing of our quarrel, and have no interest in it: that they were hired in Europe for {peaceful and non belligerent labors on railroads, canals, Ac., and that thoy have been utterly swindled and cheated in the manner of their being induced to enter tho ser vice. There is no knowing, says the Goldsboro’ N. C- Journal, what we can do till we try. If one wishes to see this truth forcibly demon strated, let him look at the locomotive “John Stanley,” belonging to the Atlantic and N. C. Railroad Company. Tbe painting and deco>. rating of the “John Stanley” were executed by Mr. Samuel Hunter, in the Company’s ser vice, who was originally a ship carpenter, and who is a mere amateur in this branch of art. The work is really very creditable to Mr. Hun ter’s skill, and ought to satisfy him that ho can yet do much better and many other things. The war is making us a most remarkably in dependent people at all events. mm • m For the last three or four weeks scarcely a shell has been thrown directly into Petersburg. While the operation was going on 600,000 pounds of Yankee shell were picked up in va rious parts of the city, and sold to the ord nance department. The department has al ready paid out $48,000 for these shells. Many of the missiles buried themselves too deeply in the ground to be resurrected. Twenty thousand shells, estimates a Petersburg paper, have been showered upon tbe city, yet, strange to say, only four white, and not more than te* or twelve black persons have been killed, and twice as many of each wounded. The Time#, published at Henderson, North Caro lina, advertises for an editor. The present editor says it “ h a good berth for someone who i« toe feeble to be a soldier, and who desires a situatiea well guarded against conscription. The applicant must be of good moral habits, educated, and ‘sound on the goose.’ ” A mile or so from town, a man met a bov au horseback, crying with cold. Why don’t yo» get down and lead the horse,” said the man, ‘•that’s the way to get warn.” “It'* a bor rowed horse, and I'll ride him if 1 freeze.' For Chattalioocßiee. The Steamer MIST, Abk Fey. master, will ioave for the above and all intermediate landing*, to morrow re rnuig, at 9 o’clock, dec 22