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Newspaper Page TextDAILY TIMES. J. W. WARRES, - - - Editor. COLUMBUS: Thursday Morning, December 29, 1864. <r - .... 1 . _ • —j.-. 1 y Repobtbd Death or Gbn. Hood.— The ru«. xnor of the death of Gen. Hood was quite cur» rent in our city yesterday It was said to be based on a dispatch from Gen. S. D. Lee to Gen -Beauregard, conveying the sad intelli gence and requesting the immediate return of the latter to the army of Tennessee. Wo fear that the report is true. Ma. lUnrt’s Speec h. —We present our read ers tliis morning with the manly, eloquent and patriotic speech recently delivered in the Con federate Senate by Mr. Henry of Tennessee. It will abundantly repay perusal. SPEECH OF nOH. GUSTAVES A. HE.NRV, of Tennessee, In the Senate of the Confederate States, Xor. 29, 1864. The question being on the joint resolution introduced by him in the Senate, defining the position of the Confederate States, and decla ring the determination of the Congress »md the people thereof to prosecute the war t,!l their independence is acknowledged— Mr. Henry said: Mr. President ; I rise to address the Senate on the momentous questions involved in the resolutions which have just been reported to tli Senate, with mom than ordicß "y sens.biii ty. The field presented for discussion is so wide, 1 tear, if I were tu occupy it fully, £ .might consume more of the valuable time of the Senate than would he appropriate; and yet, if I attempt to contract my remarks into too narrow a limit, I will rob the resolutions of much of their interest, and render the dis cussion of them staie and unprofitable. I will, therefore, he obliged to the Senate for its charitable indulgence while I give my views in my own way on all the topics I may see proper to discuss, promising the Senate to strike the golden medium, if I can, which lies between the extremes of undue expansion on the ouc baud, and of contraction on the other. Sir, 1 feel it will be good for us to-day, and a useful occupation of our time, to recur to first principles, and to examino well the ground on which we stand, that the judgment of man kind, which we invoke on our conduot, may be properly enlightened before it is pronouno ed. In 1776, the American Revolution dawned upon the world, and the people of the thirteen colonies, then British subjects, the common ancestors of the parties to the present conflict of arms, in Congress assembled, proclaimed to the world the Declaration of American In dependence, in which those great political trutha, never before announced with such so lemnity, were submitted to the candid* judg ment of mankind—among others, that all men “are endowed by their creator with certain in alienable rights ; that among these, are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, Governments are institu. ted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed ; that, when ever any form of Government becomes de* siructive of these ends, i' is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to insti tute a now Government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing, its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most like ly t.o effect their safety and happiness.” To establish these great principles, and in earnest ol their sincerity, the Adamses and the Hancocks of Massachusetts “pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honors.” On this declaration ihe people of Massachu setts and New York, Virginia and South Car olina, indeed, ;ho whole North arid the whole South, united iu the revolutionary struggle, and hand iu hand fought and bled in its de fense, and finally achieved their independence, in despite of the power of England, then the mistress of the world. This was the language of stern men, not hastily adopted ; of uncon querable patriots, who had counted all the cost, and who had deliberately staked life, liberty and property on the great issue—the independence of their couniry. On these principles our fathers, more than eighty years ago, though comparatively few iu numbers, grappled with the power of Great Britain, and after seven years of war, in which their country was desolated, and their cities occupied, possessed and sacked by the enemy, finally tiiumpued. On these same principles we have i-iaked our all, in the war in which we are engaged with the United States, and though our country may be despoiled and ra vaged, our cities given to the flames, and no thing be left but the “ blackness of ashes” to mark where they stood, we, too, will finally triumph and achieve our independence. Mr. President, are not these principles as potent now, and as full of magic, as when they were uttered in Independence Hall, in Philadelphia, amici a silence as deep and solemn as that of the grave? The spell they threw over Hie hearts of men is felt by us now, and we are bound by it still. This was true political doctrine when England was trying to rivet chains upon Massachusetts and New York, Virginia and South Caro lina. It is true now. We stand where our fathers stood, and in defense of the same rights. The United States occupy the ground of George the Third, and are re-enact ing Iris despotism, obliterating the brightest pages of their own history, and tearing down with their own bands the monuments that were erected by their ancestors, and cemented with iheir blood ; aud such will be the verdict of enlightened public opinion everywhere up on their conduct. Mr. President, we are struggling in this war for the right of self government These few words cover the whole ground, and elucidate the issue we have joined with our enemies.— •til others are miner considerations, and are merged in it. The contest about our domes o tie institutions, the right of the States to le galize, destroy or perpetuate them, as an at tribute of their sovereignty, are all embraced under ibe general idea, and purely an Ameri one. the right ol the people to self gov ernment : for whatever may be the dogmas of legitimacy and of despotism, under which man, in all ages, has groaned, and been doom ed to drink the cup of slavery, we hold gov ernments have no rightful authority over men, except by the consent of the governed. 1 desire to disabuse the public mindo one fatal error in which our enemies have falf len, and which is participated in, to some ex it nt. by a few people of the South. This is no “rebellion," but such a war as independent soveieigns wage against each other. Thsse States are equals. Virginia was as free as 7mmv York, and in all political respects her 1 equal and her peer. Kqua.s eftonot rebel the I one against the other. If they disagree, and j re dirt to arms as the arbitrator, it is war, such j as writers on the law of nations recognize among independent nations. The people of the thirteen colonies were British subjects, acknowledged to be so, and dependent on the Crown. When they threw off British author ity they Herein rebellion agaiust England.— Not so with us in this war. We were the sub jects of no Power, but were ourselves sover eigns, equals in ail respects with our enemies : and they who call us rebels confound all legal distinctions, and show, to say the least of if, that they have not investigated the subject. . Her? on one State was dependent upon an other. nr upon all of them together. The k ,‘ l ’ v *‘ r w ‘th England, received , e “Oi.oowifcugeotcnt of their independence m! ‘' ' 110 A 5 "lie consolidated nation.— t . ' ,cre l»y Englandinthe treatv ". peace, a* States; by the name of Georgia, iigiiua, New \ ork, oud soon, the whole being ,*'led by name. Under the old confederation they had stood for thirteen years as equals, and voted as equals, each State being entitled to one vote. In 1787, when they formed the Constitution of the Uni ted States, they met as equal sovereignties.— They did not afterwards sink their separate State sovereignty, abolish their State govern ments, and have one Legislature, as in the ease of England, Ireland and Scotland.- No, sir. They maintained their State sovereignty, in opposition to centralism, as being the great enemy of liberty in free States, which would swallow them in the whirlpool of consolidation, but for the spirit of local self-government, al ways the life blood of freedom. The States never surrendered their inde pendent sovereignty, and when the constitu tion was on its passage through the conven tion that formed it, they unanimously rejected a proposition to delegate to the general gov ' eminent the power to coerce a State. The i proposition was distinctly made and unani j mously rejected. This historical fact takes from the United : States the last pretence of a constitutional ! right to coerce, by military power, a State or any number of them, if they see proper to j throw off the governmerft of the United States and institu e anew government, which would be more likely to effect their safety and hap- i piness Even Alexander Hamilton, who was ! supposed to be the advocate of unlimited pow- : I erin the government, declared that a propo sition to coerce such a State as New York or Virginia, with such a population as they j ; would have in fifty' years, was the maddest | i project that could be devised. Mr. Madison declared it would be to confer 1 despotic power on the government, and that j it would convert our free institutions into a j despotism. While the States exercised mili- h tary power, to establish their independence, | and delegated to Congress the power to de- j clare war, they did not intend to organize a j government with a view to the subjugation of the sovereign States which created it. On the contrary, they unanimously refused to dele gate such despotic power to the government. Nor is this, sir, a civil war. That is, a war between the people of the same State, such as prevailed in England between the houses of York aud Lancaster, when contending factions rent the vitals of the State. This is no such war. It stands on the broad ground of a war between sovereign and independent States, precisely such as has often prevailed between France and England. Mr. President, it is a source of pure and Christian consolation, to the people of the South that they did not rush blindly into this war. No, sir, we flew to arms only after we had exhausted every means of peace and re conciliation. Never did a people more earn estly implore and supplicate their rulers to beware how they drove them to the necessity of defending their rights, by an appeal to arms. We implored them by the ties of a common kindred and in the name of a common God, to abstain from the injuries and insults they were habitually inflicting upon us, and from the usurpation of powers not delegated in the Constitution, which foreshadowed the estab lishment of an absolute tyranny over these States. They were deaf to our appeals. In vain did we invoke a peace Congress to step in between us and them, aud, like the days man, lay its hand upon the one and the other, and command the peace. The Hon. John Tyler, from Virginia, who bad “sounded all the depths an i shoals of honor,” and who had been President of the whole United States in their purer and better days—the venerable Judge Ruffin, of North Carolina, who had for so many years presided with such digDity and intelligence in the Su preme Court of that State, and bad shed such lustre on American jurisprudence, as remark* able for the purity of his character as for the power and clearness of his logic—the pure minded and gifted Judge Caruthers, of Ten nessee, who had held nearly every post of honor in his native State, and who is now her Chief Magistrate elect; and many others of equal patriotism, made their pilgrimage to Washington to stay the coming strife before the first blow was struck; toiled in vain to bring about an honorable adjustment; and were at last forced to go home in despair of the Republic, aud to fell their people that all hope of saving it was gone ! It was not until all these efforts were made and proved to be unavailing; not until the last star of hope that blazed on the political horizon had gone down in blood, and Lincoln had made his proclamation for 75,000 men to subjugate these States, that the people began to prepare for war. When that dreadful al ternative, war or subjugation, was presented to them, the masses everywhere, as if by in stinct, before the politicians were ready for it, or had fully made up their minds what they would do, had detected the lurking purposes of the tyrant, sounded the tocsin and were panting for the conflict. The politicians, who, in ordinary cases, lead the people, were led, in this great ground swell of popular indigna nation, by them. It was more emphatically a movement of the people than any I have ob served since I have been in public life. It is emphatically the people’s war. Mr. President, we have now maintained this unequal contest for nearly four years, and in voke the judgment of the world whether or not, we have established our capacity for self government, and our ability to resist the pow er of the enemy to subjugate us. We have a Government regularly organized | under a written constitution, with Executive, i Legislative and Judicial departments ; all the functions of a constitutional government in | full and successful operation. If the Governments of Europe have not seen | fit to recognize us as a free and independent j Power and welcome us into the family of na | lions, it is their fault, not ours. The United States were recognized by France in less thau two years after their de claration of independence; and the United States, in a much shorter period than that for which we have maintained our separate na tionality, recognized the South American Re publics and the Republic of Mexico, after they asserted their independence of the Govern ments which they respectively overthrew. We need but look to the present and past, to settle the question of our ability to resist the power of the enemy. Less than four years ago we were without au army and navy. Our enemy took possession of both and turned them against us. The wealth of the country was at the North ; and the pernicious system of legislation pursued so long and so persist ingly to our prejudice and to the aggrandize ment of the North, had concentrated there nearly all the public works and manufacturing power of the whole country. We had neither heavy ordnance nor small arms ; manufactured neither powder nor ball ; not even percussian caps. But see the pro gress wo have made, and how we have devel oped our resources. We arc now making more than 10,000 pounds of powder per day at one of our mills. Our army is well equip- j ped with all the implements of warfare. We t are able to keep an army of 400,000 soldiers j in the field. We have met the enemy in a I hundred battles, and have baffled and defeated his armies in conflicts without number on land; and our little navy has nearly driven his commerce from the seas. We have struck the world with astonishment at the power we have exhibited, while the gaze of all Europe is fixed in admiration of the gallantry of our soldiers. If we consider our small and meagre re | sources at the beginning, and the material ! strength'we weild now, we are ourselves as tonished at the progress we have made in the ! art of war and the science of government. I The most potent Power on earth has gained no decided advantage over us; and we can now sav to the enemy, after having maintain , ed the "struggle for nearly four years, with so ! much gallantry and success, without being misunderstood,’even by him, that we are sin ! cerely desirous of peace, and that the Confed j erate States are ready and willing to open ne gotiations to that end, on the basis of their : separate independence, positively repudiating all idea of a reunion with them, or of a recon- I struction of the Union through the instrumen- I tality of a convention of all the States. If we were to agree to go into a convent’on | of the States, we would be bound, on honor, : to abide its decision. They outnumber us two ; to one, and of coarse, would have us in their ! power. W# would deliver ourselves over to i them, bound hand and foot, to receive the | scourges which their malice would inflict, : and which our futuity and folly would richly ' merit. No, sir; let our enemy know, and let the world bear witness, we strike for indepen dence, aud will be satisfied with nothing else. ! Reunion with the United States would result j in bpndage to us. The bondage under which Ireland groan3 —the tyranny England has, for i so many years, inflicted upon that down-trod den people would be visited upon us by our enemies. Death would be infinitely preferable to such a condition. A brave and gallant people may well afford to die freemen, but they cannot afford to live slaves. Before such dis grace and calamity, as would assuredly follow reunion with the United States, shall befall us, I pray God that the earth may open under our feet and bury every man, woman and child in the whole Confederacy in one undis tinguished grave ! Yes, sir ; we will court death in any shape—on the battle-field, in the earthquake’s dreadful shock, or ocean’s storm —before we will submit to any terms of re union with them. Listen, sir, to a short recital From revolu tionary history : In 1778, Lord North intro duced into the British Parliament his famous conciliatory bills. The first two retracted the claim of power in Parliamenr to tax the colo nies. and the third provided for the appoint ment of commissioners, who should be duly authorized to treat, and agree to a pacification on that basis. The whole scheme, however, proceeded on the assumption that the Ameri can States were to return to their colonial de pendence on the British Crown. These bills were sent to America and to Gen. Washington, who laid them before Congress. That body, on the 22d April, 1778, promptly and unanim ously resolved, that they would hold no con ference or treaty with any commissioners who were appointed and sent to America, on the part of Great Britain, unless they should, as a preliminary, either withdraw their armies, or acknowledge in positive and express terms the independence of America. It is worthy of remark, that this bold lan guage of our fathers was used when Congress was ignorant of the conclusion of treaties with France, and when they thought they would have to measure strength with England unaided by any other power. This, Mr. Presi dent, is the defiant language we should hold to the enemy. Here is an example worthy of our imitation, and I commend it to all who suffer themselves to think, for one moment, of reunion with the enemy. Reunion with them! No, sir, never ! There is a great gulf that rolls between us. It is a gulf of blood without a shore and without a bottom, and is as inseparable as that which separates Dives from Lazarus. The mute ob jects of nature; our desecrated churches and altars; our sweet vallies drenched in blood and charred by fire, forbid it. The dead would cry out against it from their gory beds. The blood of my own sons, yet unavenged, cries to Heaven from the ground for vengeance. The thousands who are sleeping red in the graves would awake and utter their solemn protest. Stonewall Jackson, Polk, Stuart, Rodes, Mor gan and Preston Smith, and thousands over whose remains a monument to the unknown dead shall be raised, are speaking in tones of thunder against it; and can it be the living only will be dumb ? Sir, those who have died in this war are not dead to us, “E’en in their ashes live their wonted fires.” They are in the light of their examples more valuable than the living. Their spirits walk abroad, and stir the “hearts of living men to do or die in the cause of liberty. We cherish their memory. Weeping virgins and devoted mothers shall kneel around their tombs, and bedew with their tears the graves where they sleep. Poetry shall embalm their memory, and minstrelsy perpetuate their fame forever. We give in charge their names to the sweet lyre. The historic muse, proud of her treas ure, shall march with it down to the latest sculpture, who in turn shall give bond in stone and ever-during brass to guard them, and im mortalize her trust. The soldiers who have died in this war are not only enshrined in the innermost core of our heart, but to the mind’s eye, are ever in our sight. “On fame’s eternal camping ground, Their silent tents are spread ; And glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead.” Sir, this is a fit *and appropriate time te pro claim again our unalterable determination to ba free. If the people of the United State*, by re electing their present Chief Magistrate, who began this war, and who has perpetrated, in its prosecu tion, acts of unparalleled atrocity, mean to give us notice that they will prosecute it still further— mean to tender us four years more of war or re union with tbsm—we accept the notice. We accept the gage of battle, and defy them to the contest. They may be stronger than we, but a people who are determined to be free never stop to count the numbers of those who wouldrob them of the priceless boon. Besides, sir, the battle is not to the strong. There is a just God who will fight our battles for us. Our strength is in Him, and we will not fear, “though the earth be moved, and though the hills be carried into the midst of the sea.” If it be the purpose of the enemy to prolong the war, let us begin anew to prepare for it. When mast after mast on Paul Jones’ vessel, was carried away by the cannon balls of the enemy, till not one was left standing, and that enemy had boarded his vessel, and he was called upon to sur render, he heroically shouted aloud: “I will ! nover surrender ; I amjust getting ready to fight.” Let us emulate the example of that stout-hearted ! sailor. The Government should organize its I strength, and, especially, execute our laws. The j failure to do so stamps weakness on all our efforts | to fill the army. Let us prepare in earnest for I the defence of our country and give cordially j every power te the government that is necessary to establish our independence. That being done, we need have no fear about our personal rights. Who will dare to assail them ? No public man could maintain his pla> s who would have the temerity to attempt it. The real danger does not lie in that direction. The great difficulty is, first, to establish our independence, then every other temporal good shall be given unto us. We have men enough who have never been in the service, to drive the enemy before us ; let us bring them into the field, and give them an opportunity to take part in this geat war. It were cruel to them and to their children to deny them the privilege. If we could briug back to the ser vice all able bodied men who are absent, from any cause, we would reanimate our noble armies and enable them to achieve fresh victories, Sir, this is the great point to which we ought to direct at tention —fill up the army ! It is the best petfee measure after all. Fill up the army—it is the great scheme of finance that will regulate our currency. Fill up the army—it will achieve our independence! (Concluded in our Noon Edition.) Good News. —Colonel Foreacre, proprietor of the new paper mill near Atlanta, writes the editor of the Rebel that his mill was not injured in any particular by the Yankees, and that he will have it running again immediately. This will be good news for printers. It will be remembered that the Atlanta mill was kept running during the entire seige of the city. The proprietor is an energetic and clever gentleman, and we are gratified to hear of his good fortune in saving his valuable mill. * True. —The Intelligencer states that the true men of Cherokee Georgia are more Southern in their feelings and sentiments, than they were before the temporary occupancy of that country by the barbarian hordes, who have a; they passed through it, left their footprints indelibly impressed j thereon. Just so it is wherever the vandals go.! They teach our people how utterly impossible it is for us and them to live together again—and stow, if such a thing were necessary, the wisdom of those who advocated an immediate and final severance of the bonds that had hitherto bound us t« them. - . Without the free use of the four elements, fire, air, earth, and water, man could not possibly exist, and yet he is at perpetual variance with three of them. It rains too much, the air is foggy, and the heat of the sun is intolerable. A country editor having received two gold ! dollars in advance for his paper, says that he stilT ; allows his children :o play with other children as 1 usual. 1 Though not of recent date the particulars given in the following private letter, received in this city, may interest some of our readers: COOSAWATCHIK STATION, S. C., \ December 10, 1864./ My Dear Father : I wrote you from Augusta on the eve of our departure. Our orders were to report at Savannah but on our arrival at this place it was considered necessary for us to stop. On Tuesday, the 6th, we met the enemy about two miles on the other side (east) of the river, after a considerable skirmish we were driven to the'railroad bridge. Our loss was light. Sergt Eranon, woun ded in left lung; privates J. T. Carter, neck, slight; J. M. Ennis, thigh, severe; A. Q. Muldrew, left arm below the elbow; Henry Watson, left ankle; H. E. Waner, hip, slight; Wiley Dean, hip, slight; W. S. Short, hip, alight. On the evening of the 7th as some of the men were crossing the trestle works the train overtook them and killed W, G. Dismukes and slightly wounded T. E. Everett. Yesterday, the 9th, the Yankees advanced on our skirmishers. We drove them back without much loss on our side. I regret however to report the death of Corpl. Wm. Mizell, one ball entering the right temple and pass ing out the left, and another entered the upper hip* he lived about an hour and was conscious to his death, As soon as I learned that he was wounded, I had him brought off. He died on the litter. I had him aud Dismukes buried near the front. I had no coffin for Corpl. Afizell and had to do the best I could. Dismukes I put in a large gum box. None of my wounded fell in the hands of the en emy, they were all sent to Pocotaligo and from last accounts were doing well. From last accounts the enemy were in strong force on the opposite side of the river, numbering three our four thousand, our number hundred to two thousand. We are expecting an attack to-morrow. The fight of Yesterday was at Trolaiino Bridge, about two miles down the railroad. Gen. Gartrell was also wounded by a shell in the left arm and side, not considered dangerous. (Frem the Advertiser A Register.) Rout and Pursuit of the Pollard Raiders. On Thursday, the 19th inst., about mid-day, a detachment of Clanton’s brigade, under command of Col. Colvin, reached Tensas en route for Pollard. Three companies were se lected by him and assigned to the command of Captain Goldthwaite. They were to act as an advance guard, to dispute with the ene my, at the same time supposed to be near, every inch of ground, and were informed that the remainder of Col. Colvin’s forces would soon support them. Accordingly this detach ment proceeded, followed by the remainder of Col. Colvin’s command. At 4 o’clock the cars were unable to proceed on account of the tract being torn up. Night soon approaching, the men were ordered to bivouac, while Capt, Goldthwaite proceeded with his detachment to reconnoitre the railroad bridge and cross ings, and to picket the neighboring roads. Capt. Goldthwaite found the railroad bridge burning, and the track torn up for a mile and more. While on that duty Captain Goldthwaite and Lieut. Hutchinson met a woman, to whom they represented themselves as Federals. Be ing deceived, she confessed having shown the Federals the different crossings. Other aid and comfort she gave them and supposed their force to number three thousand men, consist ing principally of negroes, guided by Richard Bolus, a character notorious in that neighbor hood. The next day Col. Colvin proceeded to the dirt road bridge across the Escambia. Here he halted his column because of the disparity between his forces and the raiders, and being unwilling to place an unfordable stream in his rear. Col. Livingston, of the 6th Alabama Cavalry, with eighty men, was left to picket the bridge and contest its passage. Colonel Colvin judiciously retired the 6th Alabama Cavalry to the railroad, apprehen sive that his rear might be attacked and the train ©f cars destroyed. All night the enemy were repairing the bridge. At half an hour to day both side3 opened fire simultaneously. The enemy were distributed along the bank seeking to compel that resolute band to retire, while a column crossed the bridge—their artillery playing at the same time. Firmly stood our men, and enfiladed the bridge with their fire. In column eight deep the enemy attempted to pass the bridge. Three times with slaugh ter wore they repulsed. Their rear rank press ed their iront rank forward, and that little band of eighty was compelled to retire. The bridge, crimsoned with blood, attests the stub bornness with which their crossing was dis puted. Here Col. Livingston was wounded, and Capt. Watson, one of the most promising officers of the army, killed. When it is considered that the bridge is not more than thirty yards in width, that the men stood by its abutments and did not retire until the raiders had completely crossed, and also that they were aware of the great disparity in numbers, the exploit of these few men compares favorably with the most brilliant passages of the war. Had the combined forces of Celvin and Armistead opposed thelcrossing of the bridge, the raiders would probably not have succeeded in making the passage; as Gen. Clanton would have arrived with nine hundred men, collec ted from the hospitals at Montgomery, in time to strike their rear, and the whole party might have been captured. Col. Colvin’s good sense and judg ment taught him to protect his rear and save the train which contained his ammunition. Col. Armis tead, although requested by Col. Colvin, could not do so. for his scouts reported that the raiders were crossing above Pollard, and his orders were to resist them at that point. The raiders having crossed the bridge over the Escambia, advanced as far as Abercrombie, when Col. Armistead, with a few brave spirits, struck their front. In the meantime, Colvin, reinforced by the 3d Mississippi cavalry, was not inactive. At the time Armistead opened in their front, he struck them in their rear. The enemy now began to re treat rapidly, and Armistead got in their rear. Side by side the mounted and dismounted men pushed in hot pursuit. At Mrs. Williams’ the raiders were again brought to bay. Those who fought at the bridge formed a part of the advanced line of skir mishers. Late that nisrfit Gen. Clanton arrived.— Rousing c/ieers greeted him. He stated that nine hundred Infantry were near, but being inmates of the hospital and their strength not being equal to the requirements ol the hour, they did not reach the field in time. At Pine Barren Creek the pursuit ceased, as the horses of the mounted men were jaded. Although the command of Col. Colvin had been dismounted for an emergency, and unaccustomed to such discip line, they had been marched on foot day and night, and for three weeks had not enjoyed but one night of unbroken rest, yet they only desisted when the mounted men - eased to pursue. Such is the history of the rout ana pursuit iofthe Pollard raiders. The hardest and most dangerous fighting was at the bridge. A citizen recaptured says the enemy ac knowledge a loss of more than t iree hundred killed. Their wounded were carried off in wagons. Several wagons abandoned, blankets, overcoats, coffee and other comforts thrown away, attest the hotness of the pursuit. Their force consisted principally of negroes, and was three thousand strong, including infantry, cavalry and artillery. A great portion of the recaptured plunder showed female delicacy no shelter, nor grey hairs a defence against their ra pacity. No house, however imposing, no roof so frail, but was reduced to ashes; and in their retreat, they lighted themselves home by the flames of our buildings. Other atrocities, such as killing prisoners and mutilating the dead, are referred to them, but we are happy to say these charges have not been substantiated. letter from Wilmington to the Lon don Times says: “If, instead of indulging in spite against Charleston in April, 1863, the whole power of the Federal navy had been turned against Wilmington, the course of the war might have been more influenced than by burning ten cities of Charleston or capturing half a dozen Yicksburgs. Wilmington, by being unmolest ed, has grown into such a fortress as to defy the utmost efforts of the Yankees from the sea.” The Draft in Kentucky. —The Washington correspondent of the New York Times, under date of sth inst., says that a “ delegation from Kentucky, coasisting of W. P. Deaman, W. B. Bush, Alfred Allen and C. D. Pennibaker, have been here for some days for the purpose of obtaining an order to stop the draft in Ken tucky. A conference on Saturday with the President. Secretary of War and Provost Mar shal General, was successful; and an order was issued stopping further drafting in that State.” Gen. Foster organized his expe dition to move upon Grahamville. in relief of Gen. Sherman, he was compelled to strip* Bii ton Head of its garrison and to put the “resi dents’ under arms for its defence. It all did not avail; for, as the Federal accounts coolly express it: “ Gen. F. has met with eenstdera ble resistance on his advance, and a number of his wounded were brought into Hilton Head, from which place heavy tiring oouli be heard.’’ the oit T. J. JACKSON LOCAL EDITOR Important to Reserves.— The attention of the Reserved Militia, Invalid Soldiers, Ac., is referred to the Circular of the Bureau of Conscription at Richmond, and the accompa nying orders of the Commandant of State of Georgia, in reference to the zation of the Reserve forces of the State.— These documents fully explain themselves. EBI ♦ mm Thunder Storm, &c. —We were visited with quite a thunder storm, accompanied by very heavy showers, on Tuesday night. Yesterday high winds prevailed, and now the prospect is good for another cold spell. —« 4 ♦ The Public School—The Boys. — We are requested to give notice that a dinner will be given to the boys of the public school to-mor row at Jaques' building. Those wishing to contribute to so laudable an object will please send in their contributions iu the morning. As the girls of this school were very hand somely entertained on Saturday last, it is right and proper that the boys should also have a showiDg. We trust the affair will be gotten up in good style. Auction Sales. —At auction yesterday, by Ro sette, Lawhon A Cos., the following prices were obtained: Confederate 4 per cent, certificates, $55 per one hundred ; sugar, $5,50 to $7,00; sugar cane syrup, $12,25 ; one set silver plated ware, $250; one do., $1,050; one gold watch, S9OO ; one diamond breastpin, $625 ; one gold locket, $325 ; one gold breastpin, $400 ; whiskey, S4O per gal lon, Ac., Ac. Capt. Pemberton. —We were glad to see in our city yesterday, this gallant officer whose cavalry company has recently been doing efficient service in the enemy’s rear during his desolating raid through our State. The Captain has won a hand some compliment from General Cobb, for his self sacrificing gallantry. He expresses eternal hos tility to the vandal horde, and says he has wit nessed enough of brutality and outrage on the part of Sherman and his crew to curdle the bloed in the veins of every true patriot throughout the land. He is fully persuaded that it were infinitely better for every man, woman and child in the Confederacy to be immolated on the altar of free dom than be brought under the diabolical vassal age of the hated foe. [For the Columbus Times.] Gen. Grant’s Last Song. BY JOHN BLACK. The summer has gone, and winter has come, Still, I am “pegging away,”— I told old Abe, that “upon this line,” He might bet a boUle or two of wine, That I would be sure to stay. He being a joker, I thought he’d take, But really I’m sorry to say, He’s now very mad, and says he feels sad, And he wishes, and prays, that Satan had, Old Lee in a hot place to-day. And I wish it too, and yet I well know If Lee should ever go there, — He would find Old Abe, and thrash him well too, The game he’s been playing with me all through, And privately,—l wouldn’t care.; When Abe and myself, get down below, — * There’ll be a terrible yell,— A fiendish shou f from two millions or more, Wen’t it produce a terrible roar, Our grand entree into h—ll. What now I will do, I cannot well say, It’s useless to try old Lee, I would rather take Bourbon or Rye any day, And let these cussed rebels have their own way, For if you go near them there’s the d—l to pay, For the devil they always gar* me. Eufaula, 1864. For Chattahoochee.* The Steamer MIST, Abe Fry, master, will leave for the above and all intermediate landings, Friday morning, at 9 o’clock, ‘ dec 29 New Daily Paper in Richmond. Prospectus. 1 HE undersigned propose to publish a daily pa -1 per, under the title of “THE RICHMOND HERALD,” on or about the 15th of January next. It will be entirely independent in politics, but will nevertheless accord to the administration a just support in all measures which, in the opinion of its conductors, may be deemed promotive of the good of the cause in which we are engaged. A proper criticism of such acts as will be deemed adverse to this object, will bo, of course, consistent with the in dependent character under which the paper is to be inaugurated.; In the matter of General News it will be found to keep pace with the leading journals of the day, while it will have added to it in the matter of financial in telligence a feature such as we venture to say, no paper in the Confederacy can boas r of. Editorials from the p nos one of the ablest financial writers in this or any other country will be presented in each number. For reasons not now proper to be mentioned, we forbear to give the names of those who shall com pose the regular editorial staff; but we flatter our selves that when they shall apper, they will be found to constitute such an arry o! talent as cannot be ex celled on this continent. The well known character of the individual whose name appears below, as a stenographic reporter, furnishes, we presume, a guarantee that, in all that relates to important political speeches and debates, whether in legislative assemblies or out of them, the "HERALD” will present advantages certainly not to be -xcelled by any paper in the Confederacy. The farming interests will be faithfully vindica ted, and care taken to disseminate the earliest in telligence which a proper regard for the welfare of that great element of national wealth and power shall demand. In the matter of correct commercial intelligence, equal zeal shall be manifested, our object being to assign to each of these departments an editor of known experience and ability. Arrangements are on foot bj which to secure the earliest foreign news, and the paper will contain such editorial talent as will fully elucidate the bearing of foreign diplomacy upon Southern inter eSln short, “THE RICHMOND HERALD” will be found to combine every feature of interest which the requirements of the present crisis de mand. The enterprise is respectfully commended to the favor and patronage of the citizens of the Southern Confederacy. „ „ , All the papers of the Confederacy will copy till <l., and .end bill to P, KEAN 4 CO.. dec 29 td Richmond, Va. j LOUISIANA BJTISO, BARI IMISi SAMOI, No. 62, Broad Street , Columbus , Ga. I HAVE just fitted up. the above establisment and am prepared to furnish HEALS AT ALL HOURS ! The very best the market affords, of eatables and drinkables, kept constantly on hand, and no effort will be spared to please and accommodate custo mers. D. B. CALDWELL, dec 29 lw* Proprietor. FRESH imi fTs. Eng Morphine, A fine as-t Eng Soap3, Powers & Weightman’s Brown Windsor Soap, Morphine, A fine asst Tooth Brushes, 150 oz. Eng Quinine, Childrens Round Combs, Gum Camphor, Nitric Acid. Ext Logwood, Mur Acid, Cochineal , r -Carb Soda. Pow’d Ipecac. Cr Tartar, Dover’s Powders, Eng Mustard, Sal Soda, Murate of Tin, Gum Opium, Fine Combi, Pow’d Op’.um, Dress Combs, Eng Note and Letter Pa- Pocket Combs, per, Eng and Con r ed erate Envelopes, For sale by -J. A. GREEN. Sc CO., dec 2S lui Union springs, Ala. Plantation For Sale. | ACRES, six an es from Glennville. near the UiU river. For pa •culars cal! «n Ma;. D. Wiiliar*-. who lives i.jjo’.mag the pise*, dac. t FOB JANUARY. JULY. S. M. T W. T. F. S. S. H, t W T j 3 12345 6 7; i 8 9 10 11 12 13 142345(573 15 16 17 13 19 20 21; 9 10 11 12 13 14 IS 22 23 24 25 20 27 2816 17 18 19 20 21 2 i 29 30 31 ?23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 FEBRUARY. i AUGUST. S. M. T. W. T. F. S. ! S. ,M. T. W. T T * 1234|1 2 3 4 5 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 12 13 14 15 16 17 1813 14 15 16 17 18 19 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 20 21 22 23 24 25 2* 2G 27 28 *27 28 29 30 31 MARCH. SEPTEMBER. S. M. T. W. T. F. S. S. M. T. W. T. F. S. 1 2 3 4' 12 56789 10 ll| 3456789 12 13 14 15 16 17 18J0 11 12 13 14 15 16 19 20 21 22 23 24 25j17 18 19 20 21 22 23 26 27 28 29 3Q 31 |24 25 26 27 28 29 30 APRIL. I OCTOBER. S. M. T. W. T. F. S.js, M. T. W. T. F. S. 111 2 34567 2 3 4 5 6 8 ! 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 9101112 13 14 15 15 le 17 18 19 20 “ 16 17 18 19 20 21 22' 2 2 23 24 25 26 °7 4 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 29 30 31 30 NOVEMBER. S. M.T.W. T.F. Sf T * W { g* 3* 4* 7 8 910 it 12 13'i 2 !3 J J{? 14 15 16 17 18 19 20| 19 44403 Jj J? 21 22 23 24 25 26 27* 26 42829 30 28 29 30 31 ‘ JUNE. DECEMBER. S. M. T. W. T. F. S. S * M * T * W ' T ' F ' S ; 100 1 - 45cv504l 3 4 5 6 * 8 9 11 41314 4 iff l?! 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 11 I*l 13 14 15 16 li j* jo j 9 on ol 00 O* 18 19 20 21 22 23 25 26 27 28 29 30 3* 25 AUCTION SALES. By Ellis, Livingston & Cos. HIRING OF NEGROES. ON Saturday, December 31st, at 11 o’eloek, we will hire (for cash) for the coining year, 10 Likely Negroes (field hands) in cluding a good Carpenter. We will also Sell A Very Likely family of Negroes, Lot English Shoe Thread, Lot Furniture, with other deairabie goods, dec 28 S3O By Dlli% Livingston Sc Cos. WILL be rented, for cash, to the highest bid der, on Tuesday next, the 3rd of January, at the auction store of Ellis, Livingston A Cos., Colum bus. Ga., for the year 1865, the following Houses and Lots, all on the Talbotton road, 3J4 to 3miles from the city. One House with eight rooms, and farming lands if wished; one with ten rooms, and farming lands; one with two rooms, and farming lands. The property will be shown by S. C. Lind say. dec 28 td Notice. In the absence of Dr. T. J. WORD. lam author ized andreqested to collect his accounts as early as possible. Persons indebted to him will please .sal and settle immediately, dec 23 4t J. W. SAPPINGTON. HO FOR ATLANTA! The Southern Express Company will receive freight (under forty pounds each package) and money parcels for Atlanta via Macon A Western Railroad, from this date. S. 11. HILL, _dec 6 ts Ageat. At Home Again, 11HOSE wanting cutting done will please saH, . lam at your service. C. H. JONES, 134, Rroad street, Columbus, Ga dec 21 4t LOST, A Confederate States Certificate for 4 per sene. Bonds, issued by W. H. Young, Depositary, at, Columbus, dated March 14, 1864, and numbered 1238, for Six T&ousand Dollars. The public is cau tioned from trading for said Certificate, as appliga tion Las been made for a duplicate, dec 21 lm2w* 11. BLACKMAN. YARNS and O^NABURC^I TO EXCHANGE FOR O-ROUND F£3AS, | At the GRANT FACTORY. | dec 17 ts To Printers! WE offer for sale a complete BOOK BINDERY , (exceptßuling Machine,) two handPRESSES, : and about 1,000 Pounds of Type Metal. nov2l-tf Everybody Look Here. WILL be sold on the 10th January, 1860, on the plantation of John Howard, Jr,, on Flint diver, on the Columbus branch of the S. W. R. R., all the corn, fodder, peas, mules, cattle, hogs add plantation implements. Terms cash, At the same time will be rented the plantation of eight hundred acres, and hired for the year, a like ly set of plantation negroes, for good notes with a» • proved securities. R. R. HO WARD, dec 20 tds Agent. For Justice luferior Court. We are authorized to announce J. W. KING as a candidate for Justice of the Inferior Court of Mus cogee county. Election Wednesday, 4th January next, dec 28 tde For Justice Inferior Court. We are authorized to announce N. W. Garrard, as a candidate for Justice of the Inferior Court of Muscogee county, at the ensuing municipal election. Mr. Garrard is not subject to military srrvice. dec 27 tde City papers copy For Justices Inferior Court. The following names are suggested for {Justices of the Inferior Court of Muscogee county. They aro all over the Conscript age and have the qualifica tions and experience necessary to a correct discharge of the duties pertaining. These gentlemen do not seek the office but w ut 3erve if elected. JOHN J. McKENDREE, JOHN QINN, JAS. N. BETHUNE. F. A. JEPSONJ JAS. A. BRADFORD, dec 28 tde For Justice Inferior Court. We are authorized to announce JAME3 A. WHITESIDE, as a candidate for Justice of the la ferior Court of Muscogee county, dec 24 tde* For Justice Interior Court. The friends ofGFORGE W. DOUGHSS an nounce him as a candidate for the oJice of Justice of the Inferior Court of Muscogee county, on tbs first Monday in January next, he being unable. V reason of disbility, for military duty, dec 24 tde* Wanted. 4 *Negro Laborers, Carpenters aaii Blacksmiths.’’ WE wish to hire for the ensuing year 25 Laborers W and eight to ten Black.-miths and Carpenters, to work in Government employ, which will exempt ibXi'lW:' ® OT JOH s“d. W QKA V Too dec 20 20t _ __ Xotice to Debtors and Creditors i Ls, persons having claims against the estate ot A .Mrs. L E. Cairnes. dee d, late o’ Muscogee county, are hereby notified to render them duly au thenticated within the time prescribed by law; an those indexed to said estate are requested to ruaae immediate payment, i v>. lit. a..Nur&. decJwtUd A-imr.