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DA ILY TI MBS.
I. W. WiRRE.V, - - - Edftor.
COLUMBUS:
Friday Morning. December 80, 1864.
Our Resources.
At the commencement of the war the States
of North and South Carolina, Georgia, Flori
da, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkan
sas, Texas and that portion of Virginia now
within the lines of our army, contained 700,-
000 fighting men. Add to this number those
who joined our standard from the States of
Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee, and, leav
ing out the casualties ol battle, there should
now be within the territory held by us, (save
some insignificant exceptions in Arkansas,
Louisiana and on the Atlantic coast) nearly,
if not quite, 800,000 warriors. Assuming that
200,000 of these have died or been disabled in
the service, and we ask where are the
remaining half million of men able to bear
arms ? A few have gone to Europe to escape
the patriotic duty ot defending their country,
and some have deserted to the enemy, but the
great mass of them are stilWn the Confedera
cy, and subject to the demand of the Govern
ment. We cannot, at this time, have more
than 150,000 men in active field service.
Do no! the remaining 350,000 furnish ample
recruiting ground for the next four years?
These men are scattered throughout the
Confederacy. There are one thousand of them
in this city, as the first alarm of fire will de
monstrate. Some of them have insignificant
G «vt! inn m contracts, aid some have soft
places in all the departments, and many,
doubtless, are skulkers, but the men are here
—strong, stalwart men—able to do valiant
service for the country in the field. As in
Columbus so it is in every city, village and
thoroughfare in the Confederacy. We repeat
it, there is at least no present want of men
in the country. What is needed is a patent,
self-acting, doubie-buck-actiou, four-horse
power ingenuity in Congress, the Conscrip
tion Department or somewhere else, to get
them into the army. The man who will in
vent a machine to do the work will be canoniz
ed through all future time as the achiever of
our independence.
Our Communications. —The Augusta Con
stitutionalist throws out some valuable sug
gestions in reference to our railway connec
tions, that should reach the ear and mind of
the Government. The most prominent of
these is that tbe road from Mayfield to Mill
edgeville, and from Augusta to Columbia, S.
C., be built without delay. The several cor
porations have not the requisite force or means
to do the work, and, since their construction
is an imperious military necessity, it behooves
the Government to take the matter in hand
and build them at once. In regard to the
matter of iron, our cotemporary thinks, and
so do we, that the rail on the Charleston and
Savannah aud upon the Waynesboro road, is
no longer of any service to us where it is, and
could be usefully employed in laying the pro
posed roads. Several other unimportant roads
or branches are mentioned, from which iron !
could be gathered, to construct a great, inte
rior, military route. To our mind, this is one
of the mom important subjects that n?w claims
the attention of Congress.
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Hood's Retreat.
If faith can be put in the Federal reports of
Hood’s movements, which we published this
morning, says the Montgomery Appeal, 27th,
we are forced to the conviction that he is
making his way out of Tennessee. Although
this may be a source of regret, it cannot be
the cause ot surprise. Under present, circum
stances, it would be extremely hazardous, if
not suicidal, for Hood to attempt to hold his
present position through the winter. When
be entered the State he had no hopes of re
maining, and so expressed himself to bis army,
except upon the condition of Sherman's de
feat, or Thomas discomfiture. Neither of
these contingencies has happened. Sherman
has accomplished his purpose and saved his
army, while Thomas effected his retreat upon
Nashville with less of damage to his forces
than was sustained by those of hi3 adversary.
Under this state, of facts, we see no alterna
tive left Gen. Hood but to place himself on
this side of the Tennessee river with as little
delay as possible. The enemy is rapidly gath
ering in strength in his immediate front,
while his rear is seriously threatened by a
large force from Memphis. He thus stands
in great danger oi being entirely cut off
from his base of supplies at Corinth. Such a
thing would be disastrous in the extreme, aud
we feel persuaded that General Hood is but
acting the part of a wise and discreet general in
withdrawing his forces to this side of the Ten
nessee river.
While this circumstance doubtless will af- j
ford a fruitful theme for the croakers to harp
upon, it should by no means discourage the
faithful and those who are constant iu hope.
With his army at Corinth, General Hood will
still occupy the Hue of defence selected by
Gen. A. S. Johnston in 1862, and the enemy
will find much ot his work for the last two or
three years to do over a second time. To the
courageous and hopeful, these facts are full of
cueertui import, and it is only those who are
“weary in well doing" that will give way to
gloomy forebodings. The Confederacy is still
far more vigorous and powerful for defence
tbau is the North for aggression. Hood is in
,i much better position for defence at Corinth
than he would be at Palmetto or Lovejoy’s
station in Georgia, while Sherman is less pow
erful for mischief at Savannah than lie would
te at Atlanta. The heart of the Confederacy
is at least free from the presence of tbe enemy
and the tread of hostile armies, at l by proper
vigilance on the part of our authorities and
the people it may be kept so.
The Reciprocity Treaty—On the loth inst.,m
the Federal House of Representatives a resolution
declaring that the President be authorized and re
quested to give Great Britain notice of the termi
nation of the reciprocity treaty, according to the
terms provided for in the treaty, was passed— >e ; y?
88, nays 57. This was so manifestly a sectional tri
umph', that considerable grumbling is going on.—
The New York Times says:
By our AY ashington news report, it will be seen
that the House, by a vote ofJSS to_ 5/, h ivc adopted
a resolu ion giving notice of ail intention to termi
nate the reciprocity reaty.
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The character of the vote taken on this question
will show it to have been a vote of an almost entirely
sectional c haracter. These, we take it, are hardly
the times to eriato new geographical parties in the
National Legislature. The treaty in question most
assuredly needs revision in the interests of the man
ufacturers of the Northeast. But its abrogation at
this time would simply be anew sectional triumph
among ourselves. Is this wanted?
‘.Cor -- on iem eof Constitutionalist.)
From Milledgeville, lia.
Mat.ED6Evir.Lß, Ga., Dec. 13, 1864.—1n my
last letter we passed through a part of the
campaign in Southeastern Georgia, and got
safely back to this place, and in this one I will
give you the facts of the occupation of the
place by the enemy.
On Sunday evening, November 20th, about
3 o’clock, a few hours after I had left, a squad
of cavalry, about one hundred in number,
purporting to be Howard’s scouts, dashed into
town simply to reconnoitre and learn if we
bad any forces near. Finding the town evacu
ated by our soldiers, they very soon relieved
the men whom they met on the streets and
about town of their watches and money, and
took what horses and mules they found in
sight, and after riding about the place for two
or three hours, they left, going out on the
Monticello road, in the direction of General
Cobb’s place, where, by the way, they spread
destruction broadcast, not leaving even his
fences
On Monday it rained all day and nothing
more was heard or seen of them, still the citi
zens were anxious and uneasy, and the worst
of treatment would fall to this town, in which 1
they were wrong. However, lam anticipating. '
Tuesday morning about 10 o’clock, the same
scouts re-entered the town and were soon fol
lowed by Gen. Slocum with the 20th army
corps. He stopped two brigades and encamp
ed them in the capital square, to serve as
guards in town while he remained. The bal
ance of hiS" corps passed immediately through,
crossing the Oconee on the bridge east of the
town and encamped on Col. McKinley’s place
and on the hills opposite and commanding the
place. Slocum made his headquarters at the
Milledgeville hotel, and Gen. Williams, one of
his officers, took possession of Dr. Samuel
White’s house. Late in the evening Sherman, |
with his staff and escort, came in and took
possession of the governor s mansion lor his ]
headquarters.
Thursday morning early, the 20th corps be- j
gan to move out, and the 14th corps, command- j
ed by Gen. Jeff. Davis, commenced moving in, !
and She: man left, always keeping between the
two corps. Davis put up at the Milledgeville
Hotel, and his sub-commanders at other places
in town. Kilpatrick, who was here a day or
two in advance of his command, made his
headquarters at Mrs. Little’s. His cavalry
passed through on Thursday evening without
calling a halt in the place, and the great brag
gadocio cavalry leader went off with it. Sher
man had with him immense trains, consisting
of ordnance, commissary and pontoon wagons.
He had no baggage wagons, except for the
different headquarters, and very few of them.
His trains were divided up and placed be
tween the different brigades, thus protecting
them in front and rear. The 14th corps left
early Friday morning, and about 10 o’clock,
A. M., the bridge was tired.
On Tuesday night the penitentiary was fired,
not by the convicts as reported, but by the
Yankees. All the buildings were burned, and
the walls of most of them very much injured.
The cell building, however, was not materially
damaged, and can be easily repaired, as also
the barracks. The machinery of the card
factory was saved, and a good part of the oth
er works. The gun machinery was totally
destroyed. The arsenal, the depot, and the
railroad bridge below town were burned du
ring Thursday, and the railroad badly torn to
pieces for about three miles above and below
the bridge. The bridge across Little river was
also destroyed, and it is thought that this
branch road will not be repaired through to
Eatonton until after the close of the war. It
will, however, be in running order to Midway,
about a mile from here, in the course of ten
days. The cars are running now from Macon
to Gordon. The magazine was blown up just
as the last of the Isth corps was leaving town,
and the explosion was terrible. Nearly all of
the glass in the State House windows and in
the windows'of the adjacent houses, was shat
tered into atoms, and the whole town was
shaken.
The State House and mansion were uot
burned, but completely defaced. The public
documents and books are scattered in im
mense profusion, all over the floors, desks and
chairs knocked over aDd broken up, walls
written on, and some of the paintings injured.
It is truly “confusion worse confounded.” I
never saw in my life such a scatteratiou of
papers. If the Georgia Legislature ever again
in that House gets rectus in curia, they will
move to do better than they did at their last
session.
When Sherman started on this grand raid,
his stock was in bad order, and his slowness
is due to the fact that he had to collect up and
exchange ours for his. He took between 1,500
and 2,000 from this county, and the people are
left without enough to make their crops. He
had a great number of negroes with him, aud
about 200 went from and around this place.
But few of them were armed, most of them
acting as cooks, teamsters, and leaders of pack
mules. All the gin houses with but few ex
ceptions, in the line of march, were burned,
forage taken or destroyed, cattle, hogs, sheep,
poultry taken or killed, and wagons, buggies,
carriages and eatables of every '.escription
carried off. Money and watches did not stand
any show at all, and they made no distinction \
between whites and blacks, but robbed every
body.
Some of the citizens and soldiers who re
mained there were carried off; others were
paroled The hospitals here were not iutep
ferred with, and the patients not even paroled.
In the town proper, the citizens did not suffer
much, compared with what I have seen in
other parts of our country. Everything in the
eating line was taken from most of them, but
some even saved their poultry, cows, pigs, etc.
The inside of the houses, with but a very few
exceptions, were not interferred ivith, and
most of the town people were furnished with
guards. All those who left their things in 1
their houses saved them, and in but few places
were the fences torn down. All in all, 1 think
the people of Milledgeville have cause to con
gratulate themselves on getting off so easily
and so well; for, being an old soldier, I have
seen towns ten times worse used up—in a
word, completely sacked. I was truly rejoiced
to see the old place looking like itself when I
came back.
Colonel McKinley's place, on which they
camped, is pretty well torn to pieces; and
John Jones’ place, on the opposite side of the
river, was completely destroyed. He is the
State Treasurer, and they gave as a reason for
burniug his houses that he had run off with
the money which they expected to find here.
The ladies, with but one exception, were un
molested and respected. One, whom it will
not do to mention, was brutally outraged by
two of these fiends incarnate, and she is now a
raving maniac in the asylum. It is enough to
make the blood boil to think of.
While the bridge over the Oconee was burn
ing. Furguson’s brigade of Wheeler’s corps,
dashed into town, and was received with open
| arms by the citizens. The women collected
on the streets and wept for joy, and never were
our boys made to feel more welcome than they
! were that day. Twenty or thirty straggling
blue eoats were picked up and cared for, and
i as soon as tbe town was found all safe, the
gallant Fugerson started in pursuit of the
I enemy, to harrass and dog them to the ocean.
As the “wee small hours are approaching,”
and my shiners are not very high, l will hang
up for "the present, aud turn into my virtuous
; couch. Iu my next. I will give you some more
1 facts in reterence to the ordnance stores left
I here, aud the wbys ind wherefores,
i ’ Junius.
Gkn. Price not Dead. —The Memphis Ap
peal has been furnished by Doctor O. Knode
with the following extract from a private let
ter received by him from a highly intelligent
souvee. from which it will appear that the old
war horse Gen. Price “still lives,’ or at least
that be was alive on the 2d iust.,the day after
be was reported to have died of apoplexy, at
Dooley's ferry, in Arkansas:
Washington, Ark., Dec. 2, IBd4.
My Dear Doctor: Our grand raid upon Mis
souri is over, and 1 am out sate and sound.
We took the whole State for a while, but they
doubled team on us, and we had to "get out.’
IVe got about twelve thousand recruits. My
regiment is in Shelby's old brigade, now com
manded by Gen. M. Jeff. Thompson, who dis
tinguished himself more than ever in this
campaign. * * * It was fight, fight, fight,
day after day, and march, march, march,
night after night, until men and horses were
completely worn out. The men became eo
sleepy that they dropped from their saddles
in broad daylight without waking, and sever*
al of my men actually went .deranged. The
Yankees 3till hold Fort Smith, Fayetteville,
Little Rock, Dardanelle, Duvall’s Bluff, Pine
Bluff, etc., and no movement likely to dislodge
them will be made soon. Magruder commands
the whole district. Buckner and Forney are
m Louisiana. Walker is in Texas. Maxey
Gano and Watie are in the Indian Nation, and
Gen. Price is with his broken down men and
horses near to Clarksville, Texas, where they
have taken up winter quarters, and where
they will most probably remain for the pur
pose of getting that repose which they so much
need. Our lines, I venture to predict,- will
not be much changed during the winter. * *
You ought to have seen our boys “ lift” the
Dutch in Missouri. It was jolly. Many val
uable officers and men were killed and wound
ed or left * *.
Ever your true friend, A. W. S.
[From the Register, Dec. 14.]
Affairs in East Tennessee.
EXCITEMENT AT BRISTOL.
Yesterday afternoon our town was thrown
into some commotion by the news that Bur
bridge’s force of Federals were rapidly advan
cing from Rcgersville in this direction, and
that Gen. Duke’s men were falling back and
skirmishing with them. At Kingsport, Duke
is said to ha‘e lost a portion of his wagon
traiD The last account was, that the enemy
had reached Edin’s ridge, some twenty miles
from this place. Burbridge’s force is estima
ted by an officer who was engaged in the skir
mish, at about 3,600. An escaped prisoner
reports it to be five or six thousand. Wheth
er Burbridge’s destination is the salt works
again, or whether he is merely endeavoring to
flank Vaughn, has not yet been developed.—
Gen. Duke himself has gone to the front; and
we have hopes t hat the enemy will be checked
in his rapid approach. Should Burbridge
reach the salt works, we predict for him a
hotter reception than he met with there two
months ago, when he found it convenient to
make a sudden withdrawal. The Virginia
reserves are eager to give him another taste
of their quality. They will pepper him well
in defense of their salt.
Latest. —The latest reliable information re
ceived before going to press is, that at two
o’clock yesterday there was no enemy seven
miles this side of Kingsport.
REPORTS AND SPECULATIONS.
Citizens direct from Knoxville, say that
heavy trains run daily from Chattanooga to
Knoxville, carrying stores and troops to the
latter place. It is understood that the garri
sons at Chattanooga, Cleveland and Loudon
have been removed to Knoxville.
They tell the Union people that the object
of this movement is to operate in East Ten
nessee, and that an invasion of Western Vir
ginia is intended. But a very intelligent cor
respondent, who has ample means of judging
of the movements of the enemy, says : “It is
obvious that the Federals really intend the
evacuation of the country, for the following
reasons: An evacuation of Chattanooga by
any other route than that ol Big creek or
Cumberiand gap is impossible ; also, the evac
uation of Knoxville could be effected only by
the same route. Did the garrison at Chatta
nooga attempt a retrograde movement by way
of Sparta or Jamestown, they would be in dan
ger of being cut off by Hood.”
The Federals are aware of this, hence the
transportation to Knoxville of stores and
troops, so that by the assistance of Burbridge,
at Beau Station, a withdrawal from East Ten
nessee, through the Cumberland or Big creek
gaps, can be effected with safety Theie is
not a Yankee this side the Holston, and but a
picket at Strawberry Plains ; while the force
north of the river shows no disposition to ad
vance in the direction of Rogersville. The
negroes belonging to Burbridge’s command
were left at Cumberland gap.
We shall, therefore, not be surprised if,
within a few days, the grand movement of
Hood will result in the complete evacuation
of East Tennessee.
The Register also contains a letter from its
regular army correspondent, under date of the
11th, who says :
The movements of the Federal army in East
Tennessee is all a mystery as yet. General
Vaughn’s scouts left Russellville this morning
at 8 o’clock. Gen. Burbridge’s forces are still
encamped around Bean’s station, and are de
stroying and using up all the supplies on that
side of the river, from Moresburg down to
Strawberry Plains. Scouts and citizens report
that his soldiers are complaining very much
for want of rations. They left Kentucky with
ten days rations, and they are out. Burbridge
has no wagons, except a few ordnance wagons,
and has pressed all the citizens’ wagons for
some purpose—supposed to forage with. No
one is allowed to go inside and come out of
their camp. The same is the case at Straw
berry Plains. There is no enemy between the
Holston and French Broad, and their pickets
are only one mile from Strawberry Plains.
Reinforcements of infantry have come to the
Plains. Rumor says the 10th Michigan has
gone from there to Knoxville—if not, lower
down. Gillem’s command is reported still
about Knoxville, reorganizing. Gen. Stone
man is in command at Knoxville.
Brownlow says.that thirty-six rebels came
into Poik county and murdered fortyi.ne Union
men, sparing neither oid nor young. This is
an invention of his to excite the Union men
to retaliate. In McMinn and Bradley counties
they have fifteen hundred home guards, and
he has advised the indiscriminate slaughter of
all these rebels; he also says the Federals
have finished tearing up completely the rail
road, from Atlanta to Dalton. From Resaca
to Dalton, every rail, tie and chair was taken
up and brought in. Beyond Resaca l the de
struction is not so complete, as the country
was in the hands of the rebels.
The Chattanooga Gazette says that the
whole country south of that city is full of
guerrillas, aud that they are murdering Union
soldiers and citizens wherever they find them.
The late convention at Knoxville has re
commended Rev. W. G. Brownlow for Andy
Johnson’s successor. After the convention
adjourned, Brownlow addressed them, promi
sing. if appointed, that he should do all in
his power to clean East Tennessee otat. We
hope and V 'sh he would take the field, and
give us a c iance at him.
Brownlow complains that Hood has cut off
his supply of paper, and one more issue after
this number (Dec. 7) will be all he can send
out, until he receives anew supply. Be com
plains of the Federal court and amnesty oath,
or rather of the laws of Congress enacted in
pursuance thereof. He says all who have
been indicted and tried for treason have been
acquitted and sent home; and be says the
court has tailed to do them justice. Now let
our Union soldiers do it. Let them make the
i rebels know that but one party can live iu
| East Tennessee.
That is a two handed game. Let the Union
soldiers commence it. LetGillem s East Ten
nessee boys raise the black flag, and Vaughn's
rebe].s will accept it; and we will see who
j cries quit. We have treated pris 'tiers captur
| ed iu Tennessee as prisouers should be.
But rebel prisoners have been abused by Gen.
Gillem’s comntaad shamefully, after they had
1 surrendereu. Especially at Morristown, our
; men were disarmed aud then hacked over tbe
i head with their sabres.
As my communication bas grown very long
I will close. Yours, Dixie.
We repeat the hope expressed by the Col
umbus Republic, that the military authorities
will soon remove the restrictions on the trans
tn'-sion of intelligence. Whatever might he
u! use to the enemy should be withheld ; but
there is much ih it could be transmitted along
the wires, of great interest to the general pub
lic, that would not be of the slightest service
to the Federal officers if :t were seat to them
by flag of truce.
Picture of Wnr.
The folio whig line# are from the opening of
, Mrs. Barbauld’s beautiful poem, “Eighteen Hun
dred and EUven.” How many sad hearts in the
present day, will find their own sorrows echoed in
these pathetic words :
Still the load death-drum thundering from afar,
O'er the rext nations pours the storm of war ;
Bounteous in vain, with frantic man at strife,
Glad Nature pours the means— the joys of life ;
Man calls te Famine, nor invokes in vain,
Disease and Rapine follow in her train ;
The tramp of marching hosts disturb the plough,
The sword, not sickle, reaps the harvest now.
And where the soldier gitsns the scant supply,
The helpless peasant but retires to die :
No laws his but from licensed outrage shield,
And war’s least honor, is the ensanguined field.
Fruitful in vain, the matron courts with pride,
The blooming youths that grace her honored side:
No son returns to press her widowed hand,
Her fallen blossoms strew a distant strand.
Fruitful in vain, she boasts her virgin race,
Whose cultured arts adern, and gentlest virtues
grace;
Defrauded es its homage, Beauty mourns,
And the rose withers on its virgin thorns.
Frequent some stream obscure, some uooouth
name,
By deeds of blood is lifted into fains ;
Oft o’er the daily page some soft one bends,
To learn the fate of husband, brothers, friends,
On the spread map with anxious eye explores,
Its dotted boundaries and pencilled shores.
Asks where the spot that wrecked her bliss is
found,
And learns its name but to detest the sound.
Gen. Cleburne —A member of the staff of
the lamented Major General Cleburne, writing
from Columbia, Tenn., to a friend in this city,
gives the following account of his burial:—
Mobile Register.
I bad his remains brought to this place and
buried at Ashwood, six miles distant, the
private'graveyard of the Polk family. I met
with great Kindness from the peoplb here in
the performance of my sad duty. His coffin
was strewn with flowers by the ladies, and
the following beautiful lines, written by Miss
H., were sealed upon it:
“Fare thee well, departed chieftain !
Erin’s '.and sends forth a wail,
And oh, my country sad laments thee,
Passed too soon through death’s dark vale.
Blow ye breezes softly on him,
Fan his brow with gentle breath,
Disturb ye not his peaceful slumber,
Cleburne sleeps the sleep of death!
Rest thee, Cleburne ! tears of sadness
Flow from hearts tbou’st nobly wou ;
Memory ne’er will cease to cherish
Deeds of glory thou has done !”
Columbia, Tenn., Dec. 2, 1864.
A Sketch of Sherman. —The following
sketch of William Tecumseh Sherman, who
is at present attracting something of the pub
lic attention, we find in the American:
Major General William Tecumseh Sherman
is the full name of the hero who has marched
upon Savannah. He was born at Lancaster,
Ohio, in 1820, his father, the Hon. Charles R.
Sherman, one of the Justices of the Ohio Su
preme Court, and elder brother of Senator
Sherman. He was educated in the family of
the lion. Thomas Ewing, the distinguished
lawyer, whose daughter he married, becoming
brother-in-law to the now General Thomas
Ewing.
At sixteen he entered, and in 1840 he grad
uated, from West Point. In 1841, he was sta
tioned at Fort Moultrie, Charleston ; in 1848,
he was brevetted captain for Mexican services;
in 1853, he took charge of the banking house
of Lucas, Turner & Cos., San Francisco ; and
in 1860, was President of the State Military
Academy of Louisiana-—a position which he
resigned on the first indications of secession,
declaring to Governor Moore that “on no
earthly account" would he “do any act or
think any thought hostile to the Government
of the United States.” General Sherman was
the hero of the victory ot Shiloh, where, Gen.
Rosseau says, “be gave us our first lessons in
the field in the face of an enemy ; and of all
the men I ever saw he was the most untiring,
viligant and patient.” Grant gave him the
credit of the victory. Sherman’s was lately
described as not a remarkable face, “save the
nose, which organ was high, thin, and plant
led with a curve as vehement as the curl of a
Malay cutlass. The face and neck were rough
and covered with reddish hair; the eye light
in color and animated ; but, though restless
and bounding like a ball from one object to
another, neither piercing nor brilliant; the
mouth well closed, but common; the ear
large,' the hands and feet long and thin ; the
gate a little rolling, but firm and active. In
dress and manner there was not the slightest
trace of pretension. He spoke rapidly, and
generally with an inquisitive smile. To this
ensemble I must add a hat which was the re
verse of dignified or distinguished—a simple
felt affair, with a round crown and dropping
brim.”
Rrbel Rejoicings at Knoxville.— Brownlow,
cf the Whig, became furious at the manifestations
of our friends in Knoxville, when the news of the
defeat of Gillem, in East Tennessee, was received.
It is to be hoped that his fears that ,s is the old seces
sion rips” are not driven off “they will drive the
authorities aud us North of the Ohio river,” will be
speedily realized. Here is what the “old rip” of a
parson says:
When the news came into our town of the disas
ter to Gen. Gillem’s command, the rebel women re
joiced aloud, and talked out treason defiantly. Reb
el traitors of the finale persuasion, who had taken
the oath to save their property, were so rejoiced
that *hoy could not conceal their feelings. Old se
cession rips, who can’t live at home, and have come
here to save their lives, were on the streets exulting
and showing that they expected to have their tory
friends in possession of the country soon.
What we want, and what justice demands, is, that
these traitors, male and female, all be sent South,
and their property confiscated. The military au
thorities have either to expel these spies, informers
and trators from the country, or they will drive the
authorities, and the rest of us, north of the Ohio
river. The rebels still swear that but one party can
live here!
The Ladies Troubled.—A late Richmond
letter has the following paragraph :
Quite a stir was created in some of the Gov
ernment bureaus a few days ago, by a peremp
tory order which came from a high military
authority, ordering that the ages of all clerks
in those bureaus be immediately taken down
aud registered. The majority of the “clerks"
affected by the order being ladies—of certain
and uncertain ages—the amount of confusion
that ensued baffles description. Secrets that
had been sedulously kept for years and years
became common events under the inexorable
figures of the registration, and ladies who had
preserved an easy dignity whenever question
ed upon the subject of their ages, in fa
miliar discourse, became pale at the inexor
able “military necessity” that required that
their years should be “known of men.”
Os course the order was not intended to in
clude ladies, being directed at “able-bodied
males" only ; but the opportunity was too
excellent to be lost, and the officer in charge
could not resist the temptation to explore tbe
hidden mysteries of female vanity,and the re
sult is. that in the files of the office are
securely laid away among the “State papers,”
the ages ot the lady clerks of the bureau afore
said—terms of year3 varying, I understand,
between two decades and three score and ten.
A Craven. —The following is a fair sample
of Yankee “patriotism.” Doubtless this Cra
ven desires a commission as Rear Admiral,
having heard of Farragut’s possible promo
tion to a Vice Admiralship :
United States Ship Niagara, )
Antwerp, Nov. 22, 18(147 j
‘Sir: Telegrams yesterday announced the
re-election of bis Excellency President Lin
coln. The Niagara was immediately dressed
with our national flag flying at her mastheads.
Considering this to be the greatest and most
important contest of the war, and most glori
ous in its results, I have again dressed ship
to-day, and at noon fired a salute of 21 guns.
It is. I believe, the first time since our nation
al existence that such a demonstration was
made by any of our ships of war. but the oc
casion seems so momentous and all glorious?
to me, that I could not resist the impulseto
thus manifest my joy.
I have the honor to be. sir. your obedient
gervunt. Thomas T. Craves.
Commander U. 8 Navy.
Hon. Gideon Welles. Secretary of the Navy,
Washington. D. C.
TEC E CITY
T. J. JACKSON LOCAL EDITOR
To Hire.—Rev. A. Wright offers for hire a num
ber of valuableservants for the ensuing year.—
Enquire at Gunby’s store.
Dr. Martin, of the Columbus Female Academy,
advertises for sale a number of fine negroes.
The exercises of the Girl’s Department of the
City Sohool, under Mrs. McKenzie, will be re
sumed on the second Monday in January, instead
of the Ist, as stated by us yesterday.
Robberies. —Among the many petty robberies
of which our city has been the theatre of late we
have heard of none so contemptible as one perpe
trated on Blind Peter Sunday night. We learn
several white men rifled his pockets of his last
“red.” When a white man becomes depraved
enough to rob a blind negrj, there is but little
hope for him in rhi* world or the world to come.
Arrivals. —Five or six men from Col. Von
Zinken’s command arrived here yesterday morn
ing. We understand they report that part, if not
all the command have been relieved, and are ex
pected home in a day or two. They also report
that several Columbus men were captured at Sa
vannah—among them, George I. Lloyd, Wm.
Purdy, and— Harris. The two latter were cut
ters in the Clothing Bureau in this city.
Starvation. —A medium sized, reddish-yellow
cow, about five years old, marked with two splits
in the right ear, and an underslit in the left, has
been lying for the past four days near the new
Laboratory buildings, apparently unable to rise,
from illness or want of food.
Thb Election next Monday. —lt will be seen
by the advertising columns of the city papers that
everybody and his “daddy” is a candidate for the
office of Justice of the Inferior Court of Muscogee
county. There is no lack of patriots willing to
serve their country in this interesting capacity,
just at this critical j uncture. “Wade in,” gentle
men ! According to the old vulgarism, “the
longest pole knocks down the persimmon.”
See the advertisements of N. W. Girard and R.
B. Murdock, announced in this morning’s paper,—
both clever and competent gentlemen.
The Louisiana Saloon. —The reader’s atten
tion is called to the advertisement of this estab
lishment, now opened on Broad street, near Man
ley & Hodges old corner under the supervision of
Lieut. D. B. Caldwell. This gentleman is a Lou
isiana disabled soldier, who comes among us to
turn an “honest penny.” Persons in search of
the best living the market affords, as well as good
liquors, and pleasant recreation, will find the
“Louisiana Saloon” the place to he accommodated.
See advertisement.
The Dinner To-Day, —Remember the dinner for
the poor boys to-day at Jaques’ building ! Per
haps you can send in sometaing to help them out.
Let the scholars of the Free School be encouraged
in every possible way. Some of our people are
well able to appropriate one hundred dollars for a
dinner for their own families : would it not be a
noble exhibition of self.denial to expend a por
tion of this sum to serve the children of poverty in
our midst with one good dinner ? There is by
far too much selfishness in our country. If we
would strive oftener to obey the injunction of the
golden rule, we would be far more happy our
selves, as well as confer happiness on others.
City Council.—The old Board was dissolved
on Monday evening last, and the new installed.—
The most interesting part of the proceedings of
the latter was a general increase ©f the salaries of
city officers. The annual salaries of the Mayor,
City Physician, Treasurer, Clerk, Marshal, and
Deputy Marshal were fixed at $4,000 each. Dr.
Roper was elected City Physician ; Peabody and
Brannon were chosen City Attorneys, with a salary
of SI,OOO. Mrs. McGebee was re-elected hospital
keeper with a salary of SI,OOO, and $3 per day for
boarders. (Cheap board that! Wonder if there
is aoy vacancy at Mrs. McGehee’s boarding heuse.)
Mr. McKenzie was chosen bridge keeper, with a
salary of SGOO.
The New Albany Ledger says the border counties
of Kentucky from Louisville to Henderson, are lit
erally swarming witbguerrillas.‘>They are conscript
ing and robbing the citizens, and doing much mis
chief. Stephensport and other, towns seems to bo
in their possession, and they enter and depart from
them at their pleasure. It would be well enough
for the Indiana Home Guard companies along the
border to hold themselves in readiness for business
at a moment’s notice, for there is no telling how
soon these guerrillas may make incursions into Indi
ana. As matters now stand, the Kentucky border
is in the complete possession of these guerrilla
bands.
The Memphis Bulletin of the 20th inst., says on
Friday evening a foice of about one hundred caval
ry crossed the Cumberland river and male into
Gallatin, Tennessee. They captured in the neigh
borhood two hundred beef cattle, the property of
the government, and retreated from ttie place. At
last accounts, a Federal force was in pursuit, with a
fair prospect of overtaking and punishing the raid
ing party.
The Sf.a King Safe.— The London Times, of No
vember 23d, states that the report that the Shenan
doah (Sea King), Lieut. Waddell, had been lost on
the Desert Islands, in the vicinity of Madeira, is
discredited by the Confederate agents in England.—
When last heard from she was at sea, and far from
the Desert Islands.
- -ap ♦ -
To Cure Camp Itch.—Take a pound of fresh
Poke root, mash it, and boil for quarter of an hour,
with water; add four pounds lard and stew till the
fibres of the root feel dry, i. e., till all the water is
evaporated, then strain Rub at night on the affec
ted parts very thinly. Sure cure. H
The President. —If we had personally enter
tained any doubts of the value placed upon Presi
dent Davis by the people of the Confederacy we
would have had these doubts dispelled .by noticine
the deep feeling created here this week by a strange
and somewhat vague-rumor of his death.
We do not speak of President Davis’ popularity,
for we doubt if any gentleman of his grave, firm,
commanding character and tone of mind is calcu
lated to be what is known as ‘ popular.” He will
be apt to secure a much larger measure of respect
than of popularity. People will probably value him
more than they will love him, but that people do
value him—that his death would be looked upon as
a great public loss —a national calamity—we can- i
not entertain the slightest doubt. or if we had pre
viously done so we could not any longer retain it
after what we have heard and seen this week.
The times, of course, are trying. They call for
sacrifices much greater than most of our people
could have anticipated, and, naturally a contest in
which such sacrifices become necessary can hard- !
ly be popular. Principle and honor can alone sus
tain our people, i r cause them to sustain their cho
sen leaders . _ ~ , ,
Feeli-'g a deep interest in our President, we have
tried our best .to either verily or disapprove the
reports of his alleged death. All we can find out is
that the President has been very sick, but that the
reports of his death are wholly unfounded. We
fear that he is still sick, but very far from sick unto
deatn. Some years ago he had an affection of the
lace which deprived him of the use of one eye. We
think there is a recurrence of the disease, occasion
ing much physical agony, but threatening no ul
timate results.— Wilmington .Journal, 22d inst.
No great man lives iu vain. The history of the
world is but the biography of great'men.
MARRIED.
On the 25th inst., in Talbotton, la., at the resi
dence of Mrs. Lattner, by the Rev. Jno. W. Atta
way, Mr. R. B. Stegall, of Carfersville, Ga.. and
Mrs. M- O. Mlprhy, of Chattanooga, Teen.
Printer’.'Tee received.
Mac-on and Augusta papers copy.
dec 30 _ |
i'ar Chattahoochee.
The Steamer MIST. Abe Fry, master, will leave
for the above and all intermediate landings, ,
Friday momug, at • clock,
dec 29 1
The People's Ticket.
tor .luaticeg Inferior Court,
Muscogee County.
J. J. McKKNDREE,
JOHN QUINN.
J. R. IVEY.
D. B. THOMPSON,
TANARUS, K. WYNN.
dec 30 tde
For Justice Interior Court.
We are authorized to announce R. B. MUR
DOCH as a candidate for Justice of the Inferior
Court of Muscogee eounty.
dec 30 tde
For Justices Inferior Court,
Muscogee f'ounty.
J. J. McKENDREE;
J. R. IVEY.
D. B. THOMPSON,
T. K. WYNN,
A. M. KIMBROUGH.
dec 30 tde
For Justice Inferior Court,
We are authorized to announce J. W. KING as a
candidate for Justice of the Inferior Court of Mu»-
cogee county. Election Wednesday, 4th January
next,
dec 28 tde
For Justice Inferior Court.
We are authorized to announce N. W. Gabbard,
as a candidate for J ustice of the Inferior Court of
Muscogee county, at the ensuing municipal eieo*ioa.
Mr. Garrard is not subject to military srrvioe.
dec 27 tdo
City papers copy
For Justices Inferior Court.
The following names are sugge; .ad for Justices »f
the Inferior Court of Muscogee county. They are
all over the Conscript ago and have the qualifica
tions and experience necessary to a correct discharge
of the duties pertaining.
These gentlemen do not seek the office but wia
serve if elected.
JOHN J. McKENDREE,
JOHN QINN,
JAS. N. BETHUNE,
F. A. JEPSON.I
JAS. A. BRADFORD.
dec 28 tde
For Justice Inferior Court.
We are authorized to announce JAMBS A.
WHITESIDE, a? a candidate for Justice of the io
-1 ferior Court of Muscogee county,
doc 24 tde*
For Justice inferior 4 Court.
The friends ofGFORGE W. DOUGLASS aa
i nounce him as a candidate tor the office of Justice
of the Inferior Court of Muscogee county, on the
first Monday in January next, he being unable, by
reason of disbility, for military duty,
dee 24 tde* ~
AUCTION S ALES'
By Ellis, Livingston X Cos.
HIRING oTnEGROES.
LjN Saturday, December 31st, at 11 o’oloek. 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 desirable
goods.
dec 28 S3O
By Ellis, Livingston X Cos.
♦- mm
WILL be rented, for cash, to the highest bid
der, on Tuesday next, the 3rd of January, at
the auction store of Ellis, Livingston <fe Cos., Colum
bus, Ga., for the year 1865, the following Houses and
Lots, all on the Talbotton road, 3V:£ to 3V£ miles
from the city. One Hou<e 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
S EVE’S VALUABLE IVEf!ROCS
Eos* Sale.
* MAN, 51 years old, good hostler and farmer.
A Woman 32 “ “ washer and field hand.
Girl. 15. “ “ No. 1 Louse servant and
washer.
Boy, 13 years old first rate dining and body
servant.
| Boy, 7 years old, a smart boy and waits in the
I house.
| Girl, 2 years old, likely child.
I Girl 19 “ “ cook and house servant.
Apply to
CARLISLE P. B. MARTIN,
dec 30 ts Columbus Female Academy.
LOUISIANA
EATING, MR k Mill SHOOS,
A r o. 62, Broad Street, Columbus, Go.
f HAVE just fitted up the above establishment and
j I am prepared to furnish
MEALS AT ALT, 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
i mers. D. B. CALDWELL,
j dec 29 lw* Proprietor.
FRESII fImtJLS.
Eng Morphine, A fine asst Eng Soaps,
Powers k Weightman’s Brown AYindsor Soap,
Morphine, A fine asst Tooth Brushes,
s 150 oz. Eng Quinine, Childrens Round Combs,
j Gum Camphor, Nitric Acid,
l Ext Logwood, Mur Acid,
I Cochineal Carb Soda,
| Pow’d Ipecac, Cr Tartar,
i Dover’s Powder?, Eng Mustard,
I Sal Soda, MurateofTin,
Gum Opium, Fine Combs,
; Pow’d Opium, Dress Combs,
Eng Note and Letter Pa- Pocket Combs.
! per,
! Eng and Confederate
i Envelopes,
For sale by J. A. GREEN & CO.,
dec 28 lm Union Springs, Ala.
Plantation for Sale.
/»on ACRES, six miles from Glennville, near She
O Jj'J river. For particulars call on Maj. #. D.
Willi ana-', who live# adjoining the plaee.
dee _ 4
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. ». H. BILL,
dec 6 ts
LOST,
i Confederate States Certificate for 4 per cent.
\ Bonds, issued by W. 11. 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,
dec 21 lm2w“ H. BLACKMAN.
YARNS and OSNABERGS
TO EXCHANGE FOR
OHOUNL PEAS,
At the GRANT FACTORY.
d«cl7 ts
To Printer* !
offer for sale a complete BOOK BINDERY,
Yw (except Rul ng Machine,) two hand PRESSES,
and about
1,000 Pounds of Type Metal,
n^v2l-tf
Everybody Look Here.
WILL be sold on the 10th January. 1865, on the
plantation of John Howard, • - - ur «
fo VK.BoTAR i I!!* p '
proved securities. Acent.
dec 20 tds Agent-
Administrator's Sale.
AN the first day of January, I will sell at public
' J outcry at the Court House iu Marianna, SUO acres
(more O' less) of pine land, belonging to the estate
ol Jo u Bird; On the premises s a fine spring
water, negro cabins, eta. W . . . t « r
dec 6w4t