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DAILY TIMES.
f. W. W4RREW, - - - Editor.
COLUMBUS:
Saturday Morning, December 31, 1864.
"The Rebellion Nearly Crushed.”
Such is the oft repeated expression of the
Yankee Premier, and such too would seem to
"be the conviction of many people we meet
now-a-days, if one may fairly interpret the
countenances of the long-faced brigade on our
gtreets. We volunteer this treatment for the
despondent: let him sit down and ask, and
endeavor honestly to answer, the question,
what material advantage have the Yankees
gained within the last three years ? In the
winter of 1861-2 the lamented Sidney John
ston evacuated Kentucky and Tennessee and
concentrated his forces at Corinth. Since
that time the enemy ba3 made numerous cap
tures with hi3 fleet on our coast and rivers,
out with the exception of about one-half of
Tennessee, he does not hold now one acre
more of interior country than he held then.
If Ilood were now to fall back to Corinth, the
lines of each army would enclose the identi
cal territory they did in the beginning of the
year 1862, with the above-named exceptions.
This is “crushing the rebellion” with a ven
geance, recovering to the Union one-naif of
one Sta'e in three years. We doubt if the
croaker ever took this view of the matter,
and we defy him to disprove its truthfulness.
The Situation.
Some weeks since, while Sherman was eon
ct imping his forces at Millen, and there rest
ing his wearied ranks and preparing food for
his men and forage for his animals, we urged
upon the military authorities the great neces
sity of defending the city of Savannah in Ef
fingham and Scriven counties, and pointed out
the folly, as we then deemed it, of attempting
to hold the city, with a Federal army once be
fore any fortifications in the immediate vicinity
of the place. Fort McAllister easily fell and
Savannah, as we now know, is numbered
among the captured cities of the South and
uo men lost, no time expended, in its capture.
To-day the Federal General and his army take
their Christmas dinner, in our beautiful city of
the sea, and other poor Confederates, brave
mm and noble women, must bow beneath the
terrible rule and ruin of Yankee masters.
That Sherman will long remain quiet in Sa
vannah we do not for a moment believe—his
plan, his intention and the intentions of the
Government at Washington are only boldly
developed, not executed by his present suc
cess. We lay no claim to any especial milita
ry sagacity and know that all the foreshadow
ing of campaigns and the pointing out of pro
per military movements are met by the sneers
of the unthinking and the scorn of the regu
lar officer ; but we do claim a fair proportion
of common sense, and that teaches us that
Sherman’s designs (if he had or has any) is,
Savannah being in his hands and supplies re
ceived, to cut our communication with Rich
mond, not by a raid but in a manner to make
it a great success. He can do this in many
ways, but we believe he will do it by march
ing on Augusta, occupying the city and then
cutting the road at or near Branchville, make
his line along the north side of the Savannah
an entrenched camp with his principal depots
at Savannah and Augusta. We make no com
ments on such a position, but leave our read
ers by examining the map to see the condition
in which such a move, if successful, would
place us.
What then in brief, for we have no heart to
argue the question, is the duty of the hour?
Not to wait until next month or next week to
organize measures to fortify and make the
approaches to the points indicated secure
against the advance of the Federal army, but
to commence to do so at once ; and make them
at every available point from the present posi
tion of our forces on both sides of the river.
Our communications are most seriously en- j
dangered and every energy must be displayed •
to protect them during this winter at all haz- ;
ards. Men must prepare themselves for sacri- j
fices, patriotism must be in the ascendant, and j
military rule bear sway. From present indi
cations the war is surging this way ; we must
make up our minds to meet it and if disasters
come to bear them like men. None but the
poor in spirit and the faint in heart can fail in
the glorious cause in the darkest and most |
terrible hour. From great tribulations will !
spring great joy. Our star is as bright as j
ever, but obscured by the cloud. We may
probably yet have to sutler as our fathers did
in the dark days of the Revolution, when the
blood dripped from the feet of their freezing
soldiers and their immortal leader knelt alone
on the snow at Valley Forge, and implored the
God of mercy to pity the stricken and suffer
ing people. If in the province of God, we
must meet it, we can and we will. The inde
pendence of the Confederacy was never surer
than now. A people spread over such a coun
try as this, having such a population as ours,
who maintained themselves four years in all
the dignity of a perfect government, with
splendid armies, can never be conquered. Be
conquered! The man who utters the thought
should be lashed with whips of iron from the
land. Ay ! should have his vile tongue torn
from his mouth and cast to the dogs.
We hear those of wealth say that the coun
try can never stand up under the destruction
of property which always marks the steps of
the invader. It is false. Patriotism never
lived other than a sickly existence in the pal
aces of wealth power and the marts of
trade aud the busy whirl of commercial and
speculating life, it is hid beneath the bales or
is locked up in the groaning vaults. The poor,
the poor of every land, are the picket guards
of liberty and the sentinels of freedom. We
have them with us always, thank God, and the
armies of the Confederate States, with their
noble, devoted and Christian leaders, have no
thought but liberty, no aspirations but sepa
rate independence. Let the faint-hearted
make up their minds to suffer; the sooner
they do so, the sooner they become strong.
Bend every energy to assist the army and pro
tect and defend the points of attack.
We must conquer in this fight; but we may
have to suffer to be strong. You, aud thous
ands of others, who have looked forward with
a longing hope to peaceful, pleasant days,
when the sword should be turned into the
pruning hook and oannon into plough shares,
may yet go down to death in this terrible
Storm of war, and yet, unless independence
comes with peace the, battle will still be joined,
and the fight, and groan and “sabre stroke”
will still be seta and heard in the land.
[Augusta Cont., 25th.
Homicide at Andalysia.— We are informed that
a difficulty occurred at Andalusia Covington county,
Ala., on Thursday last, between Conyer, the enroll
ing officer at that place, and a man named Love
lace, which resulted in the death es the former. —
From the meager particulars which have reached us
it appears that Lovelace went in Conyer’s office and
asked him some civil question, when Ounyer opened
out with a tirade of abuse. Lovelace turned to
leave the office and Conyer followed him. still abus
ing him. Lovelace warned Conyer not to follow
him, but Conyer persisted, when they got outside
the office Lovelace turned and fired upon him the
contents of a shot gun he carried on his shoulder,
kitting him instantly. , ...
Lovelace surrendered himself to the civil author
ities and was acquitted after an investigation of the
case. — Greenville Observer, 21st.
The Exchange Ended—Ten thousand nine
hundred and ten Yankeo prisoners have been ex
changed at Savannah and Charleston—lo,6Bs pri
vates and 225 officers. The truce expired on the
1 1 th, when the usual firing between the batteries
and shelling of the city was expected to be resumed.
Bloody Affray.—On Sunday a most bloody
affray—we might say a pitched battle—occurred in
the vicinity <>t general hospital No. 1. between some
raon ot a colored regiment, stationed near Fort
Dytle, and some artillerymen, in which threeorfour
colored soldiers were killed, and one of the artille
rymen wounded. Revolvers were the weapons used.
[Chattanooga Gazette.
The Plot to Release the Confederate Pris
oners at Johnson’s Island.
The Chicago Tribune gives what it insists
is a full and correct account of the plot so
recently frustrated, which had for its object
the release of the Johnson’s Island prisoners
and the “ capture” of the city of Chicago.
It says :
A force of about four hundred men—K. G.
C.’s, bushwhackers and guerrillas, were to be
assembled at Chicago, and with them an at*
tack was to be made on Camp Douglas on
Monday evening for the purpose of liberating
the Confederates confined there. Walsh, with
one hundred and fifty men, was to assail the
east side of the camp, and another man, whose
name we may not now furnish, with two hun
dred, was to take the west side; the operation
to be superintended by Marmaduke, who was
to have the remaining fifty men as a reserve
corps, ready to act where wanted. The pro
gramme was to break down the fence and
stampede the 1200 prisoners, who were all
ready for the work, having been informed of
it in some way best known to themselves.
The prisoners were to be armed as rapidly as
possible, the garrison overpowered, their areas
and artillery secured, and the garrison made
prisoners. This, it was believed, could easily
be done if the attack was made as concerted ;
and indeed there is little room to hope that it
would have been otherwise than successful
had it not been nipped in the bud by a pre
mature exposure of the whole scheme.
With Marmaduke at their head, the rebels
were to march into the city and take possess
ion of the court house and square r*s the base
of offensive operations. They were then to
take possession of the polls, voting in the pre
cinct, and preventing the depositing in the
ballot box of any other than the McClellan
ticket. This being accomplished, and a ma
jority in the State thus secured, they were to
proceed at once to the work of destruction.
All the banks were to be robbed, the stores
gutted, and then set fire to the principal
buildings; for the purpose of controlling this
latter phase of the business, the water plugs
had all been marked and a force detailed to
set the water running, so as to empty the main
cistern and exhaust the water supply. The
telegraph wires were to be cut on the first on
set, and then fire set to the rail road depots,
the elevator, the shipping, etc. The persons
of ihe leading Union men in the city were to
be seized, and they, with the plunder, march
southward.
It was believed that with this force of near
ly thirteen thousand men, the city could be
so quickly overwhelmed as that effective op
position would be impossible, and that they
could then, under their leader, Marmaduke,
march in any direction with perfect impunity.
The scheme was well concocted. It lacked
only one essential—a successful issue. Thank
Providence that it was denied them. They
had assembled here as per programme, and
had the arrests been delayed a single day, it
would have been too late—the oft repeated
threat would have been executed, and rivers
of blood would have run in the streets of Chi
cago. No one can doubt that had they once
commenced aotive operations, they would
have been joined by a sufficiently large num
ber of Chicago disloyalists to have made a
clean sweep of the city, and reduced it to a
heap of ashes.
Walsh is completely unmanned—broken
down by his sudden arrest, the complete ex
posure of the treasonable conspiracy into
which he has been made the dupe of persons
more designing than himself, who have manu
factured out of him a genuine cat’s paw. He
evidently feels that his only chances of safety
is to make a clean "breast of the whole matter,
and expose the villains who have over-pursued
him into this net. He now sees the deep guilt
of the whole transaction, and the depth of the
gulf on whose brink he has been lying.
Marmaduke has made a partial confession,
or rather a series of admissions, which, as far
as they go, fully substantiate Mr. Walsh’s
statements and leave no doubt that the con
spiracy was fully as diabolical in its character
as is represented above. He has made these
statements to a man who formerly served un
der him, anti whom he still supposes to be in
the Confederate service.
[Fiona the Richmond Dispatch, 15th.]
Warren’s Defeat at Bellfield.
Since the failure of Warren’s expedition
against Weldon, and his return, discomfited,
to Grant’s lines, quiet has prevailed in the
Army of the Potomac. The serious character
of this failure, and the great disappointment
it has caused Grant, can only be fully appre
ciated when we consider the magnitude of the
preparations he made for it. His plan, as we
have before stated, was to break up the Pe
tersburg and Weldon railroad and take and
hold Weldon, thereby permanently severing j
our communications with the South by this
route, threatening Raleigh and the heart of
North Carolina and menacing Wilmington in
the rear. To succeed in so extensive a cam
paign, it required a heavy column—in fact, a
good sized army. And that his main array, ‘
confronting General Lee, might not, by de
taching such a force, be too much weakened
for its safety, it became necessary, as troops
were to be had from no other quarter, to call
down the Sixth and Eighth corps from the
Valley. The Valley troops were marched to
Washington, shipped to City Point, and thence
disposed in the Army of the Potomac. These
expensive movements having been accomplish
ed, Warren was started on his important er
rand with the numbers and all the perfect
equipments considered necessary to secure
success. We know the result. In the 4 very
outset of his expedition, he was beaten at
Bellfield by some cavalry and reserves, and
fled back to Grant’s army with more speed
than he came out, and without having accom
plished anything more than tearing up and
throwing about a few miles of railroad track.
In their forced marches back to the protec
tion of Grant’s army, his troops, who, accord
ing to the Yankee papers, started out in “light
marching trim,” must have suffered terribly
from cold and hard marching through snow
and mud.
So ends for the present the Weldon cam
paign. Grant will soon be hatching another
expedition, or perhaps attempting a renewal
of this one ; but it is profitless to speculate
upon his future plans ; sufficient unto the day
is the evil thereof.
From the following dispatch, received yes
terday, it will be seen that the Yankee forces
in North Carolina, were prepared to co-oper
ate with Warren’s column :
Hbadquabters, Dec. 13, 1864.
Hon James A. Seddon :
While General Warren was before Bellfield,
the enemy moved up the Roanoke against
Fort Branch, and from Newbern against Kin
ston. Both parties retired before the force
sent against them. All i3 quiet in that dis
trict.
(Signed) R. E. LEE.
We learn from Colonel W. A. Parham, com
manding the Black Water department, and
who was present at the recent fight at Bell
field, that all the troops engaged were com
manded by Lieut. Col. John J. Garnett, of N.
C., commanding thePoat at Hicksford. When
Major General Hampton reached that place
and inspected the works and disposition of
Lieut. Colonel Garnett, he was so well satis
fied with their strength and adaptation, that
he left the entire front of the enemy’s advan
cing column of some 20,000, all arms, to be
met by Colonel G., while he swung his caval
ry around to the left flank, and General A. P.
Hill moved upon hts right flank. And so ad
mirably and efficiently were Colonel Garnett’s
batteries and men employed, that his forces
alone had met and defeated the enemy, and
caused him to beat a hasty retreat, betore
either Geus. Hampton or Hill bad time to
reach aud attack his flanks.
Colonel Parham informs us that great credit
attaches to Col. Garnett for the skill, prompt
-1 ness and vigor with which he handled his
troops and defences—-losing only some four
or five killed and only a like number wound
i ed : while his raking fires laid at least a hun
| dred Yankees low. and caused the balance to
fly in terror back to their entrenchments for
l protection.
.Confederate States Congress.
j The following is a synopsis of such of the
, proceedings of Congress on the 13th inst., as
, are of special interest:
j Resolutions were submitted in the Senate
by Mr. Maxwell, of Florida, authorizing the
President to cause enquiry to be instituted to
ascertain whether by liberal aid and encour
agement from the Government, the manufac
ture of railroad iron can be stimulated within
the Confederate States to such an extent as
will materially assist the Government in main
taining lines of communication necessary to
ths public defense ; and also whether any new
line or lines of railroad are necessary to the
public defense, and if so, whether it would be
practicable to have the same built and equip
ped by similar aid and encouragement from
the Government.
Mr. Watson, of Mississippi, introduced a
bill to provide lor the more efficient extension
of conscription, and for the arrest of deserters
and absentees from the armies, which was re
ferred to the Committee on Military Affairs.
Mr. Henry’s joint resolutions, defining the
position of the Confederate States, and de
claring the determination of Congress and the
people thereof to prosecute the war till their
independence, were reported favorably from
the Committee on Foreign Relations, with a
verbal amendrnent, and were taken up and
unanimously adopted.
In the House, a bill was passed raising the
pay and mileage of members.
Mr. Boyce, of South Carolina, introduced a
resolution suggesting that the Committee on
Ways and Means enquire into the expediency
of giving the President of the Confederate
States an adequate increase of salary, which
was adopted.
During the consideration of the bill pro
viding for sequestrating the property of per
sons liable to military service who have de
parted, or shall depart from the Confederate
States without permission, Mr. Akin, of Geor
gia, having the floor, before commencing his
speech in favor of the bill, proposed an amend
ment as an additional section to the bill, that
the proceeds of all property sequestered un
der the provisions of this act shall be applied
to the education of the indigent children of
the soldiers of the Confederate States who
have been or may be killed by the enemy, or
who have died or may die from wounds re
ceived or disease contracted in the military
service of the Confederate States during the
present war.
In the Senate, on the 14th, the following
was passed:
A Bill to define and punish conspiracy against
the Confederate States.
Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate
States of America do enact, That if two or
more persons within any State or Territory of
the Confederate States shall with intent to
injure the Confederate States, conspire to sub
vert, overturn or destroy by force the Govern
ment of the Confederate States, or to oppose,
by force, the execution of any law of the Con
federate States, or, by force, to hinder, delay
or prevent the execution of any law of the
Confederate States, or to seize, take, possess,
or destroy any property of the Confederate
States, against its consent, or to prevent, de
lay or hinder, by force or fraud, the transpor
tation of supplies of men to, or belonging to
the army of the Confederate States, or to de
stroy or injure any road, boat, engine or work
employed in such transportation, or to hold
any secret communication or intercourse with
an enemy of the Confederate States, or to aid
or abet the enemy in his war upon the Con
federate States, or persons in rebellion against
the same, or to promote disobedience of law
ful military orders, mutiny or desertion, or
unauthorized absence, in the army of the Con
federate States, or among the soldiers in the
military service, each and every person so of
fending, shall be guilty of a high crime, and,
upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by
fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, and
shall be imprisoned, with or without labor,
not exceeding five years : Provided, That any
person charged with any offence mentioned in
this act, if such person be in the military or
naval service of the Confederate States, may
be tried by a military court or court martial,
and, if found guilty, shall be punished by fine
and imprisonment, as hereinbefore provided,
or such other punishment, not capital, as the
court shall adjudge ; and if the person charged
be not in the military or naval service as
aforesaid, such person shall be tried in the
District Court of the Confederate States for
the proper district.
Yankee Love lor Cuffy,
The following precious epistle, says the Au
gusta Constitutionalist, illustrates the im
mense love entertained by the Yankee for the
“poor, down-trodden slave,” etc., was taken
from a Yankee prisoner near Waynesboro, Ga.
A correspondent, in sending it for publication,
says: “I think everybody, negrees and all,
should read it, for it shows the cause of the
great love the Yankee is manifesting for the
contraband—the absorption in the. great cause
is wonderful.” We place it before our readers
verbatim et literatim :
Indianapolis Ind
Sep 21 1864
My Dear
Frank lam not very well today. I had the
aguß last knight and you no I dout feel right
I got A letter from you fryday and I am glad
to hear that you are well, you spoke about
me comming to see you. Well frank I would
like to come and if I can get money A nuff i
will come, every thing is so high it takes A
bo*t all I can get to live on. Frank I wont
tolsfr you one thing, do you think I could
get some counterbans, if I would come down
their, therj giving substutes from A thousand
to 15 teen hundred dollars A peace, well
Frank, people goes and tells the counterbans
that if they will go with them they will give
them 2 hundred dolars. well you see they are
eagnarent and we could make them believe
enny thing we tell them, now Frank they
was a man hear yesterday and he told me he
give me 5 hundred for every one I got. and
I told him that I had A notion to go to see
you and while I was down there I would steel
some negroes, and he sea I could make a
fortion if I would be sharp, and if I had
money to bare my expencee I would start to
morrow. I would not let them have them for
5 hundrd if I could get some. I would take
them to new york and I get 2 thousand A
peace for them, now Frank I believe I could
get 2 or 3 enny how if I would come down
their dont you Frank I want you to see if you
cant get 2 or 3 and send me word and I will
come after them just tell them if they will
volintear you will steal them of and tell them
you will give them 2 hundred dolars beside,
answer this write A way they men hear would
go but they are watched you no I could git
A pass from guvner Mortin to see my husband
and while I was down their I could get some
neager men and bring back most every man
in indianapolis is drafted and you no before
they will go, they will give A good deal.
Frank now you see if vou can get 1 or 2 to
promis to enlist if you steel them of and then
send me word jost as soon as you can and I
will come rite A way. well I have wrote A
nuff A bout that dont tell enny one ennj thing
I have wrete. Frank I would send you some
| money if I hand some to day I always have
j plenty to live on but you no it takes A grate
1 deal to live hear. Sibe is gone this week to
! stay tell after the fare and when she comes I
! think she will want to down their to see you
and mayby her and me will come to gether I
want to come and Frank every body says I
| will make moneyif I go send me word what
you think A bout it. and do all you can and
if you can get 1 write and let me no and I
will come rite away and I wont pay enny more
rent well sallie is going to the office and T
must close good by for this time.
1 Jennie.
Frank excuse this letter for sallie is in a
i hurry to go to the office
England and it? Ministry. —The Lord Pal
merston of ti'-day is not his former self.
Doubtless even the most vigorous capacity
must begin to decline when life has overstep
ped its ordinary limit of four score years.
But it is rather to the indirect than the direct
effects of advancing age that we attribute the
peculiar differences which the veteran premier
now presents to the Palmerston of former days.
A natural but dangerous ambition prompts
him to keep in office to the last. Were he to
fail, he could not look forward to another pre
miership. His has been the greatest reputation
of any English statesmen since Sir Robert
Peel. Indeed, of late years, there has been an
enthusiasm for Palmerston such as there was
not for Peel. But that enthusiasm is waning.
The cabinet has become wholly discredited.
Blunder after blunder, failure after failure, has
marked its career. In foreign affairs, its pow
er is paralyzed by disunion. At the critical
juncture a line of policy which had been fol
lowed for mouths is suddenly abandoned, in
consequence of a split in the cabinet. Eager
to remain in power to the last, Lord Palmer
ston gives way to threats of a secession which
would endanger his ministry. Rather than
resign, he becomes a roi faineant. But the
interests of the country suffer very seriously
from such a course. The moral influences of
England is temporarily annihilated; our
threats of hostility are disregarded and con
temed, and our promises of material assistance
are given only to be broken. At present,
England has not a single ally, and her
has become a laughing-stock among the great
powers. She is a terror to no one, and a dan
ger only to those who trust iu her.—Black
wood.
“ God’s Blessing Lost.” —Mr. Sala, the
New York correspondent of the London Tele
graph, gives the following characteristic pic
ture of Yankee politics and politicians. The
facta referred to occurred at the Cleveland
Convention :
“ Some of the Fremont leaders had settled
on John Cochrane as their candidate for Vice
President, with a view to aiding in their move
ment at Chicago. But the question was, how
they should get the Germans to vote for him,
who composed a large majority of the Con
vention, but were all in favor of B. Gratz
Brown, of Missouri. A few, however, of tbe
leaders, were worked for Cochrane, but they
made but little headway among the large bo
dy of the Germans. But a providential cir
cumstance (sic) soon settled the point. The
committee on resolutions brought up their re
port of platform; and it was decided that the
vote on each resolution should be taken sepa®
rately. The first read as follows : ‘ Resolved,
That, with God’s blessing, the Federal Union
must and shall be preserved.’ This caused
quite a sensation among the Germans, many
of whom are infidels ; but Mr. Cochrane put
the question promptly, ‘All those in favor of
amending the resolution by the omission of
God’s blessing, say Aye ; all those opposed,
No.’ There was a storm of Ayes. ‘ God’s
blessing is lost,’ said Mr. Cochrane. The sud
denness with which it was put, and several
circumstances connected, caused quite a sen
sation. The moment order was restored , the
Germans could be heard whispering to each
other, ‘ Dat ish de man—dat ish de man.—
Vat’s dat he shays’bout Gott’s bleshing?—
Dat ish de man.’ From that moment it was
impossible to get the Germans to think of any
other person for Vice President than General
Cochrane; and when his name was proposed
they rushed it through with a will, all owing
to one trifling circumstance, which shows bow
a little thing determines a man’s fate in politi
cal campaigning.”
A Watch with one Wheel. — A watch-maker
in San Francisco, named Otta Weiderew, has suc
ceeded in producing a meat ingenious piece of
mechanism. He has invented and manufactured
a watoh that has one wheel. This wheel, a main
spring, and a very little other machinery, is so ar
ranged that the watch, when set going, winds it
self up, and it will run two years. It would run
forever if the material would hold out, but the
ingenious inventor says it is necessary to taka it
apart once in about two years for tho p urpose of
cloning and repairing the worn parts . It is cer
tainly a very ingenious, yet a very si rnple and
successful piece es work. Mr. Weiderew is also
the inventor of anew sort of clock, with engine
movement, the pendulum of which is on top, and
works like the walking beam of a steamboat. One
of these ingenious and simple clocks, with silver
dial, gold plated and gold hand3, has been man
ufactured for exhibition at the Mechanic’s Fair in
that city.
Murder of Confederates. —By order of Gen.
Burbridge, five gverrillas were shot to death at
Henderson last Sunday afternoon, in retaliation
for the murder of Union men in that 'region.—
Three of them were brothers, named Horton, and
the two others named Forrest and Fry. The Hor
ton brothers and Forrest were arrested in Evans
ville some time ago, charged with being guerrillas
aud committing robberies above and below that
city, on the Indiana side. They subsequently
broke guard and escaped, but wore afterwards
again captured in Kentucky, armed as guerrillas.
The five unfortunate men were executed a mile
above Henderson, by a detail from the colored
regiment, now stationed in that city. They were
all killed instantly by the first fire—all being shot
through tho heart and head.— Louisville Journal.
The Heavy Hail Storm. —Seme idea may
be formed of the heaviness of the hail storm
which visited this locality on Tuesday night,
when we state that window panes were broken
in different portions of the city, and a number
of geese, &c.. were killed by the “ crystal
drops,” which were generally as large as a
partridge egg. One old negro that we have
heard of was under the impression, when the
hail commenced to fall on the tops of the
houses so heavily, that it was “ Masßa Sher
man shelling de city.” The hail was accom
panied by considerable wind and rain.—Mont
gomery Advertiser.
Not Mine, but Thine.
Thy way, not mine, 0 Lord,
However dark it be,
0 lead me by thine own right hand.
Choose out the path for me.
Smooth let it be or rough,
It will be still the best;
Winding or straight, it matters not,
It leads me to Thy rest.
I dare not choose my lot,
I would not if I might;
But choose thou for me, 0 my God,
So I shall walk aright.
The Kingdom that I seek
Is Thine; so let the way
That leads to it, 0 Lord, be Thine,
Else I must sorely stray .l
Choose Thou for me my friends.
My sickness or my health ;
Choose Thou my joys and cares for me.
My poverty or wealth.
Not mine, not mine the choice,
In things or great er small ;
Be Thou my Guide, my Guard, my Strength,
By Wisdom, and my All I
Despondency.— The general tone of the public
mind is still that most unabated confidence in
the success of the Confederate cause, A few people
however, in certain endangered localities, are dis
posed to be gloomy'; with natural human weakness
they think if their districts should be overrun, then
all will be up with the country and the cause. This
will probably continue to be their impression until
one of two events occur —until the danger disap
pears entirely, or until they find themselves strip
ped of everything which they possess in the world.
In either case the result will be pretty much the
same; if they escape, they will be astonished to re
member how a merely local cloud could throw such
a shadow over the fortunes of the whole land; if
they suffer, they will soon learn that the blow which
prostrated them did not prostrate either the Gov
ernment or the army, and in the resentment pro
duced by their injuries, they will find that resolve
out of which grows the most indomitable hope.—
The most saguine people in the Confederacy are
now p.obably to be found in Atlanta ; and we sup
pose-them to be so, not because the content has so far
receded from that place as to sound in the ear of its
citizens “like thunder heard remote.” but because
those citizens have just had the possible demonstra
tion that their city and their property are but drops
in the great red ocean of this war, and they are con
sequently in a condition to perceive how much is
yet to be accomplished by *he Federals before the
cause can be said to be seriously hurt. The despon
dence of our friends, who are here and their tremb
ling for their goods and chatties, ought not, there
fore, to trouble us a great deal; we may rest assured
that it is but a temporary affliction, and that, in the
course of a month or su, t ev. too, whether rejoic
ing by their unpoduted firesides, or grinding their
treth over the ruins of their homes, will be looking
back with wonder and mortification at the delusion
which led them to confound their individual inter
ests with the destiny of a country as large as halt of
Europe.— Columbia Carolinian.
THE PITY.
*. J. JACKSON LOCAL EDITOR
Sales To-Dat. —Ellis, Livingston & Cos. ad
vertise for tale to-day a number of valuable ne
groes, furniture, and ether articles. See adver
tisement.
Col. Veil Zinkkn. —lt will be seen by general
orders published elsewhere, that this accomplished
officer and brave soldier has returned to this city
and asssumed command of the post. He calls on
all reserved seldiers in this section to be vigilant
in the arrest of all deserters, especially from the
command of General Wheeler. Asa portion of
this command have proved quite lawless and ren
dered themselves odious to the people of this
State, it is to be hoped that ail true soldiers and
good citizens will exert themselves in bringing
such vagrants to justice by promptly arresting
them wherever found.
The Dinner Yesterbat. —Notwithstanding
the brief notification, quite a handsome dinner
was prepared yesterday for the boys es the Free
School, at Jaques’ old carriage shop. Between
fifty and oue hundred scholars were in attendance
and paid their respects to the dinner with a gusto
that showed their entire appreciation of the kind
ness of the ladies who had the matter in charge.
Mrs McAllister, ever first and foremost in good
deeds, and several ladies from Beallweod deserve
much praise iu this affair.
Our Book Table. —We are placed under obli
gations to Evans Cogswell, of Columbia, for a
new volume of 496 pages, just issued from their
pross, entitled, “The Adventures of Philip, on his
Way through the World.” The book is a reprint
of one of Thackeray’s productions, with a very
handsome lithograph of the author, and a number
of other very creditable illustrations. The typo
graphical execution of the work is elegant and
the material as good as the Confederacy produces.
Those wishing a copy should address the pub
lishers. Price, $7,50 —one-third off te the
trade.
Stray Thoughts. —ls mankind were as ready
to remember aud commend the good deeds and
virtuous aotioas of their fellows, as they are to
traduce and damn the fallen, there would be a
much wider range to kind words and exalted
thoughts, and much less necessity for the final
awards of eternity than most people are ready to
believe. “The evil that men do live after them ;
the good is often interred with their bones,” is a
maxim no less trite than comprehensive and
truthful. No matter what has been the antece
dents of an erring brother, let him make but
one crooked step, which in the eyes of the vir
tuous should appear as only one dark spot en a
cloudless sky, the myriad tongues of slander,
with a venom as malignant and baleful as that of
the adder, are ready to persecute him down to
“the last syllable of recorded time,” as a monster
of suoh hideous mein as to startle in holy horror
the entire world and the “balance of mankind.”—
If people were more inclined to analyze their own
foibles, the smallest of which we are taught in
Holy Writ, is sufficient to damn a world, they
would find far less time and inclination to mag
nify the faults of others. And what is more re
markable, we find people most active in abusing
others, for the very offences committed either by
themselves at some period of their lives or by
those of their own household. If God were as
inclement as man nobody would ever be forgiven
for one sin, however penitent he might become,
and nobody, consequently would be saved. Few
have the magnanimity or moral courage to defend
their friends when overtaken in a fault.
Eclipse. —There will be four eclidses next
year—two lunar and two solar.
Tbe first will be of the moon—evening of
April 10th, and visible throughout the Confed
oracy.
The second, visible at 8:44 a. ix>., April
only in South America and the Southern ocean,
will be of the sun.
The third will beef the moon, on theevoning of
October 4th, and only partially visible in the
eastern Confederate States.
Tho fourth will be an extraordinary one that
may not again be sees for a century. It will be j
both annular and central in some places, will be
gin a few minutes after seven in the morning of
October 19th, and be seen throughout the Confed
eracy. It will be annular at Columbus—that is, j
the moon’s disc will not be sufficiently large to
cover the whole of tho sun’s surface, and tho light
will stream over the edges of the circular disc of
the moon, forming a brilliant scene. It will last
over three hours. Some of the planets will be
seen—and altogether it will be a remarkable phe
nomen. The eclipse will be central at Columbia,
S. C.
The Gunboat Fight on the Cumberland.—
The Nashville Dispatch of the Bth, contains the
following particulars of the fight between our bat
teries, and the Yankee gunboats, on the Cumber
land river :
The Prima Donna and the Prairie State, which
left here on Saturday afternoon, met with a rather
warm reception when about nine miles down the
river, at a place called Bell’s Mills, where was
planted a rebel battery. The Prairie State was
the first to meet the battery, and was captured so
quietly that the Prima Donna, whe was only half
an hour bebiud her, was not aware of the danger,
until she, too, had put her foot in it, and ordered
by the rebels to dash alongside the Prairie State.
This having been done, the rebels stripped both
boats of all their beds, bedding and clothing, both
crews being held as prisoners on board the Prairie
State.
Soon after the Magnet came down, and ran past
the first battery, and, discovering a second battery
below, hove to, and ran ashore on the other side
of the river. After a brief consultation, it was de
eided to send overland for the gunboat Carondelet,
which was some miles up the river. As soon as
the messenger informed the commander of the
gunboat of the situation, he started at
once to the scene of action, and, comiDg to
opposite the ravine, aboat midway between the
two batteries, shelled the woods and succeeded in
killing the chambermaids of the Prairie State and
the Prima Donna, the crews and passengers of
both boats having been taken into this ravine,
when the Carondelet hove in sight, and both boats
fired by the rebels.
These boats would undoubtedly have been de
stroyed had it not been for the fact that a negro
belonging to the Prime Donna had concealed him
self on board, in the engine room, and had not
been discovered. When the boats were fired, and
the last footsteps had died away, the negro came
forth and extinguished the flames. Having dis
lodged the rebel batteries, the gunboat took the
two steamers in tow, and brought them up to
Nashville, the Magnet following. The chamber
maid of the Magnet was also killed, her head
having been taken off by a cannon ball from the
rebel batteries.
To Hire.
COOKS, WASHERS, IRONERS and PLOW
BOYS. Applv to
Rev. A. WRIGHT.
dec 29 5t at Gunby's Store.
LOUISIANA
EB, BAR OIIWMIM,
No. 62, Broad Street, Columbus, Ga.
r HAVE just fitted up the above establisment and
1 am prepared to furnish
HEALS AT ALL HOARS!
The very best the market affords, of eatables and
drinkables, kept constantly on hand, and no effort
will be snared to plea=e and accommodate custo
mers. D. B. CALDWELL,
STERLIA'ft EXCHAA«wET
i FEW Hundred Pounds of Sterling Exchange
S'* U »AfIK OF COLUMBUS.
Hardesvilt.f, S. C., Dec. 21st,
Major General Howell Cobb, Macon, <Ja. ;
Some of my men have deserted and will propably try
to pass.through your’JDopartment. Please direct your
forces to arrest and lodge them in jail wherever
they may be found.
(Signed! JOSEPH WHEELER.
Major General.
Headquarters, Posv, <
Columbus. Ga., Dee. 30. IBM. <
Orders, 1
No. 20. j
11. In ebedience to orders from Maj. Gen. How
ell Cobb all officers and enlisted men are hereby or
dered to arrest and bring to this Post, any and all
mounted, or dismounted, men of Maj. Gen. Whee
ler’s command found straggling through the coun
try. Citizens are also requested to give assistance,
and individually or collectively make arrests of
above mentioned men, it being more to their inter
est to make such arrests when they have the power,
than to mako complaints.
By order
LEON VON ZINKEN
Col. CommandingtPost.
S. Isidore Guillht, Lieut, and Post Adj’t.
dec 31 3t
For Jugtlce Inferior Coart.
We are authorized to anneunce Mai. WILLIAM
L. SALISBI RY as a candidate for Justice of the
Inferior Court of Muscogee county, at the election
4th January next,
dec 31 tde
For Justice of the Peace of tbe
668th District, G. M.
The friends of R. W. MILFORD announce him as
a suitable candidate for one of the Justices of the
Peace of the 668th District, G. M., on the 4th day of
January next. MANY CITIZENS,
dec 31 tde*
The People’s Ticket.
For Justices Inferior Court,
Muscogee County.
J. J. McKENDREE,
JOHN QUINN.
J. R. IVEY.
D. B. THOMPSON,
T. K. WYNN.
dec 36 tde
For Justice Inferior Court.
We are authorized to announce R. B. MUR
DOCH as a candidate for Justice of tho Inferior
Court of Muscogee eounty.
dec 30 tde
For Justices Inferior Court,
Eluscogee County.
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 M*j
cogee (county. Election Wednesday. 4th Jantanr
next.
dec 28 tde
For Justice Inferior Court.
We are authorized to announce N. W. Garrard,
as a candidate for Justice of the Inferior Coart es
Afuscogee county, at the ensuing municipal elefti**.
Mr. Garrard is not subject to military srrviee.
dec 27 tde
City papers copy
For Justices Inferior Court.
The following names are suggested for Justice es
the Inferior Court of Muscogee county. They am*
all over the Conscript age and have the qualitaa
tions and experience necessary to a correct distharca
of the duties pertaining.
These gentlemen do not seek the office feat will
serve if elected.
JOHN J. McKENDREE,
JOHN QINN,
JAS. N. BETIIUNE,
F. A. JEPSON,
JAS. A. BRADFORD,
dec 28 tde
For Justice Inferior Court.
We are authorized to announce JAMES A.
WHITESIDE, as a candidate for Justice of the In
ferior Court of Muscogee county.
dec 24 tde*
For Justice Inferior Court.
The friends ofGFORGE W. DOUGL4SS an
nounce him as a candidate tor the office of Justice
of the Inferior Court of 3/uscogee county, on the
first Monday in January next, ho being unable, by
reason ofdisbility, for military duty.
dec 24 tde*
AUCTION SALES.
By Ellis, Livingston & €o.
WE will sell on Saturday, December, 31st, at 11
V V o’clock, in front of our Auction Room —
One Garden or Fire Engine,
1 Lot Window Sash and Glass.
dec 20 $6
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
♦ ♦
WE will sell on SATURDAY, 31st December, at
11 o’clock, in front of our store
1 Negro Man, 35 years old, No. 1 Field
Hand, fair Shoemaker and Plantation
Carpenter.
dec 30 $6
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos
HIRING OF NEGROES.
ON Saturday, December 31st, at 11 o’clock, we
will hire (for cash) for the coming 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 SHO
By Ellis, Livingston <fc Cos.
mrn •
W’ILL be rented, for cash, to the highest bid
der, on Tuesday next, the 3rd of January, a”:
the auction store of Ellis, Livingston <fe Cos., Colum
bus, Ga., for the year 1865, the following Houses ax i
Lots, all on the Talbotton road, to 3J4 mtlej
from the city. One Hou3e with eight rooms, and
farming lands if wished; one with ten rooms, aid
farming lands; one with two rooms, and farming
lands. The property will be shown by S. C. Lind
say.
dec 28 td
“lost,
t Confederate States Certificate for 4 per eent.
A Bonds, issued by W. H. Young, Depositair, at
Columbus, dated March 14, 1864, and numbered
1238, for Six Tsousand Dollars. The public ii eax
tioned from trading for said Certificate, as appliea
tion has been made for a duplicate.
dec2llm2w* H. BLACKMAN.
AAR AS and OS A A BLRCrS
TO EXCHANGE FOR
ghounl peas,
At the GRANT FACTOKY.
dec 17 ts
To Printers t ”
II7E offer for sale a complete BOOK BINDBRi.
VY (except Ru! ng Machine,) two hand 1
and about
1,000 Pounds of Type Mela!.
nov2l-tf
Everybody Look Here.
nriLL be sold on the 10th January. 1885. ox tie
W plantation of John Howard, Jr . on F!vn
: liver, on th« Oulu ’has branch of the W. ft.
R., all the corn, fodder, pe i~, tnul<~. fat tie, hog* and
nlau'aipm implements. Terms ea h,
At the same time will be renteu the plmtatio* o.
eight hundred a res, and hired fortho year, a htce
ly set of p! tufation negroes, for notes with vt*
proved securities. 6. K. ID 1 " A Kit,
dee^tds