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Wen Daily Paper iu Richmond.
Prospectus.
i lIE undersigned propose to publish a daily pa
* 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
•ond'ictors, may be deemed promotive of the good
«f the cause in which we are engaged. A proper
eruicism of such acts as will bo deemed adverse to
this object, will be, 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 K oasc of. Editorials
from the pen of one of the ablest financial writers
in this or auy other country will be presented in
eaoh 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, tb V will be found
to constitute such an arry ot t lent ;-i oannot be ex
celled on this continent.
The well known character of the individual whose
name appears below, as a stenog aphic rep >rter,
furnishes, we presume, a guarantee that, in all that
relates to important political speeches and debates,
whether in legrilalive assemblies or out of them.
the“HERALD” will present advantages certainly
not to be seeded by any paper mthe Confederacy.
IT o farming interests will be faithfully vindica
ted, and care taken to disseminate the earliest in
tclligencewhich 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 m each of these departments an editor of
known experience and ability.
Arrangements are on foot D> which to secure the
earliest foreign news, and the paper will contain
such edkorial talent as will fully elucidate the
bearing if foreign diplomacy upon Southern inter
ests.
In short, "TIIE RICHMOND HERALD” will
So found to combine every feature of interest
which die requirements of the present crisis de
mand. , ,
The enterprise is respectfully commended to the
favor and patronage of tho citizens ofthe Southern
Otmfederacy.
All the papers of the Confederacy will copy till
day and send bill to
P. KEAN & CO
dee 29 td Richmond, Va.
Change ol Schedule.
(i'kicr Enoinkkr ani> SuprrintknDKNT, j
Charleston aid Savannah Railroad, >
Charleston, June 7.1564.1
. N THURSDAY, June 9.1864, and until further
* ' notice, the Schedule of the Passenger train will
be a? follow, viz: *
Leave Charleston 9.45, a. m.
Vrrive in Savannah .5.40, p. in.
Leave Savannah.. .5.30, a. m.
Arrive in Charleston 1.15, p. u».
This Train makes direct connections, going north
and south, with the Northeastern Railroad at t'har
teston, and tho Central Railroad at tho Junction.
H. S. HAINES.
J ane 14 tf* Engineer and Superintendent.
Change ol Schedule.
iN and after Sunday, June 19th, the Trains on
" rhf* ascogoo Railroad will run as follows:
PASSENGER TRAIN :
t.eave Columbus 6 45 P. M.
\rrivo at Macon 3 25 A. M.
Leave Macon 8 10 P. M.
4rri' - e it Commbus ....4 25 A. M.
FREIGHT TRAIN :
Lea ve Columbus .5 Op A. M,
Arrive at Columbus 4 55 A. M.
W.L. CLARK,
mar 19 ts Supt. Muscogee R, It.
Through to Montgomery.
NEW SCHEDULE.
MONTGOMERY & WEST POINT
RAILROAD COMPANY.
COI UMBUS. August 27,1864.
t IN and after August27th. the Passenger Train on
1 ' the Montgomery and West Point Railroad will
Leave Montgomery at 8:00 a. m.
Leave West Point at 7:10 a s m.
Arrive at Cbluinbus • at 5:32 p.m.
Leave CJolutnbus at 5:50 a. m.
4rrive at Montgomery at 3:00 p.m.
Arrive at West Potnt at 4130 p. m.
freight Train L aves Columbus at 8:40 am.
4mves ..at 5:27 p m
I). H. OR AM, Sup’t Jc Eng.
a«271864—tf
MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD.
('MANGE OF SCHEDULE.
Girard, Ala., Oct 7,1864.
■ LN ami after 10th inst. Trains on this Road will
' Run Daily (Sunday excepted.) as follows:
Passenger Train.
Leave Girard at 1 30 p.^rn.
\rrive in Union Springs 6 00
Leave Union Springs 5 35 a un.
\rrivc iii Girard at....„ 10 00
Freight Train.
Leave Girard at 4 00 a. in.
Arrive in Girard at 6 00 p. m.
B. E. WELLS,
aglSt f Eng. A Snp*t.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors
ALL persons having claims against the esta’e of
• \ Mrs. L. E. Cairues, dec’d, late of Muscogee
- ounty, are hereby notified to render them duly au
thenticated withiu the time prescribed by law; and
those indebted to said estate are requested to make
immediate nay nout. F-O. lIOKNOR.
dec'.»w4tk Adm’r.
EI€B4iH(;E!
\ FBW Hundred Pounds of Sterling Exchange
tor sale in sum* to suit purchtiers oy
'<lb it BANK OF COLUMBUS.
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VOL. XII.}
SPECIAL NOTICES
Official Notice.
Headquarters Military Division )
OF THE W BST, >
December 23, 1864.)
Genera! Ordei q No. —.
I. All officers and men absent from commando
serving in this Military Division, without authori
ty from their department or corps comm inders, are
ordered to rejoin their commands at once.
11. All non-commissioned officers or soldiers be
longing to the cavalry service, who ma, he so ab
sent, wiU be dismounted and forward; and to their
commands —their horses and equipments being
turned in to the nearest Post Quartermaster, to be
disposed of as authorized in Act 26, published in
General Orders No. 58, Adjutant and Inspector
General's Office, 1864. „
111. Department, District and Post Commanders,
Provost Marshals and Officers of the Conscript Bu- !
rcau, are specially requested to give their attention
to those orders, and will take immediate steps to
collect and forward to their proper commanders all
such absentees.
IV. Department ancL Army Commanders will
steps to transfer t<« infantry commands all cav
alry men s • collected, reporting each cr.se as direc
ted in Par. ii, G. O. 56, A. and I. G. 0., 1864.
By command of General Beauregard.
JNO. M. OTEY, A. A. G.
jan 9 iw
Office Medical Director of Hospitals,!
Macon, Miss., Dec. 29, 864- )
The following ntinned soldiers detailed for Hos
pital service, having been appointed to act as "For
agers” by Surgeons in charge of Hospitals, and their
appointment approved at this office, are duly au
thorized to act in that capacity lor the various
Hospitals and in the counties set opposite their re
spective names.
ATI persons claiming to be such agents, and who
cannot shcw r written authority as above set fortn,
will be subject to arrest.
J. M. Hightower, enrolled conscript, Hied Hos
pital, West Point, Ga. Troup, Harris and Heard
counties, Ga.
J. Cannon, private company K, 51st Ga., Reg’t,
Ocmulgee Hospital, Macon, Ga., Lee county, Ga.
J. J. Hunt, private company H, 4th Ga., Cavalry,
Ocmulgee Hospital. .Macon, Ga., Coweta county
Ga.
G. S. Bunks, private company D. 41th Ga., Reg’t
Ocmulgee Hospital, Macon, Ga.. Forsyth county
Ga.
J. T. Hal), private company F. 46th Ga., Reg’t,
Ocmulgee Hospital, Macon, Ga., Webster county,
Ga. S. M. REMISS,
jan 7 lw Aoting_Me<L Director.
To Georgia Soldiers !
Phillips' 4th Georgia Brigade.
State of Georgia, )
Quartermaster General’s Office. >-
Augusta, Dec. 28th, 1861.)
The members of this Brigade now living, and the
representatives of those deceasod, will please inform
us where ihe Half-Pay due them, under the Act of
December 7th, 1863, may be forwarded to thorn. In
response to each communication we will forward
the necessary papers for signatures.
Each correspondent will furnish us the company,
battalion or regime it to which, helor he
represents, belonged in this Brigade, and his full
address at the present ti me.
IRA ;r. foster,
Q. Vl. (4en. ofGa.
N. B. —After ihe Ist of March letters will be ad
dressed to us at Milledgeville; until that time, un
less in case of danger to this place, we will be ad
dressed at Augusta. I. R. F.
.ian 7 lm
.' - TOTS, •
Overseer Wanted.
WANTED to -engage for the present year an
Overseer to take charge of a plantation near
Hurtville, Ala. The applicant must be a single man
end permanently exompt from military service, A
disabled soldier preferred Apply to Mr. John H.
Bass at this office. *
jan 9 —6t*
wanted’
1 N OVERSEER. One without family, who has
A lost an arm in the service, aud thereby unfit for
military service preferred.
Apply to ROBERT R. HOWARD,
Reynolds, Taylor Oounty.
MRS. OH AS. J. WILLIAMS,
nov2l-tf _ Columbus, Gq.
WAiWED!
r A/Mi LBS. of TALLOW, for which a liberal price
qtUUU will be paid. Apply to
F. W. DILLARD,.
sp7 ts Major and Q. M.
WANTED.
A GOOD BUSINESS’ MAN. until the first of
A January. The best wages paid. A disabled so 1 -
dier preferred, and it matters not how badly muti
lated by wounds so he has firmness and judgment.
Apply at the TIM F.S OFFICE.
nov 30 ts
To RcnL
* BLACKSMITH SHOT* withr.x or seven Forges.
all complete, Applv at
oc3l ts mis OFFICE.
SEVEN TALEABLE NEGROES
For Sale. -
A MAN, 51 years old, good hostler and farmer.
A Woman 32 ” " washer and field hand.
Girl. 15 " “ No. 1 house servant and
washer.
Roy, 13 years old first rate dining and body
servant. _ . . _
Boy, 7 years old, a smart boy and waits tn the
house.
Girl, 2 years old, likely child.
Girl 19 " " cook and house servant.
Apply to
CARLISLE P. B. MARTI*,
dec 30 ts Columbus Female Academy.
NOTION.
Office Ghant Factory, \
Nov. 29, 1864. I
4LL persons having demands against the estate of
Daniel Grant, deceased, are hereby requested to
present them to the Grant Factory,
nov 30 u JOHN J. GRANT.
Sun copy aud send bill to office Grant Factory.
$35 Dollars Reward.
OTRAYED from my place in Wynnton, a dark
O bay mare MULE, about nine years old. hair
rubbed off of both hips aud a large scar on the right
hindquarter. JOHN COOK.
oc 13 ts ,
Lost or Mislaid.
UOUR SHARES of 'he G. k A. S. S. Cos.. No.
F 160, in favor ol Mrs. J. L. Wilson,
nov 30 ts ' D. J. J. GRANT.
To Rent.
A SMALL FARM, containing about 100 acres, 60
in the woods anu forty cleared, about one mile
abovo the Fountain Factory, on the river. On the
place is a good dwelling with three room®, a large
apple aud poach orchard and variety of oilier fruit
trees, good watc, kc. For terms apply to
Mrs. J. A. JONES.
dec near Columbus.
HO FOR ATLANTA.!
The Southern Express Company wili receive
.freight (under forty pounds each package) and
money parcels for .Atlanta via Macon & Western
Railroad,from this date. S. >l. BILL,
dec 6tf _ _ __ Agent.
YAR\S and OSKABI ROS
TO EXCHANGE FOR
GHOUND PEAS,
At the GRANT FACTORY.
dgc 17 ts __
liO^T.
t T the Fair at Hull and Duck s eorner a white
A China Salid DISH in theshai»e of a shell. Hav
ing a match to it I wou and ba pleased to have it de
livered at this Oifice. • , DUI 4
an 7-tf MRS. B.T. CH APMAN.
COLUMBUS, GA.. FRIDAY, JAN. 13, 1865.
DAILY TIMES.
kd:\i\i; 6MTION.
THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12, 1865.
[From th( Columbus Enquirer.]
The iugnsta Chronicle.
A few days since the Reporter of the Press
Association regarded an editorial article of the
Augusta Citron ■ le & Sentinel as of sufficient
significance to telegraph u sentence or two
embodying its spirit to the press of the Con
federacy. We presume that an interest which
if would uot otherwise have elicited has thus
been directed towards the article in question.
It was published in the Chronicle of the 7th,
which has now come to band.
Tire greater portion of this "two column
leader” is devoted to an abstract disquisition
on the relative powers of the State and Con
federate Governments, prefaced with the hack
neyed and b stcrical reminiscence, intended
to be startiugly prophetic, "Otesar had bis
Brutus, Cbaries the First his Cromwell, and
Confederate leadars may profit by their exam
ple.’’ The platitudes of the Chronicle on the
subject of State rights and central usurpations
are familiar to every one, the only thing nota
ble or novel in their re-production now being
this attempt by a Connecticut Yankee, who
left his State after secession, to teach such
doctrines to the people of the South.
Passing over the oft-told prearaple, we come
to the application of the article to the present
times, and copy from it what follows ■
“ How do these plain principles apply to the
present time ? We answer that a party in
power, under the present Confederate Admin
istration, asserts the right to place the people
under a dicta'orship, and desperately strive to
save their own necks by gagging the press,
suspending the great law o i habeas corpus, and
putting everybody in the republic under milU
tary rule. How can we keen the party in
power which urges the old falsehood that pri
vate right must be sacrificed for the public
good ? How keep them from destroying the
people for the imagined good of themselves ?
How keep a crazy majority—il majority they
have—from ruining themselves and the min
ority ? The barons of England took their
rights from King John with arms in their
nands. The South defied a hostile Adminis
tration by separate State secession, and we
call upon the Legislature of the State of Geor
gia, soon to assemble, to interpose the abso
lute sovereignty of the State between the peo
ple and any more bad laws.
“ VYe imagine the look of horror with which
the worshippers of absolute power read these
sentiments, but they are correct. Nullification
and secession are the last dread engines of
self-preservation left to the States, and Geor
gia, having protested against any infringement
of the liberty of her sons, will sustain her
protest to the last resort. We 3ay the last—
for unless matters change, and unless those
in power take a different course in conducting
public affairs, and that speedily, we fear we
shall realize all the fearful consequences of a
war within a war. It does seem as if our
Confederate leaders, relying upon the desper
ate valor of the people to defeat the foe, also
rely upon their patriotic devotion to the cotn
i ion cause to hide the rapid strides to central
ization aud cover the despotic legislation of a
subservient Congress.
" To speak out plainly, tho people of Georgia
are freemen. Their liberties were purchased
by the blood of honored patriots. Their lib
erties are a priceless inheritance. »They will
not part with them or allow them to be wrest
ed from their grasp without a struggle.—
They will allow no laws to be exercised in
this Commonwealth which are only fit for
traitors. They will submit to no bonds which
are only fit for slaves. They have the remedy
in their own hands and they will apply it.
"The liberty of the people is entrusted to
the guardianship of the States. Let tho>sove
reign Legislatures speak, and let the agents
at Richmond tremble and obey.”
The execrable animus of this article is its
attempt to separate the States from their Con
federate Government and to alienate the peo
ple from the Administration at Richmond.
The Congress and the President are accused
of passing and executing "bad laws” with a
view to "save their own necks.” The charge
is made, more strongly than by mere implica
tion, that the war is kept up by stringent mea
sures for the purpose of interposing the peo
ple between the “Confederate leaders” and
the punishment that would await them should
the Government which they head be over
thrown No other construction can be fairly
put upon the language used. The specifica
tions made are that the President and Con
gress have gagged the press, suspended the
writ of habeas corpus , and put everybody uuder
military rule. The only proof of the "gag
ging of the press” is the proposition to repeal
class exemptions and make editors and print
ers liable to conscription, like planters and
business men. The suspension of the writ of
habeas corpus is so plainly the exercise of a
power vested in Congress that we need net
waste time and space in proving it : and the
putting of everybody under military rule must
mean either the system of conscription or the
extension of military law over portions of the
country —both measures undeniably within
the scope of the war-making power. Os the
necessity or policy of these acts, the Govern
ment empowered to reßort to them must be
the judge- not the States. Yet the State of
Georgia is urged by this late Connecticut edi
tor to either nullify these acts of Congress or
to secede, from the Confederacy ! We think
that the strongest proof that could be adduc
ed of the falsehood of the charge of "gagging
the press” is the fact that an editor fresh from
such a locality is permitted to come among
us, and to endeavor to incite our people, by
all the arts of the little demagogue, to "a war
within a war.”
We hare no fear that either Got. Brown or
the Legislature §£ Georgia will give favor to
the suicidal suggestions of the Chronicle.—
Dissatisfied as they may be with some of the
acts of Congress or the President, they have
not reached that stage of phrenzy or despera
tion that would impel them to take hold of the
pillars of the temple of independence, and,
pulling down the edifice, bury its ministers
and themselves in one common ruin. They
will neither secede nor nullify, but we trust
they will signify to this Connecticut teacher
of State rights aud State remedies 'hat he is
a? liberty lu tecede as soon as conve lent from
a Confederacy so odious to him anu so inimi
cal to his i lea? of freedom and popular rights.
Thk Daily Cost of the War.—The Secre
tary ot the Yankee Treasury, in his late re
port. submitted to Congress, states that "the
expenditures for the first quarter, ending Sep
tember 30m, 1864, were total, exclusive of
principal of public debt, £353,061,861 31.
For the first quarter of the present year,
errdimr September 30tb, 1864. the actual re
ceipt.-, as shown by the the Treasury,
were: Totai receipts, $76,212,389 92.
The daily expenditure during the quarter
named reached the enormous figure ots3 817,- i
737 per day.
The Exchange of Prisoners.—A corres
pondent' of the New York Times writes to that
paper a long complaint about the conduct of
the United States Government in leaving its
men in the Confederate prisons. He says:
t In my opinion, the Secretary has taken aud
obstinately held a position of cold-blooded
po icy, (that is, he thinks it pqjicy,) in this
matter, more cruel than anything done by the
secessionists. Ostensibly and officially saying
he will not exchange at all unless the seces
sion leaders will give us, on itverage terms, all
the blacks they capture in military action.
The Secretary has also said (and this is the
basis of his course and policy) that it is not
for the benefit of the Government of thtf United
States that the power of the secessionists
should be repleted by §ome 50,000 men in
good condition now in our hands, beside? get
ting relieved of the support of nearly the same
number of human wrecks and ruins, of no
advantage to us, now in theirs.
Major General Butler, in my opinion, has
also incorporated in the question of exchange
a needless amount of personal pique and an ■
unbecoming obstinacy. He, too, has taken his
stand on the exchange of all black soldiers, ;
has persisted iu it without regard to conse- |
quences, and has made the whole of the large ;
and complicated question of general exchange I
turn upon that one item alone, while it is but
a drop in the bucket. Then he makes it too
much a personal contest and matter of vanity j
who shall conquer, and an occasion to revenge
the bad temper and insults of the South to- '
ward himself.
In my opinion, the anguish and death of
these ten to fifteen thousand American young
men, with all the-added and incalculable sor
row. long drawn out, Vmid families at home,
rests mainly upon the heads of members of
our own Government: and if they persist, the
death of the remainder of the Union prison
ers, and often worse than death, will be ad
ded.
The Times, in an editorial on the same sub
ject, uses the following language :
It is worse than useless to disguise or ig
nore the fact that the condition of Union
prisoners in rebel hands is exciting the pro
fouudest feeling in the public mind, and that
the action of the Government upon the subject
is not regarded with satisfaction, This feel
ing is perfectly natural and not unreasonable.
So far as the people have been informed of I
the action of the Government, that action does
not seem adequate to the awful emergencies of
the case And while the whole subject is
surrounded wi;.h difficulties, it i9 felt that
uothingbut absolute necessity—no question of
etiquete, no fear of embarrassing concessions,
no question of policy and expediency merely,
should lead the Government to permit forty
thousand of our soldiers to perish by starva
tion and exposure, at the hands of their South
ern captors.
[From the Augusta Constitutionalist.]
Prom Lee’s Armjr.
Camp Near Petersburg, i
December 25, 1864. j
Mu. Editor : To show you and your nu
merous readers the effect of Sherman’s raid
through Georgia upon the minds of the Geor
gia troops ia tlm army I enclose you an ad
dress issued by our Colonel and read at dress
parade to this regiment a few evenings since :
and let me assure you that the sentiments
herein expressed, are heartily endorsed by ev
ery member of this regiment.
Respectfully, &c.,
J. B. It.
llakdq carters 49th Ga. Rfg’t, )
December 5, 1864. j
Fellow Soldiers : —lt is with no ordinary
feelings that I address you. Public and pri
vate advices bring us the sad intelligence that
our homes have been sacked, our fertile fields,
once teeming with abundant harvests, have
been devastated; our wives, mothers, sisters,
and those to whom we have plighted man
hood’s most sacred vows, have been ruthlessly
insulted and driven like cattle from their once
happy homes by an unprincipled and relent
less foe.
The capital of your noble "Empire State” in
ruins. Soldiers 1 arouse yourselves to your
true manhood. Let each and every one of U3
remember our pledges and renew our determi
nation never, no never, to lay down our arms
as long as Southern soil is pressed by the foot !
of the invader.
Almost four long years have we battered for !
liberty. Let us brave all, if necessary, four ,
more years to achieve it. Departed spirits of ‘
sainted heroes are looking down from portals !
above, beckoning you to deeds of heroism and
chivalry. The blood of fallen comrades calls !
from the ground for revenge. The charred '
ruins of desolated homes, bitter, burning tears !
of insulted innocence, the \ ail of beggared j
widows and orphans, all, all demand at your j
bands to avenge their injuries. Whenever j
you are called upon to undergo the hardships 1
of the march, or meet our hated foe, in battle !
again, I shall expect you to render a good ac- :
count of yourselves. Prove to the world that i
you are worthy sons of illustrious sires, then ;
a just tfcd, an admiring country, and an ap- I
proving conscience, will suitably reward yon. j
* J. T. Jordan,
Colon?! Commanding.
Females to be Banished.
Headq’rs Dbp’t of thk Missouri, )
Office Provost Marshal General,
St. Louis, Nov. 15, 1864. j
; Special Orders, No. 204.
By direction of the General commanding,
! the following female residents of Clav county,
| Missouri, will report within thirty days aLer
they receive notice, at the headquarters of the
! assistant provost marshal of the seventh sob
, district of the north military district, for the
| purpose of being sent beyond the iines of the
United States forces:
Mrs. B. Roberts, Mrs. John D. Holt. Mrs. J.
M. Dougherty, Mrs. Lewis Dougherty, Mrs.
! W. H. Arnold, Mrs. W. E Price, Mrs. J. J.
j Moore, Mrs. Garrett Long and family, Mrs. G
! W. Thomason.
Joseph Darr, Jr .
Acting Provost Marshal General.
i One of Laub’s Best. — Lamb once convulsed
a company with an anecdote of 6’oleridge, which
without doubt, he hatched in hie hoax loving brain.
"I was,” said be, "going from my house at Enfield,
to the East India House, one morning, when I
met Coleridge on hi? wav to pay me a vi.-:it. He
was brim full of some idea, and in spite of my
assuring him thay time was precious, he drew me
within the gate of on unoccupied garden by tbe
roadside, and there, sheltered from observation by
a hedge of evergreens, he took me by the button
of my coat, and closing his eyes, commenced an
e’oquent discourse, waving his right hand gently
as tbe musical words flowed in an unbroken stream
from his lips. I listraued entranced : but stri
king clock recalled me to a sense of duty. I ;nw
it was of no use to attempt to break away : to,
takiDg advantage of Iris absorption in his subjects,
aud with my pen knife, quietly -everiag ruv but
ton from my coat, I decamped. Five hours after
passing the same garden, on my wiy beau. I
heard Coleridge’s voice; aud, on looking in, there
he was with closed eyes, the button in his Sogers,
: and the right hand gracefully wavtagjwK a* wbm
I left him. He had saver Tsigsedi me ”
Os Peace. — The Washington Chronicle (19th)
; har & liberal and creditable editorial on the people
fcf the South . entitled "Worthy Thoughts.” After
asking the iiuesuon, if the people of the South are
j so tired of the war, why do they fight with such
tenacity ? It answers it by a reference to th > io
| cial influences and their high sense of honor. It
I * v ers t’nr.t no gentleman could bo more agreeable,
and ne ladies more fascinating- It closos H s fol
lows :
. ersoual honor was the absorbing passion of
the Southerner’s life. The standard may have
been .faulty, hut was rigidly adhered to.' .Such
men may be heartily sick of a strife, but thov will
not abandon those engaged in it. They may look
for the close of the war, but they will not desert
their colors. They may deplore the necessity for
the dread onsets of forlorn battlefields, but once
on them they will conquer or die.
As deserters or willing captives, they know
they will be ostracised from the homes of the
friends they love when the contest is over. Hnnce
the war will be continued and desperate battles
be fought, until, by common consent, the struggle
is regarded ag utterly' hopeless, or until such
terms are offerred as they feel at liberty to ac
cept.
Shall we deal with them ns plucky, but, erring
brethren, whose sense of honor, defective as we
may think it, must be respected and whose pride
of character should not be broken dowu ; or shall
wo undertake to regard them as lawless ? defiant
rebels, who are to bo humbled, if uot extermina
ted? Do we not want these courageous men, to
unite with us in laying broad and deep the foun
dation of a democratic society that under the in
spiration of free inst.tutions, shall throw all our
past prosperity, brilliant as it was, in the shade?
Napoleon as "a Whip.”—The Paris corres
pondent of the London Morning .Star, says:
Several carriages having a historical interest
are being brought from oifferant palaces to the new
imperial coach houses on the Quai d’Orsay. Oca
of these belonged to Napoleon l, and was on dif
ferent occasions driven by him. Tne great Em
i peror was by no means a good “whip but ho
; was ambitious of gaining a reputation as such.—
! This ambition, when he was staying at the camp
1 of Boulogue, was very near being the means of
shortening his days. One day he insisted on tak
ing the reins from Ctesar, his pet coaohman, who
not to gener his master, got in the seat behind,
along with Rapp, Mongo and Cambaceres. Os the
safety of the enterprise, some opinion may be form
ed, when it is told that the vehicle was drawn by
five young, spirited and relatively unbroken hor
ses, presented by the town of Antwerp to Napole
on. It required all C:csar’s experieuce and
strength of arm to dr.ve them. The instant they
felt a less expert hand, off they set in a full gallop
in the direction of the sea. The uncrowned Cae
sar thereupon roared to the crowned "Sire, to the
left, and give the reign to the second gray to the
right." "Hold your tongue, Camr, I kuow what
I am about,” retured the Emperor.
Seeing that the driver was no longer master of
tho horses, Chabacercs imploringly said, " Ah,
mou Bleu, sire, where is your majesty going to ?”
"What a coward you are, Chambaceros,” was the
answer j "don’t you sou that I am driving you as
I should?” "Certainly,” said Rapp, who eujoyed
the fright of the Arch Chancellor, despite the
danger he rjtn, "your majesty is driving you
straight to Ergland, where we so badly watt to j
go.” But Chambaceres, on seeing that, out of 1
spite, Napoleon lashed tie horses, besought him
to pull xhem up before they went over the oil .
Monge, his eyes shut, stuck to the door, yellow
with consternation, till the wheel came in cor tact
with a big atone, when the carriage turned over
and tho horses stood still. The Emperor was
thrown from tho box to a great distance, and
fainted. Cham’oaoeres escaped with a bump on
the forehead. Monge’s hut was driven in, and
Ccesar and Itapp mauigod to land on their feet.
No'with. tending the plight to which his majesty
was reduced, tho whole party laughed heartily, and
when Napoleon got up, handing the whip to Cse
sar, said, "I must render unto Caesar the things
which'are Cossar’s. I have had enough of coach
man’s work, and Accordingly resign.”
The bill, which passed the House of Represen
tatives on Wednesday, to supply deficiencies in
the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year :
ending wirti Jure 30, 1805, appropriates abaat
$93,000,000.
The largest items are : Gunpowder and lead,
$400,900 ; for contingencies of fabrications, $300,-
000; Medical and Hospitul Department, $3,261,000;
purchasing cavalry and artillery herses, 7,609,000;
transportation of a.rny. nearly $20,000,000 ■ bar
racks and quarters, $10,000,000,- incidental and
contingent expenses, $1,000,000 ; military tele
graph, $725,000; supplier, and the expenses of
providing for prisoners of war, 20,000,000 ; clothes,
camp and garrison equippage, $30,000)000.
Naval Insignia—Rear and Viue-Admiral. —
The shot'Her straps of a Rear Admiral, by the
present regulations of the United States navy, are
decorated with an anchor in the centre and two stars
at either end. The straps for the Vice- Admiral will .
probably be decorated with an anchor and star iu j
the centre, and a star on each end, and the sleeves
with nine stripes. The cap front of a Roar- Admiral j
is decorated with two silver stars. T’:e Vice-Ad- j
miral wiU probably wear three.
; A Good Onb,—A friend of < urs, says the Jackson
; Mississippi;!.!!, who is always on the alert for ainus
‘ing instances, a? well as being a jolly, whole souled
; fellow, gives us the following exceedingly otiginal
i anecdote in relation to an enthusi istic Baptist min-
I ister, having since been promoted to a Captaincy
I in Governor Clack’s militia, holding forth »t a re
! vival not over fifty miles from this city, who con-
I eluded his description of the beauties of Heaven in
! this way:
: "My dear brethren, there will behea:d no more
! the thundering roar of cannon, the loud roar ofthe
\ mortar, tbe bursting oi tbe bomb in the air, nor
the sharp crack of the rifle; and what is better, my
brethren, there will be no Yankees in that celestial
! city.”
j “Whar is thk Front?”—lt 13 well known that
Wheeler has some splendid troops, and some who
j are as bad as can oe found. These last are scattered
j from the Ohio river to Savannah. A brave and
f gallant soldier tells the following
, He was going through North Alabagna to. rejoin
his command. Stopped at a house to get dinner.
Old Lady—“ Who’s youin’- 1 ?”
Soldier —“Wheeler’s cavalry."
| Old Lady—"Whar gwine?”
j Soldier—“To the front.”
The old lady put on her spectaclep and eyed him
! intently, then brawled out:
i “Mister, some 0’ them fellers you c*ll Wheeler’s
| hoss critters have been gwine by here every day.—
Some war gwine north, some gwine south, some
east and some weat.some this way and some that—
they all sed they war gwine to tha front —now mis
! ter, kin you tell me whar is the front?”
The soldier left.
Southern Refugees is thk North. —A New
York correspondent writes:
i *• The registration ot rebels gees on slowlj.
ft iw quite evident there are thousands of re
fugees here from the South, ofthe basest cha
raci.-r, who have expecud th.« vast city would
both offer protection and Concealment. Hence
they shrink from registration and hope to e«-
csipe. But vigilant eves are about, and they
will not elude the police and others ou the*
alert. It. seems that ihe Danger in Montreal,
who received the ?L*ien funds of tbe Vermont
raiders, is a rebel Kentuckian, and having
s*'it! 1 alle,*" *n< e 'o Queen Vicorift, is con
stautly in th** habit of visiting Neu York, and
with other weaithy rebels are the gold specu
lator- lier>\ 10 raise the price and embarrass
•be <»i.veriMueut. The passports required i»n
tar frontiers will keep out a class of these
•n“- "o. cowarfih it-beis. who desert tbe
>"•*•'.. Hi us extremities, 10 quarter upon those
11 wffect to hate, urui money out of
. ihe-r enemies.
Wanted.
! INY person having smali hou»e, or part of a
A house u> rent. ca:< :;d a srcod tenant by appL - !
iag at this ofllce. fan e It
/ NIX DOLLARS
1 PER MO\TU.
A Thrilling Rcnconter.
Cap!. Spike's Adventure with a lloa Constrictor
* * * At the uirlie’t possible mo
ment after our camp bad bceu pitched, a hunt
was set n foo‘. and Capt. Grant, myself and
i some attendants wtue s.»»»a making our way
to "the path,’’ There weru r.o animals there
when we arrived, except a few hippopotami,
ind we wew, therefore, obliged to wait th«
( comimg of 3. me more palatable game. Our
• patience, hc ~?ver, was severely taxed ; and
I after a lonu ri*iay, we were about to "bag” a
J hippopotamus, when one of our attendants,
perched in a tree abont half a mile distant,
i began waving a blanket. This was a signal
| that game was approaching. We immediate
ly drew into cover, and awaited the coming of
the latter.
We were not delayed long, for presently a
long column of animals, from the elephant to
; the hoodoo, appeared in view, trotting at a
good pace to tho river. Their flanks were
j soon presented to us. and each selecting his
i object, fired. McColl shot a fine young bus
! faio cow, while Capt. Grant was equally suc
-1 cessful with a hoodoo, and several spears cast
by our attendants stopped the career of one
, or two different animals of the herd.
At this juncture, however, occurred an un
j expected adventure that finished our sport, at.
i least, for that day. I had sprung forward,
j immediately after tiring, in order to obtain »
, fair shot at a huge elephant that L wanted to
! hying down on account of his immense tusks.
; I got the desired aim and pulled the trigger of
i tny second barrel. At the moment of mx do
ing so & wild cry of alarm uttered by one of
j the blacks called my attention Glancing
round iny eye chanced to range up into the
| foliage of a tree beneath which Capt. Grant
and myself had lain for several hours pre
vious My feelings may possibly be imagined,
as I beheld an enormous bon constrictor,
1 whose hideous neck projected some distance
I into view, showed that he was about to make
a fatal spring. His direction was certainly
1 towards me; and, as he flashed from hi* po
sition like a thunderbolt, l gave myself up,
for ere aid could reach me, fold after fold of
the monster would have crushed my strong
: frame into a quivering pulp. I fell, seeraiug
ly caught in a whirlwind of dust, aud a strange,
indescribable scuffle ensued.
In the midst of this terrible strife, 1 sud-<
denly became conscious of a aother victim, and
even after the time that had elapsed since
then, 1 still recollect with what vividness the
thought shot across my miud that the second
victim was Capt. Grant, my noble companion.
At last, after being whirled about for several
seconds, each second seemed to be intermina
ble, th~*re ensuid a lull—a still of death, and
I opened my eye*, expecting to look upon
those unexplored landscapes which are seen
only in the country beyond the tomb. In
stead of that I saw Capt. Graut levelling his
rifle toward me, while standing beside and
behind him, were the blacks, in every con
ceivable attitude in the most intense suspense.
In a moment I comprehended all. The huge
serpent had struck a young buffalo cow, between
which and him I had unluckily placed wyeelf at
the moment of firing upon the elephant. A most
singular good fortune had attended me, however ;
for, instead of being crushed into a mangled mass
with ‘he unfortuuate cow, my left forearm had
only been caught in between tho buffalo’s body
and a single fold of the constrictor. The limb
laid just in front of the shoulder at the root of the
neck, and thus had a soft bed of flesh, into whieh
it was jammed, as it were, by the immense pres
sure of the serpent’s body, that was like iroD in
hardness. As I saw Grant about to shoot, a ter
ror i ook possession of me, for if he refrained, I
might possibly escape, after the bo* released hi*
folds from tho dead cow. But should he fire and
strike the reptile, it would, in its convulsions,
crush or drag me to pieces’
Even as the idea came to me, I beheld Grant
pause. He appealed to comprehend all. He could
see how I was situated, that I was still living,
and that my delivery depended on tho will es
the constrictor. We could see every line on
each other’* taco, so close were we, and I would
have shouted or spoken, or even whispered at
him. had 1 dared. But the boa’s head waa
reared within a few feet of mine, and the wink
of an eyelid would porhaps settle my doom ; so I
stared, stared like a dead man at Grant and at the
blacks.
Presently the serpent Vegan very gradually to
rela i. his tolds, and after tightening them several
times, as the crushed buffalo quivered, he unwound
one fold entirely. Then he paused. The next
iron-like band was the ono which held me prisoner ;
and as I fait it little unclasping, my heart stood
still with hops and fear. Perhaps, upon being
freed, the benumbed arm, uncontrolled by my will,
might fall from the cushion-like bed in which it
lay. And such a mishap might bring the spare
fold around the neck or chest, and then farewell
to the sources of the Nile. O, how hardly, hew
desperately I struggled to command myself! I
glanced at Grant, and saw him handling his rifle
anxiously. I glanced at the negroes, and saw
them still ga/.ing as though petrified with aston
ishmont. I glanced at the serpent’s loathsome
head, and saw its bright, deadly eyes watching for
the least sign of life in its prey. No, then the
reptile loosened its fold on n>y arm a hair’s breadth,
and now a little more, until a half au inch of
space separated my arm and its mottled skin. I
could have whipped out my baud, but dared net
take the risk.
Atoms of time dragged themselves into ages,
and a minute seemed eternity itself! The second
fold was removed entirely, and the next one wa*
easing. Should I dash away now, or wait a more
favorable moment ? I decided up«n the former,
and with lightning speed, I bounded away to
ward Grant, the crack of whose piece I heard at
the instant. For the first time in nay life, I
was thoroughly overcome, and sinking down,
I remained in a semi unconscious state for several
minutes.
When I fully recovered. Grant and the over
joyed negroes had held me up, and pointed out
the boa, who was stiii writhing in his death ago
nies. I shuddered as I looked upon the effects of
bis tremendous dying strength. For yards around
where he lay, grass, and bushes, and saplings,
and in fact everything ‘xcept the more fully grow*
trees, were cut close off though they had beoa
trimmed by an immense scythe, This monster,
when measured, was fifty-oae feet two inches and
a half in extreme length, while round the thick
est portion of his body tbc girtu was Dearly three
feet, thus proving, believe, to be the largest
serpent that was ever authentically beard of.
For Chattahoochee.
; The Steamer MIST, Abk Fry, master, will leave
for tho above and all intermediate landing*,
j Friday morning, at 8 o’clock,
jan 12
Special Notice. *
To Tax Payers of xWuscogee.
i < k WING to protrated sickness I have been obliged
i yJ to partially suspend the collection of the State
and County taxes. Tne time is uow at hand when
: I must urge the payment. Tax payers will please
j call at my office, at the store of Stanford ft Cos.,
j where they will find Mr. (Jhas. E. Johnson or my-
I self with the Ta» Boon.
I will my Tax Book on the 30th of Janaary.
JORDIN L, HOWELL,
i jan 12 3t % Tax Collector.
Regular Line of Steamers on tho
Chattahoochee River.
Columbus, Ga., Jan. 9th.
THE Steamer Jackson, Daniei Fry, Master, wili
leave Columbus, until further notice, every Sun
! day at 9 a. m. Returning leaves Chattahoochee every
i Tuesday at 2 p. m.
j The Steamer Inman, C. D. Fry Master, leaves
Columbus every Tuesday morning pt 9 a. m. Re
turning, leaves Chattahoochee every Thursday at
2 a.m.
The Steamer Mist, A. Fry Master, leaves Colnm
j bus every Friday at 9a. m. Returning leaves Cbat
; tahooche eve;y Sunday at 12 m.
jan 10 2m
Notice.
DR. A. C. WINGFIELD ha a removed his office
to Pemberton ft Carter’s where be may be fcond
1 during the day. Night ealls left at his residence,
between Forsyth and Mclntosh streets, immediate
ly in the rear of Dr. B- zeman’s wili be promptly
attended.
I janlOlw*
To Rent.
i DELIGHTFUL RESIDENCE, sell furnished
1 containing six ro ms. situated four miles from
Columbus, in Gen Abercrombie's neighborhood.—
There art: tno hos ired ami seventy acres attached,
with fine orchards and good garden, nndwfUim
proved out builciugs. Appivto
jan 9—ts Mrs. SARAII CKQWKLL.
To flirts
, l COOK. Apply to myself >jt the
! • T uhoe. THO& W GRIMkH.
| jan 10 ts