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VICK K.VGISSER AKD SurKRINTR.VDKNT, )
Charleston and Savannah Railroad, > >
Charleston. June 7,1304.) *
N rUURSD IY. June 9. 1564. and until funner i
' notice, the Schedule of Ihe Passenger train will :
he 161 low, via:
Laivo Cnarleeton 9.45, a. m.
Arrive in Savannah ~ 5.40, p. tu. j
Leave Savannah 5,80, a. no. j
Arrive in Charleston 1.15, p. in. j
this Train makes direct connections, tfoinx north
ami south, with the Northeastern Railroad at Char- !
tspton, and the Contra! Railroad at tho Junction.
a. S. HAINES.
June 14 ts Engineer and Superintendent.
( Itange oi Schedule.
.1N an l niter Sunday, June 19th, the Trains on
/ the • uscogee Railroad wil v run as follows ;
PVHiSEiNQJBR TRAIN:
• ■•it Columbus*.. C. 45 P. Al.
,irive, at Maeon '*< 25 A, M,
.-j.vv Macon 8 10 )'. M
Wive at. Columbus .....4 25 A. Si*
4 REIG »P TH VI N :
v.i\“ Columbus 5 00 A. Vt
\rrw c at. Columbus .4 55 J. M.
W. L. CLARK,
1 tt Supt. Muscogee R. K.
Tiirutigli to Montgomery.
NEW SCHEDULE.
MOI4TQOMERY & WEST POINT
RAILROAD COMPANY.
COLUMBUS. August 27,1864.
i\ N n I iftcr August 27th. the Passenger Train ou
:i. W.uifKomoryand VVe-’t Point ltaiiroad will
L-.hvo Montgomery at 8:00 a. in.
tjenvo West Point at 7:10 a. in.
Arrive at. Columbus at 5:32 p.m.
Crave C'liumbus at 5:50 a. m.
Irriveat Montgomery. at 3:00 p. in.
Arrive at West Potnt at 4!30 p. m.
- o f ht Train lea ve* Columbu- at 8:40 a ui.
■tvmea .at 8:27 p ro
r>. H. CRAM, Sup’t & Eng.
’ t -ts
MaUltE & B‘RARD RAIL ROAD.
< iItVOK 09-' KCIICUVLE.
Girahp, Ala., Oct 7, 1864.
~S .ii *i -r 10th inst. Trains on this Road will
r h i-i Imi •• Sunday excepted,) as follows:
Pat4i«eiig;ei Train.
•<r.»ve (lirard at 1 "0 P» p*
' r.w i. Union Sprue*. 6 00
Oe ive Onion Springs 5 45 a. m.
Arrive in Girard at 10 ( Hi
I'rpJpM Train.
D-..VC Girard at...... 4 00 a. m.
Arrive in Girard »*... 6 00 p. m.
B. Iv. WELLS,
*.«lßtf Kns. <k Sup’t.
STHStLI\« UXCH.Vi\«E!
F; \V Hundred Pounds of Sterling Kxohangn
tor side in sums to suit purchasers by ,
u BANK Ol COLUMBUS.
IrJ-OTL'XOJEJ.
Oi'i'iCß Gbaxt Factouy, \
Not. 29, 1864.1
i 12 persons having demands against the estate <',f
■ Daniel Grant, doceased, are hereby requested to
*rcsei : them to the Grant Factory,
nov ia tt JOHN J. GRANT.
Sun copy and send bill to office Grant Factory.
s*ls Bonai’B Reward.
\CRAY El> from mv place in Wynnton, a dark
' ha' mare MULE, about nine years old, hair
'ti'.i,. ! o I'of both hips and m large sear on the right
'hndquarter JOHN COOK.
I ts _
To Rent.
K ' ■: idL t \ ,51. «'Autf lining about 100 acre*, <’>o
:> *:ie wood:* an • A-rty cleared, about one mile
! *■ *eFount tin Factory, on the river. Oti the
Kood filing with three rooms, a lars;*
V iU' -v.-A pencil <>! ‘hard and variety of other frmt
> i water, .Vo, For terms apply to
Mr*. J. A. JONEft,
(in near Columbus.
1 or Esdiange ov Sale.
A f .0 office of the "Southern Iron Works/’ near
v.ow bridge, the following articles of Uaid
?■' ichwa will exchange for Pork, Bacon.
•' 1. Wheat Flour. Fodder, or any other articles
’ ••liions or Confederate currency, viz:
, Bw an 1 Iloop Iron, of all suas, suitable for plan
*hon
■ ar Mills and Kettles, of all sizes, from 30 to
•..gallons,
lots Ovens nnd Skillets,
‘fy Pans aud An.irous,
and Broad Axes,
Sft ov els and Spades. , „ ~
Chainos aud Plough Moulds. xv* r \r
** Orders for Castings and Machine «ork
ti JOHN D. GRA\ & CO.
Dr. K, AOIU.If,
zDiEnsrristj,
\ 1 iOer:on A Carter’s old stand, back room ot
■' »'.tns Jewelry Store, where lie can bo lound
» • u-s. n [oc 13 tun
Lost or Mislaid.
F°, l > shakes of the G. AA. 6. ft. Cos., N*-
GRANT.
For Sale.
l.’u, *..•11. C AKE. 1* >r stock food, at 84 Bread
N. P. NAIL.A 0-0.
i Im.
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VOL. XII.}
SPECIAL NOTICES
Npecial ,\otiee.
Hj:adqo*rthrs 24th Dist. O. M., )
C-dumbus, Ga.. Jan. 17, 1865.1
Ibe attentio iof the Reserve Militia, Policemen,
; and all companies commissioneo'from the Adjutant
j and Inspector General’s Office of Georgia, aio es
-1 pecially directed to General Orders No. U, Lsued
from that office on the 7th insO
B. A. THORNTON,
jan 18 jit a. D. C.
i Hf.adquartkhs, Mar t»ry Division of thr West
January 7th 1865.
General Orders f
No. —, t
Post Commandants. Provost Marshals and En
rolling Officers on duty in this Military Division,
will not permit to pass within its limits, officers and
men on leave or furlough, or scouting parties of
Wheeler’s Cavalry, unless their leave or furlough,
or the order detailing the scouting party is ap
proved by Msjor Gen. Wheeler, or iiL commanding
officer.
Such parties will be arrested and returned to
their commands, and the name ofsubordinatecom
m >nd< rsgranting '.-i vee or- furlough*, «r ordering
such and toils, will no ;orwarded to these Headquar
ters at Montgomery, Ala.
By command of Gen. Beauregard.
J. B. RUBTIS. A: G.
Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi papers
please insert for one week, and send accounts to
Montgomery, Ala
jan 13^1w
Headquarters Georgia Reserve, 4
and Military Disiriei Georgia, f
Macon. Ga., Jan. 10, 1865. )
General Ordert, l
No. 2. (
Under order- fre in General Beauregard, all per
sons absent from Geu. W heeler’s command are re
quired to show an approval for such absence, either
from General Wheeler or some higher officer.
Post Commandants, Provost Marshal? and En
rolling Officers are directed to arrest all who cannot
produce such approval and forward them to Col, J
W. Avery, at this place, who is charged by General
Wheeler with the business of collecting absentees
from his command and enforcing the rules and reg
ulations of the service in their eases.
By command of
Major Gen HOW HI,L * 088.
R. J. Ballktt, a. a. g.
jan 13 fit
To Georgia Soldiers !
Phillip*' 4tli €«eoi*gi;t Brigade.
FJtate of Georgia, )
Quartermaster General’s Office. '»
Augusta, Deo. 28ih, 1864. J
The members of this Brigade now living, and the
representatives of these deceased, will please inform
us where the Half-Pay due them, under the Act of
December 7th, 1863, may be forwarded to them. In
response to etch communication we will forward
the necessary papers for signatures.
Each correspondent will furnish us the company,
battalion or regime it to which, he .or he
reproseuts, beluiu edin this Bngade. and his full
address at the present tuns,
IRA .R. FOSTER,
Q. M. Gen. ofGa.
N. B.—After ;ho Ist of March letters will be ad
dressod to us at MUiedgeviU*; until that time, un
less in case of tlaoger to this place, we will bo ad
dressed at Augusta. I. R. P.
jan 7 ho
. i wmmm—mmmmmm i Mr ■,i win. nin nmmmammmmmmm wggjjg
WANTS.
WANTED.
AN OVERSEER. One without family, who has
lost an arm in the service, and thereby unfit for
military service preferred.
Apply to ROBERT R, HOWARD,
Reynolds, Taylor Countv.
MRS. OHAS. J. WILLIAMS,
. uov2l-tf Columbus, Ga.
' WANTED!
‘r v, j LBS. otTALLOW, for which a liberal price
(Jn/UU will ba paid. Apply to
F. W. DILLARD,
«p 7ts _ Major and Q. U.
IV A X T E B ,
t GOOD BUSINESS MAN, uutit the first of
V January. The he.»t wages paid. A disabled sol
dier preferred, and it matters not how badly muti
i lated by wounds so ho has firmness and judgment.
Apply at the TIM F.iß OFFICE,
nov 30 ts _
YARNS and OSXABURG*
TO EXCHANGE FOR
OrXl-OTJjE»a*X>
At the GRANT FACTORY.
dec 17 ts
S3OO Steward.
OTOLEN from Cook's Hotel or between the Must
o cogee Depot an 1 the Hotel, on the morning of
the Tthinsf.. one small VALISE, covered with red
russett leather, somowhat torn, ends chirk *»r green,
tugs at each end. containing one Captain's fine
grey uniform, uuder clothing, one ink . stand, one
finely bound volume of "Geuer.H Orders from
Adjutant General’* Office, and belongs to Lieut.
Col. Waddv. Some of the clothing marked Thomas
W. Hunt. We will nay the above reward, of two
hundred dollar* for the recovery of the valice and
two hundred dollars for tlie thief, if awhile man,
or fifty dollars if n negro.
SHIVERS, W YNNE*A CO.,
Proprietors Cook’s Hotel.
Columbus, Ga.. Jan. 10, ’65.—2w
~To Rent.
* DELIGHTFUL RESIDENCE, well furnished
A containing six rooms, situated four miles from
Columbus, in Geu. Abercrombie's neighborhood.—
There are one hundred and seventy acres attached,
with fiue orchards and good garden, and well im
proved out buildings. Apply to r
jan o—ts Mrs. SARAH CROWELL.
To i*i‘iiiteps !
\\ r E offer for sale a complet e BOOK BINDERY,
VV (exceptßu!-ng Machine, two hand PREftSE*.
and about
1,000 Pounds ol Type MelaL
no?21-tf •
FRESH DRUGS.
Eng Morphine, A fine asst Eng Soaps,
Powers A Wcightman’s ’ Brown Windsor boap,
Ifornhiue A fine asst Tooth Brushes,
150 oi. Eng Quinine, Childrens Round Comto.
Gum Camphor, A’A’*
Ext Logwood, Mur Acid,
Cochineal Carbboda,
l’ow’d Ipecac, Or Tartar,
Dover’s Powders, Eng Mustard.
Sal Soda. Murate of Tin.
Gum Opium. Fine Combs,
Pow’d Opium. Dress bombs.
Eng Note and Letter Pa- Pocket Com on.
por,
Eng and Confcdwnte
Envelopes,
For sale by J. A. GREEN A CO.,
dec 28 lm Union ftpru.gi, Ala.
Regular Liae of Steamers on the
CtiattatooocUce River
Cos I. mar 3, Ga*. Jan. Sth.
TUF ftteamer’J iCKSOX, Daniel Fry, Master,
leave Columbus, until further notice, every bun
day at 9 a* «. Returning loaves Chatfeihoo-hceeven
Tuesday at 2 P. M.
The Steamer Indian, 0. D. Fry Master, leaves
Columbia every Tuesday morning st s k. u.
tnrning. leaves Chattahoochee every Thursday at
12 a. M.
I The Steamer Mist. A. Fry .Vaster, levs Cos nm
bu, every Friday at 9a. n. Returning .eavesChat
j tahooche every Sunday »i *- M
jan lb 2tn __
_v l'Ol.Mt.
A V4l HOG that hag just been killed by some
\ : *L‘ n arj( i hid in some brush.. It war not coid
iL “ tew
meat the tort mcau *. p TURNER,
i deuce.
i»» IT it*
COLUMBUS, GrA„ THURDAY, JAN. 19. 1865.
(DAILY TIMES,
; EVENING EDITION
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JAN. 18, 1865.
;0' mmunicated ]
frdaor Columbia Times: It Wits onue a law
(emveted by I think) that any one
who violated :< law proposed by himself
■ should suffer dt ath. The principle was a
good one. Dec: us Brutus condemued to death
Lis own son sot violating a law proposed bv
j hioiself-—that a .y one should be put to death
wno should propose for Rome a monarchical
i form of government. Were this principle to
be applied now the terrors would entcb some
! of our promi.it ,v men. -The queslion of arm
ing the negroes Las elicited more than one ar
ticle from the press of the country, and more
than one speech frem our public men. Let j
me te)l you, Mr. Editor, what the “ bone and
■ sinew’’ of the land think of it—those upon
• whom resit; the defense of our country. It is
not to flu generals of the army, or to the meat
| men, that we arc (o look for public sentiment,
jGo to (lie privates of the army—they are the
; men to wuoui we must iook for the salvation !
of our land—and ask them what they think of *
the proposition to arm tha negroes. You will !
not find one in a thousand that will advocate
it. The universal sentiment is, “ I’ll be d—d ;
if I fight with the negro.” In the of j
Virginia it has been one ot the greatest insults !
to tell a Yankee that he must fight, with the j
negro.
It is adding soldiers to the Yankee army, A !
negro will desert before he will fight, and
where he goes his musket goea with him.—
Makt? teamsters and cooks of them, and pat
them at drudgery work of quartermaster’s
and commissary departments and you will add
one-fifth to the strength and efficiency of our
army. No ono can tell, who lias never calcu
lated, the number of white men—who will
make efficient soldiers—that are engaged in
the capacity of teamsters, cooks, and hangers
on o! quartermasters and commissaries. In
the army of Virginia there are enough to
make a division, larger 4ian any one we now
have in that army.
There are other considerations that could
be urged against this measure ; but I consider
the crowning one to be, put negroes into our
army and you disorganize it. I cannot blame
any white man for refusing to fight side by
side with the negro. The best soldiers of oar
army say they will desert before they will do
so. Let me warn the legislators of the coun
try. TiPEXCR.
-- —♦ »
Comspoudence of the Times.
Dog Rivbk Factory, j
5J Mile* from Mobile, Jan. 11, 1865. j
Friend Tom : Indisposition has been the mum
of my delay in writing. We haT« followed the
example oi that eccentric Westerner, who swore
: that if a man hadn’t a right to get the chills in
anew country, ho hadn’t a right to do anything ;
| and very near shaken himself to death in carrying
j out the principle. The citizens here claim there is
uo local cause for that great Southern bug-bear*
the all-shaking fever and ague ; but we should
say that the location, with the large swampy
bottom in its vicinity, was favorable to the produe
. tion of swamp miasmas.
And Christmas, Tom ! dear, old-iashkmed, mer
ry hearted Christmas ! which we have longed for
and welcomed and honored from a boy, has come
and gone. There must certainly have been some
mistake last year; for though it was beyond
doubt, December 2oth, on which, as everybody
knows, Christmas ought and used to come, we
haven't seen it yet— our Christmas we mean. So
in the absence of anything more entertaining, our
authorities made the Christmas of 1864 a working
day, a day of details and drills, only in self-de
fence, however, to occupy the mind and drive
away those confounded visitors, the "blue devils,”
which wiil intrudo themselves, though all unfor
i bidden, when the soldier treats himself to that
most dangerous of all luxuries, a fit of musing,
which bears him back on "fancy’s restless wing”
|to distant friends and borne. Now, drilling is a
recreation, a necessity—short and early drills I
mean, but the road to that necessity lies through
getting up, and getting up with the mercury down.
is a fact, Tom, of the stubbornest kind, a very
| jackass of a fact. Reveille beats ! imagine that
you have to put one leg outside of your blanket -,to
act as a feeling thermometer ; you bring it back
i hastily again, for the leg doesn't like it; and
! might have suffered more, had you not like a pru
: dent man emulated the example of—
< "Diddie, diddie, dumpling, my sonvlohn,” —
; By going “to bed with your breeches on for if
"misery makes strange bedfellows,” there is no
reason why it should uut suggest strange bed
clothes.
Our inklings are so long in reaching you, that ;
’any news we might essay to write, has already
been published, until it has become as threadbare j
as Paddy O'Fahertv’e Sunday coat: ii is hardly
worth while to recapitulate it here, the more so, as
there is "sorrow a taste of diversion” in either ot
them,
'We hear the enemy i3 entrenching himself at
Pascagoula. A waste m labor, if it be true. Do
they fane* that the rebels are going to enter upon
St campaign, even with their sumivun bonur.%, a
fight with the Yankees, as an incentive in such a
temperature a? wc are now having? Way, sir,
this army would be out of necessaries before it
marched sen miles ; for ail the whiskey in "Puke
d-.m" would not last our officers, with mercury
bel *w z«re. f*r a single day. But we * « weary
of this hum ir.: a monotony. So blow high—blow
law. c me ice, *.r hail, or ‘now. let us be off.
The gr-at question of the day now it, when will
the war close? Looking through your political
glasses, do you see any harbinger of peace? any
ray o! hope upon th« whole military horizon ? It
von should fi?k me when it is going to end, I
could but reply in thew rds of an e.cemrie iieu
enant-of artillery, wbx. informed his tailor, who
seemed over ar xi us about "that little bill of his,
that ‘he c,,uldn' pay it Fnen. and the Lord in his
infinite mercy only kuow when he couldand it’s
jast TAm wbh this war.
But there is no use despairing y»t, if every man
wi!l put his shoulder to the wheel, and make a
vig reus pnsh; for the Smith has within hemlf
1 elements which must sooner or later prove results
i which will win the admiration of the world; for
we thank God there is even ytt a remnant of
honett thinking, chivalric men, whose nobiiity of
character will standout in bolder relief in tho hour
of political danger as the sky above them grows
darker and more lowering, even though the smoke
;of battle blows into their own nostrils. Yet many,
’ who, like Saul of old,‘‘breathed out threatening;
and slaughter” at the beginning of the war, are
now nicked, cruppered and already broken to har
j ness.
Does not every day prove how nicely—upon pa
i per—some of our good people, many of whom
never heard a hostile gun, or smelt ‘'villainous
saltpetre,” and but dream of “outside barbarians,”
i could take in tbe rags” of the soldier, where the
wind blows great guns from the north, or put hi?
bark under “close reefed topsails” when a Federal
temi est is at hand ? We, for one, should he mighty
pleased, as we have but “one chance" in this
“Ship of State" to see some of these bold pretond
. ®rs try “a trick at the wheel,” which, and we mis
j take not, would most probably eventuate in their
being rolled iri i tho lee scuppers with her first
lurch to port DAD BUIINITT.
[Correspondenc; Memphis Appeal.)
Letter from Mississippi.
West Point, Miss.,
Editors Appeal : As I am stopped here for a
; few hours, I propose to give yon a line or two.
, The larger portion of the army is bow at Tupe
l to, where it was two years and a half ago. The
Memphis and Charleston railroad is still occupied
by oar troops, from Corinth to Tuscumbia. Our
corps and all tha cavalry occupy this line. So
you see Corinth is not yet evacuated. Whether
our army will go into winter quarters where it ia
; now, or not, lam unable to say. The troops need
rest Fcry much, and the probability is, that they
will bo quartered at once.
The roads are in a wretched condition—almost
I impassible. This being tha case, it will bo im
i possible for fae enemy to advance upon us under
I two m :>nths at least. During this Aime our army
j t,% reorganized and repleted in sumbers to
i forty or fifty thousand, or even more, which will
prevent Thomas from executing his coreted t piaa
iu tho spring—that of aping Sherman ancl
j plunging his hireling hords through Mississippi
; kpd Alabama to tho Gulf. This is now sail to be
his campaign for the spring. To prevent him, our
| country should arouse itself between now and .that
! thus, pm every man capable of bearing arms in
j the field, to oppose him. It will not do for Mis
; sissippi and Alabama to be overrun and held by
■ the enemy, as our armies now draw their supplies
| from these States. The Yankees being aware of
I this fact, will put forth their whole force to over
run them as soon as the codition ;of the,road* will
j admit of an advance.,
j The wounded from Corinth erenow being shipp
! ed through this place to Columbus, Mississippi,
jat J other points in tho rear. Dr. Tuttle informs
tut) that he sent five hundred and fifty yesterday
jou one train, and expects more tj-day. The most
! of them are slightly wounded and were brought
sway from Franklin aud Nashville hofore our
' arsay fallback. They are all cheerful and speak
of the fight at Franklin as ene of tha most
i
• d*?peraie of the war. Many of these troop* will
j «oi*a recover from their wonnds and be readv
; again to confront the foe.
In the defeat of our armvjiear Nashville aud
the retreat from the State of Tennessee, our prin
cipal loss was iu artillery. This is quite serious,
but as we have plenty of guns captured from the
enemy in previous engagements with him, we can
afford it. More anon. Mempuis.
The Trams-Mississippi.—The editor of the
Columbus fMiss.) Republic has had a long con
versation with Lieut. Ryan, of Johnson’s Missis
sippi eoraraaud. He reports the condition of af
fairs quite satisfactory along the Mississippi river,
for a considerable distauce above Vicksburg.
Most of the Yankee stockades have been aban
doned or destroyed, and a large scope of country
is free from the foe.
Lieut. It. had a long interview with Col. Early,
brother of Lieut. Gen. Early, of the Army of Vir
ginia, who is just from tho Trans-Mississippi De
partment. He left Washington, Ark., on the SRh
insf., and about the last thing he did was to shake
hand? with, and bid farewell to General Price. So
the noble old veieran is not dead. May he be
long spared to his country ! Colonel Early reports
everybody a? iu good spirit? on the other side of
the river. The Federal troops had been all nearly
withdrawn from Arkansas to reinforce Thomas,
and they now only occupy Little Rock, Pine
Bluff, and perhaps one or two other points of minor
importance. Price has an army of some twenty
five or thirty thousand men at Lanesport, Ark.,
many of them fresh recruits from Missouri, and
constant accessions were being made to his ranks-
He will have a most formidable army in the
spring, with which to commence operations, and
if he is properly supported, results of the greatest
moment to our cause may be achieved.
Johnston not Reinstated —Gcutlemea di
rect from Richmond inform ns, says the Mont
gomery Advertiser, I7th, that there is no truth
in the report that General Johnston had beeu
reinstated by the President. During the stay
of that officer at the Capital it was understood
that he and Mr. Davis had an interview, which
was more satisfactory than any previous meet
ing for some time past. The report of his be
ing reinstated perhaps grew out of this, but
was known to be incorrect. General Johnston
is at Columbia with his family preparing to go
into retirement.
Gbx. Benj. J. Hh,l.—We are gratified to be
able to announce, says the Montgomery Mail,
through unquestionable authority from Blue
Mountain, that this veteran and galbint officer has
safely arrived at that point, out of the enemy’*
lines. Inasmuch as we reported him eaptared,
we congratulate him upon our ability to correct
the report and announce hi* safety :• hi> nume
rous friends.
A Peace Association. —The Pacificator, pub
lished in Augusta, Ga., contains an article writ
ten by Rev. L. P. O’Connell, of Columbia, ft C.,
aud addressed to Rer. Dr. Cummings, of New
Nork. In that article the writer suggests
the Catholic Church of both section? of the
with the aid and co-operation of all who
may feel disposed t» encourage the undertaking,
orgauize itself into a grand Peace A??**ciatit,s—
a Convention, as it were, to discuss pn posiiious
for peace; and after adopting «ome pi aa, pre«ent
it to both government* f»r their adaption or re
jection.
/ SIT DOLLARS
l PER MOTTH.
Colonel Charles Forsyth,
Several days since we republished from the
Mobile Register a letter from its Yinpni i cor
respondent, “P. W. A-, ' vindicating the gal
lant young officer whose name heads this par
agraph from certain unjuat and unfounded
charges against hi? character. The Mont
gomery Mail says the President, the Secretary
of War, Adjutant General Cooper, the Judge
Advocate General, Col. John T. Wood, the
commander of the Tallahassee, and one of the
President's aid?, all the officers of the War
Department under whose official cognizance
the case came, as,well as the entire Alabama
0
delegation in Congress arrived at the same
conclusion expressed by “P. W. A.” upon
reading the record.
TANARUS” the very action of the ,l9tb oi October
in which misconduct was charged he led his
regiment with his accustomed gallantry in
the charge, and only halted from exhaustion,
the result of previous illness and a march the
whole of the previous night iu order to attack
at daylight, after the enemy was in full re*
treat, and our troops in double quick pursuit
—when, in fact, the battle and the danger was
over, General Battle, who was an eye. wit
ness to t.Liis action, expressed his opinion of
it in the following letter addressed to his fath
er a few days after it occurred. It was not
published at the time, by Gen P.’s request,
but as it has become a part of tha record of
the trial, (here is no impropriety in printing
it now :
IlDq’us Battle's Brigade ix ruts Field, )
Near Waynesboro, Va., Sept. 30, 1864. f
Don. John Forsyth :
Mi/ Dear Sir: I cannot forego the pleasure
of congratulating you on the part acted by
your son, the gallant Colonel of. the 3d Ala
bama regiment, in late engagements with the
enemy. The compliment paid to my brigade
by the Lieutenant General, for its action on
the 19th at Winchester, has already been giv
en to the public. No officer contributed more
to this brilliant result than Col. Forsyth. But
it was on tho 22d, when the army had retired
from Fisher’s Hill, that he displayed the high
est heroism, and held his regiment against the
advance of the Yankee army until most of our
artillery was withdrawn, and 1 ordered him to
retreat.
The conduct of my entire command Was
uot less meritorious than it was at Winches
ter. All remained in the trenches until or
dered out by Gen. Early, and then retired in
admirable order. Four regiments were sent
with a staff officer, to occupy the valley turn
pike, while the 3d Alabama was retained to
hold the enemy in check. As soon as I reached
the piae with this regiment, my brigade was
made the rear guard of, the array, and covered
its retreat, skirmtshiug occasionally with
Sheridan's cavalry until midnight.
This is written, not for publication, but for
thegratification of the family of mv gallant
frilnd.
Very respectfully and truly,
Your obedient servant,
[Signed] Culled A. Battle.
Speakiug of Sherman’s projected march through
South and North Carolina for the purpose of uni
ting with Gen. Grant, and the hope entertained
by many that the bad weather will impede his
advance, the Richmond Dispatch says it has no
great faith in such allies as wind and weather.
They have proved treacherous too often since the
commencement of this war. Besides, we read
that in the campaign of January and February,
1781, between Cornwallis and Greon—over this
same ground—the rains and the high watsr did,
by no means, put an end to military evolutions.
Cornwallis pursued Green, and Greeu retired be
fore him, with the most unremitting vigilance
and the most untiring activity, although it was
raining incessantly nearly tho whole time, and the
waters wore everywhere up, for several weeks,
from the borders of South Carolina into Virginia.
We rather hopo that military moans will be
found to hold Shermun in check, and to protect
the country and delay his advance as much a?
possible. «
Forrest’s Indomitable Energy.—Money’s
division, foriuorly G'hua:ham’s, was aeut to Fur
rest, we are told to replace Bale’s division st ,1/ur
frees boro’. When Hi od fell back from Na-hville,
the troops at Murfreesboro’ were in great danger
of being out off from Forrest with that indomita
ble energy which is characteristic of the utan,
pressed everything rideable within his reach, and
brought off safely his own and Manny’s command
and joined Hood’s army at Colombia A majority
of Maney’s men were riding behind Forrest’s
bold troopers—some rode mules—and many oxen.
'Twas said to l ave been u most ludicrous caval
cade, as it marched through Columbia. Nobody
else save Forres' eoulu hav» saved the men in
that expeditious style.— [Mont. Adv.
The Battle Between the Indians and 6‘ol.
Chivinoton near Foet Lyon, Colorado Terri
tory.—Tne following ex tract from a letter written
from Colorado Territor. under date of 1) cember
9, puts a different a^p r ct upon the reported achieve
ment of Col. Cliivington and h ; s command near
Fort Lyon, in that Territory, where five hundred
Indians were reported ki 'i and. The writer occupies
a highly responsible position in the Territory, and
his statements may bn reii dupon. lie says :
You have heard, or hUI lo g before this reaches
you, of the great Indian battlonear Fort Lyon, be
tween the scattered bands • f Indians in and about
there and the command under Col. Chivir gtoo. It
is said that 500 Indians were Ki led and some nine
of our troops. It may be >f interest to you to know
somethin? more this m itter.
The truth will doubdess -how thot this attack on
the defenceless s ivages wa,- one of the most cruel in
history. The Indians claimed to be quiet and at
peace, yet the command phoned into a village of
lodges, and the most of those 'ieiims were women
and papooses. None were spared, All were killed
who could not escape. These Indians, I am as
sured, molested no traveler- who passed among
them. Tbo most efthem had ?iven up their fire
arms before tae attack was made. If such is mili
tary glory, God deliver me from all such. Yet this
man, (led. Chi vingtm, wiil attempt to make a repu
tation as a military cocam aider ou' of this massa
cre, which should cause a shud ler of horror through
the wholecountry, if it shall prove true, as I have
no doubt it will appear in good time.
History Repeats Itself.—French armies cap
tured, says the Charleston Courier, the great cities
of Spain; demolished tbs S'onisb Jarmies to a
great extent; institutei anew government : and
were afterward? cempei'ed to reknqu sh tneir sup
posed conquest bv- f » teirb'e :- - wri lof Spun -h
guerrilla bands! And it is as true to day as if re
vealed from Heaven,that if our armies were dis
band and, and our people were still unalterably <le
tent ined to resist Yankee rule over lh' 1 nil, that
such rtfa could not be maintained by five hundred
thousand Yankee soldiers!
i— • mi
Par: < from Jacksou that Griersou ia'
B'g B;.getting ready for another raid. — (Vvrfo**,
Ca K 27th Georgia. Captumu—A private
letter from ElLer' W. Peabody, ip his mother,
dated ('era - , m-nr Taccumbia, T>“C 2”. 1861.
state*- , at in the fight at Nashville on tin*
16th Dec., all of Cos K, 87th Georgia, were
captured Only tfcr* —Captain Alston Bob
Bain a’ 1 >v ie write*- escaped.—*S*A-
[Eroiii the lio". », T< logri'ph j
The \ iiukt’(*s are notv deriving their eon-io
lati-.n from tiie ide that the material for the
Confederate armies is almost exhausted- It is
amusing to see how their arrogant boasts of
superiority, 61' vanquish’ g end subduing tbs
South in a tight -of t.a-.l iog the war short,
sbarp r-’ and decisive; have nil subsided into tho
patient expectation of wearing ns out, and the
Sinai disuppe iranco of our deadly soldiers,
when they can march quietly to bloodless vic
tories. Offri oil information from the highest
quarters, the President himself, now confirmed
iu the letter from Senator Hill, of Georgia,
shows that fully two thirds of those properly
belonging to our armies, and who should be ia
the ranks, are wrongfully absent. That is t#
say, our armies would bo three times their
present numbers if those at present subject to
duty were added to them. This renders it cer
tain that, the exhaustion of material, to say
nothing of other resources, is not our danger.
We have the strength We have the means of
repleting aud enlarging our armies beyond any
force they have ever exhibited. It only de
pends upon ourselves to do it.
Great disparity of numbers has existed be
tween the two armies since the beginning of
the war. it has been compensated by’ the su
perior fighting qualit'es of our troops, by the
morale of having onr “quarrel just,” rendering
us “thrice, armed,” and by the advantages pos
sessed by the defensive party fighting on inte
rior lines. The difference in the quality of the
troops will, even throughout Lincoln’s entire
second term of office, if the war should so long
continue, tend more and more to equalize tho
opposing forces.
We are not in poss‘--.«ion of tin* exact figures,
but the time over one-half, and we think fully
two-thirds, of the soldiers of the Doited States
wili vpiro during the year 1865, commencing
early i ' ’he spring. Their levies have been
for 100 days, six mouths one, two and three
years. Their veterans will a most all go out
during the next year. Experience has shown
that the proportion ot their old troops who
re-enlist is not large. Admitting it to be true,
that, from their greater population, they have
the means, by fresh drafts, to keep up their
armies to their present numbers, or even to
increase them, ’hey will bo composed in a
great measure of new recruits. Our own ar
mies will be composed principally of inured,
if<tn veterans. Southern chivalry, thedefenco
ol liberty, honor and home, fire the heart and
nerve the arm. and have their strength. But
they are as nothing compared with discipline,
which, ?ay s T’-'yle, is “a kind of miracle aud
woi> - by laiti.. obeys, goes hither and goe*
thither, marc'—< and hails, gives death and
even receives it, as if a tale hud spoken. ” It
is only military experience which teaches tha
vast superiorittf of an army of disciplined vet
erans O v'cr an army of now men.
Napoleon’s Marino .Secretary, Truguet, said to
him, “much longer tiiuo is required to form a sai
lor than a soldier ,* the latter may be trained to all
his duties iu six months.” Napoleon replied:
“There never was a greater mistake ; nothing ean
be more dangerous than to propagate such opin
ions. At .Temappe there were 50,000 Freuch 9,O(M>
Austrians. * * It was neither the volunteers
nor the recruits who saved the Republic, it was
the 180,000 old troops of the monarchy, and the
discharged veterans whom the Revolution impell
ed to the frontier. Pari of the recruits deserted,
part died, a small proportion only remained, whe,
iu progress of time, formed good soldiers. Why
have tha Romans done such great things ? Be
cause six years’ instruction were with them re
quired to make a soldier. A legion composed es
3,000 men was worth 30,100 erdinary troops.—
With 15,000 men, such as the Guards, I would
any whoro beat. 40,000. You wili not find me en
gaged in » war with an 'army of recruits.”
Suoh were the opinions of the greatest soldier es
modern or ancient times. The British army which
finally conquered him at Waterloo, were eulisted
men for life.
Lincoln’s ability to raise troops has no terrors,
if with the return of men to duty, and the zealous
and effective skill of ©ur officers in f >rming sol
diers, our owu armies, though far inferior in nan
hers, can be imbued with the spirit and strenglk
of veterans. It is discipline. All depends on tha
officers. Such of them in our army a? have not tb*
qualifications to make their soldiers what tho sol
dier* of onr army ought lo be, should be gotten rid
of. An incapable military offiecr is now the greatest
affliction of tho Confederate States. Do sufficient
earnestness, fearless ness aad fidelity exist ou this
subject? What numbers of offioers are there,
who are known by their mon, tbeir superiors, and
the community, te be inefficient and useless; aad
yet they remain in places full es responsibility fee
the lives of soldiers, the honor of the army and
Ihe safety of tho country. There may be diffi
culties in getting fairly quit of such officers ia
some instances—there would i>e none in supplying
their places if proper system prevailed. It was
the maxim of Carnet, the great “organizer” *f
the victories which Napoleon afterwards so glori
ously won, that nothing was so easy at to find
excellent officers in *all ranks, if they were only
chosen according to their capacity and .courage,"
Sokkow fob the Drad.— The sorrow for tha
dead is ihe only sorrow from which wo refuse la
be divorced. Every other would we seek to beat,
every other affliction to forget; but this wound
we consider it a duty to keep open ; this affliction
wo cherish and brood over in solitude. Where it
the mother who wool I willingly forget the infant
that perished like a blossom in her arms, though
every recollection is a pang ? Where is the child
that would willingly forget the most tender af
parents, though to remember be but to lament I
Who, even in the hour of agony, woald forget tha
friend over whom he mourns? Who, even when
the tomb is closing up the remains of her he moat
loved ; when he feels his heart, as it were,crushed
in the closing of its portal, would accept of conso
lation that must be bought by forgetfulness ? No I
the love which survives the tomb is one of the no
blest attributes of the soul. If it has its woeß, it
has likewise its delights ; and when the overwheliu
ing burst of grief is calmed into the gentle tear of
recollection; when tho sudden anguish and the
convulsive agony over the present ruins of all that
»e most loved is softened away into pensive medi
tation on all that it was in the days of *llß loveli
ness ; who would root nut such a sorrow from the
heart ?
Though it may sometimes threw a passing
cloud over tho bright hourjff gaiety, or spread a
deeper sadness over the hour of gloom, yet whe
would exchange it, even for the eqpg of pleasure,
or the burst of revelry. No ; there is a voice fro»
the tomb sweeter than song. There is a remem
brance of the dead to which we turn, even from
the charms of the living.
Oh, the grave ' the grave ! it buries every error,
covers every defect, and extinguishes every re
sentment ! From its peaceful bosom spring non#
but fond regrets and *euder recollections. Who
can look down upon the grave even of an enemy,
and not feel a compunctious throb, that he should
ever have warred with the poor handful of earth
that lies mouldering before him ?
The New Treaty with Japan.—Kanagawa
papers give full accounts of the immediate
results following the late successful attack of
the allied fleet at Shnonogeki, such as the am
icable adjustment, of all matters in dispute,
the promised payment by the Japanese Gov
ernment and provinces of $3,000,000 indem
nity, and the brisk renewal of business at the
commercial ports. AH restrictions having
been removed, large quantities of silk accu
mulated at Yeddo have arrived at Kanagawa,
and the European merchants are congratula-.
ting themselves upon the improved prospects
for business. Nevertheless, misgivings am
felt that difficulties attending commercial an 4
social intercourse with Japan have not wholly
ceased, and that it is at least prudent to retain
within reach a considerable portion of tha
naval force which b?. e been used with sucir
beautiful results, until Japanese tactics arc
more fully developed U the same time thera
is some hope that the Japanese will submit t*
the law? of progress, and recognize the fact,
that it is no longer possible, with hundreds af
foreign steamer* plying on their waferr. te
keep ir« seclusion from the outside world.
a
It is rumored in Italy that King Victor
Emanuel proposes toon to abdicate in ‘aver
ol I is son
An approaching insurrection in Austria,
Galicia and Hungary, i- positively predicted
by one j! the Paris papers.
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