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DAILY TIMES, J. W. WIRRGN& CO., Proprietors. rublisbed 'a (Sundays excepted) at the rate o: ffl.oo per mon ii, or $lB tor tlireo month*. Mo subscription received tor a longer term than i .'* month*. RATES of advertising. CASUAL DAILY ADVERTISING RATES. A 1 vertisemonts insertoi once —$4 per square. REGULAR DAILY ADVERTISING RATES. First Week —.p-i Otiper square lor ouch insertion. Second Week—s 2 00 per square for each insertion. Third Week —$1 50 par square for each insertion. Fourth Weok—sl 00 per square for caohinsertion. Se ond Month—s3o per square. Third Month—s2s per square. POH/ 1863. January. July” S. M. T W. T. F. S.'S. M. T W T F S 12345 6 7! 1 6 9 1« 11 12 13 14234.5678 15 16 17 18 10 20 21 0 10 11 12 13 14 15 2 ! 23 24 25 26 27 2« lo 17 18 19 20 21 22 39 30 31 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 FEBRUARY. AUGUST. S. M. T. W. T F S. S’. •,[. x. W. T. F. 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F. 8. j 123 1 2 450789 IO! 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 12 13 14 15 16 17, 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 18 19 20 21 22 23 24|D 18 19 20 21 22 23 25 26 27 28 29 30 [24 25 26 27 28 29 30 131 ( oS schedsil*G 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. , jL - 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. Wanted. TWO first clas* Machinist* and onegood Lecom*- l tive Runner, at the Mobile k Girard Railrus* Apply to W JOHN-UN j*n 18 It Hegroek to Hire. TO UIHF ten young Negro *ISN, also a t (»ok an •» W**her. 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