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daily times, y IV. HMRTJM Sl CO., Proprietors. published Da'./ (Sunday* excepted) at the rate of 16 iO per month, or 4>lß lor three month*. fjo subscription received for a longer term than | irr# month*. RATES OF ADVGRTISISG. •asoal daily ADvearntive katki. gfivertiseuients inserted once—-$4 per eon*™* • nonl.*a daily advertising *at«s. first Week—s3 00 nar squire Cor each insertion. Second Week — s 200 per square tor etch insertion. Third Week— $1 50 o-r h.| i are for each insertion, fourth Week—sl 00 per squ ire for each insertion, fecund Month— S3O per square. 7 „lrd Month —$25 per square. SPECI AL NOTICES Special Notice. Headquarters 24th List. G. M., > Columbus, Ga.. Jan. 17, 1866. i The attention of the Reserve Militia, Policemen, ft nd all companies commissioneo from the Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office of Georgia, aie es pecially directed to General Orders No. 11. issued from that office on the 7th inst. B. A. THORNTON, jan 18 3t .4 D. C. HEADQUARTERS, Mu./ TARY DIVISION OF THE WEST January 7th 1865. General Orders t No. ] Post Commandants. Provost Marshals and En rolling Officers on duty in this Military Division, will uot permit to pass within its limits, officers ard men on leave or furlough, or scouting parties of Wheeler’s Cavalry, uni as their leave or furlough, er the order detailing the scouting party is ap proved by Major Gen. Wheeler, or his commanding officer. Such parties will be arrested and returned to their commands, and the name of subordinate com manders granting leaves or furloughs, or ordering fuoh details, will be forwarded to these Headquar ters at Montgomery, Ala. By command of Gen. Beauregard. J. B. RUST 18. A. A: G. Georgia. Alabama and Mississippi papers please insert for one week, and send accounts to Montgomery. Ala. jan 13 1 w To Georgia Soldiers ! rtilllipw' 4th Georgia Brigade. State of Georgia, ) Quartermaster Uenkral’s Office, > Augusta, Dec. 28rh, 1864.) fbe members of this Brigade now living,-and the representatives of those 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 each communieition we will forward the necessary papers for signatures. Each correspondent will furnish us the oompany, battalion or regiment to which, he .or he represents, belonged in this Brigade, and his full address at the present time. IRA R. FOSTER, Q. M. Gen. ofGa. N. B.~After the Ist of March letters will be ad dressed tons at Milledgoville; until that time, un less in case of danger to this place, we will be ad dressed at Augusta, I. R. F. jan 7 1m WANTS. “W-A. 3STTIETD. 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, Bevnuld::, Taylor Couuty. MRS. Oil As. J. WILLIAMS, nov2l-tf Columbus, Ga. wSrii! ” c 1111(1 LBS. of TALLOW, for which a liberal prioe 51/ will be paid. Apply to • F.W. DILLARD, »p 7 ts Major and Q. M. WAITED, A GOOD BUSINESS MAN, uutil the first of January. The best wages paid. A disabled sol dier preferred, and it matters not how badly muti lated by wounds so he has firmness and judgment. Apply at the TIMES OFFICE, nov 30 ts YARNS and OSNABURttS TO EXCHANGE FOR OR.OUN3D PEAS, At the GRANT FACTORY. dec 17 ts Reward. QTOLBN from Cook’s Hotel or between the Mus er ootree Depot an I the Hotel, on fie morning of the 7th inst. one small VALISE, covered with red russett leather, somewhat toro, ends dark or green, tugs at each end. containing one Captain’s fine grey uniform, under clothing, one ink stand, one finely bound volume of “General Orders” from Adjutant General’s 0 lice, end belongs to Lieut. Oil. Waddy. Some of the clothing marked Thomas W. Hunt. We will nay the above reward of two hundred dollars fir the recovery of the valice and two hundred dollars for the thief, if a white man, or fifty dollars if a negro. SHIVERS, WYNNE & CO.. Proprietors Cook’s Hotel. Oohimbuv Ga., Jan. 10. '65. —2w To Rent A DELIGHTFUL RESIDENCE, well famished A coutainiaar six-ro >ms. situated four miles from Columbus, in Gen Abercrombie's neighborhood.— Thore are v no hundred and seventy acres attached, with fine orchards and good garden, and well im proved oirt buildings. Apply to - jan 9—ts Mrs. SARAH CROWELL. To Printer* ! TJTKofterfor sale a complete BOOR BINDERY, f \ (except Ruling Machine,) two hand PRE&&ES, and about 1,000 round* of Type Metal. nov2l-tf FRESH DRIIVS. Rug Morphine, A fine asst Eng Soaps, Powers it Weightman's Brown Windsor Soap, Morphine, A fine asst Tooth Brushes, 150 ob, Eng Quintan, Childrens Hound Combs, Gum Camphor, Nitric Acid, Ext Logwood. Mur Acid, Cochineal Carb Soda, ©ow’d Ipecac, Or Tartar, Dover’s Powder*. Eng Mustard, Sal Soda. MurateofTia. Gum Opium, Fine Combs, Pow’d Opium. Dress Combo, fen* Note and Letter Pa- Pocket Comb*. Png'* anJ Confederate Envelopes, For sale by -d. GREEN & CO., dec 28 1 m L nion BpriSgs, Ala. Regular Lin© of Steamers on the j Chattahoochee River. Columbus, Ga., Jan. 9th. r DH.E Steamor*JACKSON, Daniel Fry, Master, wil 1 leave Columbus, until further notice, every Sun day at 9 A . M . Returning leaves Chattahoochee every Tuesday at 2 r. m. The Steamer Indian, C. D. Fry Master, leaves Columbus every Tuesday morning at 9 *. m. Re turning, leaves Chattahoochee every Thursday at 2 A. M. The Steamer Mist, A. Fry Master, leaves Colum bus every Friday at 9a. m. Returning leaves Chat tahooche every Sunday at 12 m. jan 10 2m _ To Rent. A SMALL FARM, containing about 100 acres, 69 in the woods an ■ mrty cleared, about one mile above the Fountain Factory, on the river. On the •lace is a good dwelling with three rooms, a large apple and peach orchard and variety of other fruit frees, go ><l -ratar, Ac. For terms apply to Mrs. J. A. JONES, near Columbus. For Exchange or Sale. i T the olio© of the “Southern Iron Works.” near A the new bridge, the following articles of Hard ware. which we will exchange for Pork, Bacon, Lard, Wheat. Flour, Fodder, or any other articles of P oviiions or Confederate currency, viz: Bar an t Hoop Iron, of all sixes, suitable for plan tation u»es. AA Sugar Mill* and Kettles, of all sixes, from 30 <<• 120 gallons, Pots, Ovens and Skillets, Fry Pans and An irons. Club and Broad Axes. Shovels .uni Spades. Trace chain os and Plough Moulds. Orders for Castings and Machine Work promptly executed. * ianf.t JOHN D. GRAY k CO- VOL. XII.} DAILY TIMES, EVEMNfi KIIITIOiV. THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 1865. Gold Declining. —We understand, says the Augusta Constitutionalist of the 10th, that advices were received in this city yesterday to the effect that gold had declined in Richmond to thirty. This is a very immense aud sudden declension, and will operate with stunning effect upon the heartless sbylocks who have been so long laboring to speculate in the national currency. There was a rumor also afloat in Augusta to the effect that the Government had ordered the officers and men in the field to be paid two m nths wages in specie ! We hope that this may be true for the sake of the “ragged bravos” who are bat tling at the front. A List of Engagements In which the Fourth Alabama Regiment HAH BEEN ENGAGED. 1 Manassas Gap, First, Virginia. 2 Eltham’s Landing, Virginia. 3 Seven Pines, two days. 4 C4aines’ Farm. 5 Malvern’s Hill. 6 Hazel River. . J 7 Thoroughfare Gap. 8 Second Manassas, two days. 9 Boonsboro, Maryland. j 10 Sharpsburg, Maryland, two days. 11 Fredericksburg, Virginia, two days. 12 Fort Huger, Virginia. 13. Suffolk, twenty-three days. 14 Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, two days. 15 Falling Waters, Virginia. 16 Manassas Gap, Virginia, 17 Thornton’s River. 18 Chickamauga, Georgia, two days. 19 Chattanooga, Tennessee, fifteen day*. 20 William’s Island, three daj 3. 21 Raccoon Valley, three days. 22 Hog Mountain, two days. J 23 Loudon. 24 Campbell’s Station. 25 Knoxville, ten days. 26 Knoxville Heights, seven day* 27 Bean’s Station, two days. 28 Dandridge Pike. 29 Dandridge. 30 Strawberry Plains. 31 Wilderness, Virginia, two days. 32 Spottsylvania Court House, five days. 33 Crutchfield's Farm. 34 Hanover Junction, two days. 35 Mechanicsville Road. 36 Charles City Road. 37 Cold Harbor, three days. 38 Hosvleit House, two days. 39 Petersburg, forty days. 40 Deep Bottom, two days. 41 Fuzzell’s Mill, three days. 42 Petersburg, thirty days. 43 Fort Gilmer. 44 For Harrisou. 45 Darbytown, 7th of October. 46 Darbytown Road, 13th of October 47 Williamsburg Road, 27th of October. 48 Darbytown Road, 10th of December. Chronological order agrees with the nume rical arrangement of the above list. Total number of days engaged, 191. Number of days been in service to 13th of j December, 1864, 1337. Proportion of engagements to time of serv- | ice, one day in seven. Mr. Editor: The above is a list of engage ments in whiah the old “bloody 4th Alaba ma” has been engaged, up to the 13th of De cember, 1864. The list was made out bj one of her “ bravest of the brave,” Private Jesse B. Nave, Jr., formerly of Marion, Ala. Jesse, like many of her brave sons, entered her ranks on the 12th of January, 1861; has never been absent from his command; and what is more, has never asked for leave of absence. This glorious old regiment deserves justly to be called the Banner Regiment of our noble band of patriots now battling for freedom. Not withstanding the number of fights this gallan* regiment has took part in, they have neve P suffered their bullet-riddled battle-flag to trail lin the dust. It will be seen from the above | iist of battles that she has borne her banner ! in every important fight, from the first battle of Manassas to Darbytown Road. It was also present at Chickamauga, and, under the gal j lant Hood, turned the tide of battle. At Knox j villa, she again stormed the foe, aud caused many a hireling of Lincoln to bite the dust. The regiment has been under numerous shell ings not included in the aoove list. Still we hear of no bickerings in this proud old regi ment, which has had every man of her ranks | wounded at some time since she went into j service. Nobly dona 1 old Mother Fourth— you have done well, and could well aay to “croakers’ at home, Come and join us, and • we will show you how freemen can meet the ' foe. B. Columbus, Ga., Jan. 19, 1865. Richmond, Jan. 10.—The following dispatch was received here to-day : Charleston, Jan. 9. To His Excellency, President Davis : Gen. Wheeler’s cavalry has bees organizod un der my supervision. It consists of three divisions —eight brigades. It is a well organiaed and effi cient body. Reports of its disorganisation and demoraliza tion are without foundation, and its declaration, accredited to this command can generally be traced to bands of marauders claiming to beiong to it. l know nothing at present to add to its effective ness except the promotion of a name, (olank) for which recommendations have been sent in. W. J. Hardbk- Richmond, Jan. 10—Tbe following was re ceived last night : Macon, Jan. 7. To Gen. Cooper : General Hood reports from Tupelo, 6th, that Thomas appeared to be moving up the Tennessee river, up to 9 o’clock, a. m., on the sth. Scouts report that six gunboats aud 60 trans ports had passed Savannah, Tenn., going towards Eastport, loaded with troops and supplies. G. T. Beatregard. Richmond, Jau. 11.—The Examiner of this morning states, on the authority of Mr. Pollard, that Butler has been relieved of his command and ordered to report to Lowell, Mass., his place of residence. Gen. Ord has been assigned to the command of the Army of the James. Jackson, Jan. 14.—Advices from Vicksburg of the 12th has been received. They report that General Grierson’s command I had gone to Memphis. The raid on Yazoo was supposed t» hare been | local troops. Thackery is to have a bust in Weataister Abbey among the great men of England. It is to be placed close by the effigy of Addisea. COLUMBUS, GA.. FRIDAY, JAN. 20. 1865. Latest from tbe North. From Northern pipers of the 4th inst. we take the following: FROM THOMAS’ ARMT. A telegram from Nashville, of the 3d, says ! that all of Thomas’ sick and wounded have been sent back to that place, and that, he will soon be heard fr miu another direction. We find the folio' dag telegram : Decatur, Ala., Deo. 29.—Gen. Steadman transferred his command to tbe south bank oi the Tennessee, atfove this place, oight before last, and threw it quickly upon the town. The ent my, under Hood, rapidly retreated. Our cavalry, under Col/Polly, 10th India na, captured two 12-pounder guns, with their horses and caie mns. They also took a num ber of prisoner-. The trains ran from this place to Chatta nooga. shbrman’s movements. A letter from Gen. Sherman’s brother, at" Savannah, says that on the 29th ult. a portion of the army commenced moving. COMPLETION OF BUTLER’S CANAL—THB BULK HEAD BLOWN OUT —FIFTEEN FEET OF WATER IN THE CANAL. A letter to the Philadelphia Inquirer, from Butler's headquarters, on the Ist, announces the completion of the canal and the blasting out of its upper end on that day. It says : The long-expected blasting of the upper end of the famous Dutch Gap canal occurred at 4 o’clock this afternoon. To effect its re- j moval it was to be blasted with gunpowder. Asa preliminary to this, it was desirable to diminish as far as possible the mass of earth 1 to be blown out, and a large diagonal slice, sloping inward, was taken off the top of tbe bulkhead. It was also detached from the solid ground on either side of ik by cutting narrow fissures down to the level of the wa ter. The mine was sunk to the depth of 20 feet below the bottom of the canal, being kept dry during the process of its excavation and after its completion by means of two hand pumps and an air pump. From the main shaft di verged five separate galleries, one of which was placed several feet forward under the bed of the river. In these galleries wa3 placed an aggregate of six ions of gunpowder. Fu ses were prepared, and by the first day of the new year everything was in readiness for blowing away the barrier and allowing the waters of tbe James to flow freely through the new channel dug for them. This afternoon Geu. Butler, with most of the officers of his staff, rode down to. tbe gap to witness the culminating act of the great en terprise of which he was the author, and in which he has taken so deep an interest.— There was some delay in arranging the fuse, but as the New Year’s sun began to redden iu the west, and somewhat less than an hour be fore its setting, the explosion occurred. It was attended with but a slight report, and al though dust was thrown to the height of 100 feet, the ooucussion was barely sufficient to crack the ice on a mud-puddle near the edge of the crevice. Not having been tried by the actual passage of vessels through it, it would, perhaps, be » little premature for me to assert now that the canal is positively a success ; but it is so re - garded by those who have the best opportuni ! ties for knowing. The natural inquiry of the public mind uow | will be as to the effect of the completion !of tbe canal. Well 1 however eminently suc cessful it may prove, it, of course, will not en able as to steam straight up to Richmond with our monitors. Twenty rebel cannon bear directly on its upper end, and the river above is barred with obstructions, and its channel thickly sown with torpedoes. Incidentally, these obstructious have doue us one service in preventing the rebel gunboats from coming down below the left flank of our line North of I the James, as they were able to do before the ! expected opening of the canal compelled the j enemy to obstruct the river. There is abun- I dance of work to do above tbe gap before our gunboats can proceed much higher, but there are doubtless means by which this can be ac i compiished, aud 'he advantage of being able | to commence hostile operations above, instead i of being obliged to commence six miles below, i ia self evident. The correspondent adds that there are sis- j teen reel of water now in the canal. GUERILLAS IN KENTUCKY, The Louisville Press contains a notice of the latest exploits of Sue Mundy, the celebra ted female guerilla. It says : . Thursday last, Capt. McCormick and Sur geon Sherk, of the Seventh Pennsylvania cav alry, left camp at Bardstown for the purpose of visiting the family of Mr. Grigsby, one and a half miles from town. While the two gen tlemen were sitting in Mr. Grigsby's parlor, conversing with the ladies, they were surpris ed by the sudden appearance of Sue .Mundy. at the head of a gang of thirteen desperadoes. The officers, finding resistance useless, imme diately surrendered. Sue Mundy was appris ed of the fact by one of Mr. Grigsby's daugh ters, who begged her to spare the lives of the two men. She replied by cursing her, and told her she would be her own judge, at the same time walking up to Capt. McCormick, and shooting him through the head. She then shot Dr. Sherk through the breast. Both men died al most instantly. The gang then feft in the di rection of Bloomfield, where they have their headquarters. The citizens recognized among the scoundrels a man by the name of Turner, from Bardstown, who was sent across the river some weeks ago to remain during the war. This gang has been prowling around Bards town for the past week. They have sworn to kill every Federal soldier caught by them. They rob everybody, and are a terror to tbe whole country. General Long, as tfoon as he heard ol tbe i murder of the two officers, sent scouting par- I ties in all directions, with instructions to kill | all guerillas captured. We have not leaned whether any of the party were caught. The bodies of Captain McCormick and Sur | geon Sherk were brought to tbe city yesterday ! to be forwarded to their friends in Pennsyiva , nia. I RANCIS p. blaie’s “mission " Francis P. Blair, about whom Bv nuch was written in the Confederacy, because >t the New York Tribune's crediting hfin with a peace commission, returned to Washington on Mon dav, having ‘‘finished an agreeable and friend lv visit to General Grant." A telegram says he saw no one trom tne rebel Government., except some deserters and refugees. The Phil adelphia Inquirer, announcing the return of the Blairs, says : The quid nunc,*, having retried beyond dis pute that diplomacy was their errand, arc* now withdrawing the assertion by gradual modification?, and preparing lor the final con fession that they were mistaken. The first modification of the story is that Gen. Grant refused to give passes to the Messrs. Blairs, which, if they bad authority which wag *s cribed to them, would not have been refused. Next We -are told that the BUirs had no pub lic mission, but that they hoped to get back a large number of letters from prominent poli ticians throughout the country which were taken by Breckinridge at Silver Spring These missives might reveal many secrets con cerning the inns and outs of pariigan move ments. The idea of their obtaining Ruch a boon from Jeff Davis, whwse stock of corres pondence ' was captured at his plantation m i Mississippi and published to tbe world is rather absured. If tbe let'ers of tbe Blairs contained damaging political revelation**, Davis would be the first man to revenge him self by making them public. The latest state ment in regard to tnis matter is, that the Blairs went to the army merely 1 upon a trip for the purpose of seeing the troops and ma king .Temselves familiar with the situation at .Petersburg. They are intelligent men, and what they saw- will be of advantage to them in all time. If they have had greatness thrust upon them by the gossips, they may comfort themselves that their forced honors were of brief duration, and that they may soon return to a life of ease and dignity, undisturbed by ambassadorial anxieties. SEWAJtD AND fflS FOREIGN RELATION QUESTION. The Northern paper* publish, by telegraph from Washington, an editorial fr<>m tbe Rich mond Sentinel, concluding with this paragraph : If France and Englaud will enter into a treaty with these Conlederate States, recognizing our nationalcy aud guaranteeing our in epenuence upon tbe abolition of slavery in all these States, rather than continue the war wo should be prepared to urge the measure upon our readers. We believe such a proposition would be favorably received and acted upon by those nations, aud it ought to be made to them. [This paragraph is from the Richmond Enqui rer.] Accompanying the) 'telegraph is the following explanation : The following editorial from the Richmond Sen tinel has been deemed by Secretary Seward of such importance, and so truly representing tue con dition of the South aud Jeff. Djvis’own inten tions, that he ha* ordered copies of it to be sent to our foreign ministers, to show that the rebel government is admitted by their own ministers to be a failure, and that, already exhausted and worn out, they are seeking for some port of refuge; and this being the case, that they be no longer con sidered as “ belligerents.” Those familiar with Jeff. Davis and his writings, declare this to be from hi* pen. MISCELLANEOUS. Gold is going up. It was quoted at 233 in New York on Wednesday. General Rosecrans is urged for the command of i the Army of the Potomac. The ship Isabella, from New York for Bremen, had put into Fayal leaking. Strong delegations to Washington are urging Admiral Dupont as the successor of Socretarv Welles. The most interesting news of the day is brought us by the Northern papers, and is the announcement that Butler’s much talked of Dutch Gap canal ha3 at length been completed. The importance of this news remains to be seen. If it is a success j that is, if it admits the passage through it of the Yankee fleet, it is an important and useful work to the enemy, inasmuch as it puts them about six miles near er the city by water than they would be had they been obliged to make the trip around Farrar’s island, which is the name of the pen insula of which Dutch gap was the isthmus, if it proves unnavigable to monitors and gun boats, the whole vast undertaking is so much time and labor lost. But even should it float the monitors comfortably, it ia yet to be tested whether our batteries on the south side of James river aud west of the gap will not effec tually blockade its navigation. We think they will. The Yankees tell us the canal has fifteen feet of water in it at high t’de. Its length is five hun dred and sixty feet; its width, forty yards. The cut through the ridge of the isthmus, at its high est point, to the water line is fifty-nine feet. The work was begun on the 10th of August; and the western end, which had been left untouched till the rest of tbe canal was finished, to protect the laborers against our batteries, was blown out last Sunday—the first day of this year. The Yankee nation are making a great glorification over the completion of this work, and volumes of praise are being lavished on Butler for originating the canal scheme and prosecuting it to ‘a successful ; conclusion. It is, as w* have said, only so far ! successful that the gap has been cut through and j the cut filled with water. Is advancing the enemy ! in the siege of Richmond is another matter. Even shoald the monitors sail through, it may be found • that they have not improved their kcation over I much. We may, however, expect them to attempt | the excursion at an early day. | One of the most remarkable things about the j completion of this canal is, to us, the fact that it , should be done right under our noses, (Dutch gap i being, as the crow flies, only twelve miles front Richmond,) and yet we heard not one word of it f untii the news was brought to us from New | York.— Rich. Disp., 7th. Thk Savannah Parade.— Our friend of the Atlanta Intelligencer has a scathing article founded upon the report which has been the rounds ol the press, that twelve hundred and fifty men were in the Fireman Parade in Sa vannah. We have learned the facts of the case and will state them for the benefit of those who may have been deceived in this matter. The Fire Department of Savannah is composed, with the exception of two com panies, numbering not more than a hundred and fifty men, of negroes. Two white men, a Foreman and Assistant Foreman, are nppoint ed to each organization of negroes, and though it is probable that the Fireman’s Pa rade in Savannah numbered twelve hundred and fifty men, certainly not more than two hundred could have been white men. Thus, the large procession of which the Yankees seem so exultant, was simply a parade of ne gro firemen.— 7 el. A Confederate. Mr. Seddon, the Confederate Secretary of War, informs Mayor B. B. DeGraflenried, of Milledgeville, Ga., that Alexander Collie, Esq., a liberal merchant of London, has placed at his disposal a fund for charitable purposes, and the Secretary takes pleasure in devoting $5,000 of it to the relief of those who have been reduced to poverty by the recent passage of the enemy through Georgia. The mayor is authorized to draw upon Mr. Wm. Collie, Esq., Wilmington, N. C., for the stated amount. A New Telegraph Company —The pros peetus of thaTelegraphic New Asraoiatiun (limited) has been issued. Theysapital is £50,000 is 5,000 share? of £lO each, with a deposit, of £1 on ap plication and £1 on allotment. Already a iarge proportion of-the am ;oat ueeesiary ha? ueen sub scribed. The object is to furnish the -ss and the public of England, tho continent? of Europe, atnd the western world with a fuller aud more reg ular supply of' telegraphic intelligence than the present systea, provide*. The promoters of the undertaking, after much preparation and expendi ture, and favored by circumstances of an excep ; tional Latuje, are in a position to assume the re* ! poosibls function with the certainty of being able j to execute it in a complete and effective manner I Special arrangements have been made for procur ing early aod accurate, at.d in many instances exclusive, information in connection with the American civil war aud the progress of the new Mexican empire, while from China and kho East Tn iie? intelligence will frequently be transmitted via St. Petersburg!' wbcu other sources of infer ' mation are not available. According to careful estimates of the probable financial result* s large return in the shape es dividend will be secured upon a small entUy. 1 SIX DOLL4RS l PER MONTH. [From tbe Selma Rebel.] What of Diplomacy? The writtrs who assume that the war can not any longer be carried on with any hope of success are presenting tbe weakest possible argument to the enemy, as an inducement to euter upon negotiations for peace. The on ly argument that eaji have weight with the * Washington Government, and persuade them to appoint commissioners, is the conviction of our power to hold out indefinitely against their assaults. If Lincoln and Seward were persuaded that they could not conquer us, they might be induced to enter the fieid ol diplomacy, in which they might then fairly hope to gain some advantage more than by : prosecuting hostilities. If tne gentlemen who believe we can never I w ear out our enemy by resistance with arms, ! were to ha»e tbeir way, President Davis would at once open negotiations, prompted to it by i the idea that we are too weak to resist lon -1 gcr- It is to be supposed that Mr. Davis would be too diplomatic to inform the Wasb | ington Government of his reason lor opening : negotiation, since tbat would be to insure tbe rejection of hi» ovettures. For otherwise Lin coln would naturally reply to the overture; if you are too weak longer to resist, if you are satisfied ol your inability to sustain jour government and achieve your indeaendence, why should yen wish farther effusion of blood, why should you not lay down your arms and submit to the '‘national authority.” This would be the uatural, as well as the logical conclusion, and it is certain tbat Lin coln is shrewd enough to see the point. This answer would conc.ude the negotiation, and would ihriw upon the Confederates the onus of unnecessarily prolonging a useless con test. But if our newspaper writers are correct, aud Mr. Davis recognizing their hypothesis, but seeing that it would only weaken our bope of getting a conference with the Feder als, by admitting it, were to falsify what he believed to be the fact, and proclaim to Lin coln that we arc stronger now than ever, and that we intend to resist “to the last man and the lust ditch,” at the same time, asking for commissioners to be appointed by both Gov ernments, to negotiate for peace, would not the wily diplomatist, Seward, at once .per ceive that Mr. D. was prompted and urged by the sentiment of those men who hope to over reach him by negotiation, while they have no hope of success by arms ? These men have openly proclaimed tbeir sentiments and their desires. They have olam ored for negotiation, after mukiug an open confession that this is our only hope. They have weakened our chances of success by dip lomacy, by their imprudent gasconade con cerning our weakness and the strength of the enemy. While we would not desire the President to seek negotiation upon their basis, or anima ted by their sentiments, which would be fatal to the effort, we candidly confess that we would be pleased to see an effort made by him to that end, just to expose to the people how illogical is their reasoning. Or if, perchance, it should be successful, we should be still more rejoiced at the success. A PUKE iLLANtMOus Set.—lt is said that the land forces under Butler who came along with Porter to close up our port, got awfully sea-sick. They laid down on their backs and on their stomachs; they grunted; they groaned ; they cursed; they prayed; they cast up accounts ; they paid tribute to Nep tune ; they threw up tbe coats and the waist coats of tbeir stomachs ; they threw up their boots ; they became cataracts ; they said New York ; they spouted at each other and on each other; they defiled the vessels from stem to stern; they cursed their fathers and tbeir mothers, likewise Beast Butler, whom an Irish gentleman denominated “the bastethey had a high old time, and if they spoiled our Christ mas it is some comfort to know tbat they were as miserable as human nature could well be. Butler himself was off his grog and the black Boldiers looked blue and green, diversi fied by & mottled yellow. A sea-sick nigger brigade is a sight for gods and men. If any of them did sink we have no doubt they hailed it as a providential deliverance from their woes which were intolerable. An ugly coast is this North Carolina coast.— Wilmington Journal. [From the Baptist Banner.] “They Dou’t Write to Me Now.” We have recently met with several cases of dis- i sipation among our soldiers which were calculated | toelicitour syuipathv, and lead us to an earnest' self-examination. When these per ons left home their haoits were good, their hopes high, and their energies active and vigorous. For a time they struggled manfully and successfully with the temp tations peculiar to camp life. But they were re moved from home, with nil its hallowed, happy as sociations: from nearly all social and religious in fluences; with no watchful mother’s eye upon them, no father near to admonish by hi3 counsels; and temptations of various kinds presented themselves, such as only "au be known to those who have been in camp. When they first entered t.be army, letters from home came with due regularity, but their friends became careless and negligent, and letters were omitted. They very naturally conclude l that they were neulected if not lorgotten, and with a sad heart and dejected countenance they would ex claim, “They don’t write to me now.” And enter taining the feeling that no onecared for them, they began to lose their self-respect, and not to care lor themselves; audthen commenced their career of sin and dissipation. Had their friends at home kept up a regular correspondence,.had they remin ded them that they continued to be objects of in terest and solicitude, the memories of borne and ; friends would have exercised a most salutary influ- i ence, and encouraged their hearts andstrengtbened their arms for the spiritu 1 and bodily conflict in | which th y were engaged, and would iu all proba- j bility have checked them in the downward course, and saved them from disgrace and final dcstruc- j of our churches are sadly at fault in this respect; they do not write to these absent members, baid a . brother to me a few days since, * I can endure the j privations and fatigue of camp : I don t mind them; but when I think of the negligence of my brethren at home, lam almost ready to give up. I love ray ; ► church, and rduciuHcr, when X first volunteered, how my heart was softened by the many expres ions of interest and solicitude for my future welfare, uttered by my brethren; but they don’t wnte to me now and I fear they have lost all interest in my behalf ” This brother occupies the position and expresses the sentiments of thousands of our devoted soldiers, and it they yield to temptation and tail, the church collectively, as well as individually, will be in a measure accountable for their sin and downfall.— We have great faith in the power of a letter, and when iudir-iously written and generously intended, there is an indiscribable magic and influence for good w e h3ve seen ions from home and soldiers in cam,' Huger repeatedly and for hours over some fragments of a leiter which they bavepieserved, and valued as something more precious tnan gold. to the siek, the dispirited or the unfortunate, what can be more soothing than expressions of love and so ; licitade from home. A letter may revive a thou sand reminiscences, change the purposes, and thus ‘ and restore. It is moreover, such an aj.-v thine to write; a tew minutes uevoted each i e labor of l.«. and who can estimate and 1 imagine the consequences? We. all know how symyathy lighten- the load: how Inendly counte nances illumine the darkness; how friendly hands Impart, as V were, fresh courage and hope.- Wc all know tbe vnue of sympath: . but alas . now little true sympathy is exhibited in this jo-ding, covetous, seilih world : how many friendships have been broken : h w many brave hearts have been crushed; how many noble forms have been cast d-.wn and destroy od by t e vices ©f ndifference and ntgh- -: . ;T. J. K-'AI i . We . *u r.r learn that Lieut. Col- William*, who was in charge at Fort Powell. an 1 * of evacuating that post, was .objected t- t c- r. b r-rri£t.r* " , oomins ' <h“ and return! j cleared by the court, a. - 9 „’. - a u* B t to his regimeut recto? t» curia. He 5 ’ -Btleman a* has bee. proved on well fought g.ld« -[Mobile Tribune. tamp Life in the Army of Virginia. It jim will taketbr trouble to ride along tht liueat this lime, no ina'ter liow much yo« have been accustomed to “ the pomp and < ir cutiKlme.- of lorious war,” you will enjoy, for the nonce, the rare luxury of being aiiou ished. Herd »fore, “the hue” baa, perhaps, been associated in your memory with serpen tine journeys through wood*, around swantps, across ravines, up hills and down, a pile of log* or fence,rails, covered with a little earth, marking the defences and a motley array of scattered and disored men, tents and wagons, making known the presence of the army. But note toe change t What only a few day* ago was a dense wood, is now a cleao, broad avenue, fit for a boulevard or (barring a stray stump here and there) a race course. On one side are strong, high, complete en trenchments, provided with every means of defence that art- of the engineer can suggest. On tbe other extends a row of log huts, is single file, as far as the eye can reach, irregu ! lar and fanciful enough in their construction | to suit the taste of a curious antiquarian. In ' genuity has certainly made her mark, for, in this city of one street, you may sec orders and styles, roofs and eellars, domes nnd cornices, pedestals and capitals, entablatures and deco rations, of which even the architect of a Chi nese pagoda never dreamed. In one place for ; instance, are four log walls, plastered with | innd ; a floor is laid just high enough to pre | vent your stooping when you stand ; and then ; commences the foot, or attic,*which is made ;°f au °ld tent, covered with interwoven ' branches, and likewise plastered with mud. | Although tbe edifice is only twelve feet square, in these two stories sleep eight or ten persons. Yonder is a Gothic arrangement, and just next to it, in comical contrast, a small struct ure tbat looks for all tbe world like a forlorn pig-sty The boys were too Irzy to run tbeir premises up in tfie air, and accordingly con tented themselves with digging out a space within doors, that has given them a not un welcome subterranean bed chamber and din ing hall, which answers every purpose of their simple lives.— Cor. South Carolinian. A State convention was called in Kuntucky, te be held on th® 4th inst., to thoroughly reorgan ize the Uniou- party, and put distinctly befora th* people the issue of slavery iu that State. Allthia means an effort is to b® made to humble the dark and bloody ground still lower,before the abolition despot. Ge.v. Job. E. Johnston. —The country will be delighted to hear that Gen. Jos. E. Johns* toa has been ordered to South Carolina to or ganize the forces which will act against Shei man, if he attempts to move north by tbe laud route. No men is more competent to organ ize an army than Gen. Johnston. He Is tha right man in the right place, and we hope he will never again be taken from a position of usefulness, aud put out, like a dry oow iu a canetrake, to make a winter of discontent ia “masterly inactivi'y.” Gen. Johnston is a great soldier, and the people have unbounded confidence in him. With Lee on the right, Johnston in the centre, and Beauregard on tbe left, who does not /eel his spirits revive and his confidence increase! —Milltdgtvillt Union % \7th inst. Phinciplk.—Never confide in the principle of a timid man. He who has no courage can not be said to have principle,*he may be dis posed to virtue, and may prefer good to evil, but he is in tbe sport of chance, and the slave of circumstances. What avails the beet in clinations, if resolution be wanting to put them in practice? A feeble and irresolute man who means well, is more dangerous tha« au audacious and confirmed villain. Yos know the latter, and are onyour guard against him ; you rely upon the intentions of the for mer, and discover too late, like the son of Is rael, he is unstable as water, and shall not excel. A timid man can never become great; if he possesses talent, he cannot apply it; hs is trampled upon by tbe envious and awed by tbe swaggering; he is thrust from tbe direel path which alore leads to honor and fame, by every aspirant who possesses more spirit than himself. Religious Notice. The first Quarterly Meeting of St. Luke’s Chunk will be held next Saturday and Sabbath. Berviee each day at 10% a. m. jan 2t Young’s Light Battery. Persons having relatives and friends in Young 4 * L'ght Battery, are notified that Capt. Young is nsw in Columbus, for the purpose of collecting supplies of clothing , for his men. Those desiring to seat clothing to their friends in tLis Battery, will for ward it to Capt. A. I. Young, eare es Eagle Manu facturing Company, Columbus, Ga., on or before tha Bth of February. The clothing should consist prin cipally of under clothing and socks, with the aUM of the soldier plainly marked on it. jan 19 lw Notice. Southern Express Company, I Augusta, Ga,, Jan. 9, 1865./ Persons owning freight shipped by the Southeta Express Company, that is detained in this city, sad other places, in consequence of damage done to ral roadg by the Federal armies/and which cannot ha forwarded to destination in consequence thereof, are hereby notified that this Company will not he responsible for loss or damage by fire. Consignees, and others interested will take notice of the above. JAB. 6HUTER. jan 19 lm Acti> g Pree, tftf, Ma 'on. Columbus, Montgomery. Mobile aai Selma papers copy one month. Wanted. . TWO first class Machinists and onegood Locoma tive Runner, at the .Mobile k Girard Railroad. Apply to W. JOHN.-jilN. jan 18 3t Negroes to Hire. TO HIRE, ten young Negro MEN, also a goad Cook and Washer. Apply to Wm. «. WOOLFOLR, jan 17 ts Ag-nt FOR SALE! IjOCKAWAY HORSE and MUSTANG POfilV II- neither liable to impressment. For sale at jan 19 2t* HA RRIB’STABLES, Nave Cost, BY resolution of Council the Clerk is instructed to issue executions against all person* who have not paid their City Tax after, ten days from this date. Persons who hatre not paid their city tax will save cost by calling on the Treasurer at ki> office, over Engine House No. 3, within he to* days and settling up.j J. D- JOHNSON, Collector and Treasurer. Sun and Enquirer copy. Cblumbus. Jan. 19—6 t Wantejl. TH hEE or four smart negro BOYS as water* ia the Perry House. Applyto EDWARD PARSONS, jan 19 3t Proprietor. Attention Company D, lntßegt. 6. R, M. You ure hereby ordered to appear at the Coer t House in this county, on Monday, 23d inst, at M o’clock A. M. t armed and equipped, for the pnrpoae, of doing police duty for one week in accordance with Special Orders No. 1, from Henry C. Ways** Adjutant and Inspector General. All who fail te appear at the above time and place will be arreete4 and sent to the front. By order J. W. WARREN, Cn.pt. Company •. *. M. Myoßk, 0. S. jan 17 td SEALED PROPOSALS will be received by the O Contract Committee of Council to furnish the City with Lumber, also to do the Wood work and Blacksmith work for the year 1565. Bids to be 1 made at the usual prices charged for each quar ter, with the rate of discount. The payment to be made by Counei 1 at the expiration of each quarter. Bid* to be closed on Wednesday, 25th inst. . J C- PoBTJCR, W. W. Robison, J. J. McKexdkis. jan 16 td Com, on Coptraetk. For Eu’hange. \ HOUSE AND LOT in Girard, near the upper | i» Bridge, the lot contains two acres, includi** i garden aud young fruit orchard, well of good wata^ • com'o-table outbuilding', Ac. Premise? owned *■* occupied by sir. I>. Avtrett; would like to exchange i for a rcsitlei.ee in town of a smaller lot and house., i with 4or 6 rooms and suitable outbuildings. *.Lw lor sale a I'kely Negro BOY, about 20 year* trf age P. KEITH. j*n 1$ lw lAgakL