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DAILY TIMES.
J. W. WARREN, - - - Editor.
OOLTJMBUS:
Saturday Morning, January 11, 1861.
Tb» Pats to Frmdom.—We should remem
ber, says the Courier, the battle of
within view of the palaces and towers of War
saw, when the Poles, with forty-three thous
and four hundred infantry and cavalry, de
feated one hundred and ninety-six thousand
infantry and cavalry of their Russian enemy,
under Marshal Diebitsh, the hero of the Bal
kan, and utterly disgraced bim after a pitched
battle, which lasted all day and closed with
the utter route of the Russian army. A late
writer, (Colonel Frank Schalltr, of Miss.) af
ter sketching this glorious battle in a note to
Marshal Marraont’s Spirit of Military Institu
tions, remarks : ‘‘The germ of liberty never
dies : and it' we, with advantages greater than
the Poles, cannot achieve our independence,
ve do not deserve to have it. But we will
most assuredly achieve it, if mindful of the
great lessons which history teaches we can
rise above the slimy levtl of extortion and the
greed of gain, shake oif the apathy which now
disgraces those at home, and come back to the
glorious days of 1861, when all was fervor
and patriotic devotion. If we do 30, success
is not eoubtful for a minute; if not what
mortal can tell how long our brave sol
diers in the field will retain that spirit which
hitherto has made them the barrier between
us and utter degredation.
Sherman, it will not be forgotten, is the
same who wrote the letter es instructions
to the Adjutant General on the way in which
he was to deal with the inhabitants of any
district overrun by Yankee troops. “Rebels
own nothing —all they have is forfeited ; even
their lives ; if permitted to live, it is only that
they may repent; and that, while repenting,
they may be made useful to the cause of the
“ I’nion ” ; otherwise it would be a mercy to
thorn to put them all suddenly to death. On
thoho-principles the whole Georgia campaign
has been conducted until this day. The citi
zens of Atlanta were ordered to quit their
homes and wander into the wilderness that At
lanta might be made a mere military post;
seven or eight towns were burnt on the march ;
Sherman, spreading out his army over a space
<»t sixty miles, plundered everything as he
went. “ Before him was rule, behind him
wreck "—and there lay, smoking far and wide,
“ the broad track of desolation. ” With what
purpose, then, asks the Examiner, has he per
mitted the citizens of Savannah, for certain
days, to live in their own houses and dine
with their own forks—which are all forfeited,
as well as their lives ? It is a treacherous
bait, to deaden the spirit of resistance in oth
er places. Until it be seen whether it answers
this purpose, the plunder and depopulation of
Savannah arc postponed.
The list of refugees and exiles given in the
Courier of Thursday, shows that Sherman
ouly reserved his politic kindness for those
who will become bis pliant tools. Let the
good name of Charleston be maintained by
acts of officials and of citizens in hospitalities
k> those exiles.
A correspondent of the Rebel states, on the
authority of Mr. Trenholm, that the aggregate
debt of the Confederate Government, includ
ing its bonds and notes, is, in round numbers,
one billion and a half; or, at the ratio of
twenty for one, $75,000,000 in gold. The
bonds are interest bearing property, and are
safe investments so long as the Government
can pay the interest on them. Seventy-five
millions of dollars in gold, therefore, has been
the entire expenditure of the Government
since its inauguration. Bnt few of the people
ate. aware of the fact that in four years of in
dependence and expensive war, the Southern
States have expended ouly about one-third
more on themselves, than they previously an
nually paid into the United States Treasury.
Such is the conclusie nos figures, which never
deceive. Were it not for the price of blood
we have paid, it would be almost as cheap to
light the Yankees as to fraternize with them.
The State Governments and the Confeder
ate Government, »ajß the Richmond Enquirer,
should monopolise the entire blockade busi
ness—controlling all the exportations and all
the importations—the former acting for the
people and the army, the latter for the army
alone. A fleet of fifty steamers owned by the
States and by the Confederate States, setting
apart each trip a portion of the outgoing car
go as insurauce, could be maintained at all
times on the ocean, and render the importa
tion and exportation of the country entirely
subservient to the cause of national liberty.
We would not forbid individual and corporate
enterprise, but only regulate it so that it should
exist only by racking the cause of the coun
try its cause, and subordinating avarice to
patriotism. If companies were not willing to
run their steamers exclusively fer the cause,
receiving a liberal compensation, they should
not be permitted to enter the ports, but be
treated ns public enemies, which they would
be: for. in this war, every citizen that is not
with ns is against us The blockade does not
require regulating, but controlling— not de
partment rules, but official mismanagement.
Mr. Footjj's Plan. —ln Congress, Mr. Foote,
is response to some inquiries, said that be was
in far«r of a conrentiou of the Confederate
States, not to superaeda, but to aid, the Con
federate authorities in adjusting the terms of
peace. We had, he said, more friends at the
North than we bad in either France or Eng
land. Those cauntries desired the ruin of
North and South. He was willing, on
the recognition of our independence, to enter
into an alliance, offensire and defensive, with
the Northern States, jointly to enforce the
Monroe doctrine in America, and to form a
liberal commercial treaty. With this alliance
British authority would ba swept out of Cana
da. and French dominion in Meiico would be
overturned. Six or seven hundred thousand
men would do, and thus visit a just retribu
tion on the cold-blood monarchies concerned,
who are now attempting to surround the two
republics and limit their growth.
Reinforc»ments. —As we pen these line*, glad
shout*. ringing louder and louder in the night air,
greet our ear. They come from the hearts of eur
own gallant sons, led by a South Carolinian, who
has, with his sword, engraven his name upon the
tablets of fame; they come from tbe veterans of
t hundred held*, now for the first time, in a ter
rible war of uearly four years, called upon te
battle for liberty en the soil of their own beloved
State. The record they have won in other States
presages what they will do in the defence of their
mother. We bid them, and we know with us the
entire S { at* will bid them, welcome hetue.
I Cotr »(/>•<» dvofdrm.
From Savannah.
From some fair refugees we gather the fol
lowing “Bayingsand doings" in oar unfortu
nate sister city.
General Sherman is reported as a striking
ly ar f?lj man — one of those Mokanna faces,
not easily forgotten. He is a devout member
of the Episcopal church and did not curse un
til he was ordered to leave Savannah on an
other campaign. His army is under rigid
discipline and he thinks nothing of degra
ding officers for contravention of orders and
shooting privates for brigandage. Os course
he knows how to wink at a number of things,
but when politic, he cashiers and shoots.
The bulk of the army is Yankee, though
Germans, Irish and Indians abound. They
scorn the idea of fighting for the negro, and
wax wrathy when called abolitionists. They
express a great admiration for President Davis,
and think the “rebellion" would have collapsed
long sines, had it not been for him. Their
hatred of Lincoln, is somewhat cordial. The
“Stars and Stripes." however, are everything.
Kilpatrick is not much esteemed. The in
fantry regard him with aversion and say that
Wheeler cau whip him at any time. »
Little boys in Savannah are liberally treated
to sugar candy. Some of the ladies of Savan
nah baked aad sold bread for a support, but
Sherman roughly informed them that they had
better save their flour, as when it had gone,
they need expect nothing of him.
Os three hundred of our soldiers, captured
after the evacuation, all but twenty took the
oath. As soon as they had done so, Sherman
sent them to prison at the North.
The Yankee authorities declare that they
have Vuarked all the rich men who have taken
the oath to save their property. It will not
serve their purpose.
Sherman occasionally gives receptions for
the negroes. At these levees, the Yankee
demigod stands on a dais and receives the
adoration of the darkies who call him their
“ Savior,etc.
This paper and its editors are abused most
venomously. The latter are to be hung so
high that they cannot be seen with a spy
glass.
We have heard a great deal more of the
same sort, and give this to the public as we
heard it. We trust that our elevated position
(iu a Y’ankee point of view) will not be in
creased thereby.— Constitutionalist, 17 th.
From late Savannah papers wo gather the
annexed news
Several gentlemen in Savannah, who repre
sent a large capital at the North, contemplate
starting a national bank in Savannah.
As soon as the port oi Savannah is opened,
it is said that a number of large mercantile
houses in New York, Boston and Philadelphia
will establish branch houses in that city.
Ships and steamers arc beginning to arrive
at Savannah from New York.
The blockade schooner Rebecca Heitz, Capt.
King, about two weeks from Nassau, arrived
in Saaannah a fewjdays since. Her captain
did not know a change had taken place until
he cast anchor. He surrendered to the Fede
ral authorities at once.. Her cirgo consisted
of tea, pepper, coffee, sugar, salt, &o.
Major Gen. John A. Logau has returned to
the command of the Fifteenth Army Corps.
No public dances or any kind of
amusements are to be allowed in she city ex
cept by express permission of the provost
marshal.— Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel.
[From the Mobile Register.]
Great Mistakes.
This strange and unnatural war of ears is ac
oempanied by a series of strange and unnatural
blunders. These are net confined to localities,
but belong to both hemispheres, and are both mil
itary and diplomatic. The English government
in the hands of expediency and time-serving states
men, had made the grand mistake of seeking pres
ent ease and peaee at the inevitable cost of future
trouble and war. For many years past, England
has been regarding the rapidly growing power of
the North American republic with increasing
jealousy and distrust. She has been accused oven
of a free use of craft and gold to check and divide
that power, so as to maks it harmless to hersolf.
To her we owe the vicious plant of anti-slavery,
an exotio of the growth of British psoudo philan
thropy. Exeter Hall sent her lecturers and era
tors te fix it in eur soil, and it took root and grew
apace, until it bore the fruits of this gigantic
war. But. short sighted British statesmen had
not the courage to take advantage of the op
portunity British policy had songbt and made.
They sowed but dared not reap. They reared
the ripe fruit, but failed to pluck it when ready for
their lips.
Secession produced division of the great western
power they dreaded, and it was reasonable te
suppose that their diplomacy, if not their arms,
would be exerted to make it fixed and permanent.
But neither has been done. On the contrary,
the moral weight of the British Government has
been thrown on the side of a reconstruction of
that power, and that, too, after four years of
severe military training has hardened into an
element of increased danger. And that, toe, after
the necessities of war, breakiag down the popular
jealousy of great military establishments, have en
abled the United States to lay the foundation of a
navy which a few more years of war will make the
most powerful in tbo world, and in tho hands of
its unscrupulous owners, a terror and scourge to
the nations of the earth.
It does not require the ken of a prophet to pre
dict, nor tho vision of the philosophical historian
to prove, that England is laying up stores of fu
ture trouble. Let the North prevail in this war,
and bring back the South to its sway, and Eng
land's puerile policy will be fully illustrated. War
with the United States is as sure as the sun shines,
for pent up Yankee hatred and the dsstihy ofYan
kea necessities make it inevitable : Canada will be
wrested from her grasp in a single campaign, and
every vestige of British possession will be wiped
out on the North American continent. Her com
merce will be tbo prey of a thousand cruisers and
privateeri, while Yankee intrigues will excite to
flames the smouldering fires of Irish discontent.
This will bo England’s gain for her forlorn diplo
macy and her heartless disregard of the struggles
and sufferings of her own blood in the South,
fighting for the principles of liberty which she
bequeathed with hor blood to this people.
France, taking advantage of the distraction
created by the American war, conceived a grand
scheme of trans Atlantic ambition—nothing les3
than the overthrow of th* effete republic of Mexi
co and the reestablisment of a monarchy under
his tutelage in the palace es the Montezumas.
Common sense taught the world te believe the
Southern Confederacy would be held as the
necessary ally of Napoleon in sueh a scheme:
for division in the power of tho United States was
the predicate move of the great scheme of ambi
tion ; and because this Confederacy would be a
natural, and the only, breakwater between the
Mexican empire and the belligerent prejudices and
animosities of the North.
France, like England, has sacrificed safety in
the future te present quiet, vainly flattering her
self, that before this war was over, er in eanae
qneuce es its exhausting effects, Maximilian cenld
be so firmly seated en bis throne as to defy Yan
kee traditioaal prejudices. New let the North
prevail in this war and rehabilitate the whele
power es these States under one government, and
no man who knows Yankee character doubts fer a
moment that its ambitions would spread its wings
for a Pacific western boundary, and two hundred
thousand men would march to sweep Maxi
milian and his French Austrian interlopers from
a superb country sacred to the dogmas of the
“Monroe doctrine.”
Napoleon's bargain with Seward at Confede
rate expense would not interpose a pebble’s ob
stacle te such a war. Where the will ex
ists, it is always too easy te find causes of
quarrel; and besides, Seward’s eompaet in its
terms, is only temporarily binding. This is Na-
poleon’s blunder.
A number of people in the South are sighing for
peace and seeking for some way of escape, they
care not what, from the cares and trials of war.
They fancy that reconstruction or submission to
the authority es the United States will give them
this much coveted peace, and that the sword will
be sheathed and war heard es no more. Vain
dream 1 Who are to compose the armies and car -
ry the muskets that Yankee lust of conquest will
send to the plains and mountains of Mexico ? If
the South i? conquered, in six months the veterans
of Lee, and the footsore soldier of Hood, wili be
fighting under the “old flag” and shedding their
blood under Yankee officers to satiate the greed of
ambitious domination ot their own conquerors.
The South will furnish these armies, and a ruth
less conscription will raise them. After Southern
subjugation, there wiil be no peace for this
generation of men in this pari, el ihe western hem
isphere—none until the Puritan power can exalt*
; ingly exclaim ;
“Ne pent up Utica confines our powers,
The whole beuudlesa continent is ours.”
> This it the tnUtake of the peace men.
Army es TeaHfssce.
We had the pleasure, on yesterday, of a long
and confidential conversation with an old
friend just from the Army of Tennessee He
was with the main army throughout the late
unfortunate campaign in Tennessee, and is a
geatleman of shrewd observation and intelli
gence. We canaot state his facts and figures
without a risk of doing the public service in
jury, but we may state some of the conclu
sions we arrived at from his account.
The Army of Tennessee is not so reduced
as the public was led to suppose, and is in
good fighting eondition; in one word its mo*
rale is good. It was feared by our people in
this region that when the array was forced
back, numerous desertions would take place,
by Teanesseeans determined to visit their
homes once again; not desertions for the pur
pose of joining the enemy, or of remaining
absent, bat to visit their homes, and then re
turn to duty as soon as practicable. We are
happy to learn that no such temporary deser
tions have taken place ; that the gallant sol
diers have stuck to their colors and their canse,
and are ready to battle anywhere and every
where for the triumph which they feel and
believe awaits them in the end.
Our friend assures us that, so far as he
knows, the desire for the restoration of Gen.
Joseph E. Johnston to command i3 unani
mous.
Oar friend estimates the loss of artillery in
the Tennessee campaign at a higher figure
than any account we haTe seen published;
but the loss of men is much smaller than has
been estimated in the current accounts. The
loss in men was heavy, but not so disastrous
as to imperil our cause. The portion of the
army which first gave wav in the fight in
front of Nashville suffered some demoraliza
tion, but have completely recovered from it
long sinoe.
The sufferings of the soldiers in their long
retreat, closely pressed by the enemy, were
▼try great, but were borne with unmurmuring
fortitude worthy of themselves and the great
name in history to which they are destined.—
Like our revolutionary forefathers, many of
them were barefoot. Their march over the
frozen ground of Middle Tennessee left many
a bleody footprint. This is not figurative, but
is literally true. When these brave and un
conquerable men, who bear the dangers and
sufferings of the war, remain hopeful, how
disgraceful that the keynote of submission or
reconstruction should be sounded by those
who are snugly ensconced in all the comforts
©f home!
Far the larger portion of the Army of Ten
nessee, with which General Hood crossed the
Tennessee river, yet remain to battle with the
Yankee hordes. They still and respect
Gen. Hood, for his kindness to his men, and
his chivalric bravery ; but they find the same
qualities united in Gen. Johnston, united to
the highest wisdom as a consummate com*
mander. Hence they desire his restoration to
the command.
The Army of Tennessee is yet in motion,
and is being so disposed as to meet the active
movements of the enemy.
This is a true and faithful aecount as deriv
ed from the source mentioned, and which is
worthy of all credit. Surely there is no cause
for despair or deep gloom is it.— Macon Con
federacy, 18#A.
Sherman'* Policy.
The fellowing appears ia the Savannah Repub
lican (Yankee) es the 11th iaat :
Huadquabtcrs, t
Military Division or the Mississippi, j>
la the field, Savannah, Ga., Jan. 8, 1864. )
N. W. ——, Esq., — —— Countj, Ga.
Dear Sib: Yoars of the Sd iasb, is receirad,
and ia answar ta year inquiries I beg te state :
I am merely a military eemuaadar and eaa
only net in that capacity; nar eaa I give any assu
rances or pledges affecting civil matters ia the
future. They will be {adjusted by Congress when
Georgia is again {represented there as of old.
Georgia is net out es the Union, and therefore
the talk of “reconstruction” appears te me inap
propriate. Some of the people have been and
still are in a state of revolt; and as long as they
remain armed and organised, the United States
mast pursue them with armies, and deal with
them according ta military law. But as soon as
they break up their armed organ battens and re
turn to their hemes. I take u they will be dealt
with by the civil eeurts. Seas# es the rebels in
Georgia, in my judgment, deserve death, because
they have committed murder, and other crimes,
which are punished with death by all civilized
Governments os earth. I think this was the
ceurse indicated by Gea. Washington, in reference
te the Whisky Insurrection, and a like principle
seemed to be recognized at the the time af
the Burr conspiracy.
As to the Union of tho States under our Gov
ernment, we have the authority es General Wash
ington, who bade us to be jealeus and careful of
it, and still more emphatic the werds of General
Jackson, “The Union must and shall be pre
served.” Certainly Georgians cannet question the
authority of sueh men, and should not suspect
our motives, who are simply fulfilling their com
mands. Wherever necessary, force has been used
to carry out that end, and you may rest assured
that the Union will be preserved, cost what it may.
And if you are sensible men you will conform te
this order of things er else migrate to some other
country. There is so other alternative open to
the people of Georgia.
My opinion is that no negotiations are necessa
ry, nor commissioners, nor conventions, nor
anything of the kind. Whenever the people of
Georgia quit rebelling against their Government,
and elect members of Congress t and Senators,
and those go and take their seats, then the State
of Georgia will have resumed her functions in
the Union.
These are merely my epiuioas, but in confirma
tion of them as I think, the people of Georgia
may well consider the following words, referring
to the people of tho rebellious States, which I
quote ft om the recent annual message of Presi
dent Lincoln to Congress at its present session:
“They can at any moment have peace simply
by laying down their arms and submitting to the
national authority under the Constitution. After
so much, the Government could net, if it would,
maintain war Rgainst them. The loyal people
would not sustain or allow it. If questions should
remain, we weuld adjust them by the peaceful
means of legislation, conference, courts and vetes.
Operating only in constitutional and lawful chan
nels, some certain and other possible questions are
and would be beyond the Executive pewer te ad
just, as, for instance, the admission of members
into Congress and whatever might require the ap
propriation of money.”
The President then alludes to the general par
don and amnesty offered for more than a year
past, upon specified and most liberal terms, to all
except oertain designated classes, even these being
“still within contemplation of special clemeney,”
and adds—
“lt is still open te all, but the time may ceme
when publio duty shall demand that it be closed,
and that in lieu, more vigorous measures than
heretofore shall be adopted.”
It seems to me that it is time for the people of
Georgia to act fer themselves, and return in time
to their duty, te the Gevernment of their fathers.
Respectfully yeur obedient servant,
W. T. Sherman, Major General.
Oub Ability to Fight it Out.—The Raleigh Con
federate spiritedly and truthfully says:
Has the Confederacy no military power outside of
the trenches that protect Lee’s army? “No army,
and no material out of which to make an army, and
no means to equip an army ?” Where is the army
of Louisiana, which holds the Federals almost within
the doors of New Orleans? Why is not Alabama
occupied and Mobile taken, if there are no defend
ers to protect the State and the city ? How is it
that Texas has scarce the foot-print of an invader
upon her soil: that her inhabitants are dwelling in
plenty; that her fields and her flocks produced in
the past year an unusual abundance? Where is
Magr -der’s army that now holds Arkansas almost
entirely rid of the Yankee presence: the few Fede
rals who are left being obliged to shut themselves
within the fortifications of Little Rock, while Price’s
recruits, numbering twenty-five to thirty thousand,
are being organized and equipped for future service?
The truth is, that the Confederate cause in the
trans-Mississippi has been eminently successful in
the past year.
Is there no material for an army in North Caro
lina, South Carolina, Georgia ? Fourteen thousand
able-bodied exempts are out of the service in this
State, as necessary State officer?, alone. A larger
number than this there are in Georgia ; and it can
not be doubted that full a like number can be
brought from South Carolina. Here, then, is mate
rial for a splendid army untouched, and subject to
the control of the Confederate government. Beside?
this, there are legions who. “by hook and by crook,”
have escaped the enrolling officers, or have passed
through their hands out of the service, whose hon
est, burly visages protrude in every public place.
Then, there are exempt classes—preachers, doctors,
printers, editors, sects of conscientious scruples,
school teachers, etc,, etc. —all, all of whom are to be
exhausted, if necessary. before the Confederate
nation is to bow in subjugation beneath the yoke of
the Yankee.
TELEGRAPHIC.
a*PORT* or TRK PKJBSS ASSOCIATION.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year
1863, by J. 8. Tnraeher, in the Clerk's office of
the District Court of the Confederate States so
the Northern District ©f Georgia.
FROM CHARLESTON.
Cbaelistom, Jan. 19.—About mid-day to*
day all the vessels of the fleet raised their flags
and fired a salute.
There has been unnsaal activity displayed
among the fleet to-day and on Morris' Island.
The number of monitors has increased. There
are now eight off Morris' Island.
Nothing of Sherman’s movements.
NORTHERN NEWS.
Richmond, Jan. 18.—Northern paper* of the
10th received.
Edward Everett died on Sunday of appo
plexy.
The State Convention of Tennessee unani
mously passed resolutions abolishing slavery
in the State, and abrogating the ordinance of
secession. Brownlow was nominated for
Governor. He accepted the nomination.
The steamer Clide sailed from New York on
Saturday, heavily laden with provisions for
the relief of the city of Savannah. She was
gaily dressed in colors, and was greeted with
cheers and salutes from all sides.
A Cairo telegram says that Thomas and staff
were at Paducah a few days ago.
Gold in New l’ork on Monday, at the first
board. 219.
FROM PETERSBURG.
Pxtbrsburo, Jan. 19.—A general truce has
been observed on the lines here to-day, and
white flags have been flying at different points,
consequently not a gun has been fired.
Several persons going northward were pass
ed through the lines this morning.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Riohmosd, Jan. 18th.—In the Senate to-day
nothing of importance occurred.
In the House yesterday, Mr. Marshall moved
to recommit the bill to impose a duty on to
bacco and an additional duty on cotton, with
instructions to report a bill to take all the
cotton and tobacco in the Confederacy on ac
count of the Government, and provide for the
future payment therefor to the owners at the
present market value. This proposition was
discussed yesterday and to-day, without re
sult.
The House went into secret session at the
expiration of the morning hofir.
Richmond, Jan. 19.—Foote arrived this eve
ning from Fredericksburg. The Secretary of
War directed that he be released. Foote re
fused to accept a discharge, insisting that he
be brought before Judge Halliburton.
9H.AYID DISPATCHES.
Richmond, Jan. 10.—The New York Times,
es the Bth Inst., has been received.
The only item of interest is a telegram from
Horaee Greeley, at Washington, copied from
the Tribune, indicating that Greeley still at
taches the utmost importance to Blair's peace
mission. He says, farther, that interesting
developments must await their proposal.—
Frank Blair has returned to City Point from
Washington.
Richmo&d. Jan. 10,—Among ih# returned
prisoners who arrived at Richmond to-night
from Variua are M. R. Pollard, of the Exami
ner, Col. Mike Wood, of the Montgomery Ad
vertiser, [Colonel Mike L. Woods, of the 46th
Alabama, probably,] and Judge Bush, of Ma
riana, Florida. Some of the most intelligent
prisoners report ns their conviction, the result
of observation, that the North is tired of the
war, and if the Southern peeple hold out
manfhUy as heretofore, they will secure their
independence before next summer.
From Hardee's Army.
A correspondent of the Augusta Constitu
tionalist writes as follows from
Coosawhatchbb, Jan. 9, 1865.
We are on the eve of great events, and it is
plain, eyen to the most unobservant, that the
next thirty days will deeide the fate of Char
leston, and probably Richmond also. Sher
man has already commenced active operations
by crossing the Savannah at Seriven's ferry,
and the New river bridge, and although he
has not as yet advanced for any great distance
into the inferior, many days will not elapse
ere the vandals will have commenced their
hellish work of devastation. Oar forces un
der Hardee have all been withdrawn south of
this place, leaving Wheeler to defend the rear
line of defenses along the Combahee river,
extending from the. Savannah to the Salke.
hatohes, where it i3 hoped we will be able to
give the enemy a cheek he little dreams of.-
We are in constant anticipation of receiving
marching orders from this point, and trust
soon to join our noble boys on the banks of
the Combahee, and assist in the great work
which lies before them. The enemy, reported
by deserters to be six thousand strong, are
within six hundred yards of us, but doubtless
thinking the evacuation of our position cer
tain, seem to hav# no desire to press matters,
and with the exception of the usual shelling
of the rail road and trestle work, remain per
fectly quiet.
A flag of truce came inie our lines on Friday
fer the ostensible purpose of asking permission Cos
send over three assistant surgeons, of the Confed
erate Army, captured near Savannah, but their
real object was believed to ebtain information,
examine our positions, etc. On account of the
danger attending it all trains have ceased running
to this point, and we hare considerable diffi
culty in receiving our letters and papers, for the
past two weeks or thereabouts, only one train per
night has been running and that was used fer the
sole purpose of securing the railroad iron. I new
understand from reliable authority that it is the
intention of the railroad company to abandon the
iron between Grahamville and this place and will
r6tnme operations towards Pocotaligo, their loss
will be about two millions of dollars.
Paul Pry.
A Christmas Anecdote. —An amusing an
ecdote is related of Henry IV. of Franc®, who,
wishing to entertain the English Ambassador
on Christmas day with a plum-pudding, pro
cured an excellent recipe for making one,
which he gave to his cook, with strict injunc
tions that it should be prepared with due at
tention to all the particulars. Tbe weight of
the ingredients, size ol the boiler, the quanti
ty ot water, the time, everything was attend
ed to except one trifle; but the king forgot
the cloth or bag into which the materials were
to be put, and the pudding consequently was
served up, like so much soup, in immense tu
reens, to the surprise of the Ambassador, who
wae, however, too well bred to expose bis as
tonishment.
Coxdkm.vud ro hk Shot. —At a Court Mar
tial recently held on Sullivans Island tire
men were found guilty of desertion, and con
demned to be shot with musketry. Among
them are three brothers, the only remaining
male members of a respectable family.
TSZE OITY.
T. J. JACKSON LOCAL IDITOR
Religious Motice.
The first Quarterly Meeting of St. Lake’s Chursb
will be held next Saturday and Sabbath, Serviee
each day at 10’-$ a. ra.
jan 2t
Rev. James K. Gutheim will delirer termons,
this Saturday and Sunday at the Synagoga* at 10
o’oiock, s. ».
Matsu's Offcu, 1
Columbus, Jan. 31, 1865.
The following gentlemen are requested to meet
this day at 9 o’oleck, A.'M., at Mr. D. L. Booher’s
Store:
B. T. Chapman, R. R. Goetchius.
R. L. Base, J. R. Ivey,
C. C. Cody, F. S. Chapman,
M. H. Dessau, J. Rothchilds,
D. L. Booher, J. M. Este9.
F. G. WILKINS, Mayor.
Sales To-dat. —Ellis, .Livingston A Cos. pro
pose to sell to-day at auction, whiskey, syrup,
hardware, furniture, Ac., Ac. See advertisement*
Thanks.— We are under obligations to B. A.
Early, conductor on the Charleston and Savan
nah Railroad for late Charlestou papers, n# will
please accept many thanks.
Rain! Rain! —Yesterday was by uo means de
serving of the pathetic “fly blown” adjectives wo
■sed in describing Wednesday last. On the con
trary it was a day of drizzles and sleps—sending
a chilly, gloomy sensation throughout ail the di
versified ramifications of degenerated human “na
tur," to say nothing of reptiles and geese. And
lest night, what an orful dark night. One could
imagine a thief at every step, and a kind of im
aginary strangling occurred frequently, if not
eftener. In fact it was bad enough to make a
preacher “cuss," to be compelled to wend eae's
way for three quarters of a mile over unlightsd
streets, and bog up, at every fall es the foet, while
you could almost feel the assassin’s knife at your
threat, and your peoket quivering in every nerve.
SrupAiiiHTtc Living. —-It is astonishing what
an important part imagination plays in the affairs
es this life. A fellow has but to iuiagiue himself
warmed and filled, aad ho enjoy* fully half the
reality. Or ©a the other hand he has butte im
agine himself wrapped in purgatorial fires, and
behold how intensely miserable he becomes. Os
late, since living has become so enormously high,
we have luxuriated ourself hugely by perambula
ting Broad street, and contemplating the beauties
and intrinsic merits of the good things edible, so
temptingly before the restaurants and in
the shop windows until we hare got te feeling
quite comfortable. You know we just imagine
them eurs and l© preste! we are immediately
enabled by a few brilliant erelutieni of imagina
tion to undergo all the felicity of real aasticatien
aad digestion. We find this a meat delightful
and cheap eubstitute for good living in these erazy,
self-denying war times, and recommend 411 whese
facilities will not allow them te indulge the reality,
to try it. The effort will oost but little and will
be amply remunerative.
T«* Concert.— -The concert by Eaten A Ce. on
Thursday evening, was happily cenoeired, well
gotten up, and admirably rendered. The enlj
objection to the affair, was the absence of a “slight
sprinkling” of ‘feminalitj' in the programme. The
show was decidedly “masculinish,” and every lerer
es music will admit that two er three first-rate
lady voices would have helped amazingly. If twe
ladies that we wet of had taken part in the cho
ruses te “Just before the Battle, Mother ” and
“Hurrah for the Boys in the Army,” the effect
would have been electrical. As it was, these quar
tette* were produced with admirable fervor and
beauty, and reflected very creditably upon the
musical gifts and cultivation of each particular
singer. Though, as a general thing, we do not
preless to be aa ultra admirer of what are termed
‘•'fashionable concerts,” this, altogether, was the
best we bare attended for some time—all things
considered.
Why should we eTer despair to reach the
unattained? The sweetest songs gush from
the heart, by sorrow tuned to melody. The
highest hopes spring from the ashes of some
ruined urn. Ambition is oftener born in the
humbler walks of life ; and fame the reward
of men of lowly birth.
The Richmond correspondent of the Mont
gomery Advertiser says Gen. Lee has written
a letter to Miles, Chairman of the Military
Committee of the House, in which he urges
the immediate enrollment of a large quantity
of able-bodied negroes, as soldiers in the army.
He says the hour has arrived when it must be
done.
Drunkenness in the Army. The Charleston
Courier commenting upon the prevalent national
sins, has tho following with reference to a erying
and alarming evil. It 3ays :
A report h&s been elicited stating the number of
cases of drunkenness investigated beiore Courts
Martial.
The whole number, if we remember aright, was
under 360, and of those nearly one-half resulted in
acquittal. It was not stated how many of each
frade or rank were charged, and thus nothing has
eon done or attempted to meet and satisfy the
opinion very generally and confidently entertained
and expressed, that while drunkenness in a soldier
or a subordinate officer is a vice and a breach of
military order and discipline, in an officer of rank it
is an accident or a foible not to be visited harshly
or noticed or censured, or even to be seen and
proven.
Our army and service everywhere have suffered
sorely from drunkenness and consequent incompe
tence. Even our best divisions have scarcely been
free from this-vice, and some divisions and detach
ments and corps have suffered severely and repeat
edly.
We see its signs and fruits around U3 wherever we
go—and we have noted and observed within our
own incidental observations for the two years past,
more cases of evident drunkenness in uniform, and
often in officers, than are reported in the official
reply to the inquiry from the Senate.
The evil is general, popular, pervading, national,
wide reaching and Heaven defying, and must be re
buked, checked, corrected and limited, if not alto
gether removed, if we expect, desire, hope or intend
to succeed, or to be worthy of success.
Columbia to be Defended. —Active arrangements
are being made for the fortification and defense of
the capital of our sister State, and the Carolinian
promises that there at least shall be no instance of
lack of gallantry and fortitude. The editor thinks
that while the pitched battles of this war have dis
played the heroism of Confederate soldiers, the
sieges of fortified places have been farce3. We shall
see whether they regulate things better in Columbia.
After referring to the Mexican defense of Puebla,
the Carolinian remarks:
Where have we anything to show like this ? So
far, indeed, as she. has been tried. Charleston has
clone well, and it is possible that, under the same
circumstances, she might do as ■ uch; but the fact
remains however it may be exp ained, that, until
we have fought in defense of one city, at lea.-t, as
the Mexicans fought at Puebla, we shall not be able
to deny that we have been surpassed in heroism by a
people of whom we have been wont to speak as a
degenerate offshoot of the degenerate Spanish race, j
Shall this reproach be made a permanent one ? 1
Here, at least, in South Carolina—here, above all,
in Columbia —if the occasion should come, let the :
answer be, no 1
Evacuation of Pocataligo.— lnformation was
received on Sunday that our forces abandoned Poca
taligo Saturday night, burning the Saltkehatchic
Bridge and falling back to this side of the Saltke
hatchie river.
It was reported Saturday morning that a heavy
force of the enemy, estimated at fifteen thousand
men. under the command of Gen. Foster, were ad
vancing on Pocataligo. The enemy encountered
our forces near the old battle ground of Uld Poca
taligo. A fight ensued and tbe enemy were held in
check until dark, when our troops, iu accordance
with previous arrangements, were withdrawn to our
lines behind the Salke’iatchie. All the commissary
stores, etc , at Pocata’gv, were brought off safely.
No particulars were re*. ny&l.—Oharletton Co»r>*r. j
UFA
AUCTION SALES.
By Livingston & t)«,
_— ♦ ♦ *
WB will sell on SATURDAY, 21*1 January a
11 o clock, in front of our store
5 bbls. Fine Florida
1 bbl. Corn Whiskey,
1 Chest Carpenter’s Tools, indu***.
30 Hand Sutv Files, Augers, CWi«,
—ALSO—
Bureaus, Bedsteads, Chairs.
Tables, Crockery, Glass Wars,
Kitchen Utencils, etc.
—ALSO—
-1 Single Wagon,
Baggy, Ploughs, Axes,
Sewing Machine,] etc.
ALSO,
2 Pine Cows and Calves,
Horses and Mules,
&c., &c., &c.
jan 20 $24
By Ellis, Livingston & <*>
AT PRIYAtTsALE.
75 acres of heavily timbered PLY!
LAND, within two miles of the city, ad
joining the lands of J. G. Worsham, Esa
jan 17 6t $lB
Rosette, Lawhon & Cos.,
OFFER AT PRIVATE SALE
One Copper Boiler, 8 feet long.
Five or six hundred pounds Led Pip,«
8 or 10 Large Brass Bib & Stop Cocks
jen 18 ts
Hotice!
Headquarters Gov't Works, (Or».)1
Columbus, Ga-, Jan. 20th, 1865. J
Private James Roe, Cos. A, 10th Georgia regiment.
who was advertised as a deserter from this Arsenal,
on the 19th inst., has reported for duty, and account
ed for his absence. M. H. WRIGHT.
jan2l 2t Col. Comd’g
Wanted.
Hkadqcartkbs Gov’t Works, vOrp.) t
Columbus, Ga., Jan. 20th, 1865. |
Wanted to contract for a large quantity of Pina
and Oak Lumber. Also Hubs, Fellers and Spokes ,
and 200 forks for saddlc-treo pummels, of clns,
black gum, m iple, or sugar tree. Apply at the C. 8.
Arsenal. M. H. WRIGHT.
jan2l lot Col. Cornd *.
LOST,
ON Broad street, or in someone of the stores, a
Five Hundred Dollar Confederate Bank Note,—
Any pne finding it will be rewarded liberally lw
handing it to W. H. Erwin, at Captain Gray bill’s
office.
jan2l3t* F. L. COFFEY
(From the Memphis Appeal.)
“Take Me to my Wife.”
(Dying words of General Gist, of South Carolina.)
BY If AHWARBT A. .IRNNINOS.
Daylight with her rosy fingers wearetb fair the
robe of sight,
Sinking sadly, sinking slowly, now th* tan hath
passed from sight,
Riling sweetly, rising gently, from her bed of
burnished gold—
Smiles the full moon o’er the earth peeping throng
the eloudlets fold,
Like the sunny face of childhood ere Old Time
hath kissed the brew,
Like a trusting, loving spirit, yes bright sM«n is
shining now,
All is hushed, ne booming cannon evermore «*«
wake the dead—
Hush ! tread lightly, ’tis the field wlicro Iravo
Southern heroes bled.
Look, pale moon, upon the dying—look, they speak
their last farewell,
Take them, Father, to Thy mansion, for thojr
fought so long and well;
And our chieftain—he hath fallen—mingling »«
the bloody strife,
Whispering only to his eomrade—dying—“Take
me to my wife."
This was all, no sound no murmur, from the here's
ashy lips ;
Thus he died, the noble Gist, ere he glory’s goblet.
•ips.
Thus he died—what simple words, but how fraught
with deepest woe
To the heart of her he loved, and to whom he
longed to go.
Now a mourner o’er the bier, not alone there
weepoth she,
For a nation's tears are falling, for the good, the
the brave, the free :
Rest thee, warrior, “freedom won,” and thy iwotd
ne more shall clash.
No mere in battle lead thy men, no mere th/
bright eyes flash,
Fer God hath made the battle eease, an*] tailed
to the tomb,
Thy name a flewar in glory’s wreath shall bar*
immorta 1 bleom.
Plaxthrsvillb, Jan. 18, 1865.
Th* Late Fr*sh*t at Acoubta.—A aat
row escape was made by three women who
were discovered floating down the sonthern
section of the city in a one story frame buil
ding. Their cries for help attracted a num
ber of citizens who were out in their batteaax,
rendering help to the needy, who, by great ex
ertion, rescued them.
The Gas Works are damaged to such an ex
tent it is feared we wili have to depend on
candles and lamps for the house, and th®
light of the lunar orb to illumine our street
transactions for some time to come.
The Water Works are, it is feared, seriously
damaged and it is thought that citizens may
suffer inconveniences for want of water. Many
pump3 are rendered useless.
The dwelling of Mr. C. A. Platt, corner of
Campbell and Green itreets, was damaged to
the amount of 820,000; his fences and out
houses are all gone, and the furniture in th®
lower part of the dwelling also destroyed.
A large excavation was made in the side
wall, corner of Monument and Broad streets,
some ten feet deep.
Two frame houses, on Walker street, near
Campbell, were demolished, and with their
contents carried off by the water.
The side walks, streets and drains of tbe
city, are in hundreds ot instances, in a deplo
rable plight, entire side walks in places being
washed away, and boles deep enough to bury
a man.
All the neighborhood of the Georgia Rail
road, Waynesboro Railroad and the Cemetry,
suffered more or less.
No doubt two millions of dollars would aat
put things as they were before.
The passenger trains of the Carolina sad
Georgia Railroads went out as usual on Fri
day morning.
A number of horses, mules, cows, hogs,
sheep, goats, and all kinds of poultry were
lost by parties located in the deluged places
We understand that the water in Broad
street, at the Planters Hotel, was of a depth
to swim a horse.— Chron. £ Sentinel.
i A True |Chief Mourner. —The Vieksbar#
Herald relate* the following circumstances:
During the fight at Big Black river on the ITth
es May, 1863, a rebel was killed, who was buried
by his comrades on the Western ride of the river,
| near the breaitworks which the rebel* had threwu
up to defend the crossing of the river.
A dog, which is *upposed te belong to the ds
t ceased, has ever since stood guard at the gra»e,
refusing to be seduced from hi* faithful guardi
anship of the remains of his dead master; or to
i be comforted for bis loss. During the silent watch
es of the night his mournful howl eould be dis
tinctly heard, and though hundreds of our foldier*
have endeavored to seduce hia» from hi* guardi
anship, he still remained faith.ul an i refused to
leave the grave. Up to the hour when the pest
was evacuated by our troop*, the dog could *a
heard howling over the grave of his deceased
master. Repeated attempts to capture him had
male him *hj. and for several weeks pravieua to
the abandonment of the post by our army, ho
could never be **#d at the grave, though his mel
ancholy howl at night could be dutinetlv hoard,
and bis tracks seen at the grave. If not deal, wo
have no doubt he *till watches, * solitary mouraof,
over the grave.