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SPECIAL NOTICES
Special Notiec.
llkadqdartkrs 24th Dist. G. M., )
Columbus, Ua.. Jan. 17, 1865.)
The attention of the Reserve Militia, Policemen,
, nJ all companies commissionee from the Adjutant
And Inspector General’s Office of Georgia, aie es
pecially directed to General Orders No. .1, issued
from that office on the 7th inst.
B. A. THORNTON,
,an 18 3t A. D. C.
U ;ADQOARTER3, MlLi TARY DIVISION OF THK W EST
January 7th 1865.
General Orders I
No. i
Post Commandants. Provost Marshals and En
rolling Officers on duly 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 Major Gen. Whocler, 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
inch details, will be forwarded to these Headquar
ters at Montgomery, Aia.
By command of Gen. Beauregard.
J. B. RUSTIS, A. A: G.
49“ Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi papers
ple.'se insert for one week, and send accounts to
Montgomery, Ala.
jan 13 lw
To Georgia Soldiers !
Phillips' 41b Georgia Brigade.
State of Georgia, )
Quartermaster General’s Office, > '
Augusta, Dec. 28th, 1864.)
The members of this Brigade now living, and tho
representatives of those deceased, will please inform
■s where the Half-Pay due them, under the Act of
December 7th, 1863, may be forwarded to them. In
response to each communication we will forward
the necessary papers for signatures.
Each correspondent will furnish us the company,
battalion or regiment to which, he~or thejsoldier he
represents, belonged in this Brigade, and his full
address at. the present ti me.
IRA R. FOSTER',
Q. M. Gen. ofGa.
N. B.—After the Ist of March letters will be ad
dressed to us at Milledgeville; until that time, un
less in case of danger to this place, we will be ad
dressed at Augusta. I. R. F.
jan 7 lm
WANTS. ~
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,
Beynolds, Taylor County.
MRS. CUAS. J. WILLIAMS,
nov2l-tf Columbus, Ga.
WANTED!
c aikA LBS. of TALLOW, for which a liberal price
JiWv will be paid. Apply to
F. W. DILLARD.
*»>7 ts Major and Q. M,
WASTED,
* GOOD BUSINESS MAN, ut ;il the first of
A January. Tho best wages paid. A disabled sol
qjer preferred, and it matters not hew badly muti
lated by wounds so he has firmness and judgment.
Apply at the TIM ES OFFICE,
nov 30 ts
YA HNS and OSNABURGS
TO EXCHANGE FOR
GROUND PEAS,
At the GRANT FACTORY.
dee 17 ts
S9OO Reward.
OTOLEN from Cook’s Hotel or between the Mus
cogee Depot and the Hotel, on the morning of
the 7th inst., one small VALISE, covered with red
russett leather, some-vhat torn, end3 dark or green,
tugs at each end, containing one Captain’s fine
frey uniform, under clothing, one ink stand, one
nely bound volume of "General Orders” from
Adjutant i Gonaral’u Oibco, and belongs to Lieut.
Obi. Waddy. Some of the olothiug marked Thomas
W. Hunt. We will pay the above reward of two
hundred dollars for the recovery of the valice and
two hundred dollars for tho thief, if a white man,
or fifty dollars if a negro.
SHIVERS. WYNNE &■ CO.,
Proprietors Cook’s Hotel.
Columbus. Ga., Jan. 10, ’65. —2w
To Kent
A DELIGHTFUL RESIDENCE, well furnished *
containing six rooms, situated four miles from j
Columbus, in Gon. Aborcrombio’s neighborhood.—
There are one hundred and seventy acres attached, j
with fine orchards and good garden, and well im
proved out buildings. Apply to
jan 9 —ts Mrs. SARAH CROWELL.
To Printers !
\X7E offer for sale a complete BOOK BINDERY, j
VV (except Ruling Machine,) two hand PRESSES. ,
and about,
1,000 Pounds of Type Metal.
nov2l-tf
FRESH DRUGS.
Bng Morphine. A fine asst Eng Soaps,
Powers «fe Weightman’s Brown Windsor Soap,
Morphine. A fine asst Tooth Brushes,
150 ob. Eng Quinine. Childrens Round Combs,
©urn Camphor, Nitric Acid.
Ext Logwood. Mur Acid,
Cochineal Carb Soda,
Pow'd Ipecac, Cr Tartar,
Dover’s Powders. Eng Mustard.
Sal Soda, Murate of Tin.
6um Opium, Fine Combs,
Pow’d Opium, Dress Combs,
lag Note and Letter Pa- Pocket Combs,
per,
Ing and Confederate
Envelopes,
For sale by J. A. GREEN A CO.,
dee 28 lm Union Springs, Ala.
Regular Line of Steamers on the
Cbattalioocliee River.
Columbus, Ga., Jan. 9th.
rilK StearaertJAOKSox, Daniel Fry, Master, wil
L leave Columbus, until further notice, every Sun
day at 9 a.m. Returning leaves Chattahoochee every
Tuesday at 2 p. u.
The Steamer Indian, C. D. Fry Master, leaves
Columbus every Tuesday morning at 9 a. m. Re
turning, leaves Chattahoochee every Thursday at
2 A. M.
The Steamer Mist, A. Fry Master, loaves Colum
bus every Friday at 9a. m. Returning leavosChat
tahooche every Sunday at 12 m.
jan 10 2 m
To Rent.
A SMALL FARM., containing about 100 acres, 60
in the woods and iorty cleared, about one mile
abore the Fountain Factory, on the river. On the
place is a good dwelling with three rooms, a large
apple and peach orchard and variety of other fruit
te-eee. good ws ter, Ac. For terms apply to
Mrs. J. A. JONES,
dec near Columbus.
For Exchange or Sale.
k T the office 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 and Hoop Iron, of all sizes, suitable for plan
tation uses.
, Sugar Mills and Kettles, of all sizes, from 33 to
120 gallous.
Pots, Ovens aud Skillets,
Fry Pans tnd Andiron.-,
Club and Broad Axes,
Shovels and Spades,
Trace Chaines and Plough Moulds.
Orders for Castings and Machine Work
promptly executed.
JOHN I). GRAY k CO.
VOL. XII.}
Ch.iuixe of Sc lied 11 le.
ON and after Friday, Jan. 20th, the Trains on
the Muscogee Railroad will run as follows :
PASSENGER TRAIN :
Leave Columbus 6 30 A. M.
Arrive at Macon 2 50 P. M.
Leave Macon 6 50 A. M.
Arrive at Columbus 3 06 P M
FREIGHT TRAIN :
Leave Columbus & 00 A. M,
Arrive at Columbus 4 55 A. M.
_ „ W.L. CLARK,
narl9tf Supt. Muscogee R, R.
Through to Montgomery.
NEW SCHEDULE.
MONTGOMERY & WEST POINT
RAILROAD COMPANY.
COLUMBUS, August 27,1864.
ON and after August 27th. the Passenger Train on
the Montgomery and We»t Point Railroad will
Leave Montgomery at 8:00 a. m.
Leave West Point at 7:10 a. m.
Arrive at Columbus at 5:32 p. m. •
Leave Columbus at 5:50 a. m.
Arrive at Montgomery at 3:00 p. m,
_ Arrive at West Potnt at 4130 p. m.
Freight Train leaves Columbus at 8:40 a m.
Arrives at 8:27 p m
I). H. CRAM, Sup’t k Eng.
ag27lß64—tf
MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
Girard, Ala., Get 7. 1864.
/ lN and after 10th inst. Trains on this Road will
" Run Daily (Sunday excepted,) as follows:
Passenger Train.
Leave Girard at 1 30 p. m.
Arrive in Union Springs 600 “
Leave Union Springs 5 35 a. in.
Arrive in Girard at 10 00 "
Freight Train.
Leave Girard at 4 00 a. m.
Arrive in Girard at 6 00 p. m.
B. E. WELLS,
•*lB ts Eng. & Sup’t.
CITY FOUNDRY!
SUGAR MILLS AND KETTLES!
WE HAVE OF HAND
Sugar Mills and Kettles,
holding 20,35, 40. 60, 80 and 130 gallons, which we
will exchange for Provisions or any kind of country
Produce, or money on very liberal terms. Orders
solicitod. PORTER, McILHLNNY & CO.
Columbus, Jan. 20, ts
Headquarters Gov. Works, (Orp.) I
Columbus, Ga., Jan. io, 1865. J
Deserted.
The following detailed men, employed at this
Arsenal, having absented themselves from work
without authority, are hereby published as deser
ters.
T. M. Floyd, conscript, age 33, ’5 feet 10 inches
high, dark complexion, dark eyes, and dark hair,
by trade a Blacksmith.
D. Walker, soldier, company “F,” *sßth N. C.
Regiment, by trade a Blacksmith.
John B. Smith, conscript, age 29, 5 feet II inches
high, fair complexion, blue eyes and light hair, by
trade a Blacksmith.
S. L. Myers, conscript, age 28, 5 feet 11 inches
high, fair complexion, light eyes and light hair, by
trade a Blacksmith,
G. ti. Bowers, soldier, 34th Miss., Rcgt., by trade
a Blacksmith.
M. H. WRIGHT,
janl9 30d CoL^lomJdg.
For Colonel First Class militia
of Russell County.
We are authorized by many voters to announce
A. G. JONES as a candidate for Lieut. Colonel of
Fret Class Militia, of Russell county, Ala.
Election to take place on Thursday, 26chlinat.
Opelika paper copy.
jan 18td*
Wanted,
rWO first class Machinists and onegood Locomo
tive Runner, at the Mobile & Girard Railroad.
Apply to W. JOHNSON.
jan 18 3t _____
Negroes to Hire.
fUO HIRE, ten young Negro MEN. also a good
1. Cook and Washer. Apply to
Wm. O. WOOLFOLK,
jan 17 _tf • Agent.
FOR SALE!
ROCKAWAY HORSE and MUSTANG PONY
neither liable to impressment. For sale at
jan 19 2t* HA KRIS’ STABLES.
Save Cost.
]> Y resolution of Council the Clerk is instructed
1) to issue executions against all persons who
have not paid their City Tax after ten days from
this date. Persons who have not paid their city tax
will save cost by calling on the Treasurer at his
office, over Engine House No. 3, within the ten
days and settling up. J. D-JOHNSON,
Collector and Treasurer.
Sun and Enquirer copy.
Columbus. Jan. 19—6 t
Wait ted.
THREE or four smart negro BOYb as waters in
l the Perry House. Apply to
EDWARD PARSONS,
jau 19 3t Proprietor.
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received by the
ti Contract Committee of tfouncil to furnish the
City with Lumber, also to do the Wood work and
Blacksmith work for the year 1865. Bids to be
made at the usual prices charged for each quar
ter, with the rate of discount. The payment to be
made by Council at the expiration of each quarter.
Bids to be dosed on Wednesday, 25th inst.
J C- Porter,
W. W. Robison,
J. J. McKkndree,
jan 16 td Com, on Contracts.
For Exchange.
A HOUSE AND LOT in Girard, near the upper
Bridge, the lot contains two acres, including
garden and young fruit orchard, well of good water,
comfortable outbuildings, &o. Premises owned and
occupied by Mr. D. Averett; would like to exchange
for a residence in town of a smaller lot and house,
with 4or 6 rooms and suitable outbuildings. Also
tor sale a likely Negro BOY, about 20 years of age
D. KEITH,
j»n 18 lw _ Agent.
STERLING EXCHANGE!
FEW Hundred Pounds of Sterling Exchange
i Jfcr sale in sums to suit purchasers by
gl6 tt BANK OF COLUMBUS.
NOTIOS.
Office Grant Factory, \
Nov. 29, 1864./
. LL parsons having demands against the estate of
ft Daniel Grant, deceased, are hereby requested to
present them to the Grant Factory,
nov 30 ts JOHN J. GRANT.
Sun copy and send bill to office Grant Factory.
$25 Dollars Reward.
QTRAYED from my place in Wynnton, a dark
J bay mare MULE, about nine years old, hair
rubbed off of both hips and a large soar on the right
hindquarter. JOHN COOK,
oc 13 ts
Or. R. NOBLE,
DENTIST,
\ T Pemberton & Carter’s old stand, back room of
' Smith's Jewelry Store, where he can be found
ail hours. foe 186 m
Lost or Mislaid.
POUR SHARES of the G. A A. S. S. Cos., No.
r 160, in favor al Mrs. J. L. Wilson. <
nov 30 ts D. A J. J. GRANT.
For Sale.
LINSEED OIL CAKE, fbr stockfood, ats4 Broad
street. N. P. NAIL A CO.
deo 21 liu
Buggy for Sale.
A GOOD SIDE SPRING BUGGY. Call at
A BOCK ISLAND PAPER MILLS OFFICI.
janlS 3t
COLUMBUS, GA„ MONDAY, JAN. 23, 1865.
DAILY TIMES.
EVENING EDITION. '
SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, 1865.
Thomas Moving on Corinth.
The latest intelligence from the front, say3
the Okalona, Mississippi, correspondent of the
Montgomery Appeal, of the 14th, is that Gen.
Thomas has ciossed the Tennessee river at
three points, and is now rapidly moving on
Corinth, Mississippi, and is at this time only
thirteen miles flora that place. This is thought
to be reliable. He has, doubtless, thrown
quite a large force over the river. It is
thought, however, that he caunot advance
during this rainy weather, as the roads are
almcst impassable. If he does intend to ad
vance, he will keep the railroad and repair it
as he comes. He may bring his supplies up
the Tennessee river to the head of it* naviga
tion, which is Florence, Alabama, where he
will repair the arm of railway running from
Tu3curabia to that point. It is impossible for
him to bring bis supplies by wagons over the
dirt roads in that section at this time. He is
under the impression that Gen. Hood’s army
is demoralized and so depleted as to be an
easy prey to his victorious legions. He will
find, however, that the spirit of the army was
not altogether broken over the Yankee works
around Franklin, as he would have,us believe
in hiftfiaming bulletins.
Important. —We learn from the Brandon
Republican, that the Government has decided
ftx the case of Mr. Augustus Spann, deceased,
who was an exempted agriculturist, that
whera a detail or exemption was revoked, or
the detailed or exempted party died, only a
payment prorata for the time the party en
joyed the detail or exemption, would be ex
acted. This decision was elicited from the
Secretary of War by a letter from A. G. May
ers, Esq., on the subject of the liability of the
estate of Mr Spann, he having died a few
months after he was exempted. We publish
this act as an important decision to detailed
and exempted agriculturists.
The Sentinel, in reply to some stric
tures of the Charlottesville (Va.) Chronicle,
says that the maneuvers of Gen. Lee’s cam
paigns have been all bis own. Admirable
maneuvers they have been; and most happily
adapted to the circumstances of the conutry.
They have won for him a renown of which
we have no doubt the President would be
extremely proud, if it were fairly his ; but he
deserves no more of it than belongs to a cor
dial approval of the polioy of the distinguish
ed general, and an admiration of the genius
which conceived it.
Thb Spirit or the Army. —We can but give
it our beisons when we meet as we do now every
day the veteran and bronzed soldiers whe throng
our streets on their way to the rendezvous, when
we hear their cheers and shouts, and feel our hearts
gladdened, and our fears shamed, by their noble
confidence and unshaken courage. As they touch
the sacred soil of the State, they hail it with de
light, as in it wore a privilege to defend and if
need be, to die for her. That is a lesson which
croakers would do well to learn, aud which shirk
ers will find it profitable to emulate. By the way,
a pleasing incident occurred last Saturday night,
i which, in conclusion, we will give in the language
i of a friend who was present :
i “The 15th S. C. Volunteers, under Col. Lewie,
en route, last night, called on Gen. Jehnston and
cheered the old hero most heartily.
‘ He responded briefly but very happily—con
j gratulated them en their return to defend their
| native State, which he doubted not they would do
i as gallantly as they haa done on the bleod-etain
ed soil of Virginia. Told them he was oat of
service—the field of discussion with him and them
was much restricted—he could give no informa
tion—but he gave them his best wishes and only
j regretied that he ceuid not serve with theca. His
remarks were well received, and after a second
cheering they left him,— Columbia Guardian.
Gen. John C. Brown, of the army of Tennessee,
informs the Columbus Repubiio that the Confed*
crate loss in caunon, during the retreat from
Nashville, was 65 out of 108 pieces. This is not
se bad as the Yankees have represented.
Poverty in France. —lt is computed that there
are a million beggars and ragabonds ia France.—
In a recent work, Hugo says there are sixteen
hundred thousand peasants’ cottages that hare
but three openings; eighteen hundred and seven
teen thousand that have'^two —the door and one
window; and finally, three hundred and forty-six
thousand cabins with only one opening—the door.
And this in consequence of what is called the
excise upon doors and windows. In these poor
families, among the aged women and little chil
dren dwelling in these huts, how abundant is fever
and disease ! In Isere, inVar, and in the Upper
and Lower Alps, the peasants have not even
wheel barrows; they oarry the manure on their
backs; they have no candles, but burn pine knots
and bits of rope , soaked in pitch. Ard the same
is the case all through the upper part of Dau
phin*. They make bread once in six months,
and bake it with the refuse of the fields. In the
winter it becomes so hard that they cut it up with
an axe, and soak it for twenty-four hours before
they eat it.
The Garrison.—The Fort Fisher garrison
consisted of detachments of the 10th, 36th, and
40th North Garoiina regiments, Adams' iight bat
tery, and a detaenment from the navy under Capt.
Chapman, ail under the immediate command of
Col. Lamb, and to whom Gen. Bragg and Gen.
Whiting unite in awarding great credit. The
aggregate of the force was fourteen hundred.
Anew census of Chicago, taken by the
comptroller of that city, shows a population
of i69,353—an incr ease of 31,167 since
1862. By the United States census of 1860,
the population was only 109,260. Increase
in four tears 60.093 The negro population
of Chicago is 2114. The total valuation of
property i e 542.782.782. The present income
from taxes is $974,655. On the Ist of July,
1837, Chicago contained but 5000 inhabitants,
and its receipts frern tiixea amounted to lets
than S6OOO. -
The Late Earthquake in Mexico.
Late Mexican papers bring full accounts of
a recent earthquake in that country, of which
we have heretofore bad eome information. —
The following are translation* giving some of
the particulars :
On the morning of tbe 3d of October, all
the country within a radius of several leagues
from the peak of Orizaba, was shaken by a
very violent earthquake, which considerably
damaged many towns. Puebla and Orizaba
appear to have suffered most, not only in
buildings destroyed, but in killed and wound
ed of their population. A lejter from the for
mer place, dated the day of the cetastrophe,
says that seventeen French soldiers and twen
ty-nine citizens were known to have been
among the victims, a complete list of whom
had not then been made.
The Echo de Vera Cruz, of the 13th, gives
tbe following particulars.
“At five minutas to 2 o’clock on the morn
ing of the 3d, one of the most violent aud
alarming earthquakes was felt in Orizaba,
causing the death of several persons and con
siderably injuring many houses and edifices.
It has also caused sad ravages in some of the
towns of the district. According to dispatch
es which these latter have sent to the Superior
Prefecture, the accidents which have occurred
are the following: In Acultziuge the church
has suffered much and threatens to fall, also
the hotel and twelve dwellings in the town.
In the village of Nozales the dome of the
church has fallen, destroying in its fall the
sacristy, priest’s dwelling and school houses.
In Hullnapan tbe roof of the church fell, as
well as the walls of the court house, those of
the school house being much injured. In Te
nango the church tower was completely de
stroyed. The same happened to the church
of La Peria, the walls of the buildings as well
as those of the hall being cracked in all di
rections.”
From Orizaba, the city engineer, Mr. Hill,
reports as follows:
“ To-day, (October 3d,) at ten minutes to 2
o’clock, a. m., an exceedingly strong earth
quake was felt, whioh lasted very little more
than two minutes. At first the movement
commenced with violent tremblings, followed
by oscillating vibrations, shaking everything,
but particularly the roofs of the houses, with
wonderful force. Yhe oscillations were some
times from north to south and as often from
east to west. While the earthquake.lasted, a
deep and prolonged subterranean noise was
heard, which appeared to take an easterly
course, proceeding probably from the volcano
of Citalapet, (otherwise called the Peak of Ori
zaba,) distant in an air line about six leagues
t© the northwest of the tewn, and some ran
eheros who live at the foot of the volcano say
they heard a noise like the report of a cannon
issue from the orater about an hour before the
trembling commenced.
“ The terrible effects of the earthquake iu
this city are of considerable magnitude, sinoe
nearly all of the houses, although for the most
part of only one story, are cracked in all di
rections, and many completely bulged out.—
The higher houses have suffered much more
iu proportion, as may be supposed, and sever
al churches are threatening ruin. The upper
part of the tower of the parish church, recent
ly constructed, came down, and, judging from
the appearance of rubbish, it is noticed that
the crown of the tower fell during the trsm°
blings, while the other parts fell during the
oscillation, having been thrown in di
rection to a distance of thirty yards from the
vertical, but falling more particularly in di
rections from north to south and from east to
west.”
The Shenandoah. —The New York Herald
haa the following decidedly interesting an
nouncement :
The new rebel pirate Sea King, which left
an English port some time ago, where it was
understood that she was to be considered the
successor of the sunken Alabama, and was to
be commanded by Capt. Semmes, is now, un
der the name of the Shenandoah, actively at
work in destroying American shipping on the
Atlantic. We have the account of the capture
by her of the ship Kate Prince, the barks Ele
na and E. G. Godfrey, the brig Susan and the
schooner Charter Oak, of San Francisco. The
facts are furnished us by Capt. Hansen, of the
brig Susan, which was taken and sunk by the
Shenandoah on the 4th of November, in north
latitude 4:30, west longitude 26:40. All the
other vessels named were also destroyed by
the pirate, after they had been rifled of such
valuables as could be conveniently carried,
with the exception of the Kate Prince, which
was bonded, and conveyed some of the captu
red officers and men to Bahia, Brazil, whence
they arrived here yesterday. The Shenandoah
is now commanded Dy a Marylander named
Wardell, who says he was educated at the An
napolis Naval Academy, and formerly com
manded the United States sloop of war Sara
toga. The Shenandoah, or Sea King, was
built at Glasgow, Scotland, in 1863, and is a
full rigged steamer, capable of running eleven
knot3 an hour. She carries four sixty-eight
pounder smooth-bore guns, two thirty-two
pounder rifles, and two twelve-pounder smooth
bores.
The Reported Outraqes at Milleduevillk.—
The editor of the Fayetteville Observer has scan
a letter from a clergyman in Savannah, written
three days before the evacuation of tba*-place, ia
which he was requested to correct the stery of
Yankee outrages upon ladies in Milledgeville
whilst Sherman held that place. Th* writer had
been assured by General Wayne that he had let
terafrom ladies in Milledgeville, stating that no
such violence had been attempted ; and ( that Gen.
Beauregard, who was there after Sherman, has
stated that it was not true that such atrocities had
been committed. The writer says that the 6tory
is unquestionably false, intended to exeite public
feeling against the enemy. He naturally concludes
that a contradiction will relieve those who have
friends in Savannah.
It is one of the disgraceful incidents (connected
with this amazing march of Sherman through
Georgia, that the world has been treated to lies es
all sorts by the people of that State.
Besides the newspaper statements of these out
rages, we had, says the Observer, verbal assurances
of their truthfulness such as led us to believe
them unhesitatingly. It is due to truth that they
should be absolutely established by the Georgia
press, or as absolutely contradicted.
Correction of the Correction. —It may be
true that no out»ages of the character referred to
were attempted by the Yankees in Milledgeville;
but it is true that a herrible outrage was perpe
trated in Midway, a suburban village only two
miles distant from Milledgeville. We know the
lady—one of the highest respectability —bu t whose
name, of course, we coaid not be induced, under
any circumstances, to mention. The story is not,
then, “intended to exeite public feeling against
the enemy/’ by any other meaus than that af truth.
[NoutA. Confederacy.
The Newspaper. —A man eats up a pound of su
gar, and the pleasure he has enjoyed is vanished,
but the information he gets from having a newspa
per is treasured up in the mind, to be used whenever
occasion or inclination calls for it; for a newspaper
is not the wisdom of one man or two men—it is tne
wisdom of the age —of past ages, too. A family
without a newspaper is always an age behind tne
times in general information; bes des they never
think much, or find anything to think About. And
there are the lut’e ones growing up in '«™rßnee,
without a taste fbr reading! Besides *6 these evils,
there is a wife, who, when her work is done. to
sit down with her hands in her lap, and has nothing
to amuse her mind from the tells and earn o. the
domestic circle.
f MX DOLL4RS
\ PEK MONTH.
Misffllanpous Summiry.
The Queen of Portugal’s seventieth birthday
was duly honored in Lisbon lately.
It was announced! by telegraph, some days
since, that the vote of Memphis, at the recent
election, was Lincoln. 1604; McClellan, 2600.
It turns out that the vote for McClellan was
only 26.
The widow of John Brown, of historic
fame, with several of the family, started over
land during the past season, with a drove of
cattle and sheep for California.
Some surgeons in London have succeeded,
by scientific operations, in giving right to per
sons born blind. There are touebiug descrip
tions of the surprise and confusion of those to
whom the world is first opened.
The police have recently numbered tbe in
habitants ofßoston, and fiud the result 164,-
788, a little failing off from the last census.
This does not include men absent in the array
or navy. *
Father de Smet, of St. Louis, recently ap
plied for the exemption of four Roman Catho
lic clergymen from the draft, assigning as a
reason 'hat it is against the principles of the
order to bear arms.
A Madrid paper says : The project of the
emigration of a milliou of Irish to Spain, with
the object of their forming a colony, assumes
each day more probability of success, at leasl
from the information (worthy of credit) which
comes to us. Negotiations about the matter
are now going on with the old Cabinet.
An engineer on the Cleveland, Columbus
aud Cinciunati Railroad protested against
starting his locomotive from Cleveland, on the
7th, because it was unsafe. The order was to
start, however, anu the locomotive exploded
at Shelby Junction, killing the engineer and
scalding two others.
According to the Commercial Bulletin’s
list, there are no less than two hundred and
ninety different petroleum companies having
offices in New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg
and Boston.
v
England is alarmed at her lack of seamen.
The men who were enlisted during tbe Cri
mean war are nearly all discharged, their
term of enlistment having expired. It is cur
rently reported that not one in one hundred
have as yet re-enlisted, but that numbers are
comiDg to this country and joining the United
States navy.
The Independence Beige gives the follow
ing particulars of the amounts received by
vaiious artists as the results of single per
formances ; Malibran at Drury Laue received
$l5O each night. The same price was paid to
Lablache for two performances. Grisi at New
York received £4OO for one performance, and
shortly after obtained £2400 as the result of
one night’s entertainment in London. Tag
lioni received £l5O for every performance at
Hamburg j and at her second benefit at St.
Petersburg she realized the extravagant sum
of £B,OOO, in addition to a magnifieeqt present
of diamond ornaments made her by tire Czar.
At the city hall at Luneburg, Hanover, i* a
monument to a pig—a glass case, enclosing a
ham, still in good perservation. A slab of
black marble attracts the eye of visitors, who
find thereon the following inscription in Latin
engraved in letters of gold: “Passer* by, con
template here tbe mortal remains the pig
which acquired for itself imperishable glory
iu the discovery of the salt springs of Lrne
burg.”
It is twenty seven years since the telegraph
was first put into practical test. Then it was
considered a mere toy. By 1851, however,
1,000 miles were in operation. Since then
full 200,000 miles of telegraph have b|en called
into existence throughout the world.
Killed. —We learn that Cicero Hawks, son
of Dr. W. N. Hawk3, the esteemed Episcopal
Minister in this place, was Killed in a railroad
accident near Demopolis, last Sunday. Few
young men were more popular with his asso
ciates and few possessed more or truer friends.
Like others he bad faults, but in many re
spects he was a noble young man, frank, gen
erous to a fault, and intelligent.
We believe he was an employee in the Med
ical Department. For many months he was a
private in the Virginia army.— Sun.
There are now in the Northern Navy, in aetive
service 358 steamers, with an aggregate tonnage
of 408,000 tons, against the original 26 steamers
and 49,700 tons with which the war commenced.
Os this number, 200 steamers, with an aggregate
of 245,000 tons, have been built. They have
some 35 vessels in progress of construction—most
large ones—some to have a speed of thirteen
knots, te be full rigged ocean steamships, and to
carry enormous batteries.
Hod. A. B. Moore, of Marion, in a letter to the
suiter of the Selma Dispatch, declines to be a can
didate for the Governor of Alabama.
President Davis and the Press. —A writer in
tho Wilmington Journal bears tie following testi
mony as to President Davis’ notions of the position
the pressought to occupy :
I happened to know that the President was ap
proached some months age by an intelligent gen
tleman who desired te establish a first class news
paper which should support tho administration,
and that the President, after thanking him for his
good intentions, replied that while he wished to
receive the support of the Press of the country, he
did not wish to have an organ devoted especially
te his interests. He said ne man was so wise er
elevated that he could not be benefited by judicious
and independent criticism, and that he desired the
press to be perfectly free to eendemn or approve
the acts of the Government according as they
might deserve.
Impressments.—A correspondent says :
I was present at a debate in the Senate recently,
when a powerful assault was made on the impress
ment system by Governor Johnson, es Georgia.
He was answered promptly, and with much ability
by Mr. Hill, also from Georgia, chairman, I think,
of the Judiciary Committee, who insisted that, in
time of war, impressments were necessary. He
did net, however, satisfy Governor Johnsen that
the system was not liable to great abuses, and had
net been, in the hands of unprincipled men, em
ployed fer the oppression of the people. In his
review ot the subject, Got. Johnson inveighed
with great severity, on the establishment, by Cen
tre**, of boards of appraisemen t . regulating prices,
as lying at the root of the evil.
Harry Macarthy.— It perhaps does not
amount to much woere this comedian is, but
since it has been mentioned that he was some
time since in Philadelphia, it is perhaps only
justice to say that we have positive informa
tion that he was at that very time very sick
m Nassau. — Wilmington Journal.
He ivy Freshet. —We learn that on Wed
nesday night some several feet of the rail road
bridge over the Roanoke river, at Weldon,
was washed away. We bare not learned
which part of the bridge suffered', but lean to
the impression that it was on the northern
side—the farther aide from here. — Wilmington
Journal.
The trains on the Mason and Brunswick rail
road will resume their regular trip# to-morro f
morning.— Tei. <k Con/td. 10th.
Tub FloodElsrwhkrr—Grbat Damask w
thk ICaiLK >ad<. —The Ire.xhet of the pant week
winch w.-titd this city ami vicinity with snob de
structive forte, secum to have extended its violence
over a very wide spread *c<>|'e «»i territory. Te
the north and east it was particularly damaging,
and wo bear of heavy losges in B Igefield ini
Barnwell districts. But the greatest injury, and
that which will be fel most severely by the whole
country has been sustained by the different rail
road lines.
Between this city and Columbia the lo*g trestle
work on the Carolina Railroad at Kinge
ville, has been washed away.
At Columbia, there was a great “upheaval *f
the waters,” and tbe Gongaree river was higher
than it has been tinea 1852, causing great destruc
tion to mills, plantation#, etc.
At Chester, on tbe Columbia and Charlotte rak
road, heavy losses were sustained and tha traek
greatly damaged.
On the North Carolina railroad, between Char
lotte at and Greensboro, two bridges are gone.
The Piedmont railroad, from Greensboro to Daa
ville, Va., suffered extensively, and we hear of the
destruction of two bridges and an extensive trestle
work.
These are all very serious losses, and will occa
sion great delay in the transportation et supplies,
as well as the derangement of travel. By proper
exertions on the part of the railroad authori
ties, however, the damages can be repaired
within three weeks time.—A«*</t**<a Constitution
al.*!.
The Athens Watchman learns that a soldier was
hung recently near Athens, for horse stealing.
♦ •
(From the Memphis Appeal.)
“Take le to my Wife.'*
(Dying words of General Gist, of South Carolina.)
BY U ARGARBT A. JKNNISGS.
Daylight with her rosy fingers weaveth fair tbe
robe of night,
Sinking sadly, sinking slowly, nJw tho ssn hath
passed from sight,
Rising sweetly, rising gently, from her bed of
burnished gold—
Smiles tho full moon o’er the earth peeping through
the cloudlets fold,
Like the sunny face of childhood ere Old Tkaa
hath kissed the brow,
Like a trusting, loving spirit, yon bright moon is
shining now,
All is hushed, no booming cannon evermore mi
wake the dead—
Hush! tread lightly, ’tie the field where brave
Southern heroes bled.
Look, pale moon, upon the dying—look, they speak
their last farewell,
Take them, Father, to Thy mamion, for they
fought so long and well;
Aud our chieftain—he hath fallon—mingling te
the bloody strife,
Whispering only to his comrade—dying—“ Take
me to my wife.”
This was all, no 6ound no murmur, from the here’*
auhy lips ;
Thus he died, the noble Gist, ere he glory’s goblet
tips.
Thus he died—what simple words, but how fraught
with deepest woe
To the heart of her he loved, and te whom he
longed to go.
Now a mourner o’er the bier, not alone these
weepeth she,
For a nation’s tears aro falling, for the good, the
the bravo, the free :
Rest thee, warrior, “freedom won,” and thy sweird
no more shall clash.
No more in battle iead thy men, no more tar
bright eyes flash,
For God hath made the battle eeaae, and called
to the tomb,
Thy name a flower in glory's wreath shall h*v*
immortal bloom.
Planters villr, Jan. lfi, 1865.
Yankek All Over.—A correspondent of the
Yorkville Enquirer, writing from Florenoe, 8. 0,,
concerning the Federal prison camp there, says:
There are still iu the stockade here 10,000 prk
oners, over 1,000 having died from scurvy and theu
own natural filthiness. They are well fed, drawing
the same rations we do, butthoy orave vegetable*
which,'except potatoes, are not to be had by any of
us. Thoy havo booths inside, where they sell ba
con, tobacco, potatoes, and peppor and poa soup t#
one another, carrying on, perhaps, old trades, ex
cept that their swindling operations are confined te
one another
They have yet some specie among them, though
the currency i» mostly greenbacks, for which the
soldiers art- not allowed to trade. Potatoes is ok*
currency most available with them—those are
bought outside at five dollars a bushel, and ex
changed for rings, pipes, inkstands, watches,oilclotli*
and a certain style of Yankee hat, which is becom
ing very fashionable among us. and which form •
part of the “ho ne remittances.” It is said if yoe
lock two Yankees up in a room together, they cm
mako fivo dollars a piece swapping jackets; if so,
they have here an opportunity of carrying on *
thriving business. Tunneling, it.was found, would
not)pay.
TEMPERANCE HALE.
GRAND CONCERT
MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 88D, 18G!
A T ™S£ o< L ues A of many ladies, the GRAND COM-
A CERT, by Messrs. EATON. WARD A CO. far
the
Benefit of the “ Wayside Home,”
Will take place, weather permitting, on
Monday Evening, January 23d,
With change of programme. For particulars me
small bills. jan2l 21
Young** Eight Battery,
Persons having relatives and friends in Yonng'e
L’ght Battery, are notified that Capt. Young is now
in Columbus, for the purpose of collecting supplies
of clothing Lfor hi3 men. Those desiring to send
clothing to their friends in this Battery, will for
ward it to Capt. A. I. Young, care of Eagle Manu
facturing Company, Columbus, Ga., on or before the
Bth of February. The clothing should consist prin
cipally of under clothing and socks, with the ng»e
of the soldier plainly marked on it.
jan 19 Iw
Notice.
Southern Express Company, \
Augusta, Ga., Jan. 9,1865. j
Persons owning freight shipped by the SontheM
Express Company, that is detained in this city, and
other places, in consequence of damage done.to raß
roads by the Federal armies,fand which cannot be
forwarded tofdestination in consequence thereeC
are hereby notified that this Company will not b*
responsible for loss or damage by fire. Consignee*,
and others interested will take notice of the above.
JAB. BHUTER.
jan 19.1 m Acting Pres.
Macon, Columbus, Montgomery, Mobil* a*d
Selma papers copy one month.
Attention Compan; D, lgtßefft.
Cl. U. M.
You are hereby ordered to appear at the Coart
House in thi3 county, on Monday, 23d inst, at B
o’clock A. M., armed and equipped, for the purpose,
of doing police duty for one week in accordaaea
with Special Orders No. 1, from Henry C. Way**
Adjutant and Inspector General. All who fail I*
appear at the above time and place will be arretted
and sent to the front.
By order J. W. WARREN,
Capt. Company Jb.
M. M. Moore, O. S.
jan 17 td
IVotiee!
Headquarters Goy’y Works, (Ord.U
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.
Headquarters Gov't Worxs, (Ohd.) t
Columbus, Ga., Jan. 20th, 1366. J
Wanted to contract for a large quantity of Pit*
and Oak Lumber. Also Hubs, Fel'ers and Spoke# ;
and 200 forks for saddle-tree pommels, of elm,
black gum, maple, or sugar tree. Apply at the C. 0,
Arsenal. H. WRIGHT.
jan2l lpt - CoL Cos mu’*.
LOST,
ON Broad street, or in someone of the stores a
Five Hundred Dollar Confederate Bank Note.—
Anyone finding it will be rewarded liberally W
handing it to W H. Erwin, a* Captain GraybUM
office.
ian2l 3t* P. L. OOFFOT.