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DAILY TIMKS.
JL W. WARREN - - - Editor.
COLUMBUS:
Monday Morning, January 23,1866.
The Alternative*.
The Southern people have two alternatives
before them. One is to fight out this contest
to the end, to endure the sufferings, the priva
tions and the miseries of war, with its wounds
and death, says the Floridian & Journal, in
order to secure their independence and free
dom. The other alternative is to acknowledge
themselves conquered, to lay dovvu their arms,
surrender at discretion, and submit to the will
of the President of the United States—their
lives, their property being held at the mercy
of Abraham Lincoln, who, as ’•ebels, can deal
with them as he chooses. There is no com
promise in this matter. Tae Lincoln Govern
ment has declared, over and over again, that
it will listen to no propositions or conditions
whatever; that the surrender must be at dis
cretion that when the South shall lay down
their arms and disperse their armies, then,
and not until then, they will tell us what they
are going to do with us. Nor is it at all to Vie
doubted that they will exercise any power
their malice or revenge may suggest in the
event, that the flonfederates submit and ac
knowledge themselves rebels and traitors; mr
the experience of this war has shown that tae
President of the United States exercises abso
lute power, without any restraint whatever.
Besides, if we admit ourselves to be rebels,
we voluntarily submit to the utraqst rigors ot'
the law, and place ourselves entirely at the
mercy of our enemies. Lincoln is very par
ticular and determined in requiting that the
Confederates should first lay down their arms
before he enters into any statement as to what
shall be their fate; and if the people of the
South desire peace by a re-establishment of
the Union, they do so with the express under
standing that they rely entirely on the mercy
or pity of Lincoln and the Yankees for their
lives, their freedom, and permission to work
for their living.
The majority of the Southern people, we are
satisfied, see no alternative in these two cases.
The proposition of submitting absolutely to
Lincoln, acknowledging the bankers to be our
masters, and relying upon their mercy and
pity lor safety, is so intolerable as not to be
considered possible. The murderers of our
brothers, our fathers and sous—the desolators
of our country—the insulterß of our women —
earrnot be again associated with us as con
querors or as equals. That after all the blood
shed, the noble lives that have been sacrificed,
the sufferings that have been endured, the
Southern people should consent to reunite
with their enemies, is an unbearable thought.
It makes the soul sick to think of such thing.
The great mass of the Southern people regard
it as impossible. It would be the sum of earth ly
calamities, including every affliction that hu
man nature, high or low, can suffer.
There are probably amongst us some per
sons who are terrified at the power and pres
ent success of the enemy—who have in fact
been terrified from the beginning of the war.
These persons are for submission, and seem
to entertain the delusion, that if we will sur
render at discretion to the Yankees, that the
laws of the United States will again resume
their sway over us, and that we will be in the
same position we were before the war com
menced. This is a grand mistake. It is ab
surd to suppose that the Yankee Government
will allow the Southern States or the South
ern people to exercise any right or enjoy any
liberty incompatible with the interests or con
trary to the fanaticism of the Northern people.
We k now that they have waged a ceaseless
war against us almost from the commence
ment of the old United States Government up
to the present time, and we can very easily
imagine what their mercy would be if they
had us down and in their power.
If submission, then, is an alternative not to
be resorted to, being impracticable, ruinous,
dishonorable and revolting to the souls of
Southern men, the other alternative is to fight
the war out and achieve our liberties and in
dependence. This involves hardships, sacri
fices and dangers of no common kind, and the
horrors of the war are only preferable to the
horrors of submission. 'Having resolved to
defend their liberties and maintain their rights,
the Southern people should bend every energy
©f their minds and bodies to promote the
great cause. There should be a great revival
of the first spirit of the war. Those who are
really for us should exert themselves to keep
up the spirits of the people, to speak words of
encouragement, and to discountenance all
talk of submission, all cowardly croaking and
ighoble fear. Every man should act and talk
and give to the best of his abilities for the
good cause. Having chosen our couse, let us
act consistently. Let us not do anything or
say anything to discourage or dishearten our
soldiers and people; but with united energies
and confident hope in God, let us fight out the
great contest for our liberties, our honor and
our independence, and a great and glorious
success will eventually crown our efforts, as it
always has the efforts of a brave and virtuous
people.
[eOMMUKICAtgO.]
Mr. Editor ; It is not is the spirit of a malcon
tent that I send you the following incident.—
>TssC never °*r government, under its thousand dif
te*ltifc>,tik» n< >t been ablj to meet the wants of its
subjects none ha 7? regarded its shortcomings
more allowance than I* But when I see a
default in the government where it might as well
do, as fail to do; and more particularly when this
failure is favoring one highly indulged and less
deserving, I feel it my right and my duty to speak
out.
The incident is a simple one and 1 gire it to
you as follows:
While sojourning for a brief space at a hotel in
ene of our towns no great way from where the
Times is published, my attention was one evening
arrested by an officer wearing the uniform of
a Colonel in ear army. He was a man of modest
demeanor and had evidently been bred a gentle
man : one who might have .borne himself with
elegance and self possession in the most fashion
able drawing rooms of this continent; and yet
in the common sitting-room of a hotel thronged
with a heterogeneous aud by ne means select
eompary be was awkvrard. embarrassed and ill
at ease.
The uoan, had he worn a private garb would
have equally interested me, and I reaolved, if I
Ould without obstrusion, either to jmake his
acquaintance, er to lean something definite
about him.
I 'util -carre f irimj't t•«i- r -iidu Pmiwihmi I-» *
him go to the r«g : ster tntl beekon to ihe lain’,
lord where they h>*l<i a long and close consuda
tion, during which I thought I «aw ihe glitter
of a g ild chain or some otner pieco of jewehy
pass from the hands of one to the other. Soon
after this they separate!, wh sn my Colonel as
if shrinking from notice, retired to a remo'e ror
ner of the room, where he seated himself and, with
his head resting upon his hand, remained silent
and immoveable. Affecting to walk for exercise,
I passed near him several times, and once as I
passed I distinctly saw a great round tear roll
down his cheek, and fail unheeded on the floor.
This, as you may well imigiue. interested me still
more, and I determined, at the risk of delicacy, to
learn the cause of his distress—and this I pledge
you was not from idle cursosity, bat from an
earnest de-ire to offer him what assistance I might
be able to render.
I am not one to stand on ceremony, after form
ing what I believe to be a good resolution, and so
to make tho matter short, I dove right in and
with what delicacy I could asked, to know the
cause of his grief, and whether I might be allow
ed to befriend him. He looked up at me a little
haugheily at first, but apparently perceiving my
motive he replied, “well sir, take u seat and you
shall hear it.’’
“I aui. as you perceive, a Colonel in the Pro
visional Army of the Confederacy. I won my
way to this rank nearly three years ago. My
Regiment is worn out and gone, and I have for
some time served on Post duty. But this may
not interest you, and I will come to 4 the point at
once. lam not, and never was a man of exttav
agant wants, and until this war my desires hava
been met by aa*ample income. Daring the last
two years I hav"e been solely dependant on ray
Balary, and it has now been twelve months since
I received one dollar of that salary. How
I have been able to maintain myself would
be a long story full of trials, mortifications
and heart wringings—in awordY'havo suffered
all but shame, which can result only from guilt
One of the most cruel instances of this scuffle to
subsist has occurred tonight. I was compelled
to come to this place and must ieavo to-morrow.
I hare no money, and had but little when I star
ted,and before leaving the landlord, who has been
kind to me, without h's pay, T hare left with him
a gold chain, and ,th3t chain is a relic belonging
to my wife.”
“Have the Quarter Masters no money,” I in
quired ?
“You know yourself,” replied ho,; “how slow
the government was in supplying new issue. The
invariable answer of the Quarter Masters to me
is—no money. iUi I heard of one, who was posted
at a distant town, having received a large supply.
I wrote to him a mouth since, .and he replied, he
had money but could do uothiug for me unless I
presented myself in person. This] he s knew I
could not do for two ireasons: first, I had jnofc the
money to defray the expeuses of the trip ; and sec
ond, I could not leave my Post. This fellow re
ceived his commission .in poverty an i U new re
puted to be worth half a million, and when I, his
superior iu rank, send to him for what I have long
since earned from the government, ho affects the
air of a Prince and says he can do nothing for
me except on his own impossible conditions, and
I, instead of receiving my due* pocket the
insolence of this pampered puppy.”
“To morrow,” continued the Colonel iu a low
ered tone, I “must walk twenty miles jto avoid the
humiliation of begging my sere from one
River steamers.”
Touched at his distress 1 offered him my purse.
110 mildly, but "promptly refused it, saying this
has been offered me before, but if I accept such
offers I should suou setjjdown as an adventurer
parading my wants to excite sympathy. The
government owes me and will pay m« sooner or
later. I think if our suffering!! wore known w«
would be paid once." Mr. Editor, T think so
toe, and for thi* taason, I desire to publish this
one among the thousand incidents now es daily
occurrence. Yours. «fco.,
ISAM.
(From the Mobile Register.)
Geu. Hood's Army.
The history of the late defeat of this army
before Nashville has not been written. It is
briefly told upon data which are furnished by
eye witnesses, and in the main points of which
all the authorities are concurrent.
On the 15th of December, Thomas moved
out in force to attack Hood’s line of entrench
ments. Murfreesboro was infested by our
forces, and was expected hourly to fall from
exhaustion. Thomas undoubtedly moved on
Hood primarily to save Murfreesboro. The
fighting was kept up on the 15th and L6th,
and with brilliant success on our side. The
enemy had not more than 23,000 men engaged
in the assault, and was repulsed again and
again, with great slaughter, leaving his dead
and wounded in front of our works. Mean
time, Hood had a strong reserve which had,
as yet not been called into action. Such was the
condition of affairs until the afternoon of the
16th. Murfreesboro was considered sure to
fall into our hands on the next day at farthest,
and Hood expected to attack Thomas in turn
on that day, with every prospect of beating
him. While everything was going on pros
perously : while our men had been fighting
bravely, and in the two days of conflict had
lost not exceeding 500 men, in the afternoon
of the 16th a portion of our line suddenly
gave way—not from a decided assault, but, as
it is averred, before a mere line of skirmishers.
This unexpected defection took the army by
surprise. In an instant the thought spread
like wildfire that some great and fatal disaster
had occurred, and the stampede spread like
lightning along the entire line of a victorious
army. It broke and ran, panic-stricken—and
no man of that flying host, had he been asked,
could have told what he was running for or
from. It was one of those magnetic panics
which sometimes seize upon large bodies of
men, whether soldiers or crowds of citizens—
it was an unnecessary, unreasonable, cause
less, aiad, but its tragical consequences, a ridic
ulous panic. The enemy was as much aston
ished as our troops were frightened—so much
so that he did not pursue on that day. Had
he done so with a squadron of cavalry, he
could have ruined the army, for there was no
rear guard, no order, nothing but the mad
flight of an army suddenly turned into a mob.
Any reader of history can find many paral
lels to this stampede. Such an one is men
tioned in Muhlbach’s Joseph 11., when in the
dead of night a veteran army became panic
stricken without the slightest cause, and bat
talions and corps of the same army rose from
their, sleep to grapple each other in mortal
combat. In Napoleon s time, at midnight,
when the army was wrapped in sleep, a mus
ket fell to the ground in the bivouac of the
“Old Guard. ’ & similar scene followed, and it
was many days before that army of heroes
recovered its order and organization, destroy
ed by a mere accident.
If this account is true of the affair, at Nash
ville, the question is, who is to blame for it ?
We have never been a partisan of Gen. Hood,
nor do we think now that it is wise to retain
him in command of the Army of Tennessee,
for reasons conclusive to our mind which we
shall state before we get through. But surely
Gen. Hood cannot be held responsible for this
absurd tragedy. His dispositions had been
wisely made, his men were fighting magnifi
cently, the tide of battle was running strongly
in his favor, and he had in his grasp a splen
did victory, when a causeless and wholly ur
looked for stampede took place in one of his
divisions. Once started, no human power
could check it, for a panicked army is like a
powder train laid along the ground tt a mag
azine. When the army vanished from before
his eyes, he leisurely left the field with his
staff, and had the enemy not been too much
astonished to pounce, he could easily have
!> i captured. Gen. Hood cannot be blamed
I" us extraordinary occurrence. He had
i reason to expert it, and no means ofguurd
i ' a linst it. But while the statement is
nothing but exact justice to Gen. Hood, it is
tint to be denied that iurkiug at the bottom of
this stampede was a secret distrust of the ar
in iu its commander. It is too well known
to be denied—and this is no time to be blink
ing the truth—that that army received a shock
from4he removal of General Johnston from
which it has never recovered No matter what
were Gen. Johnston’s capacities, no matter
whe.her the President or the troops and the
country estimated him correctly, certain it is
that the army placed unbounded confidence
in his abilities as a leader, and almost idolized
him as a commander. The events subsequent
to his removal have all gone to confirm the
judgment of the army, and the public almost
unanimously agrees with it. The troop3 cer
tainly, admire the chivalric dash and noble
gallantry of Gen. Flood, but with or without
reason they do not put faith in his abilities as
a great commander. They do put that faith,
boun lessly in Gen. Johnston, and throwing
all other 'considerations aside, this alone is
decisive that Gen. Johnston ought to be placed
immediately it its head. For the love we
bear our country, and for the deep interest we
have in its holy cause, we earnestly trust that
the President wili take this view of the case,
and giving up Lis own opinions, as he had
done once berore as to the same officer; that
he restore him to the troops who love him and
who believe in him. Without being a parti
san of the administration of Mr. Davis, this
journal has been its unfaltering supporter
from a high sense of public duty. With noth
ing to expect from it, and wanting nothing
that tho Administration could give us, we
have stood by it, as the only organized power
to conduct the nation to independence. We
should be no friend to it if we did net tell it
the truth, and we are happiiy in a condition to
tell the truth, and to be believed, when we ut
ter it. The gravest complaint against the
President, and one that his enemies handle
most effectually to weaken his popularity and
strength, is that he 13 stubborn in liis preju
dices, and come weal or woe to the cause,
will not yield to the wishes of the army or
the sympathies of the people. They say “that
this and his bad judgment in the selection of
Generals, are the causes of our military re
verses, and from his well known obstinacy
there is no reason to hope for amendment.
Hence the popular.depression amounting with
many to despair. Hence the eager ear to every
whisper of negotiation and peace and recon
struction. They say our affairs are badly
managed—the causes are ob.vious, and yet
they will not be corrected. If we go on with
the same blunders, no matter what our re
maining strength and resources, we are bound
to be beaten in the end, for God will not come
down and work miracles to save the people
who will not work, by obvious means, to save
tkems3lves. Nothing has been turned to
m;>re bitter account against the President by
his enemies than the removal of Gen. John
ston, and no one act would tend so powerfully
to relieve the public anxiety, and to restore
confidence and tone, as his prompt restoration
to the command of the Tennessee army. It
would infuse new life into the body of men,
andjnake it the nucleus for an almost miracu
lous resuscitation of its strength.
While stating unpleasant truths, let us men
tion another. It is the management of the
transsMiasissippi Department, under the ad
ministration of Gen. Kirby Smith. The great
reserve of Oonfederrte military power in his
hands has beeu a dead waste. That, army has
not pulled a trigger in seven months, while on
this side of the river their compatriots have
been struggling with the concentrated strength
of the enemy. Grant that he could not have
crossed the river, but what business had he
in winter quarters, while the enemy withdrew
his armies from Arkansas and Louisiana and
Missouri to overmatch Hood in Tennessee?—
A diversion over there would have prevented
this and given us the possession of Tennessee
and Kentucky. Why, ask the people, and
why, we repeat, i3 so slothful a commander
continued in a position of so much power and
responsibility? We have it from the best
authority, that a man of the high administra«>
five capacity and iron hand of Gen. Bragg
could gather from the service ot that Depart
ment 75,000 of the best troops that ever
shouldered a musket. Why is Kirby Smith
left to fritter away this great and turning
power, while we are grappling with unequal
numbers? Why does Mobile find itself in its
present expectation of an attack from Gen.
Oanby's unemployed army, while Smith could
threaten New Orleans, and give him his hands
full to defend it? These are questions the
i people and the army ask, and who can answer
I them but the President?
[From the Liverpool Albion.]
American Prospects.
Among those that are born of women there
beats not a bolder heart than that of Jeff Da
vis. We are not ashamed to confess to a large
amount of hero worship for the man for whom
his Northern foes can find no better name than
rebel and slave owner. Never unduly elated
by success, never dismayed by adversity, his
voice rings out clear as a trumpet callou the
darkest day that befalls his country. Not
Cirto himself spoke to his little Senate at Uti
ca with more dignity and steadfastness than
does the Southern President when addressing
his fellow countrymen. years have
passed since the tremendous struggle began
with which bis name will be forever identified:
and, if American figures can be trusted, (a
point on which we alwaj's feel serious mis
givings) those four years have witnessed a
greater amount ot bloodshed and a larger loss
of human life than any other four consecutive
years since the Deluge. The loss of ten thous
and men on a single day lias become quite a
common event; and a conscription of one, two
or three hundred thousand at a time no lon
ger excites astonishment.
The wave of war has surged from North to
South and from East to West. It has been
waged by land and sea, on raid ocean and in
harbor, and upon thousands of miles of river
—in the midst of forests, on spacious plains
and on the sides of lofty mountains. Profes
sional soldiers and amateur generals have
tried their hands upon it; attorneys and poli
ticians have brought their talents to its aid ;
every invention of modern times has been
pressed into its service. New-fangled ships,
cannon of hitherto unknown calibre, rifles of
novel construction, new tactics and new tools,
all have been used in turn, and yet the end
has not come; Such energy, such obstinacy,
such determination to win, have been shown
on both sides as were hardly ever seen before,
and such an amount of inoney expended as no
other country ever spent in a"period ten times
as long. If, in the early days ot this strug
gle, we were ever disposed to sneer at the ef
forts of either side, we must now, all of us.
confess that we had underrated both their
intentions and their probable performances.—
It is a struggle of heroie proportions on both
sides. But come what may, it is to the weak
er party that the highest amount of admira
tion is justly due ; and what is true of one is
doubtly true of the other.
And now, after vicissitudes innumerable,
the tide has turned of late against the South ;
and. doubtless, sore discouragement has fallen
upon many a heart which not long ago was
exulting in the sense of victory. It is not, in
deed, a great many weeks ago since we were
told, on what was assumed to be good au
thority, that discouragement was universal
throughout the Northern States, and that the
cry for peace—peace at almost any price—was
upon every tongue The result shows the
foiiy of generalizing ireeiy from particular in
stances, and yet only forty eight hours ago
there were many fainthearted friends of the
Southern cause in a state bordering on despair
about its future prospects. So many men are
ready to rush from one extreme to its oppo
site! But. clear across the waters comes the
brave voice ot Jefferson Davis; there is no
quaver in his tones—he speaks with no un
certain sound. Few asarehis words reported
to us, we cannot for a moment doubt his res- 1
olution ; his voice is still for war ! Dark as is
the present hour, he has passed through hours
as dark before, and through the gloom he be
lieves be sees the coming dawn.
Whan N* w O-’learvi was t <k n, when Vicks
burg wss 311. n ' *r u d, when Bionewall Jm k
son fell in the nooad iy of his glory, a sadness
and discouragement spread over all the South
ern Confederacy; and as their undaunted
President raised anew their spirit then, so we
are persuaded he will do now. We shall not,
or course, think or denying that the exhaus
tion of men and means has been immense
since those events took place ; but it must be
borne in mind that, whereas, the Southern ar
mies are still entirely composed of white men,
the Northern army according to a recent
speech of Mr. Lincoln, numbers two hundred
thousand blacks amongst its soldieis. And
Mr. liincoln adduced this tact as a reason for
maintaining the policy of emancipation. There
remains, therefore, to the Southern Govern
ment the expedient of resorting to the negro
element for the repletion of their ranks ; and
though this will, no doubt, for obvious rea
sons, be a last resort, we feel no doubt that
the operation will, by a long period, precede
submission to the Federals. We see no rea
son to doubt that the negroes wili fight for
their masters as willingly as they work for
them, and we imagine a Southern negro is
quite as capable of fighting as bis Northern
brother. So far, therefore, as the supply of
men for their armies is concerned, we do not
think that the South is as yet any worse off
than the North.
TELEGRAPHIC.
REPORTS OP THE PRESS ASSOCIATION.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year
1863, by J. S. Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office of
the District Court of the Confederate States so
the Northern District of Georgia.
Mobile, Jan. 22-.—A special dispatch to the
Register dated Senatobia, January 21st, says
that the Memphis Democrat, of the 19th, con
tains tho official announcement of the capture
of Fort Fisher. Three generals, commanding
attacking brigades, were wounded. Two 15-
inch guns on monitors burst during the fight.
The number of prisoners captured is estimat
ed at 1200 to 2500, including Gen. Whiting
and Col Lamb.
Blair has returned to Washington, No re
sult of his mission has yet transpired. The
New' York Herald’s Washington dispatch says
that the Blairs' sole business at Richmond was
to recover private papers captured by Breck
inridge.
Singleton, who went with a pass fro* Lin
coln to represent to the rebels the hopelessness
of any further contest, and to urge immediate
submission to prevent confiscation.
Active movements by Thomas are prevented
by the impassable condition of the roads.
The draft ordered by Oanby is independent
of Lincoln's last call.
Kastpori 13 expected to be the base of sap
plies for Thomas’s army.
Rumors of an advance by Kirby Smith pre
vailed at Memphis.
Mobile, Jau. 21.—A special dispatch to the
Advertiser and Register, dated Senatobia 20,
says the Memphis Argus of the 17th has been
received. It contains accounts from recent
Northern papers.
The New York Tribune of the 10th contains
another statement enneerning Blair’s mission
to Richmond. Greely says, “we infer that Mr
Blair does not go clothed with power to make
peace, but is authorized to ascertain as a com
petent judge, whether any true peace is now
attainable, and this we presume he will ac
complish. The object of his mission will be
subserved rather than defeated by the Confed
erate chiefs taking high grounds and insisting
on terms utterly inadmissible.”
The Tribune urges the speedy filling 'up of
the quotas under the late call as a means of
hastening peace, and hopes that peace will be
made before new troops can be put in the
field.
Foreign correspondents and Canadian pa
pers say a great deal about an alliance between
England, France and Spain, looking to a re
cognition of the Confederacy on the 4th of
March, on the gronnd that Lincoln was not
President after that date, having been elected
by a sectional party.
It is reported in Washington that Lincoln’s
Government has been notified that the war
must cease by the 4th of March.
The Tribune’s Washington special corres
pondent, writing under date of the 13th gives
it as the opinion of old diplomatists that a
cessation of hostilities, preliminary to formal
negotiations, will take place within ten days.
It is reported that Lincoln 3ay3, if the reb
els harm Senator Foote, he wifi bring five
prominent citizens to grief.
Federal cavalry has been ordered to pursue
Foote and his captors.
The World has information confirming the
Republican successes in Mexico, in several
battles. There had been an uprising of the
people, and the French insurrection was in
creasing.
Gen. Singleton has been sent to Richmond,
connected with a peace mission.
The Nashville Union Convention unani
mously adopted an amendment to the State
Constitution, forever abolishing slavery in
Tennessee.
Gov. Fletcher issued a proclamation on the
14th, declaring Missouri a free State in accor
dance with the emancipation ordinance passed
by the State Convention.
Butler has been relieved of his command.
Gold in New York on the I4th, closed at
219. Cotton dull at 115 to 110.
A Substitute for Cotton.— A new substitute
for cotton is thus referred to by a Paris correspon
dent : “Great excitement prevails in these manu
facturing districts of France where ootton is most
used, on account of the discovery of a substitute
for the now dethroned king. This substitute is
the China grass or white urtica (nettle weed),
which may be cultivated cheaply in all parts of
Franre. The experiments with this new textile
fibre have been going on for a year or more under
the direction of a competent committee appointed
by the Chamber of Commerce of Rouen. And
this committee, with the weed, the raw fibre, and
various specimens of woven and colored and un
colored cloths in hand have shown the Chamber,
beyond all question, that the substitute is a genu
ine ore in every point. They declare, without
reservation, that none of the qualities ot the cot
ton are wanting.
A correspondent writing from Tupelo, Miss.,
j under date ot the 14th instant, says:
The supply of shoes (17.000 pairs) and otb
| er clothing for the array narrowly escaped'
| capture, the enemy going in about twenty
; miles of West Point, where they were stored,
' but all reached the army in safety a few days
ago. and our barefooted soldiers are now well
shod. It w*s time; thousands o: them were
entirely barefooted, and hundreds badly frost
bitten
Our losses in the late campaign have been j
greatly exaggerated. 1 think 1.000 killed and i
5,000 wounded will be an over-estimate of the i
ipjs—perhaps 3,000 captured
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Sosette, Lawkon & Cos.,
Auctioneers,
131, Broad st,, Columbus, Ga.,
UTILL sell at 11 o’clock, on Monday, tho 23d of
tT January,
1 Negro Woman, 22 years old, and her
Boy Child. 2 years old.
1 Negro Woman, 18 years old. and her
Girl Child, 3 years old.
ALSO,
1 likely Girl, 17 years old Field
Hand.
ALbO,
Bureaus,Wash-Stands, Bedsteads, Mat
tresses.
1 Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine
jan23 sl2
VALUABLE PLANTATION'
AT
PRIVA THU SALE,
Rosette, Lawhon & Cos.,
AFFER at private sale a VALUABLE PLANTA-
U TION, containing 960 acres—sUocli\ired, balance
woodland, heavily timbered—twenty-five miles from
Oolumtus, on the Mobile & Girard R. R : good
Dwelling House with four rooms. Kitchen, Smoke
House, fctables, &o.; well watered, and in a high
state of cultivation.
jan23 6t $36
Rosette, L&whon & Cos.,
OFFER AT PRIVATE SALE
One Copper Boiler, 8 feet long.
Five or six hundred pounds Led Pipe.
8 or 10 Large Brass Bib & Stop Cocke,
jen 18 ts
UIYERS, WATSOH & CO.,
AUOTIONTEEBS
AND
General Commission Merchants,
At Hull & Duck's old stand,
Opposite Bank of Columbus, Broad Street.
Personal and prompt attention given
to all consignments.
Columbus, Ga., Jan. 21, 1865. jan23 ts
Notice!
MY wagon, with six large bay mules and live ne
x groes, left my plantation, in Calhoun county,
Ga., on Monday, the 16th inst., for Columbus; since
then I have heard nothing from thorn. The wagon
was loaded, and contained my silver ware and some
bedding, with other articles. The negroes were —
two men, one about 40 and the other about 45 years
old, both black; two women, one about 27 and the
other about 16 years old; and a girl about 11 years
old. I am of the opinion that they have been stolen
by deserters. Any information concerning tbem
will be thankfully reoeived and liberally rewarded.
My address is Columbus, Ga.
Jan 23 ts JAMES BOND.
I¥otice!
A LL parties who have left GUNS, PISTOLS, Ac.,
il. to be repaired, at my shop on Broad street, are
requested to call immediately and get the same.
Jan 23 6t J. ?. MURRAY.
T lie 3D OIT Y r
T. J. JACKSON .....LOCAL EDITOR
>*SBkcond Edition op the Floob. — We have
been visited by very heavy rains since Friday.—
Our streets and lots are worked up into a regular
“loblolly.'' Yesterday wa* a very unlovely day.
Everybody staid within doors. The Muscogee
railroad was damaged by the heavy rains Fri
day night, but we presame trains will be resumed
today Altogether, we are having more water
than anything else just about now.
Instruction Wanted.— Any gentleman or lady
who has leisu-e and inclination to give lessonß in
Latin or Spanish to a young man of this city, each
evening, would confer a great saver by addressing
“L’Eoolier, care Times office.”
Tub Soldier’s Benefit. —lt will be seen by a
special notice published elsewhere that the con
cert by Messrs. Eaton A Cos., for the benefit of the
Wayside Home, will come off this evening. The
Wayside, we understand, is sadly in need of funds,
ana we most sincerely trust its benefit this evening
will be a bumper. Besides contributing to so de
serving an enterprise, those who attend will be
ricblv repaid for their trouble and expense, for,
judging by the recent concert, the one to-night,
will fie all that could be desired in the way of fun
and good music.
Lost Wagon and Negroes. — We call attentien
to an advertisement of Mr. James Bond, publish
ed in to-day’s paper. It will be seen that he has
lost a wagon and team, five negroes and a valua
ble lot of silver ware, which he is inclined to be
lieve has bee* “gobbled” bv deserters. Any in
formation thankfully received.
Sugar.—A lot of sugar was sold by Ellis,
Livingston A Cos., on Saturday last at from $7 to
$8 per pound.
New Auction Fir W.— It will be seen hyiadver
tisement that Myers, Watson & Cos., have estab
lished a now Auction and Commission House at
Hull & Duck’s old atari I u;i Broad street. That's
the streak to make mor.ev,
Not Responsible— Quite a genteel respectable
looking boy a student at Mr. Ishaut’s school in
forms u* that a pack of dirty, demoralized rag
muffins are daily in the habit of congregating ia
the rear of the Bank of Columbus for the purpose
of playing ball,marbles, cards, Ac., and whilo thus
en S a g®d indulge freely ia profanity, vulgarity and
other indecencies, all of which, our informant
states, the scholars of the aforesaid sehool get the
credit of from the adjacent populace. He wishes
us to make a disclaimer for them, which we do
with pleasure, and we trust the nuisance com
plained of will soon be abated. But speaking after
the manner of men, we fear there are many “hard
bricks” amongst the boye of our oity.
Young’* Light Battery.
Persons having relatives and friends in Yong't
L'ght Battery, are notified that Capt. Young is now
in Columbus, for the purpose of collecting supplies
of clothing his 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, Columb us, Ga., on or before the
Bth of February. The clothing should consist prin
cipally of under clothing and socks, with the name
of the soldier plainly marked on it.
jan 19 lw
Notice.
Southern Exeniss Compant, I
Augusta, G Jan. 9, 18fi5.j
Persons owning freight shipped Oy the Southern
Express Company. that is detained in this city, and
other places, inconsequence of damage done to rail
roads by the Federal armies,'and which cannot be
forwarded to.destination in consequence thereof,
are hereby notified that this Company will not be
responsible for loss or damage by fire. Consignee*,
and others interested will take notice of the above.
•IAS. SHUTER,
jan 19 1m Acting Pres.
M aeon. Columbus, Montgomery, Mobile and
Selma papers copy one month.
Notice*!
HeaoQUARTXBS Gov’t Works, iOrd. {
Columbus, Ga-. Jan. 20th, ISOS, j
Privaie James Cos. A, 10th Georgia regiment,
who wa? advertised as a deserter from this Arsenal,
on the 19th iost-, h*-; rr.mrtod for duty, and accoau' -- j
ed for his absence, M H. WRIGHT.
jyr.V Cvl. Ce»d*g. f
A-J3IIOIT SALES.
Ky BCIIi*, iliiviiikxloii &
ON TUESDAY, 24th inst., at II o’«l 0 «k
w * w '*l sell in front of our store
Two very likely Negro Men, 20 ami 21
years old.
One two-horse Wagon.
One six horse Wagon.
One f:ood open top Buggy.
Lot of Sows, Pigs and Shoats.
Six bales excellent tobacco.
Lot fine Furniture, Clothing, Boot*
Shoes, &c.
One FINE PLANTATION GRIST
MILL.
One Patent Press for packing cotton
fodder or shucks.
Besides many other articles of v<\l M
too numerous to mention,
jan 23 s2l
By Ellis,
EXECUTIVE SALE,
ON F ftIDAY, 27th of January, commencing at K
o’clock, I will s-11. at the late residence of Ja.«-
phus Echols, in Russell county. Ala.,
25 head Fine Cattle, including Milch
Cows and a splendid blooded Bull.
40 head Pork and Stock Hogs.
30 i( Goats,
20 “ Sheep,
Large lot Cast Iron and Lead Pip*
Wagons, Carts, Plows, Plantation Tools
A fine lot of HOUSEHOLD AND
KITCHEN FURNITURE, with many
other articles of value too numerous
mention.
R- M. ECHOL, Executive.
jan 23 $52 50
By Ellis, Livingston’ & Cos,
AT PRIVAtTsALE.
75 acres of heavily timbered PINH
LAND, within two miles of the city, ad«
joining the lands of J. G. Worsham, ft*
jan 17 6t $lB ?
TEMPERANCE HALL.
GRAND CONCERT
MONDAY EVENING, JASDABV Ml), IStll
A T the request of many ladies, tho GRAND COM
A- CERT, by Messrs. EATON, WARD k CO. Ac
the
Benefit of the « 4 Wayside Home/*
Will take place, weather permitting, o»
Monday liven ini;. January 334,
With change of programme, For particular, tee
small bills. janifi. 41
Wanted.
Headquarters Gov’t Wores, (Oua.)t
Columbus, Ga., Jan. 2Uth, 1866. J
Wanted to contract for a large quantity of Pile
and Oak Lumber. Also Hubs, Fellies and Spokes i
and 2,(XX) forks for saddlo-tree pommels, of dm.
black gum, maple, or sugar tree. Apply wt the C. F.
Arsenal. M. H. WRIGHT.
jan2l lot Col. Comdfe
[From the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser ]
Benefits of War.
The Herald has made an important discov
ery, which it communicated to its readers ia
its issue of Wednesday. The discovery is
nothing less than the benefits of the war, which
it calls blessings in disguise. We confess that
in our eyes, the disguise is so complete wv
cannot recognize them as blessings, even af
ter they were pointed out to us by ths Herald
They are, beside, exceedingly tew in number
when compared to the curses which the Herald
admits follow in lire train of grim visagsd
war. The disguise.! blessings, according to
the Herald, are :
1. It has set thousands of merchants upo*
their feet (at the expense of the oommunitv )
2. It has developed resources of which we
were previously ignorant. Iron, coal, copper
and saltpetre mines have been discovered, it
the South in numbers and localities undreamed
of before the wsr. (What advantage ie that
to us ?)
3. Canals have been built like those upo*
the Mississippi and Dutch Gap, which wer#
impossible tC enterprise, aad will
greatly facilitate navigation. (Natural beae
fits in rivers are necessary to prevent the too
rapid draining of a country, which leaves dry
streams unfit for navigation.)
4. Harbors, heretofore unknown, are now
crowded with our shipping, (which were driv
en from the ocean by a few privateers.)
5. Wherever new railroads are needed, they
are laid down at the unprecedented rate of a
mile a day, (and they and other railroads are
destroyed at the rate of five and ten miles a
day.)
6. The telegraph follows our armies wher
ever they go, (which no one is allowed to rise
except for war purposes.)
7. Soldiers turn editors and start newspa
pers in the enemy’s country, (while those of
our towns are being discontinued on account
of the increased cost of labor and materials.)
8. Our generals take the stump as soon m
they have taken a city, to proceed to instruct
the people they have conquered. (But a great
many more are prevented from instructing oth
ers or being useful to themselves, because they
have nothing but the stumps of their limb*
left them.)
9. The slavery question has been cut by the
sword, like the Gordian knot, and now seems
in a fair way to settle itself through the de*
perate measures of the rebel leaders. (Bnt
the war leaves us long accounts to settle,
which cannot be, reputably, cut with the
sword, j
10. The whole South, hitherto reserved f©»
negro plantations, is being thrown open to
foreign emigration, (which for years cannot
replace the numbers killed and disabled :*
the armies of the North alone.)
11. Domestic manufactures are wonderfully
encouraged (in consequence of the price of
! cotton, and other materials of labor.)
12. inventions multiply upon us (partic*
larly to destroy life and property.)
13. We have created an iron clad navy, stub
as it is (admirable adopted for sarcophaguses
for out naval officers and sailors.)
14. On sea and onland, with sailors and sol
diers, we are -now more than a match for any
other nation upon the face of the earth (whii*
ali nations are trying to distance us in the
useful progress of arts of peace in consequent#
of the absorption of our minds and our ibood*
in war, which is the occupation of savages,
not of civilized beings.)
The Herald admits that “war regarded 'row
the stand point of the individual, really, ha*
been dreadful. It has made countless wid
ows and orphans. It has taken away the
pride and support of many a home, it ha*
filled the land with coffins and eripples. It
has destroyed our commerce and turned trad*
out of its usual channels. It has rained very
many people, while enriching others at. theii
expense. Looking at it simply in its effect
upon individuals, or upon classes which are
composed of individuals, the war has ua
; doubledly caused a vast deal of trouble, gut
faring and misfortune.
We leave our readers to strike the balance
between the two sides of the account, only
calling fheir attention to the fact that nation*
being composed of individuals, there caa.be
no national wealth, national property, nation
al happiness, apart from individual wealth,
property and happiness, so that the
of the latter vannot contribute to the former