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Thursday Morning, January £&, 186$.
Foreign Recognition.
W<* publish a long article on this subject
from the Richmond Sentioel, but we warn our
read' re not to place too much stress upon this
sensation. We confess we do not understand
the roenninsr of all this running back and forth
between Richmond and Washington, but we
haven strong suspicion that, like their prede
cessors. these iinbass:'‘s will eventpat* in
smoke.
We i.i■ ii v® that there is and muscle
enough in the Coated rate Siatts, unaided, to
achieve o ir in , i>rp-' > u»isiice anil we,*further be
lieve, not wifbst'indJafc all tin* bronking and
l>Ktal tijrough the country, that there
isjpluck enough t > sc» employ these agencies as
10 win tee prize. Feeling thus we shall not he
fir j<• * d’> Pin the .r< -pert of foreign aid vi
mirage and and Uiston. 1U trust if may not
proven* ~iiat«
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A friend just from Richmond has placed us
under obligations for copies of our Richmond
exchanges of the 18th. We have made free
use of them in to-day’s paper.
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(t will be seen that, in Butler’s farewell to
the army he places his address to the negroes
at the bottom —just where the hypocritical
Yankee intends always to keep them.
(From the Richmond Sentinel, 18th.)
Foreign Recognition.
The a. ‘iua3 of Western Europe have put
themselves and us to many disadvantages by
their failure to recognize the Confederate Gov
ernment, and institute with us diplomatic re
lations. A stale of war invests with a pecu
liar delicacy, the relations of a belligerent I
with a neutral power. It requires much care j
■ iid address to adjust satisfactorily the many j
questions which arise between them, —espe- !
oddly is lliis the case while .here is much
contact of interest such as an extensive in
tercourse necessarily produces. To all these
hazards and inconveniences to them and to
uk. France and England have submitted for j
four yearo, without the ameliorations which a
diplomatic interchange would have afforded.
They have denied themselves and us the
means of asking or giving explanations, and
of making representations, closely alfecting in
‘many cases the interests of citizens entitled to
protection, or in a more general sense the
rights and duties of the respective govern
ments.
The great convenience of the policy, long j
recognized in America of acknowledging a :
defacto Government without, delay, has been j
strikingly illustrated by the effects of the dis- !
ferent principle which France and England {
have prescribed to themselves in their dealings !
with us. If American policy had been up- I
plied to American affairs, four years of em- I
barrassment woul have been avoided. There |
is a prevalent presumption, however, that the I
reserve which has produced so much incon- |
venieuee, is about to be abandoned. It is j
supposed by many who read the signs of the !
times, that France and England will not much i
longer deny themselves the liberty of holding !
intercourse whh a people with whom they
have so much business to transact. We say j
nothing of the comity or the duty which they
owe to au organized community, so large and
respectable as ours ; viewing the subject sim
ply in the light of their own interest, and of
their duty to their own citizens, the shackles
with which they have so long voluntarily res
trained their action, are truly extraordinary.
If the two Governments to which we refer !
have come to the resolution of terminating
that defense, not to the principles but to the i
will of the Washington Government, which
wears the appearance of vassalage, they would i
have at any moment an abundance of solid >
and satisfactory reasons to sustain them in i
such a step But the conjuncture which is as- j
signed as the probable occasion on which the i
new attitude will be assumed, the nextinaugura- j
tion of Mr. Lincoln, is siguhu ly propitious to I
such a proceeding. It will afford not merely j
a pretext for that action, but anew ground j
sufficient, of itself, to justify and to require it. I
Wo will explain this by the citation of some j
facts which we find collected ia a very con- j
vertical form in Mr. McHenry’s excellent book. \
"The Cotton Trade.”
France, on the sth of February, 1778, ac- '
knowlodged the independence of the thirteen
American colonies, as so many independent
States. Even the articles of Confederation
were not then adopted. The United Nether- :
lands followed this example October Bth, 1782, !
and Sweden April 3d, 1783. Great.Britaiu, in
the Treaty of Peace, concluded September 3d,
1783, recognized the several States iu like
manner «■ so many independent political commu
nities, This recognition embraced Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia
by name-, and it territorially included Ken
tucky, Tennesseg, Alabama and Mississippi.
The remaining Confederate States became pos
sessed by their organization.and admission, of
equal rights with the original States, and
stand on the same footing. The independent
nationality of Texas was recognized by France
in 1839 and by Great Britain in 1840 She
did not enter the Union until 1345.
In no other form has the nationality of the
American States ever been acknowledged by
tae European Courts. John Adams was sent
in 1777, to represent the States in France, and
was soon after succeeded there by Dr. Frank
lin. They both received their authority from
the "Congress of Delegates” of the several
States. The Articles of Confederation were
cot adopted till March, 1781. Mr. Adams, un
der an appointment revived in 17 79, remained
as Minister to Eugland till 1788,
Toe Union formed by the ACiuiee of Oon
ti der.it!ort was dissolved March 3d, 1789. The
t'nion under the Constitution did not go into
operation uuti: April 30. 1789. 4 nd theu oqlj
as between eleven States, Rhode Island and
Norh Caroline, for a time, remaining aloof.
In aU these changes of tue agency for con
ducting their foreign intercourse, the States
deemed «io notification necessary io other
aova ium«ots. No recognition was asked for
any such nation as the Confederation of States,
for there was no such created : nor for any
such nation as the United States, for the same
reason. The governments established by the
articles of Confederation, and by the Constitu
tion, were the mere foreign agencies of the
States, the true sovereign* whose nationality
was already acknowledged. The European ;
governments conceded to us the right to j
change the form of this agency whenever we j
pleased. The recognition of the independence j
of the States, survived all these changes un- i
harmed ; the disbanding ot the Contederation j
in 1783; the interregnum of fifty-eight days i
that followed; the separation of .e States!
which then continued for some t, ;>e, Rhode
Island arid North Carolina remaining distinct ; j
and the accessions to the number of States
whicti*afterwards occurred from time to time, j
The ministers sent- by the Federal agent were \
received on the original acknowledgment ot j
the nationality of the several States, and no i
other. No other was desired, no other was
proffered, no other was thought necessary or
appropriate.
Let us notice some of the consequences
which may he deduced from tr.is view of the
ease, looking at it from a foreign stand point,
and excluding all reference to our o\vn con
troversy as to the right of Secession. France
and England might say that Mr. Lincoln was
appointed in 1860 by an election in which all
the States participated ; that thus he was reg
ularly constituted the diplomatic representa
tive ot all the .States for a specified term ;
that, a3 such, Europe recognized him as ap
pointed according to our own forms. After
fourth of March next, fie will sustain,
b wiavr, anew clou ict. r. 11,. will have en
teici upun t tin u! service to which various
I o the B(aCrs, ackoou leOtred by Europe as it -
dependent, li.-id no p.irt in el et ng him He
j cannot claim to have any Commission from
Viiginia or North Carolina, or-the rest of the
Contederate Stales. He can show no author
lty to represent t iem. These latter States at
: once retrained, and were excluded, from ail
share in his appointment. Os ttiis, Europe is
duly notified ; and it would be both an out- ;
rage and a perfidy, to acknowledge, as the j
representative of States recognized as inde
pendent., an agent iu w hose appointment they
had no share. As well might the Emperor i
Maximillian assume to represent the Confede- j
erate states, as the man who rules at Wash- j
inston. Virginia and the rest have claimed •
to change their foreign agency frequently in
the past, and it has been accorded how can
the right be questioned now ? Tneir respon-
Sibtfry f or Lincoln’s appointment as the organ
for foreign intercourse, has been discharged
! by the-expiration of the term for which he was
elected. In the new appointment they had no 1
part, and were allowed none; and hence it :
cannot be pretended that it represents them
either in übstance or form We say such j
views as these may well be adopted by France
and England, without reference to the other I
merits or or.r cause; and we do not see how j
they can oe overlooked or how they cculd be ■
met. And taking into consideration the duties i
which those governments owe to their owe
people, to their own dignity, to sound interna- !
tiena! principles,'and to us—duties, however, j
whi b they h <ve declined until the neglect has \
become a severe reproach—we think it very
reasonable and very probable, that they will j
indeed profit by the coining opportunity to ;
abandon their present position with a good :
grace
Latest from Wilmington.
Major Venable, of General Whiting's staff,
carried a flag of truce down to the enemy’s
line on Wednesday morning, and returned late
on that evening. General Whiting has been
quite severely wounded, while also Col. Lamb
in the thigh, severely. Both are believed to
be doing well. The fighting at, the fort was
desperate on both sides. The casualties ou
our side we are unable to report. They will
be published as soon as circumstances will
permit.
Our losses are heavy. From what we eau
learn from private sources, they will amount
to over one hundred killed' and four or five
hundred wounded. Our whole loss in killed,
wounded and prisoners will not amount to less
thau three thousand. When .we say that
among the prisoners are General Whiting,
Cos!. Lamb, Maj. Hill, Maj. Stevenson, and so
many other men, good, true and brave, our
own feelings can be appreciated.
Os course the fail of Fort Fisher necessita
ted the fall ol the other forts on the river be
low it Everything below New Inlet is in the
power of the enemy, even if it is not already
in his possession. But that does not by any
means imply possession of the town of Wil
mington. It, does mean closing up the block
ade running port of Wilmington. In that
Sense of the word it is a sever.* blow.
Betwixt us and the enemy there are Forts
Anderson and other works. They are now at
tacking them. We think we know the men in
them. John Hedrick, and men it ' him, will
fight the thing out. We only regret ihatwe
are not with them. God knows we would
rather be with them in the forts than trying
to set up types here, as we are doing now.
We do not think that Wilmington must ne
cessarily fall. The port of Wilmington is al
ready gone. That has gone cheap. The Con
federacy has lost its best, port. The men of ,
Wilmington must now defeud their homes.—
Wo think they can do so:—-We think they
will do so. Let us all try. The iruth is, ev
ery tolerably decent white aian, who does not
warn to be a slave, must tame his position,
williiigto give up hi3 life for thecaii-ein
which ha is engaged. It is perfectly useless
to blow up the President or Gen. Bragg. We
do not believe that either of these gentlemen
are perfect, nor do we think that, even if they
were perfect, they could save us. They are
simply clever and patriotic gentleman, Let
us—all ct us, be equally so. That is simply
the wsy to say it, and to do it. or at least try
to do it. Neither President Davis tsar General
Bragg can fight, for us. We must fight tor
ourselves, and for our country.
| P. S —We are officially informed that the
j cannonading below last afternoon was from
the enemy’3 gunboats at our forces at or near
Sugar Loaf. Other reports say that the ene
my attacked Hoke’s forces yesterday after
noon, but whether this is true or not we are
unable to say.— Wilmington Journal , 20 th.
Let Mr. Lincoln understand that there is a
member of our Confederate Congress, who is I
determined to negotiate with him whether he
will or not. Mr. Orr will take no denial what
ever. If Lincoln says he will have no deal- j
ings with Orr at ali, or sets him at, defiance.- -
lie says boldly, “Denunciation will be met by
defiance. This movement is not in the bands
of timid or time-serving men. * * They j
are determined that in some form the states- j
wanship ot the country shall be invoked in ;
an honest effort to end this carnival of death I
by negotiation.''’ How peremptory ia Mr.
Orr! It is in vain that the Federal government, i
through all its officials, civil and military, ;
from the President down, say uniformly and
decidedly that they have no negotiations to
hold with us ; no capitulations, r,o terms nor
conditions; ’hat there is nothing to be done
but to lay duvru our arms and submit to their
mercy and discretion. Orr knows- better ; .he
has a negotiation ready, which he is deter
mined shall at oace be entered upon, whereby
this Confederacy is to be recognized in -a treaty
with the United States as au independent
power, without touching slavery, and without
any talk of reconstruction In fact, “the
question of reconstruction does not arise” in
Mr. Orr’s negotiation. He says antboritative
■ Ir,“We certainly could make it to tlieir (the
Yankees) interest to recognize ns as aa inde
pendent people, without involving either sla
very or reconstruction.” Now this ia abso
lutely all that we want—-to be recognized as
I an independent Power without any pretension
to interfere in our domestic affairs, and to put
an end to ali Federal or other connection with
1 the Northern States ; and Mr Orr, of Missis
sippi, knows a way to secure us all this; nay
he is resolved to accomplish it, and to accom
! pl'Va it by negotiation, in spite of Lincoln and
all Yankeedom —in “defiance” ot everybody
at the South as well as at the North. Well,
if the gentleman be so determined, of course
there is no more to be said ; we are going to
awake some morning and find ourselves at
peace, and all citizens of free and triumphant
Confederate Slates, whether we like it or not.
'[Richmond Examiner.
\ We have several Orrs in Georgia, one of
them living not a thousand miles from where
we sit.—Ed. Times.
From Savannah. —A gentleman who has
just arrived from below informs the Chronicle
k Sentinel, 21st, tuat the Federal Secretary
of War issued an order to Gen. Sherman to
send out-of the city out of the lines all the
wives of the Confederate officers. General
Sherman, it is said, declared that the order
was an inhuman one, and that he would not
! obey it.
It is said that the Central Railroad is in
; complete repair to No. four and a half—forty
| five miles from Savannah, and that trains run
; dfuly.
| Flight of Ex-Senator Foote from Rich
mond. — Washington, Jan. 13.—Yesterday in
j formation was received by the Government.
! that Henry S. Foote, quondam United States
i Senator, and lately a member of the rebel
i Senate at Richmond, while attempting to es
cape from rebeldom, accompanied by bis wife,
1 had been arrested by reoel cavalry at Occo
j quan, about fifteen miles from Alexandria.—
Our military authorities at Alexandria were
directed to send to Occoquan for Mrs. Foote,
who arrived here to-day, and was escorted
from 'the Alexandria steamboat landing to
Willard’s hotel by the Secretary of Suite.
f iirrwdl Order of Gciiei’al Butler lo Ins
Troops,
Headq’rs Dbpt. of Virginia and 4
N. Carolina, l
Army of the James, Jan. 8, 16G5. J
Soldiers of (he Army of the James: Yonr
commander, relieved by order of the President,
takes leave of yon. Your conduct in the field
has extorted praises from the unwilling; you
have endured the privations of the camp and
j * h( ; “ arch without a murmur ; you have never
failed to attack when ordered : you have storm
ed and carried works deemed impregnable by
the enemy ; you have shown the positions to
: be 30 b - v Elding them against his fiercest as
| saults in the attempt to retake them,
i Those skilled in war have marvelled at the
obstacles overcome by your valor. Your line
o "oiks has excited the wonder of the officers
of other nations, who have come to learn de
fensive warfare from the monuments of your
skilled labor. Your deeds have rendered your
! name illustrious. In after times your Gener
al’s proudest memory will be to say with you,
| “I, too, was of the army of the James.” To
share such companionship is pleasure. To
I participate in such acts is honor. To have
I commanded such an army is glory.
No one couM yield it, without regret.
Knowing your willing obedience to orders,
witnessing vour ready devotion of your blood
in your country's cause, I have been chary of
the piecious charge confided tome; I have
: refused to order useless sacrifices of lives of
such soldiers, and I am relieved from your
1 command. The wasted blood of my men
does not stain my garments. For my action
. I am responsible to God and my country.
To the. Colored Troops of the- Army of the
James: In this army you have been treated
! not as laborer,-, but as soldiers. You have
1 shown yourselves worthy of the uniform you
i wear. The be st officers of the Union seek to
command you Your bravery has now the
admiration even of those who would be your
masters. Your patriotism, fidelity and cour*
age have illustrated the best qualities of man
hood. With the bayonet you have unlocked
| the iron-barred gates of prejudice, opening
| new fields of freedom, liberty and equality of
i rights to yourselves and your race forever.
| Comrades of the army of the James, I bid
l you farewell,.farewell.
Benjamin F. Butler,
Major-General,
The Material of Grant’s Army
To the Editor of the Examiner :
Fortress Monroe, Va., Jaa, 1, 1865.
I wish every man in the South could sea for
himself the extent of the deterioration of the ma
teria! of the Yankee army. Ho would find in
this view an encouragement for the Confederacy
that bad not before entered his mind; and when
ho saw on wbatleg3 the war is now supported in
tbo North, he could readily understand the pecu
bar difficulties, of Yankee recruiting, and how
they are verging to the last necessity. I have j
been within the Yaukee -lines around Richmond; j
I have had for several months an insight into the ;
recruiting offices, with which the City Park, in j
New York, is shingled ; I have, on different occa- j
sions, had the freedom of the city of Boston, which i
is the great entrepot —much more so thau New ;
York—of foreign enlistments; and when I tell ’
you thal the proposition of citizens of the United j
States in the Yankee army has fallen to about one I
fifth of it, and those the worst and nastiest ;
“scabs’ ol Northern cities, you ntay he sure I am
not amusing yon with exiravagrant, assertions, but j
giving you the results of careful and reliable ob j
servalions.
Foreign enlistments, as you know, have got to '
be in the worst odour jin Europe, and that source ]
of supply of the Y'ankee army may be said to j
have pretty thoroughly dried up. Negro soldiers j
are now at an immense premium at the North, j
and yet they are obtained with tbo greatest diffi- j
cuitv. I saw a negro kero, who had escaped from !
Richmond, and whom I had known in a Main j
street restaurant: and he told ine that he had no
sooner put his foot on the passenger boas, which
runs from Yarina to Washington, than he was j
taken hold of by a pack of bounty agents, and that I
one Massachusetts man offered, if he would go to I
Boston.and eniist as bis substitute,to give him S9OO j
cash outride of his bounty. ‘‘Moses” eould’nt see I
it. Tho “smart” negroes do not* enlist. General j
Butler told me that he had sixty thousand negroes ;
in his department, (most of them are fed by a j
tax on the people of Norfolk and Portsmouth,) !
and he has bom recruitin'.- the scrubs from thorn 1
ior many mouths past. ■
By tho way Gen. Butler gave me a chat about
negro soldiers. He hoped that President Davis ;
would carry out the policy of arming the slaves I
on his side. He (Butler) had several thousand I
I “black boys” iu his army—he would not say how !
i many—and he would like them to come in con j
tact with black soldiers on the other side. Ho j
would be glad to try the experiment. He I
thought thatbif Mr. Davis really entertained the I
i idea of using the negroes as soldiers, be should ■
have put it into effect as a military measure, in
stead of trusting to the legislation'of Congress.—
| Tho North would never have armed the uegroes
if it had been left, to th3 Congress at Washington;
but the military leaders took the initiative, and
Congress had to follow. (A candid admission
| really of how things are managed in tho North )
I asked if the negroes who escaped into his
lines generally enlisted. “To a great extent” he
replied. “They do so for two reasons. It im
I proves their social status. And then the soldier’s
| life is attractive to the negro ; for, though there
< are in it some hours, and perhaps days of tremen
! dous exertion, yot there is plenty of stagnant leis
: ure in which the negro indulges his disposition to
; laziness.
"To think,” said the General, assuming a med
itative air, and directing his gaze, non cepiix ocn- j
lis, to the ceiling, “how history repea's itself. In
San Domingo we had each parry eventually arm
ing the negro on thoir respective sides, and finally
the negroes driving the white man out and- taking
the country lor themselves. But it is scarcely pos
sible the sequel can be reserved for us.”
But outside the views of the negro question by
General Butler and other Northern negrophobists,
I have m :de my own observations. The most in
variable, and perhaps the most important of these
is, that the black soldiers in the Yankee army are
mostly composed of the dregs es the negro race;
I that o?escaped slaves, those who enlist are gene
| rally nothing more than the ignorant and uncouth
| plantation "scrubs,” who can find no other etn
; ploymeut: and that this black element in the ar
mies of our enemy, if it is to be considered at a!!,
may be taken as almost beneath coptempt. A
Yankee officer told me that negro soldiers
found to have an animal abhorrence of the sight of
blood; that ia some charges they bad been, as
| soldiers often are, pushed on blindly ; but that if
they once catch sight of mangled limbs and spirt
ing blood, their imagination is at once shocked,
and they are utterly demoralized.
To see these miserable creatures in the lines
about Richmond, standing up to their haunches in
mad, and rolling their eyes like lost spirits, gives
one a very curious idea of the material of she
army which General Lee confroa's. The white
element of that army is only a degree better : I
may say, that in all my enforced intercourse with
, privates in the Yankee army, for many months,
I have never heard from them any sentiment of
“Union,” any echo of articles in the newspapers,
any expression of so-called '“patriotism ;” their
whole stock of conversation and employment, be
sides studies of obscenity, is to tell what they have
made in bounties, and to count the days when
I their terms of enlistment will expire. If the vet
erans of the' Confederacy are not able to smash up
! suffi material, black and white, as the Yankee ar
| my now takes into its composition, they might as
j well give up their occupation and go home in dis
! grace. The Confederate public can have no idea
| of the utter deterioration of this material siace the
! campaign was opened in last May. It is such in
j the armies of the Potomac and the James, that I
I candidly believe that if General Lee had good
reason to assnme the aggressive, he could break
| their lines around Richmond fi-oin one end to tSe
j other. X.
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The Peace Rumors. — The New Yo k News of
i the 13tb, iu an article responding to the fanatical
jargon of some of the Northern press upon the
! peace question, says:
We cannot conceive in what manner these red
hot fanatics would have the S >uth approach our
government. Do they expect that a people that
have manfully stood up for four years against
the unparalleled might of our armies and navies
will crawl upon their knees to the White House,
and with “bated breath, and whispered humble
ness” beseech permission to enter the Union,
stripped of their property, and despoiled of their
political rights ? The extravagance of hate and
bitterness that prompt such opposition to the very
first step of compromise mast be subdued, or
there will never be peace between the sections. We
believe that there exists to day a disposition
amoug many of the leading men North and Si uth
in f est lh“ ir'ac. of uego-iation for the sake of
<nr rcpu’utii.n a- civilized beings, ei the attempt
be made.
; i fcjLEijrlv Ai/i ii (J.
• REPORTS OK THE PRESS ASSOCIATION.
according to act ol Congress iu the year
*BoA. by J. a. Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office ol
the District Conn ol ilie Confederate States to
theAorthe-n District of Georgia.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
Macon, Ga. Jan. 25.
The Governor has issued a proclamation
| which will appear in the papers of this city
| today, convening the General Assembly of
| Georg.a at Macon, on the 15ia February next,
I for the purpose of comple ing the unfinished
I business of the last session.
W. K. deGraffenreid,
Maj. & A A. G.
Charkston, Jan. 25.—Our scouts report
that the enemy near Pocotaligo have with-
I drawn a short distace. A large body of troops
from Savannah are reported moving on the
Augusta road. The object of the latter move
ment not yet ascertained.
(Delayed Press Dispatches.)
Richmond, Jan. 20.—Northern papers of the
18th have been received. They are chiefly filled
with official and unofficial reports of the capture
! of Fort Fisher.
The summary in the Baltimore American says
j the fleet and army transports sailed together from
; Beaufort and have arrived since the operations of
! Friday.
j
I v troops were promptly landed without oppo-
I sition ou Friday and Saturday during the bom
| bardmert of the fort.
On Sunday tbe fire was unprecedentedly heavy.
, When the assault was nude, the navy assisted,
i Porter having landed 2,000 seamen aud marines
j to board the fort on the sea face.
The troops commanded by Terry consisted of
! the same division which participated in Butler’s
| fiasco, strengthened by an additional brigade.
The assaiut commenced at 3£ iu the afternoon,
with full determination to take the Fort, which was
| captured at ten o’clock af or a desperate and san -
guinary fight. Tbe Federal loss was heavy, espe
i cially officers. Geu. Curtis was wounded. The
garrison fell back to the extreme end of the point
! where they were captured.
The ‘American says we captured over 2000 pris
oners, including tVhiting and Lamb, both of whom
were wounded, and seventy-two guns.
After ihe fort was occupied tbe magazine was
exploded by accident, killing 200 Yankees and
wounding a great many more.
The Yankee loss during the fight was about nine
hundred killed and wounded. Rebel loss about
five hundred.
Richmond, Jan. 16.—1n the Senate the House
Currency Bill was reported back from the Fin
a ce Committee with amendments.
The bill to increase the salary of the Vice Presi
dent passed.
The Senate theu resolved, itself into secret ses
sion .
Io the House, Mr. Orr rose to a personal expla
nation, which caused an article from the Sentinel
to be read by the clerk. The article referred to
was based on a short communication headed “Trea
son,” which mentions the .rumor of a resolution
before Congress in secret session, to open negotia
tions through commissioners with Lincoln for
peace.
The writer denounces this as treachery of the
most infamous character, and says the people
will not allow themselves to be sold by traitor
ous Cangressmen after this fashion. The Sen
tinel says this report has exoited surprise and in
dignation, ar.d if any but a regular authorized
communieataion with the enemy bo resorted to
Congress will not escape reprehension from the
people. Mr. Orr said that slanderous article was
intended as a criticism on a report ho had submu
’cd from the Committee on Foreign Affairs. The
movement proposed was not in the hands of timid,
time serving men, but sustained by a volume of
sentiment in the country and army, and our own '
sense of duty determined that some form of ;
statesmanship should be invoked in honest effort
to end this carniva lof death by negotiations. " i
Mr. Lester moved a suspension of the rules to
enable him to submit a preamble aud resolutions ;
declaring the statements and imputation in the ;
Sentinel, so far as intended to apply to the House,
as false, meriting the emphatic rebuko and unqual -
ified denunciation of the House. Tho House r*
fused to saspend. Yeas 32, nays 35.
Mr. Smith, of Alabama, hat in hand, said he
considered the vote an endorsement of the Senti
nel, and as long as he stands, self respoet would
proven him from taking farther part in the de ;
liberations of that body.
Several members stated that they did not regard I
the vote as an endorsement of the Sentinel, as- j
signing different reasons for their opinions.
Charleston, Jan. 22.—Two more monitors
have arrived, making ten now inside the bar. !
The enemy are reported building a railroad from j
Port Royal ferry to Pecataligo and McPherson- j
i ville.
i A Yankee transport, with three guns, came up |
I Edisto river to White Point, John’s Island, sound- j
I ing the channel, proceeded up Dahoo river and re- j
; turned.
i No other movements reported,
j Very heavy raiu falling.
! ’ - |
■ Charleston, Jan. 23. AU quiet along the
linos. The enemy have made no new raovo
j ments.
Our scouts report a considerable force of lran
| kees at Ilardeeville.
i
| Charleston, Jan. 24.—The enemy have made
j no advance movement.
Scouts report the railroad between Saltketchie
bridge snd Poeataligo as destroyed, ties burnt,
; and iron taken away.
The enemy’s pickets exleud a short distance this
side of Pocataligo.
The Family Bible,
i How painfully pleasing the fond recollection
I Os youthful connexions and innocent joy,
When, blessed with parental advice and affection,
Surrounded with mercies, with peace from on
! h .'g h »
i I still view tho chairs of my sire and my mother,
The seats of their offspring as ranged on each
hand,
I And that richest of books which excelled every
other,
That family bible that lay on the stand ;
: The old-fashioned bible, the dear blessed bible,
i Tho family bible that lay on tho stand.
j That bible, the volume of God’s inspiration,
i At morn and at evening, could yield us delight,
! And the prayer of our sire was a sweet invocation ,
i For mercy by day, and for safety through night,
i Our hymns of thanksgiving, with harmony swel
ling,
All warm from the heart of a family hand,
Half raised us from earth to that rapturous dwel
ling,
Described in the bible that lay on the stand :
i That richest of book, which excelled every other—
i That family bible, that lay on the stand.
\
! Ye scenes of tranquility, long have we parted :
My hopes almost gone, and my parents no more;
In sorrow and sadness, I live broken hearted,
And wander unknown on a far distant shore,
Yet how can I doubt a dear Saviour’s protection,
j Forgetful of gifts from his bountiful hand !
; Oh, let me, whh patience, receive hia correction,
And think of the bible that lay on tho stand :
| That richest of books, which excelled every other,
| The family bible that lay ou the stand.
gp -Q T»i
| We learn from the (Yankee) Savannah Re-
I publican of the 1 lth ; which, through the
' kindness of a friend, we have been permitted
to glance at, that the Arag , was chased four
hours by the Tallahassee off the North Caro
lina coast.
qj——l n 1 ■■ immill iiiiTmm rninir riamn 1 1 i m naniMiimg '
FOR CIUTTAHBOCHEE
The steamer Shamrock, H. Wright, Master, will
leave for Chattahoochee this morning, at 10o’, lock.
LOST.
4 L/t”GE Pvcketbook contain' s valuable pa
.i per-. The finder will be liberally rewarded by
leaving it at thi* office,
jan 26—2* 1.. B. TUCKS.
Cow Peas.
i LOT OF Oiff PK G. F«w hir
A jaoSotf iitiADFOKD k SNOW.
Mtinis wirsov & tL>..
AUCTIONEERS
AND
General Commission Merchants,
At Hull d' Duck's old stand.
Opposite Bank of Columbus, Broad Street. !
JBfelF” Personal and prompt attention given
to alt consignments.
Columbus, Ga., Jaa. 21, 1865. jan23 ts
BY MYERS, WATSON & CO.,
ROBERT MYERS, Auctioneer, i
WILL SELL AT 11 O’CLOCK
THIS DAT,
JANUARY 26th,
9 BARRELS CORNED FISH,
8 “ SUGAR,
3 “ FLA., CANE SYRUP.
jun 26 $8
Bf DIVERS, WATSON A »’O., .
ROBERT DIVERS, Auctioneer,
WILL SELL ON
THIS DAY,
JANUARY 26tli, at 11 o’clock,
In front of our Store,
1 Pair Fine CARRIAGE HORSES,
1 HACK,
1 Set DOUBLE HARNESS,
ALSO—-
1 EXPRESS WAGON,
1 COW AND CALF,
jan 25 $24
BY MYERS, WATSON & C 0„
ROBERT MYERS, 4uciioueer.
WILL SELL ON
THIS DAT,
JANUARY 2sth, at 11 o’clock,
In front of our Store,
1 LIKELY NEGRO MAN, 85 years
old, fair Carpenter and Shoemaker.
5 Boxes FLORIDA LEAF TOBACCO,
5000 FLORIDA CIGARS,
10 Boxes TOBACCO,
20 Barrels SALT,
5 Kegs WHITE LEAD,
1 Bale cl QSNABURGS,
1 Fine NO-TOP BUGGY, (made to or
dor by Hidenburg & Little) and HARs
NESS,
1 Set DOUBLE HARNESS,
1 Set BLACKSMITH TOOLS, Bellows,!
‘
Anvil and Hammers,
1 Lot HARDWARE,
GOLD and SILVER WATCHES,
3 Fine KIP SKINS,
jan 24 $54
VALUABLE PLANTATION
AT
PRIVATE SALE,
Rosette, Lawhoii A. Cos.,
OFFER at private 'sale a VALUABLE PLANTA
TION, containing 960 acres—3oocleared, balance
woodland, heavily timbered—twenty five miles from
Ooluml us, on the Mo file & Girard R. it ; good
Dwelling Hou-se with four rooms. Kitchen, Smoke
House, stables, &e.; well watered, ani in a high
state of cultivation.
jan23 6t $36
Rosette, L&whon & 00.,
OFFER AT PRIVATE SALE
One Copper Boiler, 8 feet long.
Five or six hundred pounds Led Pipe.
8 or 10 Large Brass Bib <fc Stop Cocks.
jen 18 ts
Attention Independent Colum
bus Guards.
A meeting of the Company at the Cily Council
| Chamber is ordered for Thursday morning, 26th
I insl., at 10 o’clock.
j By order of Capt. UItQUHART,
| Allen, O. S.
I jan 25 2t
Georgia Insurance Company, t
Coluin ius, Ga., Jan. 26, 1865.
i This Company having determined to suspend bu-
J siness, Policy holders are hereby notified to surren
| der their Policies by 12 o’clock M, .of this day and
| receive the premium for the unexpired terms of
| said Policies, in accordance with the terms of
j the same. JOHN MUNN,
I .ian 26 ts „ Agent.
! Mr. Jewett’s Peace Measures. —A dispatch
; from Washington says :
| Colorado Jewett has been in the capital for
■ several days, urging his policy of mediation. It
j is understood in official circles that he is opposed
| in this movement, but it is known that, among
I other interviews with distinguished persons, he
| has lateiy had oao with the British Minister. He
| has a7sn personally presented to the President a
letter, setting forth his views of the method of
4 obtaining aa honorable peace, which the Preai
: dent received, aud of which the following is a
j copy:
A “NEW YEAR GIRT” TO PRESIDENT LINCOLN.
; The safety of the Republic is through concili
; ation towards the South and avoiding a war with
| Europe. Root out these from the soil of your
i nature, the growing weed of a force policy—for
j that force continued is the overthrow of liberry,
I while conciliation is peace, union and strength to
| defy the world in the progress of that liberty.
Nearly four years ago I warned you, Mr. Sew-
I ard in the cabinet as Secretary of State, in place
|of a Southern statesman, secured a civil war. I
! now warn you, Mr. Seward removed from the cab
i inet for a radical representative of the Baltimore
! Convention, will secure a war with Europe.
Beware of the occupation policy of General
Sherman, which in forcing the South to an evacu
ation policy strengthens them through coneentra- :
i tion.
Your coming inaugural should do- that you i
are the President of taa entire ns ~ , not of a I
party.
God and Justice should fa- your coua-eilors,
through favor to a judgment of the wisdom of the
statesmen of the world, upon the point at i-*ue
between the North and South, that a peace may
be had to meet the approbation of nations and ,
coming generations of men.
William Cornwell Jewett.
Washington, Jan. 1. 1565.
Latest Sensation,— It is a-serted that Sher
man. in disguise, has actually been to Colum
bia, S. C., and that be stopped at one of the
leading hotels, where, of course, like other
Generals, he was feasted on the best provis
ion* and "new dip” the Confederacy affords.
We find the following in the WiL-iiugto i *’sr
olinian :
“A friend, writing us from Columbia - ays.
‘lt is currently reported that Sl-ermaa ha*
been here in liisgui-a. He stopped at Ni ker- ;
son’s Hotel.’ ”
All of which ue so, hut w« dou i be
Here a word of it
A.'JO'-ISIT 5A.133.
R) Ullis, liivne;Al»ii A
\yE will roll on SATt it »AY. 2lth J UMr „
1L o clock, in rruai ot uur store
1 bbl. Choice Lard,
4 bb s < üba Cane Syrup,
1000 lbs. Choice Bacon,
2 Bales Cotton,
G Boxes I X L Tobacco,
1 Sett Fine Spring Seat Parlor Chain
500 Sole Leather,
Cottage Led Steads, Sewing Machines
50 \ ols Standard and School Books*
2 Doz Large New Blankets,
Lot Plothing, Shoes. Boots,
Lot Upper Leather,
Lot Round and Square Iron,
Together with many other articles of
value.
jan 26 s3l 50
Ely Kills, Kiviiigsluß & Cos.
EX EC i ntiv SAE E.
i VN F/?IDAY, 27th of January, camraencinp at tJ
I. w,n 8-11. at the late residence of Jose
phus Echols, in Russell county. Ala.,
25 head Fine Cattle, including Miick
Cows and a splendid blooded Bull.
40 head Pork and Stock Hogs,
30 “ Goats,
20 “ Sheep,
Large lot Cast Iron and Lead Pipe.
YV agons, Carts, Plows. Plantation Tools.
A fine lot of HOUSEHOLD AND
KITCHEN FURNITURE, with many
other articles of value too numerous to
mention.
R. M. ECHOLS, Executrix.
jan 23 $52 50
—ALSO—
-1 Fine Rockaway,
1 “ Buggy,
1 “ Harness Horse,
jan 24 sl2
THE OITT
T. J. JAOKSOV LOCAL EDITOR
Salen To-Day. —Remember the auction sales te
day of Messrs. Myers, Watson A Cos., at Hull and
Duck’s old corner. They pripose to sail negroes,
tobacco, salt, cigars, osnaburgs, gold and solver
w itches, an ' a number of valuable articles
numerous to mention.
Auction Sales. —At Rosette, La whan <k Co'«
auction yesterday, 30 shades Mobile A Girard
Railroad slock sold for $l5O per ebtr® ; one negre
girl, 20 years old, $3,600; one boy, 22 years old,
$3,650; $25 in silver, 45 for 1 ; rod flannel, $20,41
per yard ; common tobacco, $4 per pound ; efie
piano, $1,000; one melodeon, $850; and nume
rous other articles of minor importance at good
prices.
■
A Cold Day. —Yesterday, according to eu r
count, was decidedly the coldest day of tbe winter •
January lias been a hard month on man and bent
in this section.
i A Laudable Enterprise. —Rev. Mr. Stiekney,
chaplain of this Post is doing ma th good in ou»
city, in the way of visiting tho sick aid w hiii led
in our hospitals, administering to their spiritual
wants, by religious counsels and the distribution
of religious literature. Ou his own resources h*
has had printed a number of suitable tracts, and
is constantly engaged as far as his means will al
low, in distributing these as w 11 as bibles and
pamphlets. Ilis labors are gratefully received by
the wounded in our hospitals who have their men
tal food supplied in this way. We think Mr
Stickney should be encouraged in his praiseworthy
efforts. Contributions will be thankfully received
by him for the purpose of enabling him to enter
i more largely into the good work. Let him be
i sustained by liberal donations.
Late Operations in Georgia.
The successful passage of Sherman through
Georgia, says the Richmond Sentinel, is the
subject of a criticism upon our owe people aud
generals in that quarter, which is often very
inconsiderate. Attention is not given to tb«
j circumstances, and judgment is renders! only
| upon the apparent result. This is not just or
j becoming.
| Let any one ’ay before him the map of Sher
-1 man’s route, and observe the important poiun
! which it was necessary for us to cover. He *«t
| out with a proclamation that ho was going to
! make a grand campaign; that our important
; works at M icon and Augusta wore to be destroyed;
and that our prison catsups were to be captured
and thirty thousand Federal released. His path
: led him between Macon and Augusta. He found
both places so well guarded that he quickly aban
i doned his designs upon them, and contented him
self with running between. It is obvious that w«
j could not have prevented that flight and escape,
I without uncovering those cities, and leaving them
a prey to Sherman. Had we done this, it would
have allowed the concentration of our troops in
Sherman’s front; for the purpose of disputing and
retarding his passage; but to have abandoned our
large interests in Macon and Augusta would hare
! yielded to Sherman two prime objects of his caca
j paign. In both of these, however, he was happily
disappointed. The regret is, that the necessity
: of our condition did not allow us at once to ofa
siiucthis path and to hedge it in. We could not
! have our forces at the same time upon his flanks
and in his^front.
When Sherman submitted to the humiliation of
failure as against Macon and Augusta, and pur
sued his campaigndn the manner of a flight, oar
forces had next to be moved around for concen
tration in his front. Ilis enterprise for the delibe
ration of the Federal prisoners, was, like tb*\t
against the two oities already named, a humilia
ting failure. He found, indeed, the nest, bat the
bird was gone. His line of retreat now lay be
tween two rivers not far apart, and fringed with
swamps. This protetued his flanks, and rendered
a circuitous march necessary in order to gain his
front ; and before the requisite concentration
could be effected, tiinj had been afforded him to
approach the coast. Hence his escape was with
out further obstruction.
I Ou reaching Savannah, Sherman, though al-
I ready greatly outnumbering the troop3 . fro®
whom his chief concern had been to escape, camo
t in reach of the eo-opsration of Foster and Dabl
gren, and all their forces. By their aid, the con
nection with Charleston was made precarious if
cot impracticable, and the evacuation of Savannah
; followed as a necessity of tho combination. Here
; again, as cvsrwhere else, A'berman failed eomp.ete
; !y of a main object of his campaign, if, indeed,
i his campaign was anything more from the faegin
j ning than a mere retreat. Tho capture of oar
I garrison in Savannah was counted upon withcer
: tainty, but that too, was an abortion. He wot
: constrained to content himself with same tfaoa
: sands of biles of cotton batongi-ig to foreigners,
but of which i’ is --.id Lincoln intends t-» posses*
himself at all hazards. The latter does not know,
he says, what has become of Hardee, but ho d.-e*
know that ha has eighteen millions of and r!Jare
worth of .« o.bodv’s cotton; in I Saermm h<- g
capture! nothing else, Lincoln intend* ;u and
fast to that.