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COLUMBUS:
Friday Morning. January 27, 1866.
From Oar Richmond Correspondent.
Richmond, January 11,1865.
‘jfhe tone of the pnblie mind and spirit here
is gradually improving, but the point has not
yet been reached when a powerful and vigor
ous reaction may be looked for. Our present
distressed condition will prove a severe test to
the moral courage, the mental nerve and the
patriotism of individuals arid* the people at
large. I believe that they wilt.oi* found equal
to the emergency. Having fully exhibited
our cap,iciiy so far as material and physical
resources arc concerned, to oarry on this strug
gle for a longer period than our enemies, we
would deserve t > ne and would be damned by
generations to follow us, for surrendering a
struggle ~o important i<> Die interests of man
kind. for the want of woril b* oism. ■
Few of those who have inaugurated a'i'd
are now prosecuting )is war, can expect to
survive its end lor many years, no blatter
what the issue may be. Upon 'hat issue de
pends the fate of the children of those who
ari struggling to leave them the richest of le
gacies, the blessings of liberty. This consid
eration alone, is sufficient to rekindle as of:- n
as they may grow dim the fires of this revo
lution. •
Reports come to U3 of despondency, and in
some oases, demoralization, in, Georgia.-
\V‘.iie these reports may be and probably are
exaggerated. it is not difficult to believe that
recent events have justly created dissatisfac
tion in that State. Hood’s campaign *vas a
mistake of military judgment, but failed more
from ihe want, of numbers than for any lack
of courage i*i the men or energy in their com
mander. Assaults on Hood, and through him
on (he President; peace resolutions and over*
tares of submission to the Yankees, will out
add to the evils from which we are already
suffering. , Unity of action and* sentiment
alone can avert other dangers which are im
pending.
No change in military affairs about this city.
Kxeept the shelling at Dutch Gap, quiet reigns
along tuO ’iliton the north side. Tho \an
kees arc reinforcing with negro troops, and
for several days past have shelled our lines in
the neighborhood of Petersburg.
The House of Representatives has passed,
by a decided majority, the bill for the consol
idation of the army, and have taken up the
next important measure of a military charac
ter, viz: the exemption bill. It promises to
be fruitful of discussion, ard both bills will,
in all probability, have to pass through the
hands of a conference committee of both
Houses.
There is a very strong and earnest determi
nation upon the part of Congress to leave
nothing undone which can add to the streugth
and efficiency of our military and financial
Affairs, and no adjournment may be looked for
until our prospects assume a brighter as
pect.
A Hag of truce boat last night brought a
number of officers,soldiers and citizens, among
the latter Edward A. Pollard, Esq., of tne
Examiner. Up has for months past been a
paroled prisoner at, the North, and has had
fine opportunities to ascertiau public senti
ment and the condition of affairs in that quar
ter. He says the pending draft—when pro
posed to be executed—will create greet dis
satisfaction, and that Yankee finances are on
their “ last legs. ” He considers the wav a
question of mere endurance. If we will re
main true to ourselves—resolved to bear and
suffer without complaint or dissension—we
may look for a speedy peace.
Northern journals are still hinting at peace
negotiations, and t is not unlikely that some
movements in that direction may emanate
from this quarter.
Governor Vance, in his message to the Leg
islature, very gravely lays the loss of the
State steamer A. D. Vance at the door of
Confederate officials—they, according to his
statement, having taken her coals for a priva
teer. The President, in a message to Con
gress, denies that the Government ever took
any coal from the A. D. Vance for any pur
pose whatever.. How much dissatisfaction
may be traced to similar instances ot misrep
resentation—sometimes accidental, often wil
ful.
Your representative, Mr. Bh.ndford, who
has been confuted to liis room by sickness for
sometime, is in his seat again.
Congress will take the cavalry in hand and
will endeavor to make them something ui ore
than a mounted mob.
Gen. Hardee telegraphs that he has re-or
ganized Wheeler’s command. This will be
good news to the people of Georgia who have
suffered by their depredations. It is said that
they possessed ali the varied accomplishments
of u Murrell’s Gang” and the “ Pouey Club, ”
and were continually exhibiting them.
Much talk in knowing circles here of an en
tire change in the Cabinet. Generals Cobb,
Toombs and Bantling, all spoken of in connec
tion with the Secretaryship of War.
VIRGINIUS.
Recognition.—Ttm following is doubtless, the
foundation for the late recognition rumors contain
ed in telegraphic dispatches :
The Montreal correspondent of the Tribune
writes as follows :
A few days ago a letter Paris was re- )
oeived here by Sanders from A. Dudley Maun,
with accompanying dispatches ter the rebel gov
ernment, conveying the assurance that Napoleon
had determined, either with or without the oo
operation of Great Britain, to recognize the Con
federacy soon after the re enstallation of Mr. Lin
coln. This intelligence, of coarse, has made all
the rebels who have boeh treated to it very jubi
lant.
The letter from Mann had not been in more
thau eight and forty hours, before a rumor obtain
ed currency and created no little excitement among
the natives, that the French and British Govon -
men's, acting in concert, would recognize the
Confederacy immediately after the 4th ot March
next.
Oath Takers. —We are not at all surprised,
Bftys the Courier, to learn that the \ankees
show and entertain no special or grateful re
gards towards creatures taking the oath in
hope of laving property. These creatures,
however, will not care for respect or opinion
so long as they Becure their pelf—which will
only be as long as policy requires the Yan
kees to hold off.
The difference between utter confiscation
and Yankee taxation as to the property of re
canting, cowardly southerners will be a mat
ter of dose calculation.
t President Davis' Response to the “Slqilicns’
Resolutions 0 in the Georgia Legislaiure.
Richmond, Va., Nov., 17 1c64.
2o the Hons. Senators of Georgia — Messrs. A.
R. Wright, Pres't Senate, Y. L. Guerry, J.
M. Chambers , Thos. E K Lloyd, bred'k K. West,
Rob. N. Nesbet :
Gbntlemen :
I answered by telegram this_morning your
letter of the 11th inst., as requwted, and re
spectfully comply with ygur desire that I
should express my views on the subject to
which you invite my attention.
In ‘forwarding to me the resolutions iutro- I
duced into.the House of Represeniatives of >
Georgia by Mr. Stephens of Hancock, you j
state that youafenot inclined to favor the ]
passage of these or any similar resolutions, |
believing them to have a tendency to create I
divisions among ourselves and to unite j
arid strengthen out enemies ; but that it is as« i
eerted in Milledgeville that I favor such action i
on the part of the States and would be pleased |
so see Georgia cast her influence in that way.
You are kind enough to say that if this be '
true, and if the passage of these oi*similar !
resolutions would in the lightest degree aid
or assist me in bringing the war to a success
ful and speedy you will give them your
earnest ac-1 hearty support.
T return you my cordiai thanks for this ex
pression of confidence, but assure you there :
is no truth in the assertions which you men
tion : and I presume that you wiii already
have seen by the closing part of my annual
message, which must have reached you since ;
the date of your letter, that I have not eon
tempialed the use of any other agency in j
treating for peacethan that established by the I
Constitution of ihe Confederate States.
That agency seems to me to be well adapted '
to its purpose, and free from the injurious !
consequences that would follow any other
means that have been suggested
The object!od to separate State action
which you present in your letter, appears
to be so conclusive as to admit no reply. The
immediate and inevitable tendency of such
distinct action by each State is to create dis
eordaut instead of united counsels; to sug- j
gest to our enemies the possibility of a disso- ;
lution of the Confederacy, and to encourage ■
them, by the spectacle of our divisions, to I
more determined and united ration against j
us.
They would readily adopt the false idea j
that some of the States of the Confederacy are :
disposed to abandon their sister States and
make separate terms of peace for themselves ;
and if such a suspicion, however unfounded,
were om a engendered among our own people,
it would be destructive of that spirit of mutu
al confidence and support which forms our
chief reliance for success in the maintenance
of our cause.
When the proposal of separate State action
was first mooted, it appeared to me so im
practicable, so void of any promise of good,
that I gave no heed to the proposal.; but up
on its adoption by citizens whose position and
ability give weight to the expression of their
opinions, I was led to a serious consideration
of the subject. My first impressions have not
been changed by reflection.
It all the State3 of the two hostile federa
tions are to meet in convention, it i- plain that
such a meeting can only take place after an
agreement as to the time, place and terms on
which they are to meet. Now, without dis
cussing the minor, although not trifliug diffi
culties, of agreeing as to time and place, it is
certain that the States would never consent
to a convention without a previous agreement
as to the terms on Which they were to meet.
The proposed convention mu tt meet on the
basis either that, no State should, against its
own will, be bound by the decision of the con
vention, or that it should be so bound. Rut,
it is plain that an agreement on the basis that
no State should be bound, without its con
sent, by the result of the deliberations, would
be an abandonment on the part of tho North
of its pretended right of coercion ; would be
an absolute recognition of the independence
of the several States of the Confederacy,
would be. in a word, so complete a concession
ot the rightiulness of our cause that the most
visionary cannot hope for such an agreement
in a ranee of, the meeting of a convention.
The ( nly other possible basis of meeting is j
that each State should agree, beforehand, to j
be bound by the decision of the convention,
and such agreement is but another form of
submission to Northern dominion, as we well
kuow that in such a convention we should be
outnumbered nearly two to one. On the very
threshold of the scheme proposed, therefore,
we are met by an obstacle which cannot be
removed. Is not the impracticable charac
ter of the project apparent ?
You will observe that I leave entirely out
of view the sugges'io.i that a conveutiou of
all the States of both Federations should be
held by common consent without any previous
understanding as to the effect of its decisions;
should meet merely to debate and pass reso
lutions that are to bind no one. It is not sup
posed that this can really be the meaning at
tached to the proposal by those who are act- j
ive in its support, although the resolutions to [
which you invite my attention declare that j
the function of such a convention would be I
simply to propose a plan of peace, with the
consent of the two belligerents; or in other j
words to act as negotiators in Hearing for !
peace. This part of the scheme is not inielli- •
gible to me, if the convention is only to be
held with the consent of the two belligerents,
that consent cannot be obtained without nego
tiation. The plau then would resolve itself
into a scheme that the two. Governments
should negotiate an agreement for the ap
pointment of negotiators to make proposals
| for a treaty. It seems much more prompt
! and simple to negotiate for peace at once than
j to negotiate for the appointment of negotia
i tors, who are to meet without power to do
i anything but make proposals.
; If the Government of the United States is
willing to make peace, it will treat for peace
' directly. If unwilling, it will refuse to con
j sent to the convention of States. The author
; of these resolutions and those who concur in
\ his views, appear to me to commit the radical
; error of supposing that the obstacle to obtain
! mg the peace which we all desire, consists in
; the difficulty of finding proper agencies for
I negotiating, so that the whole scope of the
resolutions ends in nothiug but suggesting
that if the enemy will treat, the best agency
would be State delegates to a convention;
whereas the whole and only obstacle is that
the enemy will not treat at all, or entertain
any other proposition than that we should
submit to their yoke, acknowledge that we
are criminals, and appeal to their mercy for
pardon.
After this statement of objections it may
appear superfluous to add others of less grav- j
ity, but as you invite a full expression of my j
views, I will add that history is replete with !
instances of the interminable difficulties and '
delays which attend the attempt to negotiate :
on great and conflicting interests, when the j
parties to the negotiation are numerous. If j
this has been the case where the parties pos
sessed full powers to conclude a treaty, what
can we hope from an assemblage of negotiators
from thirty or forty States, who in the midst of ;
an exasperating warfare are to me t without
power to conclude anything? In the history
of our own country we find that in a time of
profound peace, when the most cordial broth
erhood of sentiment existed, and when a long
and bloody war had been brought to a trium
phant close, it required two years to assemble
a convention and bring its deliberations to an
end, and .mother year to procure the ratifica
tion of their labors. With such a war as the
present in progress, the views of the large as
semblage of negotiators proposed would un
dergo constant change according to the vicis
situdes of the struggle, and the attempt to se
cure concordant views would soon be aban
doned and leave the parties more embittered
than ever; less hopeful of the possibility of
successful negotiation.
Again, how is the difficulty resulting from
the conflicting pretensions of the two bel ige
rents in regard to several of the States to be
overcome ? Is it supposed that Virginia would
enter into a convention with a delegation from
what our enemie- choose to term the “ State”
of “ West Virginia," and thus recognize an
: insolent and violent dismemberment of her
j territory? Or would the United States con
j sent that “ West Virginia” should be deprived
j of her pretensions to equal rights, after having
! formally admitted her as a State and allowed
her to vote at a Presidential election? Who
j would send a delegation from Louisiana, Ten
nessee, Kentucky, Missouri? The enemy
claim to hold the governments of those States,
while we assert them to be members of the
Confederacy. Would delegates be received
' from both sides? If so, there would soon be a
disruption of the convention. If delegates are
received from neither side, then a number of
the States most vitally interested in the result
remain unrepresented, and what value
could be attached to the mere recommenda
tions of a body of negotiators under such cir
cumstances ? Various other considerations
suggest themselves, but enough has been said
to justify my conclusion that the proposal of
separate State action is unwise, impracticable
and prospect of good to counterbal
ance its manifold injurious consequences to the
cause of our country.
Very respectfully,
Yours, &c.,
Jefferson Davis.
From Wilmington.
We take the iblt >wiug item* from the Wilming
ton Journal of Ur 21st :
We understand that on Thursday last there was i
some skirmishing between the left wing of our j
forces in the neighborhood of Sugar Loaf, and the j
Yankee infantry, who had made an advance from j
their entrenched position. During the afternoon, !
it is reported, whilst, the Yankee vessels were en- |
gaged shelling the woods, their infantry made an i
attack on Uiirgm in's brigade, (occupying our left,) |
with the evident intention of flanking them, but !
were .repulsed and driven back to their entrench
ments. No oa ua'tic- have as yet beSu reported,
but we learn that several of our men were wound
ed.
John Sips, Cos. i>, 42J Reg’t N. C. I\, (of New
ton, N. C.,) wounded in above skirmish,and brought
to General Hospital No. 4, died on yesterday.
In the river below no movements have been
made by the euemy’s vessels that we are aware of.
Wo would call the attention of our eotempora
rics to the fact, chat Fort Fisher neve" was surren
dered—but was carried at the point of the bayo
net by ovewhelmiug mimbeis, after all the guns
on the land face had been dismounted by the
terrific fire from the fleet.
The enemy’s io3s, in Sunday's fight, is estimat
ed to be at least one thousand in killed and wound
ed. The Fort was charged three times on Sunday
afternoon and night, before it was captured.
It is understood in official quarters that a maga
zine exploded in Fort Fisher On Monday morning,
and that the enemy lost about four hundred from
its effects.
We are reliably informed that Gear Curtis, of
the Yankee army, was killed in the fight at Fort
Fisher on Sunday last. We also learn that a*
Yankee aid-de-camp was killed in the skirmishing
on Thursday.
Justise to the Women.
The Confederate Congress is at last about to do
an act of simple justice to the laboring wom«tt of
th* Confederacy, who, in a quiet and tmosteata
tioub way, have been ameng the most efficient
supporters oftmr cause. What would oar troops
do without clothing and what would clothing da
without women ? We find the following in the
proceedings of the Confederate Senate on the 17th
inst.
PAY AND ALLOWANCE OP CERTAIN PRMALK *K
PLorEKS OP GOVERNMENT,
Senate bill to regulate the pay and allow aitces
of certain female employees of the Government,
was taken np, the question being the adoption of
certain amendments proposod by the Judiciary
Committee, to whom the bill had been referred.
The amendments of the committee were agreed to,
and the bill passed in the following form :
A bill to regulate the pay and allowances of cer
tain female employees of government.
The Congress of the Confederate States of
America do enact, That the salary, pay and al
lowances of the persons hereinafter named, shall
be as follows :
. Ist. Females employed #t clerks in the clothing
branch of the Quartermaster’s department, or in
any hospital established for the benefit of the sick
and wounded of the array, shall hereafter -be al
lowed and paid the sarna amount of salary allowed
and paid to clerks in other departments of the
government: Provided, That such persons, when
employed as clerks in hospitals, may aecept, in
lien es the above compensation, the pay and al
lowances hereinafter granted r>o chief matrons of
hospitals.
2d. All females employed sus chief matrons, or
assistant matrons, or ward matrons, or nnrses in
hospitals, shall hereafter be allowed and paid one
hundred per centum in addition to the compensa
tion now allowed by law for their services; and iu
ail cases where suitable quarters and fuel are not
furnished by the surgeon in charge of the hospital,
they shall be allowed and paid commutation for
the same, at the rate of one room for each matron
or nurse, and one and one half cords of wood per
month during the winter ; and three-fourths of a
cord per month during summer.
3d. All females engaged or employed in the
clothing branch of the Quartermaster’s Depart
ment, in cutting or making clothing or other arti
cles for the use of the army, shall be allowed and
paid one hundred and twenty five per centum in
addition to the compensation now allowed for
such labor or service. And all females perma
nently engaged or employed in said clothing
branch of the Quartermaster’s Department, shall,
in the event the same cannot be furnished, be
allowed to purchaso’oae cord of wood per month
duriLg winter, and one-half cord per month during
summer.
Strike out the 4rh and sth paragraphs, and in
sert as follows :
4th. All females engaged or employed in making
or preparing cartridges or other munitions of war
in the Orduanee Department, shall hereafter be al
lowed and phid seventy-five per cent., in addition
to the compensation now allowed for such labor or
service, and shall have been titled, in the event
tho same can bo furnished from the Commissary
Department, to purchase from such Commissary
Department at cost price to the government, one
ration each ; and shall, in the event the same can
be furnished, have the further privilege of pur
i chasing, at cost price to the government, one cord
i of wood per month during winter, and one half
I cord per month during summer.
sth. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized
and required under such regulations as he may
prescribe, in the event the same can be furnished
without prejudice to the public service, to allow
the persons embraced in the second, third and
fourth paragraphs of this act, to purchase, at cost
price to the government, such domestic cloth or
cotton goods as may be necessary for clothing for
themselves.
The Way Open South. —lt gives us pleasure to
state, on the authority of the gentlemanly Super -
intendant of the Wilmington and Manchester
Railroad, Capt. Henry M. Drance, that his trains
are now running through to Kingsville, and that
communication is open to Columbia. Communi
cation to Charleston and Augusta, via Kingsville,
was expected to open yesterday; at all events to
day. Communication is also open to Charleston
via Florence.
The late freghets have caused sad havoc with
our railroads, in the way of washing up bridges
and trestles. For several days no mail train has
been enabled to pass Kingsville, either North or
South, on account of tbe freshet in the Congaree,
which caused a portion of the bridge or trestle
work over that wide scope of swamp or river to be
carried away. We are pleased to hear that these
breaks have been repaired, and we do fervently
hope, that as matters now stand, our forces to
meet u formidable foe at a certain point, may be
enabled to get to the right place ia tbe right time.
Wilmington Journal, 27th.
The Reciprocity Treaty. —The Senate on
Thursday, after much debate, adopted by 31
to 8 the resolution to give notice to terminate
the Canada Reciprocity Treaty. As it has
already passed the House by a vote nearly
unanimous, tbe President’s signature is requi
red only as a matter of form, and it will then
become his Executive duty to carry into effect
the will of Congress. We suppose there is
no doubt that the measure has the hearty ap
proval of the country. —[iVeic York Tribune.
Obituary or Mr. Dayton. —The Paris corres
pondent of the Baltimore American gives us a
| piece ot Yankee news about the death of Mr.
: Dayton. He says;
“The first notice of the event which appeared
j in the Parisian press was in tbe France, a journal
devoted to Confederate and was from tho
; pen id Mr. Slidell, couched in terms ot deep re
gict aud esteem.”
Northern News.— The correspondent of
I the Coraraerc s"’ 5 "’ esriraates that Hood took
across the Tennessee river from twenty-five to
J twenty eight thousand men. Forrest aban
doned one hundred and fifty wagons on the
north side.
The captured Confederate ram Tennessee iv
to be used on the Mississippi.
j The military situation in Arkansas isnn
j changed.
I Admiral Porter is summoned to testify irf
regard to the Red River expedition.
The steamer R. E.Lee has been wrecked off
Matamoras, Twenty-five of her crew were
drowned.
One of the persons engaged iu the hotel
business iu New York has been arrested in
Detroit. He claims protection a3 a belliger
ent.
Two citizens of Baltimore, convicted by a
military commission on the charge of aiding
3oldiers to desert, have been sentenced to
three years’ imprisonment at hard labor in the
Albany penitentiary.
The following resolutions, adopted by the mem
bers of the Jackson Artillery in referenced the late
peace meeting of the seventeen “loyal Georgians”
in Savannah, we clip from the Telegraph and Con
federate :
At a meeting of the Jackson Artillery, Oapt. Mas
senburg presiding, B. L. Mitchell was requested to
act as Secretary,
On motion, a committee of five was appointed to
express the Company’s disapprobation of a series
of resolutions recently adopted by the citizens of
Savannah.
The committee reported as follows :
Whereas, The people of Savannah have passed
resolutions declaring their willingness to return into
the Union, Ac., Ac.:
Resolved, That we most unqualifiedly condemn
the resolutions, in so far as they request Governor
Brown to call a convention of the people of Geor
gia, for the purpose of re-uniting the destinies of
the State with the Government which has destroyed
our property, murdered our brethren, and insulted
our women, and which socks to bring us under worse
than Egyptian bondage. „
2. That we are profoundly indignant aud disgus
ted at the general tenor of those resolutions, adopted
for the purpose of showing our enemies that the
members of that meeting are conquered, and that
they are ready to bend the suppliant knee and to
kiss the oppressor’s rod.
3. That we have a supremo contempt for that pa
triotism which is bounded by city limits, and for that
property, liberty or life, which is purchased at the
pri< e of henor.
4. That the present citizens of Savannah do insult
those who have, during this w: r, perished in defence
of the rights of our common country, and that, they
should be filled with fear and trembling to pass such
resolutions, so near the honored remains of tho la
mented Bartow, whom they thus doubly murder.
5. That, as Georgia soldiers, exposed to the fa
tigues, privations and dangers incident to war, we
respectfully request Gov, Brown not to call a con
vention for the purposes indicated in the resolutions
and to pass them with (hat contempt which is too
deep for utterance.
Respectfully submitted.
Lieut. J. A lloltzclaw,
Serg’t W. F. Price,
Uorp’l G. W. Sturoes,
Private J. 0. A. Houser,
“ Sam’l G. Ripley,
Committee.
[From the Chicago Times.}
Southern Temper.
The brief report given us yesterday morning
of the debate in ths Confederate Congress ou
Satuaday last was indicative of a disposition cn
the part of the gentlemen whose speeches we in
part quoted to treat for the return of the insur
gent States. The resolution of Mr. Turner, of
North Carolina, declared it to be expedient, and
eminently proper for the Confederate House of
Representatives to dispatch without delay to some
convenient point, a body of commissioners, thir
teen in number, composed of one representative
from each of the Confederate States, to meet and
confer with such individuals as may be appointed
by the Government of the United States in re
gard to all outstanding questions of difference
between the two Governments, and to agree, if
possible upon the terms of a lasting and honorable
peace, subject to the ratification of the respective
Governments and of the sovereign States respec
tively therein.”
Mr. McMullen, of Virginia, in supporting these
resolutions, eiia he understood that General
Grant had expressed to General Joy a willingness
to roeeive a sat of commissioners, and would in
vito alike number from his (our) government to
meet those of tho Confederates at some point to be
agreed upon." It is hardly probable that Gen.
Grant, would have made a proposal of this kind
unless he was authorized to do so, and it is pos
sible, though we can hardly concei eit to be prob
able, that the offer is the olive branch of which
General Butler spake in Now York in November,
but to which th*r President failed to allude in
his message. Be this as it may, the resolutions
of Turner intimate a desire for peace, and, in their
failure to declare that tho independence of the
Confederacy is the single condition on which it
will be made, is an improvement on those which
heretofore have received consideration in that
body on tha t subject. ►
It is true that they warn laid aside, but the fact
of their introduction, and tha tone of Mr. McMul
len’s speech, show that the Confederates are will
ing to modify their terms. The reverses they have
lately sustained have been so serious and extended
as to convince them that their demand for a sepa
rate government may well bo yielded to a propo
sition U 6 resume their old relations. We do net
dcubt jtheir ability to protract tho war until both
parties are exhausted, should wo choose to contin
ue it so long. The question is not one of ability,
but of policy.' They have, sacrificed much al
ready to their desire for (independence. They are
willing to make still further and greater gacr.ficea
to gain it. But they are not willing to make so
many and costly ones as will be requisite to its
accomplishment, if they a r e offered terms of re
union which they can accept with honor and
safety.
We do not hope much from the present cheerful
aspect of our military affairs. They but serve to
confirm the administration in its determination to
enforce its vindictive policies. The reconstruction
bill which is now pending in Congress, and which
will probably become a law in January next, will
give more strength to the Confederate armies than
the call for three hundred thousand more men,
which the President has just made, will to ours.—
We may drive ?he South into emancipation and
the arming of her negroes against us. She doubt
less will choose to be her own agent, should the
measure be forced upon her, and events now in
dicate that the war has reached a stage in which
we shall be confronted with this vast force which
the Confederates hs7e hitherto held in reserve.
Savannah News. —By way of the North we
collect the annexed news in regard to Savan
nah :
Immediately on the fall of Savannah, Gov-
Andrew, tit Massachusetts, dispatched agents
to that city to recruit black troops for the ar
my, to be credited to'the quota of that State.
He then asked permission from the Secretary
of War to do so, which was cheerfully accord
ed, and the documents will arrive out about
the time the first squad is on its way to Mas
sachusetts.
It is rumored that Gen. Sherman has com
municated to the President that the Georgia
State authorities have applied to come back
into the Union, and that Secretary Stanton’s
visit to Savannah has some connection with
the subject. It is also believed that Secreta
ry'Stantoa’s visit to Sherman will result in
the inauguration of anew policy in Sherman’s
commaiWl in reference to treatment of negroes
who may come into his lines hereafter. Such
negroes will be armed and allowed to do ef
fective service in the Union ranks.
A large number of New York merchants
have made application, to ship goods to Sa
vannah. Some of them have been granted.
Dr. Willis, of Savannah, who arrived in New
York a few days ago, has obtained from the
Treasury Department, on a certificate from the
War Department, it is understood,*an authori
zation from the military authorities at Savan
nah, giving the necessary permission to make
a small shipment of provisions to Savannah.
They consist of sugar, coffee, cheese, mustard,
bams, butter and other groceries. The clear
ance is granted on condilioa among ethers,
that all persons concerned in the shipment
shall have taken the prescribed oath of alle
giance, and that a bond skalLbe required that
none of the articles 3h ill bo used, with the
consent or knowledge of the shippers, or their
agents, to give aid or comfort to the insur
gents.
I Tiie Emcte in Jackson County.— Col. Jesse
A. Glsen, in a letter to the Augusta papers says
that “in going to Jackson county, he went on bis
i own responsibility,” and that the Confederate Gov.
eminent was responsible for what be ii. Con
s ceivingthe movement to favor reconstruction, and
believing reconstruction to be treason, he pursued
the course he did.
A T J<3SIOH SALES.
Rosette, Lawhon & Cos.,
Auctioneers,
131, Broad St,, Coiusubus, Ca.,
WILL SELL AT 11 O’CLOCK
-■- ' I
THIS I> AY,
6 VERY LIKELY MULES,
1 FINE BUGGY HORSE,
2 PONIES,
1 Barrel SUGAR,
300 lbs. SMOKING TOBACCO, in
five pound bales,
10 doz. BUTCHER KNIVES,
5 “ SADDLER’S “
ISTOVE
GOLD and SILVER WATCHES,
GOLD CHAINS and LOCKETS.
jan 27 $lB
VALUABLE PLANTATION
* AT
:p:r,x"v.a TIE] sa.i_.:ev
Rosette, Lawliou & Cos.,
AFFER at private sale a VALUABLE PLANTA-
V TION, containing 960 acres—-500cleared, balance
woodland, heavily tirnb :red —twenty-five miles from
Columbus, on the Mobile & Girard R. R : good
Dwelling House with four rooms, Kitchen, Smoke
House, Stables, Ac.; well watered, and in a high
state of cultivation,
jan 23 6t $36
Rosette, Lawhon & Go.,
OFFER AT PRIVATE SALE
One Copper Boiler, 8 feet long.
Five or six hundred pounds Led Pipe
8 or ID Large Brass Bib & Stop Cocks;
jen 18 ts •
THdE CITY.
T. J. JACKSON LOCAL EDITOR
Religions Notice.
The first Quarterly Meeting of St. Paul Church
will be held next Saturday and Sabbath, the 28tfc
and 29tli. Services each day at 10% o’clock, a. in
jan 27 td
Press Notice.— The Montgomery Advertiser
and Bufaula Spirit of the South will find an ad
vertisement in this paper to eopy.
Sai.es To Day. —Rosette, Lawhon & Cos. will
sell ta-day, mule*, horses, ponies, smoking to
bacco, a cooking stove, Ac., &c. See advertise
ment.
Auction Sales. — At auction yesterday hy My
ers, Watson & Cos., Florida cane syrup sold at
$16,50 to $17,50: sugar at $6 to SS,I2 ; osnaburgs,
$5,25; chewing tobacco, $6 to $6,25; Florida fish.
$2,82 to $3,25 per pound; one twenty dollar gold
piece, 52 for I ; salt, S8 cents ; Florida cigars,
$165 per thousand ; and divers minor articles at
good prices. Messrs. Myers A Cos. had quite an
important sale to begin with.
I)r. J. B. Gorman of Talbotton offers a reward
of SI2OO for a mare and colt sapposed to have
beep stolen. See advertisement,
JJostinubs. —The oold spell still continues.
Yesterday, we think, was a little colder than
Wednesday. We presume this weather is most
agreeable to Sherman's Yanks, though a milder
temperature’ would be much more acceptable
to u*.
“Lkt There he Light.” —We are informed by
persons who have to cross the river frequently
after night, that there has been no light in the
bridge for two weeks, and that it is both, difficult
aud dangerous to find one’s way across the river.
We -vonder whafc reason there is for not lighting
the bridge ? Is it on the scalo of economy ? Wa
should think those who have to cress frequently
would prefer to foot the bill than risk it in the
dark.
At r, axt a .fe" Western Rah, no An It is rumor
ed that the track of the Atlauta & Western rail
road, between. Dalton and Marietta has been des
troyed by our troops to prevent the return of the
Federals that way by rail, and to impede Thomas’
inarch into North Georgia.
Our enemies are evidently alarmed at the pros
pect before them. The New York lleiald says
their finances will not stand the strain of another
years’s campaigning, and that .speedy success is a
necessity. The dread of a European alliance, and
the resolution displayed by the people of the Con
federate States to employ every resource and every
energy of resistance, add greatly to their anxieties :
while it is manifest that the enforcement of the
draft is an experiment from which Lincoln shrinks
with r. just apprehension. Hence while not aban
doning his desperate purpose, Lincoln is driven to
look with favor to the arts of seduction and diplo
macy. The constructions which have been put
upon the visit of F. B- Blair to our lines give an op
portunity to discover the temper of the Northern
press. The New York Tribune applauds, as we
have seen, what it regards as an attempt to sow di
visions here, aud ensnare North Carolina. The
NewlYork Times, also Black Kepublican.ldenounces
the movement because ol the admissions which it
implies. It says :
“Peace, when it comes, must not come as a con
cession from Jeff Davis, or through him, as the
agent of an organized community. To admit his
rightful power to make peace, is to admit his right
ful power to make war; and this is substantially, and
to all practical intents and purposes, a recognition
of the nation of which he claims to be the Execu
tive head. None but national authorities can wage
war or make peace; and the moment we enter into
negotiations with the rebel Government for terms of
peace, that moment we have actually and legally
conceded everything for which they have been
making war.”
The ne sessity for help must have been strong; that
could overtook such logical admissions in quest of
it.
In all this there is great encouragement to us.—
Now is the time for us to display a fresh resolution,
and to gather our strength and courage for new
efforts. Our enemy staggers and trembles. A few
more manly efforts and the day is ours 1 Nothing
can dim out prospects or dash our hopes but the
exhibition of cowardice or irresolution, in this turn
ing-point of our great struggle.— Richmond Senti
nel, 16#/*.
There is a tact in the making of words, which
some people appear to want entirely. Thus_ in one
of our exchanges we find the horrible combination
“Savannahians.” For goodness sake let jus hare
Savannese, or the ownright Latin form Savanni,
or even the hoosierish Savannerers, but deliver us
from Savannahiau.<—"take any shape but that.’/ —
This inartistic addition of Latin ’ails to English
words is as bad a-* the surgery ©f the drunken chaps,
who undertaking to repair the damages which two
of their number had suffered in a rough-and tumble
fight, sewed the nose of ore to the remaining frag
ment of the other’s ear, and vice vrm. — Mobile
Register.
Lincoln has invited expelled Lieut-Govern
or Jacobs, of Kv , now in Richmond, to re
turn to Washington.
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A PROCLAJIATIO \
To tlie Officers and Members of
tlie General Assembly.
In conformity to rhe Resolution of the General
Assembly, pas ed at the close of its la.q Session, re- i
questing the Governor to convene the Legislature at
such time and place as he may think best, to com
plete the necessary Legislation which was unfin
ished at the lime of adjournment on the approach
of the enemy. I hereby require the officers and
members of the General Assembly to convene at tbe
City Hall in the city of Macon, at ten o'clock, a.
on Wedne-day the 15th day of February^'?xt.
Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the
Staip this the -sth day <>f January, 1865.
JOSEPH E. BROWN.
All papers infill© State are requested to oopy,
jan 27 ui
AU3S2CIT SALBS.
It’ s-tii*, f.iviiiyXon & (y,
ON SATURDAY, 28th inst., at 11 o'etoek
wt will sell in front nf nur store
A Very Likely lot of Young NcgneS,
viz :
1 Negi'u Girl, 23 years old,
1 “ Boy, 14 years old,
1 “ 13 “ «
1 *< “ 12 '* “
1 «' «< li « «
1“« g u «
1 “ Girl 12 “ “
5 Bales Cotton.
ALSO,
Six Sets 4-Horse Harness,
jan 27 $lB
By Ellis, Livingston & e©
YyK will sell on SATURDAY, 28th January *t
if 11 o clock, in front of our store
1 bbl. Choice Lard,
4 bb,s Cuba Caue Syrup,
1000 lbs. Choice Baeon,
2 Bales Cotton,
6 Boxes I X L Tobacco,
1 Sett Fine*Spring Seat Parlor Chair*,
500 lbs. Sole Leather,
Cottage Bed Steads, Sewing Machines,
50 Yols. Standard and School Book*,
, 2 Doz Large New Blankets,
Lot Clocking, Shoes, Boots,
Lot Upper Leather,
Lot Round and Square Iron,
Together with many other arliclea of
value.
jan 26 s3l 50
Ry Ellis, Livingston & Cos,
MUI lffth SALE.
ON Fi?IDAY, 27th of January, commencing at 11
o clock, I win s**ll, at the late residence of Jose
phus Echols, in Russell county. Ala.,
25 head Fine Cattle, including Milek
Cows and a splendid blooded Bull.
10 head Pork and Stock Hogs,
30 “ Goats,
. 20 “ Sheep,
Large lot
Wagons, 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
MYERS, WATSOS & CO M
ATJOTIOITEEBS
AND
General Commission Merchants,
At Hull & Ruck’s old stand,
Opposite Bank of Colnmbus, Broad Stre*t.
Personal and prompt attention given
to all consignments.
Columbus, Ga., Jan. 21, 1865. jan23 ts
$1,300 Reward.
STRAYED, on the fith of this month, from nay
plantation in Talbot county, a blazed faced
MARE; color black, with a bay horse eolt, six
months old. They were seen hitched to a wagon,
gling through Girard, Ala., aboutlten days ago, in
the direction of Eufaula or Clay county, Ga. The
above reward will befpaid by me for their delivery
in Talbot county, or Columbus, or SBOO, for informa
tion which will lead to their recovery. Address
J. B. GORMAN,
jan 27 Iw Talbotton, Ga.
Montgomery Advertiser and Spirit of the South
j copy one week and send bill to this office
To Hire.
A LIKELY sixteen year old house GIRL, that has
; ii been woH'raised, sews well, has a good dispoai
-1 tion and is fonu of children. Apply at
| jan 27 ts THIS OFFICE.
Georgia Insurance Company. /
■.Columbus, Ga., J'.n. 26,1865.'
This Company having determined to suspend bu
siness, Policy holders aro 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
the same. JOHN MUNN,
jan 26 ts Agent.
Cow Peas.
* LOT OF CO IF PBAS. For sale by
A jan 25 ts BRADFORD A SNOW.
The Confederacy and Maximilian.
A mutual exchange of courtisies has taken
I place between General Mejia and Gen. Dray
| ton and their officers. The following is a
j copy of the correspondence between the com
manding officers, which shows the friendly
sentiments towards the Confederate States by
tne Imperial commander :
HEADQUARTERS WESTERN SUB. DISTRICT, 1
Brownsville. Sept. 28, 1864. /
To the Captain General, Thomas Mejia, com
manding, &c.:
General —I have the honor of tendering to
you my high consideration, and at the same
time to express my gratification at your arriv
al on the Rio Grande, where now floats tho
the flag of the Empire, under whose folds we
may expect that repose and security, so long
: denied to us on account of the treacherou*
; aud unjustifiable warfare waged, in conjunc
i tion with the Yankees, against tbe Confedera
| tion by the former Provisional Governor of
| Tamaulipas, General Juan N. Cortinas.
j But for the gallantry of our forces in repell
ing this combined attack, the Empire would
at this time have had, upon the left bank of
the river, bitter enemies instead of warm
friends. To-morrow afternoon, at 4 o’clock,
I will do myself the honor of calling upon you
with my staff, hoping by that time to find you
in some measure relieved from the more press
! ing duties of your responsible position.
Permit me, General, to reiterate the assur
ances of mv high consideration and respect.
(Signed) THOS. F. DRAYTON,
Brig. Gen. Com’d’g.
Headquarters in Matamoras, i
September 28, 1864. >
! [No. 578.]
| General —I have received, at this instant,
j your congratulations for my arrival on the
right shore of tbe Bravo, whither I have come
to plant the standard of the Empire.
The political significance of this flag is
i known to you, General—it means peace and
progress within my country, and friendly ra
laticn3 in the exterior: protection to com
merce and industry ; respect to property : and
the most ample guarantees to the citizens of
j all countries who come to develope. in our
territory, tbe fruits of their toil.
You can, therefore, rest as to the security
which your fellow-citizens will enjoy heieat
ter on the right bank of tbe river,
i I shall deem it a great honor to recer e you
with your staff, to-morrow at lour o clock in
tbe evening, as you have been so kind as to
propose, and, subsequently, I propose to re
ciprocate this your polite earnest ot fnend-
pleased to accept, General, the assurance
of mv affectionate sentiments aud most distin
guished consideration.
The Commanding General of New Leon,
Coabuila and Matamoras.
(Signed) THOMAS MEJIA.