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DAILY TIMES.
J. W. MiRRBt, - - - Editor.
COLUMBUS:
Saturday Morning, January 28,1865.
[From the Mobile Advertiser A Register.
Shadows of Coming Eientn.
The propsition has long been maintained that
the hope of foreign intervention in the American
quarrel was better founded on the weakness than
*n the strength of the Confederacy. For while it
was not a mooted point that the leading powers of
the oi l vorld could never view with indifference i
the re integration of a government and people j
which had exhibited so much military vigor, it ,
was quire as certain that seif interest dictated to >
re.licv #' t! » work of’
fnose |n»s«i« r .... r . .1
*«jpanitiC>n to oe At
federate Vtiood and treasury. Fiauct and Engluon,
»« they hi . rn it, hare been playing * very cunning
and very -ate game—ssfa * , long arthWunbound
e.l sh h u Confederate pluck and endnranee
*houi 1 i»st.. But v,e hare always believed ihat
ebenmr .t|sp« ?ooe to .hake that faith
indio that j nigtoeot to reiis»*f lit* tsfttt Os «bi
strngg e douh ful. their vi ws would b.; changed
ao,i ;i mrc active pot cy woubi be forced upon
rncir c ui.sel- Sin'T a iibr-vi woulo nc*
s. : .-I »iroly iicw rent in tne gnveru.»etit
at vV a.Tiii.glib. We a iti But U*‘. *»*-* W lU*
madness of the V i < 1 Ssa*r* g uentnv-nt te be
Move ilia' Fraucc and id and ripain are.
to unite in r«cogr.iti n and of in.erpudag :n*ir
at Washington against th« conliouance «i
the war, the North * mid m.»ke » ch*u* belli, ad
•spouiahy if the int<rference from abroad were
*,, u ,ied tvilb the accepted idea of gradual ernanci i
lotion by the .South: The North could not sia.d
up against a i*urabiu»tion, mors! &nd political, li
this If sue were ora/.y enough to dn it. her r< >.
would joob be written in crimson ink. Now n
BogUnh an i Frauce bare coute to the conoio
»io:T ii.at recent reverses m the South have put in ]
jeopardy the let alone American policy to which j
they have so steadfastly adhered, and that it it
ssrc to persevere in it, they could not hare a
f*re pie‘cx» or a better pportnnity offerd »hern
t*»a/j win be prosen edoo the 4;h of Msrch, wUen
f,ii aoln’- *»<-.>od term begin*. The poll* es bis
election arc i* patent pruoi that he is no longer the
President of the Uniied States with whioh Eng-.
tend and Fiaor.e t.ad made treaties. More than
•no inini .*» thus* old United State* had fallea
•ii* of the c-n federal ion, and Lincoln is the re
elected representative of only * faction of (he dis
integrated Union.* The pretext conld not be a
tair-r cue f>r the logic of the diplomatic , and it
eo!\ i.eods ihe» those powers eheuld think despar
*,ig|y euuu_'u «t >.<ur prospects for them to scir.e
Hp .1. »•. If wbec the last steamer saiiod for Eu
rt>p», she did not think *o, lator advice* from this
•on»»try will be very apt to *tir the thoughts es
io«>r cabine* ministers.
Whether the plentiful minors in Cauda and Wa?h
teuton mentioned by our .Senatobia c nrespondorit
•rr ihe smoke to indicate) the lire of a movement
which it conceals, or whether they are only the
♦nine* from active minds speculating upon probanle
•tifoiutf •vents, we cannot undertake to decide* Hut
certainly they are logical *equences of past events,
either happened or about to happen, and fl c. sx
travigarit fancies and conjectures. W hat means the
sudden tenderness of Sherman, the Yankee Tuns,
to the conquered rebel city of Savannah . VV hence
that xusii of humane feeling to ribels, who deserve
nothing but hemp, in the pompous departure trom
New York of a iteamer gaily dressed in colors, and
laden with provisions for the suffering citizensi of
Savannah? How aeeeunt for the sudden liberality
and Christian humanity of Secretary Stanton and
Gen. Grant in reference to prisoners—allowing ui to
•pen a blockaded port to let out a Icargo of oetten
with which to supply them with clothing and blank
ets? And what is the significance ol the attempted
mission of Francis P. Blair to Richmond? Blair,
onr ablest, deepest and most deadly enemy ? He
tees breakers ahead in the course to subjugation, or
he had never dreamed of negotion with the hated
South. Now if all this means anything, it is
that the predicted! time is at hand for a diplomatic
race between France and England and the Lincoln
government, for the advantage in the winding up
•f the tremendous war in the_ South, Happily the
interests of the combatants will produce emulation
in the offer of fair terms to ns. Europe will promise
ns independence with gradual emancipation, and
the North fraternity, guaranteed State rights, and
reconstruction under rie "old flag, with gradual
•mancipation. Then we shall see of what stuff Con
federate statesmanship is made, and then we shall
need a stronger man at the head of the Foreign
Office than the smooth, facile and brilliant little
Beniamin.” As for the rest, our duty is clear., It
i? that enjoined by the New York tribune in view
of the same contingencies of peace; via, t,o call out
•ur reserve forces, fill up our amr-.*.*, andlstand full
armed in the field; for every nation negotiates best
with anus iu it? h inds. Fifty thousand A*nfeder
ate soldiers put in front of Sherman would be bet
ter for an honorable peace, when these
aegotiotis bogin, thaM all the Kiiibassadors Extrß
• rdinary and Minister* Plenipotentiary the won
t«d* ra. , y con'd appoint, and till the ?<*d tap* that
tfr. I’renholm’s department could buy. These
views V ould give courage sod one <•-> rh- 1 (• ■'onted-
rratem.ud. “Things are working." S;au‘ibyyoar
• -ruf>, and tceefi your powder dry, as well as watch
ami pray.”
(Prom the Richmond Examiner.)
Rft ill is of Ten Months Observation in the
Enemy’s Country.
When »> Confederate obtainß the opportunity
•f observation in the North, and looks only on
rhf sarface of things, he is powerfully and
painfully struck with the contrast they present
fjt> his scanty and war ridden country.. In
some res pec b the contrast is ftppaling. He
•vies their large cities choked with a supera
bundance of nbie-bodied men; he visits mili
tHiy depots bursting with war material; he
learns in Wall street that, despite the expendi
tures of the war; vast additions Rave been
made to Yaukee wealth in development of
mineral resources, copper, iron and silver,
along the whole slope of the Rocky mountains;
he is told that petroleum alone will, in a few
,ve<*rs», be an article of export to the extent of
one hundred and fifty millions of dollars, and
that it Ims already founded—much more so
than “codfish" —a distinct aristocracy in the
North; he secs every where an almost riotous
material plenty; he finds New York drunk
with wealth and extravagance, every day vom
iting into Broadway and the labyrinths of
Central Park a dizzy stream of luxurious dis
sipation arul an endless procession of the tri
smps of 'Shoddy.' The first impression of
such a contrast is that of immense endurance
in the Ncrth, and the practical superiority of
war power in men, material and finance over
the military means of the South. That is the
impression which generally comes back to us
from flying visitors to the North, whose obser
vations cannot be otherwise than hasty and
supeficial. Yet it is of all first impressions the
most thoroughly false.
The sb«ck of contrast is soon over to the
Confederate who remains in the North long
enough to ranke a shady examination of the
real spirit of the North in this war, aud its re
lation to the apparent superabundance of re
sources in men and means. He gets anew
light when he penetrates the surface of things ;
and if there is one truth which he discovers
more plainly than any other in his observa
tions iu the North, it is that, the resources,
which at first struck bita so strongly, are but
to a little extent practically available for the
sUfpC Beß ot ' WAr -
I. is to come to facts to show this.
The writer wa/in the North during the great
exigency of recruiting their armies after Grant’s
butchery of the old Potomac veterans arid the
Immense expenditure of Yankee life in last
summer’s campaign. The system of Yankee
recruiting was then as be saw it, debased
downright to the expedient of foreign enlist
ments and the arming of the negroes. It is
these means —scarcely anything more than
these which is to-day recruiting the armie3
of the enemy. The whole system of recruit
ing has passed to this wretched shift; and
beyond the short life of such a military expe
dient the South has little or nothing to fear. !
It is positively known to the writer, mat Grant
is now recruiting almost exclusively with ne
gro troops; and his past impressions delivered
from observation, are that at least three- fourths
of the Army of the James are composed of
negro troops, and that in the force lately com
manded by General Butler there was but one
white corps.
It is not asserting too much to say that the
North is at this time practically more pinched
for the want of anns-bearing men than is the
Confederacy. The writer has not caught at
loose assertions or idle rumors. The. informa
tion comes from a general officer in the Yan
kee armies around Richmoud, that the half
million draft yielded not inoie than seventy
five thousand effect .re soldiers. It was patch
ed up with infamous frauds and absurd
mutations,” to coucilliate the opposition in the
Presidential election of last November. Iu
that election tho vote of all the Yankee ar
mies around Richmond was eighteen thousand,
tlmi jr ihc i.niji.mi .a «.f „;„ivc ln.r.i ami
natur iig.-.l of the United States m
the combuifii hu>n ot Olvases Grant ami B»*n
jitroi n F rank lin Bi*tl«-r.
i Ihe difficulties of recruiting in the North
are fist verging to the necessity oi an actual
Conscription To a great extent they must
re:ie i this dreaded and dire conclusion in the
draft of next February. It is only necessary
to apply the invariable law of supply and
demand to show what must be the difficulties
in raising rae.i, when we see that New York
city finds it necessary to propose a municipal
thousand dollars, which, with
the State and general Government bounties,
will swell the price of a single soldier to eigh- !
teen hundred dollars. The bloated metropo
lis of the North may be ablt to afford such a
largess. But in the rural districts, in the
counties and in the small corporations of the
North, the system of bounties is already bro
ken down Counties in the State of New
I orlf bavg been designated to the writer
which had already expended, cash, about a
million and a half dollars in buying human
flesh ; and others were uameij which had accu
mulated, on account of military bounties alone,
a debt excel ding the sum total of taxable va.ue
within their .jurisdiction.
It is uudjr the pressure ol the practical
want o‘ dr.-n? hearing men, aad io Gew of the
fatal conrlugion of an actual conscription, that
th*» question h become uppermost in tee
rh*- Northern nind how loag the .youth can
eadu.-e the necessities of the war. This sim
ple question of endurance has entirely superse
ded HI other methods-of the solution of the
war, all former questions ot foreign enterfer
ences political revolutions, financial convul
sions. Ac., and is to all Northern men who
discern the signs of the times, the one practi
cal test that is to determine the destiny of the
South. Tne writer ie fully assured that all
intelligent men of Hie North, including even
h ading Black Republicans who have not hes
itated to comfort themselves, are agreed that
the North will never stand an actual con
scription, and that if the war is pushed to that
point by unflagging resolution, and unbroken
erdnranc® on the part of the South, it is just
that it will break down by the weight of
an insufferable burden put upon one of the
belligerents. The conclusion is not an ex
travagant one. In the South the conscrip
tion is doubtless imposed upon some few un
willing individuals ; but in the North, with
its inferior motive in the war, and its peculiar
character, it is utterly impossible toexccnt®
a conscription of ft law upon ft people who
are wholly and absolutely opposed to it, wh®
are not fighting under any doctrine of para
mount necessity, and who have already given
the most abundant proofs that even the Yan
kee God of money is but littl® effective in en
ticing them to the bkttle field.
It is uimostf impossible to describe the
dread with which the Northern people con
template the slightest possibility of a con
scription. Even the draft of laet year, which
only slightly threatened such a conclusion,
was shunned as the plague. When it was
thought that some of the ward quotas would
be enforced in Baltimore, hundreds of persons
left their homes and families there, fled for
shelter to New York, and for mouths remain
ed there iu close concealment, ft ie well
known that that city mast be gingerly touch
ed by., the authorities of Lincoln : for ii con
tains seventy thousand Irish, and « it is more
on® hundred and fitly thousand pc >»>b sf tb®
Catholic faith, who constitute a pretty large
seed of revolution, and who are considered to
have made up their minds about th® draft in
the Buvmsr of 1863.
Observations which the writer made ia the
North with ceaseless industry and under the
etiaialus of constant cariosity, filled his mind
with the broad and strong conviction that
never was th® independence of tbe South
more firmly assured than at this time, on th®
single condition that the spirit of tbe peopi®
and the army does not break by soms unwor
thy irapatienee, or is deliberately broken
down by insane persistence ia folly on th®
part of Davis and his out and out toadies and
encouragers. A Northern conscription is the
goal to which the South must press, and
which alreadv it closely approaches. A little
endurance and it is woa It is tbe vital ques
tion to ali intelligent persons tu th* North,
how long our people will endure.
They laugh at our expectations ot political
revolutions or financial ruptures in the North ;
and tney contend that the time is past when
we may expeet to win our independence by
any grand military eoup t or force of military
successes. All these eulcuiatiouns are lightly
or insolently regarded by Northern men. Their
real anxiety is the endurance on the part of
the South. In a large intercourse with North
ern politicians the writer found that their
great cariosity as was to the real spirit of the
South, and the questions of thinking men
among them invariably went to the point of
the probable term of Southern endurance. He
saw the value of this quality in Northern eyes.
He became thoroughly convinced that by
force of it alone the South would obtain her
independence as sure as the suu would rise on
the morrow ; that such was the silent but gen
eral concession of the Northern mind ; and
that the future of the Confederate States was
just at this time, and iu the approaching exi
gency of u Northern conscription, brightened
with a surer prospect of independence than
any former situation of affairs had ever af
forded.
There are two parties iu the North, perhaps
equally intelligent, and each claiming to draw
their opinions from Southern sources of infor
mation, which differ as to the real spirit of the
South ; one claiming that it is resolute, and
even in the last necessity desperate : and the
other contending that it is being broken by
reveises, and will end in submission. One
finds this question in every circle in the North.
Reliable information upon it is far more valu- |
able to the Washington Government than j
maps of all the fortifications in the Oonteder- j
ate Slates. To convince the North of the spi
rit of the Southern people is more important j
than half a doaeu victories, for ii is to con ;
vince them Gs the hopelessness of the war and
to put before their eyes the immediate neces
sity of conscription.
It is the simple lesson of resolution which
the South must learn, It is the for all ,
events. When there is no occasion for hope, j
then make it th* season of desperation : for
this last quality is quite as good to dissuade
the Yankee from the war as confidence itself.
It will be easily inspired even in the worst
extremity the future can possibly have, by a
simple practical regard of the consequences
of subjugation.
It is possible shat there are yet. left some
few deluded persoas in the South who do not
rightly estimate those consequences. The
writer has heard those consequences too tho
roughly discussed among the Yankees, to leave
any margin for skepticism on the subject.—
He has witnessed some of them. He has seen
Baltimore. In New York there is, properly
speaking, no Secession party, nothing more
that* a mere { * Copperheadism,” consulting
purely partisan ends, and not at all danger
ous, and hence there is no necessity for any
special programme of despotism there ; but
in Baltimore there is a real Secession party,
and those who belong to.it are kept in a
partial condition of subjugation. Baltimore
thrives, say the Northern papers ; it is over-
S rnu and elatteriag with Yankee trade; but
even in this groes prosperity the Southern
' sympathizer has ao share. He is marked, he
j is degraded even in his business, ali empioy
j ment is closed to him, except such as be may
j choose to take as tho subordinate or employe#
! of the Yankee.
All Southern men in Baltimore have found
a discrimination in all trades and employments
sgaiust them, and many of them hare been
compelled to retire from business. They tell
voa that life has become purposeless and in
tolerable to them. They have given up their
business; they are pursued by spies; they
are dogged by men who pick up their slight
est word; they live in a constant atmosphere
of suspicion. You look at these men and you
sec a black dejection in tbeir faces, a sort of
melancholy devil-may-care expression \ou
never bear any eager or animated word* from
their lips: they have no appearance o’ inter
est in what they say ; they seem to have drift
ed past hope; they look upon their future in
blank dismftj, *si «.th the sullen indifference
os’ aim who nave ao ioag *r aai uc,j«ct to ae
i1 *’ •i- -n ~( . i,, t.,i, i, j,, s ,. r have con
'ert-.j Hie to * in.-r.- .xi-tence. And yel nil
I * HII 'he tn'.ute- -hit>low of **StibjiJtra
, 'ion, us it is df-iiriif* t *o cnose now without
j the pale of the Unioo
Tiie fate of Richmond, should the Yankee
fl*g evertloiit over i*. the writer is not left to
imagine, de has heard that fate already de
cided in every Yankee circle of discussion,
and while for 8)x d-tyn within the lines of the
euemy’s armies around Richmond, he has ob-
j ta, ncd an expression of the designs of those
who, more than ihe politicians, a&e to give
j to the conquered. It is possible that there
| may be some few fools here who imagine that
m Richmond, uuder Yankee rule, they might,
go on in the old established routine of their
fives, leaving politics alone. Never was de
lusion more false or fatal. It is perfectlv
agreed among tbe Yankees that if Richmond
should ever fall under their domination, a test
must be applied to it far more severe than haa
ever yet been enforced upon any portion of the
hourher-i people; for it is this city which '
is regarded ao the headquarters of the rebel- 1
lion, and it ia her? where the Northern grip is
*.O strangle ‘ureason.”
It is certain that, no one could breathe in
tbe atmosphere of Richmond unless he swal
lowed the oath of allegiance in its vilest form
If he saved’his property fora few uav» by that
step, h« would yrt be givea over to ultimate
ruin. He woul 1 find Richmond inundated
witn men who w-.>u!d be his masters in every
thing; Yankees would keep the hotels, pub
lish ihe newspapers, sell the dry goods and
“notions.” He would be turned out of em
ployment, nnlrsi he might get that of clerk
or under-t-trapper to some “go ahead” New
Euplander who wanted cheap help. *He would
be kept under constaut surveillenee, and at
the mercy of evciy enemy who might choose
to tell a lie about him to th® Yankee provost
marshal. Life would become intolerable to
him. From Richmond to the farthest corner
of Virginia he would fiud theplaces of himself
and bis counsrymen usurped by the Yankee;
and even it he saved himself from the jail by
oaths of allegiance, repetitions of the old feu
dal “homage,” or any other expedient of in
famy, he would find himself pushed to the
wall and regarded as an incumbrance and
superfluity upon the earth,
i The writer found more instruction than en
tertainment in the talk of the Yankee army
about Richmond, as he had access to many
of its officers, who spoke of the war without
teserv*. Aid this talk was an unfailing ding
dong of what Yankee enterprise would do in
Virginia after its subjugation. Virginians
i don’t knowhow to cultivate the soil; the
Yankees would give them a lesson ; the old
estates would be cut up into 100 acre farms
to give every man a chance. Some had new
methods of raising tobacco, as they had seen
it done in Connecticut Valley. Some thought
the Valley of Virginia the most inviting coun
try in the world, and had picked out their
places to settle there after the war. This
talk was not intended to be offensive ; for it
seemed to be universally taken as matter of
coarse that under Yankee rule, Virgiuia, by a
very fair, logical conclusion, could be for ae
body else but the Yankees, and that our for
mer people were to b« glad to sit at tbe feet of
New England civilisation.
But it is nselers to expatiate, unless to those
who are wilfully blind, the theme of subjuga
tion. Ii the spirit of desperate resolution has
not already been drawn from what is known
of the enemy’s warfare, it will not be easily
provoked by any other arguments. Thatspirit
once fully demonstrated to the North and the
war is at au end. It is the only price of peace.
There ie net a scintilla of hope for tbe South
In any political movement, er any peace ne
gotiations in the Nortlp, It may be subjuga
tion under a disguise, or subjugation by steps,
but it is subjugation at last. The writer has
seen that in an army, whes epertonnei has beea
drawn from all parties in tbe North, which
hns carried the war of .the savage into our
hemes It is for the South to resolve never
to give up the condition of independence, nev
er to be deluded with that cheap thing in Yan
kee histery—a papsy guaranty. It is ®nly
necessary te show to convine® the North that
we are resolved to choose the last extremity
in preference to any submission. That rath
er than give np the hope of our independenee;
ra*her ban cheat our dead of that tor which
they deed ; rather than entitle ourselves to the
contempt of the world, the agonies of self-ae
i cusation. tbe reproof of the grave, Ihe curses
; of poateritr, we are prepared to cboese more
i suffering, more trials ovea utter poverty, and
i chains, and exile, and death.
Southern Sympathizers in Boston.
Anew volume of Mr. Edward A. Pollard's His
tory of the War, has been published. In a North
ern paper, which has seen a copy, we find tho fol
lowing extract from it relative to the author’s ex
perience in the city of Boston before being incarce
rated in Fort Warren:
“I passed a week in Boston, entirely unknown and
secluded, when an incident occurred that was to
open up to me anew and surprising interest in the
Yankee metropolis. I was sauntering in the read
ing room of the hotel (Young’s) one evening, when
an amiable looking gentleman came up to me, with
a beaming face and whispered, ‘Are you not Mr.
Pollard, from Richmond ?’ I w<os so taken aback
by the plump question that I could not help
answering, ‘Yes.’ *1 thought so,’he replied quickly,
‘some detectives here know you; hush, talk low—
I want you to let me bring a friend around to see
you Sat nine o’clock this evening.' I signified my
assent, ana awaited with some interest an inter
view a."out which there appeared to be some mys
tery.
At 9 o'clock I received in my chamber the gen
tleman who had so unceremoniously introduced
himself to mo, and who was, indeed, to prove a
friend, accompanied by a gentleman whose n ame
was already familiar to me as one who had suffei ed
for his early and brave sympathy for the Confeder
acy in this war. There are obvious reasons why I
should not mention here the names of those friends
and of other sympathetic persons in Boston, after
war <s found, who surprised me not only by the
warmth and delicacy of their personal kindness, but
by thair sentiments for my country.
“The next day it was insisted that I should be
introduced to a. number of persons in .Boston who
sympathized with the South, and some of my coun
trymen will be surprised to learn that to meet these
persons I was carried to the Merchants’ Exchange,
to the offices of the leading lawyers, and to some of
the largest business establishments in Boston. I
may say, that in the course of two or three days I
met at least one hundred gentlemen in Boston,
among its most influential classes, who expressed to
me an ardent sympathy for the South in her strug
gle for constitutional liberty, and an earnest desire
for the acknowledgement of her independence as
the only possible.termination of the unnatural and
unhappy war.
“What I was made a private witness of in Bos
ton was sufficient to satisfy any candid mind that
the Southern Confederacy had a party in the North
of devoted and intelligent friends, entitled to her
consideration and gratitude.
"In short, I discovered a circle of‘secessionists’
in Boston, and had been cursing the black desert o t
heartless crowds before my eyes,* without the least
thought that it contained an oasis Tor the despised
Confederate. I was overwhelmed with kindness by
my newly found friends, offered a testimonial din
ner, which I peremptorily declined; invited to
charming country places and surburan rides, Alas,
from this amicable diversion, my thoughts were to
be turned into a channel of bitterness!'’
Dcsl -—The Memphis Argus »f the 29th nit.,
says : "We learn .from a very reliable source
that yesterday morning a -fuel was foaght about
three miles from the city, the principle iu which,
were gentlemen well known te our citizens as wor
thy gentlemen. The origin of it we cannot give.
We have been pat in possessitu of three er four
reports ceneermeg it, any of which may be true,
we therefore refraiu from giving any. The fight
teek place on the Randolph road, three miles north
es the city, aud th* weapons u«*>« were ?hot guns
at twenty paoe*. The eembatftuta. Vir. James
Si»f*kia«a!.d Mr. James Stutts,Beighb »of many
years star du g, after stepping off the required
distance turned and firei <bouttaceously with
fatal effect to both. The firs; named received fear
buckshot, and the *ec-n« twenty - four, causing
death to •n*r« to both a*sr,oal instantly.
Patriotic. —Chas, Toieot, Esq., superintend
ent of the Danville Railroad. Va.. was offered by
Senator Gwion, now Duke of sonor», fifty thou
sand dollars a year in go-d if be would place bis
engineering skit} at tha disposal of the Emperor
of Mexiro. A passport and the funds for paying
the passage of himself and family, accompanied
this munificent offer te Mr. lie declined
o« rt*« ground be »».» ut.willing to 4<*er! his
eoentry in th s tj«» t>f tr*2.
TELEGRAPHIC.
EXPORT# or TBS rBSSS ASSOCIATION.
s ®f®d according to act of Congress in the yea*
if*** by J-* i HKASHKB, in the Clerk’s office w
at- District Court of ihe Confederate States fc’
he Northern District of Georgia,
| Richmond, Jan. 27.—The Baltimore Ameri
can, Evening Edition, of the 23d, contains
! very little of interest. Gold in New York Ist
Board 200|.
Grant was in Washington on Saturday.
▲ letter received in Philadelphia says that
Blair had full authority from Lincoln to give
safe condnct to Washington for Peace Com
missioners from Davis.
The National Intelligencer in announcing
Blair’s second visit to Richmond, says: “We
have good reason, not to say authority, for
stating that Blair goes to Richmond upon no
hollow-hearted mission, but one of substance,
giving hope to patriotic men that opportunity
for the highest reason will be afforded to
statesmen to bring the present civil war to a
close by negotiation.
The Herald says that Seward has the most
friendly relations with the managers of the
Intelligencer.
Richmond, 27.—The 53d Virginia Regiment
of Pickett’s division, has unanimously adopted
a series of resolutions declaring its purpose to
fight for liberty aud self-government as long
as the Southern Confederacy can furnish cart
ridges, and to every dishonorable offer of peace
or submission made by the enemy will reply
with the crack of their rifles and a Bhout of de
fiance. The last resolution reads—“ These are
our sentiments, and we call apon the people
at home and the authorities to support and
rally around us, and with God’s blessing we
will bear the Southern cross through fire and
blood till each star upon it shall shine forever
in the firmament of nations.”
Richmond, 27.—Twenty-five surgeons and
assistant surgeons, captured at Franklin and
vicinity arrived last night from Varina.
Seddon continues acting Secretary of War.
The position was certainly tendered to Gen.
Breckinridge.
No reliable developments relative to Blair’s
mission, though it is generally sueposed he
proposes reunion upon such terms as the Con
federate authorities might submit.
Richmond, Jan. 27.—The most important
business in the House to-day was the consid
eration of the Senate bill to provide for the
employment of free negroes and slaves on for
tifications, Ac Mr. Ramsey moved to provide
that said slaves shall not be armed or used as
soldiers. Mr- Miles supported the amend
ment. He vu utterly opposed to arming oar
elaves. In the midst of his remarks, the
House sustained a motion to transfer the bill
to the secret calendar, and then resolved into
secret session.
Tbe Senate concurred ia the House joint re
solution of thanks to Gen. Williams.
Also passed with amendments House bill to
inetease the effieiene> of eavalry.
Also passed another bill to increase the
number of acting midshipman in the nary.
Its provisions are intended to obviate abjec
tions to the bill recently vetoed by tbe Presi
dent.
Mr. Wigfall introduced resolutions directing
that all laws authorising the impressment of
property for* the use of the army, except by
military officers iu ease of absolute necessity,
[be reposted ?] which, after Long debate, was
adopted.
CHAaLBS'foy, Jan. 27.—Tbe Yankee gunboat
Dia-ehiog got aground in the Combahee yes
terday. Oar batteries opened on her, and set
her afire, 8h« bqrntd to the water’s edge.
All of her erew, excepting one lieutenant and
five men, escaped. The prisoners, brought to
the city to-day, report that the monitor sunk
off Sullivan’s Island recently by a torpedo
was the Patapeco, and only five out of her
crew of three hundred mex were saved. AH
the rest Wore drowned !
Nothing important from below.
The following note and comment*, which ap
peared in the Richmond Sentinel of the 16th,
are what produced the remarks of Senator
Orr, of South Carolina, in Congress about that
time:
TREASON! TREASON!I TREASON!I!
Grntlbmhn—lt is rumored on the street,
that there is a resolution before Congress—in
secret session—to open irregular negotiations
through Commissioners with Lincoln, for
peaee. This is not only treason, but, under
the circumstances, it is treachery of the most
infamous character. If you please, let us
know whether it be true or not. The people
of Virginia, certainly, and, I believe, the peo
ple of the Confederacy, generally, will not al
low themselves to be sold by traitorous Con
gressmen after this fashion.
Our correspondent 44 Q" refers to a report
which is pretty common upon the street, and
which has excited, so far as it has gained any
credit, the utmost surprise and indignation
among our people. What the citizens of Vir
ginia, at least, think of such revolutionary no
tions as therein referred to, may be seen in
the noble action of our House of Delegate* on
Tuesday last. Propositions not a whit more
disorderly, ruinous and fatal than those refer
red to by “ Q ” were indefinitely postponed in
the promptest and most indignant manner, by
a vote of 101 to 2. That vote spoke for Vir
ginia in substance and in manner. We do
not doubt but that the honor of the State as is
truly represented in Congress, and that no one
of her delegates, at least, could have a part in
such exceedingly reprehensible and intolera
ble proceedings as are imagined.
If there be, indeed, a single member remain
ing in Congress who is in favor of speaking
peace by the OcCoquan road, instead of the
regular authorized mode of negotiation which
theCocstitutionhas provided,and which he ha*
sworn to support, he has but little knowledge
of the temper of the people, if he supposes he
would meet with the least encouragement of
toleration or escape the most indignant repre
hension. The sentiment of Gov. Vance is the
sentiment of oar whole people, the 9Worn duty
of our legislators. 14 Let all of our movments,
whether ©f peace or war, be in solid column. ”
There is neither dignity, honor, nor safety in
any other; nothing but folly, treason and
ruin. j
Histort Rspiats Itsblf. —French armies
captured, says the Charleston Courier, the
great cities of Spain ; demolished the Span
ish armies to a great extent; instituted anew
Government; and were afterwards compelled
to relinquish their supposed conquest by the
terrible assault# of the Spanish guerrilla
bands! And it is as true to-day as if reveal
ed from Heaven, that if our armies were dis
banded, and our people were still unalterably
determined to resist Yankee rule over this
land, that such ruie could not be maintained
bv five handred thousand Yankee soldiers!
KkWTUCKY ♦**> EkANCIPATtoS.— f-voowfi,
Jan. I'itA. fbr Kentucky L’gir.ao.ire has
adopl-d resolutions in favor of emancipation,
the concern of the owner- obtained and
compensation made.
TII£3 OX r I? Y •
T. J. JACKSON LOCAL EDITOR
Religious Notice.
The finrt Quarterly Meeting of St. Pan! Church
will be held next Saturday and Sabbath, the 28th
and 2S)th. Serrices each day at 11 M o’clock, » m.
jan 27 td
Sai.h# To J)Ar.—Ellis, Livingston A Cos., will
*•11 this day a number of likely negroes, choim
groceries, furnitare, Ac. Se® advertiseuieat.
Auction Sadrs. —At Roiotto. Lawhou A Co.’*
auction yesterday, a lot of shot was sold at $8,50
per pound, smoking tobacco (comm»nj $.5,85 p«r
pound; sugar (common) $6,62; several aules at
from SSOO to $800; other salos unimportant.
wmm %
Sad Accidknt—Dbath ok Cast. Cbarlib
Fbt. —We regret to a dispatch roceiv
ed in this city last evening that Capt. Charlie Fry
of the steamboat Indian/ was kiled at Johnson’s
landing on the Chattahoochee ri»er »n Thursday,
by falling from the hurricane to the boiler deck of
his boat Capt. Fry has been long known in our
city and on the river, a* a clever gentleman, au
energetic, polite and accommodating steamboat
officer, and the tidings of his death will be received
with universal regret.
6’lvthk thk Nakkd.—One of the most weighty
injunctions of christianitv, of humauity, of phil
anthropy, of patriotism is to clothe the naked. It
is an obligation that ie considered binding upon
the christianized world. The obligation upon our
people to clothe the soldier is doubly binding.—
For us he has sacrificed the comforts and happL
ness of home and loved ones, and has exposed
his person to the missiles of death as well as to the
pitiless elements to preserve us from the fetters of
of an unrelenting foe. We learn from a card pub
lished in to-days paper, from Dr. Hunt, Surgeon in
eharge of the Lee Hospital, that many of the sick
and wounded recently from Hood’s army are al
most entirely destitute of olothing. The doctor
calls on our people to supply them. Shall the ap
peal be in vain ? If so, we are unworthy the
sacrifices these soldiers have made, and undeser
ving the independence they have fought to win-
Finn.—A fire broke out early yesterday morn
ing on the premises of Mr. Brey vogal, above the
Perry House, but was extinguished with very tri
fling loss. We learn this is the sooond house fired
on that block during the week, and is snppesed
to be the work of an incendiary.
♦ -
Thoughts oh thh Times.— ls when Sherman ]
passed through Georgia all the speculators and |
extortioners with their ill-gotten gains had been !
placed in his track, and been compelled to witness
a general conflagration of their sordid gains, we
imagine there would have been very little regret
felt on the subject by any true patriet. This elass
es eormeranta who hare gloated over the misfor
tunes ot the people ia their base attempts to get
it all, will forever deserve the execrations of their
kind, and will ho handed down to posterity, “un
wept, anhonered and unsung,” as having done
more to damage the cause of independence than
all the “blue bellies” ia Christendom. Mainly
through the instrumentality of speculators the
Confedrate currency has been ruined and gold ran
np te fifty for one. Through their instrumentali
ty flour has run up to two dollars per pound ; meal
te sl4 per bushel, bacon to ’s4 per pound, syrup
to sl4 per gallon, beef te $2 per pound ; petotees
te sls per bushel, and everything else in like
proportion—and mechanic’s wages depreciated to
about ten jseuts per day—for if gold is worth
fifty for one, a mechanic who only gets $6 dollars
per day—(and this is .better than many es them
do) has factual cash but twelve cents, or only
abent 72 cents per week, and the soldier who has
dene and suffered all in the war, realises the enor
mous sum es 28 cents per month. How can flesh
aad blood hope to exist amidst such a state es
things ? Are not many of oar troubles the result
of tbe foal spirit of money-making which seems
to have absorbed the minds of so many of our
people out of the war. Has not this mania done
mere to create distrust in the minds es the people
\ as to the final triumph of our cause than all the
aefeats we have suffered on the field of battle ?
Has it not created more suffering and destitu
tion and discontent than all other causes together?
Is it not equivalent to saying, “we know the South
is hound to be^hipped—its currency to be repudi
ated, and therefore while the sun shines we will
make hay, or in other words, “feather ear nests.”
; The day.of retribution will certainly eoma, and
j no matter how soon, to all those who have suf
i sered the love of money to run riot over religion,
\ honesty, humauity and patriotism.
Pliqhtv. —'Twas the glorious hoar of sunset. —
The cerulean vault of heaven’s broad canopy was
wreathed in smiles. Gorgeous cloud* wrapped the
horizon in beatific splendor, aud floated on ma
jestically through the azure depths es space pro
found, while th# golden radiance of the departing
sun lit up this mundane sphere like the mellow
effulgence of a thousand revolving atid intermin
gling Chinese fire works. Nature was hushed in
silent repose. Her thousand tongues were noise
less. Net even the ehirp of a solitary cricket
broke in upon the awful and sublime stilnea* es
the enrapturing scene. All es a sudden a sable
daughter of Afrio was e««U t* slip eat geutiy
from behind granny’s pig pen, and ia * voice as
melodious as the music of the sphere*, or a*
magical as the siren s silvery notes, exclaimed,
to a pawing wagon, “mister, wat j« ax for dat
ar load of wood ?”
MARRIED.
At the residence of the bride’s mother, by the
Rev. J. S. Paullin, Mr. C. B. LaHatt. of Columbus,
Ga, and Miss A. N, Engkam, of Barbour county,
Ala.
jan 28 It*
Te the Benevolent.
There have recently arrived at the Ho pitals in
this place and from the immediate frent, the Army
of Tennessee, many soldiers in the most destitute
condition as regards clothing. The Quartermas
ter's Department is unable to furnish any.
Will the patriotic permit them to suffer the in
clemency ot the weather ?
Will the charitable see misfortune without an ef
fort for its relief.
Will the virtuous b 6 shocked by indecency ?
Cannot some plan be fixed on for the relief ©f
these needy and suffering men ? rrTTXT _
R. P. HUNT,
Surgeon in Charge,
jan 25 It* Lee Hospital.
VALUABLE PLANTATION
AT
PRIVA TIE SALE.
Rosette, Lawhon & Cos.,
OFFER at private sale a VALUABLE PLANTA
TION, containing 960 acres—sGo cleared, balance
woodland, heavily timbered— twenty-five miles from
Columbus, on the Mobile k Girard R. R ; good
Dwelling House with four rooms, Kitchen, Smoke
House, Stables, Ac.; well watered, ani in a high
state of cultivation.
jan23 6t $36
Eosette, Lawhon & Go.,
OFFER AT PRIVATE SALE
Ooe Copper Boiler, 8 feet long.
Five or six hundred pounds Led Pipe
8 or 10 Large Brass Bib k Stop Cocks.
jen 18 ts
* To Hire.
4 HKHLYvirteen -ar old house GIRL.
; i been »ril>aried. «• v- well. a good aupori
liou is fond of ehiMrvu ,irwrr<B
ft c{ THIS OF&ICB.
A'J32ICIT SAL3S.
j- - .
llv Ellis, Livingston & Cos
ON SATURDAY. 28th in,t, at 11 .’eUx*
wr will soil in from >•{ our store
A Verv Eikefy lot of Young Negro**
vix :
1 Negro Girl, 23 years old,
1 “ Boy, 14 year* old,
1 tl “ * |3 « u
1 “ •• ]2 * **
1 4 « li M H
1““ g a «
1 “ Girl 12 w *
5 Bale* Cotton.
ALSO,
Six Sets 4-Horse Harrietts
ran 27 $lB
By Ellis, Livingston St Cos
o ♦ +
WB will sell on SATURDAY. 28th Jammy at
" 11 o clock, in front of our store
i bbi. Choice Lard,
4 bb.s Cuba Caue Syrup,
1000 lbs. Choice Bacon,
2 Bales Cotton,
Q Boxes I X L Tobacco,
1 Sett Fine Spring Seat Parlor Chaim,
500 lbs. Sole Leather,
Cottage Bed Steads, Sewing
50 Vols. Standard and School Book»,
2 Dor Large New Blankets,
Lot Clothing, Shoes, Boot*,
Lot Upper Leather,
Lot Round and Square Iron,
Together with many other articles af
value.
jan 26 s3l 50
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos
ON Saturday, 28th January, at 11 «’«Jo«b,
will sell in front of our store
Lot Hand Car Wheels and Axlee*
ALSO,
5 Shares Bank of Coiambus Sto«k,
Jan 27 $9
M¥ERS WATSON A CO. t
AUCTIO3STEBBB
AND
General Commission Uercbantf,
At Hull & Ih*tV* old 9temd h
Opposite Bauk of Columbns, Broad fMn®e*.
_ m
Personal and prompt attention gftnai
to all consignments.
Columbas, Ga., Jan. 21, 1801 T. janStf
LOST,
ON the night of Wednesday, 28th hurt., between
the city and my residence, three miles frem the
city, a fine SWORD, in a chamois skin case, tnarkml
on the case, "Paymaster Seymour, C. S. N,”
The finder will be suitably rewarded by leaving
it at my store, 143 Broad street.
i»n 28 St D. B. THOMPSON.
Notice!
ALL parties whe have left GUNS, PISTOLS,
to be repaired, at my shop on Broad street, iH
requested to tall immediately and get the same.
jan23 <k J.>. MURRAY,
Hew Orleais Items-
Oar latest frem th# Crescent City in f* the
7th ins*.
The Federa> Congress has recognised the Stats
gevernmeat es Louisiana, and admitted her feter
representatives and twe senators. The Bra I*
exaltant at the fact, and pitches Into the Wap
York Tribune with fury for its opposition to t£*
ndaisiion of Louisiana.
Gen. Hurlbmt is in eemmand, Cel. Herat Robin
son, prevest Marshal, and John U. G. ParkOfc
postmaster.
The city is filled with humbugs—such as clair
voyant woman, jugglers and slight es hand per
formers, Indian and cure all doctors. Among th*
former is Madame Caprell end Madame Biaek,
and a best of others. The Indian herb docter
from Canada administers t* the gaping seaes
e* in streams of poetry, aud just in this ##»***-
tiea we may well quote frem the eld peel, wWh
a slight variation ;
“New Orleans is * fleeting show*
To Muggins’ delusion given”
Show* of all kinds, sizes, dimensions and ebjur
aeters ar* iu fall blast, frem the St. Chariot thea
ter down to th* street jnggler, including Howe's
gang es wonderful performing monkey*.
Orders were issued to prevent the negroes Irena
the country from visiting the eity in gangs during
Ch’istmas holidays.
Th* shipping and steamheating interest scented
to be flourishing; vessels were arriving and de
parting from and te New York and other points.
There is a regular line es packets «c Havers,
twice a week.
Considerable quantities of sugar and molastfin
are arriving, but no mention of cotton is made,
Over on# column of the Era is filled with *4
vertisoment# of the sales es Confederate real es
tate.
A fixed white light has been placed on tb* south
side of the channel of Grant’s Pass, to illumine
from sunset to sanrise. The illuminating appara
tus is dioptic, on the system of Fresnel, es tie
sth order. The fecal plane is at an elevation of
twentv-fiv# feet above the level of the sea, makiag
the light visible, under ordinary circumstances, te
the distance of five nautical miles.
There is considerable rivalry between the packet
line* for New York. Passage, S4O.
[ifittiatippian Bxfrm.
A “First-hath None*" vaoa iaa P«o)»»-«
or Savakkah. —The New York Chamber of Com
merce, in discussing tb* application of Colonel
Julian for relief for th* people captured in Sevan
nab by Sherman, nsed such language that eveai
the applicant, Yankee as he was, indignantly
withdrew his application frem the consideration es
that body. The Philadelphia Inquirer comineshi
upon this in language which leads us seriously to
consider whether life is a boon while purchased by
assuming a position in which a people may he
thus spoken es:
Taking umbrage at remarks made in debate by
members es the committee appointed by the
Chamher of Commerce, he withdraws his appli
cation to that body, and suggests that if th*
Chamber desires to ast independently of him, It
can do te by sending its contributions to Geu.
Geary. The case seems to be this: Th# citisen#
of Savannah are too proud to beg, and yet will
accept charity. They do net wish to starve, anfi
we are able to buy what they want, although St
will be at th* sacrifice of one description of need
ful feed for others. Perhaps Colonel Allen te
somewhat “high strung’’ in bis sentiments, ft
is almost time for him te get over that, and I*
cease to be sensitive as t* what is said about his
“mission." For the sake of the needy people
whom he represents it would be well for him I*
recollect that he is not new th* representative es
Southern pride bat of Southern want The earn
est way by which he can effect his purpose wH
be by a dignity which is fine from tetehness.
A Novil “ Dbad Hsad. ” —On Conductor
Kinenrd’s train, on the New York Central U*i
night, a lady with a vast circumference es
hoop occupied a whole seat as the cars we»t
out of this city. Taking up tickets the coa
ductor evidently suspected something whea
he came to this lady, and politely requested
her to rise, as he thought she was sitting *a
something which bad been left on the seat.
She said she wouldn’t and he said she must,
and finally she did, and not only that, but she
stepped out into the aisle, blushing tremea
duously and insisting that she “ didn t know
it, ” wheu, lo and behold a bouncing babe es
the male persuasion, only sixteen years old,
was discovered curled up on the floor! How
the delightful creature bad got there w.ae a
mystery to be>- of course —as «nnch so as tie
prepuce, to Joseph, of a chicken in Joseph *
bat The lady was about to anathematize tb*
the young gentleman in the most approved,
manner of injured virtue, but be took
word* on* of her month t»v pleading t.it«
“ Birase l -r, Auntie, pay fi**e. '' .Gvde
uid. •—Nt tntetudy Star.