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SPECIAL NOTICES
Tax In Kind Notice.
Office Post Quartermastrr, 1
Americus, (la., Jan 27, 1865. J
The assessment value of Tithe Corn of crop of
i§s4, for this District, is regulated at 'six dollars per
bushel. All whose tithes have been assessed at less
[.rice, will apply at once to the Assessor of their re
-peedve counties to have assessments changed to
this pri'te, in order t<, tret their proper credit, of the
tax imposed on agricultural interest.
Other articles ol the second assessment will be as
sessed at pricer of Schedule No. 15.
JOHN P. CRAFT,
Captain and P. Q. M.
feb 1 fit 3d Cong. Dist. Oa.
Headquarters Enrolling Offiof., 1
Mustfogee County, >
Columbus, Oa., Jan. 21. 1865.)
Special Orders, No.
All officers and men furloughed to visit this coun
ty, are hereby required *o report to these Head
quarters within twenty-four hours after their arrival
for the purpose of having their furloughs recorded.
W. A. COM3,
Card and Enrolling Officer,
feb 1 lw Muscogee CoTinty.
Headquarters, Gov. Works, (Ord.) 1
Columbus, Ga., Jan. 31, 1865. J
Wanted to Exchange
Fig and Wrought Iron, suitable for Plantation
purposes, for Paeon, Lard, Syrun, Corn and other
produce. Apply at office ot
M. H. WRIGHT.
feb 1 lot _ Col. Commanding.
Ware-Iloiwe Notice.
ON and after the first day of February, 1865, the
Storage «>n Cotton in our respective Ware
houses, will be iwo dollar? ($2 00) per bale, per
month.
Hereafter the rule to sell cotton to pay storage
will be strictly enforced quarterly if they are not
paid promptly.
KING & ALLEN.
WARNOCK & CO.,
GREENWOOD & GRAY,
HUGHES A HODGES,
I*OWELL, FRAZER & CO.,
CODY & COLBERT,
J. U. IVEY <fc CO.
Jan 3! 2w
APHOtLin ATiorv
To i tic Officers ami Members of
the General Assembly.
In conformity to - the Resolution of the General
Assembly, passed at the close of its last Session, re
questing the Governor to convene the Legislature at
;uch time and place as he may think beet, to com
plete the necessary Legislation which was unfin
ished at the time of adjournment on the approach
of the enemy. I hereby require ihe officers and
members of the General Assembly to convene at the
City Hall in the city of Macon,-at ten o’clock, a. m,
on Wednesday the 15th day of Februarylnext.
Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the
State this Hie 25th day of January, 1865.
JOSEPH E. BROWN.
All papers in'the State are requested to oopy
jao 27 td
Notice.
Southern Express Company, 1
Augusta, Ga., Jan. 9, 1865. J
Persons owning freight shipped by the Southern
Express Company, that is detained in this city, and
■ther places, in consequence of damage donejto rail
road? by the Federal armies,-and which cannot be
forwarded to'destiuation in consequence thereof,
are hereby notified that this Company will not bo
responsible for loss or damage by tire. Consignees,
and others interested will take notice of the abovo.
JAS. SHUTER.
j an 19 im Acting Pres.
Macon, Columbus, Montgomery, Mobile and
Selma papers copy one month.
To Georgia Soldiers !
Pbil'l!|»s’ 4t'3a Georgia Brigade.
■jTatk or Georgia, )
ssei&j
The members of this Brigade now living, and the
representatives of those dooeased, wiliplea3o inform
us whore the ll!ilf*P#J duo thuui, under the Act of
December 7t,h. 1363, may be forwarded to them. In
response to each communication we will forward
the necessary papers for signatures.
Each correspondent will furnish us the company,
battalion or regime 't to which, he or tho.soldier he
represents, belonged in this Brigade, and his full
address at the present time.
IRA R. FOSTER,
Q. M. Gen. ofGa.
N. B.—After the Ist of March letters will be ad
dressed tons at Milledgeville; until that time, un
less in case of danger to this place, we will be ad
dressed at Augusta. !• R* F.
,ian 7 lrn
For Escftange or Sale.
\ T the office of the “Southern Iron Works,” near
lx. the now bridge, the following articlos of Hard
ware, which we will exchange for Pork,
Lard, Wheat, Flour. Fodder, or any otner articles
of P-oviiions or Confederate currency, viz:
Bar and Hoop Iron, of all sizes, suitable for plan
tation uses. „ , „ . „
Sugar Mills and Kettles, of all sizes, from 30 to
IflO gallons.
Pots, Ovens and Skillets,
Fry Pans and Andirons,
Club and Broad Axes,
Shovels and Spades,
Trace Chains* and Plough Moulds,
*3“ Orders for Castings and Machine Work
JOHN P. GRAY * CO.
CITY FOUNDRY!
SNUB MILLS AND KETTLES !
WE HAVE OF HAND
Sugar Lillis anil Mettles,
holding 20,30, 40. 60, SO and 130 gallons, which we
will exchange for Provisions or any tiixid Oi country
Produce, or money on very liberal terms. Orders
mlicited. PORTER, McILHLNNk ScLO.
Columbus. Jan. 20, ts
Hegroes to Ilire.
rjlO HIRE, ten young Negro MEN, also a good
1 a.oka»dlV asl ,„r. ig j WOOLf.OLK
jan 17 ts Agent.
* Izost or Mislaid.
COER SHARES of the G. <fc A. S. S. Cos., No
T 16j, in favor oi Afrs.-J. L. M ilson.
nov 30 ts D. & J. J. GRANT.
$1,300 Reward.
CTRAYED, on the Bth of this month, from my
O plantation in Talbot county, a p: zed
MAKE; color black, with a bay horse colt, six
months old. They were seen hitched to a wagon,
going through Girard, Ala., abcutjton days., ago, in
the direction of Eufaula or Clay county, Ga. Ine
above reward will be”paid by me for their delivery
in Talbot county, or Columbus, or SBOO, for mtorma
tion which will lead to their recovery. Address
J. B. GORMAN,
jan 27 lw , „ . Talbotton, Ga.
Montgomery Advertiser and bpint of the Soutn
copy one week and send bill to this office.
ReguiaTTine of Steamers on tfae
River.
Cone mbits, Ga., Jan. 9th.
TIIE SteiunerMacEsoy. Daniel Fry, Master, wil
1 leave Columbus,until further notice, every sun
‘Uy at. 9 a.m. Returning leaves Cuaitahoochee every
Tuesday at 2 p. it. 1
The Steamer Indian, 0. D. Fry Master, loaves
- tlumbus every Tuesday morning at 9 a. m. Re
turning, leaves Chattahoochee every Thursday at
2 A. Ji.
, The Steamer Mist, A. Fry .Vaster, leaves Colum
bus every Friday at 9a. m. Returning leaves Chat
tahooche every Sunday at 12 x.
jan 10 2m
VOL. XII.}
DAILY TIMES.
EVENING EHITHIN
WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEB. 1, 1865.
Partienlars of the Railroad Aeeident Last
Night.
We have been enabled to gather the follow
ing particulars cf the smash-up on the Opelika
Branch Road last evening, referred to in our
morning’s edition : U seems that the tender
broke down, by which three box cars next to
it were smashed up and thrown from the track.
Persons on the train acquit all officers of the
road of blame. The train was running at
very moderate speed, and the accident was
entirely unavoidable. The following are the
casualties :
Killed. —Samuel Carter, Cos. B, 54th Ga.;
C. C. Conway, Cos. I, 54th Ga.; J A. Page,
Cos. B, 29th Ga.; one negro man, attachee o*
the 54th Ga.
Wounded. —W. H. Robinson, Cos K, 54th
Ga., badly burned.
Joseph Dean, Cos. B, 54th Ga., thigh broken,
Wm. R. Carter, Cos. B, 54th Ga., leg bruised
Wiley Carter, Cos. B, 54th Ga., arm injured.
Lt. Hughey, Cos. B, 54th Ga., injured in the
breast.
J. A. Chambers, Cos. G, 29th Ga., thigh frac
tured.
Sergt. J. R. iPowell, Cos. G, 29th Ga., dislo
cation of shoulder.
George Douglas, 29th Georgia, badly injur
ed in chest.
Serg’t B F Hall, 45th Tennessee, bruised
badly.
G H McConnica, 45th Tennessee, contusion.
G W Douglass, 29th Georgia, contusion:
Several others were slightly, but not se
vere enough to be sent to hospitals. The kill
ed and wounded were brought in last, night
and sent to the Walker Hospital.
Pnblie Sentiment.
In this, as in all great revolutions, says the
Augusta Constitutionalist, both the cotempo
rary writer and the historian in after days, are
in a great measure deesived in ascribing to
the quiet citizens, the men at home, the tra
ders of the land, the manufacturing of the
controlling public sentiment. It is net, so.
Especially is it not so with the American peo
ple. Especially is it not so with us. It is the
army—the men who bear the burden of the
fight who aro the directors of public senti
ment. Although coteries or cabals in differ
ent localities may exert a 3t.rong influence in
giving direction to public feeling and the wish
es of the population, the controlling influence
rest3 at la3t with the soldiers in the army.
We have lately received from men iu the
field, men who have perilled their lives, who
have lo3t their little all, wh<3 have suffered
tho heat and dust of four summers and the
cold and rain of four winters, who are armless
or legless, aud they, without exception, breathe
the glorious spirit of resistance, and urge the
continuance of the fight to final separation.
The only place of late where the eroaker can
not be found is in the ranks of the army, or
among the poor and penniless soldiers who
linger sick or wounded in the hospitals or sit
around the camp fires barefooted and blanket
less. What a commentary on the thirst for
gain 1 What a rebuke to the men who have
heard of the battle and the war from afar !
The fact is simply this : the army has de
termined that there shall be no submission,
no reconstruction —no surrendering of the
rights for which this war was inaugurated
and in which it has suffered so many hard
ships. We say for one God-speed the army.
Stand by your colors and your country, brave
Georgians, and br&ve men from every other
State, and you will yet be free men—men who
can stand up before the world iu the light of
day and say with an honest and full heart,
“ in the hour wheu the cause was deserted by
the faint of heart and the weary at home,
when gloom wa3 everywhere except around
the glorious flag upheld by manly hands, we
were of the army, we were of those who still
held th 6 trusty gun and bid defiance to tho
haughty foe. ” O 1 what a heretage for your
children and your children's children. We
would rather nail the lid upon the coffin of our
mother, than have her despair in this hour,
old, and despoiled by the foe as she has been.
We would rather give up to the vengeance of
the infuriated and brutalized soldiery of the
enemy the little ones of our house and heart,
than that in after days it could be said of
them that they are but the children of him
who lost faith in the, cause of the just, and
was, in the dark hour, recreant to the cause
for the maintenance of which his State had
pledged “the lives, the property and the.sa
cred honor of her people.
To the soldiers of the land we only repeat
the words of one of them, when we say, it is
above all others your land. You are fighting
for your homes and your little farms. And
the rich man at home has no right to trade
away your liberties and your possessions for
his wealth, his ease, or his opinions. Be not
only the fighters for the independence of your
country, but be the only makers of public sen
timent in these Confederate States. Upon you,
and we had almost said upon you alone, rests
the question of separation and independence.
If you fail, the country and the cause go down
in gloom and misery. Listen to no false pro- ,
phets of evil to the cause. The dictates of sucu
hearts ebb up from smothered treason to eve
rything dear to you as Southern men, or from
the price of gold and the uncertainty of a war ;
currency. Wo man from the field, has yet bid
von despair, or has said our cause is hopeless;
no man from the field, has yet taken the stump
or the public press to show cause why Georgia
should desert her sisters in this fight for the ■
rights of free men; no man from the field, has
yet whispered that terms must be made with
the enemy or annihilation would come ; but
COLUMBUS, GA.. THURSDAY, FEB. 2. 1865.
the shouts of true hearts yet reach us from
the man of the ranks on all sides, even from
the defeated and retreated army of the gallant
but unlucky Hood, it comes full and clear and
hopeful.
To the soldiers of the army everywhere we
say, stand firm. You are our true hero-.rnakers
—the moulders of a healthy public sentiment
—the conquerors o: the independence of the
South—a ble33inganda glory for ages.
OTerrannia? the Country not Subjugating
the People.
Conquest, said a writer in Blackwood Sjme years
ago, ha* ever been the easiest and most frequent
of man’? achievements —the consolidation and ad
ministration of conquest the most difficult and
least, successful of his efforts. It has ever been
easier to win empire by the jswora than to estab
lish it by the law of urder and government—easier
to enslave the body than subject the will—to en
force submission to the conqueror than obedience
to the legislators. It is common for man to recog
nize the aetion of force in the destroying ageneies
of fire and sword, and to yield to the might of the
stronger hand the possession and subjugation
which make the law of eonqust; but ae will not
ep readily aocept or acknowledge a legislation, the
principles of which conflict with the belief of his
race. Tho supiemaey of might is a practical
thing. The supremacy of government has to con
tend with all*that divides man' from man, tongue
from tongue, nation from nation, and creed from
creed. The conquorors are often tho few, the con
quered the many ; they are generally aliens in
blood, strangers in feeling, and though a warlike
spirit may obtain superiority on the battlefield, it
is hard for a man scattered here and there amid
a mass, to stamp upon the laws, customs and
habits that have existod forages, and impress in
stead, those of his own people.
It has been easy to organize a eonqust, to di
vide it into satrapies, to erect bogus systems of
government and terms of cor-porations, but the
amalgamation of feelings, literatures, nationali
ties, <fce., which can alone constitute an united
between victors and vanquished, is a thiDg
which the world seldom sees. Genius ha* failed
again and again to effect this fusion. The uni
versal sovereignty cf Alexander soon broke up
into the old divisions of localities and races; so
did the kingdom of Napoleon. Wars of saojuga
tion have rarely made man conform to the creed
of the subjugators.
Tamerlane broke over the mountain barriers of
the Indian empire like a torrent, conquering, slay
ing, robbing, burning, devastating, and thon pass
ed back with his plunder, leaving behind barely
the shadow of sovereignty. But the Patan or
Afi'ghan dynasty survived even that great shock,
and lost its vigor and vitality only through di
visions, anarchy and intrigues,
This is aiU the people of the South have tq
fear. If they remain together and pull together,
the yoke of Lincoln will never be placed around
their aeok. But If the country and the army
are to be filled with seeds of discord, if divisions
are'.to be chronicled everywhere, and men aban
don the cause to fill their purses for any emer
gency, we must soon look abroad for a master.—
We are fully able to accomblish the task before
us. We have men enough to whip- an independ
ence if they be judiciously disposed of; we have a
land grand in the vastness and proportion of its
features, various in its climate and almost univer
sal in its productions. The substantial? of life
and the munitions of war can be found within its
bounds. Let the same spirit which sent your no
ble boys to the front throe years ago be rekin
dled throughout the land, and a smiling happy
peace will dawn upon us. By God’s help and a
strong natiou’s will we may hope bright things
are written for us in the future. — Exchange.
Tlic Colton. Trade Controversy.
The Herald has a letter from its chief Washing
ton correspondent upon the3abjeet of a trade in
cotton with the people in the South:
The moaning and grumbling beneath the sur
face indicates that a storm of no small magnitude
will soon burst upon us in reference to the purchase
of cotton. In fact it is raging with considerable
fury beneath the surface. The present law regu
lating the trade in cotton with the rebellious
States was passed for the purpose of facilitating
this trade, and securing thereby a revenue to the
government. For some cause or other, the military
commanders in several localities have thrown so
great obstacles in the way as almost to prohibit
the bringing out of cotton. The result is that the
orders and permits, not only of the treasury depart
ment, but also of the President, have been nulli
fied, and the treasury deprived of the assistance
that was anticipated from that quarter.
It is understood that Secretary Stanton sustains
the military commanders in this opposition, and
j that the recent letter of General Canby on the
subject was but a reflection of the views held at
i the War Department and intended to operate upon
the present Congress for a repeal of the laws of
last session. At any rate it ‘was placed in the
hands of the committee in the House as soon as it
was received here. The President firmly believes
! in the policy of bringing out all the cotton from
| the Southern States that is possible. In the first
i place he considers such a course a necessary aid
!to the finances of the government. One fourth of
j the proceeds of all brought out under the present
i law goes direct to the government, while the bal
) ance ia equal to so mueh gold or foreign exchange,
, and thus directly aids in reducing the price of
j gold ond sustaining the value of greenbacks. In
addition to this the greater the supply of cotton
j the less will be the price of cotton goods, which
: every family in the eountry - is interested in. It I
! is, therefore, considered, and in fact is, an im
partant auxiliary to the finances of the Gover-
1 ment.
If successful in its operation, the policy renders
: valuable assistance where assistance is the most
needed. It strengthens the weakest point of the
government, and where it needs strength more
than at any other point at present. It is evident
! to all careful observers of events here that if the
government fails to suppress the rebellion its fail
ure will be caused by the failure of the financial
; department. The problem of military success has
reached a print that renders no doubt of ultimate
success and complete triumph, provided that the
necessary funds are furnished to meet the demands
, in providing the means to carry out the plans
already formed.
The active and prompt movements in regard to
! the cotton captured at Savannah is owing to the
fact that this conviction has been forced home
upon the authorities here, the intention being to
immediately send it to Europe, and thus enable
the treasury department to receive the benefit of ,
gold or foreign exchange to the extent of its full
value.
t
By an order from General Martin, the tw* sub
distriets heretofore known as the sub-district of
Northwest Mississippi and the sub-distriet of Cen
tral Mississippi, are consolidated into one, which
will be known as the Sub-District of West Missis
sippi, and Brigadier Geneial Wirt Adams, com
manding at present the sub district of Central
Mississippi, is assigned to the command of the
cew district.
For the Columbus Times.
To G******.
“We have been friends together.’’
“ —Lay this to tby breast,
Old frionds, like old sword*, still are trusted best."
We have been friends together,
We’ve laughed at many a jest,
When the fount of joyous feeling,
Was welling in our breasts
And we’ve been sad together,
When clouds of gloom would lower,
Then each would gently speak to each,
Kind words of soothing power.
But laughter now has fled thy lips,
Thy heart is cold and changed.
Ah ! once our sighs and tears were blent,
But now—we are estranged.
We have been friends together,
But sullen is thy brow,
How could’st thon let designing ones,
So rudely part us now ?
* *******
As friend trusteth friend, 1 thought I could trust
thee,
Were I slandered in absence—reviled,
But the saddest of thoughts is that thou didst
deceive me,
Aud joined with the mockew the while.
Oh ! is there no honor, no truth, upon earth,
Is friendship a name— but a name,
That exists bat a moment, then quick as it* birth
And lik%gratitude, dies in the flame ?
Hadat thou died, as a hero, in strife,
I’d have honored thy memory still,
But the grave I’ll mourn over through life,
Is that which the corpse of Trust fills.
Once you said that “no absence should wean at,”
(For our friendship was fixed as the poles,)
But the dark gulf of time rolled between us,
And left its cold chill cn thy soul.
Canst thou bring back the bloom of the roses,
When once their sweet petals are shed,
Canst thou wake the loved form that reposes,
In the calm, solemn sleep es the dead ?
There were those who came basely between us,
Who perjured their souls with false words,
To make thee neglect and forsake me,
For purposes vile in them stirred.
Oh ! may they be true to thee ever,
As constant as I’ve tried td be,
Mayst thou never regret that we’re severed ;
That love binds me no longer to thee.
We ean harbor no hate for each other,
For affection still hallows the past,
And the memory of joys shared together,
Will be sweet while life’s moments shall last.
ZULEME.
Columbus, January 22d, 1865.
Ammrican Affairs in England.—On tho
whole, the events of the last month show that
though the North is wofuily short of men to
occupy and hold down the South, the Confer
derates in some parts are scarcely able to op<
pose even the diminished levies. We 3hali
hear of new expeditions and new marches
through the Southern country, but whether
these will have such permanent military con
sequences as to overcome the obstinacy of
Southern resistance is a matter whiGh time
must show.
What concerns us most nearly in the news
just received is the tone which the Americans
have assumed towards Canada, and the acts
of their Government with respect to the late
; disorders on the frontier. With respect to
' these mischievous and fruitless expeditions
! there can be but one opinion in England. It
! is the duty of the Canadian Government to
prevent all sueh outrages and to bring the of
fenders to justice; and we rejoice to learn
j that the attorney general had ordered the re
! arrest of the St. Albans raiders on the ground
; that the decision of the Montreal court was
wrong. But a failure of justice on teohnical
grounds does not authorize such military or-
I ders as those of Gen. Dix, who commands his
i officers to violate the Canadian territory, nor
i such language as that used by the American
I press aud seemingly by American society.—
The outrage at St. Albans was barbarous in
1 the extreme, and we are sure there is not one
I person in a hundred in England or Canada
who woulti not be glad to see the perpetrators
dealt with according to their deserts. But
the threats of the Americans will not aid in
producing thi3 result. Mere boasting we need
not notice, but if the Federal Government is
so ill-ad7ised as to send its troops across the
Canadian frontier, very serious misunderstan
dings between the two countries may be the
consequence.— London Times, Dec. 29.'
Ladies' Strategem. —The Delaware (U. S.)
Republican say3 :
A few days ago the will of the late Thomas
Jamison, who resided near St. George’s, was
burnt under the following singular circum
stances: Mr. Jamison, recently deceased, had
left his large estate, about a hundred thousand
dollars in value, principally to his sons ; leav
ing his daughters, three in number, only six
thousand dollars, coupled with the strange
condition that that amount should be forfeited
if they married without the consent of the ex
ecutor, Mr. Thomas J. Craven. The will was
drawn by Chas. B. Lore, Esq., and witnessed
by Mr. Eli Biddie. It was read after the burial
of Jamison.
A few evenings afterwards the youngladies
sent for Mr. Craven, and desired to look at the
will. He went there and found a hot fit-a in
the stove, a table opposite, witn seats on the
side near the stove for the ladies, and on tue
further side of the stove for bimseif. One of
the ladies stated that she wished to examine
some items, and requested the will to be hand- ;
ed to her. Mr. Craven complied with her re
quest. but suspecting her intention,-moved to 1
the opposite 3ide of the tabie and sat aiong- i
3ide of her.
She examined the will carefully, when he
perceived Miss Annie Jamison open the stove
door. He at once moved to take hold of the
will, suspecting her intention, when his suspi
; cions were allayed by her asking her sister for
1 the poker. Thinking she wished only to poke
the fire, he felt rather ashamed of hit suspi
cion?, when he was handed Harper's Magazine
to look at. This for a moment diverted his
attention, when, in an instant, the wiil was
handed to Annie, with the leaves ail opened,
rammed into the hot stove. Mr. Craven
pushed on one aid*, the light pat out. and the
will, before he could interfere, destroyed for
ever. ’ i
The will has cot been recorded, but Charles
B Lore. Esq., has a copy. The iadies sav
they would not mind the small amount of
money i*ft them, but they do object to one not
connected with the family haring anvthing to
say in their matrimoniai engagements. The
case wi;| be heard before toe Register and
more than probable come before tr.e court at
New Castle. *
The Cotton Question.
To the Editors of the Richmond Enquirer :
Gentlbmbn : In President Davis' special
message to the Confederate Senate, dated De
cember 17, 1864, appears the following words .
“Instead of being compelled to giTe con
tractors a large profit on the cost of their sup
plies, and to make payment in cotton in our
ports at six pence -per pound, we now pur
chase supplies abroad, by our agents, at cost
in the foreign market, and pay them in cotton,
which sells at net price of twenty-four pence
per pound. When all the elements of the cal
culation are taken into consideration, it is by'
no means an exaggeration to say that one
hundred bales of cotton exported by the Gov
ernment will purchase abroad the same amount
and value of supplies that six hundred bales
would purchase delivered to contractors in the
Confederacy.”
Never were truer words uttered by any
statesman. The quantity of cottou and other
products exported from the Confederacy with
in the past year, if it had been properly dis
posed of, might have netted three times in
value the amount of the entire importations,
and thus have thrown the exchange largely in
favor of these States. Instead of which, the
wretched contract system has caused large
sums of gold to be exported by sea and passed
through the lines, when the precious metals
should have been arriving here to pay balances
due to the Government and people. Had the
foreign commerce of the country been properly
managed, the currency would not have reached
its present deplorable condition. The agents
of the Government, who ought to be employed
at moderate salaries, can manage the com
merce of these States without the aid of the
Anglo-Confederate contractors, most of whom
are novices of both commerce and finance.
Nor is this all: the granting of almost a mo
nopoly of the trade to a few individuals and
companies has been of injury to the South.
Though England is a nation of exporters, her
merchants of capital and standing have kept
aloof from the Southern trade in consequence
of the advantages or supposed advantages
possessed by those contractors. No commer
cial house feels warranted in competing with
that class of adventurers. Up to the present
time the Confederacy has neither a commercial
nor a financial constituency in England. The
contractors, as a general rule, are shoddy men,
and therefore have no political influence in
that old fashioned country.
Having examined the cotton question very
closely, I would urge, for political reasons, a
prohibition of the exportation of that material.
If, however, it be still necessary to part with it
for supplies, one bale under the system pro
posed by President Davis, will answer the
purpose of six bales under the contract ar
rangement.
The Confederacy has, unwisely, been feeding
the mills of our neutral friends in Europe and
our Yankee enemies in the Northern States.
It was a mistake to proclaim cotton to be king
four years ago. It is a greater mistake to ig
nore the power of the commercial monarch at
the present time.
Yonr obedient servant,
Georgs McHisnby.
Seventh and Grace streets, Jan. 9, 1865.
Ventilation Wanted,
The Sentinel remarks :
| In one duty wc think our Government has been
: negligent. One lessen it needs to learn in court
i and camp. It is a lesson we may afford to learn
even from our enemies. There has been too mueh
tenderness shown to the inefficient officers and em
ployees. We know it is difficult, porhaps impossi
ble, always to distinguish between incompotency
j and impracticability, as the cause es failure in the
accomplishment of expected and necessary results.
But where importart interests are at stake, it is
indispensable to make success the test of merit.—
Some: men accomplish whatever they undertake,
i Some men almost as invariably fail, but they will
| give you a thousand reasons for having disap
! pointed you. You may have no time to inves
-5 tigate these. You may not be able to do so.—
You may not know howto appreeiate]them. If you
j take them upon credit they are conclusive, But
Dr. Franklin announced a safe practical rule
when hekaid, the mas who is good at making excu
ses is never good at anything else. He who
fails, whether through incompetency or unfaith
fulness, where another might sacceed, should give
| place to]this other. And in-matters relating to war
the displacement should be prompt and summary,
j In the multitude of officers and agents required
i by so extensive a war; it was impossible to ex
; pect that the best selections would at first be
! made. But the errors should bo corrected, when
ever discovered, by prompt substitutions. Some
! sought and hold office for their personal ease or
: profit. They are valueless to the Government
and unacceptable or disgusting to those who hare
I business with them. Others are zealous but have
j poor judgment. In all those eases and in pil
others of unfitness the power of displacement
1 should be freely exercised.' The right men will
; be found at last; and even the right men will
, feel the wholesome influence of a constant incentive
to diligence and enterprise. We believe the pub
: lie interests would be promoted by a prompt and
i close weeding out of all inefficient officers or em
ployees wherever found, and in whatever branch
of the service. The act would be wholesome and
the example extremely valuable. The men who
eannet fiad supplies until individuals have
brought them to the railroads, should find their
way to the ranks. The clerks who wait in idle
ness for three o’clock when they should work to
get up their business,'should give place to faith
ful men. The men of mere rank should yield po
sition to the men of performance. We repeat, we
think there is much naed f_>r a general and thor
ough winnowing of the official agents of the gov
ernment, and that this is an opportune time to
execute it.
The Nashville Daily Times of the 4th instant
says : Among the prisoners captured at Bristol by
General Burbridge, is the notorious J. Austin
Sperry, editor of the Knoxville Register, and the
infamous R. P. Fox, formerly jailor and keeper of
the rebel Bastile at Knoxville, Tennessee, together
with J. Geo. Ramsey. These men are the most
reckless demos? that ever tyrannized oveT East
Tennessee loyalty. The trio are sow confined in *
Castle Fox, awaiting their just doom. Dr, Frank
Ramsey is also among the captured, and is on
street paroled.
Ought Married People to Sleep Together.
—Hall’s Journal of Health which claims to be high
authority in medical science, has taken a stand
against married people sleeping together, but
thinks they had better sleep in adjoining rooms
It says that kings and queens do not sleep to
gether, and why should other people ? Think of
the idea of separating a newly-married eoupie, on
a eoid, winters night, because Hall’s Journal of
Health says sol You go to grass Mr, Hali.
Our Boys Abroad.—We are informed, by a
gentleman recently from Texas, that, a short
time before he left that country, several fami
lies who bad sons at school in England, were
surprised by the arrival of the youths, who,
being questioned as to toe cause of their sud
den return, toid their parents tuat they found
their position intolerable : the British boys
treating them contemptuously for skulking in
a foreign land while, tneir countrymen were
Sgbtiog.
Oar informant further states that, on men- ,
Honing this incident to a New Orleans lady,
whom be met on the road, she replied that
?ht? knew siTrof-n ?i miiar cases of New Orleans
boys
There is a matt*-- here for a good-deal of
comment, but that to our reader?.
[Mobile Register.
f SIX DOLLARS
\ PER MOATII.
The Constitutional Amendment.
The toliowing is extracted from the pro
ceeding? of the Federal House of Representa
tives of the 10th inst.:
Mr. Fernando Wood discussed at length the
want of power and impolicy ot amending the
Constitution in the war proposed He said
he sfiouid, on a future occasion, speak upon
the condition of the country, and attempt to
elucidate the following propositions : First, a
tribute to the intense spirit ot nationality
which pervades all classes at the North ; 2d.
sympathy with the Northern people, and a
review of his efforts in behalf of their pros
perity and happiness, and his struggles to
prevent civil war and its consequent horrors.
3d, a reiteration of his belief that the South
cannot be conquered or be compelled to sub
mit to a sectional Northern Government, and
that even if reduced to a guerrilla warfare,
which is not probable, they can hold the Sou
thern country and render it valueless for half
a century; 4th, an expression of the Jefferso
nian principles of the Democracy, which can
uot be too often repeated to the people, that
they may soe how smoothly, how harmonious
ly the machinery of the grand fabric ol the
fathers would move on, if tbeir teachings
were not ignored and forgotten ; 3tb, that the
Democracy still behold in the proud banners
of rfie Union the symbol of peace, and still
labor for a cessation of hostilities, determined,
[ if possible, to rescue the sweet spirit of the
Union ere it perish aimd the carnage and ven
geance of-civil war; 6th, that if the Southern
States will return to the Union, Hie Northern
States or the people will in turn reoogntze by
constitutional amendment the sovereignty and
independence of the Southern States over all
questions not expressly delegated to the Gen
eral Government; 7th, and that thereupon the
Northern and Southern people shall pledge
themselves to a hearty support of measures
peaceable or forcible, for the acquisition of
Canada, Mexico and Cuba, and the freedom
of Ireland.
£lr Eldridge briefly gave the reasons why
be could not vote for the amendment, arguing
that it was one of the reserved rights of the
States to control and manage their peculiar
institution* in their own way aud destroy the
balance ot power. He doubted the power to
amend the. constitution in the particular pro
posed. He was not aware that the fathers of
the constitution claimed that one fourth of
the States could be stripped of all their rights
and property at the pleasure of the other
three lourths. The adoption of the amend
ment would afford the rebel leaders another
topie to arouse the lukewarm, raise additional
armies and prolong the war Let all amend
ments be made in time of calmness, in a fra
ternal spirit, and with kindness, with a view
to the establishment of the peace of the Union
in all its parts.
Change of Commanders. —Lient. Gen. J. C.
Pemberton,(acting lieutenant-colonel of artil
lery,) has been relieved from the command of
the Richmond city defences, and transferred
to a more extended sphere of duty in the same
branch of service. Lt. Col. Lightfool, a brave,
experienced and meritorious officer, has been
appointed to the command of the city’s defen
ces, vice E’emberton. Capt. Tho*. Thornton,
senior officer of Lightfoot’s command, will
probably be promoted to the command of the
light artillery division for local defence, rice
Col. Lightfoot.— Examiner.
A Nbw Dodge.— A numhor of youßg ladies,
says the Raleigh Conaorrative, belonging to the
first families of the State have tendered their ser
vices and have been accepted as clerks in the Con
script office in thiv city.
Proceedings of Council.
REGULAR MEETING. #
Council Chambbr, January 30, 1865.
Present, His Honor, the Mayor an l a full Board,
excepting Aids Johnson and Bivins.
The minutes of the last meeting were read and
confirmed.
The committee on accounts recommended the
payment of one in favor of the Gas Light Company
for $1,636 00, which was ordered paid
An account of ,$32. in favor of J. C. Johnson was
read and order-d paid.
On motion of Aid. Chapman a committee of three
were appointed to investigate certain charges against
Marshal Call er, tnado by Aid. Quin, and report to
Council. Aids. Chapman, Griswold and McHhenny,
were appointed as that committee.
On motion of Aid. Everitt the Sexton was relieved
from paying the increase of price on certain Ceme
tery lots, sold by him and not hitherto reported.
Council then adjourned.
M. M. MOORE, Clerk.
For Chattahoochee and Bainbridge.
The Steamer MIST, Abr Fry. master, Will leave
for the above and all intermediate landings.
Friday morning, at 9 o’elook.
feb I— td
OBITUARY*
Captain Charles D. Fry, of the steamer Indian,
aged 47 years, died at the residence of Col. Jehnson,
i on the Chattaho-chee river, at sundown of the 26th
of January, A. D. 1860. He was born in Pennsyl
vania, and cams to Apalachicola nearly twenty-five
years back, since which time he has been engaged
as an officer on the steamers plying the Apalachi
cola, Chattahoochee and Flint rivers. On the morn
ing of the 25th, he received his death blow, while
discharging his duty with that zealous care for *the
interests committed to his charge, and the safety
of his passengers, which was his chief study, and a
leading feature in his character ; and in the execu
tion of which ho lost his life. Tho steamer Indian
was working off from the landing at Woodviile.
: Captain Charles Fry then being on the hurricane
! roof, giving the necessary orders in tie dawn
I of a cold morning, the deck slippery with ico, and
I the light so feeble as to make the position he oc
cupied one of great danger; to assist in bearing off
from the shore, he seized a branch of a tree, which
broke, throwing him into the tree, which caused
him to fail backwards, and in hi? descent the back
of his head struck against the guards of the steamer
frac T uring his skull, he then fell into the water, but
was seized by one of the negroes, before he sank,
and taken on board insensible, in which condition
he continued for thirty hours. Col. Johnson had
him carried to his residence where every attention
was lavished on him that kindness could dictate,
physicians were immediately procured, but all es-
I forts failed, the decree had gone forth, human
' science could not change the heavenly edict, in ia
i sen-ibility he languished untii the sun went dewn,
then “the silver cord was loosened, the golden bowl
was broken,” the mortal had put on immortality,
i the man had become an angel; aye, an angei of
light, of joy unspeakable, of happiness unutterable.
He died as he had lived ; at his post, in the faithful
i discharge of his duties to the public, in the re?pon
; sible position which it had pleased his Maker to
I place him in, and to call him from without a mo.
j ment’s notice ; for in the fullNigor of manhood the
1 finger of the Lord touched him so that he died ; but
! he was ready, yea, his was a life of readiness. Let
i nun wno would ascertain his true character, go visit
the pooi’ and tho helpless, the widow and the or
pafin, the needy and the friendiess who have lived
| adjacent to the river, from Columbus to Apaiachi
-1 cola, from tna head oi navigation on the Flint to the
Gulf; let suoh a one ask of any of these, what he
I was, and they will tell him that to them uapt. Char
ley was always a kind friend to them, he was al
ways ready for them, his heart felt and his hand was
i stretched forth to their relief, for their service he
Li&'X always time to spare; these are they who now
mourn hi3 loss with the bitterest sorrow, and whose
wants are rendered, more severe by his untimely
death. In the busines- community he was a zeal
ous, hornorabie, skillfui, faithful, public character,
strong in his own integrity of conduct, and confident
m his capacity of performance, he could i»as« by
unnoucing the fameloes shafts that prejudice or
malicious animadversions threw to step nis progr e?«
confident ir the purity of his motives he could af
ford to let them oiscoverthe error by an examina
tion of his daily course ; few men had such energy
or used, such laborious exertions to do all tha<- man
couid for the execut on of his duties, this trait of
character was like the motive power of his own
steamers powerful for good because subject at all
j 11 ?* I * control, and as for no element
o.SiOth or inactivity wasin its composition. A? a
Inend ne was true, as a citizen punctual in all his
engagements, skillful injhisjeraft, obedient to law, a.»
a inaster humane, as a relative affectionate, but his
merit, was, that even to hi* enemies he did
geoa, and kindly acts was hi* return for the injus
tice they did him; but he is now paat the praise of
friend, or the censure of enemy, did we lack evi
dence of|the ireful life he led, of the estimation with
which his fellow? held him. The regret and sorrow
felt for him in the nine and hammock forrest, in the
planter’s dwelling and the poor man’s log home, in
the villages and on the landings bordering the riv
ers fie labored on for near twonty-five years—this
mirks bis record and engraves a finer monument to
hi? memory than graver? ehiael ever traced or sculp
tor’? marble 3haa ever of itself honored man, gold
can buy them, r.oi so his monument, a life of public
•aselu ness can only create the last. The traveling
public, will miss him —the mercanti'e ccntmun’tv
will miss him, out the poor will feel hi? absence
most. Jiegv itscat en pane. His work on earth faUh
.utly was amne. aJS re _ war . a of happiness is commen
surate wtth hi- acts, cnanty and pure benefi ence
D. P. H.
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