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DIRECTORY
For Government Officers in this City.
COL. LEON VON ZINKEN, Commanding
poet—Headquarters in the “Winter Building/’
East side Broad Street, nearly opposite Express
Office.—Staff/ Lieut. S. ISIDORE QUILLET,
Post Adjt.—Capt. T. S. FRY, Post Inspector.
Ordnance Department .'
Col. M. H. W RIG lit, Commanding "Govern*
inent Works—Office corner Oglethorpe and St.
Clair Streets, over Post Offi<jo.
Major F. C. HUMPHREYS, Executive Officer,
Columbus Arsenal—Office over Post Office.
Maj. JAMES HARDING, in charge of Armo<
ry—Office at Pistol Factory on Oglethorpe Street,
between Franklin and Bridge.
Lieut. J. M. MULDEN, Jr„ M. S. K.—Office
at Ordnance Store HouEe^near^City^CemeteryA^
Quartermaster's Department.
”"MajTfT wTDfLLaTTd7qTM.— Chief Quarter
master's Office, East side of Broad Street, oppo.
eite Union Bank.
Maj. A. B. RAGAN, Army Paymaster—Office
in same building with Post Commandant.
Capt. B. F. BOMAR, A. Q. M. Post Paymas
ter —Office West side of Broad Street, opposite
Walker Hospital.
Capt. C. A. REDD, A. Q. M., Post Quarter*
master —Office No. 82, East side Broad Street.
Capt. H. D. COTHRAN, A. Q. M. in charge of
Transportation and Forage— Office West side of
Broad Street, opposite Walker Hospital.
Capt. J. T. PEYTON, A. Q. M., Depot Q
M—Office on Randolph Street, one door East of
Daily Times office.
Capt. J. F. COOPER, A. Q. M., Tax in Kind
(j. M. Bth Cong, of Georgia—Office West side of
Broad Street, 3d door below Agency Marine Bank
Commissary zSS
Maj. A M ALLEN, C S, District"~CommUsa«
ry— Office at Alabama Warehouse, on Front St.
Capt. J H GRAYBILL, ACS, Post Commis
sary—Office corner Broad and St: Clair Streets.
Capt. G H FULKERSON, Provost Marshal —
Office one door North of Post
fice. " 'aj&M
JSK!W|P[ ja Medical Department, 'tm '' _
Ijiurgeon S if STOUT, Medical’ director of
Hospitals—Office West side of Forsyth Street,
between Bryan and Franklin.
Surgeon S M BEMIS, Assistant Medical DU
rector of Hospitals,
Surgeon G B DOUGLAS, Senior Surgeon of
Post—Offioe on Randolph Street, between Broad
and Front.
Surgeon C. TERRY, Surgeon in charge of
Walker Hospital, corner of Broad and Bryan
Streets.
Surgeon R P HUNT, Surgeon in charge of
Lee Hospital, corner of Broad and Randolph
Streets.
Surgdbn T A MEANS, Surgeon in charge of
Marshall Hospital, Court House Building, on
Oglethorpe Street.
Surgeon R L BUTT, Surgeon in charge Cairns
Hospital, at Camp Montgomery, just North of
:he City,
Rev. G. W. STICKNEY, Chaplain Post, Resi
dence corner Forsythe and Thomas streets ; oan
usually be found at office Commandant Post.
Conscript Department.
Capt. vv 8 DWIS, i aspeefor for 3d Coag.
Diet.—Offioe ai Lowell W arehous-3, on Randolph
Street.
C»pr. VV A COBB, E iroiling Officer, Musco*
gt>© C 'nii'v, —Office at Lowell Warehouse.
Ex iininin;' Board for 3d C»ns». DD'.—
P B MINOR, ROBT. W PARK .nd W T ABR A
- Offi.se *' L >w«H Warehouse.
Ch.et E-.igtti.-.T—J U WARNER, CS Nin
charge i.-t NivD Iron VV<>r«* —-Office oppoai'c
Lower Bri iu l '.
C;p . i 11 11AZLEH UR-ST, Engineer’s De
pu .meet —office on Mclntosh Street, between
Bryan an i Randolph.
Change ol Schedule.
ON and after Friday, Jan. 20th, the Trains on
the v *useojfeo Railroad will run as follows:
PASSENGER TRAIN:
uNve Columbus $ 80 A. M.
Arrive at Maeon 2 50 P. M.
ueave Macon 50 A. M.
Arriw at CvluinbuS 3 06 r. flu.
FREIGHT TRAIN ;
ueave Columbus. 5 00 A. M.
Arrive at Columbus A 55 A. M.
W. L. CLARK,
mar 10 ts Supt. Muscogee R, R.
Through to Montgomery.
NEW SCHEDULE.
MONTGOMERY & WEST POINT
RAILROAD COMPANY.
COLUMBUS, August 27.1864.
, iN and alter August 27th. the Passenger Train on
’ ' tho Montgomery and West Point Railroad will
Leave Montgomery at 8:00 a. in.
Leave West Point at 7:10 a. in.
Arrive at Columbus at 5:32 p. m.
Leave Cbltimbus at 5:50 a. m.
Arrive at Montgomery at 3:00 p.m.
Arrive at West Potnt at 4130 p. m.
freight Train leaves Columbus at 8:40 a m.
Irrives ..at 8:27 p m
I). H. CRAM, Sup’t Eng:
ag27lß64—tf
MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD.
CHANGE SCHEUELE.
Glbard, Ala., Oct ", 1864.
iN and after 10th inst. Trains on this Road will
/ Run Daily (Sunday excepted.) as follows:
Passenger Train.
Leave Girard at 1 30 p. m.
Arrive in Union Springs 600 “
Leave Union Springs 5 35 a. in.
Arrive in Girard at .‘.........10 00 **
Freight Train.
Leave Girard at 4 00 a. m.
Arrive in Girard at. 6 00 p. m.
B. E. WELLS.
A glS ts Eng. A Sup't.
A N OVERSEER. One without family, who has
A lost an arm in tho service, and thereby unfit for
military service preferred.
Apply to ROBERT R. HOWARD,
Reynolds, Taylor County.
MRS. CHAS. J. WILLIAMS,
nov2l-tf ______ Columbus, Ga.
WATTED!
£ i LBS. of TALLOW, for which a liberal price
will be paid. Apply to
F. W. DILLARD,
sp7 ts _ _ Major and Q. id.
and OSNABFRftS
TO EXCHANGE FOR
aROUND PEAS,
At the GRANT FACTORY.
dec 17 ts * •
To Rent. *
4 DELIGHTFUL RESIDENCE, well furnished
A containing six rooms, situated four miles from
Columbus, in Gen. Abercrombie’s neighborhood.—
There are one hundred and seventy acres attached,
with fine orchards and good garden, and well im
proved out buildings. Apply to
jan 9—ts Mrs. SARAH CROWELL.
Dr. R. NOBLE,
JDE3STTZST,
AT Pemberton &. Carter’s old stand, back room of ;
Smith’s Jewelry Store, where he oan be found
all hours, * foe 18 6m
To Printers !
VyEofterfor sale a complete BOOK BINDERY, i
(except Ruling Machine,) two hand PRESSES,
and about
1)000 Pound* of Type Metal.
_nov2l-tf
To Hire.
A sixteen year old house GIRL, that has
tnL bee s FSr raised, sews well, has a good disposi
tion and is fond of children. Apply at
jan 27 ts THIS OFFICE.
YOL. XII.}
SPECIAL NOTICES 1
Tax iii Kind Notice.
Office Post Quartermaster, 1
Americus, Ga., Jan 27, 1865.1
The assessment value of Tithe Corn of crop of
1864, for this District, is regulated at 'six dollars per
bushel. All whose tithe3 have been assessed at less
price, will apply at once to the Assessor of their re- I
spoc’ive counties to have assessments changed to
this price, it erderto get their proper credit of* the
tax imposed on agricultural interest.
Other articles ot the second assessment will be as
sessed at prices of Schedule No. 15.
JOHN F. CRAFT,
Captain and P. Q. M.
feb 1 6t • 3d Cong. Dist. Ga.
Headquarters Enrolling Office., V
Muscogee County, V
Columbus, Ga., Jan. 21, 1865. J
Special Orders, No. —•
All officers and men furloughed to visit this coun
ty, are hereby required to report to these Head- !
quarters within twenty-four hours after their arrival !
for the purpose of having their furloughs recorded.
W. A. COBB,
Capt. and Enrolling Officer,
feb 1 lw Muscogee County.
Headquarters, Gov. Works, (Ord.) \
Columbus, Ga., Jan. 31, 1865.}
Wanted to Exchange.
Pig and Wrought Iron, suitable for Plantation
purposes, for Bacon, Lard, Syrup, Corn and other
produce. Apply at office of
M. H. WRIGHT,
feb 1 lOt Col. Commanding.
Ware-House Notice.
ON and after the first day of February, 1865, the
Storage on Cotton in our respective Ware
houses, will be two dollars ($2 00) per bale, per
month.
Hereafter the rule to sell cotton to pay storage
will be strictly enforced quarterly if they aro not
paid promptly.
KING & ALLEN.
WARNOCK & CO.,
GREENWOOD & GRAY,
HUGHES <fc HODGES,
POWELL, FRAZER & CO.,
CODY & COLBERT,
J. R. IVEY & CO.
Jan 31 2w
A PROCLiAHATIOA
To the Officers and 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
such time and place as he may think best, to com
plete the necessary Legislation which was unfin
ished at the time of adjournment on the approach
of the enemy. I hereby require the officers and
members of the General Assembly to convene at the
City Hall in the city of Maeon, 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 the 25th day of January, 1865.
JOSEPH E. BROWN.
AU papers inithe State ace requested to copy
jan 27 td •
Wotice.
Southern Express Company, \
Augusta, Ga., J an. 9, 1865. j
Persons owning freight shipped by the Southern
Express Company, that is detained in this city, and
other places, inconsequence of damage donelto rail
roads by tho Federal armies-and which cannot be
forwarded to destination in eonsequence thereof,
are hereby notified that this Company will not be
responsible for loss or damage by fire. Consignees,
and others interested will take notice of the above.
JAS. SHUTER.
jan 19 lm Acting Pres.
tSu Maeon, Columbus, Montgomery, Mobil* and
Selma papers copy one month.
To Georgia Soldiers!
Piii^Hi»s , 4tii Georgia Brigade.
State of Georgia, 1
Quartermaster General’s Office, >
Augusta, Dec. 28th, 1864.)
The members of this Brigade now living, and tho
representatives of those deceased, wilt please inform
us where tho Half-Pay due them, under the Act of
December 7th, 1863, 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 regiment to which, he or he
represents, belonged in this Brigade, and his full
address at the present time.
IRA R. FOSTER,
Q. M. Gen. of Ga.
N. B.—After the Ist of Mareh letters will be ad
dressed to us at Milledgoville; until that time, un
less in case of danger to this place, we will be ad
dressed at Augusta, I. R. F.
jan 7 lm _____ _____
For Exchange ’ or Sale.
* \ T the office of the "Southern Iron Works,” near
the new bridge, the following articles of Hard
ware, which we will exchange for Pork, Bacon,
Lard, Wheat, Flour, Fodder, or any other articles
of Psoviiions 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
120 gallons,
Pots, Ovens and Skillets,
Fry Pans and Andirons,
Club and Broad Axes,
Shovels and Spades,
Trace Chaines and Plough Moulds.
Orders for Castings and Machine Work
promptly executed.
jan 5 tl JOHN D. GRAY & CO.
CITY FOUNDRY!
si t/ili MILLS AND KETTLES !
WE HATE OF
Sugar -Alills and Kettle*,-
holding 20,35, 40, 60, 80 and 130 gallons, which we
will exchange for Provisions or any kind of country
Produce, or money on very liberal terms. Orders
solicited. PORTER, McILHENNY & CO.
Columbus, Jan. 20, ts
Negroes to Hire.
TO HIRE, ten young Negro MEN, also a good
£\>ok and Washer. Apply to
Wm. G. WOOLFOLK,
jar, 17 ts Agent.
Lost or Mislaid.
FOUR SHARES of the G. * A. S. S. Cos., No
F 160, in favor oi Mrs. J. L. Wilson,
nov 30 ts D. & J. J. GRANT.
Regular Liue of Steamers on the
Chattahoochee River.
Colcmbcs, Ga., Jan. 9th. |
THE SteameriJaccsox, Daniel Fry. Master, wil
leave Columbus, until further notice, every Sun- i
day at’,9 a. m. Returning leaves Chattahooehee every
Tuesday at 2 p. m. |
The Steamer India*, C. D. Fry Master, leaves
Columbus every Tuesday morning at 9 a. u. Re
turning, leaves Chattahoochee every Thursday at
2 a. v. *
The Steamer Mist, A. Fry J/aster, leaves Colum
bus every Friday at 9a. m. Returning leaves Chat
tahooche every Sunday at 12 u.
jan 10 2m *
FOR SAL^!
ONE splendid near VELVET CA .IPET with Rug
to match. Apply at
jan 30 6t WARNOCK £ CO.'t.
NOTICE.
Orrici Graxt Factory, I
(Nov. 29, 1864. J
ALL persons having demands against the estate of
Daniel Grant, deceased, are hereby requested to 1
present them to the Grant Factory,
nov 30 ts JOHN J. GRANT. ‘
Sun copy and send bill to office Gran’ Factory.
COLUMBUS, GA. FRIDAY, FEB, 3. 1865.
DAILY TIMES,'
KMOilMi KIUTUIV
THURSDAY EVENING, FEB. 2, 1865.
Sheridan’s army in the Valley now consists
of only five regiments of infantry, and two
divisions, about six thousand, cavalry. The
remainder ot bis infantry has been sent to
Grant.
General Canly, the Federal commander at
New Orleans, has ordered a draft of one in
seven within the departments of Arkansas,
Mississippi and the gulf, to take place on the
15th of February, unless the quotas should
be previously filled by volunteers.
♦ +
The Lynchburg Republican of the 18th ult.,
says the damage to the Virginia salt works
would be repaired by to-morrow, and the
railroad as far west as Bristol by the middle
of February. The material injury done by the
Stoneman raid was to these works.
The Memphis Democrat says that the steam
er Verango was captured and burned by guer
rillas on the Bth ult., near Skipwith’s landing.
The passengers and crew were taken prison
ers ; among the former was a cotton specula
tor from New York, name not given, from
whom the guerrillas took §60,000 in green
backs.
The Louisville Journal of the 14th says
“ the loyal people of the North do not desire
the humiliation and ruin of the South. They
want peace upon terms compatible with the
honor and prosperity of every section. This
they will have, whether the returning wisdom
of the rebels shall lead them back to their al
legiance or the dread alternative remain of
achieving peace by war. ”
mm »
Reports from Mexico state that the Repub
lican army, under Perfidio Dias, had gained a
splendid victory over the Imperialists, and
that Ortega was besieging the eity of Morelia,
compelling, by this investment, the Imperial*
ists to evacuate the whole State of Jalisco.
Insurrectionary movements are Baid to be
greatly on the increase.
♦ ♦
The Richmond Examiner announces the action
of Congress in reference to the appointment of a
commander in chief. It says : The resolutions to
which we referred to yesterday aa having passed
the Confederate States Senate, (by a vote of twenty
to two,) creating the office of commander in chief
of all the armies of tho Confederacy, and recom
mending General Jchnston to be reinstated, have
been acted upon by the House of Representatives
in secret session. It is understood that they were
passed in tho latter branoh of Congress by a vote
sixty-two to fourteen.
He who sits down, says the Charleston Courier,
and with groans and tears bewail our great mis
fortunes, and contents himself with
to find a safe refuge tae 6v ils that darken
the futUle ; be who, under the despondency occa
sioned by untoward events, abandons himself to
despair, is unworthy the inestimable blessings we
are fighting and ensuring for; unworthy the gallant
men who have given their lives to our country.—
The crisis calls for the display of the qualities of
manhood. Patriotism counsels energy, courage,
patienee, self-sacrifice. We must look unpleasant
facts in the face, consider calamities in their full
proportions, contemplate the evils th&t threaten
us, and then resolve with solemn earnestness to do
our whole duty with all our hearts.
The Old Issue — The Act of Congress. —A
day or two sinee we published a telegram, eopied
from the Columbus (Miss.) Republic, purporting
to be from Mr. Trenholm, advising* the public
that the time for the redemption of the old issue
had been extended to April Ist, -IS<55. This was
erroneous. The Ist of July next is the day fixed
by Congresses will be seen by the following law
of Congress :
An Act to extend the time within which holders
of treasury notes of the old issue may exchange
the same for notes of the new issue.
The Congress of the Confederate States of Amer
ica do enact, That the time allowed by law for
holders of treasury note's of the old issue to ex
change the same for notes of the new issue, at the
rates prescribed by existing laws, shall be, and
the same is hereby, extended to the first day of
July, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-fire;
and the tax of one hundred per cent, imposed on
exchangeable treasury notes of the old issue out
standing on the ifirst day of January, eighteen
hundred and sixty five, be, and the same is hereby
suspended until the first day of July, eighteen
hundred and sixty-five, om whieh day said tax
shall attach and operate on said notes then un'ex
changed; and said exchangeable notes of the old
issue shall, until the said first day of July, eigh
teen hundred and sixty-fire, continue to be receiv
able in payment of public dues, in the same raan
-•»» and to the same extent in which they are now
M* under existing laws,
- u #cem ber 29, 1864.
*
Singleton’s tu.’ 85 * 011,
Washington, Jan. 15, 1365. — Singleton,
the peace Democratic envoy to Jeff. a^ 13 ’ dld
not leave Baltimore until Thursday. _ e a3
detained by fogs and storms on the Ch<_'* a *
peake. It is not generally known that he
came here directly from Clay and Thompson
in Canada. Sack is the fact! It is not dis
guised that the interest which organized the ;
mission is .willing to attain peace at the Co3t of
recognition, and its leaders say frankly that
the majority of the people of the United States,
and especially of the Western States, are will
ing and aching to do so. Singleton’s mission
has for its purpose simply to ascertain upon
what terms Jeff Davis would be willing to
make peace. He expects, as I understand, to
bring back the independence of the Confede
rate States as the first of these terms. Ex
tremists of the Democratic Peace Congress
men say that this condition, while it is the
choice of the rebels, is our necessity. They
say we have got to accept it, and otherwise '
scramble out of the war before the first of
April, or we will find ourselves in a war with
France as well as with the South.
The verdict of the people on the Bth of No
vember last seems to be forgotten by these
men, or else not comprehended. The influence
of the peace rumors and the peace feeling in
New York on Friday, which was strongly felt
here, has disappeared. No one expects now
any termination of the war except through the
submission of the rebels. All feel that while
slavery exists, by law or in fact, peace i3 im
po^ible.—Co ~ FhrG" Piper.
Sherman’s March Through Georgia.
The army correspondent of the New York
World gives the following picture of ihe pro
gress of Sherman's army through Georgia :
THE SPECTACLE.
Considered as a spectacle, the march ot Gen.
Sherman’s army surpassed, in some respects,
all marches in history. The flames of a city
lighted its beginning; desolation, which in
one sense is sublime, marked all its progress
to the sea. Its end is a beautiful possession
—a city spared from doom.
Underneath smiling skies, cooled by airs
balmy as a breath of a northern summer., the
army of the West slowly transforming itself
into the army of the East, moved from sunset
to sunrise through a territory rich in all things
wherein the theories of statisticians hud de
clared it poor. Food in gardens, food in cel
lars, stock in fields, stock in barns, poultry
everywhere, appeared in the distance, disap
peared in the presence, and was borne away
upon the knapsacks and bayonets of thousands
of soldiers.
Anew El Dorado, too, was this heart of the
South. Money—bright gold, Bhining silver—
plucked from closets, and stockings, and
burial places by the wayside enriched the in
vader.
The soldier has his whims—the tail feath
ers of peacoeks dropped and scintillated along
the moving columns from the crests of infan
trymen and troopers.
Jokes, and laughter, and songs, alid the
tasting of the sweets of the honey and sor
ghum, relievedthe weary, tramping over fields,
and roads, and bridges, through a month of
days.
The cavalry sweep the pathway of guerril
las ; the clang of their hoofs and sabres re-
Bounded through the glens to right, to left,
and in the front. Swift and terrible, and not
always just, were the strokes of their arms,
the work of their hands. Pioneers along a
march of desolation forty miles In width, and
three hundred miles in length, their labor
Was too swift to be discriminating.
The great army—over the lands and in the
dwellings of the poor and rich alike, through
towns and cities—like a roving wave, swept
and paused, reveled and surged on. In the
day time, the splendor, the toil, the desolation
of the march ; in the night time, the brilliance,
the gloom, the music, the joy and the slumber
of the camp.
Memorable the music “that mocked the
moon” of November on the soil of Georgia;
sometimes a triumphant march, sometimes a
glorious waits, again an old air stirring the
heart alike to recollection and to hope. Float
ing out from throats of brass to the ears of
soldiers in their blankets and generals within
their tents, these tunes hallowed the eves to
all who listened.
Sitting before his tent in the glow of a camp
fire one evening, General Sherman let his ci
gar go out to listen to an air that a distant
band was playing. The musicians ceased at
last. The general turned to one of his offi
cers :
“ Send an orderly to ask that band to play
that tune again.”
A little while, and the band received the
word. The tune was “The Blue Juniata,”
with exquisite variations. The band played
it again, even more beautifully than before.
Again it ceased, and then off to the right, near
ly a quarter of a mile away, the voices of some
soldiers took it up with words. The band,
and still another band played a low accompa
niment ; camp after camp began singing; the
music of “The Blue Juianta” beeame, for a
few minutes, the oratoria of half an army.
Baek, along the whole wide pathway of this
grand mareh from border t£_ coast, the- eye
glimpses Os Scenes whose savage and
poetic images an American, five years ago,
would have thought never could have been
revived from the romantic past. Pictures
swarm in fields and glens and by the banks of
rivers.
A halt at high noon by a village—a besieg
j ing of houses by troops—soldiers emerging
from the doorways and backyards, bearing
coverlids, plates, poultry and pigs—bee hires
attacked, honey in the hands and smearing
faces of the boys—hundreds of soldiers poking
hundreds of bayonets in the corners of yards
and gardens after concealed treasure—here
and there a shining, tinkling prize, and shout
ing and scrambling, and a merry division of
the spoils. In the background, women with
praying hands and beseeching lips, unheeded.
Night near a railraid depot—a roar of fires
—a shouting of voices—thousands of men rip
! ping up the ties and rails heating them, twist-,
ing them, casting them down—axes at work
—the depot and buildings and wood piles
ablaze—a pictufesqueand tumultuous scenery
of savage faces, lit by a lurid gleam.
The march by day—winding column?, glit
tering musket barrel, glowing flags, generals’
cavalcades wagon trains, stragglers and
thousands of negroes in the rear, stretching
I over miles—a country of level fields, crossed
! by streams, broken occasionally by swamps and
patches of forest—the distant smoke of fires,
ragged villagers and ragged hovels by the
way. at intervals a woman’s face peering out
| from a door or window, quickly closed—at
time3 a negro family, voluble with questions,
, thanking God for the advent, and joining the
march with their kind in the rear,
The camp by night—a faint glow of camp
fires through miles of darkness, the cooking
o£ suppera everywhere—laughter and talk,
card playing, smoking, music, and the sound
of horses’ hoofs near and far—mes3-tent3, a
murmur with good cheer, growing silence, a
fainter glow of fires, a tumbling into blankets,
slumber on all the field.
Clank, dank, through the dusk, through the
forest, go the cavalry men’s sabers. Their march
es esase not at night; they go forth to discover cr
I to surprise. Before the day they have sent a
I guerrilla party headlong ; they have anticipated
I the dawn with aa illumination.
The streams are cool and clear by many a difT
and wood. Here, “naked and not ashamed,” a
; hundred soldiers>bathe within the waters. Their
clothes and arms are slang upon the banks; their
bodies gleam and spiafh ihiv. I }* ripples. ,Their
laughter rings harsh and loud, low and musical,
i while moving ranks upon the bridge above go by.
Down by towns and cities, and plantations to
the tilfl pageant and the wrath moves to the
n „_"„ n 'uque*t which at last is ours, and the cur
tain falls u P oa another completed act of a drama
which shall’S^ on - howlaDS?
IMCIDENTS.
r- . ~ ustrating the influence of s
i inC . ldents > worst class of troops-rap
lu. for gain upon the reaf &nd flanks #f erery
scallions who infest the , ?e ores that might be
army-are only two amon 4 \ onox#d , and respected
narrated. A judge, aged, tobave be en gifted
in hiS district, and supposed whieh wa < 80me
witn a good snare of wealth, refusad t 0 discloie
where concealeu, *nd which aa ’ upoa him aboat
to a partyef soldiers who called s j tb « neck be
dusk, was bung up three w him. A young
*OSO the secret ceuM be wrung fron» was stripped
girl, in one of the middle counties, > ’hat condi
naked by some stragglers, and kept in v eof the’
tion until she disclosed the hidin» plac
family stocking. a ' urrv.
Governor Brown left Milledgerille in a h
Not having leisure to take u P his carpets prop*.
he £ ! tacks, leaving the bordei
hehind. His residence was in a woful state
Herschei Johnson s residence, near Davisbom
was completely despoiled. His silver pi.ri Jnd
household ornament* became H .
the troops. Een hG / proMrf 7 of
io *• b “' j * w “
Oo to, appMr.os. of tie »m 7, ,b, pr ., pri , M
of the chief hotel in Milledgeville decamped, leav
ing the building and its contents in charge of an
old lady. Gens. Sherman and Slocum made their
headquarters at the hotel while in Milledgeville.
It appeared that the old lady in charge, collecting
all the valuables of the house, had deposited them
in a certain closet, the key t > which Col. Ewen, of
General Sherman’s staff, borrowed in his official
capacity, to-ascertain what was within. Having
explored to his satisfaction, he ncgloctod to lock
the door of his eloseton his departure. The rank
and file found out the cupboard, plunged into it in
accordance with the maxim that “all is fair in
love and war,” and half an hour thereafter a chaste
variety of spoons, knives, and forks, silver
ware and crockery, was flourishing in the arms
and hands of a hundred soldiers.
Our Reverses—The Army.
The vial ot wrath seems not to have been
completely exhausted with the fall of Savau
nah. Fort Fisher lias also fallen. We had ex
pected this long since. Indeed, we did not see
how it was possible tor an isolated fortress to
stand the reiterated attacks of such an arma
ment as was brought against it. It fell by
the assault of overwhelming numbers. It
could never have been taken by sea.
We have had occasion frequently to remark
that ill-fortune never comes singly. When it
once begins, it is pretty sure to run its course.
The only way to meet it is with an invincible
firmness, which must, in the end, tire out.
This we hope and believe our people are pre
pared to do. It is wonderful, indeed, that we
have any seaport remaining, that the enemy,
possessing such a fleet as he has at command,
and we having none at all, he did not sweep
all of them before the second year of the war
had been brought to a close.
The loss of Fort Fisher involves,' \ye sup
pose, the stopping of the blockade running.
In future, we shall have no importations from
Europe. This will be a great inconvenience,
certainly, but by no means decides the ques
tion of independence or subjugation. That
question has yet to be settled on the battle
field, where we have nothing to fear as long
as our enemies are not more than three to
one.
The Confederacy can survive the loss of
Fort Fisher, and of Mobile and every other sea
port in its possession. But it cannot survive
the decay of spirit and the loss of determina
tion on the part of its people. That is a thing
which it has more cause to fear than all other
things put together. Let the people but be
firm—let them show a determination to resist
to the last man and the last dollar—and the
capture of our seaperts will not be of the im
portance we are apt to assign to it. We lost
New Orleans, and survived it; we lost the
navigation of the Mississippi, and survived it;
we lost Savannah, and survived it. We can,
therefore, we suggest, stand the loss of Fort
Fisher.
General Grant, in a conversation lately with
a Confederate officer, paid the Confederate sol
diers the tribute of saying that they were the
most gallant troops in the world upon the
battle-field, but claimed for his own mongrel
assortment of negroes, Dutchmen, Yankees
and Irismen, the credit of superior persever
ance. The claim is not just. No people ever
persevered more heroically than our troops
have done. Had Grant’s myrmidons ever been
subjected to one half the privations they have
endured, they would have disbanded long ago.
They have been fighting one to three all the
war. They have endured the extremes of cold
and hunger in a manner that has never been
surpassed. They have never beer, beaten but
by superior numbers. If they had no + been the
most persevering troops that ever, trod the
battle-field they would have been subdued
years ago. The Yankees could never stand
what they have stood.
Had their fields been wasted, their towns
burned, their women and children murdered
and insulted, as oars have been, they woulc}
have given up long ago. To be sure, after
having been beaten, having unlimited resour
ces at command, they have been enabled to
recruit and come back ; but they have always
had a full commissariat, an overwhelming
treasury, plenty of clothes, and plenty of med
icines, while we have been wofully deficient
in all these points. They would never have
persevered as our poor boy3 have done.
And they will continue to persevere. What
ever croakers and traitors may say at home to
excite dismay and weaken the cause, the army
is true to the backbone. It is full of life and
vivacity, sanguine of success, and careless of
the labors and perils by which it is to be won.
In that noble army we place our faith. They
do not despair of the Republic, and until they
do, nobody ought. —Richmond Whig.
[Special to the New York World.]
Mr. Blair’s Mission.
Its Precise, Object Ascertained—The Terms of
Peace to be Proposed.
Washington, Jau. 11.—Rumor is very busy
to-day with the mission of Francis P. Blair to
Richmond. The truth of the matter has leak
ed out and is as follows :
Mr. Blair has gone to the rebel capital with
the full knowledge and consent of President
Lincoln, and is clothed with all the.authority
requisite for opening negotiations with Jeff.
Davis, with a view to restore peace to the
country. There is no doubt about this, nor
will the rebel authorities be the least incredu
lous of Mr. Biair’s official charaeter when he
shows his credentials.
It is also true that his instructions as to the
terms to be offered to the Richmond Govern
ment are embraced within these three dis
tinct propositions, each and ail of which are
final, viz:
1. Amnesty to all, without regard to age,
sex or position, and irrespective of what he,
or they may have done since the war began.
This includes all the rebel civil and military
officials from Jeff. Davis down.
2. The Constitution as it is and the Union
as it was. Os course some radical changes
in both the Union and the Constitution have
been made by the party now in power, which
will not be altered in the least. But the point
is. that the South is to be permitted to return
to the Union with all the rights and privile
ges which it held before any of the States se
ceded.
3. The total abolition of slavery. From
this point the President will not retract one
iota. He doe3 not insist upon the immediate
abolition of slavery, but he does insist that
such measures be taken by the Southern States
as will secure its extinction within a reasona
ble length of time. Thi3 is a sine qua non of
the restoration of peace.
Such are the chief features of the proposi
tions which Mr. Blair ie authorized to lay be
fore the Confederate authorities. Whether
they will be accepted or not, is yet to be seen.
More About Blair. —The National Intelli-
geneer lays :
We have received from a very higu source a
version of the result of the mission of Mr. Blair,
as follows :
“Mr. B'aironlv wont to Richmond in his pri
vate capacity, was most kindly received and had
a conversation of an hoar or so with Jefferson
Davis, bat that conversation, ‘without any remit,
was.strictly private between gentlemen, and will
at be divulged even to the President—certainly
u no one elae. Mr. Blair expected no result ”
! tw e Herald's correspondent giro* rhi* version:
-a- ewrTwhiff teindly received, an 1 had
1 free con relations with Mr. Daria and
k. • a ,a #r3 0 f tja leading men of the .South,
.« numb *•'
/ SIX DOLLARS
l PER MONTH.
*"V
hiit. Ok« rc »t; > and ic nothing <le£r.l*e.
,'Tn* su.ry publi.* in the Richmond Dispatch
of Saturday, is aii bosh. No propositions, either
written or verbal, were made by Mr. Davis to Mr.
Blair, nor was he made the bearer of any to tats
government. As far as political aflars arc con
cerned, his Lnis.- '>n wa< wi aout rosu’t.
Ucconstrurtion.
Unito ? k( w will you gather up
The fragments of cur broken laws ?
Their hanus hare filled the bitter cup
Os hat ?. The arm of vengeance draw?
Its sword with a convulsive start.
To smite submission to the heart
Reunion ? yes! when you can raise
Tale thousands from their sleep of death.
When light from sightless eyes shall blaze,
And rotting forms rejoice in breath,
When blood that flecked a hundred plains,
Shall leap again through living veins.
Submit? to wrongs that needs must send
A shudder through a tyrant’s frame ?
To deeds ofveekiog crime that blend,
Their lurid glare, boeloudiug fame ?
Connive at outrage, shame and guilt ?
Ignore the blood that freemen spilt?
No! Heaven ! like a thunder shout
Burst from each clotted bat I#plain,
From every wouml-moutb guphe- out
A curse that throbs through every vein.
Os timid caitiff who would frame
That fabric of eternal shame.
. The Gold Market —A Grand Tumble.
The Richmond Dispatch, of the dlsi ult ,
has the following:
The decline in gold has beou very rapid
within the past four days. On Thursday the
brokers refused to buy at fifty, and a number
of hoarders ot specie were upon the street,
anxious to sell. Yesterday gold was very dull
at 47 to 48. In the afternoon, several small
sums were sold at the latter price, though the
market, at & later tour, had a downward ten
dency.
Several causes have combined to bring about
this effect: the strenuous measures recom
mended by Mr. Trenholm, Secretary of the
Treasury, to Congress ; the decided action of
that body in determining, by a vote of 43 yeas
to 81 nays, to seize all the cotton and tobacco
th« Confederacy on Government account;
and the closing of the port of Wilmington.
The scheme of finance now determined up
on, and likely to be carried into effect, may
be comprehensively 3tated thus : The cotton
and tobacco of the country, having been made
the property of the Government, the Secreta
ry of the Treasury will proceed, under autho
rity of Congress, to borrow specie, giving cot
ton and tobaeco as security. This specie will
be speedily applied to the redemption of a
large portion of the Confederate notes now
afloat at a moderate discount.* No more notes
to be issued by the Department; but the in
coming currency to be used for Government
expenditure or canceled. The cotton and to
bacoo seiied will be paid for in Confederate
money at the market rates, (gold being the
basis,) at the rate of discount fixed by the
Secretary of the Treasury in the redemption
of the currency. An effort will be made to
reduce the volume of the currency to a cer
tain amount, and, if possible, to prevent its
increase.
This course of policy, although not formal
ly entered upon, ha 9, nevertheless, already
been somewhat effective.
The fall of Fort Fisher, and the eubsequeut
.closing of the port of Wilmington, though
deemed disastrous in a military point of view,
has necessarily diminished the value of gold
by lessening the demand. The public are not
aware of the vast amount of influence exercis*
ed over the gold market by the operations of
the blockade running at Wilmington. From
$20,000 to SIOO,OOO in gold were required to
meet the weekly demands of the buyers, and
nearly all the gold drawn from the market
flowed out through that channel.
On Monday morning last, one thousand
dollars in gold were sold at sixty-two and a
half in Confederate money for one in specie.
Two hoars afterward came the news of the
fall of Fort Fisher. Immediately gold rose
to seventy-one, and for several continu*
ed to advance, through the combined influ
ence of the brokers, till it reached seventy-*
six; but here it stopped, and has since had a
steady downward tendency.
So far, then, as the monetary affairs of the
Confdeeracy are concerned, our prospects are
brighter than for many days past; and should
our currency continue to improve under the
wholesome treatment now advised and in con
templation, our prospects in other points of
view cannot grow worse.
> mm - -
Important Circular from Gen. WhfelCr.
HxAPQPAJtTgItB Ca.vai.rt Corfs, |
Lawtonville, S. C„ Jan. 20, 1805.
While passing through Georgia, it occasionally
happened that citizens having abandoned their
plantations no one eould be found with whom to
make settlements for forage and rations, whioh
it beoame necessary to purchase for the subsist
ence of my command. Cases also occurred where,
from the inefficiency of bonded officers, receipts
were necessarily left, instead of regular certified
accounts.
It would aid us in making these settlements, if
all citizens would forward to me full written
statements of the circumstances under which sup
plies were taken without being fully settled for
by regular certified accounts of bonded officers.
In cases where no receipts were given the state
ments should be in the form of affidavits, sup
ported by the affidavit* es two disinterested par
ties, which should in all cases be in duplicate.—
The Regiment, Brigade or Division should be
given, when possible. In cases where informal
receipts were given, a copy of the reeeipt in each
case should accompany the statement.
J. Whkblbr, Major General.
A Dinner to the Army of Tennessee.
We heartily indorse the following proposition
from the LaGrange Reporter of the 27th inst. :
At the suggestion of a patriotic young lady, we
present a proposition to tho people of Georgia
and South Carolina, with a request that the press
extend the proposition, that a dinner be gotten
up for the Army of Tennessee, on the plan of the
dinner given to the Virginia army—the dinner t<>
be given as soon as the railroad connections are
made so that the provisions can be forwarded.
There is nothing, we know, that the people of
these States would take more pride in doing than
this faint expression of their appreciation of the
arduous and toilsome and dangerous services that
these brave meu have rendered to their country.
Would not every heart in Georgia, Alabama and
South Carolina respond liberally to such a task of
love and honor to our brave boy* ? When we
think of the kindly feelings such a treat to oar
soldiers would inspire into the hearts of us at
home, and the expression of appreciation it would
carry with it to the brave war-worn soldiers- of the
noble Army of Tennessee, our heart swells with
emotion we cannot describe. We know other peo
ple are not less patriotic, and will respond to this
proposition, suggested by one of the fairest and
most patriotie young ladies of the Sunny South,
with a liberality equal to the occasion.
Will not cur brethren of the pr#*3 arouse
the people upon this subject? Let os take this
matter in hand and push it forward at once, so
that we may give the proposed dinner its goon as
practicable.
Major Gen’l Wade Hampton. —It is with
unfeigned pleasure that we announce the ar
rival in South Carolina, at this juncture, of
Major General Wade Hampton. This gallant
general, who. on forty battle fields, has won
the reputation of being a fighting geaerai, i3
ever welcomed home, but doubly so now. He
is Wanted here. We trust the commission of
a lieutenant general will be awarded him. for
services rendered, and place him in-his groper
; sphere here. — Mercury.
For OiattafcoArlwe and Raiuhridge«
The Steamer MIST, Abe Fry, master, will leave
for the above dUd all intermediate landings,
Friday morning, at 9 o’clock,
feb I—td1 —td
For Sale.
4 FEW GOOD MILCH COWS, with calves
A Apply to T- J. GILMORE.
jan *1 4t Broad Street
fwolcl lor Sale.
ANE THOUSAND DOLLAR.' ?N GOLD or sal®.
V J. F. WINTER.
. Ex hance Brok er,
31 iw At Paper Mi. A m ice.