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DAILY TIMES,
J. W. WARREX, - - - Editor.
COLUMBUS:
Friday Morning. February 3, 186*.
The appointment by President Davi3 of the
peace commission to Washington cannot but re
sult in good to our cause. If peace shall crown
the labors of the commission, everybody eicept
perhaps a few pampered extortioners, will re
joice. If, on the contrary, our overtures are
rejected, our people will understand, with a
clearness that excludes all douM, that the
enemy is bent upon our subjugation, and they
will enter the contest with renewed ardor aad
with an energy and determination that will
command success. We 3hall hear no more of
peace conventions and “convocation of States,’’
but every nran, who is not an arrant coward
or a double-dyed traitor will bare his arm for
h vigorous prosecution of the war. The coun
try feels assured that Messrs. Hunter, Stephens
and Campbell will do all in their power to
secure an honorable adjustment. No other
kind of settlement will they attempt to make )
nor is it desired or desirable. The announce
ment by them that submission is the only
basis upon which negotiation will be enter
tained by the enemy will re-inspire the army
and re-kindle the fires of ’6l in every bosom.
The Way a Patriot Feels and Writes.
We are pernditted to make the following extract
from a letter written by a soldier iu Lee’s army to
a relation in this city :
The men in this army are not discouraged nor
disheartened by anything they see in the military
condition of the country. They have gone through
too many bloody passes and have trod too many
battle-fields to despond just because Sherman,
with a well appointed and powerful army has
marched rough shod through an undefended State.
They yet believe that the Confederacy will con
quer and, what is more and better, they intend
that, it shall conquer. But we want yon who are
at home to do better —to quit talking and acting
like we were whipped. Quit whining about peace.
I don’t know when I felt so outraged as when I
saw iu some paper that a few traitors in Thomas
county, in old Georgia, wore about to call, or had
called,a peace meeting. The people at home might
as well know now as at any time that this army
will have independence. God knows they want
peace, their hearts yearn for it, but they will not
have it at the price of liberty and honor, and the
traitors who think that, while most of the true men
are in the field, it will be a good time for them
to get together and hatch out some sort of a peace,
may as well know that their labor will be in vain.
If they were off to themselves they might be per
mitted to do with themselves and their rights
what they pleased, but they have no right to vote
away the liberties of the men whom they have
sent to the field; and who have labored and bled
and are still laboring and fighting to defend them.
» * * * *
Suppose the people of Georgia were to meet in
a convention and, the traitors being in a majority,
they shoul.d vote themselves back into the infernal
Union. Think you this army would respect their
action? Think you we would not still draw
bread from Georgia, and use her railroads for
transportation of troops and supplies ? You may
be sura we would, and you may be sure of another
thing, and .that is that when the Georgians in the
army went home, they would ferret out and hang
the last devil of them that, tried to make slaves of
freemen.
Good Words from Richmond.
We bad the pleasure of a conversation, on
yesterday, says the Raleigh .Confederate, with
a very intelligent gentleman, just arrived from
Richmond, where he had opportunities of as
certaining, with reliable accuracy, the condi
tion of affairs. First, we are pleased to learn
that Vice President Stephens is open and un
qualified in his denunciation of reconstruc
tion. He expresses the most unbounded con
fidence in our success, and is determined very
soon to visit Georgia and address the people,
to urge them still further to resist the inva
der. Vice President Stephens, by his present
earnestness in the cause, is attracting the con
fidence of his associates, and his room i3
thronged with the eminent men of the nation.
It is no| too late for Mr. Stephens to do much
good. He can at least do a great deal to rem
edy the mischief which his unfortunate views
have contributed to work.
Our informant also had an interview with
the President. He had not been prepared to
be very partial to President Davis, but he wa3
most agreeably disappointed. We would be
glad to use the glowing eulogy passed by our
informant upon the distinguished head of the
nation. It was most eloquent. Among other
things, he said with deep feeling, “ I left his
presence, after a most kind, courteous and
agreeable reception, deeply impressed with
the conviction that he i3 a whole-souled, ear
nest, devoted, unselfish patriot, whose life,
and heart, and mind are yielded up to the
cause. ”
This gentleman, after an association with
the very leaders in Richmond, is satisfied “ that
important events are about to transpire of
the most encouraging character: that Lin
coln’s Government and people know that our
subjugation is impossible. ” “ But, ” says he, ■
“they are laboring might and main to throw
their whole strength upon us in the next few
weeks. Against this end preparations are be
ing made. ”
Ciiar.LrsTOx.—Six blockade runners, with
valuable cargoes, reached Charleston a few
evenings since. Cotton has advanced in that
city to S3 per pound.
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From the Frost. —There was some little
flutter iu the streets of our city to-day, says
the Augusta Constitutionalist of the 29th ult.,
occasioned by the presence of two Yankee gun
boats at Sister’s Ferry, one hundred miles
below this, on the Savannah river. It is also
reported that some enterprising Federals had
moved out on the road to this ciy. These
are evidently foraging parties, sent out to get
rice, and no apprehension need be felt by our
dyspeptic citizens.
A telegram from Washington to the New York
Tribune gives an inkling of a grand scheme to be
carried out by Sherman. It sßys :
One of the results of Secretary Stanton’s visit to
Savannah is to solve a doubt as to the soundness
•f General Sherman on the negro question. This
soldier’s views t.nd policy are those of the Govern
ment. His treatment of the negroes of Savannah
has inspired them with confidence, and they rely
on him wholly. He has borne in his heart, a
great schme for the benefit of their race in Georgia,
and it is understood here that the country will be
electrified in a f«Wr days by an order from him par
titioning among them the abandoned sea island
property ot fugitive rebel planters, and establish
ing thorn in their new freeholds, and laying the
oundat.on of anew social condition in the South,
„ superstructure but few politicians in the
country are new permitted clearly to see.
Front* tk» Quincy 'F* Dispatch
Term* of Peaee.
Quincy. Jan. 24, 1865.
Mr. Editor: The following extract Horn a
letter written by that wise man and staunch
patriot, Benjamin Franklin, during the dark
est days of the first Revolution, I commend
to the consideration of your readers Per
haps its publication now in your paper, may
be of benefit to some in our community.
It no doubt will warm the heart and nerve
the arm of the true and tried patriots in our
midst, and encourage them to still labor and
suffer and battle on for their country's inde
pendence. And it is hoped, that its perusal
will arouse and inspire the lukewarm with a
new zeal for the interest of the great cause,
and that the noble sentiments it expresses
will induce even the “croaker’’ and “whipped
man’’ of these times, to banish his doubts and
fears, and putting on his armor again, resolve
to prove himself worthy to be called a man ;
! or else may it induce him to shut hia coward
lips, if he does nothing more.
Let the reader note the terms proposed by
| Great Britain to the colonies—Peaae on Sub
, mission—exactly similar in substance to those
offered to us by the United States Government.
Are there those among us who desire our Go
: vernment to accept these terms? If there arc,
: let them reflect upon the situation in which
we would be placed by acceding to such a
proposition. Now, the heroism and gallantry
displayed by us in the unequal struggle in
which we are engaged, command the attention
and elicit the admiration of the world ; then,
we would be degraded and forgotten as a peo
ple; and if remembered, remembered only as
traitors and rebels. Even the Yankees, who
would then become our law-makers, and in
fact our masters, would entertain lor us no
feelings of respect, and would never permit
us to enjoy with them equal rights under Hie
same Government. The heavy debt contract
ed by them in the prosecution of this cruel
war would have to be paid, and our property
would be used for this purpose. In a word,
we would be made the “ hewer3 of wood and
drawers ot water” for the Yankee.
But this is not all; after peace, made on
such terms, the military law would be dispens
ed with and the civil law would be put in
force, as indicated by a late letter of Sherman,
and then would coma numberless trials and
executions for treason. Instead of losing life
on the battle field, fighting for home and coun
try, honor and loved ones and all that is dear
to man, it would be taken from us on the gal
lows. I love peace, Mr. Editor, and long for
its return to our suffering country, but I pre
fer war with all its horrors, its hardships and
trials, to peace made on such terras. Would
that our whole people could bacome inspired
with the spirit that actuated our forefathers,
and feel that the insuiting offer of peace made
by our enemy, “can have no other effect than
that of increasing our resentments,” and that
“it is impossible to. think of submission to a
Government” which has treated U3 with such
“wanton barbarity and cruelty.”
Yours, &c., . B.
During the progress of our Srst Revolution,
tbe British commander, Lord Howe, wrote a
friendly letter to Benj. Franklin, communica
ting what purported to be terms of peace and
reunion.
Dr. Franklin answered.
“I received also the letters you. Lordship
so kindly forwarded to me. and oeg you to ac
cept my thanks.
“The official dispatches to which you refer
me, contained nothing more than what we had
seen in act of Parliament, viz : Offers of par
don upon submission, which I was sorry to
find ; as it must give your Lordship pain to be
sent so far upon so hopeless a business.
“Directing pardons to be offered to the Co
lonies, who are the very parties injured—ex
pressed, indeed, that opinion of our ignorance,
baseness and insensibility, which your unin
jured and proud nation has long been pleased
to entertain of ns; but it can have no other
effect than that of increasing our resentments.
“ It is impossible we should think of sub
mission to a Government that has, with the
moat wanton barbarity and cruelty, burned
our defenseless towns in the midst of winter;
excited the savages to massacre our (peace
ful) farmers, aud our slaves to murder their
masters; and is now even bringing foreign
mercenaries to deluge our settlements with
blood. These atrocious injuries have extin
guished every spark of affection for that par
ent country we once held so dear; but were
it possible for us to forget and forgive them,
it is not possible for you (I mean the British
nation) to forgive the people you have so
heavily injured. You can never confide again
in these as fellow subjects, and permit them
to enjoy equal freedom, to whom you know
you have given such just causes of lasting en
mity ; and must impel you, were we again
under your Government, to endeavor the
breaking of our spirit by the severest tyranny,
and obstructing by every means in your pow
er our growing strength and prosperity.”
The Peace Question.
The New York News says: The peace ru
mors which have been several days iu circula
tion still form the chief topic of consideration
and discussion. It is sincerely hoped by all
who have the welfare of the country at heart
that the movements now on foot will develop
some means for terminating the present des
tructive conflict; but, on the other hand, it is
feared that the terms which the President is
inclined to propose, and with which Mr. Blair
is said to be acquainted, will not prove accep
table to the Confederate authorities.
Mr. Blair is probably now in Richmond, and
a few days will bring intelligence of the suc
cess or failure of his mission. He was preced
ed to the Confederate capital by Gen. Single
ton, of Illinois, but it is not true that there is
any connection between the missions of the
two gentlemen. Mr. Blair went South with
authority to meet the Confederate leaders, and
endeavor to ascertain upon what terms they
are willing to agree ; but Gen. Singleton was
merely allowed to go to Richmond at his own
request, and because his position as a repre
sentative of the peace men would enable him
to reach the confidence of Jefferson Davis and
his Cabinet. Nothing is positively known of
the terms which Mr. Blair is authorized to offer,
and therefore all reports that he is empowered
to offer a general amnesty, and require only
the complete abolition of slavery as a condi
tion of peace on the basis of the Union, are
unreliable. It was not known that Mr. Blair
would make a second attempt to reach Rich
mond until after he had started for City Point,
and the nature of the mission with which he j
was entrusted has not since been divulged by !
the President, nor by any official acquainted
with it.
One of the repsrts that gained currency yes
terday, and has been a topic of conversation
to-day, is to this effect: The Confederate 6on
gress are said to have passed a resolution 1
about two weeks ago, appointing fifteen com- !
missioners to meet and confer with an equal j
. number of Northern men upon the subject of
peace. The names of nine prominent South-
ern gentlemen are mentioned in common with
the commission. It should be borne in mind,
however, that the resolution required the ap
pointment of an equal number of commission
ers bv the North, and as no such step has been
taken by the administration, it follows that
the report that the commissioners are about
to meet is without foundation. Mr. Blair and
Gen. Singleton are the only gentlemen known
to be at present engaged on behalf of the North
in an effort to negotiate a basis of peace, and
it is ardently hoped they will succeed.
From North Carolina. —The N. Y. Herald
savs : “ It is said that the rebels have anew
and very formidable ram nearly completed up
the Roanoke river, in Noi'th Carolina, which
thev design to shortly move down that stream
simultaneously with'the descent ontne Xeuse
river bv the one which they have at Kinston,
and it is probably intended that while the lat
ter ah attack on the Union forces at
Newbern, the former shall attempt to regain
possession of Plymouth. Efforts are being
made by our forces at the latter place to raise
the sunken Albemarle, and if this end ever
should succeed, it is thought that with her
and a light draught monitor, which is expect
; ed to arrive, the rebel 'attack can be easily
I repulsed.”
The .Ne>ts
Jut city wa3 tuii of rumors yesterday mor
ning. to tne effect that an armistice of ninety
days had been agreed upon between the Con
federate and Uni tad States: and some went so
far as to state that white flags were flying from
; the hostile dines below Richmond. These sto
ries were the offspring of idie fancies. So far
’ from there being an armistice between the bel
i iigerents, there was more of active war yes
i terday on the lines below here than there has
j been since last November. Our ram3 and
small wooden boats started down the river at
an early hour, with the design, it is supposed,
of damaging the Yankee pontoon bridges near
Deep Bottom, their shipping, and, if fortune
favored, their store houses at Bermuda Hund
red and City Point.
No official intelligence ba3, as far as we
have been able to learn, been received from
the expedition; but the unofficial reports
which reach us, and which we believe are, in
the main, correct, are most unfavorable. It
seems that all went smoothly with the expe
dition until the obstructions were reached
which the enemy sunk in Trent's reach last
summer. In at’empting to pass them, the
Biewry—a very small boat carrying two guns
—got aground and was opened upon by the
enemy’s batteries : a 100-pound shot pene
trated her magazine and blew her up. Os the
rest of the deer, the Fredericksburg alone
! passed the obstructions, and she soon put
I Back, it being thought unwise for her to pro
'cr ,and alcme. We have not been able to learn
whether the expedition wa3 then given up, or
whether the attempt to carry it out was sub
i sequently renewed. Constant cannonading
was heard in tbe direction of Dutch Gap dur*
! ing the morning. It is said we suffered no
! casualties by the blowing up of the Drewry,
j she. we presume, being abandoned before she
was struck.
There was a report yesterday morning, which
found believers, that we had recaptured Fort
Harrison. We have no reason to believe that
any advance was made during the day by our
land forees, though we think it likely our mor
tars shelled tbe fort for a time.
It is astonishing how difficult a matter it is
to ascertain the truth of what occurs on our
lines, eight miles from the city. One would
suppose-that-after four year3 of war our sys
tem of communication should be more perfect;
that the War Office should be able at any time
to give information of what is transpiring on
the lines nearest the city, and'to correct false
raports. But this is so far from being the
case, that we have constantly to look to the
New York papers for news from Dutch Gap
and it3 neighborhood.
Mr. F. P. Blair was still in the city last eve
ning. He arrived here on Saturday evening,
dined with the President on Sunday, and has
had several interviews with him since. What
has transpired during these interviews is pos
itively not known, the President having not
even made any communication to his Cabinet
on the subject. We must await Mr. Blair’s
► return to the North, and then scan the New
York Tribune for the facts. Mr. Blair will
probably leave by the flag of truce boat which
goes down the river this morning.
The Confederate Senate on yesterday trans
ferred to the secret calendar the House bill to
provide more effectually for tbe reduction and
redemption of the currency.— [Rich. Dis. 25 th.
From Washington,
The following Washington dispatches are
published:
B3TAUATION.
The Senate Military Committee have under
consideration the proposition to retaliate for
the treatment of our prisoners. It is proposed
in a measure which is in preparation, that all
rebel prisoners in our possession shall be
treated in every respect in the same manner
as ours. The committee are fully impressed
that steps should be taken at once by the
Government in this matter. Senator Lane
has been urging upon tbe committee, that
Union officers who have been confined in
Southern prisons, but now released, shall be
placed in command of our prison camps.
THB CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
Bj a careful count of the House of Repre«
sentatives, it is evident tbat the constitutional
amendment abolishing slavery, could have
passed on Friday last bad Dumont, of Indiana,
and Blair, of West Virginia, been in their
3ea*s: Owing to their absence the final vote
was postponed. • -.
ARRIVAL OF GEN. BUTLER.
In obedience to a summons of the Committee on
the Conduct of the War, Gen. Butler arrived here
at noon to-day. He is accompanied by Mrs. and
Miss Butler, and one of the junior officers of his
staff. Gen. Butler visited the War and Navy de
partments to day, and is to appear before the com
mittee to morrow, when ho will open his budget of
orders and despatches, and show that he went to
Wilmington by order of the Lieutenant General,
and that his course is vindicatbd by the corre
spondence between himself, General Grant, Admi
ral Porter and the subordinate generals of the ex
pedition. A delegation of prominent citizens of
Kentucky waited upon General Butler at Willard’s
this evening to express to him their desire that
he should be assigned to the command of the
Department of Kentucky. The Genoral replied, in
substance, that he would go very cheerfully
wherever he should be ordered by the President.
GEN. HUNTER TO COMMAND THE ARMY OF THE
.JAMES.
It is reported this evening, on authority iegard
ed as reliable, that Major Generaf David Hunter
has been nominated to the President by General
Grant as the proper commander for the Army of
the James. Grant, it is well known entertains a
very high opinion of Hunter’s qualities and ca
pacities for the command of troops in the field,
and it is deemed politic also to replace Butler, the
only “radical” General recently in active service,
by a commander of the same political faith. Grant
has always borne evidence that he regarded Hun
ter’s operations up the Shenandoah last Summer
as the most ably conducted, daring and successful
“raid” of our entire war.
LOSS OF SLOOP OF WAR “SAN .JACINTO.”
The United States sloop of war San Jacinto was
wrecked on the morning of the Ist inst., off No
Name Key, on the Bahama Banks. No lives lost,
and most of the stores of the vessel were saved.
The day previous to her wreck she had been
chasing a blockade runner, which escaped by
reaching neutral .waters. Darkness coming on,
the Nan Jacinto stood in shore with the hope that
during the night the blockade runner would stand
out for the Hole-in-the Wall.
The night being very dark, and the current un
certain, the vessel overrun her reckoning, and
instead of being twenty miles from shore, as was
supposed by the commanding officer, she was close
on the reef, which she struck at 12:40 o'clock a.
m. Every effort was made to get her off by run
ning anchors out, but a heavy gale setting in from
the eastward, frustrated all attempts, and at 10
o’clock the next day she bilged, her sides being
crushed in. *
The Captain finding it impossible to save the
ship, turned his attention towards saving the lives
of the crew and the public property. With his
boats and the assistance of the wreckers who had
congregated around the vessel, he managed to
land them without loss of life. He also succeeded
in saving the guns and most of the stores, con
sisting of sails, rigging and provisions. Soon af
ter the accident the Captain despatched a smack
to Nassau, informing the United States Consul of
his condition.
The English Naval authorities, being informed
of the circumstances, sent a steam sloop of war to
the assistance of the San Jaeinto. When the
news reached Key West, the gunboat Honduras
was immediately despatched to render what
assistance she could.
Make Children Happy. —Send your little
child to bed happy. Whatever cares press, 'give
it a warm good flight kis3 as it goes to its pillow.
The memory of this, in the stormy years which
* fate nay have in store for the little one, will be
like Bethlehem'S star to the bewildered shepherds.
“My father—my mother—loved me !” Lips
parched with the world's fever will become dewy
against this thrill of youthful memories. Kiss
your little child before it goes Jto sleep.
A person entering tae House of Commons whe u
Parliament was setting, exclaimed :
These are goodly gentlemen ; I could work
| for them all my life for nothin*.”
i “What trade are you. my good friend ?” said
or.eof the attendants.
> “A ropexaaor,” was toe *cai/.
TELEGRAPHIC.
REPORTS OF THE PRESS ASSOCIATION.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year
1363,by J. S. Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office of
the District Court of the Confederate States so
the Northern District of Georgia.
j Richmond, Feb. 2. —The Senate was occu
pied today in discussion of the House amend
ment to the hill to provide for the employ
ment of free negroes and slaves upon the for
tifications, pending which it resolved .itself in
to secret session.
The weather has greatly moderated. Navi
gation is still obstructed by ice. Flag of truce
communication at Yarina will be resumed in
a few days. Several hundred Yankee prison
ers ready to be sent off. The question of a
general exchange of prisoners will soon be de
cided.
The New York Herald of the 30th received.
Not a word about the appointment of Peace
Commissioners by Lincoln, but over a column
about Blair’s second visit to Richmond. He
will soon be en route for Washington.
A great sensation was produced in N. York
on Sunday by reports of the fall of Charleston
and arrangements between Linclon and Davis
for an immediate peace.
Tne Herald’s St. Loui£ correspondence an
nounces that Kirby Smith is negotiating with
Maximillian for a transfer of his forces to Mex
ico.
A blockade runner from Nassau was re.
cently captured in Cape Fear river.
Butler had a grand reception at Lowell cn
Saturday. In a speech he said it was idle to
alk of peace uat ebel army in Northern
Virginia i3 defeated or captured.
Seward made a speech before a Christian
Commission in Washington . Sunday night, in
which he said, we only await submission at
the hands of the rebels, which, however de
layed, necessarily follows military defeat and
overthrow.
Several destructive fire3 in different States
are recorded in the Herald.
RiCHMONd, Feb. 2d.—The House passed the
Senate bill increasing the compensation and
emoluments of the President, and increasing
the salaries of officers and employees jof Gov
ernment in Richmond. Also adopted a reso
lution expressing the thanks of Congress for
additional evidences of patriotism of various
commands, which have declared their purpose
to maintain our war for independence.
Mobile, Feb. 2.—A special dispatch to the
Register from Senatobia says the Memphis Ar
gus of the Ist received. It is filled with par
graphs in relation to an early peace, on the
basis of recon3truetion; says Blair’s mission
was executed with the most complete success.
Blair say3 that Leeds in favor of laying down
arms and returning to the Union. Davis also
made a similar statement.
Arkansas advices to the 17th. Shelby is
blockading the river fifteen miles above Little
Rock, to prevent supplies going to Fort Smith.
A sharp fight has occurred there in which the
Yankees were worsted.
[Special to the Memphis Appeal.]
FROM THE TRANS MISSISSIPPI.
Grenada, via Mobile, Feb. I.—The Memphis
Bulletin of the 23th says a fleet of transports went
up Red River last week for Fort Smith. They
were attacked, ‘and three were captured and
burned, together with a large amount es commis
sary stores,
A great Are occurred at Buffalo, Mew York, on
the j?Btb,,jwith a less. of. $700,.000.
ThefShenandoah is doing good work on the Brit
ish coast. The Yankee vessels are compelled to
obtain British registers.
The steamer Harriet Lane was destroyed by fire
at Hav&na on the 18th.
Anew privateer ~e!Ls*va*a. on the 21st on a
cruise in the gulf. "-**-■ ...
Gold inNeatYork on the 25th two hundred and
five.
Affairs in Mexico are unsettled. Porfirio Diss
has a force of 20,000 men at Oaxaea, with sixty
pieces es artillery. Special.
A Good Haul. —The Jacksonville, (Ala.) Re
publican says that fire or six hundred cattle
passed that place on Sunday last, which it learns
were eaptured by Capt. Gatewood somewhere be
tween Dalton and Chattanooga. He eaptured at
the same time some prisoners and a number of
negroes.
A Card from Gen, Page.
We find the following addressed to the edi
tor of the New York Tribune:
Sir : In your issue of yesterday was the fol
lowing paragraph:
“ The rebel Gen. Page, captured near Fort
Morgan, applied by letter, lately, to his old
classmate, Commodore Rogers, for assistance
in getting exchanged. The reply wa3, ‘I can
do nothing for you; you neither defended
your post like a man. nor surrendered it like
an officer.’ ”
It does me great injustice, and though a
prisoner of war in the hands of your Govern
ment, I do not hesitate so far to presume on
your sense of right as to solioit a correction
of the misstatements involved in the afore
said paragraph. The facts of the case are
just these: Some time ago, while ill and suf
fering, I sent a private note to Com. John Ro
gers, as an old comrade and former friend,
requesting him, if he thought proper, to sec
ond an application I had addressed to the
Union authorities for a parole, or a transfer
to a warmer climate—which transfer, I may
add in parenthesis, the surgeon of the post
had stated to be essential to my health. To
this communication I have never received a
reply, (written or verbal,) nor has any ever
passed through the official channel of corre
spondence with the inmates of this prison.
As to whether the fort of which I had com
mand, was properly fought and defended—
this is a question on which it becomes not me
to speak. My own Government, and they with
whom I shared the perils of the fight, are alone
competent to pronounce on the matter. lam
content to abide their opinion. Just after
the capitulation of Fort Morgan, certain false
and injurious reports were circulated, imput
ing some irregularities and unfairness on my
part in the surrender of the work. By a coun
cil of war, ordered by Gen. Canby, and com
posed of officers of the Federal army and na
vy, I was, aftera most searching and protract
ed investigation, promptly and entirely ac
quitted of all and every one of these imputa
tions. The opinio and finding of this coun
cil were officially published in the New Or
leans papers ; and it would have been agreea
ble to my desire to have had the whole pro
ceedings laid before the public, wbic h I yet
hope, at some future day, will be done.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
R. L. PAGE,
Brig. Gen., C. S. A.
Fort Lafayette, Dec. 27, 1864.
The sewing women in Philadelphia and New
York are in great distress, as their scanty earn
ings are insufficient to support them. For
soldiers’ pants they get only from 7 to 8 cents
in paper money; and for shirts $1 per dozen,
including button holes, and all complete For
tents, 16 Mitton holes. t.h«y cet 15 cents
per tent These women have held meet
ing?. both in New York and Phi!ade ; ph a, but
a deaf ear has been turned to th*»ir re-noavran
ces.
ATJOEICIT SAL2S,
Rosette, Lawhon &Cos.,
Auctioneers,
131, Broad St., Columbus. Ga.,
WILL SELL AT 11 O CLOOK
THIS DAY,
FEBRI RIRI 3d,
20,000 GOOD BRICK!
Brick can be seen at the Empire Mills.
feb 2 sl3
Rosette, Lawhon & Cos.,
Auctioneers,
131, Broad St,, Columbus, da.,
ATTRAfTIYE SALE OF FURNITURE
WILL SELL AT 11 O'CLOCK,
THIS DAY,
FEBRUARY 3d,
BUREAUS, PARLOR CHAIRS,
COTTAGE CHAIRS.
CENTRE TABLES,
SIDE TABLES,
MARBLE TOP TABLES,
CROCKERY,
1 FINE ROCKING CHAIR,
1 PARLOR STOVE,
1 COOKING STONE.
feb 1 $45
ALSO,
1 SEWING MACHINE,
1 MEDICINE CHEST & MEDICINE.
feb 2 $6
ALSO,
1 Wheeler & Wilson Encased SEWING
MACHINE.
feb 2 $6
ALSO,
WHITE LEAD,
SPIRITS TURPENTINE,
SWAIM’S PANACEA,
SMOOTHING IRONS.
I SILK UMBRELLA,
1 BATHING TUB.
feb 2 $8
Rosette, Lawhon & Go.,
OFFER AT PRIVATE SALE
One Copper Boiler, f * feet long.
Fire or six hundred pounds Led Pipe
8 or 10 Large Brass Bib & Stop Cocks.
• jen 18 ts
MYERS, WATSON X CO.,
-A-UCTIOZSTIEIIEIR,©
▲NO
General Commission Merchants,
At Hull <SI Duck'a old stand.
Opposite Bank of Columbus, Broad Street.
Personal and prompt attention given
to all consignments.
Columbus, Ga., Jan. 21, 1855. jan23 ts
For Sale.
A FINE BAY HORSE, thoroughly broke to har
ness, not gelded and consequently not liable to
impressment. J. A. STROTHER,
feb 3 3t*
To Hire,
ANE(?RO WOMAN with one child. She is a
good Washer and Ironer, and a good eommon
(?*ok; Apply to
feb 1 6t - MRS. JNO, A. JONES.
FOR SALE.
-T)A ACRES OF WOOD LAND 2)4 miles nortfa-
DAV west from Crawford, Russell county. Ala.—
Titles warrented. Apply to
JOHN McCARTY,
jan 28 ts Oolumbus, Ga.
A Noble Woman —Mr*. Judge Clarke, of Ohio,
says the Montgomery Mail, was recently banished
from the United States by order of the Federal
authorities because of her openly avowed sympa
thies for and generous assistance to Confederate
prisoner*, and has arrived in Mobile. Scarcely a
Confederate prisoner of war, we imagine, confined
in Camp Chase, but remembers with gratitude
this noble lady, and reveres her memory. We
have heard many of them speak of her in the
highest terms of praise, commending her heroism
and devotion to their interests. She never per
mitted an opportunity to pass without contributing
somewhat to the comfort of the poor fellows who
were 60 unlucky as to find a lodgment in
gloomy Bastile. She clothed them, fed them, sent
them money, wrote for them to their families, and
exerted every endeavor to render their uncomfort
able situation as agreeable as the circumstances
would permit. For her zeal in this humane cause
she has been exiled from her home, and finds her- !
self a wanderer among strangers. But they will
not be strangers, long, we imagine, who have
heard of her noble aDd generous sympathy for
their imprisoned friends, and we trust that wherever
she may journey through the South, this
estimable lady will meet a welcome as
cordial and kind as so sineere a friend de
serves. i
Modest. —Seward, in his correspondence with
the Brazilian minister, takes occasion to say that
the Federal Government disallows the assumption
that the insurgents of the country are a lawful
naval belligerent; and, on the contrary, it main
tains that the ascription of that character by the
government of Brazil to the insurgent citizens of
the United State*, who have heretofore been, and
who still are, destitute of naval forces, ports’and
court*, is an act of intervention in derogation Os
the law of nations, and unfriendly and wrongful,
as it i3 manifestly injurious to the United States.
Arrival of Capt. Semme*. —Captain Raphael
Semmes, whose arrival in the Confederacy had
been previously announced, is now in Richmond.
The Whig says that the gallant Captain i* look
ing as hale as ever; and his many friends will be
pleased to learn that he has accomplished hi* long
and tediou* journey homeward in safety. We are
not informed of the Captain’s movements; but
the country can ill spare him from that sphere of
usefulness in which he has made so great a
reputation for himself and 30 gloriously defended
the country’s cause.
m a •_
From Thomas' Ashy,— A despatch from St
Louis, January 16th, says :
An officer from Clifton, Wayne county, Tennes
see, where he left General Thomas on Saturday, 1
says no aetive operations may be expected for
several days. The truthfulness of the report that
Hood is preparing to make a stand at Corinth, j
has not yet been ascertained, but it is believed that
his disorganized for ’** are still fleeing south ward.
leaving detachments of their bast cavalry in the
rear to cover ,hs*r retreat. Thomas army nas |
plenty of supplies, an 1 more are constant! v pa-s- j
ing up the Tennesse ri»er ; but heavy rains in Ten- f
nas see render the roads impassable for military
movements.
By Ellis, Living*g oil ac o
\V E „ wi l 1 . se, l °. n SATURDAY. 4th F, rui- ■
11 o does, infront of our store r s*
A Desirable Eol Furniture t
Embracing fine mahogany dining t a .
ties, sofas, book-case; a fine glass case, for
filing papers, bureau, lamps,'"gutta percha
pipe, pump, glass ware, two fine sewia
machines, (Wheeler A Wilson, A Grover
A Baker,) bed stead, mantel eloc*. <fc
tuc., Ac.
ALSO—
-5 likely negroes, among them good
house servants and field hands.
ALSO,
400 assorted colored paint, (in oil.)
wagon harness, wagons, clothing, boots
; shoes, Ac.
ALSO—
Lot Weeding Hoes, j
Upper Leather,
j 25 shares Bank ol Columbus stock.
j feb 3 S3O
A7l O'TIC IT SALS C P
FINE STOCK.
Ellis, Livingston &Cos., Auct'rs
(AN TUESDAY, the 7th day of February, at my
y Plantation on Flint River, near Reynolds, Tay
lor county, (commencing after the trains arrive from
Macon and Columbus) I will sell some very desira
bie stock, including my two tine stallions, “Gan
oaldi and * Young Stonewall ; ff a half dozen good
mares, some with colts and others in foal: one good
Morgan Mare, a fine buggy animal; a half dozen
A Ao. 1 mules; 2i head of sheep; a small flock o*'
goats ; one blooded bull and fifteen head of stock
cattle; also 1000 bushels of rice; 800 good new osna
burgs sacks and other articles of value. I will have
conveyances at Reynolds to meet the trains, and
gentlemen from a distance can find accommodation
with me or my neighbors.
jan 30 td CHES HOWARD.
Confederate Union, Milledgoville, copy and seud
bill to this office.
THE CITY
*'• J- JACKSON LOCAL EDITOR
Sales To Dat.— Rosette, Lawhon £ Cos. pro
pose to sell at auction to-day, 20,000 brick, a fine
lot of valuable furniture, Ac., £j. See advertise
ments.
< ♦ » -
Auction Sales.—At auction yesterday, by
Myers, Watson £ Cos., Florida cigars were 3old at
SSO to $l6O per thousand ; tobacco, $4,50 to $7,7§:
sugar, $6,50 ; cane syrup, $16,25 to $17,12 ; sor
ghum, sl4; nails, $3,10; white lead, $7,50;
smoking tobacco, $4,50; Columbus Bank stock,
$l2O per share; 5 bales of cotton ,34 cents per
pound; oranges, 72£ oent3 each ; domestics
(country) $lO per yard; one oovered wagon >
$2,950; one carpet, $325 ; gold spectacles, $225
one yoke of steers, $725 ; one gold watch, ST7O •
other articles unimportant.
( t t <•
AecisßNT.— We learn that Eddie Harrison, son
of Chas. S. Harrison, of Beallwood, was accidant
allyshot while hunting yesterday. The contents
of the gun took effect in the upper part of the
right ear, glancing upwards. His condition is not
considered dangerous.
Well Dhfinbd. —Oar cotemporary, Jones has
subjected our cranium to a comprehensive analy
sis and pronounces it an empty squash. The in
formation is thankfully received. We have never
been enabled to define our skull so satisfactorily.
Squash let it be. It is agreeable to know that
we are a close relative of Jones—the eonsanqmiai
ty between squash and pumpkin being well knows
and undoubted.
A Prisoner. —We learn that Mr. J. J. McKea
dree, Jr., of the City Light Guards, is a prisoner
of war.'at City Point, Ya. This news was brought
by Dr. F. C. Ellison, whe has just been exchanged,
and who saw Mr. McKendree. The unpleasant
report which said that he had deserted, we have
never believed, as we knew him as a high-spirited
and gallant soldier who would have died by his
colors rather than submit to the enemy he has
been gallantly opposing for three and a half
years.— [Columbus Enquirer.
Sound Doctrines not Adhered to by Taoss
who Proclaim Them.— Greeley wrote in 1360; ‘‘lf
the cotton States unitedly and earnestly wish to
withdraw from the Union, we think they should
and would be allowed to do so. Any attempt to
compel them by force to remain would be contrary
to the principles enunciated in the Immortal Decla -
ration of Independence; contrary to the fundamen
tal ideas on which human liberty is based.” Gen.
Scott wrote to Mr. Seward : “A debt of $250,000,900
(it is long gone over $1,000,000,000) and fifteen de
vastated provinces not to be brought in harmony
with their conquerors, but to be held by heavy garr -
sons for generations at an expense quadruple the
taxes it would be possible to extort followed by a
Protector or Emperor—to that I would prefer to
say to the Southern States, “Wayward sisters, de
part in peace.” John Quincy Adams, long ago
foreshadowing t}ie probable contingency, said, “Far
better will it be for the people of the dis United
•■States to part in friendship from each other, than
to be held togther by restraint.”
Mr. Warren Aiken writes from Richmond to the
Constitutionalist that the Postmaster-General ha?
agreed to take steps to send the mail on horseback
from Atlanta or the nearest point to which the
mail is carried by railroad, up to Carters ville, King"
stoa, Rome, Calhoun, and other points, as far as it
can, with safety, be carried, until the railroads are
repaired and the usual mail facilities can be fur
nished. This will be done at the earliest day prac
ticable, and will again afford the fpeople of North
Georgia an opportunity of communicating with their
friends elsewhere.
Circular from General Lee.
Headquarters Army of Virginia, 1
i J anuary 16, 1864. }
! To the Planters of Georgia :
The recent heavy freshets having destroyed a por
tion of the Railroad from Danville to Greensboro,
1 and thereby cut off, temporarily, necessary supplies
for the Army of Northern Virginia, an appeal is re
spectfully made to the patriotic people of Georgia to
furnish whatever breadstuffs, bacon and molasses
they can spare.
Such citizens as Major Allen, of Columbus, Major
George Robertson, of Macon and Major H. Cranston,
of Augusta, may’select are asked to act as agtn-?
and collect supplies through the various offices con
nected with the Commissary Department in Georgia
and on the line of railroad.
Arrangements have been made to pay promptly
for all supplies delivered lander this appeal, or ro-
same in kind as soon a3 practicable.
R. E. LEE, General.
Office Dist. Commissary,, t
Columbus, Ga., Feb. 2d, ISo-o. r
I present to the people of Western and South
western Georgia, the above Circular.
Our greatest necessity at this time i3 Bacon, you
have a superabundance and can substitute, if sec
essary, syrup and molasses in lieu of a part -bo
bacon ration on your plantations.
Who icill doubt, or fears to trust Gen. Lee
The following are my agents:
A F Johnston, Hamilton.
T A Brown. Geneva,
Maj. Geo Robertson, Capt. A 0 Bacon, Macon.
U B Harrold, Americus,
Maj. J D Maney, Cutbbert,
J J McKendree, Columbus,
Capt J A Houser, Ft- Valley,
Charles Wilson, Thomaston,
B Pye. Forsyth, - •
Geo Hill, Florence,*.
Capt J A Davis. Albany.
Embracing 'heir sub-agents in their
A M. ALLEN.
febS l w Major and C. S.
Enquirer copy.