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of SriKMlule.
\N and after Friday, Jan. 20th, the Trains on
V the n.-oopeo Railroad will run as follows :
PASSENGER TRAIN:
Leave Columbus 6 30 A. M.
Arrive at Macon 2 50 P. M.
ieave Macon 6 50 A. M.
Arrive at Columbus 3 00 P V
FREIGHT TRAIN ;
Leavo Columbus [ 500A. M.
Arrive.i! Columbus 455 A. M.
W. L. CLARK,
nar in tl Supt. Muscogee R, K.
Through !o Montgomery.
NEW SCHEDULE.
fVIOHTGOMERY k WEST POINT
RAILROAD COMPANY.
COLUMBUS, August 27,1364.
. \N and after August 27th. the Passenger Train on
*' the Montgomery and West Point Railroad will
Leave Montgomery at 8:00 a. m.
Leave West Point at 7:10 a. m.
Arrive at Columbus at 5:32 p. in.
Leave Columbus at 5:50 a. m.
Arrive at Montgomery at 3:00 p. in.
Arrive at West Potnt at 4130 p. m.
Freight Train leaves Columbus at 8:40 am.
lrrives at 8:27 p m
D. 11, CRAM, Sup’t A Eng.
ag27 1304 —ts
MOBILE & SIRARD RAIL ROAD.
CIIAAUE OF S4'Mi;uri.i:.
Girard, Ala., Oct 7, 1864.
, i.N and after 10th inst. Trains on this Road will
f Run Daily (Sunday exoepted,) as Inflows:
Train.
Leave Girard at 1 30 p. rn.
Lrrive in Union Springs..... 600 “
v’ave Union Springs 5 35 a. m.
\rrive in Girard at 10 00 *‘
Freight Train.
Ln-ave Girard at 4 00 a. in.
Vrrive in Girard at 6 00 p. m.
B. E. WELLS,
ag 13 ts Eng. &. Sup’t.
wantbdT
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,
Beynolds, Taylor County.
MRS. CHAS. J. WILLIAMS,
nov2l-tt Columbus, Ga.
WANTED!
tl |)jW| LBS. of TALLOW, for which a liberal price
JjUv'J will oe paid. Apply to
F. W. DILLARD.
»l>7 ts Major and Q. M.
YARNS and OSNABURftS
TO EXCHANGE FOR
anoxJisrx> psas,
At the GRANT FACTORY.
de«l7 ts * _
To Rent.
i 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 attaohed,
with fine orchards and good garden, and well im
proved out buildings. Apply to
jan 9 —ts Mrs. SARAH CROWELL.
Dr. R. MOBILE,
ide isrrisT,
i X Pemberton A Carter’s old stand, back room of
.'» Smith’s Jewelry Store, where he can be found
all hours. ToelSfim
To Printers !
WE offer for sale a complete BOOK BINDERY,
(exeept Ruing Machine,) two hand PRESSES,
and about
1,000 Pound* of Type Metal, j
nov2l-tf _
To Hire.
A LIKELY sixteen year old house GIRL, that has I
l\. been well raised, sews well, has a good disposi
tion and is fond of children. Apply at
jan 27 tt ___ THIS OFFICE.
To Soldiers !
PliHlips' 4tl» Georgia Brigade.
Statb of Georgia, )
Quartkrmastbr General's Office. >-
Augusta, Dec. 2Sth, 1364.)
The members of this Brigade now living, and the
representatives of those deceased, will please inform
us where the Half-Pay due thorn, 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 wiU furnish us the company,
battalion or regiment to which, he or thejsoldier he
represents, belonged in this Brigade, and his full
address at the present time.
IRA R. FOSTER,
6. M. Gen. ofGa.
N. B.—After the Ist of March letters will be ad
dressed to us at Millcdgeville; until that timo, un
less in ease of danger to this place, we will be ad
dressed at Augusta, I. R. F.
jan 7 lm __
Eor 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 P-oviiions or Confedersite 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 t JOHN D, GRAY & CO.
CITY FOUNDRY !
SUGAR MILLS A3iD KETTLES !
. WE HAVE OF HAND
Sugar Hills and Kettles,
holding 20,35, 40. 60, 80 and 130 gallons, which we
will exchange for Provisions or any kind of country
Produce, or luonev 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
o",k and Washer. » WOOLFOLK ,
JanlTJf : *SSL.
Lost or Mislaid.
DOUR SHARES of the G. * A. S. S. Cos., No
V* J. j. aRASI.
Regular Line of Steamers on the
Cliattalioociiee River.
Columbus, Ga., Jan. 9th.
THE SteamerIJACKSOX. Daniel Fry, Master, wil
I leave Columbtis, until further notice, overy Sun
day at 9 a. M. Returning leaves Chattahoochee every
Tuesday at 2 r. M. 1
The Steamer Indian, C. D. Fry Master, ieavw
Columbus every Tuesday morning at 9 a. m. Re
turning, leaves Chattahoochee every Thursday at
2 a.m.
The Steamer Mist, A. Fry Master, leaves Colum
bus every Friday at 9a. M. Returning leaves Gnat
tahooche every Sunday at 12 M.
jan 10 2m
for >sAL*rr~
ANE splendid new VELVET CA IPEI with Rug
U to match. Apply at
jan 30 6t WARNOCIv A 00.’a.
DTOTIOJQ.
Orrie* Grant Factory, \
Nov. 29, 1564./
A LI, persons having demands against the estate of
Laniei Grant, deceased, are hereby requested ta
present them to the Grant Factory,
nov Sots JOHN J. GRANI.
Sun copy aai send bill to office Grant Factory.
VOL. XII.}
SPECIAL NOTICES
Circular from General Lee.
Headquarters Army of Virginia,
January 16, 1864.1
To the Planters of Georgia. :
The recent heavy freshets having destroyed a por
tion of the Railroad from Danville to Greensboro
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 hreadstuffs, bacon and molasses
they oan spare.
Such citizens as Major Allen, of Columbus, Major
George Robert3on, of Macon and Major 11. Cranston,
ofAufUsta. may select are asked to act a* agent3
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.under this appeal, or re
turn the same in kind as soon as practicable.
R. E. LEE, General.
Office Dist. Commissary, {
Columbus, Ga., Feb. 2d, 1865. S
I present to tho people of Western and South
western Georgia, the above Circular.
Our greatest necessity at this time is Bacon, you
have a superabundance and can substitute, if .nec
essary, syrup and molasses in lieu of a part of the
bacon ration on your plantations.
Who will doubt, or fears to trust Gen. Lee f
The following are my agents :
A F Johnston. Hamilton,
T A Brown, Geneva,
Maj. Geo. Robertson, Capt. A 0 Bacon, Macon,
U B Ilarrold, Americus,
Maj. J D Maney, Cuthbert,
J J McKendree, Columbus,
Capt J A Houser, Ft. Valley.
Charles Wilson, Thomasto -,
B Pye, Foisyth,
Geo Hill, Florence, v
Capt J A Davis, Albany.
Embracing their sub-agents in their districts.
A. M. ALLEN,
feb3 lw Major and C. S.
Enquirer copy. ,
Tax In Kind Notice.
Office Post Quartermaster, 1
Americus, Ga., Jan 27, 1865. J
The assessment value of Tithe Corn of crop of
1864, for this Distriot, is regulated at ’six dollars per
bushel. All whose tithes have been assessed at leaa
price, will apply at once to the Assessor of their re
spective counties to have assessments changed to
this price, in order to get their proper credit of the
tax imposed on agricultural interest.
Other articles of the second assessment will be as
sessed at prices ofSchedule No. 15.
JOHN F. CRAFT.
Captain and P. Q. M.
feb 1 6t 3d Cong. Dist. Ga.
Headquarters Enrolling Office, )
Muscogee County, >
Columbus, Ga., Jan. 21, 1865.)
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 furlcughs recorded.
W. A. COBB,
Capt. and Enrolling Officer,
feb 1 Iw Muscogee County.
Headquarters, Gov. Works, (Ord.) 1
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.
febl 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 are not
paid promptly.
KING A ALLEN.
WARNOCK A CO.,
GREENWOOD & GRAY,
HUGHES A HODGES,
POWELL, FRAZER A CO.,
CODY A COLBERT,
J. R. IVEY A CO.
Jan 31 2w
A PROCLAMATION
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 winch 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 Macon, at ten o’clock, a. m,,
on Wednesday the 15th day of Februaryfnext.
Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the
State this the 25th day of January, 186-5.
JOSEPH E. BROWN.
All papers in the State are requested to copy
jan 27 td
Notice.
Southern Express Company, 1
Augusta, Ga., Jan. 9, 1865./
Persons owning freight shipped by the Southern
Express Company, that is detained in this city, and
other places, in consequence of damage donejto rail
roads by the Federal armiesJand whieh cannot be
forwarded to destination in consequence thereof,
are hereby notified that this Company will not be
responsible for loss or damage by fire. Consignees,
and others interested will take notice ofthe above.
JAS. SHUTER.
jan 19 lm Acting Pres.
$5- Macon. Columbus. Montgomery, Mobile and
Selma papers copy one month.
MYERS, WATSOS & CO.,
auctioneers
AND
General Commission Merchants,
At Hull & Dude's old stand.
Opposite Bank of Columbus, Broad Street.
jflgi 0 * Personal and prompt attention given
to all consignments.
Columbus, Ga., Jan. 21, 1865. jan23 ts
For Sale.
A FINE BAY HORSE, thoroughly broke to har
ness. not gelded and consequently not liable to
impressment, J- A. biROIHEK.
feb 3 3t*
To Hire,
4 NEGRO WOMAN with one child. She is a
A good Washer and Ironer, and a good common
C< fbb'l £ Pl>ly l ° MRS. JNO. A. JONES.
FORSALE.
OOii ACRES OF WOOD LAND t x A miles north-
Oil) west from Crawford, Russell county. Ala.-
Titles warrented. Apply to JoflX MeCARTY ,
jan 28 ts Coiumous, Ga.
lor Sale.
ANE THOUSAND DOLLAR for sal*.
Exchange Broker,
jaa 31 lw A r Paper Mid s Office.
COLUMBUS, GA. SATURDAY, FEB. 4. 1860.
DAILY TIMES.
EVENING EDITION.
FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3, 1865.
Colonel Gofer Provost Marshal General of
Hood's Army, informs us that from the 27th of
November, 1864. to the 20th of January, 1865,
the number of dersertions, as shown by official
repor's from Hood's army, was only 283 in the
infantry and artillery. We learn from other
r-liable sources that our total loss was not
more than 10,000 in ail branches and from all
causes during the Tennessee campaign.
Let Congress and the authorities hasten the
work of reorganization and coffiientration of
our resources for the spring campaign. We
are abundantly able, says the Richmond Sen
tinel, to meet any force the enemy can bring
against us, if we will but gather our strength
in hand, and apply ourselves resolutely to our
work. We see mqje and more the evidences
that this will be done, and our confidence in
creases in consequence, even to exhilaration*
Dismiss promptly ail bad and inefficientofficials,
bring in the recruits, bring in deserters, and
let our whole country ring with the evidences
of a fresh zeal, and of" diligent preparation!
If we will do our duty, God will make this the
last year of the war.
♦ ♦ :
The time for which Lincoln was appointed
to represent the North American States, says
the Constitutionalist, ends on the fourth day
of March, 1865. On the sth day of March,
1865, the States of the Confederacy shall have
ceased to be so represented by him, as they
had nothing to do with his re-appointment in
any way whatever and had so publicly given
notice to all nations, and their only represen
tative abroad will be in the head of the Con
federate Government, Jefferson Davis. Here
then the neutrality of England will cease. On
the-day stated the independent nationalities,
acknowledged heretofore to be such by her in
solemn Convention which has never been
abrogated, will have only such agents abroad
to represent their interests as shall proceed
from them. England will recognize their !
claims and the Confederacy which they have j
formed to represent them. She will graceful- j
ly, and with reason for not sooner yielding, !
retire from her neutrality, and acknowledge
our separate independence and Confederate
association.
We look confidently for this result, and feel
satisfied that Mr. Seward has long apprehend
ed such a conjuncture, and has endeavored, in ;
ail ways, to defeat its realization. In spite of
his cunning and duplicity, it will surely >
come.
♦ » ♦
The telegraph from Washington reports i
General Banks as slandering Georgia. One
dispatch says : There is reliable information
here of one of the ablest men in the Confede
racy being ready to inaugurate an opposition ;
movement among the people, but it will not !
come via Richmond. General Banks expresses j
the opinion that before many weeks have
elapsed, Georgia will have reorganized and
elected a full delegation of Congressmen to the !
Congress of the United States.
Among rumored prospective Federal Exec
utive appointments are those of Hannibal
Hamlin, of Maine, as Minister to England:
Joh'h P. Hale, of New Hampshire, as Minister
to France; Samuel M. Harrington, Jr., of
Delaware, as Minister to Hayti, and James J.
Speed, of Kentucky, (now attorney general)
*3 Minister to Prussia.
— ♦ ♦ ♦
Hon. J. L. M. Curry, formerly a member of
Congress from Alabama, and the leader in
that body, is now Lient. Col. of cavalry in
Roddy’s brigade.
The latest rumor reaches us fronqSeliua. The
Dispateh says: By passengers from Meridian it
is reported that envoys extraordinary from the
court of Maximilian have arrived this side of
the Mississippi, en route to Richmond. If this
be true, it is probable that there is recognition
in the mission. While we .would caution the publie
against the rumors of the day, we do not think
the report improbable.
Tumbling. —The Misssissippian says : From
an intelligent gentleman who left Mobile en last
Sunday morning, we learn that the news of the
appointment es peace commissioners to Washing
ton had quite an effect upon the gold market.—
He says on Saturday evening he sold gold at
S4O, and in two hours afterwards he could have
bought it back for S2O. Our informant also in
forms us there was a corresponding fall in the
priees of goods, and but few purchasers.
Senior Conscripts.— The Memphis Appeal says '
We learn from the Register, that for the past week
there have been numerous cases before Judge Ra
pier, of the circuit court, on petitoon for writ of ha
beas corpus, in which the only question to be deci
ded seems to be the liability of a senior conscript to
perform military service after having attained the
age of fifty years. The eases are all singular, and
turn upon the construction put upon the act of Con
gress of 17th February, 1864, which has been con
construed in the courts, (in the case of R. M. Beck*)
to relieve consoripts from military service after hav
ing attained the age of fifty years. In one case be
fore Judge Rapier, (that of Allen,) an appeal has
been taken to the Supreme Court, and the decision
of that tribunal is hourly expected ; and when re
ceived.the question, so far as Alabama is concerned,
will be definitely settled.
The Peculiar Ixstitciox.— B->l»w we give
the prices obtained tor negroes in this city Mon
day by M. Harwell, auctioneer. The people, it
will be seen, still have faith in the permanency
of the peculiar institution, or they would not in
vest their money so readily in that species of
property: Mary, (cook, washer an i ironer,) 36
years oid, $3,450 : Giles, wife and ehild, 55, 50
and 2 years old, $6,100; Annie, 16 years old,
$3,450; Sultan, 30 years old, $4,000 : William,
20 years old, $4,000: Charles, 20 years old. $4,000;
Riana. 21 years old, $3,600 : Mary! Ann, 20 years
old, $3,930 : Laura Ann, 12 years old, $3,500 ;
Kemp. 20 years old. $4,250: Anicha and child, 22
years old, $3,700; Sally, 22 years, $4,000; Lucy
and child, former 22 years, and latter 6 months old,
$4,000; Bruna, 19 years eld, $4,000 : Columbia. 10
vears old, $3,700; Ann, 3 years eld, $3,500; Pul
ley, 13 years old, $1,900; Courtney, 13 years old.
$3,000 : Sam. 60 years old. i p aJterer.t $1,500;
J.jea aai w *e, 33 ni 33 vears >: 1 $.-000.
J/. AUirtise".
The 60,000 men now assembled under the
Confederate flag west of the Mississippi could,
it their force were properly directed, turn the
scale of military success, on this side of the
river, entirely in our favor. Even 30,000 of
them, added to the veteran armies which are
now confronting the Yankees, would make the
issue of the war, we verily believe, absolutely
certain. We showed, a few days ago, that the
Confederacy possesses the physical resources
to carry on the war on a scale of even greater
magnitude than during the last three rears.
But those resources include the material of
the trans-Mississippi Department ; and the
trans-Mississippi Department, notwithstand
ing General E. K. Smith’s apparent oblivious-'
n*-ss of the fact, constitutes an integrel part
of this Confederacy. We might, to be sure,
defend ourselves, and ultfmateiy establish the
mdej. -ndence of the country without calling
for the assistance of our friends on that side
of the river, but the effort would be tremen
dous and exhausting. Nor is there any need
to subject ourselves to the calamitous possi
bilities attendant on such a system of deleuce,
when we know that we have at hand a force
sufficient to relieve us ol any such necessity.
It is simply absurd in us to meet the enemy
with only a portion of our forces, when they
have adopted the plan of concentration. Con
centration can be only effectively met by
counter-concentration. To suffer a portion
of our array to remain idle spectators of a
struggle in which the other portion is waging
a death contest against overwhelming odds,is
suicide and nothing else. The transient im
munity from the chances and perils of war
thus gained by a portion of the country,
would be dearly purchased by the final de
struction of the whole. These propositions
are so clear that no one will seriously dispute
them. Even to discuss them seems so super
fluous as to be an insult to the common intel
ligence. Nevertheless, the events of the past
year are enough to convince us that even
truths so plain and elementary as these may
be overlooked or disregarded by precisely
those persons who ought to bear them most
constantly in mind. In this, we make no al
lusion to the authorities at Richmond. We
have reason to believe that efforts were made,
at the proper secure the co-opera
tion of that formidable Confederate army
which, for so many months, has been whiling
away the precious and critical moments of the
war, in seemingly apathetic indifference, on
the other bank of the Mississippi. Still less
do we find fault with the Government, here for
the failure to improve the brilliant opportu
nities disclosed by the glorious but compara
tively barren victories of General Taylor in
Louisiana.
We do not think it a crime, or a blunder, that
a man was placed in command of the trans-
Mississippi Department who, at the time of
his appointment, certainly enjoyed a fair mea- j
sure of public confidence, and who was then
supposed to possess, in an eminent degree, the
very qualities in which he has since displayed
so conspicuous a deficiency. When we stated, !
and when we reiterate, that the disasters j
which have overtaken our arms of late, and
which, undeniably, have spread so much
gloom over our people, are the direct conse
quences of the inefficiency ofGen.E. K. Smith,
we say what every one conversant with the
history ofthe war beyond the trans-Mississip
pi, knows to be true. It was at one time in
Gen. Smith’s power, without moving a man
to this side of the river, except for the pur
pose of recapturing New Orleans, to strike a
blow which would have so effectually crippled ,
the enemy on this side, that Gen. Early would !
have captured Washington, and Sherman been :
driven back upon his defences without ever
reaching Atlanta. The chance, so brilliant
and so plain, was thrown a\say.
An officer who bad just gained a series of mag- !
nificent victories and held a whole Federal army '
and fleet in a grasp, from which, apparently,
there was no escape, was stripped of his most val
uable troops in the flush of anticipated triumph,
and at the very moment of the fruition of bis
hopes, and was forced te look on quietly at the !
vexatious flight of an enemy to whom flight, but !
for this, would have been impossible. It cannot
be doubled that the marvellous intervention on •
behalf of Banks’ defeated and despairing army,
was astonishing to the enemy, as it was surprising
to us. It has been whispered that motives, unbe
coming a Confederate officer and gentlemaD,
prompted Gen. Smith’s extraordinary course: but J
we cannot believe that he was influenced by jeal- 1
ousy of a rival whose deeds should have aroused
emulation rather than have excited envy. If,
however, the salvation of his character as a patriot !
involves the destruction of his capacity as an offi
cer, it has beooine clear enough that he is pre em
inently l’nfit for the station whieh he holds, and j
that the success, perhaps, of our cause, demands
that he give place to some other more energetic i
and more sagacious man. —Richmond Whig.
• •* j
I
(From the Richmond Whig.) ,|
The Loss of Fort Fisher.
The Yankees have intelligence of the cap
ture of Fort Fisher. As usual, they pronounce
it the “greatest and most important victory”
they have ever won, “the most crushing blow ;
the rebellion “has ever received.” The fall of
Wilmington they expect to take place immedi
ately, and many grand and glorious results to j
follow. They boast of the largest and most
powerful navy in the world, and if, now and
then, at intervals perhaps of twelve months, j
some fortified place on the coast is reduced,
they are not only content, but full of exulta
tion. They forget that it will be only when
we are liberated from the necessity of defend
ing harbors and their cities, that we shall be
able to make war after the style that suits us j
best, and will be most fatal to them.
Early in the Revolutionary War General
Charles Lee, certainly the most accomplished j
if not the ablest of the Generals on our side, j
advised the abandonment of all the coast ci
ties, for the reason that the attempt to defend j
them would scatter our farces too much, and ,
throw too many of them out of active service.
At a later period, when those cities had all ,
been occupied by the enemy, he recurred to
the counsel he had given, and justly claimed
that the event had proved its wisdom. We
have very little doubt that our remaining ports
along the coast, including even this city, could,
upon grounds of military expediency, be now
surrendered to the enemy with positive advan
tage to ourselTes. Let Y'ankeedom therefore,
rejoice over the Fort Fisher business, as much j
as suits—the people of these States feel neith
er weaker nor less determined in consequence of
its loss. Let them comfort themselves with
the belief that we are being constricted in ter
ritory and broken down in the strength of our
armies !
The more closely we are circumscribed, the
more readily will our armies co operate. Suc
cesses in war depends but little on the num- {
hers that answer the roll calls, provided there
be enough to give spirit and confidence. De
votion and valor multiply numbers, and the
means of concentration, at deoired points is
better than vast armies operating without con
cert of purpose. The Consular armies of i
Rome were rarely 20,000 men, and with these
they conquered the world. Xenophen con
ducted his masterly retreat from the Capital
of Persia with 10,000 men. and Miltiades, with
the same number, vanquished the hosts of
Darius. Alexander set out to conquer Asia
with 30,00*. and did it. Napoleon, with the
same number, vanquished five successive ar
mies in Italy, each nearly double his own.
Frederick the Great of Prussi i. w-'rh » popu
lation of nv-» millions, successfully opposed a
is-ig.o of on? hundred millions History is
J SIX DOLLARS
\ PER MONTH.
full of examples of what small armies, well
handled, and sustained by a determined peo
ple, can do. We feel an absolute assurance
that Inis war will add another illustrious in
stance to the catalogue. We have not begun
yet to fight as a proud race driven to despera
tion will fight. We have not begun to suffer
as other nations with far less at stake and far
less aspiring have suffered. We realize what
may be required of us, and in view of it all,
we have not the first thought of yielding, nor
the least fear of failing.
From the United States.
Under the belief that •* the war is about
over, and that a general peace will follow
old Blair’s trip to Richmond, gold opeued at
the first board on the 20th ult. at 199 1-2, (as
we learn from Northern papers.) We make
room for the following relative to
TIIE I’EACE MOVEMENT.
The Philadelphia Inquirer contains the fol
lowing Washington dispatch :
It is pretty generally believed, to-night,
that Francis P. Blair, sr., has gone to Rich
mond to tender to Jeff. Davis permission for
commissioners to come to Washington, to form
a basis for peace negotiations.
The Inquirer's New York correspondent
writes upon the same subject to this effect:
There has been a young panic in Wall street
to-day, resultipg*in a general decline in gold
and merchandise. This was caused by the
persevering efforts of the “ bears” to create
the impression that we are going to have peace
right away, as the result of the Blair-Singleton
mission to Richmond. One story is that Mr.
Blair returned to the rebel capilal this morn
ing, with a programme this time from Presi
dent Lincoln in favor of commissioners to meet
at City Point to see if a settlement eannot be
reached. Preposterous as these canards are
on their face, it is perfectly true that they find
a multitude of people credulous enough to
believe them. Everybody, therefore, who has
anything to sell, is selling it at a sacrifice in
many cases, under the conviction that the war
is about over. In a day or two they will pro.
bably have occasion to bemoan their eredulity
in thus giving ear to the dreams and delusions
of a set of sharpers’ who are simply “operat
ing for a rise.”
The Tribune says, editorially :
We note that several of our cotemporaries,
who eagerly proclaimed Mr. Blair’s visit to
Richmond insignificant, abortive, a failure,
&e., are now busily employed in convincing
their readers that, when they so talked, they
knew nothing of the matter. This effort, it
strikes us, is entirely superfluous.
The Herald’s Washington dispateh upon this
subject is as fellows :
F. P. Blair, Sr., will start for Richmond again
to-morrew. Since his return he has been in fre
quent and close consultation with the President
and other leading members of the administration,
bat what the character of his communications has
been, or with what authority ho is now clothed,
is as yet unknown. That he should so soon re
turn is indicative of his having been charged with
some communication, by Mr. Davis, the tenor of
which has not been made publie, and which, in
connection with the successes achieved by our
forces since his interview with the rebel executive,
and the evident disinclination of the masses of the
Southern people to continue the war, induces a
belief on the part of the administration that the
resources of statesmanship may now be usefully
employed in connection with a vigorous prosecu
tion of military'and naval operations, to bring
about a termination of the existing difficulties.—
At all events, it is certain that he returns at once
to the rebel capital. This would indicate that Mr.
Blair’s first mission was far more successful than
was allowed to transpire.
FROM THE TRANS MISSISSIPPI.
The Herald, in its “Situation” article, says ;
It is thought that the leaders of the rebel
army in Arkansas design to abandon that State
entirely. They are said to be concentrating their
jroeps at Camden for the purpose of moving south
ward into Louisiana or Texas. Even the rebel
citizens of Arkansas not in the army, have been
ordered by Magruder to remove to the south-side
of the Red river. Guerrilla gangs, however, still
infest the northern section of the Ntate. Two de
tachments of national troops recently went from
llolla and Pilot Knob, Missouri, into the northern
and north-eastern parts of Arkansas, for the pur
pose of hHuting up these marauders. They came
upon and broke up several of the gangs, and kill
ed and captured a number of the members of
them. The statement is reiterated that President
Lincoln will revoke the orders of Generals Canby
and Reynolds for the evacuation of Fort Smith by
the national garrison.
Northern Items.
Governor Jacobs, of Kentucky, has been uncon
ditionally released from arrest by Lincoln. In his
letter to him he says : “You are at liberty to pro
eeed to Kentucky, and to remain at large, so far as
relates to any cause now past. In what I now do
I decide nothing as to the right or wrong of your
arrest, but act in the hope that there is less liabil
ity to misunderstanding among Union men now
than there was at the timo of the arrest.”
The first decision of Chief Justice Chase, in the
Supreme Court of the United States, was that
West Virginia is legally a State. The decision
was given on the question placing the name of
that State on the list when calling the docket.
The loaded shell fired into the rudder post of
the Kearsage by the pirate Alabama has been sent
to Washington as a present from Capt. Winslow to
Mr. Lincoln, the latter having expressed a wish to
have it as a trophy.
The death es one of the Democrotie members of
the New Jersey Legislature gives the Republicans
a majority of one in the House, which has not
hitherto been able to organize on account of the
political tie.
The Roanoke river is said to be full of torpedoes
from Jamestown np to Rainbow Bluff. Over one
hundred and fifty torpedoes have been taken from
the river already. They are put up in block tin
cans and placed from three to eight feet under the
water, and in rows across the river at intervals of
a few mile?.
The Louisville Journal (Prentice’s paper) heart
ily approves and endorses Mr. Yeaman’s speeeh in
Congress in favor of amending the Constitution
so as to abolish slavery. It deems tha extermina
tion of slavery not only a fixed fast, but in every
way desirable.
Sixteen years ago Gen. Grant was setting type
in an Ohio printing office.
The total cost of the marble for the capitol
at Washington, and for cutting it, is $2,778,544.
Mr. Melvin S. Whitney, one of the most opulent
and respectable merchants of New York, committed
suicide by eutting his throat with a razor, in
his apartments in West Thirty second street, near
Broadway.
The Rebound.— Realizing the Situation.— Few
pe-.ple are without some elasticity—still fewer pos
sess the elasticity of the people of the Confeder
ate States. They hardly realize a great misfortune
before their spirits begin to react from the depres
sion occasioned by it. This reaction is already be
ginning to show itself h-re among our people. They
take in the length and breadth of the catastrophe
which has given the mouth of the Capo Fear River
into the hands ofthe enemy. They begin to think
whether, after all, the stoppage ofthe blockade run
ning may not operate lor our ultimate advantage
rather than for our loss. Certainly »e think the
development of our own mineral resources in this
State would have greatly advantaged us, and this
was not likely to’have been accomplished wime so
much attention was devoted to blockade running,
and so much dependence place ! up n it.
At any rate that business is over so far as this
port is concerned* and where elae it can be earned
on is more than we are prepared to say. w e have
heard 4palachicola, Fla., and Galveston, Texas,
-u-gejrod. but without knowing whetner tnere wt
auv probability or feasibility in either suzgestion.
We take ir for granted that there will be * rapid
h«Art of those Who have been engaged in “impor
ting a id export! Os course blockade goo-1? will
g t un, rur more rapid at Sr-t than afterward-*, be
cause >f the sudden pa ne. They may_ possibly be
cheapo’ ly the end o: us week .— Wihninaton Jour
nal _ . j n. i ustt Wfcni iHI
The DeJarnftt Resolution*.
W“ confess ourselves cons; ierabiy pnzzrail
by the resolutions offered by Mr. DeJarnett.
There is but one vi>*w of the case which can,
in oor opinion, justify him in offering. §. this
juncture in our iffairs. the re-oiutioss which
appeared in our issue of yesterday. If Mr.
DeJarnett ’.5 aware that U: • recent invitation
to send commissioners to Washington, was
extended by the Lincoln Government tor the
purpose of initiating negotiations upon cue
basis of the independence of the South and
the maintenance of the Monroe doctrine, then
the resolutions may not he inappropriate
tending, as they do. to show the North that,
with the acknowledgement of oar indepen
dence. we are ready to uphold a doctrine which
has always been popular in the South, and to
which the unjust war waged against us, has
alone made us indifferent. Regarding rtcon
struc'ion as the worst possible evil which can
befall them, the * people of the Sooth, while
there remains any possibility of such a mis
fortune. are indifferent or obvious to all mi«
nor questions: but let their independence
once be conceded, and their right to self-gcv
ernmeat acknowledged, and they stand ready
to uphold the doctrine which a few year? ago
was acknowledged as a settled principle of
American policy.
M e certainly have no reason to bear any spe
cial good will to either England or France, and
with our independence secured, there could be no
objection to onr assisting in maintaining a doc
trine which effectually prevents any foreign Pew
er from acquiring, either by the tword or the pea.
any foothold upon this continent. Bu t . wi:h our
independence endangered, all other questions sink
into insignificance, aud the people oftje rfouih
would not hesitate to abandon any and eirery poii
cy hitherto upheld, in order to secure the boon,
without which all else is worthless. Rather than
consent to reconstruction, they will willingly, if
exhausted and unable to continue the conflict,
give up all hopes of republicanism and fail
back into the arms of England or Francs or
Death, regarding any thing as better chan dishon
or and degradation.
If it be the intention of these resolutions to
assure the North that we will assist in the main
tenance of the Monroe doctrine, provided our in
dependence is recognized, and if Mr. DeJarrett
had assurances that this is to be the basis of pend
ing negotiations, we have no objection to them,
though we think they might be regarded as su
perfluous—there could never hare been a doubt
on the subject. But without such assurances,
these resolutions we regard as exceedingly ill
timed. Asa threat to England and France, they
are worse than useless—those powers fully ander
stand the position in whieh they stand- It may
not be sixty days before, casting all former doc
trines to the wind, and letting go oar hold on all
provious policy, we form alliance with toreign
Powers and give our hand to those who make
common cause with us against the common ene
my.—Afacoa Telegraph.
From Sherman.
Fortress Monrob,)
Tuesday, Jan. ,17— 10 P. M. )
To the President: General Sherman renewed
the movement of his foices from Savannah
last week. The Fifteenth and Seventeenth
corps went in transports to Beaufort on Sat
urday, the 14th. The Seventeenth corps, un
der Major General Blair, crossed Port Royal
feriy. and with a portion of General Foster’*
command, moved on Pocotaligd. Genera?
Howard, commanding that wing of the army,
reported on Sunday, the 15th, that the enemy
abandoned his strong works in our front on
Saturday night. General Blair s corps now
occupies a strong position across the railroad,
covering all approaches eastward to Poco
taligo.
******
A mistake prevails at the North as to the
present inducement tor commerce at Savan
nah. There is not yet any forge population
to be supplied, no credit or money, no com
modities of exchange, and there can be no
great amount for a considerable period.
All the cotton and preducts now within Sa
vannah belong tq the Government, aa captured
property.
Stringent precautions against supplies that
might go to the enemy have been made, and
will be enforced by Gen. Sherman.
Edwin M. Stanton,
Secretary of War.
A Rebrl Girl Escapes from Dana’s Purga
tory.—We find the following order in the Vicks
burg Herald. The miserable brute commanding
at Vicksburg has been outwitted by a Southern
girl. Miss Lum has been endeavoring to get
away from Dana’s purgatory for some time, but
failed, until Col. Wright, who was boarding at
Mr. Lum’i, with his family, took an interest in
her case. She is probably in the Confederacy by
this time. llow the ex-colonel will arrange it
with the tyrant, who is aspiring to Butler’s noto
riety, remains te be seen :
Dist. West Texm and Vicksburg, )
Vicksburg Miss., Dec. 1, 1364. j
Special Orders, No. 40.]
********
V. Anna Lum of Vicksburg, Miss., supposed to
boa spinster, about twenty years of age, after ap
plying for a pass in various quarters and being
refused, clandestinely and by fraud left Vicksburg
on the 29th ultimo, in company with one Clark
Wright.
The following is the report of the Provost Mar
shal en the affair :
“I loam from the members of the Lum family,
who have been examined by me this morning,
that Miss Anna Lum left in company with and iu
charge of Clark Wright, formerly a colonel in the
United States service. It appears that the family
did not know she was going until a short time be
fore she left. They knew she had been refused a
pass, but Clark Wright came up in the evening
with a carriage and stated to them that it wa3
right and Miss Lum could now go with *him ; that
he then took her away in the carriage, and that
was the last they saw of her. The records in the
Pass office shew that on the 28th ultimo, Clark
Wright obtained a pass to Cairo. Wright either
smuggled Miss Lum on board thejteamer without
a pass or must have inserted the name of his wife
in said pass, and passed Miss Lum as such on
board the boat.”
Both of the above named persons will be arrest
ed whenever found within the limits of this com
mand at any future time; and will be imprisoned
at either Cairo, Columbus, Memphis or Natchez,
until report is made to these headquarters, and
orders received in regard to them.
By order of Maj. Gen. M. J. T. Dana,
T H Harris, A A G.
Horse Thievbs Caught. —Through tne
prompt action of Sheriff Hodges two Peniten
tiary convicts who were liberated when Mili
edgeville was threatened, named Wm. G. Bow
man and M. C. Colton, were arrested yester
day morning on the charge o! stealing horses.
They had stolen and sold a number, and had
two in their possession when arrested, one of
which was identified by its owner, and h»3
been restored to him. After an examination
they were furnished with lodgingin the coun
ty jail.— Macon Telegraph. 2d.
Railroads. —The South Carolina railroad
i3 in perfect running order throughout the
whole extent. .
The Northern railroad is now in perfect or
der along the whole distance from Charleston
te» Florence.
The Wilmington and Manchester railroad
i3 completely repaired and running trains on
schedule time.
The cars on the Spartanburg and Ln:on
railroad are running daily from Spartanburg
to Shelton, Fairfield District. Arrangements
have been made to run a daily line of stages
to seme point on the Charlotte railroad, either
Blacksiocks or Winnsboro, the exact point to
be hereafter stated.— Columbia ( S. C.) Guar
dian. “
Fleur wag gelling at eight bun-irei dollars a
barrel, a few days since in Richmond.
Bv Livingston A. Cos.
( \N Saturday 4th February, at 17 o’clock, we
will sell in front of our store
1 bbl. Sugar,
1 Fine Carpet.
Lot Crockery
fe-< 3