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DAILY TIMES, J* !f. IVIRKEN A CO., Proprietors. •'abiished Da 7 (Sundays excepted) at the rate of *f>,oo per month, or sl3 tortSree months. So "übscription receive*] for a longer Urn than < Srr* month*. RATES OF ADVERTISING. * ASUA I. DAILY ADVBRTtSING RATES. Advertisements inserted onee —$4 per square. REGULAR DAILY ADVKRTISIKO RATES. First Week~-$3 00 per square for each insertion SO per square for each insertion. Fourth Week—sl 00 per square for each insertion. Second Month —$30 per square. Third Month—s2s per square. 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