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DAILY TIMES.
J. W. WARREN, - - - Editor.
COLUMBUS:
Wednesday Morning, February 8,1865.
. Daylight Appears.
We are no longer in doubt as to tfce purpo
ses of the enemy, or as to the practicability of
a paacclul settlement with him. The result
of the conference between our commissioners
and Lincoln, places this matter beyond the
reach of cavil or suspicion. In the most un
mistakable and emphatic language he lays
down the ultimatum of uior. Dsioi: and eman
cipation. Believing that this was the fixed
purpose of bis people and Government, we
ar« rejoiced, beyond measure, at this exhibi
tion of candor. It was in the power of the
Yankee President and Secretary (as it has
been on many former occasions) to split us
into jarring and discordant fragments, but the
uniform result of 'heir ac'ion has teen to
weld us more closely together, and to fix us
Still morejirmly in the faith that the only road
to peace is that which we have been pursuing
for the past four years. Whenever fortune
has seemed to desert us, and bur people weary
of the war, were losing faith iu our ultimate
triumph, the incomparable diplomacy of Lin
coln and .Seward has always been equal to t';e
emergency, and has graciously lifted us ur c
the trouble. Their friendly aid has just ena
bled us to pass in safety the most dangerous
part of our voyage. We have lately run close
in upon the shore, where rocks and sand bars
hedged our uncertain course. Again we are
upon the open sea, boisterous it is true, but
our ship is staunch, and she can stand the
strain and ride out the storm. That hope
which springs from a calm view of danger and
a manly and heroic resolve to meet and over
come it, now “ burns above the unrisen mor
row.”
War to the Knife. —Our telegraphic dis
patches disclose the unwelcome, but not un
expected truth, says the Macon Telegraph,
that our implacable foe will listen to no terms
of peace but our “unconditional submission
to the Constitution and laws of the United
States.”
So let it be !
Both parties now understand each other ;
and those of the Confederate States who have
been so clamorous for peace, and who have
been disposed to abuse the President for not
seeking it, we hope will now be satisfied that
no terms can be obtained from the enemy ex
cept such as would involve dishonor.
There is now no course left us but “uncon
ditional submission” to Yankee rule, or de
termined and unceasing war, until indepen*
dence is secured. Between these there can
be no debate —the former is abhorrent to true
manhood, and the high and holy impulses of
the true Southron, and the latter will be his
pride and glory. To talk of peace now, will
be akin to treason —unless propositions pro
ceed from the North—for peace cannot be had
on “honorable terms” to us. The watchword
now must be “war to the knife—the knife to
the hilt.”
The President. —We copy from the Richmond
Dispatch, says the Mobile Advertiser, an article
in vindication of the President against the sense
less clamor of a portion ot the public press, and we
endorse its justice. It is one thing to stand up for
free speech and the right to criticise the acts of
our highest public functionaries, but it is quite
another to pursue with relentless persistency the
daily avocation of breaking down the confidence
of the people in the Chief Magistrate of their own
choice, by every means of ridicula, detraction and
abuse which ingenuity and malice can devise. In
this the personal hate is visible to the naked eye, but
no microscopic power can discern the good either
designed or accomplished to. the public cause. Mr.
Davis is a man, and therefore, like all mortals, not
infallible. He is liable to err. He does err some
times ; ard he is the first to admit it. But we are
even at this day, after four years of unexampled
trial, and in full view of all the “imperfections on
his head,” unable to put our finger on a public
man in the country who would have more con
sistently, more wisely and more resolutely walked
the rugged path of unexampled national trial
than President Davis. As his enemies have com
bined against him, and are working terrible mis
chief to the cause in breakiug down public confi
dence in the Government, it is right that the
friends ot the country, for the country’s sake
should rally around and defend and uphold
the chosen leader of tho people in this fearful
struggle.
The Right Man in the Right Place.—
General John C. Breckinridge has been ap
pointed Secretary of War, in place of Hon.
J inxes A. Seddon, resigned, and will ente
upon the duties of his office in about a week.
We hazzard nothing in saying, says the Rich
mond Whig, tbat within the broad limits of
the Confederacy no one could have been
found more acceptable to the great mass of
the people in and out of the array. He fortu
nately adds to an enlarged and comprehen
sive knowledge of the nature and genius of
our institutions a practical acquaintance with
military matters, which he has successfully
illustrated in many of the hardest fought bat
tles ofthe war. While we regret to lose his
brilliant services in the field, we can but con
gratulate the country upon its good fortune in
having at this juncture in our struggle so
great and fortunate a statesman and warrior
to direct and manage military operations.
A Good Appointment. —John E. Hatcher,
says the Selma Rebel, one of the most pleas
ant of writers and agreeable gentleman for
merly connected with the Nashville press, and
more recently editor of the Atlanta Register,
is in town, on his way to Senatobia, Miss.,
where he will act as reporter for the Associa
ted Pres3. When he reaches his destination,
we shall look for intelligible and reliable dis
patches from that quarter.
The Richmond Dispatch, of the 26th, says
“ gold sold yesterday at Davenport & Co’s
auction at forty-seven—at the same time it
could be bought, and was bought, privately
at forty-five. Some of the knowing ones
made a good thing by buying privately and
selling at auction. ”
Mr. Cox, from the Special Committee on the
subject, in the Virginia House of Delegates,
reported a bill for the purchase from E. C.
Brady, of Richmond, of the life-size likeness
of General R. E. Lee, for the sum of §65,000
in present currency. The Committee say that
it “ is an admirable likeness of the great and
beloved chieftain and patriot, ” and unani
mously recommend its purchase.
fFroui the behtnond Sentinel. 30:h alt.-]
The American Question from a European
Stand-Point.
The Washington Congress has refused to
recognize Maximilian ; indirectly indeed, bat
yet pointedly. It has stricken from the Con
sular and Diplomatic bill, all appropriation
for a diplomatic officer to Maximilian’s Court.
The New York Herald, in the paragraph which
we copied on Saturday, exults in this decis
ion ; and in the following words it significant
ly refers to the policy of which-this is at once
an indication and a part: “It remains, there
fore, simply to be seen whether [the powei-3
of Europe] or we, are to control on this con
tinent. We shall soon be leady to test this
question. ”
The oppor'une time to which the Herald re
fers, is, of course, the “ suppression of the re
bellion ” and the reunion of the American
States—an achievement which it has confi
denty predicted as certain to be accomplished
within every “ sixty ” or “ ninety ” days of the
last four years. As untaught as the child
that clutches at the moon as expectant
ly now as on yesternight, the Herald
still presumes on the coveted prize. This se
cured, the “ question ” then to be “ tested ” is,
whether France and England cannot be dis
lodged from the American continent. The
daily blast is, that the vast armies now op
posed in conflict will then be combined, and
march with united front against British au
thority in Canada, and the Franco Maximilian
establishment in Mexico
This menace has been too often repeated
and from too many sources, to be treated with
indifference. It would be presumption and
folly for France and England to disregard it \
To affect to do so, would be hypocrisy. That
they are watching these reiterated manifesta
tions of impatient purpose, is not to i»e doubt- w
ed. England would, indeed, be delighted if |
she were fairly rid of Canada ; but the people j
of her American provinces have lately given j
such proofs of their attachment, that she can- i
not, in decency, cast them away; nor would j
tier pride submit to have them wrested from
her. by violence. Napoleon, too, may wish he i
had not attempted ihe settlement of Mexico, j
Taking bold advantage of American distrac- j
tious, he stretched his long arm across the I
Atlantic, and plucked down from the Presi- j
dentiat seat, the ruler of a neighboring repub
lic, upset the Government, erected a throne,
and placed upon it a stranger from inland Eu
rope, who never saw America until sent hith
er to play at king. In so doing, he bade defi
ance to the declared policy and purpose of
both of the great North American powers, and j
insulted them in their presence and to their j
face. He accomplished what he would have j
had neither the ability to execute nor the dar
ing to attempt, but for the circumstances of
which he availed himself. In the presence of
our own great exigency, the Confederate States
scarce gave attention to the scenes in Mexico.
Seward, in his treatment of the subject, com
menced with bluster and ended with dissimu
lation ; but his people have taken no pains to
conceal that lust of empire which is the ani
mating principle of their present war, and
which, invigorated by hate, has already fast
ened its covetous desires upon Canada and
Mexico. Napoleon knows that north of the
Potomac, the mo*b rules ; and the mob has
declared and Congress has registered the de
cree, that it now dishonors Maximilian, and
will hereafter dethrone him.
While such are the exhibitions in America
touching the Mexican question, Napoleon
shows some significant signs that he is not an
unconquered spectator, nor destined to remain
a passive waiter upon events. He is throwing
an unwonted mystery over his thoughts and
purposes; and mystery in rulers is the covert
in which the lion couches, and from which he
springs upon his prey.
It has ever been Napoleon’s custom, on his
New Year’s day receptions, to indicate his poli
cy and to signify hi3 views. But last New
Year the oracle was dumb. To the United
States Charge “he expressed a few words of
regret at the death of Mr. Dayton, but said
nothing whatever about our affairs in general .”
So writes the correspondent of the New York
Herald. Obviously, Napoleon has secrets of
which Seward is not to be the keeper. He
has possible purposes which are not to be
! thwarted by disclosure. He is revolving plans
which are not to to embarrassed by commit
; ments. His discretion is not to be hampered
or restrained by pledges. There is action in
this silence. There is purpose in this myste-
I T-
If England and France judge the American
problem by the ordinary standards of human
experience, any solicitude they may feel as to
the effect on their political interests of the
reunion of the American States—on the as
sumption that such reunion were possible—
would be a solicitude based upon reasons
which a historian would consider adequate
and potential. The hate of the United States
for both,of those government is not disguised.
Opportunity is all that the mad mob of that
country are praying for. The people of the
Confederate States, though animated by uc
such hate, are conscious that they have been
much wronged by each of those powers. We
have seen a governments set up by force of
arms in the city of Mexico, by France, and we
have seen it recognized on the instant, by Eng
land, although- the constitutional government
was still defended by organized armies, and
was supreme in vast sections of the country.
And while we have witnessed such swift haste
in recognizing a domination thus violently and
imperfectly established, the Confederate States,
an alliance of recognized sovereigns, after ex
ercising all the functions of separate govern
ment for nearly four years, and maintaining
an authority, bestowed by the people, against
all the attempts of a mighty enemy to over
throw it, are to this day denied audience as a
power among the nations of the earth ! We
are not insensible to this and other wrongs,
although we have abandoned ourselves to no
indecent resentments. But experience has
shown that an injury continued, and especially
if it prove seriously detrimental, quickly ri
pens into hate when reason for forbearance
ceases, and when opportunity for retaliation
is presented.
The rulers of Western Europe are sufficient
ly conversant with the lessons of history to
know, also, that the device so freely proclaim
ed by the organs of the wild mob of which
Lincoln is for the time the head, as the expe
dient by which they expect to obliterate from
,the minds of the people of the American
States the memory of present bitterness, is
borrowed from those who so successfully em
ployed it in former ages. Among the popular
leaders of Greece and Rome, the sovereign
remedy for civil convulsions, and composer of
intestine feuds, was foreign war. Such for
eign war is already ordained by those who
dream of a conquered South or reconstructed
Union. The parties to be attacked are also
selected and proclaimed. England and F ranee,
against whom these threats are impatiently
fulminated, will judge for themselves how far,
under all tlie circumstances to which we have
alluded, the co-operation of the Confederate
Slates might be expected against them, In the
event supposed, for the argument, to be possi
ble. They will judge whether their course,
now and heretofore, towards the Confederacy,
best constitutes a claim upon our forbearance
or an appeal to our resentments.
The policy of England and France on the
American question has not been more unjust
to us than opposed to their own interests and
tranquility. It is obvious that there can be no
balance of power in North America except in
the separation of the Anglo American States.
Re-unite those States, and Canada and Mexico,
by whomsoever governed or patronized, would
be at once overawed, and their independence
exist only by sufferance. Bound to them in a
manner not to be disregarded, England and
France would find their peace suspended on
the caprice of a turbulent population; and in
the event of war would discover themselves
compelled to conduct it on a battle-ground
where all the advantages would be against
them, and to reach which they would have to
cross the seas. Confiding in the ability of the
Confederate States to maintain their indepen
dence, the European powers have hitherto
given their care only to escaping from all
present complications and inconveniences.
But the very boasts of our enemy, if believed,
will tend to rouse them to their duty. They
would long ago have selfishly conceded to a
; supposed weakness the rights and advantages
which they have selfishly denied to our
strength. They do not wish as conquered.
They do not wish the American States reuni
ted/ We say this, because their obvious
interests say so, and because, with nations,
interest is the rule of action.
The refusal to recognize Maximilian, sounds
the alarm to Napoleon. Napoleon’s mystery
is an indication that the alarm is taken. The
boasts of the enemy are eloquent advocates
jof our cause. The cotton famine, too, so
! long spoken of, has come at last. In short,
i the great drama grows in interest, the plot
I thickens, and the curtain is rising upon the
1 closing scenes. Nothing is needed to insure a
brilliant denouement bGt continued heroism,
fortitude, unity and devotion, on the part of
the Confederate people. Let us stand stead
fastly in the line of-duty: that complication
and collision of interests which Providence
wonderfully ordains as the mode of coercing
nations to do justice to each other, are work
ing out the result which we have long expec
ted, because long entitled to it.
The Negro Bill in Congress.
The following is the bill passed by the House
of Repre3entativ.'S in reference to the employ
ment of negroes in the army. It is the Sen
ate bill with-o Die amendments :
A Bill to’provide for the employment of free
negroes and slaves to work upon fortifies- j
lions and pyrlorm other labor connected j
with the defences of the country. .
Section 1. Whereas,, the efficiency of the j
army is at times greatly diminished by the
withdrawal from the ranks of soldiers to per
form labor anu duties which can as well be
done by free non roes and slaves,
The Congress of the Confederate States of
America do enact, That all free male negroes
between the ag- sos eighteen and fifty years,
shall be held liable to perform any labor or
discharge any duties with the army, or in con
nection with the military defences of t!?e coun
try, 3uch as working upon fortifications, pro
ducing and preparing materials of war, build
ing and repairing roads and bridges, and do
ing other work usually done by engineer
troops and pontoniers, acting as cook3, team
sters, or other like labor, or similar duties
which may be required or prescribed by (he
Secretary of War or the General command
ing the Trans-Mississippi Department, from
time to time. And said free negroes, whilst
thus engaged, shall receive rations and cloth
ing, under such regulations as the Secretary
of War may prescribe, and shall receive pay
at the rate of eighteen dollars per month.
Sec. 2. That the Secretary of War and the
general commanding the Trans-Mississippi
department are each authorized to employ,
lor duties like those named in the first sec
tion of this act, as many male negro slaves,
between the ages of eighteen and forty-five
years, as the wants of the service » may re
quire. And the said slaves, whilst so em
ployed, shall be furnished rations and cloth
ing as provided in the preceding section, and
the owners paid such hire for their services
as may be agreed upon, not to exceed eighteen
dollars per month ; and in the event of the
loss of any slaves whilst so employed, by the
act of the enemy or by escape to the enemy,
or by wounds or death inflicted by the enemy,
or by disease contracted whilst in any service
required of said slaves, and by reason of said
service, then the owners thereof, respectively,
shall be entitled to receive the full value of
such slaves, to be ascertained and fixed by
agreement at the time said slaves are so hired,
under rules to be prescribed by the Secretary
of War.
Sec. 3. That whenever the Secretary of
War or the general commanding the Trans■>
Mississippi department shall be unable to pro
cure the services of slaves by hiring them, as
above provided, in sufficient numbers, then it
shall be lawful for the said Secretary or Gen
eral to order the impressment, and to impress
as many male slaves, within the ages named
in the second section of this act, and for the
purposes at and uses above stated as the wants
of the service may require.
Provided, That said impressment shall be
I made according to the rules and regulations
' provided in the laws of the States wherein
they are impressed ; and in the absence of
such law, in accordance with 3uch rules and
regulations not inconsistent with the provis-
I ions of this act as the Socretarv of
I UCkl i.ime to time prescribe.
Provided, That slaves so impressed shall,
whilst in the government employment, receive
the same clothing and rations allowed to slaves
hired from their owners, and in the event of
their loss or death in the manner or from the
causes above stated, their value shall be esti
mated and fixed aa provided by the first sec
tion of an act to regulate impressments, passed
on the 26th of March, *1863, and paid as in
the case of slaves hired from their owners,
and the value of the hire of said slaves shall
be fixed in like manner.
Sec. 4. That the Secretary of War and the
General commanding the Trans-Mississippi
Department shall, in ordering the impressment
of slaves, regulate the same, as far as practi
cable, so that slaves shall be taken from each
State in proposition to the number held or im
pressed therein under this act. whether owned
by citizens of such State or not, but not more
than one of every five male slaves, within the
said ages of eighteen and forty five years,
shall be taken from any one owner, nor where
any owner has less than live male slaves with
in said ages, shall said slave be impressed, and
all impressments under this act shall, as far
as practicable, be taken in equal ratio from
all owners in the same locality, city, county
or district: Provided, That in each case care
be taken to allow each owner a credit for all
male slave between the ages aforesaid hereto
fore impressed, or impressed under this act, or
hired to the government, who are still in ser
vice, or who may have died or been lost while
in service: Provided, further, That, if the
Governor of any State shall certify to the Sec
retary of War or the commanding General of
the Trans-Mississippi department, that slaves
cannot be impressed in any locality, county,
district, parish or city in such State without
great detriment to such locality, county, dis
trict, parish or city, then the quota of said
locality, county, district, parish or city shall
be impressed from other portions of such
State.
Sec. 5. If any slave is now held for service
who is not liable thereto under the provisions
of this act, such slave shall be forthwith re
turned to the owner on demand and proof of
the fact. Provided, however, That nothing
herein contained shall be so construed as to
exempt any State from furnishing its fair quo
ta of slaves for the purposes herein specified
and according to the provisions of this act.
Sec. 6. Duplicate rolls shall be prepared of
all the slaves hired or impressed under this
act, which shall contain a description of the
slaves, the names and residences of the own
ers ; and a statement of the value and rate of
hire of the slaves at the date they are hired or
impressed, one of which rolls shall, in the
States east of the Mississippi river, be forward
ed to the Secretary of War, and in those west
of the Mississippi river, to the quartermasters
of the general commanding that Department;
and the other roll shall be sent to the general
commanding the army where said slaves may
be emplpyed ; and the officer having charge of
said slaves, or of the work upon which they
may be engaged, shall have a copy of said
roll, and shall regularly enter thereon the na
ture of the labor or duties in which said slaves
are engaged and any changes which may be
made therein, and of the absence, sickness cvr
death of any of said slaves, and make month
ly returns thereof to the general commanding
the army where said slaves are employed, who
shall transmit the same to the Secretary of
War or to the commanding general in the
Trans-Mississippi Department, as the case
may be.
Sec. 7. Tbat all laws or parts of laws pro
viding for the hiring or impressment of slaves
be, and the same are hereby repealed, except
eo far as they may provide for regulating and
fixing, in case of impressment, the value of
said «laves or the value of their services.
Sec. 8. No slaves shall be hereafter impress
ed, except in pursuance of ths provisions of
this act, and any officer who may violate the
provisions thereof shall be court martialed,
and on conviction cashiered.
Thr Savannah Patriots ” — A New York
paper ptibpshes a private letter from a lady m
Savannah, received in that city since the fall
o: Savannah. It shows who have been de
lighted at the arrival o: the Yankees. The
following is an extract:
Next door to me is quartered a portion of
the 20th corps, New York volunteers. They
are so delighted to hear I am from New York
that my kitchen is just filled ail the time with
them. Sarah takes great delight in vo~ L .>
coffee for them, and doing for them what » -
can. I have a picket walking up and down
before my door all day and night, to guard
me, and they take the best care of me ; and,
only think, I have made the first flag. The fid
division met with an accident; their brigade
flag fell in the fire, and - they had no flag when
they came here. Each division has a flag;
Ist, red star; fid, white star; and 3d, blue.
So I made the bonnie blue flagr. with the sin
gle white star, and there is not one of the men
but knows it, and seems perfectly delighted.
S. says he believes I am the happiest woman
in Savannah It is glorious, my dear sister,
to be free once more and feel that I will soon
be with you all. to stay just as long as I please.
This morning I went to St. .John’s Church.
Mr. Mcßea preached. He did not read the
prayer for the President of the United States,
but will next Sunday. All the churches were
open to-day except Christ Church. The bish
op left. I hope it will be open on Sunday, for
I shall take great pleasure in seeing a Union
man in the pulpit. The bishop sent off his
assistant before he left. What fools some
people have been! They will see their folly
when too late, I tear. Last evenine Major F.
called on me; he was delighted to see me. and
I him Invited him to dine with us, but he
could not, as his duty called him away. Said
he expected to be in New York in January.
I find I have a great many friends, and i as
sure you it is very pleasant, after having been
so long alone. Gen. Sherman is to review the
troops to-day, and I feel quite anxious to wit
ness it. To-day Major D. called. I met him
in Washington when I came on here, two years
ago. He is on Gen. Barry’s staff. 1 have so
much to tell you all; lam nearly beside my
self with joy. Last evening I sent General
Sherman a Christmas present. May God bless
him, for he has brought more joy to my heart
than has been there for many a long day.—
Mr. B. and Mr. It. called to-day to see me. I
told them I felt so happy I hardly knew what
to do with myself.
We understand from gentlemen who are in
clined to believe ir, that a courier ha3 been sent to
Sherman, from Washington, instructing him to
remain quiet, in expectation of an armistice.
Whether Sherman will stand still, we are unable
to say. He is not much of a stand still man, and
we should not advise any one to expect too fondly
that he will stand still.
Another! It is rumored (or was last night) by
gentlemen who profess t<> have taken a peep be
hin the shifting scenes, that an Envoy Plenipo
tentiary from his Imperial Highne-s Napoleon the
111, had arrived at Wilmington. The Exequatur
at Charleston is a small potatoe to this.
Well, we have others, but there is no use to give
them all at once. If there is any truth in the as
sertion that gold is the indicator, we take great
pleasure tu saying and knowing that it points
very low. From 75 it has gone to 30 in this city.
It has sold for 20 in Richmond within the last ten
days.— Constitutionalist, 3 d.
The New York News understands the great im
portance which Europe will attach to this noble
effort on the part of these States to preserve the
right of sell-government. It says :
Confederate emancipation extends its signifi
cance to the cabinets of Europe. The pride and
policy of France stand committed to the support
of the Empire of Mexico. A triumph and consol
idation at Washington would thus under the Mon
roe doctrine, plunge Louis Napoleon into a bloody
war. Dissolution of the Union, then, is a result
to which he is, therefore, openly and deeply com
mitted. Asa political deduction, he has held it
an accomplished fact. Asa fundamental as
sumption of liis policy in Mexioo he has placed
the success of the South under the guaranty of his
sword.
Louis Napoleon stands committed against a re
construction of the Union on the evidence of ac
tual events. Political inference, the man who
would rise to the level of statesmanship, must
learn to deal with, as with existing facts. The
overt act of France is not more conclusive of her pol
j* to tli2 Yf-r Cf the sections than are
the interests of that other great power, of those of
England. Whether on grounds of commercial ag
grandizement, or of D°wer, no SSiiciusion
is plainer than that Great Britain is, to-aay, bid
ing her time to make good the dissolution of the
Union by, if necessary, her guns or her gold.
A hundred brains watch the struggle of the sec
tions in its moral progress. Agents of France, or
of England, those intellects care very little for the
fall of the Savannahs, the Atlantas, the Wilming
tons. They know that the progress of conquest is
not material but moral. Forts may be carried,
cities occupied, fields laid waste ; but the work of
conquest begins and ends in the soul. Every pul
sation of the popular purpose, those acute minds
watch at both the North and at the South; and
report regularly for the cold consideration of Lord
Palmerston and Louis Napoleon. These two great
statesmen occupy, thus, a position to deal °with
the “American question” with their hands on the
pulse of each section ; and estimate its condition
after the fashion of a physician with his ear to the
stop-watch.
Southern emancipation will have swept an ob
stacle from the purposes of France and England.
Popular sympathy and popular want follow, now
the heels ofthe policy of the governments of these
countries; and we may therefore expect, if the soul
of the South should begin to sink, to find Napoleon
and Palmerston apply their remedies to the
then dangerous case of the “sick man” of the
West.
Rosskr’s Cavalry Capture of Beverly.—
The Wheeling Intelligencer publishes the follow
ing account of Gen. Rosser’s recent capture of the
Yankee garrison at Beverly :
The attack was made about three o’clock on
Wednesday morning of last week. The garrison
wa3 asleep in their winter quarters, and there
were no pickets out further than three hundred
yards from the camp. The rebels charged right
into the mid3t of the sleeping soldiers, and cap
tured one half of the garrison before the other
half knew anything about the attack. It is said
that the rebels actually went about knocking on
the doors of the huts, rudely requesting the “d—d
blue bellies” to get up and take a trip to Richmond.
One Lieutenant, belonging to the Eighth Ohio
cavalry, rallied a number of men, engaged the
rebels, and drove them from the budge, allowing
a hundred or so of our confused soldiers, to escape.
In the fight five men were killed upon each side,
and a rebel Colonel named Cashaw, who is still
at Beverly, was seriously wounded.
The rebels, or rather a portion of them, re
mained in Beverly .until the afternoon of Thurs
day, and their conduct towards the citizens is said
to have been most outrageous. They robbed the
citizens of money, clothing and valuables of every
description, in some instances taking ear rings out
of the ears of the women, and searching for valu
blea supposed to be coucealed in their hoops.—
They destroyed the bridge over the Valley river
and set fire to the town in several places ; but
there were among the force a number of soldiers
who had formerly resided in Beverly, and wh>se
relations own property there, and the fire was ex
tinguished by these men. It is asserted that the
rebels had nearly as many prisoners as they had
men to guard them. No doubt is entertained but
the garrison could have handsomely defeated the
attacking party if they had had the slightest inti
mation of the approach of the enemy.
Federal Movements.*— The St. Louis Union, of
the 12th ult., says:
We are apprised of a great military movement
that will startle the public in a few days. Its de
tails are contraband at present.
The Boston Journal of January 17, aids:
We received intelligence from the West yesterday,
of an important military movement, but withhold it
for obvious reasons.
It is highly probable that these inklings allude to
the movements of Thomas. And do not the reports
from North Alabama indicate the direction in which
he proposes to move ? We hear from Selma that
the enemy are moving a force from Guntersviile to
Gadsden, on the Coosa, twenty-eighf miles Jfrom
Talladega, and that some skirmishing has taken
place in Will’s Valley. The situation in North
Alabama is becoming attractive enough, we think to
invite the attention of others besides the local com
manders. — Memphis Appeal. sth.
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“ Dick, bow is it you are always possessed
of such a store of fan. Where do you get
it ? "
*• I mmufactare it. I can make ir out of
nothing. For instance, T cotfii make rua of
yon. but tor f-ieadsbip’i sake ”
A'JG’wICkT SAL2S.
Rosette, Lawhon & €o.,
Auctioneers,
131, llroa.it St,. Columbus, C*a., j
WILL SELL AT 11 O'CLOCK.
THIS DAY,
1,000 ORANGES!
feb 8 $lO
Rosette, Lawhon & Cos.,
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Auctioneers,
■j
131, Broad St.. Columbus. Ga.,
WILL SELL AT 11 O'CLOCK
THIS HAY,
1 YOKE OXEN,
17 HEAD PIGS and SHOATS,
2 COWS and CALVES,
3 GOATS,
1 MULE,
1 TWOsHORSE WAGON,
15 PLOWS, different sizes,
1 LADIES’ SIDE SADDLE,
50 SEWING MACHINE NEEDLES,
1 SEWING M ACHINE
feb 8 S2O
Rosette, Lawhon &Cos.,
[
Auctioneers,
131, Broad St., Columbus, Ga*>
WILL SELL AT 11 O’CLOCK
THIS DAY,
FEBRIRABY Bth,
20 BOXES TOBACCO, Medium and
Fine Grades,
10 bbls. CANE SYRUP,
1 bbl. RYE WHISKEY,
1 Mahogany FRENCH BED STEAD,
I « ROCKING CHAIR,
1 FINE 3*PLY BRUSSELS CARPET,
18X20.
feb 6 $42
ALSO,
FINE MARE, 6 years old, No. 1 Sads
die animal,
feb 7 $6
ALSO,
FINE SOLE LEATHER TRUNK,
“ Sofa Bottomed Rocking CHAIR,
u . (t £t Parlor “
feb 7 $6
ALSO,
1 PONY, Saddle and Biidie.
feb 7 $6
Rosette, Lawhon & Cos.,
OFFER AT PRIVATE SALE
One Copper Boiler, 8 feet long.
Five or six hundred pounds Led Pipe
8 or 10 Large Brass Bib & Stop Cocks.
jen IS ts
To Rent.
HOUSE AND LOT, oh Forsyth Street, between
Baldwin and Thomas streets. The house con
tains five plastered rooms, excellent kitchen, fine
garden and good well of water. Premises under
good fencing. ROSETTE, LAWHON A CO.
feb 6 3t $9
COtIPMTIEYTARY
GRAIS T D CONCERT
Wednesday Evening, Feb. Bth
At Temperance Hall, Weather Permitting.
TO BE GIVEN TO
E. O. EATON and C. L WARD.
» Assisted by
MAD. BAILINI AND SEVERAL PUPILS !
For particulars see small bills.
Doors open at 7, Concert commences at 7%, P. M.
febS—lt
Notice!
Headquarters Post, )
Columbu3, Ga-, Feb. Bth, 1865. r
Notice is hereby given to keepers of Bar Rooms,
ifcc., that the call made upon them to close is hereby
rescinded. They are, however, requested to close
their establishments in the event of any distur
bance.
LEON VON ZINKEN,
febS-lt Col. Commanding Post.
For Sale.
A STEAM SAW MILL. The Engine is 25 horse
A power, two Boilers 32 feet long and 40 inches in
diameter, the saw is 45 inches. The Belting all new.
Apply to W. JOHNSON,
feb 8 6t Mobile & Girard Railroad.
Owing to the increased price of Provisions, La
bor and other expenses, the Steamboats on the
Chattahoochee River have been compelled to ad
vance their prices for freight and passage to the fol
lowing rates :
Passage from Columbus to Chattahoochee $75 00
From Chattahoochee to Columbus SIOO 00
Intermediate landings in proportion.
Freights to any point on Chattahoochee River $4 00
per hundred. Measurement Freight $1 25 per cubic
foot.
Capt. H. WINGATE, Shamrock.
Capt. DAN FRY, Jackson.
Capt. ABE FRY, Indian.
Capt. JOHN COUCH. Mist.
Capt.A. 0. BLACKMAR.MunnerIyn.
feb7—tf
FOR cniTTAHOOCHEE AND BAINBRIDGE.
The Steamer Shamrock, H. Wingate, master, will
leave for the above and intermediate landings,
Wednesday morning at 9 o’clock,
feb 7 td
MYERS, WATSOW & CO.,
AUOTIOITE IEIRoS
# AN*B
General Commission Merchants,
At Hull & Duck's old stand.
Opposite Bank of Columbus, Broad Street.
jgtgr° Personal and promp* attention given I
to all consignments. I
Columbus, Ga., Jan. 21, 1865. jan23 ts
!\'ej?roes to Hire.
TO H T RS ten you-/ Negro MEN. also a good
1 o,ok »4W«Or. Wm! A WOOLFOLK. |
jan 17 ts Agent.
▲'JSSZCIT
By t:ni». lii,}n s , ton 4 . ,
LIKELY NE6RQES~AT AUCTION
ON THLKSDAY, 9th iu«t., at 1 :
w.e will sell in front of our Z O -,
reserve. ' ’*•» w
A Likely Negro Man, 35
A « “ Woman 30 year’ 5
2 u il Boys, 8&12 ..
2 « « “ 20
I “ “ Man, 50 «.
Besides other valuable property
feb *5 $26 * -
TH E O X TY^
T. J. JACKSON LOCAL ev
Sales To-Day.—Rosette, Lawhon i
sell to-dav negroes, furniture, whisky, toba-
See advertisement.
♦ —«. . _
Auction Sales.— At auction by gii; .
ingston & Cos., one gold watch sold
one negro woman and child, $6,500 : Car
years old, $1,250; one negro man, 3u yea .
$3,600 : Eli, 18 years old, $3,260; j 4C
years old, $3,225 ; Gabriel, 25 years old, c
one road wagon, S4OO ; one cow and calf i
other sales unimportant.
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Forty sixth Georgia.— We are glad te
that this gallant Regiment has been
for ten days. Some of its officers, are er V
their respite in this city. The 46th is abr -
scarred Regiment, numbering we suppose,,
time not more than two hundred men. p*.
organized and commanded by that intrepid ,
dier and accomplished gentleman Peyton U
quitt, and was at one time among the finest p l 6,
ments in the service, numbering nearly 120(1 aj-
Hurrah for the gallant 40th!
The Concert of Eaton and Ward advertises
last evening has been postponed until to-a ; ,.
(the weather, permitting.) Wo hope there «
be a good attendance.
Literary.—When a boy, we recollect once 5
the backwoods to have attended a country deba
ting society. The question up for debate on tha
occasion was—“ Which is the happiest, marriei
single life ?” The following were the leading a-,
guments of the most gifted orator oneaehfiit.
In behalf of the married state, Mr. “Yallerleg?
unbosomed his “pkeelinks” thus :
Mr. President—l rise on this extraordinary or
cashun to give vent to my pent up enthusiasm i a
favor of a matrimonial felicity. I contends tin.
married life is the happiest, and I tell you ’ca?a
why. When a man is married he has somebody
do his cookin’ and washin’, and he is not like un;>
yon rusty ole bachelor who has to shiver aai
shake over a few fire coals, in the chimney corns:
and compelled to wash hi3 own clothes and
on his own buttons, but the married man at sun
set can return to his own fireside, and in the long
winter evenings can rejoice in the contemplate
that all around are his. I know, Mr. Preside!
that the married man are happiest, and I think
you are bound to decide the question in J nv fato:.
Mr. “Spindleshanks” in advocacy of sing.*
blessedness, rose in his place and evaporated after
this wise :
Mr. President—The distinguished gentleman
who has jest set down has tried to make it appear
that married blessedness are the happi est, hat
begs leave to think differently. I think single .«
is the beat, for when a man geea homo at n:ga:
it is not with trembling limbs fer fear sum
“spitfire, ’ will hit him on the head with t’ je fire-? i
or sio-fn the dish rag in his face. He knows tat;
what he has ar his. He can set down with on tfu
of having his dog-trotters knocked from unde:
him by fallia ovdr sum whiteheated.. greasy-faced
brat. His snoozes kte peaceful. ?No Caudle e
tures disturbs his Biidn'Sht slumLers. No wake
ful baby howls dolefully v> & J for W' “
the mornin he f° rt k t 0 yf without ojv -
ft “slicken plaster” to e!- u 5 ■dulcet tones -
Mr. Spindiealianks, the meal bag is empty ' “if
Spindleshanks Sue*!? J aae waßts > P air of ?ioe;
Ac., Ac. In short Mr. President I thin* its
very clear the single man is best off.
Whereupon that august functionary, the Pit: ■
dent, arose with much dignity, and decide: toa
whereas “ Spindleshanks” was emphatically the
heaviest dog, he was compelled to giro his ver
dict in favor of single life.
[From the Richmond Dispatch.]
The President.
We have never been of those who attempted to
make a demigod or a ’Washington of the Pre*
dent of the Confederate States. We knew tha*.
like other men, he is fallible; that he can er:
has erred. But we will not, in this dark hour
of national distress, felt by him as keenly, we
doubt not, as by the most sensitive of his coun
trymen, help to add to his afflictions by toe
voice of reproach and denunciation. We wi.l not
make him the scapegoat of the nation’s misfor
tunes. We must have the evidence all before us
that he ordered this and that unfortunate move
ment before we bring in a verdict of guilty against
Jefferson Davis. “ They say” and “the re able
gentleman” will not do for us. “They say” is »
notorious liar, and “ the reliable gentleman >
generally an ass or knave.
But supposing the President not to be the max
for the times. Who put him where he ig ? Who
made him President by acclamation? Who fab
ricated this idol ? The very people who are
called upon to chop it into firewood ! Haw do **
know that any other idol which the same hand*
construct will be any more a god! Jefferson
Davis is the creation, not the creator of the R®vo
lution ; and if the Revolution fails it is as fair o
attribute it to its own inherent weakness as tha
ineompetency of its chief agent; neither of winch
would be true. It will be time enough te discusi
the cause when the effect is produced, and if w *
are faithful, united and determined that can
be. In any event, this dark hour is the last .a
which we will saddle the President with the res
ponsibility of all our misfortunes.
In the first place, we do not believe he ia res
ponsible ; in the next, whilst Abraham Linco.s
fancies he has his clutches upon his throat,
will not say—we cannot say with truth —‘fa?
Father Abraham, that is the chief sinner : accepr
him as a victim, and restore us te thy favor.
On the contrary, we can tell the President of ths
United States that we are all as great offenders
the President of the Confederacy, who is but i'
servant and our agent; and if this war of deferc?
has been conducted with as signal humanity an -
moderation as skill and valor, it is because on
servant and our agent has steadily maintain®'
under the most extraordinary provocation, the hu
manity and moaeration of the Southern charac
ter.
But if Jefferson Davis cannot claim the crei
of inaugurating this Revolution; if he is but
honored instrument selected by the people the
selves for their chief : if he has manifested a per
sistent desire to and alleviate the r--
rors of war, he has conducted his administra
of affairs with as much judgment, energy anx
devotion to the cause as any other man
could have been selected for his position. Wa3
could have done better? .Let us hear the nam?
ofthe man, and also the reason why the pub-,
intelligence did not select that man for the Pr® ?
dency instead of the present incumbent -
We have no dujibt tbat we did the best weoou.u
in making Mr. Davis President, and that he h»*
tried to do the best h. could in the Presidency.-
We see no more reason in attributing to him a.
the disasters ia the West than all the glories w
the East. If we are true to ourselves, the snip or
State will yet ride the wares buoyant and ricto
rious ; but if she £oes down, let us refrain troai
pelting the helniiinan, whom we ourselves put a
the wheel of the ship which we ourselves bui.-
and launched, and meet our fate with at l*** l
fortitude and resignation of Turks, if no: ot Car,»
tians.
Gen J D. Imboderi is in command of
the military prisons in Georgia, Alabama an
Mississippi.