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directory
For Government Officers in this City.
COL. LEON VON ZINKEN, Commanding
Post—Headquarters ia the “Winter Building,’’
East side Broad Strict, nearly opposite Express
Office.—Staff, Lieut. 8. ISIDORE QUILLET,
Post A j;.—Cipt. T. S. FRY, Pust Inspector.
Ordnance Department.
Col. M. H. WRIGHT, Commanding Govern,
men' Works—Office corner Oj<; e th irpe and S’.
Clair s treeia, uv.;r Posi Uls«-.c.
Major F. O. HUMPHREYS, Executive Officer,
Columbus Arsenal—Office over Post Office.
Maj JAMES HAKDING, in charge of Armo
ry-Office a.. Pistol Kuitory on Oglethorpe Street,
between Franklin acd Bridge.
Lieu'. J. M. MULDEN, J r ., M. 8. K.—Office
#t Ofdriancu Score House, near City Cemetery.
Quartermaster’s Department.
M*j. h. W. DILLARD, Q. M.—Chief Quarter !
master's Office, East side of Broad Street, oppe. I
ette Uni u Banit.
Maj. A B. RAGAN, Army Paymaster—Office i
in ‘drne buil dug with Post Commandant*
Cap- 8 F. BOM AH, A. Q. M. Post Pay mas- |
ter —Office Wes. side of Broad Street, opposite j
Waker Hospital.
Ctpu J. A. REDD, A. Q. M., Post Quarter
master—-Oflioe No. 82, Eait side Broad Street.
uafit. li. L). CO L UR A N", A. Q. M. in charge of
Transportation and Forage—Office West side of
Broad Street, opposite WnUor Hospital.
Cap'. J. T. PEYTON, A. Q. M., Depot Q
M—Ofli :e oi Randolph Street, one door East of
Daily Times office.
Capt. J. F. COOPER, A. Q. M., Tax in Kind
Q. M. Bth Cong, of Georgia—Office West side of
Broad Street, 3d door below Agency Marina BaDk.
\ \ Commissarij^Departments
Maj. A M ALLEN, 0 S,
ry—Office at Alabama Warehouse, on Front St.
Cape J H GRAYBILL, ACS, Post Commis
sary—Office p.ovner Broad and St. Clair Streets.
Capt. G if EULKERSON, Provost Marshal—
Office und door North of Post Commandant’s tof
fioe.
Medical Department.
Surgeon S H STOUT, Medical Director of
Hospitals—Office West side ol Forsyth Street,
between Bryan and Franklin. -
Surgeon S M BBMIS, Assjjltnt Medical Din
rector of Hospitals,
Surgeon G B DOUGLAS, Senior Surgeon of
Post —Office on Randolph Street, between Broad
and Front.
Surgeon C. TERRY, Surgeon in charge of
Walker Hospital, corner of Broad and Bryan
Streets.
Surgeon R P HUNT, Surgeon in charge of
Lee Hospital, corner of Broad and Randolph
Streets.
Surgeon T A MEANS, Surgeon in oharge of
Marshall Hospital, Court House Building, on
Oglethorpe Street.
Surgeon R L BUT TANARUS, Surgeon in charge Cairns
Hospital, at Camp Montgomery, just North of
:he City,
Rev. G. W. S TICKNEY, Chaplain Post, Resi
dence corner Forsythe and Thomas streets; can
usually be found at office Commandant Post,
Conscript Department.
Capt. W S DAVIS, Inspector for 3d Cong.
Dist.—Offioe at Lowell Warehouse, on Randolph
Street,
Capt. W A COBB, Enrolling Offioer, Musco*
gee County.—Offioe at Lowell Warehouse.
Examining Board for 3d Cong. Dist.—Surgeon
P B MINOR, ROBT. W PARK and W T ABRA
HAMS—Office at Lowell Warehouse.
Chief Engineer—J H WARNER, CSN in
charge ol Naval Iron Works—Office opposite
Lower Bridge.
Capt. (J H HAZLEHURST, Engineer’s De
partment—Office on Mclntosh Street, between
Bryan and Randolph.
Fliuoi&e of Schedule.
,\N and after Friday, Jari. 20th, the Trains on
’ * the uscogoe Railroad will run as follows:
PASSENGER TRAIN:
iiiavs Columbus 0 30 A. M.
Vrrivc at Macon . 2 50 P. M.
jOiive Macon 6 50 A. M.
Wove at Columbus 3 06 P. M.
FREIGHT TRAIN :
mave Columbus 5 00 A. M,
vrrive.it Columbus 4 55 A. M.
W.L. CLARK..
,uar U* tl Supt. Muscogee R, R.
Tii rough to Montgomery-
NEW SCHEDULE.
MONTGOMERY & WEST POINT
RAILROAD COMPANY.
COLUMBUS, August 27,1864.
, iN and alter August 27th. the Passenger Train on
‘ f the Montgomery and WcA Point Railroad will
Leave Montgomery at 8:00 a. m.
Leave West Point at 7:10 a. in.
Arrive at Columbus at 5:313 p. in.
Leave Columbus at 5:50 a. m.
Arrives at Montgomery at 3:00 p. m.
Arrive at. West Potnt at 4130 p. m.
Freight Train leaves Columbus at 8:40 am.
Arrives at 8:27 p m
D. H. CRAM, Sup’t & Eng.
ag27 1864 —ts
MOBILE &. GIRARO RAIL ROAD.
« ii t\ta: of scisf.iu'i.i:.
Girard, Ala., Get 7, 1864. ,
, »N and after 10th inst. Trains on this Road will
' / Run Daily (Sunday excepted.) as tollows:
Pamneuger Train.
Leave Girard at 1 30 p. m.
Arrive in Union Springs 6 00
Leave Union Springs 5 35 a^m.
Arrive in Girard at 10 00
Freight Train.
Leave Girard at 4 00 a. in.
Arrive in Girard at 6 00 p. m.
B. E. WELLS.
aglß ts Epg. A Sup’t.
W^ITSTTIEjID
i N OVERSEER. One without family, who has
A lost an arm in the service, and thereby unfit for
military service preferred. n
Addlv to ROBERT R* IIO>V ARD,
APP y Bevnolds, Taylor Cbunty.
M US. OH AS. J. WILLIAMS,
nov2l-tf Columbus. Ga.
nVVTK!)!
c ,„HI LUS. of TALLOW, for whicb a liberal price
will oc paid. Apply to. dillard
sp7 ts Major and Q. M.
VARUS anti OSAABURGS
TO EXCHANGE FOR
<jtj£AC>‘U’lNr-D
At the GRANT FACTORY.
dec 17 ts
To Hire.
* t ru'PT.Y sivteen year old house GIRL, that has
AKm "U; a eood drapes.-
ti9n and is fond of children. Appeal, p-^fCE.
CITY FOUNDRY!
SUGAR MILLS AND KETTLES!
WE HAVE OF HAND
Sugar Rills and KeUles,
holding 20,35, 40. 60. 80 and 130 gallons, which we
will exchange for Provisions or auy kindof country
Produce, or money on JS r \ f h TT up’VNY AGO
olicited. PORTER, McILHENNY & LO.
Columbus, Jan. 20, ts
NOTIOJS.
O'""
ALL persons having demands a«ainst the estate of
Daniel Grant, deceased, are hereby requested to
resent them to the Grant Factory.
nov 80 ts JOHN J. GRANT.
Bun copy and send bill to office Grant Factory.
Lost or Mislaid.
POUR SHARES of the G. k A. S. S. Cos.. N»
•P 160, in favor ol Mu. J. L. Wilson,
nov 30 ts D. k J. J. GRANT.
VOL. XII.}
SPECIAL NOTICES
Circular from General Lee.
Headquarters Armt op Virginia, i
January 16, 1864.;
j To the Planter% of Georgia ;
j The recent hcavy freshets having .estroyed a por
| tion of the Railroad from Danville to Greensboro,
: and thereby eut o!f, temporarily, necessary supplies
' for Army of Northern Virginia, an appeal is re
spcct fully made to tht patriutic people of Georgia to
! furni-h whatever breadstuff's, bacon and molasses
i they can spare.
Such citizens as J/ajor Allen, of Colum’iu.-, Major
I George Robertson, of Macon and Major U. Cranston,
-of Augusta, may select are asked to act as agents
and collect supplies through the various offices con
nected with, the Commissary Department in Georgia
and on the line ot railroad.
Arrangements have -men made to pay promptly
for all supplies delivered under this appeal, or re
turn the same iij kind as soon as practicable.
R. E. LEE, General-
Office Dist. Commissary, <
Columbus, Ga., Feb. 2d, 1865. f
I present to the people of Western and South
western Georgia, trie 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 ?
The following are my agents:
.4. F Johnston. Hamilton,
T A Brown, Geneva,
Maj. Geo. Robertson, Capt. A O Bacon, Macon,
U B ilarrold, Americus,
Maj. J D Maney, Cuthbcrt,
J J McKendree, Jolumbus,
Capt J A Houser, Ft. Valley,
Charles Wilson, Thomaston,
B Pye, Forsyth,
Geo Hill, Florence,
Capt J A Davis, Albany.
Embracing their sub-agents in their districts.
A. M. ALLEN,
febß lw Major and C. S.
Enquirer copy. _
Office of the Georgia Home )
• Insurance Company, >
Columbus, Ga., Fob. 4, 1865, J
Dividend I¥o. 8.
The Directors of this Company, have declared a
dividendof five dollars per share on he Capital
stock payable at the Company’s office ou rnd after
Wednesday, Bth inst.
feb 7 6t D. F. WILLCOX, Sec’y.
Headquarters, Gov. Works, (Ord.) 1
Columbus, Ga., Jan. 31, 1865. f
Wanted to ExeUange.
Pig and Wrought Iron, suitable for Plantation
purposes, for Bacon, Lard, Syrup, Corn and other
produce. Apply at office of
M, H. WRIGHT,
febl lQt 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 <b ALLEN.
WARNOCK & CO.,
GREENWOOD A GRAY,
HUGHES <fc HODGES,
POWELL, FRAZER & CO.,
CODY & COLBERT,
J. R. IVEY & CO.
Jau 31 2w
A
To the Officers and Members of
tl&e General Assembly.
In conformity to the Resolution of the general
Assembly, passed at the close of its last Session, re
questing the Governor to convene the Legislature at
such time and place as he may think best, to com
plete the necessary Legislation which was unfin
ished at the time of adjournment on the approach
of the enemy. I hereby require the officers and
members of the General Assembly to convene at the
City Hall in the city of Macon, at ten o’clock, a. m,,
on Wednesday the 15th day«f February next.
Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the
State this the 25th day of January, 1865.
JOSEPH E. BROWN.
All papers in the State are requested to copy
jan_27 td
Notice.
Southern Express Comp Any, 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 armies, and which eannot 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 of the above.
JAS. SHUTER,
jan 19 Ira Acting Pres.
Macon, Columbus, Montgomery, Mobile and
Selma papers copy one month.
For Exchange or Sale.
AT the office of the "Southern Iron AVorks,” near
the new bridge, the following articles of Hard
ware, which wa will exchange for Pork, Bacon,
Lard, Wheat, Flour. Fodder, or any other articles
of Psoviiions or Confederate currency, viz:
Bar and Hoop Iron, of all sizes, suitable for plan
tation uses. -
Sugar Mills and Kettles, of all sizes, from 30 to
120 gallons,
Pots, Ovens and Skillets,
Fry Pans and Anuirons,
Club and Broad Axes,
Shovels and Spades,
Trace Chaines and Plough Moulds.
Orders for Castings and Machine Work
promptly executed. _ „ .
jan stl JOHN D. GRAY & CO.
Regular Liue of Steamers on the
Chattahoochee River.
Columbus. Ga., Jan. 9th.
THE Steamer'JACKSOX, Daniel Fry. Master, wil
leave Columbus, until further notice, every Sun
day at‘,9 a. m. Returning leaves Chattahoochee every
Tuesday at 2 p. m. |
The Steamer Indian, C. D. Fry Master, leaves
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 Chat
tahooehe every Sunday at 12 M.
jan 10 2m
Dr. R. \OKI.i:,
JDEICTTIST,
AT Pemberton & Carter’s old stand, back room of
Smith’s Jewelry Store, where he can be found
all hours. I °c 13 6m
For Sale.
A FINE LARGE COW with a young Calfi—
Apply at Warehouse of
feb 4 lw W .4KNOCK CO.
fosT sale.
OOA ACRES OF WOOD LAND 234 miles north
oZ\) west from Crawford, Russell county. Ala.—
Title, w.rrentod. JppU ‘° JOHN M „ CARTY .
jan 28 ts Columbus. Ga.
; fohTsalb s
WAGON HARNESS. COLLARS j HAMES. Ac.
9 * etU ,
fe l Masonic Hall, upstairs.
Negroes to Hire.
mo HIRE. ten young Negro MEN. also a good
1 Cook and Washer. to WOOLFOLKt
Agent.
jan 17 ts
COLUMBUS, GA. SATURDAY, FEB. 11. 1865.
DAILY TIMES.
K\ KMMi KIIITIIIY
FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10, 1865.
Chan ?c >f Publication Day.
Ihe Times will, hereafter, be published on
Sunday mornings instead of Monday as here
tofore.
♦ ♦
Important Decision. —Judge Lochrane, of
the Buperi >r Court, says the Macon Confede
racy, pronoun* -d a very able opinion yes
terday in a cas * of great importance. The
facts were briefly tnese :
Robert llrady. of Macon, Georgia, had been
examined and discharged, as unfit tor service,
by three or four Medical Boards, since the
commencement of the war ; but since the pas
sage of the Act of the 17th February last, he
was conscribed, and on examination found
unfit for field service, but assigned to light
duty in accordance with the provisions of the
said Act, and had been in the conscript camp
several months, most of the time on crutches.
He took out a writ of habeas corpus, and the
learned Judge decided that, under the Consti
tutional power to raise armies, Congress had
no right to put everybody into the service, but
that the power was limited to such as were
capable of bearing arms, and therefore dis
charged the petitioner.
The case was argued for the Government
by Charles J. Harris and Samuel Hall, Esqrs.,
and for the petitioner by Judge Cole, W. K.
deGrafFenreid, John Rutherford, R. J. Cowart,
and R.*L. Joiee, Esqrs.
We understand the decision will be pub
lished before long.
The Situation in Carolina. —lt is evident
that more or less fighting is going on in Caro
lina. We think it possible the enemy have
struck the rail road at or near Branch ville, as
the wires are not working beyond Augusta.
Sherman may attack Augusta, but we think
it most probable that he will move upon
Charleston as rapidly as possible, and we
think it not unlikely that the authorities have
determined to make a defense of the city—to
risk a siege and hold it as long as possible ;
and we think it likely the people of that city
will surrender it in ashes, if compelled to do
so.
The cutting of the rail road at Branchville,
we suppose, will be only temporary, as Sher
man will be compelled to leave it if he goes
to besiege Charleston.
If Sherman succeeds in taking Charleston,
he will have a water base that much nigber
Grant’s army than his present base at Savan
nah, and from there he will perhaDS endeavor
to fit out expeditions through the interior of |
South and North Carolina We hope he will
meet with the fate which should have befallen
him in Georgia, the next time he ventures in
to the interior—that is, get captured—though
we fear it will be a great while before he will
give the Government such another opportuni
ty to bag him.
But it he travels all over the country—pass
es through every State time and again—it will I
not be subduing the people or making them ,
love the Union or the Yankees. If our people .
are true to the cause, the Yankees will find ;
their greatest difficulties in the work of subju
gation will have but just commenced, after our
last army has been routed and dispersed,
should such ever be the case. A people de
termined to be free, can never be conquered.
Sherman passed through the State of Missis
sippi from Vicksburg to Meridian, and back.
He passed entirely through the State of Geor
gia, from Chattanooga to Savannah. The
people in the track of his raids are still un
conquered, and both these States adhere to
the cause as firmly as ever. The enemy have
numerous times sent out expeditions from
Memphis, overrunning the whole country in
every direction ; still the lines of our pickets
are within a few miles of Memphis, and al
ways have been, except during the movements
of bodies of troops out from that city in this
direction.
Yankee efforts to conquer us are useless,
unless we consent to be conquered.— Southern
Confederacy. j
Tiie Result—The Issue.
It seems that Lincoln and Seward could
not dare to let our commissioners go to Wash
ington, or anywhere beyond the military lines
of the Yankee army. They were afraid for
any one in their dominions to see or converse
with men from the rebel States, charged with
a peace mission. They dared not allow any
body but themselves to see or speak to Messrs.
Stephens, Hunter and Campbell.
The country North and South, if we can
rightly judge, expected Lincoln to appoint
commissioners to meet ours and have a con
ference—a discussion on the points at issue—
and see if some trail could not be struck
which would lead out of our present troubles
towards the paths of peace. Lincoln and Se
ward, however, it seems, had no such idea in
their minds; but hastened down to Fortress
Monroe, and there told our envoys that we
could have peace by submitting to be disgra
ced and ruined. They require of us, not sim
ply *to go back into the Union, but to submit
to an irresponsible usurpation; to the un
checked dictum of the fanatics of the North,
who have no regard for law or individual
rights or humanity. They have laid ruthless
hands upon the Constitu ion, and ridden rough
shod over it; have set it at nought; have ut
terly disregarded all law—all private rights
and personal freedom ; and by their unautho
rized usurpations, have gone thro’ the forms
—the mockery—of rryiking their wicked edicts
the laws of the land; and after having done
this, with impudence unparalleled, save in the
doings and conduct of Yankees; they grave
ly invite us to go and submit to their fanatic
al and ruinous dictates.
We were born free—were born to the right
of choosing our own legislators, and obeying
our own laws. These brazen imps of sin and
Satan now have the effrontery to bid us sub
mit to tyrannical, flagitious and d-structive
laws of their own making, which th-y did not
have the power or authority to make, even for
the States still adbeiing to the Union —which
we had no voice in making, and which are
utterly repugnant to eviry honest man in the
whole South; and have the depravity and
barbarity ti ' war on us to compel us to
submit! Is t * toward willing to do it?
Breathes there a buji so dead to every instinct
of manhood and honor as to accept such an
alternative? We trust that not one such de
secrates the soil of Georgia. It is baseness
unutterable. If there be such an one, let him
baseiy go; and let us see that be goes where
he belongs. Let not his filthy carcass pollute
our Southern air.
There are a few reconstructionists in the
South-men who dream of restoring the Un
ion as it was under the oid Constitution. We
have always toid them reconstruction could
not be had; and we now ask them to look at
the Lnion to which they are invited. We ask
(hem if their eyes are yet opened ? We ask
them i t they are still willing to live in any
sort of alliance with the unprincipled and
lawless crew who control the Government of
the North ?
Is any one so craven hearted, so destitute
of self-respect and self-intere3t, and the honor
and interest of his posterity and country? If
there be such a man on the soil of the South,
the depths ot unfathomable infamy have been
sounded in lhat man. We can achieve our
independence; we can obtain peace, but not
n om Lincoln, ami the hope of doing so might
as well be banished; for none but villains,
poltroons and traitors will accept of any peace
that fce will give.—[ Macon Confederacy.
Return of the Confederate Commissioners.
The telegraph briefly announces the return, to
the Confederate capital, of Messrs. Stephens, Hun
ter and Campbell. after a short absence within the
enemy s lines. Whether they were perm it fed to
visit the Federal capital or not, is not stated, but we
infer from the tenor of this and previous dispatches
the conference was held at Fortress Monroe, and
that our representatives w ere allowed to bold no
communication with any one but Lincoln and bis
wily premier.
The ultimatum of Lincoln and Seward, if the re
porter was correctly informed, was bluntly proposed,
at least possesses the merit of being so expressed
that we cannot doubt its meaning. It is clothed in
no persuasive language, but boldly demands sub
mission to the Constitution and laws of the United
States; not submission to the Constitution and laws
as they were, but as they are now ; and this demand
is coupled with the information that “the slavery
question has been disposed of by the action of the
Federal Congress in adopting the proposed amend
ment to the Constitution abolishing slavery.” This
position of the Federal authorities cannot be mis
understood. To all this our commissioners could
make but one reply, and thjs, we feel assured, was
one that will meet the approval of the people of the
South, with but few exceptions. An indignant re
fusal to assent to such degrading terms, delivered
to Lincoln and Seward at Fortress Monroe, will
meet with a universally favorable response, from
a people who will feel that they have been trifled
with.
This termination of negotiations, which it must
be admitted was fondly imped throughout the South
would end in the establishment of a peace upon
terms alike honorable to both parties, renders plain
the duty of the whole people. Our enemy, after
four years ol war fruitlessly employed to conquer us
back, need not expect that we will now voluntarily 1
submit. Our .people will not for a moment consider 1
such a thought. They know thejdread alternative |
—a continuance of an unrelenting and devastating
war, but they will cheerfully accept it, with all its
hor ors and sufferings, rather than disgrace. The
proposition for peace made will be looked upon as
a mockery, and spurned as an insult. The civilized
world, too, will justify and applaud our spirit and
determination, If we estimate the character of the !
Southern heart correctly, no further appeals for the j
performance of duty, either on battle fields yet to
be baptised with the best blood of the land, or in |
providing for the armies in the field, will be neces- j
sary. As one man the whole people will sustain the
government in its refusal of the abject terms pro
posed, and support it in its efforts to extort from
the enemy the independence now so arrogantly de
nied us. Our duty is plain, and it will be religiously
performed.— Memphis Appeal.
National Sins—The Seventh Commands
ment. —la our opinion, the sin of the South
and of the State as to this topic and title of
the decalogue, is to be found in reference to a
class not citizens, and, according to our laws
and institutions, not capable of citizenship.
In one branch of this sin may be mention
ed, allusively merely, and not for full state
ment or'discussion, the local or occasional
prevalence or toleration of Miscegenation.
In this as in other matters, the Slaveholding
States have been accused and charged as
guilty beyond the facts of the case, because
their sins were open, and they did not prac
tice the concealment and hypocrisy prevalent
elsewhere. In London, or Paris, or New
York, or Boston, or any metropolis or leading
city of free soil and free filth institutions, there
is nothing beyond official statistics and pains
taking inquiries to show the number of chil
dren born out of wedlock. In Southera cities,
however, where the scriptural, patriarchal and
primitive relation has been retained with and
for and over a class, distinctively marked by
color and generic features, the results of ir
regular and extraconnubial intercourse betray
themselves. The experience and observations
of many friends, and of many years of close
attention and inquisition, have convinced us
that the extent of this evil is by no means as
large as would be honestly inferred by a
stranger visiting only our cities transiently.
This evil is chiefly confined to the cities, and
its representatives are seen thickly crowded
together. %
The guilty authors and agents are, in the
great majority of cases, also not masters or
servants, but traveling and transient adven
turers, overseers, peddlers, schoolmasters and
others, on the one side, and on the other side
giddy young girls of the servant class, neg
lected by masters, and turned loose on hiring
their own time—a most suicidal policy for
slaveholders, forbidden by our laws of State
and City—or free colored women.
Fifty-five years ago or thereabouts a Yan
kee graduate from Providence, Rhode Island,
distinguished even in College for his sopho
moric speciousness and his versatility in rhet
oric, of the Belial order, and his sneaking, self
concealing duplicity and reserve, came “ down
South ” as a teacher to get a start in the
world, as many Yankees have done at the ex
pense of the South, and to find victims and
subjects more easily cheated than his neigh
bors at home.
This missionary pedagogue, one of hundreds
who have been received and tolerated by the
South, wa3 called Wm. H. Seward, and the
results of his brief sojourn in the South were
the teaching of some children inPutnam coun
ty, Ga.,to mispronounce theEaglish language
according to Webster—Noah, not Daniel—
and a mulatto image and representative, who
grew up in time to be in all things, except
color and villainy, a good likeness of its fath
er—W. H. Seward. This is only one case out
of many, and is mentioned because the author
and father is infamously historical, and has
courted and earned a place in history by the
side of Erostratus.
The Mnsie of Nature.
There’s music in the rivulet,
And music in the flood ;
And music ia the waterfall,
That echoes from the wood.
There's music in the sunny grove,
And music in the rain,
Quick pattering on the forrest boughs,
And all is bright again.
There’s music on the upland slope,
And music in the dell ;
The lowing herds, the bleating fold,
Its pretty linking bell.
There’s music in the joy of birds,
And in the hum of bee3;
And music in the waving corn,
Danced over by the breeze.
There’s music in the ocean stream.
When the foamy billows roar:
And mere when, rippling peacefully,
It seems to trip the shore. • '
There’s music in the stilly eve, :
And in the hush es night,
And mafic in the rising mem.
And when the moon is bright.
There's music in the voice of love.
And joy that others share ;
Aad in the voice of gratitude,
And in the voice of prayer.
On me, O God! Thy grace impart.
To praise what thou hast given.
Teach me to ponder what Thou art,
At early dawn and even—
The music of a grateful heart.
Is music heard in Heaven.
I [Special Correspondence Philadelphia Press.]
The Great Trunk Tragedy.
Norfolk, Ya., Jan. 7, 1665.
i The great trunk tragedy, which has so ex
i cited public attention not only in Norfolk, but
in the entire United States, came to a final
close yesterday, by the trial, conviction and
sentence of the accused party. Maria Louisa
Linder, the alleged perpetrator of the crime,
is a tall, thin woman, apparently about fortv
years of age. She is a German by birth, and
the Teutonic lisp still clings to her language.
1 Yesterday morning she was brought into
court, and after the trial ( which occupied an
hour and three quarters, she was sentenced.
She was dressed in a plain black dress and a
corresponding dark colored bonnet. Her face
evidently showed the deep mental agony that
was upheaving her very soul. She stood at
the b&r of the court, uot exactly in the prison
er s box, but tor support leaned against a
I staunch iron pillar as she gate in her testi
mony.
The court was filled with a number of dis
tinguished personages, who had been allowed
the especial privilege of being in attendance.
I noticed the phonographic reporters of both
the Norfolk newspapers, and to the gentleman
connected with the Old Dominion I am great
ly indebted for a transference of the woman’s
testimony. Maj. Webster, the presiding Judge,
called the court to order, and the case was at
once opened. I give the testimony exactly as
it was rendered by the woman, correcting all
I grammatical errors which a person of her ed
ucation and station in life must be supposed
to have made.
Maria Louisa Linder sworn—l am the per
son accused and guilty ol taking a trunk from
Norfolk to Baltimore containing the body of
John Freeborn.
. Q. —Are you a married woman?
A.—No sir; I never was married, but kept
a common house at the corner of Woodside
lane and Little Water street. I lived with
this man Freeborn, to whom I became at
tached, and we lived together as man and
wife.
Q. —Did you ever live with this man after
be enlisted ?
A.—Yes, sir, I never knew him before that
time.
Q. —Now state to the Court all you know
about the trunk affair.
The woman here became greatly affected,
and wept bitterly, but in a short time contin
ued her evidence. John Freeborn told me that
he was tired of the army, and that if I would
get him to Chicago he would give me S4OO.
I asked him how he would be able to get so
much money.
He said he was going to jump the bounty
and get a thousand dollars, and then we
would both go to Canada and get married. I
told him that I would not know how to get
him away from here, for the Government
watched everything so closely. He said: “Go
and buy a large trunk and I will get in it, and
you can do with me just as though I was your
clothing. You can check me to Baltimore,
and then get in the cars and go to Chicago.”
I did not like to do it, but he made me; ar\d
so I got the trunk, and then he got iu it; and
went on board the Baltimore boat
Q. —By Judge Webster. Did he say any
thing about smothering?
and he cut a small hole in the
trunk. [Here the trunk was shown. It is a
large and handsome one, about twenty-five
inches high, 16 inches broad, and 32 inches
long. Immediately beneath one of the straps
is seen a, very small orifice, through which the
deceased gained his breath by means of a
pipe stem. It would be almost impossible to
detect the orifice unless it was pointed out. —
The bole would not admit the passage of suf
ficient air to sustain animation in a rat. There
is plenty of room within the trunk to allow a
limited use of the limbs, but they would ne
cessarily be contracted to such an extent as to
produce a violent cramp, after he had been so
subjected for a period oftfive hours.] He did
not think there would be any difficulty in
breathing through the stem of a pipe which
he’used.
When I got to Fortress Monroe I went np
to the trunk and kicked it twice. That was
the sign by which I was to know how he was
getting on. He answered it twice, so that I
knew it was all right. He had no liquor in
his crunk—nothing but a canteen of water, a
towel and a piece of chewing tobacco. When
I got to Baltimore I ordered a hackman to
take me to a hotel. Ido not know which one
it was I was so anxious to get there. When
I got to the hotel I went up stairs, and had
the trunk brought up with me, and then when
we got into the room I locked the door. I
wa3 so glad when I got there that I kicked
the trunk with ail aiy might, but I got no an
swer. I said, “now Johnny, you are all right ”
He did not answer me, and I thought he whs
fooling me. I got the key and opened the
trunk, and he laid perfectly still, when I said:
“Come, Jack, get up; you are in Baltimore,
now, and no one ia here but me.” Ho said nothing,
when I put my hand upon his face, and he was dead.
[The woman was here so overcome with her feel
ings that it was some minutes before she could
proceed.] I dropped the lid of the trur.k, and
“was crazy in my head.” I saw a card on the
mantelpiece of the room, and I wrote the word
“Chicago” on it, and rang immediately for a ser
vant. He got me a hackman, and I told him I
wanted to go right away to Chicago. He
said he vjould take me to the Calvert Street
Station for two dollars. I told him I would give
him that, and handed him a five dollar bill, when
he gave me back three dollars. He put the trunk
behind the carriage, and we got to the depot he
asked me if I wanted it checked. I told him yes.
Ha said go and get yeur ticket and I will get it
checked for you. I was scared almost to death;
I never felt so funny in my life. I wanted it
found out, and hadn’t the heart to tell any one.
I went to get my ticket, and instead of doing 30 I
walked up the street; Ido not know what made
me, but I couldn’t help it. I saw a policeman
coming down near me, and I wanted to tell him,
but I didn’t know how. I walked the streets all
night ;no one said anything to me. The next
morning I heard someone say something about a
trunk and thanked God that I had been found out.
I walked through the street during all the morn
ing. and, finally, I felt so had that I went and
told on myself. This was all done upon the mo
ment. I wa3 perfectly crazy after I found out
that the soldier was dead.
This is the major part of the evidence, which I
give nearly as it was taken down by the reporter.
There is no doubt whatever that the soman is in
a state of intense misery. Her opinion, from the
moment of her first examination, has been that
she would be hung. But, as a matter es course,
it was not a case of murder. On the part of the
man it was voluntary death : on that of the woman
it was aiding and abetting desertion. The fact of
the man’s having died does not alter the punish
ment which is due the woman. Had she have got
ten even to Chicago with her burden, and at that
city the affair been discovered, it would not have
been a whit different. After the woman gave her
self ap in Baltimore, she had an examination and
was immediately returned to Norfolk, wnere she
was kept for three days, after which time she re
ceived her trial as above recorded.
Judge Webster, after having consulted with
General Shep'ey upon the sentenee, returned to the
court room and sentenced her to a fine of SSOO and
two years imprisonment at hard labor. The sen
tence is a just one, because the case is aggravate!
and demands speedy justice.
In regard to Gen. Butler’s etory, that one of his
men had captured a battle flag from tha parapet
of the main fort, at F <ber, Col. Lamb makes this
statement :
“The meua4 is the right flank work. After
f SIX DOLLARS
l PER MONTH
having the Hattie fl n»i*e*i tb‘* r s, I w«-,‘ in
left flank w-»rk of the fort, which commands the
causeway into the fort on the river *»ide, 2,581
yards from the mound, and raised a battle
flag ;>n the parapet. I missed the flag at dawn
I Monday morning, and on enquiring learnt that
j not long before dark on Sunday, the staff was car
1 ried awaybv enfiiariing »hot which, together with
j the Wind, carried the flag <*.er the palisades and
a tno distance from the work into the marsh and
within the enemy's skirmish line. Major Genera!
Butler reports officially that one of his men
brought awaj this flag from the parapet. I know
that AdmirJ. Porter deserves the credit of taking
it from the parapet, and as he did so little with
his aoisy fleet, I lhink he sheuld not be robbed of
the honor.”
This very effectually disposes of Butler’s extra
ordinary story.
G*n. Forrkst.—Gen. Forrest was in Meridian
last sy»dne?day on business and went westward
on Thursday. The Clarion says :
We publish this morning a circular and an ad*
dress from Gen Forrest, who, it will be seen, has
been appointed commander of all the cavalry in
the Department of East Louisiana, Mississippi and
West Tennessee, and we learn from good authori
ty that he will ultimately command all the cavalry
West of the Chattahoochee. This is s due to the
eminent chieftain whe has never known defeat,
and we feel confident that the trust thus reposed
iu him will proto a lasting benefit and add lustre
to the achievement of the -Confederate arms and
another wreath to the laurels which already
cluster around his brow.
Gen. Forrest has issued a stirring address to
his troops, which will be found elsewhere iu this
paper.
9 mm
From South Carolina. —From the corres
pondence of the Richmond Dispatch, we learn
that General MoLawg commands the Confed
erate forces on the Cotubabee, that faces
the Yankee column that advanced from Beau
fort. ,
From Pocotaligo to Branchville the distance
does not exceed forty-five miles, and can be
easily accomplished in three days. The ene
my once firmly established on the railroad
either at Branchville or some point nearer Au
gusta, and the fall ol Charleston becomes a
question of time, and a short time at that.—
We may leave it to the President and Gen.
Lee to decide what effect such a movement
would have upon Richmond and the army of
Northern Virginia. At Branchville Sher
man’s liauks would be protected by the Edisto
and its swamps on the left, and by the Santee
and its swamps on the right, while his base at
Charleston would be unassailable either bv
land or water.
The retention of Charleston is not, as many
of its inhabitants imagine, indispensable to
our success ; but the retention of the military
line from Kingsville to Augusta is.
The Letters of Arrested Correspondents.
The arrest of Flint, (“Druid”) the corres
pondent of the New York Herald, who writes
from Baltimore lias been published. The fel
low has excited the envy of the Yankee cor
respondents by a bold show of having private
means of obtaining information from “rebel
sources,” and they are trying the provost mar
shal on him to see how it will fit, with a view
of sending him through the lines. Here is an
extract from his letter :
It was the design of the Administration
from the outset of the war to alienate the
Southern people and prevent them from ever
again returning to the Union. Hence the
adoption of the policy of emancipation and
confiscation ; hence at a later period, the adop
tion of the policy of subjugation ; hence now,
the policy of extermination. The Southern
people understand this ; perfectly. They
know that if they were ever expected back in
to the Union again, the policy of emancipation
and confiscation never would have been adop
ted ; that Sheridan would not have been or-'
to make the whole Shenandoah valley a
barren waste, even to the extent of breaking
up and destroying the farming utensils, and
burning the roofs over the heads of helpless
women and children; that the atrocities of
Turchin and McNeil would not have been over
looked ; that Atlanta would not have been
depopulated and burned: that Petersburg
and Charleston would not be shelled, and
Sherman’s march through Georgia would not
have been marked by a broad belt of desola
tion.
The course which has been pursued to
wards the South has had precisely the effect
which the Administration designed that it
should have. It has made out of every man,
woman and child in the South a deadly ene
my. If the alternative were presented to-dav
of union with the North or extermination,
they would choose the latter gladly. But they
do not expect to be conquered. If they suf
fer reverses, they will only serve to make their
armies stronger and to nerve their armies with
greater vigor. Do the editors of the World
forget what manner of men the Southern
people are ? Their fathers fought for liberty
and independence side by side with ours.
They believe now that they are fighting for
the same independence. It is a religious be
lief with them interwoven with their existence.
The conquest of Georgia, such as it is, will
add twenty-five thousand men to the Confed
erate cause.
United States Congress.
I he United States House of Representatives
have rejected, by a vote of 81 to 51, the fol
lowing preamble, written by Horace Greeley,
with the subjoined resolution by Mr Cox :
Whereas, The country hails with manifes
tations of patriotic joy and congratulation the
victories recently achieved by our brave ar.
mies, and whereas, the recognized object of
v, \r, at least among civilized and Christian
nations, is an honorable and satisfactory
peace, and that although we do not know that
the insurgents are yet prepared to agree to
any terms of pacification that our Government
either would or should deem acceptable, vet
as there can be no possible barm resulting
from ascertaining precisely what they are
ready to do ; and in order to return the impu
tation that the Administration contemplates,
with satisfaction, a continuance of hostilities
for their own sake; on any ground of mere
punctilio, or for any reason than because it is
compelled, by an absorbing regard for the
very ends of its existence ; and, whereas, any
rightly eonitituted Government, combating
armed menacing rebellion, should strain eve-*
ry nerve to overcome, at the earliest moment,
the re3istence it encounters, and should not
merely welcome, but seek satisfactory, how
ever informal, assurance that its end has
been attained ; therefore,
Resolved, Tha‘ now, in this hour of victory
which is the hour of magnanimity, it is emi
nently the duty of the President, on the basis
of the rightfully constituted Government, eith
er to send or receive commissioners or agents
with a view to national pacification and tran
quility, or, by some other rational means
known to civilized and Christian nations, se
cure the C'£S n .tion of hostilities and the Un
ion of the States.
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