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DAILY TIMES.
J. W. irARREW, - - - Editor.
COLUMBUS:
Saturday Morning, February 11,186*.
We shall make no comment upon the posi
tion on the slavery question advocated in the
letter of Gen. Wise—preferring to await the
promised criticism of Col. Samford—whose
views we know accord with our own. We will,
however, here repeat what we have said on a
former occasion that our affairs hate not
reached and, if we do our duty, will never
reach that desperate condition when we
should be ready and willing to sacrifice eve
rything :o secure our independence. We may
also remark further, that the end proposed in
the policy urged by Gen. Wise, can no longer
be considered practicable. The response al
ready given by the leading press of Europe to
such a proposition assures us for the hun
dredth time that on no account can we expect
help from Christendom.
Fighting Commenced.— The Chronicle and ,
Sentinel says that gentlemen who arrived j
from below last evening state that heavy skir* j
mishing was going on all day at Mcßride’s j
Bridge, about seventeen mile3 from Graham's j
Turn Out.
Graham’s Turn Out is seventeen miles tuts i
side of Branchville.
Our informant did not learn the result of
the fight.
From Below.— It is stated that a portion of' ;
Sherman’s army cut the Carolina railroad just j
below Wiliiston yesterday, and proceeding j
down the road tearing it up as they proceed- '
ed
It is stated that both Blackville and Barn
well Court House have been burned. Black
villc is forty-seven mile3 from Augusta by
railroad, Barnwell Court House 13 eight miles
this side.
ft is though f that there will be no advance
towards Augusta.
It is supposed by many that Sherman will
advance on Columbia at once in force.
[Chronicle and Sentinel, Bth.
■— tm » »i
From NortkJJeorgia.
The Atlanta Intelligencer of the Bth has
had the pleasure of an interview with a gal
lant officer of one of the Georgia regiments in
ihe Confederate serviee, who has just reached
our city from Northern Georgia, where he had
ventured to pass a few days among his friends
in the vicinity of Dalton and Ringgold, and
nearer still to Chattanooga. For special rea
sons we withhold the name of our informant.
While great distress exists in many parts
of Cherokee, Georgia, for the want of provis
ions, in others, our informant states, there is
plenty. Complaints are made throughout the
upper counties of lawless bands, from whose
depredations the people have greatly .suffered.
All, however, represent that from Captain
Gatewood and his command they have re
ceived much protection. This command is a
terror to the Yankee forces between Dalton
and Chattanooga, wholly to their blockhouses
whenever its scouts make their appearance.
At Dalton the enemy, from the closest ob
servation, have a force ot about five hundred
men ; at Tunnel Hill about fifty ; at Ringgold
about thirty ; and along the road from these
points to Chattanooga, there arej scattered
blockhouses, in each of which there is a force
of about thirty men. At no point do they
make fight, or show any disposition to do so,
with our men. Our scouts frequently water
their horses in sight of, and at short distances
from them, but they take (o their blockhouses
without firing a gun. There is no appear*
ance of any preparation being made by the
forces there or at Chattanooga, to demonstrate
down the road below Dalton. All such ru
mors are idle.
To our informant, we are also indebted for
a late number of the Louisville Journal, from
which we expect to cull some interesting
items for the benefit of our readers.
The telegraphic report of the appearance of
the troops of Gen. Thomas on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, if true indicates, says the
Mobiie Register, that the weight of the Feder
al strength was to be thrown upon Virginia,
to seize Richmond and crush Gen. Lee. This
army is meant, doubtless, to strengthen Grant
before Richmond, while Sherman flanks or
fights his way up through the Carolinas, to
finish the job at the Confederate capital. It
is a grand scheme in its projection on paper,
but not so easy of execution; and now that
Gen. Lee has command of the whole chess
board, and, like Gen. Grant on the Yankee
side, can combine all his forces in one general
plan looking to a definite result, we have faith
that the yankee programme will fail, and that
the yankee hope of ending the war by this
movement now so extravagantly elevated, will
tumble down to zero when the play is played
out. If this should happen, we may, with
entire safety, calculate that the yankee strength
will never be equal to another effort of the
like magnitude. Neither men nor money can
be had to put another formidable Federal
army in the field. Let this thought stimulate
the drooping hopes and waning courage of so
many of our people, and nerve them to one
more supreme effort for liberty and indepen
dence.
There is to be no peace, says the Chattanooga
tlebei ; Lincoln and Seward hare had a confer
ence with our commissioners and have haughtily
demanded unconditional submission, as the terms
of peace. They were informed that the slavery
question had been settled by the Congress "of the
United States. The slaves of the South have
been disposed of by the Yankee Congress and we
are required to submit to this and to the laws and
constitution of the United States. In this are in
eluded confiscation laws and acts denouncing our
whole people as traitors. The question is thus
made clear, so that the blindest can take his
stand intelligently.
Henceforth every man is either for absolute
submission, or for the best and bravest and most
fore Stance we can make to these insolent
we ought now to be united on the platform of re
sistance to the bitter end. Wo ought to resolve to
endure all rather than be slaves of Lincoln’s tyr
anny. Ts happily this effort at negotiation should
result in thus uniting us and in heightening the
spirit of our people, it will have effected a great
result for ns and our posterity. It will assure our
triumph. With God as our shield, we may safely
K| dene* 1 * people to achieve their indepen
„ [For the Times.]
Henry A. Wise.
Auburn, Ala., Feb. Bth, 1865.
j Mr. Editor : A few days ago, after a long
delay, occasioned by failure of mail delivery,
i I received the enclosed letter from ray old
friend, Gen. Henry A. Wise,, containing sucb
j thoughts and sentiments as I think the people
ought to see. Like everything from its gifted
and great-hearted author, it will be found to
be deeply interesting.
Let it be read in the light of his grand exam
ple of devotion to the cause ! Gen. Wise is
now “an old man.” His counsels are matur
ed by much thought and a wide experience,
and consecrated by suffering. He is as wise
as Nestor—as brave as Achilles ! Every inch
a hero and a man
i
After saving so much, how am I to hope for
1 pardon, by the world, for entering my humble
j protest against the suggestion that slavery is
jto be overthrown ? Elsewhere I shall contest
; this prevailing theory, into which the consu
; ming zeal ol General Wise has betrayed him.
1 The sentiment and statesmanship of his letter
j cannot be surpassed.
Respectfully,
Wm. F. Samford.
Trenches near Petersburg, Va , f
January 10th, 1865. j i
My Dear Sir : Yours of the 13th December 1
reached me the 4th instant, in the act of my
coming to the trenches, where I now am in a
bombproof, a dirt dungeon, a living grave,
which leaKs and bubbles up springs to sub
merge my floor and immerse my cot. The
windows of Heaven are opened, and both ar
mies are washed away of everything, except
their sins. Yet I am not more than discom
forted simply, pray for patience and endurance
only; and whilst rain and mud forbid my
egress and much ingress of the porters of
passes and reporters of caving parapets, and
obstructed and flooded ditches, I snatch a
moment to say to you ; “ Lift up your arm on
high—hold it there—the sun of our cause is
not going down—not clear down—a mighty
army is still here. »Ve, with most to bear,
don’t think of giving up, and dare not despair.
Despair is defeat, disgrace, death. And why
should you be so disquieted?” Trust in God
—the work is His. He will accomplish it in
a perfect plan of mercy, reformation, and
peace, in His own time ; and cry not out for
the help of man to stop that plan. It will
prevail. Be still, then; wait, wonder and
adore!
You say, “Oh ! God, send peace !” Have
you counted wh&t peace involves? It is as
full of difficulties as war itself. It involves
all the very issues of war. It is not until
you come to consider how to make peace, that
you estimate fully what the contest is for;
why all the “ blood ” has been spilt; why
the horrid struggle is continued, or how alone
it can be stopped. The issues are :
Ist. Slavery. First, because it was the be
ginning of dissensions which have magnified
and multiplied so that it is the least of them.
Being the least, and its issues in natural solu
tion of themselves, it is the easiest settled.
Settled, if you please, by giving up the prop
erty ; by immediate emancipation, if the ar
gument requires it, or gradual, as may be
agreed on. But grant that agreed on, then
comes other issues—the implacable ones !
2d. Commerce. The North has all the bot
tomry—the shipping 4,000.000 tons. Have
they any other people on earth for whom to
be common carriers but us ? Can they afford
to cease to be common carriers for their only
customers? Can we afford, or consent, to
yield this advantage to them? If we be sep
arated, they lose their whole shipping interest,
registered and licensed tonnage. If we be
not independent in this behalf, we will be but
raw producing provinces. This then, forbids
us to consent to a commercial union ; and for
bids them to yield to independence.
3d. Dependent on the commercial relations
are their aud our manufacturing relations.—
We are the only foreign market they have
for their fabrics. They have all the capital
in factories, spindles, looms, and in arts gen
erally. We have always been their only out
side consumers. Can they afford to lose all
this capital—this only market ? Can we con
sent to be always raw producers for their
commercial and manufacturing wealth ? This
forces them to compel reconstruction, and
forces us to persist for independence.
4th. The Internal Navigation—Riparian
rights of Rivers.—The whole system of rivers
on the continent flows from the extreme North
to the extreme South. Can they yield this
and all its incidents? Can we? Reconstruc
tion would give them all internal as well as
external navigation. Independence would
give us the vantage ground ot both. Can
either yield anything of this too ?
sth. The Public on Eminent Domain.—The
lands alone can sink the public debt of either.
ITow shall they be divided or appropriated,
or shall they be divided or appropriated at
all ? They were the fields on which the dis
sensions of slavery were first embroiled. Can
we give up our inheritance? Can they part
with their power of navigation and settlement,
a chief source of their dominion? This is an
other Gordian knot.
6th. The Public Debt.—Who shall bear its
burthen ? Their’s is immensely largest. They
can’t pay it. To save their vital interests al
ready cited they must make us bear a large
portion of their'.. and lose all our own, for we
are our own debtors.
7th. Boundaries and Border Relations.—
They are innumerable to be settled.
Bth. Interchange of comities embracing es
pecially Migratory Relations.—Can we agree
to let their free negroes come promiscuously
and freely among us ? Can they make any ex
ceptions of caste ?
In a word, the issues are domestic, for- j
eign, commercial, manufacturing, riparian,
fiscal, Terminal, social, moral, political, j
religious, and of castes and all are vital
—vital to the South for independence, vital :
to the North for the maintenance of their ex- !
isteuee, and much more of their dominion.—
This compels them to persist in war for our i
subjugation. They don t mean ever again to
restore the old Union. If they do mean it
they can't do it If slavery is dead, deader j
still is the old Constitution. It was wise and
a blessing and good enough for all if it had
been observed and kept; but it is now a Laz
arus—it is dead and stinketh. Then
9tb. Can we ever again agree to unite with
a people who have violated the most sacred
human covenants and who have crushed out
every spark of liberty it guarded and protec
ted? What! Unite again to be depopulated ?
To be burthened with all expenditures to en
slave us? To be stripped of our altars and.
Gods ? To be , At once, dare we ever
unite again to such a people who are bent
and bound to subjugate and crush us ? Pray
God, then, to “deliver us from the body of
this death.” Better to die tue death of a
righteous cause than be bound to it even by
peace.
Ifyou say, then, to European Powers flatly,
“ We yield slavery of the African race to save
our own freedom, ” it would ODly develope their
hypocrisy towards all America, and that the
false, and to us fatal, Yankees are not con
tending to free Africans but to enslave U3 ;
that if we will let the bondmen go they will
send to us worse than the plagues of Egypt—
not divine punishment or provocations—but
the vengeance and torments and horrors of
demons. I have not a doubt now but that
God will free the negro aud lree us too, if we
are worthy of His divine protection ar.d fight
on endnringly, humbly before Him, and with
confidence aud trust in His divine justice.
Give up slavery, iu welcome, but never yield
with it the right of self-government and the
power of saving ourselves from the doom of a
1 subjugated and provincialized people.
The Yankees have refused to receive any
messengers of peace, and they will never con
sent now to submit to Congresses, or Conven
tions, or Conferences, or arbitrations, or me
diations, whether they may or not wholly
conquer us and make us their hewers of wood
aud drawers of water.
If w? would consent to abolish slavery and
tender treaties of commerce and navigation,
doubtless European Powers would guarantee
an armistice, or recognize nationality, or in
tervene to protdff us from Yankees, if we
would consent to surrender all America to
them, or to dependence upon their domina
tion. No; T will do neither. Asa great
man of Virginia once said in a much minor
matter : “ No ; one is a dose of arsenic, and the
other is a dose of iaudanum, and if I take eith
er, may a Coroner’s inquest bring me in felo
de se —stick a stake through my body, and
bury me in tbe highway.” No, no, my friend
and fellow-sufferer, we can pray for patience
and endurance, and devotion to God and
country —bear with one another, and fight on,
and on, and on, until God in His goodness
shall give us the victory and shall perfect
us in trial, in looking to Him, and make U3
ready for that “ peace which passeth all un
derstanding. ” Peace comes out o; war, like
a thief in the night. No man knoweth when
or whence it cometh, or to what it tends.
Have our sins not been great? Are we yet
purged of them? Don’t we need more of the
rod of chastisement? Does He not know
when we have had enough ? Were nations
ever purified but by fire and by blood ? Will
He not quench the fire and staunch the blood
when we are purified ? Let us purify our
selves, then ! Let us repent of our sins ! Let us
correct our habits as a people ! Let us make
the sacrifices of giving up our pride, and lust,
and and love of gold and, if
need be, let the African go free—let him go
freely, if it be God’s will, to save our own
freedom.
This letter is written with my feet in mud
and water, and with a shelter dripping on ray
paper, in a hurry, and in the midst of work.
God be with you and comfort you.
Your friend, Henry A. Wise.
(From the Macen Telegraph.) 1
The End of the Farce.
Tinkle, tinkle, down comes the curtain—the
lights are out and the audienee, consisting of two
nations can go about their business. Mr. Lin
coin’s farce is over. And a very poor farce it was
—without point or wit. It will, we trust, never
bo repeated. If the large and respectable audi
ence are disappointed, it is their own fault. For
four years they have listened to Mr. Lincoln’s
“jokes” and should have known that the late play
could have been nothing but a farce. He has
been performing, it is true, in the “Great Ameri
can Tragedy,” but his part has always been that
of the clown. King Lear, that saddest of all
plays, has a fool, and Mr. Lincoln has been cast
for that part in the “Great American Tragedy”
now being enacted. His farce had less plot about
it than we looked for, but the denouement is as we
expected. The three traveling gentlemen have
been sent back, having journeyed all the way
trom Richmond to Fortress Monroe, to be in
formed that if they will unconditionally surrender,
war will no longer he made upon them. We have
watched thie farce closely, to see if we could find
out the joke, and we think wo have discovered it.
Lincoln, with a serious air, invites eemmissioners
to negotiate for peace. Three of the most distin
guished gentlemen in the Confederacy are ap- :
pointed and set out on their laudable undertaking.
Their baggage is marked, Washington. At Fort
ress Monroe they are met by Seward, stage man
ager, and Lincoln the clown, who inform them
with a serio comic air, that if they will submit to
all their demands, they will no longer wage war
against them—they will no longer murder South
rons generally, but in detail—they will no longer
destroy our property, but keep it for their own
use. This is the intended joke, we are convinced.
Imagine the blank look of our commissioners. It
was hardly necessary, say they, for us to have
•come from Richmond to learn that. “Very true,
gentlemen,” replies Seward, while Lincoln tips
him the wink, “very—but your people, as well as
ours, required a little relaxation, and this was
prepared for their amusement.” The look of as
tonishment of our commissioners is the point at
which the laugh is expected to come in. A sorry
jest enough, but as good as under the circumstances
could have been expected.
We take it for granted that those who thought
“negotiation” would end our difficulties, are sat
isfied. Their plan has been tried and the result
announced in our telegrams of yesterday. Those
who now cry “negotiation,” must, it appears to us,
be ia favor of “unconditional submission,” for
that, Lincoln and Seward announce, is the only
negotiation they will hear of. Throw down your
arms and disperse, ye rebels ! was the cry es the
British officer at Lexington ; and Lincoln and
Seward reiterate his words. Are the people of the
South going to obey? No more than their fathers
did in the first revolution. He who warns to “ne
gotiate now, wants te submit. There is no
dodging the question. Submit or fight. Negoti
ation and and State Convention no longer afford a
retreat from the point at issue.
This much the Peace Commission has done for
us. It compels every man to show his hand.
Honest men by scores wanted negotiation tried.
They were as much opposed to submission, and so
expressed themselves, as President Davis himself,
but they desired to give negotiation a fair trial.
They will at once see that their favorite plan has
failed and like true men and noble patriots, will at
once address themselves to the great work of win
ning independence, in the only way it can be won
—by a firm, united and determined resistance to
the enemy. We know not what course those who
desired negotiation merely as a cloak for submis
sion will take—nor do we much care. We believe
their numbers are insignificant, and know their
hearts to be none of the bravest. Their cowardly
wailing will be drowned in the indignant roar of
| the people, as completely as the puling cry es a
; baby by the thunder of artillery.
The busmess of the country is war; and we be
lieve the people and the government will address
i themselves with greater zeal than ever. There is
nothing left to distract their attention. The same
: shout which thrilled the people in Seventy six,
will again be echoed over the mountains and plains
j ®f the South, and crossing the Potomac, startle the
tyrant at Washington with the clamor of five mil
lions ot men, for Liberty or Death.
The Richmond Examiner learns that the
blockade runners supposed to have been cap
tured by the Yaukees immediately after the
fallout I ort Fisher, made their escape to the
Sea.
The retention of Charleston is not, as many
of its inhabitants imagine, indispensable to
our success : out the re ration of the military
line :rom Kingaviiie to Augasta is.
Tiie Contraband Cotton Trade.
They are a lively time in the Yan
kee Congress investigating the cotton ques
i tion. Some o? the Yankee Generals, inclu
! drag Dana, have been trying to stop the con
iraband trade by which cotton is gotten out
of tbe Confederacy and goods sent back in re
turn. Dana ha3 issued an order stopping it,
and he got the following letter from Lincoln,
which has been brought to light in the Con
gressional debates :
Executive Mansion,
Washington, Jan. 6, 1865. j
Major General Dana : The attached docu
ment purporting to be an order issued by your
authority, is sent you with the request that
you will inform me whether such order had
been issued by you ? and if it had, please in
form me by what authority it is that you un
dertake to impose terms in the premises not
imposed hy the Government, which, in effect,
entirely thwarts and defeats the object of the
Government.
It is suggested that if executed in good
faith the order of the Government in the mat
ter in question, or in any other matter, oper
ates unfavorably to the military service, it
would be proper for you to report to the Gov
ernment fully upon it, and that would be the
only proper course. Yours, etc.,
Abraham Lincoln
A Washington-letter writer, speaking of this
says :
This letter shows the feeling of the President
against the military commanders who have
defeated the operations of the law. But it is
nothing compared to the vim and argument
U3ed in the letter to General Canby, in which
the President treated the subject as a finan
cial necessity. As soon as these letters are
thoroughly understood in Congressional cir
cles, there will be some rich developments on *
this subject. More than one official under
the Power of the President may find that he
holds his place by a slender thread, and can
not defy the President, as they seem to im
agine, with impunity.
The Cavalry Strength of Gen. Thomas Army.
(From the Indianapolis Journal.)
It was supposed, and probably correctly so,
that when Gen. Thomas retreated to Nashville
he was deficient in cavalry, which gave Hood,
who was reported to have about fifteen thou -
sand mounted men under Forrest, a decided
advantage But the situation was speedily
reversed, and before the grand assault on the
rebel lines, Thomas had an immense body of
cavalry, which did fine service both in the at
tack and the pursuit.
Where it came from, we don’t know,for mili
tary movements are now conducted with com
mendable secresy. How large it is we can
only infer from the letters of parties who were
at Nashville and profess to know.
A correspondent of a Sincinnati paper,
writing a few days ago stated that Thomas'
cavalry was larger than Hood’s whole army
after the retreat through Franklin.
A correspondent of the Nashville Union es
timates Thomas’ force at 30,000 infantry and
24,000 cavalry. Both of these estimates ap
pear extravagant; but it is certain that our
cavalry strength in that army is very large,
and, what is better, it proved itself very effi
cient in the attack and pursuit. Iu addition
to the clouds of horsemen in the front, there
were at Louisville the brigade of Col. Edward
McCook, and at least eight regiments of dis
mounted cavalry. The latter have just been
mounted and started for the front. When
pleasant weather and dry roads come, there
will be some grand rading through Dixie.
Early in the war, the rebel armed their cav
alry with the sabre, but latterly its use has
been almost wholly discontinued, and the na
vy revolver put in its stead. Our troops have
never laid it aside, and in this way they have
an advantage. Its moral effect is very great—
far greater than any one can believe who has
never heard the terrible clank of a grand
cavalry charge, and listened to the words of a
Veteran trooper as he describes a regiment
swooping down like an avalanche on the ene
my. The appalling fanfaronade and the clat
tering din of five thousand sabre sheaths, and
the glitter of so many keen blades in the air, |
has a terrifying effect which it will not do to
scout at when we remember how the rebels
scared our regiments often in the beginning
of the war with their mere yelling.
The Cotton Trade of the Confederate
States —The Southern States have managed
to send from Texas, mostly over Mexico, and
from other Stages to Bermuda, $200,000,000
more cotton than they did last year, and the
means now of sending cotton from Texas have
greatly increased. The crop of Texas, it is
stated, will be larger than ever, reaching 500,-
000 bales, and a value of $100,000,000, or
enough to pay the whole war debt of the Con
federacy, has been raised this year, and can
be sent over to Mexico to market under the
imperial protection. It is quite possible that
the continuance of the war may be a means
of sustaining the price of cotton, so that the
Confederacy, by having a market over Mexi
co, may, for comparatively small crops, realize
immense prioea. Their cotton has always the
preference, and it is better to sell 1,000,000
bales for $700,000,000, than to sell 4,000,000
bales for $200,000,000 as formerly. This
seems to be the course that affairs are now
taking. It would obviously be ruinous to the
markets of the world for the Southern cotton
supply to be resumed at the former magnitude,
whereas, by a gradually enlarged supply, thro’
other ports, the new empire of Mexico would
be greatly benefitted, and great strength im
parted to the Southern section of the Confe
deracy, with growing wealth to the whole of
it. This seems to be among the commercial
contingencies of a prolonged war.-- -New York
paper.
Pen Drops.
Man—A bubble on the ocean’s rolling wave;
Life—A gleam of light extinguished by the
grave ;
Fame—A meteor dazzling with its distant
glare ;
Wealth—A source of trouble and consum
ing care;
Pleasure—A gleam of sunshine passing soon
away ;
Love—A morning stream whose memory
glads the day:
Faith—An anchor dropped beyond the vale
of death ;
Charity—A stream meandering from the
fount of love ;
Bible—A guide to realms of endless joy
above;
Religion—A key which opens wide the gates
of heaven ;
Death—A knife by which the ties of earth
are riven;
Earth—A desert through which pilgrims
wend their way ;
Grave —A place of rest when end3 life’s
weary day;
Resurrection—A sudden waking from a
quiet sleep;
Heaven— A land of joy, of light and love
supreme. i
Race Extraordinary — A reliable gentleman
who lately transferred his headquarters from
Greensboro tc Danville, tells the following to the
Register :
A traveler was coming from Greensboro to this
place last week ; he attempted to get on the pas
senger train on the Piedmont railroad, but was
told no passengers were allowed. Thereupon he
! took his foot in his hand and put out for Danville
by the railroad route.
At Spinaw, the first station, the train was a
few minutes ahead of the pedestrian, he reached
th**t place just in time to see the curling smoke of
the engine as it moved off. Between Spinaw and
Reidsville, the pedestrian gained on the locomo
tive, and passed it just before it reached the latter
place, where he tried again to get aboard and was
refused. He walked on at a moderate gait, leav
ing the train, until he came uearly to Ruffin sta
tion, when he was again refused passage the third
time; whereupon a rough quarrel ensued between
the conductor and pedestrian. The man now
having his metal up sped on toward Danville, and
reached Pelham depot just two hours aQeai of the
train.
TXX jE2 CITY
T. J. JACKSON LOCAL EDITOR
For Chattahoochee.
j The Steamer JACKSON, Fry, master, will leave
for the above and all intermediate landings,
Saturday morning, at 9 o’clock,
Salks To Day.— Ellis, Livingston A Cos. will
sell to day 100 seed Potatoes, one fine
Piano, pure corn Whiskey, furniture, Ac. Ac.—
; See Advertisement.
1 Confederate Tax.— Col. J. A. L. Lee calls
i on all parties interested to come forward and give
in their income and salary tax for the current
year. Come up promptly gentlemen, and face the
music, or failing te do so, Col. Lee is just the
man to bring you to “taw.”
Many a heart has melted at the ricital of the
suffering of our revolutionary ancestors in Gen.
Washington’s winter campaign at Valley Forge.
The tracks of blood in the snow, the half clad and
half starved condition of that heroic band are
familiar to every school boy reader of history.
But even the privations then and there suffered
nave more than found an equal in our present war
of independence. The late campaign in Tennes
see was one calculated to remind thousands of our
brave soldiers of one of Washington’s winter cam
paigns, and the recollection of tbe scenes around
Nashville, wili form an imperishable chapter in
the history of our trying times. It will form the
theme of many a school boys rhetoric, and give
coloring to the touch of the artists pencil. Pa
triotism is immortal, and the highest exhibitions
of it are brought out under scenes of intense self
denial and suffering.
A Public Library. —The “ Local ” of the
Daily Sun is advocating the establishment, by
voluntary subscriptions from our citizens, of
a public library in our city, where all persons,
denied the use of interesting books at home,
may resort for tbe improvement of their leis
ure hours. The idea is an excellent one, the
plan entirely practicable, and we have no doubt
tbe library can be easily formed if taken in
hand by tbe proper persons. If a suitable
room could be obtained free of cost, and a
librarian selected, tbe books we think would
be forthcoming. The project in peacetimes
would not fail to attract the attention of the
philanthropic, and even in these unsettled war
times, might be made a blessing to the numer
ous refugee mechanics and invalid soldiers,
who are compelled for the time being to take
up their residence in our midst.
Something Better. —Yesterday was quite
an improvement on the wretched weather
from which we have been suffering for the
past ten days. We trust the improvement
may continue and progress indefinitely.
Thomas’ Programme.
A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, writing
from Nashville, makes public what he declares to
be the future programme of Thomas. He says
the greater portion af the infantry are concentra
ting at Eastport, in Tennessee, a short distance
below Florence, in this State. Smith’s corps has
been there for some time, and now the fourth and
twenty-third corps arc gathering at the same
place. Thomas and staff go round by rivei to
meet the men. When this column mores from
Eastport twelve thousand are to step out of Mem
phis, a smaller column from Vicksburg, aud a
larger one from New Orleans, under Gordon Gran
ger. All are to move simultaneously for a clean
grreep across the State of Alabama, which will
open all the rivers emptying into the gulf for the
use of the-Yankee nation. Wilson’s cavalry, now
at Bainbridge and Florence, are to take an active
part in this movement. They will push out into
the interior, and co-operate with the infantry in
destroying the remaining military power of this
and the adjoining States. The rivers and rail
roads are to be held. Mobile, Selma, Montgomery,
and Columbus Georgia, are to be occupied, and
the different railroad lines leading thereto protec
ted.
We have already expressed the opinion that
some such movements as these are oon’emplated
by the new Yankee hero, and called attention to
the indications thereof. And it really appears to
ns these are too evident to be disregarded—that
they are so palpable as to at once cause our au
thorities to actively engage in preparing to meet
the movement. The roads, it is true, will prevent
an advance for some time, but this delay will be
improved by the enemy in making more thorough
preparations. The accomplishment of Thomas’
purposes, be they what they may, depends upon
what may be done to oppose him, and as he will
have a formidable army, and yre have some idea
of our present available force, we shall only feel
that all is well when wo know every exertion is
made to strengthen our army. If Alabama and
.Mississippi would not be overrun and plundered,
as the above programme specifies, every exertion
will have to be expended to prevent it. Is any
thing doing. —Memphis Appeal.
For Tennessee Soldiers.—ln consequence
of the very arduous campaigu through which
the Army of Tennessee has just passed, it is
quite destitute of many articles of clothing:
but especially of the article of socks. In view
of the active campaign ‘in which they are
about to engage in South Carolina, if for no
other reason, this latter need should be at
once supplied, as without them they will suf
fer with blistered, no less than with cold feet.
It is therefore most earnestly requested that
those who have socks they can spare, both in
the city and the country, wherever our jour
nal is read, will send them to this place, care
of J. W. Burke, agent. Send them by the
single pair, or by the dozen or more pairs in a
package, and send them with all possible haste,
as the need is urgent.
Many of these gallant and self-sacrificing
troops have already passed to the-South Car
olina front, there to try to stay the further
progress of the vandal horde led by the im
placable Sherman. To these, socks will be
sent in charge of a reliable officer already se
lected; while those yet to pass will be suppli
ed at this place.
This call is earnest and urgent, and we feel
confident that our noble Georgia women have
only to be informed of the destitution among
these brave men, to send forward speedily all
that will be needed by them. Let there be
no delay, but a prompt and generous response.
—\_Macon Telegraph , I(RA.
The Army of Northern Virginia. —The
New York Times does not think the “ rebel
lion” is ended, by a good deal. The Army
of Northern Virginia seems to give it partic*
ular uneasiness. It says :
a The arm y are equally devoted to the reb
el Government. Wbat may be their feelings
toward Davis personally, we have no means of
knowing: though, undoubtedly. Lee could do
with the Array of Virginia whatever he chose.
But they are now a lawless, bold desperate
body of soldiery. The most of them have lost
home, or negroes, or land, or friends, in this
stubbornly contested cause ; they are cared
for or fed’ by the rebel authorities, at least
better than’the civilians can take care ot
themselves ; they consider their property (if
they ever had any) forfeited by the rebellion ;
they have no home to return to; they have
lost the bonds of civil life ... 1 -* thoroughly
soldiers, living entirely fer -“sent mo
ment, and devoted to their gcuM.-', anu al
ways ready to obey his orders. Genera. Lee
can do with them just what he chooses ; if he
wishes to fight ’o tbe last ditch, they will
probably fight with him. If Lee and Davis
agree, the armv will very probably continue
still to be the ‘powerful military weapon in
tbe bands of the Southern Despotism i that it
has been from >he begianing. Aaa M ;
two desperate ami b!e chieftains nave any
thought of peace, we b* ve toe •*
deace. ”
A.'jc?2icrr salss.
By Ellis, Livingston r 0
\\ E wiil sell „ OTI Saturday, Februaryilltb, at II
' * o clock, in front of our Auction Room
-100 bushels Sweet Potatoes.
Pot Bale Rope,
Y ater Ram and Pipe,
Sow and Pigs, with the usual variety of
, property. Feb 10—812
also,
G bbls Sorghum Syrup,
1 “ Cuba Cane Syrup
feb 11—$4 *
By Ellis, Livingston Cos.
on SATURDAY, 11th February at
»» 11 o clock, in front of our store
A Very Fine 7 Octave Piano. Aeo.ean
attachment, in good order,
ALS—
O-5 bbls. Pure Corn Whiskey,
Lot Furniture, with other desirable
goods,
feb 3 $24
ALSO*
3 Setts Fine Single Harness,
1 i( “ Double “
feb 11 $4
ALSO,
300 lbs. BACON, well cured.
feb ll $4
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
VERY DESIRABITnEGROES.
WE will dell, on TUESDAY, February 14th,
at 11 o’clock, in front of our Auction Room
A likely NEGRO MAN 51 years old,
good Hostler, Farmer, &c.
A likely NEGRO BOY, 13 years old,
A “ 11 Woman 32 years old,
Field hand, and her child 2 years old.
1 likely NEGRO BOY, 6 years old,
A “ “ Girl, 19 years old,
house servant, cook, &c ,
A NEGRO BOY, 20 years old.
feb 11 $27
—ALSO—
-10 bbls Fine Corn Whiskey,
2 four, and 1 wagon.
Lot Furniture, <kc., &c.
feb 11 $9
Postponed Sale.
r I' , HE SALE of Stock. &c., advertised to take place
A on the 7th is postponed until Saturday the 12th,
at 1 o’clock. Conveyances will be at Reynolds for
those wishing to attend from a distance,
feb 11-lt C. L. HOWARD.
MYERS, WATSON & CO.,
AUCTIONEERS
AND
General Commission Merchants,
At Hull & Duck's old stand,
Opposite Bank of Columbus. Broad Street.
Personal and prompt attention given
to all consignments.
Columbus, Ga., Jan. 21, 1865. jan23 ts
By Myers, Watson A Cos.
AN MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13th, in front of our
U Store—
-3 Bbls. Fine Lard
2 “ Cane Syrup.
5 Boxes Eanufactured Tobacco.
20 Bales Smoking Tobacco.
5 Boxes Starch,
100 lbs Black Pepper.
1 Ladies’ Brocade Dress, (new.)
1 Black Silk Velvet Mantilla.
1 Royal Purple “ “
1 Set of Harness.
Lot of Buttons, Hooks Sc Eyes, Socks.
Hardware, ReadysMade Clothing, and
other valuable goods.
February 11—d2t
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 18 ts
ON CONSIGNMENT,
AND FOR SALE BY
M. IP. ELLIS db Cos
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
I 10 Bales Yarns,
8 “ Osnaburgs,
2 “ Hard Waste,
15 “ Bagging,
20 Coils Rope,
38 Barrels Cane Syrup,
6 “ Superior Sorghum,
2 Tierces Tallow,
120 Sacks Salt,
8 cases Superior Tobacco,
( 10,000 Segars,
2 old Copper Kettles, large ;ize,
100 Hemp Bagging Twine,
—also—
• 72 Bales Cotton, in various lots.
feb 11-3t*
NEW HOODS! if iOIIT
Just Received.
1 Fine English LONG CLOTH,
I “ 1 ‘ Gentlemens’ HALF HOES,
| Extra fine BRAID, for Ladies Dresses,
j Also, two Barrels COFFEE.
STANFORD & CO.,
j feb 10 lw No. 78 Broad Street
SOOO Howard. I
FOR A LOST TRUNK, lost somewhere be: ween
Mayfield and Milledgeville, marked C< >inan.
Augusta, Ga., a flat green Trunk. Please Idre-:.
Rock Island Paper Mills, Cblumbu3, Ga.
Macon Confederate k Telegraph, Miikdge
ville Confederate Union, and Augusta Constitu
tionalist, copy three times and send bill to this of
fice. jjjeb 10 It
HOTEL ITRMTI HIL
THE best lot of HOTEL FURNITURE in Geor
-1 gia, for sale. Consisting of every article neces
sary for a first class Hoteb
Apply, by letter, or in person to
R. A. McCOMB,
feb 10 2t Milledgeville, Ga.
SIOO Reward.
CjTOLEN from the subscriber’s lot in Tay; r :o in-
O ty, near Howard, Ga., one moderate site sorrel
mare MULE, main reached and tail trimmed. I
will give the above reward for the deliver.)- •»? thy
mule, which was stolen on Saturday idgm. roe tin
of February, 1865. MARTHA B. MATHEYa.
feb 10 4t*
Confederate Tax Collec tor’'
NOTICE!
THE INCOME and SALARY TAX. for . IS-:, ire
1 now due, and I am instructed to collect tneta
without delay. All tax-payers will at once come :n
to the office ind give in their taxes to U«e As.s.
Many of you are now defaulter* Are vou go, to
force me to visit the penalty ot tne law or. . o .
N urn hereof you are .regis
tering For tins the penalty is Heavy, t-im. n
then and do your .duty, and save cost. vexaUon
Lnd trouble. This is a notice, and a final nor me. to
al feb 103t ter3 " Collector 41st Di- r n »a._
Louisiana Bakerv.
THE UNDERSIGNED be.s leave *o inf rm Mo
i citizens of Columbus and vieiniiy, that ae >s now
prepared to furnish BAKERS BREAD a: at de
scriptions st as liberal ra T es as any estabus imesi' m
the city Cu turners ear, be J uly suppi -u pul
ing at the >uis'jra S*i > on ■r !• the s ore ot Hou
thit 1 C ... old Postoffitr corner,
fob 9 lw D. J. i- AIU A itLL.