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DAILY TIMES.
J. W. W.IRRE\, - - - Editor.
COLUMBUS:
Friday Morning. February 17, 186i.
It give3 us great pleasure to announce to
our readers that we bate engaged the services
of Col. William F. Saraford, of Auburn, Ala.,
as associate and corresponding editor of the
Times.
A no r* from Mej. Allen, controverting some
statements of fact made in our issue of the
15th, on the negro soldier question, will ap
pear in to-morrow's edition. It would hare
been published this morniug, but we desired
to accompany the note with some comments,
which wi* were prevented from preparing yes
terday.
Confederate Finances.
Some friend in whom Mr. Trenhoitn reposes
confidence should whisper in the Secretary's
ear, *• Sir, pay your debts.” It 13 a remarka
ble tact that,'while the currency of the coun
try has, under the legislation of Congress, been
depleted by hundreds ol millions, its purchas
ing value has b>'en diminished in about equal
proportion. Everybody knows that the con
trary should be the fact, and nanny simp'e
miuded people believe that what ought to be,
would be, if the Secretary of the Treasury
.comprehended, and would discharge his duty.
.Mr. Trenholm seems to be laboring under toe
hallucination that, what he don’t
owe and that, hence the value of the currency
and the credit of the Government depend al
most entirely upon the amount of paper it puts
out, and nut even collaterally upon fidelity to
its engagements. As we have remarked, some
one should disenchant the spell that binds our
Confederate purser and urge him to pay bis
debts. People are apt to lose confidence in
the faith of a Government, or an individual,
who, when the ability is not wanting, persist
ently refuses or neglects to meet his obliga
tions. Willingness, without means to pay,
has been, and always will be, regarded more
credit* ble in a debtor than means without wil
lingness. It lias not been long since Mr.Tren
holm drew a check on an agent or depository
in Augusta in. favor of a bank in this city for
a half million of dollars. The check was pre
sented and dishonored. Cause —no money in
hand. We learn that this operation has been
repeated between the Secretary and another
party—the latter also in Columbus —with like
result,. Mr. Trenholm very well knows that
if he had done this in his own business, bis
commercial credit would have been ruined.
Does he imagine that it will not affect the
credit of the Confederacy ? We hear that the
troops have not been paid off fpr eight or ten
months ; we know that the poor women who
work night and day for them have received
nothing for a long time, except what has been
generously advanced by private parties. The
proper season for purchasing Government
supplies for feeding the army is rapidly pass
ing away, and not a Quartermaster or a Com
missary has a dollar. The people want money
to pay their taxes and will not part with their
produce without it. The surplus provisions
in the country are fast going into the hands
of private parties, speculators, &c., and, after
a while, when the army needs them, they will
be non comatibus. Mr. Trenholm needs “jog
ging «P- ”
The Situation.
The Constitutionalist of the 14th, says:
As we anticipated, the demonstration upon
Aiken has proved to be a feint in force. This
morning, the enemy operating in that region
suddenly struck their tents, abandoned the
vicinity, and moved on the road leading to
Columbia.
The above we believe to be thoroughly trust
worthy and not of the “ wild cat” speeies—a
species which may be found at the Broad
street corners, at any hour in the twenty
four.
Yesterday morning we heard two reports.
One, that the Yankees were “ advancing slow
ly and cautiously towards Aiken. ” Another,
that “everything was quiet.” We beg all
eager folks to strike balance between the two.
It is like the distinction between the lion and
the hippopotamus—“ you pays your money
and you takes your choice.”
This morning a gentleman, who “ talked
with the courier, ” reports that the 19th army
corps was advancing (slowly and cautiously
we suppose) on the city, from the Georgia
side, having crossed the Savannah at Stony
Bluff. M e vouch for neither rumor, but give
them for what they are worth.
The Constitutionalist, of the 12th, says.
General Wheeler attacked the enemy's cavalry
under Kilpatrick, a short distance beyond
Aiken at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. After
a sharp contest the enemy were broken and
precipitately driven as far as Johnston’s Turn
Out. The retreat of the foe was in route and
demoralization. On reaching the Turn Out,
Kilpatrick took refuge behind entrenchments,
where he had some infantry and artillery sup
ports, the number of which was not ascertain
ed, but believed to be of no great magnitude.
Gen, Wheeler reports that many of the ene
my were killed and wounded; his own loss
slight. A batch of prisoners arrived here last
evening.
At the time of going to press, this was the
precise status of affairs, received from a reli
able source.
We would state parenthetically that the
public pulse seems to have ceased its throbs
of fever and panic. One evidence of this, and
a significant one, is that gold has declined
r from 65 to 50, and remains dull at the latter
figure.
Thomas' Movements. —A gentleman who
has recently been in the vicinity of the Poto
mac, reports in Richmond that be was told
there was a prevalent rumor in Washington
that a large number of Thomas’ troops are on
their way to Grant ; and that the newspapers
were strictly enjoined to make no allusion
whatever to the movement.
The news from Mexico continues to be as con
tradictory as ever. Through Republican chan
nels we have reports of victories over the Imperii
“lists, and the assurance that Juarez is still very
hopeful, while the newspapers under patronage op
assert that one by one the Juarist
ar ® giving their adhesion te the new order
things, and that all is going on well for the
empire.
Memphis papers say that a British agent from
at Corinth, is paying forty cents for
A,*? 1 * im :*L° 14 nd P art su PPh®«* They also
etate that considerable ootton, after failing te get
within onr lines, has been taken to Corinth.
The Example.
In niscory, no war wilt be founa 10 nave
been undertaken under greater disadvantages
and with more limited means than the • Rev
olution of ’76.' Precipitated into rebellion
by the recklessness or the Lord North Minist
ry, with a continent to defend, and with a
population scattered from the Kennebec to
the Floridas, without a Government, without
money, without friends or credit, and with
actual hostilities between several of the colo
nies, thus destroying the necessary unity, the
banner of independence was thrown to the
breeze and defiance proclaimed to haughty
Britain.
Col. Washington was chosen by the colonial
Congress commander in chief of their armies.
Jane, 1775. Upon repairing to Cambridge,
Mass., he found several thousand raw troops,
without any of those necessaries which keep
armies together, and with all his exertions he
could only Supply nine rounds of ammunition
to each man. For twelve months he lay before
Boston, while the people clamored and cursed
him for no: accomplishing miracles. His rea
son for in* -tion was thus given to Congress
in a private letter :
“To have the eyes of the whole continent
fixed upon me, with anxious expectation of
hearing of .-‘ome gteat event, and to be re
strained in every military operation for want
of the necess try means to carry it on, is not
very pleasing especially a3 the means used to
cou .eal my w-akness from the enemy, conceal
it also from our friends, and add to their won
der. ’
Then, Sir \Vm, Howe evacuated Boston, and
with a heavy torce landed upon Long Island,
captured one fourth of the colonial army,
with two major generals, forced-them to eva
cuate New York, and routed a portion of
Washington s army at White Plains. Forts
Washington and Lee fell, and the rebel chief
found himselt at the close of the first year’s
campaign with scarcely 3000 illy clad and
poorly fed men. moving towards the Delaware,
pursued by Howe The enemy's forces num
bered about 35,00 b British veterans and Ger
man mercenaries. This was the darkest hour
of the revolution. The little affairs at Tren
ton and Princeton revived the hopes of the
patriots. Congress ceased to abuse Washing
ton and made him military dictator for 3ix
months. Iu the autumn of 1777, the British
defeated Washington at Brandywine and Ger
mantown, and entered Philadelphia, the capi
tal, Congress flying before them. The gloom
that overspread the country was relieved by
the capture of £sir John Burgoyne’s army at
Saratoga. Then came the terrible winter at
Valley Foige, when three fourths of the army
were unfit for service. The “ Conway Cabal,”
too, was at work to supplant Washington with
the hero of the hour—Gen. Gates. The peo
ple clamored, and in many districts the Tories
were supreme. Washington was calumniated
in Congress and out of it, In 1780 Charleston
fell, Gates was defeated at Camden, and the
South overrun. The black treason of Arnold
occurred, and the temporarily astounded and
unnerved chieftain exclaimed to LaFayette—
“ Whom shall we trust now?” But the trea
chery was not consummated, and Greene, the
“Swamp Fox” and the “ Game Cock,” kept the
Britons in ceaseless vigilance to hold the Ca
rolinas. In 1781 Earl Cornwallis traversed
the Carolinas and entered Virginia. Greene
drove the British from Eutaw into Charleston
while Washington and Rocbambeau outgene
ralled Glinton and captured Yorktowu.
Who fails to see in this war that history is
repeating itself? Is there not a lesson in the
great fortitude and perseverance of the peer
less Washington for our leaders? And there
is a more remarkable one to our people in the
undaunted patriotism o: their ancestors. The
heroism of that people is a warning to tyrants
and oppressors. The individual zeal with
which men suffered and struggled in those
days is unparalleled. “Hundreds of my men
(says General Greene, alluding to the battle
of Eutaw,) were as naked as they were born.”
Let us profit by this lesson. If the colonies
entered into a war of such magnitude, with
such inadequate means, and through six years
of bloody war bore the standards of liberty
and self°goverument triumphantly, we, who
are united, have an organized government,
resources, &c., cannot fail! Though the ene
my come, “like the winds come when navies
are stranded,” it is as Alariu.said ot the effete
Romans, “the thicker the grass, the easier to
mow ” By the help o! God we are uncon
querable. Devastation and ruin (o our homes
serve to add fuel to our resentment. We only
require a firm and steady resolve to animate
our people, to feel assured that success is in
evitable. The lesson of history—the exam
ple of our fathers—is before us. Let us pro
fit thereby. —Meridian Clarion.
How Sat Lovegood’s Daddy Acted Hoss, and
What Came of it.
“Hold that ere hoss down to the yearth.”
“He’s a spredin’ his tail to fly now !” “Keep
him whar he is.” “Woa,” “Woa, shavetail.”
“He’s a dancing a jig.”
These and like expressions were addressed
to a queer-looking, long-legged, short-b o and
- and, small-headed, white -haired, hog
eyed, funny sort of a genius, fresh from some
second-hand clothing store, and mounted
on “Tarpoke,” a nick-tailed, long, poor horse,
half-brandy, half-devil, and enveloped all
over in a perfect net-work of bridle reigns,
cruppers, martingales, straps, surcingles, and
red feretin, who had reigned up in front of
Pat Nack’s grocery, among a crowd of wild
mountaineers, full of fight and bad whiskey.
“I say, you darned ash carts, jist keep shirts
on, will ye ? You never seed a raal hoss till I
rid up. Tarpole is jist next to the best hoss
that ever shelled nubbins, and he’s dead as a
still worm, poor old Ticky-tail.”
“What killed him, Sut?” said an anxious
inquirer.
“Why, nothin’, you tarual fool; he jist died
—died a standin’up, at that. Warn’t that
good pluck? Froze stiff: no, not that, adzacly,
but starved fust, and the:: froze afterwards,
so stiff, that when dad and me pushed him
over, he jist stuck out so, (spreading his arms
and legs) like a carpenter’s bench, and we
waited seventeen days for him to thaw afore
we could skin him. Well, thar he was—dfd
an’ me—(counting his fingers,) Dad an’ me,
Sal an’ Jake, (Fool Jake, we used to call him,
for short) an' Phineas, an’ Simeon an’ Jonas,
an’ Charloteean, an' Caroline Jane, an’ Cashus
Henry Clay, an’ Noah Dan Webster, an’ me
an’the twin galls, an’ Cathrine Second, an’
Cleopatry Antony, an’ Jaue Lind, an’ Tom
Bullion, an’ the baby, an' the prospect, an'
marm herself, all left without any hoss to
crap with. That was a nice mess for a ’spec
table family to be slashin’ about in, warn’t it?
I be darned if I didn’t feel like stealiu' a hoss
sometimes. Well, we waited an’rested, an’
waited until well nigh into strawberry time,
hopin’ some stray hoss mout come jalong, but
dog my cats es eny sich luck as that ever
comes wliar dad is, he’s so dratted mean, an’
lazy, an’ ugly, an’ savage, an’ triflin’.
“Well, one nite, dad he lay awake all nite a
snortin’ an' a rollin’ an’ a whisperin’ at marm,
and next mornin’ sez he— ! Sut, I’ll tell you
what we’ll do ; I’ll be hoss my self, and pull
the plough, while you drive me, and we’ll break
up corn ground, and then the old quilt (that’s
marm) and the brats kin plant it or let it alone,
jist as they d—n please.’ So out we goes to
the pawpaw thicket, and peeled a right smart
chance of bark, and mam and me made gears
for dad, and they become him mightily ; then
he would have a bridle, so I gits an old um
brella what I found—it’s a little forked piece
of iron, sorter like unto a pitch fork, ye know
—an we bent an' twisted it sorter unto a bri
dle bit. small shape, (dad wanted it kurb, as
he said be hacn't worked tor sum tune, an 1
might sorter feel his oats an’ go to cavortia.)
Well, when we got the bridle ail fixed on dad,
he chomped the bit just like a raal hoss, (he
always was a most complicated durned old
fool, eny how, and mam alway* said so when
he warn’t about) then I put on the gears, an’
out dad and me goes to the field, Ia leadin’
dad by the bridle, and totin’ the gopher plough
on my back. When we come to the fence, I
let down a gap an' made dad mad, he wanted
to jump the fence on all fours, hoss way. I
hitched him on to the gopher, an’ away we
went, dad leanin’ forward to bis pullin'right
peart, and we made sharp plowin' dad goin’
right over the bushes aai sprouts, same as a
raa* oa; the only tie:* ; q 1* wen* on
“Presently wu cum to a sasafic patch, and
j dad, to keep up his karacter as a boss, bulged
square into in, and tore down a hornett s nest
; niga on to as big as a boss he ai, and all the
tribe kivered him right scrate He rared and
kicked once or twice, and fotchei a squeal
wos nor ary boss in the district, and sot into
runnin’ away,jisl as natural as ever you seed.
I let go the lines, and bollored woa, dad woa!
but yon mout as well of said woa to a loco
motive. Ge whillikins. how he run! When
he come to a bush, he'd clear the top of it,
gopher and all; p raps he thort there mout
be another settlement of bald hornets in it,
and that it was safer to go over than thrue,
and quicker dun; every now and then he'd
paw one side ot his head with fast one fore
leg and then tother, theo he’d gin himself an
open-handed slap, that sounded like a wagon
whip, and runnin'all the time, and karrien
that gopher just about as fast and high from
the yearrh as ever a gopher was carried, I
swar Wbeu he cum to the fence he bursted
right thrue it, taring down nigh on to seven
panels, sc-Ut u rin and breakin’ the rails might
ily, and here he i -ft the gopuer, geers, single
tree and klevis, ail mixed up, not worth a dun.
Most ov his shir: stuck on to the splintered
end of a broken and nigh on to a pint
of hornets s’ aid with the shirt, a stinging it
all over, the balance on era, about a gallon and
a half kept on with dad. He seemed to run
jist adactly a 3 fast as a hornet could fly, for
it was the tighteni race ! ever did see. Down
thrue the gun* they all went, the hornets
making it look r-mei iike a smoke all around
dad’s ball beau, and he with nuthin' on but
the bn He and nigh onto a yard of plow line a
saiiiu nehind him.
“I seed now ihat tie was aimin' fur a swim
min’ hole, in ’hekreek, where the bluff is
twenty-five ten perpendicular to the water,
and it’s nigh on to ten feet "deep. To keep up
his karactei as a hoss, when he got to the
bluff he jist leaped off, or rather jist kept on
runuin . Kerspiunge into the kreek he went;
I seed the water fly plum above the bluff from
• whar 1 was. Now, rite thar, boys, he over
did the thing, if that war what he wa3 after,
tor thar’s nary boss ever folded durnedfool
enough to leap over sich a place ; a cussed
mule might have dun it, but dad warn’t ac
ting mule. I krept up to the edge and looked
over; there was old dad’s bald head, for all
the world like a pealed onion, a bobbin’ up
and down, and the hornets a sailin’ an’ cir
clin' round, turkey buzzard fashion, and ev
ery once in a while, one and sometimes ten,
would make a dip at dad’s head. He kept up
a right peart dodging under, sumtimes they’d
hit him, and sumtimes they’d hit the water,
and the water was kivered with drowned
hornets “What on the yearth are ye doin’
thar, dad ? sez I. ‘Don’t (dip) you see those
infernal varmints (dip) after me?” ‘What,’
sez I, ‘them are hoss-flies thar : ye ain’t real
ly afeard of them are ye?’ ‘Hoss-flies h—ll !’
sez dad ; ‘they're rale (dip) genuine bald hor
nets, you (dip) infernal cuss 1 you cum home
an’ I’ll feed you.’ And knowing dad’s unmod
ified natur, I broke from them parts and sorter
cum to the copper mines. I staid hid out
until the next arternoon, when I seed a feller
traveling and sez I, ‘What was going on at
the cabin this side ot the creek when you
passed it?’ ‘Why, nuthin’ much, only a man
was setting in the door with nary shirt on,
and a woman was greasing his back and arms,
and his head was about as big as a ten gallon
keg, and he hadn't the first sight of an eye,
all smooth.’ ‘That man is my dad,’ 3ez I.
‘Been much fight in’ in this neighborhood late
ly ?’ says the traveler rather drily. ‘Nun wuth
speaking of personally or particularly', sez I.
Now, boys, I haiu’tseen dad since, and would
be afraid to meet him in the nelt tea years.—
Let’s drink.
And the last we saw of Sut, he was stoop
ing to get into the doggery door, with a mighty
mixed crowd at his heels
Foreign Items. —Capt. Corbitt, ex-comman
der of the Sea King, was brought before a
Magistrate at London on the sth ult., charged
with having enlisted or attempted to enlist
British subjects for service in the Confederate
navy. The solicitor who appeared for the
government, stated that the case against the
prisoner who took the vessel to Madeira and
then announced to the crew she was intended
and sold for a cruise and urged them to enlist
in the service. Evidence was given in support,
when the prisoner was remanded, he being
remitted to bail in £SOO and two sureties of
£2OO each.
It is announced that Sir Wm. Ansfield is
now commander-in-chief in India, vice Sir
Hugh Jose,*who will probably get the com
mand of the forces in Ireland.
The bank of France’s weekly return shows
a decrease of cash on hand of nearly thirty
millions.
It wa3 reported that Prince Napoleon will
visit Turin, returning to France in company
with the King of Italy.
The Bourse on the 6th was unsettled, but
closed firmer at 6t>f 85c.
It is reported Spain*is about to recognize the
Kingdom of Italy.
The committee of inquiry into the distur
bances last September at Tunice, have pre
sented their report to the Chamber of Depu
ties. Its purport is not stated.
The new Italian loan of six millions ster
ling has been contracted on the security of
State demands.
It is said the Pope intends sending a hat and
sword, blessed each year, as is the custom,
before Christmas, to the Emperor of Mexico.
From Arkansas. —The troops in Arkansas are
concentrating at Little Rock, and sone think an
early movement en the Red river country wid be
made. The “Union people” all fled from Fort
Smith and Van Bureu when Thayer evacuated
these places. A delegation wa3 seat to Washing
ton to procure orders from the President to sus
pend the evacuation, but they accomplished noth
ing. Canby issued the original order of evacua
tion.
Many of the Unionists have reached Memphis
and other places on the Missisisppi; behind Thay
er they could not expect to rem ain in any safety ;
and the pi ice was filled to overflowing with refu
gees from the adjacent country, who were living
in shanties and in the open air, within the Fort,
to escape the bands of partizan rangers, who ren
dered existence in their homes a desperate and in
many cases a fatal experiment. The primal cause
of the evacuation was undoubtedly the lack of
forage for the Federal cavalry. A supply had been
cut, but the Confederates had succeeded in burn
ing and destroying it.— [Meridian Clarion.
The Rivers. —The Memphis Argus, of the 20th
ult., has the following :
The river had risen six inches in the last twen
ty-four hours, and is now nearly bank full.
The stage from here to Cairo, as well as to New
Orleans, is so good that steamers can, without the
least danger, take advantage of the shoots and
bends.
The river is still closed between Cairo and St.
Louis. Although the days are warm and sunny,
the nights are freezing, so that the gorge appa-‘
rently does not decrease.
White river is bank full and the Arkansas is at
good steamboating stage.
The Cumberland, and Tennessee and Ohio are
in fine navigable condition.
The most noteworthy act of Maximiiiam for
some time past has been the issuing of a decree
forming a council of State. The council consists
of a President, eight councellors and eight audi
tors. The dutw of the council is to draft projects
for regulations, decrees and laws, to form a court
of appeals, to form of itself a supreme court and
to give opinions upon all questions laid before it
by the ministry. The President is to have $6,000
salary, the councellors $4,000, and the auditor
$1,600.
Cons. on and Coxscriptors. —A writer in
the Moon ortirer A Register says:
While . /is excited upon the propesi
tion to put negroes in the army, it is truly amu -
sing to look upon the army of stay at-homes.
Able-bodied, hearty men are to be seen occupying
all the multiplied places under the government,
and hundreds strolling the streets, apparently
without occupation or business of any kind. The
conscription law ia either defective in its previs
ions, or very badly exeouted —we know not which.
W« verily believe if the whole conscripting force
were withdrawn from their peats and sent to the
front, and the duty of forwarding the laggards
turned ever to the women, rheservjie would profit
by the change.
TELEGRAPHIC.
rbports or raa prxss association.
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Entered according to act of Congress >n tne yea.’
1843. by J. S Ihrashrk, in ihe Clerk’s offi?eot
the District Court of :he Confederate States ol
the Northern District of (Jeoraia.
Wilmington, Feb. 13. —Considerable skir
mishing on our lines at Sugar Loaf on Satur
day. Three attacks iu force were made, which
were handsomely repulsed with considerable
loss to the enemy. During the attack the
enemy’s whole fleet opened on Hoke's left.—
Our casualties about 20. Some say one Mon
itor threw several shells at Fort Anderson
killing one and wounding one. All quiet
since.
Richmond, Feb. 13th.—Northern papers of
the 11th publish Lincoln'3 message relative
to the Hampton Roads ’conference, including
all letters and telegrams on the subject; also
a letter from Seward to Minister Adams.—
Lincoln says after returning from Richmond,
Blair left with him a letter from Davis ex
pressing a willingness to renew the effort to
enter into a conference with a view to secure
peace to the two countries. Lincoln by way
of reply addressed a note to Blair expressing
a willingness to receive any agent formally
sent with a view to secure peace to the people
of our common country. Subsequently tue
correspondence explains the detention of the j
Commissioners at Petersburg. Grant receiv- ,
ed their application to pass through his lines, ;
and telegraphed to Washington for instruc
tions. Lincoln sent Maj. T C Keert with a
message prepared for him to be delivered to
the commissioners, allowing them to pass the
lines for an informal conference on the basis
of Lincoln’s note to Blair. In the meantime
the Commissioners applied to Grant who had
returned, for a pass through his lines with a
view of ascertaining upon what terms the
war may be terminated in pursuance of the
course indicated by Lincoln in said letter to
Blair. Grant allowed them to pass his lines
and proceed to City Point, where they were
detained awaiting Seward. Before his arri
val, the commissioners addressed another
note to Grant expressing no desire to go to
Washingtn to confer informally with the Pres
ident in reference to the matters mentioned in
hi3 letter to Blair. The reporter delivered
his message to the Commissioners; said he
had received nosatisfactory reply,and notified
the Commissioners they could not proceed fur
ther unless they complied with the terms of
his letter. At this juncture Grant telegraphed
to Staunton he was convinced of the go od in
tentions of Stephens and Hunter; that they
desired to restore peace and union; their let
ter to him was all Lincoln’s instructions con
templated. Lincoln replied requesting Grant
to inform the Commissioners he would meet
them at Fortress Monroe. While Lincoln was
en route the commissioners sent another note
to the reporter expressing their willingness to
proceed to Fortress Monroe to have an infor
mal conference on the basis of Lincoln’s let
ter to Blair, or upon any other terms or con
ditions he may hereafter propose, not incon -
sistent with the essential principles of self
government, and the popular rights upon
our institutions are founded. They further
more expressed their desire to establish an
honorable peace without a further effusion of
blood, and promising their utmost efforts to
accomplish such a result.
Lincoln’s statement of the interview is con
firmatory of the report of our commissioners
as to his ultimatum. He says they seemed to
desire the adoption of some course which
might or might not lead to reunion.
Richnoxd, Feb. 14.—1a the Senate, the bill
for raising 200,000 negro troops was reported
back from the Committee on Military Affairs,
with an amendment.
Pending a further consideration of the Ex
emption bill, the Senate resolved into secret
session.
In the House, the Appropriation* bill was
perfected and passed, and the Tax bill referred
to a special committee.
Nothing else of importance.
Richmond, Feb. 18.—Gen. Lee has issued
general orders offering pardon to all deserters
and men improperly absent, who return to
their command within twenty days from the
publication of this order at the headquarters
of the department in which they may be. No
general amnesty will again be granted, and
those who refuse to accept the pardon now
offered, or shall hereafter desert, shall suffer
such punishment as the court may impose;
and no application for clemency will be enter
tained. The order closes as follows :
“Taking new resolution from the fate that
the enemy intend for us, let every man devote
all his energies to the common defense. Our
resources, wisely and vigorously employed,
are ample; and with a brave army, sustained
by a determined and united people, success,
with God’s blessing, cannot be doubtful.—
The advantages of the enemy will have but
little value, if we do not permit them to im
pair our resolution to use and oppose constan
cy to adversity, fortitude to suffering, courage
to danger—with a firm assurance that He who
gave freedom to our fathers will bless the ef
forts of their children to preserve it.”
Richmond, Feb. 13th.—Northern papers of
the 10th contain very little of interest.
The St. Albans raiders are to be delivered
up to the United States.
Operations against Wilmington would 3oon
be commenced.
Lincoln’s report of the conference at Fort
ress Monroe would be submitted to Congress
on the 10th in3t.
The news of the peace movement caused
much talk in England, but had no effect on
the cotton market.
Gold unchanged.
Gen. Gran&erbt. —The Washington Star,
speaking of this officer, says: The rebel Brig.
General Granberry, reported by Gen. Hood as
killed at the battle of Franklin, will be remem
bered here as the Rev. J. C. Granberry, of the
Virginia Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church,
South. He was formerly jpa3tar of the ‘Church
South’ on Eighteeth street, near H, recently pur
chased by the Hebrew Congregation, and now
used by them. Ia Washington as served two
years> and was then appointed to the college at
Charlottsville, \*a., where he was officiating as
chaplain when the rebellion broke out. Asa min
ister he was highly esteemed 'while here, both as
a pastor and a pulpit orator. He was about thirty
eight years of age when he died, and his numer
ous acquaintances in Washington will regret his
death.
It is now thought by those in Scriven coun
ty, who are well posted, that the Federala will
not advance towards Augusta on this side of
the rivei, if they advance towards the city at
all.
SALES TO-DAY.
Rosette, Lawhon & Cos.,
(Auction Sales ot'the 15tli is
Postponed until the 17th.)
Auctioneers,
131. Broad SI., Columbus. Ga.,
WILL SELL AT il 0 CLOCK
THIS HAY,
FEBKIRAKY 17th,
5,000 CIGARS,
1,000 ORANGES.
79 NEW OSNABURG SACKS,
9 Reams SAND PAPER,
3 Cushioned ROCKING CHAIRS,
1 Coil MANILLA ROPE,
14 Doz. Boys’ COTTON HALF HOSE,
PARLOR STOVE,
MUSIC BOX.
BLACKING,
LEAD PENCILS.
1 Negro WOMAN. 25 years old, good
Cook, Washer and Ironer.
ALSO.
A Fine Lot ot Jewelry.
* »
GOLD RINGS,
“ BREAST PINS,
“ BRACELETS,
“ PENCILS,
“ EAR RINGS.
feb 15 $72
ALSO,
6bbls extra fine Green CANE SYRUP,
for family use.
feb 15 $9
Rosette, Lawhon & Cos.,
Auctioneers,
131, Broad St,, Columbus, Ga.,
WILL SELL AT 11 O’CLOCK,
THIS HAY,
9 BOXES BAR SOAP,
1 TRUNNEL BED AND MATTRASS,
1 BAG ALLSPICE, 80 lbs,
3 BOXES TOBACCO,
GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES,
2 COILS HEMP ROPE,
1 CHILD’S CARRIAGE,
5 PIECES SILVER WARE.
1 FINE CARPET, *
LOOKING GLASSES.
feb!7-sl6
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
MYERS, WATSOY & CO,,
AUOTIOITEBBS
AND
General Commission Merchants,
At Hall & 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
Administrator’s Sale.
WILL be sold the Ist Tuesday in March, the
House and Lot iu the city of Columbus, the resi
dence of Col.sTennille, sold as the property of Mrs.
Tennille. At the same time will be sold a lot of
Household and Kitchen Furniture,
D. MORRIS.
feblT-* Administrator.
Notice!
Office Medical Director of Hospitals, }
Columbus, Ga.,.Feb. 15, 1865. j
The following named soldiers detailed tor Hospi
tal service having been appointed to act as Fora
gers by Surgeons in charge of Hospitals, and their
appointment approved at this Office, are duly au
thorized to act in that capacity for the Hospitals and
in the Counties set opposite their respective names.
All persons claiming to be such agents, and who
cannot show written authority as above set forth
will be subject to arrest.
W. H. H. Phelps. Enrolled Conscript,'Sumter Hos
pital, Andersonville, Ga, Counties, Muscogee, Ga.
G. H. Perdue, private Cos. C, 37th Ga. lteg., Flew
ellen Hospital Opelika, Ala., Pike, Upson, Monroe,
Butts and Crawford, Ga.
M. T. Lloyd, Enrolled Conscript, Walker Hospi
tal, Columbus, Ga„ Counties, Muscogee, Ga.
W. N. Reid, Enrolled Conscript, Cairns Hospital,'
Columbus, Ga,, Counties, Coweta, Tmapland Meri
wether, Ga.
B. N. Driclian, Enrolled Conscript, Lee Hospital,
Columbus, Ga., Counties, Chattahoochee, Ga.
W. C. Jamison, Private Cos. I, 46th Ga. Regiment,
Catoosa Hospital, Geneva, Ga., counties, Talbot,
Chattahoochee and Marion, Gj.
S. H. STOUT.
feb!7-7t Medical Director.
FOIJiITD.
A NEW COAT, picked up on the street. The
il owner can get it by calling at this office, describ
ing the Coat and paying for this advertisement.
feb 17 2t
GEORGIA, Muscogee County.
INFERIOR COURT sitting for County purposes—
-1 February 13th, 1865.
Ordered by the court, that all persons having
failed to give in their State and County tax for the
year 1864, and consequently thereby double taxed,
are required to file their affidavit, agreeably to law,
with the Clerk of said Court, by .Monday the 20th
instant, to'show why they should be relieved.
G. W. ROSETTE,
feb 16 3t Clerk Inferior Court.
GEORGIA, Muscogee County.
v E ALED proposals will be received hr the Inferior
) Court of said county, until the 2hd instant, for
building a Lattice or Treotle Bridge across the
Standing Boy Creek, in the 3th Disiriet. Sal,
Bridge to be let to the lowest bidder. The bidder
to give a bond to keep up said Bridge, in terms of
the law. The court reserves to itself the right to
accept or reject any of said bids.
G. W. ROSETTE.
feb 16 3t Clerk Inferior Court.
Headquarters Enrolling Office, )
Muscogee County, Georgia, *
Columbus, Feb. 15, 1865.]
Government contractors in this county are hereby
notified that many details for hands in their em
ploy hare expired. They must come forward a
once and get said d^t.tils renewed or said hands
will be sent to Camp Cooper. ,-088
feb 16 lw Capt. A HnreUii* Officer.
AUCTION SALES.
By Ellis. A to
YBLUA6LE NEGROES AT AUCTION
OX TUESDAY, 21st Feb. at 11 o'clock, we
will sell, on account of a party retiring
from the planting busines, the following val
uable negroes,
A Likely Negro Man, 24 years old. good
family Servant, farmer and very trusty.
A Likely Negro Woman, 19 years old, good
house servant, cook, kc., and her child, 3 vea>-s
old.
A Likely Negro Man, 27 yrs old, field hand.
A Likely Negro Girl, 23 yrs old, field hand,
and her 4 children.
A Likely Negro Boy. 13 years old. hou3C
servant and field hand.
A Likely Negro Man, 33 yrs old, field hand.
ALSO,
2 Shares Eagle Factory Stock.
15 “ Ga., Home Ins. Compa/y Stock.
77 “ Great Southern Ins. Company Stock.
fab 13 $67 50
By Ellis, Livingston Ac Cos.
VERY DESIRABITnEGROES.
♦—»' •
WE will sell, on SATURDAY, February 18th,
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* “ “ 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 15 S4B
ALS—
O-10 bbls Fine Corn Whiskey,
2 four, and 1 wagon,
Lot Furniture, &c., &c.
feb 15 sl2
—ALSO —
A Likely Negro Man 28 years old, Carpenter,
1 “ “ Woman 30 yrs. old. field hand,
1 “ » Boy 14 “ “
1 “ “ Woman 23 “ “& 2 children
1 “ “ Man 26 “ “ Blacksmith,
1 “ “ Woman 26 “ “
l (< <( (( o*> (I u
1 “ « Boy 17 “ “
1 “ “ Woman 30 “ “ good Cook,
Gt feb 15 $24
ALSO,
A Very Fine 7 Octave Piano, Aeolsan
attachment, in good order,
A Good Close Carriage and Harness,
late style, in good order.
2 Road Wagons, etc., etc.
1 Circular and Upright Mill Saw,
10-inch Guttapercha Belt.
Lot Grass Bale Rope,
Brocade SiU, Window Curtiis, etc.
feb 15 $24
THE CITY.
T. J. JACKSON LOCAL EDITOR
Salis To-Day. —Rosette, Lawhon A Cos. will
sell to-day at auction, negroes, jewelry, sacks,
dry goods, groceries, segars, oranges, Ac. See
advertisements.
Auction Sales. —At auction by Myers, Watson
A Cos., yesterday, brown sugar sold at from $6 to
s7;)cane sjrup, sl7; silver plated waiter, $320; ene
silver plated cake basket, $240; bitter sweet
oranges, 75 cents each ; salt in sacks, $1,05 ; lard f
$3,75; cow peas, sls per bushel; one buggy,
$625 ; silver watches, $127 to S2OO.
We learn that the scarcity of money is being
seriously felt in this part of “Uncle Jeff’s” mora.
vineyard, among business men. If it will only
have the effect of reducing the prices of the neces
saries of life we shall be disposed to greatly re
joice thereat, but if the stringency produces not
this effect, it will only tend to add to our miseries.
With the prices of food and clothing strained to
the highest tension, it will be but a poor consola
tion to know that the money market is “tight.”
It may have a tendency to stay the rapacity of
the heavy speculators, .but the “picayune,'
from hand-to-mouth commonality folks, will find
it more difficult than ever to obtain a scant y
living.
Concerts atEufactla. —Messrs. Eaton, Ward,
Haile and others from this city, displayed thel"
musical gifts with great success at Eufaula, on
Monday and Tuesday nights last. Mr. Eaton on
the latter night performed an original piece of
music set to the words “There’s work for us to do,”
which recently appeared in this paper from the
pen of John Black. We are pleased to learn that
these gentlemen met with such a reception at the
hands of our sister city. We know of no town
whose good opinion we would appreciate so much.
The citizens are refined, chivalrous and liberal t»
a fault, and merit never fails to be appreciated,
whether discovered in the humble and ob3?ure,
or in the high circles of life.
Lead pencils are selling here at $5 apiece.
Where is this thing to stop? The newspapers of
the State ought to take seme concerted action.
How can we publish a paper at the present rates
of subscription, and advertise at three debars per
square, when everything else is fifty and seventy
five prices ?
The Yankee papers report Forrest to be concen
trating a large force at Paris, Tean. A great
number of his men are hovering around their
homes in Tennessee and Kentucky, conscribia*
Union men.
| Personal. —We learn that John Black o: the
i Eufaula “Spirit of the South” is in this city, and
that he honored us with.a call yesterday after
noon. We regret we were not “at home.” We ses
by a late number of his paper that the Provost
Guard of Eafaula had John between two musk eta
recently marching up to the “Captain’s office.”—
We affectionately warn him to be on the qui vivo,
while here, least the vigilance of our detectives
»et him into a similar predicament. We also beg
leave to remind him, that candy has “riz” since
he na. here last, and a dollar now would’nt
get enough to put in his eye. In short If he de
sires to get home safe he had Better leave his
pocset book in his pocket. Otherwise between
pick pockets and extortioners, he will not be ab : e
to get away with “ary red.”
A Mistake in the Firm. —ln our artiels com
pliuieatiug the line Pea Nut Oil manufactured ia
this city we put down the firm of Fitzgib'enas A
Cos. It should have read “Thos. Berry x Cos.
Mr. Fi'zgibbons we believe is one of the firm
though he desires notjto figure as the chief cook
and bottle washer of the concern. But ail this
does not deteriorate from the quality of the oii.--
We said it was excellent and we stick to it.
Removal
Dr. T. J- Word hasremoued his office from Gwa»-
by’s corner to the rear of Bonner’s old L*Dd office s
eastofthe Bank of Coltunbus.
feb 16 Jt*