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SPECIAL NOTICES
Headquarters Georgia Rkservr,)
vid Military District Georgia. I
Macon, Ga., Fob. 10, 1805. J
iener.il Orders /
No. 4. t
I. In a cordance with Par. XXXVI. Special Or
ders No. 18, Adjutant and Inspector General’s
Office, Richmond,2Uh January. 1865, Brig. Gen. VV.
T. Wolloid is cha ged with the duty of collecting
stragglers and d<'So r t>-rs t and dissolving illegal or
ganizations in Northern Goorgia, and placing them
in temporary organizations for immediate duty, un
til they can be sent to their proper commands, lie
is also authorized to enroll all men liable to con
scription in that section of the State who have thus
far evaded the service, and to disperse all band of
deserters that may infest that section of the State.
11. To enable him to discharge fully and energeti
cally those duties, the organizations of Col. Fit d
ley and others, recognized in General, Orders No.
.10,1864. from these headquarters, arid all other ir
regular organizations in Northern Goorgia, are
hereby directed and ordered to report to General
Wofford without delay, and will hereafter be sub
ject to his orders under the authority granted to him
by the Special Order from Richmond, referred to in
preceding puiagraph.
111. Enrolling officers in Northern Georgia will
recognize the authority g von to General Wofford
to enroll the men subject to conscript!-n and who
have so far evaded the service, and will render him
all the aid and assistance in their power.
1 . Allonfederate officers acting under orders
from these Headquarters will give to Gen. Wofford
their aid and assistance, when called upon by him,
to carrj out the duties to which he has been as
signed.
By command of
Major Gen. HOWELL <OBB.
R. J. llallktt, a. a. g.
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 11th, 1860.
General Orders, No. 1.
I. The commanders of the organizations men
tioned in the above order of Maj. Gen. Cobb, will
report to me in person at Gumming, Forsyth coun
ty, Georgia, on the 20th ol this month ; before leav
ing their commands they will give orders putting
them in readiness to move to the general encamp
ment at the above named place at such time as may
be hereafter designated.
11. -411 stragglers, deserters and absentees, not
belonging to the above organizations, and all men
liable to conscription, will report at the Adjutant
General’s Office at the above mentioned place, on
the 25th of this month, with such arms as they have,
or may be able to get, for the purpose of being or
ganized into companies, battalions ;md regiments,
for present duty. On leaving home they will take
enough rations to supply them to the place of ren
dezvous.
111. All officers and soldiers under my command
will pay proper respect to civil officers, and aid them
in the execution of the laws.
IV. The impressment or irregular seizure of pri
vate property, or any interference whatever by sol
diers with the rights of citizens, either in their per
sons or property, is forbidden. Any violation ofthis
older will bo promptly reported.
W. T. WOFFORD,
Brig. Gen. Comd’g Northern Ga.
Macon Telegraph, Columbus Times, Augusta
Constitutionalist and Register, copy 6 times—and ■
Athens Banner and Watchman 3 times.
feb 14 6t
Headquarters Enrolling Office, 1
Muscogee County. i-
Columbus, Ga., Feb. 13, 1865. J
Slave owners of this County arc hereby notified
that I will be ready on Monday and Tuesday, 21st
and22d inst., to receive and receipt for their quota
of slaves, authorized by Act of Congress, approved
Feb. 17th, 1864. Owners are required to furnish
each slave with one good sui t of clothes, one blank
et or bedding and (3) three day’s rations. Those
having furnished their quotas under instruction
from the Secretary of War, bept. 23d, 1864, will bo
credited for the same, upon presentation of their
receipts at these headquarters.
W. A. COBB,
feh 14 td Capt. and Enrolling Officer.
To Retired Soldiers !
Headquarters Post, ]
Columbus, Ga-, Feb. 13th, 1865. j
Special Orders, \
v,.. . )
«-*_# - * * *
V. All Retired Soldiers who have reported and
filed their descriptive lists in this office, are ordered
to report on Tuesday the 28th inst., at 9 o’clock, a
in., to these Headquarters, lor muster.
* * * * * *
By comDiand,
LEON VON ZINKEN,
Col. Commanding Pott.
Wm. Q. Moses,
Lieut, and Asst. Post Inspector.
febl4-td
H®- Country papers near this Post please copy
to the 25th inst., and send bill to these Headquar
ters.
Marshall Hospital, \
Columbus, Ga., Fob. 13, 1865. j
Books Wanted !
I respectfully solicit additional contributions of
Books, Periodicals, Ac., to the Library of this Hos
pital.
The importance of such an appeal will be at once
seen and appreciated by all interested in the welfare
of the soldiers of our army.
Any donation, however small, left either at >he
office of the Sen. burgeon of Post, Pease’s Book
Store or at this Hopital, will be most thankfully
received and properly accounted for.
T. A. MEANS,
feb 13 2w Sure- in Charge.
Notice,
Southern Express Company, 1
Augusta, Ga., Jan. 9, 18b5. J
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 cannot be
forwarded to destination in consequence thereof,
are hereby notified that this Company will not be
responsible for loss or damage by fire. Consignees,
and others interested will take ° T °”
jan 19 lax Ac^ g^ res ’
Macon, Columbus, Montgomery, Mobile ana
Selma papers copy one month.
Owing to the increased price of Provisions, La
bor and other expenses, the Steamboats on the
Chattahoochee River have been compelled to ad
vance their prices for freight and passage to the fol
lowing rates:
Passage from Columbus to Chattahoochee sio 00
From Chattahoochee to Columbus slo° 00
Intermediate landings in proportion.
Freights to any point on Chattahoochee R iver $. 1
per hundred. Measurement Freight $i 25 per cubic
foot * Capt. H. WINGATE, Shamrock.
Capt. DAN FRY, Jackson.
Capt. ABE FRY, Indian.
Capt, JOHN (TOUCH, Mist.
Capt. A. 0. BLACKM AR,Munnerlyn.
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Omcs Grant Factory, 1
Nov. 2y, 1864.1
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Daniel Grant, deceased, are hereby requested to
resent them to the Grant Factory,
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VOL. XII.}
DAILY TIMES.
KYKNING EDITION.
FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17, 1865.
Tub War News. —We hear from all parts
~ay the Examiner. 3d, of the Richmond 1 inen
that the appointment of General Lee to the
command of all the armies of the Confederacy
has been the cause of great re-animation in
the army, which is likely to be reflected o r er
the country. General Lee is said to have been
unusually cheerful in his conversation for the
last few days, and has freely stated that be
expects the text campaign of our arms to be,
by tar, the most active and effective of the
war. The authority and intelligence of this
opinion, of course, give it an extraordinary
valfip, especially so in connection with those
rumors ol “peace” and other impossible things
that have been filling our ears with pernicious
.stuff for the past few weeks.
From North Alabama.— We are in receipt
of intelligence from North Alabama, says the
Columbus Republic, to the effect that the gal
lant Roddy has succcssully encountered the
enemy several times in the last three weeks in
the Tennesse Valley, capturing some prisoners
and keeping them inside their fortifications
around Decatur.
Capt. Norris Coffin, chief of artillery, with a
section-of Ferrell’s battery, had several en
gagements with the gunboats prior to the
evacuation of Decatur, inflicting considerable
damage. Brig. Gen. Roddy’s division is in a
thorough state of discipline and always anx
ious to meet the enemy under their trusty
leader.
*
From the United States.
War Dep’t, Ad.j Gen.’s Device, 1
Washington, Jan. 18. 1865. J
General Orders, No. 6.
A proposal having been made by Robert
Ould, on the 22d of August last, to the effect
that prisoners of war on each side be released
from confinement, close,* or in irons, as the
case may be, and either placed in the condi
tion of other prisoners or sent to their respect
ive homes for their equivalents, which propo
sal was duly approved by the Secretary of
War, it is hereby ordered that all Confederate
prisoners of war that come within the terms
of said •accepted proposal, be released and
sent to Fortress Monroe, there to be detained
subject to the orders bf Lieut. Col. John E.
Mulford, agent for the exchange of prisoners,
to enable him to carry the proposal into effect.
In executing this order, the expression, con
finement close, will be construed as meaning
prisoners confined in cells.
By order of the Secretary of War.
A. A. Nichols, A. A. G.
The Government and tlie Railroads.
On the sth of last month the Senate by a reso
lution, revealed the injunction of secrecy from a
bill passed on the Ist of May, 1803, “to facilitate
transportation for the government.” As it is a
matter of much importance to railroad men, we
will give the chief features of the bill. Section
one provides that the Secretary of War under the
direction of the President, is authorized to require
from any of the railroad companies in the Confeds
erate States, that they devote, when, in his judg*
ment, it may be necessary for the support of ope
rations of armies in the field, all the means and re
sources of such companies, over and above what
may be required for the running one train for pas
sengers in each twenty lour hours, to the transpor
tation of freight, supplies, material and men for
the Government, and that they run freight trains
on such practicable schedule as may be prescribed
by the Quartermaster General, to regulate the
running of railroads, either on their own roads
alone, or as through trains on other roads ; and
in the event after duo requisition made by the
Secretary of War, under the direction of the Pres
ident, on such railroad companies, or any company
refusing or unreasonably failing to comply with
such requisition, then the Secretary of War, under
the direction ofthe President, be authorized to
seize and Impress such road, with all its depots,
cars, locomotives, runuiug stock, machinery and
implements, and turn the same over to the Quar
termaster General who may compel the continued
prosecution, employment and work o f such of the
officers, agents, employees and operatives as are
within the ages liable to conscription under exist'
intr laws, and shall continue the working and ope
rations in transportation of the road, paying to
such railroad company, for the possession and use
of its franchises, road, depots, rolliug stock, ma
chinery and implements, such just compensation
as may be assigned and presented by the board of
assessors, constituted in the State in which the
road is located, under the act of March 20, 1863,
to regulate impressments. Roads owned by States
exclusively and worked by them are not included
in the act.
The second section empowers the Quartermaster
General as before provided to remove the rolling
stock off and from one road to another, whenever,
in his judgment, it is necessary for the public use:
but such just compensation shall be made for the
use of the same as may be assessed in the manner
prescribed in the first section of this act.
The third section gives the Quartermaster Gen
eral power either to remove the rails or other mo
vable structure, or the machinery of any railroad,
in order to prevent their capture by the public
enomv, or to repair, extend, or alter the roadway,
structures or machinery of a railroad, any
thing connected with any railroad, such work
shall be upon the requisition es the Quartermaster
General, under the direction of the President,
promptly executed, under the control and super
intendence of the officers of the railroads, the cost
thereof to be defrayed by the government on bills
duly rendered, and certified by the President and
Superintendant of the road, to bo charged to, and
relunded by the company on whose railroad such
structures are built, or such repairs or alterations
made, to the extent only, and at the time when,
they shall be of value to such company, irrespect'
ive of their value to the govern ment; such value
to be determined by the board assessors pres
scribed in the first section of the act. The bill to
take effect on the date of its passage— 3 Winn
Clarion.
“ They would, if they could, stick a stamp
on our soul. "—Boston Courier.
\ t; True, it we could, but lack of space would
cramp; „
It isn't big enough to bold a stamp.
[Springfield Republican.
Important To Soldiers' Fkiesds— The foi
lowing note in regard to the transmission of let
ters to points beyond Augusta, we find m the Con
stitutionalist. This will be gratifying intelligence
to the relatives and friends of soldiers in the army
! 0 f Virginia. Let every one be .informed of the
t f act : ,O »'
Hamburg. S. 0. Feb. i, lsbo.
Messrs Editors'. For the information of your
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COLUMBUS, GA., SATURDAY, FEB. 18. 1865
[From the Mobile Register.]
The ourning words of “Agla” come from
the deep w*dl of a Confederate woman’s heart
a gifted woman, a patriotic woman—a wo
man who loves liberty, and whose soul’s de-
Sire is lO lit e to call those countrymen whose
bride disdains chains and whose valor will
spurn them at the cost of life—above all, a
pure and womanly woman. Read, and lay
those words to ueart, and if that fountain of
life pulsates thiough your veins, the pure, red
bloo l of manhood, there will be a flutter in
th it heart to testify on a sacrificial altar to
Uiviue Liberty. It on the other hand, they
tall cold and dank upon yoyr ear, if there is
no answering flash to the incandescent heat of
a fiery love ol country ; if your soul sleeps
while passion burns, the alarm bell peals, and
the drum beat rolls out the rappel of Liberty,
God have merry on your soulless being, and
grant that you. :ike has not otten been repeat
ed ;n this day of your country’s trial. But
to the men of the Confederacy, who have souls,
• o the compatriots of the dead Jackson and
the liviug Lee, we commend this gushing
plaiut of a true daughter of the South. Lis
ten and tremble if you have faltered, and
make new vows of consecration to a holy
cause, if you have done your duty. Listen:
“Oh Liberty ! insatiate though thou art!
though every purple hill and sunny vale
groans with thy heroic heoatomb3 and drips
with thy libations; we bow unfalteringly and
undismayed before thy shrine ; we will not
cast our battered armor off, nor furl our rid
dled banners till thou hast nestled triumph
antly in its battle-scarred folds.”
Eloquent embodiment of the spirit of a no
ble vow ! Enshrine it in your souls, soldiers
and men of the South. In hoc signo vinces. —
We thank this fair daughter of a stricken
country for the spirit and eloquence which she
brings to our aid in a daily effort to reanimate
the ourage and the patriotism of its people.
We surrender to her our editorial column.—
Place aux Dames.
The Mirage of Peace.
“ Yes, Peace is beautiful; and I do yearn
For her to clasp the world’s poor tortured
heart,
As sweet spring warmth doth brood o’er com
ing flowers.
But peace with these leviathans of blood—
Who pirate crimson seas, devouring men ?
Give them the hand of brotherhood—whose
fangs
Are in our hearts with the grim bloodhound’s
grip?
Wouldst see Peace, idiot-like, with smirk and
smile,
A-planting flowers to coronal Truth’s grave?
Peace merry-making round the funeral pyre,
Where Freedom, fiery-curtained, weds with
death ?
Peace mirroring her form by pools of blood—
I answer war!—war with the cause of war!”
“ We are millions of freemen, and will not
stoop to reason with those who threaten to
enslave us,” was the noble reply of Spain in
1823, to the insolent demands of the Allied
Powers, whose bannered hosts were gathering
to invade her territory. Are the people of the
Confederate States prepared to-day to hurl
such heroic defiance in the face of the Federal
Government, who invited a conference with
Confederate commissioners solely to insul.
them wiih propositions which the most abject
ot European seifs would blush to accept?—
Breathes there a Southern man so lost to na
tional pride, and to individual shame, as to
stretch out his hands for Northern fetters, and
bow his dishonored head for the yoke decreed
by Lincoln and his wily Sejanu3, William H.
Seward? Is there within the limits of our
land, a man or woman who, hitherto deluded
by hopes of concession and returning reason
on the part of the Washington despotism, does
not now fully realize the hideou3ness of the
unveiled Mokanna, and the utter absurdity of
theiY dreams of reconciliation ?
“ Unconditional submission to Federal mas
tery and dictation !” At these words of un
paralleled insolence, does not the painted idol,
Reconstruction, crumble and vanish forever
from our midst; and will not the smoulder
ing fires of stern resolve and invincible patri
otism rekindle, and, springing heaven-high,
glow on every household altar? Will not ev
ery sword leap from its scabbard, and every
Southern hand, grasping its nearest weapon,
swear deathless allegiance to our starry cross,
and eternal devotion to the cause of Southern
Freedom? When tyranny, after four years of
iniquitous strife and unprecedented carnage, j
sounds a parley, and with matchless effronte- j
ry wrapping a white flag around her gory i
garments, steps forth with an olive branch in
one hand, and manacles in the other, can a
people who retain one noble aspiration for the
future, or hallowed recollection of the past,
deliberate an instant as to the path of duty ?
Have the reconstructionists, the peace-on*
any-terms men, gravely pondered the fate in
store for all who submit to Federal bondage,
and accept the conditions offered at Fortress
Monroe? Peace we are wont to regard as the
synonyme of prosperity, fire-side joys, and the
exertion of the inalienable rights and privi
leges of ireemen ; but dare any man expect
these under Federal reconstruction and thral
dom ? Has not the death knell of every
vidual and national hope dirged out at Wash
ington ? Are we not by Federal ukase already
stripped of lands, negroes and homesteads;
proscribed from office and pronounced politi
cal Pariahs? Bereft of patrimony and every
time-honored social institution, subordinated
to the insolent dictation of emancipated
slaves, and the equally odious arrogance of
Yankee taskmasters ; beggared, branded, dis
graced and despised, a by-word for degrada
tion and a target for contumely, what would
remain for Federal serfs but the goading mem
ory of by-gone happiness and grandeur, and
the accusing graves of their dishonored an
cestry ? Oh ! for the inscription of Jeremiah !
to paint the nameless horrors, the worse than
Babylonish captivity, the desolation of subju
gation, uncheered by the hope of rebuilding
and recovering our national Jeruselem . Is
there a parallel for the astounding fatuity
which could now hope for the protection of
propertv, or the maintenance of manly digni
ty, under the Upas banners of oppression ; and
breathes there a Southern father so cowed, so
servile and imbruted, that, standing beside
the cradle of his child, he could deliberately
cast this hideous horoscope and bequeath this
legacy of shame ? Verily ! “ people who will
not look forward to the fate of posterity, have
never proudly looked backward to the glory
of their ancestors. Oh Liberty 1 insatiate
though thou an ! though every purple hill
and sunny vale groan with thy heroic heca
tombs and drip with thy libations, we bow
unfalteringly and undismayed before thy
shrine; we will not cast our battered armor
off', nor furl our riddled banner, til! thou hast
nestled triumphantly in its battle-scarred
folds ! If such be the verdict of our peopie
and God grant them the strength and wisdom
to accept the issue now presented-** were
well for us to examine our national s.atus. to
unmask the agencies that are sapping the
foundations of our existence; to grapple
promptly with the internal grievances that
naralvz- the government ana render we.i m o h
nugatorythe bravery and endurance of our
soldiery The position of the feouth is luha
telr more perilous than was that of England
in 1797 when Edmund Burke exclaimed:
Jvl'fVver there was a time that cal's on us tor
no vulgar conception of things, and for exer-
I tions in no vulgar strain, it is the awful hour
that Providence has now appointed for this na
tion. Every little measure is a great error ; and
every great error will bring ou no small ruin.
Nothing can be directed above the mark that
we must aim at: everything below it is abso-
I lutely thrown away.” A thorough realization
of the dangers that threaten is the most speedy
and effective agent of defence, and no calm,
thoughtful observer can scan the aspect ot
affairs on the great military echiquier , and
deny that on every side the Confederacy is
begirt with peril. With a daily narrowing
circle of territory, hermitically sealed ports,
and limited mechanical resources we confront
a foe \who recruits his armies and navy from
every nation under heaven, and wields against
us every conceivable improvement in the ap
pliances of war. Flushed and insolent from
I recent successes, fresh hordes are gathering
to hurl themselves at the opening ot the spring
campaign upon the devoted but depleted ar
mies of Generals Lee and Beauregard. No
where in the annals of the race has history
1 proclaimed th*at one-third of the population
1 of a country saved the remainder from slavery
j and ruin. Brave bands like Leonidas’ Three
I Hundred, have been swept from the field of
| battle to the loitiest niche of immortality, but
to conquer and crush huge invading armies,
requires in conjunction with bravery, numer
ical strength ; positive human avoirdupois.—
Unless our armies can be largely reinforced
within the ensuing campaign, it is scarcely
problematical that we shall be first overrun,
and finally subjugated. There are unques
tionably men enough in the Confederacy to
set this haunting spectre forever at rest; and
‘he juncture has surely arrived when every
man and woman must do their duty, or perish
in (he national ruin. The hour has come when
every athletic man under forty-five should be
dragged from quartermaster, commissary, ex
press, railroad and postoffices ; when all Com
mandants of posts, cross-roads and station
houses should be stripped ot the countless
supernumeraries and easemated hangers-on
who thus contrive to elude danger and duty.
A radical and immediate reform is impera
tively demanded and the authorities at Rich
mond would expedite this w
“Consummation devoutly to be wished,”
by replacing the present regime of enrolling
officers with disabled soldiers whose wounds
attest their incorruptible patriotism. The best
possible exemption bill has been furnished by
Federal ball and shell; and wooden arras and
empty sleeves will prove far more potent and
effectual than those trembling, fleshy members,
who now either by supineness or corruption
jeopardize the cause whose uniform they dis
grace. Congress has passed all requisite
measures, and upon the war office devolves
their vigorous enforcement; but to the citizens
at home, government must look for support
and cordial co-operation. The convenient
plea is not unfrequently urged, that certain
young gentlemen as robust as Milo, are needed
in these quartermaster, commissary and trans
portation departments, which demand energy
and experience. Those requisites can be sup
plied by thousands of practical, industrious,
business men, beyond the limit of conscription;
whose sons are at the front, and whose ante*
cedents have thoroughly fitted them for the
details of department work. Let the pens of
the country be wielded by grey-haired sires,
and its muskets by the regiments, nay, brig
ades of young cowards who now crouch igno
miniously in the sheltered nooks. Glancing
over the thousands of stalwart forms that
throng our quiet streets and crowd river land
ings and railroad depots, it seems almost im
possible to realize that political and social ru
in stares us in the face, and one is haunted by
the mournful declaration of Curran: “When
the very existence of the country is at stake,
its strongest and most precious limbs are not
girt with the sword for battle, but pressed with
the tourniquet for amputation.’’ Shall we
merit the compassion of mankind, or escape
everlasting infamy, if, with adequate resources
at command, we perish finally through the
degeneracy and demoralization of the masses
at home? Are our hallowed dead so utterly
j forgotten, that there lingers no inspiration in
the names of Johnson, Jackson, Polk .and
Cleburne ? Is there a heart so sordid and cal
lous, that its pulsations do not quicken at
recollection of the fresh fields of Franklin and
Nashville, where
“The stern white faee3 of the deal that on the
dark ground lay,
Like statues of old heroes cut ia precious human
clay—
The household gods of many a heart all dark and
dumb to-day,”
look up in mute appeal for sepulture and ven
geance! By the noble blood scarce dried upon
the trampled soil of Tenness®®; by the memory
of our best and bravest : the means of widows and
of orphans; in the name of all we have suffered
and lost, and all that we hold doar on earth, oh
men of the South! will you not rise en masse, join
the heroes at the front, and overwhelm the army
which hangs like a black cloud along the borders
of Carolina? Can the women of the Confederacy
contemplate the horrors of subjugation, and refuse
to exert the vast influence they possess, in rein
forcing the armies now battling against fearful
odds, to defend them from insult and destruction?
Can mothers, wive3 and sisters, whose life long
idols now lie shattered on distant gory fields, so
far forget their martyrs as to recognize as gentle
men and friends the thousand craven spirits*who
creep from place to place in search of safety, dis
honoring their land and the dead who conse
crate it ?
Can mirth and reckless ribaldry hold high car*
nival in social circles while every passing breeze
chants the requiem of dying heroes, and is bur
dened with the lamentations of stricken wives and
wailing orphans ? Are Southern women so com
pletely oblivions of the claims of patriotism and
humanity, that in this season of direct extremity
they thread the airy mazes of the dance while the
matchless champions of freedom are shivering in
bloody trenches, or lying stark on frozen fields of
glcry ? Do not the hundred thousand victims of
Chickahominy, Gettysburg, Shiloh, Murfreesboro,
Chickamauga and the Wilderness, rise in spectral
bands and with ghastly, horror-stricken visages,
lift their blo%dv hands in mournful expostulation,
and murmur in sepulchral tones : “Shame ! shame
upon your degeneracy ! You dance over our
bleaching and unburied bones !”
Oh ! my country-women ! pause for a moment,
and reflect upon the vital nature of the struggle,
the awful consequences of defeat, the urgency of
the crisis, the imperative necessity that every heart,
head and hand should be consecrated to the sacred
work of achieving independence ! Mothers, wives
and sisters, could you waltz across the yawniDg
graves of your darling dead, or drown in bursts ®f
music the last feeble accents which breathed tender
adieus, and pleaded for a sanctuary in memory ?
Because your own treasures are yet spared, can
you turn a deaf ear, heart to the
sobs and tears of our Confederate Rama, or per
chance to the pallid, despairing face of your next
deor neighbor, Niobe! Tullia like, darts you
trample the mangled martyrs who pave the path
to liberty and peace? Will yen, can you, per
sistently" outrage the nation’s holy dead, and bring
irremediable ruin up -selve*,_to a course of
insane, heartless and «u •- . < Vivoiity, when the
salvation of the country your every
thought and ceaseless prayers ? Woe to that
wretched land, whose insensate women seek
only amusement during the bloody irema of
revolution!
If every mother, wife and sister ia the Confede
rate States felt as did the women of Leyden and
Haarlem, neither enrolling nor recruiting officers
would be required; deserters and skulkers could find
bo lurking places at home, and would rather face
Federal balls,than the scorn and loathing of brave,
pure, derated and patriotic women. Oh, for tha
sublime heroism wh ch prompted the wives, and
maidens of Xantbus to fire their city and perish
amid the flames, rather than surrender to Marcus
Brutus !
“They were heroic souls who had lain life's all
On Freedom’s hungry altar, and gone forth
Clad in the immortal spirits of self sacrifice.”
Shall future historians record that instead of
emulating the purity and patriotic ardor of Roman
and Spartan women, those of the Confederacy in
the darkest htfur of trial, busied themselves only
in the preparation of Nitoeris banquets, and like
those doomed revellers of Egypt, were overwhelm
ed at the moment when mad revelry had reached
its fatal height. Are there not true and noble
women enough in the country to band themselves
against the encroaching tide ofdemoralizafon, to
check the increasing and corrupting traffic in
foreign luxuries and trifles ; to popularize only
Confederate articles of dress; to arouse the peo
ple to a realization of their imminent peril, and to !
rekindle and fan the fires of public devotion on
every houshould altar? Ah! my countrywomen!
you have but to will the success of our cause, and
under the blessing of Heaven it will be speedily
accomplished. The soul of Kenan Hasselaer
would galvanize the slumbering masses whose
laisez nous faire policy has brought us to the brink
of ruin, and smite from its gilded shrine the gol
den calf, before which two-thirdi of the nation
bow. There is an appropriate season for the light,
graceful measures of the dance; for mirth and so -
cial festivities: but these are fitting concomitants
of the smiling reign of white-handed, benedictive
i Peace, aDd are but waddeuing mockeries, unpar
| donable insults in the midst of carnage and the
death-grapple of ia'uriated nations. Oh! my
! country women ! in the name of humanity and
i the tender sympathies of womanhood—in the name
of slaughtered thousands who have gone down in
the red burial of battle, I implore you to pause
in your giddy whirl, and address .yourselves
earnestly to the grand work of encouraging and
sustaining the suffering but devoted soldiery, who
alone stand between our loved hearthstones, and
the bosom of destruction. Has the boasted chiv
alry of our people fallen so low, as to find no
m-igic in the thunder-roll of by gone marvels of
heroism? Has the spirit of the Bocage no echo
o® this side of the Atlantic ; and can this genera
tion have forgotten that thirty Confederates met
by starlight on the solemn brink of the Grutti,
and, defying the vast power of the House of Haps
burg, decreed freedom for the Cantons? Come
there no whispers of encouragement from the
crumbling ruins of the Kremlin, and the smiling
tulip fringed dykes of Batavia ? Nhall Sherman
be allowed to sweep triumphantly through the
heart of our land without finding a single inscrip
tioa similar to that of Rostopchin, which Napole
on read by the baleful glare of burning home-'
steads t “Frenchmen! I have spent eight years
in embellishing this residence; and here I have
lived happily in the bosom of my family. The
inhabitants of the estate, numbering seventeen
hundred and twenty persons, have quitted it at
your approach, and I have with my own hand
fired my house, to prevent its pollution by your
presence.” Shall the serfs of Russia rise in de
rision and mock the pretentions of a natiou claim
ing the championship of freedom ? My country
men and women, let us shake off forever the vis
inertice which jeopardises all that life holds pre
cious, and develop the resources and powers of
endurance of which we are yet scarcely conscious.
The siren song of European intervention and rec
ognition has too often lulled to treacherous secu
rity and fostered illusory and demoralizing hopes !
to day let us realize and accept the stern fact
that the world has turned its back upon U3 ; that
no extraneous aid will ever be tendered : that on
Southern steel and.Southern muscle alore we must
rely for victory ; >-and thus girded anew by despe
rate resolve, and panoplied with unwavering trust
in the God of battle, we shall certainly escape
dishonorable bondage—
“ For all may have, it they dare choose,
A glorious life or grave.”
Perish all other aims but that of national deliver- :
once, and to this glittering goal strain every nerve,
lift every arm in defence, and every heart in sup- i
plication; consecrate every hope, aspiration and
faculty, and solemnly swear like William Pitt: “We
know that great exertions are required, but we aic ,
prepared to make them; and at the events we are !
determined to stand or fall by the Laws, the Liberties j
and the Religion of our country /” Echoing the!
immortal motto of UampdeD, vestigia nulla retro - !
sum, let the people, military and civil, sustain and
fully co-operate with the Government; let Congress ‘
call into the field every white man under forty-five, I
and let the States promptly donate one hundred
thousand negroes to the Confederate Government, 1
to be trained, well disciplined, thoroughly accou
tred. and held like the Helots of Sparta for national
service, in any capacity which exigencies may de
mand. Let individual animosities, jealousies, pre- i
judicos and favoritisms be forgotten; let Congress, i
Cabinet, Executive, and people unite cordially, in- ;
cite and sustain each other, and thus aroused and '
unanimous, bidding defiance to the world we may
well exclaim: “Onward in faith! and leave the rest I
to Heaven!”
Constancy and heroism will soon coerce a noble j
peace which shall pour its precious balm upon our
stricken, bleeding land, and richly guerdon all its j
awful cost, and until such honorable terms can
be extorted, there is no extremity of want orwar,
neither peril nor privation, .which is not infinitely !
preferable to the name and mockery of a peace which
would plunge us into an abysis of infamy, and prove
and abject, pusillanimous and disgraceful surrender
of all that constitutes the happiness, safety arid ;
flory of the Confederacy.
“Brothers, I bid ye forth to glorious war!
The stream of Time runs red with our best blood,
And dragons’ teeth have sprung—aye—in our
hearts!” AGLA.
The Defence of Fort Fisher.
| The enemy seems to be very much surprised at
the stubborn resistance which our gallant boys made
|to his assault at Fort Fisher. “The rebels met us”
3ays Admiral Porter, in his official report, “with a
; courage worthy of a better cause, and'fought des
perately. ” Thisjs the testimony which the enemy
bears to the bearing and conduct of the little band
taat was left unsupported, to drive back treble their
number, when treachery or cowardice, or both, had
. yielded the sally port with three hundred men pris
| oner3 into his hands. During the whole of that long
Sabbath afternoon, from 3 o’clock until 9j4 o’clock
P- tH'. they fought from traverse to traverse, while
the hurling missiles from the fleet, that darkened
I the heavens above their heads, seemed to rain fire
like that which destroyed the wicked cities of the
plain.
We majority of the men c< uiposing the
I garison at Fort Fisher —or rather, we should say, the
boys, for mere boys they were—the flower of the
; youth of the counties of Bladen, Richmond, Robin
son and jCumberland, who had left either the col
lege campus or the play ground of the field school
to handle the musket or train the cannon for the de
fence of North Carolina. Had these boys been in
i Lee’s army, and offered the same resistance to the
masses of the enemy that swarmed into the Fort
through sallyport and over parapet, and fought from
traverse to traverse in that fearfe! hand to hand con
flict,which admits of no parleying,and often without
noise or words locks the combatants in the cm
: brace of death, they would have been immortal
ized.
It makes a great difference, in these days, where
a man fights, as well as for what cause he contends
for. The banks of the Cape Fear are not half so
classic as the banks of the James. The men who
die with Lee are heroes ; those who die with any
body else may look out for themselves. We are sor
ry to see so much of this spirit {manifesting itself.—
Surely, if any body of men deserved well of the
country, the heroic defenders of Fisher do. Many
of them, as we l ave already remarked, were mere
boy3. They had to meet, in close and deadly con
flict, the brawny arms, stout thews and sinews of the
bearded Northmen, who were in the full vigor of
manhood. They met, too, those • 3tout invaders
inside of their own works, where the enemy, out
numbering them, had equal advantag s in every
otber respect with our boys. And yet the enemy
himself says: “They fought desperately.”
Strange to say, after all this, that we find among
us some carpet knights who tell us that our soldiers
did not, would not fight!— who aver their own
boys did not do their duty I (M knows the treat
ment they had received in being abandoned, as they
had been, in a second well of Cawnpore. to their
fate, was enough to discourage and palsy their arms
in the fight. The enemy, however, more generous
than those for whom they fought, has done the boys
justice. They fought to such purpose as to extract
from the enemy praise and admiration. We do Kfcpe
tuat whatever editors from other Sta'e- may do,
tnose who cqntr <1 the columns of 'he North Caro
lipa press will do the gallant defenders of Fort
risner the justice which is due them.— Xorth Caro
linian.
Notice !
I EFT in Box No. 96, Post Office, on the morning
U 17rh Feb iB6O, one ounch KEYS, any on* re
moving the keys will please leave them at the Post
Office with the Clerk, and oblige.
fed 17 ts
Attention. Xelson Ranges!
Ail memoers of toe Nelson Rangers, on furlough
! or detail, ordered to meet at Columbus, Ga.,
on Saturday, lAtii ins - prepared to march i 'medi
ately. J 3. OWENS.
feb IA td Lieut. Commanding.
j SIX DOLLARS
i PER MONTH
TELEGRAPHIC.
REPORTS OT THE PRESS ASSOCIATION.
Evere-’l according to act of Congress in the y .ai
1863. oy J. 8 a hkashkr, in the Clerk 's office ■ f
‘-he District Court of the Confederate State-* ><
the Northern District of Georgia.
Macon. Feb. 17.—There is a quorum in both
Houses of the Legislature of Georgia.
Gov. Brown’s message strongly opposes us
proposed arming of slaves. Our unfortunate
policy heretofore, he thinks, wasted strength
and reduced nunri ers, of our armies The
President, unable to get men as conscripts,
and unwilling to accept them organized. [?]
now seeks to fill our armies by conscripting
negroes, who cannot be relied on as soldiers.
If forced into our armies, with promise of
freedom for faithful services, a single procla
mation from Lincoln offering them exemption
from military service, freedom, and wages for
labor, would cause them to desert by brigad**
If we arm slaves, why deny the justice of
abandoning slavery ? If government can buy
slaves and give them freedom, it may abolish
slavery b> buying and freeing a!!, and taxing
the people to pay for them
In relation to our condition and pro-p * 'i,
the whole body politic is diseased—un:<‘ss
active remedies me administered—and dea’.b
is an inevitable result. The Constitution i. u
been violated, the rights of States prostrated
by Congressional encroachment and Execu
tive usurpation, protests of State Legislature i
unheeded, unconstitutional taxes laid, im
pressments made oppressive without just com
pensation, agriculturalists placed under heavy
bonds not to sell produce at the market value
or exchange for articles of necessity, citi
zens not belonging to the army arrested and
imprisoned without due process of law. and
good citizens, travelling on lawful business,
must cairy passes. The finances have been
unfortunately administered, and the propor
tions being considered to sustain them are
a little .better than legalized robbery. The
wretched conscription policy is welladaptei
to control European serfs but is repugnant to
the spirit of a free people and has driven men
to desertion. The Government will be a mil
itary despotism when the writ of habeas cor
pus is suspended, to which the President s
earnest efforts are constantly directed.
The present policy is the surest mode to
diminish our armies, exhaust our resources
and break down the spirits of our people ani
drive them into despair, and, if persisted In,
will result in reconstruction or subjugation,
both of which the Governor is utterly op
posed to.
The Governor does not despair of our abil
ity to succeed. Conscription .must be repeal
ed, the States called on for men, and good
faith kept with the troops. No more repud’a
tion or impressments exoept in extreme cases.
Secret sessions abandoned and discipline re
stored to the army. The President, having
faided in military administration and brought
the country to the verge of ruin, should bo
relieved from military powers by amending
the Constitution so as to place the armies un
der a commander in chief, independent of tha
President’s eontrol.
He recommends a convention of this and
other States to require Congress to call a con
vention of all the States to make this change
in the Constitution and restore the great prin
ciples of State sovereignty and Constitutional
liberty now disregarded.
The Governor concludes no one is more vitally
interested in the success of the cause than myself.
I have staked life, liberty of myself and my pos
terity on the result. The enemy has destroyed my
property and shed the blood of my nearest rela
tions ; my destiny is linked with my country. If
we succeed, I am a freeman ; if we fail, the same
ruin awaits men. Night's dark tempest howls,
and the helmsman is steering towards the whirl
pool—our remonstrances unheeded ; we mu.-t re
strain him, or the crew will sink together in one
irretrievable ruin.
Mobile, 16.—At a mass meeting of Gi'ob«
son’s Louisiana Brigade the following resolu
tions were passed :
Resolved, That with pleasure we witness
the recent demonstration for a more vigorous
prosecution of the war, and again pledge our
selves to stand by our noble President aad
constituted authority so long as a banner re
mains which shall be borne, or our indepen*
deuce i3 achieved.
Last night, at eleven o’clock, a detachment
of the 16th Indiana came from Thibodaux to
Houma to reinforce the provost guard*at this
town, composed of a detachment of the 18tb
New York Regiment. By some mismanage
ment the reinforcement came in collision with
the sentry, when three or four shots were fired.
The result was, the garrison flew to arms and,
deploying across the main thoroughfare, pre
pared to meet the attack of, as they supposed,
a band ol guerillas. A3 the Indiana boys
came thundering down the street, the New
Y'ork boy3 challenged. Thereupon the Indi
ana boys opened fire on them, and a regular
fight eusued, in which some 75 or 100 shots
were fired on both 3ides.
During the fight, Capt. Thomas, who com
manded the Indiana boy3, was badlv wounded
by a shot in the breast, as also a non-com
missioned officer and two privates, with sev
eral horses. The Indiana boys then fell back
outside the town and despatched a courier
post haste, calling for reinforcements, as tbev
had found the town of Houma in the bands of
the guerillas, and after a skirmish they had
been compelled to retire with the loss of their
commander. Reinforcements came on in the
shape of a whole regiment, which arrived ia
town this morning at about six o’clock, under
command of a major. They had mistaken
each other for guerillas.—JV. O. Delta.
CITY FOUNDRY!
SUGAR MILLS AND KETTLES !
WE HAVE OF HAND
Sugar Hills and Kettles,
holding 20,35, 40, 60. 80 and 130 gallons, which wa
will exchange for Provisions or any kind of country
Produce, or money on very liberal terms.
olicited. PORTER, McILHENNY Jc CO.
Columbus, Jan. 20, ts
wa^tedT
' j 11Y1 LBS. of TALLOW, for which a liberai price
J»Uvv will be paid. Apply to
F. W. DILLARD,
*!>■ tt Major and Q. M.
FOR SALE!
WAGON HARNESS. COLLARS. HAMES. A:.
YY Also a few sett? of BUGGY T HARNESS.
Apply to SHERMAN A CO.
feb 4 1m Masonic Hall, upstairs.
Wanted,
FOR the State of Louisiana TEN .MOULDERS.—
Wages liberal. Transportation furrdshed. Ap
ply to Maj. R. S. Hardaway, of this city.
D. A. BLACKSHER,
feb 12 ts Comiasioner for Lonisiaaa.
Poeket Book Lost.
SOOO Reward..
A large enameled cloth Money book lost ia the
ladies car of the Opelika R. R- on Saturday the
lith. inst- The name of Martha James Ross was
written in full within it- It contained three five
hundred dollar bills, tea hundred dollar bills aad
two fifties besides some small bills, the total amount
about above reward will be paid fbr ita
delivery a’ he T'tnes Office- It was dronred at tha
s»at while i.-.aving tne cars at Co'umbq;
FebUtr >f j a- v )jg,
