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DIRECTORY
For Government Officers in this City.
COL LC ) n VON ZtNKEN, Commanding
P isi —Me-i iq";i ers in • a«* “Wintw Buildmg,”
East st i- B-o i ' j* er, ne.nr;v opposite Express
Office—s ff, Lieu-. S. ISIDORE QUILLET,
1' >st a j —C p i\ S. Fit. I* ist Inspector.
Ofdnan ce Department.
Col. 51 H. WRIGHI’, Oijiuiuiinding Govern.
lUeo : —O :! •■* •..r* M 1 c htul S'.
Oirtir fee .1, (.V •'"HI Office.
M»j -I r f< J MPi I KEY >. Bxicitive Officer,
Colnmow- *. i t —Ohco ,v - Office.
Maj J -i. L•> tin AL)ING, in ci<if sut Anno
ry—Offi wn • P. • v• t c » y it Ogiorhorpc Street,
beiwoett F;<i iin •.!• t r’- i ...
L t>u J. M. MULDE i, J.., .Vi S. K—Office
at Ordnance Csioru rt mse, near Guy Cemetery. t
Quartermaster's Department.
Mij F. W. DILLARD < Q. tM.—Chief Quarte--
mastit’s Office, East side of Broad Streot, opp"-
eite Uoi u iianu.
Mai a it. KAGAN, Army Paymaster—Office
in me buii vvit i Post Commandant.
Cap . 8 F BOVIAK, A. Q. M. P ist Paymas
ter—Office W ,i side of Broad tj.reot, opposite
Wa 'ter 'fo-,. al.
b i.pt. j. A REDD, A. Q. VI., Po«, Quartet
master —Office No. 82, East side Broad Street.
bap;, ii. D. CO fillt iN. A. Q. M. in charge of
Transportation tnd Fur age—Office West side of
Broad S' reet, -pposito Walter Hosp and.
Cap - J. r. FEY LON A. Q. M., Depot Q
M—Office o; HiudnpU Street, one door East of
Daily Time- office.
0 ipt. J. F. UO'JPEII, A. Q. M., Tax in Kind
Q. Vs. S,h Cos ig. of Georgia—-Office West, side oi
Brood Stree - , 3 t loor oet >w Ageucy Marine Bank.
Commissary Department ‘
M j. A VI ALLEN, C 3, District Commissa
ry—Office at Alabama Warehouse, ou Front St.
Copt. J II GRAYBILL, A C S, Post Commis
sary— Office c aaer Broad and Sr. Clair Streets.
Cay t. G H FULKERSON, Piovost M trshai—
Office one loor North of Post Commandant's ol
iice.
Medical Department.
Surgeon S H STOUT, Medical Director of
Hospitals—Office West side ol Forsyth Street,
between Sryan and Franklin,
Surgeon S M BEMIS, Assistant Medical Di*
rector of Hospitals,
Surgeon G B DOUGLAS, Senior Surgeon of
Post—Office on Randolph Street, between Broad
and From.
Surgeon C. TERRY, Surgeon iu charge of
Walker Hospital, corner of Broad and Bryan
Streets.
Surgeon R P HUNT, Surgeon in charge of
Lee Hospital, corner of Broad and Randolph
6treets.
Surgeon T A ME ANS, Surgeon in charge of
Marshall Hospital, Court House Building, on
Oglethorpe Street.
Surgeon R L BUT TANARUS, Surgeon in charge Cairns
Hospital, at Camp Montgomery, just North of
the City,
Rw. G, W. STICKNEY, Chaplain Post, Resi
dence corner Forsythe and Thomas streets; can
usually be found at office Commandant“ Post.
Conscript Department.
Capt. W S D AVIS, Inspector for 3d Cong.
Dist.—Office at Lowell Warehouse, on Randolph
Street.
Caps. W A COBB, Enrolling Officer, Musco*
gee Coun’y.—Office at Lowell Warehouse.
Examining Board for 3d Cong. Disr.—Surgeon
P B MINOR, ROBt. W PARK and W T ABR A
HA.Vis —Office ai Lowell Warehouse.
Chief Engineer—J li WARN Eli, CSN in
charge ot Naval Iron Works—Office opposite
Lower Bridge.
Cap’, G H HAZL.EHURST, Engineer’s De
partment —Offioo on Mclntosh S’ree’, between
Bryan and Randolph.
Change ol Schedule.
,iN and after Friday, Jan. 20th, the Trains on
' * the Muscogee Railroad will run as follows:
PASSENGER TRAIN :
Leave Columbus jj A* M.
Arrive at Macon 2 50 P. M.
Leave Macon « A*
Arrive at Columbus * Oo r. fli.
FREIGHT TRAIN :
Leave Columbus .5 Op A. M.
Arrive at Columbus 55 A. M.
W. L. djAJcvJtY,
mar 10 ts Supt. Muscogee R, R.
Through to Montgomery.
NEW SCHEDULE.
MONTGOMERY & WEST POINT
RAILROAD COMPANY.
COLUMBUS, August 27,1864.
I IN and after August 27th. the Passenger Train on
U the Montgomery and West Point Railroad will
Leave Montgomery at 8:00 a. m.
Leave West Point at 7:10 a.m.
Arrive at Ooluinbus at -5:32 p. m.
Leave Columbus at 5:o0 a. m.
Arrive at Montgomery at 3:00 p. m.
Arrive at West Potnt at 4130 p. m.
Freight Train leaves Columbus at 8:40 a m.
Arrives ....at 8:27 p m
D. H. CRAM, Sup’t & Eng.
ag271864—ts
MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
Gibard, Ala., Oct 7, 1864.
ON and after 10th inst. Trains on this Road will
Run Daily (Sunday excepted,) as follows:
Passenger Train.
Leave Girard at 1 30 p^m.
Arrive in Union Springs 6 00
Leave Union Springs ..5
Arrive in Girard at 10 00
Freight Train.
Leave Girard at 4 00 a', m.
Arrive in Girard at 6 00 p. m.
B. E. WELLS,
ag lg t f Eng. & Sup’t.
Regular Liue of Steamers ou the
Chattahoochee River.
Columbus, Ga., Jan. 9th.
THE Steamer Jackson, Daniel Fry, Master, wil
I leave Columbus, until further notice, every Sun
day ati9 a. m. Returning leaves Chattahoochee every
Tuesday at 2 p. m.
The Steamer Indian, C. D. Fry Master, leaves
Columbus every Tuesday morning at 9 a. m. Re
turning. leaves Chattahoochee every Thursday at
2 A. M.
The Steamer Mist, A. Fry Master, leaves Colum
bus every Friday at9A. m. Returning leavesChat
tahooche every Sunday at 12 m.
jan 10 2m _____
For Exchange or Sale.
1 T the office of the "Southern Xron AV ork s’’4r“®^ r
A the new bridge, the Allowing articles of
ware, which we will exchange for Pork, Bacon,
Lard, Wheat, Flour. Fodder, or any other article,
es P<oviiions or Confederate currency, viz:
Bar and Hoop Iron, of all sizes, suitable for plan-
Ca Sugar MUls and Kettles, of .all sizes, from 30 to
120 gallons,
Pots, Ovens and Skillets,
Fry Pans and Andirons,
Club and Broad Axes,
Shovels and Spades, ,
Trace Chaines and Plough Moulds. w k
j&g~- Orders for Castings and Machine worn
Pl &n eXCCUted - JOHN D. GRAY & CO.
House for Sale in Wynton.
residence adjoining Mr. Winter. The
I U V*» * Q : ~<a 20 acres, ana ifi one of the
_L lot. contain- aiiiiurbs The house has
healthiest lo c%^ n Carriage House.
MiUs.
Sun copy seven times.
For Sale.
ODA Acres of Pine Land.eight'miles below Auburn
260 on the road to Society Hill. Seventy acres
open land. Common improvements. Possession
81 fe e b22 D tf ICdiately ' CheaP WM. F. SAMFORD.
~ WAATEG!
r AAA LBS. Os TALLOW, for which a liberal price
will be paid. DILLARD.
g p7 t s ' Major and Q.M.
VOL XII. 1
SPECIAL NOTICES
Notice!
Office Medical Director of Hospitals, )
Columbus, Ga., Feb. 15, 1865. j
The followin'? named soldiers detailed for 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
iu 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. 11. H. Phelps, Enrolled Conscript,lSumter Hos
pital, Andersonville, Ga, Counties, Muscogee, Ga.
G. 11. Perdue, private Cos. C, 37th Ga. Keg., 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, Troup jand Meri
wether, Ga.
B. N. Grehan, 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, Ga,
S. H. STOUT,
feb!7-7t ' Medical Director.
Headquarters, Gov. Works, (Ord.) 1
Columbus, Ga., Feb. 17,1865./
Special Orders, No. 12-
*******
11. Mr. J. H. McLean, is hereby appointed
Special Agent for the collection of small arms and
accoutrements, belonging to the Government in this
District.
He will call at every house and make inquiries,
and the citizens are most earnestly and respectfully
called upon to give him ail the assistance in their
power, and to give up all public arms, &c., they
may have in their possession.
They are needed in the field. It cannot be neces
sary to add more to get the aid of all interested in
the success of our cause.
# * *****
By command
M. H. WRIGHT,
feb 18 lw _ Col. Commanding.
To Retired Soldiers !
Headquarters Post, )
Columbus, Ga-, Feb. 13th, 1865. J
Special Orders, 1
No. 36. j
******
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’clook, a.
m., to these Headquarters, for muster.
* *****
By command,
LEON VON ZINKEN,
Col. Commanding Post.
Wm. Q. Moses,
Lieut, and Asst. Post Inspector.
febl4-td
Country papers near this Post please copy
to the 25th inst., and send bill to these Headquar
ters.
Marshall Hospital, )
Columbus, Ga., Feb. 13, 1865. J
Books Wanted !
I respectfully solicit additional contributions of
Books, Periodicals, <feo., 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 the
office of the Sen. Surgeon of Post, Pease’s Book
Store or at this Hopital, will be most thankfully
received and properly accounted for.
T. A- MEANS,
feb 13 Surg. in Charge,
Owing to the increased price of Provisions, La
bor and other expenses, the Steamboats on the
Chattahoochee River have been compelled to ad
vance their prices for freight and passage to'the fol
lowing rates:
Passage from Columbus to Chattahoochee $75 00
From Chattahoochee to Columbus SIOO 00
Intermediate landings in proportion.
Freights to any point on Chattahoochee River $4 00
per hundred. Measurement Freight $1 25 per cubic
Capt. H. WINGATE, Shamrock.
Capt. DAN FRY, Jackson.
Capt. ABE FRY, Indian.
Capt. JOHN COUCH, Mist-
Capt.A. 0. BLACKMAR.MunnerIyn.
feb7—tf _ _ _
CITY FOUNDRY!
SUGAR MILLS AND KETTLES !
WE HAVE OF HAND
SugaT mils and Kettles,
holding 20,35, 40. 60, 80 and 130 gallons, which we
will exchange for Provisions or any kind or country
Produce or money on very liberal terms. Orders
oiicited. PORTER, McILHENNY & CO.
Columbus, Jan. 20, ts
FOR SALE 2
WAGON HARNESS, COLLARS, HAMES, Ac.
“m" soUS ° f BD sherman I co ; ,
feb 41m Masonic Hall, upstairs.
Wanted,
T7OR the State of Louisiana TEN MOULDERS.—
I 1 Wages liberal. Transportation furnished. Ap
pi, to Maj. R. S. H»rd«g.|f S&SHER.
feb 12 ts Comissioner for Louisiana.
Strayed or Stolen.
ANE large cream colored mare MULE and one
U medium'sized iron gray mare MU LE, irom my
wagon near the city magazine. A liberal reward
for their recovery, or information so that I can get
them, will be paid by J. J. McCook, next door to
th f e b™° rtatioQ ° ffiCe ' J- J. McCOOK.
Hegroes to Hire.
mO HIRE, ten young Negro MEN, also a good
I (took and Washer. Affto to vw)LrO LK.
j,„ 17tf_
i>F. R. SOBLE,
.DZEOSTTIST,
A T Pemberton A Carter’s old stand, back room of
A Smith’s Jewelry Store, where he can be found
all hours. |oc
NOTIOE.
O’™ l Q " i!, L F v“2UB64.}
i LL persons having demands against the estate of
A Daniel Grant, deceased, are hereby requested to
resent them to the Grant q RAN x.
gun copy and send bill to office Grant Factory.
To Printers !
WE offer for sale a complete BOOK BINDERY,
(except Ruling Machine,) two hand PRESSES,
and about ,
1,000 Pounds of Type Metal.
nov2l-tf
OSAABIRGS
TO EXCHANGE FOR
ground peas,
At the GRANT FACTORY.
dec 17 ts _____ ——
liTftticeto Debtors and Creditors
PERSONS having to^resea^them
will make immediate aNIEL FRY.
, Adm'r.
feb 21 w4od
COLUMBUS, ga., SATURDAY, FEB. 25. 1865.
DAILY TIMES.
KIBMMI EDITION. ~
FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24, 1865.
The constitutional amendment passed by
the Northern Congress has been ratified by
both branches of the Western Virginia Legis
lature, by the New York Legislature, by the
Massachusetts Legislature, and by the Mary
land Legislature. The Delaware Legislature,
as we are advised by telegraph, has rejected
it, and there is reason to believe that it will
also be rejected by the New Jersey Legislature.
In all the other States cow within the Yan
kee lines, except, perhaps., Kentucky, the
amendment will probably be ratified.
Ex Governor Morhhhad. —Ex-Governor
Morehead, of Kentucky, was in Houston, Tex
as, on the Ist of January. The Telegraph
says he appears in good health, having spent
the last three months almost constantly in
travel and camping out. Few men have lost
more by thi3 war than he. From affluance
he has been reduced almost to poverty. His
plantation, one of the finest in Kentucky, and
200 hands, were taken by the enemy in 1862,
he, himself, burning 1,300 bales of cotton to
keep it eut of their hands. His confidence in
the justice and ultimate success of our cause,
is as strong as ever. And to listen to hi3
conversation i3 an antidote to the nonsense of
at least forty croakers.
No Recognition. —A writer to the Mississipoi
an, in’a letter dated Richmond, Fob. |sth, after
referring to the return of our peace commissioners
the previous day, and the effect the report they
made had at the capital, goes oa to say : “In this
connection, I will refer to a matter which was
being very generally discussed when I left §Mis
sisaippi, and which maay yet believe to hare some
foundation in fact. I allude to thß rumor tha
Franco, England and Spain had proposed to rec
ognize the independence es the Confederacy, pro
vided she would agree to the gradual emancipa
tion of slavery. Now, I am authorized and re
quested ffiy the very highest authority to say that
no such proposition has ever] been submitted, di
rectly or indirectly, to the authorities at Rich
mond. The discussion es the subject is, therefore,
premature, unwise, unbecoming, demoralizing.—
Neither has any intimation been received here
from foreign powers that we were to be recognized
after the 4th of March. I have taken some pains
to inform myself on these points, and have given
to your leaders the true state of the case.
Sherman in a Hurry.
It seems that Sherman is pressing forward with
all power. He is not going leisurely, as he
said he did through Georgia. He is hurry
ing to reach Grant and crush Lee at a blow,
before any help can reach him. This is the
object.
From Columbia to Richmond is some three
hundred and seventy miles by the way of the
railroad, on the upper route, and about the same
to Petersburg. It is ninety-six miles from Co
lumbia to Charlotte; from thence to Salisbury is
forty three miles, and rrom thence to Greensboro
is fifty miles; from thence to Danville, forty
miles ; from thence to Burksville is eighty seven
miles, and from thence to Richmond fifty three
miles. Burksville is the point where the Rich
mond and Danville road crosses the Southside
road, which runs from Petersburg, on the
southside of the James river, to Lynchburg,
and is forty two miles to the west from Peters
burg.
Allowing Sherman twenty miles a day, which
is more than he can make, it will require
eighteen days for him to travel from Columbia
to Petersburg; and if we allow fifteen miles
a day, it will require twenty four or twenty five
days.
This move of Sherman i3 daring. It greatly
exposes him to capture if the troops in his
rear can be pushed after him as fast as they
should.
But of course, Lee has been looking out for
this movement and is ready to meet it. He
will have Sherman’s march impeded and ha
rassed, which of course will make the trip much
longer.
A great* deal depends on our pushing our forces
from Charleston and Augusta, by Wilmington,
Goldsboro, Raleigh, and to Greensboro, and there
meeting Sherman with what other reinforcements
Lee can concentrate at that, or some other interior
point, wherever it may be thought best to
fight him.
It is evident he is again traveling without sup
plies of provisions or ammunition ; and a small
amount of fighting, assisted by Hampton’s cavalry
force, would put Sherman up the spout. — Southern
Confederacy.
What the New York Times Thinks.—The
New York Times warns its readers not to be
sanguine of peace. Peace, it thinks, may
come some day. It refers to the signs of the
times and says:
But they are not necessarily tokens of its
speedy advent. A powerful army, hardened
in a hundred battles and numbering probably
j over 60,000 men, still holds Richmond and
defies the utmost power of the Union. It is
commanded by two men of great determina-
I tion of character, of intense pride, and re
markable ability—Lee and Davis. We have
no reason to suppose these two leaders of dif
ferent purpose, or with any less firm resolve
than ever, to fight out the war to the end.
He then goes on to draw a sombre picture
of President Davis and General Lee, looking
forward to what it calls the inevitable, and
then draws another picture not quite so con
soling to the nerves of Pennsylvania Dutch
men:
But they are both men whom terrors of im
agination do not affright. They hold the ar»
my absolutely in hand, and probably will to
the last. They know that even in the appar
ently final blow, war may offer its lucky dice.
They understand the uncertainty of war, and
have the power and the daring to make the
most of them. Before they yield, or offer
peace on the condition of reconstruction, or
j any other condition except absolute indepen
i dence, there will be a battle on the James, of
the most gigantic character, or there will be
! a last frantic and desperate rush at the upper
Potomac and the fertile fields and rich cities
| of the North, with the gambler's hope of some
( thing lucky turning up, or with the proud re-*
solve that the Confederacy, if perish it must,
shall come to its end on the blackehed soils
of its enemies.
In view of the tremendous labors of the
Irmy of Northern Virginia, it is not disposed
to make light of that formidable body of men,
and drops the usual Yankee slang for a mo
ment to declare its impressions of the heroes
es Fredericksburg, the Chickahominy, and of
Spottsylvaaia Court House:
, The army is a thoroughly military body,
under excellent discipline, and has thrown all
its fortunes into the struggle. The memories
j of four years of battles, of victories anu of
disasters, will keep it true for much time yet
to its evil cause. Many of its officers will,
like their general, choose the last struggle,
rather than submission.
THE CRISIS.
GREAT OUT-POURING OF THE CITIZENS OF RICH
MOND-PATRIOTIC SPEECH OF PRESIDENT DA
VIS.
At the great popular meeting in Richmond,
on the 6th inst., called by the Governor of
Virginia immediately after the return of our
Peace Commissioners, the prominent event of
the evening was the speech of President Da-
I vis, which the Sentinel reports as follows :
SPEECH OF PRESIDENT DAVIS.
His Excellency, the President of the Confe
derate States, being on the stand, was loudly
called for, and went to the front. His appear
ance was the signal for prolonged and enthu
siastic cheering. Round after round of cheers
went up from all parts of the building, and
every vocal energy of the vast assembly seem
ed taxed to its utmost in swelling the tremen
dous acclamations. The President, meantime,
gracefully bowed his thanks to the different
parts of the audience; and after the inspiring
outburst of sympathy and enthusiasm had at
length subsided, he proceeded to address the
assembly. We pretend to no more than to
give the substance of some es his remarks:
The President said that if he were there to
assist in celebrating some great and decisive
victory to our arms, or in hailing the estab
lishment of peace, he should have been most
happy. But, in times like those which are
now upon us—when dangers confront us and
our path is beside the leeshore and the break
ers—to witness the manifestation of such a
spirit on the part of his countrymen as was
there displayed, was more than happiness—it
was ecstatic joy! He had always looked with
pride upon 1 his countrymen. He had rejoiced
in their patriotism and their courage. But he
was prouder still when he contemplated the
fortitude which plucks flowers from reverses,
and beats high with hope in the presence of
fresh calls upon its courage and endurance.
The President said it was meet that the spi
rit which inspired this meeting should find its
first utterance in Richmond. Here every day
were heard the cannons of the enemy. Innu
merable hillocks in the neighboring cemeter
ies, tell of the brave men from every State in
the Confederacy who have given their lives
for their country. On one of the hills of this
city stands that sacred building in which Pat
rick Henry and his compatriots pledged life
for liberty. Here too, was the capitol of the
Confederacy, and of that proud old State,
which had been truly termed the “ Mother of
Statesmen.” If the spirit which has been
here indicated shall meet with a general re*
sponse, and prove to be the universal senti
ment of the land, of which he did not doubt,
then, indeed, would he feel that we are on the
very verge of success. [Loud cheers.] We
should not again be insulted by such terms of
peace as the arrogance of the enemy has late
ly proposed; but ere many months had elaps
ed, our successes would cause them to feel
that when talking to us they were talking to
their masters. [Great applause.]
Does any one (he inquired) who has seen
the Confederate soldiers, believe they are will
ing to fail ? If so, the suspicion is most un
just ! Go to our guarded lines ;go where our
pickets hold their dangerous watch, and to'the
posts where our sentinels tread their weary
rouuds, and you will find in none of those the
place for grumblings and complaints. The
resolutions of our soldiers exclaim, with Pat
rick Henry, “Victory or death !” It is in the
crowded mart, where these are found whose
pockets are stuffed with ill-gotten gains, that
you find the persons who grumble and com
plain. [Applause.] The progress of events
had, however, brought a pressure eyen upon
these which would urge them to their duty.
Their treasure is in danger, and their only
security for it is in performing their duty to
their country.
The time for argument, said the President, is
passed. The duty that remains is to stand to our
arms. He had just made an effort to secure peace,
as he had done several times before. He had
done it in the cause of humanity and the country.
At the very organization of our Government, at
Montgomery, his first care was to send commis
sioners to Washington. They were rejected. At
a later period he had requested the second officer
under the government (Vice President Stephens)
to ask a conference, the avowed object being to
make arrangements for the proper treatment and
exchange of prisoners, but in addition to, and
behind that, it was the object to institute, if- possi
ble, negotiations for peace. But our Vice Presi
dent was refused an audience ; not even allowed
to approach the throne. Since that time he had
in various ways, and on every proper occasion,
proclaimed the desire of this country for peace,
and his own anxiety to secure it, but until lately,
no opening had presented for an advance toward
negotiation. This recent opportunity he had em
braced. He did it in hope that some plan of ac
commodation might be agreed upon. » He would
be less than man if he had not felt an earnest
sire, a yearning anxiety, to relieve the country
from the sufferings of the war, and to send our
soldiers to their homes. Anything honorable,
and recognizing our independence as a basis,
would have been gladly acceded to. The person
did not know him who mightjsuppose that under
any circumstances, he would consent to reconstruct
the late Union.
We had now learned the terms on which the
enemy are willing to accord peace. We are re
quired to make an unconditional surrender. We
are not ever allowed to go back to them as we
came out, but are required to take just what a
conqueror may cheese te give to the conquered.
Man proposes, but God disposes. Relying on
the courage and devotion of his countrymen, and
reverently appealing to Heaven for its aid to our
cause, the President said his confidence was firm,
that God would abase the arrogance of eur ene
mies, and crown our exertions with triumph.
President Lincoln had, indeed, promised, that
in the enforcement of his laws for the confiscation
of our property and the hanging of eur officers,
his policy would be “liberal." [Laughter.] —
Beecher in a late sermon at Washington has pic
tured a long line of rebels on their s way to the
gallows : and President Lincoln’s heart had per
haps softened at the length of the procession. The
leaders whom they propose to hang are your ser
vants, and they are not worthy to be your servants,
the President said, unless they were willing to bo
sacrificed in your cause, even unto death. [Ap
plause.]
If the power of the enemy were ten times great
er, and ours ten times less than it is, there are
still seme rights of which they could not dispos
sess us; the right to maintain our personal honor,
and the right to fill an honorable grave. fLond
applause.] If faithful to the end; we shall stand
proud among the proudest of earth. Never before
have any people remained so closely united, in so
long a war. Never before have a country’s best
citizens composed its armies. Our revolutionary
forefathers were not united in a concord so per
fect as ours—though it is true they had ie3S
pressure upon them, the British rulers being more
humane than those of our present enemies,
and their generals belonging to a school that roc
egnized the amenities of war.
History affords no parallel, the President contin
ued te the struggle which oureountry is making
—to th# cheerfulness with which our people have
borne sacrifices, and the eeurage with which oar
armies have marched to the harvest es death. It
was this magnanimous spirit which sustained
him in the confidence that we should triumph in
the end. We haTe been chastened, and may he
again. Let us profit by the lesson reverses are
designed to teach, that we are aot to servo a friend
1 merely because he is such, or strike an enemy
when wo might serve the country.
The President here said that his failing strength
admonished him to close his remarks ; bflt he
yielded to loud requests to “go on.” We must, he
said, lock shields together and go forward to save
eur country, or sink together to honorable graves.
[Loud applause.] He was not of those who had
expected jno discord and no parties," but if our
disagreements result from passion wo must exer
cise it, and make the good of our country our sole
aim. If we will all de onr duty, we sh&ll reap a
brilliant reward. If the absentees, from our ar
mies will return, and) if the local assistance be
rendered which may be.readily afforded, the noble
Army of Northorn Virgiuia will read Gen. Grant
a yet severer lesson than it taught him from the
Rapidan to the James; while the gallant Beaure
gard will cause Sherman’s march across Georgia
to be his last.
We had, said the President, in the conduct of
the enemy wherever they had gained temporary
rule over tha people, the signs of what they would
do in case of our subjugation. Thus warned we
wore farowarned. Happy in such a case would
be those who had fallen in the fight—the misera
ble would be tha survivors.
In conclusion, the Presidont said, he hadgrati
fying proofs of the spirit which animated the peo
ple whom he addressed. He had seen even the
old men upon duty, careless alike of the piercing
blast and whistling bullet, and your women have
declared that they will fight the battle if you
should recoil! God bless your proud spirit and
manly fortitude! History will delight to dwell
upon your praise !
The law, and the officers of the law, could not
accomplish everything; there was much that
could be effected only by a sound public opinion.
Public opinion must make it a shame and dis
grace for a man to skulk from his duty, or to
enquire not what he is able to do, but what the
law will make him do ! Our women must take
broomstioks and drive absentees and stragglers
to their duty. (Loud Cheers.) We have ®ne
cause to sustain, one country to defend. He who
falls on the soil es Louisiana, or sheds his blood
on the foil of North Carolina or Virginia, is alike
an honored martyr. The inquiry among us must
be, not what service we can escape, but instead of
that a generous rivalry among citizens and States
which shall do most, and give most to the cause
[Leud applause.]
The President resumed his seat amid loud and
enthusiastic cheering.
m i- m* ■—
[Special Correspondence of the Telegraph &
Confederate.]
Letter from Augusta.
Augusta, Feb. 21st, 1865.
The military situation in South Carolina is
quite complicated and intensely interesting.
Yesterday there Was a rumor that Charleston
had fallen, and that Columbia was probably
in the enemy’s hands. To-day, the fall of the
grand eld “ city by the sea ” has been confirm*
ed. Whilst we may beth feel and give vent
to an irrepressible feeling of sadness at the
termination of the siege, yet we cannot help
the thought that she died game, and fought
the enemy for six hundred days with a hero
ism that will challenge the admiration of men
as long as chivalry lives and honor has an
abiding place on the earth. Nor has the foe
much to boast of—for he has lost more lives
in its capture than its population amounts to,
and expended more money in its reduction
than its houses and wharves cost. We are
confident that, before it was evacuated, the
forts in the harbor were blown up, and their
guns spiked and thrown into the sea ; that no
stores were captured ; that all our vesssels
were burned ; that the cotton there was burn
ed ; that all the better portion ot the popula
tion had removed ; and that, like the British
and French at Sebastopol, they captured noth
ing but “ blood stained ruins. ”
There is some doubt upon my mind about
the capture of Columbia. Gentlemen who left
that vicinity last Wednesday and Thursday
report that the enemy were on the south side
of the Congaree in considerable force, and that
they could plainly hear the roar of cannon
and rattle of musketry. The heroic Wade
Hampton was in immediate command, but
Beauregard was on the ground. Whilst they
consider it probable that the city will fall, it
is certain that it had not at that time. The
force of the enemy operating there was be
lieved to be wholly composed of cavalry and
artillery.
The last definite information we had from
Sherman’s main body of infantry wa3, that it
was at Orangeburg. Whether he will fall
back to Charleston, or go forward to Colum
bia and Charlotte, and from thence to Virgin
ia, or turn off in the direction of Wilmington,
our Generals themselves do not appear to
know. But one thing appears to be certain,
that the greater portion of South Carolina is
inevitably doomed to be overrun and more
completely devastated than any portion of our
unhappy country has ever yet known, seen or
felt.
I deeply regret to inform you that demorali
zation is wide-spread among the troops and
the people of this department. As to where
the main body (if there is any) of our army
is, I cannot tell you. It seems that they are
posted and marching around, without any in
tention or prospect of offering seriou3 resis
tance to the foe. This more particularly ap
plies to the Army of Tennessee. There is
just one man who can rally these men once
again—and that man is General Johnston.—
They unanimously call for his re-appoint
ment, and, whilst I believe that Beauregard
could lead th.em with more skill, still the
President ought to re-instate Johnston for the
good of the cause.
The extraordinary message of Gov. Brown
was published here in the Constitutionalist
Sunday morning. And it is justly regarded
as the most abominable document that has
been written or spoken since the beginning
of the war. I was glad to hear some of his
former friends denounce it in unmeasured
terms. That message will injure the Confed
eracy more than the loss of five pitched battles
could do.
It would be useless for me to deny the fact
that our affairs here are in a most deplorable
condition ; but still I believe there will be a
re-action ; and that our army will soon again
rally around their standards, and drive the
enemy from the country. We have more
men in the department than the Yankees, and
it is only necessary to re-organize them in
order to assure victory. Stanhope.
Man lay in the scale of Justice weighed
down by the Law. Mercy pleaded for him,
but Justice held a scroll on which was the
record of his transgressions, and as the custo
dian of her master’s honor, she could not suf
fer him to be reclaimed from hi3 fallen condi
tion till sin was cancelled. Mercy bathed him
with her tears, but the record refused to be
blotted out. She threw into the scale all the
good that he had done during his life, yet the
beam refused to turn. Mercy again pleaded
with streaming eyes, but Justice remained
stern. Bui there came One more powerful
than Justice or Mercy. It was Love. Crowned
with thorns which pricked great crimson
drops from his forehead, he labored up the hill
beneath" His heavy load. He suffered the rug
ged nails to pierce His feet and hands, tne
cruel soear to be thrust into His side, and as
the torrent gushed from Hi3 wounds, a aing.e
drop fell into the scale and the Law was
weighed down, and Man rose triumphant and
laid° hold of the pearly gates. Then the
scrall in Justice’s hand became white as snow,
and her stern brow relaxed.
\_Augutta Register.
/ SIX DOLLARS
l PER MOUTH
Peace.
From Harper’s Magaziae the following verses
havo found their way to Savannah. They are
quite pretty:
Oh that the belie in all th.'?e silent spires
Would clash their clangor on the sleeping air,
Ring their wild music out with throbbing choirs,
RiDg peace in everywhere!
Oh ! that this wave of sorrow surging o’er
The red, red land would wash away its stain—
Drown out the angry fire from shore to shore,
And give it peaoe again !
On last year’s blossoming graves, with summer
oalia,
Loud in his happy tangle hums the boo;
Nature forgets her hurt, and finds her balm—
Alas ! and why not we !
Spirit of God ! that moved upon the face
Os the waters, and bid ancient chaos cease,
Shine, thine again o’er this tumultuous space.
Thou that art Prince of Peace!
Eloquent Letter from Gen. J. B. Gordon.
Wm. P. Beasly furnishes the LaQrange Re
porter with the following extract from a pri
vate letter received a few days since from the
gallant Major Gen. J. B. Gordon, who is now
in command of the 2d corps of General Lee s
army, near Petersburg, Va. :
You draw, certainly, a very discouraging
picture of the state of feeling in some portions
l of Georgia. Already have I been made to
blush for the conduct of some of the people
of my native State. What do they promise
themselves? Can they rely on Yankee prom
ises ? Can they forget our suffering and the
blood of our brave boys? Could we endure
the taunts and jeers of Yankee masters? No,
never ! My doctrine is that ice can yet win if
ive will. You must rally the people. Let not
those who are out of danger forsake the cause
while the men who endure the hardships and
meet the dangers are willing still to fight and
still endure.
Are we to be abandoned by the home peo
ple ? Shame on them, to give place to such
a thought for a moment! Is Georgia's fair
fame and glory—her ancient prestige—made
more brilliant by the courage and constancy
of her sons in this war —to be tarnished now
by the untimely timidity of some of her peo
ple ? At ail hazards, and at whatever cost,
we must go through now. We must be a free
and an independent people, or we are ruined
forever. To fail now, is to forfeit all our
rights and all our honor, and to seoure, as we
will deserve, the contempt of mankind.
Suppose the Yankees offer us terms, we
know that the next Congress would deprive
us of the very rights this one had guaranteed
to us. Who would legislate for us in the U.
S. Congress? Would any man who had any
self-respect represent us ? How could he sit
in his seat and listen to the lying abuse of his
section and his people, and of his dead sons
and brothers, by our Yankee conquerors ? /
cannot , 1 will not believe that proud old Geor
gia is ready to submit. Old Virginia is as
firm and defiant as ever. Her legislature is a
unit, and her people, though banished from
their homes, and their country made desolate,
will permit no delusive promise of a dishono
rable peace to entice, and no amount of disas
ter to drive them from an unflinching support
of our cause. Oh, shame! shame on the man
who would now strike handß with the mur
derers of his children!
We might make peace now, but it would De
with the loss of independence and honor.—
We can soon make peace and save both, if the
people are only true to themselves and to our
provisional government. One more year of
privation and endurance, and we shall, I be
lieve, be successful. All the efforts of the
Yankee governmeat for peaoe are prompted
by fear of their inability to carry on the war
much longer. We have now but to endure,
and all will be well. Encourage the people at
home The soldiers are all right. Tell my
friends and acquaintances at horns to cheer
up, to give moral a3 well a3 material support
to the army and government, and we shall yet
succeed.
For Chattahoochee.
The Steamer JACKSON, Fry, master, will leave
for the above and all intermediate landings,
Sunday morning, at 9 o’clock,
feb 24 td
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
Administrator’s .Sale,
ON THURSDAY, 9th at 11 o’clock
I will sell in front of the auction store of
Ellis, Livingston <k Ce.
The perishable property belonging to
the estate of L. C. Morton, dec’d. con
sisting of one Bureau, Bedstead, Ward
robe, Tables, Wash Stand, Chairs, Baths
ing Tubs, Water Buckets, Tin and Crock*
ery Ware, Fender, Shovel and Tongs,
fine Gold Watch, fine Rifle, Colt’s Revol
ver, Bed Clothing, Wearing Apparel,
Traveling Trunks, besides many other ar
tides of value too numerous to mention.
Sold by order of the Court of Ordinaiy
ol Muscogee county.
E. BARNARD,
feb 24 wtd $24 Adm’r.
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
WILL SELL on Tuesday, Feb. 28th. in
front of our store, at II o’clock,
2 Fine Marble Bed Billard TABLES.
feb 12 $24
FOUND.
A LARGE BRASS KEY. The owner can get it
by calling at THIS OFFICE,
feb 24 ts
5250 Reward.
The above reward for the delivery of a yellow,
heavy set BULL DOG, ear3 trimmed close, with a
crooked, deformed tail, about eighteen months oil:
or SIOO will be paid to any person giving informa
tion where he is. Address
GREER A MASTERSON.
Macon, Georgia.
Atlanta Intelligencer, Columbus Times and
Augusta Constitutionalist will copy three times and
send bills to this office.—You. Confederacy .
feb 24 3t
Jloney Lost.
BY THE undersigned, five Confederate biii3 of
FIVE HUNDRED dollars each, twenty-five
dollars in Old Issue and a four per cent Bond o?
one hundred dollars. The above was rolled up in a
portion of a large 3ize envelope. The finder will be
liberally rewarded b 7 leaving the above at this
office. JOHN H. WILLINK.
feb 23 3t*
i — —i — ..
To Rent,
A GOOD DWELLING HOUSE containing four
ii. good rooms, with all necessary out buildings and
a well of good water. The house is situated on
Oglethorpe street in the upper part of the city.—
Possession can be given by the first of March. Ap
ply at No. 89 Broad street.
feb 23 ts
SIOO Reward.
DUNAWAY from Mr. J. D. Gray’s shop, about
the 18th of January, my boy TOM, 19 years old,
five feet seven inchvs high, no particular mark re
collected, except a soar through his left eye brow.
The above reward will be paid for his delivery to
Mr. Gray or myself. P. J. PHILLIPS.
feb £3 4t
Rosette, Lawhon & Cos.,
OFFER AT PRIVATE SALE
One Copper Boiler, 8 feet long.
Five or six hundred pounds Lead Pipe
8 or 10 Large Brass Bib & Stop Cocks.
jen 18 ts
L#st or Mislaid.
I?OUR SHARES of the G. 4 A. S. S. Cos.. No
" 160, in f.-,t ol Mrs. J. L. Wil op.
nov 30 ts D. A J. J. GRANT.