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PAIL Y TIMES.
J. W. W4RRG\ ? , - - - Editor.
COLUMBUS:
Saturday Morning, February 25,1865.
From Sooth Carolina.
From a gentleman who has just arrived in
this citj from Winnsboro, S; C., the Chroni
cle A Sentinel of the 22d, learns the annexed
news : He left that place on Wednesday mor
ning, Feb. 15. He rode across the country
to Alston in charge of fifteen mail bags full
of letters and papers from Richmond. When
he arrived at Alston he wa« directed to put
them in a little house—where he left them.
Thiswanhc last he saw of the mail, and if
the enemy were successful in their movement
on the place, we do not think we shall have
the pleasure of gerting a look at it.
It is also stated by parties just from beyond
Columbia that, the bridge and trestle work
over the Oongaree this side of Kingsville had
beep, burned. 1
Lt i§ S*'/a th a r nearly all of the stores bad
been removed from Columbia.
The Treasury Department, with its employ
ees, had been sent to Charlotte, according to
one report; according to another, it has been
sent to Greenville.
Before the road was cut beyond Columbia,
a train left the city every hour for Nor*h Car- j
ol ina.
It is said that our troops, fearful that Col- |
umbia could not be held, fired the cotton and
all public stores left in the city. But results
proved that Sherman did not intend to spend
much Lime in endeavoring to take the place,
for after sheiiing city the for awhile he passed
to the left.
A gentleman who left Ridgeville ou Friday,
says that it was openly stated that Charleston
was to be evacuated that night.
It is said that Sherman has destroyed the
bridge over the Wateree.
A gentleman who left Charleston 3ays that
the order to evacuate the place was given on
Tuesday.
A negro boy who arrived in this city last
night had a pass given him on Friday mor
ning by an officer in that city. He states that
the city was to be given up that day. That
all our troops had left the place. The boy
walked the entire distance from Charleston
to Augusta. He saw no Yankees on the route
except at Midway. Here was a body of the
enemy, also some fortifications.
Tee Fall of Charleston. —The reports
which have been in circulation for some
days, involving the fall of Charleston, says the
Constitutionalist of the 21st, seem to be con
firmed by intelligence which reached us last
night. This is brought us by an intelligent
negro belonging to the corporation of the
South Carolina Railroad. He states that he
left Charleston on Sunday morning last, trav
eling on foot via Rogersville to Thompson’s
Turnout, and thence by Cars to this place.
At the time of his departure the enemy were
arriving and landing on the wharf. The roll
ing stock of the Carolina Road had been re
moved in the direction of Cheraw, and our
forces, having successfully city,
had retired to Summerville. At Lanson’s, a
point 17 miles this Bide of Charleston, the
enemy were reported entrenching.
Some days since a force landed at Ball’s
Bay, and it is feared that the Yankees have
ere this cut the North Eastern Railroad.
We give this intelligence for what it is
worth. It is all that we have from any source,
our military authorities being entirely in the
dark—quite as dark, in fact, as the complex
ion of our informant.
From Bklow.—A gentleman who has recently ar
rived from below states, says the Chronicle & Sen
nel of the 22d, that on Saturday, February 11, a
body of the enemy were about forty-five mile3 from
Augusta, on the South Carolina side of the river,—
They burned all the houses they found not occupied
by the owners themselves, and laid waste the ooun
try through which they passed.
The enemy were divided up into little squads, and
appeared to bo doing about as they pleased.
On Wednesday following the enemy moved off in
the direction of Barnwell Court H ouse.
It is not known how many troops wsre in the com"
mand.
Married, in a Federal Provost Marshal’s
office, in Baltimore recently, Colonel R. M.
Powell, of the sth Texas Cavalry, to Miss Lizzie
Grace, of that city. The gallant colonel was
wounded and captured at Gettysburg, and
kept in jail for a month or two by the Yan
kees, who supposed him to be General Long
street, whom he is said to resemble. He was
then sent to Johnson’s Island, where he has
been ever since, until bis exchange was effect
ed a few weeks ago. During his impris
onment, and while wounded, we understand,
he received kind attentions from Miss Grace,
which, naturally enough, led to their matri
monial engagement, and its romantic consum
mation, when on his way to be exchanged.
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Gone North —A New York paper mentions
that the wives of Gens. G. W. Smith and
Lovell, and the three sisters of Gen. Cheatham
had arrived in that city. The same journal
states that there are many relatives of Confed
erates notv in that city.
mam •
A mass meeting is represented by Northern pa
pers to have been held in Savannah, on the 20th of
January, to return thanks for the provisions sent 1
from New York and Boston. Mayor Arnold ad
dressed the meeting, beslavering the Yankee offi
cials with fulsome adulation- The New York and
Boston Supply Committees, also, spouted ad nau
seam. The resolutions adopted are as disgusting to
any man of the least patriotic instinct, as cringing,
spaniel-like servility, on the part of a once free peo
ple. can make them, *
A Sample op Savannah Rule. —We find in
the New York Commercial the following para
graph, which will show how delightful the Yan
kee rule in Savannah is becoming :
“A Savannah belle stepped off the sidewalk
the other day to avoid walking under the Ameri
can flag, which hung in front of an officer’s head
quarters. General Geary, military commandant
of the city, immediately gave orders to have her
promenade back and forth under the hateful sym
*** for an hour, as a warning for similar offend
ers.”
The Tribune’s Washington special says :
“ Notwithstanding the denial attributed to
Gen. Meade that h« has been removed from
the command of the Army of the Potomac, it is
now understood that the two armies of the
James and the Potcmac have been consolida
ted, and that Gen. Sheridan has been selected
to command them, and that another command
or new duties have been assigned to Gen.
Meade. The time has at last come to bring
about peace by hard lighting, with the odds in
our favor, and Sheridan is put into the north
Bide of the ring. Large bets are being made
here that he will knock Lee out of time in the
first round.
That ?anr ffQßdred Millions,
Toe Richmond Whig of the 3th instant,
says :
__ the report made to Congress ou the 7th
November, by the Secretary of the Treasury,
i the arrear of indebtedness wav estimated to
i have been $114,000,000 on the Ist of July,
, 1864, at the commencement of the half year.
| The close of that period, on the 31st Decem
; ber, exhibited, by the sum of the requisitiens
remaining unsatisfied, that the estimate re
ferred to was too Ic r . . .a; extent of $399,
682,292. The Secretary •> ’ - Treasury says
“the character of this debt is euch that the
I payment cannot be neglected, or even post
poned, without danger of seriously embarrass
ing the operations of the War Department.—
It is for supplies obtained in all parts of the
country, and delivered upon the credit and
good faith of the Government.” He adds :
“I have looked in vain for some source upon
which we might draw for these extraordinary
demands, in lieu of taxation ; no other alter
native presents itself.” “I propose, therefore,
that the required sum be chiefly derived from
taxation, that the present scheme of taxation
be adhered to, with the amendment recom
mended in my report of December 7th; and
that one hundred per cent be added to the
existing rate3, anc in the application thereof
to the tax in kind, that it be assessed upon
the Yalue ot the same, and be paid in Tieas
uiy notes.” “The additional revenue that
will be raised by this may be estimated !at
$360,000,000; leaving a deficiency to be ob
tained from other sources of $36,000,000. —
This amount may be raised from the value of
cotton.”
The Whig, in alluding to the minority re»
port of the Committee of Ways and Means,
says it3 main features are these ;
1. A tax of 3 percent on every species of
property at its present value in Confederate
Treasury notes, excoptcoin, foreign exchange
and bank notes.
2. A tax of ten per cent on the amount of
all coin, foreign exchange and bank notes,
payable in kind or in the coupons of the 6
per cent non-payable bonds hereafter to be
issued.
3. A tax of 10 per cent on all gross incomes
over S3OOO, including one-tenth of the gross
income of farmers, which last is to be paid in
kind.
The tax in kind is to be deducted from the
tax on property employed in agriculture, and
the tax on incomes, arising from property
taxed, is to be credited with the ad valorem
tax paid on such property.
The estimate is that thi3 bill will raise
$380,000,000 in money ; the tax in kind is
valued at $150,000,000, making an aggregate
of $530,000,000. It is further estimated that
the tax on coin, foreign exchange and bank
bills will enable the Government to dispoae
of $100,000,000 or $150,000,000 of its bonds
at' a premium of 100 per cent —thus realizing
from the sale of bonds from $200,000,000 to
$300,000,000.
This minority report was made by Mr. An
derson, of Georgia.
Mr. Russell, of Yirginia, proposed a substi
tute for both bills. His substitute has the
following points :
1. Anew currency based, not Ou the credit
of the Government, but, on cotten la hand and
the tax in kind. The amount of the new cur»
rency (called “revenue bills”) is not to exceed
$200,000,000. It ia to be redeemed in com
mutation of one half of the tax in kind and
in cotton at cents per pound—fifty cents
being suggested. It was estimated that under
the arrangements of the bill, and with a skill
ful management of the Treasury, the revenue
bills will circulate at about half the price of
specie, or two for one.
2. An income tax on the existing scale of
income taxes, but repealing the credit for the
property tax on the property from which
income is derived. This tax is to be paid in
Treasury notes ; but, after revenue bills get
into circulation, it may be paid in revenue
bills a“, a fraction of the amount payable in
Treasury notes —3ay one twentieth. The in
come taxes are estimated to produce $75,000,-
000 in Treasury notes.
3. A property tax of— per cent, in Treasu
ry notes or a fraction—say one twentieth —of
the amount if paid in revenue bills. The tax
in kind is to be credited against the property
tax on the whole plantation and all its slaves.
The property tax ia estimated to produce SBO,-
000,000 in Treasury notes.
4. The tax in kind to be doubled, but half
of it to be commutable at the option of the
tax payer, by paying four fifths of its apprais
ed value in revenue bills or times as
much in Treasury notes.
5. The Treasury notes to be exchangeable
at the Treasury for revenue bills, at the rate
of dollars of the former for one of the
latter—say 20 for one.
6. Treasury notes to be issued in sufficient
amount to pay off the present floating debt.
7. Property hereafter impressed to be paid
for at the usual market prices in revenue bills.
This provision, it' was insisted, would make
the whole scheme far less oppressive than the
existing system, or any other proposed, and
can only be adopted by making a better cur
rency, It was estimated that the scheme
would furnish the Government a revenue for
the present year of $250,000,000 or $300,000,-
000 in good currency, besides the present tax
in kind.
8. Three fourths of the cotton and tobacco
to be purchased or impressed, to be returned
in kind after the war, with an addition for
interest, or (at the option of the owner) to be
paid for at specie prices, in bonds bearing in
terest payable in specie.
ANOTHER.
Mr. Boyee gave notice of his intention to
move to recommit the bill and amendments to
the committee, with instructions to report a
bill providing that the taxes for the year 1865
shall, so far as the same may be payable in
Treasury notes, be payable exclusively in Trea
sury notes hereafter to be issued. That the
amount of such Treasury notes shall be limit
ed to double the amount of the taxes estima
ted for the year 1865. That the Treasury
notes now outstanding shall be fundable in 6
per cent, bonds. That a tax in kind be levied
on cottoD, tobacco and specie. That the ex
isting rate of taxation be so modified a3 to
enable the country to meet the taxes in the
improved currency.
Yankee War Programme.
The Army and contains a com
munication that points out what the writer sup
poses should be the programme of this spring cam
paign :
Gen. Sherman should leave six thousand men in
Savannah, and embark the remainder of his army,
bringing it to Virginia and landing on the north
bank of the James. Thomas should be directed to
establish a secondary base at Knoxville and march
on Lynchburg- Sheridan reconstruct the
Orange and Alexandria railroads to Gordonsville,
capture the latter place, and when these dispositions
are completed establish a secondary base at that
point. Sherman directing the movements of the
army on the James combined with his own troops
(this combination giving him an equal force or a
superiority, in point of numbers, to the army that
Lee would have available to act on the offensive)
should push out nearly, or quite, io Hanover Junc
tion, crossing the Chickahominy at a convenient
point and establish his connection with Sheridan
advancing from (rordonsville. Thomas a oving for
ward on Richmond, either taking or masking
Lynchburg, under the vast armies of Sherman and
Sheridan; whilst-the army of the Potomac should
demonstrate strongly agaigst the Danville road, and
even advance quite to it. Our combined cavalry
(constituting a force far outnumbering anything the
rebels could bring in the way of mounted men)
should be ordered to br"ak down bridges, destroy
railroads, etc., and execute generally the duty as
signed to that arm of the service, and the problem
is solved, tor, with all the communications de
stroyed, Richmond must fall, Thomas, Sheridan and
Sherman, with his two armies, would make a force
far beyond Lee to attack. The army of the Poto
mac, fortified near Burkviiie Junction, with ten
days rations, could not be operated against with
any hope of success. The instant Gen. Lee aban
doned his defensive position at Richmond, the alter
native to an unconditional surrender, he would be
lost. In the open field, with the vast armies against
him, with our large cavalry commands harrassing
him in all directions, his army w >uld disappear from
the face of the earth. The rebellion would be
; crushed at a blow, peace would follow as “day the
1 night.” and prosperity would once again on
j our country.
A number of boys were trifling with .‘a bombshell
at Uniontown, Alabama, on Sunday last, when it
exploded, killing the son of a Mr. Martin, and
woundinr two other white boy< and three negroes.
One of the negroes it is thought will die.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
Macon, 6a., Feb. 23, 1364.
SENATE.
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L The Senate met at 10 o’clock, a. m., Hoa.
i Theodore L. Guerry, Speaker pro tem , in the
chair.
Prayer by Rev. Mr. Willi*.
On motion of Mr. Blackwell, a seat on the
floor was tendered to Hon. W. H Stiles and
Hon. I. L. Harris, during their stay in the city.
Mr. Cutchen introduced a bill "to authorize
Judges of the Superior Courts of this State
to hold sessions at other places than the coun
ty seat.
Alto, a bill to authorise Judges of the Su
perior Courts to coavene special sessions for
jail delivery, and the trial of criminal cases.
The Senate took up the bill to exempt school
teachers from militia service in certain cases.
The bill was laid upon the table for the pres
ent.
Mr. McDonald introduced a bill for the re
lief of Alex. W. Wiley, of Berrien county.
Also, *a bill to kdd Echols county to tbe Ist
Congressional district.
Mr. Walker introduced a resolution-requir
ing the Commissary General of the State to
furnish to tbe county of Walton the quantity
of salt to which it is entitled by law.
Adjourned till 3 o'clock.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The House vagi at 10 o’clock, a. m., and was
opened with prayer by Rev. Mr. Maason.
The question of rebuilding the penitentiary
was referred to a select committee.
The House took up the resolutions of the
Senate adverse to the calling of a State Con
vention.
Mr. Stephens, of Hancock, offered as a sub
stitute to those resolutions, that the question
of a convention be referred to the people.
Mr. Warren, of Lee, spoke in opposition to
the substitute. He said :
At a time when the safety, happiness and
perpetuity of the Government is imminently
involved, when the ship of State is careening
upon the giddy verge of destructive vortex,
the Legislature is called on to impeach the
President of the Confederacy—to impeach
him not by the constitutional process, but by
a counter-revolution. Is the President a Ca
taline, attempting to overthrow the liberties
of his country, that articles of impeachment
should be thus informally delivered ? Gov.
Brown’s message states that the President
could be stripped of his military power with
out a counter-revolution. Stripping him thus
! is counter-revolution. The body politic is like
the human body The Legislative branch re
presents the will; the Judiciary the judgment,
and the Executive the body of power by which
the will and judgment act. A revolution is a
change in the form of Government. Could
any part of the body be lopped off without a
change in the form ? But why change the
form ? Because, as the Governor stated, the
finances were mismanaged; because seoret
sessions were wrong, and the Conscript law
was unconstitutional. The President didn’t
hold secret sessions, pass the Conscript law,
nor control the finances.
Why was it, he asked, that the Governor, whese
eyes were seared and whose teeth were made to
chatter at the spectre of usurpation, should in
that message (not recommend what Congress
ought to do,) but state positively what do,
and that too in connection with the argument in
which he animadverts so severely on President
Davis against usurpation ? Mr. W. admitted, as
Governor Brown stated, that President Davis had
committed “errors—to err is human.” Washing
ton lost the Germantown battle by a great error.
But was Gov. Brown a proper judge of Davis’ ac
tions? What clause of the Constitution gave him
that power ? Governor Brown might be a better
military man than President Davis, but unless
he had facilities for knowing the motives of Da
vis’ actions, he could not judge of them uader
standingly. Did Governor Brown propose to
get more men in the field by stripping Davis of
his Samson loeks ? Had he given any intima
tion of the policy he would have Davis' successor
pursue? Mr. W. said, we are told that this Con
vention will have a tendency to harmonize the
people. How harmonize ? By producing divis
ion and discord ? Since the return of the Corns
missioners, he knew of no want of harmony.—
But suppose Georgia holds a Convention, and
Alabama refuses to hold one—will that be har
monizing ? A Babel harmony would that be in
deed.
Mr. W. alluded to the Convention held in the
Ist District—presumed the gentlemen composing
that Convention wore honest and patriotic, but
deluded and in error, but why should they call for
a Convention upon the ground that their country
was exposed where other exposed sections were not
thus calling. He dwelt at soma length upon the
resolutions, showing their inconsistency, Ac., Ac.
Mr. in a lengthy reply. He
said he was no reconstructionist, had no desire to
stop the progress of the revolution, but to advance
it; no desire to produce distractions among the
people, but harmony. The people who desired a
convention were actuated by the desire to recon
cile existing differences among the people. Mr.
Stephens reviewed the military policy of the
President contending that our cause was the most
hopeless, or our military policy had been tbe
worst.
Mr. Stephens had not closed when a motion to
adjourn was made and carried, that the House
adjourn till 3 o’clock this afternoon.
SENATE—AFTERNOON SESSION.
Mr. Pottle’s resolution, pledging Georgia to the
prosecution of the war until independence is
achieved was taken up as the special order.
Mr. Gaulden moved as a substitute, resolutions
providing for the call of a State Convention of
the Scate to meet in this city on the 15th of April
next.
On motion of Mr. Gaulden, the resolutions were
ordered to be printed and made the special order
for to-morrow.
Mr. Gaulden’s resolutions adverse to the policy
of arming the slaves were made the special order
for Monday next.
Mr. Speer, from the Select Committee, offered a
resolution, leaving it to the discretion of the Gov
ernor whether the public records should be re
moved to Macon; and, also, that provision be
made for supplying dwelling houses for the heads
of department, and to authorize such heads of de->
partment to purchase provisions of the Commissary
General of the State.
The bill wa|lost by a vote of 11 to 18.
The Senate then adjourned-
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES—AFTERNOON SESSION.
The House met at three o’clock.
Mr. Stephens resumed his remarks.
He went on to review the policy of Mr. Davis
of late to the North. He referred to the speeches
of the President, where he expressed the hope that
if negotiations were proposed to us by the people
Os the North, we should teach them that we are
their masters. He also alluded to another speech of
the President made at Columbia, where sentiments
of hate were expressed towards the people of the
North, such as did not find a response in his breast
and he did not believe it found a response in the
hearts of the people at large. He was not unwiN
ling to have in the Confederacy a State on the
sole ground that such State.had fought us. There
might be other reasons why he should desire a
union with a particular State of the North. He
desired that these statements should be proclaimed
that the North might be inclined to exercise better
thoughts towards us than those which they have
been accustomed to entertain He did not desire
the independence of the Confederacy acknowledged
as a consolidated body, but he desired the indepen
dence of each State acknowledged.
Mr. Adams, of Clark, offered a substitute for
Mr. Stephens’ substitute. The substitute left the
peoplo to decide wether they would have or not a
convention.
The substitute is substantially the same as
the resolutions of Mr. Stephens, and Mr. Ste
phens expressed his willingness to accept the
amendment.
Mr. Hill, of Dougherty, followed in reply. He
contended that we could not limit the sovereignty
of the people.
What Geueral Sherman really said, lately, ac
cording to a Yaukeo paper, as to the probable dus
ration of the war, was, that “if the North pre
pared for going on with the war four years yet, it
would be ever in four months—to say the latest
letters.” A good hint for ns.
Gen. Beast Butler’s Speech.— Butler made a
speech, when he arrived at Lowell, Mass- He spoke
of the explosion of the Dutch Gap canal. It did not
make, perhaps, so large a bole as the mine at Pe
ters.hurg, but hejhad not filled it with .American dead
until it ran blood. He desired to have it inscribed
on his tombstone in that little enclosure where his
remains would one day be laid, “Here lies the Gen
eral who saved the lives of his soldiers at Fort
Fisher and Big Bethel.”
Among the many things he said was the state
ment that “the time for peace has not come, and to
talk of peace until the arrvj of Lee is either captured
or whipped »s vain."
[From the Atlanta Intelligencer.]
. Mow lie Soldiers Talk.
BY JSSEPH SCRUTCHIN, OP ATLANTA, GA.
We hare heard the Yankees yell,
We hare heard the rebels shout;
We hare weighed the matter well,
And mean to fight it out. *,
"In vietorj’i happy glow,
In the glooa of utter rout
We hare pledged ourseires “ oome weal er
woe,”
By Heaven ! to fight it out.
’Tis new too late to question,
What brought the war about;
’Tis a thing es pride and passion,
And we mean to fight it out.
Let the “big wigs” use the pen.
Let them caucus, let them spout ;
We’re half a million weaponed men,
And we mean to fight it oat.
Our dead and loved are crying,
From many a stormed redoubt;'
In the swamps and trenches lying,
Oh ! comrades fight it out.
’Twas our cemfort as we fell,
Te hear your gathering shout;
Rolling back the Yankee yell,
God speed you, fight it out !
The negro free or slave,
We care no pin about;
But for the flag we gave,
We mean to fight it out.
And while that banner brave,
One Yankee flag shall float ;
With rallying arm and flashing glave,
By heaven ! let’s fight it out!
Oh ! we’ve heard the Yankees yell,
We have heard the rebel shout;
We hare weighed the matter well,
And mean to fight it out.
Li the flash of perfect triumph,
And the gloom of utter rout;
We have sworn on many a bloody field,
“We mean to fight it out.”
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Seward’s Last Speech in Washington,
The last speech of Seward in Washington was
before the “Christian and Sanitary Commission.”
That organization held a meeting in the Represen*
tative Hall, Jau. 20. Seward presided. On taking
the chair he said :
In coming once more into these halls of the
nation’s Legislature, although for only an occa
sional purpose, my thoughts revert to the circum
stances under which I left them. Four years ago
misguided legislators had found the long delayed
occasion, and had organized a fearful rebellion.—
They had appointed their leader, had seized by
surprise important forts, ports and places, and
their armies were marching into the field one after
another. The conspirators then threw off the
mask and departed from the Capital, hurling back
curses and defiance against the Government.—
Foreign nations confounded by the boldness of
the insurrection, prepared to acknowledge a divi
ded empire.
On the side of the Government was seen and
heard only alarm and confusion. Unavailing ap*
peals to reflec'ion and propositions for concilia
tion came forth from every section of a country
which regarded a fratricidal war as the greatest
curse and most irretrievable of calamities. The
people called first upon the out-going President,
and then successively upon each of our bravest
Generals and most honored statesmen to save the
Union, and to save it quickly and by oqe master
stroke. To the frantic appeals only one truthful
answer could be given, or was given. That an
swer was, by no one act, and by no ene man, could
the Union be saved. It could be saved only by
the voluntary, energetic, heroic and persistent ef
fort'of the people. The people promptly arose
fb make that Supreme effort. They have faith
fully persevered ia it, and it is now soon te be
successful. Lost forts, ports and places, without
which the insurrection can not succeed, have been
regained.
The corner stone of the rebellion ,has been up
lifted and cast out, and we wait only at the hands
of the rebels for the submission which however
delayed, necessarily follows military defeat and
overthrow. In this achievement the people of
the United States have not waited to follow, but
they have gone before the executive, the legisla
tive and the judicial authorities of the government.
I have heretofore borne my testimony to the pecu*
liar energy in the departments of war, finance and
politics. But the war has opened another field
of activity and labor—a field not less important
and interesting than those whioh usually lie
directly in review. That field is the department of
charity. We have, here in our country, no es\ab
lished church or recognized ecclesiastical authority.
They taunt us with not even recognizing God
in our National Constitution. All efforts, all
association, and all submission is purely volun
tary.
Nevertheless, the Christian Commission and the
Sanitary Commission, working together in perfect
harmony, unorganized, unpaid, unprompted, and
even unnoticed by the Government, have cultiva
ted the broad field to which I have averted with
complete and full success. They have left no
wounds, or sickness, or sorrows unhealed and
unrelieved, which could be reached by any other
than a divine hand.
I have consented to take the ehair only because
it affords me a fitting opportunity to proclaim my
sincere conviction, that the charities of this, the
greatest and most fearful of all civil wars, though
voluntarily rendered, have nevertheless, been ads
ministered by the Christian people of the United
States without any sacrilegous holding back, and
in a spirit of patriotism and pure and undefiled
religion.
Important Order from Gen. Forrest.
Hdq’rs Cav. Dkp. Ala., Miss., and E. La., 1
Verona, Miss, Jan. 24, 1865. }
Circular.]
In obedience to orders from Department Head
quarters, I assume command of the Department
of Mississippi, East Louisiana and West Ten
nessee.
In doing so, it is thus due both to myself and the
troops thus placed under my command to say that
every effort will be made to render them ef
fective.
To do this, strict obedience to all orders must
be rigidly enforced by subordinate commanders,
and prompt punishment inflicted for all violations
of law and orders. The rights and property of
citizens must be respected and protected; and the
illegal organizations of cavalry prowling through
the country under various authorities, not recog
nized as legitimate, or which have been by
proper authorities revoked, must be placed regu
larly and properly in the service, or driven from
the country.
They are in many instances nothing more nor
less than roving bands of deserters, stragglers,
horse thieves and robbers who consume the sub
stance and appropriate the property of citizens
without remuneration, and whose acts of lawless>
ness and crime demand a remedy, which I
shall not hesitate to apply, even to extermina
tion.
The maxim that “Kindness to bad men is
cruelty to the good/' is peculiarly applicable to
soldiers; for all agree that without obedience and
strict discipline, troops cannot be made effective ;
and kindness to a bad soldier does great injustice
to those who are faithful and true; and it is but
justice to those whe discharge their duties with
promptness and fidelity, that others who are diso
bedient, troubulous and mutinous, or who desert
or straggle from their commands, should be
promptly and effectually dealt with, as the law
directs.
I earnestly hope, therefore, while in the dis
charge of the arduous duties devolving upon me,
and in all the efforts necessary to render the
troops of this command available and effective to
suppress lawlessness and aid the country, I shall
have the hearty cooperation of all subordinate
commanders aDd the unqualified support of every
brave and faithful soldier.
[Signed] N.B. FORREST,
Major General.
Official: J. P. Strange, A. A.G.
A Specimen of Concentrated Hate- —Mr. Hart,
an Abolitionist, lately used the following language
in a speech in Kansas :
I was once, while believing in no other possible
deliverance from the same, for separating our North
ern free institutions from the black bannered South.
The trial of John Brown in Virginia, in which I
was humbly professionally engaged, made me a sin
cere hater es the South. I hate the South to-day
not only as an enemy—not only as the enemy of my
government, but as the enemy of all mankind. I
hate her history ; I hate her traditions. I have be
lieved—l still firmly believe—the sun of another St.
Domingo may rise upon her, and a million of Tou s
sant Louvertures, clad in the habiliaments of war
and with vengeance writtemupon their faces, with
one desperate and triumphant stroke dash in pieces
the accursed South-
f
We learn that one day last week, a party p
armed deserters went to Lime Kiln Station, on
the Alabama and Tennessee Railread, for the
purpose of plunder, and murdered eight per
sons—women and children, we believe—help
ed themselves to whatever they wished and
returned to their hiding places.
TELEGRAPHIC.
REPORTS OP THE PRESS ASSOCIATION.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year
1863, by J. S. Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office of
the District Court of the Confederate States for
the Northern District of Georgia.
Augusta, Feb 24.—A government courier
line has been established between Augusta
and Columbia. The railroad between Branch
ville and Charleston is unmolested. Repairs
are making on the road from Augusta to
Branchville. The Wilmington road beyond
the Wateree is unnisturbed.
Orangeburg reported partially destroyed.—
The trestling and bridges on all the South Ca
rolina roads south and west of Branchville
destroyed.
No official comm nication has yet been had
with Charleston.
A citizen of Augusta has reliable reports
that Mayor Macbeth says that the French con
sul assured him that he had advices that Na
poleon will assert the independence of the
Confederacy on the 4th of March, and if nec
essary will support the declaration with arm
ed interference. French vessels are to ren
dezvous at convenient points on the coast and
Gulf.
Wade Hampton burned his own residence
in Columbia to prevent the Yankees from
sacking it.
A fire occurred in Warren Block in this city
today at noon. Not much done. No papers
lost from government offices.
Col. G. W. Brent's office is here. Persons
belonging to the .army of Tennessee report
here for commands. Their clothing bureau is
in this city.
A number of stragglers from our army in
Carolina arrived here during the past two
days, purporting to have been paroled by Jno
B. Lee, Provost Marshal of the 14th army
corps, Yankee army. Enrolling officers will
notice that these paroles are illegal and not
recognized. The men are promptly returned
as they arrive here.
Young people contemplating marriage should
be careful not to make delusive impressions upon
each other’s minds. Do your courting in your
everyday clothes.
A Merited Rebuke.—ln addressing a jury on
one occasion, the celebrated Lord Jeffreys found
it necessary to make free with the character of a
military officer, [who was present. Upon hearing
himself several times contemptuously spoken of as
“the soldier,” the son of Mars, boiling with indig
nation, interrupted the pleader. “Don’t call me
a soldier, sir, I’m an officer.” Lord Jeffreys im
mediately went on. “Well gentlemen, this officer,
who is no soldier, was the sole cause of all the
mischief that had occurred.
A'gentleman who has just arrived here from
Mississippi, says the Rebel of the 23d, reports that
Thomas’ army, twenty or thirty thousand strong*
have landed between Warren ton and Yiokshurg
and that pontoons were being laid across the Big
Black as though a movement was intended in this
direction. A day or two will probably develop
the plan of campaign.
It is now the well sett led policy of our
Government that there is to be no further is*
sue of Treasury notes. Indeed, our measures
of finance provide not only for the prohibition
of further issues, but for the reduction of the
present circulation. The Treasury can there
fore look no longer to this mode of using the
public credit as a source of revenue.
But two modes remain for raising the funds
required by the Government, viz : the sale of
bbuds, and the imposition of taxes.
The growing value of the Government cur
rency, owing both to the reduction of the vo
lume of circulation, and the special provision
which will evidently be made for its redemp
tion, has had the effect of throwing a large
supply of the bonds in private hands upou
the market for conversion; and this pressure
for sale has greatly reduced the quotations.
The operation may be expected to proceed pa
rallel with the future improvement ®f the cur
rency. In consequence, the purchase of bonds
from the Government, as a mere business in
vestment, will be checked or suspended until
private holders shall have disposed of their
surpluses. Meanwhile the Government will
not be able to use its credit at all, unless citi
zens come forward and from patriotic motives,
subscribe to the public loans, at higher rates
than the bonds purchased will, for tbe time,
command in the market.
It will be seen, therefore, that in the ab
sence of a generous and patriotic rally to the
support of the treasury by the purchase of
Government bonds, nothing remains to be
looked to, to meet the wants of the treasury,
but taxation. The sale of bonds would enable
us, to that extent, to remit to future years the
task of providing a portion ®f the sums need
ed now for the public defence. But if this
resource be unavailing, we 3hall necessarily
have to bear the whole burden as we go along.
If we buy no bond3, we thereby elect to pay
the more in taxes. The army must, of course,
be supported, in one form or another. It
would, we think, be wiser to draw a draft on
posterity for a fair proportion of our present
needs. This can only be done by the purchase
of bonds, or of certificates of debts. We
should like to see the people, by general con
sent, coming forward to provide, in this man
ner, a portion of the necessary revenues, and
thus diminish the sums to be raised by taxa
tion.
In the present state of the case, however,
Congress has a plain and urgent duty to per-,
form. It is to lay promptly an adequte levy
on the means of the people, for prosecuting
the public defence. In whatever form laid—
whether by tax in kind or tax on the valua
tion of property, or on income, or whether by
all these modes combined, a liberal scale of
taxation is needed, and should be adopted
speedily. Only let it bear equally—only let
it apply to all according to some fair and uni
form scale of pressure, and there will be no
outcry, no dtssatisfaction. It will be the price
of liberty, and will be cheerfully paid.
But let us have action, speedy action, on this
as on all other important measures, ihis i3
the great demand and necessity of the hour.
° [ Exchange.
Volunteer Troops fop. the War—ln the
Confederate House of Representatives, on the
30th ult., Mr. Henry, of Tennessee, introduc
ed a bill to receive volunteer troop3 for the
war. The bill provides :
That all persons not now in the service, and
those who are absent from duty without leave,
shall be authorized within three months, ea3t
of the Mississippi river, and within six months
west es that river, to form tbemseves into vo
lunteer organizations of companies, elect their
company officers, and tender their services to
the President of the Confederate States as vo
lunteer troops during the war: such organi
zations shall conform to existing laws, and,
when tendered to the President, shall be or
ganized into battalions and regiments, and
shall be subject to all the regulations which
govern the army of the Confederate States.
Mr. Henry said he entertained no feeling of
opposition to the Conscript law, and this bill
had been introduced in no such spirit. But
he was convinced, by information derived from
a number of trustworthy sources, that a mea
sure such as this would add tens of thousands j
of soldiers to our armies who would never
enter the service as conscripts. He would j
state that Gen. Howell Cobb coincided m this
opinion. , .
The resolution wjs referred to toe Military j
Committee.
AUCTION SALES.
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
N SATURDAY, 25th,inst., at 11 oeVk
we will sell in front of our store ’
2 Shares Eagle Factory Stock.
15 “ Ga. Home Ins. Stock.
77 “ Great Southern Ins. Stock,
1 Fine Mahogany Secretary,
1 “ “ Dining Table,
1 Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine
in Mahogany Case,
1 Set (4 windows) Fine Silk Damask
Curtains,
1 Water Ram,
1 W 7 ater Pump,
Lot Brass Faucets,
1 Sett Fine Parlor Chairs,
2 Guttapercha Gin Bands,
500 lbs. Superior Sole Leather
1 Set Double Buggy Harness,
Wagons, Buggies, <£e.
. ALSO,*
A V ery Likely Family of Negroes, a Man
42 years old, his wife 35 years oid and
4 Children,
1000 lbs. Manilla Rope.
feb 22 S6O
ALSO —
An Extra good Two or
Axle Wagon, with Harness.
feb 24 $6
By Ellis, Livingston 4 Cos,
ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE*
ON Tuesday, 7th March next, at II o'clock,
I will sell, in the city of Columbus,
front of Ellis, Livingston & Cos s Auction Store,
The very Desirable Residence,
near the Court House, lately occupied by Col. Ten
nille. A large and commodious dwelling house, goo i
out-houses, fine well of water, and one acre ground,
attached.
Also, a desirable lot Furniture, embracing nearly
every article wanted in house-keeping.
Sold as the property of Mrs- L. M. Tennilte, dec’d.
Terms cash. Possession given immediately.
Persons holding claims against the estate of Mrs
LucyM. Tennilie. dec’d, al3o Wm. T. Patterson,
dec’d, will hand them to S. D. Betton, at Walker
Hospital, by the sth of March.
, , D. MORRIS, Adm’r.
feb 19 sll9
By Ellis, Livingston 4 Cos.
Administrator’s Sale*
ON THURSDAY, 9th March, at 11 o’clock
I will sell in front of the auction store of
Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
The perishable property belonging to
the estate of L. C. Morton, decM. con
sisting of one Bureau, Bedstead, Ward
robe, Tables, Wash Stand, Chairs, Bath*
ing Tubs, Water Buckets, Tin ar.d 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
of 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 11 o’clock,
2 Fine Marble Bed Billard TABLES
feb 12 $24
By Ellis, Livingston A Cos.
ON TUESDAY, 28th Feb. at 11 o’clock we
will sell in front of our store,
A Very Fine Pair Northern HORSES,
7 and 8 years old, well broke, kind,
fast and gentle, in Single and Double
Harness.
feb 24 $24
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
ON TUESDAY, 28th inst., at 11 o’clock,
we will sell in front of our store.
A S3l ALE FAR3I,
Five miles from the city on the Buena
Vista road, with 25 acres land attached,
12 acres cleared, balance heavily tim>
bared. On the premises is a framed dwells
ing, 2 rooms, smoke house, stables, &c.,
with a good well and spring of water.
feb 23 $37 50
Columbus Knitting Company,
We are prepared to leceive orders for SOCKS and
HOES for Ladies and Children, all made of home
made Knitting Cotton, rather coarse, but soft and
pleasant to wear. D. KEITH,
feb2s.lw Agent-
NEGROES at AUCTION.
-BY-
J. B. HABERSHAM A CO
Executor’s Sale.
On Tuesday, 3larcli 7,1865.
WILL be sold on the first Tuesday in March next,
between the usual hours of sale, at the Court
House in the city of Macon,
TWENTY-TWO NEGROES,
(more or less) consisting of Men, Women and Chil
dren, belonging to the estate of Caroline Baynard,
deceased. These negroes are accustomed to the cul
tivation of Cotton and Corn, and sold for a distribu
tion among the heirs, agreeably to the provisions o:
the.-illof the l«t. Eaynard. Ay v ARD
WM. G. BAYNARD,
Executors.
M. B. BAYNARD, Executrix,
feb 25 w3t . ..,
Columbus Times will please copy once a week t
day of sale and forward bill to J. 8.1 l arCo.
S2OO Reward.
OTOLEN from our Factory on the 234 inst., a 7-
O inch RUBBER BELT, about 35 feet long. The
above reward will be given to any one giving infor
mation so we can get the same.
25 2t* THO3. BERRY & CO.
MYERS, WATSON & CO,.
auctioneers
ANI>
General Commission Merchants,
At Hull & Duck's old stand.
Opposite Bank of Columbus, Broad Street
fgjg* Personal and prompt attention given
to all consignments.
Cos 1 umbus, Ga., Jan. 21, 18G5. j*n- L 1
Stolen.
CTOLEN* from roy jKblfu'tU hSE
£ Columbus, a light BAiforehead. His prin
high, with a white -f su ituable reward will be
?afd^rbi^co P ve C ry. * W. G. WOOLFOLK
feb 24 ts
Strayed or Stolen.
FFOMmv house in Auburn, a Bay Horse, with a
blazed face, seven years old. medium size, in
rather low order. I bought the horse from Cap*.
Sam. Jeter, of Chambers county. Reasonable re~
W feb22-tf W.V. F. SAMFORD
Lost or Mislaid.
'’’OUR S’ 1 ARES of the G A A. S. ?. Cos.. No
r 160, in favor ot Mrs. J. L WH-yr..
nov 30 ts D. Jk J. J. GRANT.