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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. ——+ ♦ 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. ♦ 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.” ♦ -♦ 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.