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DAILY TIMES.
J. W. WARREX, - - - Editor.
COLUMBUS:
Sunday Morning, February 26,1865.
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[Correspondence of the Colutabus Times.]
Auburn,’Ala., Feb. 23, 1865.
Mr. Editor: The Montgomery Advertiser
inveighs heavily against a suggestion of the
Mobile Advertiser and Register, to Governor
Watts, that he shall arm the negroes, with the
consent of their masters , against the threatened
invasion of Thomas’ army, and in this matter
be “a law unto himself.”
Having, without any knowledge of the views
of Mr. Forsyth, frtadc tie identical suggestion
to Gov. Watts—in one of my letters to him,
published in the Times—l feel that it is proper
for me to say, that I do not see the force of
the objections urged by your Montgomery co
temporary, to this policy. 1 certainly did not
and, I suppose, the Mobile Advertiser did not j
contemplate ’any violation of law by Governor 1
'out only that he should act in the ab
sence of law, and with the consent of the owners
ol the negroes. It seems to me a too scrupu u
lous devotion to law—a rather whimsical sort
of tithing of mint and cumin, and neglecting
of the weightier matters of the law, to object
to a voluntary defence of the State, by anybody ,
or in any way. Governor Watts has been de
nied the legal power to employ the proper re
sources of the State in its defence ; and now,
it the public press and public opinion shall
prevent its voluntary defence , it would seem
that Alabama ib turned over to a hopeless des
tiny.
I reiterate my advice. Let Governor Watts
gather up all the resources in his reach, white
and black, and in despite of delinquent Legis
latures and tender-footed editors, make an he
roic defence of the State. Let him take care
of the people, and the people will take care
of him ! Now, if ever, it is, Salus populi su
prema est lex !
Governor Brown’s late message will have
its effect —I fear a deleterious one. It is the
ablest of his papers. With an unfortunate
animus , it most provokingly abounds in true
facts and true doctrines. It is a vain thing
to shut our eyes to the truth. Let the Gov
ernment dare to learn from this sturdy enemy,
and defeat the object of Faction, by adopting
promptly, in its practice, whatever may seem
to be wise and prudent.
The country will be slow to credit the Gov
ernor’s imputations against the patriotism of
the President. The best antidote, perhaps, to
the tendency of the message, is its evident
malice.
It is most difficult not to believe that Gov.
Brown intends to drive the people into recon
struction. The tone of the message is one of
titter despair —he finds ample excuse for the
desertions in the army—he proposes the wild
est schemes of disorganization, at the moment
when all depends upon present action. He
undervalues “Independence.” My own opin
ion is that the Governor has lost faith in the
capacity of the Administration to carry us
successfully through the struggle. He cer
tainly knows that we cannot venture now on
the work of reorganization. With his views,
the “convention” he proposes would infallibly
submit. He is thoroughly whipped , and looks
to reconstruction as the only escape from an
nihilation.
He must excuse us for a little doubt as to
his entire sincerity. He is a wise man, and
responsible for the effect of his policy. He
tells us himself that he is capable of an ambi
dextrous diplomacy ; that with all his abhor
rence of the President and his policy, he
would give it “an earnest support,” if he fa
vored reconstruction. The whole thing in a
nutshell is, “I am opposed to reconstruction
— but — it—is — inevitable. President Davis is
responsible—that mad Cataline who binds
his fellow conspirators to him, by the horrid
bowl of sacrificial wine and blood. Sanguin
em vino permixtur in pateris circumtulissa.” —
Havato, Wm. F. Samford.
The Columbia Carolinian says the most re
liable estimates we have heard from persons
within the lines, who have had an opportuni
ty ot gathering information from a variety of
Yankee sources, give Sherman only titty odd
thousand men, including the corps of General
Foster, now co-operating with him on the
coast. The number of troops, however, is
always exaggerated, and after reckoning his
loss from sickness, wounds and death, we in
cline to the opinion that the Federal com
mander has not forty thousand effective men
in the four corps now scattered between the
Savannah and Edisto.
On the 11th instant, General Wheeler met
Kilpatrick near Aiken, and after enticing him
beyond his entrenchments, charged him with
his whole command and routed the enemy
with confusion, driving him back a distance
of about five miles. Ammunition giving out
it was impossible for our men to push Kil
patrick further, and the contest there ceased.
We took a considerable number of prisoners,
among whom were a portion of the 33d Mas
sachusetts regiment. Opinion as divided
among men as to the objective poimt of Sher
man.
Orangeburg is in all probability in posses
sion of the enemy—report giving them about
12,000 men.
Major Manigault was certainly killed in the
late attack on James' Island.
The latest from the Mississippi we find in
the Jackson Mississippian of the 19th. That
paper sajs that the latest intelligence from
\ icksburg, deemed authentic, is to the effect
that a number of transports filled with troops
have left that point for Red river, to prevent
the crossing of Kirby Smith, who, they be
lieve, contemplates reinforcing us on this side
of the Mississippi. It is possible that the
Yankee troops recently landed at Vicksburg,
Natchez and Baton Rouge, may be intended
as a grand river guard or cordon of army
corps to prevent a junction of western with
eastern forces.
From Pensacola. —We leara that, on the 23d
says the Montgomery Advertiser, of the
2oti; Capt. Keyser’s cavalry picket command near
Milton, Fla., was surprised about daylight and
captured—men, hor*»* and baggage, by a raiding
party of the enemy from Pensacola. The num
ber of men and horses captured, we havo not as
certained. Capt. K. was at Pollard at the time.
Milton is about 30 miles Southeast from Pollard,
and the same distance Northeast from Pensacola.
A gentleman, who reached here from Pensacola,
J**terday, thinks the Yankee force at Fort Pick
ens and the Navy Yark is about 20,000, but an
other gentleman pnts it at 12,000. Communica
tion between the Navy Yard aad Pensaeola has
been closed fer several weeks. Hence, it is inferred
thata move Northward is centemplated,
[F ’ ;m the Telegraph & Confederate, j
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
Macon, Georgia, Feb. 24, 1364.
SENATE.
The Senate met at 19 o’clock, a. m., aid wa3
opened with prayer by Rev. Mr. Wills.
After the minutes had been read, Mr. Me*
Cuthen, of the 43d Senatorial District, moved
to reconsider the action of the Senate, on yes
terday, by which was lost, a bill to provide for
the removal of the public archives of the
State to the city of Macon, and to allow the
heads of the Department of the State to rent
offices and houses for dwelling in the city.
The motion prevailed.
On motion of Mr. Whitaker, of the 26tb, the
bill was laid on the table for the present.
The special order for the day was taken up.
This is the resolution of Mr. Gaulden, of the
2d District, providing for an election of dele
gates on the 20th day of March next, for a
Convention of the people of Georgia. The
resolutions of Mr. Gaulden were offered as a
substitute to the resolutions of Mr. Pottle
pledging Georgia to the prosecution of the
war until “ independence is achieved and vie-’
tory won. ”
Mr. Ramsey first occupied the floor, by cour
tesy of Mr. Gaulden. He spoke against the
substitute and contended for the original res
olutions. He thought the present no time for
distraction iu our councils, and was utterly
opposed to a Convention of the people.
Mr. Gaulden followed in reply.
After Mr. Gaulden had concluded his speech
the Senate adjourned till 3 o’clock, p. m.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES —AFTERNOON SES
SION.
The House met at 9 o’clock, a. m., pursuant
to adjournment, and was opened with prayer
by Rev. Mr. Hawkins.
The rules were suspended and the House
took up the message of the Governor relative
to an equitable distribution of 20,000 pairs of
cotton cards to the counties remote from the
interior. Referred to a committee of five.
" The following bills were iutroduced.
Mr. Hardeman of Bibb, a resolution request
ing Congress to suspend the operation of the
Conscript act, authorizing the President to
receive regiments and battalions, under offi
cers of their own choice.
Mr. Hawkins of Baldwin, a bill to amend
the charier of the city of Milledgeville.
Mr. Autry of Carroll, a bill to exempt Maj.
Thomason, of Carroll, from the payment of
Taxes for the year 1864.
Mr. Rawls of Effingham, a resolution re
questing the suspension of the collection of
the State tax for 1864, of all persons overrun
by the enemy.
Mr. Adams of Clark, a resolution authoriz
ing the Governor to furnish members and cer
tain officers with Waters’ Pamphlet.
Mr. Brown of Houston, a bill to increase
the fees of tax receivers in this State. Also,
a bill to authorize Wm. Summerford, guardian
of J. B. Holmes, ■of Dooly, to turn over the
property to said ward.
Mr. Jones of Newton, a resolution instruct
ing the Governor to disband the militia.
Mr. Mathews of Oglethorpe, a bill to amend
the laws of the State in relation to lapsed le
gacies.
Mr. Rawles of Effingham, a resolution re
questing Congress to suspend the collection
of all Confederate Taxjor 1864-’5, of persons
overrun by the enemy.
Mr. Wallace of Taylor, a bill to incorporate
the town of Reynolds.
Also, a bill to authorize the wife of A. I£.
Jones, of Bibb, to receive any and all proper
ty that she is entitled to by inheritance or
otherwise.
Mr. Overstreet of Pierce, a resolution in re
ference to the employment of slaves in the
army.
Mr. Hawkins of Forsyth, a bill for the par
don of Terry L. Cox, now confined in the pe
nitentiary.
Mr. Phillips of Meriwether, a bill for the
relief of Victoria L. Horton, of Meriwether.
The House proceeded to read bills the third
time.
A bill to change the line between the counties
of Merriwether and Coweta. Passed.
A bill to repeal an act to change the line 'be
tween the counties of Randolph and Calhoun.—
Passed.
A bill for the relief of B. Mclntosh, of Brooks.
Passed.
A bill for the relief of Van Swenger, of Schley
Couuty. Lost.
A bill to change the oath of tax payers of this
State. Passed.
A bill to pay bounties to the two State Line
regiments. Lest.
A bill to authorize Mary Edmondson, adminis
tratrix of D. Edmondson, to settle with and pay
off W. A. Edmondson, one of the heirs of said
estate. Passed.
A bill to limit the tax to be imposed upon the
citizens and tax-payors of the eity of Marietta.—
Passed.
A bill to change the line between the counties es
Clay and Randolph. Recommitted.
A bill to legalize the election of Town Commis
sioners for the town of Jfadison. Passed.
The special order was then taken np, the same
being the Senate resolutions adverse to the calling
a Convention of the people of the State.
After Mr. Mathews, of Oglethorpe, had conclu
ded his remarks t in opposition to the resolutions,
on motion es Mr. Lawson, of Putnam, the reso
lutions were indefinitely postposed. Yeas 85, nays
56.
Adjourned till 3 o’clock, P. M.
Gov. Brown of Georgia.
We da not remember ever to have witnessed a
parallel to the almost universal astonishment and
indignation which has been produced by Governor
Brown’s message to the Geergia Legislature. Gui
bono ? everybody asks. What good, honest and
patriotic purpose could Gov. Brown expect to sub
serve by throwing this bundle of firebrands into
the arena of this great fight for national exist
ence ?
Admit that he is right in all his views of the
Confederate war policy, is this a time to raise the
flood gates of domestic dissension, while the com
mon enemy is thundering at the gate and threat
ening destruction both to Brownite and Davisite ?
Governor Brown’s hatred to Mr. Davis amounts
to insanity. It makes him oblivious of Sherman
and his ravages; it carries him to the mad ex
treme es proposing a fresh revolution, ripping up
the Confederate Government, deposing the Presi
dent, and placing the power in ether hands—these
of Gov. Brown, we suppose. While in the very
crisis of the struggle with the Yankee foe, and in a
campaign that must be decided fer weal or fer wee
in a few short weeks, while every true patriot
would urge harmony in council and union in arms
fer the public safety, this passionate Governor
declares open war upon every measure of the
Government, and tells the people that they are
being piloted to ruin, and nothing but a revolu
tionary change will save them. Cooler men will
decide that wa have about as much revolution
on our hands now as we can well manage,
and it weuld be wiser to pipe all hands to
save ship and stand by the captain and officers
than te throw them overboard and to try new
ones.
If Ger. Brewn is right, the ship and all on
board are about to be lost, and all that is left is
fall down and pray, or break info the spirit room
and meet death jolly drunk, according to the
tastes of the passengers. But Gov. Brown does
not loek at the situation with a clear vision. Like
the Chourineur, he “sees red,” and views every
act of the President’s administration through the
jaundiced media of his own passions, of hate and
ambition. And what a time he has chosen for
this urseemly display es spleen ! Just at the mo
ment when the friends of the country were ear
nestly hoping and striving for a revival es the
courage of the people, when publie meetings were
springing up all over the land, and all the signs
were propitious for anew era of war feeling and
energy, and of consentaneous action to save the
people from the terrible fate to which Lincoln has
consigned them—just when hope was being rean
imated, and confidence restored, Gov. Brown
opens his Pandora box and attempts to flood
the land with a brood of distracting issues and
dissensions.
Time was when we admired “Joe Brown’’
for his energy, and his rough and homely inde
pendence. But this last freak has brought down
his reputation, as the sailors say, “with a run,”
and he stands now in one of two attitudes ; we are
forced te regard him either as an infuriated dema>
gogue, reckless of the public safety, or as a man
devoid of discretion and wisdom. In other event
he occupies a “bad eminence,” and helda a power
dangerous to the success of this struggle and the
liberties of this people.
Wo would not, therefore, follow his pernicious
example, and recemmend that he be deposed by
revolution, but we appeal in the name of every
sound and rational friend of Confederate indepen
dence, to the people of Georgia to save the country
from the disastrous effects of his madness, and to
elect as his successor one who will devote himseif
to the great duty of fighting the Yankee enemy,
and not to making war ©a eur own Government.
—Mobile Advertiser.
[From the Daily Rebel.]
Bill Arp Philosophizes open the War, etc.
Mr. EdiPur, Sur: If I kould disarn anything
gloomy in the politikui Jborrizuh, I would
keep it to myself and not go to puttiu my iong
face in the newspapers, but seeia things as I
see em, I dont see ffb .. -ng in the sityation
more distressin than asu--'
My doktrine has always ben. that if we wnst
to fit# and site and file till our army was
played out, the biggest part of old Linkhorns
job would be jest begun. Alter he has whipd
us, then he’s got to subjugate us. He’s got to
hold us down and he cant do it. I used to
have a nabur who was one of these mean little
snarly phice-dog sort of men, and I had him
to whip about onst a week for three months,
but I dident make a thing off on him. He
would raise anew fuss with me in an hour
after I had made him holier enuf, and finally
Isold him my land and moved away jest to
get rid of him. Now the idea of ole Linkhorn
takin possession of so many towns and sities,
and so much territory, and uoldin it. and keep
in so many pepul down, are utter nonsense
and it cant bn and i. Besides, we aint whipd
yet—not by tiirea or four jug fulls. Sposia
Sherman did walk right through the State.—
Spo3in he did. Was any body whipd? Did
ent the rebellion jest close right up on the
ground behind him jest like shettin up a pair
of woffle irons? He parted the atmosfear as
he went along, and it collapsed agin in his
rear immediately. He’l have to go over that
same old ground several times vit and then
sell out and move away.
Well they say that old Abe’s Congress has
finally and forever set free all the niggers by
mendin the constitution. How did that free
em or how did freein em mend the constitu
tion. The durnd old thing’s been £>roke for
40 years and its broke yit, but spose they have
freed em ita no more than old Abe has done
three or tour times by his proklamashun3.—
What doe3 it all amount to ? I want to buy a
nigger and I jest as leave have a chunk of a
free nigger as any other sort. I dont care a
bobbee about his bein free if I can subjugate
him, and if he gits above his color I’ll put 39
whelks right under his shurt and make him
wish that old Linkhorn stood in his shoes.
But Mr. Editur, Sur—The way I see it is,
that if we are to be whipd at all, then the in
fantry, which is to say the web teet, are to be
whipd fust. After that, then comes the tug
of war. Whippia the cavalry will be the
devilesh ondertakin of this or any precedin
conflict. I tell you, sur, they cant be whipd
ontill they are kotched, and that event will
never transpire. The truth is that the Confed
erate cavaliy can site em, and dog em, and
dodge em, and bushwhack em, and bedevil
em, for a thousand years, and thats as long as
the most sanguine have calculated this war to
last. The Confederate cavalry are übiquitous
and everlasting. I have travelled a heap of
late, and had okkashun to retire into some
very sequested regions, bat nary hill or hol
low, nary vale or valley, nary mountin gorge
or inaksessible raveen have I found, but what
the cavalry had been thar and jest left. And
thats why they cant be whipd, for they have
always/esf left and took an odd horse or two
with em. For four years the Confederate
Horse Stealin Cavalry have been pirootin
around, preparin themselves for the frightful
struggle to come. By dodging around they
have completed their inspection of stock, and
tried all its bottom, and now it are resunable
to suppose they are ready to site.
The fakt is, Mr. Editor, stealin from our
side is a most playd out, and I feel assured our
enemies will suffer very soon. Sich a crisis
are, I reckon, a blessin to the country, for
when weve lost all our property thar wont be
nothin to rekonstrukt and, we’ll all go to fitin.
Property in sich times are the bane of liberty.
Old Blivins remarked, tbat if we all had been
as poor as him when the war begun and had
held our own, the viktry would have been won
long ago. “ How poor are you Blivins ? ” sed
I. “Jest 4 years ago,” sed he, “ I war even
with the world, which is to say I owd about
as many as I dident owe, and had nothin to
boat, and thats the fix I want the Confederacy
to git in. ”
We are that way in these parts, Mr. Editor,
shure. What the Yankees dident git in six
months continuous plunder were brought out
to enjoy when they left. Suddenly some
friendly skouts appeared upon the arena and
made a general grab. Everything visible were
appropriated without pay or seremony. Our
indignant citizens appealed for protekshun,
and his Exelensy the Guvnor, sent up Major
Merkison as the avenger of our wrongs, and
the protektor of our lives and property. The
Major and his gallant boys appreciated our
cause, and in order to prevent a recurrence of
sich robberies by the wanderin skouts, they
stole all the ballance themselves and then run
away. Sich is war, Mr. Editor, but neverthe
less, notwithstandin, I am for it a3 long as
possibul, and longer if necessary.
W« are now trying the meelish—the Gorgy
melish—luxuriatin under ther benine and pea -
abul rule—Slandered as they have beeti from
the mountings to the sea, they are now the
gardyans of our sleepin liberties. Like a wall,
of fire they environ the outpost3 of Cherokee
Gorgy, and we’ll stand by em as long as—they
stand by us. Let their slanderers beware and
rekellekt the fate of Ike Jonson, that old vete
ran from the Virginny army. Ike was home
on a bustin furlow, and he rode up to the
Meelish and pullin out his repeater exciamd
with uncommon gravity, “ lag down meelish , I'm
guine to bust this cap” Mr. Editor, Ike Jon
son had to leave those parts prematurely.
And now Sur will you allow us Romans to
ask a favor of your wide spreadin paper. We
desir to intersperse in your columes some new3
of the Gorgy Legislatur. We understood they
were powerfully skattered and somewhat de
moralized. Have they rallied yit, and did the
Governor lose many of the publick arkives ?
I saw a member from Franklin the other day,
and he had two pair of cotton cards in hi3
hand. I axd him about the arkives, and he
sed he onderstood the Guvner got off about
ten thousand pair of em, and that all the
members got two pair a piece besides.
Do you suppose this are so ?
Yours purlitely,
Bill Arp.
P- S.—Whar are the Guvenur? I learn he
wer collard and cabbaged and carried oph in
two cars to the halls of the Montvzumas.
B. A.
i— •
Destructive Raid. —Our place was visited on
Saturday night last by a band of men calling them
selves Federal soldiers, but they were not real Yan
kees.
They came in town and surrounded Capt. Stew
arts house, set it on fire and compelled him, Capt.
Rankin, Franklin Whorton and Wm. Stewart to
come out—firing on them—killing Capt. Stewart
and wounding Capt. Rankin. Wm. Stewart was
shot at six or eight . times but escaped unhurt.—
Whorton succeeded in getting to where the pickets
where when they enquired of him whether or not he
belonged to Stewart’s company. He told them he
belonged to the 12th Ala., which was true. They
gave it the lie and placed the gun against his breast
and fired, killing him; and while he was on the
ground the gun was placed at his right eye and shot
through the head.
One whole block of buildings were destroyed by
fire, the jail broken open and the prisoners released;
there being some ten or twelve negroes in jail; the
court house was fired but the fire went out.
Unfortunately for Capt. Ntewart, his men, the
most of them, were furloughed- They plundered
considerably and then proceeded on their march
towards the Tennessee river, coming upon a courier
post two miles from town, they surrounded the
house and commenced shooting in the house, the
couriers ran through the lines, making their escape,
but both were wounded, one in both arms and --the
other twice in one \es.—Ashville {Ala.) Vidette,
loth.
The old Liverpool and New York packetship
Decotab has again arrived in the Mersey, from
Nassau, with a cargo consisting of 4,000 bales
of blockade run cotton. At the present rates
for fine American staple in Liverpool, this
cargo is valued at £230,000.
During the past year it has been ascertain
ed that the Liverpool shipowners have lost
£4,000, by granting advance notes to sailors
who, after signing articles, refused to proceed
to sea.
Another telescope comet was discovered in
Virso by Professor Bruins, of I/epsick, on the
31s* u'.t.
Tlis War was
Tue Richmond Whig, of the 7ch iast., says :
If poaco between the North and the South had
coatinued up to this time, what has lately hap
pened in the United States Congress would have
oeen enough to produce war. War for sovereign
and inalienable rights not only threatened, but
assailed; not ealy assailed, but destroyed, unless
saved by a vigorous and resolute defence. If the
Union had remained, the recent legislation of the
Federal Congress would havo ruptured it beyond
hope es repair. If the South had tolerated the
election es Lincoln—had submitted quietly to the
rule of the dominant sectional majority; had for
given the wrongs, the insults and the contumely
es seventy years—this crowning outrage would
havo driven her to the assertion of her independ
ence and the resumption of her sovereign rights.
In 1861 there were still injthe South some con
fiding and credulous people who deplored the sep
aration as hasty and ill-advised, and who, while
they yielded their private opinions at the demand
of their respective States, fancied that Northern
aggression would never be carried to that extreme
point, which all had indicated at the utmost limit
of forbearance. Even after the Yankees had
shown that they were utterly incapable of under
standing the principles on which the Government
was formed, after they had manifested their inten
tion to maintain their ascendancy by force, and
had waged upon us a bitter, unrelenting and gi
gantic war, characterized by all the ambition of
conquest, and all the malignity of hate, there was
some among us who dreamed of suoh a thing as
reconstruction—a restoration of the Union, with
adequate promises and guarantees.
It is well that these delusions have been dis
pelled, and the naked issue is at least presented
to us in such fora that insanity itself could not
distort, or even idiocy mistake it. This issue is
exactly independence or - annihilation. By the
grace of the conqueror, should we- submit or be
subjugated, our miserable lives might be spared,
because, perhaps, it would be inconvenient to dis
pose of five or six millions of people by the gal
lows or the guillotine. Perhaps even we might,
did we implore forgiveness in tim?, bs permitted
to live in our own houses, and till our own land,
and wear eur own clothes; but this would be con
sidered an act of supereminent mercy. Asa people
we should absolutely cease to exist. Virginia
would be no longer Virginia, nor would Georgia
be known as Georgia. The whole South would be
as to the Yankees exactly what Poland is to Rus
sia, and as to the rest of the world precisely what
St. Domingo is. This is no mere deduction—no
supposition based on conjectural premises. It is
what Lincoln and Seward distinctly told our Com
missioners at Fortress Monroe, and what the Yan
kee Congress, by a solemn act of legislation, has
deliberately prepared for us, in anticipation of
that joyful time when the South shall be given
over to the mercy of her enemies. There can be
no misconception now. There is nothing before
us but degradation, spoliation and death if we sub
mit to our enemies. The only possible chance for
honor, life and liberty lies in a continuance of
that stern and desperate resistance with which we
have hitherto met and defeated the tremendous
efforts that have been made to compass our des
truction.
Miscellaneous Items.
The Pennsylvania Legislature is engaged in
the consideration of a bill urging Congress to
require each sub-district to furnish its quota
under the draft from its own residents.
The Louisville Journal says: “ General Joe
Johnston is a brother of Edwin William John
ston, the 1 11 Segretorio ’ that used to write re
markably brilliant letters for the Louisville
Journal. ”
The number of hogs packed in Cincinnati is
estimated, upon packers’ returns, at 338,000,
being a deficiency, as compared with last sea
son, of 32,000 head. At Chicago the packing
foots up 750,000, against 904,000 last year,
being a falling off of about 150,000. The fall
ing off in the whole West will fall little short
of 700,0®0. In the nuqjber shipped East there
is also a large deficiency.
The Railroad Record recommends that
when the war is over, the military organiza
tion of colored troops be kept up, with pay
and rations of soldiers, and their labor direct
ed to the opening of the great lines of railway
between the Atlantic and Pacific States. Time
enough to think about that when the war is
over, and we find that any considerable num
ber of colored troops survive it.— Cincinnati
Commercial.
The appointment of Prince Napoleon to the
Vice Presidency of the Privy Council of France,
is perhaps a more important event than it
would be were it merely a rebuff administered
to the Roman Court. By this appointment
the Emperor appears to have given a pledge
to liberal Italy that he will be faithful to it;
and not only that he will be faithful, but that
in the case of his death France shall still—for
a time, at least for the term of another life—
remain faithful too.
In the Norwegian mines pay day is thus
managed: The workmen go to the overseer,
who casts up accounts and puts the amount
due each in chalk on his back ; then the man
goes to the paymaster, who turns him around,
and pays the sum, and rubs out the chalk for
a receipt; and not a word is said or a line
written by either party.
Oie Bull re-appeared, after an absence of
many years from the concert in Berlin, recent
ly. His old admirers were pleased to find
that, although his hair has become gray, he
possesses all the wonderful mastery over his
instrument which he displayed in years long
since passed away.
A major in the Austrian service has just
died at Vienna, bequeathing large property to
his son on condition of his undertaking never
to read a newspaper.
There are five young kings, or heirs to
kingdoms, in Europe, in want of wives, viz :
Bavaria, Greece, Orange, Sardinia and Rus
sia.
An English writer says a peculiar atmos
phere surrounds royalty. We suppose it is the
heirs to the throne.
Why is a man who stakes his money in a
gambling bouse like a star ? Because lie’s an
asto-risk.
“ Mary, ” asked Charles, “ what animal drop
ped from the clouds ? ” “ The rain, dear, ” was
the whispered reply.
There is much illness in Paris just now
amongst conspicuous personages. For ex
ample—M. Proudhon, M. Bastide, M. Bacchi
ochi, M. Baroche, and M. Charras. The health
of the Empress is anything but satisfactory.
Felicien David, the composer, continues
very ill. A fire, which unfortunately broke
out in the house in which he lives, and made
it necessary to remote him from his bed, ag
gravated his state materially.
A French proprietor lately paid four mil
lions of francs for a tract of vine land where
Madoc was the favorite wine, and he has real
ized the full amount of the purchase money
from the crop of 1864 alone.
A French bibliomaniac has counted the
number of books and pamphlets called into
public by the publication of Renan’s “Life of
I Jesus,” in the first year after the issue of that
volume. The number is over two hundred,
and the list is not complete.
A most important discovery ha3 just been
made in South America. It is that the great
river Amazon has been found to be naviga
ble from one end to the other: that, in fact, a
new route has been opened between the At
lantic and Pacific. The Morona, a Peruvian
steamer, which was sent to explore the Am
azon, has arrived at Mayro, about three hun
dred miles from Lima. The Morona naviga
ted more than two thousand miles of the Am
azon proper, and six hundred of the Yeayali
and the Pachitea rivers, which, until then, had
seen only Indian canoes. The country is, of
course, inhabited only by savages, but it is of
wonderful fertility.
A Beautitcl Experiment. —ls an acorn be
suspended by a piece of thread to within half an
inch of some water, contained in a hyacinth glass,
and so permitted to remain without being dis
turbed, it will, in a few months, burst and throw
a root down inte the water, and shoot upwards
its tapering stem, with beautiful little green
leaves. A young oak tree, grewing in this way,
on a mantel shelf of a room, is a very interesting
object.
the city
T. J. JACKSON LOCAL EDITOR
Auction Salks. —At auction by Ellis A Cos.
yesterday the following prices wer©obtained : oil
cloth $7.50 per yard; one mahogany secretary
$750; one sewing machine S6O 0: one do. 1750-
negro man Judah $1700; silver watch $62,50; one
geld watch $1,750; one bureau 409; w&gen and
harness $1500; leather $11.75; two shares Eagi#
Factory stock $4,175 per share for SSOO paid in ;
15 Shares Home Insurance stock $lO7 per share
for SSO paid in; 75 shares Great Southern Insu
rance stack S3O per share for S2O paid in ; one
share Lamar Exporting and "Importing stock
SIOSO for SIOOO paid in, other sales unimportant.
Sale of Negroes.— J. B. Habersham & Ce.
advertie twenty-two valuable negroes at executor’s
sale iu the city of Macon on the first Tuesday in
March. These negroes are men and women all
good plantation hands.
Negotiation Again. —Our telegrams of yester
day morning repeat the oft told tale of recogni
tion. This .time it comes from Charleston and
not from Canada or the Northern papers. And it
comes too so authentically. A reliable gentleman
in Augusta learns that Mayor Macbeth says that
the French Consul at ClmTiesten says that he has
good authority for stating that Louis Napoleen
told somebody that he intended t© recognize the
Confederacy and back the recoguitioa by force of
arms if necessary. Wonder if that’s so. It may
be, but it has come in so many shapes and forms
since the beginning of the year, that this report
will have to be vouched for moro authentically
than it is before we believe it.
— » 1
What did it Mean? —On Friday night as this
local was wending his solitary way homeward,
he was accosted by a number of men in uniforms,
under the supposition that he was a “nig.” The
night was awful dark and we could not see the
faces of the men, but we could hear them talking
in under tones to each other. One says to the
other—“oh Bill, he’s a white man !” “The devil
you say,” says the other, “well let him go.” Ac
cordingly wo went without stopping to enquire
into the nature of their" designs. Glad to get
off so easy. But what did they mean ? Their
object must have been to rob if a nigger, and to
let us slide if a white man ? Glad was’nt a nig
ger. We always believed ourself to be a white
man, and so we are according to the concurrent
testimony of thoso four night prowlers. So that
question is settled. But it strikes us the business
of robbing the negro is a most contemptible one,
and a man must be terribly demoralized to en
gage in it. If we wore constitutionally a thief,
w« think it would be more manly to steal from a
white man, and one who had plenty at that.
mm 9
Something Wrong —During the last few weeks
several letters containing money have been mailed
to this office from post offices on the Mobile A
Girard Railroad, which have never come to hand.
This we can only acceunt for by supposing that
the money has been purloined either at the mail*
ing office or other office on the route. We are
aware that the compensation of postmasters is in*
adequate to their support, and that the bias of the
times is strongly in favor of stealing, but as
strong a case as this is, it does not justify the ab
straction of the printer’s money. The poor devil
lives hard enough when he gets his dues, and if
he should fail to get these his case is pitiable. So
send on our letters if you please. We’ll forgive
the past if you’ll do better in the future.
Water Plenty. —In these times of great scar
city we have plenty of nothing but water—water
in the river, water in the streets, water on the
commons, water in the woods, water at the brick
yard—water everywhere and plenty of it. Since
Friday night rain has been falling almost inces
santly, and during the time pretty much all busi
ness operations in our city have been suspended.
Although the weather is by no means congenial to
our feelinge, we have no doubt it is all for the
best.
Something Needed.— We see by advertisement
that D. Keith It Cos. are prepared to furnish seeks
and stockings for ladies and children. This will
be hailed with pleasure by many who have been
compelled to go barefooted-lhis winter because of
inability to get stocking yarn. Call en Keith—
he’ll do what’s right by yeu sure.
On the 30th ultimo, the Yankee Secretary of
War sent to the U. S. Senate a list of the general
officers in the armies of Lincoln. It comprises
sixty-six major generals and two hundred and
seventy-six brigadiers.
A bill has been introduced in the Confederate
Senate to abolish provost marshals except within
the lines es armies in the field, and to turn over to
the reserve forces the duties now performed by
the conscript officers, their guards, &c.
Brig. Gen. John Echols is in command of the
department of Southwestern Virginia and Ea3t
Tennessee, vice Gen. Breckinridge, appointed Sec
retary of War. Gen. Echols has once before been
in command of this department, and his adminis
tration of it was most successful.
Fight at Dardanellb, Arkansas. —The St.
Louis Democrat of the 28th ult., say3 we learn
that a fight took place on the 15th inst., at
Dardanelle, Arkansas, about halfway between
Little Rock and Fort Smith, in which the reb
els were defeated. A fleet of light draught
steamers were en route for Fort Smith, and
took on board a regiment of cavalry at Lewis
burg, to clear the river banks of guerrillas.—
This force landed at Dardanelle, where the
rebels were in strong force, under command
of Joe Shelby. A fight ensued, during which
the transports passed up the river. Our loss
was twenty-five killed. The rebels fell back
and the next day evacuated the town. No
further particulars have come to hand.
AUCTION SALES
MYERS, WATSOY & CO.,
AUCTIO IST EBBS
AND
General Commission Merchants,
At Hull <6 Duck’s old stand,
Opposite Bank of Columbus, Broad Street.
Personal and prompt attention given
to all consignments.
Columbus, Ga., Jan. 21, 1365. jan23 ts
BY MYERS, WATSON & CO.,
ON MONDAY. FEBRUARY 27th, in front of our
Store, at 11 o’clock,|we will sell.
50 Sacks Ground Peas,
20 Boxes Tobacco,
15 Bales Smoking Tobacco,
9 bbls Cane Syrup,
2 Sacks Sugar,
5 “ Salt,
1 Sheet Iron Stove,
Beady-Made Clothing, &c,
• ALSO,
1 Excellent Gold Watch, ,
21 Dollars in Gold,
24 “ in Silver, &c., kc.
fob 25 sl3
Hofl- C. C. Clay.
The following is an extract from a orivate
letter, from the Hon. C. C. Clay, j r , to a friend
m Alabama:
“I am sorry to say that I have but littl* .
cotiragement to offer our people from‘the for'
eign countries I have- visited. We have th
sympathy, respect, admiration and praise 0 u
very lage majority of the people I saw. and
they cordially wish us triumph over our ene
mies, and peace and independence; but they
are indisposed to hazard offending them by
any recognition or open aid of us.° We mu s i
trust in God and our ewn virtues for deliver
ance, or lose all that i3 worth living for o
dying for. If o ur people know all that awaits
! f Q( l uered . they would gladly offer up
all their blood and treasure to avert that great
est Oi all calamities. lam sure that no bond
age, trom that of the Israelites to this day, of
which history makes mention, was so humili
ating and galling as ours will be, if we vie’l
to any terms of peace that do not embrace' ou
independence of the North. But I fear tbat
many of our people do not believe this, and
indulge in the fatal and base delusion, that
they may enjoy their property and their most
essential liberties under Yankee domination ’’
It may weil be doubted whether the Unked
States with all its braggadocio, can ever raise
again suen armies as those which have already
taken the field. The half million draft of las?
year yielded only seventy thousand effectives, and
it is the opinion ol the most intelligent Northern
men that a resort to conscription would break
down the war. If our own efforts aro wisely con
ducted, and our own resources of rnoa and mate
rial judiciously husbanded, we have no reason :V
diseoura*genaent. If we are conquered, it will net
be by the \ ankees, but by ourselves. Most of
the misfortunes we new suffer are the results of
our own faults and blunders. It would be a mis
erable fact enough to be overwhelmed and sub
jugated by sheer force; but to perish by our own
folly and mismanagement is too horrible to think
ot. Every public man, every official, high and
low, m every branch of the service, should realize
the fearful weight of responsibility that now rests
upon those to whom the country has entrusted the
success of its cause.
AUCTION SALES.
By Ellis, Livingston Cos,
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
ON Tuesday, 7th March next, at 11 o’clock,
I will sell, in the city of Columbu3, in
front of Ellis, Livingston & Co’s Auction Store
The very Desirable Residence,
near the Court House, lately occupied by Col. Ten
nille. A large and commodious dwelling house, good
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. Tennille, dec’i.
Terms cash. Possession given immediately.
Persons holding claims against the estate of Mrs.
LucyM. Tennille. dec’d, also 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 & 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, dec’d. con
sisting of one Bureau, Bedstead, Ward
robe, Tables, Wash Stand, Chairs, Baths
ing Tubs, Water Buckets, Tin and Crocks
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 Ordinary
of Muscogee county.
E. BARNARD.
feb 24 wtd $24 Adm’r.
By Ellis, Livingston A Cos.
WILL SELL on Tuesday, Feb. 23th, iu
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 A Cos.
— im •
ON TUESDAY, 28th inst., at 11 o’clock,
we will sell in front of our 3tore,
A SMALL FARM,
Five miles from the city on the Buena
Vista road, with 25 acres land attached,
12 acres cleared, balance heavily tim>
bered. On the premises is a framed dwell*,
ing, 2 rooms, smoke house, stables, &c.,
with a good well and spring of water,
feb 23 $37 50
Deserted.
DICK FREEMAN. Company "I,” 7th Alabama
Cavalry, blue eye?, black hair, sallow complexion,
five feet eleven inches high, twenty-one years of age,
a resident of Madison county, Alabama-
When he left meat Columbus,Ga., was riding a
sprightly bay horse, wore a cottonade Jacket, was
in possession of a Maynard Rifle with breech burnt
near the lock, he will probably try to get through to
the enemy’s lines in North Alabama.
FRANK COOK, Company “I,” 7th Alabama
Cavalry, light hair, fair complexion, eyes yellow
with considerable white in them, five feet eight or
ten inches high, twenty-five years of age, a resident
of Madison county, Alabama. 7 When he left meat
Columbus, Ga-, was riding an old sorrel horse, wore
brown jeans clothing, had in his possession a May
nard Rifle, he will attempt to make his way to the
I enemy's lines in North Alabama.
I Confederate officers and soldiers, and Enrolling
officers are requested to arrest men answering the
above description and deliver them to the Com
mandant of Past, Columbus, Ga.
r. a. McClellan,
feb26 3t Lieut. Cos., "I,” 7th Ala., Cav.
‘‘First Lome, First Served.’ 1
liOCli. "W"©11 2
I OFFER FOR SALE FOR
CONFEDERATE MONEY.
Ist. Twenty-five bales es good.COTTON, in good
order, s:attered in small lots in the counties of
Chambers and Macon, Ala.
2d. A HOUSE; fund LOT of 10 acres, already
deeply ploughed—ditched and manured) three fur
nished rooms in a convenient locality ana gooa
neighborhood.
3d. A NICE LITTLE FARM of 1
burn, Ala. 100 acres of open land
sowed down in Wheat and Oats. No houses.-
Flenty of Wood, Water and Pasture.
4th. My HOME PLACE-cons.sting of the lot on
which I live (40 acres.) and another House and Lot
across she street. Very valuable- well located.
B.—l will give good bargains to those who ap
r>iv anon to me at Auburn, Ala-
P feh 26,1865-ts WM. F. SAMFORD.
S2OO Howard..
STOLEN from our Factory on the 23d hm., a 7-
inch RUBBER BELT, about 33 feet long The
above rewar will be given to any one giving :a:or
mation so we can get the same. „
25 2t* THOS. BERRY St CO.