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DAILY TIMES.
J. W. WARREN, ... Editor.
OOLUMBXJS:
Tuesday Morning, February 28,1865.
The Chylettsville Chronicle says Gen. Lae’s
army is now as strong, or nearly as strong, as
when the campaign of 1864 commenced, not
withstanding the absence es their troops then with
him, but now elsewhere. This is due to Gen.
Lee’s administrative capacity, and to the faithful
execution es the law revoking details in Virginia
and North Carolina.
The Mobile Register's LouMana correspondent
learns from Vicksburg, on the v,ery best authoriiy,
that the negroes there are dying at a fearful rate,
from disease brought on by exposure,' want and
inattention. He does not know the exact number
there, but his information is that the average
number of deathß per day is about thirty. One
day over forty were buried. The same is the
case at the negro camps at Notches, Port Hudson
and Baton Rouge,
The Chicago Tribune, or Dec. 23d, announces
the arrival of i,640 Contederste prisoners at Camp j
Douglas. About the same number are expected. j
They wore mostly from Tennessee, Georgia and j
Alabama. They were captured at Nashville— j
Their clothing hangs in tatters around then ema
ciated forms. Many were without hats, shoes, or
blankets. A large number were frost bitten
soma so badly that they could scarcely walk.
Secretary Wells, of the Federal navy depart
ment. is unable to answer the question of the
House, as to the cause of the bursting of the Par
rot guns. He admits that five have burst during
ihe two atu< ks on Fort Fisher, and that forty five
men were killed and wounded by the explosions*
but says the reason of the bursting cannot be as
certained until more complete facts can be ob
tained .
The Mississippi correspondent of the Appeal, says
that the celebrated guerrilla, Dick Davis, long in
prison at Memphis, has been hung by the Federals.
It is said he sent a last message to his men request
ing them no retaliate for his death. He is general
ly believed to have slain about seventy Yankees
with his own hands before they caught and hung
him. The merciless war waged by him against the
Fedora's on his own hook, for he had no commission
in our service, was in retaliation for their barbarity
to his brother, a member of the 2d Missouri cavalry*
whom they horribly mutilated and then murdered
after he had surrendered himself a prisoner.
*• -♦ —ii
Georgia’s Position. —The people of Georgia,
through their representatives, have now an oppor
tunity of manifesting such a height of sublime
patriotism as is rarely in the power of a nation or
people tmexhibit. They see before them but one
path to glory, honor and independence ; but yet it
is a path fraught with peril, sacrifice, discomfort
and self-abnegation. Our State needs arousing,
and perhaps no surer and more satisfactory way
can be adopted for arousing it to a determined
spirit, than for the Legislature to adopt such
measures, establish suoh laws, pass such resolu
tions, as will incite to the highest degree of patri
otic ardor and evoke the loftiest emotions of valer
and patriotic resolution. Let the Confederacy and
the United States and the world see that Georgia
is not whipped and will uot be whipped ; but that
with indomitable will and persistency, she intends
to oarry on this war until her rights as a land of
freemen are obtained, and until the banner of her
country floats gloriously and triumphantly over
the heights of Independendenco. —Christian Index.
From the Chattanooga Rebel.]
Where is the Enthnsiasm ?
What has become of the enthnsiasm which
but little over three years ago swept like a
devouring flame from the ocean to the great
river, and for a while illuminated this whole
land ? Where is that spirit of unselfish devo
tion to countrj which then disregarded all
other considerations but those of patriotism,
and required lhat the united efforts of all should
be made in behalf of our threatened and im
periled rights? What *has become of that
impulse of devotion to a common interest
which prompted young and old to rush to the
banners of liberty and march forth to battle,
and, if need be, to die for independence ? The
recollection of that outburst still lives in the
memory of all, but alas, the spirit which then
moved our people seems to have flown from
us, never to return.
Is not the cause the same that it was then ?
Are not the reasons why we should spurn all
further connection with our selfish enemies as
imperative, and the necessity for a separate
national existence as great, as it wa3 then ?
If we hated the Northern oppressor then, and
desired the severance of all political, social and
commercial ties which bound us together as
one nation, have we not greater and more
powerful reasons to abhor alliance with him
now ? From the ocean to the great river and
from the Ohio to the Gulf, when the signal
was given the people rushed to arms, and up
on the altar of a common purpose and a com
mon destiny swore we would be free. By
hundreds and thousands they eagerly volun
teered to place theriaselves in the path of their
country’s foes snd drive them back or perish
in the effort. Those who did not go were
moved, by enthusiasm equal to that of those
who did, and bent every energy to supply the
wants of those who had gone forth to battle.
Our women, always first in every good work,
always prompt in what requires sacrifice and
self-denial, encouraged those who buckled on
their armor With their smiles and bade them
Good speed in their noble and heroic resr’ves.
In a word, every class, and grade, and age,
and sex, of our people, were united in the
sentiment of an unchangeable resolve to do
or die in the effort to achieve their liberty.
Ar that time the moving cause of our hate of
the Northern people and their government was the
apprehension that they weuld interfere with rights
held sacred by us, and which we could not afford
to surrender. The theory of the government
under which we had lived was the equality of all
the States, and we could not consent to be de
prived of that equality, without degradation,
and in vindication of our manhood we took up
arms.
Since then our worst anticipations have been
more than realized. Every right for which we
took up arms has been struck down by the legislas
tion of the Northern and the Constitu
tion itself has been changed to give efficiency to
their fanaticism and point to their malignity.
Slavery nas keen abolished, penalties the °most
«Sruei anu insulting have been declared against
those who have the manliness to assert their rights,
and the confiscation of their property is the means
by which the government of the United States
hope to replenish their depleted and bankrupt
treasury. Men, women and children have been
driven into exile; the homes they lived in
and cherished have been lighted by the in
cendiary brand, and there is nothing now but
blackened ruins to mark the places where they
.stood.
Because we presumed to say that we would no
longer tolerate the government whose powers
were wielded to oppress us and deprive us of our
rights, and to reassert that great doctrine of the
declaration of independence, that when a form of
government becomes oppressive the people ha re
the right to throw it off; they have made war
upon us with fleets and armies such as the world
has never seen before. They have invsded our
territory and made a smouldering desert of a land
which before had blossomed like the rose ; they
have filled it with wailing and sorrow; they hare
cut off, in the pride of their strength and the
vigor of thoir manhood, our fathers, sons and
brothers, and where they have established their
sway they have expelled our people from theii
homes and given them te our slaves.
These, and a thousand ether nameless wrongs
end outrages, they have perpetrated in their wick
ed and ruthless efforts te extinguish our national
ity and exterminate us as a peeple.
And, yet, notwithstanding the wrongs they have
suffered, and the dangers which now threatens us,
there is outside, es our armies, an amount of apa
thy and seeming indifference which is absolutely
astounding. Why is this? Wkat has dampened
tae ardor and enthusiasm which blazed so brightly
but three shert years ago ? Why sleeps the in
insulted and outraged freemen ?
• cause less worthy, or the principles in
1 which it has its foundation less firm, than when
; we took up arms to vindicate our righs? Or have
the sensibilities of our people been deadened by the
rude and oft repeated shocks of arms ? by the
bitterness of their their woe, and
by the magnitude of the wrongs unatoned, which
they have endured ? We cannot believe it.
If the love of vengeance and of liberty yet
animates the hearts of the people of this Confede
racy, the cause now shrouded in gloom will yet
gloriously triumph. There are thousands and
tens of thousands of strong arms and brave hearts,
able, an drwe hope willing, to defend our imper
illed liberties and achieve for us an honorable
peace and a lasting independence.
Miscellaneons Items.
A Richmond letter states that since General
Price’s return from Missouri that State occu
pies the honorable position of third on the
list, in point of numbers, in the Confederate
States army.
The Mississippian Extra, of the 20th, says
there is no indication of a raid or movement
eastward from Vicksburg. With the lights
before us v. e are inclined to the opinion none
will be made soon.
A New Dodge. —At a recent auction sale,
about fifty grey wigs were disposed of at a high
figure. We are told that the enterprising in
dividual who purchased the lot expects to re
alize something handsome by retailing grey
hairs to men under the conscript age. The j
knowing ones say such a traffic is not un
known to the artful dodders. The Medical j
Board would do well to scalp their subjects j
before investigating the state of the lungs. i
[ Constitutionalist. j
A French theatrical manager has addressed j
Dickens in regard to his poem of ‘‘ Mazeppa, ”
which the Menken is playing in London. The
manager’s idea of English literature is rather
confused.
The report about Dr. Gwin having been
made a Duke, etc., by Maximilian is pronoun
ced a canard, and had caused much meriment
in Havana. Gwin was in that city and was
going to Europe, having failed to obtain what
he sought from Maximilian.— Yankee paper.
We learn from J. G. W. Mills, the active and
efficient special agent of the Postoffice Depart
ment, who has returned from Calhoun, that
mail facilities on the line of the Western and
Atlantic railroad to Calhoun and lateral
routes are now restored to Simi weekly ser- i
vice.— Atlanta Intelligencer.
Badly Posted. —Recently,.while the people
at Honolulu were anxiously looking out for
news from the United States, a large clipper
arrived from San Francisco, and on being
boarded by the nevvsboat, the only reply of the
captain was : “ There was a devil of a row in
the United States, but he didn’t learn the par
ticulars. ”
The Rev. Mr. Vincent Ash, formerly of Van
Buren, Anderson county, Kentucky, who went
as chaplain in Gen. Morgan’s regiment, and
was captured during the raid in Ohio, died
recently at Camp Chase.
A wag seeing a lady at a party with a very
low-necked dress and bare arms, expressed his
admiration by saying she outstripped the whole
party.
Andrew Jackson Donelaon, of Tennessee,
has returned to Nashville and swallowed the
oath.
Portions of General Forrest’s command and
Gen. Lyon’s forces are vigilantly watching
Thomas in North Alabama.
A preacher once said that ladies were very
timid; they were afraid to sing when they
were asked; afraid of taking cold} afraid of
snails and spiders; but he never saw one
afraid of getting married.
Fire Yankee prisoners belonging to Sher
man’s party were brought down frotft Johnson’3
Turnout on the South Carolina railroad, and
lodged in the military prison at Augusta.
They were captured in the lower part of Barn
well district where they had quietly settled
in the country—one of them having gene to
milling and the others indulging in agricul
tural pursuits.
To pronounce a man happy merely because
he is rich, is just as absurd as to call a man
healthy because he has enough to eat.
NewYork, Jan. 23.—Eighty bags of the Cal
ifornia Overland Mail matter, which had accu
mulated here, were dispatched by the Isthmus
route, in the steamer Ocean Queen, to-day.
This matter was sent west to Atchison, Kan
sas, and some of it went to Julesburg, 400
miles further, but as the Indians practically
hold s©o miles, it was returned to this city,
and it is thought that regular communication
will not be resumed before June.
A man went from New York to the Penn
sylvania oil region and spent $1,500 in boring
for oil, but without success. He had no funds
left, but bought five barrels of oil on a credit,
carried them to his well in the night, poured
the oil down the pipes, and the next morning
began pumping with a success which aston
ished ail his neighbors. «. Before the flow
stopped he sold his well for $7,000 and went
home.
The London Daily News gives a flat contra
diction to the report that one of the princess
es of England had married a viscount, against
the will of the Queen, and in contravention of
the Royal Marriage act.
A late eminent and eccentric lawyer in one
of his addresses to the jury, explained the
meaning of this phrase t>y relating the follow
ing fable, worthy of old Hs3op himself:
“ Truth and falsehood traveling one day, met
at a river, and both went to bathe at the same
place. Falsehood coming out of the water first,
took his companion’s clothes, leaving his own
vile raiment, and went on his way. Truth,
coming out of the water, sought in vain for
his own proper dress, disdaining to wear 'he
garb of Falsehood. Truth started, all naked,
but ha3 never overtaken the fugitive, and has
ever since been known as ‘Naked Truth. ’ ”
The King of Greece has decided that four
officers of the army or navy shall proceed to
France and England to inquire into the naval
and military organization of those two coun
tries, and make a report of the commission
formed at Athens for the reorganization of
those services in Greece.
The French and Papal Governments have
concluded a telegraph treaty. After New
Year’s day a single dispatch from Paris to
Rome, and vice versa, will cost only five francs
instead of thirteen francs and fifty centimes.
Anew journal is to appear in Paris, to be
called La Presse Gall cane , and to be devoted
to urging greater liberality in religious affairs.’
The motto is from Cavour—“ A free churcir
in a free State. ”
The number of persons who emigrated from
France to Foreign countries in 1863 amounted
to 4,285, and those to Algiers 1,486, making a
total of 5,771. This number is less j?y 1,029
than in 1862.
From Charleston. —We reproduce the follow
ing from the Constitutionalist of the 25th:
Mr. M. F. Moloney, the Intendent of Blackrille,
sends us through our accommodating friend Capt.
Moore, es the South Carolina railroad, some in
teresting items.
A gentleman just from Charleston states that
the French Consul showed Mayor Macbeth a few
days ago a communication (which this gentleman,
who is well known in Augusta, also saw) saying
that the government of Napoleon would acknowl
edge the independence of the Confederate States
on the 4th of March next; and was ready, if nec
essary, to assist us with armed intervention. A
French fleet is already being concentrated at a
suitable point.
Charleston was certainly evacuated on Thurs
day the 16th, without the loss of men or material.
Tho South Carolina railroad has not been dam
aged from Charleston to Braßchviile, the gentle
' men bringing the above intelligence having come
' « « crank as far as the Edisto river.
i■ • - litical and moral results of this struggle
wui never pass away. The infamy of the enemy
will be chronicled in history long after the last
participant of the war has left this sphere. The
examples of patriotism and virtuous heroism will
be a dauntless heritage, growing richer and holier,
and bearing fresh harvest of noble lives and’deeds
while the earth endures.— [Clarion.
There is this difference between Gov. Brown and
Nebuchadnezzar; the one required all men to
worship nn image he 'had raised, whilst the other
would have nil men bow down and worship him.
[Tel. db Confederate'
[From the Constitutionalist, Feb. 22.]
Clothes Line Telegraph and Saw Horse Ex
press.
j FROM EUROPE—HIGHLY IMPORTANT NEWS—OUR
COMMISSIONRRS RECOGNIZED.
Nova Zembla, Feb. 15, 1865.
Professor Lowe’s Balloon has just arrived
| from Hong Kong. It brings dates to the 16th
instant, which, it will be observed, are very
important.
The Isle of Man correspondent of the New
York Lyre says: I have important intelli
gence to communicate. Russell has recog
nized the Rebel Commissioners ! It was done
in this wise ! The Commissioners were in a
large crowd viewing the Royal cortege as it
passed into Regents Park, Cheapside, New
gate street, London, when Lord Palmerston
asked the Premier, if those were not the
Southern Commissioners, at the same time
pointing to them. After looking some time,
apparently in vain, the so-called Mr Russell
exclaimed : “Oh ! yes, I recognize them now.”
This affair has created intense excitement in
manufacturing circles, and fears are enter
tained that, should friendly relations cease
between the so-called Kingdom of Great Brit
ain and the so-called Republic of the United
States, war between these two Powers will
probably be t lie result. Spool cotton—Coats’
six cord—has advanced 1 cent per yard in
consequence; while Confederate stocks are
much sough t after—particularly stocks of
Confederate cotton.
The following are some of the replies to the
circular of the Peace Commissioners:
London.
Gentlemen : Iler Majesty regrets very much
to hear that the little fracas over in your
country still continues; but she is still of the
opinion that the kind of neutrality which she
has heretofore observed between the bellig,
eients had best continue. It would, there
fore, perhaps, be best for you and your at
taches to go back to the so-called Confeder
ate States and join the army ; you might pos
sibly do more good in that way than waiting
here for something you can’t get.
Respectfully, &c.,
Russell.
Palais Royals, Paris.
Genteelmens: lav ze grand onneur to ac
knowledge, vat you call peace circulaire. I
av show ’im to ze Emperur and he say I shall
say to you wid compliment*, zat he very sor
ry dat you have no pieces in your Confeder
acy. He ave got some two, three, four poun
der, vich you can tek—may be will be of some
little service to you. Aceept ze mes compli
ments. Vive l’Erapereur.
Drouyn dk L’huys.
Amsterdam, Holland.
Shentlemen : I been perry glad for git your
note bout de vile in Ameriky. I druly opes
dat ven dis cruel var is opher, you vill ave
peace in your kountree Ich bin your, etc.
Kizzort, Burgomaster.
Madrid, Spain.
Respected Signors—You will have to rustle
around a little more in England, and induce
me to have more confidence in France, which
is “ drowned i’lies” before .you can get me to
recognize your little Confederacy. Quien
sabe ? Respectfully,
Isabella, Queen.
HoncTlulu, S. I.
Jentlemans—l hear by one whaler's vessels
what you have a row in your country. What
for you don’t ’rest ’em under Eighteenth Sec
tion—fine ’em big heap Confedrit monies?
and den you haves peace.
Kammkhama, King.
Hong Kong, China.
Kon fed-rit Kommish-ners—No use send
your letters to me. I got big rebellions on
my hands already—don’t want hear no more
about rebellions. ’Tend to your own busi
ness ; let mine alone. Yours,
Meen Fun, Emperor.
Cannibal, Islands.
White Mens—What for you no eat your en
emies decently ? I see in your paper you
“gobble ’em up.” You never have peace long
as you “gobble ’em up.” You must cook
.well —eat ’em slow. I know um Yankee and
um no taste good ; but 1 send you nice re
seets for make pate de foie gras, bouillon co
quillion en papillet, and oder tings make ’em
taste good—no tell um Yankee.
Hocus pocus—wingy wong,
My country is both stout and strong ;
Hurrah for the "
King of the Cannibal Islands.
LATER FROM THE NORTH.
Harrisburg, Feb. 16.
Late Northern papers have been received.
They contain nothing of interest.
[No other news association but this has
given the jokes which Abe Lincoln got off
during his interview with the Commissioners.]
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
Macon, Feb. 15.
Mr. Korum having arrived, the Governor
sent in his message to-day. He says : “Our
military system having failed, I think it ought
to be repealed ; and if all the troops permit
ted to volunteer to go home (on both sides)
I believe the war would stop. lam in favor
of calling a convention to take the military
power out of the hands of Mr. Davis, and
giving it to someone who understands the
business. Os course I don’t want everybody
to insist upon my taking the position, though
I do not know what I might do if the good of
the cause required it.
“Gosephee Brown.”
FROM THE FRONT.
Hamburg, S. C., Feb. 15.
An intelligent contraband hasjust arrived,
who reports Sherman" and one third of his ar
my captured—Columbia taken—Charleston
taken, and any other news to suit all tastes
and all inquirers.
It is known, however, that the Hardy sons
of the South are confronting Sherman, and
that the President has sent his Beauregard
to him. It is hoped, therefore, that what
ever the enemy may anticipate, we shall be
able to Cheat'em, and thwart their plans in
South Carolina. Wheeler is wheeling around
them, while, should they get into Hampton
roads , they will certainly be foundered. Things
are working right, and Wright is ruling things,
and if the enemy is not successful he will cer
tainly be defeated.
[The Saw Horse and Clothes Line being
called for, we need expect no more dispatches
this evening.— Rep.]
GEN. SHERMAN’S RESIGNATION LETTER.
We find in a Northern paper the annexed
letter of resignation written four years ago by
Gen. Sherman, when he resigned his position
as superintendent of the Military Academy
of Louisiana :
January, 18, 1861.
Gov. Thomas O. Moore, Baton Rouge , La :
Sir : As I occupy a quasi military position
under this State, I deem it proper to acquaint
you that I accepted such position when Louis
iana was a State in the Union, and when the
motto of the seminary was inserted in marble
over the main door —“By the liberali'y of the
General Government of the United States—
Union. Esto perpetua." •
Recent events foreshadow a great change,
it becomes all men to choose. I: Louisiana
withdraws from the Federal Union. I prefer to
maintain my allegiance to the old Constitu
tion as long as a fragment of it survives, and
my longer stay here would be wrong in eyery
sense of the word.
In that event I beg you will send or appoint
some authorized agent to take charge of the
arm3 and munitions of war here, belonging to
the State, or direct me what disposition should
be made of thefn.
And furthermore, as President of the Board
of Supervisors, I beg you to take immediate
steps to relieve me as Superintendent, the
moment the State determines to secede; for
on no eaithly account will I do any act, or
thought hostile to, or m defiance of
the old government of the United States.
With great reepect, etc.,
W. T. Sherman.
TELEGRAPHIC.
REPORTS OF 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.
FIGHT BETWEEN THE FEDERALS AND
MAXIMILIAN.
Clinton, La., Feb. 24.—1 tis reported that there
was great excitement at Baton Rouge on Tues
day, growing out of a report of a hostile collision
between the Federals and Maximilian’s forces at
the mouth of the Rio Grande. A Mexican regi
ment at Baton Rouge thretened to lay down their
arms in consequence.
It is reliably stated that 87 transports laden
with troops passed Baton Rouge Tuesday and
Wednesday going down.
Augusta, Feb. 27th.—The 15th and 17th
Yankee army corps are under ’the command
of Sherman in person and have a baggage
train three miles, long. The 15th corps was
drunk on the 17th and sacked and pillaged
Columbia, burning the entire length of Main
St. and cotton. Only one house remains. After
the mischief was done Sherman ordered the
pillagers and burners shot when caught. The
Twentieth Yankee corps left Columbia at 4
a. m. All were gone at nightfall. Two or three
hundred citizens left Columbia with the
Yanks. The condition of the city is dreadful,
most of the people living in huts. Sherman
left 200 cattle for the sick and wounded. He
gave the citizens arms to protect themselves
against the negroes. Every article of subsis
tence was carried off. Cellars, buildings and
all other places thoroughly searched.
The accident reported to have occurred at
the S. C. depot in Charleston, happened at
Columbia on Friday morning. The enemy
shelled the city furiously on Thursday. Mis
siles were thrown indiscriminately; 43 fell in
the hospital and yard, and in hotels and gar
dens. The South Carolinian office, buildings
of Evans & Cogswell, a number of churches,
Catholic Seminary, depots, cars, engines and
railroad property of all descriptions destroyed.
Three churches—Catholic, Presbyterian and
Episcopalian remain. Female College unin
jured. It is now occupied by homeless women
and children. The old State House was blown
up. The new State House was struck by one
shell, but was not destroyed because it con
tained the statue of Washington. Twentyfive
miles of the Greenville road destroyed be
tween Columbia and Allston. The banks and
Treasury were removed to Charlotte.
Lexington has been burned. Not a dozen
houses remain.
Charleston was quietly occupied by the for
ces of Foster and Gilmer. The citizens of the
surrounding country went to the city to ob
tain subsistence.
Wade Hampton after reporting three days
to Gen. Wheeler received notice of his appoint
ment as Lieut General and Chief of Cavalry.—
Wheeler remains Major General of Cavalry
and reports to Gen. Hampton.
A large force is rapidly widening the track
on the North Carolina railroad to save the
stock at Charlotte.
The Savannah river is full from three days
rains. The river is now falling steadily. No
fear of gunboats from Savannah.
The citizens here are making arraugements
to send supplies to Columbia.
The War Department has issued an order
that officers and soldiers escaping Federal pri
sons wil be allowed ten dollars per day and
expenses until they reach our lines.
Gen. Lee’s orders assuming control of the
armies, and his address will be sent tomo^pw.
Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 27.—L*f$%atur
day night an unusually large and enthusiastic
meeting was held here. It was a perfect suc
cess—a glorious ovation to liberty and inde
pendence. Judge Bibb presided ; he made a
speech, followed by Gev. Watts, Judge Chiltom
Gen. Clanton, Lieut. Col. Gaine3, Col. Woods,
Hon. Thomas B. Cooper, and others. These
speeches were of the highest tone, and were
received with great demonstrations of appro
val.
The following preamble and resolutions
were adopted unanimously by a rising vote :
Whereas, The United States are, by their
own confession, waging a war for subjugation
or extermination of the people of the Confed
erate States, and have unequivocally refused
to consider any propositions for peace which
is not involved in unconditional submission
to the Government of the United States, the
emancipation of our slaves and the general
confiscation ofeonr property, with crar bare
hold on life itself dependent upon the mere
assurance of Abraham Lincoln that he will
make liberal use of the pardoning power for
the benefit of rebels. Therefore,
Resolved, That, with undiminished faith in
the justice of our cause, and humble depend
ence on Almighty God, we will maintain the
struggle until our independence shall be esta
blished. Und to this end we pledge our lives,
our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
Resolved, That chronic desertion—confess
edly deserving and always punishable with
death in armies—is more excusable in soldiers
in the field, than persons at home arc, who,
screened by the army from the hardships of
war, in the hour of their country’s need, de
sert its cause and seek to curry favor with the
foe, whom they have not the manliness to op
pose.
Resolved, That we urge as a remedy for de
sertion in the army, a zealous and uncompro
mising support of our cause by all persons at
home.
Resolved, That as a practical manifestation
of Jhe services of our armies, we solemnly
pledge ourselves, each to the other, and to the
soldiers in the field—to renewed exertions to
rolieve the necessities of their families, and
thus lift from their hearts the only burden
calculated to unnerve the arms of free men in
a contest like this.
Resolved, That, in the language of an ami
nent Senator from Virginia, we recommend to
the people of the whole Confederacy, faith in
our cause, faith in our Government, faith in
ourselves, faith in each other, and faith in
Godl
The Nashville correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune, writing under date es Feb. Ist, furnishes
the following item:
Mrs. Foote arrived here last night, and reported
to Governor Johnson. Her story is identical
with that telegraphed all over the country, just
after her arrival at Washington, and need not be
repeated here. She looks well, and was cordially
received by her friends. She says that her hus
band will try to visit this city on parole, to exam
ine into the situation, and to aot as his constitu
ents shall desire.* Those who know the blustering
Foote predict that will be making Union
speeches in less than a month. However, he is' a
“man of no consequence” anyhow, and no one
cares what position he takes.
AUCTION SALES
Rosette, Lawhon & Cos.,
Auctioneers,
131, Broad St„ Columbus, Ga.,
WILL SELL AT 11 O’CLOCK,
WEDNESDAY,
MARCH Ist, 1860.
CROCKERY WARE
AND
School BOohs 2
13 Vols. Goodrich’s 4th READER,
12 “ Colburn’s ARITHMETIC,
17 “ Smiley’s CALCULATOR.
6 “ Davie’s ARITHMETIC,
14 “ Goodrich’s sth READER,
5 “ Latin GRAMMAR,
37 Pieces CHINA WARE, Cups and
Saucers, Plates, Sugar Dish and CoL
fee Pot,
2 doz. Fancy CUPS and SAUCERS.
1 “ Glass SALT CELLERS.
ALSO,
3 Toy Setts CROCKERY.
feb 28 $42
Rosette, Lawhon & Cos.,
Auction© ers,
131, Broad St., Columbus, Ga.,
WILL SELL AT 11 O’CLOCK
WEDNESDAY,
UVRCH Ist, 1865.
100 bbls. PICKLE BEEF,
13 Shares M. & G. R. R. STOCK,
2 bbls SUGAR,
6 Mahogany Sofa Bottomed CHAIRS,*
1 Fine SECRETARY,
1 bbl CANE SYRUP,
6 Kegs WHITE LEAD.
feb 28 $24
MYERS, WATSON &, CO.,
AUCTIOITBEBS
AND
General Commission Merchants,
At Hull & Buck’s old stand,
Opposite Bank of Columbus, Broad Street.
Personal and prompt attention given
to all consignments.
Columbus, Ga., Jau. 21, 1865. jan23 ts
Funeral notice.
The friends and acquaintances of Maj.F. W. Dil
lard, are invited to attend his funeral at St. Paul’s
Church, this (Tuesday) afternoon at 3 o'clock,
feb 28 It
FOR SALE :
ANE THOUSAND STALKS PURPLE SUGAR
yJ CANE, large and in fine order for planting.
Apply atUrquhart& Chapman’s or at Dr. Urqu
hart’s plantation, five miles from Columbus,
feb 28 It J. A. URQUHART.
[From the Hillsboro (Ohio) Gazette.]
Did You Hear the News?—The “rebellion
is crushed out; ” the war for the “Union” is
rampant, everywhere; Savannah has been
evacuated by Gen. Hardee and occupied by
Gen. Sherman. The great raid through the
“ heart of the rebellion” has been successful
in reaching the Atlantic coast! The “back
bone of the rebellion” is broken sure, this
time. Os course, there will be no more con
scriptions and bloody battles; by next March
there will not be an “armed rebel ” in the Con
federacy, and Copperheads will hunt their
holes, and flank “ Old Abe” by drawing their
holes in after them. The “ loyal heart” is con
fident that the Union will be “restored ” for
certain, now. Fire the cannons, shout rill
your brazen throats are hoarse, pray and shout
—ye impious creature who disgrace the pulpit
until devils dance for joy over your sacri
lege.
Success appears to give the lie to democra
tic principles and traditions ; the divine right
of might appears to triumph over right and
self-evident truths! Well, so the “loyal”
British Government thought in 1780, when
darkness and gloom settled over the righteous
cause of our forefathers; and yet, the next
year, the same Government was forced to ac
knowledge the independence of the “rebel ”
colonies, to sanction the great “rebel” doc
trines of the Declaration as self-evident, eter
nal, and inalienable rights.
We seek not to detract from late Federal
successes; advantages have been gained ; but
we wish simply to remind the “ lt)yal " people
of the North that they are no nearer to a re
stored republican union of States by reason
of success; (hat these fortunes of war do not
refute the great principle of the impossibility
of being republican by imperial principles; a
republican government can neither be main
tained nor restored by coercion applied to
States. This war is wholly monarchical, in
all its bearings, and no amount of success can
make it right, or republican; and because it
is wrong in principle—a monstrous wrong—
finally it cannot succeed. The “ loyal aboli°
tionist” is a voracious tyrant, who uuhesitat
ingly strikes down republican government of
himself, and then seeks to compel eleven great
States to accept the same tyranny. The bright
assurances which present victories give to the
u loyal ” will most assuredly be dispelled by
the fickle fortunes of war, and in the end the
Confederacy will stand an independent repub
lic among the nations of the earth.
u m
The Slave States—Area and Population.
The area of the ten States in which cotton is
raised is 733,520 square miles, and that of the
five border slave States is 185,079 —making a
total of 913,199 square miles. The area of
the cotton States alone exceeds about five
times that of Great Britain or Prussia. It is
nearly three times that of France, five times
larger than all Germany, about three or four
times larger than Spain, and nearly double J
that of the Russian empire in Europe. And, i
taking the entire area of all the slave States,
they give a surface surpassing in extent all
the" territory held in Europe by the boasted
five Powers, with Spain and Turkey thrown in.
The census of 1850 shows that the popula
tion of the slave States was 9,526,732 —or
6,222,418 whites .and 3.204,218 slaves. Ac- j
oording to the ratio of increase of the whites
and blacKs during the decade previous to 1850,
the present population of the slave States
embraces about 8,500,000 whites and about
4,000,000 of blacks, giving a total population
of 12.500,000
To Curb Beef Red, like Hah.—Two ounces
of saltpetre, one ounce of bay-3alt, one ounce of
sal prunella, a few grains es ceehineal, a quarter
es a pound of course sugar, and a plenty of
coarse salt. Rub and turn it every day for a
month. To be cooked in dripping, with a past*
over it.
AUCTIONSAT,ES
By Ellis? Livingston & Cos
ON TUESDAY, 28th inst., at 11 o'clock,
we will sell in front of our store.
3 bbls. Choice Sugar,
40 pair Men’s Shoes,
100 lbs. Sole Leathes. .
feb 27 $9
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
WILL SELL on Tuesday, Feb. 28th. in
front of our store, at 11 o’clock,
2 Fine Marble Bed Biilard 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
— ♦ m*
ON TUESDAY, 28th inst., at 11 o’clock,
we will sell in front of our store,
A SHALL FARM,
Five miles from the city on the Buena
Vista road,‘with 25 acres land attached,
12 acres cleared, balance heavily tims
bered. 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
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
♦ —♦ —♦
ON Tuesday, 7th March next, at 11 o'clock,
I will sell, in the city of Columbus, 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’d.
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 toS. D. Betton, at Walker
Hospital, by the sth of March.
D. MORRIS, Adm’r.
feb 19 sll9
THE OITY
T. J. JACKSON LOCAL EDITOR*
Sales To-dat.—Ellis, A Ce. will
sell to day real estate, merchandise, groceries,
stock, Ac. See advertisement.
Garden Seeds.—Mr. George A. Norris adver
tises a variety of garden seeds. Now is the
time to plant them, and we trust a large crop will
be scattered. Those in need should call on Mr.
Norris.
Attention is invited, to the advertisement of
Robert A Crawford of Macon, Ga., dealer in slaves,
stocks, bonds, certificates, gold or silver coin, Ac.
Death of Major Dillard. —We regret to
learn that this gentleman expired in this city yes
terday morning after a lingering and painful ill
ness of many weeks. Before the war Major Dil
lard was known te our community as a gentleman
es high moral and intellectual worth, of enlarged
business capacities and indomitable energy.—
Since the war he has filled the office of Confede
rate Quartermaster in this city, with fidelity and
profit to the country and credit to himself. By
his assiduity and energy in the cause many a poor
man, woman and child hare found employment
and will be ready to bless the name and memory
of Major Dillard. By his death the Confederacy
has lost the services of a valued officer, the poor
a true and tried friend, and the community an
enterprising, public spirited citizen.
Is it True. —We learn from a gentleman who
happened to be in the vicinity that between mid
night and day on Saturday night a number of
negroes were discovered on the north common,
near the old Opelika depot engaged in firing pis
tols. What does this mean ? What were they
doing there at such an unreasonable hour, and
where did they get their weapons t The case looks
suspicious, and should at once be investigated by
the proper authorities.
To What are We Drifting.—The demorali
zation of the times continues. Men who were
strictly sober four years ago, now get drunk with
out any regard to conscientious scruples. Men who
were formerly considered paragons of honesty caa
now steal without a blink of the eye or a paipitas
tion of the heart—steal little things often without
the slightest justifiable pretext, through mere
wanton maliciousness. Men uho would once have
blushed at the conception of an obscene thought
or the utterance of a profane word can now
abandon themselves to the indulgence es these
things with a gusto that eclipses the most despe
rate instances of profanity and vulgarism in for.
mer years. Avarice,Just, intemperance,
ity, sabbath desecration, profanity, pilfering hold
high carnival.
To what are we drifting ? Life, property, do
mestic tranquility are insecure. Even the house
of God is often prostituted, and the sacred right to
worship God, not secure from interruption. To
what depths is man capable of descendirg?
Without the restraining grace of God and of law he
would soon approximate the lowest fiend in the
abominations that make a hell. erily, without
reform we can never expect the favor of Heaven'
Though we may gain our independence, it will
take many years to wipe away the pollution by
which we have covered ourselves during this rev
! olution.
“Vice is a monster of such hideous mien,
That to be hated needs but to be seen,
But when too oft we see its face,
We first loathe, then pity, then embrace."
Judah P. Benjamin.— The State Department has
not secured us recognition, but that >vas more it?
misfortune than its fault. Mr. Benjamin has not
left untried any expedient that would have Influ
enced foreign governments to give us justice and
right, but he could not make them act; hence he
has failed and another statesman would, probably,
have succeeded no better. One great cause of Mr.
Benjamin’3 unpopularity has been the fact that in
no proclamation signed by him, as Secretary of State,
has ever the existence of a triune God been admitted.
He has confined his State papers to Diestical belief
and stamped upon the religious taith of the country
a practical denial! of a Trinitarian Jehovah.—
This was his faith, but not the faith of that wile
spread religious sentiment that prevails throughout
this country. The people do not like to be made to
choose between Jesus Christ and Judan •
min, and to t ike the latter in preference- 1 f
Congress has endeavored to change this. ad has
adopted the excU^
aon of our , ™ o f q o( j i n our behalf, but
asking he lute y i u tiun has been disregar
'•[ religious faith is no insignifi
d , offjVr m Tt i< the deepest sentiment in the souls
S rt.f.MOPle it ta the distinguished trait in the
character of this revolution, it has its influence in
the camp and at the hearthstone, in temple and
legislative hall.and has its recognition in confessions
of thousands and thousands of our army, when
disregarded it has shocked the whole fabric ot reli
gious faith. Appealing to God and n t recognizing
the Divinity of his Son. is mocking witii
the vain repetition of words which have no mean
ing. The country ask no hypoprisy from Mr. Ben
jamin; his religious belief is respected, but they
desire seme other statesman, whose .aith more ac
cords-woh ioe religious conviction o: the people.
Richmond Enquirer.