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SPECI AL NOTICES
Deserted.
DICK FREEMAN. Company "I.” 7th Alabama
Cavalry, blue eye?, black hair, sallow complexion,
five teer. eleven inches high, tw* nty-oneyears of age,
a resident of Madison county, Alabama-'
When he left me at Columbus, Ga., was riding a
sprighti nay horse, wore a eottonade Jacket, was
in possession of a Maynard Rifio with breech burnt
near the lock, he vvilJ probably uy to get through to
the enemy’s line- in North Alabama.
FRANK COOK, Company “I,” 7ih Alabama
Cavalry, light hair, fair complexion, eyes yellow
with considerable white in thorn, five leet eight or
ten inch.;? high, twenty-five years of age, a resident
of Madison county, Alabama.. When he left me at
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
enemy’s lines in North Alabama.
Confederate officers and soldiers, and Enrolling
officers ;■ re requested to arresCmen answering the
above description and deliver them to the Com
mandant of Post, Columbus, Ga.
r. a. McClellan,
feb26 3t Lieut, Cos., “I,” 7th Ala., Cav.
Owing to the increased price of Provisions, La
bor and other expenses, the Steamboats on the
Chattahoochee River have been compelled to ad
vance their prices for freight and passage to the fol
lowing rates :
Passage fr > ’olurnbus to Chattahoochee $75 00
From Chattahoochee to Columbus.... SIOO 00
Intermediate landings in proportion.
Freights to any point on Chattahoochee River $4 00
per hundred. Measurement Freight $1 25 per cubic
foot.
Capt. H. WINGATE, Shamrock.
Capt. D AN FRY, Jackson.
Capt. ABE FRY, Indian.
Capt. JOHN COlipil, Mist.
Capt. A. O.BLACKMAR.MunnerIyn.
fcb7--tf .
Columbus Knitting Company.
We are prepared to leceive orders for SOCKS and
HOSE for Ladies and Children, all made of home
made Knitting Cotton, rather coarse, but soft and
pleasant to wear. D. KEITH,
feb2s lw Agent-
u First Conic, First Served. 5 *
Look. Well 2
1 OFFER FOR SAEE FOR
CONFEDERATE MONEY.
Ist. 'Twenty-five bales of good COTTON* in good
order, scattered in small lots in the counties of
Chambers and Macon, Ala.
2d. A HOUSE; (and LOT of 10 acres, already
deeply ploughed —ditched and manured) three fur
nished rooms in a convenient locality and good
neighborhood.
3d. A nice little FARM of 160 acres near Au
burn. Ala. 100 acres of open land—3o or 40 acres
•owed down in WKeat and Oats. No houses.
Plenty of Wood, Water and Pasture.
4th. My HOME PLACE— consisting of the lot on
which I live (40 acres) and another House and Lot
across sho street. Very valuable —well located.
N. B.—l will give good bargains to those who ap
ply soon to me at Auburn, Ala
feb 26,1865—ts WM. 1. &AMIORD.
Fluiaagie ofi Schedule.
lAN and after Friday. Jan. 20th, the Trains on
the Muscogee Railroad will run as follows :
PASSENGER TRAIN:
Leave Columbus 30 A. M.
Arrive at Macon “ cn a’ m"
Leave. Macon 50 A. M.
Arrive at Columbus •> w i . ax.
FREIGHT TRAIN :
Leave Columbus - 5 W A. M.
Arrive at Columbus W. L. CLARK^
ma r 19 ts Supt. Muscogee R, R-
Through to Montgomery.
new schedule.
MONTGOMERY & WEST POINT
railkoad oompan y.
COLUMBUS, August 27,*864.
. \N and alter August 27th. the Passenger Train on
) the Montgomery and West Point Railroad will
Leave Montgomery at 8:00 a. m.
Leave West Point at 7:10 a. m.
Arrive at Columbus at 5.82 p. m.
Leave Columbus at 5:o0 a. m.
Arrive at Montgomery at 2:00 p. m,
Arrive at West Potnt at 4!30p.m.
Freight Train leaves Columbus at 8:40 a m.
4rnves D. H. CRAM, Sup’t & Eng.
ag27lßl)4—tf
MOeSLE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD.
CHAAtrE OF SCHEDULE.
Girard, Ala., Oct 7,1864.
.\N and after 10th inst. Trains on this Road will
U Run Daily fSunday excepted,) as iollows:
Passenger Train-
Leave Girard at 1 30 p.m.
Arrive in Union Springs ” ra
Leave Union Springs
Arrive in Girard at 11 00
Freight Train.
Leave Girard at and 00 a. m.
\rrive in Girard at 6 00 p. in.
B. E. WELLS,
ag!B ts ___ . _ Eng. & Sup’t.
Regular Liue of Steamers on the
Cliattali oocliee River.
Columbus, Ga.. Jan. 9th.
THE Steamer'JACKSON, Daniel Fry, Master, wil
l leave Columbus, until further notice, every Sun
day at,9 a. M. Returning leaves Chattahoochee every
Tuesday at 2 p. m.
The Steamer Indian. 0. D. Fry Master, leaves
Columbus every Tuesday morning at 9 a. m. Re
turning, leaves Chattahoochee every Thursday at
" The Steamer Mist, A. Fry Master, leaves Colum
bus every Friday at 9a. m. Returning leaves Chat
tahooche every Sunday at 12 M.
jan 10 2m ... ——
For Exchange or Sale.
\ T the office of the "Southern Iron Works,” near
\tho new bridge, the following articles of _Hard-
Lard’ Wnoat' V Flour, FodSfor any other articles'
USStn.** Settles, of all »U«. from 30 to
'“ofeOvmi and Skillets,
Fry Fans and Andirons,
Club and Broad Axes,
I ™
promptly executed. JOHN and. GRAY St CO.
jan&ti
For Sale.
nr* A Acres of Pine land,eightimlos k*l acres
26? Tjr vein outs. Possession
given immediately. Cheap F. SAMFORD.
feb22-tf - ——
WAITED! .
„ aaatrS of TALLOW, for which a liberal price
5.000 will be paid. App^^ # DILLARD,
Major and Q. M.
si>7 ts ——
YARAS aiid OS^ABIRRS
TO EXCHANGE FOR
anOUSTD P33AS,
At the GRANT FACTORY.
dec 17 ts "
notice.
omc,
skssj 2
resent them to the Grant j GRANT.
Sun copy and send bill to office Grant Factory.
Coltrouns (Tima.
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VOL. XII.}
DAILY TIMES.
EVENING EDITION.
TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 28, 1865.
Address by Gen. H. Cobb.—Major General
How ell Cobb, in compliance with an invita
tion, will address the public in relation to the
state of the country ihis evening at half past
7 o’clock, at Temperance Hall. The ladies
are invited to attend. F. G. Wilkins,
Mayor.
Important.—All officers and soldiers belonging
to the Army of Virginia going on to their com
mands are ordered to report at this place without
delay. The order appears this day in the Macon
papers.
Not all Gone. —We understand that the se
lect Medical Board for Conscripts, located at Camp
Watts, near Notasulga,Ala.,are examining three or
four hundred cases every month and receive about
one third of them for the field ! We do not
know whether there are other members of this
energetic, intelligent patriotic Board, besides its
accomplished President, Dr. W- R. Jones and his
younger brother, Dr. E. W. Jones, both, we be
lieve, of Tuskegee, Ala., and sons of the distin
guished and venerable Dr. Jones of that place.—
Taking the efficiency of this Board for the stand
ard, and it is far too high an one —the whole Med
ical machinery would turn out annually to the
Confederacy, an army of seventy-five thousand!
Tho Chicago Times says Lea can take sev
enty thousand men, march down the Shenandoah
valley into Pennsylvania, pass westward to the
Ohio and cross into Kentucky, without Lincoln’s
being able to prevent it. The North is as much a
shell to day as the South.
The Beacon, published at Macon, where Gov,
Clark’B headquarters are just now, and where the
Legislature of Mississippi is soon to a-semble in
extra session, says that one oi the objects in call
ing the Legislature together is to provide for hold
ing a State Convention.
Col. Jesse Forrest is at Salem, Miss., gathering
up stragglers and deserters, and has notified the
latter that unless they come in and report within
ten days, that they need expeet no mercy. The
consequence is, that knowing the stuff of which he
is made, and that ho will keep his word, a large
number of them ha ve reported; and in addition to
this he has broken up a number of gangs that
were robbing and pillaging throughout the county,
and compelled those who have not reported back
to their commands to lleo to the Yankees for pros
tection. If sufficient force is furnished him, so
that his operations can be extended to the country
lying between Ileruando, Noncornah and Mem
phis, in order that the thieving and blockade run
ning may be broken up, the whole country will
be benefitted.
The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Baltimore corre
spondent says:
The Blair mission, locking to peace, has termi
nated just as it was supposed it would. It will do
good, however, in showing more satisfactorily the
exact rebel status upon the question. There can
no longer exist any doubt. The thing has to be
fought out. Sherman and Grant, with others of
our brave generals and gallant armies, are hence
forward to be the pioneers and commissioners
of peace.
We are happy to announce, says the Confede
rate, that President Davis has on this occasion
appointed <3en. R. E. Lee to meet the Federal
Commissioners, attended by such other military
diplomats ar he may select —and it is rumored that
Beauregard, Johnston and Hardee are already an
nounced and will attend him.
The New Orleans Delta says an order has been
received at Hilton Head to placo the prisoners at
that point on reduced faro, in retaliation for the
bad treatment extended to Union prisoners at de
pots in Georgia aud South Carolina. This order
is now being enforced, and hard bread and water
is daily dealt out to the two hundred and fifty
rebel officers who are held in durance at that
place.
The Augusta Register very properly says:
“The manner in which some individuals ren*
der support to our Government and cause
comports very indifferently with our ideas of
what that support should be. We may be
wrong in our conceptions, and if the vituper
ative language in which disappointed dema
gogues clothe their attacks on government
officials be becoming in one who really means
to lend a cordial support to a just cause, we
acknowledge that we have misconceived the
mode of accomplishing our ends. We wish to
be set right. If we can do more good to our
common cause by speeming out slanders
against our leaders than by the course we
have adopted, we want to try our hand, for we
acknowledge that we desire the success of the
South in this fight, and if more good can be
done by creating dissatisfaction among the
minds of the people than by endeavoring to
cultivate a spirit of unity, why should not we
too poke a flea into someone's ear.
The Virginia and Tennessee Railroad.—
\o line of railroad communication has suffered
more from the enemy, than the Virginia and
Tennessee railroad. The extent of track destroyed,
the number of stations and bridges burned, has
been very great. Out of over two hundred bridges
en the route, but fourteen remained uninjured
after the advance of the enemy along its route.
Cel. Robert L. Owen, the Napoleon of railread
presidents, we are glad to learn, is equal to the
emergency, and is putting forth all the resources
of the company te ensure the re opening ol the
road by spring. Bridges have to be rebuilt, track
regraded, culverts relaid, and in some places, an
entirely new track and bed substituted. A good
portion of the road has already been re opened to
travel, and trains are ruuning regularly.
’ [Examiner.
Howto Make Pbncil-W kiting Indbliblk.-A
correspondent of an agricultural paper gives the
following information, which may be of service to
some of our readers: ... „
A trreat many valuable letters and other writings
A great many , the case with the
Lay the writing in a shallow j may
med aced upon them lightly with a lea
have the milk piac , , wpt oil () ver with the milk,
th ,r. Wb« n th»W.er i jetainver off
tike it ok and It* jiJJ „ hic t, collect on the lower
with ft f? at^x r and it will be found to be
edge. Dry carefully ana not removed even
Suklniu rab“ It i. nn oil recipe, and a good
one.
COLUMBUS, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH. 1. 1865.
The Spirit of the Army.
The following letter, from a soldier in the
trenches to his father in Richmond, attests
the spirit of the army:
Camp near Dunlap’s, Jan. 14, 1865.
My Dear Father —Johnny tells me, what I
well knew before, that there i3 great despon
dency among the cijizens of Richmond, which
I am surprised fu.
The army Is grumbling because their food
a..d clothing is insufficient, and because they
are not paid ; but they do not despond. And
it matters little what the rest of the popula
tion may think, provided the army, which
contains tae iarger portion of the courage,
strength and energy of the country, does not
despair.
What man would have predicted, one year
before the surrender of Cornwallis at York
town, that in twelve months the country
would be at peace and have independence?
What reason could have been given for this
opinion ? Did the state of the country justify
the theught ? All our cities in the enemy’s
hands ; a currency worth nothing ; Washing
ton in New Jersey with a handful of men ;
Greene in the South at the head of a rem
nant of a defeated army ; Cornwallis march*
ing where he would, without opposition; and,
worse than all, a numerous tory population
in every State to thwart the efforts of true
men. Such was the situation. Did Wash
ington despair? Patrick Henry said: “There
is a just God who presides over the destinies
of nations; he will raise up friends to fight
our battles for us.” And so it was. Great
Britain became involved in European difficul
ties ; France became the ally of the Colonies ;
Cornwallis’ army was captured at Yorktown,
and peace and independence did come.
During the Seven Years’ War, that I
have mentioned as pertaining to our country
in the Revolution, befel Prussia, and more.
Her antagonists were far stronger than ours
were. Her only ally England, who fur
nished her ne men. Austria, France and
Russia were her foes. Her capital was time
and again captured. Inroads through her
territory (like Sherman’s through ours) were
made in every direction; agriculture was
ruined ; the Prussian King had no bases of
supply, and almost no supplies. Did he de
spair? No! Worthy of success, he hoped, he
fought on. Now, see, “what a day may bring
forth.” Suddenly Engiand and France paired
off. God visited with death the most dan
gerous of his enemies, the Empress of Russia.
Her successor, a personal admirer of Fred
erick, withdrew her armies ; and then Aus
tria, which had been unable, with the help of
Fiance and Russia, to subdue the heroic King,
consented to peace.
Did the Romans despair when Hannibal was
at their gates ?
Does the present condition of the Southern
Confederacy justify despair ? I cannot, for the
life of me, see how. I think the loss of Savan
nah already an advantage to us. Hood’s dis
aster can, and, doubtless, will be repaired.
Where the reasons for desponding? Is not
our condition now a thousand-fold better than
was Washington’s or Frederick’s?
In the’midst of this gallant army, which,
under the brave, patient and able guidance of
its heroic chief, has fought and conquered, till
“ they mock at fear, and death defy, ” my
.hopes are brighter, my confidence is as great
as ever during the war. It was not one whit
greater when that horde of robbers and mur
derers, styled the “Army of the Potomac”
fled like hounds before us on the 27th July,
1862, or when Burnside and Hooker withdrew
their shattered columns across the Rappahan
nock. I blush for those who despond. lam
ashamed of tbedfU I know well why they do
So. It is because they love money more than
honor.
Does not “ the Lord God omnipotent reign ? ”
Is He not a just God ? How, then, can a man
who believes our cause a just one despair?
Let us bear oar sufferings like men! I believe
that submission to our enemy (or what some
people call by another name, reconstruction ,)
would involve more suffering to an honorable
mind than any we have or may have to endure.
I believe any conceivable amount of infliction
suffered in an honorable cause to be an easier
burden than our enemy’s tender mercy would
put upon us. I am willing to pass through
the trial. lam confident of the result. And
there are thousands of men who feel as I do.
This war will never end unless our indepen
dence come with that end. They will fight as
long as life lasts, and their fathers’ sons will
continue the war.
If it were possible for those who love life or
money better than honor to gain the ascend
ancy, and they should be willing to disgrace
themselves, curse their descendants, shame
their country and dishonor the memory of the
heroic dead, by any reunion with our infa
mous enemy, God grant that I may find, be
fore that wretched time comes, an honorable
burial in a soldier’s grave.
Your affectionate son, .
Despondency and Laxity among the Yan
kees. —The New York Times, in an article
headed “New Energy Demanded,” thus refers
to a “false security that threatens the loyal
cause.” It says:
Gen. Sherman’s recent successes and the
peace conference which so soon followed, have
produced a general impression that, at worst,
but little more fighting remains to be done.—
No requisition for more soidiers ever yet is
sued has been responded to so dilatorily as
that now pending. Everywhere, in city and
country, there is a general flagging of effort
in every operation for reinforcing our armies
in the field. Nobody can deny the fact.
The New York correspondent of the Phila
delphia Inquirer also speaks'of the “bitter
disappointment” with which the news of the
failure of the “peace movement” was received
in New York. He says :
With but one or two exceptions, I think the
New York press have all along been encour
aging the belief that “peace” was certainly
at hand: and so, when the “bubble” col
lapsed to-day, a feeling of bitter disappoint
ment was visible in almost every face. Anx
ious faces surrounded the newspaper bulle
tins ; Wall street was on the rampage ; “con
fidence” went down and gold went up.
The steamers which sailed for Europe this
afternoon will take out the news, and it will
probably create as much excitement in Lon
don and Paris as it does here. The secesh
correspondents of the London Times, Herald
and Standard, no doubt, will represent that
Mr. Lincoln was trying to make peace, and
not Jeff Davis, and in this way a foreign sen
timent favorable to the rebels will be created.
The North, it will be said, is sick of the war,
and held out the olive branch, but the rebels
rejected it, confident of their ability to con
i tinue the struggle to the bitter end, in other
i words, till independence is won.
Our worthy postmaster, Mr. E. Richardson,
wishes to acquaint the public with two scraps
of postal information, which, if heeded, will
save letter writers and postraas'ers constuera
ble trouble and expense. The first is, that 10
cent stamps cut in two and placed on etters,
will not pass ; the next, that e. * slope* stamp
ed “paid,” will only pass at the *hee wb.efc
issues them — [Albony J • ■•no..
Ihe New York Herald has an elaborate edi
torial upon the appointment of Geu. Lee as
generalissimo of all the forces of the “rebel ”
States. The Herald regards it as the “virtual
degradation of Davis.” The Herald says:
The appointment of Lee is the repudiation
of Davis as a military director—a direct im
putation that another man can do better, and
thence that Davis is responsible for all the
disasters. Davis is by this change virtually
deposed— not actually, He caanot touch the
army, and the army is the Confederacy: but
he cau touch the minor points that will affect
the Confederacy greatly. He can* negotiate
for peace, and as the other leaders go on step
by step in the establishment of the actual dic
tatorship, Davis will take especial care of the
interests of Davis.
In connection with this subject, the Herald
gives what it claims to be a ••complete roster
of the rebel armies.” The Herald says that
“the full strength of the rebels is only one
hundred and sixty-eight thousand and fifty
men of all arms. This is t heir fullest strength.”
The Herald adds:
Practically mis whole military power is in
three divisions—the army of the Mississippi,
the army of the Tennessee, and the army of
Northern Virginia. The total of the force
distributed at all points south of Petersburg
and north of the Savannah river is not over
20,000 ; nor are more than 5.000 or 8,000 of
these soldiers. The army lately under Lee
numbers 79,000 men. That army is the re
bellion, and the Government has only to crush
those 70,000 in order to put down the rebell
ion. With the force we now have, and the
generals who direct it, this service will be
comparatively easy. Let the Government put
all its available force in the hands of Grant,
and the work will be well done, and done so
soon, that, thoSgh the 800,000 men now called
for will undoubtedly take the field, it is not
probable that they will see a battle. Let the
Government send 15,000 or 20,000 more good
six foot peace negotiators to Grant within the
next twenty days, and it will soon be easier
to convince Jeff. Davis than Blair has found it.
Jackson on Speculators. —Just before Presi
dent Jacksor retired from the Presidency, he told
Hon. James Guthrie of his characteristic method
of dealing with men who undertook to deal im
properly with the exigencies of their country.
Centractors followed Gen. Jackson’s army far into
the Indian country, and, when the army began t»
suffer for provisions, some cf these dealers began
to ask fabulous prices for their provisions, Jackson
was at length informed of their extortionate de
mands, and summoned them before ’ him, and
attempted an appeal to their patriotism. Ho found
that soil perfectly sterile. At length he ordered a
body of officers to fappraiso the goods and allow
the owners a liberal profit, and then ho showed
the owners tho appraisement. He offered to take
their provisions at this appraisement. They
refused to sell, and Jackson, determined that
his soldiers should not starve, ordered the ra
tions to be distributed, and a faithful account to
be kept.
As soon as the owners saw their provisions dis
appearing, they waited on Gen. Jackson, and
agreed to accept his terms. Everything went on
well until he offered in payment United States
Treasury notes. They refused to take them, and
demanded gold. Jackson reasoned with them
until he found they were inexorable in their de
mand. Ho then ordered a file of soldiers to be
detailed, two of them with axes, to place the un
patriotic owners on flatboats on which their goods
had been stored. Gon. Jackson said that, after he
had placed them on the boats, he had made
what he told them was his last appeal, and at the
last moment they consented the Treasury
notes.
He paused at this part of the statement until
Mr. Guthrie asked him what he intended to do in
case of a persistent refusal. The old patriot re
plied that he “would have ordered the two soldiers
armed with axes to cut the cables, and the fellows
on board might have floated to hell or Texas, he
would not have cared which.” He said, “A man
who would not trust his country when engaged in
war, was not fit to live.” We heartily say
“Amen!” to old Hickory’s patriotic sentiment.
We regret that he is not here now, to pack unpat
riotic currency gamblers on flatboats and float them
off to unknown shores.
Picture of New Orleans.
A correspondent thus graphically sketches
the “Crescent City” :
New Orleans, compared with its former self,
is dead. The breath of life is knocked out of
the body of that great city. The houses arc
there, indeed, and some of the old citizens—
but these latter go about like the ghosts of
their former selves—not with elastic step and
cheerful countenance, but with misery, almost
despair, depicted upon their faces. A walk
through Carondalet street—once the great
cotton mart of the world, and always crowded
with busy and happy throngs of people—is
now like a walk through one of the alleys of
the St. Louis Cemetery. Magazine, Tchoupi
toulas, New Levee, Poydras, Gravier, Com
mon, Royal, Chartres and other streets, form
erly the great marts of trade, are silent and
deserted, except when aroused by the stolen
equipage of some Yankee officer, or echoing
the melancholy tread of some old citizen, out
of business and almost out of hope. On Ca
nal and Camp streets some little business ani
mation is discoverable, but new faces are seen
in place of the old ones, and new signs over
the doors glisten with fresh Yankee paint.
The old Orleanians are displaced and shoved
aside. Many of them once prosperous men of
business, have been living for nearly three
years on the secret sales of their plate and the
jewels of their families, and some of them do
not know to-day where they will to-morrow
get the means wherewith to go to market.
Those who have taken the oath fare little bet
ter. Thtre is no trade of any consequence,
for the sugar and cotton crops in the small
districts under Yankee rule have been failures,
and there is no market for the sale of mer
chandize. The hotels are filled, it is true, but
it is with Yankee officers, civil and military,
living upon the wealth which they have stolen,
and shamelessly parading at the table de hole,
with the prostitutes they have brought with
them from the Northern cities. Unhappy New
Orleans ! How much better that you should
have been given to the flames, and not one
stone left upon another to indicate your site,
than thus to be dishonored, plundered, op
pressed, trodden upon by that most vile and
base people with whom you are cursed.
Father Pautaleo, the well known Franciscan friar,
who followed Garibaldi into Southern Italy, has got
him«elf into a scrape. Alter he had been repudia
ted by his brethren. Pautaleo assumed the most ec
centric half Garibaldian, half-monkish costume, and
became a preacher of what he calls the "true cTOC
trine of our Lord.” It seems, however, that this
doctrine is not altogether in harmony with the reli
gious notions of the Advocate General of Florence,
for an indictment has been laid against Father PaD
taleo. The unfrocked m nk is charged with hav
ing publicly preached against monastic corporations;
with having called the Papacy the very negatation
of divinitvand humanity: and lastly, with having
asserted that M. Garibaldi had not been stopped at
Aspromonte, he (Father Pautaleo) would have
preached to the Romans the truth of religion which
is the religion of truth- Were we living in the days
of Torquemada there is no doubt that Father Pan
taleo would end his career on a funeral pile, like
Arnold da Brescia and'lSavanarola: but in this
more civilized century of ours he will get out of his
scrape more cheaply, tor if tae culprit is brought be
fore a jury he will certainly be found not guilty.
Mr. Greely’s "History of the American Conflict”
is selling very rapidly, wholly by subscription.—
Seventy thousand copies have been dimosed of
within six months, aai a Ge-man edition will ap
pear this mouth.
[From tho Richmond Dispatch.]
“lacta Est Alea!"
Tulrich von hutton’s motto.]
facta est alea ! We have uared it,
Dared to strike for home and right!
Dared to burst the bonds that bound us,
Dared the foe in all his might.
lacta est alea ! Since we could not
Crush the Hydra at one blow,
Should we meanly yield our birthright.
Kiss the hand that brought us low ?
lacta est alea ! Look behind you !
History shows her mystic leaves,
Wot you now tho stout ship Poland
Wrecked on indecision’s reef!
facto est alea ! So did falter
Hungary in her hour of need !
Kossuth’s rallying voice unheeding,
Sold by Gorgey’s treacherous lead !
lacta est alea ! Look around you !
See your loved ones houseless pine !
See your desolated homestead !
See your desecrated shriue !
facta est alea ! Look before you !
Hark! "Vie Victis” is their cry !
Would ye sell your children's children
Into vilest slavery ?
lacta est alea l Would ye trample
On our hero hecatombs ?
Would ye, through your coward wavering,
E’en defile your fathers’ tombs ?
lacta est alea ! Break the bridges
Down behind you ! Onward ! On !
What we aim at, that we cannot,
Dare not, must not leave undone !
0. K.
[Correspondence of the Philadelphia Times.]
A Stricken Mother.
I think your readers will find in the following
something touching, exhibiting, a? it does, all the
deop intensity of a mother’s love. There is grandeur
in the conduct of this poor lone mother, whose love
has made her mad, who yearns ffir one her poor fa
ded eyes will never.see again. More than a year ago
her son. a member of a Connecticut regiment, was
taken prisoner and confined in Andersonville. A
short time afterward several were exchanged. His
mother in Connecticut, hearing of it, and believing
he was among the number, left her desolated home
and came to Camp Parole, which is situated two
miles from Annapolis, to seek her treasure among
the first loads landed on the Severn. She waited,
wearily waited, day after day, for the coming #f her
boy ; but, though'maany came, he was not among
them. “Hope deferred maketh the heart sick,” and
so it was with her. Broken hearted by constantly
recurring disappointments, her mind, already
shaken by grief, at last gave way. Ever since, more
than six months, she has been stopping |in this city
—how or where I know not. 9
During all this time she comes to the office of Dr.
Vanderkeift, the surgeon in charge, to ascertain
whether any boat loads of released prisoners have
arrived. When the last detachment came she
seemed overjoyed and went from skeleton to skele
ton, scanning them eagerly and anxiously. Bat her
son was not there, and each day she eagerly went
back to her home. Tho good hearted surgeon al
though he knows, and he has told her many times
that her son had been officially reported as dead,
still answers her every day the same monotonous
“No!” She comes always provided with a shirt, a
pair of drawers, pantaloons, boots and cap, and
when informed that he had not yet arrived, goes
down the gravelled path across the lawn, to the
very end of the long wharf. There she stands look
ing over the broad waters of the Chesapeake for ful
ly an hour. Clad ever in the same neat dress and
closely fitting bonnet, she gazes wistfully,* longing
ly out over the blue waste, as if her very eagerness
would hasten on the bark she imagines bears back
to her, her child. But her tear-swollen eyes at last
grew dim, her strength fails, and with empty void
aching in her breast O! how agonizing she slowly
turns to depart. That son she shall meet, poor,
crazed, broken-hearted mother, never, never, this
side o. the hither shore.
How Things are Done in the Army. —We
have heard of an incident which illustrates
the gallantry and devotion of our North Car
olina officers in Lee’s army—-a type of the
whole It happened sometime ago—we need
not say when—that it was desirable to get in
formation as to some movement or supposed
movement of the enemy. Accordingly about
10 o’clock of one dark, cold, rainy night, a
courier brought to a brigade headquarters an
order to capture one or two Yankees from
their picket line, with a view to pumping the
desired information out of them. Maj. Woo
ten, commander of the sharpshooters of the
brigade, (from Columbus county, N. C.) was
sent for,arrived about midnight, and entrust
ed with the order. He remarked that he did
not see how he was to go about it, as the moon
would be up by the time he could return to the
skirmish line. After some thought, the per
plexed look disappeared from the Major’s coun
tenance, and he quietly remarked, “Very
well, I will catch one or two. I remember a
ravine on the line that’s too deep for the
moon.” So he splashed his way back to his
sharpshooters, charged the Yankees, and bro’t
in before day a dozen fat ones, without Idling
a man .— [Fayetteville Observer.
Hood’s Men Returning. —lt is stated upon
reliable authority, that the Tennesseeans of Hood’s
army, furloughed after the retreat from Nash
ville, with permission to visit iheir homes, are re
turning daily, and in considerable numbers. Many
of them have already rejoined their commands.
[Clarion, 22d.
The Origin of Newspapers. —The nearest
approach in ancient times to the newspaper,
was the Acta Diurna. (proceedings of the day)
a kind of gazette, published daily at Rome,
under the authority of the Government. It
contained an account of the proceedings of
the public assemblies, of the law courts, of
the punishment of offenders, and a list of
births, marriages and deaths. The proceed
ings oi the public assemblies and law courts
were obtained by means of reporters called
actuaries. The proceedings of the Senate
were not published till the time of Juliu3 Cae
sar, and this custom was prohibited by Au
gustus. An account of the proceedings of the
Senate was still preserved, though not pub
lished, and Tacitus informs us that one of the
Senators was chosen by the Emperor to com
pile the account. The Acta was frequently
consulted, and appealed to by later historians.
Macaulay, in the 21st chapter of the 4tu vol
ume of his history of England, has given a
highly entertaining and instructive sketeh of
the rise and progress of newspapers in Eng
land.
Washington’s Dying Words.—When Geerge
Washington bequeathed to hi3 heirs the sword he
had won in the War of Liberty, he charged them,
“Never to take it from the scabbard but in self
defence, or in defence of their country and her
freedom; bat when it should thus be drawn, they
should never sheath it nor ever give it up, but
prefer falling with it in their hands to the relin
quishment thereof”—words, says an eminent
Englishman, the majesty and simple eloquence of
which are not surpassed in the oratory of Athens
and Rome.
Let every soldier of the Confederacy engrave
those words of Washington upon his heart. Let
them be inscribed in letters'of gold upon the
capitoi of every Confederate States. Let the pul
pit proclaim them; let the mother learn them to
her children; let them be emblazon aon every
banner; ring in every trampet call, and flash from
every sword.” —[Richmond Dispatch.
Refcgees.—The tide of refugees has entirely
ceased. Not so as straggling soldiers. The latter
are ricocuetting between Augusta and Columbia,
and Augusta and Ninety six, like shuttlecocks
betweeu two battledoors. — Edqcjield Adiertttgr.
Gen. Banks in a recent communication to Lincoln
refers to a significant Mexican movement of Na
poleon, and claims that he would upon a convenient
pretext, plant the French flag upon the west banks
of the Mississippi river: hence the great importance
of Tupporting "he Uni ed States Government in
Louisiana by every po.-ADle means.
f SIX DOLLARS
\ PER MOXTO
Tae Yankee- are sorely pressed for ♦maps The
three year’s troops have seen the “elephant” aad
aro’going home in bodies. The nigger is conse
quently in great demand.
The German papers announce the resigna
tion, by the celebrated chemist Liebig, of his
chair in the University of Munich.
Napoleon’s new Secretary. —The Paris cor
respondent el the London Telegraph, under date
of December 21st, writes thus concerning Napo*
leon’s new Secretary:
Charles Stephen Conti, Counsellor es State—a
Cersican by birth—a lawyer of little note, aad a
pcet of some repute, once Attorney General
Republic of Bastia, a voter against the House of
Orleans, and for the expedition to Romo, has been
selected by the Emperor for the most delicate post
of private secretary. Tho successor to M. Moc
quard enters on no slight task, and it is needless
to say that he has won his spurs already on the
fields of Bonapartism. Whether the second secre
tary of the second empire will be trusted with
such secrets as the first, history alone will know.
M. Sacalet retains his Under Secretaryship.
A French theatrical manager has addressed
Dickens in regard to his poepi of ** Mazeppa. "
which the Menken is playing in London. The
manager’s idea of English literature is rather
confused.
For Cliattaltoocliee.
On account of high river tho Steamer Shamrock
will postpone leaving until Thursday morning. The
boat is lying at the bluff above the gunboat ready to
receive freight.
Wanted to litre !
Sis Washer Women and four negro Men. Apply
to Surgeon S. H. Stout, Medical Director.
CHAS. E. MITCH EL.
Surgeon in Charge,
Texas Hospital,
feb 28 4t Auburn, Ala.
All Excellent Plantation!
Corn, Fodder, Peas, Potatoes, (Sweet and Jrish)
Plantation Tools, Stole Hogs and Cattle, to go with
it, CHEAP !
To be Sold! Come Quick!!
r I’UE place is well improved. A'good DWELLING
A with eight rooms and three storo rooms ill the
brick basement, six fire places, negroe houses, Gin
house and Screw, all good, in fine repair and high
cultivation. Fifty acres of promising growing
Wheat! Contains 725 acres, about hjlf in the
woods. Red land, Oak and Hickory. Lies on the
Loachapoka creek, four miles from Auburn and four
miles from Loachapoka, in Macon county, near the
line of Chambers, in a good neighborhood and not
likely to be visited by a Yankee raid.
Possession immediate! Titles indisputable! One
hundred acres already ploughed for corn.
See me at Auburn, Ala.
feb 28 ts WM. F. SAMFORD.
(warden Seeds,
REAL CABBAGE, Lettuce, English Peas, Cucum
ber, Ac. For sale by G. A. NORRIS,
feb 27 2t*
ROBERTA. CRAWFORD,
Slav© Trader,
AND DEALER IN
STOCKS, BONDS, CERTIFICATES, GOLD
AND SILVER COIN,
Cherry Street, Macon, Cia.,
NEARLY OPPOSITE THE DAILY TELE
GRAPH AND CONFEDERATE OFFICE.
All classes of NEGROES usually on
hand, and stock constantly replenished by
experienced buyers.
Cash advances to regular traders, as
heretofore.
Negroes also sold on Commission.
My trusty Porters, Andrew and An
tony, attend the Trains,
feb 27 3m
CITY FOUNDRY!
SUGAR MILLS AND KETTLES!
WE HAVE OF HAND
Sugar Mills and Kettles,
holding 20,35, 40, 60, 80 and 130 gallons, which we
will exchange for Provisions or any kind of country
Produce, or money on very liberal terms. Orders
olicited! PORTER. McILIIENNY A CO.
Columbus, Jan. 20, ts
FOH SALE !
WAGON HARNESS, COLLARS, HAMES, Ac.
Also a few setts of BUGGY HARNESS.
Apply to SHERMAN A CO.,
feb 41m Masonic Hall, up stairs.
Wanted,
FOR the State of Louisiana TEN MOULDERS. —
Wages liberal. Transportation furnished. Ap
ply to Maj, R. S. Hardaway, of this city.
D. A. BLACKSHER,
feb 12 ts Comissioner for Louisiana.
Negroes to Hire.
fflO HIRE, ten young Negro MEN, also a good
I Cook and Washer. Apply to
IVm. G. WOOLFOLK,
jan 17 ts Agent.
Dr. R. KOBLF,
’ JDEdNTTIST,
\ T Pemberton k Carter’s old stand, back room of
A Smith’s Jewelry Store, where he can be found
all hours, foe 186 m
To Printers !
ITTE offer for sale a complete BOOK BINDERY,
Vs (except Ruling Machine,) two hand PRESSES,
and about
1,000 Pounds of Type Metal.
nov2l-tf
Notice to Debtors and Creditors
PERSONS having claims against the late Captain
Charles D. Fry, are requested to present them
within the time prescribed oy law and those indebted
will make mmediate payment.
DANIEL FRY,
feb 21 w4(M Adm’r.
Stolen.
STOLEN from my residence, eight miles below
Columbus, a light BAY HORSE, about 14 hands
high, with a white spot in his forehead. His prin
ciple gait is a pace. A suituable reward will be
paid lor his recovery. W. G. WOOLFOLK
feb 24 ts .
Lost or Mislaid.
HOUR SHARES of the G. k A. S. S. Cos., No
r 160, in favor ol Afrs. J. L. Wilson,
nov 30 ts D. A J. J. GRANT.
MYERS WATSOM & CO.,
AUOTIOFEEHS
AND .
General Commission Merchants,
At Hull db Duek’e old stand.
Opposite Bank of Coiumbus, Broad Street.
Personal and prompt attention given
to all consignments.
Columbus. Ga., Jan. 21. 1865. jan23 ts
NEGROESat AUCTION.
-BY-
J. B. HABERSHA7I CO.
Executor’s Sale.
On Tuesday, Jlarcli 7,1865.
TTTILL be sold on the first Tuesday in March next,
VV between the u s ual 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 Bavnard,
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 of
the wiHnf he!a : e Wm.G. Baynard.
EDWAKD M. BAYNARD,
WM G. BAYNARD,
Executors.
M. B. BAYNARD, Executrix.
feb 25 w3t
Colum* u- Times will p ease copy once a week til
day or sale and forward bili to J. B. H Jc Cos.