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DAILY TIMES, j, w, H VRttLN & 10., Proprietors. published 'Ja ; 's (Sundays excepted) at the rate o $6.00 per munth, or $lB tor three months, jjo subscription received for a longer term than l kret uionthn rates of advertising. CASUAL DAILY ADVERTISING BATES. Advertisements inserted once—s 4 per square. 'regular daily advertising rates. First Week —$3 00 per square for each insertion. .Second Week—s 2 00 per square for each insertion. Third Week—sl 50 per square for each insertion. Fourth Weak—sl 00 per square for each insertion. Second Month—s3o per square. Third Month—s2s per square. 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. « 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.