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DAILY TIMES. Jf* w. If.4RRE\, - - - Editor. Wednesday Morning, Marcii 1,1865, n "- , ?ided. ” On the 20th da) January (it was hangmans day— o , thai had its due!) thi i monster of blood—this diabolical, cun ning fratricide—whose infernal arts have Hooded a continent with brothers’ blood, and for four long years filled the world with the wailing of widows and orphans—presided over a meeting of the “ CHTJSTIAX and SAN ITARY Commission,” in the Representative Hall in Washington City ! And in th it presence he laiked of “ the Con spirators ’’ who, four years before, had left that “Capitol 'of injustice and crime, “hurling back curses arid defiance against the Govern ment. There he tnlkui about healing “wounds" and “relieving sickness and sor rowo by the “divine” hand of Charity! and of “ pure and nndefiled religion”! Un that “day when the £ons ot God came to present themselves befoie the Lord arid Satan came also among them ” he was content to impeach one holy , innocent man , but this Devil took this similar occasion to stimulate the work of wide-spread slaughter! Here, before the '•'■Christian and Sanitary Commis sion, ” this horrible Polyphemus, cui lumen ademptum, rages and belches up bloody ingesta , and foams with wild and murderous denun ciations against millions of innocent people! L t. this pass. It was a befitting exhibition of philanthropic hypocrisy by the Yankee murderers —a proper publication of the infin ite debasement of the Christianity, of Washing ton City, that Wm. H. Seward should preside ovttr its ostentatious “charity.” We have something to learn from what the Satanic Sec retary of State let fall upon that charitable occasion. His utterances are always signifi cant, and are becoming every day more and more cabalistic. He it is who goes alone into the adytum of Yankee philanthropy and pub lishes, ever and anon, the oracles of abolitiona ry statesmanship. He speaks for “ the Execu tive, ” and begins to wear the magisterial airs of Napoleon, as well as to imitate his subtile diplomacy. He is the prophet of the Black Republican church, and duly edifies it with his unctuous ministrations. What concerns us of what he said on this occasion, is his opinion that the effort of the Northern people to subject to Yankee domi nation “is noiv soon to be successful ” ; and the reasons which he assigns for this comfortable opinion are twofold: Ist. “ Lost forts, ports and places, without which the insurrection cannot succeed, have been regained ” by the Yankees ; and 2d. “ The Corner Stone of the rebellion has been uplifted and cast out, and wc wait only at the hands of the rebels for the sabmission which, however delayed, necessarily fotyows military defeat and overthrow. ” From this we are enabled to perceive the whole Yankee theory and ■programme, and to divine what it is we shall have to accomplish in order to succeed in the establishment of our independence. The state of the Northern mind requires that Mr. Seward shall keep it stimu lated with the idea of early success, and that tk# snccess shall be so complete that we are to “ submit." They “wait," he says, for our “ submission, ” and expects to receive this at our “ hands ” l He seems to be conscious that it can come in no other wpy than by our vol untary surrender. He intimates a little impa tience at the “delay” which maybe occasion ed, but concludes that it “ necessarily follows military defeat and overthrow. ” It will be perceived that his conclusion rests upon certain premises. We are to be driven to submit —by “the loss of forts, ports and places ’’ —the abolition of slavery by the Yan kee Congress open3 the way for our submis sion, which is to be speedily effected by “mili tary defeat and overthrow. ” * The position he proposes for us to assume, is the most degrading one —absolute submission! The means by which we are to be reduced to it the most injurious and offensive. The occa sion of it (abolition) the greatest possible out rage. We are called upon to satisfy the Northern mind that we shall not submit —not only “very soon”—but never! —that they will have to “ wait ” for that many, many long years, and “wait” in vain—that we do not accept the abolition of our property in slaves as an ac complished fact, and if we did it would only intensify the determination to resist the wrong —that whatever “ defeats” we rrfay have been subjected to, or may be in store for us in the dark future, our “ overthrow ” is another mat ter —that if Jefferson Davis were in bis honor ed grave, and Seward gone to the hell of Cain —if all our armies were swept from the face of the earth—we should still not submit ! We should remain as many millions as we were before the war began—we should hold our lands and slaves—cultivate our soil—manu facture gunpowder and cannon and small arms—remodel our Government, if it became necessary—find new Presidents and Generals —assemble other Congresses—raise new ar mies—and fight on, and on, and on —to “the crack of doom ” and the eternal smash of Yan - kee credit and supremacy ! Let tue Northern people not be deluded by the oily persuasions of Mr. Seward into the belief of our early submission. When their Christian souls have sufficiently enjoyed the feast of blood, to which, in the name of “cha rity” and “pure and undefiled religion,” he invites them—let them calmly consider if Mr. Seward's conclusion can be legitimately drawn history of our acts, during the last four years ?—from our present attitude of war ? —from ‘the curses and defiance’ we still “ hurl back” upon the perfidious Government of a perfidious race? Among all the millions that are gathered under the folds of the Confeder- ate flag—as numerous as they were in 1861 organized and trained to arm3 —with a fame resounding through both hemispheres —can one be found, white or black, who is rea dy to prostrate himself and his country at the feet of this miserable minister of a murderous blackguard, and basely surrender his country to the designs of her hypooritical, brutal foes? Not one! Let us “negotiate” no more, with Mr. Lin coln. Let us, henceforth, ignore his lying, hypooritical Prime Minister. Let us appeal to the people of the North —and as we plead tor peace, let our banners darken the skies, and our prayers ascend amidst the thunders of de fiance. The consciences of the “ Christian ’ ■ peopb o! the North can be reacned by an arm j lengthened with a musket and a bayonet!— The Government of the North ia a thing with which we have nothing to do. A “mystery of iniquity”—a Sodom of abominations—a horrible den of bloody murderers and vaga bond thieves; let it alone! until fire from hea ven consume it, or it falls into the fire of hell! Our business is with the responsible people of the North. Our destiny is to fight them —to resist their causeless invasion of our country —to protect, as far as we may, the lives of our men and Hie sanctity of our homes—and the rights and properties of our people, and to die in the effort to do so effectually. We are not whipped! We have borne many “defeats”—to-day our armies are not as com pact as we could deSire, nor as well fed, as well clothed, nor as well paid, nor so nu merous as they ought to be. There is some confusion of tongues, some crimination and recrimination ; but all this is the loam on the surface of the mighty river, which rolls grandly on to the ocean! “ Convention” or no convention ; “negotiation” or no negotia tion ; “ Davis” or no Davis; “ Brown” or no Brown—there is one fixed, immovable, irrt pres.-ibk-, irresistit.le determination in the heart of the South, and that is, never to submit ! Its j love of liberty flows from a fountain deeply | bedded in a mountain of granite, and it will i flow on. extinguishing all fires, surmounting all obstacles, and enriching all lands—a river of life to these nations, through all their gen erations ! “ Wait” on, Mr. Seward, for “submission” at our hands! Long before the angels shall weep, or the devils rejoice, over that event , Yankee statesmanship will be the byword and the mocking jest of every court in Europe; Yankee commerce will have vanished from the seas; Yankee credit will not be worth a wood en nutmeg or a John Brown pike! “Wait” on, and organize and enlarge your borders, good “ Christian and Sanitary Commission”— there is work for you ! much work, increasing work, for generations to come! “ Wait” on! if our “submission” should never come, the day of judgment will !—that day of wrath aud re tribution— whieh will close up all your fiend ish campaigns, and consign you to the damn ation of he'll ! H Plain Talk to Gold Speculators. (From the Richmond Examiner.) What shall be done to crush the power of the Richmond brokers? They devote them selves with surprising industry, ingenuity and success to the single task of raising the price of gold—of reducing the value of Confederate money. They have grown up in this city with amazing rapidity into a dangerous and ruling power. They have absolute control of the gold of the Confederacy, and of its price. Their long arms reach into every bank vault; they have intimate relations with the officers of every government department; they manip ulate even the gold of the Treasury; they manage and advice in the speculations of Congressmen. They surround, hedge in, mo nopolize and control the gold maftet; com pelling the public to stand afar off and fake the gold which they design to sell at their own prices. When they hear of anew sup ply of the metal coming upon the market, they lower the price for a few days and con sent to sell at the reduced rate, that they may themselves purchase what is coming at the reduction. But when the new supply is thus engrossed, they lock up their safes, button up their pockets, and solemnly declare they have not a dollar of gold in their possession. Their name is legion. To ten .or a dozen large houses, employing immense capital of their own, or the heavy means of rich men in the back ground and back roams, ashamed to engage openly in a nefarious traffic, are added scores of sharpers on the streets, who run about to catch the ignorant, and stand guard on the curbstones to waylay and cheat the improvident. They embrace all 3orts of char acters, from the sleekest Gentile to the scurvi est Jew, men who go to church, men who go to synagogue, and men who go nowhere, wor shipping mammon alone. They are, in all their outward manifestations, patriotic to a fault and loyal to the core; they get up great war meetings; their talk is belligerent; and they are for fighting Yankees to the very last extremity—by deputy. But all the time they are successfully labor ing in the task of pushing gold up—up —up. They buy large sums of it, and sell small ones at an advance. Unable to “get all the gold their capital could command, they turn their speculations in other directions, and coffee, sugar, nails, spirits, flour, leap up under their magic touch. The soldiers pay for a month could at one time seduce a dollar from their coffers ; but now they would not let one dol lar go for three months pay. A soldier’s wife could, a few months age, 'procure q barrel of flour for the years’ compensation of her hus band ; but now,* though that husband may have set in at the very beginning, and should be fortunate enough to escape its perils to the end of th« war, his entire pay from govern ment could not command the barrel of flour. Is it not a heartless traffic which thus necessity keeps gold advancing, and by the vast capital employed by its conductors, forces the advance of all other articles at an even step with gold ? It is an open, unblushing attempt of organized capital to grind down the soldier who fights, the producer who, at government price, feeds the armies, ahd the government which conducts the war. It is a system by which a set of rich and enterprising non-combatants make it their "business to render the war excruciatingly galling to the classes who, with heroic patience, through tribulation, hard ship, sweat and blood, are breasting this ferocious invasion. At the beginning of the war there were a tow paltry brokers’ shops in Richmond which per formed the useful and cleansing functions of swab bing up the uncurrent bank notes in circulation, and transferring them away to their dirty sources. But the shops have multiplied and enlarged. Fifty thousand dollars would have embraced all the capital then employed in the narrow cuddies of all these pristine money changers: but now it may not be an exaggeration to declare that the aggregate capital employed by this fraters nity to monopolize the gold and the personal property of the Confederacy, and to place it above the eager gaze and feeble reach of the toiling and bleeding country, is a thousand millions. Think of the powerful leverage which a vast accumulation of capital at a controlling point can exert in elevating prices, and exert to its own ad vantage. Think of the control which this capital can enforce for its own emolument at the expense of the community, when, thoroughly associated and organized, and skillfully conducted through a long period of public distress by men practiced in successful speculations and brutally callous to the agonies es the country and the tears of the starving. Does anybody believe for a moment that if gold had not been made the central subject of specula tion by the industrious brokers in Richmond, its prices would have ever approximated the figures now ruling in this market ? Does any one irnagN ine that the vast capital which has concentrated itself in the hands of these brokers, has risen from any other source than sptculation, or that it rep resents anything else than the privations and suf ferings of the community which has been fleeced? Or is there any sane man it this Confederacy who thinks that gold would remain at the present high prices under the limited demand that exists, if the powerful capitalists who held it did not also hold a monopoly of the leading articles of trade, which, if they declined in price, would bring gold down with them ? This power of the brokers, by the energy of combined capital, to fix the price of gold at their will, and then to graduate the prices of all commercial commodities to the gold standard— this is a power which we ought to confront and subdue, for it is but little less formidable to the liberties of the Confederacy than that of Lincoln and Seward, of Grant and Sherman. The Macon and Western Railroad has its track laid four miles beyond Jonesboro, leaving only ten miles to lay lay before reaching East Point, when Macon will again be in communication with Atlanta. Snt LovegootTs Yarns. THIS STOBY OV A SHIRT. The first person I met was “Sut” (after crossing the Hiwassee) “weaving and moving along” in his usual rambling, uncertain gait ; his appearance at once satisfied me that some thing was wrong. He had been sick—whipped in a free fight, or was just outgrowing one of his big drunks. But upon this point 1 was soon enlightened. “Why, Sut, what’s wrong now ?” “Heap’s wrong ; Mura me skin if I aint most ded. Lite off of that hoss, George, an’ take a horn, while I take two (shaking that everlast ing flask of his at me) an’ plant yerself on that ar log an I'll tell ye es I kin, but it’s most beyond tellin.’ I reckon I'm the darndest fool out en Utaw scept my dad, for he acted hoss, an’ I haint dun that yet—allers in some trap that oudent kech a sheep. I’ll drown myself sum day, see es I don’t, just to stop a family disposition to make d—d fools on them selves.” “Ilovr is it, Sut ; have you been beat play ing cards, or drinking, which is it?” “Nara 01 e ; that can’t be did in these parts ; but seein’ it’s yon, George, I’ll tell you, but l swar I’m ’shamed—sick—sorry, and—and —mad, I am. “Ye know 1 boards with Bill Carr, at his cabin on the mountain, and pays fur sich as I gits when 1 hev money, an’ when I heven’t any, why ho 1 ikes one-third outen me in cus sin ; aud she, that’s liis wife, Bets, takes out tother two-thirds with the battlin’ stick, and the intrust with her tongue, and the intrust’s more’n the prin»i’l--heap more. She’s the cussodest ’omaii I ever seed eny how for jaw, breeding and pride. She out-breeds ey’ry thing on the river—and patterns arter ev’ry fashion she bears tell on, from bussels to bficbes. Oh ! she’s one on ’em, and some times she’s two or three. Well, ye see, I got some hum made cotton truck to make anew shirt outen, and coaxed Bets to make it, and about the time it were dun, here comes Law yer Johnson along and axed for breakfns—l wish it had pizened him, dura his hide, and I wonder it didn’t, for she cooks awful mixings when she tries. Fern pizen proof myself (hold in’ up his flask, and peeping through it) or I’d be dead long ago.” “Well, while he were a eatin’ she spied out that bis shirt was stiff an’ mighty slick ; so she never rested till she worm’d it outen him, that a prep’ration of flour did it; and she got a few particulars about the perceedings outen him by ’oman’s arts—l don’t know how she did it, perhaps he does. Arter he left she set in an’ biled a big pot of paste—nigh onto a peck of it, an’ soused in my shert an’ let it soak awhile, then she tuck it an ; ironed it out flat and dry, an’ sot it up on its aidge agin the cabin, in the sun. Thar it stood as stiff as a dry boss hide, an’ it rattled like a sheet of iron, it did. It were pasted together all over. When I cum to dinner, nothin’ wud do but I must put it on. Well, Bets an’ me got the thing open arter some hard work, she pullin’ at one of the tails and me at the tother, an’ I got into it. Dura the everlasting new fangled shert, I say. I felt like I had crawled into an old bee gum an’ hit full of pisants ; but it were, like Lawyer Johnson’s and I stud it like a man, and went to work to build Bets a ash hopper. I worked powerful hard and swet like a hoss, and when the shert got wet it quit its hurting. ‘-•Arter I got dun, I took about four fingers of red-head, and crawled up in the cabin loft to take a snuze. “Well, when I waked up I thought I was ded, or had the cholery, for all the joints I could move wer my ankles, wrists, knees— couldn’t even move my head, sltasely wink my eyes—the cussed shert was pasted fast on to me all over, from the pint of the tails to the pint of the broadax collar over my years.— It sot to me as close as a poor cow dus to her hide in March. I squirmed and strained till I sorter got it broke at the shoulders and el bows, and then I done the durndest foolish thing ever did in these mountains. I shuffled my britches off, and tore loose from my hide about two inches of the tail all round, in much pain and tribulation Oh’ but it did hurt! Then I took up a plank outen the loft, and hung my legs down through the hole, and nailed the aidge of the front tail to the floor before, and the hind tail I nailed to the plank whot I sot on. I unbuttoned the coller and risbatids, raised my hands above my head, shot up my eyes, said grace, and jumped through to the ground flore.” Here Sut remarked, sadly : “George, I’m a darnder fool than ever dad was, hoss, hornets, an’ all. I’ll drown myself sum of these days, see es I don’t.” “Well, go on, Sut; did the shirt come off?” “I—t-h-i-n-k—it—d-i-d. I hearn a noise sorter like taring a shingle roof off ova house all at onst, and felt like my bones were all that reached the flore. I staggered to my feet, and took a look at my shert. The nails had all hilt their holt, and thar it were hanging, aims down, inside out, and as stiff as ever. It looked like the map ov Mexico, jist arter one of the first battles—a patch of my hide about the size of a dollar and a half bill here ; a bunch of my har about the size of a bird’s nest thar ; then some more skin ; then some paste ; then a little more har ; then a heap of skin ; then more har ; then skin, and so on all over that darned new fangled, everlasting, infernal cuss of a shert. It was a picture to look at— an ’ so was I. The hide, har and paste, were about ekcally divided atween me and hit. Wonder what Bets, durn her, thort when she cum home and found me missing. Spect she thinks I crawled into a thicket and died of my wounds. It must have skared her good, for I tell you it looked like the skin ov sum wild beast torn off alive, or a bag what had kerried a load ov fresh beef from a shooting match. “Now, George, if ever I ketch that Lawyer Johnson out I’ll shoot him, and if ever an ’oman talks about fiat’nin’ a shert for me agin, durn my everlasting pictures I don’t flatten her. It’s rit»ribution sartin, the biggist kind of a preacher’s regular ritribution. t)o you remember my driving of dad thro’ that bor nests’ nest, and then racing of him inter the kreek ?” “Yes.” “Well, this is what comes of it. I'll drown myself some of these days, see es I don’t—es I don’t die from that awful shert. Take a horn, and don’t you try a sticky shert as long as you live.” Terrible State op Affairs. —On Thursday last a friend arrived by the Tennessee train who informs us that a party of armed tories and de serters appeared in the town of Ashville on Mon day last, just before daybreak, and committed deeds of the most revolting character. They sur rounded and set fire to the house of Capt. Stewart, with whom several friends, including Capt. Rankin and a young soldier named Horton, were stepping. Finding that they would be destroyed with the building if they remained in it any longer, they endeavored to effect their escape by jumping through one of the windows and running. On making their appearance, Capt. Stewart was shot and killed instantly, and Captain Rankin received a dangerous wound in one of his thighs. Young Horton wa3 shot down while running through the garden. Life not being entirely extinct, one of the villains placed the muzzle of his gun at the head of young Horton and fired, literally scatters ing his brains. The party then proceeded to the Good's Hotel, to which they applied the torch, and afterwards to the courthouse and jail, but these buildings were saved by the citizens. Capt. Stewart’s men, who were quartered in different parts of the town, soon rallied, but were prevented from firing on the murderers and house burners, they having placed an old lady and several children in a position be tween them and the former. After this the party withdrew from tho town. Captain Stewart had been engaged in hunting desorters, stragglers, <fcc., and for performing his duty in this respect, his life had been threat ened more than onee, as well as the lives es the men under him. He was a gallant soldier, and was liked by all who enjoyed his acquaint ance. We learn that persons are fleeing from the up country on account of the presence of so many tories and deserters. They are murdering and robbing daily, and the lives and property of all good citizens are in danger and will remain seas long as the present state of affairs. Cannot the •ril be remedied !— Selma Reporter. [From the Montgomery Mail, 28th ult.J Tin Alabama Situation. Federals at Pensacola—An Exppedition from Vicksburg—Enemy Concentrating at Corinth. We have received no additional intelligence of the Federal movement from Pensacola. At last accounts the enemy’s cavalry had advan ced from that point and were scouting the country. Gen. Clanton announced Saturday night, at the meeting, that he would proceed to Pollard this morning. The recent rains have so swollen the streams that the contem plated hostile incursion may oe retarded. The designs of this movement are not yet definite ly understood. A MOVEMENT ON MERIDIAN. The Mississippian Extra, of the 22d, says that one of our scouts, just in from the imme diate vicinity ot Vicksburg, and who availed himself of admirable facilities for information, reports the Yankee force at that point at about 20,000 strong-—that the great body of these troops are encamped outside of the city, and between it and Bovina, (Mt. Albon,) none be* ing this side (except pickets and scouts) of that point, and that there was a grand review at a place some three or four miles this side of Vicksburg, the other day, of the 16th army corps, formerly commanded by Sherman, and upw under Gen. McArthur, and the Yankees say they intend to make an early move to towards Meridian. STILL, LATER FROM BIG BLACK. As if, in confirmation of the fact that the Yankees seldom, if ever, review their armies without a movement immediately following, a courier, who arrived here this morning, re ports Grierson at Big Black, at o o’clock last evening, with 6000 cavalry, in the act of cross ing, bound for Meridian, via Jackson. Asa natural consequence, some excitement is pre valent in our community to-day, and valua bles are being removed. It is well enough to be prepared for emergencies and contingen cies, but we do not think there is occasion for other than cool and calm action. Jackson has been so -verely visited, heretofore, that she has but li tie now to lose, and peaceable, unoffending, private families and non combat ant citizens will scarcely be molested, even though Grierson should come and make a halt. Our own opinion is, that tho enemy is making no demonstration in this direction. Should we bo in error, we take it for granted our vigilant Cem mander, Gen. Adams, has made every prepara tion for their reception, if they are allowed to come here at all. A MOVEMENT FROM CORINTH. The Clarion Extra, published at Columbus, Mississippi, in its issue of the 22d says, “rumors advise us that the enemy are concentrating a strong force at Corinth and Pittsburg Landing. This probably signifies a diversion in favor of the com templated attack upon Mobile. There is no time to be lost. Everything dependaeupon the speedy and vigorous action of the Legislature. The whole militia force of the State should be organ ized, armed, and sent t® the support of Forrest. PROSPECTIVE, EXPEDITIONS. The Selma Rebel, of Saturday, says the an nouncements of the Yankee papers, as well as authentic information in the hands of our own authorities, makes it positively certain that the country between here and .the Tennessee river is to be the field of operations of the rading par ties of thß enemy so soon as the condition of the roads will admit of their moving. It is net possible in all eases for the military authorities to know precisely where these gangs of plundering marauders will enter eur territory or where they will strike, and therefore they can not guard against them. They can, in most cases, only pursue them after they have commenced their depredations, and if they are not too strong, drive them back. ‘Consequently our whole terri tory, from the Mississippi river to Dalton, is ex posed to the ravages es these raiders. AT PASCAGOULA. The New Orlearns Picayune reports that ;Ea*t Pascagoula, what there is of it, was burned on the night of the 31st ult. We hear of no move ment of the enemy from that point. AFFAIRS ON THE RIVERS. The Vicksburg Herald of the 15th inst., says that “Major General Herron and staff came up on the steamer Olive Branch from New Orleans to Baton Rouge. The General assumes command of the Northern Division of Louisiana, including the District of Baton Rouge, Port Hudson and Morganza. He commands on both sides of the river from Red river to Plaquemine,” All the idle steamboats at Cairo have been taken into government sorvioe for the Tennessee. There must be about fifty steamboats at 6’airo, which is a big fleet to go to any stre*m. The Negro yunsTioN.--On ! atrttiority of a gentlemen who had just arrived from Richmond, the Selma Dispatch reports that Congress has passed a bill for arming 200,000 negro soldiers for the Confederate service. The term “volunteer soldier” is used in the bill, meaming that negroes so enrolled must be by consent of their masters, thus avoiding a conflict between the State and Confederate Governments. We question the statement. The Dispatch says: Without hesita tion we express a hope that the President Jwill veto the bill. We believe he will do so unless the military situation demands the dangerous experi ment. At least we hope that the provisions of the bill does not include the principles of eman cipation. Os course all conservative citizens will yield that the authorities are the best judges in regard to the necessity for the use of the negro as a soldier, and if the bill passed by Congress receives the approval of the Executive we must take it for granted that the emergency demands the sacrifice. But we ,still hold the opinion that the use of the negro is only needed as teamsters, cooks, laborers and pioneer corps...We still believe that all the military situation calls for is an answer of two-thirds to the roll call .of our armies, and the service of the negro as heretofore stated, and we heartily pray that the authorities have not ventured upon the policy of arming the negroes unless the calls for the sacrifice of the institution so vital to our present welfare and the future of this country. We are in favor of arm ing the negro “when the worst comes to the worst”—not until then. The Columbia Carolinian says the most re« liable estimate heard from persons within the lines, who have had an opportunity of gath ering information from a variety of Yankee sources, give Sherman only fifty-odd thousand men, including the corps of Gen. Foster, now co-operating with him on the coast. The number of troops, however, is always exag gerated, and after reckoning his loss from sickness, wounds and death, we incline to the opinion that the Federal commander has not forty thousand effective men in the four corps now scattered between the Savannah and Ed isto. The Canton (Miss.) Citizen of the 20th says : The reported advance of a large force of the enemy in this direction we do not regard as well founded. A very extensive fleet of transports and gunboats have passed down the river, and probably landed a t Vicksburg for a short time. They have, however nearly all gone in the direction of New Orleans and are destined, in all likelihood, to operate from Pensacola on the Texas coast. At noon yesterday, 820 bales of Mobile cotton, lately arrived at this port, were sold at public auc tion by Burdett, Jones & Cos. This cotton was brought te New York under the charge of the rebel Gen. Reale, by permission of the Federal Government, the proceeds of its sale being intend ed to be used for the benefit of rebel prisoners now is our hands. The following prices were obtain ed, being an advance of about 10 cents per pound en previous sales : 44 bales good middlings, 93c. 118 bales middlings, 88£c. 241 bales low middlings, 86 to 87£c. 246 bales good ordinary, 79c. 121 bales ordinary, 75c. The sales will yield about $360,000. [-V. Y. Times, 9th. AUCTION SALES Rosette, Lawhon & Go., Auctioneers, 131, Broad St,, Columbus, Ga., WILL SELL AT 11 O’CL? - MARCH Ist, 1860. CROCKERY WARE AND School SOohLs 2 13 Vols. Goodricli’s 4th READER, 12 “ Colburn’s ARITHMETIC, IT “ 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 Cof> fee Pot, 2 doz. Fancy CUPS and SAUCERS. 1 « Glass SALT CELLERB. ALSO, 3 Toy Setts CROCKERY feb 28 $42 Rosette, Lawhon & Cos. Auctioneers, 131, Broad St., Columbus, Ga., WILL SELL AT 11 O’CLOCK WEDNESDAY, MARCH Ist, 1865. 100 bbls. PICKLE BEEF, 13 Shares M. & G. R. R. STOCK, 2 bbls SUGAR, 6 Mahogany Sofa Bottomed CHAIRS, 1 Fine SECRETARY, IbbICMNE SYRUP, 6 Kegs WHITE LEAD. feb 28 $24 Rosette, Lawhon & Go., OFFER AT PRIVATE SALE One Copper Boiler, 8 feet long. Five or six hundred pounds Lead Pipe 8 or 10 Large Brass Bib & Stop Cocks. jen 18 ts We have a fancy that if fate had not, with her usual blindness, deprived the country of our mili tary services, we would have been great, at least in writing out reports. Nor do we think that even Julius Cmsar could have beaten us writing commentaries. Thus we would have written : “Georgia est omnis divisa in partes duas, qua rum nnam regnat Josephus, Fuscus, aliam Ranse sus Rectus. Hi duo reges lingua, institutis, legi bus iner se differunt. Josephum ab Ranseio, Oco nee flutneo divid.it. Horurn duorum regum, for tissimus in proclamationibus est Josephus, ut for tissiifius in ensibus est Ranseius. Ut diximus, Josephutn ab Ranseio,‘Oconee flumen dividit, et Josephus regnat in Oecidente, dum in Oriente rognat Ransetus. “Proclamationes et brassicas.vehementer amat Josephus, dum toquabiliter sellam curulum, amat Ranseius, in quo, insidere tontavit, at vero non permisit Josephus, ne uno quidem die, < quo facto vethementer iratus est Ranseius "Primus.” This is a sufficient specimen of what we could do, if we were disposed to write commentaries like Ctesar, upon the military situation in Georgia.— As soma of our readers may be a little rusty in their Latin, we will translate the foregoing for their benefit : “All Georgia is divided into two parts, over one of which Joe Brown reigns, while Ranse Wright rules the other. These two kings differ from each other in their language, institutions and notions of law (when the state is The Oconee river divides Joseph from Ransome. Os these two kings much the the greatest in procla matios in Joseph, while Ransome, is the bVavest with swords. As we have said, the Oconee river divides Joseph from Ransome, and Joseph reigns in the west, while Ransome rules the east. “Joseph is very fond of proclamations and cab bage, while Ransome equally delights in the exo cutive chair, in which hp attempted to take a seat once, but Joseph would not allow it, for even a single day—on account of which Ransome I waxed exceeding worth.”—[ Countryman. The North Carolina Delegation.— We vio late no confidence in saying that at a consulta tion between the members of Congress from North Carolina and the commisioners recently sent by the Legislature of that State to confer with the Confederate authorities, it was the unanimous recemmendation of the Congressmen, and the uni ted opinion of all, that no movement for a State convention be instituted or encouraged. The commissioners, we are further informed, expressed themselves much gratified by their in terview with President Davis. It is delightful to record these evidences of harmony among ourselves, and if such was the spirit before Lincoln put his last affront upon us, and made a fresh declaration of his intolerable designs, we may confidently anticipate the most enthusiastic unanimity in the further prosecution of our great struggle. —[Richmond Sentinel, 7th. Oil on the Brain.—-A correspondent of the Cin cinnati Commercial, writing from Parkersburg, Va., gives the following description of ihe oil-pervading mania in that locality : If you want to be bored, come to this oil region. Here’s the place where you bore and get bored. It’s nothing but oil from morning till night—oil on pa per-boiled oil—people talk, write, sleep and snore on oil. Ask a man bow far it is to Charleston: “Twenty-six miles from-Slabid -’s oil spring. “What time does the steamer leave for v> hee- Jjjjg “Just as soon as Slocum’s oil is loaded.” “What was the fight about.yesterday “Oil.” “Jenkins married an oil well yesterday—or as good— married Miss Snit kins, whose father struck time to go to his wife’s funeral 1 a pr each each *a b out'ciii befnlTpoured upon the troubled waters, and say this is the very spot where the oil for that occasion comes from. , I slept on four barrels of oil last night every ho tel full. The entire country looks greasy, people have oily tongues, and your oilfactory nerves are strongly impressed with the terrible stench. Every body has territory for sale, and there are plenty ot “fools and their money.” who anticipate the reali zation of the Baron Munchausen stories that are afloat. , , Every sharper has a map of the region, and can teU a stranger exactly where the nicest spot is—he has been there, knows the place, but is short of funds —has no personal interest in the matter, not he, indeed. But in mere matter offriendsbip he ad vises you to buy there, and then do what he is do ing-bore, and oil must come. Men seem crazy, victims are plenty. Seeking to become suddenly rich, many a tolerably well-to-do, but over sanguine individual, goes his pile and loses all he has, and sneaks off; a few sirike oil and become millionaires, but not one in a hundred but get their fingers terribly burned. A Novel Team. —ln passing up the street yesterday, we met an old time darkey, whe was getting some honest labor out of the canine spe cies that belonged to him. While he pushed in the rear es a well filled wheelbarrow, he male the dog pall wiih aU his might in front. When we asked him his reason for thus imposing upon the animal, he grinned as, though he had found a new silver half dollar, and replied, “well, Massa, de sac is, I ba« to fesd the dog, and I’se gwine to make him yearn bis >oard, es I kin. [Montgomery Advertiser. AUCTION SA f .BS Ry Ellis, Livingston & Cos, T »i ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE. ON Tuesday, 7th March next, at 11 0 c’o-k I will sell, in the city of Columbus “in front of Ellis, Livingston & Go’s Auction Store, Tbe very Desirable Residence, th® Court House, lately occupied by Col Ten oiiTbnn■ andc . oni£l todioni;dwclliiig houso food IttiiuT- ““ of -««■. .nd one aere irimd! Persons holding claims against the estate nf MVo Lucy IVI. Tenniile. dec’d, llsoWm TPatterin deed, will hand them to S. D. Betton at W»Ti Hospital, by the sth of March. ’ 4 Wallr,s ‘ feb 19 sll9 MORRIS > Adm’r. the city. T. J. JACKSON LOCAL EDITOR- Funeral Notice. The friends and acquaintances of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Jackson and family, are invited to attend the fu ueral of their eldest daughter, Nettie Miller, this afternobn at 3 o’clock from St. Luke’s Church. March st, 1860. The Steamer Indian will leave for Chattahoochee to-day at 2 o’clock. niarchl Auction Sales. —The following prices were obtained by Ellis, Livingston & Cos. yesterday : one gold watch and chain brought $1,500: man Silas sold for $3,875; one woman child $4,550; syrup sold for sl6 per gallon. Other sales unimportant. The preliminary trial of Col. Von. Zinkcn, who ia charged with the murder of John Lindsey, still progresses. After argument upon the question conducted with great ability on both sides—the court, yesterday morning, decided that it had ju risdiction of the case. The balance of the session was occupied in the examination of witnesses in troduced by the proscution. Evidence in behalf of the accused will be brought forward this morn aQd, we presume that some disposition of the case will be made during the day. Correspondence. Mayor’s Office. > Columbus, JFeb. 28th, 1865.) Gen. Ilowell Cobb: Sir—The citizens of Co lumbus being desirous to hear you on the present condition of the country, you will confer a favor by addressing them to-night, at Temperance Hall. We feel that we are asking much of you, but rely on your well known patriotism for a favorable response Respectfully, your obedient servants, F. G. Wilkins, Mayor, Hines Holt, John Peabody. Columbus, 28th Feb., 1865. Gentlemen—l will with pleasure address the citiaens of Columbus, in compliance with your respect. I am, very respectfully, yours, &c. Howell Cobb. Messrs. F. G. Wilkins, Hines holt, and oth ers. Ga., Feb. 24, 1865. To the Ladies of Oolumbus, Ga, Kind Ladies : Having received kindness from you when in distress, and being separated from my family, at the same time, having ne one to supply my wants, many of you have given me clothing and provisions for which I return my thanks. I am an illiterate man, and cannot ex press my thanks.as I desire. But if there is any thing wanting please excuse. I was among the convalescents here last J/ay and June, sick with typhoid fever, and went off before I was well, consequently had to neglect thanking you. I know you are all wealthy and it gives you pleas ure to add to the comfort of the soldiers. Many of you fed us by twenty and twenty-five at a time last spring. We were like hungry wolves just from the front—the desolated Atlanta, kind la dies ! May we be permitted to eDjoy our homes and firesides# after this war! Oh! will we have to submit to those cursed Yanks ? The latter it seems? But not I. I started out at the begin ning of this war, with the determination to fight and to conquer that cruel race. Sherman has desolated the country ! But as it is said in our Good Boek, “Vengeance is mine, I will rep ay, saith the Lord.” How many men and youths can repay ? Shall our mothers and sisters submit to their rule? No! no! Many of| you have handsome residences. Shall old Thoma3 have them ? Not as long a? you have brothers and husbands. I well know the spirited ladies of the South. Before being conquered they will even repay. I remember a great many of you ladies, that are too numerous to mention. You have beautiful places which I dare say are likely to be occupied by General Thomas. But not as long as the true men of the South have strength to resist the in vader. I remember well one beautiful place where mountain hedges wave over the grounds. Beau tiful ! how beautiful it would seem to the Yankee General Thomas. Oh ! General, you will never prosper in that beautiful place. * Kind ladies, all we ask of you is to knit and pray for U3, and we will fight. Please accept my cordial good wishes for your happiness, and be lieve me truly and most respectfully, " A SOLDIER. It was understood in Washington, on the 6th inst.,thatMr. Fessenden would retire from the trea sury department within a few day s. A dispatch says: It is confidently predicted, and I believe truly, that his successor will be from the city es New York. In tho present condition of the fin» ances, and with the certainty that the war is now to bo carried on with renewed vigor and deter mination on both sides, this becomes, a question of great importance. “EXTRACT.” Headquarters Po3T, ) Columbus, Ga-, Feb. 28th, 1865. j Special Orders No. 50. l I. In obedience to orders from General Beaure gard, all officers and soldiers belonging to the Army of Northern Virginia, whose leaves of absence or furloughs have expired or are about to expire, or in any other manner are absent from their commands without proper authority, will report|withent delay to these headquarters. ****** By command of LEON VON ZINK EX, Col. Commanding Post. S. Isidore Gcillet, Lieut, and Post A ij t. mar 1 6t - Garden Seeds, Cabbage, r? eet V Lettuce, Tomatoes, • adish, Squash, Cucumber. Mustard, Okra, Peas, Beans, Spring Turnip. Parsnip. Hungarian Grass Seed. Garden seed in bulji wanted at XX4s BROAD STREET. mar 1 wltd2i
