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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.
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