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SPECIAL NOTICES
Headquarters Georgia Reserve,]
and Military District Georgia. t
Macon, Ga., Feb. 27, 1865. j
General Orders / *
No. 5.
By direction of General Beauregard, all officers
and soldiers returning to the Army oi Northern
Virginia will report to the Commandant of the Post,
Columbus, Ga,
By command of
Major Gen. HOWELL COBB.
R. J. Hallett, a. a. g.
Columbus Times and Atlanta Intelligencer
copy six
mar 1 6t
“EXTRACT.”
Headquarters Post, )
Columbu3, Ga-, Feb. 28th, 1865. f
Special Order s, 1
No. 50. j
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 reportSwithont delay
to these headquarters.
■Jn * * * -:S
By command of
LEON VON ZINKEN,
Col. Commanding Post.
S. Isidore -uillet, Lieut, and Post Adj’t.
mar 1 6t
Wanted to Hire !
Six Washer Women and four negro Men. Apply
to Surgeon S. 11. Stout, Medical Director.
CHAS. E. MITCHEL,
Surgeon in Charge,
Texas Hospital,
feb 28 4t Auburn, Ala.
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 from Columbus 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*si 25 per cubic
Capt. H. WINGATE, Shamrock.
Capt. DAN FRY, Jackson.
Capt. ABE FRY, Indian.
Capu JOHN COUCH, Mist-
Capt. A. O.BLACKMAR.MunnerIyn.
feb7-tf
Columbus Knitting Company.
We are prepared to i eceive 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
First ۩ine, First Served. 51
Look. Well!
I OFFER FOR SALE FOR
CONFEDERATE MONEY.
Ist. Twenty-five bales of good . COTTON, in good
order, scattered in small lots m the counties ox
Chambers and Macon, Ala.
2d. A HOUSE; (and LOT of 10' acres already
deeply ploughed —ditched and tnanuivd) three tur
nished rooms in a convenient locality and good
neighborhood.
3d. A NICK little FARM of 160 acres near Al
burn, Ala. 100 acres of open land—oo or 40 acres
sowed down in Wheat and Oats. No houses.
Plenty of Wood, Water and Pasture.
4th. My HOxWE PLACE-oonsisting of the lot.on
which I live (40 acres) and another House and Lot
across she street. Very valuable well located.
B.—l will give good bargains to those who ap
ply soon to me at Auburn, Ala- ’wirmt'n
feb 26,1865—ts WM. t. SAMFORD.
An Excellent Plantation!
Corn, Fodder, Peas, Potatoes, (Sweet and Irish )
Plantation Tools, Stok Ilogs and Cattle, to go with
it, CHEAP !
To be Sold! Come quick!!
r rHE place is well improved. A'good DWELLING
A with eight rooms and three store rooms in the
brick basement, six fire places, negroo houses, Gin
house and Screw, all good, in fine repair and high
cultivation. Fifty acres of promising growing
Wheat! Contains 725 acres, about half in the
woods. Red land, Oak and Hickory. Lies on the
Loachapoka croek, four miles from Auburn and tour
miles from Loachapoka, in Macon county, near the
line of Chambers, in a good neighborhood and not
likely to bo visited by a Yankee raid.
Possession immediate! Titles indisputable! One
hundred acres already ploughed for corn.
See me at Auburn, Ala. „ * MK oki)
feb 28 ts WM g- BAMgQKI*.
Change ot Schedule.
lN and after Friday, Jan. 20? h, the Tfains on
'fthe 'lusoogee Railroad will run as follows:
PASSENGER TRAIN ;
ueave Culumbus 6 30 A. M.
Arrive at Macon 2 50 P. M.
.jeave Macon § 50 A. M,
Arrive at Columbus oo r. A*.
FREIGHT TRAIN :
Leave Columbus W 4*
Arrive at Columbus ...........4 55 A. M.
W. L. CLARK,
oiar 10 ts Supt. Muscogee R, R.
Tli rough to Montgomery
new schedule.
MONTGOMERY & WEST POINT
RAILROAD COMPANY.
COLUMBUS. August 27,1864.
/ AN and after August 27th. the Passenger Train on
U the Montgomery and West Point Railroad will
Leave Montgomery at 8:00 a. m.
Leave West Point at <:10 a. m.
Arrive at 6’olumbus &t 5:32 p. m.
Leave Columbus at 5:50 a. m.
drrive at Montgomery at 3:00 p.m.
Arrive at West Potnt >t 4130 p. m.
Train leaves Columbus at 8:40 a m.
Arrives >..at 8:27 p m
D. H. CRAM, Sup’t & Eng;
ag27lß64—tf
MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD.
CHANGE OF SCUEDILE.
Girard, Ala., Cot 7, 1864.
ON and after 10th inst. Trains on this Road will
Run Daily (Sunday excepted,) as follows:
Passenger Train.
Leave Girard at....... 1 30 p. ( m.
Arrive in Union Springs b 00
Leave Union Springs ..o 3o a. m.
Arrive in Girard at 10 ou
Freight Train.
Leave Girard at 4 00 a. m.
Arrive in Girard at 6 00 p. m.
B. E. WELLS.
ag!B ts Eng. k Sup’t.
Regular Line of Steamers on the
Chattahoochee Kiver.
Columbus, Ga., Jan. 9th.
THE Steamer'JACKSok, Panidl Sun-
I leave Columbus, until further notice, everr &un
day at!9 a. m. Returning leaves Chattahoochee every
Tuesday at 2 p. u.
The Steamer Indian, C. D. Fry Master, leaves
Columbus every Tuesday morning at 9 A- M. K 8
turning, loaves Chattahoochee every Thursday at
2 A. it.
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 Sale.
ORA Acres of Pine Land,eight'miles below Auburn
«UU on the road to Society Hill. Seventy acres
epen land. Common improvements. Possession
r 1 ** 17 - ChW WM. F. SAMFORD.
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VOL. XII.}
DAILY TIMES.
KYKMMi BMTIttX.
THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 2, 1865.
Cheering i ’rediction. —A correspondent of
the Telegraph relates that General Beaure
gard, when on a recent visit to Macon, was
asked by a pastor of one of the churches,
“General, have you anything good which I
can carry back, in these dark days, to cheer
the hearts of my people ?”
“Assuredly I have," he replied. “Have you
never traveled ou a dark day. when low mur
ky cioud3 overcast all the land with gloom ?
And have you not seen the sun suddenly break
through those clouds, and light up the scene
with glory ?”
“Often sir/’ was the reply.
“Regard my words as prophetic,” he con
tinued: “this war will end suddenly and glo
riously.”
Work anti Wait,
The brutality ol Sherman grows by what it
feeds upon. In Georgia he was a wolf; in
South Carolina, a devil. In Georgia he robb
ed, that the people might be converted; ia
South Carolina he desolates, that they may
be destroyed. He wars, not only upon our
armies, but upon our population. He is not
only desirous of killing our soldiers, but is
endeavoring to exterminate our women and
children. He at least appreciates the un
daunted spirit of this Southern race, that
may be blotted from the earth, but subjugated,
never. He Knows by experience, that the
scattering of our armies is not the prostration
of our people. He may dash through the land
like a ship through the sea, leaving a track of
fire in his wake; but the waves close in be
hind, mocking his efforts, and the dark break
ers are ahead, ominous of destruction.
For the first time in his career, Sherman is
nearing an army sufficiently large to give him
battle. Elated by his successful march thro’
a country destitute of troops, b<- imagines
himself a hero, and rushes on to Lee—and to
destruction. The fate of his unlucky prede
cessors who measured swords with the cham
pion of the South, is unheeded, or forgotten;
and Sherman, blinded by ego’isra and crazed
by good fortune, is about to run a,tilt with
the ablest knight in Christendom. We feel
an abiding faith that he is destined to roll in
the dust—his laurels blighted and his name
dishonored.
It i3 more than probable that the approach
ing campaign will be one of strategy. Sher
man and Grant, against Lee and Beauregard;
and, we sincerely trust, Johnston. If it be
reduced to this, we have no fear of the result.
In strategy, Johnston has proven more than a
match for Sherman, and the “strategy of
Grant” is laughed at by the grim veterans of
the Army of Northern Virginia. Gen. Lee
has undoubtedly been closely watching the
movements of Sherman. Too much depends
upon these movements to believe that he has
not carefully matured plans for the overthrow
of the presumptuous Yankee. We all know
that Gen. Lee never gets excited. His great
soul has neither lime or inclination to fume
and fret. We also know his untiring vigil
ance, his calm determination and hi3 great
capacity for waiting. He bides his time. The
quiet and mystery which surrounds his move
ments and intentions, is ominous of evil to
Sherman. The avalanche moves not till too
late to escape it.
We may safely conclude that while Sher
man has been marching and plundering, Lee
has been working and-waiting. The prelimi
naries must nearly be completed. We may
confidently look for the denouement , in a few
weeks. In the meantime let every true Sou
thern man put his shoulder to the wheel and
imitate the example of Gen. Lee— Work and
Wait. — Macon Telegraph.
Strip for the Fight,
The Richmond Examiner doses an article on
the result of the peace commissioners in the fol
lowing theme :
If ever a nation had a cause that could stir its
blood and kindle its soul, that have we this day.
While our enemies deliberately avow their full in
tention to destroy us, they at the same
run ri«t iIJ 1,10 uuuagcaaui insults.
arc! invites a deputation of our chief statesmen
to meet him in order that all the world might see
him administering to them a kick. And at the
instant when our commissioners are received on
board a river steamer, there is triumphantly ex
hibited to them the report of that scene in the
Yankee Uongress where members were leaping with
joy, embracing one another, falling into hysterics
and dancing, like French Terrorists in Carmag
nole complete, for joy at having altered their Con
stitution so as to make sure that if we ever, should
come back into their Union, there would’at all
events, be no Constitution for us. It was for this,
it seems, Lincoln and Seward contrived through
Blair,this meeting withlUonfederate “commission
ers”—for this, and also to tell them to their faces
that they are criminals, due to the gallows under
a certain law of “treason,” and to demand their
obedience to the law and their dutiful acceptance
of its penalties. It is true these laws do not affect
us; they can amend their Constitution to fit them
selves, and hang their own traitors in their own
country, they can make as many laws as they
please against slavery in the United States —with
that the Confederate States have nothing to do—
but the insolent intention of elaborate insult in
this whole procedure is not the less conspicuous
and insult from what a people ! Insult, too, to
which we exposed ourselves !
But no recrimination —no looking back. We
have now to strip for the spring campaign, throw
ing aside every weight. Under the spur of these
last outrages, if the whole country do not rise as
one man to sweep its invaders from the soil with a
perfect tempest of vengeance, it will be because
we do not wish and do not deserve to be free. The
voices of brave statesmen, long tried and trusted,
begin to ring through the land, to shame the in
dolent and lukewarm. The stragglers and absen
tees from the army are going to have a hard time
at home : for the women and old men will, make
the place toq hot for them ; each State Legislature
will now devise new and more searching methods
of turning out all its fighting men into the. field—
that so, we may make an end by crowning this
year with the laurels of victory.
And happily General Lee will command ail
the Confederate armies. We may all feel con
fident that this year our affairs are in the
hands of a thorough soldier, and that the many
good officer* trained in the war will be as
signed to the duties which they are respectively
best fitted to hold. As we are to have another
campaign, in-God’s name let it be a thundering
one.
Western papers give currency to the rumor that
marriage is likely to take place ere long between
the Hon. Schuyler Colfax, speaker of the House
of Representatives, and Mrs. Douglas, the widow
of the lamented Illinois senator.
“Bill, I’ve been in real estate a little lately.”
“Well John, how muen nave you d.pped in.
“Bought a lot in the cemetery, and a half acre
f °“Jus? north \ What the deuce did you go so tar
b.yo=d ,h.
both vanished whistling a aaemacho-y air.
COLUMBUS, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1865.
Where are They!
An intelligent and weli-po3ted letter-writer
from the army of Tennessee, says : “ Our mus
ter roll calls for one hundred and fourteen thou
sand men , our morning roll call does not exhibit
one-tenth the number.” The people will ask
wuere are the absentees; and the same writer
furnishes an answer.
He says there are thousands of men em
ployed as attach -s to all sorts of offices many
of which, and four-fifths of whose, attaches
should be abolished and placed on active field
duty. Instead of letting fifty thousand of
these men remain ou post duty and out of real
service, in all sorts of safe and contemptible
places, they should be placed where they can
do effective service, and where, if they were in
arms, we would gain the battles of the ensu
ing campaign with little trouble and soon end
the war. But there are twenty thousand men
engaged in that department alone, furnishing
about twenty thousand active field troops with
supplies, and working the other bungling,
massive aiid ungeared machinery of the pres
ent mal-administered war power.
It is a source of much regret and remorse to
the veterans of four years’ hard service, that
are ever kept like dray horses, pulled to the
death, whilst thfese stay-at-home and soft
place men do not even do the duty they are
placed on, and clothe and feed our army bad
ly. What they are kept for we cannot under
stand, for they certainly do not provide the
army with anything of value to it. It cer
tainly does look very hard to our veterans, who
pass through our cities barefooted and half
starved, to see so many well clad stay-at-home
persons doing nothing valuable for the Con
federacy.
What is here said of Augusta and that de
partment, is true of all the other cities and de
partments of the Confederacy. The only feat
ure of our military establishment of which the
people can justly feel proud, are the veterans
who stay in the field, at every sacrifice. We
have men in our cavalry who are lame—some
with an arm off, who ride with a hook to hold
the reins, and some of them go into battle with
the reins in their teeth, and shoot with the
remaining. Infantry soldiers hobble along on
badly healed leg3; some march with a stick
in one hand, and a gun on their shoulders.
They are covered with scars and wounds, and
in our cities and towns are maddened to the
verge of mutiny when they see hundreds of
stout loons of fellows, with two arms, two
good legs, and a big burly body, move about
actively, who are never interrupted, and never
have, nor never will, do duty.
If the Government would do justice to our
soldiers in the field, it should see to it at once
that they are aided by those who owe active
service to the same extent as do the veterans.
[Memphis Appeal.
Western Kentucky.
A Yankee correspondent ot the 29th Jan
uary, writes that Western Kentucky and Ten
nessee, are still filled with roving bands of
Confederates from Hood's army. From a cit
izen who, to-day, arrived from Blandville,
Kentucky, I learn the following particulars
of circumstances attending their leaving the
army, their object in doing so, their actions
in the country, and their further intentions.
This citizen having conversed with them re
ports that when Hood reached Coiintb, his
army was very much reduced, some compas
nies having about ten men and no commis
sioned officer. They had nothing but rags
with which to hide their nakedness, and their
provisions were gone. At this place Hood
definitely ascertained that the pursuit was
abandoned.
In consequence of Grierson having de
stroyed communication with Hood's depot of
supplies, he was unable to furnish his troops
with either food or clothing. The company
commanders seeing this to be the case, and
that there was no danger of'the Federal army
following them to this point, told their men
to make their way home it possible, get some
clothing, recruit themselves and again report
to the army wherever it may be. The troops
were not slow in availing themselves of this,
permission. A3 a consequence of which,
Hood was left with but a mere remnant of the
army that crossed the Tennessee with him.—
Although he gave them no official permission
to do this, yet it was done with his tacit con
sent.
The men did not stay long at their homes
when they arrived there. They had been so
long in the service that their roving habits
had become so firmly fixed, that, aitei getting
I a new suit of clothes, they again started out,
and are now roaming through the country in
squads of from five to twenty. They, how
ever do but little damage: seldom disturb
Union man, as they know full well that Union
men would retaliate upon their friends as soon
as they return to the army. Although they
are afraid to openly commit crime, yet if they
meet a man in a retired place, be he Union
or secesh, they will take from him anything
he may have that suits their fancy.
These parties come into Blandville in the
morning, commence drinking, and towards
night get gloriously full, then start for their
bivouacs in the woods. They dare not re
main in town for fear some Union man will
betray them, but have shelters made from the
boughs of trees, in secluded places in the
bottom.
The lebel Col. Faulkner, whose residence
is four and a half miles from the Ohio and
about fifty miles above this place, is now at
home on a visit to his wife. He brought but
twenty men with him. His coming was ex
pected by most of the furloughed, who met
him, shook hands and passed the day and
night at his place in feasting and drinking.—
Faulkner says it is his mission to take back
with him all the deserters he can find. One
lieutenant acknowledged to a friend that the
Confederacy was whipped, and if there was
any honorable way for him to get out of the j
service he would do so. Their furloughs hav
ing expired, they are re-organizing their
commands preparatory to returning to the
army.
Tragedt in Washington.—On Tuesday Jan.
29th, about half-past four 4 o’clock, as Mr. Bur
rows, in the Comptroller’s office in the Trea
sury Department, was coming down the stairway
in the east end of the building, he was shot by
Miss Mary Harris, of Chicago, one ball passing
through his body penetrating his heart. He sank
upon the steps, and without uttering a word soon
died.
Miss H. walked out very deliberately and start
ed down the avenue, when she was overtaken by
one of the and .orkeepers, and without any resistance ,
taken back, and was soon afterwarwar is taken
away by a police officer. is very young and
handsome with long black hair, and 0. very pre
possessing appearance. j
There are many conflicting rumors as to the
cause of shooting, and all agree as to the point of
his having been very intimate with Miss Harris
and having promised her marriage. She visited •
him once last winter; but he postponed the mar j
riage, and finally married another. She says he ■
refused ‘her the position ahe had a right to, and ,
but one thing remained for her.
Burrowahas been here about three.years, com
ing from Illinois, and was a very efficient officer ,
i„,h. Currency
The Augu3ta Constitutionalist denies in toto ,
the report that the South Carolina militi. \
fused to cros3 the river in aid 0, Georgia dur
ing the late invasion.
A Heavy Reserve. —ln his speech on- Satur
day evening, Governor Watts, in enumerating the
military strength of the country now organized,
gave the audience the gratifying announcement
that the muster-rolls of the trans-Mississippi de
partment contained the names of over one hun
dred thousand men, and there were now eightys
five thousand effectives in service. This was en
couraging, it is true, but the announcement so
positively made by such high authority caused
many to ask why they are not used to some pur
pose, just now, when we are so sorely pressed.
Indeed, the suggestion was made at the time, by
someone in the audience, to which the governor
replied they could be transferred to the cis-Mis
sissippi, and in good time.
Would that this was accomplished, but we fear
it will not be—that it is an impossibility. We
are not sanguine that the river can be crossed by
any considerable force, in the face of the enemy’s
superior naval force. The Mississippi is no creek
—Mr. Calhoun called it an “inland sea and it
will, we fear, prove an insurmountable barrier to
the union of our forcos.
But these troops can be employed on another
fi6ld, and it is reported will be, whenever they can
be of as much service to the cause as if they wore
on this side of the river. Whether they will at -
tempt to drive the last of the Yankees out of Ar
kansas, and make another campaign .for tho re
demption of Missouri, or operate for tho recovery
of Louisiana and the Crescent City, or all these,
we will not pretend to say ; but wo feel assured
they will be so used as to make it necessary for
the Yankees to send a correspondingly large force
west of the river to meet them. This will pres
vent so large a concentration of troops to oppose
Lee in the East.
We are warranted in saying that the army in
the West is in splendid condition, in every partic
ular, and that early movements will be inaugural
ted. What these will be time alone can determine,
but the effect will be to keep from Sherman and
Grant very large reinforcements, and thus enable
Lee and Beauregard to cope with them more
equally as far as numbers are concerned.— Memphis
Appeal.
[From the Macon Telegraph and Confederate.]
Meeting of Anderson’s Brigade.
At a meeting of Anderson’s brigade, Fields’
division, held at their entrenched camp, near
Richmond, Feb. 10th, 1865, the following pre
amble and resolutions were adopted :
Whereas, The emergency demands vigorous
action in order that we may resist the accu
mulated strength of our powerful and impla
cable enemies ; and whereas, the Congress of
the Confederate States have from time t© time
pledged the entire resources of the country to
the prosecution of the war, to an honorable
peace, and have very recently reiterated this
patriotic determination ; and whereas, we eoho
their sentiments, and desire to secure to our
common country the benefits that must cer*
tainly flow, not from the mere declaration of
this high resolve, but from prompt action in
fulfillment of it: Therefore be it
Resolved, Tbat we call upon Congress to
take necessary steps for immediately placing
200,000 negroes in the ranks of the Confede
rate army We care not for the color of the
i arm that strikes the invader of our homes.
Resolved, That our depleted commands
; should be consolidated, and in no event should
| the companies be less than the minimum now
! prescribed by law, viz : 64 rank and file.
Resolved, That our confidence is greatly
! heightened -by the promotion of our noble
; chieftain, Gen. Lee, to supreme command, and
; as in the past, so in the future, we’ll follow
i where he leads.
Resolved, That while we call upon those in
j whose power it lies, to increase the number
| of those who must meet the onslaught of the
! enemy in the ensuing campaign, still, if they
i withhold this assistance, their delinquency
will not cause us to swerve from our unalter
able determination to die - as freemen rather
than live as slaves.
Resolved, that a copy of the preamble and
resolutions of this meeting be forwarded to
Gov. Brown, of Georgia, to be transmitted to
the Legislature of our State.
Col. E. F. Hoge, 9th Ga. Reg’t,
Chairman.
Lt. J W. Morrow, 11th Ga. Reg’t, Sec’y.
Carrying Mails West of the Mississippi.
Confederate States of America, - )
Postoffice Department, >
Richmond, January 31, 1865, J
Arrangements have been made to secure the
carrying of a mail, by express to and fro across
the Mississippi river, once a week, with greater
regularity than heretofore, and notice is hereby
given to the public so as to enable those interested
i to avail themselves of this means of communica
i tion. Letter and sealed packages sent from the
j East to the West of the Mississippi should be
I marked on the margin. “By Expre33 mail, via
' Meridian or Brandon, Mississippi.” Those*com
i ing from the West to the East @f the Mississippi
j should be marked—“By Express mail via Shreve-
I port or Alexandria, Louisiana;” and the postage
i should be prepaid at the rate of 40 cents for the
I single letter of half an ounce or less.
Arrangements have also been made to secure
' the transmission of newspapers, pamphlets, Ac.,
! each way across the Mississippi, was sent in the
usual way through the mail.
John H. Reagan,
Postmaster General.
An Order for Destruction of Property.
Adj’t A Insp'r General’s Office, j
|Richmond, Ya., Feb. S, 1865. j
General Orders, ]
No. 4. . j
I. Commanders of armies, departments or dis- :
tricts, will enforce the following act of Congress in t
all sections in which the enemy may be advancing, i
They will hold subordinate officers, charged with
the duty of carrying out the provisions, responsible
for its proper execution :
An Act to regulate the destruction of property
under military necessity, and to provide for the
indemnity thereof.
Sec. 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of
America do enact, That the military authr 'ties of
the Confederate army are hereby anthori. I and
directed to destroy cotton, tobacco, militai. and
naval stores, or other property of any kind what
ever, which may aid the enemy in the prosecution
of the war, when necessary to prevent the same, or
any part thereof, from falling into the hands of tne
enemy. _ * * *
*******
Approved March 17, 1862.
11. Officers will be calm and considerate in the
performance of the duty enjoined by these orders'
They will not be justified in the destruction of prop
erty unless the necessity therefor he reasonably es
-111. As far as practicable, notice of the approach
of danger should be givemowners of property, and
every precaution for its removal that circumstances
will permit should be taken.
B fs?-nld’» S. COOPER,
(Sl ° nea ' A. Jc I. G.
In times of national trouble some are always to be
found, who frightened by the shadows of evil to
come, cry peace, peace, when there is no peace com
§atible with the honor or interests of their country.
oit was in the days of our fathers, when he in
spired words, "Give me liberty or give me death,”
sounded the tocsin of freedom and rallied the noble
and the brave around the sacred principle of self
government, indissolubly twined with the glorious
cause of independence. And so, too, it was when
the great Pitt seized the helm, and the ship of State
obeying his magic touch, righted herself and sailed
gloriously forward on her course to bring back for
nis country, in due season, public felicity and im
perishable renown. Happy the nation who. in those
times of trial, rose superior to the fears of the timid!
Energy, fortitude, courage never to submit or yield
—these are the godlike virtues which exalt a peo
ple, ward off ffie de-perate strokes of fortune, and
wring victory almost from the evious grasp of desti
ny herself. — Exchange,
There were just three days difference in the ages
of Daniel Webster and Edward Everett at the time
of their respective deaths. The former was seventy
years, nine months and six days—the latter seventy
years, nine months and thrre days old.
Prize Money of the Alabama. —The law
regulating prize money applicable to the crew
of the Kearsage gives S2OO a head for each
person on board the Alabama. This will give j
the crew a little over $30,000. Had the Ala
bama been brought into port, and not sunk,
the whole value of her, by the prize law,
would have belonged to the crew, which, as
she cost £58,000, would be nearly $300,000.
It will be seen by this that it is rather a los
ing business to Jack to sink ships at sea, and
when he learns the recent law made he will
be reading it that he must pnt his ‘shot in
above the water line, and never below. We
learn that the amount raised to be equally di
vided among the crew and officers of the Kear
sage is something less than $20,000 in New
York, and about SB,OOO in Boston. The crew
had a letter read to them when in the channel
from the Secretary of the Navy, that it was
the intention-of the President to ask Congress
to appropriate a sum equal the full value of
the Alabama for distribution as prize money,
as it was judged that the service rendered the
I country fully warranted it.— Northern paper.
The Ruling Passion. —ln the “Bald Eagle
Ridges,” in Clinton ceunty, Pa., lives a certain
lady. Twice in her life time she was engaged
to be married, and twice some unforeseen event
interposed to destroy her hopes of matrimonial
bliss. Her’s was a sad one. Time began to wrin
kle her fair brow, and no new suiters were there
i to offer themselves. To add to her distress she
; became sick, “nigh unto death.” The junior
! preaeher on the circuit—a large overgrown and
bashful hoy—was sent for. The sick room was
well filled with spmpathizing neighbors when tho
young divine made his appearance—and after some
remarks, proceeded te read a portion of Scripture.
He fell upon the chapter in which the woman of
Samaria is introduced. When he read the words,
“Go call thy husband,” the sick woman groaned
a little: but when he uttered the words, “The
woman answered and said, I have no # husband,”
the dying woman rose upright in her bed, her
eyes flashing fire as she squeaked out the follow
ing :
“I ain’t agoin’ to stand yer taunts, if you are a
preacher—clear out of the bouse now ! I’ve had
two chances for a husband, and will live to see
another—sue es I don’t!”
She recovered, but the war interfered with her
matrimonial prospects. — Exchange.
A Timely Invention. —Theie ,is now in suc
cessful operating at the Confederate States Laba
ratory, in this city, a machine capable es turning
out three hundred and forty thousand percussion
caps in eight hours, filling and pressing them.—
The fastest machine in the United States, es which
we have any knowledge, is Wright’s patent,
which only turns ont thirty thousand in ten hours.
The champion Confederate machine, or machines
—as there are two of them —are capable of turn
ing out an amount of work by three hands that
formerly required one hundred and twenty-five
operatives. The inventor is Captain Wesley N.
Smith, commanding the £Labaratory, whose skill
and perseverence and ingenuity, first called into
existence, at the inception of the war, the exten
sive Labaratory works now operating in Rich
mond. The graduated fuse cutter, now in gener
al use is another es Captain Smith’s inventions,
and has demonstrated its entire efficiency on nu
merous occasions. The inventor of the labor
saving machine is still devoting his experience
and knowledge, gained by twenty-five years of
study, to the invention of machinery calculated
to substitute able-bodied labor, now so sorely
needed in the active operations of the army.
[Rich. Examiner.
A OulludPcsson Admitted to Practice in
the U. S. Supreme Court.— A Washington
I paper, of the 2d tilt., has the following notice :
A novel case was witnessed in the Supreme
Court Room to-day. J. S. Rock, a colored
lawyer of Massachusetts, being admitted, on
motion of Hon. Charles Sumner, a3 a practi
tioner before the Supreme Court of the United
States. It is a singular commentary on tbe
progress of events, that a colored man should
be admitted to the bar of a court where, a few
years ago, was pronounced the celebrated
Died Scott decision.
Barney tells U3 that he has been authorized
by the President to raise a regiment of dead
soldiers, to be armed with tombstones.
♦
j A Fowl Joke.—The following conundrum
| lately took the prize at a poultry show:
| What reason have we for believing that
chickens have no future state ?
Answer; —Because they have their necks
twirled in this.
—p ♦
Dind’t Know What He Meant. —A writer in
I Blackwood’s Magazine tells the following joke on
I Old Abe:
j When Messrs. Preston, Randolph and Stuart, the
deputies from Virginia, waited on the President of
the United States, and urged him to do something
to calm the irritation of the people—
“ What would you have me do?” said Mr. Lin
-1 coin.
“Mr. President,” replied one of the deputation,
I “I would beg you to lend me your finger and thumb
i for five minutes”—meaning, of course, that he
! wished him to write something that should allay
the prevailing excitement. But Mr. Lincoln did
i not choose to understand him.
“My finger and thumb!” he repeated : "nij finger
and thumb! What would you do with them?—
Blow your nose ?”
The deputation retired in disgust, and Virginia
seceded.
There is a man in one quarter of Paris who
gets his living by going around and waking
people up who have to be early at the mar
ket; another, “the guardian angel.'’ who
makes it his business to escort drunkards
home from the wine shops at two cents each :
another who breeds maggots for the fisher
men.
Mr. Foster, of Alabama, has made a calculation
that there wore enough men in the Confederacy be
tween the age3 of eighteen and forty-five years to |
protect this Government against any enemy for for- !
ty years to come. There is 700,000 persons in the |
Confederacy between eighteen and forty-five years
of age.
The Libby Prison.—The Richmond Enquirer
says that this institution wa3 favored with a visit
from Gen. Singleton, of Illinois, who came to that
city some weeks ago, ostensibly on a peace mission.
He expressed himself very well satisfied with
: the conduct of affairs thereat, and, to use hi3
own language, said that “more lies had been told
about the place than the North could |ever
atone for. It is the best conducted prison in the
world.”
IVegroes to Hire.
•rO HIRE, ten young Negro MEN, also a good
A Cook and Washer. Apply to
,Wm. G. WOOLFOLK.
jan 17 ts Agent.
Dr. ». \OBLE,
-DDEnsTTIST,
AT Pemberton A Carter’s old stand, back room of
Smith’s Jewelry Store, where ae can be found
all hours, 00 13 6m
To Printers !
WE offer for sale a complete BOOK BINDERY,
Ruling Machine,; two hand PRESSES,
and about
1,000 Pounds of Type Metal.
a >v2i-tf
Lost or Mislaid.
?OUR SHARES of 'he G. A A. 3. S. Cos.. No
16G, in favor oi Mrs. J. L. Wilson.
nov 30 ts D. A J. J. GRANT.
/ SIX DOLLARS
1 PER MONTH
AUCTION SALES.
By Ellis, Livingston A Cos
*
ON SATURDAY, 4th March, at 11 o’clock,
we will sell in front of our store.
3 Boxes Choice N. O. Sugar.
- bbls. “ Florida Sugar,
6 Sacks Ground Peas,
10 u New Rice,
60 pair Men’s Shoes,
25 Gallons Extra Fine Whiskey, will be
sold, one gallon with the privilege,
200 lbs. Sole Leather.
1 Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine,
2 Corn Shellers,
1 doz, Boys’ Overcoats,
.A. L S O ,
A Very Likely Family of Negroes, inclu«
didg a Man, Wife and four Children,
besides other valuable property-
ALSO,
10 Fine Mules.
1 “ Mare,
mar 2 S4O 50
Bv Ellis, Livingston & Cos
—, ♦ O ♦ :
GruardLian Sale.
ON the first Tuesday in April next, I will sell in
the City of Columbus, in front of the auction
store of Ellis, Livingston & Cos., a negro MAN
named Hamilton, about 23 years old, belonging to
the orphans of Chas. Evens, dec’d. by order of the
Court of Ordinary of Museogea county.
M. WOODRUFF,
feb 23 wtds $36 Guardian.
NEGROES at AUCTION.
—BY—
J. B. HABERSHAM & CO.
Executor’s Sale.
On Tuesday, March 7.1*65.
TTTILL be sold on the first Tuesday in March next,
Vv between the usual 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 Baynard,
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 will of the late Wm.G. Baynard.
ED WARD M. BAYNARD,
WM. G. BAYNARD,
* Executors.
M. B. BAYNARD, Executrix.
feb 25 w3t
Columbus Times will please copy once a week til
day of sale and forward bill to J. B.H JcCo.
ROBERT A. CR AAV FORD,
Slave Trader,
AND DEALER IN
STOCKS, BONDS, CERTIFICATES, GOLD
AND SILVER COIN,
Cherry Street, Ulaeon, 6a.,
NEARLY OPPOSITE THE DAILY TELE
GRAPH AND CONFEDERATE OFFICE.
All classes of NEGROES usually on
hand, andretgck 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
For Exchange- or Sale.
AT the office of the "Southern Iron Works,” near
the new bridge, the following articles of (Hard
ware, which we will exchange for Pork, Bacon,
Lard, Wheat, Flour, Fodder, or any other articles
of Psoviiions or Confederate currency, viz:
Bar and Hoop Iron, of all sizes, suitable for plan
tation uses.
Sugar Mills and Kettles, of all sizes, from 30 to
120 gallons,
Pots, Ovens and Skillets,
Fry Pans and Andirons,
Club and Broad Axes,
Shovels and Spades,
Trace Chaines and Plough Moulds.
43- Orders for Castings and Machine Work
promptly executed.
jan stl JOHN D. GRAY A CO.
FOR SALE !
WAGON HARNESS. COLLARS, HAMES, Ac.
VV Also a few setts of BUGGY HARNESS.
Apply to SHERMAN A CO.,
feb 41m Masonic Hall, up stairs.
— W m ,mm m
To Rent.
A GOOD OFFICE, containing two room3, well fit
ted with gas fixtures, situated on,Randolph street
next to Col. Hines Holt’s offic ’. Possession will be
given immediately. Apply at this office, or to
marltf W. A- McDOUGALD.
200 Kegs i\alls
/ "iN consignment and for sale by
< ) HANSERD k AUSTIN,
mar 2 3t
Notice!
T REQUEST that all claims against Major F. W.
1 Dillard (personal) be presented to me at once.
RICHARD PATTEN.
mar 2 3t. t
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
Garden Seeds,
Cabbage, Beet,
Lettuce, Tomatoes,
.Radish, Squash,
Cucumber, A/ustard,
Okra, Peas,
Beans, Spring Turnip,
Parsnip.
Hungarian Grass Seed.
Garden seed in buik wanted at
Xl4 BROAD STREET.
mar 1 wltd2t
WASTED!
(Kill BBS. of TALLOW, for which a liberal price
JjUUv will be paid. Apply to
F. W. DILLARD,
sp< ts t Major and Q. M,
YARNS and OSXIBTRGS
TO EXCHANGE FOR
GROUND PEAS,
At the GRANT FACTORY.
dec 17 ts
NOTICE.
Offici Grant Factory, 1
Nov. 29, 1864.)
ALL persons haying demands against the estate of
Daniel Grant, deceased, ate hereby requested to
resent them to the Grant Factory,
nov 30 ts JOHN J. GRANT.
Sun copy and send bill to office Grant Factory.
Xotice to Debtors and Creditors
PERSONS having claims against the late Oaptaia
Charles D. Fry, are requested to present them
within the time prescribed by law and those indebted
will make mmediate payment.
DANIEL FRY.
feb 21 w4od Adm’r.
(Stolen.
CTOLEN from my residence, eight miles below
u 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 for his recovery. W. G. WOOLFOLK
feb 24 ts
Wanted,
FOR the State of Louisiana TEN MOULDERS.—
Wa«es liberal. Transportation furnished. Ap
ply to Maj. R. S» Hardaway, of this city.
2). A. BLAOXSHER.
feb 12 t/ Comiisioner for Louisiana.