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DAILY TIMES, j, w, WA It REN & CO., Proprietors. published Da ;, y (Sundays excepted) at the rate o 56.00 per month, or $lB tor three months. No subscription received for a longer term than I iree month a. RATES OF ADVERTISING. CASUAL DAILY ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisements inserted once—s 4 per square. "regular daily advertising rates. First Week—s3 00 per square for each insertion. Second Week s>2 00 per square for each insertion. Third Week >1 50 per square for each insertion, b ourth Week -t>l 00 per square for each insertion. Second Month —$30 per square. Third Month—s2s per square. 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. . 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.