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DAILY TI-MEh, J, H * AAIUIEA & €O., Proprietors. published Dir y (Sundays excepted) at the rate o {6,00 por month, or $lB tor three month?. No subscription received for a longer term than l \yc£ months. HATES OF ADVERTISING. 0A . ”.Y ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisemon; ?.lonce-$4 per square. "regular DAILY ADVERTISING rates. Fir-it VV«ek--$3 Op per square for each insertion S e condWeck- S 2OO per square for each insertion. Fnlirtl^Ven’r—vwy? er S(luare % eac h insertion. 1 I'fnth v lo[f Per square for each insortion. Second on th—s3o per square. Third Month—s2s per square. SPECIAL NOTICES fIfiAixjuARTERS Georgia Reserve,) and Military District Georgia. I Macon, Ga., Feb. 27, 1865. ) General Orders > No. 5. By direction of General Beauregard, all officers and soldiers returni/g to the Army ot Northern Virginia will report to the Commandant of the Post, Columbus, Ga. By command of Major Gen. HOWELL COBB. R. J. Hallktt, a. a. g. ♦tf”Columbus Times and Atlanta Intelligencer copy six times. mar 1 fit “ EXTRACT.” Headquarters Post, l Columbus. Ga-. Feb. 28th, 1865. j Special Order*. 1 No. 50. j I. In bedience 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 reportjwithont delay to these headquarters. * * * -*• By command of LEON VON ZINKEN, Col. Commanding Pott. 8. Isidore uillet, Lieut, and Post .ddj’t. mar 1 6t Headquarters, Post, 1 Columbus, Ga., March 2d, 1865.) In obedience to instructions from Maj. Gen. Cobb, Commanding Dis rict of Georgia, attention is called to the number of small arms scattered through the country in the hands of private individuals.-The ne cessity of the service demands, especially at this par. ticular juncture, that all these arms should be gath ered immediately and turned over to the Confed erate States Arsenal at this Post. Citizens are ear nestly requested to send forward ail the arm3 they have in their possession. LEON VON ZINKEN mar 3St Col Commanding Post. Atlanta Arsenal. Headquarters, Gov. Works, (Ord.) I Columbus, Ga., March 3d, 1865.) lam now prepared to pay all claims against the “Atlanta Arsenal,” and request all parties holding any, to present them at once as the business must be closed; if they do not, and delay occurs in the future, thoy alonejwill be responsible. Vouchers properly signed may bo sent by Express for collection. M H. WRIGHT, mar3lw Col. Commanding. Owing to the increased price of Provisions, La bor and other expenses, the Steamboats on the Chattahoochee River have been compelled to ad vance their prices for freight and passage to’ the fol lowing rates: Passage 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 $1 25 per cubic Capt. H. WINGATE, Shamrock. Capt. DAN FRY, .Jackson. Capt. ABE FRY, Indian. Capt. JOHN COUCH, Mist. Capt. A. O. BL ACKMAR.Munnerlyn. fcb7—tf ‘‘First Come, First Served. 5 * IjOolsl W ell 2 I OFFER FOR SAFE FOR CONFEDERATE MONEY. Ist Twenty-five bales of good.COTTON, in good order, scattered in small lots in tho counties of Chambers and Macon, Ala. 2d. A UOUaK; (and LOT of 10 acres, already deeply ploughed —ditched and manured) three iur nished rooms in a convenient locality and good neighborhood. 3d. A nice little FARAf of 160 acres near Au burn. Ala. 100 acres of open land—3o or 40 acres sowed down in Wheat and Oats. No houses. Plentyof Wood, Water and Pasture. 4th. My HOME PLACE— consisting of the lot on which I live (40 acres) and another House and Lot across she sticot. Very valuable— well located. N. B.—l will give good bargains to those who ap ply soon to me at Auburn, Ala feb 26,1865—ts WM. F. SAMI OK P. An Excellent Plantation! Corn, Fodder, Peas, Potatoes, (Sweet and Irish) Plantation Tools, Stole Hogs and Cattle, to go with it, CHEAP 1 To he Sold! Come RuicU!! , snlF I>laoo i s well improved. A good DWELLING l 'with eight rooms and throe store rooms in the brick basement, six fire places,-negroe houses, Gin bouse aud Screw, all good, in fine repair and high cultivation. Fifty acres of promising growing Wheat! Contains 725 acres, about half in the woods. Bed land, Oak and Hickory. Lies on the Loachapoka creek, four miles from Auburn and four miles from Loachapoka, in Macon county, near the line of Chambers, in a good neighborhood and not likelv to be visited by a Yankee raid . Possession immediate! Titles indisputable. Lne hundred acres already ploughed tor corn. fe e b2Stf at^UbUrn ’ Ala ‘ WM. F. SAMFORD. For Bale. rv/»n Acres of Pine Land,eight miles below Auburn 260 on the road to Society Hill. Seventy acres open laud. Common improvements. Possession gl feb22T ediately ' ° heaP WM. F. SAMFORD. Change ot Schedule. ANlllld afte r Friday, Jan. .20th, the Trains on 0 the Muscogee Railroad will run as follows. PASSENGER TRAIN: Leave Columbus 2 kq p. Ar.lv: at Mron ZZZZZ.6 50 A. M. Leave Macon..... 3 Qg p Arrive ,t tKaINT ■n.p l!) ts Supt. Muscogee R. R._ mar 19 ts Through to Montgomerj • NEW SCHEDULE. MONTGOMERY Sl WEST POINT "railroad company. COLUMBUS, August 27,1804. ON and after Aasuatart th. Train on U tho Montgomery and West i'oint m> Leave Montgomery 7.},) a . m. Leave West Point m Arrival Wumbu, fcto a! Si &«n i¥ »ao f %Sl-Z\ leaves Columbus at 8:40 am. Arrives 1>! H’”uiOM, Sup’t k Eng. ag27lß64—tf - MOBILE & SIRARD RAIL ROAD. CHANCiE OF Girard, Ala., Oct 7, 186 *- AN and after 10th inst. Trains on this Road wi \J Run Daily (Sunday excepted,) as follows. Passenger Train Leave Girard at...... i f'.P 1 ' Arrive in Union Springs Leave Union Springs .. Arrive in Girard at ••••• Freight Train. , , ». 400a. m. Leave Girard at....... no n m Arrive in Girard at „™ T P o B. E. WELLS, , aglStf Eng. & Sup t. ' I VOL. XII.} COLUMBUS, GA., TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1865. MYERS, WATSON & CO., AUOTIONTEERS AND Genera} Commission Merchants, A t Hull Duck’s old stand, Opposite Bunk of Columbus, Broad Street. 1 Personal and prompt attention given to ail consignments. Columbus, Ga., Jan. 21, 1865. jan23 ts R«BBBT A. CRAWFORD, Slavo TradLer, AND DEALER IN STOCKS, BONDS, CERTIFICATES, GOLD AND SILVER COIN, Cherry Street, Macon, Ga,, NEARLY OPPOSITE THE DAILY TELE GRAPH AND CONFEDERATE OFFICE. All classes of NEGrROES usually on hand, and stock constantly replenished by experienced buyers. Cash advances to regular traders, as heretofore. Negroes also sold on Commission. My trusty Porters, Andrew and An tony, attend the Trains, feb 27 3m Rosette, Lawhon Sc Cos., OFFER AT PRIVATE SALE One Oopper Boiler, 8 feet long. ■ Five or six hundred pounds Lead Pipe 8 or 10 Large Brass Bib & Stop Cocks, jen 18 ts For Exchange or Sale. AT the office of the ‘‘Southern Iron Works,” near the new bridge, the following articles of Hard ware, which wo will exchange for Pork, Bacon, Lard, Wheat, Flour, Fodder, or any other articles of 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. JQfiF" Orders for Castings and Machine Work promptly executed. janstl JOHN D. GRAY k CO. Sorghum Molasses. WANTED from one to one hundred BARRELS, for which a liberal price will be paid. KOOCK ISLAND PAPER MILLS, mar 41w Columbus, Ga. For Sale or Exchange, FOR COUNTRY PRODUCE, Plantation Iron. Osnaburgs, a good art cle of Potash, and a lot, of fat Turkeys. BRADFORD & SNOW mar 43t 300 Kegs Aails N consignment and for sale by ’ ’ HANSERD & AUSTIN, mar 2 3t Aotice! T REQUEST that all claims against Major F. W. A Dillard (personal) be presented to me at once. RICHARD PATTEN. mar 2 3t. WAITED! r AAn LBS. of TALLOW, for which a liberal price O.UUU Win bepaid. MILARDi S p 7 ts Major and Q. M. YARHS and OSAABIJRGS TO EXCHANGE FOR anouKrr> peas, At the GRANT FACTORY. dec 17 ts NOTICE. Office Grant Factory, 1 Nov. 29, 1864. J * LL parsons having demands against the estate °t A Daniel Grant, deceased, are hereby requested to resent them to the Grant Factory, nov SO ts JOHN J. GRANT. Sun copy and send bill to office Grant Factory. Notice to Debtors and Creditors 1 PERSONS having claims against tho Uto Captain 1 Charles D. Fry, are requested to present them within the time prescribed by law and those indebted will make mmediate I>ayment - DAN T IEL FRY feb 21 w4od AdnUr. Stolen. STOLEN from my residence, eight miles below Columbus, a light BAY HORSE, about 14 hands high, with a white spot in his forehead. His Prin ciple gait is a pace. A suituable reward wij l b ° paid for his recovery. W. G. MOOLI OLK. feb 24 ts Wanted. 170 R the State of Louisiana TEN MOULDERS V Wages liberal. Transportation furnished. Ap ply to Maj. R. S. Hardaway, of this city, S H ER _ feb 12 ts Comissioner for Louisiana. Negroes to Hire. fflO HIRE, ten young Negro MEN, also a good 1 Cook and Wasl'er, WOOLFOLE , jan 17 ts A * cut - Hr. R. JDEIsrTIST, T Pemberton k Cutter’s old stand, back room of 1 Smith’s Jewelry Store, where he can be found all hours. _____ _ 1 To Printers ! WJ E offer for sale complete BOOK BINDERY, W (except Ruling Machine,) two hand PRE&SES. and about , 1,000 Pounds of Type Metal. nov2l-tf >. _____ Lost or Mislaid. POUR SHARES of the G. I A. S. S. Cos., No l 160, in favor ol Mrs. J, L. Wilson nov 30 ts D. & J. J. GRAIN 1. Regular Line of Steamers on the Chattahoochee River. Columbus. Ga.. Jan. 9th. T“ F iv 'i ““w day at 9 a. m. Returning leaves Chattahoochee e\ ery T Tw4telL P r“lkD. ? -. D. Frv M^leave, Tb'u™W .. b« h ,»?wTrito t £s?***' tahooche every Sunday at i- m. jan 10 2m CITY FOUNDRY! SUGAR MILLS AND KETTLES! WE HAVE OF HAND sugar Mill* «••<* Kel ‘ ,eß ’ # holding 20.35, *>. 60. of “coSht" will exchange for Pro nip - libera | terms. Orders Produce, or moneyon very c £ LRE NN\ Jc CO. olicited. Columbus, Jan. 2u, tt DAILY TIMES. 1 k.vknim: Riimnx. MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1865. Theatre.—O ir readers will 3ee that we are to be favored with two theatrical repre sentations commencing I his evening by Miss Kemble, Miss Marshall and others. ‘‘Damon and Pythias a,d other popular features are announced for to-night. The reputation of the performers is too well known to require comment. Benning’s Brigade, At a meeting of the 2d, 15th, 17th and 20th Ga. Regiments, composing Benning’s Brigade, the following resolutions were unanimously passed. Ist. That the war in which we are engaged is a just and righteous war—that we are battling for our rights, our lives' and our independence. 2d. That the same principles which induced us to take up arms at the beginning, prompts us now to persevere. If we then judged that the enemy intended to impoverish and oppress us, we now knoto that he proposes to subjugate, enslave, dis grace and destroy us. There is no retreat but in chains and slavery. 3. That we will never consent to a peace which proposes a denial of separation and independence. That to secure independence, we are willing to brave all—endure all. 4. That we appeal to our government to lose no opportunity, to.‘spare no efforts to fill up the depleted ranks of these regiments, reduced by so many battles. To the Southern people we send greeting and assure them of our unabated zeal and our unwavering devotion to political freedom and constitutional liberty. We call upon our beloved State to prove by her example, that, though her soil may be overrun, yet the spirit of her people is invinoible. We solemnly exhort her citizens to cultivate a unity of sentiment and concert of ac tion. We exhort them net to magnify defeat into hopeless disaster. With “brave hearts in our bosoms, and God overhead we are certain to tri> umph.” 5. That to submit now would be te yield the right of self government; to brand our comrades as traitors ; to forfeit the glories of an hundred battle fields; to give up independence, now nearly in our grasp, and bring shame and dishonor on our country. Therefore, in the language and spirit of a sister brigade, unsubdued by past reverses, un awed by future dangers, we declare our determina tion to battle to the end, and not lay down our arms until independence is secured. “To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or or late, And how can he die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods ?” 6. That a copy of these resolutions be furnished the Governor of Georgia, our Senators and Repre sentatives in Congress, and that they be published in|the Richmond Examiner and Georgia’papers. Maj. P. J. SHANNON, President. Capt. C. B. Mitchell, 20th Ga. Capt. R. A. S. Freeman, 2d Ga., Secretaries. Consolidation Bill. —Passengers who left Richmond on the 18th, report that the Con solidation Bill has passed both Houses of Congress, but had not yet been signed by the President ; but it was thqjight he would do so. The office of Adjutant is retained, that of ensign is abolished. All companies that have not forty-two men will be consolidated. The minimum of a company to be 64 men, the maximum 125. Officers who are thrown out of commands are to be allowed their choice of service within a limited time. The Central Enquirer of the 23d ult. says : We understand that on Friday last, three more men were killed in Shelby county, near the dividing line between that county and Bibb. This is eight or nine men that have been kill ed recently, it is supposed by men commanded by a Captain Blackburn, who are catching up deserters. The Mississippian of the Ist says: Owing to the damage of the railroad bridges, caused by the recent heavy rains, the cars, we learn, will be unable to run between Selma and Me ridian tor several days. Telegraphic commu nication between Selma and Meridian, via Demopolis, has been re-established. A letter from Monterey says Hon. Pierre Soule bas arrived in the City of Mexico, on a mission tor the Confederate States. At Seima, on the Ist, the Alanama was higher than known before this winter, and was rapidly rising. It was reported that the greater portion of Cahaba was under water. The water was almost as high as during the great freshet of 1844, aud was still rising. An Extknsive Robbery. —On Saturday night, says the Constitutionalist, one of the Government warehouses in this city was rob bed of twenty-seven hundred blankets. The thieves were very deliberate in their move movements. They first proceeded to the pub lic stable on Ellis street, took out a pair of mules, hitched up a wagon, and proceeded on their mission, returning the team very hon estly after the work of stealing. Finding it impossible to secrete one of the bales of blan kets, they coolly tossed it in the street. Prisoners from Montgomery. —The Selma Reporter of Wednesday says a gentleman in that city is in receipt of a letter from his wife at Lime Kilns, dated 25th ult—last Saturday —who writes that four Yankees were captur ed in the following manner: had camp ed near Mr Tharp's residence, a mile from the kilns, on Saturday night. Sunday morning Messrs. Tharp and Thompson went down to where they were, and the \ankees asked them if they were Union men. Mr. Tharo answered that they were, whereupon the Yankees in formed them that they were escaped prisoners from Montgomery, having got away by bnb ing the guard. They w ere making their way, on the line of the Central road, towards Hunts ville. , , I Mr. Tharp returned home and reported the facts to several gentlemen who joined him and immediately went in pursuit of them with a pack of hounds. They were overhauled at Bragg's Station, about nine miles distant Z ihem an Irishman, remarked to the 0 itpiith -md beiabus, the country is captors, I auh a men huQled wo ™ tai!e “ tor safo keeping to Montevallo. [From the Daily Journal & Messenger.] GEORGIA LEGISLATURE. Macon, Georgia, March 4, 1865. SENATE. The Senate met at 10 o’clock, a. m. Prayer by Rev. Mr. Willis. Mr. Walker moved to reconsider the reso lution (lost) fixing the per diem pay of the members of the next General Assembly.— Lost. Bills for the relief of Banks. Passed. A message was received trom the Governor asking- for an appropriation of $2,000,000, with which to purchase corn for the destitute counties, also asking an additional appropri ation for military purposes, a!?o asking for the authority to impress. Referred to the Committee on Finance. Resolution to make an appropriation for the purchase of a number of copies of Waters’ pamphlet. Bill to amerd an act authorizing the Treasurer to issue certificates for Treasury notes. Passed. Bill for the relief of Tax Receivers who Lave been prevented by the public enemy from completing their returns. Passed. Bill to authorize Administrators, Executors. Guardians and Tiustees to sell Confederate Bonds in certain cases. Referred. Bill to authorize the re recording of deeds, mortgages and other instruments, when the records of the same have been destroyed.— Referred. Bill to require County Treasurers to be elected by the people. Lost. Bill to alter and amend the act incorpora ting the city of Milledgeville. Passed. Bill to amend sections 4792 and 4793 of the code so far as relates to the city of Columbus. Passed. Bill for the relief of Tax Collectors who have been robbed by the enemy. Passed. Bill to alter the oath of Tax payers. Passed. Bill ’o repeal 3d clause of section 1206 of the code. Referred. Bill to alter and amend the act incorpora ting the of Fort Valley. Passed. Bill to alter and amend the charter of the town of Sparta Passed. Bill to allow parties to explain the use of the words “dollars” and “cents” in writings executed since the beginning of the war.— Recommitted. Senate adjourned till 3 o’clock, P. M. HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES. The House met at 9 o'clock. Mr. Shockly of Columbia, moved to reeensider the income tax bill (lost.) The motion prevailed. The House refused to concur in the Senate reso lution, disbanding Col. Beall’s battallion. The House then took up the general appropria tion bill which occupied the rest of the merning session. The appropriation for military [purposes in the bill is $5,000,000. Pending the discussion of this clause, the House adjourned till 3 o’clock, P. M. SENATE—AFTERNOON SESSION. The House met at 3 o'clock. Bill to extend the jurisdiction of the City Court of Augusta. Passed. Bill to authorize ordinaries to take probate of wills, to which there are but two witnesses. Lost. Mr. McCutchen introduced a bill to alter section 400 of the Code. J/r. Watkins, a resolution expressive of the high satisfaction and pleasure with which the Sen ate has heard of the restoration of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston to the army. Bill to change the corporate limits of the town of Perry. Passed. Bill to change the county line of Randolph and Calhoun. Passed. Bill to allow persons who have failed to give in their tax for 1864 in time, thirty days after the publication of the act in which they may give in their tax. Laid on the table. Bill to afford relief to persons in the army elect ed to office who have failed to appear to take the oath in the time prescribed by law. Laid on the table for the present. Bill to allow the distillation of three gallons of spirituous liquors to each head of family. The bill after much discussion was passed. Yeas 17, nays 12. Adjourned till 10 o’clock Monday morning. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES —AFTERNOON SES SION. The House met at 3, P. M . The House took up the resolution in reference to requesting the Governor to confer with Superin tendents of all the Railroads for the benefit of the poor. It provides further that the Governor be instructed to remove one engine to run from Car tersville to Rome, Georgia. The resolution was adopted. A resolution requesting our Senators and Rep resentatives to favor the passage of a bill repeal ing the conscript act, and authorize the President to accept battalions and regiments so organized under Officers of their own choice. Adoped—yeas 61, nays 46. Adjourned until Monday morning, 9 o’clock. The Alabama and Mississippi Situation. The Mobile Advertiser and Register, of the' Ist inst., says: “ There is nothing more to be said than has been said. The whole argument of the “situ ation” in this portion of the battle scene is comprised in a nutshell. laukee armies are preparing to overrun and conquer, and hold and possess Alabama and Mississippi, for the benefit and behoof of Lincoln's Abolition con cern. Their armies will only succeed if the people of these States fail to take measures to defend them. These States have men enough to drive the whole Yankee force into the salt water of the Gulf. If these men will rise like freemen, and rush in that storm of vengeance upon the enemy which hi3 past enormities and future designs are so well calculated to arouse then Alabama and Mississippi are saved, and their people will be covered with glory. If they do not, and supinely await at home for the handcuffs and the lash of their coming masters, then the two States are “gone up," and their people are not worthy of one drop of brave blood to secure rights and liberties which they will not fight for, and could, there fore, neither appreciate, maintain, nor rightly enjoy. This is ‘the situation,’ and a thousand folios of rhetoric oannot enlarge or abridge it. Something New.—A new costume was brought out by a lady in this city yesterday, which attracted no little attention. A close fitting garment, fashioned similarly to the “ swallow tailed” coats with which gentlemen were wont to deck their persons in the elden time, before Confederate gray .became fasoionable through neceisity, was all there was of it, but to see it worn by one of Eve’s fair daughters, was a novelty. From one of the tail pockets floated a c-oodly share of a dainty combric handkerchief.— The General verdict was that a Parisian exquisite could°not have sported his “latest agony” more gracefully, and everybody wondered what next? ® \Memphis Appeal. To Keep Britaxia Metal Bright. —Dip >* clean woolen cloth into the best and cleanest lamp oil, and rub it hard all over the outside of vour Britania ware. Then wash it well in strong soap suds, and afterwards polish with finely' powdered buckskin. The inside ot Britania vessels should be washed with warm water, in which a little pearlash has been dissolved. They should be set open to dry in toe suwand air If not kept very nice this metal wdl communicate a disagreeable taste. There is much copper in its composition, that teapots or coffee pote of china, or white ware, are preferable to britania metal. How the Yankee Army is Repleted and Depleted. —We obtained some interesting items on this twofold topic, yesterday, from a youth of our acquaintance, whom we met after a long inter val, apparently just from the army. And so he was but it was from the Yankee army. Having been taken prisoner in September, he was kept about two months in the hospital, attending to the Con federate wounded, after which he was sent off en route for prison. He jumped from the train, on the passage, and having obtained shelter awhile with a Southern sympathizer, proceeded to the nearest Yankee city, intending, as soon as suss picion was thrown off the scent, to return the way he eame But his disguise was penetrated by the sharp eyes of a Yankee detective—sharpened no doubt by the prospect of making a good thing of it—who proposed to our young Mobilian the alter native of being arrested as a spy er being piut, as a substitute into a Connecticut regiment. He ac cepted the latter horn of the dilemma, his captor, of course, pocketing the bounty, and was sent to Butler’s army. After lying some time before Richmond, he was sent to the second attack on Fort Fisher, and before he had been landed an hour, the day before the assault, a big Yankee corporal being killed close by him, he availed him self of the “demoralization” which ensued, to bid his Yankee friends good bye. His experience, so far as it goes, is entirely con firmatory of Mr. Pollard’s observations. There is no real recruiting in the Yankee army except from the negroes, who are chiefly bought up as substi tutes. The white accessions to the ranks are all bounty jumpers, who make no secret, among their comrades, of their intention to desert at the first opportunity and get another bouncy. Such sol diers can be no more made to fight than Peter Pindar’s razors to shave ; they are only made to sell. There is a scanty remnant of old troops—six in the company to which our informant was at tached— who fight from discipline as all old sol diers will do.— Mobile Advertiser. It is not the darkness adumbrated by our long succession of reverses that multiplies our perils, but it is the demoralization of the public mind. Did we brace ourselves against Ike shocks of the terrible inroads made by the enemy, and maintain the equanimity accors dant with the sentiment befitting the exigen cies of the hour, there would be no danger of subjugation,even though a million of Hessians stood upon our territory. But we fear croak ing has become chronic and despoudency so widespread, as to cripple, in some measure, the energies of the Government. Now there is a crisis upon us. We are balanced, as it were, upon the pivot of destiny. There is a little time allotted us to decide finally and forever, whether we will be free men or slaves. There has never been a time in the history of the globe, when interest so varied and mo mentous were to be decided. We are the heav en-appointed guardians of a treasure in which posterity, and indeed ail mankind, are vitally interested We dare not shrink from the is sue ; we must meet it like men. —Selma Re porter. “ Corporal Saprelotte ’ writes very patriot ically and bravely in the Montgomery Adver tiser. The following application, which he makes of an old story, is excellent: One frenchman who no speak moch english —he went to London. He got a quarrel with one englishman who propose fight with what you call fists. Ze frenchman he always fight with ze sword, like a gentilhemme, but he very brave, he accept. He know nothing about ze fist fight. Ze people make one ring around and say, ze man who get enough, say so, and ze fight shall stop. Zey fight. Ze frenchman he got hit in ze nose, in ze eyes, he see thou sand stars dance around, he cry “Go ahead ! go ahead !” Ze more he cry, ze more ze eng lißhman hit. Ze frenchman got exasperate, he make one grand effort and he whip ze eng lishman, who cry immedialement, “ Enough !’’ “By gare,” ze Frenchman say, “zat is ze very word I try to remember for one hour !” Now, ze morale—if you say enough, ze yanke will be like my friend ze frenchman, you take ze word out of his mouth. OFFICIAL. Headquarters Armies of Confederate States, \ February 11, 1865. J General Orders, ) No. 2. j In entering upon the campaign about to open, the General-in-Chief feels assured that the soldiers who have so long and so nobly borne the hardships and dangers of the war require no exhortation to respond to the calls of honor and duty. With the liberty transmitted by their forefathers they have inherited the spirit to defend it. Ttie choice between war and abject submission i3 before them. To such a proposal brave men, with arms in their hands, can have but one answer. . They cannot barter manhood for peace, nor the right of self-government for life or property. But justice to them requires a sterner admonition to those who have abandoned their comrades in the hour of peril. A last opportunity i3 offered thorn to wipe out the disgrace and escape the punishment of their crimes. By authority ofthe President of the Confederate States, a pardon is announced to such deserters and men improperly absent as shalUretura to the com mands to which they belong within the shortest possible time, not exceeding twenty days from the publication of this order, at the headquarter? of the department in which they may be. Those who may be prevented by interruption of communication, may report within the time speci fied to the nearest enrolling officer, or other officer on duty, to be forwarded a? soon as practicable; and upon presenting a certificate from such officer, showing compliance with this requirement, will re ceive the pardon hereby offered. Those who have dese ted to the service of the ene my, or who have deserted after having been once pardoned for the same offence, and those who shall desert, or absent themselves without authority, af- ! ter the publication of thi- order, are excluded from , its benefits. Nor does the offer of pardon extend to other offences than desertion and absence without permission. By the same authority, it is also declared that no general amnesty will again be granted, and tho e who refuse to accept the pardon now offered, or who shall hereafter desert or absent themselves without leave, shall suffer such punishment as the courts may impose, and no application for clemency will be entertained. Taking new resolution fromlthe fate which our,en mies intend for us, let every man devote all his en ergies to.the common defence. Our resources, w sely and vigorously employed, are ample, and with a brave army, sustained by a determined and united people, success, with God’s assistance, cannot be doubtful. The advantages of the enemy will have but little value if we do not permit them to impair our reso lution. Let us, then, oppose constancy to adversi ty, fortitude to suffering, and courage to danger, with the firm assurance that He who gave fseedom to our fathers will bless the efforts of their children to'preserve it. R. E. LEE, mar 5 6t General- All newspapers in the Confederate States are re quested to copy six times the above [General Order Ne. 2 1 and send bills''with a copy of the paper) to 1 the Richmond Enquirer for payment. Headquarters Armies of Confedf-rite States, 1 February 11,1865. J General obdeb3.l No. 3. Tb? discipline ani efficiency .>■ the army have been greatly impaired bj men ieiving their proper commands to join others in which they find service more agreeable. This practice, almo.-t as injurious :n its conse quences as the crime ..f d'-seruon, |.y the article- of War exposes the offender to a similar punishment, and subjects the officer reeeivi g him to dismissal from the army. It i« therefore declared that the provisions of General Order No. 2. of this due. fr- m iruy head quartered, apply t such aeu as have left them proper command? and joined other? without being regularly transferred. They will receive the par don promised in that order upon complying with its condition?, or suffer the consequences attached to The names of such absentees will be forthwith re- Dorted to these headquarters by 'he officers with whom they ’are serving, and umneoiate measures taken to return them to their proper command?. i, goon as practicable, an m-pection will be made anYcharges wii! be preferred against tho-e wno tf* enforce this order. rv. L .Lt, mar 5 6t IGeneral. «All newspapers in the Confederate States are re quested to copy six timr? the above General Order No. 3! and send bills (w ta copy of the paper) to the RicbmonU Sequirer tor payment. f SIN DOLLARS 1 FER MONTH TELEGRAPHIC. REPORTS OF THE PRESS ASSOCIATION. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1363,. by J. 8. Thrasher, in the Clerk's office- f the District Court of the Confederate States for tne Northern District of Georxia. Mobile, March s.— One hundred and sev enty-six of our naval army exchanged prison ers arrived :u this city at ten o’olock last night. From Columbia. —The Constitutionalist i3 permitted to make the subjoined extract from a letter ot Dr. R. VS. Gibbes, to a gentleman in Augusta: The enemy has destroyed our city—two thirds at least. There are thousands of wo men. children and old men without food. I know that Augusta will help us if it can. Send us meal, and anything to eat. Ask the Quartermasters to lend us wagons and mules to haul wood and provisions. The enemy is reported to have divided h:s columns. One column going towards Wil mington, the other towards Charlotte. If possible, send garden seed for those who remain. T rial of Polish Insurrectionists. —A Ber lin letter says: The trial of the Polish “conspirators” was concluded on Friday, the 23d ult., with much the same result as was anticipated in my last report. Eleven of the accused were condemn ed to death, among whom are Count Dzielin ski, the greatest land proprietor in Prussian Poland; Guthier, member of the Polish Na tional Government, and of the Prussian Cham ber of Deputies, and Taczauowski and Seifri ed, who distinguished themselves as leaders in the insurrection, they not having appeared tor their trial being considered an acknow ledgment of their guilt. Os the accused act ually present, 28 were found guilty of acts preparatory to the commission of high treason, and sentenced to an imprisonment varying from one to two years. All the other prison ers, about 100 in number, were acquitted : but lor some of them the attoruey general moved proceedings in anew cour».D; } “What’s in a Name!” —A correspondent of the Augusta Constitutionalist says : Congress has passed a joint resolution of thanks to Gen. R. M. Cano for services in the Cherokeo Natiou, including the capture of large wagon trains, stores, prisoners, &c., and the official record spells his name “Guano”—that’s rather rich and might fertilize a joke ; but then the General is used to such outrages upon his patronymic. I remember when he was the gallant commander of the 3d Kentucky caval ry, that he made a list of twenty-three differ ent ways in which his name had been spelled; but he never imagined that it would come to “Guano.” Pray do not let us have it so on his tombstone. FOB CHATTAHOOCHEE AND BAINBRIDGE. The Steamer Shamrock, H. Wingate, master, will leave for the above and intermediate landings, Wednesday morning at 9 o’clock, mar 6td By Ellis, Livingston & Cos. — ♦ ON TUESDAY, 7th inst., at 11 o’clock, we will sell in front of our store, 3 boxes choice N. O. Sugar, 10 sacks New Rice. 9 sacks Ground Peas, LOT FINE FURNITURE, such as Centre, Card and Dining Tables, Bed Steads, Chairs, Wardrobe, Settees; Large lot Linen and Cotton Sheets, Pil low Cases, very fine Quilt, Spreads, Win dow and Bed Curtains, &c., &c. ALSO, 7 LIKELY NEGROES. ALSO, 10 Likely Mules, march 6—s2l iii'i By Ellis, Livingston A Cos. Administrator’* .Sale, ON THURSDAY, 9th March, at 11 o’clock I will sell in front of the auction store of Ellis, Livingston k Cos. The perishable property belonging to the estate of L. C. Morton, dec’d. con sisting of one Bureau, Bedstead, Ward robe, Tables, Wash Stand, Chairs, Baths ing Tubs, Water Buckets, Tin and Crock* ery Ware, Fender, Shovel and Tongs, fine Gold Watch, fine Rifle, Colt’s Revol ver, Bed Clothing, Wearing Apparel, Traveling Trunks, besides many other ar tides of value too numerous to mention. Sold by order of the Court of Ordinajy of Muscogee county. E. BARNARD, feb 24 wtd 824 Adm’r. Headquarters Waddell’s Battert. \ Columbus, March 2d, 1865. 1 This city, it is supposed, is threatened by a raid of t e enemy. I have a battery, without horses, which is needed for its defence. It requires sixty-four horses. If I can obtain this number from citizens in the city and the adjoining country, both in Geor gia and Alabama, to be used only in ‘an emergency, I am authorized by the Post Commandant to say, that such horses will be exempted from any order of impressment. Until the emergency may arise, they will be needed only once a week for drill. Leave all offers in this behalf at the office of Post Commandant, Enquirer office, or with me at Dr. de Graffenried’s. J. F. WADDELL, mar3iw Maj. Art’y. NEGROES at AUCTION. -BY- J. B. HABERSHAM A CO. Executor’s Sale. On Tuesday, Ylarch 7,1865. TT/TLL be sold on the first Tuesday in March next, »t between the usual hours of sale, at the Court House in the city of Macon, TWENTY-TWO NEGROES, (more or leg?; consisting of Men, Women and Chil dren, belonging to the estate of Caroline Baynard, deceased. These negnesare 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 he late Wm. G. Baynard. EDWARD M. BAYNARD, WM. G. BAYNARD, Executors. M. B. BAYNARD. Executrix. feb 25 w3t Columbus Times will please copy once a week til dayot3ale and forward bill to J. B.H A Cos. Fresh Garden Seeds, THE GROWTH OF 1804. Great Collard, Late Tens.e-see Cabb.ige. * • ?haw Squash. Yellow Crook-neck bummer bquash. Double Curled Parriey, Asparagus Kale, Cuba Tobacco, Dwarf Okra, Green nea > Lettuce, Round .-pinach. Green Nutmeg Melon, The above see s * ere raised by Mr. Charles A. Peabody, and are offered at wholesale and retail at 114 broad street. mar 4 7t Ylarsiial’s Male. TT7"ILL be so. i before the Court House door \Y in the city of Columbus, Ga., on the first Tuesday in ; , 1865, between the u.«u*l hours of sale, an gr» w..man n i ned SILVEY, levied ea as the roperty fF. M. Doles, tosatisty a tax fi. fa. in favor ot the cuy of Columbus, Ga. T. P. CALLIER. mar 5 ts Marshal