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DAILY TIMES. J. W. W4RREV, - - - Editor. COLUMBUS: Sunday Morning, March 1!, 1865. The War. Our telegrams yesterday presented quite an. interesting batch of intelligence. It is now certain that Sherman lias abandoned the pro gramme of marching through North Carolina by way of Charlotte and Greensboro’, and has concluded to tarry a while at Wilmington. Whether he shall be so fortunate a? lo ;each that place in.safety, is wore than vee can prom ise him. The position of our itu’ces, as indi cated ir. the dispatches referred to, would seem to be favorable for meeting any move ment he mat' conclude to make. If he ad vance east, and directly towards Wilmington, he will be confronted by Hardee, while John ston can assail his left flank. If he face north ward and strike for Raleigh, he will butt against Johnston at Fayetteville, while Hardee can pounce upon his right flank. We think it probable, however, that (Jen. Johnston will endeavor to concentrate all his force before offering battle. If successful in .jjuis effort he will have an army numbering at least 50 men—a force abundantly sufficient we th i n - R To settle .Sherman’s had ,. A few more dnv;| or weeks « tWillM'. „ m tei , llio wU . lion. W. B. Gauldca. On ihe 25th February, 1865, this Georgia Senator delivered a speech—one to his entire satisfaction ! It is in the Exegi monumentum strain. He illuminated the Senate of Geor gia with such wisdom, wit and eloquence as he has to contribute to the cause ot bis suf fering country. Like the deformed Thersites, he ridicules and rails at the heroic and re nowned chieftains, whose wisdom and patri otic devotion are a constant reproach to his vauity and vulgarity ! They are all Sanyra docs and he forsooth “the skillful physician ! ’ — who “will not administer a remedy for the disease, but for the cause of it. ’, If bi3 pa tient, is burning up with lever, he’ll not ad minister a remedy -for fever —not thisphil- osopher! He’ll doctor the miasm ! or perhaps the river bottom, or the Fall Season, or some other il cause' of the disease —this Dr. Gaul den ! He says “the disease is the demoralized condition of the army and country.” Well, he’ll not doctor that. He is too “skillful a physician” to try to remedy demoralization. He’ll rather aggravate the disease. He’ll call “a convention ” —he will! and distract “the country and army” with new issues and vatu polemics. The “cause,” he says, of this dis ease of demoralization, is “eithei the weak ness of our (Southern) cause, or bad manage ment of the leaders and rulers.” Very well, Dr. Gaulden, which is it ? Is our cause a wick ed one ? ot is the demoralization the result of “the bad management of our leaders and ru lers ?” You do not quite tell us, but notwith standing you put it in the alternative, we in fer that you really believe both. Your bitter and reproachful charges and insinuations against “the secessionists “leave no doubt, Dr., that you consider the disease eonstitu tiotiai and incurable—in other and plain words—you have been and are an enemy o ; ' the cause ! You think, too, that the eonstitu tional disease has been aggravated by “bad management of leaders and rulers.” Your diagnosis is not very clear, but one or both is “the cause.” That whatever or wherever it may be you will doctor. You prescribe “a convention,” not to cure “demoralization, ’ but to cure a bad cause and to correct the “bad management of leaders and rulers.’ You wash your hands ot the pitiful business in which Governor Brown engages. He wants a convention to depose President I) iris—that’s uii! He avows no principle. All he asks is the change of one man! —that man perhaps soon to become as obnoxious to him as President Davis himself. It would be rather too much trouble to call a convention that would ouly have the power to decide the personal controversy between Governor Brown and President Davis. The people cun decide it in loco, without that. You demanded a convention to cure a'bad cause— a cause bad from the beginning, and doubly had from “bad management.” You want some more “sufficient cause” than “the election of Mr. Lincoln” for “a dissolution of the Union”—that blessed Union under which, “a little over four years ago, we were the hap piest people on the face of the globe—living under a glorious constitution and a wise sys tem 0/ laws; we had prospered in wealth and numbers as no other nation had ever pros pered before, with slavery lirmly established in fifteen of the States , as well as in the District of Columbia." It is the sin of “the secession ists” that they “broke up the Government” ot the old Union, and destroyed the conditions of national happiness you ascribe to it. The argument of the Senator is this : “ We were a happy people—nil oar rights, slavery included, were secure in the Union—the peo ple and army are demoralized because they* condemn the secessionists for breaking up (he Government, and want a Convention to restore the Union." If the facts were as Mr. G. as sumes them to be, the old Union ought to be restored and the traitorous secessionists hung ! In spite ot his malignant assaults upon “the secessionists, ” we shall try to find a solution of his case, which will exhonorate him from the guilt of moral treason. Whether we shall be able to establish his claim to common sense and candor in the light of that declauv tion 1 h a t “slavery was firmly established in fif teen of /he States and the District of Colum bia. " aftei * i ' nco * n 3 e l ect > on i and when “the secessionists H oke up the Government, ” * soL , , * Supnosing him im,ot have been his ab<m. <s ol of the fim to be candid and not to be ax. bIX3 b]psse(l water, how profound an ignorance.- i v C 5. his tranquil jrears ! Slavery was « firm-, tablished,he says! Tiiig doctor has some genlns. His diagnosis' 1 -cminds ua of “the old doctor" Walter T. ! utfd td amuse the ,suite* wiv>\ who ** *£.*.* the patient had been eatir a eg g ? > 'e fie the egg slml’ 3 u ‘ n(ier the bec ‘ : 0r .*tther r Gowoor t}rowQ ri>lVlin<ij i of “ the Old. Doctor, an( } this disciple of i Vts—hfi “ wedko,i student. Tom, ” who ! u the P'ttie had been eating horse-flesh because b 0 saw the bridle and saddle und'-r v ■ 1 "" 1 ‘'Skillful physician" forsooth! V«! wvv, , ~ We tell you, sir, that i/ou are wbriS *£ lße army or country— more thoroughly de- ’ and s>v to you, “ Physician heal tbyse : 1 b our discs sc ha? cause in Unionism —that is, with you, the “ one, stern, tyrannic thought, that mokes all other thoughts its slave. ” •We are not done with you. Dr. Gauiden, but shall follow you through the hie el übique of your demagoguieal speech (communicated.) “Tire Great .Mistake of the Lcfisiatare. ,? Ms. Editor : The Confederate Union, published at Miliodgeville, a paper which has heretofore mainly pursued a liberal and patristic policy in the support of the Government in resisting Yan kee domination, and in battling for our indepen dence. is now descended from this noble purpose, and it? editor is striving with all his powers to promote the vicious policy of Governor Brown «f disin nrg and dividing the people of ihe State upon the great and supreme object of obtaining our national independence. Under the foregoing cap'ion the editor of that paper undertake? to re buke the legislature ot the State of Georgia, be cause they, too, do not lend themselves to these same unholy cuds. The legislature have wisely deuded that it-is inexpedient to assemble the people at a general election to say whether they prefer or deedioe to have another general election to choose delegates to a State convention. T.'.e purpose.of a convention of delegates as do aired and avowed by Gnv. Brown in his late mes sage, is, in substance, to abridge eba functions of the President, and, in brief to emasculate the Con-, federate Government of its constitutional powsrs and efficiency. What other motive His Excellency may entertain can be readily divined, or else jhis conduct is strangely at variance with the object of securing our national freedom, which he professes to desire. The legislature and the people anti the army from Georgia, have not yet reached that lamentable point of timidity, distrust and disgrace, when like Governor Brown, and inis pliant editor, they can be busied in discovering cunoingiy devised schemes to slide back into the fond embraces of Federal corruption ; or how most gracefully to fasten on and wear the galling yoke which our Yankee taskmasters have so aeaiousiy and labori ously prepared for ns. No, civil war ia Georgia is preferable to that. * Civilian, Sherman’s Movements. Augusta, March B.— The railroad from Columbia to Charlotte has been torn up as far as oue mile above Bla kstoek (say 49 miles above Columbia, and about the same distance below Charlotte, and with in six miles of Chest r C. H.,) and shout one hali’of it destroyed. The enemy on the 26 th crossed Feay’s Ferry on the Catawba river, and on the 2sth were in Lancas ter District threatening Cheraw. They burned everyt: ing in their line of On the 28th the left wing of their cavalry was within twenty-five miles of’Charlotte, and the main body of theii army in Lancaster District. (Lancaster District is direct ly east of Chester. The Catawba river runs between these districts. Lower dow- it is eallel the Wa teree, and still lower, the Santee. Cheraw is on the eastern border of Chesterfield District, and is the terminus of a railroad running due north from Florence 40 miles, and about 80 miles due east from Chester C. 11. Sherman seems io be pushing for Wilmington.) Reports are still current in Charlotte that Lee had badly defeated Grant. Schofield has been repulsed With heavy loss on the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad. Hardee’s columns are at Cheraw and Wadesbofb, N. C., (some .thirty miles north of Cheraw.) and Sherman was endeavoring to cut him off. Johnston is moving to confront the enemy at Fay etteville. The North Carolina Raiiroad, from Charlotte to Greensboro, has been widened, and the accumula ted roiling stock is being sent off rapidly. It wiii be all saved. The I*real Cause of the Country. Wo take the following- paragraphs from a letter from Augusta to the Mobile Register. Comment b unnecessary; but the evils refer red to exist throughout the length and breadth of this fair land, now so seriously threatened. A sweeping reform would not only save the country from being overrun, but would insure our independence before the close of t.Le ap proaching summer. Are not our leaders equal to the emergency ? Gen. Hardee’s location, at last accounts, whs at Summerville, where he had congre gated a considerable force. There is no pos sible chance to calculate a( present what will be the future operations of either army. Ail will depend ou the movements of the enemy. Yet there is no doubt that ail tue troops of the four armies in this eastern department will be concentrated in Virginia, and that the last campaign of the war will be finished in a few months, whether by an immense battle or strategy remains to be developed. While all this accumulation and strategy is progressing, there 13 nothing like the energy applied that is needed. A radical change is absolutely needed to render the army effect ive and large enough to compete with the. hordes of the enemy. Let me give you an item for editorial comment, and an item which, if it had no existence, would add to our army a legion that would end the war in the next,six months, and would have ended it two years ago, if the remedy had been ap plied. I refer to the great number of unne cessary officers and employees who are on post duty. In this city alone, there are over one hundred and fifty distinct offices, which with their hundreds of unnecessary attaches, swell the number of detatehed men to several thousand persons. Influences of all hinds are applied to secure these safe and easy places, and as a matter of course, there are many of them who furnish a consideration for the privilege. As an instance, weyvill mention that, in the supply department alone there are nearly fifteen thousand men employed in the depart ment west of the Savannah river. It must be evident to the most casual observer that, one-third of the number would do the work as effectually. It would be an easy matter for some of the small offices to be absorbed, and (he work of several done by one man As the matter stands at present, our army has about twenty thousand men bearing arms to oppose Sherman ; and it takes nearly twenty thousand individuals to attend to the business of supplying them and the other petty busi ness that our administration provides for them. Is not this condition of affairs an egregious humbug? Is not the imbecility that permits such a condition of things to exist an evidence of mal-administration. that should be spurned with all the energy of the press and the voice of the people, until anew and radical order ot' things is established ? To those of us who have suffered the terrible hardships of the past four years of the war, this condition of things is awful and madden ing. The offices that I refer to do not even sup ply our troops with the most ordinary material and supplies of war. What becomes of all the proceeds of their labor? It seem? im possible that they do their duty, when etc- see our brave men in the field walking barefoot, leaving marks of blood on the cold and rough ground over which they march. We c unuH help but wonder what those offices and their 7 attaches are doing, when we see the bK V Jr,COU We get i,nl ' ufer v»»hf of biaukelS tu. other tele ue ceßsa»v to make a *«*<"“ -. c-nig worn ‘‘o death by waut and eOu.- -Nor can we understand That object there is m Keep- , I Uv huudr.-da of soldiers on duty *u> !S i'»W «»- »'•» the ? u , - =n(tr»rpd the OTttaiiQns of tae- battles ana sunereu u. v..* f’oiife tera e armies dui'T,g me las' r ~ war while gambles and >l, nothings, and Taney men by pass uumyV-il.-n ana protected aluna streets, that we cannot waik a? ,rnely e-t mo I aegroCß, t', 1 ' v h^ n d t-c give way. These cry * * ~ L stopped, or we w.H V* * I ing evils must bes- IF l ruined Letter from Thomas's Army. (Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial.) Eastport, Miss., Feb. 5, 1865.—1n my last I promised you a report of Genera! Wash • burn’s expedition to this point last fall, it is impossible to furnish a detailed description, in the absence of official data, but I propose to give an account from the lips of Mr J. F. Da vis, then a pilot on the 3teamer City of Pekin, who was an eye witness of the facts narrated. To prepare your readers for the statement, it may be well enough to mention that in the early part of last October, shortly after the entree of Forrest into Memphis, the military ; depot of Johnsonville, Tennessee, a small gov | eminent village on tSfe Tennessee river, 130 miles abo.ve Paducah, and seventy-eight miles by rail from* Nashville, was threatened by bands of guerrilla's and rebels, who regarded the destruction of the large amounts of gov ernment stores at that place as a consumma tion devoutly to be wished. To expel this force, or rather collection of forces, a military expedition was deemed essential, and to Major General Washburne. of Memphis, were entrus ted the necessary orders. About this rime, Genera! Forrest, with his rebei cavalry, moved from the vicinity of Memphis to Eastport laud ing, via Corinth md luka. Major General Washburne with his com mand left Memphis about the Ist of October, on transports, bound for the Tennessee river, and arrived a - Johnsonville on the Bth of Oc tober. For further particulars Lam indebted to Mr. Davis. STATEMENT OP J. F. DAVIS. I am a pilot cf the steamer City of Pekin, and accompanied Major General Wasliburne’s expedition to Eastport. We arrived at John sonville on the ?th of October, and proceeded up the river on the oth. The fleet was com posed of the following steamers: City of Pe kin. Aurora and Renton, and two tin-clad gun boats. The force consisted of cavalry, artille ry, and infantry, of which I remember the fol lowing : 120th Illinois infantry, 113th Illinois infantry, 60th United Siates colored infantry and one battery of the 2d Wisconsin artillery, with four Napoleon guus. At Clinton, Ten- Major General Washburne debarked with the cavalry and proceeded up the coun try. The command of the fleet then devolved upon Colonel Hogue, who, after the departure of General Washburne, ordered us up the river. At Benson's landing, a small place two miles above Pittsburg landing, two men, dress ed in Federal uniform, hailed us, and we drop ped along shore. They inquired for the com manding officer, and Colonel Hogue presented himself. They stated that they were bearers of verbal dispatches from General Washburne —the substance of which was to proceed to Eastport, where a small force of rebels would be found. These would offer no resistance. Then push on to luka and burn the bridge across Bear creek, after which they would re turn to Eastport. Upon this information, and without requiring any evidence of their stated mission, Colonel Hogue ordered the fleet up the river to Eastport, with the intention of complying with the verbal orders. We arrived at Eastport on the afternoon of the 10th. The troops were debarked and formed into line; preparations were made to ascend the hill, when whiz, whiz, zip, zip. came solid shot and shell and bullets, right into the midst of them, from the hill above, and before we could recover from our aston ishment, we received an unwelcome salute from a battery at Chickasaw, a little town two miles above Eastport. At this time, shells burst near the transports; one shot went Clashing through the forward cabin of the City of Pekin, another through the of the Aurora, and another Attempted to ftr*ni hillatc one of the “tin clads ” This insult to the navy was not to be tolerated, so the tin clads retired behind the transports. Oo the shon the S«ne was one of panic stricken sufferers and afiefi flying back io the steamers they had left, shouting with frantic desperation, “ For God’s sake, get us on, and pull out !'•’ The four Napoleon guns were deserted—precipitancy and distraction char acterized everything : aien clung to spars, ropes—anything in order to get away, Oc casionally, a shot would tear a poor fellow to pieces; others would receive wounds ami sink to the ground. Captain MuraiiaiL of the Aurora, was scalded to death from -Lg effecis of a shot which plunged through 1 lie steampipe. The tin clads were knocked tep sy turvy, but, unfortunately, they were not sunk. Finally—although I can never tsii you how. we got under way, minus two hundred and fifty men, four pieces of.artillery and all tlie artillery horses, and left the scene ot disaster and disgrace behind us. The above is a true history of au expedi tion which landed at Eastport last fall; op posed to which were or.s hundred and seven ty-five rebels and two guns. A NEW RATION. \\ bile the commissary department 39 worthy of ail praise, it has certainly developed a strange feature in the way of rations. That is, the army ot Gen. Smith, after going through the battle at Nashville, and marching over the country to this garden spot, are furnished with rations of forage! Be it. known that tor six days the detatchment of the army of Tennessee subsisted on corn in the ear! But they (the boys) were quite jolly, and ap peared grieved when informed that sheaf oats could not be furnished them ! THE WHEREABOUTS OF HOOD. It is certainly not contraband to state that this distinguished military geniu3 h»3 retired to the shades of civic propriety, and that Gen. Dick Taylor of the Mississippi depart ment. ha3 resumed command. Nor would it be prejudicial to mention that a portion of that army has gone to Charleston aud the temainderto Mobile. It is with regret that we part with the ser vices of such a man as Hood, for he has furn ished us with more prisoners than any other general in the rebel army. If he had remain ed in command, he would certainly have transferred his army to Gen. Thomas.’ As it is we'can only weep. A CAVAMtY RECONNOI3ANCE. A few days ago, Brig. Gen. Croxton’s brig ade of cavalry, assisted by a deiatehment of infantry, pushed on beyond Corinth, driving Ross’ rebel command (one brigade), before them. They struck off to the left of Corinth and destroyed the magnificent trestle work and the bridge across the Tuscurubia river. Os course the Mobile and Ohio railroad com pany cannot make a dividend this fall, as the loss of the trestle work- and bridge will fall heavy upon them. Stockholders will please take notice. In connection with the above reconnois ance, it would be. well enough to mention the distinguished services of Capt. W H. Harrison, the celebrated western scout, who with bis small command, dashed into every point of danger and secured safe passage for the troops. I mention the captain because your readers will probably hear more of him after awhile. A- MAGNIFICENT FLEET. The largest and finest fleet collected during the war is now at lhi3 landing. The follow ing is a list of the largest first-class steamers : Mississippi, Ida Handy, Belle Memphis, Belle St. Louis, Magenta, Julia, John Kilgour, Adaro Jacobs, Atlantic and 0. K. Hillman.— I might mention others, but the above are first class steamers. What the collection of such a fleet moans I am not at liberty so slate, but I will mention that the steamers e >me up empty. In my last letter 1 styled this command the 16th army corps. I wish to make the amende, honorable by stating that it is 'he detachment of the army of the*Tennessee. But ihe title will probably be changed ;u a lew days, a fact of which l wiii apprise you. In short : you may expect exciting news from this com • mand. Sackilbgk. —While the i ederalists aflect to regard themselves a?, pefr the Chris tian find civilized party to this struggle, tbojr lyt'SW ih passing through Georgia, camped m tne graveyard adjacent to the Ebenezer Luth eran church, drove their wagons over it, buru eii the nailing?, broke into the church itself, ; an ,= ? t ole the massive y;< pirn union service TELEGRAPHIC. REPORTS O? T3B PRJS9S ASSOCIATION. Eofered.according to act of .Congress in the yea i_B63. by J. S Thrasher, in the Clerk's office o ae Distriot Ctmrr of the Confederate States of tae Northern District of Georgia. Augusta, March 11.—The greatest enthusi asm is apparent on ihe streets of this city to* day. Thousands of soldiers from the armies of Tennessee and Virginia have congregated here during the .last ten days. The wagon train of the army of Tenne33ee has been pre paring during to-day for the long march on which it will start Monday morning. By order of Gen. Fry, General Johnston’s appeal to his soldiers, and General Lee’s amnesty order have been printed and circulatad broad cast over the country, where newspapers do not reach in this department. The effect is visible already in the hundreds who are arriving at the Camp of Direction daily. Their shouts of enthusiasm are heard at all hours as the crowded trains pass through the city. The enemy has been progressing very slow ly in his movements since he left Chester. — Rumors of a battle having been fought be tween our ? forces and the left wing ol the Yankee army near Florence have- not been authenticated. The Yankees occupy about sixty miles in width, as they move on. Our trcops'are operating on their north side.— Heavy skirmishing daily in which Sherman s strength is exhausted by a series of annoyan ces, he avoiding- battle as-much as possible. |SHa rdee has effected a junction with the main body of our army at or near Wadesboro. JJsYankee accounts of the fall of Wilmington magnify the loss very much Our actual ios g was not mere than 'l<7J men. Negro enlistments progress rapidly at Sav vannah and Charleston. A large number of recruiting officers,’cot ton buyers, quartermasters and oommissanes are operating in the neighborhood of Savan nah, going as far as the Altaroaha. A special to the Constitutionalist from Richmond says the negro soldier bill was lost by one majority in the Senate on the 28th ult. Mobiles. March 11. —Fourteen vessels more have been added to the fleet to day, making 21. Great activity prevails among the enemy in Lower Bay. The sigu3 indicate an early attack. The enemy has fired a few shots at both shores. Distinct Communities. 10 J. Tut* London Giob? makes the following lucid comments on State Rights and the di vision of the Union : We cannot but confess that we are so far of the same opinion with our Confederate cotemporarj, as we hold that whatever may be said of State sovereignty, “State individ uality was the Very basis of ail institutions of the United States. Each of those States con tinue independent in its whole regimen ! and the Federal Union, by the very force of the term comprised the people of those States, as each represented in the Federal legislative and executive agencies, whose action wag limited to certain common purposes. It seems to follow that States which have no par in the election of tho-e agencies ( e. y. in the Presidential election) have no part in th“ Northern Federal UnioS. Tl»ej no logger participate in its federal organizations for common purposes. That is simply a fact. Whose fault that fact is does not seem to af fect its existence. Earl Russeit3ays : “Ot the causes of tkeruphifs Iter Majesty’s Government has never presumed tojudge.” But every government of Europo i* cognizant of the fact that the Southern States are not parties to the re-election of President Lincoln. Our Northern friends will of course say—that* it is not their fault —they might have been if thsy had chosen. But the question is this, is it not the nature of separate political communities that they should choose, or not choose,, to act with other suiu political communities, according a3 they cannot agree with their politics? All common action of North asd South has hitherto been in the nature of compromise ,* Jknd when it becomes no longer possible to arrange lerat? of compromise, common action of North and Sduia of necessity ceased. Then came the question—had the North era combination of individual political units (States) any right to enforce submission to its will on the Southern combination of similar units ? Foreigners, at least, must naturally be disposed to think that they had not, because they said they had not on every occasion on which the question was to give satisfaction to foreign demands of right, or remonstrances of wrong, against i.ndivide ual States. For example, if a British ship putting into the port of Charleston, from stress of weather, or any other cause, had happened to hav# on board black sailors, British subjects, these sailors would have been instantly clapped in jail, and kept there till the vessel should be about to take its departure. Any remonstrance against this infraction of inter national law, addressed to the Federal Govern ment, would have been met with the answer that that Government had no jurisdiction over the proceedings, uowover offensive to foreigners, of the State of South Carolina, at home. One doe* not quite see how foreigners should distinguish between the right of the several States to assume at will an attitude of independence towards the world and towards each other. And fact3 have so far justified the assumption of that attitude in the conflict still raging, that notwithstanding North ern reiteration of the name of “rebels,” it has never been attempted practically to withhold the common righes accorded by thelaws of war to their Southern antagonist. The war is a war between two leagues of distinctly organized political com munities. Another Peace Mission. There is something very suggestive and signin cant in the report of another peace mission to Richmond, if it be true. Knowing the spirit and determination of our people as Lincoln and Sew ard must, after their interview with our commis sioners at Fortress Monroe, they would hardly venture upon a second enterprise of the sort unless they were prepared to coma down somewhat from their former demands: nor do we think Mr. Sin gleton would undertake the task unless such were the case. But, admitting that they* are prepared to yield some certain points, is it at all probable that they will offer such terms as we 3an with honor accept, based upon separation and independence? We rather think not; unless there be imminent dan ger of foreign complications of which we know nothing, and by which the national existence of the North may be imperilled. That there is something m this thought W3 think altogether probable, rendered more so by this renewal of an effort for peace, eoming as it does on the basin of the late news from Mexico and the sudden un precedented rise in the price of gtdd in New Orleans, There mo<y be, and probably is, some thing aiurt than wind in the repeated declaration# of European letter writers, predicting the recog nition df the Confederacy by F-rwnce of the 4th af March. „ Whatever may be its significance, however, vur people should not be lulled into estate of inac-.sv - ity by it. Let the preparations for a vigorous spring and summer campaign continue in pr l . g ress. for after all it may be a mere Yankee trick en the part of Linceln and Seward to gain some advantage. Their hearts are fall of treaehery and no faith can bw afely put ic them. us not 'hen b« lod astray by their duplicity and double dealing. Mr. Calboun is said never to rave made out one i quotation in all the speeches be ever detiwered, Jud tbit bad direst reference to these very people: 7VU/IS et tl-oua jcreAits* —“i fear ibo-^reeiss even when bringing gifts.” We should be warned by the admonition and beware of these false hearted Greeks even when they come with over tures of peace upon their lip#. We hold our des tiny in oar o-wnhaud*, and if we are wise and brave, we will never be deceived by their duplicity nor overcome by their »rvn&. Let us then wait, work and hope and all will yet end to the glory of fjod, the renown of the Confederacy and the good •f mankind. — Appeal. A Wise ano Just Law.—A bili relieving papers sent to the army from postage, has rassed l>e*b ifov?«s of C*?;3- THE oI t X T. J. JACKSON LOCAL EDITOR Personal. —We were pleased yesterday to greet in our 3anctum that venerable pioneer the Georgia press, Simri Rose, Esq., of the Ma con Journal and Messenger. We are pleased to see that the fates have dealt kindly by him during the war. Though late in the day, Mr. Rose has at last entered of daily jour nalism, and we trust that, great success may attend him. * Auction Prices. —The following prices prevailed at, Ellis & Co's auction yesterday: Matches sls per gross ; one pistol $225 ; 200 candles $1 each; Florida fish, $3 to $3 25; pickled oysters, $55 per gallon ; one gold watch, $1,575 : sugar, $6 75 to 7 ; Flour, $2 Irish potatoes, $55 per bushel. Other sales unimportant. In M ant of Grease. —Our market for sev eral days has been almost entirely destitute of butter. Cannot some of our country friends relieve our wants in this particular? This article will readily command from six to eight collars here at this time, and surely these prices ought to bring it it there is any in the country. Be it known that bacon has got so high that poor folks can’t reach it with a forty loot poie, and without a little butter to make our corn bread slip down easy we shall ail “peg out” prematurely with the “brown cree*urS. ” We now maintain our hold upon life’s uncertain tenor by masticating that pop ular substitute for good living—“ peas. ” Fire. —Fires are all the rage here just now. Yesterday about half past one o’clock, the old wooden warehouse on broad street just below the old Columbus Hotel (now Marshall Hospital,) owned by Cody & Fleming, was burned down, to gether with about 300 bales of cotton, belonging to various parties, the names of whom we have not been enabled to learn. By some the fire is believed to have originated from incendiarism, by others from the carelessness of several little boys who are said to have been in the warehouse enga ged in the interesting pastime of smokfhg cigars. The cotton we understand was partially covered by insurance, the amount not insured we could not learn. By the prompt exertions of the several fire companies the contiguous buildings were saved. The wind blowing briskly from the north, the danger was imminent at one time that the en tire block would be consumed, but our gallant firemen as usual struggled manfully, and the flames were compelled to “knock under.” The Weather —The popular theme of the poet, lover and “local” has changed of late—in stead of rain we have cold. We saw a small quantity of ice yesterday morning. Fast Dav—Was observed in our city as usual —by some as a nation al Sabbath, by others as a <ia } y of recreation and pleasure. Prp tiy much all business was Suspended in our city a religious services neld at the several churches. Sales To Morrow.—Myers, Watson & Cos. will sell on J/onday 13th, an interest in an oil factory, a number of likely negroes, groceries, fur niture Ac. A Free Fight.— Wo learn that after the fire was over yesterday a lYee fight occurrtw between the police and No. 5 fire company in which the latter are said to have triumphed. A number of the police left the field we learn, with bloody heads. Gentlemen, you should not be wasting your corporeal strength in this way, the will need all the blood you have lo spare. Confederate Made Sewing Silk*—We were yesterday shown by it friend a lot of elegant Sew ing Silk, of different colors iMhufactured by a young lady (and we know she must be sui-ifl and pretty) of Harris county, Ga., from the produc tions of the silk worm. The thread is very hand some and perfect, and is, in our judgment, equal to any ever imported from Europe er the North. What is better, we are assured the silk can be fur nished at a figure far below any foreign thread in our market. The thread can be seen and pur chased at Gunby & Co’s, store. Among all the evidences of Confederate inge nuity and enterprise, we hail none with greater pride and satisfaction than this. The young lady in question deserve* to have her name recorded in letters of gold, high in that immortal scroll of names “that were not born to die.” We bid her God speed in her noble efforts for the indepen dence of her country, and trust she may realize a handsome fortune as well as a good name a3 the reward of her skill and industry. Maximilian has written a letter re affirming his views to the church question, and an nouncing that though there is to he full and free toleration of religious opinion, yet the i Stale religion of Mexico will be that of the 1 Roman catholic church SALES MONDAY. By Myers, Watson & Cos. WE will sell, on MONDAY, March 13tb,-at 11 o’clock, in front of our Auction Room, 1 New Spring Wagon. 1 Round Table, 8 Arm Chairs, 1 Rocking Chair. march 12 $8 BY MYERS* WATSON & (0 WILL sell on Monday,March 13th, in front of our store, at 11 o’clock, One Single Rockavray and Harness, in fine order, 11 Sacks N. Ot Sugar -2 bbls. Florida Sugar, 3 bbls Cuba Cane Syrup 10 Boxes Tobacco, 10 sacks Salt, 20 sacks Ground Fea*.. 1 Cooking Stove, 1 dozen Axes. Gold and Silver Watehes, silk velvet Mantilla, Clothing. Furniture,, Hards ware, Crockery, &o. ke. ALSO — 1 New Sprint Wagon, 1 Round Table, 3 Arm Chairs, 1 Rocking Chair. ug*rc’u T 1 $24 BY MIEBis WATSON & CO., . V\ T MONDAY. MARCH 13th. 1*», unless pre- U viousfy disposed of at Private Sale. Two-thirds interest in a Pea-Nut Oil Mill, situated near tlie Nitre Works. Said Mill has one Press and aU the fixtures,and is capable of turning out fifteen gallons Oil per day. Aiso two-thirds interest in two one-horse Wagons, one Mule and ne Po ny, belonging to the above establishment Two hundred bushels of Ground Peas will be sold with the Mill at cost, it desired. For further particulars inquire as atmve. A Child's Patriotism.—A little girl in New Orleans, some eleven vears old and withal very pretty, refused to go to a children's ball because it was given by a iadv of YarVee proclivities. “I don’t want to dance under the Yank-e flag, she said. “Are you then such a good Confederate'- re marked a friend. “ Oh ! yes. ” “ Well, what would you give to see the Con federates come buck ? ” “ I, ” said the little beauty, evident! f seek ing what sacrifice would be adequate to the fulfillment of her great wish, “ I would let all my front teeth be pulled out!” When we add that the child was remarka ble for the- beauty ot her teeth, her proposed sacrifice assumes a magnitude unsurpassed by any of the many sacrifices that have beeu made lor the cause of our country. AUCTION SALES. By Ellis, Livingston & Cos. ON MONDAY, 14th March, we wiii sell in front of our store, at 11 o’clock, A Very Likely Negro Woman, 24 years old, a good Cook, Ironer and Washer. A Likely Negro Woman, 26 years old; Srst-rate Cook, Washer and Ironer. and House Servant. A Likely Negro Woman, 37 years old; good House Servant, Washer and Ironer. A Negro Man 60 years old, good Gar* dener, &c., Ac. ALSO, 15 Shares Macon cfc Western Rail Road Stock. 3 Shares Mobile & Girard Rail Road Stock. 5 Shares Bank of Columbus Stock. ALSO, Large lot desirable Clothing. Lot Furniture. Fine Cooking Stove, &c., &c Double Buggy Harness. Sewing Machines. 100 pairs Men’ Shoes, march 13—520 By Ellis, Livingston & C«, AT PRIVATE SALE. ISO Reams Sup. Vote Paper mar 8 ts ATFPRIVAXTE’SAi S7~ BY MYERS, WATSON & C0 M 51 LIKELY NEGROES* All sound and mostly between eleven and thirty years of agfe. Among the number are three Extra Blacksmiths, two Extra Carpenters, one Engineer and No. 1. Butcher, one first class Maa Cook, Washers, Ironers and extra Field Hands. Parties * n au y a ' oovc will apply immediately! Sold for no fault, owner expecting to change residence. mar 10--ts BLIND TOM, THE GREAT KTegro Pianist! Will give a Concert at TEMPERANCE HALL ON - MONDAY NIGHT, MARCH 13TH, 1865. Tickets $“• mar 12 td Or and o b s EXCHANGED I'Oll BOXES, AT THE GRANT FACTORY, march 12 ts : IRON Exchanged for Country Prodace, AT THS OR A JYT FACTORY. march 12 ts Just Received, A LOT of Seed; Irish Potatoes, at S6O per biu'aek fine Sugar; Potash; Bacon ; Pork; Lard; Beef, BRADFORD & SSO W. march 12 2t Grind Stones, 1 \F all sizes, from 18 inches to 6 feet, for sale by U GREENWOOD & GRAY, march 12 60d At Public Outcry!! ('TORN, Fodder, Peas, Potatoes, Plow?, stock J Hogs, Cows, Iron, &c., kc. H Saturday Next, the lltli of Mare*. Three miles from Auburn, Ala., one *nU« west of Ridge Grove. A considerable supply ot these articles wuil be sold to the highest bidder, at the place known as the “Tom Haguely place.’ Perhaps the Land itself may be sold —725 acres good Land and well improved. mar 8 4t WM. F. SAMFQRD. W. W. McCall N. W. Garrard. MCCALL & GARRARD, A TTORXEYS A T LA W, Xjalio City, Fla. mar 9 6m Council Chamber. I Columbus, Ga., March Bth, 1865./ On motion of Aid. Chapman the sum of $■ eS) 00 was appropriated for the payment 01 house .rent o. indigent families. A true extract from the minutes. mar 10 3t M. M. MOORE. C:erk, 30 TOYS IRON > For Sal© for Casli OR EXCHANGE FOR PRODUCE 4 and *1 inches wide. .) J. ENNIS k CO . mar 8 lm Columbus. G*. Wanted to Purchase, i QUANTITV of Timber within five mile- of A Columbus. We will purchase tho Lani aai Timber as the - dier may prefer. Anply at mn Government Works. marchlO -7t JOHN D. GRAA. jc C'j. Fresh harden Seed', THE GROWTH OF 1864. Great Bollard, Late Temre-see Cabbage. Oashaw Squash, Yellow Crook-neck Summer Squash, Double Curled Parsley, Asparagus Kale, Cuba Tcbpcom Dwarf o'kij. Green Head Lettuce. Round Spinach. Green Nutmeg Melon, The above seeds were raised b> Mr. Cnar.ns A. Peabody, and arc offered «t who.-e-a ean i . a„ at 214, BROAD STRXtVt. mar 4 It (inhbagp! Cabbage ! JUST received —a lot of genuine Dr r. v>.4, Early York ami Green Glased ' noo-ige Seed, m bulk. Also, Ruta Baga Turnip Se«*i At P.AYKSV-'RDVI x ; ■y J • -*• '.S f . m i r-'h 7 bt