Newspaper Page Text
DAILY TIMES.
J*. W. WiRREA, ... Editor.'
COLUMBUS:
Thursday Morning, March 16, Is6§.
r. ,
Recognition.
This subject again enforces attention. Two
intelligence, contained ia our tele-
morning, possess some signi
ficance in connection with this matter. The
first is the explicit statement of Gen. Mejia,
commander-in-chief of the Mexican forces at
Matamoros, that “the Confederacy would soon
be recognized.” Recognition by Maximilian
alone would be of but little value to us.—
Whatever might be his desire, we could expect
no material aid from him. His own little do-
me3tic troubles, we apprehend, give quite
enough employment for the force he has in
• hand. And yet we should rejoice in the ful
filment of Mejia’s prediction, for we should
confidently expect, it to be followed b> the
proffer of friendship from Napoleon. Indeed,
if our nationality be recognized by Maximil
ian, it will be done by the advice and at the
instance of Napoleon, and the latter, of course,
will be in honor and duty bound to back up
his imperial protcyc.
Jhe second item i6 the request of President
Davis to Congress to prolong its session for a
Reasonable time, for the reason that its delib
eration might be required, at aa early day,
upon a communication which he expected to
send to that body. Now it may he that the
subject matter ol that communication may
grow out of Singleton’s second and late mis
sion to Richmond. From the statements of
the Northern press, however, in reference to
its object, we are inclined to discredit this
supposition. The President, certainly, would
not detain Congress to consider peace or any
other kind of proposition, from an unaccred
ited individual. We rather suspect that the
prospect—perhaps, promise—of a foreign ac
quaintanceship, in some quarter, is at the bot
tom of the business.
<+ » T ~
From Columbia, S. C.—A gentleman just
from Columbia informs the Augusta Chronicle
and Sentinel, of the 12tb, that the story about
the new State House there having been spared
because it contained a statue of Washington,
is false. He says tie statue itself wa3 badly
defaced, and that the reason why the State
House was not blown up was because Sher
man could not spare the powder.
The State records of South Carolina were
removed to a place of safety. The records of
Beaufort and other districts, which had been
removed to Columbia for security, were unfor
tunately destroyed.
The number of whites which left Columbia
with Sherman is about 200. Number of ne
groes, 1200.
The Yankee troops adore Sherman, and call
him by the familiar name of Old Bill. They
pat great confidence in him.
Nearly all the plate sent from Charleston to
Columbia for safe keeping, and much of the
valuable plate of the citizens -of the latter
place which* was stored in Columbia bank
vaults, fell a prize to the enemy.
—♦♦ - -
Abolishing Quartermasters and Commis
saries.—Mr. Clarke, on the 20th ult., reported
back the Senate Bill “ to abolish the office of
certain quartermasters and commissaries, and
to provide for the appointment of bonded
agents, ” with the recommendation that it dp
not pass.
Mr. Hilton moved to amend by striking out
“ and those engaged in the collection of tax ia
kind.” /
The amendment was agreed to, and the bill,
as thus amended, passed by the following vote
—yeas 28, nays 19.
The bill removes from office all post quar
termasters and commissaries between 18 and
45, but does not interfere with those in the
field.
Reports and Opinions from Below. —We
are permitted, says the Appeal, to make the
following extract from a letter received in this
city, from an officer, dated Headquarters, Pol
lard, March 11 :
“Our scouts report from Pensacola General
Steele in command at the navy yard, with a
force of sixteen thousand infantry—white and
negro troops—with four thousand cavalry weil
armed and mounted. Some credulous persons
imagine that Montgomery and Selma are the
objective points for the contemplated raid ;
others think the enemy design first capturing
Blakely and Spanish Fort, the key to our de
fenses on Spanish river. There are, however,
a few in our military circles who agree with
me, that there are not more than six thousand
Federal troops at the navy yard, who do not
meditate an attack upon Mobile, but are merely
aiming to create a diversion ot our troops in
favor of Sherman and Grant. It is said that
shipments of Federal troops are daily made .
from the navy yard to Wilmington. The roads
from Pensacola at present are almost impassa
ble—the heavy rains recently have swollen all
the streams in this section of the country. I
do not, therefore, think there will be any ac
tive military operations in this district during
the next ten days.”
Coming in. —Toe Central Enquirer, of the
Bth inst., says : Since Maj. Blackwell arrived
in this county, eight days ago, with a small
squad of his men, one hundred and sixty ab
sentees have reported up to this time, others
are yet to report, and it is not unreasonable to
suppose that two hundred men will be re
turned before he closes his labors in this
county. We are rejoiced to see men who have
so long withheld their services from ‘ their
country now go to her relief in her perilous
condition when everybody should be at the
front, and we express our hope, and that of
the citizens of the county, that they will ren
der that service, and achieve those honors,
which the happiness and security of the occa
soin demand.
A considerable emigration has been taking
place from New Orleans to Matamoras. The
number of New Orleans people doing business
there must be large. Some of them retain
their former establishments in New Orleans,
having established branches at Matamoras. —
Others appear to have transferred their for
tunes and business entirely.
A late New York piper says eighty cases of
oaralry bools, which iUvras proposed to ship
lo the rebels by way of Matatuvras. have been
seized by the custom authorities at New York.
A firm in that city shipped SSOOO worth of
cotton carding implements for the game des
tination. The custom authorities have taken
hold of the matter.
From Europe.
Irom late European papers we glean the
following in reference to the bloody conflict
now going on between the North and the
! South.
La France says :
We are well aware that the fanatics of North
America loudly declare and proclaim in tbeif
journal! that they only desire peace with the
South in order to march their immense ar
mies against Mexico and Canada. They
threaten to do this be revenged on France
and Ireland, which they accuse of having en
couraged Confederate secession, and of hav
ing taken advantage of the intestine struggles
of the old Union to interfere in the affairs of
Central America. These are idle threats
which we regard with indifference, and have
little fear of their realization. In the first
place, the conclusion of peace with the South
does nut appear so near a* hand as sanguine
Northerners imagine. The latest dispatches
contradict the pacific intentions attributed to
the two Presidents and their peoples. The
war may last a long time yet. and, when it is
brought to a close, there will be so many
wounds to cicatrize; so many sores to heal, so
many ruins to rebuild, so many public and
private calamities to repair, that unless a
spirit of infatuation and madness should seize j
the government of Washington, its statesman,
its Congress and the whole American people,
they will hardly think or rushing into new
wars and courting fresh disasters.
The Presse of February 6th, says :
America has fatigued us for a long time
with monstrous teiegranis, describing the
bloody operations or sterile movements of ar
mies. All at once, however, two important
pieces of news arrive to break the fastidious
monotony of the military bulletins :-First—
New efforts are making .between the belliger
ents for the re-establishment of peace. Sec
ond—The Senate of Washington, in the chap
ter of the budget relative to the allowance of
Consuls, substituted for the word “Mexico,”
those other two very significant ones, “Mexi
can Republic.”
These two facts are connected with each
other, and touch Europe directly. If we look
fit the situation entirely from our own points
of viewq we can see in it the result of an in
consequence, the- inevitable expiation of a
fault. But what good will be produced by
retrospective recriminations? We must take
high ground. The Monroe doctrine is more
alive than ever in America. It has been per
mitted to sleep during the war ; we are see
ing now its stormy awakening. The day is
not, then, far distant, when the whole of Eu
rope ought to unite and turn all its preoccu
pations toward America. Solemn hour—gi
gantic struggle, which will bring the two con
tinents face to face.
The Fajtrie , of February 4th, has the follow
ing article :
The extracts which we gave a fe w days
since from thejournals of New York and
mond are referred to by the Gazette de France ,
and furnish that journal the occasion to re
gret that the Imperial Government has not
taken, in regard to America, “a determined
attitude.”
We have been too much in favor of Europe
an intervention to entirely disapprove the re
gret expressed by the Gazette; bu: that jour
nal forgets that for three year3 past the Im
perial Government has-done its best to induce
Europe to take steps which would certainly
have put an end to the bloody disorder in
America, that these efforts were without re
sult, and that their unsuccess has condemned
France to inaction.
The fact of the matter is,“l think, that our
relations with France are becoming rather
tieslish. The recent departure of the rebel
ram Olinde from a French 4 port is by no
mean'! satisfactorily explained by the Govern
ment, which, however, professes to be very
indignant at it, aud to be making all sorts of
investigation in regard to it. The Olinde has
reached Corunna, in Spain, where it is repor
ted that- she ribs in an unseaworthy condition.
It is aim possible that she may be seized there
and not permitted to leave, even if able. I
shall iie able iu a few days to communicate to
you eome important facts connected with the
departure of this vessel. The Oljnde is a
vessel ot eight, hundred horse power.
(From the Paris Nord, Feb. 5.)
Yesterday, the 4th, there was a* meeting of toe
Privy Council in Paris. We are informed that
the affairs of America, and ths connection they
may have with the Mexican empire, formed the
principal object of the meeting. France is not
without some uneasiness as to the attitude the
States may assume towards the new empire when
the conclusion‘of the civil war has placed at the
disposal of the republic a large and tried army
with numerous and skillful officers, and a four
years’ struggle has changed a State hitherto ex
clusively devoted to commercial and maritime in
terests into a military State, disposing of immense
forces. The recent resolutions of the Washington
Senate must have assisted in increasing this un
easiness. Nevertheless, according to bur corre.
spendent, the discussion in which the Privy
Council was engaged ended in this resolution—
that for the moment it would be wrong to give
way to exaggerated fears, and that ia the face of
the pacific and Conciliatory assurances which
American diplomacy continues to give, the
best course to adopt is to abstain provisionally
from all movement, without, howe-mr, indulging
in a false security.
[From the Journal des Debats Feb. S.j
Rumors of peace negotiations between Wash
ington and Richmond are assuming a certain de
gree of consistence. We are not yet informed as
to the bases of these negotiations, but there is
every reason to believe that the American mind
is inclined to peace, judging at ieast from the lau
guage of the journal. A grand lassitude is mani
fested in both camps, but the seutimeut which
seems to dominate is a lively irritation against
Europe, and particularly against France. The
North can never forgive it for the Mexican expe
dition, while the South complains of not having
been recognized.
The recrimiaatiens of the Confederate journals
not only exhibit a profound hatred, but also show
symptoms of exhaustion. We read in them the
bitter prevision ofa defeat which these journals
attribute in part tb the abandonment of France;
and for which thekSouth already dreams of ob
taining vengeance, in which the North would as
sociate. Nothing less is in consideration than a
reconciliation, the first fruits or" which would be
an armed enterprise against the new empire of
Mexico, in virtue of the Monroe doctrine restored
in all its plenitude.
We must, of course, in all this make allowance
for the irritation of the moment and the exaggera
tion3 which are its natural consequences. It is
prudent, on the other hand, to remember that
peace, if concluded, will leave at the disposition of
the reconciled States two trained armies, which,
perhaps, have acquired a taste for their profession
in any case difficult to disband, and animated with
that spirit of audacity and adventure inherent in
the Anglo Saxon race.
With-such a force at its control, the United
States, which consider that in latter years Europe
has mixed herself a-iiitle too much in the affairs
of America/might easily yield to the temptation of
regaining the ground lest during the civil war.
There is, consideration which will
not escape the sons of Washington, who attach so
just and great an importance to questions of in
terr al liberty and national independence. History
is there to show them the dangers of the ex
cessive development of the military element in
free countries.
THK QUEEN ON AMERICAN AFFAIRS.
At the opening of the British. Parliament, the
Queen spoke as follows on American afiairs :
The civil war in North America still unhappilj
continues. Her Majesty remains steadfastly
neutral between the contending parties, ard
would rejoice at a friendly reconciliation between
them. >
i ** er Majesty ha3 had great satisfaction in giving
! her sanction to the meeting ofa conference of del
gate* from her several North American provinces,
who, oitinvation from Her Majesty’s Governor
General, assembled at Quebec. Those delegates
adopted resolution; having f or their object a close
Union of those provinces under i central govern
ment. It those resolutions shall be approved by
: the provincial Legislatures, a bill will be laid be'
! sere you for carrying this important measure into
1 effect.
The Houston Telegraph announces official
ly th? capture of the United States steamer
I Sonora. She was oa her way to New Orleans
from Santiago. She was taken on the f3th
j ultimo, by Captain Conway
Abolishing Provost , Marshals. —In the
Confederate States Senate, on the 20th Feb
ruary, the following bill was passed :
A Bill to abolish the office of all officers en
gaged in discharging the duties of Provost
Marshals, except within the lines of an ar
ray in the field.
The Congress of the Confederate States of
America do enact, That the office of all officers
now engaged ia performing the duties of pro
vost marshal outside the lines of an army in
the field, be and the same is hereby abolished.
Provided, That all officers who may have been
disabled and assigned to the discharge of
these duties shall rot lose their commissions,
but be assigned to other duties.
Sec. 2 That ail officers whose offices are
abolished by this act, shall have the right
within thirty days to volunteer in any aroi of
the service from their respective States.
■♦ - *
The Expected Confederate Rams. —The
Yew York Herald of the 16th ult. says, edito
rially :
We give to-day a portrait of one of these
vessels, known in Europe as tne Sphnyx.
She is a formidable ship, but not, as has been
over-hastily said, the most formidable afloat.
Her engines are-of 350 horse power, and her
ram is thirty-five feet in length. She has two
tui’-ets, pierced collectively for eleven guns,
and plated with iroA four inches and three
eigiiths in thickness.' Her hull is plated with
four inch plates. It is the opinion of good
judges, who have examined the ship, that her
armor will not resist the projectiles thrown by
the fifteen inch guns in use ia our navy.
It is very probable that that points ill soon
be brought to the test. Our correspondent in
forms us tbit toe destination of these vessels
is this city. It is the place at which, perhaps,
they could strike their most effective blow.
They might go up the James to strike at
Grant; but the use with which he could open
anew line by the Weldon road would then
nullify their efforts in that quarter.
But the Post refuses to becoaie excited over
the matter and frown it down thus :
New York refuses to become excited over
the stories of the two rebel rams which are
said to be,on their way to this port. The
story of their sale and equipment is not, on
the face of.it, probable; and besides, we have
at our harbor's mouth, at this time, some bat
teries cf 15-inch guns which are capable of
giving a good account of any iron-clad which
may appear with hostile purposes.
Savannah Items. —The following items of
interest are obtained from the (Yankee) Sa
vannah Republican of the 7ta inst.:
The Manhattan, Phoenix and Security Insu
rance Companies, have established agencies
in the city.
The Horae Insurance Company of Savannah
is in operation, with Aaron Wilbur, Pres't,
and M. A. Cohen, Secretary.
L. C. Norvell & Cos. advertise sterling cheeks
on New York and specie.
General Webster uses as headquarters the
building formerly occupied by the Bank of
the State of Georgia.
A cargo of ice has arrived from Boston.
The Savannah Flour Mills -are in operation
• J. Lippman, proprietor, and Patrick L. Bar
ry, superintends it.
The military authorities are collecting all
the rents for buildings ana other property
owned by persons within the Confederate
lines.
The Republican announces the arrival of a
large number o: refugees from the upper part
of Georgia.
From South Carolina. —From the columns
of the Constitutionalist of the 1 ©th. we gather
the annexed items of Carolina news:
When the Yankees were at Midway, Gens.
Howell, Smith and Blair placed a heavy guard
over the residence of Wni, Gilmore Simms, the
eminent author, and preserved it from pillage.
The day after they left a negro'applied a torch
to the dwelling and burned ft arid its valuable
contents to the ground.
We are reliably informed taat tne vacant
'dwellings in Charleston are partitioned out
among the aegioes.
- bUiimis of Suez Canal.
The following interesting items in regard to
this important enterprise are communicated to
a Paris journal;
Pari3, Jan. 31, 1865.
Gentlemen —A first communication is now
open between the Mediterranean and the Red
Sea.
Since the first of*Jaauary a daily boat ser
vice has been established from Port Said»to
Suez, and between Ismaila and Zagazig. At
the same time it serves ali thef intermediary
statibus of the Isthmus.
I have recently made several journeys along
the line of werks. During each of these I
have established the facility of transit, and
have also clearly obtained its recognition by
the numerous distinguished visitors who have
done me the honor to accompany me.
In a large bark, carrying- from twenty-five
to thirty persons, all tugged by a steamer, for
which the companyis indebted to the liberality
of his Imperial Highness Priuce Napoleon, wo
accomplished the one hundred kilometres3
separating the two seas in twenty-four hours.
These facts appeared to me of a character
likely to attract the attention of the different
chambers of commerce, which, in so many
ways, are interested in the completion of the
Suez Canal.
The time has arrived when commerce must
be prepared for the opening of this maritime
canal to vessels of large burden, aad the Suez
Company calls upon it henceforth to study
with it the means of making use of a boat ser
vice which can already transport goods and
passengers between the two seas along a con
tinuous line of water at least one metre twenty
inches in depth and fifteen metres in breadth.
With this object, gentlemen, the administra
tion of the company has the honor to propose
that you make choice of a representative to
proceed to Egypt in order that he may report
to you upon the actual state of the works, upon
the prospects presented of their approaching
conclusion, and more especially upon the re
sources at present furnished to commerce by
the establishment of a daily service for the
transport of persons and merchandise.
In view of these operations, the company
has ordered six small steam tugs, to be deliv
ered upon the spot in six months.
I trust these circumstances will arouse the
attention of the Chamber of Commerce of .
and if it will afford us the assistance asked
for, it would be convenient that the delegate it
may choose should be at Alexandria upon the
6th of April next. I myself shall be in Egypt
to receive the delegates, and sha.l endeavor to
afford them every facility for inspecting the
works on the Isthmus, and will place at their
disposal all information which they may judge
necessary for the accomplishment of their mis
sion.
Ferqikand db Lesseps,
President of the Universal Company of the
Suez Canal.
Ths OclmisatiNo Point of Infamy.—'rVe
are familiar with she stories of silver stolen
by the Yankee thieves, of rings torn from fin
gers, of brooches forcibly plucked from Indies’
bosoms, of pockets turned out: but Listen to
this, the extreme height of Yankee brutality:
In Barnwell District, a Yankee scounarei,
inserting his filthy finger and thumb into a
lady's month, pulled out her false teeth, for
the sake of the gold setting.
There is in this something so ludicrously
horrible, so disgustingly brutal, that we think
it surpasses any swot of Yankee infamy, or any
brigauday. as an art, per se. we have ever
heard of.
Can soldiery made of such material con
quer us? If ?o we deserve it. —Augusta (Jor,%
stitutionalitt
Wabike preparations are being made ia Canada.
An intrenched camp and magazine are to be con
structed near Montreal. Similar works of defense
are to be put up at other points. Thirty thousand
men re te be employed at ones. The. works, it is
estimated, will cost several millions sterliaj.
[From the Southern Confe eraey.]
Important!: Pctaiird Agriculturalists,
We have procured the following copy of a tele
graphic between Mr. T. R»Stewart,
of this city, and Gov. Brown:
# Macon, March 13, 1865.
Gov. Josepli E. Brown :
• Detailed agriculturalists are now ordered into
Confederate service in the field. *Fill those whom
you called, and went into the militia, be compelled
to report for duty iu Confe legate service, or will you
claim them Still in the militia ? Answer immedi
ately by telegraph. T. R. Stewart.
Executive Department, ?
Miliedgeville, March 13, 1365. $
All persons who belong to Major Gen. Smith’s
in the actual military service of tbe
State. No one of them, whether detailed agricul
turalist or not, will obey*aay order from a Confeder
ate officer, unless so directed by Gen. Smith, when
he is under orders from me to report to a Confeder
ate General. The State took the detailed agricul
turalists into her military service at a time when,
according to the decision of the Supreme Oourc,
they were not in the military service of the Confed
eracy, and the Confederate officers can take no con
trol over them, withont the consent of the State,
tili they are disbanded by the State. They are now
oab on furlough. Joseph E. Brown.
‘’Reconstruction.”— This is the term used in the
Federal Congress whenever reference is made to the
reorganization of civil government in the rebellious
States. On the 18th ult.. we observe that the select
committee reported amendments to the reconstruc
ts! bill, for the recognition by the
President of the State government of Tennessee, if
such government be established by loyal cititizens,
in conformity with the Constitution, prior to the
first of May next. The report also provides that
the Constitution of Tennessee shall prescribe as fol
lows :
First—No person shall vote who has held a Con
federate military office higher than Colonel, or a
civil office, unless it-be ministerial.
Second —That slavery shall be forever prohibi
ted.
Third—No State or Confederate debt created un
der the action of the usurping power shall be recog
nised or paid by the-State, and no rebel law of con
fiscation shall be binding.
The Jackson Mississippian learns from planters
that the hog cholera ha.? attacked mules, horses and
poultry in different parts of the country.
* —♦—»
Gov. Allen, of Louisiana, in his recent message
to the Legislature, says there arc now in that State,
two turpentine distilleries, one ca3tor oil factory,
one establishment for making carbonate of soda,
two distilleries for pure medical alcohol, one rope
walk for cotton cordage, one foundry for cooking
utensils, machinery and agricultural implements,
two cotton cloth manufactories and laboratories
for indigenuous medicines. And he says he has im-.
ported and distributed fifteen thousand pairs of
cotton cards—selling them to the soldiers’ families
at ten dollars per pair.
At the factory in ATindea there are three ma
chines which will soon be in successful operation,
with the capacity of making one thousand pairs of
cards per month. A3 these machines cannot supply
the demand he will continue to import cotton and
wool carls,
mm © rnm
The Constitutionalist of the 9th 3aya some little
adr has been occasioned in our business circles for a
few days past by tha disappearance cf a well-known
citizen, whose position as a Cashier and Government
Depositary, had given him some prominence in this
community. Accompanied by his wile, who is of
Northern birth, he left in tha direction of Savan
nah, but ws3 fortunately captured and returned to
the city. When arrested he was driving like Jehu
for the coverted realm of Lincoln, carrying with
him eleven heavy trunks, the contents of which
has not yet transpired.
Some interesting developments may be expected
from this attempt to steal away to the enemy.
A dispatch from Montreal says, that in the last
trial of the St. raiders, several witnesses
testified that tha prisoners were in the Confederate
service, and their commissions were sworn to as
genuine. One witness testified that a majority of
the prisoners had been at Chicago, where five or six
hundrei Confederate soldiers had collected to re
lease the prisoners at Camp Douglas- This expedi
tion failing, two others were organized, one of which
was the St. Albans rail. This witness said they
were instructed to report to C. 0. Clay, Confederate
commissioner in Canada-
Example from the Past. — Tha following ex
tracts from important State papers, connected with
the American revolution, have peculiar interest at
this time, and commend themselves to attentive
perusal. •
The British Government did not fail to avail it
self of the influence which the desire for peace,
after years of war, naturally awakens in the breast
of those who had suffered most from the sacrifices
incident to war—and commissioners were appoin
ted to proclaim “to the colonies at large, or separ :
aiely, a general or separate peace,” upon condi
tions of submission.
The following letter of the President of Cons
gross was unanimously agreed to, as the response
of Congress to these propositions:
To their Excellencies the Right Honorable
the Earl of Carlisle, Wm. Eden, and Gen. John
son, Esqrs., Commissioners from hi3 Britannic
Majesty, Philadelphia.
“I have received the letter from your Excellen
cies of the 9th iast., with tha enclosures, andlaid
thorn before Congress. Nothing but an earnest
desire to spare the further effusion of human blood
could-jiave induced them to read a paper contain
ing expressions so disrespectful to His Most Chris
tian Majesty, the good and great ally of these
States, or to consider propositions so derogatory
to the honor of an independent nation.
“The acts of the British Parliament, the com
mission from your sovereign, and your letter, sup
pose the people of these States to be subjects of
the crown of Great Britain, and are founded on an
idea of dependence which is utterly inadmissible.
“I am further directed to inform your excellen
cies mat Congress is inclined to peace, notwith
standing the unjust claims from which the war
originated, and the savage manner in which it
hath been conducted ; they will, therefore, be con
tented to enter upon a consideration of a treaty of
peace and commerce, not inconsistent with treaties
already subsisting, when the King of Great Brit'
ain shall demonstrate a sincere disposition for that
purpose. The only solid proof of this disposition
will be the explicit acknowledgement of the inde
pendence of these States, or the withdrawing of
his fleets and armies.
“I have the honor to be your excellencies’ most
obedient and humble servant,
“HENRY LAURENS, President.
“Yorktown, July 17, 1775.”
Peace Resolution. —ln t.he Yankee House
of Representatives Mr, Dawson lately offered
a resolution declaring that the war has been
progressing for four years with a frightful de
struction of life, and the imposition of an
enormous public debt, and that Congress are
£ound by their oaths and solemn pledges to
conduct the war for the re-establishment of
the supremacy of the laws; therefore the
President be requested to use all honorable
and just means to bring about a lasting peace
and the re-estabiishment of fraternal relations
with all the people, on the basis of the Con
stitution and laws, and with every proper gua
ranty to the Southern States which shall pro
tect them in the enjoyment #f their rights
and local institutions in the manner the Con
stitution secures.
Mr. Thayer moved that the resolution be
laid upon the table, and this yas agreed to
73 against 43.
Hon. A. 0. P. Nicholson. —The Nashville
Union, of the 18th ult., says:
“ We mentioned some week3 ago that Hon.
A. 0. P. Nicholson bad been ayested and"
confined in the military prison at this place,
as a hostage for a citizen of Murfreesboro,
carried off by Forrest. We learn that thie
citizen has returned home. On Wednesday
iast, E. R. Glascock, the United States mar
shal waited upon Gen. Thomas and requested
him to place the prisoner ia his possession,
that he might be tried for conspiracy, an in
dictment against him for that offense pending ;
in the United States District Court in this i
city. General Thomas promptly ordered the j
transfer. On the following day Mr. Nicholson
appeared in charge of the marshal, before the
proper civil authority, and gave a bond for
his appearance at the next term of th& court.
He was thereupon discharged from custody.
It is stated that when arrested. Mr. Nicholson
was on his way to Nashville to take the oath
of amnesty.”
The Tribuna's M tntreal correspondent, ter]whose
trustworthiness :ha editor vouches, speaks of a
proposed rebel raid over the border for the purpose
of releasing the prisoners in Clinton prison, and
that Plattsburg, Keesville, Burlington, Waterbary,
Yt., and Have&eld. N- H , wiil be ri.*i‘cd.
In Market. —The editor of the Fayetteville
Telegraph has been to market and brought off
the following budget of spioe and sauce :
There was heavy skirmishing at our market
house yesterday. We saw men porking about
a3 if they had been well for a month. Some
paid $6 per pound for “ green 'pork. ” Some
thing green there besides pork ! Qne gentle
man bought eggs at $5 per doz'en, and seemed
in perfect eggstacies at his success. Another
offered $lO for a bushel of turnips, which
made tbe cartman turnup his nose. His nose
didn’t bleed, . though, for “you can't get
blood out of a turnup. ” A fellow asked $7
for lard. “ Lard have mercy, ” said a buyer.
We tried to buy some grain; but the man be
ing pretty well corned only made rye faces at
us. This rye led us considerably, and he tried
to appeas our wrath at the rate of $35 per
bushel. In company with two other gentle
men we ess&yed to buy meat. The vender
asked $6 50 for that—whereupon one of our
companions exclaimed, in the language of
Shakspeare, “ When shall we three meat
again? ” They asked us $6 for a duck, and,
although very duck tile , we couldn’t be led into
such a fowl swindle as that. We looked aJ a
pair of woolen gloves at $lO. After a close
examination,.we told tbe seller that they were
not fellows. “ But they are fellows,” said bp.
“Ah ! yes, ” we replied. “ they are odd fel
loics. r: A country wool hat tvas handed us :
“ One hundred dollars, ’ l said the rural gentle
man. We expected to be wooled, but had con
cluded to ask him if he could give us a fit,
when his announcement cut us off; for wo
saw that he could not only do that, but could
“give us fit*. ” Tallow sold at .taller prices
than ever. Poortatoes S2O per bushel; and
lead colored butter $5 a smell—some of it,
though, was so strong and offensive that peo
ple wouldn’t go near it for fear of being
charged.
Tne tact i3, the whole market affair was
one grand charge, before which the assembled
buyers fell back in terror.. Staunch old gen
tlemen were there, with bushel baskets, borne
by sturdy waitiagmen, and filled with Mr.
Trenhohn’s best; while the gentlemen them
selves tripped lightly along on empty stom
achs, with little quart pots in hand, wherein
they were to deposit their purchases,
The excitement was very great. The police
were there, looking “ terrible as an army with
banners; ” but they could not command a
peace—of beef. Prices were too high—“ high
er than a kite”—and an old gentleman, well
versed in Latin, exclaimed, in the extremity
of his despair:
“Oh ! for a lodge in ssme sequestrated spot,
Where money is high and rations are not. ”
This old gentleman left in disgust. We
have only to add, in conclusion, that prices is
high, and it is useless to try to higher the mar
ket people ; for as long as you do that they
will make no provision for lower rates.
Origin of a Hymn. —-Rev. Robert Robinson
composed the very familiar hymn,
“Come, Thou fount of every blessing,”
at an early period of his life, when his reli*
gious emotions were deep and fervent. He
became afterwards a man of eccentric reli
gious views and social habits, but' withal a
very popular preacher. His eccentricity fos
tered a mirthfulness ill suited to his profes
sion, and a senible decline in hi3 life took
place in his latter years. He was traveling
in a stage coach on one occasion, towards tho
close of his life, in company with a lady who
had just been reading the ffiyran in question.
Not knowing Mr. Robinson, the lady asked his
opinion of the hymn, and expressed her own
admiration of it in strong language. For a
time he evaded answering her question, but
being pressed with interrogatories by the lady
he at length burst into tears, and, with deep
agitation of the soul, exclaimed, “Madam, I
am the poor, unfortunate man, that composed
that, many years ago; and I would give a
thousand worlds, if I had them, to enjoy the
feelings I had then.” What commentary does
this incident furnish on the words—
“ Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it.
Prone to the God I love.”
[Correspondence Cincinnati Gazette.]
The War and Gold—Wall Street Sees the
Beginning of the End.
Washington, February 14th.—It is a note
worthy sign of the time3 that is to be drawn
now-a-days from the tone of Wall street.
Gold for a time seemed to hang wavering on
the. news from the peace negotiations. The
belief in their certain success was wide
spread ; and it was held to be indisputable
that, if they did'succeed, gold must within a
month fail to less than half its present premi
um, while, if they failed, it must mount rap
idly toward three hundred.
They failed. Wall refused to believe the
news. Confirmation came with every report
of a visit to the State Department or the White
House. Wall street waited to hear from Rich
mond. The rebel papers arrived, bristling
with war to the knife. AVall street would
tiust nothing but the official documents. At
last they came—more than confirming all
that had been said about the failure to secure
any proposal looking to peace—confirming it
over the signature of Jefferson Davis, and
over the signature of Abraham Lincoln. And
Wall street still refuses to go into a panic, and
keeps gold drooping at 2050207 ; an absolute
fall of ten per cent, since the peace negotia
tions,began.
A leading New York financier was asked
yesterday, why, in spite of the failure of the
peace movement,-and the certainty of contin
ued war, the gold market grew heavier and
heavier. “The simple reason,” he replied,
“is that Wall street is definitely and abso
lutely convinced that the rebels are whipped,
and that some way or other, we are certain
speedily to wind up this thing. The opinion
is one to which, whether wholly true or not,
western business men may do well to give
heed. * Agate.
Gen. Leslie Combs was knocked down and rob
bed a few nights ago in Frankfort.
TREES' TODAY.
BY MYERS, WATSON & CO.,
' 1 - •
ON THURSDAY, 16th inst., at 11 o’clock,
we will sell in front of our store,
2 Likely Negro Boys, No. 1 field hands,
1 Single Rockaway and Harness,
6 boxes Tobacco,
20 Packages Smoking Tobacco,
5 Sacks N. 0. Sugar.
2 bbls. Florida “
3 Bags Shot,
Letter Copying Press.
1 doz. Axes,
Boots and Shoes, Clothing, Furniture,
Circular and Upright Steel Saws, and
a large lot of other desirable goods,
mar 15 sl7
AT PRIVATE SALeT
BY MYERS, WATSON & CO.,
51 LIKELY NEGROES.
All sound and mostly between eleven
and thirty years of age.
Among the number are three Extra
Blacksmiths, two Extra Carpenters, one
Engineer and No. 1. Butcher, one first
class Man Cook, Washers, Ironers and
extra Field Hands.
Parties in want of any of the above
will apply immediately.
Sold for no fault, owner expecting to
change residence,
mar 10- ts
LOST.
i PAIS OF GOLD wire framed SPECTACLES,
A The finder will be wo!l rewarded »>y imtiji tte
snim :i7v.ie or Ti n.-s oSee. tnar *3t
THE CX T Y
T. J. JACKSON LOCAL EDITOR
Sales To-DAv-Myers, Watson & Cos. will
seh to-day, likely negroes, sugar, syrup, chewing
and smoking tobacco, one rockaway, furniture,
&e. Ac. bee advertisements.
Eutter A Potatoes If any two articles of
consumption are more exorbitantly charged far
than others, in these days of rapid strides, and no
conscience, it is butter and potatoes. W a noti-o
that the country wagons are now demanding sl6 fa,
potatoes, which is inexcusable and outrageous, an 1
the shop keeper is demanding $lO per lb forbat-ar
for which he probably pays six. Can nothing be
done to arrest this 3tate of things. It strike; Ui
that ten dollars is a huge price for potatoes, and
$5 a liberal price for butter, and we think the mer
chant and the consumer in our midst should mu
tually agree to pay no more. It would be a good
idea to hold a public meeting of all classes and fix
a living schedule of prices for all the prime neces
saries of life as well as the articles specified.
Any person in want of a situation as teacher is
referred to the advertisement of a “teacher wan
ted ’at Tuscaloosa, Ala. The situation will doubt
less be most agreeable and remunerative to a gen
tleman of the requisite qualification?.
Blind Tom, the unrivalled negro pianist is giv
ing a series of concerts at Temperance Hall. We
learn that his concert en Monday evening was nu
merously attended and characterised by his usual
ability. The weather for the past two evenings
has been very unpropitious to Tom.
am 9 tm
Auction Sales. — The following prices were ob
tained at auction yesterday by Rosette, Law'aon
A Cos. :
Candles, $5,09; sorghum syrup, $14,50 : tallow,
$3,75; sole leather, sll ; sole leather trunk, $550;
oranges, S7O per box: half-dozen silver tea spoons,
$295; one mare, $1725; cows and calves, $239 to
S3OO.
. Wanted.—Mine host of the Perry House, Mr.
Parsons, is in want of a competent bookkeeper far
his establishment. He very properly yields ' the
preference to a wounded soldier. We hope ho
may soon be supplied. See advertisement.
♦ -♦ •
Grant’s Rear. —The Express learns that
Grant has thoroughly fortified his army in the
rear. He is now nearly as strong ia that
quarter as he is in front. This is done in
order to prevent raids similar to General
Hampton’s celebrated cattle expedition. Bvery
road is strongly barricaded, and heavy lines of
works extend in every direction.
The New Orleans Time3 says General Dodge*
at St. Louis, ha3 ordered the discharge of all
the inmates of the female military prison, and
has sent all but a few to Memphis to be seat
through the rebel lines. Hereafter all reoel
women convicted of disloyal practices are to bo
sent South.
A Meeting of “Loyal Georgians” in N*w
York. —The New York Herald has an accouat of
a meeting of renegades at tho Cooper Institute in
that city, under the title of„“Loyal Georgians,’’
“for the purpose of expressing their sympathy
with the loyal people of Georgia, and for offering
such addresses and resolutions as would eaeourago
them to rise in their majesty, lay dawn their
arms and gubmit to the national authority.”
Resolutions were offered by H. Everetts Russel!,
of Macon, Georgia, and a “stroag speech” made
by a Mr. Dunning, “a machinist of Atlanta.” Tha
other namos which figure in the proceedings aro
A. W. Stone, a Mr. Barnham, $.
Hotaling and a Dr. Curry.
The following is a specimen of the resolu
tions of these “wandering, houseless, homeless
refugees.”
Resolved, That we desire pea e in order that
the wandering, houseless, homeless refugees may
return to their homes : and that tha brave boys in
the army and navy may return to their familes
and friends; but that we want no peace that
is not based upon the unconditional surrender
of tha rebels in arms against the national au
thority.
A correspondent of the Rebel writing from Moa
tevallo on the Bth, says: The latest reliable news
from the Tennessee river, shows that General Thom
as is moving his forces from Huntsville toward;’.
Chattanooga. Does not this indicate a purpose to
leave Northern Alabama for the present to operate
in a different [quarter. I think it does, and his
threatening demonstrations upon this region may,
after all, have only been a feint to cover h ; s move
ment to East Tennessee and thence to Virginia. Art
concentration appears to be their policy
may it not be they contemplate the destruction of
the Virginia and East Tennessee road, and making
the vicinity of Richmond the grand battle ground ia
an attempt to capture General Lee’3 army.
State Finances. —The appropriations o: the
past and present Legislatures says the Journal A
Messenger will not fall short of $18,000,900. To
meet this sum, a tax of nine-tenths of one per
cent, has been imposed, which will probably pro
duce about $13,000,000, leaving a deficit of 15,-
000,000, with its yearly accumulating interest, a
burthen upon future tax payers.
FOR CHATTAHOOCHEE AND BAIN’BRIDSE.
The Steamer MIST will leave for the above
and intermediate landings, Thursday morning at
10 o’clock.
mar 16 td
AUCTION SALES.
By Elli*, A: Cos.
ON SATURDAY. 18th March, at ii o'clock,
we will sell in front of our store.
TEN ACRES VACANT LAND*
Being the N, £ of the N. W. Qr„ of the
N. E. Qr.,-of Section 21, Township 19,
Rng. 30, in Russc-ll county, Ala., and lies
about half a mile from Girard and affords
an eligible location for improvements
Terms Cash,
mar 15 824
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos,
AT PRIVATE SALE.
150 Reams Sup. Note Pape r
mar'B ts
wXirrSSr
4 T THE PERRY HOUSE. Columbus. Ga., a
A BOOK-KERPER. A wound-d soldier prefer
red. EDWARD PARSONS,
mar 16 ts
Wanted-A Teacher,
FOR A BOY.-.’ SCHOOL, now in successful oper
ation in Tuskaloosa, and capable of ladeaavo
enlargement. Apply to Rev. R. D. Urvine, iitsKa
loosa, giving proper testimonials, fntormatio. cap
be given by Rev. John M. Mitchell. Yt'j"
Rev. Dr. Pierce, Mobile, and a An-rii
umbus, G.t. Toe School house occupies a eavral
position and comprises three .oom . ar.cl u JS-J x
rent oi $740, for the remainder of .tie yea.,
mar 16 lw
Rosette, Lawhon & Cos.,
OFFER AT PRIVATE SALE
One Copper Boiler, 8 feet long.
Five or six hundred pounds Lea l Pipe
8 or 10 Large Brass Bib & Stop Cocks,
jen 13 ts