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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