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DA I L i TIMES,
J. W. iVililtEV, ... Editor.
COLUMBUS:
C.. < Friday Morning. March 17, 1865. .
Good flews.
The military situation in North Carolina is
assuming quite an encouraging aspect. The
defeat of the enemy by General Bragg near
Kinston may have a much greater significance
than a easily! reflection might assign to it.
The will remember that immediately
after the fall of Wilmington, the Yankee ac
count represented Hok-- rr northward
from that city *iud tin Feder.ii G.-ncntl (Terry)
pursuing. Subsequent dispatches from our
side claimed that Schofield (Federal) had been
badly defeated on the Wilmington & Weldon
Railroad. From these - facts, in connection
with the news received yesterday, we are led
to conclude, that a'ter the lint mentioned’
liglr, Schofield was reinforced, that Hoke
again retired until he n.veiveu furiher support
from Bragg, when the battle near Kinston
was fought. Vv't now think it quite probable
that it was a part of Sherman’s original pro- ,
gramme to make a junction with the co-opcr- i
atirig force from Wilmington at Goldsboro’, j
and, if successful in this effort, to use that |
point as a base from which to advance upon j
' Raleigh and Greensboro", or move the rice di- l
rectly to the aid of Grant at Petersburg. ;
Sherman's deflection from the Charlotte and j
Columbia road and his march to Cheraw, |
and, thence, to Fayetteville, would seem tol
sustain this hypothesis. We hafe but little j
doubt that Bragg the whole |
strength of the enemy on Lhe North Carolina |
coast. Knowing, as they certainly did, that ;
we had no force in the rear, and that Hoke
would be reinforced from Lee’s army, it is
hardly to he supposed that they would omit j
the use of any means in their power to achieve j
the result aimed at. We have, then, our army !
under Johnston concentrated and interposed '
between Sherman and bis helpmates, and the
latter defeated and driven back. Mr. Sherman
must, therefore, find his way out of the (rap
without extraneous assistance. Terry nor
Schofield will be permitted to “ blaze the
road ” for him. We shall be wofully disap- .
pointed if the glory of this great raider do<*s
not suffer a disastrous eclipse in North Caro
lina. *
The Rumored Battlb.—The Chronicle &
Sentinel ofthe 14th, says that soldiers through
from as far a3 Kinstree, S. C., state that it was
currently believed that our forces had gained
a decided victory over tjherman, and that his
forces were much demoralized.
It was also stated that we had “struck” one
of his supply trains, and captured three hun
dred and fifty wagons.
The mud had prevented Sherman from mov
ing with his heavy wagons, in the face of our
cavalry, who confront him and also hang on
his flanks.
Kingstrec is about 40 miles south of Flor
ence on the railroad.
Latest from Poi.t, rd. —The Montgomery
Adrertiser of yesterday says that, the follow
ing telegram, from the superintendent of the
Mobile and Great. Northern Rail Road to the
superintendent of tbe Alabama and Florida
Rail RoaT will tend to moderate the appre
hensiorts of some of the good people of Mont
gomery, and serve as a temporary extinguish
er to sensation mongers:
Pollard, March 15.
To S. G. Jones, Superintendent: *
Our trains will resume running on i*fegular
schedule in the morning, and will be ready to
connect at Pollard to-morrow.
G. Jordan.
From Savannah,—By arrival from Savan
nah, we have the following items :
Last Sunday week the Yanks were startled
with tho report of Sherman’s discomfiture,
and immediately hurried off two thousand men
ot the garrison, leaving but one thousand for
and uty.
Negroes do not enlist entirely or volunta
rily. Some are hunted down, others are
tempted by the bounty—which they see only
in their “rniuds’ eyes.”
Our authorities should put a stop to the
cotton traffic now going on through the lines
farther south. A Captain Merritt, of Macon,
and a Mr. Jerry Cowler, are represented to be
quite active in this trade. Perhaps they havfe
passes from Governor Brown.
We are pleased to learn that the ladies’ the
true Southern ladies of out fallen city, pre
serves their dignity and patriotism. They
are far from hopeless, and not at all subdued.
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Fry’s Exemption List.
Thu journalists up North are making-quit e
merry at the expense of Provost Marshal Gen
eral Fry. Among others, the local editor of
•he Buffalo Cammeroial Advertiser, who has
corresponded with that important functionary
nmi has received an answer which he has
given to the public. Here it is :
Know all men. then, and women, that, ac
cording to the opinion of General Fry, the
following persons arc not required to take up
arms “against a sea ot rebels and by oppo
sing mid them"—that they are. in point of
fact, exempt:
I—Women of all ages and complexions,
when of the female persuasion
2 —Very dead men, who oan procure the re
ceipt of tbe undertaker. Those simply “kill”
wilkbe held to service.
3 Sound, healthy men, who have within
the last week enlisted for three years and
gone to the front. All one year’s men will be
drafted and compelled to serve double.
4 Men born blind, or furnishing a medical
certificate to the effect that their sight has
been growing no better fast ever since. Those
having a single optic left, whether the l ight
or not. will be compelled to “go one eve on
it.’’
5 Men with nary leg. if they can furnish
evidence satisfactory to establish the fact.—
Pegieirged men, that is men with a single leg-,
are subject to the draft. To such the Com
missary General will serve out limbs of cork
with their cost to be deducted
from the bounty money. No soldier will be
allowed to retain his cork leg after the expi
ration of his term of service.
6 Men born without arms, when it can b>.'
shown that they have not been engaged as
teachers of penmanship or in cutting out pa
per likenesses with tbeir toes. Such will be
taken into service and detailed to act as as
sistant editor of newspapers to be established
iu captured -rebel cities.
7 Men over three hundred and sixty-five
years of age, accompanied by their parents.—
Men under tcu years of age will be received
until the promulgation of an official bulletin,
signed by the Provost Marshal General, to the
•fleet that the various drum corps are full. *
b—Ail persons whatsoever, will be held lia
ble to service, and will take their chances,
"however slim.
A New York telegram says that forty thousand
persons whose names had been enrolled for the
drat: in that city cannot he fouai.
Min? of the Bam s!inda. ■,
The Lon«ou coirespondents).' the New Yo;k
World, in a recent letter, thus describes the
! sailing of this new Confederate rain :
I I think I mentioned in a previous letter the
departure of a fast sidewheel steamer of about
500 tans, under the suggestive name of the
City of Richmond, which cleared from this
port for Bermuda as an English merchantman
- there being nothing to show against her
assumsd character to enable the authorities
to stop her. Well, at the mouth of the Thames
she took aboard, from a little tender, 40 men,
convoyed from the rebel receiving ship Rap
pahanuuck. (legally ulockaded at Calais.)
among whom were several Confederate officers.
These seamen, with her own crew, engaged in
a regular way at a Government shipping office,
and 36 others sent down the river, made up a
complement of upwards of 100 hands—most
of them being old privateers. Then the City
of Richm md went on her way, to be heard of
at Cherbourg, where she put in on the 21st of
January, (just three weeks ago,) to avoid the
heavy gale then prevalent, remaining some,
days. Thence she steadied to Houai Island,
Quiberr.-i! Bay. where lay a powerful ironclad
rum awaiting her. which incontinently shipp
ed her lot) men. the cannon and ammunition,
which she had secretly on board, and break
ing off in the aperalion of coaling from a
French lug, hoisted the rebel Jlag and set out
for Charleston. This occurred on the 20th.
Os the iam you have heard before. Original- :
ly built for the Rebels by Arruand & Cos., the
Dock masters at Bordeaux, she was subsequent
ly sold to the Danes, and for a time known as
the Oiinna She discharged her Danish crew
off Quiberou, all of them but a few who were 1
persuaded to enter the Rebel service, return- .
ing aboard the French tug, whose crew were
similarly but ineffectually entreated to join t
the panics. There is therefore every reason •
for believing that this formidable vessel has
passed into Rebel hands with the full know-,
ledge and complicity of the sellers, to whom,
not long ago, I paid wbat i then supposed a
deserved compliment, imagining the former
sale to be a bona fide, permanent transaction.
—The French tug, the. Expeditif, took coals
aboard the Oiiuda under the pretext of con
veying them to the San Francisco, a Peruvian
vessel which lay in those waters —the same of
which I have had occasion to write to you in
connection with the case of Capt. Grao.
It is probable that the rebels availed them
selves of her presence and that of the Shang
hae (also Peruvian) to get the Olinda out un
der Hie representation that she belonged to
the South American republic. The ram de
parted so hastily—partly in consequence of
apprehensions of stoppage, partly of rough
weather-—that she went with less than fifty
tons of coal on board. If site be, as reported
when built, the counterpart of the Gastelfiaco,
the formidable ram ordered by the rebels but
purchased by the Italian Government, which
is iron plated, has a terrible submarine beak,
and can make over 13 knots an hour, you will
probably find her a second Merrimac or worse.
Let our navy look out for her. Capt. Teseier,
who took out the Alabama, and De Leon, late
United States Consul General in Egypt, two
of the most indefatigable rebel agents in Eu
rope, areiupposed to have maneuvered this
little business.
Baltic ol the Natural Bridge,
Our city has been in a considerable state of
excitement for the past few days. At nine
o’clock on Saturday night last, news wgs re
ceived in Tallahassee that the Yankees, 1,400
strong, had landed from their fleet at the St
Marks Light House, and were marching in the
direction of Newport ; that the Confederate
forces in that neighborhood, under the com
mand of Col G. W. Scott, were gallantly op
posing them and checking their advance, and
that tiiiM!- object was probably to make a
forced march upon Tallahassee and burn and
deslroy the r-lact*. ot turn flic "batteries at St.
Marks and lake permanent possession and es
tablish themselves there
The alarm was given and the note ot prep
aration sounded throughout, the whole city
and county, and was extended to the other
counties. The militia were ordered out, and
an unanimous and invincible response was,
made to the call. Every man and boy capa
ble of bearing arms was at his post. Never,
since tbe commencement of the war, have the
people exhibited a greater spirit. One com
pany of cavalry marched nearly sixty miles
in twenty-four hours. Others marched on foot
thirty and forty miles to overtake their com
panies who had gone ahead, and in a very
short time a sufficient force was on the way
to the scene ot action to meet any force the
enemy had there.
Col, Scott was hardly pressed by the enemy
and retired to Newport and burned the bridge
there. The enemy finding it impossible to
force a-passage of the river at that place,
marched in the direction of the Natural Bridge.
Reinforcements having arrived, at daylight
on Monday morning our forces encountered
the enemy at the Natural Bridge, about seven
or eight miles above Newport, on the St. Marks
river. The action lasted for several hours,
when the enemy were completely repulsed ami
driven back to their gunboafife. with a loss of
400 killed, wounded and prisoners.
In the action wo lost three killed and t wen
ty two wounded. Among the killed, weave
sorry to mention Captain FI. K. Simmons, of
the 2d Florida Cavalry, a brave and skillful
officer. Tbe names of the other killed and
wounded will be found in another place.
Gen Satnual Jones was early upon the
field and has proven himself an able officer.
That brave veteran Gen. Win. Miller, in com
mand of the Reserves, took a prominent part
in the action and contributed materially to the
victory.
We would like to mention the services of
several other officers and the various forces
that took part in the affair,but we’are admon
ished that it might give useful information to
the enemy. Suffice it to say, that we have
ample forces to meet "any such attack ot the
enemy ; that the men behaved with unflinch
ing and enthusiastic courage: that no distinc
tion could be gained by anyone for gallantry,
»o perfect was the courage and zeal of all.
Yve have be.uen tbe enemy again in Florida
and driven them from our soil, and with the
help of (lutl, if it is in the power of man to
keep them from ravaging our homes, our men
will not permit them to do it.
At the time of our writing the Yankees have
re-embarked on their transport, a few ot which
remain in the bay opposite the Light House.
We write under a. press of ciicumstauces,
| and will give a more detailed account of the
I battle in our next issue. —Floridian A Journal ,
; Uth.
General McClellan in England.—General
McClellaD, the well known Northern general, j
and one of the late candidates for the Presi- \
denoy ot uu*fNorthern States, arrived in Liv
erpool on yesterday morning from New York,
on board tbe Cunard steamer China. He is
accompanied by his wife, child and servant,
and will, it is Understood, spend the year in
traveling over Europe, for the double purpose
of recruiting his wife’s health and of study
ing European military science. The general
and his family are staying at the Adelphi ho
tel.—Liv. Courier , 6 th ult.
The visit of General McClellan (<• Liverpool j
has been of very short duration. After laud
ing on Sunday morning he proceeded at once
to the Adelphi hotel, where he (lined with lhe
United States Vice Consul, the Consul, Mr. :
Dudley, being absent in London at the time,
and in the afternoon he took a ramble thro’
the town, accompanied, we understand, by the i
Vice Consul and Mr. Auguste Belmonte, the
well known Northern Democrat and -gent for
the Rothschilds in America. Yesterday mor
I tiing (Monday) the general, wile, child and
: servant, left Liverpool for London, en route
to Par’* And Rome. —[London Star, iih ult
- 7 -♦ -T" *
i The West Point Bulletin says: We are happy
' to iciin ft' ti: i. a -tain Gonzalez, commandant of
| this post, that many ctragglers and dc»erter3 are
; reporting uader Gen. Lee’s amnesty proclamation,
j About sixty have reported to Captain Walker, en
j rolling officer of Chambers county, A a bam a, and
at this post for the las* three days. May the good
i work g> on.
Lincoln’s Inaugural.
In the absence of the genuine address of
j Lincoln, on the 4th of March, we append one
prepared for him in advance, bv the London
Pun#b, which will be read with interest :
Well, we've done it. gentlemen. Bully for
i us. Cowhided the Copperheads cousideralc :
i 2V'o« nolus, of course, but still I reckon we have
a hand in the giory. some. That reminds me
of the Old World story about Hand of Glory,
which I take to have been the limb of a gen
tleman who had been justified on the goiiows,
and which the witches turned into a patent
moderator lamp, as would lead a burglar safe
into any domicile which he might wish to
plunder. We aintjburglars—quite t'other but
1 fancy if Ely Grant could get holt of that
kind and> description of thing to help aim in’
Richmond, he'd not be so un Christian proud
a.-, to refuse tbe hand of a malefactor. (Right,
right!) Well right or left hand, that’s no
ouds, gentlemen (Laughter.) Now I am
sovereign of the sovereign people of the great
and united republic for four years next ensu
ing the date hereof, as I used to say when I
was a lawyer (You are? Bully for you !) Yes,
gentlemen, but you must do something more
than bully for me—you must fight for mo j
if you please, and whether you please or not.
As the old joke says, there's no compulsion,-!
on!) you must. Must is for The king they say
iu the rotten Old World. Wcli, I'm king, and ;
you shall be viceroys over me. But I tell you i
again, and in fact' I repeat it, that there’s !
man’s work to do to beat these rebels. They
may run away, no dou’ot. As the Irish naan
says, pigs may fly ; but tbey’s darned unlikely-;
birds to do it. They must be well whipped, j
gentlemen, and I must trouble you for the ;
whipcord. [Yourshail have it.]
Rebellion is a wicked thing, gentlemen, an ,
awful wicked tiling, and the mere uornenciat
ing thereof would make my hair stand on end. j
if it could be more stand or. endev than it is. j
[Laughter.] Truly awful, that is awful, that i
is, when it is performed against mild, free,
constitutional sway like that of the White
House, but of course right and glorious when
perpetrated against ferocious, cruel, blood
thirsty old tyrants like George the third. We
mast punish these rebels for their own good,
and teach them the blessings of this mighty
and transcendental Union. [We will, we will!]
All very tall talking, gentlemen, but talking
wont take Richmond. If it would, and there
had been six Richmonds in the field, we
should long since have taken them all. If
Richmond would fall like Jericho, by every
man blowing of his own crumpet, we ve brass
enbugh in our band for that little fear in
acoustics. But when a cow sticks, as Grant
does, in the mud, how th-en ? [Great laugh
ter.] Incontestably, gentlemen, this great
and cuigbtv nation must give her a shove on.
Shove for Richmond, gentleman. [That’s the
talk !] Now about these eternal blacks, you I
expect me to say something touching them, !
though I suppose we’re none of us too fond of
touching them, for reasons iu that case made j
and provided, as I used to say.
Well, listen. We’ve got them on our hands j
—that’s a fact; and it reminds me of a nigger j
story. Two of these blacks met, and one had ;
a fine new hat. “ Whar you got dat hat. Sam- j
bo?’' says totuer. “Out ob a shop, nigger,” j
says Sambo. “Spex so." says t’other; “and j
what might be de price ob dat hat?' “ Can't i
say zactlv, nigger; do shopkeeper didn't bap- j
pen to be on de premises.” [Laughter.]
Well, wS’ve got the niggers, and I can’t exact
ly say—or at least, I don’t think you’d like to
bear—what might be the price of those arti
cles. But we must utilize our hats, gntlemen.*
We must make'em dig and fight, that’s a fact. ;
There’s no shame in digging, J suppose Ad- ,
am digged, and ho is a gentleman of older j
line than any of the bloated and slavish aris- i
tooraey of Europe. Arid as for fighting, they |
must feel honored at doing that for the glori- j
ous old flag that has braved for years and >
a half, be the same a little mors or less, the |
battle and the breeze! [Cheers.] Yes. and j
tvhen the rebellion’s put down, we'll see what !
is to be done with them. Perhaps, if the
nougbty boys down South get uncommon con
trite hearts, we may make them a little pres- :
tut ot the blacks, not as slaves, of course, but ,
as legal apprentices, with undefined salaries !
determinable on misconduct. [Loud cheers.]
Meantime, gentlemen, I won’t deny that i
niggers are useful in the war of moral sup- !
port. They give this here war a holy charac j
ter, and we can cail it a crusade for freedom. !
A mna may call his house an island if he likes, j
as has been said by one of these fiendish Bri- j
tish writers who abuse our hospitality by not j
tracking us. up. [“War with England!”]— ;
Well, ali in good time, gentlemen. Let our j
generals learn their business, first. I don’t !
blame them, mind you, that they haven't yet ’
learned it, for when a man has kept a whisky j
store, or a bar, or an oyster cellar, or an old- i
clothes shop for years, he can’t be expected,
merely because he puts on a uniform, to be
come a Hannibal, or Napoleon, or even a Marl
borough or a Wellington. Likewise, they
must keep reasonable sober. Friends at a
distance will please accept thi3 intimation.—
[Roars of laughter.] When that’s done, and
the rebels are whipped, and we are in want of
more fighting, we’ll see whether Richmond in
England, whero the Queen's palace of Windsor
castle is situate, lying and being, is a harder
uut to crack than the Richmond nearer to us,
[ Cheers.]
Gentlemen, one thing more. Did you ever
hear the story of the farmer who had been in
sulted by an exciseman? “He wur so rude,”
said the farmer, that I wur obliged to remon
strate with him.” “And to what effect did you
remonstrate?” asked a friend. “ Well, I don't
know about effect, but I bent the poker so that
1 was obliged to get a hammer to staighten it.”
Gentlemen, we must straighten this glorious
Union, and the hammer is taxes. [Laughter.]
You may laugh, but you must pay. I don’t
mean to be hard upon this mighty nation, and
our friend MiuCobden [cheers] has already
indirectly informed the besotted masses of
British slaves that we intend to repudiate our
green-backs except to the amount they may be
worth in the market when redeemed. But the
poker wants a deal of hammering, neverthe--,,
less, and you must pay up. You’ll hear more
about this from a friend of*mine in the govern
ment, so I only give you the hint, as the ruan
said when he kicked his uncle down stairs.
[Laughter.] I believe that's about all I had
to say, and this almighty Union will be con
served to shine throughout the countless ages
an ineffable beacon and symbol of blessed and.
everlasting light and glory if you will only
mfiid the proverb of Sancho Pan/.a, “ Pray to
God devoutly, and hammer on -toutly.”—
[Laughter, cheers, and crie& of “bully for you! ’
A Specimen of Humanity. —At Bamberg,
Gen. Sherman made his headquarters «t the
house of Capt. Bamberg. Ills stuff were nu
merous ; one important portion ot his military
famih being about fifty New York negroes.
These rascals, says the Constitutionalist, 10th,
imitating their Yankee brothers in .arms, pil
laged the house. When fire-wood was to be
obtained by crossing the lot, they would un
hesitatingly take mahogony chairs, and
wrenching off a leg, kindle the fire with it.
After staying three days at Mrs. Bamberg’s,
this lady was entirely stripped of every portion
or food, and ventured to remonstrate with
Genera! Sherman, asking him. “ What shall I
do when you leave, sir ? You have not left
me a morsel of food. Myself and family must
starve.
“Du! Madam," replied General Sherman.
“Do? Du as the Indians do—live on acorns
and foots ! "
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South American Affairs —New Y ark. Feb.
2t. —The Herald’s St- 1) iwingo Island correspon
dent gives a few editorial items of interest regard
ing the Spanish Dominion. The decision of the
Government of Spain to withdraw ail its troops
from St. Domingo was not yet known in the
island, owing to the failure ti> receive reinforce
ments.
The Spaniards in the town A Ocean had been
oblige! to ev icuate that pi ice and establish them
selves 'Ci ne island of Deo cotaw in the bay. They
subjected the natives within their- hue* to
great hardships ani oppression, but still the
spirit of the latter was unbroken, and they con
tinued determined to uitimiwiy gain their iaia
peniehoe.
From the Richmond Enquirer, March t*t. ■
Gov. At’owii itilu diS MfSSflfv.
The synopsis of the message of the Governor of
Georgia present sufficient insight into that docu
ment to show It to be such as no pure patriot can
read without the liveliest emotions of indignation
and disgust. Treachery into the Executive of a
crate in this Confederacy has heretofore boon a
crime that no man could oouceive—a thing beyond
even imagination—but Governor Brown must
blame only himself if ne has incurred the suspic
ion of having reaped the recompense of the re
gard that precedes treason. That his recommen
dations would be the utter ruin o? the cause of
these States, and the degradation of the free people
of his own State into slavery to their enemy is so
apparent in the synopsis of his massage, that a
“man, though a fool’cannot err therein, llis re
commendation to repeal the Conscript!' n Act and
to .esort to quotas from the States, coupled with
that of erganising the State militia, to be in no
case turned over to the Confederate authorities,
but to bo retained for home defense, is a direct ef
fort to disband the army, open wide the gates to
the enemy, and would certainly be attended with
the speedy subjugation of every State. Charity
would presume that Gov. Brown did not under
stand the ruinous effect of these recommendations,
out charity cannot apply to the State papers of an
Executive. He must be presumed to understand
and intend and desire the results that must cer
tainly follow his recommendations, if adopted.
That Governor Brown is endeavoring to disband
the armies of the Confederacy, that he is actively
engaged in prostituting the high position he holds
to the service of the public enemy, and seeking,
with all the powers of his office, to discourage and
dispirit the people of these States, too apparent to
require explanation. His course is not different
from traitors who have* betrayed their country.
As the disaster at Temeever gave Gorgei the op.
pertu .iity to gratify bis personal resentment at the
cost of his country and of its brave soldiers, so the
I Ate successes of the enemy are made the occasion
by Gov. Brown to display his animosity against
the President at the risk of ruin to the country.
The first act of Gorgei was to disband the army :
so is the recommendation of Brown to depart the
system of conscription.
Gov. Brown is not more profuse in his profes
sions of loyalty and patriotism than was the traitor
at Vilagos. Gorgei made friends of the soldiers
and won their generous confidence by acts of brave
ry, and Gov. Brown has not been inactive to pur
chase their affections by attention to their personal
wants. The one betrayed his country and her sol
diers to the enemy, God grant that the other may
not bo equally successful. We .fiud no pleasure in
presenting these parallels, but duty demands that
an example should be spread before the country
lest this man succeed in betraying its interest and
cause.
Governor Brown pretend that Georgia was
abandoned to her fate—neglected by the Confede
rate authorities. Is this any more true of Georgia
than of Mississippi, “Louisiana, Alabama, South
Carolina, Florida, Arkansas ? If the able bodied
sons of Georgia were held for the defense of other
States, were they not equally defending tliß cause
of Georgia ? -If Richmond is defended by Georgia
soldiers, is it not because it is the capital of the
Confederacy of which Georgia is a member ?
Georgia was ons of the States that, made the
war. ’ Virginia was one of the Slates that accepted
the war. Georgia acted from motives of interest,
which left her free co go to war or remain at peace.
Virginia acted from motives of honor which made
her stand a barrier between her Southern sisters
and Northern power. "Virginia casts no regretful
looks behind, takes no counsels of her fears, keeps
silent her grievances and bends all her energies
to the ends for which she took up arms; Governor
Brown, not Georgia, is as noisy as a fish woman,
and carries grievances'about with him as some,
animals their perfume, and one is as equally
offensive as the other.
While Governor Brown pretends that there are
only fourteen hundred exempts in the State, and
most of these are over age, the records of the Con
script Bureau exhibit 8,229 exemptions of able
bodigd men between the ages of eighteen and
forty-five exempted by State authority in the Sta'e
of Georgia, as follows :
Justices of the Peace, 1,350
Tax Collectors, 1,350
Militia officers, 2.751
Clerks, &c., of Courts, 1,584
Goveifiior State officers, 270
Justices of Inferior Courts, ] 660
Deputy Cierks ot Inferior Courts, 264
Total, 3,229
Viter seeking to destroy the army by recom
mending the abandonment of conscription, it is
not surprising to find-Governor Brown opposing
the arming of slaves. For the sake of preserving
“our theory that the negroes are be free,”
Governor Brawn would show to the world that thß
people of these States were only fit to be slave?.
Such au expensive theory is quite beyond the aim
of this people lie complains of the usurpation
of the Confederate Government in laying dispro
portionate taxes, which ha asserts is mainly due
to tho votes of men without _ constituencies beyeqd
the army—that is, to Representatives from Louis*
iana, Western Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee,
Missouri, Kentucky, Eastern North Carolina, the
coast regions of South Carolina, Northern Ala
bama and Northern Georgia. The representatives
from these regions, and from any other that may
be overrun by the enemy, are without constituen
cies, and should not, according to Gov. Brown,
participate in legislation.;
After recommending the destruction of tho army,
his next effort is to destroy the Legislature of the
Confederacy, Then he would deprive the Presi
dent of hi? power as Commander-in Chics. Thus
he deals blows at the army, tho Congress, the
President ; at the Jaw ofthe land, at
the spirit and hopes of the people : and
and closes his bill of grievances with a recom
mendation for the call of a Convention of the
States! For what purpose? To amend the Con
stitution. In what respect ? We leave eur readers
to imagine what amendments Gov. Brown would
be satisfied with.
Now the people of Georgia have the undisputed
right to Governor Brown, as their Governor, if
thev like him —chacun a son gout —but the whole
tenor and effect of this message can only be regard
ed as an effort on the part of tho Governor of
Georgia to destroy the civil and military authority
of the Confederate Government.
The motive that induces his conduct is known
only to Gov. Brown, and those who may £be con
sidered with him; but tint it must, if successful,
destroy the Confederate Government and result in
subjugating tbe people of all these States, cannot
be doubted. It is a recommendation to Georgia
to abandon the Confederacy, to break up tho Con
federate Government and its army, and to retire
each State within itself. This is “the meaning of
■the message. Its meaning may be daubed over
with professions of loyalty, but if responded to
favorably by the Legislature of Georgia, will result
in ruin.
Belle Boyd in Distress;—The Liverpool
Courier, of February 4th, says:
Confederate sympathizers, and indeed ail
who have a love for adventure and courage,
will probably remember that a somewhat no
table character—Miss Belle Boyd—was mar
ried. a short time ago, in London to a certain
Lieut, flaruing. Almost immediately after
the wedding, the husband returned to his duty
in the Confederate States, and has since fallen
into the hands of the Federal authorities, by
wiiom he is detained a prissiner. The conse
quence is that Mrs. Harding is now in London
almost in a state of destitution, ail her sup
plies being cut off. and her own relations be
ing dead. She baa written a book descriptive
of her adventures in the Confederate service,
but bps received an intimation that her hus
bancFs life depends upon its suppression.—
Under these circumstances an appeal is made
to the public for sympathy and pecuniary as
sistance?
mm • ,
A Rumor. —A gentleman just from* Albany,
Ga.. informs the Journal & Messenger, 14th,
that when he left there Tuesday evening there
was a considerable excitement, growing out
of a report that a force of the enemy, 2,000
strong, was moving on Eufanla. Ala. (Jur
informant is not disposed to credit the rumor,
though he says it is producing much uneasi
ness.
For Exchange or .Sale.
i T the office of the “Southern Iron Works,” near
A the new bridge, the following articles of Hard
ware, which we will exchange for Pork, Bacon.
Lard, Wheat, Flour. Fodder, or any other articles
of P-oviiions or Confederate currency, viz :
Bar and Hoop Iron, of all sizes, suitable for plan
tation uses.
Sugar Mills and Kettles, of all sizes, from 30 to
120 gallons.
Pots. Ovens and Skillets,
Fry Pans and An-iron-.
Club ini Broad Axes,
Shovels and Spades,
Trace Cbalnea and Plough Moulds.
Orders for Castings aai Machine Work
promptly executed.
jan r ts JOHN D. GRAY * CO.
*l7 ZE3I E CITY.
T. J. JACKSON LOCAL EDITOR
New Advertisements.—Jefferson A Hamilton
will exchange spinning wheels and clock reds for
iard or bacon. They have for sa ; .e 50 large boxes,
and wish to buy 5000 lbs of fodder for which they
promise to pay the highest market price. See Ad
vertisements.
Cody <fc Colbert notify aii persons holding cot
ton receipts against tr.eir warehouse lately burned
to present them.
The Place to Gar Your Money Back.—Those
fond of fine brandy and cigars, can find them at
the store of Gilmer A Cos., a few doors above
Cook s Hotel. Broad street, Columbus, Ga. Pure
brandy, and as good cigars as the market afford?
may be found there. It’anybody doubts it let
them cflll and see.
A New Concern.— We notice that Mosheli &
Zorxowski have started anew oil manufactory in
our city, next door to the establishment of Thomas
Berry & Cos., on Oglethorpe street. They are now
engaged in the production of a very superior ar
ticle of linseed oil, and we learn that they will
also be rea-ly to make peanut oil in a short time.
Linseed o-ii at this time in the Confederacy is of
gre it value, and wo congratulate these gentlemen
in their efforts to produce it. Moshell and Z-r-r
--kowski are men of enterprise, and will" put this
thing through.
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Promoted.— We understand that Private B. C.
Dallas, of Cairns’ Hospital, bus been commissioned
Captain in the Engineer corps, and ordered to re
port to Colonel Von Ziakon for duty. We have
no doubt but that the Captain has deserved this
promotion, and will prove fully adequate to the
duties of his position.
The weather continues changeable. A heavy
fall of rain yesterday morning was succeeded, by
high March winds. At the present writing indi
cations are good for a freeze or a big frost.
The Chup.ch Hospitals.—We notice that the
city papers are pitching into Dr. Douglass for his
continued occupancy of the factory and African
churches as hospitals. W r e coincide in their views
heartily. The.se churches should never have been
yielded as hospitals iu the first place. There were
plenty of other buildings in the city used for pur
poses less commendable whieh'could have been used
just as well. We understood when these church
es were taken that they were only to be occupied
temporarily. But a year bus rolled around and
lo! the Docror clings on as tenaciously as ever.
We do not know by what authority he hangs on.
Perhaps he does so by instruction, but we are in
clined to the opinion that if the matter weie prop
erly represented, the use of these buildings could
be recovered. We said at first and wo stick to it,
that if imperative necessity demanded the use of
churches as hospitals it would have been proJuc
tive of less evil to hav taken the fine up town
churches. The poor African, and a class of per
sons worshipped at the churches now occupied
who could never have been religiously beoefitted
at other places. Whatever may have been the ex
igoneiei which called these buildings into requisi
tion at first, there is now co paliation for holding
on to them. The seat of war is removed from our
immediate vicinity, and no recent battles havo sent
an influx of suffering soldiers to our midst. There
are comparatively few sick and wounded among
us? Then why not evacuate these churches at
once.
The N. 0. Times (Yankee) of the ISth ult., gives
the following statement concerning Bank's farming
'operations during tho past year. lie had almost un
interrupted control of the parishes named and the
result will show that free labor cannot competawith
slave labor in this latitude in agriculture. This ex
periment will show that the Yankee cannot reverse
the laws of nature and of God.
The Price Current has now completed its state
ment of the Sugar crop in the State for the past sea
son, and surds up the result in tho following recapit
ulation, comparing the product with the for
the year 1861-2, before the war :
Parishes. 1864-s—hhds- 1861-2—hhds.
Orleans 26 1,790
St. Bernard 361 6,640
Plaquomine 2,301 22,433
Terrebonne 426 ..£8,839
Assumption) 963 37,766
Lafourche 118 29,781
St, Charles 73 19,191
St! John Baptist 43 18,843
St. James 267 34,224
Ascension 1,285 80,722
Iberville 429 41,921
Jefferson 303.. 11,086
Point Coupee ••■.. 4 22.56»
West Baton IBouge 35 24,697
Eastdßaton Rouge 60 10,949
Total 6,755 390,232
The total crop of 1861-2 was 459,410 hhds. The
figures of the Price Current are not mere estimates,
but the aggregate of the returns from all the plan
tions cultivated, obtained by the editor from the
planters themselves, or from reliable authority. The
full particulars are published in this morning’s
Price Current. The Molasses crop is estimated at
15,000 to 16,000 barrels, which exceeds the usual al
lowance of 70 gallons Molasses for every 1000 lbs.
of Sugar. Referring to the plantations under cul
tivation before the war, and to the large outlays in
curred for steam engines and the costly machinery
used for grinding, etc., the P. C. says the whole of
this, together with the sugar houses and other nec
essary buildings,‘‘must inevitably go to ruin, un
less liberal facilities are'accorded to the planters to
enable them to reclaim che plantations now going
entirely to waste.”
Exemptions and Details.
In the Confederate States Senate, on the 18th
February, the following bill was passed. It had
previously pasted the House, but the Nenate Milita
ry Committee had proposed some amendments,
which were agreed to: sc the House had to act on
it again :
A Bill to diminish thenmnber of exemptions and
details.
Tht Con jees* of the Cohfederate States of America
do enact, That so much of the “act to organize
forces to serve during the war,” approved February
17,1864, as exempts one person as overseer or agri
culturalist on each farm or plantation upon which
there were, at the specified times, fifteen able-bodied
field hands, between the ages of sixteen and fifty,
upon certain conditions, is hereby repealed; Provi
ded, that exemptions of persons over forty-five years
of age, may be granted under the provisions of the
act aforesaid; and said persons shall be liable to
military service upon the expiration of the time for
which they received exemption by reason of hav
ing executed bonds for one year from the date
thereof.
Sec. 2. No exemption or detail shall be granted by
the President or secretary of War, by virtue of
said act, except of persons lawfully reporte : by s
board of surgeons as unable to perform active ser
vice in the field; persons over tb.e age of fort? years
and of laborers, artisans, mechanics and persons of
scientific skill employed by or working for tiie Con
federate or State Governments, and shown by prop
er testimony to be such lab" rers, artisans, median- j
ies or persons of scientific skill, and with the stime 1
exceptions all exemptions and details heretofore j
granted by the President or secretary of IV ar, fey ;
virtue of said act, are hereby revoked.
'iec. 3. That all skilled artisans ana mechanics, 1
who ~are engaged in the employment of the Govern
ment ofthe Confederate State , are hereby exempt ,
from all military service during the time they are
so employed: Provided. That persons whose ser
vices, labor or skill may be more usefully employed
forthe public good at home than in the field to be
determined by the Secretary of War, on th“ sworn
testimony of disinterested witnesses, under such !
rules and regulations as he may prescribe; and the i
names of all persons so exeaiptcd or detailed, to- \
gether with the reason for the detail, shall be sub- I
mittfed to Congress at the beginning of each session. ;
i—a - • m :
The Dadeville Banner and Times says, “a candi- |
date for Justice of the Peace ir. one of the beats in •
our county approached an oldgentlemu i (who, by- j
the-by, is something ot a wag,>, a few days ago, and |
solicited his support. The old gentleman, raising
his spectacle-, arid eying inquisitively the ‘Squire';
in embryo, asked him if he knew aught about law. !
The would be J. P. answered that ho was pretty
well versed iu all law that would ever come before
him as < Justice* ‘ IVell, Squire,’ says the old man,
‘can you tell me what you would do with a man if
he was to commit suicide?’ ‘Why tie should be
made to support the child, of course!" promptly
answered the ‘Squire.’”
A Conqueror!—The Philadelphia Inquirer calls
Sherman the “Conqueror of Georgia.’’ Tho Yan
kees arc fools if they think our people are or can be
conquered by an army of vile Yankees passing
through the country. The people are not “conquer
ed” in tho seaport towns which be “occupies,let
Hone in the interior, which he can never occupy.—
[Confederacy.
We understand Gea, Forrest has made arrange
ments for the speed * exchange <>t a larse number of
prisoner »t Duka. M -u The G-rtera! was acre or, ,
Su u ii - r /'/ dml
AUCTION SALES.
By Ellis, l.ivill-sion & < „
( ) SA ?;F R P-V Y i lust, at 11 OY 1
V./ we will sell iu from of our
2 bbis. Choice Ymegar.
2 boxes N. O. Sugar, ’
Lot Fine Clothing.
Lot Sole Leather,
Lot Feathers.
1 Show Oa-e;
1 Large Sole Leather Trunk
1 Howe’s Sewing Machine.
Lot furniture, etc., etc.
mar 16 §27
§3y Ellis, fjivmg!»tofii aTco
/AX SATURDAY, 13th March,at uado :<
we wiii sell in front of our store.
A Good Cook. Washer and Ironer, 2:
\eais old, and a first rate House servant
and her 2 Children, 2 aifd 8 years old,
and sold for no fault, sound and heal-:
mar 1G 818
®. v Ellis, Livingston tv.
ON SATURDAY 18th March, at II o'clock
we will sell in front of our Store.
One Twelfth of the Store and Ground,
occupied at present by Capt. Graybill as
Commissary Store House, on Broad street
—also — *
A Young Likely House Servant a l
her three -Children.
mar 16 $lB •
By Ellis, Livingdon X C <
ON SATURDAY, 18th March, at il o’clo-k,
.we will self in front of our store,
TEN ACRES VACANT LAND.
Being the N, h of the N. W. Qr., of the
N. E. Qr , of Section 21, Township 19,
Rng. 30, in Russell county, Ala,, and lies
about half a mile from Girard aad affords
; an eligible location for improvements.
I Terms Cash,
mar 15 $24
By Ellis, Eivmgston X Cos,
AT PRIVATE SALE.
150 Reams sinp. Vole Paper
mar 8 ts
Bosette, Lawhon & Go.,
OFFER AT PRIVATE SALE
I A DESIRABLE RESIDENCE
| Opposite the Lowell Warehouse. Tho
: House contains six rooms with a brick
I basement, good kitchen and other out
; buildings,
mar 17 ts
WHEEL*
AND
CLOCK. 3ES.2E3KIXJ3S,
For Exchange for
! B A-OOIST and LARD
FIFTY LARGE BOXES.
1 For Sale by
JBFFERSOX & HAMILTON
mar 17 6t
Sun and Enquires copy.
Fodder Wanted.
\\J E WISH to purchase 5000 !bs. good FODD3?.
i it tor which we will pay the highest marker p: l
mar 17 3t JEFFERSON & HAMILTON.
Sun and Enquirer copy.
Cotton Bui'ned.
HOLDERS of COTTON RECEIPTS burnad i
I ll our Warehouse, will please present them iniLiii
! diately. CODY & COLBERT
mar 17 2w
SUPERIOR JAVA COFFEE
FINE NEW ORLEANS SUGAR,
| French Note Paper and Fine Pocket Kni??i.
For sale at J. H. MULFORD’S Old Stan i
mar 17 3t*
~XT PRIVATE SA M
BY MYERS, WATSON & C9.*
51 LIKELY NEGROES.
All sound and mostly between eL/m
and thirty years of age.
Among the number are three Lxt i
Blacksmiths, two Extra Carpenter.-. ,
! Engineer and No. 1. Butcher, one r.:-"
class Man Cook, Washers, Ironei>
| extra Field Hands.
Parties in want of any ofthe a.
will apply immediately.
Sold for no fault, owner expect ■ )
change residence.
mar 10- ts ___ -
LOST.
X PAIR OF GOLD wire framed SPJSOTACL
j A The finder will be well rewarded by le.i': : -’
i same at the Sun or Times offiee. ma; ■ • _
'WATTTBD.
! AT THE PERRY HOUSE. Columbus, u-i, a
A BOOK-KERPER. A wounded sold er f-;-
I red. EDWARD P.iKH»r.
| mar 16 ts _ .
Wanted-A Teacher.
| poR A BOY-s’ SCHOOL, now in sueevs.-."
if ation in Tuskaloosa, and capable ;
enlargement. Apply to Rev. tt. D. Urvim- a
loosa, giving proper testimonials, rnioniisr;
be given by Rev. John M. Mitchell, Moiwgm., .
Rev Dr. Pierce, Mobile, and Rev. Dr. Hawk.-. >
ambus, Ga. Tae School house occupies ace:.:(
position and comprises three rooms and ts he. t .
rent ol $740, for the remainder ol the year,
marlblw
Rosette, lawhon & o ,
OFFER AT PRIVATE SAIE
One Copper Boiier, 3 ieet long.
Five or six hundred pounds Lead
S or 10 Large Brass Bib &• Stop ( oeik
jen 18 _tf -
G. W. ROSETTK, s. K. I.AWiION, F. G. tVii.-
RGBETTE, L A Wifi O A &
atjctiostee&s
AND
Commission Jlercl»ani*
131 BROAD STREET.
Coin m bus, C e ovj
march 7tf
MYERS, WATSOV & t
ATJOTtONBEr-9
AND
General Com mission Mereteu
At Hull ts: Duck’s old Stand.
Opposite Bank of Columbus, Broad
Personal ami prompt auenti ■ ?li
» , all .•onsisjutnenls.
Uodnibti'". J r-i 31-