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DAIL Y TIMES,
J. W. WARREX, - - - Editor.
COLUMBUS:
Saturday Morning, March 18, 186a.
Ladies’ Meeting,
Wc are requested to give notice that a meet
ing of the ladies*of Columbus, and its vicinity,
will be held in St. Luke’s church, next Mon
day morning at 11 o’clock. We arc further
requested to earnestly invite the attendance
of all our fair countrywomen; in the localities
above named, who feel an interest in the suc
cess of the great struggle in which we are en
gaged.
Wc have not been specially and precisely !
informed as to the object of the meeting, but j
!fe know— everybody knows—that it is praise
worthy and patriotic. The noble women of j
the Confederacy have it in their power to exalt ;
to a yet higher degree the patriotic enthusi
asm that is now speeping over the land. They !
can reinforce our armies by creating a public
opinion at hu.me —a social law—that shall J
forever ostracise from tbeir society and favor j
the skulker and the laggard, and consign to j
merited infamy the coward and croaker } jo t
the good work, Recently inaugurated in Mo- j
bile and now un( j er taken here, be prosecuted j
in every city, village and neighborhood in the j
Confederacy. Again we say to the ladies of!
Columbus, remember the meeting at -St. Luke, j
at 11 a. m. Monday next.
(Jen. Johnston’s Report.
Gen. Johnston is a great popular favorite, j
and a great captain. There is a manliness, in j
all he says or does, indicative of conscious !
merit. Perhaps it is true that be is even too i
careful of his assured fame, and too often |
makes issues with his superiors to be himself j
the be3t example of military subordination. !
We venerate his character, and stand in awe ]
of the mighty proportions it jvill assume in |
history. He is certainly the peer of Beaure
gard, and possibly not inferior to Gen. Rob’t !
B. Lee himself. His report of the operations '
of the army of Tennessee leaves no doubt of
one thing—its author understood the situation
and was always equal to the demands of the
occasion. Without criticising it in detail, it
is manifest that no army was ever handled by
a more masterly discretion, or, under equal
difficulties, led to more satisfactory results.
His untimely removal from its command wa 3
a great natiqgal calamity. The fact® of the
report are a quiet but trumpet-tongued eulogy
of the energy, zeal and capacity, of his gal
lant but unfortunate successor, Gen. Hood.
Hood was everywhere that fighting was to be
done, and always fought well. In some posi
tions much was left to his discretion. *
Gen. Johnston says, with almost apostolic
simplicity and candor, “ I yielded, and the ar- |
my crossed the Etowah on the 20th—a step j
which I have regretted, ever since.’’ See how
this great man can afford to admit his error! ,
a great error too. Let -him teach the enemies
of the President, charity, for any similar error
Ar may have committed, removed as be was
thousands of miles from the*cene of action
oppressed by the weightiest cares, and sui
rounded, it may be. by men not competent to
advise.
Sir James Graham used to say, “I have
changed ray opinion,” aud that was the end of
the argument. Sir Robert Peel would say,
“When T changed ray opinion the kingdom did
the same," and so, Well may Mr. Davis and
Gen. Johnston both say, and be content, with
out any conflict between them !
The closing paragraphs of the report, em
bracing a brief summary of bis triumphant
defense; are pungent, but were unnecessary,
and of evil tendency, perhaps. We may well
pardon them to a wounded spirit conscious of
injustice. The President wiil not make them
the occasion of dissension. His habit and
diguity forbid that. We only pray that the
cause may not saffer by the bickering of our
great and trusted chiefs, Let them see to that!
Untimely criminations mar their characters.
This is an insignificant result. They jeopard
the interests of the cause.
Wo, devoutly •list that General Johnston's
restoration to command may prove to be as
fortunate as his removal was unsatisfactory—
that his brow may gather fresher laurels and
he may, to the entire satisfaction of his most
zealous fronds, rebuke the President for his
want of confidence in him, by the most bril
liant successes—that be may extortTrom even
Mr. Davis and Gen. Bragg, the nierrited dis
tinction of the greatest commaudcr of the age.
It concerns" (Jen. Johnston's fame that he
should now triumph grandly over his coun
try’s foes in the field, that he may silence for
ever his owu foes at home. Let his friends
rally to his suppoit with new zeal—help hirb
in every way to vindicate at cnee his own
character and the rights of his injured coun
try. His position and (his-report'' challenges
the scrutiny of his countrymen 'and of the
world. Our faith is that he will mount into
a sky of radiance and reflect a glory over (tie
hfttion.
As the Macon Telegraph says, “The Presi- 1
dent ha3 done his duty—the' array will do its j
doty—let the country not fail to do its duty!” j
We *re doubtless at fault, for not compre
hending the arithmetic of this repo'rt. It is
not important that we* should understand it,
but it would be e<stfortable to be able to per- i
ceive how witbT&n “average" loss of '•'thirteen [
to otir me” SHerraan : s army lost only “five,” j
while the Army of Tennessee lost one Nor do
we understand if our loss was 14,000 and
Sherman's five times as many, that is to say
70,000, and Sherman started with only 80,000
and received but about 20,000 reinforcements,
making a total of 100,000, he could have had j
such a vast army at Atlanta, as we know he
did have. If Sherman lost “thirteen times
as many as we did, it results that he lost 172,-
000 out of an army of only 100,000. It may
be our incapacity, and we hope it is, but the
combinations seem to us to contradict the
general impression that “figures’ are infalla
ble.
After all the report goes to history with ad
vantage to General Johnston, and no detri
ment, that we know ot, to any. body else, and
so we are content with it.
Mon. John T. Clarke, dodge ot tUu I’ataula dis
trict at Georgi*, hag decided that so far as
th* act ot Dec. 14, passed by the leg
islature, of this State, holds justices of the
*«ac« liable to military duty, it is unconsti
tutional.
Fault Finders.
Many of our most sensible citizens have objected
to our worcy President’s proclamation for fasting,
humiliation and prayer, *ipon the grounds that he
never mentions the Holy Trinity, and especially
the name of our Saviour Jesus Christ. This sus
j picion and objection arises mainly from the palpa-
I ble fact, Mr. Benjamin is Secretary of State,
and it is thought he adheres to the Jewi ah
faith.
\: From the best of authority, we inform the
people that the old Government of the
States—and the new Government of the Confede
rate States—have never done this, for the follow
| ing simple reason : The appeal to fast, humiliate, -
and pray, is made to the people of the loholc
country. There are some who cling to one faith,
some another, and some another. Every man
loves his religion, and every man would go into
another crusade for religion. These sects and
creeds are distributed through our3, as well as
other countries. They are all citizens, and
supposed to ba true and loyal to the Government
and their faith.
We must, then, expect our President to honor
all classes, sects, and creeds, in our general
appeal to honor and supplicate Almighty God.—
Winchester Bulletin.
Our friend may be right or wrong in his reasons}
butho is wrninly right as to his/ac/s . The form
of the President’s invocations sre in perfect accord
with every kindred proclamation wc have ever
seen. We doubt whether a solitary instance ot
departure from that form cart be found in all the
proclamations of all the Presidents and Governors
who have ever presided or governed. The state
ment made the other day by a cotemporary, that :
Governor Brown in his thanksgiving or fast day
proclamations invoked the mediation of our Sa
viour, we believe to be incorrect. In making
■positive ’ assertions, editors and all other men,
should be prepared with facts. Governor Brown’s
proclamation of November, 1853, and Governor
Johnson’s, of November, tSo'S, are before us, and
both of them agree exactly with the proclamations
of President Davis in the particular referred to.
We wonder what development this miserable
carping spirit will mak6 next?.
From Onr Richmond Correspondent.
Richmond, February 22 , 1805.
The military authorities here are reticent as
to the movements of Sherman, and the press,
for prudential reasons, suppress all informa
tion as to military events in Carolina. In the
meantime, this city retains its composure, and
but for the booming of the heavy gnns down
the river this bright morning, one would not
be reminded that we were in the midst of a
struggle for existence itself. It is expected
that Beauregard can concentrate forces suffi
cient to give battle'with prospects of success,
somewhere iu the neighborhood of Charlotte.
If not, the fight must inevitably take place
around this city. Under present circumstan
ces, it is useless—perhaps unwise—to speculate
as to results.
The negroes who va} s aiteered some days ago
under an appeal from' Gen. Ewell, finding that
they will not be compelled to go, are tendering
their resignations. The colored population
are not particularly fond of hard tack, short
rations, and heavy fighting, and the agitation
of the question has produced quite an exodus
of them to other quarters—mostly to Yankee
dom.
The tax bill of the committee of thirteen is
still under consideration in the House, and
will probably pass. It is deemed wise policy,
in the present exigency of affairs, to pass even
imperfect legislation rather than to suffer lon
ger from the serious evils engendered by delay.
No news of importance from Yankeedom or
elsewhere.
Our prisoners are returning in large num
bers daily. Grant 3eems to be keeping faith,
and giving the lie to the slanders cast upon
him by “Beast Butler.” „
The President is said to__ be busily engaged
iu preparing a brief of the “eotemporaneous
correspondence,” together with all orders, and
accompanying comments upon the report of
General Johnston.
Both Houses of Congress are becoming thin;
the important business has been, to a great
extent, disposed of, and an adjournment may
be looked for within a fortnight.
. This leaves for the “Trans-Savannah De
partment ” by a flank movement.
VIRGINItJS.
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From Richmond.
The Examiner of the 21st has an article up
on the situation, from which the following is
extracted : There is not at this moment so
much to alarm us in reality as there was last
May. It is true we have not so many troops,
but neither has our enemy, by a great deal.
On that occasion, too. when Butler could and
did laud his force at City Point without any
effort or loss; but this year Sherman has to
fight his way through swamps and take on
him many battles, and leave many blue coated
corpses behind him,-ere he can hope to see a
Virginia railroad. It is flowed that President
Davis will not relieve General Beauregard at
the verv crisis of his campaign, and appoint
Gen. P mbeiton in his place, with oiders to
the latter to step around Sherman's rear and
march away to Mobile. But barring this, or
some equally enormous blunder or issue, it
seems evident that Sherman has before him a
much more difficult and perilous part of the
campaign than Butler had last year. In the
meantime his devastating giarch through
South Carolina is no more conquering that
State than*his great raid through Georgia had
converted the Georgians into* Union men.
Richmond is safe, if all parties concerned do
their duty. •
ThetMtxaminer, of the 20th, says that we
have distinct information of the report or a
movement on the part of Thomas, consisting
almost entirely of mounted infantry and cav
alry. His work is to open the Alabama river
from its mouth to its source, involving the
capture of Mobile. Selma, and Montgomery.
The Whig, in art editorial on the*2oth, on
arming negroes, says the ' proposition has
gained luvor rabidly of late, and promises to
be adopted. So far from exciting the repug
nance of the army, as at first appreheuded. it
has been called for by many regiments, and 13
favored by nearly all the principal officers. A
prominent officer of the army writes io the
Whig that the enemy has taught us an im
portant lesso*. He has caused the negro to
fight as well, if not. better, than white troops.
Our prisoners declare they are the best sol
diers and most thoroughly drilled of the
Onion troops. 1, myself, have seen them
uudci fire where white men could \>t be
kept. *
Tue Dispatch says that the last Columbia
papers received estimate Sherman's !orce at
55,000 men. Sherman eniorces strict discip
line, and punishes with the utmost severity
any of, liis troops who are guilty of outrage
upon citizens. We will not venture to predict
1 where our troops will make a determined
: stand. W? fee! as-ured that Beauregard will
let slip no opportunity which may present it
self. of striking the enemy a telling blow.
I and believe tie w.il risk iuucu upon such
chance.
The Whig says the Danville and Geenj
horo’ "Railroad is working finally.
* Croakers be Silent.
i Wuo can be dispirited, that* calmly reflects
I on the shifting scenes and chequered cfaarac
! ter of that first great struggle, of which this is
1 but the repetition on a grander scale ? Was
! not the attempt, on the part of the colonies,
like that of a little David against a massive
Goliath? If the North is, and has been, great
er than the South, in might of numbers and all
the appliances of war on sea and land, was not
Britain proportionately mightier than the Coli
onies ? Was she not as determined to use
her armies, and navies, and monies, and cor
ruptions for the absolute subjugation of her
revolted Colonies, as the North is to do the
same thing for the conquest of-these Sover
eign States? And was she not as lavish of
the inexhaustable means ia her power? Did
not George Guelph, like Abraham Lincoln, as
often proclaim to his people and the world,
and proclaim to the “ insurgents, ” that the
“ rebellion shall and must be crushed, ’’ if not
in thirty, or ninety or three hundred days, at
all events, sometime before he would forbear ?
’ Didn t George, like Abraham, speak caioiing
ly, aud seductively, at every favorable oppor
tunity and then thunder away again at his
one fixed resolve —subjugation? And yet he i
could not finally withhold Independence— j
neither can Lincoln.
" Aye,” quoth the croakers, “ but the ene
my have got now in the field more than double
our torce, not tc talk of their formidable fleets
and their teeming commissaries and countless
other advantages. ” Suppose this were true,
it proves nothing against success. When the
effective force under Washington was not 17.-
000 men, that under Gen. Howe was 50,000,
not to tail: of “ formidable fleets and count
less other advantages. But this alarming
disparity did not deter the heroes of that day,
although it did the croakers. It retarded, but
did not finally withhold independence—thus
a similar condition can retard it now; but
that is ail.
“Yes,” cry the croakers, “but look at the
defeat of Hood, the victorious march of Sher
man. the los3 of Savannah, Charleston, and
Wilmington, and the destruction of Columbia,
the many who are said to jump at amnesty
and the desertions here and there and all that
sort of disheartening thing.” Just so the
croakers shrieked after the defeat of Long Is
land, nearly ninety years ago. Indeed, that
defeat was, in its immediate effects, infinitely
more disastrous than any w<Vhave yet to
chroniele for our struggle. Not only was it
disastrous in the direct 1033. bat in the wide
spread depression, and the rich field it left for
the croakers. Doubt aud terror then seized
the very best- men : happily, in our day, doubt
and fear are confined to-the systematic croak
ers. So great was the dismay consequent Q.n
that Long Island defeat, that numerous deser
tions became alarmingly frequent; desertions
in force, not in driblets as, at worst, they
now are. It was just the time for conciliation
—a time such as Lincoln thinks Sherman has
now brought about; and so the enemy sent
envoys to treat with the Revolutionists and to
offer amioable terms. To them Franklin, in
that hour of dismal gloom, made the bold re
ply that “there should be no peace or alliance
except as independent States.” And not
withstanding defeat, amnesty, desertion, gloom
and croakers, Franklin predicted truly.
“Disaster and desertion,” indeed ; one the
dastardly consequence of the other ! But even
if what the croakers falsely imagine of our
disasters aud desertions were not greatly ex
aggerated, they fall far short of those in the
revolutionary war—either separately or as
connected witueach. When the British pushed
their successes from Long Island to New York
panic aud desertion in the American
ranks almost universal ? In front efNewYork
two complete brigades—pure Yankee brigades
—fled without firing a gun. Has General Lee
ever yet had to ask. as the intensely disgusted
Washington then did, “Are these the men
with whom lam to resist the foe?” But.
they had deserted, and New York, more im
portant for Washington than any dozen cities
to us. was gone Never was greater gloom
than then hung over the shattered remnant of
the revolutionary force at Harlem. Even pious
men tockthc repeated disaster and the mise
ries attending them, as proof that Heaven it
seli was arrayed against the struggle ; they
lived to huzza for it as a God blessed contest.
“Anxiety, despondency and dread filled all
hearts,' says tk# historian. “Sickness great
ly prevailed, and it seemed that, America must
yield from the mere inability to sustain her
army.” In vain did the dauntless Washing
ton strive to reanimate the woeful dejected
people ; he was abused by the croakers tor
his pains. The cause was hopeless ; vet, in
dependence was secured and ail the croakers
dumbfounded.— Rich. Sen.
[From the Southern Confederacy, I7th.]
Minutes of Points Decided by the Supreme
Court.
White and Rowland vs. Sellars: Habeas
Corpus.—A soldier cannot obtain a discharge
from the army by habeas corpus because he
has been elected and has qualified a3 a cons r
table since he entered the service.
Smith vs. Harris—Morgan vs. Bonham:
Habeas Corpus.—Under the act of Congress
of Feb. 17, 1864, men between the age3 of 17
and 50 years, and none others, are liable to
military service; and a conscript in the re
serve forces, who, since the passage of that
act. has attained the age of 50 years, may. if
still held for service, be discharged by habeas
corpus.
The Governor, for the use of Rutherford,
vs. Raley and others: Action on Sheriff’s
bond. An attorney who, by negligently suf
fering the money of his client to lie in the
hands of the sheriff, makes himself liable for
it, and then without the compulsion of a suit
pays up the debt, has a right of action on thtf*
sheriff 's bond for his reimbursement. It is
the sheriff’s duty to pay over the money with
out demand; and if the omission of that du
ty work an injury to the attorney, he, by the
express words of the statute, may support an
action on the bond. The statute itself creates
whatever privity is necessary to the mainten
ance of such action.
Cobb vs 1 . Black : Habeas Corpus.— l, In an
equity case, the judge having, under the code,
appointed a receiver in vacation, and ordered
the defendant to turn over to him the assets
iu dispute, may also in vacation enforce obe
dience to the order by attachment for con
tempt
2. Stick attachment is not primitive mere
ly. but remediable, and therefore the impris
eminent of the party under it may endure so
long as the party continues disobedient. The
limitations fixed by the code to the term of
imprisonment for contempt generally, are not
applicable.
Hall vs. The State: Simple Larceny.— 1.
Where the prisoner* owned a cow similar to
the one which the indictment charged him
with stealing, and the question wa3 whether
he had not by mistake and in good faith taken
and disposed of the latter, believing it to have
been the former, evidence is to
show that some time after the transaction he
went to the other owner and said.jhat if the
cow taken was his, he, the prisoner, had made
a mistake, and then offered to pay and did
pay for it.
2. The verdict in this case was contrary to
the evidence.
Smith vs. Green and Postell: Certiorari.—
1. Garnishment founded on a void action or
| on a void judgmeut, is itself void.
1 2. A distress warrant for rent cannot be the
foundation fdr a garnishment,
i Alderman vs. Chester: In Equity.—The
: distributees of an estate clear of all encum
brances, may agree among themselves that
one of them shail have and enjoy during her
j life such part of the property as she may ae
| ioct. and that after her death the entire estate
| shall belong to the other dietributefcs: and
! though such agreement be made orally, and
i never reduced to writing, it will be enforced
! by a Court of Equity, after the life interest
j contemplated has been fully enjoyed. The
: contract is not void, under the statute of
j frauds; nor does it contravene the rule of
I btw against creating remainders in personalty
! by parol.
fa* Herald’s City Point correspondent says the
j Htst lot of negro soldiers exchanged during the
I wir, arrived on u’r.
TELEGRAPHIC.
REPORTS OP THE PRESS ASSOCIATION.
Entered according to aci of Congress in the year
1363, by J. S. Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office of
the District Court of the Confederate States for
the Northern District of Georgia.
Macon, March 17.— The Supreme Court of
Georgia has declared that the Eighth Section
of the act of Congress of the 17th February,
1364, is constitutional, and that Congress has
the power to take meri into the service unable
to bear arms in the field ; but medical boards
must specify particularly what services such
persons are for, and army officers must assign
them to such duties and no other.
Sexatobia, March 13.— The War Depart
ment at Washington has received information
from Halifax, that the rebels in Canada, con
templated a raid on Oswego and Rochester,
New York.
A New York telegram says that the Imperi
al Mexican Government has ordered the police
to arrest all'persons expressing sympathy for
the United States.
A rumor prevails in Memphis that Sherm&n
has been whipped and is making his way to
ward the coast.
The Louisville Journal says, we have reas
on to say that the rebels are expecting veri
soon to startle the whole country and aston
ish the world. No matter what our reason
may be, it is a good one. and with confidence,
but intense anxiety, we wait coming events.
Gkn. Singleton having gone to Richmond
again, Northern papers say hi3 mission is one
of cotton and bacon and not of peace.
The Yankee gunboat Arizona was burned
on the Mississippi below New Orleans re
cently.
Nashville and Memphis papers are filled
with accounts of the operations of,guerilla
bands, who are said to be more numerous in
Tennessee an 1 Southern Kentucky than ever.
« Lincoln made no new Cabinet appointment
except McCulloch.
Northern papers of the Uih, which have
been received, say that the battle between
Sheridan and Early, look place at rVaynesbo
rough, Yit. Sheridan, when lastjheard from,
had captured 40 rebel officers and 1300 pris
oners, 8 caissons and 100 wagons.
The Raleigh Progress eays that the Feder
ate are concentrating 40,000 men at Newberti,
to co-operate with Shermarf.
The London Times'says the Peace Confer
ence makes it more evident than ever that
neutrality te the only policy for England.
Acting Rear Admiral H. R. Thatcher suc
ceeds Commander Palmer in command of the
West Gulf fleet.
Gen. E. O. Payne has been tried by a court
martial at Paducah, and acquitted.
A.special to the St. Louis Democrat says
the Imperialists celebrated the death of the
United States at'Bagdad, it! Mexico. A dead
dog was carried at the head of the procession
which marched through town to appropriate
music.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Tima3 denies that there are any grounds for
the rumor of the contemplated recognition of
the Confederacy bv France.
The Nis groks Arming. —The bill to put a num
ber of negroes in the military sendee, to be used
in such employments as the Commander-in-chief
may determine, says the Richmond Examiner of
17tb, will betaken up in the House of Representa
tives this morning.
Soma local interest has bean manifested in this
measure since it was known yesterday that quite
a military fever had broken ouv among negroes
employed at the various hospitals here, and that
they are already organizing volunteer companies
to taS-j the field Aminat the Yankees. Several
hundred of them have professed an auxiety to vol
unteer ; and at £one -of the hospitals yesterday*
fifty-two out of seventy four negroes employed
there agreed to enlist "for the war,” and organi
zing themselves into a military cfmpany in view
of legislation now pending.
Fwolfl 4Yiih;the Yankees.;
The Valley correspondent of the New York
Herald thus details some of the maunderiugs of
Mr. Henry S. Foote, who, whilst in the Confeder
ate Congress, was not loss remarkable for his lo
quacity than the Yankee correspondent found
him:
Making himself known to Lieut. Sprague, of
the Ninth New York Cavalry, who was on duty at
that time, he was at once mounted on a trooper’s
horse and sent to Brig. General Devins’ headquar
ters. He manifested much satisfaction at arriving
within our lines in safety, having traveled without
interruption of any kind, from Richmond to Cbar
lottsville, then across the country through Madi
son Court House to Culpeper, Brandy Station,
(havinf an interview with John Minor Botts at
this latter place) Leeshurg, Point of Rocks and
Lovettcsville, making the last five miles of the dis
tance on foot; a pretty good walk, one would say,
for a WQ,n 61 years old, with snow upon the ground.
While detained for several days by order of the
Government at Lovettsville, though nominally a
prisoner, there was no* irksomG restraint placed
upon his actions: he seemed desirous, however, of
attracting as little public attention as possible, but
expressed his opinions ireely to all who conversed
with him, being specially guarded all the time as
| information about military affairs.
Still, it was quite evident he thought the rebellion
on its last legs; otherwise, it is believed, ho n «v«c
would have entered our lines, notwithstanding re
peated assertions of his always having been a Un
ion man!” He certainly is not an ardent admirer
of Jefferson Davis.
I.ike some antiquarians in the loyal States, Mr.
1 Foote labors under the hallucination that there
! can be peace without more bloodshed, that, be-
I cause the people of the South are heartily tired of j
the war, are ready to return to their allegiance j
upon the best obtainable terms, and with or with
out shivery ; that they are only kept from this step :
now oy the military power, but if allowed time, !
they would eventually overthrow this despotic
-power now wielded by Davis in a peaceable way; j
to enable them to do so, there must be a cessation j
of hostilities, and to secure that was the special j
mission of the Ex Senator. »•
J/r. Foote thinks the United States the greatest j
nation on earth, and could not say enough iq j
praise of President Lincoln, Gens. Grant, Sherman, !
Thomas and Sheridan, and all of the Union ar- !
mies in bulk; head and shoulders above all, how- I
ever, towers Win. H. Seward—but for him the j
Southern Confederacy would have been recognized
long ago: now there was no hope of such a result.
Such a man will be an excellent Union scent in
Europe, where it is reported he has gone. The
most important fact of all let drop incidently by
Mr. Foote, was that there are several members of
the rebel Congress, and a large majority of the
Southern people, who agree with him in his esti- j
mation of Davis “the usurper.” j
In his opinion, no one at the South to day, not
even Jeff Davis, expects to succeed in establishing i
a Southern Confederacy, but, at the last moment, j
the rebel leaders will be missing, and subsequent!
ly turn up iu some other part of the world. Gwin,
he says, will cheat Louis Napoleon in the Sonora
affair. The above is the substance of what I gath
er from persons who conversed with Mr. Foote at j
Lovettsville, while waiting for the Government to j
decide what to do with his case.
The party referred to on yesterday, in our morn
ing issue, as having made an attempt to reach
Savannah, was Mr. Milo Hatch, long a resident
of this place, and occupying the responsible posi
tion of Cashier in the Mechanics’ Bank, which is
used as tho Government Depository, its President
being our worthy and well known fellow citizen,
Mr. Thomas S. Metcalf. We are thus particular
in giving these facts, that justice may be done.
The paragraph of our “local” was tuere stree* ru
mor. We have examined into the matter and
state the facts, and trust our exchanges who copied
the rumor will also cony this.
Mr. Hatch was desirous of sending his wife to
her friends in the North. He procured a pass
from Governor Brown, which he thought sufficient
to permit him to goto Savannah. He went upon
it, carrying ouly three trunks. He made no secret
at Waynesboro’, so we are informed, that he was
cn route for Savannah, and he left Waynesboro at
12 o’clock on Monday, and stopped for the night
twenty six miles south of that place, where, during
the night, he was arrested and returned to this
city. On his arrival at Gen. Fry’s office here, his
papers were examined and he was released. What
were the motives inducing the action has not con
cerned us—these are the facts.— Oo»-fi‘'tntionalist.
T* XX IH2 OX "T 5 3T .
T. J. JACKSON LOCAL EDITOR
JVotice!
The Managers and Officers of the Orphan As
sylurn, are particularly requesred to meet at the
Assylum on Monday next, at 3 o’clock,
mar 13 td "
&ALES To-Day—Ellis, Livingston & Cos. will
sell to-day valuable real estate, likely negroes,
groceries, furniture, clothing, Ac. See advertise
ments.
Negro Killed.— We learn that a negro man
was shot and killed about dark last evening at
15rokaws old corner, (now Capt. Graybill’s com
missary depot; by a young white man by name of
Billy Pride, ia Capt. Graybill’s employ. We learn
that Pride has been carried to jail. Os the causes
which led to the transaction we are ignorant.
Wm. F. Samfordj of Auburn, Alabama offers
for sale several parcels of real estate, and other
property. Refugees anS others in want of homes
will find it to their advantage to consult with him.
Jefferson & Hamilton wish to purchase a lot of
copal varnish. Those having the article for .sale
should call immediately.
Notice the hospital appointments of foragers for
this and adjacent counties, for the purpose of se
curing supplies for the Georgia hospitals.
U. H. Lpping, Esq., wishes to purchase or rent
a small plantation on tna Georgia side of the
Chattahoochee river. See advertisement.
Conscription in Congsess.
On Monday the 20th>,of February, the House
of Representatives passed the following bill by a
vote of fifty yeas to thirteen nays :
The Congress of the Confederate States of Amer
ica do enact, That the general officers commanding
the reserves to eacli State shall be charged with
the duty of directing and controlling the enforce
ment of the laws relating to conscription, exemp
tions and details therein. That the said officers
shall report to the Secretary of War, through the
Adjutant and Inspector General, who shall assign
an Assistant Adjutan t and Inspector General in his
office to the special duty of reoeiviug and arrang-.
ing all returns and discharging such other duties
as may be necessary in the enforcement of the
conscription acts.
The applications for exemption and detail,
cept as hereinafter provided, shall be decided by
the general officers having charge of the business
of conscription in the several States. Appeals may
be taken from their decisions to the Secretary of
War, but daring the pendency of such appeals the
appelants shall be liable to military service.
There shall be assigned from the invalid corps,
or from officers certified by the proper medical
boards to be unfit for active service the
field, a sufficient number of enrolling officers,
who shall report to and be under the immediate
direction and control of the general officers
conducting the business of conscription in the
several States.,
All conscripts shall be examined by the medical
boards of the army after joining the commands in
the fiald to which they may be respectively as
signed, and every discharge granted by an
army medical board, shall be final and shall re
lieve the party from all military service in
the future, when the disability is permanent
and the cause of it set forth in the certificate of
discharge.
If any conscript shall furnish to the enrolling
officers of his county a certificate, under oath,
from a respectable physician or from aa army
surgeon, that he is unable to travel to the com
mand to which he may be assigne«l without serious
prejudice to his health, or that he is seriously
maimed or manifestly uufit for field service, o\*
shall prß3ent to such enrolling officer a certificate
of discharge on account of permanent disability, a
furlough shall be granted to him until the next
meeting of the medical board, hereinafter provi
ded for.
j There shall be assigned to each Congressional
| district a ruedieal board, consisting of three, two
; of whom shall be army surgeons, who, after due
notice of the time and plaoe of their meeting, shall
visit each county of the district at least once in
: two month*, and shall examine, for discharge or
recommendation for light duty, all conscripts who
have been furloughed under the provisions of the
preceding section. Every discharge granted by
the said medical board shall be final and shall re
lieve the party from all military service in the fu
ture, when the disability is permanent and the
cause of it is set forth in the certificate.
It shall bo the duty of all officers and others em
ployed in the service of the Confederate States and
not actually in the field nor attached to any army
in the field, including quartermasters aud commis
saries, commanders of post, provost marshals, offi
cers of‘the ordnance, nitre and mining and modi
cal bureaux, and others, to make certified monthly
returns to the nearest conscript officer, or the
names, ages and physical condition of all persons
employed in their tervices, which returns shall be
forwarded to the general officer controlling con
soription in the State.
For the enforcement of the duties imposed by
this act upon general officers controlling conscrip
tion in the several States, such detachment of the
reserve forces as they may deem necessary shall
be placed at their disposal.
The bureaux of conscription and the camps of
instructions are hereby abolished, and all rules
and regulations of the War Department, incon
sistent with this act are hereby repealed.
+ m*
Antidote for Poison. —Dr. J. Edmonds, a
prominent London physician, writes as follows to
the London Times : “I inclose a simple, safe and
accessible prescription for the whole range of acid
corrosive poisons, which, if promptly used, will al
most invariably save life. Mix two ounces of pow
dered chalk or magnesia, or one ounce of washing
soda, with a pint of milk, and swallow it at one
draught; then tickle the back of the throat with a
feather so as to cause vomiting. Afterward drink
freely of milk and water, and repeat the vomiting
so as to thoroughly wash out the stomach. Any
quantity of chalk or magnesia may.be taken with
safety, but soda in large quantities is injurious.
I may add that the narcotic are excepted. Milk
is an antidote for almost all the poisons, and espe
cially if followed by vomiting.
KTOTIOB.
Office Medical. Director of Hospitals }
Columbus, Ga., March 16, 1860. j
The following named soldiers, detailed for Hos
pital service, having been appointed to act as
“Foragers” t>y Surgeons in charge of Hospitals, and
their appointment approved a* this office, are duly
authorized to act in that capacity for the Hopitals
and in the Counties set opposite their respective
names. *
Ail persons claiming to be : uch agents, and who 4
oannot show written authority as above set forth
will be subjeet to arrest.
W H Farris—Private, company “H” 4th Tenn.«
Regiment, Foard Hospital, Griffin, Ga., Counties,
Spaulding, Pike. Coweta, Merriwether aud Troup,
Ga.'
W E Yerby—Private, company “C,” 30th! Miss.,
Regiment, Foard Hospital, Griffin, Ga., counties’
Spaulding, Pike, Coweta, Merrivretber and Troup.
Ga. .
S D Smith —Enrolled conscript, Buckner Hospi*
tal, Auburn, Ala., counties, Coweta. Heard and
Merriwether, Ga. *
Casper Lewis—Enrolled conscript, Floyd House
Hospital, Macon, Ga., counties. Decatur and
Mitchell, Ga.
W G Redding—Private, company “F,” 12th Ga„
Regiment, Polk Hospital, “Macon, Ga.. counties
Dooly, Ga.
A P Gatlin —Enrolled conscript, Floyd House
Hospital, Macon, Ga., counties, Pike, Ga.
J W Williams —Enrolled conscript, Floyd House
Hospital, Macon, Ga., counties, Butts, Ga.
A J McDonald—Private, company, “H.” 45th
Ala., Regiment, Prison Hospital, Macon, Ga., coun
ties, Talbot, Ga., and Macon, Ala.
G S Banks— “D," 41th Ga„
Regiment, Ocmulsree Hospital, Macon, Ga., coun
ties, Forsyth, Ga.
Tho appointments of privates J J Hunt, compa
ny “H,” 4th Ga., cavalry, Jasper Cannon, company
“K,” 51st Ga., Regiment, Ocmulgee;Hospital, Ma
con, Ga., and W H H Phelps, enrolled conscript, .
Sumter Hospital, Andersonviile. Ga.. as “Fora
gers, are recalled because of not having been de
tailed by proper authority.
S. H. STOUT,
m*rl3-7t Medical Director.
Wanted.
TO PURCHASE or Rent a small PLANTATION
1 on the Chattahoochee River, in Georgia, having
a good landing. Apply to vn p TVn
mar 13 lw H. H. EPPIaG.
Sun and Enquirer copy.
AUCTION SALES.
Hy Ellis, Livingston & c<*,
SATURDAY, 13th inst., at 11 o'c'o k
we will sell in front of our store,
2 bbffi. Ch uice Vinegar.
2 boxes N. O. Sugar.
Lot Fine Clothing.
Lot Sole Leather,
Lot Feathers,
1 Show Case,
1 Large Sole Leather Trunk
1 Howe's Sewing Machine
’Lot Furniture, etc., etc.
mar 16 $27
By Ellis, Livinjfstoii <fcTo
m» »
ON SATURDAY, 18th March, at 11 o’clock
we will sell in front of our store,
A Good Cook, Washer and Ironer. 21
years old, and a first rate House servant
and her 2 Children, 2 and 3 years old,
and sold fin- no fault, sound and healty.
mar 16 $lB
By EJ!is, Livingston & Cos,
ON SikTURDAY 18th March, at 11 o’clock,
we will sell in front of our Store,
One Twelfth of the Store and Ground,
occupied at present by Capt. Gravbil! as
Commissary Store House, on Broad street.
—ALSO—
A Young Likely House Servant and
her three Children,
mar 16 $lB
By Sills*, Livingston Cos,
ON SATURDAY, 18th March, at 11 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. 80, in Russell county, Ala., and lies
about half a mile from Girard and affords
an eligible location for improvements
Terms Cash,
mar 15 $24
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos,
AT PRIVATE SALE.
150 Reams Sup. Vote Pape r
marStf
BT Jllfies, H’ATSON 4 CO.,
DESIRABLE NEGROES FOR SALE!
ON THURSDAY, 23d in3t., at 11 o’clock,
we will sell in front of our store.
33 Very Likely Negroes, embracing
Carpenters, Blacksmiths, Shoemakers,
Cooks, and good Field Hands. In the
lot are several very likely families of
Women and Children,
mar 18 $37 50
By iflveps, IVatxon AC o
WE will sell, on MONDAY, March 20th, at 11
o’clock, in front of our Auction Room.
2 Negro Woman, 45 years old, good Cook
Washer and Ironer,
1 Single Rockaway and Harness,
35 Choice New Ilams,
1 bbl Florida Fish,
600 lbs Choice N. O. Sugar.
5 bbls Choice Cane Syrup,
2 “ Florida Sugar,
10 boxes Manufactured Tobacco,
20 Packages Scarfaletti Smoking Tos
bacco,
50 Pair Brogans,
2 bbls Writing Ink,
8 bags Shot.
2 Letter Copying Presses,
1 doz Axes,
Lot old Circular and Uyright Steel Saws,
Lot Dry Goods, Clothing, Hardware,
Gold and Silver Watches, Jewelry and a
large lot of other desirable goods,
mar 18 S3O
AT PRIVATE SALE;
BY MYERS, WATSON k 00.,
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 fir ft
class Man Cook, Washers, Ironers ami
extra Field Hands.
Parties in Mant of any of the above
will apply immediately.
Sold for no fault, owner expecting to
change residence.
jiiar 10- ts
Rosette, Lawhon & Cos.,
OFFER AT PRIVATE SALE
4 DESIRABLE RFAIDEYCE,
Opposite the Lowell Warehouse The
House contains six rooms with a 'brick
basement, good kitchen and other out
buildings,
mar 17 ts
Anxious to Sell Immediately l
REFUGEES TAKE NOTICE !:
I J<t a small HOUSE and LOT.tof ten acres, in An
i burn. Lot already planted in corn and well ma
nured. Three finished rooms, in a convenient la
i cality and good neighborhood.
I 2d 360 acres of Pine Land, eight miles below .4a
! burn, on the,road to Society Hill. Seventy icr-J3
open land, common improvements. Cheap !
3d A lot of Tobacco, .Sheetings and Shoes
4th 150 acres of land in one and a half miles of
Auburn—a nice little Farm, no houses. 100 acres
open, 15 in fine growing Wheat, In m promising
Oats and 15 in Corn well put in, b») acres of 'Wood
land. The Farm might well go with to- 1" tore .0 .
I must sell quick! Coil on me at Aiwura A-1
mar 18 ts WM. * SA MFGP.D.
For Sale.
1 4 HOUSE and LOT, on west side of Ogl-oth »?j>*
! A street, opposite the Sword Factory;, it.- *
ble for a store and a family. Possoocion a f * ,c
first of April. Apply to (1 p^-.-
mar 18 tit* Presen - " l lf '
Vamisii W:i»»**’<*•
\I7K DESIRE to purchase a quam i.- qt b opal
VY vabnkh parties having the article tir
7 „A, stating quantity, quality
Snr'ce'' JEFFEkSOX * lUMttfW.
SIOOO Reward !! !
4 SILVER Wire-Linked PURSE, lost on night
\ of the Sic at residence of Beach. Also a
g ( Id BREASTPIN, iormii.g SquiM md Compass,
with three links of Odd .Fellowship, set with dia
monds; one set out.
Above rew-id •viil he paid to tinner. Ag».i ’ at
'ffice of *OHN O. GRAY A «•?.
mar 7 stt next New 5 .go.