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VOL. XII.! ,
DAILY TIMES,
J. W. WARREN & CO., Proprietors.
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SPECIAL NOTICES
ISTOTIOB!.
Office Medical Director of Hospitals )
Columbus, Ga., March 10, 1865, ]
The following named soldiers, detalied for Hos
pital service, having boon appointed to act as
"Foragers” by Surgeons in charge of Hospitals, and
thoir appointment approved this oflice, are duly
authorized to aot in that capacity for the Hopitals
and in the Counties set opposite their respective
names. r
All persons claiming to bo 3uch agents, and who
cannot show written authority as above set forth
will be subjeet to arrest.
W H Farris—Private, confpany “H”4th Term.,
Regiment, Foard Hospital, Griffin, Ga., Counties,
Spaulding, Pike, Coweta, Merriwether and Troup,
Ga.
W E Yerby—Private, company “C,” 30thl Miss.,'
Regiment, Foard Hospital, Griffin, Ga., counties,
Spaulding, Pike, Coweta, Merriwether and Troup,
Ga.
6 D Smith—Enrolled conscript, Buckner flospi
tal, Auburn, Ala., counties, Coweta, Heard and
Merriwether, Ga. *
Casper Lewis —Enrolled conscript, Floyd House
Hospital, Macon, Ga., countios, 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—Private.fcompany, "D,” 41th Ga.,
Regiment, Ocmulgee Hospital, Macon, Ga., coun
ties, Forsyth, Ga.
The appointments of privates J J Hunt, compa
ny “H,” 4th Ga., cavalry, Jasper Cannon, company
“K,” 51st Ga., Regiment, Ma
con, Ga., and W H H Phelps, enrolled oonscript,
Sumter Hospital, Andersonville, Ga.. as ‘Fora
gers, are recalled because of not having been de
tailed by proper authority.
S. H. STOUT,
marlß-7t Medical Director.
Bank ol* Colmribu*.
The annual meeting of tho Stockholders of this
Bank for the election of a Board of Directors,, will
take place on the first Monday in April nosU.
DANIEL GRIFFIN,
mar q td President.
Anxious to Sell Immediately
REFUGEES TARE NOTICE ! \
Ist a small HOUSE and LOTffof ten acres, in Au
burn. Lot already “planted in corn and well ma
nured. Three finished rooms, in a convenient lo
cality and good neighborhood.
2d 360 acres of Pine Land, eight miles below Au
burn, on the road to Society Hill. Seventy acres
open land, common improvements. Cheap !
3d A lot of and Shoes
4th 160 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, 15 in promising
Oats and 15 in Corn well put in, 60 acres of W ood
land. The Farm might well go with the 10 acre lot.
I must sell quick 1 Call on me at Auburn, Ala.
mar 18 ts WM. F. SAMFORD.
Wanted.
TO PURCHASE or Rent a small PLANTATION
1 on the Chattahoochee River, m Georgia, having
a good landing. Apply to
mar 18 lw H. H. EPPING.
San and Enquirer copy.
SUPERIOR java coffee
AND
FINE NEW ORLEANS SUGAR,
French Note Paper and Fine Pocket Knives.
For sale at J. H. MULFORD’S Old Stand,
mar 17 3t*
30 TONS IKON
For Sale for Casli
OR EXCHANGE FOR PRODUCE,
and ? inches wide.
J. ENNIS & CO.,
mar 8 lm .Columbus, Ga.
For Sale.
THIRTY TONS OF IRON, for cash or exchange
for Produce, 3%, 4 or 7 inches wide.
J. ENNIS & CO.,
march S-lm Columbus. Ua.
WANTED!
r AAA LBS. pf TALLOW, for which a liberal price
•>’ UUU wiU pald - Ap^ DILLARD,
S|)7tf Major and Q. .W.
Grind Stones,
0 P *" SiZ “- fr ° m 19 i °Gß!l > s4"bD ”<=RAY.
march 12 60d
Mules.
"ila"'™ J j ' r ° m tl “' JOSEPH HAKSEBD.
WHKEI.S
AND
CLOCK RBEXiS,
For Exchange for
BACON »«‘d LARD
FIFTY LARGE BOXES.
For Sale by
JEFFERSON & HAMILTON.
mar 17 tit
Sun and Enquirer copy-
Fodder Wanted.
WE WISH to purchase 5000 lbs. good FODDER,
Sun and Enquirer copy.
Colton Burned.
HOLDERS of COTTON RECEIPTS burned ill
<u .s^ ,ir,hoU!e '" l " p ' e cosrrtesr‘
mar *l7 2w
LOST.
A PAIR OF GOLD wire framed SPECTACLE*.
The finder will be well rewarded- by leajing the
same at the Sun or Times offiee. marlb
W-A-HSTTIEID. .
i T THE PERRY HOUSE, Columbus, Ga., a
A bOOK-KERPER. VDwiRD 3 piKol"l
mar 16 if
Wanted—A Teacher,
UOR A BOYS’ SCHOOL, now in successful oper-
J ationin Tuskaloosa, and capable oi iudcUnne
enlargement. Apply to Rev. R. Irvine. lus*a
loosa. giving proper testimonials. Infoi mation cai
be giren byßev. John M. Mitchell, Montgomery,
Dr. Pierce, Mobile, and Rev. Dr. Hawks, Col
umbus, Ga. The School house occupies a central
position and comprises three rooms, and is held at a
rent es $740, for the remainder of the year,
mar 16 lw
ite _ JMtttto tipi*
G. W. ROSETTE, a. E. LAWHON, F. G. WILKINS
ROSETTE, LIWJIOV & CO..
AUCTIO NTBEHS
AND
Cos in minion Merchant*,
131 BROAD STREET.
Columbus, Geo r gia.
march 7tf
MYERS, WATSON & to,.
ATJOTIONTEEE.S
AND
Genera} Commission Merchants,
At Hull & Duck's old stand.
Opposite Bank of Columbus. Broad Street.
Personal and prompt attention given
to all consignments,
Columbus, Ga., Jan. 21. 1865. ' jan23 ts
W. W. McCall 1........,N, W. Garrard.
MCCALL & GARRARD.
A TTORXEYS A T LA W,
LahLG City, Pla.
mar S 3m
ROBERTA. CRAWFORD,
Slavo Trader,
AND DEALER IN
STOCKS, BOND#, CERTIFICATES, GOLD
AND SILVER COIN,
Cherry Street, Jlacon, €ia.,
NEARLY OPPOSITE THE DAILY TELE
GRAPH AND CONFEDERATE OFFICE.
All classes of NEGROES usually on
hand, and stock constantly replenished by*
experienced buyers.
Cash advances to regular traders, as
heretofore.
Negroes also sold on Commission.
My trusty Porters, Andrew and An
tony, attend the Trains.
fab 27 3m
Stolen.
STOLEN from ray residence, eight miles below
Columbus, a light BAY HORSE, about 14 handa
high, with a white spot in liis forehead. Hi3 prin
ciple gait Is a pace. A suituable reward will be
paid for his recovery. W. G. WOOLFOLIC •
* fob 24 ts
Wanted,
UOR the State of Louisiana TEN MOULDERS.—
-C Wage: liberal. Transportation furnished. Ap
to ft«i. R. S.fining, of tM«rit 6sHEEi
feb 12 ts Comissioner for Louisiana.
Negroes to Hire.
WO HIRE, ten young Negro MEN, also a £bod
1 Cook and Washer. Apply to
Win. G. WOOLFOLK,
jan 17 ts Agent.
Or. R NORLE,
JDE IsTTIST 5 ,
\ T I‘ciuberton & Carter’s old stand, back room of
ix Smith’s Jewelry Store, where he can be found
all hours, Toe 186 m
To Printers !
WE offer for sale a complete BOOK BINDERY,
(exceptßuling Machine,) two hand PRESSES,
and about
1,000 Pounds of Type Metal.
nov2l-tf
■ - 11 U—ii.! 1 1
Change of Schedule.
ON and after Friday, Jan. 20th, the Trains on
the Muscogee Railroad will run as follows :
PASSENGER TRAIN :
Leave Columbus 6 30 A. M.
Arrive at Macon 2 50 P. M.
Leave Macon..... 6 50 A. M.
Arrive at Columbus 3 06 P. M.
FREIGHT TRAIN :
Leave Columbus 5 00 A. M,
Arrive at Columbus 4 55 A. M.
W.L. CLARK,
mar 19 ts Supt. Muscogee R, R.
Through to Montgomery.
NEW SCHEDULE.
MONTGOMERY & WEST POINT
RAILROAD COMPANY.
COLUMBUS. August 27,1864.
ON and after August 27th. the Passenger Train on
the Montgomery and West Point Railroad will
Leave Montgomery at 8:00 a. m.
Leave West Point at 7:10 a. m.
Arrive at Columbus at £-32 p- *“•
Leave . f} f.fu? m*
Arrive at Montgomery at i.W p. m,
Arrive at West Potnt at 4130 p.m.
Freight Train leaves Coiumbus at 8:40 a m.
Arrives ...at 8:27 p m
D. H. CRAM, Sup’t k Eng:
ag271864 —ts
MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD.
( HAVGE OF SCHEDILE.
Girard, Ala., Get 7,1864.
ON and after 10th inst. Trains on this Road will
Run Daily (Sunday excepted.) as follows:
Passenger Train
Leave Girard at....... 1 P\P*
Arrive in Union Springs o 00
Leave Union Springs ...o 3d a. m.
Arrive in Girard at 10 w
Freight Train.
Leave Girard at i W a. m.
Arrive in Girard at 6 00 p. m,
B. E. WELLS,
AglStf Eng. <k Sup’t. v
Owing to the increased price of Provisions, La
bor and other expenses, the Steamboats on the
Chattahoochee River have been compelled to ad
yance their prices for freight and passage to'the fol
lowing rates; , , nn
Passage from Coluinbu3 to Chattahoochee s,o Ch>
From Chattahoochee to Columbus. y—s loo 00
Intermediate landings in proportion.
Freights to any point on Chattahoochee River $4 00
per hundred. Measurement Freight $1 25 per cubic
loot ’ Capt. H. WINGATE, Shamrock.
Capt. DAN FRY, Jackson.
Capt. ABE FRY, Indian.
Capt. JOHN COUCH, Mist-
Card. A. 0. BLACKMAR.MunnerIyn.
feb7--tf
For Exchange or Sale.
t 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. BJ-con,
L ird Wheat, Flour, Fodder, or any other article?
of I’soviiions or Confederate currency, viz:
Bar and Hoop Iron, of all sizes, suitable for plan
tlSuga?Mills and Kettles, of all sizes. from 30 to
120 gallons,
Pots, Ovens and Skillet?,
Fry Pans and Andirons#
Club and Broad Axes,
Shovels and Spades, «- iMa
Trace Chaines and Plough Mould-. *Wnrk
4®- Orders for Castings and Machine «ork
promptly executed. GRAY k CO.
jan o tt u
Notice l
rnupor hpiacanother person of the same name as
1 ('eJßpting the middle name) engaged m
srtais? jau# “ ‘•ffiSP’®
ties will address me, using “/eLIX WINTER.
Rock Island Paper Mills Company.
mar 16 lw
COLUMBUS, GA., TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 21, 1865.
DAILY TIMES.
EVENING KDITION.
MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 19, 1365.
’ Mobile Prepared.
Liar.on. rit the 14th says : ”Our prepara
tions at Mobile are about finished. We are
new able to meet any force Canby can mar
shal to besiege the city. Major Young has
thrown provisions enough in to last at least
six months. Everything else requisite for a
long siege has been sent down by General
Taylor, and now taeshipia ready—let the foe
come on. He should, however, be met and
whipped before he reaches our defenses. Once
there, he will commence digging, and in a
short time will stand behind works as strong
as those thrown up to prevent Johnston from
reaching Pemberton at Vicksburg
We have brains, earthworks, provisions and
men to ho:d the city a long time against a be
sieging army. But the history of all sieges is'
wei. known. Let Canby be met. if possible,
and defeated before he can reach the environs
ot Mobile. Grant was very promptly met be
yond Big 3:ack. ’Twas the place to defend
Vicksburg, and a skillful and popular officer
would have been successful there. Let Mis
sissippi and Alabama rise to defend the key
to the Alabama and Tombibbee rivers aadthe
Mobile and Ohio railway. If Canbv is per
mitted to sit down behind Mobile and dig, we
will experience a great deal of trouble in oust
ing him.
From Wilmington.— Uantia writes from
Augusta, on the 9th, to the Confederacy, that
General Bragg retired from Wilmington, with
the greater portion of our forces, taking his
way along the Wilmington and Weldon rail
road. Tbs enemy, in large force, under Scho*
field, pursued until opportunity offering, our
troops gave hauls, repulsing and inflicting
great loss upon them. The enemv then re*
tired lit the direction of Wilmington.
Hoke 3 brigade was left to defend the rear,
but were in such small force that a large body
of the enemy, when they made an assault on
them, dispersed our forces with severe loss.
A considerable force of our men, left to
guard the defences,, were captured after being
surrounded. The peculiar nature of the exit
at Wilmington, made their safe retreat too
difficult to succeed.
Genera] Forrest, says the Tribune, with his
characteristic energy and dispatch, is rapidly
putting his military house in order. General
Taylor is doing the same thing. If untiring
attention to business in every nook and corner
of the department, and sleepless watchfulness
of the movements of the enemy, can accom
plish safety, the people of this State may rest
secure. But the peopie should come to the
aid ol these leaders and concentrate every en
ergy and every available means of defease and
offense to strengthen their bands for the im
pending conflict.
Artful Dodgers. —“ It is notorious-for it
is shcfwn by the records of the enrolling officer
in Richmond—that there is a large number of
persons in tbi3 city holding details and pro
tections from Mr. Seddon, which are utterly
worthless, so far as there is any legal virtue,
or even any decent pretence in them. It would
be well if some pages of these records could
be officially advertised, so as to exhibit to the
people the various inventions heretofore
sought out to save ‘prominent citizens ’
from Gamp Lee, and to invite public inquiry
into the matter. Notorious speculators have
been exempted in Richmond in connection
with designated public service that has no ex
istence. Auctioneers, who have made their
millions in dirty business, have been sent to
Camp Lee, and have come out of it with an
absolute protection from Mr. Seddon in their
breeches pocket ■ a uJ it is an actual tact that
mere are men in brokers’ shops in Richmond
who have got exemptions to furnish tar for
the navy, (what navy ?) as well as Presidents
of naval companies, who do not have so much
as a canoe afloat, and have been plucked from
Camp Lee as ‘brands from the burning.’”
We very much fear the' foregoing, from the
Examiner, will forcibly apply to other locali
ties than Richmond. Corruption stalk3 thro’
the land so badly that its fruits are apparent
to everyone. Can we have reform?
From Savannah. —A gentleman who left Sa
vannah on Tuesday last, says the Augusta Chron
icle of the 12th reached here to day. He states
that all was ia commotion there in consequence
of the prevalence of a report that Sherman’s left
and centre had been defeated near the border of
North Carolina, and thirty thousand of his army
put hors du combat, la consequence of this, he
was not allowed to bring any letter* or papers
out with him. The excitement was intense
when he left. There were but few’w’aite troops to
the city.
“Loyal Georgians” in New \okk. —Our city,
says the Telegraph and Confederate, has the honor
of having been represented in a recent meeting of
“loyal" Georgians ia the city of New York. H.
Everett Russell, of Macon, Ga., offered a resolu
tion to the effect that “we desire peace in order
that the wandering, houseless, homeiess refugees
may return to iheir homes."
This fellow, Russell, is a Canadian, and obtained
exemption from military service, in this city, by
virtue of being a foreigner, and is, in other respects,
represented as a worthless vagabond.
A venerable legal gentleman of this city, and a
widow lady, who keeps a boarding house, would
doubtless welcome this “homeiess refugee ’ home :
the one that he might pay a certain fee, incurred
in obtaining Bis discharge from military service,
as a foreigner, and the other, that,he might “.oot
certain board bills, which, in the hurry of depar
ture, he neglected to settle. .
A. W. Stone, chairman of the committee, and a
Yankee adventurer, was a practicing lawyer of
Atlanta, anterior to and during the first stages of
the war. He went north early in the contest, un
der the pretext of fitting out a Confederate block
ade runner in Europe, and on the faith of which
enterprise he “took in” certain citizens es Atlanta
to the amount of two hundred thousand dollars—
stock sabscribei to his queen of the seas %
Such axen are fit representatives es heathen
loyal tv to the Northern government.
[From*tbe New York Herald.]
Tile Certainty of our Triumpii,
THE EFFECT OF OUR 3UCCES3 IN SUROPS
The absolute certainly of our success is the
present feature of our military situation. Do
what he may, there is not the least chance
that the enemy can change the result. Every
possibility of the .military situation leads to
the same end—rebel ruin and. national tri
umph. No emancipation of the pieces can
show any other close for the grand game.—
Four developments of the struggle are regar
ded as possible. Lee may stand still, concen
trate on his present position the forces under
Beauregard. Hardee and Bragg, and fight it
out in the last ditch style where he is° He
may concentrate all the forces in North Car
olina at Raleigh, reinforce them with a col
umn from his immediate command, and strike
at Sherman. He fiaay concentrate his three
detached column* at Lynchburg, join them
there and endeavor to prolong the struggle at
that point, embarrassing us by the necessity
of a long line. He may concentrate at Rich
mond, and bide his time foran advance down
the valley. The first development is the most”
probable. Lee is chained to Richmond, as ,
Prometheus was to his rock. Moral and phys- j
leal reasons of the most imperative nature
forbid him to give it up. It is his last arse- 1
nal, his last work shop, his last foundry, and j
it is the last home and hope of hi* cause. He
cannot even risk it to reinforce the troops ia :
front of Sherman; for. it-is bad to leave it, !
it would be worse to lose it by force of arms. 1
But if he stays there to make his final fight,
let him make it as stubbornly as he will, he
must inevitably be beaten, as Grant, Sherman.
Sheridan and Schofield close in on his lines, j
cut off his supplies and overwhelm him with
numbers. This, like all similar operations, is
a question of time, If he concentrates near
Raleigh a force of sixty, eighty or a hundred
thousand men—if he puts his whole-availa- 1
ble farce in front of Sherman—Sherman, re
inforced by Schofield, will beat it as sure as
the sun shines. Many regard this develop
ment as probable, and hold that a largo part
of Lee's army is ia readiness to move for this
purpose. If Lee goes to Lynehburg he in
creases the demoralization 'dUals army and"
exposes himseif to ail the chances of an open
campaign on anew theatre. Fa that cam
paign he will be matched against two of the
greatest masters of strategy that have arisen
in this age, and there will be against him an
overwhelming preponderance of numbers.—
Both raasons are also against a movement
down the valley and against that toward Sher
man. Either would be sufficient. Lee cannot
cope with Grant and Sherman if even he had
equal force. But the disparity of force is in
evitably fatal. The great Napoleon main
tained with the utmost positiveness that,
though chance, audacity or genius might en
able an inferior force to triumph on the field
of battle, it was never so in extended strate
gic operations. In these, in a whole cam
paign, numbers handled with anything like
equal skill will always prevail. We may
with perfect safety accept that opinion as def
inite in the present case^
This absolute certainty of success is due in
the greatest measure to our many recent’tri
umphs. It would haye been premature to
argue 3uch success against all contingencies
before we had taken Wilmington and shutout
the possibility of foreign assistance, or before
it had been demonstrated that Sherman could
sweep across South Carolina as easily as he
did across Georgia. But now it is seen that
there is only Lee to face both our great lead
ers, and Fort Fisher, Wilmington, Charleston,
Brancbville and Columbia are so many pieces
of hand-writing on the wall that tell the ene
my's doom. Those victofies have shown us
the certainty of our triumph; but what will
be their effect in Europe ? What will Napo
leon say to these demonstrations of our pow
er? What will be their effect in England,
where a hostile and venal press has. through
four years, attempted to “ write us down, ”
and insisted upon the foolish absurdity of
supposing that we could succeed? We be
lieve that the result will be hardly less than
revolution in both countries. In France our
victories will announce the doom of that Mex
ican empire that Napoleon is committed to.
and in England they will cause an immense
reaction in public sentimeah Every lie told
against us in the last fouryears will help that
reaction. What a view it will give of popular
government if one so weak as ours has
been pictured can put down a rebellion of
such an unconquerable and powerful people
as Southern sympathizers have declared the
rebels to be? And if such a fighting race
as those Southern men—so numerous, so
spirited, so ably commanded—cannot make
head against our power, who can? These are
the questions that already float in the Euro
pean mind, and that Europe yet cannot an
swer. We shall receive a great deal of civility
from England and France in the next six
months.
How the Devil Lost. —TheTollovying is too
good to be lost. We clip it from an exchange
paper, and respectfully call the attention to
it ofcertain persons who feel disposed to spread
in the newspaper line:
A young man, who actually desired wealth,
was visited byhisStatanic majesty, who temp
ted him to promise his soul for eaternity if he
could be supplied on thi3 earth with all the
money he could use. The bargain was con
cluded : the devil was to supply the money,
and was at last to have the soul, unless the
young man could spend more monejf than the
devil could furnish. Years passed away : the
married man, was extravagant ’in his living,
built palaces, speculated widely, lost and gate
away fortunes, and :'yet his coffers were al
ways full. He turned politician, and bribed
his way to power and fame, without reducing
his pile of gold. He become a filibuster, and
fitted out ships and armies, but his banker
honored all his drafts. He went to St. Paul
to live, and paid the usual rates of interest for
all the money he could borrow; but though
the devil made wry face# when he came to pay
the bill3, yet they were all paid. One expe
dient after another failed : the devil counted
the time—only two years—that he must wait
for the soul, and mocked the efforts of the de
spairing man. One more trial was resolved
upon—the man started a newspaper! The
devil growled at the bill at the end of the firet
quarter, was savage in six months, melanoholy
in nine, and broke, dead broke, at the end of
the year. So the newspaper went down, but
the soul was saved.
Preparing to Evacuate. —The special Cin
cinnati correspondent of the Philadelphia
Bulletin telegraphed as follows to that journal
on the 24th ult:
Advices from below indicate grand prepa
rations for a three fold movement to occupy
Alabama and Mississippi—Thomas, from the
North, with a strong mounted force of infant
ry, from Vicksburg, via Jackson, and Canby
from Pensacola. It is apprehended that if
Lee is cempelled to relinquish Richmond, he
will fall back on Lynchburg, and thence
his way through the mountains, to East Ten
nessee or Kentucky. Efforts are making to
repair the Virginia and Tennessee railroad to
Bristol. It was rumored in'Knoxville last
week that a division of his (Lees) army
had already appeared in East Tennessee.
The expedition now moving from Knoxville is
to defeat this movement, and by again des
troying the railroad render the transfer of
Lee s army west of the mountains impossible.
Set Lovesood's Expfriencf with So-d-y
P-o n-d-e-r-s,
Sut related the story thus : ‘‘George, did you
ever see Sicily Burns ? Her dad lives at the
Ratii Snaik Springs, to the Georgy line.
,l Yes. a very handsome girl. “Handsome!
that wurd don’t kiver the .use : it sounds like
callin' good whiskey water, when ye are at
Big Spring, and the still house ;en miles off.
an’ ifit a rainin’, and ver flask only half full.
She shows amung wimen like a sun slower as
compared to dog fennel an' smart weed and
jimsen. But tkar aint no use tryin' to describe
her. Couldn't crawl thru a whisky barrel with
both heads stovS out, if it wur hilt study for
her, an good foot*hold at that. She weighs
just two hundred and twenty-six pounds, an'
stands sixteen hands*high. She never got in
an arm cheer in her’life, an' you can lock the
top hoep of a churn ur a big dog collar round
her waist. Tve seed her jump over the top of
a split-bottom cheer, an never show her ankils
or catch her dress onto it. She kerried devil
enuf about her to fill a four hoss waggin bed,
with a skin as white as the inside of a frog
stool. cheeks an' lips as red as a pearche's gills
in dogwood blossom time ; an sieh a smile !
Oh, Ibe dratted if it is eny use talkin'. That
gal cud make sue murder old Bishop Soul his
seir* or kill mam. not to speak of dad, es she
jist hinted that she wanted sick a thing dun.
Well, to tell it at onst, she war a gal all over,
from the pint of her toe naiG tu the longest
bar on the hiest knob ov her hed—gal all the
time, everywhsre—and that ov the cxcitinist
kind. Ov course I leaned up to her as close
as I dar tu, an’ in spite of long legs, appetite
fur whisky, my shurt scrape, and dad’s actin'
hoss, she sorter leaned tu me, au' I was begin
nin’ to think I wur jist the greatest and com
fortabiist man on yearth, not exceptin' Old
Buck or Brigham Young, with all his radii
cullered, wrinkled whnmin, cradels full of
babies, an' his Big Salt Lake thrown in. Well,
wun day a cussed, deceivin’, palaverin’, stiukin’
Yankee peddler, all jack-knife an jaw. cum to
ole man Burnses, with a load ov apple parins,
callicker. ribbins, jewsharps. an 1 s o-d-y p-o-w
--d-e.- s. Now, mind, Id never hern tell of that
truck afore, an’-l be darned es I don’t want it
tq bc tlm last—wus nor rifle powder—wus nor
perkussion—three times as smart, and hurts
wus, heap was. Dura him. Durn all Yankee
peddlers, and durn their principils and prac
tissij, I say. I wish I had all the sody powder
they ever made in his cussed paunch, an’ a
slow match fixed tu him, an’ I had a chunk ov
fire, the feller what found a peace ov him big*
enuf to feed a cockroach ought to be King ov
the Sultun’s harem a thousand years for his
luck. They aint human, no how. The mint at
Filadelfv is thar Heaven: they think their God
eats half dimes fur breakfast, hashes the leav
ins fur dinner, and swallers a cent an’ a dried
appil for supper, seis on a stampin’ machine
fur a throne, sleaps on a crib full of half dol
lars, and measures men like money, by count.
They liaint one ov them got a soal but what
kud dance a jig in a kabbage seed, and leave
room fur the fiddler.
“Well, Sicily she bought a tin box oy the
sody frora him, an' hid it away from her folks,
a savin it for me. I happen to pass next day;
ov cours I stopped to enjoy a look at the
tempter, an she wur mity luvin to me—put
wun arm around my neck an’ tother wuu whar
the circingle goes round a hoss, tuk the inturn
on »ae with her left foot,’ and give me a kiss.
Says she, ‘Sutty, love, I’ve got somethin’ fur
ye, anew seushasun’ —an’ I believed it, fur I
begun tu feel it ail ready. My tofts felt like
little rainners wur a nibblin at ’em—a cold
streak run up and down my back like a lizzard
with a turkey hen after him in settin’ time—
my heart felt hot and onsatisfied like, an’ then
I’d a cut ole Soul’s throat, if she’d hinted at
needsissity fur sich an operaslmn. Then she
poured ten or twelve blue papers ov the sody
inter a big tumbler, and about the same num
ber ov white wuns inter tuther tumbler, an ;
put nigh onto a pint ov water on both of them,
an' stirred ’em both up with a case knife,
looking as solemn as a ole jackass in a snow
storm, when the fodders all gin out. She
hilt wun while she told me to drink tuther. I
swallowed it at wun run—tasted salty like, I
thot it wur part of the sensashun. But 1 wur
mistaken, all ov the cussed infernal sensashun
wur tu cum, and it wurn’t long at it, hoss,
you'd believe me. Then she gin me tother
tumbler, and I sent it after the fust, race-hoss
fashion.
“In about wun moment an half I thot I’d
swallered a thrashin machine in full blast, ur a
cupple uv bull dogs, and they had sot inter
fitin. I seed that I wur cotched agin—same
family dispersition to make cussed fools ov
themselves every chance—so I broke for my
hoss. I stole a look back, and thar Sicily lay
on her back in the porch, a screemin with laf
fin, her heels up in the air, a kickin ov ’em
together like she wur a tryin tu kick her slip
pers off'. But 1 had no time tu look then, and
thar wur a of foam from the hous tu the
hoss two foot wide and four inches deep—
looked like it had been snowin—poppin, an a
hissen, an a bilin, like a tub of hot soap suds.
I lied gethered a cherry limb as I run, an I lit
asstraddle ov my hoss, a whippin an a kickin
like mad. This, with the scarey noises I made,
(fur I wur a whistliu, an a hissiq, an a sput
terin, outer mouth, nose an eyes, like a steam
engine,) sot him a rearin and cavortin like he
was skeered out of his senses. Well, he went.
The foam rolled, and the ole black hoss flew.
He just mizzled—scared ni tu death, and so
wur I. So we agreed on the pint ov the great
est distance in the smallest time.
“I aimed for Doctor Goodman’s at the Hiwa3-
see Copper Mines, tu get somethin to stop the
exploshun in my inarch?.. I met a sercuit rider
on his travels towords a fried chicken an a hat
full of ball biskits. As I cum a tarin along he
hilt up his hands like he wanted to pray for
me; but as I preferred physic tu prayer, in my
pecooliar situwashun at that time, I jist rolled
along. He tuck a skear as I cum ni on tu
him, his faith gin out, an he dodged hoss, sad
dilbags, an overcoat, inter a thicket jist like
you've seed a terkil take water often a log
when a tarin big steamboat cums along. As
h‘e passed ole man Burns, Sicily hailed him
and axed him if he’d met any body in a hurry
gwine up the road. The poor man thought
perhaps he did and perhaps he didn’t, but he
seed a 3ite uv a spook, ur a ghost, uv ole Beel
zebub himself, ur the komit, he didn't adzactly
know which; but takin all things tugether, an
the short time he’d for prepara3hun, he thought
he met a crazy, long-legged, shakin Quaker, a 1
fleein from the wrath tu cum, on a black an
white spotted h 033, a whippin ov him with big
brush, an bed a white beard what cum from
ni unto his eye3 to the pummil ov the saddil,
and then forked an wAt to his knees, an then
drapped*in bunches as big as a crow’s nest tu 1
the ground, an hearn a sound like a rushin ov
mity waters, and he war mitily exercised about
it enyhow. Well, I guess he wur, and so wur
hi3 fat hoss, an war old blackey; wuat exer- i
cised ov all ov'em wur I myself. Now. George,
all this beard and spots on the hoss, an steam,
an fire, an show, an wire tails, is oudacions
humbug. It all cum outen my inards, drop
pin out of my mouth without any vomitin ur
effort, and es it hadn’t I'd a busted into more
pieces than thar is aigs in a big catfish. —
The Lovegoods are all confounded fools, and j
dad aint the wuat or em.
Thanes. —Our old friend, Burg«3e, of Cook’s
Hotel, Columbus, will please accept our thank®
forii3 many kind attentions to ur, ia a recent
visit to tnat city. Persons going to Columbus
would do well to stop at Cook s Hotel. The
fare i» second to none in the South : their
clerks are gentlemanly and accomodating, and
their servants polite and attentive. — T-'—jrapk rf*
tj-/n.fe4*rate.
t OXE MONTH, - - $10.60
i tnii. | THREE MONTH*, $30.00
Notice!
Macon, Ga., March 16, 1865.
The following Order: v.aye been received from
‘‘Headquarters Military Division of the West:”
For the purpose of collecting and providing for
the prompt restoration to their several Regiment*.
Battalions or Companies all |absentees from Lee's,
Stewart’s and Cheatham’s corps, the folio*ing
measures will be taken without delay ;
"1. Brig. General Mackall. p . A. C. S., ia addi
tion to his other duties, is specially charged with the
general supervision of the service involved—his
Headquarters being at Maoon, Georgia,—and he will
take ail practical stops to recall to their colors all
who are absent from any oiler cause than actual
disability for field service, or on properly granted
furloughs. To this end he will establish camps at
Oolumous. Atlanta, Albany, Macon and Augusta,
Georgia; Montgomery. -Selma and Mobile, Alaba
ma; and at Jackson, Maoon and Columbus, Missis
sippi; and such other points es may be found expe
dient, to which absentees living in the vicinities re
spectively shall be required to repair and report,
and to which will be sent all those who maybe col
lected by neighboring Unrolling Officers, who will
be called on to give assistance under the regulation;
of the conscript Bureau. Ho will also require all
officers and men to repair tg the nearest rendezvous
appointed who may be absent by any authority less
than that of these Headquarters or of the Comman
der of the Department of Alabama, Mississippi and
East Louisianna; in which case he will make n re
quisition for such absentees upon that Commander,
to whom he will communicate a copy of these or
ders, with a request for tfie necessary orders to ena
ble him to execute his duties within the limits of
thatloommand
‘‘2. AU officers and men collected at the several
rendezvous established under these orders South
and West of Alabama, will bo con
centrated as soon as practicable at that place, anl
those brought together in Georgia will be assem
bled at Augusta. ’ *
$ $ * * f
1. In obedience to the above order, Maj. E. D
Willett. 40th Alabama Regiment,‘has been directed
to take command of the Rendezvous at Montgome
ry, Alabama, to which place all officers who havo
already been sent to collect absentees belonging to
the three corps in Tennessee, Mississippi and Ala
bama, will send them in squads of ten or twenty,
the number to depend upon the facility of transpor
tation from the* centre of their field of operations,
and the practicability of subsisting them at the point
of assembly.
2. Camps of Rendezvous will be established a;
early 'as practicable at the following points, vis:
Columbus, Atlanta, Albany, Macon and Augusta,
Georgia; Montgomery, Selina and Mobile, Alaba
ma, arid at Jackson, Macon and Columbus,‘| Missis
sippi. The officers and men collected in them wi!|
be forwarded, those reporting in Alabama and Mis
sissippi to Montgomery; those in Georgia to Augus
ta or Macon. Until these camps are established
officers and men will report to the nearest Post Com
manders or Enrolling Officers, who are requested to
forward them as above directed.
3. The officers on duty under these orders will
make a weekly report of the absentees collected,
giving name, company, regiment and brigade, the
time at which they report and the place to which
sent. The commenders of the Rendezvous at Mont
gomery and Augusta will make a weekly .report es
the officers and men received during tne week, and
the sciengLoVtUke camp at date of report.
4. Post Commanders are requested to direc t their
Quartermasters and Commissaries to give all neces -
sary supplies called for by officers engaged on this
duty within the limits of ther commands.
5. I am informed that the officers sent to me for
this duty have been selected for their special fitaes.)*
It is, thereforo, not necessary to urge upon them de
votion to tho service and earnestness in their en
deavors to assist in. bringing their old comrades
back to their colors, bat us the very nature of their
service sends them to the vicinity of their homes I
may warn them of the danger of allowing them
selves to lose one day in the enjoyment of tqrno,
which should bo devoted to fil'ing the ranks, by
which homes are to be defended.
6. AU officers and men returning are urged to
bring in their arms, or any arms they may find in
the country. They will the sooner bo enabled to
join their colors. W. W. MACKALL.
Brig. Genera!.
N. B,—All papers in Georgia, Alabama and Mis
sissippi, are requested to copy for six consecutivo
weeks ; those in Ga., will send their account to
Post Q. M. at Macon, those in Ala., to Post Q. M.
in Montgomery, and those in Miss., to Post Q. M. in
Columbus for payment. W. W. M.
mar 20 6w
By Ellis, Livingston <& CM.
ON TUESDAY, 21st inst., at 11 o cloak, we
will sell in front of our store.
2 Sacks N..0. Sugar, splendid article,
9 u Jlice,
Lot Sole Leather,
1 Case Shoes,
Lot Ready Made Clothing,
Household and Kitchen Furniture,
Feather Beds and Mattrasscs,
Gold- and Silver Watehe? with other Jew
elry, and many other verv valuable
goods.
mar 20 $24
For Chattahoochee
’ The Indian, A. Frt, Master, will leave for the
above and intermediate landings, Tuesday mora'.ag,
at 9 o’clock,
mar 20 td
FOR CHATTAHOOCHEE AND RAIN BRIDGE.
The Steamer Shamrock, H. Wingate, master, will
leave for the above and intermediate landings,
Wednesday morning at 9 o’clock,
mar 20 td
GOODS
EXCHANGED FOR BONES,
AT THH
C-JRAIfT FACTOR*.
march 12 ts
~ I RON
Exchanged for Country Produce,
AT THE
GRANT FACTORY.
march 12 ts
CITY FOUNDRY:
S6O.tR MILLS AND KETTLES !
'WE HAVE OF HAND
Sugar Hills and Kettles,
holding 20,35, 40, 60, 80 and 130 gallons, whica «►*
will exchange for Provisions or any kind of oon"Ki**ti
Produce, or money on very liberal terms.
solicited. PORTER, McILHENNY k
Columbus, Jan. 20, ts
Fost, SIOOO Reward ! I !
A SILVER Wire-Linked PURSE, lost on nigh 1
of the fire at residence of Mr. Beach. Also a
geld BREASTPIN, forming Square and Commas?,
with three links of Odd Fellowship, set with ’x-a
monds; obo set out.
Above reward will be paid to finder. Apply at
office of JOHN D. GRAY Jc CO ,
mar 18 7t next New Bridge.
For Sale.
on BUSHELS ONION BUTTONS, at 34Br,id
Z\) street. N. P. NAIL i CO.
mar 17 lw
For Sale.
A HOUSE and LOT, on west side of Oglethorpe
street, opposite the Sword Factory. It is suita
ble for a store and a family. Possession riven the
first of April. Apply to
A. G. FOSTER.
mar 18 6t* Present Tenant.
Varnish Wanted.
YI r E DESIRE to purchase a quantity of Copal
V» VARNISH. Parties having the article for
sale will please address us, stating quantity, quality
and price- -JEFFERSON Sc HAMILTON,
mar 18 6t
Sun and Enquirer *»py.