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DAILY I'IMES.
J. W. fniIRGY, - - - Editor.
GQLUMBUS:
Tuesday J!srning, March 21, 1865.
ladies’ Meeting,
We are requested to give notice that the
meeting of the ladies of Columbus and vicini
ty which was advertised to.take place at Bt.
Luke’s church At 11 o’clock a. m. yesterday,
hag be'ra adjourned till to-morrow morning
at the same hour at Temperance Hall. Maj. R.J.
Mosps h is consented to address the meeting.
The Uoveniorsiiip,
• Bome of our exchaOj.es, and their corres
pondents. are considering the question, who
shall be Hie next incumbent of the gubernato
rial office in this Slate. Our neighbor of the
Enquirer, and one o! its correspondents, m?-
gest the name of General Henry L. Henning,
while the Albany Patriot and a correspondent
of the Macon Teiegre;, 1 & r \ *:f • Uraie present
the name oi General Alfred H. Go.quit;.
Either or these geritletaen possesses, iu an
eminent degree, the requisite talent-, energy
and patriotism that should characterize the
Executive officer of a great .State. Each of
them has. by his sword, established hiscla'm
to whatever position of honor and dignity
Georgian's may have to bestow. We learn.
not exactly bv authority, but from some of
the friends of Governor Brown, that be has no
desire to continue another terra in that posi
tion. It is difficult to iipngine, indeed, how
he could feel otherwise. Eight consecutive
years of active official life—five of them spent
during the most tenibje war iu the annals of
modern times—begirt with liarrassing cares,
and beset wkh the most irritating questions,
were enough, it seems to us, to wear cut the
patience and the life of any man, and cause
him to desire rest. It is quite natural that
Governor Brown should desire to see his ad
ministration sustained in the policy of his
successor, and that he should, therefore, feel
much interest in the coming election ; but he
should remember that his official* acts will
soou pass into the domain of and.that
the verdict which the historian may render
will be but little affected by the judgment of
to-day. If it be his pleasure to retire, as we
understand it is, we hope we can promise him
that his successor, who ere he be, will make
no war on his administration —not indeed that
he will approve everything the Governor .has
done, but that be will “ let the past be past, ”
and will consider it nbt an unworthy office to
strive to allay the bickerings and heart-burn
ings which past controversies have engen
dered The achievement of 3uch a result
and the consequent uuioiy- u tdl hearts and
hands in working out our independence would
be eqifal to an important victory in the field.
The Secretary of the Treasury, says the
Clarion, will need for the year 1806 the sum
of $1,056,000,000. To meet this the majority
of the Finance Committee have reported the
following scheme of taxation and estimates of
receipts from ether sources : Ten per cent.
Lax on three billious oi property, supposed
now to be held in the Confederate States
within reach of assessors and collectors,
$300,000,000. Taxes on incomes, trades,pro
fessions, <fec., including specific taxes, $150,-
000,000. To be paid in currency and- certifi
cates of indebtedness, $450,000,000. Value
to the Government of the tax in kind, credit
for which to be repealed, $140,000,000. This
foots up $590,000,000, leaving a deficit of
$466,000,000, which it is proposed to supply
from the following sources : From a sale of
six per cent, untaxable bonds, loans on call
certificates and use of deposits, on new offices
of deposits to be created by law, and from
sales of cotton on hand owned by the Govern
ment, tor specie or foreign bills. Congress
should not hesitate about this scheme, or any
other that will meet the demands of the times.
Heavy taxation is the only thing that will
keep our currency up at all. We must push
forward with energy and vigor, calling for
and using all the resources of the* country,
until the power of Lincoln and bis rapacious
pack is broken, and peace and independence
are proclaimed. Thus, far our people have
assumed their burdens with alacrity and
borne them cheerfully. They have responded
with promptitude to every demand made upon
them, and Congress has only to say what is
necessam for the consummation of the great
triumph and they will willingly contribute it.
From Tennessee.
We have conversed with an old frieud and
citizen of Winchester, Tennessee, says the
West Point Enterprise, who lett that place the
24th of last month. He gives us a great deal
of local news as to the treatment of the people
by the Yank ess. He says the negro has be
come an eyesore to the federals, and in many
instances is sent back to masters, the Yankees
not knowing what to do with them. Out of
2800 negroes stationed at Nashville 1900 have
died. When a surgeon was asked why the
mortality among them was so great, he re
plied that fresh beef and hard tack was sure
to bring about chronic diarrhea, and it
nearly always fatal. He wished to God they
were all dead.
The mountains in Tennessee are full of
Banditti, who rob and slay indiscriminately
all travelers.
The Yankee authorities are taking steps to
confiscate the property of all persons who
have fled the country. One Horace Harrison,
of Warren county, is confiscating agent for
middle Tennessee.
Mr. R. C. Smith, one of the first citizens of
Franklin county —a man of wealth and high
character —was taken out lately from his
house by some Yankees, and hanged till he
was dead. The charge against hire was that
he had given food and shelter to rebel spies at
his house. Mr. Smith was a personal friend
of the writer of this article, and many Tennes
seeans in exile will be pained to hear of his
cold-blooded murder by the Yankee fiends.
Two or three men in the county ot Franklin '
who deserted the Confederate armies and re
turned to their homes are the scorn ot our
citizens who are still as defiant as ever to
Lincoln tyranny, but they cannot speak their
sentiments, as Yankee detectives are on every
hand to report.auy one preparatory to confis
cating his property if he have any. lie says
the Yankee convention at Nashville was not
attended by a single man from Franklin coun
ty, in which he lives. It was a gathering of
traitors and Yankees. Prayers were offered
daily for the success of our arms by thousands
> r mott!'nth era and slat®"*, whose dear
cme; are :.. the Confederate armies, or have
' died in defense of the South. There-was
much grief at the-defeat of Hood, but their
hopes of our ultimate independence are not
blasted.
The Prbss Reports.—A few days since
we atated at the end of a telegraphic dispatch
which offered advice as to the course to be
pursued by the newspapers of the South, that
when the pre33 desired the opinion ot one of
their reporters they would ask for it. Our
view of the matter has been endorsed oy many
of our exchanges. The reporter, who corres
ponds with our neighbor of the Confederacy,
under the signature ot ‘‘Caatin," takes um-
nrage u our remark. We said nothing as to
the soundness or unsoundness of his views,
but we di i and do still assert that the tele
graphic news reports are not the proper place
for the porter to give bis personal views on
any subject. If the right of a reporter to
give his opinions in his dispatches, be once
conceded, we shall soon have our telegrams
composed of speculations instead or facts.—
The lor-'going remarks, from the Telegraph,
veil, be universally approved fit the press.
Xh3 loading powers of Europe—those within the
vale of civilization—have lately been endeavoring
to lesser, the horrors yf war. Last year aa In eri
national Congress sat in Geneva, Switzerland for
this purpose.
Ten resolutions were adopted which have been
adopted by France, England, Spain, Italy, Prus
sia, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzer
land, ftemark, Wurtetnburg, Baden and Hesse.
According to the articles adopted by these
ambulances and military hospitals are regarded
as neutral s«* long as they contain sick and wound
ed . and the employees of the hospitals while at
tending wounded, enjoy the benefits of this neu-.
trality, *
Inhabitants of the country who give help to the
wounded are respected and remain free. Ar.v
wounded man taken into a house will be its safe
guard. The wounded and sick are taken care of,
no matter to what nation they belong. The com
manders in chief have the power to hand over to
the enemy’s outposts the wounded during the
combat, when circumstances permit it and with
tho consent of both parties. $
A distinct flag and uniform for ambulances and
hospitals will be used, to be accompanied always
by the national flag. A badge may also be used
to denote a neutral. The badge and flag will bear
a rod on a white ground. The adoption of these
rules is commendable. Humanity demands such
action everywhere.
Military Detectives. —Few of our readers,
says the Chattanooga Rebel, are probably aware
that there is such an institution, (for he is an in
stitutiou,) as the Military Detective. He occupies
the same relative position to the Commanding
General in the army, that the spy does to him out
of it. He in usually unknown in the capacity he
occupies, except to his official superior ; he dresses
in citizen’s clothes, travels upon railroads and
steamboats, and ioafs about hotels with no appa
ront or ostensible object, but is at the same time
wherever observing some official, or investigating
EOine unofficial’s right to the position iu which he
finds him, whether in or out of the army. He re
ports whs', ho i - i.rs aid sees. an l many an officer
using go.7«fcn;twnr, funds ia his private business or
employing hi.- oMdai facilities to subserve indi
vidual interests, has found himself up-tripped and
exposed, without having the slightest idea of the
manner in which v, was done.
Gen. ha- organised in this department
an efficient carps i.f these very useful agents, and
their ary us eyes penetrate to every place of offi
cial i’ospo.is'biiity. Those he had operating in
this portion of the country seem to nave been pe
culiarly vigilant and shrewd, and have succeeded
iu developing some important cases of malfeasance
in office.
Tkalaet that such a system of espionage exists,
is in itself a very important advantage, for the
reason that'the knowledge of it restrains many
who would otherwise be tempted to neglect or
evade their duty or to misuse the power and la
cilities in their hands.
“Look upon This Picture and then upon
That!” —We publish this morning, to the exclu
sion of ahpost everything else, the message of
Gov. Brown and the speech of Gea. Cobb. We
publish the speech as an antidote to the bane of
tho message. The one is carping, fault-tinding,
and well calculated to dispirit the people : the
other is buoyant, hopeful and defiant. The mes
sage says the night is dark, the tempest howls,
and the helmsman is carrying us all to Old Harry;
in the midst of the roar of battle and the bowiing
tempest, the voices of such men as Cobb and
Toombs are heard, clear and distinct, crying, “On
with the Revolution !” “Never give up the ship !”
So say we. at
The above is the outspoken opinion of the
i (Southern Banner of Athens.
Below, we give the* opinion of the Southern
Watchman, of the same place, whose editor, iu
spite of bis dislike to the President and measures
of the government, and his effort to iike Governor
Brown, finds it impossible to swallow the nausea
ting dose served up in the message :
We publish this document at full length this
week. While we agree with the Governor in
much that he says, aud do not fora moment ques
tion his patriotism, we cannot perceive the ueces
sity for calling a State convention just at this
time. It may and probably will become necessary
to do so in future. All the people want now, is (to
borrow the language of a distinguished statesman)
to “keep the revolution on the right track.” Our
authorities sometimes manifest a desire to “switch
off.” This must be guarded against, and to do so
successfully, it may become necessary to call a
State convention. In the meanwhile, “on with the
revolution 1”
The Territory We Hold. —The following
extract is from a recent speech of Gov. W atts, at
Montgomery :
We hold more territory now thau we did twelve
months ngo. [Voice, “Oh, no!”] Did I hear
some croaker say it is not true ? [\ ociierous ap
plause.] Gov. W. then instituted a comparison
between the territory held by the Yankees a year
ago, that hold now. He showed that ia the Trans-
Mississippi they held absolutely little or no terri
tory, beyond a few garrisons at the mouth of the
Rio Grande, in Texas, in the towns on the Missis
sippi, and the city of Little Rock. They held
much more of Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas, a
year ago. It is true Georgia has been overrun,
yet she is sounder in republican faith than she
was twelve months ago, and the Yankees hold less
of her territory than they then held. South Caro
lina has likewise been overrun, but if she is not
forgetful of her Sumpter and other revolutionary
sires, she will come out of the lire as gold that is
I purified. Ihc Yankees may overrun and devas
j tate the country but they cannot even garrison
' and hold it. .
Four years ago, our condition for carrying on
the war, compared with that of the Yankees, wa3
less favorable than it is now. Then we had no
treasury. The Secretiitv of the Treasury had :o
borrow money from the Coo:rat Bunk in this city
to buy the very paper that he wrote upon. Now
we are driven to no such starts. Then we had
scarcely any arnrs or ammunition. Now 50 000
arms per year are manufactured by our armories,
and we have plenty of p- w ter. The Government
has, through its bonded'agriculturists and tithing
system, more commissary stores than ever before.
And quartermaster stores, scarce at first, are pro
vided in abundance.
The Confederacy says it is able to contradict posi
tively, tu item of n® about Savannah, which
Ciunes through \ uni. o sources. The Yankee cot
ton buyers and rccru.ting agents have not spread
out as far us me Aituni.tii.; iirey are close around
the city. Our pickets are up to the ugeecbee on the
west, and close on the north Tajs is positive. We
haveYo doubt the report of large negro enlistments
is equally :ak-;.
The Conscript Bill.
Tue toiiowiug bul “to regulate the banner
of conscription’ has passed both Houses of
Congress :
Tae Congress of tii 4-Con federate States of
America do enact. That for the purpose of
conducting the business of conscription, there
shal! be assigned to each State by the Presi
dent, a general officer, who gbal! report co
the Secretary of War through an assistant ad
jutant general to be assigned in the office of
the adjutant and inspector general, to the
duty of receiving returns and reports and is
suing all orders in relation to conscription.
Sec. 2. Ail application for exemption -tod
detail, except as hereinaiter provided, shall
be decided by the geuer.il officers having
charge of the business ofwioasflrtption in the
several States. Appeals may been takeu
from their decisions to tho Secretary of War,
bat during the pendency of such ippe iis the
applicants sba.il De liable to military service
Sec. There shall be assigned from the
invalid corps, or from officers certified by the
proper .aedloui boards to be unfit for active
service iu the field, a sufficient lumber of
enrolling officer®, who snail report, to and be
under Hie immediate direction and control of
in- general offi ers conducting the buuine3«
of conscription i:t toe several states.
tree. 4. A.i onaoripts sa-.ill he examined
by the medical boards or the army, after join
tog toe commands in the fields to which they
may be respectively assigned, and every dis
charge granted by an army medical board
-siiF.il be final, and snail relieve the party from
a., military set ice iu the future, when the
disability Is permanent, and the cause of it is'
set forth in toe lischarge.
■Sec. 5. If any conscript shall furnish to me
enrolling office; of his county a certificate, un
der oath. frou. a respectable, physician or
from arty army surgeon, that aa is uhaoie to
travel to the command to which he may bo
assigned without, serious prejudice to his
health, a furlough shall be granted him until
the next meeting ot the medical board, here
inafter provided for.
Sec. 6. There shall be assigned to each -
Congressional district a medical board, con
sisting of three army surgeons, who after due
notice of the time and place of their meeting,
shall visit each county or the district at least
once in two months, and shall examine for
discharge or recommendation for light duty,
all conscripts who have beeu furloughed un
der the provisions ot the preceding section.—
Evert discharge granted by the said medical
board shall be final, and 3haii relieve the par
ty from all military service in the
when the disability is permanent, and the
cause of it is set forth tn this certificate.
See. 7. It shall b.a the duty or ail officers
and others employee in the military service
of the Confederate States, and not actually
in the field, nor attached to any army in the
field, including quartermasters and commis
saries, commanders of posts, provost marshals,
officers of the ordnance, nitre and miuing and
medical bureaus, and others, to make certi
fied monthly returns to the nearest conscript
officer, of the names, ages and physical con
dition of all persons employed in the service,
which returns shall be forwarded to the gen
eral officers controlling conscription in the
State. ..
Sec. 8. For the enforcement of the duties
imposed by this act, upon the general officers
controlling conscription in the several States
such detachments of the reserve forces as they
may deem necessary, shall be placed at their
disposal.
Sec. 9. la order to , secure the production
of grata ana piovisioas necessary for tae use
of the army and the families of soldiers, such
overseers, farmers or planters as were not en
rolled in the military service on the tin day
of February, 1864, and who will be mors use
ful iu the country in the pursuits of agrieui
ture than in the military service shall be de
tailed upon the erras to be prescribed by the
Secretary of War under the direction of the
President. Andean order to ascertain what
persons should oe detailed under i his act. for
the purpose aforesaid, mere shall be appoint
ed by the President ia each county, district, or
parish, an agricuitara. board, consisting of
three farmers or planters over tne age of for
ty five years, to whom shall be addressed ev
ery application for the detail of—- over
seer, iqriaer or pmuter ia their respective
counties, districts or parishes, and whose
duty it shall.be to enquire and report upon
the merits of each application.
And if a majority of said board shall ap«
prove the same, uiey shall forward it, togefu
er with the reasons of .their approval, to the
genera] officer controlling conscription in the
State, and if he approve such application, the
detail snail be allowed. If the general offi
cer of conscription snail disapprove such ap
plication, the applicant shall have the right
to appeal to the Secretary of War, and if the
1 said board shall disapprove such application,
j their decision shall be final, and no right of
| appeal shall ex As
j Sec. 10. The bureau of conscription the
| camps of instruction, and the office of corn
j mandant of conscripts, are hereby abolished,
j and ail rales and regulations of the War De
j partment, inconsistent with this act. are here
by repealed.
A Raid in East Florida. —We learn, says the
Quincy Dispatch of the 15th, that on Friday last,
Captain Dickinson, then at Waldo with his com
mand, received information that a cavalry force of
the enemy, numbering2oo men, had come out from
Sr. Auguotinc, luarotte.d South to Voluisa, and there
crossed the St Johns river. They took tno precau
tion to burn the bridge over Oclawaha river, and
proceeded to burn, destroy and plunder. One large
plantation near Ocala was stripped of slaves, horses,
mules, cattle, Ac;, and then all the buildings were
consigned to the flames.
Immediately upon receipt of this intelligence,
Capt. Dickison started with his command, and on
reaching the Oclawaha river, found that the bridge
had been burned. He could not reach the enemy
in that direction, and was forced to turn eastward
and strike the St. Johns river at Horse Landing.—
Here it is supposed he crossed, but we have no far
ther accounts from him. If the enemy has not
moved very rapidly, Capt. D. has probably got be
| tween him and St. Augustine, and we may expect
i to hear of a brisk fight: as the Yankee cavalry is a
! body of new troeps just sent down, and supposed to
j be about the best they have got.
Deserters Caught, Tried and Shot.—Mo3t
of the desertei’3 who attempted to destroy the
Railroad Bridgo over the Aucilla river on Sat
urday last, have been caught, tried and were
probably shot at Tallahassee last evening.—
Their crimes have been numerous and damn
ing, and their punishment as swift as it was
righteous.
As soon as the attempt on the bridge was
discovered** our authorities were on their
track. Two were killed near the bridge at
j the start. Os the three others captured, two
j were run down by dogs. One of these is Mar
gin, a notorious character, who has committed
! all sorts of depredations, and was much feared
iby the people of that section. The other was
j Strickland, a’Captain among the deserters,
! and formerly an overseer on the Railroad, who
had also made himself vera obnoxious. The
name of the third is not known to us. Such
1 speedy and wholesome treatment of these des
perate characters will drive their associates
j out of the country or induce them to take ret
uge under Gen. Lee's amnesty Proclamation.
\tyuincp Dispatch, lath.
Thk True Ring.— The’ merry voices of the !
gallant Mississippians, rvinging through our
street? lute on yesterday aiter/roon. snjs the
Constitutionalist, ot the 17th. was decidedly
cheering. We trust 4 it made the gold, and
other sharpers, inwardly groan, as it must have
made every loyal Confederate rejoice. These
men have every one been furloughed since the
return of Hood from the late Tennessee cam
paign, but now. like true and glorious vete
ran?, as they are. report promptly for dut*
five hundred miles from their State. It mttae
us fed proud of our bit th State, to see her
gallant sons, veterans of the old brigades of
Walthai and Chalmers, march so cheerily
through our streets. The Army of tse ren
: nessee is hastilv clus'- rimr aroun .1 taeir old
. v» A *
| TELEGRAPHIC.
! % REPORTS or TH & PRBSS A.3SOCI ATIOIT.
Watered according to act of Congress in tho year
1863, by J. S. Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office ot
fru District Court of the Confederate States for
cha Northern District of Georiria.
S-snatobia. March 13.—Memphis papers ot
tho 16th. with Richmond dates to the 10th,
received. A dispatch from Gea. Lee to the
Secretary of War. says Gea. Ham pton attacked
Kilpatrick on the 10th, drove him from hi 3
camp, taking his guns, wagons and , severa;
hundred prisoners including a number of our
men who had been captured. The Yankees
claim that Gen. Bragg was repulsed nea,,
Kingston, N.. C. • *
The New York Express says Yankee iron
clads will be distributed along the c-oust in
defense of harbors where the rebel rams, re
cently started from Europe, will be most like
ly to appear. The Haraid’s New Orleans cor
respondent says that Treasury agents are ad
vertising abandoned plantations, and the pro
babilities are few will be worked this year.—
Nearly all persons who worked them last year
were ruined and the business is considered
very precarious.
The bill to put negro -soldiers into the army
passed both houses of the Confederate Con
gress. with a provision that not more than 25
per cent, of the mail slaves between the ages
of 13 and 45 in any State shall be call ed on
By the provisions of the act the President is
authorized-to ask tor and accept from the
owners or slaves the services of such number
of able bodied men as he may deem expedient
sos and during the war, to perform military
service in whatever capacity he may direct.
Should a sufficient number not be tendered,
the President is then required to call on all
States for their quotas of 300,000 men.
At the latest dates Sheridan was at Colum
bia, Va. The Examiner of the I3th says the
accounts show that Lynchburg is safe:
The Mdmphis Bulletin of the 14th says that
forty of the 3d Missouri cavalry were ambu
scaded by guerrillas, near Clear Lake, Ark.,
and all killed, wounded and captured.
The Richmond Dispatch says but two thou
sand pounds of tobacco were captured at
Fredericksburg, and have been sold to the U.
S. Government.
The Chattanooga Gazette says the Circuit
Court at Knoxyilie awarded Brownlnw <ji;2S,ooo
damages for imprisonment and per by
the rebels—the sum to be raised from the pro
perty of J. 0. Ramsey, Sneed, and others.
- The same Court gave a verdict of forty thou
sand dollars, in favor of the heirs of Senator
Pickens, who died in prison, at Tuscaloosa, in
1862.
The New Orleans Picayune of the fcth says
Maj. Gen. Bankhead was captured at Rodney,
Miss . by a detachment from gunboats, and
sent to New Orleans.
The amount of goods allowed to be shipped
to Memphis has.beenffinereased from two mil
lions dollars worth to four millions, per month.
Yankee officers are said to have gone to
Mexico to take a position in the army.
There is a great freshet iu the Cumberland.
200 houses in Nashville are untenable.
The Examiner of the 9tli says 1500 Federal
are reported at Suffolk, supposed for the pur
pose ot attacking the Weldon Railroad.
Gold in New York, 189£.
An Important Discovery. —lt certain
says the Macon Confederate, that if tho war coa
tinues a few years longer, the Confederate (States
will be left- to their own resources, not only to
carry it on, but to supply the people with most of
the necessaries of iife. It is therefore highly im
portant that our resources be developed in every
practicable way. la this connection, we take the
liberty of stating that we have "been shown a
specimen of very rich copperas ore, taken from
Judge E. A. Nisbet’s plantation in Houston
county, near Ocmulgee river, twenty• five miles
fre in Macon. We are told that it is imbedded
there in large quantities, some twelve or fifteen
feet from the surface. This article, ws are al3o
told, is worth from thirty to forty dollars a pound
in this market. If such a mice were worked, both
*
the Government and the people would be greatly
benefitted.
Frauds in Transportation.—ln the Con
federate Congress. Mr. Farrow offered the fol*
lowing :
Whereas, allegations exist of abuses perpe- j
trated in connection with the transportation of \
supplies held on private account by specula- j
tors, to the groat injury of the public interest j
and the adequate support of the army ; there i
fore,
Resolved, That the Committ©© on the Guar
termaster and Commissary Department be and
are hereby instructed to inquire into the
grounds for such allegations ; and, for this
purpose, shall have power to send for persons
and papers, and that said committee report the
result of their inquiries to this House.
Resolved further, That, in view of the im
portance of ascertaining the truth or ground
lessness of such allegations, and the compara
tively limited means of a committee in making
such investigations, this House requests all
good citizens who happen to know any facts
that would be of service in such investigations
to communicate such facts to the committee
"by affidavit, accompanied by suitab.e ce ifi
cates as to character and credibility of affiants
to show the probable truth of their statements.
Mr. Farrow read the following extract from
the Richmond correspondent of the Charles
ton Mercury:
“Five young men hold exemptions from
ertain bureaux, and busy themselves buying
and procuring transportation for private par
ties.”
The resolutions were adopted.
Uur Northern exchanges contain a great
deal of twaddle about this and that Confeder
ate general coining over and taking the oath
of allegiance to the United States. The last
sensation rumor comes from one of the Saint
Louis papers, and is to the effect that Gens.
Clanton and Roddy are about to come over
with bag and baggage, etc, A friend, who
ought to know, tells us that these reports are
utterly false, and these generals are now as
determined rebels as ever. These reports may
have originated from the fact that they both
arc very humane and honest men, and exceed
ingly honorable and courteous in their occa
sional intercourse with the Federal authori
ties.
Of-n. Koddy tm* iilwnivs treated our prison
ers with the utmost kindness aad considera
tion; and ail speak highly of him Union
men and their families have never been treat
ed bv aim with cruelty, but their opinions, if
not openly expressed, have been respected.
A bon/three weeks ago he bud'several bush
whackers and murderers executed, by martial
law. near Moulton. Ala. torn - straggling
•soldiers, who robbed a poor woman of all she
had and then burned her house, are now under
{i ,r. ce ( .f death near the same place. He
seems to be trying his best to keep up law and
order, and heVr-us ear. atone, in some-small
degree, tor the incalculable woe? brought up
j oi\the country by him and other leaver? and
i abettors of this"horrible rebellion.—[AW, -
| ville paper.
AUCTION SALKa.
Rosette, Lawhon & Cos.,
• (i. WII.KIV*.
-A- uc tion© or,
131, Broad St,, Columbus, Ga.,
WILL SELL AT 11 O’CLOCK
WED NESDAY,
VARCfI
25 Sacks COAST SALT.
BEDSTEADS and MATXRASSE3.
BLANKETS. HARDWARE.
1 Child’s CARRIAGE,
SE WING MA 0 H INES,
SCHOOL BOOKS,
ARITHMETICS,
4th and sth READERS,
LOOKING GLASSES,
1 NO-TOP BUGGY.
1 GOLD WATCH and CHAIN.
4 Boxes No. 1 SOAP,
mar 21 S4B
Rosette, Lawhon & Go.,
OFFER AT PRIVATE SALE
A DESIRABLE RESIDENCE,
Opposite the Lowell Warehouse. The
House contains six rooms with a brick
basement, good kitchen and other out
buildings,
mar 17 ts
Rosette, Lawhon & Cos.,
OFFER AT PRIVATE SALE
One Copper Boiler, 8 feet long.
Five or six hundred pounds Lead Pipe
8 or 10 Large Brass Bib & Stop Cocks.
jen 13 ts
TH ES CITY.
T. J. JACKSON LOCAL EDITOR
The Caukier System.—ln consequence of
the great trouble we now have and have had
for some time, we have decided to discontinue
the carrier system after the first of April.—
Papers will be delivered at the Post offiee and
office of publication as usual after that time.
To those who have paid in advance we will
return the money if it is not convenient to
send to the office of publication or the post
office. The paper will be sold by newsboys,
with whom, doubtless, arrangements may be
made for the delivery of the paper,'though
the office will iu noway be responsible for its
delivery.
Auction Sau.es.-~the following prices pre
vaiien at Myers. Watson & Co.’s auction yester
day :
Florida cigars, $24 per hundred: .Soarfalletti
smoking tobaceoo, <§1 2 per lb.cane syrup, sl7
per gallon ; choice X. 0. sugar, $lO per pound:
Florida fish, $3,30 per pound : chewing tobacco,
$7 to $10; $25 in gold, SSO for one ; shot, $0
bacon, $1,30 ; gold watch, SBOO : one rockaway’
$1175: other sales unimportant.
Warm—The weather for the last day or two
has been a fitter representative of gentle May than
of the ides of March. Yes! glorious Spring is
again being ushered in and we hail it with emo
tions of joy. Already the sweet carols of the
birds, the swelling bud and bursting .flower ad
monish us that the rosy light of Spring is once
more dawning upon our earth, and that seed time
invites us to industrious out door toil. The merry
laugh of the husbandman is again heard on the
heath, as he scatters broadcast over the fruitful
fields the precious grain from wlii -h he expects in
course of time tho rich harvest that is to supply
his natural want?. May a kind Providence smile
graciously upon his labors and may an abundant
yield come forth to bless his heart and supply his
wants.
Fire. —The alarm of fire on Sunday night pro
ceeded from the stable on the premises of Mrs.
Shorter. The fire was extinguished with but
little damage.
PROSPECTUS
OP THE
SOUTHER!* MONTHLY'
©EVOTED TO CURRENT NEWS AND GEN
ERAL LITERATURE.
f PIIE SOUTHERN MONTHLY will be published
A at Selma, Ala., on.the first day of every month,
commencing with April, 1865.
It is the purpose of the publishers to make th ; s
Magazine, in point of interest, literary merit and
mechanical execution, not inferior to the best se
rials that were in circulation before the war. and to
the attainment of this end every energy will be
number will contain fifty double-column
octavo pages of choice current miscellaneous read
intvmatter —equal in anuual amount, to more than
one thousand pages of ordinary book print.
Contributions from several of toe most emmet and
popular writers of the country will from time to
time be given : but in no instance will the mere
plea of “originality” admit the disse. tations of me
diocrity—but rather
Elect!cisrn will bejmade a prominent feature, and
to this encl arrangements have been made for se
curing, at the earliest dates after publication, a full
supply of the leading Reviews and general periodi
cal literature of Europe and the North Country, from
which copious extracts will be made.
Another feature will be tho presentation of ) a
Record, in a connected and digested form, of the
current news of the month. Living as we are amid
the rapidly changing scenes incident to our situa
tion as a nation, ana catching from day to day but
i a transient glimpse of transpiring events from the
fragmentary and often doubtful dispatches of our
uewsrtaper press, it is strange that this want, so uni
versally felt, has not heretofore been supplied.
Leidhw articles of superior merit and command
in-iut<we«tfrcm the press of this country and
Europe, will be copied to the latest practicable
da Conemsional proceedings of an ordinary charac
ter wifi be given in synopsis, but speeches and de
bates of marked ability, when on measures of unu
sual significance, will De published in lull.
The miscellaneous department will embrace a
choice variety ofshort sketches tales stories, poetry,
—original and selected. A Iso, a large number ot
the most approved recipes and useful hints m gener
al household economy. , _ ,
MS' The J/agazsne will seek to make itself a wel
eoa'ie <me-t in camp and bivouac, and we believejtbat
tho-e having a friend in the army could not easily
do him a better service cr contribute more to hi.?
"ratigci'ion than by sending him an occasional copy.
*Co facilitate this purpose espeial attention will be
•riven to such postal as will ouurc the
early delivery ot the magazine m the camps i our
principal armies.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION:
«t Months $5. | 6 j»lonCla*...slO.
No subscription will be received, under ary cir
cvmrtances, for a longer, period than six months.
This is the cheapest .magazine m tne country and
no deduction, either to clubs or newsdealers,, can
be made. The mere cost of the white paper *Ol
- must be accompanied by the price of
subscription and addressed:
Publisher? .Southern Monthly Mauazie,
mar 21 ii : - Selma? Alabama.
a \o, l BAY 1101 Ah works well in double har*
A tOrCaV AAM Wc°-COOK.
n ar 2L lw
AUCTION SALES.
»v Ellis, Livingston & { ».
OK TUESDAY. 2'.iTiiret.. at i ' , .
wi;l sell in front of our store v *' e
2 Sacks N. O. Sugar, splendid artie’-
9 “ R : ce, 1
Lot Sole Leather,
1 Case Shoes,
Lot Ready Made Clothing.
Household and Kitchen Furniture.
Feather Beds and Mattrasses.
Gold and Silver Watches with other Jew
elry and many other very vaKaW
goods. '
mar 20 §24
iiy Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
Y\7ILL SELL on Tuesday. March 21s j,
t t iron! of our store, at 11 o’clock
1 CLOSE CARRIAGE,
mar 19 $8
By Ellis, Livingston A Cos.
AT PRIVATE SALE,
i*>o Rea nits Sup. Note Paper
mar 8 ts
By Ellis, Livingston A Cos
O-uardlian Sale.
AN the first Tuesday in April next, I will sei’ ii
V tne City of Columbus, in front of the a act-on
store qt Ellis, Livingston & Cos., a negro MAM
named Hamilton, about 23 years old, belonging
the orphans of Chas. Evens, dec’d. by order of
Court ol Ordinary of Muscogee county.
- , „ _ O . M. WOODRUFF.
feo 23 wtds s3b Guardian
BY MYERS, WATSOY & €O,,
DESIRABLE NEGROES FOR SALEI
ON THURSDAY, 23d inst., at 11 o’clock,
we will sell iu front of our store,
88 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
AT PRIVATE SALE.
BY MYERS, WATSON & CO.,
51 LIKELY NEGROES.
All sound and mostly between eleven
and thirty years of age.
Among the number are three Extra
Blacksmiths, two Extra Carpenters, one
Engineer and No. 1. Butcher, one first
class Man Cook, Washers, Ironers and
extra Field Hands.
Parties in want of any of the above
will apply immediately.
Sold for no fault, owner expecting to
change residence,
mar 10- ts
Hjcadq'e.s 25th Military District l
Columbus, 18th March. 18k'. I
Special Orders, !
No. 1, t
An election will be held on Saturday, tho HtkcUj
of April next, at tho Court House? of the various
precinct?in Muscogee and Chattahoochee countsai,
fora Lie Jenaut Colonel and a Major of the fust
class Battalion of Muscogee and Chattahoochee
counties, to fill the vacancies occasioned by the rv
ignition of Lieut. Col. D. B. Thompson and r & •
death,of Maj. J. F. George,
v * . P. J. PHILLIPS.
Colonel and A. P. 6.
mar 21 d3twlt ‘ 25th Military Distrl ■!
SOMETHING GOOD AT
Kaveuscroft & Co’s. 91 Broad Street
13RIME Pickled Pork, Florida Mullet, Syrup.
I Rice, Fresh Corn Meal, Prime Corn Juice, by
the gallon or bottle, Onion Setts, Cabbage Seed, aod
English Peas,
mar 21 2w*
FOR SAUe7
FOUR BARRELS OF ALm
APPLY TO
SSI ERM A Y & CO.,
Masonic Hall. Up Stairs.
march 19 ts.
marshal’* Sale.
WILL be sold before the Court House door
in the city of Columbus, Ga., on the
first Tuesday in April, 1865, between the usual hours
of sale, a negro woman named SILVEY, levied oa
as the property of F. M. Doles, to satisfy a tax u. t i,
in favor of the city of Colunßmji,
mar stf . Marshal
For Sale.
ANe 1 SADDLE HORSE, at
OFFICE EAGLE FACTORY
mar 19 6t
W A ITED,
TWO GOOD MACHINISTS, exempt from rnilita y
1 service, at tho EAt?LE FACTOR i.
mar 19 6t •
LOST,
T OST or mislaid, on J/useogee Railroad, a large
Jj BOX, vjith Cooper Tools and Clothes in it. Any
person having it, or seen it, will confer a favor on. a
New Orleans refugee, as it is my all. Leave wo _ a
at the Times Office. JOHN McLEOD.
mar 19 It* 9
Yotice!
The Manage! sand Officers of the Orphan A3-
sylum.aro particularly requested to meet at
Assylum a Monday next, ut 3 o'clock,
mar 18 td
Notice, Absentees Hannan’s Brigade.
In accordance with orders from Maj. Gen. Whee
ler all absentees from this Brigade, will report to
me immediately at Montgomery, Ala., prepareu
accompany me to their command.
Montgomery, Ala., March 19th, 18*35.
J. F. GAINES.
mar 19 It* Lieut. Col. 53d Aj
Notice to Debtors and Creditors
11ERSON3 having claim? again, -t the late Gapta.e
r Charles D Fry fare requested to present tnem
within the time prescribed by law and ml.- -
will make mmediate payment.
feb 21—w40d __ AdnTr.
o O O 13 ©
EXCHANGED FOSi BOXES,
AT THE
GRAINT FACTORY.
march 12 ts
I H 6 IST
Exchanged for Country Produce
AT THE
GR A V I FACTO HV «
march 12 ts _
CITY FOUNDRY !
SUGAR MILLS AS# KETTLE- !
WE HAVE OF HAND
.Hills Kt*H jt--
hoWin*2o.3?
will exchange for Pro; i p r " : . .
Produce, or Mel lAIENNY *
OonxfflbuS. Jan. 20, <g -
For fcsalr.
Oil BUSHELS ON ION BUTTONS, />; - •*
_ street. N • . N.vA . -