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DAILY TIMES,
J. W. WARREIV, - - - Editor.
COLUMBUS: -
Friday Morning. March U, 1865.
The Alabama Situation.
Tbe Appeal, evening of the 22d, haa infor
mation from Pollard, that no new movement
of the enemy at Pensacola nud vicinity had
taken place at last accounts from scouts, and
nothing more definite as to the numbers was
kndwn. The Yankees were giving out that
their proposed campaign would he directed
against Columbus. Ga.. (irv. Montgo
mery no attention for. the present. ' Os course
but little dependence can be placed upon their
boastings. An cider Las been issued lor the
removal of the rolling stock of the Alabama
and Florida Rail Road to a point beyond the
reach of the enemy.
Tbe Montgomery Advertise”, of the 23d. ;
morning edition; has iuffi- ulffin from what ;
purports to bra reliable omce, to the es-
tect that a column ot Yankee: . consisting of
3ve regiments of infantry and cavalry, is ad
vancing from Pensacola cu the Pollard road.
They marched eight miles oil Monday and
camped, when tbeir'iurther progress was im
peded by the heavy rain which fell that night.
Another column, strength not known, is at
Milton. The impassable condition of the roads
—by delaying the enemy—has given us full
time for preparation and our military author
ities will not be caught napping.
Scouts just returned from Pensacola report
tbe force previous to the movements
above related) to have been five brigades.—
They report the plan to be for the two columns
to form a junction at Greenville, in order to
destroy lhe rail road effectually, take posses
sion of Tensas river, which will give them
'control over the Alabama river, and by thus
cutting off Mobile, compel tbe evacuation of
that place.
We have had so many reports from Pensa
cola, that we must receive all this with due
reserve! Still the source of this information
is vouched for as reliable by men in she serv
ice, auu li Is well not to become
the oft-repeated cry of “woLT' The people
of Montgomery had beet ter be prepared for all
emergencies.
Gen. Clanton left for Pollard Wednesday.
The Message.
President Davis’ last msssage to the Con
federate Congress will cause some stir. In
faotwe took occasion yesterday., says the
Augusta Constitutionalist, 19t'i, to nolo tho
manner of its reception by the people, and
were convinced at once that there was only
one elaae who would or could complain of its
atern, unrelenting, saving measures. Those
are the chronic-grumblers, the atay-at-homes,
the occupiers of soft places, the speculators
and croakers. Os course this class can only
eee despair and destruction staring us iu the
face, and they are not prepared for the intro*
duction of a rigid policy in order to restore a
healthful glow to the body politic.
•We thank the President, as must every pa
triot, for his calm and dispassionate review or
our troublous position. We aie glad that he
looks ths dangers square in the face, uu, u..-
appalled by the evils that, surroud bus, is pre
pared to combat, them. Congress Las par
tially acceedtu to his request tor JUvro strin
gent legislation, It now behooves the people
to cast aside all prejudice and to unite as onr
man for ihe saltation of the. county,
Extraordinary measures tn.»y have to be ta
ken, but these we can well bear when the in
terests of life and liberty are at jeopardy. It
is only for us now—not to complain, not to
exercise a querulous spirit, not to weaken tho
bauds of those iu power—but to concede
them all that is necessary for the successful
prosecution of the war, and the maintenance
of our liberties.
Tt may be that we have our individual pref
erence, and that some suggestions of the Pres
ident grate hashly upon ouj ears. But these
arena times for captiousness or fault-finding.
If remains for us "to give to the winds all that
is personal, and consecrate to the country
whatever we have of intidlectual strength or
manly vigoi.
[From thq Telegraph k Confederate*}
The Late Message.
The late Message of President Davis-is ew* !
tainly calculated to awaken the most pro '
found interest in every Southern uiirid. Not
only by reason of u.e measure* therein pro
posed, but iu view of the spirit which evi
dently pervades it. Hitherto, in crisis
of this revolution, the Presi lent has stood
forth before the nation, rapt in the majesty cf
a calm and dauntless confidence —like a rock
in the sea, towering above the highest wave,
unmoved by the lashing storm. Now, he says
that “ the 'Confederate States are threatened
with greater peril than hitherto during this
war." And, after urging the prompt and
earnest adoption of the measures proposed in
his message, says “ that we may hope to es
cape the calamities which result from the fail
ure of our cause, ” and bios us 1 struggle on; ’■
but in case of failure, “to bow subimsively <o
the will of our-Heavenly Father. ” Emar'.Uag
from such a man as President Davis—the
Chief Executive of the nation, who is fuliy
prepared to appreciate our danger and our
wants —these are words of terrible signiti
eance. “We may escape ” —there is yet u
possibility. Thank God! our destiuy is not
yet irrevocably sealed; our doom 13 not yet
utterly hopeless and inevitable. “Wk mat
kscape.” *
But our only hope is in “ an earnest eo-op
eiation, ” a united, determined co-operation,
which subordinates a’i oftr energies and all
- our interests to the demands ot the crisis.
Let the people, in the dignity of tbeir-sc* • ;
ereign will, determine to be free at eve. y i...- j
rifice, and rise superior to every com; dev a- j
ticn. personal and public, whk-h may embar- ;
rass or imperil the achievement of their inde- )
pendence. Let them lake held upon this vast
issue, and grapp;.; ~ua it like meu j
who are struggling for life, determined to j
sacrifice to tt everything sav« honor itself; for ;
if we fail, all that will survive- -all that we !
can preserve from the ruins of our country j
will be the proud consciousness that we oared \
to do our duty and a- fend our right?. Oh, my ,
countrymen t Have done with party strife
and pride of policy. Let timid and time serv
ing counsels hush their babbling tcagues.
Let tue people tate this issue mto their own
hands, as the arbiters of their own faie ; and,
with ■'*''lpntary and united co-operation deter
mine ior themselves vrhat they are able and
willing to do, to give to suffer or sacrifice for
their country, whose imperiled cause cries to
them from the very verge of despair. Let Geu.
Cobb, Judgi . jchr&ne, Gov. Brown and Hon.
E. A. Nesbitjin our midst, ah ’ ythers through
vhe land whose patriotic and .hr ’ling elo
quence can stir the nation’s heart be invited
to address the people and urge them to action
--immediate, earnest, co-operative action.
Let the peopio meet and counsel together for
H’C’.r country's hope; and then around the
ahnr? thus voluntarily ”»ared by the sover
e’ga aichitects of ttieir own late, let every
man covenant with patriotic pledge what he
will do or give to aid tbe government and*
save the country. Let them appoint their
own agents to collect and convey these con
tributions to the" army or disburse to the sol
diers’ families. Let these agents be men of
age, whose character commands the confi
dence of the people.
Let there be a patriotic pledge judiciously
: framed, so as to comprehend concisely what
i ’ v * ought and are willing to do, and let every
man sign it as a sacred covenant with his
j country and his God; and let it be published
j from time to time with these signatures, as
. our record and the roll of honor.
Let the people thus take their country’s
j into their own hands, and with one uni
j led, earnest effort, rescue it from the unfold
calamities with which it will be cursed by the
hand of subjugation, now red with blood and
uplifted to wave in triumph over our country
tbe death-scepter of its doom. Let ambition,
avarice and speculation, hide their hydra
beads. It is no time to think of selfish gains
or ambitious aims. Let the country seek to
assure the army of its sympathy and support
inspire its confidence, animate its courage,
and save the nation from impending ruin.
, 'he ship us State, freighted with the hopes
; aud destiny f the country, is on the troubled
; tossed and lashed by storms; death rides
0-1 every wave, and, rushing madly od, weaves
: o i t very foam-crested billow a winding-sheet
lot hi.i noble prey, whose fuueral dirge howls
through every blast. Tbe sails are rent, the
laboring timbers groan, the pilot trembles at
his quivering helm, tbe captive’s voice—trem
ulous but calm and commanding still—re
sounds high above She roaring surge and the
bowling storm. It is no time now to discuss
tbe science of navigation, or canvass its errors
no .ime to wrangle over the construction of
the vessel or the way to steer it—no time to
count the cargo or what may be rescued from
the wreck ; but every man to his post. Save
the ship and all is saved; lose that, and all,
al- is lost—engulfed in one general wave of
Cromwell.
[From the Memphis Appeal.
Military Action of Congress.
in m t address to his constituents, Hon. R. K.
Garland, of Arkansas, gives a very compre
hensive synopsis of the action of the late Con
federate Congress, to increase the efficiency
of the army. When the address was prepared
the action of Congress, in connection with tha
.employment of negroes as soldiers, had not
transpired but all the other enactments are
briefly considered. These were the acts ! ‘to
authorize the consolidation of companies,
battalions and regiments.” “To improve the
1 efficiwftey ot the cavalry service."' “To etre
• »»**£?• tvi.® in the armies ot the Oon
federate States as laborers, teauietera, pion
j eers, etc.,” and “To repeal certain exemptions
I and details,”
T'ue bill to consolidate the different military
organizations of the army was one of great
ituportance ; and the necessity of its early pas
sage in order to diminish the daily expenses
of the service, and materially add to its
strength for the Spring campaign, was zeal
ously urged upon .Congress, but there were
so many conflicting views to be discussed
and reconciled as to the best pin 1 to secure
tbe object in view, that irs pas-sage was long
delayed. It. provides, that whenever any
companies now in the service, shall be re
duced as to number less thau ttnrty-two (32)
fit for duty, and whenever ii shall appear to
the Secretary of War, or to the general 00m
i manding the department of the army in
| which said companies are serving, that "they
> cannot be recruited to that number in area
: nonable time, the general commanding the
j department or the army, may, under regula
; tiomt issued by tho Secretary of War, proceed
;to consolidate them. New companies may be
j organized by the non-commissioned otSoers
j and privates us the companies 10 be consol
’ i dated, if they are from the same State; and
i the minimum number of the companies to be
i consolidated, rank and tile, is sixty-four, and
j the maximum one hundred and twenty five.
Companies, if they are from the game State,
' may be organized into battalions and rtgi~
luciits, amT the general commanding the de
| partmeut, or tbe array ia the field, to be coa
: i>-lidated s' oil i *comtuead from the officers
j nr.fi tuen of the different organizations to be
i ed, the officers of tho new organ!
; • fions, who Shall take command subject to
i tha approval of <he President, by and with
; the advice and consent of the Senate. The
j officers dropped, or not chosen iu the oonsol
ii iaiion, shall be immediately notified of the
fact, and th j shall have the privilege, within
sixty days after the consolidation, of organ
izing into companies, battalions andregimenfs,
to h officered among themselves, subject, to
t ! approval of the President, by and with
: the ad'/T"3 and consent of the Senate; or the
officers c dropped, may have the privilege of
j u oining whatever company they prefer, wheth
jer with the army with which they served or
| not, and whatever arm of the service they
prefer, aud shall be entitled to transportation
j to their company so chosen,
j The act .to increase the efficiency of tiie
1 cavalry service provides that the government
; iastead of the soldiers, shall wwn the horses
jin th; cavalry arm of the service. Its condi
; lioi.s are, to wit: the Secretary of War, upon
i the application of any general commanding
j an army, may cause the quartermaster ot tbe
j command to take upon his return all the hor
-1 ses ridden by the soldiers and fit for duty.—
f There shall be a board of appraisers appoiut
• ed to fix the value of each horse, and the sol
| dier shall make his election to receive tkß ap
praised value of his horse in currency, or a
certificate for a horse equal in value to his
1 u.y able i.-i si a mouths alter a ra'incatioa ot
• peace.
If any soldier’s horse should become unfit
[ for duty, the general commanding the army
j ‘-hall cause another to be furnished at the ex
j pease of 4he Government, or assign the sol
i diet- to some company from his State in any
: branch of the service. If the soldier should
lose his horse, or his horse should become
: unfit for duty, if he can present the ceriificate
j of his officers certifying to his gaiiantry and
j promptness a l * a cavalry soldier, the Govern -
| raeni shall furnish another in its 3tead. Eve
! ry precaution is used in the act to exact a strict
] alienlioa on the part of the soldier to the care
: and comfort of his horse, if the provis
! ions ot the act are promptly enforced, it ts
1 believed that it will greatly tend to add
i strength and efficiency to both branches of the
1 service, by ridding the cavalry service of all
soldiers except those whose qualifications par
licularly befit them for tueir duties. And it
is believed that much complaint, and many
..buses, growiug from informal impressment
of horses, will be obviated, by substituting
the Government and its fegeuts, in lieu of
stragglers and irresponsible individuals.
The act to enroll ms*le negroes aa laborer*
in the army of the Confederate skates, pro- j
vidts that the Secretary of War and general j
commanding the Trans-Mftsissippi department j
1. ay employ as .many male negroes, between i
the ages of 18 and 40 yeaw, as muv be oeces- !
eary to work upon fortifications, build and
repair bridges and roads, and perform all the
duties usually assigned to engineers and pon
tooniers, and such other duties *s the Secre
tary of War may prescribe. The slaves so
tmployed shall receive ratiopa and clothing
to an amount to be agreed upon at the time
of their employment, under rules to be pre
scribed by the Secretary oi War, and the pay
I for their services to be ascertained according
ly la case it shall be found impossible to.
employ the number of slaves necessary for the
duties specified, the Government shall beau«
1 ihonztd to irs;-ax.i them, but cot mote than
one in every fiv* between the ages above men
tioned 3haU be impressed from the same own
er, where they are uniformly employed in ag
ricultural 01 mechanical pursuits; and the
Government is responsible to the owner for
the loss of the slave, where the loss is occa
j stoned by any act of the enemy, or by sick
ness or disease contracted in the army
The act to ditaiaimr the number ot exemp
tions ana details, provides that ail overset >
ad agriculturists, between theage.3 of 18 aucl
45, hitherto exempt upon certain conditions,
shall be subject to enrollment and military
j service, after the expiration of the 12 muntb*
for which they were originally exempt. And
hereafier, no more details or exemptions shall
be granted by the President or Secretary of
War, unless for persons physically incompe
tent, persons over the age of 45 years, arti-
Bans and mechanics, persons of scientific skill,
employed by the Government, Confederate or
Stale.
Policy of France Towards the United States.
The Mobile Register publishes a remarkable
loiter from the able pen of Mr. Charles Gsyarre,
the historian of Louisiana, It was written in
1863, and addressed to Mr. J. D. B. Deßow.
Tbe short extracts we lay before our readers wili
prove interesting :
“Permit me to make on this subject one more
quotation : “Perhaps,” said the First Consul, “it
will also bo objected to tne that tho Americans may
be found too powerful for Europe in two or three
centuries: but my foresight does not embrace such
remote fears. Besides, we may hereafter expect
rivalries amoDg tbe members of the Union. The
Confederations which are called perpetual, only
last till one of the contracting parties finds it to
his interest to break the contract, and it is to
prevent the danger to which the colonial power
of England exposes us that I would provide a
remedy.” It is therefore, I think, clearly demon
strated that the additional strength which Bona
parte was giving to the United States by the cos', j
si on of Louisiana was ihe accidental result of
compulsion, and not the premeditated consequence !
of traditional policy. We-cvcn see that, when im
parting that additional strength, he met and an
swered an objection which his own mind had raised ■
in retaliation to it, by expressing his reliance on I
the foreseen dissolution ot fiat Confederacy which j
he was invigorating merely for a temporary pur- I
pose—the humiliation of England. This was his j
consolation for a loss he could not prevent. j
ing could bo more clear]v expressed than his mo> J
tire in ceding Louisiana, when compelled to part
with it—which was: “to provide a remedy for the
danger to which the colonel power of England i
exposed France " mat was Ins policy in 1803. j
Vt hat should i; the policy of his successor in j
If 63 ?
J'he Union is .iissoivod, as the great mind of
Napoleon the First had clearly foreseen, and'tha
South aud Southwest are engaged in an exhaust
ing war against the North and Northwest. The
interest of England is to fsvor the distraction, or
exhaustion of both parties to the struggle, for the
further increase of her colonial power. But Na
poleon the Tkir f? , like Napoleon the First, proba
bly saw that “he must provide a remedy to prevent
tho danger to which the colonial power of England
exposes France,” and that remedy lies not in fa
cilitating the reconstruction of*a Union which
would, in the course, ot time, make tho United
States ' too powerful for Europe,” but in attempt
ing an intervention of some sort, which would se
cure the separate existence of two American Con
federaoies, whose overgrown power would no lon
ger be, an object of apprehension, but whose pros
perity and strength would bo sufficient to provide
I ranee with that remedy which she needs against
“the dagger to which she is perpetually exposed
I *>y tho colonial power of England.” This, proba
j biy, will tifra out to be tne Napoleonic policy, a<?
f it would be, in my humble opinion, a wiser one
! j ob'lGv” r«ooi»mandod by M.
| uOmeroier.
In the reign of Louis Phillippe, the independ
ence of Texas was spoedily recognized, and all
subsequent annexation to the United States was
strenuously opposed on the ground, as Mr. Guizot
said in the House of *Deputies, that it wa3 timo to
establish in America the same balance of power
which exists in Europe. Why should not the
present ruler of France adopt the same views, par
ticularly when ona of his avowed objects in invad
ing Mexico is to protect the Latin race against
tho onoroaohmenU of the Angle Saxoa ? If not,
it surely cannot be from respect for a traditional
policy which I have shown to exist only in the im
agiatiou ,of M.'Lemorcier, Be it as it may, it is
evident that France,- when she discountenanced
the annexation of Texas to the United States, de
parror) again from her supposed traditional policy
of friendship, and did not desire further to aggran
dize and strengthen the already too powerful re
public. f
True to the declaration made by republican
France, that it is difficult to point out the geo
graphical degree whore American policy ahouM
terminate and European policy begin—where may'
be said to begin or terminate the ideas which are
in the ascendant in Europe and in America. Im
perial France has lately thrust her sword through
the cherished texture of tha Monroe doctrine and
cot it iuto rags. She has established horself in
Mexico in 1863—which must appear to the United
States a much g aver event than her assuming iu
1851 a sort of temporary protectorate over the
island of Oafea The logical deductions to be
drawn from the preceding facts are that when
France optaioed Louisiana from Spain and sege
Gated with har et th® sax? time for the cession of
the Florida?, when, on h*r forced transfer of Lou
isiana to tao United States, she purposely retained
obscurities in the text of the treaty of' cession, in
relation to tbe limits of tho province, when she
intrigued against the annexation of Texas, when
she assumed a protectorate over Cuba, and invad
ed Mexico, her settied policy was to check the
growth of the TiKited States, ami there is no prob
ability that it has undergone a change. She will
not, therefore, allow to oscap« the beautiful oppor*
(unity which presents itself. Napoleon I. had
foreseen that a day might come when the United
States be “too powerful for Europe.” Na
poleon 111. realizes tbe danger and will provide
for it. He knows full well ’that should the Con
federate States be competed to return to the old
Union, his protectorate ovor Cuba and his posses
sion of Mexico would soon be at an end. He
knows that, after the civil ware which afflicted the
minority of Louis the SiifeoiuTs, France suddenly
became the great military power against which
the whole of Europe had to coalesce; that at the
end of the following century, the intestine convul
sions of France aud her lr andean war prepared
her for the part which ehe performed under his
uncle: that England, after the civil war which
desolated her territory ider Charles 1., conquered
Ireland and Scotland, and became so powerful un
der Grotuvroll aa to LUttKe tUo ti- —i:-i.
man as much respected throughout the world as
that of a Roman citizen in the days of Augustus.
He knows that many centuries of internal conflict
i iu Spain made her at last all bone aud sinew, and
ended in giving her almost the scepture of Europe
under Charles V,
Marta’ other examples might ue cited, but these j
suffice for my purpose. They show that the United ;
States, ts they ce-quer the PoctU, will be moro
powerful than ever, unic's hia.ureat precedents
should prove false in the information which they
convey. Paradoxical as it may appear, civil wars
have not unfrequendy proved to baa discipline by
which nations ar qualified for a broader career of
aggrandizement and power. It is the medicine
which weakens but to restore health and impart
renewed vigor.
Should the United States triumph over m, they
will have at their disposal, and unemployed, an im
mense fleet, gigantic and well-trained armies, deem
ing themselves invincioK a prodigious store of ma
terials of war, and it requires no great f. culty of
divination to predict that t>ey will use them in fur
therance of their ambition and interest; that they
will reconcile and unite the jarring elements of their
population by inaugurating an aggressive policy
against certain foreign oatiors. and will establish
their national debt on the i'road basis of a whole
continent, from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to
the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Diffusion would make
it lighter, and the acquisition of unbounded re
sources to meet it, and to guard against repudiation
will become a political and financial necessity.
My conclusions, therefore, are, that France, fore
seeing these consequences, will interpose in our
struggle in due time, and prevent the subjugation
of the Confederate States, should they be threatened
with that calamity Her interest, however, is to de
lay her intervention until both parties arc exhaust
ed, unless we should hold out to her counter induce
ments for more speedy action, in order to prevent
I the immense losses which we shad suffer from the
pro Faction of this war.
These are questions whioh. have been well con
sidered by the distinguished man who is the head
ot our Confederacy, and we must hope that he Viil
bring into play, in our foreign relations, all the
force of his experience! and cansu innate states
manship. Gi yrrkk,
Foreign Ucms.
Virginia State five percents, are quoted in
London at 43@45 ; Virginia six per cents 20
@4O.
The Italian Government has issued a decree 1
authorizing f b'-circulation of the Pope ? Bn- j
cyclical
she Busatau Government hat msued a se- j
ir-.-s decree? the ultimate object «>:’ which is !
nothing loss thaa the actual amalgamation of I
Poland with Russia. Poland is to be divided j
into twenty sewn departments, each of which ®
js to have a prefect. !
The scientific world of Paris are much oe- ;
copied by the experiment which Mr. Graof in* !
tends making iu a few days, of fiviag irons the !
towers of Notre Dame by bis new machine. I
He underr ’s to remain suspended in -he sir !
with as u. ueh ease as a bird.
The courts of Rome and Lisbon are again at j
war about the. right each claims to nominate
Bishop- in the Portuguese settlements.
Li»ut.. O W. Re&q ct ta*> navy has heots ex
; ehauged. and h >« arrived iu Jackson, Mies. * It will
he remembered that Lieut. R c ad waacaptured some
: two ye*re since, whi'e cruisiug off the coast of
Maine, ia ootuaaad of the Taooney.
j “Confessions of a Flirt.”—This is the title
of u .2 page XovC’ctte, by Mrs, Edward Leigh,
i from the press of Bough ton, Nisbet <fc Cos. Mil
ledgeville, Ga. The mechanical execution of the
pamphlet is good. We have not re&djtho work and
of course are cot prepared to pass judgment upor
i r s merits as a composition. For particulars the
reader must inquire within, The dedication of
the work is as follows—‘'with many compunctious
visitings, for the pangs inflicted, and tears oi re
pentance over tbo graves of tuc broken hearted, I
respectfully dedicate the following penitential con
fessions of a Flirt, to the Jilted,”
Petroleum. —One of the most wonderful
j sources of wealth at the North, of very recent
■ growth, too, Is Petroleum. It has created a
| new aristocracy—some of it, as stated by the
Yankee papers, of the very roughest kina. Os
! the product., England is ihe largest consumer,
1 the export orn New York thither during last
j year being 6.275,000 gallons. France is next
|in importance, her export from New York
I having been 4,625,000 gallons, a large increase
; upon the receipts of 1863. The shipments to
; Antwerp have also been large, amounting to
4,149,000 gallons, against 2,692,000 gallons
in 1863. Bremen has imported near 1,000.090
gallons. Hamburg, 1,176,000, and Rotterdam,
533,000 gallons. The shipments to Ooustadt
indicate a very large growth in the demand in
Russia, the exports thither having increased
from 88,000 gallons in 1863 to 400,p0Q gallons
in 1804. The exports to Genoa, Leghorn,
Trieste, Lisbon and Australia, are alsoof con
siderable importance.
A Cavalry Victory.—We learn (say3 the
Augusta Constitutionalist of the 19th instant)
from a paroled officer, who reached this city
yesterday from Richmond, that a lew days
since Lieut. General Hampton encountered
the Yankee General Kilpatrick and gave him
a sound thrashing, capturing a large number
of prisoners and destroying quite a number
of wagons
The Murder of Oapt. Beall.—The Richmond
Examiner, of the 4th of March, says:
The murder, by hanging, of Capt. John Y. Beall,
under the signature and by the authority of Lin
coln. is exciting deep indignation in this commu
nity, where the deceased had many friends. The
people have been disappointed so often in. the re*i
taliatory threats of the President, that they have
resolved heroaf er to take tbe matter into their own
hands. Threats were made yesterday looking to
the haaging, sunmurily, upon the first lamp post
■ of any of tbe Yankee officers now aa their parole, j
and who might be found al huge, ard the infer- j
elation being conveyed to them, they kept very
olooa witliin frl'.A wm ivyiFv t\t ILO T.ihhr
name and fame of C&pfc. Beall, thank God, i* not
in tho keeping of the Northern Yankee. Here,
where he was known, and in the county 01 Jeffer
son, which is bereft of one of her most heroic sons,
his name will be revered as a martyr, who showed
to his enemies in a foreign land how a gallant and
intrepid Southern soldier could die for his country.
Promt Marshals,
The bill abolishing the provost marshal's office
outside the lines of the army, passed by both Houses
of Congress, provides that there may be provost
-marshal? appointed by generals commanding armies
or departments, but tus.t (except 8-t the headquar
ters of the army or department) no one snail be ap
pointed to fill the office of provost marshal but a
commissioned officer who shall have been disabled
for active duty in the field, or a retired officer, or
an officer over forty-five, nor shall a provost mar
shal be appointed in a town not at the time occu
pied as a military post or by a military force of the
army to which the provost marshal belongs, nor to
a place lying outside of the linos of the army.
The duty of a provost marshal shall be to take
charge of prisoners in camp or at posts who are
committed to his custody by regular legal military
authority, and to execute such duties in connection
with prisoners and other offenders against tho ar
ticles of war, and the rules and regulations of the
army, and such other duties connected with tho po
! lice and discipline of the camp or post, as may, in
published orders, be given in charge to the provost
marshal by the general commanding the army er
department. „ ,
Officers who have not been diseblM »y service
far active duty in the field who have hel'fttoroib
been discharging the function* of provost marshal
or commanding er connected vi h provost guards
shall have the right, within thirty days from the
passage of this act, to volunteer jo any arm of the
oeivlou from their respective. Spates ; ethers who
have been disabled by service for imtVs
bo re-assigned t.e jjruvusc dury. In conformity 1.0 this
act, by the General commapdins on nnuy or de
partment* All other provott m >rshalships through
out the Confederacy than such as arc indicated by
this act are hereby abolished.
Coming Forward.—A gentleman from Tusca
loosa, Ala., was in this city last evening, and stated
that large numbers of men, who have been absent
from the Army of Tennessee, are coming forward
and hastening to their posts in response to the am
nesty order Oi Gen. Lee, and the fact that Johnston
had been restored and had issued an appeal to all
his old veterans to rally around him again. The
trains and boats in Alabama are crowded with these
returning soldiers, who are really filled with enthu
siasm and are going forward cheerfully. The gen
tleman also told of a large number of deserters—
men who had deserted from the army and had been
absent, some of them a year—and were going back
to their commands cheerfully.
We are informed that the trains passing through
this city are everyday crowded with soldiers of this
; class, going to Johnston and Lee.
A few more days remain in which those absent
can avail themselves of the benefit of Gen. Lee’s
• order. The 30th of this month is tho last day. Let
1 no man tarry or fail to come up within tho time
! prescribed. —Macon Confederacy..
From S*avannah. — The following persons have
been elected Directors of the Bank of Savannah
for the ensuing year, viz: H. Brigham, Win.
C. O’Dnscoii, Wm Hunter, Jos. W. Lotkrop, J.
L. Vilialonga, Wm. C. Mitchell, and Henry La
throp. At a subsequent meeting of the Board,
Wm. <J. O’.Oriscoll was re-electd
The Commercial ffotel has been opened at
Broughton street, with 001. Presdee as proprietor. 1
The arrivals on the 7th were two steamers and 1
two schooners-—the clearances two steamers.— Cos- \
etitutionalist.
Brkad or Blood. —This is a fearful utter
ance. It is the precursor of wrath, ready to
expend itself in the fury and wildness of moo
violence. It is the mutterings of the thunder
that portends the approaching storm, ihe last
wild shout emanating from the victims of a
gnawing hunger-, that precedes tU f ' terrible
outburst that prostrates Idw and 0, ler, and
levels private rights in the dust.
It is a sound not familiar to Southern ears.
We pray it may never be, yet we cannot re
press our serious apprehensions upon ibis sub
ject The present ruling prices of provisions,
with their upward tendency, is anything but
pleasant to contemplate, especially H view of
the condition of many families uow absolutely
destitute of the commonest necessaries of life.
Yea. who ace not only destitute, but who find
it impossible to obtain theca at any price.-
And what heightens and gives tenfold force to
the picture of distress, is the fact, that, in ad
dition to the tens of thousands who n-vo been
robbed of all they possess, by the enemy, and
are now calling upon those who still have
something, to supply their wants, by a recent
act of our Legislature distillers ar-' turned
loose upon the country to increase the scarcity
of provisions, heighten the prices, by consum
ing them in the manufacture of liquors.
But few persons are aware of the alarming
extent to which this business is bein fc „arried
Every gallon of syrup* and everyusing else
not forbidden by law, with a good deal that.
is, is ig greedily snatched up at ?-ay price
that ui&y be demanded, for the purpose of con
verting it into whisay. This business has al
ready carried sorghum syrup- to the uncon
scionable price of twenty dollars oer gallon.
Where it wm stop we kuow not, it appears
that, between Yankee raids oa the one band,
and the extortioners ancLdistillers un As oth
er, the families of onr eoldiers and the poor
generally will be ground as between the up
per and nether millstones
We say again, it ie a fearful thief :o pro
voke mob law And uiea who are ijow filling
their coffer- with “ Confederate trash,” ns they
Bfcfceringly call it, when offering anything for
sale, may yet find they are treasuring up wrath
against the day of wrath, and hoarding op
that which will, ie the end, corrode and cut
| their flesh “aa it were fire.’’— Eufaula Spirit
i It is reported that tne Southern peace agents
l suggested to President. Lincoln that the Southern
; slaves are worth nice hundred millions of dollars
for which the government should pay it esse of
reunion, and that the President replied: "That
little bill’s settled and the receipte filed away." -•
Yankrt 'paper
TELEGRAPHIC,
REPORT? OF THE PRESS ASSOCIATION.
of Congress in the year
the bi«tric*r r? tlle Clerk’s office of
futeLssyi SaSssi ,r *‘" s "' t " for
j- Richmond, March 16th.—The Virginia Leg
islature adopted a resolution for recess from
j the 18th to the 28th.
Richmond, 16th.—The House adopted a res
olution for adjournment on Saturday at one
o’clock.
Mr. Pugh, from ihe Military Committee,
Submitted a report in relation to that portion
of the President s message referred to that
Committee, The report says the recommend
ation of the President to abolish all class ex
emptions and confer on him aloue the power
of detail, presents the question as to whether
Representatives or toe Executive shall consti
tute the array ia the field, or what persons
shall remain at home in pursuits indispensa
ble to tho vital interests of the country. Ex
perience has demonstrated that the power of
detail, as heretofore exercised, has afforded
more unnecessary and inexpedient exemp
tions from miitary service than well guarded
legislation on the subject of exemption. The
subject of the general military bill was con
sidered by the Committee at an early period of
the session, and we now think after mature
consideration further deliberation unnecessary
and inexpedient.
Richmond, March 16.—1n Senate to-day the
’louse bill suspending the habeas corpus writ
was rejected.
The bill to provide for the organization and
arming of militia was debated at some length
and rejected by a lie vote.
The bill to amend the iaw regulating im
pressments was considered and passed. It
provides that in all cases where property im
pressed for the use of the army shall not bo
necessary, to pay the price at the time of im
pressment.
The Hoase resolution to adjourn Saturday
was rejected. Yeas 5. Nays 10. A motion
to reconsider was rejected-—and the Senate
resolved Into secret session, When the doors
were opened, Mr. Orr submitted a resolution
for adjournment Saturday, which was adopt
ed. Yeas 8. Nays 7.
Recess until 8 o’clock.
-Majors J. H. Psgram
and Thos, ?. Turner, having been authorized by
the Secretary of War to raise one or more compa
nies of negro soldiers, under the recent act of
Congress, approved 13th ingta»t, have issued a
stirring appeal to the people of Virginia, in which
they quote an extract from a iettcr from Gen. Lee,
dated the 10th inst.T “I hope it will be found pracs
ticable to raise a considerable force iu Richmond.
I attach great importance to the result of the first
experiment. Nothing should be left undone to
make it successful. The sooner this can be ac
complished the bettor.” The appeal calls upon tho
people to send in their servants who can be spared,
and asks every man in the State to aid in the or
ganization of the force to be raised by sending
forward taoif servants to the rendezvous at Rich
mond.
Richmond, March 16.—The name oi ileiskeli
was inadvertently included among the yeas ia the
vote on the habeas corpus question yesterday.
Augusta, March 20.—A number of negroes,
having built a raft on Briar creek, about 100 miles
below this city, floated out, and attempted to
reach the Savannah river in order to join tho Yan
kees at Savannah. The raft struck a torpedo,
which blew it up. Not 0110 of the party has been
beard, of smoe—-all were.- lost,
ft
,*.-—**
A Historical Illustration, —When South
Carclioji was overrun by the British, in our
great revolutionary war of the past century,
among many othera, Gols. Marion and Horry,
of that State, without auy coneert ot action
and without the knowledge of each other,
mounted their steads an J set out to the north
ward iu search of safety and of troops with
which to fight the battles of their country. —
They met, to their mutual surprise and joy,
in the solitary forests of North Carolina. A
graphic account of the incidents of this hegira
of tbe two patriots is given in Horry's Life of
Marion The two exiles halt in the shade by
the road side to take some food, and good old
Peter Horry gives the following as a part of
their conversation .
“ I shall never lorget an expression, ’ says
Horry. “ which Marion let fall during our
repast, and which, as things have turned out,
clearly shows what an intimate acquaintance
he [Marion] had with human nature. I hap
pened to say that our happy days were all
gone.”
, “Pshaw. Horryy” replied Marion, “don’t
give way lo RU« faars. Onr happy days
are not all gone,.. On the contrary the victory
|is still sure. The enemy, it is true, have all
; the trumps in their hands, and if they had but
i the spirit to play a treneroas game, would cer-
I tainly ruin us. But they have no idea of that
i game; but will treat the people cruelly. And
j that one thing will ruin them, and save Ame-
I rica.”
When those incidents occurred. Georgia and
Carplina had just been overrun by thoßritish.
Savannah, CharDsfon and Augusta had been
recently captured. All the important towns
and a vast proporieis of the territory of the
Thirteen Colonies were in the enemy’s hands.
Reconstructionists, alias Tories, abounded.—
At one country house the two Continental of
ficers were refused lodgings because they wore
the uniform which showed that they were op
posed to “ King George. ’
At another, honest old Peter wa3 jeere * by
a wise crowd of bombproofs and fireside gen
erals, who were discussing the depreciation of
the currency and the folly of continuing the
war at the public cross roads. “The situa
tion” for the “rebels” looked desperate Yet
Marion did not despair. Under the wise lead
ership of the immortal Aasbingtou. the des
perate fortunes of the Colonies were retrieved.
Independence came years afterwards, thiougb
yests of struggle and blood. The softsbellefi
bombproofs and fireside generals became ar
dent, self-aaorificing patriots, so soon as they
had enjoyed the blessed cruelties of British
supremacy for a season, —Lynchburg Rcpub
Ths Yankees ik Paris.—A Pari? correspond
ent thus details foaie of the antics of a gang o'’
inevitable Yankees »t » court ba! it ;he Tuilie
ries t
Tfcte next and third bail ?Su imon takes
place at the Tuillares to morrow evening. The
real- for prfesentatio>i amt,ng me Americans is im
mense, and as the number which he will present
is limited, and Mr. Bigely is determined, as fa? a?
he cau judge, to Ui'roduce persons of the irgboit
respectability, there will o« many disappointment*!.
At the laat hall one of thcee things occurred which
have v tendency to make the Anserieao name
abroad a synonym for ill hr’eding and bad man
ners. In the Salle de Murechanx is a raised plat
form, on which the Limperoi- and tho imperial
families sit, surrounded by lha Court and the Dip
lomatic corps.
Before them is aa open space for dancing; hut,
while the Bcaperor remains in the room, enly per
sons connected wiih the court and so ngnera of
very high rank are expected to dance there. It
seems, however, that at the last ball a party of
enterprising American ladies and gentleman, re
garbless of the rule, '•'pitched in” and h* 1 the
honor of dancinsr before the Eisper-if—f*o r !t j a
said, without his having asked who those \ , “'.de
people” were. Will hhoddy, when it tore' * k rlf
into society, never learn ia advance so«rtrag of
tta usages, and confers* to tbnuD
THE 33 CITY.
T. J. JACKSON LOCAL EDITOR
Auction PmCES.-The following pricca wTro
obtained at auction yesterday, by Myers, Watson
A Cos.:
Ono negro namod Sam, 29 years old, SSOOO.
loney, 30 yeprs old, $3475 ; Jim, 34 years eld
$0000: one woman named Martha, with 3 chil
dren, $4750; Davis, 13 years old, $2900; Hubbard
Sarah and Mark, $9300; one girl, 12 years old,
$2945; Berry, 28 years old, $3500; Lewis and
Anderson, 17 and ly, sgloiT; Hagar and 4 chil
uren, SSOOO ; Oliver, 28 years old, $6000; Jaoob,
Mary and son, S9OOO • Jonas, 16 years old, $3350
Gardner, 15 years old, $3250; Charity, 31 years
old, !5204)0 ; Lewis, 15 years old, $2450 ; Berry, U
years old, $2925; Gabriel, 18 years old, $3350
candlos, $6 per lb; cigars, $l7O per thousand,
watches, S6OO to $1250; sugar, $7 25 corn. $1
per bushel; 2 wheelbarrows, SIOO each.
Other sales unimportant,
Ihe Ladies’ Meeting.—Yes, the ladies of
Coluffibus have actually met in solomn conclave,
and declared tbi;:r unalterable determination to
sacrifice tha last of masculinity, espe
cially their husband’s nearest relative s, and a
considerable sprinkling of preachers, editors and
doctors thrown in for good measure. As they sa v
nothing of practical printers, who have i.n their,
pockets the only kind of exemption declare -d by
the ladies to be honorable, we begin to feel ?\ ma
wbat relieved, though we confess, at the firstai gkt
of their resolutions, felt awfully “saeart.” Iu
some of the positions tako ~ we think our lath's*
are perfectly right. They are right in endeavor -
ing to create a state of public opinion at hoitit
which will force to the front all able-bodied men
whose services can ho dispensed with here. They
a re right in their determination to covenant to- •
gather ic frowning down “skulkers’’ from
and those who prefer lie ease and laurels of the
rear to “tha pomp and of glorious
war.” They are righ iu rheir expressions of wil
lingness to bestow the labors of their hands to
mitigating tho hardships of the soldier’s lot, and
to bind up the broken hearts of their loved ones
at home, by the constant practice of benevolence
They are right in their recommendation of the
practice of the strictest economy among the ladies
of the South, and in n*serting. their willingness to
sacrifice all their valuables to sustain the Govern
ment. But whoa they take upon themselves to
ostracise *fcose who h<:vbeen legally ~ud hontw
ahi> exempted by tao Goieruracr t, as likely to
render mere effective service to the country in
their vocations at home than in the ranks, ]we ar»
not 80 ready to give our adhesion to their "action
As far as regards editors, wo have only to say that
the assembled wisdom of the nation have had their
cases under consideration for three yoara, and at
each session of Congress the verdict has bees
rendered that editors were doing more good ia
their sanctums than they could do with their urns
ksts. Congress has also decided time and again
that they have no right to interfere with minister#
of religion, and we are glad they hare «o decided,
for, whenever tho day eimes that minister* are
forced into the ranks, the smiles and favor of
heaven will no longer accompany us as a nation,
If any of this class feel it their duty to volunteer ,
we shall not complain, bat we are decidedly op
posed to force being us.id in their case, cither by
the Government at Richmond, or in tho shape of
public opinion at hora-i.
Os other cases Mentioned In the resolutions,
tho government is the best j\idge as to where a
man’s services are most us'ful, and with its decisioa
we are content. I”a public sentiment at homo
should drive into tho army those who have boea
declared indispensably necessary at home. The
I ladies will rfea e • *.r4o.> ,s for taking issue wish
i them on their last rsiOlation. Ia the main w<*
| consider their aMion right and proper, and belies
1 taem to have beer actuated by . ru ciples M pm*
patriotism. They hav&u mo nobly and well, aud
may the blessings of ven shield them from the
fufe of many of our m'ple countrywomen in «uh
er sections.
AUCTION SALES.
1
Bj Ellis, Sc Co*
ON SATURDAY, 25th inst.. at 11 o’clock
we will sell in front of on store, .
A Splendid set 0" PLATED SILVER
WARE, consisting of:
2 Large Dish Covers.
1 Soup Tureen,
1 Steak Dish,
2 Chaffing Dishes,
1 Butter Tub,
2 Bowls and Ice Stand,
1 Egg Stand,
12 Cups and Spoons, (gold lined),
i 1 Castor and Pickle Stand.
All the above cau be seen at the store of T.
S. Spear, until the d.-jr of sale.
ALSO —
zxt the saren time and place,
10,000 lbs. SUGAR, various grades—io
Barrels and Sacks,
A Lot of choice LEAF LARD.
—also —
A FINE ENGLISH PISTOL, in ma*
hogany case, with all the fixtures com-*
plete.
ALSO,
A NEGRO WOMAN, 28 years old, and
her three children, 7 and A'years old,
and infant to ty months oid—tolerable
Cook, Wf :1k r and Ironer, very desira*
ble in house or farm,
march 23 S7B
ALSO,
200 lbs. Fine Hal ness Leather,
5 small Circular Saws and Shafting,
1 FINE HARNESS AND SADDLI
HORSE, 6 years old.
march 24 $8
AT PRF ATE SALE
BY V/ATSON & C f
5! LUa cy NEGROES*
All sound and mostly between
and thirty years of age.
Among the number are thr
Blacksmiths, two Extra Uarpe
Engineer and No. 1. Butch'
class ?Cook, Washers,
extra Field Hatds
Parties ir. want of any
will apply immediately.
Sold for no fault, owf
change residence
mar !0- ts
Irisli Fc
A FINE LOT just r#
RA*
march 24-2 W .
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