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DAILY TIMES.
J. W. W4KItE\, - - - Editor.
COLUMBUS:
Tuesday Morning, November 22,1864.
From Macon.
A dispatch was received in this city yester
day from Macon, stating that the Superinten
dent of the Central Railroad had received or
ders to go to work to repair that portion of
the road which had been damaged by the
Yankees. The dispatch further stated that
the ‘‘news was favorable,” but gave no par
ticulars. We incline to the opinion that the
Column which made a deniuiisl ration upon
Macon has done its work and wiil now seek to
form ajuuction with tbe main body moving
upon Augusta. The object of this demon
stration was, doubtless, to drive our forces
into Macon and then out. the Central railroad
so as to prevent the sending of reinforcements
to Augusta or elsewhere, .a the Yankee front.
We have not heard whether SfiHedgeville has
felt the torch, but presume it has as (here was
no force left for its defence, and the enemy,
doubtless, knew the fact. AVe fear that for
several days we shall be compelled to rely on
the reports of passengers for the news we
shall get from the East The machinery,
type, &c., of the Macon Telegraph Confeder
ate is now lying in the Muscogee Depot, and we
suppose that our ether cotemporaries ia that
city were equally regardful of their welfare.
Our readers wilt suffer much from tbeir sus
pension, as we must, for a while, depend up
on our western exchanges and the telegraph
for news.
(communicated.)
Transportation One of Sherman’s Diffi
culties.
Estimating Sherman’s army at three corps—four
regiments to a brigade, three brigades to a division,
and throe divisions to a corps : estimating 500
men to a regiment, 2,000 to a brigade, 6,000 to a
division, and 18,000 to a corp3, ho would have
an army of 54,000 divided into three corps. De
duct 33;', per cent for disabled men and employees
of various kinds, which is a moderate deduction)
would give him 36,000 fighting men, while he
would have 54,000 to provide for.
This would require the following transportation,
allowing that ho started with ten days food fer
the men, and one and one-half days for the horses,
and this much he would have to carry, never
mind how abundant the country may be through
which ho makes his campaign. The transporta
tion allowed provides for tents for certain depart
ments which must have them to transact the or
dinary business of a campaign, but makes no
allowance for moro than “flies” for the men, and
hardly that, and leaves out altogether the forage
and corn which must necessarily be carried for
the artillery and the wagons necessary to haul
from the surrounding country, forage and corn for
at least ten thousand horses, which number would
accompany such au army exclusive of the cavalry
horses.
Corps, H’dqrs. and Adjt.'s office, 2 Wagons.
Quartermaster and employees, 1 do
Commissary and employees, 1 do
Ordnance officer and employees, 1 do
Medical Director and employees, 1 do
Three corps, 6 6
Div., Hdqrs, and Adjt’s office, 2 do
“ Commissary and employees, 1 do
“ Q M and employees, 1 do
“ Ord. officer and employees, 1 do
“ Surgeon, 1 do
Three divisions to a corps, 6 18
Brigade Headquarters, 1 do
“ QM and employees, 1 do
“ Com’sary and employees, 1 do,
“ Ord. office and employees, 1 do
“ Surgeon, 1 do
Nine brigades to a corps, 5 45
Regimental Field and staff, 1 do
Comin’sy officers regiment, 1 do
Every 100 men, 1 wagon, 5 do
Ordnance to each regiment 2 do
Regimental Surgeon, 1 do
Medical Wagon, 1 do
Cooking Utensils, 1 do
36 regiments to a corps, 12 each 432
1000 rations, 18,000 men, _ 240
Number of wagons to each corps, 741
Three corps, « 3
2223
Alllow for Headquarters afd attaches to
General Commanding, Reserve Ord
nance, Commissary and Quartormaa
trains, Ambulance and Medical ‘Pur*
veyor, ’ 300
Total, 2523
This is a small estimate, and yet it will occupy
in a straight line a space ou the of twenty
five miles, and after the first ten days from Atlan
ta, which time has already elapsed, he will have
to gather daily from the country 54,000 pounds of
flour or corn meal, the same quantity of beef
tor which salt will have been provided and hauled
or one half the quantity of bacon. On such a
march this is the least he could subsist his men
upon.
For his horses he would have, including his
cavalry, estimated at 10,000, at least 20,000 horses
t°iProvide for and these would consume daily 4,000
bushels and 200,000 to forage. To collect this in
an enemy’s country is utterly impossible if the
people are true to themselves.
These difficulties ho must encounter unless as is
stated he started with 25 days rations, and if he
did they will impose upon him the necessity of
guarding a train of commissary stores alone, of
eighteen miles in length, besides all of his other
transportation, making his whole line of transpor
tation, exclusive of artillery, nearly 40 miles,
leaving him to provide forage and corn on the
route for all his animals.
If he succeeds in passing through Georgia
without utter destruction, it will be the most re
markable campaign on record. Its success will
reflect the highest credit ca the General who exe
cuted it, and leave reproaches Olympus high on
the people who failed to defeat it.
An Army Man.
Western Mexico. —The steamer John L. Ste
vens, from Mazatlan, atrived at San Francisco, |
November 3rd, with Western Mexican dates to
Oct. 25th.
Several prominent Mexicans came by her, hav- i
ing left Mazatlan in anticipation of the speedy
capture of the place by the French fleet. Nearly
everybody at Mazatlan appeared desirous that the
French would soon arrive and make an end of the
different chieftains successively impoverishing the
people by forced contributions.
The principal French force in Western Mexico
was understood to be marching towards Chihua
hua ; the last stronghold of Juarez and Ortega.
Important Decision. —George C. Brown,
teller of the bank of Virginia, at Danville,
having been arrested by the enrolling officer as
a conscript, sued out a writ of habeas corpus,
claiming exemption as a State officer. Last
week the case came before Judge Wingfield,
ot the circuit court, who decided that not
withstanding the petitioner held the certifi
cate of the Governor to the necessity of his
exemption, he was not included in the list of
the persons exempted by the act of Congress ;
tbp f oHlceis were not State officers, and
custo h dv nMi ’ re Tf ded the P etiti °ner to the
custody of the military authorities.
[Lynchburg Republican.
Lincoln is destined to disgrace the very
name of statesmanship, says the Meridian
Clarion, by another four years of an imbecile
and barbarous administration. With all the
office holders, the Generals and most of the
army tinder his control, and with Seward and
Stanton and the other satellites of his cabinet
to shout, lie and urge on by bribery and oth
erwise the hungry and unreflecting crowd, he
has succeeded in baffling the efforts of the
Democratic party. His election is of course
an endorsement of the policy of subjugation
—of the regeneration of the republic on the
basis of freedom, and we of the South must
therefore prepare ourselves for another vigor
ous campaign. The election of a Republican
again will encourage that party and justify
them in making new calls on the people for
the shambles of Virginia and Tennessee. The
people of these States must rise in their
strength and support and sustain the noble
band of heroes at the front. Even man must
feel the extent of his obligations and wash
himself cjt-ar of averice and speculation.
Those who gained us independence in ’76 were
cheerful and brave wrestlers with time, trial
and necessity, toil and war—dilligent workers
in a thousand different ways in which they
reaped but little for themselves beyond the
fame which hallows their memories. We
must yet learn to follow in tbeir footsteps,
satisfied with earning the bread thm sustains
life and enables the physical powers to meet
the exigencies of the hour. Prompt and strong
efiorts will now be made by the great widow
maker of the North for our ruin as soon as the
Spring of 1865 is sufficiently advanced to ad
mit of martail operations. We want indepen
dence and we want peace and that right speed
ily, and to obtain these the “vigorous prepara
tions” of the enemy must be rendered futile.
Strengthen and consolidate the army as far
as practicable, and let all resolve to endure
every trial until the achievement of that inde
pendence, great, glorious and free, which
God always gives to those who are in the
right.
It is not numerical strength that always
give success in battle, but the momentum im
parted by the moral qualities of an army, by
its spirit, its resolution, its audacity and the
genius of its leaders, exerted at the critical
moment and at the critical point. This has
been illustrated on many fields during the
present revolution, and particularly on those
where Forrest marshalled his hosts for battle.
He infuses resolution and boldness, and by
greater momentum always overcomes an ene
my vastly superior in mere physical strength.
The great Napoleon, too, has furnished some
salient illustrations of these truths in those
battles where he overcame armies that great
ly excelled his own in point of numbers. He
lays it down as a general principle, that the
main object of a General should be to compel
the enemy to bring his reserve in o action at
an early period, and thus exhaust them be
fore his own fresh troops are brought upon
the field. Thus, at Marengo, by placing him
self at the head of the aimy, at the moment
when it was in full retreat, and leading a detni
brigade to the charge, he induced Melas to
believe that the French reserve had actually
been brought up. The Austrian Commander
then threw forward his own reserve of 6,000
men, on which Napoleon retreated, and Melas
considered the battle gained ; but at the dis
tance of half a league Napoleon came upon
his own reserve, 6,000 strong, ordered it for
ward, at the same time that he directed Kel
lerman to charge with 800 cavalry, who had
not yet been in action, on the enemy’s flank,
broke his line, captured the reserve, and drove
the rest of the array in confusion across the
Bermida. And this was accomplished by the
superior momentum of the fresh troops,
launched against the enemy at the moment
when bis whole force was wearied with a
protracted contest, and his line weakened by
an incautious advance. “For,” says Napo
leon, “in battles there is always a moment
when all the brave men have done their best,
when they seek nothing better than to run
away, but these are misgivings of tile heart;
they want a pretext—the talent is to give
them one. At Areola I gained the battle with
twenty-five horsemen. I perceived the crit
ical moment of lastitude in each army. I saw
that the Austrians, in spite of their being old
soldiers, would have been well contented to
find themselves in camp; and that my French
men, all brave as they were, had wished to be
in their tents. All my forces had been en
gaged—more than once I had been forced to re
establish the battle. There remained to me
but five and twenty guides. I sent them on
the flank of the enemy with three trumpets
sounding a charge very loud. ‘Here is the
French cavalry,’ was the cry—they speedily
took flight.” The commanders of our armies
should give them this momentum. The ene
may outnumber us and we must make up the
deficiency by brilliant genius, boldness and
spirit. —Meridia Clarion.
Missouri.—The most trustworthy informa
tion about Missouri, says the Examiner, comes
through the New Fork papers. It is now
generally admitted that Price has not been
defeated at all, and has not been driven out of
Missouri. The Herman (Missouri) Volksblat,
the late Fremont organ, gives vent to its
wrath over the military and political situation
aslollows:
“Within the last targe weeks the rebels have
marched from Pilot Knob through our whole
State, plundering, murdering and destroying,
and none of our generals have as yet succeed
ed in inflicting a severe defeat upon them.—
Many millions worth of property has Price de
stroyed within these three weeks and stolen
almost as large an amount, and it seems as if
he were not only to escape with his plunder,
but as ifhe were also to retain possession of
part of our State for some time to come. And
to whom do we owe all this misfortune? No
body but our administration—our supreme
rulers in Washington. Mr. Lincoln has no
time to attend to Missouri—he mu3t devote
all his attention to the important business of
his re-election; is not Missouri “compara
tively quiet ? Oh, yes, if things go on this
way, Missouri will pretty soon enjoy the quiet
of the grave, and the once prosperous State
will be nothing but a desert. Hurrah for Lin
coln. The enthusiasm for Lincoln increases
every day, but only amongst the rebels. Reb
el officers, whilst in our city of Herman, ad
vised bur citizens to vote for Lincoln. They
said, “Lincoln is the right man 1” and cheered
for “both Lincoln and Jeff Davis.”
A Signal Exploit op a Young Negro—
Dave, a negro boy, only sixteen years old, be
longing to Gen. Brantley, of this vicinity,
gave us yesterday a relation of his capture of
a Yankee soldier who had made his escape
from prison at Cahaba. We have no other
confirmation of this relation, but the circum
stances and consistency of his story leads us
to confide in its truthfulness and has also in
spired our admiration of the tact and courage
of a boy of his age. He says that he met the
\ ankee on a road running through his
master’s plantation and directed him to go to
a certain outhouse where he would bring him
something to eat and a pair of shoes, he be
ing almost, starved and entirely barefooted.
The Yankee went to the house indicated, where
Dave also soon repaired, not, however, with
victuals and shoes, but armed with a loaded
pistol which he presented to the Yankee’s
breast, demanding his instant surrender. To
1 all the pleadings, entreaties and sophistry of
' the Yankee, Dave was obdurate and would
listen to nothing but an absolute surrender,
lie did accordingly surrender and Dave march
led him a prisoner to his master, who, he says,
had him delivered to the commandant of the
post here, to be sent back to prison at Caha
ba.—Selma Mississippian , 18lA.
Western Kentucky.
A correspondent of the Chicago Times, referring
to the lata Federal scare in Western Kentucky,
gives an explanation of its origin entirely new.
He says:
On last Sunday night the people of Smithland,
Kentucky, indulged in a tremendous scare. The
farce was on a graud scale, and, pell-mell, the
poor ignorant ones who were not in the secret,
went headlong into Paducah, praying to be saved
from the legion of murderous “ grillis” that were
supposed to be at tbeir heels. The knowing ones
who had speculation in their eyes affected, of
course, to be terribly frightened, in order to play
out their game successfully. #
The secret of the doings of these intense patri
ots, is easily explained, and it is this: A large
number of these adventurers, that this war has
sent into all posts that are occupied by our troops,
have made money by trafficing with soldiers, sell
ing them nuts, bad pies, and villainous whisky ;
and at Smithland, Othello-like, they find their oc
cupation gone, since that post has been almost en
tirely abandoned as a place for quartering large
bodies of troops, and their enormous profits on
rifle whi sky bad ceased to flow into their loyal
pockets, and, therefore, they got up these mon
strous scares to induce the military authorities to
station a large force there, that they may resume
their loyal practices again. AV'el 1 informed per
sons from that region of the country are satisfied
that this was the whole aim and object of last
Sunday night’s piecouoerted scare, for there was
not, and had not been for months, a guerrilla
withiu miles of Smithland who hail the remotest
intention of attacking the place. Abolition pa
pers, will, I d' übt not, parade the huge and cruel
hoax seriously before their readers, with the dou
ble purpose of helping their loyal partisan friends
in their scheming efforts, and for the additional
purpose of defending that arch murderer and rob
ber, Gen. E. A. Paine. A mibbite Abolitionist
must make his loyalty pay.
Os the outrageous acts of official tyranny per
petrated in that region, the following is related:
I notice a New York paper, true to the entire
record of its exigence, attempts a defence of Gen.
Paine, and says, if he shot guerrillas and banish
ed disloyal persons, he did no more than his duty.
Let me relate a c ise that is notorious in Paducah,
and the facts can be learned by all who so wish
trom almost any citizen of the place, Republican
or Democrat. During Gen. Paine’s reign, a man
went to him r.nd informed him that a certain man,
living some seven or eight miles from the town,
was a rebel sympathizer, and that at one time he
had killed a good Union man, Ac. He did not,
nor was ho asked to make oath to his statement,
and it should be further remembered that the in
formant had had a personal difficulty with the
man he informed upon. Gen. Paine ordered a
squad of negroes to go to the house of this man,
arrest and shoot him, and bring his body to Pa
ducah, that he might with his own eyes, see that
he was dead. The negroes went and arrested him.
The gentleman’s family were in the greatest grief
at his arrest, but he assured his wife and children
that the General would certainly release him as
soon as he could see him ; that he had never been
guilty of anything, and, therefore, it must be
some mistake by which he was arrested.
The family were comforted with tho balief that
the husband and father would certainly return
that evening to his home ; hut night camo and ho
did not return. Morning came, and their anxiety
compelled them to send to Paducah to hear what
tidings they could of him. When they went to
Gen. Paine, he answered that he could not tell
them. Thus matters continued for four days,
when the friends of the family found the body iu
the pest house, riddled with bullets and partially
devoured by rats, and then Gen. Paine thought
he was taxing his humanity, to allow them to
take the mutilated and decaying remains and have
them decently buried. This murdered man was
not even guilty of the high crime of being a Dem
ocrat. He had incurred the displeasure of a Pa
ducah leaguer, and an intenser Lincoln man, and
therefore he was the victim of one of tho most di
abolical outrage® upon record.
♦ »
The Chicago Times on Negro Soldiers
for the South.— The convention of rebel
Governors, which met on the 17th instant, at
Augusta, determined, among means of in
creasing tbe Confederate armies, to recommend
to the rebel Congress the arming of negroes.
This action on the part of the Governors gives
the project an importance that it has not
hitherto possessed, and makes it tolerably
certain that the scheme will speedily assume
a practical form. It is scarcely necessary to
reiterate that this determination changes ma
terially the character and magnitude of South
ern resistance. While it will be sneered at
by the partizan press, it will be regarded with
serious apprehension by men who are capable
of appreciating the matter in al! its bearings.
It indicates, on the part of the South, a de
termination to avail herself of all possible
means of resisting a war which, as at present
conducted, leaves her nothing to do but fight
as long as she can raise a soldier and a mus
ket. It shows a vastly increased capacity for
resistance on the part of the South, closes up
one of the main sources from which we have
been latterly drawing our recruits, and opens
in the North a vista in the future along which
we see interminable war, and intolerable,
everlasting conscription. Tbe next Southern
draft will take negroes ; the South will thus
be able to increase its army to a half million
or men.
It was the aggression of abolitionism that
provoked the present contest. It is barely
within the limits of possibility that the very
class for whom a mistaken or dishonest phil
anthropy has plunged this country into this
vast war may be the instruments which will
sweep from existence their would be benefac
tors.—Times, Oct. 30th.
A Mob at Trenton, New Jersey.—On Sat
urday night before the election, a railroad
train at Trenton, New Jersey, ran into a Mc-
Clellan procession Grossing the track, striking
a boat carried on' a wagon, and containing
thirty-six young ladies, representing the States
of the “Union.” A telegram says :
When it became evident that a collision
must occur, an effort was made to stop the
engine, but it struck the hind wheels of the
wagon, carrying the end of the vehicle about
twenty feet, and upsetting the boat and the
ladies. Fortunately, none of them were killed,
and none, we hear, seriously injured, though
it was reported that a man’s leg was broken.
The excitement at the time was fearful. Sev
eral hundred men gathered around the engine,
which had stopped. The engineer and fire
man fled for their lives, and escaped in the
confusion.
The mob became infuriated, and attempted
to destroy the locomotive, not being able to
find the engineer, on whom they desired to
wreak their vengeance. They threw their
stones at the engine, breaking the reflector,
and injuring it in other respects, but failed to
break it. They crowded themselves on to it
and on the cars, and managed to run the train
back to the depot.
Afterward, another engine was procured,
and its engineer, who was known to be friend
ly to the crowd, attempted to take the train
on its way. But the mob threatened him, and
he was not permitted to proceed. Fearing
that the tract would be destroyed, or the
bridge burned, the attempt to go forward was
abandoned.
Subsequently, when the train had been de
layed more than an hour, some of the leaders
of the procession were consulted. These men
rode on the engine, declaring to the crowd
that it was “all right,” and so the train was
taken out of Trenton.
Kentucky. —Our news from Kentucky is
very cheering as to the sentiments of the peo
ple. They long for the coming of Southern
arms to set them free : and their hatred of the
North is deep-seated and bitter. They are
suffering sadly now from the effects of their
neutrality system, at first advocated.
Private letters from Kentucky, say that the
State is filled with marauders, who ore mur
dering people for their money, and- it is not
safe to travel the roads in some portions of
the State by night or day.
Massachusetts men are coming into Ken
tucky and buying the negroes at $1,500 a
piece. The owner divides the money with the
negro, and the Yankees run the negroes off
North and put them in the army as substi
tutes. The Yankee army is now being filled
up with negroes and foreigners of the mean
est type.
A mass meeting was held, some days since,
in one of the towns of the State, for n ratifica
tion of Lincoln's nomination. No Kentuck
ians participated ; only foreigners spoke, while
four thousand Niggers and Dutch cheered the
orators
. TELEGRAPHIC.
REPORTS OF THE PRESS ASSOCIATION.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year
1863, by J. S. Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office of
the District Court of the Confederate States for
the Northern District of Georgia.
Macon, Ncv. 21. —The enemy have retired
from the immediate vicinity of this city. Their
nearest force is eight miles distant. No in
fantry force whatever in this neighborhood.—
It is still undecided whether or not the city
will be attacked:|if it should be the fullest
confidence is felt in our ability to defend it.—
All indications point to Augusta as the route
taken, by the infantry. Reflections of large
fires seen in the direction of Milledgeville. All
excitement has subsided here. The people
are quiet and confident.
Fearful Tragedy.
A frightful tragedy was enacted on Monday
last near Tibbee, the particulars of which we
learn Irom a gentleman who resides in that vicin
ity. The perpetrator of the foul deed wai a man
by the name of Robert Wingfield. For some time
he has been trying to get a divorce from his wife
in order to marry again, but failed; and at the
time of the deed was living separate from her.
Monday last he hired a negro boy to go to-his
wife’s house and murder her. The boy went to
the house, and calling Mrs. Wingfield to the door,
first choked her down and then drew a knife and
inflicted many frightful gashes upon her head and
throat, after which he fled, thinking her dead.
The news having spread the country—Mrs. AY.
recovering sufficiently to give information—a
search was made for the negro by the neighbors.
During the search, suspicion resting on Wing
field, his house was visited, where he was found in
company with a young man who was living with
him. During the conversation with the party he
betrayed signs of guilt, and after their departure
he remarked to the young man that he would
have to kill the negro (who was then under his
house) to save himself from trouble.
Accordingly he next morning took the negro
out and shot him with two loads of buckshot—
one through the heart and the other through the
head. He was present at the inquest next morn
ing, stated that it was the negro who had attempt
ed the killing of his wife, and that he had caught
and killed him. He was then arrested, and the
s||fove facts brought forward in the trial duly con
ducted by the citizens, he paid the penalty of his
crime on a tree near by. AYingfield has long been
regarded a bad man/ and has been several times
implicated in deeds almost as dark and Terrible as
this one, but has heretofore escaped his doom.
His wife, though still alive, is la a dreadful con
dition. But little hope is entertained of her re
covery, She’is represented to us as a good wo
man.— Columbus (Miss.) Republic.
The correspondent of the Louisville Jour
nal, with Sherman’s army, admits that Gen.
Hood’s movements must have disarranged the
former’s “well matured plans for a fall cam
paign,” but at the same time maps out a rnag
nificant programme for the puzzled flanker.—
In one of his late letters he says:
I see nothing to prevent Sherman from de
taching forty thousand men to hold Hood in
check and protect his communications, and,
with sixty thousand more, and by rapid move
ments, swing his left around, capture Augus
ta, Milledgeville, advance via the Savannah
river, take Savannah from the rear, open up a
short line of supplies via the Alabama river
and the numerous railways centering at Macon
and Atlanta, withdraw twenty or thirty thous
and troops from his old line, and, with his
short line oi supplies, mostly by water, and an
overwhelming army, make a winter campaign
in South Carolina or Alabama. Hood has
not more than forty thousand men, and can
not increase it to over sixty thousand, were
he, as Grant says, “to rob the cradle and the
grave,” while Sherman can easily command
twice that nutnbe; when he has reaped the
fruits of the recent drafts. Every intelligent
reader who will study thejmap and the situa
tion in Georgia, and estimate the respective
strength of the two armies, must see at a
glance that the enemy cannot long prevent
Sherman from cutting his way in triumph to
the ocean.
A Female Guerrilla. —One of the pecu
liarities of Berry’s band of cut throats is the
officer second in command, recognized by the
men as Lieut. Flowers. The officer in ques
tion is a young woman, and her right name is
Sue Monday. She dresses in male attire, gen
erally sporting a full Confederate uniform.
Upon her head she wears a jaunty plumed
hat, beneath which escapes a wealth of dark
brown hair, falling around and down her
shoulders in luxuriant curls. She is possessed
of a comely form, has a dark, piercing eye, is
a bold rider and a daring leader. Prior to
connecting herself with Berry’s gang of out
laws, she was associated with the band com
manded by the notorious scoundrel Capt. Al«
exandcr, who met his doom—a tragic death—
a short time ago in Southern Kentucky.
Lieut. Flowers, or Sue Monday, is a prac
ticed robber, and many ladies, who have been
so unfortunate as to meet her on the highway
can 'estify with what sang froid she presents
a pistol and commands, “stand and deliver.”
Her name is becoming widely known, and to
the ladies it is always associated with horror.
On Friday evening she robbed a young lady
of Harrodsburg of her watch and chain. If
the citizens had not so ut ceremoniously ex
pelled the thieving band from the town, in all
probability this she-devil in pantaloons would
have paid her respects to all of the ladies of
the place, ana robbed them of their jewelry
and valuables. She is a dangerous character,
and for the sake of the fair ladies of Kentucky,
we hope that she may soon be captured and
placed in a position (hat will prevent her
from repeating her unlady-like exploits.
[Louisville Journal.
Col. Tennent Lomax, of the 3d Alabama
Infantry, was no less remarkable for his dig
nity of bearing than for his gallantry upon
the field. He was also a man of great mili
tary pride, and spared neither time nor trou
ble in perfecting his command in all the min
or as well as more important duties of the sol
dier.
Among the members of his regiment was a
Dutchman, rejoicing in the familiar and eu
phonious soubrequet of “ Schnider.'’ Now
Scbnider had less penchant for tactics than
enjoying a cozy nap. Scbnider was upon
post—it wa6 the third w r atch—and Schnider’s
eyes but little higher than the moon. The
Colonel was going the “grand rounds.”
“Who ish dere ?” demanded Dutchy.
“Grand Rounds !” was the answer.
“To hell mit yer Grand Rounds ! I dought
it was der Corporal of the mit de relief.”
The consequence was Schnider received a
severe reprimand, with his instructions how
to receive the Grand Rounds.
“When the Grand Rounds approach you,
sir,” said the Colonel, among other formality
ties, “you must ‘turn out the guards.’”
“Yah !”
In course of time it came Schnider’s turn
to go on guard again. Early in the night the
Colonel had occasion to pass beyond the lines
at Schnider’s post.
“Halt 1” said the faithful guard as he ap
proached. The Colonel disregarded the sum
mons, % and continued tu advance. “Halt, I
say ! who ish dere ?”
About this time, the Colonel’s foot came in
violent contact with a grub, which caused
him so much pain as to exclaim : “ God Al
mighty /”
“Turn out the twelve Apostles!” roared
Schnider, “God Almighty ish on der rounds !”
An African Copperhead. —A correspond
ent of-the New York Observer states that a
short time ago an old African, in one of the
negro meetings, held in Washington, rose and
said :
“Brederen, I does want to see peace flow
down our streets like a ribber, yes, breddten,
just like a ribber ; aud, breddren, I does want
to see sugar eight cents a pound !”
From his talk about peace and high prices,
says the Chicago Times, it would be safe to
say that that venerable African is a malig
nant “copperhead,” perhaps without know
ing it.
•X- HEX 33 CIT Y-
T. J. JACKSON LOCAL EDITOR.
For Cliattalioocliee.
The steamer Indian, Fry, Master, will leave
for the above and intermediate landings, to-morrow
morning, at 9 o’clock.
Sales To-Day. —Ellis, Livingston & Cc. ad
vertise the sale at auction to-day, of salt, tobacco,
shoes, clothing, carriages, horses, Ac. See adver
tisements.
mm • m
More Bad Weather. —Bad news and bad
weather seem to go together. Yesterday was a
peculiarly gloomy day, both on account of the
doings of Sherman in Georgia, and the dark,
rainy chilly weather. The sight of a cheerful
countenance was like angels’ visits. Now is
probably one of tho darkest hours in our feelings
and history. Let us try to preserve our equanim
ity of temper, and look forward hopefully. Per
haps we may soon be enabled to discern tho silver
lining in the clouds, and the bow of promise
gleaming smilingly from the horizon. The God
of all the earth will do right, and though tho
future seems marked with sufferings, all will
doubtless work out for our good in the end.
Killed Accidentally.— AA T e learn that Mr.
Henry Thorna*, a member of Capt. Pemberton’s
cavalry of our city, was killed by an accidental
pistol shot, at Macon, on Sunday night. Henry
was a son of Mrs. Anna Thomas, of Beallwood,
was a gallant youth ; has been in the service at
different times since the commencement of the
war, and was seriously wounded in one of the
early battles around Richmond. His loss will be
felt by a large and influential relationship, who
have frequently been called during the war to
mourn the loss of loved opes. May the days of
these dreadful immolations on the altars of free
dom be shortened.
Active operations have commenced in Memphis
for the confiscation of property in that city. Tho
Argus contains a list of persons against which pro
ceedings have been instituted. If Beauregard and
Forrest reman in Tennessee, the demand for “city
property will be limited.
The great Irish orator, Grattan, declared in one
of his thrilling speeches, that he had watched be
side the cradle and had followed the hearse of the
Irish nation. Tho biographer of the late Chief
Justice Taney, who has recently died in AVashing
ton city, might appropriately apply this remark to
his career. He was born twelve years after the
adoption of the Constitution, lived to be for more
than thirty years, its chief interpreter, and has
died after having witnessed its overthrow by the
fanaticism of the North culminating in tho horrors
of a bloody civil war.
Prospects of a General AV ar in Europe.— The
Burlin correspondent of the New York Herald, un
der date of Oct. sth, comments on the prospect of a
general war in Europe :
Altogether the situation is extremely curious;
Russia is on the best possible terms wit'i Prussia,
and at the same time marries her Grand Duke to
the daughter of the King of Denmark, whom Prus
sia has already stripped of two-fifths of his domin
ions, and threatens to deprive him of the balance,
England, in all other respects the antipodes of Rus
sia, co-operates zealously with the Czar in patron
izing Denmark, and would gladly brine on a coali
tion against Prussia, whose Crown Prince is the
husband of her Princes Royal. Austria seeks the
alliance of England to protect her from the enmity
of France and Italy, and England is endeavoring to
persuade Austria to join France and Italy against
Russia and Prussia. AVhen wiil be the end of this
imbroglio it is impossible to foretell; but if it does
not resuit in a general war it will only because the
finances oi at least four .of the powers concerned —
Austria, Russia, France and Italy—are in so dilapi
dated a condition that they would not be able to
carry on war for three months without declaring
themselves insolvent.
A Massachusetts soldier, on duty at Indianapolis
writes from that place under date of October 13:
Dear Brother: Did you ever attend au election
out West? It is a big thing ! The people are mere
enlightened of course; it is a natural consequence
that there is more liberty and freedom than in Mas
sachusetts and other benighted lands; so much so
that people vote as many times as they please, and
allow all their friends to do the same, provided they
are “sound on the goose.”
It is estimated that the Sixteenth Massachusetts
regiment cast about six thousanfi votes for Governor
Morton last Tuesday ; and I know that some of the
boys of Company I, voted ten and twelve times each
one.
Afterwards two or three car loads of the regiment
were taken to the town of Greenville—about thirty
five miles from here —and treated to a big dinner. —
It is a copperhead town (or has been.) I think the
boys hardly did their duty while there, for the town
only gave about six thousand Republican majority.
Secession of a Part of Illinois.— The noto
rious John A. Logan stated recently in a speech that
Win. J. Allen, the copperhead candidate for Con
gress in the Thirteenth District, proposed to him in
the beginning of the rebellion to divide the State of
Illinois on the line of the Ohio and Mississippi Rail
road, and the lower half should join the Southern
Confederacy.
OBITUARY,
Another soul has winged its flight to an unknown
world—a gallant soldier is lost to the Confederacy.
Sergt. Edwin M. Horrel, of Cbmpany.'B, Waddell’s
Artillery, was killed in Macon, Ga , Sept, 22d, 1864.
While in a state of intoxication, (I can truly say it
was his only vice,) he attempted to cross the line at
the barracks,'and was! shot by the sentinel on duty.
Mr. H. was about twenty-six years of age. Though
a native of Pennsylvania, his heart was with tne
South. On the breaking out of the present war, he
volunteered in the “Independent Rifles,” 6th Ala
bama regiment. Affer serving in it one year, he re
volunteercd and joined Capt. (now Major) Wad
dell’s battery; was with it through Gen. Bragg’s
Kentucky campaign, in the battle of Baker’s creek
and the siege of Vicksburg, where ho was highly
complimented for the gallant manner in which he
handled his gun —a Napoleon—with which he dealt
death and destruction in the enemy’s ranks. After
the fall of Vicksburg, and the exchange of our army
captured there, the batrery was organized into i a
battalion and Mr. 11. was assigned to Company B,
commanded by Capt. K. 11. Bellamy, who bear3
he never shirked his duty, but per
formed it faithfully and cheerfully. Asa man, he
was intelligent, generous and sympathizing, ever
true in his professions of friendship; as a soldier, he
was brave and gallant, never fearing the enemy’s
missiles of death ; as a printer, (that being his pro
fession) he was ever mindful of the interests of the
craft, and never turned a deaf ear to the appeals for
charity of any one. He was connected, at one time,
with the! Patent office in Washington City, before
the war.
Poor Horrel, thou art gone—cut down in the
prime of life, with no loved ones ne.ir to wipe the
death-damp from thy brow, or shed for thee the
bitter tear. Far from his native land, he has found
a last resting place in the soil of his adoption. No
more will we listen to the many intellectual treats
with which his mind was stored, nor laugh at his
merry anecdotes. His manly voice is stilled in
death—his generous heart has ceased to beat. We
throw over,his faults the mantle of charity; and re
member only his many virtues. May those who
look on his rude headstone, heave one sigh and drop
one tear to the memory of the gallant Northerner,
who was willing to offer up his life in defence of the
land of his adaption. Our hearts are stung by the
recollection that he who had so often faced the ene
my, and escaped unscathed, should meet his death
at the hands of a Southern soldier, who, perhaps,
neverlsaw an enemy. A FRIEND,
Macon, Ga„ Sept 25th, 1864.
Confederate States of America, 'l
War Department, Ordnance Bureau. >-
Richmond, Nov. 11, 1864.)
All officers on Ordnance duty are required
by General Orders, No. 70, Adj’t. & I. G. Office,
Aug. 29, 1864, to report without delay to the Chief
of Ordnance, Richmond, by letter, stating
First. —Their rank.
Second. —Date of commission (or appointment)
giving date from which their rank takes effect.
Third. —Arm of service.
Fourth.— State to which they belong.
Fifth— Date of assignment to Ordnance duty.
Sixth— The authority by which assigned, furnish
ing date, and ifpossible, copy of order of ass gnment
to which will be added present duty, and order of
assignment.
Seventh.— Officers of the Regular Army will report
both their regular and provisional commissions,’, or
appointments, conferring temporary rank.
Failure on the part of officers on Ordnance duty
to report immediately as above, will be treated as
a delinquency, J. GORGAS,
nov22eod4w Chief of Ordnance.
Cairns Hospital. 1
Nov. 21st, lt>64. /
Wanted.
THREE GALLONS MILK per day. delivered at
the Hospital. BYRD C. DALLIS,
nov 21—lw Clerk,
Sun copy lw
theatir pi *
TIESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 221. 11.
mu it I ,!'' aud Mrs ■ W. H. CRISP.
e .' lld and Romantic Drama of the
Brigand Choir
Illustrate p ictur; ,
Picture No. 1-Brigand Cheif Reposing
«fa Bauii ga ° and * " if * It. Result
Picture No. 3—Brigand in Ambush.
Picture No. 4.—The Dyiug Brigand.
POPULAR BALLAD by Miss Maggie Marshal .
With tho glorious Comedy of
SXMPSOW cb 00.
nov22-lt
BLOCKADE GOODS
BY LATE ARRIVALS.
By James 11. Taylor.
Oil Wednesday, Dec. 6, at 9 o’clock,
WILL be sold at my Store, corner of Broad and
' * Campbell streets,
A large assortment of
Foreign aud Domestic Goods.
-&4P’ Particulars in a future advertisement.
Conditions Cash. nov2l-eodtfd
AUCTION SALES
By Ellis, Livingston A ( o
lAN Tuesday, November 22d, at 11 o’clock, we
v/ will sell in front of our store,
One Good Two Horse Rockaway
and Two Setts Harness.
nov2l-td '
By Ellis, Livingston A Cos.,
V\ 7 E will sell on Tuesday, November, 22d, at 11
1' o clock, in front of our Auction Room
-80 Sacks Salt,
10 Boxes Tobacco,
25 Pairs French Shoes,
1 Sewing Machine,
6 Fine Broad Cloth Coats,
1 Close Carriage,
1 Single Harness, (new.)
—also—
-2 Fine Milch Cows and Calves,
1 Thorough-bred Mare and Colt.
1 Single Buggy,
1 Large Iron Safe,
FURNITURE, CLOTHING, Ac., Ac.
nov2l-td sis
FOR SALE]
GIN Boxes of New Orleans Sugar, Shingle Nails
, and Kails of all sizes, at reduced prices, for
sale at J. H. old stand. ’
nov22 6t.
BY TKEEToEmST]
BLACK AMD GREEN TEAS.
1 n HALF-CHESTS BLACK, and five QUARTER-
Ivl CHESTS GREEN. These teas have been se
lected in the London market, and will be found
equal to any ever offered for sale here. For sale at
Mulford’s old stand. novl9-6t.
To Rent
THE Finest Store Room in the city. Corner
1 under Cook’s Hotel. Call at
novll lOt CODY A COLBERT.
Lard
\I ANTED in exchange for Sheetings, Osnaburgs
* and Yarns, at the
nov 5 ltn EAGLE FACTORY.
Notice--Lauds for Sale.
THE subscriber offers for sale one of the most val
uable plantations in Florida—containing 1,882
acres in Wakulla county, Florida; about 550 acres
cleared and under good fence—the balance goci
oak and hickory, and splendid hamoe land, suited
for short and long cotton, and tobacco. Good im
provements, dwelling house, two gin houses and
screws, tobacco barns, overseer’s house, and houses
enough to shelter 100 negroes; school house, black
smith shop, cooper shop, Ac., Ac—lying near the
Gulf, where fish, oysters and foul can bo had at any
time. I will take twenty dollars per acre for the
above described lands, cash paid in hand.
I have a fishery also, in seven miles of the planta
tion, which I will also sell low with the place.
I refer persons to Major Allen, of Columbus, to
whom I have written all about the lands and rheir
advantages. J. BRADWELL,
nov2l-3t*
For Sale.
[ OFFER for sale my residence in AVhitesville. on
1 u LaGrange and Columbus road, fifteen miles
south of LaGrange—a good and commodious house
rooms, four fire places; all necessary out
buildings ; a good garden, aud forty acres of land
attached. Possession given immediately.
Also, one fine HARNESS HORSE.
4fS=- Address me at West Point, Georgia.
novlß-10t Captain W. A. ANDREWS
S3O Reward.
THE above reward will be paid for the arprehen
-1 sion and confinement in the jail of Muscogee
of county M. L. Patterson, about forty yea -s of age
red hair and red whiskers. He was furloughed Aug!
12th, 1864, for 30 days, and has failed to report. He
promised.to report to me in this city on Wednesday,
the 16th inst,; but instead of doing so has sent me
a legal docum&it, of no value in his case, as he is a
deserter. W. L. SALISBURY,
novlß-3t . Major, <ic.
X_iOST~
i iN the 16th instant, between Columbus and Bull
V. Cr D < V^,V°?^^l^ otton / f ! a large russet calf
skin ROCKET BOOK, containing between seven
teen and eighteen hundred dollars in old issue ami
about three hundred and fifty of new issue, and a
number of valuable papers. A liberal reward will
b ? ai m- r tho P° cket book and contents, delivered
at the limes Office, or to me at my residence, nine
miles from Columbus. A. MAGRUDEPv.
no v!7-3t.
AN EXCELLENT PLANTATION
FOR SAXjE.
SEVEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY ACRES—
O 350 open—nearly all fresh —in splendid repair—
excellent fences. Gin house, lots, gates, cabins;
healthy, well watered, nice young orchard: every
thing new: 12 miles below Auburn, near Society
Hill, in Macon county, Ala. —all conveniently ar
ranged, with fine outlet and range ior stock. Land
fertile, soft, and easy of cultivation ; an excellent
neighborhood out of the reach of ordinary raid
Will take Negroes or Cotton in payment for half the
price if purchaser desires it.
Also, ten open Sows, three ordinary Mules, and
five Mtlch Chios, that will have calves between this
time and spring. See me at Auburn, Ala.
o , , WM.F. SAMFORD.
*6 Sun eopy and send bill to me,
/16-d3tw t
Notice.
&B AND and Petit Jurors summoned to appear at.
the May Term, 1864, of the Scptrior Cburt of
Mnscogee county, are hereby notified to be and ap
pear at the Court House in said county, on the
Fourth Monday in November next.
Witnesses and parties interested are also notified to
appear on that day.
By order of his Honor E. 11. Worrell, Judge of
said court.
Oct 31,1864-td F. M. BROOKS, Clerk.
■&g~Lmjuirer and Sun copy until day.
£I,OOO Reward.
STOLEN from the promises of George Kidd, in
Iroup county, on the Bth instant, a sorrel roan
mare, about five feet high, five years old ; three
white feet, two behind and one in front; left hind
leg fiewly scarred between the hock and ancle
joint, four or five itches in length. White spot on
the forehead about the size of a silver dollar. Scar
under the left eye.
One thousand dollars will be paid for the detec
tion of the thief and the mare, or five hundred for
the mare, and no questions asked.
nov!4 7t GEO. KIDD,
House ami Lot for Sale,
ON the Ist Tuesday in December next I will «e"
(unless previously sold at private sale) in Ham
ilton the house and lot in that town known as the
late residence of Dr. Gibbs. The lot contains about
one acre, and the house has ten fine rooms. If not
sold on that day, the premises will be rented to the
highest bidder for the ensuing year.
»«J y I9-6t L. M. BIGGERS.
Found.
A BUNCH 01 KEYS, which the owner can get by
calling at THIS OFFICE and paydng for adver
tisement. novlP-tf
EXECUTOR’S SALE.
\T r ILL be sold on the 22d of this inst., before the
“ Court House door in the town of Newnan,
Coweta county, Ga., by consent of the heirs inter
ested, a portion ot the
KTEG-PLOES
belonging to the estate of Harrison McLarin, dec’d,
names as iollows : Bill, a man 35 years of age ; Su
san, 35 years; Sarah. 18 y ears : Edmund, 14 years;
George, 10 years; .Jennie, 8 years; Lou, 6 years:
Lizzie, 3 years; Lela, 2 years; Sarah, a woman 26
years; Laura, 10 years; Roscoe, 8 years; Fannie,
5 years; Cal ie, 2 ye<,rs; Furny, a man 43 years:
Linda, 48 years; Dave, a man 40 years;
years; Calvin, 18 years; George, 13 years. The
above property sold for the purpose of division.
Terms Cash. W. H. McLARIN, ( PvV .
novl6-6t* W. B. SWANN. > Ex r ''-
