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Newspaper Page TextDAILY TIMES. W. WARREN, - - - Editor. OOLUMBUtS: Wednesday Morning, November 23, 1864. liberty of the Press. The Palladium was a statue of the goddess Pallas said to have been dropped from the skies on the Trojan territory, and on ite pres ervation depended the safety of the city of Troy. The word palladium from this legend obtained peculiar significance and implies something that affords effectual defence, pro tection and safety. Her.ce, vre sty with much force that bur constitution is the palladium of our liberties. This instrument contains great civil, political and religious rights which are the growth of twenty cent«neß. The leading truths enunciated therein have been wrung from the grasp of power during the long nights of superacitiou and oppression, and hecatombs of precious victims have been of fered iii in every century to establish and maintain them. Enshrined within it, as in a casket, are the habeas corpus and trial by jury, while the liberty of the pres3 stands on the outside in the first of the ten original amend ments like a sentinel with a flaming sword to sound alarm at the first approach of danger, to guard it from encroachments and confine it within its lawful bounds Our forefathers seemed to have given it a position on the out side of the body of the instrument bj design to suggest its high and holy mission as guar dian and protector. Civil and religious liberty stalked blindly about the cmrth until the first newspaper was published in manuscript in Venice, by order of the Doge, “to keep the republic informed of the events of the war with the Turks;” then and there Liberty met with a companion and advocate—a guide and a counsellor—which took her by the hand and kissed it, clothed her in robes of light and crowned her with immortal honors as they marched together up the highway of nations. There has been no fonder alliance in wedded love than that which Journalism and Liberty have maintained since the former was set free. In the polite reign of Queen Elizabeth newspapers were ordered to be printed “to encourage her subjects upon the threatened invasion of the Spanish Arma da,” and though the dawn of Euglish liberty dated much further back, it is undeniable that the seventeenth century gave form and spirit to the dark grey shadows thrown out in ad vance of her rising in her full-robed splendor, and that the freedom of the press, commenc ing in the reign of Elizabeth and receiving its crowning argument in the defense of the Areopagitica of Milton, soon broke the shack les that had so long bound the Rights of per sons and of things, and in the spirit of a new born convert heralded the liberty so lately won for itself, to all mankind. The “splendor of diction and irresistable force of the reasoning” in that speech of Milton for the liberty of unlicensed printing, was far in advance of his age and has left little additional to be said by succeeding age3. “Who knows not,” he exclaims, “that truth is strong!” “Next to the Almighty, she needs no policy, no strategems, no licensing to make her victorious.” “Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose upon the earth, so truth be in the field we injure her to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open en counter ?” Thomas Jefferson copied this thought when he said that “Error ceases to be dangerous when truth is left free to combat it.” And Solon was inspired with a kindred sentiment when be required that no man should remain neutral on occasions of public distentions, but speak out freely, giving as his reason that, good men honestly differing in opinion would align themselves on both sides of every ques tion, and, after full and fair discussion, arrive at truth and adopt .it, and having compro mised their differences, would have sufficient influence over the bad men of their respective parlies to suppress violence and strife. Blackstone says that, “Every freemau has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public ; to forbid this is to destroy the freedom of the press.” These high authorities, supported by the combined wisdom of twenty centuries, should impress us with the great importance of a free press, and urge us to frown down every at tempt to make it subservient or servile. Let it be as free as “air and light,” controll ing it when licentious, libellous or treason able, according to well known rules of the common law and constitutions, State and Federal. We looked with solicitude on the action of the last Congress in its attempts to strike down the independence and efficiency of the Press, but congratulate our country and our cause on their return to reason. Our pres ent Congress has renewed the warfare, and we wish that every paper in the Confederacy could suspend for one month to convince our people of its power and importance. All inter meddling with great fundamental principles of Liberty betrays a want ot a generous con fidence in the people, and a supposed weak ness in the Government—as much to be precated, in the management of a nation—as a family. Away with this interference with the freedom of the press, and turn it over to the laws, or what we believe to be better, an enlightened public opinion. Public opinion is .of modern growth and is a creation of the Press, and yet the creature has complete con trol of its creator. Formed, by digesting the arguments on both sides ot all subjects dis cussed through the Press, its conclusions are well defined, and arbitrary when lefined, so that the Press which has so recently formed it, is forced to conform to it, or be placed un der the ban of public condemnation. There are few abuses x of the liberty of the press du ring this war which have not been speedily corrected by public opinion. Giving infor mation of the numbers and movements of our troops at the first of the war, is an instance where an abuse was so effectually remedied, that no respectable journal would dare violate public opinion in this regard. No Press can withstand the withering scorn of public opinion and live to do great injury. Before the liberty of the press was estab lished, there was no enlightened public opin ion, and the world was governed by ecclias tics and crafty leaders. In the decline of the Homan republic, Croesus fed the poor of Rome *’o obtain their vAt until bis immense wealth was consumed, whom.they then abandoned to hear the winning speeches of Pompey, and as soon abandoned him to gaze upon the milita ry spleudors of Ceasar, at whose feet they humbly kissed the rod and laid down their liberties forever. If they had beea in posses sion of the smallest journal in our country', what different results might have happened ? If we should be deprived of our newspapers— which Cowper describes as the“‘map of busy life,” visiting each man’s hearth and home like a familiar friend, discussing “the claims and qualifications of public men and officers fearlessly through their columns, canvassing legislation, condemning obliquity of conduct and character, extolling virtuous actions, pub lishing falsehoods that they may be refuted, appealing to public sympathy in behalf of injured worth or obscure merit, invoking frowns upon fraud and falsehood, vice and villainy, causing statesmen to quail under their reproof, and enabling a nation, to speak through the n as with one voice”—or if we throw such restrictions around the press as to make it servile to the Government, like the Moniteurto the first Napoleon, we may achieve our independence, but, loose our liberties, ua. der the lead of some artful military chief who may hereafter be thrown to the surface. We have Trans-Mississippi papers of the 10th ult., says the Clarion, but they contain very little intelligence of importance. It was reported Steele had almost completed his preparatiohs for an extensive move from Lit tle Rock. His destination is supposed to be Missouri, though some feared he would move south again. Gen. Wharton’s corp3of cavalry and the infantry divisions of Gens. Poiignac and Walker have moved up to Mouticello, Arkansas. In the Yankee army there are fifteen Major Generals, twelve Brigadier and nine acting Brigadier Generals who are members of the Catholic Church. The Major Generals are Itoseerans, Gillmore, Meade, Ord, Sheridan, Foster, Stoneman, Shields, Sickles, Stanley, Newton, Pleasanton, Richardson, Carr and Hunt. A despatch from Toronto, Canada, dated the 18th ult., says that startling developments in re gard to the secret treasonable doings of the body of “Fenian Brotherhood” were being made in that city. Secreted arms had been found and the lead ers in the conspiracy were being arrested. There was existing a painful feeling of insecurity in con sequence of these disclosures. . » ♦ ♦ The quartermaster, commissary, ordnance and medical departments in Virginia have been cleared of able-bodied men except and they are being gradually relieved by ne groes. It is estimated that there is $25,000,000 of specie held within the Confederate States, in the vaults of banks and brokers, and of private hoard ers, and which for sustaining the currency and credit of tho government is and has been perfectly useless. Aaron Hudson and Oliver Henning, two aged men, wore foully murdered last week three miles from Natchez. They were citizens of Brookhaven, Miss. No clue has been ob tained to the perpetrators of the bloody deed. In a late letter to the Governor of South Caro lina, Secretary Trenholm says that the Confed eracy is creating no foreign debt, the cotton exported under the commercial regulations of the last Congress, paying for all purchases abroad. * The manager of the Mercantile Bank, London, committed suicide recently from undue excite ment in regard to the affairs of the bank, which are reported uot to be in a confused state. The banking establishments of Vicksburg have been closed by order from the General Treasury Agent, Colonel William P. Mellen, who decides that under the law of Congress such institutions are not permitted in insurrectionary States. It is said that the Rothschild, for whom August Belmont is agent in America, have one hundred millions of dollars invested in the Southern Confed eracy. _ _ It is stated, with much positiveness, by the Washington letter writers, that immediately after the Presidential election, Mr. Staunton is to go upon the bench of the Supreme Court; and Mr. Blair, late Postmaster Gene ral, is to have charge of the War Department portfolio. The Confederacy has made vast expendi tures for the developments of its iron and nitre establishments, and is now reaping the rich harvest of the investment in the abundant yield of iron for all war purposes, and in an ample supply of the very best powder in the world. What Sherman Says op our Soldiers. —The Countryman, of the 15th, publishes a letter from Rev. Geo. N. Mac Donnell, reporting the sub stance of a conversation he had with a very intel ligent ladj, a friend of his, who had been exiled from Atlanta under Sherman’s edict. The lady had an interview with General Sherman before she left Atlanta, in which he paid a just and well merited tribute to the valor of our arms.— We copy from Mr. Mac Donnell’s letter : He (Sherman) remarked that it would be no disgrace to us if we were finally subjugated—as we certainly would be—as we had fought against four or five times our number with a degree of valor which bad excised the admiration of the world ; and that the United States government would gain no honor or credit if they succeeded in their purposes, as they had thus far failed, with five men in the field to our one. He regarded the southern soldiers as the bravest in the world, and admitted that in a fair field fight we could whip them two to one ; hat he claimed for himself and his compeers the credit of pos sessing more strategic ability than our generals “You can beat us in fighting, madam,” said he, “but we can out manoeuvre you ; your generals do not work half enough; we work day and night j and spars no labor nor pains to carry out our plans.” J Referring to his evacuation of the trenches around the city, he asked the lady if they did not ah think he was retreating : and when she replied that soma did think so, he laughed heartily at the idea, and remarked, “I played Hood a cute Yankee trick that time, didn’t I ? He thought I was running away, but he soon had to pull up stakes and run himself?” The Christian Religion in the United States a Dead Failure. —lt would be no diffi cult matter to show that the practice of the Chris tian religion on the North American continent has degenerated and deteriorated through the unwor thinoss of the ministers of that religion : that its vital spirit has been gradually waning during the lust generation ; that a nation, once renowned as confessors and also as martyrs, and who elected to endure exile and privation that they might keep their faith intact, have as a body either sunk into skepticism, or retained of religion only its features, its forms, and simulacra; and that active and earnest Christianity has become practically a failure amongst twenty-two millions of people who contemn its charitable and merciful doctrines, and have for four years abandoned themselves, wnh scarcely a dissenting voice, meeting remon strances with curses, and with no stronger apol ogy than that political dominion is superior to the gospel, to an unbridled lust for rapine and slaugh ter,—Sala in the London Tel. - The Field with which Lincoln Commences Mis New Term. The Dispatch sayts the second term of Abra ham Lincoln does not commence with that fa vorable military situation which he would de sire, and yet the picture is a valuable one, for it is the reflection of that which will be pre sented at the beginning of his third term, four years hence, except that the woods will be filled with more graves, and there will be more “United States National Cemetaries” scattered over the land. His next reign, too, will be little different from his last. The Yankees will have the same senseless proclamations ; the same grand preparations, to end in defeat; and the same list of “little jokes,” interspersed here and there with wholsale orders for more coffins for those same voters who deposited their ballots on Tuesday for “Lincoln and Johnson.” The New York World has an edi torial on the results of the last campaign con trasting its expectations and its results. It says : ii is clear that the campaign against Rich mond, begun on the 7th of May and continued through «!x months, has ended in failure. If General Graut dared not hazard a battle last Friday in a position of his own choosing in front of the enemy’s works, he will not run the risk of attacking them in their works. It is plain, then, that he cannot take Petersburg —which thote works* defend—much less Rich mond. However it may be with other military judges, Gen. Grant, has been disappointed. When he set out on “is campaign by the over land route, he expected to encounter and de feat Gen. Lee on the way, and then, by vigor ous pursuit, follow Lee’s shattered army into Richmond. His check, on the third day, con vinced him tha r . the campaign would be lon ger than he had anticipated, but it did not , daunt him. “I shall fight it through on this line, if it takes all summer,” was his reso lute language to the War Department. It shows that he had no expectation that the campaign could, in any event, outlast the sum mer. But winter approaches and Richmond is not taken. The movement last Thursday, proves that it cannot be taken this year. It is, therefore, entirely safe to say that, whatever other military judges may have thought, Gen. Grant ha3 been disappointed. Mr. Lineolp is reported to have said, that after the battle of tue Wilderness any other general in the army would have retreated. Whether retreat at that point of the campaign would have beea wise, depends upon whether the array could have been employed, during the summer and autumn, to better advantage than in its actual operations. This is a ques tion for military men which we cannot pre sume to decide. 'What is certain is, that the enormous losses, since incurred, have produced no solid advantage. The operations .in Western Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley must be estimated as a part of General Grant’s campaign. Those operations, considered as a whole, do not re lieve the campaign of its general aspect of failure. Os the three successive commanders —Sigel, Hunter, and Sheridan—the two first are admitted failures ; the admission consist ing in the fact that they were discarded after defeat. Sheridan has won an enviable repu tation ; but it must be borne in mind that, with reference to the ensemble of the campaign, his operations are defensive. Why is he in the Valley at all ? Only because Lee, “be sides” defending Richmond against Grant, has troops to spare to menace Washington in that direction. The rebels had full possession of the Valley during the harvest season ; and its annual crops are the only military advantage it can yield them Their outposts for the defence of Richmond, on the northwest, are Gordonsville and Lynchburg; but there is no expectalion of capturing • those places. Gen. Sheridan’s success is only success in defensive operations. Even his last battle was brought on by an at attaca of the enemy, which came near being successful. It is plain that the rebellion can never be subdued by defensive operations.— With the South, successful defence is event ual independence. But, on our side, success ful defence, and nothing more, is complete failure. In the heaviest campaign of ihe present year we have been successful only in defence ; so far as Gen. Grant’s campaign was offensive, it has accomplished none of its proposed ob jects. #- mim A Volcano in Labor. For several days about the middle of the pres ent month, the valley of the San Jose, in Costa Rica, was visited by mysterious showers of ashes. The phenomenon is thus explained by the Paceta Official : The ashes continued falling during three days and three nights in the valley of San Jose, excit ing much alarm in the minds of the inhabitants. The Governor of Cartage was induced to send a commission of mountain travelers, to inspect the volcano which had been emitting for several days columns of dense smoke. On tho 27th the com mission started from Cartage, and on the 29th reached the f arm of San Martin, where the ashes lay one foot thick on the ground, increasing in depth as they reached the lagoon, where they en camped, at the foot of the volcano. During the night they were alarmed by the constant subter raneous noises which proceeded from the bowels of the earth, and sounding like the detonations of angry surges on a rock bound barrier. On the 30th they ascended to the summit of the volcano. A mass of smoke was rising twice the height of that which was seen during the last eruption in February. Its color was between black and green, and was mixed with huge vol umes of blue flame, accompanied with violent tre mors of the earth and deep rumbling sounds. After the smoke and flame had been vomited out, one wide crater was seen, almost round and deep as the veritable portals of tartarus, with the inter nal walls of a yellowish and black hue, as if lined with a varnish of resinous compound. From the profound depths of the crater a pestiferous odor ascended, and the rumbling sounds at each mo ment became more alarming. The mountaineers noted that San Carlos, the north peak of the crater, had entirely disappeared into the abyss. The mountain, a very large one, is entirely covered with the ashes to the depth of three feet, and the country around for nine miles from the mountain is also covered with the ashes. On the east side of the volcano, and about five hundred yards from the crater, a stream has ap peared, whose waters are extremely acid, perhaps containing sulphuric acid. On "the north-east side, toward the sources of the river Tortugaro, all vegetation has been destroyed for many leagues. The mountaineers declare that at each step the earth seemed to rock to and fro under them, and that the heavy torrents of cold rain the want of fire, and other difficulties, did not per mit them to remain on the summit longer than four hours. Northern Democracy.—A Truthful Pic ture. C. Chaucey Burr, Esq., a Democrat of distinction at the North, in a recent speech at Bergen, N. J., thus draws the portrait of the present Northern Democracy. He is speaking of Lincoln’s abolition “collar,’’ and those who wear it: The so-called Democratic party has ignom inously worn that collar for three years. It has performed the service of ts dog, and hung about the blood of the shambles. But there is no democratic party. There is a Democra cy, but it is, at the present moment, without a party. It has no organization. There is an anti-Lincoln partv, with which the De mocracy is just now, and, as I think, wisely acting. But it is not a democraiie party. It has neither the principles, the intelligence, the honor nor the pluck of the old Democratic party. Its face is covered with the blood of the people, and its arms are full of the bones of the dead. A despatch from Baltimore dated the 7th inst., j says : Mrs. Thomas Hatchings, one of our most fash ionable ladies, was arrested to-day, charged with 1 being the chief of a party of ladies who got vp a splendid sabre as a present for the rebel Colonel 1 Harry Gilmore. The sabre, with the presentation address, a rebel mail and other things, were cap tured from the party despatched to ran the block ade to deliver them. They are now at Colonel Wooley s office, and Mrs. Hutchings is in prison. The matter creates intense sensation and promises rich developments. Others are likely to be ar rested high in secession circles. [From ihe Macon Intelligencer.] Gor. Brown’s Houuc Burnt by the Vandals. We learn from a reliable source that Gov ernor Brown's residence in Canton, Cherokee county, embracing his commodious dwelling hobse, kitchen, outhouses, etc., together with his office building, were all burnt to the ground by the vandal foe a few days ago. The offi cer in command of the vandals who were sent to execute the work they so ruthlessly and successfully performed, allowed the family who were living on the premises at the time, only fifteen minutes to remove the furniture ? from the house, and all that was not removed within that time was devoured by the flames. The same party burnt the court house, jail, academy, both the hotels, and about two thirds of the best dwelling and business houses in Canton. A force of some three or four thousand of the vandals were within a mile or two of the | town, while some seventy of the band were sent into the town under an officer with or ders to burn the house of Governor Brown, the public buildings and the houses of all who have been prominent Southern men. We hope the day of just retribution will I soon come. That the policy of the enemy in ' the Valley of Virginia is to be carried out in upper Georgia, to-wit, an indiscriminate de struction of private properly, we have no doubt. Indeed we have not a doubt now that it will be Sherman’s policy in his present ad vance movement. We look for nothing les3 than that the torch wil] be applied to every village, (own or city, through which his array shall pass. Be it so. The vengeance js as mean as it is demoniac which they have taken ot the governor, and the county site of Cher okee. In its re-enaction elsewhere in the State—in Atlanta, and perhaps in Griffin, Macon, Milledgeville, should the chief of van dals, Sherman, possess these cities, there will only be that display of brutality which has j hitherto characterized that chieftain. Let our ! people, then, do all they can to repel his ad vance. Georgia has now, to look only to her ; own resources for protection. We, at least, j have no expectation of receiving any help from any other qu.rter. Let Georgians then rally j to the rescue, or the State may be made deso- ! late in many quarters! It never can be sub- j dued ! No, never, never! ’ Hon. W. R. W. Cobb was killed a few days i since in North Alabama by the accidental discharge-of one of his own pistols. He has for some time past been consorting with the Yankees, and was not long since in Nashville. ) His Yankee friends had presented him a pair j of pistols which he wore upon his person.— | One of them dropped to the ground and went | off, the ball penetrating his bowels and com- 1 iog out at his back, causing death. Mr. Cobb I was for a good many years a member of the J United States Congress, and since the separa tion has been a member of the Confederate ' Congress. His loyalty was impeached at the ! last session of Congress and an investigation i ordered. No facts, however, were elicited of sufficient importance to justify his expulsion and the case was laid over until the pres ent session. Since the last session he has spent much of his time in the United States, and it is believed that his condemnation would have been certain if he had ventured to con front the charges which would have been brought against him at Richmond. Though a man of moderate abilities, he was a shrewd and adroit politician, and succeeded in win ning the confidence of his immediate constit uents to an extent that nothing could shake, and in his various contests he defeated some of the ablest men Alabama has produced. [Chattanooga Rebel. ■— • m* Another One op Lincoln’s Jokes. —A cor respondent of the Richmond Examiner, writ ing from Washington City, the 2d inst., relates the following . It is said that a few nights since a party of Lincoln’s friends during a social call, interro gatively expressed the hope that the war was progressing to his satisfaction. “Ah,” said Lincoln, “I don’t know sir; my condition re minds me of the story of one of our Illinois country schoolmasters, who gave one of his pupils the third chapter of Daniel as a read ing lesson. The boy began, but when he came to the names of Shadrack, Meshack and Abednego they were unpronounceable The master required the boy to proceed, but he failed again. He tried flogging ; but still it was no go. Relenting, he told the boy to pass that chapter and read the preceding one. Brightening up, the little fellow got on famous ly until he reached the last verse, when, paus ing with a look of dismay, he closed the book, saying, “ It's no use , sir; here are them three rascally fellows again;" and thus, said the great joker to his friends, “am I situated, gen tlemen, in regard to these rebel Generals.” Yankee Deserters. —Among a large batch of Yankee deserters who arrived in Richmond on Tuesday, to avail themselves of the advan tages afforded by “Order No. 65,” was a Ist lieutenant in a New York regiment attached to Sheridan’s army in the Valley. The said lieutenant is a flue looking officer, quite in telligent, and claims to have deserted in con sequence of disgust caused by the brutal con duct of Sheridan and bis sattellites. Yankee desertion is becoming quite a busi ness now, and each day augments the num bers who come into our lines. Upwards of three thousand have been received and for warded to their homes since the promulgation of the order above referred to, about three months since.— Petersburg Express. Eclipses. —The Confederate States Alma nac advertises four eclipses for the next year. Two of the sun and two of the moon. The first will ba of the moon—evening of April 10, and visible throughout the Confed erate States. The second will be of the sun, April 25, at 8:44 A. M., and ot interest to South Amer* icans and mariners in the South Pacific ocean, but of no concern to us, being invisible here. The third will be of the moou, on the even ing of the 4th of October, and only partially visible in the eastern Confederate States. The fourth will be a great and singular eclipse of the sun, on the morning of the 19th of October, at which time friend Clark prom ises us all a benefit “free gratis for nothing,” always provided we live till then, the weath er is fair, and we get up in time—say by 7:10 A. M., at which time it will begin at Gre nada. This eclipse will last about three hours and ten minutes, and prove altogether one of the most remarkable and interesting phenom ena of the year—perhaps of the century. The Power of the Press. —“Give me but the liberty of the Press,” said Sheridan in the British House of Commons in 1810. “Give me but the liberty of the Press, and I will give to the Minister a venal House of Peers—l will give him a corrupt and servile House of Com raons —I will give him the full swing of the patronage of office —I will give him the whole host of ministerial influence—l will give him all the power that place can confer upon him to buy up submission Hnd overawe resistance ; and yet, armed with the liberty of the Press, I will go forth undismayed to meet him; I will attack with that mightier engine the mighty fabric he has raised ; I will shake down corruption from its height, and bury it beneath the ruin of the abuse it wa3 meant to shelter.” After several days of feverish excitement Macon has become comparatively quiet again. We presume the nervous and faint-hearted have escaped to places of greater fancied se curity, which will account for the quieting down of the public pulse. If the people of Georgia do not come” down upon Sherman like wolves on a sheeplold, they are unworthy of themselves. Fight him in the front, fight him on the flank, fight him in the rear. Remove everything valuable from his path and throw every obstruction in his way.— Macon Telegraph. —m • m In our paper of last evening we urged the propriety at once of closing all the liquor shops. Since we are happy to learn from Mayor Collins that this very necessary step has been taken. In such a time as this the public mind is sufficiently excited without resorting to the stimulus of whiskey. T 3EE E CITY. T. J. JACKSON LOCAL EDITOR. Georgians, To the Rescue! All persons who are liable to service under the recent call of Governor Brown, are re quested to meet at Council Chamber, Engine Room No. 3, at 9 o’clock this morning to form a Company, and all other Companies, either organized or in process of organization, are requested to unite to form a battalion. (Signed) F. G. Wilkins, R. L. Bass, F. M. Jeter, W i A. Bedell, J. W. Warren, M. Barringer, J. D. Johnson, F. S. Chapman. Maj. J. M. Hotlel. Cold Weather.—Yesterday was as cold a day as we generally have in these parts. Ice was plentiful all day and a stiff norther prevailed, which made fires and thick clothing agreeable friends. Rally. —The readers attention is specially invited to the notice of Col. Thornton, tho Governor’s Aid, calling on all persons between the ages of 16 and 55 not excepted in the Governor's proclamation, to or ganize at once tc assist in repelling the present in vasion of Georgia. No time is to be lost. Theatre. —A very fair house was on hand Mon day night, at the re-opening Os Temperance Hall, notwithstanding the disagreeable weather and al most impassable condition of the streets. The number of ladies present was not very large, but more than could have been expected under the circumstances, and was a very flattering proof of the high esteem in which the present lessee and his worthy corps are held by the fair. Os the Lady of the Lake there can be but very little said in commendation. In the scene of the killing of the false guide in the second act, we thought it decidedly a sort of theatrical butohery en double entendre. Jessie Clarke excelled herself in Poor PUlicod dy, and we are of tho opinion that we never saw her play with more freedom, grace and naivete'. She received several handsome plaudits from the au lienee both at her debut and during the play. Hamilton, Harry Crisp and Miss Cecilia were.also greeted with vary lively expressions of the public favor. We were sorry to see the guards so very negli gent in the discharge of their duties in allowing scapegraces of boys to keep up such an uproar to the great annoyance of the ladies and the more orderly portion of the audience. We hope to see a reform instituted in this matter. See the splendid bill for to-night —Lucille and Rough Diamond. [From the Savannah News.] A Most Ruinous Proposition".— When the slave holding States resumed their sovereignty—withdrew from the old Union, a step which was in a great measure brought about by the unnecessary agita tion of the question of slavery and the negroes generally—we did hope the unpleasant and need less discussion of this subject was over, and that it would be permitted to rest —to lie still forever and be heard no more in this lattitude. Our people have long been convinced that the enslavement of the negro is every way right and just. Slavery is the normal condition of the ra o —the one that God Al mighty has exactly fitted them for, and therefore the one He intended them to occupy. The negro is fit only to be a slave—to be cared for, and do the bidding of a master. He cannot take care of him self; he is invariably a low specimen of the animal creation —lazy, without forecast, invention or ener gy, having no self-reliance or ambition to be useful, or improve his condition or future prospects The free negro among civilized people is a pest. The most elevated, respectable and useful specimens of the free black in the world is found in the slave holding States of America, and tnis is owing solely to his contact with slavery, and his being forced to a great extent to adopt the habits of the slave. The enslavement of the negro is Iright and just to the negro himself, and is the greatest blessing to him that earth can bestow. To free the negro now held in slavery would be the greatest wrong we cc uld in flict upon them—the most heartless cruelty and out rage-such as never was visited upon a race of peo ple through all the history of the cruel ties of man kind. Slavery neither debases nor degrades tho negro, but it improves and betters his condition and his race. It educates and christianizes him to a degree that nothing else can. It alone can lift him above the bestialty in which he always lived in his native state and in which he always will live if left to himself. It is his highest and only civilization. These being acknowledged facts, and we being separated from Northern agitators and infermed dlers, wo did expect our people to let the whole ne gro question rest, the proper relations between the i two races being settled and fixed forever. J Having consoled ourselves with this view, we I are really mortified to find a few of our people ag itating the negro question in anew shape—pro posing to make soldiers of them to fight the bat tles of liberty with us, and to compensate them 4 for this by giving them their freedom. We are not only deeply mortified, but are astonished be yond expression. A more crazy idea or a more suicidal policy never entered the brain of, or was proposed by any except a New England fanatic. It is a virtual concession of everything the aboli tionists ever claimed, and a repudiation of every position we ever took in defence of the rectitude of slavery. It is a most dangerous doctrine, and proposed in a most insidious guise. If adopted by our government, it will be a fatal blow at the in stitution from which it will never recover. It will seal its doom, and abolition will be the cer tain result. Then imagine how wretched will be ou.r condi tion with four millions of free negroes among us ; all our slaves freed and left on our hands ! To free them and remove them is almost as impossi ! ble as to reverse the diurnal motion of the earth, j Tho North don’t want them, and would not have i them, and if it did they could not get there. Such j an imigration never took place on earth, and ! never will; and if they could go there, and the North desires them, it would be merciful and humble to lay the last one of them in their pover ty to that cold and inhospitable clime. They cannot be sent to Africa or colonised elsewhere. We doubt if the entire shipping of the United States and the Confederate States combined could carry them off as fast as they are born, let alone carrying away the whole race. To send them away, no matter where, is utterly impossible: The negro, whether slave or free, must remain among us. We shrink back with horror at the thought if they are to be freed. Only one thought could approximate it in evil, and that is subjugation by the Yankees. Nothing on earth could be worse, i if as bad. Then the negro being unfit to be free, and it being wrong to free him, is unfit to make a sol dier of, and it is wrong to attempt it. The negro is destitute of the intellect, the patriotic emotions, the greatness of soul, so essential to make a sol dier. He has none of the love of country, ambi tion, and other ennobling traits, which cause men to sacrifice all their earthly possessions and cheer fully give up life in their defense. Those alone who possess these traits are fit to be free, or worthy of the privileges and blessings which freedom brings; and such alone can make good soldiers, or effectually fight the battles of liberty. A race that can be enslaved or be con tented, cheerful and happy in a state of slavery, as the negroes are, can never be ,converted into good soldiers. Surely those who talk of putting our negroes into the ranks, know the real nature of the negro race—the stuff they are made of —or of the great truths in which slavery finds justifi cation. It the negro is fit to be made a soldier of, he is fit, and ought to be free, and it is wrong to enslave him, or hold him a day longer in slavery. The proposition to put the negro in the army, strikes a fatal blow at the root of the institution of slavery, and if carried out, will effectually de stroy the foundation upon which the whole super structure rests. Better that we had long since yielded to the teachings of the abolitionists, and yielded up the institution without the unparalleled effusion of blood and expenditure of treasure of this war. Judge Taney’s Will. —Jadge Taney’s will was admitted to probate in Baltimore on Fri day. It is dated April 28, 1859. He appoints J. Mason Onmpoell, David M. Perine and Richard T. Allison executors and trustees un der the will of all his property of every de scription, together with the money that may become due on his life insurances in Balti more and New York, for the use of his five daughters, one unmarried, and four married , and ti eir descrudnuts, <fec. Cairns Hospital. > Nov. 2lst, 1804. / Wanted. THREE GALLONS MILK ( er 'lay. delivered at the Hospital. BYRD C. DALLIS, nov 21—lw Clerk - Sun copy lw i A PROCLA.TI ATS © \ BY JOSEPH E. BROWN, GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA. STATE OF GEORGIA, ) LxEcunvK Department. - Milledgeville, Nov.llf9 f 1864. j The whole j» ople understand how imminent is the danger that threatens tho State. Our cities are being burned, our fields laid waste, and our wives and children mercilessly driven from their homes by a powerful enemy' We must strike like men f, • freedom or we must submit to subjugation. Death is to be preferred to loss of liberty. A must rally to tho field for the present omergeney or the State is overrun, I therefore by virtue of the authority vested , me by the statute of this State, hereby order a levy / en massee of the whole free whito male population residing or domiciled in this State between sixteen (16) and fifty-five years of age, except such as are physically unable to bear arms, which physical de fect must be plain and indisputable, or they must be sent to camp for examination, and except those engaged in tho Legislature or Judicial Departments of tho govronment, which are by the recent act of the;Legislature declared exempt from compulsory service. All others are absolutely required, and member of the Legislature and Judges are invited to report immediately to Major Genoral G. A Smith, at Ma con, or wherever else in Georgia his camp may be for forty (40) days service under arms, unless the emergency is sooner passed. The statute declares that all persons hereby called out shall be subject after this call to all the rules and articles of war of the Confederate States, and on failure to report, shall be subject to the pains and penalties of the crime of desertion. Volunteer organizations formed into companies battalions, regiments, brigades or divisions will bo accepted for (40) forty days, if they even approxi mate to the numbers in each orgaization which is required by the militia laws of this State which were in force prior to the late act. All police companies formed in counties for homo defence will report, leaving at home for the time, only those over 55 years of age; and all personshav ing Confederate details or exemptions, who, by the late decision of the Supreme Court of this State, are held to be liable to State militia service and bound to obey the call of the Governor. All such refusing to report will bo arrested by the police force or by any Aid-do- Oamp, or other officer of this State,; and carried immediately to the front. The necessary employees of Railroads now actively engaged, and tbe necessary agents of the Express Company, and tolegraph operators are from the ne cessity for their services in their present position, excused. All ordained ministers of religion in charge CTiurch or Sjnagoguo arc also excused. All Railroad companies in this State will trai» - port all persons applying lor transportation to the Front, and in case any ono refuses, its President. Superintendent, [agents and employees will bo im mediately sent to the front. All Aides-de-Camp and other State officers are required to be active and vigilant in the execution of the orders contained in this proclamation, and all Confederate officers are respectfully invited to aid State officers in their vicinity in sending forward all ‘ persons hereby ordered to the front. The enemy has penetrated almost to the centro ot your State. If every Georgian able to bear arms would rally around him, he could never escape. (Signed) JOSEPH E. BROWN, Governor. Each paper in the State will publish the above Proclamation. nov 22 It. THEATRE 2 WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23d. Sir E. L. Bulwer’3 play ol LIFE, LOVE and WAR, a thrilling incident and intense effect, entitled LUCILLE! THE STORY OF A HEART! Act Ist, Love—The Blind Man and his Betrothed. ct 2d, Ambition —The Republican and his Ch’- mera. Act 3d, Retribution —The Soldier and his Recom pense. BALLAD by Miss Maggie Marshal: With the glorious Comedy of Hougli diamond nov23-lt Independent Columbus Guards. Appear at the Company Parade Ground on Thurs day mornirg, the 2ith inst., at ten o’clock, a. m. A full and prompt attendance of the Company is or dered. J. A. URQUHART, Capt. Allen, O. S. [nov 23 td UNION SPRINGS PROPERTY FOR sale: HOUSE and LOT, the lot contains one acre, the house is a good framed building with four rooms, out houses, etc. A great bargain can be had if im mediate application is made, nov 23 3t* J. W. WELBCRX. FOOD. A T the Theatre on Monday evening, a GOLD a TOOTH-PICK, which the owner can _ have by applying at this office and paying for this adver tisement. nov 23 It AUCTION SALES Dy Ellis, Livingston & Cos. \U T E will sell on Thursday, 24th November, r VV 11 o’clock, in front of our store One Pair Extra fine Carriage Hor young and well broke to Harness. 8 Likely Mules. 100 Sacks Salt. 5 Sacks Sugar. Carriages, Buggies, Fnrniture, Stationery. Clothing, etc., etc. nov 22 td $lB BLOCKADE GOODS BY LATE ARRIVALS. By James H. Taylor. On Wednesday, Dec. 6, at 9 o’clock. WILL be sold at my Store, corner of Broad ar. Campbell streets, A large assortment of Foreign and Domestic Good>. 4®* Particulars in a future advertisement. Conditions Cash. nov2l-eodtfJ CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, ] War Department, Ordnance Bureau, Richmond, Nov. 11, 18b4.) All officers on Ordnance duty are required by General Orders, No. 70, Adj’t. Sc I. G. Office Ang. 29, 1864, to report without delay to the Cbic' of Ordnance, Richmond, by letter, stating First. —Their rank. Second. —Date cf commission (or appointing 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, furniril ing date, and ifpossible, copy of order of ass gnrner to which will be added. Seventh. —Present duty, and order of assignmes Officers of the Regular Army will report both the regular and provisional commissions, or appoint ments, conferring temporary rank. Failure on the part of officers on Ordnance dun to report immediately as above, will be treated a delinquency. J. GORGAS, lfqv 22eod4w Ghief of Ordnance. FOR” SALE. OIX Boxes of New Orleans Sugar, Shingle Xa: - and Nails of all sizes, at reduced, price*, f< - 3ale at J. U. MULFORD’S old stand, nov 22 6t.