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Change of Schedule.
>ffiuk Engineer and Superintendent, }
Charleston and Savannah Railroad, >
Charleston, June 7,1864.)
nmtmf* eft
vN THURSDAY, June9.lß64.and until further
‘ notice, the Schedule of the Passenger.train will
be as fellow, viz:
heave Charleston 9.45, a. m.
Arrive in Savannah .5.40, p. m.
Leave Savannah .5.30, a. m.
Arrivein Charleston 1.15, p. m.
This Train makes direct connections, going north
and south, with the Northeastern Railroad at <’har
laston. and the Central Railroad at the Junction.
11. 8. HAINES,
June 14 ts Enginoer and Superintendent. _
‘ Change of Schedule.
i iN and after Sunday, June 19th, the Trains on
' * the Railroad will run as follows :
PASSENGER TRAIN :
neave Columbus 6 45 P. M.
Arrive .it Macon 3 25 A. M.
Leave Macon 8 10 P. M.
Arrive at Columbus 4 25 A. M.
FREIGHT TRAIN :
Leave Columbus 5 00 A. M.
Arrive at Columbus ...........4 56 A. M.
W. L. CLARK,
mar 19 ts vSupt. Muscogoe R, R.
Through to Montgomery.
NEW SCHEDULE.
MONTGOMERY & WEST POINT
RAILROAD COMPANY.
COLUMBUS. August 27,1864.
, \N and after August27th. the Passenger Train on
yj the Montgomery and West Point Railroad will
Leave Montgomery at 8:00 a. m.
Leave West Point at (:10 a.m.
Arrive at Columbus at 5:32 p. m.
Leavo Columbus at 5:-j0 a. m.
Arrive at at 3:00 p. m,
Airive at West Point at 4130 p. m.
Freight Train leaves Columbus at 8:40 a m.
Arrives.... .....at 8:27 p m
D. H. CRAM, Sup’t & Eng:
a*271864 —ts
MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
Girard, Ala., Oct 7, 1864.
ON and after 10th inst. Trains on this Road will
Run Daily (Sunday excepted,) as follows:
Passenger Train-
Leave Girard at 1 30 p.m.
Arrive in Union Springs 6 00
Loave Union Springs 5 35 a. m.
Arrive in Girard at 10 00
Freight Train.
Leave Girard at 4 00 a. in.
Arrive in Girard at 6 00 p. in.
B. E. WELLS,
aglß ts Eng. & Sup’t.
Ur, li, It. HEARD,
(Late Surgeon P. A. C, S.)
OFF ERS his Professional Services to the citizohs
of Columbus. Office at Dr. Carter’s Drug Store.
Can bo found at night at the residence of Win. C.
Gray, in Linwood. [nov 10 lrn*
Dr. R. NOBLE,
IDYUnSTTIST,
AT Pemberton & Carter’s old stand, back room of
Smith’s Jewelry Store, where he can be found
all hours, foe 18 6m
STERLIWO EXCHANGE!
* FEW Hundred Pounds of Sterling Exchange
A for sale in sums to suit purchasers bv
ag l6 tl BANK OF COLUMBUS.
NOTICE
To Mississippi Soldiers!
THE "MISSISSIPPI DEPOT” and Office of
L Agency for the Relief of Mississippi soldiers in
the Army of Tennessee, has been removed from
Atlanta to Columbus, Ga., and is near Barnard’s
corner, between Main st., and the Perry House.
Your baggage is there.
C. K. MARSHALL,
*ep2B ts Agent.
Government Sheep for Exchange*
•JnA HEAD SHEEP will bo exchanged for Bacon
DUG or Beef. The Sheep rated at $2 00, Bacon
10c„ Beef 2c. gross per pound. The Beef to be de
livered alive. Apply to
J. A. TYLER.
Columbus, Nov. 2,1864—ts
LOST,
ON Friday morning a RED VELVET BOW con
taining a gold star, with the letter “J.” engrav
ed on it. The finder will be rewarded by leaving
it at this office. nov26—dtf
WOTIOS.
Office Quant Factory, 1
Nov. 20, 1864./
ALL persons having demands against the estate of
Daniel Grant, deceased, are hereby requested to
present them to the Grant Factory,
nov 30tf JOHN J. GRANT.
Sun copy and send bill to office (D ant Factory. .
Lost or Mislaid.
FOUR SHARES of the g. & a. s. S. Cos., No.
160, in favor ol Mrs. J. L. Wilson,
nov 30 ts D. & J. J. GRANT.
Toßent.
HOUSE for rent, possession given I<t December.
Apply to H. FISH ACKER,
nov 30 6t 104, Broad Street.
*W ISTTDEjID.
AN OVERSEER. One without family, who has
lost an arm in the service, and thereby unfit for
military service preferred.
Apply to ROBERT R. HOWARD,
Beynolds, Taylor County.
MRS. CHAS. J. WILLIAMS.
nov2l-tf Columbus, Ga.
~ AMTJED , “
511(111 ÜBS. of TALLOW, for which a liberal price
>UUv will be paid. Apply to
F. W. DILLARD.
sp7 ts Major and Q. M,
Wanted
TO HIRE—Four or Five able bodied Negroes.—
Good wages given. Apply at our Government
Work*
(VC. 28‘tf JOHN D. GRAY Sc CO.
WANTED,
4 GOOD BUSINESS' MAN, until the first of
■a. January. The best wages paid. A disabled sol
dier preferred, and it matters not how badly muti
lated by wounds so he has firmness and judgment.
Apply at the TIMES OFFICE.
nov 30 ts
SSOO Howard. 2
CjTOLENout of my stable, 2 miles from Columbus,
0 on the Crawford road, on Thursday night last,
TWO ZMZTTILES,
•ne a small bay imire Mulo, blind in the right eye.
The other a black mare Mule, medium size, with
whith mouth and white spot on rump. Both in good
order.
I will pay the above reward for the delivery of
the Mules with the thief, with proof sufficient to
convict, or Two Hundred Dollars for the Mifles.
11' M. CLiiCKLEY.
Columbus, Ga., Not, 9,1864—ts
48*Sun please copy.
WANTED.
lAAi\ BUSHELS CORN, for which we will pay
lU' 1 ’ f cash or exchange Salt,
nov 126 t JEFFERSON A HAMILTON.
■JtSTSna and Enquirer copy.
s•>.> Dollar* Retvaid.
STRAYED from my plaeo in Wynnton, a dark
bay mare MULE, about nine years old, hair
rubbed ofi' of both hips and a large scar on the right
hindquarter. JOHN COOK.
oe 13 ts
SSO Reward.
NEGRO boy CHARLEY; about 25 1 years old, yel
low complexion, hair nearly straight, below or
dinary mteili cue? : >ft J/r. Nat. Thompson’s near
Box Spring- i:i :uty. I bought him of a
Mr. Brown, ■ rctugc ir >O. Mississippi, who now
resides in fu Kegee, .11 .. Me risinally tame from
rew.iH will be paid
tests 'Sssrji r ,f * ilU
Columbu*? o} .. i AMl£:s ,l bSELL.
~ •
YOL. Xl.}
Headquarters Georgia Reserve, )
and Military District Georgia. >
Macon, Ga., Nov. .30, 1864. J
[Extract.]
Special Orders <
No. 149. <
t- * * - * * *
11. Major A. M. Rowland, Com mandant Camp of
Instruction, will, in that section fthe State cut off
from communication with Augusta assume and per
form the duties of Commandant of Conscripts until
communication with Col. W. M. Browne, Com
mandant, Sec., can again be resumed.
By command of
Major General HOWELL COBB.
R. J. Hallktt, A. A. Gen.
Hd’qrs Camp of Instruction for Ga., 1
Camp Cooper, Macon, Nov. 30,1864, S
Special Orders, 1
No. 322. I
The attention of Enrolling and all other Officers
connected with the Conscript service, who are not
in DIRECT communication with Augusta, is called
to the above order of Maj. Gen. Cobb.
Until further orders they will report to these
Headquarters. a. M. ROWLAND,
Major and Commandant.
4®=“ Columbus Times, Albany Patriot and La-
Grange Reporter, copy five times and send bill to
Camp Cooper. ec
A I» RO €LAHAT I©A
BY
JOSEPH E. BROWN,
GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA.
STATE OF GEORGIA, ")
Executive Department, >
Milledgeville, Nov. 19, 1804. j
The whole peoplo understand how imminent is
the danger that threatens the 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 for j
freedom or we must submit to subjugation.
Death is to be preferred to loss of liberty. All
must rally to the field for the present emergency or
the State is overrun.
I therefore by virtue of the authority vested in
me by the statute of this State, hereby order a levy
en massee of the whole free white 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 bo plain and indisputable, or they must
be sent to camp for examination, and except those
engaged in the Legislature or Judicial Departments
of the govrenment, which are by the recent act of
thelLegislaturc declared exempt from compulsory
service.
All others are absolutely required, and members
of the Legislature and Judges are invited to report
immediately to Major General G. A Smith, at Ma
con, or wherever else in Georgia his camp inSy be
for forty (40) days service under arms, unless the
emergency is sooner passed.
The statute declares that all persons hereby calleP
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 be
accepted for (40) forty days, if they even approxi
mate to the numbers in each orgaization which is
r* quired by the militia laws of this State which were
in force prior to the late act.
Ail police companies formed in counties for home .
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 be arrested by the
police force or by any Aid-de-Camp, or other officer
of this State,and carried immediately to the front.
The necessary employees of Railroads now actively
engaged, and the necessary agents of tho Express
Company, and telegraph operators are from the ne
cessity for their services in their present position,
excused.
All ordained ministers of religion in chai'ge of a
Church or Sjnagoguo are also excused.
All Railroad companies in this State will trans
port all persons applying for transportation to the
Front, and in case any one refuses, its President
Superintendent, [agents and employees will be im
mediately sent to the front.
All Aides-de-Camp and other State officers are
required to be active and vigilant in tho execution
of tho orders contained in this proclamation, and all
Confederate officers arc 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 centre of
your State. If every Georgian able to bear arms
would rally around him, he could never escape.
(Signed) JOSEPH E. BROWN,
Governor.
tS3h. Each paper in the State will publish the
abovftDroclamation. nov 22 It.
Confederate States of America, )
War Department, Ordnance Bureau, >
Richuiond, 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 cf 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.j
Sixth.— The authority by which assigned, furnish
ing date, and if possible, copy of order of assignment
to which will be added.
Seventh.— Present duty, and order of assignment.
Officers of the Regular Army will report both their
regular and provisional commissions,; or appoint
ments, conferring temporary rank.
Failure on the part of officers on Ordnance duty
to repert immediately as above, will be treated (as
a delinquency. J. GORGAS,
nov 22 cod4w Chief of Ordnance.
~FER.R.Y house.
rHE undersigned would respectfully inform his
old friends, patrons, und the traveling public
generally, that as he has to be absent for a short
time he has been so fortunate as to have associated
with him his w ell known and worthy friend Mr.
EDWARD PARSONS, lat* of Atlanta, Ga., whose
reputation and superior tact for business is well
known throughout the Confederacy. This House
is large and commodious, and no pains, nor expense
shall be spared to fit it up in the very best and most
elegant style, and to obtain every thing in tb<> line
of substantial eatables and luxuries tha* this
market affords, With tuese assurances we most
cordially solicit all our old friends, and the t ravel
ing public generally, to give us a call and an oppor
tunity of rendering them comfortable.
oc 15 lm* THOS. E. SMITH..
Executor’s Notice.
rWO months after date application will be made
to the Court of Ordinary of Taylor county, for
leave to sell the Negroes and perishable property of
the Estate of Elizabeth T. Johnson, deceased, late
of said county.
SAMUEL K. JOHNSON, Ex’r
Oct. 20w2m* Per THOS. D. BRAND.
A GOOD PLANTATION
For Sale.
[ N Macon county, Alabama, lying directly on the
1 Montgomery and West Point Railroad. The
tract contains 1,200 acres—about 700 cleared. Jhere
is a comfortable Dwelling House on the plac ~ood
Negro cabins with brick chimnies and all the neces
sary out-building*. The land is productive and
location desirable. Possession given in November.
For further information apply to
DAVID ADAMS.
oc 27 lm CblumSus, Ga.
<fc Confederate, Macon; Montgo
mery Advertiser: Constitutionalis, Augusta, copy.* !
COLUMBUS, GA., FRIDAY, DEC. 9, 1864.
SPECIAL NOTICES
To the Citizens of Columbus !
Having announced myself a candidate for re-elec
tion for Mayor of the city, since which time a por
tion of my fellow citizens calling upon me to take
command of them under the recent call of our Gov
ernor, to aid in repelling the enemy against our
homes and fain tie —not feeling disposed to reject
their request—l ffi.ve consented, and shall cast my
destiny with them, and in accordance with this de
termination, I call upon the cstizens of Columbu3,
if my former administration meets their approval,
that they wi!l remember me and elect me for their
next Mayor.
Mr. R. L. Bass, who goes with mo to 'the front,
declines being ac mdidate for Mayor, in my favor
for which ho will please accept my thanks.
nov 29 5t F. G WILKINS.
To Printers !
ITTE offer for sale a complete BOOK BINDERY,
| yy (except Rul eg Machine,) two hand PRESSES,
and about
1,000 Pounds of Type Metal.
nov2l-tf
Headquarters Gov. Works, (Ord.) 1
Columbus, Ga., Dec. 1, 1864.)
Wanted to Hire !
FIFTEEN NEGRO BLACKSMITHS.
Good quarters furnished and liberal wages paid.
Apply to M. H. WRIGHT,
dec 21w Col. Com’dg.
Headquarters Military Division )
of the West, >-
Macon, Ga., Nov. 29th, 1864.)
General Orders, )
No. j
All supernumerary Officers of this Military Division
not otherwise assigned to duty, will report to the
Commandant of the Post, Macon, Ga,
By command of General Beauregard.
A. R. CHISOLM,
dec 2 ccd2w A. D. C. and A. A. A, G.
Headquarters Post, \
Columbus, Ga., November 29,1864, J
Orders No 19.
* * * * * * *
I. All men retired from service that have repor
ted and filed their papers at this office, will report
at these headquarters on Saturday, the 3d of De
cember, at 11 o’clock, a. M., for the purpose of being
mustered for pay.
By command
S. L. BISHOP.
Maj. Com’dg Post.
S. Isidore Guillet, Post Adj’t.
nov 29 5t
OFFICE SOUTHERN EXPRESS,
Columbus, Ga., Oct., 29, 1864.
MO Freight will be received at the Southern Ex
it press Company’s Office after o’clock p. M.t o
go East on that day, nor will any be received to go
West after o’clock p m.
oc 29 ts S.H. HILL, Agent.
Lard
WANTED in exchange for Sheetings, Osnaburgs
* V and Yarns, at the
nov slm EAGLE FACTORY.
To Rent,
A BLACKSMITH SIIOV with six or seven Forges.
all complete. Apply at
oc 31 ts THIS OFFICE.
Confederate Tax Notice.
I SHALL commence on Monday next, sth inst..
A collecting all Taxes that are due the Confederacy,
Tax payers must come up promptly and pay, or the
penalty of the law will he visited upon them. There
are now many delinquents on their Quarterly Sales
Tax. Mr. Green, or myself, will at all times be
ready to receive the money.
J. A. L. LEE.
dec 5 3t Collector 41st Dist.
Stop the Borfaie Tihef*!
SSOO Reward.
CTOLEN from the premises of C. P. Levy, across
U the new bridge, on the night of 30th November
two BAY HORSES and one BLACK PONY.
Above reward will be paid for the horses and
thief. JOHN D. GRAY & CO.
dec 2 4t
Lost Trunk, SIOO Reward.
ON SATURDAT night, the 19th November, at the
depot in Macon, a LEATHER TRUNK, marked
“R. A. Chambers, Columbus, Ga..” was misehecked
or in some way misplaced. I will pay one hun
dred dollars for the recovery of the trunk and con
tents. JAMES M. CHAMBERS,
dec 6 2t* Columbus, Ga.
A Plantation for Sale.
DUE UNDERSIGNED offers for sale a Planta
-1 tion on the Apalachicola river, 25 miles below
Chattahoochee, containing 1,500 acres, more or less,
embracing 1,200 acres of unsurpassed bottom land,
the balance superior pine land. In a favorable
season sixty bushels of corn or 2,000 pounds of seed
cotton, may be safelyirelied on. On the premises are
first rate negro quarters, gin house, screw and sta
bles. The dwelling is small but comfortable.
There are two orange groves on the place, one on
the river and in full bearing. A portion of the crop
of 1863 sold for more than S9OOO. The other grove is
young but in good condition, embracing not only
oranges but lemons and other tropical fruits.
The place is finely watered and healthy. A rare
opportunity is offered for the investment of Con
federate money if application is made early.
Titles perfect.
Apply to R. L. B ASS,
Columbus, or
VAN MARCUS.
dec 6 ts Steamer Shamrock.
Notice to Debtor* aiul Creditor*
All persons having claims against the estate of
Joseph W. Wooliolk, dec’d, late of Muscogee
county, are hereby notified to render them duly
authenticated within the time prescribed by law ;
and those indebted to said estate are requested to
in? xe immediate payment.
WM. G. WOOLFOLK,
nov 23, 1864 —w4od Adm’r.
FOR SALE!
A N IRON GRA1 T MARE, five years old, can be
XX seen at Harris’ Stable. Enquire of
dec 2 3D Lieut. L. W, WALL.
LARGE COASIGAREAT
OF
LETTER PAPER!
AND
RERORAADI H BOOKS!
For sale by
J. K. REDD & CO.
oc 12 ts
FOR salr:
9Ai | ACRES OF LAND, thirty in cultivation, two
DIM hundred and seventy in the woods. This
place is near the ten mile house cn the Cusseta
road, and L- snugly improved for the time,?. Apply
to L. .M. 3IGGERS,
nc v ?9 4t* Jo nmbus, Ga
Plantation to Rent or Sell.
ONE and a half miles north of Union Springs, Ma
con county, Ala. It contains four hundred and
eighty acres, a little less than four hundred is
cleared. Most of the cleared land is black prarie
and creek bottoms. For particulars apply to
GEORGE STEWART,
dec 5 Iw Union Springs, Ala.
FOR SALE.
A SJ/ALL FARM, containing about 100 acres, 60
ix in the woods and forty cleared, about one mile
above the Fountain Fact-ry. on the rDer. On the
place is a good dwelling with three rooms, a large
apple and peach orchard and variety of other fruit
trees, good water, Ac. For terms apply to
. _ , Mrs. J. A. JONES,
dec 5 ts near Columbus.
Wanted.
Oftft AftO ?.£ E . T ASH TIMBER, in Plank of
l^ 4 inch, or by the cord. Apply at
our Government Works
dec 2 fit JOHN D. GRAY k CO.
F*- " SALE.
'J'WO FINE i, OWS to sell or exchange
for pork. Apply at Sherman Sc Co’s, up stairs
in Masonic budding,
dec 6 ts
Thursday Evening.
From our Richmond Correspondent.
Richmond, Ya., Nov. 22, 1864.
Grant is in New Jersey. In the meantime
preparations steadily progress for the final as
sault on this place, and the quiet along the
lines has been unbroken for days save by the
shouts of the “Yanks” over their thanksgiving
turkies and an occasional scrimmage between
the pickets. A few nights since we bagged a
hundred or more and advanced our lines over
a well wooded piece of land—an important
acquisition in this weather.
Sherman is in Georgia and rumor says he
has the State pretty effectually in hand. The
last is that Milledgeville, Gordon and Gris
woldville have been burned; that fighting is
going on in the neighborhood of Gordon be
tween one column of the Yankees and our
forces under General Wayne, and that the oth
er column is at Union Point on its march to
Augusta. We only know certainly that the
movement is formidable and that communica
tion, railroad and telegraphic, has been cut
between Augusta and Macon. I have believed
since the inception of the movement that Sher
man intends the destruction of the Powder
Mills at Augusta, the devastation of the State
on his line of march, the embarkation of his
troops at Hilton Head and the reinforcement
of Grant. The Government is straining every
nerve to arrest his progress, and it is thought
that if Georgia will turn out her people and
they will behave with becoming spirit and
energy be may be temporarily checked and
ultimately crushed. If the State is to be dis
graced by having this Yankee braggart march
victoriously from one border to the other she
may justly give all the credit of the transaction
to her Governor and his associates who have
enervated the arms of her people with vain
illusions of peace, and who, under the broad
panoply of States Rights have weakened the
military department of this Government, by
factious opposition and every obstacle that a
malignant ingenuity could suggest or invent.
Dark as the prospect in that quarter looks
at present, every Georgian here at least, looks
and anxiously hopes for news of a turn in the
tide of affairs. In this connection it may be
well to call the attention of your people to the
protection given by your Governor to those
who rightfully owe military service to the
country. During a debate in the House, a few
days since, the astounding facts were develop
ed, which the following figures exhibit:
State officers exempted by the Governors or
Legislatures :
Virginia, 1,400
North Carolina, 15,000
Georgia, 12 to 15,000
including the Governor’s pets—militia not suf
fered by him to be enrolled, &c.
Alabama, 1,079
Mississippi, no
These figures come from the Bureau of Con
scription, and may be relied upon.
Congress will memorialize the several State
Legislatures upon the propriety of reducing
these lists. Perhaps after the lesson which
the Yankee Peace Commissioner is now read
ing to Georgia, she may curtail the authority
of his Excellency Governor Brown, to exempt
his favorites, and ihus destroy his capacity for
securing votes and influence for his re-election.
Beast Butler has proposed to send peace
commissioners to Richmond, who are to be
empowered to receive our acknowledgment of
submission. Lincoln is said to favor the mer
ciful plan, and gold has jumped down in con
sequence.
Dr. Ellison of the second Georgia, was gob
bled up a few days since bj? Yankee pickets,
while out foraging.
After several days and nights of heavy rain,
the weather has abated into a cold, cloudy,
gloomy condition.
This goes by private hand. Until commu
nication is restored, you may not hear again
from JIM.
From the Georgia Front.
The Constitutionalist of Friday says, the ve
ry latest intelligence from the direction of
Louisville, reports the enemy as still in statu
quo. No move towards this city had been
made, the public rumor to the contrary not
withstanding.
An escaped Confederate prisoner states that
he mingled freely with Kilpatrick and his
crew. The Yankee* General and his official
satelites made no concealment of their objec
tive point, which they proclaim to be Savan
nah.
Our cavalry has been still further reinforced
by a large and splendid veteran command.
All reliable accounts agree in putting the
enemy’s force down at thirty thousand infan
try and five thousand cavalry. We are amply
able to take care of any such numbers.
General Wheeler writes that he ha3 whipped
Kilpatrick throughout, doubling him up upon
the main body. He has not taken a great ma
ny prisoners, because the Yankees feeling that
they deserved death have refused to surrender.
Avery considerable number have permanent
ly leased plantations in the counties of Burke
and Jefferson.
The main body of Sherman’s army had not !
budged at last accounts. The enemy is repre- I
sented as being quite amazed and embarrassed j
at his reception in the State of Georgia.
Gen. Sherman will find U3 prepared to meet
him at any and every point. We know the
value of our strategic strongholds, and are
prepared to maintain them to the bitter end.
So—“lay on Macduff"—etcetera. .j
The Southern Telegraph company : 15 com- !
menced rebuilding its line along the Central
railroad. Over sixty-five miies has already j
been repaired. We are ;t«urecf, says the Ma
con Telegraph <£ Confederate, the work will
be pushed on as speedily as possible, but as
new poles have to be put up and brackets and j
insulators provided, some rime must elapse
before it can be finished..
General Beaufegard -By reeen* orders, ’
the Department un-lei General Beauregard
aas been extended so 33 to include South j
Carolina an : tee Atlantic seaboard o? Geor
gia.
/FIVE DOLLARS
X :PER MOXTH.
The De3olatkrs. —Sherman's army (says
the Savannah Republican of the 4th,) is prov
ing a scourge wherever it goe3. No attention
is paid by his troops to his general order at j
the outset of his expedition. Throughout the
whole line of march, the country is made |
desolate by pillage and fire. We trust a
righteous retribution waits the vandals.
A gentleman who reached here from the
up-country yesterday, reports that he crossed
a Yankee telegraphic wire running through a
swamp in the direction of Savannah river.
The other end reached probably to their camp
above Millen. He tried hard to break it, but
did not succeed, having no conveniences at
hand for that purpose.
- Our informant Shys the countiy in the rear
of Sherman’s army is literally swarming with
deserters and stragglers, who are either beg
ging or pillaging at every house. He thinks
an active regiment of cavalry would be able
to pick up a thousand of these cut-throats per
day. He was a prisoner for a day and in the
midst of the Yankee army. He says that many
of the officers and men are disgusted with the
expedition and the war, and openly express
their desire for peace. He heard a lieutenant
say that if he had his way, he would break
his sword in three pieces and go home per
fectly satisfied to have the independence of
the Confederacy acknowledged.
Sherman has with him from three to four
hundred negro men and boys, no women or
small childreu. These negroes have no arms
and are merely marching along with the army
and from time to time slipping off and going
back to their homes.
The Yankee officers spoke freely of their
plans, and said Sherman did not intend to risk
an engagement if he could help it, as he had
no ammunition to spare. They seemed con
tent to make their way peaceably to the coast,
at the most practicable point, without a fight.
Sherman’s Policy*.—A northern coreespon
dent says: “Between leveling a town and
losing thousands of loyal lives in a second
attempt to capture it, there i3 no likelihood
that Sherman will hesitate a single moment.
He knows that war is cruelty, and implies not
conservatism, but annihilation.” If our peo
ple would save their cities and towns, they
must fight for them.
Capture of a Famous “Guerilla Hunter.”
Captain Blazer, a famous partizan leader of
the Yankees, was sent out last week to catch
and destroy the intrepid Mosby. He came up
with his intended victim, who was fully pre
pared for the visit. Mosby waited for his
charge and just as they were within a few
yard3 of him a counter charge was ordered,
and in the clash Blazer and his crowd went
down ; the whole party were put to rout and
dispersed, and their leader, with about half
his men, captured.
From East Tennessee, —Great results, says
the Richmond Enquirer, of the 30th ult., are
anticipated from the present movements of
General Breckinridge. Having driven the
enemy beyond Strawberry Plains on the 9th
inst., he has since been improving his time
in planning a campaign, which, it is no long
er contraband to State, will soon make the
historic ground of Kentucky ring more
with the shouts of our gallant men under the
leadership of her chivalrous son. Bent upon
redeeming that down-trodden State, he will
strike a telling blow ere the winter’s snows
whiten her broad rich fields.
On the 18th inst., Gen. Breckinridge visited
Abingdon, and after inspecting the positions of
the troops in that section, returned to the
front, and ere this has commenced his march.
By what route he will overcome, flank or
evade the blustering Burbridge, remains for
that very great general to find out. Already
the latter may have felt the flashing steel of
his victorious foe; if he has not, the blow is,
nevertheless, inevitable, for Breckinridge is
master of the situation there, and strike when
or where he will, it will be to conquer.
Expeditious. —The blockade running stea
: mer Hattie, belonging to the Lamar Compa
ny, ran into a Confederate port one night last
week, with a valuable cargo, discharged her
freight, took on an outward bound cargo, and
put to sea again the second night after.
A Yankee Inkling from Sherman. —The
Richmond Whig has received the New York
Herald of the 25th.
The latest developments in the matter of
Sherman is that contained in a sensational
dispatch from Philadelphia, of date of the
24th, which says that information had been
received at Washington that Sherman had
been notified by Governor Brown that Geor- j
gia, Alabama and another State, had deter- i
mined to return to the Union, and that Sher
man had halted in his movements ; also, that .Mr.
Stephens desired to meet a commissioner i
from the United States in Canada.
Doubtless the Yankees have heard that the :
“grand movement” is not “sweeping down’, I
with the resistless force that was hoped for it !
anu hence the above stuff is given to the Yan- I
kee people a3 a reason for the apparent inac
tion of Sherman in his current campaign.
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Mississippiaxs Rallying. —We learn from a
paragraph in the Clarion of Saturday, that the *
people are rallying hurriedly in Missi aippi, and
turning out with a promptness unparalieied in the
history of this war. As desired* by the Govern
or’s proclamation, they wait not, but come singly,
in squads, by the hundred. Two regiments I
of infautry and one of cavalry wer* at Meridian
oh Saturday.
It will be remembered that on Friday last our
dispatches from Clinton, La., reported that a Yan
kee torce, estimated at from five to ten thouiand
strong, with eighteen pieces of artillery and sev
enty-five wagons, had passed Frankiington, twen
ty miles west of Pearl river. asd moving east ia
good order. The destination of this column was
unknown, but it is not at ail tmlikeiy Gov. Clark
wili-soon find work for his people. Mississippi
can certain 1 .-.- protect her soil from he eouopara
tively insignificant bands of plunderers that have
been plundering it. and they should do so. Just
now the veteran tro ns are needed elsewhere, an!
Mississippians wii’ L .re to defend their State.
[Appeal.
TELEGRAPHIC.
REPORTS OF THE PRESS ASSOCSATIOV
Entered according to act of Congress in the year
1863. by J. S. Thrasher, in the Clerk s office of
tht Disiriot C">urt of the Confederate states' r
the Northern District of Georgia.
LATE YANKEE NBWS.
Richmond, Dec. 3.—The evening edition of ta
Baltimore American of the Ist contains a Nash-’
vlUe telegram of the 30th, which announces the
arrival of a.train from Chattanooga with several
Rebol prisoners, including Brig. General Young,
of Cheatham’s command.
Th* garrison at Shelby ville was attacked by a
body of Rebel cavalry on Monday, but their as
sault was repulsed. Subsequently, the Federal?
evacuated the place, and it is now occupied by the
Rebels.
A special dispatch to the New York Times, da
ted Nashville, 30th, at miduight, asserts that
Ilood, at 4 o’clock p. in., made a heavy attack at
Franklin, with two corps, and, after persistent
fighting was repulsed at all points, with a loss of
six thousaud killed and wounded. The Federal
loss was about five hundred. A rebel brigadier
and about 1,000 prisoners were captured. An
other Louisville telegram announces the arrival of
A. J. Smith’s corps. The American’s caption ol
this news is, “Reported Repulse of Hood,” imply
! iug doubt of its correctness.
The Chicago Tribune is informed by a soldier
named Elder, who escaped from Charleston, that
Dahlgren and Foster are cognizant of Sherman’s
plans and are co-operating with him. Sherman
is aiming for Savannah, where there are no forti
fications. As soon as tho probable time of Sher
man’s attack on Savannah arrives, Foster will
make a demonstration on Charleston.
THE HONEY HILL FIGHT—GEN. HAR
DEE’S OFFICIAL DISPATCH.
Richmond, Dec. 3.—The following official dis
patch wuS“ received here to day :
Grahamville, S. C., Dec. 2, 1564.
To General S. Cooper :
A force of infantry, artillery and cavalry, un
der Foster, attempted to gain the railroad at this
point, but were met and repulsed.
A force of marines, unCer Admiral Dahlgren,
attempted to gain the railroad at Coosawhatchie,
but wero met at Bee’s Creek and repulsed.
(Signed,) IV. J. Hardee,
Lieut. General.
MORE VICTORIES FOR ROSSER IN VIR
GINIA.
Richmond, Dec. 3.—The following dispatch was
received last night at headquarters :
Gen. Early reported, that Gen. Rosser, with
Haynes’ and his own brigades, encountered on
the 27th, near Moorefield, a small party of the
enemy, and captured forty prisoners and ono
piece of artillery.
On the 28th he surprised and captured Fort
Kelly, at New Creek, with four field pieces, four
siege guns and between seven and eight hundred
prisoners, a large number of horses and mules,
eight stand of colors, and destroyed 200 wagons
and a quantity of commissary and ordnance
stores. He brought off the field pieces and some
wagons, spiked the siege guns, and destroyed the
carriages. lie also captured Piedmont, and des
troyed all the Government buildings containing a
number of engines, and burnt several bridges.
He did considerable damage to the railroad. Ho
captured seven hundred head of cattle.
His loss was two killed and three wounded.
The boldness exhibited by Gan. Rosser in the con
duct of his men, deserves much praise.
FROM MISSISSIPPI.
Special to the Meridian Clarion.]
Dover, Yazoo county, Dec. 2, via. Canton,
Dec. 3.—The fight yesterday was at Concord
Church on the Yazoo City road.
The Yankee force was two regiments.
They were completely routed. Eighteen
dead counted, besides wounded. Twenty
three prisoners were captured, including a
lieutenant. They carried away most of their
wounded. Their entire loss is between seventy
five and one hundred. Our loss one killed
and six wounded.
A large quantity of arms and equipments
and several horses were captured.
The Great Battle in Tennessee.
The news from contained in our
dispatches thjg morning is 0 f thrilling inter-'
est. A great battle has been fought, and, we
believe, a glorious victory won. Four thous
and of the enemy were killed and wounded,
and six thousand captured. They are repor
ted to have been routed from their entrench
ments, and it is said have retreated to Mur
freesboro. If there was no misunderstanding
in regard to the particulars of the fight as re*
ported, and the gentleman who furnishes the
report is known to us and is entirely reliable,
the victory achieved is one of great impor
tance.
The town of Franklin, near which the fight
occurred, is a very strong position, well for
tified, eighteen miles from Nashville, on the
Railroad from Nashville to Columbia. Brent
wood, the point at which Forrest was repor
ted to be, is eight miles from Nashville on
the same road. Murfreesboro, to which point
Thomas is reported to have retreated, is thir
ty miles from Nashville, on the railroad to
Chattanooga. The road from Nashville to
Franklin and Columbia, runs almost due
South from Nashville, while the Chattanooga
road run3 South-east—the two roads thus
forming an angle the apex of which is Nash
ville. From Franklin, where the battle was
fought, to Murfreesboro, which place he was
driven back, is twenty-eight miles, and the
greater part of the road is very bad.
M e have been thus particular in giving
these distances and the various points men
tioned, in order that the reader may under
stand the conclusion to which we arrive in
regard to the effect of the battle.
| It will be seen that after his defeat at Franklin,
where he had lost ten thousand men out of an
army never estimated higher than twenty to
twenty-five thousand. Gen. Thomas instead of
falling back eighteen miles by an excellent turn-
I P j ke, to the strong fortifications of Nashville
where with his beaten and demoralized army of
not more than fifteen thousand mea, he would
! naturally desire to go, he marched by a road
■ almost impassable, twenty-eight miles to Murfrees
boro’, where he was twelve miles further from
: Nashville than when at Franklin. This move
ment must have been the resulf of necessity and
! a T>t of choice. He would clearly not have gone to
Murfreesboro’ if he could have gone to“ Nashville,
and his doing so, is partly explained by the fact
that Forrest, with his cavalry, said to number ten
thousand rough riders, was at Brentwood, thus
cutting off retreat upon Nashville, and compelling
the movement upon Murfreesboro’ as a dernier re
sort.
If the theory is correct, and if the statements
ot the dispatch are true, we cannot see how it
can be otherwise, the Federal army is in an exceed
ingly precarious and critical position. It-cannot
number more than fifteen thousand men, it is cut
°tt irom communication with Nashville, its depot
or supplies, pnd is at the mercy of Hood's victo
nous and enthusiastic army, which cannot number
ress than forty thousand of as good soldiers as
ever fired a gnD. We shall be surprised if Thomas
is not forced to surrender, and of course Nash
ville '.Till fall with him. But glorious and impor
tant as we conceive :he victory to bo, and if we are
not mistaken it will prove to be in its results the
most important one of the war, it has been dearly
purchased with the blood of such gallant spirit*
as Cleburne, Strahl, Granbury, Gist, Gordon and
Quarles, and the thirty-five hundred heroes who
have fallen on the field. We could but illy afford
t;> t es ® t! ? e3 ® glorious and experienced comm anders
and their fall shows hew stubborn the conflict
r u 'l ~ are beea - We cannot, in this brie*' and
Li; IV written article, do justice to their merits,
ot mogy ot such mea is verbiage, for their deeds
anu their memories are embalmed in the hearts of
their country men, and will lire as long as ratriet-
? h r i ' aei vr h»3 a votary—Clottano*-
,jrt Rebel.