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Change of Schedule.
Office Engineer and Superintendent, |
Charleston and Savannah Railroad, V
Charleston, June 7.1864. J
, ,N TinntSDdY, Juneo,lßo4,and until further
• notice, the Schedule of the Passenger train will
he as follow, viz:
Leave Charleston 9.45, a. m.
\rrive in Savannah .5.40, p. m.
Leave Savannah..... A.M, a. m.
Arrivoin Charleston 1.15, p. in.
This Train makes direct connections, going north
and south, with the Northeastern Railroad at Char
leston, and the Central Railroad at the Junction.
H. S. HAINES,
J une 14 ts Engineer and Superintendent.
Change oi Schedule.
\N and after Sunday, June 19th, the Trains on
’ * ;he uscogee Railroad will run as follows:
PASSENGER TR4IN :
Leave Columbus ti 45 P. M.
Arrive at Macon.. 3 25 A. M.
Leave Macon 8 10 P. M,
Arrive at Columbus .*. 4 25 A. A!.
FREIGHT TRAIN :
Leave Columbia A 00 A. M.
A riv - at *./<.duu:' us 4 55 A. K.
W.L. CLARK,
mar 19 ts Supt. Muscogee R, R.
Through to Montgomery.
NEW SCHEDULE.
MONTGOMERY & WEST POINT
RAILROAD COMPANY.
COLUMBUS. August 27,1864.
. and after August 27th. the Passenger Train on
i ! the Montgomery and West 1 oint Railroad will
Leave Montgomery at 8:00 a. m.
Leave West Point at 7:10 a.m.
Arrive at Columbus at 5:32 p. m.
Leave Columbus at 5:50 a. m.
Arrive at Montgomery at 3:00 p. m.
Arrive at West I’otnt at 4130 p.m.
Freight Train leaves Columbus at 8:40 a m.
4 rri it6tt • at 8:27 p m
D. H. CRAM, Sup’t & Eng:
ag27lß64—tf
MOBILE & GIRARD RAIL ROAD.
CHANGE or 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 . 130 p.m.
Arrive in Union Springs 6 00
Leave Union Springs 5 35 a^m.
Arrive in Girard at 10 00
Freight Train.
Leave Girard at ..4 00 a. m.
Arrive in Girard at 6 00 p. m.
B. E. WELLS.
aglß ts Eng. & Sup’t.
Dr. G, R. HEARD,
(Late Surgeon P. A. C, S.)
AFFERS his Professional Services to the citizens
' ' of Columbus. Office at Dr. Carter’s Drug Store.
Can be found at night at the residence of Wm. C.
Gray, in Linweod. [nov 10 lm*
Dr. R NOBLE,
IDZEUSTTIST,
AT Pemberton & Carter’s old stand, back room of
Smith’s Jewelry Store, where he can be found
all hours, _ _Foclß 6m
ST ERIil AG EXCBSSSH!
i FE W Hundred Pounds of Sterling Exchange
< for sale in sums to suit purchasers by
«gl6 tl BANK OF COLUMBUS.
KTOTIOB
To His*i»si|>i»i Soldiers!
THE “MISSISSIPPI DEPOT” and Office of
1 Agency for the Relief of Mississippi soldiers in
the Army ot Tennessee, has boon removed from
Atlanta to Columbus, Ga., and is near Barnard’s
eorner, between Main st., ,und the Perry House.
Your baggage is there.
C. K. MARSHALL,
sep2B ts Agent.
Government Sheep for Exchange.
3 j 1 HEAD SHEEP will be exchanged for Bacon
'' 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,
AN Friday morning a RED VELVET BOW con
yJ taming 11 gold star, with the letter "J.” engrav
ed oti it. The tinder will be rewarded by leaving
it at this office. nov26—dtf
motiobT
Ofkiob Grant Factory, 1
Nov. 29, 1864./
A LL persons having demands against the estate of
Daniel Grant, deceased are hereby requested to
present them to the Grant Factory,
nov 3o ts JOHN J. GRANT.
Sun copy and send bill to office Grant Factory.
Lost or Mislaid.
T?OUR SHARES of the G. it A. S. S. Cos., No.
u Kin, in i,. vor of il/rs. J. L. Wilson,
nov 30 ts D. & J. J. GRANT.
To Rent.
HOUSE for rent, possession given l«t December.
Apply to 11. FISH ACKER,
nov 30 6t 104, Broad Street.
"wanted.
i N OVERSEER. One without family, who has
* lost an arm iu tho service, and thereby unfit for
military service preferred. _
Apply to ROBERT R. HOWARD,
Boynolds, Taylor Cfounty.
MRS. CHAS. J. WILLIAMS,
nov2l-?f Columbus, Ga.
WANTED!
\ ill li 1 LBS. oi TALLOW, for which a liberal price
will be paid. Apply to
F. W. DILLARD,
sp7 tt Major and Q. M.
Wanted
f rO HIRE—Four or Five able bodied Negroes.—
1 Good wagi-s riven. Apply at our Government
V ociatf JOHN D. GRAY & CO.
wanted,
A GOOD BUSINESS MAN, uutil the first of
A January. The best wages paid. A disabled sol
dier preierred. and it matters not how badly muti
lated b\ wounds so lie has firmness and judgment.
Apply at the TIMES OFFICE.
nov 30 ts
SSOO Howard X
S~ TOLEN out of my stable, 2 miles from Columbus,
on the Crawford road, on Thursday night last,
TWO MULES,
one a small bay mare Mule, blind in the right eye.
The other a black mare Mule, medium size, with
wbith 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 Mules.
H M. CLEOKLEY.
Columbus, Ga., Nov. 9, 1864 —ts
Sun please copy.
WAITED.
1 A j; 1 BUSHELS CORN, for which we will pay
1U ' cash or exchange Salt,
nov 126 t JEFFERSON & HAMILTON.
and Enquirer copy.
Dollars Reward.
STRAYED from my place in Wynnton, a dark
bay mare MULE, about nine years old, hair
rubbed off oi both hips and a large scar on the right
hiudquarter. JOHN COOK.
_oc 1 i t‘
950 Howard.
V EGRO boy CHARLEY ; about 25years old, yel
4. lew complexion, hair nearly straight, below or
dinary mtelii ence : left Mr. Nat. Thompson’s near
Box Sprang.- T.t .0 ounty. I bought him of a
a rctugoe irom Mississippi, who now
resides ui Tuskegee, 41a. He originally came from
Charleston. S '. A suitable reward will be paid
deliver- at this office, or in any safe jail and
information -en to me at this office.
IV,lam , , • J , AMKS M - KUSSELL.
VOL. Xl.}
A PROCEAHATION
BY
JOSEPH E. BROWN, !
GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA.
STATE OF GEORGIA, ) 1
Executive Department, >
Milledgeville, Nov. 19, 1864. J
The whole people 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 lrom their homes 1
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 j
must rally to the field for the present emergency or j
the State is overrun.
I there'ore by virtue of the authority vested in j
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 be plain and indisputable, or they must
be sent to camp for examination, and except thoße
engaged in the Legislature or Judicial Departments
of the govroument. whch are by the recent act of
the'L■ gislature 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 may 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
required by the militia laws of this State which were
in force prior to the late act.
All 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 Mid-de-ftimp, 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 the Express
Company, and telegraph operators are from the ne
cessity for their services in their present position,
excused.
All ordained ministers of religion in charge of a
Church or Synagogue are also excused.
All Railroad companies in this State will trans
port all persons applying tor 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-Cump 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 centre of
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.
CbNFEDKRATB STATES OF AMERICA, )
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, oopy of order of assgnment
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 report immediately as above, will be treated ’as
a delinquency. J. GORGAS,
nov 22 eod4w CTiief of Ordnance.
PERRY HOUSE.
THE 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 well known and worthy friend Mr.
EDWARD PARSONS, late of Atlanta, Ga., whose
reputation and superior t ict 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 tbe t ravel
ing public generally, to give us a call and an oppor
tunity of rendering them oomfortable.
oc 15 lm* THQS. E. SMITH.
Executor’s Hotice.
I’WO months after date application will be ma te
to the Court of Ordinary of Taylor county, for
leave to sell the Negroes and perishable property of
the Estate of Elizabeth T ANARUS; Johnson, deceased, late
of said county.
SAMUEL K. JOHNSON, Ex’r
Oct. 20w2m* Per THQS. D. BRAND.
A GOOD PLANTATION
For Sale.
IN Maoon county, Alabama, lying directly on the
Montgomery and West Point Railroad. The
tract contains 1,200 acres—about 700 cleared, f here
is a comfortable Dwelling House on the plac ood
Negro cabins with brick chimnies and all the neces
sary out-buildings. The land is productive and
location desirable. Possession given in November.
For further iuform.tion
' oc 27 lm Cblumbus, Ga.
«®~Telegraph k Confederate, Macon; Montgo
mery Advertiser; Cbnstitutionalis, Augusta, copy.
Notice to Debtors aud Creditors
ALL'persons having claims against the estate of
Mrs, L. ;E. Cairnes, dec’d, late of Muscogee
county, are hereby notified to render them duly au
thenticated within the time prescribed by law; and
those indebted to said estate are requested to make
immediate payment. F-O. TICKNOR,
dec 9 w4od -Adm’r.
For Sale.
By R. J. BRITT,
114, Broad Street.
O A BOXES fine Tobacco,
OU Large lot Cotton Cards,
Soda, Pepper and Spice,
Smoking Tobacco, (10 eases)
Pad-Locks, Brier Root and Clay Pipes,
100 Bushels Shelled Corn, to arrive this week,
Bar and Toilet Soaps,
Tin and Cedar Ware,
Confederate Crockery, Jars, Bowles, etc.
dec 7 dAw2t
LARGE CONSIGNMENT
OF
LETTER PAPER!
AND
HEIVIORAN DTH BOOKS !
For sale by
J. K. REDD k GO.
•• 12 ts
COLUMBUS, GA., TUESDAY, DEC. 13, 1864.
SPECIAL NOTICES
To tbe Citizens of Columbus !
Having announced myself a candidate for re-elec- !
tion for Mayor of the city, since which time a pod- !
tion of my fellow citizens calling upon me to take j
command of them under the recent call of our Gov- ,
ernor, to aid in repelling the enemy against our j
homes and families— not feeling dspo3ed to reject i
their request—l h tve consented, and shall cast my
destiny with them, and in accordance with this de- !
termination, I call upon the cstizens of Columbus,
if my former-administration meets their approval, '
that they will remember me and elect me for their j
next Mayor.
Mr. R. L. Bas . who goes with me to Jthe front,
declines beiug at* indidate for Mayor, in my favor
for which he will please accept my thanks.
nov 29 5t F. G. WILKINS.
Headquarters Conscript Service, )
Georgia, Augusta, Ga., Doc. 2d, 1864. J
Circular, [
No. 26. J
Enrolling Offieersiof this State are hereby instruc
ted not to interfere, uutil further orders, with As
sessors and Collectors of Tax in Kind.
JNO. F. ANDREWS.
Major and Acting Commandant
dec 11 6t of Conscpripts for Georgia.
Exchange Notice—JXo. 13.
Richmond, December 1, 1864.
1. All Confederate officers and men who have been
delivered by the Federal authorities at jany place,
priorto November 25th, 1864, are hereby declared to
be exchanged.
2. All officers and men of tbe Vicksburg capture of
July 4th, 1863, who reported at any parole camp,
either East or West of the Mississippi river, at any
time prior to November Ist, 1864, are hereby de
c ared to be exchanged. Ro. OULD,
dec 11 6t Agent of Exchange.
OFFICE CHIEF QUARTERMASTER, )
Military Division op the West, >•
Montgomery, Dec. 3, 1864. J
AlFofficors in the Quartermaster’s Department in
this Military Divisien, will report by letter to the
Chief Quartermaster of this Division, stating, first,
rank ; second, date of commission ; third, date of
assignment to quartermaster duty; and fourth, the
authority by which assigned, furnishing date, land
if possible copy of orders of assignment, and where
on duty. This report is casted for in pursuance of
Circular orders from the Quartermaster General, as
all such offioers who have become detached from
their commands to which they were originally ap
pointed and assigned, will be dropped in pursuance
of General order No. 70, Adjutant and Inspector
General’s Office, series 1863, unless reassigned byjj a
special order of the Secretary of War.
E. WILLIS,
dec 9 4t Chief Quartermaster.
HO FOR 4TLAKTA!
The Southern Express Company will receive
freight (under forty pounds each package) and
. money parcels for Atlanta via Macon A: Western
Railroad, from this date. S. H. HILL,
dec 6 ts . Agent.
OFFICE SOUTHERN FXPdSSS,
Columbus, Ga., Oct., 29,1864.
]VTO Freight will be received at the Southern Ex
1* press Company’s Office after 3% o’clock p. M.t o
go East on that day, nor will any be received to go
West after 4 I A o’clock pu.
oc 29 ts S. H. HILL, Agent.
Marshall Holpital, )
Columbus, Ga., 10th December. }
notice!
All having claims against the Hospital for hire of
servants, are requested to call for payment.
T. A. MEANS.
dec 10 3t jSurgeon in Charge.
Sun oopy.
Lost Trunk, SHOO Reward.
t IN SATURDAY night, the 19th November, at the
* / depot in Macon, aLE ATHER TRUNK, marked
“R. A. Chambers, Columbus, Ga.,” was mischecked
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.
To Printers !
TffE offer for sale a complete BOOK BINDERY,
»V (exceptßul ng Machine,) two hand PRESSES,
and about
1,000 Pounds of Type Meta!.
nov2l-tf
Headquarters Gov. Works, (Ord.) I
Oolumnus, Ga., Deo. 1, 1864./
Wanted to Hire !
| FIFTEEN NEGRO BLACKSMITHS.
Good quarters furnished and liberal wages paid.
Apply to M. H. WRIGHT,
dec 2 lw Col. Com’dg.
Headquarters Military Division )
of the West, >-
Macon, Ga., Nov. 29th, 1864.)
General Orders, 1
No. —. /
All supernumerary Officers of this Military Divis'on
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 e«.d2w A. D. C. and A. A. A. G.
Headquarters Post, 1
Columbus, Ga., November 29,1864, /
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 Po3t.
S. Isidore Guillet, Post Adj’t.
nov 29 5t
Stop tlie Horse Tihef*!
SSOO Reward.
STOLEN from the premises of C. P. Levy, across
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 <fc CO.
dec 2 4t
Notice to Debtors and Creditors
ALL persons having claims against the estate of
Joseph W. Woolfolk, dec’d, late of Muscogee
county, are hereby notified to render them duly
authenticated within the time prescribed by law;
those indebted to said estate are requested to
m? xe immediate payment.
WM. G. WOOLFOLK,
nov 23, 1864—w40d Adm’r.
Lard
nr ANTED in exchange for Sheetings, Osnaburgs
and Yarns, at the
nov slm EAGLE FACTORY.
Confederate Tax Notice.
I SHALL eomnenee on Monday next. stli inst..
collecting all Taxes that are due tbe Confederacy,
Tax payers xuustcQme up promptly and pay, or the
j penalty of the law will be visited upon them. There
are now many delinquents on their Quarterly Sales
i Tax. Mr. Green, or myself, will at all times be
ready to receive the money.
J. A. L. LEE,
dec 5 3t : Collec or 41st Dist.
FOR SALeT
! TWO FINE BREED SOWS to sell or exchange
x for pork. Apply at Sherman * Co’s, up stairs
l in Masonic building.
dec 6 ts
FOR SALE.
ASJfA LL FARM, containing about 100 acres. 60
in the woods and forty cleared, about one mile
above the Fountain Factory, on the river. 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, ■
iee-stf near Columbi*.
Monday Evening.
The Situation in Mississippi.
The Clarion of the Bth says: The situation
in this State is exciting and critical. A few
thousand Yankee cavalry are marching
through the Southern connu.es of the State,
destroying everything along their lino of
march. Thus far, they have met with very
little resistance. Col. Scott, with a small
force, hag been harrassing their front and
rear, but has been unable to check their pro
gress. On Monday morning they burned Col
umbia on Pearl river, and started east, march
ing in three columns—one on the St. Carmel
road, one on the lower Mobile road, and the
other on the straight road to Shnbata. It
was thought they would cross Leaf river at
Windham’s Ferry, about eleven miles below
Ellieville, strike the Mobile road somewhere
near Shubuta. Clanton’s brigade was sent
down to meet them last evening, and other
troops will be hurried forward at once. Re
inforcements are being sent by rail to this
point from all parts of the district, and in
twenty four hours we will have Confederate
and State troops # enough here to defend the
place against any attack from this force. The
enemy will probably tap the railroad to-day,
and then move up towards Meridian and pass
around on the Southern railroad to Vicksburg.
Every man connected with the army at this
post has been ordered to take a gun, and we
hope that every exempt will promptly enroll
himself for organization. The time has come
when all men capable of carrying a gun should
rush to arms. Let there be no sneaking or
shirking from duty. Our homes are here and
must be defended. Railroad communication
between Meridian and the North, East and
West, must be maintained. Let every man
and boy take up his gun, and as the enemy
approach, move out to the creeps and moun
tains and stay their progress. Much good can
be done in this way.
[Correspondence Memphis Appeal.]
Letter from Georgia.
Macon, Dec. 8, 1864.
Editors Appeal: I have just seen (6 p. m.)
and conversed with a gentleman who left Sa
vannah on Monday, and Thomasville on Tues
day, bringing the latest reliable news from
Eastern Georgia.
He states that Gen. Sherman left 15,000
men at Waynesboro’, who are fortifying there,
and that with two columns 15,000 strong, he
is marching down the Ogeechee ; that he left
the Central road between stations Nos. 5 and
6, and at last accounts was within a few miles
of station No 1J on the F. A. and G. railroad,
evidently intending to give Savannah the go
by and make his egress by way of Darien.
Gen. Hardee with a respectable force is in
his front, contesting every inch of ground ;
but it is feared his numbers are insufficient,
and that, after all, the vandals will escape. A
equal to that under Hardee is at Augus
ta, and is probably two or three times larger
than is needed for its defense.
Thus this wily strategist loaves fifteen thou
sand to menace Augusta, while he marches
off with twenty-five thousand, thereby com
pelling us to divide our forces. Simultane
ously with this the demonstration is made
against the Charleston and Savannah road at
Honey Hill, by which our forces are still fur
ther divided, relieving the pressure which
might otherwise be brought to bear upon the
retreating foe.
The escape of the 25,000 accomplished, the
16,000 will, on some dark night, take a silent
departure, and by a rapid march endeavor to
make their escape also, in all probability, by
the same route, although it is understood they
talk about crossing the Savannah and going
out through South Carolina.
The people of Savannah and vicinity are
reported in a somewhat demoralized condition,
notwithstanding they do not feel seriously
apprehensive of a visit.
It is to be hoped, Mr. Editor, that the skill
ful generals, brave, intrepid, troops opposed
to the vandal horde will yet defeat the pur
poses of its savage leader and utterly destroy
it. But should Sherman and his cruel and
infamous barbarians escape capture oi de
struction, it will, although to be regretted; af
ford some consolation to know that they are
off Georgia soil, and, after all the time, treas
ure and blood expended to gain Atlanta and
a foothold in Georgia, they have had to relin
quish their conquests, and that the lines now
stand nearly as they did this time in 1862,
with their work to do over again. O. K.
Tennessee—Georgia.
The United States papers of the 30th, ex
tracts from which vve give elsewhere, con
tain nothing later from Hood than appeared
in the papers of the previous day. “ The
wires are down,” south of Nashville, they say.
This is a significant sign. “ The wires are
down” is an old story, that save the trouble
of telling disagreeable things. We under
stand it to mean, on the present occasion,
that Thomas is down, too, and that Hood is
prospering. The story that Hood was whipped
on the 26th in attempting to cross the Duck
river, is an afterthought to the late news, and,
as the New York Herald confesses, harmonizes
but indifferently with Thomas' retreat twen
ty-five mile3 back! A singular victory, to
have such a recoil!
The correspondent of the New York Times
speculates as follows concerning Hood’s fu
ture plans. When the wires get up again or
when Hood gets up to the wires, we shall
learn more.
“Washington, Nov. 29.—Hoods movements
in Tennessee seem to reveal the intention of
making his way into East Tennessee. The
line on which he i3 moving would indicate an
attempt to turn Nashville on the East side and
make hia way to form a junction with Breck
inridge. It is believed that he will then es
say the capture of Knoxville, which will give
him railroad communication by way of East
Tennessee and the Virginia valley with Lynch
burg and Richmond.
The successful issue of Sherman’s move
will have severed communication between the
two main rebel armies, and Hood’s present
campaign seems to be directed toward secur
ing such communication by the line mention
ed. Hood’s army in this case would be in
position to join Lee’s, should this move be
come advisable.
From Georgia, the United States papers, of ’
the 30th, have not a word. They say the reb
el papers are telling nothing, and they have
no olher source of information. They put
into the mouth cf Hon. Roger A. Pryor, whom
tboy are exhibiting in the principal cities,
sundry statements and speculations which are
but inventions of their own. They sar be ad
mitted that Sherman has captured Macon and
Milledgeville, and that there was little, if anv !
doubt, from the rapid progress he was mak- \
ing, that he had captured Augusta; and that
J FIVE’DOLLARS
\ fPER MOUTH.
he would encounter nothing serious to impede
his march to the seaboard ; that with Augusta
in his possession, the Southwest would be cut
off from Richmond, and that no troops could
be sent from Lee to reinforce Savannah.
[Telegraph $ Confederate.
Atlanta as left by the Enemy—Report of
General Howard.
Atlanta, Qa., December Tth, 1864.
To His Excellency, Jos-. E, Brown, Governor
of Georgia:
In obedieuce to orders of November 25th, to
inspect the State property in Atlanta, and the
city itself, and protect the same, I have the
honor to make the following report. With it,
I beg leave to present your Excellency with a
pencilled map of the city, showing the posi
tion of every house left unburued.
The property of the State was destroyed by
fire, but a vast deal of valuable material re
mains in the ruins. Three-fourths of the
bricks are good, and will be suitable for re
building if placed under shelter before freez
ing weather. There is a quantity of brass in
the journals ofburned cars and in the ruins
of the various machinery of the extensive rail
road shops ; also, a valuable amount of
per from the guttering of the State depot, the
flue-pipes of destroyed engines, stop cocks of
machinery, <Scc., &c. The car wheels that were
uninjured by fire were rendered useless by
breaking the flanges. In short, every species
of machinery that was not destroyed by fire,
was most ingeniously broken and made worth
less in its original form—the large steam boil
ers, the switches, the frogs, &c. Nothing has
escaped. The fire engines, except Tallulah
No. 3, were sent North. Tallulah has been
overhauled and anew company organized.
Nos. 1 and 2 fire engiue houses were saved.
All the city pumps were destroyed, except one
on Marietta street. The car shed, the depots,
machine shops, foundries, rolling mills, mer
chant mills, arsenals, laboratory, armory, &c.,
were all burned.
In the angle, between Hunter street, com
mencing at the City Hall, running east, and
McDonough street, running south, all houses
were destroyed. The jail and calaboose were
burned. All business houses, except on Ala
bama street, commencing with the Gate City
Hotel, running east to Loyd street, were burn
ed. All the hotels, except the Gate City, were
burned. By referring to my map, you will
find about four hundred houses standing. The
scale of the map is four hundred feet to one
inch. Taking the car-shed for the centre, de
scribe a circle, the diameter of which is twelve
inches, and you will perceive that the circle
contains about three hundred squares. Then,
at a low estimate, ailow three houses to every
four hundred feet, and we will have thirty-six
hundred houses in the circle. Subtiact the
number of houses indicated on the map, as
standing, and you will see by this estimate,
the enemy have destroyed thirty-two hundred
houses. Refer to the exterior of the circle,
and you will discover that it is more than half
a mile to the city limits, in every direction,
which was thickly populated, say nothing of
the houses beyond, and you will see that the
enemy have destroyed from four to five thou
sand houses. Two-thirds of the shade trees
in the Park and the city, and of the timber in
the suburbs have been destroyed. The suburbs
present to the eye one vast, naked, ruined, de-
I serted camp. The Masonic Hall is not burned,
though the corner stone is badly scar
red by some thief, who would have robbed it
of its treasure, but for the timely interference
of some mystic brother.
The City Hall is damaged but not burned. The
Neoond Baptist, Second Presbyterian, Trinity and
Catholic churches and all the residences adjacent
between Mitchell and Peter streets running south
of east, and Loyd and Washington strcati run
ning south of west, are safe, all attributable to
Father O’Riley, who refused to give up his parson
age to Yankee officers, who were looking out fine
houses for quarters, and there being a large num
ber of Catholics in the Yankee army, who vol
unteered to protect thoir Church and Parsonage,
and would not allow any houses adjacent to be
fired that would endanger them. Asa proof of
their attachment to their Church and leve for Fa
ther O’Riley, a soldier who attempted to fire Col.
Calhoun’s house, the burning of which would have
endangered the whole block was shot and killed,
and his grave is marked. So to Father O’Riley the
country is indebted for the protection of the City
Hall, Churches, Ac.
Dr. Quintard’s Protestant J/ethodist, the Chris
tian and African churches were destroyed. All
other churches were saved. The Medical College
was saved by Dr. D. Alvigny who was left in
charge of our wounded. The Female College was
torn down for the purpose of obtaining the brick
with which to construct winter quarters. All in
stitutions of learning were The Afri
can church was used as an academy for educating
negroes. Roderick Badger, a negro Dentist, and
his brother Bob Badger, a train hand on the West
: Point & LaGrange Railroad, both well known to
j the citizens of Atlanta, were assistant pro'essors
i to three philanthropic Northman in this instita
! tion. Very few negroes remained in the city.—
Thirteen 33 pound cannon, with eascables
and trunions broken off and jammed in the muz
zles, remnin near the Georgia Railroad shop. On#
well reported to be filled with ammunition. Frag
ments of wagons, wheels, axles, bodies, <fcc., Ac.,
are strewn over the city. Could I have arrived
ten days earlier, with a guard of one hundred men,
I could have saved the State aud city a million of
dollars.
there were about two f hundred and fifty wag
ons in the city on my arrival loading with pilfered
plunder, pianos, mirrors, furntture of all kinds,
iron, hides without number, and au incalculable
amount of other things, very ’■aluable at the pres
ent time. This exportation of stolen property had
been going on #v*r since the place had been aban
doned by the enemy. Bushwhackers, robbers and
deserters, and citizens from the surrounding coun
try for a distance of fifty miles have been engaged
in this dirty work.
Many of the finest houses mysteriously left un
burned are filled with the finest furniture, carpets,
piones, mirrors, Ac., and occupied by parties,
who six months ago lived in humble style. About
fifty families remained during the occupancy of
the city by the enemy and about the same num
ber have returned since its abandonment. From
two to three thousand dead carcasses of animals
remain in the city limits.
Horses were turned loose in the Cemetery to
graze upon the grass and shrubbery. The orna
ments of graves, such as marble lambs, miniature
statuary, souvenirs of departed little ones, are
broken and scattered abroad. The crowning act
of all their wickedness and villainy was commited
by oar ungodly foe in removing the dead from
the vaults in the cemetery and robbing the coffins
of the silver name plates, and tippings, and de
positing their own dead in the vaults.
I have the honor to be, respectfully
Your obed ent servant,
W. P. Howard.
Thomasyille. —We are glad to learn, says the |
Savannah News, that Capt. C. W. West, A. C. S., j
has been assignei to duty at Thomasville It is
timely and will be a great relief to the people of j
that town, who have had heavy demands upon
them for some time past. We are sorry to learn
that a few bad men have committed outrages upon
the citizens of that place. We have now before
us a letter from a highly respectable citizen, ask- j
ing that a provost guard be stationed there to pro
tect the people and tbeir property. The letter
also mentions the important fact that there are
some fifty sick soldiers there, being cared for by
citizens, who are almost entirely out of anytning ,
to feed them with. A Hospital or TV avside Home
is gready needed there at this time. TV ill not the
proper authorities of 'be Hospital and Relief As
sociation, look to this matter at once r
TELEGRAPHIC.
MP >rts or tu puuss association.
Km r#d vcoording to act of Congress in the year
\> 3. >y J. S. Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office of
to*: jvstrict Court of the Confederate State# to
the Northern District of Georgia.
LATEST FROM lIOOIVS ARMY.
Official Pispatch from Gov. Harris*
Special to the Memphis Appeal.]
Headquarters Army of Tbnnksskb, near
Nashville, Dec 5, via Bartow and Mobile, Dec.
10.—We pursued and overtook the enemy at
Franklin, where he had that morning thrown
up one line of breastworks and had com
menced two others.
The enemy evidently intended to hold per
manently the line of Franklin Murfrees
boro’.
We attacked him in position about 4 o’clock
p. m., and successively carried their two outer
lines.
At dark, we had reached and stood upon the
outer edge of their interior and last line of
works, where the fight continued until 11
o’clock.
We held our position during the night, ex
pecting to renew the fight in the morning, but
unfortunately, under cover of the darkness,
about 12 o’clock, the enemy retreated, leaving
his killed and wounded on the field.
We were unable to use our artillery on ac
count of the presence of the women and chil
dren in the town.
We massed about one hundred pieces of ar
tillery that night to open on the enemy at day
light, expecting the non-combatants to have
been gotten out before day.
We have lost an unusually large proportion
of officers.
Gens. Cleburne, Granburry, Adams, Strahl
and Gist were killed.
Gens. Brown, Quarles, Carter and Scott
were wounded.
We have captured about thirteen hundred
prisoners, and have picked up on the battle
field about six thousand stand of arms. We
have also captured a large number of colors.
We have also captured four locomotives aud
trains, and are running the Tennessee and
Alabama railroad.
Other trains are cut off, which we hope
soon to have in our possession.
About five thousand of the enemy are cut
off at Murfreesboro’.
The array is in fine health and excellent
spirits, and confident of success.
The people are delighted and enthusiastic at
our advance. Isham G. Harris.
Siege of Charleston— Five Hundred and
Fifteenth Day. —The agreement between the
Commissioners of exchange on both sides for
a suspension of all firing in the harbor and
upon the city during the continuance of the
exchange of prisoners at this point, was unin
tentionally violated by a sharpshooter at Fort
Sumter Monday. The arrangement was not
to include the intervals in the exchange of
prisoners, and the order to the garrison was
to cease firing only during flag of truce com
munications. One of our men observing a
body of men at Gregg, fired his rifle, the ball
taking effect upon one of the party, and, it is
believed, killing him. The enemy thereupon
opened all their batteries upon Fort Sumter,
and kept up a heavy fire for about an hour,
firing twenty-six shots. As soon as possible
the mistake was rectified by Col. Hatch, and
an apology tendered by Captain Huguenin,
which was accepted as satisfactory by the
enemy. The enemy also fired a few shots at
the same time at our batteries on James 13-
land.— Courier , 6th.
♦ » *
Several hundred Yankee prisoners arrived here
this morning by the Alabama and Mississippi
Railroad. We suppose this is the first installment
of the large captures made by Forrest and Hood’s
army, recently. These are the hardest looking
cases that have ever passed through here.
[Selma Dispatch.
mm •
Consumptive's Reply.
BY GEO. D. PRENTICE.
It is difficult to imagine how so bad a man as he
is represented to be could write so smothly—so
solemnly:
Yes, dear one, lam dying. Hope at times
Has whispered to me in her syren tones.
But now alas ! I feel the tide of life
Fast ebbing from my heart. I know that soon
The green and flo wry curtain of the grave
Will close as softly areund my fading form
As the calm shadows of the evening hour?
Close o’er the fading stream.
Oh 1 there are times
When my heart’s tears gush wildly at the
Thought, that in the fresh, young morning
Tide of life, I must resign my breath. To mo
The earth is very beautiful. I love its flowers,
Its birds, its dews, its rainbows, its glad
Streams, its vales, its mountains, its green
Waving woods, its moonlight clouds, its sunsets,
And its soft and dewy twilight; and I needs
Must mourn to think that I shall pass away,
Away, and see them nevermore.
Weak and low
My pulse of life is fluttering at my heart,
And soon ’twill cease forever. These faint
Words are the last echoes of the spirit’s chords
Stirred by the breath of memory. Bear me, love,
I pray thee, to yon open window now,
That I may look once more on nature’s face
And listen to her gentle music tone,
Her holy voice of love. How beautiful,
How very beautiful, are the earth and sea,
And the o’er arching sky, to one whose eyes
Are soon to close upon the scenes of time 1
I ne’er before
Beheld the earth so green, the sky so blue,
The sunset and the stars of eve so bright,
And soft, and beautiful. I never felt
The dewy twilight breeze so calm and fresh
Upon my cheek and brow; I never heard
The melodies of wind, and bird, and wave
h all with such sweetness on the ear. I know
That Heaven is fuli of glory, but a God
Os love and mercy will forgive the tears
Wrung from the fountain of my frail young heart,
By the sad thought of parting with the bright
And lovely things of earth.
Funeral ffotlce.
The friends and acquaintances of Mr. Richard
Hunter and Mrs. Anna C. Hunter, are requested to
attend the funeral of their only child, Sallih A.
Hunter, at the residence of Maj. H. T. Hall, at 10
o’clock, to-morrow morning.
FOR CHATTAHOOCHEE AND BAINBRIDGE.
The Steamer Shamrock, H. Wingate, master, will
leave for the above and intermediate landings,
Wednesday morning at 9 o’clock.
dec 11 td
lld’qrs Camp of Instruction for Ga., )
Camp Cooper, Macon, Dec. 10,1804, J
Special Orders, 1
No. 330. /
[Extract.]
*******
111. As communication with Col. Wm.M. Brown.
Commandant of Gonscripts, is re-established, special
order number 321, par. 9, from these headquarters
is hereby revoked.
A. M. ROWLAND.
dec 11 5t Major and Commandant.
Wanted,
AT Lee Hospital, the lpt of January, ten able
bodied NEGROES, men and women.
A, D. BRIDGMAN,
dec II ts Steward.
To Hire,
POR next year, a first rate Cook. Washer and
F Ironer. She is faithful.,ud h-.nest and'free from
incumbrance. Apply at THIS OFFICE
declltt
Wauled.
>OO 000 TIMBER, in plaak or
-VO.VUO 1% inch, or by the cord. Arr!y at
our Government Works. “ 7
dec26t JOHN GRAY A 0. •
