33 y D. X>. fiOOOTTi y \9.* ' ' Terras pf Subscription. Tri-Weekly per month - -Vv - * $2.00 " M for ?ix Months* $10.00 WeekJy, . . : '. . I - $io.O() ' * * j.V // * . *. ^ " Hates for Advertising:: For one Squaw tWelye- lines or -leas?THRKE DOEtrAIBJ for the flint insertion, and TWO DOI^> LABS end FIFTT CKNTtt for.eacli subsequent OB.rrpxBT Norrpss, exceeding one square, Charged ited^rtietofrfBief.,., '*.". , TrabsientAdvertiBstoeriti >nd Job Work MUST BE PAH) FOBJN ADVAVGK. No deduction made, except to eur regular ndvertis v> iwr patrons. - - A PfcJuro^or llhtoi). . A letter from Washington, N. G., jf gives j^a. account of the desolation ot< Vhat^^f^dtl|e following descrip* tkjnr*>f ; v of ^efiref tilings that strikes the visitor upon reaching Washington fe the almost entire absence of negroes. I d o n ot^ think there , are over six in the entire corporation, very neraly all of srhomare freepersons. One of these^-jtnd-n most renkrkable map 1 every way?is ;V.: - Abram Allen, concerning whom it is almost impossible to speak otherwise than m terrtrof extravagant e"&Abram was aii old citizen, ^tP^^ker^nd the" n*. a J xl . i_: _i J. owmiey b ; possessed me uigucao intellectual qualities* of any colored mail X-ever saw; and was a South-. - ern patriot to the backbone. When the Yankees, under 'the application of the rule to "run the cturchefe" as well as the Government, undertook to unite the colored church" in Wash* ington: to the Connecticut Gonferenee, they Wanted to* ordain, ;A1bram*,r and make Kim pastor. Bui the heroic colored man told-them that it Was against the laws of his State for' a e>ioted'man to preach, mid he in tended'4 to" keep the laws. They - could not bribe or intimidate him. > Be stood to his colors. They carried away his wife and family; and :Teft him solitary by hiB OWn hearth^ But ~ he remained true to the South. And ' when i visited Washington the first, time, I found the brave old Christian colored man, like Old Mortality, busy among the graves of the old citizens, rubbing up and shutting in the desolated tpmbs of his departed JHCnd;sv Let Abtrn live in- story." "i i < '-? '* S "iCiiiNofis.?rFoiff *$aW ago A]id"t6:day !*? Hqw striking is the contrast,! The inert, the woYrien anv^. ' and I^^^^H>B^?decide roan's fdritttoei hWltifetfo'&nrne; BflHMPfeil pcecadmg ^gSna'iktioM. LHIhirty years *cifo&; .generation, firpm nqaepiiy; beauties into grawold T&B krt lovers into grand-fathers, ambbmr the active generation or reduce them iratt, dccreptitndp and imbecility. Forty year%.aJa?iI. change the face-of. all society. Infatrt^ arc; growing old ; the bloom of .youth; and beauty^ has passed awHy ; two active .generationpiiiflYjA, been swept from the slage-of liie; natucKjonce J cherished are forgotten; .and unexpected datcs have started Ironi. ,the exlianstles^pmb of nature. Fifty yeafrsi! Why slkmld/rjjj- desire affectjor.6 from maturity for fifty yean !? It is to behold a world, of whjgli^ wc snownothing and to which arc unknown.,yltrj|s to weep for the generations. long gone ovr-rfbr parents, for lovers, foi children, for fne^drfiji the grave!* It is, in ?wCrd, to beholU the 1'unltv Aflfis in ?!! t.hn vonitv. nf'itiafilovr .m .. I ""'v *" ?!. vuu "i *>' - ; ( oft mbi'i Varolity ?f nriyJ"CffTeimet^i:^ :-: :. Official information has beeiffecervfcd tliat-n ^oibffin .01:5,000 ofthe.eDemy are orf- t he M'obilfr nwd^GMo itailroad. North of its crossing blf the AliOi.as^ jiPRiiil-' road. ' ;* ' ' m -.. _-j The n>Ktri(rr;vbi'.i;ikns ?Vft' ie 4U-. douot whether there is any iriith in t!ie report, heenusr in nine cases out Of tori tin- reports ofrc'out- arc liable. . ' A gneat'inka'f?Bichitond, Dec. 27?Tlie' En-' quirer, of to-day,- closes its leading editoral 113 fuNc/wst" 'If France and En laud will enter into a ttentr with these Confederate States. reccAnizingour independence upon abolishing slavery in all lite State-, - ra hpr than continue the war, we should be prepared to urge th;it such a proposition would be favorably received and acred upon by these nations, and ought to be made to them." .. . Gek. Steruxo Prick.?In.a special telegram tbtheMeridian Clarion, the death of this officer is rejKJrted. The'Selrha' papers also mention ilie rumor, but as Imv- j ing been received from Mehdum/ami probably baseii on the CZortonY despatch. "It is to be Hoped thatihe report'te untrue, as the country could ill iiBfird tbhame the services of tliffl officer to'the' fcsisgipfri f>eporime'nt,-toward >he" redemption of wl ich ho has contributed'bo much. " '-y j .'CnVDlf l?nin of apoplexy; - I Ttoyelhrfr feVcr has-cntirely subsided ai Galveston. iind-HouHtoa. jt ; * v . . Gen. Ki^bt,.Smith hud impressed ipbucco foij the jis^Ofthe army. \ ; Everything was qoifct in. the Trans-Mississippi. t NaSaMkws^uth of the Arkansas river. . ' .. Tho condition otour army tra*; fine?th?-y .are well clothed und fed.. . r. y , ? ^NAAAT^WWW 111 ' ?. ? r 4 *, - ' , "4* ., From the North?Shermans repobtof thb Capv. tube of Sat ann ad?his christmas glft to_XlJr Coln.?Richmond, Dec 28.?Northern papei? o! thV 26ih has been rreeiypd. 8berinali'j? telegram to Lincoln, dated Savannah, i22d, rends: ? ? - .v - " . jr. ' "v ' "* ! " I ty.isli to present yon as n Christmas gi&;tlie City :t>fSavannah,"trit!rone hundred and fifty lienvV irons. plenty ofaimbunliibii, aud about tweuty-flve thousandfetha of cbfton."^.' * '-H V /t . , v.* r; ' . Fostek sentaieletfram to Grjtst and f&u,eck,ini. -fchieh -hesarys th;4 J^akoes, anticipating 'an assault,-escaped wlttf'the main Hodyof-his infiutry ;aHd,; light artilleryto ^nigh^o? the: 20th. 1,:V" ' :Tard "burned. The rest of the city'reaiaiua thtaot, Stidcontains about twenty fixJusand citizens, who are qui-' et ntod well dfeposed. .. .. ' I* The captures inchide&'elgbthlind'red prisoner*, one tuu'dred arid fifty guns, thirty locomotives'in gnod 'of- ' der.,6nb' hundred und ninety^iir&.a lnrjre' supply of ammunition and ww^rialfvtbt'ee 'stfcamersphhd 'iffr-ty;/ 'three thousaud bale.- ofco'tun, safely storecf'ir#1 wnre-: v- n - " - < bouses _ . ;Vv. Arrangements are being fnnde to dear'"Vie channel of the river ofaH obs-ructions. ' ' > P V'r "v. > *'*.- Si ' ! -V.. V; ; ?' | .. ojke oy ^Lamb's ISrst.? Lnmh once, i$nijils^ fd.? -coiiipai'V wttli?ir -atit< >p)y without lie, i)htin in* Moitx . 'loviVig lu'Hlli. , "I Wp,'" Hail! JiV,. 'Vojni/l'rnin roy> mritnyr.ii-^ (Vil/yr^r.iiyTnjgSvijy to p;iV imt a vsij. Iiit v ,i> l.vi'ni'i: -rioo; 4l?\v iilcn, .-idil in spilt of -y ?.??. tii*.e was |-iv-i?n?A, In- n# ?; :i.h. ?It: <;:i:v of att iMi(wc:.j)i' d < s'l-:*.' tlu'ic. sli'. i'1 I if'iru ?.i>srrv:ipi?i? y a ii . v* ut' ?-v -jg.-tTi r, h - t?;*k jnc I v the* liv .. vou.lt, ill-! si'g ills O^i'iluynci"! ,?n un.'iit'iiiv oi.r-f, v.iuf g i::s ii-H liyr'iTiifco;-< asiilo : ivimis Ij.y.*, ?i. in nfstrcai::"Toil' i% iij?-- I I-T ';* /I me ?? :)? 1)1 li" '!> : pi fli.j l?ri>k aw.'y; so, ta'tii-u aiivu,:t.,??;> y'ia-.'.-Vseirplion in !ii- ku! j-etf'niui, ?v*!i v -u kni*V, qjjivik hn' Ff.ur na;vr. I i; < * ,i-y< s, t'??f l"..::wa i' ' - '"a IjHliri i;" v.;:-. * { eft lt:iu. IJ ir I. -?i inns'; imV Oh TRsi Wmi'n? ?;ii. .i ?>? ? * (>Prl: i li.t Airman V.- rt ?v.\. :* w?V ?loWh" ?l?* Hsil- it: !i: Spots<-rV n*ii to '-1*1 i* ori' ti lio rionrwltvi in ||U iuii'oi, w: ?*i?' sH-hifji-iy lie toiin'1 IninsOf jit rh. Htmiifj cynivp ?t? tin- ?/i.ni ami viimIh"! o??V?rki-e|ioi,- wlu?, with' in. air wlii-n una ' loqnvni of' imlmiirttio!., inok tin1 "Citizen" l?y-tlii-iinpi of fin- lie*-If. criir* ro'niwl, m.ii aci't IvoiS <) lr-? ' / is Av. -J,, ,|jr.-.* tibil"ofthe ilo'tr, tfiviiijt ! \n ti sit jib-nil o aa\ -.t, i\ . K..1: 'I'ltii inti?n. i.r }c-in/t r.*n. A.TW-i# i# n r?i??-11 va ? j,- .. u, 1111*1 legislnlioilK'jjs. fMtroar ill'' CDHIilaill lli'iul, the 0lrt-g?iifk-.iuari ftih il'jii; nluiut to ofttttiiinni!. aSih?n>e ifi t.bo gallerir fc" with a tluiri-1 filti** rrij) Of biti.Mafk'w lilftJ lii a* he IIV JuNo'ls, nnVI hccks, aod wiv;iti)(-d siiiiies Sue!) Hi? hang on Hebe's e'tcfk, ' And l.ive t.0 live in (iiiush- -leek, Sport that wrinkled rare MCi-iK"". . ^ ?^t)d iailgilie.i Iioiiiing i-ofh his n>Jes, ' if ' m m ' ' 4 . mcttliis.gh?!'c'' '-'id nieiti*-} hi*. hem-i, fur tlic. firs tiuio this scs\r?ii ?t* ? siuil. d himself. ? tlionftiti 6rHU iiian. 4 . Holies. OFFI-'K AO'tXT OF STATU,. < amocS, fee.'27,-18;;4. | i Oil "IIK INFORM AT ION OFSLAVOKOLDURS * * iir Division No. 2", ifc is stated that the call for la-', bar to be delivered on the iOth'January next ia withdrawn. V R.^B.-' JOHNSOiT,.': ' -January 1? 3 Agentof6tote. t . . * ^ ' ill ??port.WL)^'' .. '< I.f::vSo?mdyi'bCf5jp^l Orders Xo: 20 ? * F^I&?^te%tSd|BH6^i^^7 : :i* ' ' Z^l : :BI?cl<-I,lHr.Thrw?d, Taue ^t?vCk?ab^xH' *>:'/< ; . ; .. ,JCsiiitinir^feedleBi Heel; 20 biixe^ To^u?'p, Fine Flour; s. ,; /. . 3" L'iy;it gC'.ss Hone UV $,\m ;rj j Docp'iiShtV*. ! 1 ' ' v.- '" jsrw-fif." ' " : , ' ' ' ' ' " - - 5 .---. - ' \?. 5 i, W&M&d f/o -Purchased- m&i ~x iji. I^li: ' Uk K\( r rrKr^.CONFKDte^ATW v'-^T;. >t.i.'??-i lav ' '"on, .wcfiu^ltt'w cast. forvrbicli I '* r'^* . ft l-i';l r.cu iii>.>rli. r,ir;iin;ffcr'td, will exchorijre ' V : pi. iit;ifi ' _ ^ii t.rtlu'.wiW^,.' i'tontvra <>r ott.ers. .' . .'..JSJ "W'iU i?f'?Mvintf.* * .!i . .':io . .r.T ;i*h ?:?*c?Hielie'lOjiMlier a* spteiii'V1 JV. ' '* > ' #?;?. - ' * I vvtv.nibifp-i- ' .. . -,i, . ? . . ^i;'.-re:, ' '-Hiri. ; . _ *: K ?r'JV-r :"Tibl-:^ \\:JLl;"'JjrJi tii^-.k^or^ | . ? i-i ;*T:: :.ii appn.Vi d liirer for" the?*. '" yd:,' Sd.j. Alsti, a -o.l two-hor* wa^on for Hale,''. J . - tl. " t. M. . - ? . ."Visftt-'aie-. . |$jg : :.Y 'V. pir.T]j;- ./UKT OFORI)nf^. *1 " * jl ?' i' V^ f'vr lc?v:-V'H*tvp|^*tfi? f. T will ?.?;! 'lit tiie ' ! ?i i<" iif >- : .ii' \\vliiiiiirA: jVwn.m. dc-cd on r-w' " iib rJr iiiM.. rtuj-slni'li.; i*ro visions. Tppl,;. , * < : . '.(isi) <4'^rj.rt'%tutMi,'^(:nK>^i|iK in - '{Mjw-w!. 'ir . stf. V?i-.' iiiw.rc'-uiid uljoiK ll.ityf liead^jf". , i\.\v f ul?-..!.i! i-ry lot !i'i?-t "Cora>r?. . v.z:~ % ' '. y/t: Ktf '< .'i'i ruin ui- ii'rkuow'in- itt , -Tf...'C^r cn'-'V'' I ilce 9:-2aiv.td ; :Adtir. ' 1 i ' -: :-r, _ . . . ; ~ x.OtlCe. . ; * i J *??R2JT>\\LL A-JJIv ON-' TH4S Fi.i.1 M.?'r". '' , \ in wugoir^ lor a- jew days; I'musi del.w'' " at tliH Jlepi/t witliiUjPigliVdifjrs, ni.i'OO Ih ?1ic:h of corn> I Ime r.ili unwt-s 10 imuVesH? the ?-oiu ron$t MRItS'' . : iivmd. ; ' , ; .1 H; I ETb'HElJXf v--" . Jit. 7?3t. Cwpt: oad A. -.A* ' -"Ti.z ia Kind ' f|j ? A Si ['.? JJ; S." 0.j.N6v; 3;!? yjssfiy- hi5q&msteV: 1 ju. Mrlii.{ in their Tit!: * of oru Oi.wARye/' * J ATi^e Vi.|:l?r: I lay." pn \ Sorjjiiuih, J TOXCK' i In-.StiireH-.ive'nMiC" nl^dW. . : J.jones*-.%? TVc. 1?6d, i : Auo/ f T.-I ^ i.- OtiCi/> ' I ~ '' i J6& P?iusc?>:s.li^i>a DEMANDS'AG AIN&T, ~ . V. '.KgjMitHti' Hi Ute.totn Dr. ''cury Oaupjj,-.'. * pres??rtliein proper^auflsted.. ana those. indebwd^. -jv . >' .vuTttwkd payiucnt to Jopq Odhf.ey: " ' 7 . - < - Oct; 22.;; - ,i t . \ Admiuist.r Urix? I $0 | -For Bale. - %g&SM. rpHR 8t7BSC$tB?a: OPPifiS' &%"&&& & A; tPUfltf i^grofello:^^"ge^w>iityJ/ywiTB. -*Po'p. . s farther particulars apply.- ?;' -<;/ , .^vp: HOOOOT^;. " ' , Not; 1 ?- \ - _ " > ;; -