Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-01-14

'"0"'"' "f"b 'o'hS u"Wu iutO tHt COnciu'
sion that the attack on that city is fail.
ure.
Florida was to have been subjusated in
1854 A State was to have been restor.
ed by the logic Of artillery into "thc I'm
ion |" Federal troops congregated on the
st. Johns and, massed into an army,
moved into the interior. Hurled back TO
Olustee, they rotreated, shattered and
bleeding, to their ships, and added thus
another instance oftbe general truth, that
every large operation of the campaign
Of last year has resulted in failure.
Ships and troops gathered like storm.
clouds around the harbor of Mobile. That
city was, we were ass sured, about to be cap.
turod and cooperating force, moving
for that base, we were told, would mmcdi-
ately afierward 60 up the Alabama to
repeat the apparently harmless process Of
"cuttiDg the rebellion in twol' What are
the facts to-day! Mobile is still "hot.
bcd' Of secession ! Tho Federal army
and tho Federal feet have seen proper to
give its torpedoes and its artillery and its
rifles "wide BERTH" and even that gal.
liant old sailor, Farragut, while able to
look upon It's church.spires in the distance,
was unable to break the spell which ap-
pears to have dccreed that each expedition
OF the war in 1864 should turn out mis-
cotriage.
But what shall we say of Sherman's
raid across Georgia. Beginning at his
confession of the practical failure OF even
the splen did successes which brought him
to Atlanta, in the vain hope of stranglpg
tile rebellion, the NOV of that officer
to the seaboard was ,such as it is,a success.
The measure Of that success is simply the
occupation of the previously sealed City Of
Savannah ; and OF about twenty miles Of
the lower part of the Ogeechee Savannah
peninsula; but while this is literlly the
sum total ofits results, that march is the
only instance in which any one of the
great movements of the campaign Of last
year has not proved an utter failure.
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CORRECT THE There WIS
considerable complaint under the last
draft, on account of the alleged unjust
quotas assessed upon some of the town.
g. ips. One way to avoid this at the next
draft, is TO have the enrolment corrected
INN edia'ely, by having all the names
sticken off that do not properly belong
there. All who will be over As on The
18th of February who have removed from
the township, who are disabled by appar-
cnt permanent physical disability, who
have served two years in this war, who
will not be 90 years of age on the 18th o.
February, all these can be stricken off, il
the necessary application be at once made
to the Provost of this District. We may,
also, say that it is the interest of every
rightly enrolled man, to report the names
OF all Of proper age, &C., who are not en-
rolled, for The more Of these there arc on
the list, the greater the chance of escape,
when the drawing takes place.
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Every christian family should receive
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Specimen copies can be seen at this Office.
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WHICH SHALL WE FoLLow.-l'he Re.
publican press say It's treason 10 advocate
the cause Of peace. Even prolsssed min
listers Of tho Gospel continue 10 preach
war to the knife and the knife to the hil,,
and yet Christ OH the Mount tells US that,
" Blessed are the peace akers for they
shall be called the children of Cod" We
are told again in Romans Is: GLOW
beautiful are the feet of them that preach
tho gospel Of Peace We ask the rea.
der which is it safest 10 follow the teach
ing. Of the Abo ition press and tho war
preachers, or the teachings Of the written
will Of the Son oil God.
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s6- James Mcilenry one Of The so call
ed monsters who frightened Mr.. Lincoln
or somebody else out of his wits has been
liberated alter confinement of lO3 days