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Great auction sale in Augusta. --Felt in Prices. The correspondent of the Atlanta Register, writing from Augusta, December 17, --says: The great sale of Day, Walker & Co., and Augustus Cohen, of Savannah, was well attended, notwithstanding the stormy character of the weather. There was a heavy decline in all styles of goods, amounting in many instances to one and two hundred per cent. This decline, occurring in the face of an advancing rate of exchange and upward tendency in gold, has caused no little surprise among the trade. This sale, like the other auction sales heretofore held, develops the fact that the profits on blockade importations cannot be remitted at the present rate of exchange. It was also understood that the banks are refusing facilities, in some cases even declining deposits, thus increasing the embarrassments of trade. Not a few of the shrewd people begin to cry, "stand from under — the crash is coming!"--The following are some of the quotations o
Senate. Wilson and Davis both spoke. Davis said if expelled he would go to Kentucky and raise the cry of oppression, usurpation, tyranny, and revolution against the faithless men new in charge of the Government. Other Senators are yet to speak. Lincoln has decided that his amnesty proclamation does not extend to prisoners of war. The New York Times says that at least three fourths of Meade's army have re-enlisted for three years. The Mexicans attacked the French on the 17th December, and were repulsed with the loss of 2,000. A telegram from the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac says that John Minor Botts has been urged to accept the place of Senator from Virginia in Washington, in place of Bowden, and that he has written a letter in response, stating that he is unwilling to accept the honor intended to be conferred upon him, hoping that the time is not far distant when he can stand as a connecting link between the North and South. The letter is said to be
Late Northern News.an election ordered by Banks in Louisiana. Mobile, Jan. 26. --The Advertiser and Register has a special dispatch from Como, Miss., which contains Northern dates of the 24th. Another plot to release the Johnson Island prisoners by rebels in Canada has been discovered, and it is reported that two companies of British troops have been sent to Windsor, opposite Detroit. Quantrell, with 1,500 men, is at New Carthage, La., below Vicksburg. The Confederate steamer Florida has been repaired and sailed from Erest. Advices from Vera Cruz, of the 2d inst., state that a battle occurred at Moralla on the 17th of December. The French captured 11 cannon and 1,000 prisoners. Juares escaped to Monterey. Banks has ordered an election for members of a Convention in Louisiana. The election is to take place on the first Monday in April, and the Convention to meet on the first Monday in May.
Five Hundred Dollars reward. --Ran away, on Saturday, December 17th, my mulatto servant, William; about thirty-five years old; five feet eight inches high; he is a good butcher; was raised in Norfolk. I will give the above reward for his delivery at Robert Lumpain's jail. John Lindsey de 20--6t*
The Washington Chronicle of Sunday, received yesterday afternoon, contains the following official bulletin: War Department, December 17, 10 P. M. Major-General John A. New York Dispatches have been received to-day from General Foster, who had a personal interview on the morning of Wednesday, the 14th instant, with General Sherman, at For which had been taken by assault on the preceding day. Savannah was closely designed, and its capture, with the rebel forces there, was confidently expected. It was to be summoned in two days, and if not surrendered. Sherman would open his batteries upon it. General Foster reports that Sherman's army "is in splendid condition, having lived on its march on the turkeys, chickens, sweet potatoes, and other good things of the richest part of Georgia." The march was feebly resisted. Nothing has been heard from General Thomas today. Unofficial dispatches state that the provost- marshal at Nashville reports five thousand prisoner
Five Hundred Dollars reward. --Ran away, on Saturday, December 17th, my mulatto servant, William; about thirty-five years old; five feet eight inches high; he is a good butcher; was raised in Norfolk. I will give the above reward for his delivery at Robert Lumpkin's jail. John Lindsey. de 20--6t*
Five Hundred Dollars reward. --Ran away, on Saturday, December 17th, my mulatto servant, William; about thirty-five years old; five feet eight inches high; he is a good butcher; was raised in Norfolk. I will give the above reward for his delivery at Robert Lumpkin's jail. John Lindsey. de 20--6t*
Five Hundred Dollars reward. --Ran away, on Saturday, December 17th; my mulatto servant, William; about thirty-five years old; five feet eight inches high; he is a good butcher; was raised in Norfolk. I will give the above reward for his delivery at Robert Lumpkin's jail. John Lindsey. de 20--6t
Five Hundred Dollars reward. --Ran away, on Saturday, December 17th, my mulatto servant, William; about thirty-five years old; five feet eight inches high; he is a good butcher; was raised in Norfolk. I will give the above reward for his delivery at Robert Lumpkin's jail. John Lindsey. de 20--6t*
Ratification of the anti-slavery amendment by the Legislatures of Georgia and Alabama. Washington, December 17. --The State Department has been officially advised of the ratification of the anti- slavery amendment by the Legislatures of Georgia and Alabama.
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