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TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1801.
Mayor Whitaker and th« “ Confederacy.”
On Friday last we publiehed a communica
tion from Milton A. Candler, Eaq ., a well known
and highly reepeotabte citizen of Decatur, in
whieh wae —fiaednemo eiei**tm<m the
the euthoritlee of this city. We accompanied
the tdtter with the following comments, via t
Asovv tn Lorifuiu ZjCavks.—We this
morning publish a communication from Mr.
Cihdler 6f Dwaflif, tn Which he fhdulgfce In
am temperate, and we believe to acme extent,
are not undeserved. We think our authorities
made a miatake in giving heed to the unrea
sonable and extravagant reports shout the bad
oondnet of onr soldier*.
But if these rumor* bed been true, it wea
hardly right, we submit, to send a regiment of
each unbridled ruffian* to s small village,
which they oonld have sacked in fifteen min
utes, If they had been so disposed. Here we
could bevs controlled them, no matter what
they might have attempted to do. We truet
that everybody will be carefal in the future,
about what oredenoe they award to romore—
especially such a* are so improbable as were
these about the Zouevee. We are reliably in
formed that there ia sot a word of truth in the
fiigbtfel reports of their bed conduct at Mont
gomery, which preceded them, and so much
cxtrcieei oar City Authorities.
It will bo aeon that we ventured, i n the above,
to seggest that our city authorities made a
“mistake," and urged the propriety of their
exercising more caution heieafter in giving
credence to mere rumors—all of which was
touched in courteous and respectful language.
In the official proceedings of Council, pub
lished on Bundsy morning, we notice thst the
Meyor represents the “ Confederacy” as en
dorsing the attack of Mr. Candler on the city
authorities, and impugns our motive for ao do
ing. Right here we beg to say, that we know
all the members of our Council well, and be
lieve them to be aa clever and well-meaning a
Board as ever undertook to control the affairs
cf any city, atd presume the Council were not
called on to act in this matter—therefore, no
blame is attached to them. We bare also
known the Chief Marshal and his Deputies for
many years, and know them to be faithful, vig
ilant and reliable officers. We have not made,
nor endorsed, any attack on them, or the Coun
cil. Possibly sny or all of them might make
a mistake; even Hie Honor, the Meyor, might
ponibfy err. They are all, united, the guar
dians of the peace and reputation of the city ;
and shall we, as public journalists, not be al
lowed to make a simple suggestion, in courte
ous language, without official censure from
that body? We think a little reflection will
indnoe a kinder spirit from that body.
But to the facts as stated by Mr. Candler:
Did not the city authorities seed to Decatur
bread and coffee for tho soldiers, and did not
men accompany these refreehuenta ? and did
they not make the statements at Decatur, as
stated by Mr. Candler? Were the soldiers not
carried through to Docatur, and there remain
several hours, as stated ? If so, of what can
the authorities complain in his letter? The
Mayor says it was at the request of thsir own
officers, and by the Railroad Company. Very
well. This Mr. Candler did not know; nor
did he have a right to presume it, when the
refreshments were accompanied by a City offi
cer—a Deputy Marshal.
We have no blame for that offioer. We pre-
sumo he was obeying orders. We preeume the
Mayor sent him. His pretence at a section oat
of the jurisdiction of Atlanta, gave Mr. Cand
ler a right to presume he was there by the City
authority. The Mayor may explain the motive
and reason for bis course, but can he establish
the facts as stated by Mr. Candler as untrue?
Whether the statements alluded to in Mr. Can
dler's letter were made by this offioer or other
gentlemen in charge of tho refreshments, we
are not advised. But the crowning point of
this affair is the following note, from Mayor
Whitaker, left at our office on Saturday last:
Atlanta, June 8, 1861.
Editor« Confederacy: Having seen one Mr.
Candler*# communication in your paper of yes
terday, and your remarks upon it, In regard to
the Zouaves, reflecting upon the authorities of
Atlsots, 1 feel it to be my duty to pronounce
the charges knd reflections against and upon
the authorities to be false, unwarranted and
uoealled for. Gentlemen who propose to be
gentlemen, ought to be more oareful how they
write and publish things not trne.
Yours respectfully,
JARED I. WHITAKER, Mayor.
Te whioh we replied:
Atlanta, June 8,1861.
Jared I Whitaker— Dear Sir t Your note of
this date, left at onr Reading Room, has just
been received and read. Will you please des
ignate that part of our reflections on Mr. Can
dler’s letter, publiehed in yesterday’s “Confed
eracythat it false, unwarranted and uncalled
for ? Yonrs respectfully, G. W. ADAIR.
To which we received the following note :
Atlanta, June 8, 1861.
Editor $ Confederacy: Your note of this date
is received. I designate your editorial headed,
“About the Louisiana Zouaves," in your paper
of yesterday, as being an unwarranted and
uncalled for reflection upon the authorities of
Atlanta. Yours respectfully,
JARED I. WHITAKER, Mayor.
To this we sent the following respsetfol re-
ply:
Atlanta, Jan. 8,1881.
Jtdgt WMUker Your Mcond not. ot Ihli
d.U I. before me. I obMtT. you change th.
VteMIng la U. lul net a, onluing te* word
i'/Wm,” m appll*d to oorreflertiune alluded te
In yW Brit not*. Of th. truth or (.laity ef
ifr. Candler** Uttar, that 1. . m.tt.r entirely
between you and him. He la rMponilbl. for
it. r.r.cKy Aa u our aditarUl remark*, or
r.I«ail.a» bwnf lnnrn<hd,u anoalled for,
that I. a more matter ef tut*. W. tbiak dif-
family, tad -prapwfiiiy (a, t* pew/Jemm,** w*
■ball excreta* ourtjwn discretion la t*|*fd to
our editorial r.m.rki upon any public nfutter
—dMlrla, to |ajur. oo ata ia th. preivle**,
nethql.M l,«lbl.a awl iar eaaelnlinneaee
tty of :Mayor WhRnkar.
Wo hat. .ought to do kina ao wrong, AA a
man or an offloial, and baa. ua«d eourteout
languag. toward him. Th. ill-t.mpevand bad
brxding manifeated in hla notaa, and, in tbia
act of diaraapeot to ua, wa e*»fet,, *urpri(*e
ua. Wa hop. tba Mayor, wban h.JvrgtU about
bit note Judga Whitakar ratarnad oa
ay aTaalafjSte} th. aaal unbrokan
) ba might aai *>■ naan II, aa our clerk inf
Front tho London
Mr. HaaaalMa (fifth Latter.
ClABLiaTmi. 8. 0., April 21,1881
ind arm* coaaoWiicn Iar the dlaeppalut-
of not arriving ia tima ta wliaaaa tea at
upoa Fort Sumter te deaariblcg ike con-
of tba work aooa aflar M .jor^And.r.uu
andante II. Alraady i kata spaa my Uhl* a
mpklat aBlitlad « Tho Battle af York Beat-
, and Flr*t|Yi*f*Ty of >k( Sonterrn Troop.,"
Ao , aoraral "poama/'Aad a varltty of rani-
aulaa, aoaga, and rhotarioai axaraitatiana np-
on thia .rent, which, kowarar important as a
political dimoo at ration, la (f until Talus te*
military most, except ia ao (hr u tba bleed
Z - leu oopupatlen of s psaiiios command,ng
i, wHI ba mtored to Mr rrsulad good Charted on Harbor I* concerned. It may tend
didly and faarlaatep. 1M NOW
Ail
(hi tOMSOCA,
temper and better feeling.
Patriotic Little Girl.
As the Warrior Guards* (rota Tuscaloosa, Al
abama, commanded by Cspicla Fowler, pass
ed up the State Road, k beautiful little girl,
standing on the embankment, threw into the
window of the car a string nicely encircled
with large ripe cherries, with a note append
ed, reading thus:
“I with you God speed, sod may viotory
crown your banners. “ANNIE COOKE,
“ Marietta, Georgia."
This patriotio little gift frem the pnre-heart-
ed maiden fell before two men, dressed as gen
tlemen, who took it, read the note, and ate the
cherries, against the earnest remonstrance of a
gentleman of this eity, who witnessed the af
fair. The gentleman alluded to asked for tbe
note, and took it to Captain Fowler, and relat
ed the circumstance, that tbe object of the lit
tle girl might be accomplished. When Capt.
Fowler was apprised of all the faots, he came
forward, sought out the two men, and, with a
cool soldier’s sarcasm, administered to them a
rebuke that will not be forgotten to their dy
ing day.
Extraots from Northern Papers.
A Worcester correspondent of the N. Y. Day
Book gives ths following information of the
depression in business in Massachusetts. lie
says:
In the North part of this country there is no
butinets. Tbe great pail and chair districts
are almost desolated. Tbe large pail manu
factory of (be Murdocks in Winchendon is
shut up, tbe proprietors failed, and the work
men out of employment. This is a severe
blow to the town, but Asbburnbam is in about
the same condition. One little village in Tem
pleton of 400 inhabitants, has lost within three
weeks over $100,000, completely ruining tbe
plaoe for the time being. This sad state of
affairs in tbe Northern part of the country is
but a sample of the state of our industrial in*
Lfrests everywhere. The Brookfields are the
great boot and shoe towns of the eonntry, and
there business is down. T. & E. Batehslder
have failed, and their works were the largest
in town. Those shops where any work Is done
are doing but very little, and the profits are
found on tbe wrong side of the ledger. The
straw shops in Upton have also nearly stop
ped work ; but as their season is nearly over,
they will not be seriously affeoted this sum*
mer, if they oan sell their present supply.
Tbe N. Y. Times says:
Tbe impression gains ground that there can
be no end to the present war, no compromize,
no peace, which leaves the oauae of it in exis
tence. The irrepressible conflict having tak
en this sanguinary character, can no more be
staid while slavery exists. It has been resolv-
ed by the whole people of the North that the
Union must be preserved. The Government
responds to this popular outburst of patriot
ism, and re echoes it in official instructions to
our foreign ministers. This is the one great
point determined, and it is now becoming ev
ident that it oannot be made final and sure
without a complete overthrow of tbe institu
tion of slavery.
The New York Day Book says :
A merchant of this eity, whose opinion is
entitled to credit, both from his experience
and his sagacity, says that “it is useless to do
ji .that a complete financial wreck of the
bole North is inevitable unless something is
done when Congress meets to bring about an
honorable peace."
It is a sad business to walk out in the streets.
One oan hardly pursuade himself that hs is
not in Bedlam. Such faces! Some blazing
fiendish passions, others, sad, sorrowful and
despairing ; but not one pleasant and joyous
countenance in the whole city. There is some
thing in every man’s face which seeme to say
a nation is dying !"
pJT A Portsmouth, Va , correspondence of
the Richmond Dispatch has tbe following in
reference to the raising of the Merrimac:
The celebrated wreckers, the Bakers, of whom
I have heretofore made mention, have been
engaged, for the laet four days, in making the
necessary preparations for raising the steam
frigate Merrimac—the same splendid speci
men of Naval architecture which the Vandals
under Pendergrastand company left in flames,
and which was burnt to the water's edge. Yes
terday morning, at five o’clock, four steam
pumps were put in motion, the holes battened
and leaks having been previously stopped, and
indeed every preparation made preparatory
to tba operation of pumping. The fonr pumps
discharged one hundred and forty barrels etch
minute, or forty barrels each.
At six o’clock yesterday afleanoon, I went on
board the the steamer. Bhe was along side
the wharf at the Navy Yard. They had then,
as Baker told me, discharged 121 feet of water.
Thera wars about 6 feet in tbe hold. She was
up nine or ten feet from the surface of the wa
ter. Her water pipes had been out, and the
mtgasine cock was found turned so as to let
in the stream. This Baker turned so as to shut
off tbe influx. The damage of the engine is
not of a serious character. Under superintea-
tendance and mangemant of the Bakers, her
machinery will ba rendered as fit for service
as before the myrmidons of Black Republican
ism exemplified the mode of their chief in
“protecting the public property.”
Anothbb Paiza.—Quite an cxeitement wae
created upon the street yesterday afternoon
by the auaouocement that the privateer 8av~
annth, formerly a pilot boat ia oar waters,
had captured the brig Joseph, of Portland,
Maine, from Havant to Philadelphia, with n
cargo of Sugar, valued at $80,000, and had
sent her into Georgetown, with a prise crew.
The privateer is commended by Capt. Baker,
and when last seen wen being abased by a U.
8. war vessel, bnt with very little likelihood
of being oaptered. When the Savannah left
our harbor some days ago, a ball was firsd
aprtM her bew from the blockading ataemer,
to bring hsr to, but the only nnewer given
was a return shot at tbe steamer, ne the little
craft saecilj continued on bar way.
Frltt Commissioner Gilebriet, will visit
among perishable arthdee, it will |
sent te Charleston and sold, tho p
malalng nabjett It the deefefsa el
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to prevent any false impressions founded on
imporfret information, to state a few foots
oonneotsd with thejfirc in tbe work, and its ef
fects which will interest, at least, some mill
tary readers.
In the first place, It may be well to admit
that the military preparations and positions of
tb# South Carol!niene wore more formidable
than one wae prepared to expeot on the part
of a email State, without any considerable in
ternal organisation or resources. This com
parative efficiency was due mainly to Gen
Beauregard end hie aseistent engineer, Major
Whiting, who are, both professional engineer
officers of the United Stele* Army, end who
had capacity and influence enough to direct
the energies of the undisciplined masses in the
proper direction, instead of allowing them to
rush on their fate in the perilous essay of an
esoalede, as they intended. Tbe State of South
Carolina bad for a long time been accumula
ting arms and munitions of war, end it may
beeaidtbat ever since tbe nullification con
test shs bad permitted hereelf to dwell on
the idea of ultimate secession, to be effected
by force, if necessary. When General Beau
regard and Major Whiting came here tbe
works intended to resist tbe fleet and crush
the Fort were in a very imperfect state.
Major Anderson and his oflloers had a true
professional contempt for the batteries of ths
civilians and militia men, which was in some
measure justifiable. One morning, however,
as they took their survey of the enemy’s la
bors for the previous night, they perceived e
change had oome over the design of their
works. That “some one who knows his busi
ness isfover there" wai evident. Their strange
relationship with those who were preparing
to destroy them if possible, howsvsr, preven
ted their resources to the obvious means whioh
were then in abundance in their bands to avsrt
the coming danger. Had Major Anderson main
tained a well regulated fire on the enemy the
moment they began to throw upon their bat
teries and prepare Fort Moultrie against him,
he could have made their progress very slow
and exceedingly laborious, and have marked
it at every step with blood. His command over
the ground was very decided, but he had, it
is to be supposed, no authority to defend him-
aelf in the only way in whioh it could be done.
“ Too late "—that fatal phrase—was the echo
to every order which came from the seat of
Government at Washington. Meantime the
South Carolinians worked at these batteries,
and were soon able to obtain cover on the soft
shady plains on which they were planting
their guns and mortars. They practiced their
men at the guns, stacked shot sod shell, and
furnished their magazines, and drilled their
raw levies wi'h impunity within 1400 yards
of the Fort. We all knew what impunity is
worth in offensive demonstrations. It is a pow
erful agent, sometimes, in creating enthus
iasm. Every day more volunteers flocked to
tbe various companies, or created new asso
ciations of armed men, and the heterogene*
roue and motley mass began to assume some
resemblance to an army, however irregular.
At the present moment, Charleston is like a
place iu the neighborhood of a camp where
military and volunteer tailors art at work try
iog experiments in uniforms, and sending in
their animated models for inspection. There
is an endless variety—often of ugliness—in
dress "equipment "end nomenclature, among
these companies. The headdress is generally,
however ,a smart cap like the French cept ;
the tunio is of different outs, colors facings and
materials—green with gray and yellow ; gray
with orange and black; blue, with white and
yellow faoings; roan, brown, burnt sienna
and olive—jaokets, frocks, tunios, blouses,
doth, linen, tweed, flannel. Tbs officers are
generally in blue frocks and brass buttons,
with red sashes, the rank being indicated by
gold lace parallelograms on the shoulder
straps, which are like those in use in the Rus
sian army Tbe arms of the men seem toler
ably well kept and in good order. Many, how
ever, still shoulder the “White Bess"—the old
smooth bore musket with unbrowned barrel.
Tbe following is an official return, which I am
enabled to present to you through the courte
sy of the authorities, showing the aotual num
ber of men under arras yesterday in and
around Charleston:
Mobbis Island—17th Regiment, 700 men ;
1st, 950 men ; 8d Regiment, 976 men. Total
2,025 men.
Sullivan's Island— 6ih Regiment 1,076
men ; detachment of 8lh Regiment, 250 men;
detachment of 0th Regiment, 200 men ; cav
alry and others, 225 men. Total, 1,750.
Stono and other points, 720 men ; Charles
ton 1,900 men ; Columbia, 1,950 men.
Morris Island,
Sullivan’s Island,
Stono and other points,
Total,
Columbia,
Charleston,
Total,
In field el lime of report,
Total, 12,002
The regiments mentioned here ere compos
ed of the various companies raised in differ
ent paVts and localities with different names,
but the State regulars are ia expectation that
they will eoon be made portions of tho regu
lar army of the Confederate Stales, which ie
ia eonrse of formation. There ere I believe,
only 55,000 registered voters in South Carol!
as. Tbe number of men furnished by them
is a fair indication of the seel for the oauee
whioh animates the populstion. ThejMwsi-
qut of the troope ia undeniably good. Now
and then undersized, weakly |men may be
met with, bat the great majority of the com
panies consist of rank and file, exceeding tho
average statue of Europeaae, and very well
built and moeouler. The men run very large
down here. Nothing, indeed, can be more ob
vious, when one looks allhe full grown, healthy
handsome race which develops itself ia the
•treats, ia the bar-rooms aad in the hotel
balls, than the error ef the argument whieh is
mainly used by the Carolinians thsmselves,
that whits mea cannot thrive in their State.
In limb, figure, height, weight, Ihtv are equal
to any people 1 have ever seem, and their fea
ture are very regular aad pronounced. They
are, indeed, aa nalike the ideal Aseerioaa ef
•or caricaturists aad ear stage is as ths “wri-
sr*‘ ef the Perie 8t. Martin in the English
gemsleeses). Some of thie superiority le doe
the foot that % hoik pr the white pc-
totette* h^an (la allltet aas« aitetaarate
oligarchs
I is bat a gigantic Sparta, ia which
1 lad *
am marked by ea indelible differ
•nee of color and race from tbe masters. The
white population Whioh is net land aad slave-
holding and agricultural It very small aad ve*
TZi~zZn,nZriz7Z'*.y ad-
vantage which mo conduce to (he physical «x-
oaUence cf apeepto, aad te the cultivation of
the graces end accomplishments ef Ufr, even
though they are rather disposed le neglect
purely Intellectual enjoyment* hod tastes.—
Many of those who servo in (he ranks are
men worth from £5,000 to £10,000 a year—
at least, so I was told—and seen wart pointed
out to me whe word said to be worth far
mors. One private feeds his company on
bis comrades with unlimited campano, moat
grateful on tbe arid sand biU; a third, with a
more soldiery view!to their permanent, rath
er then occasional efficiency, purchases for the
men of bis “ Guard " a complete equipment
of Enfield rifles. How long the zest and re
sources of these gentlemen will last ft may
not be easy to say. At preasnt they would
provt formidable to any enemy, except a re
gular army on ths plain and in the open field,
but they arc not provided with field artillery,
or with adequate cavalry, and they are not ao
customed to act in concert, and in large bo
dies.
Yesterday morning I waited on Gen Beau
regard, who ia commanding the foroes of
South Caroline. His Aids-de-Carap—Mr.
Manning. Mr. Chesuut, Mr. Poroher Miles
and Col. Lucua—accompanied me. Of these,
the former has been Governor of tbia State,
tbe next has been a Senator, the third a mem
ber of Congresa They are all Volunteers,
and gentlemen of postion iu the State ; and
tbe faot that they ara not only content, but
gratified" to act as aids to the professional
soldier, is the best proof of the reality of the
spirit whioh animates tbe class they repre
sent. Mr. Lucus is a gentleman of the State,
who ia acting as Aid-de-Camp to Gov. Pick
ens. Passing through tbe dense crowd which,
talking, smoking and reading newspapers, (ills
the large hall af the Milla House, we emerge
on the diriy street, sufficiently broad, end
lined with trees protected by wooden sheath
ings at the base. The houses, not very lofty,
are clean and spacious, and provided with ve
randabs facing tbe South ee far as possible.
Tbe trees givs the streets the air of boulevard,
and tbe town has, somehow or other, the re
miniscence of tbe Hague about it which I can
not explain or acoount for satisfactorily. Tbe
headquarters are in a large, airy public build
ing. once devoted to an insurance company’s
operations, or to the accomodation of the pub-
lio fire companies. There was no guard at
tbe door: officers and privates were passing
to and fro in the ball, part of which was out
off by canvass screens, so as to form rooms or
departments of tbe Horse Guards of South
Carolina. Ioto one of these wo turned, and
found the desks occupied by officers in uni
form, waiting dispatches and oopjing docu
ments, with all the abandon which distin
guishes the true soldier when he can get at
printed forms and Government stationery. In
another moment we were ushered into a small
er room, and were presented to the General,
who was also seated at his desk.
Any one accustomed to soldiers can readily
detect the “real article" from the counterfeit,
and when Gen. Beauregard stood up to wel
come us it was patent that he was a man ca-
pabla of greater things than taking Sumter.
He is a squarely-built, loan men, of about 40
years of age, with broad shoulders and legs
“made to fit" a horse of middle height; and
hia bead is oovered with thick hair, cropped
close, and showing the bumps, whioh are re
flective and combative, with a true Gallic air,
at tbe back of tbe skull: the forehead, broad
and well developed, profects somewhat over
tbe keen, eager, dark eyes; tba face is very
thin, with very high cheek bones, a well sha
pad noee, slightly acquiline, and a largo, rigid,
sharply out mouth, set above a full, fighting
chin. In the event of any important opera
tions taking plaoe, the name of this officer
will, 1 feel assured, be heard often enough to
be my excuse for this little sketch of his oat-
ward man. He was good enough'to detail his
obief engineer officer to go with me over the
works, and I found Maj. Whiting a most able
guide and agreeabla companion. It is scaroe
ly worth while to waste lime in describing the
position of Charleston. It lies as low aa Ve
nice, the look of whioh it rather affeots from
a distance, with long, sandy Islands stretoh-
ing out as arms to close up the approaches,
and lagoons cutting into the marshy shorea.
On a sandy Island and spit on tho left band
shore elands Fort Moultrie. On tho Southern
tide, on another sandy Island, are the lines of
tho butteries whioh, probably, were most dan
gerous, from their proximity and position, to
the unprotected face of Sumter. Tho fort it
self is built in the tideway, on a rocky point*
which has bean increased by artificial depot
its of granite chips. Embarktd, with a few
additions to onr original party, on board a
small steamer oallad the Lady Davis, we first
procesdsd to Morris Island, about 3J miles
from Charleston. Our steamer was filled with
ooramissariat store* for the troops, of whom
4,000 were said to be encamped among tbe
•end hills.
Any one who bee ever been at Southport, or
has seen the dunes about Dunkirk or Calais,
will hava a good idea of the piece. Our lend
ing wae opposed by a guard of stout Volun
teers, with crossed firelocks; but they were
satisfied by the General’s authority, and we
prooeeded, ankle-deep in the soft, white sand,
to visit tba batteries whioh played on the
landward fact of Sumttr. They are made of
•andbags for the moat pert, well plaoed in the
sandhills, with good traverses and wall pro
tected magazines, the embrasure being faoed
with palmetto logs, which do not splinter
when etruok by shot. It did not, however,
require much investigation to show that thee*
works would ba greatly injured by a fire of
vertieal and horizontal shell from tho fort, and
that the distance of their armameot would ran-
der it diffioult to breaoh the aolid wells whioh
were opposed to them al upward of 1200yards
away. However, there were two powerful
batteries, whioh oould have done greet dam
age if they wore all served, and have mada
the torreploin end parnde of the fort e com
plete '‘shell-trap” unless the mortars were in
jured. The eivillene and militiamen eel
greater store oa the Iren Battery at Cuaming'e
Point, whieh Is the partef tbe Ielaed nearest
te the fort, hot tho fire ef heavy guas would
have soon destroy ed their confidence. It con
•lets of yellow pine logs placed aa vertieal up
rights. Tbe reef, of tbe same material, dopes
from the top ef the uprights to (ho tend fro
ing ike eaemy; over it are dovetailed bare of
railroad iron, of the T pattern* from top to
bottom, all rivetted dowa ia tho meet assure
aor. Oe the front* the railroad iron roof
aad inellae, present aa angle ef about 80 de
grees. There are three port boles with iron
shutter*. When opened by the eoifea of a le
ver the muzzles af the eolumbiada ftH up the
seme space completely. Tbe oolawibiad guns
with whioh this battery ie equipped bear oa
enwew sswe si twe woxze^p siw mss iimsz oy
aix tkot, te* aSate af MuW aUtete n«|b
te ■‘mtniteaii iktelNV' af (tern Hr Ur-
Utu Vua *TUaatea-
aa*d off gradually from lb* Irunaluai I* iho
aaisla.
Tb* platform, aor* ratbor 11,bt, but tb*
wrr* oolid aad woll mute, sad lb*
, sort*, or ftilOfco* of (bogus, war*
ordor. Th« mortar* pro of rartou.
and datoriptlo*,, madly tiaoh aad
b ; aad il lo said (boro War* IT of teom
itisa sad working against tb* fort, and
88 guns were from tim* to tlm* dirootod
sgaioot It. Shot aad ih.il appeared to be
sbuodaot ooougb. Th. works ar* all .mall
detaohod billorio., with saad hog morlsos,
and open at tb* gorge, aad Iksy extend for
font mites along tho .boro of tho Ulond. Th*
oomp. are 'pllobod molt irregularly bitwton
the sandhills tents ef ail aha pee eef silts, la
the fashion called higgledy-piggledy, here end
there, in knots end groups, in a way that
Would drive an Indian quarter master-general
mad. Bones of beef and mutton, champagne
aod wine bottles, obstructed the approaches,
whioh were of a nature to afflict Dr. Sutherland
and Sir Jobe M'Neil most bitterly, end to eug-
gest the reflection that the army whioh so ut
terly neglected sanitary regulations oould not
long exist as soon as the son gained fall pow
er. They say, however, the men are not sick
ly, end that these sandhills are the most heal
thy spots about Charleston. The men were
occupied as soldiers* generally when they
have nothing to do—lounging or lying on the
straw and plank carpets, smoking, reading,
sleeping. The owners of the tents give them
various names, of which “Tbe Lion’s Den,"
“The Tiger’s Lair," “Ths Eagles’ Nsst,"
“Mar’s Delight," are fair specimens, and thesa
are done in blaok on the white calico. In one
of whioh we visited, the hospitable inmates
were busily engaged in brewing claret cup,
and Bordeaux, lemons, sugar, ice aod eharn
psgne, aod salads were ia abundance, and at
the end of the tent was e bar, where anything
else in reason could be had for the asking,
tbongh water was not so plentiful. At one of
the batteries tbe great object of attraction was
a gun made on Capt. Blakely’s prineiple, by
Messrs. Fewoett, Preston & Co., of Liverpool,
which was only put in battery the day before
tbe fire openrd, and the effeet of whioh on tbe
masonry is said to have Jbesn very powerful.
It ie a 12 pounder—tbe came which was tried
last year, I think—and bears a brass plate
with the inscription, “Presented to 8outh
Caroline by one of her oitizens." It is remark-
able enough that the vessel which carried it
lay in tbe midst of the United Slates war ves
sets al tbe mouth of the harbor.
Having satisfied our curiosity as well as
time, and a sand storm permitted, we got in a
row-boat and proceeded to Sumter,
distance tbe fort bears some resemblance to
Forts Paul and Sevastopol. It is a truncated
pentagon, with three faces armed—that which
is toward Morris Island being considered safe
from attack, as the work was only intended to
resist an approach from the sea. It is said to
have cost altogether more then £200,000 ster
ling The wails are of aolid briok and con
crete masonry, built close to tbe edge of the
water, 00 feet high, and from 8 to 12 feet in
thickness, and oarry three tiers of guns on
the north, east, and west exterior sides. Its
weakest point is on tbe south side, where tho
masonry is not protected by any flank fire lo
sweep the wharf. The whole ia designed for
an armament of 140 pieces of ordnance of all
calibres. Two tiers are under bomb roof case
mates, and tbe third or upper tier is en bar
beUt; tbe lower tier in intended for 42 poun
der paixhan guns; the eeoond tier for eight
and teo-inch colurabiads, for throwing solid
or hollow shot, and the upper tier for mortars
end guns. But only seventy five are now
mounted. Eleven paixhan guns ere among
that number, niue of them commanding Fort
Moultrie. Some of the oolumbiade ere not
mounted. Four of tho 82 pounder en*barbet/e
guns are on pivot oarriegee, aod others have a
sweep of one hundred and eighty degrees.—
The walls are pierced everywhere for muskets.
The magazine contains several hundred bar
rela of gunpowder, end a supply of shot pow
der and shell. Tho garrison wee amply sup
plied with water from artificial wells. The
war garrison of ths fort ought to be at least
600 meo, but only 79 were within lie walls
with the laborers—109 ell told—at tbe time
of the ettaok.
The wells of the fort are dented on all sides
by shot marks, but in no instance wee any ap
proach made to a breaoh, and tho greatest
damage, at one of the angles on the South
face, did not extend more than two feet into
the masonry, which is of very fine brick.—
Tbe parapet is, of ooureo, damaged, but the
casemate embrasures are uniejured. On lend
ing at the wharf wo perceived that tho gran
ite cappings had suffered more than the brick
work, end that the stone had split up end
splintered where it was etruok. Thelngenui
ty of the defenders was evident even here.—
They had no mortar with which to fasten up
the stone slabs they bed adapted as blinds to
the unprotected south aide, but Major Aoder
sod, or bis subordinate, Cept. Foster, had
closed the slabs in with lead, whioh he bed
procured from some water piping, end had ren
dered them proof against esoalede, which ho
was prepared also to resent by extensive mines
laid under the wharf and landing place, to be
fired by the friotion tubes aad lines laid inside
the work. He had also prepared a number of
•hells for the same purpose, to act as bend
grenades, with friotion lubes and lanvard*;
then hurled down from the parapet oa hie as
sailants. Tho entrance to the fort wae block
ed up by roaeeea of masonry, whioh hmd been
thrown down from the wells of the burnt bar
racks end officers’ quarters along tho south
aide. A number ef men were engaged In dig
ging up the mines at the wharf, and others
were busy in completing the ruin of the tot
tering wells, where etill so hot that it wea
necessary to keep a hose of water playing on
f ieri of the brickwork. To an uninitiated eve
t would seem as if tbe fort wae untenable,
but, ia reality, in spile of the destruction done
to it, a stout garrison properly supplied* would
have been in no danger from anything except
the explosion of tbe magazine, of which the
oopper door wee jeasmed by the heat ai the
time of the surrender.
Exclusive of the burning of the quarters end
the intense beet, there wae ao reason for a
properly handled and sufficient force te ear-
render the place. It is needless to sav Ma
jor Anderson had neither one or tbe outer.—
He wae in all respeota most miserably equip
ped. His guns were without screws, scales or
igeafr, so that hie devotions w
by rude wedgea of deal, aad hie eealee an
in chalk on the breech of hie cues, aad hie
distances aad bearings scratched la the same
way ea tbe aide ef the embreaaree. He had
net a single free tor hie ehellSi and he tried ia
vaia to Improvise them by fiiUag pieces of
bored-o at pise with caked gee powder. Hie
oertridgee ware sot, aad be wae compelled te
detail seme of Ida few mea to make them eat
of shirte, stockings aad jeebetm Be had oet
a single mortar, end be was compelled to the
deeperate expedient at planting long guns in
the ground al aa aegis of fotty-five degrees,
for which he could find no ehen, as b« had so
fuses which oonld ba fired with safety. He
had ae sheers to meant hla gene, aad ehaaee
alone enabled bim te do so by drifriag tame
Urge legs dew a with the tide against Sumter.
Finally* he had aoatiaa ena engine te pat oat
•».** «-( L
ioiUkOi atetea ^oal r m*a teolte 1a te*
grou»d J bat Major
doro wtro I* bunt tb* ok JF01J .
potto,-OO oo lo fraolnio m
'XxX'JBK: T, ° ^
o* hj(ifaot. and on, no omionte.
yatlpbj it. own mooil; but tknT.'
Jary ten. ioted* to, Jiu
guns or work*. Tho .hell >
dU.ppMr.it-carried 0 ff, I „
pbioo." Hod Mojor AodtrtoQ b..l
pro.ldod, oo that b* could bon u
hi* non to lb* guno, opeoed fire f r .«
barbette, thrown oh.ll «d hot .bo!
Inyo to nil bio oaoooiot.t tod put J,
tbojf «ro» from rod hot .hot or ib.li
I hnvo no eorlhljr doubt, h.Todri?,.
off Monte* tetnad, bant out Fon'
•ilenood tb* enemy*, fire. Hi,
bn., boon oo.uder.bt. ; that of u.
oral,, moot bar. btoa rery
not n lift wu loot by aolu.l fir. o«'eli
A week bone* and it will b« ia-—
fleet to do onything, oxcept count,
of a* army tor*, nod they must Ifa
looot, four miles from tbe nearnt'
booeb.
TO ARMS! TO ARMflH
J~hUE Company, the Con [derate Coe
ie aocepted in Col. Conner*! I
Georgia Regiment, and will ihoiU,
resist tbo Inrodors. 1
Ths war in Virginia is our wsr, tad
fsno* of the boon ot her citiuu a
fonoe of our homos; their lurew it
cess. There sre yet in this eouolrr
who hare boon reedy to go when
II is now tt«eMoiy-tbe best pr, n
w* osn offer is to oiler to tho inrtdm
bayonets.
Onr ranks tro not full, tbrrefrr, t,
more men, brave and true! Yon ibtil
ed as brothers—yon shall bo as '
drilled os anyoompsoy in thoOonfc
vice. Thooo wishing to join will «pw(
to either ol th* undersigned, or «t7
ptoy’e drill-room, in Hayden', Hall.
Tbe Company will drill every diy
M , and on Tnesdny, Thursday, «nd i
nights at 8 o'clock, P. M.
E. M. Seago, Cspitlu.
C. II. Costillo, 1st Lieuf.
H. 8. PouixoT, 2d Lieut.
W. L. Abbott, Butsi 2d
Atlanta, June 4(h, 18G1 -jolh.
SILVEY & DOUGHER
NORCROS8' BUILDING,
J unction *WTiitehall Ac PeaclW
Streets,
A.tlsmtm f O-oorgla,
H AVE just received, and tro net;
the largest stock nf Goons they -
offered in one season. Their stock wi_
exclusively for Cosh, sod will be priori
figures.
They have every variety of
DRY GOODS,
from Brown Homespuns to the ImoI
Silks; all kinds of fresh LADIES’
GOODS; a large aeeorimeut of
■TAX>Utl GtOO
including Linens, Lawns, Piece Goods,
Ginghams, Ac.; all kinds of HOSriL
FANCY ARTICLES. Also, a large a
of
JEWELRY, WATCHES,
In their Basement Rooms, they have
gent and full snpply of
Ready-Made Clothing,
and GENTLIMEN'S FURNISHING :
TRUNKS, UMBRELLAS, Ao. AH
$10,000 worth of
SHOES, BOOTS,
embracing sill fiscs, and • greet variety*
dice, Misses, Men, Boys and Children.
They repeat: their stock is very ^
they are determined to sell.
The public are respectfully invited
and examine their stock end pri# * '
chasing elsewhere.
maroh8 SILVEY A DOUGH
ABSCONDED,
fcSlvi years old, square built,
UO to 160 pounds. He cee
JQtrits poorly, wee pretendedty
about Atlanta as a Carpenter, until
day* ago, since whioh time, has not
or heard from, ia supposed to have
been carried off—probably has a pass
him to work in Fulton or adjoining
A suitable reward will be paid for his
henaioo. JOHN
June 7-le
Alabama Iasaraace C
MONTGOMERY.
CAPITAL
T HIS Company, by promptness is
and paying its losses, has gained »
tion which haa plaoed it among the
of Insurance Companies in theeounlryt
sure* all kinda of insurable property
most favorable terms.
DIRECTORS.
E. H. Metcalf, 8ec'y. Wa. C. Bibb,
F. M. Gilmer,
D. A. Clark,
Wm. H. Rives,
J. D. Hutcheson,
SAMUEL SMITH, A,
Office corner Whitehall A All
June T.
fl. L. Arlington,
J. M. Williams*
John <
The SiriUgi of the C«nfrdfrate
CATOOSA SPRIN
J j. HARMAN respectfully «
. hie former vieitora, and the
arnlly, that ha ha. .nlered into *
•hip with Mr. J. B. Nicnou, of**
for th. auuing a*noon at thii
CELEBRATED WATERING P
Thankful for the petroasge in
tended to him, ho would solicit eooa
of the same tor ike firm, who will -
all times* to provide for the table, bsr,
err luxury attainable. , ^
Our oooks will be the most
the South oon produce, together wHi
oient loros of attentive mrvanto. --
be an excellent BRASS and 8TWIF
of superior Musicians attached ••
per tor
.«• uedlw..
ried Mineral Waters ere now
Th. m«dioal_vi rtaa. of
Ikl
to require an exteasive descripmm;
Uon to th. Rod, Whit# *»<*
Spring.-many of them *en*M**J
end Megneeln—f* en ln**h*«tem*
par**! Frweten*.
Owr accommodation, ara very
W* have teeny pleaeenteotteg**
th* mein hotel, where famtliee *—
and retired a* fa their own hem*
OeteM* Spriog* ere in ttetete.-.
gio, two aad* gnorter »!**(>»•■•
1 AUaBtia Reilroad. A flee
Hack* will ha at th. ptetfcf"' •
ef each Irwin. Th* Sprtege h»H*
road oommaaioation with Con,.-
o» Bonne:
Twelve Doll*** p*» week, end ™
Thoee who « fck| »*A*P bo "*, -