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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 'lß6l.
GOVERNOR BROWN’S LETTER.
To-day, we publish an extraordinary election
eering document from Governor Brown. He is
now Chief Magistrate of the State of Georgia ;
has held the office as long as any Governor be
fore him ever held, or aspired to hold it; wants
to continue in it, and is doing his own election
eering. We have some remarks to make on this
document, and in order that we may not seem
to do him injustice, we lay it before our readers
entire
He says, the Convention has revived the Cau
cus system, denies the utility of a Convention,
when principles are no longer at issue ; says
the Convention has destroyed the harmony of
the people ; that the Convention is not willing
to have harmony, except that everybody will
sacrifice their preferences and take its nominee;
that the Convention claims as a condition upon
which to have harmony, that everybody must
think as they think, and act as they act—other
wise everybody else is wrong, and there is no
harmony. This is exactly the Governor’s idea
—read his words in the first paragraph.
These are bold assertions. The allegations
are exceedingly unfair, and they are untrue. —
The Convention set up no such standard, and
made no such requirements as a condition upon
which co have harmony, and no such charges
can be maintained. How the Governor has
come to such conclusions, we cannot conceive;
certainly nothing of the kind is suggested by
reading the proceedings of the Convention.
The Convention did not have its origin in,
and was not actuated by, the motives usually
governing in such matters. We think it alto
gether probable that there would have been no
Convention, if Governor Brown had not essay
ed to run for a third term. It was opposition to
that, and not to his admidistration ; and not for
the purpose of organizing a party, that it was
called. It was to concentrate the elements of
opposition to a third term; for most persons
look upon this matter as we .do. When this
safe old precedent is disregarded and broken
down, one of the strongest barriers against offi
cial encroachment and governmental oppression
will be swept away.
“ H >w could the Convention expect to har
monize the people of the State, by adding one
to the number of candidates already in the
field?” asks Gov. Brown. We might, with
equal propriety, ask how he expects to harmo
nizs the people by running against a time
honored precedent, which modesty, and a de
cent respect for the opinions and practice of
the fathers should have caused him to observe?
We can, with equal propriety, say that he and
his friends are not willing to have harmony,
unless he can be retained in oflice. If others
differ with him, and choose to think for them
selves, then there shall be no harmony. This
is the true state of the case. Gov. Brown is
captious and unfair, for he does not allow
other people to be equally as honest and patri
otic asne claims that he and his friends are.
The Governor thinks he can safely say that
there were not fifty counties represented in
Convention—the balance being by proxies, Ac.
We know that fifty eight were represented by
their own delegates, and the Governor can see
it by reading the proceedings. The represen
tation from the counties was a large one, con
sidering the times we are in, and that there
are no parties in the State. We were at the
Convention, and know as much about this as
G»v Brown poseib y c*n.
But he says a minority of the countits were
represented in that body. Ke goes into an
estimate of thu number of persons in the Con
vention, and represented in it; and the result
is, that it represents twelve hundred and fifty
persons in tne dtate of Georgia. «We did not
think Gvv. Brown capable of such a shallow
art fioe. Ho assumes that nobody in Georgia
is in favor of the recommendation of that
body but those Twelve hundred and fifty;
that therefore the candidate brought out
should not be supported by the people, and all
such stuff as that. He admits that the small
number of persons represented in the Con
vention—the 1250—are generally very intelli
gent parsons, consisting of lawyers, doctors,
aod such us want to be judges, Ac. Now, we
submit a simple question in the Single Rule of
Tnree; Il 1250 respectable Judges, lawyers,
and doctors are not enough to bring out Judge
Nisbet for Governor, is one lawyer oi ordinary
taleuts—Jared I. Whitaker, for instance—
enough to bring out Gov. Brown? If repre
sentatives of more than ordinary talents from
fifty counties are not enough to place Nisbet
bstore the people, how comes it that one man
of ordinary talents, representing nobody but
himself and the “Intelligencer” office, can
bring Gov Brown before the people? These
questions we would like to have His Excel
lency answer. Ono man against fifty ooun
ties! for, so far as we know, Gov. Brown has
born solicited by only oue man, to wit: Jared
I. Whitaker.
We notice that His Excellency does not re
peat the same blunder that he did in his let
ter to Mayor Whitaker—saying that Gov. Ir
win served three terms—thus virtually ac
knowledging that he was not posted in the
history of Georgia when he penned that sen
tence.
He acknowledges that it is against usayc to
elect a Governor for a third term, but says,
also, that it is not usage to have a revolution—
a war ou our soil—invading army; and “not
for Georgia to have 80,000 troops called
out by her Executive, whose duty it is to know
when and with what preparation each com
pany went to the field—what has been sup
plied to them, and what they lack”—the fi
nances of the Blate— means of affording as
aisiauce to her suffering troops, Ac , Ac. We
remark that the Executive of Georgia has not
called out 30,000 troops. Further, he has sta
ted publicly, on more occasions than one, that
it was not his duty to know when and with
what preparations a good many companies
trom tbi* Stale went into the field. He has
emphatically refused in many instances, to
furnish anything to quite a number of com
pame> that have left Georgia, without a par
ticie of arms or equipments whatever, save
such as they furnished themselves. And fur
ther, it is no part es his official duly to look
after the interests of the men after they shall
have .est toe State. It is none of his business
to watch after them and tend them speedy ‘
assistance iu emergencies.
SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY.
If he sees cause to send our suffering sol
diers any means of sustenance, any comforts,
it would be a humane act, and we suppose no
one would object to it; but it is none of his
official business, and he has no authority to do
eventhat; and as to ordering our men any
where, or sending them reinforcements where
they are under the control of the Ccnfederate
Government, it is far more than he dare do.
He thinks the farmers, merchants, and me
chanics of our State are as competent to decide
whem they want their officers changed as a
caucus of a few politicians at Milledgeville.—
We agree to that : and we, also, think that the
people, and even a caucus of a few, are as ca
pable of deciding that matter as one man is,
to wit: Mayor Whitaker.
He thinks the Convention virtually endorsed
his administration, inasmuch as they did not
censure a single act of it. Whether they en
dorsed his administration or not, they did not
go there to condemn it. That was no part of
their business. They had higher objects in
view, than unmasking and raising an issue
about the past. They were not expecting to
remedy what he had done amiss, but trying to
prevent something he proposed to do. There
was no ill-feeling in that Convention against
him—save on the part of a very few— so very
few indeed that they male not the slightest at
tempt to be heard. We are sorry Gov. Brown
has seen fit to attempt to engender ill-feelings,
which the Convention had patriotically kept
down.
The Governor is so indiscrete as to refer to a
resolution that was introduced and passed by
that body for the most patriotic of all possible
purposes, and which all the editors and report
ers present were requested not to publish, and
which request they have patriotically observed.
It was not intended to operate against Governor
Brown, or in favor of Nisbet: if it had been so
intended, it would have been published. A co
py was sent to Gov. Brown, and another to
President Davis, under the sacred seal of confi
dence, which Gov. Brown has been the first to
violate. He says it requests him to order cer
tain troops, now in the service of the Confeder
ate States, from one locality to another. We
have not the resolution with us, but we saw it
at Milledgeville, and we take issue with him on
this point, and from our recollection will say,
that it makes no such ridiculous request.
He has referred to the private balloting* for
Governor—a thing he knows nothing more a
bout than he did about how many terms Jared
Irwin served as Governor. He says his name
and the name of another distinguished citizen,
were before the people as candidates, before tlie
Convention met. Another distinguished citi
zen ! We freely admit, that Governor Brown is
a distinguished citizen —any Governor is ; but
we submit, whether it is in good taste for him
to say so, for himself. But this aside; Col.
Chambers announced himself as a candidate up
on the solicitation of seventeen citizens of more
than ordinary talents—just seventeen times as ma
ny as asked Gov. Brown to run. Yet, he with
drew as soon as Nisbet was nominated. If the
Governor will do as Chambers has done, all the
strife will cease at once.
Gov. Brown harps upon the State Road. If
he is elected, he will cnuthnie in oftieo the pre
sent able and faithful incumbents ; and that the
Road will continue to pay into the Treasury
nearly a half million of dollors per annum. We
think it rather presumptuous in him to assume
beforehand, that Judge Nisbet will turn out his
able and faithful incumbents; or that men
equally able and faithful cannot be found. Fur
ther; Dr. Lewis, the •‘able and faithful” Super
intendent has resigned. If Gov. Brown is re
elected, he will have to get another Superinten
dent, and we aver that Judge Nisbet is as able
to select a good oue as he is. But he says,
these able and faithful officers, will make the
Road pay nearly halt million into the Treasury.
“rather than have that sum added to the taxes of
the jyeople." This is unpardonable. Here is
clearly a charge beforehand, that if Nisbet is
Governor, the whole of the proceeds of the
State Road will be stolen, and that amount will
have to be raised by taxation. There is more
“assumaey" in that one sentence, than we ever
knew one man to take upon himself; and the
amount of temerity that would insinuate dis
honesty on the part of as pure a man as Eugc
nius A. Nisbet, is above that of anybody else in
Georgia. If Gov. Brown has managed the State
Road well, he ought to let others say so, and not
himself, especially when no one has assailed
him on that, point But when he not only takes
that credit which no one has denied him, but
arrogates to himself that no oue else can or will
do as well, and that Judge Nisbet will utterly
fail—will steal all the earnings of the Road—for
this he clearly docs by implication. Well, we
are at a loss properly to characterize such un
heard of assumptions andterritory. It is be
yond anything we ever heard of, andwe dismiss
It without further comment.
Coast Defense.
There will be a meeting of all the young
men who have signed the roll of Mr. 8. Root’s
enlistment, thia (Tuesday) evening, at the old
armory of the Gate-City Guards.” All others
who feel disposed arc invited to attend, as an
election of officers will be held, and tbe com
pany permanently organized.
Appointed.
Rev. W. J. Scott has been appointed Agent
for the Georgia Hospital at Richmond, and will
probably accept. He has his choice of bis
field of labor; but he was requested, if con
venient and agreeable, to visit the counties be
tween this place and the Tennessee line, which
he will probably do.
I.ook Out.
A dispatch was received yesterday by Gov
ernor Brown, to the effect that a fleet of Lin
coln’s vessels were on the way to Brunswick.
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Appointment.
B. F. Edwards, of Whitfield county, has
been re&ppointed, by the Confederate Govern
ment, a Route Agent on the Western A Atlan
tic Road.
The Gate-City Guards
Want ten able bodied recruits. Uniforms
’ furnished. Applicants please apply to John
: F. Exsard for particulars. Bep23 Iw.
♦
J. H. James has returned to his office,
| in Howell’s dry good store, where he buysand
I sells gold, silver, uncurrent funds, Ac. Office .
hours from U to 13, and from 2 to 4 daily.
To the People of Georgia.
! 8 i
Atlanta, September 19,1861.
By my letter of 13th August last, address
ed to Judge Whitaker, I gave the reasons
which then inducod, and still induce me, to
occupy the position of a candidaie for the
office of Governor for another term. Old
party lines having been blotted out; I had
hoped that the bitterness which party divi
sions had engendered would cease to exist,
and that our whole people would be permit
ted to devote their undivided attention to
the prosecution of the war which our North
ern enemies are so unjustly and wickedly
waging against us. Unfortunately for the
country, a portion of the politicians of Geor
gia have determined otherwise, and have
persisted in their purpose of inaugurating,
while we are all united upon the great ques
tion so vital to our welfare, the old caucus
system, which, in the days of party divi
sions, was used as the best machinery to
maintain party, and which is the most cer
tain means of reviving party strifes and se
curing party ascendancy. Ido not pretend
to say that these caucuses were not necessa
ry so long as parties were necessary; but, I
deny their utility or expediency when par
ties have ceased to exist. When principles
are no longer an issue, and the people have
only to choose between men, why not per
mit them to do so in the manner pointed
out by the Constitution, at the ballot box,
untrammeled by the dictation of politicians,
or the action of political conventions? —
Those who advocate the convention and its
nominee pretend that harmony is the object
most desired by them, but they are only
willing to have itjupon condition that they
be permitted to select the Governor for the
whole people of the State. They propose
to select their own favorite for the office,
and, if all other persons will sacrifice their
preferences and unite on the person preferred
by the convention, they are willing to have
perfect harmony. But if an overwhelming
majority of the people of the State, who are
opposed to the convention, choose to think
for themselucs and chance to differ from the
convention, they cannot consent to sacrifice
their own preference for the sake of harmo.
ny. In a word, the haamony which they
advocate means that everybody else must
think as they think, and act as they act, or
else everybody else is wrong, and there is
no harmony.
How could the convention expect to har
monize the people of the State by adding
one to the number of candidates already in
the field ? But it is claimed that all other
candidates should have withdrawn so soon
as the convention acted and designated their
candidate. Had the whole people of the
State, or even a majority of them, been rep
resented in the convention, there would
have been some reasons why all should yield
to its dictation. So far from this having
been true, however, the persons actualty rep
resented in the convention did not amount
to even a respectable minority.
The published proceedings show that per
sons from only fifty-eight counties took part
in the convention. It is a fact that will not
be denied, that in several of the counties
mentioned in the proceedings, as counties
represented, public meetings of the citizens
had been held without regard to party divi
sions, and the proposition to send delegates
to the convention had been distinctly voted
down ond condemned. After this action, it
• seems that small meetings of persons seek
ing to form a convention party, had been
held in these counties, and appointed dele
gates contrary to the will of the people of
the county. Other counties were represen
ted by proxies living out of the county—no
person in the county being willing to attend
the convention. I think I may, upon the
most liberal calculation in favor of the con
vention, safely say, that there were not fifty
counties represented by delegates appointed
by public meetings in counties that had not
expressly condemned the convention. The
meetings which appointed the delegates in
most of these counties were, from the best
information I can gather, usually attended
by from twelve to twenty persons, and held
without any previous notice of the time and
place having been given to the other citizens
of the county. In a few of the larger coun
ties, and in three or four of the cities, the
meetings were attended by larger numbers,
but by very small numbers compared with
the voting population of the connties in
which they were held. It would, I think,
be a very liberal allowance to say, that in
fifty counties represented the number of per
sons who attended and participated in the
meeting in each, and who were in fact rep
resented in the convention, amounted to
twenty-five. 1 will admit, however, for the
purpose of the calculation, that an average
of twenty-five persons in each of fifty coun
ties did participate in the appointment of
delegates, and were i/t fact represented in the
convention. Twenty-five times fifty makes
twelve hundred and fifty persons, who com
pose the constituency of the convention,
and were all who were represented in it.—
The ninth Congretsional District had, if I
mistake not, but one county represented. If
there were but the fifty counties in the State,
the people of these counties would hardly
feci bound by the dictation of the twelve
hundred and fifty persons who have assumed i
to themselves the right to select rulers for
I and to govern the balance. There are, how-
I ever, one hundred and thirty-two counties
|in the State. Count fifty of these as repre
| seated by delegates appointed by public
, meetings, and it leaves eighty-hco counties !
j unrepresented. What say the people of I
’ these eighty-two counties? Arc they will j
I ing to submit to the dictation of the twelve j
i hundred and fifty persons in the other fifty j
I counties, who have assumed the right to se
lect their Governor for them, and who <
charge them with a desire to prevent bar- I
: mony if they complain ? I admit that the i
small number of persons represented iu the
convention are generally very intelligent
persons, consisting of lawyers, doctors, and
a large element of that class known as vil
lage and city politicians, including many
persons who no doubt feel fully competent
to fill the position of judges, solicitors, State
road officers, and all the other places which
are expected by friends to be filled by each
new incumbent of the Executive chair.
And it is further admitted that gentlemen
out of office, who are themselves satisfied that
they possess in an eminent degree the ne
cessary qualifications for office, can, in con
vention, harmonize in their opposition to the
establishment of a preceded weich keeps
those already there in office longer than the
shortest time within which thd people can
be persuaded to make a change. It was, no
doubt, an easy task therefore for members
of the late convention to harmonize in their
opposition to what is called by all who seek
a change, the “ violation of the usage” and
to argue among themselves that it is a dan
gerous precedent to continue in the Execu
tive office’for a third term, as it was reason
able for them to suppose that he would, if
re-elected, and it should be desired by the
incumbents, continue in office the able and
faithful officers of the State Road, who will
continue to pay into the treasury of Geor
gia nearly half a million of dollars per an
num, rather than have that sum added to
the taxes of the people.
But it is insisted with much earnestness,
by the advocates of the convention, that it
has not been the usage for the same person
to hold the office of Governor for three terms-
This is certainly true; and it is equally true
that it has not been the usage to have revo
lution, or to have a wicked war waged upon
us, and the soil of our own State threatened
to be drenched with the blood of her sons,
shed by an invading army; nor has it been
the usage for Georgia to have in the field
thirty thousand troops called out by her Ex
ecutive, whose duty it is to know when and
with what preparation each company went
to the field, what has been supplied to them,
and what they lack, and to know the condi
tion of the finances of the State, and her
present means of affording the most [speedy
assistance to her suffering troops, as emer
gencies may require prompt action. Whether
the public good requires that he who has
conducted these affairs from the *beginning
should retire in the midst of them, and give
place to a new man who has yet to learn the
condition of the financial affairs of our
State, and the location and necessities of our
troops, is a question which the farmers,
merchents and mechanics of our State are,
I think, as competent to decide at the ballot
box as a few politicians and political aspir
rants arc to decide in caucus at Milledge
ville.
Again: It is said if the usage is once vio
lated, and the same peason is elected for a
third term, he may be elected again f and
again, and the people might have the same
Governor for life. He who makes this sug
gestion greatly underrates the intelligence
of the people and their competency for self
government, and is therefore a fit advocate
of the caucus system at the present time.
If the people have the intelligence and the
capacity to govern themselves, they certainly
know when the public interest requires that
the same man be elected for a third term,
and when he should be discharged at the end
of the second, or even of the first term. —
They will judge the Executive by his acts,
and will retain fiim in office no longer than
tne public interest requires his services.
The advocates of the caucus system seem
to be afraid to trust the people, and prefer
to decide all these questions in advance for
them.
If I have read correctly the published
resolutions passed by the convention, my
administration was found by them to be
faultless, as they did not venture to condemn
it, or to make an issue and go before the
people censuring a single act of it It is a
just conclusion, therefore, that the only rea
son which induced them to seek a change
was their great desire to maintain the usage,
and ta have the other offices in the State
distributed over again.
It is due to candor, however, I admit,that
the convention passed one private resolution,
which they did not publish, a copy of which
they directed to be forwarded to me by their
Secretary. The substance of this resolution
is a request to me to order certain troops,
now iu the seryice of the Confederate States,
from one locality to another. As I have
under.the Constitution and laws no manner
of jurisdiction or control over these troops,
it is my misfortune to be unable to gratify
the convention by a compliance with the
request, and, as they were resolving about a
matter of which they seemed to be in utter
ignorance, we can but admire their prudence
in withholding the publication of tbe reso
lution ; and in this connectian, as I have re
ferred to the private action of the conven
tion, I may be excused for making tbe addi
tional remark, that their prudence was
equally commendable in withholding anc
refusing to publish their private ballottings
for a candidate. They did not meet in open
convention in the usual way, and. ballot
openly, letting the strength of each candi
date in theeonventionbeseenand published;
but, if I am correctly informed, they con
ducted their ballottings privately in commit
tee, where unanimity did not prevail. It is
said that Judge Nesbit received five districts
in this private caucus, and, as the other five
districts were divided between other gentle
men, it was thought best that they yield
their preferences, and that his name be re
ported unanimously back to the convention
in open session.
It would seem, therefore, that the candi
date was only the choice of half the Conven
tion, or of the representatives in the Conven
tion of eix hundred and twenty-five persons
in the State, and yet it is insisted that he
who runs against this nomination is a dison.
ganizer, and is seeking to engender party
strifes by dividing the people.
As my name, and the name of another dis
tinguished citizen were both before the peo
ple as candidates before the Convention as
sembled, and as the Convention represented,
as I have shown, a very small fraction of the
people, they certainly have no right to charge
me with an attempt, to renew party issues.—
When 1 announced my name, there were no
party issues and no other candidate in the
field. I acted in compliance with the wish
and at the solicitation of a large number of
our fellow-citizens in different parts of the
State, including some of the most distinguish
ed persons in the State. My action met the
approval of the people, as is shown by the
course of the large majority of counties which
refused to have anything to do with the Con
vention after my name was announced as an
independent candidate. I presented before
the people an administration which the Con*
vention has not attempted to condemn or cri
ticize, and I raised my voice against the as
semblage of a caucus, because of its tenden
cy to re kindle the fires of party strife at a
time when our whole people should be a unit,
for the protection of life, liberty, property,
and all that is dear to us.
The politicians and office-seekers determ
ined that a Convention should be held, and a
caucus candidate nominated. They have cat
ried their purpose into execution, and have
set the precedent of selecting candidates by
caucuses when we have no parties—and, as
they are sticklers for precedent and usage,
they will of course expect the people, if they
acquiesce in this mode of selecting candidates
now, to continue to do so in future —and the
caucus system is again fastened upon us for
all time to come, and he who refuses to bow
to its dictation, is to be put under the ban as
a demagogue and distractor of the public
peace. If this movement is not checked in
its incipiency, the inevitable result will be
the revival of party divisions, with all the
bitterness, wrangling, strife and corruption
which have marked their progress in the past.
Should such unfortunately be the case, I feel
that I can conscientiously say, that it has not
been done by my act, or with my consent.—
By their refusal to sanction the proposition to
hold a Convention, the people have indicated
their approval of my course, in submitting
my name, independently; and I now leave
with them the determination of the question
at tbe ballot-box, not doubting that they will
pronounce such a verdict as will best promote
the general welfare.
I am very respectfully, your fellow-citizen,
JOSEPH E. BROWN,
Shiiouwmiicufs.
"' e are authorized to announce
Dr. H, W. Brown as a candidate
to represent Fulton county in the House of the
Representatives in the next Legislature.
Sept- 21.
We are authorized to announce
S. B. Robson as a candidate to
represent Fulton county in the House of Rep
resentatives in the next Legislature.
Sept 21.
We are authorized to announce
ANDREW J. HANSELL as
a candidate for Senator to represent the Coun
ties of Cobb, Fulton and Clayton in the next
General Assembly of the State.
e are authorized to announce
the name of the Hon. Samuel
Lawrence as a candidate to represent the 35th
Senatorial District, composed of the counties
of Cobb, Fulton and Clayton. Sep 19.
are authorized to announce
the name of Hon. JOHN A.
JONES of Polk, as a candidate to represent
the Bth Congressional District in the next Con
federate Congress. His record is before tbe
country, and by that he is willing to be judged.
Sept. 18—tde
To the Voters of the 39th Sen
*4£*“***’*> atorial District, consisting of the
counties of Cherokee, Milton and Forsyth:
Being an old resident of the latter county and
a citizen of said District, I take this method of
announcing myself a candidate for the Senate
of said District at the ensuing election.
Sept. 14-tde. JOHN T. EZZARD.
" c are authorized to announce
**JT***fcA the name of Colonel L. J. GAR
TRELL as a candidate to represent this (the
Eighth) District in the Confederate Congress.
Septi 3-tde.
To the Voters of Fulton Couu
ty ■ Seeing there is yet a vacancy
for Representative from your county in tbe
next Legislature, I have concluded to place
my name before you as a candidate to fill that
vacancy. COLUMBUS A. PITTS.
Atlanta, Sept. 12-tde.
To the Voters of Fulton
County : I announce myself a
candidate for your suffrages, to represent Ful
ton county in the House of Representatives of
the next Legislature. J. J. THRASHER.
Atlanta, Sept. 11—tde.
To the Voters of Cobb, Fulton
and Clayton Counties: As the time
for the election of members to the State Leg
islature approaches, and there seems to be no
one enough interested in the subject to bring
it positively before tbe public—nearly all eyes
being attracted towards the battlefield—and
being physically unable to enter upon tbe ac
tive duties of the soldier, and being further
unwilling to allow the great events of the pres
ent struggle to pass by without taking some
humble part therein, I have concluded that
the demands of patriotism would, in some de
gree, be subserved by volunteering my services
for the humble duties of civil life, and, there
fore, place my name before you as a candidate
for Senator of the District composed of the
counties of Cobb, Fulton and Clayton.
Aug. 29-tde. GREEN B. HAYGOOD.
FOR THE “ SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY.”
The following dispatch, says the Nashville
Patriot, is, we are assured, perfectly reliable.
General Caswell, at Knoxville, indorsed it as
true. Three cheers for our noble Tennessee
boy!
Knoxville, Sept 21.—An engagement to< k
place on the 19th, at Barboursville, Ky., be
tween 800 Confederates and 1,800 Federate,
in which the Federate were completely routed.
The Confederate troops consisted of a ponim
of Col. Battle’s Regiment, assisted by Capts.
Simpson’s and Plumbus* Cavalry. We took
400 stand of arms, besides other equipments.
We have possession of Barboursville. Our loss
2 killed; Lieut- Powell, of Hawkins’ compa
ny, and one private. Loss of Federate un
known.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
[The Knoxville Register of the 21st instant
is at hand. It says that P. S. Snyder, priate
in Capt. Rowan’s Company, who was in the
fight, had arrived and reported that 800 of our
troops, under Col. Battle, with two or three
compan es of cavalry were advancing on Bar
boursville on Thursday morning about day
light. When in a quarter of a mile, while
crossing a bridge over a ravine, a body of
Lincolnites fired on them. The fire was re
turned by two companies, and the Cavalry
charged on them putting them to flight. Lt.
Powell was killed and J. F. Browning mortal
ly wounded, on our side. Some 50 or 60 of
the Lincolnites were left dead on the ground.
Persons Batboursville say there were only
some 400 of them instead of 1,800.]
Lcuisville, Sept. 19.—Hon. C. S. More
head, Col. Reuben Durrett and Will. Berry
were arrested yesterday on a charge of cor
responding with the enemy, and carried across
the river. They are at Browning’s Hotel, Jef
fersonville, Indiana.
Frankfort, Sept. 19.—Petitions were pre
sented by Messrs. Spalding, Edmunds, Hamp
ton, Ray, Smith, Anderson and Ireland, in
favor of the war tax. Referred.
A bill passed this morning giving the Mili
tary Board power to loan the State arms to
Major Anderson; also a bill increasing the
power of the Board.
Paducah, Sept. 17.—Last night was one
full of excitement. Twice, the pickets all
around town fired, and the whole army turn
ed out and formed in order of battle. Tbe
first alarm was caused by a sentinel shooting
at a straggling soldier; the second by a sen
tinel shooting into a market wagon.
Fugitives arrived here last night from May
field, report that 8,000 of General Johnston’s
troops are at Mayfield, and 10,000 more are
approaching this place.
Richmond. Sept. 23.—The report is cur
rent here that 400 Federate were shot recent
ly in or near Washington, for insubordina
tion.
Gen. Earl Van Dorn, has arrived, and has
been appointed a Major General.
Both the U. 8. Senators from Maryland, it
is repor’ed, have been arrested and sent to
Fort LaFayette.
Tbe aia'ement about shooting 400 troops by
order of Gen. McClellan, for their refusing to
advance on the Confederate troops, is believed
in high official circles here, and it is irum
that source the information was obtained.
Important Report.
The Nashville Banner of the 22d says there
is no doubt the Federate and Confederates
bad an important engagement at and near
Paducah, on Thursday last, and that General
Johnston is now in possession of Paducah.—
The report is that about 15,000 Confederates
under General Cheatham, at Milburn, some
30 miles frjm Paducah, were attacked by tbe
greater portion of Grant’s forces and repuls
ed ; and that at the same time Gen. Johnston
made an attack on the city—both carrying
everything before them.
This news is brought, partly by a young
man who was in Paducah on Wednesday, and
heard the firing all day Thursday, and is
judged partly by other circumstances to be
true.
Died,
In Staunton. Virginia, September 18th, of
typhoid fever Zucchus B. Gatewood, of Atlan
ta, Georgia. He was a member of the Gate-
City Guards. Ist Georgia Regiment.
ATTENTION, FULTON BLUES.
Jt/rDHE resigning members will please
AA£ A return their guns and cross belts,
IfW as they are wanted to go into service
ill with.
If ff J. M. HUNNICUTT,
Ah/* Quartermaster Sergeant.
Sept24tf.
WAITED:
A NUMBER one Hotel Cook, for which the
highest price will be paid monthly.
Address T. R COUCHE.
Kingston, Ga.
Atlanta, Sept. 20, 1861.
PEASE A DAVIS have on hand, end for
sale—
Salt, Flour,
Rice, Sugar,
Wheat. Rye,
Candles, Soap,
Starch, Soda,
Ginger,
Pepper,
Spice,
Pecan and Brazil Nuts,
Citron,
Currents,
Salmon,
Oysters,
Lobsters,
Tomatoes,
Strawberries, in hermetical
ly sealed cans; also,
Pickles, Pepper Sauce,
Matches. and Yarns,
for the Retail Trade. Please call at Winship's
Iron-Front Building, Peach-Tree street, At
lanta, Georgia.
Also. 25 barrels Spirits of Turpentine to ar
rive, for sale by PEASE A DAVIS.
Bep2l-lt.
Q/I BBLS LARD OIL just received on con*
O V siirnment and for sale by
june 1 BUTLER A PETERO.