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®he intelligencer ATLANTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1868. THE F&ESIDEffrS ADDRESS. The Telegraph communicates an address to tne country from President Davis, on the evacuation ot Richmond, which is well conceived and admirable in tone and spirit Nothing of a despondent or depressing character is manifested, and although the President regrets the necessity, it is evident that he feels that the abandonment of the Capital is proper, and that it will lead to good results. He declares an unconquerable determina tion to win our independence, and if our •whole people will but exercise the same spirit, and act upon it, all will yot go well PRESIDENTS MESSAGE. As the synopsis of the President’s last special Message, as reportedly*telegraph, was not full and satisfactory, we publish it to-day as we find it in our exchanges. This document has not, in our opinion, as many supposed it would, had the effect to depress the people and the army, but has been re ceived as a strong and earnest expression on the part of the President of what, in his judgment, the exigencies of the times de mand at the hands of Congress, the army, and the people at home. THE EVACUATION OF RICHMOND. On yesterday the telegraph announced to us an event which for some time many have been looking for, the evacuation of Rich mond. We doubt not that almost every true Southron will feel a momentary de pression of spirits, when first he hears that the Capital of the Confederacy, has been left open to an enemy that it seemed was not able to take it When we reflect how much precious blood has been spilled, how many noble lives have been given up, in de fence of that noble old city on the banka of the James, we can but regret that the ne* cessities of our situation required its aban donment. It is a humiliating thought that the vandal foe, who has so persistently striven for its eonquest for nearly four years, should at last have the gratification of oc cupying it with his mercenary hordes. It will be humiliating to our pride to hear of the joy that will fill the breasts of our heart less foes throughout the wide domain of ab- olitiondom, when they receive the news that Richmond is in the possession of tlif Yankee army. Putting aside considerations of this kind, we can but hope that the giving up of this world renowned stronghold, will result in achievements that will bring joy and glad ness to our hearts, greatly counter-balancing the slight and momentary depression which its evacuation has occasioned. By this movement, the noblest and most gallant army that ever was marshalled, is liberated trom the duty of watching and guarding the approaches to the city, and will be free to strike whenever and wherever its blows can be most effective in beating back and destroying the enemy. The war will doubt less assume an entirely new phase ; and we look lor achievements that will thrill the world by their brilliancy, and teach the proud and presumptuous northman that he was entirely ignorant of the noble resolu tion that animates the breasts cf Southern patriots when he supposed us conquered and ready to accept of peace upon any terms he might dictate. Let all now come up to the full require menls of the duty they owe their country— let each absentee from the ranks, who is able to do so, hasten back to his command and let the people at home, many of whom have been despondent and gloomy, exercise a more cheerful and hopeful spirit, and with the blessing of God aiding and assisting our gallant legions and brave veterans, many moons will not wax and wane until we hope to be able to announce the glad notes of glorious and decisive victories accorded to our aims. GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION. Some of our cotemporaries are agitating questions connected with the next election for Governor, and correspondents seem to be particularly zealous in urging the claims of their favorites. We have not said any thing in reference to this matter, neither have we admitted into our columns any commu meat ions on this subject. We have thought, and still think, that the agitation cf this matter, at the present time, is premature unwise, and calculated to do injury without any prospect of good to arise from it. It is premature because the day of elec tion is distant six months, and it is impossi ble to determine now what the necessities of the State may require a few months hence. In addition to these considerations, there are questions now engaging the public at snrion of far greater importance to the pec pie of Georgia than can be the election of their chief executive officer. TMir interests as a free and independent people are now seri ously imperilled, and the laboi, and thought and eSort requisite to work out a prosperous solution of the difficulties that now environ the Confederate States, are sufficient to ab sorb the attention of the whole people; and we think it is unwise, and calculated to work irreparable injury, to throw in anything ir relevant to the vital straggle jagpr going on, that would in any degree have a tendency to distract the public mind or divert the public attention from the main issue now on trial, and that is whether we shall have a State to elect a Governor for. The inter ests now so seriously imperilled are, in our opinion, too sacred to have their success jeopardized by tfee introduction of any mat ter not legitimately connected with, or con ducive to, the promotion of the main de sign. These interests are of vital importance, and in their defence and maintenance, there should be s union of hearts and of hands t harmony of effort and concert of action should now character?, i our every move ment, and anything calculated to breed dis cord or produce distraction among our peo ple, should be banished, iy common con sent, from our consideration. Soma of our exchanges^ but more partic ularly their correspondents, seem to have taken it for granted that Governor Brown will again be a candidate, and then, appa rently losing sight of that harmony which all agree is so essential to a people situated as ours are, they proceed to denounce him with a bitterness little calculated to pro duce that harmonious action that should characterizs us in the selection of our Chief Magistrate. We have not seen anything that satisfies us that Governor Brown will be a candidate for re-election; and until he, or his friends, with his consent, place him advo- m3 of in that position, we suggest thai cates of others can present the’ their favorites as effectually and with better hope of success, without making war, cruel aud vindictive, upon the motives and prin ciples of the present Executive. Ia this connection, we hope the press of the country will pardon us for making a suggestion. In the United States, from which we hope we are forever separated, it is well known that political controversies were, and are, conducted in such a scurrilous manner,that, taking the testimony of the press as evi dence, the representatives of their different political organizations would be considered the most consummate scoundrels, and un punished villains that ever disgraced any country. Now as we have thrown off that Govern ment,and hope thus to get rid ot many evils under which we labored, let us, as conduc tors of the Southern Press, avoid this blot upon its fair escutcheon aud great draw back upon its usefulness. Let our controversies be conducted in & manly and dignified manner, and never let the press degenerate into a common sewer through which vituperation and slander will be poured out upon the country. PEACE RUMORS. Several times since Lincoln announced to our Commissioners the only terms upon which he would agree to a cessation of hostilities, that of laying down our arms and unconditionally submitting to his au thority, it has been announced that steps were being taken to bring about a peace. First, it was said, that General Singleton had gone to Richmond to renew proposi tions for a settlement. This humbug had its day, and had scarce ly died away, when the New York papers published that Lincoln had visited Grant's headquarters, and that a council of Notablea was being held, which, it was thought, would result in an arrangement for a mili tary convention to settle all matters in dis pute between the contending sections; and they even went so far as to say that prominent military and civil functionaries had expressed the opinion that peace Would be concluded by the 1st of May. — Our enemies doubtless have two objects which they hope to accomplish by the pro* xaulgation of such rumors. They have for months been industriously engaged in try ing to convince their people that we are about exhausted, and that it will be impose sible for us to continue the contest much longer, and that consequently an enlistment in their service would be but for a short time, and that a glorious opportunity is af forded to reap what their people consider glory without being subjected to the priva> tions, the hardships and the dangers usually attendant upon military service. In this way they hope to hoodwink their own peo- ple, and to fill up their ranks without being compelled to resort to the drsii, which they have reason to believe might meet with great opposition, if not decided resistance, unless a prevailing sentiment can be mantx factured that the service oalled for will be light and only required for a short time. In addition to inspiriting and encourag ing their own people in this way, they hope to counteract the effect of the storm of Southern indignation which they must know would be induced by the announoe- ment of Lincoln’s only terms of settlement and to cause us to relax our efforts in the prosecution of the war. They know that as a people we have sub mitted to, and are still enduring, hardships and privations that but few people have ev er been subjected to; and being incapable from their base and sordid natures, of de termining what sacrifices a noble, brave, aad high-spirited people will make rather than yield all that makes life desirable, they seem to have corns to the conclusion that a large, if not a controlling element, of our population is ardentiy desiring peace on any terms. Little do they know of the pulsations of the true Southern heart, or of the uncon quered and defiant spirit of Southern free men, when they suppose that the people of the land that gave birth to Washington, Jefferson, Marion, Jackson, and a long list cf worthy names whose deeds have illumi nated the brightest pages of American his tory, can, without a resistance such as this world has never witnessed, surrender the principles for which they contend, (upon the successful maintenance of which de pends the cause of civil and religious liber ty,) to the control of a people so regardless of all right, as this'war has shown the peo ple of the United States to ba We should let all such rumors, coming from our enemies, pass us as the idle wind; they should not receive a momentary lodg ment in our minds, or exert the slightest in fluence upon our conduct. The only hono rable peace that is attainable by us will arise from the overwhelming defeat of the armies of Grant aud Sherman. This is a consummation most ardentiy desired, most fervently prayed for, and, in cur opinion, all that is necessary to accomplish it, is fcf our whole people to will it. and the ignorant and prejudiced mercenary from other lands, of whom they have so many in their armies, but witness the undy ing resolutiooLof our armies, backed and sustained by the united determination of our whole people, tQSucceed in the contest, or perish in the defence of the principles of civil and religious liberty for which we con tend, and then we shall behold their grand armies melting away, and our day of delive rance will be drawing nigh. THE EVACUATION OF RICHMOND. We have waited patiently to hear mors of the evacuation of the Confederate Capital, than what the meagre telegraphic dispatch gave to us nearly a week ago, but thus far we have waited in vain. We only know, or have been informed, that it was evacu> ated—evacuated in haste, leaving behind glorious Old Virginia's archives, with dis order, outrage, aud mob-law prevailing— evacuated, because the lines of Lee’s brave army at Petersburg had been broken after severe fighting, and not, at the time, by a voluntary movement on the part of our no ble General-in-Chief, but from compulsion. If this be true, then how much better it would have been had the evacuation taken place long since ? How much better would it have been to have saved Atlanta, though Richmond had fallen, ere Sherman^had made it a City of Ruins? But this some of our cotemporaries will be apt to‘'call croaking. Let them do so! We are not cf the croaking tnbe—never have, and never will be so. Disasters, come they ever so fast, only nerve us to renewed efforts, and strengthen the indomitable will in us never to give up the conflict—never to submit to Yankee rule. Aad yet, we would not be fit for the position of a public journalist, if we did not as well condemn the bad policy of our rulers—of our leaders—as to com mend that which was wise and good. Say not, “refer not to the past.” By the errors of the past, we must learn wisdom, that it may govern in the future; and we trust, that now all our cities on* the Atlantic coast, save Mobile, have gone into the pos session of the enemy, and Lee and our gal lant armies foot-loose from their defence, we may indulge in the glorious hope that animates us of a future successful struggle, of victory after victory achieved, until our independence be won 1 But to the condition of Richmond, what must it be ? Given up to the enemy after its gallant defence, what will he do with it ? Will it share the fate of Atlanta and of Columbia ? Will it, has it, become a pile of ruins, or what is worse, will it share the fate of Savannah and Charleston ? Will its women and children—its noble matrons and beautiful maidens—be guarded by negro troops, and taunted by Yankee officials ? Will they be subjected to the mortification, the deep humiliation of witnessing the Yan kee oath taken by any of Virginia’s recreant sons who may remain in the city, or have tarried there, to herd and consort with the enemy, as has been the case in Savannah, and in Charleston, and in other cities the South ? God save Virginia’s noble matrons and maidens now in Riohmond so humilia ting a scene! That the Capital of the proud and glori ous old commonwealth, the Mother of States, which has borne so noble a part in the past few years’ straggle, should now be in the hands of the enemy, or at any time should have been, is truly a source of morti fication, We are, however, not humiliated by it. Neither are we despondent at it. Long since we thought its evacuation nec essary to our success. It has come at last and we feel that the fight is but just begun Let no one despond over it! Our souls have not yet been tried in this struggle for independence. The time however has come ia which to try them. “He who now dal lies is a dastard.” The man who now fal ters is, or will be, a submission?at. He is as much Lincoln’s own, as though he were in Lincoln’s service, and the dominions of that bloody tyrant should be his present abiding place. Let him go to where his heart already is 1 It is only upon her true sons the South has now to rely. These are yet in number, in strength, in heart and soul, sufficient for the contest. As the gal lant “Harry” at the siege of Harfleur said when the numbers of the French overawed his cousin Westmoreland, and caused him to wish for more men from England ere the fight began, (( wish not for one man more— rather proclaina.it throughout our host that he who hath no stomach for the fight, may straight depart”—so say we. Let all such depart, and the “fewer left of us, the greater share of honor” when the victory be won Though Richmond be lo3t, let our people be hopeful and determined, for “allis not lost. Honor and armies, and courage and strength are yet preserved “to free our souls from bondage” degrading in Us very contempla tion. TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS OP THE PRESS ASSOCIATION. Entered according to Act of Congress !n the year 1S63 by J. 8. Thrabhbb, in the Clerk’s Office or the Distri: Court of the Confederate States for the Northern Sis triet of Georgia. The Columbus Times handsomely and promptly corrects the rumor which it published that “Governor Brown authorized the loading of the “Comet" on private ao oountv to take cotton to Savaamh. We expected no less from a journal, which how ever it may differ with Governor Brown, or any other adversary, has always been high- toned and honorable in its opposition. Let the craven-hearted we Yankee* The Macon Telegraph & Confederate says that two Confederate Hospitals of that city, the Ocmulgee and Floyd House Hos pitals, are ordered to Charlotte, North Car olina. There is a sign in this tate ourll nan mies will not be apt to fall back far beyond their present positions, in the direction of South Carolina. GEORGIA, Claytos Comer: 0 months after dato application will ba mada to Ttoe Court rtf Ordinary of said county for leave to sell all the nsgroea belonging to the estate of Col. Tboi. Allen, deceased. April 10th. US >5. [CADI TH03. S. ALLEN, Adm’r. Printer’s fee $16. spill- wto Evacuation of Richmond. Danville, April 4.—The evacuation of Richmond commenced on Sunday after noon. President Davis and his Cabinet ar rived here on Monday. Very few persons were able to leave except Government of ficers, in consequence ot the suddenness ot the movement. The enemy broke through Lee’s lines on Saturi ay night near Petersburg, after several day’s hard fighting, and made it nec essary for him to withdraw so as to uncover the Capital. The position of our army now is unknown. No telegraph beyond the Junction. The Richmond Arsenal has been removed. The valuables of the Banks in Richmond were brought away, and the specie belong ing to the Government was also brought off. The last passengers report a great mob in the city, burning of mills and warehouses, and plundering stores. This was done by foreigners and low classes. The rolling stock of the Richmond and Danville railroad all saved. The enemy had not occupied the city at lest accounts. The President will probably remain here for the present. All the Richmond newspapers were left in the city. Gov. Smith went towards Lynchburg.* The archives of the State Government were left behind. Augusta, April 3.—Capt. Vernon Lock, of theprivatier Retribution, is in prison at Nassau. Col. Woodford has been removed from the command of Charleston, and Col. Guer- ry, ot New Yoik, appointed. Woodford issued a parting puff to himself, and con gratulations to the negroes, expressing h ?c love and glorification that they nsti become freemen after long loyalty and suffering. The Savannah Republican of the 31st March announces many societies organized in England and rendering material assistance for the benefit of the freemen in the South. The garrison at Savannah is being in creased by recruits, mostly new men, trom Maine, who act very harshly to parties pass ing to and from the City. Senatobia, March 23.—Northern papers of the 22d are received, but contain little of interest. The New York Tribune’s Army oi the Potomac correspondent says all goes to show that we will have a shout but severe cam paign, In a few days a series of contests will begin between two great armies, that will cause profound excitement throughout the country. The Metropolitan Record of the 18th says: That intervention is inevitable, we think there can be little doubt in the minds of the most skeptical. The indications that it is not only certain, but close at hand, are constantly increasing day by day. Every mail that comes to us from Europe affords the strongest testimony on the subject; and the news from .Mexico is of such a positive character that it cannot be contradicted.— The Imperial Government has been recog nized by all the leading powers of Europe, and it is reported that France has called up on the administration at Washington for similar action on their part. Also, Mexico has a threatening attitude towards the North, and announced, through the second personage in the Empire, the commander- in-Chief, her intention to recognize the Con federate States. She has done more, she has returned to the United States Consul at Mazatlan his papers, and thus put a termi* nation to official intercourse with the Wash ington Government. The matter, however, has not ended here, or certain parties in Mexico have been warned against expressing their sympathies with the cause of the North, and one man has been sent to prison for stating his belief that the Southern Confederacy would be overthrown. So far as her action can be foreshadowing her policy, Mexico has cer tainly left us no chance for doubt as to the course she intends to pursue between the United and the Confederate States. The Chicago Times says the first reports of Sheridan's annihilation of Early were somewhat tempered in their efleets by the knowledge that nothing in Sheridan’s career is more common than annihilation cf Early, and nothing more common in Early’s career than to be annihilated by Sheridan, there fore the public did not greariy re joice over the first intimations of the capture of Early’s army, Early’s guns and Early himself, knowing that precisely the same thing oc curred on a dozen different occasions last summer, after which Early took the field with a larger army and more guns than ever. Danville, April 5th.—The President is sued an address this morning to the people, He says the General-in-Chief found it nec essary to make such movements of troops as to uncover the Capital. It would be un wise to conceal the moral aud material in jury to our cause resulting from the occu pationjof the Capital by the enemy ; it is equally unwise and unworthy of us to al low our own energies to falter, our efforts to become relaxed under reverses, however calamitous. For many months the finest army in the Confederacy, under the com mand of a leader whose presence inspired equal confidence in the troops and people, has been greatly trammelled by the neces sity of keeping constant watch ov er the ap proach to the Capital, and has been forced to forego more than one opportunity for promising enterprises. It is for us, my countrymen, to show, by our bearing under reverses, how worthy has been the self-denial of those who, less favor ed than us, have been able to endure misfor tunes with fortitude, and to encounter dan ger with courage. We have now entered upon a new phase of the struggle. Relieved from the necessity of guarding particular points, our army will be free to move from point to point, and whip the enemy in detail far from his base. Let us but will it, and we are free. Animated by that confidence in your spirit and fortitude, which nevei yet failed me, I announce to you, fellow (ajjhtrymen, that it is my purpose to main tain your cause with my whole heart and soul, and that I will never consent to aban don to the enemy one foot of the soil of any one of the States of the Confederacy. That noble State whose ancient 'renown has been eclipsed by her still more glorious recent history, and whose bosom has been bared to receive the main shocks of this war, whose sons and daughters have exhibited heroism so sublime as to render her illustrious in all time to come, Virgin ia, with the .help of the people, and by ihe blessings of Providence, shall be held and defended, and no peace ever be made with the infamous invaders of her homes by the sacrifice of any of her rights or territory. If by sngeajprity of numbers we shall ever be compelled to abandon or to with draw from her liner, or those of any other border State, again and again will we re turn, until tiWFbaffled and exhausted enemy shall abandon in despair his endless and impossible task of making slaves of people resolved to be free, Let ns thca not despond, my countrymen, but relying on the never failing mercy, and the protecting care of our God, let us meet the foe with iresk defiance, with unconquer ed and unconquerable hearts. European Jiew*. Augusta, April 6 —Stoneman was at Mossy Creek on the IS.h of -March with 4000 cavalry. His distination supposed to be Salisbury, N. C. Parties direct trom Knoxville, report his arrival there from Chattanooga and assert that it is his purpose to move into North Carotins or to Lynch-: burg, as necessity envelopes. The Observatory of Roue, the organ o[ Pope Pius JX, denies that any plan oi reconciliation has - been projected to im prove the existing matter between the Pope and Emperor Maximillian in religious af fairs. thePaimali Gazette states that Em peror Napoleon will leave Mexico to her destiny soon, as the French troops return A legislative address Irora France to Na poleon, approves the Emperor’s foreign policy. Hopes are expressed for the con solidation ot the Mexicao^Sinpire; aud how ever serious be the qutstions.they are still to be settled. The Emperor Maximillian will be ah’e to decide them by prompt and energetic action, b ranee will learn irom the test it mony that her soldiers will soon return to their country, aud that. Maximillian reigus over the people, sheltered henceforth under their own baimer. The Emperor Napoleon says that the war shall seen be closed. Iu an address he says peace will be the policy in the future; let us work in concert to render plentiful this last ing peace. An English naval cfllcer, accused of hav ing aided the rebel privateer Rappahannock, was plr.ced on hall pay, ~nd as unworthy the Queen’s confidence in active service.— Very significant of the contemptible policy of Engiand. The old established bank oi Spooner, Wood, & Co.,at Birmingham, has suspend ed payment; liabilities estimated at one million pounds sterling. Consols closed iu London, ou the 11th ot March, at 88^. The Liverpool cotton market is very dull. Augus’a, April 8.—Charleston dates of the latest exhioit that General..Gilmer has issued aa order prohibiting all purchases of cotton, or claims thereto, by any other than the United States Agents ia Savannah and Charleston. The United Slates Tax Commissioners announce themselves ready lo receive taxes in these cities and dlslricts. JEh r.-ous who wish to recover any captured animals ard vehicles, must take the oath, and swear that they have been loyal during ihe war to the United States Government. Parties bringing goods into Charleston must register, or they will be subject to the penalty of confiscation. All buildings, lands and tenements owned by persons who have failed to comply with Lincoln’s prociama tion of December cth, 1864, and who are absent, from the city, are taken possession of by the agent of the Treasury Department and claimed as abandoned property. All occupants must report to the Registry office, and all rents paid to the United States Agent. ^ The steamer Massachusetts has sailed from Charleston for Philadelphia. It struck a torpedo in the Charleston channel, but it did not explode. Advices from North Carolina say there is very little sickness prevailing, aud the woun ded weii cared for at Raleigh and other points, and are improving rapidly. The Yankees remain quiet and undemon strative. Their outposts extend along the Neuse from eighteen to twenty miles west of Goldsboro, making their line of fortifica tions strong around Goldsboro. Sherman is soon expected back from a conference at Grant’s headquarters, when an active campaign is anticipated. The utmost confidence exists among our troops that we will be successful against the strategy and battles of Sherman’s army. Danville, April 9.—Gen. Lee has moved to the vicinity of Farmville, followed by Grant, and fighting daily. There was heavy fighting on Thursday, but no partic ulars.—The enemy have established their hospitals at the Junction, where a large number of their wounded are. Their loss was very heavy in the Thursdoy’s fight. They are not approaching this way ou our line. The Richmond and Danville railroad communication is siill open to Keysville. A wounded soldier who escaped from the enemy, says a courier from the army brings news that the New York Herald y^s that the Emperor Napoleon recognized tms Government on the 5th of March. For the Intelllgenoer. the CITY IN ruins. BY J. R- BARRIO J. Augusta, April 10.—Stoneman burned Eagle Factory, in Iredell coumy Virginia, on Thursday, March 30th. r: Five thousand Yankees occupied Salem, Va. April 1st. It.is supposed their design is to reach Danville, Greensboro, or to lodge on the railroad between the two places. One Yankee regiment was in Kernsiown Valley, Va. Northern papers state that the expedition which failed at Natural Bridge Florida, was intended to release thiee thousand prison ers at Thomasville, Ga. General Thomas’ official report states that from the 7th of September to January 20lh last, five end a halt months, he captur ed the amount of 13.189 prisoners, including seven Generals, 1000 other officers, 72 pieces of artillery; received over 2,000 deserters, a large amount of valuable ammunition, and other war material captured. The Yankee loss under ten thousand. Brownlow, Governor elect of Tennea see, lately received twenty five thousand dollars from two Secessionists in Knox ville, for malicious treatment in 1862. Commenting on the verdict, in his paper, he says, the villains take all they have given their effects. The Union men they nave crippled and impoverished, and let them be slain, and after slain, damned with other savage anathemas. The New York Times of the 221 de nounces the language with scathing com ments. On March 7th, ia the.House of Commons., London, Sir. J. Pakington said, in appoint ing Mr. Ried, in whose present State expe rience and efficiency as Chief Constructor, they were trifling with the interests of Eng land when-they allowed great skill and ex perience to quit her service at a time when war might brake out any moment, and they might be compelled to send a fleet across the Atlantic at the shortest possible notice, The Right Rev, A. Paster, Bishop of the Episcopal Church, diocese of Pennsylvania, has gone to California on account of ill health. A regular Po3t Office has been established in the army for persona writing, if they ad dress properly the name, company, regiment, and brigade, and mark, Johnsfon’s army. Letters and papers mailed from Richmond and points in North Carolina, have arrived with old dates. The Southern Express Company arrived from points North yesterday, the 9th, and brought Richmond dates and papers of the 29th March, and Raleigh, to April 1st, and Chrrlotte to the 4th. Ye Prophet-bards, who in the elder time, On ruins vast discoursed in thought sublime, Where Glory’s footsteps pressed the hallowed mold, And genii of tbeir fallen grandeur told, Thy spirit lend, companion of this hour, And give my verse the secret of your power; My muse restore the vigor of its youth, And touch my lips with sacred words of truth; Nor Fancy ask a glowing hue to grace, The picture I would here untinted trace. No Thebes my theme nor Babylon my shrine A fancy tale to paint, no task of mine , With Greece my story, and my moral Romt Far rather I o’er classic realms would roam To days when lofty rose the height, of mind And war revived the glory of mankind; In Vain seeks memory In each by-gone age V tyre like this on the historic page, And in each curse that scourged a fallen race, How few like this have left so black a trace. Attila once o’er yielding nations ixod. The feigned avenger of a wrathful God, And Sylla, who a cruel name to win, Shed blood as in atonement for each s’.u, Yet like the mist dissolve their baser crimes, Before the deeds enacted in our times, As if mad Jove still held his wrath iu store, On this doomed spot in lava-streams to pour; Even when proud Greece submission gave the yoke, And fell a victim to the Scythian stroke, Though paher swarmed like bees the conquering horde, Alaric stifejietcherished name adored; And Sylla in his triumphs weary grown, Bared not deface the immemorial stone, The crushed Athenian bowed liis haughty head, Yet bade his foe still reverence the dead ; And if you still would to some other field, A darker picture than the present yield. Come go with me an hour to view the sight, Yelled in the curtaitis of Cimmerian sight- ’Tls morn: the sun-light on these crumbling walls, Still bright from heaven in sinless radiance falls The moaning winds impatient in their haste, Sigh like the dirges on a Lybian waste, A voice as from a thousand tongues of woe, Steals o’er the scene in accents soft and low, As memories of a year ago return, Fresh in the heart like living coals to burn— Sad thoughts of hours when commerce prospered here, And peace and plenty gave each household cheer. Lo, now, the hum of busy life Is still, And silence seems to startle with a thrill; The scene ia changed—a city of the dead, Whose epitaph on every stone is read; Forms here and there like ghosts flit through the street So silent that they seem on phantom feet, As If the spirits of the past, they rose, To tell the living of their burled woes : From every pile goes up a mournful wall, Each mouldering wall fraught with a w.oful tale, As if each heart o’erburdened with its care, An utterance found in language of despair, A3 if each home whoso ashes strew the plain, Its fate proclaimed in melancholy strain; Nor these complete the horror of the scene, A darker page than this is still unseen, Remorseless as a fiery fiend of Hell, Let misery its own tale of ^jtguish teil, And widows, orphans, forth in penury drH an, The sequel write in words Inspired of Heaven. Up from each ruined altar yet shall rise, A soul of vengeance changeless as the skies, When every brick shall tell a tale of wrong, And each dark column still the theme prolong; Fired with Its fate and burning with Us zeal, Our country shall the kindling story feel, And frotmeach broken column shall aspire The spirit of a new and fresh desire : Already wakens in the patriot-breast A purpose equal to the trying test, And farther widened is each wave of flame, That parts us from their vile unholy aim. Long as a freeman’s blood shall course our veins, That blood shall blush to wear their hated chains; And oft when gathered round the evening fire, The aged matron and the trembling sire, The story shall the-infant ear rehearse And thrill Its senses like a tale or v.-r-e; And he whose heart in battle never swerves, Though lightnings flash along his Iron nerves, And he who stands a bulwark of the State, Shall oft with zeal each bloody scene i elate, Their thoughts drawn as from a funeral ;s c -\ Will fill the soul with heaven-descending die. If there be those who would unite agair T The broken fragments of the olden chain, Such bid here pause, and here a lesson learn, They dare not in their callous bosoms spurn; If there be one who could this prospect vlew Then to his country’s banner provo untrue, Let woman’s wrath on such a creature dwelt, Like the true wife oi faithless Asdrubel, When from each house with sense of fleeing shame. The Carthaginian fled before the flame, As flushed with pride, the Roman at bis heel, Bade him the peril of his presence fee'., Yet she, brave woman, bade the coward go,’’ Who thus deserted to her country’s fo j, And casting then her oflspring in the lire, Than bear his name, she bade them there expire. As mountain-peaks by nature built on high, Their summits pillow on the azure sky, The limit fix of each diverging race, And iron bars between their union place, So from these ruins shall new barriers rise, Their very apex reaching to the skies, And like a wail of granite they shall stand, To mark the boundary of our Southern land. Thy doom, Atlanta, In the classic tongue, Wiil be by many wandering minstrels sung When Time shall o’er the present draw a veil. And Truth and Justice in the world prevail; Our country’s annals shall the story knew, Tby draught of Marah in Its numbers flow: As on a tablet, here the pen shall trace, The fiendish’instincts of a hated race; The poet to the future in bis verse, The memory of each secret wrong rehearse. Yon spire that glitters In the morning sun Shall tell of deeds by servile minions done When nature shuddered such an act to name And blushed to witness their unblushing shame There shall go forth from thee a tale of wrong Through all the world in burning words of son" ’ And everywhere shall thy remembered wee Bid the true heart with indignation glow ’ For God shall yet avenge tiie cursed deed And bid the guilty for his mercy plead. ’ Not to the Indian in his savage hate. His soul by instinct taught with blood to sate Nor the barbarian whose untutored Is deaf alike to virtue, sex and age, The heart for deeds to thus pollute his name, As his whose acts these mouldering walls proclaim. False to his country—to HU God untrue, ' In faith an Infidel—a worse than Jew. His glory thus to low degrade the mud. And basely sink the standard of mankind. - Atlanta, Ap.M 1st, 1865. T hs LEGAL ADVERTISING OF the ORDINARY of Meriwether County, will be contiousHu the To- teiligencer. j. yy. B ANNING aplS-d2t*w2fc Ordinary. Greenville, Ga., April 8ih, 1S65. GEORGIA^ Fayette County : W HEREAS, Thomas J. Edmondson has made appli cation to be appointed Guardian ot the persons and property of Martha, Analiza and Uxor Oofleid m - nors under fourteen years of age, residents of sru county. This is therefore to cite and admonish ail persons c „n- cerned to be and appeal at the term of the Court of Ordinary to be held next after thj expiration of tlrriy days Trom the first publication of thb notice, aud si ow cause, If any they can, why said E imond. on should not be intrusted with the guardianship of the persons *nd property cf said minors. Given under my hand and official signature, April 4th 1S55. EDWARD CONN JR, Ordn’y. Printer’s fee |10. api7-w83d GEORGIA, FATBTT2 Coc.vr y. TO THE HEIRS AND DISTRIBUTEES OF L. B CLARK LATE OF FAYETTB COUKTY DECEASED. Y OU are ratified that as Executor of said deceased, I shall apply (four mouths afte the commencement efthis publication, the same being published twice a month for four months) to the Court of Ordinary of sal . county to appoint three or more free holders agreeable to the statutes ia such case, made and provided to dis tribute amongst the lawful distributees file estate of said deceased, in my hands as Executor. April 4,1S65. JaMJSS BAILEY, Executor. [EC] H. V. CLARK, Executrix, Printer’s the $40 ap,7-»2tam?4m