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ATXjAISTTA, GEORGIA,
WEDNESDAY. APRIL 19, 1865.
OUR “GATE CITY.”
The influences that made the “Gate City”
cl’ the South—Atlanta—what it was pre
vious to its abandonment by Sherman in
ruins, is actively at work again, and will, in
course of time, restore it to its former im
portance and prosperity. These are rail
road enterprises, the health of its location,
the salubrity of its atmosphere, and the
good cool water with which the city, in ev
ery quarter of it, is blessed. The Railroads
are now just resuming their business at this
point, travel and freight being daily thrown
into and from it, as in days of yore, by two
at least of the enterprising companies that
have heretofore contributed so largely to
the building up, and prosperity of old At
lanta. A third, the Georgia Railroad, will
soon make its connection at a point between
Lithonia and Covington, and then, from
hence to Augusta, the travel and freight
cars will uninterruptedly and swiftly pass,
promoting in a great degree, those prosper
ous commercial relations that heretofore ex
isted between the two cities, and all along
the line of this important railway enter
prise. Nor will our city, even at present,
lose all the advantages she heretofore en
joyed through the existence in active ope
ration of the State, or Western & Atlantic
Railroad. Many miles of this road have
been left untouched by the enemy and is,
we are advised, in good running order; and
though a large portion of it has been de
stroyed by a vandal foe, still time and ener
gy will restore the broken link, and Atlanta
is destined yet to enjoy all the benefits here
tofore conferred^rpon it by this magnificent
enterpriz 3 of our State. As it is, the wagon
trade of Cherokee Georgia must come to At
lanta, as no other point of commerce in up
per Georgia can afford to compete with it
lor that trade. The running through from
Augusta to this point, of the cars of the
Georgia Rail road, we are also pleased to
know will permit the return here of a large
number of our old citizens, who are
now impatiently biding that event, to
occupy, some their old homes, and some to
seek new ones. This event will open too,
fo Atlanta, what she now mostly needs, and
what the Macon and West Point roads have
already done, the opportunity of procuring
lumber, with which to repair, and to recon
struct dwellings and storehouses; And thus
will our “Gate City” rise from the ashes to
which it was consigned by a ferocious and
brutal foe. At present, all is life, and ener
gy, and enterprise, in our midst. No clcud
shadows the faces of our people. Despon
dency and gloom have given place to cheer
fulness and resolution. Onward seems to
be the motto of our people, and onward we
feel confident, will be the progress of the
“Ga*e City” of the South.
“I AM SIR ORACLE.”
When Senator Hill—“Our Ben” of “Know
Nothing" times—speaks, he does so as “Sir
Oracle," and all must bow, with reverence,
in his, and in the judgment of his benighted
admirers, to his arrogant assumptions. For
tunately, there Is some good sense and seme
political virtue still iu the people to preserve
at least a majority of them from being led
into error by this prominent politician,
whose meandering ways remind us forcibly
of the couplet applied to the wily Van Bu-
ren, in days past, to wit: it were hard to
tell—
“Whether the snake that made the track,
Were going North, or travelling back.”
So with Senator Hill. He mounts his “Pe
gasus," soars aloft upon it with imaginative
sublimity,and indulges in fligktsof fancy well
calculated to deceive his unwary followers,
butwliick make no impression uponeither the
intelligent hearer or impartial reader. Iu
truth, Senator Hill, in his addresses to the
people, cannot, it seems, forget he is not ad
dressing a petty jury whom, for a handsome
fee, it becomes his supposed duty, “to make
the worse appear the better reason.” Re»
cently, this/Senator has appeared frequently
m the press and before the people, “riding”
in his essays, letters, and harangues, “a high
horse.” Governor Brown, in most of these,
has been his theme. Indeed, for eight years
past, “ Our Ben" has been after the Gover
nor. In ' this respect, he has exhibited a
- most wonderful endurance. How he has
survived the struggle, the drafts made upon
his imagination and intellectual attain
ments, is absolutely astonishing to all who
have witnessed the sad effects of disap
pointed ambition—the mortifying results of
disappointed political revenge. The errors
into which the persevering, indulgence of
such feeling^ have led this Senator from
Georgia, j^re innumerable. Only recently,
at LaGrange, in one of his “fancy flights,”
while disclaiming any “allusion" to the
Governor's “motives," he thu3 artfully drew
u picture of “treason’s way bill.”
“First, zsa 7 ; then disappointment; then
dissatisfaction; then complaining; then criti
cising; then scheming to change leaders; then
prophesying failure; then wishes feilnr®;
then treason."
An “ower true’’ picture we admit, it prop
erly or truthfu’ly applied. If the Senator
designed to apply it to Governor Brown, or
any portion of it, he has been very unfortu
nate indeed. Bat how the leading features
of the picture may apply to h in self, we
shall proceed to show :
- First, “Zeal:" No one will deny to^%i-
ator Hill, the possession of this quality in the
highest degree. He exhibited it ei’er so
largely when he was the opponent in 1S57
of “Joe Brown” for Governor, nor did defeat
on that memorable occasion, abate it in the
•least. Like the “shirt of Nestor” it still
sticks fast to him.
Second, “DisappointmentMr. Hill met
with this early in his political life. Defeated
in his aspirations after Congressional honors,
he soon thereafter became,
Third, “Dissatisfied : Dissatisfied at every-
thing, and at everybody, he was all over
Georgia, upon the stump here, and upon the | “EXCHAGE OF COTTON FOR PRIME FENCES
stump there, and was found, * I ,
fourth, “ComplainingComplaining at
Governor Brown; complaining at the con
duct of the State Government; complaining
at the doctrine of secession, and,
Fifth, “Criticising” : Criticising men, and
criticising measures! Before the people and
through the Press, no public man in Gedrgia
has indulged more m political criticism. He
has almost reduced lrs powers in this respret
to what Sterne termed, “the card of criti
cism,” and of which that author says “of
all the cants in this canting .world, though
the cant of hypocrisy may be the worst, the
cant of criticism is tkemost tormenting.” We
have felt often the truth of that author’s
sentiment. Not only we, but the people of
Georgia, have been severely tormented with
the critiC'.s.ng propensities of this remorse
less man.
Sixth, “Scheming to change leaders" : This
has been JVXr. Hih’s worJc, for years past in
Georgia. Nor will he quit it. He is as busy
at it nomps he was long years ago, and wiil
continue so to be, we apprehend, till breath
leaves his l*ody.
So far, Mr. Hill’s picture, the reader will
perceive, when applied to himself, is admir
ably drawn, reminding us most forcibly of
the adage that some men “judge others by
themselves.” We will cot charge him with
“prophesying failure,” but if he were to do
so we would ^not believe him, for he has
proved a false prophet so often, we could
place no confidence now in his predictions;
nor will we charge him with £w.s7iing fail
ure; nor with its consequence, “treason"
This would be slander, of which we are In
capable.
So much for Senator Hill, the “Sir Oracle"
ol Georgia, who can see no virtue in po
litical opponents, and who is as remorseless
in his assaults upofi taem, as be is vain
glorious in all tlftt relates to himself; who
is as anxious to impair public confidence
in, as he is unfair in his assaults upon Gov
ernor Brown. So let him be!
AN EXCELLENT LETTER.
Wc take great pleasure in transferring
from the Constitutionalist to our columns,
the following most excellent and consider
ate letter of the Confederate Chief Commis
sary for Georgia, Major R. J. Mose3, or.
the subjects embraced therein, to wit: the
granting of permits by Confederate Commis
saries (or Quartermasters) to transport by-
railroad, private freight, and impressments
of private property. This sensible and pa
triotic officer states truly that he has no
power conferred upon him, by reason of his
official position, to grant or to refuse per
mits to cilizins to'transport over the rail-
ads of this State, family, or, we presume,
any other supplies ; and he knows “of no
law which gives to the Chief Commissary,
or any of his subordinate?, any right to con
trol the railroad transportation, unless pri
vate freight is being carried in preference to
government freight, and thin it is a question
to be settled with railroad officers, and not
with private citizens.” His views, too, upon
the subject of impressments are equally clear
and ju3t, conforming, we believe, strictly to
the uniform policy of Col. Whitaker, our
Stale Commissary General, in the pursu
ance of which the latter, we think, has rare
ly, if ever, failed to secure supplies which
he needed for State purposes. Had all oik.
er officers of the Confederacy been govern
ed by the rule of action adopted by the two
officers to whom we have referred, as laid
down in the following letter, much of the
bickering, and disaffection, that has prevail
ed iu Georgia, on the part of citizens who
have suffered by the arbitrary exercise of an
opposite policy, would have been avoided,
and a better temper would have prevailed
towards Confederate Commissaries and
Quartermasters on the part of our produc
ing citizens, than we regret to say has pre
vailed for two years past.
The appeal embraced in Major Moses’
letter for food necessary* to keep cur armies
in the field, we trust, wiil be promptly and
generously responded to. by ail who have
even the smallest surplus:
A LETTER FROM THE CHIEF COM
MISSARY.
- Office Chief Commissary, }
Augusta, Ga., April 3, 1S65. )'
Editors Constitutionalist:
Having been applied to for 'permits to
allow shipments of family supplies on rail
roads leading so ibis point, these permits I
have refused for the simple reason that I
have no power to permit a thing over which
I have no particle of authority. To grant
the permit wou ! d. imply the right to pro
hibit. I know of no law which gives to the
Chief Commissary or any of his subordinate
officers any right io control the railroad
transportation, unless private freight is be
ing carried in preference to government
freight, and then it is a question to be set
tled witk-ihe railroad officers, and not with
private citizens. The only right which I
have not common to ever}' eiiiz :n is to im
press when I cannot purchase at market
rates the supplies necessary for the army,
and from this power “family supplies” are
expressly excepted.
It is my desire that officers under me shall
exercise the' powers granted by law to en
able them to feed the army, and at the
same time carefully to avoid any interfer
ence with the rights of the citizens not es
sentially necessary to the discharge ot their
duties, and clearly delegated to them by the
laws ot the laud. While I shall endeavor
to avoid impressment whenever it can be
avoided, it is proper that I should state to
the people of Georgia that there is at this
time a distressing pressure upon our armies
for the food necessary to sustain life, and I
earnestly appeal to all good citizens to bring
forward their surplus and sell it to the Com^
missaries throughout the State. These sup
plies will be paid for ni certificates of in
debtedness receivable lor taxes.—
This is all we have to pay with. . With
out food an organized army cannot be kept
together—without an organized army our
country mu9t be overrun by the enemy and
plundeied by gueiriiias. To avoid this,
self-interest (ignoring patriotism altogether)
ought to induce the people to feed an army
sacrificing so much for the maintenance of
public liberty. My officers are instructed to
collect supplies as rapidly as possible, that I
may have them forwarded to the armies of
Tennessee and North Virginia. Should any
part of the people fail to sell their surplus
voluntarily, impressments will have to be
made. 1 make no appeal beyond a plain
statement ol theJacts, which to all good cit
izens are eloquent enough. ‘Would that they
were less so
Respectfully,
R. J. MOSES, Major.
Chief Commissary State of Georgia.
SIT1ES.’
We invite the attention of our readers to
an article in another column, headed as
above, which appeared recently in the Co-
1 embus limes. The views embraced and set
forth in the article, demand the serious con
sideration of both our Confederate and
State authorities. For prime necessities, and
for military and other stores, the Confede
rate Government has long since resorted to
running cotton through the blockade, and
so have North Carolina and Georgia. It is
idle to suppose that this cotton, in reaching
Nassau or any other foreign port, was be
yond the reach of our mortal foes. For one
penny per pound in advance of the Liver
pool market, even at that point, the North
ern maaufuctuier and speculator can, at any
time, procure whatever limited supply there
may be in that market, aDd he who suppo
ses they do net avail themselves both at
Nassau and that market of the privilege of
purchasirg the cotton and tobacco that have
been run through the blcckade, mistakes very
much the enterprise of Qgr vandal foes.—
Now, however, a change has come over the
Confederacy in this respect. Our .seaports
have all gone into the possession of the en
emy. There is no more running the
blockade with cotton or tobacco by
sea, and no more opportunity of procuring
military stores or even the prime necessities
of life through that channel. Of these prime
necessities, Salt is indispensable and must be
had at any cost. Thus fir, Georgia, through
the indomitable perseverance and energy of
t he Slate’s agents at Saltville, Messrs. Seago,
Palmer & Co., lias been well supplied
on State account with this prime ar
ticle of health as well as of life. Now,
however, as these enterprising agents, after
having sustained a loss ot over $200,000, on
private account, and by the recent move
meals of the enemy, cf still - further heavy
losses, aud as they are cut off from their
sources of supply at the Virginia Salt
Work; we ask how is Georgia to procure
i Salt, or other prime necessities ? Our people
must weigh well this question. They must
calmly and dispassionately do so, divesting
themselves of all prejudice in its considera
tion. Trading cotton with the enemy on
private account, we are as much opposed to
as any one can be, for evils of great magni
tude will surely attend such a privilege.
But on Government account, Confederate and
State, it will have to be done, or we shall
be without salt for the people and ' our ar
mies, and other prime necessities of life-and
of war. These the Yankees will gladly ex
chaf^e with us for cotton, and for the lafr
ter, they will not hesitate to let us have the
former. We have, too, been reliably in
formed, that our Confederate Congress, pre
vious to its late adjournment, passed a bill
authorizing the States to conduct this trade
with the enemy, giving cotton, Jobacco, Ac.
lor Uiq prime necessities of life. This was
wise in that body. Indeed, Congrest'fore
saw its absolute necessity, and therefore
authorized it.
Let us now not be misunderstood in pre<»
seniing this subject to on^readers. Georgfo*
needs Salt and other prime necessities, and
she must have them. For cotton, Georgia
can procure them. She has the cotton, or
can procure it. _ To run the sea blockade
with it now, is impossible. To procure sup
plies with it now from Europe is impossible.
Shall she suffer her people to perish, and
her brave men in the field to suffer far more
than the^ have hitherto done, for
prime necessities, when with her cotton
which is every day subject to be
burned, she can procure what she absolute
ly needs and must have to prosecute suc
cessfully her war with Yankeedom ? We
say, no! The State should proceed at once
to use her cotton for the porposes, and
those only, indicated. Private speculation
should not., however, be tolerated for a mo
ment, in such a procedure. What may, if
it shall, in pursuance of the policy suggested
in the article we copy from the limes, be
done, should be confined .strictly to Stale
and not individual action. That there will
result from this, accruing benefits to the
people and our armies, we do not entertain,
a doubt.
Frequent accounts reach ,us of the de
struction cf cotton. Had we not better have
that which Georgia can command, or its
value, converted into salt, iron, cotton cards,,
agricultural implements, medicines, &c.„
which our people need much worse than the
Yankees need our cotton, than to let it lie !
in the warehouses in the few cities remain
ing in cur possession, or under the -gin
houses on our plantations, subject possibly
1o the same fate? We think so !
THE GUBERNATORIAL QUESTION.
Commenting upon an editorial article of
ours relative to the too early agitation of
the question as ‘to who shall be our next
Governor, the “Recorder” at‘ Milledgeville
says:
“The Atlanta Intelligencer of the 6tb,
contains an editorial condemning the agita
tion of the question as to who shall be°our
next Governor. It would have been well
enough to have deferred it a month or two
later had, pot Governor Brown forced its
consideration on the people while their en
tire attention and thoughts were engrossed
with the unnatural war now waged against
us by the North. It was Gov. Browm—he,
himself —who wilfully came out with an in
flammatory rues =age. denouncing the Presi
dent and Confederate authorities in un
measured terms. A “State Convention,”
“State Rights,” were his great panaceas for
conquering peace—whipping the fight—
that, too, when we were denied by the~ene-
my any rights whatever. Still, it is now
thought premature to take steps to secure a
Governor will co-operate with the
Confederate authorilie-.! Strange reason
ing to us.”
What appears “strange 1 reasoning" to the
fast metropolitan journal that perpetrated
the foregoing delectable paragraph, we are
pleased to sec, has met the approval of
most of its compeers ot the press of this
State in opposition to Governor Brown.
But we are not surprised at any opinion ad
vanced by a journal so consistent in echoing
the views of its favored leader, the Hon. B.
H. Hill, who only a day or two before had
poured his political “leprous distilments" into
the ears of its editors. Hence we account
for 1 its assumption of _ a position—in its
reference to what it says Governor Brown
did—which places it in the attitude of
maintaining that “two wrongs make a
right** But we mus\ forgive our cotempo-
rarks their vagaries; and in order to show
them that we bear no malice, to the extent
of the circulation of this journal, we make
public their appeal to those of their friends
“who endorse" Senator Hill’s “position, to see
to it that his Railroad fare is paid" while
travelling over the State making speeches—
a very timely suggestion, for to lose time is
bad enough without the loss cf the Senator’s
money. We wonder our friends of the
Recorder did not go farther and suggest that
the hotel expenses of the honorable Senator
be paid also. •
LINCOLN’S TERMS FOR PEACE.
We can hardly realize the idea that
among intelligent men in the South, ary
honest difference can exist, in regard to
what the despot, Lincoln, means, in order
that peace may be restored to both North
and Soutlf, and yet, we have seen and heard
indie itions, that such a difference of opin
ion does exist, though we feel unpressed,
that, among intelligent and patriotic men,it
cannot be an honest one. From Lincoln
himsei r ; from the tone of the administration
papers, North and Weal; from reliable in
telligence coming from our own people who
have been in Yankee prisons, some of whom
have had favorable opportunities of ascer
taining Northern sentiment during, their
months and years of prison life; not the
shadow of a doubt, it seems to us, can rest
upon the mind of any honts^, intelligent
Southern mas, that absolute submission to
the North, or Lincoln’s will, whatever that
may be, on the part of the South, is the
only condition now presented, upon which
the war waged for our subjugation shall
cease. Here are “Lincoln’s terms”—his
THE ALBANY PATBIOT EDITOR.
We are requested by J. W. Fears, Esq.,
whose name stands at the head of the col
umns of the Albany Patriot as editor, and
who is its proprietor, to say in our columns,
that he does not superintend the publica
tion of the paper; that he does not write its
editorials, and is utterly opposed to its
course in abusing Gov. Brown, and will
have it stopped.
We clip the foregoing singular announce
ment from the Southern Confederacy of the
I5ih instant. It affiims that the advertised
Editor of a paper, who is also its Proprietor,
does not superintend its publication, nor
write its editorials, and is utterly opposed to
what has been written for and published in
Jus (non paper, and which, a9 its Editor, he
alone is responsible for. Verily the posi-
lien is a singular one for any Editor to occu
py, and the sooner Mr. Fears assumes a dif
ferent one, the more creditable it will be to
himself and to the “Albany Journal.”
RECOGNITION RUMORS.
We are tired of recognition rumors, and
trust wc shall hear no more of them through
our telegraphic dispatcher, unless they come
iu less questionable shape than they do.—
Recemly the telegraphic operator told us
that a wounded soldier, we believe, had seen
a New York paper, iu which there appear
ed an announcement that Loui3 Napoleon
had, on the part of the French Empire, re
cognized the Confederacy as one ofthe na
tions of the earth ; and on yesterday,we were
told that Havana datt s of the 221 Ultimo
say that the Emperor Maximillian will re
cognize, immediately, the Southern Confed
eracy, and also open to us the port of Tam
pico, or some qtfier port, irto which Mr
Mallory’s little though gallant navy, may
cinytheir prizes for acjudic ition and sale-
This is all very good, if it be true; but as
recognition means to all appearances, fight
iDg Yankeedom, we incline tenaciously and
stubbornly to the opinion,long sinceexpress-
only terms—terms prescribed by him in the edjhfct the day is still far distant when either
LATEST FROM IHE SELMA AND MONT
GOMERY KAIDiKG PARTY.
Oa Sunday night intelliger.ee resrhed
this city that “the Federals were at Wtst
Point 2.000 strong, and near Columbus i u
force. Report says the Fort art West P l)Ult
and all in it were captured.” Also, ihat it
was thcugkt the enemy would march “in
full force upon Columbus.”
A later dispatch, ri ccivec. here ■ u yuter-
day morning, about 10 o’c’eck, says that she
enemy were then “within seven miles< tT.;.
Grange.”
Veibal aeCvUnls given by passengers on
the West Point train which r- ached here
yesterday atternoon, state that i he defence
made at West Point by the few troops at
that point against the Yai kee raiders, was
a most gallant one. We are without pnr-
ticulara as to the result.
In our judgment, the enemy will diverge
from LnGrange— perhaps from Newman, to
Griffiu or Barnesville, so as to cut. if com
munication by' railroad to Mccon; e'r per
haps to Thomastou, so as to cut off commu
nication wiih Macon and Columbus; but
we are not sufficiently advised as to, wi.fi
any certainty, point out their course. They
may advance upon this city.
Later Still.—We have; intelligence that.
:he enemy did not advance upon LaGrange,
but fell back to Wist Point, probab’y be
yond that place.
arrogance and tyranny ot his nrlure, and in
tSe hour of his supposed final triumph over
the South. Ho who does not see and real
jzc this truth, is blind, and oblivious to
what stares the world in the face, and to
what is proclaimed iu tones grating to jus
tice and humanity, from the White House in
Washington, and from the Cap tol at the
other end of that modern Sodom. Let if,
therefore, come from whatever quarter it
may, we deny most emphatically that any
other terms, than absolute and unqualified
submission to Lincoln’s will, as the condv
tion for peace, is offered to the South! And
while we do so, we cannot tefraia from ill
expression of an honest indignation at any
attempt being made, l>y individuals or the
press, to make a contrary impression upon
the weak need, the irresolute, or the igno
rant among us. We look upon ali such at
tempts as iorestaling the devotion of our
cause, when the time shall be propitiate for
making terms with the enemy. -
And what does submission to Lincoln’s
will; submission to his clemency meau ?
Has any' Southern man failed to consider it
well ? Has he failed with the lights before
him, to look to the darJc future which the
ccnscquecc38 of submission would entail up
on the South, its sons and its daughters?
If he has not, it is time that he should. It
means degradation morally and politically.
It means the surrender of liberty, property,
honor, life—the surrender of manhood—
from freemen to become serfs of the hardest,
taskmasters history delineates in its pages.
Iu such an event, Southern men and South
ern matrons would truly become “hewers
of wood and drawers of water” to Northern
tyranny and Northern cupidity. Northern
avarice would eat up the produce of even
ottr labor, and Northern hate would, iq a
thousand ways, crush the spirit it * had sub
dued. In such an event, it would be “cru
cifixion of the soul” indeed !
Reader, look for no mercy when subjuga
tion comes! We tell you now, listen not
to those who thjpugh the press, or upon
the highway, present any other picture of
the !iSouth's fate in a state of subjugation, or
in the acceptance of Lincoln’s terms for
peace. The acceptance of the latter is sub
mission. Better any fate thau that!
DEATH OF GEN. A. P. HILL. *
la tike death of this gallant officer, the
Confederate army has lost another brave
and patriotic leader, and the South another
devoted son. One by one, like leaves in au-
tumD, fall the heroes who, in the early days
of the war.won laurels which encircled their
browns till death ended their last battle with
their country’s foes; and among them none
fell more gloriously than the noble son of
the “North State” with harness on and his
face fronting the foe. No one of the brave
chiefs who have thus fallen, have rendered
more patriotic and disinterested setv ce than
the one whose death we now lament. A
noble gentleman, a* gallant soldier, his loss
will be seriously felt in the army, and in the
State whose people he ever cheered with his
counsels; and whose sons, by his knightly
example, and ckivalric bearing, he ever
stimulated .to persevere in our struggle tor
independence. Long wilL his brilliant ca
reer and bis memory live in the S a'e lhat
gave him birth, and in- the hearts of a gfate-
ful people. A martyr to • liberty, he now
sleeps the sleep of death, “with his martial
cloak around him,” to be wept for,honored,
and sung, by all who can appreciate patrio
tism and heroism stimulated into action by
an ardent love of country, and which were
happily blended in the person of the lament
ed, fallen hire. Peace to his ashes ! Honor
to his .memory!
DECLARED EXCHANGED.
Conftrierate" officers and privates who
were delivered from Yankee prisons in
November* and December at Charleston, by
Exchange Notice, No. 14, dated at Rich
mond, are declared exchanged, by Commis
sioner Oa!d. AU interested will govern
themselves accordingly by reporting
forthwith if they have not already done
so, to their respective commands. The
telegraphic dispatch embracing this notice,
we published on yesterday, but as this may
have escaped the observation of the parties
interested, we now call attention to it.
Napoleon or Msximillian, or any other for
eign potentate or power, will venture to
risk, in the act of our recognition, a fight
with Lincol’ndom; and as for cold blooded
John Bull, nothing can be expected from
that quarter, his brother Jonathan being ev
idently a terror to the Russell ministry, the
lord of that name too. though not the pre
mier, befog the chief adviser of Victorias
policy, and as fearful of befog involved in
war, as he is pertinacious in his acts of in
justice to the Confederates States. If our
people, however, be firm and determined,
and persevere in their efforts to win their
independence, we can tell them of a power
that ere long, from the force of circumstan
ces, will recognize the Confederate States as
an independent nation, or rather an inde
pendent Confederacy ot States. That power
is the one which has overtasked itself finan
cially and physically in its efforts to subjugate
us. Long since, but for its foreign legions,
drawn trom the scum of continental Europe,
and its negro troc-pa, it would have been
forced to abandon a contest it has so ruth
lessly provoked. How long it can stand*
the financial drain this has made upon the
national purse, of what is’ left of “ Uncle
Sam," is now a question becoming exces
sively troublesome to cot only the so called
United States, but to all Europe, and will
daily become more so, until She collapse, pre
dieted so often recently in Wall Street ahd
upon the fl or ot Congress, comes, as it
surely will, if our armies be kept in the
field, and their wants cared for. If our peo
pie, we repeat, will only do their duty and
manfully pereevere in their struggle for in
dependence, though the enemy hold our
cities, still our broad territory, sav'e in par
ticular and limited localities, will remain
free t)f his presence and from sheer exhaus
tion he must abandon the effort to subjugate
tjjie South. These are our opinions, in
which we have an abiding confidence, and
which we trust will stimulate our people to
renewed efiort in the contest before them,
and which mus: result either in the attain
ment of liberty, or we shall be reduced to
the most abject slavery. Between the two
results, who can feel willing to cease strug
gling for the former, and to accept the lat
ter ? He must have lost all the manhood of
his nature, who can hesitate for a moment
which to choose.
PAINFUL AND DISGBAC - FUL
l ainful avd disgraceful rep.-ns reach ug,
connected with the fall of Montgomery into
the ecemj’a hands. Gallant ( ffieers—at:d
especially one o! them who, on many a b l'-
tle-tfold, has covered himself wi'h glory,
bearing now, 'on, upon his person, many a
rnaik made by the vandal foe when daringly
con’rontfog them—are represented to have
been so overcome by King Alcohol, that they
weie incapable of discharging the responsi
ble duties devolving upon them in that uy-
fog emergency. Is it { os-ible that ibis can
be so—that gallant gentlemen eutrus ed
«i:h important commands and the defence
of such a p >st as Montgomery, c< it'd, in the
hour of danger, so far forget the emise, the
city, aud the country, they were hound to
defend, as to become inebriates, to
lose their reason and p >\ver of ac
tion ? Among all the other di-graceful
circumstarces counecled with the enemy’s
raid up n 51 mtgomery as reported to us—
efptcially the conduct of the A’ab .ma mi
litia—the report of inebriate command; is is
the most mortify fog. We itud that it. is
not true. We trust il the mil tia o! our sis
ter Slate did refuse to give to the gallant
Forrest the aid he had ihe right to e.vpec ;
that if they did uwt rally to Ids. or to the
standard of seme olhtr Tiommam’; fo order
to save their capital aud fo defend their
homes; that the t ffieers to whom so much
was enlrusted by the Ctonl't derate Govern
ment. did prove equal to the emergency,
and lhat the mortifying reports which have
reached us in regard to their condition in the
hour ctf tria 1 , arc not true. If, however,
they aie true, then let Mr. Dcivis say, to him
or to them, to the guilty party, be be whom
he may, as did “Othello" ! o 1 Co- <> ’ »i*-. ce-
forth “be no officer of mu -. ’ fo « ;> ,n, ul
state of suspense, we awaii, what we trust
will prove a contradiction of these report?.
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THE EVACUATION OF MON;GOMERY.
We have been advised by a reliable gen
tleman that Montgomery was evacuated by
order of Gen. Taylor. If so, the current re
ports which have obtained wide eiicolaiioD,
so reflective upon the gallant officer, Gen.
D. W. Adams, who had command of the
forces there, are without foundation, as we
frost and believe all others are.
THE MILITIA ORDER ED. OUT.
It will be seen in our columns that Gov
ernor Brown has ordered out the militia of
the State. They are to report to Columbus,
which we have good reason to believe is
now threatened with capture by the enemy.
We trust in sufficient force they will, fi om
the adj acent counties assemble at that point
to repel the raiding party lhat threatens to
enter our State, at least at that point, and if
so repelled, we have confidence it will not
be permitted to pass over any section ot
Georgia without being met by a force suffi
cient to drive it back or to capture it. At
the time we write, reports reach .us which
we refrain, until at a later hour in the day,
referring to, and to which we will refer in
another article.
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It will afford much pleasure to ali
Louisianians to know that General Wm.
H. Peck and Col. J. O. Nixon, both of that
State—the foimer distinguished for his ser
vices and by his gallantry ever since the
commencement of the war; and the lat».er—
formerly of the New Orleans Crescent—as
well for gallant., conduct, as for the endu
rance of a nearly two years - captivity in
Yankeedom; passed through this city on
their way West on Sunday lH9t,in fine health
and spiri's.
Since the fort going was put in type and
locked up in our form, we notice that the
gentlemen referred to have returned to our
city, ihe movements of the enemy in the di
rection of West Point having forced them to
do so,
CAPITULATION OF GEN. LEE.
Nashville papers state lhat Gsd: Lee cap
itulated with, and surrendered bis army to
Gen. Grant on the 9.h instant. We place
no confidence in these statements ; viewing
them as base fabrications of an unscrupu
lous foe.
AUTHENIIC FROM RICHMOND.
Gentlemen who left Richmond subsequent
to the evacuation, have reached this city
and furnished us with some interesting par
ticulars of this sad event. All of them con
cur in the statement that there was no dis
order attending the affair, and that all of
the reports concerning mobs and other out
rageous proceedings are unfounded.
At daybreak on Monday, the 3J, the ar*
senals, commissary and quartermaster de
partments, Tredegar iron works, both rail
road bridges, Mayo’s toot bridge and other
public buildings were set on fire and de
stroyed. The burning of these valuable
structures caused a great conflagration,
which, however, did not extend to any pri
vate building, Haxall’s immense flouring
mill being the only piece of private property
burned.
A gentleman who left the ciiy at 9)
o’clcck Monday morning says that the ene
my entered the city about 7 o’clock but that
when he was on the corner of Main and
Ninth he saw nothing of them. In leaving
town he observed a body ot Yankee caval
ry passing out Clay street toward the line
ot fortifications. Continuing up the north
bank ot the James river for twenty miles,
he crossed and struck the last train on the
Danviile road.
The battle which resulted in the evacua
tion, extended some twenty miles, and c n-
sisted of a fierce assault at several poius. At
one place the enemy stormed our strong de
fences seven times, aud were repulsed w th
immense slaughter. The line commenced
on the left of Petersburg, fronting to our ex
treme right, which was defend'd by Gen.
Pickett’s division without breastworks At
this place they overlapped Gen. L^-e’s lints,
and here the contest was bloody in the tx-
treme. There was no finer body ot troops
than Pickett’s division,, and they covered
themselves with glory by their conduct.
The Secretary ot the Treasury was suc
cessful in removing all his valuables, as
were most of the public officers.
We are glad to learn that the spirit of the
army was unbroken throughout the sc.eie
ordeal, aud there was nothing like a t out or
panic.— Constitutionalist 15 th.
BROIJSHT Til JAIL.
A SMALL, chanky, black compEc ed Boy, who ssys
his name is NKo, sb )ut 80 years of age and be
longs to Capt. Walker Racchff of Ba-tunora The o wner
is nqiestpdto c me forward, prove property, and take
him away, otherwise he wJi be sold for Jail fees, expen
ses, Ac. B. N. MI JuIPoED,
. Dept, bher if and Jailor.
Atlanta, Ga, i pal 16, Ise5-w3m
LOST OR MISL AID.
T WO Oertifi sates of Jthn W. Dancan, Depositary at
Atlanta,payable to John Cook, both dated March
10 h. IS54—od8 for $TOO, No. . Tneoiher for $10o,
bo. . Notice is hereby given that at app’icaticn
will be made f-.rrenewal of the tame. April 12, IS.5.
IQ S N] JOHN CC OK.
Frlnter’a fee $30 apU6-wSt
LOST OR MISLAID.
T HE Ceit'flofcte of JobnW. Dancan, Depositary at
Alia ts, payable to L O. D. Cook, dat-t.d March 10
lb64. No. . Notice is hereby giyen that an ap; li-
cation will be made for renewal of the same. April lii,
1855. (QRNl L O. D. COOK.
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