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I’OK FBESIIHSNT. HON. JEFF- DAVIS, IT< >ll VI c ±!> A t v. HON. A. H. _STEPHENS, ■ Electoral Ticket. STATE AT LARUE,| . ~ .. T IXT ..of Cobb. fc’fc'-K ..... J. R. ALEXANDER. • • W. II Dabney. ....of cordon. • ; . district'electors : l._. t.l.Haukk ; 3 J L. Wimiiei’.i.V. .. « .of Stewart. 4 ,-Fu. McGehee. ....:,.. of .Houston, fl At. I*. GauVin • • of Richmond. « _‘__M C M Hammond of Clarke. 7/-.0.C. Gibson: of Spaulding 8. Herbert Fielder .. •' o! Po.t. 9—ll. H. Cannon. of 3Un ’ 13,-11. F. I’Rica of Cttiis - alternates : ]. J. L. Singleton, ..of Scriven. ?.—J. S. Dyson"-' •" of Thomas. ?. J. M. Morley of Harris. 4-1. E. Dupree of Twiggs. fi_—J. S. Hook of Washington. 6.—Tsham Fannin. °f Morgan. 7__j T Stephens of Monroe. a-JoHN Ray of Coweta. 9. Banks..... ;■•■<’* Hall. 10ti-F. a. Kirby of Chattooga. irolt CONGKKSK, HON. L. J. GrATtTREETj. MARIETTA, GEO., FRIDAY MORNING OCT. 11. 1861. cot. A. V. BRUMBY Is at h ime cn a short lc ive’of absence He returns to his command in Western Virginia on Monday next. THE NEWS Indicates hard fighting imincnt throughout the whole line of frontier op erations, and the reports are now look ed for with intense anxiety. Off for Fairfax Va. — Our young friend Mr. J. R. Tucker will leave on Thursday next and for place. All letters or packages of clothes for the 7th Regt. to be sent by him must be in by Tuesday evening or Wednesday morning next. THE ELECTION. For President and Vice President and Congress is hold on the first W ed nesday in Nov. Col. Gartrcll unexpec tedly, has opposition in t is district and has thought proper to reply to some of the arguments’? advanced against his election. His letter will appear’in our next issue. THEEI-ECTION. The returns indicate the re-election of Gov. Brown by some eight or ten thousand majority. It is the voice of the people and as Republicans we shorn! gracefully-.,acquiesce in’ the decision whether we deem it fortunate or unfor tunate. lie has, unquestionably, done the State some service" let us hope that his third term will erase all memory of his errors. ■ This county will be ably represented through its Senator General] Hansell and its Representatives Messrs Lester and Green. MARIETTA I.ADIES’ AID SOCIETY. We publish with pleasure the Reso lutions passed by this Society at a re cent meeting. The ladies of this Society are enti tled to much ’credit for their patriotic and untiring efforts in raising funds, pun basing material and making up clothing for our brave soldiero, and in getting up hospital stores for the sick and wounded. We understand the Society have made up and forwarded six large boxes <>t clothing ami six large boxes of med icines and hospital stores, ami have quite a large quality <>f additional cloth ing nearly ready tor delivery. All praise to our noble minded, true hearted countrywomen. * PORT! <; AI. AGAINST PRIVATEER ING. I he last mail from Lisbon brings the official paper of the Portugese Govern n em ot the 23d of August,containing a proclamation against privateers and their priz.es to the fol lowing effect: Aliivle 1. In all the ports and waters of this kingdom, as well on the e mti nent and in the adjacent islands, as in the ultramarine provinces, Portu< v e< sc subjeets and foreigners are prohibited from titling out vessels for privateer ing Artilc 2 In to sane ports and was lets referred to in the preceding article is in like n» uincr ptuhibited the en trance of p v.t cis and of the prizes made by privateers or by armed ves sels. The cases of overruling (ron-e mail) in which, according to tie law of na tions hospitality is indispensable are excepted from this regulation without permission however being allowed in any manner for the sale of any object e proceeding from prizes. The Minis ters and Secretaries of State of all the departments wilt thus understand and cause* to lie executed. THE MARIETTA SEMI-WEEKLY ADVOCATE LETTER FROM VIRGINIA. 7TII GEORGIA REGIMENT. Camp Near Fairfax Court House, Va. } Advanc Guard, 2n ! ~ Brig, h 2nd., Corps Sept. 25, 1861. ) Mon. Cap:— On the 11th we left the corrugated locale of our Mountain Camp (Bartow) in Prince William, crossed the hitherto 'obscute, but now Historic wa ters of the “Bull Run ;” and after a pleasant march of JO miles, pitched our Canvass City in tl.ieiadjoining County of Fairfax. We were allowed but a short respite however, for, scarce had we be come familial with the place, in a res ting point of view, when we were marched on to a site 1| miles from Fair fax Court House. Fairfax Town or Village is a strag gling sort of County Seat, containing a , good many suburban retreats however, that compensate for the half tumble down appearance of the Town, proper. Its streets arc filled from morning to dewy eve, with groups of Soldiers from all the Confederate States, strolling thro’ the streets from the numerous Camps in the vicinity ; the prim dapper City Soldier, assimilating strangely with the rougher bearing, ami wilder garbed frontier or backwoodsman • smoking, lounging about the half filled Stores, as only Soldiers wearied with camp mo notony can lounge ; hob-a-nobbing at. the corners ; and gossiping on probable movements ; some asserting with inys. tcriuus winks, their suspicions of “sharp work soon ;” or relating to an open mouthed audience, their miraculous “hair breadth scapes” on advance duty, or in general action. Splendid thor ough breds dashing every instant by, bestrode by equally as dashing cava liers,’sporting their full complement of Jack-boot, Tunic, and Feather ; and I doubt very much w’hether either the Paia dins of Charlemagne ; the Chivalric Knights in the court of Ferdinand and Isabella ; or even those doughty war riors of “Ze moyen age,” whose deeds old Froissart loved to chronicle so well, could outvie our Hotspurs for gentility of bearing, or elegance of carriage, possessing as we do in them the most incomparable horsemen. There are two Hotels in Fairfax, will ing to invest for the benefit of the inner man. I patronised one named “Hnbbels,” the Booniface of which gave me an “in fernal dinner” for a “Half This per son seems to have roused the ire of both “Yank” and “Secesh” armies ; his re ception room hall is coveted with in scriptions, consigning him to the safe keeping of a certain “unmentionable gentlem. i>” you wot of, in the Chiro graphic “list”of sundry and divers hun gry and evidently enraged Sovereigns Militant ; representing every degree of latitude from Penobscot Maine to the Rio Grande. The other is a more easy “mine Host of the Garter” sort of fellow ; who has a professional propensity to keep con tinually a jingling of his “Change” while he animadveits with you,— would like to swop horses with you, providing an “honest penny” could be turned that way. Shall try him next time. They say if he is prepossessed with a fellow he will occasionally throw in an “appetizer” that is when the hu mous flow, nous verrons by St. lago : though for good fire in Virginia give me the cuisine ami hospitable well spread table of some private mansion. But ap| ropos of “advance duty” we have ourselves but now returned to ('amp from a four day picket service. Ou the 19th we were detailed to re port for that duty to Brig (Jen. Long street at Falls Church ; our post Ma son's Hill ; some four milts from Alex andria, and seven from W ashington.— Our route was along the highway lead ing from Fairfax, to Washington and Alexandria ; celebrated both as the old Braddock road along which he marched in 177 d ; ami as the path by which the Gram! Army of Lincoln A Co., made their famous retrograde movement. Our march of 11 miles was up and down the undulating slopes of Ohl Fair fax ; through a country replete with as sociations connected with the early his t >ry <>t the Old Dominion ; but all con nected with it from the past, pales into ; ii.significance in Comparison with this , tearful ami momentous struggle, amidst i i s recent pastoral ami qui?t scenes unhZcZ Zouks u/i tci/Zr lips apart ; and as the greater fight al s its the less, the i slumbering fires of Revolution, in Italy, I Hungary and Poland ; the internicine 1 < contentions of Mexico ; all seem par alysed at the tremendous spectacle.— . As we ascended our last slept- of rqa 1, the spire vs an Alexandrian Church told us first vs our c’ose proximity to the 1 enemy, and the end of our journey. At the top of the eminence we halted in front of some breastworks in course of formation ; the Soldiers at work as we passed them—humorously came to a “present arms” with pickaxe shovel, Ac, suggesting too palpably that our career * . If* .. '■cj .’ A in that stage of L h of war w ; as sou 11 to comnienCih At last we' found our selves fairly esepnsed on “Mason ! » Hill” itself • The straining gaze’of our men sought in vain'o’er the - wide extended prospect for somethiiKj—they. could not as yet find. True, before us, across the valley at our feet and on the ridge beyond, the frowning Ramparts and abattis of Forts EllSworth and Anderson met the eye : Shorters Hill was there whitened with a cloud of tents and marquees. True, the flaunting ’folds of the Bars and Stripes floated gaily over their ertibras ured carthwork, througlqwluch the “hol low-ware” intended for our especial benefit grinned grimly ; while through the interval of fort crowned ridges, glimpses of the Potomac could be seen, studded with the sails of Sloops and Schooner and occasionally the dark hull of a Steamer with its attendant smoke ; but neither Alexandria sp’r s, nor Flag surmounted Fort : the white sails of the placid Potomac, nor even the peering pickets of the foe in the valley beneath us, could rivet the attention of our men. Like an expectant party, waiting for a distinguished guest ; objects otherwise very excellent, lost lheir value in ab sorbing anticipation ; and a feeling be gan to manifest itself bordering on dis appointment. We relieved our old companions in arms, the Bth dismissed ; with the ea gerness of- school boys we rushed to a position, where the obnoxious foliage could not shut out the prospect. A friend of the Grays who knew the Lions, led the way. Turning a clump of Cen tenarian Chesnuts and Oaks that masked the scene, Voila! The Capitol ! Wash ington burst from every lip. Aye, there it was, sure enough Ris ing proudly, gracefully, above the Sea of apparently interminable woods/ she stood ; a Cluster o! Pearls, in a setting us Lapis-laz.uli. Ihe sornuwhut declin ing sun, liberal as if for the decision '■ with his refulgent ray, brought out the i Cupola, and columns in clear relief against the blue hills of Marylandjtliat retreated away in the far distance. — With the aid of a glass, persons were distinctly visible on the outside of the i dome looking over the Ballustrade.— ' Ladies could be seen scanning ns with : evident intense interest from prominent positions in the city ; and I assure yon the feeling was in that respect, mutual ; for never s'nee the glittering Minarets : of Jemsalem burst on the gaze of the , Mail clad Knights of Tancred, could scarcely such a sensalion have been produced as on our men their first sight of the “City of magnificent distances.” Masons Hill is the property of Capt. Mason a brother of Senator Masoil ; and a fine specimen of a class of Naval Commanders fast passing away. Hear ty, hospitable, and zealous for ourcajise; it is to such as he, the Country owes, the respect with which our Naval ser vice is recognised over the world. Ills mansion is in the entrenchments, in fact it is head quarters for that portion of the advance guard there located. — He has planted in front of the house two weeping willows orginally cut tings bought by him Hom the tomb ot the Emperor Napoleon at St Helena. — I should like to have sent some cuttings to Marietta. (’apt. White said he would do his best to procure some him self, to send home as mementos ; but in the hurry of leaving to join our Regi ment, (our company being leit on p >st) and make a night march to carup they j were forgotten. Our turn for picket duty at 2, P. M. We marched secretly ! silvnth to our respective in fours, j sixes ami over hill, by woodside and ■ decpin the iccesses of those grand old ; woods in which a mighty Ajfirf Eiiglit hide, stretched the human chain. No ; sleep that u giit. For it evr that be- ! nign restorer of exhausted nature tea? murdered, it was then. 1 he Jaik and lengthening shadow of, evening, and the lurid ami gathering j appearaue-- of the clouds Letokencd a ' most foul night, as the sequel proved The large accumulated ia:n drops.driveu by the gusts of Heaven, penetrated the : arborescent shelter under which we watched anxiously, he gradual m:ng-; ling of the twilight into obscurity : the knarled trunks, began • assume weird ami fan'astic shapes which required very little st etch ot the imagination t - metam rphose into skulking Repub licans, taking advantage of the storm to pass our lines or surprise us. Our friends above us Messrs. Emmet Shaw, Dr. Wilson, Ben Curry; Scott Brown, Win. M Delk, &c., fell naturally info a dilemma of this sort. The moon strug gling through her veil of clouds would anon render objects partially distinct ; on <no of these occasions a group of sumac bushes became mysteriously agi tated, like the gigantic Helment plumes in the .“Castle of Otranto.” To convert the clustering berries and blueish-gray under-leaves Os the Sumac, turned up with the wind, into an attacking party of scarlet-capped and light-blue-coated Zouaves advancing at double quick, to avenge Ellsworth and Manassas, was but the work of a moment. But let it not be toll! in Gath, that our friends and companions in arms proved recre ant on this ihomentous occasion. To the contrary, they bravely charged the midnight foe who evidently retreated, for they were there certain, or some thing at least very like them. Our post of four, comprised Messrs. Swann, Brewer, lleggie and myself, our next Dost Messrs. Hodge, Barmore, and t<> the left. The f-lingo fretted wi h the fitful wind, drowned all sounds ex cept the crack of an occasional rifle or musket fired along the line ; the rain paltering through the leaves, and heard in the interval between the reverbera ting s orm-blasts, sounded precisely like the clattering hoofs of a squadron of Horse ; and so clearly was the re semblance that at one time I started up exclaiming “Dave, Dave, by tne “Lord Harry” I believe they are cutting us off; don’t you hear their horses hoofs among the rucks ? ’ So much for the imagina tion ; but our position was one of trust and danger, little over fifty yards from their line at some points. We could hear very plain the roll of their drum in the camp above, and it behoov ed us to be on the qui vine. Our pickets get roasting-ears from one side and they from the other, of a not very large corn field. They are very willing to talk with you under a flag of truce, and some of the Confed erates have gone so far as to swap knives, cameens of water for whisky, coins, Ac Capt. White, 'Dr. Alexander and several others bad quite a talk with them, bm now it is forbidden ; though their men seem quite eager to make friends, and possess sc me relic of us ; ami they mortally dread picket skir mishing, as they have lost a good many men by it, though they sometimes kill some of ours. At last, after a long, long night, (for like Jessica we were often fooled by the inconstant moon) we recognized the genuine approach of morn. Wet, cold, w a ied by the night vigil, I took a nap on the wet ground which refreshed me much, though but for an hour. Newton lieggie though young, and somewhat feeble from recent sickness, stood it well for a longtime ; at long h 1 told him to sleep and Dave and 1 would watch ; and soon his heavy bieathing and half muttered words told me his leeting soul was away elsewhere than under the rifled cannon of Forts Anderson and Elisvvorth. At 3, B. M., we were relieved by a Regiment of Tennessee Riflemen ; and had to march to camp, 11 miles that night onr Regiment being already gone. By the bye we saw two ascen-ions of the arealite I’rofl. Love, from the heights this side of Georgetown. It was a monster balloon, and created no little excitement among the troops. I here were two visible in the car attached to the inflated monster. The 'A ashington Artillery fired at him the other day, and cut some of his rigging ; since which time, he has kept at a more res p< ct ful distance. Mr. Hughey is very sick, but recov cl ing. Lieut. Irwin is somewhat recov ering ; and the health of the Company in general is better than it has beei., though out of 89 men and Officeis we have only 50 present for duly. We are ordered to be ready to move at a moments notice, and I think we will make a retrograde movement but of this anon. Yours truly, F. W. Cooke, Co. I 7th Reg., Gu., Vol. FOREIGN OPINIONS. It is a commendable qualify of human nature to desire the respect and appre ciation of mankind. It is this quality which frequently proinp s individuals to the commission of honorable and even heroic deeds. It is a quality which, when res r lined bylproper motives, and reasonable deman s, is proinotive: of good results to individuals, as well as to communities. And if it is commend able in individuals, it surely must be equally so, in the case of Slates, G( v— einmonts, and Nations. A nation by its integrity, by its consistency, and ! by its dignity gains the respect, the eonfifieucc an 1 eve i ihe admiration ot its cutemporary nations. It is thu-*, that 'he Government of the Confederate States had already made a 1 name and character for itself abroad. Tin; colums of foreign journals contain I best evidence of this fact. While they hesitate not to reproach 'he Lincoln I Government, for its dishonesty, its ’ treachery to freedom, and its wicked ■ s hen e of subjugating a free and ;n --dependent people—these journals give to onr Government that praise which it so justly deserves. I lie (lignified and honorable position 1 which it has maintained from the first— i the statesmanship .nd ability which I it his displayed in all of its acts—'he human ty which it has exhibited in war —are all in striking contrast with the course and policy of the Northern Gov ernment —and are not lost upon the Governments of the old world. A con tinuatice of this policy, combined with other causes, will serve to procure, not only the recognition of our Confederacy at the proper time, but also such a po< sition among the nations of the earth as will be a just cause of satisfaction to evCry patriot in the South; In the hands of the statesmen who have conducted the country to its pres ent proud position we should be willing to trust still further its destinies —un- til it shall be entirely clear of the b”C'ik ers that now surround it—and be ena bled to occupy its proper position among the nations of the earth.-Con stitutionalist. THE CAPTURE U. S, STEAM. ER FANSY. Through the courtesy of cur friend Schnicder, of the Jackson street Saloon we are permitted to publish the follow ing letter from a member of the Third Georgia Regiment, relative to the tak ing of the U. S. Steamer Fanny, on the coa-t of Carolina: Roanoke Island, N. (J., ) Oct. 2, 1861. j Mr. E R. Schneider Dear sir: ***** Yester day morning Col. Wright received in formation of a Yankee steamer being in Pamlico Sound, about twenty-five miles from our camp. lie immediately started off on board of the steamers Jtiv analuaka, Raleigh, and Curlew, with three companies, viz: the Dawson Greys, Governors Guard, and Athens Guards they being the best armed companies of the regiment, ami having Enfield muskets; they returned this morning with the steamer Fanny, thir ty five prisoners, and a large supply of army stores, as trophies. We all expect to go off this morning upon an expedition to Chickamacomick, where the Yankees have an Illinois re giment stationed, and see what all of us can do. If we can fight half as well as the men work, no doubt but what we will succeed. Indeed, yesterday’s work shows what the Third Regiment will do when called upon to act. I forgot to say that none of our num were hurt the Funny surrendering af ter receiving some 12 or 15 shots. Yours, A. P. ■ IMPORTANT MOVEMENTS IN KEN- TUCKY. A gentleman arrived in the city to day from Eastern Kentucky byway of Bowling Green reports that Camp Dick Robinson was evacuated with the exception ot the sick on Sunday the 22d ult. A portion ol the force went to Lexington and Frankfort to guard those places; and the remainder about four thousand strong marched to a point cal led I ig Hill about six-y miles nearer the Tennessee line. The olject is to fortify this hill wi h the view cf pre venting Gen. Zollicoll’er’s march into the interior of Kentucky. Our infor mant says the position is a very strong one and susceptible of being made a very formidable obstruction to Zullicof fer’s progress. Gen. Zollicoffer has not as reported by the Louisville Journal advanced to Manchester m Clay county. He was fortifying Cumberland Ford w'th a view of making that a strong point before he advanced. From Bowling Green we learn that onr troops have not advanced beyond Green river. They are busily engaged in throwing up fortifications at the lat ter poinDon both sides of the river. That beyond the river is nearer the town of Munfordville. The Federals are fortifying Eliza bethtown, where they have about seven thousand troops and eight pieces of cannon. They have a small force at Muldrough’s hill. I pto within a few days, they were receiving considerable accessions to their force, but within a few (lavs their increase has been very small, showing that Kentuckians arc not responding to the call of Gene al (Sunuer) Anderson. There are about fifteen hundred re fuges encamped in the vicinity of Green river, and one thousand at Bowling Green, embracing men of every age and condition in ife ; These men have been Compelled to flee to save their lives, or to escape an imprisonment little less intolerable than death itself. 'I hey rep resent that a perfect reign of terror ex ists wherever the minions of Lincoln are in the majority or have the power through the intervention ui troops sent to overawe them. So far we have heard of no ladies be ing arrested, but we know of ladies who have been compelled to flee the State in order to prevent arrest The mother and sister of a Kentucky gentle man, in high authority in Southern ar my, now in Kentucky, are now refuges in this city having arrived here a day or two since, and the} escaped a posse sent by Gon. Anderson, it is presumed to arres’ them, by only a few hours.— she petty tool of a petty tyrant cannot stop with, arresting brave and pa triotic men, but be must needs j arrest and imprison defenceless, wo men if he can, because their sons ; and brothers, and husbands dare to be j freemen. Who is the Count DkFahis? —A cor respondent of the ( harleston “Courier” gives the following account of this in dividual; vho recently volun eerud in the Lincoln army ami received an up* puintment on McClellan’s staff: The Count de Paris is the son of the I late Duke of Orleans, wh > was the old- j est son of King Louis Philip? of France; He is the Orleanist heir to the French throne, and if his grandfather had not set Lincoln the example of stifling the freedom of the press, the young man might have reigned as Francis 111. He now serves as a Captain in the rail splitter’s army. I sincerely hope that one of our sharpshooters will pick off this young sprig of royalty. Should he ami his companion be made to bite the dust the Bonaparte who reigns in the ancient palaces of the Bourbons will smite grimly on our new Republic. “Greenbrier River, Oct. 3.—Ti c ene my attacked us at 8 o’clock this morn ing in considerable force, estimated at five thousand, and with six pieces of ar tillery, of longer range than any we have. After a hot fire of four and a hal hours, and heavy attempts to chartref our lines, he was repulsed, evidently with considerable loss. We had no cavalry to pursue him on his retreat.— The loss on our side has been inconsid erable. A fuller report will be given through the regular channels. For sev eral days my correspondence with Gen. Loring has been interrupted. “The enemy’s force was much supe rior to ours, but we had the advantage of position.” We have intelligence from (7en. Lee’s command at Big Sewell Mountain, as late as Friday last. The Feder tls had, up to that time, made no at tack upon the position, though the pickets continued to fire upon each oth er whenever they got a chance. No one had been killed on our side since (101. Spalding lost bis life. Dispatches from the Federal army reported that in consequece of a freshet in Gauley river the troops had been placed on half ras tions. This, however, was not deemed a permanent cause of embarrassment, a<i waters have doubtlest eecedcd ere the present lime. Passengers from Fairfax yesterday report all quiet ( n the Potomac. We received information on Saturday, that our pickets on the Old Pohick road were driven in last Friday night, and two of the Black Horse Cavalry were missing Whether th y were killed or captured could not be ascertained. 1* com North Carolina we have the cheering intelligence of the capture of the Federal steamer Fanny, with 47 prisoners, and an abundance of over coats, blankets and useful stores and munitions. The value of prize and car go is set down at SIOO,OOO. This news is confirmed by information received at the War Department. From the Intelligencer. Messrs. Gaui.ding and Whitaker : 1 never was the friend of (’«». Gartrcll ; 1 never voted for him. But, if his name continues before the voters of the Eight Congressional District ol this Stale, 1 shall vote for him ; and whether he can hold two offices at one time or not,it should make no difference with any of those whi.se friends, or re latives are under his command, know ing how nobly hi* had sustained himself in the Battle of Alan issas, and how hu manely he treated soldiers under his command on their march from Harper’s Ferry to Winches er; and when his men were fainting" with heat and fatigue, by putting such on his horse and himself taking the march on foot, until another soldier, being overtaken fainting by the way-side, was put upon his horse after the other had been rested. Why should not such a man be honored with the vote of this District. AMOS W. HAMMOND. WE HAVE ON HAND AND FOR SALE ASCLOW AS THE TIMES WII.L ALLOWZFOR CASH ONLY, Rio Coffee. Black Tea, Choice, Green Tea, White CoffeerSugar, Yellow Coffee Sugar, Powdered Sugar, BrownJSugar, Soda Biscuit, Butter Crackers, Pickles ond Mackerel, WLLeFish, Syrup and Molasses, Yeast Powders, Cooking Soda, Soap & Starch. INDICO AND MADDER, Copperas, Logwood, Venetian lied, Chrome Yellow* 131 ne Stone, POWDER AND SHOT, I’er< ‘union Caps, Lead. Flints, (xun Tubes. &c. CDroolcery Ware, Mirs TARO AND VINEGAR A DAMAN TINE CAN DL.ES. PARAFFINE CA N COCOA, Candies, JLiaisins, Krunes cfce«. &c We will do onr best to keep our Stock as complete as possible and will try to suit our customers. < )ur terms are Cash. WILLIAM BOOT & SON. August 6th Ibtil,