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THE INDEPENDENCE OS’ THE SOUTH.
TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE
ATHENS, CLARK COUNTY. GEO. APRIL 2. 1862.
VOLUME XXXI—NUMBER 4.
THE SOUTHERN BANNER
1‘UBLISIIED WEEKLY,
SLEDGE & EEESE,
r# a.
ANDERSON W. REE«E.
l^ditors and Proprietors.
Gramth Row
Importtr of
RHINE WINE,
AVGUSTA, GA.
1ST* Imported by himselt and warranted
Pure, and sold as low as any Northern
House.
CyOrders promptly attended to.
Oet 2,j tf
Prom the Memphis Appeal
A Lesson from History.
The nearest historical parallel of
modern times to the present position of
the Confederate States, is that of France
during the great Revolution, and it
may, perhaps, give new hope to South
ern patriots in the trying hour now
upon us, to call to mind the record of
what France endured and Frenchmen
achieved seventy years ago.
The most terrible crisis of the Rev-
OI'FH’E UP-STAIRS, Xo.
TERMS : | -
TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. IN ADVANCE ATHENS S T E A M C 0.11P AN Y
To clubs remitting J?l© in ndvmice, 1 *VI€’KERSOIV, Agent * Scp’t.
roplea win t.e sent. 1/1 ANUFACTL’RERSof c i reuinr Saw ! nl.ition was in 1773. alter the execu-
Alls *uW:rlb*v failing to give noil™ of his do j ivl Mill-, Nirau, Knginea,, forcingand lifi ' °. _ l °2 T '\- p 0 „„u;„ „. QC
stroto di«>>onliuuc hi* subscription nt Him oxpira-/ iug PUMPS,Shaftisg and Machinery■ Mm
non it t no time lor which it bus horn paid.Wiilbo I Gix, mid all other kind of GEARING. Inns
r.Hindered ns wiidirag to continuo it, and held i Brass <l?astis<-. ,of every doscriution SMITH-
linbl > iccordingly. ' !J - --*—•■•
paper will
i't option of the editors
1 aid.
' All the journeymen gunsmiths were
put into requisition, as were also the
watch and clock makers, who were
capable of executing certain parts in
the manufacture of arms. The result
was that very soon the workshops of
Paris began to turn out muskets at the
rate of a thousand a day. As there
was a want of saltpetre, orders were
issued to examine all the cellars, and {
those in which the earth was found to
contain saltpetre were dug up, and the
mold lixivated to extract the niter.
i tion of Louis XVI. The Republic was
Irox and j a t that time embarrassed with all man
and of sacrifice in regard to personal
interests, such as the times demand of
ePery citizen, and without which we
cannot be free and would not deserve
to be free.
Look, too, at our House of Delega
tes. It is almost impossible to main
tain a quorum. The session on Sat
urday was largely spent in hunting up
delinquents in order to obtain a quo
rum, iil! at last the House adjourned
m despair!
These are melancholy pictures. We
The first levies produced in a month i wish they were the only ones. Such
500,000 men, but these were not sol-
r i .• r „; c c diers. and for four or five months the
ner of domestic factions, conspiracies,. u,c, f» u „ ... - ,
- - ' armies of the Republic suffered a con-
i 1^*0, liepuirinj; and Finishing pre ptiy cxocu j Her of ClOlHCSllC tactions, Conspiracies, h
bo dlscootiautd (except at I red. Select paUernaoflroaFencins:, &c. Terms rebellions and finances disordered to j
>rs. until all «m> traces arc exsu. Mav 14 lv rcueimiua, »uu
, (the last degree of confusion and dis-j
BATES or ADTERTIMING.
For one square consisting of tirelvo lines Etna!,
t ypo.or apace equivalent. One Dollar or the firs
nsenion.aud dftv cents for each vrooitly continu’
ntion.
Special contracts enn bo made for yearly adver
tizing.
Legaladvarmomems inserted nt the usuatrates.
Announcing emffii.lnte* loi office. Five Dollar..,
iovairalily advance, in nil cases.
Advertisements should altviya have the desired
number of : iu»erlinn» marked upon them when
hind- I in, or otherwise they will be published till
fo bid, anil charged accordingly.
A. M. wrxc,
W HOLESALE ana Retail Dealer in Hard
ware, Crocker
ioods.onc door below
Store Athens, Ga.
l!d ffiomfieid^eC?othini! blcs, war was declared against France
Jan.7,1868 1 not by England alone, though England .
— ! with her immense navy and unbounded public not only expelled the invaders,bat
tinned series of disasters from panics
cr and want of skill in Lotto troops and
In the midst of these internal trou- commanders.
NOTICE.
O U HI NO my absence from the State, Dr. Ws.«.
Kixg is my ntitburized agent.
Ho can be found at the Drug Store in the after
noon- R.M. SMITH, M. I).
Athens,Sent. 4.
But the tide at length turned, as it is
bound to do in this war, and the Re-
(resources would have been a suffieient-
; ly formidable antagonist, but by Aus-
! t:ia, Prussia, Holland, Spain, Portugal,
] Sardinia, Naples, the Pope, and several
' K IV I ifu '°1 l ‘ ie sma fi er Germanic principalities
i,l-CIV,VC nil>P,'TAI)V ' wnotuui J “SSLowm H" ^ Slates, great »nd small,
1)1 SI N IjSS Dili h( ■ lORl . ! yy Gr«»erics,H«rdwa r a 1 *e.,No.3.fcad«L the S reatest being the chief powers of
■ \thcn, On. ! Europe anti the world.
. S'-l’roioasioual and Business men cut have 1 ,
heir cards insert ed under this head, for one year, j
a! the rnte of Diva Dollars for a card of not more i
than nix lines, and seventy-live coda for each addi- j
onal lino.
U. la. BLOOMFIELD,
WHOLESALE and retail Clothing Store,
COBB
ATTORNEY AT lAW t
MACON, GEO.
T. BISHOP & SOX,
j IYHOLESALE and Retail dealers in Groccr-
1 U ios. Hardware and Staple Dry Goods, No.
1 Bread St. Athens Ga. I May 1
- BOLTING CLOTHS.
These powers took the field with
great armies. On the frontier between
Holland and the Upper Rhine 260,000
soldiers were marching towards Paris.
Fifty-six thousands Prussians, twenty-
five thousand Hessians, Saxons, and
j Bavarians, threatened the Rhine from
I Basle to Mayence and Coblentz. From
O'
■ Street, over the “tore i
of A. M. Black she iv'.V Co., in Boardman’s •
Washington Block. Will practice in Bibb,
Crawford, Dooly, II.mci.on, Almnm, Twiggs,
Worth, and Sumter. Nov UD tf
WILL!AM «.
AtloJ-iicy ;■
DF.LDNY,
i l.air,
Kruney, All
■ .lore of 1. M.
March 15—if.
|A \v. m'cas keeps a full supply of the I this point to the Mensp, thirty thousand
M*^uao A “ ,dlorBrand ' 71otl “* atci, y frio a. i men occupied Luxemburg. Sixty
- — — | thousand Austrians and ten thousand
FAIRBANKS Prussians were marching towards the
Sf’AIFS I Mense, while thirty thousand English,
OLu bfiij, . Hanoverians and Dutch were advanc-, . .. . - ~
^OJ.D at Manufacturers price, j in „ through Holland toward the French ; the red (ape, temporizing poncy, said:
T. bishop * son. frontier. At the same time a Spanish ; ‘ ‘
curried its victorious standard into the
adjacent countries. During all this
period great embarrassment was caused
by the position of Belgium, which, lik
some of the border States, halted mid
way between the principals of the Re
public and those of the enemy. “The
Belgians,” says Thiers, “desired a
revolution, but not a complete and
radical one like the revolution of
France.’’ Dumouriez, who had occu
pied Belgium with a French army, was
himself like some of our own generals
a lukewarm republican, and favored
the “Border State’’ policy of the Bel
gians. lie was strongly rebuked by
the convention, which saw that it was
no time for temporizing, and knew the
folly of ha’f measures.
The sense of the revolutionary lead
ers was well expressed in the famous
Hanoverians and Dutch were advanc— I speech of C amhon, who, alluding to
We must declare ourselves a revo-
.Oi-tobc-rC lS.»il.
T. !M. DANIEL
A ttoumiy
avi i practice, i
J tl.-l.KO"., MfiA:
Wil-o-, Warren.
p-l.
N
AT *.AW.—Alkena, Gt-orgin,
u tl.c uouofio. of Clarke, Walton,
n. 11 art, EB’OV, Oglell.orpo.
■t, * l|rw»'t.
door abuve Longa' Drug-store
T
It, J. .V IV. T. MILI.ITAN,
A TTOUNI.Vm AT LAW—Will practice in the
cov.uii<w nl tlie Wcslcrn f-li -nit, ami the
i-ouu'Imm uf Maduun, Elbert, and Uatt, of the
Nor thorn Ciioutl.
K. J. MILLICAV. j WM. T. MILLTCAN.
JetTorson, Ga. | Garuesville, Ga.
Sept. 16—ly
army was on tiie southern frontiers,
T IT M 13 I? I>! T TI \1 PI? PM jandtheSardiniansthreatenedthescuth-
Ij U ill Dxj il. la U 1)113 Ll It.. j eaS f t j n pmnee itself whole provinces
ui*iS w”a ^™Piww V mPh4n“ T niy! 2nd lar S e ci$ ies, such as Lyons, Toulon,
mm, about five mile* from a mens. Any order j mil Orleans were in arms against the
oau be at hi.oir. notice, 1‘icktta o! aii kiitds i r» 4 * u I «
iiruiifh^l«ti6hort luttie ( Republic, the re\olt in L«i vendee be-
Tha sawyer, .Mr Ames Gunnels, is ono of the j j n « the most formidable, and for a time
^re^;^i.‘ uil,e ’ * nd wiU siT " i successful, its leaders laving nearly «+
All ordtors li l> at. the Rlore of J. R. !t W. F
MaUb-iavs, nr haudod to J. A. Witherspoon, avill
bo piouipUy attended to
Juno ;n wi.
lutionary power in the countries which
we enter. It is useless to attempt to
conceal our position. The despots
know what we mean. Since it is
known, let us boldly proclaim it, and
let, moreover, the justice of it he avow
ed. Wherever our generals enter, let
them proclaim the sovereignty of the
T. Ii.
JAS. D. MATTHBWS.
IVIL80N & BIT0S.
hundred thousand armed followers, and people, the abolition ol feudalism, of
j from their possession of the sea costs, titles, of all abuses ; let all the old au-
| having free communication with the! thorities be dissolved ; the new local
■ English, from whom they received sup-! administrations be provisionally form-
1 ’’ ’ ] ed, under the direction of our generals;
as scan the accounts of battles between
our armies and those of the enemy, have
doubtless been struck with the con
trasts in titles. In the battle of Man
assas for example, four of the five Di
visions of the enemy’s army were com
manded by Colonels, Burnside, Heinf-
zelmann, Hunter and Miles. Colonels
Sherman, Keyes and others—we do
not remember—commanded Brigades.
McDowell, who commanded the whole,
was but a Brigadier General. On our
side the pressure and the scramble to
be generals is perfectly painful, and
our official list is almost as sonorous
as that of the Mexicans. Light Horse
Harry Lee served through the revolu
tionary war with a brilliant fame,
under the rank of Lieut. Colonel.—
Now, a few months campaigning with
out an exploit, perhaps without a sight
of the enemy, puts every horse-back
officer on the stretch tor large promo
tion. Brigadier and Major General—
terms that ought to sound almost awful
in the camp—are made cheap by the
eagerness, and in some cases, doubt
less, the indelicacy with which they
are sought.
If we have not learned better than
all this, then we have not yet suffered
that degree of adversity necessary to
our due discipline. If our prominent
men have not yet learned to chasten
their personal ambitions, and set be
coming examples of zeal and self-
sacrifice, then we are not yet ready for
the breezes of prorperity. We must
bow oui heads still longer to the storm.
It will sound like a bitter mockery to
call upon the families of the land,
many of them poor, to deprive them
selves of their blankets fer the sake of
the array, or to appeal to the ladies to
make contributions due to their indus
try and self-denial—it those who make
resources, make opportunities, steal
niarehes, seize advantages, strike when
and where not expected, avoid being
out witted or surprised. When we
find such men we will make much of
them—until we do, let us look for them!
This war is getting old enough now
for officers to stand upon their achieve
ments. Let praise and promotion be
now reserved for performance. When
spurs are asked for, let the answer be,
go win them 1 And let the people
warmly sustain our supreme railitary
authorities in such a course, even
though mistakes should be supposed
to be made.
HULL & IULLYER.
attorneys at law.
1 HE milk bavin
uv-cliu-r in ilin prantic
I
W HOLESALE & retail rtealrra in Dr> Gown.! plies and assistance. ......
Grocerio* Harare, Ci-ocirery. Ao.,Nof>.3| To meet these various enemies the | l et the property cf our enemies—that is 1 the call are clamorous for personal
W M’reh ic* e VC “ UL, ‘ ,aea4 '’ *■ j French convention at first called out | to say. of the nobles, the'prints, etc., j gain out of the public Treasury
— s, | 500,000 men. It was determined to j be immediately sequestrated and placed '
oi law, will atiend PEOPLE’S MILL SOLD. j keep the defensive on the East and j under the safe guard of the French
WVUMI1 Circuit, and j m/ e would inform our customers that wo Min I South ; to remain in observation along ; nation, io order that it may serve as a
ato a large amount of seasoned J the Pyrennes and the coast, and to act! pledge for the exigences of the war.—
WM.n.HULL, 1 ,S'i -i—tl’i I on thn nffnnsivra nn 1V in llm VmiV, i No halt mpn«nri»« * r.rero Sln'n (Viol
\th< us, Ga.
! of
T
tlio several Courts in . - .
giv.) iheir joint iicrHi.nal ntumtiou to nil bnsin-M. ( y y have for sale
entrusted to thorn- „ <IITTT I lumber of varivus kiuus. a.sii, .l-ickois, i.ihu, l „ , i vr u n , „ .. ,
GEO.H1L1.YER, A h* L ni 1 «n*d common fonoioir.Btibe Aim eUnd, and nt the on the offensive onlv in the Nozth, j No halt measures! Every State that
Monroe, On. i Aiwou.u. ; Lumber yard in town. For vfti.yiars enquire i where as Geneial 'Dumouriez said, i will not go to the length which we here
July Io—ly. j ol \\ . 1 . lALAIAGb; Agent. I . , ... , , . j 1 II 1 ° 11.11
BI. M. PITTMAN.
A TTOR VEY't Law,Jefferson, Jacksoncoun-
. ty, Ga., will a.. eprompt attention to*ny bu. ,
fiincHS ohtnutted to his care. January *-l lwin
Nov. SO, 1861.
tnere can be no defense but by bat- J propose, shall be our enemy, and shall
JOHN 11. HULL,
CASH!
j ties.” To execute this plan, 150,000
men were to occupy Belgium, and to
, cover the frontier from Dunkirk to the
l Mense and the Sarre; 150,000 to ex-
\ TTORNEY AT law Augufta, Ga
attend promptly to all buaine-s entrnatod
lii. care J
II. A. LOWRANOE,
Resident DENTIST*
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
CfFFICK—College Avenue, Alliens, Ga.
Oct IS.
1>». WM- KING.
Homoeopathic Physician,
f 1 r
_2H . 4 FTER the first of January, 1^6*2. the under- tend theU1 Selves along the Rhine and
to! Atheu" e jau! ! i ,*taa ! ,he Vos S es > fro,n Mayence to Besancon
GOODS SOLD ONLY
and Gex. Lastly, a reserve was pre-
! pared at Chalons wilh the requisite
j material, ready to proceed to any quar
ter where it might be wanted. Savoy
and Nice weie to be guarded by two
armies of 7,000 men each; the Pyren
nes by one of 40,000, and the Atlantic
coasts were to be watched bv an army
of 46,000.
Even these forces, however, did not
120 HHD&. SUGAR
4 hj* pr°f^on*ll to UlC Clt j CSOU anlo cheap for cash', Non It and l2Frnnk- f prove Sufficient, and J
«• ’• tOLT - | Uter, August 23d, a <ta
deserve to be treated as such. Peace
and fraternity to all the friends of lib
erty ! war to all the partizans of des
potism ! war to the mansions, peace to
the cottages!
When France rose in arras to meet
the farce of thirty States, including
more than half of Europe, her entire
population was only twenty-five mil
lions, and c! these not less than one-
fifth were traitors, in open revolt against
the Republic. Though blockaded on
every side by fleets and armies, she
was able to arm and $qi ip from_ her
own resources,thirteen armies, amount
ing in the aggregate to at least half a
ClaytonandThumas streets. MayU. ly
“ G. L. McCLESKEY, M. D.,
KB 1 *Kcsider.ce, that recently occupied by Mr.
Alboa Chase. Office at homo, -here homage
r. W, & II. R. j* LONG,
W HOLESALE and retail Druggists, Athens.
Ga. |JaaJ
THURMOND & NORTH,
attorneys at Law,
W iLL practice iu oo-parti.or»liip initho <conn- j
u sot Glark. H alton, Jnckiou,Gwinnett, I
H.i'l, Usb'.in. 'Yliite. Ernnklm, Bmiks- Hnbor
«hnm of the Western Circuit -, aud Halt and Mad
in.hi of t ne -VcrtUc.n Circuit; urid wil. Ri'O tliur
r dividual and joint attention to all
.! unit'd to them. Tlio eoheeUon ot debts-ill re
qiuvfl oroiQpl aGci carelul BttFntioB.
S\M Kpi 11 rKM«JNU, JOHN B. NORTH,
Over I .tangs' Drug Store, | J efferson,Jackson co
Athens, Ga. 001 11
i to the following effect:
F tSVEbOPES AXD WRITING P.% 1 Pr ... ° V..„ .. . , ,
a PEit.-These can be siiu supplied at re 1 ^ tom this moment till that when the
ail at the Bookstore.
- — > —— “ v ‘ j - -
a few months million ot men. In this tremendous
decree was issued conflict she was successful not merely
A FTER New Year's D.y no aecouuts at the
Book Siorevri!! be continued. Soles avill lit-
mace only for rush. Those having accounts hi'h
erto will oblige lay an earl v settlement of ihe same
Dec 25 WM. N. WHITE.
CLOTHING.
\ Large lot of clothing can be found nt R. L.
| £\ Bloomfield's,at verv reaaonable pi ices
ALSO,
A large tot of boys' and children's c.t>thing t«
be su'd cheap.
ALSO,
Fax thread and Military Hattons.
Dec. 4.
JACKSON & HUTCUIXS.
A TTOHNEYSATLAVV—WiH practice
in the couuties of Gwinnett, Walton, Jack-
son, and Hull,of the Western, and the county of
For .ytii of the Blue Ridge Circuit. t j
A ME j J.4CKSGN, CN. L. HUTCHINS, Jr.. CKbh , ~ Sort ^ Carolina do. Beet*. Mixtdaee.
.-tthons, Ga. j' I..aavrenc#v»Ue,Ga • mro of no nre to mo WM. X. WHITE,
p, 8, —During Mr. Jnctupn t absence fro.u Geor j Octobc?r 'Itb 1801
letters should bo ad. tressed tot.e ( October Jth, lbot.
Sept J0-tf
GARDEN SEED.
1 AM paying cash for the following garden seed
when 1 am satisfied they are fresh and pure,
until I get the supply 1 need. Those displayed
are most desired:
Bunch Beam, Bulter Bean*, F° lr
Brans, Cucumber, Egg »*lant, ® “*
•ess Button*, Carrot. Parsnip. Bug Hen Irena,
Scarlet Radish, Turnip Badish, Squash. Early
- - — * Mixrdseeds
S ta, buriness letters i
nn at Lttwreneeville.
Dr. 11. M. SMITH,
Wholesnl® and Retail Dealer lo
DRUGS, MEDICINES, PERFUMERY,
P.11XTS, OILS, DYE STUFFS,
MEDICI MAI, BitASPV AND WISE, &C., &C.,&C.
I S NOW receiving and ope;, big a large stock of
poo:;-. Fficcieii iu ihe Northern MftnMXft w* 10
mnl v/iih bjri' it« Qto,nnd whicli hcroutidciffly ICC on
ii.cufid fc the* .,5 be»ii? ;»uro
Athens, June 9.1** 5.
J. F. O’KELLY,
PUOTOQUAPU AM) AMJJROTYPE ;
ARTIST. . i
R OO.BN on Broad ai d Sprfug sirects, over I be i
• store of Jobe R. Mattfiewa, Athens, Ga'. ,
■ march -9 fiU
O N and after die first of January, 1861, all bill*
bought of us will be due on delivery of the
eaoda. All person* indebted to ns. either by note
or » oount, are requested to pay op aa caily a*
possible" . ' . ... „
Wo Kti’l have a good stock, end tnd sell very
!-’ ■ ■■ " • r. > •ly.fet
enemy shall be driven from the territo
ry of the republic, all the French shall
be in permanent requisition for the
service ot the armies. The young men
shall go forth to fight; the married
men shell make the arms and transport
'the supplies, the women shall make
tents and clothes, and attend to the
hospitals; the children shall make lint
out of rags; and the old men shall
cause themselves to be carried to the
public places to excite the courage ol
j the warriors, and to preach hatred of
kings and love of the repul fie.
All the young unmarried men, or
widowers without children from the age
of eighteen to twenty-five, were to
compose the first levy. They were
required to assemble immediately in
the chief towns of the distnets, to put
themselves under drill and to be ready
to start for the scene of war at a mo
ment’s notice. The men between
twenty-five and thirty were notified to
get ready and, meanwhile, were requir
ed to suppress the revolt of the Ven
deans and other insurgents, and to
keep the peace of the interior. The
men between thirty and sixty were held
in reserve for the inore gradual armin<*
of the population. In certain parts,
such as the departments adjoining La
Vendee, Lyons, Toulon, and the Rhine,
the whole population able to bear arms
was at once called out.
in defence, but in turning back the tide
of war on her enemies, most of whom
saw their capitals occupied by her
triumphant armies. The kingdoms
which made war on her contained at
that period not less than a hundred
millions of people.
Thus it will be seen that our diffi
culties, compared with hers, are small
—our prospects of success far brighter.
The population of the Confederate
States is about ten million souls, our
army in the field about 380,000. The
population ol the United States is
twenty million, and their availablearmy
600,000. If France resisted five times
her strength, is it going too far to as
sume that the people of thts Confeder
acy, actuated by the same lofty im
pulses, and fired with the same fervid
patriotism, can successfully achieve
their independence against a people
not more than double them in numbers,
nor yet equal to them in bravery ?
There is yet remaining also a strange
degree of lethargy among us upon
many subjects. Of mere excitement
there is an abundance. But it is fe
verish and sell-torturing rather than in
spiring. We see our railroads wear
ing out, their rolling stock breaking
down—what are we doing to meet the
necessity of renewal that is almost up
on us ? We have some “resolutions”
on record among our advertisements—
we fear their value in dollars and cents
is not much. Our cotton and woollen
factories—their machinery cannot last
forever, yet though the war is nearly
a year old, and the promise of peace
has disappeared behind the clouds that
threaten a protracted war, we hear of
no means being provided for meeting
the coming necessity. There is abun
dance of capital in the countiy, and
it is idle. The value of this capital is
identified with the triumph of our cause;
yet it comes not to the rescue!
We might s p e c i fy other dere
lictions—the inadequate production of
iron for example—but the list is long
enough and fearful enough.
Fellow-citizens, we must arouse—
indeed we must! There are some
Correspondence Savannah Republican.
Affairs la the Wcsl.
Memphis, March 18th.—The details
of the battle in Arkansas come in slow
ly. It appears much to the gratifica
tion of every one that Gen. Price was
not wounded, and that Col. Herbert
though wounded and captured, was
not killed. Our total less in killed,
wounded and prisoners did not reach
800; that of the enemy is estimated
to be three times as large—say 2,500.
They admit themselves that they suf
fered greatly. The prisoners we took
reported at 250, have not arrived yet.
Such of the supplies we took as could
be used at the time, were consumed
by our men and the remainder destroy
ed. Our own trains had been with
drawn to a place of safety.
There was some confusion in fhe
first telegraphic accounts ot the battle
owing to the statement that the Con
federates had got in the rear of the
Federals and were driving them south
ward. It appears that while McCul
loch and McIntosh were conducting
the attack in front, Price marched his
Missouri troops fourteen miles by a cir
cuitous route to the rear of Ihe enemy.
Unfortunately, just after he had arrived
and was getting into position, he was
informed by a. courier of the fall of
McCulloch and McIntosh and the con
fusion that succeeded that untimely
occurrence. During this confusion in
front and the hesitation that followed in
the rear, the enemy changed his posi
tion and threw his entire force upon
Price, who made a most noble defence
anil inflicted tremendous loss upon his
assailants. Night coming on the fight
ceased, and was not renewed next
morning, except as a feint to enable
our forces lo withdraw in the direction
of their supplies.
Thus it seems that two musket balls,
by killing the gallant McCulloch and
McIntosh, prevented us from gaining
a great victory. Had these chiefs not
fallen, no confusion would have ensu
ed among their followers; and had not
this confusion occurred, we should in
all probability have captured the whole
Federal army, large as it was. Church
ill’s Arkansas regiment, which follow
ed McCulloch’s victorious banner thro’
the smoke and carnage at Oak Hills,
was terribly cut up. It was composed
of the best blood in the State.
It is rumored that Gen. Pike had
arrived within a few miles of the field
at the head of his Indian regiments,
but that he took no part in the battle.
The Indians, it is said were astonished,
it not frightened, by the tremendous
roar of the artillery. They had never
heard any sound louder than their own
war-whoop, except the voice of the
Great Spirit uttered in the deep toned
thunder, and to this they had been ac
customed from infancy. Nor did they
like guns that run on whfeels. They
knew wbat to do with the rifle, but
such roaring, deafening, crashing mon
Cole’s Creek, (not laid down on the
map) and on the Sooth by the Hatchie
river. In the rear it is protected by a
continuous scries of sharply cut hills
and narrow defiles, the approach to
which is over a level country. The
distance to the fort from Memphis is
seventy miles by river, and about half
as far by land. The distance to Island
No. 10 by river is one hundred and
seventy-five miles, and the enemy now-
hold two places below that point—
New Madrid and Point Pleasant.
Of the strength of Fort Pillow it may
not be proper to speak, unless to ven
ture the opinion that it will be found
adequate to the werk of permanently
holding in check the enemy’s gun-,
boats. The same reticence need not
be observed in referring to the topogra
phy of the country, since the Federal
officers arc as well informed in this ie-
gard as we can possibly be. General
Barnard, now chief of the U. S. Engi
neer Department, some years ago sur
veyed the whole delta of the Missis
sippi, and prepared the most complete
and correct maps and drawings of that-
region that arc anywhere to be found.
The coast survey department, and the
land office,have also contributed much
valuable information to the Federal
authorities respecting the valley of the
Mississippi. In addition to this, much
the larger part of the river pilots were
northern born men, who have adhered
to the enemy, and are now navigating
their gunboats and transports.
A rumor has reached us from the
Tennessee river, of the sudden disap
pearance down stream of the greater
part ol the enemy’s forces. I am un
able to say whether there is any foun
dation for the rumor or not.
r. \v. a.
who would sleep if the seven thunders
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sters as twelve pounders running
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v V puirouafte of the aurrounding country.—
Fall satisfacdOB will bogiTon in tfccir profession.
April tti.
DR. ۥ B. LOMBARD*
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MJ btuld'ng with Worth of thrfPoat Office.Col-
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sold in this market . FOR
ctire as cheap ss can
CASH or its eqnirelent.. He will also buy or sell
any marufaemre* or oonntrv produce on commis
sion, if desired. Thankful lor pastpstronsgo, be
hopes a continuance by bis many frfenmi and ens-
torn. IJm.16.
nsr store,
j TONS Swedes Iron; 2 tom Plow Steel; i
4 kegs Nails, for sajobir J. I. COLT.
No 11 and 12 Franklin
Feb. 5 3m
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House Building.
The means employed to arm, equip,
and subsist these levies were adapted
to the circumstances. AH the horses
and beasts of burden which were nut
necessary , either for agriculture or man
ufactures were placed at the disposal
of the army commissaries. In the de
partments where manufactures of arms
could be established, the public build
ings and the public places were given
up to work-shops. At Patis forges
were erected in the gardens of the
Luxemburg, and machines for boring
From the Richmond Enquirer.
We are not Awake let.
How hard it is to learn the lessons
oi adversity! “Street are its uses,’’
hut slow are its teachings. In this
hour of anxious solicitude when tid
ings of successive disasters are falling
upon our ears, could it have been be
lieved that the House of representatives
would spend almost a whole day in
discussing the question of the salaries
of its bwn members? Snead it in the
struggle between the desire fer the
large salary oftbe Washington govern
ment in times of peace ajird of lavish
expenditure—and the ^consciousness
that such a salary is inconsistent with
our simple government and necessitous
condition? We join our cpteropornry
of the •‘Whig*” in the expression of
pain and mortification at such an exhi
bition. We look to Congress, aa the
representative of the people, to give
tone to their patriotism and fire to tbeir
energies. We lode to it to set an ex-
cannon on the hanks of the Seine— 1 ample of activity in attention to duty,
were resounding in their ears. There
are men who, amid the reverberations
of the enemy’s artillery and with theu
shouts of triumph coming up from the
East and answered back from the West,
are Drinking mainly of their petty am
bitions and their personal fortunes, of
their rank, and their dignity, and their
salary!
They a-e men, too, who ought to set
us better examples. We implore them
to do so. Unless they do, our cause
is lost!
In reference to our military opera
tions and mi’itary commanders, we
hope our Executive will never Tad to
exercise a stern and prompt discipline.
To meet the varying clamors of irre
sponsible criticism, would be impossi
ble, even if proper to attempt it. He
who to-day, is idolized without merit,
to-morrow is condemned without a
fault. What is such judgment worth ?
An officer’ll claqcurs, and his enemies,
must alike be disregarded, and be mutt
stand upon merits and achievements.—
If he disappoints the hopes entertained
of him when appointed, nothing. re
mains but to set him promptly aside.
What is a wan, we care not bow he
writes his name, compared with our
cause ? lierce no man must be allow
ed to peril it! Tenderness to him
would be a terrible cruelty to tbe coon
try. On tbe contrary, if a soldier shows
himself capable and active, and effi
cient, let him be put forward, no mat
ter bow many there may be interested
in disparaging him. There is work to
he done, and we want men who can
and will do it! We want officers not,
who can do, with grace, the courtesies
of a convivial board, or the honors of
a military holyday, but those who can
direct the storm of battle, can create
around on wheels, was something en
tirely new to their untutored eyes and
ears*. They are not destitute of cour
age, however, and if the report be
true, which I doubt very much, a short
time will suffice to disabuse their minds
of these first impressions.
Our last accounts represent tbe en
emy to be falling back. The capture
and destruction of a large portion of
his supplies, both before and during
the battle, has doubtless compelled
him to retrace his steps, in order to re
plenish bis stores
We hear that tbe ciidmy’s gunboats
renewed their recoiinoissance of tbe
approaches to Island No. 10 yesterday
and continued to throw shells irto the
woods on tbe shore and on the Island
throughout the day. Nothing further
has transpired in regard to the aban
donment of the place. I have hoard
nothing, however, to change the opin'
ion expressed in my letter of yesterday
that the evacuation of the Island will
finally be determined on. I have been
convinced too, by persons who ought
to be well informed, that it is a judi
cious step, under existing circumstan
ce^ even it we should have to leave
the heavy guns by which the Island is
defended—which, however, it is hoped
will not be found necessary.
The Island lies just where the boun
dary line of Tennessee and Kentucky
strikes the Mississippi river. If you
wilt take your map and draw a line
from tlwt point to Corinth, on the
Memphis and Charleston railroad, and
.mother from Fort I’illow, just above
the inouti) of the Hatchie, to the same
place, you will see how much shorter
the latter line is, and how much more
easily it may be defended. Fort Pil
low is flanked on the north side by
{From the N. O. JV.oyuno.l
Oar fallen Lender in Arkansas.
Ben. McCulloch, whoso Iosb ou tho
field of battle will he mourned by bis
countrymen, was tho son of Alexander
McCulloch, who was a lieutenant and
Aid to General CofFoc, of Tennessee,
in the battles of Talladega and Horso
Shoe Bond, end who resigned his com
mission in 3farcb, 1814.
Ben was borne in Rutherford coun
ty, Tennessee, io 1813- Ho was n
Captain of tka Texas Rangore in tbe
Mexican war, and was distinguished
for conrage and conduct in the battle
of Monterey.—On the 11th of July,
1846, ho was appointed quartermaster,
with tho lank ot Major. He was also
distinguished in tbo battle of Buena
Vista, and as the commander of a spv
company, before that battle; for u
most daring and successful rcconneis*
once. _ He resigned his staff appoint
ment in 1847. At his death he was n
Brigaiier General, commanding a di
vision. known as McCulloch’s division
and chiefly composed of Arkansas and
Texas troops. The 3i Louisana, Col.
Hebert, was attached to his division.—
Col. JameB McIntosh, who fell nt
the same time, was from Florida, and
was tho son of that Brigadier General,
James S. McIntosh, who so groatly
distinguished himsolf in the last war
with England, and in tbe Mexican
war, at Palo Alto and Resaca do la
Palma, in which last fight ho wait
dangerously wounded, afterwards nt
Churubnsco, and lastly at the storming
of El Molino, where he received a se
vere wound, of which in 1847 ho died.
The lato Col. McIntosh was a cadet
of West Point, and gratuated in 1845.
On the 1st of July, 1849 he was com
missioned Brevet Lieutenant in tho
1st United States Iufantry, and in
May, 1851, in the 8th Infantry.—He
was a most accomplished soldier And
officer, and his death is to be deeply
lamented, as depriving onr cause of
one of its most efficient defenders —
He was Colonel of au Arkansas regi
ment, but commanded tbe 1st Brigade
to McCulloch’s division, and in his
absence commanded the division.
Ool. D. McRae, who shored tbo
fate of those two bravo leaders, com
manded an Arkansas regiment, in Mc
Culloch’s division, called “McRae's.’’
Ho, too, is spoken of as & gallant and
efficient officer.
The Gen. Slack, who is reported to
have been mortally wounded in tbo
same Sgbt, is a Mississippian, and wn?
formally a Captain in Price's regiment
of Missouri Volunteers. Be is mention
ed in tbo United States Army List
as having distinguished himself ia the
affairs at Embttdo and Taos, in New
Mexico.
The Col. (not Gcnoraf) Hebert who
is reported to have also fallen in the
bloody strife of the 7tb, is Louis He
bert, Colonel of the 3d Louisiana, and
commanding tho 2d Biigado in Me
Culloch’s division. Gen. P. 0. He
bert is his brother.
General McClellan has divided tho
grand army of the Potomac into fhe
corps de armes: He has also ordered
‘the followingstariff of exchange of pris
oners of war:
For a General Commander-in-chief
—sixty men.
Lieutenant-General—forty men.
Major-General—thirty men.
Brigadier-General—twenty men.
Colonel—fifteen men.
J rieutenant-Colonel—-ten men.
Major—eight men.
• Captain—six men.
Lieutenant—four men.
Sub-Lieutenant or Ensigr.—three
raen * . • ;l*
Non-commissioned Officers—2 tnen.
Privates—man for man.