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Newspaper Page TextINDBPUNDE S O IT T H WO DOLLARS PER A3LNUM IN ADVANCE T 7 l lib S0 ,m U1 ATHENS, CLARK COUNTY. CEO. APRIL 9. 1862. VOLUME XXXI--NUMBER 5. 1SAAQ !M¥ia, Importer of (RHINE WINE, AlCimTA.Kl, , . IVT . _ i ’ ! *£?“ Imported by himceh and warranted '' 1 AM ™ N ' nrw., Pure, and sold as low as any Northern editors and Proprietors. POETRY. PUBLISHED WEEKLY, sLEBGE & REESE (>FFIC i: U P-STAlllS, X.). 7 Grakitk Row TERMS s TWO DOILAUS PER ANN'UM.IN ADVANCE To Clnb-t vomit ting $lO in udvoucct, roiiim wsllAx-Hem. • » An> x.hseri'i.'i iViltn" to give notice of hia 1-f * s M.itinne i\U Huiwcription.it the exurira- v “ 'O paid, will be House. reorders promptly attended to. Ocl 25 if Midur.'d >. din*! : d^-Vo jmp*r ■ !> h.» > non, 'ihit d;\y ATHENS STEAM COMPANY j ■I • NICKKRno.V, Ai.i n i a Si'r'T. I AyCTACTl’ll£)!Suf Circular Saw i-Ca. MIHm, rttcnm Kngiue*,, foreingand lift ' injr PUMPS,Suaf.tinq and Machinery; Mill , (its, ami ftiiottiWkin.i of GEARING. Iron nnd ' wHtiUi,* ie co !«mie it,«nd f.old llrao(HSrrfVn «h*" r cvery deseripUon. SMITH-, I-Hj. lo pairing ana Hi)ifh)ng prc.- pOy taectt ept ftt ( tea? iioiett tittitM«aofI:.i?JVen< iiij, acc. Terra? ' *' asu. -May 14 lv A.M.WYNO, . \\rHOLESA LK hqi Iicuii Denier in Ilini [ * » ware, Crocker " and House Funiixhin; } floods,one door below K.L. Bloomticld’nClothinit • Store. Athens, Ga. Jan.7,1S58 ! il bo discontinued, [A. - c,ut 11 all -wr.. tracer ar- K.1TKH OF ADTURTIIINO. >',c »qu«re cor..i,iiui oflwclvolinns omul •i J i"ia.-e o.,nival, nt. One Dollar or the firs' weealy ue<al advortwetti. Announcing ontid vairablv advance, can be made for yearly adv ■nisinaerted at lUe usual rates. umber of ! n-er!lons marked upon nulled in. u ollu-rwi.-e they will he published liii >riiid, and durgol aoCordiu^iy. NOTICE. Vive Dollars, * rvURlNG my absence from the State, Dr. W.v. j ; I " Ktso is my authorized agent, j He can ho found at the Drug Store in the aftm them when j noon; R.M. SMITH, M. D. noon- Athena, Sept. 4. IS ? 1*1*0 I’omkIu — ... F. W, LITAS, } ICiTVIW litnpj tTi 11) V i • %MTHOIJ58Af.E and rijlaildealerin DrvGoods, I ) 1 S I \ KSS I) | |{ K( 10 IV I . I ’ ▼ Oroeierics,Hardware,&e.,No.o Broad at. j H 1 ,u _ j A,hon • ^ a - '.Jani9. ' R. L. BLOOMFIELD, CXniOLVSALE and retail Clothing Store.* VV Hrend Strruet, A u,eus,t*i. [May 10. ; tT BISHOPS MX, i W IIOhESALB and Retail dealers in Grocer- 1 ies, Jliir.iu-Hiv and StauieDtv Goods, No. ! 1 Broad St. Athens (la. (May 1 1 .I jiiui UustnoMnisn can hav. under this head, for one year, the m'e of r"iY■’ ] to'lars f .r a card of not more .o six I me-., andci ont i u\ e cents fov yach addi ■i.ll line. LAMAR COBB! ATTORNEY AT tm< MACON, CKO. , >.x-er ihc stor. In Boardinnn'a Will practice in Hibb, Houston, Jlwun, Twiggs, Nov tt' O FF1CK on dfulb. Try Stre, „l A. M. Hi u kshc.r .V f’o Wash,i,;li)!i Block Crawford, Dooly, Worth, rut 1 Sumter. WILLIAM DEl^M, Attorney m l.nvr, Otticeon Broad air net, over the store of I. M K r,.|icy . Athens.t In. March I t—tf. T. M. DANIEL. \ TTOBKEI' AT I,AW.—Athena, Georgia, : will i>rMriic<* iu tl.«* rounti*"' • • f C*. u'kr. \Vnll«»n, ./.irk>nn, Mwlirt'in, Hart, l.Wuw, Oi;loihorpc j Wilkoj*, Warren, an-l 1 lam '^Miilioo.Hif tl-»or a‘> . AC's Drugstore n m tir-. November! 7. R, J & W T. MILLli.AN, A TTOItXEVf* AT T.A W—Will practice in th- n Circuit, anil the Kibert. and Hart, of the liftl.TlSU CLOTHS. 1 .^ W l.l t t S keeps a full supply of thr | . bcsl Anchor Br.iad Clotlrf. at cite rric S March hO • | LUMBEIU LUMBER!!! fflffo HUNDRED THOUSAVD FEET o JL l.iunbor. Well serjKHnaf ' jw xdi li.iml at my mill, about live miles" froc Athous. Any order can be 6Ueu ai short nftttec, i'iuket* ot all kinds j furnirtbed ai»tiuit o. ,« Th-sawyer, Mr ."jhbim, GnnnrlR, is one of the , most expciieceed in U-e tounay, and ariil give ; ouiire «niirtfa<*!if»u. ! All orders left at iHe stor* of ,?. K ,v \y. F • Jlattiicws, or liandad to..J. A. \\ ith«c-pooa, will t 1 he promptly attviulpdtp. ■ i June lib om. •?!AS. D. MATTHEWS. ! MOLF.mAI.E Irocerio, I and 4, College A' M i rci> I o W!i: T. U. WlSfiON > BUDS. tail*" •, ,1*. Or At.--eu- rrs ,i| Dry Goods 1 fiy; Ac.^ios. A ( t«n.‘ ‘ i j , roc,1 ics ,if Miuliscn, ■W Northern Circuit, li. J. Mll.UCAV, dctfci-r.iu, (la. Sept. 1«".—ly PEOPLE’S MILL SOLD. 1U LLS. UTLLYER, '< ATTORNEYS AT LAW. j »11UE undersigned havii»'jp»sswkite«lD«tmiwdjjf| j I ,.... .* ,cv ! n ?l- yt icfieo of R*, Tftll fttionn ! \kM. j 1-1 would inform our iv.cd.omer* lb*t we still Carnesville, t.a. iinv0 * Ur<s „ amon .5 df l lajnbrr of varhs-us kklCh. A*, Tickets, A.tils. ! j nnd common fenoiug iatabB-vLii 1 . hum! .f N ■Cl v.1 :ird :u tog ^1. D F 1C kovcrnl Courts in the Western Circuit, «*J ; vo .heir jointperson.il attonlion to all business ,1'rus'cd to them- GEO. HILLYKR. iVlMiircKij l>a« July 15—ly. aym.ilhdll, Athens, Ga. \ FTERlho first of January, 18GJ. the under- Bigmvl will sell exclusively (or CASH ! M. iU- PITTMAN. V TTORA’EY si Law, Jefferson, Jackson conn- , V, Ga., will?, .e prompt attention to any bu. fi:u-»sVntrusted to uis care. January - l‘-‘m JOHN II. HILL, \ TTORNEY AT LAW, Augusta, Ga„ will n-tc-ul promptly to all business entrusted to hia c.irc [Jan.JL_ II. A. LOWRANCE, Resident SJSI^fTIST* ATHENS, GEORGIA. OFFICE—Ctlleaa Avenue, Athens, Ga. Oct 13. _ DR. HM. KINO. Homeopathic Physician, A \PFKUS his professional services to the eit V P i/.ens of Athens and vicinity. Ketddenee. at Mrs. Clayton S. Clay ton and Thomas streets, «. L. Mc€LEM4EY Athens. Jan. I, I8fd. R. M. SMITH. GOODS SOLD ONLY 20 HHDS. SUGAR F OR sale cheap for cash, Xos 11 and Id Frank lin Horse Building. J. I. COLT. THE KENTUCKY PARTISAN. BT TAtlL H. RATHE. I. ‘ Hath the wily Swamp Fox Come again to earth 1 Hath the soul of Sumter Owned a second birth ? From the Western hill-slopes Starts a hero form, Stalworth, like the oak tit*, Tameless, like the storm! Hia! au eye of lightning! His! a heart of st eel! , .* Fiuahing deadly vengeance, , Thrilled with fl«ry Eeul ; Hnom' j>i» d*wu JO Minions !> Seize lam—if J* cip- It nt wo wc.rtli the Hireling knave V. ho meets him, man to man ! If. Well done! gallantMoroan Strike with might and main, ’Till the fair fields redden With s gory rain; Smite iheru Uy ihn roadfide, Smite them in the wood, l!y the lonely valley, . Audi he purpling flood ; ’Xcuth the mystic s-.nriight, ’Neat-i the glare of day. Harass, sting, affright them, Scatter them, and slay ; Board, who dnrst, our chieftain! Bind him—if yo cun— But wo worth tie Hessian thief Who meets him man to mun ! HI. There!* a Snrid Purpose. • Brooding in hia breast. Bom ofsoh-nmPassion, And" a deep unrest: l or out ruined homesleads. And wtr r&vugod'land. For«u r woinen.ontwged Ily the dastard band, For our thousand sorrows And our uni old shame. For cur bU^Med" harvests', For our towns afii'me— He liaa m«,fimd reeks got HWmjy ei-nex his path;— That the the shall feel liiin , In his tonid wrath— That, while will and spirit Hold ope It ark of life, * Blood shall stain his broad sword, Blood shall wet his kuife:— On! ye Hcistan Horsemen ! Grosli him—i* ye can! But w»-i»«r*«ryeuf staunchest slave Who meets him, man to man! IV. ’Tis ns time for pleasure 1 1 >off tiie silken vest! Up! my men! and Sallow M*uin>j of the West! Strike with him for freedom! Strike with main and might, "Neath the noonday splendor, "Neath the gloom of night; Strike by rook and roadside. Strike in wold snd wood ! By the shadowy valley, By the parpling flood"; On ! where. Moigaifs war-horse Thunders in the van ! , God • who would not gladly die Bcsidx that gloriona man?’ Hath the wily Swamp Fox Come again to earth f i^ dtath the soul of SCMTXgi •NcWi « seoaao Mrtlil . From f|ie Wcotern MM-airupci' S'cnafcue.o-ftirm, v - .vahvorth, like the oak tree,’ lies!less, like ille storm! His !-au eye of lightning ! Ills! a heart of steel! Flashing deadly v< ueeance! Thrilled wiih fiery zeal! Hound him down, ye Robbers! Stay him—if ye can ! But wo worth the hireling knave Who meets him,man to man! Charleston, March -J9th, ltjij-J. ^enters to repair the roil; they we^ j bear a charmed Hie. We lost sight of! bunes correspondent of Thursday last, .[ntfede pnsonersj but vfvvc released as hiin until mst hpfnra ua t * ^ai_- ^ we left tie town. As socin as the ciii- |.^M vwre made aware'Hjat we were I Confederate troops, facility tras afford- •’ ed us to carry ot:t *nr jdais. Upon j secunng the c-ngine, we'at once com- : menefed to accumulate ull the rolling 1 stock (a laiige quantity)' on "the main j track, preparatory to burtung. When ! this wd» complete, the fire was applied; ; and ip the cdurse ol an hour till except j Ibc ejigine v^s rendered permanently ] tuejesg,. That D$j(fir, hStefng'iprcketea ts^eurely, v\c Gallatin.— ■"Ilit- next iT.orrriiitr w« destroyed the i -l ust ^ e / ore left Cairo, I We have read of the crews of sinking w en be appeared one night suddenly j ships, when all hope had fled, throwing an s lot two of our pickets. Again j ofF all restraints, human and divine, e appeared at Bacon creek Ky. and I and mingling their revolting orgies and urnt the railroad bridge' under Me- ; mad carousais with the avenging spirit Look $ nose, shot one of his p-cketa, j of the tempest, which was hurrying and rode oil before the army Lad re- ' them to a swift and sure destruction, covered from its suiprise. You remember bis boh water tank, an*5,; ukitfg: the,,engine, j the Colonel and myself p.Gceeded some miles up the ro-ui, with a view of dis- ' covering any approach of the enemy, or the mail train. In th-j^iueantirne a ! 1st lieutenant and four'privates of ) Grider’s regiment (Feiieribt), ou their j way to Nashville, wer^ taken prisoners by our pickets. The maif train being some hours "behind time, bud learning that our presence might have become ■ known, we concluded to withdraw and | return to Murfieesboro. I Sboitly after leaving Gallatin we j Are the incumbents of the high places remember his bold attack upon ! of trust and power mad or demented, our lines on Saturday, theSih of Match, j that, in this dark hour of our history in Mitchell s division, and again on. j and our hopes, they desert thfiir posts Jundav motnmgrau ^ytigbl, upon | of duty to inaugurate tbe reign of fash- McCook s camp, on the Franklin pike, lion, and worship at the shrine of folly ? the very same Sunday, this Morgan, j Or was this a shameless funeral wake disguised as a countryman, and dressed \ over the unbnried remains of a defunct in butter-nut colored clothes, obtained j Union ? a pass from Gen. Mitchell, who did not j “Most of the Senators and members know him, and had the audacity to j of Congress and generals of the army dine at the City Hotel in company with 1 were there,” savs the reporter. Faith- our own officers, making good his cs- j less betrayers ot a people’s trust, was cape, with perfect nonchalance. He • it for this you were sent to Congress 1 came very near capturing Gen. Nelson I or placed in command of our armies ? one day last week. The plot was dis-! Are we incurring an expenditure oftwo covered in time to be frustrated, but ] million dollars per day, and sacrificing j not to catch the rogue. He has since! hundreds of lives, that you may con- ' captured the railroad train running j gfegate and riot at our expense ? between Louisville and Nashville all Again, says tbe reporter, “The sup- Gallalin, taking thirty bridge builders i per was set in the dining room, and is prisoners, but releasing them, as he! considered one of the finest displays of learned that a pattv of twenty of the • seeks higher game. He has boasted j gastronomic art ever seen in this coun- j enemy, in , charge of^ ihve’e ^prisoners,; that he will catch one of our Generals i try. It. was prepared by Mailiard, of as an offset '.o Buckner, being Buck-} New York, and cost thousands of dot* ner's especial favoiite. He has offered ! lars.” And this was while Secretary a reward of $1,000 to any citizen or j Chase was urgently importuning Con- officer who will catch him ami his! gress to adopt some measures to herlaud, \ JV* road,so t>ut, half mile danger were approaching GaltaYift by the . ScoUsville road. It was determined to cut them oil. Pushing t^e.prisoners ''with a gi ari), across tbe !we vrtirmerf to effect tfe | had tbken our position on as to secure the pirpfui | unfortunately, when wil J of them, they, were \va • by a fiegro, and fled irrep^pitately to i the woods, Capt. Austin^ih Command jofthepattv, making his «sb]jpe on a horse cut from a buggy. Ij^lfeing too ! dark to follow, we ieniaint-d picketing Airs. Lincoln’s Grand Rail. , the road until morning. No further The following articles from late i opportune;- offering, m rerouted our N„ rth ern papers K e take fromtl.e New j march, and alter traveling about sixty r ‘ miles, reached Murfreesbtm) about 2 ! ^ or * i Heiald of the 18th. They | o’clock next morning. (the comments of a rough press i We were made acquainted just be- giddy woman. They certainly j fore reaching the town that a body of steed, and, strange to say,-disguised, has made these bets openly before our officers, who at the time did not know him. Such is Col. John Morgan, the famous rebel scout, who, though he deserves hanging, yet wins admiring opinions from enemies as well as friends for his daring. ; Federal cavalry had ridder* through the (evening before, and that tk'e enemy (vveie in large force near by..‘ We re- - mained about twelve milcy’fitim town, | long enough to ascertain^ theie-exact 1 locality,and then passed ssduly sbfrough, ( within lwo miles of tfceitln^try^ -We j reached Shdbyvdfe ^MMB&ltid( v-i p> m., th-d ly, iflen^anj*'u3fse§.i (good deal jaded, i'esterdny seven t transports passed down tlte Cflniber- | land, cany mg the remnant of General | Thomas’ division ; as our party had ; not entirely crossed, we did not fire in- ; to them. From all we could learn the enemy has commenced to move. A large body of cavalry was seen on the road to Columbia. It is believed that the enemy have sent a large force down the Tennessee by boats,tand will replenish an empty treasury. Again, says the faithful chronicler, “The tables fairly bent under the ex pensive luxuries heaped one upon another.” Only one week before, Mr. Wilson had stated, in his place in the Senate, that “he bad seen cirtificates from sick seldiers that they had actu ally to go to the swill tubs f to enable them to live in the hospital at Alexan dria. 5 ’ Is the Yfhite House to he made the I scene of disgraceful frivolity, hilarity are and gluttony, while hundreds of sick and suffering soldiers, within plain sight ot tbe dome of the Capitol, are left to suffer for the bare necessaries of lite, unattended and uncared for?— I There must be a moral malaria in the j atmosphere of Washington which stu- pifies the intellect, and dims the per sons, while it dries up or poisons thfe fbunlains of human kindness in all who enter its transforming circle. Slavery Jan 1. 18(53. E nvelopes and writing pa PER.—These ear. be *til! supplied at re- ail nt the Bookstore. Office, corner of i May J.—ly. H A VINO M. D. (G permanently located in A then*,wit ue (li j i raetico ol Medicine and ;( l P*geO. Oot 2:i 4 FTF.U New Year’s Day no account* at tbe Book Siorewill be continued. Sale.-, will lie nmae only for e«sh. Those having accounts hith erto will oblige by nn carlv settlement of liie same. Dee -26 ’ ' WALK. WHITE. The Exploit* of Capt. John II. Mor gan, the Kentucky Scout. n 1 u »t a. .l L 11 ,1 also move in force across the country. Capt. John H. Morgan, the bold and It is sported in Nashville that they dashing partisan of Kentucky, is win- j intend to end the campaign ; before The prisoners will be sent for ward in the three o’clock train to-mor row. 1 have omitted to mention thatbefore leaving Gallatin the engine Wns de stroyed, thus leaving but one on the road. * '• V I have ascertained, Ue"y(WiX' i £olibt, that Love, a man of uly command, who i was taken prisoner in the affair of the on a evi dence no very amiable feeling towards the wife of their President: From the Adams Transcript. FIDDLING NERO AND BURNING ROME. The ikst ball ever given at the White House came off last Wednesday even ing. The Uabinet, both Houses of Congress, many of the army officers,. ari( ] treason stiff live and flourish the*', foreign Ministers, leading Qrt»£DsY<Xe., t $ aaJ $fcrr was shorn of hiajsfftgofjtliby ai to the number of five hundred, were-woman of the Philistines. "The White present with their wives and daughters. House may have its Delilah; who can The ladies weie dressed in the highest tell ? style of fashion and extravagance, es- j - pecial.y Mrs. Lincoln. The gentlemen ; From tbe Richmond (Ind.) Independent Tress, were generally very plainly attired.— HOW TO BE A PATTERN. About 12 o’clock the supper room was j, Mrs . Lincoln WO uld study human ity instead of French; practice benev olence instead of dancing; visit the i sick soldiers who have sacrificed home ning for himself an enviable fame.— ! June. Even the Yankees, whom his untiring energy keeps in continual terror, are forced to canfess admiration for his adventurous daring. We give below Morgan’s own account of a recent ex pedition of his command to a point north of Nashville. His appearance thrown open, and exhibited one of the finest displays of gastronomic art ever seen in this country—a temple of lib erty a fort and war steamer admirably j a ‘J iTappTness'To defendflie Caiiitalof moulded in candy, and a ton ot tur- j lhe antl the White nouse gainst keys, ducks, venison, pheasants, pa,- a hostiie enemy, instead of gallanting I n/frrnc Sim oil AvmiKitP v nrotviro/ . ... - ° . ” and deeds in that region caused a ter-i0,1 , ,, „ . ... . 8th instant, (since dead) was snot by rible flutter among the enemy, and have j the enemy after being taken, already been noticed in the papers . OB (tOtltlkUl'Ill-’l “ v - ~ . t " \|* 1 thnl rnvnuy occupied by Mr. j AUii'ii 'Jim? found. UtJKN* 01 home, where he mnv be March bih, I^oO. CLOTHING. L. C# \V« At- IL lit J* LONLj W HOLESALE and retail Druggists. Athens Ga. | Jnraa THURMOND & NORTH, _A.tt orn.eys at X^aw, X * TILL practice in co partnersliip in Uic conn- \V A.,k. IFrtlton, ,Iack,on Gwinns,.. // a "| Rabun. While, Frankiin, Banks, Halier- iiutni «,f Mir Wcsioru Circuit; mid llavt aml Mad- i-r.ntti the .Northern Circuit; an^ wiL then ndivi.tunl and job*! ntlontiouto nil »>•»>£«*,«; rusted In them- The col lee! ion of debts Win re '.,»ivo prompt nod rar.-lui n'toutioii SAM E P.THI:RM‘»NI». I JOJIN R. NORTH, - t Jelfcrson,Jackson 00 Ocil8 if A T^r.rfje lot of clothing can be- -found nt 1J Bloomfield's, at very rcAStmabie pi ice** ALSO, A larp-e lot nf boys’ and children's cotbing to be sold cheap. ALSO, Fax thread and Military Buttons. Doc. 1. Drug-Store < >vt-r Long" Allien*. Ga. JACKSON &, IIIITCMNS* V TTORNEYS AT LA w.—Will practice in the counties of Gwinnett, Walton, Jack. • on slid Hall, of tli” Western,»nil the county of v vt 11 of the Blue Bulj-e Circuit. JACKSON. 1 N L. HUTCHINS. Jr.. jltlieil*, ) LavereuceviHc, G». p <j —During Mr. Jackvin's absence from Geor bnsinc.** letters should bo addressed ,0 tlie Sim a? Lawronceville. Sept :«Mf Du. R. M. SMITH, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in DUrCSS. MEDICINES, PERFUMERY, JU/STS, OILS, DYE STUFFS, MOWCINAI. BHASDV AND W!NB, I -ceivins and opening o lnrge stock of __ scied in the Northern Markets by him I GARDEN SEED. I AM pnying cash for ,no fnllmrimr garden seed when 1 ntn satisfied they are fresh and pure, unlii I ge, the supply I need. Those displayed uro most desired: Bauch Beans, Butter Beans, Pale Beans, C’ncmuber, Egg I’lant, Onion, On ion Buttons,Carrot, Parsnip. Englirb Pens, Scarlet Radish, Turnip Radish, tRraasb. Early Cabbaire, North Carolina no.. Beets. Mixed seeds areofuohse to me. WM. N. WHITE. October 1ft h, 1861. N and after the first of January, 18(51, all bills O bought of us wil! be due on delivery of the goodu. All persons indebted to us. eilber by ooie or m-count, are retiucsted to pay ®P as. eaily as possible’ „ ■ Wc still have a good stock, and wi.l sell ray cheap. We hope our friends will give «« Jan. I, 1862. WHITE & KITCH. 1 S NOW ret ■ nin-afe.nod which h«couhdeutly recom •i.eml, U, i\„. p-jblie ss being pure sYltu an, Juno 1*. 1 tfoO. J. F. O’KELLY, FUOTOGH.Wli A AD AMBROTl PE ARTIST. ; ipring street*, over the hews, Athens, Ga. t I. 91. KENNEY. A 1 T III* HI* OI.D STAND, will contin ue to sill such goods as he has or can pro- 1 cure a* cheap as can be sold in this market FOR I CASH or its equivolcnt. He will also buy or sell R OOVIU on Broad ai:d S] store of .Ioiip R. Halt DR. U. LILLRLWD, DENTIST, W a 1'KINSVILLE Ga jeepectfully solicits the y f pstrucage of tho surrounding country.— * ull aatisfuciion wil) be given in their profession. April 22. DR. C. B. LOMBARD. h; it f/HHOl.VW F«r 9--y. 1 'hEN 718T, ATHENS,GEORGIA; Rooms in I w build'ag with North of the(Po*t Office.Col- instore, Ti 8 c%“ .. gB No. 11 and 12 i>aaklin House Building. Feb. 5 3m marble work. . *P Ajwtso. I -*• i. umOnts. Hantle Tops, Ac,, fr _______ toftarni*hany oriel Tomb Stones, Mon- from GLENDEN Ga. CRANE, Agent. Shelbyvili.e, Tenn., March 19. j .Major Gen. IF. J. Hardee, Commanding 1*( Division: Sip. : I have the honor to submit the following report of tie operations of a portion of my command on the 15th, 16th, 17ih anti ISth inst. At about 4 o’clock,^ p. m., on the 15th inst., with Col. Wood and a detachment of 40 men, I left Murfreesboro’ for Gallatin, having learned that no Federal forces remained at that place. The chief objects of the expedition were to inter cept the mail, to destroy the rolling stock on the road, to make prisoners, and to obtain information of interest to the service. Our destination was kept secret, and the command having been sent from Murfreesboro’ in separate parties, by different roads, to unite at some dis tance from town, it was impossible that the enemy could be apprised of the movement until after the blow was struck. A citizen of Murfreesboro, whose zeal and loyalty is undoubted, made the necessary arrangements of runners to keep us perfectly posted as to any movements that might be made with the view of cutting us off. Our first march, conducted mostly at night, carried us about two miles beyond Lebanon. Early next morning continued the march, crossing tfcc Cumberland at Canoe Branch Ferry, and reached Gallatin about 4 p. m. Leaving the command just outside the town, Lieut. Col. Wood, of. Wilt Ad am’s cavalry, myself and the men, dis guised as Federal*, entered and took possession. The Colonel, myself and two men galloped to the depot and secured tbe telegraph operator, his in struments, books, etc. Among the papers found are several ordere vf Gen. Buell’s, some in cipher, which please find enclosed. We secured also, a few minutes after, as it came in, an engine The whole country through which we passed turned out in masses to welcome us. I have never before wit nessed such enthusiasm and feeling. Men, women and children, nevet wea ried in their efforts to minister to our Wants. All expressed themselves gratified at the presence of Southern soldiers in their midst. A handsome flag was presented us by - tbe ladies of Gallatin, and some accompanied". u$ even to the ferry. V . Upon our return a number of £oL Bates’ regiment were enabled trr-ac- coropany us. t. C Very respectfully, yours, > Jso. H. Morgan, 0omm’dg. tridges, &c., all exquisitely prepared by Mailiard, of New York, at a cost of thousands of dollars. While the coun try is shaken as by an earthquake by the mightiest and most unnatural civil war recorded in history, and on the eve of bankruptcy and ruin ; while it is even now- a question—a fearful or.e— whether we are to be henceforth the free people of a free nation, or whether we are to become the subjects of an tbe halls of that mansion on the arm of a European court snob; if she would spend her money for the benefit of the families of the soldiers who have al ready yielded up their lives for the cause of the Union on the battlefield, instead of squandering ten or twenty thousand dollars in a single night fo*r the entertainment of men and women of questionable virtue, she would then . , », • ,, . be entitled to the homage and respect arcljy, a second Mexico—we say, that \ nation: would become an ex- ments, which, for a year or two at least, cannot he less than $50,000,000 per annum greater than they were before the breaking out of the present rebel lion. It is safe to say that the demands oh the Treasury to be met by taxation, direct and indirect, will not be less than $165,000,000 per annum. If we take into account the losses to be en tailed by the issue of Government p;y per money, and the increased cost of everything tbe Government has to buy, this sum wilf be much larger. A steady depreciation of currency, which ‘ is very sure to attend its increase, can scarcely fail to aend coin out of the country—and the greater the deprecia tion tbe more rapidly it will go. The most formidable problem for our rulers to deal with is, howto raise $165,000,- 000 per annum. Borrowing has its limit, and is always reached sooner by a resort to “kiting” than in any other way. When it is proposed to raise $165,000,000 by taxation, in one form and other, we know just where we stand. One hundred and sixty-five millions of dollars are a concrete sub stance (provided they be not paper dollars, which may be handled by the four rules of arithmetic, distributed by the census tables, and apportioned to States, counties and individuals.— T, he sum to be raised and paid into the U. S. Treasury by N. York every year will be $21,344,42; Pennsylvania $15,985,035; by Ohio $12,867,791 ; by Indiana $7,430,175; by Illinois $9,414,641; and the other States in the same cheerful ratio. These are enor mous sums, and by no process that con be devised, caii they be collected without being felt. In some quarter*; the attempt to collect it wil! fait little short of confiscation. New England, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey may go through such a tax with the breath of life remaining in them, but it is doubtful whether there is an other State, loyal or disloyal, that can go half w’ay through. An intelligent correspondent speaking for the gical West, says: “I know that when a U. S. land tax is added to the State and county taxes in Wisconsin, Iowa, Min nesota, Kansas and Missouri, the tax gatherer will, iq a vast number of cases, Have to take the land itself, and I be lieve that a similar result will follow in many : parts of Ohio, Indiana and Mich ''ram And yet, the land tax is a small art of the proposed- revenue bill.”— Jow, Although the West is more illy prepared to meet the tax requirements of Government than the Eastern State**, wc are inclined to believe that this cor respondent materially exaggerates the difficulties. The same correspondent than asks: “Shall rebel or royal prop erty be confiscated to pay the cost c£ the war ? One or tbe other must be. You must either levy upon and sell the property of patriots in Ohio or traitors in Georgia ; of armed rebels in South Carolina, or Union soldiers and their relatives in Illinois.” Almost every treaty following a cessation of hostili ties, in modern times, contains stipula tions concerning the expenses of the jwar, measured generally by the ability of the one party or the other to enforce the collection. while these direful calamities are threat ening our very life as a nation, such an extravagant and foolish display is shocking. At any time, such mimicking and aping of European courts is disgusting in the capital of a republic; but atsuch a crisis as the present, such a wan’on j display of extravagauce and indiffer ence on the part of the administration 1 is an outrage to the interests and feel ings ot the people. It is tempting a kind Providence to our destruction.— What will be thought in Europe of such frivolity ? How forcibly and un pleasantly it calls to mind the fiddling of Nero at the burning of Rome! That I same Bight, while in Washington all { was wanton and gay, the hunted Un ionist' in our bloody border land stole ample to be patterned after by the opulent everywhere, and would cease to be an object of reproach and disgust to all high-minded, democratic Amer ican men and women. i more of capt. morgaX-Uyhat the j”" secret froni bis den, and, aided by — — V> VO J ——J M - ^ father was a. .respectable msnufaefuret of Jeans. From bis youth this Morgan has won the admiration bU alUsfho knew him for his daredevil reckless- which even now i}©ei n»£ seem the glimmering moonlight, looked once more upon the ashes of what was once his happy home. That san e night wounded volunteers died in the hos pitals for want of care and comlort, and our noblest sons and brothers pined in the loathsome horrors ot a Southern prison, and sighed hopelessly for re lease ; while on our Western frontiers the houseless mother clasped her starv- babe, and the prairie wolf gnawed ra venously the bones of the loyal dead, tmuance .* and YANXEES SAY OF HIM. Tbe following sketch of Capt. John Morgan, the well known Confederate scout, we take from a letter ©La Nash ville correspondent of the New York Times: */ J Z The name of this mysterious marau der is on the lips of every one, for his daring coolness and disregard of fear has become a by-word eveli among^our s?- be ,nali,eof ^te tempfst tossed, ami irilUog 'along the very verge of an abyss, tbe “august wisdom of the capital” are meriy with wine, jolly and indifferent, toasting and feasting, dancing and fcapjpring about the While House goose tvitlf devil me-care imbecility, as though life * were intended for a pass-time— civil war an agreeable tableau. Shade of Belshazzar—ashes ot Ninevah golden calf of Aaron-—come forth, ye are wanted in Washington. The Enemy’s Finances. The following highly significant and, to us, most cheering article, we copy from the Philadelphia “Ledger,” of the 7th of March. We are assured, says 1 the Richmond Enquirer, that a promi nent citizen of the North has declared, that it contaius but half lhe truth; that if the figures stated were doubled, they would be far more accurate.. But take them as they stand, and take the case as stated by a journal that is malig nant against our people, and it pre sents affairs at the North in a very crit ical attitude. Lincoln will be ruintd if Congress pass the Tax bill, and ruin ed il it does not l It must be remem bered, too, that this is the exhibit at the end of one year of war! The de mands will double and the resources will diminish with every year of con- to have diminished in the least. We first heard of him wbgRoar brigade (the 8th) was, a portion of them, en camped at Pilot Knob, Mo., in Sep tember last. Our pickets were shot by some mysterious agency, and report stated, in camp, that A tall heavy man, with flowing b?ard, mounted on an immense black stallion, fleet as the wind, was several times detected in . the act of retreating. ; Shot after shot and tender, carrying a number of car- 1 was &ed after Kim, but he deemed-to From the Jeffersonian Democrat. MBS. LINCOLN’S BALL. THE MONEY MARKET. Tlte public debt-jof tbe United States at the end of the present fiscal year, (June, 1862,) will he about $750,000- 000. Sj said Mr. Fessenden, Chair man of the Senate Finance Committee, in his recent speech on the Treasury Note Bill. The average interest on this debt is a trifle more than six pei cent.—hut say $45,QQ0,000per annum. It is estimated by the same Senator that the budget for all expenses, aside from tbe increase of army and navy and interest on the* public, debt, will be about $70,000,000 per • annum.-— Away is thus provided for the dis* burse'ment of $115,000,000 annually, The first ball ever given in tbe White without counting for the enlargement House came off to-night, says the Tii- of our mifitary and naval, establish. A Speech from Parsou Browulow The following speech of Psrsorf Brownlow, says the Richmond Exami ner, was delivered in front the St- Cloud Hotel, Nashville, on the even ing of the 17th: Gentlemen I am in a sad plight to say much of interest; too thoroughly j incapacitated to do justice to you of myself. My throat has been disorder ed for the past three years, and I have been compelled to almost abandon public speaking. Last Dece/nber I was thrust into an uncomfortable ant! disagreeable jail—for what ? Treason! Treason to tbe bogus Confederacy, and the proofs of that treason were articles which appeared in the Knoxville Whig in May last, when tbe State of Tennes see was a member of the imperishable Union. At the expiration of four Weeks I became a victim of the typhoid fever, and was removed to a room in a decent dwelling, and a guard of seven men kept me company. I subsequent ly became so weak, that I could not turn over in bed, and the guard was increased to twelve men, for fear I should suddenly recover and run away to Kentucky. ’ Becoming convalescent, in a meas ure, I was removed to my former place of confinement. One day I was visi ted by some Confederate officers who remarked, “Brownlow, you should not be here. Take the oath of allegiance to the Confederate Government, which will' pot only ensure«. you. a speedy re- lease, but insure you piptection.”— “Sir,” S3id I, “before I would take the oath to support such a hell forsaken in stitution, I would suffer myself to rot or die of old age.” Why, my friends, these demagogues actually boast that tbe Lord is on their side, and declare that the Lord is as sisting them in the furtherance of their nefarious • project. In Knoxville and surrounding localities, a short time since, daily prayer meetings were held wherein the Almighty was beseeched to raise Lincoln’s blockade, and to hurl destruction against the Burnside expedition. Their prayers were part ly answered—the 1 eat Roanoke

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Southern banner. (Athens, Ga.) 1832-1872, April 09, 1862, Image 1