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Newspaper Page TextJAMES A. SLEDGE, Editor and Proprietor.] the indEPendenge; op th w, south. , j ;.* i: • *.*•. /I Fi* [ELUSON D. STONE. Publisher. four dollars per Amour. Gonjlir..., .r.li. VoOltlh.1. .. ' ' ATHENS, CLARK COUNTY, 6E0. JULY 15. 1863. “ VOLUME XXXlfo-NBMip 19 From the New York Times, June 6lh. Most oi the levies who have taken Uie field in Pennsylvania have taken every possible precaution to insure their discharge in thirty days, or when “die emergency ” is over; so that six Ijcnllis now seem to be rather more (nan the maximum period for which tnen will enlist in any great force, and this only untTer pressure oi invasion. When we called an army into the field lor three years, and made no arrange ments for renewing it as it diminished, it was tantamount to telling the rebels that if they could protract the contest to the close ol that period, we should leave them masters of the field. Since then, nothing we have done toward re inforcing it has any tendency whatever to prolong its exigence. In a year from this lime, unless some steps are taken in the interval to avert it, the United States will not have a soldier in the. field, and yet he must be a very sanguine man who feels confident that there is not more than even this year’s work left at the South for sol liers to do. The time has come when this mat ter must be looked in the face and settled. There is not a particle of use in being determined to fight on “ to the bitter end,” unless some means is devised of raising mer., for war cannot be carried on with speeches and pam- phlets. And we put it to any sane man in the country to say whether he seriously be'ieves that thirty day voU untcers are capable of earryipg it eith- er to the “ bitter end 15 or any other end that is not humiliating and dis graceful. There is no question what ever, ttotif we cannot get heavier ma tena! than this-for continuing our mil itary operations, we shall be discomfit ed and compelled to give up the con test—and that under the most disad vantageous and infnmous circum stances. We are at present sufficiently strong to get terms of some sort from the enemy. A campaign carried on with drafts of militia, however, could only end in placing us at Jeff Davis’ feet, and force us to submit to such conditions as he might please to dic tate. We might now give up the con test with nothing worse than the cons tempt ol mankind and the loss of our lmtiqnality; but after fighting Lee two or three times with bands of new levies, we should owe even our property to Confederate pity. fy lull and in the teglng tempest. From the Times. While the loyal men ol Pennsylva nia are filled with mingled shame and dismay in the presence ol the vile horde of rebel invaders, these Coppet- heads welcome them with undisguised pleasure, fraternise with them, supply them with all desired information, con duct them to the hidden property of loyal neighbors, and in every possible way, short of enlisting in the rebel ranks, help them on their hostile work. If to « give aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States ” consti tutes treason, as the Constitution de clares, these Pennsylvania Copperheads make themselves as Complete traitors •s Jeff Davis himself. From the World. It is beyond question that the defi- ant trumpets of Ewell and Lee have failed to rouse along the actually in vaded line of the Northern frontiers anything approaching to'that enthusi asm of war which drove the loyal mas ses of the North into the field two years ago to assert a principle and to matntnln the law. This, we say, is beyond question. - The populations which poured out their best and bravest to battle for an idea on fields remote from their homes, cannot not now be roused to draw the sword in defense of their dearest interests at the very doors of their homes. *. * * * The cause of the lamantable state of things which we now witness must be sought for elsewhere than in the poverty of the Northern temper, or in the decorum of the Southern troops. The search, however, need not be long. A single frank and straight for ward word wi.l bring us face to face with the truth.. The Northern people do not rise as one man to drive back the legions of Lee beyond the Potomac because they have utterly lost their faith in the gov ernment against which these legions are moving. The Northern people do not rise as one man, because in the apprehension of the Northern people the war for the Union has ceased to be prosecuted for the Union or by the . Union. The government has worn threadbare the confidence, it has alen- ated the sympathies of the Noithern people, and now, in this momentous crisis of events, we ought not to be surprised however we may be grieved to see the government left to face and to loss. Their sweet things will^become bitter. Their fancied^ security, -wilt vanish. The Stoilrge is at hand.— When it Comes—if it be not stayed by Wisdom and consideration—who will howl loudest, the men who will not be lieve us how, or tfee. * * From the Tribune. It does begin to seem as is nothing could rouse the people of Pennsylvania into a courageous activity. For a week the rebel army have been steadily ad vancing into the heart of Stale. . Her towns are plundered} bet fields*'rair- aged, her Capital threatened, yet no passion stirs the sluggish blood of this unworthy race to any noble purpose - xitement ly thoilgbt is of retreat. From the Herald. Why is It that, alter two years of war, the powerful and wealthy North has not been able to conquer tbe weak South, of whose starred and ragged soldiers we have heard so much? Why is it that we are now compelled to for tify our own cities against the rebel hordes that are advancing to sack and plunder them? Is the seat of war to be transferred from the South to the North ? Are Maryland and Pennsly- vania to witness and suffer the horrors and the devastation that have desola ted Virginia? Is Baltimore to be bom barded like Fredericksburg ? Is Har risburg to be pillaged like Jackson ville, in Florida ? From the Catholic Record. This war must cease if we do not desire a still greater humiliation; tWo war must cease if we would preserve our free institutions; this war must ed children do-not reach bis con science, then he will suffer nil the more in hell, whfcfe theft are saints, and an gab W comparison’to him. ■ . Another rifttah*.: is that of Mtlroy, a cwting- MethodbHcal preacher, Who has. embraced the opportucity of civil war to wreak vengeance and malice of his narrow, soul upon the unfortu nate, heart broken and impoverished women and children of Virginia. His conduct in Western Virginia wss bad enough, .but his ferocity in the Valley around Winchester, is shocking. But a short time since he ordered a family out oi the dines, and would not permit thena to taka their clothing with them Roused they certainly art} but the waard that even their crinoline was t is wholly of fear, mid tbeoa** alfooughfoey -bad cease if we would not be ground down horror than was presented by these the earth by the burdens of an ex-1 terrified citizens, driven from the homes by the torch of this incendiary, shrieks ing and terror stricken ? How they must have cried for mercy; how their piercing shrieks must have risen above foe roar of the cracking flames envelo ping their own homesteads. But they did not pierce the heart ofthii (Jeneral. No ! nor were any of his accomplices punished for the deed of infamy and horrur. These incarnate fiends, without having any military ability whatever to cessive taxation; and, finally, this war mast cease if we would avoid civil strife and anarchy in our Northern States. And it will cease from sheer necessity. The people have at last become a- roused to a true sense of (heir danger. They now fully understand the char acter of the men who have driven the ship of State among the breakers.— Their patience is exhausted, their for bearance gone, their confidence under There is one other contingency 1 deal with the solemn emergency of the which it behooves us just now to think 1 hour. of also. Hooker will, we hope, be The people are weary of its words; victorious in the battles which are now they leave it now to the test of its impending. But he may not be. The works. By that test it will assuredly fortune of war may turn against him, stand or fall, for tbe enemies it has to as it has a hundred times turned a- do with now are men who “ do not gainst abler and more successful lea- their work negligently.” And should ders. He may be, in short, defeated it fall beneath the dread ordeal, the utterly, completely, leaving us without apathy which consigns it to-day to the n regular trained corps in the field, trial will be followed bj- an energy of The enemy would then have nothing which the memory, we may be sure, between him and Washington, and (will travel onward and downward to Baltimore, and Philadelphia. From the Tribune Now, we trust all is as it seems— that ’Lee has quietly gathered and holds in hand a veteran army one hundred thousand strong, and is push ing it acoss the Potomac with intent to bring the contest to an immediate issue. It is best for all sides^tbat it the remotest generation!! of men. From the Freeman’i Journal. The imbecile and wicked Federal Administration is drifting without rud der and without compass. It knows neither where it is, nor whither driven And those cowardly and incapable things—Lincoln, Seward, Stanton— have imagined that this fierce fighting should be so. This war has dragged 1 American race, trained to liberty even on about long enough. in its excesses, will bow their heads We trust this invnson is meant to beneath the trembling y>aws of these be determined and decisive, and that cteatures, and queitly lay on the it will not be spoiled by a premature ground the “ symbols of the free ’’— recoil. If the rebels are indeed our the arms that the Constitution of the masters, let them prove it and let us land guarantee to them to keep and own it If they are not, let us make! bear, “ for the protection of themselves them acjcnowcldge the corn. We and of the State!” hope this demonstration, together with Every revolver you take from tnese that of General Grant at Vicksburg, people is replaced by a rifle and bay- may be so managed as practically to l onet! Every old shot gun you steal end tbe war. It we can now take from them is good for a dozen regula- Vieksburg and Port Hudson on tbe one tion muskets, with ammunition hand,and use up Lee’s army on the oth- match 1 You think you have a trophy er,the Confederacy will be pretty nearly I wheh you have seized a rifle; you will ployed out. If, on tbe other band, tbe I find, as it it bad dropped down from rebels beat Gen. Grant and water their tbe clouds, or as if tbe earth bad liorees in the Delaware, touting the 1 owned to let it forth, a well furnish forces we can bring against them, we ed mountain howitzer, making good shall be under foot} and may as well] the loss of the rifle* Hunt the brush, and you will not From the NWr York Ne\Hs. * find them ! Burn barns and you will It is natural Aat brave men should destroy them! Exhaust your sus step into the ranks to repel invation; 1 l» cl °. ns and narrow brains, and you they cannot stand with folded arms to gaze upon the glare of their own burn-.. . - e . „ - ^habitation., mr «i!l they look op- tfae chronicle; of -ba is.and » ready on the hostile columns that tread their become an ocoomplmhed laot-that, soil aa if they were the parts ol holiday I l J? e treedom ol the ballot box be in- pageant. But the fact that the actual ,er ®* r ^ * n " ie Northwestern calamities of war have come to their I States, or if the free canvass necessary bwn thresholds will cause Ihem to j to a fr ee election be further interrupted think more earnestly, and earnest there, tbe irreparable blow will fwi thought is the natural and best ally oft As if the heavens dropped it down peace. The honest yeomanry that a^e I fr°m above, and the earth budded it gathered together this day for the de-1 forth, from the four winds of heaven, fence of Pennsylvania, will, in the I foe entire Northwest will be in one solemn night, when grouping about I blase of armed array. By your at their camp fires, commuti * with their tempts at suppressing speech and the own hearts upon the question that is] democratic press you have forced men thus being brought homo to their eora-1 to action instead pf words. You have prehension. They Will take counsel 1 t0 deal, in the Northwest, with the kind from their own common sense and 1 *oen **bp took. Fort Donelson for instincts, and less from the sophistries I y ou - Against them what can avail our of demagogues. The whole North weeping “ Wide Awakes” transformed may be ablaze with excitement, but | mto “ Umon Leagues ?” the peace sentiment, being of that in- tense and self-creative nature * which We want peace and order here at denends not upon Passiticr emotion and I 'be Noith. In order to have it, transient enthusiasm, is not only in-1 must have peace with the South. If _ . treat ed oui troops in the most kindly man ner. He moved into the mansion imme diately and appropriated it for his head quarters, together with the spoons, pi- anos, &c., and in a fit of generosity, presented one of the pianos to a fe male who was residing in one of the camps thereabout. This family, al tho’ it ^was well known to have shel tered and succored our soldiers when the fate of war had thrown them cap tive in the neighborhood, w»s thus cruelly and unnecessarily thrown help less upon the world to gratify the lust oi pillage of this General. Another ’name is that of Steinwehr, whose complicity in the shocking scene of the burning of New Mexico, will be remembered. It was proven that those who were trying to escape from the homing houses^ were driven back in the flames with the sabres of ferocious soldiers. Can the mind of man contemplate a greater scene of upon the conflict, there would be no excuse for their delay and indecision ; but two years of bondage produce un wholesome fruits, and such as we who have never felt the yoke of the op pressor, are elow to realise. Let us, then, bear With Maryland yet a while longer. If there be but ten righteous men and women within^her borders, we. should tor their sakes strive to save her from the Dead Sea of Federal de spotism., Longstreel’s corps crossed the Poto mac yesterday, and /fill’s the day be fore. Both are now moving upon Chambersburg, Pa., twenty miles dis tant, in the direction of Harrisburg, tbe capital oi the State, Which is sixty miles distant. Reports say that Gen. Jenkins was within tbrep miles of,Har ris burg two dajs ago, and that Ewell was not far off. It is not known what Gen. Lee*s plans are, whether to occupy Harris burg, or to establish hts camp in the vicinity of Chambersburg and along the Pennsylvania line, and there await the enemy. Nearly all the troops crossed the Potomac at Williamsport, and it will be through that place, Wins Chester and Staunton wc shall endea vor to keep up our communication with the rear. This line may be cut now and then by the enemy; but we shall be in a fruitful and opulent coun try, abounding in everything necessary lor the subsistence of the array, and shall not find it difficult to take care of ourselves. Already large numbers of horses, wagons, beef cattle and sheep have been secured,and immense stores of grain and flour. The horses cost us from $150 to $200 in Confederate money, and the wheat about $1 60 per bushel. Gen. Lee’s order has acted like a charm. While some of the people have fled into the interior of Pennsyl vania with their cattle and horses, ma ny others have remained, deeming it wisest to stay at home and make the best terms with us possible. In this they have shown their good sense.— Our impressing officers pay the market price for everything the army needs, where the parties will receive payment, or give them scrip if they prefer tha‘i In all purchases of articles of subsis- . , . . , , .......... v —.—j ......j ........, tenee and clothing, payment is made mined, and lueir suspicions at lastTut- Lha Ve driven the people into hostility J in Confederate funds at par value.— ly and actively aroused. | when they might have been secured as 1 Thus, the enemy, who has been counv Let the peace menj,tbeiii have no friends. This article will be constru Iterfeiting Confederate Treasury notes fears for the future. This war is near e j j nto a disparagement of our army and scattering thena whenever they its termination. It is a fixed fact that I and 0 flj cers> but let us tell those have penetrated our territory,now have the force m the field is entirely made' w hq would do so, that nothing dispar- “the poisoned chalice” put to their quale to its further prosecution. ages our arm y so much either at home own lips, at least so far as to compel M. F. Conway, member of Congress 1 or abroad, as the iieglect to seek out them to receive our genuine notes as irom Kansas, and an Abolitionist of and punish such offenders. The Ad- if they were gold and silver. And the strongest persuasion, has become ministration cannot plead ignorance of I thus, too, lor the first time Confederate .t-A wm t. ; n (, mr the acts. The acts of Butler, McNeil, money is at par value in the U. States soenamoredofpeacetn,.theisinfavor and Milroy, were brought totheirno- We are not without friends even in of it unconditionally. He Says in a t j ce by tbe protest of the enemy, while Pennsylvania, and especially in those letter written at Lawrence* Kansas: those ot Turcbin and Steinwehr were districts which the army has occupied. *» I can See no possible object to be brought forward in the evidence before The impressing officer is an effective gained by the war* which will begin the court martial. In every case they missionary, and has already converted to compensate for the sacrifices it in- fttire protected and promoted by the many a fat Dutchman and blind fanat volves. I am, therefore} for peace— Administration, while Lieut. Edgarly ic from the error of his ways. Men unconditional and immediate peace— | was dismissed for voting the Demo- who were indifferent before, are now peace on the basis of existing facts, cratic ticket in New Hampshire, and clamorous lor peace j and it is report- whatever they may be; and I Will wiH-fLjeut. Van Buren for not permitting ed that some of them are willing for ingly trust thereat to .the steady: soldier* to rifle a ben roost. To t the troops to take their wives and cbil- irresistible agencies of reason, jusliccl insure, promotion—rob, murder and dren, but beg hard for their sleek cat- and huminity.” ! Ldeslroy, to incur dismissal, abstain I tie and well fed horses and bursting ‘from robbery and inhumanity, or vote f granaries. But we prefer the latter, the Democratic ticket. Barbarous Yanktie Generals. The North even—we mean foe hon- j est, conservative portion of her people, I are put to shame at ‘be infamy atrocities of some ot her-- military ty» 1 rants. The Philadelphia Evening l , Joutool has an article on “Barbarous l’ re does „ Md the h > e | piDg ban(] Federal Generals,'* in vrbtch it speaks] to Maryland, and throw down the gage out thus: of battle upon her soil. Will she | Army Correspondence of tbe Savan * nali Republican. Hagerstown, Md., June 27. Once more has the Confederate ar- and will let them keep the former and •11 their pestiferous progeny. Imbo- den brought 2500 horses out o! Fulton county and about 30 volunteers, young men who are really iriendly to us and mean to make our cause their own.— Several students in the College near this place, and volunteers from other parts of Maryland have joined our standard and entered the fists against the common foe. Their parents and others who have been made to feel tbe yoke of the tyrant, are not slow to give us useful information,and to point out tbe cattle pens and wheat houses of those Unionists who have been lord Whatever uiay be the result of the clutch the hand that is cordially ex present sanguinary war—whether the tended to her, and thus save herself seceded States become subjugated or and her latest posterity from the un independent—the impartial historian 1 godly rule of the infidel and the Puri- will pronounee the judgement of pos* tan ? And will the enemy seek us as tcrity against >k few NamesM ywrf'wrf again [«• it over them. They have render- figured conspicuously in the Federal that tie? These are questions which 1?.^ ^ to the y le of Vir „ tet Wsiylajd and Ae ginialfovmany ofwhom hwe aceom- OTe of these worthies .is Ben Butler,I whowfoaeJ aheJiqw writhes alone can army in search of their sto- who commenced bis military career at answer. ^ f en ne groes and horses. Yesterday I Big Bethel and ended it. at New Or- ] ^ Our reception has been much about severa ; ga,,™ 0 i negroes going to leans, where he played Such frantic [the same as it was m September list. ^ fear wb f b ad been captured tnthc tricks against humanity that tbe Ad‘ The natives of the country—the de- mountai ’ ns of Maryland and Pennsyl- raimstration was compelled to remove I scendants of^ Lord Baltimore and hts I # Many of the owners of these him, and appoint a man whose in-1 Cplomsts—almost universally sympa-K 5 ^ had * fed wagons and otber stiacts are not so brutat-~*ho, In com-J ft* ’With os, and ardently desire our I conv ,y an cee this tide ot the Potomac, £?a3?ISovl tolwhichflrej,;hod ffled wW. go^d is a General Banks. Ings, and supplies for his operatives, including, it is said, 20,000 pounds ot bacon, have been swept away. Amen! will be the involuntary exclamation of every loTer of justice, and every foefof hypocrisy. An effort is made, in the work of impressment, to distinguish} as far as possible, between the friends of peace and tbe aiders and abetters ol Mr. Lincoln. Thus, the red hand of war is made to fall heaviest upon those who were first to lift it. Some of the troops complain, however, that they are not allowed to appropriate and destroy as they go. If permitted, . they would avenge Mississippi, Ten- nessre and the Carolinas and Virginia, and leave behind a track of desolation as barren and enduring as the desert of Sahara. They g ve Gen. Lee high praise as a fighter and strategist, but they say “he has not a good pillaging mind.” Gen. Lee is right, however, as all will acknowledge after a while. I sent you U telegram yesterday * from VViliamspott. Rut the column is heading fer Greencastle and Cham* bersburgj add 1 must close. P. W. A. General Lee’s Order. General Orders JVo. 72. Head’qus Army North’n Virginia, 1 June 21, 1863. / While in the enemy’s country the following regulations for procuring supplies will be strictly observed, and any violation of them promptly and rigorously punishevl: I. No private property shall be in jured or destroyed by any person be longing to or connected With the army, or taken, except by officers hereinafter designated. II. Tbe Chiefs of the Commmissary, Quartermaster, Ordnance and Medical Departments of the Army will make re quisitions upon the local authorities or inhabitadts for the IteCeSsary supplies for their respectii e departments, de signating the places and times of de livery. All persons complying with such requisitions, shall be paid the market price for the articles furnished, if they so desire, and the officers ma king snch payment shall take dupli cate receipts for the same, specifying the name of the person paid, ana the quantity, kind and price of the prop erty, orte of which receipts shall be at once forwarded to the Chief of the department to which such officer is attached. III. Should the authorities or inhab itants refuse or neglect to comply with such requisitions, the supplies will be taken from the nearest inhabitants so refusing, by the order and under the direction of the respective Chiefs of the departments named. IV* When any command is detach ed from main body, the chiefs of the several departments ot such command will secure supplies for the same, and such other stores as they may be or dered to provide, in the manner and subject to the provisions herein pre> scribed, reporting their action to the heads of their respective departments, to whom they will forward* duplicates of all vouchers given or reported. V. All persons who shall decline to receive payment for property furnished on requisitions and all from whom it will be necessary to take stores or supplies, shall be furnished by tbe of ficer, on taking the same, with a re ceipt specifying the kind and quantity of the property received or taken, as the case may be, the name of the per son from whom it was received or ta ken, the command for the use of which it is intended, and the market price.—* A duplicate of said receipt shall be forwarded to the Chief of the depart ment to which the officer .by whom it is executed, is attached. VI. If any person shall remove Of conceal property ttecessaijr for the Use ot the army, or attempt to do so, the officers hereinbefore mentioned will cause such property, and all other property belonging to such person, that may be required by the army to be seised, and the officer seizing the same will forthwith report to tiie Chief of this Department, the kind, quantity and.market price of the property so seized, and the name of the owner. By command of Gen. R. E. Lee. R. H. Chilton, A. A. G. vulnerable to the vicissitudes of war, but thfbughout its future phases willl evcn have itnot^^j^moneyedmen, proved by Gen. Buell, and ted, but who was immedial ted from bis Colonelcy to * Generalship by Mr. Lincoln, now in service under Gen. Rpsecrans. Another is an adventuer from the land of the blue hoses, named AfcNeil, who, to cold blood, ordered ten inno cent non combatants to be shot be cause they resided in the neighborhood of one who had been abducted from his home by a guerilla band, flimsy pretext for this barbarity was, that it was done in retaliation for hi* murder, but his subsequent return, safe and sound, destroyed the last prop upon which such infamous ttrholesafe murder was sought to be justified. Another is Turchin, .of Illinois, a contrary, as unanimously wmh for oar moQey or gold, and werecar- Colonel, who Was tried by court mar^ defeat. b “‘ ryUlgSlier* * another three dollars i bushel; m Ual for permitting and ^n c ' a “ of {oV ‘°* two and a half; in Laurens at men to arson, murder,and plnnder and f pf tbe army likevultures with sharp beaks " rape; who was, condemned, andor- exert butJrttle’ .*.“"1°^ aB a w ho are likely to be sent to^he dered to be dismissed in dishonor from of foe inhabitants affiliate with our en-1 t punished by our military the Service, which sentence ttas n|H r °I‘ ^ I MJIJ* £jyj l, ? Te d l blockade across the Pot on. ac, and who A&ri^£his view of the state of pub- done so much to depreciate our i^f senfonent will, L think,bbjfoown These people’have no right op c» should wani ng j ^ s j, e i ter beliind; the army, and rovements be of such a c ^5fo buy up articles necessary to the troops to justify foe Peopje*nopeolyespous- ^ |n aiheav J p rofit . 1 ing our cause. It is Unjust to expect | ° a people nearly equaHy divided, with-j All honest men throughout the world out arms in their hands, who have been J ^ be rejoiced to hear that that ma- held in chains for more than two.years, 1 Hgnant demagogue and abolitionist, and much foe larger portion of whom, j Thaddeus Stevens, of Pennsylvania, and especially oiir friends, are still en-1 b as received some of foe punishment veloped within* the Federal lines,, to J due for bis enormous crimes against move as promptly as we could desire, j the happiness of tbeThuman race. He andf before they have some guaranty J 0W ns large ironworks and mills the heart rending agony ft of the ten Wheat Crop.—TFe hear of small transactions in wheat, in ..Houston, at Telfair at three dollars; in Jones at three dollars; in Bibb at five dollars, but there have been no.sales made sufficient to es tablish prices. AU accounts say foe wheat crop of Georgia is unprecedented^ He have it asserted that more wheat has been made and saved in Georgia this year than in foe five preceding years. One of our friends says he raised eighty bushels from two of seed. Another, out of a field of twenty to twenty-five acres, gathered and measured 428 bushels.—Jtfacon Telegraph* -.WOr A. late dispatch front Mem phis to. the North says the Confederates are moving along the whole linejfrom that city to Corinth, cutting the tele- that they VU1 not again be loft des,r0 > in S ,he •™ 1 ' rod of the smiter* If we could recall I ara informed have been utterly destroy-1 roaa ' two years, when we were first entering I ed . His machinery, aqueducts, build*« Have you paid for the Banner*? ♦t. t.

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