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VOLUME XVII.
ROME. GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 28 1862.
NUMBER 17
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aturday Morning, Feb. 22, 802.
To the People
the 42d Senatorial District, composed of
he Counties of Floyd, Barioit and Chat-
coga.
\ requisition lias been made, by the
federate Government on Georgia,
Twelve Regiments of troops. On
4lhof March next this requisition
be filled, either with drafted men
•lunteers. The apportionment to
District will probably 400 or 500
, The Government has not yet
vided funds for the equipment
[■outfit of these men ; consequently,
y will, for tho present, bo dependent
themselves, the county or their
lids. That noble, generous and pa-
>tic friends will step forward, jmd
nish tho necessary supplies, (if nec-
ary) there is not k doubt. "This is
ightdind highly commendable, but
ny judgment we should look a step
ond this, Some counties have
ado large and liberal supplies for
esc purposes, while others have done
mparotivoly little. It is manifestly
, 'Unit these exponses shou^l be
:|uidized throughout the State. So far
privato advances havo heretofore
sen mado, and no public record of
lem has been kept, it will bo impossi
le to secure reclamation for the same,
any general Hotchpotch Bill, Of all
1 the advances mado by tho Inferior
hurts, doubtless a record has been
apt, as they must necessarily have
assed through the County Treasurers
ffice, or that of some disbursing com-
litteo appointed by tho Court ; and of
>urse a record will be kept of all fu
are advances, arising from taxation
ut the difficulty is in procuring re-
amotion, for private advances, and
dvancos made by the various ladies
d societies. TL'is can only bo reme-
isd by the donors and societies turn-
ng over the money and other artio.loB
upplied (at cash ptlces) to tho county
roaBurer, or other authorized disburs-
ng committees, of which a record
hould be kept by . the Treasurer- or
ommittoe, and when disbursed, re-
eipts and vouchors taken, so as to be
ble. at the proper time, to give official
ouchers and certificates to tho Comp-
roller General.
At the last session of the General
ssembly, I introduced a Bill in the
hnato, for tho purpose of equalizing,
mong the soveral counties of the
Itate, thoso expenses. This Bill was
ost, by a few votes ; when, if there
bad been a full Senate at the time the
vote was taken, it would have passed.
design, at the next session to ro-intro-
duco this Bill; there can be no doubt
-hat it will pass. At all events, I know
he justness ot tho measure will secure
its passage at an early date.
The prominent feature in this Bill,
is that the aggregate of these expenses,
(-when properly'certified) bo made by
tho Comptroller, and tho pro ratashare
bf each county (he being governed by
the Digest of Taxes) be assessed on or
deducted from the general tax, ns each
county may have paid over, or fallen
under its pro rata share of the aggregate.
Knowing that the patriotic and liberal
winded people of this District, have
expended thousands of dollars, from
the impulses of their noble natures,
without any system, which is now, of
course, beyond reclamation, I suggest
the propriety, (ns Hio timo is at hand)'
when their purse strings will again bo
loosened) of adopting a system in their
bounties, which will place them on an
equality with their brethren throughout
the State. J). R. MITCHELL.
Rome, Ga., Feb. 21st, 18C2.
Run the Blockade.
P. L. Turnley has succeeded • in run
ning the blockade, with a large supply
of Garden Seeds, of excellent quality,
which he proposes to sell on reasonable
terms. Give him a call.
©“The $100 bill lost by Sam’l Mob
ley, was found recently by W. J. Wans-
lee, who received $20 os a reward for
his honesty.
Rome Light Guards.
At the recent emotion in the Light
Guards, on the promotion of Capt. Ma-
gruder, the following is the result:
1st Lieut. 9. H. Hull, Captain.
2d Lieut. M. Dwinell, 1st Lieut.
Private Robt. Fouclie’, 2d Lieut.
Captain Hall, as will be seen by his
card, is at home, with Serg. Hutchings,
soliciting recruits. As this is one of
the No. 1 companies in the service, in
deportment and drill, any one wishing
to serve his country, will find a soldier’s
life in this company as agreeable as it
is possible to be.
Days uf Fasting and Prayer.
President Davis has issued his Proo"
tarnation appointing the 28lh inst., a
day of Fasting,^Humiliation and Praver-
This is right and proper, and all should
observe the day in spirit and truth.
Gov. Brown has appointed the 7th of
March next, as a day of- Fasting and
Prayer, to be obsorved by tho people of
Georgia.
ggy-Cnpt. J. G. Yeiser, with his fami
ly, Privates L. B. Stillwell and Reuben
Merritt, returned home on Thursday
last. Judging from the Captain’s ap
pearance, we would think a soldier’s
life agreed with him, os he is enjoying
most excellent health.
S@rThe Atlanta Contederacy under
stands that President Davis had taken
ttie field and is now at Murfreesboro—
How ridiculous.
millions of dollars, to pay the present
floating debt of the Federal Govern
ment, and to carry on the war till July
of next year. The aggregate Federal
debt will thus be, taking in the old
debt, and tho twq hundred millions
sold of the debt authorized last sum
mer, sixteen hundred and fifty millions
of dollars.
This amount results from estimating
expenses at the rate of two millions a
day ; but it is well known that these
expenses are near three millions. The
probabilities are, therefore, that, in
stead of the 1st of July, 1863, finding
them with a debt of sixteen hundred
and fifty millions, it will find them
with at least two thousand millions,
fading as a charge of one hundred and
twenty millions annuully to the account
of tuxation.
The bill now just passed imposes a
tax of one hundred and fifty millions,
and makes every man who has a debt
due him or property to sell, to receive
payment in Government notes, which
Stevens thinks must go down to sixty
cents in the dollar. It remains to
bo seen what effect these measures
will have, upon the pocket nerves of
the Yankees. We can now see why
their leaders are so anxious for early
victories. They want to exhilarate
and ticklo the people while thfy rob
them.
Does the South want to take a hand
in paying this big dobt, and subjecting
herself to this heavy taxation ? If so,
she has but to fold her arms and submit
to subjugation. It her‘pride did not
rouse tier resistance, hier interests do.
Submission would not only be degra
dation, it would be utter and everlasting
ruin.—Jlich Dis.
JOrTlio roqisition on Floyd county
is for one hundred and seventy-three
Federal Finance*
A significant dobato ocourred last
week in tho Fadoral House of Repre
sentatives, on the bill which has subse
quently passed, authorizing the issue,
of a hundred and fifty millions of Treas
ury notes, payable on demand, and of
five hundred millions of Federal bonds
containing, also, a provision requiring
the notes of tho Government to be
receivable in payment of nil the
public and privato debts as a logal ten
der.
Mr. Stevens, the chief financial ora
cle of the House, spoke in more detail,
and substantially, as follows: “The bill
is a measure of necessity, not ohoice.
It provides a means, in the two forms
of paper authorized, of six hundred
and fifty millions of dollars. The late
administration loft a debt of $100,000,-
000. Cuugress, at its extra session, au
thorized an additional loan of $250,000-
000, whioh has been all taken, except
fifty millions. The banks, before they
had paid all of the portion of this
loan which they had taken,broke down
under tho load, and suspended specie
paytnont. The last of their payments
was mado yesterday, and on tho same
day the banks have refused to receive
the Treasury notes,, which must sink to -
depreciated monoy. The remaining
fifty millions the Secretary of the
Treasury has been unable to negotiate.
There is now a floating debt-, audited
and unaudited, of one hundred and
thirty millions. Tho daily expenses
of the Government are now.about two
millions. To oarry us on until the next
meeting of Congress, will take six hun
dred millions more, making about sev
en hundred millions to be provided for.
But os this Congress must provide fur
appropriations to July, 1863, seven
months more must be added to these
expenses. That would require four
hundred and twenty millions, which,
added to the amount before estimated,
makes eleven hundred millions. If
the first sevon hundred millions is forc
ed on the market, I have no doubt that
the boncU would soli as Jow as sixty
per cent., os in tho last year; and even
then, it would be found impossible to
find payment in com. But a largo part
must be aocepted in the depreciated
notes of non-specie paying banks. If
the minimum discount that any reason
able man oould fix, say twenty-five per
cent., the loss on eleven hundred mil
lions to bo sold, would bo two hundred
and seventy-five millions. It would
therefore require at loast bonds to the
amount of thirteen hundred and fifty
millions, to produoe.suiBcient eurrenoy
to carry us to-the ond of tho next fiscal
year, 30th June, 1863. The sum is too
frightful to bo tolerated.”
This is tho language of an Admin is
tration man, a prominent Pennsylva
nian, a hot advocate of the war. It is
their own statement of . their own case,
by the oracles of Yankee sentiment
They confess that it will require the
.issue .of thirteen hundred and fifty
Evaeuation of Bowllhg Green*
On Thursday evening Bowling Green
was evacuated by the lurgor portion of
our troops, who fell back in the direc
tion of Nashville,Gen. Hindman’s brig
ade, however, still, remaining a “few
miles tho other side of Bowling
Qroen.
Yesterday morning it was reported
that Gen. Hindman had sharp engage
ment with the Yankees, who were ad
vancing in force. lie fell back in good
order, and after crossing Little Barren
river, blew up the railroad bridge and
burned the turnpike bridge over that
stream.
The Yankees began to throw shells
in the town between 10 and 11 o’olock,
and we hear that it was set on fire and
nearly all-of it laid in ashes. Theso re
ports may not be strictly true, but they
come to us in such a way as to incline
us to believe in ilioir general correct
ness.
It iB also stated that three locorno-
tives undergoing repairs in the machine
shop at Bowling Green, our frionds
were unable to get away.
The telegraph operator at Bowling
Green was sturtled about 10 o’elock
yesterday morning by the bursting of a
shell about ten feet from his quarters.
Concluding tho plueo was loo warm for
him he at once packed up his traps
and went to Franklin, where he is at
the present located.— Irouisville Courier,
15'tJ, m
In a late issue tho London Herald
gives what we may place before our
roaders, ns a good summary of the rea
sons which have induced England to
consider the question of intervention
or recognition:
1. Becauso the Confederates have
right on their side.
2. Because we may now consider
them as a Government established de facto,
and the sooner this is acknowledged by
other Powers, the sooner will an ena
be put to this unnatural fratricidal
strife.
3. That we may aid in pteventing a
fearful calamity—a servile insurrection, ex
cited bv the North as a last desperate effort.
4. Because it is the undoubted niter-
est of the nations of the earth that the
great fertile continent of North Ameri
ca should be occupied by soveral inde
pendent-States, acting as cheoks on one
anothor, instead of being under the do
minion of ono overbearing Govern
ment, already distinguished by its une
qualled and insufferable arrogance, and
itself under the sway of tho reckless,
turbulent and least intelligent olasses.
5. Because there is no sufficient rea
son why mankind should be interdict
ed from intercourse with so largo and
so rich a portion of the earth’s surface
as the Confederate States, and their in
dependence is. the quickest mode of
ro-opening them for tho general bene
fit.
■ ■ ■ ^ tm »
Beautiful Sugars.—It is a singular
fact that the finest sugars ever seen in
this pluce have. come here since the
blockade. Of samples of six qualities
which w0 have seen from Mr. A. W.
Steel’s two at least of the clarified and
granulated are of a richer quality than
wo ever saw before. On enquiring
why such sugars were not brought here
bofore the war. we learn that it is sup
posed that they were monopolized in
New York to mix with poorer quali
ties, to bring the latter uj. to a sale
able standard; and that this- mixing of
sugars has been a great business in
Now York. Before the war, all the
sugar in this market came from the
North. Now it all comes direct from
the South. At present we pay some
thing more for it in consequenco of the
necessity of transporting it by rail road
some 800 or 1000 miles ; but after peace
we skull get the Qno sugars direct by
water at a low price.—Fayetlville Ob
server,
Mr. lueminger, tho Secrotary of the
Treasury, estimates the appropriation
required for the purchaso of specie for
the use of the Government, in paying
the interest on its stock, at $2,000,000
From the Southern Confederacy.
Letters from Rev. Wm. M. Crumley.
Richmond, Feb. 12, 1862.
Eds. Sou. Confederacy—My heart
is deeply stirred, and the fire burns
within my bones while I muse, and
everything around me udds to the
flame. The succession of disasters that
has befallen us, closing with tho Roan-
oko tragedy—pH of which place the
enemy in position to occupy our main
lines of railrond, which connect the
extremes of our country, aftd the vari
ous points occupied by our scattered
army, uuless soon checked, awaken
the liveliest- emotions. These late suc
cesses will enable the enemy to cut off
Magruder on thePeiiinsuln, with Ports
mouth and Norfolk, unless they are
speedily checkod. Wo cannot move
by land in the rain and mud, and they
can readily move by water, and thus
strike us hard and fust.
1 trust those things havo aroused our
authorities and the people generally
from the lgug fatal lethargy that fol,
lowed tho battle of Manassas. We-
have been bonsting and trusting in
Providonce forgetting that “faith with
out Works is dead.” "lio might of
Hercules is worth nothing to a mail
who doos not lay liis owu shoulder to
the wheel.
Tho enemy has been busily building
boats, collecting and dt filing soldiers,
and throwing the terrible coils of 'their
monster army around us, whose ana
conda folds we now feel. Don’t think
me an alurmist, 1 speak the sen
timents of many wise and experienced
men.
What now is our condition ? Rouse
up and think 1 We have a skeleton
of an army on the Potomac and on the
coast. The regiments were not all full
at first, and by deaths, sickness and
other causes, many o't’ them are much
reduced. Many of them are 12-months
volunteers, and their timo is nearly
out. Tho army on tho const is largely
composed of six-months men, and their
time wifi expire almost simultaneously
with that ol tho 12-months men.—
That time will be the crisis of our strug-
;le. Tho North is now making its last
desperate effort. What they do, must
be done this campaign, and must close
by July at farthest. If we Can main
tain ourselves in this struggle, whioh
is now aipon us, and withstand tho
shock of the efforts they aro now mak
ing, we wifi win the day; for, 'if defeat
ed in their present giant efforts, wifi
never be ablo to rally again or to raise
and equip a sufficient force to inaugu
rate a new campaign. By that time
also, we shall have the benefit of Euro
lean recognition, and perhaps inter-
eronce too, so far as the blookado is
concerned.
But if we nro defeated by these mon
ster efforts of our enemy, years of suff-
■ring and toil, such as neither we nor
our fathers ever experienced, wifi fol
low.
Now, nhnt should we do in this
emergency T Let us with one heart,
resolve to make a despeiate effort, such
as free men fighting for liberty alone
can make ? All is at stnko I Let every
able-bodied man rush to arms at once,
to fill up our skeleton regiraerits.—
There is considerable advantage in this.
They havo experienced officers, who,
in good weather, have hud time to drill
the men they havo, and some of them
havo been in battlos. I know that new
men, new companies and officers, would
do as well, would tight as well, if they
had time to mnko the same preparations
but they have not now ; and herein is
the advantage of joining tho old com
panies and regiments and filling up
their ranks.
Then tho old Companies have good
arms, which new ones are not sure of
obtaining.
Next; let every six and twelvo-
nionths man resolve to remain in serv
ice till tho last gun is fired, and till
victory and independeno crown our
banners. I know they hnve had hard
timesand suffered much. I know they
want to see tho loved ones at homo,
and thoso loved ones wnnt-to see them
also ; but it is better, by a manly re
solve, to sacrifice this enjoyment, and
even to (jie on the field of battle with-
it, and thus to save their country, and
and homos for thoso loved ones to en
joy after them, than to lose all that
file, home, friends and kindred make
pleasant and worth living for. Let
them remain in sevice till they can
return with unhiding honors and
crowns of victory upon their brows.—
I served my country in my. youth, and
nm ready to do so again : and when the
hoar comes, I wifi take my chanco on
the] field and conquer or perish. I
havo a son in service on- tho Potomac,
and .sonin-law on the const; and if, in
the hour of our country’s peril, they
retire from the contest, simply because
their time is out-, 1 should feel like dis
owning them. I now feel, as if I should
havo little or no sympathy for them,
if they should have to ditch for tho
Yankees for ten cents a day, in the
future.
O God ! help every man to realize the
danger we are in and feel his responsi
bility ; and be Thou our strong defense
in this our time, of need 1
Yours as ever,
1VM. M. CRUMLEY.
j®*The consecration of the Rev.
Richard H; Wilmor, D. D., Bishop
Elect of the Diocese of Alabama, is ap
pointed by the Presiding Bishop of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in the
Confederate States of Amorica, to tako
plaoe on Thursday, the 27th instant,
at Richmond, Va.—Chets Gour.
Richmond, Feb. 19.—Advices receiv
ed in reliable quarters, state that the
Confederates will make a stand at Nash
ville, having an effective force at-' that
point. Pillow; Johnston and Floyd
are there.
Proceedings of tho Confederate Con
gress :
House.—Foot, of Miss., introduced a
resolution, inquiring into the cause of
the rcaent disasters in North Carolina,
Kontuoky and Tennessee, and submit
ting a proposition to uppoint a commit
tee, with power to senator persons and
pnpers. Laid on the table.
smith, of Va., offeicd a resolution
declaring that ill case any officer of tho
army or navy bo found in a state of
intoxication, whether off" or on duty,
ho shall be deprived of his commission;
and that a like penalty be inflictod on
any officer who knows of such intoxica
tion and fails to report it. Foot favor
ed Smith’s resolution—Clark, of Mo.,
opposed. Laid on the table.
Senate.—This body proceeded lit I
o’clock to the Representative Chanlber,
to witnoss tho counting of the votes for
President and Vico President. Davis
and Stephens received all the votes east
after which the Senators returned to
their own chember.
C. C. Clay, jr., of Alabama, Thomas
J. Semmes, of Louisiana, and James
Phelan, of Miss, appeared and took
their scats.
G. A. Henry, of Tennessee, intro
duced a bill legalizing the organization
of certain companies of Tennessee
volunteers, since tho first of December
lost.
A joint resolution was adopted to in
form the President that both Houses
were organized, and ready to recoive
communications.
No intelligence in offioial quarters
rolutive to tho disaster at Fort Donel-
sen, or tho number of Confederate pris
oners taken, or the safety of Gen. Buck
ner and his brigade.
Cincinnati, Fob. 17.—Fort Donelson
was taken yesterday, with 15,UU0 priso
ners, including Generals Johnston,
Buckner and Pillow. It was announo
ed iu tho House of Representatives
at Washington yestorday by Col. Fox.
thnt tie was authorized by McClellan
to make the statement, Floyd escap
ed.
St. Louis, Feb. 10.—Gen. Halleck
has received dispatches from General
Curtis, that General Price’s fear guard
had been overtaken iu the pursuit of
the rebels from Springfield. They es
caped by leaving their baggage and
wagons.
Norfolk, February 18th.—Six com
panies of the 8th N. Hampshire regi
ment sailed from Boston the 16th for
Ship Island.
Tlio cotton market in New York on
Saturday was irregular—middling 28@
29 ots. .
Latest advices from Mexico state that
the people of that country, so long torn
asunder by warring factions, aro now
united, and determined to resist the
Spanish Invasion.
A large amount of hospital stores
have been sent to Roanoke Island by
tho Yankee Government.
The Ship Maenuloy, of Baltimore,
was boarded by the Sumter near Geno
va, but was allowed to proceed.
Tho 9th Rhode Island battery, and
a portion of tho Engineer regiment,
sailed for Port Royal on tho 17th in
stant.
The Sumter was at Gibraltar on tho
2d instant. Great consternation pre
vailed among American shipmasters
at Marseilles, on account of her pres
ence.
Tho American question, as affecting
the supply of Cotton, ivas debated in
the Manchester Chambers of Cotn - -
merce, and a great desire manifested
that tho war should bo brought to a
close.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on
the 1st Feb. was 5.000 bales—prices un
changed. Consols 93.
The Roanoke Island prisoners are on
route to New York.
St. Louis, Feb. 16.—General Mitch
ell (the astronomer) has crossed Barren
Creek, and is in possession of Bowling
Green.
Richmond, Feb. 20,—Latest North
ern accounts of the battle of Fort
Donelson, admit that the Federal army
wob terribly cut to pieces. Tho dead
Yankees lay in heaps, and the scene *1
the battle beggared all description, and
and that it was a dearly bought-victory.
Companies were deprived of their offi
cers, and officers of their companies,
and tho dead were thickly strewn across
the field. The artillery of tho Confed
erates was dealt with powerful effect.
The greater portion of*tha Confeder
ate prisoners were sent to Chicago, and
tho balance to Springfield.
Information was received this even
ing that three Federal gunboats ascend
ed Chowan River to Winton, and an
engagement ensued. The Confeder
ates were commanded by Col. Williams.
The Yankees wore promptly repulsed
and compelled to retire, with their
boats damaged.
Norfolk, Feb. 20.—The Herald says
400 Federnis were killed ond 800 woun
ded at Fort Donelson. The per centage
of officers lost was large.
The Herald say* the Confederates lost
48 field peices, 67 heavy guns, ' 20,000
stand of arms, and a largo quantity of.
commissary stores, (tho Herald lies ! )
and that 80,000 troops aro expected at
Cumberland River oii the 19th inst'.—
Gen. Johnslon’s' Address to ihc Army
ot the Potomnc--Eloqueut Appeal
to the Volanteert.
Wo are indebted to the kindness of a
friend for a copy of Gens. Beauregard’s
anjl Johnston’s addresses to the l rmy
Army of the Potomac. The tor-
mor wo havo already published ; and
we now have tho pleasure of laying
before our readers tho stirring appeal
of Gen. Johnston,'relating to the to-
enlistment question, the all absorbing
topic tif conversation in tho camps and
eteowheroV We have reliable authority
for saying thut the troops in the
Army of the Potomac are rapidly re
enlisting, and we cannot doubt that
this address will servo to arouse the
volunteers in other portions of the
country: ' "
Headq’rs Dep’t of Nohthern Va.. 1
February 4, 1862; j
Soldiers:—Your country again call* -
you to tiie defence of the noblest of
human causes. To the indomitable
courage already exhibited on the battle-
Hold, you have added the rarer virtues
of high endurance, cheerful obedience, -
and selfisacrifice. Accustomed to the
comforts and luxuries of home, you
have met and borne the privations of
oamp lifo, tho exactions of military
discipline, and the rigors of a winter
campMgn. The rich results of your
courage,- patriotism, and unfaltering
virtue, aro before you. Intrusted with
the defence or this important frontier,
you have driven back tho immense
army whioh the enemy had sent to in
vade our country, and to establish his
dominion over our people, by the wide
spread havoc of a war inaugurated
wjthoul a shadow of constitutional
right, and prosocuted .by a spirit of
ruthless vengeance. By your valor and
firmness you havo kept him in check
until the nations of tho . earth have
boon forced to see us in our true char
acter—not dismembered and rebellious
communities, but an empire of Confed-
erate'Statos, with a Constitution safe in
its affections of tho people, institutions
and laws in full and unobstructed ope
ration, a population enjoying all the
comforts of fife, and a citizen soldiery
who laugh to scorn tho threat of subju
gation.
Your oouu try now summons you to a
nobler and a.greater deed. The enemy
lias gathered up all his energies for a
final conflict. His enormous masses
threaten us on the West; his naval ex
peditions ore assailing us upon our
wholo Southern coast, and upon the
Potomac, within a few hours march, he
has a gigantic army, inflamed by lust
and maddened by fanatioism. But the
plains of Manassas aro . not forgotten,
and he shrinks from meeting the dis
ciplined heroes who hurled across £he
Potomac his grand aimy, routed and
disgraced. He docs hot propose to
attaak this army so long as ic holds its
present position, with undiminishod
numbers, and unimpaired discipline;
but, protected by his fortifications, he
awaits the expiration of your term of
service. Ho recollects that his own
ignoblo soldiery, when their term of
service expired, “marched away from
the scene of action to the tune of tho
enemy’s cannon ;” . and ho hopes that
at that critical moment Southern men
wifi consent to shuro with them this
infamy.. Expecting a largo .portion of
our army to bo soon disbanded, he
.hopes that his immense numbers
wifi easily overpower your gallant
comrades who will be loft hore, and
thus removo tho chief obstacle to his
cherished scheme of Southern subjuga
tion.
The Commanding General calls upon
the twelvemonths men' to stand by
their bravo comrades who have volun
teered for tho war, to re-volunteer at
once, and thus shew to the world that
the patriots engaged in this strugglo for
indepondenco will not swerve from the
bloodiest path they may be called to
tread. The onemips of your country,
as well as her friends, arewatcliing your
action with deepl intense, tremulous
interest. Such is your position that
you can act no obsoure part. Your de
cision, be it for honor or dishonor, wifi
be written down in history. You can
not, wifi not draw back at this ■ solemn,
crisis ot' our strugglo, when all that is
heroic in the land is engaged, and all
that is precious hangs trembling in tlip
balance.—Rich. D's.
Intenso excitement prevails iq Wash
ington, on account of the (ate news;
and a common voice of jubilee js heard
all over the North, in consequenco of
the recent Federal victories, which arc
to be celebrated in Philadelphia- and
other Yankee cities. Preparations . i|i
Congress are.making for an' oral cele
bration on a grand scale. The whole
North is frantio with joy.
A special dispatch from Washington
tho 17th, to the Philadelphia Inquirer,
Sgys the Navy Department tits received
dispatches that tho stars and stripes
are waving over Savannah, and that'
tho attack on tho city was made by
eleven gunboats and 8,000 men.
Senator Chandler, of Michigan, said
during the discussion of the Federal
Treasury note bill, that there was but
one obstaole in tho way of supposing
the rebellion, and that is Gen. .'Goe. B,.
McClellan, the oommander in .cheif. of;
the Federal army. His move is impor- ;
atively demanded by j udges of military
operations.
It is reported that 5,000 .negroes' are
in possession of this Yankees at Port
Royal.
Augusta, Fob. 20.—A- private dis-'
patch from Chattanooga to-night, states,
.that Nashville is now in possesion of the
Federate. We have information to thnt
effect here, and sup|)ose'it is true. Wo
believe the report of Jeff. Davis being at
Murfreesboro, is a mistake.—-AW'.. Con
federacy. .
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