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VOLUME XVIII,
HOME. GEORGIA, FRIDAY HORNING, DECEMBER 12, 1862.
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jjnlurdny Morning, Bee. O, 1802.
Military Hospital in Home,
jrhc nesossities of the army rcqulro
eestablishment of a hospital in our
y, and Surgeon Pim has been order*
[hern to-mskc all arrangements for
pcnrc and comfort of our sick sol-
The City Hall and other rooms
L- been selected, and hands are al
ly ut woilt putting tilings in nrdbr..
Sl'linl is our duly ? Plainly to do all
power to help the work forward
i lend a hel[ing hand in every way
Ipossihly cati to add to tho comfort
[the bravo fellows who have taken
[ir lives in tiioir hands and gone out
do liftfle for its. 'In 1 a thousand
ys tins citizens of Homo nun help in
s groat work. Blankets, comforts,
[sip, and pillow cases, are needed—
Icr clothing for the pat ents—vego-
jlcs—good ar.d nourishing food—
i and cordials, and a multitude of
|pr' articles, No one parson can fur-
i all that is needed ; every ono can
tmneihing,
Vo look With implicit confidence to
women. Wo know what earnest
rts and ready hands thpy have.—
appeal is made to them now, buoIi
lms not been made before. Wo
MY how much lias already been no-
hplished by tbelv active, lov.ing en-
but' thoy--can do more. They
Fc borne much, and suffered much,
1 labored .faithfully, but they' will
or now with new energy, and take
Id ot- this work with a determination
render Romo a provorb in the army
its cure aiid. tenderness of the, sick
1 wounded.
Surgeon i*lm anil Nichols.
I'hese gentlemen arc in our city,
uged with the establishment of
tepitals. Dr. Dim has been attached
the staif cf Gen. Bragg, and Dr.
diols to thjit .of-Gen. Bulk— both
fid high iir their professiiuL
t is not Buying too much to nsseil
t iW.tuTOessional men and gentle-
u,.no surgeons in,, the army, orrnit of
er.joym more worthy reputation.—
cordially ; welcome (hem. to our
“Col. Pennington wants a nttm
(of Carpenters, Laborers and Negro
|tr.cn, (o prepare buildings for IIos-
M purpeses,
"John T.. Beall, died of small pox
[Monday last at his residence near
'rd Springs,
Tho rain has como at lust, and,
st plentifully. It litis been raining
H“f less, during the present week,
’ tho tho clouds still-look heavy nntl
enng. f* “ • ■ if ' “. m - -
i'bc Home Southerner for, Sale.
'Vo ctesiro tp sell at,private sale this
und.established paper, and-willsell
Ven'Actiible terms. It belongs to the
ito of the jato Geo. T.’ Stovall, and
tve desiro to sottlo in full, • tho busi-
is of thocstato at an early.. day, wp
|u)d liko.-to soll by the first of Janu-
rhe Southerner Was established by
■ Fouchc' about 15 years ago. , It
i a large circulation, gpod patronngo,
i a rich country to support iti A
[lroad is .being constructed from
| to unite with tho Nvima rotul,
Jacksonville, Ala., which will
t ft dy. increase the patronage of- tho
The Supply of Corn, *
Wo feel that we cannot too often
press upon tho people the danger that
the'supply of eornj in the slate will bo
exhausted before relief from any in
coming crop will be experienced. Ev
ery day reveals facts demonstrating
that the last atop was enormously over
estimated, and that the calculations
on papnr nro dangerously deceptive.—
Already the northern counties of tho
state have been drained of what sur
plus they had, many families aro suf
fering from want of food, and the
quartermaster's department of Gen.
Bragg’s army bus to seek for supplies
nt longer distances. Middle Georgia
has already army agents purchasing
corn for the ubo of the army, some two
hundred miles distant, and soon tho
wltolo of tho state will liuvo to contrib
ute its provistiis for thp support of the
troops in and nonr iter borders.
We feol more convinced than over
that our Lcglsluturo committed a grave,
error in sanctioning mid not prohibit-
the dislilhilion oF grain. They seem to
have considered it u redeeming feature
in their law that dear corn should be
made into cheap whiskey, and that
they forbade tho establishment of dis,
tillorica.within twenty miles of a rail
road. Now it seems to us that the
cheaper whiskey is, the worse it is for
the community, and the provision lim
iting tlie price to one dollar and fifty
oonts in tho state-can bo easily evaded
by currying it out of tiie stato ; tho of
fence then being consummated beyond
tho jurisdiction of Georgia cannot be
punished by her laws.
Tito provisions that grain shall not bo
distilled within twenty miles of a rail
roader navigable stream is equally as
futile. A»tdo from the consideration
that the country bordering on railroads
is generally the poorest portion of thp
state and hits little corn to spare, the
distiller twenty-one miles from the
road could haul corn to his distillery
as easily twenty miles from one direc-
lien ns another, und with tho enor
mous profit's which he will reap, in
spite of tho law price fixed, can nflbrd
to haul it any distance within two or
three days trayob
Every proviso contained in tho law
can be so easily and safely evaded that
it scorns to hnv.o been intended to af
ford encouragement to speculators and
and extortioners. The only hope
which remains of preventing the per
version of tlie gifts of God to tlie dev
il’s purposes, is that Gov. Brown will
'withhold licenses altogether, and re
fuse to sanction the distillation by the
Confederate Government. Tho author
ities of the Confederacy can-procut-o a
sufficiency of alcohol for medical pur
poses from other sources titan by ta
king tho food of the people for that
ohjoot. if tho policy of destroying tho
grain *a persisted in. we may expoo.
some such scenes of riot to bo enacted
us ai-o recorded in tiro following para,
graph :
A whiskey distillery was torn down
in Gasion county, N. O., last, wtok by
tho people, Tho high price of corn jn
that section, and country beyond, wo
suppose, has made the people resolve
that no more shall be wai ted for whis
key.
If such things are done in North
Carolina, exclusively a grain producing
state, and where corn is cheaper to day
titan in Georgia, may wo not expect tlie
same litre?— Avg.Chran.
8®" Tho Macon Journal & Messenger
loams that an unntal breadth of land
hits hoan sown in wheat in Georgia,
and tho prosont propeat is most encour
aging for tv large crop next year.
86?* Ala,j. R. Ii, Moore, of Smith’s
Legion, retnrnod a few days since,
with body of Adj’t 1’. C. Shropshire.
8SF*The small pox is increasing in
Richmond. -Tlie City Hospital infilled
with-oases, and there'are seventy five
patients in Mayo’s factory which has
been converted into, a hospital. Are
tho oity authorities of Augusta going to
take any monsuro* to provent tho intro
duction of tho disease hero.
—■—■*—■ -«■-» —
Legislature of North Carolina.—
This body lias passed resolutions ax
pressivo of full confidence in Presi
dent Davis and his administration, and
pledging the entire resources of the
State to tho presaoution of tho war.—
I ho course-of Gov, Vuncu wa3 also
ully endorsed. These resolutions were
upapirqonsly pusscc].
Henry
Pt.ttARA
Executors.
Jfcqy- A Cleveland paper says that the
people of that town are tispig mouso
traps, nUi jack-knives am| shift
buttons for titr.flll change,•
Extracts
From a sermon preached by Bishop
Elliott, nt Savrnnuh, Sept. 18th, 1802.
I cannot sop, as yet, the ■ termination
of this war, because I do not think
that all tlie moral results have been
produced which aro to oome out of it;
We have yet much trouble before us
and many trials to enduro ere it shall
be ended. God does not permit his
creatures, especially those who are
bound to Him in the bond of the
Christian covenant, to bo slaughtered
as they have heen slaughtered in this
wnr without meaning to produce ef
fects adequate to tho punishment.—
If the armies which hftvo been brought
into tho Held have at all approached
in numbers what they have boon offi
cially reported'to bo, then I'cannot be
far wrong when I affirm that already,
in the brief space of eightc-en months,
a quarter of a million of human be
ings have been swept away by disease,
by wounds and by death upon tho
battle field. Whnt a terrible reckon
ing ! It cannot bo for nothing 1 And
it must go on until Englond shall he
convinced that slavery, as wo hold it
here, is essential to tho welfare of tho
world, until the North shall find that
her fanaticism was madness and delu
sion, until wo ourselvo shall learn to
value tho institution above any esti
mate wo have over placed upon it,, and
to treat it as a sacred (rust from God,
until all shall ncknoweledge, with one
consent, that it is a divinely guarded
system, planted byJOod, protected by
God and arranged for' hif own wise
purposes in the futuro of him, with
whom rne'day is us a thousand years,
and a thousand years ns cue day.
And above all do I bolieyo that this
revolution will not have finished its
work until punishment shall have been
rolled back upon that fountain of evil
whence have sprung all theso bitter
waters. I cannot conceivo anything
more hateful to God, than the infideli
ty which has revelled in the Eustert)
States for tho last feyty years, having
its centre and its seat in tho modorn
Athens, as the Bostonians have proud
ly culled their city. And if as the
ApoBtlesnid, tho mark of tlie Atheni
ans was that tlio’y spent their time in
nothing elso but either to tell .or to
hear some now thipg, and to plant al.
tats to unknown Gods, well lias the
name been chosen for themselves. For
all tlmt time has Christ been dishouor-
oi^ and discrowned j for all that time
has impious reason heen exalted with
a quiet superciliousness above the word
of God-; for all that timo has every
accursed heresy been spued out' of tlie
months of man who call themselves
the ministers 'of God. Nothing was
too monstrous to bo uttered, nothing
too vile to bo listened to. One would
affirm that Christ waa a philosopher,
good enough- for his day, the legitimate
successor of Plato und of Aristotio. but
that tho present times required a Christ
nlore advanced in philosophy, and
especially in tho philosophy of aboli
tionism. Another would declare that
there was no objective God, but that
God was whatever each man conceived
him to be within himself, that is, that
man was the ci^ator of God, and not
God the creator of man. Another
would impiously cry out against the
God of ; the Bible, because he was a
slave-holding God, and against Christ,
because he was n slave admitting
Chrisl, and against the Bible because it
tolerated and affirmed tlie system. Tht%
Holy Ghost was utterly discarded and
sinned against, until the great mass
was given up to delusion and a lie.—
And out of this defiled nest havo flown
tho birds of evil omen who have scat
tered discord and confusion over tho
land. At present they seem to be-reap
ing money—the fruit which they love,
but which tho Bible calls the root of
all evil—from the seed of thoir planting.
War is filling thoir coffers and they aro
riding upon tho highest wave of pros
parity. But although our arm may
not reach them, God is upon their
track and ero this conflict is ended,
will bring them to repentance and re
morse or else punish thorn in the day
of his wrath. ;'Bo sure your sin will
find you out,” is a law whloh never
goes unfulfilled. And therefore is it
that I havo placod at the boad of iny
sermon tho words of tho wiso Solomon,
that wo may all thU day draw the prop
er distinction, between exulting over
am; enemy and offering praise and
thanksgiving to God for his wrath.—
"Rejo.icp not when thine "enemy falj-
ot’n, and let not thine heart be glad
when lie stumbleth: Lest the Lord
gee it unc) jt djsplonso’hi.m and ho furp
away his wrath from ltitq,” Lot us not,
by any improper exultation turn ow iy
God’s wrath from °H r aqd
especially from these wretched iufidels,
the harbingers of war, of woo, and of
anarchy. Let our thanksgiving be ono
of deep solemnity and deep humility,
lookiug upon God’s movements in our
behalf with awe and waiting .for him
to inflict his wiath, in his own good
time, upon his own revilers and tho
despisers of his son. Ho will arrange
it all and-if you watch upon his wrath
you will say: “Great and marvellous
nro thy works, Lord God Almighty;
just ns true are thy ways, thou King of
saints.”'
ggy* Referring to tho fact that drug
gists in the South have been impri-'
soned, and their property confiscated,
for sending medicines into our lines,
tho Religious He.tn!d, of Richmond,
appropriately remarks:
“Our enemies prohibifed the intro
duction of medicines into the .South.
Since tlie Foderal occupation of Mem
phis and New Orleans, druggists in
llicfo cities have been subjected to tho
confiscation of their property and to
imprisonment as felons, for tho sale
of medicittos that passed within our
tines. This is ait utimnnly warfare
against tlie lives of combatants and
non-combatants nliko—an inhuman
effort to mnko disease fatal not only
to our men in arms, but also to disoro-
ptd age, and womanhood and infancy.
How unsightly will it rppear on the
page of'history, side by side, with the
magnanimous act of Salndin the Great!
When his mortal foo—tho only foe lie
ever feared—Richard the First, fell
dangerously ill, duriug a crusado in
the Holy Land, this aurncon chief sent
him the ft-uit end the snow, wi’hout
which Ids disenso could not bo cured,
and saved his life 1 Ah, we war against
worse than Saracen enemy, who plumes
himself upon bis eminent Chiistian
principle, but tramples under foqt
every dictate of justice and humanity.
Shall we, in any emergency, consent
to wear tho iron yoke which has been
forged fur us? If he devotes its to
death ns a means of subjugation, must
not the subjugation be worse than
doath ?
Late News.
Richmond, Deo. 2.—A dispatch dated
Nov. 26th, gives an account of a Con-
fenerate dash into Montgomery coun
ty, Md. The dispatch says: This mor
ning at daylight a body of rebel caval
ry, supposed to bo sixty strong, enter
ed Poojville and seized Cherry nnd Sar
gent, tho telograph operators nt th.c
station there, in bed, paroled them and
ormitted them to telegraph thoir mis-
This b
up to Washington.
boldness of
Trial of Major-Gbnkral Van orn.-
The army correspondent of the Mobile
Advertiser, and Jiegister, writing from
Abbeville, Miss., November 21, says:
The Court of Inquiry into tho charges
preferred by General Bowen against
Mqjor General Van Dorn is in session,
but the proceedings thus fur havo been'
kept carefully from leakage, I learn
from a very well informed officer that
Vnn Dorn’s conduct will by '.his trial,
be greatly relieved, and his attacks up
on Corinth, upon >he investigation, will
be found to be less discreditable to him
tlmn has geuernllv been supposed. A
great share of the blajno will ho found
to rest upon a Genoral commanding a
division in Prico’s corps, who, by a dis
astrous delair cf four or five hours,
changed the whoio complexion of the
conflict. It has heen such a freely can
vassed matter that it will be no harm to
slate that this General was rendered
incapable to command by narcotic
stimulants.' At fivo o'clock in the morn
Cng ho was ordered to advance, hot at
eight he had made no move, when lie
vt ported in person to the commending
General, and h.aviug bscn found uufit to
discharge the terribly important ditties,
his loops were placed under General
Greer. The investigation. Van Dorn's
frien Is appear to IhTnk, will clear him
from ail" blame ot the disaster.
Shall Pox Panic.—Quite a little
panic was Created at tho Capitol yester
day evening by tho announcement tlmt
tlie Senator from Cherokee county, Mr.
Hardwick, had the smnll pox. Some
cf tho members of the House were in
favor of adjourning instantly-to meet in
Tuskegee on Monday next, but the
alarm was somewhat, quieted by the
statement of sevoral physicians -of that
body that a timley vaocinntioi) would
prevent them from taking tho saiftll
pox, even though they hud boon al
ready oxposed, and a committee was
finally appointed to investigate the mat
ter and report at ton o’clock this mor
ning- Means have been provided for
vaccinating all tlie members who may-
desire. Tho report in regard to Mr.
Hardwick appears to be.well founded,
nnd it is understood that he contracted
tho disoaso while on his return front
Virginia whoro he had been to visit his
son. Excitement on a subject of this
kind is useless, but ns a motvsuro.of pre
caution wo advise nil old and young,
who have not been vacoinated to havo
it dono at once.—Montgomery Advertiser.
BQL,Hermes, the Riohmond correspon
dent of tho Charleston Morqury,: says:
Anticipating a speedy attack upon
Drewry’s Bluff, tho Secretary ‘ of the
Navy issued peremptory orders for the
mounting of a formidable jiieoe of ord
nance, tho novel construction of which
has oxcited the attention oi military
men for some tira'o past. An iron tar
get was in preparation to tost the pow
ers of this piece but tlie Secretary’s ^or
der allowed the ' inventor only tuho
enough td try it on a hastily built wood
en target. The experiment jyas emin
ently satifactory—tho range, accuracy,
nne) strepgtl) of the gun fulfilling the
inventor’s most Banguiheanticipatiqj)S.
Yankee Doodle tviil get a taste: of this
monster before he is propavcd.to let Its
alpflc.
F 1
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Lite rebels eausod great oxcitoraotit in
tho neighborhood.
The expedition of Banks was at
Fortress Monroe on the 25tli, and was
to sail for its destination in a day or
two. The Bultio is tho flag ship, nnd
the number of mon composing tho
expedition is stated at 12,000,
Railroad communication between
Louisvillo and Nashville is now com
plete. A train went through on Wednes
day last.
A dispatch from Csiro, Nov. 20th,
says Gen. nnvey’B expedition, consist
ing of seven transports carrying about
ton thousand men, which loft Helena
some days sipee, returned on Friday
and proceeded to tho mouth of White
river, but owing to its iownoss, could
S o no further. Its destination is said to
ave been Littlo Rock.
A Washington correspondent of tho
New York Herald telegraphs that Lin
coln will sqbmit his emancipation proc
lamation to Congress for re-considera
tion and modification.
Over 3,000 Blok soldiers from Burn
side’s army have arrived' nt Washing
ton during the past fivo days.
Mobilb, Dec. 3.—A spoclal to tho
Advertiser & Register from Knoxville,
the 2d, says Gen. Bragg has issued an
order granting a general amnosty to all
soldiers absent without leave, and pub
lished ns deserters, if thoy return im
mediately to their commands.'
An order has been issued to all the
regiments that wero in Bragg’s army
in tho Kentuoky campaign to havo in
scribed on thoir colors RisRnvviLLK, and
thoso of Cheatham’s Division to havo
Cross Cannon os an additional-mark of
distinction.
The Louisville papers of tho 22d ult.
say that there was only 10 foet water at
Pittsburg. Tho rise tvas not sufficient
to let out etinal boats. A fleet was
preruriug at Louisville for Kanawha,
under command of Commodoro Mc-
Clore. Six steamers, with a portion of
tlie Yankee Morgan’s command, were,
expected to arrive at Cincinnati, on
route South.
■ WiLMiNQToN, Doo. 3.—A sohooner
trying to run the blookade, ran ashoro
this morning on Smith’s Island, six
miles South of Fort Fisher. -The block-
odors wore firing at her, but were out
of range. A company from Fort Fish
er hsB gono to her assistance. One
of tho blockndcrs ran out of sight at
8 o’olock this morning, but returned
at I0i with a schooner.
Ricuhond, Dec. 2.—At a mooting of
Fredericksburg citizens to-night, tho
sum of $500 was subscribed for those
in needy circumstances, and ample
assurances received from the State that
their wants will bo supplied
The special Now Orleans
dent ot the London Times censures
Roverdy Johnson for advising the gov
ernment to pay back to the Frenoh
consul the specie seized by Butler. lie
says tho money (four hundred and five
thousand dollars) released on Johiyton’s
recommendation was noluully sent to
Havana within the next .forty days by
the Spanish war steamer Blncode do
Kary. It was borrowed from tho Bank
of New Orleans by D. B. Dobow, Agent
for the Rjqhmond Government, to pay
for cloth in Havana waiting to run tho
blockade. The Bank of Now Orleans
was seized nnd closed by Butler for
sending specie to the rebels.
Tho Fredericksburg train arrived at
a late hour this evening. Parties from
that place say appearances indicate, a
fight to-dny. Some even assert that
skirmishing began this morning.—
Nothing, howover, confirmatory of
these reports was vccoiVod at tho War
offioico up to-8.p. m.
Richmond, Dec. 4.—All quiet at Fred
eriokeburg. Passengers oxpross tho
opinion that tho enemy are going
away, perhaps to Port Royal.
A dispatch from Petersburg of tho
4th, says the New York Times of the
2d had been roceivod there. Lincoln’s
Message was read on Monday. It
makes seven columns in thoTimes, He
opens by saying that sinco tho assem
bling of Congress another year with
bohntiful harvests has passed, while it
has not pleased tho Almighty fa bless
the United States with the return of
peace. Wo can bus press on, trusting
that in God’s own good timo all will bo
well.
Northern News.
Charleston, Doo. 4.—The New York
Herald of the 29th has been rooeived
here. It Bays Burnsides did not ad
vance beet use tho Pontoon Bridges did
not arrive in time. Burnsides intend
ed arresting tho parties responsible for
the delay.
Tho rebels were busy fortifying tho
{South hank of tho Rappahannock, in
plain'view of tho unionists.
Tho railroad betweon Acquta crook,
antf the Rappahannock has boon com
pleted, and trains wore running on the
28 AU the Stato prisoners confined in
Fort. Wnrroij. inclqdmg the Maryland
secessionists, aro to ho liberated on the
coming thanksgiving day
The French steamer Milmnno steam
ed past FortSumter, and anchored close
to the city,
Tho London Post says the genoral
dispostion of the Ettgisili people is to
avoid interfenco beennse only opo
belligerent invites it. When the peace
party at the North becomes sufficiently
strong to ask for mediation, England
will npcede.
Tlie French Press is bitter against
England’s course.
An arrival from North Carolina an
nounces that Newborn had been at
taoked by four thousand rebels, under
Gen. Martin, who wero ropulsed.
The United States, France
and Spain,
Tho ignominious manner in whieh
the United States Government backs
down upon tho slightest menace of
foreign powers is enough to mako any
mail who oyor belonged to it blush for
1 ,he name of Amerioun. Tho very first
ntimation which Franco and Spain
have given of their determination to
havo redress for wrongs committed up
on their oitizens, by tho United States
authorities, has proved enough to bring
tho Lincoln government to its knees.
It is only against us, whom (hey regard
os weak ana unat^lo to copo with thorn,
that they display an unyjejding and
terocious temper. Can anything bo
tnoro cowardly and. disgraceful? But
they Bvem to have no shame loft, and
no regard for national character and
honor, nor. for aqy other oonsidoration,
oxoept vongeanco upon the South.—
Itich’d Dispatch.
8®* Tho Now York Herald’s Worren-
ton correspondent in speaking of Mo-
Clollan’s removal says; Tho removal ivas
entirely unexpected by evrybody boro.
Tears coursed down McClellan’s classto
features; and Burnside, witli his stout,
heavy frame, wept like a sorrowing
child. There thoy set and wept.”—
How very nffeoting.
^SUThe Fayottovillo, North Carolina,
Observer learns that great apprehension is
felt about the souroity of corn likoiy to bo
produced by the imtuonso number of distil
lories prepared and preparing to go to work
as soon as tho prohibition against distilling
rain is at an end in that State, which will
.6 on tho first day of January next. It is said
that some persons arc holding back their
corn for that day, as they aro assured that
tho price will be no object to tho distillers,
who can givo five dollars for a bushel of
com, and then make ten or twenty dollars
by converting it into whiskey,
The New York World denominates
the present operations in Virginia
“UBtfinal campaign of tho war.” Tho
Fcdorals undoubtly intend to crush
out the “robelio‘n” by the time the
oampitign is finished—but thoy will
find themselves mistaken.
The New York Mercury says that
a crisis, is impending in tho Federal
Cabinet; tl>at Sewaid, Smith, Blair and
Bates will retire, and thoir places bo
filled by Fessenden, Colfax, Winter
Davis nnd some other, Western Rop-
ptiblican. It may not bo announced
before January, as the present heads
of departments make reports to Con
gress in Docomber:
Mrs. Lincoln.—Tho Raltimoro Sun
says Mrs. Lincoln is in New York, and
is principally engaged in making pur.
ohaeos for tho coming fashionable seas-
8®* In tho list of citizens from the
slave States who were expected to ach
dress a "Union” meeting m Now York
on the 25th ult,, we find , the name of
John G. Wintor, of Georgia, well
known in this community.
8®?Tne Yorkviilo Enquirer complains
that persons having privileged tickets
on tho rail toads, have been very aotive
in engrossing and speculating.
8®" Mr. James Doherty has com
menced the manufacture of shot inFc-
tersburg, Va., and his works aro nowin
successful operation. Tho steeple of
tho old .Presbyterian Church has been
converted into a shot tower, and tlie
proprietor is prepared to drop from two
to four thousand pounds per week.
Appointment.—--L. P. Grant, of At
lanta, has been appointed. Captain of-
Engineers in tho Provisional Army.—
The Atlanta Inteligencer says ho has
boon assigned to tho particular duty of
representing the Government in tho
proper application of the lato appro
priation by Congress for the construc
tion of tho Rome nnd Blue Mountain
Railroad, an improvement of groat mill*
tary importance.
8®» Tho debt of the State of South
Carolina is reported by tho Comptotler
Genoral to be $6,703,702 49.
8®* McClellan is in New York.—
He remains very quietly in doors, and
refuses to-see the immense crowds that
clamor for an interview.
jg®* The.City Council of Lynchburg,
Va., has appropriated fifteen thousand
dollars for the pui ohnsi' of clothing for
the soldiotg-Jrom that- oity, now in the
field.
- 8®“The American Bihle Society is
sued at the Bible house, in New York,
Uiirillg the mouth of September. 175,-
000 volumes, mostly Testaments, for
the Fed era) army. 'ThH r ie at the rata
of eleven iSinjis every piiiiute of work, ;