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SOME. GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 19, 1862/
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[ Saturday Morning, Dec. 13,1802.
[• the Friend* of the Berry Infantry.
[ A car will leave Rome on the 22d
hst&nt, for the purpose of taking sup-
[lit* to the Berry .Infantry at Savan-
Lh. The friends of this company can
vail themselves of this opportunity to
pid whatever articles they may do
Ire to tho members of this company.
I Hospital near Floyd Springs.
|o ms Citizens or;Floyd Oopxtv i
Having been appointed by the Court
Make charge of all cases of small
lox in this county, (out sideofCen-
I'lernto Hospitals) you are hereby
bmmanded to report to me as soon as
iscovered, any case which may ap-
Issr in the county. Hereto fail not,
Bider penalty atHxed by the Inferior
juiirt. Wm. HOWE.
119* An error occurred in Dr. Pirn’s
Rverlisement last issue. He wishes to
Itploy Ward Mustcis, for which lie
III pay according to ability.
■ |n ■» »—
I far The Southerner office has been
Impelled to give way to tho Hospital,
lie office is now in the three story
bihling just above the Etowah House.
IWT We publish a letter fiom Mr.
brinell to-day, which ought to have
pen here sotne time ago, but failed to
psch us until tho present issue.
j 19* Apples are looking up decidedly
i our markot. They range from 25 to
& cents a dozen, according to size, and
|oni the wagons at that. The farmers
re bent on buing even with the specu-
ftors by some means.
■ Tiie present arrangements on
he Railroads' are helping the Express
piupanies, as nearly everything ship
led now goes by Express, if this
locknde is not raised before long
here will lie a fine prospect for some
Isrvation in this pnrtol the country
I VST Messrs. Moore k Allen offer for
hie their Hotel property in Cave Spring
pe notice.
I t®*There is a grape vine telegram to
pe effect that Forrest had. captured
•out 2,000 moro Yankees, and a large
Wntity of stores, in tho vicinity of
[ashville. •
’ There is an old saying that
three white frosts bring a .rain,” but
all signs fail in dry weather,” ns wo
hvo had heavy white frosts for over
week post, and the weather still con-
|nucs clear and cold. Fine weather
' hog killing, if we had the salt.
| W?"Gcn. Hindman, Inst week, cross-
1 from Arkansas to Vicksburg, with
[>i'ly thousand mon, nnd an expedition
” twenty tiro urn ml men, it • was said,
^ould move overland from Helena and
renada.
MT President Lincoln's Message
|oos not give much satisfaction. Ac-
ording to the Herald the radical aboil-
Ion journals are greatly discontented
'ith its position on the slavery question,
M it is commented on accordingly.
I .AST Colonel Lucius M. Lamar, of the
ptoric 8th Georgia, not suffioienly re-
lovered from wound to enter the field,
las obtained leave of absence to visit
Editorial Correspondence,
Came Kean Fredericksburg, Va.,
Nov. 29,1802.
Dea* Courier ; The monotony of
passing events lifts not been disturbed
by anything of particular interest du
ring tho last . three days. On yester-
dny (Friday) morning our Reg
iment went on picket. Our post was
at an evacuated mud fort, on the banks
oi the Rappahannock, about four miles
below the eity. Tho large rich farms
n view, with the stately mansions of
the aristocratic owners, press the con
viotion that this portion of tho State is
in possession of the Virginia gentlemen
we “read of” in romances or in histor
ical- sketches by enthusiastic writers.
There are many beautiful residences
in this neighborhood, and some that
are. indeed, quite grand. The river
opposite our ploket post is about 150
yards wide, is a clear, pacid stream,
and, with n kind of dignified compo
sure, rolls loisurely along its meander
ing channel towards the Chesapeake
Bay. The tide on the river here rises
nearly four feet, and it seemed queer
to some of our boys that the water at
high tide should not bo salt; they sup.
posing that modus operands of the tide
was a huge move, starting from some
place far out iu the ocean, and rolling
on the top of all intermediate waters,
finally expended itself against the
shore, or, per chance far up some inlet
or sluggish stream.
There was nothing of note that oc
curredon our pioket that will do.to
publish just now, except the arrest of
two men,^t different times, who had
crossed the' river. One claimed to be
a member of tbe 47 ih Va. Regimenti
and said he lived i n tho other side of
the river, and had been, for some time,
at home sick. We sent him up to
headquarters fur examination. The
particulars in regard to the'other 1 did
not learn. We were allowed no fire
on post, but, as lust night was com.
parstiveiy pleasant, the suffering was
less than what was apprehended. We
got back to camp at 8 o’clock to-night,
all in good health and spirits.,
About general movements, of course,
all tiie "smuli fry” know very little, yet
cucli has a right to think and whatever
seems to him probable. The rumor
comes quite direct to us over the un
der ground railroad from 'tho Abolition
artny, Unit Burnside lias now gone to
Washington for the purpose of asking,
front his serene highness, Abe the 1st,
permission to delay his .‘‘onward* to
Uiohinond” for thirty days. If that is
so he wilt not attack us here ; for, if
he is not superceded before that time
elapses, it will then be too late in the
season to think of moving an army
over the countrv so abounding in wa
ter courses. But who knows but that
tiie plan of the Richmond fight may
be played over again. Jackson is near
as then, fur to the right of the Federal
army, and if he should again dash
down upon his right, he would find
some way—and 1 think the means are
already at hand—to get to him in front,
and, with God’s blessing on our sido,
the wicked invaders might again be
driven back.
Capt. Scott, with clothe* from home,
has not yet arrived, hut is rather anx
iously looked for. Wo are now sub
sisting upon hard bread and .beef, and
not getting quite enough of these
The companies ure ‘preparing their
pr.y rolls for six mouths up to Nov. 1st
and tho men will probably he paid off
for that time, Monday.
Monday morning, Deo. 1,—All quiet
this morning, and no news. M. #.
one of the boats. At all events they
headed about and. steamed off down
the river as rapidly as possible.
Friday morning it commenced rai
ning, and continued to rain and sleet
until about 4 o'clock, p. m., when it
commenced snowing in good earnest,
and this morning the snow was full
three inches deep. To-day has been
clear, but cold—the snow only melting
the south-side of the, hills, Ac. This
by far the coldest time we have had
this season.
The new clothes from home come in
the best time possible, and they aro
now making many a one comfortable
who else would have suffered. This
Regimont is now very well supplied—
thanks to the exertions of friends at
homo—and we will need but little more
clothing this winter.
Sunday Mornino.—All is quiet -yet.
It is horrid cold this morning, and our
Regiment has to go on picket to-day.
This will be pretty hard on tho five
companies who go on post, for there
no fire is allowed. M. D.
m 1 ioapaoi
ff.ancl, as some suppose with instruo-
pons for Messrs. Slidell and Mason—
|,®y Lave by this time safely made
| 1 >eir exit. hAmI
Cami* 8td Ga Reg. near
Fredericksburg, Dee. 6,1862.
Dear Courier Tho long expected
fight has been so long delayed that
there now seems to be some doubt
whether it comes off at all this season
Tberehns been no important move
move ih our immediate vicinity sinoo
my last. The most exciting affiiii'3 on
the Ruppubannook, that 1 have hoard
of was tho crossing over of 48 men at
some point below hero, who took 51
prisoners and cleared out one post
the enemy. Another nice little affair
occurred some 10 miles below here
last Thursday. Two regiments of cav-
airy mid two batteries of artillery
went down to attack Jive gunboats.—
Before the artillery get into position
a broadside from one boat killed one
man in Capt. Norman’s battery. This
was the only loss on our side. The
batteries took position on a high bluff
and within 150 or 200 ynrds of tiie
boats. At this place tiie boats could
not shoot over tiie banks, because
their highness. Capt. Norman is sure
that he sent three or four bails through
The IiSiAos Times an Preach Media
tioa.
IticnaoND, Dec. 6.
The London Times comments at
length on the French proposition for
mediation. It regards France ss stan
ding alone, and sees in the French
proposition, not only mediation, but
intervention and a forcible removal
of the blookade, and war. The Times
agrees with Mr. Cobden, that it weuld
be cheaper to keep all Lancashire on
turtle and Tension than plunge into
desperate war with tiie Northern
States of America, even with all Eu'
rope at our book, and doubts if Virginia
belonged to France, as Canada belongs
to, England, the Emperor of the France
would be so active in beating up' re
cruits in this American mediation
league.
Leading Liverpool shipping firms
have declined to any longer convey
by tlieir vessels packages of rifles
shipped as hardware for the use of the
Yankee Government.
The steamer Astoria, which sailed
from Liverpool loaded for Havana wild
Nassau was seized by the Government
officials at Qreecstown for taking on
board ammunition for the (jonfede-
ate State. . Tiie Liverpool Journal con
demns this action as unjust as the
Government had openly allowed the
Yankees to obtain unlimited suplies.
La France, a leading French journal
thinks that the Cabinet of London
and St. Petersburg will have great dif
ficulty is justifying to the public opin
ion of the world tiie refusal to join
in the proposed enterprise.
Hope*
fur Lesson or the War.—When the
developments, now being mude, of
Yankee character, come to be nppre
cirted by tho world, they will be justly
held by impartial history to be the vil
est race on the top of the earth. Pos
sessed of all the vices which distin
guish the Chinese, they have the addi
tional one of the pretending to vir
tues which they do not possess. Big-
otted and intolerant, rapacious and
stingy, fraudulent and roguish, boastful
and cowardly, ostentatious and vulgar
envious and spiteful—they are an ex-,
gcrated embodiment of all the vices
the Puritan and the Blackleg. Wha i
particular cause, or combination o'
causes, conspired to produce this odi
ous population, it is not our purpose
now to inquiro. But great as may be
the calamity of war, we cannot resist,
tiie conviction that it is .an inappreci
able blessing, and will so continue,, un
til every .southern bosom is filled with
detestation and loathing for the abom-
inablo race. To hate vice is the first
step to virture; and it may be that
Providence, in its mysterious, but
wise and bcneficient ways, may have
chosen to subject us to the ordeal of a
disastrous war, in order to infuse into all
our hearts a becoming abhorrence of
these living representatives of all the
vices. Uad we continued in political
connexion with them, we, too, in Che
lapse of time, must inevitably have fal
len into the same deplorable state of
moral degradation. A quiet and peace
ful separation—continuing commer
cial and social relations— would not
have been sufficient to save us. The
rupture must be attended with vio
lence and bloodshed, and pillage and
devastation, to open our eyes to' the
monster with whom we had been asso
ciated. The God of Heaven, who, in
former times employed Satan to do
his will, did not, perhaps deem Seward
an unfit successor to the elder Mephis-
tophiles, and prompted him to draw
the sword, that the separation might
bo thorough and final, and ensure the
cause Of Freedom nnd Virtue through
out the world.—Richmond Whig.
MR" It is gratifying to be assured
that the want of our Soldiers are be
ing rapidly relived. We have seen i
private letter from a member of on*
of the Augusta companies saying
that they were well provided with
shoes and blankets, and a oorreepon
dent of the Savannah Republican says:
‘‘Clothing for the- troops continues to
arrive daily, and it is belived in a very
shojt time all will be plentiful provid
ed with every necessary.—Chron,
Coafedcrale Currency.
Ail Siga.
The Richmond Examiner of the 1st
inst., gives tiie public the following
gratifying intelligence. It will not be
appreciated by the speculators, who
have invested their ill gotten gain* in
all sorts of property, which will go
down, down, down, qs tho Confederate
currency goes up; but the great major
ity of the people, whoso highest ambi
tion is, to see the country prosperous,
will be delighted by this encouraging
sign hf bettor times ahead. The . Ex
aminer says:
‘‘The issue of Confederate notes
fundable in eight per cent, stock, is
now at an end, and those already itsu*
ed, though still convertible in eight
per cent, stock will soon cesse to be so
through tho notion of tho financial
law passed by the late Congress. Un
der its pressure an enormous invest
ment in Confederate bonds is now in
progress, and there is no doubt that tbe
curreney is about to be relieved of that
redundancy which has nearly broken it
down. The Yast issue of Confederate
money now in circulation will bo ab
sorbed in the bonds; the currency will
commence afresh ; and,the note* here
after issued by the Government will
for a long timo be insufficient for tho
demand of trade. The depreciation of
Confederate notes has salready oeaasd,
and we will soon witness a prodigious
rise in their value, anrd conse
quently fall in the price of all real
and personal property. This result
will be hailed witii satisfaction by the
country, but will cause terrible loss to
those who have hoarded goods pur
ohased at present prices in expectation
ot a still further riso, and will inflict
dsep mortification on others who, when
poisessedof Confederate note*, have
wildly hastened to invest,them injtown
lots and houses, from tho fear that these
notes would soon be worth nothing.—
Against this absurd practice wo have
I eisistently advised the public, and,
under present eircumstanees, wo are
justified in reiterating that advice with
moro emphasie than over.
From Frrdsricksbi ro.—Tho only re
port received from Fredericksburg by
tiie train last night was oxe '.o the effect
that the main body of tbo enemy’s ar
my was moving down the Fappahan.
nock in the direction of Port Royal,
where it is conjectured they will, at
tempt to construct their pontoon bridg
es, under protection of their gunboats.
Beyond; t bis single rumor everything is
represented ns a stand-still, with little
probability of a-figlit, which has been
so eagerly looked for the past week. It
would seem that Burnside, like his
predecessors, finds a little caution nee-
emary in his . operations against Rich
mond.
Charleston Auctions.
It will bo soon that tho prices thus
forced up by the competition of specu
lator* bear no relation to former value*
of the article* sold. Wo regard this
system of auction sale*,' for which
Charleston has become so famous of
late, ae a moat crying evil, which should
if possible, be abated by interposition
o< the law. A cargo of goods, one
half, or perhaps two thirds of which
are Yankee manufacture, is brought in
defiance of the blockade. Instead of
being sold to regular mechanta or con
sumers, at reasonable prices, My five
hundred per eent. advance upon the
the cost, catalogues are published and
the goods offered at auction *‘jn packa
ge* to suit speculators," a host of whom
are attracted to the sales, who. in a
spirit of competition, and utterly reck
less of cost, run the artielea up to %ny
figure, confident in their ability to
make tiie consumer pay a profit at the
same that they fix an advance upon
whatever stocks they may centrol.—
Thus the public are forced, not only to
pay ten to twenty prices for tho goods
actually bought at theso auctions, but
for old Blocks that have been held by
extortioners for exorbitant profits.—
We believe that it would bo better for
the country if no vessel was allowed to
enter our ports from Nusseau or else
where with cargoes, except with arms
and munitions of war and goods on
Government account. This illicit
trade and theta acution sale* only stim
ulate the spirit of speculation and pri
vate extortion.—Sm, N«wt.
Late News.
Richmond, Dec. 9.—An official dis
patch from Murfreiboro’ the 8th „sayg:
“An expedition under Acting Brig.
Gen. John H. Morgan attacked an out
post of the enemy at Hartsvilte, on the
Cumberland river, yesterday morning.
He killed and wounded and captured
1,800 prisoners, two piece* of artillery,
2,000 small arm*, and all their stores
at that point.
On the previous day a small foraging
train was captured by Gen. Wheeler
near Nashville, with 50 prisoners. On
the 5th Col. Roddy’s Alabama cavalry
captured-a train near Corinth, with it*
escort and a number of negroes.
Our loss at Hartsvillo is about 125
killed and wounded. None at. eithor
of tbe other places.
(Signed) BRAXTON BRAGG,
Genoral Commanding.
SECOND DISPATCH.
Passengers state about three inches
snow at Fredericksburg. No prospect
of an an immediate fight. It is doubt
ed whether the enemy will attempt to
cross the Rappahannock at that place.
They evidently expect an attack on
their flanks, and are strictly guarding
them. There are now six army corps
beyond tho river. Pickets report 40
Federal vessels at the mouth of the
Reports from Winchester.—Passen
gers by the the Ceptral train last night
bring us some particulars of the recent
occupation of Winchester by the Fede-
ral.forces. They approached the town
witii extreme caution, and only enter
ed it after being twice assured that our
forces had evacuated the place. They
remained in the town only an hour .or
two, during which time they busied
themselves with paroling our disabled
and sick soldiers there, and then took
up their line of march in tbe direction
of Harper’s Ferry, from whence they
came. The force that visited Winches
ter is variously estimated from three to
five thousand, and were a portion of
the command of the notorious - Geary.
Our own' troops have again re-occupied
the town.—Rich. Dispatch.
gSrAccording to a New Orleans paper
of Nov. 25th, the Confederates were pre
paring to make an attack on the Fede
ral gunboats, in Galveston harbor with
an armed flotilla of light draft steam-
, The number of Confederate troops
under arms in tha vicinity of Virginia
Point is estimated at tram 3,000 to 5,000.
Gen. Magruder had arrived and assum
ed command of tha Confederate troops.
His headquarters were at Harrisburg,
on Buffalo Bayou. ____
Capt. M« r. Maury.
An entertainment was given in
New York last week to General Geo.
B. McClellan- The Now York World
says.:
Among those present Vras the Mayor
of Halifax, who made a very cordial
response to a complimentary toast to
the British colonies. The Mayor allu
ded to Commander Maury, Who was in
Halifax a few days aince with his son,
(after running'the blockade, via Ber
muda and Nassau) and Who declared
very publicly that he was visiting Eng
land to take command of a- Confede
rate vessel of war.
The last Congress passed an act
to exempt shoemakers, with certain
restriction* a* regard* Aha profit* of
■hoe*. The Mobile Register say* if no
attention i* to be paid to thi* portion
of the law, then it become* the duty
ef the Conscript Commissioner—if, in
deed, we have one in thi* community
—to-onscript every shoemaker who
disregards this law and put them in
the army.
And wo would ask the attention of
the Enrolling Officer to the shoema
kers of Savannah. Such is the demand
that they can get any amount for their
labor, and some of them at least regu
late their prices by their opinion of
the verp largest, amount they can
wring from the necessities of the pco
pie. Only think of $20 and $25 tor a
K ir ef ladies’ cloth gaiters, which can
made in a day, and.that (he entire
materials of which do not cost ever
$5. If thi* i* hot a case for the enrol'
ling officer, then the law i* a dead
latter.
Christmas Holidat*.—The practice
of giving our negroes a week's holiday
at Christmas, has never been product
ive of any good in the past. Tho
present is an opportune time to dis>
continue it. We. believe that the ne
groes should have their holidays; but
wo do not believe that there should be
iv particular time set apart for the
enjoyment of this relaxation from la
bor. Let every man who owns a negro
agree upon his own time for a holiday;
and let him fix it so as to suit bis own
convenience, and as often as he plea
ses. The congregation of large num
bers of negroes in our towns andjvilla-
ges during Chiitmas week, is hurtful
to the negro and tho master. If, in
stead of giving tho negroes a whole
week during tho month of December,
their owners would permit them to
have every Saturday afternoon to work
their crops, and do their little jobs of
handicraft, the negroes would be bet
ter satisfied and their owners better
remunerated. About Christmas is cer
tainly an inopportune time to give our
negroes a holiday. It is “hog killing”
time, and moving lime—the bnsiest
time of all the year—it is the time
when hired negroes are preparing to
return home, and when others are
about to find new homes. Especially
at this time should our people be more
vigorous than ever with their negroes;
and our city and town corporations
should be vigilant in looking after
this portion of our population.—Mil.
Udgeville Recorder,
Mara Discoveries of Salt.
In the county of Cobb, five miles
from Marietta, there are said to be five
springs which are said to have been
used by the Indians for procuring salt.
A gentleman who was attracted to the
circumstance hits, obtained a lease of
the premises, and sunk a shaft through
tho solid rock, 30 feet deep, by which
he obtains 12,000 gallons of salt water
doily, whioh will yield, by boiling,
about thirty bushels of beautiful salt,
equal in purity to any obtained in Vir
ginia. This information is derived
from a correspondent of the Maoon
Telograph, the editor of which paper
endorses the statement, nnd thinks
that the salines spoken of are no hum
bug. ■ -
*9* There is an on dit in circulation
that Geii. John Morgan is to-be mad*
a Mqjor General, with three brigades,
and each brigade to be supplied with
a battery, it.is also reported that Cols.
Greenfeldt and Duke are to be appoin
ted Brigadier Generals in the same
command.
of Virginia are conflicting, some say
the enemy are now at Winchester, and
others, that our troops have re-occupied
that place.
Mobile, Dec. 9.—Special to the Ad
vertiser from Murfrcsboro’ tbe 8th.—
Gen. Hindman last week crossed from •
Arkansas to Vioksburg with 4,000 men.
An expedition of 2,000 men, it was
said, would move overland from Hele
na and Grenada.
Grenada,*Deo. 8.—Twenty-five Fede
rate were captured near Coffeoville,
(Yallabusha county) yesterday, and
were brought in to-day, They report
tbe cars running from Grand Junction
to Holly'Springs, and the telegraph
working to-that place.
A. man just from Yoekneapatreay,
(this is intended for tbe name of ariyer
running through the north of Yulia,
bushn co.) report* the enemy 40,000
strong crossing that river. They burn
ed part of thetown of Water Valley,
on that stream.
McCulloch, the Kansas Jayhawker,
wo* killed in the fight at Coffeeville.
All quiet at Grenada.
^^harlbston, Dec. 9.—The British
war steamer Cadmuo, 21 guns, and the
Petrel, 132guns, arrived off Charleston
yesterday, from Fortress Monroe, the
3d inst. The British Consul at Nor
folk spent the lost night at Fortress
Monroe, on board tho Cadmuc. That
vessel left hero this morning' for For
tress Monroe. The Petrel still lies qn-
ohored in the harbor. Yosterdsy even
ing her commander, with Gons.. Beau
regard, Ripley and a number of ladies
and invited guests, -visited Fort Sum
ter. They reviewed the garrison, qnd
the entertainment was concluded with
dancing.
Rumored intelligence has been re-
ceived that the Yankee iron clad steam
er Passaic had left New York and reach
ed Hampton Roads. After remaining
there some days, she left for Uie South,
but was obliged to put back to tbe
roads, disabled.
Richmond, Dec. 9.—Stanton, the abo
lition Secretary of War, in his report,
states the portion of the United States
which is or has been the scene of mili
tary operations, is confined within the
military departments; that the armies
operating in those departments consti
tuted a force of 775,330 officers and
privates; that since the date of. tbe
returns, this number has been increas
ed to over 800,000; that when the quo
tas are filled up, it will number one
million of men. Secretary Stanton
says nothing of their-defeats in the
East, but magnifies the advatages gain
ed In the West.
Ralrioh, N. C. Deo. 10.—The Mats
Journal learns from a source perfectly
reliable, that a mutiny broke out among
the enemy at Newborn,>t the close of
last week. Five hundred soldiers threw
down their.arms, swearing (hey were
democrats, and would fight no longer
under an Abolition flag. The immed
iate cause of the mutiny was the re-
S orted advance on Newbern of General
aokson,{Evans and Gov. Vance; with
heavy forces [A little too good to be
true, we should think.—Edit. Conded,
Richmond, Dec.110.—Heavy firing was
' ' ' ricksburg, in
The Grand Master of Masons in South
Csrtlinahas received an joplication
from Masons in the 48th New York
Regiment at Hilton Head, asking in
what way a dispensation will be granted
them to open a traveling lodge, offering
to make the proper remittance and
work under the jurisdiction of the
Grand Ledge of South . Carolinian This
is what may very properly be termed
the “highest degree” et barefaced im
pudence.
heard to-day below Fredericksburg;
the vicinity of Port Royal. A train left
at-the same time, and particulars re
ceived. Hampton’s cavalry captured
five more Yankees near Occoquan yes
terday. . .
A fir# occurred in-the Guard-house at
Harper’s Ferry on . Saturday night,
where rebel prisoners aro confined. Two
governmentbuilding* and the telegraph
office were consumed—loss $20,000.
The rebel Salt Petre and Powder mills
at YellviUe, Ark., have been destroyed
by a portion of Blunt’s command.
Tbe Herald conjectures that Banks'
expedition-is designed' is designed to
advance ilpon’' Richmond by way of
York and James rivers.
MT A Litrbakt Gem.— The follow,
ing is'a literary extract from -Lincoln’s
Message: ■;
'“It is hot to easy to nay nomething
as it'is to pay nothing; but it is easier
to pay a large sum than it is- to.pay a
larger sum ; 'And it is easier to pay any
when we are able, than it', is to pay it
before we are able.-