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SOME. GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, .TUNE ,5, 1863.
NUMBER 80
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I Saturday Morning, May 10, I803‘
A meeting of tho Artillery Com-
ipsnjr will be held at tho Court House
■this evening at 4 o’clock. Let all at-
||end—even if it doos rain.
Notice.
All persons who wish - to enter into
|m Infantry company, for the purpose
Inf local defence, undor the late act of
Ifongrcss, providing for such organiza
tions, will meet this evening at 8 o'clock
|at the Court House.
Assurances have been given that the
Linns will bo forthcoming immediately,
btis necessary, tlmt this cull be met
promptly, unil that the company be or
pnizr-d us soon as possible, for in ad
dition to tho necessity of arming as
loon ns it can be done, (o protect all
licit mcivchcrish and hold sacred, a
kneeling of all tho companies in the
Jaunty,' has been called, for next Tues-
liny the 2d of June, in wiiloh it is of
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Jlwuld.be represented. *
Home,.Ga., May 30, 1803.
A Swiniu.e.—We huve been shown
i.Sliinplaster on the Augusta Railroad
Bunking Co.,' which is evidently
Intended as a fraud upon tho Georgia
■Railroad A Bunking Ge , at Angusta,
Jml is well calculated to decoivo the
Jlioughtless and unwary.
Jgf It has been raining witli slight
InlermissUn’slowly and steadily, for
Jlie past-two days, and we lenrn that it
loome just in time to save tho oat crop.
[Tats were beginning to suffer.
Mr. VallatHligbam.
We have the same right to give our
opinion of Vallandighnm’s case that
others havo. Personally we sympathize
with him —politically we do not much—
believe hint in the main honest, hut
grently mistaken— boleivo his govern
ment has outraged every principle of
justice and liberty, guaranteed^ him
by the laws and Constitution of his
oountry, and that Lincoln and Burn
side would hang him if they were not
afraid—and that the cowardly rascals
are ufruid of him, as thoy are of every
other honest man—and are trying to
make an example of him to deter Sey
mour, Wood and others, alike offend,
ing, and wo believe they will deter all
the bold men of tho North, who still
have a glimmering idea of liherty and
justice, until the last one of them are
tied, head, tongue and foot, and when
the danger-.of u rumpus about it, is
passed, they will have to retreat or be
guilotinod. But we solemnly protest
against the* Confederacy becoming the
"Botany Bay” of King Abe. Of oourse,
if Mr. Vuilandinghara comes among us
as a private gentlemen, we would not
huj-t a hair of his head as long as he be-
liaveB himself, but ho Bltould not bo
tolerated in preaohing or talking of
reconstruction, which is as fearful a
consequence to us as subjugation.
[ccnmunicated.
Mr. Editor: The intelligent portion
of your readers, are becoming tired of
the character of certain articles and
communications that havo recently
appeaved in your paper. They aro
light and chaffy and try to assume the
character of wit, when really twaddle is
their highest virtue. They try to as
sumo the character of smartness, when
egotism and vanity are their onlv recom
mendations. They seek to be sat'rical,
when buffoonery is their highest accom-.
, plishment. They try to he funny, when
reully they are stupid and vulyar. Those
articles appear to be a strained oftcirt I ot the Southern Confederacy. Unwil
Prom" the Oth Georgia Cavalry;
Camu Wheeler, near Cuiiuerland Gad,
May 7,1803.
Dear Courier : How uncertain aro
military orders’ and movements.* On
tho 4th inst., wo received notice that
our Regiment had beon attached to
Gen. Pogram’s Brigade, and orders to
report to him in Kentucky, for duty,
via Clinton, Tenn.,. Accordingly wo
took up the line of march on the 5th,
and got as fur as Tazewell, and we
encamped for tho night ia the vicinity
of town. .
Before daylight on the Oth, a courier
came front tile Gap, enmo to us with
orders for us to return. Wo didn’t
know whut was up, but supposed some
thing had been "hoard, to induce the
belief that tho enemy was advanciug in
this direation.
Arrived at our old encampment yes
terday evening, and learned that ull
was quiet at the Gup.
It is not my impression that Burn
sides will attempt to cuter the land of
Dixie through this Gap, though he may
make a feint movement in this direc
tion, to attract attention and troops
from other points.
Our exoellent, brave and gallanj Col-
Hurt, has been quite unwell for several
deys, and has been staying at Mr. Pat
terson’s a private house in this vicinity.
Hope ho will be able to be with us in a
few days. We aro under many special
obligations to Mr. Patterson and his
family, for the kind treatment bestow
ed upon our Colonel, who is indebted
to their kind treatment for his ' conva
lescent heal tli.
Wo see from the Knoxville Register
of tho 5th, that Gen. Forrest hud cap
tured an entire command of Federal
Cavalry, sixteen hundred strong near
Rome, and that he was received in that
city by a large number of our,true and
noble ladies, witli smiles uud words of
praises, ar.d tears of gratitude.
We feel a deep interest in the cause
Mpke Raids for Georgia.—The At
lanta Confederacy learns from refugees
from Nashville, that Gon. Mitchell is
organizing a cavalry force of 20,000 for
klie purpose of muking raids into Ala
bama and Georgia, and it was under
stood that Atlanta was to he tho main
point of attack. This was a general
Jmdevstanding a few days ago in Nash-
fillc, *•
UnvaVr.—Tho Now York Herald
loinplains that while Vallandighum
Jas been tried and sentenced for ma
Vng a speech against the Administra.
(ion, Wendell Phillips, who had made
1 " oraft speech against the Government,
Insulting to Lincoln and his Cnbinot,
pas still at large, and none dispatched
1 srrest him, . This is indeed unfair,
fit the humorous tyrant will attend
I" them all in good time. He melts
lliem in order. If lie carries the day
T'th Vallandighom he may try Seymour
Jnd Hunt next, and so on down . to
pillips, unless he chooses to spare
Jim for amusement.
■ Gen. Jackson’s corps is now
ommandod by Gon. A. P. Hill.
■ The confirmation of thodestruc-
lion of tho Yankee wagon train below
Alexandria, La., and the subsequent
■»U'ng back of the enemy, has reached
Jackson.
I©*' Gen. Tiighmani, who fell while
pllantly defending tho Boil of Missis-
JJPpi, was of an ancient and honorable
family, long distinguised in
I.® “Ulitary annals of the country, and
p'mself commanded Fort Heniy at tho
pime it was taken by the enemy.
Another gallant officer and true soldier
fna patriot is taken from us. He died
| oie a soldier, with his sword in his
and and his face to the foe. Peace to
H ashes.—CAat. Rebel.
to ridicule overv effort of a people, to
protect and defend themselves, who
are in daily and hourly danger and
peril, of being robbed and murdered
by Yankee raids. Their literature i«
only appropriate to a Yaukee school of
"contrabands.” It may be that theso
productions may bounty intended to
make hollow-heads laugh ; if so, this
can only be in extreme cases. Upon
the whole, it is not bolieved that cither
the interest of the country, or .of your
paper demand such productions at this
time. A Looker on in Venice.
' BSt" Wo th'nk our much respected
correspondent a little tart. One of the
articles to which he, no doubt, alludes
to, appeared o't'ew days since, ns edito
rial, and was admitted in a hurry
and ag "only a joke,” but wo must
confess that this is npt tho time for
burlesquing as serious matters as wero
referred to therein, and we hope that
no one will allow this matter to have
any influence upon his conduct, preju
dicial to our mutual welfare and pro
teotion. Had we. imagined any bad
effects resulting from the publication
of such an nrticlo, we certainly would
have rejected.it. Wo 'publish our cor.
respondent’s strictures as due* ponanco
for our misdemeanor.
Ladies Hospital Association.
Tho following donations have been-
recoivod.
From the Young Ladies of Munassasi
Ga., one half the ' proceeds of a Con
cert, given for tho -benefit of the siok
And wounded soldiers, the sum of §100.
From Maj, J. G Yeiser, $10.
From Mr. — Whitohead, $5.
From the Managers of Party at Eto
wah House $50.
Making a total of $165.
MARY STILLWELL, Trcas'r.
Soldiers’ Aid Society.
- Donations from Mrs. S. J. Johnson,
of Cave Spring, 10 pair socks.
|IMY STILLWELL,
For Ex. Com
. Federal Atrocities in Arkansas.—A
gentleman writing from Ozark to Lit
tle Rock, says that a few days since
a Federal scouting party left Fayette
ville with the black flag hoisted. They
murdered twenty-five citizens, among
them Lewis Hewitt and three of the
Applebys. - The tories there openly
prohohed extermination, and threaten
to murder etffery Southern man, woman
and child.
.■©• The monster iron-elad Roanoke,
lately in course of construction at the
Brooklyn N. Y. Navy Yard, has turned
put a complete failure.
Four miles tills side town, Wd received
reliable information that there were
about five thousand of the ehoffly—
infantry, and oavalry— at arid near town
and that the cavalry were this side of
town.-
There being so maiiy tories over in
that section, the Colonel thought it
likely that tho enemy had beon appris
ed, through somo of the mountain
runner’s, of our number and move
ments, and were waiting in ambuscado
our npproueh, and therefore ordered
tho detachment to fall back to Flat
Llok. When wo renched that point J teg* in tho
* ' I A n llw
The New York Lenders.
Tito Herald mnkes a well directed
shot nt tho prominent leaders among
tho sympathisers with Vnllnndigham.
Tho paper says : “None pf the recog-
nizod leaders of the Democracy took
an active part in these proceedings.
Thoy all had tholr' convenient excuses
for keeping in the back ground. They
looked tho moral courage to face the
music. They 'put forward tho lesser
lights and the more reokless orators of
tho party.” This is very true. The
leadors did remain on tho slrady side of
tho tree. However, somo of them wroto
letters; but they took care to couple
with their reprobation of tho proceed
Vi ** — ‘ —
Late News.
Vnllnndigham case, nllu-
ling to sheath the sword until every
Southern State is freed from the pol.
luting treud of Lincoln’s vandals. But
when wo hoar that the/ huve invadod
our homes, the homes of our dear and
loved ones, to destroy and lay wusto,
and to insult our mothers, sisters,
daughters and sweethearts, it touohos
us more deeply. It fills ovary vein,
nerve and muscle with throbbing eino-
tios of hatred and revenge. Wo 'ten
der to tho brave and lieroio Forrest and
hiB chivalrous command, our heartfelt
thunks l'oi- their untiring energy, un
doubted courage und timely intercep
tion. -
Wo regret to hear of tho • death of
Mr. J. li; McArvor. The writer, hav
ing known him for sprne time, can ap
preciate tiie loss sustained in his disease
by the oitizens of the community in
which he livod. Wo tender to his bo
reaved wife and son, relatives nnd
friends, our deep and heartfelt sympa
thies.
Uur address is still Cumberland
Gap. Yours kc.
BINGIN.
•Cam* Wheeler, near Cuuderland Gap,
* May 21,-1863
Dear Courier: On the evening of the
14th inst., our Regiment sent out a
small scouting party, . twonty-five in
number, in tno direction of Barbours-
villc. A little while after dark, they
met up with one hundred and fiity-
seven of tho enemy's cavalry near Flat
Lick, attacked them'and drove them
from their position, seriously wounding
one man. killing one horse und-tyound-
ing another, without any loss to our
little party. Tho enemy was then re
inforced with two hundred and fifty
men. Our small fbreo fell back to
Cumberland Ford. Didn’t know hut
what they wore > cut off, but the gallant
littlo bqnd made their way, by a circui
tous route,, into camp about day
light next morning, without sustaining
any loss'. :
It is fourteen mileB from the Gap to
the Ford, eight from there to Flat
Licks, where two roads, one from B-rr-
boursville and one from Loudon, inter
sect; and eight from the Lick ttf Bar-
boursville.
On the fifteenth four hundred of our
Regiment, Col. Hart commanding, took
up the lino qf march. Nothing ,of in
-terest occurred this side of Flat Lick,
where we arrived about 10 o’clock at
-night. Thore we heard that U19 enemy
occupied Barboursyille, five- thousand
strong. The Colonel, with about fifty
picked men, - left the balance of the
command there, and'.proceeded in the
direction of Bjirboursvillo, to ascertain
the correctness or- falsity of ,the report.
tho order was given to fall back to Cum
bevlund Ford, where we could gai a
better position, hoping that the one- I
rny’s cavalry would follow us. Wo got '
to the Ford a littlo after daylight, and
remained ill position awaiting their ap
proach, till about noon. Meantime a
scout wus sont out in the direation of
Flut Lick, who roturned without giv
ing any evidence of the approach of
the eiterny. ^
Wo arrivod baok at our oamps
lato in tho nfternoon, right side up
with care. 80 ended that expedition,
though the lost, hut not the least,
interesting affair, now remains to be
told.
Yesterday at noon, wo received or
ders to be ready at three o’oliclc, with
one days cooked rations, to start on a
scout. Ttjb intention was to tnuke.a
dash, with a few picked men, over into
Kentucky, to ascertain the force and
position of tho enemy. .
At precisely three o'clock one hun.
dred und fi fly men men - were in linn,
witli eager roudiness to make the con
templated trip—Col. Hurt command
ing. When we were nearing tho bnse
of the North side of the mountain, a
courier from our squadron that was on
picket over th?ro, passed, saying that
the enemy, in large cavalry force, was
close by, and had oapturod some of our
.pickets. Our attention was then turn
ed towards the Yunkees, and about n
half mile distant, we could see them
drawn up in lino ot battle.
Our little force was promptly called
into line, and movod forward, but be
fore we got in shooting distance, they
had wheeled about nnd wore skodad*
dling. We pursued thorn in hot, haste
six miles and until dark, our advanae
guard occasionally firing into them,
their sharpshooters covering their re
treat. oocasionally dismounting and
cracking away at us from behind trees.
It,was so dusty nnd so noar'dark, that
we could not so* to shoot with any cor
rectness.
No loss on our side in tho pursuit,
with tho exception of one horse in the
advance guard killed. We kave not as,
yet ascertained what damage they sus
tained. •
It being dnrk, mid a very mountain
ous road, and their force being so much
larger than ours,'it was feared that if
wo pursuod them farther thoy might
trap us, nnd it was deemed impolitic to
continue the pursuit-farther.
Wo fell hick and ascertained what
facts wo could, in relation to the cap
ture of our pickets, <to,., and learned
that the 44th Ohio Mounted Infantry,
ahout four hundred strong, had beon
piloted by a mountain tory, and had
surrounded, by mountain pathways,
two oC.our men on- tho outposts, and
captured them, and wounded another
in trying to make his escape, though
not dangerously.
Both men nnd officers behaved dur
ing the affair, with that coolness and
gallantry that becomes freomon fight
ing for independence.
Cumberland Gap has just been rein
forced, and-if the enemy attack it wo
will bo prepared to give them a warm
reception. Though it is still my- im :
presslon that they will riot uttaok this
point, my judgment it: the case wpnt
dotoaotupon. ’ . BINGEN.
sions to tboir zeal against the Southern
rebellion. They had an oyo to tho
noose, and kept a hand .raised to avoid
it. They do.not mean to go far enough
to get that about their necks if they
can help it. If Lincoln is firm, we
shall see whnt stuff they are mado of.—
Rich. £>is»
A spocial dispatch from Murfreesboro
to the Cincinnati Gazette says;
Col. Straight’s disaster is attributed
to his liuvingbeen supplied with broken
ddwn and inferior animals nt Nashvillo.
He could not havo been one hundred
miles ahead of Forrest,, the rebels s»y,
when Fonost commenced the pursuit,
as rebel cavalry appeared on the north
ern bank of tho Tennessee tho next
day after Co!. Straight left the river..
Dispatches from Col. Straight liimsolf
have been received as lalo as the eve
ning after tho fight at Blountsvillc, in
which ho reports he gave the rebels a
sovero defeat,
ft©" At tho recent fight in Kentucky,
Gen. Morgan sent over a dispatch to
the oommander of the forces at Somer
set, asking to exchange, prisoners for
coffee, salt, Ac.; so many privates to be
given for a sack of coffee and sugar.
He, however, remarked in the dispatch
that he did not suppose they would
give much for - them, taking tho dis
graceful and cowardly manner in Which
they deserted the poor fellows in con
sideration When he attacked them.
Colonel Jack Brown's 59th Ga
Regiment has lately been transferred
to Hood's Division and Anderson’s
Brigade. It is a very excellent com
mand, and its membership is composed
of as fine a body of soldiery looking
men as ever hailed from Georgia,
The “Virginia."—'The Wilmington
Journal says: "The steamer Japan,
now, wo suppose, tho Virginia, is an
iron vessel, Jiko the Alabama, but not
armored. Sha is simply an iron sloop
of-war, not an iron-clad. Her arma
ment, we presunio, Was obtained in
England, and of oourse does not in
clude all Brooke’s guns.”
g©* Fred Douglas Bpoko in the
Academy of Music in New Youk on the
15th. The .Mayor presided and .the
Hutchinson family sung 1
B©* Every 0110 must see daily in
stances of people who complain from
more habit of complaining ; and make
their friends uneasy, and strangers
merry, by murmuring at evils that do
not exist, and repining at grievances
which they do not really feel.
Our Public Debt.—The debt of the
Confederate Stales, says'an exchange,
bears no proportion to that of other
States in like extremities. Suppose it
to amount at the end of the fiscal year
to one thousand millions.—France,
when exhausted by long wars, by the-
loss of all her colonies, and a -popula
tion about two and-a half limes our
number, and prospective resources cer
tainly not greater, had afloat assignats
to the amount of eight thousand mil
lions dollars. Her revenue was flno
hundred and eighty-seven millions
dollars; perhaps a little more than our
tax will yield in our present blooltade
and isolated state. England, with
twice our population, in 1831. had a
debt of four thousand millions, while
her rovenue was two hundvod and
forty-Boven millions. But her credit
has beon sustained, and' why not that
of tho Corifederacy ? g ^
Later from Vicksburg*
MoBilii, May 20.—Tho special Re*
orter of tho Advertiser k Register, at
aekson, Mississippi, reports, ns the
latest from Vicksburg, the enemy are
firing at long taw, and ditching,
From Nassau.
WilhInoton, May 26.—The steamer
Sirus from Nassau arrived this evening.
The steamer Banchec had arrived out
hence.
Vallaudiiihaiu nt Shelbyvllie*
Tullauoua, May 26.—The Federal*
have exiled Vallandigiiam under a flag
of truce. He was yesterday dropped ,
by them on neutral ground immediate
ly in front of our piokots at Fosterville*
He’s now atSudhyvlllu.
A small raid of the enemy advanced *
near McMinnville yesterday, but retir
ed without accomplishing anything'
Uottou Burned*
Savannah, May 26.—A train load of
cotton, the property of tho Confederate -
States, was destroyed accidentally by
fire at Boston on the Gulf Road to-day.
News from Vicksbure*Yn>kee*At(icaa
Officers Hung,
Mobile, May 27.—A dispatch from
the special reporter of tho Advertiser
k Register, dated Jackson 27th, Hays: *
’Reports from below' say that Banks
has'erossed with his ayjiy, at Bayou
Sara.
- Federal deserters confirm tho reports
of the carnage at Vioks.bnrg.
Grant sont in a flag of truce to-day
about the sick and wounded.
Femborton is burning^nr, and using
other disinfectants, to save the troops
irom tho effects of the Fedoral dead
rotting in front of the works. ,
The slaughter of tho Fedorals in the
at tacks on Vicksburg, was far greater
than in uny battle of the war.
Tiie Mississippian states that two-'
gunboats wore sunk at Vicksburg.
Tho Mississippian received news on
Tuesday evening, that the battle on
Saturday was the most stubborn of all.
Intelligence received nt Grenada
from Memphis, says it is believed there
-tlmt Helena has boon captured.
Afterwards, a telegram from Oxford *'
to Grenada, said that Helena was cap
tured to day, and on Monday a man
from the river reached Canton, who
had road a dispatch to Oof Ferguson,
which said that Marmaduke hod ta
ken Helena, and hanged a regiment of
three hundred and forty negroes, with
nil its Yankee officers and tno Quarter
master.
A Canton dispatch says, positively,
tho statomont may be relied on.
It is reported that tho Yankco gun
boats have loft Yazoo City.
From Vicksburg.
Richmond, May 27.—A private dis
patch from Canton yesterday says:. All
well.—Vicksburg holds out bravely.
Firo in Wilmington.
Wilhinoton, May 27.—A fire broke
out hfli-o at haif-pnst 2 this evening on
the West side of the river, just North
of tho Manchester Railroad Depot,
which burned somo shods and a large
warehouse with contents—spirits of
turpentine nnd 1,500 bales of cotton,
the latter principally belonging to the
Government. The loss is Bolievod to -
bo heavy.
The Railroad property is uninjured.
From Mississippi.
Jackson, May 25.—There is nothing
additional from Vicksburg.
Sixty contrabands were bagged at
8©-A correspondent or the Atlanta. oontruoanas were Daggea at
„ 7, 1 ... , TI ,, _ Ttaymond, and havo been put to work
Corifederacy, writing from Hood’s Di>' '£ n ti 10 fortifications,
vision, says:
We havo divine service noAV daily, at
a brick church near camp, and it will
interest many, of our people, to know
that a deep religious fooling pervades all
ranks, and many aro joining tho church
Gambling and drinking have almost en
tirety disappeared, since Gon. Leo’s or
der on tho subject, and the improved
moral condition of onr army is a source
of congratulation to every good Chris
tian ameng us.
We drill for exercise now about-four
times ouch day, and tho consoripts late
ly sent to fill our columns, aro being
broke in gradually to tho sorvico. Out
of every ton howover sont here, not
more than' five of them are really of
any service.
Tiie Tivo Pictures.—The New York
W/rld hris tho following piquant par
agraph:
By 0 most unhappy coincidence the
congratulatory orders ofGerioral’s Hook,
or r.nd Lee appeared together in yeBter.
day’s newspaper. The publication of
these -’two documents simultaneously
will do tiie North almost as muoh dis
credit and the South ds much'credit in
Europe as the. result of the battles of
the Rappahannock. It is the fate of
many a brave and capable nation and
arrity to bo defeated ; hut to be unmind
ful; boastful, and false) when the occa
sion demands honesty, resignation, and
a loyal hopefulness in adversity, will
turn against us every civilized nation
on earth. - No honest and fair-minded
man can. have read these two orders
yosterday without grief, 6nd pain, and
shame. It can no longer bo denied—
it is patent to'tho whole, world—that
the superior men, morally and men
tally, are at the head of the wrong
Governmeat arid-tho wrong army.
Two Lincoln thieves- havo been
caught with $6000 or $8000 in coin, and
a largo lot of gold and silver watches,
jewelry, Ac.
Yazoo City is reported to bo evacua
ted—damage heavy.
Gov. Fettus arrivod here to-day.
Important Events aT Hand Tho
Richmond Examiner, in the. course of
some remarks about life situation of
the armies of Johnston and Grant,
says: "There is really no* occasion for
panio about Vicksburg. Whatever
may bo the result of tho military opera
tions around it, their interest will soon
be eclipsed by greater events elsewhere.
Within the ntxt fortnight, tho cam
paign of eighteen hundred and eixty-
throo will be pretty weiT decided. The
most important movemout of the war
will probably no made in that time.
If the Confederate staudard is again
victorious, as may be hoped, with muoh
and solid, reason, although mere victory
will not immediately end the war, it
will destroy tho efficiency qf the
enemy’s army for the rest of this year.
If we gain all that is now fairly possible,
an entirely new oharacter will be given
to future operations, which will relieve
the oountry of half the suffering it has
hitherto endured. Now is the noble
day, the fertunate hour for Confed
erate army. At this time, if ever,
every man should be at his poBt.”
Fope Pius is dying. The question o,f
his successor is being already vigorously
discussed. Cardinal Wiseman, of Eng
land, is said to bo the favorite candi-
date of tbo saloons of the Fqnburg St.
Germain.