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VOLUME XVII1.
ROME. GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 12, 1868.
NUMBER 81
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IsiwrdAV Morning. May 18, 1853*
A Failure.
For the first time, at least since we
have had charge ot it, has the Courier
failed to make its regular appearance,
nor is it any fault of ours this time,
but is caused b/ our usual supply of
paper failing to arrive at the proper
time, although it had been shipped.
Every possible exertion was made
to secure it in time, but accidents
will some times happen to tho best
regulated affairs, and now that it has
I come it proves to be so. much smaller
than our usuul size, that we are com.
pcilcd to reduce our forms in order to
accommodate them to the paper. This
is exceedingly annoying, but cannot be
helped ut this time. We will endeavor
to procure paper of the proper size as
soon as possible.
A Yankee Idea.
Their officers,, we understand, (from
reliable authority, of course,) account
for the remarkable character of their
olficial reports qf their killed, wounded
■and prisoners in battle, something after
this way—saida Yankee officer : “Of
course the Irish, Du eh. and all other
■foreigners, are not our people." "We
•only count our people; thoy are our
money, just us our horses, wagons, ships
and gunB are, and when killed are
counted as so much money lost”—“for
ithe amount which they cost, is really
all the Government has lost, tmlit
goes to the debit of the war." This
i* a specimen of Yankee humanity and
sympathy. Of course tho ‘controbauds’
•will be put on the same footing with
The Irish and Dutch. We. have much
more yet to learn of Yankee character
and Yankee financiering.
8©* We have had several heavy rains
•during tho present week. As the wheat
is nearly ready to be cut, we fear these
rains will retard this important opera-
|,'tUm.,
W. A. D’Klmur will offer a lot
articled at auction to-day.
DSy-In order to guard successfully
against spies, petsons should urn's
every suspicious looking individual
who may bo passing about, and author.
% might bo granted by the County
| Court to a sufficient number of respect
able farmers, living convenient, to ex
amine into any cases that may arise,—
Too muoh confidence ought not to be
placed in passports, as they are easily,
forged.
Tableaux in C'edautown,—As will be
soen from the notice in another column
the citizens of Qedartown propose get
ting up a series of Tableauxs for the
benefit of the soldiers. As the cause
is good, and the amusements harmless
• and agreeable, we bespeak a largo pat-
lonago for them.
j, I®* The Southerner announces that
Hon. C. L. Vnllandigham has aooepted
an invitation from lion. A. R. Wright,
to spend a short tirab at his residence
near Rome.
fl®*We would call attention to a
"Particular Notice” of Veal & Co.
flSF"A Northern paper says the vani
ty of fame is beautifully illustrated by
the little fact that a splendid portrait
of the rebel President has just been
Published in Paris, with this inscrip-
J°n: “Jtons. J. Davis, President of
>0 nth America."
From Port Hudson.
The'following, says the • Atlanta In.
telligencer, ‘is a copy of a hasty note
written at New Orleans, just before the
boat containing the prisoners left the
wharf. It is from a gentleman of high
character:
"New Orleans, May 29.—Tremen
dous fight at Port Hudson on the 27th.
Yankees driven back with a loss of
3,000 killed and wounded. Generals
Sherman, (since reported dead) Neal
Dow,’Chapin ond Nickerson wounded.
General Payne killed. Negroes, to use
the language of an aid of General
Sherman to R. Evans, "massacred."
They held our outworks for two
hours, hut the 15th Connecticut and
26th New Hampshire caught the infec.
tion, and the whole coucern broke and
flod. They report the U. S. sloop of
war Richmond sunk ; somo say it was
another vessel. This !b their own ver
sion. Banks not in the fight. Ail un
der the direotion of Sborman. He was
brought here lost night. Registered
onemies will apparently be left alone
for a while.
8®* The amount of Confederate
States Treasury notes benring date
anterior to December lost, was $503,.
000,000. All of these, the Richmond
papers state “will soon have been con*
verted into bonds, or if not, will cease
to be currency, altogether. Thus, five
hundred millions of currency will be
wiped, as currency, from existence;
and the money market be relieved by
the heaviest depletion ever known in
tho annals of publio finnnnce.” -The
notes must be funded before August 1,
1863.
jQy*The following resolution was
passed by the City Council of Atlanta;
Resolved, That in the event of the
refusal on the part of any resident, to
cheerfully enroll his name, for the pro
tection of our wives, our children and
our homes, the names of all such be
published oonspicnpusly in each of tho
daily papers of the city, that those may
be distinctly known who refuse to em
bark in such a holy cause: and that
such other action be taken in the prem
ises as may be deemed prudent and
safe for the" welfare of the city.
BcjyThe Mississippian publishes a
.speech made by Gen. Pemberton, after
three repu’sea of tho enemy. It is as
follows:
"You have heard that I was incom
petent and a traitor, and that it was
my intention to sell Vicksburg. Fol
low mo, and you will see the cost at
’which I will sell Vicksburg. When
the last pound of beef, bacon and flour:
tho last grain of corn j the last oow,
and hog, and horse, and dog shall have
been consumed, t.nd the last man shall
have perished in the trenches, then,
and only then, will I sell Vicksburg."
®sjy-The Episcopal Diocesan Council
of Virginia has adjourned to meet
again in Richmond, in. May, 1864. The
report of the committee on the state of
the Church, which was read, was an
exceedingly interesting paper. It shows
that, amid all the trials and vicissitudes
of ttie times, the church has abundant
cause for encouragement. Last year
mnly twenty-eight parishes were repre
sented, while this year nearly seventy
parochial reports have, been received,
The payments to the contingent fund
arc liberal, and the benevolent contri
buttons greater than ever before. The
number of clergymen in tho Diocese
has not diminished; the number of or
dinations is most gratifying, and there
are now severnl candidates for orders. —
The proportion of confirmations shows
an increase over previous years. A
.considerable portion of the report re
lates to the fields ot ministerial 'labor
in the army. It appears probable from
the action taken, that systematic meat'
ures will be carried out. untie)' the di
rection of the Bishop, for supplying the
arnsj in Virginia with Chaplains,
Greenbacks Forced in England,—A
case was tried before an examining
Court in Sheffield, England, on the
17th April, of forgery of United States
greenbacks. The parties were Edwin
Hides and Henry ^ig()f, copperplate
P r,n i?A 3 ' f **? Charge Vj^s that of ffli’g-
uir$1° greenback notes, and the proof
sufficiently dear to warrant the send
ing on of the accused, Tho prosecutor
stated to t-be Court that the American
Ambassador, from information convey
ed to him, was satisfied that forgeries
of United States note?.had been con
ducted in England in a wholesale man
ner, and to "a very alarming extent.”
Th,o testimony in the case showed that
aotflo 3.000 of S10 notes hud been prih’t-
ed and conveyed t<va person whom the
attorney called an ^nierioah, (ho
doubt a Yankee,) whqse name, for the
time, was withheld.
From the 22d Regiment.
The fallowing are the list of names
ot the Fireside Defenders that went
into the charge at the battle of Chan-
cellorsville, mentioned in a letter Of
our .correspondent “H.”
Capt. G. W. Thomas, Lieut. W. J.
Hall, Lieut. A. G. M. Com bee, Serg’t
C. F. Dykes, Sorg’t W. B. Judkins,
Serg’t J. G. Leigh, Serg’t A. J. Thomas*
Gorp'l J, H, Black, Corp’l J. H. Drhal
mond, Corp’l W. T. Sparks, Privates
W. L. Archer, G. P. Bell, T. Blackwell,
G. H. Bowen, J. B. Burkhalter, J. M-
Burkhaller, E, E, Burkhalter; on am.
bulance corps J. A. Campbell, W. A.
Chambers, E. Everett, J, M. Fuller, W.
M. Gossett, J. R, Gipson, J. B. Uipps,
W. H. King, H. W. Leaser, W. Morris.
E. Morris, J. Morrisi J. W. Miller, W.
J. Pope, J. F. Sharp, J. A. Sharp;
having been slightly wounded the day
bdfore, was left in eharge-of the bag
gage, S. \V. Stewart, D. 8. Teat, W. J,
Vincent, T. N. Vincent, W. A. Witcher,
on ambulance corps D. M. Watson.
From a letter of later date, wo take
the following paragraphs;
1 send you an order from General
Wright, complimenting J. W. Miller,
of the Fireside Defenders, for his gal
lant conduct during the recent battles,
which you will please publish, for the
benefit of his friends ;
HsADqns. Wright’s Brigade, I
Muy 10, 1803. j
Special Order, 1
No. 101. J
I, the commanding General, takes
pleasure m announcing to. the com*
maud, the gallant conduct ol private
John W. Miller, of Co. G, 22d Georgia
Regiment, who, on Sunday, May the
3d iust., near the enemy’s lines, in
front of ChuuceUoi'svilte, amidst a fu
rious storm of shrapnel, grape, canister,
and musketry, uscended, at the request
of the General Commanding, a tree to
make observations of the enemy's po.
sit ion and force. This' feat, simple as
it may uppeur in itself, required cool
sou rage uud forgetfulness of self, and
a devotion to our holy cause, reflecting
the highest honor upon private Miller,
By order of Brig. Gen. A. R. Wright,
Claiborne Sneed,
A. A. A. General.
Thera has been a great ohange
our Brigade recently, in a religious
point of view, and especially in our
Regiment. We now. have preuohing
twice or three times on Sundays, aud
prayer meetings and preaching several
times of uigiiut during the Week.—
There seeius to be a great iuter&t
manifested in these meetings, a goodly
number, perhaps a hundred or more,
have resolved to seek the sulvatiou of
their immortal souls, besides some have
already connected themselves with
the church.
The health of our company is very
good at this time.
Col. Jones having resigned his posi
tion os Colonel of the Regiment, Jos.
Warden is our Colonel, fie is an ex
cellent officer and well thought of. by
the men under his oommunrl. H.
Lite News.
From Vieksbnvg.
Jackson, June 1.—Grant demanded
the surrender of Vicksburg on Thurs
day, giving three days.
Pemberton replied that be did not
want fifteen minutes—that he would
die in the trenches first.
The federal troops are greatly demor
alized, and refused to renew the attack
on Saturday.
The gunboats fired hot ahet.
The federal lou amount! from twen
ty-five to thirty thousand men, includ
ing GenerrU Kerr, Loy, Burbridge,
Bonan, and one other whose name is
forgotten.
. Port Hudson is invested.
Roseacraas Falling Back. '
Chattanooga, June 3.—Credible lb-
formation has been reee.ved that Iio-
sonorans has commenced falling back
from Murfreesboro to hit fortifications
at Nashville.
No doubt of his having sent large re*
inforceinents to Grant.
Braggs army is ready to.follow.
290.
From Vicksburg.
Jackson, June 3.—The siege of Vieka-
burg so fur is very encouraging.
The enemy has been repulsed with
immense slaughter in every attempt to
storm our works.
Grant will be compelled to raise the
seigo in a few dais. It is reporteJ he is
retiring to Grand Gulf.
Stirring events are looked for within
the next”48 hours.
The Memphis Bulletin chums that
5,000 prisoners were taken at Young’s
Point.
From Vicksburg via Yaakeedom.
Sueldyvelle, June 3.—All quiet in
front.
The Louisville Democrat of the 31st
tilt, has been received. Its latest
news from Vieksburg bean date May
24th.
There was no fighting since the Mon
day previous.
The position of tha army was un
changed.
Johnston was reported to bo at Jack-
son with 14,000 men, and that Beaure-
§ ard would join him at that place with
0,000 men.
The Big Black bridge waa in. posses-
sion of the rebels.
It contains the following dispatoh
from Washington: #
Washington; May 30.—There will bo
'no further exchange of prisoners for
tho present. The rebel authorities
having taken the initiative in this pro
ceeding, the War Department will
promptly follow it up. All rebel offi
cers paroled are ordered to be placed
under arrest for imprisonment.
The reported rebel invasion of Mary
land is a hoax.
From Vicksburg and Fort Hudson.
Jackson, May 31—The movements
of the enemy at Vicksburg are supposed
here to indicate an intention to give
battle near Big Biaok. Our forces arfi
tully prepared for it.
It is reported that two thousand
Confederate cavalry have arrived in
the neighborhood of Clinton.
This is all the news I can give you.
The rest is contraband.
Grant speaks disparagingly of John
•ton, and boasts that he will i
and brai
A Question of Rank.—We find the
following singular statement in the
Tullahoma correspondence of the Sa
vuniiah Republican :
There is a mooted question now con
cerning the rau k of the highest, grade
of Confederate officers. An item which
recently went the rounds of the press,
I giving the confirmation of lull Gen
j orals, failed to give that of General
Braxton Bragg. From this many sup-
| posed tho Senate refused to confirm
him. This is a mistake. He was ap-
i pointed the day ot the battle Shiloh,
; and confirmed at once, being the first
! full General confirmed by the perma
nent Government Gens, Cooper, Loe,
Johnston, Beauregard, Ac., were first
appointed and continaecl by tffil Pro
visional Govern aaJ were ^nse-
queatly obliged to be re-appqinled and
confirmed by the permanent Govern-
tnjn; afterwords, and therefore, their
Appointments wore made after Brfmg’e,
giving the latter the senio^y, as js
now elairoecL making him the racking
General of the service, '(’he question
has not beep raised until recently,
though it is s!iji( the President dispqyer-
fld this discrepancy some time ago
Oflfl kept it quiet for prudential fpa-
suns; yet Biiicb the investigation of
the matter if is believed" ijT official pir
cles that he maintains fhat‘Bragg is
the senior office!^ lit' the' meantime,
things go ori'ds' lisual; d&'ch 'dffiber ao
ting as heretofore acpprdi'hd to'his'sup
posed rank, and General"Bragg patri
otically rbfuelbi to claim his 'undoubt
ed privilege,".-and for the benentof
t!ie service continuing in commit'hd of
(ho army wliith ho lias well organized,
disciplined and controlled.
fi@*Gen. Bragg has granted pardons
to all of the privates in bib army,
who were under sentenoe from Court-
martial. *
Jackson, June 1.—A gentleman from
Port Hudson On Saturday morning last
confirms the reported defeat of Banks,
gmd says it was a most complete rout,
Our forces arc pursuing them.
Kirby Smith was sixty miles from
Port Hudson on Thursday, and sayt he
is certain-to cross at Port Hudson.
A scout, just in, repotts that the
enemy continues to assail Vicksburg
daily in the rear, and suffers with
tremendous slaughter.
The enemy also continues bis bom
bardment in front, but slowly.
A cavalry skirmish occurred last
Friday above Clinton, towards the
Yazoo, but without any important
results.
The Yankees are burning all (beir
small craft, ferry boats, Ao,, on the Big
Biaok.
A fight is daily expecWd towards the
Yazoo.
Johnstou. Is nil right. There is no
flagging, and high hopes of a final
grand victory are entertained, A-
.Jackson, Juno J.—My, J. R. Sami
ders, of Selma, wfo° left the vjcinity ot
Ylpksbqrg on Saturday, as ap escort to
the wife Of Cojqpe) flpndley, pf the
3 [at Alabama, reppyts that he has been
iq t[tb Yapkep line* ever since the
iqvestmeqt of yiokshprg, and frequent
ly at Qyunt.’s headquarters. *
If) the fight pf the 23d they acknow
ledge a lpss of fjyenty thousand.
Qn t|)p 2[st we sunk two of the
enemy’s gunboats—the Natchez and
Nightujgaje.
Seyeral houses have been burped by
the enemy’s shells, aqd some women
and .children kjlkd, h»t little other
damage done; .
Thirty-one past. Tennesseeans, of
Vaughan'? brigade, deserted to the
Federal? and took the path of allegi
ance. They reported Pemberton’s loss
atiqqp.
The Federals lose from fifty to four
hundred daily by skirmishing and
sharp-shooting.
' A b()an nanqed Elliott, of the 30th
Alabama, greatly’ distinguished him-
selfas a sharp-shooter, popping over
the Federals, oopatauttly.
oasts thqt he will” whip him,
of heavy.reitiforcemenis.*'
Maj. 'Gen. Kerr and Brig. Gens. Lajr,
BeauiAer, Burbridge and another have
been killed.
Tho stqnoh from the Yankeo deod ls
offensive for six mile? from Vicksburg.
General Pemberton sent but a flag of
truce demanding of Grant to bury hia
dead and attend to his wounded that
had been lying on the field for five
days. Grant was complying with the
demand as well aa he 'could.
The Ohio troopa refuse to assault
again.
The Federal loss is from thirty-five
te forty thousand.
The Federals elaim to have a force of
from seventy-five to a hundred thou
sand men.
Grant and McClernand are disputing
about inniority of rank.
Mr. SaUnders’ information was ob
tained from Grant’s Chief of Staff, and
officers of the staff of other Generals.
People from the Big Black report
that the enemy are destroying small
water craft, and seising carriages and
buggies for ambulances.
Fighting is oonstant; shelling, ban- ,
nonailing and sharp-shooting are con
tinually heard.
It is reported that there his been a
skirmish on the Yazoo, resulting suc
cessfully to us. *
SECOND DISPATCH.
A gentleman direct from Clinton,
La„ states that the Federals assaulted
Port Hudson, aud after four days hard
fighting, Gardner routed them at every
point with great slaughter.
The negroes were put in front and
were shot down like dogs.
On the lost day Gardner slipped out
a regiment of mounted infbntrv, who
came charging through the Federal
lines, whooping and yelling. The ene
my stampeded, and were pursued and
slaughtered dreadfully. THb cold steal
was freely used. .
' The enemy are at Bated Rouge, and
the singe of Port liudsofl has beeh
raised.
Near Greenville five ■ transports, con
taining reinforcements for Grant, were
fired into by Ferguson’s company of
artillery, and nearly a hundred killed
and wounded.
The enemy subsequently landed and
burneil the tewn end several country
residences. *
Firing is still heard at Vicksburg^
Jti^Tutr Shoild be HVno.—Wo
learn that-perties, and some from- our
city, have been sent through some
counties below this, offering 910 per .
bushel for wheat. Now our bumble
opinon it that any man who will thus
attempt to monopolize the wheat id
the country by paying such prices or
offering to do so, should be taken to
the first limb of a stout black jaek and
hung by the neck until so vile a mis
creant and traitor is dead, and his car
cass left for buzzards to devour.
It is astonishing that men who hare,
already fattened on the wants of the'
country, in many cases, by slipping
through the lines contrary to law, and
loyalty to the Confederacy, should be
so greedy for further gains. Such men
are not to be trusted for a moment,
and planters, os well as our own people,
should kick them from their doors as
they would a dog, when they attempt
thus to run up prices for an article of -
such general consumption. Beware of
the speculators; we say beware. They
would sell the oountry for a dollar.—
Columbus Times.
A Rouan Diamond.—The following
paragraph, which we clip from a late
Yunkee paper presents every "rough
diamond.” t
On yesterday, a large, red-faced wo'-'
man, with a porter’s load of expensive'
finory upon her person, entered the’
largest jewelry store in New York, and
enquiring for diamonds, a magnificieftt
assortment of rings, broches, ear-rings
necklaces, Ac., were spread- before her.
From there she selected threo thuosand
five hundred dollars worth which she
requested might be sent to her house
With the bill. The cleric would find
her husband at home, she said, and he
would pay for them. A pen and a card
were handed to her, and she was re
quested to write her address. She
hesitated, her broad faoe turned from
rod to orimson, and finally, in great
oonfusion, she made her mark (a big
cross) on the card! and toning it to the
salesman, said "Thar! I bain’t time to
write, out l guess he’ll know that.”
The illiterate queen of diamonds was a.
Government contractor's wife.
In the Wrong Place.—It is daily
becoming more evident that there i*»
large amount of military talent absorb
ed by the press of the South, and that
men are occupying the chair editorial
who ought to be in the saddle. It is
beyond dispute that if some of the
newspaper writers were at the head of
our armies we should never' lose a
battle, and the war would be closed out
in less than rfinety days. We are als*
of opinion that if old Billy Jones, the
celebrated North Carolina Fool Killer,
would make a raid into Tennessee he
oould find a good deal of employment
for bis club;—Athens\Ttnn.) Post.
JUST The monster iron-clad, RoaOoW,
lately in course of construction at
Brooklyn (N. Y.) Navy Yard, has turn
ed oUt R complete failure.