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M. DWINELL, Editor.
Tucidny Morning, June 16, 1803.
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Ths Hospitals.—Tho Pirn and Lump
kin Hospitals, were closed on Saturday
last, and tho prospects seemed to be
that they would all be olosed in a short
time, but on Sunday orders wore roceiv.
ed to re-open them,, arid on Monday
the work was commenced, and we
suppose that in a short time they will
be ready for use. We suppose this is
in anticipation of a battle in Tennes
see.
Omct Ga. Relief and Hospital")
Association, >
Augusta, Ga., Juno 23, 1863. j
A messenger of tho Georgia Relief
and Hospital Association will leave At
lanta on or near tho 10th of each month
for Mississippi, and will tako charge of
all boxes n/m packages intended for the
Georgia troops in that State, and will
carry them to some safe point near the
army and deposit them and notify the
owners or deliver iliem to the owners,
practicable, free of charge. Tho
boxes and packages must be marked
with the names of the "owners, their
company and regiments, and to the
care of the Georgia Reliof and Hospi
tal Association, Atlanta, Ga. The As
sociation will not ho responsible for the
delivery of any box containing perish
able articles, such as green vegetables,
Ac. "Boxes and packages will bo de
posited at tho Way-Sido Home, Atlanta,
. few copies of Bishop Elliott’s
.Sermon, entitled "Samson’s Riddle,”
are for sale at the Book Storo.
Ga.
■ggjfLt. T. J. Perry, of tho 29th Ga.,
returned on Sunday last.
W. H. POTTER,
Gonoral Superintendent.
Nowspapers of this State will please
copy daily during tho first week of each
month, and send bills to this office.
W. H. POTTER Gon’l Sup’t.
Prom the Cherokee Artillery.
The following extracts are from
private Batter from Sergt. Holland of
tho Chorokee Artillery, datod Vicks
burg, Jifne 14,1863:
It is with tho greatest pleasure that 1
seat myself to writ® you a few lines,
We are here in this place, completely
surrounded by the Federals. After
the fight at Baker’s Creek on the 16th
of May, our forces fell back inside of
tho trenches, and by the 18th wo wore
completely surroundod , and since that
time we have had no communication
with the outer world.
When I commenced this letter
thought I would iiy to picture to yeu
our condition, but after thinking it
over 1 will not attempt it. For twenty
seven days we have stood the shock of
hattlo. From the river the mortars are
incessantly Bhelling us, while from out.
side the artilery is at work uight and
day. Cannon halls are passing in all
'directions, and nearer tho trenches
there is a porfoct hail storm of bullets
1 from small arms. Our works have
been assaulted time and again, but wc
• have driven the onemy back in nil his
attempts to tako tho I place by slorm ;
while from the rivor iho gunboats have
fared still worse. Wo have used them
very roughly, sinking tho host one and
crippling others.
1 will not write you any particulars
, of our condition at present, as t* how
long we can hold out, or the number of
men. But ono thing is certain, wo
have plonty to eat for some timu, more
than one would think. As to men
we are all rignt. It will take more
Federals than are here to do anything
with us ; they may double and then
' fail. There is not a man in this place
but whut is certain of our being sue
ccssful in the end. But thero is n
tolling who Will come out safe ; a man
life is not secure night or day ; !»e is
liable to he killed at any minute.
Our company have lost very few men
.. so far in killed. I will try and giv
you a correct account of killed, wound
ed and missing: Chap. Anthony, Thos
Hutchings and H. C. Ponny, killed
Five or six slightly, wounded. Dean
Wilkinson, Geo. Hulohings, Dink An
thony, Youngblood, Fry and Frank,
missing. Tho company went into the
fight with sixty five men, and lost fif
teen men, five guns and nearly all the
. horses, They have one gun left, and
part of the boys havo muskots and aro
in tho trenches. There is a good deal
of sickness among thorn, but none ar
dangerous. Lt. Stillrfell has been sick
out is up and about again.
1 U@“From a privato letter from Mr
A. T. Sullivan, we learn that Capt. Cor
put and Lt. Stillwell aro safe.
JKayHenry Clay Dean, the great ora
tor of Iowa, wiio was talked of as a
candidato for Govornor, was seized on
tho 15th ult., a la Vallandipham, and
sentlto Missouri, to bo tvied by drum
head court martial.
SOy-Tho Augusta Constitutionalist
estimates the wheat products of Geor
gia this year at 2,500000 Bushels, oats]
7,000,000, corn 40,000,000. Talk of
starving (it says) a people with such
prospects -it is an absurdity. Tnc
editor further estimates not loosely,
but from data, the yield of pork this
ear in the State at 240,000,000pounds,
a full meat supply in peace times.
©ayThe Montgomery Advertiser cor
roots tho report that among the prison
ers captured by Gen. Forrest, near
Rome, were two companies of Alabumi
ans, who had enlisted ns such in the
ranks of the-enemy. Gen. Forrest’s
oport to the department corrects the
misapprehension which had existed as
to the prisoners. If there were any
Alabamians enlisted among thorn, they
made their escape before tho capture,
nod it appears that there were no
slaves associated with tho Yankees as
soldiers.
Virginia Elections, &c.
Richmond, June 6.—Official returns
of the Congressional elections of this
State give eight Representatives re
elected—"Bocook, Goode, DeJarnette,
Baldwin, Staples, Miller, Johnston and
Russell.
The Secretary of tho Treasury has
advertised for bids to purchase five
millions six por cent, bonds, with cou
pons, payable in cotton, under the act
approved April 30th, 1863.
Ho war news to-day.
A Victory opposite Baton Kouge.
Osyka, June 25.—Gen. Taylor ^fought
and whipped the Federals opposite
Baton Rouge on Sunday.
Eight at Port Hudson.
Jackson, June 25.—Col. Lyons, com
manding cavalry out side Hort Hud
son, attacked Grierson in the rear of
Banks’ army yestorday, capturing 50
prisoners. 57 wegons and teams, and
putting the remainder to flight.
A special to tho Mississippian from
Grenada 24th, says that 83 prisoners
taken by Chalmers had arrived.
The Mompliis Bulletin of tho 18th
says tho robels aro making demonstra
tions above and below Memphis that
aro exceedingly disagreeable.
JSQyA t ono of the last balls of the
l’aris season, the Empress wore nearly
eight hundred bunches of violets on
her dress, each violet contain diamonds
to represent dew drops.
The Confederate Navy.
Another Confederate steamer is out,
but was pretty thoroughly searched by
the English authorities before she left.
She was called the Lord Clyde while
lying at SardltV. On tho niglit before
sho was to sail the custom hoi;so au
thorities searched her thoroughly ; rip
ping open several bales of clothing to
find arms. They found none, however
and wore hardly ashore before tho cap
tain cast loose from the wharf and
sailed off.—The English papers state
that sho is for tho Confederate Govern
ment. At Hartlepool (Eng.) an iron
screw steamer, 310 feet long, had made
her trial trip. She is a blopkade run
ner, built for the Charleston Steamship
company. The United States Merchant
ship Charles Hill, was destroyed by tho
Alabama on a voyage from Liverpool
to Montevideo. The cargo was British
property, and much excitement has
been cause in Liverpool by its destruc
tion. The Alabama has burned 7
Yankee vessels since she started out.
\2lhicmond D'spatch, 23d.
Late News.
- From Richmond.
Richmond, June 25.—Ten trans
ports approaohed the White House
this morning, and a small force was
landed.
The enemy’s’ pickets aro reported to
havo advanced us far as Tims tail’s. 1
Ho apprehensions * *(8 felt in official
circles.
Efficient measures have been taken
to repel an udvanco if attempted.
Inibml on at Work.
Gen. Imboden has destroyed all the
work shops, machinery, locomotives
and cars at Cumberland ; also every
bridge from Little Capin to some dis
tance west of Cumberland. Ho also
destroyed an immense tunnel, and
knocked to pieces a great iron bridge.
This is tho greatest blow of the kind
yet struck.
Northern News.
sippi, they are all fired on down to
Vioksburg.
Signs indicate that Grant may escape
through the Yazoo bottom.
The Chieago Times of the—says 400
Confederate- "cavalry fought a regi
ment of Federals ten mile from Har
risburg.
Gov. Medill, President of tho Ohio
State Convention, has appointed a com-
rnitteo to demand tho release of Yal-
landighain, composed of nineteen of
the ablest men in Ohio, including thir
teen Congressmen.
Immense Democratic mootings are
•being held in the Northeast. The
largest Mass Democratic meettng in
America was to bo held at Wingfield,
(Springfield?) on the 17th.
The Federal draft is vigorourly
resisted in parts of Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois.
•Nearly 13,000 men have been enroll
ed in Chicago.
Ex Senator Fitch, Colonel of tho
4Gtfi Illinois regiment-, addressed an
assembly of 20,000 men at Logansport,
denouncing the military Usurpations ol"
•the executive.
Voolioes udvisos tho maintenance of
liberty at all hazards of life and for
tune. His address was received with
much enthusiasm.
Lincoln" replies to the Now York res
olutions, and insists that arrests, pre
venting tlio rebellion being oncouragod,
are proper.
If Mr. Vallandiglinm lias been
wrongfully arrested, he will remit tho
tenteneo, though ho (V.) endeavored to
preroat enlistments.
Our cavalry is doing good service in
Kentucky.
Tho Confederates oaptured a fright
train on the Nashville railroad, last
week.
Tho Confederate States steamer l'ler-
Ida’s tender lias captured eight ves
sels.
The new Confederate steamer Geor
gia has taken several merchantmen.
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Jtme25 CIIAS. K.' HILLS.
Richmond, 25.—The Baltimore Amer
ican of the 22d contains Harrisburg
telegrams uf the 21st.
The rebels are reported 40,00J3 strong
nt Hagerstown, and fortifying.
The troops at Harrisburg are expect
ing immediate marching orders.
Gov. Curtain received n dispatch
stating that at MoConellsville tho reb
els helped themselves to whatever
they wantod in the stares, collected a
large number of cattlo end horses,
and moved off in tho direction of Han
cock.
A small mounted force rode into
Frederic on Saturday, paroled tho sick
oldi ers iu tho hospitals, took 4 horses
and left.
Negroes are freely impressed to com
plete the fortifications around. Balti-
On tho night before m0 |®- ’
• • Position of Gen. Ewell’s Corps.
Manassas Gap, June 20.—Lieut. Gen.
Ewell ho'ds the fords at Williamsport
and Shepherdstown on the Potomac,
and Boonsboro’ Gap, in Maryland.
Gen. Jcnkin’s cavalry aro reported
to be at Chamborburg, Pennsylvania,
destroying the public property of every
description.
Gen. Imboden has occupied Cumber
land. IIo lias cut the canal, torn up
the railroad, destroyed the bridges,
depots, government work shops and
other property, and is is still going
on.
Our cavalry is engaged in frequent
skirmishing with the enemy in this
vicinity, and 300 prisoners have boon
captured.
Matters aro progressing finely.—
All right in front and everywhere
else.
HOrHermcis in a letter to the Mercu
ry from Richmond, the . 20th, says
Humphrey Marshall iB trying to start
first class daily paper here. Like oth
er politicians, he has been weeded out
of the army. Breckinridge, it is
thought, will bq tho next victim. Al
ready his divisions has been reduged to
, a mere brigade,
®S3“Tho rebel of the 26th says’: We
learn by a privato letter from Spring
Hill, Tenu., that Gen. Forrest is rapid
ly recovering from the wound" he re
cently received, and will be in the sad-
dlo again in a few days,
• RSsP’fhe Chicago journals contain a
'revised list of nearly three columns of
the killed and wounded before "Vicks
burg.
SgyThe crops in Middle Tennessee
are remarkably good. The wheat
crop-is the heaviest ever known. It is
just harvested and 1 is now in tho field
in the shook. It will he a sad thing
for tho Yankees to overrun and destroy
it, and we hope Bragg will,be able to
drive them away. > \
8@“An English engineer has invent
ed a printing press which will print
23,000 sheets ®f a newspaper on both
sides in an hour. Tho papel from
whioh it prints is in the web on tho
reel, and after passing •under the type
is out in sheets. The machine does
without ieeding, and the reel of paper
that it feeds from is unwound by its
Gen. Sillmore, the captor of Fort
Pulaski, takes Gen. Hunter’s place.
The New York Herald, in commenting
upon the change, pitches into Hunter
savagely and adds :
It is now very likely that we shall
hear of warm work in -South Carolina
before long. Gen. Gilltnoro is’not the
man to waste time in experiments with
negroes or in writing silly and blood
thirsty letters to Jeff Davis, threaten
ing to hang, draw and quarter every
body within reach, if some proclama
tion be not withdrawn. Charleston
ought to have been taken long ago,
and, now that Gon. Gillmore leads the
troops, we shall probably soon hear
that the cradlo of the rebellion is as
closely invosted as Vicksburg and Port
Hudson by land, while our iron-clads
bombord it from tho harbor
own action,
Liis’s Miserabi.es.—“1 want a copy of
that book about Gen. Lee's poor miser
able soldiers faintin,” said an old lady
in West & Johnston’s bookstore, the
other day. Tho clerk was dumb foun
ded. One of the proprietors was sent
for, mado the old lady repeat her re
quest, turned pale, rolled his eyes
wildly, scratched liis hoad and at last
exclaimed, "Oh? ah? yes! I know
what it is now, you mean Les Misor-
ables Fantiuo, by Victor Hugo.’-’
“No, I don’t,” replied tho old lady,
‘T know nothing and care nothing
about Lays Meesorabuls. I want Lee’s
Miserables faintin.”
As.nothing else would satisfy her,
she was allowed to depart without the
book she so eagerly sought.—Richmond
Whip
An Editor in a Rage.—We take the
following from the Charleston Mercury
of the 22d inst. We hope the editor
has recovered his Jjreath and his wont-,
ed equanimity before now!
Wc seo it stated that our troops in
their Into" occupanoy of ChamberBburg,
woro actually ordered by our Generals
to pui’ohaso, with Confederate monoy,
the goods hooded by tho soldiers.
Wo Would fain express) our views,
our feelings, our sontiments. But it is
impossible to do justice to the subject"
Wo are dumb-founded--we "cave."
From Vicksburg.
Jackson, Juno 28.—Advices from
Vicksburg to the 23d have been receiv
ed.
There was no assault made last Sat
urday, but every gun on Grant’s
works, and on the river ileet were
brought to bear on the devoted garri
son. The fire was kept up from two
o’clock a. in. till ten p. m. Our gun
ners responded briskly.
The Yankees admit that our fire was
very destructive, and its accuracy un-
oqualed.
Our loss was seventy-five killed and
wounded.
Brisk firing is going at Vioksburg to
night-.
News From Vicksburg.
Jackson, June 26.—A staff officer,
who left Vicksburg on Monday reports
tfie garrison olosely beseiged.
The onemy keep up a constant fire,
much more severe than any they have
made' since they have boon within
'range of the. town.
An entire block of buildings on
Washington street was destroyed by
incendiaries last week.. Every mcanB
have been used to discover them, but
without success.
The sappers and miners on botli
sides aro hard at work, and can hear
the sound of each others pick-axes.
It was reported that two ladies had
been killed during the bombardment,
but qs yet, no citizen had been injur
ed. ' .
A special dispatch to the Mississippi
an, dated Grenada, 25th, says that
Maj. McGibbon, of the Federal army,
was arrested in disguise at that place
yesterday. He was reported to the
Provost Marshal as having left Mem
phis last week, with a .promise of ten
thousand dollars reward,if his enterprise
succeeded.
A quantity of goods from Europe, at
Memphis, has been seized by the Pro
vost Marshal.
Trains havo again commenced run
ning to Panola.
Signs of Grant Escaping.
Jackson, Juno 23.—Gen. Chalmers
took 80 prisoners near Hernando.
The Yankee transports aro compell
ed to run the gauntlet on the Missis-
liiout; W. W. Tuit, Company G, Cav
airy Battalion, Smith’s Legion.
lixtsad of a Letter from the Army.
An obituary of this esteemed officer
would probably liavo been published by
some of his brother offiers but for the
reason that the bravo private soldiers
who Were killed by the enemy and who
diod'from disease had no. such tribute
of rcspoct paid to their memory.
It is painful for me to allude to tho
prematuro decoAso of a comrade and
brother officer with whom I havo shared
the privations of comp, the exposures
of the march and the dangers of the
battlefiold. But while this is true I
take pleasure in bearing testimony to
his many noblo qualities as a friend
and his peculiar abilities sa an officer.
Reserved in his manner almost to a
fault, it required an intimato acquain
tanoo to appreciate his worth, and
while none were his enemies those who
knew him best loved him most, and I
being his senior by a single grade in
the army since tho commencement of
this Revolution my opportunities for
gaining a correct knowledge of his
worth wero equal if. not superior to'any
other.
Tho first thing learned by Lieut
Tutt was to obey orders, a principle
that ho npvcr forgot, and to execute
them with promptness and dispatch
was his motto and his practice. _ He
felt the responsibility of his position
and mado it respectable by exercising
his authority with judgment and dis
eretion, with firmness without partial
ity, favor or affection, always requiring
each man to do his duty, without re-
spoct of persons.
“Lieut. Tutt was no complainant
ho would discourage and punish any
disrespect to superior officers j any in
subordinate conduct, or discouraging
conversation, and his whole influence
was given to aid his captain in disci
plining and controling his company,
but was vigilant to claim the legitimate
rights of his men.
"The conduct and demeanor of Lieut-,
Tutt would put to shame, those who
would seek popularity at the expence
of their superior officers. He was not
the man to cater to the fancies and
whims of the bailies of the company nor
was he less lenient in punishing them
for offences than the more feminine
characters. This disposition of subal
terns to complain and speak evil of
ther superior officers is a grievous fault
in the army und fias done more to un
discipline and disorganize the army
than any other influence.
Naturally liumano and liberal in his
feelings he was never called on in vain
for a contribution for charitable purpo
ses and his men wore tho frequent re
cipients of his favors.
“Though firm and resolute in his
discipline, ho had the love and confi
dence of his men, and was always among
the first chosen by his superior officors
for any important duty, and tho post of
honor and danger assigned him, among
his rank. On.u certain occasion whon
I was ordered on an important scout
with a hundred picked men, ho was
my first choice ol" a subaltern, for I
knew his courage and gallantry, whioli
1 never afterwards had occasion to
doubt, and in conclusion J must award
to him all tho "qualities of a firm friend,
a humane gentleman and a model offi
cer, as ho was.
“Although Liout Tutt'a place, if fill
ed with distinguished ability, all agreo
that his loss to us, as an officer, is irre
parable, and it is hard for us to kiss
the rod that smites us so.
"When cannon roared and comrades
fell,
And men were put to flight;
His martial form ho boro full well,
Amidst the raging fight.
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YY H. Mooro, deceased, in Rome,onTue
day July "tli,the following property: Tin
setts black smith tools, ono sot bench loot
six plough stocks and ploughs, a lotefborli
ono ritlo gun, powder and shot, ono ropealer
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IN JAIL,
A NEGRO boy named Jack, WWW*
near Romo, On., on S u "d |, Y •'., i.
May, and is now confined in Jam
says ho belongs to Mrs. Cloy, of W *
Tenu., is of black complexion, alee 1 t
(I wi ’
“But sore disease his form brought low,
His life was ebbing fast;
When kind ones came and took
home,
Where soon ho breathed his last.”
B.
Morristown, Tonn., April 21st, 1863
DIED—At tne residence of J. J.
Tect, near Romo, Ga., on the20th inst.,
Sarah Strawn, aged 83 years aDd one
month. ,
or 7 inches ’ blgti, and weighs h'O 0
pounds. Tho owner is roqllfflfjj *® •
forward, prove property, jmy enorg
take him away or he will hu
cording to law. A. M.hip
juncl) Jailor ol’Kloydciv
Land for Sale,
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