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Editorial Correspondence.
R0MEGA., FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 23, 1868,
NtJMBER 50
Amy Return*.
The following Returns from the army
have been received:
Camp 8th Ga. Regiment,
Near Chattanooga,
October 12,1863
Dear Cot lux*! The plot thiokens, and
stirring events may soon be expected
in this vicinity. It is reported that
Rosoncrans is resolving reinforcement
daily, and new camps are seen nearly
'every morning, wifltln tho enemy’s
line. Bragg’s- position on Missionary
Ridge is a very strong one naturally
and made still more so l>y fortifications.
This position is said to hr a muoh bet"
ter one tlow-tlmt occupied by tho ene
my in CtiaUunoo'gn. ‘ But both armies
are.as well pitua'icd for defensive opoi'
rations that it is not probable that ei
ther will attaok tho other by a direct
movement. An ettbrt to flunk, howev
er, may he undertaken by one or tho
other at an early day .,. .
Sinoe ten o’clock last niglit-; at irreg
ular intervals,, cannonading has been
heard in tlio rear of Ghnttnnoogu, prob
ably some fivo or eight miles beyond
tho river, . The occasion of this lire is
a mere matter of conjeoture among all
except our principal officers. Tho
general impression, however, is that a
portion of our cavalry are attempting
to cut off Rosencranz’s communication
with Ids base of supplies. Several little
incidents have occurred within tho poet
few days, tending to show that the
enemy aro ulroady short of rations.
Ono was that, to-day, to meet a flag of
truce, the Yankee-officers camo out on
foot, thus leaving the inference that
their horses had been sent off for watit
of forage. A Yankee pioket, yester
day, camo out: towards our line, and
laying down his blanket—a very good
one by the way—said to one of our
piokets, “if you will bring and leavo at
this plape a pone of bread, you may
have the Blanket,” and returned to bis
post. Our man carried the bread and
took the blanket. Another, in a siini
inr manner, gave a canteen full of
whiskey for a pone of bread.
Good health and good spirits prevail
wiihln bur lines. M. D.
Floyd’Springs Guardi—Capt. Kennen,
. 23d Regt.
Governor.—Joseph E. Brown
23
Joshua Hill
’ 3
T. M. Furlow
2
Congress—Warren Akin
23
A. R. Wright
3
For Benator—D. R. Mitchell
21
H. F. Price
1
For Representative—M. Dwinell
21
Z. B. Hargrove
18
J. W. Turner
4
J. Brewer
1
T. J. Davis
1
Fort Infantry—Capt. Howe—1st Regt,
Ga. State Line.
Governor—Joseph E. Brown
16
Joshua Hill
4
Congress—A. it. Wright
15
W, Akin
4
J. A. Jackson
1
8enator--D. R. Mitchell
19
H. F. Price
1
Representatives—M, Dwinell
11
J. A. Johnson
9
J. W. Turner
4
T. J. Davis
2
K. Rambo
1
Z. B. Hargrove
1
Berry Infantry—Captain Turner—29th
Regt,
Governor—Joseph E. Brown
9
T. M. Furlow
7
Joshua HiU
1
Congress—Warron Akin
18
Wright
5
Senator—C. W. Howard'
18
D. R. Mitohell
5
Representatives—Turner
22
M. Dwinell
16
Dean
2
®Ur Tennessee Correspondence.
Camp hear Chattanooga, 1
October 12th, 1863. j
Dear Courier :—Did we not hear the
occasional boom of artillery rattling
across the vales, and echoing along the
sides of old Lookout, we might be led
to imagine that “grim vienged wav bath
smoothed his wrinkled front,’’and that
Ikxd ceased for the present. Tho oppo«
sing forces still oooupy their respective
lines of entrenchments, several addi
tional fortifications hare been erected,
and several siege guns have recently
beon placed in position. The pickets
16
Mitchell Guards-Capt. Mitchell-40th
Regt.
Governor—Joseph E, Browu
Joshua Hill
Congress—>A. R. Wright
Warren Akin
Senator—D. R. Mitchell
.Price
Representatives—Dwinell .
Turner
J. A. Johnson
Freemen of Floyd—Capt. Foster—65th
Regt..
16
of the two armies are stationed within
train with about seven hundred priso
ners.
The train Waj loaded with ammuni
tion and other stores, and was suppos
ed to consist of seven or eight hundred
Wagons wliioh were burned. We then
attaoked McMinnviile capturing alto
gather 530 prisoners, and hnd another
largo train of commissary stores, am
munition, turns, clothing, &c„ and do*,
stroyed the brige across Hiokory Creek,
together with an engine and a train of
cars. Wo then made a demonstration
upon Murfreesboro, destroying the rail
road bridge over Stono river, took a
train of the cars at the .bridge near
reach the evil if acted on. Then lot
every man at once resolve to invest
every sulplus dollar _ iu government
bonds. Every dollar that ie so invest
ed will to to that • extent contract the
currency and reduce prices. The cost
of the war will begin steadily to do.
orense. It has increased heretofore, it
is now increasing and it must bed'i
mihlsliod; or the people nro ruined.
The present debt oan bo easily handled
if funded. Tho Government oan well
afford to pay eight per cent interest on
the oost of army supplies, when buy
ing at from fivo hundred to ono thou 1
sand per cent less than it is now paying
eight of each other; the exoliange of
newspapers, Ac., has been prohibited.
His Excellency, President Davis ar
rived hero last Friday night, and visited
our lines on the following day. During
the inspection he wa: accompanied by’
Generals Dragg and Pemberton, and
his personal staff. Ho was introduced
to tho comraauders of the several Bri
gades aud regiments, anut expressed
himself us highly pleased with the op
pearanca of the troops. No definite’
information in regard to the objoot of
his visit has been ascertained.
Gen. Stevenson’s Division is encamp
ed at Chiokamuuga. The Cherokee
Artillery has recently received a fine
battery of four Napoleon guns, with
equipments complete, which were cast
and fabricated at the Augusta Arsenal,
and reflect aiuoli credit upon Southern
skill and industry The battery has
also received a full complement of
horses, Ac, and aro again ready for ac
tive service.
Anderson’s Brigade arrived bore on
the 9th instaut, and is encamped at
Chiokamauga. The 1st Gu, Cavalry
is stationed on duly near the base of
Lookout. A brisk couuonadiug near
the river has beon going on at intervals
during the day. INO
Wartraoe and then moved to Shelby’j Would any farmer give for a horse his
..in- ...u j -' — 1 note without interest fora thousand
ville, where we oapturedalargoarnount
of stores and burned them.
Rosenorane’s men have been on short
rAtioiis for some days.
Governor—Brown
22
. Hill
11
Con gross—W rigli t
19
Jackson
- 2
Senator—Mitohell
25
Howard
1
Price
2
Representatives—Davis
20
Dwinell
5
Turner
10
Hargrove
4
Fireside Defenders—Copt.
Thomas-
22_d Regt.
Governor—Browii
13
Furlow
l
Congress—Jackson
12
Akin
1
Senator -Howard
12
Representatives— Dwinell
- 11
Turner
11
Shall we have a Wheat Crop next
Year.—A few wet ks must decide this
question. Can wheat be sown without
men! Aro not men of certain ages
more useful on the farm than in bar
racks. Chat. Courier.
0®~ Thore has been several Union
ists (hymeneally) discovered in this
city this week.
tar £ari Russell hod a narrow c»_
cape from a severe carriage acoident
causod by runaway horses in Scotland!
What a pity.
Tho Richmond papers confirm the
report of Meade and his army falling
bask to Washington.
Vgr We have been having rain in
abundanco this week. We learn that
=ahqayy freshet washed away the new
treat],© Ridges on the State Road.
8©* Tho butchers in Richmond have
agreed to purchase t.heir beef at 25 ots.
gross, and sell it at §0 and 60 cents
neatl
Could not some such arrangement
bo made in Romo ?
0©” Gov. Brown’s majority in the
counties so far heard from is 2348, and
in the army 6841, making an aggregate
of 9189.
Gmand Lodge or Georoia.—The an
nual grand cominucation of the Grand
Lodge of F. A,. M.,of Georgia, will be
held at the Masonio Hall iu Macon on
Wednesday, Oct. 28.
#©*Tho latest aocounts from Upper
East Tennessee, represents the enemy
as still fleeing before our forces. Tbe
tetter were, at last accounts at or below
Greenville, and it is not improbable,
says tho Lynchburg Republican, of
Saturday, Oot3, that they will roocou.
py Knoi villo in a short time if. they
have not yet done so.
(©“There will be two one arm men
in the next Congress, as representative;,
from Georgia—Horn Mark Bianford
from the 3d, and Capt. G. N, Lester
from the 8th.—-Rebel,
(©* President Davis, in his speech to
Bragg’s army, is reported to have said
that if in the next battle they did—as
he hoped and continently believed—
gain a decided and crushing victory
over Rosecrans, it would practically
end tho war.
One who was about forty yean ago,
* '.fir '
reigning belle in London, and-first
the wife of a leading statesman, and
afterwards the wife of a German Baron,
is aiow the wife of an Arabian chief, re
siding between Damascus and Balbeo
with ner husband, and passing the re’
mainder of her years with him in camp'
Nummary or New* by Telegraph, &c
SpeeiaHo the Atlanta Intelligencer.
Dalton, Oct. I4th.—President Davis
left General Bragg's army to'doy with
groat satisfaction and high ’ anticipa
tions.
Tho people of Dalton called him cut'
He said that we had'been looking id
tho face of the enotuy, but would soon
sea their backs.
Most important movements are afoot
and a glorious campaign iu anticipa
tion. £90.
At Charleston on the ,13th there was
heovy firing in the afternoon, from our
Morris Island Works and Moultrie
But little tiring on the 14th. The state
ment from the prisoners of a now Yan
koe battel y between Gregg and Wagner
is believed to be false.
Tho two missing from our recent ex
pedition to blow up the Ironsidos, Lt.
Glassell and the fireman Sullivan,
are now prisoners, they having beon
picked up by some of the enemy,s
launches.
An official dispatch from Gen. John,
ston, at Meridian, Miss tho 17th, states
that Gen. Chalmers had tom up the
railroad in four plaocs, and utlucked
Collinsville the day before, and drove
the enemy into the fortifications, and
burned a camp with a considerable
amount of stores, also thirty wagons,
and brought off twenty; took five col.
ors and i06 prisoners, and lost about
50 killed and wounded. Reinforce,
moots coming from Germantown and
Lu Fayette thoy retreated.
A special to the Enquirer from Or«
ange Court House, 12th, says our forces
hold Culpeper (J; U. Wo have 278
prisoners and have sent forward 136
more. Gen. Stewart drove tho enemy's
rear guard across tho Rappahannock
last night after osovero fight of 3 hours
at Brandy Station. Our loss was about
75.
From Gordonsvillo the 18 ui, it is re
ported that a small force of our cavalry
ongaged Kilpatrick yesterday, near
Culpeper O. H, and were driven from
within a mile of the 0. H-, where we
Wore reinforced and drove the enemy
beyond the station. Another body of
our cavalry surrounded a portion of
Kilpatrick’s forces on Sunday near
Brandy Station, taking near 300 priso,
uera.
On the 14th, at Richmond, a note
wa* received from a prominent officer
in Lee’s army to his wife in that city,
which mentioned the capture of
700 Yankees at Warren ton on Mon'
day.
An official dispatch from Gen. Wheel
er says : We crossed the river in tho
face of a division at Cotton Fort Ford,
on tho 30th ult., and proceeded in the
direction o' MoMinnville. where, after
a sharp fight we captured a largo
A Letter to be Head and Pondered.
In i esponso to a committee of patri
otic Virgluia farmers, Hon. Louis T.
WigfqU, the unorgoliu member of Con
gress from Texas, replies in the follow
ing excellent letter, which we corns
mend to the careful attention ot every
one:
Cnaiilottsville, Sept. 25,1803-
Gentlemen : In compliance with
your request, I herewith ibrnish briefly
the reasons wliioh induced • me to ad,
vUe the aotion lately taken by your
selves and others of this county.
lt seems to me the people do not
properly roalize the fact that their in*
forests aro identical with those of their
Government. It is hul tlioir agent. It
has and can have no interest- which is
antagonistic to theirs. Tho President
members of Congress and Cabinet Min.
isters and Judges are all oitlzens of the
country, ohosen by othor citizens to
discharge temporarily the dulise
Which belong to their respeotivo offi’
-ces.
Tho army is also composed of citi
zens. It has to bo paid, clothed, sub.
sisted and armed. Tho heavy puroha.
ses for thik purpose must bo made el
ther on credit or for caBh. Tho Gov.
ernment itself has no credit except
that based on the property of the oiti*
sens. It has no mbney exoept that
collected by taxation.
It follows, then, that it is the' inter'
est of the tax payers that the war
be conducted with as little oost as pos
sible. In other words, .that tho Gov.
ornm^nt should buy at the lowest
prices.
The currency now reaches fivo and
and possibly ten: limes tbe amount ne
cessary for tbe convenient transaction
of the business of the country. Prices
have steadily risen ns money has bo'
come abundant. Reduce the currency
and money will fall. The war debt
will thus be lessoned and then the
taxes will be lightened in propor*
lion.
Those who arc now selling for high
prices will leceive less It islruo;but
they will pay less |ijj what they buy
and oh the whole their condition wil
not be materially changed. Tbe far
iner now protects himself ^gainst what
he considers the extortion "of the mer
chant and he protects himself against
the farmer. All who have anything to
sell seem to be growing rich. How
it.with the Government which buys
everything and sells nothing ? It buys
for tho tax payers and every note it
issues mast he redeemed by ^hom in
gold or silver. When that time comes
they will see that instead of riohos
they hove,bcen piling up o mountain
of debt to fall upou and crush
them. ;
Their liberties hove been invaded
and their right to self-government de
nied. Thoy have been involved in a
most oruel war. An army has been
put in the field. To arm and subsist it-
Treasury notes hayo been issued, and
have become tbe ciireiicy of thecountry-
They were issued in large amounts and
p'rioes immediately began to rise. The
higher the prices the larger the issues i
and tho larger the issues the higher the
prices. Tha cost of the war, tho first
year was one or two hundred millions
of dollars, three or four hundred mil.
lions the next, and it will bo eight or
ten theUhird, if prices aro not reduced
Must not such debt swallow up not the
incomes only but tho property itself ot
the tax payers, if prices Continue to
increase in the future as. they have in
the past. Let them no longer live un
der the fatal delusion that thoy aro
growing riober and richer by soiling to
each other and the government at
prices steadily growing higher and
higher. They will awake from the
dream of p losperity when peace and
tho tax gatherer come. *
Tho remedy I. suggest, will certainly
dollars, if ho could buy the same
horse for a hundred dollars and
borrow the money at eight per cent in
terest.
This is no “government debt” wo aro
constructing. Ii is a debt whioh wo
shall have to pay. Every man who has
one dollar’s worth of property to be
.taxed, will bo called on for his share.
Then lot those who nro interested at.
once turn over to tho Government thoir
ono tenth ta.x in kind, and to that ex
tent relieve the Government from the
necessity of further purchasing and
further inflating tho currency, by addi
tional issues of treasury notes. Sot
aside also another tenth, and if needed
soil it to to the Government at old prl
ces. The issue of treasury notes will
thus, day day, become less,' and day
by day those now in.circulation will bo-
come absorbed. Prices then must soon
fill.
In the meantime, sell to soldiors 1
families at reasonable prices. Deal not
hardly with wives and children of those
who ate fighting lor tho protection of
our property. Upon the - soldiers tho
present high prices fall with peculiar
hardship. The eleven dollars a month
whioh ho receives is scarcely worth one,
and he cannot be relieved by an in
crease of pay. It would but still fur
ther inflate the currency and increase
prioes. If his pay wore doubled, the
twenty-two dollars would probably buy
less than tbe eleven whioh lie now re
oeives.
Trusting, gentlemen, that the Other
counties will Follow tho noblo example
yours has set, and that, if they shall do
bo, the poople of the other States will
not regard with indifference tho aotion
of tho great Commonwealth, 1 beg
leave to remain,
Very rcspeotfully.
Your obedient servant,
Louis T. W'ofa
VallandiguAlt’s Last Letter.—Hon
C. L. Vnllandighnm, now at Windsor,
C. W., has been, writing ft letter to
Democratic Mass Meeting, lately held
at Dayton, Ohio. The epistle bears
date of September 15. In it Mr, "
plainly lays down tlio platform on
which he stands. It novf appears that
this demagogue, after all, is not in favor
of the South, nor does he wish her pa
t-riots to succeed. He wants to see all
the States together again, under one
President,' as in days . gone by—this
thing is impossible. Ho is afraid that
Mexieo and France will recognize the
Confederacy. Denies that he is in fa
vor o£ opposing Lincoln’s polioy
homo by the force of arms. * Thinks
invitation ought to be extended by the
North to the Confederates to lay down
their arms. Goes in favor of getting
tho South back in some way..
■ Tho whole substance of the letter
oan be summed up thus. Mr. V. be
longs to the party at the North which
is shut out from tho public spoils. He
does not care anything for the South
or her oauso. All he appears to desire
is simply to get into office, andi thereby
got hold of a sharo of the Federal plun
der.
Tbe British Consul*.
The Associated Press Reports give
the following summary ef the effieial
corresponeeuce relative to tho dismissal
the British Consuls, whioh was pub
lished in the Richmond Sentinel of
tho 13th t
The first letter is datod the 8th inst.,
and is addressed by Benjamin to BlU
dell informing him of the cause of
the expulsioi. of British Consular agent*
the Confederacy, in order that ho
may have the power to correct any
misrepresentation on- the. subject.
Benjamin then proceeds with a review
! tho wliole course of the British gov
ernment and that of tho Confederacy,
relating to these officials, he refers to
tho communication addressed to the
State and Sdnfederato authorites, by
two of the British consular agonts
remaining here, that thoy had received
instructions from tlioir government to
pursue a course of conduet In regard to
persons of British origin resident with
in the Confederate States, which Ben
jamin says it ia impossible to tolerate.
After an explanation of the provis
ions of the conscription law, and a
statement of concession made to fere
eignors at tho instanae of the British
Consuls, Beqjamln alludes to tho recent
correspondence of Fullerton and Gov.
Brown, assorting the existence of in.
structloris from their Government, can-
oelliug enlisted mon. and to judge for
thomsolvos the right to exemption.
This unwavrontable assumption by for
eign officials of jurisdiction within our
territory, and this offensive encroach
ment on the sovereignty of the Com
foderatd States, has been repressed by
the President’s order for the immedi
ate departure of all Britfth Consular
agents from our country.
The next letter from Benjamin to
Fullerton -is briefly recapitulating the
ovidenoes of his . assumption • of juris
diction and ordering him to promptly
deport from the Confederacy.
The next letter from Benjamin to
Mason, dated Juno 11th, consists chief
ly of an explanation of the oauso of
the dismissal of Major Crldoland.
Seoielory Benjamin’s dispatch to Ma
son relative to thedimissal of Mayo and
appointment of Cridelarid by Lord Ly
ons as noting English Consul at Mobile
was by dirootion of tho President, com.,
muniaated to Russell.
RusBell in a latter to Mason asserts
that her Majesty is the sole judge of
the conduot of Mayo, but ho is willing
to admit tho so styled Confederate
States not bound to recognize the au
thority derived from Lord Lyons, but
it is desirable that persons authorized
by her Majesty should hare the means
to represent at Richmond and else-,
where in the Confederate States the
interests of British subjeots who may
be in course of war grievously wronged
by the act of subordinate Officers; this
has been in other similar cases of
States not recognized by her. Majesty
and would be in conformity with' the
amity professed by the so styled Con
federate States towards her Mqjesty
and the British natiofi, and if arrange’
ments could be made for the corres<
pondence between the agents appointed
by her Majesty’s government to reside
in the Confederate States and to be au
thorize by suoh States.
Mason in his reply says that if it is
his Lordship’s pleasure to make this
proposition he doubts not that it Will
receive the favorable consideration of
tho Government at Richmond.
(©■No man is allowed to do business
at Norfolk, Va., unless he takes out li
cense, and to do that he must swear al-
legianoe not only to the United States
Government, but to the bogus Virginia
Government under Pierppnt as Gover
nor, ignoring the , act of, secession and
ail fealty to the Government: in authorj
ity at Richmond. The consequence is,
there is but little business of any kind
done in the place.
$2y*Tho Nownan Bulletin states that
the heigh t of impudence is a eble-bod'e 1
merchant in the town of Newnan, Ga.,
asking eight dollars for a pound of pep
per, from a soldier with only one leg
and one arm, and four dollars and'-fifiy
cents for a flimsy pair of Yankee Books
and yet talking about who ought to be
in the army.
A Riohmond correspondent of the
Mobile Register says -.
Gen. Leo has spent a week in the
city, and was almost constantly with
the President during his stay. He was
found, thero at all hours, breakfasted
and dined with him, walked and chat.
tod with him, like two good friends, as
thoy are. The stories, thon which have
been circulated about differences be
tween them are as absurd as untrue.
I can assure you President Davis and
the General ars on the best of terms,
and have no points of - difference re
garding tho -welfare of the country.
The President writes familiarly to
Goneral Lee when in the field, Gener
al Lee takes salt with the President
■whoh in the city.
jKff'The Rebel says orders have been
issued at headquarters, to permit no
more passanger travel on the Chatanoo.
ga road un til further, orders-
(gy-We learn that Hon. Piefre Soule
has been appointed- brigadier general
and ordered to take the field. The ap.
pointmpr.t is likely to be of great sor-
Vice. Gen. Soulo has unboupdedpopu-
larity in Louisiana, and will attract, no
doubt, a-great many recruits from that
noble but oppressed State.