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IAZ£D I. WHITAKER,
PROPRIETOR,
foivnr If. STEELE.
KDITOK.
A. E. N A^l SHALL,
ASSOC I ATS EDITOR AHP BR PORTER
ItLantaTgeorqia.
Tat* lay M irmlaf. October 6, 1MW
FOR GOVERNOR:
JOSEPH E. BROWN.
PRESIDENT DAVIS TO GOVEE-
MOR BROWN.
“In conclusion I take great ])leas-
urein recognizing that the history
of the past year affords the amplest
justification for your assertion, that
if the question had been, whether
the conscription law was necessary
in order to raise men in Georgia,
the answer must have been in the
negative. Your noble State has
promptly responded to every call
‘that it lias been my duty to make
on her, and to you, personally, as
jast as the purposes ot the builders of the
tower of Babel, and the purposes of Alex
ander, of Julius Ctesar, and Bonaparte, to
acquire universal dominion, were frustrated ?
If so, why heap up odium on those who vo
ted for a dissolution of the Union ?
C. And, finally, does not the lion. B. II.
Hill, remember that in that published speech
of his, delivered in Millcdgcvillc during the
session of the Legislature immediately pre
ceding the Convention that took Georgia out
of the Union, counselled resistance to Lin
coln, which, if carried out, would inevitably
have produced civil war; that he was for
marching up with a Southern army to Wash
ington, and forcing Mr. Liucoln to act con
stitutionally ? Has Mr. Hill forgotten that
document? If so, let him refresh his mem
ory?
Does not Mr. liill remember the feelings
with which he himself regarded at that time
the election of Mr. Lincoln ? Has a change
since then eomc over the spirit of his dream ?
In the name of our bleeding country, in
the name of our soldiers who suffer every
privation on long marches, and who offer up
their lives on the altar of their country, in
the name of the dead who fill honored graves,
and of their families who will be honored
for the sacrifice; in the name of justice and
truth, cease your reproaches, Mr. Hill, on the
secessionists of Georgia! They arc beneath
the dignity of the representative man ; low
ABXY CORRESPONDENCE
FROM GENERAL BUAOO’S ARMY.
Highly Interesting Lett r from Tennessee.
Camp
her Executive, I acknowledge my
indebtedness for the prompt, cordial j cr than the selt-imposed woilc of the most
and effective oo-operation you have | blustering demagogue in the land
afforded me in the effort to defend
our common country against the
common enemy.”—Jefferson Davis.
THE ELECTION TO MORROW.
The voters of this Sonatorial Dishict will
be called on to morrow to cast their votes
for a Senator. They should not fail to do
so; every man in the district entitled to,
should exercise liis elective franchise,'with
an eye to the best interests of the district and
the State. Nor should the great interests of
the Confederacy be forgotten in this election
Of Col. Calhoun, it is said that he is one of
the supporters of Mr. Joshua HiU for Cover
nor. 11 so—and we have no doubt of it—we
trust that lie will be signally defeated, for it
is our firm belief that the election of Mr.
Hill would prove pred judicial to every inter,
est of the State aud the Confederacy. On
the other hand. Col. Walk * ns favors the elec
tion of Gov. Brown, and possesses every
qualification which a constituency could de
sire iu a representative. No man mthc State
is more familiar with its past legislation than
he ; no man more sound or firm in the main
tenance ol those principles for which so
much Southei n blood h is been shed, aud for
which he, at the head of his gallant regi
went, perilled his own li r c and shed his own
blood, lie is.beforc the people of this Dis
trict as.a candidate, with nothing to conceal,
answering lrankly and freely all questions
propounded to 1dm by its voters, and is ev
ery way worthy and qualified to represent
the district We would, therefore, urge upon
the voters of this district to elect Col. Wat
kins. Should the people fail to elect a Gov
ernor. of which though we have no fears,the
voters of the district know now where Col.
Watkins will be found, should he be elected*
and that Mr. Joshua HIU can nci:r get his
vote. The contrary will bo the case in the
event Col. Calhoun is elected. Then,voters
of Cobb, Fulton, and Clayton, rally to the
support of Col. Watkins and elect him by a
handsome majority. Principle sliould gov
ern every man now, iu casting his vote, aud
every voter should be certain to vote. The
times indicate trouble, as they do the forma
tion of a party headed by the Hills, which
is to war upon secessionists—upon those
Special Correspondence of the Atlanta Iutehi£cac*r
ASHY CORRESPONDENCE
The X.lualion Front—Enemy fortifying and
reinforced—What should, could, and might
have been done— Why the Enemy was not
put sir l, dec., cfr.
Camp before Chattanooga, )
Oef 1SG3. )
Our army still occupies its position before
tlie enemy, remaining in statu quo antebel
lum. The enemj*, however, is hot idle lie
has been bard at work finishing the fortifi
cations on the various heights which we had
commenced, and is pushing forward his
lines ol entrenchments. Since the late re
freshing heavy rain, the sky has become
clear and without a cloud, enabling us to
have a more perfect'view of the enemy’s
lines and his works. His nearest work is on
Ike first height of the ridge across the valley
intervening between Missionary llidge,
which we occupy, aud the heights of Chat-
tannoega, which is hardly two miles distant,
and not a mile from cur’picket line. This
fort is in the shape of a star, aird it is said
they have cascmated their guns. During
the night, and early iu the morning, a heavy
impenetrable mist rises over the valley, of
which it is said the enemy takes advantage
to advance his works. The e nemy’s lime
coniront U3 from the Northwest, and from
the increased number ot tents, and fires at
night, there is no doubt but that they have
been largely reinforced within the past two
days.
If Burnside has joined ltosecrans, and it
may be that a portion of Grant’s army has
also reached him, their army is probably
equal to our own, and they will be soon be
able to resume the offensive and make a
flank movement. In this case, we would
have to fall back in order to draw the ene
my out, when another bloody struggle must
ensue. I have no idea that an attempt will
be made on our part to storm the enemy’s
works, though we may try the effect of a few
shells upon them. Hemmed tip as they are,
if wc had only a battery of 100-pound Par
rott guns, we could easily shell them from
the town. It is said that the enemy has also
strengthened liis fortifications over the river,
opposite the town, so. that in case of a retreat,
he could shell * us from his balteiies across
who brought Georgia out of the old Union.
Bee Mr. Ben II. Hill’s letter ior evidence of I the river, aud prevent us from following
this, and then go and vote against every can- him » or holding Chattanooge. A flank move-
didate in your district who supports Mr. 1 raent on our l 5art would therefore seem to b
Joshua Hill. Rally to this work on to-mor
row, and you will do what duty to
trict, your State, and the Confederocyfim
peratively demands of all who are determin
ed never to submit to Northern domination,
never again to live with the Northern Aboli-.
tionists as one people!
18 IT TRUE?
The Hon. B. H. Hill, in his letter endors
ing the condidacy of the Hon. Joshua HiU
for Governor of Georgia, says it was the
“spirit of controversy” that made the South
ern man a “seccder.”
Now what say facts ?
1. It was almost impossible for the Sma
tors and Representative* from the South
ern States and those of the Northern
Slates to transact; the necessary business of
government long before the dissolution o/
the Union. Every impartial observer at
Washington must have noticed tb*s; and
Mr. HU1 could not have been ignorant of so
patent a fact.
2. The moral status of the two sections
had become by training essentially different.
The whle North regarded slavery as a
moral, social and political evil, to be put
down at any sacrifice. Scarcely one at the
South held to such an opinion Is Mr. Hill
awareotthat? If so, why did he charge on
the South a spirit of controversy, or, iu other
words, when he costs opprobrium on the
“Northern fanatic,” why does he include in
the same category the “Southern seceder ?"
Does Jdr. Hill hold the South to be as guilty
as the North in this war? His language
clearly implies as much.
a. The burdens and profits of the old gov
ernment were unequally distributed—the
Sooth bearing a greater share of the former,
and reaping a less share of the latter than
her proportion. Does not Mr. Hill think
this had something to do with the alienation
of both sections, and the final dissolution of
the Union ?
4. Does not Mr. Hill know that the peo
ple of the two scctiou3 arc not homage neons
—that they arc diverse in everything neces
sary to constitute them a separate people ?
5. Does not Mr. Hill believe it was in ac
cordance with the designs of Him who rules
as well among the inhabitants of earth, as
• the hosts of heaven, that the purposes of
mmn iq erect this into a government, the
most gigantic on earth, should be frustrated
the only way of dislodging the enemy.—
What is to bo done, should be done quickly,
as every day gives the enemy superior ad
vantages over us. It is now rumored that
large reinforcements are on the way to Rose-
crans from Meade’s army, and that the ene
my is determined to make tip's the fi oal
struggle of the revolution.
A large force thrown into East Tennessee
from Virginia, to proceed to Nashville, and
come down on the enemy’s rear, would be
our salvation; and it is not yet too late, it
done immediately. Had Ewell’s enrps mov
ed in lliat direction at the same time that
Longstreet joined us, the great struggle in
the West would have ended, leaving us in
full possession of Southern soil up to ilie
northernmost line of Kentucky. It is evi
dent that all our movements are too slow.—
The only great strategy to be learned by the
powers at Richmond i-, to mass our forces
and strike the enemy quickly— suddenly and
effectually. However, there is no use of
speculaling.or animadverting on army move
ments. Everybody w ill tell you what ought
to be done, what might have been done, and
the general question is, “why don 4 t they?”
The only answer to which is, that the nu
merous ifs and huts are the great stumbling
block in tho way, and the only great fact
that we do know is, that it is not done.
* tite Yallev of Chattanooga )
October 1st, lSG'J. )
Mr. Editor: To help kill the monotony
of camp life and keep my hand in, in the
way of epistola r y exercises, I send you a
few items of camp news, which may not be
unaccep’ .blc
Our brave and heroic army is still in Boe
of battle before the enemy, bivouacked in
the valley of Chattanooga. The enemy oc
cupy the opposite ridges, or heights of Chat
tanooga, and their camps aud fortifications
are plainly iu sight. From the top of Mis
sionary Ridge you have a perfect view of
of the Moccssiq Bond of the Tcnn /see
river, which lies at the foot of Lookout
Mounlaiu. The enemy has a pontoon bridge
at this point, and two others further up the
liver, one being ia Iront of the town, but
which are not visible. There was an appa
rent movement on the part of the enemy-
yesterday, and it is supposed they were
massing their forces on their light towards
Lookout Mountain, to prevent any attempt
on our part to storm their works from that
direction. They have already added strong
lines of entrenchments to the fortifications
we had buPt, and their position is conse
qucntly very powerful, and could only be
carried by a great sacrifice of fife.
Our men are becoming vwy rest 1 s and
discontented at remaining idle so long, and
are anxious to pu:h forward at any hazard.
Indeed, after the fight Sunday night, as fa
tigued and Jungly a - ? our men were, they
all say they would rather have pushed for
ward aud beat the enemy to Chattanooga,
than have remained behind to waif for our
supplies to com3 up. If that had b cn done
there is hro ely a doubt but that we would
have beaten the enemy in the race to Chat
tanooga, : ’• they were scattered in every di
rection an 1 perfectly panic s' acker* They
ran belter skelter into Chattanooga, like so
many rats into their holes, and allowed us
to loliow at lcisuie the next day, and the
day ^flowing, Tiv sday, to approach close
enough to take possession of Lr okout Moun
tain, wc having follower? them on their
track over Miss'onary Ridge.
It is supposed wc have important move
incuts on hand,- but of course as our
Generals keep t Heir own secrets nobody
knows what the}” are One thing is cer
tain, we must soon make some movement to
winter our army iu Middle Tennessee or
Kentucky, as it cannot exist here
There are camp rumors prevailing that
our forces iu East Tcmic 3sce, supposed to be
Gen. Sam Jones’ have occupied Knoxville
and Kiugstou, having defeated Burnside, aud
taken 8,000 prisoners. But. no confi 'cnct
can be put iu camp rumors. It would be
the salvation of our army, if not the coun
try, if we could yet send Ewell’s corps by
East Tennessee crossiug at Kingston to
Sparta and Nashville, taking possession of
that city, and moving down to the Tennes
see river, iu the enemy’s rear, destroying all
liis supplies, while our army, pushing Rose-
crans in front, and thus totally destroying the
Yankee array between the upper and nether
millstone. But we never do anything until
too late. This movement could just as well
as not have been made at the lime that
Longstreci’s corps was sent out to us, and
thus won lor us Tennessee aud Kentucky,
with troops to spare for the redemption of
Mississippi
y t fferday was a great day here for the
Georgia boys. Gov. Joe Brown, of that
State, it seems, came up here to look after
the comfort and welfare of the Georgians
aud see that all their wants are attended to
aud cared for. This is the right sort of a
Governor to have, and Governors of other
States may well copy, after him. Yesterday
il Uncle Joe,” as the boys call him, visited
his Georgia pets, and as he rode down in
front of the lines ol “ fighting Billy Walk
er’s” division, his coining having been an
nounced, lie was received with heartfelt and
unbounded enthusiasm. Such was the wild
cheering and vociferous jells as the Cover
nor rode along the ianks bowing to 1ms gal
lant and brave citizen soldiers, that the
mountains re-echoed again aud again with
the shouts of cordial greeting. Indeed, so
wild was the enthusiasm that his presence
produced, that the boys of an adjoiain
brigade not understanding the cause of the
shouting, wondered what the Georgianshad
opened their battle cry for, and one remarked
that they had better “dry up,” if they didnt
want the enemy to throw a bombshell among
’em, as the euemy would surely think we
were going to storm their works!
No wonder that the Georgia boys are so
devoted to Gov. Brown, for it must be ad
mitted on aft sides that no Governor of a
State has so nobly and resolutely stood up
lor the rights of his people, and so bravely
maintained them. He has been the first
Governor in this Confederacy who has ever
sho?/n Uiat the first duty of a Governor was
to look after the rights of his people and
sustain them with a jealous care, instead of
wish 1 If there be such in our midst, and it
is said there are, it must be the cause why
onr armies are not more victorious;
until
and wc
such vil-
never w ; H conquer a peac
lainous traitors, the reward lot whosefleep
damnation should be fathomless, ^speed
ily ji-posed of by citizens firm and resolute
enough who surround them. Before wc can
be victorious over a foreign, open foe, wc
must dispose of the secret traitors at home.
In the Indian language of the name of my
own State, “here wc rest,” but I hope itwi
not be Jong. ALABAMA.
From the Augusta Cons'UulioraVst.
GOV. BROWN AND B. H. HILL.
The voters of this section
of the State
have been somewhat surprised at Uic told-
Gen. Bragg has won a great victory and I.pander:ng to their own political ambition.
fJpnrijm from the hand of the ruthless I I am told “ Uncle Joe ’ became the guest of
saved Georgia from the hand of the ruthless
invader. Why he did not follow up his vic
tory is easy to ask ; lie has his own reasons
for it, ami the people should suspend their
opinions until time shall deyclope the facts,
when they may juge for themselves. There
are many conflicting opinions on this sub
ject for aud against, and arguments on each
side arc equally strong, principally support
cd by ifs ou the one hand and '*«/? on the
other.
The other day oar pickets took a squad of
9ome fifteen Yankee prisoners, who were
found robbing a sweet potatoe field. Oa be
ing told to surrender, they complacently re-
Gcu. Bragg while here, who extended to-
wauls him the most distinguished courtesy
and attention.
Falling weather wdl soon set in, when our
troops will .require plenty of shoes and
clothes, and I oifly wish that our Governor
f Alabama, as well as others, would imi
tate Gov. Brown, and pay us a visit, that
they might see what op** bays need, and
have them provided for accordingly.
I rend you a Minic bail of the enemy with
poisonous zinc fl ingcs, which fly off into
the flesh, thus producing incurable w< .uftds
of which the victim mast die. The Yank;
have denied that they used thes? balls, hut
plied that they had no objections, provided
we would give them a chance to roast their | here is the evidence of their fiendish refine-
potatoes. The squad were marched otf,car
rying their potatoes within our lines instead
of their own.
The weather is perfectly deliciour.and our ! to day, in our laud, who would be so
boys are all in splendid fighting trim, only j base »s to defile h ; s sou 1 with such degraded
waiting for the word from “Massa Braxton.” ; nfamy by advocating reconstruction, or
2V9. holding in his heart the traitorous secret
mentof barbarism And these are the men
who hope to subjugate aal whip us back
into the Union! Where is the reconstrue-
ss£
l£m 3T R H. HiU. open the Gabernato-
rial Question.” It seems to bo a letter Horn
Senator llill in answer to one from J. A.
Billups, of Madison, asking the publication
of the fact that he favored the election of
Joshua llill for Governor, together with his
reasons for this preference. Mr. Hill urges
three reasons against the re election of Gov.
Brown, which are unworthy any reliable
statesman: 1st, “There ought to be entire
harmony and unity of action proceeding and
pending this struggle. Even the appearance
of divisions encourage the enemy, and it has
never been possible tor Gov. Brown to unite
our people iu lime.” Does any one believe
that Mr. Dili can be sincere in such an ob
jection ? Is he really lor entire harmony
and unity of action, to prevent encouraging
the enemy by even the appearance of divis
ions, when he opposes a man who has been
thrice elected Governor by unprecedented
majorities, aud who has fulfilled his triple
trust with an ability and fidelity which is
without parallel in the pest history of Geor
gia? Gan any one imagine that Mr. llill is
honest, when he wants to defeat Gov*. Brown
for fear Ids election will give aid and com
fort to the enemy ? The whole Yankee na
tion would hail the defeat of Gov. Brown
as the strongest indication of opposition to
she war—next to the President, and that on-
, ly from his position being Governor of only
one of the sovereign States. He is the soul
and centre of a vigorous prosecution of the
wax*. Ue has left no effn t unemployed.—
He has worked every energy of his nature,
and inspired those around him with the same
spirit. He has even infused into some of
the departments of the Confederate Govern
ment a determination and will in this con
test, which has won for him a renown that
will be forgotten only when these seenes
and these times are obliterated from the
memory of man and the page of history.
Anti yet the Hon. B. II. llill ha3 the assu
rance to express the timidity that his elec
tion will encourage the enemy by the ap
pearance of division. I do not desire to in
dulge iu any bitter or aci imoniou srellectioas,
but Senator llill, by such a letter, with such
reasons, has placed himself beyond the pale
of a liberal charity. It is unworthy the po
sition he holds, and the attitude he now oc
cupies to the people of Georgia. And how
does Mr. llill propose to produce this har
mony and unity of action he so much de
sires, and tin reby avoid this appearance of
division which he fcai3 will encourage the
enemy ? In no other wav, fellow-citizens
but by supporting Joshua Hdl for Governor,
who, it he is not tinctured with disloyalty to
his State, at heart embodies all that the Yan
kees concievc opposition to this war. I have
no disposition to criticise Mr. Hill’s position.
The part he took when Georgia seceded from
the Union is well known He was "alone in
the Georgia delegation who believed liis
State i^Ldonc wrong, aud denied her sove-
reigntyliy remaining aftert he delegation
withdrew. If Georgia had a r ight to secede
from the Union, Mr. Hill’s seat ia Congress
was vacant the moment the severance took
place. By his act of resigning his seat in
Congress ho denied the sovereign act of the
State, and the implication that Georgia was
entitled to the representative seat ia Con
gress which he'had vacated by resignation.
If Mr. Hill’s theory is correct, Lincoln is do
ing nothing but his constitutional duty in
whipping the refractory State back to its al
legiance. Will the people sanction such prin
ciples in the Gubernatorial chair at this time,
or even at any time ? Yet Mr. B. II llill
believes or pretends to believe, that his elec
tion, or rather Governor Brown’s defeat by
such a candidate will dissipate all encourage
ment on the part of the Yank* e3 that w r e are
divided. I might take up Mr. Joshua Hill’s
letter which appears as an advertisement to
the people of Georgia, and show that it is
not inconsistent with reconstruction—for in
his figure of the broken vase, he only puts it
on the ground of impossibility. We have no
expression that at heart he would be oppos
ed to a re-union. Collect the broken frag
ments and re unite them, aud he would be
willing to have it done. Nevertheless, Sena
tor HiU finds in him all that will discourage
the Yankee nation; but if Governor Brown
is elected he is very much alarmed lest our
enemies will be encouraged by the appear
ance of division among us. It is cnly neces
sary to state the two names of Joseph E.
Brown und Joshua Hill to show to the peo
ple of Georgia the hollowness and heartless
ness of Mr. B. II. Ilia’s timidity on the occa
sion.
Second—“Again, Gov, Brown ix too full
of the spiiit ot controversy.” Mr. Hill. says
he has had controversies with eveiy legisla
ture wbiehdias assembled since he has been
Governor, if by controversies he means
that he has vetoed many of their measures,
he has only exercised the prerogative which
the constitution gives. He might in the same
manner object to President Davis, for no
Congress has assembled since he was elected.
President, whose acts have all received liis
sanction. This objection is cot only futile,
but puerile and beneath notice, except that
the man holding the position of Senator is
entitled to notice from the reflection which
the honor casts or bestows under this objec
tion ot “the spirit of controversy.” Mr. Hill
urges the stereotyped charge ol non support
ing the present Confederate administration.
On thi9 point it is useless to argue. Every
one knows or ought to know that the only
controversy between President Davis and
Governor Brown was upon the constitution
ality of the Conscript' law, and even here
Gov. Brown would not ana did not permit
this difference of opinion to intervene be
tween him and his auty* to the Confederate
government ia a faithful and vigorous prose
cution of the war. After the President kce.v
what Governor .Brown’s opinion was on the
law in question, he placed oa record th s
high ana do less deserving compliment—
“ Your noble State has promptly responded
to every ca’l that it has been my duty to
make oa her, and to you personally, as her
Executive, 1 acknowledge ray indebtedness
lor the prompt, cordial and effective co-ope
ration you have afforded me in the effort to
defend our common country against the com
mon enemy.” Can Mr. Hill show anj’such
acknowledgment for bii candidate Lorn
‘resident Davis? Will he point out to the
oiers of Georgia any prompt, cordial or ef-
-Ctive co operation Mr. Josh Llill hasaftbrd-
d in the effort to defend onr common coun
ty against the common enemy ? Unt.l he
an, away with this miserable c-xcuse for
shelter uuder the wings of President Davis
The third and last objection to Governor
Brown is that the Confederate Constitution
has matlc “Executive officers” ineligible to
re-election, and custom ia Georgia allowed
but one re-election of such officer. The Con
federate Constitution has made only tho
President ineligible and if Mr. Hill means by
executive officers the President and Vice
President it shows that be does not know
the constitution which he helped to form. —
Whether this mistake is the result of his ig
norance or that convenient forgetfullness
which characterizes his statement of laws
and facts I have not timo now to discuss, but
leave it with the people whom he pretends to
instruct. His vindication of Mr. Joshua
Hill against the charge of unworthiness on
account of his Union sentiments are upon a
par, in force, with his objections to Gov.
Brown, and if his friend is satisfied liis ene
mies certainly have no objections. But it is
not only Gov. Brown, but Mr. Farlow also
to whom Mr. B. II. Hill D opposed and he
lets slip the cause of his opposition —“for he”
of the straightest sect of that religion, “was
a secessionist”—and this is fixe reason Mr.
Senator Hill that you oppose Gov. Brown
and Mr. Farlow both—they were secession
ists. This is the issue you wish to make ia
this election—if this be good ground of op
position why not oppose President Davis;
he was a secessionist “of the straightest sect
of that religion.” Docs Mr. Senator Hill ex
pect to give to President Davis effort to de
fend our common country against the com
mon enemy a prompt, cordial or effective
co-oproation, by electing a Union man over
Gov Brown and Mr. Farlow because they
were secessionists “of the straightest sect ot
that religion ?” If so he is mistaken and if
he wifi leave the matter to President Davis
who belougel to the same school of politics,
he wifi ilad that he would prefer either to
Mr. Joshua Llill, who Mr. Senator llill has
discovered has “great talent and should be
called to tho duty.”
But the closing paragraph ot Mr. Senator
Hill’s letter is the climax ot impudence and
disloyalty and well worthy the past history
and the present position ot ttiis most unsafe
and unreliable demagogue.
“A glorioiu victory has just crowned our
arms ou the soil of Georgia 1 Even now it
is inspiriting the hope and gladdening the
hearts of our people. But ah ! my friend,
let me tell you we have another enemy to
drive back, to conquer, to destroy, before
peace and stable government can ever again
bless us with assured aud permanent pros
perity. Ims that same restless, si epless, ac
cursed enemy, which has produced all our
woes. It is the spirit of controversy’, the
proneuess to make issues, to create aud paa-
der to prejudices, the crimination of extreme
opinions, and the pliant art of fomenting
jealousies and keeping up divisions, not to
benefit the country, but to enable that seven
headed dragon of republics, the de'magogue,
to get office and to keep office. Wc can, we
must, we wifi defeat the Yankee invader,
but shall wc also drive forever away this
other enemy whose ambitious wiles made
the Northern man a fanatic, and the South
ern mao a seceder, aud now mocks in tri
umph over the slaughter of his millions?”
Read it, voters of Georgia, and remember
that iu the beginning of this letter he preach
cd harmony and unity of action as the best
mean3 of discouraging the enemy, and yet
he places Joshua Hill before you and rc-o
pens the issue of union or secession which
was settled by the convention which separa
ted Georgia from the old United States —
Was it right iu Georgia to secede ? A ma
jortty thought so, or tho State would now
have been in the old Union. Many who
opposed it at the time, now think it was
right, and have stood by her with a fidelity
equal to the struggle >u which we are now
engaged. Mr. llill, however, is for punish
ing them as he would the Yankees, and pla
ces them in the same category with the
Northern fanatic. Ho complains of the is
sues and the spirit of controversy which
made the Northern man a fanatic and the
Southern man a seceder, and invokes and
disturbs the sanctity of the grave to arouse
your prejudices. Who! “ mocks in triumph
over the slaughter of his millions” but B. II
Hill?—who places Jefferson Davis by the
side of Abraham Lincoln—the Southern se-
cedcr aud the Northern fanatic, and is ready
to whip the one with the bayonet and the
other with the ballot ?
It is not such men as Mr, B. H. Hill or bis
candidate, Mr. Joshua HiH, who has lately
crowned our arms ou the soil of the State of
Georgia with a glorious victory. The men
that have done this are your Jefferson Davis
and your Joseph Browns, aud those who
ATHEI
Lessee anel Nam
(Also of the Mobil* anl
r, - XV. H. CRisj
Montgomery Theatre*.'
OPEN EV EE Y EVE HI Ho
First Appearance of Mr Joha Bavi*
Ito-aVpe&rjkBce of the fascinating inmedier
Mrs. Jessib Clarke.
Kverjr
Member of tho star
Will Appear.
° n ‘I»an>
Tuesday Iveninc Oct. Cth, wi.l be tr
Comedy of ih j
SO KTHTTMOOst
Juliana (the Duchess).... . A Mrs u u o ”
Volant* Mrs. o
Duke Aranza Mr.
; .....Mr.gain HuM,
Rolando
SM.
To eonclcde wth the Farce of
SLASHER AND CRASHES
In n: eviration, “ The SergeaiU’s Wife ” an
or I’ll fcle ti Upon it,”
1 - YJti,
order.
truard wiil be pi reed in ih,« Theatre
Seats reserved for Ladies.
1 P e serf j
Price':—Paiquette, $2.
Gallery, $1.
Upper Ti
ier, $(.G0.
A. NT X3 O- R O B o v
AT AUCTION.
T aiS morning, at 9 o’clo. k, will be sold « ,, ,
N» geo Hoy, by SIIAC&KL10SD,SAINT * Cu
«»ct6— It Auction and Cumin’s jit n Meri-fmt
NOTICE.
0
MACON AND WsSFERN RAILROAD )
Alact n, Oct. b >S ’
I and a t:r the 10 h Inst., the rat. s’orfaies-
fr Igbts oa this load will be advance' j •
*engers fares, whit j pe s-m 10 cents per lui’e
7 ce ns per mile. AM soldiers and commissi ntd officer’
} on furloughs t» fee carried at the losnc ctiv* minier n •
viz: Vt>i aed 5 cents per tni'e. The idvino-
private freight will be 5'J per cent on pre* cutrati-
By order of BOARD OF DI’XKoroas
A Situation Wanted,
an^Irish Uirl, lo Cock and Vv’sh. l.x,
Ci U'-ch.
McCarthy y,
Lojd S.rytt, by tl.e CaiMic
octC-lU
FOR SALE.
Southwestern Georgia Fam.
O NE of the mo:t d ssirable Fanm in southwestern
Georgia is now offered ft r sale, contrAmii. -
tieres, of which there are f-5J in cullivat'on, and'mo
more roudv for planting the ensuing yea'.-. Arm).. •
Col. J.hn T. Smith, Intell’g-nccr oftiee, or to J
M. It. BALDWIN,
octC— d2w* Dawson, Ti rr. It e,i t o a
Valuable Properly
I'OH S3 LE .
1 11IW Plantation known ai the DOWNING •;t■:
. NURSKRV, situated miles southei sr. of AUante*
conla’nmg 202# aeres, moe or less On the p-eni'r
there is a comfortable d*el.iug hcu:e, with live riVirs
and large cellar, kit. hen, mu ike hot s', negro qnartem
barn, btabl.s, crii s, Ac 'I lie place i; weil watered «i-h
tine springs, and three never failing strep ms on ,v*di b
there Is about fifty acres of line bottomlands 'ltie-ie is
also an orchard in bearing, ol ti irtv no e , t:n riuint
th* finest collect on in the country iff spp es, peachy
pe vs, apricots, nectarines, cherries, plums, ti l, «.'o
At .o, nearly two acres or vinyard of the choici sniads
of grspes. A fin* collect'on of specimen ornerorniai
plants. Hay iogsold tl e nu s..-ry stock to 1). Redmond
Emj . ol August i, we offer the above prope.ty for sale
tor the purpoie of division. For further p: rtieukuj
spply either to W. P.Kob n-mn. on the place, to lb w.
V. Harden, at the Empire U'os i a', or Rev. .1 L. Roce-J
at Cartersvllle, fl.q. ‘ n!G—'uv* '
A RARE CHANGE
FOR
IN V BS TH K Bl
1 ^7 F\/i U UF Choice lands lying In Foeth at: 1
A I f "t: U South Western Georgia ier sale. There
are several lots of 1000 acres, one of which lies in Brook i
County, has 800 acre^of fresli hammock oa the [.'ace.
I will sell the whole of the above lands together or i i
parce’3 to suit purchasers. Thse lands will pio. ii •
cotton, earn and sugar cane equal to nv land in dm
country. I have always cn hand several houses ami
lots in the City of Atlanta tor sale, a 1 of wHcli wi I he
Eo’.d on resonable term by apotyirg so
X. DftOXAN,
„ Keal Estate Agents,
Corner Whitehall and UuU.r Heel,
Oct 3-d5t* ^ Atlanta (Ip.
IARD
FOR SALE.
H IGHEST market price paid for TaiJoav aiid
K>ard } by
raj
Sept26-d4wl m
GLENN, TABOR A CO.,
at Walton Spring, Atlanta.
Bichromate Potass,
U (IA LBS. Bichromate Potass on consignment and
, for sale by SOLOMON BilCf.
Aug 21-dtf
FQINGLE3 wanted immediately.—
Apply at this office. if
A GOOD CHANCE FOR SUBSTITaft
CJOIBT m ill te paid for a Substitute,
fr } >r0Vl ‘J e<1 a sufficient guarantee is giv- n
For Sale.
HAND30MB residence in the village of tVr.ii-U,
fW •£* , 0f “? rrer University. The lot c mtai,*
kuffdmfp. sre ample, w.-lt finished, and
In good repair. For particulars apply to the un le s'ltn-
Oct 1-dU* M3S * -A. Xj. VECli.
~l BUSHELS Sound Corn,
AV 'MyL'* 500i > do Peas
10000 Pounds Bacon ’
1000 Sacks Good Family Flau,
iooA “ a ! es Shucks and Pcd.lV
1009 Pa.rs Brogans.
Oct G- dim
fight for the principles they represent and
have ever tried to inculcate. But it is your I 1 A OOO
Hills, par nobite fratrum, who can sec no '
difference between the Southern seceder who
would defend your homes and your altars
even to death and the Northern fanatics who
would burn the one and overturn the other.
How different the languages of au eloquent
Christian statesman aud Divine. Alter sur
mounting theevils which we had borne from
the North, he says: “At last we determined
to strike for our homes and our firesides,but
not until a party had been organized and was
triumphant which threatened to overturn
our whole domestic and social life. Which
party was right in all this? The Northern . —
States, in their persistent aggressions, or we WANTED FOR SOLDIERS FAJWH IFS
in our persistence ? Can any man, with any • - i i nmiLitu
sense of justice, hesitate how to decide ?-
What else ciuld we do? Could wc permit
cverytliing'that made fife valuable to be torn
from us, and we all the while stand mute
and impassive ? Wc did what every high-
minded people would have done- -transfer
red the question from the courts of earth to
the Courts of Heaven, and committed our
cause to Him who reigneth in righteous
ness.”
And such every man felt, whether seceder
or Union man, who had any sense of justice
aud such every man will feel whose notions
and sentiments rise to the magnitude of the
struggle in which we are engaged. The let
ter ot Senator Hill demonstrates there is a
party in Georgia opposed to the war, and to
who arc giving to President Davis’ effort to
defend our common country against the
common enemy, a prompt, cordial and ef
fective co-operation. The lime is at hand,
voters ot Georgia, for you to decide under
the banner of w'hich party you will enlist—
If opposition to the war, and consequently
reconstruction, take the advice of Senator
Hill, aud vote for Joshua Hi il; if for a vig
orous prosecution of the war, and thereby a
gulf as wide a3 the one which separated Laz
arus and Dives, between us and the Yankee
nation, vote lor Joseph E. Brown.
OGLETHO ftPE.
. E.M. FDWVRDY,
Auct.on acd Commission Merchant,
_ Whitehall Sired.
for sale.
A LAR5E Co- k*n; 8 ovc.
1 d0Ub,e 8et of l Ha. nes r in good order, by
QcL4-i3t
M. W. HUTCHES IN.
r. CORA,
op; oj.t-* the Athenu.--.-i:i.
II. S. HII,L,
AUCTION HOUSE.
HUTCHESON & HILL,
General, Auction, Commission,
—AND—
REAL ESTATE MERCHANTS,
CONNALLEY S BUILDING,
Corner Whitehall and Alabama £ts
ATLANTA, tEORtUA,
$2S RBWi
CITBAY0) or fito’ea fr .m the snFsc.-iber cn Sunday
O night last * Cow an l 0*1 f. fhs is * common a ze,
red c lared, iagooj order, with horn l. The Ca‘f is light
red an la ball, with thort her as, and about 6 month* old.
I bough*.her in Ber jesvll.e, ini 3he msy be making
her way bask there. PSTER JONAS,
oct6—2.* Macon Depot.
NOTICE TO REFU8EE8.
FOIl SALE.
A VERT large and comor.odioos Dwelling Hons : and
Lotia GriSia. A.’si, one in Ccihberf, Gj. Apply
early, to J.- H JDHNSDN, Griffin. Ga , or lo
M. W. JJUNSON,
oc!«—3.* Fori Valley, Ca
D RY Good*. Gto ;eries, Be il FLtate, Negro* s II
Males Wsgois. furniture. Clothing,' and in s'o-’
any and eve-y tiling bca-ht, gold and tld j; pel ca com
mission.
•ar Euainei*
patch..
TO BENT.
A COMFORTABLE Dwell n? IIjusc of six room*
v. iih furniture, will be rented till Christina* ne*t.
The property ii de Jrable, and adjoins Mrjor Richard
u.-mes* res'dence near Peach Tresstreet.
w.og, ot t*re 3 tdent Davis t 0 ..^ 3 . * mbs.m. wooldridtb.
by evei*3- piratical oral, which is seeking an — : — . ~ ~~*
harbor of safety. The people are not idiots 1 NEGROES WANTED,
and value all such attempts to mislead as they T^antea^tTnuoffice^r wS a?Si price
deserve. be paid panctuilly. Apply immediately.
a tended to w.th i r:>mptncs3 ar.d <11;-
Cct 4-dlm
W A N T E D
A *** *
OeXi-Alt H. MUHLENBR k&g y. 3
$50 Reward.
F >R in7 bay Horse about 15 hands hL* g vearao'd
natural pacer, branded W on the ljp’ I^nav
the above reward kr the delivery oJ him to meatYhe
store.of Beach A Root, Whitehall Strce*
O.* 8 -* 1 ** W.F. PF.CK.
A SMALL HOUSE WANTED!
A H K. U l e warjte( * in a desiraVe pa:t ot the
ioThe C pb’Jr rWh J ch a * COd reru wiu be p» 5 ’ 1 - Apply
to me Editor. C( t 4. j ff
For Sale.
JtINE Apple Vinegar by the Gallon or BarreL ^ ^
Oct 4-ilOl Oppo&it* the AthecaMim.