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Jjj- JohjJ H. Christy. • * i s > i--- ■ . V- ... T »»I. «_•!*..... l*2Hfc VOUME IX. r ilE SOUTHERN WATCHMAN. TERMS. . rUUViFj UOLllAHS pet Year, ' jtkiot r, y in advance. ADVKiTISrNG.. - .,, ,,! aivcrti’ienuats imorta.1 at the usual rates. ■ iilverlirCiiioMts. uIicti not marked, will be , ) till forlii'l. at Que Dollar per square of 9 lines t . lr t, and Fifty Cciats per Square for caoii subsc- :i It. m \ !i ral tleductioEi to yearly advertisers. .. \a iauneeme6ta«f candidates $5. in advance. notices e;tcoedin{f six lines ia length _ , i:i.ii>'i'd as advertisements. «-*.» » 4 aBKaW^a«mM^M«CMWWg»»KriBWW<HBWM»^^ - ~ SOUTHERN WATCHMAN CALENDAR FOR 1863.. 'ad’s Comci'. Jan ffE- .Mar Apr * . . " • 1 ^ ; * ..> *; . I a 1 2 : ' i 6 7j Sj 9.in II i _* i;: 11 16'IS;U i- .'.‘'0 21 22 23 24 ! S3 At a 7 S Nlllll 12 IS, It b Id 17 1*19S0 2I ;2 2 2A25'.5'«i*7 38 2 3 1 a! 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Siisincss anti ^professional €mh. 4 M. WYNG & CO., Dealers in A* HARDWARE. CROCKERY, CHINA AND »LASS. I r‘ id St r itt, A lbciift, (3a. tf A “STOSKWALL JACKSON’S WAY.” The Boston Courier says:“The following stanzas were found on the parson of a rebel sergeant of ihe ‘StnnewsU Brigade.’ recently captured by onr troops near Winchester Virginia”: Come, stockiand*, men! pile on the rails— Stir up the comp Are bright, No matter if the canteen fuils, We’ll make a roaring night ! ’ • , _ Here Shenanuo.ih .brawls along, There Imrly Blue Ridge echoes strong, To $weil the brigade’s rousing song, ' Of “StsuowaU Jaikson’s wdy.” We see him now—the old slouched bat Cocked o’er bis eyes askew,—■ Tho shrewd dry smilo—the speech so pat, So calm, so blunt, so true. ThoyBluq'Light Elder” know i’em well, Says he, “that's Banks,—he’s fond of shell, Lord save his soul!—we’ll give him”—well. That's ‘•Stonewall Jackson’s way,” Silence! .ground arms! kneel all! .caps off! Old Blue Light's going to pray, Strangle the fool tint dares to^scofF! Attention Fits his way! Appealing from his native sod -• Jn forma panjrvrit t ■> Coil,— “Lay bare ihiio; arm, stretch forth thy rod, Arnua!” That’s “Stonewall's way ! He’s in the saddle now ! Fall in! Steady! the whole brigade! Hill’s at the fo\*d; cutoff; yro'll win His way out ball and blade. Whnt matter if.our shoes are-worn? AVhat matter if our feet are torn ? “Quick step ! we’re with him before morn,” That’s “Stonewall Jackson’s way :’ The sun’s bright lances rout the mists Of morning—and by George ! Here’s Longstreet, >tniggliiig in the lists, Hemmed in r.n ugly gorge. Ptfpe and bis Yankees, whipped before, “Bay'nets and the grape !’’ bear Stonewall roar, “Charge, Stuart! pay off Ashby's score,” is “Stonewall Jackson’s way.” Ah ! maiden, wait, and watch, and yearn, For news; of .Stonewall’s band ! Ah! widow, read with eyes that burn That ring upon thy hand. Ah ! wife, sew on, pray bn,'hope on ! Thy life shall hot be all forlorn ! ■ The toe had better ne’er been born, That gets in “Stonewall’s way.” ATHENS, JAJSrU^RY Government paying his livery stable bill , 78 Act tostseure the tux upon certain West Point and his passage to the rebel - • - . ' - - - ~ rilKNS STEAM COMPANY.- it Mi KKItSON-. Agent nnd Superintendent.— Maunen u'ors ut Circular Saw Mills, Steam En« ri«r>» 1 mg a it'd Listing PUMPS, Shavtino and .'Lmixi.i; .Miu„ G in aud all other "kinds of O EAR- ID;. It n and Brass Oxstikcs, of every description. .'MlTMXti. Kcpairitig and Finishing promptly exe- rule i. >i ioei patterns of Iron Fencing. Terms, cash. ( • W\k II. E. J. LONG. Wbolesale Vt a- 1 lietai I.DRUGGISTS, Athens, Ga. L. m'cCLESKEY, M.D., having ) - rimmcntly lornted in Athens, will continue t: i tir of Medicine ami Surgery. Residence) that r- ly m copied by Mr. Chase—Office,-at borne, whore l.r > c found! ' ' ' -tf ■ jl A. LOW It ANCE, Surgeon Den- II* TIHT, Athens, jGa. Oifiee on CollcgcA venue, Ji welry store of Nlessrs. Talmatlge &Vi inn. G. II G1LLELAND, Dentist. Athens. i • Office over White's Book Store. • Special attention given to Plate Work. T M. KENNEY, (next door~ta*the As Hank of Athens.) constantdykeeps tin hand S’TA- ■ Mi and 1'ANOY.DlfY GOODS, and Choice Family Ties, cheap l'ni* cash, or to prompt customers. J A Select MistfUang. M. M ATTHEWvS, Attorney at LAW,. Dauielsville, Ga. . May I. 1 OHN H? CHB1STY, Plain and Fancy BOOK AND JOB PRINTER, Broad St., A::,, ns, Ga. Office currier Broad ami W«U streets, over tin -tore of Sanson* & Pittard. ' tf j F. OKELLEY, Photograph and t/ . \ M UR oTYI’E ARTIST. Rooms on Broad and Spring streets. «w«r- the store of John 11. Matthews, Athens, Ga. ’ ' i MarS-tf 1 P. MASON & CO., Bookbinders. v • Paper Rulers and Blank Book Manufacturers, '* iiiiilisll street, Atlanta. Ga. J: H. Chikstt, Agent, Athens. «a, 4 ■ july22-ly j) BAIiRY,~iashion4lde Boot and X • HHOK-MAEKR. Broad street, Athens, Ga., is (dua?- -•> in readiness to fill orders in his line. r M. G. DELONY, Ittorney at LAW, d.thbnu, Ga., will attend promptly to all W bits i.ss entrusted to his Care, o'er i.M. Kenney’s store. Office on Broad street,: tf WM. PHILIPS, Attorney at Lay, I Y Marietta, Ga.. will practice in all the counties *f the Blue Ridge Circuit, tu theeonnty of Fulton, of the 6 ivtin Circuit, in the Supremo Court, and in the XL Si l'bnict Court at Marietta. . tf \VIiITE & PITCH, WhoIesa1I& ' 7 Retail CLOTHIERS and MERCHANT TAI- Hruud stwoL AlheM, Ga. AV M. N. WHITE, Bookseller and STATIONER, and Newspaper untl Magazine "gout—Dealer ip Music A Musical Instruments, Lamps, (’cilery, Fancy OoidB, Ac., corner Broad Street and Cnltcge Avenue. Orders promptly filled at Augustarates. GLOBE HOTEL, Aiioktaiia, Ga. . AUSTIN MULLARKY, PROPRIETOR. \ “ I ICE.—Pa*rerigesta holding T1 rough Tickets, will , *■' carried L and from this Hotct free of Omnibus Jar '- __ - 1 4 Feb. 37.—ly , /x x Buggies! Buggies! 11\ KRW BUGGIES, 4 •* •' . ^ 1 Sveund-hand Buggy, * I Fnur D-rso IVagon,. 1 T wo Horse Wnguu, . . 1 One Horse Wagon, 1 Ox Curt, now ajxl complete) • 1 Fair Carry-Log Wheels, * Carry-Log, complete, second hand, ti. IOJH'0 Buggy.and Wagon Spokes. Shafts, Rubs and Felloes, Enamelled Cloth, Piit- p! “ ca ’hcr, Buggy and AY agon Uaxnuss. all kinds of btaui' Bund, Harness, • Sole_ and V: A' ptembor jl® JOHN ■per. _ House TKE subgcriker n,. 1 "hl'liuu'., ailjoiuirg -m the lot, s idee *“ C s ,r - Y eutbuitiQi k'-Htd state o'l From the New- York Sunday Mercury. BIOGRAPHY OF STONEWALL JACK SON. Stonewall Jackson Ayashorn very early —in lact, so young was be at that inter esting period of his history, that the date thereof hirketh not in his own memory, nor yet in that of. his present biographer. Sufficient ho it to say, lie was born. The ancestry of S .7. has hitherto oeen shroud ed in doubt. Some have asserted that he is descended from Jack, surnamed the Gi ant Killer, and that the “seven-league boots” of thci aforesaid J. the G. K. are yet in his possession, which accounts for the celerity of his movements. Others de clare him to be an offshoot of the Jacobin family, the founder of which was Jackaloc the Chinese Pirate. They are all wrong, Mr. Editor Stonewall Jackson iR descend ed in a curved line from the Wandering Jew. In early time tho Jew family was rioh, hut one evil day the head of it went down into Egypt, “ bucked” against Pha raoh, and came back with nary shekel, having lost them all in that interesting game. From that time till the discovery of the Mississippi river, the family 4 was too poor to have-a name. Stonewall’s grand- frither ran a flatboat on the aforesaid river, aid was extravagantly fond of the classic g uae of “ old sledge.” He married, and ii; the course of time had four sons, whom ho named—to -commemorate his favorite game—High, Low, Jack and the Game. Jack followed the example of his father, married, and had one son, the subject of this sketch, who was naturally Jack’s sou, a id in course of time, Jackson. A family trait lurks in Stonewall, for at any critical slage of the game he is sure to “turn” up aod become the trump. Young Jackson in his youth gave great promise of future usefulness; so mtich so, ’.hat when he was sent to school ho invaria bly ran away to play “tag” and “leap frog,” to the constant study of which he owes his agility. One day Jackson’spere, learn ing of ids w;n’9 trnancy, determined to <Shasti8e it out of hinii'arid so collared tho incipient hero over his knees; thus throw? ing a prominent part of the youth into bold relief. Mrs. Jackson (the mother) then seized a shirt board with both hands, and proceeded to bring the youngster to a sense of his duty by divers ponderous blows. Young Jackson squirmed like a at west rmntann Mis passage lines. While passing through our army he stopped to make a sketch of our fortifi cations, whertan inconsiderate sentinel de manded his pass. The sentinel was im;" mediately sentenced" to he hung, but was afterwards allowed to resign. The New York papers have given such an accurate account of Stonewall’s military exploits that I heed no more than give a brief epitome, taken from the same reliable source. v His firstdiattie was at Bull Bun, iu 1861,« where he slew a whole division of the Fed eral army with his own hand, and thou got slewed himself. In this battle hoth armies were defeated ; but, unfortunately, neither of them found it out in time to taks ad- vantage of it. The Union army was great ly outnumbered, but “ gained a material advantage” (see MeD’s dispatches.) In J une; 1862, he took command of 60G7- 000 men, (see Northern papers of that date) and turned his attention to the political economy of the Shenandoah Valley. Not liking the state of tho currency there, he determined to abolish Banks; in doing which severaldeaperatebattleawerefonght, in all of which, though outnumbered, our troops “ gained material advantage,” (sue B—k’s dispatches) but our cavalry horses becoming thirsty; the army fell-back to the Potomac to water them. v Jackson’s horses, also being dry, he push ed on for the same watering' place, but learning that Fremont had cut loose, fell back. Fremont following; a desperate en gagement took place at Front Royal, in which Stonewall would have been annihi lated had not the U. S. Government stop ped the battle, (N. Y. Tribune) to hold a court of enquiry, to see if Fremont had not paid three postage stamps too much tor a bushel of oats, furnished through a Califor nia friend, to a horse of his body guard. While the court was in session Stonewall skedaddled. Fremont followed, however, and would have bagged him, if he had not taken the wrong road, (N. Y. Heraid) and travailed J'forth while Jackson was going South. Getting safe back to Richmond, Stonewall bore a leading purlin the battles irr front of that “ doomed” (see all the pa pers) pity. According to the Northern prints, Jack- son suffered terribly in person m these battles. He lost his right leg at Hanover Court House, and his left a Gainesville. The next day. while leading his corps at Savage’s, his horse baulked in front, of a barrel of beaus, which had been abandoned by our army, and was compelled to dis mount arid go it on foot, in doing* Avhiclr he lost ins right arm. The succeeding day he lost his leit arm at Peach Orchard* Two days after, at the battlool Malvern Hill, lie stooped down to fasten his shoe, and while in that position his head was blown off by a 103,000 pound shell. This was the unkindest cut of all; but the old veteran merely raised his martial form erect, and said: “My bleeding corn! v, I cheerfully make the sacrifice. Old head farewell !” These avo but a fcw of the wounds the old man has received—record ing to the papers. EvSn as I write, the 'report comes that the modern Briareus lost another arm at Antietam. - Stonewall Jackson, in personal appear ance, is most unlovely—and it is said that he—like the Ashantos—files his teeth to a sharp point every other morning. He stands eleven feet five inches (or five feet eleven inches, l am not certain which) in. his hoots, when lie lias got any to staira in. His hair is black, and was furnished to order by Bachelor, of New York. In re ligion he is at times a devout Catholic—at least, ho followed closely in the fxHsteps of the Pope during one of his campaigns; 4*nd at others he is a colporteur for the American Tract Society—at anj’ rate,'lie has probably left more tracks in' Virginia than any other white man ; and, according to the papers, always goes into battle with a family Bible under one ju’in, and a Greek Testament in the coat tail pocket, which he reads during the. intervals of the fighting. He is abstemious in his habits, having been known.to live mne days off of <ine sardine and a barrel of whiskey. ’ In dress he is.oxtromely neat, never wearing a sbirt more than throe months without chang ing it. . - To sum up, Stonewall, in private is—as ShakRpeare says—“ a man as is a man, that wc may never look upon his like again ” articles of merchandize in this State; 79 Act -for the relief of Jesse Fitts, John Huff!, and Jaaxes W. Burnside, of Lumpkin county. 80 Act for the relief of Z. M. Winkler, of Chatham county. 81 Act to amend an act to incorporate the Savannah Gas Light Company,-and Augusta Gas Light company, approved Dec. lith, 1819. • 82 Act to settle conflicts between the Code Of Georgia, and the present General Assembly. S3 Act to change the time of holding elections for the members of cougresi.. 84 Act to increase Jailors fees in this State. V 85 Act to enforce the payment of taxes due by free persons of color. 86 Act to exempt from professional tax all physicians, lawyers, and all nth or per sons liable to pay a professional tax, now enlisted as privates in the armies cf the Confederate States, or of ibev State- of Georgia, during their continuance in ser vice. 87 Act to provide for the,better defence of the State by the removal and support of all indigent non-combakiins of this State in certaiu cases, 88 Act to altar and ameqd -the Art in corporating t.he Cotton Plaid is' Bank of Georgia. 89 Act to iprovide for raising a revenue for the political year 1863—to appropriate inondy lbr the support of the Government ♦luring said year; to make certain appro priations, and, for other purposes. 90 Act to incorporate the Cobb county Salt Mining Company. 91 Act to extend and continue an act. to incorporate the South Georgia and Florida Railroad Company; 92. Act for die .relief of James and Lu . cintla Jordan. 93. Act for therelief of the estate of Hon. F. S. Bartow. • 94. Act to allow i,ho receiver arid col lector of taxes for tue county of Dooly,* until the 30(h of February, 1863, to make a final settlement.with the State Treasu rer. 95 Act to legalize the proceedings of the Court of Ordinary’ of Oglethorpe county. 96 A(d to alter am] amend the revenue laws of this State, (fnd to provide a penal ty* for the-violation thereof. 97 Aoi to abolish the office of county* Treasurer of Stewart county, and for oth er purposes 98 Act for the relief of John Bclinger, Adm’r of VY. S. Dobbs, deceased. 99 Act to appropriate money for the State Lunatic Asylum for 1863. 10G Act to change the line between Luiupkm and White counties, so as to add a part;<d-Lumpkin to White county ldl Act to incorporate the Castle Coal Company of Georgia. 102 Act to repeal an act and the acts of which it is amendatory, entitled an act to provide for the indigent Deaf and Dam cit izens of tlj.is State, and for other purposes, approved January 13, 1852. The above constitute the whole number pfacts (approved by* ttie Governor) of the late session of the General Assamoly. There werp forty-seven resolutions approved, some of which are very important. All the acts and resolutions, a public and gen era! character, can be found, in Water’s Phainphlet, which is published, and ready for delivery* at 82 per copy. RESOLUTIONS. 1 In relation to the defence of Savan nah, and for the removal of the help less women and children to a place of safety*. . 2 To appoint a committee to consider and report upon questions concerning the salt supply’. 4 To facilitate the transportation of salt to Georgia. 4 Relative to the defense of Savannah 1. 5 Thankfulness to Alm'giisy God for the glorious victories achiev 'd by our ar mies over par common enemies: ^ . G To adopt means for the general vac cination of the people of this State. 7. To investigate the counUiou of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum. 8 To prov*i(ifi %, eoiton_c;u*ds for the peo ple of this Sta te. , 9. Authorizing the Governor to. provide clothing and shoes for thq destitute Geor gia, troops .in-Confederate-service... 10 Authorizing the.Governor to appoint a commissioner or commissioners to audit claims for gnus furnished for State de- 21 Authorizing the Governor to have salt transported to Georgia. 22 Authorizing the impressment of free negroes us well as slaves. 23 Relative to the construction of an act passed at the present session, to pro vide for the electiou of Commissonera for the town of Madison, for the year 1868. £4 To appoint a joint committee to re port on the propriety of purchasing the rfcjbt to Clement's Patent Hand Loom for the benefit of the people of Georgia. 26 Thanks to the Governor and people of Flordia, for assistance afforded us in procuring salt. 26 Raising a committee to examine a new work on Arithmetic. 27 To allow additional time to Tax Col lectors of the counties of Glynn, McIntosh, Camden, Quitman and Fulton, to collect the taxes of the same. - 28 To consolidate the Standing Com mittee of the House and the Senate on tho Lunatic Asylum. 29 To provide ambulance cars for the sick and wounded soldiers on the State Road. . - . ' 30 To appropriate the School Funds of Gilmer and Scriven counties. 31 Concerning the collection of dues to the State. _ 32 Relative to the soldiers in the military service. • J 33 Authorizing ownersftofurnish substi tutes for slaves when impressed. 34 Relieving the slaves of certain citi zens from impressment. - 35 Requesting t he Confederate Govern-' inentto return acertain quantity of powder Georgia has loaned to said Government. 36- For investigating the frauds suggested by tho report of the Committee on the Pen itentiary, and the subject of a lot of shoes by A. P. Bell.. 37 Authorizing the Governor taeall out two regiments Of Militia for guarding Rail road Bridges. 38 Requesting the Secretary of War to investigate the conduct of Quartermasters, Commissaries,surgeons, and their assistants aud ward masters of the Government,’and to prevent theirabnses and the speculation of Government officers by partnership or otherwise. 39 Relative to the planting of Cotton. 40 For forwarding the efforts of the Cot ton Spinners’ Assotiation, and Cotton Plan ters’ Convention of the State. Army Correspondence of the Savannah Republican. Effect of the late Battle in Washington— Sketch of Stonewall -Jackson. * Richmond, Dec, 23d. 1862. .'*■ The blow administered to the invader at Fredericksburg’would seem to have de moralized, not only the Federal army, but the Federal Government also. Our bomb shells, it appears, felUin Washington as well as in Fredericksburg, and it is diffi cult to say whether they produced more effect on the Rappahannock or the Poto- < _ _ _ ^ variably attendod campaigning in the win- ter, slum Id teach ns the necessity of avoid* uig them. The army, moreover, requires restbut if it did not, the outfit of tho troops is not of a character tQ prepare them for the rigora of a campaign in January, in this high latitude. t STONEWALL JACKSON. Let me conclude this letter with a brief sketch of Stonewall Jackson. It is said the hero of the Shenapdoah made his apperrance on the field at Fred ericksburg in a bran new uniform, includ ing a fine dark blue overcoat, and a hand some cap, with the requisite quantity of gold lace about it. His disguise was com- E lote— so much so, indeed, that he was ardly recognisable by bia intimate associ ates. This suit was doubtless, the gift of some admiring friend; since his ordinary apparel is very plain, and his tastes and habits exceedingly simple. Gen. Jackson is not yet quite forty years. old. He is of medium size and height— weighs about one hundred and forty-five or fifty pounds—has dark, not black, hair, and wears short side whiskers. His com plexion is rather pale, and his features, when at rest, are destitute of expression. His manners are wholly devoid of grace, especially among strangers, when ho is both awkward and elnbarrassed. On horse back his appearance is anything but pre possessing, as it is under almost any cir cumstances ; and ouo who should meet him on the road, would be apt to take him for a quiet farmer, with full barns at home, and no creditor abroad, going to the Court House; br, better still, for a schoolmaster who, though all unused to the saddle, had undertaken to ride over to a neighboring patron’s house on Saturday, and was mean while engaged in some difficult mathemat ical calculation as he jogged along. But place him on the battle field—let the can non begin to thunder, the small arms to rattle, and the sabres to flash in the sun light—and the quiet farmer, the awkward, calculating pedagogue, becomes a hero- calm and self-possessed, it is truo*—but full of fire and energy, quick as lightning and terrible as the thunderbolt. Though it is the boast of Gen. Jackson’s friends that he has nQt a spado in his whole army, yet it wjuld be doing him injustice to suppose he is unmindful of tho.advanta- ges of a strong position, or that he neglects . any honorable means which may contribute to his success. No officer in tho army is more attentive to his duties, or labors harder and longer than he does. He is / very careful to ascertain the strength and position of his adversary ; and having done this, he swoops upon his prey like the eagle . from his oyry. * TbereisSoine diversity of opinion among military men in regard to Gen. Jackson’s qualities as a strategist and commander of an armj*, ImUnone as to his abiiity_as a fighter. In his battles he has been attend ed with a larger degree of success than Ho is. the idol of mac. The anny^cut to pioces and driven 1 any officer in the army ” ’ s the people, and is the object of greater en thusiasm than any militarj' chieftain of fish-ivorm; but, with that Spartan firmness |. j n capacity he is,'to quote Sheridan claims that has ever distinguished him, shed not ' KnMwl I n peace a'lamb, in war—a - le ™°y - . , . a tear. At about the fortieth blow the old f i am < er 11 In refbrenee to salt transportation lady paused, while the old gent eased oir 1 * — 4 12_ Appointng a joint committee -of his hold, and inquired, “ My son, wi 1st thou j From the Milleil-erille Confederate Union, go to school ill future?” The young hero ; passed byThe Legislature of Cieorgift at raised lus head, Mt.iped his sleeve across his , the session of November 1S62. A :• nose, and louaing up into Ins fathers face, said: “1 saj - , old gentleman, why am 4 like a cabin passenger'on a carial boat?” “ My son, I know not,” sagely observed Jackson, senior. f‘Wi>y,” said the young’ incorri gible, "with n knowing wink, ‘tit’s because I am boarded astern.” The poor outraged father could only ejaculate., “ board him again, old lady,.board him again.” “ Not I,” said, the mother, dropping the shirt board. * £ You might as woll larrup a Stone- wall” Rrom that day to this the hero has gone by the name of Btono wall Jackson. “ But, j .mother,” said the. father as. the released j [CONCMJDED.j * 68 Act for the support of indigent wid ows and orphans of soldiers, who have died or been killed in the service of the Siato or of the Confederate States arid for other purposes. 09. Act to levy and collect a tax for thd political year, 1862. 70 Act to prevent the spread of small pox in this_Stale.-- 71. Act to a nth on /.o the Governor to in crease the salaries and- daily or montidy Wages of tiift several officers an i employ ees: of the ■ W..& A. R. R. three from tho Senate and five from the -back like the waves of the soa from a rock-' bound coast, is now seeking shelter—not from the winter’s blasU but Lee’s victor ious legions—rbehind the fortifications at the Federal capital; whilst the members of* the cabinet, defeated in their wicked purpose and overwhelmed in the sea of blood they wantonly shed, are already searching foe places in which to cover up their shame and-confusion. The time witl yet come when they will call upon the ; rocks and mountains to fall upon them, • and hide them'from the wrath of the io- j furiated moo arufthe gaze of an indignant | world. Yerrly, 1111 'the rider and his horse | hath He thrown into the sea.” The enemy attribute their defeat iu part | at least to the thick fog that hung over the Yalley of the Rappahannock on the I morning of the LBth, and which teas not lift ed until preparations against their attack ! had been completed! "And-they may; for “ it was a cloud and darknes to them, but, it gave flight to these” 4 If Gen. Leo had been-Rcciie-shitter in that rugged amphi theatre of hills, he could not have rolled up the misty curtain that hid his army from the enemy, at a moment more oppportune for his purposes. He had been reserved ' for another duty, however. The ‘.‘cloud” had been placed between tho camp of the South by an Unseen Handy but at the proper time, that same Hand gathered up its folds, and pointed the way to victory. In the midst of crushing disasljsrs in the field, the distraction of trio Government, the hitter factions of the people and the scorn of mankind, the Federal Congress undertakes to continue the war, and that end has just voted an appropriation of over seven hundred millions of dollars, for its vigorous prosecution fhe coming i •' House ty investigate the official condu.ct.oi | year.- The party m power, driven head- tho Quarter master and Oo:nraissary Gen- | long by a fury as blind as it is wicked, that ei ‘M 8 - - ' refuses to see the truth as it is, v and that 72 Act lor. the relief of Joseph State, of 13 Thanks' to the gallant officers and soldiers. 14 Declaring the sanction of the . State upon the coimraets made for the manufac- +-reason, and had arrived at that point ture of salt ip Virginia, and autiiprizing the Governor to make all .ueeossitry ar- rengemantstp secure the prompt tpfcnspor- for supply of Georgia. 15 Requiring the tax payers 4 pf this . State to give in the blind, deaf tuid- dumb children iiv this State. 16 Tjjanlcs to 'Chd ladies of thin State for the comforts and necossitios of our sol diers. ... . . Ar- 4 -’ 4 - - •••j!-* closes its'eyes to the frightful abyss which yawns to receive both the government and the people, acts as if it were bereft of all whore the wicked are deserted both by God and man. If the war be continued,- without the intervention of some power* tation of salt obtained there find elajS where f not now foreseen, the dissolution of both fnr J * — — a I*. _ A!. ICtrj Tei government and society cannot be far dis tant.' ’ There -mnst’ be peace, or the mon ster Republic of the North will go to. pie ces: Like the dying whale, it may be that it will he more formidable in thc struggles of deal*, than it has been in lifo. Such was true of Prance during the Re' our day. And this, too, notwithstanding the fact that he marches his troops faster and longer, fights them harder, and takes less care of them than any officer in the service. Indeed, some go so far as to say that if he had no'enemy to encounter; and nothing to do but march his troops about the country, be would yet loso one third of them in the course of a year. This in difference to the comfort of his men is only apparent, however—not real. No man possesses a kinder heart, or larger human ity; but when he has anything to do,, he is so earnest, so ardent and energetic that he loses sight of everything but the work before him. If, for example, ho were re quired to move his carps from Fredericks- , burg to Richniond apd had two weeks to do it in, he would bo almost sure to per form the march, in four days,; or one fifth of the time, because he does not know how to do anything slowly. His style of cam paign, as he is reported to have told Gen. Leo just-after the second battle of Manas sas, is to seek for the enemy, and to strike him whenever and wherever found, in sea son and out of season, and whatever his position or numbers. Gen. Jackson is a member of the Pres byterian church, and a sincere and humble Christian^ He considers hiiqself an instru ment in the hands of God, and never arro gates any credit to himself when victory perches upon his banners, but ascribes all the praise to Him, without whose know ledge not a sparrow falls to the ground. Many apocryphal stories have been set afloat in regard to his religious: practices after a battle—such, for example, as that he is iu the habit of drawing up his troops in ?ine and returning thanks to God for the victory. l am assured that nothing of this kind has ever occurred. He is tpo sincere a Christian to indulge in-such ostentatious displays of his piety. c It is said that the bold chieftain has but one Weakness, and that relates to his mid dle name. It is generally Sujpposed that his nam'ejs Thomas Jefferson Jackson; but this i* a. mis take. The J. does not stund fur Jefferson, nor Johnson, nor Jeremiah, nor Jeroboam, but for a name more ugly ■and hated than - cither or all of them.— What, then, do you suppose it is, reador ? Why Jonathan! the name (Uncle Jona than) by which the "*“*'*“ at swept over that beaut.: ' n occur?, shall Gen. T Sion of.the military that now distract neiit of the United St offensive and march i This inquiry can l another,: that kind i r.o -sopmea. The Genera .get out that he bears any it is hoped, Mr. Editor, t u: . .will say nothing at *