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COURT CALENDAR FOR 1863. REVISED BY TIB SOUTHERN RECORDER. SUPERIOR*COURTS. JANUARY. 2d Monday, Chatham •Floyd FEBRUARY. 1 at Monday, Clarke Lumpkinf 2d Monday, Campbell, Dawson Sd Monday, Forsyth tPolk Glasscock 4 JULY. 1st Monday. Floyd* AUGUST. 1st Monday, Lumpkin 2d Monday, Ccmpbel! ' (Clarke \ Dawson Sd Monday, Forsyth Polk- Glascock Houston Houston Meriwenther , Msrivretber Walton Walton th Monday; Baldwin 4tb Monday,Baldwin Jackson Jackson Monroe' Monroe Paulding Paulding ’ Taliaferro ' Tnliaferro Walker Walker Chursday after, Pioi ce MARCH. SEPTEMBER 1 st Tkurml .ty, Pierce 3t Monday, At pling 1st Monday, Appling -43' o -snooga Chattooga Chorokee Cherokee .Cobuabia Coweta Coweta Columbia Crawford Crawford Madison Gwinnett \ 'Marion Madison Morgan Marion 2d Monday, Butts Morgan Bartow 2d Monday, Butts Coffee Bartow Elbert Coffee Fayette Elbert - Greene Fayette - Gwinnett ,-a ' Greene P|eV«ns Pickens Washington Washington Pi.-kcua Webster 3d Monday Cobb Th ursdayaf’r, Montgomery Calbouif 3d Monday, C"hb't ( Hall Calhoun Hart Hall Heard Hart Macon Heard Newton Macon Talbot Newton Ware Talbot Bulloch, Tattnall Thursday aft, White Wire 4th Monday, Clinch Thursday af.White Chattahoochee Friday after Bulloch Johnson 4th Monday, Clinch Lee ‘ Chattahoochee Milton Johnson Putman Lee Rabun Milton Tw>»trs Putnam Wilkes Rabun Thursday af, Haborsbam Twiggs Monday af. ") Wilkos Tho 4th v Echols Thursday af.li.wersliam Monday I M-— •’ r af- V ' OCTOBER. ter 4th Mon- > Echols 1st A 2d Mon. Carroll day, } Effingham Dooly APRIL. Early 1st A 2d M->u. Carroll Emmanuel 1st Monday, Dooly F rank! in Emanuel Fulton Early Gordon . Franklin Taylor Fulton Warren . Gordon Wilkinson Pike Pike Taylor Thursday aft Banks Warren 2d Monday, Gilmer ; : Wilkinson Hancock Thursday a.. Ba..L Harris 2d Monday, Hancock I,aureus Richmond Miller '• Harris Richmond Laurens Sum tor Miller lbs dy after Fannin Sumter 3d Monday, Glynn Tcodav aft. M lotosh Haralson 3d Monday, Glynn Henry Haralson Jones Henry Murray Jones Oglethorpe Liberty Pulaski Murray Stewart Oglethorpe Union Pulaski Worth Stewart Thursday 1 Montgomery Monday [Worth after ) after, ] Bryan Towns 4th Monday, Wayne Decatur D- Ch’.b Jasper Lincoln .Sclilcy VVhiuield W ilcox Friaay After,T>:1 fair Camden Thursday af.Irwin , Monday af. Berrien Charlton MAY. ^lltMonday, Clayton ' ..« ifer Randolph • 1 ; Seri ven .•;,c • Upson 2J Monday ft., >o*a Chatham (1 ilmer Jefferson Mitchell Muscogee Ths’day af. Fannin 3d Monday, IL-lt-T Bibb Burke Quitman Spalding Troup Union Thursday af.Towns 4th Monday,Dado Terrell Last Monday.Colquitt JUNE. lit Monday, Dougherty Lowndes 2d Monday, Brooks Clay Sd Monday, Thomas 4th Monday, Decatur DcKalb Jasper Lincoln Schley Tattnall Wayne Whitfield- Wilcox Friday after Telfair Camden . hursday filter Irwin '.fondnv aft"'-c-lton NOVEMBER. 1st Monday, Berrien Clayton Effingham Randolph Seriven Upson 2d Monday, Catoosa Jefferson Mitchell Muscogee 3d Monday Baker Bibb Burke Quitman Spooling Troup 4th Monday, Dade' Terrell Thursday after, McIntosh Monday after Colquit do do Liberty Ion aft 1 "- T :, -rrtY. Bryan DECEMBER. 1st Monday, Dougherty ^ Lowndes • 2d Monday, Brooks •Clay 3d Monday, Thomas : * May hold three weeks, if necessary, at each term. , [Judge not required to draw Jurors for two weeks; and not obliged to hold two weeks’Court in the coun ties of Cobb and Lumpkin. From the Richmond Enquirer. _ Chronological Record or the Principal Event! of 1862. , JANUARY. 1st. Battle at Port Royal S. C. Party of the enemy landed, and were driven back to their gunboats. Engagements at Port. Pickens. President Davis’ first public le vee. Mason and Slidell left Boston. 4th. Legislative. Council of Kentucky elected Henry C. Burneti and W. E Simms Confederate Senators. Judge J. Hemphill ol‘Texas, died. 4th. Skirmishing at Hanging Rock, near . Romnoy. Va. 6th. French man-of-jyar approached Ship Island under a neutral flag lor the purpose of’business with the French Con- . evil At New Orleans,and was flred into by a yapkee vessel; an apology soon made. 8th; Skirmish at Stiver Creek, Sto. 9th. JSnmside expedition left Animpo- lid. .Col. Lubbock of Texas died. 10th. Battle of Preston burg, Ky. Ene my repulsed by Confederate forcea under Gfin; Marshall. 12 and 13. Burnside expedition left Old Point and caught in a succession of dam aging storms beforo and after reaching Hatteras. 16. Battle nearLronton, Mo. Confeder ate troops under Jeff Thompson, drove the enemy towards Pilot Knob. 18. Ex-Presidojit Tyler died. W. Battle'at. Somerset or . Mill Springs, K.y. Geii. Zolicpffer slain. FEBRUARY. 1. Skirmish kt Btooraey, Western Yir- !&£''&■ %r ' "Silll Federal Gunboats opened flro f } Tenn. taken by the - Yankee taken by the-Federal 13. Battle commenced at Fort Don el- son. 16. Fort Donelson surrendered, after three days hard fighting, with heavy loss on both Bides. 17. Provisional Congress terminated. 18. Permanent Congress of the Confed erate States organised.- R. M.Hunter^elec ted President pro tem. of the Senate, and Thos. S. BoCock, of Virginia, Speaker of ~ the House of Representatives. 22. Jefferson Davis inaugurated Presi dent of the Confederate States. 24. Nashville surrendered./ - 28. Day of Prayer and Humiliation in the Confederate States. March., L Martinsburg'and Charleston, in the Valley of Virginia, occupied by Yankee troops. ' 2. Confederate forces evacuate Colum bus* Kj*. • , 3. Martial Law declared in Richmond, Va. . 6.„ Battle at Pea Ridge or Elkhorn,* Ark., commenced and continued till the 8th. Generals McCulloch and McIntosh were killed. 8. Naval battle near Norfolk, Va. The Confederate steamer Virginia played havoc among the Yankee vessels. 9. Confederate array evacuate Manassas and Centreviile. 15. Island No. 10 attacked by the Yan kee guuboats. 2a. iJaUie.pf Tatverdo, in Arizona. 23. Batik) at Kearnatown, near Win chester, Va. Gen. Stonewail JaoksoD, with about 400 men, engaged about 18,000 Yan kees under Gen. Shields. APRIL. 6. Balile of Shiloh, Tenn., commenced ajjd continued until 7tb. Gen. AYS’. John son was killed. 7-. Island No. 10 surrendered to the Fed eral forces. 11. Fort Pulaski, Ga., surrendered to Yankees. 24. Federal fleet succeeded in passing I the forts near New Orleans. 25. Fort Jackson surrendered to tho Yankees. , 26. Federal Gunboats arrive in front of New Orleans. MAY. 1. New Orleans formally occupied by Butler the Beast. 5. Battle of Williamsburg, Va., Confed- | erato loss, killed and wounded, 1,600, I Yankee loss, killed and wounded, 3,600. 7. BattleTuar West Point, Va. 8. Battle of McDowell, Va. Gen. Jack- son puttingMilory and forces to flight. 9. Pensacola navy yard evacuated by Confederates. 10. Norfolk evacuated by tho forces un der Gen. Huger. * 11. The Virginia was put on shore in vicinity of Craney Island, and, after burn ing fiercely for upwards of an hour, blew up a little before five o’clock on tho morn ing of this day. 14. The Legislature of Virginia express es the desire, by resolution, that “ the Cap ital of the State be defended to the last extremity,” and assures the President of the Confederate States that “ whatever de- etruction or loss of property @f the State or individuals shall thereby result, will he cheerfully submitted to.” 15. Yankee gunboats attack Drewry’s Bluff, and were repulsed. 23 and 24. Battle at Front Royal, Va.; Yankees defeated. Battle of Lewisburg, Western Va.; Confederate defeat. 25. Battleat Winchester, Va.; Gen. Jack- son defeats the Yankee army, puts it to flight, takes a large number of prisoners and a vast amount of Yankee stores. 26. Bombardment of Vicksburg com menced. Skirmish at Hanover Court House, Va. 29. Corinth, Miss., evacuated by Con federates. 31. Gen. Jackson falls back from Win chester, Va. Battle of Seven Pines com menced. JUNE. 1. Battle of Seven Pines ended. .Gen eral Jackson defeats the enemy near St rn:-- burg, Va. , 4. Confederate forces evacuated Fort Pillow. 6. Skirmish near Harrisburg, Va; Gener al Ashby killed. 6. Guuboat buttle in front of Memphis. The city surrendered and occupied by tr ; e Yankees. * 7. By order of Butler the beast W, B Mumford was hung in New Orleans. Bet- tie of Cross Keys, Ma; Yankees defeated. 8 and 9. Battle of Port Republic, Va; the armies of Shields and Fremont defeat ed and put lo flight by Jackson. 14. Gen. Htuart makes an expedition among the Yankees on the Chickahominy, and destroyed a large quantity of proper ty. Battleon White River, Arkansas, uear Languelle. 1G. An engagement at Socessionville, S. C.; Yankees defeated. Great battle before Richmond. 26. Battle of Mechanicsvillo. 27. Battle of Gainesville, or Gaines’Mill.- 29. Battle of Frazer’s farm.' 30. Battle of Willis'Church. JULY. j. Battle of Malvorn Hill; the Yankee army completely routed. 22. An agreement for. general exchange of prisoners betweon the Confederate and Yankee Governments. ;24. Yankee gunboats abandoned the contest at Vicksburg. 31. Gen. Morgan reports a successful ex pedition into Kentucky. AUGUST./ 2. Geh. Parsons surprises a Yankee forced near Madison, Ark., find puts it to flight: Ol»! aaMn rtf 'AmAIIiSA ItC/l I .1 19. Gen. Lee moves his army across the Potomac into Virginia. Battle of Iuka. MisEh 20. Battle near Shepherdstown, Va. 26. Gen. Beauregard assumes command of the army on the coast near Charleston. OCTOBER. 3. Battle of Corinth Mis., and continued till the 5th, 8. Battle of Perry ville, Ky; 9. Galveston, Texas, occupied by the Yankees. 10. Gen, Stuart starts and makes a suc cessful expedition into Pennsylvania. ^ NOVEMBER. 5. Brisk skirmishing near Warrenton, Va. Gen. McClellan, of thejYankee arrriy relieved of his command. Gen. Burnside takes his place. DECEMBER. 11. Burnside crossed the Rappahannock at. Fredericksburg. . 13. Battle of 'Fredericksburg. Enemy routed. . , 31. Confederate victory near Murfrees boro’, Tenn. ...... . Infernal Machines. . The ilenyid contains a long letter from Cairo in regard to the 'gunboat reeonnois- eance up the Yazoo, in which we find the following particulars io regal'd to the blow ing up of the Yankee gunboat: The expedition left the mouth of the riv<- If 8 * I : 7' ** ” . - VY ■■ZY. --. :aV -Y.' reached Florence, arm* Skirmish at’Orange Court House r Va 5. Battle of Baton Rouge, La. . Confed erate forces under Gen. Breckinridge de feated tho Yankee-!. 6. The Arkansas,' a Confederate gunboat, destroyed ou the Mississippi riveri 8. Lincoln calls for 600,000 more men. Battle of South Mountain, near Culpepper C. H., Va.,, . 22. Gen. Stuart captures and destroys a large amount of Yankec.storcs at Catlett’s Station, Va. . . 26. Battle near Richmond, Ky. Battle at Manassas, commenced laid terminated Sept. 1st. . » SEPTEMBER. . 9. Confederate. army cross the Potomac into Maryland. ' 13. Battle at Cotton Hill, Va. Geo. Lpr- defeats the Yankees. 3 or 14, Gen, Jackson captured Har-. cr’s Ferry, taking abotit 11,000 prisoners, lattlb of Booniboro’, Mdi M.r B.»l. ofsr it m er at eight o’clock, and moved up very cautiously, feeling its wayy and not reach ing the vicinity reported infested with tor- < pedoes until nearly noon. After ascending; about seventeen miles, the first sub-injariue infernal was discovered. It was Simply a large demijohn enclosed in a rude box. This was sunk in mid channel, and secured by a stout cord leading to the Northwest ern bank of the stream, and by a mysteri ous wire leading to the Southeastern bank, and generally traceable over the levee to some appropriate place of conceal mcut and observation, removed from all danger, whence the machine could be worked in safety. The demijohn was filled frit fa po w- derand various kinds of projectiles Admira bly adapted for execution upon the bottom j of a vessel. They were clearly designed to be fired by hand, but whether by elec tricity or a friction fuse does not appear. Two of these internals had been success fully removed, when an appalling accident, occurred that sadly weakened our little fleet. The Cairo ran directly over one— the character of the water ooncealmg them —when suddenly it exploded, tearing a bad bole in the bottom of the ill-fated gun boat; The wound was-considerably for ward, of the wheels, perhaps midway from stem to midship, and was from six to eight feet in length", and very rough and scraggy. Water.poured in at a terrible rate - , and it was at once apparent that there was no hopes of saving the 'vessel. Boats were therefore lowered away as fast as possible, and boats from the other vessels wore sent to their assistance. Thus the crew, con sisting of .16,1 men and 18 Officers, were all saved. But in seven minutes from the time the torpedo q^ploded beneath her, the Cairo went down in six-fathoms of water, nothing whatever boing saved from her- but her officers and’ crew. Her nntgnifi-. cent battery of thirteen heavy guns, with her well stocked magazine, to get her with her engines and boilers, and all her furni ture and the personal effects of her officers and crow, are a total and irretrievable loss. The Cairo was one of the old class gun boats, brought into service about'a year ago and first actively enguged at Fort II i ry. She ha3 ? been ip all the principal a •. lions m those waters sinco then, and v;. doing valiant service under different com manders, has been exceedingly fortumuo in escaping accidents. She was plated with three-eighth inch iron on her bows andstern.aml thesame on hersides, abreast of her boilers and machinery. In other places she depended solely upon the thiek- ne of her casemates for protection. e JeGdo.ft'o the Cairo did not pre-. ,vdii '.h'.’ continuance of the search after torpudoes, only cuntidn was exercised in : a • per.;lions. During the day there wore id ken'out twelve of these infbrnal submarine destructives, all within a space of about two miles. A bitter experience “developed a very safe and practical plan for finding and getting bold of them with out danger. A small boat would be sent along toy Northwest bank, carefully ex amining ill e shore for a cord leading into, the water. Presently one would be dis covered and cut, when up jumps tho tor pedo in the centre of the stream, held only by the wire leading to tho opposite bank. Carefully rowing around ahd' keeping a respectful distance from the monster itself, this wire is easily cut, and then the torpedo becomes perfectly harmless* and cub be handled aboard a ship with perfect iinpu-' nity. Thus what, in a concealed position and. when unlooked tor* is a terrible engiDa of destructiou, seeding one of qur most powerful iron-elads to Davy Jones’ locker in the shoj't space of seven minutes, is poi r fectly harmless and tractable when proper ly approached. And iTonly becom e ne cessary, in future operations, to keep a •sharp look out for these inventions of s deyilish enemy, and their danger may be wholly averted. The remamder of the expedition return ed safely out of the Yazoo early in the evening after tho full! accomplishment of the objeepj of its mission.' , .From the Lynchburg papers we gather further particulars of the Federal raid, into Eastern Tennessee and Western" Virginia. The accounts stute > that the enemy, vari ously estimated at from two to four thou-- sand men, en ered Virginia through Pound Gap. and pent rtrating to East Tennessee Radro.id. a.il-uuce of ninety to a hundred mile;-, tuy. ' • nit the bridge over the Hol- ston, at Zouicoflbr, not far beyond Bristol, arid also that over the Watauga, nine miles farther on. Between the two breaks there is no locomotive. Tho bridge over the Holston was a long one, and will require some time for its restoration. Besides the injury to the bridge, the railroad- track was torn up for some distance. ThiB de- Btr uctive raid was pikited, it is said, by O tey Ward, formerly of Scott county, Va); buit who moved to Kentucky before the war, .where he turned tory. It- will “tako sev- ferai weeks to repair i,he disasters, and they come at u time when the road is taxed to its utmost capacity. The raid was cery tainly a -daring one, and argues an audaci^' ty in tbeBnemy they were not supposed; ;.ter possess.-.y... ;■ . . ATHIENS, GEORGIA: r" WEDNRSIjAY MORNING, JAN, 14: V Largest Circuiation ‘of any Paper ever published in Atbeu: SS* SEE^OTJRTH PAGE. Advertising. . If yon vfant to buy houses and lots, lands and negroes, .horses, mules, milch cows; or any thing else— If you have those articles, or anything else for sale— If you have negroes to hire, or wish to hire negroes of other people— If you have lost anything— If you have found anything— In short, if you ic/i <it to do anything, adveh TI3E IN TRE SOUTHE.3N WATCHMAN; which has a circulation hot only larger than that of any other paper published here, but larger than itself has ever before had ! Short Subscriptions. We have been troubled very much lately by applications for our paper for short pe riods. To save future trouble, we’ hope no one will ask -us to send the paper for a shorter term t han 4 months—the third of a year—for which wo will charge one dol lar.. Our termsaro invariably cash in advance One year $3.00 Eight months.................... 2.00 Six months 1.50 Four months. 1.00 The Men who can’t afford to pay Throe Dol lars for u Newspaper- u SPECIMEN BR.ICK.iL” Since we notified the public that we were unable to furnish a paper any longer at $2, and would be compelled to charge $3 for it, we have rv.et with a few—very ftUv—-gentlemen whose consciences will not permit them to countenance what they are pleased to call “extortion.” As there are “sermons in stones and running brooks” and honey may be ex tracted from almost, everything, we pro pose to extract all the good we -can from our experience in this matter, and give the public the benefit of what we have learned. To do this, it is not necessary to give each ease. We shall only select two or three, as “specimen, bricks.” The first man who declined paying $3, wan an old -,vnt. welt off in‘this world’s ■ ‘goods.' who was quitting town in disgust ; because nobody .vvoald.givp him $5 a yard for an inferior piece of jeans ! He told us if we would furnish the paper at the old price he would renew—if not, he would stop, as he was opposed to all kinds of extor tion ! Of cou rse, we struck his name from the list. ' We remembered, however, that we bad a year or two ago spent an hour or two of our valuable time in drawing up a couple ol deeds for him, for which he never even offered to pay us one cent, although we furnished bhe blanks 1 A few. days afterwards auother gentle man informed us he could not stand our extortion. While striking his name from the list, wq offered aim 23 cents pqr pound for pork, of which The Fight at Murfreesboro*. It turns out-that our victory, at Mur- freesboro’, although something worth fed - ing proud pf, not bo decisive after all as we wore led last week- to suppose it. had been. Our conclusions were ^rrqct, bad the telegraphic dispatches upon which they were based been true. Unfortunate ly jiike a great many others heretofore pub lished, they were greatly exaggerated. Instead of our arrfiy taking possession of Murfreesboro’ after the fight and driving the Yankees bhek, it turns out that when Breckinridge’s division^attacked the Fed* ei*als after the great battle,- we were driv en back, and "the Abolitionists now occu py Murfreesboro’, and, it is said, intend "to winter there We hope they wilt nob be permitted to, do so. . Instead of our cavalry, having cut off communication between .the Yankee army and Government, it turns out that dis patches reached New -York sooner than Augusta! We would be much obliged to all hands if they would quit'- the aboni nable vice of lying. With* a-littlebit of truth to begin withand a vast amountof exaggeration, we were last week led t j believe that we had broken tho backbone of the Federal West ern army.' The truth has now come to light, however, and blown our beautiful theory sky-high. ' We should not have been deceived by ordinary dispatches, but' those , referred to wero published over the names, of Gen. Bragg and Gov. Harris. Well, we have learned one good lesson, at all events. “ Lumpkin House.” This large and elegant hotel, comer of Broad street and College Avenue, former ly known as the “ Newton House,” was sold at auction on Saturday last, and brought duly $13,831! To Farmers. Wo hope every man; woman and child in the Southern Confederacy who has a sin gle acre of tillable land" unoccupied by small grain will plant it in corn, peas, pota toes, or something else suitable for man or beast. To do this, it is important it should be put iii br ier early. Do, then, go to work at once. Let the land be well pre pared. If you have* or can get manure, be sure to appiy it. Plough deep and plough often. If your ditches are filled up, clean them out, and do every thing you can to wards getting ready for the greatest corn crop every grown in these lands. We will ueed it whether the war continues or not. Every grain that can he produced will com mand a high price. One word more. If you can procure the seed, sow Spring oats. We know that the Fall crop usually succeeds the best, but sometimes Spring oats do well. Accord ing to oiii prognostications the present year will be a great crop year, and Spring oats jrill do well. Don’t neglect sowing if you can find seed. Take care of your hogs and sheep, your claves and goats, and everything that will make meat. Raise all the poultry you can. There is a constantly growing demand for everything to cat. Don’t be afraid of rais-_ ing too much. Small Pox. We learn that this loathsome disease” has made its appearance in the family of Freeman. Westmoreland, about four,miles from this town. The Inferior Court, held a meeting ou Monday and direc ted the Sher- iff to lay off and guard a district of such size as will prevent its spread—compelling all persons who go inside the lines to re main there. Our town authorities ought to do something. We understand.persons from the infected district visit the town To the Women qt Georgia We rc-pubiish this week Gen V stirring appeal to the Women n( (jL? 1 *’ 8 We fear it was overlooked when * rS ' 8 ‘ published it. cannot add one* ffrst to the force of this address. Our fco* suffering for want of socks. This ft£ peals eloquently to our fair countryw 0 Up * to make an effort in their behalf i*** 4 feel afire they will do it. ’ w# The President’s Speech.' On our first page, will be found tho s peK "of Frqsident Davis-before the Leg-; s | at J h of Mississippi, delivered during his t PD r6 the Southwest. ' vl to wb knew - he .had-'au abundance. He declined selling—coolly I daily. - ifaformitig us liy oxjjected to get a dollor a L Sc T lrt ,7 ur (undremo Mio),l- pound fof bacon . c 1 Dbn’tforget.duringthesetimeaofrevb- Another one had a wagon load of sweet , latiou> to Ben d your^ children to school, potatoes which ho whs selling at a dollar { 0ne of the greatest calamities growing We are ihdeh • . - -XT' t ,.- fP epurtesy of Capi Williams; of the Southern Expreaj^j for late papers.: and a quarter a bushel, but thought throe dollars was too much for a newspaper! W'e told him every body else was charging the same price. He then said he would bringsomethingto t own every week to sell, and could learn the nows about the streets ! Of course we “stride the case from the docket”—remembering, a*we did’so, that we had a few ra° n ths ago published gratu itously for him an obituary notice, which, according to our ueual rates would have cost him $41 _ . , The last case we shall now refer to, yyas a gentleman who had been a candidate for office, and for when w.e had done every thing we could do which'' was honorable. Forgetting all thin—and forgetting also that he was daily makiLgtVpm 200 to 1000- percent, upon his Business, he concluded lie could ; not Btand the oxtorticinale price of three dollars a year for a newspaper 11 We now “dose Ibr the prosecution’* by pointing out the lesson which our present discourse teaches, a nd which.our whole ex- peri eneeiu this life hasffbjnonstrated to bo true. Here is the g^j.. MORAL? Those men who aye moat noisy in pub-* licly denouncing aiiy viceor improper con duct in. their neighbors, prhctlfle the same thing or something worse themselves. And secondly, those for whom you have done . the most, are alwaj^a the first to desert out of the war will be the ignorance of the rising generation, unles s prodein|fQrseight is exercised vn sending the Little boys and girls to school. As you valure'their future usefafness and the greatness and glory of your country, don’t neglect the discharge of this important duty. When we have more space we shall de vote an article to the educational advan tages of our town. In this'respect, Ath- -,ens is without a peer in the Southern Con federacy We cannot Do It. We are in the daily receipt of letters ask ing us to tako $2 for our paper. There is no use in this. It is a wastes of tipie. Had we been able to publish bur paper at - $2/we should not have raised the price to Homicide In Ranks. We regret that on Saturday } ast ^ Nat. Harris was stabbed in Bonier, B a ^ County, by a man named R. BeColfa^ which he instantly died. McCollu m , at onco confined in jail. PrASo Tuning'—See card of Mr. c Ir , SAM, in nnbtlier column. We understnn j be is from Rrau^llek’s music establish men in Atlanta, and comes highly recom mended-. For tho Southern Watchman. We at Home. For long, long months, tho South l ma been engaged in a temblo war vdtfa thd North—armies, such as the world ha 3tlev or seen, continually engaged ia awful bv ties. ’ O ! the sorrow—the closolntion th 0 broken, crushed heart3 around many a Southern home Georgia, to the cause of liberty, has offered many of her noble jew. . els. Her Coopers and her Nelms—h r Stovalls, Smiths, Borchs, jjartows an,] Cobbs—these men deemed it glory to re . sign sw&et home, loved families and de r ot. qd friends, to endure with pleasure every hardship, to surmount unmurmuring every difficulty, and patiently to undergo even- deprivation, that the South, their beloved home, might win freedom. Brave men, yrn shalflive in fame. Pos- terily shall call forth the distinguish^ characteristic of your excellence, and thb genius of your country shall bond her head and shed a grateful tear to your veraem- braneo. The soldier's memory mm sur vive, for it is registered in Heaven— “ By fairy hamla their knell is rung— By forms nnseisc their dirge is sung; Then honor comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair. To dwell a weeping hermit there.’’ The patriotic Cobb—the dashing Toombs —the noble Benning—the brave belony, and the daring Wright—we cannot give all their names; “ For should we strive to mention every name With which old Georgia swells the list of fame, Amidst the labor of the arduous tale, Oar time, our periods and our pen would fail.” Happy the .State that boasts such sons; these sharers in the same dangers; these sufferers in the aamo cause; these broth ers in the toils of war; these Soldiers for liberty ; these 75,000 men, who, upon a call from their country and in defence of her rights, entered their bright career; these men, who will return, disabled by wounds, crippled by disease, or bvoken by fatigues; whose labors by day are closed by the alarms of night; those are the he roes and these the patriots of Georgia. “ Our women and men shall speak with applause Oi the courage they show in support of our cause.” At home there are many patriots—men who hart cheerfully giveu op soiir broth ers and friends—who have devoted their time and their talent3, and who have for gotten self and encourage with bojxi, smiles and money, our glorious effort for freedom. In the Richmond papers w read that at Gamp Lee a soldier froze M death, and that twenty others have r,o blankets. Reader, how many blankets have you furnished ?■ four—three—any. How many pair of shoes to-day warm son* half frozen soldier’s feet, purchased by you? When money has been called if-' for the army—when boxes have been to our soldiers, what db you do? ' have you done for the army ? what ban you sent- to it ? There is a long hBt ° [ P s ' triotic names that swells the Confederal* army. Is your son, -.brother, father, « atiy one by your name there ? Do« s P st neighborhood regard yi u as a benefac-® these tiipqs? Are any companies called .after you on account of your «•*' rality to them ? Has any soldier’s j" 0 found inymu a friend, or.any soldiers o phan a protector? Amid all the wealth of Clarice ■ cob a would you- believe it, a soldier suhsen the largesfe 'i'.mount to aid the s 0 " 1 * 1 fiinily; and do you know the greatests ^ given to the way-side home, was soldier, who to-day exposes his f t,hc enemy’s balls, that you might be ^ Vhen the war is ended and we r - have entered on the career of P r0 'PV. and greatness that lies ahead of us. , will you have done towards our n ,ee , f6 Wn recently met a; wenlthy nnui o. cars;"ho boasted of having just ^ and.negroes and corn at a high tigurt, ^ could toll where speculations co found, ahd how money might ne ' -but as to the war, be knew as p l - jt - it, and felt, as little interest '» it, ^ ' Trica. Reader, do you ^ you. Alai We had somcei of Flrb. ement ou Broad street Monday morning, growing out of an alarm of fire,' which proceeded front the - building known as Mitchell’s old tavern, house itself, we believe, was not on 1 a bed was burnt nuP v: ’ PSg'3sr> 1- ’ waS.a war in Africa any such men ? . ,' uve %e hear.” tlint-there are some n corn, fodder, bacon and other P roNt an .ici- sell, but will.* not.offer .them |1 . ov ’’ iptie? paring higher pricefe'in fcbe S P rl ^ clin e » have hOgs, but wait for salt to ^ or6 tfiau bacjbn’lt up, sq .as to obtain n<°re ^ Having been compelled to raiso Our price to $3, it is no use; to talk to us about taking $2. We treat all men alike. Ail must now pay $3 or nothing^ Whenever the cost of publication will enable us to fall back to $2, all can then have.it at. that price. But we cannot think of charging . • JDo' certain men one price aud.certain 'others'a .x » in*«l» oraer*. lower price for the same article. So far as prices are concerned, we are no respecter of persons.” : ‘ ■£&-.&i-g i- tkoir expressions—they are| * of tb« . loMmuoS as we cannot afford to pay 10 efints postage on the return of every $2 bill sent us,' wo shall in future’ send . the paper eight months to such as persist in sending us such'bill*. The first day of January was tlfe timo at which our new rates commenced.; AR per- meh as patriots of a very high Ui .^ r 'f the There are men who-talk gl° onJ ] j ail war-clouds andl darkness BU, j I vyaV s wqr. 3>o you deem them wsll ^ to accomplish any.gooti ? hi* stronger any soldiers arm, ll » thoughts, or happier his hear, f . - or yto - You'see men who are doing a omf ourrency. As one r prakence, ^fifteen ^ f —'•'jie from jay, / c jj- blOW- A v » representation jn J