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About Southern confederacy. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1861-1865 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 12, 1861)
f outhcni (Lonfcdrtac / QEO. W. ADAIR.. J- HENLY SMITH, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. ATLANTA, GEORGIA: THURSDAY, SEPT. 12, 1861. T.e Charleston “Mercury,” and Vice- President Stephens’ Speech on the Pro duce Loan. We find the following in the Charleston J/er cwry of the 29th August: “ We have received many applications for copies of The Mercery which contained the only full report of this able effort of the Hon. A. H. Stephens. We have no copies on hand, the large extra edition which we printed having been rapidly exhausted.— Some of our cotemporaries in the Southwest should republish this speech.” We know not why the editor of the “ Mercu ry” says that his paper “ contained the only full report of this able effort” of Mr. Stephens. His first speech on the Produce Loan was delivered at Washington, Wilkes county, on the Sth June., which place we attended and made a full report of his speech, which appeared in our paper on the 12th of June. This report was copied into nearly all the principal papers of the South from Richmond to New Orleans. It the editor of the Mercury failed to see our issue containing the speech, he could hardly have failed to see it in some of the many papers which copied it, and with most of which it is presumed that journal exchanges. Further than this; The Mercury’s report of the speech was very inaccurate, and did Mr. Ste phens great injustice. This was, doubtless, not the fault of the editor of the Mercury, but of the reporter, who failed, on many points, to report Mr. Stephens’ ideas even, let alone his language —in some cases giving an idea directly the re verse of what Mr. Stephens intended. This is no guess work with us. We know what we say on this point. On the next day—the 30th August —the Mer cury had an account of the retreat of our forces from Laurel Hill, which, in the main, was cor rect as far as it went—no material errors being in it—though it was imperfect. The editor of the Mercury announced it as the only account Os that unfortunate retreat that had been publish ed. Ju our issues of the 2d and 3d August, we pub lished four letters, written by intelligent and re liable members of the First Georgia Regiment, giving an extended and accurate account of that retreat in all its details and phases, more correct than the Mercury’s correspondence, far more extensive and satisfactory. In conclusion, we will say that the Mercury would do Mr. Stephens an act of justice, and serve the cause of the Confederacy by publish ing our report of his speech ; and it would lay before its readers a very satisfactory account of the Laurel Hill retreat by publishing in its col umns the letters which appeared in ours on the 2d and 3d August. And while we are upon this subject, we will also remark that wc have the most extensive corps of correspondents from the army, and the most reliable of any journal in the Confederate States. It is a point on which we have taken special pains and a feature in our journal for the aecpmnlishmetV of which we have made an ex tensive outlay; Oitr: '"HLspuiiuiiiiiiii m ferent points—wherever the public eye is speci ally directed. We hope soon to have a reliable correspondent with Ben. McCulloch's army to give us news from Missouri. We are making the effort and trust we shall succeed. Bella Horrida. The Bainbridge /’re.w of the 4th instant is at hand. The editor, in a long leading article on “Our Next Legislature,” makes a bitter com plaint—lays a heavy bill j>f charges against our new State Constitution because it has not provi ded for the election of members to the Legisla ture and prescribed their term of service. He asserts that the cither existing Legislature or the one next elected, can, under the provisions of the new Constitution, claim and hold their seats perpetually. It’s a great pity to spoil a house so beautiful and which the builder thought so tirmly con structed when he gave the finishing touch; but we must Hinder it to atoms at a single touch, and that the lightest. If the editor of the “ Press” had consulted the Acts of the last Legislature, on page 31, he would have found a Luc providing for the election of members to the Legislature bi ennially on the first Wednesday in October. It he had looked into the proceedings of the Convention, pp. 391, he would have found the same provision. This is an attempt to bring the Constitution into disrepute, even since it has been adopted. We were sorry to see any opposition to it pend ing its adoption, for it was a great improvement on the old, which no one could deny. But now that it is adopted and is our Constitution, we still more regret to see attempts to bring odium upon it. We, however, arc sure all such attempts will result as this one has done ; for there is no point in it on which it can be successfully as sailed. * • A llfMMai. KoauimniNo.—The New York Times advocates a combined effort to get rid of the unemployed and starving population of that city by sending them to the West. It owns up to the condition of affairs thus : Our citizens may as well now take into ser ious consideration the social burdens they will be obliged to carry during the approach ing winter. The unemployed poor are in creasing upon our hands at an alarming rate. Already we are informed that thousands of able bodied women are under the charge of the Commissioners of Charity, and supported at public expense—women who ask for no charily, but only work. Many families of volunteers have not been relieved by the lib eral sums expended, and will be forced to soon become burdens on the city. The swarm of unfortunate children—the offspring of peo ple impovished by the business prostration, o.' of fathers who have abandoned everything for the war—increases in the streets' The I agents of such societies as the Children's i Aid Society report that numbers of destitute j and orphan little ones beset their office or i their schools and seek shelter and employment. | All signs forbade a severe and gloomy au- i tumn and winter for the poor. The Louisville Courier says that two ; merchants of that city have received orders ‘ from Europe to purchase bonds of the Con federate States. SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY Interesting T.etter. HALL COUNTY VOLUNTEERS THAT FORCED MARCH RACE BETWEEN JOHNSON’S AND Patterson’s armies—manassas bat tle FIELD CAPTURED YANKEES HEART-RENDING SCENES THE WEATHER MORE OF TIIE OLD WOMAN BEAUTI FUL SCENERY SICKNESS IN CAMP, AC., AC. Camp Bartow, j Near Manassas Junction, Va., >• August 12, 1801. J Dear Doctor: Ido not address this letter to you with any hope that what I write will be of much interest to you; but rather with the desire of eliciting a reply from which we may satiate the daily increasing desire to hear from old Hall county. We who are in the centre of the operations of the Army of the Potomac, really know less of what is going on here in the aggregate than you who are seven or eight hundred miles away. Looking out from our camp, we see, on every side, a wilderness of tents whitening the green hills as far as the eye can reach. Immediately around us are the 7th, Bth and 9th Georgia Regiments, and a Kentucky Battalion, which all belong to our brigade. Nearly a mile away, and in plain view, is the camp of the Georgia Regularsand the Georgia 13th; on the other side are the North Carolinians. The entire army, number ing not less than men, according to the best information I can get, is now stationed in an extent of country equaling Hall county in area. In going about over the country, one is always surrounded by camps, never losing sight of them. The troops are moving about everyday; but we only know what we see, and have no idea what are the general move ments of the army. We seldom see any news papers; and, perplexed with continual camp rumors, we know nothing at all. A North Carolina Regiment, stationed with in two hundred yards of us, received orders, night before last, to cook provisions and pre pare for going into battle in the morning. The preparations were accordingly made, but they have not marched yet. It is rumored that the Federal troops are maneuvreing in the vicini ty of Fairfax. Our higher officers anticipate hot work befjre the middle of September. After being mustered into the service of the Confederate States, at Atlanta, on the 3d of Ju ly, we took the cars for Richmond by the Northern route, where we arrived about the 10th, having been detained a few days at Lynchburg. We remained a week in Rich mond, during which time, we were reviewed by President Davis and staff. At that time Gen. Patterson, with a large force, was ma neeuvring before the army of the Shenandoah, commanded by Geu. Johnston; and an attack . being anticipated, we were hurried off from Richmond on the loth of Jul}', for the suppos ed point of action. Without leaving the cars, we went fir 36 hours, as fast as steam could carry us. Passing Manassas Junction, where Gen. Beauregard was strongly entrenched, dur ing the night of the 16th, we arrived at S.ras burg, and encamped, without pitching the tents, in the midst of a field ; and, after cook ing the scanty rations furnished by the Quar termaster at this point, we lay down to rest, with the blue, star-gemmed canopy of Heaven fur a 'Wwrmu, auJ Xka. <uxld_ fur. itliyd. The scenery along the route from Manassas to " Strasburg is very pretty. Crossing the moun tains, into the celebrated valley of Virginia, and at Strasburg, the mountains rise pictur esquely on every side. The uext morning ear ly we set out for Winchester, along a lonesome and hot turnpike road, on each side of which was an unending stone fence, and the richest lands in the world ; but no shade. The water throughout this whole section of country is so strongly impregnated with limestone as to be almost undrinkable by those accustomed to good freestone water, Tho day was Lot, and the mon drank every time they could get wa ter. To me it tasted exactly like epsom salts, and had the same effect; and I believe it was the same with all of our men. We marched about 20 miles, and arrived at Winchester.— After marching through the village, we en camped on a bleak hill, on the opposite side, where we again cooked and ate a scanty sup per, and slept without tents. In the meantime, it had been discovered that Gen. Patterson’s operations were only a ruse de guere, the real point of attack being at Manassas Junction.— We knew nothing of this, however, when, on the next morning, an order came for us to cook all the provisions we had, and to be in readi ness for marching by 11 o’clock. Having been informed that our regiment had been attached to a brigade commanded (by seniority of com mission) by Col. Bartow—three companies of which were encamped on tho opposite side of the village, about t'.'ree or four miles distant — I very naturally concluded that we were go ing to move our camp to the vicinity of theirs; but, upon arriving in the village, wc found the streets crowded with a dense column of sol diery— the entire army of the Shenandoah, numbering many thousand men, were pressing forward with a rapid step. As we passed thro’ the streets, women with tears in their eyes up braided us lor leaving them to the mercy of the foe; all of which was incomprehensible to us. We fell into the line o r march at our place in Bartow's brigade, which brought up the rear; and, after leaving the village seme distance, Col. Bartow and staff halted and com municated to the regiments, that Gen. Beaure- j gard was sorely pressed by an overwhelming Northern army, and that everything depended upon our speeding to assistance. The news was received with enthusiastic shouts, and the serried columns pressed forward at almost double-quick time. The men of our regiment, worn out by the want of food and loss of sleep, and exhausted by the toilsome march ot the | preceding day, marched on with a step as i light as the lightest. Tho Gainsville Light in- ■ fantry (being company A) was in front of the ’ regiment; and well might Hall county have { j been proud on that day to see her sons, deter- ■ > mined not to be outdone in the generous ri- j ■ valry to go to the assistance of our General— ‘ ' their brave spirits striving with the weak- j I ness of the flesh, end determined to keep up | ’ with the older and fresher troops in advance lof them. But this could not last long : Nature i I asserted her sway, and the restless spirit, that ‘ would annihilate distance, was compelled to i . measure with slower and more unsteady steps the weary furlongs that seemed like miles. At > one o’clock at night, we waded the Sheaan- j doah, which was about as wide, and deeper, than the Chattahoochee at Shallow Ford. By this time, thousands even of the fresh and ex perienced troops before us had sunk exhaust ed by the roadside. Two only of our compa ny had fallen off, and they had been sick. By daylight, we reached a small town called Par is, where we halted for the first time, and re- , mained about an hour. Two more of our com pany had fallen off— making four in all— , while some of the companies of our regiment could not muster more than ten or fifteen men, out of 80 or 90. Before reaching Paris, while some wagoners i were watering their horses, we halted for two , or three minutes. The men were so weary, , that, upon the command to rest, they lay flat , down in the road, and, in a moment, they j were all fast asleep. On each side of the road ' were large piles of limestone rocks, which had < been thrown out to render the road passable. < The men had scarcely lain for a moment, when j the alarm was given, and suddenly a party < came thundering down the hills. Thus sud- i denly awakened, the men scrampledoutof the ( road as quickly as possible. The cavalry, with- i out stopping or slacking their speed, kept on, j and run over the legs of some of the men who i had not awakened. Fortunately, none were < hurt. But one of our company, in trying to get oat of the way, strained his ancle. Soon < after daylight, we left Paris, and, after march ing seven or eight miles, we arrived at a small ; railroad station, in the midst of the moun tains, called Piedmont, which we had passed three days before on our way from Manassas to Strasburg. This forced march brought to , my mind, very forcibly, the celebrated retreat i of Napoleon from Moscow; and more than once I was satisfied that we were retreating before Gen. Patterson; and what encouraged the belief was the fact that, after night, fires were built at intervals along the route, in the shape of camp fires, and left burning, as if to confuse and perplex pursuing enemy. Our brigade was in the rear, and I momentarily expected an attack. Although I was mistaken in the main, it was only a chance that we did not have a collision, for I have since been in formed that, during the same night, Gen. Pat terson crossed the Shenandoah, within three miles of where we crossed it, with an army of 40,000 men. About 8,000 men left Piedmont daily, crowde I into every train, day and night, yet our time did not come until Monday morn ing, 22<1 July. A part of our brigade, the 7th and Bth regiments arrived at Manassas, in time to participate in the battle of the 21st, and were badly cut to pieces, as you will learn more fully by the newspapers. It was raining hard on the morning of the 22d, when we ar rived at Manassas. After arriving at Manassas, and during the time that Col. Anderson was gone to Gen. Johnston for orders, I had an opportunity of seeing some of the captured Yankee officers, cannons, and other trophies of the fight. Sev eral hundred privates, who had been taken, were kept in a pen close by, but I did not go to see them I also saw a great number of our own men who had been killed and wounded in the battle. Nearly all of our own wounded had been brought to the Junction. I also had an opportunity of looking over the wilderness of tents, surrounded on every tide by strong sand batteries, with heavy guns of every cali- THTW-nxgg ft-rnrr— gtTF-T-rn-tei uvm i r, DUE ding defiance to attack. Beauregard says that the camp at the'Junction is impregnable, and expresses regret that the Yankees did not come within reach of his fortifications, where they would doubtless have been mowed down like grass. After waiting a short time, we were marched from the Junction towards the battle field ; the way led through an old field; but a holiday having been given in honor of the victory, the whole earth had been trodden to mortar by the thousands whom curiosity or booty had lured to the battle field, notwitb standing the inclemency of the weather. Soon after leaving the Junction, we began to meet the returning soldiers loaded with Yankee blankets, overcoats, knapsacks, canteens, ri fles, pistols, and. in fact, every kind of equip ment that could be conceived of. The further we went the denser became the crowd, and we met hundreds of wagons returning with cap tured arms, <fcc. Some wagons that had been sent with us to carry our provisions (all of our blankets, knapsacks, tents, Ac., had been left at Winchester) were forcibly pressed into the service by those who were sent to pick up arms, Ac., and every vehicle, regardless of ownership, was taken in the same way. It was still raining hard when we stopped in a sort of swampy place, about a mile from the point where Sherman’s Battery was taken. Wo took up camp without tents, or blankets, or any sort of covering or convenience. Having bad fires built, there being no provisions to cook, and, indeed, nothing to do but to take the rain, Anderson, Dorsey and myself fork a stroll over the battle-field. The first dead Yankee I saw had his head shot off by a grape shot, while kneeling behind a fence. After leaving him, we went but a short distance before we came to another and another, thicker and thicker, till the ground was literally strewn with them and their dead horses. Ail of the wounded of whom there was any hope of their recovery, had been removed, but 1 saw sever al who showed signs that life was not extinct. It was a sad sight to see them laying there in the cold rain, with their gay uniforms disfig | ured with mud and bleed. Once I paused to look at a handsome young man, clad in the gaudy uniform of the New York Zouaves— blue cloth jacket, trimmed with lace, and red trousers. His youthful and expressive coun tenance seemed to bear vestiges of the death ; struggle; but although the blue lines began ; to appear around his eyes, there was a sweet, i generous expression about them that arrested ■ ; my attention. He was lying on his back: Lis < ; hand, withered by long saturation in the rain, j ’ resting on his breast, which had been pierced ‘ by a bullet. I had looked but a moment, I i when there came a convulsive shudder over j ; his whole frame; his breast heaved tremu- . ! lously, and with that momentary struggle the thick clotted blood burst frem his mouth and ! j nostrils, covering his whole face. From this ' horrid spectacle I turned away, but similar j ones met the eye cn every side. At the point t where the Sherman Battery was taken, the slaughter was tremendous. Frcm one stand point I counted the dead bodies of fifty splen- « did horses ; and the men were so numerous j | that I did not think of counting them. Ina ’ house-about fifty yards from this point, occu- ' pied by a Mrs. Henry, (said to have been of the family of Patrick Henry,) the Yankees took refuge, and in a moment it was riddled by the Southern Artillery. Mrs. Henry, who is said to have been 90 years of age, was un fortunately killed. She was buried in her own garden. After seeing more than enough to satisfy our curiosity, we returned to the camp, where we arrived near night, and where a cheerless prospect awaited us. The men had built large fires, but 'it was no protection from the cold rain, which fell incessantly throughout the dreary night. Some sat up all night, and others, overcome by fatigue, lay down in the mud and rain, and slept as composedly as if they had in their comfortable homes.— Towards morning the rain slackened, and by sunrise the clou is had dispersed The warm sun now shone out, and as the water evapo rated from the ground, there was an almost suffocating smell of fresh flesh— that sickening smell peculiar to a butcher’s pen. We remain ed at the same point till the wet weather springs and mud holes (our sole dependence for water) dried up. We suffered mostly from the scarcity of provisions, resulting from the sudden and unexpected concentration of so large a body of troops. We have moved sev eral times, and are now only a few miles above Manassas, on the eastern side of the railroad, and-Rbout six miles from the battle field. The last lime I passed through the battle field, it presented a horrible spectacle; the blacken ing and unburied bodies of the dead Yankees covered the ground, tainting the air with a stench that can only be imagined. The Yan kees did not offer to bury their dead, and the weather favoring rapid dr com position, it soon became impossible to bury them all. Many were buried by our troops. I have seen and talked with manyofthe prisoners taken in the battle They speak high'y of the Southern soldiers, saying that such fighting was never seen before, as was done <>n the 2lst. There was a Mississippi Company which, after firing away all their cartridges, threw down their guus, and pitch ed in with their Bowie kuives. I heard one of the prisoners say, that they had the Bowie knives fastened with a string to their arms, and threw it after the manner of the sling shot. He said nothing could resist such troops; every man fought on his own hook, and they did not know when they were whipped. Near one of the dead Yankees I found a letter, writ ten the day before the battle, addressed to his swee heart, and telling her that he was about to start for Richmond--that there would be a slight battle at Manassas, where they would gain the victory, and in two more days would breakfast in Richmond. Poor girl ! if she loved him, it will grieve her heart to hear how his high hopes melted away, when Southern prowess turned the tide of invasion at Manas sas. Some of the Yankees, however, were pretty saucy, and said that we had done no thing great in killing a few men and taking a few cannon—that there was plenty of the same sort left where those came from. Notwithstanding the want of water and provisions, and the exposure of our men, little or no sickness has prevailed till within the past week, except occasional cases of diar rboot At this time we have many cases of measles, mumps, and some typhoid fever. Out of 760 men composing our Regiment, not more than 250 men are fit dor duty. Some of our Regiment have died—none of my company as yet. The sickness and mortality is not con fined to our own Regiment; scarcely an hour passes without hearing a volley discharged over the grave of some deceased soldier. I trust, but it seems almost beyond hope, that our men may pass through the ordeal without a single death. A few days ago, Col. Anderson told me he wished to adopt, as a regimental uniform, a suit of brown Jeans, and wished the Captains to make the arrangement. I find, upon the receipt of letters by some of the company, that the suit has been anticipated by the citi zens of Hall County. They have truly been kind and liberal to my company, and I am sure they will feel satisfied when they know what our boys have undergone, and how much they have suffered without complaint, every trial and vexation incident to a soldier's life. They have won the good will and esteem of all, and I am proud to say they have received in public an especial compliment from the regimental Chaplain. I have now written you a long letter, and have in some sort given you a succinct his tory of the Gainsville Light Infantry, up to the present time, and I ask in return that you will give me a similar account of Gainsville. Sincerely and truly yours, W. H. MITCHELL, Capl. Company A., 11th Reg., Georgia Volunteers. «. > Treasury Notes—Counterfeits. We regret to learn that parries have already engaged in counterfeiting the notes of the Confederate Government issue. The Bank of the city of Petersburg detected, on Thursday last, a ccunterfeit of the denomination of five dollars. The ‘ Express” says of the spuri ous note: In the counterfeit bill, the following stipu lations are left out of the body of the note, but above and below on the border: “ Re ceivable in payment cf al! dues except export duties,” and “ Fundable in Confederate States Stocks, bearing eight per cent, interest.”— The counterfeit has no vignette, while the genuine bill has a centre vignette, comprised of a female with a pole and liberty cap, and eagle on the left of the female, on the left end of the bill the figure of a sailor. The num bering and filling up in the counterfeit are very indifferent. The notes should be well scanned before received, as doubtless the whole of the denominations issued by the Confederate Government have been counter feited, and are dow in circulation. The coun terfeits are signed “ S. Stimerson. Register,” the “ for” being ommitted, and “A. L. Ress off, Treasurer,” the “for” also ommitted here. They purport to have been lithographed by J. Manouvrier, New Orleans. The genuine were lithographed by Hoyer & Ludwig, Rich mond. The work of the lithographer in the coun terfeit bill is decidedly better than that of the genuine, and it is well calculated to circulate freely outside of banking institutions. We are anxious to caution the public in regard to the reception of this issue, an, under the pres ent condition of things, this circulation must, to a great extent , supercede the regular bank circulation throughout the Confederate States. —Richmond .Examiner, Aug. 31. — To the Voters of the Third Congres sional District. I am a candidate for Congress, if it meets your approbation. It is a very important and responsible position which I seek, being the first Congress to be elected by the people. I am for a vigorous prosecution of the war, to its termination, which must and will result in our independence, though it will cost many lives and much money. We shall certainly beat ihe enemy who has waged this unholy war of subjugation, and be left to form our own Southern Government, for the protection of freemen I wish our government to be strictly one of the peop’e, and not one of of fice holders I wish it to be a cheap Govern ment and not oppressive up n its people.— Reasonable salaries to as few officers as may : be actually necessary for the administration of the Government, should be regarded a car- I dinal principle. ' I advocate free trade except with the North, which has so much oppressed us, that I care not in futnre to have anything to do with them. lam for the lowest taxation, direct or indirect, which will sustain a strictly econom ical administration of the Government. JOHN 11. HOWARD. September 3, 1862. «. > A Patriotic Chaplain.—“ Se de Kay” writes to the Louisville “Courier,” from Camp Bartow, near Manassas : I believe it was Gen Albert Sidney John ston, who during the Utah war, proclaimed that there would be no more Sabbaths until further orders. Such has been the practice with all commanders, the first day of the week being held in no more revernece than those others of the seven named after the profane duties. Yet, in this army of ours, there is a certain recognition of Sunday that renders it in some degree distinguishable. Clean shirts are donned, boots blacked, and the semblance of home fashions put on. Drills are dispen sed with, and in lieu there is inspection and dress parade, when the soldier boys assume their prettiest appearance. Then there is lolling in the shade, cleaning guns, writing home, reading the “good book;” and some that are not so good “ Over in Georgia,” , our next door neighbors, they are blessed with chaplains, and have regular service. In the Ninth Georgia the Rev. H. A. Tupper officiates as chaplain, and from indications he has al ready accomplished a great deal of good Mr. T. is a Baptist clergyman of fine talents, good oratorical powers, and a striking degree of earnestness and sincerity. He has already manifested his devotion to the cause of South ern Righis by a loan to the Confederate Gov ernment of $75,000. Fort unately, he is bless ed with this world’s goods, owning property to the amount of a quarter of a million ; but his wealth in no measure detracts from his modest and unassuming worth. The Earthquake. From what information we can gather, the shock of <he Earthquake felt in our city on Sunday wus felt throughout East Tennessee. We see no mention of it in Georgia or Nash ville papers. A young lawyer from Atkinsas approached us on Saturday evening, and with that candor and earnestness which so peculiarly charac terizes him, remarked, “Are you aware that all the public buildings, such as the Capitol, the War office, the Patent office, and even the President’s house were long since mined by or ders of Lincoln ?” We responded that “we had heard such rumors.” “ Well, sir, said he, “the noise we heard this morning was not the shock of »n earthquake ; sir. I have felt many. I’ll tell you what it is.sir,” (at the same time slapping his hands together with great emphasis,) “it was the blowing up of those buildings in Washington which caused the shock.” We went out privately and “ex ploded,” as we hated to disturb the young man’s dream. Knoxville Register, September 3rd Pickens on the Defensive.—Two or more guns were fired from the batteries at Fort Pickens at the dry dock on Wednesday last. The dock is anchored about midway between Pickens and the Navy Yard, and we presume Col. Brown directed the shots to be fired to execute his threat of a month or two ago, that if an attempt was ever made to remove the dock from its position he would open his bat teries upon it. Here the matter rests for the present.— Pensacola Observer, 'M ult. Horses lor Sale. T HAVE 27 head of FINE HORSES just ar -1 rived from Kentucky and for sale at my Stable. O. H. JONES. Sept. 12—ts. mwA amateurs’ AT THE Thursday Evening, Sept. 12th. NEW AND BEAUTIFUL SONGS, MIRTH, MUSIC AND MELODY, ILLUSTRATED AND ORIGINAL. TABLEAI OF TIIE STATES I GO AND ENJOY YOURSELF, AND AT the same time add to the comfort of our brave boys on the field of battle. See the pro grammes. W H. BARNES, Sept. 12,1861. Manager. To the Voters of Fulton county. I announce m t self a candidate for J your suffrages, to represent Fulton i county in the House of Representatives ' of the next Legislature. J. J. THRASHER. 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Those enjoying daily mail facilities, will find The Daily Confederacy tilled with the latest intelligence from the seat of war, both bv telegraph, and from reliable special correspondents, of unquestioned abil ities and whose facilities for getting correct in formation are unsurpassed. We are laying out large sums of money and exerting every effort to make ours a first class journal. 1 I THE I 1 I HAS MORE THAN | I THREE TIMES I H The circulation of any paper I fl in Georgia, north ol Augusta, I I and is L fully EQUAL V I to that of any paper in the | I , State. NO LABOR NOR EXPENSE will be withheld that will add to the attractive ness and interest of our paper. To reimburse us for the heavy expenses we have incurred— not simply the ordinary expenses of publishing a paper, but for our correspondence and tel egraphs, we must rely in a great measure upon receipts from subscriptions. We ask our friends everywhere to assist us in getting subscribers. Every man who takes our paper, so far as we know, is pleased with it. We feel very sure that we have not a single subscriber that could not at least send us one more with but little ef fort, while many could send us a dozen or more. Let every friend be assured that with the in crease of our circulation, our ability to make a better paper will be greatly enhanced, and such means shall be used to the best advantage. We hope those who have subscribed for our Daily for a short time, will renew their subscriptions and Go it for the Whole Tear. It will benefit us more, and save considerable trouble in erasing and re-writing names on our mail book. We have every possible facility for obtaining correct news. This, however, costs us heavily, and we hope every one who is so anxious to get war news will admit the equity of subscribing and paying for our paper. In these exciting times it is probable that ex travagant rumors will get afloat. We caution the people against them, and beg everybody to be careful what they believe. you want p aper contain, p lt, g all the jdWAn NEWs KM THE WEEKLY CONFEDERACY Is one of the largest and most attractive news papers In America, and will be filled with the choicest reading matter—made up from the cream of our Daily issue. In future it will be mailed punctually every Wednesday morning on the Georgia, the Macon & Western, and the State Road trains. Send In your orders. Kgr- Postmasters are authorized to act as our Agents in obtaining subscribers and forwarding the money—for which they will be allowed to retain, as commission, twenty-five cents on each Weekly, or fifty cents on each Daily subscriber. Persons getting up Clubs of five, ten or more subscribers, will be supplied with the copies ordered at per cent, less than our regular rates. No name will be entered on our books until the money is paid; and all subscriptions are discontinued when the time expires foi which payment is made, unless the same be renewed. Address, ADAIR & SMITH, June, 1801. Atlanta, Georgia
