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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Atlanta, Sept. 11, 1861—tde.
Blockade Hoisted!
W r E have just received, and have in store,
for sale, a fine lot of goods suitable for
Military Uniforms; also. Blankets, Rubber
Over-Coats, <kc. SALMONS & SIMMONS.
: Sepß-lw
India Rubber Goods.
THE undersigned has a good supply of India
Rubber Coats and Blankets on hand.
Atlanta, Aug. 14-ts. D. MAYER.
VIfHISKY ! 300 barrels Pure Corn Whisky
’ » in Store andfor s ale by
june!9 -BUTLER A PETERS.
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