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Southern GEO. W. ADAIRJ. HENLY SMITH, editors and proprietors. ATLANTA, GEORGIA: WEDNESDAY, OCT’ 2, 1861. FOR PRESIDENT, JEFFERSON DAVIS, OF MISSISSIPPI. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT, ALEX. 11. STEPHENS, OF GEORGIA. Electoral Ticket. STATE AT LARGE: DaVID IRWIN,of Cobb. VHOS. E. LLOYDof Chatham. ALTERNATES 2 J. R ALEXANDER,of Thomas. W. IL DABNEY,of Gordon. DISTRICT ELECTORS 2 I.—J. L. HARRIS,of Glynn. 2 —ARTHUR HOODof Randolph. 3.—J. L. WIMBERLY,of Stewart. 4—ED. McGEHEE,of Houston. 5. I. P. GARVIN,of Richmond. 6. M. C. M. HAMMOND,of Clarke. 7. 0. C. GIBSON,of Spalding. 8. JOHN RAYof Coweta. 9. H. W. CANNON,....:of Rabun. 10.—II. F. PRICEof Cass. ALTERNATES 2 1. J. L. SINGLETONof Scriven. 2. S. DYSONof Thomas. 3. J. M. MOBLEYof Harris. 4—l. E. DUPREEof Twiggs. 5. J. S. HOOKof Washington. 6. ISHAM FANNINof Morgan. 7. J. T. STEPHENSof Monroe. 8. 9. J. H. BANKSof Hall. 10. F. A. KIRBYof Chattooga. FOR GOVERNOR, ELGE *I IS A. NISBET, OF 8188. THE SENTIMENT OF A PATRIOT. From Judge Nisbet’s Letter of Acceptance. “IF I HAD BEEN CALLED OUT BY A CONVEN TION, HAVING IN VIEW THE REVIVAL.OF OLD, OR THE ORGANIZATION OF NEW PARTIES, I WOULD, WITHOUT HESITATION WITHHOLD NAME. I COULD NOT LEND IT TO SUCH PUR POSES. fortunately, parties in our great STATE ARE EXTINCT, AND HE WHO, UNDER EX ISTING CIRCUMSTANCES, WOULD SEEK TO DRAW ANEW THE OBLITERATED LINES OF POPULAR DIVISION, OR OPEN ISSUES CLOSED BY THE SE CESSION OF THE STATE, OR AROUSE PREJUDI CES AND ANIMOSITIES LAID TO REST BY THE WAR, IS SCARCELY LESS A TRAITOR THAN THE MAN WHO WOULD APPLY THE TORCH TO THE STATE CAPITOL, OR, DWELLING AMONG US, WITH THE REPUTE OF A LOYAL CITIZEN, GIVE AID AND COMFORT TO ENEMIES.” _ .. • • • - Alexander 11. Stephens. We ask special attention to the cornmnica tion of •‘Sigma,” in our paper this morning.— The writer is a most intelligent gentleman, of high character, who seldom occupied the same position with Mr. Stephens on political ques tions. His tribute is just, and the more to be estimated, coming from the source it does— from a man whom we know to be a patriot, and prompted by no sort of selfish motives.— It is a voluntary defence of Mr. Stephens against the villainous attacks made on him by selfish and unpatriotic men, who have nei ther the fear of God nor the good of their coun try before their eyes. We have known “Sig ma "for years. He is honest, a man of wis dom, ami every way a gentleman and patriot; and, seeing the danger to our country, from making war on Mr. Stephens, for the causes a/- /eyed—instigated by such motives— he has no bly stepped forth to avert the danger, as far as may be in his power. His disclosure of the name of the author of those mischievous editorials" in the “ Examin er ’* is most important, showing, to some ex tent. the animuq of this attack on one of the ablest, purest and best men that any country ever produced. The name of “ Quinton Wash ington,” in the Federal city, for years past, was synonimous with one of the chief lobyites with which that corrupt place was infested.— No doubt Mr. Stephens has often been in his way, as all such vultures invariably found him. There is another explanation of the “ Ex aminer's" war on Mr. Stephens, which we have seen. It is, that Geu. John B. Floyd wants the place, and is instigating this war on Stephens, for the purpose of getting it. Wo know not how true this is, but we will state this fact, which may shed seme light on the question: The “Examiner” is the property of John M. Daniel, who is an Aid in Gen. Floyd's Staff We give this statement for what it is i wortn —not knowing whether Floyd is iusli- j gating Dauiel, who has hired Washington to make the fight on Stophens, or not. V> e don't know that Floyd wants to be Vice-President. Wo only see such a statement in the papers. We think it is due the people to know who j it is t hat make this war, and how they are situ- j • led—so they may be the better able to judge of their motives. . . - Them Guns. For several days past the friends of Gov. . Brown have circulated a report that two ves sels laden with arms and munitions of war, | for the State of Georgia, had arrived in Satan- ■ nab. In some places, for a week or more, it has been circulated that one vessel full of guns for the State, purchased by Gov. Brown, bad > landed in Savannah; and since Sunday last, | is is reported around that two vessels laden w;th guns bought by him in England had land ed in Charleston. This report about the Gov ernor getting guns from England through the blockade has assumed whatever shape was m is'- convenient and thought to Ye the most profitable, according to circumstances. Tacro is not one word of truth in it—we are sorry to ssy. We do sincerely wish it were true, for we need guns. It has been the duty of Gov. Brown to get guns from abroad if pos sible We know not whether he has made the effort to do so- If he has not, he has failed to do his duty. We. however, suppose be has S O U-T H E R N C O N F E I ) E R A C Y made the attempt. We will net intimate that he has been so remiss as not to have made the attempt. If he has had any chance to get guns into our ports which he has not improv ed, he has failed to perform what every citi- j zen of Georgia has a right to expect of him. •We don’t, however, have any idea such char ges as these can lie against Gov. Brown. We do not know anything about it however: we i take it for granted that he has done what he ! could. But if be had procured ever so many guns —ever so many ship loads, it would be no rea son why he should be re-elected. It would have been only fulfilling his duty. If this were his first term, and he had accomplished all that hi 3 friends claim for him—getting ship loads of guns included, it would be a good reason why he should be elected a second time, but not a third. His time is now up, and he should retire. But he has procured no guns—we regret to say it, and heartily wish we could say with truth that he had ; and we are still more sor ry that be lias friends so base and infamous as to try to make electioneering capital for him by circulating so base and mischievous an untruth ; but so it is. It is not true. We have before us a private dispatch from a source in Savannah that is altogether reliable, saying that no such vessel or vessels, or guns had arrived. We should sincerely rejoice if it were so, but it is not; and we are opposed to Gov’nor Brown getting credit for that which he has not accomplished. > • Our Special Army Correspondence. THE TIRESOME MONOTONY OF A DAILY ROU TINE ANYTHING FOR CHANGE GOING to mason’s and munson’s hills —the enemy’s WORKS INTERCOURSE WITH THE ENEMY STOPPED LOWE’S BALLOON INCOMPETENCY OF THE COMMISSARIAT AND DEPARTMENTS. Army of the Potomac, / Near Fairfax, Sept. 25, 1861. j The campaign still “drags its slow length along.” In the morning we rise at the tap of the drum. Next follows breakfast, for which we have appetites sharpened by refreshing sleep and the cool morning air. Then comes the usual drill and yesterday’s papers, which are read with avidity and then passed from one to another. After this comes dinner ; then guard mounting and dress parade; then sup per ; then short social visits-; then tattoo and roll call, and then to bed. Such is our daily round of life. “Only this, and nothing more.” The.monotony is varied occasionally by the receipt of a ba’ch of papers and letters from “ home, sweet home or by startling camp rumors that Alexandria has been burnt, or McClellan shot ; or that the long-looked for order hus been issued to uuleash our columns and let them on to Washington. These rumors do no harm. They occupy the mind for the time, aud land to direct the thoughts of the soldier from the dull, leaden routine of camp life, so dispiriting and benumbing in its ef fects upon the eager and enthusiastic volun teer. What a about will rend the skies when the order is given—“forward, march!” The sick will arise with renewed health and buckle on their knapsacks. The lame and the halt will take up their beds and walk. The great military virtue, Patience, will then give place to Activity. The heart will swell, the eye grow bright and the step more elastic, and life and vigor and confidence will be diffused throughout our now moody lines. Does not an involuntary “God bless the boys,” rise to your lips, when you remember how much they have endured in sickness, in labour, in j rivations; in marching and coun ter-marching, in standing still in front of the enemy, and then with what frantic eagerness they long to go sot ward ! Everything else will be forgotten in he wild delirium of joy witb which the line of march will b taken up. The follies and petty annoyances of the martinets set above them, the incompetence and short comings of the Commissariat and Quarter- Master’s Departments, the stupidit and crim inal ignorance of the Medical beaurau—all will be forgiven and forgotten. Lovely and heroic Maryland now writhes aud screams in the arms of a brutal ravisher, and they only ask permission to clear the Potomac at a bound and set her free from a despot’s embrace. One who has not been in camp cannot ap predate the effect which an inactive, hesita ting policy produces upon the volunteer. His nature is active and aggressive. Any change, any duty, however laborious, is gladly wel ; corned, so it but vary the dull monotony of ' the camp. The First Regiment of Georgia Regulars was ordered to Munson's Hill last week on five days’ picket duty, and tho’ they i were permitted to carry only their blankets I and rations, and had a march of fifteen miles i before them, they sent up cheer after cbeer as | they fell into line. The Second Regiment of I Georgia Volunteers, who followed a few days • after, and other regiments ordered upon the : same duty, made similar demonstrations.— i Anything for a change. Many interesting incidents are related by those who hare returned from Mason's and Munson's Hills. The enemy, they say, has displayed great'industry in throwing up de- j ! fensive works. These works cover a line of ’ i several miles along the Potomac in front of Alexandria and Washington. To reach the river in either direction, our troops must turn the works on the right or left, or carry them by storm. As far as the eye can reach, every bill and strategic point seems to be covered ■ by batteries or works of some kind. Look where one may, the enemy appears to be as busy as beavers, throwing up breastworks, digging entrenchments, felling the forests, and hoisting guns into position. Gen. Me- I < lel l.in feat made good use of the precious titne which Johnston and Beauregard have given him. The picket lines are separated by a space of I only three or four hundred yards. Standing on Munson’s Hill, the opposing pickets may I be seen for a mile or more, patiently walking their beaten rounds and watching each other. There is growing disposition on both sides ; to discontinue the practice of firing upon one another, and it is only when a new regiment is assigned to duty, that there is a departure from the rule. The Yankees are inclined to ■ be very courteous and sociable. They are i ready at all times to respond to a white flag and meet our men half way. Sometimes the officers advance under a flag of truce (gene rally a white handkerchief,) and spend an hour together, discussing the news or the pros pects of the respective armies. They exchange tobacco or cigars during these interviews, and now and then you may hear the clinking of tin cups when there is anything to dtiak.— The parlies separate with many expressions of distinguished personal consideration ; aud in some instances the Yankees have invited our officers to go over and take a game of whist or a glass of wine with them—a polite ness, however, which they have declined thus far. It is said that orders have been ’’ssued within the last f. w days, to stop this inter course, lest some leaky picket might let drop something that would be cf service so the en emy. Every morning when the weather is favor able, Prof. Lowe may be seen to ascend in his balloon from Arlington Heights. It isreported, but with what truth 1 cannot say, that the Professor is sometimes accompanied by Fed eral officers, who go up to make reconnoisan ces of our forces and positions. The balloon ascends some seven or eight hundred feet,(and remains up about forty minutes. Occasionally it descends, and ihen ascends again, after communicating the result of the aeronauts first observations to those below. It is believ ed that the ent my is fully infermed in regard to our advance positions. Our brigade has been without sugar for some days, owing to stupid mismanagement in the Commissariat Department. We procured a small supply for our mess at Fairfax, at 25c per pound, but not until we bad fully tested the virtues o£ coffee without cream or sugar. There is an abundant supply of sugar and rice in the Southern States, an 1 wiJ|bXhe least possible system ami energy on the part of the Commissary General, theeoldier need never be wii bout either. A similar inefficiency and lack of judgment characterize the Quartermaster’s Department. A simple advertisement in half a dozen papers in North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia would have secured wagons enough by this time for the transportion of 300,000 men. Every railway and wagon in the Confederacy is at the disposal of the War Office. Why, then, is (be army still without adequate means of transportation. A. Our Special Correspondence troio the Peninsula. CAMP CHANGED READY FOR A BRUSH NAVAL PREPARATIONS AT THE FORTRESS butler’s ACHIEVEMENTS AND BOASTS, AC. Camp De Soto, ) 2d Regiment Lousiana Volunteers, > September 21, 1861. J AZessrs. Editors: My last correspondence was addressed to you from Camp Magruder, on James River. On the 3d instant, we were moved to this camp, about one mile below Cockletown, a place comprised of one dry goods store and grocery in one building, and about seven miles below Y rktown, on the Bethel road. This change of place was, no doubt, for the purpose of concentrating our forces nearer Yorktown, the military nucleus of the Peninsula. Our forces are scattered yet, but can be concentrated on the shortest notice. We are exerting all of our energies, preparing to give General Wool a hospitable reception, whenever he shall choose to visit us with his convoy from Fortress Monroe. If "coming events cast their shadows be fore,” we shall realize all the "pomp and cir cumstance of glorious war” here, before the close of the fall season. We are prepared and impatient to engage Abe’s myrmidons, and scatter, with our seried ranks, the “ mercena ry hirelings "of fanaticism. Na val preparations are again being made at Fortress Monroe for an attack upon some point. Gen. Magruder is watching them as with the eyes of Argus, and will detect in time any at tempt of the enemy to march, in concert, by sea and land, upon Yorktqwn. Their Naval success at Forts Clark and Hatteras hits re vived, to some extent, the drooping spirits of the Yankee Army, and the vain glorious But ler shouts lustily over his achievements from the dizzy heights he thinks he stands upon "But one more stroke like this," says he, "and we have crushed out rebellion.” He greatly mistakes the “stern stuff” which composes the Confederate Army, if lie thinks that a doz en such naval successes can dim our hopes, and cloud our visions of the future for a mo ment. This success of the enemy, I think, will proves blessing, instead of a calamity to the South* It will arouse the hitherto sleep ing energies of our people, aud cause them to fortify more formidably our extended coast, and prepare to repel, instantly, any hostile force who would essay to pollute cur soil with their unholy feet. We admire the fearless spirit exhibited by Paris at the siege of Troy, because it is such a beautiful example of amor p .trine. When the I Grecian hero Lad strewn the field with the j slain, and vanquished his foe, young Paris, standing afar, spied his scattered countrymen flying, pursued by victorious Greeks, he could no longer remain passive, but, spurring his restless steed, and drawing his lance, be rush ed in to their rescue, exclaiming, as be swept > I onward : I “ More noble they who by a hero bleed, ‘ In glorious combat in his country’s need. Than they who living, from the fight remains, I The boasting victors of a train.” Would that every Southern heart was burn- i i ing with similar patriotism. Then the fires of ■ fanaticism might rage in all their livid mad- ( ness : yet, the vestal flames of Liberty would j I continue to blaze upon our altars, *o long as ■ < the Confederate States had a soldier, or Liber i ty an admirer. J. LEE C . Foz the Southern Confederacy. TWar on Mr. Stephens. Richmond, Va., Sept. 28, 1861. Editors of the Southern Confederacy : 1 am glad to see at the head of your columns the names of Jeff Davis and Aleck. Stephens for the Presidency and Vice Presidency. They are names that every true Southern man can ; support earnestly and consistently. As to I Jeff. Davis, I believe no one raises a voice against his election as the first President of the Confederate States under the Permanent Constitution. As President of the Provision al Government, he has not disappointed the hopes of any, unless it be that carping few who would not be satisfied “ were one risen from the dead.” or were an angel from Hea ven dispatchel upon the especial mission of exercising the office of President for us du ring our strife with the North. Happily, con cerning our President, we are all of one mind. There is no opposition to his reelection this Fall, and he merits the distinction his coun trymen have so unanimously accorded to him. With regard to Aleck Stephens, I am sorry to see that some people are opposing his re election to the Vice Presidency. There is no rational ground for the opposition. It is a mere trick of some other aspirant. The de sire to displace him comes from some filthy place-hunter who, well-shielded himself, ur ges others to do the dirty work. It is a little remarkable, too, that this corrupt practice of the old Washington regime should be presorted to in the columns of the very paper which has been crying out so lustily against the em ployment by our Government of the refugee clerks who had the misfortune to hold office under the old government! The " Examiner’ of this city was the first to raise the cry against Stephens, and, unfortunately for its purposes, it raised an objection to him which every man who lived in Washington cotemporaneously with Stephens, knows to be untrue. No par tisan or bitter enemy ever made the charge before, and even the “ Examiner” will not re peat it again, if its editor has any regard for truth. The charge was, that Stephens, while in Washington, was in collusion with lobny ists, and that he gave his influence, from mer cenary motives, to all the corrupt schemes of the Washington lobby to plunder the Treas ury ! That lie ought to have blistered the tongue that uttered it! It should have pal sied the hand that wrote it! It is simply in famous. It exceeds the mendacity of James Gordon Bennett in his palmiest days! Prob ably the most astonishing thing about the matter is, that the article in question, making so groundless and base a charge against Mr. Stephens, was written by a man who was him self one ot the indefatigable members of that army of lobby-agents who infested Washing ton during tho halcyon days of spoilsmen and lobby j >bbers. When I tell you that the wri ter aforesaid is L. Q. Washington, I need say no more! There are others, however, who have raised objections to Mr. Stephens. They say he was a Douglass man in 1860, and a Union man up to the signing of the secession ordinance in the Georgia Convention. Such objections are rais ed only by shallow croakers, who have not yet sloughed off their partisan skins. The ob jections are not only foolish but knavish.— Who, that knows Aleck Stephens, has any doubt of his partriotism and of his entire identity with, and cordial approbation of our of Southern Republic ? Who does not know that his heart and soul are enlisted in our glo rious struggle for Independence, and that his eloquent voice brought over to our cause the early acquiescense and support of thousands of the Union men of Georgia and other South ern States ? No one is so ignorant who has ta ken any pains to inform himself. His past position was well known to the members of the Georgia Convention—yet they thought him a fit representative cf Georgia in the Provi sional Congress, He was well known to the members of that Congress—many of them the brightest and best men in the land—yet they, with wonderful unanimity, selected him as the Vice President of tho Confederate States ! The selection was a merited compliment to the moral worth and statesmanship of Mr, Steph ens, but it had a still higher significance. It signified, as plainly as anything could, that our public men had risen above mere party influences; that they ignored old party divis ions; and that they wished the citizens of our new-born Republic to stand forth before the world as one people ! The course pursued had the desired result; and, as if wrought upon by the Divine rescript and benediction, we emer ged from the rottenness of the old Union, lifting up our heads in the strength and vigor of a full grown nationality, and presenting the as tonished world a miracle of unanimity and magnanimty—a confederation of free people having, indeed, one baptism and one faith ! The question is now, shall we continue in the course so auspiciously begun ? Shall we continue to ignore, at least till the war isover, all were party distinctions, and observe and cultivate a more dignified and exalted line of policy—a jiolicy which will insure confidence among ourselves and cement us more closely together as friends and brothers of a common country, engaged in a common struggle for in dependece ? Or shall we basely and ignobly fall to squabbling among ourselves over the spoils of office—following the corrupt and de grading example of our enemies, who, like ; buzzards, are feeding and fattening* upon the ' carcass of their government ? These questions ! are to be considered by our- people, aud I trust i that their virtue and good sense will triumph in establishing good-fellowship, fraternal sym pathy, and unity of sentiment throughout our favored land, and that partisan demagogues, hollow tricksters, and low self-aggrandizing scullions may be put under the ban forever! Your correspondent, let me say, was an original secessionist—a red-mouthed fire-ea- j ter from and after the day of Lincoln’s election ; as President of the abolition North—and for ■ i this reason feels that he has a right to speak . i with freedom on the subjects diseussed in the • : foregoing pages. Though a dlsunionist under i | the old government, he is an ardent unionist I j under the new, and believes in a fail realiza -1 tion of & free independent and united Republ | lie of States. Truly yours, Ac., SIGMA. ; Prince DeJoinville has arrived at Washing- ! ton. | Gen. McClellan ferbids picket firing. MSwwrfgV " e are authorized to announce the HERBERT FIELDER of Polk, aS a candidate to represent the Eighth District of Georgia in the Confederate Congress. Sept. 25-tde. VV e are authorized to announce Dr. 11, W. Brown as a candidate to represent Fulton county in the House of the Representatives in (be next Legislature. Sept - 21. " e arc authorized to announce S. B Robson ;is a candidate to represent Fultitn county iu the House of Rep resentstives in the next Legislature. Sept 21. Weave authorized to announce ANDREW J. HANSELL as a candidate for Senator to represent the Coun ties ol Cobb, Fulton and Clayton in the next General Assembly of the State. MffiWgSgfcfrfrVVc are authorized to announce the name of the Hon. Samuel Lawrence as a cand’date to represent the 35th Senatorial District, composed of the counties of Cobb, Fulton and Clayton. Sep 19. ii iflff are a uthorized to announce the name of Hon. JOHN A. JONES of Polk, as a candidate to represent the Sth Congressional District in the next Con federate Congress. His record is before the country, and by that he is willing to be judged. Sept. 18—tde To Voters of the 39tU Sen atorial District, consisting of the counties of Cherokee, Milton and Forsyth: Being an old resident of the latter county and a citizen of said District, I take this method of announcing myself a candidate for the Senate of said District at the ensuing election. Sept. 14-tde. JOHN T. EZZARD. We are authorized to announce the name of Colonel L. J. GAR TRELL as a candidate to represent this (the Eighth) District in the Confederate Congress. Septl3 tde. To the Voters of Fulton Coun ty : Seeing there is yet a vacancy for Representative from your county in the next Legislature, I have concluded to place my name before y, u as a candidate to fill that vacancy. COLUMBUS A. PITTS. Atlanta, Sept. 12-tde. 6 ,c Voters of Fulton County : I announce nayself a candidate for your suffrages, to represent Ful -ton county in the House of Representatives of the next Legislature. J. J. THRASHER, Atlanta, Sept. 11— tde. I *’ t’ le ' o<crs Cobb, Fulton and Clayton Ceuntifct: As the time for the election of members to the State Leg islature approaches, and there seems to be no one enough interested iu the subject to bring it positively Before the public—nearly all eyes being attracted towards the battlefield—and being physically unable to enter upon the ac tive duties of the soldier, and being further unwiiling to allow the great events of tho pres ent struggle to pass by without taking some humble part therein, I have concluded that the demands of patriotism would, in some de gree, be subserved by volunteering my services for the humble duties of civil life, and, there fore, place my name before you as a candidate for Senator of the District composed of the counties of Cobb, Fulton and Clayton. Aug. 29-tde. GREEN B. HAYGOOD. By the Postmaster General of the Con federate States of America. A PROCLAMATION. ■VYTIIEREAS, By the provisions of the 3d W Section of an Actol Congress, approved August 30tb, 1861, entitled " An Act to collect for distribution, the moneys remaining in the several Post Offices of the Confederate States at tho time the postal service was taken in charge by said Government, it is " made the duty of the Postmaster General to make pro clamation that all persons who are citizens of the Confederate States of America, aud who may have rendered postal service in any of the States of this Confederacy, under contracts or appointments made by the United States Government before tho Confederate States Government took charge of such service, shall present their claims to his department, veri fied and established according to such rules as he shall prescribe, by a time therein to be set forth not less than six months, and requiring the claimant to state, under oath, how much has been paid and the date of such payments, on account of the contract or appointment un der which said claim occurred, and what fund or provision has been set apart or made for the further payment of the whole or any por tion of the balance of such claim, by the Gov ernment of the United States, or of any of the States; and they shall also state, on dllth, whether they performed fully the service ac cording to their contracts or appointments du ring the time for which they claim pay, and if not, what partial service they did perform and what deductions have been made from their pay. so far as they know, on account of any failure, or partial failure, to perform such service.” Now, therefore, I, JOHN 11. REAGAN, Post master General of the Confederate States of America, do issue this, my proclamation, re quiring all persons having claims for postal service, under tbe foregoing provisions of the i 3d section of the above named act, to present I said claims to the Auditor of the Treasury for i the Post Office Department for examination, I on or before tbe 13th day of March, 1862, in order that I may make a report to Congress of the amount there- f, as r- quired by law. Blank forms for presenting and verifying tbe claims will be furr i.-.hed ou application to the Auditor of the Tre isury, for the Post Office Department. And I hereby require ail persons who have heretofore collected m- neys as Postmasters in the States now composing the Confederate States, and which they bad not paid over at the time the Confederate ttates took •barge of tbe postal service, to make out, under oath, aud send to the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post Office Department, on or before tbe I3t'n day of October next, a general or ledger account with the United States, for the service of the Post Office Department, up t# the time the control of the postal service was assumed by the Confederate States, in accordance with tbe general regulations of the Post Office De partment, issued May 15th, 1859, page 106, exhibiting the balances in the possession of such postmasters. Given under my hand and seal of the Post office Department of the Confederate States of America at Richmond Va., the 18th day of September, in the year 1861, JOHN H. REAGAN, Sep 22-1 wlw Postmaster General. ‘-'si I BY ADAIR & SMITH!- i TERMS: one year, $5; six months, one month, 50 cents. Weekly, one year, $2; six months 18 , Sl.2s—invariably in advance. fSBr In all cases, subscribers to the DaildY “Confederacy” will be charged at the rate of 5t 50 cents per month tor any length of time less thaif 1D one year. YV e ask especial attention of every family td° our paper. Those enjoying daily mail facilities 8 will find filled with the latest intelligence from the seal 3l of war, both by telegraph, Mid from reliable’* 6 special correspondents, of unquestioned abili'!"' ities and whose facilities for getting correct inP" formation are unsurpassed. We arij laying ouf 11 large sums of money and exerting’every effort 1 to make ours a first class journal. HIE ,JPE DERAICI! HAS MOTIE THAN THREE TIMES I The circulation of any pape> I . in Georgia, north of Augusta- I and is I KU lulu V I-GQUZIIu I to that of any paper in tie 1 State. 1 . NO LABOR NOR EXPENSE will be withheld that will add to the attractive- ** ness and interest of our paper. To reimburse e 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 1 receipts from subscriptions. We ask our friends f 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 es- I fort, while many could send us a dozen or more. ! Let every friend be assured that with the in i 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 Dally for a short time, will renew their subscriptions and Go it for the Whole Year. It will benefit us more, and save considerable trouble in erasing and re-writlng 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 eguity of subscr bing and paying for our paper. "Per con ta i n . jF V U S all tJ le I, z ‘Wtthlg (fonfetlerat!) 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. Bend in your orders. The Weekly is a very large sheet, full of the choicest reading matter. The cheapest way to get the news is to subscribe for the Confeder cy. 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. JdRT* Persons getting up Clubs of five; ten or more subscribers, will be supplied with the copies ordered at 12>; per cent, less than our regular rates. Sy* No name will be entered ou 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, 1861. Atlanta, Geprgia
