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• Ttor Law of f'lolblng.
Much seems to exiet mot)g the
lunteiT forces called into the service of tle
infcderatc States, m .elation to the subject of;
, , c , .lung, and yet the law of C'onpen •
RontmUinw the oucsli -u is quite clear, and aoauU j
o two cop .uuctp.’ja. Many Volunteer Coir.va
j l:.,raljons and Hegimenta entered ’.he f
!V -rv.ee with the idea that the 5V ar
il’ • itin.nl would supply all detfciencies of
I* if ne among them, and would moreover be i
C ei rlt'i with future au *pliee to meet the accru- j
■” wants of the soldiers, and, consequently, are !
’ A 1„ tins icspect, because of the |
want of ; ,r per Information in the beginning, |
which their officers and the States authorities .
owld have given The law of Coagress, aa set
tortl. in the • act to provide for the public de !
fence,” reads follow a :
-Said volunteers sbsll furnish tbeir own clothes.
When called into active service and while re
maining therein, instead of clothing, every Don
commissioned officer and private m any company
sha'l he entitled to mooev, in a sum equal to the
cost of clothing of a non-commissioned officer or
“rwate'n the Regular army of the Conlederate
States. _ tolar te*re provide, at all Umm, their
c rnebAhit'f and rt-">> nerfor commutation in
trvn,,,/ and in the pe*sag* ot the law, Congress
evidently had m view those public exigenoies that
refju red large force* to be thrown into the field |
vriiil** vet the Government was in its infancy and |
*ir,< , J provided with no regular Quarter Master!
organization.
We have been thus explicit because it is highly
durable the matter should be thoroughly unaer
-stood, as well among those troops already in ser
vice, as among those who are daily expecting to
he called into service. And we think it would Oe
well for the newspaper press generally, to set
forth, a- we have done, the subject in the light of
the law, and the reason of the law .—Montgomery
Atktrluer.
Clipping* from Richmond Dispatch of the 9th j
inst.
K> 40BKO Engagement.— A rumor, which we
could to no authoritative source, prevailed
her** - . wterday, that a detachment of Virginia Ar
tillerymen, stationed at Gloucester Point, or some
other /|ii.-V down the river, had fired into one of
Lincoln's ships that had been discovered m too
cj on ,. proximitv.to the shore sounding, and that
th* -.naiical craft had retarned tlie salute, and
thi-ncut out. It is presumable, of course, that if
our inen saw th#. enemy, they fired on him. The
engagement Abided to above is rather misty. We
iinderst in ; ti.a a courier arrived here yesterday,
i \ Voi k River Railroad, with dispatches fur Gov.
Letcher.
I)KUNj’ l-t Co* vties. —We understand that
Franklin, Purr*- vil H*mry counties are the only
r,ot if . • :*, of which the State is formed, \
y. t offered or furnished any |
* oiunte 1 -!*’- t j in defending the State from hoi-
SM ij*t EKfvias—A correspondent, referring
to “.l/bnfl uA L rig’s Yankee Traveller,
di-clares t i • ; . > wboh concern, professing to be
Jib timoud r *aau f *• ii uu*og but a branch
New Y ik hoc:**, whose *g‘*nt are over
2L*> country, as far South a* New Orleans, in all
~r*babi; • v purtiug through Helper. Mr. Brown
kii/, the Richmond partner, it is stated, has left
-luring too “hot w* atner.” It is believed, how
ever, tlo-re more of the sauie sort”
left, some ot then, women, who are stealthily la
boring in their deeds of darkness.
Lincoln’’* Agknts in Richmond.—We are in
formed that Lincoln has agents in Richmond, who
transmit to him daily information of the state of
things here.
I'recuuUuns should at once be taken to prevent
the pc-ability of this. All letters sent to the post
office should be opened, and no person permitted
to leave who is not known to be unreliable man.
We are fully satisfied that there are men in
Richmond who are co-operating with the enemies
of Virginia.
From Harper** Ferry
A correspondent of the Alexandria Gazette
writes from Harper’s Kerry, May 7th :
The news of the seizure of the Relay House by
the Northern troop* was received here yesterday. |
This part of the programme ivus somewhat un i
expect* and. It was not thought that Lioco*.: Would j
extend the limits of his military oneiutio:'* he- I
vond Annapolis, until after the expiration of the J
bo days of grace.
Several perjmufl arrived here last night from t
Baltimore. They give different accounts of the ‘
number of troops stationed at the Relay. Bu the |
majority concurred in saying that there were r t j
less tlian 1300. They say that their trunks were
broken open at the Washington function. ♦ licit j
• arpet bags cut open, and their bug gener
ally subjected to a vigorous search. This is fiut a
forctaaie of the outruges npou private righu.
From these Baltimoreans, I learned that Mfiry
-1 .‘u4 is confounded by the display of superior
l.o*-*', ut present. Flying rumors about the col
lection ot Pennsylvania troops upon the Mary
land line art- in constant circulation here. Rut it
it hard to t II what to believe. Many here are
exceedingly anxious to march, but / suppose that
>to atiuck will be made upon any point in Mary
land without some invitation from the authorities
. f that tHcte. It is said here, and believed by
many that &/A)o Federal troops will taka poasc*-
Mou of Frederick city to-day. It is certain that
arrangements are osing made there for the accom
modation of a large number of troops.
it is said that Cailile, ffftm Harrison county, |
V'm., is in Pennsylvania, emu-swing to raist men .
ami troops to lesist Virginia, fiwro uno doubt
of the latt that there is much disaffection in two j
or three counties in the northwest portion of Vir ]
iMiiiii, but * vtw in these, there will be u large )a-1
jority for obeying the inundates of their motb* r.
From all accounts whole Valley is up in arms.
WhERK THK KoITH l i.N *>v V DEtt STEAMS 111 H 9.
The maritime nation* of turop.-’ are pretty well
supplied with the menu* of tjrajaftpprtution, and
doubtless will be ready to do on terms i
Jhe carrying trade ot the South. Vet, to* many
t ra.soiis.'she should have ships of hoi* own,
she can coutrol and direct in any channel which
her intervals oiay point out. bur conurieveixl
friends unde island their necessities without auv
explanation from tiu.* Kress, and our object now
isr simply to point out ft place where they can
I lurch use their steamship* Lo lUe best advantage f
1 matter to wide* ptinapi, tew of them have
turned tbeir attent? >u. U imoex, in lb* /uf? 11
of a tabhs, oil the luioroiatiou to ho desired in tksJ
premises. Uis furnish* dby a ieuding ship yard
iGlasgow, nun i/ay oj reiivd on by those who
would embark in tba buaineas :
Glasgow Irica of St earn ships—lron
nails.
I 1 | 1 3 | I fJ- s i’ |
a. d* o r*2
9 nr 2 Z Ft
*jS4 *> 25 200 <* 20 I MO* 4000 41,('U0
gso 88 25 MOO 15 10 25 2000 do 45,000
275 of> 22 2.’>o 14 25 1760 do 4 2 000
•j. 2M5 24 250 14 10 20 1500 do M 4.500
oi-,0 85 23 lusi )4 11W 1M 16U0 do 40,000
\Sarannah Republican.
FitißT Between T kxas RiVhCKs and Mexicans.
—A correspondent of the Near Orf*au Picayune,
writing from Canse, Zupatu county, Tejas, April |
The tirst,fandango of the cainpaigu cam© off |
tht** morning, fifteen miles below this place, be- •
lu.iMi ft company ofCapt. Mat N’olan’s Rangers i
and a band i t Mexicans, who had armed them j
.-solves and pronounced in favor of Mexico and*
in opposition to the Confederation. An express j
ivaciu and Fort Mclntosh on Saturday noon, nd at j
noon ibe next day the scouting party of twenty- |
five men were ut ibis place, it distance ot seventy
miles; we rested until midnight, when we
again took :he saddle and reached the rebels’
cauip just us day begau t-o break, thus paying
tboni au nnl.Hik.u for and unexpected viait.—
Nine MeMcnas were killed io tins charge, and
several ** tuvitd ; thereat made good ibeir es
cape iu the k .:.ippural. To the credit of tli? rxn
•ns b* i f 5... u ait hough there were a large utiitv j
.Wr of women an i cl.dfdreu ou the ranche, none
wev injure*! or moleatftd in any way, uor a cent’s |
worth *l piviT'crty varied off. This prompt sort j
of treatment ,*> toe frontier, will, J hope, tend to ;
check chia * m i its primary stage#.
The Alexandra Gazette has the following bj
special express .
\V \ fc ir,\<. i, s. May P —The continued stream of
Northern troops that is pouring into the Federal
Metropolis oceaaious no remark or surprise,
though the citizens are evideiuly becoming tired
of tliis ihiUij. The soldiers now in the cltr are
very numerous, and they are well armed; but a
practical eye soou discovers among them various
tsuits ami ouie bad discipline.
Although people are not now arrested by the
city police for utteriug sentiments opposing the
policy ot the present Administration, they are
cautioned by their friends.
Travel between this city and Alexandria is now ,
uninterrupted, and baggage of all descriptions
goes Through without examination, though guards
of Federal and Virginia troop* are stationed at
the different ends of the Long Bridge.
The steamer Mount Vernon, with a large tore#
of tfoveruntent troops, left this city yesterday, |
for the lower Potomac. She was cruising off
Hovd'e Hole last mght, with the Urge Columbiad
she had on board pointing towards the Virginia
shore.
The I.incolu papers at the North are groeily
annoyed at the silence of the Southern press in
regard to the wax plans of our government.
While they are blustenugfind blowing about i
they are going to do, making threats dl.-graceful j
to liooiantty, and developing a maJign’.ty ot spirit 1
only worthy of tienda,- they eanu*t comprehend J
the quiet composure of the Southern jourrxif. ,
wmch they attribute to the military 4e#f sz.. j
uuder which they say we live. If it would do any
good, we might explain the matter to be*n. Their ‘
blustt ring brutality, while it discloses tuerr *•- |
provokevl|malice, excites only our ruin ale n-.d 'oa
ternpt. We kuow that a bloody war t about to j
be forced upon us, and having made up ourc.lad*
to meet it, and to fight it out to the last ditch, our }
govern meat, in whom wo have th* most un diked *
ooufideuce, in deliberately preparing for the work I
before us We are actiug, not talking—we are ;
gou.g to tight, not bluster. When our gorem
iueut i> r* ady, at the right time. Abe Lincoln and
bis vandal horde*, which the North is vomiting
forth upon us, will be no huge.* lett iu doubt as to
our w ar plaus.—4
Camp Georgia, Fort Norfolk, Va., 1
April SOtb, Igfil. \
* * * The Volunteer! bjve “a call to prayer’
sounded at $ o’clock in the eveuiug—and'lit:* >
evening as on the last two mgbju, the Company •
formed iu front of the Marquee foe prayer. TtV |
Company passed a resolution unanunoua'y, re
queftiug the commanding officer to have praver I
held every evening during the campaign. Oui .
Captain included this “call iu bis t enenu Orders *
to the Company on yeausrda\ uu-raing. lie not i
only leads m prayer’ himself, but eaUs oo other!
members of the company to do su. After prayer J
aby mu is sung, and the singing of our corps I
w\-aid do credit to hnrch
As Abolitionist “Ticked l*r.”—The Harpet’s j
Ferry correspondent of the Richmond H
w ntes under date of the 2v*th ult:
Iherc are quite a number of “niggers in ser
vice here; who aae Irequeutly seen stoppiug
about the encampment, fully armed, and isome
tlines umforn vd Thev are, of course, body Kt-r
----vauts,lkithfu’.iy followir.g their masters to the
field. A white*man approached two of W.en; the
other day, and commenced a conversation by ask
ing them “why.. - th**. a ere so near a free State
they did not escape * ire-V. ‘m the words were
no sooner uttered u+a ibv egroes simultaneous
ly se;ied the leliyr . i ,; c a him off to the
guard house, and prvU:. charge of “aboii
tk i :stn” against . .m. lie ** immediately put j
in durance,
How TO Grain Against the Heat.—la'the
heat of a Southern sun is one of the hardship*
our boys will have to encounter, permit * Q old
soldier to state in what way the French annv in
Algid * g r ' i ‘hemsekes during the day. When
or the march or standing sentry : Take a yard of
thni while flannel fold ll together oDce, and s, j
• one end a ribbon or tape may be inserted to
draw it around ,he neck. This thrown over the I
can or shako, and falling behind, completely i
shield, the head and shoulders from the rays of
the sun ‘ Woollen is preferable to linen or cotton, j
iseiiuallv h. Lt, costs less than the former, and is j
easier washed and kept Wean. ■ j
“TUTTTTTTms” Lx-Governoß Morruead.— The
Danville Appeal learr. that Hi-Governor More
head, ot X c„ was dangerously assaulted in his |
I r reeei.tlv bv a negro man, and that the
villain aim comm it ted the outrage was iinniedi- ;
ately arrested and summarily dispatched,
[Special dispatches to the Charleston Mercury, j |
From Waskiiigtioij, Alexaudri*, Ac;
KicHo!fD, May 10,-There i- great |
nation among the Abolition troops in VI ashing- j
Marvlanders arriving here every day say that j
thousands from that State will come to join tht. j
<4*othem armv, fully armed and equippec. I
Ten 0 cl-ce, V. M.-The heiehts of the Blue j
Hidgc jppoftite to Harper’s Ferry, on the Mary
land side of the Potomac, were taken possession !
of by the Virginians yesterday.
Congressman John E. Bouligney, the only
Southern man who remained on the floor of Con- !
greM after the secession of his State, has arrived ]
ut Washington from New Orleans, and is believed |
to be giving the Abolitionists accounts of our i
movements.
John Brown, Jr., iB to have a conspicuous part !
in the movement on Harper’s Ferry.
Scott is not yet quite prepared ’to advance his
troops, owing to the want of cavalry, field artil
lerv and camp equipage.
Jim Lane has been dispatched to Kansas, with
orders to retake Fort Smith, Arkansas.
Hon. Wm. C. Rives left Virginia this morning
for Montgomery.
Alexandria, May 10. — Seward will, in his in
structions to Adams, the Abolition Minister to Eng ;
land, repeat more in detail the instructions given ,
| to Dayton.
! The New York Courier dr Enquirer says that it !
ha* assurances from Seward that the war will be- 1
I gin in a few days, and from Blair that troops will
be sent to New Orleans,
j We have important news from Maryland,
j In the Legislature, on Thursday, S. Teackle
j Wallis, of Baltimore, submitted the’report of the
! Committee on Federal Relations. It declares that
j the war waged bv the United Hates upou tbepeo
pie of the Confederate States is unconstitutional,
| repugnant to civilization and sound poiicy, and
| subversive of free institutions. A protest is en- ’
! tered against the war ou the part of Maryland.
: declaring that she will take no part, directly or
i indirectly, in its prosecution, and the assertion !
| is made that Maryland desired the peaceful and
i immediate recognition of the independence of the
j seceded States. . j
The present military occupation of Maryland is
i protested against as unconstitutional, oppressive ;
• and illegal. . . 1
au'J
The final resolutions assert that, under existing j
circumstances, it is inexpedient to cull a Sove- j
reign Convention of the people of Maryland at |
this time, or to take measures for the immediate !
organization of the army and militia.
The report closes by proposing the adjourn
ment of the Legislature to a day to be Darned.
The report was adopted by a vote of ayes 49,
navsll. _
The resolution* were made the special order
for this morning.
A body of Lincoln troops passed through Bal
timore about three o’clock yesterday afternoon.
It was done fn this way : A fleet of United States
vessels were first observed from the wharves of
Baltimore, coming up the Fxtapsoo river, up4er
the guns of Fort McHenry. The vessels were the
steamers Maryland, Philadelphia, the Ice Boat
I and three propellers, uuder convoy of the Harriet
Lane w r ar steamer. The fleet had on board a to
tal of about 2700 men. The transports approach
ed the wharf at Whetstone Point, and landed the
troops there, while the Harriet Lane stood oflf |
with her port holes opened to protect the lauding. |
As soon as the debarkation of the forces was !
completed they were transferred to special trains !
and passed on towards Washington.
All is quiet now at Washington and Alexandria.
There has been no movement to occupy Arling
ton Heights.
\Special to the Charleston Courier. J
Richmond, May JO. —It is reported here that the
Harriet Lane is now lying off Baltimore with her
port holes open to protect troops passing through
that city. Two alarms of fire occurred here last
night. Troops are moving to the scene of action.
It is believed a collision cannot be postponed long.
Several suspicious persons were arrested and ex
amined before the Mayor to day. The authorities
are becoming more vigilaut.
Richmond, May 10.—Large bodies of United
States troops loft Baltimore yesterday for Wash
ington. The Northern papers reluctantly acknow
ledge tiie commercial interests as noing to wreck
aud ruiu. The Journal of Commerce exposes the
lie about Anderson going to Washington with four
millions specie.- He. took with him only two hun
dred thousand dollars. The New York Herald’s
Washington correspondent reports thec>pture of
a privateer by the Harriet Lsfit* off Virginia Capes.
Upon being chased, the crew of tliu privateer
abandoned her in boats. The vessel’s name had
been effaced.
U is announced that a corps d'armee will cross
4 Le Rotoinac and enter Virginia at no dis
trict day. Secretary Chase has issued another
order to Western Collectors to refuse clearances
for ports m seceded States, and to seprufi diligent
ly for arms and munitions of war, and stop all
-upplics of provisions; Ac,, op the Mississippi.—
Passengers from Washington represent a terrible
state of affairs. Houses are broken open aud
pillaged by the soldiers; females are insulted on
the ftireets and in their own homes; innocent cit
izens aro treated with brutality on the merest pre
text of suspicion. The soldiers are represented
aa a drunkpn, thievish, ungovernable mob.
Gov. Dennison, of Ohio, has culled for 100,000
more volunteers.
Henry Kit her, banker, of Philadelphia, has sus
pended. Liabilities one million dollars. Other
heavy failures a-e anticipated. So they go.
Another instalment of Baltimoreans arrived hero
to-day, armed and equipped for service
Alexandria, May 10.—Sherman’s Battery, with
three companies or the Philadelphia Grays, of the
First Peimsylvanix Regiment-, and five companies
i Third V. S', Infantry. 1500 in all, passed through
| R.tKinore and arrived at Washington Inst night.
| No demonstration of any kind was made iu Raiti-
I more, h'-ur hundred Regular Cavalry, unmount*
| rd, arrived in Washington from Carlisle Barracks
j this morning
I Light hundred Virginians and Kentucky troops
’ are encamped upon the Maryland shore opposite
! Uarm#r’s Kerry, and were fortifying the heights.
Tuoinua Francis Meagher has joined the 60th
New York Regiment at Washington.
The Pennsylvania Legislature has passed the
three milliuu loan Bill, aud authorized the raisiug
ot tiltceu more regiments.
The Legislature of California has refused to or
der n special election for Congress. The position
of California is considered very doubtful as to
attaining Lincoln in his war policy.
Four bin Western Virginia counties have ap
pointed delegate?* 1° Union Convention.
narjlaml Legislative < aueiiN.
Baltimore, Monday, May 6.—The Legislature
did nothing of importance to-day. To-night they
are holding a secret caucus of both II iuses.
The following is the report of the State Com
fttifcsdHW# te the President:
To the Honor J>U Qf inral Assembly of Mainland :
The uudei signed Commissioners have the lion
or to report to the General Assembly of Mary
land that they waited in person ou the President
of the United States on the -ltu inst., and present
ed him a copy of the joint resolutions adopted by
your honorable bodies on the 2d iust.
They were received by the President with re
ftpe.cjfoi nourtesv, ami made such representations
os were necessary to convey to him the sense of
the General Assembly of Maryland iu relation to
the occupation of the Capital ’of the State by the
Federal troops, apd the forcible seizure of prop
erty of lb# Ktftte and of private citizens in the
Annapolis Railroad, xpd in the Washington Branch
and the Baltimore aud Ohio Railroad. And in
tin* connection his attention was called to the
suspension of intercourse between Baltimore and
Washington, aud of all parts of the Hate with
Annapolis, an indignity put upon the State
jf/fiije still in the Federal Union, by such an in
with the private rights of its citizens,
amt bv 4UCh w; ppcupation ot its soil and ways of
comnuintcntUH), by i*.eJ>Vijoral Government.,,Full
explanations were exchanged Ijgtjyuen the under
signed and the Secretary of War, ap4 £epretary
of State, who were present aud participated |hp
discussion.
■Vs to the facts and circumstances rendered ne
cesaoi'y by the extraordinary incidents accompa
nying the gtf£#age of the Federal troops through
Maryland, en for the city of Washington,
aud especially iu fo those acts of the
authorities of the city of which arrest
ed the progress of the troops by Hr*- railroads
leading from Pennsylvania and Delaware *ut a Ma
ryland, and of the opposition to the landing of Hie
troop*, subsequently, at Aunapolis, by the Gover
nor of and in conjunction with the ac
tion of the authorities of the State, the hostile
feeling manifested by Lb# people to the passage of
these troops through Maryland, whs considered,
aud treated with entire irar.km asLy (ho nnder
sigued, tfho, while acknowledging ait tl,.e bigo]
obligation* of the State to the Federal Govern
tuctif, a,?; forth fully the streugth of the sympathy
felt by a portion of our people for our South
ern brethren in b- present crisis. Although ma
ny ol the incidents and <^rc*j instances referred to
were regarded in different by the under
signed and the Federal Government, wpu to the
#*teDt ot adiflereuce of opinion us to some Of’ fjip
facts involved, yet in regard to the general prin
ciple at i .ksitPf a concurrence of opinion was
reached.
The President eotiewi ‘d with the undersigned
iu the opinion that so long w Maryland was not
about taking a hostile attitude u. riV Federal Gev
evement, that the exclusive military
of he M ays of communication, and the seizure
the propKity pf her citizens, would be without
justification ; tu4 ft has been referred to in this
connection, *o far os U uryed, was treated bv
the Government as au act of nftces{ity and self
preservation. The undersigned tfrrni
setvei authorized to enter iuto any hmnji&Wdfxts
with the Fftjeral Government to induce them to
change its relation to the Staje of Maryland, con
sidenug it proper oJ.er the circumstances to
leave the entire directum responsibility of
the existing state of things to tLjfJ Government,
wajpug such representations as they aftejped pro
per to indicate the moral and legal aspects of the
•liiestioti, nii4 especially insisting ou its obliga
,.ur to relieve promptly from restraint
*nJ indignity, and U) id&.W# from all aclion in
ihe transportation of troops pf u regarded
as intended for chastisement, i>? pr., tinted by
resentment.
7"je undersigned are not able to indicate 1 1
what citent or to what degree the Executive rfU
rretiou wni bfi exercised in modifying the rela
tious which cow oris* between the South of
Maryland and the Fedora,’ Government, and in
the particular matter of the commercial com
municatious bet veen the City of tsajtimore and
the otjjer parts ot the country’ brought to tie at
tention of the General Assembly by the Mayor
and City Counoti of Baltimore; but they fee! au
thorized to express the opinion that some modifi
uUlvii may be expected.
The undersigned feel painfuUy counted that a
waria to fce waged to reduce ail “he seceding
Slates to alieg.ance to the Federal Government,
and that the whole military power of the Federal
Gi vernment will ‘be exerted by accomplish this
purpose, end though the expression of tins opin
ton is L'd called for by the resolution ot roar Ron
urab.e bodies, yet, having bai the opportunity to
*scr.it!n its ortire accuracy, and because it will
explain nwxh of the military preparations and
movements ot the troops through t.ie State of
Maryland, it ts proper f.o bring it to vour atten
tion.
Signed) Otho Scoyr,
Robkrt M, McLaks
Wm. J. Ross.
(Special Dispatch to the Charleston Courier]
MtaaucxL *SO WHOLESALE IKCeVtMARtSX
t RtcHsoso, May &.—Three more fires broke out
last night, m different parts of the city. They
ere aitribuied to villainous incendiaries. “ The cit
izens of Richmond are exasperated and have in- j
stituted vigorous measures to ferret out the vile !
scoundrels and bring them to condign puui&hment.
The authorities have determined to keep in readi
ness a large armed force for the protection of the
city from all prowling spies or ruffians. At one
of the confisgrjlions> negro woman and a num
ber of horses were burned to death.
uijtarv movenent*, Ac.
Alexandria, May s.—The Xew York Seventh ■
Regiment has arrived at Annapolis.
The Pennsylvania fourth Regiment, -}o strong, ;
has reached Washington, also the third battallion !
from Massachusetts.
The Maryland Legislature will adjourn oo Fri- i
dav to July HHh. A caucus ot the members of ]
the House determined almost unanimously not to I
call a convention.
The building next to illara s Hotel was burnt
on Thursday uigbt. The stock of Town A Son.
military tailors, valued at f 15,0<Xi, was consumed j
in the flames.
A Waa or St a/CGATION OR EXTERMINATION.— An I
intelligent gentleman who arrived lately iu this j
city, from Washington, says the Richmond Dis- j
patch of the -th. states that he heard Lincoln I
make a speech on Thursday night last, in which
he declared that the present war must end in the I
subjugation or extermination ot the South.
Cua-ngk ok Name. —The tine infantry corps j
hitherto so well known as the “Meagher Guards,”
have, by a unanimous Tote, changed their name !
to the “Emerald Light Infantry.”— Charleston j
Mercury.
Fourth llrlgatde tieorgla yolui*tcer. .
The Editorial correspondent of ‘ 4be Cour - J
ter, writing from Camp Brown , near Marietta, ;
gives the following organixsti on of th® Fourth
Brigade of Georgia Volunteers :
FIELD OFFICE |g.
Wm. Phillips, Brigsdicr-Ge serai.
F. W. Capers, Adu. Brigaa e Inspector.
S. E Blakly, Aid-de-Uamp .
Hugh Buchanm, Aid-de-C Amp.
FIRST REOI ft ENT.
W. T. Wofford, Colonel.
8. Z. Ruff, Lieutecant-C /olonei.
Jeff Johnson, Major.
! Dr. V. J. Roach, Sarg ton .
J. B. Brown, A&s’t “ / |
J. N. WUliuai®, Serge Ant Major.
James Vaughan, *rtermater. f
Jf. R. Wickle, Comm jftsary.
Captains—McDooalxi Guards. J. M. J/Jinaon ;
Acworth Infantry, J* fl. O. Neal; Georgi%Volun
teers, Lieut. F. M. Johnson iu commandi Jackson
i Guards, J. H. NeaJ; Cass Cos. Volunteers, John
Landervilk ; Georgia Highlanders, J. A. Craw
ford* Jackson Cos. Volunteers, b. S. Jarrett;
Davis (Guards, J. €. Roper; Stephens Guards, J.
E. Starr ; Giluaer Cos. Volunteers, W. Jones.
SECOND REGIMENT.
1 W. W. Boyd, Colonel.
T. C. Johnson, Lieutenant-Colonel.
A. J. Hutchins. >lajor.
Dr. 11. V. M. Miller. Surgeon.
Dr. G. L. Jones,
Sam. tShais, Master,
G. L. Butler, Pay Master,
Sergt. Major, to be supplied.
A. J. Kennedy, Commissary.
J. J. Perkins, Adjutant.
Paimetto Guards, Lieut. Bell, in command.
Milton Volunteers, Lieut. K. M. Cowan.
Canty Lee Volunteers, Kendrick, Captain.
Tugalo Blues, Millican, Captain.
Dekalb Infantry, Fowler, “
Kingston Vol. John Hooper, “
Carroll “ Curtis. “
Hartwell In’try, Skelton, “
. Sonora “ Hunter. “
1 Home Lt. Guards, Magruder, 44
battalion of cavalrt.
W. W. Rich, Major.
J. W. Arnold, (Actingi Adj.
Surgeon not yet elected.
W. S. Paytou, Quarter Master.
Commissary not elected.
Coweta Rangers, J. W. Wilcoxton, Cant.
Chen kee Cavalry, A. M. Franklin, Lieut, in
command.
Cherokee Dragoons, W. B. C. Puckett, Capt.
Walton Guards, Geo. HiUyer, Capt.
artillert battallion.
Field officers not yet elected. Election to take
place on Monday or Tuesday next.
Cherokee Artillery—M. A-Stovall, Captaiu.
Murry co. Artillery —. “
Piltte Guards—Guswald.
One company name and Captain not reported.
rifle battallion.
Lieut. Col. Seaborn Jones, Jr.
Adjutant, Jas. H. Lawrence.
Paymaster, A. M. Morns.
Campbell Rifles, Cftpt. T. 0. Glover.
Cass ftilies, H. C. Saxon.
1 Polk C. Ritle*, Lieut. 11. F. Wimberly in
commaud.
Dalton Guards, Capt. R. T. Cook,
llabersharu Volunteers. “ E. S. Barclay.
M. A. Stovall was elected Colonel of the Artille
ry Battallion.
Organization of a Volunteer Keglmcnf*
| Yesterday, the commissioned ofljpwa ctT ten
| Companies met ut the Armory Os tlie Gate City
I Guards, fur vi 4 e pm pose of organ xing a Vsluuteer
Regiment, for the service of the Confederate States.
Capt. L. J. Gartrell was called to the ehuir, and
Peri no Brown was appointed Secretary.
The following are the names of the companies
composing this Regiment, aud the officers repre
senting them in the Convention :
COKFBDBRATE VOLUNTEERS, FULTON COUNTV.
Captain—L. J. Gartrell.
Ist Lieuteuant—G. J. Foraa^p,
ad Perino brown.
3d “ H. H. Witt*
MCDONALD GUARDS, COBB COUKTV.
Captain -J. M. Johnson.
Ist Li* utei ant —H. Reed.
2*l “ J C. GriificH.
Hd “ t): J- IDhcKwpU,
STONE MOUNTAIN VOLUNTEERS, DEKALB COUNTY.
Captain—K. W. Hoyle.
Ist Lieutenant —T. 11. Rrowuiug.
2d “ Daniel Brogan.
3d “ H. J. Holly.
COBB COBB COUXTy.
Cuptaln—James; F- Cooper.
1-t iiieuteiiQnt— C. 0. Winn.
64 “ Green Lee Butler.
34 “ J. A. G. Anderson.
PAULDING VOLUNTEERS, PAULDING COUNTY.
Captain—C. S. Jenkins.
Ist Lieutenaut—J. 11. Weaver.
2d “ L. B. Anderson.
CONFEDERATE GUARDS, COBB COUNTY.
Captain- E. 11. Lindley.
ist Lieutenant—J. ft. Lindley.
2d “ Jobu F. Kizer.
kd “ B. F. Ward.
UOSV. ELL GUARDS, COBB COUNTY.
Captain— John Den woody.
Ist Lieutenant—C. A. Dun woody.
2*l “ B. F. Bishop.
U 44 J. L. Wing.
’ nr.KAi.il light invantuy, dbkals bounty.
Captain—John VV. Fowler.
Ist Lieutenant —John J. Powell.
2d “ Jolsb M. Hawkins.
3d 44 James L. Wilson.
COWETA STCOND DISTRICT OCARDS, COWETA COUNTY.
Captain—S. W. Lee.
Ist Lieuteuant—George W. Bryant.
yd ‘ J. F. Gordon.
lid 44 Jacob Benton.
DAVIS* INFANTRY, FULTON COUNTY.
Captain —W. J. Ballard.
Ist Lieutenant—W. P. Chisolm.
2d “ John McLendon.
:3d 44 W. L. Hubbard.
Capt. L. J. Gartrell was elected Colonel. Capt.
Jam * F. Cooner, Lieutenaut Colonel, aud Capt.
John Dunwooay, Major.
A rosolut'on was unanimously adopted recom
mending Dr. J. K. Alexander to the npppointmeut
of Surgeon of the Regiment.
Several other companies were represented, bnt
their applications for admission came too late, as
the Regiment was already full. This Regiment
is expected to go into active service in a few days,
and will no doubt do honor to our Flag and the
euime in which they are about to engage. May
success* attend them everywhere. —Atlanta In
telliyen cer , 9th.
Special Dispatch to the Charleston Mercury.
Ben McCulloch, the Texan Ranger, arrived here
yesterday from New Orleans.
Gen. Beauregard left here this morning. It is
said that his destination is Norfolk.
Commodore Prendergast has thirty vessels,
large and small, blockaded off Old Point Comfort.
One is a large Richmond ship, with a cargo of
30ih) bugs of coffee, bound up the James River. A
bombshell was tired at her. The Quaker City
blockade* the James River.
The Federal Government believes Gen. Beau
regard to be in Richmond.
The Niagara steamsbin-of-war will be off Charle
ston on Saturday, to enforce the blockade. It is
understood that no vessel will be allowed to enter,
but a reasonable time will be given to vessels
loading to depart.
Itn imoNp, May 9—lo, p. m.—The Lincoln Gov
ernment jii thoroughly alarmed. Yesterday it
called for more arms and troops from New York,
saying that the Capital is in imminent peril.
At Washington it is reported that Lincoln has
under consideration a plan to capture President
Davis aud Viee-Presideut Stephens. He believes
that would stop the “great rebellion.” Governor
f. etcher has also received anonymous letter* allu
ding io gtfph a scheme.
The uotovmua and persistent Unionist, Pren
tice, of the Louisville Journal, writes to hi* broth
er in New York that be believes Kentucky will
soon secede.
Two Virginia Regiments were ordered to-day
to Culpepper Court House, on the Orange and
Alexandria Railroad. This point is the heud
quufierg pf Gen. P. St. George Cocke.
Alexanp&h, M.4y 9- —By Pony Express from
Baltimore, 1 learn that up \q half-past one o’clock
this morning, no Federal ti-copa had passed
through Baltimore. It was believed, However,
that they would pass through soon, and without
opposition. The turnpike aud railroad between
Washington and Baltimore are lined with North
ern yfctepteer*.
Kredern-* effy which is situated only a few
miles this sidf; of and Dixon’s Lines, will
soon be occupied by 5,000 .\bo}itjgp troops.
General Lee’s family still contiuua to reside qui
etly in the old “Custis Mansion,” on the Arling
ton Heights, just opposite Washington.
Toft Second Installment.—We have no doubt
that the our people to the second call
upon the Governmej*£ fonn will be in accordance
with the first. The Secretary of Treasury issued
proposal* for five millions, and received bids for
\ eight /pillions aui a half, *o we thing it iyil| be
wpji ipa paq;ainder asked for. We hear, that
among the for*t if) respoud to the second call is
Col. Uoorgft V*L pf this county, who
heads the list with uju dollar*. Row
many more cau and will follow big ezampjef The
country requires the services and means of every
citizen’ and will not be disappointed in her expec
in+i. ps—Montgomery Advertiser.
Telegram* fppin the Nashville papers, ;
Rent by the agents of the tyew York associated j
prjMun.
\iW*po}4t f May 6.—A large number of trail*-
ports urn L*)uficu/r ating here
It is supposed iut* largi- ’ ody qf Federal ;
ti oop* will be in IfaltimoFs o/ Thursday, ap*l that ,
active aggressive movemeuts may sown beefpect- !
ed agailiMt Richmond.
Baltimore. May 7t!.—A larg- Union meeting 1
was held at Frederick. Re venly Johnson spokr,
ug the defeat of the rebellion.
f'T. Loin, bisg 7*"~Tbe Union Home Guards
numbering 1500 from tL Crat <pd second wards,
were sworn into the Federal service tp day.—
Capt. Lyon •* ordered to receive 10,$00 volunteers.
He hfi ulreawy 5,000.
Hakrisbura, May 7.—Gov. Curtin is ordered by
the Secretary of \i a. to provide quarters for nu
merous additional troops.
Baltimore May B.—Another comnii toemol the i
Frfifclrtejit saying that three fail regiment* have
been raised iq Baltimore.
40,000 trv>ops will ba eon/ entrated at Washing
ton.
Gen. Patterson's troops go through itAitiiiore
as sees the railroad is repaired.
Follericx, May j.—The legislature unanimous
lr voted against a convention.
Items from the Richmond Dispatch, May 10th :
NoRroLX AND tbe Rn ees. U’e ftra glad to learn
that the preparations for tbe defence of Vorfoik
are of tbe most complete character, and that our
seabord city, which bade defiance to the British
in the last war, is now able to laugh to scorn the
invaders. We learn also that the batteries on the
York and tbe James are pf • yerv formidable
character, and can sink with ease W fleet that
would be foolhardy enough to attempt the pas
sage of tbe river.
Gtekilla WaRgaSK-—We must again impress i
upon our friend* throughout Virgiuia tbe value
of this species of warfare. Jiothing harasses an
enemy upon bis march as much as the cscslant
hornet sling of guerillas. They are an adversary
who cannot be caught with ea.e or avoided. They
come unexpectedly, drop their man here and
]hyre, are oil and on again in a moment, and cause
infinite perplexity and daager.
Gen. Winfield Boot; will be sevenlv-five years
of age on tbe 13$h June.
Ex-Governor Gorman ia to head a regiment
from Minnesota.
A Percussion Cap Manufactory kss been estab
lished at Raleigh, S’. C., and is in successful ope
ration.
PoarsiioLTH X. H., May 4—Augnstns Jenks,
the collector of this port, being suspected ot etui
pathizing with secession, was waited npou to dsv,
and compelled to hoist the American flag. ’ j
A private citizen of Blount county. East Ten- j
nessee, thus writes. It may not be improper to
add that he is worth |60,000.
“The Governor of Tennessee can command mv !
all in defence of the South. We are but one peo- 1
pie now, have one common destiny and one duty.” j
From Waextiugiou Hlclimouil drc.
[S/yyiafM tin Charleston Mercury.]
Gen. Lee is now acting with great vigor. He !
hold* command of ell the Confederate State forces j
ia Virginia.
Seward, the Abolit’on Secretary of State, re
ceired yetterd. y a d3*,>avch from a New York
firm, asking whether their vessels could P rc ';
to Norfolk to take in a cargo of cotton. Sew aru ;
replies that they cojlc not. adding that •
requests hnd been relnsed in the case o* foreign j
T ThAditorials in ihe English pui-crs. reUtire io
the reduction of Fort Sumter by “‘.f, So J , *‘},v C
linians. are decidedly farorjole to the riouth,^
r i he New Jersey volunteers have threatened to
mutinv unless supplied with better
The’total number of troops offered to Lincoln
and accepted bv him thus far is alleged to be
3iX> 00rt Four'hundred regular cavalry have ar
riVed at Washington from Carlisle Barracks, Pa. j
They are not mounted, however.
Guerilla warfare has been begun in Maryland.
A detachment of fifty men fired on the Picket I
Guard of Camp Butler. The fire was returned
bv Lincoln's troops, and twenty shots were ex
changed.
Major (now Colonel) Anderson, with Mrs. Lin
coln “and suite,” arrived at Philadelphia on the
10th.
It was believed in Baltimore on Friday that a
demonstration would soon be made by General
Scott on Harper's Ferry. The Southern troops
and batteries have been ordered to hold that posi
tion. The Virginia troops have fortified the
Point of Rocks and other defiles leading to Har
per's Ferry.
There are 25,000 men and 36 pieces of cannon
now at Washington.
The newspapers from the Cotton and Manufac
turing Districts m England all urge the recogni
tion ot the Confederate States.
An Abolition Convention is to meet at Wheel
ing to-morrow (Monday l to endeavor to make a
new State out of West Virginia. Thirty three
counties will be represented. Two companies
were mustered into the C. S. service at Wheeling.
The calculation of the Abolition traitors there is
to elect a Governor, Legislature, etc., and to as
sume all the functions of a sovereign State.
Lincoln has, by general order, directed all offi
cers of the army to take, and subscribe, anew, the
oath of allegiance set forth in the 10th Article of
War.
Senators Chandler, of Michigan, and Wade of
Ohio, urge an active policy.
General Lee has announced that in pursuance
of nriers from the Secretary, of war of the Confed
erate States, he assumes the command of the Con
federate States forces in the State of Virginia.
Alixandbia, May 12.—The steamship Empire
State passed p the river to-day, with troops and
provisions, bound for Washington. She was
cheered by the crew of the Paw Dee, now lying
just off our wharves.
The Pawnee is anchored here to prevent the
Virginia troops from stopping provisions from
passing up the Potomac.
Capt. K. B. Shaeft'er has raised a company of
Washingtonians lor the service of Virginia.
A movement of'roops towards this place has
been made from Petersburg; hut the cofuinu has
probably been stopped above.
Advices from the Relay House state that the
Eighth New Yoak Regiment are encamped in
eighty tents in the rear ot the Massachusetts
Regiment. The One Hundred and Eighth New
York Regiment are on the bluff commanding the
road. The Boston Artillery are in a position to
commaud the Relay House and the river.
Baker’s regiment, hod strong, are guarding the
road ‘rom the Relay House to Washington. The
l<alt\iuat steam gun tvus expected to pass to
Harper’s Ferry under the guise of being an agri
cultural niachiue, but some parties gave the in
formation, and the Lincoln troops got possession
of it.
The Fifth New York Regiment arrived at Wash
ington last night.
It is stated on authority that the officers of the
United States Army captured, iu Texas, who were
released on parole, conditional upon their not
bearing arms ugaiust the Confederate Ststes, will
be requested to renew Iheir obligations to the
Gaftrnnicnt. A refusal to take the oath will be
cause for their immediate dismissal.
The Abolition Secretary of tb e Interior lius de
termined to withhold pensions ill the seceded
States, for the benefit of the Pension aud Patent
laws.
luroBT.W'T (boa montogmeuy.
Mqbtqoueuy, May 11.-Secretary Memmiuger
has nmt in a report of a scheme for raising the
funds necessary for the prosecution of the war.—
This and the tariff’ are the only questions uw
remaining for the consideration of Congress.
In regard to the fuuds for the war, I think that
fifty millions will be raised—probably one half by
Treasury notes, one fourth by customs, an ! the
last fourth by direct taxation. I do not thiuk that
volunteers will be rtreived lor a less term of ser
vin® than three years, or Curing the existing war.
The held end stuff officers will he appointed by
tiie President. Iu locul emergencies tie Pros',
dent may receive volunteers otherwise, hut not
foi camoaiga service.
It is (.robabte that. Congress will adjourn within
the next ten day s to meet again in July, at such
place as circumstances may render necessary.
Nothing new has transpired at Pensacola.”
The following it lportaot despatch f-uui the S ;c
----retary of the Treasury has been received by the
Collector of Chav!es',n i
-Voyvaonrur, May 12.—Virginia is now one of
me Confederate States—of course, no duties are
to be collected on imports from thence. Buspclid
collection of duties from North Carolina and Ten
nessee.
C. G. MsMiUNiER,
Secretary of the Treasury.
Telegrams cut fi om theJNaehville papers, sen
through the Agent of the New York Associated
press;
Haumsiicrg, day 9.—An officer of the Chtim
bersburg Camp brings the intelligence that Tues
day morning the Virginians serrtd tue heights on
the Maryland side of tiit Potomac, and wore on
gaged iu fortifying them. A number of secession
troops bordering on 0,0( 0, were there, and were
to be ine.rear.ed by the arrival of 1,200 Kentucki
ans.
Four companies of cavalry, which marched from
Carlisle barracks ou Monday morning, passed
through Maryland, und have reached Gen. Scott’s
lines.
The gentleman sent from this State telegraphs
that he will be in llarriwburg to-morrow. He has
visited Sonth Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, Tennes
see and Kentucky. He reports 25,000 troops with
in a radii of fifty miles from Richmond. There
were about 15,000 troops iu Tennessee and Ken.
tucky, whose suppose,! destination was Cairo.
Washington, Muv 9.—The published letter to
Mr. Dayton, Minister to France, is understood to
be an iudex to the entire European correspond
ence. It is understood that the Government has
received from Minister Dallas, an account of an
interview with Lord Palmerston, the result of
which justifies the assertion that there is no indi
cation or prospect of the recognition of the Con
federate States, by any of the foreign powers,
against the protest’of the Administration.
Mr. Preston’s next dispatches from -Spain, in
reply to a demand for explanations relative to San
Domingo, and also about a recognition of the
Southern Confederacy, are looked for with much
interest.
Mr. Preston, although a Kentuckian, is loyal,
and is understood to be acting in such a manner
as to meet the approbation of tho Adminisrattion.
All the Foreign Ministers are anxiously making
inquiries about the application of the blockade,
but not a word of complaint has been uttered.
The President has appointed James C. Stowe,
Surveyor of Customs at Cairo.
Judge Scarborough, of Virgiuia, of the Court
of Claims, has lcsigned.
St. Lotus, May 10.—The Collector is ordered to
confiscate the cargoes and arrest the owners for
treason, if arms and munitions are found on board
of boats.
Shipments South are suspended.
One thousand muskets and several cannon have
arrived from Baton Rouge.
Cutting the Levees.— The following confirms
the statement we made yesterday about cutting
the levees on the river below :
Carson’s Lancing, Bolivar Cos. Miss. )
May 5, 1861. j
J/<rsrx. AfcConibt <fc Cos., Memphis :
We are all in trouble here. The enemy has
made an attack on our levee above this place.—
Three of the Black Republican rascals have been
sunk in the river, and others have been shot at.—
More of them will meet the same fate. The levee
is lined with armed men night and day. In haste.
Yours truly,
From prudential considerations we withhold the
name of the writer—ho ia an intelligent and re
liable gentleman. —Memphis Appeal, May 9.
The Position of Maryland.
The Baltimore Exchange protests, in the name
of the people of Maryland, against the high-hand
ed measurss which the Administration has adopt
ed for the purpose of crushing out, by force of
arms, all opposition in that State to as lawless
and tyrannical an exercise of power as ever dis
graced the annals of a nation. It says :
If, however, the hope is entertained that by
adopting this tyrannical system of repression and
suppression, the Southern sympathies of tbe peo
ple of Maryland will be crushed out, we frankly
tell those who are possessed of this delusion, not
to be deceived by appearances. Whatever may
be tbe opinions that are held among us, they can
not be radically changed by a display of force.—
There may be, and doubtless is, at this juncture,
a singular calmness on tbe surface; but who cau
pieosure tbe under current? With tbe exception
of thoap wljp are timid and time-serving, there are
very few among us who have not made up tbeir
minds as to the proper course to be pursued when
ever the occasion is opportune, and a free and un
biassed expression of the popular will cau be had.
If, as some assert, \re are poweriess at this time
to successfully recent the outrages that havebeeu
put upon us, why thuu we have no recourse but
to bear them with what patience we may. We
must learn to suffer and—to wait. To steadfast j
fouls, whatever may ho iLo darkness of the pres- !
ent, the future st ll discloses its bow of promise, i
Wjj jh men dare not spei k their irmost thoughts, !
ii is a.t act of prudej „• to remain sdent. It !
would be aisdness uud not courage that wcnld i
counsel resistance to °.n overwhelming force.— i
But the “whirligig of time” bring? about its I
changes, and we w m tbe Adminij-;ration ar.d its
allies that silence doss nt always imply Acquies
cence, nor must abstention from artive opposition
be taken for abjee* fubuiLaiou,
Tun Bust e G as cf Baton Rouge.— The Baton
Rouge GaxeY.e, of the 7th, Las the following :
Boys are e” pected to be brave by natn-a. Xot
m *:ih th* g r.r. Tiny arc expected to be timid,
and tren.ol* as did Xana Page, at the oaring of
dugs. Cur L.a. e girlu—more beautiful still than
breve—have their sleeves rolled up, at. 1 are at
work doing all they car. to aid the chivalry and
urg’ them on. If needs he, we hear of some
ready to fight if occasion requires, and we
make n doul t there are Joans of Arc among
lliet.i. Why, it was on!} resterday we raw a
handkerchief st whicu some cf our lovely daught
ers op the eaotem limit cf the city baq Iwen
practising with pistols. We are compelled to
say in their bubal!, that we have teen companies
with sixty men march through town with targets
bearing worse evidences of good marksmen.
Lincoln's Navy. —The Scientific American
good authority—gives tbe following analysis of
the strength of the navy with which Lincoln pro
poses fio blockade tbe coast of the Confederate
States:
Tbe navy, upon which the Union must rely to
represent it to foreign nations, if it were required
to do so immediately, consists of seven screw
frigates, five screw s': ,ops, four side-wheel sloops
and eight gun sloops, making a total of but twenty
four vessels, carrying Sd6 guns. This is absolute-
Iv the entire national fleet of tbe United fitates,
and no other statement of tbe cage can make it
greater. With few exceptions, they are, howev
er, fine ships.
The Washington Star, of Thursday evening,
says :
Major Anderson was serenaded on Tuesday
night. The assemblage was addressed by Gen.
Runvon, of the Xew Jersey Regiment, who|said
that'in a few days they would be called upon to
the Potomac, [cheers “from members of various
regiments, 1 and that they would be called upon
to take Alexandria, Xorfolk and Richmond; ones
of “That's the ticket!”] and that he expected they
would not be required to stop until they took
Charleston.
Xot Drowned.— We understand it is currently
reported, savs the Pensacola Observer of the Ist
inst., in Mississippi, that Captain Wade, of the :
troops from that State, ana stationed at Fort |
Mcßae, was drowned while passing from this city |
to the fort a short time since. It affords os plea- !
sure to state that the report is without foundation
as tbe Captain visited us this morning in fine
health ana spirits.
C|Tffiiirlc & Sentinel.
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New Military Company.— At a meeting of the
“Richmond Reserve,” May 7, (a newly organized
military company,) the following officers were
elected:
Captain—J. K. Garmany.
Ist Lieutenant—Dr. W. 11. Doughty.
•21 H. B. Tutt.
8d 44 John C. Hill.
Ist Sergeant—M. N. DeLettre.
2d “ L. B. Thompson.
8d 44 J. P. K. Walker.
sth “ J. A. Dortie.
En*ign—A. J. Davis.
Ist Corporal—A. M. McMurphey.
2d “ W. Fulghum.
3d “ J. J. Doughty.
4th 44 W. W. Glover.
Sec. & Treas.—McWhorter Hungerford.
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soon as a sufficient number of names are obtained
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up every night for Warrington (Pensacola); and
now that communication by railroad is established,
letter* and packages will go through in about
thirty-six hours.
Those of our friends at Pensacola to whom we
have hitherto sent the paper, report that it come*
through iu good time, and with unvarying regu
larity.
We learn from the Southern Recorder that on
May-day the ladies of Midway presented a beauti
ful Confederate Flag to the University Guards, a
corps composed of *trdents at Oglethorpe Univer
sity. Prof. Pkatt represented the ladies on tho
occasion, and Capt. Cater received the llag in
appropriate style. The Governor’s Horse Guards
were present on the occasion, beside* a large
concourse of ladies, gentlemen and children.
Horrible Death. --We are shocked to learn
that Mr. James L. Coleman, of this city, was killed
on the South Carolina Railroad, on Wednesday
eveuing last. The particulars, by au eyewitness,
have been furnished the Dispatch, from which we
copy :
‘‘Mr. Coleman, eu Wednesday evening, while
tbe 7j-*j o’clock South Caroliua train was at Aiken,
attempted to cross from the passenger car to the
conductor’s car, wheu the sudden stoppage of the
traiu caused him to lose his foothold aua fall be
tween the cars ou the track, when the wheels of
oue car and the front wheels of another car passed
over his body, killing him instantly. Col. Croft,
a resident of Aiken, observing him fall, made a
strenuous effort to rescue him. but was unsuccess
ful. His remuins were brought to the city by tee
11 o’clock train Wednesday night.”
Goon Shots. —Monday la6t tbe Captain of the
Banks County Guards ordered a trial of skill in
shooting by his corns. The plan adopted was
putting up a hat as a mark and ordering Ins men
to march from it one hundred yards, when they
were to turn and fire without hesitation. Auer
the trial had been completed, 74 men having fired,
tin hat was brought to the Captain, and GO bullet
hole’ war*! found to have been made. No prepara
tions had been m tide, as tbe contest was an im
promptus affair.
We would call tb? attention of Jill our military
companies to the above from the Savannah Repair
licfin , aud earnestly urge upon them the great im
portance of practicing target-firing, whether in
service, or not yet mustered in, whenever they
can spare the time. Let it be a daily business.
There was a report current in the City for a day
or two post that Lieut. Charles Spaeth, cf the
Washington Artillery, had died in the ranks near
Pensacola, from the effects of the heat. But v/e
are happy to learn that his family have advices
from him, stating that his health was never bet
ter, and that be hopes yet to live a long time to
laugh over such a piece of news.
We learn that *. R. Wright, Fsq.,” of thisjeity
has been elected Col. of the third Regiment Geor
gia Volunteers, now in Portsmouth, Va., Capt.
Reid of the Home Guards, Madison, was elected
Lieut. Col., niid Captaiu Leo otthe Young Guards,
Covington, was elected Major. Captain Doles,
of the Baldwin Blues, was elected Colonel of the
Fourth Regiment, and—Bell Lieut. Col.
We are advised that Gen Bragg has issued
positive orders, prohibiting tbe writing of any
more letters from the neighborhood of Fort
Pickens, for publication in the newspapers. This
will account to our friends for not receiving
through our columus any news from our Georgia
troops. Our correspondent writes that tbe
Chronicle and; Sentinel is received in camp with
uniform regularity.
The New York Express say*: We could not
disguise the fact, if we would, from reader* of
what is said and done here in New York, that
throughout the whole Noithcrn country, there is
not one musket for twenty volunteers now ready
to march.
Col. Seaborn Jones offers through the Colum
bus Times, to give an annuity of fifty dollars a
year for ten years to the families of the first ten
men of Capt . John A. Jones’ company who may
be killed iu tbe service of the Confederacy. Who
else will make similar uoble offers ?
Hon. John Bell, as we learn from the Nashville
Banner, said at Tusculum, in Davidson county,
last week, that he was willing, if necessary, iu the
event of such a ruthless invasion as was threateu
by the North, to take his place in the ranks and
march in the defence of the South.
We learn that Gov. Brown has received offers
of service from 215 companies, exclusive of the
first five regiments, and still the offers are pouring
in every day.
We learn by a private letter that the Blodget
Volunteers are now at Gosport Navy Yard, all
well and “spoiling for a fight.” Letters or pack
ages intended for any member of the corps should
be addressed to Portsmouth, Va., care of Captain
Blodgkt. The Company reached their present
quarters last Friday noon.
Oglethorpe Infantry. —We have neglected to
mention the recent organization of Company B
of the Oglethorpe Infantry. The charter of the
Oglethorpes gives them power to divide the Com
pany and form an independent Battalion whenev
er their numbers warrant it, and this has now
been done. A meeting ol Company B was held
od Monday night, aud the following officers
elected:
Captain—E. W. Akslmy.
Ist Lieut—M. A. Mustin.
2d 44 Frank H. Miller.
8d 44 T. 11. Hollevuian.
Ist Sergeant—M. G. Hester.
2d 44 P. E. Love.
3d 44 C. W. Hersev.
4th 4 * George K. Morris.
sth 44 Wrn. McLaughlin.
Ist Corporal—Joseph B. Morris.
2d “ B. F. Tutt.
8d 44 Robert Walton, Jr.
4th 44 John M. Heard.
Secretary—W. C. Jessup.
Treasurer —James W. Bones.
Collector —John T. Miller.
The Independent Hlues.
Wc learn from Captain Richards, who has just
returned from a visit to Gov. Brown, that his
company will certainly be in the Bth Regiment.
I The sth will rendezvous to-day in Macon, the 6th
j in u few days afterwards v i 1 follow them ; the
I 7th anu 3tL will then move in two weeks, or less
i time, if they can be equipped. We also learn
! iron Capt. Richards th t his company is dow
’ fuily prepared for it arching ; their uniforms art
i neorit all ready—they are having them made by
I the poor women of the city, rntny of whom have
■ volunteered to make them for & mere seng.
| Many ot the original members of this company
have, in their enthusiasm to proceed to the scat
of war, left with other companies, while a few
have remained and kept up the organization ; and
now tuat they have a positive prouise that they
are to be in tbe picture, they will go on and
strengthen, drill, and by tbe time they receive
their marching orders they will compare well
with any Teteran company in the State. They
now number about fifty men rank and file, many
of whom are old soiiiers, sevetal having seen
service on the bloody fields of Mexico.
We would beg that our citizens see that they
want for nothing to fit them out for the campaign,
ust-ev are Augusta boys, born and reared among
us, and their ants should all be anticipated by
their fellow-clu.zens.
The Editor of the Rome Courier , who is an offi
cer in one of the Floyd companies, aDd who has
been in camp lately near Marietta under Brig.
Gen. Phillips, for the purpose of efficient drill,
savs Gov. Brown made a short speech to the offi
cers, stating that be designed the Fourth Brigade
for a Home Guard, to remain in Georgia, and be
prepared to protect our people from invasion,
should invasion be attempted. This produced
quite a murmuring among the officers, who were
all anxious for a more active service than that
promised to be, and o the Governor next dav
made another speech, modifying his previous one,
counselling patience and thorough preparation, but
stating that the prospect was good that all should
have a chance for service, either m the Confede
rate army, or for the defence ol the State.
Washington dispatches of the 6th to the Xew
York Courier ik Enquirer state that twenty ot
Ellsworth’s Zouaves have been pat in irons for
breaking into the steward's .pantry. They also
state the number and position of Lincoln’s troops
t b ui a* Chambersburg, 8,000,. York 6,ooo‘Lan
caster 5,000, Harrisburg 10,010, Washington 20,-
000, Brooks, the spy arrested by Gen. Butler, is a
clever young Mary *acder of good family, but will
probably be hung—Gov. Sprague has been posi
tively offered a Brigadi -r Generalship.
Powder is being manufactured on a large scale
now in Nashville —percussion caps also.
Provide for tbe Soldier und Hle Family.
Is there a man, woman or child among us that
does not feel a burning desire to do something
te do all in their power—for our common coun
try, for our gallant volunteers, and their families’
Surely there can be none such. This is tbe day
and time to try men's souls. Many ot us must
remain at borne of course, at least for Ihe present,
for there is no pressing need of our services in
camp, while tha peaceful duties of home require
attention. But we can all be of service in some
manner. This is our duty, a sacred duty, and it
should be a pleasure to render whatsoever service
we are capable of performing. All we have, and
are, and expect to be, should bo devoted with
holy enthusiasm to our country. For, what have
we to live for, what have we to expect or desire,
if by our supineness, or remissness, or neglect of
duty, our independence is not secured, and we
made the vassals of a hated, and intolerable
fanatic tyranny ? Away with such ideas.
We desire to call the attention of the people of
Richmoud, of the people generally, to the impor
tance and necessity of an organized, • systematic
and thorough plan for aiding iu the great cause,
for providing for the soldier and his family.
While we are here living peaceably and comforta
bly at home, with our families around us, enjoy
ing life as usual, many a brave heart has under
gone the terrible ordeal, (more terrible than the
dangers of battle,! of separation from wife and
children and friends, many a noble fellow has
left a pleasant home and minor duties, to fulfil
the great duty of the soldier, to fight for his coun
trv aye to fight jor t it. And muuy of them too
are poor in this world's goods, and have left fami
lies unprovided. They accept the hard living,
the fatigues, the toil and danger of the camp,
while mourning hearts at home look to others for
help. Shall they look in vain ? When the mother
and wife and sister, and all the little prattlers,
gather under the roof tree at night, thinking of
aud praying for the absent, shall they not always
feel that their couutrv and their countrymen will
provide for them, will shield them with a holy
love, aud, as far as may be, wipe all tears away?
Do not our soldiers and their families deserve all
our care ? And is there one heart in all this land
that answers not to such a call, that is cut ofl
from that grand sympathy that makes us all, in
this sore trial, one family, one brotherhood ?
Many, very many, have responded nobly, aud
have shown what stuff they are made of. Many
more stand ready to help. But still there are
very many who can give but little, and therefore
give not st all, while others hnvo no convenient
opportunity to lend a helping hand, not knowing
how and where to help. And for these reasons
we suggest that, at an early day, there be a meet
ing of the citizens of Richmond County, and in
fact of all the counties, to request, as has already
beeu done in some instances, that the Inferior
Court issue bonds to the amount of two, five, ten
or twenty thousand dollars, as a Soldiers’ Fund,
and to levy an extra tax to meet these bonds,
pledging the county for their redemption. It
would be proper to relieve the property of all
who are, or may be, iu service from this tax, and
also the property of those who have already con
tributed so liberally, should they desire it, which
they are not likely to do.
All Hall, Tennessee !
The injunction of secresv has been removed
from the action of the Teunessee Legislature, aud
the Declaration of Independence, as also the
League with the Confederacy, to continue in
torce until Tennessee is regularly admitted into
the family, are published. Both acts arc to be
submitted to the people for ratification on the Bth
of June, and will he ratified by an overwhelming
majority. For the Ordinance of Secession, the
vote stood iu the Senate 20 to 4, one absent—in
the House 46 to 21, absent aud aot voting, 8. The
League is signed by H. W. Hilliard on the part of
the Confederate States, and by G. A. Henry, A.
0, W. Totten and Washington Barrow on the part
of Teuuosaee.
Arkansas, too, a State we never doubted, is out
of the old Union unconditionally, by a vote of
fiS to 1.
An Augusta ilTr.de Locomotive.
Yesterday afternoon, by tho polite luvitution of
Wjs. llarlman, Master Machinist of the Georgia
Railroad, we visited Be! Air to witness the work
ing of tho new engine, “ New Republic.”
This engine was almost entirely rebuilt at the
Georgia Railroad Maohine Shop, in this city. Her
dimensions are as follows : Cyliuder, 18}*'x24
inches. Wheels feet diameter. The valve
gear consists of a shifting link motion, with
inch throw of eccentrics; outside lap of valve,
inch j inside ditto, % inch. Her boiler contains
103 two-iuch copper fines, 10 feet 6 inches long.
The grate measures 34x83 inches. She steams
well with 2% inch exhaust nozzles. She is in
every respect a perfect engine, und on her trial
trip yesterday worked beautifully, running as
smoothly as an “ old stager,” and calling forth
the encomiums of all. Mr. Frank Sal* is the en
gine driver, and handles his fiery steed with such
ease and composnre as only experience and a tho
rough knowledge of his business can give. The
entire work was done under the immediate direc
tion of Mr. Hardman, und proves conclusively
that Georgia mechanics have no supcriois.
We are glad to ohroniclo this step forward to
success on the part of the Georgia Road, aud be
lieve that the awakened energies of our people
will soon free us from any dependence |upnn the
North. In all branches of industry and trade,
we only need to patronize home manufactures,
to convince the world that the South is illimitable
In her resources, and can maintain her indepen
dence.
We return our thanks to the courteous Mana
gers of the Georgia Road, for the pleasant trip,
and assure them that in their Meohanical Depart
ment they will find a llard man to beat, while
their engines will always have a prompt and ao
tive Sale.
In connection, we may state that the Engine,
C. T. Pollard, rebuilt at this shop about a year
ago, has been constantly running since, and has
never had a dollar expended in repairs.
Rm.iiir roe. tub Volunteers at Savannah. A
subscription list has been opened at the office of the
Republican, in Savannah, to supply the volunteers
now quartered in that city and on the islands be
low, (the second regiment; w ith such articles iu
the way of necessaries and comforts aa they need.
The respouses were ample and numerous, and
the plan was at one* put into operation, and air
instalment of provisions scut them on Tuesday.
Rbv. J. S. Lamar, in the abseuce of Mr. Ells.
assumes the editorial supervision of the Southern
Field if Fireside. Eld. Lamar is a polished and
vigorous writer, and will adorn the position he
occupies.
The Tribune’s Washington correspondent tele
graphs last Friday the 3rd, that a proclamation
might he expeoted from Lincoln by Monday last,
avowing his determined aud comprehensive poli
cy. Geo. Scott had telegraphed Butler,— and
they had been closeted all day, the Chief giving
Ben full instructions. Baltimore was to bo ap
proached and occupied by four colnmus of tin
army, one from Perryville, one from Harris uig,
one from Annapolis aud one from Washington.
But down this way we have not yet got the
proclamation, and hear nothing of the occupation
of Baltimore. Why don’t Old Abe do something ?
Even the three days grace, if allowed, have now
expired. Times are getting dcidedly dull in this
latitude. Our people are getting very tired sf
waiting on Lincoln, who seems waiting for
“something to tarn up.”
Interesting from Pensacola. —The Montgome
ry Advertiser of the 7th, says : “A gentleman who
arrived in this city from Pensacola yesterday,
reports that the blockade of the harbor was de
clared on Friday last, and was to be enforced
yesterday. The greatest activity prevails amongi t
the Confederate troops at the Navy Yard and at
Pensacola. There were two deaths on Saturday
among the troops very unexpectedly, one of the
young meu falling dead in the ranks whilst on
parade. There is but little or no sickness preva
lent amongst the soldiers. Many persons residing
in Pensacola are becoming alarmed, lest the city
should be ottacked by Lincoln’s forces, aud are
moving their families into the country. Gen. Bragg
it is stated, has caused a number of vessels to be
sunk in the harbor, so as to prevent the approach
of the fleet off the harbor.”
The Montgomery correspondent of the Savan
nah Hepullican says the Congress will not make
Richmond the capital of the Confederate States.
Wo think Atlanta, Huntarille, Nashville, ora neu
city, to be built on the Charleston and Memphis
lioad at the point of contact of the States of Ala
bama, Mississippi and Tennessee, would either be
preferable to Richmond.
From the Macon Citizen we learn that the cars
on the S. W. Road were thrown from the track on
Thursday, at Sweet Water Creek, in consequence
of some malicious person having removed a rail
The engine ran down the bank, some 25 feet high,
carrying the three forward ears, and injuring
every person in those cars. Among others was
Mr. Adams, brother of the Superintendent of the
Central Road, not expected to recover, a news
boy, Mr. Wm. Graves, and a lady, name un
known.
It is noted as a remarkable fact that not many of
tbe abolitionists are volunteering to fight the battle
they have brought on ; but on the contrary the so
called moderate Republicans, the Democrats and
the Bell-Everetts furnish most of the soldiers.
The radicals prefer to do their fighting on paper,
to plan tbe campaign, to stir np bad blood, and to
urge on those who are disposed to fight. Promi
nent among the military leaders of tbe Northern
soldiery are many Democrats, but it is qnit possi
ble that they are matched, and that they need
watching, for who knows but they may at any
moment come over, with tbeir regiments, to the
South ? Greeley bad better look after these
fellows, and say a sly word to Lincoln on that
account
Incidents or Camp Lira at Pensacola. —A cor
respondent,of the Eufaula Spirit of the South
gives the following humorous description of tbe
appointment of an aid-de-camp by Gen. Bragg :
Privates Bullock, Pugh and Cochran, of the
Eufaula Rifles, have just nad a very high compli
ment paid them by Gen. Bragg. The General
sent a blank commission to the three above nam
ed, requesting them to fill the commission with
one of their names. Pugh positively declined
and Bullock, without hesitation, remarked that in
a game of “Bragg,” if no one went better, the
“Age” raked down the pile, therefore Cochran,
holding the age, was entitled to the position, and
we must call him hereafter by his real rank, Col.
Cochran, which, heretofore, he has been, only by
courtesy Gen. Bragg showed Lis judgment in
the selection, tnan which no better could have
been made. Long life and happiness to our wire
grass John.
Armed Neutrality—Position of the
Border.
Since the glorious action of Virginia, in sever
ing her connection with an abolitionized and a
despotic and usurping Government, and refusing
longer to allow Virginians to be vaeeals of an
organized numerical tyranny, we have had no
doubts of the ultimate course of Tennessee, North
Carolina and Arkansas, and very little as to Ken
tucky, Missouri and Maryland. As to Delaware,
we should be glad to have her along with ns too,
but very few people, North or South give much
heed to her any way. She is but a small State,
and really not much interested in slavery, having
less than 2,000 slaves within her borders. Vir
ginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and Arkansas
are already, to all intents and purposes, mem
bers of our Confederacy, while Kentucky, Missou
ri, Maryland and Delaware are still halting in
their action.
After Lincoln’s war proclamation of the 16th
April there appeared temporarily an armed neu
trality party in Tennessee, but it was quickly
swept away, as the people came to see that the
North was determined on subjugation of the
South, was bent upon maiutainiug, or re-organi
bv arms, an enforced and hateful Union,
whose Constitution should be the Chicago Plat
form, and the body and bone of whose ruling
class was actuated by the fiercest hate towards
us, and maddened with the purpose of destroying
our property by its army of liberation. Such a
party still exists in Maryland, Kentucky and
Missouri. And while we can not but respect
many of the men composing this organization,
while we do not doubt their fidelity aud their in
tegrity, wo can not oomprehend how there is any
political sagacity iu their proposed action, or any
safety, or indeed any possibility of maintaining
such a position.
Whatever these men may have thought hereto
lore, however blinded by party prejudices, how
ever naturally inclined to rebel against what they
deemed precipitate, ill-considered aud uutraternal
action ou the part of the Confederate States, day
unto day is adding knowledge to them, that this is
a contest in which ail must eventually take sides,
that it is a war of the united free-labor States
against our socisl and labor systems, as well as
against our inalienable right to govern ourselves
as we see fit, aud that all the slaveholding States
mutt unite, or else those who are not for us, must
prepare for speedy emancipation at home. If any
of the present slaveholding States have delibe
rately determined to givo up tho institution of
slavery, then they may well cast their fortunes
with tho North—if not, their natural, their inevi
table position is with the Confederacy, sooner or
later, and tho sooner the better.
It is out of the question for these States to
maintain neutrality between the contending sec
tions ; and in fact they are already, in our opinion,
arrayed in open rebellion to the Government of
Lincoln, aud are so held by tho North. They have
neglected and refused to furnish their quota of
soldiers to put dowu “combinations,” and to
“possess aud hold the property” claimed Dy the
Government, and are thus iu rebellion. For this
action on their part, they are denounced as trait
ort, worse than rebels, by the whole Abolition press,
and it is apparent that the Government is piepar
ing to treat them as rebels. Lincoln’s Govern
ment, of its own free will, or under the lash of tho
most furious and unreasoning of musters, a blind
mob, is preparing to overrun aud subjugate Mary
land, and to blot out her great city, preparatory
to its great purpose of subjugating the whole
Rlaveboldiog section. In fact tho Government
holds it to be a necessity of its position to hold its
Capital—for otherwise it is destroyed root and
branch—and it manifestly cannot hold Washing
ton without subjugating Maryland, and thus keep
ing its way open for retreat to tho North.
Such being the condition of affairs, Maryland
can not be neutral. She must cither bow abjectly
to the Chicago Government, must sutler an aboli
tion soldiery quartered in her towns, around her
firesides, in the midst of her servile population
must furnish men and money to subjugate her
Southern brethren, or she must strike for inde
pendence, lor her own imperilled liberties, for the
institutions handed down to her sons from the
fathers of the revolution, for the South, with
which she is iudentified by intorest, by common
institutions, and by tho strong tics of blood. Can
tbe descendants of the old Maryland line hesitate
about the path of duty aud of houor ? Alas for
tho noble old State, she does teem to hesitate ; but
we trust it is only a seemiug hesitation. We
know what love of Union aud loyalty to existing
Government are, wo know too how hard it is for
men to conquer their party feelings, and wo know
well that Maryland is in a more trying and diffi
cult position than any other State has yet occu
pied. Comparatively unarmed, and her troops
unorganized, menaced in all directions by men
who are lost to every seutiiiieniof truth and justice
and honor, wo feel for her, and we feel the utmost
charity in our heart towards hor. We trust her
yet, wo have no taunts for her—we hope the
apparent Unionism of the last tew days, is only a
present necessity of hor position, to be worn till
she is better prepared, lint we car. not yet be
lieve that Maryland will side with the North
against, the South, tha tshe will prove cowardly, or
faithless to liberty. In her own good time, if tbe
deep policy of her leaders, as we understand it,
ahall succeed, Maryland will strike, and when she
ia ready to striko we shall be ready to aid her.—
By popular consent, or without it, Maryland will
refuse submission to Lincoln’s subjugation, or we
can not appeciatc her people.
Kentucky and Missouri are not now in such a
critical condition as Maryland, but already their
borders aro threatened, and as soon as Lincoln
feels strong euough he will declare they shall
fight for him or against him. Neutral they can
not be, take sides they must, and which side will
l hey take? They never will obey Lincoln’s or
ders to subjugate us—they must aid us and will.
The New York Herald is still disposed to give
an occasional dig in the ribs to those nice fellows
who control the radical, or as Bennett calls It,
the incendiary press, of the Empire city. The
Herald denouncos with equal malignity the Abo
tion disnnionists and the Southern Rebels ; and is
striving hard to induce the belief that this infa
mous war is not for the subjugation of the South,
not for tho üboliiion of slavery, not for the des
truction of our property, hut simply and purely
to maintain the government as against anarchy.
Tho Herald knows just ns well as the Tribune,
Times, Courier and Pest, which latter openly de
clare the fact, that the real animus of this war
is the irrepressible conflict of Lincoln und Sew
ard, is the subjugation and destruction of the
South and her material interests, but it chooses to
to pretend otherwise, believing that there is a
large class North that is unwilling to wage a war
ot subjugation, but which may be held to fight, by
the preteucc of sustaining government rattier
than submit to lawlessness. Generally the Her
ald sustains Lincoln better than those who elected
him, bnt even it warns him to keep up with th©
public sentiment, and in its issue of May Ist has
the following sensational paragraph :
The Empire City controls the public opinion
and the fate of the L’uited States. If tho govern
ment take the tide at the flood it will he borne on
to fortune ; if not, it may soon be left on tbe
shoals a stranded wreck. Already have we be
come apathetic; and if the I’resident and his
Cabinet do pot act with vigor before the enthu
siasm has time to ebb, the opportunity will be
lost forever, and the neit great enthusiasm may
be started by some dashing event in a very differ
ent direction.
The New York Herald, seeing the necessity of
removing the Capital from Washington, suggests
New York city us the proper Capital of tho old
Union.
Hon. R. M. T. Hcntbk, one of the Virginia
delegates to the Confederate Congress, passed
through Atlanta Thursday morning, on bis way
to Montgomery.
The ladies of Virginia propose to cut up their
India-rubber piano covers to make blankets for
the soldiers, to be spread on th e ground for them
to rest on.
The New York Poet says the great demand for
flags has raised the price of hunting— procured
from England—from four dollars and seventy-five
cents to twenty-eight dollars a piece. Book mus
tin, usually worth six to tea cents, now brings
three dollars a yard.
Majom or tbe Georgia Battalion at Noreole.
Capt. Thus. Hardeman, of the Floyd Rifles, has
been elected Major of this Battalion over Capt.
Robt. A. Smith, by a majority of 79 votes.
llon. Howell Cobb, in a letter to the Athens
Banner, announces his unalterable determination
to retire to private life on ths expiration of his
present term of office.
A correspondent of the Savannah Republican
says there are no Virginia troops at the Gosport
(Va.) Nary Yard; all Georgians, numbering
abont 1,500, and with few exceptions all well.
The Montgomery Advertiser of the 9th, says :
Gen. Beauregard left this city for Charleston last
night.
The Confederate States says there is a member
of the Confederate Guards, of Pike county, who
weighs 350 lbs, and is a well-made, muscular man
at that. Seventeen of the Company exceed six
feet two inches in height, and a majority are six
feet tall.
There was a grand ratification rally and jubilee
of the Freemen of Tennessee, at Nashville, on
Wednesday evening last.
Lincoln’s Secretary of the Treasury, Chase, has
ordered the Surveyor of Customs at New Albany,
Ind., to “ arrest all shipments to States controlled
by insurrectionists.”
We understand that a delegation from the Pio
neer Hook and Ladder Company, and from the
Home Guards of the Clinch Rifles will pav their
friends in Macon a parting visit, leaving Augusta
to-night.
SELr-McßOßß.—Some of the Northern States
have the following fundamental declaration in
their Bills of Rights:
“All power is inherent In the people ; all free
governments are founded on their authority and
instituted for their benefit; they have therefore
an inalienable and indefeaaible right to institute
government, and alter, reform, or totally change
the same, when their safety and happiness re
quire it.”
This undeniable postulate and law of Republi
can liberty, embraced as it is in State papers, re
fers to the people of the State, as a distinct polit
ical community. It is this inestimable, right ol
self-government that, bv a strange fatuity, these
very people are now fighting to destroy. I hey
are so blinded by rage that they do not see that
they are figntfng against their own rights as well
as against ours. The war they ere rallying for is
a war of self-destruction and luicide.— Richmond
Whig.
Ttoe Programme or the War.
We, the people of the South, are all in the dark
gr!lmrae deUrml '’ d by our Gov
ment for the prosecution of the war. We areig
norant as to the designs, aim, and purpose, of
the Administration, except the one Grand Pur
pose-Independence. We can only conjecture
what our Government ts doing and designs doing
from what we see, and know to be actually trans
piring. Six thousand troops from South Caroli
na, Georgia and Alabama, have gone forward to
Virginia, while that State, North Carolina and
Tennessee will furnish many thousands. The
President in his message informs ui that sixteen
thousand troops from the Confederate States are
en route to the Old Dominion. But what is to be
done when a sufficient number of troops is con
centrated there, what are the details of the cam
paign, we can only guess at. And this is perfect
ly right; for if we knew tho designs of the Ad
> ministration, there would be danger that the ene
my might kuow them also. It is suggested, and
wisely too, that even the movement of troops
should not be made public. We all have the ut
most confidence in President Davis, whether at
Montgomery or at the head of the Army, and feel
perfectly assured that he aud his advisers are do
ing all things well. They are no doubt as thor
oughly informed of tbe progress of events as the
case will admit of, and prepared, and preparing,
to meet all exigencies. While the general, al
most universal, impression is, that Virginia, and
possibly Maryland and Kentucky will be the seat
of war for the present, yet this may be quickly
changed by a change of programme on tho part
of the North. With 20,000 to 50,000 of their best
men hemmed in in Washington, 80,000 more
watching Maryland, and Virginia prepared to de
fend herself, Jsfp Davis may suddenly attack in
the West or in the North. But stirring times are
just ahead, and wo shall see things more clearly
in a few days, perhaps.
But while matters are thus with us, the press
und public of the North profess to be acquainted
with Lincoln’s programme, or are eager and per
sistent in making one for him. Whilo we should
not receive any of their statements as to the plan
of campaign, becafise it is very plaiu that no re
liance can be placed on their words, or even their
oaths, of one thing we may bo well assured, they
have it in their hearts to do us any hurt they can,
they hate us and would destroy us, they have de
clared for a civil aud a servile war, and the injury
they will inflict will be ill proportion to thoir pow
er and their courage, and their military prowess.
Tho general understanding of Lincoln’s pro
gramme seems to be to hold Washington with
20,000 t 040,000 men, to threaten Baltimore, per
haps ev-m to lay it in ashes, (Gen. K*m of Penn
sylvania ulready being at tho head, it is said, of
15,000 men, marching forward to overawe the
Monumental oitv, to he backed up by other troops
under Pattirnon, and still others from the North,)
hold Anuupolis nnd keep Maryland in chains,
and then to udvanco rapidly on Alexandria, Har
per’s Ferry, Norfolk aud Richmond. It is pro
posed further to march an army from the West
to Wheeling, to rally the scattered element of
Unionism, aud in addition to concentrate a strong
force near the Kentucky and Missouri border, say
at Cairo. At the same time there is to be a
thorough nnd efficient blockade of tho whole coast
from the Virginia capes to the Rio Grande, by
means of fifty armed vessels; while Fort Pickens
is to be held at. any cost, and Fort Sumter retaken,
This seems to be the generally understood plan,
and we think they who planned it have cut out a
good deal of hard work for themselves.
The Times, howevor, proposes a somewhat dif
ferent plan, to hold Washington and Maryland,
blockade the const strictly, and keep a large force
hovering along the Atlantic aud the Gulf, ready
to strike at the most assailable point, and thus
keep us constantly on the watch at home with
large bodies of troops, and prevent our progress
Northward. One hundred, two hundred, three
hundred, even as high as five hundred thousand
soldiers are glibly offered Government, but the
figures never get beyond a half million men. That
the North is determined, so far as it may bo ablo,
to make the war us terrific, ub sharp and us short
as possible, seems beyond doubt. How far they
may be able to accomplish Ihe grand work they
propose, tho future must disclose.
Meanwhile wo rest assured and cuufideut hi the
justice of our cause, the blessing of heaven, and
the strength of our right arms. Our government
is strong in the affections of our people, and we
feel no uneasiness that it will fail ill any part of
its duty. Steadily but quietly it is mastering the
situation, and organising its forces. In a day, in
an hour almost, it may striko where a blow is least
expected. Tens of thousands are marshalling
themselves for tho fray, while other tens of thou
sands are restive, and impatient to see the smoke
and hear the roar of battle. And while we may
scud into the field, in a very short time, one or
two hundred thousand soldiers, such soldiers us
the world has never before produced, we must
keep a reserve force always on hand, always ready
to march, of a quarter to a half million. When
one man, or company, or regiment falls, let thero
be ever another ready to take the vacunt place,
the place of honor, of duty, of glory. In fact it
is proper now that every man und boy should ho
u soldier—or be ready to go whenever ho is called.
It can do no possible harm for all to be organized,
armed, drilled and Accustomed to act quickly nnd
act in concert; nnd it may prove to be of vast
advantage to us. With even our common arms,
if we be accustomod to military exercise and
military duty, Georgia may easily protect herself
against 20,000 to 50,000 invaders, thrown suddenly
upon ns, notwithstanding we may have 26,000 or
60,000 of our men iu service away from home.
The safe way is to be always prepared, for we
know not what our enemies may attempt.
According to accounts Now York has had anoth
er severe turn lately, another sadden fright; or
else the press is driven to this ruse in order to
furnish new fuel to the war-flreg. It is a great
wonder that these people can sleep soundly in
their beds at night, if indeed they do so, for a
guilty conscience must be their constant com
panion, a hideous, ever-present never-receding
nightmare, always provided their consciences are
not seared as with a hot iron. They must dream
horrid dreams, and have the death’s-head always
before them. No doubt their nightly prayer is,
(if they are not too far gone, too thoroughly be
sotted and given over, to believe in the efficacy of
prayer,) to be delivered from the bands of Jure.
Davis, and from the dread thereof.
The Times Washington correspondent tele
graphs thus on the 7th of May :
A highly respectable and well-known citizen of
New 1 ork, who arrived to-day, from Now Orleans,
after spending several weeks in the South, asserts,
with much earnestness and sincere concern, that
we are all living here in a state of false security
—that an army of $100,,000 men is pushing its
way hither by railroad rapidly. They expect to
capture this city before next Saturday, and will
give no quarter, but put every man, woman and
chihl to the sword. lie adds that he liaH seen
this army, been in and among it, and heard con
stantly its fearful imprecations upon those who
adhere to the Union.
In the same issue of the Times, ol the nth, there
is a letter from Washington, stating that the
whole number of troops in that city on the 4th of
May, including the District Volunteers and Regu
lars, was 15,700—more probably under than be
yond that number. And in the Baine paper ap
pear the following urgent telegrams to Governor
Morgan, who had previously ordered the 20th
Regiment, of Ulster County, back home, but who
immediately ordered them on again to Washing
ton :
New York, May 8,1861.
Gov. Morgan : We hare reliable information, in
which we have implicit confidence, that the capi
tal is in immediate peril. What action do you
recommend?
(Signed; S. Draper, Chairman.
New York, May fi.
Gov. Morgan: The Government asks for 5,000
stand of arms. The case admits of no delay. Can
Gen. Welch furnish them from tbe Aisenal here,
to be replaced from Springfield ?
(Signed; J an A. Dix, Chairman.
F )!. Blatchpobd,
is. Draper.
New Yore, May 6 P. M.
Gov Morgan : On information just received I
advise the Twentieth Regiment to be sent to Wash
ington to-night by 8 o’clock train. Highly im
portaut.
(Signed) Jam eb S. Wadsworth.
And accordingly the Regiment was dispatched
with all speed, by the first train, to Washington.
These people are entirely in the dark as to our
intentions and our movements, and this ignorance,
coupled with conscious guilt, may well affright
them. Their Zouave thieves and rabble soldiery
may not know this fear, but evidently their chiefs
feel it, notwithstanding all their bluster.
Governor Harris, of Teuneasee, has nominated,
and the Legislature has unanimously confirmed
the following officers :
Major Generals—Gideon J. Pillow,
Samuel R. Anderson.
Brigadiers—Felix K. Zollicoffer,
B. F. Cheatham,
R. 0. Foster,
John L. T. Sneed,
W. R. Caswell.
Adjutant General—Dan. S. Donelson.
Inspector General—Wm. H. Carrell.
Quartermaster General—Vernon R. Stevenson.
Commissary General—R. G. Fain.
Paymaster Gcnerl—William Williams.
Surgeon General—Dr. Paul F. Eve.
From the Atlanta Intelligencer wo learn that a
white man was recently caught tampering with
negroes, in the neighborhood of Kingston, and
that he was probably hang on Saturday. Served
him right. It is well to be prudent in these mat
ters, but when & man’s guilt is proven plainly to
the satisfaction of a half dozen or dozen of the
coolest citizens, swing him instantly to the first
limb.
Save Your Seeds. —As this is tho season for
our farmers and Gardeners to save their turnip
seed we would advise them to begin now and save
all, as well as ail other kind of garden seeds us
they become fit to gather. It is more than prob
able that next season we will need them, as all
Northern seeds wi 1I
The Atlanta Commonwealth aays that Messrs.
Winship, Iron Founders, of that city, can, by the
addition of a very few tools, engage in the manu
facture of pistols. Now is the time to begin
manufacturing revolvers, sewing machines and
the thousand and one patent Yankee inventions,
as there is no patent law in fores here, protecting
them.
Andrew Johnson and Representative Nrlson
were prevented from speaking, a few days since
in Bristol, Tenn., and this by the almost nnani
mous voioe of the crowd assembled. So says the
Knoxjille Register.
The Kentucky (Lincoln) regiments, which |it is
said Major Anderson is to command, were raised
almost entirely in Otnoinnati Ohio.
Live at Home.
This should now be the motto of every one in
the Confederate States-not merely to talk of W
to live by and to live up to. Yes, let u. !,> a t
home, and make every thing f or ourselves that
we have heretofore got from the North if
possible unless we can get it cheaper eise.here
Let us all determine now, and stand bv it tl, i
we will use nothing hereafter of Northern growth
manufacture or importation, unless compelled hv
the direst necessity We have bought, year after
year from those who now clearly manifest their
hostility to us, and their will to subjugate or to
exterminate us, millions of dollars worth of be
con live stock, butter, apples, onion,, p,,!
tatoes, hay, and manufactured articles of evL
description ; besides buying largely of what thov
r“a 0r From? Asia aud South A '-
this cease A°'i’ en=eforth aud forever, let all
tbe fashion ofspe lZ'T
t * le summer, and millions
” “ and V Dg N ° r,herD watering
places, and sea-s,de resort,. We can find as Plea
san sea bathing and as good medicinal waters,
(with vastly better company) South as North.
The North will import no more foreign goods
forns. that is certain, because, if f or no other
reason, such a business would be too costly Then
the question is, can we not do without the provi
sions aud the manufactured articles wo havo here
tofore relied on tbe North to furnish us-can we
not produce or make all these thing, ourselves,
or get them elsewhere ? We can, and should,
and must. The North has boastingly said you*
must buy from us, or go unsupplied, but the arri
val of two cargoes of Nova Scotia ice at Savan
nah, knocks from under them tho last boast of
necessity. Is there Any one among us who sup
poses the South can not supply itself abundantly
with every thing in the provision line, except tea
and coffee, and still produce 4,000,000 balsa o|
cotton, ana have yet enough labor to manufactiirt
millions worth of shoes, hats, frrniture, coarsi
cottons and woollens ? Or if we can not manu
faeture these things, can we not do without man
of them entirely for a time, or buy them in Er
rope? Sixty million bushels of wheat is ampl
sufficient for seed and for food for the South, i
addition to corn, and that can, under a better syi
tem of culture be produced by Virginia alone, i
Georgia alono, from 3,000,000 acres of land, re
quiring 120,000 laborers only two mouths i
twelve ; 260,000,000 bushel, of Indiau corn w
amply feed the laborers, horses and mules, hot
and cattle, in addition to tho oats that may b.
produced by the same labor, at timea when tin
corn culture is not progressing. Ten millions o
acres, and the labor of a million people may be
made to produce this corn, without interfering
with the cottou, sugar, rice, tobacco, or small
grain crops. Who shall sav that wc can not pro-’
ducc our own food, whon see the ncccssty for it?
And cuu uot we make our bulter, onions, hay,
Ac ? If we can not, we ought to use none, but
we cun, and easily.
As to manufactures, we never expect or desire
our couutry to become a great manufacturing
country. We want no immense Lowells, Man
chester*, Birmingham,, for they suit not the gen
ius of our people, our institutions, or our govern
ment. But cuu we not make our carriages and
furniture here ? Gan we not mnke our natiaburgs,
drills, shirtings, Ac.? Can we not make coarse
plains, kerseys, Ac., sufficient to clothe our labor
ers, with the best sheep country in the world, and,
if that be not available, with South American wool
at eight to fourteen cents per pound ? The great
est difficulty wc Bee, is in regard to leather anil
shoes, but hides are plenty aud cheap In South
America, and wo have the bark aud the labor a
home. We can get shoes however from Uelgiujn
and hats, prints, delaines, muslins, silks, velvets
cloths Ac., from Europe, and we get none of thin:
but shoes, hats, prints and delaines from the Nqfrt
now. We already import directly, and haveifo
years, hardware, cutlery, Ac., from Engldiu
England does not make the kind of axes, Imw
Ac., that wo want, but she will soon learn, oa w
can make them ourselves. “Necessity isfltli
mother of invention,” and we already see ourMiei
pie, uuder the spur of the moment, with hut j|itf
skilled labor and experience, manufacturing lAnn
things that wo have heretofore thought vve Ami
not.
But we have no time to enlarge upon thiJsu
ject. We believe, we are thoroughly convilien
that wo can get along without our Northern
ren that wo can produce ami make for
or buy in some other market, everything
heretofore bought of the North. Lotus mllH
determine from this out, that while we
live members of the sumo go /eminent
North, neither will wo have any dealings
heretics—not to the value of a farthing.
ism and self-interest both require thi* of
are not dependent on them fur anything-
is the time to prove it to them. Let tho
as if there were nn impassable gulf
and the North.
Our Atlanta friends made a slight
Thursday, having arrested tho Hon.
W i tn.DKit, formerly a State Senator in
was passing through the Guto City and
the Ticket Agent wliat was supposed to
terfeit silver coin, for a ticket to St. Louis. H
Bankers pronounced tho coin spurious,
druggists said it was genuine.
Mayor telegraphed to Montgomery, and reeH
a reply from the whole Texas delegation
greas, stating that Mr. Waklukr was
them as nti honorable man. So he was
and went ou his way, rejoicing.
BICoI. John K. Jwckson left our city
Waynesboro train last night to assume comi^B
of his regiment, the Fifth Georgia. He will I
ceed to his destination, Pensacola, with
maining two companies of the regimont,
Macon, the other eight having alrmi.lv
—Col. Jackson will doubtless be in time h i B|
fight, which will soon begin at Fort
he aud his regiment will give a good
themselves.
For the Chronicle k Sentinel.
Tho Orgnniznilon mid llqulpimi
Ike Georgia Xroops.
There is a great fault m this thing,
All the volunteer companies, that are ■■ xj.. ilii
lie called into service, might ul once to he
into camp, for drill and discipline, suppli EH
tents and all necessary equipments for a
life—all at the expense of the Slate, lint
of this, they are notified to hold
readiness to march “ at a moment's
they are enabled In comply with such an
must be at their own expense tin (hm JB
furnishes nothing hut th, i.rdcr. It i . . ,
S4O to SSO apieee to proiide tlie ncee-sal
(besides arms;—many are pool aud unable
the expense, yet they are expected to he
” a moment’s notice” to put out ami light
tics ol tiie country. The result is, that
compelled to provide for themselves, or
condition wholly unprepared,
health and lives (unnecessarilv) to the
Os the weather ; undisciplined, willing,
üble to do half service iu the fight.
is cooled, their love of country abated, am|H
manhood degraded ali this from a y n
niggardly spirit on the part of those
it is to make the proper provisions n hn>
the desire to economise a little pittance
State, by compelling the brave volunteers
necessity) to provide those things at their
pense. If this be so, there is a littleness,
und meanness iu it, not much above Old
his pack. Do men expect our brave
("we will have no drafted men; to light the
of the country aud pay the expense of
We know the people of Georgia—thev
such thing. One soldier, properly
provided and cared for, is worth a hall
disciplined, catched up, rxpoe-il, iincureil
soul of whose manhood has been crushed
neglect and had laith on tho part of their
meat.
But it may he said, in such times as
ought to economise. Such economy is “ s,.®
| the spigot aud losing at the bung/’ But
thoritiea have not had time to provide
things ! Five months, with the control of®
ion, not tune enough? If one million
enough, we, the people of Georgia, have
ten, or any other amount necessary for
pose. Let our soldiery be at ouce
ted out and provided for like meu, as tflg
All we have and arc is dependant upon th®
them feel it, by our gratitude for their
and our hearth-stones are all safe.
feel the degradation in failing to supply
wly provide for our soldiery, and make
like men, we with our wives and little ouißS
prefer to sit upon stools, sleep on th*
corn bread, drink at the branch, and
old clothes for tho balance of our lives.
j^^H
What the War is Waoed tor
Judging from the subjoined editorial
tbe New York Times of May the 7tL,
seem that one strong motive
COLS Government to make tvar upon
the desire to show the world that his
government, with vast resources of
and credit, capable of asserting itself
though it may fail, and must, in the
conquer us, and to perpetuate the
old. It will maintain a Union, not the
a government, and that is all it can
When its first hundred millions or so
ed, it may feel satisfied that it haH
serted its power to make war, and to
ment.
“The present movement establishes H
strength and unity of the Government®
vindicates its credit, whatever may be H
of this rebellion. Even if the Union
divided, it will not be shattered into
The doctrine of the right of secessio®
lodgment in the loyal States. And w®,.:
South returns to it or not, the
L'uiou will not be destroyed. (
the Government, because the twenty ®
tne loyal StateH will vindicate its
deem its obligations, in any coutingei^^B
The Conditions.—The Mchmond
lishes a hand bill received from
correspondent who suvs tha:
are posted up at every comer in
the sentiments which they
the people of New England. The
copy: ®
Conditions or Pea <• / the
ceded States :
Article 1. Unconditional
Government of the L'nited States. I
Article 2. To deliver up on j
traitors, to be hung.
Article S. To put on record the
others who have been ‘traitorous to
ment, who shall be held infamous
sd forever.
Article 4- Tbe property of all tr®
confiscated, to pay the damage.
Article 5. The Seceded States to®
balance of the expense, and restor^H
6. The payment of all debtH
due to Northerners, und indemnity of KM
ties to persons, loss of time, life and
Article 7. The removal of the cuu-D
difficulties, which can only be done
Jiate and unconditional Abolition nr’
Article 8. Until a full compliance ®
above terms, the so-called Seceded fl
held and governed as l’nited States ‘l^l