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Thf.~. . i,ic 1 de. ’-notion of human Ufa.
«m tiro ViVttv* .i 4 Aii uitic ii dlroadis sufficient
to a;t; • > "‘j •-.!« in .no oonimnM y who rides
upon i. d.r, • «.r wlio lies a:iy particular inter
eat in ii. • w > < iv. thorn. This is the second in
stance w. .i.e i, -j, ,it p H riod, comparatively, in
which a <11; -er iu\ < A ••inc the sacri ce of a score
or moreii.- ;.i dib • .:.. .ge to body aud limb,
of a great m more, ii a occurred. In addition
there have i,.;: n t. ,ndry minor casualties in
which pei in life or in being
maimed. Til •« our Unite road has certainly
been Very un :..n -to itr t.. matter, yet wo
are sorry to ay, that tii.. • are others in the
same category. I Mr readers have cot forgotten
the whole •■ e tri.etion which occurred a few
months ?..;ti in ii • . Nor hav- tiieroads
in Virginia n.l i : Usrelinas been wholly ex
empt from flies-; cakftnitics.
No one wc pin Hue will contend that acci
dents -ire so ii.i • a.raiile from our railroad sys
tem. that no prut nit n can obviate disaster ;
that a ca-unity in which 3fty or a huh Ired
people suff.-r ia a ae-xwt ■ y oec*! reiiqo. amV the
public must ujike up Ui«ir minds to accept it
ns such. Oh many of tbs European railways
millions es persons r : ro annually transpcrted
wi bout ih« less cfa single life or injury of any,
kind to the tr-vvftll*r. We hare known whole
years to pus* in lbs workings of the railroads
between Aujr .!:* and Charleston, aid between
Atlanta and Augusta without th* slightest det
riment to any passenger who complied with
the rules of the company and kept his seat
whilst the cars were in Motion. And it is
notoriously true that on these roads as well as
on the %Uhi.d-. A West Point, Macon & West
ernand On*ml i-nda there lues been no such
wholesale *!•>.’ gbier of travellers as on the- other
public ooriTcr.*nee» to which reference has
been made.
That railr. .and ‘fi-ssw mar occur whicb.no
vigilance could ,\c p i vented ire do not deny.
But these r.i* •< ’■ • ii■ s. In t e gre it majority
of eases r. m • iDubie. and the good
of the i-oiiii.c. - i v weak i squires that that
•omeb • - - 1 .«t and punish
ed a; it require- *h ' hr murderer should be
arrested an • e - ■ -ia:.*d. Lrt every railroad
official in who- .• eree the li •-» of a hundred
(or 5n t': ’ ■* ' &sos }wn»ona
arc con.i-l-tl. .•* ■ - - ■ :-,t ii v. ny *• ‘«ident which
could pof* My b- ea avoided by any at
tention <•: -.re on fe.’-i part b# al them that he
will be b.-b "<*d and tied for his life. 'Jliis
knowledge .ill co ft* i powerful stimulus
to his wati.iifnliiMS atni aiaiion. If on the
other hand,. In- haltsvse that tie public will
jp. -.th-r row terrible the rwsu*t It
was an acrideit!, nob .dy is ko be blamed it
could uot he avoided,” h* will hardly taketha
same pain j as a y-.i*rsl ml# to obviate casual
ties. We know no who is to blame for the
rec nt divaster i a the Utnfa Koad. Certain it
is that then n a guilty party somewhere. —
For no one will env that a C4*lUwn was an
accident which could, net have been avoided.
We hope tkvbonr Governor will cause an in
vestigation to be mads, and that the result may
.be some guarantee to vie public lor future
safety.
are awtra that it May be said tliat these
ate unusual t.:u?s, ax.! that in the midst of so
much tnuMp'uts.iibn > is »a extraordinary
liability to sorchicitw*. This oaly proves teat
them should ob* exl.nor.ti .ary caution to
guard agaiutl s.m'.i o ur en os. War is fear
fully demovr.li -■ c It i -yet* aa utter restless
ness of human lit*. An i it we ttuslil counteract
the evil. every man im.( be more than com
monly v,gi. tit la uets'.-iing the parlies whereby
any wilful c.im-a or c Ipabie isegligeecs is
makiag war upon cir y.
uncol*"* n'•:?:•¥ t > t sußtaui'isLu
DCUO-'oltM.
We hare il ee.ov furnished our readers with
Mr. Lincoln's reply to the - Committee from
BpriugfteM, 111., really appointed to confer
with lute. The pad . is si* very shrewdly
taken - just .rich s. ■ a;s if believed, to
produce uni' o a: song our enemies and divis
ions among cui . 'ire.. Ti e letter Itears upon
it the marke oft: •» idiicre! Premier, who, in
point of civ.:'r. .- i, it and- tde-lly th- first man
among a m.ticn v.'. a cunning is proverbial
The writer—he is ays. and truly
too, that hoetPiitioicaa ouly b«aurmiuated and
peace restored to lb? lu one of three
wavs : The rebv:;;,m must he put down bv
* force of arms; or the independence of the
South n: list be tecs* " r xi; or there musbboeget
tlemcnt by some kind f compromise In con
nection with the n ■ these p. sltions, the Fede
ral President dccU-es that since the beg-nniug
of the v if not cns rl has been heard from
the Southern -nth .rhhs looking in the re
motest degree to v .a a Ijiritment of matters in
dispu'e. He ... the Committee that should
anv such prop it; •: •- be made, they would be
considered, ana the public should be notified
of the fa. t.
Tire effeot v s this r oly, if believed, is to con
solidate public opinion ?;:# N.vth in favor of
the war. Tr. • a.-.; dl re .ad it asanexten
«on i:. ih a.-.. , . • -b— -.-.ti opening of the
door to - u . .. If after
this overver. .. •, our .nemk*
will b re . . . ..Ter Umm p.-acs but
they rs .a our : . r be rebels are
rssolut '■ r-t Hi the t have war.”
Whilst c .c . :* more firmly,the
aagget-tien i '• develop aud
fost. r if > ■ ’* - xi .j -xist among
OUtseiv. c It uhti-.i ; seen the
proiced’t - “ hi North Caro
, !i*»a. ’ «!...- ■— «• -aueriiu p»op1«
AUGUSTA, GA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 13; 1863
tired of war, have expressed an earnest desire
for peftce. lie lias also noticed the complaining
and discontented toll* of one or two journals in
different parts of the Confederacy. The reply
is eminently fitted to encourage such malcon
tents, and to draw around them others who
have heretofore been silent. If there is any
possibility of peace, on pity terms, from the
Lincoln government, there are some who have
become so utterly wearied with the war that
they would accept them—though they involved
the sacrifice of ail for which patriots have con
tended since the inauguration of this contest.
It was doubtless for the special encouragement
of this class that the intimations in question
have been thrown out.
But what kind of proposals dbes Mr. Lincoln
ask ? Did not our Commissioners go to Wash
ington, and most earnestly entreat the estab
lishment of amicable relations between the se
ceded St ites and their late colleagues ? Did
not our President declare that peace with all
mankind must of necessity be the policy (where
it was possible) of the Confederate States? Af
ter seventy-five thousand men were called out
to suppress insurrection, and repossess the forts,
did ndt our President issue his proclamation,
“ protesting solemnly in the face of all man
kind, that we desired peace?” If, by over
tures for peace, Mr. Lincoln means that we
have not asked our Nortiiern masters to forgiv*
us for the crime of withdrawing from the part
nership. which we held with them ; have not
begged permission to pay taxes for the support
of their manufacturing establishments, and to
employ Northern factors to receive and to dis
tribute our produce ; have not, whilst their
armed soldiers were standing over us, sought
the privilege of re entering the league with
them—(hen we confess that we have not asked
lbi peace. Our President, in view of what has
transpired, has said that the next proposition
for peace must come from the Northern Gov
ernment. And, if any tiling were necessary to
give emphasis to this remark, if. would be the
discourtesy recen ly cast upon our Vice-Presi
dent when proposing a mission to Washington
in the interests of humanity.
TUB MASSACTII SETTS FLAG OVER WAG.
A. It.
When our brave troops were compelled to
relinquish .Wagner, a few days ago, our enemy
instead of displaying their National Flag, un
furled the banner of Massachusetts. So they
departed in this instance from their invariable
custom—giving some prominence to Stat(|dig
nity, when heretofore their aim seems to have
been to merge the States into one consolidated
government— there must have been some pe
culiar reason for this glorification of the Mas
sachusetts symbol ! Was t that the Fort was
captured exclusively by-the daring and blood
of the sons -of Massachusetts ? If so this might
have been a fitting recognition of her services.
'l’lxo ‘■Uni e wlxli.U worn*. iL.o
should be awarded a conspicuous place in the
hour of triumph. Put Massachusetts was only
one of many States combining in this assault.
We have taken prisoners from nearly all the
Fast ern, the Middle and some of the Western
States since the assault began, and these ought
uot to be ignored in the hour of rejoicing.
The truth is that the prominence given to
Massachusetts in the matter is only another
illustration of the malignant vindictiveness
which animates the invader. It was thought
that this State would be peeuliarily offensive to
South Carolina, and they doubtless designed to
exasperate her sons by flaunting in their faces the
banner which was peculiarly detestable to them
Perhaps they remembered that it was a son of
South Carolina, who on two diffe ent occasions
had contended in favor of State Lights, on the
floor of the Senate, against the greatest States
man of New England, and with the recollection
of this Southern audacity rankling in their bos
oms, sought some satifaction for the injury by
subjec'ing the fallen Fort to tire humiliation
which they imposed. Perhaps the remembrace
of the cavalier treatment of Vr. Hoar, who
was sent a few years ago from Poston to Charles
ton, to demand a revision of the laws in force
in the latter place, stimulated them to offer
this mean outrage to the sensibilities of brave
men fighting around their own homes for the
protection of their families and altars. Or it
may be the fact that South Carolina had the
temerity to execute iu 1800 what Massachusetts
and her New England Confederates preqiosedm
1814, which the enemy to intensify
as much as possible the mortification experi
enced by the loss of a work built for the do.
fence of the best bated State ( by the Yankees,)
iu the Southern Confederacy. But whatever
the motive, it will look to all the world like the
gratification of a petty revenge more worthy of
savages than of a people claiming to be civi
lised.
In keeping with the flag insult, we have
learned from sundry northern journals, that
Butler, a citizen of Massachusetts, a man who
behaved so outrageously iu New Orleans, that
members of Parliament declared in their pla
ces, that they blushed to think that they be
longed to the same i ace with such a man, has
been nnnouncad already as the military com
mander of the city so soon as it shall be taken.
Not satisfied with inflicting this degradat'on on
the people when the city is in their power,
they would exasperste file Carolinians in ad
vance by the prospect which awaits them. But
we hope it will belong before the tyrant whose
infamous rule iu New Orleans has made his
name a synonym with all that is villainous,
wilt be allowed to exercise his sway in Charles
ton. Wagner and Gregg it ig true have fallen,
and Sumter is in ruins. The Forts on the
other Islands may’» silenced or their relin
quishment compelled, but when tins work is
done, Charleston will not have been occupied.
The fnly rule that Butler, or any other Federal
gen., will ever assert iu Charleston will be over a
mass of blackened ruins—illustrations of the
endurance and sacrifice of the brave spirits who
have perished in the wreck or who have with
drawn to dispute the advance of the invader.
Gay. Howsu. Cobb ia now in Atlanta. He
is now assigned to tha duty of organising the
8.000 troops raised for service ia this Stats, and
will command th# satire State force. Ths
troo s will, doubtless, be gratified at being
placed a ruler the oommand of one of Georgia's
distinguished sons.
M. J. M. Combs, the agent of ths Stats Road
at Uingjold ia held a prisoner by ths enemy.
Gov. Vangs and tux North Cargusa Thau
ors.—Gov. Vanee, of North Carnlin I, has made
a move iu the right direction. He has taken
official notice of the traitors in the various sec
tions of his State. In a late proclamation he
uotifiea those who have made threats of com
bined resistance against the laws of Congress,
in regard to conscription and the collection of
taxes, that unless they cease their tory proceed
ings and renounce their evil intentions, that ha
will execute the laws upon them in the most
rigid manner.
The pro. lamation is a patriotic on*. 'Wlill*
it defends the rights of the people, it advocates
the upholding of our Confederate authorities
While it informs all tlsat they shall have the pro
tection of the latvs which please them, it plain
ly informs them that the laws which de not
please them will be strictly and impartially en
forced.
If this admirable State paper does mot cause
the toriea of North Caroliaa—who are eudeav
oring to produce discord, revolution, and rnin
to our cause—to turn from their evil ways and
desist from their evil designs, then nothing but
the sword and the bayonet will answer in their
ease. If necessary, these should be applied,
and without stint. The disease to be cured i*
a virulent one. The remedy should be severe
and effectual. There is no use of dealing with
persistent traitors miidly. Playing wi h rep
tiles of a deadl) poisonous nature is a danger
ous business. *■
Fedkrat. Rwlh im Natc«sb.—Natche* is now
completely under Federal rule, and her citterns
are experiencing that “ great lova ” which Lin
coln and his holds hare for those who reside in
the South. The people are subjected to every
specie of indignity and anneyanco that can be
devised by their Federal, persecutor*. On*
eingul.tr custom has been int oduoed that we
suppose will he followed up elsewhere, that of
compelling ladies who may wish to mttena di
vine service upon the Sabbath day, to procure a
Provost Marshal's pass,which must be presented
to a pair es drunken Yankee bullies stationed
at each door. The Selma Reporter coinmeat*
thus on the matter :
Just think es it a moment, reader! Defers
our mothers, wives, sisters and daughters can
have permission to worship Almighty God in
the temples which have been dwdieated to His
name, they'must pasa the ordeal of insult at the
hands of a dirty, thieving set of rapscallions,
hardly fit to have their heads blown off and used
as manure for the next cotton crop. And yet
there are to be found men who occasionally
hope that the glorious Union will < nee more be
reconstructed.' Could they ba compelled to re
side for a short time with their families within
the corporate limits of Natchea,they would wish
e.ery puritanic knave who hails from I. in coin
dom plunged into a batli of boiling brimstone,
with the privilege of knowing that their agonies
were to prove eternal.
Tho CoNFKDKBATB SxHAMBft FLORIDA. Ft 081
tl.p |ia|tpTa I .y tho taut arrival from Hui'Ope we
learn the steamer Florida was st'll off the
English coast. The Liverpool 'limes says her
appearance has caused great exoitemenl It
was first reported that she had sent 75,80i
ounces of her prise money to Liverpool by an
English vessel. The agent of tbs Federal Gov
eminent was anxious to take men* ires te get
possession of it, and the Seutherners manifest'
ed a desire to make a counter movement;
othor reports state that the Florida wus waiting
for some American vessels that were expected at
Liverpool. The London limes states that the
English ship Clio, just arrived at that port, re
ports seeing a large American veeseil burned
nearly to the waters edge on the second of July.
The officers of the Clio aiforward* hailed
the Alabama, who ackuowledged that they set
firo to the ship.
The Cork Herald says that the Alabama has
a crew of about 'wo hundred and fifty men and
is a screw steamer of extraordinary swiftness,
and is disguised iu such a manner as to puzzle
the-keenest Observer. Her hull is long and
low, her sails look old and patched, and no ex
ternal trace is visible of her real strength and
power.
FKDEItAL WaHVABB AND ATROCITIES IX MIS
SOURI. —Ths federal officials grow more bar
barous every day in their warfare in Missouri.
Defenceless people who are sus acted of even
laroring the South iu the least, are being shot
down in cold blood, amd robbed of their homes
and property.- Wealthy families are lieing
stripped of all their possessions, and their resi
dences given to Abolitioni-ts. Negroes, are
taken wherever found, and put into the Fede
ral ranks.
Jim Lane has commenced his bloody pro
gramme for the future. lie says ho vfill not
rest satisfied until lie hai wiped out the. inhabi
tants of the border-counties in Missouri, with
out regard to sex, age, condition or politics,
and to bnrn over all tho oountry bordiering on
Kansas on the east, two or three corn dies deep,
and to lay waste everything in that section.
These infamous deeds are counten tnced and
even encouraged clandestinely by the Lincoln
authorities at Washington. It is to be hoped*
that their day of retribution will come to tho
Northern Abolitionists, and that they will have
th# full measure of the cruelties they bar#
meted out to others meted out to them.
Good Effects or Guskiixa Warfakk.- -The
late Federal raiders in North Mississippi were
roughly handled by the justly incensed p* ople
of that section on t heir revreit. Guerilla par
ties greeted them with bullets, from near!; y ev
ery dense thicket through "which they pas sed ;
many a Federal thief was sent to his long home
by unseen hands. At th# Coldwater er ossing
alone a party of Confederates with douh le bar
elled shot guns- killed sixteen and wi aunded
thirty. The coneeale I party in that pis oe oer
tainly gave a good account of themseb em.
If our ]>eople in every section throng h which
a Federal raid is mide would give, : ,g good ac
count of themselves as the Ntfrth Missif -sippians
have, the promiscuous plundering hairiness of
our foes outside their lines would so on cease.
Nothing is more dreadful to the huo nan mind
than the idea of being shot down by an unseen
enemy. Besides our oppressors are co wards at
heart, aud will avoid all auctions wh« ire they
think the people are prepared to give th.vm a
warm and deserved reception. The enample
get by the gallant Mississippians is ago od cne.
Let it be followed by our people everywhere m
body of Federal thieves show themsel vv a.
Th# citizens of Danville. Va.. are forming
MHeaiations to procure previsions eh«.*p.
Gone ■ cxiiLiNG.—One of the most important
events of the day is the great lumbie in the
price of gold. Every where it can be purchased
at a much less rate than formerly. In Rich
mond the papers state that the fall has been
nearly five hundred per cent, within the last
ten days. Iu Atlanta, also, that greatest of all
speculating and diamond-cut-diamond cities,
both gold and silver have declined in value.
These signs in various sectious of the Confede
racy are good. They show the returning con
fidence of the people in our currency. They
also show that our citieens still have unbounded
coutdence in those who manage our affairs.
One class of persons who have done our
cause great injury, are those who traffic in gold
and silver. They ha vs a direct and manifest
interest in diminishing the value of Confederate
currency. It would be expecting too much
from' human selfishness to suppose that they
would not get all they could for their gold,
silver, and bills as they possibly can. We
think that the career of these gentlemen should
be stopped. Heavy taxation will do it. Touch
their pocket* sensibly, and remove into the
State or Confederate Treasury their enormous
profits, and they soon would seek another busi
ness and become more patriotic in their deeds
at once.
Another class of persons who have done great
injury to onv. cause, is onr weak-kneed, time
serving Confederate and State Legislative
bodies. Most of the persons who have com
posed them heretofore, have shown themselves
to be nothing more than mere huckstering
demagogue* ; shaping their course for re-elec
tion. W« are gted to notice that some of these
men have awoke to a sense of their duty, and
that it h the evident disposition of the State
Legislatures, n»w assembled and about to be
assamblod, to put an end to the unpatriotic
traffic In the precious metals and iu Federal
note*.
Aji Gyrtoan worthy of a Hhro.—On the
last day ai our occupancy of Morris’ Island,
the gallant Col. Keitt, of South Carolina, was
in oomm&nd of the forces. Everything looked
gloomy enough, but the heart of our heroic
Oolon*l never quailed ‘for a moment. About
midday, and iu tho midst of the terrific burff
bavdn ent from sea and laud, he dispatched
Gen. Beauregard as follows :
"Will the boats be here <*> night for garri
son f If so, at.what time? if our sacrifice
w 11 be of any benefit to the cause, say so ; and
1 will sMmi the enemy's work at once, or lose
every man ®u this Island —the enemy is within
fifty yards of us and by day dawn they will be
upon u* —therefore we should assault them to
night.”
Everybody who knows Col. Keitt would ex
pect nothing else of him but the loss of his own
life and tho lives of those under him, if the
welfare of tho cause he is engaged. in demand
ed such a sacrifice. No officer more bravo ever
led bis command to a charge. If the same
gallant spirit fills the hearts of ihe other officers
at Charleston—and we trust it does—that city
will never be taken y the Federals. if our
troops iu all sections were under the charge of
men or the same stamp of Col. Ke tt, we would
hear of daring deeds and great- victories more
frequently than we do now.
Somh»**no all Should bbak in Mind. —Every
loyal m m iho*ld remember that this war is
not a war for conquest, nor a war for the grati
tlcation of ambitious men, but a war merely for
o*rj»st rights, a war upon which hangs the
destiny *f every inhabitant of the Southern
States. If W* are conquered in this contest,
then farewell to civil leberty upon this conti
nent, for tbo present, and probably for all time.
We with future generations, will he doomed to
live auder a despotism worse than any in the
JEhatem world.
We must not wait to count coet —all that wo
have is at staka. If we are victorious, and have
lest our money, we are independent, but if we
bave our money and a e conquered, then we
ear slaves.
There are doubtless a few tories and traitors
in every portion of the Confederacy, but with
tbesfi exceptions, our people are all tra*, brave
and patriotic, and will be found filling the
measure of their duty to the country. It is
gratifying to learn, as we do from our exchan
ges, and thipugh ether sources, that .thousands
wbo bave b -«a called deserters are returning to
their posts, and that thousands more who have
not yet been i* the army are volunteering add
swelling tb* ranks.
Tin WAT T*a FHD-EAiS Trbat Nmgroes iX
MimeaiFri, —The Federal* are showing their
aame “great love” for the negro in Miseissipipi
that they have exhibited elsewhere. All the
able-bodied mea they can get hold of, they at
•nee compel to perform th# most laborious
w#rk rs the army without auy «H*p#nsation
whatever. Frequently not ehttt enough food
U give* them to sustain life. The women and
children are treated worse. The Federals have
uo us# for them. ‘They are robbed of every
thing of value they possess, and are driven be
joad tba Yankee lines.
Ia th# treatmenf of th# negro by the Federal
army ia Mississippi, we hav#> a true specimen
of th# “great dove” tb# abolitionists of the
N#rth hav# lor th# Southern slave. Since the
preMut irai has cojnmenSed their acts have
given th# 11a to all their former prjfessionn.—
A saor# mor# heartless, hypocritical being than
a Nartkern Abolitionists never existed.
Tim WAT TBS FbDSBAIS rU.IRISD TBS KiiN
tcCxt BiacTioss.-A gentlema.u, who has re
cently arrived within our lines fronvLouisville,
Ky-. gives us the following facts fn reference to
the election recently held hi that State:
In Louisville, up to about noon, the friends
of ITickliffe, the peace democra tic candidate
were having everything their own way. Ilia
Majority at that time was very large. When
the Federal efficer found out that the Lincoln
party would" be defeated unless tha friends of
th# South were prevented -from voting, he
caused th# latter to be arrested as fast ae they
came to the poll®, before they voted. In this #
way some six hundred citizens were prevented
from saying who they would “have to rule over
them.” This “ gag game’’ wes also practised
In other sections of the State. It is no wonder
that the Abolitionists carried the day in Ken
tucky. __
Th# Alabama river is very lorw, and oontlnces
to r#*ed«. Boats are running;, hut not with
their asaal regularity.
VOL. LXXVrt—NEW SERIES YOi. XXVII. NO. 38
Federal Depredations is orth Mississippi
—A correspondent "of the Selma Mississippian
in writing from Grenada, gives an account of
the depredations the Federals are continually
committing in that section. Comment on such
tiendishness as narrated below is unnecessary :
In aome'eases not a negro was left in the
plantation. Sucking infants and sin 11 child', en
were left, and their mothers taken off- In one
case a negro woman persistently and el mo
rously refused to leave her .baby, as ordered,
when a brute of a Yankee e> ked the child bom
her arms and biained it agai st a tree. Child
ren, bcc. jning cumbersome, were foiled left in
the road. Asa gen r.il thing but lew hfgre.es
went voluntarily. Some escap and and returned
to their homes, stating that t e soldiers treated
the negro women and girl- most brntislily.—
After "cleaning out” a residence, they would
smash pianos, min ors and tab!* ware, break the
-furniture and cooking ittensiis, carry off or de
nroy the provisions -having nothing to eat noj
satything to cook in.
The Mississippian’s correspondent remarks
tbits on guerrilla warfare, and upon t’ua condi
tion of matters as they will *xist wlisr* the
Yankees succeed in establishing th*ir rule :
The peasant gue rills* of .Spain drove the
\iest army out of their country that the first
Napoleon ever sent into it. We have far grsat
.er advantages than were possessed b/ th* half
armed hut courageous, unflinching-, untiring
peasantry of Spain, who really bail no-other
cause to fight for than the choic* of which two
despots should be their tyrant. Tbs more we
yield, hoping thereby to' save ourselves- from.
Yankee molestation— the longer we remain
“ tender-footed” in regard to adopting tbs
guerrilla mode of warfare, which is n*t «nly
right and proper, but natural, the longer will w«
b* subjected to the insults and outrages • f tii*
accursed race of Yankees who are her* ready
to wrest from us that which i* lawfully onr
own. and which vre hope to loav* as au inheri
tance to o*»children.
Think of it, ye rich, large-landed planters—
ye grasping, money-loving, gold worshiping
merchants and traders ! Would you *•* your
own young sons, your tender, beloved, darling
daughters, grow up to ask work and same* for
a support, of the vulgar rece wlio may occupy
—and will if you don’t fight—-hereafter your
own homesteads, whilst you yourselves, poor
and aged, will be -compelled io swallow insults
from those who once belonged to you, and sub
mit to become the equals if not the underlings
of your present slaves !
This is precisely the state m to which th* Yan
kees have doomed you, and nothing but fight
ing will reverse tlie judgment. Do as you may,
talk as you may, hope as you may, this will b»
your inevitable fate unless you lay every other
wotdly consideration aside, end do yonr utmost
to save wliat you tethave left.
The Blockade Fkadis ofEn-glishShips.—The
London Herald gives (lie annexed account of
the dispute between England and th* United
States concerning the blockade trade ol Eng
lish ships :
-A- l Q ng correspondence between the English
authorities and those of the United States has
been published on the subject of the regula
tions established -by the Federal Government
at the port of New York as to ve‘ self trading
to the Bahamas. The, correspondence origina
ted in May last ysay, when eompU nts wore
made by merchants and others in Nissau that
the custom house at Now York required ship
pers there for the Bahamas to give - onds taai
none of the goods would be deliveio-l at Con
federate ports, and this they-complained of; aa
an undue restriction upon trade, it appeared
that the restrictions were directed by au act ot
Congress of 1801.
Earl Russell accordingly directed remonstran-,
cos to be Made again t such re trie-lions, as vio
lating the treaty of 1815 between this country
afid the United States, giving English ships
freedom to trade in American ports; ml in
August and September last Lord Lyons r mon
strated with Mr. Seward. Mr. Pewar i replied
by mni tabling that the reXhiclions complained
of were into.mil acts Os adwinistiation, apply-
ing equally to American and English ships;
and he pointed lo tire vast increase of tho com
merce of Nassau since the o itbreak of the ww
as a proof that the restrictions did not interfere
with the “ legitimate’’ trade to that port.
Earl Russeil replied that this was no answer
Uo his complaint, and it was perfectly lawful
for British ships at Nassau to trail ship Coir
cargoes for American ports. In his disratch
-dated De ember 17, he, however, expressed tli»
hope that, notwithstanding Mr. Sr ward’ff de
fence, the remonstrance would have the practi
cal effect of preventing the continuance or rep
etition of similar pr .ceedingH. Mr. Seward re
joined, on January 9. but at the cU-se ol his ar
guments lie gave tlie rssurance that.tlte Jaws of
the United States wool 1 continue to be execu
ted in such a way as to afford no just g ound
for complaint of par'ialit? or injustice.
Earl Russell, however, having discontinued
the correspondence, hoping that his remon
strance win Id hav practical effect, wrote-to
Lord Lyons on the 18th July, noticing tbe rep
resentation of Messrs. Tootal, Broad urstACo.
that sqch a bond nad been required of them
when making a shipment to Nassau on the 1 Jlh
of June last. His Lordship considers this ai a
proof tliattheintereference of the United
authorities with the trade is still persist™ in,
and instructs Lord Lyons to address a frost re
monstrance on the subject.
Forney on the War. —John G. Fornsy. ons
of the most corrupt politicians who ever drew
breath, formerly a prominent Democrat hut
now one of Lincoln’s chief advisers, lias been
making a speech in Washington on matters iu
general. Forney cont nues to look at peace
through Yankee specfacles,and evidently is not
thoroughly posted in regard to things as they
really exist in the Confederacy. If he expects
to subdue the South, liewill'find himself adis
appointed man. Ilis war piog' amvue is of the
ultra abolition stamp. Here it is :
If the Southern States-choose to come hack
into the Union, Ad submit to that potential
power, that puissant majesty, which can never
ho defeated, well and good ; but if they do not
let the war go on until there is not a foot- ot
their soil that js not covered by our flag, and
until there is not a siave from wbomtheßhack.es
have not fallen.
University of Georoia.— In consequence of
Governor Brown’s call, upon the t,o. p» m o a
nized for State Defence, the Prudential Com
mittee of the Board of Trustees of this excel
lent institution in Athens, at a meeting on
Friday last, determined to suspend f#r a ew
weeks the exercises of the University. -e
military companies to which the Faculty and
many of the students belong hav:n S been or
dered to Atlanta or Kingston,
mouslv resolved, by the Executive Board that
it was advisable to adjourn the session of the
University until the service contemplated m
the Governor’s order had bean rendered.
Muxdb the Federal Commander of the
thTarmv of the Potomac, has been presented
with a sword. He made a speech on th# occa
idon Abolition of ceurs# throughout. H«
ihinks it “impossibl# that this great oountry
should b# divided ; that therv should ke tw a
Governments or two flags on this continent,
that such athng is out of the question Mr.
Meade will alter his opinion By-and-by. 11#
will find his impossibil ties all possible—and
realities too, not Lu the way he withes, but
j just the opposito.
Sinoular and horrible de* as*. —Th* fol
lowing account of a singular and horrid di**nsa
is given by tiro New Haven, Conn., J*"rnni :
Some ten months'ago Mr. Cbas Moitree, of
Fairhaven, was at Lagos and at Ar*rn, *>u the
Guinea coa t. «hither he had sailed a* mate
with Captain Post, in the bark K irrU-th, and
white there he drank of . the water of that part
of the world, without thinking to t»k’ th* pre
cautions comoniy in use eniofig the native* far
tb : pr vention cfa terrible disnsoo lurew. a*
the Guinea worm. It appears that ills African*
always boil this water before drinking, in ordar
to destroy the minute invisible a ::g of the w#rm,
which is so small, that it is absorbed by the
b'ood vessels frr.m the stomach, and in in that
manner distributed in various parts of th? body
uhu liy the legs, where it is hatched, nnd after
a ling time makes its appearance in kb* *h*p»
of a white, thread like worm, poi -tsd on both
ends, and it (wines and twists all about th*
muscles aud veins and arteries, but Jrofla***
no partieiar feeling of uneasin*** anti I sftm*
part of its body comes near the idtin, wh*n bad
inflammation take place.. •
It was in March last that Mr. Monro* b«Ww
to by troubled with them, and for three a* nth*
he lias not walked h step, lie t* now at th*
Connecticut State Hospital, under treatment,
«ii-l one worm has been taken fiom the bottom
of his foot that measures over two feet in l*ngth.
The w:.y it is done is this: When th* aorfaea
of the skin is so pricked or irritated km to show
where tjie "eri'ter” is, a thread teYMtened to
him, and a small weight attached t.<> th* ether
end of the thread. The worm g*t* tired of
pulling so steady a strain, and giv«* ground a
trifle day by day, and as he eom* out, a lk*t
/-pool winds him up until he i* »11 up. Th*
pain is very great. For forty nights, Mr. Mon
roe hardly slept on account of the suffering.
One worm is now in process of being drawjx
from his heel, and those medical men who haw
never seen a case of the kind are muck interes
ted. Gr.e t care has to be taken not t* pull too
hard, b*cause the worm would break aud *k*
trouble bo much prolonged. It* medioal
name Is dracunaculu*, aud it grows to b* **v*-
rai fe*t in length. It is endemic In kot oou
trie*. When the bother commence*, tt ap
pears under the skin like a vsriccM vain, and
after a painful boil has been format! nnd tk*
skin broken, the bead of the animal i* ditwov
ured. Mr. Monroe, is very patient under tk*
strange affliction, and we hope before long to
see him restored to health.
An European Opinion of Mirras* ac an
South. —The London ‘Times in speaking of Ml*
feeling which exists throughout th* loath,
comments thus :
Until the South surrenders at discretiea *r
goes fn e, the orth arc destined, in *i) perpe
tuity, to maintain their armies and their Isd*.
The-e would-be conqueror* should iudg* their
Southern brethren by-themselves. They c-heuld
ask themselves what would be tire f- cm of 4?** r
resistance if their chief cities were occupied by
th* armies of a detested invader.
There is no faltering /it present in th* spirit
of the Southern people ; there tt no party
among them crying out for submission ; no op
position to their leaders; no insurrection*
against the conscription. While tbii tt »o, th*
loss of Charleston would add nothing of proba
bility to the Northern expectation of the ulti
mate subjection of the country.
When we look for the reason* for th* *xulbb
tion which now pervad the Northern Bt»tea,
we discern positively nothing that justlfie* it.
If the Southern people mean what tasy *»y,
and if they hate tho Northerners with tho -ori
of hatred which people generally enters*;u to
wards those who have destroyed then- hum.**,
confiscated their property, and steu* hfared
their relations, the Northerners are ten yeni*
yet from tbe object of their dcsir**, even if
those ten years were years of success. Thee*
must be many men among them who know
this
There must he a class who feel a* jw**k *.
scorn i-ws we in Europe feel for th* britg N®d
rowdyism which palms itself off upon th*
world as Federal pu-dic opinion, but whi*h r*-
sem,bles in our eyes nothing hut the low, irna»-
pareut cunning of the weak and illiterate of
every race and nation. What else can b* khi*
childish nonsense ol feigning to belreve that
the Southern people, whose count'y they hav*
just desolated, could bo tempted to join them
in a united war to annex Mexico and Canada l
This is just the sort of bombast an Asiatic
would talk when he trembled in his sauilals.
There was a vaunting patriotism in th* Roinau
who bought the soil under tho invader’s camp
at its fuß value, but there was no great merit
iu the Roman who merely offered it for sala.
HorkECL.—Notwithstanding the apparent
had look of the ‘’situation’’ in Tenn*a,eo, there
are those cognizant cf the facts, who we eci
couraged for the future. The editor of tb*
Chattanooga Rebel is one of these. Hopnlul
words like, the following appear in hi* issue of
the Bth instant :
The present week is pregnant witli result*—>
The most important battle ot the whole war ia
likely to take place in North Georgia or upon
the Southern bank of the Tenness##. It ia
evident the enemy is crossing his whol# foi#»
somewhere below Chattanooga, and from tke
activity which prevails in our own army, we
are of opinion that, the whole foroe will h#
thrown upon the invaders at once.
We have never before felt a greater depaa
of confidence in our ability to meet and over
come the enemy. We have not th# shadow of
a doubt as to the result. Our force is ampl#,
our position favorable, and the disadvantage#
altogether with the Federal commander. VOi
the first time during the war, wo have, if not
the numerical advantage, at least an eg -ality
in point of numbers. So far as material t# con
cerned, we are more than a match for to# mon
grel crew of Yankees, Dutchmen, hosiers, and
negroes', who have boldly crossed a rivac
in the face of a foe, defiant, determined «and
burning for an opportunity to meet them. A
decisive victory, with the rout of the enemy and
a stream difficult of passage iu their rear, will
leave the Yankees in the West ajpnost without
an Te™c SS ee and Kentucky may b# restored kg
a single battle. The only apprehension we foM.
with regard te it, if the battle be fought, is
t’-.at agreeably to the system of West Point ta@-
t'es the value of a moment may not be aopre*
dated The experience taught is, in aot fol
lowing up the victory of the first Manassas, May,
however, 9b of advantage to us in the coming
conflict. If the'enemy is met, he will be over
come—and if he is defeated, in the name of lib
erie, and for the sake of the noble, suffering,
loyal Southern women cf Kentucky and Ten -
nessee, let him. he pursued over mountain and
plain, till we drive him beyond th© Ohio.
Yaxkm Soli'ises’ Wivbh. —The feßowteig
circular has recently b on issued by th* Taa
kee General Meade, prohibiting the visiting or
remaming with the army of the kankee ofbows'
aud soldiers’ wives :
The commanding general ha* learned that
the wives of riamerous officers and soidiers J.T*
now with this army. In view of ths .arrioe#
the Loops nay at anytime be called <a to
perform, the general commanding eo Mdars
Dial the attention of office) sand men should ba
solely occupied wrh their public duty and that
tiie presence of female*, is incompatible with
the complete discharge of the sum#. It i*. there
fore, directed thsf all female now mdt the
army—othei than thoee who are nui«a, or at
tached to the iSnnitury Commissioa, r? who
have special authority Loin Mi* ifar IXpart
msnt, or thes* headquarter*, to viM and irxiain
1 with it—be iorthwitn iamoved be; >nd i _ iim«.
! The eommanding general re ret* is.at it should
! become his unpleasent duty to Isrne . u order of
1 this character, and he trust-, that it; propriety
will be rdfog lined, and that ii aot k*
i neaaeaary for him to rej*i to the sttbjiCV