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LETTER FROM MR. RIVES.
W* tn peTmiUed to onke public the follow- ■
liif tetter from Mr. Ri»e« to a well known gen
tleman of Lynchburg. It in as encouraging in
it* opinion* and it* hiftnrical eitation*. as it i* ele
gant m style and able anil patriotic in sentiment.
It* appearance, too, i* fortunately timed, anil it j
cannot be without the happiest effect on the j
public mind. It would ha well if a copy ol it
slmnld fall under the eye of,every citizen of the
Confederate State*, aml we are sure that onr
Itemporaric* of tlie Rresawill gladly aid in giv
ig it the widest circulation :
Mr DraluSin: —I learn from you with great
reyret that some of our fellow-citizens are a'good
- * ! discouraged by fecent events in our milita
rv pperaliona, while you yourself, 1 am glad to
ace, retain your accustomed erecttieaa atid buoy
ancy oL ipfrit. Are we not, in some-degree the
children of that marvellou* good fortune,
which, by the gracioaa providence of Cod, has,
for the mo»t part, attended us sines the com
mencement of the present gigantic conflict T
And frjve notour very aucceases, long continued
as they have , been, unstrung our minds for the
discipline of these occasional reverses, which
none can hope to e*c»pe amid the inexorable
vicissitudes of war I
When we recollect, not merely the disparity of
numbers ami material wealth between us and
our adversaries, but that they were in possession
of th» whole army and navy of the United
States, the creation of the joint ertort and contri
bution* of the entire Union for a period of sev
enty odd years; that all those branches of m«n
ifacturingwndustry most essential to the opera
tions of war, had been long established and in
full’activity with them ; and that at the same
time they had the advantage of an open and un
restricted intercourse with the rest of the world
to supply any deficiency which might exist in
their restmress , while, at the commencement of
the war, in had not a *hip or a soldier, were
without the munitions of war, or any existing
establishment for furnishing them, even to per-
cussion caps, and cut oil front all foreign sup
plies by the block*.ls of our whole coast—the
extent and magnitude of what we have accont
plishcd ought to be a matter of grateful astimish
».«ut to ourselve i, as it is of special wonder to
ills other nations of the earth. With all these
edd» ainst us, what a long and dazzling roll of
ti l cies haro wo furnished lor the pen of the
lut.- ■ historian of the war!
V ginia, embracing the seat of Government
of ti e, Confederacy, has been the selected object
. gainst which the most formidable and imposing
eaturpricss of the enemy have been dircctetl.
Hot ‘ feme slid impotent” the conclusion of
all these vaunted expeditions, so often and so
pompously gotten up, for the capture of Rich
>i! 1 and the subjugation of V irginia, lot Bethel,
Manassas, Leesburg, in the lirsfvear of the war 1
-the p ns of V\ illiamaburg, the bloody pano
rann of battle field ; around the beleaguered Uap
!al, the blaze of euccessivs victories with which
I adc ,on lighted up the Valley of the Shenandoah
from Harper’s Ferry tw Fort Republic, Cedar
Mountain, Manassas again, the closing and
overwhelming discomfiture at Fredericksburg in
the second year of the war, and the grand rout,
site: lour day’s continuous conflict, pfChancel
ioreviUe and Mary c’s Heights, iu the present
year, followed by the enemy’s third expulsion
.rout tUo Valley-—let theso memorable fields,
with theii solemn and truthful voices, tell.
Faring this period, too, thoafmyof Northern
Virginia, under its illustrious leader, made two
foie and saceessfill incursions into the enemy’s
i. rritury , levied contributions upon it; gave bat
tle to his concentrated legions on his own soil,
crippling and inflicting heavy losses upon him;
iirui then return**! at leisure to resume its attitude
of eahtt-defiance and proud invincibility at home,
tjuch is a general outline of the history of the
war on the Atlantic side of the Confederacy.
OutsiuH*, and fragmentary portions of territory
have, in some instances, heeu temporarily and
reluctantly abandoned lo the enemy, as not jus
liiying the attempt to defend them at the risk of
it.o control and more important portions; hut in
jin case has the heart or grand interior of the
territory been yet penetrated.
In the Vulley of Iho Mississippi the course of
events bus been moru chequered by alternate
y and and bad fortune. Springfield, Columbus,
ttUiloh, and even Murfreesboro', were noble suc
cesses for us. Fort Donelson, Corinth, New
Orleans, recall the remembrances of sad disas
ters; au l to these ha* been recently added
the loss of Vicksburg and Port Hudson. 1 have
no disposition to extenuate the gravity of any of
these disasters. But looking at them in their
very worst aspect, there is nothing in any or all qf
them to give ri>« to a feeling of despondency.
The enemy is ns far soever from the great object
h« had in view—the free and unmolested navi-
I ation of the Mississippi for commercial purpo
sed. lta banka are still accessible for hundreds
nf mile*, within our territory, to our shurprhoot
eis and movable batteries, that.can and will
prevent the use af the river by trading vessels,
and effectually interdict it to all practical com
merce. The inhabitants of the country ure
nun- rouecJ than *ycr by the outrages of the
enemy ; anil redoubled efforts will be made to
render his local successes bootless to him. We
line two poworful and noble armies under John
son and on 'ln' Eastern side of the river,
which are strengthened daily by the Confede
rate conscription and by the zealous co-operation
of the adjacent State Governments; while on
the Western side of the river art> the enterpri
sing and indomitable commands of Price, of
Kirby Smith, of Taylor, and of Magnifier, to
strike wherever the enemy may present himself.
When this situation is compared with the
many uuavoidabie reverses and endless difficul
ties which our brave ancestors had to encourage,
and so gloriously surmounted 111 their struggle
tor independence, who doee not feel his spirit re
buked at the slightest thought of discouragement
under our present circumstances 1 Recollect
the condition of Washington in the second year
«t iho war of the revolution, when, after suc
cessive sad sorer* disaster* on Long Island, at
\»w York, at White Plains, and the loss of
foil Wnshihgftou, on the Hudson, with its gar
lisou, hs was compelled to retreat through the
Jersey.*. •• pushed,” to use Iris own expressive
language, -from place to piece, till we were
obliged to causa the Delaware with fess than
three thousand men bt for duty,"’ end the reluc
tant co»: mou wh extorted from his firm and
■••oly br«*«t thet unteee "anew army can he
'S-e.'■ y recruited the game is pretty' nearly up’*
even in this extremity there was no despon
dency. no dmouiagement. The pressure and
ire gUituce oi *lio daageee wuK supplied new en
ergies of action, and stisauleted to redoubled ex
eition, and in * few day a the brilliant achieve
ments of Trenton and Princeton redressed the
balance of victory.
In every period of lire revolutionary contest
a large portion of our territory was overrun aud
occupied by the enemy. In tire South, Greene
w re compelled to raSra before Cornwallis, as
Washington had done before the Howes in Die
North, Georgia, (tenth Carolina, North Caro
lina, Virginia, each and all of them, East of the
Blue Weuhtaine, weie overrun for a time bv the
auniee of the enemy, while all the chief cities in
thej.Sorth and i* ths South—Boaton, Ncwj«>rt,
New York. Philadelphia, Richmond, Norfolk,
'Vllmin Uharleetou and Savannah —were
all for a lougamr shorter period in hi. possession.
But if the country was overrun, the hearts of
the pe- :i0 were not avers wed. With them and
their truetad eeivante, whether in the eooncil or
in the field, there *ll no despair of the repub
lic. They felt st Washington, when most op*
ureosoo by the complicated difficulties of hi*
< rt. in, writing to hia brother: “Under a full
pereuaeion of the jiatioe of our cause, I cannot
c, .e-uia an idea that it will dually sink, though 1
. .nay ren.iia fai a time under a cloud.”
All history proves that a brave and uncorrupted j
people, de rtnined t.> b« free, n«wet ,»* be sub
dued by the inaoieut superiority of lour and I
nurube r. h were, disproportiou.fi. What i
«v .led ’•’* counties* Persian hordes of Darius '
.-.yd .ft i . when confronted, iu meny s field i
made rlac-.c and holy ground by their discomfi- j
tu-e. wild the proud spirit of freedom and the j
nobis sc eTjtion of the small but undaunted 1
< umo v e hs of Greece ? If ever a people !
trad apt a- n‘ cause for despondency, it was ihe n<f
people of Rome when Hannibal with his Car- ,
thaganian hosts, .viler three successive victories J
on the Tissue, the Eieseyi a»d the Thraaymene.
in his triumphal march toward* ra F lt *j| **" *
most annihilated the Roman army 1,1 * and
Cannc, leaving more than forty tbousaiW Roman
citizens dead upon the field, including one of the ,
Consuls in command, many Senators i*-C<V>- ;
sills, Pretors, tEdiles and otnem of the highest •
rank and consideration. But. amid the conster
nation of so terrible a calamity, the spirit ol the
Republic never blanched. *' hen the surviving
Consul, whose rashness even had been the cause
of the disaster, approached the city vyiib the
wreck of his army, -the Senate and all fafikaot
people, we are told by- ofie af their great histo
rians, went out lo meet him and thanked him
for not having despaired of the Commonwealth.
And in the end it was not Rome, but Carthage,
that perished in the canflict.
Ko, too, when we come down to the period of
modern history. Is it jiossilde to conceive a
struggle more unequal in numbers, armament,
and every material resource Hum that, in thc_
sixteenth century, between the seven insurgent
provinces of the Netherlands, beginning with
two of them only, and the whole weight ami
power of the Spanish Monarchy in its meridian
of splandfir, when, in addition to the resources
of its large dominions in Italy, the Netherlands
and the Peninsula, including Portugal, it wielded
tha riches of America and the Indies united !
And vet, hv the indomitable courage and perse
verance of the inhabitants, animated with the
spirit of civil religious liberty, and in spite
of calamities and disaster which tried to the ut
termost the heroic stufl'of which they were made,
leaving to them oltcn no other resource than, by
cutting their dy-kes, to call in the aid of that de
structive element it had cost them ages ot labor
and toil A shut out, they redeemed their native,
land f'rqm the remorseless surges of a despotism
more ferocious than thesea; triumphantly estab
lished their independence, arid constituted a re
nowned commonwealth which, lor two hundred
years, proudly held its place ill the first rank ol
the Powers of Europe.
If we wish further to see what prodigies an un
dismayed spirit of national independence, bat
tling upon its own soil for its hearths and its al
tars, is capable of accomplishing against the
! odds of force and numbers’ look at the example
of the sajvi* people, Under the third "Willliam of
Orange, magnanimously bidding defiance to the
united and powerful armies.of Louis Xiy.-ot
France., and Charles 11. of England; look at
Prussia, under Frederick 11., in the memorable
Seven Years' Wat, successfully contending
against almost all the powers of continental
Europe—Austria, France, the German Stales,
Sweden and Russia —all banded together, at the
same moment, iu the invasion of her territory;
look, again, at the miracles of successful valor,
accomplished, some thirty years infer, by the
people of revolutionary France, in the enthusiasm
of liberty and in vindication ot tho right of na
tional self-government, against a second and
more formidable combination of all Europe, both
insular and continental.
What any of these people accomplished, we
are certainly capable ot accomplishing. We
have the same love of liberty; we have the
same devotion to our native land; we have the
same martial ardor; we have the same, and even
greater, motives to exert every faculty for our.de
liverance. With the most of them, the great
.mistake involved Was .national independence and
political rights. With us, in addition to all this,
everything precious to the human affections,’
everything sacred to the human heart, is at is
sue. From the ruthless spirit in which this war
has been waged by our adversaries ; from the
Specimens we have had of their infamous pro
consular governments in parts of our territory
occupied by them; from the appeals they are
now making to the vindictive and brutal pas
sions of an uncivilized race as their allies in this
unholy crusade against us, it is impossible for
the imagination to picture a fate more horrible
than ours would be, if we were uriee sub
jected to their power. 1 know no language
which, iu that case, could adequately paint the
depth of our degradation and the extent of our
wretchedness, unless it be those burning lines of
au English poet, in which he gave vent to his
feelings of- horror and indignation, when depre
cating the iron rule of a vulgar and hypocritical
tyranny in his own land :
Come the eleventh plague rather than it should he ;
Come stink. us rather 1q thesea;
< 'uini*rather pestilence and heap ns down;
Come God’s sword, rather than our own.
Let rather Homan come again.
Or Saxon. Norman, or" the Pune,
In all the bonds we ever bore,
We grieved, we sighed, we wept, wc never blushed beforp.-
In the foregoing remarks, it iuis been assumed
that the enemy’s forces were, in numbers, much
greater than ours. This has,undoubtedly, hereto
fore been the fact. But lam firmly persuaded
that notwitestunding the immense difference in
the actual population of the two countries, wo
shall henceforward have an army in the field at
all times fully equal in number to theirs; and that,
surely, is all we need desife. The energies of
the South are just beginning to he thorougoly
aroused. We already see a proposition in lhe
Legislature of Alabama to extend the limits of
the military age liciow eighteen years to sixteen,
and above forty-live to sixty. This Was the old
Spartan rule, and prevailed a long time in Eng
land, until the institution of standing armies, ami
her insular situation, made her careless with
regard to the military organization of the mass of
her population. But our circumstances may
Well justify a recurrence to the ancient rule, so
far, at least, as to call out the supplementary
classes for local defence. The spirit of the peo
ple. there can be no doubt, would nobly respond
to such a call, while the demands of the crisis,
appealing to the instinctive courage of men, and
enforced by the pleading loveliness of woman,
will keep our active army full within the limits of
the age heretofore prescribed for it. *
The situation of our adversary presents a very "
different picture. .The popular fervor for the war,
first kindled, and for sometime kept up by delu
sive protexts, is abated ami abating. The diili
culties and general repugnance opposed to their
recent draft have converted it into very little
more than a barren mockery. No large access-:
ions to their army, already much reduced by the
expiration of enlistments and the casualties of
war, can now lie had hv force or persuasion. 7 lie
cordial support of public opinion, in the present
age of the world, is indispensable to the effective
prosecution of every war. Great as has been the
amount ofprejudiceand delusion and bad feeling
among the people of the North towards us, happi
ly “reason hath not tied to brutish beasts.” Many
t>f them now see that the present war is, almost
without disguise, a war for the extermination or
degradation of the white race by the installation
of the blacks hi virtual dominion over them;aud
in such a war, they have no motive of synipalhy.
or interest to engage them. Others, profiting,
a! last, by the sagacious lessons of Chatham,
Burke. Foxnind that noble hand of patriots am),
statesmen in Englund, who manfully opposed
the war upon the American colonies from the
start, begin to see that the triumph of lawless
despotism over the independence of the South
would be equally fate! to their remnant of con
stitutional liberty at home. From the operation
°f these and other causes, the military, with the
moral strength ol'the North in this contest, will
go on decreasing, white ours will as certainly
increase.
<>n whatever side I look, then, I see uo omen
o iscouragement, but, on the eontrarv, new
grounds ot assurance, with regard to the ulti
whfeh w ccrt^n tnum P h of the great cause In
wmh we are embarked. We n ,av have occa*
| stonal reverses m il to future, as we have hid
them in the past. These are often salutary tri iis
ot our constancy and faith, and needful ad.no,d
tions to increased vigilance and exertion. Ex' n
her.nc Charleston, for whose fate every b. „
om is how yearning with anxiety, ma'v t p
under the extraordinary means concern rated
lor her destruction. But if she does, ii will be
j inn Ware of glorv that will irradiate the reln
test corner of the Confederacy, and light t! e
j way to retributive victories elsewhere, while it e
j herself will be destined to rise again with increa
!ed splendor from her ashes. The capture of
1 Athens hr the Persians ushered in the glorious
days of Salami's and PiaUes. and when rc-occu
pied. strengthened and adorned by tho pious
hands of her children, she was more than ever
the envy and nbmiration of the world. No local
or occasional disaster can chock the onward pro
gress ot a great cause, blessed with the approving
smiles ot Heaven, and sustained bv stout hearts
with unceasing vigilance and unfaltering taith.
a. I remain,very truly aud faithfully, yourtrieud.
\V. C. Rives.
Fba.vcis b. Deans. Esq.. Member ot House of
••legates of Virginia, Lynchburg.
W M M, VlKPstue hf Tim. fitVOlt «>F
at til »l't.
Gentlemen of the City < 'oiineil ot Augusta : j
In accordance with my usage, 1 pres.-lit you i
at this, the October Session of your body, with
my Annual Message. And allow me, m the j
outset, to congratulate you upon the unanimity
which has prevailed among you since your en
trance upou the discharge of your duties, fee at
tention which you have given to all matters m
relation to the interest of the City, and the
ability which you have displayed in the admin
istration <>f affairs. It is true that, up to this
period of tho H-frn ofYour .ofiice, you have had
to consider qndxletermine upoubut few subjects
of great importance to the commercial, manu
facturing, or industrial classes of our popula
tion—the mighty contest in which our country
is now engaged rendering itiuip-ossitile to carry
into'successful operation any g.eat measure of
public improvement, if any such were necessary;
hut it is a matter of no slight difficulty for those
to whom the people have committed the guar
dianship of their interests to attend to the de
tails of tlfcir position iu such a manner as lo
give satisfaction to those whom they represent.
’File routine business of every. Municipal Gov
ernment is laborious ; and, to perform the duty
properly, it is necessary that the incumbents
should not only be industrious, but that they
should be intelligent and experienced. lam
proud to be able to say that all my exertions
for the benefit of onr community have met widt
your zealous co-operation.
Tins Finances. *
There is now in the Treasury of the Cily the
sum of ahoflt two hundred thonsamt dollars. -»
One hundred thousand dollars of which is the
amount set apart by your body as a Sinking
Fund for.tl e re leuiption of the Change bills is
sued by the Cily. T.o Financial Department
is iu excellent condition ; and no fear need be
entertained of our ample ability to respond
promptly to any and all of our obligations.
I do not recommend any expenditure at this
time for any purpose not absolutely necessary.
Whatever we may- have to do iu this branch of
onr duties should be. and will be, cheerfully
done, I am well convinced, for the relief and
comfort of the families «and onr soldiers and our
.other poor. Let what will come, these must be
provided for ; and t here can be presented to us
no objects so worthy of onr care and consider
ation. * ■ ' *
There will be. iu my judgment, no necessity
for air increase of-taxation for (lie ensuing fi
nancial year. The present rate has proved suf
ficient lo citable its to meet all the .demands
upon tlie Treastfry , and I believe that the same
rate will keep ps iu as favorable a condition du
ring the next year. li is now of far greater im
portance to onr citizens than ever before in the
history of Align-ta, that the Gity Government
should render the burthens to.be borne by tax
payers as light as possible.
Auwcsta Fukvsyino Association.
Tt is with the highest gratification that I
bring to the attention ot Council the Augusta
I’urveying Association ; an institution from
which, at its inception and establishment, much
was expected, and which lias pi oven to be, in
the distressed period through winch we are now
passing, of incalculable lieuefit to the poor of
our city, io.-the families of our soldiers in and
out of the service, and to alt who are. l,y their
condition, entitled to n particpiU.fi >n iu Us ad
vantages. 1 cannot too highly commend the
objects tor which it wits commenced; aud it is
impossible, in the limits lo which 1 am restrict
ed, to depict a tithe«nf the good which it lias
accomplished dining the time which it has been
in operation Tt was long ago, in the history
of this war, considered by me to be a uiattei of
permanent, import it/ce that those of our com
munity who were unable to purchase the neces-
saries of life at the price demanded by holders
—then enormously high, and whi h, 1
foresaw!, w%u!d steadily increase—should have
provision made for them by public action and
by private contribution ; and, as will be recol
lected, 1 urged the project both upon Council
and the people. The result lias been that large
nu ud i ere of our suffering poor who, without the
aid thus extended, would be entirely unable to
procure many of tlie most in lispcuaable arti
cles of food and clothing, are daily rdtieved.—
Under the personal superintendence of careful
officers, and with a conriuiianOe ot the libeiali
ty extended toil by men of means, by.railroad
officers, and by the officials of Confederate and
State Governments, who control transportation,
the sphere of usefulness of this Association must
be greatly widened.
In this connection it would be unpardonable
in me not to allude to the conduct of the Au
gusta Factory, and the worthy President of
that corporation, William K. .laekson. Esq.—
This gentleman, with a liberality width itoes
biiii infinite hurior, and which should, and 1
doubt not will, lie gratefully rejnemliered in (he
pleasanter days to come by all those who have
been and are the recipients’ol his kindness, has
done all that la v in hi»power to assist the Man
agers of the Purveying Association in their
praiseworthy purposes He has furnished large
supplies of cloth, t aeon and other necessaries,
at the lowest possible prices, which supplies
have been dispensed to the necessitous of our
city. Without tlie assistance which he has free
ly and cheerfully rendered, the power of the
Associ ttion to do good would have been great
ly cramped, and that too at times when aid
could have been obtained from no other quar
ter. l take great, pleasure in bearing this pub
lic testimony to his liberality and public spirit;
and sincerely trust that be may find an ample
reward in tire future acknowledgcmnts of ids
countrymen, as I am assured lie will in the ap
proval of bis own heart.
City prPicsus.
Tin} officers of the City have, ns my observa
tion assures me, discharged their various duties
to the best of their ability. lam not aware
that the City now lias in its employ, or filling
auyof its official positions, a man who is incom
petent to perform the luntfoi us of the place. It
is highly iinpoutint at ull times, and more es
pecially so at this juncture, when (lie aid of the
civil power is frequently necessary to the mili
tary aim, that the civil officers should be capa
ble, energi lie, ami intelligent. Much may de
pend uj on them. To prevent anarchy, or. at
least, great couliisiou, -it is indispensable that
the civil administration of attaint should go on
with lhe fame regularity as heretofore—lhat
men should pay lhe same respect to laws in
tended for the benefit of society, the security ol
life, reputation, aud property, that they ren
dered in peaceful limes.
I have used every exertion-to lender the Po
lice force its cttijicuti as possible. That body
having been organized its a milit-.i v corps, anil
subjected to stated dfllls .nd discipline, is p'&ced
in a condition to be ol essentitl service should
the occasion arise. I have no doubt that in
any emergency they would be found hilly equal
to any demand that could be.-reasonably made
upon them. , .
In this dark hnuj>of the country’s history,-
it is a sac. ed duty devolving upon every citi
zen. whatever may be his station or condition,
to encourage, by all means in his power, the
hearts of our brave deleuders, and to use every
exertion to advance the cause, upon the success
of which his own future prosperity depends.—
The di ep and swelling river of blood which sep
arates us lioni die North can never be bridged
by human hands; but -it will roll onward
through all time, an impassable barrier to eve
rything like unity between the two sections.—
| it is not by gs way lo despondency, that
we can accomplish any desirable result. To sit
supinely lamenting, wnen there is work for men
to do, is to proclaim that we are wholly unwor
thy of tho proud destiny of freemen. N. lions,
1 ke individual , must meet with reverse. ; an
iininten up ted career ot triumphs no rational
man wbl expect. He is the patriot and the he
ro, who. in the midst of the storm raging
around him', fixes hia gaze upon the glowing
star in the future, and, with a heart beating
high with hope and a dim resolution, lhat uo
disaster can dampen, pursnee his course ctearii
ly onward, until he emerges from the darkness
and stands tortlt redeemed in, the light ot, suc
cess and independence. To achieve that'inde
pendence mi with h we hare been so long strag
gling, tor which we have seen so many of our
countrymen sacrifice their lives and for which
so many ot the talented and manly spirits of
dahy <iivtet m themselves of the
V', I ts home, the allurements of pleasure,
saiw lhat C w U ‘ , fP eac ® ful eoc >ety, it is neees
ideos oi Jf "** * sUle - fcr » season, all
whTh » «' h ” P r ffi>ared for any perviee
rt"?* Cr "'" U J- , nU * y T **' ar * at <or
iland*. Ihe dangers which we may incur rnav
oe many and great ; but the magnitude of the
reward to be obtained by perseverance to the
end should incite us to the exertion of our hfeh
ot energies. °
The brilliant examples of the pist nr.te be
t#re usto quicken our zeal, and to urge ug to
ejaiiatla. lhe mighty mads that conceived
arid fought out to a triumphant end our lit.-l
Revolution, have lett liehuul them, tho rmo and
ol their self-denial, their sufferings, and their i
darkest days. With but a scanty force of illv
equlpped militia, without the appliances of war
—their chief cities in the enemy’svpossess on—
their country devastated by tire and sword—
they struggled on with a determination never
sttrpasse i, if equalled, iu tho history of the hu
man race, against the most powerful and mo t !
persevering nation which tho world (onld boast,
until their banners were crowned with,victory
and their country freed fiotn the grasp of the
oppressor. Are we not their descendants and
successors, with iis ardent feelings as they pos-V
sensed Or have we degenerated? Trie gal
lant, soldiers who have stood as a wall of flaming
steel between us and our foe, or on rimny a well
fought field, to be yet celebrated on the liistor-'
ic page, pioclalm the reply in thunder tones.
Let ns then stirnd united in the great cause ot'
our Country’s deliverance as our predecessors
stood in the past. Let ns, it net'll be, sacrifice
all that we are, and all that we have, lor the
redemption of our land and the final success of
our anms.Wlf wfe fa 1, we ahalt bear within ns,
always wiibirt us the consuling consciousness
that all that man can do has been done. It we
triumph we shall rejoice in the reflection that
our effirrts have-contributed to a consummation
so glprious to our p sterity. AVe shall not fail'
if we are true to ourselves. Looking our posi
tions sternly in the. face; ofir hearts throbbing
with patriotic'desires, our anils lierved for a
conflict which, hnwevqy short or long it may con
tinue, we are resolved’sliull wiealhe our brows
with victory—our taitli unwavering-in the val
or of our soldiers, whosg falter -d banners flaunt
in deliance to the invader, wherever vj- turn
out eyes —aud our.rcli inee iniplicit in the favor
ol' Providence, wlfo will send His pillar of light,
to guide li's oppressed people out ol the wildei
liess in His own good time we yanuot tail to
achieve the glittering prize w hich has been the
highest ambition us .the patriot of every civil
ized clime, and appear before tlie ml mi ring
glances ol die worfil a nation of freemen wots
thy of the name, redeemed, regenerated, aud
disenthralled. Roue. IF May,
MayorG. A.
SKU tHlfet lilt i l.ut.
A diplomatic circular, dated Washington.
August 12. ISO'S, and addressed by Secretary
W. M. Seward tu the Vallkee ministers abroad,
lms just been published by the Northern journ
als. It is a lengthy review' of the military
events in this country, taking them from the
point where he left off in his circular of -April
14th, ISG2. The defeat of Fope in Virginia,
ti;e invasion of Maryland by Lee, McClellan's
victories af South Mount-ill and Antic-tain, the
advance of Bragg in’o Kentucky, the move;
nyents of Van Dorn and Price, Rosencrans
victory at Stone river, the per-severing and fin
ally successful efforts of Grant at Vicksburg,
the repulse of onr troops at Helena, the seige
an l capture of Port Hudson, the retreat of Lee
after-the battles at Gettysburg, the success of
Banks iu Lotibuna, tlie maintenance of the
blockade on the coastal he situation in North
Carolina, the withdrawal of Bragg from Slft-I
liyvilie and Tnllahoma to Chat tunooga, the r ids
I of St-on email and Grierson, the capture of John
I Morgan’s forces,• &c , are rehearsed and of
course everything potrayed in tlie liveliest col
ors, indicating the ultimate success of the Un
ion arms and a speedy restoration of peace.—
He acknowledges tile review of the campaign
shows llmt they have made no progress in the
East —that, our arms have been more (ban a
match for them, lie attributes their want of
success to the forces being about equally match
ed, and the necessity ot protecting the capital
in all contingencies, lb- seems to altaili a
gieat deal of importance to the Yankee sue
eesatfs in the West, and says over fifty thousand
square miles have been .reclaimed from tlie pos
session of the Confederates.
He goes on to say lor the benefit of the for
eign people :
On rule ring to the annexed map it will be
seen that since the breaking out of the insurec
tion, the government lmS extended its former
sway over and through a region of t \o hun
dred thousand square miles, an an a us large as
Austria or France; or the Peninsula of Spain and
Portugal. The insurgents hist, iu the various
field and seige operations of the month of du
ly, which I have described, ollc-third of their
whole forces.
He alludes to our consript bill and gives us
seventy to ninety-tbe tlions nil additional
troops by it. but says we are already confront
ed at all points with superior numbers, and
that u draft for three hundred thousand more
is iu progress in tin- North to fill up the wasted
ranks'and replace those whose term is out.
Notwithstanding the leading papers Contain
accounts of the drugging to camp iu chains of
drafted men, Seward has Hie presumption to
say that the people submit to the measure with
ybeeriulness. He goes on and says :
Our loan is purchased at par by our o vn citi
zens, at the average rate of $1,200,1100 daily,
daily. Gold sells in our market at 12d to 12$,
while in the insurrectionary region ■ ft- corn
mands 1,200 per rent, premium. Every insur
gent port is either beseiged or blockaded, of
occupied by the national Ibices. .Tho field of
the piojected Confederacy is drilled by the
Mississippi. All the fortifications on its banks
are in our hands, and its flood is patrol, j d by
the national fleet
No hope is expressed of a resumption of trade
oil this stream, and the fact that lie aniumiKes
the liver is patrolled, shows pretty conclusively
that but little is expected'in the way of com
merce. He next touches on the negi o and re
marks :
Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland
all slave States - support the Federal Govern
ment. Missouri lias alrea ly, in Convention,
ordained the gradual abolition of slavery, to
take etlect at the expiration ol seven years.—
Four-fifths of Tennessee, two-thirds of Air
giuia, the coasts and sounds of North Carol inn,
half of Mississippi, and half ol Louisiana, with
till their large cities, part of Alabama, nod the
whole Beaconst of Georgia and South Carolina,
and no - inconsiderable part of the coast of
Florida, are held by the Tuiled States. The
insurgents, with the slaves whom they yet hold
in defiance of the President's Proclamation,
are now crowded into the centre and southern
imrtions of Virginia, Noitfi CaroMna, Houlh
Carolina, Georg a ami Alabama..while the pio
net slave bolding insurgents beyond the Alis
iissippi are cut off from the main force, (hi
the other band, although it is le.-s thumdx
mouths since the laws o. customs of the baited
Stales would allow a man of African descent
to bear arms in defense of his country, there
are now in the field 224)00 regularly enlisted,
ar wed ami equipped soldiers of that class,
while fifty regiments, of 2,000 each, are in pm
cess of organization, and 02.000 pe. sons of Hie
-aine class are employed as teamsters; laborers
and camp followers.
The statements presented In this circular of
the shrewd Seward are to be used in convinc
ing the statesmen of Great Britain and France,
who have accorded the character ot a belliger
ent to us and declared from-the beginning Hie
Union could not be maintained; that if they
will withdraw their support from us, there will
*OOll Is! commercial prosperity and a restora
tion of peace in America. Fortunately, these
statesmen have ocular demon (ration to Lin
contrary. Seward has a world wide reputation
for, modestly speaking, departing from the line
prescribed by truth, undtiie people of England
and France will attach but little impoitance to
anything coming from that source. Indeed, the
intelligence of the success of Bragg will stamp
‘■false'’ on the operose and highly colored doc
ument sent abroad to correct the European
‘prejudice which constit lies the basis of all
that is designedly or ondesignedly injurious”
to the Yankees “in the policy of foreign na
tions.’ —J/is‘.x is? i.ppluu.
SouSTTiixo New i* ihe musical Borld
An dectro-magneric phonoscope, lor- writing
music as plaved, haa
lhe machine is small, and its motive power is
electro-magnetic, produced by a voltaic battery
and working in a manner analogous ta tbv
printing telegeaph. Iho machine having been
placed eu rapport with (he instruments to lie
played upon, sav piano forte harmonium, or
organ, the player manipulates the keys in the
usual manner, and the machine prints his per
formance as he .goes along, at a speed propor
tionate to his playing, the usual rate being
fifteen inches on paper per minute. The print
ed notation is indentirftl witi. that already in
use, the only difference being that the heads of
the no’es are square instead of round.
There is a report in rirculation that Itnbodan
is near Centreviile, is Meade’s rear.
- OYER THE WAY
Gone from her childish puritv
Out from her golden day !
Fading away in a light so sweet,
Where the silver stars and the sunbeams nmar
Paving a path-tor her silent feet, w*
Over the silent way.
Over the bosom tenderly
The pearl-white hands are pressed !
The lashes lie qp her cheeks so thin-
Where the .soften blush of tie; rose hath been
Shutting the blue of her eyes \vfth ! n-
Tlie pure lids closed in rest.
Over the sweet brow lovingly
Twiiu-th her sunny hair!
She was so fragile that love sent down
From his heavenly gems that sott blight cltown
To shade h«-f brow with its waves ao.brown,
Light as the dimpling air.
Gone tp her sleep with the tender smile,
t roze on lier tender lips !
By the ire well kiss nf her dewy breath,
Cold in the clasp of her Angel death,
Like the last foil- bud of a fading wreath.
Whose blown the white frost nips.
'Robin—hushed in your downy bed *
Over the swinging bough—
Do you miss her voile from your glad tfaef.
When the dew in the heart of the rte-o- is set,
Tilfits velvet lips with the essence wet,
In orient crimson glow ?
Rosebud under your shady leaf,
liid from flip sunuy dav—
Do you nijss her glance of'tlie aye so bright,
AVlvosq blue was heaven in your timid sight T
It is beaming now in a world ol"light,
Over the starry way.
Hearts where, the darling’s head liutlr lain.
Held by love's shining ray— .
Do you know that the touch of her gentle hand
Doth brighten the harp iu the unknown land ;
Oh ! she waits for us with the angel baud,
Over the starry way.
LIFE’S BETTER MOMENTS
I.ifb bas its moments
Os beauty and bloom ;
But they hang-like sweet rosea
On the edge of thdtonih.
Blessings they bring us,
As lovely as brief;
.They meet us when happy,"
And leave us in grief.
Hues of tlie morning. •
Tinging the sky.
Come on the sunbeams.
And off with them fly.
Shailows of evening
Hang soft.on the shore,
Darkness enwraps them,
We see them no more.
So life's better moments
In brilliance appear,
Dawning on beauty,
Our journey to cheer, '
Round us they linger.
Like shadows of even,
AYould that we, like them
Might melt into Heaven.
A Gai.i.ant Naval Exi-i.oit. —’ f fie Chailesloa
Courier gives an account of at allant naval ex
ploit which was performed in (fie harbor of
that’city on Monday night, {subjoined are the
particulars of the affair :
The torpedo steamer Dav id. w'th a crew of
four volimleers consisting us Lieut. AVm. T.
Grassell, J. 11. Tombs, ' jhiof Engineer, and
.fames Sulivan, Fireman x,f the gunboat Clrieo
ra. with .1. W. Cannon, Assistant Pilot, of the
guub.iat Palmetto Ht» to. l, ft Sontb Atlantic
wharf between six an i seven o'clock on Mon
day evening, for the piuposj- of running out
to tin- Iren ides, exi *l<xiing a torpedo under
that vessel near ami. /strips, aval if possible blow
her up.
The weather bob dark and hazy favored
Ihe enterprise. T 1 *, boat with its gallant little
crew, proceeded \iotvn tho harbor, stilting
along the shoals, on the inside channel until
nearly abreast of tlreu formidable antagonist,
the New Ironsides.
They reruMited iu liris position for a shrirt
time circling iwoliiul on the large shoal near
the anchorage ot Ulm object of their visit. Lieut.
Grastsell, wish a double barreledgiui, 9 it jn front
of Pilot Caairioa, who had charge of the helm.
The boat was now put bow on, ruid aimed di
rectly l'or ihe Ironsides. As the little steamer
darted forward the lookout on flio Ironsides
hailed them, ‘‘Take care there, y’o»i will run in
to 11s. M'hat steamer is that 'T' Lieut. Gnsi
ell replied by discharging one barrel at the
Yankee sentinel, and tendering the gun to
Pilot Cannon, fold him there was auutfher Yan
kee, pointing to one with his body In If over
the bulwarks, and asked Oanhou 10 lake care
ol him with the other barrel.
Thu next moment they had struck (the lion
side.-y, and exploded the torpedo alaout Alteon
feet from Ihc keel, on the starboard, side. An
immense volume of water was flnx-xvi np.vov-
Pring our Ijltle boat, going thiougla the smoke
stack ; entered the furnace, and completely
extinguished the lire.
In addition to the engine, xc"ndi»ving it un
liuuuigablebt that lime, .volley after volley of
inuskett v from the crew of the Ironsides 'mid
from the ltiuuches began to pour upon them.—
Lieutenant Grassell gave the erder to btuck,
but it was foundimpossihle. Tu. this condition,
with, no shelter and no hope if escape, tbay
thought it best to surrender and hailed.the et«e
my to that offeert. The Yankees* however, paid’
no attention to ihe call but barbarously contin
ued the lire. 14 was then proposed to put qji
their life piesorvers, jutO]i overboard and eu :
-dcavQr toswiiai to the shore. All but Pilot
Cannon conoMited. The latter being unable U>
swim, said hit would slay and lake ids chances
in the boat. Lieut. Grussell, Engineer 'Toombs
mill Sulivan. the fireman, left the boat, the two
first having on life preservers, und the latter
Mipportiiie/him elf on oucof t lie hatches thrown
to him by the Pilot. Engineer Tooanbs becom
ing enih.massed with his clothing irt the water
got back to the boat and was assisted in by Ohii
.lloll. * *
The boat was then rapidly drifted from the
Ironsides. He now fortunately tounsl a match,
and lighting a torch crept back to Ihe engine,
discovert*! and removed the cause of its not
working, and soon got it in order. They then
commenced to run the gauntlet of t lie Monitors
and launches. The latter seemed i aspired with
a seeming dread of something supernatural, and
opened a path right and left for the Itittle steam
er. The Ironsides fired two eleven inch shot
at tlie |iarty as they' sped away, but' fired com
pletely over them. The crews of tlin Monitors
which tlie steamer was obliged to jpaas on her
return, were also out and commenced a heavy
lire of musketry upon lrer as she was passing.
Tlie launches made way evidently from a whole
some regard for her explosive character. En
gineer Toombs and Cannon reached their wharf
in too ci y about midniglrt, fatigued, and prft-
I si-ntiug a wornont appearance, hut rejoicing ut.
I their fortunate and narrow escape.
J lie David bears Dm honorable marks of thir
teen bullet holes.
With regJid to the damags of the Ironsides
nothing positive is kz.iown. At the moment of
striking there was gveat consternation on board.
11 was reported that the 1 few in were (
hftid at vvoik at t!*e pumps, all day Tuesday.—
Small boats were* seen eu at in tially passing be
tween the Ironsichss and t ’de .Monitors. At night
fall. however, she reniaifu-d. at her old anchor
age.
Such is the narrative eff this brilliant affair,
which, bad it been an: entire success, would
have rid us •*£ the most formidable foe engaged
in tbisjsiege. Some few have styled it a rash
und*-rtaking, hut it n< ada j*«tsuch an example
to lead t • still greater deeds iu ihe present con
dition ot om good old city, and the country a*
lane.
Cere job Hog Cholera. (Jol. E A Wyatt,
ot Da.na. ilddie couaity, after losing 30 or 40 of
ids hoga. changed tfieir feed to raw turnips and
he infui. ms ‘us iLo*. not another one died after
this. All that w*«re suffering from the disease
at the time recotfered. and a*e .now as healtliy
as cv«u. whilst none were subsequently attack
ed by it. We and. tern this information eminently
VMirtb.y of being given to the country, so that
all may have ai 1 opjtortunity of profiting hv it.
We hope that it. will be the roenns of saving to
the people a vs st quantity of meat which would
otherwise be Jo st. From the result of Col. Wy
att’s experiment he considers the remedy a car
taig cure.— Pet frzhurg tzprtss.
ItORTtIRHfI AEWa.
A general ordelij trom the Federal War De- j
partment declares, that irregularities having |
eocurred in.the discharge of prisoners of war |
through exereise.of discretionary -power by De
partment officers; and other commanders, it h is
become nacessary. to order that no prisoners of
war, after having been reported to the Com
missary Geueraljof prisoners, will be discharg
ed, except on aivlordei from the Commissioner
for ihe exchange of prisoners, who will act
under instructions from the War Depaitment.
.All applications 'and recommendations lor dis
charges will be lowardcd to the Commissary
General of prisoners for endorsement of such
facts Hfi may be of record in his office, when the
application will be submitted for decision of
t!uv War Deportment, through the Commissioner
for the exchange of prisoners. The mere de
sir oto be discharged upon tak : ng the oath of
atlegiarice, will furnish no sufficient ground for
such discharge, jbut, in the cases where it can
•be shown, a prisoner was impressed into the
jebrl service, or who can plead hi palliation
extreme youth, followed by open ami declared
report, and with.other reasons, may he specially
reported. The oath of allegiance, when ad
ministered must; be taken without qualification,
and cun iu no cilse carry with it an exemption
from the duties < fa citizen.
Cyrus W. Field Is soon to commence opera
tions on a telegraphic cable, between Ireland
and New Found!.and, •
A delegate fre m the United States Christian
'Commission writes from New Orleans, that it is
a painful fact that the piofmsedly pious portion
of the most ultia secessionists, and tire clergy
are arch rebels. 1 The churches trial are ojkju
are in the inter*st of tin; rebellion, and lam
ndly coffvinc id that it is better lo,close them
all i>y authuyty.” AVe ire glad .to learn that
life Christians o I New Orleans are so patriotic.
Wo do not tliinl the man who wants theeburoh
eo in New Orlea rs closed has much of aihris
tian spirit.
According to :1 Washington letter President
Juarez of Mexh o lias sent Gen. Cortez to Wash
lon on imporfip t business..
The debate oji the motion of a want of con
fidence in the English Government has term
inated in the Ctjnadiaii Parliament. The Gov
ernment was a (stained by majority ot two
votes. The iss re was made with reference to
American aflhii s, and Russell.vaa held up by a
slim majority.
General Grant has so -far recovered from ibe
injury which hi; recieved at New Oileans, by
his horse coming in contact with a carriage
that he lias been able to leutfe for A iekiburg.
Gon. Thomas went with hint.
Gen. Meade lias been in Washington consult
ing with Liueo n arul lialleek.
A private let c-r of Sept. 12th, from New Or
lenhs, received in Boston, says '■ The coast is as
full ot Oorifede ate troops as ever. The stores
of Baton Rouge are closed up, for fear of a force
of ConfederaLei; dashing ill, as they did at Port
Hudson lately where they spiked guns, car
ried oft'food, ilii'ei hundred negroes, and other
plunders’ 5 * •
T he Yankees have established a Cavalry Bu
reau.at Wayhii gton, of which Col. Sawte’lle is
the head.
There is to b ! no draft in Ohio, Illinois or In
diana—the Governors of these states having
given assuranue to Lincoln that their quotas
will be made i p by volunteering.
Governor Andrews, of Massachusetts, has
been nomiuabjl by acclamation for re-election.
Three who!s floors, extending the entire
length of the l ew t reasury building in Wash
ington, beside.',, a number of other rooms, are
required for ttip manufacture of Federal green
backs and shiijjplasters, from fifty cents down
to five cents denominations.
Gen. Blunt jiad issued a proclamation to the
people of Arkjimsas, stating that the Federal
occupation wo|ild be pernitiuent, and advising
■jbcin to organize a civil government under the
authority ol the Foiled States.
Certificates! of disabi’sty for one hundred
and seventy Lhousand cases of wounded sol
diere have Ic-i ii sent from the Federal Surgeon
GOneiid's offi «to that of Pensions. But thir
ty thousand a iplicatlons for pensions have yet
been received,
Prisoners recently captured in least Tennes
see report tin death of Col. Bob Johnson, An
dy Johnson’s jacond son. He is sai i to have
died at Hunts Hilo; Ala., in a drunken fit. It
will btf recollected that his oldest son was
thrown from l|lis hors; in Nashville, soaie five
or fix mcrutlis ago, and killed, while on a
drunken frolic •
T"e New Y< rk Tribune in speaking of the
treatment recci ved by negro soldiers says that
“ Linfidn linsjHrectvd Genera! Gillmore to de
mand IronrLjej 1 iral ilea 11 regard a list of the
officers and 10 ;n of the negro regiments who
were taken pi soners on Morris Island, and a
■statement of their present stitHiS, with the de
sign of placinj an equal number pf Confeder
ate prisoners |m the same footing, whatever
their condition may be. it is tlireat**ued lhat
if Gen. Beauregard refuses to furnish the state
ments, or pleads ignorance of Die facts, as liff
is reported to Ij ave done, the Yankee Govern
ment will presume that Die Confederate Gov
ernment has carried out its threat, and will
proceed to act Accordingly.”
Mr. Alfred Spates, President of the Chesa
peake and Ohio Canal Company, who was ar
rested about two weeks since upon the charge
of treasonable; conduct, has beeu released from
Fort McHenry in the sum of SIO,OOO security,
and to report tri General Morris, United States
army, whenever called on.
The returns; received at the Department of
Agriculture, Vi'ashington, between the 3d aud
Bth days of September, from all 'the States vis
ited by the latjisevere frosts, generally place
■ the injury to lhe corn crop at from one-fifth to
cine-liall "tlie ffliole crop. The reports received
before the frost 1* pn *.-ut.- I the corn crop as
j excellent, and jin M'aiyUnd and Pennsylvania
ronly one tentliSlicti*" Dm average. Tobacco,
iu the same Stifle V ab.ml ipi average crop.
There is but liljw *h> iM but what this crop suf
fered more tbaiL any o.inr throughout the re
gion visit and by the fro. t. tiorghmn was in
jured less than :oru.
Tlie Northerly aneonhts of the battle in Ten
nessi'e are meagre find desultory. 'They know
they have sustained a great reverse, and, Yan
kee-like, ttiryfhave as little to say of it as pos
sible, tb>-ii objieef being to treat it lightly and
conceal thefaej s by silence.
The New Yolk Tribune an.l the organs of the
administrationfaliour very strenuously to keep
up the reverse iu Tennessee.
The Kansas troops are preparing to make a
raid into Northern Texas.
All the political prisoners recently confined
in Fort LaFayettehave been transferred to the
custody of Colonel lliraniielc at Fort Warren,
Boston Ilaibor. The reason for the transfer is,
that Fort Lafayette is to be placad immediately
in repair, so as to be able to aid in the defence
of Die harbor in the event of 11 foreign war.
It is again rumored that Mr. Chase lias noti
lied the New York city banks Dud lie shall call
upon them during Die week for £5,000,000 on
account of the new loan.
Gen. Lewis Cass is seriously indisposed. It
ia thought he cannot long survive.
Negro enlistments in Maryland are going on
to a considerable extent.
The insurance offices at the North are becom
ing shy ot risks on the Mississippi Rivet below
Memphis. Our guerillas make it an unsafe in
vestment,
The Memphis papers p.ay that hardly a day
possess without some Federal steamboat being
destroyed on the Mississidpi.
Tlie terribl* result of the Gettysburg battles
was a lo«% to the Federals of over twenty nine
thousand men!
Brigadier (Jen. Q. A. Gilmore, now command
ing the army operating against Charleston, lias
been made a Major-General.
A letter to the New York Herald, from Mor
ris Island, says the tides are washing the bluffs
away at the rate of from ten to twenty feet per
day. Fifty yards of beach have disappeared
in the rea since the middle of August.
Gen. McClellan is in Philadelphia, and Ad
miral Farragut in New York.
Three English and one French ships of war
have arrived at New York.
There is an officer at Hooker’s headquarters
charged with the duty of compiling statistics
and information from newspapers and other
Confederate sources.
ADMIftItiTKATmS’6 841. K.
XII Tittu* ofanon!<?r ol trie Court of Ordiuory of Grtono
■ X eoußty, Go will Ce toirt tefoi* tae Court Hour* ooor m
<jr»‘vueßb*irc>\ \s-ltLin tae Uval h®nirs » f sule, on first Th- *-
Uay in NOVEMBER nxi. .»il that tract ol Land m said coun
ty, ou tW ware.f> t»J Liuie Kiver, uonta hing i’ll acre?, invin. k
auiolninkr hVftilsi of LiliuGuUxiOH iuul othors. A Unit flfltva
auvn \u growtu, lie balance in pirG?. SoM iu
probity of tlie estate of Aud row Kay, late of Alabama, <lu
ctiasvd. lemu on the day of «ale. *
WALTEK A. FARTKE Adni'r
de bonla non of Andrew Kay, dec'd.
SeyKmtter 11, ISM. ' 6w87
If county, Georgia, will be •old before the Court H».use door
in Qreonsboro!; in btild Cvuuly, ou the i lint Tue<klay nr N..v \
ber next, a Tract ’of laud, containing 89 anvs moiv *•! lew, «-u
tbe wnte sos Beaver l am Creek in said County, ru\HnWv& him
of E. Bowden, t'. I*. Arnold and otin rs On pratuibCM ia
tk dwelling ttfid nm*i*sary out houses. Sold hb the propetty .
iho estate of Thomas Stanley deceased. Terms rash.
JOHN. A.CARTWKIUHT.
Admlu’r of
Orceneebord’, Oa., Sopt. 11. t'njrSß
ADMI.\IBIHATOK> SALE) Oi' LA Ml.
A GRKEABLY to an order ot the ilrdluarv of iintg ui cdun
ty, will be » dd before tno (Y.uil House door In tho town <.f
Mamsot', on the first TuedUay In November mxt ntnety-thivo
acres of 1 -..nd, lying on the Georgia Railroad* one mile above Hut
l«d/e,Jo!utng B. J. Hardin, Mrs. Stapp and others Sbld m
tne property of the estate of John A. H&nner, lute of ekid c.uu
ty, deceased. DAWSON is. LANE, Adm'r.
September 12,19C3. ‘ avt*. _
A DMIKISTR ATOR*S SALE.
"nsriLL be sold Ou ttielst Tuestlay in Dumber neKt, 1
fore the Court Houw In the town 'of Washington,
Wilkes county, a tract at 1 ind in said county on the water* of j
(’Urne l*re* k, containing live hundred acres, n.ore or la.-:-, l»eii ;
the plantation wherepn John H. Norman, decease 1 resulcii.
There irfon tlie place a g-M)! dwelling house, "In hous? end i
screw .*rui other out houses. Sold for the benefit of the fieir.i I
and of said deceased.
6w 4<) JOHNSON KOUM A N, Adm’r.
1 ; AD.HIAIS f'HATOK'B SALE. , "
BY virtue of au order from the Court of Or-Unary of Ggh
tiorpe county, Georgia, will l»e sold before the Court
House door, in the town of Lexington iu said county witUn
the lc-gdl hours of sale on- tiie first Toesdny in NOV EM BEL
next Sam » negro hoy lAtve, young and likely belonging iu t l e
e.tate of Joseph H. Lumpkin Jr., late ot said county, decea .-J.
SABAH F.. LUMPgIN, Art.i’i
Lexington, Sept. 14, tiw -its
EX kti loirs ha l.k . j 1
BY virtue of an order ftomthu Uour. ol Ordinary of Ogle-
county Georgia, wiil.be sold before the Court
1 Louse door, Utlie town or Lextuglop, In raid county, wltbhi
the legal hours ol sale, on the first Tuesday in NON EMBfc.ll
next, one tract of land on the waieis of Long < reeok, in smu
cdunty, containing two hundred a.res, more or less. ad}.»ii;iiu:
lands of Mrs KUzabeth Howard, Dr. WMlis Willingham, Tims
Howard, /*. H. Clark and ethers, known as the Mrs Mary
Howard tract of land. Also at the same time and place ertven
likely negroes to wit: John, a ruin -H years oht, i cm, a n.a.r
32 years old, Francis, a girl 11 years old, Mary, a girl 12 year j
old. i ieorge, a boy v» years old and Jane, a woman h.' years c!d
ana her four chtldron, Lucy 7 > t\irs old, k«nry,*s rears ol.',
ld«?r, 2 yi:u-9 old and ah Infant, .lutla, six inontha old and an
. old woman Mary, r;*> years old. All sol las the prop rty be
longing to the estate of Mary Howard, late of said county cio
cea9°d-sul«l tor distribution. Teirns Cash.
WILLIxVMT. 110 AT AUD, Exendor.
sept Jlti (iwJl
EXKtIT4>H’» M ALE OFHOLBE L\U Lbs I\
tIVDIKOV
AGREEABLY to an order of th»: i trdinaw of Morgan coun
txix will be sold before the Court House door in the towui of
Mi*dUon,.on the first Tuesday in November iinxl, the House and
Lot iu said town where Marv Jane KusseU lived at .the time o
her death, containing acre*, more or K4->, and sold a^jfl
propexty of the esiAle of said Mary .1 ft fie Russell.
JAMlfih A. WADE,
Saptamber 12, leW. 6wN7 \
CITATION S m
XOK MJTTVKS or IDTMTINIBTKATION J
citatkofu'kokuia, 5 ilkescoc-nty. A
re ' heißHs jMepU J HobuU. !! aniliaMo mo for litter*. :*
administration ou the estate vs John S. Bowen late ol said ■
county, deuaased %
These are 1 herrfoje to cite and admonl-h a 1 and singular
kiudred and cred loreof said de eased, lo be and a[>pear ui
otftce oil or before the first Monday in November i o\t. lo
cause. M any they have why said ialters shoo’d not l»e grant
Given under my hand aud otlleml signature at office in VN n-h-M
ingtoa, this filth day »f Boptembor lbtitt. ■
sepfi>-swdV G. G. NOR MAX, Ordinary. S
STATE OE GEORGIA, OGLETHORPE COUNTY.
Whereas Hornet tJaadw-ylcr ai.p iesto me 'or letters of J
inlniatrailon, the srtate of Martin Dead\s y!er, lute of ::> ■!
com tty deceased.
These are therefore to cite and admonish all and giugifar 1 i.tH
kindred and creditors of said dt csast and to show cause, it un\H
they have, within the time perseiLa.d by law, why s.«ul i.’Uotfl
should not be granted. B
Given under my hand at offl ein Lextngti n, in said count vB
this *22d flay of September, 18b5. ■
sep fii -4wßjJ E. U. SHACKLEFORD, Oidina y.
S““ TATK OF OF-ORGIA OREKNE COUNTY.
W ? he eaa, Stuubel D. l»urham aj plli s for left re (fAd
ministration on the estate of Limy S. Whltirw, iute ol * i «l
county, dejoariod.
Tkay? are therefore to cl’e mid admonish all and Ring'd o
the Kindred and creditors of said deceased to Im* and a ie«-
at the Court of (U.ilnaryto be held In and for said t .unity on
the first MOnday in NOVEMBER next, to eiurw csmse, b any
they have, whaaaid letters should not then be franted.
G-lvcn under my hand at office iu Greensboro’ September 25th
1803. [;ep 27-4W*-. j EUOEN YUS L. KING, < frdmary.
£3TATL ol GEORGIA. MORGAN COUN IY.
Whereas James i ockrurn »if-l U-s for loiters <*f Ad minis-,
t ration upon the Estate oi Oeoige Cockrum, late of said county,
deceased.
These are theres.-re to cite and admonish all, ami a rgular the
kindred and crcdftora of said deceased to be and appear at n y
office on er before the flrrt Monday in NOVEMBER next,
then and there, to bow can e, if any they have, whv sa : d let ion
should not be granted. Given undev my hand at ofi!i’eiii Madi
s»n, the 28th September, 18<i4.
. oet 1, 4w40 F. AY. ARNOLD, Ordinary.
AZ4TATE OF GEORGIA. OGLETHORPE COUNTY.
Whereas, Ma-y E. Maxey applies to me for letters of al
- drat lon outhi Estate of John X. Maxey, late of said county
deoeaa-d.
'j’heee are therelore to cite and admonUh all, aud tins'll f lha
kindred mid creditors of and deceased to be nod appear at mV
office within the time nimscrlued l>y la w to show itiuse, if
anv they have, why said letter* shot.ld not be grin ed.
Given under my ImJid at office in Lexington thli 22t’ dr.y of
Septehi* or,- loOi.
(tet l, 4vs4o K. ( J . KHACivKLFOED, Ordinary.
£TAT¥OF GEORGIAi MORGAN (iHNTY.
When as J. hn R Baldwin applies f. r letters of At*
lujulrttatlon up n the Estate of WUliuni I’. ARistoa of buM
county, dice sed.
the k.ndred and credit* is oi said decease*! to »>e and »•} Pear ac
my olil eou or bef<- e the first Monday’ in NOV EM BER next,
then and there to *h"W cause, if anythev have, w hv said lefler.-r
should not btr g anted. Given under my hind at office in Madi
son thid ilny c*i September, 1803.
Wiiiixftj P. Alltaon. deceased.
ecL U 4W40 # F. W. ARNOLD. <) dinar.'.
TATh. OF GEORGIA, MORGAN7OUM Y.
WLer.:ts, Jftima Cockruin applies f<»r letters of Admin
l*tra lon upon the Estate of John Ccc-rum late of said county,
deceoßsd.
These are therisfore todte auda 'roonlFh all and singubir tfm
kindred and creditor* of tahl deceased, to be and appdar at.
my offike oo or liefore the first Moiidav in Nov* mb. r next,
then and there tofshow caur*e. If any they have, whv said l* tt* re
should not he graoted. Given under my hand office iu Madi
son, this 28th fcdpteuiber, liti.
oct 1. 4w40 F. W. ARNOLD. Ordinary
TAT® OF GEORGIA. RICHMOND COUNT V.
Whtreas, Patrick Marlow anplles to me for letters of ad
(«h th*? Kolate vs David Welch, late ol . uid county,
f^ccased.
Th*ie»r*l)»erefora,to rit< - and admnnMi all, anti alnjular
the k.lndrf.l aud credlUiraOl fuld deceawd, to l.« ml aw.rai at
my offl.-e, an or before the first Monday In NOV EM IIU! next,
to »how cause, il any they have, why said letters should noj le
ersnted. ... .
IJlven under n*y h-in-I and offlelal signature, at omeeln Ab
euidi, this 30th day of September, 1863.
octl-4w4tt I)A\ iD L. RQA fl*T, Ordinary.
Of GEORGIA. LINCOLN (X>UNTV.
To all whom tt may concern. Elizabeth Hamrick having
in proper form aimlled to mo for permanent letters of admin
istration on the, Eatiiieof Abner P. Hamrick, late of said county.
This is to cite all. and singular the creditors and next of kin of
P. Hamrick to be a uQ appear at my oftl e, wi-hintLe
time aliowefl by law, and j»how cause. If any they c n, why
pemisßeut adiu-nlstralion should not I* granted to Elizabeth
Hamnck ou Aimer P. Hamricks Estate,
oct 3 6w4d h. F. T ATOM, Ordinary _
TATE OF GEORGIA. WILKES COUNTY.
55* BensJ»n Frsrfh*r applies to me for letters of
guardianship for Oibaou Prather, aimß*>n Prather, and Emma
Prather, minor heirs of Jam s s>. Prather, ueceased.
There arc therefore to r-de and -udmonl n all, and singular
the kindred and friends of sai 1 m.noi 8,.t0 be a U appear at n
office within tbe time pres* ine*l by law, to show cause, il any
they have why said h-tfeia t-iiouUl not be granted.
Given under my hau l at u tl * lit Waah'ngton.
*.v4o O. G. NGitMAN, Ordinary.
NOTICE
TO DEBTOKS AND CKKOITOtLI
mTOTtOK TO hEBTOHS A .Ml CBKUHORS.
All per Mona to Uih eitato of Thomas Florence,
late of iJiic«»lu couiitf tio HAJofl, are to HiMke injuj/dl
ate payment, and those having demand • aga n«t said estate w|U
preoatit-tiiem duly auiiieiitlcAtod withia the time pr»*s' iii>fe(l by
l»w UKO. W. FLORJtitOE,
sep IS ' Cwid
mjOTIOK TO DIC toks anl> chkditolis.
All peioons iodohtod to the MUd* ol yip* on Florerco,
ut« <«f W'ilkea eoauty, and are rcquiied tonmlceimruediata
paymont ; und those having doccands against a rid esU'e wM
nrosMt theui, duly authentli* ed with id the t!mcj>io-crib:*d by
OKoKOK (V. PL KEXCF. Adin'r
Mplti 6^'-
mjUTK '.K To OhIBrOHS A\i> l!Kfi.i>IToHS.
Notice li hereby given to ail peraons having remand*
against George i. itecu, late of Grenie Gonuty, Ge n, de<>-a*ed,
to render In to me, an account of their demands according to
Juw, and all pe *o:j* indebted to Mftid deceuMed will Uia'ufc im
mediate iktymem to me.
ISAAC B. HUFF,
Aditi'r of George I Kced.
eep W Georgia.
TWO MOUTHS ROTICG*.
TATCTIOK.
Xi Siitv hV’ aft r gallon wl 1 !»e nndc to the
Oruiimrv o’ &lorg«vu c unty.ine Bret Molid.*y in October not,
tor at. orr'er *r:-.ali<.g e-tve t j *«1 a M *'» by ih f.uu'e
oi ijijQiUhtl lur tn> o diitrtbul o».
t. A 1 •'r.
A a ÜBt '6, 16 3. swp.’i
NO! lUIC.
’f wo moiitiit«ft#r da e apullcat-on will ho mad’ totfa
lo the Otdin ITyof M‘t rn court,,, w n Uc .u .Mouuay uuho
v- inter n* i* mmu order grantlßg leave to eeli the n p*on t
JkaUi* or JamM FatricU, mu- ol aud t m.ny, i eceuaed, l r
the pu»{ue ol paylog the o. u td *ul do e.i*e< .
loAAC L. WahiU.X.Atlm’r.
A’ guei 28, H M
NoTifi.eu* ’
Two iu ha after date, applice ion wilt I c made 4 oli e
G rdimtry o Morgan county,ou the lira M nday in Move- -
bci next, to an o uer snf-%) ttug leove i • teJI the whd anti uu
tQllivatei i and- b*aoi-gii g lo lie Astute ot K bint A. r»i* r
cece pnvnleiy, movidid h*. ean.e c«u ba done t.j -the
lhloi esi ot Le i£Aale of Haul dec> acd
JAiliw O. A. KAuFOKU, Aim r.
N'llC a.
An-l culldn wuJ be uade to th- Court r/ Oidj atvot
Li. coin ctAitth « j a Leant r.gulur T-«uiHlur i . eg.
pUffton O! i no iooh It! tie turn untied, firi uvm». i m •
Lati II 'tf'm-Hur lo t tt « wt te Os J 11. n J), > ump p •... , [
a’d cr.i!>*»v,de exie , IM r ihi biuutti ol tl.e ;.o ■ c an- tic.* on
OlrAld do/oxofed. fcli. w AN 'A.MAMtJ 1.
C-j J ii AKI -t I’luN.i,
Ang'iti *stti 1-JUB.—bwdu Adm. ii *vr^
ADMLMhTKATOH’H BALK.
\Aj ILL be "old before the Court House door in Cretrra*
?f ioro,Ua,iU th* first Tuesday in OCIOBAII s*< u/
within th **. legal hour* of sx'e, the Land b longing lo ihe
t*te ol J r-pti W. Whitten, U. ceoited. Weld Luud adw t q
Woodvllfe l»eK>t, Davhon, Haly and others bold lo the
beueflt of Lhe hfci.s and creditors. Terms cash.
ti. L* t UKHAM, Ado.r.
September 1 t, 18AS. r
For Sale 1-4
A «« >UPtiAMTATIOM to Bart* county, of nnnr mrJ
fX. Ouuu-Cits*,.. MU ana Miatotv mu,a, and about twenty
4vc NiCOttOES, wlUl BTCXJK, O'TItMSLLe, *c.. u .
lou . w. A C,uw.
4nrwV,Pov. 19ttu I*o. B4VUWAUI*