Georgia Historic Newspapers

    payment of costs; to make uniform the tax on
A bill to allow Inferior Courts to seize toil
bridges. rending this bill the Iloube adjour
ned.
SENATE. _
Monday, P. M.. Nov. 30.
A motion to reconsider the lost bill to change
the name of I‘nion county to Fcrrest, was de
bated and lost. The influence that controlled
the Senate was the impropriety of naming a
county after any living man.
The following were read first time : A bill to
authorize the Governor to grant licenses for dis
tillation for medical purposes ; resolution re
questing Congress to establish a mail route in
Berrien oo.; bill to charter the Augusta & Co
lumbia Railroad; to allow the Greenesboro Fe
male College to be sold for its debts.
The following were passed : A hill to incor
porate the Bainbridge Female College; to de
clare all laws not in conflict with the code, of
force; to repeal the clause of the code which
prohibits the marriage of cousins, and to legal
ize such marriages already made ; to relieve
Jane B. Eaves, of Polk co.; to regulate voting
by soldiers in all elections; House bill to pre
vent the distillation of grain—allows the de
struction of stills found to be violating the law;
to punish persons for communicating with the
enemy; to amend the 171 <ith section of code.
A bill to legalize the appropriations for the
defence of Rome—lost.
The Judiciary Committee reported a bill to
amend the distillation act.
A message was received from the Governor
in reference to a number of flags of Georgia
regiments, and flags captured from the enemy.
The message was referred to a special commit
tee to receive the flags, &c.
HOUSE.
Monday P. M., Nov. 30.
On motion, the bill to authorize Inferior
Courts to seize toll bridges and make them
free, paying just compensation for them, was
indefinitely postponed.
Major Groves, member elect lrom Catoosa,
*ivas qtndlftod t% nd took V*io o««U.
T he Senate resolutions authorizing the Gov
ernor to call out all able-bodied men over 15
years of age, were taken up. A good deal ot
discussion took place, several amendments and
suggestions were offered; finally, it was moved
th rt the resolut'ons lay on the table until to
morrow, and come up with the military bill,
which motion prevailed.
A bill was introduced to amend the 3d sec
tion of Code, and to carry into effect on tire
Ist January, 18G4, the act passed by the pres
ent General Assembly, to separate the offices
vs Tax Collector and Receiver.
The revenue bill was taken up. It proposes
to raise sl3,ooo,ooo—tax not to exceed per
cent. Pending its discussion the House ad
journed.
HOUSE.
Tuesday A. M., Doc. 1.
It was moved to reconsider the bill passed
yesterday (and not lost as 1 erroneously stated
in my last,) to equalize tax on slaves—lost.
It was moved to reconsider the “bridge bill"
for the purpose of referring the matter to a
Bpeeial committee, which motion prevailed.
Messrs. Hill, Shockley, Dußose, Wallace and
Jones are the committee.
A motion to reconsider the lost bill to change
the time of holding Courts of Ordinary—lost.
A biH was introduced in reference to Jeffer-
Eon County Academy.
The unfinished business of yesterday—the
bill to raise revenue for 1804—was taken up.
The question was on the motion to strike out
one and a half per cent, and insert ijths of one
per cent. The vote was taken on the motion
to striko out, and was a tie—the Chair voting
in the negative. On motion the bill was then
referred to the committee on Finance.
The special order—a bill to re-organize the
militia—was taken up and read. It was then
laid on the tuble until the Senate bill shall
come up for a third lending. The Senate bill
was reud the first time, when the House ad
journed to 3 o’clock, P. M.
SENATE.
Tuesday, A. M., Dec. 1.
A motion to reconsider the bill to amend the
Charter of the city of Columbus, was agreed to.
The following were passed ; A bill to incor
porate Mount Gilead Camp-ground—substitu
ted by a bill to protect such places against in
truders, and to suppress improper conduct ; to
regulate Insurance companies and their agen
cies in this State.
A bill to change the rank of the Adjutant
and Inspector General from a Colonel of cav
alry to a Major General. Gen. Wright op
posed the bill as leading to confusion as to rank
of officers, and a military anomaly. He moved
to recommit the bill with instructions to report
a bill making Gen. Wayne Major General of
the militia of this State.
Gen. Cone thought then wo would have no
Inspector General. He was opposed to the
Bill and to Gen. Wright’s motion.
Pending the morning proceedings I must
close my report.
HOUSE.
Tuesday P. M., Dec. 1.
The message Os l.je Governor in reference to
Certain battle flags was :ead.
A hill to define the line between the counties
of Muscogee and Chattahoochee, elicited "quite
a spirited debate. It was reported back to the
committee on new counties and county lines.
A bill to tax dogs—Judge Hazard's dog bill—-
•was taken up. Judge Ezzard offered a snbsli
tute, exempting two dogs from taxation, and
unstained it in an able and sensible speech.
Mr. Dußose spoke against the bill. It was
lost—ayes 2S, nays 64.
A resolution declaring Hint the W. & A. R.
K. will not be liable for damage to government
freight when the same is loaded and unloaded
By government agents, was passed.
HOUSE.
Wednesday, A. M., Dec. 2.
The f mowing hills were introduced : A res
olution 'to es»u blish , a lnan . , ; oute I'™™ No. 6,
Gulf Road to Ocn-'o'seo mill; a resolution to
disband the two regin: ente ol State troops; a
Bill to authorize Solomon Redman to go into
slavery; for the relief of Thos. - • Cooper, de
ceased; to authorize Inferior Conn Pt I earce
co. or other counties to purchase the proceed 3
©f the tithing tax; to authorize Inferior
to legitimatize children.
The militia bill was made the special order
for Thursday, 8d inst. The report of the Com
mittee on the State of tee Republic was made
the special order for Friday, 4th.
The House spent some time on a bill to reg
ulate distillation, and laid it on the table till a
Senate bill come up.
Penafe amendments to various House bills
Were then acted upon. The balance of the
morning was spent on the tax bill, pending
which the House adjourned to 3 P. M.
SENATE.
Wednesday, P. M., Dec. 2.
The following were passed : A bill to amend
the distillation act—allows contractors with
the Confederate Government to distil rye, corn,
barley and sliotts, without reference to the dis
tance from railroads; resolution requesting
Congress to increase the pay of non-commis
sioned officers and privates: resolution declara
tory of the rights of volunteers to elect their
own officers: resolution to suspend the tax exe
cution upon she property of 11. P. Livingston;
resolution to adjourn on the 12th.
A House bill to change the time of adverti
sing notice for application for estates of deceased
persons. The Senate had amended the House
Bill, in which the House refused to concur. The
go.uate insisted, and the House refused to re
cade.
The Senau* appointed a committee of Confer
ence. .. „ ,
A bill for the relief of C. F. Crawford, lost.
On motion. Ex-Gov. Lowe, of Maryland, was
invited to a seat on the floor of the Senate.
The following were introduced: A bill to
amend the oath of tax-payers —requires them
to swear whether they have refusal to take
Confederate money: to require all who refuse
to take Confederate money to give in his cur-
Tvncy at its specie valuation; to amend the act
ttuthorrang the Inferior Courts to levy an extra
tax; to change the line between Warren and
Glasscock; to incorporate the Oketenokee
I training & Mining Cos.; to increase the fees of
Cpunty officers.
T n** following were passed; A bill to pay the
4th Brigade their full pay for the two
months they p ore in camp at Camp McDonald;
to amend the 78hu’: section of Code—taxes de
faulters double the liiS* year, quadruple the
second year, and so on; to change the time of
bolding the Inferior Court of Miller couuty;
for the support of the Georgia Academy for
the Blind; to allow tax payers to pay taxes in
Confederate money.
HOUSE.
WEDNTSPAY, P. M., Dec. 2.
The House was engaged all the afternoon on
the unfinished business of the morning—the
till £o raise a revenue, known as the “tax bill."
The bill proposed that a tax of one and a half
per cent be levied on all taxable , property in
the State It was moved to strike out one half
nor cent whicu was agreed to. The Finance
Committee offered all amendment that $3,000
worth of property owned by all soldiers in the
service be exempt from talal'ou. A substitute
was offered, which propose#to raws $. .500,000
By taxation, and $2,000,000 or more if neces
sary bv the use of six per cent bonds. The
bill and substitute were elaborately discussed.
On taking the vote on the substitute, on divi
sion, there was a tie-the Speaker voted against
the substitute. The yeas and nays were called,
and they were ayes 57, nays 68. The vote ws
then taken on the bill as amended by the Fi
nance Committee, and it passed—ayes 72, nays
42.
ft is thought that the bill will ra’se about
$12,000,000. Those who favored the substitute
thought it just that posterity should pay a por
tion of the expense incurred in the revolution,
and it was feared, also, that the energies and
confident hopes of the people would be depraes
«d by putting the whole burden upon the peo
ple now. Mr. Adams sustained his substitute
with ability and power, but this, and the
valuable aid afforded him by others, did not
suffice, and the policy of paying as you go has
been endorsed by the House.
I omitted to note in my yesterday's report
the introduction of a resolution to relieve the
creditors of J. P. Livingston, the Napoieon of
defaulting financiers from Clinch county. It
seems that the assessors of taxes in Clinch
county, where Livingston resided, assessed his
income tax at $50,000, in default of any re
turns from Livingston, and the tax was doubled
[on account of such default, making a claim of
SIOO,OOO on lbs estate for taxes. He left con
siderable property in that county. On this
property there are claims in Savannah amount
ing to several hundred thousand dollars. His
creditors assert that the claim of the State for
an income tax is unjust, because he never
had any income except the large sums he bor
rowed. These were predicated or pretended
purchases of cotton which he never purchased,
but used the means so borrowed to build up a
credit, find rope hi other victims. He would
have policies of insurance issued and nse them
as evidence of purchases, and would render
accounts of sales, and divide thousands of dol
lars of profits, on these fictitious operations,
to allure his victims into heavier accommoda
tions. In this way he duped a large number
of the richest and sharpest capitalists in Savan
nah. Macon, and elsewhere. His friends sup
posed lie was operating largely in cotton and
other articles of speculation, and hence the in
come tax was assessed. These creditors, ask
that the tax so improperly levied bo remitted,
in order that his effects may L. u.pplto<l to their
just claims. Mr. Lloyd, Senator from the first
district, stated the facts to the Senate in which
the above is based, and argued that in justice
to all concerned the resolution should puss. It
was referred to a special committee.
HOUSE.
Thursday A. M., Dec. 3.
It was moved to reconsider the tax bill. The
question was raised whether or not the amend
ment excepting S3OOO of soldiers’ property from
taxation, as reported by the committee, was
adopted. The Speaker stated his opinion that
the amendment was not adopted. The Journal
implied that it was. Mr. Overstreet had voted
for the bill under the impression that the
amendment was adopted. Ilelavored such tax
ation of those not in the service as was neces
saty, and as they could bear,*but thought the
amount stated in the amendment, owned by
soldiers in the service, should bo exempted.—
He favored reconsideration in order ttiat there
might he no question about the adoption of this
important provision. T he bill was reconsidered.
A bill to provide for the support of the Lu
natic Asylum was taken up and passed.
A message was received lrom the Governor,
in reference to the losses of govemmentfrejghts
on the W. & A. R. Road, and the propriety, un
der the circumstances, of relieving the road of
responsibiiy for losses when trains are in charge
of the military. Referred to the committee on
finance.
The special order—the bill to restrict the
planting of cotton—was taken up. Mr. Hill
moved that the bill be indefinitely postponed,
and called the previous question. This cut off
all discussion. On the motion the ayes and nays
were called, and were, ayes 67, nays 64. So the
previous question was sustained. On the mo
tion to postpone indefinitely the ayes and nays
were called, and were ayes 66, nays 61). The
vote was then on the passage of the bill. Mr.
Adams called for the ayes and nays, which call
was sustained, and he proceeded to address the
house in behalf of the bill. Others followed
for and against the hill. Pending the discus
sion the House adjourned to 3 P. M.
HOUSE. ‘
Thursday P. M., Dec, 3.
The bill to further restrict cotton planting
was under discussion during the afternoon ses
sion of the House. The bill was passed by a
close vote —ayes 68, nays 67.
SENATE.
Friday Morning, Dec. 4.
A resolution was adopted appointing a joint
committee to make suitable arrangements for
the observance of the approaching Fast Day.
The special order—the bill to restrict cotton
planting—was taken up and indefinitely post
poned—ayes 21, nays 13.
Tho following bills were passed : A bill to
authorize the Governorto grant licenses for the
distillation of alcohol for medical and mechan
ical purposes—requires bond and security in
the sum of SIOO,OOO and an oath that they will
not distill any spirits but alcohol, and only the
amount licensed, and sell for not more than 75
per cent, on cost; to authorize the Governor to
purchase supplies and make impressments; to
amend the charter of Columbus ; to increase
the salary of Governor's Secretary to $2,500,
Keeper of Penitentiary to $2,500, and Principal
of the Military Institute to $3,000; to alter the
law relating to the selection ot juries; to con
fer certain powers on the City Court of Augus
ta: to amend the charter of the Bank of Whit
field; to authorize the State Treasurer to em
ploy a clerk. , , ,
The following bills were lost: A bill for the
relief of Peter Woody; to amend the 4002d sec
tion of Code; to release those who violated the
cotton planting restriction; to enlarge the pow
ers of Notaries Public.
A bill was introduced to amend the habeas
corpus act.
HOUSE.
Friday Morning, Dec. 4.
A motion was made to reconsider the bill
restricting the planting of cotton. After con
siderable discussion, the motion to reconsider
was lost.
The following were introduced: A resolu
tion for the relief of Thos. Rooch; resolution
requesting the establishment of a mail route
in Bulloch county; a bill to authorize the sale
of estates, &c., at other places than the Court
House; to amend the 507th and 509th sections
of Code —makes it the duty of Clerks to issue
processes for the violation of the 503d section;
rest)’Ution to restrict debates to five minutes; a
bill to attach Jackson to the 6th Congressional
District- to compel persons owning lands on
each side of county I:*w» to work the roads in
each county, to amend the charter of the Rome
Female College and Casville Masonic Male and
Female High School; resolutions asking for a
joint committee to draft an appeal to the peo
ple in reference to raising provisions; resolu
tion requesting the Governorto restrict tares
on railroads to the amount allowed in their
charter; to incorporate the Bainbridge Female
College—indefinitely postponed.
The special order —the militia Dills —was ta
ken up The Senate bill was read, together
with a substitute by Major Long. The Senate
bill was then taken up by sections, and various
amendments were proposed and discussed at
length. No action was taken upon the lill
xvheu the House adjourned.
AFFAIRS IX MEMPHIS.
A correspondent of the Mobile Advertiser,
who visited Memphis a few days since, gives
that paper an account of the state es affaiis
there under Yankee rule.
All cotton not submitted to the Provost
Marshall for him to slice his per ceutuge from
is confiscated. This confiscation docs not bene
fit the Federal government, but goes into the
pockets of the commander of the post. Corrupt
as Butler was at New Orleans, he is equalled
at Memphis, the only difference being that at
the latter point the Yankee Government suffers
as much as the Southern people.
Smuggling is carried on on a large scale, and
there is scarce a house within a radius, of ten
miles OUfcidff of the lines from Memphis which
does not afford she!tor for smuggled goods.
Anything that is required by those who tear to
enter the corrupt town may be obtained through
the lines at an advance of fifty per cent.
The restrictions upon the trade are great
only one thousand dollars’ worth of goods
being permitted at a time to each firm, upon
which five per cent, is taxed.
The Yaukee officers who are quartered in the
city occupy houses from which Southerners
have been driven forth. It is an ordinary oc
currence for a family to receive notice to evacu
ate their homestead at once, leaving behind
their furniture and everything but wearing ap
parel. whereupon a Yankee woman will be duly
installed to start a boarding house, ,
The streets of Memphis are crowded and a
very large amount of business is transacted.
From fifty to two hundred l>ales of cotton
works its way iuto the city itaiiy, and is usual
ly shipped at On?e northwards.
A regiment of blacks are stationed ta Port
Pickering, a fortification upp." the banks of the
river below the city.
But a single gunboat usually remains oppo
site the city, where it is retained to prevent
Confederate guerillas on the Arkansas shore
from attacking the boats on the river and even
crossing over to the city itself when weakly
garrisoned.
The burning of so many boat* has made river
transit very unsafe, an I caused the arrest of
many person* supposed to be Confederate
emissaries believed to have been engaged ia it.
The itxt;thAt from OhArrax6ooa. —The army
correspondent of tho Savannah Republican
gives the anuexi.d account of the retreat of our
army from the battle field in front of Chatta
nooga :
After night set in, the whole army was with
drawn to the east side of the Chicamauga.
The roads were in bad condition, and there
are but three bridges over which the troops
could retire. But the enemy was too badly
crippled to make pursuit ; only a small de
tachment of cavalrv followed on the road bv
Bird’s Mills. At Chicamauga station rations
of hard bread and bacon were served out to
the men from the depot, anti the trains sent
forward. Some of the stores were shipped off
by the railroad ; the remainder was destroyed.
The army was put in motion by two o’clock at
night on the road to Ringgold.'and Gen. Bragg
and Gen. Hardee left at daylight next morn
ing. The road was bad as it could be. and but
for she friendly light afforded by the moon on
that and the preceding night, the army could
not have effected its escape.
After a fatiguing march, the armv with its
long train arrived at Ringgold during Thurs
day afternoon and night. The enemy had
thrown forward a mixed column of mounted
infantry, artillery and cavalry, which was
harrassing our rear guard, under command of
Gen. Gist, considerably. At one time, Gen.
Bragg ordered the wagons towards the rear to
lie moved out of the road and parked, with a
view, it is said, of having them burnt rather
than let them fall into the hands of our ene
mies. Gen. Gist was repeatedly pressed back
against the wagons, but he managed finally,
with the aid of his brave command—Walker s
division—to save them all. At one time, the
enemy got in between him and the main col
umn. but he took a neighborhood road and
thus escaped destruction. Unfortunately, Fer
guson's battery of four guns, belonging to
Walker’s division, was captured. The horses
were in very bad condition, and unable to keep
up with the column ; hence the disaster. The
greater part of the men and horses escaped.
The loss of th* battery occurred soon after
1 lark and not far from Ringgold. The trams
were brought out three miles this side of Ring
gold. and she teams fed, while the army occu
pied tiie pass just outside the town. Three
companies of the I6th .South Oaroliua, acting
as a special guard to F’erguson’s battery, were
dispersed and many of the men taken prisoners.
On Friday the trains were put in front and
directed to take a left hand road to Dalton,
passing near Catoosa Springs. »i hey moved at
midnight—the troops at daylight following the
direction of the railroad by Tunnel Hill, so as
to cover the trains. Roads very bad for some
miles; the teams overworked, and suffering for
forage and rest. I saw- a mule lie down when
the harness was removed and go as soundly to
sledjr in two minutes as an infant, and that
while hundreds of wagons and thousands ot
men were marcliiDg by within a few paces of
where it rested.
Cleburne was Intrusted with the command of
the rear guard to-day, Walker’s division having
been relieved. The Federal pursuing column,
numbering, it is estimated, about 10,000 men
of all arms, assaulted him before he reached
Tunnel Hill. This column consisted of picked
troops who moved rapidly and fought gallant
ly; hut Cleburne succeeded in restraining them
whenever he encountered them. But they were
becoming quite troublesome; so he ambuscaded
them by concealing his forces, including his ar
tillery, until the enemy got within a few paces
of his guns, when they poured grape and canis
ter into them with the most destructive effect.
The road was filled with their dead and wound
ed. Our infantry then sprung forward from
their covert on either side -of the road, and lit
erally mowed them down by their well directed
shot. The enemy lied in confusion, leaving 250
prisoners and three flags—the latter taken by
artillerists—in our hands, and front 1,000 to
1,500 kgjted and wounded in the road. The
at a respectful distance from Pat
Cleburne after that, and were five hours march
ing one mile on our track,
A prisoner taken near Ringgold reports that
Osterhaus, of Sherman’s corps, is in command
of the pursuing column. He says that Oster
haus crossed the Cbiekamauga on a hastily
constructed bridge, and that Grant was build
ing a wide, substantial military bridge at Red
House ford, by which to cross over his whole
army, and that he intended to make a clean
sweep of the Confederates. This last achieve
ment, the beaten hero of Shiloh will find more
difficult than he imagines.
The trains reached Dalton in tho afternoon,
and were parked and the teams fed. The troops
arrived soon thereafter and went into camns.
An order now came for the trains to move on
to Rcsaca. The roads to this place are pretty
good, though almost impassable in places. Sev
eral wagons were lost and a good many mules
killed on the way, not by tbe enemy, but by
the great holes or gulfs and quagmires in the
road.
It commenced to rain at H o’clock, and by
day it was pouring down in torrents. The
roads, already heavy enough, now became in
describably bad. It was a horrid night. But
a poor woman, the mother of ten children, her
husband and oldest son in tbe army, gave me
shelter at one o’clock, a fire to dry myself by,
and a bod to rest upon, not forgetting a bundle
of fodder lor my horse. A dozen others, at
tracted by ljie cheering light seen through her
window, applied for admittance, and room was
found for all in that humble cabin. God bless
that good woman and shield her husband and
son from the dangers of (he battlefield! 'fhe
light in her window was not hid under a bushel.
Alas! how the poor do shame us by their
charities!
But in conclusion : The battle of Missionary
Ridge was a great misfortune, not on account
of the loss of men. which was inconsiderable,
nor the loss of territory, which is far more se
rious; but chieiiv on account of the loss of the
moral strength and confidence of the army
and the country. Let ns not, then, add to our
calamities by beginning a war of abuse and
condemnation against the Chief of the beaten
army or the head of tjie government. Let us
rather strive to reanimate the hopes of the peo
ple and the army: bring forward all our
strength, and pray that Heaven will yet give
us the final victory.
Prices of Making Sugar from toe Sorgito,-
In the Patent Office Report of 1857, is pub
lished the annexed account of making Sugar
from the Sorgho ;
Let the caues be well matured ; unripe canes
will not yield sugar. In the first place it is ne
cessary' to filler the juice of the plant as it
comes from the mill, in order to remove the
cellulose and fibrous matters and the starch,
all of which tire present in it when expressed.
A bag filter or one made of a blanket placed
iu a basket will answer the purpose. Next we,
and a. sufficiency of the miik of lime—that is.
lime slacked, mired with water—to - the juice
to render it slightly alkaline, as shown by its
changing turmeric paper to a brown color, or
reddened litmus paper to a blue. A small ex
cess of lime h*not injurious. After this addi
tion, the juice should be boiled, say for fifteen
minutes. A thick, greenish scum rapidly col
lects on the surface, which is to be removed by
a skimmer, and then the liquid should be fil
tered again. It will.be of a pale straw color,
and ready for eraiio ation. to be carried on with
great caution, and tiie syrup constantly stirred
to prevent it from burning at the bottom of
the kettle, or evaporating.
l’oitions of the syrup to be taken out from
time to time, and allowed to cool, to sue if it is
dense enough to crystalize.lt should beabontas
.dense as sugar house molasses, or tar. When
it lias reached this condition, it may be drawn
from the evaporating vessel and be placed iu
tubs or casks to granulate. Crystals of sugar
will begin to form iu three or four days, and
sometimes nearly the whole mass will gram
late, leaving but little molasses to be drained,
After it has soli.lfied, it may be scooped out
into conical bags, made of coarse open cloth,
of canvas, which are to be hung over the re
ceivers of molasses, and the drainage being
much aided by warmth, it will be useful to
keep the temperature of the room at 80 or 90
degs. Fahrenheit. After some days the sugar
may be removed from the bags, and will be
found to be good brown sugar. It may be re
fined by dissolving in hot water, adding to the
solution some whites of eggs, (say one egg fir
160 lbs. of sugar.) mixed with cold water, after
which the temperature is to be raised by boil
ing. and the svrup should be allowed to re
main at that heat for hail' an hour. Then skim
and filter, to remove the coagulated albumen
and the impurities it- has extracted from the
sugar. By means of bone black, such as is
prepared for the sugar refiners, the sugar may
be decolored, by adding an ounce to each gal
lon of the saccharine solution and boiling the
whole together ; then filter, and you will ob
tain a nearly colorless syrup. Evaporate this
as be tore directed briskley, to half its bulk,
and then slowlv until dense syrftp. to crytalize.
leaving the syrup its before iu tubs or pans to
granulate. This sugar will be of a very light
brown color, and may now be clayed or whit
ened by the usual process, that is. by putting
it into cooes and pouring a saturated s*olution
Cf *vliite sugar upon it, so as to displace tiie
molasses which will drop from the apex ot the
inverted cone. The sugar is now refined as
white sugar.
At a late auction sale of an estate in Harris
eo. Ga., some extra iiue mules brought from
2500 to 3000 each.
DEAtn-er CoiLi Vimca 0. WinsOK-wThte
community \ua painfULy impressed Saturday
. / "J ineintelligence that this distinguished
. citizen of cur town, and excellent officer, was
no more. The shock was broken bv news a few
days before, unmistakably indicating that
he could not recover. He bad been laboring
tor months under a disease contractedin camp,
and which, at length assumed a tvphoid form
and produced his death. He died Thursday
last, on the late battle field of Ghickamaurga,
wuich. by his valor and skill as a soldier and
officer, he had aided in rendering glorious and
historic.
Col. Wilson was born in Effingham county,
Georgia, in the year 1831, and was thirty-two
years and one month old when he died. In
early life he exhibited unmistakable proofs of a
great intellect, and bis surving parent and
guardian at once put him on a course of pre
paration for a thorough education. He waspre
pared for College by that most accomplished
scholar. William T. Feay. Esq. of Savannah,
at the Springfield Academy, and in the summer
ol 1848. entered the Sophomore Class at Em
ory College. In 1851 lie graduated with the
highest honors of his class. In the tall and
winter of 1851 and 52. lie read law, in company
with our present practioueCrsat this Bar in Mon,
roe county, under Col. .lames M. Smith, the
Representative elect to Congress from the 4th
District, and was admitted to the Bar in Feb
ruary, 1852.
From the Commencement he was successful,
not only in getting a large practice for a begin
ner, but in tbe management and advocacy ol
his cases. Unlike many who early meet with
success in their professions, he was not tho re
cipient of patronage from either a large family
connection or a circle of numerous acquain
tances and friends. lie brought with him noth
ing but his powerful intellect and a simplicity
ami sincerity of character and manner, togeth
er with an ardor of soul, which scon gathered
'- c-ud him a host of clients and friends. Aided
by these native qualities, lie ~.*oi took a posi
o- Bar which few ever >Uaiu after a I
'■ : '? of stu y and practice. It may safely j
be .•• vi that for all tiie quality wbmh fit one !
• «minence in the profession •> * :.w. Le had |
no superioi in the Slate. Bis quickness of
perception by which he at once seized on the
main points of a case—his rapid yet sure
analysis of the ’points thus reached- and the
toriuoie lugjr, *th rare pow
ers of elocution, Leal ways brought to bear in
support of his positions, were most admirable
aud at times wonderful. Armed as he always
was with these weapons of offense and defence,
he was an antagonist whom the oldest and ablest
practitioners ot Law never met in the forum or
before a jury with any pleasure or assurance
ol success. Even in cases where, from the facts
and the law against him, defeat was inevitable,
he always won for himself credit, and often
times distinction. Asa criminal advocate he
was very able and successful. In 1860 he was
induced to become a candidate for the office of
Solicitor General for the Eastern District, and
was elected; and at the succeeding January
Term of that year the. number, of convictions
on the criminal side of the Chatham Superior
Court was larger than was ever known before
Os the number there were twelve convicted of
felonies of a grave nature.
That office he soon resigned, and relnmed to
his regular practice and cm tinned to rise
rapidly, having built on a solid foundation,
until the war broke out.
He then entered the military service, and in
August, 1861, wa3 elected Colonel of the 25th
Georgia Regiment. In the Spring of 1862, on
the reorganization under the Conscript Law,
lie was re-elected Colonel, and was holding that
position at the time of his lamentable death.
Over eighteen months ago lie was in com
mand of a brigade around Savannah, and when
Gen. Vs. 11. T Walker was assigned to the com
mand of a brigade, of which Col. Wilson’s reg
iment was a part, he went with his command
to Mississippi, and on the promotion of Brig
adier General Walker to the rank of Major
General, Colonel Wilson took command of the
brigade.
In this position he acted with distinction in
the battles around Jackson on (lie retreat of
Gen. Johnston's army. I Lis next.field of active
operations was the ever memorable and glori
ous field of Cbiekamauga. There, by unani
mous voice, Col. Wilson, in command of his
brigade, covered himself with imperishable
honor, riding incessantly, up and down his line,
speaking words of encouragement to his men
and giving particular directions how they
should act. And there, too, on the same field
of glory, untouched as he was by the miss les
of the enemy that day marshalled against him
self and comrades victorious in arms, but a
brief two months thereafter he met that other
enemy of all flesh Death--against whom no
mortal strength, no genius, no eloquence, no
courage, can avail.
In his death tho Confederacy h is lost an ac
complished officer, and the Stale of Georgia
one of her brightest son.-.
Diming this mei'ciles war, the Bar of Savan
nah has been called upon to surrender one
after oneof its delightful and brilliant circle and
bind of brothers, until now, in the death of
Col. Wilscn, the eighth inexorable summons
lias been answered, by the departure of one
who hnd every promise of standing at its head-
Thia last loss is the more distressing lrom the
fact, which we learn from a Surgeon who at
tended him in his last illness and from some of
his command, that Col. Wilson sacrificed him
self by refusing to leave his command for sev
eral weeks of his illness, until Ihe disease, of
which lie died, had passed beyond the control
of all human skill. But while this reflection
adds to imr grief, it likewise heightens our ad
miration for that devotion to his country and
his command, by which, through the whole of
his service, lie has never lor a day been vol
untarily absent from his post of duty. Wo can
state on undoubted authority that his promo
tion to tin- rank of Brigadier General had been
determined on by President Davis, aud the
honor was about to be conferred at the time of
liis death, in levvard of his distinguished ser
vices in the field. —Savannah Republican, Dec. 1.
Characteristic Letter from Jeff. Thompson.
—Gen. M. Jeff Thompson, "the Missouri bwamp
Fox,” who was captured in Arkansas, is still
in confinement on Johnson’s Island, notwith
standing the fact that Butler applied forhjs re
lease on parole, in reciprocation- for the kind
treatment shown by that Confederate officer
to his prisoueis. Prentice, of the Journal, re
quested permission to send him a demijohn of
whisky, in return for attentions shown Pren
tice’s son, now in our army. Jeff, in writing
to Prentice, gets on an epistolary ‘ rampage,”
and th#s speaks of some individual who has
slandered him in the Yankee papers :
This person’s description of me is, as he would
make me appear, amusing anil ridiculous. But
it is too bad that he should wound my feelings
in so tender a point when I cannot retaliate,
and sneak so of a lady—my wife—wnCSS very
tracks in the dust he would not be worthy to
look upon. Should he ever fall into my hands,
I will scalp him from the bridge of his nose to
the nape of his neck, including his ears, ams
turn lmn loose unable to close his glaring eye
balls lrom the shame, or close liis eardrums' to
the hisses which eve:y wife and mother should
and would pour upon him, and will cut off his
coat-tail; so that every husband and father may
have a fair kick at him. lie certainly is no
soldier, for every officer and soldier if your
army, whom I have met, have acted like gen
tlemen, and I do not think they would let such
a man remain with them.
1 hope you wiß excuse me for being so vio
lent, but I feel like a caged hyena when such
things vex me, and were I out, a gallop of a
few hundred miles would be a short ride for
my white horse, were this man’s “hair" at the
end of it,
Rf.ign of Terror in Maryland.— The Rich
mond Enquirer speaks as follows of the con
dition ol affairs in Maryland, at the late elec
tion :
A population of disarmed serfs, who for
merly were American citizens, creeping up to
the polls, and asking leave of a military officer
to deposit their votes—and refused! Mary
land planters, who three years ago. fancied
themselves proud Democrais, and almost im
agined that they looked down upon the op
pressed subjects of European kings—now, in
them own county court houses, presented at
the bayonet s point with an oath to “sustain
the auministration. and, on declining that
oath, either arrested and imprisoned or sent
back in disgrace w ithout voting; judgestof elec
tion commanded by a soldier to hold their elec
tion-. not according to the law or the direction
of the Governor, but according to the “Order”
of a Dutch commandant—and in ease of diso
bedience, dragged from the court house and
thrust into the guard house ! This is, in epi
tome. an account of the elections lately held in
the unfortunate State of Maryland; aiid which
ended in a glorious triumph lor --Union," and
war. and vigorous prosecution.
Let our readers remember that all the out
rages aud humiliations put upon the Maryland
ers —yes, and ten times the Yankee
invaders ever succeed in overrunning this
country, are in store for all such inhabitants of
the Confederacy as shall have tbe misfortune
to survive after that day of dooop
i tmhRAL IREAIMEnt Os WocXTfISO CONTliiJe.
hxTE Soldiers.— MJnc hundred and twenty-four
exchanged Confederate Surgeons have arrived
in Kichwoml. They give an account of the
horrid and brutal mauner in which the Con
federate wounded are treated by their brutal
captors. Such treatment is worse than heathen
ish. The annexed statement given by them, is
copied from the Richmond Dispatch ;
One of these Surgeons, with whom we had
a long and interesting interview, was captured
at AA’illiamport, Md., in July last, where he
had been left, in conjunction with others, in
charge of some two hundred of our wounded.
■These men were nearly all so badly wounded
that it was deemed advisable not to attempt
their removal to Virginia, although abundance
of time had been allowed to do so had their
condition permitted it. In a few days after
the occupation of the town by the Yankees,
an order was issued lor the removal of all
these wounded to Hagerstown. 'The Surgeons
remonstrated, but to no purpose. The next
day brought a peremptory order for their
lemoval. and, in their helpless and nearly ex
hausted condition, they were packed off to
Hagerstown and piled away, without comfort,
in the Court House, and a guard placed around
the building. For a few days they were allow
ed to send out for their rations, but very soon
this privilege was withdrawn, and they were
compelled to prepare their own food, as best
they could, with the meanest kind of facilities.
The supply of medicines furnished was totally
inadequate to the necessities of the suffering
wounded, and they were not permitted to re
ceive the stimulants and delicacies which the
ladies of the touffi brought to the court yard
in profusion. In a few days they were again
removed and transferred from the Court House
to the Seminary, on the outskirts of the town.
In the meantime all the nurses who had been
left to assist in taking care of the wounded
ved as prisoners of ...a and- nt off to
prison leaving •;>:.!> five surgeo ' door with
and care lot twoLnudred men tot one ol whom
was able to do anything for himself. This force,
o' voi v woolly in- ”mciout f. the care
>’ so ft . a number, nmi each * aring.en
sued lrom want of proper attend. - ad a num
ber of deaths resulted where tbe patent might
have recovered it property cared fat
Final:;, M-- Surgeons themselves were sent
off to Fort McHenry, ur. iNoweii was the last
who left Hagerstown. He was informed that
he would have to wait to Chambersburg, a
distance of twenty-one "miles. He told them
at once that he was unable to walk so great a
distance, being then, as Ire had been for some
time previous, quite unwell. They insisted,
howeter, that he should try it, and he was
stai ted off under guard. He had not gone far
until he became well nigh exhausted, and en
tirely incapable of making the speed required
of Dim by the guard. To accelerate his move
ments they drew their bayonets on him and
struck him over the head with their muskets.
Under this persecution he fainted and fell in
the road, when ho was caught by the collar
and dragged some distance to a house, where
he was kept under guard until an ambulance
came along, in which he was conveyed to
Chambersburg, and from thence on to Balti
more by railroad.
Os the treatmant at Fort McHenry, as a
general thing, the darkest picture ever drawn
.by the New York Herald of “Life at the Libby,”
conveys but a faint conception. The rations
consist of hard tack—except where it is com
pletely excavated by worms—meat once a day,
and a kind of slop in the morning which the
Yankees politely style coffee. No fire has yet
been allowed in the quarters of the officers,
although the weather has been quite severe.
All the private soldiers heretofore confined
in the fort have been sent off to Point Lookout,
on the eastern shore of Maryland—a cold,
dreary, and bleak place in the winter season.
On the day that the last instalment was sent
off’ one of them was observed by a humane sur
geon to be nearly destitute of pants, and in a
cold, shivering condition. The surgeon ran off'
to liis quarters aud got a pair of his own punts,
and, coming back, asked permission of the
Lieutenant of tho guard to present them to the
destitute prisoner. The Lieutenant’s reply,
with an oath, was, “No, sir ; the clothes he
lias on are a sight belter than he deserves.’’
On one ocasion the steward of the hospital
lost some money, and one of our Surgeons be
ing found outside of his quarters when it war.
missed he was instantly accused of having
stolen it, and forwith thrust into the stocks,
where he was kept until he fainted. He was
thrown into what is known as the “middle
room,” a place used for the confinement of cut
throats and thieves of the Yankee army, whose
erin es are base enough to require punishment
even in Yankee eyes. Here lie was kept until
the day before the Surgeons were sent off, when
lie was turned out nearly naked, not having
clothes enough upon his person to cover his
nakedness. 'This young man is a son of a
prominent citizen of tho Valley of Virginia,
and the charge of theft against him was as false
as his treatment was cruel and barbarous.
These are a few of the statements received
from Fort McHenry, where perhaps Confede
rate prisoners are better treated than in any
other prison of the North, because the prisoners
confined there are mostly officers.
At Fort Delaware the treatment of private
soldiers, who are unfortunate enough to fall
into the hands of the enemy, fare much worse.
One of the t eturned Surgeons from this hastile
says that at one time last summer they had
nine thousand prisoners crowded into quarters
which were insufficient for the comfortable ac
commodation of 2,000 men, and that the suffer
ing among them was indescribable.
Substitutes in the Army.—lmportant Habeas
Corpus Case. —An important habeas corpus case
was tried before .Judge Marshall, in the Circuit
Court of Lynchburg, Va-., lately. We find the
following particulars in the Republican;
The petitioner, Philip T. Withers, a citizen
of Lynchburg having been arrested by the en
rolling officer. Major Charles S. Peyton, as a
conscript, claimed his exemption on the ground
of having furnished a substitute in Cos. H, llih
Va. regiment. The paper produced to estab
lish the claim to substitution was signed by
Sparren L. Wright, 2d Lt. commanding Cos. H,
11th Va. regiment, and approved by Kirk Orey,
Major commanding 11th Va. regiment.
In the return to the writ, Major Leyton al
leged that the whole transaction was irregular,
illegal, fraudulent and void, and not in ac
cordance with the laws and orders on the sub
ject of substitution. That Span ell B. Wright,
who signed the said papers as 2d Lieut, com
manding, and Major Otey, who signed as Major
commanding the 11th Va. regiment, were not
with their commands at the time of signing the
same, but were in the city of Lynchburg, and
their commands were with thp army of the
Potomac, more than ope hundred miles distant;
aud that neither the said Withers nor said
Farley, the alleged substitute, were ever with
or in any sense members of Cos. H, 11th Va.
regiment; that tho said substitute shoultj have
been carried either to. the r-egiment or to a
camp of instruction, and there mustered in,
and that neither said Wright nor said Otey had
any right or authority to receive substitutes
service.
A good deal of testimony was introduced in
support of the allegations, of the return, show
ing that both Wright and Otey were in Lynch
burg at the time of signing the paper and r -
eeiving the substitute, and that no such substi
tute as Wm. Farley, mentioned in the discharge,
had ever been on duty with the company. Tes
timony was also introduced to establish the
genuineness of the paper upon whicli ihe dis
charge was claimed. A paper was also intro
duced, signed by Major Otey, purporting to be
a descriptive list of said Farley, and a receipt
for him from Col. J. C. Shields, Commandant
of Conscripts.
The case was fully beard as an important one
upon which a large number of others of a simi
lar character depend, and ably argued for two
days by James Garland, Boliert Whitehead and
E. D. Christian, Esqs., for the petitioner, andM.
11. Crank for the Government.
Judge Meredith delivered an able and elab
orate opinion in the case, discussing all the
points in issue. The Judge held that tiie sub
stitution was illegal, ii regular, and void; that
the Lieutenant and Major signing were not in
command at the time of signing, and under the
laws and regulations, had no authority to re
ceive substitutes in the army; that the princi
pal should have carried his substitute to the
regiment, if he was a member of the company;
and, if not a member of the company, he should
have carried him to a camp of instruction, as
prescribed by the oi ders of the Adjutant and
inspector General of the C. S. Army; that the
descriptive list signed by Major Otey was incon
sistent with the first paper upon which the pe
titioner claimed his discharge, and that no such
man as receipted for by Major Otey was ever
in the possession or under the control of Col. J.
C. Shields, and that the petitioner having fail
ed to show that he had ever furnished a substi
tute w ho was at any time on duty with the com
pany, or to bring himself within the equity of
the law, must be remanded to the custody of
the enrolling officer for service in the army,
which was accordingly done.
The decision is an important one. effecting
many others of a similar character, tee under
stand that Lieut. Yv right gave a large number
of such discharges for substitution. r ,
An appeal has been taken by the counsel for
Mr. Withers.
The Federal cayalrv stationed at Washington,
N. C., made a raid a few days sinc«, and cap
rured some twenty-five confederates, ■
NBWft fc*l MttAUY.
The editor of the Marietta Rebel ha.-, had a
conversation with Oapt. Brady, of Morgan's
scouts, who has just returned from a trip to the
neighborhood of Decatur, Ala., watching the
column of Gen. Sherman, and the performances
of other Federal commanders in that section.
He states that there was a gathering of Feder
al, and Union men and negroes at Decatur, on
Sunday, Nov. 15th, and that the Federals car
ried off 1200 negroes, large quantities of prison
ers and everything 1 hey could lay their thiev
ing hands upon, and that the people have not
enough to subsist them, and many are already
suffering. On Nov. 25 th there was a sharp skir
mish between some Confederate cavalry aud a
party of Federals at Deposite, three miles from
Guutersviile, in which three’ Federals and one
Confederate were killed. The Federal General
Dodge, with a considerable force, was in the
vicinity of Fayetteville, Tenn., oppressing the
people and stealing extensively.
Lauderdale Factory, near Florence, Ala.,
owned by Baugh, Kuuuedy &Cos., was destroy
ed by Smerman's division on Nov. 10th, also
cotton, out-honses, Ac. Loss estimated at one
million dollars.
Dr. C. B. Peters who was recently arrested
by the military authorities in Missis-ippi.
Charged with killing Gen. Van Dorn was dis
charged upon writ of lubeas corpus. The ap
plication was heard and discharge ordered by
Judge Kilpatrick, at Okatona. Dr. Peters, says
the Atlaata Confederacy immediately upon his
release, came to Atlanta to surrender himself
to the governor of Tennessee, to answer the
change of killing General Van Dorn. He gave
boud for his appearance before the only tribu
nal having cognizance of the alleged offense.
The friends of Dr. Peters, among whom are the
most prominent citizens of Tennessee, warmly
indorse his loyalty to the South, and indignant
ly meet all allegations affecting it. He has
one, it not two sons in our army, and with our
cause is identified all of his Jtinoied.” It is due
to Dr. Peters, furthermoae, to state that he-was
not guilty of selling wood to the Federals on
the Mississippi river, as stated by the Mobile
papers. The negroes #n his place may have
nunc or, m.,1? .- I. .iiD.oi- ii„i m'hpn the Doctor
heard of it, be had the wood removed to the
interior, and away from ttoa river, where it
could not bo reached by tha boatmen.
The Macon Telegraph says that on Monday
night, tour prisoners broke Bibb county jail
and are now at large. Their names are—Lof
ton, convicted of highway robbery; Win. H.
Pool, convicted of bigamy aud sentenced to
three years in the Penitentiary; Michael O’Con
ner and John Green, charged with larceny.—
These prisoners were furnished with imple
ments by a female friend, and with these they
filed the chain which fastened the door of the
cell, then liberated two others from an adjoin
ing cell, and made an attempt, but failed to
open another cell door. They then went down
into the second, story and let themselves down
from a hole w’nich they excavated in the jail
wall, by aro pe made of their blankets. None
of the fugitives have yet been found.
There is activity in the article of man
ufactured kobacco in Lynchburg.
J. A. B'-ftok, Esq., has been re-elected Comp
troller Gtmeral of South Carolina, by the Leg
islature.
On November 6, while Gen. Grant’s army
was mo ring from Waterloo to Florence, Capt.
W. L. McCall, of company D, 53d Alabama
regimeiat, crossed the Tennessee with about
fifty m en and attacked the trains of the enemy.
He killed six, wounded four, and captured
four of the enemy ; also destroyed a number
of WPigons containing army stores aud provi
sions, and captured and brought off nineteen
horses and mule's, and fifty-one head of beef
cattle. He ctossed ihe river without sustain
ing any loss.
Messrs. Chuldrey A Jones'tobacco warehouse
Riohmo nd was damaged by fire to the amount
ot $75.,000 Nov. 25.
roßKius mins.
The British steam frigate Phantom, on the
British American station, had been ordered to
Chr.rluston.
The London Times publishes a project for
pftaee in America by a Northern geutlemun
writer. He says if the war is to go on for a
time from mere momentum, perhaps it must
be let alone, bpt should be turned as soon as
possible from attempted conquests to war for
limits and terms of settlement; suggests that*
negotiations be opened at once with the Rich
mond Government lor such settlements, and
making a more formal recognition one of the
matters for discussion—the Confederates, ot*
course to tie recognized de jure—and navigation
of the Ohio and Mississippi, and in event ol’
Maryland joining the South', the Susquehanna
and Chesapeake to be free, with a common tar
iff' for tho two confederacies.
The French Government informed Mr. Day
lon that their views on the American question
were unchanged, and they had not recognized
the South, and, therefore, had not signed the
treaty lor the acquisition of Texas and Loui
siana as reported. No such treaty was ever
dreamed of in the Confederate States.
The luvalides Russe publishes a ukase order
ing the Nineteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-first
divisions of grenadiers in the Caucasus cavalry
and artillery to be placed on a war looting, and
the formation of reserve battalions, squadrons
and batteries.
The Poles have gained a great success over
of Lubin.
The Juarez Government had addressed a note
to the Federal Council, protesting against the
modification of the Republican Constitution by
French invasion, hoping for ihe sympathy ot
Switzerlaad.
The Liverpool cotton market closed flat on
the 14th. Stock of cotton in port 182.000 bales,
of which 38,000 were American.
It is said that M. Drouyn de Lhuys is engag
ed in drawing up a Slate paper explanatory of
the points which Napoleon is to submit to the
European Congress.
Three English Cabinet councils had separa
ted without agreeing on a definite reply to Na
poleon’s proposition for a Congress.
Austria, it is said, will not move until tbe
course which England will take is known.
Spain, it is alleged, will send delegates to tho
Congress, but some of UieSpanish journals treat
the matter with some indifference.
The letter of the Emperor of the French to
the Sovereigns, inviting them to a Congress at
Paris, has beep published. It points out that,
irom the political condition of Europe, it is im
possible not to acknowledge that nearly every
where the treaties of Vienna have been destroy
ed, modified or misunderstood.
The Paris Constitutionnel publishes an arti
cle signed by M. Limayrac, setting forth the
questions which the Congress will have to ex
amine, viz : Poland, Schleswig, the East, &c ,
which may all lead to serious complications.—
All these are questions, says the Constitution
nei, in which France is not directly interested.
A.ny refusal to settle them would not injure her
honor or interest, but the general interest. If
Europe continued to maintain the agttatjou
caused by the present precarious and painful
state of tilings, the confidence of the people
will show how to acquit France of responsibility.
Most of the leading English papers oppose
the sending delegates to Napoleon’s European
Congress.
Two fast blockade steamers have recently left
the Clyde for Confederate ports.
The Glasgow Emancipation Society have me
morialized Earl Russell to detain a suspected
steamer fitting up in that port.
Intelligence from Warsaw states that by or
der of Gen. Berg, the ladies and young girls
imprisoned in the citadel, with sixty of the
chief inhabitants of Warsaw, have been trans
ported without sentence. The Invalide Russe
contains tho news that the sisters Julia and So
phia Rechowska have been sentenced to be
hanged in AVarsaw;.
Commander Maury has explained to the
British Association for the Advancement of
Science, that torpedoes, in order to destroy a
ship, must be iu actual oontact with them
when exploded, otherwise tbe water interven
ing serves as a cushion to protect the vessel.
The prosecution of prisoners m the several
counties of England and AYaleg, the last year,
cost the Government six hundred and fifty
three thousand five hundred and forty-five dol
lars, and no wonder, when a man was recently
convicted at Wellington for stealing a half
penny, and a poor, hungry woman kept in jail
for three weeks for picking up a raw turnip in
a field to feed a stai vtug and sick child.
The vintage reports from Spain and Portu
gal are the most favorable that have been re
ceived for many years—the best, probably,
since that mysterious disease, the odium, at
tacked the grape, about the same time as the
potato crop gave way. Y'et in the face of this
the price of wine is steadily rising. The Ger
man vintage is a failuie ip quality—no better
than that of 1860
A horrible tragedy lias occurred in London
A man named Hunt hired a cab, in which he
drove on with his wife and two children. Stoo
ping at an ale-house, he sent the cabman in for
a pint of beer, which was drank in the ca,U—
Afterwards the man got out ttfane, paid tbe
fare, and fold the cabman where to drtv-. on
reacfruig hia dustination tbe d**er found that
his freight consists on ]y 0 f tj,ree dead bodies
—the Woman and had been poi
soned. Subsequently, on'being aw%afed, the
murejerer himself took jpoigon,
AK4VS Bt‘»IMAHY.
The Rose well Manufacturing Company, of
Cobb couuty, recently donated 350 yards 7-8
and 4-4 sheeting for the use of the hospital at
Fort Bartow, near Savannah. The Express
Company forwarded it free of charge.
The residence of Dr. Raymond Harris, on
Colonel’s Island, Georgia coast, was totally
destroyed by the emmy about a week ago.
Tiie Congressional delegation of Maryland
stands lour emancipationists aud one conser
vative.
A recent trial of percussion caps, made at
Macon, Ga., by Major J. W. Mallet, Superin
emtent ot Laboratories, showed that musket
raac '? *?ythe Ordnance Department, at the
i imoral Arsenal, bore exposure to moisture
better thaa exported English caps. Out of
forty Richmond caps fired after an exposure of
one hundred and twenty hours to air saturated
with water, tlmty-five fired well, lour fired at
the aud one fired feebly at the
third snap ot the lock. After the same expo
sure ot the fame number of English caps twen
ty-eight fired well, four leebly on the first snap
ot the lock, four on the second snap, and four
failed altogether. An exposure of twenty four
hours had no effect on the Richmond caps. An
exposure of forty-eight hours caused but one to
snap iu the same number of caps. The caps
were placed over water, under a glass bell, at
a temperature of fifty to sixty-five gegrees Fah
renheit. Os these caps about two and a half
millions are made per month, the whole process
being performed by machinery. ;
The Richmond Examiner says that faro deal
ing continues iu that city, and that a number
of gover#ment officials have be«t fleeced lately.
The races over the New Market Course, near
Petersburg, opened Nov. 24. The running was
for a sweepstake of $3,000 by four year old
colts- -three mile heats. Conductor and Yancey
Darrell were entered. The former completely
distanced the latter. Time— 6 minutes 16 sec
onds.
It is said that contracts have been made In
Floyd county, Ga., lor 50,000 to 200,000 gal
lons of whisky for the Government.
TlltJXrit r Ownivrt vs W upliolj tllfl
Mayor in refusing further lico#se to tho dra
matic company who have so long been giving
entertainments in that city.
The trial of Richard Rains, of Washington
county, for the murder of Emily Rains, hi*
wife, was terminated in Burke Superior Court
on Saturday, Nov. 21. The jury, after an ah
sence of about an honr and a half, returned
with a verdictof “Guilty,” and a recommenda
tion to mercy. The Judge sent sneed him to ho
confined in State Prison during ius naturi ’ te
The County Court of Albemtude, Va., at its
recent session, appropriated $50,000 to aid ii.
the support of soldiers’ families. Lai ge por
tions ot their bonds have been sold at $l7O.
The entire appropriation made by the county
is $125,000, and for the payment of principal
and interest ample funds are provided by tax
ation.
The nail works at Gerard, Ala., are about to
commence operations.
Forty thousand rations, sent from the North
to the Y'aiGee prisoners, have been received
in Richmond.
A meeting of the agriculturists of South
Carolina, is suggested at an early day in Co
lumbia, for the purpose of considering Lhe con
dition of the country generally. and especially
to consider, and if pos.-ible provide for the
soldiers in the field and tbe needy at home,
and to examine the currency quastion.
Tennessee has furnished 112,000 troops for
Confederate service, aud i3 truly entitled to tho
appellation heretofore awarded hcv of the “Vol
unteep State.’’
Anew cotton nvllTias gone iuto operation
near Lynchburg Va.
Several traitors have been arrested within
our lines in Virginia. They are charged with
aidimr and abetting desertions from the Confed
erate army, as well as aiding citizens endeavor
ing To get within the lines of the enemy.
Private Minner, ot Chapman’s battery, killed
near the White Sulphur, left his property, $15,-
000, after the death of his mother, to the Con
federacy.
Mr. R. Turnbull has subscribed one thousand
bushels of corn, one thousand pounds bacon,
and fifty bushel* of sail, for the benefit of the
indigent families of soldiers in Taylor and Jef
ferson counties. Captain K. C. Parkhill at the
same time and for the same purpose gave oue
thousand bushels of corn, three hundred pounds
of bacon and ten bushels of salt. In addition
to this, he has notified those persons in his
neighborhood who are too poor to buy corn, to
go to his cribs, and be helped without pay, and
those lamilies of soldiers who are able to pay
and who offer him one dollarper bushel, he will
receive but fifty cents.
Dr. A. L. Acee, of Talbot county, Ga., lias
been very successful in his endeavors to raise
tea.
S. H. DeVaugliaat, formerly Provost Marsh
all Lynchburg, has gone to Yankeedotn, and
taken the oath of allegianee to Abe’s govern
ment.
In Richmond it is said that brandy has got
up to two hundred and titty dollars a gallon.—
Gloomy prospect for our Legislators certainly.
The headquarters of Gen. S. D. Lee have been
established at Grenada, Mississippi.^
A race came off at Montgomery a few days
Rince between Beauregard, Lady Franklin and
Little Joe. Mile heats. Best two inThree.
Boauregard came in last each time. Purse won*
by Lady Franklin. Time, 4.37; 2.16£; 2 37.
The Federal papers are continually publish
ing big stories about the contemplated destruc
tion of some of their large cities on the Canada
border—all probably growing out of the John
son Island project.
Mr. McGebee, the Alabama State Salt Com
missioner, informs the editor of the Montgom
ery Advertiser that he has finished the State
AVorks, and is making salt with seven large fur
naces and five small ones—over three hundrod
bushels daily. He has drawn from the State
$140,000, and lias turned over salt enough to
the Quartermaster, Gen. Duff 0.. Green, of Mo
bile, when sold at $8 per bushel, to amount to
SBO,OOO, leaving $60,000 yet to pay up she
whole amount, and that he has stock Ou hand
to pay that amount and a great deal over. Mr.
McGehee says the salt (am U"io is over for the
present season, and salt has fallen ten dollars a
bushel in the last few weeks. It is now offer
ing in Montgomery at %'n 50, which is a most
favorable indication, as the pork season is just
commencing. He says that there is now being
made on the Bigby, daily, over 2,000 bushels,
and on the coast 600 bushels, and that the
amount of salt made this year in Alabama ie
more than will be needed by her own citizens,
a large amount being shipped to Mississippi
and Gergia,
The Richmond correspondent of the Charles
ton Mercury thinks Mr. Memmlnger will adopt
the South Carolina Bank plan.
A number of ladies in Riohmoml have lately
obtained appointments in the offices of tbe
Commissaries, Quartermasters, Surgeon Gene
ral and the Passport Departments : salary
SISOO. v
The farmers of Edgecombq county, N. C.
held a meeting recently, ;uid resolved to sell to
soldiers of small means and their families, corn
at $5 per bushel ; pork 15 cents per pound ;
bacon 30 cents ; shoo leather, at two dollars
per pound, to be paid for in Confederate cur
reney.
North Carolina has furnished during this war
nearly 100,000 men for the Confederate army.
For the year ending in July lastshe sent 11,874
conscripts, and between throe and four thou
sand volunteers. In her quota there has been
only 2,040 substitutes—a smaller number in
comparison than any other State of the same
population. Her total list of exempts numbers
21,568.
A surgeon lately returned from a residence
of six months upon Johnson’s Island, says that
there are imprisoned at that point several hun
dred resigned Confederate, officers, who, after
they retired from the service, sought their
homps within the Federal lines, where timy
were arrested and hurried off to the North
These men the Yankees are endeavoring 1 to
exchange according to their former rank but
they would rather to exchanged as privates
than remain cgptlve until the war it over,
Governor of North Carolina has an
pointed Thursday, Dec. 10, as a day of fasting,
humiliation and prayer,
Hie Wilmington Journal has procured a
statement from the Custom Houss at that city,
of the exports of cotton from that port for the
three quarters of the present year From the
Ist of January to the 30th of September, the
total exports amount to 30,851 bales. The
whole exports for the year will not exceed 50,-
000 bales.
The order given by the War Department to
tear up the Macon & Brunswick Railroad has
been revoked.
The Savannah Republican says ten Yankee
deserters arrived in that city Tuesday, in charge
of an Orderly, They profess to be mechanics,
amj were on their way to Columbus, to be em
n’ftved in the workshops. AVhilst they should ]
to, kindiv treated, it will not be amiss to keep t
a sharp eye upon them. AVe have no confidence (
in Federal faith.
No persons fcnt those belonging to the army i
are allowed to travel on,the Western and Av, | 1
laiitic Railroad J 1
NOBTHERX NEWS j
It is alleged that an org mLedsystem of s<|
plying the Confedeintes with munitions ot vl
and other necessaries lias been detected ir J
New York Ousiomhoa.-e. The Phihukl#
Bulletin says a Deputy Marshal, and perh
other officials in the Customhouse, were in i
lusion with certain merchants who. have Y
carrying on these operations. Bonds are
acted from shippms requiring them to del
their cargoes at other points than those wi
are blockaded by the Federal fleet, and t
are compelled to give vouchers, showing
the goods have not been delivered atConfe
ate ports. Jt is stated, in cancelling t
oonds, certain officials in the New York -I
tomhouse kite'# that the goods had been d'
ered in Confederate ports and that they 1
eon! rab,qxt of war.
The Federal forces in Ilopefield, Ark., o
site Memphis, were driven out by our gin
las. Nov. 11.
Tho work of constructing the new mo
Yazoo progresses slowly, t his is oneof a 1
of twenty-lour monitors now building in
ous parts of the United States. The pli
her construction is an improvement upo)
Ericsson iron clads, it i, expected tha
will be ready to have the wood work pi
soon. She will hr ,wo hundred and fort)
long and forty-two feet beam. She is t
termed of two separate hulls, an outer an
inner, between which there is to be a '
compartment eighteen incites wido.
action water will be let into this comp-fry
and the deck ol the monitor sunk be
water’s edge. By pumping the water
monitor rises six inches. This watejr sect,
constitutes tho-im; rovement c.fvthe old s>z
the original monitors be-ng dcfiAicut in it.C
other hull consists ot a space about six i
wide, filled with log-, and ons the outside v
be three distinct layers ot iron an inch th?
The turret will be more massive than the ti
rets in use at present. ,lt will consist of ei<
concentric bands or ’layers of iron plain
closolv ovi flapping each -<ther r and all rivel
together in the strongest possible manner. 1
weight ol' the whole turret will be 400,0
pounds.
that the United State?tom' 34.000
prisoners iu their possession.
There have been, up to the present
42,000 negroes armed and mustered inti
service of lbs Yankee Government.
A correspondent of the New York He
writing from Holly Island. S.C.. Novombe
states that a few days since a Confederate <
of four men, in a pietou i.oat from the Cos
orate ram Savannah, doing nielu t duty i:
Savannah r ver, oveipowered the offic
charge and took a prisoner to Foil Belas]
the same time givin ■ ihemsel; -up as dt
ers. J his is supposed to be die ease whci
boat was first missed.
The merchants of New Yore f ,re out
long appeal to tiie Y aukeo Secretary o
Navy, begging him to put <h wn ihe Cos
orate privateers. Tin*) corapiaiu most hit
of the havoc done try them on Yankee
ping. The Yankee merchants say, that,
lrom the loss, *• it is humiliuiiug t*» out ; rii
citizens of the first naval newer on the- ea
that a couple of ndiflbrently equipped Cos
«r«to cruiser:. ula tm- ' fi „
threaten our vuur.once v.iih
The letter again sacs that "it ib
(hut their coiutut rco ou the high Bens
have been lift f-o unprotected an to
Uonfc ertue iusotence to attach «.ur flag at nH
most the entrance of our baTWsaml to uctualfl
blockade out merchant men at the Cape H
Good Hope recently ’’ The Yankee SicrH
tary repl cs, and shy,- that he has done all fl
his power "to capture the privateers’tlifl
“swift steamers have constantly been in puH
suitot them"; and hopes to be “soon able
dispatch a larger force to pursue the ConteM
crate cruisers. ’ Ihe Herald says that the tul
jecthas long wounded the pride ui every eitfl
Bets «r the republic; despairs of SucretarH
Welles doing anything; amt trusts to Cor grwjß
‘‘to bag tin- gun federate*." Sr
Attain loaded with Federal troops
blown up on the BaLnaoio and Ohio
fho payment i fall branches of the Fedefl
public service R ' ttie fiscal veur ending wflfl
tho last of dtine were s’.(o3 000,000. of whiH
amount sfjoi!,uuo.oo(l were for the army, aH
$60,000,000 for llio navy. jfUj
1 ho women of 'tew \ ork, Brooklyn and
liamsburg, are holding a fair for "the
of tho colored soldier*.’’ An
the Herald says: “Let every man anil
incur land do something for t h : e poor
needy ones; if matter-; not how little, but. MI
something. Gluihiug. provisions, fruits or
cy articl.-s and hooks wiil l>;> most
received and fully aj pus inted.” \\ liy
the Northern women hold a fair for the
of their poor starving while-;? W
Tho Wisconsin and Indiana regiments in tlnl
army of tho Potomac have sent home one com
missioned officer ami two privates from* each
company to recruit their thinned ranks.
Secretary Blanton, ou his la?n visit to tho
West, made very fast time. A Western ex
change states that, lie had special trains, and
made the time from Cleveland to Louisville, a
distance of 3h7 miles, in eleven hours.
The Connecticut Senate has passed a bill to
pay $."00 State bounty to each volunteer who,
may enlist under the last call for troops.
Forty miles of the eastern section of the
Pacific Railroad has been graded. It is expect
ed the cars will be running on the road by the
Ist of January.
Gen. Forey sailed from New Yoik for Franca
Nov. 14.
Lincoln is going to appoint negro doctors in
the Federal aimy.
The Washington correspondent of tho Phila
delphia Ledger writes that there is a report
that the French Foreign M nister informed Mr.
Dayton at a recent interview, that tl,© Empe
ror s Government hau no official knowledge of
any vessels being constructed in the dock yards
ot France “for the Cciitederates,” but if Mr.
J ayion could t° (be Emperor that such;
was they would be promptly arrested
m ’'Air further progress, and out of this inter
view has grown the report (bat the work upon
the rams had been ordered to be suspended.—
The position taken by tho French Minister op 1
behalf of his Government, i true, is not unli' K( J
that originally taken by Earl Russell in bo, half
of England, and w.io knows bf t what, u r ter a ii
there may be vessels building in Frar ce for the,
rebels, under contracts which, oa their sac«
read for other purposes. r C ’
thJv rC °t lo '' onint , ir<:B fT e blown up oa
tho Naebvdk. .atlroud by Confederate gumil
tnui ? h,s 41 iso been entirely de
stroyed. ihe work wtv, done by torpedoes.
ttil ' V ' L - im , ar • ol Mieai -ffipl, who left
the Confederacy in The winter of 1803 and went
Halifax* ** * l ' umm ' ssioner > has arrived at
All tboo^ on at Natchez has been sent for
wardto New Orleans.
°°Z*ral Banks took a large train with him
° Jexas—as inay lie inferred from the fact
that his teamsters number five hundred.
Northern papers say that fever was still pre
vailing among tho Federal shipping at Pensaco
la, Nov. 11.
A Washington telegram says that the “Cop
perheads rubbing ihoir hant 1 ft i*j day ov6F
the news that the Governor of Maryland baa
become a parly to a scheme to nullify
cent election of the Union candidates in that *
State, by withholding I'iom them their certifi
cates.’’
The United States District Coatrt for the Eas
tern District of Virginia at Alexandria, Jndg*
Underwood piesiding, on tho 20,tn, ord* r
decrees of confiscation and rv e airaiD- *
property of thirteen persons. lUa
«7 «•* &SSS3
to nve r ais' confinement In il,<j Albany peni
tcn’aary, and theb* ntence has betri approved,
Mr. Smithson was formttfiy of Lynchburg,
Virginia, where he was 'ooru and raised.
Tho Chicago Timsays Baltimore has been
included in the limits of Butler's new depart
ment. Heaven should have mercy on this un
happy city, for Butler after Sehenck is lika
Caligulc, succeeding Nero.
I Sunger-pinched children go about tbe street
r>r Cbaitmio ga picking jp the crnsis thrown
away by Federal soldiers.
The Paris correspondent of the Mew York
Herald says that tb-reis no doub t that six largo
ironclads are building -n France for tbe Con
feder te States at the ports ot Bordeaux and
Nantes. Tb. y are to be completed by the 15th
of December, and are paid for out, of the money
raised from the cotton loan, Mr. Dayton, Uni
ted States Minister to France, has protected tc>.
tbo French Government against tbe completion '
of these ships, and another letter in the Herald
savs that the French Minister of Marine has
withdrawn the a ithoriz tion to the cc ntnetors
for the arming of them. The author!r.at : on of
arming them had been granted on the represent
tation that they were intended, for tbe Cdilnest
trade, where armed vessels ore necessary for
protection against pirates. Workmen are still
engaged cm them, out this Yankee correspoD
dent says the* it i* not probable they will bo
penuittej to depart—Mr Dayton having snb
mlVied to the Fiench Gjvcinmei t all informa
tioa of their design ana object, which ftll intcj
his possession by some unaccountable means.