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VOL. XI.
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
For Citation notice 82,75.
•* Notice to Debtorsand Creditors 3,25.
’* “ to sell personal property 4,00
“ to sell real estate & negroes 5,00.
• *< for leave to sell land and
negroes 4,00.
“ for letters Dismissory 4,50
Announcing candidates for office 5,00
All advertisements of twelve lines, first
fcseition St,O; second, 75 cents’; for
ch subsequent weekly insertion 50 cents
onthly seventi’-five cents.
!SBM
DR. N. F. HOWARD,
t OFFERS HIS PROFES
‘SMRto sional services to the citizens
xaS. ar of Dahlonega and surrounding
country.
OFFICE Formerly occu
pied by Dr. B. McGhee.
Dahlinega, G*.
April t, —sy.
N BKN 1 6 H T,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Marietta, Georgia,
W'BTII L PRACTICE in all the coun
’ * ties of the Blue Ridge Circuit.
JAMES P. BURNSIDE?
ATTORNEY A T L A W
APPLIWS, COLUMBIA CO., «A
Van* T—!r
jnOlman & Curtis,
Wholesale Dealers in
CROCKRV, GLASS-WARE. AC
A few doors helow the Planter’s Hotel,)
AUGUSTA, GA:
Bth, 185£L .
J R. DAVI S.
gANDBROKER
COLLECTOR,
And General Agent.
Business attended to in any county in
his State. Office corner Jackson and El
Augusta, Georgia. nov,l
C. k L. DWELLE,
Wholesale Dealers in
BOOTS £ S H O E S
Opposite the Unian Bank, Bi oad St.,
AUGUSTA, GA
f -h» 1855.
G- W. Fflßß* & CO??~
WHOLESALE
MAT ESTABLISHMENT,
|(Masonic Hall Building,)
BROAD ST., AUGUSTA, GA.
Jatt’y 9, 1855
JAMES R. LAWHON
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DAHLONEGA GA,
James J. Findley,
LAW STUDENT,
DAHLONGA, GA.
T e now reading law under the insliue
* tionsof William Martin, Esq,
and would like to connect practice with
theory, and solicits a share of patronage
from the business public. Prompt atten
tion will be given to all business confided
to his care.
Office son’h corner of the Court House
•-basement story.
July 2d, 1859 —ts,
FALL IMPO TATION,
RIBBONS,
Millinery and Straw Goods
" -o. ' -
ARMSTRONG, GATOR & CO.
IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF
RIBBONS, BONN’T SILKS SATIES
Velvets.Ruches,Flowers, Feath’ks
STRAW BONNETS, FLATS, &c.
/Vo* 237 and Lofts of 239 Baltimore St.
BANTIMORE, M D.
Offer a Stock unsurpassed in the United
States in variety and cheapness.
Orders solicited & prompt attention given
T«h ms, G months, six per cent, off for
ooh; par fads. August 18th, 1860..5.
THE MOUNTAIN SIGNAL.
DEVOTED TO: POLITICS, LIT E 11A T Vll E, ART, SCIENCE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE
©(rmorn.
LUMPKIN COUNTY.
COUR IS, JUDICIARY, &c.
Superior Court. B. it C. Sits 4tl»
Monday in January and July
Judge— (lon. Geo. ]). Rice. Clerk
—Jas. 11. Worley.
nferior Court —Sits 3d Monday io
June and November. Judges— 'l'. j
H. Gibson, Win. Wai wick, J. J. I
Findley, Joroyal Blackwell, and J
C. Brittain. Clerk— James Ruth-'
erlord.
00“ Return day out twenty days be - ’
lore Court, |
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Ordinary— James 11. Lawhon.
SheriJ/ —John C. Early.
County Surveyor.— Co!. Adam Peck J
Board of School Commissioners, — j
Benj F. Sitton, T, 11. Gibson, Wm. j
W arwick, J. J. Findley, Joroyal Black«i
well and John C. Brittain.
LAW DAYS AND JUSTICES OF
THE PEACE.
837th District. At Dahlonega, 1
on the 2d Friday in each month.—
Justices James Rutherford and
Win. R. Crisson.
821st District.—At Aura ria, on the :
Ist Friday in eacn month. Justices.
—James E. Wood and James M. !
Welchel
935tm Di-trict.—At Davis’ Conn
Gr»und, vn the 3d Saturday in
each month. Justices— Wm. E.
Beard and L. D. Davis.
840th District. At Nimberwill
Court Ground, on the 4th Saturday!
in each month. Justices--John
Sites,
900 m District —\t Yahoola Court!
Giouod, on Hie l«l Saturday in each ■
month. Justices— John H. Aber-I
crombia end Ephram Lee.
999tm District. —Al Ciumly’s Court
Ground, on the 3rd Saturday in j
each mouth. Justices— William
Anderson and
1116th District —At Chcstatee
Court Ground, <»n the Satur-
day in each month. Justices— Jas.
C. Seabolt and L .<• J. Swims.
836th District. — At Frog Town j
Court Ground, on the 34 Saturday in ;
each month. Justices— James A. J
Cantrell and John F. Glover.
lOblsT District — Warhoo Coulr l
Ground, on 3d Saturday in each
month. Justices— Bull G. Reeves
and !
83L?t District. At Pooes Coun,
Ground, on the Ist Saturday in each{
month. Justices—J Am Gay and
Daniel Neisler.
POST OFFICES AND POSTMAS
TERS.
Dahlonega.—George T. Quillian.
Auraria. —B. W. Brackett.
New Bridge.—James Welchel. j
Pleasant Retreat It. R. Asbury-1
Loud-ville. —John 11. Craven. I
JOHN A W1 MP Y?
ATTORNEY AT LAW
DAHLONEGA, .. .GEORGIA.
IM7ILL practice in the counties of
• ’ Lumpkin, Dawson,Forsyth,Pickens,
Gilmer, Fannin and Union, in the Blue
Ridg Circuit, and Hall and White coun
ties in the Western Circuit.
O” IFill attend to the collecting and
securing of claims, and will give his un
divided attention to all business entrusted
to his care
East corner efthe Square, I
Feb. 23. JB6l. ly.
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT
LAW &. SOLICITOR IX EQITY
DAHLONEGA GEORGIA.
VM/’ILL practice in the counties of
•” Lumpkin, Dawson, Forsyth, Pick
ens, Gilmer, Fannin and Union, in the
Blue Ridge circuit, Hall and White coun- 1
ties in the Western circuit.
O' Prompt attention will be given to
business entrusted to him. Thanks arc
returned for former patronage.
Feb. 23. 18GJ i y .l
i
IRON AND BRASS FOUNDRY
A.ND MACHINE SHOP,
On Georgia Railroad, near Cotton Factory,
AUGUSTA, GA.
/'k P.DERS are solicited for Castings for '
Rail Roads, all kinds of Machinery !
for Gold Mines, Bridges and Draw Bridg *
es, Gass Works, Flour Mills, Paper Mills i
Saw Mills, Gin Gearing, Water Wheels |
and all kinds of Smith work—Shafting |
and Circular Saw Mills complete.
W. M. HIGHT, Proprietor, j
. March 1888.—
DAHLONEGA, GA„ SATURDAY, SEPTEMBERS], 1861,
Srlcrtcß 43octr«
THE DEAD.
On the field of battle lying,
; Was a youthful hero dj ing,
; On the cold, damp ground j
; And his twin companions stood,
\\ ipingoffthe oozing blood
■ From the deadly wound.
I
i “Alfred, bid my farther joy,
i When you tell him of his bov,
! At Manassa’gory—
j Tell him bow his darling child
I Wen in death—and here he smiled—
J A soldier’s proudest glory.
)
j “Tell how I team’d to stifle,
1 Al ith my bright, unerring rifle,
I The base invader’s cheer ;
i Tell my sister and my mother
; Not to weep, bat. learn to smother
J Each sigh and loving tear.”
i
1 Here he whisper’d still more lowly,
; For his life was ebbing slowly ;
“Remember me to her,”
lie ceased—liis friend, with anxious start,
Placed his hand upon his heart,
’ But all was quiet there.
In a peaceful, lonely dell,
' IPhere the moonlight loving fell
! With its silver beams,
1 here they laid him—all were weeping
O’er the one who there was sleepiug,
Wrapt in angel dreams.
MISb E L LA NEO£FS
RETREAT OF THE FIRST
GEORGIA REGIMENT FROM
CARRICK’S FORD—A TIJRIL>
LING NARRATIVE.
The Virginia correspondent of
the Charleston Mercury writes a
deeply interesting letter descrip
tive of the engagement between
Garnett 8 and McClellan's forces
at Carrick’s Ford, and subsequent
I events. The concluding portion
relates to the perilous retreat of a
j portion of the First Georgia Regi
ment across to Monterey. It is a
| graphic picture, and we transfer it
to out columns. The writer says:
The foe was baffled ot his prey !
I But seven companies of the Ist
(Georgia Regiment, outflanked by
! them had been cut off by the rapid
advance of the Indiana line, and
were driven from the road and
up the mountain into a wilderness,
where human foot bad never trod
before.
i bout food, with scarcely a
blanket to cover them, and no shel
ter from rain or wind or cold but.
the dark foilage overhead and a
round, on an untroden mountain
range, without maps or guide,
these brave Gergians took up the
line of march in such direction asl
their slight knowledge of ihe coun
try and the aid of a pocket com
pass advised. Over the rugged
irocks and through the dense un
derwood, often so thick that they,
had to hew a passage with their
bowie knives, the straggling line'
toiled up the mountain until dark
ness closed round them and they!
lay down and slept. The sun rose 1
on the Sabbath morning and flood-
Icd their happy homes with light,
and gilded th‘e spires of the vil
lage churches, whither their moth
ers, and wives, and sisters were
going up to pray for the dear ones
at war, and beg Heaven to spare
their lives ; but he could not pierce
tiie thicket to get a giimpse of
that wan and famished band, who, |
with failing limbs but stout hearts!
panting upwards for the day. On
and on through the weary hours,
and the laugh had hushed, and’
their voices seldom broke the
! deadly stillness, and the face of
youth grew sad and the face ol
! age anxious, but still nota mur
uier not a thought of yielding ;
> and the second night came down
i and the cheerless hall was made,
i Again the sun went up, and the
mists curled away over
l‘he mountain tops, and these lost
and now famished men, with chill
ed limbs, and swollen feet, and
| failing hea.-ts, went foi ward once
I more. But the pangs of hunger
; gnaw cd at iheir vitals, and the
|line grew more and more
1- • °
fyPie.(inf cfteaZ’
Igling, and the balls were frequent [
/and prolonged, and the anxious!
“Close up ! Close up, boys !” of the ,
cheer!ul toned oflloers, was no lon- 1
ger responded to by quickened,
steps. They tore off the inner!
bark of the birch and spruce pine, !
and found seme comfort and sup J
port in swallowing juice. Five
dollars was offered the fortunate'
possessor of a bit of biscuit, two!
inches square, discovered in an j
I odd corner of his knapsack, and
| refused. One of the Captains—:
' Jones of the Washington Rifles—!
had a son in his ranks—a lad of ,
18 years, and tenderly reared.—
j He came up to his farther and beg- :
( ged for food. “Take this my dear |
, boy,” he replied, shaking out a few i
, crumbs of biscuit from his haver- ;
I sack, ‘eat it slowly; and may God
I save your life.” Strong men sat )
(down and cried, the weak dragged ;
lon unrepining* Some of the fee.-, j
blest, pale striplings, whom the!
lightest blow might fell, showed
her.rls of oak in that awful extre
rnity. Still the “Close up” was
urged on the laggard rear, and the
slow hours seemed lengthened in-*
to years, and the day sped on, and
the mountains closed before them |
and the third sun set and they were!
no! saved.
Tuesday came, and their strength !
and courage was gone und des- j
pair had seized them. Now the!
men became mutinous. The offi I
cers urged, and entreated, and ;
commanded to make one more ell - y
ort to save their lives; but the j
latter had lost all vr.lue, and fam- :
ine and fatigue was fast exhaust- I
ing its remaining store.
Still the habit of obedience, and
old affection and well tested con- 1
fidence prevailed, and again they
went forward, though with little 1
hope of success in their desperate i
effort to reach a human habitation. (
And they would have failed, in al! ,
reasonable probability, and their
bones would have whitened on
that, mountain ridge, and the inci- (
dents of their fate would have been <
as fearfully unknown as of those I
who have gon down at sea and left ,
no trace or sign of shipwreck.— ,
Suddenly, at mid-day, a stranger >
appeared among them. ‘Who are
you, and where did you come from?’ i
are the eager questions. “lam a!'
Virginian— a friend ; have follow- i,
ed your track, and have come to ! :
save you,” was the welcome reply. I
But, though the face was as of an I
angel, these men misunderstood it.
I hey were on the ver)’ verge of (
destruction. An awful death a-j
waited them if they did not follow |
his guidance, and yet they prefer-! (
red f nnine, death, anything before !'
captivity ; and how could they tell '
whether he was to be trusted Z 1
They were in a hostile country, and I;
the man was utterly unknown to ! |
them. “Goon” said the leader. 11
“take us out of this wilderness and ,'
we will reward you ; deceive, he- !<
tray us. and I will blow your brains !
out with my own hand, at the the' 1
first sight of the enemy.” h
He carried them by a change of: ,
direction down the mountain ;h
striking a shallow stream at its||
base, they followed its bed, leeping
from rock to rock, and sometimes 1
wading through the water, for t
miles; then over a field and out I
into a road, and a wild cheer rung c
out'their joy at the unexpected
deliverance. Attended by a guard
(lie guide went to a neighboring 1
farm house, and returned by night- '
fall with a wagon laod of provis- , I
ions. His name is Parsons, and I,
the Confederate States Govern- (
merit should bestow on him their
first gold medal-
“How much did you eat that ’
nighl ?” I asked my narrator, a I
son of the late General Irwin, o! i
South Carolina “Why nothing i
at all, scarcely ; the fellows nib
bled a little all through the night ;
but the next morning, after such a
breakfast, as would have killed a '
wolf, we stopped twice and cooked
our haversacks lull of provision,
and by nightfall there was not a
crumb in them.” One of the Lieu
tenants who shared the horrors of
tbnt retreat was on ths cars, going
.home to recruit his shattered health ;
[ lypboiu fever had followed the
t exposure and exhaustion— he look
ed like the genius of famine.—
J. D. B.
i THE MORAL INFLUENCES OF
WAR.
The‘New York Daily News’ lias
(lie following sensible article, and for
I publishing such, we suppose, that pape r
land a few others, are proscribed bj
Grand Juries, and put down by mob
power, or samlhing bearing a sein
! blance to legal authority :
j 11 ar is not merely a pecuniary cal,
amity. i hat it makes the rich poor
I and the poor poorer—that it taxes and
j starves a whole peop'e, is sdnietime 6
an endurable fact, if not an actual bles
sing. In war, men perish in crowds*
! I nat whole cities are made desolate
I >
’ and ‘countless millions in.uitj,’ are not
the strongest proofs ol the evils of war'
i M orse than th sis the moral ta n 1
■ which fallows in the train of events’
’ such as a! ect the American people
.now* Men are educated by the histo
ry among whose scenes they jive.—
I Nations grow wi- ked as well aS weak
—degraded in spii it and purpose, as
■; Well as in purse and power, by the cai"
. lla ge ol war. Familiarity with the bo
|-urn of cannon and the deadly glitter
of steel makes devils of men. Jt de-,
uioializ's the habits, the brains, the
pursuits of a nation. It annihilates Ihe
,oo I, the beautiful, and the true in the
human heart, h quenches all manly
thought, all moral vigor, arid pire a».
pir.dion, It deslrojs all godlike pur-'
pose, emotion, and endeavor, It robs*
hu'n.ni lile of its 5 rnclicity . It loaches j
jobbery and murder and all violence
and crime by example. It exdlsbru*.
t ai passion ; it honors brutal action ; it!
smothers every Christian emotion ; it 1
annihilates every act and work of
charity. The strength of human blood
ciogs and clouds the nation’s heart and j
brain; the very air grows poisonous’
and effete with the odor of war ; the
very children inhale the contagion of
sin. j
The people of the United States are
making history in volumes duly. We
live an age in a day. We are making
a m«ral as well as a political condition
and destiny. Our revolution may not
stop with broken lines of political boon.'
daries, or with changed laws and.
Constitution. When France, in an
hour, sunk from despotism to anarchy
under Robespierre, more, than the
mere pillars of the government were I
lorn down. When James of England |
aro.-e a King and slept an exi/e, he
left more than a political revolution be
hind. His'ory too often forgets to re*;
cord the moral fruit of great events.—
As a people we now forget that the 1 )
late of something more than Govern
ment is involved in the struggle upon
wHch the Government has entered.—
We count the cost in dollars and in
lives, and overlook the moral deter io.
ration of the nation, which is the cer
tain offspring of the work in which we ’
have engaged, and a c ilamity more I
dire than all others, present or to come }
We have put away the Bible lor the
musket, and substitute the army hytnn
for the psalm. The school boy leaves
his slate to parade in flaming cap and
with mimic gun. The book lies idle
on the shelf. Harper, an! Putnatm
and sell less, because the
dealer in gilded buttons and miliary
gray sells more. The pulpit drops the !
Christian plea for peece, and cries for f
blood. Inventions fail. Ceres lan
guishes, and Mars grow fat. News
papers teem with accounts of field and I
camp—with details of Battles and tales ■
of sudden death. Reason sbirnks a- i
way from its throne, while hate anui
passion rule. The bookmaker starves ‘
—the gunsmith is a god. Students .
walk the streets ignored—ihe soldier .
I who knows best how to kill his broth-.
jer is greeted with applause. Art hai
Jno friends, save the art of war. The
i graves ot muidered men are strewn
I with flon-ers—the great in moral worth
j and deeds die unmourned. Demago
; goes thrbitg the halls of Congress’—
5 , our statesmen are dead. The pres’
i | which pleads for peace is mobbed—
i-jthe murderer of a thousand kindred in
J a day is crowned. Will not all this
, ■ leave a moral impress behind ? Are
.: taxes and blood the only calamities of
i war ? Do men and children live amid
scenes like these still uncontaminated
and pure ? Can a nation emerge from
scenes like these as morally great as
’before? Let us deduce fair
. sions from known War
I propounds these serious questions, in
spite of apologies which circumstances
! may make for its tkisldnce, and evert
when it is regarded as against a fo
reign foe, and thus», possibly, as a
, struggle for national honor.
PRESENTMENT OF THE NEV
YORK DULY NEWS.
I A few days since the telegraph an*
' nounced that the New York Daily
I News had been presented by the grand
jury of the United Slates Circuit court*
The editor to show that he is no! to bo
k intimidated, thus boldly and clearly
sums up his offence, and declares hi’
i willingness to meet the.
Strenuously, consistently and un*
, swervingly, the Daily News has main*
' taiued, since the bombardment of Fort
, Sumter—an event for which the ad
mtnistratibfi of President Lincoln is
wholly and solely responsible—
That the civil war in which the»
I country is involved is iniquitous uncal!*
ed lor and destructive of the prosperity
ol the republic, and that it has grown
1 out of a demagogic il catering to aboh\
lion fanaticism on the part of the au-<
tborities at Washington, which cannot
be toe severely reprobated.
! 2. That every drop of blood that ha»
been shed in the present contest has
been a calamity,- and that every life
j that has been lost has been a murder*
which might have been avoided, had
patriotism and modeialion prevailed in
! Federal councils.
3. That the increase of our army )
the expenditure of money without per
mission ol Congress ; the blockade of
Southern ports ; the proclamation (f
martial law ; the suspension of the writ
of habeas corpus : the invasion of sov.
! ereign States without summons frotn
their executives ; the overthrow of the
authority of local courts ; and the ab<
lOgation of our military and naval laws
have been utterly unconstitutional acts
committed in defiance and violation of
; the oath of office of our chief mag is*
, irate of the land and for which he ought
to be impeached and denosed.
4. That it would be far belter to’
permit the discontented portion ot the
United Slates to depart in peace, and
more in conformity with the views and
intentions of the original framers oft he
; constitution to suffer the republic to 19“
j divided into two Confederacies, than to'
j array the different sections against
each other in internecine strife, and to 1
blast the future prosperity ot the whole
Union by an expensive, unprofitable,
and bloody war, which must inevitable
end in leaving sectional issues as un
settled as they were before it began.
5. That the grievances of which the'
Southern Stales have cotnpla : ned have
been mainly, well founded and that tl.e
’ compromise plans suggested by Sena,
tors Ciiitenden and Bigler in the thir
ty-six Congress, and by other conser
vative representatives cl the people in>
! ihe extra session of the Congress, ought
■ to have been adopted*
6. That the acknowledgement by
' the Federal governmeni of (he right of
slave owners to convey ano hold their
l property in the common Territories
! would have been pne-eminently
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