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VOL. XI. TUB 110 PM Slffill. PVBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY UY WILLIAM A BURNSIDE. f »üb»cription per year,in advance, Si,oo 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 NO 30