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not want him to suspect that vvu j
had signed the Ordinance of Seces
sion as a mere matter of form, and
that we and our constituents were
iprepared to rallyjo his'black stan
dard whenever it should be raised
on Southern soil ; but on the con
trary, we were determined that he,
should know in advance, where at
least some of the Union men, as we
were then called, would he found
in such a conflict. We were not
without hope, either that some
goodunight’be done thereby in uni
ting our people, at home, and by
evincing such unity of feeling and
firmness of purpose at the South
to Mr. Lincoln and his advisers.
1 have given this statement of
our principal reasons for pursue,
ingthe course we did in that res
pect, because certain partisans
have attempted to excite public
prejudice against me on that ac
count.
We find ourselves now involved
in the most bloody war which was
ever waged on the American Con
tinent. But the fault is not ours.
Whether we at the South acted
with all the prudence and caution
we should, or not, is a question for
our own consideration, and wheth
er we did or not, we have only
done what, we had a right to do,
and the Lincoln Government had
no constitutional right to declare
war again&t us for having done so.
Cur cause, therefore, is just, and
we may confidently invoke the God
•of Battles to defend and protect us.
Let us, therefore, waiving Ml past
differences of opinion, address
ourselves to the future.
We want peace and good Gov
ernment. The only great ques
tion now before us, is how
we best secure these national bles
sings ? My counsel is, that we
seek peace by a vigorous prosecu
tion of the war. Congress should
provide all the means necessary
to sustain our armies in the field -
I would prefer to borrow money
for the present, if we can, for that
purpose, to be refunded when
peace shall return to bless us with
her smiles, by duties imposed upon
imports ; but if we cannot borrow
it, then we should submit cheer*
fully to direct taxation.
Whenever the enemy will con
sent to withdraw his troops from
our soil, and acknowledge the In
btatcsj'ljut not lienal let us”fay
down our arms and return to the
pursuits of peace.
We should be careful to form no
entangling alliances with foreign
powers, but keep ourselves free to
cultivate such friendly relations
with all, as mutual interes's may
form time to time suggest. The
utmost practical economy shou d
be observed in all expenditures of
public money, and all the avenues
to peculation and fraud upon the
public treasury should be closed,
as far as possible. The interests
of the great mass of the people
should he consulted, rather than the
selfish desiresofa few favored per
sons or classes.
As a permanent revenue system,
I prefer the assessment of duties
•■upon goods imported, to direct tax
ation— an ad valorem tariff for rev
enue strictly.
1 consider it true policy of the
Government to furnish her people
with the most extensive mail la*
cibties practicable, and at a cheap
rate of postage, on all written or
printed matter.
To prevent the recurrence of
similar events for the future, great
care should be taken to keep all
public offices within the control of
the people. No such class as that
of' politicians should again be toler
ated.
On the restoration of peace, the
most stringent rule ol rotation in
office should be adopted and en
forced both in our State and Con
federate Governments. No man
should be retained in any impor
tant office longer than lor the one
t» rm fixed by law.
./11l inducement to combination
among office-seekers, for private
advancement, would then be re
moved ; honesty would become the
best policy with office-holders, as
with other people, and then they
would deal honestly with the peo
ple. Uuder such rule, public of
lice would be sought as a post of
• honor, and not merely as an easy
#to make money.
Ihe truly great, the wise and
the good, would be called to rule
over us, and peace, prosperity and
contentment would ever attend and
bless the Southern Confederacy.
JAMES P. SIMMONS.
[Lawrenceville, Ga.,Sept., 180 b
MOUNTAIN SIGNAL
itohlonc&a, :
SATURDAY. . - OCT. 19
I
OUR TERMS— SI,OO, if paid a 1 I
!/Ac time of subscribing ; otherwise. \
■sl 50.
F"R PRESIDENT.
lION. JEFFERSON DAVIS,
OF MISSISSIPPI.
FOII VICE PRE-IDENT.
HON. A. H. STEPHENS.
OF GEORGIA.
FOR CONGRESS, 9 HI DISTRICT
COL. HARDY STRICKLAND,
O F FORSYTH.
7 Ac Dahlonega Mint —We are
happy to announce that Lewis \V.
Quillian, Esq, of this place, has
been appointed assayer of the Confede
rate Mint at Dahlonega.
{ CO” We learn with regret, from a pr:«
j vate letter received in this place a few
diys ago, that Mr. Samuel London.
a member of the Blue Ridge Rifles,died
at the Ladies’ Hospital in Ljnchburg.
Va., on the 4th inst., of typhoid fever.
CO” The Atlanta Confederacy of the
13:h inst., says, John S. Rowland
Esq., of Cass, has been appointed by
Gov. Brown Superintendent of the
State Road, and has entered upon his
duties-
Dr. L°wis the former Superintend
ent has been elected to the Supeiin
tendency of the East Tennessee and
Georgia Railroad.
Personal.— Wo were pleased to
lake bj the hand thia week, our wor
x 'hr
CT] Enterprise, and Orderly Ser
geant, of the Butler Guards, Wm. P,
Price. Serg’t Price was at the bat
tie of Manassass Plains, and more re
cently in a heavy skirmish in the
neighborhood of Lewinsville, where
he received a severe injury from n can
non ball. We are happy, however,
to say that he has well nigh recovered
from his wound. He is at present on
a visit to his family in this place, and
will leave, we learn, in a few days for
Virginia.
The Congressional Canvass. ln
common with a highly respectable au
dience of our fellow-citizens, we were
• gratified, on Monday last, by a speech
I at the Court House, from Col. Hardy
Strickland, of Forsyib, the earliest
nominated candidate for Congressman
from this district Col. Strickland
happily presented, in a concisely ex
j pressed and well conceived speech ol
! reasonable length, the consist! of poli
cy which he should pursue, in event of
his election, which was very favorably
received by his audience. A vigorous
j prosecution of the war. strict economy
■ in domestic and a high and honorable
bearing in foreign affairs appeared to j
be the burden of the Cops speech.— !
IWe were personally pleased at his
hearty endorsement of the administra.
lion of our excellent President, who
will, we trust, nud in Col, Strickland
an earnest and effective supporter on
the floor of Congress.
Col. Strickland spoke in Daw
sonville on last Saturday, at Cleveland
on Tuesday and at Blairsville on
Thursday of this week.
OO” We clip the following items
from the Romo Courier :
All persons having property belong
ing to alien enemies in their hands and
not giving notice of it, are subject to a
fine 0f55,000. Pay attention.
Property to the value of $75,000 be
longing to Mrs. General Scott, and
situated chiefly in Richmond, is said to
have been confiscated under the recent
act of the Confederate States Con
gress.
A patent has been issued to a South
Carolinian, a Mr Bierfield, for improve
ments in 'Panning. It is done with
common Dog Fanel, at a cost of 40 to!
THE MOUNTAIN SIGNAL-
60 per cent, cheaper than the ordinary
process The Charleston Courier has
some specimens.
7{ed peper is essentially necessary
for our troops in Virginia during the
winter. It should be carefully preserv
ed By all who w\sh to minister to the
comfort and of our forces in the field,
ground up and packed in bags, boxes
| or kegs.
Chattanooga Ma, het — Bacon, stock
light—hog round 20e.; sides 23, sho'il
tiers 19$ ; barns 19 to 20c.; beet hams
drfad 10c.; Laid 22c ; Flour $6.00 Io;
$6 50 ; Corti in depot 80 .; Wheat
80c. ; Coffee 35 to 40c ; Suh $5 00
i per sack—sl 50 per bushel in barrels.
■— TJtr:
Lieutenant S. 11. Gibson, of the
Dahlonega Volunteers, which cornpa
tty are now in Western fc V irginia, has
furnished us with the following roll ol
the company :
< FFICERV.
Captain, T B Cabaniss,
! Ist Lieutenant, J M Hardin,*
2d Lieutenant, S A Iv-lly,
3d Lieutenant, S A Gibson,
1 Orderly Sergeant, G A Sudduth,
2d Sergeant. J R Quillian,
3d Sergeant, C C Lance,
4(h Sergeant, W II Hester,
5 b Sergeant, Benj. J Davis,
Ist Corporal, TH Gibion,
2d Corporal, C W Worley,
I 3d Corporal, John W Spencer,
4th Corporal, ii S Autry,
PRIVATES.--
Lafayette Allison, T W Arendale,
; David L Beck, John W Beck,
1 I H Bell, John C Bowen,
Joseph B Brown, fW R Brown,
James D B.y>ou, GW B r.-nes,
i R C Burnes, E L Calhoun,
B II Campbell, Abner Carder,
i j: W A Carrol, A II Carter,
J E Carter, W II Cooke,
John W Cousins, W C Crenshaw
James Dockery W J’lDuuglas
J rsiah Elrrd, Jo. II Elrod,
j Levi G Elrod, John W Fineher,
G»>o. Fitlsgerald, |C W Fitts,
II C Catiell, J S Graham,
Robt. A Graham, John Goswick,
Geo. W Gregory, R.T. Hardin,
f Samson Hays, C B Hen-ley,
T B Hensley. j- Sam Hoffman,
Robt. Iluntsicger, Augustus Hyden,
M 5.,„ M
R 11 Knight, Charles A Lilly,
John G Lister, W H H Low,
f A J Maddox, T II Marshall,
WII Marshall, John M Martin,
Van Buren Martin, J R Mathews,
George McGinnis, John A Morrison,
E V Mullinix, Geo. W Mullinix,
Narnan Nicholson, J M Norrel,
Geo. W Odom, A J Palmar,
F M Bn liner, W » Palmer,
f John W Payne, J M Powell,
■ John M Presley, Wesley Presley,
James L Rner, Aiben O Riley,
Adam D Robinson, E I) Robinson,
J H Row, Jo. W Statelier,
A J Smith, T J Smith,
B J Truelove, William Truelove,
Joh i F Tyner, John W Walden,
A J Williams, O F Wood,
Francis M Woollen, f M V Worley,
* Resigned.
f Discharged—unable for duty.
j Taken prisoner at Garrick’s Ford ana
released on parole
I [communicated.]
I For the Signal.
The citizens of Banks were favored
I with a visit from Rev. R. W. Bigham
‘ who is a candidate for Repres-ntative
;Io Congiess, on Wednesday 9lh inst.,
I and who delivered to us one of the a
. blest and most candid political address
es that we have had the pleasure of
hearing for many days. He ably ad
vocates both in public and private the
re-establishment of the Mint at Dah
lonega— favors a prompt and regular
transmission and delivery of the mails
to every destitute community—con
tends, and will contend, for a reduce
lion of the salaries of all officers from
the President down, and general econo
my in every department of govern
ment ; he also favors an energetic
prosecution of the war and ample pro
vision for our soldiers in the service
both sick and well He is calculated
by his unrivalled eloquence and tmas
summing manners to win the favor
and influence of all who have had or
may have the privilege ofheariug him.
FARMER.
A new military company has
been organized in Floyd county,
called ‘The Freemen of Floyd,’and
Robert H. Moore, Esq,, elected
Captain.
THE BATTLE OF GREENBRIER
RIVER.
The C*>nstJuiionii-l of the ll h inst.
says, we are indebted to a tiiend lb. the
use ol th • following interesting letter
from a yotrig mtn in the First Geor
gia Regiment, giving tin interestin''
'recount of the battle of Greenbrier*]
Va. : |
Camp Barcow, Greenbrier ?
River, Va., Oct. 4,’61. $
Dear Parents : I add this to my al
ready lengthy enis le to let you know
that I hive at hr.-t met the enemy, and
heard the missiles of various dimen
sions whistle through the air, in no ve
ry pleasant proximity to my head.
I will, below, recount, as faithfully
as 1 am able, the movornei.i!s of the
day-
j htr y yesterday, (3.1) morning, the '
I enemy, five or six hundred strong.!
came d >wn from their cosy quarters
on top of Cheat Mountain, and began,
filing on our advanced pickets, who
are stationed at the river at the foot of
(he mountain. We wre ordered to
get our guns and amunition all ready,
wnich we did in short order. ,We had,
hardly got our pieces it; time, before
our Orderly called out, ‘fall in men ! :
and then it begin to look very much
like a fight. Just at this lime, our
pickets had formed a short distance off,
atid began to fire upon the enemy,
who returned it with muskets, rifles.
i and cannon, Ihe fight in that quatlei
] vas very brisk lor a while, an i the re
i verberatioii among the mountains made
i the noise souud as though hundreds of
: artillery had opened fire". Toe Yan
kees continued to advance, and our
{pickets, with Col. Ramsey in corn-
I mand, were cut off'from our forces.—
, Phe Yankees came up like brave lei
|lo«s to within a quarter to a half mile
of our uoiks. when they begin to fire
with artillery upon our main body.
They tired both shell and solid shot,
and some of the shots were directed
{ with the greatest precision, bursting
right over our artillery, and playing the
! in scliief general y.
I ue Ist Georgia were drawn tip in
] line, on the field, with ihe 12th Geor
\ gia, and the Virginians pit in the
| trenches. General Jackson came up
(to us and said, ‘Major ! (to Majoi
; riiompsuti,) your regiment have Hie
1 post ol d ttiger, and 1 hold you and them
tesponsible for this part of the field.’
Ol course, this made us feel proud
of this seeming confidence, and, no
i doubt, every man resolved to conquei
lor die, if the enemy should attack the
j right 11 ink where we were posted.—
Soon -liter we were drawn out, the
sia.en up- ihu g?d..
of the river among Hie burhes. The
12tli were sent to meet them, which
■ they did in handsome style, an I soon
drove them back to their old position,
■in the open field, where our artillery
j were pouting destruction into their
1 ranks at a rapid rate. While on the
field, w« were ordered to lay flit, which
we did, to avoid the shells and Minie
lialls ; but all the time the balls were
going over us wdz ! making a noise
almost identical with that made by the
wings ol one ol our June bugs.
Ihe cannonading la-led lour hours
and a bad, and the whole fight a little
mure than 6 hours. We drove the
enemy oil ; umj Col. Ramsey, who
was cut oil in the mountains, wheie he
jeouiusee everything, says that they
cat t ied off m least twenty wagons
loaded wjiij theic dead.
1 hey were run in good fashion, and
ueie m great disorder until they got
ttiree n.iies irom the scene of action.—
I hey could not like oil al> their dead,
•as we, yesterday, found several deau
; uad buiied them. This morning the
camp is lull ol haversacks, canteens,
and vsiious other paits of the Yankees,
equipments, wnich they left on the
Heid tn their haste to gel away.
We have no official report of the
the loss on our side ; but 1 heaid an
Aid to Gensrui Jackson say, that we
lust about fuily killed and wounded.—
None ol this company, or the Walker
Light iti’anlry were hurt, and only one
or two in this legiment. 1 must close;
perhaps 1 will give you more in my
next.
1 forgot to say that we captured their
colors—a large, and very fine silk flag.
lam uli right. We are now cooking'
six days provisions. Your son,
F. M. H.
The dispatch bearer from General
Lee, came in this morning, stating that
he (Lee,) hid whipped out Rosen
crantz, and gut in his rear, so that he
cannot gel out, unless he comes by
here ; which, if he tiies again, 1 think
he will be whipped worse than Rey
nolds was yesterday, F M 11
Tests of Character.—'l hat which
you most enjoy, that which you seek
and practice with the greatest pleasure;
the company you prefer, the books you
read, the kind of pleasure and amuse
ments you most frequent; the lan
guage you use, the kind of stories you
tell with (he greatest pleasure, things
for which you make the greatest sac
rifices, and on which you place the
Highest value ; these, mote than your
professions and pretensions, are lhe
true tests of character. Example dis
closes lhe true character, while pro
fession, without example, is but a va
por, which soon measures your influ-,
ence.
L A T E t S 1’ NEW S.
Richmond, Oct. 10.—The report
yesterday relative to the retreat of
Gen. Rosencrantz in Western Vir.
ginia, the reliability of which re
port was considered to be doubtful
is confirmed to-day in official quar
ters. Gen Rosencrantz retreated
with the army he had opposing
Gen. Lee at Sewell Mountain in
t hat section of the State, and has
gone in the direction of the Gauley
river.
O.i account of the miserable condi
tion of the roads, and the limited a.
mount ol transpoilation in the hands of
the Confederates, Gen. Lee was able
to pursue the Federalists only 8 miles,
Richmond, Oct. 11.—Gen* Henry
R. Jackson’s offiial report of the battle
of Jreen-brier river, has been receiv
ed, and will appear in tomorrows “En
quier.’ The following comprises lhe
li.-t ofcasaulties :
Killed—John C. Rie, 12th Georgia
Regiment ; J. W. Brown, Ist Georgia
Regiment ;Mr. Fidler, of Rice’s Bat
tery, John Agnew, and Wm. O. Block
er, 31 Arkansas Regim?nt; John Mun
ford, 31st Virginia Regiment.-
Wounded—Capt. Shumaker, Dan
ville Va., Artillery slightly ; Capt.
Rice of Rice’s bat ’ery, foot shot off;
Lieut. Mann 44th Va , slightly ; Lhut.
Bartlett, 31st Va., severely ; Sergt.
Graves, Rice’s batteiy mortally ; Corpl.
<lauton, Danville Artillery severely ;
Corporal Slaven, 31st Va., severely ;
Corporal Eslin, 31 st Va.. slightly ;
Corporal Hoffmin, 31st Va., missing.
Privates Wounded Arkansas Regi
ment, Stephens, Milton, and Calhoun,
Slightly ; and Aderson and Scott mor
tally ; 44th Va., Fitzgerald, Kelly,
Paine, and Kane, slightly ; 12th Ga ,
John Dean, D. W. W a re, W. F. An
drew, D. F. Terrel, slightly ; Ist Ga.,
D. L. Beck, severely.
New Orleans, via Mobile, Oct.—
12— A naval engagement took place
this morning at the head of the Passes,
between the Confederate fleet and the
U. S. blockading fleet, commencing at
3 45 o’clock, A. M.and lasting for one
hour. It was resumed a*. 9 o’clock A.
Vl. and during its continuance, Com
Hollins sent the following message to
the Naval department.
Fort Jackson, 2 o’clock P. M.—
Las! night I attacked tlie blockaders
with mylittle, and succeeded, after a
very short struggle in driving them all
aground at the South west Pass bar,
except the Preble which I sunk. We
captured a prize from them, and after
we got them fast in the sand we pep
pered them well. There were no
casualties on our side. The affair was
i complete success.
New Orleans, Oct. 12, —The
ptizes captured in the late engage
ment are the schooner Jos. li.
Toone and a launch belonging to
the Richmond, laden with cutlas
ses. The vessels sunk was not the
Preble but ihe Vincennes. [The
Preble carries 1G guns and Vincen
nes 20 guns. Bo’h are sloops of
war.—
On Friday night our fleet started
frem Fort Jackson—the Manassas
leading the way. The night was
intensely dark. The
struck a vessel which she ran into
near the bow and cut into Ler up
wards of twenty feet. An appall
ing shriek was heard aboard the
doomed ship. A signal rocket was
lired, the enemy beat for quarters,
and a perfect iron hail fell around
and upon the Manassas, and her
machinery became deranged.
The-Tuscarora came up with
five barges which were cut adrift
from the steamer and entered into
the fight, thereby causing a regu
lar Stampede of the enemy.
Washington, October 6th.—No
thing but the imperative demands of
the public interest has induced the
government to supercede Fremont.——
I'he Attorney General is unreserved
in the expression of his opinion con'
cerning '.he conduct of Fremont, and
does not hesitate to prouounce his re
tention a public crime.
Publicity has been given to the vio
lation of the blockade, at the port of
Savannah, by the British steamer Ber
muda. It is said that the fact was re
ported to Lord Lyons at his dinner ta.
ble, the information having been re
ceived from the village of Thomson in
Connecticut.
It is believed that a part of the
freight of the Bermuda consisted of
seventy ions of powder, Enfield rifles,
fifty rifled cannon, sixty thousand pairs
o< shoes, a large quantity of blankets,
clothing, quinine and morphine. Re.
monstrances against the sailing of the
Bemiuda, and lhe completing of her
cargo were made by Minister Adams
in London, but the foriengn office ei
ther did not feel al liberty or did not \
see its obligations tg aifea the unlaw. (
ful voyage, )
No More Furloughs.*— Among the
on dits current in military circles, yes
terday, waa one to the effect, that in
consrquence of the general abuse of
furloughs no more would be issued
from the War Department, even to the
I sick desiring leave of Absence.—
) Stringent as this order may appear, its
! adoption and general enforcement will "
! really be productive of benefit to the
' service.—[Richmond Enquirer.
I -
i Richmond, Oct. 11.—Mansfield
Lovell, recently promoted to be a Ma
jor-General, has been appointed '
full command of Louisiana and
sippi, Gen. Twiggs retiling.
i Pensacola, Oct., 13 A
; sisling of Capt. Butler and wife. Pack,
'ardatid wife, and Mr. Gillet, late
jSouthern Express agent at this place,
and probably others, escaped to Fort
j Pickens under false pretenc-’S on Fri
(day.
Richmond, Oct. 13—It is reported
here, on the authority of a gentleman
just from Baltimore, that Lord Lions
■ and Seward had ruptured their amica
ble relations, and that Lyon had left
•Washington.
Richmond, Oct. 14. lndications
here point to stirring events at an ear
ly day.
Over 700 patients are in the Geor*
gia Hospital in this ci'v.
A Pennsylvania volunteer, laboring
under delirum tremens, committed sui
cide near Harrisburg, lately by filling
his mouth with gunpowder and then
setting fire to it.
i
Suficiency of Pork in the South.—
I'be apprehensions of our people in re
gard to the deficiency of bacon in the
future says the Richmond Ena iirer,
are not well founded, if we can rely
upon the statistics ofthe ‘hog crop’ of
the United States as given in the cen<
sus report of 1850. According to that
report, the fact appears (surprising,
doubtles, to many of our readers) that
of lhe thirty millions three hundred
and fifty-four thousand hogs raisedin
all the States and Territories of lhe
United States, the Southern States, ex
clusive of Kentucky and Missouri, pro
duced fifteen millions eight hundred
and four thousand three hundred and
fifty jhree, or considerably more than
one half! The number of hogs in
Kentucky is reported at 2.891,163 and
in Missouri at 1,702,625. So that
with Kentucky and Missouri, the
■ Southern Stales raise upwards of twen
ty millions ol hogs, agiinst ten millions
in the Yankee States.
The London Globe, in an editorial
on the cotton question, says ;
‘The Southerners .fully understand
the advantages of their position. In
the words of ene of them, reported by
no unfriendly hand, they ‘fight for the
integrity of and independence of their
soil, for naticnal independence. Their
object is tangible, but that oflhe North
is not. The xNorth fights tor an ab
straction. It fights for the reconstruc
tion of a Union which has ceased to
exist, and which can never be restored
except by force of arms.’ Then there
is unity in the South, so far as positive
action is concerned. They have a
source of strength, and they will make
use of it. They have lhe cotton crop.
It has been determined that no portion
of tho crop shall be sold until the block*
ade is broken or the Confederacy rec*
ognized. The plan is an ingenious
one. If cotton compels a recognition
of the Southern Confederacy, cotton
will indeed be king/
APPOINTMENTS .
Col. Hardy Strickland will ad
dress the people of the Ninth Con
gressional District at lhe following
limes and places:
Jasper, Pickens co., Thursday, OeL
10th, ’
Dawsonville, Dawson co., Saturday,
October 11th.
Dahlonega, Lumpkiq co., Mondav*
Oct. 14th.
Cleveland, White co., Wednesday,
Oct. 16th.
Blairsville, Union co., Friday, Oct
18th.
Highwassee, Towns co., Saturday,
Oct. 19th.
Clarkesville, Habersham co., Wed*
nesday, Oct. 23d.
Clayton, Rabuq, co., Monday, Oct*}
21st.
Homer, Banks co., Friday, Oct. 25t|j
Gillsville, Hall co., Saturday, Oct
26th.
Cainsville, Hal! co., Monday, Oct.
28th.