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MOMTHO EDITION.
.f AMES W. WARBES, Editor.
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Colimtai, WettowtUy Febrwry 3, 1863.
What will they do with »t?
The iDdiCfttioaß at praaant ar® that the Con
federate currency will be put through a serere
ordeal by our present CoDgreis. We do not pre*
tend to undoratand the details of the plan con
ternplated, but enough may be gleaned from tbe
operations of brokers and capitalists in Rich
mond and elsewhere to induce the belie! that
tbay are apprised of the general outline. A man
oan cultivate anyone of his five senses until i's
acateness is miraculous. He can expand one
organ of the mind, though it be to the neglect
and impoverishment of another, until his peroep*
tion is quickened in this respect in a most won
derful degree. So, we presume, tbe accomplished
financier may attain a proficiency in hiß calling
that will enable him to snuff coming events on
finance and currency in the breeze. We will
place this charitable construction on the knowl
edge they seem to possess at this time, and, from
their operations, draw an imaginary outline of
the plan most likely to be adopted by Congress.
We notioe among them a general desire for in
vestment, and at enormous prices. This would
seem to indicate that money will be taxed very
high, and then a plan of compulsory funding
introduced to retire all the outstanding circula
tion not necessary for purposes of legitimate
trade. Indeed, the whole of our present 4 circu
lation may be retired and anew issue made
which shall be a legal tender, or a provision in
corporated on the faoe of each note that it shall
be taken for taxes and public dues only at its
current value.
After this, a tax may be levied upon all other
property, according to its ability to pay, to sup
port the government in the future. When this
plan is perfected we shall see grand and lofty
tumbling in all commodities. A man who could
sell his property to-day for SIOO,OOO, may not be
able to realize more than half that amount in
two months, and still be richer than to-day.—
Persons who have been hoarding provisions will
be oompelled to bring them to market to enable
them to get money to pay high taies, and others
be foroed even to stint themselves and servants
to save a surplus for this purpose. Labor and
board, and services of all description, will be re»
duced in price, and economy, retrenchment and
reform take tbe place of wild speculation and ex
travagance. If the tax shall bear upon all, ac
cording to their ability to pay, who oan com
plain ? Tbo people owe this debt, and they have
got it to pay. Government should always live
off of its people, and not the people off of the
government. What prudent man, in managing
his private affairs, would let a large debt hang
over him in tbe present depredated state of the
ourrenoy, when he has ample means to pay ?
Would not a prudent man encroach upon the
corput of his estate to pay a debt now, rather
than have it hang over him to pay it in specie
after the war? The finanoial affairs of an indi
vidual are but the finanoial affairs of a nation in
epitome. Wore it not jhat the revulsion might
be so sudden that a panic would ensue that
might be ruinous to the oountry, we verily be
lieve it would be economy to levy a tax high
enough to pay up all we owo at this time, eveu
if it took twenty por cent, of our capital; but as
this is impracticable, let us tax and fund, and
afterwards provide a means to pay or fund before
isHuing, as we should have done from tbo be
ginning of the government.
Let tlyt tax be as high as we oan bear, and
fund the balance. The cause of depreciation is
redundancy and want of confidence. Would it
increase our confidence in the ability of an indi
vidual to pay, if he was worth SIO,OOO and had
that amount of notes out drawing no interest,
when he agreed voluntarily to take up his notes,
bearing no interost, by substituting his notes
drawing eight por cent. ? Would it increase our
confidence in the ability of the Government to
pay, when it takes up its notes bearing no inter
est and substitutes eight percent, bonds ? Then
tax as high as possible and fund as little. If the
out my overruns the country you will have nothing
left you, and if we succeed, which we think to
be as ocrtain as that night shall succeed this day,
we certainly will havo acted wisely.
If the plan indicated is carried out in its full
extent, the soldier can soon buy with his eleven
dollars per month nearly as much as he oould
buy with speoie; the indigent soldier’s family
can buy nearly as much with the sixty dollars
per head appropriated by the State to them, as
they could with specie; and the detailed man,
on his three dollars per day—which was a com
petency at the time the law was made, but now
amounts almost to starvation—can doie out a
morsat of meat with the bresd upon which his
family has been subsisting lor months. Perhaps
new hope, confidence and energy will be given
lo the country and our armies. These are days
of sacrifices, and let us do our dnty like- men
The man who has no higher motives oould well
afford to pay the highest taxes, on the same
principle that he would insure his property by
paying a high premium.
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Kxtrsot from a Private Letter
The enemy advanced on Gen. Longstreet’s
forces on ihe 14th, declaring as they came along
that they would drive Longstreot’s forces out
of East Tennessee. They bad some reason for
this boast, for our oavalry here is so mnefa in
want of a dashing leader, that the Yankees by
their frequent retreats had learned to believe
that it was only necessary to unfuil the
And stripes to secure an advanced position. This
time, however, Gen. Longstreei plaoed his in/an.
try in position and moved himself at the head of
the cavalry skirmishers, infosing into them new
life and spirit, and by his single presence’ giving
to them confidence—the first element of victory.
The “sangfroid*’ with which our chief se-, hi?
old charger Hero, who has carried him unharmed
through an hundred battles, the utter indifference
with which they both listen to the music of min
nie balls, impresses all around that both horse
and rider bear a charmed life, and he would in
deed be dead to the influence of example who
did not feel nerved anew in his inspiring pres
ence. The example was not without its effect
for this time our cavalry drove the enemy finely]
they managed once to get near enough to Jen
kins (iato Hood’*) division, (in which, by the
W»y, our 0 luinbus boys are to be found) to feel
the shock of battle, but it lasted only for an in
stant ; a round or two from our‘veteran soldiers
uid the Federals tied in panic. Nothing saved
them bat their lloetness, the deep snows and the
bare feet of our suffering but gallant men. The
infantry bad little chance to fight, not beißg
armed with long range guns, the speed of ' the
lacktc? ic ii made th.' space toogrc-.it to reach
them, hut our cavalry are still after the matt- t
cenary wretches, and will either catoh them i r
drive them into Knoxville, where starvation will
finish them unless they make a successful retreat
from East Tennessee.
Wo have taken some prisoners, leather, com
missary stores, and other things as needful to
them as ns. We remain masters of that portion
♦f East Tennessee capable of maintaining an
army, and as tbe enemy came against us boast
ing and vainglorious and have fled in indecent
haste we may congratulate ourselves on an im
portant though comparatively bloodless vie'ory.
When history shall write the truth of LoDg
street’s campaign in East : enuessee, its difficul
ties, its importance, and its success, his qualities
as a General will begin to be appreciated.
(From tbe Chattanoogi (Marietta) Rebel.)
The question is often asked, in reply to tbo
theory entertained by many in the South, that a
money panic in tbe North will bring this war to
a dose, why the Northern government cannot
stand hs heavy a depreciation in their currency
as we have witnessed in ours. Any expreseions
of hope based upon the continued and progress
ive depreciation of greenbacks, or the advance in
gold, whichever expression is preferred, is met
with the declaration, that it will require a long ,
time for greenbacks at the present rate of de
cline to fall as low as Confederate currency, and
that as we are conducting all our business and
prosecuting the war with a currency which bears
a relative value to gold of twenty to one, the
Northern government can do it also. This sort
of an agreement is simply a jumping to the con
clusion without investigating the facts. The
situation and condition of the two nations is
essentially different. The Northern government
is prosecuting this war against us, while we are
defending ourselves against its assaults. They
can stop the war whenever they become weary
of it, or become satisfied that it will not pay,
while we have no alternative but resistance so
long as they press upon us.
Hence, it mast result that if we have not mo
ney, we must supply its place as best we can. —
The issues of the government were found to be
the best and most reliable substitute, and they
were adopted. It is not pertinent to the argu
ment to say that on? finances have been badly
managed and that our credit should have been
kept at a higher point, for that is not the ques
tion we are disoussing. The fact is patent that
we adopted treasury notes as our circulating me
dium, and that they have greatly depreciated.—
The Federal credit has been better sustained in
the face of greater expenditures, but there are
many reasons for it. They were a commercial
people which we wore not. A much larger pro
portion of their capital was in ready money.—
The trado of the world was open to them, and
their vast agricultural riSourcos onabled them to
sell for cash or its equivalent, while we were
shut out ftom the world, our pbrts blockaded,
with all that constituied capital, thrown idle upon
our hands. We could not turn our capital into
money and wore therefore driven to find a sub
stitute fur money. That substitute, as we have
explained, was the issuos of our treasury.
With the people of tho North the case is en
tirely different. In the first place, there is a
largo portion of tho population who doubt both
the propriety and feasibility of :his war—who
were opposed to it in the firs> instance, and who
do not sanction tho principles upon whiob it is
conducted, or the objects for which it is waged.
This olass is, as a matter of course, prepared to
stop the war whenever a respectable pretext is
presented.
Secondly, the immense trade and commerce of
the Northern States were readily absotbed with
out inconvenience a much larger amount of tbe
circulating medium than a nation of people, of
even equal numbers situated as we are, could
sustain at anything approximating par value.—
But there is always a point at which the demands
of a community for a paper currency are satis
fied, and beyond which the business of the
oountry cannot absorb at equivalent rates for
gold and silver. Whowever that point is reached,
every additional dollar of paper currency thrown
upon the country, depfociaies tho wholo body of
the circulation. Bo long as the issue is not in
excess of the demand, there will bo but little
differenoef between its current value and that of
gold, and the depreciation is the test of the ex
cess.
Tho expenses of the Northern government are
necessarily enormous, and are paid exclusively
with greenbacks, and the rapid depreciation of
this currency for the past few months is the very
best evidence we could havo that the government
has issued and is issuing more ihan the business
of the country oan boar. Nor can this process
of issue and depreciation Jbe arrested so long as
the war continues, and tbe present monstrous ex
penditures are persisted in. Consequently green
backs must continue to go down until they reach
a point when they will not be received in tho
ordinary business of tbe country, andpbrn tbe
finanoial bubble will burst, and the war will ne
cessarily collapse.
But we have not yet met the question why the
Northern people will not continue the war, even
though their currency should becomo as greatly
depreciated as ours. Simply for the reason that
they will have no desire to do it. Before that
time arrives universal bankruptcy will haveswept
over that nation and engulphed national and in
dividual credit. Their immense,. Foreign trade
can only be carried on through the agency of the
precieus metals, and the cunency that will not
prottire them will be rejected by every class of
the community.
If our premises are correct, the decline in value
of the Federal currency will not only be conti
nuous but accelerated,for the reason that public
distrust will be continually increased, the cur
rency wili be looked upon with each step in its
downward progress with more and more
c.on, untii, finally, the importer of merchandise
will refuse it, tho merchant who buys from him
will be compelled to do likewise, tbe laboring
classes finding that it will not purchase the ne
cessaries of life, will insist upon an equivalent
for their labor, and the whole monetary system
will be convulsed, ruin and bankruptcy will fol
low, and then overwhelmed with their own trou
bles, they will eea«e to trouble us. Thev will fiad
that their iniquitous warfare upon us has reac od
upon themselves, when they will no longer have
the power, or it may be the disposition to conti
nue it. Therefore, we say, that the higher the
quotations for gold in the North, the nearer
peace for us.
Tbe Constitution,
It is a source of distress and appiehen
ion to thinking patriots to hear the flip
pant ar.d reckless manner in which some
persons talk of the violation of constitution
al rights, the utter indifference which they
express whether tho Constitution be viola
ted or not, and their willingness to concur
in any measure, whether it be constitutional
or not, that promises some temporary ad
vantage. This is the most foolish and
desperate conduct that can be imagined.
The Constitution ol the Confederate .States
is tbe band that unites together these States
in their confederate and foreign relations,
and the Constitution of the Siato makes us
one people within its limits. Take these
away and we are resolved into an indis
criminate, disoiganized mob, without law,
order or national existence, each man for
himself, until we becom- the vassels’of a
more intelligent and better governed peo
ple. Whenever Congress shall violate,
palpably and designedly, any of the pros
visions of the Constitution, and shall take
measures to prevent the judiciary from sus»
taming and enforcing it, the first step will
have been taken to anarchy and ruin. How
can intelligent statesmen expect the }>eople
to respect, to obey and have confidence rn
a government that itself violates the very
fundamental law that ea is it into existence?
It will never do to talk lightly of constitu
tional obligations, as we hear some incon
siderable persons doing- There is no meas
ure ol temporary expediency that can
compensate for a ruined constitution and
violated public faith. History may furnish
some examples where, in besieged cities or
narrow provinces a suspension of civii law
has been conducive to the public defence.
But there is nothing that can join she scat
tered inhabitants of this vast country into
one united people except by the constitu
tion which our Confederacy has been form
ed. Take this away and the whole fabric
falls to pieces. Lawlessness will become
the order of thr> day, public faith will be
destroyed and he will sink beneath the
power of our organized enemies and
pressure.—J Fioridi&u & Journal.
Atrocities of the Enemy ,n North Ala
bama.
A Colonel, and for the last campaign, a
brigade commander, furnishes the following
facts, which stamp with eternal infamy the
atrocious conduct of the enemy in North
A About a twenty five Yankees, headed by
one Ben Harris, atory from Madison coun
ty, crossed the Tennessee river into Beach
Island, and captured Benjamin Baden, an
old man, his son, his nephew James Raden
*nd his soil, and another man whose name
i is forgotten —all private citizens —and shot
j them, killing four dead, and threw them
into the river, three of whose bodies were
atterwards tound. The fifth caught hold
of some bushes, when Harris ordered them
to cut his bead off with their sabres, which
they attempted, but could uot reach him;
he then ordered them to knock his brains
out with a fence rail, and lading in this,
they fired two guns, and he dropped his
head in the water as if dead, and the fiends,
supposing him dead, departed. The same
crowd went to the house of Madison Ritchie
the conscripting officer, and took him out
of his bed and drove him in front of them
some two or three mites to Paint Rock
river, and made him wade itt about raid
way and shot him, putting seven balls
through his body. These were all unoffen
ding citizens. Benjamin Raden was an old
man sixty three years old.
Threy hung an overseer, who had for
merly taken the oath to Lincoln, his sole
offence consisting m assis'ing his employer
to get his stock across the river. They put
a notice on the tree that it would be death
for any one to taks his body do wn.
They went to P. Rallins, formerly a Cap
tain in Col Hale’s regiment, who had re
signed in consequence of ill health, and rob
bed him of several thousand dollars—giv
ing him ten minutes to cross tho Tennes
see river, and threatening to hang him and<
leave him hanging till the buzzards should
pick his eyes out, if ho ever returned.—
They have issued an order for all to take
the oath, or leave their lines.
Such are a few of the many atrocities
these Yankee fiends—the representatives
Sf “the best Goverpment the world ever
saw,” are inflicting on the people of North
Alabama.—[Richmond Whig.
General Congress,
Asa general Congress is shortly to be held its
Europe, it is a subject of historical curiosity to
look back and see when and on what occasions
those convocations which have changed the inter
national relations of Europe have been hold Tho
approaching Congress promises to effect some
important modifications of these relations. The
first general Congress was that at which the trea
ty of Westpblia (1643)became the public law of
Europe. It composed the religious dissensions
which, arising out of the Reformation, had torn
and afflicted Europe for thirty years. It pro*
duced this great change: tbe religious passions
ceased to agitate Europe. The objects and oc
casions of hostility became subsequently com -
merce ani the extension of territory.
The Congress that formed the treaty of Utrcoht
(1713) was the next occasion of a great change.
It closed the war of the Spanish succession, and
restrained the ambition of Louis XIV, and made
extensive changes in the territorial relations of
Europe.
Tho treaty of Paris (1763) was not productive
of farther results thau the closo of the seven
years'wa r , and no farther to affect tbe interna
tional relations o! Europe than to confiim the
claim of Prussia to the rank of a first rate pow
er.
The general Congress that made the settlement
of 1815, upsetting ail the older Napoleon’s terri
torial arrangements, was the most important
after the treaty of Utrecht, in the annals of di
plomacy.
The relations towards each other of the States
of Europe, as they stood before Bonaparte made
tho changes that followed his triumphs, were not
restorad to the condition in which they stood Lo
foro the French revolution. New a jusiments
were made. A different equilibrium was estab
lished. Denmark was divested of Norway, and it
was transferred to Sweden. The balance, conse
quently, between tho Scandinavian Stales was
destroyed. A republic, that of Warsaw, was es
tablished in Poland, and the wrong done to that
power by the partition partially redressed. Tho
| German Confederation waj amended, with other
! changes which materially altered the territorial
and other relations of the European States to<
j wards each other.
What wili he tho character of the changes
i made, if any, by tho approaching Congress, it is
j impossible to forecast. That Louis Napoleon
i contemplates some important modifications of
| that settlement, is highly probable. He has
summoned ail the States of Europe, large and
| small, to participate in its deliberations, llis
g6nius in diplomacy will be largely exercised on
S that occasion. All, it is said,Tavo consented to
attend, except Great Britain. That new compli
cations will arise, we think highly probable, and
the ostensible object appearing to i>e appeasing
passions that threaten to kindle anew conflagra
tion, may not only be accomplished, but fresh
fuel added to the smouldering tires—[Confede
racy.
We copy thf' conclusion ol a communica
tion in the Houston Telegraph from an old
veteran of ’36.
1 want fifty men, such as I can pick to
begin with, and permission to raise it to
one hundred and fifty; and of such men as
I may accept, I want devil-daring God
fearing men—men who will never ask quar
ter nor take a prisoner—men who will ever
hold inviolate the purity of woman, be she
friend or foe—men who arewiiling to dance
to any music the enemy may be pleased
to play—in short, men who ate willing to
serve only under a “black Hag.” And may
our God give victory tu the just. Amen
and amen.
W. H. Heard, alias “Old Red,’’
Sharp.-—The Mississippian is responsible
for the annexed sharp and truthful state
ment of facts:
“It is said that there are only three ways
to get ouf of a quarrel-—fight out, write out
or hack ouf; but the safer mode is to keep
out. By the same four ways, also, a man
may get out of the army. Tim soldiers
fight out, the editors write out, the substi*
lute buyers back out, and the members of
Congress keep out.”
Where the Whiskey Comes From
Many persona have been puzzled to kDow
where the Whiskey, which is to be found in every
little town and village comes from. The Rich
mond Enquirer throws light upon the subject.—
It says :
Tho Confederate Government has given cou«
tract? for the production, on its account of “proof
whi key, to numerous parties, varying in extent to
from live to fifty thousand gallons per contract.
In some instances these contracts arc still unfilled,
although the parties have power to “impress
grain for the purpose,” and have beau steadily
engaged in the production of whiskey from ths
date of their contracts. And the secret is this :
the contract calls for “prooi” whiskey, and if
the whiskey is not “proof” it is condemned and
thrown back upon the distiller’s hands—that i?
to say, right on the whiskey market, where he
wants it tube. The go-’erntneat pays from two
to three dollars per gallon for “proof” by the
contract ; the market pays from twenty-five to
eighty, whether proof or not.
A lady sends the following rejoinder to
the want “for women with babies to travel:”
Wanted —Five thousand men (princi
pally the brass buttoned gentry and specu
lation civilians) to travel on all Southern
railroads—to occupy he ladies’ car—spit
over the floor and render it unfit for the
occupattev of ladies. For further parficn
fare, apply to the wives of true soldiers,
who find traveling necessary to transact the
business with which their husbands’ab-»
oence necessarily enciynbers them,
a?^3X."RGhR-AuI > i3;iO
REPORTS (*F THE PBBSB ASSOCIATION.
Entered according to act of Congress to the year 1&53.
by J. S. Thrashes, in the Clerk • offlee of the Dis
trict Conrt of the Confederate States for the Noi t hern
IJietrct of Georgia. •
Charleston, Feb. 2.
Tfee enemy have discontinued firing on
Sumter. 136 shots have been fired at the
city wince the last report up to 5 o'olock this
evening.
The sieamor Presto, Capt. Hcrrey, trout
Nasssu, 29th, in attempting to run in about 2
o'clock this morning, got ashore off Sullivan’s
Islam' and remailred immovab.e. Most of
the cargo, which was on Government acount
has been saved in good condition. The ene
my opened heavy fire on the steamer at day
light, and continued all day. It is thought
the vessel will be a total wrecl^
Orange C. H., Feb. 1.
The enemy’s cavalry, guided by a man
uamed Robinson, dashed across Robinson
river early Sunday morning and captured smo
or our pick-ts. After vid ing Madison C. H.,
and capturing the contents, they made their
way to Culpepper county. The enemy have
been busy scouting and changing canp dur
ing the past week.
Gen. Breckinridge arrived here to-day. He
is the guest of Gen. Lee.
Richmond, Feb. 1.
This evening the jury gavo in a verdict in
the case of Forde as guilty o*f murder in the
second degree, and fixed the punishment at
IS years in the penitentiary, being the full ex*
tent of the law in this State for the offence
of which he was found guilty. His counsel
have v.akeu steps to carry the case before a'
Court of Appeal.
Dalton, Feb. 2.
Official information was received here to
day that 6,000 ol Sherman’s corps, chiefly in
fantry, and some cavalry and artillery, crossed
the Teuuessee river on Jan. 29th and 30th,at
Larkin’s landing, midway between Gunter
ville and Bellefoute. It is presumed the ob
ject in to establish a depot of supplies for
future transactions.
Mobilf, Feb. 2.
A special to the Mobile Register & Adver
tiserfrom Como, Ist, says Col. James Mc-
Guirb,ofthe 3d Mississippi cavalry, entered
yesterday, and occupies it now. —
No Federals nearer than Georgetown.
Mobile, Feb 2d
Special to the Register & Advertiser.—Como,
2d.—27 transports in a!!, averaging 6,800 each,
have passed down.
Enormous three*tieroe gunboats passed down
on the 29th.
Clinton, Miss., Feb. 2d.
Enthusiastic meetings going on in Jackson’s
cavalry on re-enlisting for the war.
Morristown, Feb. Ist.
Perfect dearth of news here. Situation un
changed.
Richmond, Feb. 2.
The Hotiso went finto secret sesaion a few
moments after assembling and remained in se
cret all day. Nothing of importance transpired
in open session in the Senate.
Orangb, C. H,, Fek 2d.
Reports received here this evening from sev«
eial sources state that Eearly has captured a
force of Yankees at Petersburg, Hardy
Va., estimated at 300.
Tlie Country Running Into Barbarism
“Under the above caption the New York
Herald has a lengthy artieie on the war, from
which we exlraot the subjoined :
♦
The war originated with Abolitionists, who
hold that all slaveholders should be killed—and
radicals in the south retaliated by banging sun
dry Abolitionists. Small fractions in both sec
tions fanned the flame of civil discord until it
has reached its present tremendous proportions
and ferocious concomitants. The system of
slavery may not bo the best for the purpose In
tended—thoj agricultural development of the
south—and other might be substituted
with advantage in some communities. Bat it is
a matter that belongs to those States and com
munition alone. The North has nothing to do
with if, muoh less to rai3o a bloody hand either
to destroy or propagate it. The radical abo»
lition prints of the North aver that the rebel
chiefs have determined to murder the officers
and kill jho privates in our colored regiments.
Our chiefs retort by stopping the exchange of
prisoners and, hundreds of our fellows languish
and die of and disease in the loath
some prisocj'houses of the enemy. Horrors
multiply up jm horrors; and retaliation upon re
taliation. ifroiu one radical correspondent we
learn that oj.ir noble dead remain unburied on
tba field of t'hickamauga ; that they lie where
they fell, ajppalmg and ghastly objects; that
birds of prey settle upon the field, and swine fat
ten their way through the fallen ranks of glory !
We repeat, the war is fast the shape
of the wars of the dark ages, during the periods
of frenzied religious zeal and that the country is
rapidly running into a state of barbarism."
A Yankee Camp. —A Vioksburg correspond
dent writes:
_ -Any cno who looks at a map of Mississippi
river, can notice, just below Vicksburg, an im
mense bend, enclosing a spice of the shape of a
horse shoe, with the heels pinched close together.
Government has taken possession of the property
to establish a oamp for the collection and employ
ment of degrees. At the neck of the penii.suia,
less than a mile across, an entrenchment will be
thrown up and a suitable guard of negro troops
will bo k:pt to defend the place againrt guer
illas.
The Gulp Stream and Cold Weather.—
The Boston Courier has the following item :
A sea captain of forty years experience, lately
arrived, asserts that the Gulf Stream ia several
hundred msloa nearer our ooa-:t than usual, and
predicts a warm winter in New England, but not
at the South, ia consequence. The statement
draws support from our iate very warm sou'beast
wind, and still more from the unusually norther
ly currents, which have caused so much trouble
lately.c ft Newfoundland.
Sensible. —We take up from our pile of ex
changes, which is small to-day, six prominent
newspapers, one after another, and find them ail
destitute of what is called a leading editorial ar«
tide.—[Atlanta ll^g.
Avery se nsijble omission, if not too frequent.
The old notion that every issue ofa paper miyit
have a ‘leader,* is ridiculous and extravagant,
unless by ‘leaders' we intended complications and
mechanical compends. No daily paper that does
not employ at least a half a dozen writer? in
doors can be expected to furnish a good original
leader evt ry day, and the effortto do so has on
ly impaired and corrupted editorial utteranca and
introduced muejh of the slip shod writing agaiust
space and time, and the excessive exhibition of
adjective epithets and phrases of circumlocution
which have marred the columns of journal
ism.
No matter hoyr ably a journal was edited, its
readers will desire to see selections from other
journals. The amount or quantity of editorial
and apparently original matter, is no test of a
journal. On the other hand, journalism should
be estimated by the quantity and tone of the ed
itorials. the labor and discrimination, and appre
ciation of variety exhibited in selections, and the
matter that is kept out. Much of the labor de
voted to compiling police reports and other state
ments calculated, it not intended, to make crime
familiar or an occasion for laughter, is worse than
wasted. It is positively demoralizing to the
wr, er and readers. The best simple rule for the
a 1.-derate press is to be as little as possible
like the reigning journals of Yankeedom.
[Ch. Courier.
Local.
WANTED,
Two intelligent boys who ean read writing, at
the Telegraph offioe. Apply immediately.
Febl—d3t. _
For Chattaheoelice
The stt atner Jackson, Csptain Fiy. wilt leave for the
above and intermediate landings WEDNESDAY
morning at 9 o’clock.
feb2 id
The Ladies of ihe Soldiets' Friend Society desire
to exchange Bhecing tor blankets, to be given to the
soldiers. They give fifieen yards of sheeting, or
osnaburgs, or if preferred, all the materials for mak
ing a quilt, for a rood blanket. Bring or send your
blankets, all who cm spare them, to the Soldiers’
Home, every Tuesday morning.
The Ladies are now engaged in col'ecting supp’ies
for boxes to be sent to Gen. Longstrcet’s corps.
E. P. C.
Pres. Soldi-rs’ Friend Society.
Yesterday was as calm and bright and beau
tiful as the smile of a charming maiden. We
trust it was but the precursor of a long race of
‘•sioh.”
New Advertisements.
Mr; J. McCarthy has a house girl to hire.—
Read his advertizsment.
The Planters’ Warehouse propose to exchange
plantation iron for corn, wheal, bacon or lard.
See advertizement in another column ol three
fine cows for sale.
Capt. Wallace gives notice that no furthe r
recruiting will be allowed in this ifistriot. All
persons liable to oonscription are required to re
port to the Camp of Instruction at Maoon. Any
officer violating these orders will be arrested and
sent to camps. All interested will therefore take
due notice and govern themselves accordingly.
Remember tlte Soldier.
Remember the Soldier ! Far away ftom home
and the associations of his dear wife and tender
babes, he has much to dishearten and discour
age him, many hours of despondency, as he
broods over the hardness of his soldier lot. How
he longs for the dear sympathy of wife and
children, and the friends of home. He often
has to bear the pains Si hunger, the fatigue of
long and weary marches, the blighting frosts o l
winter, and the scorching heat of summer. We
at home, who know eomparatively little of the
horrors of war, should do all in our power to
make his lot comfortable. Remember the sol
dier with your money.
Remember the soldier in love. He is entitled
to your love. He has bourn the burden and heat
of the day for your sake. He has sacrificed the
comforts of home and the privileges of citizen
ship, as well as property, health, perhaps limb,
for the purpose'of securing to yon all that is dear
to you as American citizens. Will you lightly
esteem his sacrifices. No. Rather prove to
him by all the kindly office- in your power, that
.you appreciate his services, and that yon cannot
love him too much for the heroism he has dis
played.
Remember the soldier in gratitude. Gratitude
is one of the highest and holiest principles of the
human heart. It is based on a sense of obliga
tion to another for favors bestowed. How much
are you indebted to the soldier for all the bles
sings and privileges you now enjoy. He has
stood as a wall of defense betweon you and the
most infamous foe that ever disgraced the earth
in the records of infamy, shame and violonee. If
you now fail to accord to him meed of gratitude
you are unworthy the high prerogatives of the
free, and should fall a prey to the avarice, the
cruel hate and violence of the destroyer.
Remember tho soldier in your prayers, Shut
without the pale of religious privilege and en
joyment, he is constantly exposed to the demor
alization of camp life, liable to have his ideas
of moral principle and religious virtue subvert
ed, and by the constant presence of death, is in
danger of losing his soul. All the other evils
of’war sink into utter insignificanco in comparison
to this. The din of battle, the thunder of the
cannon, tho lurid glare of exploding sheila,
the clash of bayonets, tho volleys of musketry,
although pregnant with awful sublimity, are as
but dust in the balance in comparison to the is
sues of tho boundless eternity which lies just
ahead. The death of the body is nothing to the
loss of the soul. Therefore;'pray for the soldier,
write him good letters, send him good papers
and books, supply him with your best ministers,
and let him feel that you have proper regard both
for his body and soul.
Local Scintillations.
I- takt.' ", great deal more of true courage to
act right t-an to storm a battery. While the
mere anic 1 iustincts may prompt the latter,
there is a >■ -al power and heroigm in the form
er that is reo y sublime.
Ciree possessed the power to transform men
into hogs. To accomplish this in these days,
thero would bo very little transformation neoes
sary vn the case of many men.
The best informed peop’o now-a-days are those
who take the papers, read them carefully, and
pay the printer.
Those who are always entertaining fears of
being hung, can easily elude the hangman by
taking time by the forelock, and drowning them
selves.
The largest family in the world is the family
of fools. They seem to propogate faster and live
longer than any other class.
Our devil who has recently been jilted, has bad
his future life embittered as will be seen from the
following proverbs, which he gets off:
A lovely woman is like one of old Cyclop's
Syrens—there’s musio on htr tongue, but deceit
and death in her heart.
It is better to eat grass ir. an open field like an
ox, than to eat ihe bread of sorrow io a log cab
in, under the influence of Candle lectures and the
terrors of the broom-stick.
There’s joy in the Bunabine and honey in the
dew;
But to marry ascoldiEg wife, nary a time I’ll
do.
A poor man is as good as a rich dog, provided
he behave? himself; while a brainless fool, with
plenty of oash, ia quickly gobbled by the dwell
ers in hoop skirts.
‘ Mother, I shouldn’t be surprised if Susan
gets choked some day*"
“Why, my son ?"
“Because John Wipsy twisted his arms around
her neck the other night, and if she had not
kissed him to let go, he would have strangled
Drinking may not affect a man’s standing in
the community, but it often ,ffecis his standing
on the pavement. - “
J l ?\?* T ! iD e tOD commends- Prince Albert
Green? I** 1 ** tohiS natlVelle » and rejecting foreign
If the ant gives an example of industry, it is
much more than a good many unmes do.
Ex-Governor R F W Aliston, of South
Carolina, has presented a hand-orne thor
oughbred cavalry horse for the use of Gen
Morgan, or of any t ffieer of his command
whom he may designate.
Amende Honorable —The boy who had the
conscience to charge us for a match the other day
yesterday gave us a cigar to drop the subject!
So we have n<» further reflections to make on that
gentleman’s character. We have no doubt he’s
honest, as we never had any evidence of hi*
stealing anything larger than an elephant.
The Aimy of the Ocmnigee was discharged
from service last Saturday and £ marched out of
their camp with all the honors ot war. Al
though their winter’s campaign has not been
marked by enterprise.-, of pith and moment, we
have no doubt they have done the duties as
signed them just a8 well as veterans would have
done. What is the greatest waste of war? H u .
man health ? That is a sad waste of life? That
is the saddest of all. Money? Tho waste C ‘
money is some if not more. But the greatest
waste of war is wa?tc of time and the army 0 f
the Ocmulgee have been illustrating it.—[Macon
Telegraph,
The Army of the Chattahoochee will be mus
tered out of service in a low days. Then wake
up substitutes.
Advantages of Female Conversation
—Talk to women, talk to women as much
as you can. This is the best school. This
is the way to gain fluency. They, too, will
rally vou on many points, and, aMhey are
women, you will not be offeuded, Nothing
is < f so much importance, and of so much
to a young man entering life, as to he well
criticised by women. It is impossible to
get rid ol those thousand bad habits
which we pick up in boyhood without this
supervisi ni. Unfortunately you may have
no sisters. But never be offended if&
woman rally you. Encourage her. Other
wise you will never be free trom your awU
wardness, or any little oddities, and will
certainly neyer learn to dress.
To Hire,
A House girl. Apply to
>ieb s 4l * j. McCarty.
HD QRS ENROLLING OFFICE,
3d Congressional District, ■
February 2d, 1864.
Notice is hereby given to all Recruiting
Oilicera in this District that they are not
allowed to receive any one as a recruit be
tween the ages of 18 and 45 years. Every
man subject to conscription must go to
Camps ol Instruction lor assignment by
Maj. Harris.
Any officer violating this order will be
arrested and sent to Macon, Ga.
VV. S. WALLACE,
Capt. and Enrolling Officer.
Feb 3 lot
Enquirer copy.
Administrator’s Sale.
B'tvSw ,°V an 0 der ff , om tbc ®ourt of Ordinary ol
Taylor County, will bo sold before the Coui.
noitse door of sam county, on tlte fir.t Tuesday in
iffr?BOV| W) i t lln 1 ° legl J houra of safe, * valuable
negro RO\ by tne name ot Jacob, sixteen years old
the properly of The estate of Jambs Montgomery dec’d
ftbMM gorge 11. DAVI«
Acmr,
PLANTATION IRON
WILL be exchanged for Corn. Wheat, Bacon ot
Laid,at PLANTER'S WAREHOUSE
laoiumbus, Ga., Feb. 3d, lw
C 03STCERT. ~
5jU BCOiUimV. CHASE, „‘f !Wl
Xf-B. Od., Colquitt h Brigade.would respecttuliy an
by Beverai hu-dea and gentlemen
of ilie city, be wiu give a Con.ert ior" the benefit of
his regiment on 01
Thursday Evening, 4th of February
Tickeu can be had at Mr. Spear’s Jewelry Store,
for sale.
Sj a! n v i.V' UCLE CAdE gold watches.
leli 1 il 1 K * STANFORD
FOR SALE
r P i i“ G ,S sin s <;ovvs with young Calves. One
,i«™ aa d seven pigs. Also a sprightly negro
boy, 1 1 years old, to hite, Apply at
letl a 11 THIS OFFICE,
AUCTION SALES.
By ELLIS, LIVINGSTON & CO.
ON THURSDAY, 4ih February, at 11 o’clock we
wit; sell in from of our store,
A Fine Military Suit
OF CRENSHAW CASSIMGRE, light blue frock
s?x feeUugh. 18 ' nol made cul f - r » man about
leu 3 ids * #3
By ELLIS, LIVINGSTON &Tco^
(\N THURSDAY 9th of February, at 11 o’clock
\J we win sell m from of our store,
9 ELEGANT AND NEARLY NEW VELVET
Ta EsTR\ CaRpeTS; fitting rooms 18 by SO feet.
ALSO,
A VEFY L KELY Ni GROBOY; 2? vears old
for kIUU ° f Vt:r y intelligent. Bold
41 boxes Tobacco,
9 ooxes Choice Sugar.
_ Feb 1 tda 850
By ELLIS, LIVINGSTON & CO.
Valuable Plantation at Auction.
ON Tuesday, the 9ih February, at II o’clock w
will selj in from of our Store— Clock, we
desirable location tom erlv ownpil hv ind
s ro Z",i%Tc d Tl?"‘ ; 3 *°" h d *-
of water and two very bold S h , ! d \.& ood well
of water at conv, VoT. P"*'*
tf.e plantation. Within one mile of!?, 5 r‘ er ■° n
e 7e'ii-V“& ••»“«*“y **■ VMuSf’ *
By ELLIS, LI VINGSTON & CO.
o'clock we
wiri ben in front u> our htorc,
(tb'i e -Sl f,ne 8°4 t 0 Bugey and llarnfeßa -
By ELLIS, LIVINGSTON & CO.
Desirable Residence and Farm
AT
AUCTION.
we
303 3-4 Acres Land, 4 miles East of
vvoous ' 90 ™ *5
«,.?h thP P re ("ises ii agoed dwelling 6 room* closets
jun 59 td 833
By ELLIS, LIVINGSTON efr CO.
Admicistrator’s Sale
OF VALUABLE CITY PROPERTY
()*snTd 'ESI>A\.February 9th, at 11 o'clock, will be
room WU f ulot EU.S, Livingston & Co’s, auction
The Store House, No. 36,
situated on the east side of Broad greet, at present
occupied by the Confederate stales (lolling Depart
ment. Sold as the property of John Warren dec’d
„„ - JAS W. wakren. *
( Jan 56id 828 *► Adoi’r.
WAi¥TJED
I*'Sf bli ‘ lfe of J*e year a healthy negro W'O-
I MAN accustomed to farm work, without huuiu.
T,rm.ee Apply at THIS OFFICE