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Conventions.
Some of the presses of the State propose
Conventions to select candidates for office. It
is time to drop that machinery and leave the
choice of men to the vote of the people.
B@“Hon. Geo. D Rice has been appointed
Commissioner for Cobb County, to receive
subscriptions to the Confederate loan.
Suspicion* Persons.
All persons coming from the Lincoln States
arc properly objects of suspicion. We are
pleased to learn that our Citv Council con
template proper steps tor testing the true
character of any Northern strangers who
may reach this city. It is but a just measure
ot self preservation. No spies should be
:e i t the country requires
that no to
wards the confederate government oltaaail
part of any resident n > matter where has
been his birth-place. If a man should be
found with tory proclivities claiming to have
been born at the South, he should be looked
after by the proper authorities. But stran
gers from the North have no excuse for com
ing among us at this crisis, sufficient to re
lieve them from the duty of giving a satis
factory account of themselves. As a mere
matter of justice we wdl add we have entire
confidence in the loyalty of the large majority
of our resident citizens of Northern origin.
Gov. Brown.
We have been among those who desired
that Gov. Brown should serve the State for a
third term. He has made one of the very
Lest Governors that Ge<rga has ever had.—
Before the people he would to day receive a
larger number of votes than any other man.
But we do n)t suppose that G v. Brown de
sires a re-election, lie uld not add to his
reputation. His 1.-ea ih lias been seriously’
impaired by the ardu us and exhausting la
l> irs and the heavy and weari ig responsioili
ties of the office. Another term would i a'l
probability destroy his health beyond hope cf
recovery. It should not be required of him.
If Georgia mus't have the use and advantage
. vs his talents there are other honorable po
sitions within her gift in which he can serve
the State without the sacrifice of health.—
Still we believe that if the ] e< pie of Georgia
reip’ire it of him, no personal considerations
will Weigh ■with Gov. Brown, to prevent his
yielding to their call.
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Ihe next Governor.
From the Charleston Courier, we copy a ;
list of the names of those win. have been pro '
jxised as stkess rs to Gov. Brown. Among
twsm there are several who would be entirely
aceeptabie'to us-aiid n< lie more so than a dis
tinguished citizen of Marietta. We know
not whether he desires or would accept the
position. But we d > k; o.v that no man in
the State is better qua'ilie t I y sound ju-ig
ntct.t, enlarged tiews, treedim 1T- m prejudi
ces, high integrity, great business capacity
■and untiring industry .han Gen. Andrew J.
Hansell. Gen. 11. has not been u seeker j
•after office, and will not be now. But among
the eminent men of the State who would till
the executive chair with ability and dignity
he is one of the foremost.
The Lincoln War.
The most ultra Southern man cannot but
be amazed at the demoniac spirit that posses
ses and sways tlfe mass of the people of the
•North as well as the Lincoln government.—
The warmest admirer and euL gist of the old I
Union cm.not help rtj icing that the South- i
era States have cut themselves loose from the
worse than dead carcass of Northern corrup- ’
tion and abomination. This Lincoln and ;
Seward war is but the c n-innati m of the \
John Brown war. The abolitionized North
was before in hostility to us. The abolition
ized de.-potism of Line* hi is now pushing on i
the John Brown raid aod repeating the Ku,.- |
sas atrocities. Jim Lune and Montgomery j
had Seward and Lice In first as secret ac- i
complices. N w they are open allies. i
It will not be denied that the act- of hostil
ity persistently repeated against the South
ern people, by the dominate and controlling •
party of tl>e North, would, as between one
foreign nation and another, have led, long be
fore April, 1861, to a declaiation of war by
the injured and aggrieved party. But the
Southern people, ever forbearing, only rea
soned and remonstrated against these repea
ted attacks upon the peace, the safety, th’-i ex
istence of socra! order. Lincoln, himself, a
■candidate for the elective ruler.-hip over us,
proclaimed opinions, and declared object's so
inimical to the South, that he was actually
afraid to trust his person and life in a South
ern community. So ch arly had he, ab an
■avowed abolitioni-t, made him-elf an outlaw,
that if caught in a S ■utheiTi State, while a
Candidate for the Presidency, lie would, like
any other open, and known abolit.oiiist, Lave
been hung upon the nearest tree. The pre
sent war is nothing but a coalinuali-m <A the
War long since waged against us. The same
spirit, now animates the abolition administra
tion which then ruled the ab dition North.
We meet now in the open field, the enemy
that before under the guise of friendship
tnade the most deadly assaults upon us. Can
We be grateful enough to that Providence that
has decreed our separation, final and forever
from a secret foe, that seemed to hold its mis
bioil to be that of plundering and deceiving,
oppressing And tyrannizing over, and at the
same tilne devastating and destroying the
South ?
Itleli *ll Names.
The her ds of the Lincoln government are
rich in names. Never before; in the history
of modern times, has this or any other coun
try, St. Domingo not executed; presented such
an array as Hannibal and Abraham, Gahtsha I
and Gideon, ''almon and Simon and Caleb.— !
•Poor Edward Bates and William Seward and !
'Francis Blair of course help to heathenise ‘
and Africanise such an assortment as con- 1
temptible in their origiq, us they are despica-
Ue for their felly and odious in their villainy.
The Lincoln War.
The Chronicle & Sentinel says : We have
all been more or less befogged by the simple
fact that we regarded our enemies in the light
of rational human l» ings, influenced, it. is true,
by the passions and frailties commin to hu
man nature, but open too, we thought, to the
arguments of sell interest, it not to the kind
lier emotions of humanity.
But what now ? War, war, war—nothing
but war. We have got to whip the tight, or
bee.ii r, r>ninatal — subjugated, conquered mere
ly, we do not intend to be. We can tn! more
see the future than others: and the best ad
vice wo can give, b> cause the safest, is to
make up all our minds for the bitterest and the
bloodiest fight the world ever saw. We do
not say this is certainly coming, for perhaps
it may not; but we may prepare for it, and
give every other consideration to the winds’
Captain W. W. White.
With great pleasure we have read an ex
tract from a member of the Cobb Mountain
eers, paying a just tribute to the merits t f
Capt. White. The writer says, that he “stands
as high as any Captain in the regiment, and
our Company ranks A. No. 1., which has
been accomplished by our Captain’s untiring
perseverance.’’ The writer states that should
he fall in battle it would be difficult to supply
his place.
Tin- X«-w Const it lit lon.
From tin Milledgeville Recorder of Tues
day we learn that the vote- polled, in all but
"thirteen counties, make only a total of 20,615
—anaHiTCt~th o re is at present only 161 ma
jority iti favor of^rMiljgatmn—leaving it very
doubtful as to the final result.
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Reprisals.
We agree with the Griffin States and Atlan
ta Intelligencer that our government should
protect itself by looking after the stock in the
Macon & Western Road held by alien ene
mies and all similar cases.
Good Yield of Wheat •
Mr. B. W. Dunahoo of this county informs
us that from two acres of his manured upland
he measured eighty bushel-of wheat. Immedi
ately after taking off his wheat, Mr. D., put
the ground in corn which is now very promis
ing.
First Regiment li Virginia.— We learn that
the First Georgia Regiment of Regulars, now
stationed at Tyhee Island, has been ordered
to Virginia forthwith. It is under the com
mand of C. J. Williams, and is a fine body of
soldiers.
&E-L. The Portsmouth Va., correspondent
of the Richmond Examiner, says: A Pistol
Factory has been started tn this city by a
Southern mechanic, native of Portsmouth,
Mr. Thomas Godwin. He is the inventor of
a nine-barreled rifle revolving, farsuperior in
range to Coll’s, which are being turned out
in great perfection. They are deadly wea
pons at a distance greater than the army
muskets. He will, soon commence the man
ufacture i f rilles and a variety of other arms.
It is another enterprise which owes its exis
tence to our separation from the North. No
doubt, when the merits of these invent - ! ns
are fully kn iwn, Government will find it
b th matter of interest and necce-sitv to be
supplied from this factory.
An Excitement in New Jersy.— The Newark
Advertiser says :
Some time during Saturday night last an
effigy of President Lincoln was suspended on
a liberty pole in Rahway, New Jersey and
upon being discovered Sunday m >rning occa
sioned great excitement aomongthe towns peo
ple. Several eff >rts were made to take down
the effigy, but the perpetrators of the act had
greased the pole so that nobody coulu climb it
and it had finally to be ent down.
The Washington corespondents of the North
ern papers say treason is loudly spoken ip the
streets of the metropolis. Os late it is much
b dder and insolent. These patriotic worthies
are astonished at what they hear, and call
Justly for vigorous measures of repression.
They say the increased audacity of the trait
ors argues either a plot against th Govern
ment or the expectation of speedy help from
some of Jeff. Davis’s armies. We infer that ‘
the tyrants tremble continually for theirlives •
It is some comfort tn honest people to know •
that these wretches are suffering f. r the vill
aitiy they have wrought.
“I am for the Union, and I am just as good I
a Southern man as any body.” Thus saith one '
of the few Lincolnites left as monuments of '
Southern mercy in Nashville. The assertion 1
involves an itnppossibilhy. Whosoever is for '
Union is against the South. It is sheer by- '
pocri-y to profess to be for both. One might 1
as weH say he is for God and the Devil.
[ Venn. Pat.
Ginger Wine.—To twelve pounds sugar,
add eighteen quarts of water, four ounces of
the best Jamaica ginger, bruised well. Slice
the peel of four lemons, take all and boil it
f>r three quarters of an hour, taking off the
scum as it rises. Put it into a tub when luke
warm and add three quarters o a spoonful of
yeast, the juice of f >ur lemons, and one pound
of raisins, chopped. Put it into the case, let
it stand a fortnight', stirring every day, then
add a quart of brandy and one ounce of isin
glass. Stop it down and it will be fit to bot
tle in six weeks.
Five Hundred More “Fugitive Slaves.
A gentleman who has just arrived ftom
Gloucester county, informs us that the Abo
litionist?! at Fortress Monroe have stolen as
many aS five hundred negroes from those
localities, which are forthwith to be yefit oft'
to Cuba for sale. They do not recognize the
negroes as property, they say, but the South
erners do, therefore the “fugitives” are to be
disposed of in order to help to pay die
expenses of “putting down the rebclioii.”
The depredations of the barbarians are so
great that families are moving awy in horror
and alarm.— Richmond Disjmtch.
Mr, Geo. W, Summers, a bank clerk,
Who during his sojourn in Augusta, Ga.,
gave information to the enemy, recently
vamosed to escape arrest on the charge of
treason. He is stopping at a hotel in this
city wo are informed.— Lou. Con.
Mr. Summers was for half a life time an I
honored and respected citizen of Augusta, to
which place he emigrated from the North
whilst yet a young man. Phy that ho ruined
hits good name, and exiled himself, by sym
pathizing with the Fi'dernl Government, in
stead of the people who had supported and
honored him I— Naeh.
FROM VIRGINIA.
[For the Marietta Advocate.]
Camp Pickens, Manassas Junction.
July 6th, 1861.
Mr. Hunt—
Dear Sir: — Your readers may perhaps be
interested in a few items from this now re
nowned point, though 1 must refrain from
mentioning many things ol interest—obeying
the behest of the authorities in that mutter.
Manassas is simply, when not a camp, a
smtill Hail Road station, boasting of one tav
ern and a few other Imuses. Said tavcni at
which I am now stopping is filled to over
flowing, and one must get along here as
best lie may ; ignoring to a great extent the
conveniences of civilized life.
The white tents of the soldiers are scatter
ed in every direction around here. There is
no Georgia regiment stationed at this point
but the South Carolinians are only a fe w miles
distant. Yesterday a large fine regiment
from Louisiana arrived, and the urea imme
diately before me for many acres is coveted
with their tents and flags. Every evening
there is a dress parade for each regiment, and
it is quite a show for one unaccustomed to the
appearance of large bodies of troops. The
drum major, fantastically uniformed, with his
flourishes ami theatrical airs, is the observed
of all observers until Beauregard rides up,
which he often docs. Ger. Beauregard seems
in very go.al health, lie lias a quick nervous
manner and air, and seems impressed with
the responsibilities which devolve upon him.
He is a slim spare man, of medium height,
and wears a black mustache. You would
take him for a Frenchman as soon as you
saw him. He left this morning on a visit to
Fairfax Station—our outpost —and nine miles
distant from here.
We have certain news to day that the ene
my are advancing—advancing on Fairfax.—
There is therefore every probability of a light
here very so.m. Our boys i.re anxious to
meet the foe and will give a good account of
themselves. For several weeks past some
three or four thousand of the enemy have
been located at Falls Church ten miles from
Alexandria and only five from Fairfax Court
House where a number ol our regiments are
located. The last intelligence by our scouts
is that the Federals are now a mile or two
this side of Fails Church, and that their force
at th s last named place is constantly aug
mented. The sick, women and children of
the village of Fairfax Court House have just
passed through this camp on the Rat! Il ad
to be out of the way of cannon balls and’ bul
lets. The univeral belief here is that a fight,
and perhaps a great fight, one which is to
bear for weal or woe upon the destinies of
our country, is to come off immediately. Pro
bably within a week of this time these plains
will be strewn with the mangled bodies of
thousands of the dead and wounded! Yet
among our soldiers all is gaiety and careless
ness. Our poor fellows suffer greatly from
heat. There has been a drought here and
the weather is exceedingly hot. Clouds of
dust sweep o>er the tents and fill the air, and
there is no shade from the burning rays of
the sun. What privations anti toils our sol
diers undergo ! You can have no idea of it
till it is seen. Wnat a debt of gratitude we
owe them!
Prisoners are brought in here daily. While
eating supper lasi night one was ushered in
under the bayonets of the Guard and seated
by my side. I was not prepossessed by the
Yankee’s appearance, lie says that the ene
my are resolved upon immediate fighting.—
Amen. Here at Camp Pickens, lam only
about twenty miles from that villain Abe Lin
coin and bis hordes of Hessians. K.
From the Chronicle & Sentinel.
From Laiik-i l Hill-—-Letter froni the Augusta
Volunteer j.
We are kindly permitted to give our read
ers the following extracts from a private let
ter from Lieut. Allen, of the Oglethoipe In
fantry, which will be found to embrace some
particulars of interest:
Laurel Hill, Va., July 9, P. M.
Dear : I have only’ returned to camp
s me hour or two since, feeling very well in
deed, considering what we have been through
to day. About seven o’clock this morning
four ci mpahies of the Regiment were ordered
our, to occupy a hili, opposite the one men
tioned in my two lust. The 0. 1. was one of
the companies. I was officer of the day, and
had charge of the camp, but I could not see
the c mpany go without me; so I went to our
Colonel ami asked him to let me off. lie said
no, and that be desired me to remain. How
ever, I could not be satisfied ; and finding a
Lieutenant of another company who was will
ing to serve for me as officer of the day, 1 put
out with the boys. We went to the hill, and
there remained until after dinner hour, ex
changing shots between our scouts and theirs
—ours at the bottom of the hill, concealed,
theirs in a meadow, a long way off, and in
main, out of reach of our muskets. No one
hurt on our side—some repotted shot on the
part of the enemy. Their balls whistled ex
tensively over our heads, striking the trees in
all directions. About two o’clock a tremen
dous rain came on, lasting about two hours.
We were all thoroughly drenched.
After the up, all at once we heard
the report of a cannon, and !o«king up, I saw
the ball strike some distance to aur right.—
Pretty soon another followed, accompanied
with a sharp whizzing sound, and followed by
a tremendous report over our position. A
Lomb-sbcll I Our men at once sheltered them
selves, and took it easy. As shell followed
shell, we all became used to them, and amused
ourselves counting them. Soon we heard an
other report in a different direction, and awav
went a shell towards our camp, from another
battery. Shell followed shell towards the
camp on naurel Hill, but not one reached it
or did any execution. Pretty soon we heard
our rifle cannon open, with a lotid r'eport, up
on the enemy’s position followed by a tre
mendous shout from those at camp. Our
hearts leaped with joy, and We longed to give
a hearty shout, but could not. The enemy
fired no more afler our first shot, but ceased
immediately, and all has been quiet since.—
Our battery fired some ten shots, theirs, some
thirty shell.
July 10th, A. M.
Wo had orders last night to get tip at two
o’clock, which we did, and took to the tren
ches, and we have just come back to camp.—
Gen. Gurnet says vve can hold our position
against four times our number. At six o’clock
we shift our tents out of view of their batter
ies, moving round the base of the hill. Noth
ing has been heard from our Northern foes
since yesterday afternoon in the way of firing.
Their sharpshooters have stopped entirely,
■and evcrytbiiig is as quiet this morning as
though nothing bad happened.
The bombardment yesterday was very in
teresting and exciting, and I sat down in the
woods and watched the effect of the shots fired
nt the camp. The noise of the shells going
through the air became really musical. So
far, since the “fuss” began Sunday morning,
we have lost only one man killed, (a Virgin
ian,) two Virginians wounded, (not mortally,)
ami one Georgian wounded—Allen, of the
Walker L. I.—who is doing well. Jos. Dough
ty shot one ol the Yankee scoundrels on Sun
day morning. The 0. I. have bbhatfed very
coolly, and are anxioUs to come within gnu
shot of the foe, and you may be assured all
will do their duty.
It was an using yesterday, to hear the Fed
eral troops hallooing at us, they being some
700 yards off, with guns (Minie muskets) that
could reach us. and ours not being able to do
execution over two hundred yards. They
would shout, “hurrah for Indiana !” and curse
us as d—d rebels. Brave fellows, they—
they take good care not to come near us, and
Sunday morning they ran like sheep down
the hillside. We are expecting reinforce
ments today or to morrow; ouc Alabama,
one Georgia, and one Virginia regiment.
We have just received orders to go off o:.
the Beverly road, the way we came here, to
blockade it and make it secure. There are
no Federal troops on the Beverly road, but
our move is for precaution.
Skirmish at Newport News.—On Thurs
day hist, a detachmaiit of cavalry ■wererecon
noitering on the Warwick road, six miles from
Newport News, at a place called Lee’s St‘‘re.
They discovered a party of the enemy and
forthwith attacked them killing four and ta
king a number of prisoners. One was shot
in a tree, and the way lie came to terra Jlrma
is said to have outstriped all previous ideas
of speed. The killed and captured are said to
be German. The only damage sustained by
our cavalry was the loss of one horse, owned
by Mr. Wilcox, of the Charles City Troop.
The enemy would doubtless have been all cap
tured, but for the fact that they were smart
enough to retreat to a newly ploughed field,
where the horses of the Cavalry could not cuc
cessfully pursue them. This account is brought
by a gentlemen justfrom the Penninsula, and
is authentic.— Richmond Dispatch, \bth.
£@“'T|;e Baris letter which we publish this
morning, from the New York Herald, is im
portant, as showing the conviction which is
rapidly being forced on the minds of the
Northern people, that, “all the world and the
rest of mankind” are not going to join them
in their mad ciusade against the South, and
that European nations will gladly avail them
selves of the advantageous commerce with the
South, of which they so long enjoyed a mo
nopoly, but which they, in their blind fanati
cism, were incapable of appreciating.
The Northern press is evidently in a great
state of alarm for fear England and France
will acknowledge the independence of the
Confederate States before Abe Lincoln’s ar
mies are able to crush us. The Herald sees,
in the growing friendliness of these govern
ments towards the South, a premeditated de
sign on their part to dcstrov popular govern
ment on this continent, and suggests that no
time should be lost and no means spared in
subduing us at once; or, says the soulless po
litical Swiss, ‘failing i t that, we should com
promise with the S-mlli and uinti against
England and France for the maintainance of
Republican institutions.” How little must
the creature know of the sentiment of the
Southern people or of the impulses of true
manhood to suggest such an alternative. We
think we speak the feeling of the great ma
jority of the Southern people, when we say
that in a conflict between English Monarchy,
French Imperialism anti Black Republican
Despotism, their sympathies would not be
with the latter. If our Nori hern enemies
should to whip England or France,
or both, because they will not help them to
“crush us out,” they may be very sure that
we will not help them to do it. We are no
monarchist, but if Georgia had to be “coerced
and subjugated,” and we were allowed to
choose between becoming a colony of England
or France, or a member of the Black Repub
lican Union, we wc-uld beat no loss to decide
in favor of the former. Our separation and
alienation is “complete, perfect, and perpetu
al.”—Sav. News.
Hurrah for the War!—Hurrah for the
war ! Let’s make a little infamous history !
Let’s smash up things generally and return
civilization on its tracks a thousand years.—
Let’s show the “rebels” and the rest, of the
world that we have a government, by tearing
down the Constitution and setting up a mili
tary dictatorship, that shall have the property,
liberty and life of the citizen at its exclusive
disposal. Let’s get all the preachers to quit
preaching the gospel of peace, and go to rant
ing out devastation, and •slaughter, over all
the land. Let’s shut up all the churches;
turn al! the schools into recruiting stations;
drive justice from her temples ; knock off the
wheels of trade ; pluck out the wings of com
merce ; till all our fields with weeds, and
everywhere “cry havoc and let slip the dogs
of war,” and if an unawed citizen speaks a
word, or prints an appeal, for peace, call him
“traitor,” “villain,” “worm” and threaten to
“riddle him with bullets,” and “stretch his
neck,” and “pitch his office into the street.”
There now, if that isn’t a sufficient endorse
ment of this barbarous civil war, we want Mr.
Wickizer to get appointed censor general of
all the newspapers and tell us what is.—
\Rloomington (III.) Times.
An Honest Admission.-—A reliable gentle
in m jnit from the Confederate camp at York
town, informs us that he had a conversation
with one of the poor, miserable, thieving Yan
kees, now under the treatment of Dr. Hynes,
Surgeon of the First Regiment North Carolina
troops, who was woun ed in the battle at Beth
el Church, in which he acknowledged unit he
had no object in coming down to shoot our
people only to procure employment. He said
when the fight caffie on ho was very much dis
appointed and scared, and that ho actually
fainted, and as soon as he recovered his sen
sibility he got over the fence and laid down
and kept himself tis close to the ground as
possibile and that while in that position he
received the minie ball in his shoulder dnd
arm, which hits thoroughly disabled him for
service during the War.—[zVeicdern (N C.)
Progress.
They Can’t Dodge.—Northern owners of
Southern stocks are making efforts to render
them available or securely transferring them
to parties at, the South, by private arrango
inants between themselves. The Attorney
General of Louisiana liaS informed the Presi
dent of Hit Mechanics’ and Tradero'Bank of
New Orleans, in answer to n letter received
from him, that all such transfers arc illegal
and criminal.
TELEGRAPHIC.
Louisville, July 16.—Missouri papers da
ted 3d inst, three days distant from the seat
of war, place the belligerents as follows :
State forces, three columns of 10,000 men
each. That under .Jackson advancing towards
Jefferson city. Those under Rains and Par
sons, and under Price a> d McCulloch have
diiven the concentrated Federal forces into
the neck of laud between Warsaw and Os
cola.
Capt. Burbage killed thirty and captured
150 Federalists in Cedar county, Neosho.
The prisoners, after subscribing to some
kind of an oath were released.
Young men are leaving in tens and hun
dreds for the rendezvous in the Western part
es the State.
Gov. Jackson’s followers are bold and de
fiant.
Washington. July 16.—The bogus Vir
ginia Senators have been sworn in.
In the House a resolution to adjourn on
Friday has passed.
The Senate passed n resolution authorizing
the Secretary of the Navy to t niploj - the nec
essary means to protect the U. S. Commerce
against privateers.
A resolution to adjust the present difficul
ties bv a convention was tabled l y a vote of
92 to 5.
J. W. F< rney Las been elected Secretary of
the Senate.
The army approf nation bill has passed the
Senate.
The Senate Lili ir.creasing the military es
tablishment, to be reduced at the option of
Congress has passed.
The House bill defining and providing a
penally for conspiracy has passed.
Seward has issued a reclamation to the
Spanish Government for the surrender of the
Sumter’s prizes.
Lord Lyons lias called the attention of the
Government to the fact that private parties
have been allowed to run the Chesapeake
blockade.
New Y' ork, July 16.—Advices from Havana
say that tl.e Sumter brought six j rizes
into Cuban ports. The Cuban authorities
will bold the prizes until advices from Spain
are received.
The Sumter was ordered to sea.
Richmond, July 17.—Passengers from the
i eigLLorhi ed of Rich Mountain and Laurel
Hill differ n.atcrially is reports concerning
the recent engagiment. Some assert posi
tively that Col. Pegram was neither killed or
take prisoner, others state directly to the
reverse. Si me state that Garnett was not
killed and that the Georgia Regiment were
not prisoners, and others state to the reverse.
Suspense must c< ntiuue until rellalle in
foi mati< n is-1 btained. John S. Coleman, of
Augus.a, Ga., is appointed Assistant Surgeon
of Virginia Cavalry.
The following letter on the Bulletin Bi.aid
of the Riehtm nd Dispatch-, addressed to the
mother of Col. Pegram, who resides in Rich
mond :
Green Brier River, July I3th.
Mrs. Gen. Pegram:
Col. Pegram was not hurt or injured in the
battle of Rich M< untain. We parted after
the fight. He lias gone to join Gen. Garnett’s
command. I deeply iegret that you should
nave been annoyed by the report of his fall.
I remain the warm friend of your noble son.
NAT. TYLER.
Prevalent and apparently well founded
opinion is, that Col. Ramsey’s First Georgia
Regiment is safe and not prisoners,
Jefferson City, July 17, —Four thousand
Missourians are gathering at Georgetown,
with three pieces of artillery. The people
arc flocking to the standard of the State.
Fortress Monroe, July 17.—The London
Times, on the responsibility of Mr. Russell,
says that the American camp is worse than
the Crimean.
Washington, July 18. —The Iliuse has
passed a bill calling out the militia to sup
press the rebellion. The militia will be dis
charged in sixty da}’ after the next Congress,
unless Congre.-s otherwise directs,
The five hundred thousand military bill,
with Semite amendments, passed, and an ad
ditional amendment, that the President select
Brigadier out of the Major Generals from the
regulars to command the volunteers, who will
assume their present rank at the end of the
war.
Louisville, July 17.—Garnett’s forces
numbered 5,000, those of McClellan’s 22,000
in three columns. Morris had flanked the
Southerners on the North, McClellan on the
South with Rosencrantz approaching in front.
The Southerners stood their giouml to the
last possible moment of safety. The retreat
must have been admirably managed as the
Federalists had no opportunity of using
small arms, so well was the rear guarded,
although in retreat they were outflanked
twice by the convergent columns. But 20
were killed at last accounts. Confederates
were retreating towards St. George.
The Federalists hope that Gen. Hill now
at Oakland Mill, will harrass the Confederates
in their retreat towards Hardy county.
It must be remembered that the Confeder
ates have kept McClellan’s columns in cheek
for weeks.
Richmond, July 16.—Inteligcnt passengers
by this evenings tritin state the following
companies were in Gen. Pegrain’S command
at the bittlo of Rich Mountain: Upshur
Grays, Captain Higginbotham—all the com
missioned officers in this company were kill
ed except the captain ; Lee Guards, Captain
Irvin, six or eight killed ; Rockbridge Rifles.
Captain Curry, five or six killed ; a email
portion of Capt. De Lanier’s Petersburg Ar
tillery were engaged, all were killed or wound
ed; De Lanier Was bayonetted at his cannon,
and two of the Upshur Grays shot his slayers
instantly dead. Another cbinpany probably
from Hardy or some other eastern county,
Were engaged.
It is impossible to obtain satisfactory de
tails to satisfy the anxious and pAiriful
hbarts <if thousands of relatives and friends’
All the coffipanies engaged were from Vir
ginia.
Beverly was taken posse sion by tlib Fed
cralson Friday at noon. The Confederate
stores were nearly all saved from the vandals.
Gnrnetl's death is confirmed, but little is
otherwise known in regard t'dhis command or
Ihe battle. The reporter has labored dili
gently to obtain sohi'e particiihir.s in regard
to the fight at L iiurel Hill, but finds it impos- I
ible t? obtain any reliable acc ?uute.
Richmond, July 14.—0 u Thursday a de
tachment of Confederate cavalry encountered
d detachment of the enemy, six miles from
Newport News, killing four and taking twelve
prisoners.
A letter will appear in Ricluriond Despatch,
of to-morrow, dated Lnurel Hill, Jufy 7, says:
We have had another fi'ght and the Confeder
ate troops were successful. Before day-break
this morning our troops were aroused by the
firing of the picket guard ; abd’tft daylight
another volley was heard about a mile off.—
The excitement was increased by the rapid
movement of the First Georgia regiment of
infantry, and the cavalry. The Georgia regi
ment hold the enemy in cheek and kept the
fire up until 3 o’clock, P. M., killing and
wounding many of the Federalists. At three
o’clock the Georgians retired and their posi
tion was occupied by other regiments;
Another letter to the Dispatch, dated Lau
rel Hill, 9th, referring to the continued fight
ng, says the gallant Geoigians under Col.
Ramsey again engaged the enemy early on
Monday morning, and kept up a continuous
fire until a late hour of the diy, when they
left the ground without a man kille l or in
jured.
The Lynchburg Republican of to morrow
will state that on Wednesday morning a skii
mish occurred about 12 miles from Winches
ter, in which two Federalists were fcifteef and
three taken prisoners. The Confederates were
uninjured.
Nothing of interest from Manassas, Alex
andria or other points.
The Governor, under a requisition from the
Secretary of War, lias issued his proclamation,
calling into immediate service the militia of all
the counties north of James river and cast of
the Blue Ridge, as well as the militia in the
valley north of James river.
The Cincinnati Enquirer of the 10th con
firms the capture of three companies of Fed
eralists by O. Jennings Wise.
The enemy now occupy Phillipa, Buchan
non, Beverly and Bellington, which the En
quirer thinks may hem in General Wise’.
Richmond, July 15.—Reports brouglthere
by passengers relative tn the fight at Rich
Mountain on Thusdny, tirU confused and un
reliable, and every way unsatisfactory. One
passenger in high official position, states that
only three companies of Confederated under
Col, Pegram were engaged with the Feder
a s.
The loss of the Confederate in killed was
30 or 40, Col. Pegram was seriodsly wourfd
ed and taken prisoner. About 300 Federals
are reported k lied. A number of Cimfeder
i ate troops who were supposed killed or ta
ken prisoners, have reached their camp unin
jured.
Baltimore, July 16. Henry May has re
turned. He reports the confidence of the Con
federate leaders in their ultimate success as
unbounded.
Several newspaper reporters are in Patter
s.m’s guard-house.
Cincinnati, July 16.—A special dispatch
to the Gazette, says that Laurel Hill was ev
acuated by the Confederates on the night of
the 11th. They wire overtaken by the ad
vanced Federal forces on the 12th, when ttie
rear showed battle to cover the retreat at the
next ford. Gen. Garnett was killed. Col.
Ramsay, of Georgia, succeeded Garnett,
when the pursuit ceased. The result of the
whole affair is the camp at Laurel Hill, with
its equipage, forty baggtlge wagons, field
chests, two regimental banners four Georgia
captains and lieu'enahts were cap'tured;
General Garnett killed and twenty of bis
men. Gen. Garnett’s body is at head quar
ters, awaiting orders from Richmond.
New Orleans, July 16.—C01. Dreux's re
mains were conveyed to their last resting
place yesterday afternoon. The procession
eclipsed everyrliing yet seen here. The
line of march, from the starting point to
the cemetery, was thronged with people,
The ceremonies were most solemn and im
pressive.
Cincinnati, July 16.—Several boats, with
the Ist and 2d bogus Kcntu ky regiments cn
beard, are going up the Kunawhut Colonel
Woodruff’s regiment was landed a mile below
Guynndotte.
A company of Virginia horse left on the
approach of the invadbrs.
Woodruff arrested twenty citizens and kill
ed one.
Fire at Buckhead.—The Depot and a large
quantity of dry wood at Buckhead, on the
Georgia Railroad, were burned on Monday
night—in consequence of which the passen
ger train, with four Companies of the Twelfth
Regiment Georgia Volunteers, due here at 10
A. M., did not arrive until 12 M. yesterday.
Atlanta Con.
following officers, of the 11th Regi
ment, were ilec'cl yesterday:
A. V. Brum y, Georgia Military Institute,
Colonel; W. S. llam-ny, of the Blackshear
Guards, Laurent county. Lieutenant Colonel;
Felix Price, of tl.e Jifi. Davis Infantry; Butts
county, Majar.— lb.
The Wilmington, N. C., Journal says that
L : eut. Crossan, of North tjiirolhid Navy,
ma le another fine capture bn Friday or
Saturday. He got hohrof another sugar ves
sel and carried it into Hatteras inlet.
Charleston, July 10.—A special agent is
here, also a brother of Captain Biiker of the
Savannah, whohaVc just returned from Rich
mond. They state that President Davis has
officially notified Mr. Lincoln, that the lives
of two Federal officers, now confined, will be
forfeited by each One of the Savannah’s crew
condemned.
-
The Mobile “Advertiser” of the 3J instant
says: “ We have for some days had positive
information that the Soul hern Confederacy j
willLo recognized by both England anil
France, on the most favorable terms, Within
it lbw mouths;”
■
Thb supply of water of Fort Pickens bus
been cut uhd the federal inmates have
noiv to go fifty miles i idbtdin that indispens
able article. We presume that thia also will
be cut off at an early day,
PoiVder MiLl In Carter County, MifeS.—
From the Jonesboro (Miss.) Express we
learn that Sir. A. B; Dodgion, of Carter
County, in that State, has erected a iiiill and
will be ready to manufacture powder in a
f< w days. Plenty of salt petrels found in the
c:ivc« iti Carter. A large sup dy of lead can
al-o bo procured in that county.
Rhubarb Wine.— To every one and a half
pounds of Rhubarb when bruised well, put
one quart of boiled water; let it stand four
days, stirring three times a day. To every
gallon of jtjice put three and a half pounds of
lump sugar, and to every twenty quarts, two
of brandy. Barrel it direct)vmid let it stand
twelve a’vnthe.'
New State.— W6 have hoard but'little in
the last few days in regard to the new Btqto
of Franklin. The excitement on that Mibjevt
has to a great extent subsided. The echemo
; of the leaders to fix Up a srjiall government,
for their own special benefit does not se<m t<l'
' take with the people. Wo are sure that the
citizens of 1 >wer East To”.iiea’'e<j
are utterly oppossed to tho whole thing. We
i could namerfniiny citizens svho, we understand
I have no hesitancy in exppressing themselves
against it—men who have been Union men al
ways, but who are willing to acquiesce in tho
decision of the State.— Cle. Banner.
We are authorised fd jbrdsefrf the
name at «/. M. DANIELL, Sr., as a candi
date for the House of Representatives from
Cobb fcounty. July 13, 18G1. tde-32
We are requested to announce tho
name Os W. W. CARRELL, to the voters of
Cobb' county, as a candidate for Represent*-'
tivo in the next Legislature.
July 13, IS«i. Mo-32
WM. A. FRAZEH,
j [£— * has a spendid stock or
: GOLD ARD SILVER WATCHES,
; cluo;
JEWELRY OF ALL KIMBB,
Silver and) Plated
! Which he offers at prices to suit the times,
FOR CASH ONLY.
At his Store one door above Connell’s IlalL
June 18, 1861. ts-32
KEW DRC& FIRM.
HAMILTON, MARKItr & JOINS*.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
AND
HAMILTON, MARKLEY & JOYNER;
MARIETTA, GEORGIA.
July 1, 1861.
DR. liodN L. HAMILTON of At
lanta, and T. C. MARKLEY and It.
W. JbiNE'R of Marietta, Ga.; hereby give
notice to the public fh Ht they will carry on tho
DRUG BUSINESS
In all its branches in Atlanta a'nd Marietta.
BS3L.N. B.— Bo< k Store in Mdiietla continued;
July 1, 1861. 32-ts
GEORGIA, Pdulding county.
WHEREAS, John Wigley of iia’id'county;
applies to ine for letters of lutiniuistration,
on the estate of William Wigley, tste-qf slid couu
ty, deceased.
~ These are therefore; to’ cite dud require all per
sons concerned, to' be anil appertf at iny office, ou
the first Monday in September next; U> jlw.W eatlse
why said letters should not be granted fnc appli-'
caiit.
Given nnder mv. hand and official signature.
MILES EDWARDS, Ordinary;
July 15, 18G1. SV-3-
GEORGIA,. Paulding county.
WHEREaS, James M. Larp; guardiiifi of J.
H. Lester, applies to me fol letters of dis-’
mission from said guardianship.
These are therefore, to cite itnd require all per
sons concerned, to be and Appear at my office o'U
the first Monday in September next, to snow ause
why said letters of dismission should not be grant
ed the applicant.
Witness liaiiit and offlcidl signature:
MILES EDWARDS, Ordinary;
July 15,18G1. td-32
GEORGIA, Paulding cdunty;
WTOTICE is hereby given to all persons c'dncetj> :
ed, that Henry Mitchell, late of said coun*
ty, departed this life hitestate, and 110’ person lias
applied for Administration ori the estate of said
Henry Mitchell, and that in ternis of the law ad
ministration will be Vested in the Clerk of the' Su
perior Court; or some other tit and proper person,
thirty days after the publication of this citation;
unless soihc Valid objection is made to his appoint
ment.
Given under my hand dnd offleial signature, July
15, ISlil; MILES EDWARDS; Onlimiry.
Ailministrator’s Srilcl
BY vifttie of an order from the Court of Prdi-:
nary of Cobb county, will be sold on fifipirst
Tuesi-ay in September next, before the courts
house doof in the city of Marietta, between the le
gal hours of sale. Two Negroes, namely, Ester, a
woman about 30 years old ; and Caroline, a girl,
about 14 years bid, as the property of MdHila Ma
loney, deceased, for the benefit of the heirs and
creditors of said deceased. Terms indue known
on dat of sdl<). JulV 'J. 1861;
32-tds. EDWARB MAYE??; Adm’oh
Polk Sltite Quarry Kail Rodd.
Marietta, July 9.18 CL
At a meeting of the Board of Birec’tbrs this Bay,
itwjis
RESOLVED, THat an instalriidrit df fddr dnd a
half per cent- being two dollars and twenty
five cents per share of the subscriptiiiji to tile Capi
tal stock of the company be assessed, to He paid
after thirty days from this date, and that.an instal
ment of a 'like aindunt be assessed to be pitiq after
sixty days from this date, and that the secretary
give public notice of the same in the Marietta pa
pers. . ,
3t- 3I JNO. S. WRIGHT, Sec’ty & Trcas.
Mt. AtRY VINEYARD;
THE undersigned, sole lessee for-' a period of
years of Mount Airy Vineyard, otters for sale,
and will keep on hand rooted vines diid cuttings of
the best varieties of Grapes. During the Grupo
season I will have grapes for sale to supply the or
ders of customers in laige or small quantities.
Application may be made to me at this Vinegard
or through tile Post Office, Marietta, Ga.
July 9, 18«l.-5t-3I E. L. MASON.
notice:.
AU; tfsit-oks tri Mount Airy Vineyard are re
quested to keep the roads find not tramp
through or among the virtes.as trampling the ground
injures the vines aild handling the niiuchas mjure.i
the gritpesi E; L. MASON.
Marietta, Ga. July 9. IsGTI SV-3I
CASH
IN consequence of the stringency of the times
we inform the public that Ive will demand tho
vush for alt Goods When delivered after this
day. May 30, 1861.
27-ts Markley a joiner.
-■■■■- s- ■:
LOOK AT THIS!
HAVING bebn annoyed relative to tny
National principles, I beg leave tu set
them iorth before thb pfeople :
I, ns iiiitheof South Carolina, and now a
citizen of Georgia, was opposed to nil imme
diate secession, an 1 thought a collective se
paration preferable to that of an individual;
be this as it iliay, I etit persuaded that it is
well for the South, that her reins are not
held by Lincoln, and that she is not associa
ted with a people, so iritich disponed to op
press her, mid who so unrighteously cry fur
her blood.
My understanding is, that the Southern
Confederacy adts aid Contends for nothing
more thdn her righty and liberty ; thise aro
justly due her ; these she ought tv have, these
she will have or nothing.
I wish the public to know, that I am a
Southern man, with Southern principles: that
I hive tlie land of my nativity; feel identified
with the people of the South, and wdl shed
my heart’s best blood in defending them.
I am a Small man both mentally and physi
cally ; have but little of this world’s goods,
but what I utn, and what I have shall ex
erted against Northern invasion ; and net un
til my heart ceases to palpitate, will the vile
purposes OfL ncolh and the unholy designs of
the Nm’th, be executed and realized,
Haying what I have, I now say that I am no
abolitiOnist. There is not a drop of such
bloc d in me, I would prefer exclusion fn>m so
ciety altogether; to such society as ours would
be, were the negroes free. I lio ( >e, theroldrc,
not to bo censured with anything like aboli
tionism or disloyalty ; and he wh > it, I
shall Itmk upon him as making an effort to
roh me of that which I regard far morq pre
cious than life itself. E. P. GAI :
Colb G,i.. ? ;b.‘ 2**”'.