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MARIETTA, July »O.
MESSAGE
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PRESIDENT DAVIS.
To the Congress of the
■ Confederate States of America:
Gentlemen :—My message addressed to
you at the commencement of the session con
tained such full information of the Confede
racy, as to render it necessary that I should
noir dt» no more than call your attention to
such important facts as havo occurred during
tlie recess, and to matters connected with the
public defence.
I have again to congratulate you on the ac
cession of new members to our Confederation
of free, equal, and sovereign States. Our
loved and honored brethren of North Caroli
na and Tennessee have consummated the ac
tion foreseen aud provided nt your last ses
sion ; and I have had the gratification of an
nouncing by proclamation, in conformity with
the law, that those States were admitted into
the Confederacy.
The people of Virginia, also, by a majority
previously unknown in her bistory, have rat
ified the action of her Convention uniting her
fortunes with ours.
The States of Arkansas, North Carolina
and Virginia have likewise adopted the per
manent Constitution of the Confederate
States, and no doubt is entertained ol its a
doption by Tennessee, at the election to be
held early next month.
I deemed it advisable to direct the removal
of the several Executive Departments, with
their archives, to this city, to which you had
removed the seat of Government, immediate
ly after your adjournment. The aggressive
A inovcmeut*uf the enemy required prompt,
energetic action. The accumulation of his
forces on the Potomac sufficiently demonstra
ted that his efforts were to be directed against
Virginia; and from no point could the neces
sary measures for her defence and protection
be so efficiently directed as from her own cap
ital.
The rapid progress of events for the last
few weeks has fully sufficed to strip the veil
'tebind which the true policy and purposes
of thaGovernmeut of the United Slates had
licen previously concealed. Their odious fea
tures now stand fully revealed. The message
thatf' President and the action of their
Congress during the present month, confess
the intention of subjugating these States by
a war whose folly is equalled only by its wic
kedness—a war in which it is impossible to ob
tain the proposed result.—whilst its dire ca
lamities, not to be avoided by us, will fall
double severity on themselves,
in Maqji last, with the nffec*
seven
tation of ignoring the secession ot tbe>
States which first organized the Governtu^* 1 ’
persisting, in April, in the idle and
assumption es tta> existence of a riot which
wai to be dispersed by a posse contilaftu; con
tinuing, in successive rhonths, the- false rep
resentation that these States intended an of
f-nsive war—in spite of conclusive evidence'
t > the contrary, furnished, as well by official
action, as by the very basis on which this
Government is constituted—the President of
the United Statesand his advisers,succeeded
in deceiving the people of those States into
the belief that the purpose of this Govern
ment was not peace at home, but conquest I
abroad—not the defence of its own liberties, I
but the subversion of those of the people of
the United States.
The series of manoeuvres by which this im
pression was created—the art with which
they were devised—and the pertidy with
which they were executed are already known
to you; but you could scarcely have suppos- ’
ed that they would 1 e openly avowed, and i
their success made the subject of boast and i
self laudation in an Executive message. For- |
the truth of history, however, the I
President of the United States details with I
minuteness the attempt to reinforce Fort Pic
kens, in violation of an armistice, of which
be confesses to have been informed, but only
by rumors too vague and uncertain to fix at
tention.
The hostile expedition dispatched to supply
Fort Sumter, admitted to have been underta- 1
ken with the knowledge that its success was
impossible; the sending of a notice to the
Governor of South Carolina of his intention
to use force to accomplish his object, and
then quoting from his Inaugural Address
the assurance that there could be no conflict
unless these States were the aggressors,—be
proceeds t.> declare that bis conduct, as just
related 1-y himself, was the performance of
this | romise, so free from the power of in
genious sophistry as that the world should
not be able to misunderstand it; and in defi
ance of bis own statement, that he gave no
tice of the approach of tlie hostile fleet, he
charges these Slates with becoming the as*
sailants of the United States, without a
gun in sight or in expectancy to return their
fire, save only a few in the fort. He is, indeed,
fully justified in snying that “the ca e is so
free from the power of ingenious sophistry
that the world will not be able to misunder
stand it.”
Under cover of this unfounded pretence
that the Confederate States are the assail
ants, that high functionary, after expressing
his concern that some foreign nations had so
shaped their actions as if they supposed the
eaily destruction of our National Union pro
haul?, be abandons all further disguise; and
proposes to make this contest a short one, by
plae’.ng at the control of Government, for the
work, 400,000 men and $400,000,000. The
Cocagress, concurring in the doubt thus inti
mated ns to the sufficiency of the force de
manded, has increased it to a half million cf
men.
These enormous preparations in men and
money for the conduct of the war on a scale
more gigantic than any which the New World
ever witnessed, is a distinctive avowal,-in the
eyes of civilized man, that the United States
are engaged in a conflict with a great and
powerful nation. They are at last compelled
to abandon the pretence of being engaged in
the dispersing of rioters and the suppressing
of insurrections, aqd are driven
nowledgment that the anci*n*£lH**^ r !
<ii>soived. - es .‘
tnr-e of States by the in-
embargo and blockade of all
commerce between them and the United
States, not only by sea but by land—not only
on ships, but in cars—not only with these
who bear arms, but with the entire popula
tion of the Confederate States; finally, they
have repudiated the foolish conceit that the
inhabitants of this Confederacy are still citi
zens of the United States, for they are wa
ging an indiscriminate war upon them all
with n savage ferocity unknown to modern
civilization. In this war. rapine is the rule
private residences and peaceful rural retreats
are bombarded and burned, grain crops in
the field nre consumed by the torch, and
when the torch is not convenient, careful la
bor is bestowed to render complete the] do
. strnctiou of every article of use or ornament
remaining in private dwellings after their in
habitants had fled from the outrages of a
brutal soldiery.
In 1781, Great Britain when invading her
revolted colonies, took possession of every
district of the country ncar-Fortress Monroe,
I now occupied by the troops of the United
i States; the houses inhabited by the people
I after being respected and protected by the a
t vowed invaders, are now pillaged and de
i stroyed by men who' pretend that the viol inis
' are their fellow-citizens. Mankind will shud
der to hear the tales of outrages committed
on defenseless females, hy the soldiers of the
United States, now invading our homes. Yet
these outrages are prompted by inflamed
passions and the madness of intoxication. But
' who shall depict ’.he horror with which they
regard the cool, deliberate malignity with
which, under the pretext of suppressing an
insurrection, said by themselves toj be up
held by a minority only of our people, they
make special war on the sick, including wo
men and children, by carefully devised mea
sures to prevent their obtaining the medicine
necessary for their cure ? The sacred claims
of humanity, respected even during the fury
of actual battle, by a careful diversion of the
attack from the hospitals containing the
wounded enemies, are outraged in cold blood
by a government and people that pretend to
desire the continuance of fraternal connec
tions. All these outrages must remain una
venged save by the universal reprobation of
mankind. In all cases where the actual per
petrators of the wrong escape capture, they
admit of no retaliation. The humanity of our
people w.'ull shrink instinctively from the
idea of waging a like war upon the sick, the
women and the children of the enemy. But
there are other savage practices which have
been resorted to by the government of the
United States that do admit of repression by
retaliation. I have been driven to the necessi
ty of enforcing this repression.
The prisoners of war, taken by the enemy
on board the armed schooner Savannah sail
ing under our commission, were, as I was
credibly advised, trehted like common felons,
put in irons, confined in a jail usually appro
priated to criminals of the worst dye, and
threatened with punishment as such. I had
made application for the exchange of the
prisoners, to the commanding officer of the
enemy’s squadron off Charleston;- but that,
officer had already sent „thc prisoners to New
York when my application woe mode. I,
therefore, deemed it my duty
proposal
. of the Army and Navy
JT’the United States —Hie only officer haying
control of prisoners.
To this end I dispatched an officer to him,
under a flag of truce, and in making the pro
posal, I informed President Lincoln of my re
solute purpose to check all barbarities on
prisoners of war by such severity of retalia
tion on prisoners held by us as should secure
the abandonment of the practice. This com
munication was received and read by the of
ficer in eommand es the army of the United
States, and a message was brought from him,
by the bearer of my communication, that a
reply would be returned by President Lin
coln as soon as possible. I earnestly hope
this promised reply, which has not yet been
received, will convey the assurance that pris
oners of war will be treated in this unhappy
contest with that regard for humanity which
has made such conspicuous progress in the
conduct of modern warfare. As measures
of precaution, however, and until the promis
ed reply is received, I shall retain in custody
some officers capture I from the enemy, whom
it had been my pleasure previously to enlarge
on parole and whose fate must necessarily
depend on that of prisoners held by the ene
my.
I append a copy of my communication to
the President and Commandei-in-Chief of the
army and navy of the United States, and of
the report of the officer charged to deliver it,
marked “document A.”
There are some other passages in the re
markable paper to which I have directed
your attention, having reference to the pecu
liar relations which exist between this Gov
ernment and the States usually termed border
slave States, which cannot be properly with
held from notice.
The hearts of our people are animated by
sentiments towards the inhabitants of those
States which found expression in your enact
ment refusing to consider them enemies, or
authorize hostilities against them. That a
very large portion of the people of those
Stales regard us as brethren ; and if unre
strained, by the actual presence of large ar
mies, the subversion of civil authority, and
the declaration of martial law, some of them
at least, would joyfully unite with us. That
they are, with almost entire unanimity, op
posed to the prosecution of the war waged
against us. are facts of which daily recurring
events fully warrant the assertion.
The President of the United States refuses
to recognize in these, our late sister State*,
the right of refraining from attack on us; and
justifies bis refusal by the assertion that the
States have no other power than that reserv
ed to them in the Union by the Constitution
—no one of them ever having been a State
out of the Union.
This view of the Constitutional relations
between the States and the General Govern
ment, is a fitting introduction to another as
sertion of the Message, that the Executive
possesses the power of suspending the writ
of Habeas Corpus, and of delegating that
powj?jr to military Commanders at hie discre
tion.otuj both of these propositions claim a
respect equal to that which is felt for the ad
ditional statement of opinion in the same pa
per that it is proper in order to execute the
Laws, that some single law, made In such ex
treme tenderness of the citizen’s liberty that
the innocent, should, to a very limited extent
be violated. Wo may well rejoice that we
have forever severed our connection with a
Government, that thus tramples on all princi
ples of Constitutional Liberty, and with a
People in whose presence such avowals could
bo hazarded.
The operations in the field will be greatly
extended by reason of the policy which here
tofore secretly entertained, is now avowed
and acted on by the United States. The for
ces hitherto raised proved ample for the de
fence of the States which originally organiz
ed the Confederacy, as is evinced by the fact,
thnt with the exception of three (3) fortified
Islands, whose defence is efficiently aided by
a preponderating Naval force, the Enemy
has been driven completely out of those
States and at the expiration of five months
from the formation of the Government, not a
single hostile foot presses their soil.
These forces, however, must necessarily
prove inadequate td repel invasion by the
half million men now proposed by the ene
my, and a corresponding increase of our
forces will become necessary. The recom
mendations for the raising and efficient equip
ment of this additional force will be contain
ed in the communication of the Secretary of
War, to which I need scarcely invite your
earnest attention.
In my message delivered in April last, I
referred to the promise of abundant crops—
with which, we were cheered. The grain
crops generally havo since been harvested,
and the yield proved most abundant known
in our history. Many believes the supply
adequate to two years consumption of our
population. Cotton, sugar and tobacco,
forming the surplus production of our agri
culture, and furnishing the basis of our com
mercial interchanges, present the most cheer
ing promise, and a kind Providence has smil
ed on the labor which extracts the teeming
wealth of our soil in all portions of our Con
federacy. It is the more gratifying to be
able to give yon these facts, because of the
need of large and increased expenditures in
support of our army.
Elevated and purified by the sacred cause
they maintain on our fellow citizens of every
condition of life, exhibit the most self sacri
ficing devotion. They manifest a laudable
pride in upholding their independence, un
aided by any resources, other than our own,
and the Immense wealth which a fertile soil
and genial climate, have accumulated in this
Confederacy of agriculturists could not he
more strikingly displayed than in the large
revenues which, with eager zeal, they have
contributed at the call of their country.
In the single article of cotton the subscrip
tion to the loan proposed by the Government
cannot fall short of fifty million dollars, and
will probably exceed that sum, and scarcely
an article required for consumption by the
army is provided otherwise than by subscrip
tion to produce loans so happily devised by
your wisdom. ~ , •
The Secretary of the Treasury, in a report
submitted to you, will give you the amplest
details connected with that branch of the pub
lic service ; but it is not alone on their prompt
pecuniary contributions that the
of freemen wfo^nhaliy|ini XftT
those liberties which
eroy know so well how to defend. In num
bers far exceeding those autharized by your
laws they have pressed the tender of,their
services against the enemy. Their attitude
of calm and sublime devotion to their coun
try—the cool and confident courage with
which they are already preparing to meet the
threatened invasion, whatever proportions it
may assume—the assurance that their sacri
fices and their services will be renewed from
year to year, with unfaltering purpose, until
they have made good to the uttermost their
right to self-government—the generous and
almost unquestioning confidence which they
display in their government during the pend
ing struggle, all combine to present a specta
cle such as the wond has rarely, if ever seen.
To speak of subjugating such a people so
united and determined, is to speak a language
incomprehensible to them—to resist an attack
on their rights or their liberties, is with them
an instinct.
Whether this war shall last one or three
or five years, is a problem they leave to be
solved by the enemy alone. It will last till
the enemy shall have withdrawn from their
borders, till their political rights, their altars
and their homes, are freed from invasion.—
Then, and then only, will they rest from this
struggle, to enjoy in peace the blessings
which, with the favor of Providence, they
have secured by the aid of their own strong
hearts aud sturdy arms.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
The Crops.—The amount of Cotton plan
ted is probably one-fourth less than last year.
A gentleman, from South Carolina, with ex
cellent means of obtaining information, as
well as of observing for himself, informs us
that the area of Cotton planted in that State
this year is about one fifth, or twenty per
cent, less than last year. In Alabama, Mis
sissippi, Louisiana, and portions of Georgia,
Florida and Arkansas, the change is more
decided, especially in the three first named
States, which had previously been depending
very largely upon purchasing their food from
the Northwest. There the change from Cot
ton to Corn will amount to a full third of the
whole area planted. When we say Corn, we
mean generally something to eat.
The stand aiid showing for Cotton is gen
erally good, but cannot, under almost any
circumstances, exceed three millions of bales.
When, after a long fast, the world gets hold
of this supply, it will pay as much as a full
crop, and the Southern States will perforce
have kept at home the money they have been
paying to the North. Cotton has the great
advantage over most other products, that it
will keep.
When peace does come, then will trade
spring forward. Our most marketable crops
will bo on hand, or ready for immediate sale
at high prices, while their sale, the long pre
valence of the cash system, the bareness of
tlie markets in the way of goods, will give a
vast impetus to a legitimate business, which
may well be brisk without danger of over
trading. We trust that the lessous of this
present struggle may not all be lost upoa us.
but that we will endeavor permanently to es
tablish among ourselves those multiplied
forms of manufacturing industry which will
make us independent of a blockade, and de
velop that direct maritime enterprize that
will prove to our enemies that the sea is an
elenifiiit
I The Produce Loan—~A Meeting of the Citi
zens of Cobb County.
On the 18th inst., quite a number of the
citizens of Cobb, pursuant to previous notice,
met at the Court House in Marietta, fcr the
purpose of taking into consideration the
“ Produce Loan” to the Confederate States.
Hon. S. Lawrence, in the chair, called the
meeting to order.
Col. Geo. N. Lester proceeded to explain
the object of assembling, mid the nature of
the produce loan, lie strongly urged sub
scriptions for the support of the government,
and showed that it was not a gift, but equiv
alent to a sale, taking pay in the bonds of the
Confederate States. He said that revenue
must be raised, and that is far better for us.
our reputation, and our cause abroad, to do
it by voluntary subscriptions. His remarks,
unpremeditated, but warmly delivered, were
well received, and the audience felt that he
had rather see every thing that is denr to him
sacrificed upon the altar of his country, than
to see the South subjugated by Lincoln.
C. G. Baylor, Esq , being called upon, pro
ceeded to show how these Confederate bonds
i may bo available to the holder in the pay
ment of debts, or as a security upon which
to raise money, or ns bankable funds. He
then spoke in explanation of the following
resolutions, which he offered.
[The resolutions referred to will be found
in another place.]
Col. Lester then introduced the following:
Resolved, That a committee of two, in each
militia district in Cobb county, be appointed
by the Chairman, whose duty it shall be to
visit the planters and farmers of theirdistricts
and solicit subscriptions be delivered to the
committeemen of the Marietta District, to be
forwarded to our Congressmen at Richm >nd.
Resolved, further, That we hereby pledge
all that we have, and all that we are, to the
Government of the Conf'eifcrtrtefitetes, as fast
as it may be support our armies
or to sustain the and this we
will do as a gift, instead of a loan, iFTrtsyJbe.
The resolutions were adopted, and fflk
committee to solicit subscriptions, appointed.
Col. John O. Gartrell warmly urged all to
contribute something, and liberally as they
can and showed the immense moral power it
will have for the people to show that their
hearts are in the success of this war.
Col. Atkinson introduced the 7th resolu
tion of the Cotton Planters’ Convention,
recently held at Macon. This was also adopt
ed.
A resolution was adopted, that the Mari
etta and Atlanta papers be requested to pub
lish these proceedings. After which the
meeting adjourned.
S. LAWRENCE, Chairman.
E. Faw, Secretary.
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Movement in Cobb County—Free Trade
versus Lincoln's Bl tekuie—lmportant Reso
lutions—Commercial Alliance with. Neifo.
trals.
The following resolutions were passed by
the meeting held at Marietta on the 18th
instant, and to which desire to call the
. attention of the of the South :
Resolved, That the Congress of the
■pziety of
ping and. commerce of all neutnuTffwiimiUfi,
granting to those who succed in running, or
breaking the blockade, a remission of all
duties.
Resolved, That the seaboard cities take into
consideration the importanceof remitting port
and city charges on all vessels which suc
ceed in entering the same during the block
ade.
Resolved, That the presence in the differ
ent manufacturing and shipping districts of
Europe, of official representatives of the Con
federate States, is a matter of immediate im
portance, and we hereby urge our represen
tatives in Congress to obtain from Govern
ment the execution, in this respect, of the act
of the Confederate Congress, passed in rela
tion thereto.
Resolved, That Congress take into consider
ation the desirability of giving assurances to
the owners of ocean steamers, suitable to war
purposes, that upon the successful entry into
our ports of such steamers, with cargoes, an
impartial commission will examine and pur
chase the same for the Navy of the Confeder
ate States, if found serviceable, at a fair valu
ation.
Resolved, That we hereby tender to the
Government our unanimous support and uni
ted and undivided confidence.
Resolved, That these resolutions be trans
mitted to the Hon. B.H. Hill, member of Con
gress, representing this district.
We believe these resolutions express the
opinions of eight out of every ten men in the
South. The attempt to involve us in an
angry discussion with Europe is unwise, and
will not be tolerated by the people. We de
mand. as the basis of our foreign policy, that
the commercial rights of neutrals shall be re
spected in spirit as well as letter. The best
possible use to which the cotton crop can be
put, is to sell it to neutral nations at a good
price. The demand on, Europe for their
recognition, is a confession of weakness on
our part. We can whip the Yankees. All
we ask is “hands off” from Europe. We are
not receiving a dollar from the present tariff
and expensive custom house arrangements.
Let us try what throwing open our sea ports
to neutrals will do. I n the meanwhile we ask our
readers especially among the merchants, to
give individual responses to these resolutions.
At. Intel.
The Real and the Conventional Nigger.
—The Southern negro is usually a fat, oily,
laughing, thoughtless semi-savage. Give
him each week bis prescribed three pounds
of pork, his peck of meal, quart of molasses,
{winter) his pound of salt, when he has
swamp work,bis nightly glass of whisky, and
lie is happy, lie is naturally a low order of
being. Ido not think, withall its faults, that
slavery lowers the American negro. Let the
plantation black set his deer trap, snare rac
coons or wild turkeys,keep his fowls and hogs
to sell massa at the big house, kill game for
the same purpose, work moderately, and in
spare time grow enough cotton to make up a
bale u year, let him look after his garden, and
he will be (if the overseer is kind) one of the
most careless and happy creatures in the
wide work). Give the black in addition, on
certain feast duys, “ a regular breakdown ’’
ball, and they are happier beings than half
England, with all its freedom and religion
could furnish. lam not saying this to de-'
fend slavejy, but I say it because I think ;
much wilful and dangerous nonsense is talk
ed about thoalaxe, wteoiu Mrs. Stow* 'repre- ’
•Mito M perpetually praying in chains., weep
ing, or being whipped. I should rather
draw slaves with more truth, as always idling,
laughing, or eating; and considering that'
they are fed and clothed, havo no taxes or
other ch ic cares, and are seldom, if honest
and industrious, ill-treated, I do not see why
they should not cat and laugh, especially as
their small brains seem almost incapable of
higher pleasure.— Temple. Bar.
Tlie Lincoln War.
The most ultra Southern man cannot but
be amazed at the demoniac spirit that posses
ses and sways the mass of the people of the
North as well as the Lincoln government. —
The warmest admirer and eulogist of the old
Union cannot help rejoicing that the South
ern 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 continuation of the
1 John Brown war. The abolitionized North
was before in hostility to us. The abolition
ized despotism of Lincoln is novy pushing on
the John Brown raid and repeating the Kan
sas atrocities. Jim Lane and Montgomery
had Seward and Lincoln first as secret ac
complices. Now they are open allies.
It will not be denied that the acts of hostil
ity persistently repeated against the South
ern people, by the dominant and controlling
party of the North, would,'as between one
foreign nation and another, Jiave led, long be
fore April, 18G1, to a declaration 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, the ex
istence of social order. Lincoln, himself, a
candidate for the elective rulership over us,
proclaimed opinions, and declared oljects.gsr?'
inimical to the South, that he wasactually
afraid to trust his person and life-in a South
ern community. So clearly had be, as an
abolitionist, made himself an outlaw,
i that'light in a Southern State, while a
■ candidate for tTie’RiK&idency, he would, like
k*ny other open, and kn\wn abolitionist, have
upon the tree. The pre
i sent waribnothingbut a cotyinuation of the
war long againstyus. The same
spirit, now |’ c aboliti<l n administra
tion which then ruled North.
We meet now in the the enemy
that before under the guise of friendship
' made the niost deadly assaults upon us. Can
i we be grateful enough to that Providence that
i has decreed our separation, final and forever
from a secret foe, that seemed to hold its mis
sion to be that of plundering and deceiving,
oppressing and tyrannizing over, and at the
same time devastating and destroying the
South ?
Office Seterintendet W. &A. R. R.)
July 23d, 1861. )
The solicitude about friends who were in
the great battle at Manassas Junction, on
the 21st ioet./todl cause in Georgia and Ala
bama to hurry to the place. For their bene
fit I will state that if/hey go by the-, Virgin
ia route they shouhf'lcave AKmtgomery by
the morning train—Atlanta by the 7
Pi M. train on this Road—the connects.n
by this train is close, going through from. At
lanta to Richmond in about fifty-three
horns.
I will further state that if the EasfJjhuiEes
see Road., aio I'lMH'iMtaMimrTnis Road wlwi
help them to as many Cars as may be needed
in the em< rgeney.
JOHN W. LEWIS,
Superintendent.
* ■
W. VV. 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 of
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.
B. F. McDonald. —The gentleman who
served so gallantly under Gen. Joe Lane, in
the Mexican war, and so favorably spoken cf'
in Gen. L's reports, has just returned from
Richmond, Va. He is authorized to raise a
Regiment of Guerrillas, each man to be arm
ed with a rifle or double barrel shot gun, and
to go immediately. Col. McDonald’s experi
ence in this sort of service, points him out, as
the very man to lead such a command. The
services of such troops are now in great de
mand in Virginia. The gallant soldiers of
Georgia should flock to his standard without
delay. His head quarters will be at Marietta,
but any application, addressed to him at At
lanta, will be promptly attended to. This is
a good chance to get into active service, and
we have no doubt, that his ranks will be
promptly filled.— Atlanta Intelligencer.
Lincoln's Sister-in-Law.—Mrs. Abraham
Lincoln, wife of the President of the old Un
ion, has two married sisters now on a visit to
Montgomery, Ala. One is from Kentucky
and on a visit to her sister, who resides in
Selma. Ala. They are both strong secession
ists and opposed to the government of their
brother-in-law, Abraham Lincoln. Os course;
they attract considerable attention and are
the toast of Southerners. The husband of one
has offered his services to Governor Moore,
of Alabama, to further the cause of secession
and State Rights and Republican Liberty.—
Col. Times.
Population ot Florida.
The census returns from the State of Fiori
da unexpectedly show that the spirit of prog
ress has invaded that region. In 1850 its
total population was less than ninety thou
rand, and had been stationary for full ten
years. It is now about 145,000, a very hand
some increase.
The Hon. Thomas W. Thomas, in a letter
to the Milledgeville Recorder, declines all
part in the race for Governor.
Rev. Wm. Davies, a Methodist Minister,
stationed at Key West, Florida, was arrested
on the 23d ult., by the Lincolnites, and im
prisoned, because he prayed for the success
of the Confederate arms.
$314 50 have been collected in Montgom
ery, Alabama, and $450 at the Courier office,
Charleston, for the widow and orphans of the
hero of Alexandria. The money was for
warded to the agent of Mrs. Jackson nt
Richmond.
The Bank of the State of South Carolina
has commenced the issuing of small notes of
the denominations of twenty-five and fifty
cents.
the inmates on the 4th of July as “Fcllowl I
co i viets.”
I (fnural
DRUGS
AND
ii t: ii 11. ni: s i
H. M. DAMMETTt J. T. CROVES. M. D,
Hammett & GrovQs ß
Wm. ROOT’S OLD STAND,
MARIETTA, GKEO-,
WOULD respectfully call the at'ention ot
Pby-icians Merchants, and the public gen
erally, to thiir largo and we'l selected stock of
OILS,
embracing everything in the regular
Drug busine s, are prepared to sell or
the most for
Cast or Approved Paper.
s our facilities for the purchase of goods are
unequalled, we oiler
GREAT INDUCEMENTS
to purchasers.
In a idition to our stock above mentioned, wt
havo a full assortment of
Periiimery,
FANCY & COMMON SOAPS,
Tooth, Hair and Nail Brushes, which we receivt
dirret fraiu the manu'actarers. Also,
Stationery, Cutlery, Toys,
: Crockery, Garden Seels, Field Seeds; A full
stock of
such as Chains, Hois, Axis. Nails.Shovels,Spades
Forks, Lo'-ks, Hinges, Hollow Ware, <tc.
40,000 Pounds of Iron,
! nd everything else in the above line. Give us a
j trial Satisfact.on guaranteed.
inra 4-Iy
diariesT
MARKLEY JOYNER
Have received a large stock of Pocket Diarie
from 20 cts. to each- all. and sic them-gr
Also have ia store \ '‘i.
$1,390 wozFiTsa:.
1 WHOLE CASE SCHOOL SLATES
30 THOUSAND ENVELOPES,
150 BOTTLES GOOD INK,
50 GROSS STEEL
PENS, ALSO,
G old Pe 11 S,
I a b 1 e t s,
WWBElimi BOOKS!
L. BENNETT’S
CHEAP CASH STORE
New Spring StocJr of
STAPLE AND FANCY DRY SOODS,
JUST RECEIVED.
A TP the well known stand of the Subscriber,
North hast corner of the Public Square the
Very best Stock of Goods
be ever purchased, which will be sol i «*is low for
the CASH as can be bought anywhere.
I call attention particularly to my purchases of
heavy and serviceable goods. A'soa well selected
supply of
RE A DY-MA DE CWT II IN G
LADIES’ DRESS CODS
AND A LARGE LOT OF
Hoots siaicl Shoes.
Cull and Price my Goc«lj
XLi- Those indebted are requested to eomc for
ward and and make .ettlement, or they may find
their notes and accounts in the hands of an officer
for collection.
Lt. BENNETT.
March 23. ts
MARKLEY? JOYNER
DRUGGISTS,
Have just received from the West
‘4OO Gallons Pure L-ird Oil,
165 “ •* Tanner’s Oil,
ISO “ Prime Alcohol,
MO “ Burning Fluid,
150 lbs Pure Su’phur,
250 “ Pure Cooking Soda,
■<J Barrells Linseed Oil,
1:40 Gallons Keros ne Oil,
Sold for Cash only.
June 1,1861.
MARIETTA
CLOTHING STORE,
South side of the Public Square,
door to the Post Office.
HENRY
„ s 5L..H
Ji CHEAP <1
R > CASH
s > _ <s
c ! S T O R E J c
Hla s c H
DEALER IN
FASHIONABLE CLOTHING
AND
Gent’s Furnishing Goods.
I HAVE just received a small and fine stock of
Summer Clothing. If you want a tine or com
mon suit, and wish to buy cheap.* come to the Ma
rietta Clothing Store. No house in our city can
undersell me. and I will sell at the lowest Atlanta
prices for cash only.
also call attention to my supply of Boy’s
Clothing. Shirts, Trunks, Carpet Bags, and fine
French Marseilles Vests, ,tc., <fcc. upril 1 Iqly
TMEeal Hominy.
MEAL AND HOMINY, of excellent quality,
from white corn, fresh ground at Jiirmon
Co’s Excelsior Mill.
wwub ■ t.n ,i.g u
Aoek Of— IwPWHPIRIIIIIII
Spades isn.l Hollow Wnr-, for sale by
HAMMETT i G BOVES.
General
DRY GOODS,
SHOES, BOOTS,
hats and caps,
QUEENS WARE CHINA
AMD
Family
Saddlery, Leather* Fabrics, Ac.
I WILL keep constantly on hand good aeleetioni
in the above branches of trade, and will Mil
at low prices.
TERMS CASH.
Marietta, Jan 6, «0. D. M. YOtfNGh
lim MILITAIY IKTim'
THE next Session of this Institution wdl bgj
opened on the 2i’th February, 18*L
For the character of the Institute as
College we refer to the r.port of
itors and the Annual
o ve
of
" the high tone and
gentlemanly bearing of the Cadets individually
and ns a -Corps, ’—and “ congratulate the patron*
of the Institute ipon the growth, health and mne
ele of their sons developed by Military trainings
. The Governor’n his Annual Message adeorda
high proise to the discipl ne and government of
the School and declares it to bo “ important to tha
future protection and grei mess of our State."
invite special niterti<»n to the fact that the Gov*
efnor ot the State is President “Ex-Officio.”
of the Board of control.
COURSE OF STUDIES.
IN MATHEMATICS:—4th Class.—Arithmetic
Algebra, Plate Geometry and Trigonometry. 3d
Cltist—Descriptive Geometry, Linear Perspective
and the theory of Shades and shadows, Surveying,
Analytical Geometry.—2d Class—Calculus.
IN THE FRENCH LANGUAGE:—VaIIuc’a
Ollendorf’s full course, Vie de Washington.—3d
Cla-s —Mnnget’s Analogy, Charles 12th, Racine.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Bullion’s Englis-h Grammer and Practical Exer
cises ; Quaskenbo’s Rhetoric, —2d Clas;—Blair's
Rhetoric, Composition and Elocution.
IN HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHYWeber’s
Universal, Tytler's Universal, Frost’s United
States. Mitchel's Ancient and Modern Geography.
IN NATURAL PHYLOSOPHY :—Mechanic.
(Bartlett's Text,) Opties, Astronomy, (01m.-ted,)
Chemistry, Minorology and Geology taught by
I lecture in a course « f two years.
IN ENGINEERING:—A fu'l course in the
Frst Class both Civil and Military, comprising
the principles of Carpentry, Masonry and con
struction in Iron Roads, Bailroa Is and Canal.,
Field Fortifications, Permanent Military Works.
IN TACTlCS:—lnfantry of the'Line (Scott’s
text.) Light Infantry (Hardee’s.) Artillery (An
derson’s U. S.) Cavelry (Poinsett’s.)
TERMS.
gamble in advance for the present
wt&Tno other medical charge,) .- JS
bopnaßdor Clothing, Uniform, Ac./ 4$
The LeKls!a,tu e appropriated nine thoarandded.
lars far4lie behefii of the Institute, and’have ena
bled us to 'elicit a 'argcr patronagtjby tb*.pepp|eJ
IT.
. -.T-- ’ •
UJ I J
SHOES!!
■ —e
Hiving been heretofore unable to accom
m <da'e all my customers, I desire now to in
form them and the publio generally, that having
1 id in a good lot of the
BEST FRENCH STOCK,
ar <1 a'so having emp’oyed competent workmen, I
am now prepare 1 to supp y a>l who favor me with
their patrormge, with the best Boots and Shoes
that car. be ip-i 10. I infend to keep constantly on
band it few choice rca ly made Boots and Shoes,
and will endeavor to make it to the interest of
Southern men to buy Southern made work. All
work warranto 1.
PRICES.
Wa'er-proof and Quilted bottom l oots. s'o 00
“ “ “ Footing, 6 s'l
fine Ca's Welt Boot’, stitched, (S 00 to 9 00
“ Pump sole, do., 8 I'o toil 00
Footing, 6 50 to 0 00
Kip Boots, 5 00 to 7 00
“ Footing, 4 00 to 5 00
Shoes, 2 50 to 3 00
Shop on Powder street, at the foot of
R .ilroad bridge. K W. GABLE.
Repairing also done with neatness and dispatch
Jan. 12,6'.
WM. A. FRAZER,
HAS removed to his new store, two doors below
the old stand, where he has a complete siock
01
WATC HE S t
WATCH-CHAINS, JEWELRY,
PLATED AND SILVER WARE, ”
CLOCKS, &C.,
All of which be offers Cheaper than ever.
Call at the New Store, and see for yourselves.
Dee 14.
OTICE,— Two months a'trr date, sppli-
Inl cation will bo nm le to the Court of Ordina
ry of Cobb County f.r leave to sell the negroes be
longing i<> thees’utu of Martha Maloney, deceased,
for the benefit jf the loirs and creditors of said de
ceased. EDWARD MAYES, Adm’r.
April 29, 1861
Tlie Saratoga of the Confederate State, t
CATOOSASPRINCS.
J J. HARMON respectfully announces to his
o former vi itors, and the public generally, that
he Ins entered into a co-partnership with Mr. J. 8.
Nichols vs Savannah, Ga,, for the ensuing'.eason
at this
CELEBRATED WATERING PLACE.
Thankful for the patronage heretofore extended
to him, lie would solicit a continuance of tne satno
(or the firm, who will endeavor, at all limes, to
provide for the table, bar, Ac., every luxury at
tainable.
Our cooks will lie the most experienced that the
South cm produce, together wihuii efficient force
of attentive servants. There will be an exoelleat
BRASS and SPRING BAND of superior Musicians
attached to the Hotel,
The Medical virtues of these many and varied
Mineral Waters are now too well known to require
an extensive description. In addition to the Red,
White and Black Sulphur Spring—many of them
combined with Iron a-id Magnesia—is an iaex
haustable well of the purest Freestoue.
Our accommodations are very extensive. We
have many pleasant cottages separate from the
main Hotel, where families cun be as quiet und re
tired as in their own homes.
Catoosa Springs ere in Catoosa county, Ga. two
and a quarter miles from tlie Western A Atlantic
Bailroad. A fine Omnibus and good Hacks will be
at the plat form on the arrival of each train. The
Tarings have a direct Railroad communication with
Charleston, Savannah, Augusta, Macon, Milledge
ville. Columbus, Atlanta, Montgomery, Nashville,
and Chattanooga.
Terms of Hoard.
wadiaML Pollars per day, Twelve per week, and
Thirty-flvepe»,amanto-,..Visitors whowlsh to en-
MirtrfSmilßm, will
per iiionlh- -ohilili-oo
and servants half price. Tho-m who wish <oi
| gage h,.:i) <l bv th. season wotihl .!<.«'eU U> address
[ J I.H- J., i-hi. " u.'ax*>N A NICHOLS
