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sKtgal Advertisements.
Administrator's Sale.
BY virtue of an order from the Court of Or
dinary of Cobb (.'■ tinty. will be sold oil the
first Tuesday in May next, before the court house
door, in the’city of Marietta. Cobb county, be
tween the legal hours of sale, lot of land No.
250. in the 18th district and 2d section. Cobb
county. acres, more or less, with
a rood framed dwelling house, out buildings
Ac.
Also. T.v’s No. TSC. with reserve of one acre
in north ea-t corner, and Nos. 757. 799. and parts
of Nos. 8311 and <873 all in the 19th district and
2d section. Cobb county containing in all 170
acres more or less, with a good log house, out
buildings, good orchard and excellent water. Ac.
The above lands sold as the property of Win.
L Summerlin, deceased, for the benefit of the
heirs and creditors of said deceased. Terms
made known on dav of sale.
MILTON J. MAGBEE. Adm'r.
Georgia, County.
WHEREAS, Jesse J. Northcutt, as the broth
-11 er-in-law of deceased, applies to me in wri
ting for letters of administration on the estate of
John 0. Brown, late of said county deceased.
These are therefore to cite and admonish all
and singular the kindred mid creditors of said
deceased, to tile their objections if any they
have, in my office, on or before the first Monday
in .May next—otherwise, letters of administra
tion will be granted the applicant at that term
of the Court of Ordinary for said county.
Given under my hand, as Ordinary, at Mariet
ta this March 25.1862.
12 JNO. G.
Georgia Cobb County:
WHEREAS, Mrs. Martha D. Nesbitt. Exec
trix on the estate of IL O. K. Nesbitt,
iate of said county deceased, applies to
me for letters of dismission from the adminis
tration of said estate.
These are therefore to cite and admonish all
and singular the kindred and creditors of said
deceased, to file their objections, if any they
have, in my office on or before the first Monday
in July next, otherwise letters of dismis
sion will be granted the applicant at that
term of the Court of Ordinary for said comity.
Given under my hand, at Marietta, this 3d
dav of Januarr. 1862.
•January 3d: JNO G CAMPBELL. Only.
GEORGIA. Paulding County.
WHEREAS. Enoch I’inkant. Administrator
of the Estate of James N. I’inkant. de
ceased. applies to me for Letters of I)isini«.«k>n,
from said Administration.
These are therefore <-ite and Admonish till
persons concerned. to be and appear at my of
fice, on or before the first Monday in March next,
to show cause (T any they have) why said Let
ters Dismissory should not then be Granted the
applicant.
Given under mv hand at office this September
s nd, 1861. ’ MILES EDWARDS, Or'dy.
GEORGIA, Paulding County;
WHEREAS Enoch I’inkard Administrator
on the estate ot James N. Pinkard de
ceased applies to me for letters of dismission
from said Administration. These are therefore
to cite rnd require all and singular all persons
eoncered to be and appear at my office in Dal
las on the first Monday in June next to show
cause (if any they have) why said letters of
dismission should not be granted the applicant.
Witness my hand and official signature, this
November 6te, 1861.
MILES EDWARDS, Only.
Nov. 12,1861. per S. L. Strickland.
Pickens County Goorgia.
TWO months after date application will be
made to the Court of Ordinary of said,
county, at tl>e first regular term, after the expi
ration of two months from this notice, for leave
to sell the lands belonging to the estate of Hen
ry Fitzsimmons, late of said county deceased.
3 ELIAS W. ALLRED.
Feb. 3d. 1862. Adinr. de bonis non.
NOTICE.— TWO MONTHS after date, ap
plication will be made to the Court of Or
dinary of Cobb county, for leave to sell the
LANDS belonging to the ertatc of Moses A
Hartsfield, deceased, for the benefit of the heirs
and creditors of said deceased. March 21, 1862,
DANIEL WRIGHT, Adin’or.
TWO MONTHS after date application will be
made to the Court of Ordinary of Milton
county, for I ave to sell the lands belonging to
the estate of Bryer Howard, deceased, for the
benefit "f the heirs and creditors of said dec’d.
• JOHN S. JAMES,
J. C. STREET,
April 1. 1862. Adm’ors.
GEORGIA, Forsyth county.
TWO months afterdate, application will be
made to the court of Ordinary of Forsyth
county, Georgia, for leave to sell the LANDS
belonging to the estate of Jesse Bagwell, late
of said county, deceased, for the benefit of the
heirs and creditors. April 9. 1862.
15 SEABORN JANES, adm’or.
jVotice.
ALL persons having demands against the es
tate of Eleander Aikir.s, dec'll., are reques
ted to present them properly attested, tv th«
undersigned within the time prescribed by law;
and all those indebted to said estate are reques
ted to make immediate payment.
JOHN MALONEY, Adm'r.
March sth 1862. -40 d.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
NOTICE is hereby given to all having de
mands against the estate of Moses A. Harts
field, late of Cobb county, dec’d., arc requested
to present them, properly made out, within the
time prescribed by law; and all persons indebted
to said deceased, are hereby required to make
"immediate payment. March 21st, 1862.
DANIEL WRIGHT. Adm'r.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
ALL persons having demands against the es
tate of William Mayes, late of Cobb coun
ty deceased, are requested to present them
nroperlv attested, to the undersigned within
the time prescribed by law ; and all persons in
debted to said estate, are required to make im
mediate payment. April 17, J 862.
15 THOMA'-' A “OBJ-.lt. Li or.
Georgia Cobb County:
WKTIIEREsS. T. J. Berkerson, as the son.
▼ v and W. C. Strickland, as tho son-in-law
of deceased, apply to me in writing, for letters
of Administration on t.ir estate ot John S, Per-
■ kerson. late of said county, deceased.
I These are therefore to cite and admonish all
i and singular those concerned to file their objec-
I tions, if any they have, in my office on or before
| the first Monday in May next, otherwise letters
■ of administration will be granted the applicants
at that term of the Court of Ordinary of Cobb
County.
Given under my hand, at office, in Marietta,
this Ist April. 1862.
JNO. G. CAMPBELL, Ordinary.
1 GEORGIA, Faulding County.
WHEREAS. Edward Hagin, Administrator
on the Estate of C. C. Caldwell, deceas-
I ed. applies to me for Letters of disinissson from
! said Administration.
These are therefore to cite and Admonish all
i persons concerned to be and appear at my oi-
I lice on or before the Ist Monday in October next
1 to show cause (if any they have) why said Let
ters Dismissory should not then be granted the
applicant.
Given under mv hand at office this 29th March.
1862. ‘ S. B McGREGOR, Ord'y.
GEORGIA, Pickens County.—To all whom
it may concern, John M. Allred hav
ing in proper form applied to me for Letters
of Administr ition, upon the estate of William
Davis,late of said county. This is to cite all
and singular the creditors and next of kin of
said deceased, to be and appear at my office
within the time allowed by law, and show cause
if any they have, why letters of Administration
should not be granted the applicant
■Witness mv hand and official signature.
March 2 7 , 1862. W. 11. SIMMONS, Ord’y.
BUSINESS CARDS.
Churches in Marietta.
M. E. Churchßev. Alex. Graham, Pastor.
Presbyterianßev. E. P. Palmer, Pastor
Episcopal (St. James) Rev. S. Benedict, Rector
Baptist,filled 2nd and 4th Sabbath
in each month by the Rev. Mr. Rambau.
Two Churches for the Blacks. Methodist and
Baptist.
A. N. SIMPSON
Attorney and Counsellor at Law
Marietta Georgia.
October 6. ly-
~a7T”iianse l l~’
Attorney at Law & Solicitor in Chancery.
Marietta Georgia.
October 6, *y-
JOHN O. GARTRELL,
Attorney and Councellor at Law
Marietta. . . . .* Georgia.
July 29. -J 1
0. D. 7’ll ILLI PS,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Marietta • .Georgia.
junc 15iy
“ “ G. N. LESTER.
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Marietta, Georgia,
practice in the Blue Ridge Circuit
VV the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the
District Court at Mrrietta.
February 29, 1861ly-
JE. FA AV.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Marietta, Georgia.
WILL diligently attend to any business con
fided to his care iu tho counties of Cobb,
Chetokce, Milton and Paulding.
CLAIMS collected as soon as it can be done by
law, and the money promptly paid over.
Jan 20, 1861.
WM. PHILLIPS. J. T. BURKHALTER
PHILLIPS & BURKHALTER,
Attorneys at X««vw,
Mivricttn, Georgia.
Will practice in Fulton, Paulding and all the
counties of the Blue Ridge Circuit, in the Su
preme court, ami District court,
April 5, ’6O-ly-
Attorney mid Counsellor ntLnW,
Marietta, Cobb county G-a.
Will practice, and give prompt attention to
all business confided to his professional care, in
the District Court of the U. S. at Marietta, The
Supreme Court of Georgia, at Atlanta, and. the
Superior and Infe’ior Courts of the Blue Ridge
Circuit, and the counties adjoining Cobb of oth
er circuits.
Especial attention given to the collection of
debts, and the securing of all manner o ' claims.
Prompt and efficient attention will be given to
all manner of business in the Courts of Ordina
ry in the county of Cobb and adjoining io inties.
Feb.lo one v
DAVID IRWIN. GREENLEE BUTLER.
IRWIN & BUTLER,
A TIORNE YS A T (LA W,
G-cU
BUSINESS confided to their professional
management in the following counties will
be transacted, viz; Campbell, Paulding, Polk,
Cobb, Cherokee, Forsyth. Lumpkin, Fulton and
Milton. Also, in the District Court at Marietta,
and at the Supreme Court at Atlanta.
District Court sits at Marietta on the
second Monday in March and September. Re
turn 20 days before Court. - feb29-’6l-ly.
E.M. ALLEN,
Resident Dentist
C CONTINUES the practice of his profession
7 in all its branches, and solicits the patron
age of those who will pay their bills upon pre
sentation. and consider them presented when
the operations are finished.
lam compelled to adhere more strictly to
■the cash system, in order to comply myself with
the demands of others.
Z-£T OFFICE over the Post <lfficc.
Marietta, Feb. 4th. 1352.
MARIETTA, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1862,
Statement of Rev. George C. Harris,
OF NASHVILLE, TENN.
On Saturday, the 15th, I made my
way out of Nashville, hoping to take
my place quietly among a people more
congenial than those could be who
sought the destruction of everything
held dear by a Southern. Many citi
zens of Nashville, who in the midst of
bayonets, ate ever true to the South,
begged me upon leaving, to give to the
public an account of what bold me
there. Many friends here have made
the same request, yourself among them
and I do not feel at liberty longer to
withhold what may be of interest to
the public, 'fhe circumstances of my
arrest are nothing in themselves, but
the language addressed to me by the
Geneial before whom I was taken, may
be an earnest of what awaits us should
the Federal enterprise succeed.
On Saturday, the 9th ultimo, while
about to pass into Nashville, on the
Franklin pike, I was halted by the
guards, about one and a half miles from
the city, and, after answering- a few
questions asked me by the Lieutenant,
(with the view, 1 suppose, of identify
ing me,) I was told that I was expect
ed to report to the Provost Marshal, or
to Gen. McCook. Choice of these was
given me, and I chose Gen. McCook. —
I was then plan d' under guard and ta
ken to the head-quarters of that Gen
oral. Nothing had been said to me of
the cause of my arrest, but having, on
the day previous, said something not
thought to be “ respectful” by the
guards stationed at the post, and hav
ing used in the public service of the
church, "the prayer for the President of
the Confederate States, I expected that
one or both of these would be found to
be the ground of my offending. After
waiting an hour or more, I was permit
ted to see Gen. McCook, and from him
I learned that I had conjectured right
ly.
After introducing the subject of com
plaint, he proceeded in the following
elegant style : “ i hose gum ds are mine
are my representatives, and the per
mit with which you were to pass them
emanated from me, as an officer of the
United States. If your people suffer
inconvenience yu have no one to blame
but yourselv?s. We have come here
to enforce the laws—the laws of your
own laud. Wc a-e not ab ditionists as
your vile sheets have represented us to
be. On the slavery question Wm. L.
Yancey is a baby to me. If I had an
abolitionist in all my army--and I have
twenty thousand men—l would cut his
ears off. No, sir, lam here on a legi
timate errand, and will not be trifled
with. Wc intend to crush out the re
bcllk n and restore the laws, cost what
it may. The mind of the Northern
people is made up to that. If we can
not accomplish this in one way-wc will
in another—if we cannot subdue you
we will kill you—we will make it a
war of extermination. We arc the
masters here now, and it is time yon
understood it. 1 am commander of this
division, and have twenty thousand
men ready to do my bidding. 1 am
king here, tain your king—you are
my slave, sir.
And, now, sir, there is another mat
ter between us. You clergymen cheese
to take part in this rebellion, even iu
your prayers; supposing, 1 guess, that
your cloth will protect you. but in this (
you arc mistaken, 1 have plenty of
guard-houses and jaila, and it may
shortly be necessary 1 should circum
scribe your limits. 1 have reports from j
your church of last Sunday. 1 was
prepared to hear it, at.d now, once for
sill, 1 give you to understand, that cler
gymen of the Episcopal church will be
required to use their prayer b</oks .just
tiS they arc printed. You shall pray .
for the President, of the United States
or be bung. That ought to have been
the policy before. You rebels ought all
to be hung, and but for Gen. Buell, 1
should long ago have been using hemp.
It will come to that, and you had bet
ter take warning in time. We are
handling you now with gloves. This is
only an experiment. If it dosen’t suc
ceed better than it seems to be doing,
we will try something else. \Vc will
try the virtue of ropes, which in my
opinion, should have been done fiom
the first.
1 do not think that any clergyman
would be in danger of. execution for n -
fusing to submit to this imperious de- |
cree. \\ hatever be his disposition in
the matter, Gen. McCook has not the
necessary power without order from
Gen. Buel, and that oflicer is regarded
by those who have met him in Nash
ville as a humane, refined, modest gen
. tieman. But McCook is second in com
mand, and the fortunes of war may any
day throw upon him, or men like him
(of whofn there arc several,) the chief
command and Southern people may
well be on their guard. All our ene
my lacks to make us the most abject
slaves the world has ever known, is
power. Their despotic hee! once upon
us, the genius of Liberty may plume
her wings to take her everlasting
flight.
After this interview with Gen. Me
Cook, an incident occurred at the Pro
vost Marshal’s which I give as it may
serve to illustrate the sincerity of pro
slavery sentiment, which the General
claimed for himself and army.
Wishing to obtain a pass for one of
my Sunday school pupils to go out of
the city, 1 went hurriedly to t'.e Mar
shal’s office, where 1 found a large
number of citizens on a similar errand,
waiting their turn for admission 1 had
succeeded in getting next the door, and
stood against the sentinel’s gun, ready
to enter when it should be raised. There
presently appeared on the outskirts of
the crowd, a black ugly negro woman,
flic sentinel saw her advancing, and
ciied out, “stand back gentlemen, and
let that woman pass in.” He made us
give way, while the woman went in,
and 1 saw a pass given her, even be
fore those already in were served. Sure
ly, these gallant “ protectors” of oirr
lives and property, these vigilant guar
dians of our rights, as they love to call
themselves, these pro-slavery warriors
have yet some things to learn about an
institution which they profess to regard
as of Divine origin.
Very respectfully, your obedient ser
vant, G. C. HARRIS,
Hector Church of the Iloly Trinity,
Nashville, Tenn.
The Contumacious state Prisoners in
Washington.
A Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore News Sheet, communicat-'s
the following:
1 learned from one of the soldiers of
the Pennsylvania 91st Regiment, who
aie guarding the old Capitol Prison in
this city, some incidents of the interior
of this low famous building, which
may interest your readers :
* * * *
Other cases have proved refractory,
and the prisoners have refused to take
the oath of allegiance. Among these
latter are Mr. Watkins i.f Georgetown,
who had been imprisoned more than
six months, and whost; brother was the
chief engineer of the rebel iron-platcd
Merrimac, and Mr. T. Walworth, son of
Chancellor alworth of New York,
who, it will be remcmbeieJ, was arres
ted for acting in complicity with the
accomplished Mrs. Morris, supposed to
have been sen< here as a spy by the re
bel Gen. Beauregard. There is strong
suspicion that Mr. Walworth has a se
cret commission as Major in the Con
federate army, in the handwriting of
Beauregard. lie has nevertheless been
offered his freedom on three distinct
occasions, by the commission, on con
dition that he will take the oath of alle
giance. His firmness in refusing is
unaccountable to his friends.
Mrs. Baxley is another of the obsti
nates. It will be remembered that in
her hair were found a large number of
valuable letters and commissions from
Jeff. Davis. She is represented to be
H vvomaXL -J’ ‘
talent, and <>f Hoidtcrs.
It is said one of the prison sentinels
insulted her, and she threw a tea-pot at
his head, which sent him howling from
his post. A large black flag is fre
quernly seen waving from her window,
particularly after the report of a Con
federate defeat.
Negro Hung —Wc are informed by
Mr. Medlock of tl.c Central Georgian
that the negro boy Irve—belonging to
the estate of Richard: Western of Wash
ington county—w! o killed Mr, Hailey
his overseer, was hung by the .people of
the neighborhood on Monday. A jury
of twelve men was selected and the
negro was executed in accordance with
their verdict - Aug Con.
The Proposed Conscription.
The Memphis 'Appeal,’ commenting
on the President’s message recominenf
ing the passage of a law declaring
that all pr isons residing within the
Confederate Slates, between the ages of
eighteen and thirty-five years, an.l
rightfully subject to miliiary duty,
shall be held to i>e in the service of the
Confederate Stales,’ and (hat all ‘(lie
legislation hevtofore euac ed which
would conflict with ilicsystcm propos
ed’ be repealed, says :
The course of legislation here rec
omniended sweeps at once from
our laws the system of raising and
maintaining armies which has hitherto
prevailed iu this country from its early
history, ami which was drawn from the
custom prevalent in England. The
system proposed is that of the uon
scuirrioN, which wasotginally in exis
tence among the Romans was iu mod
ern times adopted by the French, and
afterwards introduced under one form
er other, into most of the European
States. A change so sweeping as the
one proposed demands the earnest at
tention of those who are io be affected
by it. If the conscription be introdu -
ced net an individual cit’zen will be un
affected by its workings in his or her
person or family; not a domestic hearth
in all the length and bre idth of the
Confederacy will escape its action,
which is confined to no class. A sys
tem that is of such personal interest
every citizen should be reflected upon
by t very citizen, before he sanctions its
infliction upon himself and its entail
ment upon his posterity. Wc are now
in the progress < f a revolution; that
revolution successful, exeicises an
abiding' inlltu nee on the future of our
country, and the line of principle
adopted now is like a young tree confi
ded to the fruitful earth to grow and
expand and in other generations to
produce fruit that will nourish or poison
that will destroy. As a free people
we have at all times claimed and exer
cised the right of narrowly sei'titiniz
ing and freely discussing the proceed
ings of our public men. At a time
like the present, this duty of watchful
superintendence over cur legislative
and executive officials their policy and
conduct is of more importance than dur
ing ordinary epochs for wc are now
making precedents to be quoted and
submiitcd to in future times. Inac.se
when the whole military policy of our
fathers, and of the free land which we
sprung is proposed to be cast aside,
this narrow scrutiny and free discus
sion is especially requisite.
What is the conscription? We pre -
fer giving the explanation in other
words ihan our own; in words written
without view to any bearing they may
have upon events now existing among
us. The history of Europe l y Alison,
is a well known :nd highly esteemed (
work; from the Ist vol., page 562, of
that book Harpers’ edition 1843, we
copy the following account of the mod- (
ern origin of the conscription, which
wnis introduced in Erance in 1798, at a ,
period of sti ong public difficulty. The ,
historian says:
“It remained to adopt some method
for the auguinentation of the army,
which had been extremely diminished
by sickness and desertion since the
peace of Campo Eorinio. The skeleton
of the regiments, anil the non-coiiin.is
sioued i fficers, remained; but the ranks >
exhibited 1 irge chasms, which the ex- 1
isting state of the law provided no
means of supplying. T. e convention,
no'withstanding their energy had made
no permanent provisi >n for recruiting
their army but had contented themselves
with two levies one of 300,000 and one
0f1,200,000 men which with the volun
tary supplies since furnished by the
patrio ism or suffering’ of the people had
been found inadequate to the w .nts of
the State. But now that the revolu
tionary fervor had subsided and a ne
cessity cxliisted for finding a permanent
supply of soldiers to meet the wars in
to which the insatiable ambition of the
government had plungc’d the country,
som lasting resources became indispen
sable. To meet the difficulty, General
Jourdan proposed the law ot the ' con
scription, which became one of the
most important consequences of the
revolution. By this decree every
Frenchman from twenty to forty-five
of~iige was ueclarcu ufneTial.le o j
rnilitni’.y soi-vTCC. Those 1 ab'e to sol ve I
were divided into glasses, according to |
the years of their birth, and the g >veri -
meiit. were authorized to cull out the
youngest, secon ', oi third class accord
ing to the exigencies ol the times The
conscript was to take place by lot in.!
the class from which it was d j rec bed;
to be taken.”
'litis w'as the origin of the conscrip- I
tion among modern u.-ui ms: e have
now to no ice ns workings and ascertain |
its influence upon the personal feelings, ;
and individual happiness of lie people ,
■among whom it was introduced. To
do this we will pass from the ye n 17- 1
98 to* that 1807, when Napoleon applied
for. still another addition to the pre-!
vious conscriptions. We quote fri-m,,.
vol. 2, page 489 ol the history,
“So greaj was the go eral apprehen
sion that the government did not veil- .
tiire to promulgate ihc order (tofan tit-
VOL. XIX—NO. 1&
er couseriptiou) until, by emissaries,
and articles in the public journals, the
public min i had in aotiie degree, been
prepared for the shock; and when it
was announced, Reginauld St. Angely
—the orator intrusted with the task—
..shed tears, and even the obsequious
Senate could not express their acquies
cence by any of the acclamations with
which they usually received the im
maml ites. So powerful was the public
f.-eling, so visible and -universal the
expression of of terror in the capital
that it was loti: d necessary to assauge
the general grief by a clause declaring
'that, the new levy was at first to be
merely organized as an army of reserve.
* * . These promises however,
proved entirely illusory.”
A measure producing effects such as
these could, of course, only be adminis
tered by the pressure of harsh legisla
tion, carried relentlessly in practice;
the following from the volume 2, page
575, of the smi t authority informs ns
on this point:
'•Exemptions weie at first allowed to
be piirchiised for three hundred francs,
but th : s privilege was repealed, -tnd in
the latter years of the Empire a substi
tute could not be proctirred for less
than eight hundred and a thousand
pounds (fettr to live thousand dollars.)
* * * It was decreed that a deser
ter, or a persen who failed to attend
should be fined fifteen hundred (runes,
and sentenced to three years hard la.
bor in the inter’or, w ith his head shav
ed but his beard long; if he deserted
from the army, his punishment was to
be undergone in a frontier place where
he was sen enced to hard labor for ten
years, on bread and water with a bullet
of eight pounds weight chained to his
leg’, with a shaved head and an nnshav
ed beard; in comparison of which death
itself would have appeared an act of
mercy. Such were tke punishment
which awaiteed without distinction, all
the youth of Frinee. if they tried to
avoid the conscription.” •
“Allison expresses bis opinion of the
system of the conscription in the follow
ing words:
“I'hus the justice of heaven made the
rovolutionary passions of France the
means of working out their own punish
ment. The atrocious aggression on
Switz- rland, the flames of Undcrwaid
ei:, the subjugation of Italy. «•»»••»>
tercd in the book of fate, nid brought
about a dreadful and lasting retiibu
tion. Not the bay inets of the allies,
not the defense o! their country, occas
ioned this lasting scourage; the invas
ion of other Sta es, the cries of injur
ed inno once first brought it into exis
tence. They fixed upon its infatuated
people that terri le law,which soon car
ried misery into every cottage, and bathed
with ea>-s every mother in France. - Wide’
as had been the spread of the national
sin, as wide was the lash of a national l
punishment.”
“History is phiiisophy teaching by'
example.” The reader lias in the above’
materials for drawing conclusions as to'
the nature, influence, and consequences
of the conscription and as to the pro
priety of substituting it for the system
under which our fathers, fought and con
quered.
Yankee. Prisoners.
About seven hundred of these pre
cious keep-sakes which were found on
the battle-fi -Id of Shiloh reached Mont
g.iniery yesterday from Mobile. The offi
cer including an above the rank of Capt
ain were dropped at Selma, to be trans
ferred thence to Talladega; the Lieu
tenants, non-commissioned officers andi
privates were brought to Mpntgomer
ry.
\Ve learn from a gentleman who was
a passenger un the boat and who con
versed freely with them, that the pris
oners were chiefly Western men, and.
’to tho manor born’ quite a small pro--
poriion of them being foreigners. A
few of them were from Missmri and
among the latter wore several slave
holders. Our informant systh it they
expressed grea-t confidence in the abili
ty of the Federal armies to- subjugate’
the South and tint in very short o del"
allowing us only three months, of
grace: said the North-west was fight--
ing to open the Misesissippi.
They admittled that GranVs army, off
which they formed a part, was badly
whipped in the fight on Sunday. For
tiiis defeat they (the prisoners) disclaim
all responsibility. They were posted:
in the centre and lield their ground,,
but both wings gave way, thus allowing,
them to be completely stirrouudbd.—
They held an indignation meeting on,
the boat ovei the 'spoilt beef and liuixll
bread’ they were compelled to cat. It.
strikes us that 'indignation’ would be a.
proper diet lor them.for some lime.—
Col. 'l'inics.
A ,-.MoM.'iin'oi.A. — Owv forces somc'timc.
ago cvacu.itcd this fort. Whcn-i they
were ail gout-, Federals came in and)
took possc-ss'oii ,of the town.