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©lie Marietta Iriioriite. BY R. M. GOODMAN. W gidwate. The Weekly Advocate Is published every Friday Morning ai $2 00 a year in Advance, Blanks! Blanks ! Blanks I BLANKS in any quantity and of every va riety Kept on hand or printed to order, at ♦he lowest possible price, at this office. Also—JOß WORK, of every varie ty and style, executed in the neatest an 1 . most approved style of the art. and at prices which cannot be ••murmured at" by the •closest-fisted" in or out of this section of the country. Give us a trial. 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.