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Sale.
BY virtue ot an order from the Court of Or
dinary of Cobb County, will be sold on the
first Tuesday in May next, before the court house
door, in the city of Marietta. Cobb county, be
tween the legal bonrs of sale, lot of land No.
250, in the 18th district and 2d section. Cobb
comity, containing 10 acres, more or less, with
a good framed dwelling house, out buildings
Ac.
• Also. Lots No. 75G, with reserve of one acre
in north eastcorner, and Nos. 757. 799. and parts
of Nos. 830 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 Cobb County:
WMTHERE.AS. T. J. I’erkerson. as the son.
v ▼ and W. C. Strickland, as the son-in-law
■of deeeased, apply to me in writing, for letters
•of Administration o-i the estate of John S, Per
kerson, late of said county, deceased.
These are therefore to cite and admonish all
and singular those concerned to file their objec- I
tions. if any they have, in my office on or before j
/he first Monday in May next, otherwise letters
■of ndmifistration 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.
Georgia Cubb County:
WHEUEtS. Mrs. Martha 1). Nesbitt. Exec
trlx u . ‘e-estate of H. O. K. Nesbitt,
fate of s : ! county deceased, applies to
me for letters . Emission from the adminis
tration of said • ate.
These are th • -fore to cite and admonish all
and singular t • cindred and creditors of said
deceased, to t: • heir objections, if any they
have, ia my of; ■ on or before the first Monday
in July next, •■iberwise letters of dismis
sion will be v nted the applicant at that
term of the Con : if Ordinary for said county.
Given under ~■■•• hand, at Marietta, this 3d
day of Januar'.. s:’>2.
January 3d.’ JNO G CAMPBELL. Ord’y .
GEORGIA. -Paulding County.
WIIEREAS. Enoch Pinkant. Administrator
of the E~ ite of James N. Pinkant. de
ceased. applies '•> me for Letters of Dismission,
from said Admin’-tration.
These are the: . / .re to cite and Admonish all
persons concern--1. to be and appear at my of
fice. on or before i’.ie first Monday in March next,
to show cause (:t ny they have) why said Let
ters Dismissory s'. mid not-then be Granted the
applicant.
Given under my hr»nd at office this September
jnd, 1861. MILES EDWARDS, Or’dy.
GEORGIA, Paulding County;
WHEREAS Enoch Pinkard Administrator
on the estate of James N. Pinkard de
ceased applies to me for letters of dismission
from said Administration. These are therefore
to cite end require all and singular all persons
concered 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, Ordy.
Nov. 12.1861. per S. L. Strickland.
Pickens County Georgia.
Til WO months after date application will be
I made to the Court of Ordinary of said
•county, at the 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.
ELIAS W. ALLRED.
Feb. 3d. 1862. Adinr. de bonis non.
VrOTICE.—TWO MONTH; after date, ~ap
plication will be made to the Court of Or
dinary of Cobb ebunty, for leave to sell the
LANDS belonging to the ertate of Moses A
Hartsfield deceased, for the benefit of the heirs
and creditors of said deceased. March 21. 1862.
DANIEL WRIGHT, Adm’or.
TWO»MONTHS after date application will be
made to the Tlourt of Ordinary of Milton
county, for leave to sell the lands belonging to
the estate of Bryer Howard, deceased, for the
benefit of the heirs and creditors of said dec’d.
JOHN S. JAMES,
J. C. STREET,
April 4. 1862. Adm’or.s.
GEORGIA, Forsyth county.
TWO months after date, 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.
Notice.
ALL persons having demands against the es
tate of Eleander Atkins, dec’d., are reques
ted to present them properly attested, tv the
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. —4od.
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., are 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 2Ut, 1862.
DANIEL WRIGHT. AdnPr.
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
properly attested, to the undersigned within
the time prescribed by law ; and all persons in
debted to said estate, arc required to make im
mediate payment. April 17, 1862.
15 THOMA? A. GOBER. Ei’or.
£ll r Mart rt t a Aii hoc at c.
- Georgia- Cobb County:
WHEREAS, Edward Mays, as the friend of
deceased, applies to me in writing for
• letters of Administration on the estate of Wylly
McConnell, late of said County, deceased.
These are therefore to cite and Admonish all
and singular those concerned to file their objec
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 applicant
at that term of the Court of Ordinary of Cobb
i County. *
Given under my band, at office, in Marietta,
I this April Ist. 1862.
JNO. G. CAMPBELL, Ordinary.
Georgia Cobb County
YTTHEREAS, Gbed R. Eason, as the friend
VI of deceased, applies to me in writing for
I letters of Admir.iatration on the estate of Char
; les Ellis, late of said county, deceased.
j These are therefore to cite and admonish all
i and singular those concerned to file their objeo
' tions in my office, on or before the first Tuesday
in May next - otherwise letters of Administra
tion will be granted the applicant at that term
ot the Court of Ordinary for said county.
Given under my hand, at Marietta, this Ist
Aptil. 1862.
JNO. G. CAMPBELL, Ord’y.
GEORGIA, Paulding County.
WHEREAS, Edward Magin, Administrator
on the Estate of C. C. Caldwell, deceas
ed. applies to me for Letters of dismissson from
said Administration.
These are therefore to cite and Admonish all
persons concerned to be and appear at my of
fice on or before the Ist Monday in October next
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.
~ BUSI X ESS CAR OS.
Churches in Marietta.
M. E. f’hureh Rev. Alex. Graham. Pastor.
Presbyterian Rev. E. I’. Palmer. Pastor
Episcopal (St. James) Rev. S. Benedict, Rector
Baptist filled 2nd and 4th Sabbath
I in each month by the Rev. Mr. Rambav.
| Two Churches for tho Blacks, .Methodist and
Baptist.
’ A. N.~ SIMPSON •’ ~
Attorney and Councellor at Law-
Marietta -. .Georgia.
October 6, ly.
A. J. HANSELL~
Attorney at Law & Solicitor in Chancery.
Marietta Georgia.
October 6, >y.
~~"Jo H N 0i. — G ARTRE LL,
j
Attorney and Councellor at Law ■
Marietta Georgia. 1
July 29. yi ;
c. d. piiillTps, ’
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Marietta Georgia.
june 15iy
• G. N. LESTER.
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Marietta, G eorgia,
’T’XT’ILL practice in the Blue Ridge Circuit
VV the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the
District Court at Mrrietta.
February 29, 1861 ’ ly.
JE. FA W.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Marietta, Georgia.
WILL diligently attend to any business con
fided to his care in the counties of Cobb,
Chetokee. Milton and Paulding.
CLAIMS collected as soon as it can b.e done by
law, and the money promptly paid over.
Jan 20, 1861.
WM. PHILLIPS. J. T. BURKHALTER
PHILLIPS & BURKHALTER,
Attorneys Tjzx'W',
IMsiriettsi, Georgia.
Will practice in Fulton, Paulding and all the
counties of the Blue Ridge Circuit, in the Su
preme court, and District court,
April 5, ’6O -ly.
Attorney and Counsellor nt LaW,
Marietta, Cobb county Ga.
Will pr actice, 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 Inferior Coifrts 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.
Promptand efficient attention will be given to
all manner of business in the Courts of Ordina
ry in the county of Cobb and adjoining :o tnties.
Feb. 10 one v
DAVID IRWIN. GREENLEE BUTLER.
IRWIN & BUTLER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
ZvLecrlettei, G-a.
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 Conrt at Marietta,
and at the Supreme Court at Atlanta.
The 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 SWW* Dentist
C CONTINUES the practice of his profession
) 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.
I am compelled to adhere more strictly to
the cash system, in order to comply myself with
the demands of others.
750“ OFFICE over the Post Office.
.Marietta. Feb. 4th 1862.
MARIETTA, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1862,
The C'uiiscriptiJii Bill.
This important measure has passed
both houses of Congress. For the in
formation of our readers, a large major
ity of whom are interested in its provis
ions, we append a copy of the bill as
follows:
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED “AN ACT TO FURTHER
PROVIDE FOR THE PUBLIC DEFENCE.”
I:i view of the exigencies of the coun
try, and the absolute necessity of keep-'
ing in the service our gallant army
ami of placing in the field, a large ad.
ditional force to meet the advancing
columns ol the enemy now invading
our soil. Therefore,
Section 1. The Congress of the Con
federate States do enact, That the Presi
dent be and he is hereby authorized, to
call out and place in the military ser
vice of the Confederate States, forthree
years unless the war shall have been
sooner ended all white men who are
residents of the Confederate States, be
tween the ages of eighteen and thirty
five years at the time the call or calls
may be made, who are not legally ex
empted from military service. All of
the persons aforesaid who are not now
in the armies of the Confederacy, and
whose term of service will expire before
the end of war, shall be continued in
.he service for three years from the
datifcof their original enlistment, unless
the war shall have sooner ended: Pro
vided, however, that all such compan
ies, battailions and regiments whose
term of orginai enlistment was for
twelve months, shall have the right,
within forty days, oh a day to i e fixed
by the commander of the brigade, to
reorganize said companies, battalions
and regiments, by elec.ing all their
officers which they had a right hereto
fore to elect, who shall be commission
ed by the President; Provided, further,
That furloughs not exceeding sixty days
with transportation home and back,
shall l-e gra'.Jed to all those retained’
in the service by the provisions of this
act beyond the period o therr orignal
enlistmen’, and who have heretofore
not received furloughs under the p o
visions of an act en itled “An act uro
viding for the granting of bounty and
furloughs to privates and non-commis
sioned officers in thel’rov isional Army,”
approved 11th December, 1861, said
furloughs to be granted al times, and in
such numbers, as the Secretary of War
may deem most compatible with the
public interes'; and Provided, further,
That in lieu of a lurlough the commu
ration value in money of the traiftpor'.
tation hereinabove granted shall be
paid to each private musician, or non
commissioned officer who may elect to
receive it at such time as the furlough
would otherwise be granted. Provided
further, that all person tinder the age
of eighteen years, or over the age of
thirty five years, who arc now enrolled
in the military service of the Confeder
ate States in the regiments battalions
and companies hereafter to be organized
shall be required to remain in their
respective companies battalions and
regiments for ninety days unless their
places can sooner be supplied by other
recruits no 1 now in the service, who are
between the ages of eighteen and 35
years; and all laws and parts <4 lawspro
viding for the re-enlistment of volun
t> ers, and the organization thereof into
companies squadrons battailions or reg
iments, is shall be and the same art*
hereby repealed.
Sec. 2. it further enacted, That
such companies, squadrons, battalions,
or regiments organized, or in process of
organization by au hority from the Secr
etary of War, as may be, within thirty
days from the passage of this act so fa
completed as to have the whole number
of men requisite for organization actual
ly enrolled not embracing in said ovganir
zations any persons now in service, shall
be mustered into the service of the. Con
federate States as part of the land force
of the same, to be received in that arm
of the service in which they arc author
ized to organize, and shall elect their
company battali on, and regimental offi
cers.
Sec. 3. Beit furiher .enacted, That
for the en-rollment of all persons com
prehended within the provisions of this
act, who tire not already in the srmies of
the Confederate States it shall be lawful
for the President, with the consent of
the Governors of the respective States,
to employ State officers, and, on failure
to obtain such consent, he shall cm--
p’oy Confederate officers, charged with
the duty of making such enrollment in
accordance with ratej ami regulations
to be prescribed by him.
Sec. 4 Be it further enacted, That,
persons enrolled under the provisions
of the preceding section shall be as
signed by the Secretary of War to the
different companies t ow in service, mi',
til each company is filled to its maxi
mum number, and the persons so en
rolled shall be assigned to companies
from the States from which they res~
pectfiilly come.
Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That
all seamen and ordinary seamen in the
land forces of the Confederate States
enrolled under the Provisions of this,
act, may on applications cf the Secra
tary of the Navy be transfered from
the land forces to the naval service.
Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That in i
all cases where a State may not have
in the army a number of regiments bat
talions, squadron, or companies suffi.
cient to absorb the number of persons
subject to military service under this
act belonging to such State then the
residue or excess thereof shall be kept
as a reserve under such regulations as
may establised by the. Secretary of
War; and then at stated periods of not
greater than three months detei mined
by lot «liall bo made from said reserve
so that each company shall, as nearly
as practicable be kept full.
Provided, That the persons held in
reserve may remain at home until call
ed into service by the President. Pro
vided, also, that daring theii* stay at
home they not receive pay. Provided,
further, that the persons comprehended
in this act shall not be subject to the
rules and articles of war, and mustered
into the actual ’service of the Confeder
ate States; except that said persons
when en oiled and liable to duty, if they
shall wilfully refuse to obey said call
such of them shall Re held to be a de
serter, and punished as such under said
articles. Provided, further, that when
ever, in the opinion ot the President,
the exigencies ot the public service may
require it; he shall be authorized to call
into actual service the entire reserve,
or so much as may be necessary, not
previously consigned to different com
panies in service, under provisions of
section four of this act. Said reserve
shall be organized under such rules ns
the Secretary of War may adopt pro
vided the company, battalion and regi
mental officers shall be elected by the
troops composing the same; provided
the troops resided in any one State,
sliall not be combined, io regimental
battalion, squadron, or c.nnpany. organ*
tization, with the troops raised in any
other State.
Sec. 7. Beit further enacted, That
all sodlicrs now serving in the army,
or mustered in the milit ry service of
the Confederate States, or enrolled in
said service under the authorizations
heretofore issued to the Secretary of
War, and who are continued in the ser
vice by’ virme of this act, who have
not received the bounty of fifty’ dollars
allowed by existing law’s, shall be enti
tled to receive said bounty.
Sec. 8. Be it furtl er enacted, That
each man who may’ hereafter be mus
tered into service, and who shall
arm himself with a musket, of shotgun
rille or carbine, accepted as an eflicieiit
weapon, shall be paid the value thereof
to be aceitained by the mustering offi
cer under such regulation as may be
prescribed by the Secretary of War, it
he is willing to sell the same, and if he
is not then he shall be entitled to re
ceive one dollar a month for the use of
said received and approved musket,
rifle,- shot-gun or caibine.
Sec 9. Beit furiher enacted, I hat
persons not liable for duty may be ic
ceived as substitutes tor those who are
under such regulations as may be pre
scribed by’ the Secretary of W ir.
Sec. 16. Be it further enacted, That
all vancancivs shall be filled by the
President from the company, battalion
squadron or regiment, in which such
vacancies occur, by promotion accord
ing to seniority, except in cases of dis
ability or other, incompetency: Provid
ed, however, That the President may,
when, in his opinion, it may be proper,
all such vacancy or vacancies by the
promotion of any officer or officers or
private or privates from company, bat
talion, squadron on regiment who shall
have been distinguished in the service
by exhibition of valor and skill, and
that whenever a vacancy sh-ill occur in
the lowest grade of the commissioned
officers of a company, said vacancy be
filled by election: Provided, all ap'.
pointments made by the President, shall
be by’ and with the advice atid consent
of the Senate.
Sec. 11. Be it further enacted, That
provisions of the first .section of this uct
relating to the election of officers shall
apply to those regiments, battalions,
and sqadrons which composed of twelve
months’ ami war companies combined
in the same organization, without re
gard to the manner in which the officers
thereof were orginally appointed.
Sec. 12. Be it further enacted, That
each company of infantry’ shall consist
of one hundred and twenty-five, rank
and file; each company of field artillery I
of one hundred and fifty, rank and file,
and each of cavalry of eighty, rank and
file.
Sec. 13. Be it further enacted, That
all person subject to enrollment, who
are now in the service under the provis
ions of this act shall be permitted, pre
vious to such enrollment, to volunteer
in companies now in the service.
Salt.
Meetings are being held at various
points in the State to devise ways and
means for procuring tliis essential coni
m«7ttTyT~*n is cloTuhily time wc were
making some effort to obtain a supply, as
the stock will soon be wholly exhausted
in the South. We are not aware of the
adoption of any plan as yet, but see no
reason why t.he object may not, with the
proper effort, be successfully accomplisb-
Froin the Augusta Chronicle.
A Protest.
We are glad to see, from the protect
of Messrs Wright, of Georgia, and Fos
ter, of Alabama, against the seizure of
the Railroads by the Government, that
there arc some membcis of Congress
that are willing to recognize the fact
that there is such a thing as the Coj
stitution of the Confederate States
So long a time had elapsed since th it
document has been mentioned, and »o
continually had its provisions been ig
and violated, that there existed some
doubt if it had not been totally annull
ed by Congress in some of its secret
sessions.
In spite of the plain provisions of the
Constitution against internal improve
ments by the General Government
which formed such valid ground of
complaint against the old Government
we find the constitutional objection
against building lines of Railroads in
Louisiana and Texas and the Danville
connection in Noith Carolinia very
feebly urged and we believe it has been
enacted that these roads shall be built
in direct violation of the Constitution.
Thus the lattitudinarian principles of
the old government are peipetuuted.
The same plea of military necessity
which was used by the Federal Govern
ment to justify the building of the Pa
cific Railroad, and which was so bitter
ly opposed by the strict construction
ists of the South is used to excuse these
violations of the plain provisions of the
Confederate Constitution. This plea of
military necessity has become to be
the excuse for all sorts of usurpations
—not only for building Railroads, for
taking private property for public uses
without compensation, for abridg
ing the liberty of the citizen, for
interfering with trade, but even for
repealing tl e laws of the State, and ta
king the command of its militia out of
the hands of its Governor, or for his
willingly and illegally yielding up his
prerogatives. If military necessity’ is
always to excuse every arbitrary act of
the General Government, and every in
fringment of private rights, it ia best
no longer to deceive the people with the
idea that they live under a government
controlled by constitution and laws.—
No people in any age of the world have
been more ready than our’s to give up
everything for the cause in which they
struggling, but they cannot see with
out a murmur all the barriers between
their liberties and military despotism
broken down, and they will therefore
admire the manliness of these public
men who have the courage to protest
against any abitrary assumption of
power.
We copy from the proceedings of
Congress nil Munday tl c following pro
test:
Mr. Foster, of Alab ma, offered the
following protest, and asked that it be
entered on the minutes: *
“We, the undersigned, members of
the first session of the first permanent
Congress beg most respectfully to en
ter this,our most s. lernn protest against
the passage of an act entitled “An act
to provide for the safe and expeditious
tr.xnspor ation of tioops and munitions
of war by railroad,” and in justification
of the same to lay before the House
F.nd the country the following- as our
ren.-ons, viz:
1. We believe that there is no pow
er granted by the Constitution, either
expressed or implied,* that authorizes
Congress in appropriating’ or seizing
the property of States or persons, ;rnd
placing the same, either for temporary
or permanent purposes in the hands of
the Executive or any wise disposing of
the same without the consent, of the
owners thereof. On the contrary, we
believe that the Constitution expressly
p-.ohibits and denies such power, for
art cle 1, section 9, expressly declares
that‘The right of the people to be se
cure in their persons, houses, papers
a nd effects against unreasonable search
es and seizures shall not be violated.’
‘2. Wc believe that this act, did it
become a law would be subversive of
ami iii iliiect contravention to, the
great an fudemental principles of State
sovereignty; the right to regulate their
own domestic instiutions being- one of
those unalienable and sacred rights re-*
served by the States composing our
Confederacy, and the destruction of
our lil><-rt ies.
VOL. XIX—NO. 17.
*3. We believe the act to be altogeth
er inexpedient and uncalled for, ami
that the several railroads in the Confed*
crate States— all of which have Lccii
prompt and willing to aid the govern*
ment to the very utmost of their’capaci
ty and at reduced charges— have beotl
and will continue to be far better man-*
aged by iheir presidents and diroctof
chosen by the stockholders who ar«l
more conversant with all the minut*
and complicated details of their roads,
and the proper and economical man
agement of their means of transporta
tion, than the executive or his military
subordinates could possibly be.
'For these and other equally cogent
reasons, which must occur to every in
telligent mind not unreasonably de
pressed by exigencies and vicis-itudes,
through which Providence has decreed
that we should pass in our prograss to
national independence, and which we
hope and believe are but the precurs
ors ot victory and success we protest
against said act, and respectfully re
quest that this our protest he entered
on the journal.
[Signed | “A. R. Wright,
“T. J. Foster.”
•• Parsou” Brownlow on the Southern
Clergy.
We copy from the Cinciunaii (Ohio)
Commercial, the following remarks of
that notorious old Tennessee hypocrite,
who has turned up there with a Flea in
his Ear and a Lie in his Mouth :
Monday morning- Parson Brownlow
met some thirty Methodist Proacbeis at
the Klethodist book concern, and made
a brief spsech. He said he knew only
three Methodist preachers who were
loyal. Bishop Soule condemned the re
bellion ; he did not dare no more, be
cause he would be hung, as he is. The
bish.>p had to swear to support the
Southern Confederacy. Mr. Brownlow
said the Southern churches wore
for good. Union people would not hear
Secession preachers, nor Secessionists
these who were loyal.
He, the speaker, owed his’eseape to
the protests of his triends in East Ten
nessee,'(which is Union five to one)
and to the political civilian leaders of
Eennessee, saying if he was kept, 12 of
their leaders wotiid be sacrificed. His
wife and children were detained as hos
tages for his good conduct. He told
his wife to make up her mind to be exe
cuted, us ke should ce tainly speak a
gainst the Confederacy.
The worst men, he remarked, in the
Southern Confederacy are Methodist,
Baptist, Presbyterian and Episcopalian
preachers. They drink and swear ttoek
days, and preach Sundays. When they
became secesh they bid farewell te hon
esty, truth and decency.
The Confederacy originated in lying,
stealing and perjury. Floyd did the
stealing, the common masses the lying,
and fourteen Senators fiom the cotton
States the perjury—the latter class
while retaining thpir seats in the Uni
ted States’ Senate, and making a pre
tense of observing their oatl.s, but at
night, till twelve o'clock, holdiug se
cret meetings, sending dispatches to
their respective States to pass ordinan
ces of secession, to seize torts, etc.
Among- the instances illustrating the
spirit prevailing among the Southern
clergy, Mr. Biownlow said that tho’
pastor of the First Presbyterian charch
in Knoxville, called a union prayer
meeting to pray that Burnside’s fleet
might sink and the blockade be raised.-
The same minister had said that lie
would rather use a Bible printed and'
bound in Hell than one from tho North.-
Also that Jesus Christ was born on'
Southern soil, and that all his apostles
were Southern men, except Judas Is- -
cariot who was a Northern man. This
was said openly Irom his pulpi! on Sul-"
day.
Mr. Brownlow is of opinion that
there are better men in the place where'
the Presbyterian parson looked for the •
next edition of the Bible, than tho
Southern leaders. He had seen good
men taken out of his prison in knots,
and one by one hung—fathers and their
sons. He was of opinion that it w#s
time to hang on our side.
Mr. Brownlow intimated his inten*'
tion of going back to Knoxville to re- ;
establish his paper which he had edited
for twenty-fivo years, and which had :
more subsetibers than all the papers in«
East Tennessee combined.