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TEIBGaAtHIC.
Richmond April 15.—The Whig hau
Northern dates to the 13th. lhe ac
count of the Charleston fight says the
fire which opened on the Keokuk, from
four or five hundrel guns, has novel
perhaps been equalled in the history of
the world. While balls struck hei eve
ry moment, her guns were worked with
vigor and precision. It soon became
evident that she was not an iron-clad.
She was a failure. The rebel balls
seemed to penetrate her as easily as a
wooden vessel. During thirty minutes
100 shets passed through her. She was
perfectly riddled, and sunk next merit
ing. She had 13 seriously wound—2
mortally.
The Ironsides (?) was not seriously
damaged. The rebels mistook a scow
which broke loose, for the Devil.
Jackson, Miss. April 17.—Memphis
dates of the 13th, says several regiments
have been sent from Memp..is into
Noithcrtbern Mississippi to act as cav
alry scouts.
Corinth is reported to have been large
ly reinforced —rumor says 30,000 men
have been sent there via Tennessee riv-
er.
• The fleet which came out »f Yazoo
Pass, went down the Mississippi riv
er.
Two transports and one gunboat went
down the river on the 13:b, and seven
more boats on the 15th.
A large cavalry force had passed
through Memphis, supposed to be go
ing to tho Tennessee river.
The Mississippi river is falling two
feet daily at Memphis—this fall is un
precedented.
Vicksburg, April 17.—Eight of the
enemy’s gunboats came down at 11
o’clock last night; our batteries opened
upon them, firing heavily, which was
briskly replied to by some of the Yan
kee boats.
One boat was fired 1 y our incendiary
shells and burned to 'the water’s edge
in front of the city. The others, inclu
ding two transports, passed down. —
Two or three of them arc thought to be
disabled. None are now in sight, ex
cept one transport lying at Brown &
Johnson’s.
Two gun in the Yankee battery on
the Peninsula, opposite us, opened on
the city this morning at 9 o’clock, and
and are still firing.
LATER;
Vick»burg, April 17. P. M.—Four
prisoner from the boat sunk last night,
have been brought in tosday. They re
ported the Henry Clay sunk, Rome
burned, and La Fayette sunkjhst night
by eur batteiies, and also that, the re
mainder of the expedition will come
down to-night.
The enemy’s battery on the Pe .insula
ceased firing late this afternoon, having
done os mo damage.
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Port Hudson, La., April 17.—The ens
emy’s upper fleet has returned above
Bayou Sara. They stopped at Point
Coupee, and returned to the Post office,
the letters they had stolen from there on
their w>y dews. They committed no
depredation.
The lower fleet i/all quiet—but one
vessel in sight.
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Richmond, April 18.—Two steam pro
peller gunboats, ene of large size, and
both filled with troops came up York
river on Thursday. One of the boats
weut up Pamumkey river, a mile above
• West Point, our batteries opened fire
on them, doing great damage.
At the end of the action, she was got
off with great difficulty. The groans
and screams of the wounded were dis
tinctly heard at West Point.
Both propellers went down the river,
Jacksoa, April 18 —Col. Cogswell is
safe at Grand Gulf.
lhe gunboats are quiet, and lying 30
miles above Grand Gulf.
Yesterday the river was full of burn*
ing cotton and fragments of boats.
Scouts from above report lhe enemy’s
troopa still coming down, and are camp
ing opposite Vicksburg within good
range ot our batteries.
No damage has been done-to-day to
the gunboats at New Carthage.
Goldsboro,’ April U._Maj. Northcutt
commanding about 120 men of lhe BUI
N. C. battallion, engaged and fought a
arge force of Abolitionists at Sandy
THE MABLETTA WEEKLY ADVOCATE.
ridge 16 miles this side of Newbern,
yesterday morning.
The fight lasted one hour and twenty
minutes.
Our loss was two killed and four
wounded; tli’e latter have arrived in
town.
Major N. having retired behind
breastworks, was re’nforccd and again
advanced upon the enemy and forced
him to fall back upon the town.
The Yankee force is estimated to have
been about 2000.
Their loss is unknown, but must have
been considerable. •
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Richmond, April 18. —Confederate
bonds of the * 15,000,000 loan sold yes
terday at auction fur $177. To day, the
bonds < f the $1'00,000,000 loan, long date
sold at $1 09J- to 1 10|j.
The Senate went into secret session
to-day.
At an early hour, tho daiith of Mr.
Cook, of Missouri, was announced to rhe
Heuse.
Appropriate resolutions were offered
after which several culog’es on the char*
actor of the deceased were delivered. —
The House then adjourned.
Oklakona, April 20. —A Lo ly o' Ab
olition cavalry, estimate.! to be 1500
strong, were advancing on Pontotoc
yesterday. The advance guard is re
ported to have arrived there last, night.
Our forces arc concentrating t> resist
them. An engagement is certain to day
unless the enemy retie*
Milledgeville, April 18.—The Senate
passed the ZZotise bill organizing a State
Guard.of militia, including all between
18 and 60 years, not subject to con
scription, and abrogating the commis
sions of militia officers.
The Legislature adjourned at half past
twelve to day.
Chattanooga, April 18, 8 I’. M. -
There arc rumors of fighting near Tns*
cumbiii but no dcta’ls.
All quiet in fronb
Chattanooga, April 21. A number
of prisoners captured by Rodd.’s caval
ry arrived Imre to-day, from luscunibia.
The fight commenced at Deer Creek
The enemy 7 , five thousand strong, drove
our advance to Cave Creek, eight miles
from Tuscumbia, where we made a
atand, after a severe fight, capturing
five hundred and seventy 7 prisoners.
Ocr lot s is reported about twenty
killed and forty wounded; their loss is
said to be heavy.
The enemy have not advanced—our
forces st II holding them in check,
Jackson April 20.—A special dis*
patch to the Appeal from .Sena'.obia
represents the Federal raid in North
Missisippi to consist »f three columns
ol 2.500 each —each having a park i-f
artillery ami 50 cavalry. The column
which was advancing via Hernando is
reported to have gone back. Another
has reached a point 12 miles east of Sar
dis en the Miss. & Tenn. Railroad yes
terday. The progress of thellrrd is
unknown.
THE SITUATION
Parties from Tullahoma by laA even
ing’s train report all quiet along the
lines. The rumors concerning the re
cent fight of Van Dorn at Franklin, prove
to have been much exaggerated. The
loss on either side, wc understand, did
not exceed fifty killed, wounded, and
captured. Only a portion of Freeman’s
battery was captured by theenemy, and
it was immediately rc-taken by cur
troops.
Oar dispatches from lhe front this
morning confirm the capture of two
trains, with $30,000 and a number of
prisoners, including three of Rosecras’
staff.
newTsummary.
Several deserters have been executed
at Vicksburg. »
A hogshead of tobacco was sold in
Newport, Ky., lately at the extraordina
ry price of one hundred aud twenty-five
dollars per one hundred pounds.
The S. C. Legislature adjourned after
a Bcs«ion of one week—a good exam
ple for the Legis’ature of this State to
follow.
The wheat crop in Northern Alabama
promises well.
The Richmond correspondent of the
Charleston Mercury says that our army
in Virginia will soon commence active
operations.
Five thousand shares of the Great
Southern Insurance Company were al
lotted to Macon —seven thousand eight
hundred and eighty-five shares were ta
ken.
Papers from every direction give the
strongest assurances of an abundant
crop of wheat.
It is stated that there is more bacon
and corn for sale in Barbour county Ala
than there has ever been before.
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MARIETTA, GA.
mricLay, April 37,1863.
Mortliern Conspiracy.
The Philadelphia papers report the discov
ery of a band of conspirators, scattered through
out the free states and said to number a mil
lion of men sworn to establish a north-western
Confederacy. The Knights cl the Golden Cir
cle are mixed up in the programme.
The Cotton Question*
Our readers will recollect that ut the bo
gining of the present session of Congress a bill
was introduced to authorize the Government
to seize all the Cotton in the South for --public
use.” The bill- having raised a storm was
dropped. We observe now another plan on
foot to appropriate one-half of tho Cotton on
hand ata valuation of about 20 cents. The
recent success of tbe Cotton loan in Europe
has suggested the last proposition and tenders
it very plausible as a financial.measure.
Seizing in Marietta.
On Monday 7 last a number of females
from the Country visited the Store of
Mr. E. Page of iris | lace, and proceeded
to appropriate his Yarns. Up -n judic”
ious CJiD'd being giv n t’ e:a by some
gentlemen present tm-y 7 -eon appeared
ashamed of an act which they 7 cumd nut
justify ami desiste !.
Some of them we understood to»«ay
were destitute of ‘provisions.’ Even
in this there can be no ex use for seiz
ures in this County. Corn is furnished
here to the larger number of p ,or at
$1,50 per bushel and there is a fund,
tor their iclief, from ihe State to the
County, of some $50,000. We trust
that this tendency to anarchy will here
terminate.
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Mediation and Overtures for
Peace.
Mr. Valandigham in a recent speech
in Ohio made the following statements.
If true, a proposition for reconstruction
have been made, but we have no means
of knowing how fur they arc true, or by
what authority the propositions were
made.
‘ Only a few weeks since, the Empe
ror of France—that mighty nation, who
in days gone by. had aided us in the
procurement of our independence—pio
posed by peacable mediation to acttle
this mo-t terrible, internal difficulty in
which our country is involved. Did
the Administration accept the medic;**
tion? No, but obstinately and wicked
refused to cute tain the proposition.—
On the 12th of last December, when
from the city of Richmond information
came to the city of New York that there
was a disposition to compromise and
return delegates to the National Con
gress and Le obedient to the Constitu
tion and the laws, and thus retore the
Union as it was, the President, on that
day, rejected the proposition, and the
damning- evidence of tkat rejection ex
ists in New York over his own auto
graph, [cries, hear, hear,] but there is an
obligation of secrecy at present, and th<-
letter has not yet been given to the pub
lic. The day alter the Federal Army
crossed the Rappahannock into Frede.-
icksburg under the belief that Richmond
was to fall, and thus cd the rebellion.
The day previous Abr.ham Lincoln re
jected all pioposition to return, over his
own signature; and the day as er, the
hopes of the blind man in the White
House were dissipated in the defeat at
Fredericksburg, and the loss of 20,000
of our sons aud brothers He could
have entertained tha proposition on the
16th of December, but he heedlessly
and wickedly drove away all overtures
The question now arises, who has re
fused terms of peace or war? The Ad
ministration party—tho Abolitionists.
.me e..
The Floridians arc rallying from ah
sections of the Stat*; to repel tho Feder
al invaders
tp
The citizens of Dalh.s co., Ala., re
cently raised in one day $13,000 for
the poor of the county.
JPSTNo army was ever in better con
dition than that at'pres'mt under com
mand oi General Joo Johnston. We
arc so confident of its success that w«
would be willing to risk the fate of the
Confederacy on its next meeting with
the Yankees. — [Rebel.
K®»A battle cannot much longer be
deferred in Middle Tennessee. Two
grand armies cannot front each other
so closely without coming to the ‘hug.’
Our boys arc as certain to whip them,
as the opportunity and the time arrives.
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®gfc_Thc man who plants cotton this
year will run a great risk of having it
burned for him. The man who plants
corn will also be likely to have hisct"p
consumed.— (Ib.
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BgL-Thc Cincinnati Commercial, of
the 10th, says Gen. Rosecrans, in be
half of the Army of the Cumberland,
disputes Hooker’s claim that the Army
of the Potomac is the finest on the plan
et and having immense quantities and
enormous fortifications at Nashville and
Murfreesboro, ami an efficient cavmry,
trained through the winter in a scries
of brilliant dashes, and a splendid mass
of infantry full of confidence, in them
selves and commander, and an arttil
lcry arm as good as can be found on
the continent, will soon strike a blow
at the enemy’s center, that we mayiea -
onably have confidence will reach a vi
tal part;
The Knoxville Register of tha *lGth
says: “From all we can learn, the
present appearance of the wheat crop
promises are■ abundant harvest, Ine
last few days have been very favorable
for planting corn, and wc understand all
our farmers have determined to put in
as large crops as they can cultivate.—
L'he peach crop has been badly injured
by the lute frost-, but it is said with no
more fronts, we will probably have an
abundant yield of app-es and all other
fruits except peacues.”
On the 20th ot ‘he present inont i,
April ths new law against distillation
goes into tlfcct. From that tuns forth
it will be against the law to-dislil Alco
holic liquor*, m»t only from all ki;;d» ot
grain, but also Lorn potatoes, peas,
dried fruits, molasses. Ac., under severe
pj..allies. I’ut out your fires, and save
your potatoes, peas, and molasses aud
fruit for food, instead ofeouverting them
into poison.
TeXus has resolved, that should she
from any cause, withdraw from her as
socialion as a member of the Uonfcder
ate btates before the indebtedness oi
said Confederate States is fuby paid,
the faith of the State is hereby pledged
to the payment of her pro rata potion
of such remaining indebtedness, to
whoever the same may be due.
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The Yankees have overrun ihe North
ern Neck of Virginia, as far as they
can, stealing negroes, destroying stock
of every description, tiding and wasting
grain in large quantities, and carrying
oft' immense number* of horses and
mules. Very few farmers arc in condi
tion to make crops the present year,
from want of labor, teams farming im
plements, and inclosed fields.
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Much interest is lelt in the progress
ing siege of Washington, N. C., by the
Confederates und«r Gen. Hili, which is
increased from the fact that a fwree of
about 1(1000 Yankees marched from
aVcwbern thirty miles, to the relief of
t c place was met at Blouuttrcek, sev
enteen miles from Washington, and de
feated by Gtn. Pottiga w. The Yan
kees were attempting to gain General
Hill’s rear, to impede the progress of
our pursuing troops. As the garrison
at Washington can no longer rereive
reinforcements or provisions by the
river they will Le obliged to surrender-
A goad deul of ehellmg between our
batteries and tl.e gunboats and town
batteries has been going on. We have
lost only two killed—Jas. Melvennie
and Kelly, both of Wyatt’s Vir-
ginia artillery.
Whenever the signal for general attack
is made, Gen. Garnett’s brigade, with
he North Caroline regiments he has,
a ill advance and* storm the town. —
When that will be, it is impossible to
tell. !
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Phillip A. Clayton., of Columbus, has '
I c a appointed Confederate Marshall j
lor Georgia, in place of Thos. L. Ross, c
deceased. * <'
lhe enemy have surrendered Wil--
liumsburg,, Va., to our forces, who wero
greeted by the people of the aicient
tewn with marked manifestations of de
light. A considerable number ot con
scripts and contrabands were captured
by our men.
The Vick-burg correspondent of tho
New York Times writes:
One material step towards the reduc
tion of Vicksburg, has bjen accomplish
ed, viz: the Buccess ul penetration of
the Yazoo river from above, whereby
the rebels arc cut off from an important!
source of supplies, hitherto open to then}
( along the Yazoo, Cold-water and Tallas
haichio rivers.
With an ironclad fleet above and be*
low the works’ on Ilayne’s Bluffs, that
I position must speedily fall, either of its
own weight, or under the combined atv
tack of ihe Federal gunboats. That
once taken, and we have a footing upon
firm ground, and can advance our forces
upon lands as high as that occuj' ; ed by
the besc'gcd. This fact alone equalizes
the minensc odds of position encounter
ed l>y General Sherman, in his late aU
tack upon the precipitous and deads
ly heights beyond Chickasaw Has
you.
All these fine results depend upon an
if - f we take Haynes’ Bluff, they follow
as a matt'-r of necessity. But all our
military men are confident that a speedy
reduct on is a foregone conclusion when
attacked by the combined fl ets, hencn
mv anticipations ol further good results
are not exuavagant. The Yazoo river
once in our possession we control the
State of Mi -sissippi west of tie central
railroad, and as far sjuih as our present
position, while in add tiori, it is possible
d iring the present high water for our
gunboats to proceed up the Yallabtislm
river, cut the bridge over the road near
Grenada, and thus throw Northern Mis«-
sissippi utterly out of the Confederate
power. Ihe watt-r still rises around us.
and perhaps, judging from all
ances, the aqueous tyranny us another
feity days is upon m«, There is i ut. lit
tle on every tide save a waste of wa
ters.
To s:i:n up everything. I think that,
■ a though matters are progressing alowt
; j ly, there is every rcasvn to be ieve that
the siege of Vicksburg will prove u shc
-1 cess in fact, that • its fall, although it
1 may require so n* w<:ek«, or po~s bly
months, to accomplish ir, has become re*
, duced to mathematical ceitainty.
' Clerks Office of Inferior Court.
I A P prsons concerned ar« hereby notified
ZjL thntS, 11. McClesky, a Justice of the Peace
, in and for the 611th district G. M., transmits to
I me the following certificate, as an Estray dark
Brindle Bull, unmarked, supposed to be three
i years old this spring, appraised by R. 11. Bryan,
and 11. J/. Roberson to be worth twenty-five
dollars. A true extract from the Estray Book.
This April 14, 1 £63. ' "
W. W. CARRELL, C. I. C.
Isaac Sewell [
' . vs '
. Uliflord & Beann,) Bill for Revisisn Ac,
k Dan. S. Anderson, ?•
; John .V. JfcAfe^.)
It appearing to the Court that the Defendants
J Clifford <t Beann, resides out of this State. It
‘ is ordered that by the next term of this Court,
. they plead answer and demur, not demuring
alone, or that the bill in above case be taken
> pro con/estto as to them, and that this order bft
, put upon the minutes of Court, and be publish
ed once a month for four months in the Jfarietta
Advocate, which shall constitute sufficient ser
vice of the same.
GEORGE I). RICE. Judge S. C.
A .rue extract from the minutes of Cobb Su
, perior Court this April 2.'th 1863.
DILLARD M. YOUNG, Clerk.
ADMINISTRATORS SALE.
WILL be sold on the first Tuesday in June
next, before the court house door in Miltor.
county lot of land whereon Ferdinand Jett, resi
ded at the time ■ f his death. Number not rec
olected, situated one and a half miles from Ros
well. Sold for the benefit of the heirs and cred
itors. '4’crms on the dav, April 20, 1863.
’A. R. HICKS. Ex’or.
ANNIE JETT, Extrix.
Georgia, Dickons County.
WHEREAS. L. W. Hall, gppli s
to me for letters of administration upon
the estate cl John Hood late of said county de
ceased. ‘ •
The ,e are therefore, to cite and admonish all.
and singular, tjie kindred and creditors of said
deceased, to be and appear at my office, within
the time prescribed 'by law, to show cause if
any they have, why said letters should not bo
granted the applicant.
Given under my hand nt office, this April 20th
1862.
W II Simmons. O‘dy. '
POSTPONED
Administrators’ Salo.
By virtue of an o-der from the Court of
Ordinary of the County of Cobb, will be ■
sold before the court house within the legal hour
of sale on the first Tuesday in May next the one
third undivided interest in the Steam Mill at
Acworth in said County together with the land
attached thereto. Known as Oncil’s Naw Mill
Sold as rhe properly of N. 11, Campbell de
ceased for the benefit of Creditors. Terms
cash. March tith 1863
W. W. CARRELL. Adru'r ’