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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. - 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. ti . 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. • ■■ tQ* ■■ 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. — 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. - 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. (Ib. ■ . I■ —11 ®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. <a >ii _ 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. w- 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. > 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. ! ( • e* t 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 ’