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marietta, ca.
?.l:v W 1863. 1
may be compelled to continue
the issue of a half sheet of the Advocate until
w? can procure a more efficient force for the bus
iness of the Office. All dead matter will be ex
cluded—the news will bo given at length and
in small but plain type so that the reading mat
ter will not be much diminished.
Every family, in this cruel war, has
its private grief ; but, the country mourns the
death of Stonewall Jackson; and wherever he
roism, virtue and patriotic, devotion finds an
admirer, an emotion of sadness will follow the
announcement of his death.
We ere indebted to Mr. Frazer for a
number of packages of Envelopes equal in
quality of paper *nffi»neatness to the best arti
cle, from the Worth. His factory is turning
•ur large quantities and we are pleased to learn
that a business which distributes so much good
—tymong employees is so thriving.
T> 'LjT ur
The election of a Governor is beginning
to engage th? attention of the people or rather
the press and politicians of Georgia. Ihe pref
erences at present can only be personal-no
other issue is now involved. Possibly other
issues, of a more important nature, may arise
before the day of election. It will be as w ell
in any event, to wait and see. Confined to
preferences involving no interest beyond the
ordinary administration of the State Govern
ment, wo would have no hesitation in sustaining
Gov. Brown.
YFee.’O pleas id to see that our friend
Capt G. IL Lk.s-.zr, is spoken of as the next
Congre: ’;cvl Representative for this district.
His abilities, integrity and untiring industry
would credit upon the choice of his
constituents.
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•liens Summary.
Vft- T’.a f rlsczsrs taken by Gen. Forest,
were Rlzirisd for Richmond, via Knoxville, on
the Bth, the At?—ta Confederacy says “thevan
dals sl.ucm uj» .1 song as the cars moved off.
yjp, T’-« 11th Division Georgia Militia has
' been ord ..el to bo in readiness to march to
any no: t«f the State at a moments warning
“tho sns-ny’a movsments indicating an intention
to reach Atlanta or some point on the Sta'e
Road.
j/ntT" It is reported that the Cherokee Na
tion Has revoked the ordinance of secession—
aa!:«d cor ansr.tcd emancipation—and abol
ished ’. erv.* This would seem to verri fy the
pvndicE:.\NfGen. Pike.
7* T : Federal States have sent into the
g e |d - the commencement of the war, in all
1,385,531 men.
«.„* Ito/wishing ton Chronicle, says Lin
coln haa 31 lerejfc draft of 500,000 men.
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an Dorn WIS k!l ’ cd « at h<:a , d
Tenn., it is said by a Dr. I e-
The offence of Gen. Van Dorn, it i?
said, v-as seduction. The Huntsville corres
pondent of the Rebel, of May Ist says of his
c-.f 2, “I fear that the officers of Van
Dorn's cmy, from the lowest to the highest, -re
wort’ -<j eo often at the altars of Venus and
Bacchus -■ have forgotten. Mars altogether."
“To .kirk that the men, upon whom the
country 1 :.~e to depend in this serious crisis,
• ffj its very existence, are daily losing the con
no c f, and respect of their subordinate and
th 3 pocplo generally by conduct which might
be called licentious in time of peace.”
Tullahoma is distant from Chatta
nooga tbirty'-Sve lailes by Railroad. —
At Tulteh etna the Nashville and Chat-1
Railroad is joined by the Mc-
Minnville and Manchester Railroad,
leading to McMinnville 35 miles.
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» It is stated that the Confederate Gov
ernment has about 250,000 bushels of
corn stored in Middle and Southwest
ern Georgia. The more the better, if it
is properly cared for.
Some lettar writers think the Feder
ate intend to make the moutfi of Red
rirsr a base of operation— bring up
troops from New Orleans through the
numerous deep bayous in Louisiana,
th-s avoiding Port Hudson. It. is evi
dent that they have had enough of our
batteries at that place.
».
Confederate guerillas are giving the
Federate much trouble in various sec
tions of Kentucky. i
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It is said that Gen. ZZumphrey Mars ’
shall has been assigned to the com- <
maad of the department of East Ten- 1
nessee, lately held by Gen. Daneteon. {
The steamer Eugenia, which ran the j
blsckade into Mobile on Saturday week r
is said to have brought 3,000 kegs of a
powder for the government.
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A Washington dispatch states that t
Lincoln has 'indefinitely postponed the c
Enforcement of the Conscription Law.’ a
THE M A RIE 'I'T A WEE KL Y ADVOC AT E.
T>ie Great Bailie.
Details of the great, battle around
Ficdeiicksbnrg ate beginning to reach
us. Though they come in irregular in
btahiK'Uts, they ail breathe the exiler-l
atirg spirit which usually attends great j
victories, and which overleaps tie do-I
tail of strategic particulars. We make
up a seminary of such intelligence as
we have derived from the Virginia pa
pers, as follows:
The line of bat<te extended from
Chancellorsvillo to Wilderness Swamp,
in Spotsylvania, cutting across the Or
ange Plank Road at an acute angle, our
troops, of course, occupying the South
ern ground, and, after the two days
tight driving the enemy, by front and
churges, across the river in the neigh
borhood of b'ied:?iicksburg. An cflort
was made by the enemy to drive our
army from its position, on Marye’s Hill,
on Saturday evening, which succeeded
for the night; but the position with
prisoners and guns, was rccoveicd" on
the following morning.
The battle is considered one of the
most desperate ever fought, as the
slaughter on both sides will attest. —
During the enenn’s retreat our artillery
had a lair sweep of them while crossing
a ford, and added greatly, to their disas
ters. Our entire loss is estimated fr»ru
eight to ten thousand, that of the ene
my from twenty live to thirty thousand
prisoners.
In a charge over lour lines of the enes
my, and the taking of a battery, about
one-third of the Stonewall brigade was
killed or wounded.
In the 10th Virginia regiment, nine
out of eleven Captains were killed,
wounded or made prisoncis.
Gen. McLiw* was struck, but not
much hurt.
G*ns. Hill and He h were slightly
wounded but, as we have announced,
have resumed their command.
Gen. McGowan was slightly, but
painfully wounded.
All the stall’of AP. Hill w-re killed
or wounded.
Major General Birney (Yankee) left
dead on field. Brigadier frcucral Wm.
Haya (Yankee) taken prisoner. '1 his
man was born in Richmond, llis A. D.
C., J. Echols, (Yankee) is » prisoner.
D. 11. Hill's division, commanded by
Brigadier General Rhodes, of Alabama,
and Tumble’s division, (the two divs
ions comp acd of Alabama, Georgia.
Virginia and Maryland troops under
the command of Gen, Jackson, marched
fourteen miles on Saturday, and reached
the enemy’s rear Saturday afternoon. —
Attacking the enemy io three lines of
their entrenchments, they cantlircd
three batteries, ’together with about
live thousand prism era.
The third, fith, sixth, twelf.h and
twenty-sixth Alvbtima, of Rin des’ Brig
ade, suffered severely, it is reported in
officers—one-thi-d of whom were either
killed or weiiudcd — proportion being
ten wounded men to one killed.
The struggle on Marye’u height is
also represented as being desperate.—
On Sunday the enemy, by a flank move
ment at Maryete height succeeded in
capturing six guns, belonging to the Ist,
2d, 3d and 4th companies of the Lou
isiana regiment was nearly ail taken
s prisoners, together with many men be
" longing to the 6th Louisiana.
’ On Sunday Gen. Early was rein'orc
1 ed by Gens McLaws and Anderson, and
? the fight renewed when the Heights
1 were retaken and the pieces recaptured
with a number of others.
Hays’ Louisiana brigade greatly dis
, lingiisbed itself, taking fourteen pieces
of the enemy’s artillery.
1 In the fight on the line Sunday, iu
addition to the prisone.s mentioned,
some two thousand others were captur
ed, and five batteries of field artillery.
From this faet tome idea may be finn
ed of the character of the fight, and the
extent of our triumph. It is stat( dihat
Gen. Lee regards it as one of the most
satisfactory victorias of the whole war.
We lost in all fourteen pieces of ar
tillery, and captured fiftysthree. We
also captured neat ly 10,000 prisoners,
seven thousand of whom are said to be
at Guinea’s Station, cn their way to
Richmond. Our loss iu tilled and
wounded•is-estimated at six or sjveu
thousand.
Unfortunate Wounpinu
Jackson. —The Richmond ‘Enqui'er’ ol
the 6th inst,, says:
A telegram on yesterday morning an
nounced the fact that General Jackson’s
arm had been amputated, and that he
was doing well. Mrs. Jackson, who
is at present in the city, has been in
fsrrned by a letter of tho mc’a tcholy
circumstances under which the Gcucral
received hio wounds.
The following are the facts of the
most unhappy affair, as detailed in that
letter: At midnight, on Saturday
night, his men being drawn up in line
of battle, a body of troops was seen a
short distance in advance of our line.—
It being doubtful whether they were
friend or enemies, General Jackson and
staff rode forward to ascertain. Whilst
he was engaged in reconnoitering, his
men being unaware of his movement,
mistook himself and staff for enemies
and fiied a volley into them, instantly
killing one of li.s staff and severely
wound'ug General Jackson and Major '
Crutchfield. One LuJlet passed through
the General's right hand, whilst aneth- t
er struck his left arm below the elbow r
and ranging upward, shattered the bone t
near the shoulder. He distantly fell to
the ground. Ills brother in-law, who
was with him. lai I down best de brn to
ascertain the character of his wounds. —
in a nil in nt the unknown troops in
j front, wl.o proved to be the enemy ad
j vanccd and capture 1 two other stall ofli-
I oers who were atanding over tic Gen
eral without noticing him. Soon after*
four of cur men placed him on stretcher
and were bearing him to the rear, when
they were all shut down. The injury
to his right band is severe, one of the
bones having been sltot/rfray, hut it is
believed he will ultimately recover its
use.
TELEGRArHIC.
Richmond, May 6.—The dispatch is
sued an extra this P M, giving the first
details of the battle of Chancellersville
yet received. It correspondent says the
fight in many respects was the blood
iest of the war, and our loss is hoavy in
both officers and men.
The enemy had thrown up entrench
ments and constructed an abattis which
after severe fighting wete carried by
our men. Arnot g the prisoners taken
is Maj. Gen. ZZays, who commanded a
division in Couck’s corps.
The’prisoners represent some -10 reg
iinen‘B—mostly foreigners. Oa the low
er, end of the line where Gen Eariy
commanded, there was some hard light
ing—on Sunday, and in the afternoon,
Maryo’s Heights were carried by the
enemy, and a nuiaber of Mi-sissippians
were captured, and six pieces of the
Washington Artillery were taken at
the same time. On Monday morning
the fight was renewed and the six pie
ces recaptured with a number of ethers
Five Yankee batteries are reported cap
tured on the upper lino.
From another source I learn th it
absut r’x thoflssnd prisoners in all have
been captured. Gen. A. F. Hill has as
sumed command. Gen. Heth is not
much hurt and still in command. Gen.
McGowcr is slightly wounded. The
13th Miss., regiment killed more than
its own numbsr. Col.,Sl*Turd of the
14th La was killed; also Col -
of the IS Ya. and Col, Mai ory cf the
55th Va:
From the Southwest.
Jackeon. May *tli. -An oScer who left Nat
chitoches (on Red river, in Natchitoches Farish
western Louisiana,) says Banks’-iw-'fiy is divi
ded into three columns, Oco was fortifying
the town of Opelousas, one at, a
and one at Bute la Rose. ■ ’ ‘ '■
Banks has seized the negroes and stack on
Governor More’s plantation.
Gen. E. Kiiby Smith arrived aPAlexnndi ia.
La, from Arkansas, with reinforcements for
Walker's Texas brigade. Smith was confident
cf bis ability to drive Banks back to Berwick’s
Bay.
Three powerful Confederate gunboats are at
Alexandria,’above the falls.
The Wheat crop iu Texas is unprecedentedly
pro~~:sing.
Magruder’s headquarters arc-removed te San
Antonio-
Five Yankee gunboats passed Natchez on
Sunday night, four of which ascended Red riv
er.
CASUALTIES OF THE 19th GEORGIA REG
IMENT.
Richmond, May 9.
“To the Fdilos Southern Confederacy:”
The Ninetec nth Ga., was engaged on the 3d
inst. Sergt Garrison of Co B, Private Elliott,
Co G, were killed, and forty were -wounded—
among the number, Lieut, Martin, Co E. Priv
vate Chambers, Co I. and Private Strickland,
Co E. have since died. Alljhe restdoing well.
A. J. HUTCHINSON.
Richmond, Mr\y 10.—The Whij has Northern
dates to the 9th.
Lincoln has issued a proclamation calling
oiit'the militia to suppress the rebollioa. All
able-bodied mj’.e citizens and foreigners be
tween 20 a ;d 45 years who have declared their
intention to become citizens, constitute the na
tional forces.
An official dispatch from Stanton says the
President and the General-in-Chief have jnst
returned from the army of the Potomac, and
that no serious disaster has occurred to the or
ganization and efficiency of the army, and not
more than a third of Hooker’s forces were en
gaged.
Stoneman's operations are heralded as a
brilliant success. A part of it advanced (it is
said) within two mile of Richmond.
The Yankee army iti s said will speedily re
sume off nsive operations.
Ths trial of Vallandingham by court martial
was concluded nb the 7th inst. The decision
is unknown.
The correspondents of the New York paper
give grandiJorjUmt accounts et the battles out
disguise tho faet of the defeat as far at posssi
ble by a multiplication of words.
Hooker was stunned and thrown down by a
shell which shattered the pillar of a porch he
was leaning against at Chanccllorsville.
Gov. Letcher received a dispatch this P. M
announcing the death of Gen. Jackson at Gui
nea's Station, at 3,50 P. M. He died from the
effects of wounds, and an attack of pheutuonia.
His boc’y will be brought to this city tp mor
row by a special train.
Vicksburg, May 9th—Not’aiHg new from the
front. The enemy lias been landing troops to
il. ■ below Youngs Point—supposed they are
intended to reinforce Grant’s army.
The ‘Whig’ office was destroyed by fire ill’s ,
afternoon its origin unknown.
ARREST OF VALLANDIGHAM.
Jackson, May 10.—-A special dispatch to the
Appeal states that, the Chicago Time of the tith
h is a dispatch from Cincinnati of the sth which
says Vallandingham was arrested by a compa
ny of toldiers on a charge of violating Burn
side's death order.. The soldiers were distribu
ted in the neighborhood of Vallandigham’s
dwelling and ordered every person to go home
and then surrounded and broke open his house.
Vallandinghom has taken high ground, de*
daring that he will not answer the military or
be tried immediately. Parties has gone to
Cleveland to attempt to get out writ of habeas
corpus from the U. S. District Court of the
Northern District »f Ohio. Vallandighum la
been sent to the barrack* at New I'ort. His ar
rest has created great excitement in Montgom
ery county. Wagon loads of people flocked
to Dayton o« hearing the news. Burnsides
»ent cannon and troops into Dayton.
Pistols were flrod at 10 o’clock!’. M., when
the journal office and other buildings were
burned the telegraph wirescut, the bridge on
tho Columbus & Xenia Kailroad burned. The
residence of Col. Harrod, of the I.3th Ohio, late
the Phillips House, was burning.
The Natchez Courier has information that
our prisoners from New Orleans were exchang
ed at Port Hudson.
General Kirby Smith with 10.000 raw troops,
whipped Banks badly, driving him to Washing
ton, La.
The letter news is confirmed, by men from
tho opposite side of the river.
Richmond, May 11. All business was sus
pended here to day at 10 o'clock A. M., A spec
ial train with Jackson's body arrived at half
past 3 o'clock.
A great eoncourae of people are on Broad
street and Capitol Square awa’ting the arrival
of the train.
A large military escort, will escort the rfr
mains to the Governors Mansion, where it will
| remain in state ur.til to-morrow morning, when
I it will be conveyed to Legiugton.
Wjiat urn we nonTiNG fob?-—ls the title of
a pamphlet issued from this Office written by
Dr. C. Cox, of this place, in relation to mnal
duties of our people, and discussing a plan of
administration <>t the finances of the country
with a view to fixing the burthens ol govern
ment upon the productions of slave labor with
out injustice to tho slave owner. The financial
is not new, as various plans have been urged
from the beginning of the war to make cotton
the b asis of Confederate credit. The plan of
Dr. Cox. however, propvse.i n perrs-in»-nt sj«
teal.
Jackson. May 11.—One thousand of Grant’s
cavalry entered and burned Crystal Springs,
nil the'New Orleans Railroad, at 12 o’clock to
I <lay.
j
Charleston. May 12.—The onemy is showing
unusual activity, has built large and formida
ble batteries on Felly Island, bearing on the
Southern extremity of Morris Island. Sever
al Yankee regiments are also fortifying Sea
brook's Island.
The surgeons in Gen. Lea’s army make the
following .’pproximato estimate of our less in
the recent battles:
Wounded 7.ot)d
Killed 900
Missing 1.200
It is believed that our actual loss will fall be
low rather than exceed that sum.
1 The Nashville Daily Press, of the 9th con
tains a telegram from the late Virginia battle
that the loss of the Federals in Sedgwicks com
mand was above 5000 men. An editorial says
that‘Hooker’s having changed his base tells
story: he is defeated and oitr first reports were
base, false fabrications. The picture is fright
ful, and adds to the chronology of our san
guinary defeats in the East/
It reports the rebel loss at 10,000 to 15,000.
Confederate and State Commission
ers UNDER THE IMPRESSMENT Ad’. —The
Commissioners appointed by tho Cons
ederate and State Government* as
Appraiser under the Impressment Ac,
Msj J. E. Morgan and Col. U. B Wilkin
son, met in LaGrange on the 16th inst.
After their organization, they elected
Capt. Miles 11. Z/ill their Secretary and
arc now prepared for the duties of their
office. We learn that they will est b
lish their headquarters at Atlanta.
SB
DIED in Cobb County Georgia, on the first
day of April 1863, of disease of the heart Miss.
S (BAH C. Maninng daughter of Simpson and Ber
fheba Manning, in the 23d year of her age. The
deceased was baptised into the fellowship of
the Missionary Baptist Church about four years
ago in which Church she had since lived a con
sistent member. Ever adorning the profession
that she had made, by a pious walk and a godly
conversation, declaring plainly that she sought
a country, a city whose maker and builder is
pod. ■ She was of a kind disposition, endeavor
ing always to make every one around her happy
Kind and obedient to her aged parents, she
had made many acquaintances, and none knew
her but to admire her, and those who knew her
best loved her most. She was peifectly resign
ed to her fate. On the morning of her death
a few hours before she died, slfb called hei
aged parents to her, asked God to bless them
and bid them farwelljshe then called her
brother and sisters to her, bid them farewell
and requested them all to meet her in heaven
She then offered up a fervent prayer for them
together with her neighbors and friends every
where, and in a few minutes she fell asleep in
the arms of Jesus. Paaents weep not for your
child, she is irot dead, but gone before, she
cannot come to you but you will go to her
when you will again hear her sweet voice, not
as when she was with you upon earth, but it
will be the voice of an angel, singing the songs
of free grace and dying love,— Your loss is her
eternal gain, she is gone to where the wicked
cease from troubling and the weary are at rest.
B.
The Soldiers Grave.
Composed by a young lady on tho
Death of J. G. Camp, a soldier of C. S.
Army, who was captured at Nashville,
Tenn., and carried ~by the enemy to
Camp Douglas, where he Died.
Now all alone the soldier sleeps,
In solitude and gloom,
No fiendly eye above him weeps
No Howers o’re him bloom.
He died from home in Northern lands
Beside the Ocean’s wave,
llis eyes were closed by stranger
hands,
• And strangers made his grave.
Above his grave no evergreen,
It’s faithful leaves entwine
No loving vine can there’be seta,
To shade offections shrine.
The Autumn winds shall be his dirge,
3 he Autumn leaves his pall,
At.d o’re ths soldiers nameless grave
No tears can ever fall.
But soldier thou art not forgot
Though lonely thou may’st lie,
Though by the hands of enemies
Wert carried there to die.
Though buried far in distant lauds,
Thy friends can ne’er forget,
His heart was ever kind and true
When last as friends we met.
Three years have past sicnec last we
met,
And walked among tho flnwers,
And talked of friends aud days of
mirth.
To wile away the hours.
But bow alas we’ll meet no more,
Our di earns of joy to tel,’.
For thou art gone, forever gone,
Then soldier fare you well.
The evening dews shall o’re the weep,
But fi teuds can never come
To gather flowers and scatter o’re,
Tne soldiers dreary tomb.
E. S.
Administrator’s Sale.
W’ ILL be sold on the first Tuesday in July ■
next before file Court House door in
Milton county. Lot of Land No. GoS, 2d district,
2d section of said county, belonging to the es
tate of Elisha Williams, deceased, sold for the
benefit of heirs & creditors. Terms oa day of
sale. May 13, ’63.
THOMAS BURGESS, Adm’r.
Executor’ j Side. ’
X TTILL be sold on the Ist Tuesday in Juno
V V next between the legal hours of s tie be
fore the Court Home door in Cierokec eonnty
Lot of Land No. 379. 15th (list, and 2d section,'
as the property of liichard Ragsdale deceased
for distribution. April 7th 't>3.
LARKIN A. RAGSDALE. Ex\.r,
ADMINISTRATORS SALE.
‘ I? T virtue of an order from the Court of Or
jL> dinary of Dickens County will be ?»>ld on
the first Tuesday iu July next at the C(.ur
lletise door, ia said county, between the h-gal
hours of sale, the tract of lan,' oii John
E' Price resided al the time of his death, con
tains 160 acres more or less, known as lot No..
153, in 12tb (list., and 2d section. Said land bt
ing tolerably well improved. Tenus made
known oa day sale.
Wti. GODFREY,'Adm’r,
Muy 1,1853.
G’EOI'iGIA, Cherokee Ceunty.
WHEREaS, Mary Putnam, applies te me
for letters of administration upon the
estate of '1 lios W Putnam la.e of .aid counit de
ceasad-
These'are therefore to cite and admonish all
and singular the kindred and creditors at said
deceased, to file their objections if any they
have, in my office, within the tiipe prescribed
by law. otherwise letters of administration will t
bi granted the applicant.
Given under my hand, as Oidinary, this 9th
Mar, 1863.
JAMES JORDAN, Ord’y.
Georgia- Cherokee County.
WHEREAS L 'tnuel Cook, applies to me
for letters of administration upon the
estate of Elijah Underwood, late es said county
deceased.
These are therefore to Cite and admonish all
and singular, the kindred and creditors of said
deceased, te he end appear at my office, within
the time prescribed by law. to show cause if
any they have, why said letters of administra
tion should not lie granted the applicant.
Given under my hand and ofllcia' signature,
this May 9, 1863.
JAMES JORDAN, Ordinary.
, GEORGIA Cherokee County.
WHEREAS. Mary Hood, applies to me for
letters of administration on the estate •
of Lazarus Hood, lute of said county.
These are therefote te cite and admonish *ll
and singular, the kindred and creditors of said
deceased, to be and appear at My office, v. ithi*
the time prescribed by law. to show cause if
any they have, why said letters -should not b*.
granted the applicant.
Given under my hand at office. May 9,1863.
JAMES JORDAN, Oru’y.
GEORGIA, Cherokee County..
WHEREAS, Martin Chamlee applies to me
for letters of Guardianship over the per
son and property of John M. and Mary Pugh,
minor children of Frascis E Pugh late of said
county deceased, (
These are therefore cite and admonish all
persons concerned ,o be and appear at my of
ficejjwithin the tirnv prescribed by law
to show cause if any they can, why
said letters should not be granted the appli
cant
Given under my hand and official signa
ture. This May 9 ’63.
JAMES JORDAN, Ord’y.
Georgia, Pickens County.
NOTICE— Two months after date application
will be made to the Court of Ordinary of said
County for leave to sell the Lands belonging to
the estate of Tolbert Biddy deceased for the ben
fit I die heirs and creditors of said deceased.
May. Ist 1863. ’
E. W ALLRED. Adm’r.