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Things Worthy or Attention.
"We iuvite attention from all interested,
either from patriotism or a spirit of enter
prise in the development and multiplica
tion of our resources, to the opening essay
of the Southern Cull ir at or for August.
We make room at present for the following
extracts :
“What are the articles which are neces
sary for us, and for the production of which
we have natural facilities ? We do not
refer to Gotten and Wollen manufactures,
or the products of the machine shop. W e
Confederate States. They may exist,
but they have not come under our notice.
Good Cordage of various kinds can be
made from Cotton. Hemp, in sufficient
quantities, can be grown in the richest
lands of the colder portions of these States.
We recollect to have observed in a Ken
tucky agricultural paper that the duty on
hemp in the Confederate States had al
ready diminished the saleable value of
hemp in that State $15 per ton.
The first great and pressing want is Sul
phuric Acid ; and, with a supply of this,
many branches of manufacture would read
ily be undertaken. The gentlemen who
refer only to those industries which have have been contemplatingthisenterprise are
been either wholly neglected or have re- n0 w more than ever in earnest, and we
ceived a slight and inadequate attention, j hope that they will soon announce a prac-
Promincut among these is the article of, tical beginning.— Charleston Courier.
Salt. There can be no practical difficulty j
in the manufacture of salt on our coast.
The process is comparatively simple. Plan
ters on our Sea Islands would add to their
own fortunes and do the State service by
embarking in this manufacture. Negro
labor would answer perfectly well for it.
Full and clear directions for the manufac
ture of sea salt can be found in the second
volume of lire's Dictionary.
It is our impression that salt springs g { his ‘ State> nominate a camli-
can be obtained by boring between Cal- j 0lirnais 1 1 so , , ,, p
Loun and Rome, and on the West bank of date for Governor; and to hold Conven-
the Oostanaula river. Licks are abundant.
The geological formation of that section of
country favors this belief. As land owners
are averse to the cost of
this and similar uncertainties
determined by the State. We observe
with pleasme, a suggestion in the Charles- (
ton Courier, that a commissioner be ap
pointed to make an examination of the iu- j
dustrial resources of South Carolina. We
trust that suggestion will be adopted, not j
only in that State, but iu every one of the j
Southern States. We have not yet begun i
to learn the prodigious extent of our un- j
developed resources.
The manufacture of Gunpowder has
been much neglected at the South. AY e
may possibly suffer very much for the
want of it. Instant measures should be
From the Atlanta Intelligencer.
INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE.
Atlanta, August 10th, 1861.
To His Excellency, Joseph E. Brown;
Dear Sir : I desire your views for pub
lication on two points :
First; Is it, in your opinion proper, un
der existing circumstances, to bold a Con
vention, as proposed by some of the puplic
tions. in the different Congressional Dis
tricts, to nominate candidates for Congress.
Second : If it should bo the wish of the
, masses of the people without regard to old
experimen , art y differences, would you, in the pres-
ent critical period of our history, consent
to serve for a third term iu the Executive
! office ?
I trust you will, at an early day, answer
the above questions and consent to its pub
lication. Yours, truly,
JARED I. WHITAKER.
taken for its manufacture, and on the larg
est scale. This should not be left to private
enterprise. The calamities which would
arise from want of this material would be
inexpressibly great. While the blockade f
lasts we cannot depend upon smuggling. g r ® ss ^
We are surprised that the several Confed
erate States have not already undertaken
the establishment of Powder Mills. AVe
have the materials in abundance. The
caves of the limestone, country supply a
large qnanty of Nitre. The cave in this,
couuty (Cass) was formerly worked largely ;
before the Indians left this county. Gun-!
powder was made near the same locality.
The owner of the cave is now engaged suc
cessfully in making Saltpeter. So impor
tant is this manufacture considered iu j
some European countries destitute of na
tural Nitre beds that each inhabitant is
required to furnish annually a certain
Camp McDonald, 13th Aug. 1S61.
Dear Sir : Your letter is before me con
taining two inquiries, to each of which
'■ you ask my reply for publication.
1st. A\ T hether in my opinion, it is prop
er uuder existing circumstances to hold a
| Convention, as proposed by some of the
public journals of this State, to nominate a
candidate for Governor, and to hold Con-
; ventions in the different Congressional
i Districts to nominate candidates for Con
?
2nd. AVhether, if it should be the wish
of the mass of the people ol Georgia with
out regard to old party differences, I
would, iu this critical period of our history,
consent to serve for a third term in the Ex
ecutive office ?
To your first inquiry, I reply that under
existing circumstances, there is, in my
opinion, no necessity for a political State
Convention or caucus to nominate a can
didate for Governor, nor is there any ne
cessity for such Convention or Caucus in
each Congressional District to nominate
candidates for Congress.
These political caucuses or conventions,
number of pounds of Nitrie to tho Govern- have been the instruments in the hands of
nient. The Nitre is formed in the follow- political parties for maintaining their or-
ing simple manner: A shed is created, ganization and consolidating their strength
Laving a floor of rammed or pounded in important elections, when a division of
clay. A layer of common earth, mixed strength on two or more candidates of the
with lime and leached ashel, is spread same part, would have caused the defeat
over it. This mixture is watered with
urine from the stables, and is turned over
once a weak iu summer and once a fort-
ueight in winter, which completes tho
process. Our large natural resources will
not require us, for a long time, to resort to
this artificial process.
of that party, enabling the party in the mi
nority in the State or District, by a consol
idation of its whole strength, to succeed
over the majority with its strength divided.
In this view so long as party organzatious
were proper and while our people were divi
ded upon great political questions, conven
Charcoal of the proper kind can be Yions or caucuses weio necessaiy for the
made with facility and economy; our com-j preservation of paity discipline and party
mon AA'illow being particularly well suited P 0W 'P r - Both parties, especially the party
to that purpose
The great quantity of Pyrites found in
| in the ascendency iu a particular locality,
| found it necessary to adopt the practice to
different parts of the South, will afford an! P revent defeat.
- - - - jjjgi Fortunately for the country, we have at
Inquiries ad- length reached a period when party differ-
- ~ * * 1 ences have passed away. AVith them, I
trust the vituperation and bitterness to
which they gave rise, will soon find a corn-
inexhaustible supply of materials for the
manufacture of Sulphur
dressed to us from several of the Confed
erate States, induce the hope that the man-
factnrebf Sulphur and Sulphuric Acid will
be soon begun. Independent of the utili
ty of Sulphur for purposes of defence, Sul
phuric Acid has become an essential in
arts indispensible to us, and especially in
Agriculture. Cut off from the supply of
the commercial manures from abroad, with
Sulphuric Acid at command, Superphos
phate of Lime could be made at home in
sufficient quantities. Our impression is.
that the locality referred to by us in a for
mer number, would fully supply the de
mand of the Confederate States, for Alum
and Copperas, and to a considerable extent
for Sulphuric Acid and Sulphur.
What are our Paper Mills to do when
cut off from their supply of bleaching pow
der? We must have paper, and we
must, therefore, have bleaching powders
For this
within our reach. They are Salt, Sul
phuric Acid, Manganese and Liine. This
immediate vicinity furnishes Maganese
and Lime ; the Salt can be made without
limit on our coast, and Sulphur from Py
rites.
AVhat is to be done for Lights ? Our
supply of Northern oils, candles, kerosene,
mon grave. The people of the South, as
one man, aro engaged in a mighty contest,
involving not|only their lives, their liberty
and their property, but the destiny of their
posterity. If we stand together, firmly
and resolutely united, we are invincible,
and with the aid of Divine Providence,
we shall soon achieve a grand, glorious,
final victory over a revengful and relent
less foe. The King ol Kings has given to
the united arms of our Confederacy, the
most triumphant success. He has inspired
our soldiers with courage, and has scatter-
i ed before them the so-called grand army
of the Union with a great General at its
head, as of old, He scattered the terror
stricken hosts of the Assyrian before the
' small army of Israel. Let us, then, with
manufacture the materials are ! devout gratitude, for this evidence of Di-
viuo favor, press forward, with one heart
and one voice. Let us avoid everything
that may revive party divisions and strifes
and vie with each other only to determine
who shall do most in propotion to his abil
ity for the advancement of our glorious,
common cause.
How, then, shall we best avoid party
&c.', is cut off. Why is not the manufac- j divisions ? Surely, not by using the very
ture of Cotton Seed Oil undertaken ?— instrumentality, which was, for many
There is but little reason to doubt that if l° n g years, employed to keep them alive,
the manufacture of Cotton Seed Oil were B llt R' s said, that the Convention soon
to become extensive, the seed would near' 1 assemble, is to be a Convention of the
]y, if not quite, sell for enough io cover whole people of the State without regard to
the expense of the Cotton crop. The Oil! P ast party divisions. If this were so, and
Cake left, after pressure, would afford the the whole people would participate in it
richest food that can be given to domestic harmoniously, but little objection could
animals. The hulls of the seed would as
sist in the manufacture of paper. The
machinery of the manufacture of Cotton
Seed Oil, we understand, is neither com
plicated or expensive. We observe this
oil advertised as being made in New
Orleans. Oil Mills should be established
at all favorable points on the line of our
rail roads in the Cotton region.
Potash is a manufacture which has been
singularly neglected at the South. In
be made except to the very unnecessary'
trouble and expense, as the whole people
at the ballot box, would be as competent
to make the selection at borne, as the
whole people in Convention at Milledge-
ville.
But the question arises, will the Con
vention of the 4th of September be a Con
vention of tlie whole people l
In our State, sale day' is the day upon
which the largest number of the people in
other countries the ashes, converted into i each country would be likely to assemble.
Potash in clearing land, cover a consider-! The sale day in September comes, I
able proportion of the expense of clearing
In such cases, that is, where all the timber
is cut down and burned, small grain with
Clover should be the first crop, not plowed,
but merely borrowed in. This enables
the farmer to avoid using the plow until
the tree roots are dead. Potash should
be largely made in all the newer portions of
the Confederate States ; that is, wherever
laud is to be cleared. The potash kettle
is all the extra expense connected with
this manufacture. The leached ashes
should be restored to the soil, for which
they aro valuable manure. Potash will
be indispensable in mauy of the arts to
which necessity will now compel us to
give attention.
AVith the exception of Tennessee, we
are not apprised of the manufacture of
Glass being carried on in any of the Con
federate States. Why is this 1 It is an
iudispensable of civilized life. It is liable
to fractures in long transportation. The
materials are found in abundance within
our territory. A good colorless glass is
composed of the following ingredients and
proportions : 72 parts of sand, 13 parts of
potash and 10 of lime in 05 parts. We
Lave localities in which glass making
might.be pursued to great advantage
Tho manufacture of Ropes and Cordage
generally demands attention. We do not
remember to have seen a roap walk iu the
believe, the day before the time proposed
for tho Convention. Delegates appointed
then, in the different counties in the State,
could not posssibly reach the Convention.
Sale day in August is past, and, so far as
I am iuformed very few counties appointed
delegates, and in most of those the meetings
were composed of a very small number of
persons. It is evident, therefore, that, if
the counties generally are represented, it
will be by delegates appointed by cliques
of village politicians, wire workers and
office-seekers, meeting together in small
numbers without the knowledge of the
honest, laboring masses of the people, for
whom they will assume to act. and iu ma
ny cases, appointing only such delegates
as will undertake so to cast the vote of the
couuty as to serve their particular views.
If two thirds ot the counties are represent
ed, even by delegates appointed by these
small meetings, 1 predict that quite a num
ber will be represented by proxies, or men
living in other counties who have only the
request ot a few persons to act, and who
are not accquainted with the wishes or
preferences of the people whom they un
dertake to represent.
I have beard of but two or three counties
in this part of the State that have appointed
delegates. In each of these, it is said
that from twenty to fifty persons met, with
out any ptevious uoticc, aud appointed Del
egates who are to represent each case from
fifteen hundred to two thousand voters,
without their knowledge or consent. A
Convention thus constituted, cannot be
said to be a Convention of the whole people
without regard to past party differences.
The people were at home attending to their
business, while tbepoftViand ciansoffice seek
ers were at the Court House assuming to
represent them and to exercise at another
place the perogative which the Conven
tion gives the people of selecting their own
rulers at the ballot-box.
There are probably 115,000 voters who
are citizens of Georgia. Of this number
nearly 25,000 are now in the service of the
Confederate States, leaving about 90,000
still in the State. There are 132 counties.
Suppose that two thirds (8S) of these coun
ties are represented; aud that in each of
these , fifty persons participated iu the ap
pointment of delegates. Fifty times
eighty-eight will be 4,400 who will select
the Governor for the 90,000. \A r ould this
be a Convention of the whole people ? I
venture to say, and ask the people of the
different counties to notice for themselves,
that the meetings will not average fifty per
sons. In some of the cities and stronger
counties the number may be lager but iu
many of the counties the number may be
much smaller. I think the 90,000 voters
at the ballot box are much more competent
to make a judicious selection than the
4,400 who may assume to act for them in
Convention.
It may be said, however, that the whole
people of the county have a right to attend
the meeting, and if they do not, they must
be hound by the action of those attending.
I deny this. There may be but ten men
in the county who desire or faver a Con
vention. There may be fifteen hundred
who do not attend tho meeting, because
they condemn it. Surely no one would
contend that the ten have a right to bind
the fifteen hundred; because the ten go to
the meeting and the fifteen hundred refuse
to go.
From the considerations above mention
ed and others which I might enumerate,
did I not fear to weary your patience with
a long letter, I am of opinion that it is im
politic and unwise to attempt to hold eith
er Gubernatorial or Congressional Conven
tions, while our people remain united
and party spirit is dormant. Should
such Conventions be held in the manner
above described, no one would be bound
by their action, but the whole people
would be left free at the ballot-box, in
the manner pointed out by the Con
stitution, to select their own rulers
without any regard to the action of
these self constituted assemblies. Should
the country again be unfortunately divi
ded into political parties, they may find
it necessary to revive these caucus nomi
nations to secure the success of the prin
ciples for which either may contend. This
is not now the case, and in the hope that
it may never be, let us adopt the lan
guage, “Sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof.”
A word in reply to your second inquiry
which is persoual to myself.
I have been repeatedly solicited by per
sons of both political parties, to consent to
serve iu my present position for another
term. I have stated truly, that neither
my personal interest nor inclinations pro
mpted me to give my consent. Iu the
days of your honored grand-father, Jared
Irwin, who served with so much ability as
Governor of Georgia, there was no such us
age as that of a first or second term only, for
lie was called to the Executive Chair the
third time. The political usage has since
been for the Executive to retire at the end
of the first or secoud term. It lias, how
ever, been but a usage, as there is no con
stitutional difficulty in the way of the same
person bolding the office for a third term.
1 have dah no inclination to violate this us
age. If I have made nocharacter iu theoffice
iu four years, I may not expect to do so
in six. If I have made any reputation
duriug that time, I have,then, something
to risk by holding the office for another
teim in the midst of a revolution. This
and other private considerations I have of
ten urged upon friends, who have deman
ded of me, that I again consent to the use
of my name. These objections have been
met with tho reply, have been in the
office till I understand its duties ;
ties; that the country is now in great
financial trouble which may cause a heavy
increase of taxation, and that under my ad
ministration, the faithful officers whom I
have selected to manage the State Road,
are paying into the State Trearury, from
its net earnings, over four hundred thou
sand dollars per annum, which would have
to be raised by increased taxes if not
made by the Road, and that a change is
to be feared lest it might not be for the
better. It is also urged that I am now fa
miliar with the financial affairs of the
State, and that in these dark daj's of revo
lution, when it is most important that no
mis step be made, it might be risking too
much to place a new man in the position,
wholly unacquainted with the practical de
tails of the office, and with the condition
of the military, financial and other affairs
of the State. Again, it is urged that I, as
a Secssionist, had much to do with the
withdrawal of Georgia from the wicked
and oppressive abolition government of
the United States, which brought upon us
the present revolution, and it is said that,
as the State has entered into it under my
administration, I have no right to consult
my personal interest or inclinations and
to retire in the midst of the revolution,
shifting its burdens upon the shoulders of
another, but that I should remain at the
helm and endure, without complaint, all
the responsibilities, toils and hardships nec
eesary to carry the old ship of State triumph
antlv through the storm. It is also claimed
that he example of our sister State of Ten-
nesee is entitled to respect, the people of
that gallant State unwilling to change a
tried man for a new one, having, with
in the last few days, re elected Gov. Harris
for a third term by an overwhelming ma
jority. It is also urged that the use of
my name may tend to harmonize cor.flic-
ingjclaims'and may prevent a canvass that
can only engender strife and contentions
among our people when uuity and harmo
ny are of vital importance.
Feeling that there may be some force in
these and other considerations urged upon
my attention by men of all shades of past
political opinion, and that it is the duty
of every citizen in a gteat emergency like
the present, to serve the State in any ca
pacity in which he may be most useful,
while 1 can neither enter into a canvass
nor iuto any political combination for the
office, I could not refuse to serve if the mas
ses of the people without regard to old
party lines, were, by their united suffra
ges at the ballot box to demand my ser
vices for another term.
I am very respectfully, your fellow-citi
zen, JOSEPH E. BROWN.
Hon. Jared Irwin Whitaker.
AVhat is all this Fok ?—A Federal officer who
was engaged in the late battle, says that during
the thickest of the fight, he threw himself on the
ground from sheer exhaustion, and looking around
him on the horrible scenes of carnage and destruc
tion, wept like a child, and for the first time the
thought Hashed upon his mind, “My God, what is
all this tor.”
From the Knoxville Register
To the People of East Tennessee.
Ia assuming the command of the mili
tary forces of the division, I cannot for
bear an earnest appeal to all who have
preferred the old Union, no longer to re
sist the recent decisions at the ballot box
by overwhelming majorities of the poeple
ofTeunessee. The military authorities
are not here to offend or injure the people,
but to insure peace to their homes, by re
pelling invasions and preventing the intro
duction of the horrors of civil war. Trea
son to the State cannot, will not be tolera
ted. But perfect freedom of the ballot
box has and will be accorded ; and no
man’s rights, property, or privilegs shall be
disturbed. All who desirejpeace can have
peace, by quietly and harmlessly pursu
ing their lawful avocations. But Teunes-
sec having taken her stand with her sis
ter States of the South, her honor and safe
ty require that no aid shall be give within
her borders to the arms of the tyrant Lin
coin.
AY T e have asked of the North a recogni
tion of our political equality, and have
been refused. AVe have asked for terms
merely nnder which we could enjoy a
sense of safety to our proqerty and time-
honored institutions, but in vain. Under
such circumstaces the States of the South
resolved to submit no longer to long re
peated and vexatious intermedling witli
our rights. The North was deaf to Jus-
tiee, because they believed they bad the
power to crush us if we rebelled. AA r ith
terrific threats they move great armies up
on us. Those armies have been driven
back with havoc and consternation. Heav
en has smiled upon the South—blessiDg
her with rich harvests and heroic sons.
The North is already shaken as a palsey—
her late arrogant Boldiers filled with ap
prehension—her late boasted revenues
dwindled to a stern necessity for direct
taxation. Can there be recreant sons of
Tennessee who would strike at their broth
ers while thus struggling for Southern hon
or and independence i or who would iu
vite the the enemy over the border, to
inaugurate war and desolation amid
our lair fields ; There can be no doubt
but few such. If any, it were bet
ter for their memory had they perished
before such dishonor. Let not the Union
men of the late contest at the ballot box,
among whom I personally know to be pa
triotic and true men be carried along by
excitement or t passion into so deplorable
an extreme. Though differing upon tlie
late political questions, we are Tennes
seeans. For the honor and glory of Ten
nessee let us be, as heretofore, shoulder to
shoulder in the battle, or peacefully at
home, not sorrowing when victory perches
on the standards of Tennessee Regiments.
F. K. ZOLLICOFFER,
Brig. General Commanding,
English Shoes for the South.
We mentioned some weeks since that
Edward Daly, of Charleston, S. C., left for
Liverpool iu the steamer from Quebec, in
tending to buy shoes for the Southern ar
my and for the people at large. A gentle
man who went over in the same steamer
informs us that Mr. Daly has a contract
to furnish 80,000 pairs of shoes for the
Southern troops, at 82 25 per pair, aud
that he has placed it in England at rates
which insure him a profit of about SO cents
per pair.
Our informant states that business there
is receiving an impetus, from the large
orders for dry goods, boots and shoes,
trunks, &c., &c., which are being given by
Southern merchants, several of whom are
in England purchasing goods for cash.—
Mr. Daly buys men’s russet brogans for
75 cents ; men’s Congress boots, oak leath
er aud sewed, 82; ladies’ Congress
boots at 90 cents to 81 12, and other goods
in this line in proportion. They are paid
for by drafts on Fraser, Trenholm Sc Co.,
of Liverpool. The prices, it will be seen,
are remarkably low, especially for sewed
russet brogans, but the gentleman from
whom we get our information says be was
present and in several instances saw the
goods purchased.
A line of steamers, intended to run be
tween Liverpool and Charleston, S. C., is
nearly ready ; the first vessel is advertised
in the Liverpool papers to leave August
15th (the time has since been extended,
we believe, to September 15th,) and when
our informant left, it was actually loaded
with these goods. How they are to elude
the blockade is not stated ; but it is
probable that the Southerners who have
been unsparing in their promise of direct
trade, and have depicted its advantages to
Englishmen in glowing colors, expect aid
from thence to insure the safe carriage aud
delivery of their purchases.
AVhether these anticipations are well
grounded or not, they correspond with the
very sanguine expectation of Southern
men in other respects. At any rate, goods
to the amount of a million and a half of
dollars have been purchased thero by
Southern merchants for cash, and a portion
of them are loading in swift sailing steam
ers, by which means they may perhaps
expect to run the blockade, jif the privi
lege is denied them of going in under Brit-
ish guns.
\N. Y. Shoe and Leather Reporter.
(From the Macon (Ga.) Citizen, Aug.1 2.]
South Western Railroad.
The annual Report of tho President of
this company to the Stockholders, show
the earnings of this road, for the fiscal year
ending 1st of August, to be :
From Freight $373,064,61
Passengers $205,159,23
Mills, &c $20,342.60
Miscellaneous $1,350 $599,916,53
Expenses—Current.. 312,853,01
Permanent $319,453,01
Net income $280,453,52
The decrease in total earnings of the
road owing to the disturbed state of the
times, has been 76,979,34, and out of the
abundant caution for the future, the direc
tors, for the first time in the history of this
property, have declared a semi-annual di
vidend of three per cent. They have
heretofore never failed to divide four per
cent., and last year they declared two di
vidends of four per cent., and an extra di
vidend of five.
In the course of his report, the Presi
dent, R. R. Cnyler, says :
But although the blessings of peace and
amity with all nations may be postponed,
we believe that the Government of the
United States will be compelled to aban
don the blockade before the 1st day of
January next. That government will
find it more difficult to carry ou their war of
invasion, than the Confederate States will
find it to maintain their position, aud when
their people shall see, as they surely will,
notwithstanding their present blindness,
that the vast appropriations of money and
insatiable calls for grand armies of men
by their despotic rulers, are likely only to
impose upon them and tbeir children for
generations to come, an immense public
debt and consequent heavy taxation, the
•mall voice which has already been heard
iu their Congress for peace will swell iuto
a loud demand that the Confederate
States shall be acknowledged to be a
free, sovereign and independent jtation.
The confidence of the Board in Uie val
ue of our Railroad is unimpaired Al
though dividends may, for a while, \ sus
pended, it is certain that onr bu»i(ness,
when the tide of affairs shall turn, will
yield larger profits than any we have hith
erto made.
A general retrenchment in salaries 1, RS
been ordered to meet exigencies of th©
times. The Road has now 20Gi miles,
and is completed, with the exception of the
Chattahoochee bridge, opposite Eufaula,
the construction of which has been delay
ed by unexpected natural difficulties.
Where Tali. Soldiers Come From.
Georgia is prolific in tall men. The tall
e?t men enlisted in the army of Abe United
States were from Georgia, where, out of
one hundred enlisted, thirty were six feet
and over; while the shortest were from
New' York, where only four out of one
hundred were six feet. The tallest recruit
from Georgia was six feet six and a half
inches high. The tallest man from New
York was six feet one inch and a half.
The mean height of the Georgians was
five feet eight inches ; that of the New
Yorkers five feet six inches. The South
ern and Western States produce the tall
est men, and the Middle and Eastern
the shortest. AVitliin the three past few
weeks many six footers from Georgia have
passed through this city.
| Petersburg (Va.J Express.
Killing of II. S. Marines
Two gentlemen from Walton County’ Fla., re
port that on Wednesday !as f , a boat’s crew of
twenty men, with one officer, came ashore at the
head of the narrows in Choctawhatchie bay. for
the purpose of procuring beef for the fleet. * The
Montgomery cavalry were waiting for them. The
Captain of the cavalry ordered them to halt five
times, which being disregarded, the 'cavalry fired
upon them, killing the entire party. They then
destroyed the boat.
Federal Encouragement to Enlist.—By an
act of Congress recently passed the soldiers’ pay
is increased trom $11 to $15 per month, and the
pay of non-commissioned officers is increased in
proportion. To the late three months troops a
bounty of $30 per man is offered if they re-enlist
for the war individually, $40 if they re-enlist by
companies, and $50 if they re-enlist by regiments;
Coffee.—The stock in New Orleans is reduced
to about 1900 bags, which is sold in small lots at
30c. At Memphis 35c is asked, Sales injNashville
at 30e.
Brigham Young has thrown off his allegiance to
Lincoln’s rump Government, and declared the. in
dependence of the territory. The Mormons are
arming in every direction to maintain their inde
pendence at all hazards. So says an exchange.
STATEMENT*)!-’ COTTON.
According to the Charleston Courier's table the
total receipts of cotton to August 15th, are 3,492,-
466 bales, against 4,464,815 bales last year—de
crease 972.349 bales : the total exports to foreign
ports are 3,102,382 bales, against 3,744,607 bales
last year—decrease, 642,225 bales ; aud the total
stock on hand and on shipboard 63,037 bales,
against 168,571 bales last year—decrease 105,534
bales.—Aug. Const.
The Augusta Constitutionalist learns by a gen
tleman who was very recently on the sea coast,
that extensive preparations are being made theie—
along the South Carolina and Georgia shores—for
defence against attack or invasion. Batteries are
being placed in a position, and troops forwarded to
all of the most exposed points.
PUBLIC MEETING IN NEWTON COUNTY—
CHARLES J. JENKINS.
A large public meeting of the citizens of Newton
county having assembled at the Court House, on
Thursday, 6th inst., on motion, David Montgome
ry was called to the Chair, and John T. Henderson
requested to act as Secretary.
The object of the meeting was explained by
Wm. YV. Clark, Esq., who remarked that the time
had come when the people of the State should take
action on that important question—Who shall be
our next Governor ? Whether the old mode of
cliques, caucuses, and Conventions shall be contin
ued—or now, in commencing a new career as a na
tion, we should discard these old wire-working
party concerns, and go back to the purer modes of
our earlier history ? After which, Mr. Clark said:
I am here as no partizan. 1 represent no man’s
opinion but my own ; and that man who in these
days could not discard his old party attachments,
was a stronger partizan than he was, or wished to
be ; that he now proposed to the people of this coun
ty that they should express tbeir preference for
some man to till tlie Chief Executive office of Geor
gia ; and if they agreed upon the name, that we
recommend to tlie counties in the State, that they
in like manner respond—and thus, without a Con
vention, call to the Chair of State some distinguish
ed man worthy of the position; whereupon, he in
troduced the following resolutions:
Resolved, That the Hon. Charles J. Jenkins is
the unanimous choice of the people of this county
for Governor.
Resolved, That we recommend that the people of
each county iu the State meet together, to express
in like manner their preference, hoping, as we do,
that all will agree on the distinguished gentleman
whom we have suggested.
Resolved, That the papers ia this State be re
quested to publish these proceedings.
Which resolutions were adopted unanimously.
When tlie name of Mr. Jenkins was mentioned,
the large crowd assembled responded with great
enthusiasm.
There is but one opinion in Newton as to his fit
ness for the place. Men of all parties express them
selves as not only willing, but anxious to show their
high estimate of his virtues and patriotism, by el
evating him to the Chief Magistracy of our State.
This was a meeting of the people, and not of a
party. All of the old parties were represented,
and there was not a dissenting voice to the above
resolutions.
David Montgomery, Ch’m.
J. T. Henderson, Sec’y.
Battles of the Revolution—Loss of Life
thereby.—A correspondent has taken the pains to
compile the following table, show ing the compar
ative losses of life sustained in the battles of the
Revolution. Ho says that he may have made some
trifling errors, but that the statistics are mainly cor
rect to the figure. The table should be preserved
for future reference:
British
American
Loss.
Loss.
Lexington. April 19, 1775,
...273
84
Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775,...
. 1054
453
Flatbush, Aug. 12, 1776,
..400
200
White Plains, Aug. 26, 1776,..
..4U0
400
Trenton, Dec. 25, 1776
.1001)
9
Princeton, Jan. 5,1777
...400
100
Hubbardstown, Aug. 17,1777..
...eoo
800
Bennington, Aug. 16, 1777
...800
100
Brandy wine,.Sept. 11, 1777
...500
1100
Stillwater, Sept. 17, 1777
...600
350
Germantown, Oct. 4, 1777
Saratoga, Oct. 17, 1777,
...600
1200
(surrendered)
—
Red Hook, Oct. 22, 1777
32
Monmouth, June 25, 1778
..400
130
Rhode Island, Aug. 27, 1778..
..260
211
Briar Creek, March 30, 1779.
...13
400
Stoney Point, July 15, 1779..
..600
100
Camden, Aug. 16, 1779
.. i »7 5
610
King’s Mountain, Oct. 1, 1780.
..950
96
Cowpens. Jan. J7, 1781
.800
72
Guilford C. H. March 15, 1781.
.532
400
Hobkirk Hills, April 25, 1781..
. .400
460
Eutaw Springs, Sept. 1781
Yorktown, Oct. 17sl, (sur-
1000
550
rendered)
.7072
—
Georgia Troops.
The following is a list of the Regiments now in
the service of the Confederate States from Georgia,
which have gone iuto service as State Regiments
armed, accoutered aud equipped by the State:
regular regiments.
1. Commanded by Col. C. J. Williams.
VOLUNTEER REGIMENTS.
1. Col. Ramsey.
2. “ Semmes.
3. “ Wright.
4. “ Doles.
5. “ Jackson.
6. “ Colquitt.
7. “ Gartrell.
8. At Fort Pulaski, Col. Mercer.
9. Col. Colliding.
]0. “ Anderson.
11. “ Brumby.
12. “ Thomas.
13. Now forming at Brunswick
14. Now forming at Savaunah in place of Reg
ulars.
15. Col. T. R. R. Cobb’s Legion.
16. Col. Wofford.
17. Col. Boyd.
18. Col. Win. Phillip’s Legion.
19. Rendezvous at Atlanta, 15th inst.
Also, the following Battalions:
1. At Pensacola, Maj. Villepigues.
2. “Norfolk, “ Hardeman.
3 In Virginia “ Stovall.
To this may be added five or six Independent
Regiments.
MlELEDGEVILLE =
TUESDAY, AUGUST 20 3861.
DEBTS DUE THE NORTH.
The time seems likely to arrive when Northern
creditors will find their main strength in the debts
due by Southern men, the payment of which has
been suspended by the law of nations during the
war. The -easons for this conclusion are quite
obvious.
J. i lie loss of the Southern market will stop
more than had the manufactures, causing de
preciation of property to an incalculable extent,
and great distress among the laboiing classes.
The owners ot eoiton mills and other machinery
can realize no dividends on their investments, and
soon they will beeoire bankrupt from the wear and
tear ol the elements, the ruin probably expedited
by the frenzy ot the itarving operatives who will
naturally turn upon he property holders in re
venge, aud visit destruction upon houses and goods
without mercy. I he la.ge number of people at
thp North who depend upon their daily labor for
bread, and who-have nev»r possessed tlie means
ot storing up provisions ont week ahead of actual
consumption, will prove a .errible scourge when
driven to extremes by hunger, from which there
will be no escape.
2. The wreck thus produced vill drag down the
merchant who has been in the h\bit of having his
orders filled by the manufacturer, so that a com
mon gulf will swallow up both pu-suits. In com-
i parison with former prosperity, waen the patron
age of the South was monopolised bv protective
tariffs, the future condition of the Noith will be as
Tom Thumb to the Belgian Giant. Nothing can
exceed the contrast.
3. New York and Boston having ceiscd to be
importing marts of the South, and the coasting
trade being cut off by the blockade, there will be
no employment for the millions of tonnage now
idle and rotting in Northern ports. Thus the man
ufacturers, importers, jobbers and ship-maiters
will sink together beyond recovery; for all tLese
interests have hitherto depended on the cotton of
the South as the basis, not the least of which was
the carrying trade, foreign aud domestic, of which
the North had the entire monopoly The tonnage of
the South was too trifling to be even named by
the side of the Northern merchant-marine.
4. The wealth of New Y’ork, Boston, Philadel
phia, and other commercial cities, has no stand
ard, except artificial values, which depend on the
activity of trade. Thus a store ou Broadway
which uefore Lincoln’s election rented for $10,000
a year, will not now bring the owner $1,000, for
the reason that there is no business, no Southern
market, no calls from the South, no visiting, to
create a demand for merchandize, and therefore
no man wishes to pursue the craft of a merchant
who has no customers. Hence the palace sale
rooms of Broadway and Pearl must remain closed,
eaten up by the tooth of time, and by policies of
insurance.
5. Nor is it certain that the fires which may oc
cur by accident or otherwise, in the stagnation of
business, will bring much relief to the. insured.
The decline in risks will be so great as to dimin
ish the column of premiums paid in, and when
these are draw n against for losses paid out, occa
sioned by the hardship of the times (?) there will
be a very poor return to sufferers by fire, in spite
of the engincs(?) We think it likely, from the
general crash, that Insurance Companies will find
it decidedly to their interest to close up altogether,
and save the capital they have, rather than stop
payment from the heavy drains which will be made
upon them to raise the wind in a mode not w holly
dissimilar to Prof. Espy’s theory.
6. The Banks of the North will be ruined by
the general bankruptcy of the merchants and man
ufacturers who are their chief debtors. On a di
vision of the assets, if the stockholders get back a
fourth of their investments they will be fortunate.
Hitherto the Banks have been the life of com
merce and enterprise throughout the North by dis
counting Southern paper. In future there will be
no such securities to offer on which to build up
credit, and consequently this accommodation will
cease, and down will tumble the whole commer
cial fabric.
Such we have reason to think will be the expe
rience of the North, even without the enormous
pressure which Congress will necessarily lay on
for the support of the war against the South. Of
late years the Government cost abo"ut $75,000,000
per annum for the administration, $60,000,000 of
which was derived from customs. When the im
ports reached $200,000,000, it required a tariff of
thirty- per cent, to yield this sum. Let us console
the North by a few calculations.
Aside from the war, aud deducting ten millions
from the expenditures of the Government by hav
ing no payments to make on account of the seced
ed States, there will remain $65,000,000 to be pro
vided for as the ordinary expenses. Then there
will be a war debt of at least $800,000,000, which
at six per ceut. will require $48,000,000 more, both
items amounting to $113,000,000 to be raised out
of tlie Northern and Western States to keep Mr.
Lincoln on his legs, and to prevent his adminis
tration from going into insolvency. A tax of one
hundred per cent, on all the imports would not
produce this sum. YYhence is it to come ! The li
ability exists and will continue to exist until dis
charged by payment, or barred in bankruptcy.
We believe the latter will be the alternative, and
this day we regard the Government of the United
States as utterly-insolvent, and that the taxes ne
cessary to sustain its credit and to redeem its
bonds when due, can never be collected. It will
be worse thau the whiskey insurrection iu the
time of the first President. The North cannot and
will not bear this mountain of debt. When the
collector of taxes shall appear among the people,
his staff will be broken and tlie laws set at defi
ance. In such emergency, the man who has an
oath registered in Heaeen to see that the laws are
faithfully executed, must again put on his Scotch
cap, aud behave valiantly, as aforetime,—through
Baltimore !
But after the whole wreck shall be cleared away,
commercially and politically, there will remain a
kind of reserve fund on which to commence a
small business at the North. In all tlieir extrava
gance of assertion, the Northern papers have never
charged the South with an indebtedness to the
North of more than 100,000.000 of dollars. When
peace returns, this will be promptly paid with in
terest, and will afford more solid joy to the strick
en recipients than ten times the amount would
have done, when the debt was contracted. Such
is the contrast between prosperity and adversity.
GEORGLY HOSPITAL FUND.
The appeal of Judge Starnes and other gen
tlemen of the Committee, which we publish to-day,
we commend to the liberality of onr fellow-citi
zens. and hope that all who possess the means will
contribute to this noble fund. This is a sacred
duty, and never was there a time when hnmanity
and patriotism called more loudly for its generous
performance. The wounded soldiers of Georgia
should be remembered in tlieir sufferings, and the
period will arrive when those who gave most free
ly will derive most happiness from the deed.
NORTHERN VERACITY!
The idea has generally prevailed among P , 0 . v
of sense and good breeding, that truth was eg*, ^
tial to make individuals and communities resj* ( .
table, and that the absence of this quality Was
positive disgrace. YYe ate forced to the concl u
sion, however, by the course of the Northern p res ,
toward the South, that a new philosophy has obta ; r,
ed, aLd that the ancient maxim of adhering to tL*
truth, even should the Heavens fall, has been tx
plotted as a vile imposture, wholly unsnited to ff e
material progress of the North, and that henceforth
the principle and the effort, most conducive to n
nown, aud far exalted above all other virtues W j;;
be, mendacity in gentle mood, mendacity when ■
little excited, mendacity in preparing to conquer
mendacity when conquered, mendacity in prosp m
and mendacity in possession,—all the time, and in
all the varic-tios of good and bad fortune, mendaci-
ty as the crowning feature of the Northern press
and of Northern officials!
As an example in point, we refer to the Heraldt
late account of the Federal disaster at Manassas
It says that the grand army which was to subdue
the rebels, and to capture the traitor President an.]
Congress^at Richmond, consisted of less than ?*).
006 men, who inarched suddenly upon more tb&n
100,000 rebels behind their field works, those hor
rible masked batteries which always proved so fe
tal to Northern courage and skill. When a lire of
several miles in extent was opened from the rifled
cannon ot Beauregard on the compact ranks of the
Scott inducibles, a momentary panic ensued, which
was aggravated into- a retreat by the shameful
flight ol tlie teamsters! The damage, however
was very trifling, as the Federal column retired in
good order, and left the rebel force so exhausted
that it made no pursuit! The Herald is of opinion
that the skirmish at Manassas was a fortunate
thing for the Lincoinites, as it enabled the officers
to inspect the works of the rebel army, and to learn
all their plans for the future, which information it
considers of great value in devising another cam-
i paign. There can be no blunders hereafter, and
the grand army will trample rebellion in the dust,
as the ox would crush the toad for daring to ape
his proportions. Aud here the chapter will end.
with victory to the Union, and all its parts per
fectly and harmoniously restored,—the rebel States
even thankful for the privilege of getting back,
under the warm paternal cloak of the Sorth
But we shall not fatigue the reader by specifica
tions of mendacity equal to that of the Herald, not
only in regard to the battle, but as touching every
subject which the North chooses to conjnre up for
defaming the South. Like the racers at Manassas
when confusion was rampaut, the Northern edi
tors, representing the taste of their people, still
continue to fly from the truth, just as the graud
army did from the masked batteries of Beauregard,
when in fact the battle was fought several miles
out of the reach of their guns, as President Davis
declared in his dispatch from the field. The truth
has been wholly ignored by the Northern press,
and the spirit of Maneliauscn has entered in its
place, to picture to the world the atrocities of the
^ South, and the unselfish guardianship of the North
which is tenderly offered to rescue the South from
the errors of African slavery ! With this ‘YateniivI
intent, a half million of soldiers, better equipped
than ancient or modern army ever saw before, will
instruct the South in loyalty and good behaviour.
Willing to take the intent for the deed, the North
will pardon the frankness of gratitude when we
suggest to strangers the possibility that masked
batteries are of spontaneous growth in the South,
and naturally inclined to make Yankees run
U. S. OFFICERS—RESIGNATIONS.
By an act of the Southern Congress, all officers
who resigned tlieir commissions in the army and
navy of the United States, were to receiv e the s&uie
rank in the Confederate service. A number of
these gentlemen, the very best under the old re
gime iu their line of duties, have identified their
fortunes with the South, and while some are ren
dering efficient service in the field, achieving vic
tory after victory, and giving lustre to the Con
federate army, we learn that quite a number are at
Richmond and other places wholly without com
mand, though anxious to be employed. The great
rush from civil life to the military art, of which the
Regiments from Georgia afford an average, we
presume, has given to officers who have a long pro
fessional experience, an idea of neglect most gall
ing to their pride. Front this cause we have rea
son to believe that a profound sense of injustice,
as well as actual disappointment, has made many
of them dissatisfied with the President, from whose
sympathies as a soldier, and from w hose judgment
as Commander-in-Chief, they expected a bet'er
policy.
While we perceive force in the complaint, we
are not certain that the President could have acted
differently without extinguishing, in a material de
gree, the zeal of the masses to serve in the war.
Volunteers do not relish the conviction that an of
ficer from the army of the United States who has
exercised authority over Regulars alone, should
subject them to the same inferiority in a moral
point of view. That rigor of discipline, and that
habit of sternness which soon breeds contempt for
the Regular, in the mind of his officers, are too of
fensive to the Southern man who voluntarily, and
from patriotic motives alone, gives up family, com
fort, aud all the means of happiness at home, to re
pel the invading foe of the South. It is also dae
to those gentlemen whose personal influence form
ed the Regiments, that they should have the com
mand. A few months in camp, with daily drills,
and diligent study of Hardee's, or other approved
work on "Tactics," 7 will generally enable them to
direct in battle, under the supervisory orders of the
General in command. We believe that the impe
tus which has carried the tens of thousands and
hundreds of thousands to the field in the South,
has been greatly accelerated by the weight of the
civilians who have raised the Confederate flag,
and who reasonably expect a full share of the dan
gers, the glory aud the rewards of the service.
We hope that no jealousies will be permitted to
exist in a cause which rises far above all profes
sional rivalries, and we can have no very high
respect for that man in the army or out of it, "l 10
thinks of himself first, and his country afteneard,
as it may happen to minister to his personal am -
bition. The South needs a broader and a purer
patriotism.
WARRIOR STATESMEN.
W e notice an objection going the rounds of the
press, to Gov. Cohb, and Messrs. Toombs anu
T. R- R. Cobb, because they still retaiu their seats
in Congress, after they have been appointed by the
President to military commands. Complaint has
also been made that Mr. Toombs had united in him
self the office of Secretary of State and tbat ol del
egate in Congress, thereby evincing his extreme
fondness for public honots. We do not perceir
any force whatever in the objection to either ot
these gentlemen on this ground.
As a member of the Cabinet of the Provision*'
Government, Mr. Toombs had the opportunity 01
knowing better than others what was necessary to
be done by Congress, just as the British Plenum
opens his budget to the House of Commons, and
fends it with suitable explanations, especially * 3
reference to foreign intercourse, aud other subjects
exclusively under the control of the Execut. ve
branch of the Government. Indeed we believe it
eminently proper that the Cabinet should be repr>
sented on the floor of Congress, and we felt a just
pride that the first time such a privilige was accor
ded, Georgia should furnish the exemplar in a sou
of such distinguished ability.
The public career of Mr. Toombs has a martial
origin. In 1836, he commanded a company of vol
unteers from Wilkes county in the Creek YV**’
which service opened his way to the Congress o
the United States, where, for twenty years, as B-P*
resentative and Senator, he acted a part seeon< 10
no man for intellect aud boldness. Retiring^ on*,
when Georgia prepared to secede from the L idou-
he was returned to her Convention which perform
ed the deed, was chosen a member of the CoidW
erate Congress, became Secretary of State, »