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Newspaper Page Textfflli XL! II MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1862. NUMBER 48. - \l , > R XI E & SON. ft - *. t0 * K s \nd proprietors. f. miller, , i TATE EDITOR. ] ■ i is published weekly, at ...mum, strictly in advance. ■*ss than six months, advance. Remittances by ,-s ■ tic direction of their papers as from what oftioe it is to be ; -uspi.-uoHsly inserted at .r th first. insertion, and 5u ich subsequent insertion specification of the number : ulishnd until ordered out, •• [A square is 12 lines.] c. i N :•; ■■■*, by Adnunistrators, s, are r qnired by law to be it the month, between ■n, and three in the ■is n the county in • itu.ire. Notices of these ( public gazette FORTY of sale —f $3 50 per personal property must .\ ii \ v - previous to the day of id Creditors of an Estate >:: v days —[$3 00.] oi will be made to the Court • sell Land and Negroes, f> i".V(» MONTHS.—[$4 00.] t ! - - ( ,f Administration must y days—; So 75 j For ration, monthly six months— [ni ssi infrom Guardianship, for- •Io- ure of Mortgage must be for fn i r months—for establish- !iii full spore of three months— s frmn Executors and Adminis- id has been given by the de- ii ■ of three months. . ways be continued according l.rements. unless otherwise or- ■ line of PRINTING will meet lion at the Recorder Office. D rJFED 13 RATE GOVERNMENT. JAN, CALENDAR FOR 1862. DAYS DAYS? Sp S! H- < H ‘•j go '~an g* Ll., ■ -'f « 5 s = 3" Cl K f” »£* 3 3 s Aia. q.c. et c f B I o ' * : 5 c ^ 2,1 2 ^ t ! i !. i -i-i 1 5| C, 7 R 9 JO |12 13114 15 1617 10 20 21 22 23*24 26 27 2H -20 30 3] 1 2 3! 4 : SI fii 7 _ 9 10j 1111V 1314 15 .1617 lHj 192021 23 24.25i 25 272.- MarJ.. I..]. !. I ' 2 3 4; 5 ' 9:101lj 12-13 14 ji6irie(i9:3oai 123(24!25.26 27,2? fc9 8 , H 31 ! ! i i af’l! 1 2 3 4 JII’E 6 7 8 91011 12 11311(15:16 17*18 19 20 21 22 2324:25 26 [27282930 i i| 2 3 4 ti 7 te 9 10 11 12113 1415116 17 1- I9;20 21 22 23 24 j 252tij27 i2329 30 31 1 2 3! 4 5 6 7 6 9 toil 1 1213.14 15 16 171* 192021 22 23 24.2526 27 2rf 29 301 COURT CALENDAR FOR 1862. R EVISF.I) BY THE SOUTHERN RECORDER. SUPERIOR COURTS. JE Fi ll SON DAVIS, IK MISSISSIPPI. , .ce President: >LEX II. STEPHENS, OF GEORGIA. Mean Mall ■ . II. V !.H. Reagf llfEDEKVl IF TH F. CONFEDERATE STATES. iin. of La.. Secretary of State. . ph fVa., Secretary of War. ger ••£ S. 0., Sec’y of Treasury. j f Florida, Secretary of Navy, r.f Ala., Attorney-General, f Texas, Postmaster-General. -- Hi CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION. is a list of the members of the the Permanent Government of states, which meets in February with an asterisk (*) are members al Congress. SENATE. MISSOURI. John B. Clarke, R. L. E. Peytou. .NORTH CAROLINA. . George Davis,* William T. Dortch. SOUTH CAROLINA. Robert W. Barnwell,* | James L. Orr.* TENNESSEE, Gustavus A. Henry, Laudon G. Haynes, TEXAS. ; Lewis T. Wigfall,* \V. S Oldham.* VIRGIN IA, (Noi yet elected.) ... cE4ENT*TIVES. \ IO.rH CAROLINA. j 1 V . N. H. Smith,* 2 it a. Budges, : 3. > R. iCeuaa, 1 ,4. r. U .tie Dowell, 5. A. H. Arrington, 10.* 6. J. R dcLean, 7. Ashe, William Lander, p.iii !). 3. S. (jfciit-ticr, 1). v f Davidson.* ia j, SOOTH CAROLINA. 1 ; wsoa. i. John McQueen, i. W. P.M'dier Miles,* l. ! 5. L M. Ayer, A kins, ' 4. M. L. Bonham, ames Farrow, j. k V. W. Boyce.* TENNESSEE. . I Jos. B. Heiskell, ■£. N. G Swan, v ■.; l i. J Tibbs. , a s. 4. J. B Gardenshire, Henry S. Foote, j 6. Meredith P. Gentry, ; . 7, George W. Jones, c: m-l.■ 8. Menses, H'iit 9. J. D. C. Adkins,* v" 10. John V. Wright, jted.) H D. M. Cnrrin.* ^ TEXAS. lore, 1 John A Wilcox, uirad.* 2 C. C. ilerbert, aer,* 3- P. W. Gray, iJupree, 4. F. B. Sexton, vis, v>. M D. Graham, ns, Jr. 6. B. H. Epperson. VIRGINIA. 1. M. R. H. Garnett, 2. John B. Chambliss, 3. John Tyler, 4. Roger A. Pryor,* 5. Thos. S. Bocoek,* 6. John Goode, Jr., 7. Jas. P- Holcombe, 8. D. C. DeJarnette, 9. William Smith, 10. Alex’r. It- Boteler, 11. John B. Baldwin, .12. Walter R Staples,* 13. Walter Preston.* 14. Albert G-Jenkins. 15. Robert Johnston,* 13. Chas. W. Russell,* JANUARY. 2d Monday, Clmlhain *Flovd FEBRUARY. 1st Monday,Clark Lumpkint 2d Monday, Cauipbail Dawson 3d Monday, Forsyth tPolk Glascock Meriwether W alton Ith Monday, Baldwin J ackson Mom oe Pauldmg Taliaferro Walker MARCH. I at Thursday .Pierce 1st Monday, Appling Chattooga Cherokee Coweta Columbia Crawford Gwinnett Madison M arion Morgan 2d Monday .Butts Bartow Coffee Elbert Fayette Greene Pickens Washington W ebste r JULY 1 st Monday. Floyd* AUGUST. lslMonday, Lumpkin 2dMonday, Campbel. Clark Dawson 3d Monday, Forsvth Polk' Glascock Meriwether Walton Ith Monday .Baldwin Jackson Monroe Paulding Taliaferro Walker Thu rsday after,Pierce SEPTEMBER. 1 s tMonday , Appling Chattooga C herokee Columbia Coweta Crawford Madison Marion Morgan 2d Monday Butts Bartow Coffee Elbert F avette Greene Gwinnett Pickens W ashington Webster Thuradayaft'r.Montgomery 3d Monday Cobb 3d Monday, Cobot Calhoun | Hall Hart Heard Maoon N e wto n Talbot Taitnall W are Thursday af. White Friday after,Bulloch tth Monday, Clinch Chattahoochee^ Johnson Lee Milton Putnam Rabun Twiggs Wilkes 1 ppt app, fetch, ’ It tmbe.rs, igleton, McRae. Bell, imdon. G iYERNMENT OF GEORGIA. I E. BROWN, Covemor. ARY K i 'p. Sec’y of State & Sur. Gen (ONES. Treasurer. - ITIWEATT, Comptroller General. R0WN, Librarian. 3ILLrPS, President of the Senate. l'*BLEY, Secretary “ “ ** - ' . G\, Speaker of the House of Reps. R1XGTON, Clerk “ “ “ “ t >11*11 ELL, Secretary Ex. Department XATERS, J\V LAND, Sup’t. W. A A. Railroad. l i t ; i.: ,N', Principal Keeper Penitentiary IXDSOR, Book Keeper • upreiQT Court Judges. LpiPKIN, of Clark. -1UN'KTXS, of Richmond. LVOX, of Fulton ' - IN!' PLACES OF HOLDING COURT. 0i ■ ; -f — O.imposed of the Eastern, Mid- k Circuits, at Savannah on the ‘ > - n Liuuary and June. 1 0 ,'rict—Composed of the Macon, South* Ch:ttt.'i ! ii>ochee andPataula Circuits, at ■ iiii Mondays in January and June. Ft . tr.ci—Composed of the Flint, Cowe- ! "aerokee and Tallapoosa Circuits, ' 1 1 the Ith Monday in March and 2d in August. . 1 l) strict.—Composed of the Western and 1 " • . s, -it Athens on the 4th Mondays tul Novembers 0 orirf—Compased of the Ocmulgee and 1 ( ’ir,- ; s. at Mill ■ Igeville ontha 2d Mon- Monday after, Thursday af.Habersham Monday af- ) v , , . r hchola ter 4th Moil- > , day. 5 Eftn « ha ’" APRIL. 1st Jc 2d Mon. Carroll 1st Monday, Dooly Emanue 1 Early Franklin Fulton Gordon Pike Taylor Warren Wilkinson Thursday aft. Banks 2d Monday, Hancock Richmond Harris Laurens Miller Sumter Tuesdayafter .McIntosh 3d Monday , Glynn Haralson Henry J ones Liberty Murray Oglethorpe Pulaski Stewart Worth Bryan Ith Monday,Wayne Decatur DeK&lb Houston J asper Lincoln Schley Whittield Wilcox Friday after. Telfair Camden Thursd ay afte r ,lrw in Monday “ Berrien Charlton MAY. 1st Monday .Clayton Gilmer Randolph Scrieen Up6on 2d Monday, Catoosa Chatham Fannin Jefferso n Mitchell Muscogee 3d Monday,Baker Bibb Burke Quitman Spalding Tioup Union Thursday aft. Town* ith Monday, Dade Terrell Las tMond ay .Colquit t JUNE - Is tMond ay , Dougherty Lowndea •2d Monday, Brooka Clay 3d Monday .Thonxaa Calhoun Hall Hart H eard Macon Newmn Talbot „ Ware Bulloch, Thursday aft. White ith Monday, Clinch Chattahoochee Johnson Lee Milton Putnam Rabun Twiggs Wilkes Thursday af, Habersham Monday af- ) the ith > Echols Monday I Thursday after OCTOBER. jlstA 2d Mon.Carroll list Monday Dooly Early ‘ Emanuel F rauklin Fulton Gilmer Gordon Taylor W arren Wilkinson Pike Thursday aft. Banks 2d Monday . Fannin Hancock Harris Laurens Miller Richmon d Sumter 3d Monday, Glynn Haralson Henry Jones Murray Oglethorpe Pulaski Stewart Union W orth | Montgomery Towns : 4th MondVjDecatu r DeKalb Houston Jasper Lincoln Schley Tattnall Wayne Whitfield Wilcox Friday after Telfair Camden iThursdayafter. Irwin Monday after Charlton NOVEMBER. !let Monday, Berrien Clavlon Effingham Ramiol ph Scriven Upson I2d Monday, Catoosa Jefferson Mitchell Muscogee :3d Monday Baker Bibb J Burke Quitman Spalding j Troup ithMonday .Dade Terrell Thursday after.McIntosh i Moudav after. Colquitt j do do Liberty j Mon.after Liberty - Bryan DF.CF.MBER. 11 s tMonday , Dougherty Lowndes 2d Monday. Brooks •Olay ;3d Monday, Thomas • May bold three weeks, if necessary, at each term. . _ . . t Judge not required to draw Jurors lor two weeks; and not obliged to hold two weeks’Cour in the counties of Cobb and Lumpkin. Tax ’Receiver* 1 and Tax Receipt Booka. The Recorder office keeps on hand for sale > printed on good paper, blanks to form the above books. Price seven cents per sheet, and 2o cents to be added for light bindiug-we paying postage. The money in every instance must be sent in advance. Recorder Office, Feb. 16, 18C2 Tshoemaker wanted. PRICE will be given in the 41> lt1i A LIBERAL PRICE will oe gt>e [V purchase, or for the Lire of a good shoemaker Enquire at this offic‘6. - Milledgeville, Nov. Id, lobv From the Richmond (Fa.) Dispatch, Nor. 19th. Highly Interesting Revelations— The Last Interview about the “Union.”—Lincoln tells two Anecdotes—He wonders if Bell or Douglas would have stood what he stood ? I he detailed interview herewith subjoined, as given by ex-Gov. Mote- head in his recent Liverpool speech* will be found highty interesting anti in structive. It should be read by every one: Mr. Lincoln commenced the conver sation, after receiving us very kindly, by stating that he "was accidentally elected President of ihe United .States; that he never aspired to a position of mat kind ; that it had never entered into iiis head ; hut that from the fact of his having made a race for the Senate of the United States with Judge Doug las, in the State of Illinois, his name became pro ninent, and he was acci dentally selected and elected after wards as President of the Uniled Slates; that, running that race in a lo cal election his speeche-; had been pub ‘ished ; and that any one might examine tis speeches and they would see that he had s<aitl nothing against the interests of the South. He defied them to point out any one sentence in all the various tddresses that had been made in that canvass that could be tortur’d into enmi ty against the South, except, he re marked, one expression, namely, that •‘a house divided against itself must fall ; they must either be all slaves or all free States;” and he said that he explained afterwards that that was an abstract opinion, and never intended to be made the basis of his political ac tion. He remarked at the same time that the clause in the Constitution of the United States requiring fugitive slaves to be delivered up was a cons titutional provision ; was a paJt of the organic law of the land, and that he would execute it with more fidelity, thaa nny Southern man that they could possibly find, and, that he could not imagine what was the cause of the deep and appparentlv settled enmity that existed towards him throughout the entire South, looking at me at the time as if to invite an answer from me. I replied that he was very much mis taken if he supposed that the deep per vading feeling throughout the South originated in any personal enmity to wards himself; that I did not suppose that there was any feeling of that kind on tiie part of anv individual in the South ; that he was the representative of a great party—of a very sectional party—elected on . a platform which they considered would, if carried out. be destructive oi their dearest and best rights; and that it wasoit that account, and that alone, the atlemp to throw a common Government, tne Government for all the State-, hi antagonism to ih<- iritereslsola p>rii *nof the very >nee whose Government it w is, wni.-h .. t~ '.he cause of th<-deep and settled i« cl ing which existed throughout the entire South. We appealed m him then to give the guarantees which were de manded by the Southern rn< n in thal Peace Conference, representing id him 1 hat it was in his power; thit he was at that time a power m ihe State ; that beheld in the iml ow of his it md the destiny of thirty millions of people ; tr.fi> it lie said that tin* guarantee should be made, and would m ike it, there would oe no difficulty in carrying out any pro gramme that might be adopted. He said that lie was willing to give a constitutional guarantee that slavery should riot be molested in anv wav, di rectly or indirectly, in the "Dales: that he was willing to go further, and give a guarantee that it should not be rno tested in the District of Columbia; that he would go still further, and say that it should not. be disturbed in the docks arsenals, forts, and other laces within the slave holding States; hut as for slavery in the Territoriers, that his whole life was dedicated in opposition to its extension there ; that he was elec ted b£ a party that made that a por tion of its platform, and he should con sider that he was betraying ihai partv if he ever agreed, under any state of the case, to allow slavery m lie exten ded in the Territories. We pointed out to him that there was not an acre of territory belonging to the United States where the loot of aslaveconld ever tread; that thpre were natural laws which would forbid slavery going into a mountainous re gion, and the colder regions of the North ; and that it was .utterly impossi ble that slavery could ever extend there; and we denied that a common Government hail power to make the prohibition, and asked him why, if he was a really true, sincere, Union .man. have an e npty prohibition, when the laws of nature were a stronger prohibi tion than any that could be passed by act of Congress ? [Hear, hear.] That hewaivedThy saying that he was com mitted on this subject. Then it was that I replied to him : “Mr. President, you say you were accidentally selected and elected by a party. You were the candidate of the party, but when you were elected, sir, I thought—l have been taught tci be- lie—-that you were the President of the Union. I opposed you sir.’’ I said th him r “With all the energy of which I was master, l endeavored to prevent your election—not because I had an v personal feelings of enmity towards you, but because I believed that it would lead to the very result we now witness. I opposed uni, sir; but you are tny President—you have been elec ted according to the forms of the Cons titution, arjd you are the President of the people of the United States, and I think that some little deference is due to the opinions of those who constitute the majority, according to the vote that has been polled, of 1,100,000 men in the United States.” He at once rather briskly said : “If he was a minority President he was not the first, and that, al all events, he had obtained more votes than we could muster for any other man.” I think, as near as I can recollect, those are about his identical words. I responded at once to him that l did not intend to recall to bun that he was a minority President, but simply loan noutice the broad fact that he was the President not of the men who voted for him, but of the whole people of ihe United Slates, and that ot the wishes and feeling and interests of the whole people of the United States—the party by whom he was elected ought to be consulted bv him. General Donovan here interposed and presented three alternative propo sitions to him. First, that he might re main perfectly idle and passive and let the disintegration of the States go on as it had gone on ; secondly, give guar antees such as were asked, and bring the whole power of his Administration to bear in obtaining those guarantees; <>r, thirdly, resort to coercion and at- tt-mpt to force the seceding States into obedience. He illustrated very dis tinctly and clearly those three propo sitions. When the conversations had slacken ed a little 1 ventured to appeal to him in a manner in which I never appeal ed to any’ other man, and never ex pect to do again. I said that as to the last proposition I desired to say one word—that I trusted and prayed to God that he would not resort to coer cion ; that if he did the history of his Administration would be written in blood, and all the waters of the Allant ie ocean could never wash it from his hands. (H^ar, hear, and applause.) He asked me what l would do, and if | I meant by coercion the collection of i the revenue and the taking back of the i lorts which he said belonged to the United Slates. I replied that that was the only mode in which it was possible that he could under the Constitution, resort to coercion—by an attempt to collect the revenue and to take back ihe forts. He had placed himself in a chair with rounds to it, with his feel upon the highest round—a long, lankyman, with very large side whiskers, with his el bows upon his knees, and his hands up on the sides of his face, in an attitude of listening, anti when lie would speak he would drop his hands and raise his head* Dropping his hand and raising his head, tie said I hat lie would tell rne a little anecdote* which happemt d when lie lirsl came to die bar. An old man he saiti, h t«i ap da d In tn to bring a suit, ami u tdc 11 act itat ca-e, as he thought; out when the • -*-«-l detailed before worst cast he h while the e' i>u ■ -e w a- going on the old man came, iisieni *gto the evidence himself, and whispered in his ear. ‘ Guv itu|>” [Laughter.]* “Now,” said he, “Governor, wouldn’t this be ‘guvin it up ?” 1 a*sure you, Mr. Chairman, I don’t presen it in any light different from that in which it actually ocurred—n one whatever. I said to him ; “Mr. Presi dent, it mav be said that it would be ‘guvin it up;’ but hadn’t you belter •guv it up’ without bloodshed than drench this land with blood, and then tiave t«»‘guv it up?” ( Applause.) He [ then a-ked what lie was to do with hi- j oath of olfi< e. He saiti he hail sworn 1 to see the laws faithfully executed,and addressing himself to me, he said ; “1 would like to know fioirt you what 1 am to do with my oath of office.” I said to him that he had taken a solemn noli to see the laws faithfully executed, but that Congtes was then in session, and application had been made to Con gress to ive to the President of the United States the power to collect the revenue by armed vessels outside of tne [torts, and Congress had refused to giv-> that power. “If,” I saiti, “Congress fails to give the necessary power, Mr. Presi dent, to you to collect the revenue by vessels outside ihe ports, how are you to collect it ? Do you think you can send a collector to the port of Charles ton, to the port of Savannah, or of New Orleans, to collect the revenue there? Is it not an impossibility, and doesyout oath bind you to do'a thing that is impossible? As to the lorts, that is a matter within your discretion, sir. You can withdraw the troops if you please. You are the Comm-inder in Chief, and it belongs to you eiih>*r to keep them theie or to withdraw them totally, and prevent a collision and a consequent deadly and ruinous war.” “Well” said he, raismg himself again, “l will orilv answer you by tell ing you it little anecdote which struck me—excuse me” says he, “a little an ecdote which struck me as you were going on. It is in jFsop’s fables, and doubtless in your schoolboy days you have read it. .F-op, you know,” savs he. “illustrates great principles often by making mute animals speak and act, and according to him there w is a lion once that was desperately in love! with a beautiful lady, arid im courted th • lady, and th -la ly decani- enam ored of him nod agreed to marry him, and the ohi people were a-k-d for their consent. They were afraid of the power of the lion, wiih Ins long and sharp claws and his tusks, and they siid to him : “We can have no objec tion to so respectable a personage, as VUIeitC* Wi lli- jtn v it was lie if ever listened to, and you, but our daughter is frail and deli cate, and we hope that you will submit to have your claws cut off aud your tusks drawn, because they might do very serious injury to her.’ The lion submitted, being very much in love.— His claws were cut off and his tusks drawn, and they look clubs and then knocked him on the head.” (Laugh ter) I replied, I think, about in substance this—that it was an exceedingly inter esting anecdote, and very appropos, but not altogether a satisfactory answer to me, and then said to him‘ “Mr. Lin coln, this to me, sir, is the most serious and all absorbing subject that has ev er engaged my attention as a public man. I deprecate and look with horror upon a fratricidal war. I look at the injury it is to do, not only to my own section—that I know is to be desolated and drenched in blood—but I think of the injury that it is to do the cause of humanity itself and I appeal to }’ou, apart from these tests, to lend us your aid and countenance in averting a cal ami! v like that.” Before he replied, Mr. Rives, ofVa., got np. We had before conversed sit ting in a semicircle around the Presi dent ; but Mr. Rives rose from his chair, and with a dignity and eloquence that I have seldom heard surpassed in the course of rny life, he appealed to him. I could not pretend to give even the substance of his speech , but I re member that he told him that he was then a very old man ; that there never had been a throb of his heart that was not in favor of the perpetuation of the Union : that he came there with a hope and a wish to perpetuate it, and that all his efforts bad been exerted in en deavoring to prt'cure such guarantees as would perpetuate it: but that he desired to sav to him—and said it with a trembling voice—in order that he iri'ght know, and not say thereafter thal he was not fully warned, that he agreed with ever}* word 1 had said with regard to the horrors of this an ticipated war, and that if he did resort to coercion A’irginia would leave the Union and join the seceding States, “Nay, sir,” he said, “old as lam, and dearly as I have loved this Union in 1 hat event I go, with all my heart anti soul.” [Hear, hear.] Mr- Lincoln jumped up from his chair, as Mr. Rives was standing, ad vanced one step towards him, and said: “Mr. Rives, Mr. Rives, if Vitginia will stav in I will withdraw the troops from Fort Sumter.” Mr. Rives stooped and said, “Mr. President, I have no authority to speak for Virginia ; I am one of the humblest ot her sons ; but if vou will guarantee to do that 11 will be one of the wisest things you have ever done. Do that, and give u- guarantees, and 1 can only promise \<>u that whatever influence I shall be exerted to promote h -Union md to restore it 10 what it j was.” We then, all of us. got up : an 1 were standing. I was on the out er circle. IF* said ; Well, gentlemen, I have been wondering very much whether, if Mr Douglas or Mr. Bell had been elected President, you would have dar ed to talk to him as freely as you have to me.” 1 did not here the answer ; but I am told that Mr. Guthrie answered him about in this way : “Mr. President, if Gen. Washington occupied the seat that you will soon fill, and it had been necessarv to talk to his as we have to you to save such 1 Union as this, I for one sh >uld have talked to him as we b :v • ;n you” (H-u : ' H-at ) This closed the conversation. From the Savannah Republican, Nov. 22. Official licporf nf the Fall of Furl Pulaski. Milledgeville, Oct. 1st, 1SG2. Capt. G. A. Mercer, As’nt. Ad’jt Gen’l District of Georgia. Captain: Immediately after the tall of Fort Pulaski, and v\ (file rt prison er of war at Port Royal, 1 wrote an offi cial report of ihe engagement, and re ceived a promise from the Federal au thorities that it should be sent with oth er letters to the Confederate lines — Since my return to the South, I find that no such report has been received, and I have therefore the honor ofagain presenting a detailed account of the op erations resulting in the tall of the Fort. Early in the month of February, our line of communication with Savannah, which had been threatened for two or three weeks, was completely broken, the enemy having succeeded in getting between us and the city by means ot a channel known as “Mud River.” At the point where this chanaei joins the Savannah, he placed two heavy batter ies, one on the north side of the main river, commanding the north channel the other upon a marshy island in the middle of the stream, hearing upon the south channel, thus blockading up both passages to the Fori and cutting us off etfi-clually from all prospect of receiv ing reliefof any kind from the city. I -bould add 1 hat Mud River is beyond the range of the guns o> the Fort. Fortunately our supply of provisions was good, an extra quantity having been se<.t down to us on the first inluna tion of danger, so we had nothing to tear on that score. Then, too, the whole garrison had been hard at work lor two months in following the direc tions of Gen’l R. E. Lee for the interior defence of the Fort. All the casemate doors were protected by blindsofheavy tiiitbe* the eolonade in front of the offi cers’ quarters, and kitchens torn down, and a traverse of limber and earth sub. stituted, the parade cut up in trenches to catch falling shells, and a traverse aud splinter proofs erected at every available point on the rampart, so that we were well protected against shells, and as experienced engineers had de clared it to be impracticable to breach our wails from Tybee Island, (the near est point of which is more than double the greatest breaching distance hereto fore known, from the Fort.) I felt fully able to re-ist any attack that could be made against us. Up to the second week in March we could not see that the eneinv on Tybee was making any demonstration towards us, but at that time I began to notice certain changes in the sand hills about two miles from the Fort, and my pick ets reported almost nightly the noise ot wagons ami workmen at the “Kings Point,” 1,700 yards distant. At this last place, however, we could see noth ing whatever, all the work being dqne at night and behind a natural parapet, a range of sand hills running parallel with the beach, and which completely hid everything from us until a few days before the bombardment, when we opened fire upon a small party of men who showed themselves accidentally ; they retired, and we saw no more of working parties. 1 did not fire in the in the direction of the noise at night, for various reasons. In the first place our supply of powder, though enough to re sist an ordinary naval attack, was far from being sufficient fi>r the prolonged siege I thought before us, and there was no possible chance of getting another pound from any quarter. Again, it would have been but blind work firing out in the darkness without being able to observe the effect of our shots, and at a mark completely hidden from us ev en in daylight, sound being the only thing to guide our aim. At an earlv hour on the morning of the LOtlt of April, a formal demand was made upon me by Maj. Gen. Hunter, for the surrender of ihe Fort to the forces under his command. I could give him but one answer. The officer who bn the demand returned to Tybee, and ai 8 o’clock pr*-ciselv the firing, commen ced from the enemy’s lower batteries, then battery after battery took it up, an til the whole line had opened, the Fort answering slowly at first, but with more rapidity as the gunners acquired the range of the different batteries. The firing ot the enemy was almost entirely conceit rater! on the pancoupee at tfie S. E. angle of the fort and it soon became evident to tny mind thatthree of their batteries alone were doing the work. These three batteries are marked batteries “M’Clellan,” “Seigel and “Scott” in the small plan annexed to this report. They mount ID heavy rifled guns (James and Parrott,) anj 4 Columbiads. and were so cortjpfetelv marked that dugng most >•! the rir-i day our men could orilv ahn at t' e puffs of smoke, then* being uoihnis e to indicate the po-uio of tfi - guns. Ab >u : <ur (tours ifterihe action coui- nenceti til ol our casemate gnu- (32 pounders) ai the 5. E gleand adja cent toil were dismoti i an ! u*e!e and a little later in 1 tie d t your two Co- lurnbiatls, “en barbette,” immerfiab ly above, were in the same condition. The firing on both sides continued steadiy until dusk, when it ceased. I bail then an opportunity ofascertaining the dam age done to the fort. The S- E. angle was in a lamentable condition, the whole wall from the crest of the para pet to the moat was flaked a Way to the depth of of from two to tour feef, and as the wall between the arches was origi nallv only about five feet in thickness, weakened too by vetitila i -g flues above the embrasures, ii n e led but one glance to convince me that a few hours longer of such a fire would make a for midable breach. The interior of the fort was also much injured* 1 At 11 o’clock, tbe enemy commenced a de sultory fire, which was kept up during the whole night, probably with a view to prevent the godson from resting, no other end being attained. At 6 A. M., on the 11th, the firing again became general, and even more rapid than on 1 lie pr -vious dav. By 10 o’clock a large breach was made in the “pan coupee,” which every ■shot server! to enlarge. At no >n the wall (if ano her casemate yielded, and ihm a danger sprang upon u the projeciifes from the rifle batteries were passing clear through the breach, sweeping across the parade and striking against the tri- verses which protected the north rnaga zine. These traverses werq^two in number, one of brick, immediately cov ering the magazine door, the other oi timber and earth, protecting a passage way to the magazine and to a Quarter master’s storeroom. Through this last two or three shells had hurst and their fragments found their way tothe Quar termaster’s room, only ten or twelve feet from where the magazine door stood open, and the brick work of the other traverse had been struck repeated ly. Our condition was now as follows : All but two of our casemate guns bear ing upon Tvbee were dismounted ; but two of the barbette guns were left that could be brought to bear upon the batte ries doing us most injury; the outer wall of two casemates had been entirely shot away, and the adjoining two ones were in a crumbling condii ion; the m* ats was bridged over by the ruins of the wall ; most of our traverses had heen riddled by shot, and some of them were no lon ger serviceable ; the range of officers’ quaitcrs and kitchens were badly dam aged, and the north magazine was in hourly danger of explosion. Our com munications also being so completely cut off that there was no ground [or ev en the shadow of a hope of relief, while for the same reason no line of retreat was left us. Under these circumstan ces, I considered the Fort no longer tenable, and believing the lives of the garrison to be my next care, 1 gave the necessary orders for a surrender, hav ing first conferred with my officers, and found them, like myself, impressed with the conviction of the utter uselessness of » longer struggle. At 2£ o’clock the white flag was dis played, firing ceased immediately, and shortly afier Brig. Gen. Q. A. Gilmore, the immediate-commander of the troops on Tvbee came over to arrange with me concerning the terms of surrender. These were far from being generous ; yet illiberal as they were, 1 have here to record, formally and officially, a com plete breach of faith on the part of the Federals. Article 3d (as will be seen by the original annexed) distinctly pro vides that “s;ek ami wounded under charge of the Hospital Steward of the garrison were to be s<-nl un under h flag of truce to the Confederate lines.” Months afterward we heard of these poor fellows at Hilton Head, where some had died, and with one or two ex ceptions, they were subsequently taken to New Y'ork and kept as prisoners with the rest of the garrison umil a general exchange was effected. Our loss was wonderfully small, but tour men being dangerously wounded while some thirteen nr fourteen receiv ed slight wounds and concussions from flying splinters, &C. This I attribute to the good protection afforded the men by blindages and other interior works, and to the fact that the heaviest fire of the enemy was concentrated upon the south east angle, even when all of our guns in that quarter had been useless. My officers and men behaved most gallantly, fighting after the hone of a successful resistance and left < m with d possible, more del'-rmuiat on than >* - tore, ft is impossible fur n,e to tneoimo ea> h individual instance of braver* * cart only say that the garrison w that any commander could wish is my pride to ^ave had such men Under me. In conclusion, reviewing the whole action, two facis stand out prominently: 1st. That the walls ot an old style lort- tification could not stand against the: the new rifle projectiles- 2d that the ar ches ol the same fori were able to resist the heaviest ver ical fire. Several 13- itich mortar shells tell direcilv upon the ramparts from an immense height with out penetrating beyond the covering of dirt. The three baiteries at>ove men tinned did all the injury, and to th-rn alone may he attributed the tali of Fort f’uiaski. Aery respectfully vourobe dient servant. CHAS. H. OLMSTEAD, Co!, l-u Vo!. Reg 5 ! <>f Georgia. Revolution of Thunks to the tjjfuei .\ ami T ' drers of the A' my. Rrt.-t(t!l -d ]->, it il« Srfta: ff !)r r "t R»q»re»«iit*:;v-s <>t the S im Gi it, tius General As-t iut.iv use! J j. ... , !>ffic->rs and s<>l<!tei's ol th. r>t-o, ,, whatever field they bav met our > an. have hy their iiisn„g!|j 6 hed braver* unflinching valor, conferred immortal hon or upon themselves, and enduring renown upon their State, and have truly illustra ted the character of Georgia. 2d, I fiat the thanks of the General As sembly are due and are hereby tendered to them, lor the promptitude with which they repaired to the defense of our Con federacy; for the unyielding fortitude with which they have borne the privations, toils aud fatigues incident to their service, and for the unsurpassed gallantry and courage displayed by them on every batfie field. 3, 1 hat we deoplv and sincerely lament tbs death of so man} of >>nr b< *ve officers and men, u ho yield up m de fence ot their country </»i ti, e her. oi bat tle. And this General Assembt} does not hesitate to declare, that, when the proper time shall arrive, the State should sp.ue uo expense to erect a suitable monumo, t m perpetuate their names and galiaut deeds. 4th, That the Adjutant General nave, piepared in his office a registiv coiH-inmg tit alphabetical order tit- names of ai fif ' Cera and privates who have entered, or may hereafter enter, the service from (hi* .State during the existing w-.r, designating their residence and the companies, battai lions or regimee's ot which they were meui hers which registry shali contain, so far as can be abseriHtr.e.i, a list of those wffnnrted in battle, a;ni of iho t e who stirv,\e. In a separate volume shaft be preser.ed a list of the gallant an I lamente.it dead who tall by the hand of disease or from wnatis iu battle, which registry, when cooqdereti at the end of the war, shall be oe.po*-;ed in the archives of the State, there to -ia in a sacred memorial of gallant names a,.d gen erous deeds. 5th, That since our brave aud chivalrous soldiers are and have been, standing as guard to their homes—our flies ides—cut- all—anil are fighting a fanatical an nn scrupulous enemy, to secuie consfitu'ta.ial libert} to ourselves, and to transom the same to our posterity, common justice as ■veil as gratitude demands that hy l#w the General Assembly should, so tar as prac ticable. maintain them iu the field, and their !amilies at home, 6th, That the Governor be requested to transmit a copy of these resolutions t>» the' commanding ojfi. er of each regiment iu ser vice from this State. The papers give a most encouragiug ac count of the religious state. »,f the arm\. Every regiment should have a good Ghap lain, who" should perform the duties of Chaplain aud Colporteur In a communication from Rev. J. S. Long, published in the Spirit of the Age, of the 10th inst., he ann'mitces that one hundred and twenty four persons have made a profession of religion since the re vival commenced in Raieigh, up to tne present time. A Beautiful and Sibi.imb Tkuth —To love an encui}, is the ui*UngtHsbiiig char acteristic of a religion, which is not of man. but of God. It con'd be delivered as a precept only by Him who lived and died to establish it by Hi« example.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Southern recorder. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1820-1872, December 02, 1862, Image 1