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Correspondence of the Atlanta Intelligencer.
FOOL) AND RAIMENT.
Dear Sir* You have kindly allowed mo
the use of your columns heretofore, to
ticat on divers subjects bearing, as I
thought, materially upon the public weal;
I now desire to say something which may
he of advantage on the subjects of food
and raiment.
And first, as to food ; Within the period
of my recollection, there has been no time
when the prospects of an abundant ciop
were better. The wheat crop is unusually
line, some of it already cut, much of it
“whitening to the harvest,” and all of it
will soon be ready to be garnered. The
crop of oats will not be so good—(a good
wheat and oat crop rarely occurring the
same year.) Corn looks well, and nearly
all of it iu good condition. All kiuds of
fruit are iu groat abundance ; and to all
this it may be said, that vegetation in
general has an unusual healthy and vig
orous appearance. Old men, women and
children are iu the fields at work The
seasons continuing, we shall make food in
great abundance. Our (remaining) slave
labor, calculated ou by our cruel enemies
as the great, element of our weakness, will
prove one of the great elements of our
strength, if this war is protracted, not as
soldiers, but as tillers of the soil.
A word about our mills to grind corn
and wheat : The enemy are destroying all
of those which they can. In this matter
though we can get back to the olden time—
“two women can grind in the mill togeth
er or which is still more simple, we can
pound it in a mortar, sift it with a sieve, or
eat it and live on it without silting. At
any rate, wc shall not die for want of
bread, if com ami wheat are plenty.
As to raiment—my own wardrobe (al
ways very scant) is to the patch, pretty
threadbare and very little on band, but
never did I feci more defiant than now.
We shall find out after a little, that it is
not in the Yankees we have to “live, move I
and have- our being we shall be forced j
to live without them, and uo tear on that J
account shall ever bedew my cheek. 1 J
want to live without them, and my chil- j
dren after me to the latest generation. ;
They have drenched in tears and blood, 1
and tilled with woe and wailing, the fa.tr** i
est land and the most prosperous and haps •
py people on the globe, i have no fellow- j
ship—1 want none for such a people.—
But this is a digression. My subject is \
raiment. This we can make—we can |
grow wool, raiso flax. and raise cotton, and J
all these we can spin into thread without j
cardi/ti'. Let no one be startled at this.
It has been done, and having been done,
can be acomplished again. Cards were
invented long after clothes were made.
Our good women will liud this out after a
little, and this they will do. Through
great privations and labor, they have al
ready been the active agents, tlie main
instruments, iu clothing our armies, and,
cards or uo cards, they will clothe their
children. A good thread can be made
from cotton ou the common spinuing wheel
without carding. It takes, however, two
to do it, one to turn the wheel, aud the
other to draw and properly adjust the liut.
But this is too slow a process—the “flax
wheel” of olden times is the machine to
make thread with, without carding. My
mother spun on one when I was a boy.
Tbe operator sits on a chair and works a,
treddle with her feet, which puts the whole :
machine in motion. She uses both bauds j
in adjusting the lint, and drawing and
twisting the thread ready for use. The
whole machine used to cost about three
dollars. Some of them are kept as a sort
of family “heir loom,” and cau be easily
duplicated—will some one do it l If good
warp cannot be made in this way, good
filling can, and that constitutes one halt
of cloth after it is made. If our blockade
runners would bring cotton spinning ma
chinery from England instead of fancy
articles, it would be of much more advan
tage to the country. 1 trust this will be
done.
Respectfully, John W. Lewis.
AN EXQ U1S1TK RETC 11T
It is related of Bunyau that iu the
height of his usefulness as. a preacher iu
and about London, the bishop of the me
tropolis had a curiosity to see him. The
coachman of the bishop was a frequent
hearer of Buu^an, ttad the bishop had told
him that whenever, iu riding out of town,
he should chance to meet Mr. Bunyau, he
wished to see and speak with him. One
day, as John was driving his lordship in a
portion of the suburbs sufficiently retired
for the bishop to gratify his curiosity,
liunyan was seen plodding his way ou
foot, with his bundle under his arm, going
out to preach somewhere in the outskirts.
“Your grace,” said John, “here comes Mr.
Bunyau.” “Ah,” said the bishop, “hold
up the horses when you overtake him, and
let me speak to him.” They were soon at
his side, the horses were checked, and the
bishop bowed, saying, “Mr. Buuyan, I
believe.” “Yes, your grace,” says Bun
yau, courteously! responding. “Mr. Bun
yau,” said the bishop, “I am told that you
are very ingenious as an interpreter of
Scripture ; and I have a difficult passage
in mind, about which the critics are in
dispute, and of which I would he glad to
have your view. It is Bt. 1’aid's message
to Timothy : ‘The cloak that 1 left atTroas
with Carpus, when thou coinest bring with
thee; and the books, especially the parch
incut.’” “Well, your grace,” replied Bun
yau, “it is allowed, 1 believe, by all, that
Timothy was a bishop of the primitive
church, and Paul, as all agree, was a frav
eling preacher. It occurs to mo that this
may have been designed in future days, to
teach that in primitive times the bishops
were accustomed to wait upon the travel
ing preachers ; whereas, in our day the
bishops ride in their coaches, and the
traveling preachers, like Paul, arc ’minded
to go afoot.”
Mrs. Win. N. Wyatt has scut us a sam
ple of soft soap, made without the use of a
particle of grease, which is equal to the
best article of the kind wo ever saw, and as
the process of making it is simple and the
ingredients within the reach of all, wo take
pleasure iu making it known that the pub
lic may be benefited thereby.
Take corn shucks, remove the hard, or
shank end, slip those tip fine, and place
them iu a pot or kettle of strong boiiiug
lye, stir until all the particles of bhuck are
consumed ; add a tea-cup full of pine gum
or rosiu, to an ordinary pot full, and you
will have as good soap as you could wish.
We presume that the soap could be bards
ened iu tbe ordinary way, if desirable.
f Marion Commonwealth.
Insull lo “the Rag.’’
The Richmond Whig thus notices the
recent act of Captain Tat ham, of the Itoy-
al Navy :
“Hitherto, however, the insults and out
rages have all come from one side.^ _ True,
the honor, veracity, humanity, civilization
and christiauity of the United Btntcs have
been scoffed at by British writers and
speakers. But these are not insults to the
Yaukee, nor do they constitute in his eyes
a provocation to war. But a geuuiuo ca
sus belli has at last occured. The Island
of Sombrero, an enormous guano dunghill
lying in the Caribbean sea, has for years
past been worked by Yaukee ship-owners
and searchers for the great modern manure.
The United States flag has been hoisted
over immense piles of tilth, and under it
tbe labor of Y ankee love has been plied iu
dustriously and profitably since 1S-56,
without let or bimlrance from her Majesty’s
Government. All of a sudden, Capt. Tat-
ham, of her Britaunic Ma jesty's ship Blue-
ton, on the pretext tliac the island had
been surveyed iu 1810, and again in I860,
by British officers, and thinking, to use
Mr. Layard’s language iu Parliament,
“that, by allowing the United States Hag
to remain hoisted while, he was there, it
might be inferred that he thereby acknow
ledged the sovereignty of the United States
he lauded ou the island, and politely “re
quested that it (the United States Hag)
should be hauled down, and on refusal,
caused it to be pulled down.”
This settles the matter. Capt. T'atham
lias gone as far in his way as Admiral
Wilkes did in his. Y ankee Doodle must
tight now. Impugn his honor, his truth,
his conscience, his religion, scofl at him,
revile, jeer, sneer and ridicule him, it mat
ters not, for he has neither honor nor sense
of shame ; but toueh bis guano, and lie will
nourish it forever as a matter demanding
direst vengeance. Every cock will fight
oil its own dunghill. Doodle will prove
no exception to the rule. His Hag and his
guano have been outraged. Capt. Yat-
ham lias raised a stir and a stench, the ox
tent of which ho little dreams. Great
Britain cannot recede, for the Sombrero
guano is British property and must be pro
tected. This hauling down of the Y ankeu
Hag is an event of very recent occurrence
and Mr. Layard says no correspondence
has passed on the subject. It is uninistak
. A3 TO CD-I - DiN.
The Charleston Mercury, in the article
appended disabuses thy public miud of er
roneous impression* which have become
current respecting the export of cotton
from Confederate ports. Some interest
ing facts are stated legardiug the blockade
business which are new to the public, aud
tho whole article will be read with inter
est.
Wc see from tbe newspapers in various
quarters indications of dissatisfaction with
the people of Charleston, iu cousequence
of tbe foreign commerce carried ou by her
merchants. The running of the blockade
—exporting cottou and importing goods—
is regarded as uupatriotic, aud injurious to
the iuterests of the Confederacy. By
tfiis means, it is said, we supply Great
Britaiu (who refuses to enforce the laws
of nations touching blockade) with a ne
cessity, which, if kept from her, will at
least make her feel our power and her de
pendency. It is said to be even worse
than this. YVe supply our enemy with
cotton, and consume many goods'iu return,
for who iu the Confederate States can con
trol the trade at Nassau and determine
that the Yankees shall not purchase our
cotton when sold there, or return us tlicir
goods in payment therefor ? *
Now*, wo beg leave to submit n few facts
upon this subject. The people of Charles
ton, at the opening of this war, were as
much opposed to the exportation of our
great staples to foreign nations as any
people in the Confederacy'. Indeed they*
exhibited tbeir opposition in a way’ that
we believe no other people iu the Confed
eracy’ manifested. They objected to per
mit a ship loaded with cotton to leave her
borth, and induced owners to uuload, un
til it became distinctly understood that tbe
Messrs. John Frasor & Co., intended to
send all tbeir cotton to Liverpool, and to
import regularly ami heavily for the Gov
ernment arms, powder, saltpetre, ammuni
tion, medicines, soldiers’ shoes, cloths, &e ,
only completing their return cargoes with
other goods. To this day these gentlemen
have followed strictly their intention, and
tlicir blockade running has been of im
mouse service to tlie cause of the »South.
But to this day the Government has put
no limit or restrictions to exporting cotton
, , - , • -ill i ir I importing cottou Y'uukcc goods, notions
aide ami lrrcconciieable casus belli. e * . b „ . " .
-. -,i ,i |. i- . and luxuries. Other parties have not been
await with tbe liveliest satisfaction tnc! . .. v .
i i c .i r i • ! so particular, and some cargoes entirely of
declaration of tbe war for dung—a war in * . . ’ . . *?
i • i ,i . , . • • • - ,1 , „ I assorted have come hi. It is
which the stake at issue is in all respects . . , ,
. ; the matter was considered
Worthy of the belligerents.
Tiik Ex< hanuk Business Susfendeu.—
The Federal Commissioner having refused
to deliver regularly paroled Confederate
prisoners according to the agreement de
fined in tbe cartel, has bscn informed that
no more Federal prisoners who inay fall in
to our bands will be exchanged until tbe
said Confederates are banded over. Our
commissioner lias faithfully delivered over
all Federal prisoners demanded under tho
terms of the cartel until this occurrence.
Our account with the United States gives
us an excess of prisoners, captured by our ,
forces in all parts of tbe Confederacy of! P orl « ut tho Confederate Slates. *
about 17,000 non coir.missioned officers and ! *' c ^ Congicos overthrow this policy, and
privates. The captures of commissioned ! ,,ou 101 c 111 1 10 Conledeiate states will
officers about balance. Nearly every one of | * *. CI ® tt Iuolc prompt and cordial suh-
the former have been duly paroled and sent j its behests than in the city of
home. We have no information as to the I * hat lesion. As to the extent
cause of the retention of the Confederate ; he expoitatious of cotton, w e have oh
tained from the Charleston Custom House
known that
in the I’rovis-
I ional Congress, and that Congress, and
; every other Congress which has sat, has
refused to prohibit it. * * * *
The cotton trade, even iu Y’aukoe goods
across the llio Gramlc in Texas, was at
one time prohibited by f military authority.
We are informed that Gen. Magrudor ob
tained instruct ions from -Richmond to re
peal the prohibition. Consequently a great
busiuuss is going ou steadily there.
liow then stands the matter t It is the
law of the Confederacy that cotton shall
be exported, and goods, English or Y au
kee, ad libitum, shall be imported into tho
prisoners, alluded to, almost all of whom
should have been delivered three months.
One thing is certain, the United States
will make nothing by its breach of honor.
j Richmond Enquirer,
tho following figures in round numbers:
Bali's of cotton exported in the year 186“, •L3,<HK>.
Bales of cotton exported 1st quarter l?03, It,800.
We are also told that all the steamers
running the blockade at this port have wil
lingly agreed, of late, to import for the
Government one third of each return car
go; i
The proportion of Cottou going to Liv
erpool aud that sold at Nassau, we have
not asceitained. But many of the pur
chases of goods made at Nassau are paid
for in sterling exchange.
Yankee Raid jn Southkun Geokma.—
By a dispatch received at Headquarters
tliis morning we learn that the Yankees
made a raid in Southern Georgia on Mou
day last. They ascended Turtle River
and burnt Buffalo Swamp Bridge, of the.
Brunswick and Albany Railroad, about 15
or miles Northwest ot Brunswick.—
Seven gunboats were in St. Simon’s Sound;
two of them ascended the river, and then
dispatched their launches to perform the
work of destruction.—Sac. liep. 10th insl.
The Savannah Republican learns that
the. bridge over Buffalo sw’amp on tbe
Brunswick road, was not destroyed as re
ported on tbe first page of that paper. It
seems that after setting fire to it, the Y an
kees returned to their gunboats when the
lire was extinguished by some carpenters
who were in the neighborhood, aud the
structure saved.
THE ELBERT COUNTY RAID.
We are assured that this was ail esca
pade ot some woman dressed iu mine liabil
imeuts—who pouuced upon some negroes
at a ferry. The negroes stampeded iu
great alarm aud reported the “i’cdcrals
coining.” Advices of the raid Hew on the
wings of the wind to the Mayor of Augus
ta. and from him to the Governor, aud wc
don’t know how much military preparation
was in progress when the “mistake” was
reported. The Elbert raid will hereafter
figure in song and stoiy. Judge Thomas
must pronounce one ofhis decisions against
them in future.—Macon Telegraph.
CHOLERA IN liOGS—REMEDY.
The following we are assured is a cer
tain remedy : Take *a half or three quai-
ters ot a pound of Blucstone and dissolve
it iu ten gallons of water. Soak shelled
coni iu this solution from fifteen to iwenty-
four hours, and feed with tho corn twice a
day—say a pint to each hog. We are in
debted to Mr. W. L. Burgay of this county
for the foregoing. After losing forty hogs
with cholera, aud trying every other rem
edy lie could hear of, iu vain, lie found that
the above arrested the disease immediate
ly. He has not lost a hog since using it.
All his neighbors have also tried it with
equal success. Let our exchanges pass it
along.— Tt fygrajdi.
Mail is a bundle of babits, aud happy
is he whose habits are bis frieuds.
A Quietus intheSubstitute Business.—
At last a panacea for the ills of substitution
in the army has been found, which, if it
does not check it altogether, will go far
towards suppressing the frauds by which
so many persons are swindled. By an
order from headquarters promulgated yes
terday, all substitute papers, to be valid,
or of any avail, must be countersigned by vimi i* wni'ii •
the Commanding General of the army to j r _ v b
which tho substitute is seiit. As Generals 1 he .Mississippian, of the BOtli nit, pub-
don’t care to have their commands encuui- j IFhes the following address made by Gen.
bored with substitutes, the substitute mar- i Pemberton to his army, after they had re
ket may hereafter be quoted as “dull and j pulsed the enemy three times :
few offering.”—Hick. Ex. “You have heard that I was incompetent
and a Traitor, and that it was my inten
tion to sell Vicksburg. Follow me and
you will see the cost at which I will sell
\ icksburg. When the last pound of Beef,
Bacon aud Flour; the last grain of Corn ;
the last Cow, and llog, and Hoise, and
Dog, shall have been consumed, aud the
last inau shall have perished iu the trench
es, then, and only then, will I sell Vicks-
bl V?’”
The reply of Gen. Pemberton to Graut’s
audacious demand for the surrender of
Vicksburg, and his address to the brave
men whom lie commands, have already
raised that officer high above the point he
occupied two weeks since in the opinion of
the people. His resolute and successful
defence of that city against the deter
mined assaults of Grant’s formidable army,
has caused his star to rise still higher.
The words that fell from the lips of that
Chief, iu vindication of biuiself against
the slanderous charge of disloyalty, justly
entitle him to our unbounded confidence
and our glowing admiration. That ad
dress is the clear, emphatic, impassioned
expression of a mind resolved to discharge
duty regardless of personal consequences.
Such language could not proceed from a
coward, or a traitor, or a weak-minded
man. It shows a spirit firmly braced by a
high courage, inspired by an exalted pa
triotism, burning with desire to vindicate
its honor, grandly conscious of its own in
tegrity immovably resolved.
This war has been fruitful of heroes, and
noble deeds, and splendid sentiments, hut
it has given rise to no utterance more
worthy of eternal remembrance thau Gen.
Pemberton's latest address to his be
leaguered soldiers. He cannot exceed
the limit lie bus therein set to the rosist-
auce he will make against the fierce and
bloody assaults of his numerous aud pow
erful foe.
Those firm, brave words will thrill the
heart and stir the blood of every patriot iu
this broad {Southern laud. They are per
fectly expressive of the spirit that actuates
and impels aud sustains the people in this
terrific contest. We are aware that we
have to resist to the last : that a fate
Vorso than death hangs over us, thatJKuul
failure means the . meanest and cremest
bondage under which any people ever
groaned iu agony. There is no middle
ground—there cau bo iiu compromise. Tbe
alternative is freedom aud slavery—utter
ruiu and unparalleled prosperity—-eternal
disgrace aud eternal glory.
M I Tj la KJD Or EV1LLE:
TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1063.
WASTING THE SOUTH.
It is an admission of tbeir inability to
conquer the South, when the invaders seek
to destroy tho dwellings and improvements
of our people. We can perceive uo other
object in such wanton deeds than to do*
prive the owners of property, which, from
tbeir envious character, the Yankees will
not allow to exist if they themselves cans
not enjoy it. Such a principle is disgrace
ful to human nature, aud yet it is tbe con
trolling influence under which the vast
destruction has been committed by Yau
kee raids. We take no pleasure iu apply
ing harsh epithets to our enemies, as it is
our uniform habit to be courteous even iu
our quarrels ; but when a plau of such no
torious cruelty is avowed and practiced,
contrary to all the rules of civilized war
fare, we are compelled to depart from our
usual policy, and to prououuce such cou*
duct on the part of the invader not only
as barbarian in the highest degree, but as
exquisitely fiendish.
.Our severest trials are likely to arise
from this scheme of desolation. The ex
amples we have recently had on the Caro
lina coast and other places where property
A CONTRAST.
For several weeks after the election of
Mr. Lincoln was ascertained, and after it
was evident that the Union would be dis
solved by the withdrawal of some of the
States, rather than submit to Black Re
publican rule, the hope was expressed, and
perhaps really entertained iu many quar
ters, that he would bo patriot enough to
nacilicatc the growing troubles of the
country by resigning the trust which the
Abolitionists had deposited in his hands.
The occasion truly afforded him a chance j worth millions has been consigned to the
for disinterested fame second only to that j flames from mereficndishness, give us war-
of a personage so beloved by the Southern i ning of other expeditions of the same class
people that wc cannot afford to dishonor ! In proof of the temper and object of our
it by inscribing tho name of the fiiist ! enemies, we extract the following from
President on the same page with that of ! the Nashed/e Union, which is tho organ of
the last President of the United States, liosenerans and Andrew Johnson:
But Mr. Lincoln refused to sacrifice his ! “The Southern harvests are said to be
wicked ambition and fanatical impulses to! ver y flourishing. Now let our cavalry, of
preserve the Union which ho has since I * hom 'v ilUoou have an immense force
‘ . . . . , , . • ,. destroy these harvests in all directions, to
tried ... vain to restore, after the expendi- ! audl an extent as t0 make them valueless
tuie of half a million of lives, and two j for supplies for the rebel army.- Th* ne-
thousaud millions of treasure, while the ’ groes will bo the very ones to aid our ex
work of destruction is still progressing. peditions iu this work. Had the advice
Ifjul Mr. Lincoln Iweu an honest, kind ! "P"" our military _ authorities
COERCING A STATE.
As the States were voluntary agents to
tbe compact of Union for specified objects
it resulted of course that when these ob
jects failed, the partners had the right t,
resume their original position. This L u
beeu the constitutional idea of the St?t
rights party of the South, upon which th e
doctrine of secession was maintained r.s
peaceable remedy. It was the substratum
of tbe Southern movement, and the bay*
on which an equitable adjustment wag p- ()
posed by the Commissioners of the
federate States, who visited Washington
ou their mission of peace, several week's
before the first gun was fired at Fort Snm-
ter. The Commissioners were trifled with
by Mr. Seward, aud finally repelled with
diplomatic haughteur. This brought 0 i>
the war.
After two years hard fighting, it is n 0 vv
discovered at the North that the Federal
Government hsd no constitutional rislt fn
coerce a Stuie. A mass meeting of 30,000
voters lately held in New York over which
Fernando Word presided, adopted rfcsoh-
tions admitting this principle, and that the
war has been^ wholy unauthorized. Mr
Lincoln therefore, in legal acceptation, is
nothing but a cold blooded murderer of
half a million of his fellow beings, more or
less, who have perished in the war.
Large mooting in behalf of peace, even
ou the terms of Southern independence,
have also been held in New Jersey and
Philadelphia, which were addressed by
Huential men. It was resolved to resist
at all hazards any aud all interference with
the ballot box, through which it was sought
to coudemn the administration for its des
potic banishment of Mr. Vailandighatn.
No hope of reconstruction seems to be in
dulged. In the course of his speech at the
use.
j leave mem to feed rebel armies. We
charge of the. Presidential office would sev- must burn out treasou with fire and theu
or the Union, and bring incalculable suif- ! drown its embers in blood.”
o i
He
, , i been adopted last summer, there would i t»i . . ,
hearted man, and a real friend of Ins race, | | iavo been no rebel raids into Middle Ten- | 1 hlladeI P lua fueling, the Horn James W.
such as his supporters represented him to ; uessee, this side of Shelbyville, for there ! ^ S. tseuator.from New Jersey
be during the- canvass, ha would gladly j would have been none worth coming for.— j P°uueeJ upon Liucolu, Seward vYco. in
have renounced his own personal aggran- olu tlt! °P s destroy all stores wbich J manner following :
.lizoujcut wken it was plain that i.is dis- | J e ^ Xm"‘ toXed °rowT“arm“w° ! and wocri's’of’thT*. * ‘T l,i *‘ w J r
.iuu progiess ot this event, when the. war
might have beeu averted under the guid
ance -of a wise and prudent statesmanship,
but, unfortunately, as I have before said,
the revolution caught us with fools and fa
natics in power. I believed at the outset,
as I know now, that it would have been
infinitely -better to have let the seceeding
States depart ip peace. 1 so urged mem
bers of Congress at tho time, and the mem
bers of tho Peace Convention. I believed
then, as I believe now, that such a wise
aud generous policy would have disarmed
resentments, would have softeued and sub
dued hearts then swelling with hate, but
eriug to the American people, lie once
had the 0} portunity to render his name im
mortal as a patriot, and to have the bless
ings of millions of his countrymen. Con
trasted with this bright picture, the name
of Abraham Lincoln will descend to fu
ture ages as a bloody despot, and with the
cutse of Heaven poured upon his head,
THE PROUI) NORTH!
A striking picture of Y'ankee vanity is
drawn by tho London Tunes, while com
menting on the ambitious threats of the
North to force the South back into the
Union, and the repeated failures in battle
to accomplish that result. The Yankees
and upon the misguided people who, in i are handled with cold aud bitiug sarcasm,
malice to the South, placed him in power, which is the more penetrating because of
and who with persistent fatuity, continue ! its studied tone of contempt for the pom-! which resistance must harden, and make
posity of pretension and the weakness of
execution which they Lave displayed.
more bitter still.
The speech of Mr. Wail is an elaborate
to sustain him with the hope of bringing
the South into subjection to Northern fa
uaticisui. After noticing events and battles by wbich I and scathing review of the Black Repub*
We close this article by quoting from j the North was to astonish mankind, and * ,can policy, and occupies five columns of
the Paris correspondence of the New York J exalt the Yankee nation above Jail other due P l * u t the New Y’ork World. YVe
World, under date of loth ult., which we I nations oil earth, the Times remarks: quote but one more brief passage as lol-
regavd as a very seusible utterance by a “The parts, however, arc not as expect- °' %8:
sensible Monarch. The Paris writer rep- ed- it js the American himself—the Amer-! Cau there bo any possible settlement
lean of the boastful, prosperous, teeming j except upon the basis cf subjugation, anni-
North—who is the furious, multitudinous, j hilation, or separation 1 Sooner than the
but discomfitted invader. lie is himself first two, in God’s name, iu the name of a
repelled, shattered, and prostrated. It is 1 common humanity, say separation a thou-
resents the Emperor Napoleon as saying :
“An amicable separation between the
North and South would have been the
grandest triumph ever achieved by repub
licanism ; it would have compelled the ad
miration of the world. As it is, republic
anism has never been so dead in Europe
as now. The people see that republics or
the men who administer their governments
have the same pride, passions and lust of
empire that influence sovereigns; while
being always unstable in their position,
they have not the responsibilities that we j
have*, who seek to consolidate dynasties i
by pacificating the masses. The monar
chies of Europe do not find your American
war an untnixed evil. Wo cau afford to
suffer much in our material interest while
this revolutionary dream of the Eepublr
cans is ‘dissolving in blood.’ ”
from him, not for him, that all this glory i sand times !
has been won. In this famous, world wide
story, which will be tolJtfor all ages, he is
the savage invader, crushed to the ground,
trodden under foot, or driven iuto outer
darkness.
What, then, is to be done l Wo are now’
GEORGIANS IN MISSISSIPPI.
A Northern letter writer, connect
brief and narrow expeiionso may tell the
Northern States what to do in this matter.
Any man, however good, however great,
may have to make the best of a disaster ;•
perhaps to escape obloquy where he hoped
for tame. This is a case of baukruptcy—
a bankruptcy of ambition, expectation aud
fame. The United States are not to be
■ted 1 vei Y great, very united, very power-
. . ful, very glorious, very free, very wealthy,
v\ itli Giant s aimy, gives a dcscuption ol | ver y unencumbered people tliat they ex-
the brilliant Yankee calories in Mississip- j peeted to be. They are to be rather more
pi, and among them the battle of the Kith j like tbe lest of the world.”
ult. at Champion’s Hill, twenty miles east j ~ —
of Vicksburg. Fur tho truth of his infor- ^ GEN. 1 EMBER I ON.
mation in regard to the fate of a Georgia i ^ ou ^y shill, but tbe integrity of
Regiment, wo do not vouch ; but we give commander has been a subject of dis-
THE OLD WHIG ORGAN.
When the British captured the city of
Washington in 1814, they burned the Cap
itol, the President’s House and the Office
an old people ; we have gone through ma- ! National Intelligencer, the latter De
ny vicissitudes and wc have the wisdom j ing the greatest loss of private oropertv
which comes by experience. But even a J sustained by tlie citizens from tbe holtile
it iu his own language, only remarking
that is very much like the spirit of Geor
gians :
“The rebels on this occasion were com
manded by Gen’!. Pemberton in person,
aud fought with the most reckless gallant
ry. They were mainly composed of Geor
gians. Owe Entire regiment posted iu sup
port of a series of batteries on the crest,
refused to retreat when Ilovey came upon
cussion, previous to the late battles before
Vicksburg. The fact of his being a native
of Pennsylvania, and his administration at
Charleston and Savannah not having the
breadth and celerity which his judges de
manded, caused au uneasiness iu the
Southern mind which was more deeply felt
than openly expressed. By this appre
hension, great injustice has been done to
them, and were to a man killed, wounded j Gen. Pemberton, and we are happy to do-
or captured. Five sixths of tho regiment j tiec that the press is making atonement! IfUdli S™<*r supported Bell and Ever
vvoraptilled where they stood, refusing the , since {ho j ieroic rcspowse to G en. Grant’s ^
boojfot life at tho expense of being taken , . ..
flfS*£ 1|crs ,» | demand for the surrender ot Vicksburg.
*♦*—■ i Besides this, we can never sufficiently ad-
IjiT Several refugees from St. Augustine,! m iro the determination which Gen. Pem-
acnoug wh*m is the mother of Gen. Kirby j berton expressed to his men, as follows:
Smith, have arrived at Savannah, by flag j “Y'ou have heard that I was incompe-
of truce from Hilton Head. ! tent and a traitor, and that it was my in
tention to sell Vicksburg. Follow me and
td^ More than a thousand exiles from
New Orleans lately arrived in Mobile, their
homes and property having been confisca
ted by the Federal despot. Measures
havo been taken by the citizens of Rich
inoud and in other parts of the Confedera
cy to relieve their urgent necessities.
The liberal sum of 81,1^0,Id was
contributed by tho Methodist and Prcsby-»
teriau congregations iu Atnericus, to the
Bible Society of the Confederate States,
through the Rev. E. A. Bolics, General
Ageut of the Society, ou the occasion of
his late visit.
The Yankees are tired of pitched
battles, aud will iu future avoid them, if
possible. They prefer prowling through
tbe country as bandits, aud destroying
what they cannot steal. This is the oc
cupation of tbe grand army now, and the
policy is avowed.
you will see the cost at which I will sell
\ icksburg. When the last pound of beef,
bacon and flour; the last grain of corn;
the last cow and hog and horse and dog
shall have beeu consumed, and the last
man shall have perished in the trenches,
then, and only theu, will I soli Vicksburg.”
P. W. A. is again in the field of bis
glory as an army correspondent; and tho*
the late battles near Predcricksburg have
been extensively noticed in our columus,
we arc persuaded that our readers will be
gratified with the letter which we copy
from tho Savannah Republican.
m?” Gen. Fremont,^s Picsident of the
“Union Pacific Company,” has obtained
the privilege of enrolling contrabands to
work ou the graud Railway. It is a more
politic aud humane use of them, than to
have them slaughtered in front of tbe Yan
kee columns in battle.
visit. The lnfc/ligincer bad ably support
ed tbe war, and for this reason it had tbe
honor of special remembrance by the foe.
In was then the. official organ of President
Madison, apd couiuued the same relation
under his successor, President Monroe.
Subsequently it advocated Mr. Ciay, and
became the leading whig journal, wielding
a greater influence than any on that side
of the question* It was a model of digni
ty and fairness, never descending to offen
sive epithets, aud always treating men and
measures with formal respect, however Je
cided its opposition. The Intelligencer
was the most courtly journal ever publish -
iu America, and did much to elevate tbe
national character abroad. As vvhigs. wc
of course admired and loved it. Since the
death of Mr. Gales several years a^o, no
master spirit has presided over its columns,
aud it lost the high ground iu public esti
mation which it had occupied for half a
century.
In the Presidential contest of 1860, the
rett as
the Union candidates, against the plat
forms of Douglas, Breckinridge aud Lin
coln. When the latter was elected Presi
dent by a sectional party to degrade tho
South, that paper unfortunately wavered-
aud conpromitted its dignity by throwing
its influence against the South, and there
by encouraging the Abolition clique who
came into power only to ruin the country.
Its allotted task has been so fully c° m '
plctcd that tho LdtUigenter, fallen as it is,
cannot sing praises to the despotism at
Washington, for which independence we
feel a lingering, though melancholy res
pect. To show that all decency has uot
departed, and that it has uot yiQded a
servile compliance iu all respects, we copy
the following paragraph from the V ash-
ingtou Chronicle, the peculiar organ or 3Ir.
Lincoln :
“There is not a number of the National
Iutelligeucer, for instance, that is not a r e
servoir of transferred calumnies upon the
Government; not a Dumber of which docs
not contain articles that seem to have been
copied with tho determined purpose l '
poisoning the public mind, and of bring
ing tbe authorities into contempt- Y* llS
treason is occasionally diluted by “ ia
presence of a loyal paragraph or speec t>
but the animus of the concern, its intense
