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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