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VOLUME XLIV.
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1863.
NUMBER 35.
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CONFEDERATE TAX.
Baldwin County, 49l!i Tax District.
4 LL PERSONS, residents of Baldwin county,
or doing business therein, who belong to ei
ther of the classes mentioned below, are hereby
notified that I shall open my Registry Books on
tJ,,, 10th of August, (inst.) to register as required
bv the Confederate Tax law, passed April 24th,
PO::. and to receive the specific tax and such oth
er taxes as are now due.
Those who fail to register and pay, will be charg
ed a double specific tax, and the like sum for eve-
; v thirty days of such failure.
Office next door to Miliedgeville Post Office—
open from 8 o : clock A. M„ to 2, P. M., for one
u.'.ik. beginning August 10th.
° J. C. WHITAKElf
* Tax Collector 49th District.
SUBJECTS OF TAXATION. j
Apothecaries, Bankers, Brewess, Brokers, Butch- j
r;«. Bakers, Bowling Alleys, Billiard-Rooms, Com- i
mission Merchants and Commission Brokers, Cat
tle Brokers, Circus. Confectioners, Dentists, Dis
tillers, Distillers of fruit for ninety days or less,
Hotels. Inns, Taverns, Eating houses, Jugglers
and Exliibirers of Shows, Lawyers, Livery stable
keepers, Pawnbrokers, Pedlars, Physicians, Pho
tographers, Retail dealers, Retail dealers in liquor,
Surgeons, Theatres, Tobacconists, Wholesale ileal-
ers, Wholesale dealer in liquors.
Miliedgeville, August 4, 1882 34 2t
LIGHT K--L1GHT! LIGHT!
J UST RECEIVED, a few boxes Extra' WAX
CANDLES.
WM.
Miliedgeville,‘August 11, 18(53
SCOTT.
33 3t
C L ITY TAX NOTICE.—My books are now open
) for the collection of the City Taxes, assessed
bf the Council for the present year. Office under
the Miliedgeville Hotel.
JAMES O. SHEA, Clerk
Miliedgeville, July 28, 18G3 30 tf
Colton Cards, Coffee & Sole Leather.
1 HA PAIK WHITTMORE’S Cotton Cards,
IUU number 10.
500 lbs. COFFEE.
500 lbs. SOLE LEATHER.
Just received and for sale by
J. GANS & CO.
Miliedgeville, April 14, 1863 * 10 tf
isrotioe- *
Office Ga. Relief Hospital Associa’w,
Augusta, Ga., June 23d, 18G3.
4 MESSENGER of the Georgia Relief &. Hos-
fx. pital Association will leave Atlanta on or near
he loth of each month for Mississippi, and will
nke charge of all boxes and packages intended for
he Georgia troops in that State, and will carry
hem to some safe point near the army and deposit
hem, and notify tire owners, or deliver them to
he owners, if practicable, free of charge. The
mxes and packages must be marked with the
lames of the owners, their company and regiment,
aid to the care of the Georgia Relief and Hospital
Association. Atlanta, Ga. The Association will
lot be responsible for any box containing perish
able articles, such as green vegetables, A c. Box-
s and packages will be deposited at the Wayside
Line, Atlanta, Ga.
W. H. POTTER. Gen’l. Supcrint’dt.
Newspapers of this State will please copy daily
urina- the, first week ot each month, and send bills
o this office. W. II. POTTER. Gen’l Sup’t.
July 7, 18(53 ' 27 lstwem
SPECIAL NOTICE —The undersigned having
3 removed from Miliedgeville, desires and in-
ends to close up his business matters of that
lace as speedily as possible. All persons indebt-
1 are sotified that my notes and accounts are in
ire hands of J- A. Breedlove and P. II.^Lawler,
ho are authorized to collect and make settle-
rents. If not arranged at an early day,settle
rents will be enforced by law.
A. C- VAIL, Agent.
A ugust 19-, 1802 3.3 tf
STATE TAX—1863.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, I ..
Muli.edgeville, Aug. 18, 1863. )
W 'HEREAS, under the ?34th and 735th sec
tions of the Code, it fs made the duty of
-Ire Comptroller General to examine and udu io-
rether the-Digests of Taxable property of the
state, returned by the various Tax Receivers and
“"Hectors of the State to the Comptroller Gener
a’s Office; and by Acts, assented to, December
Utii and J5th, 18(52, the Governor and Comptroller
General are further authorized and required to-as-
stsssuch a rate of taxation for 18*53 as shall raise
fire net amount of ONE MILLION five hundred
AKn forty-two thousand four hundred
b °LU.\us. *
. hr obedience to' the requirements of the Code,
tot Comptroller General has tooted up and auded
together the Digests t and further to carry out the
; t( iuire meats of the Acts of tire 13th and J;>Ui Dec.,
it is ' .
ORDERED, That the rate of taxation shall he
{EVENTEKN CENTS ON T1IE ONE HUN-
OfiBD DOLLARS on*the pr operty returned, and
touble that amount on default property, that being
'."•percent, necessary to raise the amount requir-
e( *. upon the Digests, as returned.
JOSEPH E. BROWN,
Governor.
PETERSON THWEATT,
Comptroller General
--ijgngt 18,1863 33 4t
WE are authorized to announce
Major WM. T. W. NAPIER as
^ a candidate to represent the county
L^win in the Representative branch of the
General Assembly.*'
bUedgeville, August 4.1863
31 tde
Address of the President to the Sol
diers of the Confederate States.
After more than two years of a warfare
scarcely equalled in the number, magni
tude and (earful carnage* of its battles ; a
warfare in wbicb your courage and forti
tude have illustrated your country, and at
traded not only gratitude at home, but ad
miration abroad ; y6ur enemies continue a
struggle in which our final triumph must
be iuevitable. Unduly elated with their
recent successes, they imagine that tem
porary reverses cau quell your 'spirit or
shake your determination, and they are
now gathering heavy masses fora general
invasion in the vain hope that by despe
rate effort success may at length be reached.
You know too well, my countrymen,
what they mean by success. Their malig
nant rage aims at nothing less than the
examination of yourselves, your wives
and children. They seek to destroy what
they cannot plunder. They propose as the
spoils of victory, that your homes shall be
partitioned among the wretches whose atro
cious cruelties have stamped infamy on
their Government. They design to incite
servile insurrection and light the fires of
incendiarism whenever they reach your
your homes, and they debauch the inferis
or race, hitherto docile and contented, by
promising indulgence of the vilest passions
as the price of treachery.- Conscious of
their inability to prevail by legitimate
warfare ; not daring to make peace lest
they should be hurled from their seats of
power, the men who now rule in \yashing
ton refuse even to confer on the subject of
putting an end to outrages which disgrace
our age, or listen to a suggestion for cqu-
ducting the war according to the usages of
civilization.
Fellow-citizens, no other alternative is
left you but victory or subjugatiou, slavery
and the utter ruin of yourselves, your fain
iliea and your country. The victory is
within your reach. You need but stretch
forth your hands to grasp it. For this, and
all that is necessary is that those who are
called to the field by every motive that
can move the human heafrt, should prompt
ly repair to the post of duty, and stand by
their comrades now in front of the foe, and
thu^ so strengthen the armies of the Con
federacy as to insure success. The men
now absent from their post would, if pres
ent in the field sullice to create numerical
equality betweeu our forces and that of the
invaders—and when, with any approach
to such equality, have we failed to be vic-
torious ? 1 believe but few of those absent
are actuated by unwillingness to serve,
their country ; but that mauy have found
it difficult to resist the temptation of a vis
it to their homes and the loved oues from
whom they havo been so long separated ;
that others have left for temporary atten
tion to their affairs with the intention of
returning, and then have shrunk from the
consequences of their violation of duty ;
that others again havo left their post from
mere restlessness and desire of change,
each quieting the upbraiuings ol his con
science by persuading himself that bis ■in
dividual service could have no influence on
the general result.
These and other causes, (although far
less disgraceful tliau the desire to avoid
danger, to escape from the sacrifices re
quired by .patriotism) are, nevertheless,
grievous faults, and place the cause of out-
beloved country, and everything we bold
dear, in imminent peril. 1 repeat that the
men who now owe duty to their country,
who have been called out and havo not
yet reported for duty, or who havo ab
sented themselves from their posts, are
sufficient in number to secure us victory in
the struggles now impending.
I call on you, then, my countrymen, to
hasten to your camps, in obedience to the
dictates of honor and of duty, and sum
mon those who have absented themselves
without leave, or who have remained ab
sent beyond the period allowed by their
furloughs, to repair without delay to their
respective commands, and do hereby de
clare that I grant a general pardon and
amnesty to all officers and men within the
Confederacy, now absent without leave,
who shall, with the least possible delay,
return to their proper posts of duty, hut no
excuse will be received for any delay be
yond twenty days after the first publica
tion of this proclamation in the State in
which the absentee may he at the date of
the publication. This amnesty qnd par
don shall extend to all who have been ac
cused, or who have been convicted and are
undergoing seutenco for absence without
leave, or desertion, excepting only those
who have been twice convicted of descr-
fion.
Finally, I conjure you, my country-wo
men—the wives, mothers, sisters and
daughters of the Confederacy—to use their
all-powerful influence in aid^of this call to
add one crowning sacrifice to those which
their patriotism has so freely and constant
ly offered ou their country’s altar, and to
take care that none who owe service in the
field shall be sheltered at home from the
disgrace of having deserted their duty to
their families, to their country, and to
their God.
Given under my hand and the Seal of
the Confederate States, at
Richmond, this 1st day of Air
gust, in the year of our Lord,
one thousand eight hundred
and sixty three.
JEFFERSON DAVIS. .
By the president:
J. P. Benjamin. Scc’y of State.
Y ankee Honesry.— In the late raid to
Rocky Mount, N. C., says the Raleigh
State Journal, the Y'ankees entered the
dwelling of Ex Gov. Clark aud took from
his wife tbe wedding present of jewelry
her husband had given her, and which of
course she highly prized. One of the men
remarked he thought it hard; hut, said lie.
though our arfticers profess otherwise, in
stealing these things we are strictly under
orders—we must obey. #
Public Nuisance.—Negroes who are
permitted to hire tbeir own time.. It makes
them, says the CoiumLus Sun with truth,
indolent, saucy, impudeut, thievish aud
worthless, , » *
For the Recorder.
Lines ou the death of “Little Cue fie,” sou
of Wm. M. aud S. E. Stockton, aged 15 months
and 14 days.
Is it a dream,
A dark, sad dream, from which we soon may wake ?
This bitter pain in which the wounded heart
Writhes in its agony—is it a dream ?
The still, bushed heart—the pure, white marble
brow—
Those lips on which a faiut smile lingers still;
The tiny hands with pale flowers loosely clasped—
The coffiuu’d torin—the grave—the silent home
Where childhood e’en forgets its mirthfulness ;
Are these but visions of a fevered brain ?
The quick pang in the hearts where he wasshriued,
Tells us our woe is real—for he is dead!
We miss his loud, entwining arms—we long
To ciasp him to our hearts forever-more.
We list his broken accents still to catch,
Though lie had learned to lisp few words of ours.
His murmurings were memories of Heaven,
Learned from the angels, aud not quite forgot,
Filling out souls with sadness, vague and sweet !
His bright, dark eyes—soft with the light of love
E’en when the death-film veiled their tender glance,
Seeking with wistfullness his mother’s face!
All these we miss and think of every hour.
Ou liis white brow pale lily buds we laid,
Their perfumed suow less pure than its fair gleam,
For he was fair aud pure as angel’s dream.
Oh, darling one ! thy mother’s heart must yearn
For thee, for aye—her wakiug dreams must be
Of dimpled baby bauds clasped close in hers 5
Of fingers straying o’er her aching heart;
Must long with a mother’s deathless love
To fold thee there once more to still tire pain.
How can thy father bear the sad return 1
For he is now afar from home. Oh! lie
Will miss thy gleeful laugh—thiue outstretched
Thy balmy mouth uplifted for his kiss.
God pity them, and us, and all sad hearts
Who long with love undying for their dead.
Thank God ! we know thy little baby hands
Have thrust aside the dark, mysterious veil
That shuts us out from heav’n—and thou art gone
To regions far beyond our mortal ken.
Now, with no earth-stain on thy radiant wings.
Thou iuv’st us still, while nestled in His arms
Who called thee “homo"—“Our Cliflie” rests for
ever ;—
Rests, with the loved borne from our household
baud.
All safe forever on the “shining shore. ’
Aud though dark grief-clouds shadow still our
hearts,
Faith points beylmd, and showS them glory-tinged.
NYMPORTE.
Oglethorpe, Aug. 17, 1863.
archer will strengthen bis arm by the
practice of shooting into tbe air, aud the
soldier by engaging in sham^fights learns
bow to conduct himself in real ones. To
suppose that figments weaken our suscep
tibility to facts, is to imagine that dreams
will unfit us for waking realities, and that
smoke is more tangible than solids. If tbe
maintainor of this theory will request some
kind frieud to throw at bis head the most
pathetic volupie ever written, it may safe
ly be predicted that the shadow, of it miss
es hitu, will make a less sensible impres
sion upon his feelings, than the substance,
if it hits him.
FLATTE RY—See Flummciy.—The
hocus-pocus nonsense with which our ears
are sometimes cajoled, in order that v/e
may be more effectually bamboozled and
deceived. Unbounded is the respect aud
politeness with which the practiced adula
tor throws dust iu your eyes, when he
wants to pick your pocket, or to make a
fool of you. A man’s flattery, to be real
ly good, ought not only to he as keen as ,
his sword, hut as polished. By no means j
is it so easy a weapon to wield as
To the Voters of the Second Cob
gressioaal District.
In compliance with the reqeust of many
citizens of the District, and at tbe solicits
lion of soldiers in the army, I have con
sented to become a candidate to represent
you in the uext Congress ot the Confeder
ate States.
1 am not insensible to the vast reponsi-
bility which attaches to the position which
you have the power to bestow. We are in
the midst of a terrific war which demands
the wisdom, energy and power of our whole
people. To give us success requires wise,
prudent aud prompt legislation by Con
gress.
Congress is clothed with the power to
declare war to provide for the comuiou de
fence, to raise and support armies, to levy
and collect taxes, to borrow, mouey, upou
the credit of the Confederate States, and
to regulate commerce. These powers are
entrusted to Congress for the protection
of the liberties of the people, aud to pro
mote their safety and happiness, they are
important in time of peace aud fearful in
time ot war if abused, misapplied or iuju
many | — * rr v~
people imagine : it Is like a flail, which if Piously exercised, or readered impotent
not adroitly used, will box your own ears,
instead of tickling those of the corn. Let
it be taken for granted, that while many
women will accept a compliment to their
beauty at the expense of their understand
ing, very few will relish a compliment to
their talents if it dorogate from their per-
sonal charms. Lady G , whose ton
lustres have somewhat dimmed the lustre
of her attractions, consented in a Parisian
party to assist in getting up an extempos
WIT AND WISDOM.
FEAR—A real evil often’created by the
anticipation of an imaginary one. As we
can but be Lightened when tbo danger ar«*
rives, our previous terrors are but so much
unnecessary addition to the annoyance
They who are the most afraid of a cold, or
the cholera, are the most likely to catch
them ; so it is with many other evils, men
tal as well as bodily. Like the nettle thoy
only sting the timid ; grasp them firmly
and they are inocuous. Fly from them
aud they pursue you ; face them and they
are gone. “The fear of ill exceeds the ill
we fear,” and there are circumstances iu
which men havo been knowu to rush head
long into danger, in order to get rid ol the
intolerable apprehension of it. This is to
be terrified out of terror. Fear is a pro
digious magnifier, especially where it has
been excited by any unusual object. No
traveler ever saw a small wolf; no lauds
man ever experienced a gale at sea that
did not appear to be a tornado ; every
thing is comparative.' Fear, iu short, tnakei^
us imitate the silly wlieatear, who flics in
to the fowler’s suare, in order to avoid the
shadow of a passing cloud. There are oc
casions, however, upou which no man
should fear Fear, for it is the most potent
of moralists.
FEE—Doctor’s—Often the purchase-
money for that which the vender canuot
sell. See Fee Simple. A certain Escu-
lapian, never known to refuse his golden
honorarium, not having received it one
morning from a pat ient whom he had been
long attending,- affected to be searching
about very earnestly upon the floor.—
“YVhat are you lookiug for, Doctor /” in
quired the sick man. “For iny fee,” was
the reply ; “not finding it in'my baud, I
suspect I must have dropped it.” “No,
Doctor.no; you have made a small mis
take ; it is I who have dropped it!”
FEUDALISM—Holding lands by tenure
of military service, and thus perpetuating
war and usurpation. The spirit and princi
ples of the feudal system being that of the
many for the few, its main pillars arc the
supremacy of the sword—primogeniture—
hereditary nobility—and despotic monar
chy. Such are the distinguishing features
of the daik ages. The spirit of the pres
ent era is federalism, commerce, peace, the
principle of the few for the many, and the
attainment of the greatest possible hap
piness for the greatest posssible number,
which is silently but surely leading to the
modification of primogeniture, the proba
ble suppression, at no distant period, of
hereditary legislators, and the encompass-
inent of limited monarchy with republican
institutions. England, France, Spain, aud
Poitv.gal, are assuming the federal form,
while the uortlicru States of Europe retain
the feudalism, which they were the first
to inflict upon the South.
FICTION—YVorks of.—Amoug. other
objections to these fascinating productions,
it has been urged that they create a habit
of feeliug pity or iudiguatien, without af
fording ns au opportunity to relieve dis
tress, of resist oppression, aud. by thus a-
wakening our sympathies to imaginary
claims, dispose them to slumber wbeu call
ed upou by real «!*«#• Tlie heart, it is ar
gued, may be softened, till it is hardened,
as there are metals Jkhich acquire a great
er induration the ofteuer they are melted.
This ingenious theory is morepUusible than
All our benevolent sympathies will
be^CorrobiH’ated by exercise, eveu when I sing through other people’s est
not called forth by any r?»l object, as tbe j bjs uigbts iB ruuaiog through bis
raneous P rover be, and to appear as Calyp
so. In answer to the compliments she re
ceived at the conclusion, she declared that
she had done her best, but added, that to
represent Calypso properly, one should be
young and handsome. “Not at all,” .said
an old General, wishing to be very polite,
“your ladyship is a proof to the contrary ;
nothing could look better from the further :
i end of the Saloon, and nothing could be |
| better acted : as to youth and beauty, the
distance supplies all that.” In that case,
! General! I wonder that you do not always
keep at a distance,” was the retort.
FLOWERS—The terrestrial stars that
bring down heaven to earth, and carry up
our thoughts from earth to heaven : the
pogtry of the Creator, written in beauty
aud fragrance. “He who does not love
flowers,” says Ludwig Tieg, a German
writer, “has lost all fear and love of God.”
Another German author defines woman as
something between a flower and an angel.
FOOL—Tbe Dandy reader ipay please
to see Looking glass. Folly, never
theless, has found other defenders than the
author of the Encomium Moriie, for it has
been seriously maintained by a modern
writer, that none but a fool will attempt to
live without folly, aud that the greatest of
all follies is to be wiser than others.—
Let the fool then be comforted ; he was
never guilty of this absurdity.-
FORGIVENESS—Is not always the
noblest revenge for an injury, since it may
proceed from spite, rather tliau from a geu-
erousforbearance. “I never used revenge,’’
says Lord Herbert, of Chcrbury,—“as
leaving it always to God, who, the less I
punish mu>e enemies, will inflict so much
the more puuishment on them.” Perhaps
his lordship had been reading the 2oth
chapter of Proverbs, where it is said, “It
thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to
eat, and if he be thirsty, give him water to
drink, for then shall thou heep coals of
fire upon his head, and the Lord shall re
ward the.” This may be questionable
morality, but it is at all events bettei to
do good with a bad motive, than evil with
a good one: for a virtuous action may
benefit many, whereas a wrong feeling can
ouly implicate the single individual from
whom it emiuates. In the former case,
too, the example may be imitated without
the unworthy impulse ; as iu the latter it
may be followed without the redeeming
incitement.
FORTUNE—A blind goddess, who
sometimes bestows her smiles upon fools,
in order to reconcile men of sense to her
frowns ; and often runs from the proud to
revisit the w retched. A man of fortune is
one so unfortunate as to be released from
the necessity of employment for the mind,
and exercise of the body, the two great
constituents of health aud happiness ; who
has everything to fear and nothing to hope;
and who consequently pays in anxiety
and ennui more than the value of his mon
ey. Fortune is paiuted blind, in order to
show hei impartiality ; but wheu she cheers
the needy with hope, aud depresses the
wealthy with, distrust, mcthiiikg she con
fers the richest boon on the poorest man,
and injures those upon whom she bestows
her favors.
FORTUNE-TELLEII—A pickpocket,
discerning enough to limit his or her dep
redations to gulls aud simpletons.
FOX HUNTING—Tossing up for lives
with a fox, aiid ruuuing the risk of being
in at y«»nr own death, instead of that ot
the animal you are pursuing. A fox huu
ter lays a very fair wager when he pits
his own Bead agaiust an animal’s tail.—
Bull, bear^nd badger baiting are prohib
ited by the magistrates, if not by law: there
is a society for the prevention of cruelty to
animals, the secretary of which evinces a
laudable activity in punishing drovers,
coachman, aud car-wen, who are unmerci
ful towards their cattle; hut gentlemen
may kill and mangle game, aud .put stags,
hares, and foxes, to a lingering aud cruel
death, without molestatinu or impeach
ment. This may appear au unjust and
invidious distinction ; but it must be rec
o leefed, that the plebians are natui* ly
ignorant, ifed torment their animals to urge
them forward, or with some other appear
ance of excuse; whereas thq gently are,
or ought to be, well informed, and perpe
trate their vatiop* cruelties solely for theii *^
own pastime and amusement!
If a fox hunter possess the accompaui
meuts of being a toper and a gambler, he
may be said to pass bis mornings iu run
other people’s estates, aud
by tardiness or non-action. We have
large armies iu tbe field, and wbeu tbe
power was given to (Jongrcss to raise ar
mies, the Government as a correlative du
ty and as a condition co existent was to
iced and clothe these armies. As citizeus
of a Common country, beleaguered by au
implacable foe, you have a right to expect
prudent and wise legislation, unselfish and
patriotic statesmanship aud a wise financial
policy, affording such protection to citizens
aud soldtersas is within the power of the
Government iu time of war. Our com
merce should be so regulated as to avoid in
jury to the people, the soldiers and their
families. Our finances should he couduc
ted so as not to impair the credit of the
Government. It is indispeusable to tlfe
support of our armies that the public cred
it should be maintaiued. This cannot be
done upon a loose and undefined system,
aud without some well ascertained basis
upon which the public faith when pledged
cau be redeemed. It is esseutial to our
success, that the means raised by the Gov
ernment should be faithfully aud honestly
applied by honest and suitable agents. A
wise system of credits and a judicious use
thereof, will keep unimpaired the confi
dence of the people in their Government
to pay, and will check the spirit of spec
ulation and extortion, now dangerous to
the best interests of the country, will re
duce the price of prime articles of necessi
ty which the soldiers and their families
arc compelled to have, and enable the
Government to increase the pay of the
soldiers.
The depreciation of our currency must
be checked. Iu my judgment it is within
the power of Congress to do this. All illi
cit trade with theeuemy should be stopped.
No love ofgaiu should justify the purchase
of coin iu Confederate currency -to trade
with the Abolitionists, by which the price
of Y r ankee goods is made the measure of
the value of Confederate Treasury notes.
Congress might well consider the neces
sity of a restraining law, iu the nature of
au embargo act to prevent the exportation
of cotton, or other articles Jto Nassau,
which is but an indirect mode of trading
with the United States.
This external commerce should be car
ried ou by the special permission of, and
for the Confederate Government, for war
purposes.
If our external commerce was properly
regulated by law, during the pretended
blockade of the Liucoln Government, our
currency would have a domestic value'on-
ly as it has a domestic circulation.
The-Government should not permit the
exportation of coin, except for its owif use.
tlieu-there would be no brokers to buy or
sell coiu, or dealers in foreigu exchange,
only for the benefit of the Government it
self. This would give uniformity of value
to our currency and its depreciation would
be checked. Other Governments could
not regulate the value of our currency by
rejecting it fwithin their own dominions,
and dealing in it through their agents and
subjects in the Confederacy, at a most
disparaging discount.
With these or'sitnilar regulations, the
value of Confederate Treasary notes wonld
be enhanced.
A suitable tax based upon the princi
ples of equality aud justice, with properly
adjusted details* would diminish the vol
ume of circulation, and restore confidence
by which Treasury uotes would appreciate
iu value, and property gradually ussutne
its nomiual price.
With the cordial and earnest co opera
tion of the States and Coufejerate Gov
ernment, each strengthening tlie liqud* ot
the President within their legitimate and
constitutional sphere of action—the war
iu which we are eugaged must.be suc
cessful. ,
The people are arming themselves at
home for defence. Soon every person ca
pable of hearing arms will become a sol
dier. aud the camp fires of freedom will
bo lighted throughout the Confederacy.
With a Cougress equal to the emergen
cy—with a PresidcYit wise aud unfliuchr
iug, combining high, civil and military
qualifications, aud a people determined to
be free, we cau defy the hosts of Liucoln
to the end of time.
If honored by your confidence, I shall
devote unremittingly^ my lime and what
ever ot talents I possess, to the interests
of our bleeding country. Let us trust in
Go 1. “They that trust in the Lord shall
be as Mouut Zion, which canuot be re
moved, but abideth forever.” b
Respectfully, James L. Seward.
The lust of power has no empire in tbe
greatest souls. Ha that knew best what
is in man, would have po earthly crown,
but'oue that vras “platted with thorns.”
It is surprising how little.jove we eau •
be well coutent with, when that love is
more than (be person giviftg it gives to
'anybody rjse.
A wise man changes hie mind; a tool
uever will.
Death in the Palpiti lUv. G. W. Mo ere.
Auother silyer cord is loosed—another
golden bowl is broken ; the dust has re
turned to tbe earth as it was, and the spir-
has returned to tbe God who gave it.
We record to-day, the death of the Rev.
Georoe W. Moore, a veuerable and be
loved. Charlestonian, who for forty-three
years has labored among our people in
winning straying souls, aud “watched aud
wept, and felt, and prayed for all.”
On Sunday afternoon he was attending
a Camp Meeting near Anderson Court
house, where he was about to officiate as
the minister of the occasion.
The opening hymn had been sung, and
with more than usually fervid power, he
had invoked the diviuo blessing upou the
assembled congregation, especially for the
widows aud orphans of the country. The
last word uttered, the "amen” impressive
ly died upou his lips, aud then, as if God
himself had thus pronounced His approval
of a well spent lile, the holy man fell for
ward, aud in ten minutes more, was num
bered amoug the sainted dead. He ap
peared to suffer but little, and did not
speak again.
Years ago, he made the remark, that
“among all tlie places ou earth he (I)
wonld preier to give back his (my) life to
God iu a Methodist camp meeting.” The
wish was gratified aud more. He died iu
his battle armor. With the pulpit for his
chamber, tbe Bible and hyuin book for his
pillow. Heaven in his soul, and God’s own
“well doue” upon his lips, the willing spir
it passed through the dark portals of Na
ture to live anew in the light of eternity.
ltev. Mr. Moore was born in 1799, and
was consequently 61 years of age. His
services as a Minister commenced in 1S20,
aud thousands of couverts testify how
faithfully he has labored iu the great
Vineyard. The tnauner of his death is
the best comment upou his life. All his
serious'thoughts had rest in Heaven. Wile
and several children had preceded him in
the journey. Owe sou, the Colonel of the
Second Regiment of South Carolina Ri
fles, fell in the last bloody battle of Ma
nassas. The lather looked forward, with
a peaceful hope, to a re union with these
in perfect purity, fullness of. joy, everlast
ing freedom, aud eternal good.
His life was one loug psalm, whose
chauut grew deeper as age came ou, for he
bad the comlort of knowing passions dead,
temptatious conquered, experience won,
individual interests lost iu universal love
and vain hopes merged into sublime, strong
builded faith—that faith which makes of
death its foundation stone*, and has for its
summit; eternity.
The funeral took place on Wednesday,
the 19th instant, at Spartanburg, where
the remains are temporarily iuterrod, The
obsequies were conducted by' tbe Rev.
Whiteford Smith, D. D.
| Chat lesion Courier, 25th.
The Suez Suit* Canal.—A report re
cently made by u commission of the dis-
. tiuguished European scientists, appointed
to examine the various routes between the
Red Sea aud the Mediterranean, iu con
nexion with the Suez canal, embodies
some interesting information. The width
of the’isthmus is seventy miles, and Suez
and Pelusium stand at the nearest points.
After weigbiug every question submitted
in favor of the different routes, the commis
sion reccommcuds the most direct one, the
entire line of which to be executed meas
ures but niuety-two miles, And will uot
require a single lock, beijpg a free channel
or caual, to communicate directly with
both seas. Such achanuet, open aud free
at all times, and capable of admitting ships
of the largcstRciass would be a_ strong in
ducement for all vessels trading betweou
the Indian and European seas to take this
route, which would he ^saving iff distance
over that around the Cape of Good Hope
of eight tbousaud miles. The proposed
depth of the canal is twenty-six feet, which
the commissioners think will Suffice for
vessels of three thousand tons, which are
to be propelled by towing chains at the
rate of six miles per hour. The roadsteads
both of Suez aud Pelusium are well adapt
ed for the entrance aud exit of vessels
having-sufficient depth of water, with good
anchorage. The configuration of both ap
proaches does uot appear to have changed
for many centuries. The estimated cost
of the work is c£6,480,000, while the ex
pense of maintaining the canal is compu
ted at <=£62,000 annually. The commis
sioners believe that sufficient toils would
be (akeu to icndertiie enterprise renumer-
ative as an investment for capital.
A Singular Canon in New Mexico.—
The troops sent out from Fort Defiance to
punish a band of hostile Indians in the
neighborhood, succeeded in capturing live
thousand head Df sheep aud six Indians.
Six Indians were killed, and two soldiers
W&-e also killed during the fight. The
troops euteredarernarkabie gorge or canon,
climbing down tlie mountain side at almost
its centre* through a narrow passage, where
a single horseman only could pass, and at
the risk of being precipitated, by a false
step, down a chasm of 500 feet. The
walls-of the canon arc in some places fif
teen hundred feet high. Arrows shot from
the top at tho troops below lost their direc
tion by tbe resistance of the air, and came
‘dowp horizontally. Stones thrown down
wereAroken before they reached the bot
tom, from the same cause. It is about 40
or 50 miles through it. . Peaches and corn
were found in it in great quantities. The
peaches are said by the officers to be verv
fine. Several prisouere were taken in the
canon. Had tlie tribe «in any numbers
stood fight .here, they could have auuoyed
tbe troops much without a doubt. It was
a hazardous march, and tbe success is a
matter of wonder as woll as of congratula
tion. Tbe opinion is expressed by some
of the officers that ten determined men,
well armed, could have resisted the entrance
-of the troops to the canon.
“Joint* did Mrs. Green take the medicine I
ordered f” "I guess so,” replied John.
“Tor I saw orapd oo the door the next menu .
iof.” '