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VOLUME XLIV. MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1863. NUMBER 35. K. M- OR ME & SON, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. STEPHEN F. MILLER, ASSOCIATE EDITOR. Terms after first of June, 1S63. Subscription, per annum, in advance,....$ 4 00 TRANSIENT ADVERTISING. * 1 50 per sejuar'e of ten lines for the first, au<] 75 cents for each subsequent insertion. Tributes of Respect, Resolutions by So cieties, Obituaries, «&c., exceeding six lines, t) be charged as transient advertising. LEGAL ADVERTISING. Ordinary's— Citations for Letters of Administration, by Administrators, Executors, Guardians, Ac., Application for Letters of Dismission from Administration,...'.— 0 00 Application for Letters of Dismission f ro in Guardianship, . Application for leave to sell Land and Notice to Debtors and Creditors, of personal or perishable property, 3 00 4 00 Sal ptr square oj ten tines, Sales of Land and Negroes, per square of teii lines 4 00 2 00 5 00 3 00 0 00 Sheriff's— Each levy of ten lines, or less, Mortgage sales often lines, or less Ai! advertisements of sales by Sheriffs ex ceeding ten lines, will be charged in pro portion. Clerks— Foreclosure of Mortgage and other month ly advertisements, $1 50 per square of ten lines for each insertion. Establishing lost papers, per square of ten tines, - — - $ 00 For a man advertising his wife, in advance, 10 00 No deviation from the above scale of prices un der any yreteuce. ; Remittances by mail at our risk. 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.” '