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Newspaper Page TextXLIY. MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1863. NUMBER 36. B. 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. S' 1 50 per square of ten lines for the first, , *iid 75 cents for each subsequent insertion. Tributes of Respect, Resolutions by So cieties, Obituaries, Arc., exceeding six lines, to be charged as transient advertising. LEGAL ADVERTISING. Ordinary's— Citations for Letters of Administration, by Administrators, Executors, Guardians, Ate., 0 00 Application for Letters of Dismission from Administration, — 6 00 Application for Letters of Dismission • from Guardianship, 4 00 Application for leave to sell Land and Negroes, „ - — . . 5 00 Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 4 00 Sales of personal or perishable property, pnr square of ten lines, 2 00 Sales of Laud and Negroes, per square of tat tines, 5 00 Sheriff *>— Each levy of ten lines, or /.ess, 3 00 Mortgage sales of ten lines, or less... 6 00 All advertisements of sales by Sheriff's ex ceeding ten- lines, will be charged in pro portion. Foreclosure of Mortgage arid other month- lu advertisements, s*> l 50 per square of ten lines for each insertion. Establishing lost papers, per square, of ttn hers,..'. 6-00 For a man advertising his wife, in advance, 10 00 No deviation from the above scale of prices un der any pretence. Remittances by mail at our risk. “coxfrdI rat Ft axT ~~ Baldwin County, 49th Tax District. A LL PERSONS, residents of Baldwin county; J\ or doing business therein, who belong to ei- -tkr of the classes mentioned below, are hereby notified that I shall open my Registry Books on the 10th of August, (inst.) to register as required by the Confederate Tax law, passed April 24th, 1363, 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 ry thirty days of such failure. Office next door to Milledgeville Post. Office— open from 8 o’clock A. M., to 2, P. M., for one week, beginning August 10th. J. C. WHITAKER, Tax Collector 49th District. SUBJECTS OF TAXATION. Apothecaries, Bankers, Brew ers, Brokers, Butch ers Bakers, Bowling Alleys, Billiard Rooms, Com- lrission Merchants and Commission Brokers, Cat tle Brokers, Circus, Confectioners, Dentists, Dis tillers, Distillers of fruit for ninety days or less, Hotels, Inns, Taverns, Rating houses, Jugglers and Exhibiters of Shows, Lawyers. Livery stable keepers, Pawnbrokers, Pedlars, Physicians, Pho tographers. Retail dealers, Retail dealers in liquor, Surgeons, Theatres, Tobacconists, Wholesale deal ers, Wholesale dealer in liquors.’ Milledgeville, August 4, 1362 34 2t Tight m-light light i J UST RECEIVED, a few boxes Extra WAX O AN I>XjKIS. WM. H. SCOTT. Milledgeville, August i 1.1863 33 3t ( q ITY TAX NOTICE.—My books are now open J for the collection of the City Taxes, assessed by the Council for the present year. Office under the Milledgeville Hotel. JAMES C. SHEA, Clerk. Milledgeville, July 28, 1363 . _ 30 tf Cotton Cards, Coffee Sole Leather. 1 j til pair WHITTMORE’S CottoaCards, Ad* * number 10. 300 lbs. COFFEE. 500 lbs. SOLE LEATHER. Just received and for sale- by J. CANS A. CO. Milledgeville, April 14, 1303 l- r> P jST oticei Office Ga. Relief & Hospital Associa’n, ? Augusta, Ga.. June 23iL 1803. $ 4 MESSENGER gf.tiie.Georgia Relief & Hos- - V. pital Association will leave Atlanta on or near the 10th of each month for Mississippi, and will ‘.like charge of all boxes and packages intended for the Georgia troops in that State, and will carry the a to some safe point near the army and deposit them, and notify the owners, or deliver them to the owners, if practicable, free ot charge. Ihe ^oxes and packages must be marked with the names, of the owners, their company and regiment, And to the care of the Georgia Relief and Hospital Association. Atlanta. Ga. The Association will not be responsible for any box containing perish able articles, such as green vegetables, A iu Box es and packages will be deposited at the W avside Home, Atlanta, Ga. W. H. POTTER, Gen’l. Superint’dt. Newspapers of this State will please copy daily during the first week ot each month, and s-ud bills to this office. W. II. POTTER. Geu’L Sup’t. July 7,1863 27 lstwem * SPECIAL NOTICE —The unde: signed having removed from Milledgeville, desires and in tends to close up his business matters of that nee as speedily as possible. Ail persons indebt- I are »otifmd that my notes and accounts are in ie hands of J. A. Breedlove and P. H- Lawler, ho are authorized to collect--and make settle- jnts. If not arranged at an early day .settle ents will Be enforced by law. A. C. \ AIL, Agent. August 19,1862 33 tf. “STATE TAX—-1863. ' EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, I -MlLLLDirLVILJ.B, Aug. J8, 1863. j IVTIIEREAS, under' the73ith and 735th scc- i V tious of the Code, it is made the duty oi he Comptroller General to examine and add to- -ther the Digests of Taxable property of the Jute, returned'by the various Tax Receivers and pouectors of the State to the Comptroller Gener a's Office; and bv Acts, assented to, December ytii and 15th. 1362, the Governor and Comptroller k-cpral are further authorized and required to as- such a rate of taxation for 1363 as shall raise ■*net amount of one million Uvk iilndukd ‘Sn FORTY-TWO THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED ^U.Ail.S. In obedience to the requirements of the Code, “e Comptroller General has footed up and added together the Digests ; and further to carry out the quireineuts of the Acts of the i 3th and 15tli Dec., ‘iritis ORDERED, That the i.ate of taxatiou shall be £ ekt een cents on the one hun- KED DOLLARS on die property returned, and 6uble that amount on default property, that being '•‘‘Percent, necessary to raise the amount requir- 1 u pou the Digests, as returned. JOSEPH E. BROWN, • Governor. PETERSON TIIWEATT, i Comptioiler General - 4u gust IS, I860 33 4t WE arfe authorized to announce Major WM. T. W- NAPIER as , j; - . a candidate to represent the county I i* v w, dwin in the Representative branch of the M;ii Assembly. Milledgeville, 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 tne uumber, magni tude anu fearful carnage of its battles a warfare in which your courage and forti tude have illustrated yonr country, and at traded not only gratitude at home, but ad miration abroad ; your enemies continue a struggle in which our final triumph must be inevitable. Unduly elated with their recent successes, they Imagine that tem porary reverses can quell your spirit or shake your determination, and they are now gathering heavy masses for a general invasion in the vain hope that by despe- j rate effort success may at length be reached. You know too well, my countrymen, j what they mean by success. Their malig- ! nant rage aims at nothing less than the extirmiuatiou of yourselves, your wives j 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 I their Government. They design to iftcito i servile insurrection and light the fires of : incendiarism whenever they* reach your ! your homes, and they debauch the inferi- | or race, hitherto docile and contented, by i 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 j they should be hurled* from their 6eats of ' power, the men who now rule in Washing ton refuse even to confer on the subject of putting an end to outrages which disgrace uur age, or listen to a suggestion for con ducting the war according to the usages of civilization. Fellow-citizens, no other alternative is left you but victory or subjugation, slavery and the utter ruin of yourselveB, your fam ilies 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 heart, should prompt ly repair to the post of duty, and stand by their comrades now in front of the foe, aud thus 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, suffice to create numerical equality between our forces and that of the invaders—and when, with any approach to such equality, have we failed to ba vic torious? I believe but few of those absent are actuated by unwillingness to serve their country ; but that many have found it difficult to resist the temptation of a vis it to their homes and the loved ones from whom they have been so long separated ; that others have left for temporary atten tion to their affairs with the intention of returning, aud then have shrunk from the consequences of their violation of duty ; that others agaiu have left their post from mere restlessness and desire of change, each quieting the upbraiaings of his con science by persuading himself that his in* dividual service could have no influence on the general result. • These and other causes, (although far less disgraceful than the desire to avoid danger, to escape from the sacrifices re quired by patriotism) are, nevertheless, grievous faults, and place the cause of our beloved country, and everything we bold dear, in imminent peril. I repeat that the men who now owe duty to their country, who have been called out and have not yet reported for duty, or who have ab- ! sented themselves from their posts, are i sufficient in number to secure us victory in j the struggles now impending, i 1 call on you, theu, my countrymen, to ; hasten to your camps, in obedience to the j dictates of honor and of duty, and sum- i mon those who have absented themselves i 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- I clare that I grant a general pardon a nd amnesty to all officers and men within the | Confederacy, now absent without leave, wLo shall, with’ the least possible delay, return to their proper posts of duty, but no excuse will be received for any delay be yond twenty days after the first publica- 1 tiou of this proclamation in the State in I which the absentee may be at the date of i the publication. This amnesty and par- ! dor. shall extend to all who have been ac- : cused, or who have been convicted and are j undergoing sentence for absence without I leave," or desertion, excepting only those j who have boon twice convicted of deser- i fcion. Finally, I conjure you, my couutry-wo- i men—tbe wives, mothers, sisteis and I daughters of the Confederacy—to use their j all-powerful influence in aid ot this call to i add one crowning sacrifice to those which j their patriotism has so freely and constant j ly offered on their country s altar, and to ! take care that none who owe service in the j field shall lie sheltered at home from the i disgrace of having deserted their duty to their families, to their country, and to tbeiV God. Given under my hand and the beat ot the Confederate States, at Richmond, this 1st day of Au gust, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty three. JEFFERSON DAVIS, By the President: J. P. Benjamin. Sec’y of State. The London Times endorses the claims of an invention owned by a Mr. Szerelmy, of England, which, according to the de scription of the .article, possesses every quality of the real leather, and is vastly superior to it on many accounts. It will not crack, is tougher, will wear longer, and will resist water as effectually as rubber. The leather cloth can be of any color, and a pair of boot tops which cost of calfskin $1 50, will cost of this material only 25 cents. The invention is of immense value. I r ; i . He that hath a bountiful eye shall be J blessed, for he giveil# 1 of bis bread to the j poor. — From the Mucon Telegraph. The Southern Girl. Air—Bonnie Blue Flag. Oh, yes, I am a Southern girl! I glory in the name ! And boast it with far greater pride, Than glittering wealth or fame! I envy not the Northern girl Her robes of beauties rare, Tho’ diamonds grace her snowy neck. And pearls may deck her hair. Chorous. Hurrah! Hurrah; for the Suuny South so dear Hurrah! for the homespuu dress that South ern ladies wear! This homespun dress is plain you see ; My hat is home-made, too, But then it shows what Southern gills For Southern rights will do. We sent the bravest of our laud, To battle with the foe, Aud we will lend a helping baud— We love the South you know. Chorus. Now Northern girls are out of date, And since Old Abe’s blockade, We Southern girls can be content, With goods that’s Southern made. We scorn to wear a Northern silk, Or bit of Northern lace, But make our homespun dresses up, And wear them with such grace. Chorus. The Southern land is a glorious land ! Her cause a glorious cause ' Then here’s three cheers for Southern girls. And for the Southern boys! We sent our sweethearts to the war ; But dear girls never mind ; Your soldier love* will not forget The girl he’s left behind. 2d Chorus. Hurrah! Hurrah ! for the Southern girls Hur rah! Hurrah! for the sword and plume that South ern soldiers wear! A soldier is the lad for me— A brave heart I adore. And when the Sunny South v> ‘’ ee, And fighting is no more. I’ll choose me Then a lover brave, From out that noble band— The soldier lad I love the best, Shall have my heart and hand. Chorus. And now young man a word to you : If you would win the fair. Go to the field where honor calls. And win your lady there. Remember that our brightest smiles, Are for the true and brave, And that her tears fall for the one, Who fills the soldier’s grave. Chorus. And when you hear us back the sword, That fought for Liberty, We’ll twine around each hero form, Our wreath of Victory ! And ’neatb the sunny smile of peace, We’ll double all our joys, To welcome to our homes and hearts, Our gallant Southern boys ! Chorus. Hurrah ! Hurrah! for the Sunny South Hur rah ! Hurrah ! for the Southern Doys and for the flag they bear! BOTH SIDES. A man in his carriage was riding along, A gaily dressed wife by lus side ; In satin and laces she looked like the Queen, And he like a king in his pride. A wood-sawyer stood on the street as they passed, The carriage and couple he eyed ; And said as he worked with his saw on a log, “I wish I was rich and could ride.’’ The man in the carriage remarked to his wife, “One thing I would give if I could— I’d give my wealth for the strength and the health Of the man who saweth the wood.’’ A pretty young maid with a bundle of work, Whose face as the morning was fare, Went tripping along with a smile of delight, While humming a love-breathing air. She looked on the carriage ; the lady she saw Arrayed in apparel so fine, And said in a whisper, “I wish from my heart Those satins and laces were mine.” The lady looked on the maid with her work, So fair in her calico dress, And said, “I’d relinquish position and wealth. Her beauty and youth to possess.” Thus it is in the world, whatever our lot, Our minds and our time we employ, Iu longing and sighing for what we have not, Ungrateful for what we enjoy.- We welcome the pleasure for which we have sigh ed. The heart, has avoid in it still. Growing deeper and wider the longer we live, That nothing but Heaven can fill. WIT AND WISDOM, FREETHINKER.—This word, by a strange abuse of terms, has come to be syn onimous with a libertine and a contemner of religion, whereas the best security, both, for morality and piety, is a perfect, free dom of thought. If it be a reproach to be a freethinker, it must be a merit to thiuk like a slave ; and mental bondage, always more degrading than that of tlie body, must be more honorable than the liberty of both ! The right of examining* when we ought to believe, is the foundation of Protestantism, and to deny it, is to revert to the Popish claim of infallibility. We may as well suppose a mau can reason without thinking at all, as reason without thinking freely ; and it has been maintain ed, even by dignitaries of the Church, that a verbal, uuinquiring assent even to a truth, is less meritorious than the conscientious error which is the result of patient investi gation. If thought is to he restricted, or excluded altogether from the consideration of the most important of all subjects, it necessarily follows, that idiots, and irra tional beings, arc as competent to decide upon them as the most enlightens ed philosophers : a rcduclio ad absurdum, which we commended to the attention of the mind ebainers. Those are the real freethinkers, using the word in its most in* vidions sense, who imagine that the un shackled exercise of man’s noblest and most distinguishing attribute, can ever lead to any other results than a still move deep, aud more soul-felt conviction of the greatness, goodness, and glory of its divine Giver. 1 FRIEND—Real.—One who will tell f you of your faults aud follies iu prosperity, ! and assist you with heart and hand iu ad- j varsity.-—See Phoenix an Unicorn. Strange as it may sound, we are some j times rather disposed to choose our friends ; from the unworthy than the worthy ; for | though it is difficult to lovo those whom we ! do not esteem, it is a greater difficulty to I love those whom we esteem much more than ourselves. A perfect friendship re quires equality, even in virtue. He who has merited friends, will seldom be with out them ; for attachment is not so rare as the desert that attracts and secures it. Some there are, who with an’ apparaut zeal, vindicate their friends from all their little peccadilloes, whitewash them as carefully as they can, and then knock them on the hea’d by lamenting their ad diction to some gross impropriety. This resembles the conduct of the Roman priests, who, when au oxen was not com pletely white, chalked over the dark spots, and leading him up to the altar, made him an immediate sacrifice. Favors, and especially pecuniary ones, are generally fatal to friendship ; for our pride will ever prompt us to lower the val ue of the gift by diminishing that of the donor. Ingratitude is an effort to recovci our own esteem for our benefactor, whom we look upon as a sort of toothdrawer, that has cured us ot one pain by inflicting an other, As friendship must be founded on mu tual esteem, it cannot long exist among the vicious ; for we soon find ill company to bo like a dog, which dirts those the most whom he loves the best. After Lady E. L., and her female companion, had de fied public opiuiou for some time, her la dyship was obliged to say—“Well now my dear friend, we must part forever : for you have no character left, and I have not enough for two.” FRIENDS—There may be the same vitiated taste in the choice of frjeuds, as of food. Many who like their game to be high and rank, seem to choose their asso ciates for the same recommendation; not objecting to those whose reputations are in the worst ordottr. Others lay the founda tiou of future quarrels by forming incon siderate and iucongruous attachments—a union, as Cowper wittily observes— “Like Hand-iu-Hand iusurauce plates, Which unavoidably creates The thoughts of conflagration. A fashionable friend is one who will dine with you, game with you, walk or ride out with you, borrow money of you, escort your wife to public places—if she be handsome, stand by and see you fairly shot, if you happen to be engaged in a du el, and slink away and see you clapped in to prison, if you experience a reverse of fortune. Such a mau is like the shadow of tho sun-dial, which appears in fine weather, and vanishes when there comes a rainy day. People are always pleased with those who partake pleasure with them ; and hence there is a maudlin sympathy among brother topers,—but this is fellowship, uot friendship. Neyer was the term more thoroughly desecrated than by the heart less Horace Walpole, who, in one of his letters, says, “It one of my friends hap pens to die, I drive down to St. James’s Coffee House, aud bring home a new one.” FUTURITY—What we are to be, de termined by what we Lave been. A11 in scrutable mystery, of which we can only guess at a solution, by referring to the past and the present. These assure us* by millous of incontes- tiblo proofs, that the benevolent Creator sympathises with our happiness ; theu he must sympathise still more tenderly,with our sufferings. To suppose that lie would scatter al! sorts of delights around us iu this evanescent world, and yet doom the great mass of mankind to everlasting an guish in^Iie next, is an irreconcileable contradiction. The earth upon which we are merely flitting passengers, is every where enamelled with flowers, equally ex quisite for varied beauty and perfume, hut useless, except for the purpose of diffusing pleasure ; and yet our eternal abode is to be horrent with fire and agony ! The best way of combating the terrors with which superstition has darkened . futurity, is to appeal from the unknown to the known, j from the unseen to the visible, from iinag- j inary torment to real enjoyment, from the f'rightfulncss aud the stench ofTonhet to the beauty of a tulip, and the fragrace of a rose, GAMING—The gamester begins by being a dupe, speedily becomes a knave, and generally’ ends bis career as a pauper. A dicebux like that of Pandora, is full of all evils, with a deceitful Hope at the bot tom, which generally turns into despair.— There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is, to throw them away. - GENIUS—A natural aptitude to per form well and easily that widely others can do but indifferently, aud with pains. Locke has exploded the theory of innate ideas. The mind of a newly born infant is as a new mirror, which with a capacity to reflect all objects, is, in itself, objectless. There is nothing innate or otiginal in either case, except from the capacity to reflect, which will vary according to the peculiar con struction of the mind or the mirror ; some presenting objects with a true or a false, with a beautifying or a discolored and un becoming hue ; while others will enlarge, diminish, distort, or absolutely reverse the forms presented to them. These diff- eient tendencies of minds, originally idea- less, constitute the diversities of human character, ox form what is commohly call ed genius. GHOSTS—There is more meaning and philosophy than at first sight appears in Coleridge’s answer to Lady Beaumont, when she asked biin whether he believed in ghosts—“O no, Madam I have Been too many to believe in them.” He had sense enough to see that bis senses had been de ceived. GLORY—Military.- Sharing with plague, pestilence, and famine, the honor of des troying your species: aud participating with Alexander’s horse the distinction of transmitting your name to posterity. Col. Akii’s Letter. Manassas. Ga. August 14,1863. Messrs. B. It. Mays, J. M. Field, N. A. Jackson, H. II Dobson, IV. M. Peeples. T. F. Foster, J. II. B, Shackleford, J. II. Ar thur and J. L. Camp : Gentlemen.—Yours of the 12th inst., soliciting me to become a candidate for Congress in the 10th Congressional Dis trict is received. I have been written to on this subject by many gentlemen from different counties in the district, besides receiving numerous personal applications from gentlemen in this and other counties. My reply to all has been that, being at all times much averse to a scramble for office under any circumstances, my disinclination to such a course is greatly increased by the condition of our country ; that I should have long since been in the army, but for my physical inability to serve in the field ; and being desirous to do anything in ray power to aid iu achieving our indepen dence, and securing to the people the bless ings of liberty and good government, I should not feel at liberty to refuse to occu py any position to which I might he call ed, where I could be of service in the great struggle iu which we are engaged. And, while I cannot announce myself a candidate for a seat in Congress, and will uot be instrumental iu creating strife and division among the people by entering into a scramble to obtain office or place, yet, if the people of this district should think proper to elect me to represent them, I should feel constrained to accept the hon or‘conferred upon ine, aud to serve them to the best of my ability. I should think it extremely unfortunate, in a time like the present, to have the peo ple distracted about political issues being presented to them, which would create di visions and parties, when all should be united at home, and in the army, in our great contest for liberty. Still I hold it to me the right and duty of the people at all times to elect meu to office who will truly and correctly represent them and carry out their views aud wishes. While we have a large army in the field contending with a powerful and unscrupu lous enemy, who is seeking to destroy all that is dear to us, no man should be plac ed in a responsible positiou, civil or mili tary, who does not earnestly, honestly and cordially aid and support the Commander- in-chief in all his efforts to preserve the efficiency of the army, to feed and clothe the soldiers, and provide for all their wants as far as practicable, and to maintain the credit of the Government. We must have men in the field ; they must be provided for when well, aud attended to aud cared for when sick and wounded. All this re- quires immense moans. Our Government lias but two resources—credit and taxation. The credit of the Confederate States—the States Confederated—is the inaiu reliance. Every proper effort that is made to main tain the credit of the Confederate States should receive the cordial support of every oue. For credit is almost as important as meu and muskets. And if the credit of the Confederate States goes down, the credit of Georgia, if it does not go down, must be materially impaired, as she is one of the States Confederated, And what is far more important to us in the present contest, it will be impossible to keep our army in the field, unless our credit is pre served, without iuflicting too heavy a bur den by taxation upon the people. The most of our citizens are iu the army, and while it is pioper to resort to taxation, the soldiers property if taxed at all, should be lightly touched. The people should see to it, therefore, that they are not misrepresented in Con gress. No one should he sent there who only professes friendship for President Da vis aud bis administration : but he should show by his acts as well as words that he is indeed a faithful friend and true supporter. The President has done and is doing all that man could or can do for us and our cause and the world will be as tonished when the history of this revolu tion is faithfully vfVitten, not that as little has been done, but that so muck has been accomplished in so short a time, with the limited means, at command. The cause of the President is the cause of liberty, the cause of the country, our cause ; and all tho efforts of his Administration to maintain the army, provided for tho com fort of the soldiers and preserve the credit of the Confederate ^states should find a warm supporter in every member of Con gress. The man, who, in this hoar of trial and peril endeavors, by word or act to make the people at home or our soldiers in the field dissatisfied with the President— who tries to make them believe that their rights are denied them and that *tbey are oppressed—is no true friend to our cause. “Le/ no suck man he trustedThe sol diers must have confidence in their leader in order to meet successfully the enemy. Aud there is no possibility of our subjuga tion by the Abolitionists unless we are first distracted and divided among ourselves; and if we remain united in heart and ac- tion our success is certain. Who then but an enemy to onr cause, a madman or a tool would raise any question, or present any issue calculated to produce distrust and dissatisfaction in the tninds of the peo ple - at home or in the army, when all should be united, harmonious and confi dent ? We should not only be friends and sup porters ot our great and good President, but we should be friends, true as steel, of our new Government. There should be no looking hack in word or action, no lin gering desire or hope for reconstruction in the mind of any one aud much less a mem her of Congress. No friend of the Gov ernment can entertain for a moment snch an idea. 1 was not originally in favor of secession. I foresaw the consequences that would follow it, aud heuce I desired that at least one more effort should be made to secure, if possible, our constitutional rights in the Union. But after all we have suff ered from our enemies, and the indubitable evidence they have furnished of their true character and designs—our property des troyed, negroes stolen, houses burnt, towns pillaged, land devastated, people murder ed and women outraged—no earthly con sideration conld induce me again to take such creatures by the hand and call them bretheren. Our noble and gallant troops —•“the jewels of our country”—many with olie arm, oue leg, one baud, one foot, one eye, and uuinberless scars that are monu ments of their patriotic devotion to T>nr cause—tell ofendurauce too terrible ever to allow fraternization with such a peopje. The grief of fathers, mothers, wives, sisters and children-the widows wail and orphans cry—the thousands of loved forms that moulder on distant battle fields, all forbid it. It is impossible for u> ever to live with them again iu honor and peace. It ought not to be thought qf. much less talked of or writteu about. The history of the past furnishes no instance, that t remember, where a people endeavored to throw off the yoke and relieve themselves from the tyianny of their rulers, and failed in their attempt, that did not live as subjects or slaves. And if you wili look at the man ner in which our people are treated by Lin coln’s mercenaries when his army gets possession of any portion of our country— look at the hundreds of our friends now suffering, starving, dying in Lincoln’s has tiles—you will have some imperfect idea of what fate awaits us if reconstruction ev er takes place. I would rather be the s/acc of a kind Southern master than the subject of a Northern tyrant. And, gentlemen, while our brave soldiers staud as a living wall between us and our enemies, the small pittance they receive from the Government should be greatly in creased. When this war commenced teu dollars were worth more than thiity now, Justice, therefore,requires tliat the soldiers’ pay should be increased in some propor tion to the increased price of necessaries of life. I have thus briefly replied to the sug gestions contained in your letter. Yoti.iu common with the voters of the District, have it in your power to select a represen tative who wili truLy reflect your views in Congress, and I doubt not when the choice is made the voice of the people will be o- beyed. * Thanking yon, gentlemen, for your kind expressions of confidence, I am, respectfully, Y"our obediewt Servant, WARREN AKIN. T^a, Coffee and Sugar.—It is quite probable that we shall soon have to dis pense entirely with these articles. Wo can live as happily, as comfortably, nay, as luxuriously, without them. Two apd a half centuries ago they were not to be found on the tables of royalty itself. A hundred aud fifty years ago they were rare luxuries, and except in America, have not to this day come into common every day use among the poor. The use of them is more a habit than a want. Tea and coffee were for a long time after their introduction into Eurepe, considered by many of the learned as slow poisons. The past expe rience of the civilized world conclusively proves that they are not necessaries of life.. We should all begin to learn to dispense with them before wo are compelled to do so. Let those who can best afford to use them be the first to dispense with their consumptions. If one's rich neighbor uses neither tea, nor sugar, nor coffee, it will bo the easiest aud most natural thing in the world to follow the fashion thus set. A great many able-bodied meu, an im mense amount of all kinds of labor, and very many millions of dollars, are employ ed and spent to procure these unnecessary articles. The women have been our best patriots so far. Can they not sacrifice the use of tea, coffee and sugar, on the altar of the country, as easily as they are sacrificing hoops and crinoline ? CAPITAL FOR THE YOUNG. It is a consolation for all right minded young men in this country, that though they may not be able to command as much pecuniary capital as they, would wish to commence business for themselves, yet there is a moral capital which they can have, that will weigh as much as money with people whose opinion is worth hav ing. Aud it does not take a great while to accumulate a respectable amount of this capital. It consists in truth, honesty, in tegrity, to which may be added decision, firmness, courage and perseverance. Wdth these . qualities, there are few obstacles that may not be overcome. Friends spring up and surround such a young man almost as if by magic. Confidence flows out to him and business accumulates 04 his hands faster than he can ask it. ^\nd in a few short years such a young man is far in ad vance of many who started with him, hav ing equal talents and larger pecuniary means, and ere long our young friend stands foremost among the honored, trust ed aud loved. Would that we could in duce every youthful reader of our paper to commence life on the principle that mor al capital is the main thing after all- Thomas C- Skepbart, indicted for trea son against the United States, at Louis ville, Kentucky, has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment and to,pay a fine of teu thousand dollars. His slaves were declared free. The Hon. Bland Ballard passed the sentence. “Charley,” said a father to his son,while they were working at a saw mill, “what possesses yon to associate with such girls as you do 1 When I was of your agOt I could go with girls of the first cut.” “Tho first cut is always a slab,” said the sou, as he assisted the old man in rolling over a log- To enjoy life, yon should be a 1'utle miserable occasionally. Trouble, like cay enne, is not very agreeable to itself, but it gives a great zest to.oriitr thiugs.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Southern recorder. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1820-1872, September 08, 1863, Image 1