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NUMBER 12
VOLUME xlvi.
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1865.
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M- ORME & SON,
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EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.'
—$5 00 for Four Months, in Advance.
$5 GO
8 oo
transient advertising.
per square of ten lines, each insertion,
LEGAL ADVERTISING.
Ordinary's—
CitationsforLetters of Administration,
Iiv Administrators, Executors, Guardians,
Ac
Application for Letters of Dismission from
Ail ministration and Guardianship.* 12 00
Application for leave to sell Land and -
Negroes 12 00
Notice to Debtors and Creditors 10 00
Sales of personal or perishable property,
Vi square, of ten lines ..... 4 00
Sales of Land and Negroes, per square of
i ten lines ........ .... 12 00
| Sheriff's—
| Each levy of ten lines, or less 8 00
i Mortgage sales of ten lines, or less 1G 00
All advertisements of sales by Sheriffs
exceeding 1 ten lines, will be charged in pro
portion.
i Tax Collector’s sales, per square 10 00
Clerk's.
Foreclosure of Mortgage, and other month
ly advertisements, $4 Of) per square of ten
ten linesJbr each insertion.
I Establishing lost papers, per square of ten
lines 00
i Fora man advertising his wife,in advance, 20 00
j Tributes of Respect, Resolutions by 8o-
'cieties, Obituaries, &c., exceedingsiz lines,
' to lie charged as transient advertising.
I E5?’ Sales of Land and Negroes, by Administra-
tors. Executors or .Guardians, are required by law
to be lieid on the first Tuesday in the month, be
tween the hours of ten in the forenoon and three
in the afternoon, at the Court-house in the county
in which the property is situated,
i Notice of these sales must be given in a public
gazette 40 days previous to the clay of sale,
j Notices for the sale of personal property must
be given in like manner 10 days previous to sale
j day.
| Notices to debtors and creditors of an estate
must also be published 40 days.
Notice that application will be made to the
Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Ne
groes, must be published for two months.
Citations for letters of Administration, Guar
dianship. Ac., must be published 00 daj's—for dis
mission from Administration, monthly six months ;
tor dismission from Guardianship, 40 days.
Utiles for foreclosure of Mortgages must be pub
lished monthly for four months—for establishing
lost papers, for the full space of three months—for
compelling titles from Executors or Administra
tors, where bond has been given by the deceased,
the full space of three months.
Publications will always be continued accord
ing to these, the legal requirements, unless other
wise ordered.
TO HOCSEKEEPERS.^ 5
Clean Eags.
X CENTS PER POUND will be paid in
cash or subscription for CLEAN RAGS
delivered at the Recorder Office.
Miiledgeville, August 23,18G4
"TVTOTICE.—As every article is rising with ra-
_ 1 pidity, we shall rise in the price of tanning
and dressing leather. From and after the first
day of March next, we will charge for tanning and
dressing sole leather, five dollars per pound ; for
upper leather, six dollars; skins, not charged by
the pound, but in due proportion: or, we will
charge one-half for the other, at the option of the
patron. M. J. CALLAWAY,
JAMES THOMAS.
Hancock county, Feb. 21,1865 8 4t
TO EXCHANGE.
lbs. SALT for PROVISIONS.
FDD' COMPTON & CALLAWAY.
Miiledgeville, Feb. 14, 1865 8 tf
lilll
UOLE, RUSSET and KIP LEATHER, also
►J LIGHT SKINS for sale at the Georgia Pen
itentiary. Apply to
T. T. WINDSOR, B. K.
February 14, 1865 8 6t
§f ale.
A FARM CONTAINING 101i acres of land,
2l. three miles south of Thomaston, Georgia—
■"! acres under fence, divided into live fields and a
large woods lot: 12 acres of branch bottoms. A
frame dwelling with four rooms and a frame bnild-
'■gten steps in the rear; all necessary out-buil?^
ings; an orchard of select trees—peach, apple and
cherry; good water—spring and well. I will take
$•10 per acre in Confederate money, or $1 per acre
in gold or silver, for the place. Possession given
at the elose of the year.
Address box 01, Thomaston, Ga., or apply at
the Recorder office.
January 31,18C5 5 tf
I ^OIt SALE—At,the Miiledgeville Clothing
Store, seven fine fancy Show Cases, one large
table with drawers, one large Looking Glass—ve
ry superior—one Iron-armed Chair, three Trunks,
two very superior Rides and one large Iron Safe.
A. C. VAIL.
January 31, 1865 5 tf
OFFICIAL.
HEADQUARTERS, C. S. A, /
February 11,1865. J
General Order No. 2.]
In entering upon the campaign which is about to
open, the General iu-Chief feels assured that the
soldiers who have so long and nobly borne the
hardships and dangers of war, require no exhorta
tion to induce them to respond to the calls of hon
or and duty. Liberty was transmitted to them by
their forefathers, and th§y have inherited the spir
it to defend it. The choice between war and ab
ject submission is before them. To such a propo
sal, brave men, with arms in their hands, can have
but one answer. They cannot barter their man
hood for peace, nor the right of self-government
for life or property.
Justice to these requires a sterner admonition to
those who have abandoned their comrades iii the
hour of peril. The.last opportunity is now afforded
them to wipe out the disgrace and esc ape the pun
ishment of their crimes. The authority of the
President of the Confederate States to pardon de
serters and absentees and men improperly absent,
as shall return to the command to which they be
long, within the shortest possible time, not exceed
ing twenty days from the publication of this order
at the headquarters of the department in which
they may be. Those who will be prevented from
reporting to their commands, by the interruption
of communication, may report within the time
specified to the nearest enrolling officer or other
officer on duty, to be forwarded when practicable ;
and on presenting the certificate of such officer,
showing compliance with this requirement, he shall
receive the pardon which is hereby offered.
Those who have deserted the service of (to?) the
enemy, or who have once been pardoned for the
same offense, or those who shall desert or abseut
themselves without authority, after the publication
of this order, are excluded from its benefits; nor
does this offer of pardon extend to other offenses
than those of desertion, or absence without per
mission by some authority.
It is also declared that no general amnesty will
again be granted ; and that those who refuse to
accept the pardon now offered, or who slmli here
after desert or absent themselves without leave,
shall suffer such punishment as the courts may im
pose ; and that no application for clemency will be
entertained.
Taking new resolution from the fate which our-
enemies intend for us, let every mamdevote his en
ergies to tiie common defense. Our resources,
wisely and vigorously employed, are ample, and
with a brave army, sustained by a determined and
united people, success, with God’s assistance, can
not be doubtful.
The advantages of the enemy will be of but lit
tle value to him, if we do not permit them to im
pair our resolution. Let ns oppose constancy to
adversity, fortitude to suffering, and courage to
danger, with a firm assurance that He who gave
freedom to our fathers will bless the efforts of their
children to preserve it.
(Signed) li. E. Lee,
Headquarters C. S. A,.
February 11, 1865.
General Order No. 3.)
The discipline and efficiency of the army have
been greatly impaired by men leaving their prop
er commands to join others, whose service is more
agreeable. This practice is almost as injurious in
its consequences as the crime of desertion, and the
articles of war expose the offenders to similar pun
ishments, and subjects the officer receiving such
men to dismissal from the army.
It is therefore declared that the provisions of
General Order No. 2, of this date, from Army
Headquarters, apply to such men as have left their
proper commands and have joined others without
being regularly transferred. They will receive the
pardon promised in that order upon complying
with the conditions, cr suffer the consequences at
tached in neglecting it.
The flames of sncli absentees will be forthwith
reportedto these Headquarters with, the names of
the officers with whom they are now serving; and
immediate measures will be taken to return them
to their proper commands.
As soon as practicable, an inspection will be
made and charges will be preferred against those
rt ho neglect to enforce this order.
(Signed) R. E. Lee.
March 3, 1865 10 6t
All newspapers in the Confederate States
are .requested to copy the above (General Orders
Nos. 2 artd 3) six times, and send bills, with a
copy of the paper to the Richmond Enquirer for
payment.
CITATIONS
G EORGIA, MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
Isabella Galbreath has filed* her petition in
the Court of Ordinary of said county for letters of
guardianship of John A. Galbreath, a minor—
Notice is hereby given to all concerned to file
their objections, if any exist, within the time pre
scribed by law, otherwise lettefs of guardianship
will be granted the applicant.
Given under my hand and official signature, this
February 18th, 1865.
JOHN McLEOD, Ordinary.
March 7,1865 10 5t*
TATE OF GEORGIA, Lowndes County.
Nancy E. Beaty applies for letters of guar
dianship of the person and property of the minor
heir of William J. Beaty, late of said county, de
ceased—
This is therefore, to cite and admonish all per
sons interested to file their objections on or before
the first Monday in April next, otherwise letters
will be granted the applicant-
Given under my hand, this 9th day of Februa
ry, 1865. WILLIAM SlllTH, Ordinary.
February 23, 1865 9 5t
G eorgia, Hancock county.
Whereas Martha Veal has filed her petition
in the Court of Ordinary for said county, praying
for letters of administration on the estate of Irwin
F. Veal, late of said county, deceased—
This is therefore to admonish those interested
to be and appear at my office within the time pre
scribed by law, to show cause, if any exist, why
said letters should not be granted.
THOMAS I. LITTLE, Ordinary.
February 23, 1865 # 9 5t
G eorgia, laurens county.
Whereas Thomas J. Holloman, guardian of
Sarah E. Stokes, applies to this Couit of Ordinary
for letters of dismission—
These are therefore to cite all and singular the
kindred and creditors of said ward to file their ob
jections, if any they have, in my office within the
time prescribed by law, why letters should not be
granted to said applicant.
WASHINGTON BAKER, Ord’v.
February 21, 1865 8 5t
[From, the Richmond Sentinel.']
,f 2>ulcc et Secoruxn est.”
BY H. C. LEWIVEL.
In early morn an army stood
In battle’s proud array ;
In it were youths of fiery blood,
^ And men whose locks were gray;
But nerved alike was every breast
To conquer or to die—
For dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
The day was gone and silent night
Hung o'er tlio battle-field:
The moon arose : her silvery-light
A thousand forms revealed—
Why tie they now, as if at rest,
Beneath the star light-sky ?
Ah, dulce et decorum est.
Pro patria mori.
The father left his fireside.
And all the dfear ones there :
The lover left his promised bride—
So teftder and so fair,
Yet, when the steel their bosoms prest,
Naught tempted them to tiy,
For, dulce et decorum est,
Pro patria mori.
Now life seems like a dismal night
To many a striken one ;'
But darkest hours precede the light—-
We soon shall see the sun ;
Then will those soldiers graves attest,
To every passer by,
That dulce et dccorom est,
Propatria mori.
G GEORGIA, BALDWIN COUNTY.
I Whereas AnnE. Wood has made application
for letters of administration on the estate of Jonas
Wood, late of said county, deceased—
These are therefore to cite and admonish all
persons adversely concerned to file their objec
tions on or before the first Monday in May next.
Given under my official signature, this 7th March,
1865. JOHN HAMMOND, Ordinary.
March 7, 1865 10 5t
G
i EORGIA, HANCOCK COUNTY.
Devreux have, filed their petition in the Court of
Ordinary of said county for letters of adminis
tration oil tlio estate of William W. Devreux,
late of said county, deceased—
This is to admonish all and singular the kind
red and creditors of said deceased to be and ap
pear at my office within the time prescribed by
law to show cause, if any they can, -why said let
ters should not be granted. •
THOMAS I. LITTLE; Ordinary
February 28, 1865 9 5t
S200 REWARD,
W ILL BE PAID for MARIA, a dark mu
latto woman, believed to be decoyed off_by
her husband, Henry, a slave of Fielding Lewis of
Miiledgeville. She is a young, likely girl, of me
dium height, with the features of the African. No
doubt she is about Miiledgeville, or vicinity, con
cealed and harbored by her colored friends, as she
was on a former occasion lately. Any information
leading to her detection, will be suitably rewarded.
R. H. RAMSAY.
Midway, March 14, 1865 11 2t
SlOO Keward.
STOLEN from the subscriber’s stable, on the
night of the 18th inst., at Midway, a white
horse, about eight years old, thin in order, proni-
hi<-iit hip bones, high tail bone, rather chunky,
commonly paces, rubbed by the saddle on the fore
pmt of his back.
P ie above reward will be paid for the horse and
evidence to convict the thief.. Any information
'tout the horse thankfully acknowledged.
K. M. ORME, Sen.
^Hbledgeville, Jan’y 24, 1865 4 tf
E
TWO GLOBES MISSING.
J V hIXG HIE VISIT of the Yankee army to
Miiledgeville, two Globes belonging to the
'•male Academy were removed from Mr. Wind-
• '| r s office. Whoever has them or any of the Fur-
’ lltUre belonging thereto, will please return them
-it once to the Academy, as they are wanted.
J^todgcville, Feb. 7,1865 ' 6 tf
notice!
E; HIENANas general partner, and J. W.
i . 1 ears as special partner, in mechanical bnsi-
‘r 8 f’ 1 e ’ in the publication of the Albany Patri.
y' iilll | Advertising, and Job Printing, in connec-
imtwith said paper, in Albany, Dougherty Coun-
: ' 'Under the firm name of E. H. llienan, hereby
.‘^otice °f the formation of said partnership, on
6 lowing terms, to-wit: J. W. Fears, specil
tl ! ner ’ Puy s in cash, in Confederate currency,
nio SU,n ut Eight Thousand Dollars into the coin-
, ,' )l ' st °ck. Said partnership is to commence busi-
j;* "' 1 *he 18th day of January next and to con-
P . r the term of two years next ensuing.—
(,J 11 c; de and affidavit registered in the Clerk’s
, cc ot the Superior Court of Dougherty County,
to 18th day of January, 1865.
E. H. HIENAN, Gen. Part.
J. W. FEARS. Spe’l Part.
^Albany, Feb. M, 1865 7 6t
^EMINistraTRIX’S SALE.—On the first
Court i Ues ‘ la y in April next, will be sold before the
ty, w -/? use door in Miiledgeville, Baldwin coun-
p r L., the usual hours of sale, the following
fia ii ty ’ to-wit: 300 acres of laud situated in
se r i„v? nt 7’ at !i°iuing the lands of Reuben Pros-
^te'inhrVi • ® a E* Newton Pugh and John H.
Sold b« a)so > 0116 oegro *5 years of age.
c°untv ° raer Court of Ordinary of Baldwin
to'ru's'f.the property of Jesse M. Breedlove,
lor the purpose of distribution.
w 1 MARY E. BREEDLOVE, Adm’x.
'eluavy 7 1 )?<£5 £ td3
C ONFEDERATE TAX.—I am instructed to
collect all tax now due forthwith. All per
sons who have not paid, will call and settle imme
diately.
The tax on salaries and income of the last year,
are now due; all persons are requested to call
soon and make their returns.
SSP’* Office at Mrs. Carr’s.
J. C. WHITAKER, Collector.
R. MICKLE JOHN. Assessor.
Miiledgeville, Eeb. 21, 1865 8 tf
MEDICAL NOTICE.
T IIE CASH system being the prevalent one,
the undersigned, Physicians of Milledge-
ville, are compelled to adopt the same. They will,
therefore, from this date expect their fees upon the
termination of each case,
GEO. D. CASE,
SAM’L G. WHITE,
W. H. HALL,
J. H. HOLMES.
February 28, 1865 9 4t
S TRAYED OR STOLEN oil Sunday the 5th
instant, a small BAY HORSE, with short
ears and long hair, mane trimmed oft, also a white
spot in tiie forehead. Said horse is the property
of Wm. Supple. Any person returning the horse
to the subscriber will be amply rewarded.
WM. SUPPLE.
Miiledgeville, Feb. 14,1865 7 tf
G REEN AND DRY HIDES purchased at the
Geor&ia Penitentiary, for which the highest
market price will be paid.
February 7, 1865 7 6t
jOTRAYED OR STOLEN from the subscriber
about the 9th instant, a large black horse
MULE, seven or eight years old, right eye out.
I will pay $100 reward for the mule, or $500 for
the mule and fhief, with evidence to convict.
a; j. banks.
Miiledgeville, F^b. 21,1865 8 tf
REWARD
OF ONE HUNDRED DOL-
lars will be paid for the return of a new pair
of FAIRBANKS’ SCALES, with a 1, 2 and 300
pound weight, taken from the Penitentiary during
the late invasion, by a negro man upon a cart or
one horse wagon, who was seen going out of town
towards the Macon orEatonton road. The above
reward will be paid for its delivery to
T. T. WINDSOR, B. K.
Eebruary 14, 1865 7 6t
A LL PERSONS having demands against the
estate of Patrick Kane, late of Baldwin
county, deceased, are hereby notified to present
their claims, legally authenticated, and those
knotting themselves indebted to said deceased,
are requested to make payment.
B. P. STUBBS, Escheator
. aud ex-officio administrator.
February 14, 1865 (■>») ?
A LL PERSONS indebted to the estate of Hugh
Galbreath, late of Montgomery county, de
ceased, are requested to make immediate pay
ment, and all persons having demands against
said estate will please hand them in properly au
thenticatedas the law directs.
ALEXANDER MORRISON, Ex’r.
March 7, 1865 . 10 6t*
G i EORGIA, HANCOCK COUNTY.
T Whereas Sarah J. Harton has filed her peti
tion in the Court of Ordinary for said county,
praying for letters of administration on the es
tate of Alfred P. Harton, late of said county, de
ceased—
This is therefore to cite and admonish all and
singular, the kindred and creditors of said de
ceased, to file their objections, if any they have,
in my office within the time prescribed by law,
otherwise said letters will be granted to the appli
cant. THOS. I. LITTLE j Ordinary.
February 23, 1865 9 5t
QTATE OF GEORGIA, Lowndes County
Whereas Archibald Averett, administrator de
bonis non of J oh* M. Dees, late of said comity,
deceased, having filed his petition in this Court
for letters ot dismission from said-estate—
This is therefore to admonish all concerned to
be and appear at my office within- the time pre
scribed by law to show cause, if any exist, why
said letters should not be granted.
Given under my band, this 9th day of February,
1865. WILLIAM SMITH, Ordinary.
February 28, 1865 9 mGm
The Accuracy of the Bible.
An astonishing feature of the Word of God is
that, notwithstanding the lime at which its com
positions were written, and the multitude of top
ics ‘;o which it alludes, there is not one physical
error, not one assertion or allusion disapproved by
the progress of modern science. None of those
mistakes which the science of each succeeding
age discovered in the books of the preceding;
above all, none of those absurdities which modern
astrongmy indicates in such great munbersin the
writings ot the ancients in their sacred codes, in
their philosophy, and the finest pages of the fath
ers of the Church ; none of those errors are to be
found in any of its boooits. Nothing there will
ever contradict that which, after so many ages, the
investigations of the learned world have been able
to reveal to us on the state A our globe or that of
the heavens.
Peruse with care our Scripture from one end to
the other to find there is such spots, and whilst
you apply yourself to this examination, remem
ber that it is a book which speaks of everything;
which describes nature ; which recites its creation;
which tells us of the water of the atmosphere, of
the mountains, of the valleys, of the animals and
the plants. It is a book which teaches us of the
first revolutions_of the world and foretells its last.
It recounts them in the circumstantial language of
history, it extols them in the sublimest strains of
poetry, and it chants them in the charm of glow
ing song. It is a book which is full of Oriental
rapture, elevation, variety and boldness. It is a
book which speaks of the heavenly and invisible
[Special Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.]
The Burning and Sacking of Columbia.
Full and Authentic Particulars.
Ruins of Columbia, ^
Sunday March otb. )
Where to begin, and how—that is the question.
One cannot comprehend the amount or character
of wanton destruction and uncalled for outrages
heaped upon this once beautiful capital without
seeing its bitter fruits. The optics of others fall
in satisfaction when they attempt to descry the
points which all would wish to observe; and I
must need to content myself with a bald narration
of facts, without making a requisition upon des
criptive faculties. For liere indeed the paucity
aud feebleness of mere words are manifest, and
none can understand the blight which lell upon
this place within a day and night without being
here to witness the sad, the deplorable, the incalcu
lable effects. This much, however, may be said,
and with perfect truthfulness, that accustomed as
yonr correspondent has been to all manner of woe
ful sights—to the wreck of battle-fields, the miser
ies of field hospitals,the upheavals of turbulent city
population in more peaceful times, never yet did
such a spectacle present itself.
Under the.benignant smile of the vernal moon
Columbia lies to-night. But there is no clamor of
iron tongues from steeples and towers—no pealing
of organ notes from consecrated lofts—no melody
of chorister voices mingiing with the charmed air
—no sound or sign of worship, save that which
from some smitten and stricken fireside wails forth
its pleadings to the One Merciful, and alas! He
seems to have stayed his mercy while lifting the
chastening rod.
Through the perfect hush and silence of this
beautiful night there comes to us naught but the
indications of that more thau paralysis with which
a busy, teeming people have been suddenly and
sorely stricken. Bare and grim the naked walls
stand, casting their fitful shadows. The magnifi-
cen State Huuse looms up a solitary pile amid the
wreck and desolation, its wliitff marble gleaming
sickly and sorrowfully. While the beautiful ev
ergreens, burned and reddened by the torch of no
autumnal fire, rustle mournfully to the sobbing,
sighing breeze.
Ea Route Through Disaster.
Almost immediately after entering Lexington
District, we fell into the footsteps of the prole
tarian invader—footprints which, though time and
industry may efface from the land, will be forever
impressed upon the hearts of the people and their
posterity. The army of Sherman followed all of
the main roads west of the Cougaree, and every
where swept with the besom of destruction. In
scarcely an instance did they leave a house—it
mattered not, the humblest tenement of logs, or
the abode of the richest planter—all were given tc
the flames. All, too, were sacked, Clothing, fur
niture, table-ware—everything, in fact, which
could not be stolen and carried away, was burned.
Provisions were taken, cattle carried off, horses
and mules shot down, and the people, berett of
everything, driven into the woods to starve, or live
as 1 hey could.
We passed scores of families upon the wayside ;
from some came direct appeals for assistance, ac-.
companied by terrible recitals of wrongs endured ;
from others, the mute eloquence of hollow eyes and
gaunt frames was more impressive. Who could
resist such call for aid? Not, I ween, a man con-
world, which speaks of the, earth and the things stituted with the largeness and tenderness of heart
visible. It is a book which nearly fifty writers o{ : 0 f our friend Cohn. Of his private supplies he dis-
G 1 EORGIA, HANCOCK COUNTY.
r Whereas John F. Adams and Mary E. Sas-
nett have filed their petition in the Court of Or
dinary of said county, praying for letters of ad
ministration on that part of the estate of William
P. Sasnett, late of said county, deceased, not em
braced in his will—
This is therefore to cite and admonish all and
singular, the kindred and creditors of said de
ceased to tile their objections, if any they have,
in my office within tire time prescribed by law,
to show cause why said letters should not be grant
ed. THOMAS I. LITTLE,^Ordinary.
February 21, 1865 8 5t
G i EORGIA, COLQUITT COUNTY.
r October Term, 1864, of Court of Ordinary of
said. County.
The last will and testament of Samuel Hutchi
son, deceased, having been produced in open
Court, and application having been made that, said
will be proven in solemn form, wherefore. It is or
dered by the Court, that Pleasant Hutchison and
his wife, Nancy, of Thomas county, Ga., Posey
Glenn and his wife, Susan, of South Carolina,
and the heirs of Ivey Hutchison of South Carolina,
be-served with a copy of this rule by publication
thereof in the Southern Recorder, a public gazette
published at Miiledgeville, Ga., once a week nn
til the May term of this Court, requiring them to
show cause, either personally or by attorney, why
the said will should not be proven in solemn form
at that term of this Court.
True copy from the Minutes of Court.
I.SAAC CARLTON, Ordinary.
November 15,1864 46 td
1 4WO MONTHS after date application will be
made to the Court of Ordinary of Telfair
county for leave to sell the real estate of John Ste
phenson, late of said county, deceased.
DAVID HULETT. Adm’r.
March 14, 1865 11 9t
T WO MONTHS, after date application will be
made to the Court of Ordinary of Hancock
county, for leave to sell the lands and negroes be
longing to the estate of Ann H. Brooking, late of
said county, deceased.
3 ANDREW J. LANE, Ex’r.
March 14, 1865 Lpd. $ 10 j 11 9t
rriWO "MONTHS after date application will be
X made to the Court of Ordinary of Colquitt
county for an order to sell all the ieal estate^of
Burrell A. Baker, late of said county, deceased.
J. B. NORMAN, Adm'r.
February 7, 1865 5t
rpwo MONTHS after date application will be
X made to the Court of Ordinary of Hancock
county for leave to sell a negro man slave, named
John, J8 or 20 years old, belonging to Ephraim
Barnes. ” ASA BARNES, Guardian.
Sparta, Feb. 21, 1865 8 9t
A LL PERSONS having demands against the
estate of John W. II. Mitchell, late ot llan
cock county, deceased, are hereby requested to
present them, properly proven, to Thomas I. Lit
tle, Esq., and Chose indebted to said estate are re
quired to make immediate payment to said Little.
ELIZABETH MITCHELL, Adm’x.
February 28, 1865 9 6t
A LL PERSONS having demands against the
estate of George B. Amoss, late of Hancock
county, deceased, are hereby requested to present
them, properly proven, and those indebted to said
estate will please make immediate payment to
JAMES BASS, Adm’r.
February 28, 1865 9 6t
A LL PERSONS indebted to the estate of^John
Stephenson, late of Telfair county, deceased,
are requested to come forward and settle the same,
aud those having demands are notified to present
them within the tirtfe proscribed by law.
DAVID HULETT, Adm’r.
March 14,1865 11 6t
every degree of civilization, of every state, of ev
ery condition, and living through the course of fif
teen hundred years have concurred to make. It
is a book which was written in the centre ot Asia,
on the sands of Arabia, and in the desert of Ju
dea ; in the Court of the temple of the Jews, and
in the music schools of the prophet cf Bethel.and
Jericho, in the sumptuous palaces of Babylon, and
on the idolatrous banks of Chebar; and, finally,
in the centre of the Western civilization, in the
midst of polytheism and its idols, and in the bo
som of pantheism, and its sad philosophy.
It is a book whose first writer had been, for
years a pupil of the magicians of Egypt; in whose
. - aii.-u the sun, 'he stars and elements were en-
i ved with intelligence. It is a book whose first
writer preceded by more than nine hundred years
the most ancient philosophers of ancient Greece
and Asia; the Thaleses and the Pythagorases, Zal-
eacusas, the Xenophons, and the Confuciuses*
It is a book which carries its narrations to the hi
erarchies of angels; even to the most distant epoch
of the future and the glorious scene of the last
dav*. Well, search among its fifty authors, among
its sixty-six books, its 1,189 chapters, and its 31,-
713 verses ; search for one cf ihe thousand errors
which the rfficients and moderns committed when
they spake of the heavens, of the earth, of their
revolutions, or their elements—search ; you will
find none.--Biblc Society Record.
NAUVOO-
A correspondent of the Oquawka Plain dealer,
writing from Nauvoo speaks of the past and pres
ent of that ancient Mormon city as follow s :
Twenty years ago this month I made my first
vi.-it to the place. At that time the Mormons
claimed a population ot 25,960 inhabitants, which
I think did not leave many uncounted. There
were five or six hundred Mormons at work put
ting up Joe Smith’s Tenq.de ; to-day two men with
a little powder and fire brought down the last of
that once beautiful building. The corner that
i'tli tins morning at ten o'clock was sixty-live feet
high, fronting ten feet-each way from the south
west corner, and from lour to seven and a half
feet thick. I saw the same carved blocks come
down with a tremendous crash. The Temple was
nearly completed in 1846, at the cost of $9(10,000,
and burned October 8th and was afterwards sold for
$400. The population of Nauvoo within the last
twenty years lias been below 100; it now has a
population of 3,000 one-lialf American, three
eighths German and one eighth French.
Joe Smith was killed in the 26th year of his age
at Carthage, June 1844, and his widow married
Major Didman in 1847. They still live in the city.
She never fully believed in the Mormon faith.—
There are three of Joe Smith’s sons living in
Nauvoo, all preachers: Joe Smith jr., has now
a congregation of about fifty members in his Mor
mon (Jhurcb, in Nauvoo, where lie preaches regular
ly the Mormon faith without polygamy. In 1340
John Cabbit started what was called the Icariau
society, all working into one common fund, and
eating at the same table. According to the rule
of the society, a ruler was to be elected every two
years. They got along very well for a while till
they became dissatisfied with Cabbit and elected a
new leader, which caused a split in the church,
and in 1856 the whole thing played out: and the
members nearly all left with the truth for other
parts. At the last battle oi' Nauvoo, September
1846, the Mormons reported three killed and nine
wounded.
This is bound to be the vineyard of the west.
At the present time there is under cultivation
about 5('U,009 grapevines. If the winter does%iot
injure the vines, they will make over 10!),UUU gal
lons of wine this year. They expect to set out
100,000 more vines next spring. Three quarts is
about an average to the vine when it gets in good
bearing. The Delaw are seems to take the prefer
ence with them now for wine. Catawba wine is
as plenty here how as Christy’s lager used to be
in *>ld times in Oquawka, when he sold two glass
es for live cents, but not quite so cheap.
Thukf. Stets to Heaven.—Rev. Rowland Hill
once visited a poor silly man, and on conversing
with him said :
“Well Richard do you. love the Lord Jesus
Christ ?”
“To bo sure,^ do said the man, “aoiT’tyou?”
“Heaven is a long way off,” said the minister,
“and the journey is difficult.”
“Do you think so ?” I think Heaven is very
near,”
“Most peojile think it is very difficult to get to
Heaven.”
“I think Heaven is very near, aud the way to
it is very short, it is only three stejis there,” said
Richard.
Mr. Hill replied, “only three steps ?”
Richard repeated, “only three steps.”
“And pray, what do you think thoso three steps
to be,” said the pastor.
“Those three steps are, out of seifs unto Christ,
and into glory.”
Brazil is engaged in hostilTIies with Uraguny
and.Paraguay, the iatter State having, according
to lart advices, also declared war against Brazil,
tribute*! freely to these sufferers, and received in
requital a sufficiency of “God bless youto ren
der secure the salvation of any one, he he Jew or
Gentile.
Columbia Before its Fall.
For severeal days prior to the withdrawal of the
troops from Columbia, apprehensions were felt in
the minds of the people that disaster was to befall
them. Yet this was in a great degree, quieted,
and the inhabitants lulled into fancied security by
the inspiriting jireseuce in their midst of Beaure
gard and Hampton. With two such men in com
mand, it seemed to matter not whether there were
any troops or not; they dreamed that the tide of
Yankee invasion would be bt ttten back. In truth,
they avowed that it was determined to hold the
capital of the commonwealth, even were it neces
sary to contest the advance of the foe street by
street and house by house. Reinforcements from
Cheatham’s corps were also reported coining to
their relief, aud thus the Columbians indulged
themselves in a lethargic indisposition on the ar
rival of the eventful catastrophe.
On Wednesday and Thursday, the 15th and 16th
of February, there was considerable skirmishing
without result between Wheeler’s cavalry and the
advance of the enemy. Our feeble lines of works
were however carried, aud a steady advance made.
Wednesday night it was determined to evacuate
the city, as with the small force at our command
our leaders found the position untenable. Then
and there commenced the scene of trouble and tur
moil which beggar-description. First was heard
the dull, heavy tramp of the cavalry, as Wheeler's
men passed through the silent streerts, and sick
ness of heart came over the people when they saw
their defenders quitting them. Next a lurid glare
of flame illumined the city, and a heavy column of
smoke fringed the shores of the Congaree, Indica
ting that the bridge was being burned.
The Shelling.
Thursday morning the 16th, looking to the
westward the lines of Sherman could be plainly
described on the opposite heights of the Congaree.
Without warning, and contrary to the rules of
civilized warfare, the batteries were planted and
the shelling of the city commenced. Of course
consternations prevailed among the innocent non-
combatants, and they fled in all directions for pla-i.
ces of security. But the quick whizzing shells
seemed to follow whithersoever they might flee,
and fall in all points of the place. Luckily no
lives were lost, and but little damage sustained.
This species of Yankee sport was continued during
the day, and for some hours of the night.
The Surrender.
On Friday, Generals Beauregard and Hamp
ton, and Governor Magrath, with their respective
staffs, quitted the city, aud Mayor Goodwin deter
mined upon a surrender, passive resistance being
wholly useless. Accordingly, the Mayor, accom
panied by two aldermen, went out of the city to
meet the enemy, who by this time had crossed the
Congaree on the pontoon, two miles aud a half
above. The advance into the doomed precincts
of Columbia was led by an officer and four men in
a Carriage, bearing that detested symbol of despo
tism—the gridiron flag of the Abolition States.—
Passing through main street, they halted in front
-of Nickerson’s Hotel, aud when in the act of rais
ing the flag, were fired upon by a cavalryman, the
bail passing through the miserable rag. The Yan
kee immediately returned the fire but the gallant
horseman escaped unharmed. Another flag was
afterwards unfurled upon the old State House.
The Grand Entry.
Immediately after the surrender in flocked the
Northern legions. To the I5th Army Corps, Ma
jor General John A. Logan commanding, was
delegated the duty of guarding the city and pro
tecting the citizens. How well this body of men
fullfillud their mission let the world know. In
their own army they have the reputation of being
a set of marauders and pillagers, and admirably
did they sustain the renown they have won as the
most consumato of Yankee thieves and poltroons.
General Sherman and staffleft the grand caval
cade, apd rode through the principle streets, eye
ing with curiosity aud envy the manifestions of
wealth and domestic comfort that everywhere
abounded. Sherman is described to us as a tall,
athletic, rawboned man, with no particular beauty
af physiognomy. He was dressed in plain blue,
without ornamentation,' or even any ensignia of
rank. Cold, calm and calculating, his blueish
grey eye sparkled only wjien he glanced at the thou
sands of houses he had given up to despoilment
The Sacking.
Immediately after the order to^fcJPk arms, the
Yankees showered through the streets. They left
no tenement unvisited ; they .invaded, the sanctity
of ladie^Jchambers; they robbed indiscriminately:
they were rude, savage r... J beLu; “V-’hat
do you think of the Yankees now ?** waa their com
mon expression. Gentlemen were mot on the
sidewalk, “What is the time of day ?’’ is the first
querry, and-then a snatch at the gold chronometer.
This continued for hours, neither age nor sex nor
color being respected. Jewelry was taken, ladies'
clothing* stolen and destroyed : plate mads way
with, fine liquors gnzzled, provisions poured into
the streets: everything done, in fact that could
terrify and dishearten the people.. No one was
safe from these encroachments. According to
Sherman’s order, “thirty-six hours" was granted
to pillagers, and right well did they avail them
selves of the privilege.
The Burning
During Friday several tires occurred,which were
speedily extinguished, the cotton in the streets be
ing also consumed. But afterwards, when at
tempts were made to stay tlio progress of the
flames, the hose were cut, and the engines ren
dered powerless. It was not apparent, however
that the enemy intended destroying the city by
fire Gntil late in the afternoon, when they burned
the residence of Hon. Geo. A. Treuholm, Secreta
ry of the Tceasury, Gen. Wade Hampton, and
William Wallace. After nightfall fires broke out
in various sections of the city, and soon the flames
were seen ascending from aU«juarters. To escape
with property was a vain attempt. Wherever
one went, the angry element followed. All was
chaos and confusion. Everything v.t.5 given tip
to the great aevourer, and no one seemed con
cerned about saving aught but himself and house
hold. The wind blew furiously, and the mad, lu
rid fir.mes lashed each other from street to street;
the tumult ot the conflagration sounding as the
deep abysmal roar of the oo*au upon a much fret
ted iron-girt coast.
Thus the greater part of the city fell a prey* to
the fire—thus were robbed and beggared hundreds
aud thousands—thus were happy families reduced
by a sudden blow to the orphange of want and
poverty, and, thus a sightly city became a waste
of smouldering ruin.
Where the fire originated it would be impossi- -
bie to state. It bursts forth with violence in all
sections at the same time. Yankee soldiers with
hand grenades, halls of phosphorus and other
combustibles visited all parts of the place and tired
it indiscriminately. 8uch wicked, malicious exhi
bitious of diabolism were never before witnessed
on this continent. Attila, in truth, was never so
wanton. Nor were the hordes of Goths so ruth
less as the Illiuoisians and Iowans and Ohieians of
Logan.
The whole of Main street was burned ; but one
house remaining. To show the extent of the lire,-
we may remark that it followed the course of Main
street from North to South, extending one square
to the west, and as far as Bull street to the east.
Here and there may be found isolated houses that
by some chance were saved; but the tire-fiend
spared but little.
But 1 sicken and tire of this recapitulation of
calamity upon calamity. By to-morrow’s sunlight
let me hope to continue this record ot disasters,
which, like the evil omen of Poe’s Raven, “follow
ing fast and faster,” have whelmed a whole com
munity in grief and poverty'
In order to preserve the narrative of history, it
may be best to state that the Yankees remained in
Columbia until Monday, the last of the delectable
blue coats quitting on that afternoon, when there
was an instant elation of sjiirits, and a determina
tion that KKSUKGAM should be written over the
black and smouldering ruins of the place.
SE DE K \Y.
Be Truthful Always.
[This little story, copied from an exchange pa
per, is excellent. Read it, boys aud take its les
sons well to heart:]
“Two country lads came at an early hour to a
market town, and arranging their little stands, sat
down to wait for customers. One wits furnished
with frtiits and vegetables of the boy’s own raising,
and the other supplied with clams and lish. The
market hours passed along and each little mer
chant saw with pleasure his stores steadily de
creasing and an equivalent in silver bits shining
in his little money cup. The 'ast melon lay on
Harry’s stand, wlneu a gentleman came by and
placing his hand upon it said : “What a fine large
melon; I think I must have this for my dinner.
What do you ask for it iny boy ?”
“The melon is the last I have, sir : and though
it looks very fair there is an unsound spot on the
other side,” said the boy turning it c^er.
“So there is,” said the man ; “I think I will not
take it. But” he added, looking into the boy’s
fine open countenance, “is it very business like to
point out the defects of your fruits to customers ?”
“It is better than being dishonest, sir,” said the
boy modestly.
“You are right, my little fellow; always remem-
be that principle, and you will find favor with God,
and man also. You have nothing else I wish for
this morning, but I shall remember your little stand
in future.”
“Are those clams fresh ?” he continued turning
to Ben. Wilson's stand.
“Yes, sir ; fresh this*morning. I caught them
myself,” was the reply ; and a purchase being
made, the gentleman went away. »
‘Harry, what a fool you was to show the gentle
man that spot in the melon. Now you can take it
home for your pains or throw it away. How much
wiser is he about those clams I caught yesterday?
Sold them for same price I did the fresh ones. He
would never have looked at the melon until he
had gone away.*’
“Ben, I would not tell a lie, or act one either, for
twice what I have earned this morning, Besides,
I shall be better off in the end, for I have gathered
a customer, and you have lost one.”
And so it proved, for the next day the gentleman
bought nearly all his fruit and vegetables of Har
ry. but never invested another penny at the stand
of his neighbor. Thus the season passed; the gen
tleman finding that he could.always g et a good ar
ticle of Many, continually patronized him, "and
sometimes talked with him a few minutes about
his future hopes and prospects. To become a mer
chant was his great ambition, and when the win
ter came on, the gentleman w anting a trusty boy
fowhis stoi*£, decided on fivtng the place to Harry.
Steadily and surely he advanced in the coniideuco
of his employer, until having passed through vari
ous gradatiofls of clerkship he became at length
an honored partner in the linn.
Why Not ?—A youthful minister, now a mission
ary, was once, at the close of a funeral serv ice, sit
ting next te a young lady who was apparently al
together careless about religion. He inquired of
the stranger if she were a Christian, She replied
“No, I am not,” Deeply interested in her spiritu
al welfare, lie again asked, “Why not/" That
question was the arrow of conviction to her heart.
“A still, small voice” in her thoughtful moment,
repeated with startling earnestness, “Why not ? "
She had thought that there might be reasons for
her becoming a Christian ; what reasons there were
for her continuing impenitent, afce had never con
sidered. She gave herself up “a living sacrifice”
to her Savior, aud is now telling in a foreign land
the story of his love. _
May the Holy Spirit lead every one who reads
this, and is not a Christian, to consider in his heart
that momentous question, “ Why not ?”
“The Wav You Always Stopped.”—The Ver
mont Record tells a good story of an innocent old
lady who never before had “rid on a railroad,' who
was passenger on one of the Y ermont railroads at
the time of a recent collision, when a freight tram
collided with a passenger train, smashing one of
the cars, killing several passengers and upsetting
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His staff were however, most sumptuously clad,
and the gold lace with which their cerulean clothes
were embossed would have put to shame even the
“chicken entrails” which flame under the guise of
Hungarian knots upon the slaves of our Confeder
ate officers. Sherman established his headquar
ters at the House of Blanton Duncah, a'tnan we are
loth to say is a Kentuckian, whose whole career in
this revolution has been one systematized scheme
of personal aggrandisement, petty meanness, pil
lage and rascality and who having fattened off the
Confederate crib has gone to Europe to epeud Iris
ill gutteu gains.
scattered senses, the conductor went in search of
the venerable dame, whom he found sitting solita
ry and alone iii the car, (the other passengers hav-*
in°* sought terra firma.) with & very placid coun
tenance, notwithstanding she had made a v impleio
summersault over the seat in front, and her band-
box and bundle had gone unceremouiusiy down
the passage way. “Are you bust ?” inquired the
conductor. “Hurt! why ?” said the old lady.—
“We haye just been run into by a freight train,
two or three passengers have been killed, ane sew
era! others severely injured.’ “La. me ! I didn t
know but that was the way you always-stopped *