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THE COMMONWEALTH.
i. S. PETERSON, EDITOR
Ottr Term*.
Dally, one year SO,OO.
Do six months 0.00.
Do three months 1.50.
Do for • less time fifteen cents per week.
The “ComsoNWEATTH” is now the cheapest
—nod by many considered the best paper
MW published ta the Confederate States.
We need a large circulation to make it pay
—we put the price low to secure it.
We hope our friends will aid us in securing
it
A Pie* tmr the Soldier.
Camp Browk, Macon, Ga., >
A life, lit, lKti:>. f
Editor Telegraph :—lt in now a
stubborn fact beyond all disputation
that our lives, our liberties and our
property, and, moresacred than these,
the salvation of our wives and chib
4ren, our altars ami firesides, must de
pend for security on the strung arms
and stout hearts of our common sol
diers. Whilst many of our officers
have tarnished their uniforms by low
debaucheries, it is admitted, with one
harmonious voice, that the privates
have sustained and redeemed the pu
rity and honor of the Confederate Hag,
by their good conduct in camp and
their valor and unshaken intrepidity
Slider the flash and fire of the enemy’*
gnus.
The Congress will re-assemble next
Monday, at Richmond. Cannot (hat
body, npon the recommendation of the
President, do something more than
has been done, to reward merit and
services, encourage order and subor
dination, and add increased hope and
strength to the hearts and arms of
eur common soldiers '( Wc think it
could ; and that something should be
a more material “aid and comfort”
than th* idle breath of Fame’s uncer
tain trumpet, and the equally false
Cohoes of an cvcrcbanging world.—
Sere not unfrequently the paths of
military glory lend but to the grave ;
and while the multitude, pleased with
novelty and studious of change, may
tisday strew branches of palms before
aome conquering hero, on the mor
r*w it may cry out, Crucify hint !
6rucify him !
“ruts tin with gold,
And the ttrong lanes ot jnatice hurtle**
break* ;
Ana It in rag*, a pigmy'* atraw doth pierct
It.”
The wives, mothers, daughters and
sisters of our soldiers demand a more
certain and substantial consideration
than mere idle wind for the lives, the
broken limbs und diseased and man
gled bodies of their natural protectors.
When these protectors are left un
known and unfriended on the field, to
banquet worms, or drag out a miser
able, crippled, diseased existence, the
mere whistling of their names (if
ever they should ascend to the digni
ty of a newspaper) will hardly atone
for their poverty and wretchedness.
They will consider patriotism but a
misplaced word unless, iu its mean-
Dig, it embraces wife, children, friends
md sacred home—more sacred, be
cause that borne is forever consecra
ted in their affections by the toils and
privations of virtuous poverty. I.ike
the Daoicn wife or mother, while the
husbaad’B or son’s eyes are swim
ming in death, the red drops fall one
%y one fmm his side to make a Roman
holiday—so seme helpless woman
•way yonder in a lonely mountain hut
•r cottage that aits Bear the sea, may
fttnk th3t the drunken order that
pave fame to the General or Colonel,
•nd butchery to her husband or son,
hi of little real worth while she in
hopeless wretchedness und “unwo
manly rags” is left alone to weave
out for herself and starving children
•t once “a shroud and a shirt." She
mill hardly be consoled when she reads
Ans of the buttle—
m TA* a«thi*g—• prl rwte or two, mow and then,
Will mot (joust In tha new* af the batik ;
V**aa ««eer lout • on’y nan* nt the won—
Moaning out, aM aloof, thr death rattle.**
A considerable observation and ex
perience in tbc army confirms the im
pression on us that the root of most
*f thlu insubordination among the pri
vates, takes its sap and vigor from
toe small government pay. lie must
he more or less than a patriot or a
■mu, who can serve his country with
amorfulnoss at eleven dollars a mouth,
(• snm hardly sufficient now to buy
i pair of shoes) while he is always
•Bcscione that his wife and children
at borne arc* exposed to the “tender
“ WISDOM- JUSTICE- MODERATION.*»
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, SATURDAY EVENING. AUGUST 17. 1862.
mercies" of land sharks and mud 1
suckers, and the precarious public and
individual charities, more talked of
than experienced by many of the mod
est and needy of necessitous females.
This fire in the rear is more deadly to
the energies of the soldier than the
Hashing in front of millions of the
enemy’s guns. The officer may well
be content, for his pay and brief au
thority is a full recompense for all of
his responsibility and military school
ing. The lawyer should be paid for
the time and money he has expended
in the mastery of Ins profession. Tin
physician should not only in- cwc.d j
ed for his immedinto services np.u
medicine, but for his science in ad
ministrations to diseased minds and
bodies. The sculptor's most prized
fee is not found in h manual labor,
but in the sublime faculties which
enable him to transform, by I, is chisel,
the rough, sliupelcse marble into the *
image of a hero or god ; but why the I
officer should receive his hundred* i
and the soldier only iiis tons, is a !
mystery, except, on the supposition
(which, wc think, is lar fetched) that
all officers trace their pedigree in a
lineal Hue from Minerva, who is said
to have leaped a! no hound from
the head of dove, lolly armed and
equipped —"as the lam directs .” If
wc open our eyes and cars we cannot
he otherwise Ilian satisfied that this
cannot be a fact—for if we compare
the officer and private, we find that in
looks and iu speech, in miad and in
body, in skill and in education, and in
all that gives man a re titled suprema
cy over brutes, that neither, or l>oth
may claim a warlike goddess lor a
progenitor.
It could not be otherwise and
will always remain sc. as long a- the i
"you tickle me and I'll tickle ynv”
system of election i practiced—a
system, by which the few, of more
brass than brains, impose themselves
on the many, by secret combinations
and tics ol u uuinerou. relationship,
at the expense of friendless, modest
merit and public wrong. If every
General or Colonel had been -horn
such, or prepared himself for years
by a regular military pupilage to
command, then the duty of obedience
would be pleasant to the private, and
the military title would not be so of
ten associated with ignorance, tyran
ny and scorn. As it is, each man
now feels that he is every inch a
hero—that he is a born Ciesar, and
can lead many squado ns in the field,
although he knows that he can neith
er read, write or speak his mother
tongue like a Christian and gentle
man. It is this acknowledged equal
ity of the essential elements of worth
and talent, and the ficticious inequal
ity of title and pay between the officer
and private, which will, without a
change, continue to be the fruitful
mother of dissatisfaction, disorder
and desertion. Congress should ap
ply the remedy at once. Unlike the
mercenaries of the North, who fight
for pay and plunder, our privates arc
among the best of our professional
and industrial classes. Many of
them have voluntarily abandoned
ease, wealth and homo and freely
sacrificed their all of worldly sub
stance. Congress surely cannot
permit such men longer to live on
eleven dollars a month, (which can
not now be done by the practice of
the mast miserly economy) while
their wives and children at home are
exposed to base extortioners and
greedy swindlers, whose God is gold,
and whose cars are deaf to every
sound save the clink of dollars coined
from sighs and tears of absent sol
▼iers, disconsolate widows and rag
ged orphans.
A VOLUNTEER.
Trooper’s Manual, for Cavalry,
NEW EDITION,
j. McPherson a go.
JnMtl
•J. X. PORTER,
COMMISSION MERCHANT
And General Agent,
F*r the Purchase and Sale of all Produce,
Marietta SI., Allan!*, e*.
Keren to Maw, k Outsell. AUmU. Rsmc k LA>
too, August* ; Rev. W. C. Bom. »e*m : Dr. N T. Poo,
lout, oreoooborn . Goo. W. WintOmu tCo,, Charlosloo ,
Bl|*»u»fc skyino'ir J. U Wily, Ni'hriue, fctm. gfg
CUTTING <fc TIPPIN,
Aro oObring L*«t make of
CALICOES,
ESAU. FIGURED MUSLINS.
A 9T I lOf (>F
BLUACHRD AND BROWN SHIRTING ,
A grail variety o|
LRLfc'd rRIMMTTTGS
FANCY GOODS;
' niKi: with v i.»rp of
DOMESTIC GOODS.
( Abb AND EXAMINE
THE KTOC K.
CUTTING & TII’PIN,
rny 21*-.! j Vint 4*ll direct, At last a.
T. G, RAWLINS,
Hating furduuMKl Use tu*'k of
IRON, HARDWARE. &C 1 .,
OF MIH. K. K. li WFSOV
(F«rn«r: y Ugvwn, Gilbert vVllurr, V
W>l UI be nlnaxvl to haft- u onntiiiunnce of Uk
cry lilieral patronage formerly <it«*i»dod to
there at their old Flood .
Oar. Whitehall & Hunter Sts.,
ATLANTA, GrA.
r. a —\ few tjft-rato
OOOUMtt STOVJ** A Ml* WASH TFBB
U% HAM)
u
SUNDRIES.
V'HOI.F.SAI.E ANJ* lIKMII.
I.AR'tF, and i'i'.'E SUPPLY.
Flour, M“*l. Ri Rice flour. Corn, Suit, 6u
gar. OoflW. 11l >ok Ton Croon Ten,
Suap. (’nail 100. S'nr oh, Soda,
i’cnpir. Spico, Hamm. In
hacco. Cigar*. Simfl',
And Whiskey.
Just receivatl of
jy.’i EiJWARDY’S.
VALUACLE CITY PROPERTY
FOR SALE.
GEN null A. I> Laperrvro!.flora Ift» lot of FIXVES
ACUF~' m more Hr sail*, adjoining F. I). Thurman
ow lh" south amt I P. (Jnnt cu the w»vt Thorn art
Hna tooaikm* f ■ • bgddltu ; a tan, a good branch of acvnr
ftUhiK a-aW r,v. itb flv# • rilx s>t«s of v«-ry rich bottom
taM Tt»«rels m« ioa tbn plmre a triWNl my. i|
u»takbM.
wttting to on Ik. F. I».
TYimruiMi. or W 11. THURMOND, Agent.
JUly *>, IMB—4lm
•EAMSTRSSSES WANTED.
ONK or tm- ii«> lr«d k<m» 2 .'Hiitudlrct- to bo cm
pb-yt*! on F i lior ( ami Faott, can find
*wmsly ti ipleyrnvt, »• liberal traces, on tmraMiato aj*.
pUmtttm to W r. IIERIUNG A CO.
An* 1—
SALT DISCOVERED
11* ATLANTA.
Pr iDounc.nl by Scientific men to be
.1 superior article
Over One Hundred Sacks*
I Oft ft*. LI FT
EDWARD Y,
Jdd* lit—ts Whlteball Btrc#t.
Mies AM DYE STUPPS.
30 lbs. Blue Mass.
Ifi lbs. Gum Opium.
30 uunoss Morphine.
50 ounces of Quinine.
YSO lbs. of Sulphuric Acid.
500 lbs of Toilet Soap.
300 lbs. of Good Indigo.
900 lbs. of Good Madder.
800 lbs. of Lump Alum.
800 Gallons of Train Oils.
ALSO
FINE AND COARSE EMERY.
400 LBS. BXTRACT LOGWOOD.
For Sale at
Hamilton, KUrkley & Joyner’s.
£Qacta August 2
PROSPECTUS.
The “ Cun mom wKAi.m ” is the name of a
Daily Newnpape- published in the city of At
lanta. It contain* the beat and fullest
Si uopsis nt News
Os any paper in the State ; the
LA TEST SEWS lly TELXQyAPH,
And gives the greatest variety of choice
LITERARY SUSCBUbAKT
Os any paper in the city. In quantity it
Challenge* < ompariaon f
in QiMLmr
IT DEFIKH COMPETITION.
Till; “ DAILY COSIMO.NWBAhTII”
Is published on the following terms, which
makes it the Otaipesl Daily in thr Umfeder
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Ho a month* - - - in
Do for a less time than three months, fif
teen cents per week, invariably in mlmnc*.
ftforip (Tommonufalth
Is a Weekly paper, 21 by 3G inches in size,
and contains twenty-eight columns, nearly all
of which is reading matter. It contains the
choicest original and selected matter pub
lished in the Daily ; the general and the tele
graphic news, and one ermoro selected or
ORIGINAL STORIES,
InlEnoli Numher.
THIS M TIIK
CHEAPEST AND BEST PAPER
IK TIIK CONFEOKHATK STITKS.
TERMS r
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Four copies, one year 5 00
One copy, six months 76
One copy lor a lees time than six months, fif
teen cents per week.
Where a club of four ha* been sent from
one office, other additional names may be
added, singly, at the same rate, naiftely, $1.26
per annum. .Send and get specimens.
Address C< I'iMO.VWr -.DTIi.
Atlanta, Ga.s|
.1 AS W. PRICE, M. D.
PERMANENT PHYSICIAN
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
Having been absent, u in tbn nrmy f durinf
tbo la.dt nix monOiß, would rt inform Urn
flint<‘() mat a dnUancn, u« well an the iillwrm of Atlnn
ta mul luliacrnt country, that lie ha* m
tli * |»r«u ticp of modlctuo, m all of its various brsnrhcs.
Alth'High r.ircumßUßcea soom t*> make it utctwttrj to
inrp\i'«' htfl rat** of fharßog, yet tbin will not br
but hi?* fees will Iw hr h<T#*tofbrc.
It will bo unnor.ofw.iry torcitorsto th« fwt of bU us
limited rtirccsH in curing the vsritiu* and divcruiftn!
ehrsnic diM<ssm« to which human nsturo Is liable. R
*ri.tUy Iri.s »iii nttontion b«*n directed to thr tnwt
•nent t*f KKMAI.K MSEASEP, such m EuUri,
!.uc«»rrhfpu, Painful Mountruation, ud guch othern a#
females arc liable to, which, in umt instsnees, may br
permanently cured.
I n'Fo treat micceNifully, Rheumatism. Acute or Him.
ric, Syphylis, In all of ita forms, enpeclslly when of the
Mercurial tyi><\ Skin iHnesses, Liver complaints. I»y«
pepgis, together witli l>owol affect ions, either scute or
chronic. Ami, indeed, there are but few diseases which
may nos be reached by proper medlratlon.
The great secret of my «ucce*», however, tlei»ends
■nt only upon an experience of some twenty-seven
years, hut, to a very Urge extent,upon tie* agenev ot
my •* ELECTRO GALVANIC HA TffS" wl.lrh are the
admiration and wonder of the scientific world.
Persons desiring my service* can obtain them by
calling upon mo in Atlanta, where everything shall be
done, not only to cure them, but to render their stay in
our city agreeable and pleasant
If preferred, (before coming here) I will vigil them
at their homes, by paying my expenses, and five do -
lore per day. while absent from the city.
J9*OFKICK in the Markham Holding, sret.ud
flight oi stairs. Residence near the Washington Ball.
KKFKHRNCEB.
ticn. F. W. Capon. Marietta ; Gov. Jos. E. Rrowi,
Col. F. P. Watkins. Col. .1.1. Whitaker, Thomas Tutier,
M. D. : E. R. Sasgeen, Perino Hr own, Gen. Ira Foeter,
Rev. 11. C. flornadsy, Gen. J. H. Rice, Atlanta,Geo,;
Kev. S Anthony, Cuthl>ert, Ga. ; Itr. J. Dillworth,
Stone Mountain, t»a.
It aflordft me tUeasure in adding my testimony to the
above. a8 well a* recommending to my frinUU and na
frous, James W. Price, M. P .as % pbyslelpn of skill in
the treatment of all acute direose*.
Atlanta. Juno 36,1862. W. W. DURHAM, M. D.
jr27-dJfcw3rn
BANE NOTE ENG&AYING.
BLANTONBUNCAN,
COLUMBIA, S. C.
(FORMERLY OF KBNTTCKT,)
IS prepared to fill orders t*> any extent in eugmviag
and printing
BANK NOTES,
HILLS OF KXCHAIVGE,AC.
Engraving upon Steel or Stone.
Largo supplies of Rank Note and other Piper will be
kept. Address
BLANTON DUNCAN,
Augusts—ts. Columbia. S. C.
Central Female Seminary.
Washington Street. Atlanta, Georgia.
THE Exams** of tins SCHOOL
will be resumed on Monday, the
18th August.
Roome large, airy, and aril furnmhed -
Gratefhl for the very liberal patron
age bestowed (hiring the three past years,
they hope to meet a contmuano* and
increase ot the same, as they have greatly increased
their facilities ami n. nos of advancing their PUPILS.
For TF.RIIS, please see Circular, or call at Lecture
IWoco; New Central Presbyterian Churob, opposite
City Hall .1. W. MJUJCR.
aug U-dis MRS viyp lm.T rF
VOL. II —NO. i;*4.
Another “Eebel" Victor
Southern Envelope Manufactory,
ATLANTA, GEOKGIA.
'indo B.v .Miirliinery Os My Onn lnteiitioi.
.t'UK Til ACTS Kim ASi V .VIMBKItJ
BKISC Prtparnl with ■uai hiiirr, for
Hi* r*|.i.l maimr.ivmrc ol Kjivcli.)* ~ i|,c Mibseri-
I l"T H <*ualil..<! In 1111 nil nr.lvrs fur tii.-vn. it, i.irir* ~r
-mill <|uantiti''M at moderate prices. pif|or< nt ‘lunlif leg
Ibr sab*.
I'arftifM having paiwr which th* \ u ish i onr<Tted into
!.nv«*h.|H - will bt- ut'riiinmotlat’sl by b.rwar.ling P to
!•»••. ChargcH made, |.?r maiiufurturiiig *»nlt . n . ording
" the UUUIhiT of I!»• ilrtif and.
T. S. HEY\OI.I)B,
aug7-tl Whitehall street, Atlanta,Ga.
CITY TAX PAYERS
Wnj.pl.*,.' lliat all who 1,;,.,. „„t art
l“ii'l Ih'-ir TAXIS, ran iln |, V r.illh, rmim» at
Ui V o!||r • any htwin.'.-s ilay, , Mayor'* l'o,i r t .lava—Kn
•. .-rvopt.-.1,) until Iho , low, „r (1,.- nt
tuna, my ullcnl w,:i ho , i||, ,| p, olhrr
huainf**-. of my 0i11r,., von*i*piontl> provonlhm fnrlhiT
upporlnniiiov lor |.iy lr ,o wilhoiu niino.*'N*.«ry ironhlr
m.! < I hope 1 may liar ■ i|»> p|. our. „r -i
Ili«; *itlirn'n i* r»on, hahlo l.rtori iho , i *, „r Hit
niuutli \ err rv«p.■.-tr.illy . \
11. i IIOUoMIh .
Atlanta, (.a.,a*ig 6 «li; Clerk and OiSlet mr.
Shoemakers and Binders
WANTED.
rpiiK uii'b-raurned having r»'m«retl his I. \ iHKB'
1 HMOK n\M FAC TORY, from |,»g ”
! deuce to the room*
IN RAWSON’S BUILDING,
Over Rawlin’s Hardware
Store
0\ WHITEHALL STHKEY,
* ■ -hv« lo rinplor Jaim' ll who .iro qnahflotl |o h url
I" 1 ' 1 "'* •'ll'"# Slcaily work will lio pivi n, ono o ral
w iiK' 1 '- |»onl. Hr »l*o wi.ihr* to rinplov iw„ t '««l
■IUI'RNEVMKX SIIUK.IIAKSIUS,
|. work ox, hisivvly on lo'ho*’ Sho,-*, t,, whom ipk*l
w ~'.•* will l,v p.1,,1. Mono hut yoo.l workm.-n nv,.,|
I' I .''. HOLLV A. IIIIUIKISI H,
Whitehall Stre. t. Atiantn, fj*
■hum 11,1862--Sm
Confederate Insurance Conrpy
<>l Afltiniit.
m t\i) lire mm
I'rofits to Ihi divided liclwotin llic
Insured and Insnmr.
HAVIMJ lompliM With tlm proveionx «r ih*
Hiartcr, thig CVimtMiny m ready to r< ceive appll
cdtioua f»r iiisiiranre, and nwiic policieg at tlu ir uflire,
IN KAW.SON’S HI ILDING,
tt'tut. WHITEHALL, yk IIIATEIt STS.,
apnin-t l.w* by t iro, an,l on the live* of Slave nn.l of
wlnt. poreon .
lmniraimo ,* now nUered to tho citizen* of Alhiutn. in
a home olth-c, combining tlm rrrnruy of sbak capital
with tlm mlvantayo* of a miitiml coni(vmy
Dir<“<*t«TSi:
C. F. Mc'KAY. Pkkhidekt.
JOSEPH WINSHOI*. I A. .1. BR.tPY.
JAMK>- OKMONJi, E. l'.n.AVT(tV,oi Anvn.l*
f E- ItAWWI.V, | 5. )). ijtiiX, „f Aim nap.
(' K. McKAY, President.
I’KUINO BROWN, Secretary,
my o'G2-tf.
wAKUornt nsrTKRKiMix
WAKMOUTII & GUETEBROOK,
laroMYKiw aid MA.xrrAcrriutKH or
HAVANA & AMERICAN GIGARS.
DBALXB* IX LORILUUU)'*
Maccoboy and Scotch Snuff,
SMOKING £ CHEWING TOBACCO, I'irEcS,
&c.. &c.. &c
A GOOD aarertment of tne beat CignrM lor tu« retail
/\ trade to be found at their rtore on Whitehall St ,
between Kiplry g Crockery and Gilbert'* Jewelry *torc,
Atlanta, Georgia. marefl lg-ly.
FOR SALE.
f|lF.\ IhniKiiHt pound* cclcliratid Kit*
A lickinick Smoking Tobacco.
iy»-ir p. f. McDaniel.
Flour: Flour-!
A "1)0(1 article ol Flottr.
Superior Yoitnu Hyson Tea.
in'Ttf „ _ At EDWARDY’S.
Atlanta Female Institute!
THK Rail Term •*( thi* INSTITUTION will «.|»cu on
Monday, the 18tli innt. For further particular*,
apply to tho utideraigned or to I'rot. W. P. Howard. 4
*• N»» Buwx4i»r.” on Tuition—4ha game old price, vte
Collegia to Ik-partmcnt, Term ol lour inoutiuj,.. S2O 00
l*MtoraU»ry, do do do do 16 00
FWwary, do do do do 12 00
Mu*tc ou Piano Forte, 20 00
Piam. Rent 2 00
lad •dental' AO
aug h—Jlm J. R MAYSOV, Prea’t.
DO YOU WANT IT?
/W k N' KFS OK I.AN’P For Sale, two mllaa irom
.lAFtF tbt centre or ihn City, 06 acrea Is
Wood ' and rolendidty tlmlMTcd. none of the thr
ber having been taken off. There art on the
Va. t two spring* A bar.nin may be had.
For part > :olure
KOBLRI CRAWFORD
-lyaota aug Ig>dlm
