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(Sarin fantg fletos.
E. H. GROUBY,
Editor, Proprietor & Publisher.
B Tj AK^ELY:
WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1804.
Notice the advertisement of John Boat
right. He wants an Overseer.
Thanks to “ Uncle Jerry" Walker and
Mr. P. J. King for two fine Watermelons,
which are the first we have had this season.
Lord Russell has become so unpopular
that he was actually hissed at at the annual
dinner of the Royal Literary Fund.
The steamers Siren and Prince* Albert
have arrived at Confederate ports with full
and valuable cargoes.
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Washington letter writers say that in
sanity is rapidly increasing aniODg the Sol
diers in and around that city.
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The Yankee War Department has au
thorized the employment of negroes as sub
stitutes for drafted white men in Maryland.
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No more boats are allowed to ascend the
Cumberland river, the Yankee Covernment
being unable to furnish convoys against
guerillas.
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Gen. Dix has refused “ Manhattan,"
the correspondent of the London Herald ,
permission to send his letters without first
tsubmittiDg them to him.
The Yankee prisoners captured by G en.
Morgan, during the late raid into Ken
tucky, have been ordered into the field.
The parole is not to be respected.
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The Louisville Journal says disregard
ing the Constitution to save the Republic
is like a man disregarding tho Bible to save
his soul.
Elopements, it is said, are becoming
more frequent than ever before through
out the North. Men and women are just
now experiencing somewhat exteninvoly
with the wives and husbands of others.
The Federate, upon taking possession of
the Roswell Factory, told the operatives to
continue their work and trade for provis
ions, but to furnish no supplies south of
the river.
Northern papers say that ex-Senator C.
C. Clay, .of Alabama, and Jacob Thomp
son, of Mississippi, have arrived at Halifax,
and arc reported to be secret agents l'or the
Confederate Government.
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Rumor says it was reported from the
front a few days ago that Gen. Johnston
bad issued a battle order announcing his
determination to make a stand and retreat
no further.
The price of gold in New York is one
hundred more than what it was when Grant
commenced bis campaign. It was then,
running from 148 to 155. It is now 270,
and advancing very rapidly.
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Wo are iudebted to our friend Bcnj. Col
lier for a copy of the Nashville Union of
J unc 2Gtli. Having our paper nearly com
pleted for this week when we received it,
wo arc unable to make'any extracts until
our next.
The Nassau Herald Fays: “Happy, in
our humble opinion, will be the nation that
can inscribe its record with the credit of
being the first to recognize the worth and
independence of the Confederate States,
and God grant it may yet be our own."
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The Emperor Napoleou lias restored to
the Masonic fiaternity of France the an-,
cient prerogative of seleetiug their own
Grand Masters. This act was hailed with
great pleasure by the Order. The practico
of France has been lor the Emporor to
make the selection.
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Some of the English papers are growl
ing because Queen Victoria still accepts
the 83,000,000 allowed her a year for her
“ reception entertainments," although she
has given none for three years. One of
them suggests that a portion of that salary
ought to be returned.
The suspense of the public rniud 13 per
haps more intense now than it has been at
any previous period of the war, for the ’
greatest crisis of this struggle is now upon
us: Its climax approaches, and every hoart
feels burdened with apprehensions and.fore
. bodings of the future; while every eye is
turned with painful anxiety to the great
points of interest in Virginia aDd Georgia.
I pon the issue of these two campaigns de
pends the destiny of the whole Confederacy.
This is, therefore, the great crisis of the
war, and the most critical period of our
national existence. If Grant fails, and
Sherman is defeated and driven from our
State, as we confidently trust, Lincoln goes
by the board ; the war spirit of the north
wanes and dies; the desire for peace and
rest from strife and carnage becomes as
cendent ; our Government is acknowledg
ed, and our independence as a nation es
tablished.
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We have never before seen so many
Doctors in town at any one time as
were on last Saturday and Monday—almost
every one who resides in this county was
here. We suppose the cause of their pres
ence was in order to put their respective
claims before the Inferior Court for ex
emption from State service, in accordance
with “Joe. Brown’s" last call. At least
t the “M. D.’s ” and the Judges seemed to
be pretty “ thick " during both days, but
what they accomplished we are uuable to
say at this writing. Don’t know whether
any “ treating " was done or not, but we
do know there would have been if we had
been an “ M. D.,” and the Judges would
have drank! *•
We are puzzled to kuow how to return
thanks to our friend J. B. Mosely for the
two bushels of Salt he has just presented
us with. We feel so “over-come" in our
good luck in this matter that we are en«»
tirely unable to express our gratification in
knowing that we will be able to “saveour
bacon," —that is, if wo should be so lucky
as to have any—which has heretofore been
a very doubtful question with us. He has
not advised us of the-fact, but we under
stand that Mr. Mosely has “ plenty more
of the same sort" of Salt, which he will
sell at as low figures as any one else pn
Purifoy Bay. Give him a call, and we’ll
guarantee he’ll do what’s right.
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The news during the past week is so
conflicting that it is impossible for us to
give anything that is reliable —hence we
give but very little of tho telegraphic mat
ter that has been received. There are a
thousand and oue reports in circulation
one is that our forces under Early threat
ens Washington City; another that wc have
released our prisoners at City Point; an
other that the Yankees have taken posses
sion of Opelika, Ala., which is thirty miles
from Columbus, Ga., &c., &c. We give
these reports for what they are worth.
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The wire used by Grant’s telegraphists
is said to be constructed on the principle of
the Atlantic cable. No posts are necessa
ry, it being perfectly insulated. It is up
wound from a reel and laid on the ground,
and thus counccts each corps of tho army
with head-quarters, so that orders are in
stantly transmitted from one end of tho
line to the other, without loss of time, and
without a risk of having couriers killed by
sharpshooters.
Our friend who writes us from Cuthbert
will oblige us by hereafter leaving off the
“Col." which he attaches to our name wheu
writing to us. There are%but one class, in
our opinion, who are entitled to any such
“ dubs,” and they, are the military. Wo
have an utter abhorrence for giving every
man who may hold a little one-horse posi
tion at home a military title, when he is no
more entitled to it than a Jackass is to two
tails. Don’t “ Col.” us any more.
It appears that Lord Lyons has applied
to Secretary Seward for the release of the
British steamer Greyhound, which was
captured by a Yankee vessel, one hundred
and twenty-five miles from Washington,
«n the high seas, and out of the jurisdic
tion claimed by the United States. The
application also requests the release of Mr.
Edward A. Pollard, of Richmond.
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Col. Wolford, the Yankee officer who de
nounced Lincoln’s policy so severely in a
speech a short time since, has been sent to
Washington under arrest.
Grant’s position, at this writing, around
Petersburg is calculated to awaken consid
erable solicitude in the public midd. If
lie should succeed in capturing that city,
Richmond falls as a necessary consequence,
say those who ought to know, the evil ef
fects of which, upon our cause, would be
disastrous in the extreme. Had he occu
pied his present position at the commence
ment of the campaign, which he might
have done without having his army deci
mated and demoralized by the terrible or
deal through which it has passed, it is im
possible to conceive the damage he might
have inflicted upon us. What efforts are
being made, and what plans are on foot to
dislodge him are not yet revealed to the
public. We know that he has found his
superior and his master in military strate
gy and science, and if he wins his spurs
from Lee he will be entitled to wear them.
Sherman approaches Atlanta by slow de
grees; whether for his own or the downfall
of the city, remains to be seen. He con
ducts an army of vast magnitude, and while
surpassing ours in numbers, yet far inferior
in morale prowess. It is to be con
fessed, however, that there is great danger
to be apprehended from Sherman’s move
ments and his power for evil. There are
near 30,000 prisoners at Anderson, not dn
impassable distance from the armed legions
of Sherman. If they should, by possibil
ity, receive succor from that quarter, it will .
be an unlucky day for the South. Are our
civil aud military authorities aliVe to the
great emergency of the occasion ?
Drs. Christian, Standiferand Shewmake
arc the physicians chosen by our Inferior
Court to remain at home to attend the
sick, aud thereby exempted from the call
of “Joo Browu.” We cannot help but
think that in one of these selections the
Court acted very unwisely, from the fact
that Dr. Shewmake lives in a very extreme
portion of the county, and therefore can
not be able to do the practice that will.be
required of him. We do not wish to be
understood, in thus speaking, that Dr. S.
will not do everything in his power to at
tend to the wants of the sick in hi 3 section,
but that he is entirely too far off from the
most largely inhabited portion\f his Dis
trict to properly attend those who may
most need his services. So far as the Doc
tor is concerned, we have always enter
tained the highest respect for him, and do
not wish at all to wound his feelings, and
we merely say what we do because we do
not think that the people of the 26th Dis
trict will have that attention is cases of
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sickness that they are entitled to. No
doubt Dr. S. is the right man, but he
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doesn’t live on the right place to suit the
people he has been appointed for,
The Fremont paper latoly established in
New York city bears the title of The New
Nation. The name is regarded as signifi
cant of tho purpose of the party, should it
prevail in the Presidential election, and
succeed in subduing the rebellion—not to
re-establish the Union as it was, but to
consolidate its debris into a u new nation ”
in which the abolitionism and radicalism .
' will rule supreme.
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Not long since a negro at Bleridian was
arrested for attempt to commit a rape, be
ing identified and sworn to by the lady as
saulted, and another who was present at
the time. He was turned over to the civil
authorities for trial, but in the morning hia
dead body was found lAnging to a tree.
It is understood that the Soldiers of the
Ist Mississippi Infantry arc entitled to the
credit of the deed.
The Louisville Republican, an Abolition
paper, mentions a Chaplain in the Federal
army who has been charged with selling
eighty “ liberated ” slaves. It also quotes
a statement from an Abolition Blassachu-*
eetts paper stating that a Federal Soldier
had sold a colored lad about fifteen years
old for a pig worth five dollars. That’s
freedom with a rip, ain’t it ?
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Lieut. Lari more, of Co. I, 40th Ky., in
forms the Cincinnati Gazette that Morgan’s
officer of the day at Mount Sterling car
ried out his threat to shave the heads of
his prisoners. A Kentucky Lieutenant,
taken prisoner at that place, was duly shav
ed in retaliation for the memorable tonso
nal operation upon Morgan and h$ com
mand. Good!
W})o wants to buy an Exemption *
We give up a considerable quantity of
our space this week to two Proclamations
of “ Joe. Brown’s,” one calling out every
white male person (with a few exceptions)
in the State between the ages of sixteen
and fifty-five years for the defense of At
lanta, and the other instructing and order
ing his Aid-de-Camps to see that the first
one is carried out. This may all look very
well in the eyes of the hypocritical Gov
ernor and a few others who want everybody
in the war, but always take good care not
to go themselves, but we think there are
many men throughout the State that this
call will take off that would be worth tea
times as much at home as in the army—
more particularly in this part of the State,
where we have such a large negro popula
tion. For instance, we know a settlement
in this county where there are at least two #
thousand negroes who will, under this call,
he left without a single whija person, old
or young, to make them work or keep in
their places. Now what will these negroes
do until the overseers return } Why, they
will Dot only loaf, fool about ami do noth
ing to advance the crops, but they will
even destroy a good portion of what is al
ready laid by, and play the mischief gen
erally among one another. It sounds very
large, we suppose, to hear some people talk
about sending everybody off to tho war,
and all that kind of stuff, but, we arc sat
isfied, that these men, who are so “-ram
pant,” do not look at the consequences
as we do, and as they ought to. It is true
that we must use every exertion in our
power to drive back the Yankee vandals,
and run them off our soil, &c. ; but, at the
same time, we must see that things at home
are kept straight aud go on properly, or
else all our fighting the trifling Yankees is
for nothing. What will we accomplish if
we whip the Yankees and the negroes whip
and run over and kill our wives, daughters
and infants? Let us all look the thing
squarely in the face, and think of the con
sequences if every man now called for is
taken into the service- Surely every
siblc man, whether now'at home or in the
service, would rather have some good men
left at home to attend to the many wants'
of Soldiers’ families, and to keep the no
groes straight and in their proper places.
“ Joe. Brown ” is some to talk about pa
triotism, but hardly ever shows any him
self, unless it is about election times, wberv
he thinks he can make it pay, and then h©
generally gives a few bushels of corn to
some two or three Soldiers’ families, and
immediately informs his organ in Miltcdge
ville of the same, whereupon he-gets an
electioneering “ puff,” which is spread all
gver the State as soon as his “ wire-work
ers ” can possibly do so. If we knew half
as much about military matters as our self
important Governor pretends to know, and
expresses in Lis almost daily proclamations,
we believe we would long since have been
in the army, and ere this been in Lee or
Johnston’s place. Men who know as much
as our demagogue Governor does are every
one needed, in the front in the “ bullet de
partment,” where they will be of more uso
to the country than being in the rear issu
ing proclamations every day or two. Ho
ought to act out the doetrine he preaches.
He says every man ought to be willing to
help 'to defend his State from invasion in a
time like the present. Then why don’t he,
as Commamler-in-Chief, take the field, and
also put a musket into the hands of his
thousand and one State Agents, Clerks,
floor sweepers, water carriers, &c., &c., he
has in and about Atlanta and Millcdgeville,
whose places could be easily filled by old
men and wounded Soldiers ? Let him and
his favorites go themselves, and probably
it may induce others to do likewise.
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Tire Yankees have made another esti
mate of our strength. This time it comes
from the N. York World’s Baltimore cor
respondent. Gen. Lee is given 115,000
men including Longstreet’s corps, but not
any recent reinforcements. Under Beau
regard, and recently operating against Rich
mond, 50,000 ; Imboden’s cavalry, 5,000
recently under Brekinridge and Echoles,
20,000, between Wilmington and Peters
burg, 25,600; under General Johnston
before he left Dalton, 80,000 ; Charleston
and Savannah 20,000; Mobile 5,000; un
der Kirby Smith and Price in Arkansas
and Blissonri, 15,000; on Red River and
in Texas, 25,000.. This gives us an effect
ual strength of 360,000 mejj. Lee’s in*
creased strength is put down at 165,000
men.