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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. ♦ 4 Washington letter writers say that in sanity is rapidly increasing aniODg the Sol diers in and around that city. ■■■♦"♦ 4 The Yankee War Department has au thorized the employment of negroes as sub stitutes for drafted white men in Maryland. —> » ♦ ♦ No more boats are allowed to ascend the Cumberland river, the Yankee Covernment being unable to furnish convoys against guerillas. - ♦ » 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. + +!■ 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. .— 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. 4—4—4 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." •4» < ■ 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. -4 4 —. 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. — 4 —— 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. —4. 4 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. » 4 ♦ 4 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. ■ 4 4 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 * sickness that they are entitled to. No doubt Dr. S. is the right man, but he *.. ° 4 . 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. + ♦ » 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 ? + ♦ 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. + + -—. 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.