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VOL. VI.
BY E. H. GROTJBY,
Address of Gen. Beauregard.
] f,, its Mil. Division of the West, )
October,'! 7, 18G4. j
In assuming command, at-this critical
juncture, of the Military Division of the .
West, I appeal to my countrymen of all
classes and sections for their generous sup
port and confidence.
In asssigniug me this responsible posi
tion,the President of the Confederate States
has extended to me the assurance ot his
earnest support; the of your
States meet me with similar expressions
of their devotion to our cause; the noble
•1?; jh<; fi. {pj • ■ H ‘‘ 1
nud gallant dhieers', are no 'stranger* to me,
and I know that they will do all that pa
triots can achieve.
The history of the past, written in Ihe
blood of their comrades, but foreshadows
the glorious future which lies before theft.
Inspired with these bright promises el suc
cess, I make this appeal*to the men and
women of my country, to lend me the aid of
their earnest and cordial co-operation. U li
able to join in bloody conflicts‘of the field,
they can do much t<?strengthen our cause,
fill up our ranks, entourage our soldiers,
atid thus hasten on the day ot our final
success and deliverance.
The army of Sherman still defiantly holds
the city of Atlanta. ‘ Jlc can and must be
driven from it. It is only for the good
people of Georgia and surrounding States
to speak the word, and the work is done.
We have abundance of provisions, anil
there are men enough in the country, lia
ble and able for service, to accomplish the
result. To- all such, I earnestly appeal to
report promptly to their respective con*
mauds, and let those who cannot go, see to
it that none remain at home who'are able
to strike a blow in this critical and deci
sive hour. g
To those soldiers of the army.who are
absent from their commands without leave,
I appeal in the name oi their brave com
rades, with whom they lmve in the pa-.t
so often shared the privations of the camp
nnd the dangers of the battle-field' to re
turn at once to their duty. To all such as
shall report to their respcotiVc commands
in response to tills appeal, within the next
thirty days, an amnesty is hereby granted.
M y appeal is to every one of .all classes
and conditions, to come forward' freely,
cheerfully and with a good heart do the
vfork that lies before them.
My countrymen! respond to this call as
you have done in days that have -passed,
and with the blessing of a kind and over
ruling Providence, the enemy shall be driv
en from your soil, the security of your wives
and daughters, from the. insults and the
outrages of a brutal foe, shall he establish
ed, soon to be followed by a permanent and
honorable peace. The claims of home and
country, wife and children, uniting with
the demands of honor and patriotism, sum
mon lys to the field ; wc cannot, dare not,
will not, fail to respond. • •
Full of hope and confidence, f come to
join in your struggle, sharing your priva
tions. aud with your brav.c and true men,
to strike the blow that slyill briug success,
to our arms, triumph to our cause, and
peace to our country.
[Signed,] G. T: Beauregard,
Official : General.
Geo. Brent, Col. « A. A. G.
All daily papers in the principal cities
and towns within this military division,
will publish the above one week, and week
ly papers four times, and send bills to these
headquarters for approval and payment.
1 E»S. Buford,.A.'A. G.
Tan Yard Notice.
HAYING purchased the interest of Mr.
Peter Howard. I am now sole prnnrie
•tor of the. Tan Yard heretofore owned by
Howard & Stewart. The Yard will he kept
up as heretofore. Hides will be tanned on
shares as usual.
Thankful for past favors, I invite all to try
me for the future, promising to do all I can
to please'my customers.
JAS. M. STEWART*
Blakely, Aug. 5, 1860. 41-ly
New Shoe Shop.
rpiTß undersigned have just opened a
JL Shoe Shop in Blakely, next to James
Huehanoon’s Store, whore they will, put up •
nil kinds of Boots and Shoes in the best
style, and at as low figures, as the, times will
admit. All kinds of plantation work put up
to order, in email or large lot.;, where the
parties furnish the material. Harness ami
Saddle work will also receive attention.
Give us a trial. POWELL L CD.
July 13,18(54. 38-ts
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Synopsis of the President’s. Message.
Richmond, Nov. 7. —Congress met to
day pursuant to adjournment.
A message from the President was re
ceived aud read.
It begins, with a review of military oper
ations'siuce the adjournment of Congress
in June last, and recognizes the protection
of Providence iobnubliug iis to successfully
withstand the utmost efforts for our subju
gation.
We have recovered Texas from the ene
my, and Arkansas, with the exception of a
few fortified points. Northern and West-.
, cm Mississippi, Northern Alabama, and
Western Tennessee gye again in our pos
session, and all attempts to penetrate frftn
the coast have becu baffled.
In South-western Virginia successive ar
mies have been routed, and a portion of
Eastern Tennessee reconquered by our
troops.
The main army,after, serious defeats,.con
stant repulses and repeated assaults, arc
still engaged in the efforts to capture Pc-*
tersburg.
The army of Sherman lias succeeded in
•obtaining possession of Allan fa, hut has
been unable to secure any ultimate advan
tage from this success.
Had we been compelled to evacuate Rich
mond as well as Atlanta, the Confederacy
would have rnrtftrittM sp defiant as over. - -
No military success of the enemy can
accomplish the destruction of ihe Confed
eracy, nor save the enemy from a constant
• drain of hlood and ’treasure which must
continue until he shall discover no peace
attainable, unless based upon tHe recogni
tion of our indefeasible rights.
No change in the conduct of foreign pow
ers ean be announced. The recognition
of our independence is withheld from as
sumption. Recognition will be valueless
without intervention. We wish no inter
vention unless wo know ourselves fully
competent to maintain our rights aud in
dependence.
Peace is impossible without independence,
and not to be expected. The enemy will
anticipate neutrals iu recognition of that
independence.
The total amount of the .public debt up
to the Ist of October is $1,120,000,000.
No additional appropriations for meeting
needs of public service up to Ist of July,
as unexpended appropriations exceed the
estimates for that time.
The Secretary of the Treasury recora
ritends that the faith of the Government
he. pledged that the notes shall ever remain
exempt from taxation. That no issue be
made beyond that already authorized and
that portion of the receipts from taxation
and tax iu kind be pledged to gradual re
demption of the entire circulation.
Referring to the reports of the Secretary
of War, the President says exemption from
military duty of persons of certaiu specifi
ed, pursuits and. purposes are unwise and
not dispensable in theory. The discretion
should be vested in military authorities so
that a sufficient number of those essential
to public service might be detailed to con
tinue the exercise of their pursuits or pro
fessions, but exemption from service of
certain classes should be wholly abandon
ed.
Various recommendations of the Secre
tary of War are referred to anil approved,
among which is the reorganization and con
solidation of the reduced regiments. ’
Ju regard to prisoners of war, the Pres
ident says each Government will allow and
provide the-necessary comforts to its citi
zens held captive by the other. ' '
The subject of employing negtocs in the
army is discussed at some length. The
President dissents from those who adviso
n general levy and.arming of slaves as sol
diers.
He recommends the employment of forty
thousand slaves to bo employed as pioneers,
engineer/ and laborers in addition- to the '
duties heretofore performed.
. favors the acquisition for public ser
vice ot (lie right ot property in labor in the
slave; the Government engaged to liberate
the negroes on his discharge, after service
faithfully rendered.
I he President closes ly reiterating the
w illingness of this Government to negoti
ate lor peace; but peace is manifestly
impossible, unless it' is, desired by both
pai tics to this war ; and a for
. it, among qur enemies, will be-bestr-'o.ud
moiiji "civilly evoked by a. demons <.r&C>.iii
on Mr part of ability and unshaken de
termination to defend our rights. Let us
then resolutely continue todevotc our united
and unimpaired energies to the defence of
our homes, our lives and our liberties, this
is the true path to peace. Let us tread it
with confidence in the assured result.
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Secret Sessions.
, Last year much, dissatisfaction was ex
pressed by the people and press at the “ Se
cret Sessions” of Congress. We trust thero
will be no cause for these complaints at the
present session. There is no excuse for
.them, except pending discussions on mil
itary affairs, when facts brought out iu
debate might prove beneficiid to the enemy.
'I lie people have a right to know the posi
tion and bearing ol their representatives up
on questions affieting the interests, and, it
may he, the liberties of the country. Wo
fear that some of the servants of the people
have got the idea into their noddle that
they are the masters, and woqld fain play
the part of grand seigneiurs. Let there be
an end to this insolent presumption, else wo
warn these gentry that the bubble of their
greatness willcollapesuddenly and disgrace
fully. Some shallow brains in the’land
i have lately grown so blatant as to hint that
the curtailing ot the liberty of the press
would be a benefit to the cause of indepen
dence. They affect to despise the means
by which they were brought juto notice
and SlcVafcdKi power; ana would!! n crush
out the “ Fourth Estate ”■ that their little
ness and corruption might not be opposed.
If such an attempt is made, as. it is whis
pered there will be, these “ illustrious ob
scure” will attempt to bide their assults up
on the liberty of the puess and the people
under the cover of Secret Sessions'. Lettho •
press look to it. ll' the Fourth*Estate will
but assert its rights' and vindicate'its pre
rogatives, which are hut the rights and
prerogatives of tlio people, it will soon
crush the vipers it has now warmed to life.
Lot the discussion of public matters in Con
gress he had with open doors. No stabs
in the dark. No Secret Sessions.
Macon Telegraph.
The Old Issue.
Our readers should bear in . mind that
there remains only two months during
which the old issue of Confederate notes
of $5 and upwards will be redeemed by
the government. After, the 31st of De
cember all outstanding notes of these issues
will consequently be worthless.
We*fear that, there is a large amount of
such notes still in the hands of the people,
and that many will fail, through ignorance
aud thoughtlessness, to bringthem in for re
demption. In some of the Southern States
they can now be passed.only at a discount
of 40 to 50 per cent, from the face, instead
of 33] per cent. This is wrong. Busi
ness men should receive them at the ffill
government value, aud take pains to have
them sent for redemption to the deposita
ries. . .
Wc think also that the Secretary of the
Treasury should make every Bank and
Brandi Bank an agent for their redemp
tion, and even establish individual ageu- I
cics at convenient points, so as to give pro
per facilities to thm holders. If this is not
done, there will be great and just cause of
complaint -by those who may hold any of
the notes alter the 81st proximo.
Fayetteville Observer.
According to a late decision in the city
of Richmond, in the case of parties on trial f
for dealing in the currency of the euemy, I
it was claimed that the law coutemplates I
an actual sale, not an attempt to sell—such
as the parties were alleged ■to have been
guilty of.
Major General Hooker hasassumed com
mand of the military department embrac
ing Ohio, ludiana, Illinois, etc:, in place of
Gen, Heiutzchmm, who is ordered to report
at Wheeling, V*.
EDITOR & PROP’R.
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Richmond, Nov. B.—The Washington
Chrmuch', of the Otb says gold closed at
2d5 in New York on Saturday.
Steamers for .Europe took out two mil
lions of specie.
Three regiments of Regulars arrived iu
New \ ork on Saturday, And were quar
tered iti different parts of the city.
. Gen. Peek is goue to the Canadian fron
tier.
Jhe excitement iu Oswego and other
border- tow us continues.
_ ."• **XrW'is ..r the 11/'.h
orders: one•proviitingfor a general
enrollment on the dlst—-all persons not
.reporting, to be arrested and. punished ;
auothcr Commands the city authorities to
close all gambling saloons —gamblers who
ply their business after the Ist of Novem
ber will be assigned to active duty iu reg>
iuients as teamsters and cooks.
The Lady Sterling, with a cargo of 800
bales cotton, was captured'off Wilmington
on the 28th.
Not a word from Shermtyi.
The Baltimore . American of Saturday
afternoon says the story about the prepa
rations of th in Delaware Day
has been pronounced a canard.
G'he Chicam'augals playing havoc with
Yankee merchantmen.
She captured the bark Albino Lincoln,
the ship Shooting Star, and two other barks,
which were burned.-
The Confederate stoamor Olustec had
destroj'ed one bark and two schooners.
The news ironi Petersburg is that on
Saturday night, between 11 and 12 o'clock,
Gen. Grapie attacked and captured the en
emy's advance picket line near tlje City
Point road, taking about f»0 prisoners.
- Gen. Gracie still holds this lino.
About the same hour, Holcomb’s legion,
of Gen. Walker’s brigade, captured about
a dozen prisoners.
This line they shelled for two hours and
a hall', in face of a furious bombardment,
when, being 1 ' attacked by an overwhelming
force, they were compelled to yield them,
losing fifteen killed and thirty-five wound
ed and missing.
IticiTMoNii, Nov. 11,—Nothing .definite
from the Yankee Presidential election.
The prevailing opinion is that Lincoln has
been re-elected. -A gentleman arrived from
Maryland last night, via the Potomac reports
that New York aud Pennsylvania lias gone
for McClellan. A courier from below this
afternoon says the Yankee mail boat had
not arrived to-day up to the time of his de
parture. So says the Yankee pickets.
The Senate not in Session to-day, having
adjourned over until Monday. The Jlouso
went into secret session after the announce
ment of the special committee to inquire
into the expediency of making an <ip-r
peal to the several States to reduce the
number of exemption of State officers.
Lincoln has decided to dispose of McClel
lan in a rather summary- manner, that is,
after the election. He had better look
sharp that, McClellan does not dispo.se ot
him. The correspondent of the Heratd,
says:
Tins belief is freely expressed here among
the confidants of the Administration, -that
should Mr. Lincoln be re-olected General
McClellan will be summarily dismissed
from service.
Letter writers say that the Department
of Western Virginia, since General Breck
inridge assumed command, hasr been thor
oughly reorganized, aud stirring times are
expected.
There is now in the military prison at
Knoxville, Tenn., a grandson of Henry
Clay, who was one of the rebel Geu. Mor>
gan’s staff.
A correspondent of the Appeal, writing
from Richmond on the 6th. says :
■“ Y'ery little doubt is.entertained hero
in regard to the fate of Price. He kept
retreating, hoping his ammunition might
reach him. It never came, and he has to
make his way back to Kirby Smith as best
he can. It is a sore disappointment to the*
Missourians here. The great victory over
Price, which the enemy claim, was proba
bly a fight with his rear guard only. It is
to be hoped he will carry back some re
cruits, and that if he has “cut,” he will
• “ c6me again ” some other and better day.”
“ I can assure you,” said A., softly and
persuasively, “ there is not an entire head
ache in the whole bottle.” an en
tire headache,perhaps,” answeredß., know
ingly, “ for all the headaches iu it may be
splitting oues.”
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