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I letkls Star I TfIO MAS GILBERT & CO., I PROPRIETORS. TKRMS Os TIIK BON: ■ . , |, jr the Daily, twelve months $6; for I •> year 60 routs per month, in advance, I largo sheet,) $2 for twelve months; ■ It” *Uiuiitha; Hiol <& couta for threo ■ pis ‘ l,r f o lo riiib* wr ,llf ‘ following rates : I T u ax-kly) to *ame office ,$S 00 I .. ‘ “ “ • 15 00 I rivMy i” advance, and no deduction. 1 Inr lmenW of f ) TO liuf ‘ 3 or ,os,! inserted at 50 I lj rU! ‘ first insertion, and 26 cents for each I ‘■'“-ral insertion !’ nidi’! 0 "*, cftl 4< not exceeding six lines, not re i Pro***’” -nil be inserted three months for $5, I *’ kD "L. for & an<i twelve months for sl2. I S,s ia °. n not will t> inserted three I T - s'. fix months for twalvn, eight i s-.or.tb3 1 ;. )f and tweire months for S2O. I siout 0 * • ~{ten lines, renewable at pleasure, I Advert^"’.oa year. isst ! "*'. fjiseinents exceeding ten lines to be l cjutraci *- ![je r;i te of $lO for each additional cbtfH 1 ’ ten ;7f/ng candidates the charge is $5, inva- Tafif te I ,a * n a 'l T ance. July 5*9,1803. Rice Flour. j-jji'sarticle is coming into very gen use. The Atlanta Intelligencer says: , have tried it, and for batter cakes .j iraffies, there is nothing better.— \ii it with corn meal or wheat flour, ( 3il it makes excellent bread. It requires -sch less lard than the common meal or j or used alone. Jolinion’a Threat. It is known that Andy Johnson has pcatedly said, since his recent fright .asioned by Morgan at Lebanon, (hat iioißC Nashville should have to be evacu jted, he would see to it, that the Capitol liillbe blown up and destroyed entirely, from our personal knowledge of the did, we doubt not ho will carry out Lis lineat, provided he should not be pressed 4 little too close to admit of the least pos sible delay. If we read the signs of the !jnc3 properly, Andy’s jurisdiction will be of short duration in Nashville More Vlllkluy, rhobuainesa of counterfeiting by the r !slfrini? process commenced among the -hinplasterH in this vicinity some time since. It seom3 that it has now broken nut in anew place, and is seeking to make itself more respectable by opera lions upon some of our Bank bills. We have been shown a ono dollar note on the Union Bank, in this city, changed ty the pastcriug process, to a five. The wrd “ono” on the left hand corner of lie bill is torn off, and where it occurs in tho centre of the bill, it is erased with ink, and the figure 5 is pasted over tho ono on the upper corners. The whole thing is executed in the most tangling manner, and is easily detected. We are informed that 10'e hnvo been hanged to 60’s in the saruo manner. Some fellow in our midst has been engaged in this species of Yankee ism for some time, and it is now hoped he will be discovered and learned some n.eful and profitable trade. A Yankee Imp. The Knoxville Register of Thursday says that the infamous Jordon, who gained a little notoriety ala Butler at Sparta a few weeks since, is now at the Bell House, in that city, enjoying his captivity finely. This fellow Jordon is ihe same vidian who was in command of a regiment of Hessians at Sparta, Tonu., some time since, and who ordered tho ladies of that place to prepare some thing lor his men to eat within ono hour, or in case of failure, he would turn his sol- Jiery loose upon them and not be re sponsible for any of their acts. This is the substance of the report as we heard j a several weeks since, from a geutlernan irorn Tennessee, and wo see the Register refers to the same thing and corrobo rates tho statement in almost the same words. We propose that the future fate of the villain Jordon be decided by a two-third vote of the ladies of Knox ville. — Yankee Pnpem. The Yankee papers having swt General , l-oe and President Davis to writing Union ! letters, are now engaged in transferring j beceral Breckinridge through Mexico to \ Europe. They sent General Beauregard ver some time ago. Unless a few more “flank movemenls” should take place in ! McClellan’s army soon, we should not be astonished to hear that they had trans ited Gen. Hill and Stonewall Jackson. \v are an enterprising set of fellows, ! bse same T ankea editors. One of l iem . recently imported into Nashville ! odo the dirty work of Andy Johnson, • a full score of East Tennessee tories taTuscaloosa, eating tainted meat and •-inking the water in which the “seces sionists” wash their hands. What enter : “fle they will got up next, wo aro not • <■ to conjecture - -possibly that the city 1 Heston has turned “Union” and -f ‘relief from the Union army Sugar amt Blola*ea. ‘Kn of ordinary comprehension can ’ lo see the necessity which will n compel the enemy to evacuate either lauessee or New Orleans. He cannot * L 1 and defend Virginia and the ‘Pper Potomac at the same time. Then, J forced to evacuate, he will abandon at P ° r mt which least benefit to l 19 clear therefore, that as be- Nashville and New Orleans, he will not hesitate to abandon the latter. This WIU be flowed by some practical ruin !r pa rable t 0 ever y one. It will lasses K* SpeCu^atora * n ®ugar and mo a jjrie'v Ut re! ‘ e?e a whole community of friend Preßßure * We advise all’ our i J 0‘01.4f ’ *?J” f urchases - S S” ‘ i “ wer *“ i,, “’ be - Affair* ln Teuncs.ee. ispatoh published iu this eve*- . - edition relative to the military in Tennessee, is a little ob- f’ Ut Beems to indicate important f Jr 1 3 ‘ Buel l seems i3 at Tallahoma, , tunes north of Stevenson, on the Rii V *^ as h v ine and Chattanooga ; C t PTi ° ac ’ r 0“ w hich we infer he either u P° a Chattanooga by .. N Mig tact up. h ‘ , “ iOM “ as " s . • em the latter movement altogether the N. s t,-,„ eis^b " ,h ; t °P er auons—all his supplies and army Wtpments must come by way 0 f Nash ‘ e and Memphis. The frequent guer • a raids upon the Memphis and Char- L =t'jn line of railroad below Tnscnmbia, e “ era that route imminently unsafe, -“Ut the recent movements of Col. For 1H s cavalry have imperiled the Nash- T ‘.; e ftnd Chattanooga line. Huntsville *“1 soon be evacuated, if indeed it has “ 1 a - re &dy been, and the “grand Wea trn ari ny” centred at Nashville. The ” -Fateh referred to alludes to rapid vements of our troops in the direction u *“diattanooga. This is significant, and . 6 alloQ ld not be surprised to hear that army ig west of the Cumberland Uuntains Boon VOLUME Vl.} National Hatred. If it he true, as stated by some, that | there is such a thing as natural antipa thies, it is aptly illustrated inihehis*. tory of the American continent. From our earliest Colonial history, there has ; existed between ihe people of the South | and those of the North a constant and, iu many respects, apparently causeless I strife and contention. This has been pe ; culiarly the case with the New England, or Yankee States proper, and those cf i the Soirth. It is falsifying history, and doing gross violence to truth, to assert that we are the same people dissimilarly situated. The Massachusetts Puritan is as essentially a distinct race from the 1 Southrou, as is the Swiss from the Hol lander or the Japanese from the Span iard. All that twaddle and nonsense atsout the same people becoming different under different circumstances, amounts to nothing. Circumstances never make men, but men make circumstances. If it pleased Omnipotence to cast the future lot of the radical, revolutionary Round head, who had made repeated attempts to overthrow the Government of England, upou the barren plains of Massachusetts or the bleak ridges of Connecticut, that fact did not change hia agrarian and natieul nature. lie is the same Phari saical philosopher or Jacobin reformer that he was in the old world, with a larger and more inviting field spread out bes ore him. Coming to the new world for the pro fessed object of establishing religious toleration, the Puritans banished from their teriter let- all who dared to differ with them iu religious sentiments. And what i- more singular, they did this in obedience to the dictates of that tender conscience for which they have ever been remarkable. They arrogated to them selves, like the Pharisees of old, thcap> pellation of Saint, and in their public capacity, resolved that the “Earth and the fullness thereof belonged to the Saints of Ihe Lord,” and then resolved, secondly, that they were themselves “the Saints of the Lord,” and of course entitled to tho whole “Earfh and the fullness thereof.” This is part of the early history of the Colonics of Massachusetts andConnccti cut, and no one has ever questioned its truth. The question naturally arises: when, and under what circumstances, did these people change, either in senti ment or policy ? If they have undergone any change, surely the time and circum stances of their conversion can be pointed out; until this is done, the conclusion is irresiatable that they are the same cru el monsters, and self appointed “saints,” that murdered their Emperor in the old world, or tortured the Quakers, perßeu ted the Catholics, banished the Baptists, and burned witches in the new. There is no use in making attempts at palliation. The war of iuvasion and subjugation now being waged against us, is but in obedience to the faith and tenor of Pu ritnnistn. With them the Bible is.secon dary to moral sense, conscience, or as they term it, Higherlaw-ism. The insti tution of slavery, although abundantly sustained by the teachings of the Bible, docs not square with iheir Higherlaw ism, and henco they oppose it, and feel that it is a religious duty to wage a war of extermination for its abolishment. Therefore, in order to liberate three mil lions of negroes, they seek to enslave ten millions of freemen. That there should be an antipathy between this fan atical and superstitious race and the bal ance of human kind, seems almost natu ral. It is now working itself out in practical results, and will be the means of establishing, under the Divine super vision, a now government where civil and religions liberty will be upheld, nud where law and order will be respected. Our Telegraph Difficulties. Pursuant to the Preamble and Reso lutions of the Stockholders of the Now Orleans & Washington Telegraph Line, adopted at a recent call meeting, tho cit izens of Columbus met in the Temper ance Hall on Saturday evening, tho 19th iast. Tho object of the meeting as ex plained by the Chairman was to consider what action, upon the part of the citi zens, was necessary in relation to the ar bitrary and high handed embargo which has been imposed upou the office at this place by one W S. Morris, the self con stituted President of the “Southern” Telegraph Company. lion. Alfred Iver son delivered a patriotic and stirring address, giving tho history of our Tele graph difficulties and recommending some immediate measures for the relief of our citizens. A committee was ap pointed to confer with Mr. Morris by mail, or, if possible, by telegraph, offer ing him, iu behalf of the citizens of Co lumbus, the following ultimatum in sub stance : Ist. That Mr. Morris be respectfully requested to allow dispatches t 6 pass to and from this office as heretofore. 2nd. That in failure to comply with this request, the citizens will take the office into their own hands and close it up to all dispatches passing through to other points ; and that the possession of the office by Mr. R. L. Hoopes will be sustained by the citizens at all hazards. Cetting up Enthuslaam for tile War. The Yankees are peculiarly a sensation people. They incorporate sensation in to every thing. Their churches and re ligious institutions are, and always have been, full of it. Their commerce abounds in sensation ; it is part of their social life, and is paramount to everything else in their politics. They got up this wick ed war by sensation, and are now carry ing it on by sensation. They have even turned a dreadful defeat into a “brilliant flank movement,” and by sensation are preparing for another “on to Richmond.” It has begun in New York city, (as what sensation does not start there?) and is already beginning to spread, Soon the whole North will be in a fresh flame of war—new recruits, new gunboats, new generals, new appliances, and new plans will be adopted. They have already ap pointed a day for a grand “Union” meet ing in New \ork, at which “the Presi dent” is expected as a guest. They will doubtless succeed in getting up a sensa tion, and will renew and enlarge the ef forts at subjugation. Why are oar lead ers not improving the golden opportunity to strike a decisive blow ? What are | they waiting for ? I Gen. Burnsides was at last accounts in i Washington THE WEEKLY SUN. Our East Tenuesaae Cavalry. We regret to learn that a small detach ment of our cavalry force in East Ten nessee met with defeat near Jackeboro’ a few days since It eeems that four companies of a cavalry regiment were attacked by a large force of Federal in fantry and routed, leaving their camp equipage and provisions in the hands of the enemy. We have never been inclined to in dulge in severe and unkind criticism, even toward the most undeserving of onr military authorities; but it does seem to us that of all men on earth, some of our cavalry leaders in East Tennessee are j tae most unfortunate. We do not speak | altogether from mere hearsay ; in many | instances we have witnessed’ the sad in j competency and shameful indolence of | many of them. Some companies, and | perhaps battalions, have been in the ser | vice over twelve months, and yet they I know as little of discipline as they did | when they first entered the service.— They have for the most part generally been quartered In some dirty little vil | lage, abounding In groceries and other ; con veniences adapted to the wants of an | untutored and licentious mob, at the ex ! pease of the government. Several com panies of this character, covered them- I selves with infamy by their precipitated I flight and shameful stampede at the bat tle of Fishing Creek. It is but doing simple justice, however, to the deserving to say, that we have some efficient cavarly forcos in East Ten i nessee, under the management of cora | petent and worthy officers. They have demeaned themselves honorably upon all | occasions, and seem to have proper con j ceptionsof the duties of a soldier. But as above intimated, this is ths exception, not the rule. [COMMUNICATED.] Our Telegraph Difficulties lids. Sun: I notice your strictures upon the “Southern” Telegraph Com pany. Tho reproduced article from the Mo bile Tribune, does seem to create a very strong case of “Yankee trickery” resortod to for the purpose of “fleecing” Southern stockholders ; and if true, it is passing strange that it should have been thus i long tamely and quietly submitted to. But the question cf mere right is one with which we as a community have no concern That is for the stockholders and the courts—the one competent to protect their own interest, and tho other to decide controversies. There is, however, a connection with it on our part as a people vital in both interest and principle, and upon which we Bbouldact promptly and decisively. It seems that our city, save in gov ernment and press dispatches, (likely most, profitable ,) has been cut off of the line of communication. This is an un authorized and heartless Yankee order, worthy of Butler, Grant, or Andy John son, and unworthy of any man, or set of men, other than cold blooded, inhuman, unfeeling Yankee invaders of our homes and firesides. • Many, very many of the husbands, fathers aud brothers of this community, lie wounded, sick, and suffering in our army. They have fallen, and in defence of the right of this Telegraph Company to exist at all, save in the h<ands of a common enemy. Who has not seen wives and mothers standingwith trembling and tearful anxiety around the office, await ing tidings from the suffering loved ones, and the “ smiles of joy” or “tears of woe,” consequent upon such tidings? This cruel order denies them this poor privilege. But comment is useless. The outrage of tho proceeding is patent, aud public indignation cannot and ought not to be : suppressed. A public meeting has been called to ‘ take it into consideration and what shall I be its action ? It has been suggested that no messages j be allowed to pass through this office . to other points. This is objectionable | for its infliction upon other innocent ! communities of tho like heartless wrong j of which we so justly complain: and \ then, it will not redress the grievance.— ! This company has no more right to deny us the privilege of sending our messages ! over the line in their turn, than the mil- : ler has to refuse in its turn to grind our i corn—an illustration both apt and fa miliar. Let then the public meeting be : held, and as the action of our whole I people let the observance of this familiar I rule be required, and that unreservedly ‘ and immediately. If not done, let pub- j lie vengeance be visited upon our enemy ; or enemies who refuse it, in the shape of ; tar and feathers or rail ride, if they dare j pollute our atmosphere with their pres- : once. Let the operator here bo required forth* j with to scud a message over the line to this effect, that all concerned may take j due notice. Tho language used and the remedy j advocated may seem harsh, but neither ; is commensurate with the harsh and un* ; provoked wrong of which we complain. | Columbus. Extract from a letter dated Warosboro’, July 18th, 1862 : . “The corn and potatoe crops in the : low country arc unusually large, and ag ! promising as the planters could possibly desire. Scarcely any cotton planted— j not enough for ‘spinning cotton.’” Query for tUe Daffies. Why should it be considered impolite i for a gentleman to appear before ladies in his shirt sleeves, and yet altogether polite for a lady to appear before gentle* : men without any Bloeves at all ? Fremont. Gen. Fremont and family are residing at present, at Oyster Bay, Long Island. The General has not resigned his posi- j tion: had he resigned, he could not se- j cure the privilege of drawing some $6,000 or SB,OOO, the pay of a Major-General, j to which he is now entitled. Gen. McCail. This Federal General, now held as a prisoner of war in this city, resigned his commission in the United States army some years ago, settled in Philadelphia, j where he married, and is a man of hand some fortune. He has a brother and nephews in Louisiana.— Riehmond Enq. The French Forces Starved Into Capitulation. The Havana correspondent of the New York “Tribune,” says that the French forces in Mexico had capitulated from want of food, having eaten their artillery mules. Gen. Pope graduated at West Point j in the same class with William S. Roaen crans, Abner Doubleday, Gustavus W. Smith, Mansfield Lovell, Earl Van Dorn and James Longstreet. And was notoriously at that time tho greatest liar at the military academy. Gen. Kirby Sroltll. We are glad to learn from the Knox ville Register of the 19th inst., that Gen. Smith still retains the command of the department of East Tennessee, and that he had not retired from active duty by t reason of ill health. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, JULY 29, 1862. Glorious News. We are permitted, through the kindness of a friend, to make the following ex tracts from a private letter written from | Atlanta It corroborates the news rela tive to Morgan ; which we publish this 1 morning, and contains other items of in’ terest. The letter was written Monday night, 21st: Col. Forrest, since the capture of Mur freesboro’, has, (it is said,) retired to Cumberland Mountain, Lack of McMin villea few miles. The captured commis sioned, officers passed Knoxville, yester day, cn route for Richmond, including Gen. Tom. Crittenden, the same who twelve months ago gave E. M. Bruce a 1 letter of introduction to President Davis, in which he said, “my prayers are con stantly ascending for yonr success.” i One month later he accepteed a commis sion of Brigadier General, with a very i large contract for cattle, from his rnajes . ty, Abraham the First. The report by train from Chattanooga this evening, is to the effect, that John Morgan had entered Frankfort and Lex ; ington, capturing large quantities of arms | and stores. Gov. Magoffin with State papers, had joined him, and they had ! retired to Madison county, where they are establishing a camp. Thousands : are flocking to his standard. All Ken ! tacky is reported in a blaze of excite ment, male and female, young children | and old age. John Morgan’s name has electrified them, and now the Governor 1 will give a shadow of official authority to his acts. This i3 a part of his pro gramme as was understood before leaving here. Other important points will be executed in due time. The destruction of the railroad between Louisville and Nashville, cuts off all rapid retreat as well as reinforcements to Buell’s array, which must be in a vary critical situation. I suppose Bragg will come up to time, and fill his part in the play of ridding Tennessee of the foul invaders. The Report of Yankees at Gordons villei There seems to have been some mieap ; prehension as to the raid of the enemy | in the neighborhood of Gordonsville, on the line of the Central Railroad. Du ring the early part of the day yesterday | it was asserted, with apparent confidence, that three hundred of the enemy’s cav alry had visited that town, and after dashing through the place, and capturing the telegraph operator, had retired. It was also reported that six thousand of the enemy was at Orange Court House, a few miles below Gordonsville, and that tho greater part, if not the whole army of the Valley of Virginia, under Pope, were in Culpepper county. We have en deavored to ascertain, by cautious in quiry, the facts in connection with the appearance of the Yankee forces in that quarter, and aro satisfied that the state ments alluded to are essentially incor rect. On Sunday a body of Yankees appear ed at the Rapidan river on the northern edge of Orange county, and destroyed the railroad bridge over that stream ; but if our information is correct, they never visited Gordonsville at all, and re tired after committing the damage stated. It is probable that the Yankee govern ment, alarmed by the rout of their army at Richmond, entertained some appre hensions for the safety of Washington, and by way of embarrassing the move ments of our forces in such an event, are destroying the railroad between Gor donsville and Manassas. It is known that they have already destroyed the bridges and track of the Manassas Gap Railroad, and it. is more than provable that the Orange and Alexandria Road will besubjected to the same fate. It is certain that no advance from that direc tion upon Ptichmond is intended, or the bridge over the Rapidan would not have been destroyed.— Rich. Dispatch, 1 5th. — Butlerism in Mississippi. Gen. Van Dorn has issued a general order—No. 9—in which occurs the fol lowing section • 8. The •publication of any article in the newspapers in reference to the move ments of troops is prohibited, and if the editor or proprietor of any newspaper published in any ox the counties herein before designated shall publish any edi torial article, or copy into his paper any article or paragraph calculated to impair confidence in any of the commanding of ficers whom the President may see fit to place over the troops, such editor or proprietor shall be subject to fine and imprisonment, and the publication of the paper shall be thereafter suspended.” This order, if enforced throughout the country, would establish the most thor ough and absolute military despotism that ever disgraced any age or nation. The idea that the people shall not bo al lowed te criticise the conduct of their agents, is too monstrous for contempla tion. The privilege of the press to ex pose official incompetency is its highest birthright, and the unshackled exercise of that power the strongest safeguard of liberty. Such an assumption of author ity has not been attempted or conceived even by Lincoln. It “out Herods He rod.” A cotemporary well remarks that an independent press and an independent people will not submit to such an arbi trary edict. Miscellaneous. Fiye hundred and sixteen hales of Sea Island cotton were sold in New York on the 9th instant at 47 to 78 cents, and forty-one bales of Gulf at 84 to 40| cents. The cotton market has been firmer since the sale, middling uplands being quoted at 41 to 42 cents. Certain parties in Huntsville, who were unpatriotic enough to sell their cotton to the Yankees who swarmed there from the North, were paid by them in bogus gold. The galvanized coating has worn off the pewter, and these gentlemen have lost their cotton as effectually as if they had burned it like true Southerners. Governor Andrew has published the military apportionment of Massachus etts, designating the number of men each city and town shall furnish to make up fifteen thousand men, the proportion Massachusetts is expeeted to send to the field under the call for three hundred thousand more volunteers. Yankee Epistles.— A very large pro portion of the Yankee letters found in their camps were evidently written by illiterate parsons. The orthography of many of them is execrable. We have seen in one letter Fredericksburg spelt “Fredrexbirgand in another medi cine Bpelt “metson.” One letter was ad dressed “to my sweet brother.” A sin- j gular confession in another letter was that the writer (a Yankee soldier) had I married a mulatto woman, and that he would start for the North to visit his rel atives iu a few days. —Richmond Whig. | * The 2nd Georgia Battalion. We learn from private soutces, that the 2nd Georgia Battalion are now sta tioned at Petersburg. All the tents at Drewry’a Bluff have been removed and stored at Petersburg—the soldiers at the Bluff using the “flies” altogether. Com pany A, Macon Volunteers has lost one of ita members—Mr. Hogg, of Cedar j Town—the first death in that company since that of Peter Stubbs.— Macon Tel The Lines of oar Array. Movements are now nearly complete for the permanent establishment of a base of operations for our army below Richmond. The Federal army is still established at Berkley, Westover and Charles City Court House.— Richmond Enquirer, 15 th. The Express Company. We insert the communication of “South” because the charges, if t rU e, should become known; if they are not true, their publication will give the ooro pftny an admirable opportunity to set itself right before the community In either case, we deem the agitation not unimportant, because it is patent to ev ery one that there is a heavy suspicion of disloyalty resting on this Company. If, as they pretend, the majority of the stockholders are Southern men, nothing is more easy than to satisfy the public of the fact. If, on tho contrary, they fail to do this, the evidence is at once conclusive, uuder existing circumstances, that the whole thing is a Yankee trick ; and an abolition concern. The controversy should be conducted in ! a high-toned and respectful manner, and no efforts should be made to incite public ; Indignation without good and sufficient evidences of Collusion ami duplicity.— j The managers of the company owe it to ; themselves to make a plain and satisfac | tory showing, and they should do (his as soon as practicable delays will only ag gravate suspicion, incite public indigua | tinn, and perhaps violence. The temper of the Southern people is in no mood to I brook insult and danger in their midst from a people who have broken up the peace of their homes, disorgan ized their commerce, and-now seek their subjugation. It is natural that they should be vigilent. The only wonder is that they are not more so. If we are determined upon independence, we should endeavor to make that independence com plete. Puppose the “Southern Express Company” has no ends in view but to make money, and that Mr. H. B. Plant, the General Superintendant, is acting merely as the agent of the old “Adams’ Express Company,” with the purpose of makiDg his returns after tho war closes, and that no “underground” concern for the present communication is in contem plation ; is this not clearly a violation of the law of nations, and an open and direct violation of all rules regulating commerce between belligerents? It is a well known fact that tho Presi dent, Vice President, Board of Directors and Stockholders of the “Adams’ Kx press Company”—the head of which is iu New York—are not only coercicnists, but most of them are leading members of the Republican party. Now if, as it is generally supposed, this “Southern” Ex press Company is as much a part and parcel of tho “Adams’ Express” to day as it was before the war, it is the duty of our State and Confederate authorities to abate it, and arrest its managers— just as much so as it is to raise and equip armies to meet the foe in the field—just j as much so as it would be to arrest a spy ‘ or sequestrate the property of nn alien I enemy. But, as above intimated, if the “South ‘ ern Express Company” is a lona fide con cern, and not a branch of Yankee enter prise, presuming upon our good nature or gullibility, or both, nothing is more easy than for the Stockholders to satisfy the peoplo that such is the fact, and we sincerely hope they will loose no time in doing so. Vtcfeiburg A private letter written by an intelli gent soldier at Vicksburg, dated July 11tb,says: Vicksburg is a lovely place. It con tains some of the finest private dwellings I ever eaw, but most of them are desert ed, and are marked with the insigua of war. Nearly every house in the vicinity ot the river has marks of the enemy’s shells. Some are totally destroyed. There are some points on the river which command a most beautiful and romantic view of the entire city and sur- ! rounding country. The sight is a grand j one indeed. The broad, silvery bosom i of the Mississippi sparkling ia the sun, I the green woods which line the banks, ‘ and far up the river, ia sullen silence, lay the hasted Yankee gunboats, their ! dark sides in singular contract with the : bright glances of the sun on the water. ! Occasionally, the long line of smoke from one of their sides, denotes the coming of ! a shell, the bursting and whizzing’ of j which over our heads is not calculated to inspire very pleasant reflection!?.— j You Bhould visit onr batteries. It is a i sight worth going to see. The road is perfectly lined with shell, some whole, aud some torn into fragments, so that the boys frequently stumble over them i in passing the road. Then all around ! the batteries the ground is literally torn j in great pits, large enough to bury a horse in. Our duty consists chiefly in picketing in the swamps between the river and onr batteries, which is a very severe job.—• The musquitoes are perfectly hateful; such large ones, and so many of them, I never saw before. I assure you there is uo danger of a sentinel going to sieep on his post down there. Some of the boys lay down with their handkerchiefs over their faces, who swear that the musquitoes pull the bankerchief off their faces. ——♦ Our Florida Dorresponffeucs. Camp Jackson, Fla., ) July 16th, 1862. j* Eds. Sun: Three or four days ago, some of the citizens of Washington coun ty, in the State, captured four Yankee i skulkers. From the best information i that I can obtain, they are a portion of ] some renegades who left that section of ; Florida, and joined the enemy, when the war broke out, and were at the time of their capture trying to engineer their way to visit their oh! stamping ground. The scoundrels had Yankee “passes.”— They will be apt to learn by practical ‘ experience that Florida air, although sometimes dense, is not a solid sub- j stance. Last Sunday, I learn, from undoubted ! authority, that our cavalry scouts, to the number of forty, visited the neigh borhood of Pensacola, and Lad the te- j merity to venture wltiiin half a mile of the city, where they obtained a good view of the bay, and where they saw a man of war, and a gunboat, with save- j ral small craft. There are but few Y’anks at Pensacola, and there never have been Many. As one fifth of this regiment is from i a portion of country where I know that the rays of your “Sun” penetrates, you • will bear with me, if I allude to its ssni tory condition. Would to heaven I could say it was good ! Such, however, is not j thecase. In the regiment of a little more than eight hundred, a hundred and forty reported on the sick list this morning. For the consolation of friends who have relatives here, I must say that the As sistant Surgeon, Dr. Savage, is a misno mer. It should have been Lamb, for his heart is as tender as a woman’s. ours, Iter. Uo Hope fox Mr. Vu Buren. The Kinderhook Rough News says the health of ez-President Van Eureu hap not improved within the past week, and i very slight, if any, hopes are entertained j by his friends of his ultimate recovery I The Washington and New Orleans Telegraph Company. Columbus, July 19,1802. Pursuant to a previous call the citizens of thi3 place met at Temperance Hall. Pr. H. M. ; Jeter was called to the Chair, and Wm. C. Gray appointed Secretary. The Hon. Alfred Iverson addressed the ! r.iect.n'r at some length in explanation of the j difficulties in the lelograph office in this city, j and .concluded by offering the following Pre amble aud Resolutions: It appears that on Thursday a Mr Brenner, claiming to be the agent of one W. s'. Morns, the alleged President and Manager of the Southern lines of Telegraph, came so Co lumbus and attempted to discharge Mr L R Hoopes, the telegraph operator a? this “place by serving him first with a written notice of dis charge. Mr. Hoopes denied his authority aud the authority of nis employer, Morris, and re ! fused to surrender possession of the otlice.— j Whereupon, Mr. Brenner attempted to take for ! cible possession of said office by intruding an , ether man in the office as operator, to the ex clusion of IIoopos; that two or three other per sons, friends of Mr. Hoopes, one of whom was a stockholder in the company, assisted Mr. Hoopes in repelliDg this attempt to oust him by force from the office, and enabled him to hold its possession; that Mr. Brenner imme diately sued out legal process for the purpose of ousting Mr. Hoopes, which process is still pending. In the meantime these proceedings were telegraphed to the said Morris at Lynchburg, Va., who claims to have the possession, con trol and management of the offices and lines ! of the Washington & New Orleans Telegraph j Company; who, thereupon, and immediately telegraphed an order to all the offices east of I Columbus, directing that no business be taken i for this city, until further orders, and thus the I citizens of Columbus and its vicinity are de ; Prived of the privilege of telegraphic eommu- I mcation with all parts of the Confederate States j east of this city. With the question of the i possession, control and management of the of : iiee at this place, or elsewhere, whether Mr. ! Hoopes is rightfully in possession or not; i whether he is right or wrong in withholding Hie possession from Mr. Brenner; whether i Mr. Morris is rightfully or wrongfully in pos- I session, control, and management of said offi ■ ces—in fact, with the whole question in dis i pute between ihe parties, this community i does not feel called upon at this time to ex ! press any opinion or take any action. These 1 questions ought to be left to the decision ot the legal tribunals; but this meeting of citi zens of Columbus considers the order OfMr Morris, cutting off the people of Columbus from ail telegraphic communication east of this place as an unjust, high-handed and arbi trary measure, and should be resisted - by the community. To this end it is Resolved, That a committee of five citi zens be appointed by the Chair, who shall communicate these proceedings to the said Morris, as soon as practicable, with the re quest that his said order be revoked, and if, within a reasonable time to be judged of by tho committee, the said order shall not be rescinded, then it shall be the duty of the committee to take possession of the of fice in this place, and permit no telegraphic messages except those to and from the Con federate government audits officers and agents to passthrough this office, until the said order of the said Morris is revoked. Mr. W. A. Bedell offered the following addi tional resolution. Resolved, That in case the said Morris, shall refuse or fail to rescind said order, cutting off telegraphic, communication east of this citv, tho committee appointed under the foregoing resolution aro hereby instructed to confer with ths Governors of Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina, and request them to in terfere for the purpose of restoring said tele graphic communication. E. Barnard, Esq., offered the following: Resolved, That until this question is adjust ed, this meeting will sustain Jj. R. Hoopes in retaining possession of the Telegraph Office in this city. All of which were unanimously adopted. The Chair appointed the following gentle men ns the committee of five: W. A. BEIVELL, ] J. F. BOZEMAN, | R. L. MOTT, j-Com. J4S. W. WARREN, I L. G. BOWERS. J Meeting then adjourned. H. M. JETER, Chairman. W. C. Ghat, Secretary. . ’The Gallant Young Hero, E. F. Scott. Among the many whose names wil adorn and beautify the pages of our future history, giving brilliancy to our national character, and showing thayalor of our youthful soldiers, none will occupy a more deserving place than the gallant young Scott, of the 3d Alabama. Reared in the midst of affluence and blessed with endowments, which but few of his age ever possess, he had everything to bind him to the home of liis youth, and tho devoted friends who delighted to honor him. Yet when tho tocsin of war broke upon our coun try, and the foot-prints of the enemy polluted onr soil, ho was among the first to rush to the standard of his country, and oppose the ag gressor’s march. When the hour came for him to meet the enemy in deadly conflict, nobly did he con duct himself. His coolness and valor attract ed the attention of every one. In the succes sion of brilliant victories through which we have but recently passed, he escaped unhurt, until the fatal charge of Tuesday evening. In the midstjof that terrific conflict four banner hearers had been shot down in rapid succes sion. No sooner had the fourth fallen, than Scott flew to the banner, and in the act of rais ing it, a frieDd said to him, “If you bear that banner you will perish.” With a smile upon his face, he remarked, “Let me perish, but this banner shall never trail in the dust while there is power in my arm to support it.” Waving it in triumph over his head he sprang to the front of the advancing column and shouted Iris comrades on to the charge. This daring feat caused a concentrated fire from the ene my, and in less than five minutes he fell, with the tattered folds of his flag enveloping his form. Thus perished one of the noblest boys I ever knew. But this act of his will live in the hearts of a grateful people, when the sculp tured urn shall crumble into ruins. Farewell, Fletch, thy name is written in imperishable letters upon the memory of A Friend. Miscellaneous. Jennison, the Kansas jayhawker, has, by orders from Washington, been mus tered out of service in the army. Messrs. Blair of Virginia, Casey of Kentucky, Maynard of Tennessee, and Fisher of Delaware, are the only repre sentatives from slave states who voted for the conference report on the confisca tion bill. Secretary Chase has transferred the whole appointing power under the new revenue act to ex-Governor Boutwell, commissioner, just appointed. This is dono to avoid the annoyance of a rush of office-seekers upon the secretary. The Columbus (Ohio) Journal of July 7th, learns that a meeting of the Govern ors of the loy*l States has just been held at the Angler House, Cleveland, for consultation and co operation in the mat ters appertaining to their positions and duties. Congress has passed a bill doing away with regiment bands and retaining brig ade bands. The regimental bandß will all be dismissed out of the service in thirty days, unless they volunteer to join brigade bands. This will effect a saving of about five millions a year. A Washington paper says that the forthcoming address of the Republican members of Congress to the people of the United States will favor the most ener gctic action in the prosecution of the war, the use of all the means in our power against the rebellion and foreign intervention, and the policy of employ ing the blacks in military operations. It was rumored in Washington that General Halleck was with the President at Fortress Monroe. A New York paper says: “It does not seem to be reliable; but the report gave rise to the belief that Halleck is to be the new secretary, for which position many regard him as the fittest man in the nation.” The Seneca Falls Reveille, says: “An illiterate darkey, who represented him self as a former coachman to Jeff. Davis exhibited at Concert Hall on Wednesday and Thursday evening of last week. Ho pretended to great knowledge of the rebel President and his household, but only willing dupes believed his silly story.” Lookout for Counterfeits. The Richmond Examiner says it be hooves country people at this time to be more than ordinarily careful how they reoeive Confederate notes from persons with whom they are unacquainted. We have just heard of the arrest of a man in King William who had been going through the country buying stock and Bheep at enormous prices, and paying for them in counterfeit Confederate mo ney. All of the Yankee prisoners had more or less of this money, and much of it has fallen into the hands of dishonest persons, who will endeavor to pass it on the unwary. All the Northern counter feits can be readily deteoted by compar ing them with a genuine note. The Governor General of Canada ad vises preparation against attack from fbe Lincoln government {NUMBER 14. TELEQB -A-lE* I-IIG Richmond, July 21.—Major General Holmes has been assigned to the com mand of the Department of Trans-Mis sissippi. Brigadier General R. H. An derson has been promoted to MnjorGen eral, and assigned to the command of the division recently commanded by Gen. Huger, vrho is assigned to the duties of Inspector of Ordnance Col. Jenkins, of S. C., has been promoted to Brigadier General, vice Armstrong, promoted.— Col. Martin E. Green, of Missouri, has been promoted to Brigadier General. The resignation of Brigadier General Jos. R. Anderson has been accepted A general exchange of prisoners has been agreed to—the surplus ou either side to be paroled. The terms of the agreement are the cartel of 1812, be tween the United States and Great Brit ain. Mobile, July 21.—A special dispatch to the Advertiser, dated Chattanooga, 19th, says the enemy are concentrating in considerable force at Talahoma, 40 miles the other side of Stevenson. Buell’s army is considered in a tight place. The activity of our army in East Ten nessee indicate important movements. Mobile, July 22.—A special dispatch to the Advertiser, dated Chattanooga, 20th, says the Louisville Journal of the 14th contains the particulars of the cap ture of Lebanon, Ky., by Morgan’s for ces, on the 13th. lie captured Lieut. Col. R. Johnson, and two companies of the 28th Kentucky regiment; killed sev eral, destroyed the Government ware houses, burnt the railroad depot, a por tion of the town, and sacked the banks; he then proceeded to Danville and Bards town, dividing his forces, on the Spring field Railroad. He had arrived within 9 miles of Frankfort on Sunday night; from thence he was expected to go to Lexington. It was reported that a large rebel force had advanced Seven miles from Shelbyville, on the road to Louis ville. Gen. Boyle was making every ef fort for the defence of the city. Great excitement at Louisville. Dispatches from Nashville of the 13th, says great excitement there. An attack was expected. Batteries were prepared to shell the city in case of its surrender. The capture of Murfreesboro’ had pro duced a stirring effect. Dispatches from Cairo, to the 12th, report the oapture of Memphis, in North ern Missouri, by the rebels. The Union citizens were carried away. Chattanooga, July 21.—Buell’s forces at e massing at Bridgeport. Large num bers arrived to-day. They are busy building boats to cross the river. Brigadier Generals Crittenden and Duffield, with their staffs and others, be ing forty odd officers in all, have left Knoxville, for Madison, Ga. The Truth Leaking Out—‘‘Old Abe” Acknowledges a Serious Defeat. Despite the military censorship of the press in the North, a ray of truth now and then shoots forth. The Cincinnati Commercial is entitled to credit for the following key note: At last it is out. A week ago to day, began, before Richmond, a series of five days’ battles, the result of which, mystify it as you may, to soften the disappoint ment, is a decided reverse. There are glorifications of the “bril liant strategy” changing the base of opei - ations, that only raises the wonder why, if the James river base was so vastly su perior, it was not discovered four weeks ago, before the time bad been wasted and the army had been scourged by the mal aria of the Chicahominj’ swamps; there are confused accounts of desperate fights that leave one in doubt whether we won or lost, or whether so losing was not more honorable than the most brilliant victory, there are strange stories of fearful slaugh ter, of the destruction of millions of dol lars worth of army stores at the White House, of the loss of our siege guns, and of other disasters so crushing that we re fuse to believe them till forced to it; but, in the absence of official bulletins, which the government still withholds, there is, at least, oat of the thickening reports of reverses that come crowding upon us,- which we are compelled to accept: The’ President admitted yesterday to an cer who, of right, demanded that the si lence of the government should be broken, that McClellan had been seriously defeated, and that he had called for 50,000 more men. Details will be coming in for weeks, but that is the key note to the whole heart-sickening story. Major-General McCall. This officer is exhibiting some traits of character, now that he is here in cap tivity, which might be considered unbe coming even if his rank were lower. After being transferred from the Spots wood Hotel to the prison on 18th street, he sent back for some articles of cloth ing which he said he had left behind, but they could not nowhere be found. The General subsequently requested the steward of the prison to purchase him some clothing, and wrote his order as follows : “For Gen. McCall—One wool en shirt, collar 15 inches, one pair drawers, two cambric handkerchiefs, one pair socks.” The purchases were duly made, and the steward, presuming that a Federal Major-General would not wear inferior garments, procured the best that could be found, paying prices that have been established through the interference of the Yankee Government in our seaport trade, and which we all submit to with as good grace as possible. Not so, however, wi.h Gen. McCall. When the articles were carried to him, he rebelled against the transaction alto gether, refusing to receive the goods he had ordered and to pay the bill. The consequence was that the steward was compelled to return them to the mer chant or keep them himself, either alter native being disagreeable enough. It is impossible to conjecture what expedient the General will next resort to for the replenishment of his wardrobe.—Rich mond Dispatch. v Yankee Honor. One of the Yankees captured in the recent battles is to be examined before Commissioner Baxter on a grave charge, lie is said to have been, when taken the last time, already a paroled prisoner. One of the crew of the Congress, who has been duly received into our ranks, professes his readiness to swear to the fellow’s identity. He knew him in the United States service and is acquainted with tbo particulars of his captnre and parole. As, by a recent order, published a few days ago in the Northern papers, all pa roled Yankee prisoners have been direc ted to report for duty, many cases simi lar to the above may be expected to occur in the future- It, therefore, becomes our authorities to act with vigor in the premises, and, if he shall be found guil ty, to make a solemn example of this recreant to his parole of honor. — Rich. Examiner. Yankee accounts represent that Rebel guerrillas render the navigation of the James river very hazardous. The same is said of the Mississippi and other streams. Subscribers receiving the paper with Ons notice marked, are in form'd th'ir time i* about out, and that, they must make a remittance if they wish the paper con tinued .See terms in first column Tlie Conscript Law aa Affecting Bxcmpts now In the .Service. There being a diversity 0 f opinion in reference to the construction of that . portion of the Conscript Law which ra j lates to exempts under eighteen and over thirty-five years of age, the following j letter from Hon. E. A. Nisbet, a member of the Congress by which the law was passed, will be read with interest. The I letter was written in answer to a letter ; of inquiry from Capt. R. A. Benson, of j the 30th Georgia Regiment, and gives what we had regarded the true interpre- I tatiou of the law :— Sav. News. „ , . „ „ Macon, Ga., July 15,1862. I Captaxn I;. Brenson: . because under 18 or over 35 years old. Thnt there be no | doubt. The Consrription Act does not applv to them, except as I shall now state. Although | exempt from enrollment, yet they are placed I by the act under some disabilities; or rather in i pertain contingencies, some additional service j is required of them. The last proviso ot the first section of the act, is in the following words: “Provided that all persons under the age ol 18 years and over the age of 35 year* who are now in the military service of the Con federate States, in the regiments, battalions j and companies hereafter to be organized, shall tie required to remain in their respective com i panics, battalions and regiments for ninety ; days .unless their places can sooner be supplied ; by other recruits not now in the service, who I are between the ages of 18 and 35 years ” The construction of this proviso is not at all doubtful. It is this : If tlie place of these ex - I empts is supplied in their respective conipan | iesby new recruits liable to enrollment, thev i are entitled to go home at the expiration o’s their term of enlistment; but if not, they are ■ liable to be retained in tlie service for ninety j days. Now how are their places to be sup ! plied ? By volunteer enlistments in their com panies or from the enrolled list. The compa nies by the act are to be filled out to a certain number, and until that is done, these exempts are to be retained. Such I understand is the construction of the War Department. The question therefore is this: Are the companies full without these exempts? If they are. they arc entitled to go home—if not, they can be re tained for ninety days. It is n question of fact. Your letter is not lull as to facts, but if I understand the drift of i it. tho foregoing is an answer to your inquir | Now if any of the exempts, according to the above opinion, are not liable to be retained, you want to know what remedies they have.— In times of war civil remedies are worth little —indeed nothing. If the order of the War Department is not obeyed, the party is liable to arrest, and to be dealt with according to the articles of war. It is true he is entitled, where martial la tv is not declared, to the writ, of the habeas corpus, and upon that the Courts will pass upon his rights. But in that case the remedy is very unsatisfactory. Inter armaleaes silent. Hoping, with my imperfect knowledge of farts, that this letter may be satisfactory, 1 am, respectfully, Ac., Ac, E. A. Njsbet. Identifying tlie Bodies of the Gal. lant Dead. We find the following letter in the Montgomery Advertiser of yesterday: „, , Richmond, Va., July 16, 1862. Eds. Advertiser: Gents :—Believing that it would be gratifying to the numerous friends of Col. T. Lomax Capt. R. L. Mayes and Ad.j’t S. B. Johnston, ot the 3d Regt. Ala. Volunteers, to know that their bodies had been found and fully identi fied, I take this means of publishing it. Hav ing ascertained that a Yankee Surgeon had given inlormation to the effect that a portion of his regiment had been detailed for the pur pose of burying the killed of the 3d Ala., and that the Colonel’s grave was marked by the three deep notches in a tree close by. and that the Adjutant was interred some 15 paces there from, Dr. J. F. Johnston, Mr. R. A. Johnston and myself, procured conveyances and repair ed to the camp of the 3d Alabama Regiment, where we obtained the company of a number of soldier gentlemen, who knew the spot where Capt. Mayes fell, and near by where Col Lomax and Adjutant Johnston also fell. We first found Capt. Mayes, whom after examin ing we fully identified in various ways, which will be given in detail to the friends, as well as those of Col. L. and Adj’t J. In about 50 ynrds Irom thence, we found a large and long grave in a thicket, with the three notches in a post-oak tree at its head—tho notches to in dicate the stars on the collar—which after be ing dug down to and examined, his identity was perfect. We then found in about 15 paces a grave with two bodies, neither of which when examined, proved to be that of Adj’t S. B. Johnston, and as night grew on, and we had to leave for the city, you cannot, im agine the sadness and heaviness of heart of his special relations. That being Sunday, wo retnrned the next day with additional friends, having some fear of identifying or even finding his grave; and by a mere accident we suc ceeded early in the day, whilst prospecting through the thick woods for all the graves in the immediate vicinity, we came across two soldiers of the 3d digging at a grave in search ot a friend. By and by they came to us and remarked that the buried soldier was a Lieut, and had on very fine clothes, w ith a cambric handkerchief over his face. We immediately repaired to the spot and found the grave only some 15 or 20 paces front Capt. Mayes, Upon digging down we identified every article of clothing perfectly; and fortunately his coat sleeve being tolerably long, had hid from view, from the theiving Yankees, a pair of heavy, old fashioned gold sleeve buttons, with the initials of his father’s name engraved thereon—“B. J.” An outline of the facts 1 dis patched to Gov. Shorter that evening. Hoping that Mrs. Lomax might possibly indicate some course of procedure in relation to the remains of her husband, ami having so far received no reply, upon consultation with Hon. Thos. H. Watts and other friends, we have secured Zinc lined coffins, and will make every effort through the Secretary of War to have all the bodies transported immediately, in which, however, if we fail, we will deposit in some one of the cemeteries until the pressure is over, and will accordingly so advise the friends of the deceased. Yours most respectfully, JOHN G. JOHNSTON, M. D. Gen. Semmea’ Stall', A friend has furnished the Times with the following extracts from the official report of Brigadier General Semmes, in reference to the conduct of his staff in the battles of the 29th June and Ist of July : Extract from Report of the Battle of 2'Jth of June. “In the early part of the action Capt. Clem ons was thrown from his horse and stunned, .papt. Briggs, Aid de Camp, rendered me valu able service in the field throughout the actiou. Lieut. Redd, volunteer aid, whde bearing an order to Col. Cumming, 10th Ga. Volunteers, found himself under a cross fire from the 53d Ga., and the enemy! His horse was three times hit, and his coat perforated in front with a bul let. Lieut. Cody, volunteer Aid, also actively participated.” Extract from Report of the BaOXe of the Ist of July. “My staff, Capt. Clemons, A. A. Gen.. Capt. Briggs, Aid de Camp, and Lieuts. Cody and Redd, volunteer Aids, rendered very efficient service on the field. They were much expos ed to the enemy’s missiles, ball, shell, grape and bullets, but fortunately all escaped un touched except Capt. Briggs, who was strick en senseless to the ground by a grape shot, which had passed through and killed outright a man in his front, by which he will be dis abled sometime. — Lieut. Auguitus H. Rutherford. In publishing the list of the casualties in the First Georgia Regulars, in the battle near Richmond, on the Ist of July, there was an error in the name of Lieut. Rutherford. It should have been Lieut. Augustus H. Ruther ford, instead of Lieut. J. H. Rutherford. He is a son of the late A. 8. Rutherford, of Colum bus, Ga. We learn that when troops were first called for, in January, 1861, to go to Pensacola, Mr. Rutherford, being then in Tuskegee, Ala., joined as a private a company which had vol unteered for three months, to go to the former place. Upon the return and disbanding of the company, lie returned to Georgia, and imme diately joined again,as a private, the Columbus Guards, then stationed at Savannah—and in ! February last was promoted, by President Davis, as Second Lieutenant of the Georgia Regulars. Jn the late battle near Richmond, he had one finger shot off, and two others badly mutilated, receiving also a slight wound in the breast from a spent ball. He is now on a short visit to his mother, Mrs. Adolphus S. Rutherford, residing near Columbus, Ga., and his wounds are doing well . —Augusta Omst. Death of C. C. Pegu. It is our painful duty to announce the death of this truly gallant officer, who departed this life on the 17th inst. It will be remembered by most of our read ers that he was wounded in the aotion of the 27th June, being shot in the shoul der ; but no one considered that it was dangerous, and he would have probably recovered from it, but for an attack of erysipelas, which precipitated his death Col. Pegues was originally captain of the Cahaba Rifles, and at the reorganiza tion of the fith Alabama regiment was elected Colonel. He was as brave a man perhaps, as ever lived, and as devoted to the Southern cause as any one who has drawn the sword in defense of its liber ties. He was withal a gentleman of dis tinguished talent, and of so warm and generous a nature as to attract the re spect and admiration of all who knew him.— Selma Reporter. Patriotlim. The Savannah News says Qeneral My rick, of Baldwin, Ga., in his own right, and as executor and guardian has sfx plantations under his charge, on neither of which has an acre of cotton been planted this year. On the same number of plantations. Col. L. A. Jordan has not less than seven thousand acres in corn, besides other large provision crops and not a stalk of cotton. Dr. W. A. Jarr&tt and other large planters, who are on a similar principle, show the spirit with which oar fellow-citizens devote their agricultural energies to the cause of Southern independence. £>