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■ ~CAi. AFFAIRS.
1 y ( C Mi'| ,, .u. Flection. — The election
■ ‘ r an<l Aldermen for the ensuing municipal
■ ‘ off quietly on Saturday. Col. V. <7.
M “ elected Mayor by a majority of 31
a ‘ r his highest competitor. The following
1 ~,te for Mayor. We nere unable to procure
I ~ f,r Aldermeu, therefore gjvn tim uatnee
I l (i f tbor e •h n elected ;
I or MiroK.
I , ryijkie.- ...238 I John Qu!n 121
I lu Hroo!:* 207 |
I ZUIERME.N iLECTEI).
I U'urd—J- J- McKendree and A H. Fleweilen
I , i tfard—3 ‘ v King and C. E MJms
I 7 ffrtrif— W. 3I ee and F M Jeter.
~h third —John Ligon and .1, A. Ura.lf.,rd
I „; Tr ff_W. A. Douglas and F. A. Jopgon.
i, nurd— J. M. Bivins and John Durkin.
[ pm following is the vote in the First Ward f u
I ( . ( , r and Aldermen:
I FOR MAYOR.
I ,/ Hrooks 39 I John Quin.... •>
IriUilklM 31 |
FOR ALDFIUIGN.
~ ij'welien 41 I John It. iTright 34
” , X.Kendree, —4l | T P. Spear II
IduSMAhi- Pox.—We are glad to learn
~,t our city authorities have taken measures to
Actually prevent the spread of this loathsome
in our city. All the white inmates of the
use in which the case occurred have been re
vel to the hospital, and a strong police guard
jarett ou duty to prevent any communication be
the inmates and the citizens. All the uc
jpM who were in attendance at the house have
~,.11 removed to a place beyond the limits of the
mid placed under guard likewise, rio that
need be no further apprehension on this
.liter.
urn worthy Mayor pro tom., Hon. J. j. JlcKin
„n e. has acted with a promptness and efficiency in
im- matter which challenges the admiration of all.
Vfe feel that all which Is necessary for the safety
four citizens, is vigilance and rigid discipline
a the part of those in authority, and are glad
-. know they are meeting their responsibilities
mptiy. _
Or it Markets.—ln anticipation of
,he demand for Christmas dinners, the coun
try people and small traders have worked up
:he price of butter to 90 cents and Si; Eggs, 85
-i!H> cents per doz.; Chickens, 85(390 cents;
Turkeys 2@s2 50; Lard, cents. The
seizures have put a step to all sales in Salt,
leather, Shoes and domestics ; the latter how
jver is “till sold by the retail at the Eagle
Mills at 40 cents; Striped Cotton, for dresses,
jn. Homemade goods of every description
,n great demand, but people are afraid of the
rarfi. Hrown Sugar sells from 50@6S cents,
according to quality. Pork retails at the shops
it 40 cents; Beef, 25 cents; Bacon, from wag
brings 50(5)55 cents; Green Apples, from
cigons, inferior quality, tS per bush ; Sweet
potatoes, from slCtisl 2t according to quality;
Corn Meal, £2; Rice Flour, $lO ppr 100 lbs.;
Hhcai, family do., 38(3 jfn
\ few Slate bonds were ottered lasi week at
tl 45. since the Shinp)sler Law t.y the
l.pgiflatnre ot Alabama, the Shinplusters from
i hat State are not popular. They will soon dis
appear entirely.
New Municipal Regulations.
Asa matter of general interest, we
publish below the two acts erf the Legislature,
whereby some changes are made in onr city
government.
AN ACT
To be entitled “an act to repeal tire Ist sec
tion of an act to alter the Charters of the
city of Columbus and Albany assented to De
cember 6th, 1858, and to receive the 2d, 3d, 4th
51 h, tith, 7th and Bth sections of the act to’
omend the several acts of the Legislature es
this State, incorporating the city of Colum
bus, in the county of Muscogee, and to lay
off said city into wards, and to point out the
mode of electing the Mayor and Aldermen
theroof, assented to, December 25th, 1837.
SKcriox 1. Be it enacted by the Senate ami House
of Representatives of the State of Georgia in general
i srnMi/ met, and it is hereby enacted by the author
,iyol the same, That the first section of an act
to amend tho Charters of the cities of Colum
bus aud Albany, assented to December 6th,
I*sß, be and the same is hereby repealed, so
far as the city of Columbus is concerned, and
that tho 2d, 3d, 4th, sth, 6th, 7th and Bth sec
tions if an act, to amend the several acts of
the Legislature, of this State, incorporating the
city of Columbus in tho county of Muscogee,
and to lay off said city into wards, and to point
out the mode of electing the Mayor and Alder
men ihereof, assented to December 25th, 1837
be and the same are hereby revived and de
dared to he or full force and effect, provided,
however, that the elections of Mayor and Ald
ermen, for said city, shall be held on the 2nd
Saturday in December, in each and every year,
as now provided by law, instead of the first
Saturday in January, as is prescribed in said
revived sections of said act of 1837.
Sfc. 2. He it further enacted, That all laws and
parts of laws militating against this act, he and
the same arc hereby repealed.
AN ACT
To he entitled an act, to vest in the Mayor and
Council of the city of Columbus the power
an l authority to elect all city officers, to pre
scribe their salaries and to consolidate any
two of said offices in ono person
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and Uome
■f Representatives, of the Stole of [Georgia, in gen
• ral assembly met, and it is hereby enact, J by the. au
thority of the same, That the Slayer and Coun
•‘il. of the city of Columbus, shall at the first
uintial meeting after their eleotion, proceed
io elect, by ballot a city Attorney, Marshal,
Deputy Marshal. Clerk of Council, City Treas
arer, Sexton, Clerk of the Market and Bridge
Keeper, each of whom shall remain in office
until anew election for Mayor and members
of Council, and until their successors shall be
appointed and qualified, unless sooner re
moved by said Mayor and Council according
to law, and shall have such salaries as the
said Mayor and Council, shall by their by-laws
or ordinances affix, which salary shall not be
increased or diminished during their stay in
office within the term for which they shall be
> looted; and shall before the Mayor take such
onlh in writing, and give such bond as the May
or and Council shall by their by-laws and ordi
nances prescribe; and the said Mayor is here
by lolly authorized to administer such oath.
Brc. 2. Be it farther enacted, That the Mayor
nnd Council shall have full power and author
ity at any regular meeting prior to the elec
tion of city officers, to consolidate the offices of
Marshal and Deputy Marshal into one office,
and the offices of Clerk and Treasurer into
one office, and any other two of said city offi
ces into one office, devolving the duties of any
two of sniff offices upon oue person, whenever
‘be said Mayor and Council shall deem it ex
pedient to do so, and may likewise separate
-aid offices whenever in their .judgment the
exigencies or interests of the city shall re
quire It.
Sec. 3 Be it further enacted, That all laws and
parts of laws militating against this net be, and
• tie same, are hereby repealed.
A Case for the Enrolling Ofticer.
Sts. Sun: —The exemption act passed during
die late session of Congress, exempts shoe
makers from military duty under certain re
strictions as regards profits on shoes. Now,
ino attention is to be paid to this portion of
the law, it becomes the duty of the Conscript
commissioner to enroll every shoe-maker who
disregards the restrictions of the law, and put
him in the army.
Only a few days since, I stepped into a shoe
shop on Randolph street and asked an exempt
shoe and boot maker what he would charge
looting a pair of boots. “Tirty-five t dial's,” was
the indifferent reply. “Tsn’t that rathe r high ?”
I asked. “Can’t do it for no loss,” quoth the
exempt; “leller am high now.” Oh, well, said
1.1 will furnish the upper leather; I see you
have plenty of sole leather; now what will you
charge and lot me furnish the leather myself?
“7 wenty-five tollers” responded the exempt,
b that the very least, said I. “It’s de berry
iitilest,” said exempt. Now, this fellow bought
his sole leather at $2 50 per pound; suppose
the soies aud heels of a pair of boots should
‘Am.gh Iba. This would make the leather
whieh he furnished be worth $1 37%. Throw
n 52 more for his shoe-thread and wax, muk
‘°g his materials worth $6 37%. This is a large
estimate, will be found to exceed the real cost
hy nearly $1 25. This leaves the exempt shoe
maker the neat little sum of $lB 62% for his
labor in footing a pair of boots—a job which he
can perform in two days at most. Are not such
men violating the restrictions of the exemp
non law; If we have an enrolling officer in
■his city, I hope he will pay a visit to.some of
o| :r shoe makers. CITIZEN.
The Washing!.On correspondent
°f the Associated Fres, on the 2d tele
graphs the following :
The Democratic representatives yes
terday showed how much they were em
boldened by the recent successes of that
Party in the North. The manner of
was decidedly imperious, and
both their nations and language gave
■oil evidence that they intended to sup
port no measures that were not based
u pon the Constitution as all the Demo
cratic Presidents had construed it.
■ ■ ‘■ .- —— .
6®* .In extra session of the Missis
s‘ppi Legislature has been called. It
will meet on the 15th inst. The Missis-
says: “The first business of the
legislature will be to provide for the
immediate organization of the entire
anns-bearingpopulation between sixteen
and sixty years of age, for military ser
'iee. We must roll back the vandal
‘"te that is sweeping over us or perish
beneath it.”
teg- In the recent Yankee raid near
Tarboro’, North Carolina, it is estimated
‘bat they destroyed property to the
amount of one million of dollars. They
also carried off about one thousand
negroes—in several instances seizing
t?Ter J male negro on the plantations vis
ited.
From the Rkthrriond Enquirer.
Hr. Lincoln’s Annual Message.
j Whatever may be the merits or demer
! of Mr. Lincoln s State papers, no one
can deny that they are his own compo
; sition. J here is about all of them an
“irrepressible’’ vulgarity which at once
indicates the author. In every line we
i discover the impress of the coarse Illi
nois at torney, not loss elnm c y in his Eng*
li.-h flotn awkward in hi 4l gait ; at oner
! shufitlng and shambling, reeking with.
: tobacco juice and obscene jests, and
I “ready to run the machine of Govern
j ment as he found it,” in the mud, and
} the more ready because he found it
| there ; the true and veritable type of
j that brutalized race who are seeking to
I make vassals of the orderly and hWh
bred population of the South. Mr. Lin
-1 coin’s last message was placed yesterday
i m full before our readers, and it, does
i not belie its authorship. We shall verv
briefly allude to a few of its more im
portant points.
In the portion which treats of foreign
relations, Seward’s cunning seems to
have had some hand. There is an evi
dent aim to shut out the disagreeable
idea of European intervention, and there
is no threat as to what will be done in
ease of recognition. The vecent step of
France is not even alluded to in a docu
ment designed especially to compose the
public mind: and the menace of war
could not prudently be employed when a
short time may demand the fulfillment
of the pledge. In the same spirit for
eign nations are advertised that the
“effects” of the war upon their people
are “often exaggerated,” and thus, by a
flippant sentence of Mr. Lincoln, the
famine and misery of the operatives of
France, England, and Belgium are dis
posed of to his, if not their entire satis
faction.
The attempt to carry the free negroes
to the Spanish American Republics, ap
pears to have fallen through. It was a
pet project of Mr. Lincoln's, and has
the usual fate of his schemes. It may
be consoling to him to reflect that the
shipment, of the blacks to the West In
dies, and there sale there as slaves, has
been more successful and proved far move
profitable to his people than the other.
We looked with some interest to see
at what amount Mr. Lincoln would state
the public debt of the United States.
For the first time in the history of that
government, it is not stated or even hin
ted at in the annual message of the
President. The expenditures for the
year ending 30tli June, 1803, are put
down by Lincoln at some four hundred
and seventy-five millions of dollars, bnl
it will be noted that no mention is made
of the immense amount of unliquidated
claims, the sums for which Treasury
certificates of indebtedness have been
given, the arrearages of soldiers’ pay,
the amount, of Quartermaster’s certifi
cates of debt, and the various modes by
which an unscrupulous government seeks
to hide a hopeless bankruptcy.
lu the face of a premium of thirty
per cent, upon gold, Mr. Lincoln coolly
informs the bankers of the North that
“the public credit has been fully main
tained.” Notwithstanding this happy
state of things, however. Mr. Lincoln
has a financial scheme which is to re
verse the old rule, that a man cannot
spend and yet keep his money. The
banks are to lend him their notes in re
turn for bonds, and he is to give them
liis notes, issued upon a pledge and de
posits of these bonds. The result is that,
the banks give their notes to the govern
ment for green backs and six per cent,
interest. In a word, the Federal Gov
ernment is to get the use of hank notes
for six per cent, interest. Now it is
quite plain that if the bank noies are
good this bribe will not suffice ; for there
is nothing now to prevent them from
loaning their own notes at six per cent.,
and they can find safer debtors than
their government . It is difficult to see
how this precious scheme lessens the
amount, ot their paper currency. It
rather augments it, and is, in fact, but
another Vankce dodge to disguise in
debtedness and cover up the ultimate is
sue of insolvency and repudiation.
A most infamous attempt is made to
create the impression that the Indian
war ia Minnesota was instigated by the
Conlederate Government. This wretched
falsehood has not even the semblance of
probability. Apart, from the fact the
outbreak occurred at a point far remot e
from our frontier, and where, from the
nature of things, we could have exerted
no possible agency, it, is well known,
from the confession of t he Yankee papers
themselves, that the real occasion of lhe
war was the bad faith of the United
States in not meeting its treaty obliga
tion with the Indians and the failure to
pay t hem their customary annuities.
They may thank their own perfidy,
and not us, for this massacre, which by
the way, is but a trifle to what they have
avowed their wish to ihflict, upon the
South. In their indignation at the un
tutored savages, let them read the meas
ure of their owii iniquity.
No small part of Mr. Lincoln’s mes
sage is devoted to his favorite scheme of
emancipating the blacks in the South.
Give him this panacea promptly and lie
will end the wav. “Its timely adoption,”
he doubts not, “would bring restoration,”
It is hard to realize how any man, even
a Yankee President, can be such a con
summate blockhead.
The plan proposes to compensate loyal
masters in the rebel States; and all of
these Mr. Lincoln may count upon his
fingers. The “rebels’’ are to ground
their arms in order that some fifty or a
hundred traitors may make a bargain
with the \ ankees. Such is Mr. Lincoln’s
appreciation of the war. This is his idea
of “running the machine.” Asa states
man, who can deny that lie is suited to
the people he rules over ?
In this confident prediction, founded
upon the adoption of his nostrum, we
have the repetition of the “sixty days’ “
winding up of the rebellion. First, the
job was to be done by hard knocks and
blows, but in a limited and very short
time. Then there was an extension of
time, and then another extension. Next
comes the proclamation which was to
wind up the bloody drama in the
grand spectacle of a negro revolt. But
this panacea seems now to be losing
ground in Yankee estimation, and Mr.
Lincoln forthwith improvises anew
scheme and takes out his patent. We
hear no move boasts that in two or three
months Yankee arms will effect our sub
jugation. Nor is Burnside’s idea of
sneaking to Richmond without a fight
apparently in favor. The whole thing i3
to be done by a Yankee promise to pay
and the cute trick of a Springfield attor
ney. The New England blood creeps out
visibly in this notable scheme.
In a document which effects to recog
nize the existence of a Supreme Being,
wc discover not the faintest appreciation
of the high-handed crime in which the
North is now involved. An argument is
made to show that the material and
monied interests of the West are opposed
to the dissolution of the Union, aiul a
showing is made with perhaps as much
effect as might be made for the unity of
Europe and the nrrogation of all separate
governments and lines of separation on
! that Continent. And because the Bouth
ern people do not choose to retain this
connection, however profitable to the
North, they are, if refusing to submit,
to be butchered, their homes desolated,
their women and children made beggars
—nay. the whole population to be exter
minated in one general servile massacre!
Such is Mr. Lincoln’s idea of virtue and
morality. Such is the conclusion of the
wretch who dares to appeal to a just God.
Could there be a more awful self de
lusion?
Much of this message is doubtless
meant to effect European opinion. He
tells his fellow citizens that they “cannot
escape history.” The denunciations of
| a civilized world are plain enough as to
this point. As Mr. Lincoln remarks,
“in spite of themselves, they will be re
membered —avw remembered forever,
to point the. moral of rulers and people
so utterly given over to the rule of the
devil, that, without shame or remorse,
they have not hesitated to commit the
; most monstrous crimes—crimes at which
civilization stands aghast, and yet hope
not only that all would go unpunished.
but that even the victim? of their cruelty
would consent to lick their guilt-stained
hands and wear the (chains to avert
which they have sacrificed the. best blood
of the South.
J Shall the War Succeed ?—A nark Fu
ture,
“Shall the War Succeed?” is the title
of a very significant article in the New
York World, of the 27th. 1* asks:
“Y ho to-day is hopeful of the success
, of our arms, of protracted immunity from
| foreign intcr'vcntion, the conquest of an
honorable peace and a reunited country,
save only the radicals, whose machina
tions have thrice cheated u . of victories,
whose lack of national spirit invites for
eign insolence and whose labor of years
has been to be little the value of the
Union which they now pretend to be
alone able to save ? Who does not *av
in his secret mind that the future i* un
utterably dark, the hope of -riving the
nation feeble n~ never before ■; Who
does not denounce—friend or foe the
imbecility of the administration, ilte
vacillations of its folly, the selfish in
trigues of its highest members ? Who
cannot see to the beginnings of the radi
cal policy which now is dominant around
the green baize of the cabinet table the
beginnings and the causes of all our past
disasters and our present hopefulness?
The evils which the men who now* sway
the mind of President Lincoln combined i
with Southern extremists to bring upon
the nation, the same men who now labor !
to make irremediable. But for them the j
war might to-day be approaching iis j
honorable and successful termination. i
“Os the w*ar, as now conducted, ‘here j
is no visible end. Os the policy w hich I
now rules in the field and in the council 1
chamber, there is no issue, except hank- :
rnptey, foreign intervention, separation,
and a ruin of States and of people at,
which civilization itself stands appall- i
ed.”
Sea Sickness. —We find in a late num
ber of Silliman’s Journal, a paper by R.
M. Bache, of the U. S. Coast Survey, on
the “Physiology of Sea Sickness,” Prof.
Bache asserts the theory that this dis
tressing malady is not a disease of the
stomach, but of the brain, and arises
from the fact of the mind not being able
to understand the varying motions of
the boat as rapidly as the senses feel
them, thus causing a conflict of impres
sions and a consequent affection of the
brain, which is turn deranges the ner
vous system, and produces nausea. The
smell of food, close air, and similar mai
lers may aggravate (lie disease, but are
not the primary cause of ii. As soon as
the mind is educated up to a point llmt
enables it to conceive the idea of each
motion as soon as it is felt, sea sickness
ceases.
Prof. Bache recommends persons go
ing on board a vessel to eat an ordinary
meal, and whilst on board to coniform as
closely as possible to their habits whilst
on land. The deck is the best place to
remain during seasickness, as the sight
can there be best educated to the move
ments, and the fresh air lias also a good
effect, A steady gaze at the horizon
enables the sufferer to quickly estimate
the movements of the ship, if it is pos
sible choose a position amidships on
deck, spread a mattress, lie down and
look out at the horizon, and then all has
been done that can be done to prevent or
cure sea sickness.
What is “Factious Oi-i*osrno\ ?”
Mr Linton Stephens argues that opposi
tion to President Dam. and his measures
is not- factious ; rec.u sf, (!) no one can
hope to depose him now, and hereafter,
not being eligible, he will not be in the
way of any one, who may desire his
place!!!
Worcester defmes factions as follows :
1. A combination against tbe Govern
ment; a. party, or portion of a party,
thatpromot.es discord or contention ; “a
Junto; a Cabal.
2. Discord, Dissent ion, Disagreement,
Six.—Party is a more comprehensive
andless offensive term than faction, junto
or cabal. A National, sectional or lib
eral party; an odious faction; tin in
triguing junto or cahctl.
Webster gives:
Faction.—l. A party, in political so
ciety, combined, or acting in union, is
opposition to the Prince, Government or
State.
2. Tumult, discord, dissension.
Factious, —Addicted to form parties
and raise dissensions in opposition to
Government; turbulent; prone to clamor
against public measures or men.
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A Prediction.—l have not seen a list
of tlie yeas and nays upon the passage
of the resolution assuming to authorize
Gov. Drown to take away the pvoperty
of the people, and I do not know wheth
er the yeas and nays were called upon
the resolution.
I am not aware, either, that the reso
lution concerning conscription ha.s been
pressed to a vote, and if it has been,
whether the yeas and nays were called.
But I will venture one prediction; and
that is, that whoever shall see the yeas
and nays recorded upon these two reso
lutions, will see that the sticklers about
tiro unconstitutionality of conscription,
were the very ones who trampled the
State Constitution under foot, in assum
ing to give Gov. Brown authority to rob
the people-— Countrnman.
High Prices in tiie First Devolu
tion.—An exchange says .•
We have before us originals of the fal
lowing bills showing the sufferings en
dured by our ancestors in the first war
of independence:
1779, Jan. 30, J. Calvert, to J. Collum, Dr.
To 2 pr. Shoes for Miss Weathers $73,33%
April, 1779. Estate of\Vm Withers Dr
to Henry Gray, 1 piece of Irish linen.
20 yds at $133 33%
1779, Nov. 10. Estateof Wm Withers, Dr
to .1 Johnson, 8 yds of cloth, at $133 33%
% lb of thread ~ 11 66%
1 side of upper leather 50 00
1 side of sole leather 67 16%
5 gal of Jamaica rum 250 oo’ ‘
15 ibs of sugar 752 00
4 gal’s of AVest Indies, for the carpen
ter. at 93 33%
1778, Nov 2. John Calvert bought of
Jacob Butler 17% yds of calico, at $52.66;%
Unfinished Business. —There are
three hundred and seventy-six unfinished
bills and resolution at this time before
the Georgia Legislature. Nine tenths
of these bills and resolutions pertain to i
unimportant matter, many of them being j
based upon mere abstractions, and are
of no practical benefit to the country or
people whatever. This fact alone ought
to satisfy the people that the race of
demagogues are not yet extinct in the
“Empire State.’
Legislature of Alabama has
passed an act, approved by Gov. Shorter
on the Bth inst., forbidding the distilla
tion in the State of liquor from grain,
except under license from and restric
tions imposed by the Governor ; iho act
to take effect within ten days aftc-r its
approval. The penalty is a fine of nor
less than SSOO nor more than $20,000.
The Governor is required to cause such
an amount of alcohol or spirituous
liquors to be distilled as lie may deem
consistent with the general defence and
common welfare, and is authorized to
make contracts therefor.
The Richmond Examiner of the
sth says Gen. Hampton’s cavalry cap
tured at Stafford’s store, fifteen miles
west of Fredericksburg, a cavalrv picket
of the enemy, consisting of a Lienten
ant and five privates.
is said that Viscount Laguer
ouniere, the editor of the La France,
gets twenty-five thousand francs a year
from the Empress’ private purse, besides
his salary and his senator’s pay, for his
strenuous advocacy of the Pope's cause.
Sfcjy*Gov. Lubbock, of Texas, has, at
the request of the Commanding General
of that Military District, called out 5.000
Militia for the defence of the State.
Thf. Coot.est Thixq Out.— George
Francis Train, now lecturing in his native
Yankee land upon the English, calls them
“a nation of liars.”
| Act fer the Reiief of the Basks asd
People.
The following Act has both
houses of the Legislature, and been np
; proved by the Governor :
AN ACT to grant relief to the Banks
and people of this State.
S ecu os 1. The General Assembly of
• Georgia do enact, That all and every
the pains and penalties heretofore im
posed upon the several banks, in this
Gtate and their officers, by any previous
| legislation of the General Assembly of
tbc same, for the failure or refusal of
said banks to redeem their liabilities in
t gold and silver, be and the same are
hereby suspended until the Ist day of
I December, 18h.>. Such banks
1 shall at all times give the Treasury notes
of this State or of t he Confederate States
at par. in exchange for their own bank
notes, when demanded in sums of one
j hundred dollars : and provided also, ’That
| each of the chartered banks of this. State,
claiming the provisions of this Act, shall
! he and they are hereby required to issue
and keep in circulation, during their
suspension, small bills of the denomina
tion of five, ten. tweuty-five and sevent.y
----: five cents, to the extent of five per centum
upon their capital stock: and that the
said banks are authorized to issue said
| small bills to the extent of ten per
! reninm on their capital stock ; and which
! said small bills shall be redeemed in
■ Confederate Treasury notes when pre
| -ented in sums of five dollors and up
ward*. And rhe said banks are also
’ authorized to issue, iti addition to their
heretofore issued bills, of the denomina
tion of one, two and three dollars, not
! exceeding ten percmtvm efi their capital
stock. Provided , The benefit and pro
visions of this bill shall not extend to
any bank or other corporation which
does not, t its principal bank or place 1
of Business, and also at its branches and j
agencies, receive the Treasury notes of
the State of Georgia and of the Confed
erate States, and bills of all solvent banks
in this State, (such solvency to be de
termined bv the judgment of the bank j
with which the deposit is sought to be j
made. ) in payment of all dues, and also
upon deposit, at par value. Provided
further, That all such deposits may be
paid in State or Confederate States
Treasury notes, current bank notes, or
specie. Provided further, That each
bank and bank agency which shall re
ceive deposits, as aforesaid, shall be en
titled to charge one-eighth of one per cent
for reciving and paying out the same.
Sec. 2. All laws and parts of laws j
militating against this Act he and the ,
same are hereby repealed.
A- ented io November 2&th, !Sb2.
Moii io Have Cheap Leather.
lie find in the Athens Watchman a
communication from Dr. Daniel Lee,
which contains hints and suggestions
which every planter should know. Na
ture, lie says, has supplied us with a
great abundance of oak timber, and the
best tan bark in the world. It also gives
us uncommon facilities for raising cattle
and hides ’ so that no people at the
North or elsewhere have advantage for
the cheap production of leather over
those of Georgia. We quote from the
Do o t or ’ s r era ark s:
We cannot have plenty of hides and
leather unless we produce them; and
we cannot, raise fine cattle without grass,
nor ian leather largely and cheaply
without we husband our oak bark. In
riding over Clark county I see farmers
wasting tan bark everywhere by cutting
down green oaks in autumn and winter
for fire wood and rails, when the bark
will not separate from the wood and is
lost. A large tree will yield a cord of
bark in the spring, which will tan three
hundred pounds of good leather worth
six hundred dollars at present prices.—
Think of a community destroying bark
enough to make a thousand tons of lea
ther. and then paying two dollars a
pound for sole leather, which can be
manufactured at 20 cents a pound and
give a fairprofit ! I speak from a good
deal of observation when I say that full
< hvee-fouvtha of all tho oak bark suita
ble for tanning, which God placed in this
country, has been thoughtlessly wasted.
It is in the very nature of things that
such improvidence shall be punished.—
Let the people everywhei'c save and hus
band all this tan bark, and encourage
cattle raising, and shoes and boots will
be as plenty as feet to wear them. With
cheap bark a farmer can give a farmer
a pound of leather for a pound of dry
hide, and in the end make a fortune by
the operation, as thousands have done
in the State of New York. It is alarm
ing to witness the universal destruction
of tan bark by the felling of forest trees
when the bark will not peel, and of
course is not saved.
Seizures. —Gov. Brown, of Georgia is
again acting anew role. Throughout all
Georgia he is seizing all descriptions of
clothing materials for the army. He lias
taken all the goods of all the cotton fac
tories, and has raised a universal row.
He delights in notoriety, and especially
did not like the position of “Recruiting
officer for President Davis,” a post to
which he said lie had been reduced by the
Conscript Act. But all this is forgotten
now. He is engaged in the laudable bus
iness of driving all goods and merchan
dise out of Georgia into East Tennessee,
Alabama and the Carolinas. The pro
ducts of Georgia industry will he cheap
ened here: their price for the future will
be duplicated at home.
How long will the people of Georgia
submit to the follies, vanities and extrav
agances of this extraordinary man ?
Knox. R.er/i.sler.
InfidelS Thwarted. —Gibbon, Vol
taire and Chesterfield, distinguished infi
dels, labored earnestly to overthrow the
cause of Christ. How has God, in His
providence, thwarted all their plans !
Gibbon's house at Lake Leman, is now a
hotel, in which there is a room for the
sale of Bibles ; Voltaire’s printing-press,
from which he scattered widely his infi
del tracts, has been appropriated to
printing the word of God, which he
sought to destroy; and Chesterfield’s
parlor, where an infidel club used to
meet, to rail at religion, is now a vestry
where the groans and prayers of the
penitent go up to God. Thus God makes
the wrath of man to praise Him, and the
remainder lie. restrains.
Stonewall Jackson.— The Richmond
Enquirer says that the portraits of this
dashing Confederate General, who has
never suffered a defeat, find constant,
and rapid sale in the print, shops of Paris,
and three editions of his biography have
passed through the Paris bookstores.—
Among his own countrymen, in and out
of the army, he is the object of boundless
pride and affection, while he is the admi
ration as well as the terror of the enein v.
Good News.— We have an assurance,
from a very high official source, that the
Confederate Government has,determined
to hold ihe portion of Middle Tennessee
now in its possession, and to prevent the
invasion of North Alabama, and that
our army is amply strong to sustain
that diet enninai ion. Lei tbe timid,
therefore, fake courage. l[ant*rille
Conji ifrrucy.
A Literary Gf.m. — The following is a
literary extract from Lincoln’s Message:
“It is not so easy to pay something as
it is to pay nothing; but if is easier to
pay a large sum than it is to pay a larger
sum : and it is easier to pay any sum
when we are able, than it is to pay it
before we are able.”
Shametul.—A crusty old bachelor
says : “A wife is a queer thing, and
getting one is like getting a varmint out
of a hollow—you don’t know until you’ve
got it into your hand what sort of a crit
ter it is.”
Andy Johnson, these called Gov
ernor of Tennessee, under Lincoln,
threatens to go back to the Democratic
party, since its triumph in New York and
elsewhere.
Hon. J. M. Lawton, of Beaufort
District, 8. C., died at his residence on
the sth inst.
H OlScc p a u -
In Virginia and in ether part’ V ‘
Geuth it is becoming fashionable for
people to have some part, if not all of
j their garb, of home made stuffs. It is
i the kind of independence we like to ob
j serve, and hail it as the best omen of a
true Southerner to see him bu ’ing and
I wearing tbc cloth woven on our own
i looui3 by our own fait and imbuU'inim
women This war hasdemonstrated ••uc
! thing, and that s. that our women i;n
weave iu.H aa good cloth a. a ]<>v< i ol
the South would wish to. wear.
In a recent Tisit through the interior
of Virginia, the writer had frequent oc
casion to admire the industry of the In
die-. in manufacturing home spun, the
taste with which they were made up,
ami the grace with which they were
worn by some of the most charming
daughters of the Old Dominion. In ome
parts of the State thei-e is quite an
emulation ainoqg the ladies in the man
ufacture of domestic clot Its. The writer
had the pleasure of seeing some speci
mens of home spun made by a most pa
triotic and accomplished lady of Albe
marle—Mrs. Elsom of Howardsvillc—
which he thinks might take the premi
um for taste, as well as patriotic enter
prise over all the silks and satins of the
Richmond speculators.
It is said that during the embargo
under the administration of Mr. Madi
son, the richest and finest ladies in the
country vied with each other who could
produce the handsomest homespun dress
es. Old pieces of silk were picked,
carded, spun, wove and made into dress
es. Many of them equaled the finest
silks and cambrics. Fourth of July cel
ebration were held where both ladies
and gentlemen were all dressed in home
spun. May we not hope that these hap
py days of purity and virtue have not
past.
We notice that many papers in the \
South have entered the lists in favour j
of homespun and other industrial enter- j
prises of our ladies.
The Southern (Sparta, Louisiana) ;
Banner says that nearly every family in I
the parish are spinning and weaving ‘
their own winter clothing. Families who, |
twelve months ago, bought all their I
kerseys and jeans, are turning out a i
prettier and more substantial article at ‘
home.
Nearly every parlor in the country is i
graced with a “Georgia piano,” and” its
merry notes can be heard from early
dawn until dusk. If the blockade pre
vents’ the ladies from donning alike,
they can manufacture their own cotton
stripes, and do not blush to be seen 1
wearing (hem.
The. Clarksville Chronicle says: “We *
saw a happy illustration a night or two
since of the patriotism of some of biu
young ladies in dressing in homespun,
and discarding those expensive hppan
dages—hoops. They were shown off to j
decidecF advantage in tlieiv republican J
garb.” The editor advises all his lady
friends (unless they are rather emacia
ted) to adopt it.
There is no dress more becoming our j
young ladles in these war times than the ‘
above. They may prefer silks and sat- j
ins, delaines and merinoes, and rig 1
themselves off in jewelry, like an Indian ‘
squaw—but give us the girl in the calico ‘
dress, or, what is better, homespun. All
honor and praise to the fair Southern ‘
women! May the future historian,
when he comes to write of this war, fail ;
not to award them their due share of I
praise for their noble efforts in helping I
us to achieve Southern freedom ami ‘
Southern independence.— Rich. Fraiwner
A Mtri>f.r in Pike Ob;, Ala.—The
Murderer Punished by Burning.—Tim
Troy Advertiser says :
Mr. Baker, overseer of Pol. Eli Town
send, near China Grove, in tins countv,
was murdered a short time since by a
negro belonging to Col. Townsend. Mr.
Baker had gone to where the negro who
perpetrated the deed and several others
were ditching—after giving some direc
tions he turned around and was about to
leisurly walk off, when the negro seized
an ax and inflicted three blows on the
back part of the head of Mr. Baker—kill
ing him instantly. The negro then im
mediately took tlic horse which Mi*. Ba
ker was riding, and which had been
hitched a short distance form the ditch,
aud effectcd his escape; but after some
days lie was caught, when Col. Townsend
delivered hint up to the people of the
neighborhood to deal with him as they
saw proper. After due invest igation lie
was condemned to death by burning,
which was speedily carried into execution.
The negro assigned no cause why he killed
the overseer, and made no developments
inplicating any negroes other than some
of those on the plantation—he, with one
other, had some time ago nearly made
their escape to the abolitionists, but
were caught just, before effecting it.
-
Meeting of Brothers in the Two
Armies. —A flag of truce, with 119 Fed
eral prisoners, arrived at Helena, Ark.,
on the 19th ult., and was received by
the Federal officer commanding. A let
ter says :
Among the officers accompanying the
flag of truce was a Capt. ltust, who,
learning that there was in Col. Vaude
ver’s command another Captain Rust
belonging to the 4th Illinois cavalry, ex
pressed great curiosity to see him,"as lie
had a brother North from whom lie had
not lueard since the war broke out, and
possibly this Capt. Rust might be till
same, or be acquainted with him. But,
judge of the agreeable surprise to each
to recognize the long-separated brothers.
The kind hearted Col. Yandever did all
Indus power to make their short meet
ing a happy one, so that when the time
arrived for a separation, it was not with
out much ill suppressed regret, and ma
ny a wish that this war was over, that
they bid adieu to each other—the one to
fight for his country, the other to fight
against him ; but such have ever been
the misei'ies of civil war.
Burnside Surpassing Pope in Bar
barity. —A lady in Warrenton, Va,
writes to her husband In Richmond as
follows :
“lie permitted his soldiers to burn,
plunder, and steal everything they could
lay hands on. All the wheat, corn, hay,
hogs, almost everything the farmers near
us had left, were taken or wantonly de
stroyed. Some of our farmers lia<l not a
morsel left, them to eat, and some of them
even lost their very bed clothes. Their
fences were again destroyed. Gardens
in our own town all suffered—some fam
ilies have not a single cabbage.
Arrested as a Spy.— Lieutenant L.
Wise, a nephew of Governor Wise, was
arrested by Onl. Shanks, in his camp,
near Calhoun, Ky., some days since. He
had come into camp under the pretence
of wishing to sell a horse. Letters from
rebels, conclusively proving him a spy,
were found upon his person. While in
prison at Ow r ensburg, Col. Shanks, by
keeping an eye upon him, succeeded in
securing a letter in cypher, written to
him by Gov. Wise, and addressed to the
care of Selby Lee, Wheeling. He was
sent to Louisville in irons, and will be
treated as a spy.— Washington Star.
Jackson Heard From —Oue of the
Abolition prisoners at the “Libby,’’ re
lated t. colloquy which took place be
tween an Abolitionist and Confederate
picket across the Rappahannock reeent-
Other side picket,—“Halloo! Is ittrue
that Jackson has resigned ’
This side picket—“ Yes. b’lieve so.”
Other side—“ Why, how’s that? What’*
the matter?’’
This side—“ They've taken away his
Commissary.’’
Other side— “Who is he?”
This side—“ Gen. Banks.”
The “other side’’ picket was “driven
in.”
This will about do to go with the last
anecdote of “long lank Abe,” who is said
to have remarked of Banks that “It took
a great commissary to supply two armies
from the stores intended for one.”
ISSF” Lines supposed to have been
written by Seward, after reading old
Abe’s Message:
‘•This document is Lincoln's, every line,
For God’s sake reader, take it not for mine.”
d£fcS3tClL
- ©r.c* Ei :vc- J tfc-Hc-rowch, ii ritai—Jcfiho TTc,?’
And a leader c give, cfc.nr.fcrarrst and test
Os his State and Ilia army th. j.riu,-;
Hope rhiin-s like fbe plume of Navarro on'hu or. i
AuJ gleams in the glaive at his side.
I i his courage is keen and his honor is bright
As the trusty Toledo* he vvcam to the hf-ht’
:ty •-. rough t in tb: f< rgC", e? ;'pat>.
a set tlii.: weapon, lik- ’ll he b?: t.’iu'liph-t ‘•
i .rcl*t,
rv iit nv'.or 1 - .jtii.iit <l t.’ i-1 *io
I 1. i- !j>. “B-thfi lo'ed soil of ‘ irghiia betuud,
i'll Os <hu du.l of hi fa! heft r fitly oiiihnutil,
” Ic re lies the ff* ih fields of his fame;
I Whore >h” murmurous pines. i>< thev swav in the
| wind.
S -eru ever to whisper lih name.
> The .lolinsinns have always horn., wings on their
spurs,
And their motto a noble distinction confers—
‘■Ever ready !” for friend or for foe—
With a patriot’s fervor the sentiment stirs
The large manly heart of our Jos.
We read that a former hold chief of the clan
j Fell, bravely defending the West, in the ran.
On Shiloh’s illustrious day.
And with reason we reckon our Johnston the man
The darlc, bloody debt to repay.
There. is much to laj done; if not- glory to seek.
There s a just and terrible vengeance to wreak
For crimes of a terrible dve.
While the plaiut of the helpless, tho wnil of the
weak.
In a.ehorous rise up to the sky.
For the Wolfof the North we once drove to liis deu.
That quailed with affright ’neath the stern dance
of men.
With his pack, has returned to the spoil.
Then come from the mountain, the hamlet’ the
glen.
And drive him again from your soil.
Hrave-born Tennesseans, so loyal, so true.
Wbo have hunted the beast in your highlands, of
you.
f)ur leader had never a doubt:
V.af will troop by the thousand the chase to renew
The day that his bugles ring out.
Hut ye ••Hunters” so famed ‘‘of Kentucky” of yore,
Where are tho l ilies that kept from your door
The w olf and tho robber as well ?
Os a truth, von have never been laggard before
To deal w ith a savage so fell.
lies the love you once bore to your comitrv grown
cold ?
Ibis the fire on the altar died out? do you hold
Your lives than your freedom more dear ?
fan you shamefully barter your birthright for gold.
Or basely take counsel of fear?
We will not believe it—Kentucky, the land
Ufa Clay, will not tamely submit to tho brand
That disgraces the dastard, the slave.
The hour of redemption draws nigh, is at hand :
Her own sons her own honor shall save 1
Mighty men of Missouri, come forth to tho call,
\\ hen the rush of your rivers when tempests appal,
And the torrent ‘s their sources unseal:
And I his lie the watchword of one and of all
••Remember tho butcher, McNeil 1”
Then once more to the breach for the Land of the
West;
Strike homo for your hearths—for the lips vou love
best,
Follow r,u where your leader you see.
One Hash ot his sworn, when the foe is hard pressed,
And tho laud of the Wvst shall he free!
Richmond, Yu., Dee. 1. ISC.o J> ”°‘ M ‘ 1 1103, Pros,
‘■General Johnston carries with him a beautiful
blade recently presented to him. bearing tlio. mark
of ih. ltojal Manufael.irv of Toledo, 1 Sf/J.
Tli<* Soldier’S Tear.
Upon the hill he turned
• To take a last fond look
Os the valley and the village clmtvh,
And the eoltage by the brook.
He listened to tlie sounds
so familial to his ear,
And the soldier leant upon his sword,
And wiped away a tear.
lleside that cottage porch
A girl was on her knees;
She held aloft a snowy scarf,
Which fluttered in the breeze.
She breathe ! a prayer for him—
A prayer he could not hear,
But he paused to hless her as she knelt.
And wiped away a tear.
Re turned and left the spot.
Oh! do not deem him weak ;
For dauntless was the soldier's heart.
Though tears were on his cheek.
C.o wa'eh the foremost rank.
1 danger’s dark career;
Be sure the hand most daring there
Has wiped away a tear. A***’’-.
Arbivai of Brio. General Cobb axi>
Staff.— Wo are gratified to bo enabled
to announce the arrival, in this place, of
this distinguished General and staff, con
sisting of Maj. Thomas, Mnj. Cobb, Capt.
Barrow, Limits. Cobb, Barrow and Pope.
Gen Cobb is favorably known in this
section, and now that he lias assumed the
command of the new department known
as Middle and West Florida, comprising
a large portion of Southwestern Georgia,
wc hope he will inspire hope and confi
dence in a few who have almost despond
ed of being able to save any portion of
our beautiful and beloved State from
desecration and plunder by the Abolition
vandals.
We feel confident that a short time will
develope the fact that Gen. Cobb is the
right, man in the right place, and that his
usual energy and zeal for our cause will
ere long gather around him an army of
Southern patriots that will bid defiance to
the raids of our brutal and insolent foe.
The General and staff are, for the pres
ent. keeping their Headquarters at the
Quincy House. —Quincy Dispatch, 10///.
A Brown Man in Tennessee. —The
Knoxville Register of the Gth says:
It is rumored that, the militia Briga
dier-General Shields lias organized an
armed force, said to be two thousand
strong, in Cooke county, to resist the
enforcement of the Conscript Act. Col.
Thomas, of the Confederate service, has
sent here, (so it is rumored on the
streets) for additional troops, in order
that he inny enforce the law and disperse
Shields band of tnries. We believe this
story to be an exaggeration, but it was
current and credited on yesterday after
noon.
This is exactly the state of affairs
Gov. Brown lias been trying since last
Spring to get up in Georgia. Will any
man say that it is patriotic?
Negroes at tiie North.— The influx
of negroes at the North is beginning to
ho felt in New York. It is said that in
the course of a few days, a delegation of
workingmen and mechanics, represent
ing the various trades of (lie city, will
proceed to Washington, bearing with
them a petition against such a course of
public ‘policy as will likely add to the
free negro population of the Northern
cities. While professing not, to be actu
ated by any political or partisan motive,
tlxo President will be reminded of the
hardships which the white laboring pop- i
nlation are suffering from the exorbitant
prices of the necessaries of life, while ,
any measure which may have a tendency j
to unduly increase the number of labor- i
ers, and, by consequence, a further in- i
crease in the cost of living, will be re
monsirated against.
Saik of Property ■ — At the sale of j
the estate of James Faulkner, deceased,
on Thursday and Friday last, twenty
three negroes sold at an average of ‘
each. Among these were two
old negroes, one of whom brought $57
and the other $75. The highest pritfes
realized heretofore were fully sustained
at this'sale. Young single negroes,
about grown—girls and boys—ranged
from SI3OO to $1505.
Other property sold in proportion ;
corn sl.l fi: pork hogs 24 cents gross.
Ran ms ter !,ril<ier.
Livv.nrooi. Markets, Nov. 21, p. m.
—flotton dull and declined Id fb 2d. on
the week. Kales of the week 12,000
hales, at irregular prices. Sales to
* speculators 5000 bales, an.i to exporters
1250 bales. Sales to day 7000 bales.—
Sales to exporters 3000 bales Fair Or
lenns, 2td.: Mobile, 25d.: Upland. 24d.:
Middling Orleans. 2-Hil.: Middling Mo
bile, 24d.‘: Middling Uplands, 20d.
Stock in port 202,000 bales: of which
2#,500 bales are American. Uveadstuffs
steady. Porn tirm.
tfSTThe Rappahannock is navigable
up to Fredericksburg. Above the Town,
it is fordable at all times in the absence .
jof freshets. From Fredericksburg down
to Port Koval, a distance of fwenty-tfvo :
mile 9, the banks are high and unfavora
ble to the rapid passage of artillery and
; baggage trains. At the®p two’ points.
! however, the approaches to thf river arc
easy and free from natural obstructions:
and hence the opinion prevail*’ in well ,
informed circles that if will be at one or j
both of them the passage will be attempt- ,
: ed. Below Port Royal, the river becomes
much wider, and the passage more diffi
cult and hazardous; whilst above Fred
ericksburg it is too shallow to admit the
gunboats.
Pardoned. —Young Moore, from War
ren county, who was canvicted of rob
bing the mail a few weeks since, has
been pardoned by the President.
Ite a i£bt at ?Tz&z7lzkzl7£.
TEc ivicHsccaa jDi'cpatcc :f 12ti
k. sr.y3:
ihf caemy attempted to cross ;ho
Rappahannock a t three .jirtereni points
-—the rail road bridge at. the town,
‘• uoa s Mill, and Deep Run The at
tempt was made about 5 o’clock a ...
j ... eiCJ ‘! J y .V! il*','. I’ ■ i'.jr inn piJ CC ‘
thej wsc repulsed w id, grc i . ’ r
bjT om shut p ItOfieVc, who, 1 rein I (if
‘lcfcuaca of (heir rifle pji poured j
gelling five into the ranks ol the enemy,
” ” back in contusion, after having
! sustained a heavy loss.
i °’i v . lD< "' is reported to be only 5 killed
and to wounded, vt Deep Run the ene
my were more successful. Under the
protection of their heavy batteries tliev
; succeeded m croseing-in what force w ‘ e
were unable to ascertain. o uv men f e ii
back in good order. It i s stated that our
batteries completely sweep the plateau at
: this point, and that so far from having !
; secured any advantage by the passage of
the river, they have placed themselves
. in exactly the position that our eon,
manding General wishes them.
Exasperated at their warm reception
the enemy wantonly shelled the town,
killing a Mr. Grotz, an old citizen, and
mortally wounding his brother. The
residence of Messrs. George p. King and
Vaughan were fired by the shells
and totally destroyed.
We understand that tlie troops com
posing the corps of Gcu. Longstrcet
; were mainly engaged in the tights of
yesterday, and that nearly all the loss
j sustained was in that corps.
‘l’lie latest advices received are con
tained in a dispatch dated 0 o’clock,
which states that a large force of the
enemy had succeeded in effecting a cross
| ing, arid that ii was expected that the
; fight would be renewed again this morn
ing.
llie Examiner of the same date says:
The descriptions of the carnage which
we have troui these sources are frightful.
At one point we are said to have cut the
line of the enemy's pontoon bridges, and
pouring in deadly showers of grape, to
have tilled the air with the legs, arms,
and disjointed members of the Yankees.
When the lire was opened on our lines,
several hundred women aiul children
were remaining within the limits of
Fredericksburg, and their consternation
is said to have been most pitiful. We
have, from different- sources, the report
that two women were certainly killed by
the enemy’s fire. We could not obtain
llu’ names ol the unhappy victims.
—■
( uarmcstox, Deo. 14.—This morning,
j the enemy’s gunboats in Stono river,"a
. few miles below the city, opened five
upon our pickets on James Island, below
i Secessionvilie. and after firing fifty shells,
j without effect, they desisted. It, is con
i lectured that this demonstration was in
: tended as a feint to occupy attention ,r
the troops in this neighborhood.
The South Carolina Legislature have
unanimously passed a bill pledging the
faith and funds of the State for the rc- |
demption of its quota of the Confeder
ate war debt, provided that such bond
as may be sold within tho Confederacy. ,
lobe sold to the higJtest bidder, and pro
vided that tcitizens of the Stale shall ;
have: the right to purchase the bonds.
It to flic citizens tho pvefer
| ence to all other equal bidders.
Richmond, Dec. 12. —The City Cotin
oil of Richmond held a special meeting !
to day, with reference to the prevalence
of small pox in the city. Resolutions
were adopted requesting the Confederate
authorities to remove all cases out of the
limits of the city, and to take measures
to prevent the disease from spreading.—
Voluntary or compulsatory vaccination
was recommended.
Richmond, Dec. 12.—The Paris con e- i
spondent of the New York Herald, Nov. j
14, says that Lord Cowley was informed |
by Napoleon that his conviction was so i
strong of the absolute necessity of me- j
diation, that if England hesitated for
any time in her refusal, lie should not
hesitate to act without her, in conjoin
(ion with whatever other European per
ers that would associate with him.
The New York Times publishes several
columns of dispatches from Seward to
Minister Adame, Kent at different peri
ods during the year. In several of these
dispatches, intended for foreign effect,
he argues to show that the administra
tion is hostile to the institution of slave
ry. In a dispatch dated July 28th, he
says, “We will induce, or oblige our
slave-holding citizens to supply Europe
with colton if we can, and the President
has given respectful consideration to the
desire informally expressed to me bjf the
Government of Great Britain and France
for some further relaxation of the block
ade in favor of the colon trade. An an
swer will be reasonably given.’’ He
closes by saying that this Government
relies upon Hie respect of our sovereignty
by foreign powers, and if this reliance
fails, this civil war will, without our
fault, become a war of continents, a war
of the world, and whatever else may
revive the cotton trade, built upon slave
labor in this country, will be irredeem
ably wrecked on the abrupt cessation of
human bondage wit’in tlie territories of
tlie United States.
Abraham the First was a slave
holder and a gentleman, and is now re
garded generally as an exemplary pat
riarch. On one occasion, in Egypt, in
duced by love for his wife, and fear of
the Egyptian fveesoilers, be told a miti
gated lie.
Abraham the Abolitionist, who now
rules and ruins the apostates of the
North, has not only imitated Abraham
the First, in the only recorded vice of
his life, but has continued it on to a
thousand and one lies. — Ch. < ‘ovrirr.
The N,cw York Herald said some i
two mouths ago, that the North could !
better afford to lose five hundred million :
dollars than fail to capture Richmond i
before winter set in. Well, winter is i
upon its and yet Richmond i~ a® safe n® ‘
it was eighteen months ago.
UrW A brilliant little engagement took I
place on the Yazoo above the mouth on I
Saturday, 28th November, between a !
portion of Col. Withers’ Light Artillery !
and two of the gunboats, in which the 1
latter were repulsed. Tfie conduct of
our officer and men was gallant and
sj>irih and.
A bill has passed both houses ol
the North Carolina Legislature appro
priating SBOO,OOO for the relief ol the
sick and wounded soldier® of that 8l;.lc.
Arrest the Deserters ’
if AiivuAhTKRS jO.nhta, A Li. Wis. t
‘ ainprxeor Murfreesboro,'l can. -
November, 2.nb, Ab®-. J
‘1 tarty Hollars Reward i3 offered-for the up
prehension end delivery, of cuoK, of Hie Joi
lowing members of tbe htUli lie;.'., AI.-*. \ •-!- •
Company C—Thomas Campbell.
J>—KJy J Strickland, Richard R
Whitehurst. Julios W JJMone, Geo W Jiowsu.
Company JC—Muuroe Fuller, Horace V Taylor.
E —Franc's A Toler, Daniel
II—AT? Croon.
<• K —Willis .Spivey. I 1 51 Owcus,
! Benjamin Staadiford
i Uv command of Cot. Clay ton
J M. MACON, ‘bit.
Spirit A tlie South,and Ciayton Haulier. <op.\
one* month and lor ward toil to If* mm* nt \
depy Ini
—
x Plantation for Sale.
r OFFER FOR SALE my plantation on tin
Chattahoochee river, situated between .
Bellevue and fort Jackson, in Jackson county,
Florida, contaimtijr two thousand ner<v. sir
hundred acres of i jver bottom nod the t* and
*UM ftwou tiniaudr. which p.-olueiv. as szood
cott-.i! :;"y a: y mi he county. rfy < for j
selling is to concent rate my bn.- ines® in bortti *
Carphaa where 1 purpose rc.Hboe Jhero is |
also five or six hundred acres of open jaini on .
the place, with ail the oaeotaarv lnipoTe- .
merits. Persons desirous ol puiclutainy, will j
make amiiicaiiou to the undersigned lit JSeati
regarj P. O. Jackson county, Fla , or to ,apt.
F. W fix Hard, A. 1 1 M., Columbus *_ra., *ho is
authorised to sen. Persons who wish to ex
amine the land ean call on me at tbe abov e
named place, or at the overseer on (lie planta
tion oell E. P HAVWUOIA
Bear Grass.
t|'EN Cents per pound will be given at the
A Rope Manufactory for Bear Crass, well
rotted and dried, and delivered prev*°“® to
January next.
Columbus, Ga., Nov. 13, ’62. lm P a
i r „. , * i A ’ 23, 1862. ‘)
V "T‘ A-a c and.. Colufnbus, Gs
The Coramicsary General
will ha tne 8010 ari a ‘*” ‘ h,u „^? K
C.S. in Georgia, to purofwwcmaln thoßtate*
and Rout h-east Alabama. fn r ir< „
Department.
All offl-ers of the Subsistence Dapariinnnt
are boiebj prohibited from making coritra-U
fur. or pnrclmfing corn, except through*,.’
ur untier vom direction.in tii4aectioa ~fr r „ n ’
i* o'-,, a'•nentivusd.
’ i-f tr tfiliU, Ac.,
• ■ i< Moin iißijr,
General.
lit • •itdanco wiifi the above, I have ap
pointed the Inflowing gentlemen assistants in
piirchaMng Corn for the Government in Geor
gift and South-east Alabama for the Bnhistene
Department, viz:
Casby Connell. Sparta.
T A Hrown, of Talbot Countv.
J A Houser, Houston
W B Ilarrold, Aniericus.
R R Terrell, Decatur.
.1 A M K Gunn, Cuthbert.
I. A Cabbeniss, Forsyth.
Charles Wilson, Thomas ton
Daniel McArthur, Flint and Chattahoochee
Rivers.
John Gorham, LaGrauge.
•i >1 Dowdou & W Wood, Open Pond.
\ T Newson, Steß-art County
I, r lolmsloti, rufiiulH, \| !
NI > Guea iv, Ala.
A c Milclioll, -
RII Powell, ••
!'‘V. fH " h '’ Ant for httv
in* lor l ost at oavAiiuah.
No M hiskey contractors in Commissary De
!‘ hv, ‘ t,IB ri )?bt to purchase Corn for
iui , i^ U ,? USes pttbin twenty miles of anv
Rail Ko.ul oi navigable River.
Wo earnestly appeal to our planters to brino
forward llieir Corn to our Agents ”
The rainy season will soon commence, when
ilcaunoi be hauled ; then comes the planting
*uid culiivaiuiK ol crops, when time cannot be
Spared for delivery.
Yield nol to iSpecu'ative inlluences, but feel
v*ur army and peer of vour country
’ M. ALLEN,
i"” Jim t’lipiiiin A A.O.S.
♦
Notice to Absentees of the 39th
Alabama Regiment.
Hi:.u>QUAHT£n.s 39th Keu. Ala. Vols. j
Camp near Murfreesboro, Tenn.,
November ‘Zdth, 18&1 j
The following named mombers of the 99th
Rc-.. Ala- Vols., aro hereby notified that they
ill bo published for desertion, unless they
rejoin the Regiment, or forward satisfactory
certificates of disability immediately:
Coiiißnny A— S U Allen. Win F Free, Wral
McNeil, H A Parsons
Company B— Moses Driskill. George Rachel.
James ltaoliael. Merritt Hicks, Wm B Lpe,
John L Stewart, W H Zorn,
Company C—J \V Davis, M N Minshew, W M
Ivey, W M Helms. D Helms, W M Peterson,
Peter Renlfoe, It T Thompson, M Thompson,
U J Stokes.
Company D—W R Black, Marion L Campbell
Travis Culbretli, I.ewis M Graves, Wm John
son, Reuben I! Newton, Constantine Newton,
C'aribugal Hudspeth. Geo •’ llause, Julius M
Malone, John D Ward. Wiley J Strickland. Sum-
UtJ Shiver. Jas Whitehurst”
Company K— Win Beasley, Thomas Matfi
eivss, Anderson J Page, Wm J Saukey, Thomas
Weathers, l>avid “oodward, Bryanl Howell.
Janies R binson, A Rile, Beni Wallace. Kdw
Willis, W L Mathews
Company G U 3 Bracewell, W \V Barnes.
J M Braeeweil. Micsjab Culpepper, Sander-
Dejnall. Alex Dou-herty, Andrew Culpepper,
Joi.n H Dean. Willis A Hall. D F Harrell, Wm
U Mallard, s J Matlini, King S Miller, <! N
l.eouartl, Jacob l*alro.a, John M Smith.
Company II—J W Adams, J K Cults, John
Grantham, fi 8 .Mooney limiii, Joel R Hoon, Jno
b Nolan, John Shurlcy, J T Suggs.
Company l—John Carson. F Holder, D N
Pynes.
Company K- Anj-Ua McNeil, Evaus Strick
latul, W II Anderson, Elijah Brady, Lewis T
Dtrbane. Samuel Hall. James Peacock, James
il Wilkins-. James H James, James Clements.
Juiues J Bust:, Nelson Chandler, T A J Haw
kins, Wm H Long, M M Morgan, George Red
mond, W m .1 i'siy.
Kv eomtnaml ol I’ol. Clay ton.
deot! DM J. M. MACON, Adjt.
Notice to Contractors.
“LAuntiMssTMt's JirrAr.TMExr, 1
Columbus, Ga . Dee. Pith, 18A'J. J
All pavlies skipping any article'to this
office must mark plainly on each Box or Roll
Ifie. Shippers Name, that such may be proper
ly credited, Tanners are notified not to ship
Leather in a wet state, as they trill only be
paid bv weigh Is when dried.
F. W. DILLARD,
ded- If Maj. and t). M
♦
Srroiiil Distribution —Haulers’ Salt
MannfactHriitg Coinpuii).
I will sell on Wednesday next, the 17th
in-t.,111 the Montgomery West Point R. It.
depot, one sack of salt weighing IJO pounds to
each share, to ihe stockholders of (he Plan
tire’ Balt Manufacturing Cos.
Let. all come on the day and bring an extra
sack. Certificates must be presented, and all
must provide themselves with exact amount
of money lo pay for their salt.
Price sl2 per -Imre.
L. G. BOWERS,
deepl td Kee’yand Trexs'r.
•r
Notice.
Ilu.-si ll Coi'ntv, Al., Dec. 6t1i,’02.
Under- atllborily from the ytatc En
rolling Ollieer lor Alabama, I am prepared to
enlist all able-bodied men, whether subject to
the Conscript or not, who desire to join my
Kegiriient. Such men will bo eutilled to tlie
anud Bounty of Fifty Dollars and will receive
immediate y upon being mustered into scr
vii-e a nice stiß of Cfollirs, and a Furlough un
til tho Ist of January next.
Lieutenant D If Waddell will receive recruits,
either at Crawford, or Band Fort Ala.
JAMBS GANTRY,
dee'J lw Colonel 15th Ala. Keg.
——a———m—
Married.
Un the 2d iu-l, at the residence of the bride’s
mother, in Harris county, by Klder H. 8.
Rees, Bid. S. W. Bikilt, and Miss Susan A. J.
W annum.
Plantation for Sale.
I OFFER my Plantation for sale—situated on
the Chattahoochee river, twelve miles be
low Eufaula, in Henry county, Ala., containing
2,000 acres, 800 of which are cleared and under
a good fence T lio improvements consist in
2 framed dwelling houses; 0 double-framed
negro houses with brick chimneys, and framed
corn crib, and slubles; also a Gin and Mill
carried by water. This place is very available,
and remarkably healthy. I will also sell to
the purchaser 4,000 bushels of Corn, and other
produce; 60 head of tine Cattle, and other
cjtock, and give possesion to the purchaser,
provided this place is sold by the Ist of Feb
ruary next. Terms Cash,
dec 16 lmW Z. C. WILLIAMS.
State of Alabama—Russell Cos
lx ihe Probate Colbt, December Ist, 1862.
Ct AMK this day Mary Perry, Administratrix
> of the estate ol Phinebas Perry, deceased,
and tiled her patitiou for an order lo sell the
real eetale of said decedent, consisting of:
The south-east quarter of Section 12 in town
ship 17 ot range 29, of land lying in the eounty
of Russell and Btate of Alabama, alleging that,
a -sale thereof is necc.-sary for distribution ;
and (he 2d Monday of January next having
been appointed by the Court for the hearing
and consideration thereof; Notice is hereby
given to the non-resident heirs of said dece
dent that they can appear in this Court, on
that day, and defend against said petition if
they see proper. GEO. H. WADDELL,
dec!6 4tW(prs6) Judge of Probate.
State of Alabama—Russell Cos
In rns Probate Court, Dbclmuer Oih, 1862
i l AME this day, John A. Lewis Administrator
* / of the estate of James Abercrombie, de
ceased, and filed his petition for an order to
sell certain real estate of said decedent, consist
ing of certain Lots, with brick Stores thereoD
in the town of Girard, in said eounty, and al
leging tttfet a sale of the same is necessary for
an equitable distribution; and the 2d .don
day of February next having been appointed
by the Court for the hearing and consideration
of said matter: Notice is h*-roby given to
the non-re.-ident heirs of said decedent thie
they can app ar in this Court, at Ihe term to
he held on the day aforesaid, Rnd defend
sei-1 >• iHI o ipev ihink proper.
’ ~/:<i ii. WADDELL
dee! ‘, DW pi f v Judge of PrWrata.
Administrator's Sale
* H I|,f offer for ale to the highest bidder,
j oti > redd ot 12 months, at the lute resi
deio-fc of Judith Turner, deceased, on lire 20th
ju-i.lhe following property t-i-wit: 1 Horse,
1 .Mule, t yoke of Oxen and Wagon, 10 or la
herd of Cattle, and Pork and Stock Hogs; ajso
a lot of Household im-l Kitchen Furniture, and
-,lh'-j .i llefe.-'••> numerous lo mention
II c. \ SMITH, Adrn'r.
Kusselleo. lie. deco tdspd
Land for Sale or Rent
{AM oiler rug 7110 acres of Land situated in
Russell county, Ma > on the Mobile A Girard
|;„j| Rond 24 milt s frol Columbus, Ga; also
a-m ill place- of 4b acres in the same neigh-
U.rhoeJ- Both of llc above placet are we lun
proved and will be lor rent, unless lean effect
a sale within fifteen days I will sell ihe 73b
acre tract at tlie reduced price of Tt:n dollars
ia-r a re. net the small place at eight dollars.
•AM C. DA WBtCN.
dec': M YilltiUs Ala-
Administratop’s Sale
* r Ii 1, lld before ihe Court-House door.
VY m the loan of Talliolton, Talbot county,
Georgia, on the Ist Tuesday in P’ebruary nexl.
vvitl.in Ui legal hours of sale, agreeably lo an
order from lie-Court of Ordinary ot said coun
ty. the loilowiug property, belonging to t.ie es
laie of jlenrj £jteCrary, ku.--.f-.u.) eounty.
tkctl- , -J
A 1.0u5,; „nd lot in the (->/> of :’ ene \J‘- >“ sa, °
entity, formerly c-c-npu-d hy Geo. w. .mos
known as pr 0.,.. . - , U,t ’ 1 "" 1
• lbtr boti.-cs, Ac ,ar. ft t)ian :gi years old:
.ftso, k'd. CjM; iHr v old; a girl about S year
oid': and**aVi°aif’anY H months 01-l. the two I^,
b<*in* “*""‘ erltrf tUNTON BAItKESDALE.
hope h. hammock,
(i.eK! 2w WM. McCKAKY, Adm rs.
Strayed, or Stolen.
> • ROM the subscriber, near Uodsen s Land
|i Ol | the Chattahoochee river, on or about
the atHU October, last, a Large Black Mule, six
or seven years old. Any one conveying in
formation to me at this place, or Hodsen’s
Lauding, of the whereabout’s of said Mule, writ
be amply rewurded T. V. BKA.viLI,
nov‘29 lm Campbelton, Florida.