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10UUITI & WARKEN, Proprietors.
Volume XVI,
rULtURUH.TIKHUAI, AlUlSl 0, IMil.
Let Proper Credits be Allowed.
The Timm, in its fl lice of tho atraai of
Hon. Martin J. Crawford, fur tbe Cnufalerato
Produce L>mu. iwo think, unjustly severe up
on the people of Muscogee county. lt,docs not
take into consideration (he genereus ami liberal
contributions which our people have made to
arm und equip the many volunteer companies
raised here, nor the peculiar embarrassment*
and hardships that have straitened the commer
cial and mechanical business of (his city.
lu reply to the above and a good deal more
which the Enquirer of yesterday said upuu
this subject, wu have to say that Bibb County
iu this State subscribed sixty-five hundred
bales of cotton to the produce loau and has
equipped und soul to the held about a < many
volunteer companic a j have been raised in Mus
cogee.
lu tho Comptroller tlcucral's report for 186$,
we tind (hut the amount of taxes paid by Bibb
• *unty in that year k was a little orer $3,000
while Muscogee paid over SO,OOO.
By the census of 1350, the population of
Lbb was something over 0,000; of Musrogoe
more than 1 1,000. 15y tho same returns the
slave population of Bibb was 6,037; of Musco
gee S,lf*6.
The City of Mac, >n, in Bibb county, is a place
where tradesmon aud mechanics have congrega
ted, and they, doubtless, have felt the “peculiar
euibarraß.,meuts and hardships that have strait
onod the commercial and mechanical business of
the city.”
From these facts and figures it is quite appa
rent that Muscogee county, instead of occupy
ing the prominent position which the unreason
ing partiality of our cotemporary would assign
to her, has fallen far short of it.
It is but just to onr-olves to state that our re
marks, to which the Enquirer excepts, were not
iulended for the merchant or mechanic, unlere,
indeed it were in their power to contribute, but
they were intended for the plauters of Muaco
geo—the rieh planter ’, who make their hundreds
of cotton bales and havo not given a bag of it
to this loan.
Fifteen hundred bales were subscribed by
eighteen (/) subscribers. Are these all the men
in Muscogee county who plant cotton and who
are able to feud a portion of their crop to the
Government? If so, the Enquirer is right and
we shall make baste to retract And apologize.
But it is not so. The citizens of Musco
gee are able to subscribe 6000 bales of cotton,
and their ability, in limes like this, is the meas
ure of their duty.
Iluigi lu Whom Ilnur is llur
Col. Win. M. Brown of Marion county, al
though not origiually for secession, after the
voice >t Georgia had spoken in its favor, yield
ed bis own convictions, and with a zoal and pat
riotism worthy of all remembrance, has most no
bly sustained his uative State in her every etToit
for freedom andj independence.
No man has done so much as be in getting
ready for the service two volunteer companies
in at* own county: he has 4 sons, all in the army;
be has loaned bis entire cotton crop of about 26U
bales to the government. Iu addition bo tin
nounced on the day.wbeu the people were address
ed by Judge Crawford on the cotton loan, that
bo would receive t Confederate Bond.*, iu pay
ment of every debt due him, which amounted
to but little less than fifty ‘thousand dollar*.—
History should record such deeds of patriotism.
UEItT. *lfußA\.
Our pleasure was great on meetiug yesterday
the ab jvc gentleman, in regard to whoso fato
many anxious fears were eulurtaiued, a short
time since by his uumerou* friends in this city.
In the retreat of Harnett’s command from Laurel
Hill Lieut. Turman und seven other*, who were
on picket duty, were cut oil and in attempting
to rejoin our forces found themselves in the road
with an Ohio regiuicut in front and an In liana
regiment in the rear. They were, of course taken
prisoners, au i remained su::h from the 13th till
the 21st ult. on which latter day they wore par
oled. It is Lieut Turmau’s expectation based up
on high official assurances, that he andhts com
rades will be exchanged in a short tirno for pris
ouers now in our hands, when they will resume
their former station and give the \ ankees another
chance at them. Ho speaks in terms of’ h.gh
commendation of the treatment they recieved
while in the hands of the enemy.
Cijit Hm. V Helm
We are truly gratified to learn from a fetter
recieved by bis relative in tbi city, that this
gentleman distinguished himself by his gallant
bearing in the battle at Manassas, where be was
severely wounded, gives promise of recovery.
It is now believed that bis condition will soon
allow his removal from the hotel at Manassas,
where from the supposed dangerous nature of hi
Wound it was thought necessary to detain hint.
Another Brisht Kunplv.
Mr. John West of Stewart county, loaned
his entire crop of cotton, of 200 bales to tbe
Government to aid in carrying on the war. When
some enquiry was made as to whether the bonds
would be received in payment of debts, he
promptly answered that he had due him in
Stewart some $70,000, and h- would take bonds
for every dollar of it. This, with his crop of
cotton will reach near SIOO,OOO. What a com
mentary is this upon the conduct of many who
claim to be patriotic yet stand idly by whilst the
public liberty is at stake. No man does more
than he who feeds andciothos out of bis sal
stance tbe gallant men who stand between us and
the common enemy.
Tropbirs from Ike Battle-Ml
At the drug store of Mr. J. W. lfrooka may
be found several souvenirs of tbe late battle of
Manassas,sent hither by Cspt. H. A. Hardaway.
One is a crimson sash—a very fine one—taken
from the body of a Federal officer who was kill
ed on the field. Another is a red skull cap ven
tilated with a bullet hole in the rear, which was
on e the property of a Fire Zouave. The third
and last is a email United States Hag, made of
silk, and was taken by Capt. Hardaway, after
the battle, from its position on one of the guns of
Sherman’s battery.
Good von Loan Lyons.—lt Is raid that Lord
Lyons, on seeing the fugitive Federal* making
their way hack to Washington in forlorn (light
from the battle of Bull's Hun, quietly remarked,
that he hoped Mr. Lincoln’s Government would
not any longer think hajd of the Uriti.-h Govern
ment for recognizing tbe Southerners as “bellig
erents,” at least.
Captor* or a Fkdbral Kkuiment.—An In
diana regiment, 7UU strong, has fallen into the
bauds of our cavalry at Falls Church, about nine
miles from Alexandria aud tbiee from the forti
fications at Arlington. Tbe regiment was in the
battle ot Manassas, and suffered heavily, itoing
unacquainted with the country, these men got lost
and wandered about until Friday murning, when
they arrived at Falls Church, entirely exhaus
ted. The fact becoming known to our scouts, a
message was dispatuhed to Manassas, and a de
tachment was soon on the way. The result was
the capture of tbe entire body, with all their
arms. Tbe prisoners were expected in Richmond
last night.-—/fu hmond J/ispalch, 29th.
ffhc (Motto Ucckln times.
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Special Correspondence cf Columbus Times.
RICUHOVD CtUtELSPoMUXCK.
Conyte** of the Confederate State t Aliliiary
Neat and Military Movement*—V en. Taotnb*
and the Columlu* Guard*.
Richmond, Va., Aug. 1.
Congress met to-day at the usual hour and af
ter prayer, aud tho reading of yesterday’s min
utes, went iuto secret session.
Last evening 1 spent an hour at the private
lodgings of mi officer of Gen. Beauregard’s
Staff now on a temporary visit to Richmond.—
_Ho lia* been at the General's right hand since
tho first preparations were made for tho bom
bardment of Fort Fumtcr. His narrative of the
events and incidents of tho buttlo of Bull Bun
and Manasf is, although not materially varying
from the published accounts, possessed all the
freshness of novelty, together with that intensity
of interest which one cannot help feeling when
the recital comes from the lips of one present at
every turn of tho battle and capable of intelli
gent observation. He told me of many deeds of
individual heroism, on the part of officers and
men which finds no parallel in ancient or modem
times. While carrying a message from Gen.
Beauregard to the extreme left of our lines, and
in full gallop, ho uotieed a young man apparent
ly orouching behind a tree loading aud firing
ai rapidly as it was possible to do. Supposing
from his position that he might bo wounded, ho
dispatched a few soldiors to the spot who returnod
t> the lines bearing the young man in their arms.
Ho had been shot through tho leg, und seeing a
tree near the spot where ho fell, crawled to it
dragging his musket after him, and was peppering
the enemy as fast as he could load when seen by
my informant. Before he was carried off by his
comrades, he had fired some eighteen shots—one
tor every rummer the youthful hero had yet
seen. I learned much during thii.in ter view, in
regaid to the movements of tho army of tho Po
tomac which I atn not at liberty to disclose.
There are somo movements however, contempla
ted, which as they may be fully executed before
this is in print, there is no impropriety in stating.
And first, 1 was gratified to learn that hud Gon.
Beauregard sufficient means for transportation,
he wouldhavo been in Washington on tho Wed
nesday after the battle, at fiarthercst. He is now
adequately supplied in this important branch of
military operation.*, but isunly a .suiting the com
pletion of other arrangements necessary to his
advance upon Arlington Heights from three dif
ferent points. I had been informed, by what I
considerod pretty good authority, that it was
Gen. Beauregard’s design to cross the I’wtomac
at some point between Harper’s Ferry and
Georgetown, enter Washington in {hut direction,
and thus get in tbe rear of Arlington fortifica
tions and cut off the retreat of tho Federalists
ou the Virginia tide of tho Potomac. But my
friend's information is reliable. Ho is in hourly
expectation of a dispatch from Clou. Beauregard
suuimoniug him to the field.
Gen. Toombs will soon b ready to tako the
field. Tho Second Georgia Regiment, comman
ded by Col. P. J. So mines will constitute a divis
ion of bis Brigade. Tho Columbus Guards, Capt.
Roswell Ellis, is attached to this Regiment. Well
do I remember tho excitement in Washington
which followed the acceptance, by this gallant
Company, (then if 1 remember aright, uuder
i command of their present Colonel) of Ellsworth's
grandiloquent cbullango to any Volunteer Com
pany in tbe I uited States or the Canadas to meet
them in a friendly tost of skill und proficiency in
the acience of war. Heavy bets were made by
Georgians in Washington iu favor of the Colum
bus Guards, ou which the failure of tbe Zouaves
to back up their challenge,wero of course,with
drawu. At no period since the war commeuced,
could the 2d Georgia Regiment, composed as it
is of such materials, ami under tbe command,
regimental ami Brigade, of such gallant skillful
and intrepid officers, have presented themselves
for active service in the field, with more advan
tage to the Southern Confederacy, or greater
prospects of reflecting credit <>n their Stato aud
glory ou themselves.
1 shall taka special care to follow thin g ilUut
Regiment whenever it may bo called Into actiou
and gratify its admirers and friends at home by
promptly chronicling its success and its victories.
The only New York Regiments that have so
ur responded to Lincoln’* call for help —help
since tho battle of Manasfcas, are one farming a
part of tbe Brigade of tbe infamous Silkies, com
manded by a New York broke down gambler
named < feurge B Ilall and another attached to
the tame Brigado uuder the command of one Col.
Taylor—a bosom companion in the debauchee
end midnight orghs of tbe Five Points Brigadier.
A Baltimore paper thus decribe.: the first of these
Regiments which passed through that city on
Thursday, 25th Juno. “Os all the ragtags and
bobtail* which have ever been mustered into ser
vice, there has been none to compare with this
regiment, unless it might be tho country gang of
the jolly old Knight Sir John Fallstafl. Some
had uniforms <>n, and some had parts of uniform <
and others were dressed in rags. In appearanco
they looked as though they had been drinking
something besides water for the past few years.
Some were lame, several blind of an eye, most
of them knock kneed, and pigeon toed.” The
other reg’t the same paper says, passed through
Baltimore in the afternoon of the same day, and
was not much better looking tbun tho first. All
the Baltimore paper* concur in the statement
that the regiment passing through that city home
wards largely exceed in number* those on their
way to Washington.
Governor Cobh, it is rumored, will soon re
sign bis position as President of Congress and
take the field. What a host of men, eminent in
the very highest grades of diplomacy nnd states
manship—first among their compeers in both
Houses of the old Congress—and second to none
iu their service* in every stage of the present
struggle for our independence and constitutional
government, Georgia has sent and is preparing
to send to tbe uriny of a the Confederation. Nor
is she idle in other branches of Southern protec
tion. Witness the Herculean labors of her Ste
phen* and her Crawford, (the latter your own
townsman) iu strengthening our finanrea and
supplying tbe mean* for a successful prosecu
tion of the war of independence. Surely Geor
gia has woll sustained her proud preeminence as
the Empire Stato of the Southern Confederacy.
All glory to her and her noble eons.
BRUTUS.
From llavti—Capt. Robinson oft he British
brig Huy ti, from Aux Cayes, 2d inst., arrived at
this port yesterday morning, reports that ho pas.
**d Port au Prince in the sth inst., and saw a
Heel of six Spanish war vessel* going into the
harbor of that plaoe. —New York Herald.
Gins vok the Skahoakd.—la responsetonu
merous inquiries addressed to us in reference to
the coast defences, which we have refrained from
publishing, we aro happy to have it in our pow
er to state the work is progressing with all pos
sible rapidity, and on a scale that will meet every
requirement. Lieut. Col. Montgomery Cummiug,
Aid to General Lawton, has just returned from
Richmond, and informs us that an ample supply
of heavy guns, Ac., are now on the way to our
batteries. Newt, 2d.
Hkpoktrd Captor* op Newport News.—
Just a* we were going to press, we understand a
letter has been received in this city, Irom a gen
tleman at Hmithfield, staling that Gen. Magru
der bad taken Newport New*. —Norfolk Day
Book, 27th.
From tho Southern Press.
UTTER Him lltl\. ALI'KIH IVERSO\
Col.ltMUl'S, Ga., )
July 20th, 1861. J
Dear Sir
In your issue of tho 10th inst, you did mo
tho houor to present my name to tho people of
Georgia as your choice ot candidates for Hover
u-r ot tho Mato at tho approaching election. I
feel grateful to you for tbe good opinion you en
tertain of me, and tho complimentary terms in
which you speak of my past public service, ami
hereby return you my siucore thanks. Other pa
pers havo also suggested my uumu, 1 have re
ceived a number ot individual communications
urging mo to become a candidate. Having been
thus brought before the public, 1 deem it proper,
at this early day, to define my position in rula
tiou to my proposed candidacy for that distin
guished aud important poetinu. lam tree to
admit that au election by the general voice of the
people oi Georgia, to the office of Governor, un
der existing Circumstance- aud iAte events, ou
which 1 wilt uol enlarge, would bo most gratify
ing to my feeling?, and would be considerod the
highest houor amt favor which my fellow-eiti
zeus could coufer upon ine. To end a political
life ot more than thirty years’ service with the
Chief Magistracy of my native Slate would grat
ify all my wishes, and till all my ambition. It
would be the most signal approval which the
pouplo could give of uiy past political course,
and especially of the position in favor of South
ern Independence which I vvu. amongst the first
to tako ui tho risk of political death, and of
which I havo been for many years tho warm and
continued supporter.
But however high 1 might consider the honor
of such an eloction, and however gratifying to
my pride, 1 am not willing to lav the instrument
of creating auy personal, political or party strife
amongst the people ot Georgia, at this time, by
entering tho field iu u general contest with others
for the cilice in question. Numerous editorial
articles, us well as individual communications iu
the public Press have indicated a great variety of
camtidafe's for Govcruor,aud so many gentlemen
have been presented by zealous friends it would
seem that vv ithout a Conventional noininationthore
w ill be several candidates, or at least, several vo
ted for, at the election. I would not consent under
any circumstances, and especially at this peculiar
and important, crisis, to run in a “scrub race,”
which would must certainly stir up more or loss
of personal and political strife in the Stale. Tho
unity of our people on all public question* du
ring tho v ital struggle in which wo are now enga
ged for our national independence, our individ
ual rights and pursonul safety, is far more impor
(ant to the country, and far dearer to me, iliuii
any office, however exalted, which l might at
tain at tho sacrifice of public harmony. I must,
therefore, respectfully decline the solicitations o!
my friends to allow my name to go hetoro the
people as a voluntary cundidute for Governor.
There is only oue contingency which would in
duce mu to change this determination, it a
Convention should bo held for tbe nomination of
a candidate, aud that body should find itsoil
unable to harmonize upon any other man ami 1
should bo nominated, under such circumstances
1 should take groat plonure in accepting the
nomination, and would boa candidate. 1 would
not, however, permit my name to go before such
Convention as a candidate for nomination. 1
will outer into no struggle for it. 1 would ac
cept it only as the free and unbiased act of a
Convention of the people, resulted to as a moans
<d'producing harmony and goodwill amongst
the great muss of the voters. 1 do not, howev
er, anticipate any such contingency, ti a Con
vention should be held, it would probably find
no serious difficulty in uniting upon somo one
of the other distinguished and honorable men
whose names have been and may bo suggested,
for any one of whom I would most cheerfully vote,
ami who would doubtless receive tho general
Mill rages >f the people. It may not bo inappro
priate in thin connection to say ilmt 1 am tho
advocate of a Convention for nominating a can
didate for Governor. It i- very evident that
without a Conventional nomination there will bo
suverel candidates, certainly more than one, and
meii will divide upon these candidates; a warm
coutest, perhaps a public canvass, will bo the
consequence. Much excitement would probably
prevail—old party feelings might bo again
awakened, and in the midst of war, invasion and
danger wo may find ourselves in u healed personal
and political contest at home over this important
aud responsible office, leaving much rancor and
angry feeling iu its train. I would avoid all con
test for office and uli division amongst the poo
ple upon ull public questions, until wo have es
tablished our independence, conquered an honor •
able peace, und obtained a recognition ol our
Cental*r.icy. All persons of old party organi
zations profess, at inis time, to have surrendered
their old party predelection*. Wo ull claim now
to ho One Party, opposed to tho North, eternal
ly opposed to re-uuioii with them, und ready
and willing to sacrifice our lives aud all we
ll.dd dear to the cause of Southern Independence.
Why may not tho people then meet in primary
assemblies, and throwing oft all party feelings
un i por-'oiial predeleetiom*, rend worthy aud dis
creet delegate;! to meet in Convention and •>-
lect souio of the many able und good men ol the
State a* a candidate, and thus avoid public - trilo ‘(
i am satisfied that it may bo done.
i bo principal objection to a Convention is that
it uiay bo controlled by corrupt politician:-, and
•Mime unworthy man bo refected and foisted upon
the people. Ido not too tho force ol this objec
tion, especially at this time, when all prefer; to
he an I I hope are, Iroo from party prejudice, and
uro looking only to tho public good und tbe sue
cars aud prosperity of the Confederate States.
It ispoor compliment paid to thepeoplelo say
that at a time like this, when ull eeo and feel
alike, and there is no division in politics amongst
u.-, they cannot and will not select for them
selves worthy and reliable representative.", who
will reflect the patriotism of their constituent*
in the chofee of a candidate worthy of tho office
andofpublio confidence, If wo look back to
the action of tho people of Georgia bidding Con
vention* for nominating candidates for high
official trust, and recall tho result, I think that
much of tho force of the objection falls to tho
gr .uud. The State has heretofore been di ided
into opposing parties, nnd these parties havo, for
many years, nominated their candidate by Con
ventions. What better men and who more ac
ceptable to tho masse ’ of their respective parties
than the nominees of those Conventions for u
series of past year ? Towns, Johnson, Brown, ou
tho Ucinocratic side Jenkins, Andrew.-, Hill,
Aikon, of tho Opposition. Could tho people oi
these two great parties, acting > u masse on elec
tion day, have made wiser or better selections ?
And so I believe that if a Convention shull ho
held, fairly called and fairly conducted, a* I
doubt not it would bo, no one will be nominated
but a good and true man, upon whom all reasona
bfe men may cordially unite.
I might assign other reason* in behalf of the
proposed Convention, but u my communication
is ulready too much extended, I close by again
thanking you as well us other friends, for the
partiality and kindness expressed towards
me.
i am respectfully,
* Your ob’t serv’t,
ALFRED IVERSON.
E fit tom Bouthbrn Prksh,
Bain bridge, Ga.
BviculiH gs |!irp.r‘ Ferry.
The Washington correspondent of the Balti
more American writes:
The opinion prevails that the evacuation ol
Harper'i- Ferry was made in the face of or ill
anticipation of, un offensive demonstration of
the Confederate forces In tho vicinity of Win
chester and Charlestown.
Messrs. Blair and Chase have implicit con
fidence in General Banks, nnd they regard tho
backward movement from Harper’s Ferry a*
most probably a matter of necessity. On the
contrary, Messrs. Cameron and Bcott deem
Banks a ha;-ty and unreliable commander, and
the primary movement of the civilian General
is looked upon ns decidedly nn un cautious one.
The reports of Gen.‘Patterson fully satisfic::
Gen. Scott the army ol the former wan sadly in
efficient, and that no movement ho Could havo
made would havo retarded the movements of
Gen. Johnafein, short of a battle, in which the
forces of Patterson would have suffered soverely
and perhaps sustained a unanimous tout.
Order.* have gone forth that will in a few days
cause the deficiency in tho army of the .Shenan
doah to be filled by new recruits. Neither Gens.
Patterson nor Cadwallader will offer their servi
ces again, but they will serve if callod ou in :ui
exigency.
Geu. Scott will loon cause the lines of i be army
on tbe other side of tbe Potoiuac river to be
slowly extended. An attempt will l>u made to
rt-occupy Fairfax Court llou e, if it can be
done without a general engagement.
Mercer University. —The Board of Trustees of
Mercer (Ga.) University, have resolved by an
unanimous vote, to invest $500,000 in the Confede
rate Loan.
TII K S IIV KII K 11! \TV II I' 1 T IIK ST\T KS.
00UI1IlillS, (JKOKIiIA, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1861.
I miIVIII \\ khVKMiAI.AIUM J. IMII.
lloalli of EtlvmJ A. llildicll.
IVo mo pained to barn the death of his esti
mable young man, which occurred only alow
days since at Mammas, lie was ii .t Mr
M illiam II Mitchell of tbi* city, and, at the time
of tho scoe-sion of Virginia, was a student at
Washington College in that State. Aim ng the
first corn panic a to volunteer to repel the threat
ened subjugation of (he Old Doiuiuion wa; one
composed of the students at the above institu
tion, ami led by one of it: professors. This
company, id which young Mitchell was a mem
ber. was aligned .1 position in tho command ol
Gen. Jidinsteu at Harper’s Ferry. It saw servisj
in the battle near Martins burg nml performed an
honorable prrt in tho great drama at Manas-v-
The excitement and overturn on the last occasion,
and on the proceeding day, are supposed to have
superinduced congestion of the brain, which ter
minated out young friends’ life. lie l ore u
charmed existence amid the bomb* and bullets
of the 100 but fell before the bhufts of disoarc.
Ho has 1 a I tilled the highest duty which mankind
owes to this world - lie died for his country. This
precious reflection should lighten the uuguish
which weigh* upon u father’s heart.
Tiik Last oi* tub 11 ru Ala. Uku't - Tlio
three remaining companion of the above regiment
commanded, respectively by Oaptainn Worthing
ton, Gardner aud Uuorry, left yesterday after
noon for Virginia via Macon. In their march
through our city we noticoil tho regimental c..|
or* —and a splendid stand it is—in the hands of
our gallant friend, C. V. Smith They could
not ho placed iu hotter keeping.
Wo understand that Col. Cantey, with hi
Sti.fi, .. ill leave to mot row.
An arrangement ha been effected bo
tween the Rank; of Richmond and Its brauehe- ,
ami the bauks of S ivanunh and their branches,
by which tho notes of each Slate .shall be recoil
ed by tho other at par. Our sol.lior*, therefore,
will no longer ho subject to the vexation* .h
count* which have heretofore been charged iu
Richmond in getting current money. A similar
arrangement should at once bo enU-red into by
all tbe principal Bank* in the Confederate
States.
K ll itati m In our statment yesterday ot the
comparitavo population of l'ibh and Muscogee
Counties as ascertained by tho census of I- 0, wo
were led into nn error by a friend who road the
figure* to us from tho census report of that year.
Our figures indicating the slave population of
each county wore correct, but the total popula
tion (and Bibb, instead of being was 12,M0,
while that of Muscogee was 13,673, making the
dilleran-rO in favor of the latter much gicatcr
thiin no yesterday r-p rlcd.
I'pci-inl Correspondence of the Tim>
KkinuiMi niiiiiKsriiMiiAii.
Richmond, July ii>.
1 fie Confederate Congress mot to day at tho
usual hour. Alttr l'ruycr aud tho reading of
tho minutes of yesterday \ proceeding*, President
Cobb announced that tho 11 <ll o would resumo
tho Secret Session of yesterday. Consequently
your Reporter had to
A serious question, and one ol difficult and
delicate solution will soon arise, il not already
arisen, for the consideration of tlio President and
bis Cabinet. It relates to the treatment of our
men taken as prisoners of War. Your readers
iiavu already been informed us to tho Condition
and treatment of Fcdcrul prisoners in Richmond.
Indeed, with the exception of tfio necessary
measures tor their safe keeping, they fare a. well
if not better than in tin ir own camps out ride <1
Washington. In Baltimore, and at F.irtri -
Monroe, und 1 ain pleased t.. say, also iu the
North-West our no n who uro prisoner* with the
enemy are treated'according to tho laws of hu
manity und <d civilized warfare. In Washing
ton, however, the case is entirely different. Our
men who aro brought to that city, aa prisoners of
War are insulted in tbe -'tree!; by mob* <d drunk
en soldier* and Yankee office lioldirs. A uum
her of men who worn Captured in tbe early part
of tin; Manassas battle, ivt-re burned i ll to Wu b
ingtoti. On Monday while being conducted to
prison under a strong guard, they wero rurhnl
upon oppo.-ito tho ; late Department, by a num
ber of the “pel” devil* who escaped frolu Ma
missus, ami bad it not boon for the almost super
human effort* of their guards the brave fellow*
Would have been cut to pieces by those infuri
ted wretches. They were hurried off'to pri.-n
where they will bo the victims of the caprice und
holli-li fanaticism* of the Illinoi : Abolition il ir
shul and hi* sycophantic, bigoted Jailor two.
perhaps, of tho uio.*,t inveterate South hater* in
the old, mashed up, demoralized, tottering Un
ion. Tim great difficulty which this case pro
Hcutu is, how to shape adequate measures of
retalliation. I see but one way to settle it, and
that is, not to tako a ingle Fir*; Zouave prison
or 1 here are but two or three hundred left from
our avenging sword at Manassas. If tliey again
come upon the field of battle, extermination, a
wo would exterminate poisonous reptile*, is our
best and safest policy. They are not observant
of, and consequently, should not be l.cmJiilcd
by, tbe rules or practice* of civilized warfare.
In a condensed account of the buttlo of Ma
nassas, published in oue of this morning's city
papers I find the following complimentary notice
of Georgia’s share in that glorious conflict and
victory :—“Georgia, the land of Oglethorpe, of
Crawford arid of Troup, went into the fight with
ardor, fought through it it with a spirit of deter
mmillion that knew no such word as fear or full,
and came out of it with glory. Most gallantly 11 nd
successfully ha* she fought to vindicate her claim
to tbe title of tho Empire State of tlio the South.’
1 1 point of facts, the writer might havo added
that in every skirmish, fight or battles bud with
tho enemy since the war commenced, wherovor
a Georgia company or Regiment appeared on the
field, they wou goner .I commendation and at
tracted the notice of officer* nnd men by their
.firing charges, their intrepid fjrmnc.i and their
apparently reckless contempt for the enemy no
matter what was their superirioty of numbers.-
Homo of her noblest and truest sons havo fallen.
Their .State mourns their loss—the Confederacy
will ever cherbh their memories, and transmit
their name* and thoir glorious di ed* to the la
test posterity.
Truly ha* Georgia proved her devotion to tbe
cause of Constitutional government, nobly have
her gallant * <n illustrated that devotion on tho
field of battle.
£ 1 fie lugubrious comment* of such of the North
ern papers a* have found their way to Richmond
on the late buttle are not only amusing, but ludU
rou 1 Thu Tribune calls for tho instantaneous
dismissal of the entire Cabinet a* incompetent
and unlit for thoir po. ition*. Others, charge it
upon their “incompetent and cowardly officers.”
Other* again allege that Greely forced Scott into
the light before he was ready to march. This
latter explication of the rout is countenanced by
frott himself, as tho following dialogue between
him and the President, repeated in Congn by
Richardson, tho Illinois traitor, will show :
Gen. Scott “Mr. President, Ia in the greatest
coward in America. I havo fought this battle
against my judgment, and I think you ought to
removomo to-day for doing it. I deserve remo
\ il f.r lotting mj army fight, when 1 well know
it wa* not ready to tight.”
Tho PieGdent “General, your conversation
,‘cm- to imply tint I had Unveil you to fight this
tight.”
Gen .'•i'ott “Oh, no, Mr. President yon have
alw.ay° sustained me, aud no one could do so
more kindly.”
You Hill perceive that the Gctu-rul levelled his
remark ut tho Cabinet, for tho Secretary of War
a. 1 several member* of Congre.- • wore pre- cut,
nnd ho did not exonerate them.
It is believed in Washington anil publicly sta
ted iu Congre-- ■ that, if they can hold tho Cnpi
tol twenty day a, they can have 11 sufficient army
Celled* and there for it* defence a ; well as to re
1 1 ievo tin ir I.‘;
Gar pi. but; *ro 11 ov within two miles <.f Alex
andria and yo; ter il iy they rhoi two Federal pick
ets that near 110 town. Our cavalry aro
w iiliin three mile* 1 I Arlington. We can t afford
twenty day nor half that time.
RKUTU .
('oni/f c* oj the Con/'i derate Shift s Vrefutralione
far the St con J Grand Battle Hant/tton evar
'l nted by the Erdeeah Newport N< n'i proba
bly till,( ii Home, Street, Sweet Home -Army
Transfers (Jen*. Cobb, Tootube, and Georgia
generally—Pi evident Davis moves to hit new
house A Pi is nu r shot,
Richmond, July ill.
This is ti holiday time for Congressional re
porters, that is there vvlinso duties are over
when their Congress report ii finished. Ti.*
then, however, that the duties of your “Special”
begin, for he has to vi.-it tbe most authentic
place- f,r obtaining military news, bunt up tho
telegraphic dispatches, and then reduce tho
whole into such form 11* will prove most intelli
gible and interesting to your readers. Thus to
begin. 1 11 tho absence of Pie;ident Cobb, Vice
President Stephens called the House to order,
and altera mo t fervent prayer and tho reading
of tho tninuti * f yesterday, declared Uongress
to bo in mi not m • tiion.
I here i nothing now to communicate in mili
tary movement.*, that, is, at the important points
1 • which the ejc ofjhe Uoiifoduracy are
Fail fax Court lloure fortifications are ma'ly
completed, mid cur advance column* of cavalry
arc ircuiioiioriiif* within a few mileH of Arlington
and Ah-.x.iinlii.i. The Federal.* everywhere nre
panic stricken They have abandoned Hamp
ton, having lirat lin-d and totally cunnimed sev
eral of the largest public and private building*.
On Monday la*t, Gen. Magrudor sent a flag * f
truce to Newport Now notifying tho lies.- dan to
evacuate that point in twenty lour hour*. It is
generally believed in Richmond that Gen. Ma
grudvr now occupies that p. : ;ion. Several
families m tin- mnu Hotel with me, who wore
driven from tlndr homes ut Newport News by
tho vand al brigand, have 101 l Richmond hi thoir
way homo. It they can return in safety even to
110 11 o.\, !,1 I duelling- 1 , i,ll they wdlliod
there the grave* of their fathers ami the place of
their birth, and they will thank God and Gdi. ‘
Magiudcrund hi.: gall int command that they
are again permitted to revisit lliw.so on ■ lira rod
.■.pots uroumi which cluster po many tender recol-
Iqgtioni I inf, ncy and childhood.
Oil, w be, an forget tbe .sweet Eileli ol childhood,
.Whose pathway was fragrant und brilliant with
flowers !
Tho hawthorn, the primrose, the ; went scented
wild-wood,
The life that existed in Purudi.se femora.”
But what is the Eden ofdoun.tic happiness, or
1 lie Paradneol sneiul felicity to the drunken
Yankee Chief who li t I fair burbaiim , Pike
bloodliouiulliio i.il from tho Iruili upon a d>-
loueeli- • community, binning their fe>u < , do
alloying Ininiiute and p clures and portraits of,
perhaps, un honored ancestry; murdering inon,
outraging ivoiuim, and capping the climax of
thoir b.nbarons brutality, ■ on: aiming with torch
ami faggot, tbe growing crops of wheat almost
icady Ibr 11 1.10. But the day id'retribution
. .il. red G.. 1 b looked down upon 11.- p ■
pic, and III* mi ndful Providence covercih them
wit Ii a shield rtf’ fire.
Tin; rcp .rt U. lay i , thut G<’li. Ic baa been
ordered to tho communal id'the North-W.d., und
that Gen. Win bus l.aim or will be tiaitaferrcd to
another field of operation* aa active and honor
iiblo at-’ those lately under hi’ direction. I can
ned give any confirmation of the rumor, but it
as gcm rally credited in the street-.
<cn fin ma-’ It It. Cobb of Georgia will, in
a f.W ill) S, lake tho field at tho head of|,is L.
gion. lion. Robert ‘I n,.mbs is busily engaged in
preparing to :• /uum tlio active duties of Brig 1-
■ lier General IU n Howell ('obi., Pic-idem 1
Congre-• and tin'lion. Alcxambrll. .’ i.pb* ns,
Vico Pi c~ ili nt ot the ou thorn Confederacy,
aro engaged almost day tu.d night in pushing
onward the wheel of our civil gov. iiiun nt, and in
afevising the mo I, adequate nmiMires to meet
all the exigeiicicH, military and financial <d the
present cri i<. Georgia ha* roxson to be proud
*d her ahure in giving mi ere- • l the arms an I
peruiancney to the government of the .Southern
Coiifeifeiacy. in the council, her sons occupy a
high place in tho confidence of their colleagues;
in the hat tie field, they erect monuments of eter
nal famo for their native or adopted Blah*, more
durable than bran* or marble.
Pre. i.loht B.iv i.: will, in the course of tbi* week,
remove to hi.* new house contiguous to the city •
It i.* not known yet, how long Congress will re
main in ms ion. The frequant ami lengthy, e
crct sc: ions llo; pant few day. Would seem to in
dicate a short term, but 1 havo learned that
when they have disponed of Homo financial ques
tion, which chiefly occupy them in hoc ret ses
sion, they may continue in open revs ion for sev
eral months. This, however, i* only conjecture.
A pri oner who,to day forced bis way to an open
window in tbe factory where (hey aro confined,
despite tho efforts of tho guard to keep him back,
was shot, the bail taking < float in the shoulder,
tho wound ixneriotjHhut not fatal. Tho nurner*
ous Zouaves in confinement here us prisoners of
war, are very hard cases, and tho guards have
i to exercise the greatest forbearance with them.
They are saucy, insolent, in.*ulting aud unuiun
ageabfe.
Sunday may become a uio/t important day
f,r the .Southern Confederacy. Horaftcr it will
ho marked in tho calendar, with “white chalk.”
and bo ranked among tlio “fasti” of tho K“pub
li■ •. Next Sunday way be another 21:1. It may
come sooner. Then, wo shall bo apt to cross tho
border* of “Dixie” to return aguin with the
Olivo branch of permanent peace, anil eternal
separation. if RUT US.
The Indiana volunteers engaged In the Wes
tern Virginia raid and the Ro b Mountain affair
have returned home, and but precious tew will
overgo hack. Many of them havo been beard
to declare that their casualties wore fin time* a*
mw h a* represented in the despatches, and that
Ibo Georgia boys were a* brave ns lions, mid
nothing but overwhelming number* won tho day.
- - Louisville. Jour veil.
frioleri’ “fonpwiig Slirk.” AbEmi Mil..
We wero shown by Mr. J. W. Young, a few
day* since, a “Ocmporing Stick,” that be bail
manufactured at his Machine Shop, ami from
our knowledge and i<of the article, can recom
mend it as being fully equal to any over out from
It. Hoe A Co.’s celebrated manufactory. What
i* Letter, Mr. Y’oung agree* to sell thorn at Now
York prices, that is $1,50, —and we hope overy
printing offiro in our section may soon have an
Alabama manufactured “stick.” One by one our
“hackles are falling off. —Spirit of the South.
I.dtrr ;m! Prochoaliun from (iciml Paltorsuu.
Porro-'pondcneo N. \ . Daily New*.
P vi.i iv.uitK, July 25, 1861
It ij reported that General Beauregard has
gone iu the ill ruction of Harper * Ferry.
A private letter from tluu. Pattersou, dated
Harper, Ferry, 22d in*l . “Geu. Johnston re
treated to Winchester, whore lie had thrown up
extensive intrench incut* and had a large number
id heavy guns, 1 eottld have turned In* position
und uttuckod hiiu iu the rear, but ho had received
large re-ilifoieatueuls Irom Mississippi, Alabama
and Georgia, a total lor.-o of over 115,000 Confed
erate troops. 5,000 Virginia militia.
“Aly fureo i less than twenty thousand—
nineteen regiments whore term of service wa* up,
or would bo within a week, all refused to stay
one hour over (heir time hut tour, viz: two In
diana regiment;*; Frank Jarrett’s (tho Eleventh
Pauid vlvani i. ) and Owen's (tho Twenty-fourth
Pcit:.ylviiiii). Five regiments have gone homo.
Two mure go to *1 iy, and three uiorn to morrow.
To avoid being eut off with the remainder, 1 fell
back uml occupied this place.”
Pilot i.amationov Gkn. Pattkkson.
JIl ADQI ARTKUS DEPARTMENT I’ll , I
Harper's Ferry, July 25, 1361. )
The term for which tho troop* from Pennsyl
vania were culled into servieo having expired,
ami nearly ull of them having returned to their
humus, Iho Commanding General, by diroetoin
if the War Department, relinquishes tlio com
mand id’ (hi.* dcparlm ml on the expiration of the
term of service.
Tho Commanding General regret* to leave
you, hut it i * with the it is fault 011 that you have
steadily advallcod in the face of tho enemy in
greatly puperior number* and artillery, and of
fered battle, which they refused until protec
ted by their strong intronehments at Winches
ter.
1 oil havo done sill that was possible, anil mure
than could havo been expected, or was demand
ed, nnd if advantage ha* not been taken of your
sacrifice, nnd if the fruit* of your campaign have
been lost, tbe fault eanuot be imputed to
you.
To the members of tho department and staff
ho Icmlcis hi* thanks for their efficient aid uml
devotion to duty- R. Pattkiwon,
Major General Commanding.
Ih't'ynmtion of tlio llmisa Arm)
In addition to the order dismissing Gens. Pat
terson and Cndwulltidcr from the Lincoln .service,
wo iii.d tho following :
Tho following named general officer* will ho
honorably discharged upon tho expiration of their
terms ot service, a* Sid horculti-r opposite thoir
respective Haloes', viz
New York stall* Mihiii - Mnj. Gin. rundford,
An-list Ihid.
New Jeiuey Volunt. er.* -Brig.-Gen. Tboo.
Runyon, J ll ly MO, I Mil.
Ohio \ oliintecrs Brig.-General Cox, July JO,
Istil. Brig. Gen. N. KobloHclt, July JO, 1861.
Brig.-Gen. J. N. Rates, August 27, 1861.
Indiana Volunteers Brig.-Gen. T A. Morris,
July 27, 1861
Brevet Scs>n<l Lieut. Clarence Derrick, Corps
of Kfigiiu ci s ; Brevet Second Lieut. Janie* 1\
Parker, Fourth Infantry; and Brevet Second
Lieut. Frank A. Reynolds, Second Dragoons,
members id the class just graduated at Went
Point, liu\ing tendered their resignation* iu the
face of llm 1 mmy, aro di.-niissi and from tho sor
\ ice of the United State.*, to date from tho 16th
iust.
Military Storekeeper ami Paymaster Dennis
Murphy, Ordnance Department, is hereby dis
missed from the. army.
j nTu ers mustering in troop* will be careful
(li-it nn 11 from one i-<-in 1 1:111 y or detachment are
not borrowed for tho occasion to swell out the
rank* of others about to be mustered. In lu
-1 uro inr volunteer will lie mustered into tbe ter
vieo who 1 unable to /peak the English lan
guage.
Position ok tiik Enemy. A letter to the
Washington Star, from Arlington Heights,says:
(>ll r troups hare fallen back within their
original line* occupied previ -us to their grand
i> Mm id movement, the Confederate* have again
resumed their former position, and their picket*
rang! iliroiigli tho country between hero ami
Fa 11 lax Court I Imre. Huilj’s Cr< * Itoad, fivo
mill *ii “in the Long Bridge ou the Columbia
turnpike, 1 ocoupiod by a New Jersey regiment,
uif Ii a built r>. and mir picket •< extend to within
half a mile ol Fall* Church. List evening three
or four Free- * n cavalry were at Falls Cburcb,
.uol ii 1 repot 1. >1 that ihcre wero 11 hundred but
1 bull uiilo 1. 1. i.. on tie • ountry road loading to
1110 C .iirt II -u •.
Major VVuifeworih, who ha beam at tho Court
ll<u . attending to the. wounded, loft there last
night, und report* that tbo Coufedc.ralcs were
poinini', in a.mi in large numb, 1 .
Tin morning tin; station house at Arlington
Mills wa* lorn downanda barricade constructed
with the limber, lorepil my attack ol cavalry
or scout.'. The bridge over Four Milo Run has
bn ii mined, and every precaution taken against
.1 .11 ipri o UvcryThing i • quiet along the lines
.1 fm , 1 Iwivobec.ii iblo lo b’.urn up to this hour,
out gic.it activity prevails in tho entrenchments.
Alt, t< cl perfectly safe, so tar as any
.tilt.. 1 I y 1)1 Coiifeih tali 1 ” concerned, und it
1 Ihoiigfit h re that we b ill lay on lur ours for
1 lion , .i\\ liiiw/ He •’ -ii-animation - I ihc grand
pri'pAiMti'ois |.r III*. 11 xt 111 . vo.
1 I, au 1• r 11: i i:i. I in; Wui ,'.'IKD.
Oil 1 tu- liv morning, we learn, Gen. McDow
ell tit patebe-i I is aid, Maj. Wadsworth, with a
lit’ ol trifi-i fie ene.iuj ‘ - lin>, charged will)
it.c duly ol 1,, 1. a iho tir'd, p > -ible urr.inge
nn oi I t the 1 !• il the Mck and wounded and
Ibo bull'd ol lead, licce.-*:ii ily felt Mi tbe
field. Iln .is siupp-•; Iby the enemy's advance
picket* ala point obnut two miles (In side of
Fairfax Court lionan l turned bail:, bit coui
iiiiiiiiciition baing Ibiwarded lo Gen. Beauregard,
from whom an answer wa* received at unou
yi -ii rduy, stating that be will not permit our
’ in, .'ii, ml arii6iiluii"i’ •to come within thoir
j line . but they will lake 11* good rare of them
; (our wounded ) a* of their ow 11.
lii.MoRALI7.AI ION ol’ 111 K AIIMV.
Gon. Man:field luthissued tho following order,
dated at Wa hington, the 21th in’ t. Could
gmaler proof be given ot the disorganization of
his army :
“All > trag"!in ’ : i.blier/ will join their respec
tive regimen l without delay. | Here follow*tho
(ferfigualiui! ot rendezvous tor twenty of'the regi
-1111 nl sby uunio.J Soldiers ulladicd lo regiments
iu camp or quartered <m iho Virginia side, and
not embraced m the foregoing list, will rendez
vous irt Jackson Square, opposite Iho President'*
house. All stragglers found on tho street* six
hour: after the proclamation of this order, will he
deemed guilty of disobedience ot order* ami bo
taken charge id.”
Tiik Bonus Guvrknom Well An*wkrki.—
Tlio following, from one of our city contemporaries
is too good to be lost:
Pierpoitl, the bogu* Governor of North West
ern Virginia, lately made a call for troop* upon
f. (J. Jack: on, Colonel “f tho Wood militia, under
tho regular .Stale Government of Virginia Jack
sou had been a strong Union man, and I'ierpont
thought he wu* uu adherent of tho Lincoln Gov
ernment. Jackson replied to him substantially
a* follow*:
Sir, i’ll ren you damned (ir*t!”
This information is derived from a gcntlcmun
who lately came hero from Baltimore via Parkers
burg.
Tin: killed wounded and misninu. - It is
tnpoKsibfe, ways the Hartford Time*, to gut a
correct liul of tin; killed nnd wounded —and wo re
frain from publishing the imperfect and uncer
tain lists which appear in romo of the papers.
Our lo 1 und casualties among officers seems to
huvo been disproportionately large. It is known
that 55,000 men marched to iho huttlu, ami sev- ,
oral regiment* joined the artuy on tho way.
The number of the same army now, according lo
tlio accounts from Washington, seems to be 40,-
000. This would leave 15,000 to 20,000 untie
count ed for.
A UIDbI.RU FI.AO.—A gentleman who ha*
ju-t returned from Mann***, informs u* that lie
ii w Hie colors of tho Seventh Georgia’ Regiment
flie day after the great battle. Ife’ say* the flag
Inn! fourteen bullet holes through it, and that the
flag-stall’ bud been struck in four differeut place*.
Tho immortal Barlow was loading the regiment
with this flag iri his hand at life time he fell, the
color bearer having boon wounded. A Virginian
who had been separated Iroin hi* regiment, asked
periniHsion to bear the flag, which was granted
and with his own bands, a*si*ted by one of the
color guard, he iJuntod it upon Sherman’s But
tery, (commanded by Ricketts.) Tlio Virginian
insist* that it was tho firnt Confederate flag that
waved over that famous batt -ry. Other regiments
came up at tho same timo, however, ami are
equally entitled toparMelnate in the honor of
taking tho Bett vry.—ltirhmnnd ( Vn.) Ditpateh,
July 30.
roll'll ii in, mi UNim. aiuist h, imu.
Abstract of flic Tan Retains for Muscogee County for
Ml.
Aggregate value of Land $1,733,203
“ City property,... 2,226,675
Number of slaves 6,280. Their value
Amount of money and solvent debt* J,033,306
Value of merchandise 033,1)10
Cupitul invested in shipping 13,000
“ “ manufac
tures, Ac 545,775
\ uluo of household and kitchen fur
niture, Ull, 866
Aggregate value all other property 356,802
“ “ of wlnlo pr0perty..12,741.035
[communicated. 1
Messrs. Toombs, Howell Cobb aud T. H, K. Cobb.
These gentleman have each undertaken impor
tant military commands in the army of the Con
federate State*. Tbo former has been created
a Brigadur General in the Provisional Army and
tho other two gentlemen uro at the head of reg
iments of Georgia Volunteers iu tho important
offico of Colonel. It is understood that these
officer* have been usMuncd during the wur ami it
is also presumed that they will go immediately
into Morvice in the field. Ami yot wo do not hour
of their resigning their places us members of tho
Confederate Congress. Surely it is not intended
by cither of tlioso distinguished gentlemen, to
hold both offices at the sauio time. They certain
ly cannot discharge) them both with fidelity am!
efficiency. To hold high military appointments
and at tho same time high civil offices, devolv
ing tho duties of tho field service upon subordi
nate officers would suhjoct them to tho suspicion
uml imputation of shirking danger, a* well as
monopolizing places of profit and power. It was
generally expected when Gen. Toombs was made
Secretary of Stato, (bat lie would resign his scat
in Congress ; but ho did not. Many thought that
in holding on to both of the*© distinguished offi
ces, lie displayed ft too greedy thirst after high
places ; but in it. was rather u matter o( taste, of
self respect and personal propriety, no public
eensure was oast or fault found with hi* course.
Tlio public, however, will not approve tho reten
tion by those gentlemen of thoir seats in Con
gress whilst they are occupying high anil respon
sible positions in tho army. They ought to re
sign at once and let the Delegation appoint some
other of Georgia’* eminent men to tho discharge
of the important trusts that they now hold in tlio
Civil Department of tl.o Government. Grave
and great question* aro to ho considered and de
cided by Congress involving tho highest interests
of tho Republic and the people, and it will re
quire ail the talent that Georgia cun command
to’ tako ("iro of th"*u interest* in the public
councils.
ONE OF THE PEOPLE
: pecial to tho Columbus Time*.
KICIIMOID CORKESPOMEOT.
Pence Propositions-- Their Absurdity and In
sulting Character - Northern Pecan awaking
to Freedom of Speech- Reaction at the North,
its cause and nutriment 11 tie's Brigade, re
lief demanded Georgia nobly comes to the
Rescue.
Richmond, Aug. 2.
Tho papers, North and South have said much
luloly in ruferenco to peace propositions sub
mitted in tho Federal Congress by Mr. Cox of
Ohio, which although defeated by a large ma
jority, secured some forty odd vote*. These
propositions havo evolved two significant fuels,
li t Tho Federal Congress is composed of lunar
ir*, who will force the war of subjugation of tbe
South as the only inuuii* f-r tbe extinction of
uluvery to tho bitter end; and 2d. Tho absurd and
supremely ridiculous folly of wasting Ihe time of
that rump parliament by the introduction of
measures which, oven if adopted by u unani
mous vote, tho South would regard a* nn insult (
and treat with contempt. The purport of this
proposition is thnsthimmed up: It declares that
although certain States of the Confederacy were
violently resulting the authority of tbe Govern
ment, yet in accordance with the rule* of civ
ilzed warfare, and with tho spirit of our institu
tion* tho door should ho felt open fer thcpoaooa
hle return of *urh States a* should manifest a
desire t” resume their allegianco, nnd proposing
the appointment of n peace rommUsion of one
from each State to report such amendments to
the Constitution of tbe United States a* should
fend to sue uro that und; and that Congress ap
point tho Hon. Edward Everett, Franklin Bierce,
Millard Filliuoro, Martin Vau Huron, T. Ewing,
J. Gulhiic and Ileverdy Johnson,a commission
t> meet at Louisville, in September next au equal
number of commbGoner* l be appointed by tho
Confederate Mates, in order to determine upon
mi amicable adjustment of iho existing national
difficulties.
Might we not, with much propriety, most re
sperCy request Mr. Cox, who is do doubt actua
ted by tho very host intentions, to premise bis
future peace propositions with such nn explana
tion as candor and lioneHtly imperatively demand
to tho effect that no friend of the South has
sanctioned or could sanction any proposition sim
ilar to hi:;, not even if it looked to tbe recogni
tion of our independence, while a hostile foot
pillule* tho soil of uny State in the Southern
Confederacy. Tho peace propositions which tho
Southern Confederacy can now or hereafter re
cognize, are such .* were proclaimed recently at
Bull Run and Manassas; and even had reverses
befallen u* there should wo loose one or twenty
battle-*— the South will never entertain any prop
osition looking to u restoration of the old Union,
not while she ha* a son able to pull a trigger or
a champion t shed his blood in hit country’s
cause. Tbe truth i*, u reunion of political fellow
ship between the North und tho South is impos
sible, impracticable und inexpedient; perhaps,
for both . oclion*; uiul tlm very introduction of
such it proposition uh Mr. Cox submitted pre
sents the questivti in the most odioußformin which
it could be offered to the Houth. “The door left
open for the peaceable return of such States,”
forsooth ! The only door through which we shall
ever pass, as long as a Yurfikeo is in arms
against our liberties, is tho battle-field, nnd
that door wo shall open ourselves, without favor
.of the enemy and tbo only return to which we
shall ovor consent will be a return to Constitu
tional government and Southern independence.
If Mr. Cox is really desirous of serving the
South in her present struggle with n military
despot and an oligarchy of lunatics, lot him
withdraw from tho councils of perjured Congress,
men—return to Ohio, and awaken his brutal
countrymen to a sense of their lawless inva
sion of Virginia and of tbo degrading work as
*ign< and them by those who aim ut tho suhv eriimi
of republican liberty ami the establishment up
on Its ruins of a military despotism. To such a
perversion of tho legacy bequeathed to u: by
tbo Fathers of tho revolution, the Month never
will submit. Novor!
One of tho good effect * of the battle of Manas
sa*is tin* freedom with which Northern paper*
aro now permitted to criticise, not only the Mini
ders of tho administration, hut the whole charac
ter of tho war. The Black Republican Journals
following the instincts of their savage ferocity
against the Bouth, attribute their defeat to the
fraudulent concealment by the Government, of
1 the grand object of the war, viz : the extinclion
peytonh. coiamn. >...
JAMES W. WARREN, s Editor*
Number 32
of ilftvory nnd tho bloody development of |tho
”irrepressible conflict “ That is thoir “harp of a
thousan 1 strings,” and perhaps, in constantly
playing upon it the sumo ovorlasting air of tho
negroo’c wrongs, they aro more honest than those
who impudently prat® about maintaining the
Constitution aud enforcing the laws; but tbo
more rospectablo press at tho North, those
especially which signalized thoir advocacy of
Southern rights by boldly denouncing the unjust
nnd unholy war made upon them until their
oflicoH wore mobbed into Bilonce by an infuriated
rabblo or starved into a sham support of the war
by the withdrawal of patronage. Such presses
as these, in Pennsylvania, New York, and oven
in sanctimonious Boston, are now emboldened
sinco our groat victory at Manassas, and the un
doubted reaction in tho Northern mind that has
succeeded it, to criticise freoly, to denounce bold
ly, and fearlessly to proclaim that every interest
at tho North, commercial, financial and mana
farturiug, demands a cessation of hostilities and
overtures for peace. This pouco party at tho
North i* steadily increasing in number nnd influ
ence. The tax collectors, when they call at their
door* for thoir direct trihuto towards tho abo
lition of slavery in tho South, will still more in
crease it, and the returned voluntcors who will
carry homo with them visible ovideuco of how tho
Southerners fight, will give their peace party
such vast proportions, and tho reaction in the
üblic mind, of such shape and tone,* that a few
battles more, or the capture of Washington will
completely paralyze every effort to raiso another
grand army of invasion, such us McDowell led
to tho field on tho 21st of June.
Private dispatches from Wise’s Legion have
boon received in Richmond during the whole
week. They kept secret, but I think
with very questionable propriety. Ho is in dan
ger of being followed up by tho Federalists, now
atjCburlodtowu, to Lewisburg, to which point he
was, somo day* ago, forced to retire. What can
he do!’ What could Napoleon himself do were
ho in Gon. Wise’s place with 3.500 men, against
an advancing force of 25,000 men, ulready flush
oil with thoir bloodless victories? It is true
Gon. Leo is now with him in chief command,
hut it is men tliey want—mon like their gsllunt
and intrepid chief, who can do nothing hut re
treat with hi.* prosen* disparity in numbers until,
perhaps, tho Ohio Hessians will desolate the
entire Kanawha. I connot express the xatisfee
tion I felt when I learned that, notwithstanding
the gouoruu.* contribution! both in men aud mo
ney, which Columbus ha* already laid upon the
altar of our country’s independence, her patriotic
son* still contemplate the crisis through which
our Confederacy i* now passing, and, especially,
theporilotL* condition of our troops in the North-
West, and regardless of the fact that Columbus
has already furnished her full quota, tire rushing
to arm* in aid nt the diiuntfehu Wise. Such noble
examples ot heroic co operation and sympathy
with their sister Commonwealth, will ceuieut
lu-ire strongly the bond* of uniou und friendship
which hold Virginia and Georgia together iu a
brotherhood ol loyal aud devoted hourts. Suc
cess, fume and an eternal mouuuient of glory to
B. A. Thornton, E.*q., of your city and hi* gal
lant companion* in arm* lbr the pmuiptues* with
which ho respond* to the urgent appeal* und
still iin>ro urgont nui‘u*.*ity id’ lieu. Wise. And
this too at a time when the brave Guuiding, in
the Southern counties, i* already organizing u
Georgia Legion, and the Bartow Artillery at
Griffin, will soon bo here tu avenge the death of
tbo patriot) ‘Journal whose uuuie (hey bear.
All hail Georgia! Tbe Southern Confederacy
greets thee.
Congress met to-day at the usual hour. Vice
Bietiideut Stephens in the ihair. After the usu
al morning preliminaries the House res dvod itself
into secret session.
BRUTUS.
From the Lyuchhurg Republican.
Adilrns ot 600s. Johnston anil II ‘auraril lo Ihc Soldiers
ot ike Confederate Stales, on the result of the Bailie
at II anassa*.
UKADQUAKTSR9 ARMY OF ‘IH I’OTOMAC, 1
Mantissa*, July 20, 1801. j
Soldier* of the Confederate State* i One wook
ago, a countless host of men, organized into an
army, with all tho appointments which modem
art and practiced skill could desire, invaded tbo
soil of Virginia. Their pooplo sounded their
approach with triumphant, display of anticipated
victory ; thoir'generals cr.mo in almost rogal
state; their groat Ministers, Senators and women,
camo to witness tho immolation of our army
andthesubj-.tgution of our pooplo, and to colehrate
the result, with wild revelry.
It is with tho profoundost, emotions of grat
itude to an over-ruling God, wtioes hand is man
feat in protecting our homes and our liberties,
that we, your Generalscouimaudiug, are euabled,
in tGo i..line of our whole country, to thank you
for that patriotic courage, that heroic gallantry,
that devoted daring, exhibited by, you in tho
actions of tho lStk and 21st, by which the hosts
of tho enemy were scattered, and a sigual arid
glorious victory obtained.
Tho two affairs, of the 18th and 21st, were hut
tho Miptiiined and continued efforts of your pat
riotism ugainst the constantly receiving col
umns of an enemy, fully treble your numbers;
mid those efforts wore crowned on the evening of
the 21st with a victory so complete, that the in
vaders were driven disgracefully trorn the bold,
and made to liy in disorderly rout back to their
entrenchments, a distance of over thirty miles.
They lett upon tho tield nearly every piece of
their artillery, a large portion of their arms,
equipments, baggage, stores, Ac., Ac., almost
everyone of their wounded and dead auiuuut
ing, together with tho prisoners, to many thou
sands; and thus tho Northern hosts wore driven
from Virginia.
Soldiers! we congratulate you on an event
which ensures tho liberty of our country; we
congratulate every mail of you whose glorious
privilege it was to participate in this triumph of
courage and of truth—to light in the battle of
Manassas. You have created an epoch in the
history of Liberty, uml unborn nations will rise
up ami call you “blcßscd.”
Continue this noble devotion, looking always
to the protection of a just God, and before tune
grows much older, wo will hehuiled u- the deliv
erers of u nation of ten millions of people.
Comrades! our brothers who have fallen have
earned undying renown upon earth, and their
blood shed in our holy cause is u precious and
acceptable sacrifice to tho Father of Truth and
of Right.
Their grave* arc hoaido tho tomb of Wenbiog- *
ton; their spirit* have joinod with hi* in eternal 4 Oj r
oomiaunion. 4 0 °i * • K#
Wo will holtl la*t to tin oil in which *° b
of Washington is thus mingled with t he +n
our brothers. Wo wsll transmit this An tiff ***(/ Om
our children, or wo will fall iuto the J *. ftt* v
of <>ur brother* in anna. We drop ifcy 8i #
their laurel', and move forward to # o> o °
Holdiera ‘ wo congratulate
triumph and complote victory, Jjvafc. **
for your >Wr iluly iu the norvShv •
y- *.-*> <o* ~
Jos. K.JoHf^rrN
0. T. BKAKBKi. >R n’ u. A
(ten. v.
Gen BKAiiatuAßn’* watch stopped during th
groat battle of Manassas. Quartermaster L. M
Hatch visiting Richmond soon after was requeate
to deliver the watch lo a watchmaker for repair
Un examining it tbe artisan found nothing t
matter beyoud a juror shock, and immediab
sot it agoiug. ou delivering (lie watch to Go
Beauregard, Col. Hutch remarked, “Gener
you watch like you melt cannot run uuder fire
The Ekkiciknt Block aux The Apalechico l
(Fla.) Times of the 3d inst., in its marioo column,
under the bead of vessls iu port, announces tho
•hip Finland, Capt. Jones, 460 tons, from Liver
pool, just arrived and commenced dieebarg