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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. * • L 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