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Newspaper Page TextSOlfiflTOX, XISBET & BARNES* Publishers and Proprietors. "• BorenTow.y^. >*. II. i fijr Canfctoate Union Is publ'dc'd Weekly, in MilledgerUle, Ga., Ci,-ner of Hancock and Wilkinson St*., j — idle Court House.) UNION. A $3 a year jn Advance, j- VOLUME XXXIII,] MILLEDGE YIL LE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1862. [NUMBER 19. BATES »F ADVERTISING. pi rtyvare of tvelrelines. pie insertion 00, andfifty cents for each subsequent continuance. rhoseseui without tnespecification of the number ot insertioa*v''illbepqbli|Ue<i till forbid and charged acoorjin^'y- . Business or Professional Cards, per year, where they donot exceed Six Lines - - - $10 00 A libera! contract trill be made frith those tcho icish to A tre; Use by the year, occupying a_ specified space LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sales of Land and Negroes, by Administrators. .Ex ecutors >r Guar jians, are required by law tube held „„ Uie first f uesday in the month;between the hours of pi iu ue toreuoon aud three in the afternoon, at the (jou: t .muse in the county in which the property is sit uated. Votice of thesesales must be given iu a public ga leite 40 days previous to the day of sale. Voices fertile sale of personal proper‘y must be giv en in like manner 10 days previous to sale day. Voices to the ilebtors and creditors of an estate must also be published 40 days. Notice that application will be made to the Courtof ■ irdinary forleavetosell Lund or Negroes, must b uhlished for two months. Cita'io/is for letters of Administration Guardianship, xc., must be published 30 days—for dismission from Administration, monthly si.c mouths—for dismission tre.n fJttardianship, 40 days. Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage must be published monthly for four months—for establishing lost papers. for the full space of three months—for compelling titles from Executors or administrators, where bond has been given by the deceased, the full space of three months. Publications will always be continued according to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered at the following RATES: Citations, on letters of administration, &.c. “ “ dismissory from -4dmr’n. “ “ “ Guardianship, heave to sell Land or Negroes Notice to debtors and creditors. Sales of personal property, ten days, 1 sqr. Sale of land or negroes by .Executors,&c. pr sqr. 5 (If Estrays, two weeks 1 Sfl For a man advertising hie wife (in advance,) 5 Ilf f2 75 4 50 3 00 4 00 3 00 1 50 BOOK-BINDING THE Subscriber is now pre pared to do Book'Sind- iag, in all its branches Old Books rebound, &c. MUSIC bound in the best style. Blank Books manufactured to order. Prompt attention will be given to all work entiusted to roe. S. J. KIDD. Bindery in fcnnllirrn Federal Inion Office. Miiledgeville, March 10th, 1861. 43 COUNTING HOLSE CALENDAR, 18G2. AYS, DAYS, £. c c. s S Mar. 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The Chicago “Times,” of the 16th instant, leads off with the following note of despair: The people are restless, dissatisfied, engerly asking for hope and counsel. They are conscious of bad management in Congress and cabinet. They know they have made immense sacrifices, and that success lias not been com mensurate with the sacrifice. The war has assumed unexpected magni tude and proportions, and there is an unlook£d tor unanimity in the South— a determination evinced to do and dare all that can be done by human courage and perseverance. The anticipations of the great part of the North upon the breaking out of the rebellion have been disappoint ed- We relied upon the material inter ests that wtgild be affected—upon the veneration of the South for the flag and its history—upon the ties of kind- j red and the protection which the Government had always extended i i io in 1,1* I'jjjo , to every just and constitutional right, 21 22 23 24 25 26 .28 29 30,31 Counterfeit for at least a division of sentiment in the South. All these have failed and Confederate treasury the Southern people have fought with ITotcs. The notes mostly counterfeited are I the 2()"s, -5()’s and 100’s, of the issue I of Sept. 2, 1SG1—lithographed by Hover <£ Ludwig, Richmond. In all I the genuine issues of these notes there j is a shield in the upper left corner, the the right upper corner of which is j placed in the centre between the let- a daring aud perseverance that in a better cayse would have earned them the sympathy of the civilived world. Our superiority in numbers and resour ces haveas yet enabled us to make but slight progress. In the second year of the war, when the past discloses too much of reverse, and a heavy load of taxa- j n jtion looms up in the future, the peo- C01RT CALLENDER FOR 1862. SUTSZZl.’OSl COUTvTS. JANUARY. i JULY. 2d Monday, Chatham. ' ’Floyd SEPTEMBER. 1st Monday, Appling Chattooga 2d Monday. FEBRUARY. 1st Monday, Clark t Lumpkin 3d Monday, Campbell Dawson 3d Monday, Forsyth Polk Glascock Merriwether Walton ■1th Monday, Baldwin Jackson Monroe • Paulding Taliaferro Walker MARCH. Ut Thursday. Pierce 1st Monday, Appling Chattooga Cherokee Coweta Columbia Ciawford Gwinnett Madison Marion Morgan 2d Monday, Butts Bartow Coffee Elbert V ayett Greene Pickens Washington tV ebster id Monday, Cobbt* Calhoun Hall Hart Heard Macon Newton Talbot Tattnal Woe T liursday after W hit e Friday alter. Bulloch 4th Monday, Clinch Putnam Rabun Chattahoochee Lee Twiggs Wilkes Johnson Milton Thursday after Ilabershanrter the ttn > 4th Thursday, Montgomery Monday ) 1st Monday, Fioy8’ AUGUST. 1st Monday Luinpkint 2d M mday, Campbell Clark Dawson 3d Monday, Forsyth Pols Glascock Merriwether Walton lth Monday, Baldwin Jackson Monroe Paulding Taliaferro Walker jTUusday after, Pierce ter N in months directlv over it. mi the counterfeit the corner of the shield l ,Ie > aroused and anxious, are inquiring is placed directly under the right down . the wherefore. They find the answer stroke of the letter N. jin the fact that every theory and prophecy of abolitionism was false.— ! They feel the deception and demand HUNDREDS. The Sailor in the lower left corner ' a change. The democratic conven- of the genuine note wears a black belt, ( tions of the several States haye truth— with a buckle very distinct,—in the j fully declared the cause of failure, and counterfeit the belt is very light, and; pointed out the remedy, the buckle scarcely to be seen. The 1 A long and sad experience has en lace of the sailor in the genuine is fine lightened the people, and they anx- aud regular—in the counterfeit the | iously turn once more to the old charts mouth seems pinched up, and the eyes j for guidence. The instinct of self Clieroke Columbia eta Crawford Madison h\ arion -Morgan Butts Bartow Coffee Elbert Fayette Greene Gwinnett Pickens Washington Webster 3d Monday, Cobbt Calhoun Hall Hart Heard MaeoD Newton Talbot [ • Ware Bulloch Thursday after White :h Monday, Clinch •Putnam Chattahoochee Lee Twiggs Wilkes Johnson Milton Rabun Thursday after Habersham Monday af- ^ 1 Echols i Effingham Monday af- , , ter 4tii Mon- > | day. ) APRIL. 1st & 2d Mon. Carroll 1st Monday, Dooly Franklin Emanuel Early Fulton Gordon Pike Taylor Warren . Wilkinson 1 innsd’yafter Banks 2d Monday, Hancock Richmond Harris Laurens Miller Sumter Tuesday after. McIntosh 3d Monday, Glynn Haralson Monday after * Henry J ones Liberty Murray Ogletho; pe Pulaski Stewart Worth ’Bryan 4th Monday,Wayne Decatur DeKaib Houston Jasper Lincoln Schley Whitfield Wilt-ox Friday after, Telfair Camden Thursday after, Irwin Monday “ Berrien Charlton MAY 1st Monday, Clayton ■ Scrtven Gilmer Randolph Upson 21 Monday, Catoosa Jefferson Chatham Fannin Mitchell M use-ogee d Monday, Bibb Burke Quittman Spalding Troup Union Baker Tlin-oiav after Towns Uh Monday, Dade Terrell East Monday, Colquitt JUNE. Gt Monday, Lowndes Dougherty 2d Monday, Brooks Clay 'a Monday, Thomas OCTOBER. 1st A- 2d .Mon. Cat roll 1st Monday, Dooly Emanuel Franklin Early • Fulton Gilmer Gordon Taylor Warren Wilkinson Ptke Thursday after Banks 2d Monday, Fannin Richmond Hancock Harris Laurens Miller Sumter 3d Monday, Glynn Haralson Henry Jones Murray Oglethorpe Pulaski Stewart Union W.rth Thursday after Towns Thursday / Montgomery after « ,4th Monday, Wayne Decatur DeKaib * Houston Jasper Lincoln Schley Tattnall Whitfield Wilcox ' Friday after. Telfair Camden Thursday after. Irwin Monday after Charlton NOVEMBER. 1st Monday. Berrien Seriven Clayton Effingham Randolph Upson 2d Monday, Catoosa Jefferson Mitchell Muscogee 3d Monday, Bibb Burke Quittman . Spalding Troup Baker 4th Monday, Dade Terrell Thursday after, McIntosh Monday “ Colquitt *• “ Liberty Mon. after Liberty. Bryan DECEMBER, let Monday, Dougherty Lowndes 2d Mondav,[Brocks Clay |3d Monday Thomas have it bleared or scratched look. The sailor in the left hand end leans upon an anchor, diagonally across the vignette from left to right, in the gen uine, there is a hair line* very distinct, as if the stone from which the impres sion was taken had been broken or tracked. In the counterfeit there is no such blurr or hair line. In the centre vignette, right side, near the cotton jiress, is a muie—in the genuine it is very indistinctly executed, and the mule looks as if lie were walking from you, presenting only a tail view—in the counterfeit it is much plainer, and the mule presents almost a broadside view. At the upper right corner of the preservation leads the.m back to the constitution. We are not over confi dent, and indulge in no hope that is not warranted by the signs of the times, when we say that the next Con gress will be conservative. The Worth awakening to its Banger. REVOLUTION THREATENED. genuine notes, the white Tbe following editorial from the New ) ork I imes, is the boldest demonstration we have yet seen from that quarter. It confesses that the North has been whip ped, that ruin stares her in the face, that iier government (which the I imes helped to create) is a failure, that a stronger gov- •rnftient is needed, and that in these revo lutionary times, might will control, and if pears through the shading of the me dallion work; in the counterfeit the entire work is dark. ap- j Lincoln does not come up to the public triumph of the Republican party, and who do not believe it possible to end it and preserve the Union, until the results of that triumph are for the moment set aside, and tiie country has a chance to plant the Government upon another basis. But we can tell President Lincoln that there are men in the army who do not believe the war will end, except by conceding the independence of tie South, unless the Government is again lestored to Southern control or a Convention is held to form a a Comtitntiun under which both North and South can live together in a common Union. We do not know that any officet in the army would Advocate, or in any event aid the executicn of such a scheme. But we warn the Preside t against doing anything directly or indirectly, by neg lect or by positive acts, to encourage the development of such a sentiment, or to stimulate in any heirt the toleration ot such a thought. We need not warn him of the absolute necessity of crushing the growth of such treason and disloyalty in its beginnings. But we may warn him that this cannot he done by the exercise of force, but only by the display ot strength on the part of the Government. What the people want is a Government adequate to the emergency—a Govern ment strong enough to meet any danger, however great—strong in will, strong in judgment, strong ia resources, and strong in the confidence and respect of the peo ple. Piesident Lincoln’s Government is not strong in any of these respects. The country has full faith in his per sonal integrity, his patriotism, and his sa gacity. But it demands mote titan this. It demands a cabinet made up of men, every one of whom shall constitute strength and courage, and power to his administra tion. It demands a Government which will lead public sentiment, and not seek slavishly to follow it. It demands a Gov ernment capable of waging war—capable of holding up, in biazing characters be fore the people, the objects of the war, of feeling profoundly, and of making the people feel, the spirit of the war; capable of organizing armies, of selecting and judging Generals—of overruling their per sonal contentions, their professional jeal ousies, and making them all conducive to the common good—capable, in a word, ot making out a clear and comprehensive policy suited to the emergency—of infu sing its spirits into the hearts of the peo ple, and then, with their aid, of ghing it full and complete success. This is what the people mean by a strong Government, and they regard it as the duty of the Pres ident t.o give them such a one. Upon one thing the country may rely : it is only such a Government that can maintain itself against this rebellion. Any other will he swept away by a usurpation. We live, it must be remembered, in a day of revolution, when violence aud force give the law to national action, and when strong, bold men will throw aside forms and usages, however sacied, which stand in the way of what they regard as the. wel fare of the nation, and place power in hands that are strong, however they may be stained with the blackest and most damn ing guilt. [Army correspondence of the Savannah Repub lican.] OIR Alt41V IN .VIAKYI.AND. FIFTIES. Several white spots appear just over the figures fifty, in the medallion work at the upper right corner of the gen uine notes; there are none in the coun terfeit. The outside of this medallion work in the counterfeit is covered by a running net work; in there is none. In front taclied to the chest, in the centre pic ture of the genuine note, there is a padlock; there is noneinthe counter feit. In the genuine note the head of demand he will be overthrown and a new power placed at the bead of affairs. This is the plainest talk we have seen, and we cam ot account for it except on the hy pothesis that the proximity of the Confed- eiate army is gradually dispelling the pop tiiar apprehension of Lafayette and War ren. The Times says; “The battles of the last year—the con flicts in front of Richmond, the retreat of our army first from their fortifications to the James river, and then from the James tne genuine liver and the Peninsula to the Rappahan- of and at- ' n °ck—the repulse of our troops in their march toward Richmond, the battles by which they covered their retreat to the Potomac, and the general conduct and up shot of a year’s campaign, have been dis astrous in the highest degree to the Union the man in the. lower loft corner j cause. And this is known and felt to be is nearly bald, a little hair is! the fact by every man of intelligence, combed down on the right temple; in the counterfeit a full head of hair is represented, the hair cn the right temple being slightly dishevelled, as it blown by a puff of wind. In the genuine the lit ad of the fe male between the woids Confederate States, is near the centre* In the coun- erfeit the head is placed so as to touch the letter E in Confederate. TWENTIES. In the counterfeit bibs tbe figure 2. from one end of the country to the other We might possibly flatter the v&nity of individuals responsibly connected with the army or the government, if we were to shut our eyes to this palpable and unmis takable fact. We know very well the penalty of telling unpleasant truths. But we know also that, in such a country as this, with such a people as ours, no good can possibly be accomplished by the sys tematic concealment of facts, however unpleasant, and that nothing but disaster and ruin can follow systematic misrepre- sentation of current events however ami able its motives. The best service any on the right side, in cut bv a fine line, entirely separating the tail of the fig- j ™ ; ' n ’ wll0?e business it is-to tell the peo- c * .1 , j +i 10 ! pie anvthing, can render them, is to tell “ re !™ m he “°" 1 b “ d V 1 > 1 ll.cn, the talk. genuine the J S UI< ~ 1 I >ei { * 1 i And the worst service any man can the genuine bills the hat on tne head renc j er t|j e government or the country, at of the mail in the lower left corneu ot j this, the most critical instant of its fate, the note, sits more upon the top of is to hoodwink either into the belief that in the counterfeit; in the people are satisfied with the condition . i.,o people seems to be : of affairs—that the people look upon the hack of the ; campaign of the past year as having been crowned by a “long line of glorious vic- and that they will be content to tones, see the army handled and the government the head than the counterfeit the hat thrown more towards th neck. . t , In the genuine the crown of the sailor s hat is broader than in counterfeit—the sha ding line on his jacket in the genuine, run , square across the body—in the countei- feit they run diagonally across the body. Also, between the XX on the right i lower corner are two hearts separated and pointing towards each other in the ,j ]e salvation of the Union genuine, butiu the spurious only one, or if two, run together. The paper of all the genuine notes is of poor quality, but in the counter feit it is of a fair quality ot bank note paper. ’NOTE.—The hair line is not an infallible test, as I have seem one on a counterfeit but a famil- iority with the face of the sailor on the genuine bill will enable you to detect the false one on .* J. J. managed for the year to come as they have been for the year that is past. Others must select their line of duty for them selves. We shall incur no risk of dam aging the country by deceiving the gov ernment! It is but little wd can do for but In Front ok Fredericktown, Md., I Sept. Sth, 1S62. J As was intimated in my letter of yes terday, (*) the people of Maryland were not expecting to see us on the east side of the Potomac so soon. They would not have been more surprised if an army had dropped down from the sky, than they were when they first beheld the head of our dust covered columns moving out from time tbe army of the Potomac has fought three pitched battles aid seven combats, engaged in numberless skirmishes, (in all of which it was successful over a sttperi r force) marched two hundred miles through a comparatively desolated count v, with out tents, and in many instances on hare feet and with insufficient food, crossed one large river and several smaller streams, and to-day threatens the capital of an en emy who, seventy dayssii.ee, was invest ing our own. This brilliant campaign will strike the scales from tlie eyes ot the peo ple of the North, as it has already torn off the mask from their inramous govern ment. While the former will be dazzled by the light of truth suddenly flashed upon them from our guns the falsehood, treachery, despotism and folly of the oth er, like the vile features ofMokanna, when stripped of their veil, can hut disgust its deluded followers and bring it to open shame before an indignant world. We ransack history in vain for a more brilliant campaign than this. Oar track from the James river to the Potomac, like the milky way in the skies, is one of un surpassed brightness and splendor. The rapidity of our movements, the splendor of our triumphs, the valor of our men, ami the genius of our leaders, will strike the world with amazement. The army has not only driven the invader from our cap ital and cleared the State of Virginia of his presence, but it is encamped to-day within twenty miles of the Pennsylvania line, and in striking distance of Harris burg, Baltimore, and Washington. Such achievements as these, if they do not ex tort from foreign governments a formal recognition of our independence, will at least demonstrate to all thinking men out right to he free, and the utter folly of any further attempt at our subjugation. It may be, as we advance forward, that our line of communication to the rear will be intercepted; nevertheless we expect to be able to maintain ourselves wherever we go. We now hold the Baltimore and Ohio railroad from the Monocacy to Har per’s Ferry, and the branch road leading from that place down the valley of the Shenandoah to V\ inchester. This route will probably be adopted in our communi cations with the South, instead of the more exposed and inconvenient line to Manas sas, and thence across tlie fords of the Po tomac, always subject to he rendeted im passable, by heavy rains - * The enemy did not Lave time to destroy the rail way bridge at Harper’s Ferry; but succeeded, I am informed, in removing most of the cars. It is not known what cars were on the Win chester branch at the time of his unpre meditated exit. We have conflicting reports from Balti more. It was first said that the enemy were removing all the military stores in the city, and that our friends there had risen to prevent it. To-day we hear that a force, estimated at 30,000 men was marching to the relief of the city, from Washington. Botli reports may be true. Gen. Wool is the military commandant ot of the city. Of course, we do not care how much the enemy divides his forces. If he should send them all to Baltimore, we can hut quietly take possession ot Washington, and should he concentrate them all in the latter place, the agreeable alternative will be left us to march leisure ly down the great Cumberland Turnpike and take Baltimore. If he divide them, instead of one, we shall simply take two bites at the cherry, nr if we like it better, we may march North to Harrisburg and take np our winter quarters in the capital of Pennsylvania. As we approach the Pennsylvania bor der, the people appear to be more equaily divided in their sentiments. In this and the more southern counties the secession ists are represented to have a decided ma- vouacing, is a place of several thousand inhabitants. All the hats, clothing and shoes in the town have been bought up by the quartermasters or ihe troops them selves. We have found less trouble about our currency than ua-> expected. The farmers and merchants prefer Maryland or Virginia money in exchange for their produce and wares, but still they are not indisposed to receive Confederate notes at some discottr’ Those, who are unwil ling to take theu. are generally Unionists, who close tbei: tores and barns agr : -~t us. As we advam • iway from the I ..jmac, and the broker* and 'harpers come upon the board, the trouble w ; M doubtless be in creased, unless we are speedily and com pletely successful’ It would have been wise, therefore, for Mr. Secretary Mem- mi ttger to Lave made some arrangement with the Virginia banks to supply asuffi- cient amount of their notes to meet the im mediate wants of the army. The plan was suggested to him, and it may be he will yet adopt it. The army is still too much scattered and busy for me to gather up the person al incidents and the gallant parts taken by particular officers in the late battles. I may say, however, that Jackson, Long- street, A. P. Hill, and Ewell, among the Major-Generals, and Toombs, Lawton, H .od, Wright, Wilcox, Pryor, Jenkins, Feat liei stone,. Gregg and others, among the Brigadier-Generals, and Col. Ander son, commanding a brigade, were conspic uous for gallantry and good - conduct. With rare exceptions, all the officers and men behaved with great coolness and intre pidity. The battle of Saturday, next to the first day’s fight at Shiloh, was the best conducted battle of the war. intended—no intimidation will be allow ed. i i Within the limits of this army, , at least/ Marylanders shall once more enjoy their ’ ancient freedom of thought and speech. We know no enemies among you, and^ will protect all, of every opinion. It is for you to decide your destiny, free- - * ly and without constraint. This army will respect your choice, whatever it may be ; and while tbe South ern people will rejoice to welcome yon to your natural position among them, they will only welcome ou when you come cf your own free will. R. E. LEE, General Commanding. ■ the river - 1 hey hadJyeen waiting for ns i - n • , , , ,,. 1 *i t tet* t i Jonty, especially in the large slaveholdin so long, they had felt so keenly the truth j•*_-*„ 7- • , , * , , . . c ,t J , ..t j e J districts. Our friends have no doubt that ot the saving that “hope deterred maketh ~ . ,, , A ,, , . - | ,, + i j i ,, + it left to a fair vote, the btate would elect the heart sick; and had been so often de- . n e , , , i ji-ii i , , , • to go with the Confederacy bv a large ma- ceived and bewildered by the mendacious ; • , Pl , . J J & , , ■ ,, v ., T - , ionty. Ihe people at manv places re press and Iving authorities of tbe United _ • ,, .., r , , . . - 1 , , iL A „ i • , . ,, ,. cetved us with shouts anti tears.andbesr- btates, not only in regard to the achieve- i . t , ... ° ,, J ged us never to leave the Slate until we ments ot our arms, but as to our disposi- lion and ability to render them assistance, . . that they had almost given up all idea of . , ,, - , , r - - ■ k - - gun to enroll themselves, and we are as sured that as soon as the Federal forces shall have released it from the grasp of the The young men have already be- ever seeing a Confederate army firmly planted on the soil of Maryland. The authorities had exerted themselves to keep ; scattered over the State shall have been , - f ... - compelled to retire towards Washington, them in utter ignorance ot our true inten- ., r . ,, , e . , , R.. M-i-. o , ■, , as they will be soon, thousands more will tions and ability. Military forces had i , , ri „ . . , , J J , , j array themselves under our banner. Ihe been posted along the river and quartered ^ excitement prevails from tbe Po . throughout the State, to repress all spirit f . ., i , , • p. 6 - , , . . - f r , tomaetothe Deleware, and Washington ot inquiry and shut put intelligence; and x „ , P , J . i and baltimore are represented to be in a where these instrumentalities did not sue- p . . ,, r ., ^, ceed, the knife, the halter and dungeon ! P e . rfec * tre ™ or - th e one from fright, the were thought into requisition. Men have . , w been taken from the side of their wives t appears t rnt the Federal draft has and the caresses of their little ones at the ! ^ been postponed to the 15th inst., not hour of midnight, and hurried to distant ' abandoned. _ 1 he peopln say our coming _ _ . _ „ o B prisons; whilst others have been hunted Y as J“ st , m time sa ' e 1 j cm ^‘e I been inflicted upon the citizens of a Com- trom their homes and compelled to seek dreadful alternative of either taking up monwealth allied to the States of the South refuge in the swamps and thickets, where ain j s a S ainst Gieir brethren ot the South, j by the strongest, social, political and com- they were slain like, wild beasts and their j or “ ee,n ? ff° m their homes: One man j mercial ties. bodies hung up by the aighways. Women i , he devoutly believed the finger of; They have seen, with profound indig- have been imprisoned and forced to flee i ^ 0( t had guided our footsteps and deliver- nation, their sister State, deprived of ev- from burning homes, only to fall into the ec ^ thepeop e through our handq. cry right, aud reduced to the condition of embraces of a brutal soldiery; and moth- j _ The army has been resting to-day along a conquered province From the Richmond Enquirer, Sept. 18. 54, iu-rni I.ee’n Proclamation to the People of Maryland. General Lee, in the following address, has very happily stated the purposes of our government and people towards the State of Maryland. The presence of our army in ihe heart of that State rendered explanation necessary; and it has been made in a manner that will allay every resentment, and kindle tiie profoundest giatitude in the bosom of every Mary lander who loves his State or values his liberty. The despotism which has crushed the people of Maryland is without a parallel in tiie annals of civilized history. What ever the course her people may wish to pursue—whatever choice of future rela tions they may desire to make-their first duty and the first impulse of manliness, is to be free. She should not make her choice with fetters upon her limbs. Her sovereign dignity demands that liei 1 action should be unconstrained, and should be free from even the appearance of con straint. So far from this being her present condition, the succint re-enumeration of tyrannies and outrages, presented in Gen eral Lee’s address, tells of a people ground into the very dust, under the heel of des potic usurpation, violently established, and for hostile purposes. So far from Maryland being a free, republican com- nmnwealth, tlieie is not a province in the Czar’s whole dominions that onght not to pity her terrible condition. Lincoln has proved to her worse than the Czar or Sul tan. So far as our operations are to affect the people of Maryland, we go not there to replace one yoke with another. We propose to restore Maryland to her free dom and her free choice-nothing more. This fait, so well stated by General Lee, d scloses the difference, wide as the hea vens, between ’lie character of the two governments now at war. SubjugaiLn, oppression, d( spotism, the crushing ut of all liberty of action are the objects and means of Lincoln. Self government, inde pendence, liberty, free choice and free ac tion, are the watchwords of the Confeder ates. We are too proud of her own char acter. and too respectful of the lights and dignity of others, to be willing to have a constrained or reluctant community in our brotherhood of freemen and sisterhood of States. The following L> the address. Headquarters Army of Northern Va., ) Near Frederick Town, > September 8, 1862. ) To the Peoph of Maryland . 11Is right that you should know the pur pose that has brought the army under my command within the limits of yonr State, so tar as that purpose concerns your selves. The people of the Confederate States have long watched, with the deepest sym pathy, the wrongs and outrages that have Addreu of Col. Kradlrr T. JdinMB W the People of Maryland. Tbe following address has been issued by Col. Bradley T. Johnson, who accom panies our army in Maryland : To the People of Maryland: After sixteen months of oppression more g-'fling than the Austrian tyrannv, the v._torious aimy of the South*brings free dom to your doors. Its standard new waves Lorn tbe Potomac to Mason and Dixon’s line. The men or Maryland who, during tho last long months, have bee crushed under the heel of this terrible des potism, now have the opportunity for working out their own redemption, for which they have so long waited, and suf fered, and hoped. The Government of the Confederate States is pledged by the unanimous vote ofits Congress, by the distinct declaration of its President, the soldier, the states man, Davis-, mevM to cease this war until Maryland has the opportunity to decide for herself her own fate, untrammeled and free from Federal bayonets. The people of the South, with unanim ity unparalleled, have given their hearts to our native State, and hundieds of thou sands of her sons have sworn, with arms in their hands, that you shall be free. You must now do your pait. We have the arms here for yon. 1 am authorized immediately to muster in for the war com panies and regiments-the companies of one hundred men each ; ihe regiments of ten companies. Come, all who wish to strike for their liberties and their homes. Let each man provide himself with a stout pair of shoes, a good blanket and a tin cup. Jackson’s men have no baggage. Officers are in Fredvrick*to receive re cruits, and all companies formed will be armed as soon as mustered in. Rise at once! Remember the cells of Fort McHenry ! Remember the dungeons of Fort Lafay ette and Fort Warren, the insults to your wives and daughters, the arrests, the mid night searches of your homes ! Remem ber these your wrongs, and rise at onceiu arms and strike for liberty anj right. BRADLEY T. JOHNSON, Colonel C. S. A. Sept. Sth, 1862. From General laoriujc’s Arusy—Official Des patches. We have the pleasure of publishing the following copies of official telegrams to the Secretary of War, in relation to the recent brilliant successes achieved by Ma jor-General W. W. Loring in Western Virginia. CAPTURE OF BUCHANAN. Headq’rs Dep’t S. W. Va., I Fayette C. H., via Giles C. H. or > Dublin, Sept. 14. ) Jeukins captured Buchanan, Upshnr C. II., General Kelley’s main depot, with 5,000 stand of arms aud immense stores, all of which were destroyed. He took the commanding officer and thirty pris oners. The next day he captured Weston. The next day he took Glensville. The next day he took Col Rathbone and his regimeut at Roane Court House. The next day he drove a force of the enemy from Ravenswood, and the next day cioss- ed into Ohio, marching twenty miles in that State. He was at last accounts on the Kanawha. (Signed) W. W. Loring, Major General. the shady banks of the Monocacy river, cooking, washing and bathing. It is re ported that w'e will move to morrow, hut in what direction I am unable to say.— Should we succeed in jrettintr possession Under the pretence of supporting the Constitution, but in violation of its most valuable provisions, your citizens have been arrested and imprisoned upon no charge, and contrary to all forms of law we can sight. SPECIAL NOTICE. rpHE undersigned having removed from Mil- te-, 'May holds three weeks, if necessary, at each 'hidge not required to draw Jurors for two Wee »; and not obliged to hold two weeks' Court iu coi & ti«t of Cobb and Lumpkin. _ ledgeville desires and intends to close up his business matters of that place speedily as possi ble. All persons indebted are notified toat the no; es arid accounts are iu the hands of J. A. Breedlove, Hn d p. h. Lawler, who are authori zed to collect HDd make settlements If not ar ranged at an early day, settlements will be.enforced by law. 13, tf. A. C. VAIL, Agent. at least refuse to shut our eyes to its de- j who appeals in vaii to the mercy of her struction. * * * | ravisher. To-morrow she may be free! We tremble to think of what may fol- 1 We have come to -trike the fetters from low the successful lodgment of a rebel her beautiful limbs and punish her despoil- army on loyal soil. We do not fear the ! er. We have come .o gather in the last division of the Union, so much as the tribes of the South ind to set a boundary overthrow of the Government. No man! betwixt our adversely and ourselves. This of ordinary political sagacity can conceal done—as we trust it will be before the ers and their children have been stopped in the streets aud rudely stripped of their bonnets and sashes where they happened to correspond with the colors of the Con federate States. Churches have been de- _ _ _ _ „ filed and the Ministers of God dragged ”1 Baltimore, the army will probably go The faithful and manly protest against from the very “horns of the alter.” Ihe into winter quarters there and in Washing- this outrage, made by the venerable and writ of habeas corpus, the freedom of ton; for the occupation ot the former place illustrious Marylander, to whom, .in bet- speech, and the sanctity of tiie domicil, j W0U D insure the fajl of tiie latter. With ter days, no citizen appealed for right in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the ’ vain, was treated with scorn and contempt. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal already in ! Thegoveinment of your chief city has been our possession, and tiie railway line be usurped by armed strangers ; yoqr Legis- tween Washington, Baltimoie and Annap- I lature has been dissolved by the unlawful olis rendered unavailable by our occupa- arrest ofits members; freedom of the tion of Baltimore, the ciicuitous route I press and of speech have been suppressed ; from New York and Philadelphia around : words have been declared offences by an to the Chesapeake Bay, and up tbe Poto- arbitrary decree of the Federal Executive, mac, would be the.only channel left open have been wantonly violated or ruthlessly destroyed. Five days ago Maryland, chained hand and foot, writhed iu the arms of the op pressor, like a weeping, trembling virgin from himself the fact that there is a deep, strong undercurrent of political machina tion underlying all the movements of the war, and giving character and color-to the developments of public opinion. There are men North and South—men of ability, of character, of position, both civil and snow shall have covered this lovely valley —we shall depart iu peace to our own homes among the sunny hills of the free and independent South. But should it he the will of Heaven that the war shell con tinue yet another year, then we a?3 resolv ed, by the blessings of God, to maintain military—who look to the possibility of; the stand we have taken as long as there saving tbe Union in other ways than by ; is a musket left and a band to wield it. simply conquering the rebels and com-1 We can never quit Maryland except as peiling by force their return to their alle- conquerors, or a broken, ruined army. giaDce- W’e need not tell any one that j A little more than two months ago, the there are men who regard this war as hav- j battles of Richmond were fought and the ing been brought upon the country by the siege ot the city was raised. Since that by which the enemy could receive his sup plies. The Potomac is frequently closed to navigation by ice in the winter; but if it were not, and if we should not obstruct it by batteries planted along its banks, still it would be impossible to procure sufficient supplies by this rout for the city, and the army quartered there- Whatever be our destination, we hope to be able to clothe and shoe the army wiierever we may go; but as this is not absolutely certain, the people at home should strain every nerve to provide for the comfort of the troops. The sick and wounded in the rear should be the special objects of their attention, even if we should succeed in furnishing the army in the field. Fredericktown, near which we are hi- and citizens ordered to be tried by a mili tary commission for what they may dare to speak. Believing that the people of Maryland possessed a spirit too lofty to submit to such a Government the people of the South have long wished to aid you in throwing off’ this foreign yoke, to enable you again to enjoy the inalienable rights of freemen, and restore independence and soveieignty to your State. In obedience to this wish onr army has come among yon, and is prepared to assist you with the power of its arms in regain ing the rights of which you have been de spoiled. This citizens of Maryland, is our mis sion so far as you are concerned. No constraint upon your free will is FAYETTE COURT HOUSE TAKEN. Headquarters Dek’t S. W. Va., I Fayette AJourt House, Sept. 11th, V via Dublin, Sept. 14th. ) After a fatigueing march I came upon the enemy near this place on yesterday, at half past one o’clock. P. M., with the best of my forces, which were in front. After contesting every, inch of my advance for some miles, he entered his fortifica tions at this place, which were strong, and which consisted of very formidable outer works, enclosing a quadrangular fort with glacis and redoubts and well mounted with nine heavy pieces of Artillery. My men pushed up to the walls with great spir it. inflicting great loss on the enemy. Our loss small. Abought nightfall to the force of the enemy already in the fort, three regiments were added as reinforcements by one of the many roads, which my forces were not numerous enough to guard. This made the enemy about five regiments strong; but while we lay on our arms to renew the attack this morning, the enemy fled. Probably they took the same road by which the reinforcements entered, arid 1 am now master of their works. I am now pursuing with all my forces. (Signed) W. W. Loring, Major General. two more victories. Headq’rs Falls of Kanawha, Va., ( Via Dublin, 14th September. t After fighting tivo obstinately-contest ed fights to-day—one at Cotton Hill, and the other at Ganley—tl • enemy have been put to flight down the Kanawha, and I am now in possession of their foimer po sition at Gauley; with their wagons, trains and some stores, The magazine and many more were burned before they fled. 1 am crossing the Kanawha and pursuing the enemy. We took 700 barrels of salt. ’We have taken camp Gauley, and are pursu ing the enemy down the Kanawha. -L, [Signed] W. W. Loring* ‘ Major Gerieral. CAPTURE OF CHARLESTON—THE ENEMY JfepUTED, AGAIN FLYING. The Mowing despatch was received at the War department yesterday from Gen eral Loring: b) Charleston, Kanawha co., Sept. 13, Via Giles Court House, 16th, And Dublin 16th. J Hon. G. W. Randolph, Sec’y of War: After incessant skirmishing from Gauley down, we took this place at 3 o’clock P. M, The enemy, six regiments strong, made stout resistance, burning their stores and most of this town in their retreat. Our loss is slight, the enemy’s heavy. He is in full retreat. Jenkins in bis rear. * W. W. Loring, JfryorGen’l Commanding. *

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The Confederate union. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1862-1865, September 30, 1862, Image 1