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St" tg'ugr of the rfSl*
FEDFBATK »TATS».
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas a communication was address
ed on'the (5th day of-July last, (1S62,) hy
Gen. R. E. Lee, acting under the instruc
tions of the Secretary of War of the Con
federate Ssates of America, to General H
W. Halleck, General in Chief of the Uni
ted .'■Mates Army, informing the latter
that a report had reached the Government
Oilfeafta, till their owners would consent; W e take the
to share the crops with the commanding | ^i 0 v.j| e fAla.)
ing General, his brother, Andrew J. But-1 Q
ler, and other officers; and when such con j 0 Ucc - - 7th :
sent had been extorted, the slaves have j From Xen: Orleans.—We are indebted
been restored to the plantations, and there \ to the politeness of a gentleman from New
compelled to work under the bayonets of j Orleans, for the perusal of a file of late
guards of United States soldiers. j papers fiom that city.
Where this partnership was refused j r i'}, c most important item of news is the j
.otjjotaM patagrapli from j
.) Advertiser & Register, | EXECUTIVE DEF/
rolls 115 St intis
that Win. B. AZuinxord, a citizen c.f tlie was susceptible of removal,
Confederate .States, had been executed by
the United .States authorities at New Or
leans, for having pulled down the United
States tlr.g in that city before its occupa
tion by the forces of the l nited States,
and calling for a statement nt the facts
with a view to retaliation if such an out
rage fTad r’ally been committed under
sanction of the authorities of the United
States.
And whereas, (no answer having been
received to said letter,) another letter was,
on the 2d of August last, (1*02) address
ed by General Lee, under my instructions,
to General Halleck, renewing the enquiry
in relation to the said execution of the
said illnnford, with the information that
in the event of not receiving a reply with
in fifteen davs, it would be assumed that
the fact alleged was true and was sanc
tioned by the Government of the United
States.
And, whereas, answer dated on the 7th
armed expeditions have been sent to the ] rcm nvnl of General Butler from a command
plantations torob them of everything that j j n w biel» he has managed to link his name
and even ! , v jd, infamv, and which will hand him
ARTMENT, }
Milledgeville, 3d December, 1862. I
You will greatly oblige me if you will inform
me whether the order of Mr. Randolph to M ;.
Dunwoodv, uo> to enroll the commi-rioned officers
of the Militia of this State, has been annulled: ,
and whether their enrollment as conscripts ties '
liecii ordered. Au early reply is respeetluHy so
licited.
JOSEPH E. BROWN.
Hon. J. A. Seddou. Secy of War, Richmond,
Va.
Clotitmj tiewi ft«ta Vietiubtirg t
Four Days of Heavy Fighting.— The
Enemy Hipulred all the Time os far as
Learned.
ttiefemond, Jail I.-Nicetjrdvrb Yan»
kces, captuitid at Dtmtfrees, arrived to
day. Two hundred tno:e will anive to
'ibey were captured at Occo-
vvail in the Shenandoah \ alley. General
Banks’ proclamation, on taking command,
is a well written, in some parts eloquent
and very plausible, document. It is plain
that the harsh rule of the ‘•Brute” is to
give way to a gentle and mere soothing
policy. He talks in a most captivating
slaves, too aged or infirm for work have in j <4 0wn t( , posterity as the vilest henst the
spite of their entreaties, been forced from j American continent has produced. He is
the homes provided by the owners and ! superceded by General N. I*. Banks, the
driven to wander helpless on the highway same Banks "that was abolished by Stone-
l’y a recent. General Order, (Co ‘.*1) the
entiie property in that part of Louisiana
lying west of the Mississippi river has been
sequestrated for confiseation, and officers
have been assigned to duty with orders to
“gather up and collect the. personal prop
erty and turn over to the proper officers ^ ^ _
upon their receiots such of said property \ s ;v!c about protection of private rights,
as may be required for the use of the Uni-j all( ] making public amends for
ted States army; to collect together all
the other personal property and bring the
same to New Orleans, and eattse it to he
sold at public auction to the highest bid
ders,” an order which, if executed, con
demns to punishment by starvation at
least a quarter of a million of littman be
ings, of all ages, sexes and conditions, and
of which the execution, although forbidden
to military officers by the orders of 1’resi-
: CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA. )
Waii Department. >
Richmond Va , Dec. Oth, 1- 2. j
3* inst. has
gut- Your telegram of the 3J 1 ' inst. has been
received. The instructions inquired for vvi re con
tained in a letter to Mai. Dun woody, command
ing camp of instruction, and were an exnositior
of a General order on the subject of the conscrip
tion and exemption acts of April, I slid.
; Vicksbtrg. D.-c 30 —Ou Saturday tlrn enemy
made four desperate attempts to fores our lines on
tie* Chickasaw Bayou, about ten miles tronr this
< iiy, hut were repulsed with heavy loss each time.
| C..r loss s i - lit-
The !, th boui-dana grratly distinguished itself
—repulsing unaided the assault of three lull regi-
’ meats of Yankees.
( !.. Sunday morning the enemy again advanced
! on our lines and were repulsed with heavy loss, i
All the troops behaved gallantly, but special men-
tion is made of the -doth and I 7th Louisiana regr-
m n;s. Tie forin?r regiment maintained its ground
all day 1 gainst greatly supeiior forces. Our loss
a i l,il 'Sunday was—ill the 17th Louisiana, one killed
d two wounded; in the 8th Tennessee, four
killed and six wounded—Cant. C. A. Genly
day
mot row
^Tlie report of the distinction of two
bridges on the East Tennessee and Vir
ginia Railroad by a body of Yankee caval-
Tbe enemy advanced
It will take
State Rights & Cosfc-derat? States' Rights^
August last, (I8fi2,) was addressed to j dent Lincoln, is in accordance with the
General Lee by Gen. H. IU. Halleck, the I confiscation laws of our enemies, which
said General-in-Chief of the armies of
the United States, alleging sufficient cause
for failure to make early reply to said let
ter of 6th July, asserting that “no authen
tic information had been received in rela
tion to the execution of Mutnford. but
measures will be immediately taken to as
certain the facts of the alleged execution,
and promising that General Lee should be
duly informed thereof
be has directed to be enforced through the
wrong
committed by the troops under his com
mand.
JUe learn from the party who brought
out these papers that the private dwellings
of persons who have been turned out by
the orders of the “Brute” for his officers and
their paramours, have been ordered to be
restored to their proper owners.
Not over 8,000 troops came out with
Banks. It was rumored that he.would
disarm and disband the negro regiments.—
On the whole, there is a promise that the
severity of the New Orleans reign ot terror
Your Excellency's ob’t servant,
for Secretary of Var.
(Signed] J. A. CAMPBELL, A. S. W.
His Excellency Josyph E. Brown, Governor of
the State of Georgia. Milledgeville, Ga.
lord's Light Artiillery l n st one Sergeant killed.
! No particulars of casualties in the other regi-
I hients.
! On Monday afternoon eight thousand of the ene-
j my advanced i,n our right wing, in the vicinity
i of Chickasaw Bayou, to storm the works, but were
mowed down in large numbers, and upwards
five stands of col-
[The following is the copy alluded to, and ac
compauied the above letter ot the Secretary of | ot oUO prisoners taken, with
War:] .....
••The act of exemption requires,” “All judicial
and Executive officers ot Confederate or State
Governments,’'“to be exempted from enrollment:
The enemy were driven back to their boats and
afterwards sent in a flag of truce for permission
to 1 u y their dead, under whicb-some of the pris-
,y, is confirmed,
within six miles of Bristol,
several weeks to repair damages.
The Enquirer has Northern dates to the
31st. The Herald reports that Port
Hudson, in Mississippi, has been captured.
The. ictreat of Gen. Hatch nccross the j
Tallahatchie is confirmed. . |
The steamer Etna lias arrived with foiu j
davs later news from Europe. 1 he Lon- 1
dun Times says Lincoln's message is a bid j
for peace. His emancipation plan it de-
, nominates “a dream.”
j The London News, organ of Exeter
Hall, says it has no faith in Lincoln’s
I emancipation scheme.
I Gold in New York was 130 on Mon-
i day. .
The New Y'ork Underwriters have doub-
i led the risks on American vessels.
The Washington Chronicle notes impor
tant movements of Gen
and supposes ho is advancing 011 Frederick
City.
aiiJ the Department conceiving tho phrase “Exec-j oners escaped. . -
utive Officers " to embrace militia officers, direct- * i^bting std continues all day with no nnpor
‘-tit results. I he fighting of our troops was splen-
Whether the. Confederate
ain by the change is very
agency of civil officials. And, finally, the will be somewhat relaxed, and the people
African slaves have not only been excited J of that city will be gainers by the change
insurrection by evry license and encourage
ment, but numbers of them have actually
been armed for a servile war, a war in its
nature far exceeding in horrors the merci
less atrocities of the savages.
Now, therefore, 1 Jefferson Davis, Pres
ident ot the Confederate States of Amei -
of masters,
cause will
questionable.
The New Oilcans papers before ns are
all engaged in a contemptible game of
toadying the new General, in order to get
i his printing patronage.
\ n d whereas, on the 29th November i «d». -™' 1 By their authority, appeal-1 Brute Butler goes North.
xv Eiu vt lint ■ Si uti nit . v in vv/. _ . - . 1
last, (1892) another letter was addressed j the Divine .fudge in attestation that , In Butler’s
' ' . 1 , v 1 1 1 *1,. m nniwliint ic lud rritwlrul iv f i.n nnciiinn . 1 * 1
under tnv instruction
bv Robert Quid, their conduct isnotguided by the passion j
Confederate. Agent lor the exchange o{
prisoners under the cartel between the
two Governments, to Lieut. Colonel IV .
H. Ludlow, agent of the United Siates
under said cartel, informing him that the
explanations promised in the, the said let
ter of General Halleck, ot 7th of August
last, had not yet been received, and that
if no answer was sent to thp Government
within fifteen days from the delivery of
ifiis fast communication, it would be con
sidered that an answer is declined,
And, whcieas, by letter dated on the
3d dav of the present month of December,
the said Lieutenant. Colonel Ludlow ap
prised the said Robert Ould that the above
recited communication of 29th of Novem
her had been received and forwarded to
the Secretary of M ar of the l
States:
And whereas, this last delay o* fifteen
davs allowed for answer has elapsed, and
no answer lias been received:
And, w hereas, in addition to the tacit
admission resulting from nbove refusal to
answer, 1 have received evidence fully es
tablishing the truth of the fact that the
said William B. J/umford, a citizen of this
Confederacy, was actually and publicly
executed in cold blood by hanging, after
the occupation of the city ot New Or
leans by the forces under the command of
General Benjamin F. Butler, when said
ATnninml ynresisting and non-combat
ant captive, and for no offense even al- \
leged to have-been committed by- him sub- j
sequent to the date of the capture of the |
said city.
And whereas the silence of the Govern
ment of the United .States, and its main-
lu fjlgii vffltr TTUitci
of revenge, but that they reluctantly yield j j or
to the solemn duty of repressing, by nee
essary severity crimes of which their csti- j all j
zens arc the victims. do issue this my 1
Proclamation, and by virtue ot my i
it V as CommarwIer-in-Cbief of the Conted-
crate. States do order,
1st. That all commissioned officers in
the command of said Benjamin x . Butler ;
be declared not entitled to be considered!
as soldiers engaged in honorable waifure,
but as robbers and criminals, deserving j
death; and that they and each of them be,
whenever captured, reserved for execution.
And, whereas, the officers under the
command of the said Butler have been
in many instances, active and zealous
agents in the commission of these crimes, j
* te( j ! and no instance is known of the refusal of w },;i st
| any one of them to participate in the out
es above narrated.
Ynd, w hereas, the President of the Uni- ;
General Order,” dated the
inst., he takes credit to his army
11 that Farragut’s lleet did, and for
some things that were never done at all,
to himself for a portion of the
atrociti.s which have made even Yankees
blush. He says.
M ithotTt a ~.«ruuiv you sustained an
encampment on a sand liar so a—lot.,, that
banishment to it, with every care and
comfort possible (?) has been the most
dreaded punishment inflicted upon your
bitterest and most insulting enemies
meaning probably the ladies ot New Or
leans.J
In the following paragraph belies :
You had so little transportation that but a
handful could advance to compel .submis
sion l»v the Queen City of the Rebellion,
tber
eil 111 General Order No. :!7, llmt the enrollment
should be confined to those “not in actual ser
vice.” ■ ... . j
By this phrase, “service in the field” is not in
tended, bnt merely such connection with the ex- j
isting militia organization of the State, as^conlers
authority to command in case the militia are called
out. Commissions still held but 110 longer conler-
ring such authority, or recognized by the State j
authorities, do not exempt Irotu enrollment
STATE. OF G1 OR.G1 A, ) |
Atu'T and lxs- Gen’s. Oitice. •
Milledgeville Dec. loth, 1~<>2. )
Lieut. Col. John B. Weems, Enrolling Officer for
Georgia. Macon, Ga:
Colonel: By direction of the Governor, I fur
nish you herewith enclosed, a copy of a recent
.correspondence between hirnselt and the War i
Department, on the enrolling of Militia officets. |
And I am further instructed to say, that, as it ap
pears from the correspondence that militia officers
(ictuullii in cninmisstoH, are held to hr- exempt from |
conscription by the decision of the War Depart- j
, ment, it is the request of the Governor that you j
will so instruct your sub enrolling officers and ,
that, if any militia officers actually in commission
i may have been enrolled against their consent, that .
orders for their release.
“ejiou as to claim by any
The 2 vi th Louisiana again immortalized
itself, for their gallant conduct during the bat
tle
Our casualties in yesterday’s fight were small.
This morning, tiring is htard in the same direc
tion. and it is supposed the enemy have again ad
vanned to storm our works.
The soldiers are eager to meet the enemy, and
are determined to conqner or die.
The Yankee nrisoneis state that they are com
manded by Gen Morgan.
Severe fighting is now going on—will e end you
the partied, rsa’ter it is over.
The enemy have destroyed the Vicksburg,
Shrevespott and Texas Railroad as far as Delhi.
The bridges of the
TilE CONFEDERATE UNION,
( Corner of Hancock and Wilkinson struts )
OPPOSITE THE COURT UOI K|.;.
Tuesday Morning, January G. I8i;;i,
SOIT.HTOY, IfISBET & BlttSES, State PiintMi
Terais—$3 Ot) Per Annum, in Adrarre
Stuart’s cavalry, | - - ....
President Bavis’ Proclamation.
"j - , „ . tj 1 • 1 We regret that we were not able to lay
The supercedttre of Butler by Banks is }
confirmed. Banks sent the fleet and
strong force to Baton Rouge and recaptur
ed the place.
The Herald says the Confederate
steamer Florida had succeeded in run
ning out from Mobile unseen by the blocka-
ders.
A Confederate vessel arrived at Havana,
with cotton, 011 the 7tli December.
The steamer Alabama has captured the
California steamer Ariel, with a crew 140
strong. Her officers were paroled. Lieut.
Law, of the Alabama, boarded the Ariel
aud took possession ot 83,000 in Iieasuiy
nolcs ana 81,500 in silver. Having de-
...... uni give
In aiij“ cao
person being a militia officer diluting
under the laws of the State, a reference to this of
fice will promptly furnish, you with a decision
flora its records.
Very respectfully.
Your ob’t. servant,
[Signed] HENRY C. WAYNE,
Adj't. and ins. Gen.
a di-tance of thirty-eight miles. , ™ uiw S m v.. . . v ,
Texas and M-,cnn read are also said to have been ! atroyed all t he sails ot the 1 anKee steamei,
: and removed one of her steam valves, she
w as bonded for 8125,000 and the cargo for
8135,000 more the whole to be paid to the
Confederate authorities within thirty days
after the establishment of the indepen
dence of the Confederate States, i he cap
ture produced great sensation in New \ork
and Washington.
Greely has been summoned to Wash
ington.
The Paris coxrespondent of tho Herald
says : It is rumored in diplomatic circles
that Palmerston and Ilusseil w ill be ousted
from the British Cabinet after the opening
of the Biitish Parliament.
lunqed. The town of Djlhi is reported totally des
troyed.
LATEST.
V.irUsBt R« vr.A Mobile, Dec. 30.—A courier
has just arrived who states that the enemy attemp
ted to storm our lines again this morning, but
after a severe combat were repulsed with terrible
lo.--*. N<> fuitlu r particulars at present
VscKsr.riu;, Dec. 30.—The loss of the enemy
is said o ' 11*, about 2nd. killed and wounded and
about 4 1 prisoners. Our loss about 50 killed and
wounded.
waded breast deep in tin
marshes which surround St Philip, and
l forced lhs sun coder ot a fort deemed im-
pregnable to land attack by the most
ted States has, by public and official dec j skillful engineers of your country and her
laration, signified not only .his approval of
the effort to excite serviie war within the
enemy.
The Brute, by-the-byc, shows a want i
of his usual astuteness in discriminating
between the United States and her enemy.
It is the st cle among the Abolitionists to j
etend that we are still a part of their
pr
country. He thus boasts of his steal-
Landing with a military dies
but seventy-five dollars, from the boards
of a rebel Government you have given to
your coun'ry’s treasury nearly a half
his authority for many months after his | cr » n et' perpetrated by his orders, and not
as free agents; that they therefore be
treated when captured as prisoners of war.
kindness and humanity, and he sent home
on the usual parole, that they w-ill in no
manner aid or serve the United States in
any capacity during the continuancy of
this war unless duly exchanged.
3d. Tat all negro slaves captured in
arms be at once delivered over to the ex-
ecuiive authorities of the respective States
to which they belong, to he dealt with ac
cording to the laws of said Staton
4th. That liKc orders be executed
in all cases with respect to all commission
ed officers of the United States, when
found serving in company with armed
slaves in insurrection against the aittliori-
commission of an act that can be viewed
in no other light than as deliberate mur
der, as well n-> of numerous other outrages
and atrocities hereafter to be mentioned,
afford evidence only too conclusive that
the said Government sanctions the con
duct of said Butler, and is determined that
lie shall go unpunished for his crimes.
Now, therefore, J, Jefferson Davis,
President ot the Confederate States of
America, and in their name, do pronounce
nml desire the said Benjamin T\ Butler to
be a felon, deserving of capital punish
ment. 1 do order that he be no longer
considered or treated simply as a public
enemv of the Confederate States of Amer
ica, but as n.t outlaw or common enemy
of mankind, and that iu t ic event of his
capture, the officer in command of the
capturing force, do cause him to be imme
diately executed by hanging; and I do fur
ther order that no commissioned officer
of the United States taken captive shall
be released on parole before exchanged,
until the said Butler shall have met with
due punishment lor his crimes.
And whereas the hostilities waged
against tiiis Confederacy by the forces of
the United States, under the command of
said Benjamin F. Butler, have borne no
resemblance to such warfare ns is alone
permissible by the rules of international
law or the usages of civilization, but Lave
been characterized by repeated aitrncities
and outrages, among the huge number of
which the following may he cited as exam
ples;
Peaceful and aged citizens, unre
sisting captives and non-combatants have
been confined at hard labor with balls and
chains attached to their limbs, and arc still
so held in dungeons and fortresses. Oth
ers have been subjected to a like degra
ding punishment for selling medicines to
the soidier8of the Confederacy.
The soldiers of tLe United States have
been invited and encouraged by, general’
orders to insult and outrage tlie wives, the
brothers and sisters of our citizens-
Helpless women have been torn from
their homes, and subjected to solitary con
finement, some in fortresses and prisons,
and one especially, on an island of barren
sand, under a tropical sun; have been fed
withUiaihsome rations, that had been con
demned a.-, unfit for soldiers, and have been
exposed to the vilest insults.
Prisoners of war who surrender to the
naval forces of the United .States on
agicement that they shnuid be released on
parole, have been seized and kept in close
confinement.
Repeated pretexts have been sought or
invented for plundering the inhabitants of
the captured city by fines levied and ex
acted under the threat of imprisoning re
cusants at hard labor with hall and chain.
The entire population of the city of New
Orleans have been forced to elect between
starvation by the confiscation of all their
property, and taking an oath against con
science to bear allegiance to the invaders
of their country. —
Egress from ihe city has been refused to
those whose fortitude withstood the test,
even to lone and aged women and helpless
children, and after being ejected from
their homes and robbed of their property,
they had been left to starve in the streets
or to subsist on charity.
The slaves have been driven from the
plantations in the neighborhood of New
Confederacy but his intention to give aid
and encouragement thereto, if these inde
pendent States shall continue to refuse
submission to a foreign power after the
first day of January next; and has thus
made known that all appeals to the laws
of nations, the dictates of reason and the
instincts of humanity would be addressed
in vain to our enemies, and that they can J
he deterred from the commission of these !
crimes only by the terms of just retrilu-1 j n illi on of dollars, and so supplied your-
i selves with the needs of your service, that
your expedition has cost vour Govern
ment I e is "by four-fifths than any other.
He then makes a boast of lus nigge r
! regiinenrs, ana nnaily relapsing into 1% mg,
I winds up with telling his men that they
j have mef double numbers of the enemy
| and defeated them in the open field.—
Bnt,” says he, “I need not further en-
irge on the tonic.”
IIeadq'hs Camps of Ixstrictiox, >
Macon, Ga., Dec. 19, 18152 l
Col. Henry C. Wayne, Adj’t. and Ins. General of
Georgia, Milledgeville:
Colonel: Your communication of the T,!h inst.
with enclosure of copy telegram from the War
Department, was duly received. I have issued
instructions to t ie enrolling officers of this State,
to grant exemptions to such militia officers as
may be “actually iu commission” at the lime of
their enrollment.
Very respectfully,
[Signed] JOHN I?. WEEMS,
Lieut. Col. Commanding, Ac.
Tlie Great Battle at Murfreesboro'.
Murfreesboro’, Dec. 31.—'I
containing began at seven o’clock this morning and
tion:
2d. Tlrai tlie private soldier and non-
. ; commissioned officers in the army of
Butler he considered as only the instru-
maaic nuod for llio ..i" .1.,
Battle of ('are Hill.— For some time,
afte. this fight in Arkansas we werereceiv- i
ing news na the North of a great Federal
victory, according to which Gen- Blount !
has overthrown Gen. Hindman and al- *
most annihilated his *—j-
i ,He rxort liern press forged a victory |
on paper which they had not achieved in
the field.
YVe learn from several Missouri officers j
now in the city some of the particulars of
that action. Gen. Hindman, with 11,000
ties of the different States of this Confed- j l j ie,! > marched from \ an Luren, Arkansas
to attack the enemy, who were posted,
25,000 strong on the other side of the!
mountain. '1 he Confederates were the as-
eracy.
In testimony whereof, I have signed
these presents, and caused tlieHea
( ed with great fury all day.
We drove the enemy from all their po
sitions except on his extreme left, where
he successfully resisted us.
With this exception we occupy the en
tire field of battle.
»*"e captured 4,ou0 prisoners, including
Brigadier Generals Wiley and Fry, thirty-
one pieces of Artillery, and about two
hundred wagons and teams.
Our loss very heavy, but the enemy’s
much greater.
We captured most of their hospitals
and many ambulances.
Gen. Rains, on our side, is killed. Gen
eral Chalmers wounded. Col. Autry ot
Mississippi, and Col. Black, of Ameiicus,
Ga., killed. Col. Fisk wounded.
Yankee Generals Thomas, Sill, Slieri-
dfln E11I.X
ported killed.
Yankee loss in killed and wounded it. is
impossible to obtain a list of casualties,
or more particulars to-night.
We destroyed two million dollars
worth of Yankee property, in the rear of
the Yankee army last night, including
five days rations.
Chattanooga, Dec. 31.—Eighty-eight
Federal prisoners, captured near Mur
freesboro’, was brought here last night.
of the Confederate States ofAmer- vaulting party, and the result of the fight j Seventy-three more,, with eight n<
tea to be affixed thereto, at the city
fL. S.jof Richmond, on ibis 23d day of
December, in the year of our Ford
one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-two.
(Signed) JEFFERSON DAVIS
By the President:
J. P. Benjamin, Secretary of State.
Richmond, Dec. 31.—It is stated on
the best autuority that the British Gov
ernment has formally demanded of the
United States the recall of Admiral
Wilkes from his present station.
The official report of Gen. Gustavos
Smith commanding the Confederate troops
was the giving way of the enemy, with the
loss of 1,000 killed and wounded, two
pieces of artillery. 40 wagons of stores,
including 5,40>) suits of clothing and 300
prisoners. '1 he Yankees retreated twelve
miles to Fayetteville. General Hindman
having inarched with but three days’
have just arrived on tho evening train.
The last forty were captured by Gen.
Wheeler, between Ilosencrans’ army and
Nashville.
Morgan, returning from Kentucky, hav
ing accomplished his object, is now in the
rear of Ilosencrans. It is believed that
rations, returned to his depot with tlie ! Buford, Forrest and Morgan have joined
spoils he had captured. Iiis whole loss j Wheeler, making a force of 15,000 caval-
FROM RICHM< >.si> akin THE NORTH.
Richmond, J>ec. vio—Northern dates ot tlie
| g(ilh have been received.
Christmas was a dull day with the army of the
i Rappahannock. The depletion of sutler's stores
j rendered the time dreary.
No movement whatever has taken place on eith-
j er si'le of the river, nor is there any indication of
i an immediate itnev.al of hostilities.
The New Voik Herald says tlie campaign in
; Mississippi is assuming an important shape. It
i may not he h ug before two severe battles will
: have In be recorded in that region — one at Vicks-
| burg, the other nt Jackson
Porter's grand naval expedition is to surpass
all others in magnitude.
According ton register just published, the abo
lition army embraces over a million men.
A tire, involving the loss of $65,000, occurred on
Washington street, N. V., Tnnrsday.
The Baltimore American's Suffolk correspondent
is'satisfied that the army in that vicinity is'.capa-
ble of marching into Richmond, and says the roads
leading into the Rebel capitol are good and less
protected than on any other route, and the sol-
battle ! diers are alb anxious to undertake the job.
Attorney General Bates regards the admission of
Western Virginia as unconstitutional. Lincoln it
is thought, will not sign the bill.
’I ho Herald says that the rebels in West Tennrs
see and Ninth Mississippi appear to have involved
all our combinations against them in serious diffi
culties and drawbacks, and we shall be ^’agreea
bly disannointe^ a,real victory, instead ot dis-
tn-artening news, shall be the result of tiie win
ter's campaign in the Southwest as nnw conducted
The Herald says Foster’s opperations in North
Carolina amounted to nothing practically. The
expedition should never have been attempted, un
less it was intended to hold the railroad at Golds
boro'. which connects the Atlanlic seaboard lines
and constitutes the channel through which Rich
mond receives supplies from the Southern rebel
Slates. I he only result of the late effort will be
to draw the attention of the rebels to tlie impor
tance of concentrating such force there as will de
fy further attempts on our part to cut this impor
tant link in their lines of communication. The
attempt ahd the failure are of a piece with all the
other brilliant efi'nrte ot' W«,.l.mrl*ii General
ship. What a pity that so much dashing heroism
on the part of both officers and men should have
oifTi itrrmvn away on an j;j_
the assault on ihe enemy's lines at Fredericksburg,
was destined from the first to be fiuitlees-
The Tribune’s Suffolk currespsndeut, Dec, 23d.
says yesterday, politically speaking, was a dull
election uay ;u this section. But lew votes were
oast iu Suffolk, and no returns will bo received
from the Isle of Wight, flinscr or Smithfield. The
rebels from the otherside of ltlackwater came over
to put a quietus upon Union men who might try
to vote, but Col B. En.derdock, of the New Jer
sey m inuted rides, was sent with a detachment
to carry the bal
ti' named. He had s-nt tiie precious nik of free
dom as iar as Smithfield, arid was about visiting
other places, w hen lie was set upon by an over
whelming rebel force and had a hard race for Suf
folk.
importfftit document before our read
ers in our last issue. But it has lost noth
in" by keeping. The President explains
tho reason of his delay, in making the o',
fieial announcement to the World, that
the Government of Abraham Lincoln had
perpetrated outrages upon our people un
worthy a nation of savages. He wished
to bring ont the correspondence in a form
al way, and, if possible, to compel the
Lincoln Government to approve or
disapprove the crimes with wlii^i
its agents were charged. Having satisfi.
ed himself that the so-called U. S. Gov
ernment would neither approve nor dis
approve tlie acts of Butler, he publishes
said Butler to the world as an outlaw,
denies to him and his associates in crime
the usages of civilized warfare, and gives
Abraham Lincoln to know that if he coun
tenances such conduct on the part of Lis
officials the Confederate States will not
hesitate to adopt severe measures of ie-
taliation, let the consequences be what
they may. Tho Proclamation of Presi
dent Davis will form an important chapter
in the History of the War, and will enable
Washington correspondents all agree thc people of bolh Continents to form a
that Lincoln will stand bv Ins eman
cipation proclamation, and will issue
a supplementary proclamation on the
first ot January.
(Special Despatch to Ihe Confederate Union.)
VERY LATEST.
Atlanta, Jan. 5th, 1863.—Bragg has had another
fight on the 2d at Lavergne, and wrapped the enemy
badly.
Many rumors—nothing reliable.
It is said that the enemy’s loss in the fight at Mur
freesboro’ is about 15,(IOC in killed and wounded—ours
5,000 killed amt wounded.
Telegraph lines to Murfreesboro’ still down.
WM. It. PAliTRICK.
Milledgeville, January 5tl), ISC3.
Messrs. Editors: 1’ermit me through your columns
aa Agent of the Governor’s Guards, to thank Ihe La
dies Relief Society ot Baldwin, for the libertl dona
tion of two boxes of clothing to the company: also to
the following named individuals who have contributed
to the needy and SE&J2J|g soldier, Uig r •'• c
amount annexed to their name.-:
Joseph E Brown, - - .... $10
O. 1*. Bonner,
\V. M. Tucker,
L. A. Jordan,
X. Hawkins,
Dr. G. Edwards,
Capt. John Jones,
l’etersnn Thweatt,
.1. B. Campbell;
Gen. S. I*. Myriek,
Col. W in. McKinley,
A Friend,
S. T. Beecher,
J. C. Whitaker,
Wright & Brown,
J.T.Bivtns,
T. S. Bagley,
I)r. T. K. Green,
\y J T Unv.
Dr C. H. Hall,
D.B.Hill,
Lueco M. Moore,
Samuel Whitaker,
If. If. nroiT**r«...;.t
Dr. W. A. Jarratt,
T. B. Lamar,
Benj. Myriek,
L. Den
just judgment upon the character and
conduct of the vile creatures who are at
tempting our subjugation.
r £Iso Beitils of rvXurfressboro.
The boldest and most successful Gen
eral of the Abolition Armies, has been
whipped by thc much abused Bragg. It
would be difficult to estimate the impor
tance of this victory. Georgia had much
at stake in the issue. If Brngg had been
defeated, Chattanooga would have fallen
into the enemy’s hands, and the great rail
road from East t., West, which has pro
perly been termed the Aorta, or great Ar
tery of the South, would have been cut,
and only a miricle could have saved the
iife o f the Confederacy. The enemy
have been foiled' i? Virginia, in North
Carolina and Tennessee. If they araun
successful at Vicksburg, all their grand
plans I'or a Winter’s campaign will have
been completely frustrated. The raid on
the East Tennessee and Virginia Iload,
will be the only part of the progiamtnc
that came through without failure. We
give elsewhere in this paper such intelli
gence from the great battle of Murfrees
boro, as has reached us.
rroes
was 300 in killed wounded and missing.
We learn that in the Army in Arkansas
are si me 14,000 Missourians, v/ho have
left their Sta*e in small parties to join the
Confederate standard. They constitute
a corps of desperate fighters—not one of
whom but has his personal wrongs to
• v- r, r c. • • i . -i j avenge upon the Lincolnites, in the shape
in North Carolina, after giving a detailed 6 . v ’ 1
- - - - - ° ” 1 ot a lather, brother — — —*- -
sister, nmideied, robbed, or insulted by
these devils in human form. Ono regiment
of 1080 men was recruited in his native
account of the late battles, states that our
loss was 71 killed 208 wounded, and 400
missing. Most of the latter were taken at
Kinston bridge and have since been pa
roled.
Gen* Stewart has made a successful
rv in the rear of the Federal army.
Dispatches received at 2 1*. M. to-day,
; announce the repulse ot the enemy with
the loss of ono of their batteries tip to
that hour.
j Knoxville, Dec. 31.—Theabolitiou cav-
| alrv, said to be, about four thousand strong
i made an ineursion through Pendleton Gap
son, mother, wife or ; ] e( ] by Q en . y Carter, a renegade from
East Tennessee. -They were said to be
at Jonesboro’, one hundred miles from this
place. They burned thc Holston and
son ot Clarke, Wautauga Railroad bridges, and captured
Congress, q 0 ] Love of the <52d North Carolina. It
supposed they destroyed Senator
(.V
ISr nr*
Maj. G. L. Dumming. 1 pair No. 1 blanket :.
C. E. Bonner, I lieavyjoans coat.
J. N. Bonner, 1 blanket.
J. G. Andrews, 1 pair blankets.
L. Carrington, 10 pair socks.
L- A. Jordan, l package socks.
J. G. Sliles, 7 pair shoes.
Frank Husod, 1 pair shoes.
t boxes out tp the rebellious sec- i J’- J- ,T a .?V r r A-n - ", , ,
J. M. Mad (of \\ llkiHSOn) 1 pair socks.
Ben Sanford, t pair sucks.
\V A. Roberson, 1 pair socks.
Mrs. Samuel White,
Mrs. M. J. McComb, l pair shoes.
Mrs. A XV. Callaway, 1 heavy blanket.
Very respectfully,
G. P. I
county by Col. Clarke,
member of the Confederate
while it was occupied by a Federal army.—
raid upon tlie Yankees at Dumfries, dv, . , , , . -, . , - _ ,
stroying a camp of (5000—large amounts J '« , Colo ! iel " aS , obl 'f' d to I'!™' i Ha y nes ’ plantation and the works at Salt
and fnlrimr noarlv 2(1(1 nris- ? b - V <l *7 «>'d work at night. After vi l )e .
filling up ins corps, he swam the whole
J 080
of army stores, and taking nearly 200 pris
oners.
The Europa has arrived with Liverpool
- | dates to the 14th ult. News unimportant.
I Cotton advanced two or three farthings.
mile and a quarter wide, and at the time
foil of drift ice. Two of them perished
from the cold hi crossing.
It is of men like these that the Confeder
ate army to the Host of the, Mississippi
Exploits of Van Dorn s Cavalry.— Over j ^ composed. It may be well said that
JiUcmtinK from Ihe West.
t/iTc millions worth of Stores destroyed•
Great ntnnhet of Prisoners and arms
captured.—Destruction of the Bail roads
by \ 'an Dorn and Forrest.
Grenada, Dec.. 28—Van Dorn capered
and paroled over twenty-three hundred
pvisonets, destioyed over three million
dollars worth of Federal stores, burnt one
thousand hales of cotton which had been
bought by the Yankees, took one thou
sand arm}- revolvers, live thousand stand
ot small arms, five hundred horses and
mules, and a large amount of other prop
erty.
Van Dorn did not go into thc vicinity of
Jfemphis, as it was too strongly fortified
and garrisoned. For thc same reason he
avoided Bolivar; but he captured all their
pickets, and burned the bridges and trestle
work of all the railroads necessary fur
their line of communication. Our loss is
not over thirty.
The it on-clad receutlv destroyed by
torpedoes on the Ybjoo rivur, minted
nuns.
Gen. Kirby Smith ordered three regi
men accross the Missouri river, a j ments of cavalry or more from Murfrees
boro’ through towards Pound Gap to
watch the country north of Cumberland
mountain. The order was countermand
ed by Bragg who thinks they have force
enough in East Tennessee to expel Car
ter.
Knoxville, Doc. 31.—The invading ab
olition force is composed of two Ohio and
Jeff. Thompson.—This famous partisan and one Indiana regiments. Preparations
have been made to expel tbenr They
are thought to be no more tlian two thou
sand, and their design tlie destruction of
Saltville.
Chattanooga, Dec. 31.—Night—Ihe
Rebel has just received the following from
Gov. Harris: •
Murfreesboro’, Dec. 31.—IVe attacked
the enemy in his position at 51 A. M.nnd
thc battle raged till 5 P. M. Our left
wing drove the enemy’s right hack upon
Stone Run. Our advance steady, but re
sistance stubborn. We captured four bat
teries and about four thousand prisoners
such an army is unconquerable by mortal
foes.
fighter lias turned up again. He reported
to General Hoirnes the other day that lie
had captured seventy thousand dollars
worth of Yankee plunder, and scut him a
large lot of shoes for bis soldiers. He. was
at the head of tlnee thousand men and
said to the. General I want to he let alone
and have no orders.
FROM THE NORTH.
Richmond, Dec. JO.—Northern
dates of the 27th received late last
night. News unimportant
The Herald’s Washington letter says among them three Generals. Lous heavy
it is believed in diplomatic circles that j on both sides. Relative loss not known,
the first of January next Napoleon will ; lien. Raines of Nashville, Killed.
inform Minister Dayton that he can no
longer delay entreating the U. Mates
[Signed|
1. G. HARRIS.
Raleigh, Dec. 30,—No truth in the
and Confederate (States to tot minute j reported advance of the enemy from Ncw-
the war. | bern. Albemarle Sound is filled with
Gold in New York, on the 27th 134-1-4 j Yankee transports and gunboats. No
to 134 1-2. ' doubt of this.
rronnl ofIlic llrral Ifntllr.
Charleston, Jan. 1.—A despatch from General
Brag£ to General Beauregard, dated Murlreesboro’
Wednesday night says:
•• ll'e assailed ihe enemy at seven o’clock this
morning, and, after ten hours hard fighting drove
him from every position, except his extreme left,
when lie still holds his ground. With that excep
tion we occupied llie whole field.
We have captured four thousand prisoners, in
cluding two Brigadieis, Ihiity-one pieces of ariil-
lery. and two hundred wagons and teams.
Our loss is heavy ; that of the enemy' much
gi eater.
The SEnffle a: Jliirfrrrsboro’
A Cuinjitelc i ictury.—Confederates Occupy t} ie
Whole Fold.—Hip'irtid Capture, of the Federal Gen
eral Fry.
ClIATTANOOUA, Jan. 2.
Tiie following authentic dispatch has just been
received, date 1 Aluifreesb )ro , Jan. 1.
Tlie enemy’s strong position has been forced,
and we are now in possession of the whole battle
field. Our forces are now pursuing them.
General Wheeler made the entire circuit of the
en ony on the 740th and 31st ult,, paroled seven
hundred prisoners, and destroyed three hundred
wagons loaded with baggage and commissary
stores.
General Sill’s body was left on Ihe field, and
three-oihers Federal Generals are reported killed.
Morgan has destroy ed the loads iu Kentucky,
and Forrest the roads in West Tennessee,
Chattanooga, January 2.—A special dispatch to
the Rebel, dated Murlreesboro’, January 1st, says
there was some skirmishing but no battle to day.
The enemy is evidently retreating. Our cavalry
is at Lavergne harrassing them.
Signed ISHaM G. HARRIS
General Willick and thirty-eight other Federal
officers of different grades arrived at Chattanooga
on the 1st, from Murfreesboro’ under escort of Col
John Fitz of the 7ih Tennessee.
Eleven hundred Yankee prisoners arrived at
Chattanooga on the 2d, aud twenty-five hundred
more are on ihe way.
Murfreesboro , J in. I.—4o Gen. S. Cooper:
The expedition under Forrest has fully accom
plished its object. 'Ihe railroads in West Ten
nessee are broken in many places. Large amounts
of stores have been destroyed, inauy arms captur
'd, aud I2UII prisoners paroled.
Morgan has done his work but the full effect is
not known.
The enemy iu Tennessee and Mississippi are
w itJiout raiiroaa and telegraphic coiniuuiiicatioii
with llieir government.
(Signed) Braxton Brago.
Gen. Com'd'g.
From Vieksburg.
Richmond, Jan. 3, 2o clock P Al—A despatch
to the Secretary of War, dated Vicksburg the 2d,
say s “The enemy, finding nil his efforts unavail
ing to make any inroad upon our positions hers,
has re-euil>arked, leaviug a considerable quantity
of entrenching troois and other properly, aud ap
parently has relinquished his design upon V.cks-
burg.
J- C. PEMBERTON.
Lisut General Commanding.
|^LST of letters remniniiiR
1st. 1«63.
Allen, Mary Ann
Austin, Joseph
Bacon, Thus J
Brunner, Valentine
Butler. Miss Priscilla
Cook Thos It
Converse, Capt
Cowan, F A
Cowles, J
Dickson, T II
Dottevnr Miss Alice
Drake, Patterson
Garner, .lessee II
Garner, Miss Nancy 2
Grime* J TV
Hazleliurst, Geo H
Hallinshed John A
Hubbard, Aliss Jane
Humphries, Malissa
Jackson, James A
King'Miss Arminta
Knight, Lieut R B
Lee .Mrs Fannie
Lee, John A A Co 2
Little, Mrs S
in the Post Office Jan.
Lynch, David II
Martin, Pait
M oore, Mrs Ruth Ann
Moore. Mr.-. Elizabeth l
Murrell, Miss Elizabeth
Nix, Mrs E A
Oxrny. J M
l’eek. Airs Alary
Roberts, J \Y
Roberts, AV W
Kusseau, Airs J
Schlatter, Col C L
Sentter, Miss M E
Slater, Caroline
Smith, Miss Martha D
Snow, Miss Nancy J
Thomas, Airs M
A iekers, A K
AVadlev. Col W M
Wells, Miss Jennie
Williams, AlisaC At
Wilson, H J
AYinder, Airs Lizzie
Wright, At iss Ann A
Young, Aliss Hettie
E. S. CANDLER, P. AL
Brought
O N December 2*2d t a
i
to Jail.
yellow man, I
years old, calls
Signed
suppose about 25
himself Nathan, and weighs about one
hundred aud thirty pounds, five feet
four inches high. lie says that he be
longs lo Mrs. Murray, of Florida, and
J. R. Simpson of Augusta, is his guar-
dian. The owner is requested to come iorward
and prove property and take him away.
JOHN GENTRY, Jailor ot Baldwin co.
Milledgeville, Jan. 5th, 18(1:5. 3:5 3t.
Administrator's Sale.—Post poked.
B V virtue of an order of the Court of Ordinary
of Bulloch county, will be sold before the
Court House door in the town of Statesboro' on
the first Tuesday iu FEBRUARY next within the
legal horns of sale the following property to-wit:
One tract of land containing two hundred acres,
more or less in said county: known as the late
residence of Martha Greover, deceased and
hounded by John S Hogan en the east: on the
North by John Brown; west by Henry Stephens.
Also, six slaves—Filiis, a man aged forty years,
Suse, aged fourteen years: Ellis, aged thirteen
years. Aunis, aged eleven years: Aaron, six years,
and Lewis, three years. Belonging to the estate
of Martha Groover, and sold for a division among
the heirs. Terms on the day of sale.
7.ACHARIAH BENNETT, Adm’r
with the will annexed.
Oct. 14th, 18(52. 33 tds'
Executor's Sale.
W ILL be sold before the Court House door in
the town of Marion, Twiggs county, on
the first Tuesday in MARCH within tho legal
hours of sale: Tom a negro man 21 years of age,
belonging to the estate of Margaret Chapman late
of said county deceased. Sold for the benefit of
the heirs Terras cash.
JOHN CHAPMAN. Ex’r.
Jan. 1st, JM3. *34 tds.
The Reconstruction Idea—Its effects
os the termination of the War.
The Press the Pulpit and the Politi
cians at the North, including the intelli
gent and conservative portion of the peo
ple, cling with a tenacity, equal to death,
to the idea of reconstructing thc Union
under the Constitution, with, perhaps,
additional amendments and guarantees.
The great mistake with the people of the
North, which has been more instrumental
than any other in determining their course,
has been, that they regard the “rebellion”
at the South, as a II ar of the Government
of Jeft Davis, and not a tear of the people
of thc Southern States. This lias beeu
their great error. It has beeu widely dis
seminated through their press, it has been
thundered from the pulpit and from the
hustings, and has permeated the very fi
bres of the body politic. The small ma
jorities by which some of thc State Con
ventions adopted thc Ordinance of Seces
sion, and the reluctance which other
States manifested to leave thc Union, has
been construed at the North, a3 evidence
of au abiding attachment to the old Union
on the part of their people which would
develope itself in formidable proportions
whenever the armies of the north wero
firmly seated on our soil. But a few days
ago we read a long, ably written and
spirited article copied from the New Yoik
Herald, upon this very subject. We re
member thc .emphasis with which the Ed
itor made the following assertion : Said
he, this War may drag its slow length
along for two years more, if the new Con
gress next year does not stop if. But
when the people are called upon to vote
for President in 1S64, they will do as they
have just done in New York, New Jersey,
Ohio and Illinois—they will hurl from
power the Abolition faction, and place at
the head of the Government a man like
Horatio Seymour, who will restore the
L nion to its pristine strength and beauty,
and stretch the rainbow of Peace on the
dark cloud of War. This was tho Her
ald s idea. Unfortunately too many, even
of the best informed men at tlie North,
agree with the Herald. They seem to he-
^ lieve that it is the mission of the Lemo-
; cratic party, which is just being restored
| to life, to save the Union, and terminate
the contest. It would be a great triumph
for that party, if such a thing were possi
ble. Wo kuow it is not. But may u nt
the hope of accomplishing this grand ob
ject, cause the Sdymonrs, the Woods, the
Van Borens, and Vallandighams of th 0
North to continue the War until Lincoln s
administration ends? Certainly the R ev
olution* of Mr. Vallandingham losk t# f«'
