The Confederate union. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1862-1865, January 06, 1863, Image 2
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«'