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Newspaper Page TextBOFGHTON, NISBET & BARNES, Publishers and Proprietors. S. N. BOCGHTOX, ) FdWor- jom. n. 1HSBBT. 1 c:, Mor '- faljt Confcbcntfc Union Is published "Weekly, in Milledgeville, Gn., Corner of Hancock and Wilkinson, fits., (opposite Court House.) At $3 a year in Advance. BATE* OF ABVEBTISl.X;. /Vr square, of twelve tines. 0nt insertion $1 00, and fifty cents for each jubccquen! rontinuoEce. yhoscseut without the specification of tlienumborot insertions trill be published till forbid and charged accordingly. Badness or Professional Cards, per year, where they donot exceed Six Lises - - - $10 oil A librrn! contract will be made with those who with to A Iserlite by live year, occupying a ip' ifei space LEGAL AD VERTISEMEXT.'j. Sales of Land aud Negroes, by Administrators. ZTx- ecutorsor Guardians, are required by law to be held on the first I’uusday in the month; between the home of 10 in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, «i the Courthouse in theeouniyin whichthej.roperty is sit uated. Notice of these sale* mast be given in a publicgn- xettr days previous to the day ofsale. Notices forthe sale of personal property inu.-t begiv- eninlite manner 10 days previous to rale day. Noticesto the debtors and ereditorsof aaestatenTuat abo be published 40 days. Notice that application will be medetothe Courtof Or lia try for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must be published for two months. Ci itiont forletters of Administration Guardianship, A c., must be publis'ncd 30 day-—for dismission from Administration. monthly si.c months—for dismission ir im Gnardianship, 40 days. Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage must be published monthly forfonr months—for establishing lost papers, for the full spice of Ikrrr months—for compelling lilies from Executors or administrators, where bondhasbeen given by the deceased, the full space of three months. Publications will always bo continued according to I these, the legalrcquircmenlr, unless otherwise ordered I at the following RATES: Citation*, on letters of administration, 4-e. f 175 . “ “ dismissory trom Admr’n. 4 50 “ “ “ Guardianship. Leave to sell Land or Negroes Notice to debtors and creditors. 3 00 Sales of personal property, ten days, 1 sqr. 1 50 Sale of land ornegroea by Executors, he. pr eqr. 5 00 E-traya. two weeks 1 50 Por a man advertising his wife (in ndVnnee,) 5 00 fOLUME XXXIII.] COUNTING HOUSE CALENDAR, IOC; MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1S63 [NUMBER 3(\ ®AV® 7 ~- ^ = 5 G3AY§ 0 Feb’t Man. Juke i SS 3 4 JULY. 5 6 7 8 9 ion 12 13 1115 16 17 |p .'-•2021 222324«j •it 21 28293031 1 August 2 ' 3 4 5. 6, 7 8 9 1011 12 12 IS 15 10 17 Id 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 Setter 2 3 4 5678 2 1011 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 21 25 -J6 27 28 29 3031 12 5 4 SOctob’i: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 21*25 26 27 2a 25 30 1.2 3 Novjcm 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 U 12 13 14 15 16 17 16 19202122 2324. 25,26 27 2829 30 31 Deceit. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 6 9 10 11 12 1314 15 16 17 18 19 20 21. 22 23 24 25 2627 28 29 30, 1 2 S’ 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 n i2 13 14 15 16 17 is ]9 ■20 21 22 23 24 25 ‘'6 27 28 29 30 31 , „ 1 2 3 4 5 6 ,89 10 II 12 13 14 15 J6 17 18 19 20 21 22 03 21 2526 27 28 25 ~() 31 1 ‘2 S i ft fi 7 8. 9 10 11 12 13 j 14 15 16 17 IS 1980 21 22 2324 25 26 .>7 28 29 30 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 910,| 12 13 14 15 16 17 ]8 118 29 21 22 23 24 262728.29 3031 2 3 4 5 6 7 q 9 10 11 12 1314 16 i“ 18 19 2021 A 22 2 s 2:? *26 27 28.,() 30 1 2 3 4 5 p, The Bmtie of .yinrrirrsboro'. , reached within perhaps ahnndred paces of A correspondent of the Chattannonga j the coveted object, but were again rcpuls- Rebel. writing from Murfreesboro’, gives ! cd. TIte batteries of Cobb and Byrne, I the annexed account of tlx* battle that' believe, aided these charges by a most recently occurred near that place: j energetic simultaneous bombardment of | own hands '1 ltd ankecs came out from Nashville J the hill. Night was now closing in, and a week ago, Dec. 25, with baggage mark- , we wero compelled to relinquish the at- cd to Bridgeport and Chafanooga. j tempt to take the stronghold, and darkness A column confronted Den. Hardee’s ' closed that day, and gave history one of corps d’annee, say at Tribune—another ' the bloodiest chapters of the war. General Polk’s advance, at Lavergne. Such was the battle of- Wednesday— Heavy skirmishing Friday and Saturday j such the triumph of Confederate aims—a Dec. 27, on both lines. Result found, on i victory glorious and complete, as far as Sunday morning, a Confederate batttle I it went, but it was not consummated. We liuu, say six miles long, three to four miles j thought at one time that the Yankees in front of Murfreesboro; Yankees at j were as good as routed, but it appears Stewart s Creek ten miles from there, ad-j they were not. But they did one thing I These preparations were completed short vanciDg upon Bridgeport and Chattanooga. | that night and that was to leave the hill | ly after your departure from the seat of in the same strain, and closes by declaring [ that second Union, and when, still later that “in anticipation of general dissolution j the othej seven States, now members of so alarmingly impending, the Northwest this Confederacy beoamo almost members must pr epoch to fake her destiny into her • 0 f (lie same Union, it was upon recogni- President’s TiSsssage. To the Senate and House of Representa tives of the Confederate States: At the date of your last adjournment zed footing of equal and independent sov- cieignties, nor Lad it then entered into the minds of men that sovereign States could be compelled, by force, to remain mem bers of a Confederation into which ^hey bad entered of their own free will, if at a subsequent period, the defense of their the preparations of the enemy for farther | safety and honor should, in their judge- hostilities bad assumed so menacing aspect meat, justify withdrawal. The expeti- as to excite in some minds apprehensions 1 ence pf the past had evinced the futility of our ability to meet them with sufficient of any renunciation of such inhetent rights promptness to avoid serious reverses.—r- and accordingly the provision for perpetu ity contained in the articles of the Confed eration of 1788 was omitted in the Consti- 1 hat day and Monday we entrenched and ! for which we had so hard a struggle, and j Government and the armies of the United tution of 17S9. When, therefore, iu 1861 got otherwise ready. Yankees approached | retired their line from that point some t States, made simultaneous advance on our j eleven of the States again thought proper slowly, getting ready too. They say : half a mne back This fact suggests that j frontiers, on the rivers aud on the Allan- | for reasons satisfactory to themselves, to 50,000 strong wo “ragged rebels” about I it was really untenable by i .ason of some j tic in masses so great as t<> evince their I secede from the second Union, and to •jO.OOO. j weakness of theirs somewhere. j nope of overbearing all resistance by mere ■ form a third one under an amended Con- 10 11 12 'l uesduy morning Dec. 30, the artillery ou both sides exchanged, cold, distant signs ot recognition; they then greeted j then, I may say, shook lisnds; and then got very warm generally, and kept up a most confoundedly brisk and noisy series j and making nearly of demonstrations till night. Gen. Bragg j sullen and morose. 13 14 15 16 17 is 19 2! 22 23 24-25 26 7 7 28 2930 3) BOOK-BINDING The Subscriber is now pro Jv Y " v" \ pared to <]o Sooli'Eind- in?, in *11 it* branches. —. Old Rooks rebound, Ate. MUSIC bound in the best style. Blank Books manufactured to order. Prompt attention will be given to all wotk cutiustud to me. h S. J. KIDD. (Bouliirrn Frdnnl I nion OflEre. 43 COURT CALLENDER FOR 1SB3. supE&.Toa couass. JANUARY. , JULY. Bindery Milledgeville, March 19th, 1861. SPECIAL NOTICE. rpHE undersigned having removed from Mil- 1 lcdgeville desires and intends to close up Ins business matters of that place speedily ns possi ble. All persons indebted are notified that the uo-.esand neconnts are in tbe hands of J. A. Breedlove, ar.dP. H.Lawler,who nreauthori z’d to collect and make settlements If not ar ranged at an early day, settlements will be enforced bv law. U t f. A. C. VAIL, Agent. Western & Atlantic (State Railroad. •r 2(1 Mondav, ( li/illutm. •' ' ‘Floyd FEBRUARY. 1st Monday, Clark t Lumpkin 3d Monday, Campbell Dawson 3d Monday, Forsyth Polk Glascock Slerriwetker Walton Houston 4th Monday, Baldwin Jackson Monroe Paulding Taliaferro Walker MARCH. 1st Thursday. Pierce 1st Mondav, Floyd* AUGUST. 1st Monday Lunipkint ;2d M inday, Campbell Claik Dawson id Jlonday, Forsyth Poltt Glascock Me.rriwelher Walton Houston 4th Monday, Baldrv iu J acksou Monroe Paulding Taliaferro Walker Thusday after, I’ierco SEPTEMBER. Atlanta .0 Cbaitanooga, 138 Miles, Pare $0 00 JOHN sTeOWLAM), SirT. 7 30 P. M. 4 f>7 A. M. 4 f'11 A. M. ir. P. M. Passenger Train Leave Atlanta at Arrive at Chattanooga at.... — Leave Atlanta at Arrive at Chattanooga at Accommodation t’or-scii^er Train. Leave Atlanta J40P.M. Arrive at Kingston 0 :>/ P. M. Leave Kingston * - 7" », Arrive at Atlanta 8 4;> A. M. Tins Road cotinects each way with the Rome Branch Kaiirond at Kingston, the East Tennessee A. Georgia Railroad at Dalton, and the Nashville A Chattanooga Railroad at Chattanooga. July 29, 1 '!)2. Appling Chattooga C’liattociga Cherokee Cherokee Columbia Coweta Coweta Columbia C rawfoi d Crawford 51 adison Gwinnett Marion M adison 51 organ Marion 2d 5Ionday, Butts - Morgan Bartow Butts * Coffee Bartow Elbert Coffee Fayette Elbert Greene Fayett Gwinnett Greene Pickens Pickens Washington Washington 5Velister 10 tf. Webster 3d Monday,oCobbt Calhoun . Hall Hart Heard M aeon Newton Talbot Tattnal Wai e Thursday after White Friday after, Bulloch 4th Monday, Clinch Putnam Rabun Chat talioocliee Lee Twiggs Wilkes Johnson Milton Thursday after Ilabershain^er the 4thThursday, Montgomery :3d Monday, Cobbt Calhoun Hall llait Heard Macon Newton Talbot Ware Bulloch Hiu red ay a ft e r W h i t e “.h Monday, Clinch Putnam Chattahoochee Lee Twiggs Wilkes Johnson Milton Rabun [Thursday after Habersham 5Ionday af-) • 4th >1 ' ( Echol ’ ( Ellin; ols ham New Arrangement. Ly Change of Schedule, on and of ter filondcy 11 to inst THE Nnhscrihersare convey- XITSk, ing the C. 8. Mail lrom ^ld* -dgevilte via Sparta, Culvcr-’gp96^p5$;|££2^’ IV. '1-,and would respectfully invite the at'entionol tneir friends ami the travelling public, to tlieir new »ni 1 implete arrangement for travelling facilities over this line. SCHEDULE—LeaveMilledgeviDe after the arnva of t- i : s from Columbus. Mai • n and Savannah; Ar. five in Sparta at 6 o’clock I’. M. and at Double Well? nine evening. Leave Double Wells a'tcr the arrival of morning trains from Augusta. Atlanta and Athens; Arrive a! Sparta 11 o’clock, A. M. ; Arrive at Milledgeville same evening. . , , , . With good Hacks, fine Stock aud careful drivers, weeolimaliberalpatronage.^^ & F0 RBS. sia-i- O tUcem—Milled acril/i Hotel Milled srerille-, Ga Fdirards.’ Horse. ISnarto Moore's Hold, Double Wells. July 11,1859. b tf ~ joarf s?. sOwTSOaN - , ATTORNEY AT LAW, F.atonton, Ga., Feb. 14, I860- 50 Saw Cotton Gin for Sale. ONE of WATSON'S best 50 Saw Cotton Gins, it off. r»d for sale. This Gin is new, and is equal to anv iu use. Soldforno fault, the present ow ners having no use for it. Any planter wanting* good Gin,can Lave a chance to get one at * re " ductl- n on the regular price. Apply at this office, r .V.TIO or J. IT. Wa»«QU. at Albany 1EJ1ALE AUAUEML MISS ADAMS will re open her school at the Female Academy on Monday Dec. 2Dfb. -tev Wr Brooks will continue to teach the classes in Algebra and Latin. Terms for the highest class for a session of _ 20 weeks ... - - $2.1 For the other Classes, - * * Latin and French, each, . - 15 Boys will also he received as pupils. School hours from 8A to 2, o'clock. rv'Haif payment will be required in advanse Mill* dguvillo. Dec. 22d. 1862. ®1 4^- OKXKSLXEBUTLEK mt’LB. 1RVI5. IRVIN & BUTLER, • ATTORNEYS AT LAI, ALBANY, Georgia. DP.ACTICE in the Superior Courts of the Soutl I W esternCircuit,—in Terrell. Randolph, and Ear- '. T countie*, in the Patanla Circuit,—in Worth and Ma- C'<ti Countiei., i n (he Macon Circuit, in the United Circuit Court at Savannah,—and by Bpecia • rontract.in any County in Southern Georgia. •anuary let’I860. 34 tf - Monday af ter 4th Mon- day. APRIL. 1st & 2d Mon. Carroll 1st Monday, Dooly Franklin Emanuel Early Fulton Gordon Pike Taylor Wnrrcn Wilkinson Thnrsd’yafter Banks 2d Monday, Hancock Richmond llairis Laurens Miller Sumter Tuesday’ after, McIntosh 3d Monday, Glynn Haralson Henry J ones Liberty M nrray < tglethorpe Pulaski Stewart Monday Worth after* ‘Bryan 4th Monday,Wayne Decatur DeKulb Jasper Lineoln Schley Whitfield • Wilcox Friday after, Telfair Camden Thursday after, Irwin Monday “ Berrien Charlton MAY 1st Monday. Clayton S01 iven Randolph Uiisoi Od^Monday, Catoosa Jefferson Chatham * Mitchell 51 useogee Gilmer Thursday after T annin, Id Monday, Bibb Burke Qnittman Spalding Troup I'nion Baker Tliursdav after Towns Itb 51onday, Dade Ter-ell Last Monday, Colquitt JUNE. 1st 5Ionday, Lowndes Dougherty 2d Monday, Brooks Clay 3d Mondav, Thomas entrenches—the blue coats work like beavers. They are great on trenches, and calls it, I learn, au artillery duel. At about ally in the tones of artillery in reply to 10 a. m., or sooner, both parties threw lor- ! some promptings from us. In the eveninj ward skirmishers, and they popped at each : the pickets exchanged compliments. K other with what a beginner would call 1 amazing resolution. At 11 and 1*2 o’clock it rained smartly, but the skirmishers kept on. When tlio clouds broke away, a brisk west wind, changing round to north west, made it cool, and tbe skirmishers became still more resolute. This occurred chiefly on cur left, aud indicated that the enemy was going to throw most of his weight in thit direction, and so turn our position upon that wing. Gen. Bragg, therefore, transferred General Claborne’s division from otr right to the left, about sundown. Our forces at the cldSe were dis posed tints: r llie divisions of Gens: Mc- Cown and Clahoine on our left, Withers and Cheatham in the centre, and Breck inridge on the riglit. One of their regiments Undertook to charge one of our batteries, Robertson'*’ r T’h“y onnfo „ r b anti were nearly all shot* down, and the remaining few retired, On Wednesday Horning, at half past six, according to precious arrangement, the attack was brought on by a vigorous advance of our left. It was a surprise to the enemy, who was eating his breakfast. He flew to arms, and, vs best he could, formed his lines to receivt us. Under the circumstances, he did it 4v.ll, but our col umn moved with so mucj precision and celerilty that lie was drivei.from point to point with most astonishing ripidity. Very, soon McCown, Claborne, withers and Cheatham were bearing down with an im petuosity and power utterly resistless.— Battery after battery was cha-ged, taken, and left behind the advancing legions.— Through field aud woods, overrocks and fences, they swept with the fury of a whirl wind, pausing at nothing, but O’ercoming everything that lay in their with the most unyielding courage anl deter mination. It required such lierov; pluck I to do it, for the enemy generally rmhitain- j Thursday was a bright day. The lines j weight of numbers. This hope, however, ; stitation, they exercised a riglit which bc- sti!l confronted. Rosencrans had formed 1 like those previously entertained by our , ing inherent, required no justification to his lines south of the Nashville turnpike, | foes, ba3 vanquished. In Virginia, their ! foreign nations, and which international gradually diverging from it still holding j fourth attempt by invasion by armies law did not permit them to question. The ' ‘ tight where it rested on Wednesday, j wh*c assured success was confidently pre- usages of intercourse between nations do, a right angle. He is j dieted, has met with decisive repulse. .Our however, require that official communica- Ile speaks occnssion- j noble defenders under the consumate lead-) tioti be made to friendlj’- powers of all or- great in fortifications. Imandedhy Generals McDowell, McCIel Friday the same as Thursday, with an j ] a n and Pope. ership of their general, have again, at i ganic changes in the Constitution of States Fredericksburg, inflicted on the forces uu- and there was obvious propriety' in giv der General Burnside tlio like disastrous : ing prompt assurance of our desire to con- overthrow as had been previously suffered ! finite amicable relations with all mankind, by the successive invading armies com- : It was under the influence of these consid- exception. Rosencrans advances bis left across Stone’s River, where it runs north wardly. Iu tlio afternoon, about three o’ clock, General Breckinridge with our right, advances also. Till dark they fought with very great desperation and very close. It was exceedingly bloody. We drove them across the river, but en countered so vast a body so securely post ed that we retired to our position again.— Our loss, for numbers engaged, 5vas very heavy. It was here General Hansen re ceived his almost fatal wound. . Since Wednesdn-r- *~>»f*ixng Dec. 31, our cavalry under Gens. Wheeler and 5vnarton have been very active. They have made a complete circuit of llie enemy twice, capturing aud destroying several In the West obstinate battles have been fought with varying fortunes, mark ed by frightful carnage on both sides, but the enemy’s hopes of decisive results leave again been baffled, while at Vicksburg another foimidable expedition has been repulsed with inconsiderable loss on our side and severe damage to the assailing forces. On the Atlantic coast the has been unable to eai>’ 7 tooting beyond the prote<*G”& sueiter of bis fleets, and the n -.tj of Galveston has just been recovered by our forces, which succeeded not only in the capture of the garrison, hut of one of the enemy’s vessels of war, which was car ried from boarding parties from merchant river steamers. Our fortified positions have every where been much strengthened hundred wagons loaded with munitions j a nd improved, affording assurance of and supplies, the enemy’s stores at Lr vergne aud Nolensville, about a thousand head of horses and mules, besides killing a number of the Yankees, including a Brigadier General, and taking several hundred prisoners. On Wednesday they rendered great service in picking up and securing prisoneis, and the capture of artillery, Ac., then madr. They on ,7an. 1st and 2d, reported that the movements of the enemy in his rear, his trains, See., were indicative of a speedy retreat, but no such indications appear on his front lines. On the contrary, his entrenching goes on, and his advance acrose the river Jan. 2, might be construed into a purpose to stay where lie is until rested, preparetory to continuing liis journey to Bridgeport and Chattanooga. As addendum, I must mention an inci dent of Wednesday’s battle. Gen. Alex ander McDowell AIcCook’s headquarters ETHE.RIDG6. 8c SON, factor*, Ccraitiission and Forwarding merchants, SAVANNAH, CA. * D - ETHF.RIUGE. W. D. ETHERIDGE, .Tt. 13th, 1656. Messrs 8 tf Echols 51on.tav ) OCTOBER. 1st & 2d M”ii. Cairoll lst5Ionday, Dooly Emanuel Franklin Early Fulton Gordon Taylor Warren Wilkinson Ttko Thursday after Banks 2d Monday, Richmond • Gilmer Hancock Harris Laurens Miller Sumter ;Thursday after Kalinin. 3d -Monday, Glynn Haralson Henry Jones Murray Oglethorpe Pulaski Stewart Union W»rtli Thursday after Towns Thursday J Montgomery 1 after * 4th5Ionday, Wayne Decatur DeKulb Jasper Lincoln Hehlcv Tattnall Whitfield Wilcox Friday after, Telfair . Camden Thursday after. Irwin Mondav after Charlton • NOVEMBER. 1st Jlonday, Berrien Se riven Glnyton Effingham Randolph I'pson 2d Monday, Catoosa Jefferson Mitchell Muscogee ',3d 51 o: day, Bibb Burke Quittmnn Spalding Troup Bakeii 4th Jlonday. Dade Terrell Thursday afler, McIntosh Monday “ Colqmtt >. “ Liberty 5Ion. »ft er rJ ’ an DECEMBER. 1st Monday, Dougherty % Lowndes 2d Monday,IBrooks Clay eel his order, and poured torrents of lead j "'ere at the chateau of a gentleman resident and iron into our rauks. But at every j in the rear of their lines. He commanded volley from them, our men compomded the enemy’s right wing. When lie heard the interest on the loan, driving then still I the lirst sound of our attack lie was enga- on aud back. By one o’clock wo had i ged iu shaving. Ho instantly rose, say- forced their entire right wiug hack toon j ing, without addressing anybody, in a their centre, and their centre back u,on j contused and excited manner, “That is the right extremity of tlieir left, doublhg contrary to orders!” He ordered his their lines upon themselves, and in son* ; horse to be brought without delay, and, measure, massing them in a now posi i turning to the gentleman in whose house tj on- * lie was, hurriedly asked : “Who is oppo- It must be remembered that all this l^-g me to-day ?” ‘‘Major General Cleat- fighting and driving was from tlieir right l ^t. Gen. JVcCook turned ashy pale, to tlieir left. The battle line extending trembling from some nameless eino- eneral direction from South to North, tu «. rejoined : “Is it possible I have to the pathway of the battle lay in the same Cheatham again ? _ He mounted direction. The enemy was, therefore, not »sWsc and rode away, without finishing . great way further from Bridgcpoit and the .vtercsting operation 111 which he was Chattanooga at this point and time than in tlie morning when the battle opened. That is to say, lie was not driven back ability to meet, with success, the utmost efforts of our enemies, in spite of the mag nitude of their preparations for attack. A review of our history during the two years of our national existence affords am ple cause for congratulation and demands the most fervent expression of our thank fulness to the almighty father who has blessed our cause. We are justified in as serting, with a pride, surely not unbecom ing. that these Confederate States have added another to the lessons taught by orations that your predecessors, the Pro visional Government, took early measures for sending to Europe commissioners charged with the duty of visiting the cap itals of the different powers, and making arrangements for tbe opening of more for mal diplomatic intercourse. Prior, however, to the arrival abroad of those commissioners* th® United States had commenced hostilities against the Confederacy by dispatching a secret ex pedition for the reinforcement of Fort Sumter, after an express promise to the contrary, and with a duplicity which has been fully unveiled in a foimer message. They had also addressed communications to the different cabinets of Europe, in which they assumed the attitude of being sovereign over this Confederacy, alleging that these independent States were in re bellion agfcinst the remaining States of the Union, and threatening Europe with manifestations of their displeasure if it should treat the Confederate States as having an independent existence. It soon became known that these pretensions were considered abroad to be absurd as they were known to be at home, nor had Europe yet learned what reliance was to be placed on the official statement of tlie Cabinet at Washington. The delegation of power granted by these States to the Federal Government to represent them in history for the instruction of man; that j foregn intercourse had led Europe iDto they have afforded another example of the the grave error of supposing that their mpossibility of subjugating a people de termined to be free; and have demonstra ted that no superiority of numbers or avail able resources can overcome the resistance offered by such valor in combat, such con stancy under suffering, and such cheer ful endurance of privation as have been conspicuously displayed by this people in the defence of their rights and liberties. The anticipations with which we entered into contest have now ripened into a con viction which is not only shared with 11s separate sovereignty and independence had been merged into one common sov ereignty, and had ceased to have a dis tinct existence. Under the influence of this error, which all appeals to reason and historical fact were vainly used to dispel^ our commissioners were met by the decla ration that foreign Governments could not assume to judge between the conflict ing representations of the two parties as to the true nature of their previous mutual relations. The Governments of Great by tbe common opinion of neutral nations : Britain and France accordingly signified but is evidently forcing itself upon our cn- j their deteimination to confine themselves emies themselves. If we but mark the j to recognizing the self-evident fact of the history of the present yearly resolute per- existence of a war, aud to maintaining a severance in the path we have hitherto pur- j strict neutrality during its progress.— sued; by vigorous effort in the development Some of the other powers of Europe pur- of all our resources for defence; and by con- ■ sued the same course of policy, and it be- tinued exhibition of the same unfaltering ! came apparent that by some understand- courage in our soldiers and able conduct in ing. express or tacit, Europe had decided their leaders as have distinguished the to leave the initiative in all action touching past, we have every reason to expect that j the contest on this continent to the two this will be the closing year of the war. j * 1 ~ — : A c.’frOfcJ «.t Gin ffnttle’o nla >. Tl>»* dnx ' Gen. Wharton came along with his caval- westwardly upon Nashville. We seemed to have made a pivot of the riglit of our centre, and turned our line upon it, and, by fighting and driving, changed it from a north and south to a nearly east nnd wis‘. , direction. The battle opened to the right , and near the Murfreesboro’ and Salem ry an\took charge of all Gen. AIcCook’s baggayj ; and 1 really haven’t heard wlietbe-he is done shaving yet. lie had met Chuthain.at Fcrryville, and it is pos sible lie Dresaw what was in store for ^ie light wing that day. of the war. powers just named, who were recognized The war, which in its inception, was . to have the largest interest involved, both waged for forcing us back into the Union, 1 by reason of proximity and of the extent bavliis failed to accomplish that purpose, | and intimacy of their commercial rela- passed into .a second stage in which it u-os tion with the States engaged in the war. Tl io I *1 *. »I _ £• 1! Turnpike, and at this period had passed across the Triune Dirt Road, the W ilkin- Anoth-r Dissolution Impcndiug. A generj smash up of the United States is n»w considered inevitable by sou or Nolensville Turnpike and approach- , uaI1 y beside the people of the South, cd the Nashville Turnpike aiid the Nash- At tlieNortb tl»probabilities are being dis ville and Chattanooga Railroad. I p to CUS scd general!;, and the number who not this time and this point our victory wns on ]y admit that there can be no Union so complete and overwhelming. We had f ar as the South are concerned, hut also driven the foe some four or five miics, cap- think a dissolution of the remaining States tured about 4.000 prisoners, including w jh take place, at--,not few. We find the three Generals, some thirty-five pieces oi following in the Chicago Times artillery, and inflicted a loss upon the enc- attempted to conquer and ruin these | It is manifest that the course of action States as dependent provinces. Defeat- adopted by Europe, while based ou an ap-. in this second design, our enemies have ; parent refusal to determino tho .question, evidently entered upon another, which or to side with either party, was in point of can have no other purpose than revenge 1 fact an actual decision againt our rights and thirst for blood and plunder of private ! and in favour of tho groundless proten- property. But however impracticable sions of tho United States. It was a re- tlicy may be, they can have neither the ! fusal to treat us as an independent Gov- spirit nor the resources required for a j eminent. If we wero independent States, fourth year of a struggle uncheered by j the refusal to entertain with us the same any hope of success, kept alive solely for 1 international intercourse as was maintaiu- the indulgence of mercenary and wicked cd with our enemy was unjust, and was in- passions, and demanding so exhaustive an jjurious in its effects, whatever may have expenditure of blood and money as has I been the motive which prompted it.— hitherto been imposed on their people. : Neither was it in accordance with the The advent of peace will be hailed with high moral obligations of that internation- joy. Our desire for it has never been a l code whose chief sanction is the con- ' T the ^ CODCea ^ e! ^’ Our efforts to avoid the war, ; science of sovereigns and the public opin- a,o ic j f ovcec j Qn ns as was* by the lust of con- j ion of mankind, that those eminent pow ers should decline the performance of a iarly incumbent on them, from . . . . „.i • j “ "ltimo . A . ■, ! quest and the insane Mesions of our foes, 1 ers should my treble our own, to B a, nothing of the Htstory does not make us acquainted | 1 to inallki !hh But earnest as duty pecul small arms and personal equipage sire* n with so deplorable allure as this admin- ; our wish e and great as any apprehension of the consequences to from Dan to Bersheba. miration. It has nevfer demanded men : have beeu our 8acrific ^ s a nd sufferings du 'themselves. One immediate and necessa Here, however, the enemy rallied all hut more were tortlicottung than it de ® ,r r j n „ the war, the determination of this 1 ry result of their declining the responsi his energies for a desperate struggle.— ed, and.it lias ne5er ased tor money nut Je has w ; th eac h SUC ceeding month be- bility of a decision which must have been Fortune favored him, and the wily Rosen- its lap w r as filled to o.ernow’ing. . >* itb , u —„., a anv 4s\ ♦V»« r.vtroronmnf nrntnneifma nf crans availed himself of the favor, front of ourxight centre, say rose a naked oval hill commanding in all directions—not very high, but-exceedingly available. Upon this hill lie placed a crown of twenty guns, more or less, imme diately supporting them by a brigade of regulars, and holding an infinite.numher as a secondary support. In addition to this lie had ranged other batteries on the slopes nt the foot of the hill, raking the come unalterable and fixed, to endure any adverse to the extravagant pretensions of be favor. In tfiese unlimited means and nearly two j fferi d con tinueany sacrifices, liow : - the United Stales, was the prolongation a mile distant ^ 1 e ™ r Pronged, until their right of self | of hostilities to which our enemies were prolonged, 1 . 1 ' government and the sovereignty and inde- thereby encouraged and which have re Asto military successes we have had i b _ii-i.„..„ 1 : ,i.:„„ v„* „<• 3d 5Innday Tliomas at each i. II. & L. II. KENAN, Associated in the Practice of Law Office 1st Door upon "2d floor of . MASONIC HALL. I»n-23d.ia'7. 35 tf. J. A. & W. W. TURNER, attorneys at law. Eatonton, Ga* 6t81u,,tj |gg| 9 It. May holds three weeks, ifr.ecessary, tJuJfre not reqnired t( Y^/'weeks’^Court weeks; and not obliged to hold t ^ in eonr.ties of Cohh and Lumpkin. — NEW G °5? I>S FROM THE LATE Charleston Package Sales. A A Tds. English Ginghams. 600 -EMs. English Shamhrays. 890 Yds. English Calicoes. 300 Yds. Canton Tlannei. PINS, NEED&ES, BAX& IPXWSi LINEN Tine Combs, White Cotton Soso, tLc-.m c., JUST RECEIVED and lor & CO- * Millcdgarille, Dec. «»tb. “ none subsequent reverses reverses are now, strength is greater than it harbeen at any time in the future. But if the army were doused, what j ground of hope? Is not the mor^J strength i surrounding plain. Brigadier General j of our cause gone?- Do we long,^ present Chalmers, supported by Brigadier Gen eral Donelson, was ordered to take the position. Y'ou can easily imagine llie infinite danger of the charge, but you can scarcely immagiue the steady heroism with which these men advanced to it and made it. The storm which poured upon them, including all the short range missiles was incredibly severe. Our shattered columns stood in the midst of that tempest long enough to bring off two batteries.— General Bieckinridge, who held our right, north of Stone’s river, and who had not been previously engaged, was now ordered across, with a view of relieving our wea ried columns and taking the hill. The brigades of Generals Adams and Jackson were formed and sent forward. They imitated the coolness and courage of their predecessors, going forward with alacrity aud firmness. They met the same tempest of shell, grape, and canister and musketry | and recoiled. They again rallied, and ! mshing with almost superhuman devotion, 1 complexly enveloped by the tornado, to military succesaeb we navenau , "deuce of these States shall have been suited in nothing hut t 11 tose u ues ta iceu os ^ , triumphantly vindicated and firmly estab-, and devastation on this auent reverses. And our greatest / ■' I . , when * U r military j llshed ' In this connection tlie occasion seems not unsuitable for some reference to the relations between the Confederacy and the neutral powers of Europe since the separation of these States from the former the grand, heroic spectacle of \ people ! Union. striving for the perpetuity of their' nation- ! Four of the States now members of the ality? On the contrary, have \» e not Confederacy were recognized by name as dwarfed the war to the pitiful dittr^sious j independent sovereignties in a treaty of of a contest as to what shall be the status > peace, concluded in the year 1783, with of the debased and irreclaimably lafrbar- | one of the two great maratime powers of, ous negro amongst us/ And as te this ' TT estern Europe, and had been, prior to mean contest, are the people of the iGrth ’ that period, allies in war of the other. In united/ On the contrary, are they jot the year 177S they formed a I nion with about to become so divided that the \\W . nine other States under articles of C in fed- 1 r»LTcSis i * * w.*«.- ht of the i tage conferred on the aggressors in scenes of carnage continent, and of misery and suffering on the other, such as have scarcely a parallel in history. Had those powers promptly admitted our right to be tieated as all other independent na tions, none can doubt that the moral effect of such action would have been to dispel the delusion underwhicli tbeUnited .States have persisted in tlieir efforts to accom plish our subjugation. To the continued hesitation of the same powers in rendering this act of simple justice towards this Confederacy is still due the continuance of the calamities which mankind suffers from the interruption of its peaceful pur suits, both in the old and the new worlds. There are other matters in which less than justice has been rendered to this peo- broken, perhaps, into more man iv« ; three ot them, \ lrginia, - . . - parts? and Georgia, together with eight of the tage conferred on the These will he the fruits of Abolitionism.i States now members of the United States. > "H-ked war. A the inception of ■ These will be the fruits of the election ot needed from it in 1789 and these eleven | Hies the inhabitants of the Confederacy an Abolitioral sectional candidate to the ^ceding States formed a second Union. l were almost ^Ju^cdy^ agriculturalists. Presidency—fruits long ago predicted by ^though by tho terms of the articles ot those of the United States to g the best statesmen of the land. The fa- Confederation express provision - ' vas tent,niecha ! 1,csandinercb ^. ’, ; naticism and corruption, and folly, and in- m\de that the first Union should be per- mo commercial marine, while^ them mer ” ’ - ■ • p'tual- Their right to secede notwith-, chant vessels covered the^ocean. We steading this provision, was neither con- competence which preside at the fountain have poisoned the whole stream, and the demoralization so enervating and paraly zing at Washington enfeebles and pros trates every branch of the public service. The Times indulges in many remarks were without a navy, while they had 3ffhV L P = n ’frr which they powerful fleets. The. advantage* "bich .h, ,uh je c L?f aw | sion »ith anv third power. When at a , . lat4"riod, North Carolina acceded to anced in some measure by the exposure of their commerce to attack by private armed vessels. It was known to Europe that within a few years past the United states had peremptorily refused to accede to proposals for abolishing privateering, on the ground, as alleged by them, that nations owning powerful fleets would thereby obtain undue advantage over those possessing inferior; naval forces. Yet no sooner was war flagrant between the [ Confederacy and tbe United States, than i the maratime powers of Europe issued or- i ders prohibiting cither party from bringing prizes into ihcir ports This prohibition directed with apparent impartiality against both belligerents, rvas in reality effective against the Confederate States alone, for they alone could find a hostile commerce ou the ocean. Merely nominal against tbe United States, the prohibition opera ted with intense severity on the Confed eracy, by depriving it of the only means of maintaining, with some approach to equality, its struggle on the ocean against the crushing superiority of naval force possessed by its enemies. The value and efficiency ot the weapon which was thus wrested from our grasp by the combined action of neutral European powers in fa vor of a nation whiefi professes openly its intention of ravaging their commerce by privateers in any future war, is strikingly illustrated by the terror inspired -among the commercial classes of the United States by a single cruiser of the Confederacy. One national steamer commanded by offi cers and manned by a crew who are de barred, by the closure of ueutral ports, from the opportunity of causing captured vessels to be condemned in their favor as prizes, lias sufficed to double the rates of marine insurance in Northern ports and consigned to forced inaction numbers of Northern vessels, in addition to the direct damage inflicted by captures at sea. How difficult, then, to overestimate the effects that mush have been produced by the hundreds of private armed vessels that would have swept the seas in pursuit of the commerce of our enemy, if the means of disposing of tlieir prizes had not been withheld by the action of neutral Europe! But it is especially in relation to the so called blockade ef our coast that the policy of European powers has been so shaped as to cause the greatest injury to the Confederacy, and to confer signal ad vantages on the United States. The im portance of this subject requires some de- 5’elopmenf. Prior to the year 1856, the principles regulating this subject %vere to be gath- eicd from the writings of eminent pub licists, the decisions of admiralty courts, * international treaties, and the usages of nations. The ur.certinty and doubt which prevailed in reference to the true rules of maratime law, in time of war, resulting from the discordant and often conflicting principles announced from such Varied and independent sources, had become a grievous evil to mankind. Whether a blockade was allowable against a port not invested by land as well as by sea; wheth er a blockade was valied by sea if the investing fleet was merely sufficient to render ingress to the blockaded port “evi dently dangerous,” or whether it was further required for its legality that it should he sufficient “really to prevent access,” and numerens other similar ques tions had remained doubtful and undeci ded. Animated by the highly hononrable desire to pnt an end “to differences of opin ion between neutrals and belligerents, which may occasion serious difficulties aud even conflicts,” (I quote the official lan guage.) the five great powers of Europe, together with Sardinia and Turkey, adopt ed, in 1856, the following “solemn declar ation” or {rinciples. 1. Privateering is, and remains abolish ed 1 2. The neutral flag covers, enemy’a goods, with the exception of contraband of war. 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy’s flag. 4. Blockades, in order to bo binding, must he effective; that is to say, maintain ed by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy. Not only did this solemn decla* ation an nounce to the world the principles vo which the signing powers agreed to conform in future wars, but it contained a clause to which these powers gave immediate effect, and which provided that the States, not patties to the Congress ofParis, should be invited to accede to the declaration. Un der this invitation every independent State in Europe yielded its assent; at least, uo instance is known to me of a re fusal; aud the United States, while de clining to assent to the proposition which prohibited privateering, declared that the three remaining principles were in entire accordance with their own views of inter national law. No instance is known in history of the adoption of rules of public law under cir cumstances of like solemnity, with like - unanimity, aud pledging the faith of na tions with a sanctity so peculiar. When, therefore, the Confederacy was formed, and when neutral powers while deferring action on its demand for admis sion into the family of nations, recognized it as a belligerent power, Great Britain and France made informal proposals about the same time that their own rights as neutrals should be guaiantied by our ac- ceeding, as belligerents, to the declaration of principles made by the Congress of Baris.—The request was addressed to our sense of justice, and therefore met im mediate favourable response in the resolu tions of the Provisional CoDgresB of the 13th of August, 1861, by which all- the principles announced by the Congress of Paris were adopted as the guide of our conduct during the war, with the sole exception of that relative to privateering. As the right to make use of privateers was one in which neutral nations had. as to the present war, no interest; as it was a right which the United States had refus ed to abandon and which they remained at liberty to employ against ns; as it was a right of which we were already in actual enployment, and which we should not be expected to renounce floffrante hello against an adversary possessing an overwhelm ing superiority of naval forces, it was re served with entiro confidence that neutral nations could not fail to perceive that just reason existed for the reservation. Nor was this confidence misplaced, for the official documents published by the British Government, usually called “Blue Books,” contain the expression of the satisfaction of that government with the conduct of the- officials who conducted successfully the delicate business confided to their charge. These solemn declarations of principle, this implied agreement between the Con federacy and the two powers just named, have been suffered to remain inoperative against the menaces and outrages on neu tral rights, committed by the .United States with unceasing and progressing ap»

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