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Newspaper Page TextNiSBET & BARNES* Tabiiaaers and Proprietors. •i’jisrsssstH**— (Ti't Confckralt Snioit Ja pa Wished. Weekly, in Milledger'dlc, Ga., Gtruer of Hancock and Wilkinson S/s., (opposite Court House.) At $3 a year in Advance. kites of Ai»vr:jtTisi.'v«. Per square of hrelrelines. 0 : imcrilonSl 0t>, andnfty cents for eaclidubsequeni T UO: .....it without the specification of thenamberol itionswillbe published till forbid and charged jrdingly. . .+.»r i’rofe«>ioaal Cards, per year, where they iot excc’ d Six Links ... £10 00 ■0/ contract will be made with those who v <»/. to - ■/.« by the ycar,occnpying a specified, spare LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. S . ' «,.f Landand Negroes, by Administrator*. Kx- eeuiers or Guardians, arc required by law tube beid : be drat fae.tday lit tbe month; hot ween the hems of ] ! ia tbe forenoon uad three in the afternoon, at the Courthouse ia the county m which the properly is sit uated. ice of thesesetos must be gtren in a public ga- 4i) days previous to the day ofsalc. Notice ■ iorthe sale ofpersoua! property must begir- enin like manner it) days previous to sale day. Votieesto the debtors and creditors of an estate must al-io be published 40 days. Notice that application will be madetothe Courtof Or linary for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must be published for t wo months. Citations forieltersof Administration Guardianship, tee., must be published 30 days—for dismission from I Administration, monthly si.c months—for dismission j iroia Guardianship, 40 days. ! Utiles for foreclosure of Mori gage must be published monltJy for four months—for establishing lost papers, j for the full space of three non! •—for compelling titles from Executors or administrators, where bond lists been given bv the deceased, toe full space of three ! months. I’ub'if atioD” will always be continued according to those, the Ipgalreqeirements, unless otherwise ordered at the following GATES:_ Citations, on letters of administration, Sr c. $2 75 “ “ disraissorv from v4dtnrn. 4 5ft “ “ “ Guardianship. Leave to sell Land or Negroes Norie<- to debtors and creditors. 300 S ties of personal property, ten drys, l sqr. I 50 | Stleof land or negroes by Executors,&c. pr sqr. 50(1 F.trsvs, two weeks ’ •-*’ j I’or ainan advertising bis wife (in advance,) 5 00 ! V0IUV1E XXXIII.] MILLED GEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUE SD AT, FEB RU AR I 10, 1863. [NUMBER 3S. COUNTING HOUSE CALENDAR, 18G3. ©AYS, lAYg. •?' 72 ?' 'f v &' ?• ! s£l *a!s:*a' •Vf v. 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Blank Books manufactured to order. Prompt attention will be given to all work entinsted to me. S. J. KTPD. Bindrry In tXoutl-.orn Federal Union Office, i Millcdgeville, March 19th, 1861. dll : " SPECIAL NOTICE. F|ABE nnucrsignt-jl having removed from Mil- e ledgeville desires and intends to close up his husicess matters of that p!ae>- spir-iiiv as possi ble. All persons indebted are notified that the no; c« and accounts are in the bands of .T. A. Ilur.EDLOVF., andP. II. Lawler, who areauthoii- r. d to collect and make settlements If not ar ranged at an eaily day, settlements will be enforced b' law. ]:j tf. A. <?. VAIL, A^ent. Western L Atlantic (State Railroad. t.t' --r’-TUTyyrxy ssaz£ Atlanta to Chattanooga, 13: Miles, Fare $6 00 JOHN S. ROWLAND, Sett. Passt*sisci* Trniii. Leave Atlanta at 7 Arrive at ( ii.attauooga at 4 •“ A - ,: Accommoilatian Pannriist-i' Imin. Leave Atlanta 2 40 P. M - Arrive at Kingston ° Leave Kingston 4 30A.M. Arrive at Atlanta ^ 45 A M. This Rosri conueots each way with the Home Branch Railroad at Kingston, tbe East Tennessee 2t Georgia Railroad at Dalton, and the Nashville & Chat: inoog.a Railroad at Chattanooga. July‘29, 1.862. 10 tf. Hew Arrangement. of Schedule, on and after Monday 1 \th ir.st 72- . Change THE tribcrsare convey- gCZed .1 f "" Sparta Mail from Mil- 7 - via spuna, Cnlvor-Spppkff- ^j Well,,and would respectfully invite the attention ot •ir friends and tbe travelling public, to their new . complete arrangement for iravelling facilities over this line. SCHEDULE—LeaveMi’ledgevil'e after the ai riva id trains from Columbus. Macon and Savannah: Ar- nveiuSparta at6o’clockP.M. and at Double Wells Fi ne evening. Leave Double Wells a'teT the arrival of morning trains from Augusta. Atlanta and Athens; Arrive at eparta 11 o’clock, A. JI.; Arrive at Milleugeviilesame With good Hacks, fine Stock and careful drivers, we solicit a liberal patronage. MOORE Sc FORKS. Stag* oiac f•-Milled zerith I fotrt Milled Seville-,G a Edwards' Home. Sparta. Mooreds Hotel, Double Wells• July 11, 1859. 8 tf. JOIIiNr T. 2hQV&T*GZ1X, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BLTOSTOS, Si A. Eaton ton, Ga», Feb. 14, I860. S8tf. 50 SawCotionGin for Sale. ONE of WATSON'S best 50 Saw Cotton Gins, is ofit fed for sale. This Gin is new, and is equal to any in use. Sold for no fault, the present ow ners having no use for it. Any planter wantinga good Gin,can have a chance to get one at a^re duction on the regular price. Apply at this office. • o' N. Tift nr.l. H. Watson, at Albany FEMALE ALADERY. MISS ADAMS will re-open her school at the Female Academy on Monday Dec. 21>th. Rev Mr. Brooks w ill continue to teach the classes in Algebra and Laiin. v .v. t - • 20 weeks ... - * ” For the other Classes, - - * * I.atin and Fiencli. each, * Eoys will also be received as pupils. School hours from 8A to 2, o’clock. CVHulf payment will bo required in advance Milh dgeville, Dee. ‘22d. 18(52 31 tf. BAM L D. IRV1K. GREENLEEBtILEt, IRVIN & BUTLER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. ALBANY, Georgia. PRACTICE in the Superior Courts of the Soutl t Western Circuit.—in Terrell, Randolph, and Ear ly Counties ill the I’ntaula Circuit,—in Wortli and 51a <-un Counties, in the Macon Circuit, in the United s ' . Circuit Court at Savannah.—and by specia contract.in auy County in Southern Georgia. January 1st’ 18611. 34 tf. •2d Monday, Chatham. * ‘Floyd FEBRUARY. 1st Monday, Clark t Lumpkin 3d Monday, Campbell Dawson 3d Alonday, Forsyth Folk G lascock Merriwethei Walton Houston 1th Monday, Baldwin Jackson Monroe Paulding Taliaferro Walker MARCH. 1st Thursday. Fierce 1st Monday. Appling Chattooga Cherokee Coweta Columbia Crawford Gwinnett ii adison Marion Morgan 2d Monday, Butts Bartow Coffee Elbert F ayett Greene I’ickcns Washington Webster 3d Monday,* Cobbt Calhoun •Hull Hart Heard Macon Newton , Talbot Tattual W.-oc Thursday after White Friday alter,Bulloch t.li Monday, Clinch l'uni.nm Rabun Chattahoochee Lee Twiggs Wilkes Johnson Milton Thursday after Habersham IthTlinrsday, Montgomery Monday af-'i K( . h))l8 ter4th Mon- j Effing ham ‘ APRIL. 1st & 2d Mon.Carroll 1st Monday, Dooly Franklin Emanuel Early F niton Gordon l’ike Taylor Warren Wilkinsoa Tlinrsd’yaftcr Banks -d Monday, Hancock Richmond Harris Laurens Miller Sumter Tuesday after, Melutosli 3d Monday, Glynn Haralson Henry .Tones Liberty Murray Oglethorpe Pulaski St e wart Monday Worth after * - 'Bryan 4th Monday,Wayne Decatur DeKalb J asper Lincoln Scliley Whitfield Wilcox Friday after, Telfair Camden Thursday after, Irwiu Monday* “ Berrien Charlton MAY 1st Monday, Clayton Sen veil Randolph Upson 2d’Monday, Catoosa Jefferson Chatham MitchelJ ftxmrf Tharsday after Fannin, 3d Monday, Bibb Burke Quittman Spalding Troop Union Baker Thursday after Towns ttli Monday, Dade Terrell Last Monday. Colquitt JUNE. 1st Monday, Lowndes Dougherty 2d Monday. Brooks Clay 3d Mondav. Thomas 1st Mondav, F.ovd* AUGUST. list Monday Luinpkinf j2d M mday, Campbell Clark Dawson 3d 3Ionday, Forsyth Polk Glascock Mcrriwether AYalton Houston ith Monday, Baldwin Jackson Monroe Paulding Taliaferro Walker ' Thusday after, Pierce j SEPTEMBER. 1st Monday, Appling Chattooga Cherokee • Columbia Coweta Crawford Madison Marion Morgan Id Monday, Butts Bartow Coffee Elbert Fayette Greene' Gwinnett l’iekens Washington Webster 3d Monday, Cobbt Calhoun Hall Hart Heard; Macon Newton Talbot Wave Bulloch Thursday after White th Monday, Clinch Putnam Chattahoochee Lee Twiggs Wilkes Johnson Milton Rabun Thursday after Habersham Monday af-’J ter tbe 4th > Echols Monday ) OCTOBER, let Sc 2d Mon. Cairoll 1st Monday, Dooly Emanuel Franklin Early Fulton Gordon Taylor Warren Wilkinson Pike Thursday after Bunks 2d Monday, Richmond Gilmer Hancock Harris Laurens Miller Sumter Thursday after Fannin. 3d Moinluy, Glynn Haralson Henry Jones Murray Oglethorpe Pulaski Stewart Union W* rth i Thursday after Towns Thursday J Montgomery i after * 4th Monday. Wayne Decatur DeKalb Jasper Lincoln Sebley Tattnall • Whitfield Wilcox Friday after. Telfair Camden Thursday after, Irwin Mondav after Chariton NOVEMBER. 1st Monday, Berrien Seri veil Clayton Effingham Randolph • Upson ‘2d Monday, Catoosa Jefferson j Muscogee ■3d Monday, Bibb Burko Quittman Spalding Troup | Baker 4th Monday, Dade Terrell Thursday after, McIntosh Mondav* “ Colquitt •. “ Liberty Mon. after Liberty.'Bryan DECEMBER. 1st Monday, Dougherty Lowndes 2d Mondav,Brooks • Clay 3d Monday Thomas A Poet and a flcr®. A correspondent of the Mobile Registe. says the author of those touching lilies “All quiet along the Potomac to-night”— is Lamar Fontaine, a private in the Camp bell Rangers, 3d Regiment Virginia Cav alry. Ii e is tbe eldest son of the Rev. j Edward Fontaine, au Episcopal minister, ' residing near Jaekson, Mississippi, lie. was born in Washington county, Texas, in 1841, while his parents resided there, and was named alter his father’s intimate friend, Gen Mirabeau Lamar. Ilia career, as detailed by this corres pondent. reads like an Eastern romance, but bears such evidences ot truth that we copy tho substance of it, as follows: lie was a member of the Texas Ran gers, on the border, before, the war ; serv ed at Pensacola in the Mississippi Kiiles; was at the first battle of Manassas, where he was severely wounded; was in tiie bat tles of Front Royal, Cross Keys, and ail the actions of the Valley; near Manches ter, in company with John Moore, lie charged and took a Federal cannon, man ned by eight mon, and brought it olF to Gen. Ewell, who commended the act in his report. He was twice wounded, in the thigh and hip, near tS'trasburg, and soon after, while lying under a tree, a minie ball penetrated tho back of his neck, passing down his spine, where tho surgeons have A Winding Shrct far the I n soil. Since the Republican caucus at Wash ington, the New York Herald thinks that proofs rapidly thicken that the Radicals intend to close the war tho coming spring. There is only one more' experiment they wish to try, and that is to arm the negroes in the densely populated slave districts, and send them marauding through the country, stirring up a wide-spread and bloody servile insurrection. In comment ing on an article from tbe New York Tri bune. the World says: They think that sixty or ninety days will suffice for this infernal experiment, if it fails, they are then ready to abandon the contest; and dissolve the Union on the best term attainable This design is clear ly shadowed forth in a remarkable article in yesterday’s Tribune, from which we will quote enough to substantiate these charges. The head organ <u the radicals sets out the postulate that the rebellion can be extinguished in ninety days if ever. “We believe that it may be virtually crashed out within the next ninety days, and that it is far more likely to be within that term than ever afterward.” The fact that the Radical^ are ready to give up if ninety days or less do not finish the business crops out through fhe article, as will be seen in tho further quotations we will introduce. The financial basis that General Magruder, Harriet.Lane was taken, thoroughly re paired her, and without waiting for the late Mr. Mallory’s officers, sent her to sea under the command of Cant. Leon Smith, as bold and adventurous a spirit as tbe continent can boast. Known facts render it highly probable that he was the caring pirate who sent the Hatteras to David Jones’ locker-—Richmond Whig. been unable to^ find it. Since then h;s j recommended to sustain these brief opera- right leg and side have remained paralyz- tions is stated as follows: ed. Ho recovered sufficiently to obtain leave of absence from tho hospital at Charlottesville for several weeks, which he spent with his company in performing military duty, with his crutches tied to his saddle. In this condition he fought seven battles—Hazel River Bridge, War- renton Springs, the Rappahannock cr Waterloo Bridge, the batiien of the 29th, 30th aud 31st, at Manassas, and tho bat tle of Germantown. AYhile the enemy were shelling War- renton Springs, Gen. R. H. Anderson wished to ascertain what division of the army occupied the north bank of the Rap pahannock, opposite his position. He vol unteered to bring him the necessary in formation, swam the Rappahannock, sur prised three of the enemy’s armed pickets, and brought them across the river to tho General, who gave the crutched licro a certificate complimenting his skill and gal lantry. At the battle of Hazel river a min- nie ball broke one of his crutches, and one of the enemy’s horses without a jidcr ran against him and broke the other. In the second day’s fight at Manassas lie had a horse killed under him, and another tho day after at the battle of Germantown. While pursuing the enemy’s cavalry, a pistol shot penetrated his hat, grazed* his temple and knocked Lid off his horse. Since he has been pronounced incompetent to perform military duty on account of his wounds, and while acting as a volunteer on hospital furlough, he has captured six prisoners without any assistance, and kill ed many of tlie-enemy. In different bat tles he has had six horses shot under him, and I have no doubt has killed more of the enemy than any soldier iu our ar my. If skill, courage and hazardous and use ful service on the battle field desert e pro motion, he has nobly earned it. Just be fore the resignation of the Hon. <1. W. Randolph, he was recommended for pro motion by Gen. Ewell; but so far merit has been overlooked, and an “unknown hero,” capable of drilling and lending an army to victory, is a mutilated private, while scores of “cross road” politicians, unscathed by ball or sabre, and strung ers to the roar of battle, are commanding companies and regiments, Plnnting Friiif Tree*. Jack when'you have nothing else to do, ye may be sticking aye sticking in a tree ; it will be growing Jack, wheu ye’re sleeping.”—lleait of Alid-Lollt/an. 1. Would you leave an inheritance to your children ? Plant an orchard. No other investment of money and labor will, in the long run, pay so well. 2. Would you make home pleasant, the abode of the social virtues? Plant an orchard. Nothing better promotes among neighbors a feeling of kindness and good will than a treat of good fruit, often re peated. 3. Would you remove from your chil dren the strongest temptations to steal!— Plant you an orchard. If children cannot have fruit at home, they are very apt to is acknowledged with almost equal frank- steal it; and when they have learned to j RCSS _ t[ iree months more of earnest “Borrow temporarily, on the best possi ble terms, three or four hundred millions, to be paid in at the rate of five millions per day. with a clear understanding that we are to borrow no more—that the war is to be finiahed with this amount, aud that speedily. It is the never ending prospect of loans after loans that discouiages lend ers.” Three hundrecl millions paid ia (and we suppose paid out) and tire rate of five mil lions a day would last sixty days; four hundred millions, eighty days. The cap italists who furnish this loan arc to receive a distinct assurance “that we are to bor row no more—that the war is to ho finish ed with this amount,” or in other words, the Government is to promise to recognize the Confederate States unless it brings them to terms \fithin the brief period re qtiircd for.the expenditure of tht sum. In order to spend the money as fast as possi ble, and to make a final blow as vigorous as possible, it is proposed to call out the uniformed militia of the loyal States for three mofiths, and employ them to garri son Washington, Baltimore, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Louisville, &c.,and to hold the line of the Potomac and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, while every soldier now in the service is sent to the front and employed in the active work of the cam paign ” All these arrangements are merely aux- illiary to the main purpose of arming all tiie negroes the Government can get Isold of, and saml them roving iu small bodies through the thickly settled slave regions, instigating the blacks to rise against their masters, aud convert the South in a bloody and flaming pandemonium. The purpose is avowed in (he following terms: “Having thus massed our forces and filled our-depots and caisons, charge upon the rebels in every quarter—assailing their ports with iron-clads, their armies with stronger armies, fighting resolutely but warily with intent to capture their strongholds and exhaust their resources— while expeditions of light-armed black Unionists, carrying only arms and ammu nition, traverse those portions of rebeldom most exposed and thickly' peopled with slaves, varying liberty to all who wish it, j and arms wherewith to defend it, moving j rapidly and evading all fortified points j aud overpowering forces while breaking^’ up railroads and telegraph lines and ma king trouble generally.” The Union armies are to he used in con- centrating the rebels in defence of their strong holds and important strategic posi tions in order that squads of “light-armed' black Unionists” may have a free field in roaming over the plantations, and inciting tho slaves to insurrection. We charged, when the radicals began to clamor for the proclamation, and to hound on the Presi dent to issue it, that this was the object at-which they were aiming. But little j more than twenty days have passed since i the proclamation and the truth of the charge is openly confessed. The inten tion to bring the war to an immediate close, if the projected servile insurrection docs not shatter the strength of rebellion, j soon as the only fifty dollars in money. This was the Yankee idea of humanity. He con fiscated property by millions. This was Y ankee honesty. He supplied the rebels in Texas with munitions ot war and pock eted the proceeds of the cotton received in exchange. This was a smart Yankee trick. His troops were whipped at Raton Rouge while he was in New Orleans ; he was never under fire and never smelt gunpowder except at Hatteras, when the long range guns of his fleet opened upou a mud fort which had no ordnance that could reach him two miles off; aud on the strength of this he issues an address as pompous as Satan’s speech to his legions in the bottomless pit. This was making material for Yankee history. After in flicting innumerable tortures upon an in nocent and unarmed people, after outrag ing the sensibilities of civilized humanity by his brutal treatment of women and chil dren, after placing bayonets in the hands of slaves, after peculations the most pro digious and lies the most infamous, he re turns, reeking with crime, to his own peo ple, and they teceive him with acclama tions of joy, in a manner that befits him and becomes themselves. Nothing is out of keeping ; his whole career and its re wards are strictly artistic in conception and in execution. He was a thief. A sword that he had stolen from a woman—the neice of the brave Twiggs—was presented to him as a reward of valor. He had violated the laws of God and man. The law-makers of the United States voted him thanks, and the preachers of tho Yankee gospel of blood came to him and worshipped him. He had broken into the safes and strong boxes of meichants. Tli6 New York Chamber of Commerce gave him a dinner. He had insulted women. Things in fe male attire lavished harlot smiles upon him. He was a murderer. And a nation of assassins have defied him. He is at this time the Representative man ; of a people lost to all shame, to all humanity, all justice, all honour, all virtue, all man hood. Cowards by nature, thieves upon principle, and assassins at heart, it would be marvellous indeed if the people of the North refused to render homage to Benja min Butler, the beastliest, bloodiest pol troon and pick pocket tho world ever saw. steal fruit, they are in a fair way to steal horses. 4. Would you cultivate a constant feeling of thankfulness toward the Giver of all good ? Plant an orchard. By hav ing constantly before you, one of the greatest blessings given to man, you must be hardened indeed if you are not influen ced by a spirit of humanity and thankful ness. ..A Would j living, and venerate their memory when j dead—in all their wanderings look back | upon the homes of their youth as a sacred ; spot—an oasis in the great wilderness of the world ? Then plant an orchard 1 . . | 6. In short, if you wish to avail yaur- self of tbe blessings of a bountiful Provi dence, which are within your reach, you must plant an orchard. And when you do it, see that you plant good fruit. Don't plant crab apple trees, nor wild plums, nor Indian peaches, lhe best are the cheap est. fcTHERlDGt &5 SON, Factors, Commission and Forwarding Xvi SnOJEEAKITS, SAVANNAH, «A. w I>. ETHERIDGE. W. D. ETHERIDGE, Jr. July 15th, 18.76. 8 tf Messrs. A. II. & L. IS. KENAN, ^ke Associated is the Pr/iCtice of Law OJJice \st Door upon 2d floor of MASONIC HALL. Jan.234.1657. 35 tf. J l UvvT W. TIBNER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Eatonton, Ga, OtoW.IIJ. 1859. 21 It- Monday, Thomas « at each May holds three weeks, it necessary, at eaco in counties of C«b'> Lrnnnk.n^ NEW GOODS FROM THE LATE Charleston Package Sales. maa Yds. English Gingham*. 600 Yds. English Jhambrays. 890 Vds. English 300 -Eds. Canton FlanneL nits, BTSEDX.ES, HAXR- rtTTgFB LXXfSW HAWDKSaCBXEFS^g Pine Combs, White Cotton Hose, AC., TUST RECEIVED and ,or j* 1 qaNS & CO. Milledcavillo, Dec. «0tb, l* 68 ' ** **' 45'lint he [and Earnril. Jo YYhitehill, of Columbus, Tcnn jnerly State Treasurer, was a rough joker, even in his office. Some twenty years ago a verdant member of the General Assem bly called at the State Treasury and said ho wanted some money. “How much do you want 1" said White- hill. “Well, I—don’t—know !” said the member. • “How do you suppose I can pay you money, then, if yon don’t know 1” “Well, then, pay me about what 1 have earned.”^ “Earned !” said Whitehill, “earned ! you are a member of tbe Legislature, ain’t you ? and if that’s all you want, I can pay you what you’ve ’earned,’ very easy. Bob, give this member that ten dollar counterfeit bill we’ve bad so long 1” fighting,” says the Tribune, “shall not serve to make a serious impression on the rc Pels—if the end of that time shall find us no further advanced than its beginning, j ifsome malignant fate has decreed that the blood and treasure of the nation shall ever be squandered in’fruitless'efforts—let us bow to our destiny and make the best | attainable peace. In pursuance of that design to bring the , .1- - . • ,J J ; days, every encouragement is to be given to foreign powers to come forward with proffers of mediation, which if made, are to be treated “with politeness and most distinguished consideration.” The Radi cals wish to have a pacificator at the door if their grand experiment of a gigantic slave insurrection turns out an abortion. Ileie is what the Tribune says on this point: '“If the great powers of Europo shall see fit to interpose, treat them with polite ness and distinguished consideration. We cannot be required to arrest the war until 1- we shall have substantially' agreed on the conditions of peace; we cannot be expected p or . i to consider any proposals of mediation until they shall have first been accepted by the rebels. It will be May cr there about before we can be fairly asked to say ves or no to any such interposition.” In “May or thereabout,” that is, at the expiration of the ninety days within which the Radicals wish either to emancipate the slaves or to close the war, they will be glad of a proposition of peaco, presented by the foreign powers to which they can • ■say yes or no ” They think this would open r. ready and convenient way out of of the scrape. From tbe Richmond Examiner Beat! Bullrr—,S:e R^prcsrufatire xuuu of fsse X'nulicp Since. The custom of denouncing the Y ankees is becoming common. Under the soft in fluences of a serenade, President Davis likens them to hyenas; Governor Letcher, in his mild way, insists that they are a heaven-defying, hell-deserving race, aud pleasantly consigns their chief magistrate, Abe i.mcoln, to a dome more fearful than that of Dcvergoil. Is it to be wondered that Mr. Lincoln has had a trouble on his mind ever since this fearful doom was pro nounced upon him; that he is getting gray aud finds it difficult to tell a dirty anec dote every ten minutes during the day? The practice of villifying tbe Y’ankees has gotton into the newspapers. Editors spend most of their time in concocting dia tribes against a contemptable race, whose only defect is a proneness to all that is foul and every thing that is evil. Why should a people so despicable be aspersed? Even this newspaper, careful as it is nevor to say a word that would disturb the most placid tea party, has been known to speak disrespectfully of a race which tho civil ized world, with one consent, acknowledg es to be its last and vilest product. One would suppose that creatures 60 abound ing in the btenehes of moral decomposition would never be alluded to in decent soci ety But somehow the habit of expecto rating upon the vermin that swarm in the Northern dunghill, has gotten the better of gentle natures, and time drags heavily on the Southerner who refuses to indulge himself'some twenty times a day in a vol ey of direful anathemas against the Y an kees. Reflecting persons tell us that this is al together wrong. YYe should restrain our- eoives, and bo scrupulously polite when speaking of these abominable viliians. We should recollect that these infernal scoun drels ire human beings, and hear in mind the fact that they never lose an opportuni ty of heaping the most outrageous abuse upon ourselves. Nor should it be forgot ten that they have attained an almost in conceivable perfection and dexteiity in ly ing, so that it it were possible for us to match them in billingsgate, we would still be at tlmir rneicy in the trifling matter of falsehood. We are told by our philoso phic friends, that it should serve to cool the intensity of our hatred to remember that they are hourly committing every crime known to man, and some with which ovou tiie fiends arc not familiar: that a thrill of delight should pass through us, when we recall the pleasing circumstances that upwards of a million of these incar nate demons are hired by the year for the sole purpose of murdering us, burning our houses, killing our cattle, stealing our slaves, destroying our crops, and driving our wives and helpless children into the waste-howling wilderness in mid winter: that a genial glow of'.he purest love should pervade our hearts at the thought that they candidly avow their purpose to ex termite us, to kill every one of us, men, women and children, to take our posses sions by violence: in a word to annihilate us, to destroy us from tlie face of the earth so that our names bhall no more be heard among men. There is another view which should en courage us in the purpose henceforth to cherish an affectionate regard for the ac cursed beings at war with us. To the well regulated mind, the beastly practices of beasts excite no disagreeable emotion; and it is said that the scientific intellect finds a world of enjoyment in the contem plation of the disgusting utility of the low est order of creatures. Surely, the feast of the vulture upon carrion is not repre hensible, and occasions in the beholder no special wonder, and never an animosity against the bird for gratifying his some what peculiar tastes. So the tiger that laps blood: aud the beetle that gorges ex crement, are but Yankees of the animal kingdom, accommodating the wants of na ture; and it were folly to impute to them improper motives in partaking of their ghastly and sickening repasts. It fol lows that our feelings towards the people of the North, the scarabiei and vipers of humanity should be characterized neither by rage nor by nausea, but by a fixed cheerful Christian determination to inter pose sufficient obstacles between them and ourselves; to curb their inordinate and bloodv lusts by such adequate means as natural wit suggests, and, as a general thing, to kill them wherever we find them, without idle questions as to whether they are reptiles or vermin. A certain calm- 1JC&3 lA ililim 1» vks tbvii ouvuCaS" ful slaughter. The convulsions of pas sion are out of place when one is merely scalding chinches to death. The foregoing reflections are suggested naturally enough by the accounts in Yan kee newspapers of Butler’s triumphal pro gression Loin New York to Washington and back again to Boston. A great hue and cry has been raised at the South be cause the spawn of Northern cities saw fit to prostrate themselves before this new Haynau, this modern Y’errcs, returned j ble anarchy. From the West we hear of from his conquests — this Beast emerging I schemes designed by the desperate aud from his cave filled with dead men’s bones. | disaffected—conspiracies tending to fresh Why this outcry ? Wherefore assa 1 the ; ruptures and the final overthrow ot the Brute clotted with gore, or the ciiimpan- i Republic. Wicked men, even at the North zees that danced ami chattered at his com- ’ are beginning opeuly and- shamelessly to ing, and beslobbered him with praise ?—I dally with disunion, and propose, since What had this hog-hyena done contrary j dislocation has come into fashion, to mul- to j^is instincts, that we should so berate ' tiply the fragments of our institutions. The Destruction of the Hatteras.—Gen tlemen recently from Texas express the conviction that it was neither the Ala bama nor the Florida which sunk the Hat- terns, bufrthe Harriet Lane. It is knows Froiu Oeucuia Point. Renewal of the attack on Fort M’Alistcr— Death of Major John B. Gallic. The enemy renewed the attack on Fort McAllister about twenty minutes to eight o’clock yesterday morniDg, and continued until a few minutes after 2 o’clock a fierce and terrific bombardment. The firing was very heavy throughout, every report jailing the buildings in the city—a dis tance in direct lino of about fifteen miles —through by the roads some twenty-six miles. Early in the engagement, we re gret exceedingly to state, Major John B. Gallic, the commander of the post, was killed. A purer, braver, more patriotic man is not to be found in the Confederacy. He was struck by a shell on the head and killed instantly The following men were slightly wound ed .- Of Republican Blues, 1st Regiment** John Gray, John Mahon, Wm. Barber. Of Emmet rifles, 1st Regiment—John Dillon and Peter Brady. One man was buried in the earth by the explosion of a shell, but was subse quently rescued unhurt. Soon after two o’clock p. m. the gun boats retired. YYe are informed by an eye witness of the fight, who was at coffee Bluff, with a strong telescope, which presented a fair view, that the firing from the Fort was excellent, most of the shots aimed at the turreted iron-clad were perfect line shots, many of them striking her. The shells from the gunboats seemed to burst imme diately over the Fort. The flags of the iron clad were shot away, and she was evidently injured about 12 o’clock, as she ceased firing for three quarters of an hour after, and then delib erately turned and went down the river— the Fort continued to fire upon her as long as 6he was in range’ As the fleet was retiring, the last shots were fired from the fort.—Sac. Rep. 2d. The Contagion of Sccemioa. The New Y^ork Tribune of Friday last, has quite a lengthy editorial, under the caption “The Contagion of Secession.” It shows that the North is no longer a unit on the “crushing out” question, and that the physic is working too well for old white-coated Greeley to stop it. The Tri bune says: YY T e are beginning to feel the effects of woeful example. The diabolical spirit of rebellion not only encounters us in the field, but it has entered our legislative chambers, and, under the malign promp tings of the Democratic party, bent upon rule or ruin, it is w»tl» ibe pop ular loyalty. One year ago men only mur mured treason; but success has opened their mouths and filled their hearts with abominable political devices. We are be ginning to see that about the worst bat tle lost to the Union cause thus far is that of the New Y ork State election. Nobody believes Horatio Seymour to be friendly to the Administration, or to feel ony honest sympathy with its embarrassments—yet lie is elected Governor. The mob in Alba ny has given ns a bitter foretaste of possi- ations, aiming at safe and convenient boundaries and the monopoly, of internal navagation. Already the coming Congress cast their shadow before; and, busy as tb© Devil has always been in Washington, a trmo is coming when he will redouble this activity in thatuueasv scat of an endan gered Government. Hitherto the restora tion of the Union has been with the mass of the people, a matter of sentiment but a lime is at hand which will not be in the least poetical, and when we must confront public danger hardened into tho most vul gar concrete. Gentlemen who desire to be elected to Congress, not as patriots, but simply and nakedly as antiJiepublicans, or anti-Gov- ernment men, cannot be supposed to care much forthe perpetuity of our institutions. They expect to fatten upon our national troubles. They are ghouls who will care little how cold the corpse may be, if, soon er or later, they may fairly get their teeth into it. Their loyalty is limited by their own lives, and no thought of the weal or woe of posterity enters into their calcula tions. If, with the recognition of the Con federacy, these moral traitors could be banished, and with them their whole brood of venal voters—if we could send them to rest in the black bosoms of their Confederate friends—if the honor worth, religion, intelligence, and wealth of the North eould have but a fair chance of ex ercising their legitimate influence—we might consider with greater cooluess the success of the Southern treason. But these men, after the accomplished dismember ment, would remain—would still be with us though not of us—would be then, as they are now, and as they always have been, the ready agents of slavery, and the paid pimps of the slaveliolding interest. Establish a State upon the basis of man owning upon this continent, and the minds of Wood, Brooks, Seymour and all the genus will gravitate towards it with all the force of a bad nature. Once these men in power and the Northern Republic would be brought, if not the boon thrall of the Davis dynasty, ready in Cabinet and Congress to do its dirty and demoniac work, ready to catch its runaways; ready to wink at tbe revival of the Airican slave trade; ready to join an alliance against the moral sense of mankind; ready to promote the secession of the West from tbe East: ready for war upon New England; ready to make our poor shadow of a Govern ment in Washington as much thef'tool of the Southern Confederacy as ever the Cabinet of Charles 11. was the tool of the French monarch. Political chaff'erere, in the sacred name of Democracy, would sell themselves first, and next their neighbors. There could be for us no permanence, no prosperity, no private happiness, and no public greatness. 'It may be said that we exaggerate this danger. YY’e do not think so. For the po litical power of tbe Confederacy would be in the bands of a few men, who have been enducated to detest the Union, and who would be ill satisfied with that partial suc cess which left even a respectable fragment of tbe old Republic yet entire. Once fairly separated, they would begin to feel wants, the existence of which they do not now admit, and they would be only too ready to avail themselves of those com mercial abilities which they have hereto fore affected, to despise. The great ser pent of slavery would reverse its trail, and look with longing eyes towards a North left at its mercy by tbe dissensions and disaffection of its own children. Our social freedom would be a perpetual aggra vation of tbe bad temper aud jealousy which are the inseparable adjuncts of slaveliolding. If we were prosperous, our prosperity would be a continual rebuke of that sin which has been called “the sum of all villainies;” and if we were hopeless ly weakened by the dismembeiment, our cities aud our farms would be tbe cheap prey of every mad paMisau who chose to promote a raid. Nor should we be with out a hatred of slavery, intensified by the woes of which it had been the fruitful mother, and any effort to check or to si lence the expression of that sentiment would but complicate tbe public dilemma. We should still have pro-slavery Govern ors,pro-slavery Senators, pro-slavery Pres idents, and pro-slavery Representatives; and tho very existence of a determined and uncompromising opposition would drive them into disgraceful diplomacies aud intrigues not to be thought of without horror! If we speak sharply, we beg the reader to believe that we speak sincerely. We have not, nor will we pretend to have, any confidence in the public virtue of that hungry place-hunter who prates of the wrongs of the South and of the sins of the North—who has fine words for the Rich mond regime, and foul words for bis own constitutional rulers—who would restore the Union by muzzling discussion, and by a declaration of the sanctity of involuntary servitude with all the solemnities of an act of public faith—who feels it to be a duty to apologize for his own loyalty and for the treason of the public enemy—who is half this and half that, and not wholly, body, soul, and spirit, the honest and un questioning devotees of the Constitution and the laws—who wastes, that indignation npon the foes to slavery which he shonld naturally bestow upon his friends—who is as utterly without pity for the poor and defenceless as he is ignorant of that sim ple law of labor which makes the prosperi ty of the employer dependent upon his justice—-"who is, in short,a creature of sham and of snhtorfnga and participates in pub lic affairs without one ennobling sentiment or one benevolent aspiration. YVliy should this poor hybrid, half monarchist, and half democrat, pretend to . any reverence for human rights, cr be at all coy about sell ing others, since he is so ready to sell him self?—Let us see to it that the triumph of the Secessionists does not open for him a market. him and bis worshippers? He bad hang ed Mumford. That was true Yankee courage. He had issued a hellish order against the ladies of New Orleans. That was unaffected Y’ankee gallantry. He had put the Mayor aud hundreds of others into -dungeons. That was the Yankee conception of the proper method of admin istering the laws of‘the best Government the world ever saw.’ He had banished from tbe city more than twenty thousand people who refused to perjure themselves by taking the oath of allegiance to the United States. That was the Yankee idea of justice. He drove these people off without a change of clothing and with All this is terrible. V\ ; c can better afford to lose fifty fights than thus to weaken the morality of our cause. We can better af ford to submit to invasion than thus to make disintegration familiar to onr consti tuents.—We can better afford to let the slaveholding soldier bivouac in the Capitol than to be betrayed into negotiations which are full of danger, or to dally with compromises which, with their adoption, must precipitate us into unmitigated an archy. Aleady we begin to hear of Wes tern Confederacies, of New England Con federacies, of Middle States transmogri fied into Middle Confederacies. Already we hear bints of new and tempting eonbin- GEORGIA, Mitchell county. W HEREAS, William R Godwin applies to me for letters of administration on tbe estate of John Godwin, minor, deceased. These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased to be and appear at my office on or be 4 fore the first'Monday in March next, and show cause, if any they have, why said letters shall not be granted. Given under my hand officially, this Jan. 12th, 1863. 30 5f. JOS. J. BRADFORD, Ord’y. GEORGIA, Fierce county. To all whom it may concern. W HEREAS, Thomas Sweat & Csssey Strick land, having in proper form, applied to me for permanent letters of administration on the es tate of Alien C. Strickland, late of said county, deceased. This is to cite all and singular the creditors and next of kin of Allen C. Strickland, to be and ap pear at my office within the time allowed by law, and show cause, if any they can, why permanent administration shonld not be granted to Thomas Sweat & Mrs. Cassey Strickland, on Allen C. Strickland’s estate. Witness my official signature this January 15th, 1863. LUTHER H. GREEHLEAF, Ordy. Paid f3 T©. * “•

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The Confederate union. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1862-1865, February 10, 1863, Image 1