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KENAN, Are Associated is the Practice or Lav- Office 1st Door upon 2d floor of MASONIC HALL. •Ian.23d. 1857. 35 tf. J. A. & W. W. TUIINER, attorneys at law, Eatonton, Ga* •♦‘fb**,!!, ig|«, * ly. The following letter from the London Times' correspondent in this country de scriptive of the great battle at Fredericks burg, will well repay the perusal of our readers. It is in refreshing contrast to the flippancy, conceit and insincerity of Russell, the predecessor of the present writer. After a few remarks upon the magnifi cent position of the Confederate anny, and circumstances unfavorable to the as sailing party, the correspondent proceeds to describe The BaUle of Frcderickitbarg. Headquarters of General Lee, Near Fredericksburg, December 18, 18G2. Position of the Rebel Army. The Rappahannock, in its course from west to east, is skirted just at the point where Fredericksburg stands on its south ern bank, by low crests of hills, which on left by General Franklin. It is estima ted that not less than 40,000 troops were engaged in the attack directed by General Sumner, and that 50,000 were employed on the Federal centre and left. Friday, the 12th of December, was em ployed by the Federal Generals iu ar ranging and massing their troops for the next day’s attack. Active skirmishing was kept up by the pickets on both sides for several hours; and in the afternoon, with a view to feeling the Confederate po sition, the heavy Federal guns thundered across the river, and were only feebly re plied to by tlie batteries on the Confed erate left. The solemnity of immediate- ly approaching battle cast its shadows over the scene, and that earnestness and tranquility of demeanor which, on the eve of momentous events, overtake even the most garrulous and thoughtless, reigned unmistakcably upon every countenance. At n : glit, ns tlie pickets of the two armies the northern bank run parallel and close | were stationed within a hundred yards of to the river, and on the southern bank ; each other, the Confederates could hear trend backward lrom the stream, and j the earnest and impassioned speeches of leave a semi-circular plain six miles in | Federal orators rousing the spirit of their , . . . length and two or three in depth, enclosed j troops, and making vehement appeals to j in front of the position occupied by Gen. mond, poured a destructive fire into the Federals. Suddenly, about 3 o’clock in the afternoon, on its 37th discharge, this gun burst with a dreadful explosion; but, happity, did no injury to any of the by standers. At the moment of its explosion Cap*. Phillips, of the Grenadier Guard— favorably remarked this day for bis be havior under fire—Major Venables, of Gen- Lee’s Staff and Major Haskell, were conversing within a few feet of the gun. Their escape without injury was little less than miraculous. As the Confederate line trends away to the right, the batteries of Gen. Hood’s di vision were actively engaged agaiust tlie advancing columns of Pennsylvanians; but next to the batteries on Marye’s heights and Gen. Lee’s hill, I should say that the artillery commanded by Col. Walker took the most effective part in the action, as it poured a flanking fire into the ene my’s left. One other battery deserves fa vorable mention which it obtained in the short and modest report of the battle which emanates from the pen of Gen. Lee. On the extreme right of the Confederates, within their circumference before they again approach the river in the neighbor hood of Massaponax creek. Immediate ly above the town, and on the left of the Confederate position, the bluffs are bold and bare of trees; but as the hills in their eastward course recede from the river they become lower and are densely wood ed, while low spurs covered with copse- wood run down at right angles to the range of hills into the plain, behind and between which spurs the centre and right of the Confederate army was posted, stretching for a distance of six miles from the extreme left, and ending in ibo imme diate neighborhood of Massaponax creek, wlllch Joins the Rappahannock some five miles below Fredericksburg. It will be apparent to the reader that the left of the Confederate army—a portion of it station ed not more than four hundred yards from Fredericksburg—occupied a much strong er position than the centre and right. There was not sufficient room for the Federal troops destined for the attack of the nearest Confederate batteries to de ploy and form except under a deadly Con federate fire, whereas the Federal troops who attacked the Confederate centre, and had a large plain on which to deploy, and had much fewer disadvantages of ground to contend with, inasmuch as they ad vanced against lower hills and had long spurs of copse to assist them as points of attack calculated to protect and serve as points d'appui to the Federal troops if they could once have succeeded in carry ing and holding them. But even in its weakest points the Confederate line pos sessed great advantages of position; and it is no wonder that every Southerner, from the Commander in-chief down to the youngest drummer hoy, understood and appreciated the strength of the ground, and contemplated the coming shock of battle with sereno cuufldence and compo sure. In describing the ground upon which the battle subsequently took place, I should not omit to add that the railroad track from Fredericksburg to Richmond runs diagonally through the semi-circular plain described above, and crosses the Confederate line of battle three and a half miles from Fredericksburg, at a point call ed Hamilton's crossing. This point was strongly held by a pait of the Confederate right, and it is manifest that against this point and along the railroad track it would have been wise if the weight of the Fed eral attack had been directed. It will he understood, in conclusion, that the heights on the Northern or Stafford side of the Rappahannock, which for miles touch | and impend over the stream, were sur- j mounted by a long line of heavy Federal rifled cannon. Similarly, along the whole | the sanctity of the “old flag.” “The old flag is played out!” shouted the Confed erates in reply. “Somehow,” remarked one of the Confederates to me, ‘‘there must be a want of grit among the Yankees; otherwise they would’nt want all this talk ing to.” It is impossible not to contrast the spir it of the two armies—the Confederates, so calm, so resolute, so satisfiec with their Generals, so suffering, yet rejoicing to suffer so long as hardship is the price of liberty, tlie Federals, lashed into the field by the thong of golden bounties, and in the field lashed against the enemy by the invecthcand appeals of able spokesmen, so distrustful of their Generals and each other, so pampered and yet so dlaaatisfied. The aurora borealis which overspread the Heavens, and darted blood-red tongues of flame swiftly from the meridian down to the horizon, was accepted by the Confed erates as the cross outlined on the sky was accepted by Constantine—an earnest of assured victory. The day of the Battle. December, 13th, 1S62. The morning of the 13th of December —a memorable day to the historion of the Decline and fall of tlie American Repub lic—broke still and warm, while as on the tbo preceding day a thick haze enveloped the town of Fredericksburg and the adja cent valley, and delayed the opening of fire by the antagonistic batteries until the sun had been up some three or four hours. It was strange to contrast Saturday, the 13th of September with Saturday the 6th and to compare the intense cold of the earlier Saturday with the spring-like warmth and calmness of the later. The day which I am describing Avas one of those outbursts of that Indian summer which lingers long and fondly in beautiful Virginia; the morning haze which shroud ed heath, and plain, and forest, was the ordinary prelude to the warmth and glow of the sun at noon-day. As the fog lifted about ten in the morning and the sun burst through the clouds, the long lines of the Federal army, which had passed the whole preceding day in deploying and pre paring for the attack, were distinctly visi ble in the plain, and gave awful indica tions of the amount of the Federal host which had crossed the river. Tlie Con federate army wholly undaunted by the extravagant stories about the strength of their foe, waited calmly, drawn up for the most part within tlie fringe of the woods, confident in their position and in the valor which has never failed them. Strength of the Rebel Army. Stuarts cavalry, a few batteries of Stuart’s horse artillery were thrown forward to flank the Federals beteen Walker’s artil lery and the river. Gen. Sttiart ordered Major John Pelham, his chief of artillery, to advance one gun considerably towards tlie enemy, and to open upon him. Major Pelham obeyed and opened the fire of a twelve-pounder Napoleon gun with great precision and deadly effect upon the Fed eral flank. The galling discharge of this gun quickly drew upon it the fire of three Federal batteries, while from across the river, two other heavy batteries joined in the strife and made Maj. Pelham and his gun their target. For hours not less than thirty Federal canm* strove to silence Major Pelham’s popgun, and strove in vain. The unyielding and undemonstra tive courage of Major Pelliam, his compo sure under the deadliest fire, have long made him conspicuous, but never were his noble qualities the subject of more glowing eulogy than upon this occasion. General Lee exclaimed: “It is inspiring to see such glorious courage in one so young.” ('Major Pelham is not more than 22) General Jackson remarked: “With Pelham upon either flank I could van quish the world.” Generals Lee, Longstrcet and Jackson. At half past eight a. m., General Lee, accompanied by his full staff, rode slowly along the front of the Confederate lines from left to right, and took up his station for a time beyond Hamilton’s Crossing, and iu rear of the batteries on the extreme Confederate right. It would be presump tuous in me to say one word in commenda tion of the serenity, or, if I may so express it, the unconscious dignity of Gen. Lee’s courage, when he is under fire. No one who sees and knows liis demoanor in ordi nary life would expect anything else from one so calm, so undemonstrative and un assuming. But the description applied af ter the battle of Alma to Lord Raglan, by Marshal St. Amaud, and in which, notic ing Lord Raglan’s unconsciousness under fire, he speaks of his ‘antique heroism,’ seems to me so applicable to General Leo that I cannot forbear recalling it here.— At a subsequent period of the day Gener al Lee assumed bis station on the bill which takes its name from him and thence in company with General Longstvect, calmly watched the repulse of the repeat ed Federal efforts against the heights on which he stood, Occasional Gen. Jack- son rode up to the spot and mingled in conversation with the other two leading Generals. Once General Longstreet ex claimed to him, “Are you not scared by that file of Yankees you have before you down there ?” to which General Jackson And here it may bo as well finally to dispel those illusions under which it is the , . Confederate line of battle, nearly three custom of the Northern press to veil the | fcplmd, ait till they come a little near hundred pieces of artillery were in posi- disgrace of defeat, when the fact itself ad- '■ they shall either scare me or 1 11 tion or in reserve. There is no recorded mits of no denial. The whole number of battle of history in which anything like i Confederates in the field this day did not so many pieces of artillery took part (of exceed from 80,000 to 90,000 men. Of course in this assertion I do not include these some 25,000 men, taking the very seiges,) and the reader will at once realize highest estimate, took part in the fight, how inadequate language is to describe By the urgent entreaty of several of tlie the thunder of so vast a number of can- leadingConfederateGenerals.it has long non, or the deadly pelting hail of such an been sought rather to keep down than to aggregate of the projectiles Avhich modern swe ll the numbers of the Southern army, ingenuity lias succeeded in devising. | It is well known to the sagacious Generals The Generals in Command and division of, of the Confederacy that sucli an army as t • rp obeyed Gen Lee’s command this day, if ? CI ' loo J ,s ’ _ well handled, and imbued with a fine spir it remains briefly to notice the disposi- is more than a match for any number tion of troops along the Confederate line, j 4 hat can be led against them. The state- It may be mentioned summarily that the 1 ments of the Kcderal Secretary of War, to the effect that he has 800,000 men at this moment in his pay, carry comforts rather than dismay to the lieaits of the Confederates. So cumbrous and un- Avieiaiy a machine as the Federal army Confederates are divided into two large corps d’armer, and that on this occasion Gen. Longst'cet’s corps was on the left, and Gen. “Stonewall” Jackson’s on the right. But, as the hottest work of tko battle fell upon particular divisions and can not but break down by its own weight I * 1 -I 1.1 1.^ „ J _ . J ~ - and by the vast amount of transport which brigades, it should be further stated, (al though the position of each brigade can- i jj s p am p ere d soldiery requires; and in ad- not, tor want of time, be given,) that the 1 djt,j on to many other testimonies to its im- Confederate divisions, starting from the j mobility, the statement of the Prince do left of the line and proceeding to the right , j 0 j n ville, that one railroad is not sufficient Avere posted as follows: On the extreme ! JSTDS'W' GOODS FROM THE LATE Charleston Package Sales. £QQ Yds. English Ginghams. 600 Yds. English Shambrays. 800 Vds. English Calicoes. 300 Yds. Canton Flannel. 7XK8, TCEEDZ.ES, HAIRPINS, X.IMBU HAIUPKSaCW Fine Combs, White Cotton Sose, Ac -’ AC *’ I u. JUST RECEIVED and tor A C 0. Mill«dg«vill», D*c. 1IG» ^ ** left the division of Gen. Anderson; next to it the division of Gen. Ransom’s; next to it that of Gen. McLaws; next to it that of Gen. Picket, and next to it the divis ion of Gen. Hood. Proceeding now to Gpnprnl .Tacksnn’a carps, thp ground be tween Gen. Hood’s right and the railroad at Hamilton’s crossing was mostly held by the large division commanded by that excellent officer Gen. A. P. Hill. Be hind the line of Gen. A. P. Hill, the di vision of Gen. D. H. Hill was held in re- sen'C. To the right of Gen. A. P. Hill, the division once commanded by Gen. Ewell, who lost his leg, (if I mistake not) at the second battle of Manassas, but now commanded by Gen. Early, held the woods right up to and across the railroad at Hamilton’s crossing. In front of Gen. Early the powerful artillery of Col. "Walk er was thrown forward, to fire, as was ex pected into the enemy’s flank. Across, or to the east of the railroad, on the ex treme Confederate right, Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, with his cavalry and horse artil lery, covered the flank of the Confeder ate line, his rear almost resting upon Mas saponax creek. Movements of the Union Troops—the Reb els on the “old flag." As regards the disposition of the Fed eral troops, nothing more is known than that the three great bodies of troops were commanded, on the Federal right by Gen. Sumner, that on the Federal centre by General Hooker, and that on tb* Federal to supply such an army as Gen. McClel lan led agaiust Richmond. The Artillery in Play. It is impossible for me to describe the scare them.” Opening of tlie Fight. The battle opened when the sun had let in enough light through the mist to disclose the near proximity of the Federal lines and field batteries. The first shot was fired shortly before 10 a. am., from the batteries in the Federal centre, and was directed against General Hood’s di vision. The Pennsylvania reserves ad vanced boldly, under a heavy fire against the Confederates, who occupied one of tlie copsewood spurs, and were, for a time, permitted to hold it; but presently the Confederate batteries opened on them, and a determined charge of the Texans drove the Yankees out of the woods in a confu sion from which nothing could subsequent lj rally them. Simultaneously a heavy fire issued from tlio batteries of Generals A. P. Hill’s and Early’s divisions, which was vigorously replied to by the Federal field batteries. The only advantage mo mentarily gained by the Federals in this quarter, and which is noticed in General Lee’s report, was on the occasion of the collapse of North Carolina Conscripts, who broke and ran, but whose places was again raillied to the fray. The Confeder ates drove them with horrid carnage across the plain, and only desisted from their work when they came under the fire of the Federal batteries across the river. Upon the extreme Confederate right Gen. Stuart’s horse artillery drove hotly upon the fugitives, and kept up the pursuit, sub sequently understood to have been effect ive, until after dark. Upon the Confed erate left, where the antagonists fought upon more equal terms, the equality of loss by the Confederates was greater than on the Confederate right; the Federal loss in officers and men far outbalanced that of their opponents. Gen. Bayard, the best cavalry officer in the Federal service, and almost on the eve of the day which would have witnessed his nuptials, was killed, and General Jackson of Pennsylvania, | shared his fate. Many other General offi- ! cers were carried to the Federal rear,! grievously wounded; whereas of the Oou-! federates only one officer of rank (General Gregg) fell upon the right, and only one (General Cold ) upon the left. Magnificent action of the Irish Brigade— The men of Fontenoy, Albuera aru^Wa- tcrlooo Eclipsed. Meanwhile the battle, which had dash ed furiously against the lines of Generals Hood, A. P. Hill and Early, was little more than child’s play, as compared with the onslaught directed by the Federals in the immediate neighborhood of Freder icksburg. The impression that the Con federate batteries would not fire bcavily upon the Federals advancing in this quar ter for fear of injuring the town of Freder icksburg, is believed to liave prevailed a- mong the Northern Generals. How bit terly they deceived themselvefcgubsequent events served to show. To the Irish di vision, commanded by General Meagher, was principally committed the desperate task of bursting out of the town of Freder icksburg, and forming under the withering fire of the Confederate batteries, to attack -Marye’s Heights, towering immediately in their front., Never at Fentonoy, Albuera or at Wa terloo was more naabated courage display ed by the sons of Esin than during those six frantic dashes which they directed a- gainst the almost impregnable position of their foe. There arc stories that General Meagher harangued his troops in im passioned language on the morning of the 13th, and piled them extensively with the whiskey found in the cellars of Freder icksburg. After witnessing the gallantry and devotion exhibited by his troops, and viewing the hillsides for acres strewed with their corpses thick as autumnal leaves, the spectator can remember nothing but their desperate courage, and regret that it was not exhibited in a holier cause. That any mortal men could have carried the position before which they were wantonly sacri ficed, defended as it was, it seems to me idle for a moment to believe. But the bodies which lie in dense masses within forty yards of the muzzles of Col. Wal ton’s guns are the best evidence what manner of men they were who pressed on to death with the dauntlesness of a race which has gained glory on a thousand battle fields and never more richly deserved it than at the foot of Marj’e’s Heights on the 13th day of December, 1S62. Demoralization of the Union Army. An opportunity of sending this letter, with an encouraging prospect of its reach ing England, compels me to defer a fur ther account of the gallant defence on tlie Confederate left on the town of Fredericks burg, and of the battle-field, until a sub sequent letter. But it is important to add that, even at this early date, there are abundant evidences that the Confederates, themselves sustaining a loss of about eighteen hundred killed and wounded, have inflicted upon their enemy a defeat from which it will take months to recover. Such was the demorlization this evening of the Federal troops, as they ran through the streets and cowered in tne cellars of Fredericksburg, that hundreds of soldiers exclaimed, “You may slioot us down, may bang us, or do what you like, there,” point ing at illarye’s Heights, “we will never go there again.” I forbear to state the estimate of the Federal loss, which places it at an appal ling figure, aud yet are believed not to be far from the truth. It is not likely that the full details of this battle will be gen erally known in the North for weeks and weeks ; but if, after the failure of this last and feeblest of all the Federal attempts to reach Richmond, with the Northern Army unerved, demoralized and starting assunder like a broken how, the Irish and Germans are again tempted to embark in so hopeless a venture, then is the conclu sion irresistible that in addition to all the shackles of the despotism which they arc alleged to have left behind them in Europe they have left also that most valuable attribute of humanity, which is called com mon sense. From the Southern Confederacy. »oms n r the Partisan Ranger. n\' A. K. WATSON. Inscribed to Gen. John H. Morgan. Come rouse ye at the bugle call And don your heavy armor: I he night U dune, no time iu day To give to sleep the charmer; Away sweet dieam of triends and home! The cannon's murd'rous echoes come To bid us gird for battle. Now off to the chase at break of day— Full many a hireling wretch we’ll slay;" Their yells of carnage we J1 repay With our shrill ride’s rattle. Oh the wild glory of the chase. When men's the game we're seeking! And every gleaming vengeful blade With ini man’s blood is reeking! Awnylawaj! the wild, wild shout With every heart-throb gushes out: _Our mother State is calling— Kentuckians! to the rescue-fly! Awake your fathers’ battle cry! What wretch among us fears to die With patriots round us falling! There's many a leader on the field That’s daring, bold and fearless: But which can match our glorious chief! He stands among them peerless: There's not a pilfering minion vile That desecrates Kentucky’s soil. But shuns his dread appearing: Ont-Yankeeing every Yankee clan, Oh! was there ever such a man' Catch him ye vandals—when ye can— And men will praise your daring. Th- » i y-'vwg I'-Tt^diieftain's «do We’ll hie away to battle, And soon we’ll see onr foeman fly Like herds ot goaded cattle. Revenge shall nerve our iron Hands, For see, the wrath of Johnston stands A silent spectral pleader, And bids the swelling torrent gush; Ah! now we see the crimson flush; Each arm can now a fWtnan crush— Aud Morgan is our leader. Atlanta, Feb. 5th, 1803. FROM THE NORTH. The New York Herald of the 13th has been received. It says a movement to settle the present difficulty by a conven tion of the representatives of the Free States is progressing in the West. The Illinois Legislature has appointed a Committee to confer with those from In diana, Kentucky and other States, at Louisville in March. Foremost on tho committee is a strong adherent of Lincoln, and heretofore a strong Republican. The legal gentleman in question urged all his friends to vote the Democratic ticket in November last, to save the country. Other eminent Republicans are on the same committee. The measure was opposed in the main by abolitionists. It is expected that Ohio, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York will com bine in the movement. The Wechanken iron-clad arrived at Port Royal. Gen. Hunter lias issued orders conscript ing able bodied negroes in his depart- m nt. The Alabama was heard from in lati tude 26.30, on the 2d of February. Peace resolutions passed the Illinois Legislature on the 12th. The army of the Potomac has 300 reg iments and 100,000 men. Rosencranz, iu the Murfreesboro’ fight, had 140 regiments and 45,000 men. Young Williamson, of Baltimore, Sec retary of Mr. Mason, our English Minis ter, has been sent to Fort McHenry, at Seward’s instance. . Gov. Sprague has been elected Senator from Rhode Island. Resolutions inviting Gen. McClellan to visit Albany as the guest of the State, passed the New Y ork Legislature. Pope is in St. Louis—he is expected to command the expedition to Vicksburg. IVoblc gratimrnla. Not long since some of the Physicians of the flourishing city of Macon, published positions of each of the numerous Confed- ] along the entire line. Such a scene, at rapidly taken by more intrepid success- i their fee bill, stating that ‘the Physicians ors. ! of Macon are unwilling further to attend The cannonading now became general gratutiously the poor and destitute of the erate batteries which stretclred along the length of their six mile line of battle. It will suffice if I indicate the batteries which were most hotly engaged, and bore the brunt of the action. By far the most im portant position was occupied by the Washington Artillery, commanded by Col. Walton of New Orleans, and posted on the heights in the immediate neighbor hood of Fredericksburg, not more than four hundred yards of the town. These heights, which are precise y of that lati once terrific and sublime, mortal eye nev er rested on before, unless the bombard ment of Sebastopol by the combined bat teries of France and England revealed a more fearful manifestation of the bate and f'tirv of man. The thundering, bellowing city.’ They exercised but their proper and ju^ right in doing so. Four noble and generous hearted men, however, whose names ought to be known and their virtues appreciated by every one: Drs. M. S. Thomson, John T. Cox, A. L. Clink- scales, and M. R. Freeman, publish a card roar of hundreds of pieces of artillery, the protesting against the action in the name bright jets of issuing flame, the screaming of humanity and justice, and say : hissing, whistling, shrieking projectiles, the i ‘Those parties have a perfect right to wreathes of smoke, as shell after shell 1 speak for themselves, and if that is their bust into the still air, the severe crash of J determination, be it so, but we object to round shot among the trees of tlie shatter- • lie included by the general term used, and tude, which is most favorable for the play i c d forest formed a scene likely to sink deem it propertosaysofarfromendors- of artillery, are surmounted by a brick forever into the memory of all who wit-! ing that declaration, we are ready, in nessed it, but utterly defying verbal de- j view of our present surroundings, to do lineation. A direct and enfilading fire more, if possible, for that class of our fel- swept each battery upon either side as it j low creatures, many, of whom are made was unmasked, volley replied to volley, j ‘poor and destitute’ in part for our sakes, crash succeeded crash, until the eye lost j through whose sufferings by reason of the all power of distinguishing the lines of j absence of their supporters, we who re- combatants, and the plain seemed a lake main at home are enjoying our lives and house—now riddled by round shot—be longing to Mr. Marye, and are commonly called Marye’s heights* At their base a road winds, protected on one side by the hills, and on the other by a solid stone wall, about four feet in height, over which a brigade of Confederates, themselves perfectly sheltered, poured tbe deadliest! 0 f i; rc , a seething lake of molten lava, j librties in comparative security. Sliould the and most effective of fires. A little fur ther back, to the Southeast of Marye’s heights, stands another and higher hill, from which the most commanding view of the entire field is obtuinable and which, as it is the usual station of the commander- in-Chief, is now known as General Lee’s Hill. From this hill, daring a large por tion of Saturday, a 30-pounder parrott gnu, cait at th* Tredajar Works, in Rich- coursed over by incarnate fiends drunk 1 City Council still see proper to pay for the w iili fury and revenge. j Medicines used, so as to relieve us from m „ . , . . pecuniary outlay in that behalf, we shall The Federals Twice Repulsed u tth great ^ p] case( j j jj U ^ their not doing so shall be Slaughter. | no bar to onr efforts for their benefit to Twice the Federals, gallantly led and the utmost extent of our ability.’ handled by their officers, dashed against the forces of General A. F. Hill and Gen. Early, and twice they recoiled, broken (ind discomforted, and incapable of being Nobler , and more patriotic sentiments have not been uttered during the war.— The blessings of heaven will rest upon them.—Atlanta Commonwealth, LATER FROM THE NORTH. Richmond Feb. 15.—TheNew York Herald of the 12th says that holders of cotton advanced on the 11th ask ing 92 a 93 cents for middling. The Herald in commenting on the report that the peop^ of Charleston were leaving that city in expectation of an attack adviaes them to stear clear of Savannah. It thinks the Federal force between Charleston and Savan nah sufficient to attack both simulta neously. Tlie Hera^ knows Hooker and his soldiers are ready to seize the oppor tunity even of a partial hardening of the mud to open the road^o^Rich mond. j John Van Buren in a speech before the Democratic Union Association in New York, in view of the determina tion of the seceded States not to re turn to the Union, said “our friends the Democrats iu Illinois, who pro pose to hold a convention will find it a barren l»sk, oocause the South is de termined not to return, and until their armies have no power to resist and put us down, this war must go on, and those who would attempt to stop it will be carried away by the storm.” It is stated that M. Mercier is pre paring a paper to be laid before gov ernment embodying the views of Na poleon. The U. S. frigate Sabine has arrived at new r York after an unsuccessful cruise after the Alabama. A Havanna letter of the 4th says the Florida left Nassau on the 31st Jan., fully equipped for a long cruise. Confederate money w T as willingly received at par in Nassau. The Herald announces the arrival of the Europa at Halifax, but says nothing of the reported friendly medi ation of Napoleon. The New York Post says parties have been identified in New York who have organized themselves into a body to demoralize the army and nation, by diffusing journals and literature of a peculiar kind. The rich men of N. Y. furnish the money, and the reactionist editors of the World, Express and Journal of Commerce the brains. An enormous fund is to be raised for undermining the confidence of the soldiers and Gov ernment. Reinforcements for Rosencranz are constantly going up the Cumberland river, and it is believed that lie has ac cumulated sufficient stores at Nash ville to make a forward movement possible. Spool Uotton, Cl A DOZ. Coats Spool Cotton for Sale by _ ZU WRIGHT * BROWN. Fob. 2j, im. w«r,

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The Confederate union. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1862-1865, February 24, 1863, Image 1