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Newspaper Page TextUOrtillTON, NISBET & BARNES) Publishers and Proprietors. «.N. BOlfinTOHJ h JO?*. (bjjc (lanfci)crate Sfnioit . '.i'xhctl Weekly, in Mi/lcdgcgg/le, Ga., 'c r.rr of linn rock and T Vitkinson Sts., /,. i/unite Court House.) At $3 a year in Advance. BATSS OF ADVEBTISING. Per square of ticclrc tines. « ne ; ]l5C r!ion$! <‘0, and fifty cents for each subsequent coatiuttl sell without the specification of thenumberol ■- wiiibe published till forbiil and charged : Professions! Cards, per year, where they xceedSix Libes - - - $10 OU ear! trill be made with those who wish to year, occupying a specif ed. space LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS, if Lind.out Negroes, by Administrators. Ex- .r Guardians, are required by law to be held • r l'uesdny in the n:onth;between ilie hours of i re noon and three in the afternoon, at the tie in thecounty in which the property is sit- ONFEDERATE VOLUME XXXIII.] M ILL EDO EVIL LE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, M A R C I! 3, IS63. [NUMBER 41. COUNTING HOUSE CALENDAR, I860. 2* 2; ~ x / f\ 5= = ? i F From the Loudon I'ost (Gov’nit organ) Jan. it!. JrirDari»’JIr»«ajr in ECaglnnil—Significant Article. i 2 2 4 July. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 lfi 1? 18 •2 20 21 22 23 34 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 A is 6 7 8 15 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10ii]2 13 14 if, 16 1? l 8 'm 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 <27 28.29 30 31 2 3 4 9 MM] 12 13 I! 16 17 3 4 5 6 1 2 8 9 N’ot ice of these sales must bo given in a publicga- T • ■ l l days previous to the day of sale. X —sforthe sale of personal property must begiv- e n in like manner 10 days previous to sale day. X'.c icestothe debtors and creditors of anestatemust E ’ i he published 40 days. Notice that application will be madetotlie Courtof o :i:ary for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must be j iMi-'.icd for two months. till a'ions for letters of Administration Guardianship, 3 .mustbe published 30 days—for dismission from Administration, monthly six mouths—for dismission I trom Guardianship, 40 days. Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage must be published I nfhtjf forfour months—for cslablishiag lost papers, | for Ike full spare of three months—for compelling titles from Executors or administrators, where bond has been giv :t by the deceased, the full space of three months. Pnblication? will always be continued according to tin -o, the lega [requirements, unless otherwise ordered (■•the following Tt A TES: t'i’ tions, on letters of administration, Ac. “ dismissory from ^Idmr’n. “ “ Guardianship. 1. tve io sell Land or Negroes Notice todcj^tori^ndcreditors. f. of personal property, ten days, 1 sqr. >8. . of land or negroes by Executors, <kc. pr sqr 11 : tvs, two week# for a man advertising his wifefin advance,) Man. 23 24 25 26 27 28 " 1? IS 19-20 21 22 * . 1 Sept’h 24 25 26 27 28 29 ; 2 3 4 5 6 7 s 3! 1 2 3 4 5' 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 7 8 9 |(. 11 12 ] 16 17 18 192021 22 14 15 16 |7 18 19. 2324 2526272829 21 22 23 24 25 26' 30 31 2829 30 6 7 May. f - 75 4 50 ! 3 00 I 4 00 ! 3 00 ! I 50 j . 5 00 ! 1 50 5 00 Juke. 2 2 4 5 OcToa'a 8 9 10 1112 13,14 15 16 17 18 I'J 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27*28 29 30 12 3 Novf.m 4 5 6 7 8 9 ]u 11 12 13 14 15 16 1? 16 19 20 21 22 23 24 25,2627 28 29 30 31 Decem 1 2 3 4 5 6 ? 8 9 10 11 12 13 11 15 16 1? 18 19 20 21 22'23 24 25 26 27 28 29 '30 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 l0i) 12 13 14 15 10 1? a 19 20 21 22 2324.« '26 27 28 29 30,31. ' ^ 3 4 5 6 7 1 9 10 11 12 13 14 ,r. 16 17 IS 19 20 21 ..I, 23 2i 25 26 27 28,'itq 3b l 2 4 5 i ? 8 9 10 11 12 n 14 15 16 17 18 19 A', 21 22 2324 25 26.,- 28 29 30 31 27 | C01RT CALLEMtER FOR 1804. BOOK-BINDING ma The Subsetiber is now pre pared to do Dook-Bind- ing-, in all its branches- Old Hooks rebound, &c. MUSIC bound in lbs best style. Blank Hooks icturcd to order. Prompt attention will be to all work entiusted to me. S. J. KIDD. Stiiiitccv in Southern Folrriil S- nion Ofiicc. Mi..rdgeville, March 19th, 1861. 43 2d Moltdav SUPSK..TOK CCUKTS. JANUARY. , JULY. Chatham. 'Floyd SPECIAL NOTICE. milE undersigned Laving removed from Mil- I h dgeville dcsirrs and iuttnes to close up bis usiness matters of that place speedily as possi- ... All persons indebted are notified that the t es and accounts are in the bands of J A. !•,;i m ove, and P. II. Lawler, who areanthori- , J to collect and make settlements If not ar- u:.gt d at an early day, settlements willbe enforced hi law. A. S. VAIL, Agent. FEBRUARY. 1st Monday,-Clark t Lumpkin 3d Monday, Campbell • Dawson 3d Monday, Forsyth Polk Glascock Morriwether Walton Houston 1th Monday, Baldwin Jackson Monroe Paulding Taliaferro Walker MARCH. 1st Thursday. Pierce 1st Monday, Appling Chuttooga Cherokee Corveta Columbia Ci aw ford Gwinnett Madison Marion Morgan Jst Monday, Fmyd* AUGUST, 1st Monday Lumpkint 2d M uidiiy, Campbell Clark Dawson i3d Monday, Forsyth PolK Glascock Jlerriwelhcr Walton Houston j Itli Monday, Baldwin Jackson Paulding Taliaferro M alker Thusday after, Pierce 13 tf. Western & Ailanlic (Stale Railroad. i.altauooga, 138 Miles, Fare $6 00 JOHN S. ROWLAND, Panwagtr Xrnin. Sett. ;ita Arrive Leave 7 30 P. M. 4 57 A. M 4 »'(» A. M. r, 15 p. si. Chattanooga at lanta at - Arrive at Chattanooga at 1« < ommo Jaliou Passe ns*'*' Train. Leave Atlanta ^ Arrii ,".t Kingston 0 5/ P- M. Leav Kingston 4 30 A.M. Arrive at Atlanta 8 4;» A. M. This Road counerts each way with the Rome Railroad at Kingston, the East Tennessee 5 1 giaRailroad *t Dalton, and the Nashville A Chattanooga Railroad at Chattanooga. July 29, 1862. J 0 tf. New Arrangement. nor of Schedule, on and after Monday 1 Uh inst r<2- gton ’ / Echols ' l Effiughar THE Subscribers are convey- (he C. S. Mail from Mil-' vine via Sparta, Culver-1 l and Powelton to Double Yells,and would respectfully invite the attention ot . ir friends and the travelling public, to their new i complete arrangement for travelling facilities r this line. SCHEDULE—LeaveMilledgeville after the arriva • iirs from Columbus. Macon and Savannah: Ar- ill Sparta at 6oVlookI>. M. and ut Double Wells : • evening. ... I. ve Double Wells after the arrival of morning . -from Augusta. Atlanta and Athens; Arrive at . irta 11 o’clock, A. M.-, Arrive at Milledgevillesame Mil good Hacks,fine Stock and careful drivers, ; it al’berul patronage. MOORE & FORB8. 1 •Mage OtT.ccs—JlfiKrdtrcriilr HotelMilledgevillt\Ga Edwards' House. Sparta. Moore's Hotel, Double Wells. 11,1859. JOHN T. BOWDOIN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, H Vi'ONTON. Gi. *>rtoition, Ga., Feb. 14,1860. 50 Saw Cotton Gin for Sale. 38 tf. ONE 0 f WATSONS best 50 Saw Cotton Gins, r* d for sale. This Gin is new, and is equal any in use. Sold for no fault, the present ow- - havingeouse for it. Any planter wantinga 1 Gin,can haves chance to get one at are- • i, •< on the regular price. Apply a* this office, :X. Tift., or .1. H. Watson, at Albany * HOES. AO Tf ,,OE8 %!wrlMowi? h Feb. 2d, 1863. a Dm 37 tf. A DUN!! IJVHE undersigned request all persons indebted to them to call and settle. HERTY & HALL. Milledgeviile, Jan. 10th. 1862. 34 tf um'l n. urns. GREENLEE BUTLER. IRVIN & BUTLER, ATTORNEYS AT LAIN. ALBANY, Georgia. PRACTICE in the Superior Courts of the South * Western Circuit,—in Terrell, Randolph, and Ear- in the lkttaula Circuit,—in Worth and Ma- '<> Counties, in the Macon Circuit, in the United ate. Circuit Court at Savannah,—and by special 'ntraet.in any County in Southern Georgia. January 1st’ I860. Coffee Elbert Fayett Greene Pickens Wushln; Webster 3d Monday,JCnbbt Calhoun Hull IIart • Heard Macon N owton Talbot Tottnal Wav Thursday after White Friday after, Bulloch 4th Monday,Clinch Putnam Rabun Chattahoochee Lee Twiggs Wilkes Johnson Milton Thursday after Habersham 4thThursdny, Montgomery Monday af ter 4th -Mon day. APRIL. 1st & 2d Mon.Carroll 1st Monday, Dooly Franklin * Emanuel Early Fulton Gordon Pike Taylor Warren Wilkinson Thnrsd’yafter Banks 2d Monday, Hancock Richmond 11 arris Laurens Miller Sumter Tuesday after, McIntosh 3d Monday, Glynn Haralson Henry Jones . Liberty Murray Oglethorpe Pulaski Stewart Monday Worth after * "Bryan 4th Monday,Wayne Decatur DeKalb Jasper Lincoln Schley Whitfield Wilcox Friday after, Telfair Camden Thursday after, Irwin Monday' “ Berrien Charlton MAY 1st Monday, Clayton Seri von . Randolph Upson 2dEMonday, Catoosa Jefferson Chatham Mitchell Muscogee Gilmer Thursday after Fannin, 3d Monday, Bibb Burke Quittman Spalding Troup Union linker Thursday after Towns 4th Monday, Dade Terrell Last Mondav, Colquitt JUNE. 1st Monday, Lowndes Dougherty 2d Monday, Brooks (lay 3d Monday. Thomas SEPTEMBER. 1st Monday, Appling Chattooga Cherokee Columbia Coweta Crawford Madison Marion Morgan 2d Monday, Butts Bartow Coflee Elbert Fayette Greene Gwinnett Pickens AVashington Webster >d Monday, Cobbt Calhoun Hall Hart, Heard?- Macon Newton Talbot Ware Bulloch Ihiiisdavafter White j ‘fti Monday, Clinch Putnam Chattahoochee Lee Twiggs Wilkes Johnson Milton Rabun Thursday after Habersham Monday af-1 ter the 4th > Echols Monday ) OCTOBER. 1st A 2d Mon. Cat roll 1st Monday. Dooly Emanuel Franklin Early Fulton Gordon Taylor Warren Wilkinson Pike Thursday alter I’.anks 2d Monday, Richmond Gilmer Hancock Harris Laurens Miller Sumter Thursday after Fannin. 3d Monday, Glynn Haralson Jfeury Jones Murray Oglethorpe Pulaski Stewart Union W.rth Thursday after Towns Thursday ) Montgomery nftcr ‘ 1th Monday, Wayne Decatur DeKalb .Jasper Lincoln Schley Tattnall Whitfield Wilcox The elaborate and eonipreliensive review which in his message to Congress Presi dent Davis has taken of the foreign and domestic relations of the Southern Confed eracy during the past two years must com mand the admiration of every one. It is, in truth, a remarkable production. With a tersencts, with a vigor, hut at the same time with a calmness which not even the sincere conviction of having been unjustly treated by the great Powers of Europe can for one instant disturb, the Chief Magistrate of the infant Republic relates the trials and the vicissitudes which over shadow its fortunes, the obstacles which were cast in its path by the power of its foes tyid by the apathy of strangers, and the constancy and patience with which those trials and vicissitudes were home, and the indomitable courage and persever- enee by which those obstacles were over come. AVe may disapprove of much that is contained in this State document. We may deny the justness of many of the inferences which are drawn, hut we can not refuse to accord to those who prepared it the merit of having advanced their im peachment of European neutrality with tamper and with fairness, and of having suppoited’their charges with a consummate | ability which will doubtless carry convic tion to the hearts of many. * * * The governments of Great Britain and i ranee, being those especially interested in the American war, took the initiative in all action respecting that * contest; and Mr. Davis does not err when he says “that by some understanding, express or tacit, Europe had “decided to allow them to do so.’’ Great Britain and Prance are perfectly willing to take the responsi-- bility of the course they adopted, and winch they by their example recommend''- 1 (o the other l'—jjcui x (Avers. 1 he first objection taken to their policy by the Southern President is that they refused to treat ilie Confederacy as an independent Government. To YolnnlrcrN for Ihc Const. Wc learn that much confusion exists in the interior among parties desirous of availing themselves of Gen. Beauregard’s appeal to aid in defense of their State against the Abolition invader. In absence of information regarding the manner of organization, .weapons, ammunition, sub sistence, the time they will he required, See. See., they have been unable to inaugu rate any effective moment in the pre mises. In order to supply this deficiency, and bring about a full understanding of their respective duties, General Mercer issues the following circular of instructions, which we hope the Press will disseminate throughout the State : Savannah Republican. Sol- Governor Brown’s Donation to diers’ Families. We learn from Cherokee County that Governor Brown has upon his river plantation from three to four thonsand dollars worth of corn more than he will need for his own use, and that lie has notified the Inferior Court of hark should ho strongly enforced upon planters. Let this once become the gen eral rule, and tanneries would he multi plied throughout the interior. Hides and tallow are not the only pro ducts of slaughtered animals which should he husbanded. The horns and bones are too valuable to be neglected. There may ±i i. rt i. c i i. , i be no manufactories of combs, buttons ot that Countv of his purpose to make ! . , . . ,, T, “• 4 ’ , . c - i i li i cutlery, &c., at present in the Confeder- a donation of every bushel he has more j ate states to consume these, hut it is not than he needs to the widows and ^Gor \ too soon to save them. We may anv CIRCULAR. Ueauquakters District. Friday after, Telfair Camden 34 tf. ETHERIDGE 8c SON, Uaclore, Commission and Forwarding Thursday after. Irwin Mondav after Charlton NOVEMBER. 1st Monday. Berrien Striven Clayton Eftiiyrham Randolph Upson 2d Monday, Catoosa Jefferson Mitchell Muscogee 3d Monday, Bibb Buike Quittman Spalding Troup Baker 4th Monday. Dade Terrell [Thursday after. McIntosh tMonday “ Colquitt • j <• “ Liberty Mon. after Libert v. Bryau DECEMBER. 1st Monday, Dougherty Lowndes 2d Monday,‘Brooks Clay 3d Monday Thomas at each “If we were independent States the refusal to entertain with us the same international intercourse as was maintain ed with our enemy was unjust and injuri ous in its effects, whatever may have been the motive which prompted it.” It is, in fact, on the contingency with which this extract begins, and the meaning which is to he given to the word “independent,” that the whole* question turns. It will not he necessary to follow Mr. Davis through the precedents and arguments by which he demonstrates that in entering into the American Confederation the sev eral States composing it did not part with their sovereign lights. We agree with him to the fullest, and have always been of opinion that secession could be justified both by the letter and the spirit of the American Constitution. But although (wicli several State in America may be sovereign and independent, it by no means follows that it is entitled at any time, and under all circumstances, to expect from foreign Powers the recognition of that in dependence. Before entering into that Confederation, which lias now so roughly been dissolved, the several States com posing it might, it the)’ had so pleased, have demanded recognition and establish ed diplomatic intercourse with other inde pendent Powd s. They did not do so. 'They voluntarily waived their rights, and created a Confederate (Federal) Government whose recognition, as repiesenting all, was acknowledged by other nations. The time came when certain of the States thought proper to retire from the confederation, and to demand the recognition of their indepen dence whilst simultaneously the Confed erate Government denied their right to secede, and proceeded to enforce submiss ion by force of arms. At this juncture what course was indicated to neutral States by international law 1 Foreign Powers knew the confederation as an in dependent Power duly accredited ; hut they did not know that 1 lie States compos ing it were independent, because they had never demanded recognition as such, and they could not constitute themselves into the interpretation of that constitution which gave the Confederation a distinct existence. They were consequently obli ged to treat the seceding States in the same manner as a nation in revolt agaiust the constituted authority, and patiently wait till they had established their claims to recognition by proving that they were able to maintain their independence. Nor are the objections taken to the neutrality of the European Powers in respect to the closing of their ports^igainet prizes taken by either beligerent, and their refusal to take the blockade as non-effect ive, better founded. Absolute neutrality Ga., ) Savannah, Feb. 22d, 1SG3. ) The Brig. Gen. Commanding, having received from the patriotic citizens of Georgia numerous tenders of service, and learning that m*iy others are anxious to defend this, their chief city, now threaten ed with attack, hereby announces, for the information of all concerned, that he desires all able-bodied exempts in Georgia, to organize themselves into companies of not less than twenty ; to choose their officers ; to arm themselves with douhlcy-barrel guns, or such weapons as they can obtain ; to provide themselves with all the ammuni tion they can secure ; and to hold them selves ready to respond to his call. They will not be summoned here until the I actual approach of the Abolition forces renders their aid necessary. Transporta- j tion to Savannah will be furnished ; they i will he provided with rations while here, and as far as j-ossible with tents a p A - ,i , r.i , - .ao(, however, nition ; the supply of 1 ^, Leiiu-- b—’> U«ry tent and every ounce ot ammunition that can he obtained must be brought. Anns cannot he promised. All com- panies that may be organized will he rcpoited, with the number of men and arms, the quantity of ammunition and other supplies, and the address of the officers in command : they will he sum moned when the emergency arises, and will be returned to their homes the mo ment it lias passed. The Brigadier-General commanding hereby returns his hearty thanks to the many patriots who have tendered their unsolicited aid ; to those men of wealth, who like Thomas S. Metcalf, of Augusta, have, in this hour, sustained the State with their treasure ; and to those hundreds of others who had nothing to offer but their blood. lie begs lliat this notice may he received as a reply to many letters which public duties prevent him from answering explicitly. The State of Georgia has reason to he proud of the spirit of her people. Through all those Jays of peril she has not lagged behind the foremost of her sovereign sis ters ; and in this her hour of trial, she is not recreant to her old and honored name. Never was her devotion to principle and duty sterner, and her great heart pulsates still with unHagging zeal. The Brigadier General Commanding is well assured that thousands of patriotic citizens will organize and proclaim them selves ready to defend the gateway to their [State, or to fall, if need he, in the breach beside the brave soldiers of the Confederacy, who, through long and weary months, often darkened by privation and wasting disease, have cheerfully waited here to meet the enemies of their coun try. By command of Brig. Gen. Mercer, feb 23 Geo A. Mercer., A. A. G. that his cribes next week to soldiers, and among them free of charge. This is not the only generous con- tribut'on made by GoverrO: Brown to the families of soldiers during the war, and to the soldiers themselves. More than thrice we have lieard^of generous and liberal acts, in money from his purse, and in repeated instan ces, of provisions from his plantation, to soldiers and their families. And we r-^anc will he thrown open j hear—of sifl^ works being established, the needy families of j an< ^ when they ate, their products will be his corn distributed c L^ a P er tho better the supply of raw ma terial the manufacturers find accessible to commence on. Deer horns, which are loo rarely pre served should also be taken care of, as we have known them to be in some instances; a thousand pair or so having been ship ped from Mobile in one consignment, two or three years ago. e are so destitute of chemical works that it seems hardly worth w’hile to sug gest the saving of blood—the principal material for the manufacture of Prussian will here add, that from the hands and | blue—which from its perishable character labor of Ins excellent wife, Mrs. Brown,besides, can he hardly mizzled except in our brave soldiers and their families cities where it can be conveyed immedi- liave also received most liberal dona- ! ately t0 the manufactory. There may he tions. She is one of the noble ladies I son ? e method ofpreserving it for transpor who have never been idle in well do- | J at i° u » but n ° cHcmist, thnt we know of ing since the war began. Our Geor-1 -L a . s ma 0 an y suggestions on that; subject. • - , n T -i e ,, • i There are other substances, however, gia troops may well be proudI of their j which ar? employod in thc maimfacture of Prussian blue; every kind of patriotic Governor and his noble con sort! At Intclliscnca An Wight Beccnnoissance off Char leston Harbor—The Dgf— , Acorr—— 01 . tiie * ew lork rr..uiu says a recouuoissance was re cently made in the night of the defen- j ces and fortifications of Charleston ! harbor. He gives the following as the result: material indeed is usp3 liUS purpose such as ol<l 1 wo °len, hair, &c. Let mings be thrown aside into some snug corner; they may be called for. Phos phorous, too, we omitted to remark, is made from bones, and such as are not suit able for making buttons and knife han dles can be used for this purpose. Thc hoofs, scraps of hide, and tendon- ous parts of slaughtered animals are of great importance. Enough of these are i constantly wasted to furnish all the glue Chareston is a second Sebastopol. It is defended by over one thousand guns, j necessary for any purpose short of re^on- many of them of improved European i'structing the Union. The feathers of all fowls should he saved. Hen’s feathers are not so valua- fahric. Every island, point, river, creek and swamp in proximity to Charleston is commanded by hostile cannon. Fort Moultrie is iron cased on the harbor front, and the whole work is bomb proof. The rebels have two rums and one iron cased battery, the latter mounting eight one hundred able, it is true, as those of geese, hut they are too good to throw away, and those, if i.ot employed for filling beds and pillows, could he quilted into comforts to supply at home the place of the blankets sent to our biave hoys in the field. Cotton and linen rags, waste cotton, old pounder rifled cannon, for the defence bagging and rope, have been wasted to of the harbor. The casemated tier of ; the amount of quite a million dollars guns of Fort Sumter is clothed in iron armor. Parallel bars of railroad iron traverse this iron coating perpendicu lar from the base to the upper line. The embrasures are protected by year to the Confederate States. With the present high price of paper, there can be no pretence that they are not worth saving. Every country trader should offer a fair equivalent for them, and thus accumulate the savings of his neighbor massive projections of the same mate- hood, to he disposed of at the nearest pa rial, presenting acute angles at every side. The rebel batteries are fully gar risoned. The rebel army now in Charleston and the fbrtificatioue there ofis about thirty-five thousand strong, and this force is being rapidly augmen ted. To capture Charleston our mili tary and naval commanders think it will take a large naval and land force and will occupy a period of six weeks or two months. That it can he captur ed they have no doubt, notwithstand ing its seeming impregnability. 'Thing* that arc XVautcri. The rule of King Cotton which has pre vailed for the last twenty-five or thirty years, has been not only despotic, hut ex travagant in thc extreme. As Louis XIV said, “I am the State,” cotton I said “I am all.” Not only was every other j branch of industry neglected for the culti- The British and Slavery.—The [ vation of the cotton field, hut everything British people and Government plan- W! »s permitted to go to waste which might ted slavery in the United States. The have been saved- Indeed the neglect of *4.* i i. • i i . all industrial enterprises rendered much British Paniment reiected a petition V l- i i . . . . * i. | ., , 1 , , of this waste unavoidable, materials be- by A lrginia to abolish the slaTe, tiaue. ; D g allowed to perish because there was The British towns of Bristol and Liv- n0 provision for making them up into use- erpool at one time drove a ^profitable 1 f u i forms. trade in slavery. TheBritish cities of The most wholesale waste of which our Manchester, Leeds, and Glasgow, have people have been guilty, is that of the laid the broad foundations of their timber, which by thousands of acres ev- wealthin slavery. The British manu- « r 7 J ear - 1 , ,as been f and . suff f red t0 r . ■ . , J , ,, ., • , decay on the ground. 1 here has been an factoring interest, the cotton anstocra- exc J e for tb > in the fact that the im mense area of fresh land, the clearing of which was made necessary by the rapid immigration into the fertile States of the per mill, not as a speculation—that pas , sion for speculation, and contempt for whatever does not yield a large profit, is j what kills all usefui enterprises here—hut j to oblige his customers by enabling them to convert into money what without his assistance, would be lost- Finally every fragment of wrought or cast iron and old brass should he preserv ed, and when a sufficient quantity has ac cumulated, disposed of. It is but fair, however, that manufacturers should be willing to pay a remunerating price for them. When scrap iron ivas advertised for in this city last summer, many house keepers collected lots of a dozen or twen ty pounds of what had been lying about their premises, hut on learning that only a cent or a half cent a pound would be paid for it, they took no further steps in the matter. Hundreds of pounds might have been obtained if those who advertised for it would have paid the expense of picking it up and drayage to the wharf. These are a few items which it has oc- | curred to us to bring to the notice of our readers, to whom, no doubt others will ! suggest themselves, which if attended to ; would prove a direct saving of millions of | dollars to the country, besides the effect j they would have of lowering the price of j many important articles of consumption.— ! Mobile Advertiser. cy, lnive become opulent and powerful from slavery. British industry has been fed through a thousand channels by slavery. British merchants have reaped large commercial profits from slavery, ship-owners have drawn rich freights lrom slavery. British mechan ical skill has had opened to it a great field for its ingenuity, derived from slavery. British artisans and laborers have been fed, clothed and housed by Southwest, could be cleared in no other way; besides which, it may he admitted that the timber was not lost, beingreturn- ed to the soil as it decayed. This excuse would be more valid, had not the style of cultivation been extremely wasteful itself —impoverishing the land and requiring new clearings to be constantly made; hut that is no excuse for our people perinittin IION. GREAT SPEECH OF THE (1. |i. YALLANDIXGIIAJI, UPON THE WAR, Lately delivered in thc House of Repre sentatives of the United States—His on the part of foreign Powers has proved incomes and wages of which the source | themselvesto be dependent on importation j ,. . , . . y ,. more hurtful to the South than to th 0 i W as slavery The British Exchenuer : for the vast amount of soap cousumed by j . rict hm \\ men j. st NortM b„. if,., it is accident »l,icb■ ; recipient of a large rcvcYj tl’en.. ll i, time «... thi/sbo.W cej. tins floor, by a majo 7„,°„ i ue from slavery. The British monarch and the British peasant have alike been benefitted by slavery. Yet monarch and peasant, states man and pensioner, artisan and shop keeper, have joined in one general chorus in denunciation of slavery"— May holds three weeks, if necessary ■SSSto 0 holdTwoJwe'ks’Comt they- possess no control. If the nav the North can find “no hostile commerce 1 on the ocean,” is it not because this block ade, which is condemned as ineffective, prevents the Confederate merchantmen leaving port. If England is now support ing by charity some hundreds of thousands of her manufacturing population, is it not because a blockade is maintained, which in its inefficiency can only be compared by the Southern President to those declar ed by the decrees of Berlin in 1S06, and | foundation—which they’ have braced the British orders in Council in 1807. . and buttressed; which has yielded them The time will come when the Southern | uncounted stores of wealth", innumer- Confederr.cy will do the maritime Powers able sources of income, which is incor- of Europe justice. She has note passed | p 0ra ted with the social system of a through a fiery ordeal, and has established j w j ]0 | c people, and which, to overthrow piling and burning the timber ashes enough could be saved not only to supply all the wants of the country, but to constitute a valuable article of export. On large plantations and at country vil lages anti cross-roads, potash manufacto ries could be established all over the Con federacy. It is unnecessary to remark that the have united to pull down the fabiic ot : mann f ac t ure 0 f soap should keep pace an institution ot which they laid the j w j(h that of potash. The large amount of animal food consumed by our popula tion tells the story of a great waste of grease which would lie thus economised. The tallow of the beeves consumed >n the country would furniah all the candles weeks: and not oldieed to hold tw in counties of Cobb and Lnmnkin. AISR.CIIAIMTS, VANN AH, GA. t). ETHF.UIDGE. W. D. ETHERIDGE, Jr. July 15th, 1856. 8 tf Messrs. A, H. & L. D. KENAN, Mik Associated in the Practice of Law Office 1st Door upon 2d floor of MASONIC HALL. Jan.23d,1857. 35 tf. J. A. & W. \¥. TURNER, attorneys at law, Eatonton, Ga. 6't»W 18 18i9 . >1 IT- new GfOODS FROM THE LATE Charleston Package Sales. Yds. English Ginghams. 600 Tds. English Shambrays. 800 Eds. English Calicoes. 300 Ids. Canton flannel. PINS, NEEDLES, HAIR FINS, -■tttviT'S UHBir Pine Combs, White Cotton Hose, Jhr., Ac., JUST RECEIVED » nd ior j^gaNS & CO. Milledgaville, Dec. 90tb, 18®S. f 11 on grounds far stronger than any based on j fine dratrn interpretations of constitutional lair, her claims to that recognition of inde pendence ichich must speedily be accorded to her. r lhe recognition of the Southern Confederacy in the spring of InGI by the European Powers never would have pre vented the present war; on the contrary, we believe it would have envenomed it still more, and precluded any subsequent attempts at mediation. On this point the. European Powers ljave a clear consci ence. r l he war has been terrible, the w-ould he destructive of life, property and happine&s. C. Atlanta Confederacy. Gen. Tom Thumb was married to Miss Lavinia Warren, on Tuesday’ last, at Grace Church, New York city. The po lice kept back the crowd. Gen. Burnside ami other notabilities were present. A platform with six steps was erected in front of *he chancel. The bride and l _ 1 i iiuni. y. „ groom carnage has been unprecedented ; but let i crca ted great excitement on their arrival us hope that the evils which it has occa- j an( j appearance, hut went through the sioned may not he altogether unproductive \ cer emony with perfect ease and self-pos A ^ rvnnrl . IT til ft 111 nnl’O (In Tirlnnli Tine 1 , A. ! 1 •' I of good. If the blockade which has been ; decried by the Southern President has j been productive of no other results, it has j at least developed to a wonderful extent 1 the industrial resources of his country. session, and yet earnest seriousness, which showed that to them, at least, it was no farce. After the ceremony the little creatures marched down the middle aisle, and were driven to the Metropolitan. that the country requires. In the absence of stearine manufactories, beeswax, an abundance of which is annually wasted, could he used to give them a proper hard ness, and practice would soon render housewives expert in the manufacture of an excellent article from these materials. It is hardly necessary at present to allude to thc waste of hides; we rather think that these are now carefully saved everywhere. Had more care been taken of them formerly, the home manufacture of leather would be a regular business, and the sudden pressure upon it would not have carried prices to such an exhorbi- tant figure. Every discouragement, how ever, has been thrown in the way of this, as of all other manufactures. Ihe diffi culty of procuring not only hides, but bark, has deterred many a man from un dertaking i* In connection with the economizing of timber, the preservation views on the Crisis—His proposed rem edy—He demands the stoppage of the War—His idea of the Relations of thc States. Mr. Vallandinghani. Indorsed at the recent elections within the same still hold a seat on majority four times greater than ever before, I speak to day in the name, and by the authority of the people who, for six years, have entrusted me with the office of a rep resentative. Loyal, in the true and highest sense of the word., to the Constitution and the Union, they have proved themselves devoutedly attach ed to, and worthy of the liberties to secure'whieh the Union and the Con stitution were established. With can dor and freedom, therefore, as their representative, and with much plain ness of speech, but with the dignity and decency due to this presence, I propose to consider the States of the Union to-day, and to inquire what the duty is of every public man and every citizen in this, thc very crisis of the great revolution. It is now two years, sir, since Con gress assembled, soon after the Presi dential election. For the first time a President had been choseu upon a plat form of avowed hostility to an insti tution peculiar to nearly one half of the States of the Union, and had himself proclaimed that there was an irrepressible conflict because of that institution between the States, and that the Union could not endure “part slave and part free.” Congress met, therefore, in the midst of the profound- est agitation, not here only, but throughout the entire South. Revo lution glared upon us. Repeated ef forts for conciliatkn and compromise were attempted in Congress and out of it. All were rejected by the party just coming into power, except only the promise in the last hour of the ses sion, and that too, against the consent of a majority of that party, both in the Senate and House, that Congress —not the Executive—should never be authorized to abolish or interfere with slavery in the States where it existed. South Carolina seceded; Georgia, Ala bama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas speedily followed. The Confederate Government was estab lished. The other slave States held back. A irginia demanded a peace Congress. The commissioners met; and after some time agreed upon terms of final adjustment. But neither in the Senate nor in the House were they allowed even a respectful considera tion. The President elect left his home in February, and journeyed to ward the capital, jesting as he came; proclaiming that the crisis was only artificial, and that “nobody was hurt.” lie entered this city under cover of night and in disguise. On the 4th of March" he was inaugurated, surrounded by soldiery; and, swearing to support the Constitution of the United States, announced in the same breath that the platform of his party should be the law unto him. From that moment all hope of peaceable adjustment fled. But for a little while, either with un- steadfast sincerity, or in premeditated deceit, the policy of peace was pro claimed eveh to the evacuation of Sum ter and the other Federal forts and arsenals in the seceded States. Why that policy was suddenly abandoned, time will fully disclose. ’ But just utter the spring elections, and the secret meeting in this city of the Governors of the several Northern and Western States, a fleet of vessels, carrying men, was sent down ostensibly to provision Fort Sumter. The authorities of South Carolina eagerly accepted the chal lenge, and bombarded the Fort into a surrender, while the fleet fired not a -': •*$ ft gun, but as soon as the flag was struck bore away and returned to the North. It was Sunday, thc 14th of April, 1801; and that day the President, in fatal haste and without the advice or con sent of Congress, issued his proclama tion dated the next day, calling out Seventy-five thousand militia for three months, to repossess the forts, places and property seized from the United States, and commanding the insur gents to disperse in twenty days.— Again the gage was taken up by the South, and thus the flames of a civil war, the grandest, the bloodiest and saddest in historvi lighted up the whole heavens. A’irginia forthwith, seceded. North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas followed. Deleware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri were in a blaze of agitation, and with in a week from the proclamation, the line of the Confederate States was transferred from the Cotton States to the Potomac, and almost to the Ohio and the Missouri, and their population as well as lighting men doubled. In the North and West, too, the storm raged with the fury of a hurri cane. Never in history was anything equal to it. Men, women and chil dren, native and foreign born, church and State, clergy and laymen, were all swept along with the current. .Dis tinction of age, sex, station, party, perished in an instant. Thousands bent before the tempest; and here and there only was one found bold enough, foolhardy enough it may have been, to bend not, and upon him it fell as a con suming lire. The spirit of persecu tion for opinion’s sake, almost extinct in the old world, now, by some myste rious transmigration, appeared incar nate in the new. Social relations were dissolved; friendships broken up; the ties oflamily and kindred snapped as- sunder. Stripes and hanging were everywhere threatened, sometimes ex ecuted. Assassiuation was invoked, slander sharpened his tooth; falsehood crushed truth to the earth; reason fled; madness reigned. Not justice only es caped to the skies, but peace return ed to the bosom of God, whence she came. The Gospel of love perished; hate sat enthroned, and the sacrifices of human blood smoked upon every altar. But the reign of the mob was inau gurated only to be supplanted by the iron domination of arbitrary powers. Constitutional limitation was broken down; habeas corpus fell; liberty of the press, of speech, of the person, of mails, of travel, of one’s own house, and of religion; the right to bear arms, due process of law, judicial trial, trial by injury, trial at all; every badge and muniment of freedom in republican government or kingly government— all went down at a blow; the chief law officer of the crown—I beg par don, sir, but it is easy to fall into this courtly language—the attorney gener al, first of all men, proclaimed in the United States the maxim of Roman servility: whatever pleases the President, that is law! Prisoners of the State were then first heard of here. Mid night and arbitrary arrests commenced, travel was interdicted; trade embar goed: bastiles were introduced; strange oaths invented; a secret police organ ized; “piping” began; informers multi plied; spies now first appeared in America. The right to declare war, to raise and support armies, and to provide and maintain a navy was usurped by the Executive; and in a little more than two months a naval and land force of over three hundred thousand men was in the field or upon the sea. An army* of public plunder ers followed, and corruption struggled W’ith power in friendly strife for the mastery at home. On the 4th of July, Congress met, not to seek peace; not to rsbuke usur- m

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The Confederate union. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1862-1865, March 03, 1863, Image 1