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Newspaper Page TextBOUGHTOff, NISBET & BARNES, publishers and Proprietors. JO*. II. NISBKT. s (Cbc Caiifckrate SInioit o Is published Weekly, in Milled get Hie, Ga. Corner of Hancock ar.d Wilkinson St*, (opposite Court House.) At $-1 a year in Advance. OIK NEW TERJIM. Ou ftn l aft«r June 1st, 18(33, tlie Terms of Sub- scriptiou to the CouVderate Union, are Koch Dol lars, luv.iribly in advance. All indebted liens for subseript.ioo to this paper, previous to June 1st, 1863, is at t.ie rate of T.irec Dollars per year. ADVERTISING. Transient—One dollar and fifty cents per square of ten lines, for the first insertion, and seventy-five cents for each subsequent insertion. Tributes of respect, Resolutions by Societies, (Obit uaries exceeding six lines.) Nominations for office. Communications or Editorial notices for individual benefit, charged as transient advertising. 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Legal adver tisements are charged according to the rules under the head of this paper, on the j fu-t page. CONFEDERATE VOLUME XXXIV.] MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORG 14, TUESDAY, J U L ¥ 7, IS6X. [MMBEK 7. Looking Backward. -O— BY II. L. FLUSH. — O— Cud’s hand has planted another year r In the fruitful soil of time: lo the tragic poem ol human life. Is added another rhyme : And I sit here in a stranger town, Widow’d of ail the joy ' *- I used to know at the glad New Year, When I was a little boy. ’ 1 was only a few brief years ago. Telling the days that are dead— But ii seems to me like a century. Counting the hopes that have tied — Since my heart like the gold of Parvaim, Was free f.om all alloy ; O, brighter than Heaven seems now, was earth, W hen 1 was a little boy. I’ve wandered restless as the wind Through many a foreign land. And pluck'd the pleasure—buds of earlli From Clyde lo ftannacaud. But found no flower pure fioin blight, No sweet that did not cloy ;— O, nevet a canker cursed a bud, When I was a little boy. I ve found the wisdom that’s horn of pain, The sorrow that comes w ith years, And paid the price that Adam paid For knowledge—and for ttars. But I've lost my faith in f. ien ship's \ ow. Ai d love’s a broken ioy ; — 1 used to trust in mother—and God, When I was a little boy. 0 sadder than death is the bitter change In the ti usting heart of youth ; Better believe in a wholesome lie, Than foieverdoubt tlietlulli. What care 1 now for Hiithor's fame. Or the ten years' siege of Troy ! The heroes and myths that I used to love, When I was a little hoy. 'Tis true that memories are mine Unutterably bright. But, like the stats, they shine above, And only show ’tis uigbt; And the darkness is quick with trembling flends. Alluring to destroy ;— 1 used to live in tire light of God, When I was a little boy. It may be truefand I hope it is, That death will end the pain : That on the shore of another world I’ll be a child again ; And feel with fuller faith and love The olden gulden joy, That come ot my trifst in mother—and God, When I was a little bov. knew how to make. Even as ’he sat moodily in his room, conscious that his presence rested like nightmare on the spirits, of his wife and children, he •would say to himself: “This, is not right. I should bring home pleasant words and cheerful smiles.” Yet al most as he said this would his thought go back to some incident of the day, which mere selfishness gave power to disturb his feelings, and he would go off again into a brooding state of mind, out of which lie had not resolution enough to lift himself. Often it hap pened that his children sought, in the outgushing gladness of .their hearts, to^H. sat quietly in his chair, feeling hap pier than he had been for a long time. When the sun went down, and Frank BOOK-BINDING. TllF. Subscriber is now pre j pared to do 35ook-J3ind- : ing", in -all its branches, i Old Books rebound, &c. Ml’SIC bound in the best style. Blank Books | manufactured to order. Prompt attention will be | given to all wotk entiusted to me. S. J. KIDD. Hit,ilcry in HouIII,’rn Federal Union Office. Milledgeville, March 10th, UiGl. 43 Western & Atlantic -(Stale Railroad. Atlanta to Chaltanooga-, 138 Miles, Fare $0 00 JOHN S. ROWLAND, Supt. Vavirngfr Train. Leave Atlanta at 7 Jj* Arrive at Chattanooga at 4 ;■< A. M- Leave Atlanta at 4 *'(J A. M. Arrive at Chattanooga at 5 15 P. “• Accommodation Pa»«n*fr Train. Leave Atlanta ^ 40 P. M. Arrive af Kingston C f*' j” Leave Kingston 4 30 A. M- Arrive at Atlanta - - - - 8 45 A. M. This Road connects each way with the Home Branch Railroad at Kingston, the East Tennessee A Georgia Railroad at. Dalton, and the Nashville A Chattanooga Railroad at Cliattanooga. July 20, 1862. JOtf. New Arrangement. Change of Schedule, on and after Monday 11 th inst THE ^ubscriberaareconvey- jgSTJ in£ the C. S. Mail from Mil- ledgeville via Sparta, Culver- tiuand Powe’.ton to Double! Wclls.and would respectfully in\ it,- the attention ot t .i-ir friends and Hie travelling public, to their new a;i.l complete arrangement for travelling facilitie, over this line. SU1IEDULE—Leave Milledgeville after the arrtva ,.f trains from Columbus. Macon and Savannah; Ar rive in Sparta at6o’clocKP. M. and at Double W ells same evening. ... Leave Double Wells after the arrival of momiDg trains from Augusta. Atlanta and Athens; Arrive at Sp 11 o’clock, A. M.; Arrive at Milledgcviliesame Wit"? good Hacks, fine Stock and careful drivers, we solicit aliberal patronage. MOORE A FORBS. Mi nge Offices- Milled periUe Hotel Milled get ille-,G a Edward*' House. Sparta. Moore's Hotel, Double Wells. July 11,1859. 8 tf - ETHERIDGE 8c SON, Factors, Commission and Forwarding MEH.OUAN TS, M A VANN AII, fiA. W. D. ETHERIDGE. W. D. ETHERIDGE, Jr July 15th, 1856. ® ^ VALUABLE FARM F0lT SUE. I OFFER for sale the place upon which I live, in Worth county, Ga.. 17 miles above Albany, on the “State Road,” leading from the latter place to Macon. Said place contains 720 acres with about 3 )0 opened, all of which has been cleared within the last two years, except 30 acres. Lying as it does immediately on Flint River and Jones Cre.-k ; it is one of the best watered plantations in this section of the State ; and is one of the most desirable places in Southwestern Georgia— comprising all the facilities of a number one farm. Hea th of the place unsurpassed. Water and im provements good. A large portion is No. I Ham mock tha balance, red Mulatto land. I will sell with the place a fine lot of improved stock hogs and cattle. For particulars, call on md on the place or address me, Bloomfield, Wot th county, Ga A. S. LIPPI IT. June 2, 1863. . ^ • SPECIAL NOTICE. \TU. L. CARRINGTON has my books and is -Dm. ready to receive the CASH or Note for ev ery Recount in them. All indebted to me must rail on him, or he will be forced to call on them. H- may be found at the Drug 8tore of Messrs. D”rty & Hall. A. C. VAIL, Agt. June 20, 1863. 5 tf Catching a Sunbeam. A PRETTY STORY. The sun is always shining in the sky of our lives, and his bright beams coin ing down to gladden the earth. Hut into how few hearts do they find their way ? The earth upon which our minds dwell, like the material earth, has its dense forests, its deep valleys, its dark caves and caverns, into which the sunlight rarely, if ever comes. It would seem as if many loved these gloomy shades, and hid themselves, of choice, away from the bright and beau tiful sunshine. They carry shadows in their hearts arid shadows on their faces. When they come into your presence it seems as if the air was suddenly dark ened by a passing cloud. Mr. Hickman was one of those men who walk, for the most part, in dark valleys, or sit in dreary caverns. Hard ly, if ever, on returning home did he bring light into his dwelling. If there was merry laughter among the chil dren on his entrance, their voices were hushed; if love’s light beamed from the countenance ot his wife as she sported with her little ones, it faded away, giving place to a sober, thought ful, half-troubled look. He always came home bringing a shadow with him, and sat, for the most part, in the l shadow, through all the cheerless even ings. ' Why was this? Was there a great 1 trouble in the heart of Mr. Hickman ? Had lie passed through some depres sing misfortune ? No ! It was as well with him as with most people—better than with a very large number. Ilis business was prosperous, and every year he added many thousands of dol lars to bis rapidly accumulating for tune. But he was not a man possessing an orderly adjusted min'd—was easily disturbed by trifles, and annoyed by incidents that should not have affected him any more than the buzzing of a fly. But the real cause lay deeper and more hidden, grounded in an inordinate selfishness,that robbed him of the pleas ure which might have attended suc cess, through envy of others’ good for tune. He was jealous of his compeers in business, and always experienced a disagreeable sensation when he heard them spoken of as successful. No won der that sunlight could not tiud its way into his heart. Envy and ill-will, burn in what heart they may, always send up a black smoke that obscures the heavens. The sun is there,shining as brightly as ever, but his rays cannot penetrate the cloud of passion. No day passed in which something did not oc cur to disturb or cloud the mind of Mr. Hickman ; and so, evening after even ing, he came home, bringing with him shadow instead of sunlight. Oh, what a desecration of home was this !—home, where the hearts’s sunlight should ever dwell, and a heart warmth pervade all the sweet atmosphere. Nothing of ex ternal Rood was denied by Mr. Hick man to bis family. They had all of happiness that money could buy. Yet how far from happiness were las wife aud children ! They were drooping for the sunshine of smiles, and pleasant words, and joyous laughter. But these came not from Mr. Hickman. He sat among them grim and gloomy, lot the most part, like some sombre heathen divinity—half dreaded, half propitia ted. Mr. Hickman was not so stolid but he saw in this the existence of a wrong. He loved his -wife and children, desired their good, and was ready to make al most any sacrifice for them that he break the spell that was on him, but almost always he had repulsed them— sometimes coldly, sometimes fretfuliy, and sometimes in sudden anger—so that, at least they rarely came nearer spoke to him, as he sat through his si lent evenings. “ Wrong, all wrong,” Mr. Hickman often said to himself, as the shadow fell darker on his home. But a knowl edge of flie evil did not bring a knowl edge of the cure, or, rather, that self conquest which must precede a cure, lie must let the sunshine into liis own heart ere he could pour forth its rays upon other hearts. He must come out of the dense forests and gloomy vales and dusky caverns, into the clear sun shine. But how was he to come out ? —who was to lead him forth ? One day as Mr. Hickman sat in his counting-room, conversing with a gen tleman, a lad came in from the store to ask him some questions about busi ness. Mr. Hickman replied in a curt way, and the lad went out. “ What is that boy’s name?” asked the gentleman. “ Frank Edwards,” was replied. “ I thought so. He’s a fine boy. How long as he been witli you ?” “About three months.” “ Does he give satisfaction ?” “ Y r es.” “I’m pleased to hear it. His moth er lives in our neighborhood, and my wife has taken considerable interest in her. She is very poor, and in feeble health. She maintains herself by sew ing, but that kind of exhausting toil is wasting her life rapidly. Frank is her only child, and the only one to whom she can look for any help. I am glad you like him ?” Nothing more was said on the sub ject, but it did not pass from the mind of Mr. Hickman. He bad taken the lad a few months before on trial, and it was understood that if he gave satisfac tion he was to be put on wages after six months. “ The boy is faithful, intelligent and active,” said Mr. Hickman, speaking to himself. “ If it is so with his moth er, lie must be put on wages now.” “ Frank is an unusually bright hoy,” said Mr. Hickman. “ He has an apt ness for business, is prompt and faith ful. 1 can afford to make his salary liberal. I’ll pay him six dollars now, and if he goes on improving as fast as he has done so far, it will not be long before I can make it better for him.” Mr. Hickman arose, aud, going to the counting-room door, called the lad,who came in immediately. m How do you like our business, Frank ?” asked Mr. Hickman, in a kind way. “ Very well, sir,” he replied prompt ly “ And you would like to remain ’?” “ Yes sir, if I give satisfaction.” “ You have done very well so far,” replied Mr. Hickman ; “ so well, that I have concluded to put you on wages now,instead-of waiting until six months of trial have expired.” The boy started, and a quick flush of surprise and pleasure went over his face. “ I did not expect it, sir,” he said, ! gratefully. “ You are very good.” , “ Y T our mother is not well, I hear,” suid Mr. Hickman. Frank’s eyes glistened as he answer ed—“ No, sir ; she’s been sick for a good while; and I am so glad to be put on wages, for now I can help her.” “ Will you give all your wages to your mother?” | “ Oh yes, indeed, sir—every cent, if it was ten dollars a week.” I “ This conclusion in the mind of Mr. j Hickman was attended with a sense of | pleasure. His heart had opened just a little, and two or three sunbeams, with-their light and warmth, had gone down into it. “ What shall I pay him for his ser vices ?” said Mr. Hickman to himself, still dwelling on the subject. “There are plenty of lads lo be obtained at a couple of dollars a week, for the first one or two years; or even for nothing, in consideration of the opportunity for learning a good business in a good house. But Frank’s case is peculiar, and must be considered by itself. There is a question of humanity in volved. His mother is poor and sick, aud she has no hope but him. Let me see; shall I make it three dollars a week ? That will help them consider ably. But, dear me ! three dollars ly double the amouui be thought of giving Frank. Mr. Hickman had al ways loved his mother, and this mem ory of her softened his feelings still more toward the poor widow for whom an appeal had come to him so unex pectedly. ’ Tie Caplorc IViacliMlrr. The following extracts from a letter from an officer in a Richmond battery to liis brother in Richmond, and published in tlie Whig, gives the clearest and most cor- lect idea of the manner of the capture of Winchester and the movements of our troops immediately preceding that event I see you’re a good ioy Frank,” said j that has yet been given to the public. To Mr. Hickman, his heart still softening, j those unfamiliar with the geography of the j “ and vour wages shall be six dollars.” I Valley, that they should read the account j The hoy struck his hands together I w5th a ma P before them, is essent.al to the J • | proper understanding aud appreciation ot with sudden joy, exclaiming, ^ ^ j tlieskill with which General Ewell threw | the meshes oi l is net around the array of ■ glad—so Oh, mother will be glad !” As he went back into the store, Mr. came in to shut the windows of the counting-room, Mr. II. bunded him a sealed envelope, saying : “ Take this to your mother. It con tains thirty-six dollars, as your wages, at three dollars a week for twelve weeks, the time you have been in my store. Tell your mother that you have been a good, industrious boy, and have earned the money.” Frank took the little package; his feelings were so much overcome by this additional good fortune that he could not speak his thanks. But his eyes told what was in .his heart, and Mr. Hickman understood it. There are many ways to catch sun beams, if we could only set traps for them. Nay, there is no occasion to go to that trouble. The air is full of sun beams, and we have only to open the doors and windows of our hearts, and they will enter in countless multi tudes. But the doors and windows of most people’s hearts are shut aud bar red as the heart of Mr. Hickman. How are they to be opened ? Just as the doors and windows of his heart was opened—by kindness to others. VV hen Mr. Hickman took his way homeward, his step was lighter and his feelings more buoyant than they had been for a long time. Though con scious of this, and of the sense of pleas ure that was new .to him, his thought did not go directly to the cause. Not that he had forgotten Frank aud liis sick mother, or the pale face that look ed into his when he told the boy of his generous decision in his favor; all this was present to him, though he had not yet connected the kind act and pleas ant feelings in his consciousness as cause and effect. • There was no sound of pattering feet on the stairs as Mr. Hickrm>n came in. Time was when his first step in the passage awoke the echoes with laugh ing voices and the rain of eager loot- fails. But that time had passed long ago. The father came home so often in a cold, repellant mood, that his children had ceased to be glad at his return, and no longer bounded to meet him. Sitting on the stairs were a lit tle boy and girl of the ages of five and six years. As he advanced along the passage they neither stirred nor spoke, nor smiled, though their eyes were fix ed upon his face. Mr. Hickman stood still when he came to where they were sittng, and looked at them with a new feeling of tenderness in his heart. lie held out a hand to each, and each laid a hand iu his, but with an air of doubt as to whether this condescension on the, part of their father were to be accep ted as a token of love. A moment he stood holding their hands, then stoop ing he threw an arm around each and lilted them to his breast. “ Hasn’t Edie a kiss for papa ?” said Mr, Hickman, with so much warmth in his voice that the little girl now un derstood that all was earnest. “ Yes, a hundred kisses !” answered she, flinging her arms around her fath er’s neck, and kissing him over and over again in childish fondness. At the head of the first landing open ed the sitting room. Into this Mr. Hickman came with the two children in his arms, both of them hugging and kissing him in a wild happy way. “ Bless me! what’s the meaning of all this ?” exclaimed Mrs. Hickman, rising and coming forward, her face aglow with sudden pleasure at a sight and sounds so new, yet all welcome to her heart. “ These little rogues are hugging and kissing the very breath away from me,” said Mr. Hickman, laughing aud strug gling with the children. “ He asked me for one kiss,” cried artillery Edie, “ and I’m going to give him a | and attempted during the night to cut their Milroy. It will be seen that before the latter was aware ot the approach of dan ger, his position was surrounded anti his principal avenues of retreat held by our troops. We give the extract. “Camp 1st Va. Artillery, 4 Four Miles beyond Winchester, ;• Jane 15th, 1863. ) * * * “On the 1 ltli instant, Ewell’s corps to which our battalion is attached, started from Culpeper Court House. We marched that day to Little Washington, in Rappahannock comity’, a distance ot twenty-six miles, and on the next day T reached Front Royal, on this (wesl) side of the Blue Ridge, twenty-three miles from Little Washington, having made forty- nine miles in the two days. Five days before our arrival at Front Royal, Gen eral Jenkins, who was stationed at-Mid dleton twelve miles South of Winchester on the A’alley Bike, had carefully picket ed the roads on this side of the Ridge leading from Front Royal to Winchester, and in consequence of this wise precaution Milroy knew nothing of our arrival at Front Roy’al. The old despot and outlaw was enjoying himself freely in oppressing i women and children and old men of this j section, when suddenly and unexpectedly - we stepped in and interrupted his congeni- j al occupation. “At Front Royal our corps split into j three parts. Rhodes' division moving ( rapidly to the right of Winchester, passed j through Millwood to Berryville, and then ! swung round towards Martiusburg. The j object of this movements was at once to] invest Winchester on the North, and to ; prevent reinforcements reaching Milioy from Harper’s Ferry. As showing how utteil.y 'ignorant the Yankees were of our ; approach, I may mention that a friend ] of mine, who lives near Berry ville, tells me ! that he saw a party of Yankees walking j lesiurely down the road to k that place, and. that before they had gotten out of sight j Rhodes’ skirmishers passed thronglit liis yard, going iu tlie same direction, and that Gen. Rhodes told him he expected to cap ture the Yankee foree at Berryville. ‘.‘From Front Royal General Johnson’s division moved directly up the Bike to wards Winchester, extending his line lo the right, as he neared the town. “General Early’s division, to which we are attached moved to the left, entered the Valley Bike at Newtown, and pressing to wards Winchester, drove the Yankees out of Kearnstown and into Winchester. We continued the pursuit to within two miles of the town. “Thus it will be seen tliat Rhodes was north of Winchester, Johnston south aud east of it, while our division stretched from the Valley Bike ou the south to the Rom ney road on the north-west. If all the roads had been securely closed the whole Yankee force would have beeu compelled to surrender in the town. “The town was strongly fortified, aud if the Yankees had fought courageously (which they did not do) we could not have taken their works without suffering great slaughter. They were eight thousand strong, and had twenty-three splendid pie ces of artillery. “It was with great difficulty we could fiud for our guns a position on a level with the Yankee forte, and we spent the whole of Saturday manoeuvring about the bills — On Saturday evening, after some delay, we (the artillery of Early division) took position on a bill between the Romney road and the Martiusburg Bike, twelve hundred yards from the nearest Y’ankee fort. Every gun and man was concealed and perfect silence observed until every thing was in readiness for the attack. On the precoueested signal beinggiven we open ed twenty guns on the nearest work of the enemy, silencing its guns almost immedi ately. This fire of our artillery so intimi dated the Yankee infantry, that when our troops charged they took the first fortifica tion almost without resistance. Night now coming on prevented our further ad vance that night. We had captured a very commanding position with the loss of one horse in our battalion killed and one man wounded—that man was myself. I re ceived a flesh wound in my left arm, so slight that it is nearly well already. Col. Jones’ battalion, which occupied a position on our left, suffered but little more than we did, and the infantry lost but very few men. “The situation of the Y’ankees was now utterly hopeless, for in the morning we should her e torn them to pieces with our They appreciated their danger j way out, leaving all their guns, wagon trains, ordnance stores, ifc. As soon as we became aware that they were leaving their works onr troops closed in upon their re treating columns, capturing, I believe, nearly all of them. I have myself seen several thousand of tlie prisoners and hear of others. Milroy is said to have es caped in citizens dress. hundred. 1 Mr. Hickman sat down with a child on each knee, and Mrs. Hickman came and stood by him, with a hand resting on hie shoulder. “ Oh, you must kiss him, too,” said Edie, looking up at her mother. Mrs. Hickman did not wait for a sec ond invitation. The old pleasant face of her husband was again before her, | u/t „, uv , u „ and her heart was leaping with the old ] Fraser & Co., of Charleston, S. C., says ' the Atlanta Confederacy, have purchased of onr townsmen, Messrs Schofield & .Markham, their rolling mill of this city, for $600,000. This is the greatest real estate sale ever made in Atlanta. Great Real Estate Purchase.—John loving impulses. She bent down and laid a warm kiss on his lips, which he felt as a sweet glow through all bis being. This was an evening long to be re membered in the household of Mr. Hickman. He had caught a sunbeam will hardly pay for Frank’s eating. I must do something better than that. | and brought it with him, and a light Say fourdollars.” ] and warmth were all around them. Mr. Hickman dropped his head a lit- AH were happy, and Mr. H ickman the tie and sat turning the matter over in I happiest of them all, for he had the his mind. He had once been a poor ! 8weet consciousness in his heart ol hav- _ boy, with a mother in feeble health ; 4 Q S made another and humbler home and he remembered bow hard it was ver Y h a PPy a ^ so * * to get along—how many privations! ■— ■ ■ and hardships his mother had to en- j It is oftener woman than tyer wrongs dure; and yet their income was near- that needs to be redressed. Sare Your Seeds.—Every one who has a garden, aud raises a stock of peas, corn, beans, cucumbers or other vegetables, should take especial pains in saving seeds, not oulv for their own use, but for sale.— There is no danger of over stocking the market; ou the contrary, there is reason to fear that there will be a great scarcity of seeds another year and nothing but timely and general diligence in husbanding home resources will prevent the most serious in convenience therefrom.—Lynchburg Re publican. From the Missiaaippian. Gcu. Holme*—.Gen. Kirby Smith -Cm. Price—The Trnina-.niSBixaippt Army mat the Richmond Government. Mr. Editor :—When, some months since, Lieutenant-Gen. E. K. Smith and Alaj. Gen. Price was ordered to the de partment west of the Mississippi, it was universally understood, and stated with out explanation or contradiction, that Gen. Smith would have command of the department, as senior in rank Gen. Brice would be assigned to active, tintrainineled command in tlie field, where his great and admitted talents as the leader of armies would be made available to the country iu this, the most trying and perilous hour of its fortunes. In this, the public have been sadly misled and deceived. Gen. Smith proceeded Gen. Brice by a few days to Little Rock, and when Gen. Brice met Gen. Smith on his way to Alexandria, the latter frankly stated to the former,that his (Gen. Smith’s) expectations had been dis appointed ; that Gen. Holmes was in com- rntfnd; Gen. Brice would be subject to Gen. Holmes’ orders, that his (Gen. S’s) presence was required in Louisiana, and that for the time but little or nothing could be done for Gen. Brice and his command. Gen. Brice reported to Gen. Holmes at Little Rock, his name bronght back thousands ot the demoralized army under Holmes ; lie has earnestly pleaded for permission to lead bis men to battle, all which entreaties have been refused by Holmes ; and now to place Gen. Price as far as possible from any foe, he has been ordered with his whole command to Jack- sonport, Aik., and might as well for the time be stationed in Australia. At the time Jackson was being burnt by Grant, aud Vicksburg was being invest ed, Co). Clay Taylor, of Gen. Brice’s staff, crossed tlie Mississippi river to Ar kansas, witnessed the efforts making by the enemy to reinforce and feed Grant’s army, and saw the practicability of cutting off supplies and reinforcements from the west bank of the river. He made an earnest application to Holmes to be allow ed to take a lew heavy guns, and station them at a point where the enemy’s trans port licet could be destroyed, offering to work rs a private and a gunner. Holmes’ army was doing nothing—never was doing anything, but dying, running and being captured as at Arkansas Post. But Col. Taylor’s application was refused, on the ground that the enemy would land and burn the country. ( 1 hey did not burn Mississippi homes and plantations!) Gen. Price then went in person to second Col. Taylor’s application. “I will go,” said he “aud take my division with me; aud let the enemy land if he dare ; I’ll whip him back into the river.” But Holmes would not allow anything of tbe kind to be at tempted. This is only one instance put of thous ands in which that old imbecile has thwart ed all the efforts of the best officers and brave men in the Bouth to aid in saviug the country. He had at one time 40.000 men—earnest,deterininedjundaun ted,fight ing men, many of whom had run the gaunt let of death to reach his army ; and that host was scattered, held iu mud camps, borne to tbe ground with the dead march, disheartened, demoralised, ruined, annihi lated, without fighting one battle or strik ing one blow for the recovery of our terri tory, or to divert the enemy from the Gulf States. About 12,000 effective men remained when Gen. Brice reached Ar kansas. Now, when our fate trembles in the balance, 15,000 to 20,000 men are opposite Vicksburg, nor capture Helena; l’jr destroy tbe enemy’s means of subsis tence : nor threaten St. Louis ; nor any thing else in God’s world to aid our cause. Gen. Brice chafes like a caged eagle, and can only lament his and his country’s fate. “1 have done, and sought to do, God knows, all that was in my power ; I am in the service of my Government, and as a good soldier, my first duty is to obey orders, and, respect my superiors in rank. I can only hope that in some way, at some time, I may be permitted to serve onr cause more effectually.” This is the language of that great and gallant chieftain. Now in God’s name, will the administration thus jeopardize our safetyj How long will this state of things contin ue 1 I know that a gentleman—an officer of the Government—a former U. S. Sena tor. has faithfully reported the main facts of the case to the Secretary of War at Richmond. I know that that officer is willing to depese one oath before a court of chaucery that, in his solemn aud deliber ate judgment, found upon actual obser vation, Gen. Holmes lias not capacity, unaided, to take a carriage and horses and make his way out of Arkansas. Now, Mr. Editor, we all have something at stake. We want to be free from a fate woise than death—from Yankee thraldom. We want a country and a home for our children. It is a great people, numbered by millions, for whom we labor and suffer. It is unpatriotic and criminal before God and our country to be silent under such abuses. It is proper to add that neither Gen. Brice, nor auy officer, nor private of that army has the remotest knowledge of this communication: nor have they, or any of them authorized or requested the publica tion of these or any other facts connected with this department. But honestly be lieving that silence was a sin against our dearest interests, I have made myself re sponsible for this article. Very respect fully, &c., J. W. Tucker. Jackson, Miss., June 19, 1863. WHEAT CROP. We hear of small transactions in Wheat, in Houston, at three dollars a bushel; in Telfair at two and a half; in Laurens at three dollars ; in Jones at three dollars; in Bibb at five dollars, but there have been no sales made sufficient to establish prices. All accounts say the wheat crop of Geor gia is unprecedented. We have heard it asserted that more wheat has been made and saved in Georgia this year, than in the five preceeding years. One of our friends says he raised eighty bushels from two of seed. Another, out of a field of twenty to twenty-five acres, gathered and measured 427 bushels. .Telegraph. Pyroteehnical remedy for infantile crying nuisance—Rocket. AmMiag Aaodalc. “Daniel Webster had an anecdote of old Father Searl, the minis er of bis boy hood, which is too good to be lost. Il was customary then to wear buckskin breech es in cold weather. One Sunday morning, in autumn Father Searl brought bis breeches down from the garret; but tbe wasps bad taken possession, during the summer, and were having a nice time of it in there. By diut of effort he got out the intruders, and dressed to go to meeting.-— But while reading the scriptures to the congregation, he felt a dagger from one of the enraged sinall-waisted fellows, and jumped around the pnlpit slapping his thigh. But the more he slapped and danced, the more they stung* The peo ple thought him crazy, but Le explained the matter by saying: ‘Brotheren don’t be alarmed ; the word of God is in my mouth, but the devil is in my breeches I’— Webster always told it with great glee to the ministers.” — A Traitor Gone to his Account. A Y r ankee correspondent, in his ac count of the fight at Brandy Station says: Col. Davis, who is a Mississippian, and who is said to be the only cavalry officer of Southern birth in the army, was killed while gallantry leading a charge. He was moving forward in front of the colors, with drawn sabre, and shouting, “Come on, boys! on!” when two rebels rode up to him, one with a sabre and tlie other with a pis tol. The first struck with his sabre at Col. Davis, but Lieut. Parsons, acting. Adjutant General of tbe cavalry brig ade, cut him down, cleaving his head from his body; bat the second rebel shot Col. Davis throtigh the forehead, and he died immediately. Vallandigham. Mr. Valladdigham is no longer in the Confederacy. He has sailed from Wilmington, and so many days ago that ere this he is cither safe on British soil or deck or captured again by his admirers at Washington. Mr. Vallandigham, when thust intd our lines, presented himself as a prison er to our Authorities, and was so held while in our limits. He requested an exit from one of our ports and it was accorded him. We are very glad, indeed, that th« matter was managed as it was, and has terminated as it has done. It is just what we suggested as the best for all the parties concerned, and most likely to frustrate Linconl’s amiable designs. we probably shall soon hear of Val landigham in Canada, and next of his crossing the line in great triumph as Governor of Ohio. [Richmond Sentinel. Milroy’s Losses. A Col. Garrick Mallory, of Penn sylvania, in an intercepted letter dated Hospiial Maryland Heights, says: I cannof give particulars of the bat tles, which beat all within my know ledge. Suffice it to say that Gen. Mil- roy’s account, which I have seen is a mere white-washing affair, not giving any true version of the facts. I atii pretty desperate, as I have lost every article 1 possessed except horse, arms and the clothiug on my back. Gen, Milroy did not bring away a gun team, ambulance or a third of command. To Make a Good Light at a Light Bxpenee- Take a cup of grease of any kind (lard or tallow) and into it put a syca more ball, saturate in the same, and then light it—you will have a light superior to two candles. One ball will last three or four nights. The expese will be about three cents a night, till usual bedtime—not more, even at the present prices of tallow. You can publish these or not. just as you choose; they have been fully tested. .Your brother, Geo. C. Vanderslice. Corrrespondence of tbe Chronicle & Sentinel. Capture of a Yankee Gunboat. Kinston, N. C., June 24. The gunboat Keokuk (?) came to this place yesterday and raised the Union colors. Our boys took no notice of her until night. Major Anderson Chaffin and the left wing of the 6th Georgia regiment then made a gallant charge and took her. . She proved to be an iron craft, and is a valuable acquisition to Uncle Jeff. No one hurt on our side except Major Chaffin, and his wound is slight. He was left on board of the Keokuk. I have not heard whether there was any damage done on board, yet the laud forces have fallen back towards Newbern. Yours, A. A. Married, ou the 5th instant, R. A. Tar, Esq., to Miss Jane Feathers— commodities that work well togeth er. When is thunder like an onion? When it comes peal on peal. Begin life with but little show, you may increase it afterwards. Men are often deserted in adver sity. When the sun sets our very shadow refuses to follow us. “What is whiskey bringing?” inquir ed a dealer. “Bringing woman and children to want,” was the appropri ate answer. Women’s Mission.—To keep the fireside while man goes out to collect materials to make the pot boil. “What kind of a rooster is that. Sambo?” “Massa say he Cotch in China.” “Shall I leave some tracts here?” “Yes,” said the irritated burger, “with the heels toward tbe door.”

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The Confederate union. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1862-1865, July 07, 1863, Image 1