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BOlKiliiUV. MSIiET, MKNES&MOOKE ?ablishers and Proprietors. -v,. BOICIITOS, ) _... JO*, ca. WljBET. > Editor*. She Confederate Pinion o Is published Weekly, in Milledgcrd/c, Ga., Corner of Ilaneoelc and Wilkinson tits., (opposite Court House.) At $5 a year in Advance. OL'R NEW TEKKS. On and after September 1st, 1863, the Terms of Sub scription to the Confederate Union, arc- Five Dim. i.aK3, invar'ffily in advance. All indebtedness tor subscript ion to this paper, previous to June 1st, 1863, is at the rate of Three Dollars per year. ADVERTISING. Tressiest—One dollar and fifty cents per square of ten lines, for the Sr.-i insertion, and one iluilur for each subsequent insertion. Tributes of respect, Resolutions by Societies, (Obit uaries exceeding six lines.) Nominations for ..Mice. Communications or Editorial notices tor individual benefit, charged as transient advertising. Lkoel—Citations for tetters of administra tion by Administrators,- Executors, Guardi ans, Ate. - - - $J0i' Application for Dismission from Administrator- ^ Application for Dismission from Guardianship, -I ' 0 Application for leave to sell Laud or Negroes, 5 dll Notice to debtors and creditors ‘1 Wt Sales of personal or perishable property, :per square of ten lines Sales of Laud or Negroes, (per square of ten Each Sheriff’s Levy, of ten lines or less Each Mortgage sale, of t. n lines or 1 ss All advertisements by Sheritls exceeding t*-u lines to be charged in proportion Foreclosure of Mortgage and other Monthly advertisements, per square of ten lines.... Establishing lost papers, per square oi ten lines, For a man advertising his wife (in advance,) ! 00 Ctlt) THE CONFEDERATE VOLUME XXXIV.] MILLEDGEYILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBERS, 1S63. [NUMBER 29. 1 50 son 1U00 ale day. of an estate LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sales of Land and Negroes, by Administrators, Ex ecutors or Guardians, arc required by law to be held on the first Tuesday in the month ; lietween the hours of 10 in the fijreiio-iii and three in the uftemoon, at the Court liouse in the county in which the property is situated. Notice of these sales must be given in a public ga zette-fit days previousto the day of sale. Notices for the sale of personal property must be given in like manner III days ] Notices to the debtors and must also be punished 40 days. , Notice that application will be made to the t-ourt oi Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must be published for two months. . Camions for letters of Administration Guardianship, An- . must be published 30 days—for dismission from Administration, monthly six months—for dismission from Guardianship, 40 days. Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage must be published monthly for four months—for establishing lost papers. for the full spare of three months—for compelling titles from Executors or administrators, where bond lias b- cq •on bv the deceased, the full space of three months. glVi Publications will alway these, the legal reqnireraen i be continued m , unless otherwi lording ed. When subscribers find a. cross mark on their papers their subscription has ex pired, and must be renewed it they wish the paper any longer. Subscribers writing to have their papers changed from one post-office to an other, must state the name of the post- office they wish it changed from as xvell as the one they wish it changed to. Army Correspondence of the Savannah Republi can. the battle ofjiisnionarvridre Army of Tennessee, ) Chickamauga, Nov. 25, .Midnight. ji The Confederates have sustained to- I day the most ignominious defeat of the whole war—a defeat for which there is but little excuse or palliation. For the first time during our struggle for national independence, our defeat is chargeable to the troops themselves and not to the blunders or incompe tency ot their leaders. It is difficult for one to realize how a defeat so complete could have occurred on ground so fa vorable, notwithstanding the great dis parity in the forces of the two hostile armies. The ground was more incur favor than it was at Fredericksburg, where Gen. Longstreet is said to have estimated that Lee’s army was equal to 200,000 men. Ami vet we gained the battle of Fredericksburg and lost that of Missionary Ridge. But let us take up the painful nar rative at the beginning, and see ho\v this great misfortune, if not this griev ous disgrace, has befallen the Confed erate arms. Lookout Mountain was evacuated last night, it being no longer impor tant to us after the loss of Lookout or ■Will’s Valley, and no longer tenable against such an overwhelming force as Gen. Grant had Concentrated around Chattanooga. Gen. Bragg abandoned also the whole of Chattanooga valley, and the trenches and breastworks run ning along the foot of Missionary llidge and across the valley to the base of Lookout, and moved bis troops up to the top of the ridge. It was found ne cessary to extend his right well up to wards the Chickamauga near its mouth in consequence of the heavy forces which the enemy had thrown up the river in that direction. The Tennessee and Missionary Ridge approach nearer to each other as one goes up, or rather down the valley, the width of which at some points does not exceed one- fourth of a mile. Across this valley now almost an open plain, varying from a fourth of a mile to two miles in width, the Federals advanced to the assault, their ranks exposed to our ar tillery fire from the Ridge while in the plain, and to the infantry fire when they attempted the ascent of the' hill or mountain. The only objection that can be urg ed against our line was its length and weakness, the latter being the result of the former, and the former the result of circumstances beyond our control, it being necessary for us to guard the passes in the Ridge and to conform to the length of the line presented by the enemy. The Ridge varies in height from four to six hundred feet, and is crossed by several roads fading out from Chattanooga. The western side next to the enemy was steep and ru 5 - j 1)0 linic lcft t0 remc , ged, and in some places almost hare the timber having been cut away for firewood. Our pickets occupied the breastwoorks below, while the infi» " try and artillery were distribute 1 -*' 011 ." the crest of the Ridge from Gan almost to the mo»f “< the .P«*- atn&uga, a distance- >« or t.. o,LiDon to the natural more. position, we had thrown " ,re 1 g . tl k works along tho llidge up bre whe , er the ascent is easy. fK >e Federal army was marshalled under Grant, Thomas, Hooker .and Sherman, and did not number less than 85,000 vet eran troops. The Confederate army un der Bragg, Hardee and Breckinridge, did not number half so many. Longstreet's Virginia division and other troops lnd been sent to East Tennessee. Had these been present, with their steady leader at the head of them, we should have w»n a victory quite as complete as our defsit lias been. As it was, we ought to hare won the day, and should have done so it our men had done as well as usual. Pos sibly a mistake was committed wheuXocg- street was sent away, and, and possibly it would have been better not to have ac cepted battle to-day, but have retired last night. General Bragg throught, however, that there was not time, alter the loss ot Lookout, to get his army safely over the Cliicamauga last night, and that it wo»ld be better, occupying so strong a position, to fight it out. But what could he expect from battle where the odds were so much against him I Not only did Grant have nearly three to one in numbers, but the geographical configuration of tiie ground, in manoeuvering an army, was as favorable as lie could desire. Nature had provided an amp'e protection for his flauks and rear and rendered his front almost impregnable, lie possessed the additional advantage of being aide to manoeuvre his army upon the chord of a semi.-pircle, whilst Bragj could move only upon the arc. But let us proceed with the battle, the strangest, mo6t singular and unsatisfactory conflict in which our arms have been en gaged. Grant deployed his immense masses in two heavy lines of battle, and sometimes in three, supported by large reserve forces The spectacle was magnificent as viewed from the crest of Missionary Ridge. He advanced first against our right wing,about 10 o’clock, where he encountered that su perb soldier, Lieut. General Hardee, who commanded on the right, whilst Major General Breckenridgo commanded on the left. Hardee’s command embraced Cle burne’s Walker’s (command by Gen. Gist, General- Walker being absent), Cheat ham’s and Stevenson’s divisions. Breck inridge’s embraced bis old division, com manded by Brig. Gen. Lewis, Stewart’s part of Buckner’s, and Hindman’s com mantled by Patton Anderson. The ene my’s first assault upon Hardee was repul sed with great slaughter, as was his sec ond, though made with double lines sup ported with heavy reserves. The wave of battle, like the wave of the sea when it dashed against a rock-bound coast, beat, and hissed, and struggled in vain; for the bra\ e men who guarded our right were resolved never to yield one foot to the hated invaders. The odds against which they contended were fearful ; for while the enemy advanced in two and even three massive lines, their own army consisted of only one long and weak line, without sup ports. Yet they not only repulsed every attack, but captured seven flags,about 300 prisoners, and remained masters of the ground until night, when they were order ed to retire, carrying ofl’ all the guns, los ing no prisoners, and but a small per cent- age of killed and wounded. The whole command behaved well, and especially that model soldier, Maj. Gen. Cleburne, a true son of Emerald Isle, and bis heroic division. Gen. Hardee, saved the army from a disastrous rout, and added fresh laurels to his brow. The attack on the left wing was not I made until about noon. Here, as on the ; right, the enemy was repulsed : but he I was obstinate, and fought with great ardor j and confidence, returning to the charge again and again in the handsomest style, until one of our brigades near the centre, said to be Reynold’s, gave way and the Federal flag was planted on Missionary Ridge. The enemy was not slow in avail ing liimself of the great advantages of bis new position. In a few minutes he turned upon our flauks and poured into them a terrible enfilading fire, which, soon threw the Confederates on his right and left into confusion. Under this confusion, the gap i in our lines grew wider and wider, and the 1 wider it grew the faster the multitudinous foe rushed into the yawning chasm. The confusion extended until it finally assum ed the form of a panic. Seeing the enemy in possession of a portion of the heights, the men hastily concluded that the day was gone, and that they had best save themselves. Just at this time the alarm was increased by an artillery battery which rushed down the hill to the river for a fresh supply of ammunition : the men however, supposed they were flying from the field, and that all was lost. Nearly the whole left wing eventually became involved, and gave way—a portion of it retiring under order, but the greater part in an unmitiga ted rout. General Bragg did all he could to rally the fugitives and reform the broken line. I lie exposed himself in the most unguarded maimer, and at one time it looked as if he would certainly be killed. His staff offi cers were also conspicuous in their efforts to restore our line. They and their chief were the last to leave the ridge. The day was lost. Hardee still main tained his ground ; hut no success of the right wing could restore the left to its orig inal position. All men—even the bravest —are subject to error and confusion; but to-day some of the Confederates did not fizh- with their accustomed courage. Bos- sibly the contrast between the heavy mas ses of the Federals as they rolled across the valley and up the mountain ridge, and their own long and attenuated line, was not of a character to encouage them. Our casualties are small—very small— too small, indeed, to be recorded along with so complete and humiliating a defeat. Included among our losses are some of our best guns—perhaps as many as thirty. 01 forty. The infantry supports in se.ne in stances fled so precipitatelv * J,as there uas -I. the guns. I here were but few « down the mountain by which tb-v could retreat, and this ocea- r’-.ierf tiuther loss. All the artillery' be haved well. The men in Cobb’s battery stood their ground after their supports had fled, and though they lost their guns,they fought them to the last; and when they could use them no longer on account of the steepness of the descent, they hurled hand grenades at the foe as ho crawled up the mountain beneath the muzzles of the gun. The enemy’s loss must have exceeded ours ten to one. Our dead and some of the wounded were left on the field. But it is late and bitter cold, and I must close. We cross the Chickamauga to night. and then proceed to Dalton. I write under the greatest possible disadvan tages. P. W. A. The tithing Law.—We invite at tention to the special message of Gov- ernor Brown, of Georgia, to be found in our columns this morning. It will be seen that he advocates a total re peal of the tithing law, asserting what everybody knows to be true, that from various causes, needless to recapi tulate, the law, while burthensome, unequal and oppressive in its charac ter, is likely to prove of little practi cal utility to the government. Of all the public characters that have rendered themselves conspicuous in this revolution, by their intelligent suggestions in behalf of the public wel fare, Governor Brown, of Georgia, bits excelled in the .numberless practical and wise measures, which he lias re commended from time to time to the legislature and the people. We don’t know Gov. Brown, and have been in the habit of hearing him much denounced by the public men of his State as a demagogue and a trim mer; but candor compel Is us to say that no man in the Confederacy whose public papers we have read appears so thoroughly to have risen to the height of the great occasion and to have so thoroughly comprehended the mighty exigencies, by which it is beset, as the distinguished gentleman whoso worthily wears the Gubernato rial honors of Georgia. We only wish there were several more Governor Browns in the Confed eracy, fashioned in the same mould. Montgomery Mail. The Condition of the Negroes in the South.—An Englishwoman, who lias lived nearly thirty years in the South, calls the attention of a London paper to the following statement: There were imported into the Brit ish West Indies -1,000,000 negro slaves and when they were manumitted there were S00,000. Into the Southern States 400,000 were imported, and there were, before the war, 4,000,000. This decrease in the former and in crease in the latter are strong iacts; the climate influence is on the side of the West Indies; there must then have been a very different treatment, and the views of the anti-slavery party, probably based upon their own experi ence, is false as to ours.—Again, accur ate research gives the number of white communicants in the Southern States at 1,5-50,000—one in three of the adult population. Of the colored people — 500,000—one in four of their adults. Surely the blessing of God must be with such a state of things. A Lady’s advice to her sex like cir cumstanced is well worth treasuring up. Here it is. “Endeavor to make your husband’s habitation alluring and delightful to him. Make it a repose from his cares, a home for his heart. Invaribly adorn yourself with delicacy and modesty. Let your husband sup pose you think him a good husband, and it will be a very strong stimulus to his being so. Cultivate cbeefulness and good humor. In the article of dress study your husband’s tastes. Conceal bis faults, and speak only of his vir tues. Shun extravagance. Let your borne be your empire, your world. In its sober, quiet scenes, let your heart cast its anchor, let your feeling and and pursuit be entered.” PATRIOTIC CON G R ESS MAN. *An Abingdon correspondent of the Knoxville Register says lion. J. B. Heiskell, one of the Confederate Con gressmen front Tennessee, was in the recent fight at Rogersville. With Ma jor Phipps, and some dozen cavalry men, they charged about one hundred Yankees, who threw down their arms and surrendered. Ever since the evac uation of East Tennessee, Col. Heis kell has been in the field with our ar my, standing guard, acting as scout and guide, and doing all he could to relieve from Federal grasp the peo ple whom he represents in Con gress. When the Federals occupied Rogers ville some one sent Mrs. Heiskell a protection for herself and property from Gen. Burnside. It was indig nantly returned, with the remark that “she wanted no Federal protection; that she would take her fate along with the Southern people of her sec tion and suffer what they did.” EVERY MAN SHOULD BE USE FUL. In times like these every man who is at home—let him be rich or poor, old or young—should be engaged in an occupation beneficial to the cause our soldiers are fighting; in a word, every man’s actions should be directed to the public welfare. Were the ener gies of every person, not in the field, concentrated to the public welfare, our condition would be relieved much sooner than it will he if we continue to tolerate the existing divisions there-from actuated by sloth, avarice and pleasure. Had the Southern Con federacy none other among her citi zens than those who are striving to achive their independence, there is no doubt that we would have ascended the ladder of sucees to a greater Height than we have during the present hos tilities. Such a policy is the true road to success.-—Chrbvtdrflf Sentinel. From the Columbus Sun. THERE IS A FUTURE. And in that future we shall achieve our independence. Did you ever hear a revolutionary soldier say that in the year 1776 he had done or sacrificed too much? Maay of us have heard the women of the revolution speak of their privations aid sufferings. They nev er spoke of them with regret, but with pride.—Did any one ever hear a revolutionary soldier boast that lie had made a fortune out of the war? Or his desceidant boast that bis ances tor did? I know but two men who made fortune out of the war of 1S12. One of them [ have heard spoken of a thousand times. I never heard a man speak respectfully of him. The other I knew well for many years, and though he was very wealthy, remark ably intelligent, kind, hospitable and generous, he never took the position to which tnese things would other wise have entitled him. Inever heard him made the subject of conversation, that somebody did not remark, “he made his fortune out of the war.” In our future e T ery man and his descend ants will be willing to tell how much he did and sicriiiced for our independ ence, but you will never hear a manor his descendaits boast that he made a fortune out o ? the war. Did you ever hear a man of the rev olution or hij son say that he hired a substitute and stayed at home to spec ulate and make money out of the ne cessities of the country? I never did. In our future they will never say it, but thousands will say it for them, and it will hang to them, and their children. Did you ever hear a man of the rev olution or his descendants say that he obtained a petty government contract to keep himself out of the army? Nev er. In our future you will never hear him or his son say it, but thousands ' will say it for taera. Did you ever hear a man of the rev olution or his descendants boast that lie had hid out his horse, or his provis ions to prevent the government from getting them for the army, because the government did not pay as much as he might have got from somebody else? Never. And in our future you will never hear a man or his descend ant speak ofsuch a thing; but others will speak of it for him. They are spoken of now. Little as I mingle with the world I rarely go up the street that I do not hear some one speak of somebody who has made a fortune out of the government or out of labor of soldiers families; names are notcalled, butall seem to know who is meant; they can tell how much sucli men had when the war commenced and how many negroes and plantations they have bought since, and how much they paid for them. Travelling not long since on the cars I overheard a parcel of men talk ing. One of them said “How is it that four or five old fire eaters can get up some little manufactory for the gov ernment and keep out of the army, and employ four or five men and keep them out too?” I did not understand it, but they all seemed to be fully post ed. I have no doubt that all who are obnoxious to such remarks feel it now; they or their descendents will feel it much more forcibly in our future. We all know the great power and influence of wealth; it can buy posi tion and influence and popularity in the common acceptation of that term, but it cannot buy character, that character which every man covets, that lie loves right better tliau all things else. These things will even pierce through the shield that wealth may throw arouud diim. He may never hear them, but he will feel tlem. They will form an atmosphere ot' character about him which will often act upon him with suffocating influence. There is mmj a man living to-day, perhaps congratulating himself upon his money, who will seethe day when he would gladly give up all that he has, and ten times as much if he had it, to regain even as much character as he has loot-.by makiig it. . In our future people will meet to talk only of whit they have done for the cause, and nany a son and many a daughter surrouideu by wealth will envy those wiose fathers have left them no legacy but a life made useful and a death made glorious, in the achievement <f our liberty and inde pendence. Itbehooves us all now so to use ourtaieits and our means that in our future neither we nor our chil dren shall ha\e to blush for the past. Jas. N. Bethune. 1 —and in high and wealthy families, the husband first sees her face when he meets her at the door of bis house, and taking her out of her sedan chair raises her veil. — •op— From the Columbus Sun. Are We Mad ? Some ot the ancients said, “Whom the Gods intend to destroy they first make mad.” Are we to be cf that number? If not, whence all this dissatisfaction and com plaint of the acts ot the government ?— Whence all this complaint about the im pressment law and the tax laws? I’ad mit that the tax laws and impressment laws are wrong. But who made them ! We did. We made them by our agents, whom wo selected lor that purpose. They made them, as they believed, to suit the majority of us. They had not the nerve and honesty to levy a fair, equal and man ly tax, and they adopted this measure of raising revenue to suit, as they supposed, our ignorance, our prejudices, aud our selfishness. They had heard men com plain of taxes before. They knew that a great many men want, in peace as well as in war, to throw the burthen off their own shoulders upon their neighbors ; and in trying to avoid one set of men and reach another they have made laws with which nobody is satisfied. But suppose the laws are bad, as I think they are ; hut they are our laws, made by our agents. I think I could have made better, hut they might not have suited you ; you might have made better, but they might not have suited somebody else. But good or had, it is the best law we have, aud the only one by which we can support the army.—- The army must he supported, and well supported or tho Yankees will show us another sort of impressment law to the one we have. Look at the country wher ever the Yankees have passed, and say if you have the heart to complain. I can tell you another thing. If we cannot, or will not, send provisions to the army, the army must come to the provisions,in which case they would help themselves hounti- j fuly, as they ought to do. Great coinplaint is made that the Gov ernment takes horses and provisions at less than they will bring in the market. And that, you think, is wrong, very un just. Well, the Government takes a man from his home, his business, and family, puts him in tho army for eleven dollars a month, and you all said it was right, be cause the necessities of the country de manded it. He may be killed in a month, aud his family get the eleven dollars; if the war should continue two or three years, and he should live through it, he gets two or three hundred dollars. A soldier, and an inferior one at that, brings, in the mar ket, three thousand dollars. Is there any more hardship or injustice in taking our horses and surplus provisions at less than the market price, than there is in taking his services and his life in tiie same way ? The necessities of the country demand one just as much as tho other.— The soldiers are of no value to us unless wo can and will feed them. 'Suppose every man in the army who does not get the market price for his ser vices, was to come home, and leave nobody hut the substitutes to keep back the Yan kees from us, what w'ould our provisions, or our negroes or our lands be worth to us? How much of them would they leave to us, or what would they pay us for it ? Strange and no less shameful than strange, that men living at home in ease andcomfort,surrounded with abundance and to spare, whose all depends upon the brave, patriotic men who have sacrificed a thous and times more than any man can who stays at home, to stand between them ami destruction, should for the sake of a few dollars, more or less, of a currency they profess to consider at most worthless, be willing to hazard the loss of everything that men ought to hold. Are we mad ? Again, I say the existing laws are the only means of sustaining the army. Let us make better when we can, hut for the present let us willingly and cheerfully do all that wc can. There is a future ; of that I may have something to say hereafter. I believe we shall achieve our independence ; then no man will think he has done or sacri ficed too much. But if God in his au ger should determine otherwise, then every man who is not on the battle field will biterly feel that he has done and sacrificed too little. James N. Bethune. Let the press, the people, the edd men and ladies, ply the absentees and make them feel what is tiffie—that absence is per se disteputable. Let nothing but ab solute sickness excuse. No man can serve two masters. “And no man belonging to the army can discharge his duty in any other position.” This was Geu. Long- street’s emphatic expression. I do believe if all the absentees will at once return to the army, General Bragg will be able to capture or destroy Grant’s army, and when this is done the war can not last, for Lincoln’s power will be bro ken. But if the absentees remain away—Gen eral Bragg with only forty per rent of his army present and sixty per rent, absent— cannot prevent Grant from getting a per manent foot-hold in Georgia, ’apd no man can measure the sacrifices that must ac- ctWe- Gen. Lee’s army is weakened almost as much from the same cause. If he shall lose a battle it will be only bect-ues officers and privates are Railroad passengers. Ho tel guests, and lady gallants instead oi being soldiers. Extreme men now govern the United States. They mean our subjugation and ruin- We must fight as long as those men are in power. AN'lien the people of the United States shall drive these men from power and repudiate their extreme meas ures and cease to invade and rob us, there will be an honorable door open for discus sion. But never before. Until that door shall be opened by our enemies let our peo ple count no disaster as intolerable, and regard every interest as protected only by' a vigorous prosecution ot the war. Let every man of the army be in camp, and let every' man not of the army produco some thing to sustain those in camp. To fight the extreme men and keep our ears open to the reasonable and just men of the United States, is the otdy road to peace and honor. In the mean lime we have no cause to be discouraged. If Grant shall follow Bragg into the interior and the absentees will return promptly’ to duty, wo can con vert an apparent disaster into the greatest victory of the war. The charm of the ex treme men m the United States will then be broken, and the door 1 speak of will be ooened. B. H. HILL. Macon, Nov. SO, 1SG3. imprisonment in the cdiomon jail of the •ounty tor not less than two month* nor longer than six months. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, -That it shall he the duty of said disbursing agent* uud jr the penalties contained in the 4th section, of this act, to keep a hook, in which he shall have entered all corn distributed by him, and to whom aud how much, and at what price sold, and said book shall ba opened tc inspection to any person at any and all times, and it shall be tho duty of said agent to exhibit said book to said Jus tices at least once a month, and said Justi ces shall have power to dismiss said agents at any time they may see proper: Provi ded the provisions of this bill do not come m conflict with the absolute wants of the General Government. Sec. V. All laws and parts of laws mili tating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOS. HARDEMAN, Jr„ Speaker cf House. L. Carrington, Cleric of IIouso. A. R. WRIGHT, President of Senate. L. IL Kenan, Sec. of Senate. Approved Nov. 26, 1863. JOSEPH E. BROWN, Governor. Stonewall Jackson’s Admission into- HEAVEN.—I $vas much amused at the rebel prisoners’ account of Stonewal Jack son’s admission into heaven. They were strong admirers of Gen. Jackson, and es pecially of the great success of his flank movements. “The day after his death,” said they, “two angels camo down from heaven to carry Gen. Jackson back with them. They searched all through the camp, hut could not find him. They went to the prayer meeting, to the hospital, and to every other place where they thought themselves likely to find him, but in vain. Finally they were forced to return without him. What was their surprise to find that ho had just executed a splendid flank move ment, and got to heaven before them.”— Cor. Boston. Recorder. Great pricks.—Wo learn that at the sale [advertised in this paper] of property of the estate of John McGee, deceased, held in Harris county on Tuesday last, mules brought the extraordinary price of* 82500 to 83000 each. They were fine animals. Other property sold brought prices proportionably large. It waa- » cash saic.— Columbus En qv.trer. AN ACT. For the relief of the people in certain coun ties therein mentioned, and for other pur poses : GEORGIA, Berrien County. M RS. MARY J. JORDAN applies to me for* letters of Administration on the estate of John S. Jordan, of said county deceased. All per sons interested will take notice, and file objections, if any, on, or before tiie second Monday iu Janua ry, otherwise letters will issue. Witness my official signature. H. T. PEEPLES, Ord’y. November 18, 1863. Pd. $3.00 28 5t GEORGIA, Berrien County. W M. T VARNE applies to mo for letters of Administration ou tho estate of William Varne, of said county deceased. , - . . , All persons interested will file their objections, if any, Y\ itereas, owing to tlie depredations ot j in my office iiy the first Monday in January next, the enemv, and the presence and necessi- [otherwise letters will be granted. ,-r i- , W stness my official signature. ties of our own army foraging upon the, H.T. PEEPLES, Ordinary. country, and also the extreme drought and | Nov, isth 1803. Paid $3 ?85t early Lost, the people of Northern Geor- j GEORGIA, Berrien County. gia are in great need of breadstuff* ; and 'VITTIERLAS, David C. Smith applies to me whereas nearly the entire laboring popula- I 1 f for leave to sell the real estate of Jamea tion of said section is now in the army, and Deadly, late of said county deceased. the peonle must inevitably suffer unless ! All persons interested, will be and appear af aided l»y tlm generosity of the State : I Zff?f°?h£°» ™ r Y in £ ebraary > c , i, .. -1 -, , | object, it they have objections, otherwise ieEtem Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General will be granted. Assembly of the State of Georgia, That j the Quartermaster General of this State be, and he is hereby directed and required to purchase and ship to such points upon the Rail Road as shall be designated by the ! Witness my hand and 18th Nov. 1863. official signatur a this Paid $5 H. T. PEEPLES, Onl’ r 28 9t GEORGIA, Berrien County. Justices of the Inferior Courts of the sev- ! TAMES GRIFFIN applies to me for ’,eave to sell eral counties hereinafter enumerated, and V, £3tate ? J fIrwin James, rmd Mitchell, subject to their order.! he following amounts [' Afl'persoiffiirrtere^eclwfll 7 ffikTnotice and file ot corn to-wit : 6,000 bushels of corn to the objections, if any, by the first Monday in Pebrua- county of Chattooga, 10,000 to the county ry, or leave will be granted. Witness my official signature. B- I . PEEPLES, Ord'y. Nov. IS, 1863. IM. $5,00 28 9* Notice to Debtors and Creditors. ^LL persons indebted to Francis M. Colquitt,. of Walker, S,000 to the county of Dade, 8,000 to the county of Catoosa, 10,000 to the county of Whitfield, 7,000 to the coun ty of Murray, 8,000 to the county of Gilmer, 8,000 to the county of Fan nin, S,000 to the county of Union, 4,000 to j A deceased, are notified to make immediate the county of Towns, 3,000 to the county j settlement, and persons having demands against, of Rabun, 4,000 to the county of Haber- 1 ? ai , d dec8a f d - a , re notiaed t0 !land theii claims- sham, 3,o00 to the county of W hite, 4,000 , pj $ t MARY E. COLQUITT Adm’rx. to the county of Lumpkin, 3'.000 to the Nov. loth. 1863. ’ 27 6t county of'DilVson, and 3,000 to the coun- — ty of Pickens, or so much thereof as the j ^itrffKRF.as tC inL» C T°H^[j. ^YIY'EkEAS, John L. Hodges applies to me for - nd property Wiley Bul~- Chinese Courtship.—Every Chi nese, as soon is lie is in any way able to do so, takis a small footed wife. He sends for some old lady, whose well known tnd recognized, and there considered respectable, trade, is that of a “go between,” and enquires who among his neighbors has a nice daugh ter who would do for a wife. The la dy mentions one, and gives a descrip tion of her appearance. She then sees the young lady whom she thinks he would prefer—some Miss Lee Nang or Nou Seen, and describes the merits of the gallant Noo Chung. The parents then, with her heip, arrange the set tlement, and the bride is given away with as great ceremony and rejoicings as the means of the families will allow From tho Telegraph. NOW *8 l’Ol'K TIME ! More than Half the men—officers and privates—ou Gen. Bragg’s muster rolls, are absent from duty. They arc wearing the uniform and receiving the pay, but are spending their time on Railroads, at Hotels, at the houses of nnsuspecting kind ness in the country, and taking pleasure walks and rides with thoughtless wo men. This is tho only reason why the battle of Chattanooga was lost. Everywhere I find ! officers floating about through the country If they had been at their posts,. Gen Bragg could have been before Nashville this day. “Tell the ladies to drive them to the army” said the faithful and noble Long- street to me a few days ago. “They get up false leaves of absence” and the people, especially tho women at home, must drive them back.” ‘Not one fourth of them have any excuse, hut indisposition to do dntv, and of all the army those who are absent, are least entitled to the kindness of the peo ple and the notice of the ladies.” These are the pointed and truthful words of a great general who is always at his post. These men can now redeem themselves. This is the most favorable hour in the pro gress of this struggle to bring the war to a close. Let every man at once repair to the ar my. When the muster rolls are called, let every man not actually disabled ans wer “I am here.” If they will do this Grant’s army can bo destroyed. He can not live in the interior of Georgia. Don’t criticize Gen. Bragg. Stay where he stays, and be as earnest in the discharge of your duties, and no one will have cause to complain, but all abundant cause to re joice. JAS. J. BRADFORD, Ordir htv November 10.1863. Pd. $3.00 ifi 5t Governor may think necessary, and it shall ! \\ the guardianship of the personTnd property ho the duty of His Excellency, the Gov- j of Lewis C. Bullard, a minor child of Wiley ernor, to draw his warrant upon the Treas- < F' cease( b r.ry for the amount of money necessary to ki SEdof^aidmb.? pay tor the purchase, sacking and shipping have, in terms of the law, why letters of guar. Aan- of said corn, which amount shall be paid j s!) ip shah not issue to said applicant, out of any money in the Treasury not oth erwise appropriated. Sec. 2. And be it farther enacted, That said Quartermaster General be authorized to employ such agents aud to take control and use sucli transportation by tho order of the Governor as in his judgment shall. . be absolutely necessary to carry out the “PP eara j ln - v office within the tir j e prescribed by ' ' ' ‘ ^ to show cause, it any, why said letter! should not be granted. Given under my hand at office this 3rd day of Aoveuuier, JK1J. J 25 5t. [Pd $3] GEORGIA. Barrieu Couuty. W JIRREAS, Martha Turner appi;. 88 to me toq letters of Administration ou the estate of Daniel Turner late of said county, deceased. Ihcaeaie ii.erofn.-e to c.le and admonish ihe kindred arm creditor., of said deceased to be and object of this act, and to pay just compen sation for. the services of said agents or transportation to be approved by ihe Gov ernor. 8ec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it. shall be the duty of said Justices to make such arrangements for the transportation of said corn from the Railroad to their re spective counties as circurusdances rnay re quire, and to employ sucli agents to take charge of and distribute the same as may be necessary, and it shall be the duty of said .Justices to furnish or cause to be fur nished by said agents, to each soldier’s fam ily and the families of deceased soldiers; the females and widows whose, sons are in the military service, or who have died in the military service, who are destitute of corn and Heed tiie same, a sufficient quan tity of corn for their bread, and no more, free of charge, and to each person or family who are in such indigent circumstances as to require it, (to he judged of by the Justi ces aforesaid) a sufficiency for their bread, and no more, free of charge, and to such other persons in their respective counties who may be destitute of corn, and need the same, a sufficiency for their bread, and no more, at the price or cost of its delivery, and the money arising from such sale or sales to be paid over to said Justices for the use aud benefit of soldiers’ families, the widows of deceased soldiers, widows whose sons are in the army, or whose sons have died in the army, or been disabled, and the indigent poor of their lespective counties, after paying ail costs that may arise in transporting aud distributing said corn. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any person through whose hands said corn may pass, shall intentionally misap ply said corn, or convert tlie same to his own use, or any other way direct or use the same contrary to the objects contemplated in this act, he, she or they so offending shall he guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall he punished by IT. T. PEEPLES, Ord’y. GEORGIA, Berrien County. 'M7 r HEREA8, Neliy Ann McCntchen makes T 1 application to me for letters of Administra- tration on the estate of Robert McCutchcn late of said county, deceased. All persons interested will file their objection., if any at my office, within the time prescribed by law, otherwise letters will be granted. J .Witness my official signature. w H. T. PEEPLES, Ord’y. Nov .>rd, te03. | Pd $3] 25 Of rpWO inonttis after ante application wn, L ,„ made to the Court of Ordinary of Berrien county, Ga., for leave to sell part of the real e «- tato ot John C. Lamb, late cf said countv de ceased. All persons interested will take notice JOHN T. CARRELL, ? . . *’ JAMES LOVE JOY, t Adm’rs. Nov. 26, 1863. Pd$5 mp 28 9t Benicn Sheriff Sale. WVtn b ® ^befmrothe Court house door iu Jusb- , '\! e B e Jrtf c County within the u* ua l hoar* of sale, on toe first Tuesday iu .January next, all of Lot of (139. ta the ffintu district (!>j of so.il county, except sixty acres.) levied ns the propcr.y ol \\ m. Johnson to satisfy a fiia from Berrien Superior Court in favorof Daniel Kinard. i nj TTfCK, Sheriff, (id $3) h.t.p. 28 Ids. November 21st 1SC3. lies to me a estate of GEORGIA, Mitchell county. W HEREAS, Bran el ton Morgan appi ior letters of administration on the John C. Morgan, deceased. iheso are Ihereforo to cite and admonish all persons concerned, to bo and appear at my office,, with tho time prescribed by Jaw, and tile their objections, if any they have, othifwise said let ters will be granted to the applicant. Witnoss my hand and official signature this 11th flay ot Nov., 1863. • JOS. J. BRADFORD, Ord’y. 26 5E BALDWIN INFERIOR COURT, ) In Chamhers, Nov 4th, 1863. £ Proposals will be received by the 15th Novem ber inst., for one hundred and sixty cords of oak and hickory wood, to be delivered in Mill edge ville, forty cords a month, for distribution amongst th« poor and soldiers' families. Extract from the minutes. B P STUBBS, Clerk Nov. 9,1803. ' ,j
