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JWL T (iilTON»NISBET, BARNES&MOOXE Publishers and Proprietors. ©he Conftlfralc Union 6' It published Weekly, in MilledgerUle, Ga., Corner of Hanc ock and Wilkinson Ms., (opposite Court House.) At $5 a year in Advance. OIK SEW TERM". On and after September Terms of Snb- - • »• tHo I\in r ‘*derate Li;it»n, «ir< r ivt »i. i*R?, invttribly in advance. All indebtediieef tor gubicription to this paper, previous to June 1st, 1M>», „ n t the rate of Three Dollars per jc-nr. advertising. TrassieST—One dollar and fifty cent* per square of ten lines, for the first insci non, and one dollar for each subsequent insertion. Communications or Editorial notices for indnWual benefit, charged as trantif.nl advertising. Legal—Citations for letters of administra tion by Administrators, Executors, Guardi- ApphcatiorTfor" Dismission from Administrat «.■.}(«' ship. jismission from Guardianship, Application for leave to sell Land or Negro, s, Xotice to debtors and oreuiton* Sales Of personal or perishable property, (per Sales of p Kjuare of ten lin Sales of Land or Negroes, (per square ot ten ^ Each Sheriff’s Levy, of ten lines or leas ■ 0 Each Mortgage sale, often lines or less....... <• »« All advertisement* bv hhenfia exceeding ten lines to be charged in proportion.... ..... Foreclosure of Mortgage and other Month,y advertisements, per square oi ten lines.... J •> Establishing lost papers, per square ol ten lines, H O Foramanadvertisirghis wife(madvance,) 1000 legal advertisements. Sales of Lan l and Negroes, by Administrators, Ex ecutors or Guardians, are- required by law to be loud on the first Tuenday in tiie month : between the hours •f 10 in the forenoon and three in tin- alU-nmon, nt the Court house in the county in which the property is situated. . Noticeof these sales must he given in a public ga zette-10 da vs previous to the day ot sal**. Notices for the sale of personal 'projierty must be | given iu like manner 10 days previous to sale day. i Notices to the debtors and creditors ot mi .-state must also be punished 10 da vs. „ I Notice that application will he made to the Court of | Ordinary for leave to sell Lund or Negroes, must he I published for two months. Citation* for letters of Adnunistrat ton Guardianship, \ See., must he published 30 days—for dismission from Administration, monthly six months—for dismission from Guardianship, 40 days. Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage must he published monthly for four months—for establishing lost papers, fir the full spore of three mont/os—for compelling titles from Executors or administrators, where bond has been pg ra *g an J unscrupulous knaves tbat ever CONFEDERATE MON. MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1S63. [NUMBER 30. given hv the deceased, the full Publications will always 1 To lit .sintegration. j\o man in his senses j disputes tins. Every man who favors it, | directly or indirectly, favors the dissolu tion of the American Union—promotes the establishment of a centralized despotism, j and advances the fortunes of the mostdes- 1 hpc.ce of three months. loutinued according to i cursed a country. The advocates of the these, tin'legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered, j war may well be classed as the “ evil-dis- — .j | posed” and the “ simple minded.” When subscribers find a cross mark \ * * * * on their papers their subscription has ex- The present delusion must subside. Like pired, and must be renewed if they wish the French Kcvolntion, the dreadful era the paper any longer. of carnage and fanaticism must run its 11 j course and have its termination. All civil CF Subscribers writing to lpive Iheir wars founded on social or moral ideas have papers changed from one post-oflice to an- produced the same excitements, been preg other, must state the name of the post- nant w'nb tbecame popular outbreak, anc office they wish it changed from as well as the one they wish it changed to. culminated as this will, in the downfall and extinction of the men or party which advocated them. Rely on this. History — — will repeat itself in this instance as it has UP" The other day a lady remarked to in a thousand others—our nature has not one of our citizens-" Air. A. I suppose keen changed ; men are now as in the days . , , r ot ivobespicrrc and Cromwell—bloody, you are mak.ng a great deal of money these , treacherou8> f ana(ica]( selfish and unpatii- war times.” J 0 ti c . “ Yes, madam,” he replied, ‘‘I am trv- j # # # * ing to make money enough, while the war He believed that when the President lasts, to hue a substitute to go to the Devil called for troops, if only one State Execu- forme, and then I will be satisfied.” five with brain and nerve had done hisdu- The man who made this remark was not un( \ er the Constitution, the war would , . nave been stopped before now. With an Extortioner: but those who are trying . r/ ? 1 .rr * - ’ m 100,000 under Lee threatening Washing- hy every means iu tlieir power to make t 011> neither Stanton nor Lincoln would money “ while the war lasts” need to be have had courage enough to turn and face reminded (for they have certainly forgotten the fire they would- have felt in the rear. it) that Gen’l Belzcbub will not receive Jt is . tLe <jf ,Iie P eo P lc now to refuse ... , to give another man or another dollar for substitutes: to him at least thev will Jiave e . . - the purpose ot carrying on the war. A tj report in person and fill their own place, reference made by the speaker to Mr. Val- ! landigham, was received with the most The old Mummy’" I.niucnt lor tier Young boistCIOUS applause. Umli r < m The following touching lines, says the Mobile I Tribune, were written by a gifted Louisiana refit- ! gee,tbe daughter of a Confederate General. The j Jlenry Ward Beecher having returned autiuress is at present a resident of Mobile : from Europe, had an ovation, of course, on reaching home, and told the people what he did and said and saw among the big bugs of England, and what was thought there of the wonderful Yankee race. He ] was “introduced” to the people of Brook- , lyn (though why he, the most notorious man in the city, needed to be introduced we cannot imagine) by a “ Rev.” admirer, | as “ the American who took the British lion by the ears and actually made tlreroy- ! nl beast roar in appreciation of the treat ment.” Beecher, after a characteristic harangue, gave the following impressions : as to the state of public feeling in England, which, coming from so prejudiced a source, j will probably be considered satisfactory to our readers. I In Great Britain Americans are North ern and Southern much more strongly than we at home. There was a Southern So ciety all over England, lie was sorry to hey desired to see our power destroyed, t least, so far as it affected them. The speaker said that the conservative ntelligence of the country was also oppos 'd to the North. He desired to state why his was the case. It was because of the [lot-bed of prejudice that forms the basis of 11 English hate of the American nation, le believed, however, that this was kept n obeyancc by the unwealthy, and, to a ;reat extent, the unvoting classes. The nen who do not vote have the power of ontrolling those who do vote. Self-pres- rvation taught the privileged class not to 50a <1 tho unprivileged class to madness. Air. Beecher continued in this strain for omc time. The common people of Eng- and, he said, are the allies of the North. They would always stand by the Govern ment, and would never give their sympa- hy to the South. He referred to the re- ent action of Lord John Russell relative o not permitting any more privateers to eave tbe dockyards of Great Britain. Par ian) ent dare not vote against the North for fear of the power of the common peo- le. He read a letter from Cobden, set- Iting forth the idea that the middle classes [of England sympathized with the North. The. speaker concluded his remarks by enumerating the names of prominent jour nals in Great Britain which take sides with the North. They are as follows: The Morning Star, Daily.News, Evening Ex press, Spectator, Lloyd’s Weekly News, Bee Hive, Non-Conformist, British Stand ard, The Freeman, McMillan’s Alagazine, [The Dial, Westminister Review, The Reader, Merchant's Examiner, Mercantile .Chronicle, Leeds Alercury and Carlile Examiner. Among the prominent men on that side are Lord Carlyle, R. Moncton Alilne, Sir Charles Lyell, Jonn Stuart Alill, George Thompson,Golden Smith,Professor Caines, E. W. Newman, Dr. Chapman, George Wilson, Dr. Foster, Geo. P. Thompson, Sir S. Lushington, Professor Nicoll, Prof. Bradsley, John Bright, Richard Cobden, Duke of Argylc, Lord Granville, fchas. Gilpin, Washington Wilkes, theMayorsof Alanehester and Rockdale, Rev. Newman llall and Rev. Baptist Noell. Feeling in I-lnglnnd. My dear young Massa's gone to war, Gone from Missus, home and me, And oh ! it makes my heatt so sore To think how long a time ’twill ho Before I see his handsome face A peepin’ in my cabin door— Ah 1 the old familiar place Seems to miss him more and more. He looked so fine in soger clothes, Brass buttons shining on his breast, But I would rather, goodness knows, Have seen him far more plainly du st In flannel shirt and cottnnade, As when he was a little boy Who came to Mammy, when he played, To crack his whip or mend his toy. IP came to me before he loft— Just after kissing Missus dear— My poor old heart felt so bereft I couldn’t shed a single tear: He took my old black hand in liis, He pressed bis cheek against my own- Ob 1 Heavenly Father ' think of this When lie’s in danger and alone Honor lo the llmve. We take pleasure in transferring the following order from the Charleston pa pers, in which it is published officially : Hedd’qiis. Dept, of So. Ca , Ga. and ^ Florida, Charleston, Nov. 29,1803. j General Orders, No. 120. The Commanding General is pleased to commend to the emulation of their fellow soldiers the conspicuous bravery of Pri vates James Tupper and C. B. Poster, Company D, and Corporals W. C. Buck- heister and A. J, Bluett, Company B, 27th (Gaillard’s) Regiment, S. C. Volunteers, at Fort Sumter, on the morning of the 27th instant. The flag of that work having been shot away, Private Tupper, in bis voluntary efforts to replace it, necessarily remained exposed on tbe parapet to a hea vy fire of the enemy until, with his gallant comrades, who came to Iris aid, lie was able to find a suitable piece ot timber, splice it to tbe staff’stump, and replant the hag, af ter it had been again shot from their hands. Garrisoned by such men, Fort Sumter may be crumbled into the sea under the unstint ed ordnance resources of the enemy, but. the memory of its unhlencliiiig defence will reflect imperishable honor on Southern men with an inextinguishable resolution to accept it as a symbol of their fate, rather than to live, they and their wives and chil dren, as the serfs of Abolition taskmasters. By command of Gen. Beauregard. Thomas Jordan, Chief of Staff. A YANKEE DECISION. According to the New York World, Judge Betts, of the United States Dis trict Court, has reduced the execution of Lincoln’s robbery or Confiscation Law, to a very simple process. Charles Gould, of New York, lodged informa tion “for the forfeiture of a large amount of railroad stocks and of some $-50,000 due on coupons of railroad bonds, the property as alleged, of Air. LeRoy M. Wiley, a well known and highly respected merchant, also a cot ton planter in Alabama, which he called his residence, and where he was accustomed to vote at elections.” “The law requires all persons inter ested to appear and state tlieir claims to the property proposed to be confis cated.” “An appearance can only be made by the presentation and filing of a for mal answer to the information iu writ ing. If no such answer is filed, the de fault of all the world is taken, and the property is condemned without the necessity of proving a single allega tion contained in the information. Upon an answer being filed, the case is brought to trial before the court and a jury, in ordinary course.” ‘•‘Judge Betts, however, (says the Richmond Sentinel,) has decided that the fact of Air. Wiley’s being a resident of nn insurrectionary State, precludes him from appearing in a U. S. Court. Nothing is necessary, there fore, but to inform against the proper ty of a citizen who lives in the Con federacy, and it is confiscated without any further ado—all such little tilings as proof, trial, &c., being dispensed with:” A Chinese boy, who was learning Eng lish, coming across the passage in his Tes tament, “ We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced,” rendered it thus: “ We have toot, toot to you—what’s the matter you no jump?” Ha held old Missus close and long. As though that parting was Iris last— Ah me! young Massa's young and strong, But Missus old and failing fast. I know he felt the parting too. Altbo’ he smiled and looked so gay : And when the old house was out of view, I’m sure he wiped some tears away. But I must try for Missus's sake. To put a pleasant br ght face on : Ho said to me, “ Oh Mammy ! take Good care ot mother when I’m gone !*’ And so I will mj honey, love. Old Mammy 'll do the best she can— Then leave the rest to One above. For that, they say, is the surest plan. I go sometimes into his room To smooth the pillows, fix the bed. But oh! the place seems all in gloom, As if my honey boy was dead ; His nice white shirts are on the shelf, IIis fancy boots, and heaver tall — Ah. me ! i wish his own sweet self Was only here to wear them all. I found his picture t'other day With Missus’ prayer-book, on a chair; I know she always let it stay Beside her when she says her prayer. It did me good to see his face With still the same old pleasant smile But when I left it in its place. 1 couldn’t help but cry awhile. But goodness me! I'm talking yet About that darling liotiey son : Well I declare ! I did forget— There’s all my work I haven’t done .' Well, I must go—I hope lie’s well— I know lie's brave as brave can be; Ah! I'll he glad when he comes back, Comes back to Missus, home, and mo ! Ilr.ltMtONE. The gleeful happy laugh of children is the best home music ; and the graceful fig ures of childhood are the best statuary. Every man thinks that Caesar’s wife ought to fie above suspicion ; but be is far less particular as to what Ctcsar himself eught to be. When a friend told Tlato what scanda lous stories his enemies had propagated concerning him, tbe philosopher replied, “ I thank them—I shall have the more rea- •ou for trying to live so that no one shall believe them.” find that the Dissenting Church there was in favor of the South, although a small proportion of its members were in sympa thy with tho North. The Southern men in England had used much more ability in pushing forward their cause among the people of England than had been shown by the champions of the North in that coun try. The South had more men, more hooks, more influences at work than the North, to gain the sympathy and aid of British people. And yet, in spite of these facts, he believed that the great heart of the British nation was with the North. The commercial »en are against us. Thero is a class too, there, who have seen its bu siness stopped by the war, which is also not in. favor of the North. It demands that the war shall step immediately. The most influential clergymen are also against us. They say r that the North is not sin cere, and that war, at best, is a sin. They are horrified at the war. Tho English nobility, as a class, are against us, and for obvious reasons. We are not accustomed to estimate our influ ence upon European institutions. They feel our tread, aud to defeat our influence in England, the nobility' of t^at country are fighting us there. They knew that the revolution set a revolution going all through Europe, and they now fear the effect we w ill have in Europe as soon as we have pat an end to the war. If a vote in Parliament were taken, there would be live votes against the North. A portion of the Government has always been ready to go to war w'itli us. He was happy to say, however, that the sovereign of Great Britain had always been an unflinching friend of the North. Opposition to the North is based upon commercial interest, class, power, and upon the fact that we are too large and 6trong .as a nation. He had been frankly told by a distinguished Englishman that we had been growing too strong for them over there, and that they must take us down. They are, therefore, glad to have the South do the work for them. They thought we had grown proud with sudden growth—full of threats,—and MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. The seamstresses of Boston are on a strike. A negro regiment paraded in New York on thanksgiving dav. o O J Cotton is quoted in the New York market at 83 cents for middlings. Last Thursday, 2Gth ultimo, wasob- served at the North as a day of thanks giving. The Mayor of Mobile has closed the drinking saloons iu that city “until further notice.’ A jealous woman in Washington cowliided her husband tor dancing with another lady. The Montgomery Advertiser lias seen a lady’s hat made of, and trimm ed with, corn shucks, which was as white as snow. One man in New Hampshire has sent twenty thousand wild pigons to market this season. We don’t like to see men of big es tates scrambling after all they can get from the suffering people for what they hate to sell. It is a poor way to whip Lincoln and save their fortunes. The Centreville (Alabama) Enquirer says that the merchants in that place have scrupulously adhered to old prices for their goods, and have not risen a cent on their original stock of goods purchased before the war. The Boston Liberator announces that the Hon. George Thompson, the English abolitionist, will soon revisit this country to congratulate his friends upon the improved aspects of affairs. The draft commenced in Baltimore on the 23. The quota of the city is 3,097, but the additional names to be drawn bring the number up to 5,645. Mason’s island, in the Potomac river, has been selected as the rendezvous for the drafted men. A large number of residents of Ma ryland are to be sent South. They will not be allowed to return home during the war. THE CHARLESTON ARSENAL. The Charleston Mercury, after a suspension of a few days, comes to us again as interesting as ever. We make the following extract from its issue of Dec. 2d: In fflie memorable'defence our little Arsenal has played an important part, though limited in its capacities. We learn that since March last, it has melted up more than nine hundred tons ofiron, and cast more than six teen thousand projectiles, exclusive of grape and canister; upwards of seven thousand being 8, 9, 10 and 11-inch shot and shell. During the same time many of the heaviest guns have been banded therein a style not surpassed, if equalled, in the Confederacy, and some of the finest and largest gun car riages made that were ever turned out of any shop. Nearly ten thousand small arms have been prepared for use, three million small arm cartridges have been made, and the quantity of metalic friction primers now daily turned out is two thousand, against one hundred in the beginning of the year. We understand that Major Mallet, the iSupeiutendent of laboratories, pro nounces the cartridges equal, and the primers superior to any manufactured in the Confederacy. In the management of this Arsenal, during this trying period of the past eight or ten months, the commanding officer, Ma jor J. T Trezevant, has had the valuable aid and counsel of Cap tain James Harding and Lieut. James C. Calhoun, and day and night these three officers, with the intelligent, skillful and energetic foremen ol the difierentdepartments, have been con stantly endeavoring to give as prompt response as possible to the urgent de mands made upon them by the vari ous forts. Major Trezevant, we learn, has been ordered to Columbia, where lie is con- strucing buildings for an Arsenal on some beautiful and advantageously located grounds, near the Greenville Railroad Depot, lie will be succeeded by Major N. R. Chambers, an accom plished officer, formerly connected with the Selma Arsenal. Particulars of Defeat and Death of Federal General Blunt.—From a letter addressed to a member of Congress, the Richmond Examiner is permitted to give an extract or two. It will be seen tbat tbe statement of the Yankee General Blunt and bis men having been surprised and cut to pieces by Quantrell is here con firmed : Quantrell arrived at Washington Ark., a day or two since. On his way out, he met General Blunt, bis staff and escort, and killed every out ot bis party, save 25, who escaped. lie tilled Blunt and all his staff, together with 130 of his escort, lie brought all Blunt’s commissions, clothing, papers, brass bani, ambulances, trunks, See.., into camp withbini. Quantrell came into our lines at Pert Gibson. In passing through tbe Pin Lilian country he kept Blunt’s stars and stripes flying, the Pins rallying to the flag, and Quantrell killing ev$ry one tbat slowed himself. In one day he killed ISO. In coming out, inclu ding Biunt, his staff and escort, lie killed at least six hundred lankees and Pins. Blunt’s line swoid Quantrell has given General Price. A. W. Jones, of Indepen dence, was on Blunt’s staff, and was killed by Quantrell. “When the hoys came on Blunt, he was sitting, in his ambulance, enjoy ing a quiet smoke. When Quantrell charged him, he jumped out of his buggy, and took it about through the prairie grass. He had run thirty yards when one of the boys emptied forty buck shot in his back, killing him in stantly. He had in his pockets $250 in gold, and $700 in greek backs. Quantrell brought out 400 men with him.” Tbe I*ri*oncr (fcucwlioii. Judge Ould recently received a letter from Brig. Gen. Meredith, enclosing a communication from Major Gen. Hitch cock, of which the following is a copy : Washington City, D. C. i , Nov. 13th 1SG3. ) Brig. General S. A. JSlerdith, Commissioner for Exchange of Prisoners: Sir :—I am not yet informed whether any, or how far, relief may have reached our unfortunate prisoners of war in Rich mond and its vicinity under tMe orders of the Secretary of War to send supplies t > them of both food and clothing. Mr. Ould should be notified, for tbe in formation of bis Government, that what ever steps, may have been, or may be, taken to extend relief, (to tbe prisoners of war in Richmond), must, on no considera tion, be appealed to by tbe enemy to ie- liere him from the obligation to treat pris oners according to the laws of civilized warfare. If in other words, our prisoners in Richmond lail to receive such supplies as tbe laws alike of humanity and Avar re quire, the authorities in Richmond must be informed that it will not be considered a valid explanation of excuse for them to appeal to tbe fact, should it exist, that supplies from us have not reached them. Tbe action of our Government on this matter is dictated purely by humanity, aud is only an effort to relieve our prisoners of sufferings inflicted upon them contrary fo tbe claims of both humanity and tbe laws of war, and must not be understood as relieving tbe authorities of Richmond from responsibility to the Christian world in the premises. If tbe authorities in Richmond will send us these prisoners we will not only feed and clothe thorn,but will continue to supply food and clothing as heretofore to such pris oners as may be in pur possession, and you will propose to Mr. Ould tbat in this case Ave agree Avithout any reserve, to respect the parole they may give according to tbe laws of Avar, from which they shall not be relieved in view of the past differ ences or pending .questions on the subject ot exchange, Avithout the previously ob tained consent ot the authorities represent ed by Mr. Ould, as agent of exchange under the cartel. You will please lose no time in commu nicating a copy of this note, certified by yourself, to Mr. Ould, aud Avill urge upon him its acceptance as due to the most sol emn considerations in the face of the civ ilized Avorld. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, E. A. Hitchcock, Maj. Gen. Vols., Comnt’r lor Exchange of Prisoners. To this proposition Judge Ould replied as follows : Richmond’ Nov. ISth, I8G3. Brig. Gen. S. A. Meredith, Agent of Exchange : Sir—The letter of Gen. Hitchcock has been received. Until the Confederate authorities appeal to be re lieved “from the obligation to treat pris oners of Avar according to the laws of civi lized warfare.” or "offer, as an explanation or excuse” for insufficient food, that sup plies have not been forwarded by your Government, it is entirely unnecessary to discuss what will he the views of your au thorities in either contingency. State ments, most infamously false, have recent ly been made and circulated at the North by persons whose calling should have im posed a respect for truth, Avhich their OAvn personal honor seems to have failed to se cure. Our regulations require that pris oners shall receive the same rations as soldiers in the field. Such your prisoners have received, and Avill continue to re ceive. Do you ask’more ? If so, what do you demand ? We recognize, in the full est form, our obligation to treat your pris oners with humanity, and to serve them with the same food in quantity and quality us is given to our soldiers. If the supply is scanty you have only to blame the sys tem of warfare you have Avaged against us. There is nothing in the action of the Confederate Government which gives any sort of countenance to the charge of cruel ty or inhumanity to your prisoners. In the first jdace, Ave have importuned you to agree to a fair and honest proposition which would secure the release of all of them. When that was rejected, you have been permitted to send, Avithout stint or limitation, all kinds of supplies to them. Gen, Hitchcock requests that the pris oners now in our hands he returned to your lines. This is not accompanied with any proposition to release our prisoners iioay in yonr hands. So far from that being the case, he promises “ to continue to supply food and clothing as heretofore ” to such. Gen. Hitchcock need not haA-e urged him to “ lose no time in communicating ” his letter. No degree of haste Avould have secured the assent of the Confederate au thorities to a proposition so flagrantly une qual. We are ready to relieve your Govern ment from the burden of supplying “ food and clothing as heretofore to our people in A T our hands, and if they are sent to us, yours shall he returned to you—the excess on oue side or the other to be on parole. I hope, you will “ urge ” upon Gen. Hitch cock the acceptance of this proposition “ as due to the most solemn considerations in the lace of the civilized Avorld.” We are content tbat the “civilized world” should draAV its OAvn conclusions when ir contrasts the two offers. I Avill thank you to forward this communication to Gen. Hitchcock, or inform him that the Confederate authorities decliuc to ac cept his proposition. Respectfully, Ycur obedient servant, Ro. Oui.d, , Agent of Exchange. A Nrvr Nlililnrr Dcrnrlitirnt. Amid the reverses that have recently befallen the Confederate arms in East Tennessee, it is gratifying to learn that in West Tennessee an army is springing up like magic to resist the invading foe. and for the defence of West Tennessee, W est Kentucky and North Mississippi to the Tallahatchie river, to, he known as the Department of West Tennessee, under the command of Col. R. V. Richardson, a brave officer, avIio has achieved avou- ders in the Department since its first or ganization. Commencing as he did with the organi zation of a single regiment, surrounded hy Federal troops, and cut off from the Confederacy,he has, with consummate skill and bravery, kept the enemy back, or evaded pursuit when overw helming num bers Avere brought against him. Thus beset with ever-harrasing difficulties and dangers, Colonel Richardson and his laborious and equally brave coadjutors moved on steadily in organizing, first his “invincible Twelfth regiment,”and finally a brigade, composed of the following :— Twelfth Tennessee; Colonel J. J. Neel ey’s Fourteenth and Colonel F. M. 8teAv- art’s Fifteenth regiment. ofTennessee cav alry, noAv thoroughly organized and equip ped ; to which have been added, Colonel T. II. Logwood’s Sixteenth and Colonel J. W. Marshall’s Seventeenth regiments of Tennessee cavalry, and four battalions, commanded respectively hy Lieutenant- Colonel G. W. Bennett, Lieutenant-Col onel D. Stervart, Major Samuel Street, and Major W. P. Curler, (late Daven port’s battalion). It is hoped and expect ed that the Confederate Government, in establishing this Department, will include within its jurisdiction the First regiment Tennessee cavalry, commanded hy Colo nel Duckworth; the Second regiment Tennessee cavalry, commanded by Colo nel Bartow; and the Twelfth regiment Mississippi cavalry, commanded hy Colo nal W. M- Inge, all to report to Colonel Richardson. Not only has Colonel Richardson fully organized this effective force, and equip ped it, for the most pait, at the expense of the enemy, but he lias, while doing so, made his name and command a terror to the surrounding Federal posts. Since June last he has captured from the enemy, according to their own estimates, about six hundred thousand dollats Avorth of stores, aims, liotses, mules, wagons and clothing ; mounting, arming and clothing his men, and turning the remainder over to the Confederate Government, along with some nine hundred and odd pris oners. As the commander of the Department of West Tennessee Colonel Richardson possesses, in an eminent degree, the con fidence of the men and officers under him, and, consequently, the old man and the .youthful stripling are to he found in the ranks now organizing, fired alike hy pat riotism, and nerving for the final effort that is to rid them of the presence of the hateful foe. As President Tolk’s Assistant Adjutant- General for the organization ofTennessee troops during the Mexican war, Colonel Richardson is possessed of a fund of mili tary information, experience and knowl edge that eminently fits him for his present position. The grand objects of his opera tions have been the maintaining of his ground, the holding in check, and the kepingout of service at other points,large ly superiour Federal forces, inflicting per manent injury upon the railroads and in terrupting transportation of supplies to the Federal army. All he asks of the Confed erate Government is “to he let alone,” free to hunt and destroy the enemy in the Avay that best suits him. Richmond Examiner. see the rebel leaflets,alter tl.a mou terrible and bitter experiences that ever clad any people in the habiliments of woo, coming back with the same old assumptions, trying •.he same old track, contempt and dis gust are joined to horrour of their per fidy. We had intended to uotice to some ex tent the other propositions in their rebel programme for “peas:e,” hut we imag no it is hardly worth while after the specimen we have given. They desire amongst other.things, a suspension of negro enlist ments, the return of the negroes not alrea dy inlisted, to their masters, and, above all, they appear to desire “the consolida tion oftke United States and Confederate debts!” “Don’t they wish they may get it ?” to nse a phrase forcible, if not classical or ele gant ; and further—to use the figure we once heard put for another purpose by a famous Southern orator—“One might as avcII mix a barrel of rotten eggs with a barrel of sound ones,” and expect a good, or any way desirable result, as to' try this portion of the Confederate plan fora, “peace.” It Avill never begin to do. W e must glance merely at the last of the string of propositions in question; it is a queer commentary on the past : “The question of sloA'ery shall be for ever excluded from the National Congress and the State Avherein it exists shall have exclusive control of it. The clause of the present Constitution providing for the rendition of fugitives from labour to the lawful claimants of it to be stricken out.” We say the above is a queer commenta ry on the past. Who does not recollect that signing of a solemn compact hy mem bers, of Congress, of all parties, on the passage of tho famous “compromises,” pledging themselves never to agitate the question of slavery thereafter ? and who has forgotten the part taken by the (South ern Democracy, aided by James A. Pearce, in utterly disregarding it—in opening up anew, for political purposes, such agitation ? And after matters bad, through so long a period of fiei-ce quarrel, reached their climax—quarrel, fostered by the Southern leaders to get the Mis souri Compromise repealed—who does not recollect the chance then offered them— the very boon now asked, for—that “the States wherein it (slavery) exists shall have exclusive control of it 1” Were they not offered what now they want Avith a very longing desire ? and did they not spurn the offer in their abounding conceit of their ability to take hy force what they Avanted ? Alas! hoAv they still cling to the old dreams, the old traditions of their power, as if the times past could ever come again, as if they themselves had left of slavery anything on which to base a compromise. Finally, in their faint perception of some loss of poAver, the propose to give up even the “Fugitive Slave Law,” that very Chinese gong of a discordant instrument upon which, just three years ago, they pounded until they stunned into fear and silence all timid people. “Thank you for nothing.” They might as well offer ua the navigation of the Mississippi, the pos session of the National Capital, or any thing else we do not have to make ack nowledgements for. But they are getting better; are leisurely coming to appreciate the changed condition of things. A little further onward in the hard road they have deliberately chosen, and then they will learn that all their “peace” program mes can be condensed not only into a sin gle proposition or paragraph, but even into a single word—that is submission. ‘•A woman is always at tho bottom of trouble.” You remember tho story of the Shah of Persia. When he was told that a workman had fallen from a ladder, he call ed out: “Who is she ? who is she ?” “Please your Majesty, ’tis he.” “Nonsense !” said the Shah.” There’s never an accident without a woman; who is she ?” The Shah was right ; the man had fal len from his ladder because he was looking at a woman in a window. Many a man does that in other countries besides Per sia. From 1 he Baltimore American. “Prncc with Hie Rebels.” Wc republished some time ago, from the Ncav Orleans True Delta,-a string of very formally drawn propositions,originating— so stated—in the desire of the South for peace, hut the very first condition put forward Avas “an immediate suspension of arms for four months.” “Now, if there was no other single proof than this that tho rebel leaders are not only treacherous hut foolish, that alone avouIJ determine the question. When all the Avorld sees that they are whipped to ex haustion ; that a “four months” suspension of arms Avould be the very breath of life itself for them, that by means of it they might get in new supplies, make new preparations for a yet more obstinate con iiict, hoAv is it possible that they can yet have the assurance to reckon upon the former simplicity of those they deceived ? How can they think for an instant hut that only the veriest idiots Avould listen to them ? Stamped, then, we say, with fotly and treachery on its very face, we see by this that, in some particulars, the rebel leaders haA-e derived little benefit froia the terrible lessons they have received ; that a et seA’erer teachings are before them ere they come to comprehend the true nature of the conflict. But there is one comfort to Union men in contemplating rebel blindness and ar rogance. It is this: Although the reb el chiefs deceive themselves as of old, the loyal are not longer the victims of their arts, and they never will be more. The idea sought to he throAvn out in order to gull the loyal of the land is that, in the four months indicated, some “compromise” could he effected betAvixt the tAvo sections. But will the rebel leaders never learn wisdom in regard to this thing ? Does not every man, woman and child in tbe country at least knov/ that the “Critteu- den compromtse”—varied iu every pos sible manner to suit their purposes—was only pretended to he entertained ; that all that very time they had made up their minds to reject any and every compro mise ; that to suit their oavu plans they merely amused the people of the loyal States with hopes of peace ? With'such revolting perfidity fresh in the remem brance of all, they yet dare, after what has happened since, too, to try the same stale trick to fool, if possible, men already more tliau alive to their baseness. It seems impossible. There are men iu this Avorld upon whom all the lessons of experience appear thrown away. Ordinarily they have in former years, given the Northerners the credit of being over shrewd ; aud yet when we Description of .Lookout Mountain. A correspondent gives the following de scription of Lookout Mountain, which is interesting as giving a correct understand ing of the situation and importance of this point and the position of our army : The assent of Lookout Mountain is gained by an excellent road tbat rises from the confluence of Chattanooga Creek two miles west of the depot at Chatta nooga, and reaches the top of the Moun tain a mile in rear of Lookout peak.— There we found a most excellent summer resort, resembling in appearance a fash ionable watering place, with beautiful and commodicus hotel buildings, and all else to render the place attractive to seek ers of pleasure. Fine freestone springs are also floAving in profusion. This beauti ful village is known by the appellation of Summer Town. Thero is quite a com manding view from the fourth floor of the hotel: but the 6ubliinest scenery is spread before the beholder from the huge boul ders of rock that rise so rough and rugged from the extreme nortlnvest point of the mountain overlooking the Tennessee river. This peakwe suppose to be near three miles from Chattanooga, on an air line ; direc tion nearly west; elevation near two thous and feet above the river. The general course of the Tennessee river floAving from tho northwest to the southwest, but as seen from the Lookout the shape of the river from the Chatta nooga to BroAvii’e Ferry, below the moun tain, it somewbi’t similar to tbe letter S, Chattanooga being in the southern bend and Moccasin ridge in the northern. The abruptness of the lower bend, however, is better represented hy tho name Moccasin Bend. The beholder is struck with the similarity of the neck of land embraced by this benrl to an Indian’s moccasin.— Chattanooga is in the instep, the conflu ence of Chattanooga Creek is the toe, and the confluence of Lookout Creek the heel and the pontoon bridge at Brown’s Ferry the ankle above the heel. The shrubbery along tho river bank represents the fringe or heads of tho moccasin. Lookout is opposite the bottom of the foot, aud Moc casin Ridge is the leg and foot. The bat teries that fire so frequently upon us may be styled the top of the toe. The distance from the pontoon bridge in the rear of Chattanooga, across the an kle of Moccasin Ridge to the pontoou at Brown’s Ferry, is appearently about a mile while around the river it is five or six miles. From the stand-point we occu pied, Missionary Ridge t is seen extending from north to south, three miles southwest of and fronting Chattanooga. Chattanooga Valley and Creek are between Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain. Lookout Valley and Creek are west of Lookout Mountain, and between it and Raccoon A/ountain, which is five miles beyond the peak. Walden’s ridge is on the opposite side of the river, nearly north. Between Raccoon Mountain and Walden’s Ridge is the passage of the river, Avith the “suck” and boiling pot.” The Federals now hold tbe Raccoon Mountain and tho Valley of Chattauooga beyond Chatta nooga Creek. WANTED For the Georgia Penitentiary, 7 *-w^|YBUSnELSof C’OltN and 60,000 iba ol good POLK for wliii li the lii^hestnwkst Dra-e will be paid. V JAMES A. GREEN. Principal Keeper Oct SSd 1863. 2313$
