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n rsw- M' * # * V* * ir THE UNION. r VOLUME mV.] MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, M A V 24, 1864. NUtiBEH I. BOlKiHTONjNISBET, BARNES Fnblishcrs and Propr* jtors * 9.K. BOCfiHTO\,/ii(lii.ri. JOS.n. NISBKT ' jr\ Jt ^onftkratc Simon . 'j 1 , r 7 -<shed Weekly, in Milledgeville, Ga., * burner of Hancock and Wilkinson Sts., (opposite Court House.) At $10 a year in Advance: OUR NEW TEBJIS. On unit alter March 2<1,1861, the Terrs of Sub- •eriptinn to the Con f edi:rate Union, are Ten Dol r,inv.-iribiy in advance. All indebtedness for subscription to this paper, previous to June 1st, 1863, is at the rate of Three Dollars per year. ADVERTISING. Transient.—Two Dollars per square of ten lines for each insertion. Tributes of respect, Resolutions by Societies, (Obit uaries exceeding six lines.) Nominations for office, C*in nunications or Eiitorial noiioes for individual benefit, charged as lmn*ieiU advertising. Legal Advertising. Sheriffs sales, per levy of ten lines, or less, $5 00 “ Mortgage fi fa sales, per square, 10 00 Tax Collector’s Sales, per square, 5 00 Citations for Letters of Administration, 5 00 “ “ “ Guardianship, 5 00 Letters of application for dism'n.from Adm’n 8 00 .< “ “ “ “ Guard’n 8 00 Appl n for leave to sell land and negroes, 8 00 Notice to Debtors and Creditors. Bales ot land or negroes, per square, “ perishable property, 10 days, per sq Estray Notices, 30 days, Foreclosure of Mortgage, per square, LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sales of Laud and Negroes, by Administrators, Ex ecutors or Guardians, are required by law to be held •n the first Tuesday in the month ; between the hours •f 10 in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court house in the county in which the property is ■ituated. Notice of these sales must be given in a public ga- ■ette 40 days previous to the day of sale. Notices for the sale of personal property must be given in like manner 10 days previous to sale day. Notices to the debtors and creditors of an estate must also be punished -10 days. Notice, that application will be made to the Cpurt of Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must be published for two months. Citation* for letters of Administration Guardianship. 4tc., must he published 30 days—for dismission from Administration, monthly *ix month*—for dismission from Guardianship. 40 days Rules for foreclosure of "Mortgage must be published Month!i•/ for four month*—for establishing lost papers fanatic; and he no doubt expects to see grand mass celebrated in Westmin ster Abbey yet. But certainly, the most striking man in the House of Commons is Disraeli,, on the opposite side. I could well see how the au thoress of “Counterparts” should have found him as susceptible of being a protean hero for her novel as Rubens found his w r ife for so many pictures. That face, so transparently deep and dark, those thin, cold lips, cruel and soft as those of a panther, that eye. The British House of Commons. Sketches of the Leading Members in Ses sion. A London correspondent of the New 7 York Tribune gives the annexed sketches of the leading members in the British House of Commons : There are nearly thirty millions of people in the United Kingdom. Of these about three hundred may get into the gallaries, etc., of the House at one time—this including the repor ters’ gallery. Ladies are not supposed j shadowed for a better measure of that to be in the house at all Neverthe- upon which he is about to spring, that less if you are far sighted, you may j unconscious attitude of one ever lying see, up near the ceiling, something ,; n wait, crouching, the superb knotty that looks like a tapestry, and the strength over each eye, the singular movement of figures on it suggest that! s!iar p c ]jff which is all of the rather it may be ladies. They are. Up j narrow forehead, the baldness whicji he does rot know what to do with his bands. And then.one rarely hears a sen tence spoken in the House without its be ing cut up with a-a-a-’s. These of course are all clipped out by the friendly repor and saved the Union at that time by com pelling an abandonment at Abe protective policy at that time? Nodoubt the Alien and Sedition law men the friends of a strong consolidated Government, the anti ters, so that the speeches read finely ; but republican and anti-state rights men of those days censured Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Calhoun for thus expressing their opin ion &c, while being Vice president, as the friends of a strong Ceneral Government now censure Mr. Stephens for expressing his opinions, when called upon, (while be ing Vice President,) in opposition to the action of Congress and the “powers that be/’ But Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Calhoun outlived all of these attacks—they lived even the formulas are interlarded as I have stated, e. g.: “I would respectfully a a in quire a a of the a-a honorable a baronet a-etc.” I am bound to say also that one has recalled to his mind every moment the voice, dress and air of Sot hern’s Lord Dundreary, by these honorable geutle- men. But all these foibles end when we come to the section so ably represented by Bright and Cobden. Here are men who to see an overwhelming majority ol" the are evidently in the habit of speaking to j whole country accord to them “well done large masses of people, and in the habit of" | thou good and faithful servants”—and for doing it well. Air. Bright is, indeed, the > nothing w 7 ere they more praised than for only man in the House who could be called : these acts. And, Air. Editor, as Air. ed for maintaining the only principles upon which our secession from the United States can ever be defended or justified, and they censured, abused, and denied a bearing iu the papers that censure them most, 1 can- no but feel a little restless, and ask a small space now and then for Fair Play. GOO 8 00 2 00 5 00 2 00 there, behind a thick grating, are the patriotic subjeatresses of the Queer., peering through the little holes in a manner quite ludricous to behold.— The House,' though'small, is elegant; everywhere carved oak. Through the kaleidescope glass roof streams down a soft and charming light. At one end, under the reporters’an .1 ladies’ gallaries, is the Speaker’s chair, in which he sits like a statue of Old Time in a niche, and he and his clerks, with their great curled white perukes, gowns, etc., and the keeper—Earl Russel’s brother—with his little legs in buckskin tights and buckle shoes, and hair with extensive pigtail, give you an idea that they havejust popped in from a masquerade, and have not had time to change their dresses. The seats run at parallel lines with each other from one end of the House to the other. On these the members sit close together, without table, desk or anything else before them. Not a book or newspaper can be seen near them. And as they sit with their hats on they resemble nothing so much as a quaker meeting. Here doubtless the Quaker idea originated. As with them, here only he who is absolutely narrow is not baldness, but the interminable stretch of the forehead backward, the deep black hair, with the one strange Medusa lock, which curls down his front—all these rivet the attention. Disraeli is not an old man, but his 1 face is full of lines and changes.— Phrenologically one may say that his enormous powers of observation are his greatest strength. He evidently hears many an undertone which the speaker meant should not be heard. Lately in the debate on Schleswig when Palmerston was trying to soothe the apprehension of those who fear that England would be involved in war, Disraeli detected that this sooth ing was for a special purpose, and that in reality the government was on the brink of war. He arose, and to the astonishment of all he so pressed this an orator. His appearance is fine, his manner good and frank, his voice earnest and clear. Cool and calm be always is, but not so the torics who listen to him ; on them every word tells. Cobden is more elastic and more caustic ; in manner not unlike Dr. Bellows, when that gentleman is so fortunate to lie speaking without his gown in some informal assembly. Anoth er peculiarity of this independent section iu that its benches are nearly all full. It is a curious fact that out of the six hundred members of the House not more than three hundred ever see the inside of that House, and so many only when some special struggle—e. g., on church rates—requires every party to be present in force. The rest are merely nominal members, and the ! his speech. Stephens is now on the same track, I can- uot but believe that a like fate awaits him in after years—after we have obtained our independence, and people can sit down and calmly consider and act upon funda mental principles of government. I can not but think, that, in ten years from this time, you and the Editors of the “Times” and “Recorder” will regret that you did not publish this speech ; and so believinj, and thinking that it is nothing more than right that Vice President Stephens have a fair hearing before your readers, since you have let others assail him, and you have 1 Georgia Baptist Association for Orphans. AVe call the especial attention of those who are intere-sted in this noble woik of charity, to the subjoined notice of Mr. A. E. Marshall, Secretary At a meeting of the Executive Commit tee of this Association for Orphans, tho following residntions-were adopted : Resolved, That Deeds to lands, cither improved or unimproved, will he taken at a valuation to be fixed by three citizens of the county where the lends are located—* said umpires to be chosen "by the owner of tho land and by the general Agent of the Association. Resolved, That persons iu different por tions of the State who own lands favora ble for the location of the Orphans’ Asylum which they are willing either tc put in aa stock or sell for the purpose at a reasona ble rate, requested to report to Hon. Wm. Ezzard, Chairman of Executive Commit tee, Atlanta, Ga. Resolved, 'i hat all Ministers of the Gos pel, Judges of the. Inferior Courts and Jus tices of the Peace,in the State, be earnest- pronounced judgment against him, I would j ly requested to forward to A. E. Alardiall, respectfully suggest, tb^t it is not yet too late to give him a hearing by publishing business of the government is carried on by some one hundred and fifty to two hun dred men. None are in any way obliged to be present. They are paid nothing.— They may spend a year in America or Chi na and retain membership. But those who represent the people are regular in view, that Palmerston could not deny j attendance, because, they have an interest it, and the fact that the country is drifting into war became for the first time suspected by the country at large. But Air. Disraeli is almost the only man with anything attractive a- hout him on that side. The tion seemed to he men of very narrow and weak faces and heads and Disraeli .... _ looks strangely 7 out of his place among for the fnil *vaer of three month*— forc-rnp< IlinprUtlw , speaKintr takes his hat off, atld when ! f|, Pm TliPV -iip -ill Kiirmnspd tn Iip from Executor* or admin istrat on*, where bom] lias b^en ; , * , . , , , . . . . : fcUppOS^u 10 IJ( ^iven by the iieceas-ed. i lie full epnee of three niontiiH. lie lifts timsliOu ciups it on again with j dories ; and on the Towuley (criminal enthusiasm. j lunacy) case, I was glad to hear from one of them, Sir F. Kelly, a most im- Publieations will always be continued according to these, the legal requirements, unlcssotherwise ordered. FT When a subscriber finds a cross mark on The house is divided into four sec tions : 1st, the Government, (supposed liis paper he will know that his subscription has 1 ( 0 be liberal,) and its Straight-OUt SUD- cxDired, or is about to expire, and must be renew- , , '. ,• , ° , L , ed if he wishes the paper continued. j porters J 2d, the ptirtUll Supporters ol FT We do not send receipts to new subscri bers. If they receive the paper they may know that we have received the money. rST Subscribers wishing their papers changed from one post-office to another must state the name of the post-office Irom which ♦hey wish it changed. To Tax Receirern. The Comptroller General furnishes each Receiver •f Tax Returns with three Hooks. If any Receiver wislie» an Extra book, or sheets for a blotter, we will furuisli him at the rate of 50 j;ents a sheet. One dollar extra if the sheets are bound. Pip 5 Interesting reading matter will be found on the 4th page. For the Confederate Union. Newspaper lying. Messrs. Editors : I would ask why it is newspapers will persist in falsify ing so much ? We have but to open almost any newspaper in the pay of the Confederate Government, when we see some abuse of Gov. Brown or the Legislature,- calling them traitors, Ac. The whole of this abuse is for contending for the very principle that they have run made over before. What did the Macon Telegraph, Sa vannah Republican, Southern Recor der, and many other Journals say when the Lincoln Government parti ally suspended the writ of Habeas 1 pressive declaration against capital punishment. I was somewhat anx ious to see Lord John Manners, who the go\eminent ; 3d, the opposition ! j s known to the world entirely by that ! ^‘ e countr y t h an !> e 19 now and its straight-out supporters; 4tb, | C0U p] e t of his— j —*—- the government and a purpose before them. There are some, however, in the House who are frequently seen there, but who rarely take part in any debate ; they seem to enjoy the House as a club. There, opposi-j for instance, is Bulwer, a little grasshop per cf a man; one wonders how Thack eray found enough of him for distinction, lie generally sits near the opposition, and ) on that side ; but he never says anything, , though he looks wise. The fine looking and vigorous Air. King- I lake now attracts much attention. He i sits in the same neighborhood, and the | government evidently feels restless when ; he criticises. He is an earnest -man, and j will one day be a more important man in the partial supporters of the opposi tion. The government, with Lord Palmerston and the cabinet, sit on the speaker’s right, the officers occupying the first scat down on the floor, (for the beaches rise higher as they recede to the wall.) This section attracts the greatest attention, although per haps the first inquiry of every one who enters the house, is, “Which is is Disraeli"?” Lord Palmerston occu pies the center of the bench, where he seems to have been carved to stay, quite as much as that very dog like lion in oak at the door. He sits there by night—that shrewd, ready-witted, reddish, white-headed old Premier.— There is not a sparkle about him ; not a tint of romance, not a trait of hero ism. He is the fair representative of England in her solstice ; of England with no future before her except to hold on as long as she can to her past. On the left sits Air. Gladstone, with strong features and a darkish look.— He speaks with nerve, and, as it were, sends out little bullets of speech—one of which was the famous declaration that the “the King of Naples lias e- rected atheism iuto a system of gov-1 ernment.” Next is Air. Layard, a sol-I Let Laws and Learniug, Arts and Customs die, But leave us stili our old nobility. AIr Clisby :—I percieve that the Geor gia Telegraph, the Columbus Times, and the Southern Recorder have each publish ed “Reviews’’ of the speech of Hon. A. II. •Stephens, delivered before the Georgia Legislature on the lGth of Alarch last— each one have declared Air. Stephens ut terly demolished by their correspondents and yet neither of them have piuhlished Mr. Stephens’ speech, that their readers could But again : The papers above alluded to have also permitted their correspondents to assail Gov. Brown promiscuously and generally, in relation to his call of the ex tra session of the legislature, and his mes sage to the same. Seeming to misunder stand his message you all have charged him with a disposition to ignore the Con federate government, and to go in tor sepa rate and independent State action, or nego tiation, for obtaining peace. I understood Gov. Brown as going in for no such thing, and many others entertained the same view as to his message. And yet, when the Governor, in a subsequent and short let ter (I allude to his letter to Gen. Colston,) ] more distinctly enumerates his position, t which cannot be objected to by any one, j neither of your papers would or hare publish ed Ins letter. Is this right or fair? As patriots, (not as party men.) I did suppose all would be glad to publish a letter Irom the Governor, showing that he was misun derstood, and that he occupied no such obnoxious ground as was attributed to him. But from some cause (oversight I hope) neither the “Telegraph” or “Re corder” published the letter, and the “Times” only published a short paragraph, which it admitted put the Governor ‘right,’ Ac. Again, for opposing the suspension of the writ of Habeas Corpus, Gov. Brown and the legislature of Georgia, have been censured most severely by you three—they have been charged with a disposition to “clog the government” “opposition to President Davis,” a “desire for agitation,” a “disposition to have parties,” &c., &C„ and yet when the Legislature of Mr. Da vis’s own State, Alississippi, unanimously Corpus some two years ago ? Did they : id Burly Englishman, with a flat voice, 1 not say that the last vestage of State ' Ravish hair, large moustache and 1 Rights was gone—that there was no longer any freedom North—in a word, that the North was the worst of des potisms? I would ask those papers if the suspension of said writ made the North a despotism, what effect the suspension has ou the South? Beau tiful consistency, is it not ? I see in the last Recorder, and copied by all such lying Journals, a list of exemptions in the State of- Georgia. Now every man in the State that can read, knows it to be false. As a sam ple, they say that there are fifteen thousand militia officers in the State, subject to conscription, when in fact, all the officers in the State will not amount to the half of the figure. The nffiitia officers in the State of Georgia amon^t to about one thousand in num- Ber. The magistrates to less than that number ; in fact, the difference in figures in the above, is a very fair earn pie of its representations as a gener ®1 thing. The number of all officers in the State of Georgia of all kinds, will large heard, and a “spunced up” dress He has a good deal more humor than his position allows him to display. Air. Horseman had just asked him if the government has heard the report that a ship is going out from Liverpool to capture the Alabama, and whether the government will take the same care to prevent that it has to prevent the departure ot ships for the Confeder acy. Air. Layard rises and says lie has only read something of the kind in the newspapers. The paper in which he had read it had asked whether it was a Confederate dodge. In that case, the gentleman [Mr. Horseman] would know more of it than the gov ernment. There was a drollery in sition leader, Air. Disraeli, and bis imme diate comrades, very rarely say anything unfavorable to the .United States, and i nothing at all in favor of the Confederacy j or slavery. Lord Robert Cecil is a tali, slender man, with a snarl in his voice and | a very conceited manner—that is all. But whence come these young boys, whom one might naturally expect to see in dry goods ! shops, but not in the House of Commons ? \ They arejoung scions of nobility, have I come in on money, and were elected by > committees. They come here to loaf. It sounds very big by the time it across the ocean, that Air. Peacocke said i this and that about the United States and j it may be that Peacocke has some talent ! But I do know that Peacocke struck me ! as most appropriately named. A flaming I scarf, with big gold pin, covered his ten der bosom—his dress was all aufait, his | voice Duudrearyish, and his whole air that of a foppish boy ; and all about him sat becurled and bescented young fops, which one could hope bad simply elnded tbe doorkeeper hi getting iu. But opposite tjtese sit the real represen tatives of the-English people. These men are not the representatives of the aristo cratic committees; but of b.Tge communi ties and cities. Here sit, side by side, John Bright and Richard Cobden. And here sits Peter Taylor, who has given late ly so powerful a speech at Leicester in be half of America. The first thing that strikes one with reference to this section —the independent supporters of the Gov- see whether they stated correctly or not. j passes resolutions, not one whit behind Now, I would respectfully ask, is this right. • those of Georgia in opposition to and de ar is it fair 1 Is it “doing unto others as . nunciation of this action of Congress in sus- I pending the writ of habeas corpus, not one word is said by you all about Alississippi, Legislature seen these resolutions published as news, or al luded to in any manner whatever in either of those papers. Does it not look strange if such resolutions in Geor gia kicks up such a fuss, no notice is taken of their passage by the Mississippi Legis lature especially when the Legi.-Jature is supposed to be the truest to Air. Davis, when he is on the right track. But this is not all. While Gov. Brown is de nounced as a “factionist,” a “madman,” a disorganizer,” and almost “disloyal,” for his opposition to the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus and his notions about dip- Hon. A. II. Stephens and Gov. Brawn.—Is il Right oris it Fair ? And then he is a rather handsome, 1 foppish man, dancing here and there and everywhere, with side wishers and mustache. It does not take a great deal of observation to see that if all the blessings enumerated in the first line should die, he, Lord John AL, would not be any poorer. In the section devoted to the more mod erate torics—or opponents of the Govern ment—I siw few fine heads. I was much struck by the youth of some of t he members of this section. It is led by Lord Robert y«u would have others do unto you?” Cecil, and is particularly the direction think not. _ _ # from which carping questions concerning, But, what are the circumstances under j 0l " what motives governed her Legislature; the United States are asked. Here are ' which Mr. Stephens made the speech allu- —n»y» more. I have not even the eyes which sleeplessly watch Air. Sew-! de3 to ? He did not visit Alilledgeville ofj resolutions. published as news, ard. It is remarkable that the'great onpo- his own accord.and there wait to be invited | laded to iff any to speak, as others did who differed with him upon the questions then before the Legislature. But several other gentlemen having visited Milledgeville aud having volunteered to give their counsels to the members of the Legislature upon the mat ter of the suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus and other subjects acted upon by Congress, a large number (I learn over one hundred) of the members of the Legislature desired to have Mr. Stephens to give his views upon these subjects, and they signed , a paper aud addressed it to him, at his : lmnacy being necessary for peace, &c., on ets j home in Crawfordville, asking him to come i other hand, Gov. A ance, of North Secretary of the Association at^Atlanta, the names, ages and location of each desti tute orphan in their respective counties and districts, stating in their communica tions whether or not they are the orphans of a soldier, and if both parents '^are dead. Resolved, That all newspapers in Geor gia friendly to the Orphan Association ha respectfully requested to publish the fore going resolutione, and call attention edito rially to the great importance of this move ment. The names of the Trustees are as fol lows : N Al Crawford, Penfield, E Steadman, Lawrenccville, A K Seago, Atlanta, W J Owens, Augusta, E W Warren, Alaeon, 8 Landrum, Savannah, William Ezzard, Atlanta, M J Wellborn, Columbus, W T Brantley, Atlanta, Joseph E Brown, Milledgeville, E G Cabiness, Forsyth, J P Logan, Atlanta, D A Yason, Albany, J L Seward, Thomasville, II A Tapper, Washington, H C Hornady, Atlanta, A J Hansell, Alarietta, S Root, Atlanta, 'J)K Butler, Madison, B F Tharpe, Perry, AY L Alansfield, Lumpkin. " A. E. MARSHALL. Secretary of Association. EP’All newspapers in the State friend ly to the Association for Orphans, are ear nestly requested to publish the foregoing resolutions. Important order of General Meade—ar rangement for holding on to Volunteers whose time has expired. The Washington Star, of Friday week, has the following impoitant announcement, showing that there is, and is to be, trouble in the Army of the Potomac with the ex pired enlistment men. It is because of this that Burnside has gone to Grant, instead of undertaking his independent expedition up tbe Peninsula. The Star says: As the time is approaching when a num ber of the regiments belonging to the Ar my of the Potomac are to be discharged from the military service of the United States, by reason of the expiration of tho term of service, for which they were mus tered into said service, Alaj. Gen. Meade, has announced to such troops that the War Department has decided that the term of service of a regiment is to be computed from the date of muster into the service of i the United States, without reference to tho Carolina, who boasts that he is and r\as fai { ] a j e 0 f enrollment or any service render- ahead of Gov. Brown, Judge Stephens, or the Georgia Legislature upon these sub jects, is held up by you all as a “very proper man and you and I and all of us want him re-elected Governor of North Air. LayarjJ s tone as be said this, and ^ ernment—is that they are the only men an involuntariness in the laugh that followed it, which made Horseman a thoroughly snubbed and uneasy man for the next ten minutes. On Palmer ston’s right sat Earl Grey, a man in build aud appearance like Horace t amount to more than from three! Mann during the last years of his life. am /JW thousand. . Th Ntfjter of the above has at- en,ptp<r%.or e t gome of the subsidized papers in a^State, to publish some such article above, but could notfor what r^ n ? Because they Lut onb'Mrh for the pres- HALL. Anything may be accomplilSlied by industry and perseverance. fear truth ent. He has, however, a poor, husky voice, which Horace Mann had not- Earl Grey is evidently a sincere man, and a laborious minister. Two seats be hind Palmerston i* Sir George Bow- yer, tbe great Roman Catholic cham pion. Thin, pale, dark-eyed, sombre, nervous and restless one understands how 7 inquisitions existed when one looks at him. He has the manners of a scholar, and the whole air of a who know how to speak. For the most part, tbe speaking in the House is (in manner) ludicrous. It certainly has tbe recommendation of being_uostudied and to the point ; but still it is not pleasant to see every speaker stuck to the floor with bis head swinging regularly to and fro as if he were an inverted pendulum. Yet this is the parliamentary 6t}U ; tbe Gov ernment ministers generally oscillate so, and nearly all the rest copy it, until it haB become parliamentary. Gladstone .varies it only by clutching the table opposite and bending over it; and when be has become rigid, he speaks as if in a voice, with faint efforts of his head to give the usual oscila- tion. Disraeli puts one arm out and takes hold of something; but he does not swing much, and is better than those about him. Lord Robert Cecil’s speaking is execrable; to Alilledgeville and let them hear from him. Upon this invitation he came and addressed them. Aud I would respectfully ask, Mr. Editor, if any one could have de livered a speech more free from partyism or passion, or more free from anything like excitiug bad or contentious feelings ?—Carolina. And is it right aud fair, Air. Indeed, was it not a most fair, candid, J Editor, for you all, and others, thus to able and interesting speech ? And this j make “flesh” of one and “fish” of the other being so, and he being .the second officer I —to denounce one and praise and wish in the Government, don't you think he’ good luck and success to the other, where; ought to havo a f)dr hearing, and let him ! both stand on the same platform ? I think be judged by what he himself says, rather) not. Indeed, I think all these things allu- than be judged by what others choose to de#o above very unfair, and if generally , of the Government with regard to their impute to him ? I think so; and Mr. Clisby, persisted in, calculated to engender bad | term of servic ' Cj au<1 * ;ftt no * ailized bod . you are generally sq fair, and liberal, or ! and bitter feelings among us all, and it is jes of Individuals, after having borne ah you, I ! for this reason that I have addres.-ed this unsullicd repufa!ion during all the event ed a State. T he Commanding General will, howev er, at all times, be glad to receive and for ward, for the consideration of the proper ! authority, any respectful communication touching the term of service of a regiment, when such term appears to be involved iu doubt. The Commanding General, in making announcement, expresses the hope that regiments which may b«*discharged will cheerfully acquiesce in the decision of courteous to those differing with am surprised that you should have been remiss in this instance. Your correspondents try to create the impression that Air. Stephens was a ‘‘vol unteer” in thus speaking, and they may have succeeded - iu making many of your readers think he was ; but had you publish communication to you, with the hope that it may cause yon and others to change yonr “tactics’" a little. For my. part I am no “agitator.” On the contrary, I sometimes fear that, in my disposition to “say nothing” and trust all ful scenes which have marked their con- ^Fclion with the Army of the Potomac, will suffer the honorable fame they have won by their gallantry and good conduct to be tarnished ia the closing hours of their service by acts of insorburdination, which lish- to the “powers that be” during the war, I , if ventured u)>on by auy, will bo promptly ed his speech, it would have been seen that . do wrong. « But I can t heip it. Sncli is 1 g^ppi-essed, and can only terminate in the this was no such thing—all would then ’ my anxiety for us to whip our fight and have learned the truth. j win our independence, I have felt that I But admitting that Mr. Stephens had ; was “almost willing to submit to anything.” been a “voluuteer”—admitting that like | I have, certainly, several times kept my others, he visited Milledgeville for the [ mouth closed when I felt our rulers were purpose of enlightening the members of j overriding the Constitution, becanse I fear- the Legislature upon these subjects, and j ed I might do harm by speaking. But at admitting that he had even drawn up reso- the same time, if others choose to speak. I iutions, &c, has he not bright examples in those who held his position beiore him ?— Was not Mr. Jefferson Vice President, when he arrayed himself against Congress, and the Government, in their adoption of tbe Alien and Sedition Acts, and when he have not felt like “stoning” them. In the present instance, however, I have not been able to see auy great barm Gov. Brown, Judge Stephens, or Mr. Stephens have done iu coming out Bet-footed^egeinst the action of Congress in suspending the writ drew up with his own hands, the Kentucky i of habeas corpus, nor in their views about Resolutions of 1798 ? Was not Mr, CaL the Confederacy tendering to the Lincoln honn Vice President when he arrayed himself and the whole- Booth against the Tariff policy of the Federal Government, Government propositions of peace, upon the principles of 1776,or State sovereignty, &Cc dec. And when I see them denouuc* sneedy and certain punishment of the of fending parties. Notice to Debtors and Creditors. A LL persons indebted to B. M. Cox Into of J\.yiitcbell county deceased, are notified toeodi« forward and make immediate payment to the un dersigned, and all those having claims against him will present them in terms of law, and within tho time prescribed by law. H C. e>. W. C. & S. IT. COX, Adro'rs. April 20th, ISC-1. 51 6t. T WO MONTHS alter date application will be made to the Court cf Ordinary of Pierce county, Georgia, at the first regul ir term after ex piration ot two months from this notice, for leave to sell the lands belonging to tbe estate of Janies R. Thomas, late of said county, deceased, for tLei benefit of heirs and creditors of said deceased. BANNER THOMAS. Adm’r. - Paid S8 of James S. Thomas. May S, 1804, * 51 9s