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THE CONFEDERATE UNION.
VJLUME XXXV.]
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icrintion to the Confederate Union, are Ten Dol-
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Kiihs'.'ription to this paper, previous to June 1st, 1803,
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11 ILtEDOEYILLE. GEORG I A, TUESDAY, J II L Y 12, 1864.
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Legal Advertising.
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“ Mortgage fi fa sales, per square, 10 00
Tax Collector’s Sales, per square, 5 00
Citations for Letters of Administration, 5 00
“ “ “ Guardianship^ < r > 00
Letters of application for dism’n. from Adm’n 8 00
.i “ “ “ “ Guardu 8 00
Appl'n for leave to sell land and negroes, 8 00
Notice to Debtors and Creditors. 6 00
Sales ot land or negroes, per square, 8 00
“ perishable property, 10 days, per sq. 2 00
Estray Notices, 30 days, 5 00
Foreclosure of Mortgage, per square, 2 00
The News.
Lincoln’s Secretary of the Treasury. Chase has
resigned. Fessenden, of Maine,succeeds him.
Gold in New York, on the 30th ult. was 2>0.
Gen Johnston’s new position is 8 miles south of
Marietta.
The Enemy have been advancing against our
forces on James and John's islands near Charles
ton. An attack on Fort Johnson was repulsed.—
The enemy advanced in barges. The comman
der of the expedition and J40 prisoners were cap
tured. -
Gov. Clark of Mississippi, has called ont every
able bodied man in the State, to aid in repelling
the invader.
From the Cincinnati Commercial.
VAI.LANDIGflAn’8 SPEECH.
Men of Ohio: Today- I am again in
your
midst and upon the soil of my native State. To
day I »m once more in the district, which for ten
j years extended to me the highest confidence, and
three times honored me as its representative to
For the Confederate Union.
His Excellency Gov. Brown:
Sir :—I notice from the Milledgeville paper
the memorial of four Governors to Congress, and
the correspondence between yourself and Mr.
Memminger, the Secretary of the Treasury, re-
I lative to the bloekake running by the States for j the Congress of the United States. I was ac-
! their own soldiers' use—and I think the public ! en8ed of no crime against the Constitution or
will concur in The opinion, that the c<mrse of the j ^ 8 r ’J nd fl guilt { " f i 10 " 6 ’ ** ut wheneve , r , and
, . , , . ... , wherever thus charged upon due process of law,
j SeCfeta 7 ls extraordinary, but illegal,! I am now here, ready to answer, before any civil
! inexpedient, and highly improper. But the con- j court of competent jurisdiction, to a jury of my
! duct of that official is not confined to breaches of ! countrymen : and meantime, to give bail in any
I the law, in regard to the rights and privileges of * Um wbich an J j ud S\ or court, State or Federal
c . , tj . , . . - , may affix; and you, the hundred and eighty-six
' the Sta,e8 ‘ Idesiret0 ^ow how, and in irhat I thousand Democrats of Ohio.. I offer as my sure-
Fr*B the Army.
Letter from our Occasional E-rtraordinaiy Corns
pondent—Most Terrific Contest of the War—Im
mense Slaughter of tiie Enemy—Heron- Gallantry
of the General and his Staff.
Editors Appeal : It is si range to me that onr brig
ade had no chruuicler during this arduous campaign.
In view of its struggles,services,sufferings and achieve
ments, 1 shall waive that naturaljnodesty which isthr
most remaikahle trait of my character, and endeavor
to do the brigade ot Gen. Bullie simple justice—only
this and nothing more.
A history of all the gallant exploits of this brigade
would require volumes. I shall, therefore, give you
but one skirmish aS a sample ol its general conduct.
From this ir.ciileht the imagination of the awe-struck
The enemy have again occupied Jackson, Miss.
Gen. Vaughan of Gen. Johnston’s army, lost a
foot in an engagement a few days ago. This is a
calamity to the Confederacy, as he is
a splendid officer.
Hon, John Bell, of Tenn. is residing in Merri-
wether county, Georgia
The wheat crop has turned ont much better than
was expected. We hear of excellent bread made
of sprouted wheat.
Rain is much needed in and around Milledgo
ville, and the corn is suffering for the want of
it.
The enemy destroyed the Paper mill at Mariet-
ta, not the cotton miHs at Roswell. It is reported J that tlie proceeds of thg shipment shall he re
that they burnt the Ga. Military Institute.
ners, compared with Foreigners engaged in the ile because I recognized any obligation of ob
same business. j dience to the unconstitutional and arbitrary edict.
Let me first re-call the attention of yourself 1 Neither did Phonal fear ever restrain me. And
and the public, to the fact that, the law of Con
gress directs that the ' Regulations” (which have
V “ i been made “Restrictions” in the strongest, strict-
known to be I . „ •
I est sense ot that odious word) shall be -'uniform,''
by which people of common sense would under
stand, applicable equally to all parties engaged
jn the business.
By the celebrated Secretary’s “Regulations,”
they uniformly demand of Confederate Import- i
ers and Exporters, one half of the room in each
steamer for the C. S. Government 8t the rate of'
five pence per lb. freight, payable in cotton at.
to-day I return, of my own act and pleasure, be
cause it is my constitutional and legal right to
ie‘urn.
(Inly by an exertion of an arbitrary power, its-
self against Constitution and law, and consum
mated by military force, I was abducted from my
home and forced into banishment. The assertiou
or insinuation of the President thnt I was arrest
ed--because laboring with some effect to prevent
public can conrtiuct a ccnntcted history,even ns front
' : one fossil bone the naturalist describes, with unerring
ie * | skill the antediluvian Mammoth.
I select then the affair of-‘Lii tikill Creek” as the i 7 * K’™; oiate. me
episode in our brigade history for present description whole question in controversy is simply whether
an affair which, in brilliancy of execution, has often the Confederacy shall have equal rights of ship-
l From the Savannah News.]
“A Small Cosiness.”
The Republican of this morning attempts that
which even the boldest, and most unscrupulous of
toadies to this administration have shrank from,
viz: a defence of the Secretary of the Treasury.
Mr. Memminger. He publishes a portion of tlie
correspondence between Governor Brown ai.d Mr.
Memminger, and then remarks:
. w *h he seen that Gov. Brown seeks to make
it appear that Mr. Memminger has‘‘prohibited ’ihe
State ot Georgia from exporting a quantity of eot-
* pn ’ law and lacts.a.s giveu hy himself,
wholly tail to sustain such a charge. The proviso
quoted from the Act of Congress does not mean
what he wishes to make the people believe it does
mean, and Gov. Brown know s it, or he is charge- •
able with a degree of ignorance that is disgrace-
as Governor of a great State. The
ful to him
been surpassed by us oh other fields, but I choose that J nieut on board the Little Ada w ith the State of
as only a‘‘small bony of the fossii.” Georgia.' The Government, under tlie authority
On the morning ot the 23d ult., Gen. Bullie occupied ! of Congress, which has supreme control over
the most important position in our line—a position | foreign commerce under ihe constitution, and in
• upon the holding of which depended, not only the safe ! order to meet the necessities of the army, claims
ty of this anny. but the salvation of UieSouliuTii Con tl,« rio-Kt at .Innnm. „„„ L„u-„<-.i *. y- claims
JRTeraoy and the freedom of unborn millions. ' 1,8 r, f , pf shipping out half of tlie caigo ot every
Gen. Bullie, with that supernal prescience which
characterizes all our commanding officers, knew that
Latest Sews.
The Yankee accounts say that General Kirby
Smith, with a large force, has crossed to the East
side of the Mississippi river. We hope so. Ger.
Early is making for Maryland, Washington, of
from the army, and responsible for numerours acts
of resistance to the dralt and to the arrest of de
serters, causing assassination, maiming and mur
der or that at any time, in any way. I had dis
obeyed or (ailed to council obedience to lawful
Wilmington .1 pent, pe, lb. The, „ tforml, j “p^Toi thTp-oolTn «,£
require a liondo. each and every other shipper of speech I ever made upon these questions, and to
cotton, a bond for twice ilie value of the cotton— the very record of the mock military commission.
by the trial and sentence of which I was oat-
turned to the Confederacy within 60 days, in ar- To,'the sole offense then laid to my charge was
tides not prohibited by law—or that the proceeds words of criticism of the public policy of the
shall be paid to their Agents abroad, and be re- , Administration, addressed to an open and
funded he re in cotton at ten pence per lb. And — -
they uniformly demand from the owners of the
vessels, a bond with good security for twice the
the raising of troops and to encouiage desertions j on this eventful morning, Sherman had taken twenty
five cocktails, and issued a keg of whisky to each *
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
Sales of Land and Negroes, by Administrators, Ex-
ecutora or Guardians, are required by law to be held
on the first Tuesday in the month ; between the hours
ot III in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the
Court house in thecouuty in wbich the property is
situated.
Notice of these sales must be given in a public ga
zette lb 'lavs previoustothe day of sale.
Notices i'or the sale of persona! property must be
given in like manner 10 days previous to sule day.
Notices to tlie debtors and creditors of an estate
must also be punished 40 days.
public meeting of my fellow-citizens of Ohio,
lawfully and peaceably assembled. And to day,
tny only “crime” is tffat, in tho way w hich they
call treason, worship I the Constitution of my
value of the steamer; that she shall return imme- fathers? But for now more than one year no
public man has beeu at rested, and no newspaper
suppressed within !be State, adhereing still to
the L uton, for the expr<ssion of political opinion;
while hundreds, in public assembly and through
against capture or wreck of the vessel, but demand- ; ihe press, have, with a license and violence i
i somewhere in the enemy’s lines. He captured a . , ,, ,
' force of 900 men at Martinsburg. We hope he I d,Hte! ^’ bri,T g in & balf ,be ropIU >" f,ei R bt for the
will take down the Potomac and make a descent G 0verliment; and com I ,elIed ‘° take ont p ne-half
I upon the Yankee Colony of Africans established I ot a,i ° :l,er carp0 for U * ho ' ' cl,hout Provision
on Gen. Lee’s estate near Arlington heights. The
• * i i ng me iun auiuiun oi me uoiiu in auumon 10 me ..
I loss of their steamer. And compelling every ves- * d J^j acts and policies of the Andministrarion,
i i * .. . . . aiiQ- denounced the w-ar, maintaining even the
sel once engaged, to continue in the busim ss, on n . , . ’. . , *“***"* i g_ cvcu T,,e
„ „ one
of Ins besotted follow ers, with a view of making nn as
sault on our works, and that he had peifidiouslv ap
plied a galvanic battery to the rotting corpses of the
corps of Hooker, Howard and Palmer, which we had
several times before annihilated, with a view of foieiug
them into another fight and anotherauiiiliUatioii.
fo
vessel that depaitsfroin our ports, both going And
returning. Gov* Brown seeks now to defeat that
right of tlie Confederacy and claims that the Stato
of Georgia is entitled to ship the irhole cargo; in
other words, he seeks to exclude the Confederate
Government altogether from"shipments by a vessel.
owned, not by- the State, hut by private parties,
and he does so witli, a full know ledge, and in con
tempt ot, the regulation of the Department reqnir-
Our preparations for the shock—the fieiyest that ever ' * 1 -®' vesftls shall be loaded, to theixteut
shook this continent—were rapidly, silently made I ,1,,e half ilieircargo, by tlie Confederacy.”
(Jen. Bullie and bis staff retired'for.consultation!— Now, “the simple, statement ' of facts,” which
Capt. H. lnibng, his A. A. G., drew a small pistol j even Mr. Sneed will not dare to controvert, “is
from his holster, and^in an expressive and impressive j sufficient to condemn his ease, and show him np
voice, v\ ill you . as a quarrelsome factionist and mischiel maker
Gen. Bullie, without hesitation, in a clear, ringing I The facts are these;
tone, answered in the language of Nudo eon to thX « ■
Prince of Solferino, “I’ll do it, or any oth.u- man or his i. t U nZ , Vrowt ' V“;<-' C8 • ll ® wnstruction on
wife.” And gSnck, gluek, magic sounds of generd I °- q ^ te ? tru . rn .. tl,e Act of Congress” as
enemy were wffipped'at"jacksom Mississippi, and i 1 n " ,he ,uH amonnt of ,he bond 1,1 addi,ion t0 the w - hi r h 1 ,iever iudul « ed - p ntisized and condemn-
torced to beat a retreat, by raw troops. There
has been some fighting on the islands near
Charleston. The 1st Ga Regulars were engaged.
We hear thatCapt. L. H. Kenan, of Milledgeville,
.. was wounded in the leg. and Capt. Frank Hill, of
Not,.-,- that application will be made to ihe Court of | Afhfin gli ht]y in the hi Gen . Grant 8eems to
(r'li'iarv for leave to soil L.and or Negroes, must he ” • r
puli islied for two months. have been brought to a stand still. He can’t take
propriety and necessity of the recognition of the
tlicir terms, wheiher profitable or not. W here I Southern independence.
say, are the uniformities ot his “Regulations'7 Endorsed by nearly two hundred thousand
Let us see Low Fouigners are treated. Their ^ reenien ot the Democratic party of my native
vessels come in chartered to takeout cotton at ^^te, “tjhc late election,and still with_the sym-
Citation* for letters
Ac..must be publish
■V lininistmtioii, monthly six months—lor dismission
trn'n Guardianship,40 days
Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage must be published
month!11 for four months—for establishing lost papers,
tor the full spare of three months— forconipellingtitles
from Executors or administrators, where bond lias been
given by the deceased tkufull space of three months.
Publications will always Vie continued according to
these,the legal requirements, unlessothcrwiseordered.
thirteen pence per lb., and they bring
Bonds,” not due yet. to obtain it with.
Er Ianger
No “n/ii-
t Administration Guardianship, ( Petersburg, and the only hopes, the Yankees sav r ,, , .. , .
130 (lavs—tor dismission from . , . T . , . , ” , . i form regulations are applied to them. I hey
of taking Richmond, is by cutting the Railroads . , .. .. , ,
. , ^ , T J , * . take alt their cargois out in cotton: No bonds are
in the rear and starving Lee and Ins Army out.— , ,.. ,
,,, . , ■ , ■ . required of them—and they come and go as long as
Gherman is still busy in Ins “on tc Atlanta 1 If ■ . , , . ... , ,
... . I- , , A , „, they please, and no longer; and if wrecked or
Johnston can keep him back ten days. Sherman «
will get stung somewbert in his rear,
backwards.
and fall t
uri^Some miserable scoundrel stole Mr Rose's
Book and Job work, of all kinds, 1 pocketbookout ofadrawer in his office ’ thereb y
; depriving him of some $200, or $300. W T e hope
\ those who owe him for subscription and advertis
ing will settle np and help him along these hard
1 times.
pathy and support of millions more, I do not
mean any longer to be the only man of that paity
who is to be the victim of arbitrary power. If
Abraham Lincoln seeks my life, let him so de
clare ; but he shall not restrain me of mv per
sonal liberty, except upon “due process of law.”
I lie unconstitutional aDd monstrous “Order
•Thirty eight, under which alone I was arrested
thirteen months ago, was defied and spit upon at
your State convention of 1863, by the gallant
gentleman who bore the standard as your candi-
dale for Lieutenant-Governor, and by every De-
sels from abroad, taking 100 bales of cotton for the - mocratic press and public speaker ever since, is
CXHHiplS ( i * ' 11 ( i I' fiYIVl f Ka L ref <+ air *.«i — * — - A iL. Ft i!
doe? Governors Clarke, of Mississippi, Watts, of Ala
bama and ^ anee of North < 'arolinn, aud they are Hot
any more “chargeable with a degree, of ignore nc that
is disgraceful to them ns Governors of great. States,”
than is the Congress of the Confederate States—for the
lower house of that body unanimously decided, and
the Senate concurred, that their interpretation was the
correct one, viz.- That the States were not to be inter
fered with, and that the regulations were not to bear
upon the States, but the States were to enjoy all the
rights and privileges tlmtjhe Confederate States were
entitled to. The proviso reads thus : ‘‘That nothing in
this act shall be construed to prohibit the Confederate
States, or any of them, from exporting unv of the ar
ticles herein enumerated, on their own'account.”
i captured, they lose their vessel only.
I have prepared an estimate showing the dif
ference thus made between our vessels and ves-
eatisfaction announced that his feelings were not
offended. The stuff quietly indulged and were ready
for the fray.
The enemy advanced in one hundred and fifty fines
of battle. They were allowed to approach until the
left foot of each vandal rested on out* outer breast
works. Then the clarion voice of our general gave
the oi ful order, “fire.” The first fifty iiuCsofthe eneinv
melted away like frost before several summer suns.—
The others, however, advanced with sunken courage
to the slaughter pen. They fought under a tstrilile
disadvantage. Our men were protected by breast
works, erected with splendid skill. They also fought
on this terrible day when the thermometer was 141
with the advantages of shade and breeze means anvniing, it means to p
Ihe air above our beads was so black with these States on perfect terms«f equality with the Lnfeder-
bullets as to entirely obscure the sun, (even more to ate Stales otherwise, why was' it inserted? Under
than at R^ca. aiJe rcpor of that memorable engage- Secretary ' Meinn.inger’s interpretation, a State, at
ment b> St. John, etc., e c..J and the motion ot the j lem-t the State of Georgia, hns no mpre advantages
atmosphere, caused bj the impetus of tlie enemy s j than an individual, for the humblest citizen can, by
balls and shells, gave us the advantage of a brisk aud | complying with the terms demanded of the States, eii-
l.velv breeze, ihus by the malevolent tury ot our m j„ v every privilege the State does. Mr. Memminger
fernal enemies we taught under a dense shade and a justifies his interpretation,on the ground, that the law
sweeping breeze, while they were exposed to a scorch- requires that* the regulations shall be “uniform.” His
mg sun and simoonlik cheat. 6ic semper tyrannis. i unilonnity consists in pel milting the State of Virginia
For ninetyfive hours the baft e raged with fearful to do thnt which he refuses to the Stale of Georgia.-
fury. Liue after line, co umn after column, fell before In this-U.e steamer City of Petersburg, chartered of
us in their njad assault At ffingtl. our efforts for j a private .-o.npaDy in. Virginia, Ima been permitted to
: go and return Mors times, without yielding one half of
her room to Ihe Goveimnenf ! The Stare ot Nt rth
Carolina has Lcen pcruiittt d fo do the snine thing
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riiaDged.
The Hartetta faacr BUt«
The evacuation ot Marietta by onr forces, in
volves the loss of the paper MiHa -fraarmfaieh -we
what. tKe cbaTTgt^rw'fiT^
| In a foreign vessel, 100 bales cotton, 50,000
1 lbs , freight 13 pence per lb. is $11.525, for which
they buy with Erlanger Bonds, for which Mr.
Memminger furnishes them cotton in Wilming-
' ton at five pence pej Ik_ for U.<» n“-_ “• hauA.
which wifi erve them for the freight on 100 bales
( of cotton outward 62,3TJ0»Fbs. of cotton, which is
worth in currenryin Wilmington, $124,600,
Tnx 4'olicclor* Itlnnk Kffcipl Books,
| Win be furnished from this office for $10 per
juire, and $2 for binding. There will be 12 re- ^
|cryts to a sheet or 288 to a quire. Collectors or-|
ilerit-g receipts will send a copy of the kind they
I wish.
able to say, at present,
to make arrangements with-other mills tor paper !
Until we can be assured of a regular supply, we j
will issue a half sheet, By the nae of amali type, i
oui subscribers will get as much reading matter as
they did when the whole sheet was printed in
large type.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
\ LI, persons having cluitns against the estate of :
Abel T. Wright dec'll, late of Pulaski county Ga., i
•-required to render them In duly authenticated with- |
: the time required by law, and those indebted will i
lake immediate payment.
WILLIAM WRIGHT Ad’mr.
.1 nne 7th 1864. J. j. s.4 6t.
GEORGIA. Mitchell County.
S IXTY days after date application will be made
to the Court ot Ordinary of said county, for
[ leave to sell a negro girl about fifteen years old,
also sixty-tvo aud one-half acres ot iand, sa the
I property of Green B. Sawyer, deceased, for dis-
[tribution. . . ,
H. F. BROOKS, Adm’r.
May 24,1864. Pd $8 2 9t_
LIBEL FOB BIVOBt'K.
Ellen Matthews ) Returnable to February
vs. >Term Baldwin Stipend
| Harvey Matthews. ) Court, 1864.
In a Confederate vesee), Il.tJ bales coltcm, 5b',-
TTHtj nro.f-^a ■ , B
pence per lb. is $4,625, which Mr. Memminger
pays in entton at ten pence per lb., producing
25,900 lbs. of cotton, worth in Wilmington,
0(HJ in his currency.
Let the steamers be supposed to average 600
bales cotton—one-half taken by the Confederate
States Government each trip under their uniform
" Regulations" applicable to vessels of the Con
federacy only, 301) bales afthe Wilmington prices,
will make a difference in each tr p, in favor of
the Foreigners of $223,800 each steamer.
I pretend not to know the cause, or causes of
this uniform partiality, by which Mr. Memminger
not only places the Foreigners so fur above the
citizens of the Confederacy, but above the States
composing it also, and both in express violation oj Executive order, in every State. Tlie Democrat-
[T appearing that the Sheriff has returned as ; £“ ■lUffi
1 to defendant, in above stated case,.not to be , d , fiefd [a Yankee !i
fiund in his bailiwick : And it further appearing ° . „ .. Hm.
Ifri'in evidence, that the defendant is not in this
JState,
Ordered, that service by publication be per-
ffected on defendant by publication according to
it™ Confederate Union.
By order of Hon. I. L. Harris,
Judge Superior Court Ocmulgee Circuit.
Extract from the minutes.
B. P. STUBBS, Clerk
April 11th, 1864 . 48 tf
S IXTY days fiom date application will be made
to the court of Ordinary ot Mitchell county for
an order for leave to sell all the land belonging to
ti e estate ofB. M. Cox, late of said county de-
osasej.
II. c. d. w. c. s. H. COX, Adm’rs.
April 30th, 1864. 51 9t.
Special Correspondence of the Mobile Register.
SenatoRIA, July 8-—Northern dates to the30th
ult, are received - The following is a synopsis of
the news:
Hancock’s corps was severely handled by A. P.
Hid on the 22d. near the Weldon Railroad, losing !
2 500 men, but afterwards occupied a strong posi-
tion.
The Federal casualties during tlie last ween,
around Petersburg, were from six to eight tliou-
, sand men. _
An army correspondent savs the object of Grant’s
manoeuvers is to relieve Hunter and obtain per-
| manent jossession of the Weldon Railroad thus
severing the Confederacy. Foster is making a
j movement on Chaffin’s Bluff, the success of which
i will render the capture of Fort Drewry, the rebel
rams and Richmond easy.
i An Indianapolis correspondent says the naviga
tion of the Ohio is extremely dangerous,
i Drafting in Indiana is played ont.
Gen. Wharton captured and destroyed, on the
j 18th. between Kingston and Dalton, five frieght
, trains loaded with supplies.
j Captain Glover also, nearResaca, captured two
j trains w ith supplies.
! The Chattanooga Gazette of the 25th reports
the repulse of Gen Pillow, and the capture of Col
onel Faulkner, 7th Kentucky (Federal,) at Lat’ay-
the “rebel” loss
lie.] .... _ ^
During the debate in the House on the 25th, | bran krupt. beyond the hope of redemption- .M-tWhen it hi conies m
Fernando Wood spoke for peace. lie said the M cha8e ) la8 actually resigned his posi- j the United States, t (
war was unpopular, as shown by tlie necessity of J * 1 1 . -_j:„*t— -•
drafting; that an out and out peace President
would be elected next fall.
The speech aud the Abolition rejoinders created
dead, h rom the first it was against the Consti
tution and laws, and without validity ; and all
proceedings under it were aud utterly are null
and void, and of no effect.
I he indg.nant voice of condemnation long
since went forth form the vast majority of the
people and press of America-, anff trom ail free
wmiiuicn-tii Europe with entire unanimity. And
mure-recently, too, the “plattorm” of an earnest,
numerous and most formidable convention of the
sincere Republicans, and still further, the. em
phatic letter of the acceptance by the candidate
otdliut cnttueiiriaii- c y
Presidency eight years ago, upon the rallying cry
of free speech, and ti tree press—give renewed
hope that at last, the reign of arbitrary power is
about to be brought to an end in the United
States.
It is neither just nor fit, therefore, that the
wrongs inflicted nnder “Order Thirty-eight,” and
the other "edids and acts of such power, should
any longer be endnred—certainly not. by me
alone. But every ordinary means of redress lias
first been exhausted : yet either by the direct
agency of the Administration and its subordi
nates, or because of want of jurisdiction in the
civil courts to meet a case which no America i
ever in former times conceived to be possible
here, all have failed. Counsel applied in my be
half to an unjust judge for a writ of habeas cor
pus. It was denied; and new the privilege of
that writ is suspended by act of Congress and
the laws of Congress. If it be in the execution of
the compact made by his agents abroad, by which
he is compelled to deliver cotton at five pence per
lb. ip Wimington for which he could get two dol
lars per lb. there; then, all nyill admit, he has
added another, to many previous, demonstrations
of his unfitness for hia office. Those bonds were
selling in London recently at 65 per cent., (more
than one-third less than par) so that parties deal
ing in them, get their cotton in Wilmington for
less than seven cents per lb.
His cotton transactions have cost the Govern
ment ten times the first C06t of the cotton in the
etcess ot cost of tho provisions for the army,
caused by the outlay—and if this be a samp'e of
ic convention of Ohio, one year ago, by a resolu
tion formally presented through a committee of
your best and ablest men, in person at Washing
ton, demanded of the President in behalf of a
very large minority of the people, a revocation of
the edict of banishment. Pretending that the
public safety then required it, lie refused, saving,
at. the same time, that it would afford him pleasure
tecomply as soon as he could by any means be
made to believe that the public safety would not
suffer by it.
One year has elapsed ; yet this hollow pretence
is still tacitly asserted, and to-day I am herd to
prove it. unfounded in fact. I appealed to the
Supreme Court of the United States, aud because
Congress had never conferred jurisdiction in be
half of a citizen tried by a tribunal unknown for
s’ch purposes to the laws, and expressly forbid-
tlu
slaughter became ineffectual. This was owing to the
fact that the piles of dead were heaped so high in front
of our works that onr meii could not get high enough
to shoofcover them.
Gen. Bullie seeing this state ofaffairs, with that mas
terly strategy and intuitive military skill thnt bus ever
been his inert prominent virtue and' that lias saved
this army on several previous occasions, seized a 20
pound parrot gun. and followed by A. A. G. lI. L'm-
bugamHhe rest of the staff, similarly armed, climbed
to the tops of the surrounding oaks and poured fearful
enfilading tires of grape andicanisteriiitathe letreai ing
efiemv. No human nerve coulrl resist such terrible
-pniilsfamont. enefi awful slaughter was never: before
seen since -the invention.*1 firearms. The enrps -of..
Hooker, Howard, Paimor.-aDcriaeveTaiortier gcuerals,
too numerous to mention, were totally annihilated.—
The etiemv lost on this occasion, some seventeen
hundred thousand end nine men, besides a large assort
ment of ofifk eis and other heavy guns,
hour or so. Fortunately he“TK 'hrrtt’ mnisdit-A.^n.-tlio
Capt. H. Umr-ug also had several legs taken off. but
has entirely recovered. AH the stall were more or
less killed. The general and staff lost each two hun
dred and fifty horses. In fact this furious contest was
characterized in the tame remarkable manner as all
the other battles of this campaign—i. e. the general
and lifs staff did all the fighting and won all the victo
ries, while the privutes stood ut “parade rest” and
looked quietly on the gallant deeds of their officers,
verbum sot. Hoping that Bullie’s brigade may have
tlie simplejustice of this publication done them, I am
truly yours, or anybody elses, T. Oadv,
Wayside Home at Gordon.
Mr. Editor -.—At the request of tlie Secretary I
send you the Minutes of the Meeting held in Gordon,
to-dav, to organize n Soldier’s Wayside Home in this
place.
To say that a Wayside Home should be organized
here is not saying enough, to say one must be orga
nized is perhaps saying too much, but, to use the lau
guage
is pe
of the" President jjlio
(feu by the Constitution, jt were- powerless to fe
me as a citizen of Ohio and of
to demand, and by iny own act
to vindicate, the rights, liberties and privileges
which I never forfeited, but of which for so niady
j great excitement
The three hundred dollar clause is to be repeal- [
cd.
tion in Lincoln’s Cabinet, and we could place
Mr. Memminger there, that would be a roup de ; wnie, ,‘ * never tomi^a, out <
main, that would scon smash up that tottering - months 1 have been deprived,
concern—and I am sure, as far as despotism is
wUo wits elected, (Colonel
Rivers) “Where there is “will there is a way.’
Wilkinson County has made a pretty good start for
only three districts, the subscription in the same
amounting to over ($5,000,) five thousand dollars, but
she can and will do more.
You will perceive lliat you are requested to publish
the proceedings and I desire to add my feeble request
that you urge upon your subscribers the absolute
necessity of subscribing to this truly laudable ob-
Je The Gordon Wayside Home will soon be a reality
and our sick, wounded, starving heroes will be blessed
with the eightof ample and substantial cheer upou their
ffnivnl or departure from home.
C<>1 Rivers the President elect is the very man for the
place. * He r- an active, energetic working mail and to
add to these qualifications he is devoted heart and soul
repeatedly with the steamer A. L>. Yarn e. The steam
er Little Ada is, to all inteiita and pun oses,the-prop-
erty of the Statqof Georgia. 8he has oeen chartered
by the State to take out he' cotton exclusively, aud
so long as that charter exists so long does she, own and
control her. Mr. Sneed says, “soeaie'iil has been the
Secretary of the rights anti cvr:i feelings of the State,’’
A:c. I beg to lake issue with him on that point so far,
ns the State of Georgia is concerned. Mr. Memminger
1ms “uniformly:permitted ihe. States of Virginia and
North Carolina to import supplies duties /rte, yst the
Collector at. Wilmington wandim-tednot to permit the
blankets and other supplies ot the State of Geoigia
lo to-delivered fo her agent until ihe duties were paid.
Mr. Sueed further says—“the whole mutter in. eoutre-
versy is simply whether the Confederacy shall have
equal rights of shipmentun bunjdthe Little Ada with.
tJui^y;tatg_o£ Georgia.” .How rtends the case T The
chartered her at. T am saffsnea, TUfhe ("Oitrehemcy
will join the State on equal terms, the State will relin-
quislione half of her charter in the steamer to her-
By such an arrangement, the Confederacy will getout
ten times as much cotton as she now does under her
regulations. But for these regulations the 10,000 bales
of cotton that were destroyed in Wilmington would
have beeu on the other side Hnd to the credit of tho
Government and its citizens.
If the pioviso of the act, intended to place the
State on equal teirns with the Confederate States,
why does Mr. Memminger refuse the State of Geor
gia that privilege which he is daily assuming for
the Confederacy, viz - The chartering of ships to
take out whole cargoes of cotton? Would the Sec
retary yield one half of such room to the State
of Georgia, were slie fo demand it, and that,
too, at a freight less than one forth of what be
pays the owners of the vessels? If he would not.
then why and upon xvhat grounds docs he demand
such terms from the State of Geoigia?
Mr. Sneed’s blind prejudice against Gov. Brown
may cause him to continue his assaults upon him,
but they will not deter the Governor from protec
ting, when he has the power, and when be has
not, of protesting against any assault made upon
the dignity and sovereignty tf the State of Geor
gia.
— »i^—■—— ■■ —
Evacuation of Roswell.—We have just met
our young friend Capt. Will, Clark, of Missouri,
commauding the Roswell Battalion, who is march
ing through w ith his command, en route for Tur
ner's Ferry.
The Captain was iu command at Roswell, and
was ordered to evacuate the town on Monday
night. Roswell was evacuated at 8 A. M. yester
day, and the bridge on the Chattahoochee River
te the project audia determined to know no such word j burned at 11, when a brigade of the Yankee Gene-
as fail. The Colonel lost one of hia legs when in com- \ ra j Wilder’s cavalry occupied the post after ahea-
uianff of the noble old l‘»th Georgia, mid having been f , skirmish w ith the 4th Tennessee Cav-
bleaaed with the kind and aMtfbmff ^tei.t.ons pt 1 a j Th e Yankees will keep the Cotton and
ingn wheu uoublc to attaint himself, ih* is khtisfif'd that J Y . . .
With’ thenUlmucc he cannot tail. He seems tr ! »«"- » oration.
I so much upon tlieir influence and personal attei
i or I really should saT attractions that he almost
r ih»i wish the animating: presence of the ladies
cannot tail. He seems to rely
crsoual attentions.
,, * ,, _ . . i ,|— - ri.uuv Kuvutu —— , 1»—— .jst he almost said,
Wherefore, men of Ohio, I am again in your' ^ a , w ^ f b e anrm'ating presence of the Indies at the
desirable, he could equal any in Federaldom, midat4««by. lowedaties to the State, andam , vltT ^dw table, thattke soldiers wonid not req uire pork
nwr Kixi M nr inrli^pL.oU i I*" to^discharg*. th«n : I haw rights #R h «ri- ttn<i bread: the w“men being rr.&i lent with.bun-to
zen. ar.cr am here to assert them : a wife and child constitute * nwal. J M. r
and home; and wonid enjoy all the pleasure# j
which artimplred in those ctuwisbed word*. But Gordon Ga., July 4thJ364.
I am here for peace —* yM»*bn)ence l fwMWtot- j > - ..f ,
not for convulsion; for orftLr and law, SEOHmSS^ n .miiii. ”nTmm~Uj l" p i'I'Tj
whether exercised over States or individuals.
I am very respectfully, &e., &c.
“A BLOtfftADK Rt’NNER.’
The Fight on the Weldon- Road.
The Memphis Argus of.the 30th contains an ac
count of the capture of gunboat 27 by Shelby, and
the blockade of White river at Clarendon.
Two transports caught above, cannot pass. ( _ B _ ^ ^^___.
Transports with, supplias tor Stella Wie The ""Petersburg E-xpirs)T^gTverTBir R5Ilowing ' lA:t no maworTtr? T?(?TT^rWt^-rraTty he-
turned to Memphis, not being able to pass the bat- j j g j D aB y art of voilence or disorder; but let nong i Joim Fitzpatrick was-cailcd to the
teries. i accouu * . ® ^ , , shrink from any responsrbfHty, however nrtent. c kair and fed. R. L. Storpy requested to act as Secse-
I Kumors are current, and believed tj many, that, day evauingf, tde-dd instant, near tne Weldon - ^ forced upon bim. Careful of the rights oioth- j ^ ar y
| Steele bad surrendered to Price. j R a jl r oad, in the vicinity of the Six Mills House: i era, tot him see to it that he fully and fearlessly j Rev. Thos. Hughs was requested to invoke the
I TU odimr of the Chicago Times asks ‘‘if it re- | Gf , n Mabone was speedily despatched, at the | exacts bis own. Subject to rightful-authority in j aid ot Deity, to which he responded m ferveht^^
rjpwg MON THS* after date application will be ■ quires a miHion nnd a halt of men tbr ^y® a r*^ j head of a body of troops, to drive the rascals ofT.
made- to the Court of Ordinary of Pierce :
county Georgia, at the first regular trim after ex- j
piratiun of two months from this notice, for leave |
to sell the lands belonging to the estate of James j
It. Thomas, late of said county, deceased, for the |
benefit of heirs and creditors of said deceased.
T ., BANNER THOMAS, Adm’r.
Paid $?. 0 f James R. Thomas.
May 2, r-r, 4 . 51 l»t
_ 1T . Administrator's Sale.
L V%/ ILL be soy ; n t j, e town 0 f Monticello, Jas-
lu’. „ on the First Tuesday in Aug-
llowinp-1,™' 111,1 u »ual hours of sale the fol
McKee L, k€ V y be i°nging to the estate of Lewis’
Eliza a « smd eounty deceased, to-wit:
1 Eliza, a woman 52 jra'rs of age, and Sarah a
J-l vpare ^ . .. O . * A. C
ThTblls'JA™ r ^ Sold for the benefit of
Cash ' creditors of said deceased. Terms
ARTHUR A. MrKEE, Adm’r.
Mm-in t -,-p °f Lewis McKee, dec’d.
m. h h. 3 Ids.
Administrator's Sale.
\\ be sn 'd in the town of Camilla Mitch-
tl viul d ° Un,y ’ on * be br6t Tuesday in 8EP
fI ’ f , next > within the usual hours of sale,
li P ‘, t low . lB e preper'y belonging to the estate of
wit J‘-'-‘ , tick, late of said county, deceased, to-
e .jtochef a woman about 40 years of »ge.—
for distribution. Terms cash.
, R- D. FAIRCLOTH, Adm’r.
June 18th. 1864. (Pd $8) 6 tdf.
reach the defences of Richmond, • how long will it
take to reach the.Gulf?”
In New York on the 27th gold was 220, and 235,
au-t 240 asked.
From the Trans Mississippi Department.
— We had the pleasure yesterday of a cal’, fiom
Mr. Frank G. Watson, ordnance agent for the
Trans-Mississippi Department, who had just arriv
Upon approaching the spot about one hundred
and fifty of Grau’ts horsemen were discovered
displacing rails and removing sills. They 11* d
precipitately upon the appearance of our forces;
but it was soon ascertained that there was a heavy
body of iufantry iu the woods, east of the track,
massed for the purpose of supporting the cavalry.
Gen. Mabone threw forward a heavy liDe of
iraiu.-iw.osis.iee* ^ , skirmishers, engBged the attention of ihe blue
ed from tho other side afthe Mississippi. He cross-1 coats, and then put into execution one of those
u . .. 11 • I_A_ rt _i • /in./irid Ivliieh Ha hflQ hoenmfl
ed the river on the 23d June, and brings late in
teresting and encouragiug intelligence.
Be reportes that all tlie available cavalry of tne
department, some 20,000 in number, had started
for Missouri, under command of Geu. Wharton of
Texas. , ,
Bri^. Gen. Joseph Shelby, he informs us, had
crossed the Arkansas river with 25C0 men, and
was already in Missouri. Gen Marmaduke had al
so crossed the Arkansas, and Brig Geu Jas. P-
Major had left Texas with 5000 men, for the same
bl Maior Gen- Price was in chief command in Mis
souri; and would advance with the infantry and
artillery as rapidly as possible. Maj. Gen Buck
ner has command in Arkansas, and Gen. Magru
de The Yankees have evacuated little Hock.
Mr. Watson says that the report that Gen. H
Taylor has been relieved, has n6 foundation, iis far
as be i. aware, and that the general, instead of
resigning, was making his way towards oew u
leans.
t Afoftile Argus and Crists, July 2*
flanking movements for- which he has become
somewhat noted during this campaign. About
twilight Perry’s brigade, now commanded by Gen.
Finnegan, succeeded in swinging around, aud
brought up in rear of the enemy. A volley Or
two in the rear put the enemy to thinking, and
another volley or two brought about a very lively
double-quick on their part. We succeeded in se
curing only four hundred aud eighty-three of the
invaders, the remainder running so swiftly that
that it was impossible to overtake them.
The prisoners were marched into the city yes
terday forenoon, about Iff o’clock, and turned
over to Major Bridgeford, General Lee’s Provost
Marshal. There were ten commissioned officer*
among the number, but none higher than the
rank of Colonel, These prisoners, in point ot
appearence or morals, are no improvement upon
former instalments. They seem to have-been col
lected from every quarter of the globe, both civ
ilized and uncivilized, and elicited from a spectator
our vicinity the remark, “That Grant bad scraped
all creation with a fine tooth comb for men to re
inforce bis depleted ranks.” •
all things, let him submit to excess or usurp»ti° n
in nothing. Obedient to constitution and- law.
let him demand and have the ful! measure of the
protection which law and constitution secure to
him.
Men of Ohio ! You have already vindicated
your rigid to hear: it is now my duty to assert
my right to speak. Wherefore as to the sole of
fense for wbich I was arrested, imprisoned and
banished—free speech in criticism and condemna
tion of the Administration—an Administration
fitly described in a recent public paper by one of
its early supporters, aa “marked at home by its
disregard of constitutional rights, by its viola
tions of personal liberty and the liberty of the
press ; and its crowning shame, by its abandon
ment of the right of asylum, a right especially
dear to all free nations abroad.” 1 repeat it here
to-day, and will again* and jet again, so long as
I live, or the Constitution aud our present form
of government shall survive. The words then
spoken and the appeal at that time made and now
enforced by one year more of taxation and debt,
and of blood and disaster, entreating the people
to change the public servants and their policy,
not by force, but. peaceably, through the ballot-
box. I now, and here reiterate in the utmost exr
tent, and with all their s'gnificaney. I repeat
them, one dud all, in no spirit of challenge or
bravado, but as earnest, sober, solemn truth and
warning to the people.
It was pioposed to organize permanently aud Col.
J. Rivers being the unanimous choice of the meeting,
was elected President; Judge David Solomon. Vice
President ; Colonel S. T. Player. Secretary and Treas-
Ur On motion the permanent President was authorized
to appoiut two superenteudents of the institution.
On motion of Col. Rivers it was
Resolved, That thecounties of Twiggs, Jones, Bald
win, Putnam and other contiguous counties, be ee
pecially requested to hold meetings, and to co-operate
and assist in carrying out the main object of this meet
ing.
On motion it was ,
Resolved, That a committee of two ladies from each
of the three districts of Wilkinson county be appointed
to ascertain the number of Ladies who will attend and
assist in the management of the Wayside Home
wber’eu " * " ~
Mrs,
Brazil
Storey.
On motion it was
Resolved, That a copy of the proceedings of the
meeting be furnished the Macon Con federate, with the
request the Telegraph, aud Milledgeville papers
adjourned.
John Fitzpatrick,
president.
copy.
On motion the meeting
K. L. Storey, Sec.
We leam that Gen. Hindman was thrown from
bis horse on the 4tb and severely injured.
. consider them all
Capt. Girarday is furnishing the citizens of j they will fight.”
Augusta with ice in abundance. He intends to
. i ..In ..ton a a i n AthaC lerira
Woolen Mills in operation.
Cap*. Clark brought down with him, as prison
er, the Yankee Capt, Austin, of the 8th-Kansas
Infantry,.captured,by his command near the Pa
per Mills, between Roswell and Marietta.
Geu Phillips' paper mill, a,t Roswell, was burn
ed on Tuesday morning; The Gen. sent them
word that “the mill belonged to a man who had
innplit thair-from the beginning of the war, and
wbarwotild ceataeae them to the bitter
eiiffTthat ?!^6SiTTreen~TaughT FrtJm childhood to
tiata them as enemies to him, and hie, and that ho
would die hating them; that ho did not ask
any favors from them, and they might burn to
their hearts’ content.” These bold words of defi
ance, as a matter of course, did not have any influ
ence in protecting the property. It was disman
tled completely before the proprietor retreated.—
He remained in sight of the place until he saw tho
flames consume it.— At. Intel. 7th.
— *
Joe Brown’s Pets Under Fire.—Wo are per
mitted, says tho Atlanta Appeal, to make the fol
lowing extract from a letter from Gen. G. W.
Smith°to a gentleman in this city. Gen. Smith is
not giveu to expletives aud adverbs, and means
always what he says.
“The enemy ran up cquare against my State
troops yesterday about 5 p. m. The cavalry vruro
forced back and passed through our lines, and tno
Yankees came on us right strong, ^-ouie misap
prehension of orders caused a little^confusion for
a few moments only upon the left of our line, and
nerbaps twenty men left the trencheis. but wero
back in a few minutes. The militia behaved ve
ry creditably; they stood their ground and stop
ped the advance of the enemy. We had only six
men wounded and two missing; the dirt they had
thrown up sating them from much loss, aud en*
ab'ed them to hold their ground against superior
forces. They have rend ared a good sei vice to the
i army aud the country, sud have found out that
! every ball fired by the eDiiny don’t kill a man.—
; 1 he militia wili do. I watched them closely, and
right—not yet veterans—but
to establish branch manufactories in other large
cities can’t the captain send ns a branch, all frozen
over ready for immediate use?
The crops of corn, oats aud wheat in North Eas
tern Georgia, are spoken of by the Athens paper*
as unusually fine.
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