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I & Y-sLUME XXXV.] NOBEB II MILLEDGEVILLE, GE0RG1J, TUESDAY, AU ft U S T 9, 1864. jOUiHroN,NlSBET,BARNES&MOORE Publishers and Proprietors. a. \. jo». ROVRHTOX, ; II. .VIMB KT. S Ktlilorx. (U!je Canfcbrraft Slnion Is published Weekly, tn _ . 0 Corner of Hancock and Wilkinson bis., (itppostle Com t House. J At $10 a year in Advance. On U fttl ADVERTISING in common with her sistrrs. as a sovereign State, had delegated to the General Government, ss an ag’enf. certain powers: and only when these w< re- transcended or usurped hv Mr Davis, or by Con gress, had he, (the Governor) s'epped forward to enter his protest against the act. In so doing, he had merely made an issue on principle, that it might not be retorted upon him in the future that lie silently acquiesced in measures clearly , inconsistent with the spiiit of the Constitution. i Milled Seville, G(l., , The encroachments of centralized power had been the cuise of the Continent, and it behooved every statesman in the South to see to it that, while yielding to our own General Government all proper support, every attempt by it to inter fere with the action of the State authorities, should be promptly met and checked. To use the Gov ernor’s own illustration—we were all sailing in the same boat, and although the pilot at the helm might he steering upon a reef, the crew while dis covering the dar ger should only protest, not 11m tiny. Thus he ■would be the last man in the Con federacy to throw qjtstaclen in (tie way of the President, and had ever rendered all the support in his power. He had always furnished more troops than were demanded, and he was in the OUR. NEW TEKIIN. an d after March 2:1,1864. the Terns of Sub mi to tiie Confederate Union, are Tkn Dot.-I iv iribly in advance. All indebtedness tor j iption to’tliis paper, previous to June 1st, I8l>3, j i,,. rate of Three Dollars per year. present instance calling on his militia without, a j Lee j u yj ] Cm. Hood * j i Gen. II od was born in Ilaih county, Ken'urky. ' I on the 29th of June,. ISil. at d is consequently now only a little over 311 years of age. lie grad- ! uated at West Point in the c'assts of 1853, and j was assigned to duty iri the 4th infantiy. in Cal- , ifornia, wheye he served twtnty two months. In j Ju»y, 1855, he was transferred to the 2d cavalry, I commanded by the late General Albert Sidney I Johnston, and of which Gen. R. E. Lee was Libutenant Colonel, in the winter of 1855 and 1856 he entered upon the frontier service in West ern Texas, where, in the July following, lie was wounded in a spirited engagement with the In dians. He continued iu the service of the Uni ted States, and a short time previous to the begin ning of the present war was ordered to report for duty at West P*iint as instructor of cavalry. At his own request, however, he was allowed to re turn to duty in Texas, being desirous of casting his destiniis with Iliat portion of the country-to j w hich be was most devotedly attached. On'tiie j Kith of April, 1861, he resigned his commission I and tendered his services to the Confederacy. His \ name was entered upon the roil with t ; ® rank ot j first Lieutenant, and was ordered to report to i Erom the Richmond Whig. I as^Sunday morning. Grant withdrew his forces THE BURNING OF GOVERNOR LETCH ! fr(,£n Bermuda Hundreds and is now reported to j have his whole army South ot the Appomattox and ER’S RESIDENCE. I the James—except, indeed. Sheridan, who would i he delighted if he was there too. ~ [ 1 lie engagements near Petersburg thus far have We print below a doenment destined to become j been but partial anllisions—encounters between TmNStr.NT.—Two Dollars per square of ten j hint to that end from the Executive. Peace he fines for each insertion. I’/ibutes of respect. Resolutions by SocietieiufObit j mutes exceeding six lines.) Nominations foi office, ( oinmunieatumg or Editorial notices for individual benefit, charged as transient advertising. Legal Advertising. Sheriff’s sales, per levy of ten lines, or less, $5 00 “ Mortgage fi fa sales, per square, JO 00 Tax Collector’s Sales, per square, 5 00 Citations for Letters of Administration, 5 00 • < “ “ Guardianship, Letters of application for dism’n. from Ajlm’n 8 00 i. “ “ *• “ Guard'n 8 00 Appl'n for leave to sell land and negroes, 8 00 Notic9 to Debtors and Creditors, Sales ol land or negroes, per square, •• perishable progauty, 10 days, per sq Estray Notices. 30 days, Foreclosure of Mortgage, per square, LEGaL ADVERTISEMENTS. s iif Land and Negroes, by Administrators, Ex- „ or Guardians, are required by law to be held first Tuesday in the month ; between t be horns 0 . ju U11 | 10 forenoon ami three in the afternoon, at the C mrt house in the county iu winch the property is situated 6 00 8 00 2 00 5 00 2 00 Si ec uti n r ., ft! iLays previous to the day of sal Notices for the sale of personal properly must be given in like manner 10 days previous to sale day. Notice.', to the debtors and creditors of an estate must a! irgi.iia. He served with distinc tion on the Peninsula, and so rapid was his pro motion that on the 30th of September he received the commission of Colonel of Infantry, and was placed in command of the Fourth Regiment of Texas Volunteers, then in camp near this city.— Subsequen.ly the 4th and 5th Texas Regiments were organized into a Brigade, and on the 3d of March, Col. llqod w as appointed to the command Thus within the brief space of teu months and seventeen days be rose from the rank of First Lieutenant to that of Brigadier. At the battle of Chickamauga, as in every other battle in which he was engaged, General Hood bore a prominent part, and was so sevetely wounded in the right log as to render amputation necessary. For signal courage displayed on that hard fought field, he tfcs made Lieutenant General. As soon as he had sufficiently recovered, he resumed his active duties iu the Army of Tennessee, of which lie has now the command, and the country looks with confidence for the achievement of new lau rels in his uew and responsible position [ Richmond Dispatch The Currency. Our new Secretary of the Treasury has com menced liis administration by the adoption of a measure which, wetliink, will improve our curren cy. He has authorized the Depositories to receive currency on deposit on call at 4 per cent, interest, ft has been suggi sted that our’banks should now' ville, Richmond and Chickamauga, and since then j loan all their surplus funds to the Government, with General Johnston, on his retreat from Dal- j and utterly refuse to discount for speculators, and did not. want, and would not have, except on terms consistent w ith the honor of the South ; and hence he was utterly and every way opposed to the ifforts.ou the part of a faction in North Caro lina to get up a State Convention, looking to the accomplishment of that object by any other means titan those now employed. He had advised a- gainst it and should continue to do so. Hie idea of a further si cession on the part of any SoU'h- ern State was preposterous, and those w ho imag ined that the attitude of Georgia to day. or of r ( |() 1 any of In r officials, lent color dr probability to such an event, were committing one uf the great est of errors. I confess myself surprised at Hie frank defini tion of his position which Governor Brown gave j me. Although the above is but a substance of his rematks, 1 repeat them to your readers, be cause they will serve to di.-abus6 many a mind of I the idea that he is the dangerous “element of dis- J cord,” which thousands now believe liiin to be. Speaking of Governors, there is another now I in Atlanta, who. in this connection, deserves at I east a passing notice. 1 icier to Gov. Ishant i Harris, of Tennessee. Probably no civilian, and certainly no State official, has undergone more hardship, seen mote active service, been exposed 1 to greater dangers, or cou.erred so much benefit I on ins individual people as the gentleman above I named. First with Albeit Sidney Johnston at Vit ice of these sales must be given in a public ga- Shiloh, then with Bragg at Murfreesboro, Perry- a. tl... ..f aala _ * I 1 _ T1 * I 1 J 1 i.l 1_ . — .. J „. * 1 ... ust also be punished 40 days. Notice that application will be made to tlie Court oi | sell Land or Negroes, must be : for letters of Administration Guardianship, ! highest qualities of the soldier and gentleman, ! pons of the tight, seven t.nu six percent bonds. Ordinary for leave t published for two month CituHons for letters of Auiu . . A >nust be published 30 days—for dismission from Ad. iu lustration, monthly six months—tor dismission from Guardianship, 40 days ICd - for foreclosure of Mortgage must, be published month! o' for four months—Ur establishing lost papers, for -hr full spare of three months— forcompellingt itles frmi Exeeutors or adinir.isttators, where bond has been i(i veil bv the deceased the full space of three months. Publications will always he continued according in thf-.sp.tlie legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered. ton, Gov. Harris has displayed on every field ot battle a heroism that has become famous On the chaige, or in the hospitals, battling with his noble Tennesseeans, or bending c$*er their w ounded bodies, he has d spiayed at once the we shall soon see a fall iu prices: or. at all events, a check to any further advance iu the necessaries of life. k If Congress will amend the Tax Act at its next session, so that the lax should attach to the cou- historic. i he calm, dispassionate and truthful re vital it gives of one of the most wanton and bar baric acts of the war needs no comment to awa ken the indignation of every, manly bosom. Our soldiers in Maryland, who are reported to have laid iu ashes the residence of the Yankee Governor of that State, by way of tetaliation, have given practical expression to the feeling of our people, and anticipated the judgement of mankind and the. verdict of history. It is due to Gov. Letcher to say that this letter was written with no view'to publication, and in response to a private coranni- rrcation addressed to him by the Mayor of this eitv. The piassages omitted relate to personal matters. Lexington, Va., July 5th, 1864. * * * * Finding the Yankees would take the town on Saturday (11 th,) I left home near midnight Friday night., and went to Big Island iu Bedford, where I remained until Wednesday morning following, when hearing the vandals had' leit, I returned. I had previously heard that my house had been burned, with all its contents. The threats made by the Yankees against me, for the past two years, satisfied me that they' would de stroy my house when they came toLex’Ugton, but I alway s supposed they would allow the furniture and-my family’s clothing to be removed. In this, however, 1 was disappointed. When the Yankees took possession of the town Dr. Ration, medical director for Hunter’s army, and who hails from Marion county. Va., went to my house, told my wife lie was unwell, and said lie must have a room in the house. He took the room, supped and breakfasted, and when break fast was nparly over, remarked, in a manner half jocular, half earnest, to Lizzie, that it was the fast meal she would take in the house Shortly after, be left, without taking leave of any of the family, nor was he again seen by any of them. . The threats made by soldiers ou Saturday even ing, induced my wife to fear the house would be burned, and she expressed her fears in the hearing of Dr. Patton and Capt. Towns of New York — Gapt, Towns very promptly said, that I, bring a private citizen, and the house being private prop erty, burning it would be au inexcusable outrage, and proposed at once to go to Hunter’s headquar ters and ascertain. He went, and was diiected by Hunter to assure my wife that the Louse would not be disturbed. The sequel shows that the sole object of this assurance was to quiet her apprehen sions, and thus prevent anything from being re moved. About half past 8 o’clock, a. in. (Sunday,) Gapt. Berry and his Provost Guard road up, and the officer called for my wife. She came to the door, when Berry informed her that he was ordered by Hunter to fire the house, j only the smaller portions of the respective armies. In future, however, the prospect is different It Grant fails to take Petersburg w e recommend h iu to try a village or cross roads. Liability of Exempt and Detailed Tien to militia Service. JUDGE LOCHRANE’S DECISION, i Thos. Rains and others, vs. >■ Habeas Corpus. Willis B. Scott. The question raised iu this case is whether the movants, being in part “exempts,” and in part “detailed,” uuAr the conscript law, are liable to service in the militia forces of the State, ealled into active duty by the Governor to repel inva sion. It is contended that parties vyho have been de tailed or exempted for one year to stay at their plantations and have given bonds to furnish sub sistence to the Confederate Government are, in fact, in the service of the Confederate States, and ! cannot be forced to take up arms as a part of the I militia of the State to defend tluir homes. : The law of Geoigia, re-organizing the militia of ’ the State, declares all tree w hite male residents in j their districts, from sixteen to sixty years of age, I except- those who are actually in the army or navy of the Confederate States, liable to enrollment as the State militia. Section ii. And it is enacted that a person subject to con scription shall not be enrolled Ulricas lie is found to be exempt after he is enrolled by the Confeder ate officer—Section xxiv. All persons, then, from sixteen to sixty, not ac tually in the army' or navy of the Confederate States, or already in the State seivice. or who are found to be exempt after they are enrolled, aie within the terms and embraced by the provisions of the law of Georgia, and by the law, whenever, by his Excellency, the Governor, we have the b-‘st assurance of protection to the interests of every citizen of I he State. The movement of a!! in solid column will ren der the service not only brief, but effectual, and while we feel, that in tlie space and scope of a ffigal opinion we hav«.- already raid more than was, psfhaps. necessary, still we are satisfied the pecu liar Circumstances that utrronud ns, will justify an allusion to facts contravening the public policy so auly urg.-J in the argument. Let th-Writs of Habeas Corpus be dismissed at the movant’s cost, aud the Parties be remanded to the custody cf Capt. Scott. OSBORNE A. LOCIIRANE. . Judge Sup. Court, Georgia. From the Richmond Sentinel, 21st. Removal of Johnston and Appointment of Hood. The very few instances in which the President lias exercised the power of removal, and the known notorious iucompetency of the officers heretofore removed by him, should go tar to sat isfy every one that nothing hut the moat urgent State necessity has compelled him to relieve Gen- Jobnston his command. The fewness cf remo vals, considered ia connection with the success of our anus, shows that the President is a good judge of military merit and ability, makes good appoint ments, and has seldom icason to repent his selec tion. We believo that where he has acted solely ou the dictates of his own judgement, he Las made no mistakes ; but much deference is due to the opinions and wishe.4 of large bodies of tho people, not because they are the best judges of military worth and efficiency, but because it is sometimes butter to do wrong, and satisfy the peo- ols, than to do right and disoblige them. The President has had ample opportunity to test the military worth ot Johnston ; those who condemn the removal have had comparatively noue; and no matter what had beeu their opportunities, they know nothing about military affairs, or the quali fications of milit.'iry'meu. We all voted for the President as’our ruler, because we thought him best fitted to command and we to obey'. Wo who selected him to drive in the opinion of the Governor, it shall be neces- | tLe car of State, should not now perplex and em- sary either to rep 1 invasion, suppress insuriec- ; barrass him by seizing hold of the reiiis ourselves. tl ?, 1 !’. or t0 execute the laws, be may call the State j Nothing is more dangerous thau for a nervous, militia or any part thereof into active military j scary rider to seize hold of the reins when the service. . j horse threatens to kick or run off'. It is hardly necessary to argue the constitution- j Republican government is a monstrous and ab- ality of this law. It simply places the residents j sljri ] failure if the people have no faith in the men ai DOt * lciua *0’ 111 the ainiy or navy of j they select for office, and fiud it necessary to dic- the Gontecerate States, in the militia of the State; \ , ate t 0 and rule their rulers. All the attempts to and while the State ot Georgia, in her sovereign- i dictate measures and make appointments lor the fp, :an exempt a man I ruin military service to the ! President proceed front an ignorant, reckless and State, the Confederate Government has no such ; corrupt spirit of deinagogueisin. power. The constitutional right to exempt a man j i„ ,] )e beginiug of the. war it was exhibited in a from military duty resides in the sovereignty of ; peifec-t tornado of anger with the President, be- the States alone. _ ! cause he preferred making appointments of men I he Confederate Government has the right to j as officers who had militaiy knowledge and quali- Ihe intlm litial official and the humane friend.— . lie holds no position save that which his people ! have couferrtd upon him; acts simply a voluu- ■ tary aid, and then only during battle; but there is no officer of cur Western army better known j nr more highly appreciated by the troops than tins quiet civilian, with whose form they havc- becon.e so familiar amid the scenes ot danger, in which he has voluniatily held his life as cheaply as they have done their own, The best tribute Book and Job work, of all ktw*, \ ZS’gZS? tZ, with a gentleman, one of the soldiers reeogniz- PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED AT THIS OFFICE. FiT When a subscriber finds a cross mark on ! his paper he will know that his subscription has , expired, or is about to expire, and must be renew- j ed if he wishes the paper continued. fj^Wedo not $end receipts to new subscri bers. If they receive the paper they may know that we have received the money. FF* Subscribers wishing their papers changed from one post-office to another must state the him, shouted, “Weli. boys, here's old Ishani Harris again—there's a fight on hand,-sure,” and then s'ueh yelling was heard as can only emauate from Confederate throats All quiet in front to-day, and for the first time in several weeks, attention to Sunday services is observed. FERSONNE. The Peace Negotiations. The telegraph columns contain a narrative of a very singular attetnpt at negotiation with Lin- name of the post-office trom which they wish it j coln> tlirough George N. Sanders and llor changed. l ax Colin lari Itlnnk Krceipt Books, Will be furnished from this office for $10 per quire, and $2 for binding. There will be 12 re ceipts to a sheet or 288 to a quire. Collectors or- >•"»* receipt. .1,1 .end » cop, of .b. kind fhc, | £J« “*iS "beT n ish. Greeley, as go-betweens. We leave the reader to make what he can out of the affair, and to decide for himself how far the Confederate Government is complicated with it. We take it for granted that such a respectable statesman as Clement 0 Clay would have been concerned in nothing of j the kind icithuut authority, aud indeed we have sent abroad by the Gov ernment as a commissioner to negotiate for peace. Had it been the object of our Government to pin Lincoln down to the naked position that he is waging war (not to reconstruct the Union) but tor the abolition of slavery, we suppose it has succeeded in that object. Over his own sigu manual he has formally announced that he will ered „ „ - j. and motion, which betokens at once the peacefulness j this is published to the world by the chief abcli- of a lamb, or the leap ol afiger; let there rise j organ-grinder and ortcle, Horace Greeley, of from the recesses of a roughly turned shirt collar j j| |e K ew York Tribune. The Peace Democracy a long muscular neck, on w hich there sets a hand- iherefoie have that solid fact to go upon, and tin- somely shaped head—not too broad across the I less‘.he fortunes of war hear hard upon the Con- eyes, but long from front to rear, and high trom | f fc jeracy, they can possibly use it to some effect < ars to summit—a little too large tor the body be- i y> uf a s i,ort time ago Lincoln, in one of his pub- low. both as regards motive power and proportion ; j ;; s Hed letters, pledged himself to listen to the first surmount the whole with a not too thickly grow- ■ 0 f)',. rs 0 f p t -ace which should, come from a power Army Correspondence of ihc South Carolinian. Atlanta, July 17. 1864. Take a delicately constructed human form, robe it in a summer suit of black with that care- ^ ■-> grace which so well becomes a Southern gen- receive only commissioners who are empowt tleman ; give it a light, quick step, and any easy j guarantee the “abandonment of slavery,” “able to control the insurgent army.” It is impossible, by the vague wording of the telegram, to determine precisely in what form of authorization the cwmmisscnets propose to pre sent themselves, but it is sufficient for the uurpose to say that they promise to satisfy him that they are acting under the sanction ot “the eommand- er-in chief of the rebel armies.” Here, then, his own prescription is met; hut instead of comply ing with hid promise, lie substitutes it with anoth- instead of to the bonds themselves, as the law now provides, the Treasury will receive a. much larger amount of the bonds are leaving daily for Europe, and nothing but taxing the coupons will ever enable the Government to realize the tax on the bonds’ England, when she pays the public creditor or bolder of her bonds, keeps back the a mount ot tlie Income Tax. We might advantage ously follow her example in this matter. [ Mercury. Patriotism of Columbus. Fot several days past our cotempoiaries of Col embus have issued only small extras from Iheir offices of not sufficient size to give the situation of affairs around the city in detai. - Au attache ot the Confederate who has just re turned from Columbus is full cf admiral ion of ti e patriotism and pluck of the citizens of Muscogee county. !So soon as the news.was received that the Yankee raiders had struck the Montgomery and West Point railroad, had captured Auburn and Opelika, and threatened a visit to their city, the male population eumasse turned out and went to the suburbs of the city gun in hand. The shops, factories, stores, printing offices, everything were closed, aud men and boys turned out. Little boys no older than teu years went to the trenches gun iu hand, and the least symptom cf refusal to serve by one able to walk met with a withdering iebuke. It is fortunate for the raiders that they declined coming They were up to Thursday expected every day. and night and day the noble citizen sol diers anxiously expected them. The organization is thorough and complete and the citizens are still under arms, although it is supposed the raiders have gone back. There was a report in the city that they were coming down on the other side of the river but it was not deemed reliable. If the Muscogee army is disbanded it .can be called togeether at any time at a half a days no tice. It is indeed giatifying to record this display of pluck and chivalry Instead of the people call ing upon the hard pressed at my at Atlanta to re pel au insignificant raid of marauders, they them selves rallied to their own defense and asked not Gen. Hood.for a single man. Other cities; other counties, aud other communities in Georgia, in stead of reposing in inglorious ease and cowardly submitting to small bands of plundering raiders sent out by the Federals should emulate the ex ample of Columbus’ 3 here are enough men and boys stijl left in any county in the Confederate States to protect them selves against these strolling bands of marauders. Let :io man quietly and cowardly cross his h uds and be tied, and meeklv bow the neck and receive She renlied therp must bp somp mistake and asked ■ ra * se armies, and such aiuTies heiug the organized j. iications, rather than those who knew nothing sue replied there must be some mistake, ana askeu , Ini -i;f orv *i rruiIls ,,f „ii t!.o sitates ur « ,.nt liable tn i v-... —i i.i for the order; He said it was a verbal order,— She then said lo him. “Can it not be delayed un- j til f can see Gen. Huniei?” Ki The orde is pdremptory, he replied, and you i have five minutes in which to leave the house.— j She then asked leave to remove her mother’s, sis- | ter’s. her own and her children’s clothing, which ■ was insolently refused. Immediately thereafter j campliene was poured on the parlor flon? and ig nited it with a match. In the meantime, my daughter lniu gathered up au armful of clothing, and w'as going fcutg^’lien he discovered her,ian for ward apd fired the clothing in her arms. He then poured cumphene in the wardjobes, bureau draw ers, eud ignited the clothing—taking out my clothing, which he said he intended to take North. ’ ..i Every honse on my lot was burned save a gran ary over my ice house. Not a particle of flout, n.eal. or anything edible was left, all haviug beeu carried off on Saturday. My mother, now in her 78th year, lives on the lot adjoining my own, having with her one of her J military troops ot all the States, are not liable to j Lout military affairs—and who were too old to separate State legislation, or control. But liable i ] e a, „ anything about them—for the favorites with to the control and legislation ol Congress, while ] the ignorant demagogues, who abused West they remain in the army. If exempted from tlie ; Point and the President, were stump oiators over army aud returned to the States, the rights of the j ftfty. Time has since amply proved tiiat West parties are remitted to the States, and the control , Pointers-men who have learned the science of over them as citizens resumed. war at school and its practice iu camp—are best Persons exempted from the Conscription laws, I £ tte( ] to command Jaige armies. Old stump ora- cannot be re. aided as “actually in the army. It tors may stumble into victories, but they will might be looked upoti as an anomalous condition generally fail; and it is almost treasonable to place them in command when their tailuies may do se rious harm. The people have seen enough of Johnston's re: treats to satisfy theta that, if let alone by the Gov ernment, he had no idea of making a stand this side the Gult,of Mexico. If he could not hold tho for a man to prove he is exempt from service, as au evidence he is actually in service. To claim exemption by being in the army, by showing an exemption out of the army. We confess our in ability ta appreciate this apeeiea of login. The fact that the Confederate State? has taken a bond cf the parties, cannot affect the claim of j strong position of Kennesaw Mountain, much the State to their military service, for. a contract i ; ess Vt0U id he have held thi weak one about At- by the Confederate States not to take them in the j Jauta The people do not generally know that all army for one year, is only binding on the Confed- t L e while that Johnston has been retreating be- erate States aud applies only to the military ser- f ore Sherman, he has.had an army approaching vice the Confederate Government had aright to j nearer in numbers to that of his adversary than discharge them -from . ... , i Lee ever had when he has won his gieat victories. \A e repeat the Confederate authorities could not i Indeed, at Dalton, and ever since lie left there. grand children and a servant After my proper- ex emnt a cTtizen of Georgia from the militia bv i " L 1 ' , e r ,* tv bad been tired the fiend* fired the stable lor a- fx«mptacitizen of Georgia from the militia by his army has been large enough to justify anu tn#u. mg ifcss of iron gray hair, which is biusjied well back trom the temples, revealing a tall, expansive j and expressive forehead, marked with lines of j mental foil; set tinder a brow indicative of the I moral strength of the man, a pair of keen daik j eves, mild or piercing as lii's thoughts may chance i to flow, whose variable color may be either gray, black or brown ; fasten in .its proper place oue of j those solid looking nose6 by which Nnpoieon used ! to choose his ‘thinking’ men ; close the catalogue j of features by the addition of a large Henry Giaj er Hr ,j q,jjt e dilierent one, to wit: that he will r< •'ie of mouth, with an under jaw that can work t ceive an’d protect the comnnssioiiers, provided *:t the force at.d vehemence of a triphammer,, they stand authorized to guarantee the integrity . . tl lips so pliable, that like his eyes, they express of tl , e Union and tho abandonment of Slavery.— ! very teelmg, and you have nl.e tout nisemble of; The terms must be fixed before ihe Convention is I the not ungraceful oruf aud clean shaven face ot , 0 p ene d; and is not a negotiation for peace he will i a man whose name has gone the lounds of every i entertain, but a single deputation to announce household circle in the Confederacy Ills Excel- submissi>.n and surrender. .ncy Joseph L. Brown, Governor of Georgia, j copperheads have all along declared that An hour’s conversation has revealed him to me Lincoln did not want to see the old Union re oon- ;.r one of the most remarkable men it uas been gtrnrted—that he would not accept even the sub- mv fortune to encounter during the w’»r, not re mission of the South under the terms of the Fed- markable perhaps for -high intellectual attain- j era | Constitution. Now they ^iave the fact de- . ruts—though piobably he is not wanting in , nionstrated by actual experiment, if it can be of 1 with Samuel It. Anderson, of Nashville, the?—but remaikable in the possession of those j an ^ us ^ t o them.— Telegraph. ' j late Brigadier General in the Confederate •i g personal qualities which eminently fit him i s r the position be now occupies, as a leader of ; the people of his State, and an obstinate opponent From Arkansas. Ate policy of the General Government. ; jjy way of the North, we have the annexed ty had been fired, the fiends fired the stable, loca ted about forty feet from her house, with no oth er view thau to burn her out also. The house caught twice, aud would have been consumed but for the untiring efforts of Captain Towns, who made his men carry water and extin guish the flames This Captain behaved like a gentie.man towards my own and my mother's fam- ily. Generals Averill, Crook, Sullivan and Duffie de nounced the whole proceeding as.an outrage, in violation of all the principles of civilized w arfare, arid stated that Hunter affine was responsible for these atrocities TP # « * * * I feel-grateful to you and other kind friends in Richmond tor their generous sympathy and kind tender of a home There are no people ou the earth w ho have been more uniformly kind than the good people of your city, and I assure you I appreciate their kindness, as'does also my family. AecepFour thanks. So soon as I can visit Richmond'I will do so— perhaps this month. I am truly and in baste, your friend, JOHN LETCHER. Joseph Mayo, Esq., of Richmond. tiie yoke of slavery. It does the heart good to re cord the valor and manhood of Columbus. It re minds us of the people of Vicksburg, foritisa well known fact that the military authorities v.-ould have given up their city had they notde- termined that it should not be done. The citizens innoculated the military with their own courage, and the result was the Federal armies stormed tiie devoted place for two years before its capiure. It, would never have been captured but for the errors of the most atupid man thatever commanded a body of men.— Macon Confederate. COMMUNICATED. Patriotism. On last evening I had the pleasure cf meeting If his manner is polite to a fault, and winning - , . v ■■ - J news from Arkansas: Anderson, of Nashville, Tenn., service, whom his friends and the public are aware was compelled to lesign his position on account, of ill health caused by the arduous campaign in North Western Virginia: Upon the call of Gov. Brown upon the Militia of the State, he again manifested his willingness to take up arms in detence of his Amusing Incident.— Quite a ludicrous incident occurred ou our Chesterfield front a day or two since. One of the rebel privates who boasts a shirt which was once white, subjected it to the washinip' process, aud after cleaningltto the best of his ability, hung it on a stick, aud placed the 6tic-k in the trenches. The wind was blowing .briskly, and tne shirt soon became sufficiently dry to flutter in the breeze, which it did with no little display. Presently, a couple of Federal officers, very handsomely uniformed, were seen advanc ing to our lines, with a white fiag'hoisted. They soon reached our breastworks, and one, who rank ed as Major, enquired with becoming gravity, “Gentlemen! what is your wish?” “I don’t un derstand you sir,” responded the Confederate offi cer of the day. “You have displayed the white flag,” quickly rejoined the Yankee, “and we have come to see its Gause.”- “You are mistaken sir, it’s only a newly washed shirt, hung up to dry.” Yankee officer looked first at the shirt, and then at the Confederate he was addressing, and realizing me uuuiiu nciino j: Wl. ) tion, his detnurephiz speedily relaxed into a broad grin. • Without another word, the couple about faced aud soon iound their way bftek to their own lines Our boys were greatly -amused to think a Yankee coultFnt tell a shirt from a flag of truce. [ Petersburg Express. in its silent eloquence, his conversation is doubly ... attractive, as the outpouring of a nature evident- The Lafayette In. Journal notices the return of i country’s cause by joining a company, notvyith- ly sincere, conscientious, and fuliy imbued with Capt. lline to that city, torom Arkansas, where lie j standing he is upwards of sixty years of age, and I a sense of the grxve responsibilities with which l- has been for three months. Ilis description of j now makes his appearance in this city a Capt. An- [ lie has Wt-n invested. His utterances aro rapid, ! the condition of things is gloomy. - No prej ara-| derson at the head of one hundred and fifteen though frequently overtaking speech, and his ges- | Hons have been made for raising a crop this year, tines few, but forcible and nervous Fastening and to all the other horrors of war absolute fam ing eyes on or, e who converses with him, fact af-*■ i ne is to be added. Crowds of ragged aud woe t>-r inct and statme nt after statement rolls from begone people, whole faniiliec. men, women and his lips ill quick succession, until the whole ar-i children, besiege every steamboat for passage, I gument cieaily and completely shaped stands be- j willing to go in any direction to escape the deso- F tore you like a pffitu-e^ Then, he beconrcs lation and misery of their homes. Many leave ready listener. With great frankness he coin-! their families, cattle, and household goods, to he Distribution of Abe's Documents.—The Peters- ination that* never’baulk* at^iffi- appropriated by the first comer, anxious only to burg Express of the 19th gives us a novel mode ot Id make Inn almost fierce in the . scape with life. The country is over run by distnbututing old Abe s documents : riiuiGsi _ r i _ i . :u A vvsw tn fmrr Georgians. Such au example is worthy of imita- talion and should awaken all to their duty. A. CITIZEN. Macon, Ga.. July 22, 1864. [Macon Ttlegraph. bines a determ cu .<ty, and would masi. a.mnsr nerce ,u , escarp - ' ’“ ”” ’ ' • A kile was seen to ascend from the Yankee j and the parties engaged in the innocent ^ymewhat^juvenile pastime, ‘gave her string,’ 1 it hovered immediately over our entrench- " cce88 »> ad^iV,httarior7sute"affairT,7 8 j er ^blackened timbers ash heaps and smoking j nu-nts^ TLe cord [ lt ™ a «» unimpeachable fact, to back him, and more ruins, where once stood happy homea. Fences, ! ^ nA, for nia Bijeugth aad fortress a nrimiole r shade * ' Va y* taking with the m bTGovV„’:ffiS arit7 i XrVJcSTa sara i -a™w„f e .~„, .Remarking to him, iu the course ol our inter- ! U bsups’s has taken the place of law. There is lit- the world ever saw. . , . V1 ew, that Lis policy was not generally understood i protection for life or property. Might'rules | Crowds of \ auks mounted the *>1® •”7ond tbe limits 0 f bis ow n State, and was « c - w i t t, P undismrted sway. Society is disorganized j see the effect of the discovery , wFereupo our Singly regarded as inimical to the best inter- j Jd We? into barbarism. Gangs of slaves j boys placed themselves m lull view of the enemy, e8U °f the Confederacy, he replied, and not with- “audw&S£ovefthe land, while Their masters j and by a “gyration” of the thumb on the nose, out seme force, that the platform on which he scour the country on evil deeds intent. Arkan- j with tne digit manipulation rapidly K«vo them * ood i 10w wa „ the 8ame aa ttjat 0CCU pjed by ev- f sai h as reached the ultima tbule of anarchy and j.vaders to understand that they would 8ee Old Ab tr y State of the Confederacy iu 1861. Geoigia; j misery. i first to back him, and nor. ruins ^ ' Vound" to.o^ist of "sundryT^opie;of Old Abe’s S :"am i fn'd h to Rom the shore* fyUnds thS proclamation of last December* granting au am- secret of th^l £ ! am uV and down in quest of plunder Alto- nea.yjo «ver y * w o woul d I.,-J--; Bombarding the Defenceless —The Chicago “Times" says of the shelling of Petersburg by Grant's Batteries: It strikes us that reflecting people will not see anything in this fact to be rejoiced at. Vicksburg was shelled for some weeks; Charleston was shell ed for some months—and in both cases the only result was in killing of a number of women ahd children.- The defenses at Vicksburg did not ex ist iu warehouses, churches, halls and residences that make tip that city; such is the case with Charleston; and such likewise is the caseatPe- tersburg- In all these - places the defences consis ted, or now consists, of fortifications, with rebels behind them, and these were necessary to over come before the towns themselves could be reach ed. * Therefore, as shelling a town under such cir cumstances does not touch the defeuess of the place, as it does not involve a surrender either of the city or its fortification; as its ®nly effect is to destroy the lives of women aud children, aud to injure private property; and as it is a use less expense of ammunition, we see nothing com mendable either in shelling Petersburg or any Other city. The storm of war, remarks the Richmond Senti nel, has passed entirely around Richmond and now lowers upon Petersburg. The Nortbside enjoys a strange peace. The Southside now has its turn. On Saturday night law, and neither can it be dODe by contract. ! render it his. duty to deliver battle. We decided, aud the Supreme Court sustained, j The Whig makes a new issue. The ground of that the law repealing discharges for the war, by its <ionjp i a iiit is not the removal of Johnston, but the putting ot substitutes, was constitutional,, the preference which, it* supposes, was given to wli^n the public danger and the very life ol ftm j Hood over Hardee. Hoes the Whig know wbetb- nation depended upon bringing every able bodied j er Hardee would have accepted the appointment? man to the field to protect it. Contracts to empt men from defending their homes are void when the war of invasion threatens to submerge all in a gulph of ruin. No nation will die by con tract. The necessity which authorizes the Confederate Government to use every means in its power to avert public calamity, is equally the prerogative of the State government to maintain the integrity of their rights; the one is more extensive in pow er. but no more potential in right than tiie other. It follows, therefore, that in the judgment of the court, persons who are on their plantations are not "actually in the army,” aud being exempt from conscription are not exempt from militia duty, but ate liable to be called into military service by the State to repel invasions, to quell insurrections and to execute the laws. The parties who have been detailed on farms are in fact exempted from actual seivice in the army of the Confederate States. They are at- home in the avocations of business, aud do not come within any principle of law that renders them in better position to stay at home than the class exempted. . The State of Georgia is beleagured, and we gravely doubt it any person, not actually in the army, that is not actively in the military service, except exempt by the law of the State, no matter for what purpose detailed, is not liable to bo put into service. For the time, the pursuit of the iu- d vidual is suspended, and he serves lor the exi gency to repel the enemy, so that he may receive the benefit of the defence made by others with himself, and thus be enabled to complete-lhe very purpose for whieh he was detailed. Is not the man who had a contract, to make whiskey in Cherokee, Georgia, or he who held a detail to at tend to some secular employment there, now as liable to defend them as the people whose interest w as less special? Details from the army for some important military pressing purposes are exempt from other service, hut all not in the army, and left out of it as a public necessity, by a higher ne cessity. become liable to immediate temporary mil- lt has been urged that conflictwill arise between the State and Confederate States on this subject. We can see no necessity for such apprehension. The State is simply bringing reinforcements to save the army and the country. The only con flict which could arise would be interposition to prevent these reinforcements from being sent for ward, and if this were done by -force, it would be to coerce the titate authorities, a right we have no id» a will be eitfier claimed or exorcised. We do not anticipate conflict; on the contrary, we see the State moving with solemn procession to the field of battle with the Confederate States to repel the invasion which threatens alike the interest of both. The interest is identical. The arms that defend are nnited The principle that inspires is the same. The men that struggle are brotners. The homes they defend are sacred to all. If there be any conflict, however, it is in the experience of embarrassment some foresaw in the workings of the cousciipt laws, and the applica tion of its provisions to roeu who could not be 1a- into the Army proper, but were controlled upon their and subjected to its prescriptions in the or dinary avocations of life. No provision of the law we may add, was more difficult of arrange ment, and none protective of the industrial inter ests more satisfactorily complete, than the system of Details aud Exemptions inaugurated by the Confederate Government. The nature of our Government, however is so complex in war, that time alone can bring to perfec ion a harmony o political unities, so blended and yet so severs y independent. , , The condition of the State in regard to a ser vile population has been urged upon us, with zeal and eloquence. We feel satisfied that never was the State safer than when her people are un der arms, aud ready to strike at any point where danger iuvite* them- By a cordial sustainment of the policy now pressed npou the whole people In fact, Hardee had been ten cred. and had re fused, the command of the army of Teunessen. Be this as it may. The President, after auxiona consultation with the best military authorities, conclude to appoint Hood. No man in the Con federacy was so much interested iu retaining John ston in command, if he were likely to win a vie* tory, as the President. No man had so good aa opportunity to form a correct opinion of his mer its. He came, under these circumstances, to the deliberate conclusion that Johnston was unfit to command, and removed him. If there be any eiror in the case it is that the removal was not made long ago. Lincoln delights in taking off heads as much as the King of • Dahomey or the Emperor of Hayli. President Davis has a nice sense of honor, sets n high value.on reputation, ana removes none but the notoriously incompe tent. It is because be is so reluctant to remove offi cers that he is so cautious and fastidious in select* iugand appointing them. We believe the ap pointment of General Hood a good one, not only from what we know of his past history, but be cause he has been selected by the President, who seems to be an admirable judge of the relative mer it of men, and finds no occasion to repent to-day for the appointments he made yesterday. mmm » — A Boston firm has gone into the manufacture of artificial arms and legs—the company aunoun- cing a guarantee of eight per cent, dividends to stockholders, and a special permit from Secretary Stauton to supply the Confederates!!! This con cern doubtless goes in for “the vigorous prolonga tion of the war'” TREASURY OF GEORGIA, ? Milledgeville, July 14, 1864. $ To Tax Payers and Collectors uf the State ef Georgia aud all others whom it may concern : F REQUENT enquiries being made as to th® funds required at this department in payment of taxes and other public dues, I take this meth- uU jiulilloUlu)' tiiai, l)jr uidci v£ tuo Gorernoi, I am only authorized to t®)re Georgia Treasury Notes of all issues, Bonds and Coupons of the State of Georgia due, Confederate Treasury Notes of the new issu* only, Current Bank Notes and Specie, Central Bank Notes of the State of Georgia. JNO JONES, Treasurei. HP All papers in the State publish one Has® and charge the Executive Department. 1ST OF STOCKHOLDERS in the MiUedg® ville Manufacturing Company. E. Waitfelder & Co 537^ Shares. 8. B. Brown 90 “ A. W. Callaway, 86$ “ P. M. Compton, 26 “ W. H. Mitchell, 25 Chas. H. Wright, 10 Est of Daggett, 20 M. S. Thompson, 5 - 800 Shares. L. WAITZFELDER. Sec’y. Milledgeville. July 19. 1864. 9 It. S IXTY DAYS from date application will bo made to the honorable the Court of Ordinary of Pulaski county, tor aa order for leave to sell all the land belonging to the oafate of Sam. W. Holt, late of said county, deceased. W. W. HOLT, Trustee. Hawkinsville, Ga., July 11, 1864. J i s 9 9t GEORGIA, Appling County. A LL persons having claims against the estate cf Stephen Carter, deceased, late of said county, are required to render them in .duly au thenticated, within the time required by law. GEORGE CARTER, Adm'r. July 5th, 1864. 1 E. 90t
