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VOLUME XXXV.]
MILLEDGEVItLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1S64.
NUMBER 12.
J}) UUHTOX, MSB ET, B ARNES & MOORE,
Publishers and Proprietors.
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i «nJ I trust tolerable sound judgment in the’pur
chase slnd sale of property with what the world
calls good luck, as by the purchase of a trart of
land at a very small price, for timber, upon which
a mine was discovered, which enabled me to sell it
for about $25,000
Since the war began, as the records of the coun
try will show, I have inherited in right ot my
wife and children, over $20,1 00 in gold or its e-
. quivalent. This was invested in such securities
/■,//)iMishcii- TVcckly, in JHilJcdgcvillc, G(l. t as have, and would command more than enough
Corner of Hancock and Wilkinson Sts., j Confederate currency, to pay for all the lands I try.
have purchased in southwestern Georgia, and all j Colonel W W Ward, Tennessee,
the other property I have purchasi d any where | Lieutenant Colonel James F brew", Forrest’s
else. A short calculation will show this $20,000
(T,jr/
Colonel H W Duke 2d'Kentuoky.
Colonel M J Ferguson, 10th Virginia.
Colonel Wm H Fornev, 10th Alabama.
Colonel J M Hanks, Kentucky.
Colonel K C Morgan. Kentucky.
Coloriel Wm A Peebles, 44th Virginia lufan
try.
Colonel Wm II Pell, Forrest’s Cavalry.
Colonel Janies J Tucker, 7th Kentucky. Caval
ry.
Colonel A L Vanderveuter, 50th Virginialnfan-
f opposite Court House.)
At $10 a year in Advance.
Ol'lt NEW TEB.4IS.
0n and after March 2:4,1864, the Terms of Sub {
enption to the Confederate Union, are Ten Doi.- j
, I-, turaribly in advance. All indebtedness fori
, i dcription to tliis paper, previous to June 1st, 1863, j
is at the rate of Three Dollars per year.
ADVERTISING.
Transient.—Two Dollars per square of ten
lines for each insertion.
Tributes of respect. Resolutions by Societies,(Obit
uaries exceeding six lines.) Nominations for office,
Communications or Editorial notices for individual
benefit,charged us transient advertising.
Legal Advertising.
Sheriff" s sales, per levy of ten lines, or less, $5 00
Cavalry,
at 20 for one is $400,000 in currency. Twenty
thousand dollars so invested as to be worth 10 for
one, is $200,000. The latter is nearly double
what I gave for southwestern lands. But as I did
not choose to sell all my securities at the time, I
borrowed $50,000 of the currency, which I gave
for these lands, and I regret to sa v. 1 still owe this
sum. J have the consolation to know, however,
that my creditors are not uneasy, and that I have
property plenty to pay it whenever I chose to
pu t it m tue maiKet.
No man ever sued me for money, and I do not
recollect that a creditor ever dunned me. I have
made it, a rule, always to pay my debts, when
due, no matter what It cost me, unless the creditor
informed me that, he did not need or want the
“ Mortgage fi fa sales, per square,
Tax Collector’s Sales, per square,
Citations for Letters of Administration,
<< “ “ Guardianship,
]« <10
5 on
5 on
5 00
| money.
In making this statement,! Jo not wfsh it to he
; understood, t hat I have made no money since the
i war began. I have a large family, and the people
j of Georgia pay me $4,000 per annum in currency
| tor my labor and ttie responsibilities I have to
: meet. You know that this would not purchase
j even the most common necessaries ot life for my
family.
My estate, well managed, naturally yields me
Letters of application for dism’n. from Adm’n 8 0(1 j considerable income, and I have made some mon- j try.
Lieutenant Colonel P B Devant .‘Htli Ga. Inl'an
try.
Lieutenant Colonel Wm Lee Davidson. 7th N
C Imanlry.
Lieutenant Colonel James P Fitzgerald, 23d
Virginia Infantry.
Lieutenant Colonel 8 C Haynes, 27th Virgins
Infautry. . ' 1
Lieutenant Colonel Wm Lee Martz, 10th Vir
ginia Infantry-
Lieutenant Colonel W M Parsely, 3d N C In
fantry.
Lieutenant Colonel O A Patton.
Lieutenant Colonel A L Swingley.
Lieutenant Colonel M J Smith, Louisiana Ar
tillery
Maj or D W Anderson, 44th Virginia Infantry.
Major J W Caldwell, 1st Kentucky Caval-
ry.
Major J T Carson, 12th Georgia.
Major Wm T Ennett, 3d North Carol’na Infan
try.
Major C M Henry, 4th Missouri.
Major J F. Gross, Ma jor arid A A General,
Major H A Higley. Kentucky.
Major V m H Manning, 6th Louisiana Infan-
THE TRIE ISSUE.
Mr. Divis, in conversation with a Yankee spy
named Edmund Kirk, is reported by said spy to
have said. “We- are not fighting for Slavery : wt
are fighting for Independence.’’’ This is true; aim
is a -truih that has not been sufficiently dwelt
upon. It would have been very much to be de
sired that this functionary had developed the idea
in some message or other State paper, which
would have earned it round the world aud repeat
edit in all languges of civilized nations, instead
of leavingit to be promulgated through the doubt
ful report of an impudent blockade-runner who
ought to Irave been iu Cas’Ie Thunder. The set:
tiinent is true, and should be publicly uttered and
kept conspicuously in view: because our enemies
have diligently laboured to make all mankind he
lieve that 'he people of these States have set up a
pretended State sovereignty and based themselves
upon that ostensibly, while their real object lias
been only to preserve to themselves the property
iu so manv negroes, worth so many millions ot
dollars. The direct reverse is the truth: the
question of Slavery is only one of the minor is
sues: and the cause of the war, the whole cause,
on our part, is the maintenance of the sovereign
independence of these States.
At the beginning of the struggle, and even now,
to a great extent, our enemies had and have, the
ear of the world ; and they have vt ry dexterous
ly* laboured to represent us as rushing into, a
dreadful war on a paltry question of dollars. "'Iu
the ciusade they weTe about to make upon us, they
have shown the utmost solicitude to gain tor them
pelves in advance the .sympathies of foreign ua
j tions, especially of England and France; and, of
i course, their chief meuns of gaiuiug this point
I consisted in representing that we had no higher or
i nobler cause to fight lor than the possession of a
; certain quantity of serviceable negro Hesb. Thus
t . i lhc ^ ar Kcwri. ( flukes to the size of the regular mining picks —
In our last issue, without pretending to snperi- I Water was nirt with not far from the advance
or discernment, we stated that Grant was at last, j and for a time pr*ve no lilfle trouble. The lh'or*
about to do something, it required neither a mil i however, was planked, and the sides and ceiHmr
itary genius nor a prophet to tell this. , ! shoved up. A quicksand was met wi.h, and to
Let us see what tilts mighty opeiation wag, aud | obviate it, the range of tunnel was curved up
wards, so that t!w latter half was several feet
higher than at „the entrance. The oozing of the
water formed mud in several places, so that the
regiment came from their daily labor btspatteied
aud stained.
At leugth the em1 was reached, and the tri-ang
ulation was abundantly verified in the r inses over-
how Grant executed it.
Having mined one of om most important posi
tions a mile and a half *st. of Petersburg, and
laid his train in rtadiness to blow it up. he, cn
V\ ednesday, Thursday and Fiiday withdrew a
large portiou of his army from in front of Peters
burg, and threw them to the North bank of the
James, as if about to attack Richmond from the ! head The nailing on timber and planks could
■a! ,f e . 8 “pP 0 f d that we,ro " U ! foll °" lunl l,e dls,1IlctI y heard, and left no doubt that the
with the bulk ot our forces, and leave Peters- men were directly beneath the Confederate tort.—
bnrg weakly garrisoned. It was tben his inten \ The enemy were evidently making a flooring tor
tion to slip quickly back over the Janies, present j their artillery. As near as could he ascertained
himself suddenly m great force in front of Peters- j the distance from the tunnel to the fort was tweu-
burg. sping his mine, and in the incidental con- j ty feet.
fusion, to rush his army through the breach anJ
seize the city.
A part of his designs ho executed faultlessly —
His mine was a tremenduous affair. He catiied
his army to the north side and brought them
back on Friday night. He exploded the mine,
and a part of his army rushed thffeigii the breach:'
but not enough of them got iu, as will be seen.—
Why a larger force did not enter our broken line
we will soon hear from the Northern press. The
Yankees will blame some unlucky wight for be
ing -too fast, or too slow, too early or too late,—
The whole truth though is, that the Confederate
Generals are the parties who are alone to blame.
They are too early always for General Grant.
After it was sufficiently evidt nt that a point di
rectly under the fort w,-*s reached the construc
tion of the mine was commenced. The angle of
the fort projects towards our lines, and.under this
angle the tunnel diverged into two galleries, each
running, as near as could be ascertained, under
each side. It* was the intention to make the mine
consist of eight magazines, placed at intervals
along these branch galleries, so that the entire
length of the fort might be blow n up, in place of
one spot
Preliminary' expei intents were made by Col,
Pieasants with cartridges of powder, which he
inserted in the earth
ascertained that tin
nd ignited by a fuse. He
work of making a breach
mine was thirty feet below the
explosion our breastwork was
ni face. By the
demolished and
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5 00
2 00
Guard’n S 00
Appl'n for leave to sell land and negroes, 8 00
Notice to Debtors and Creditors,
Sales ot land or negroes, per square,
“ perishable property, 10 days, per sq.
K stray Notices, 30 days,
Foreclosure of Mortgage, per square.
LEGAL. ADVERTISEMENTS.
Sales of Land and Negroes, by Administrators, Ex
ecutors or Guardians, are required by law to be held
on the first Tuesday iu the month ; between the hours
of 10 in tlm forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the
Court house in the county in which the property is
situated. . , . ,..
Xotiee of these sales must he given .n .a public ga-
yetteJO da vs previous to the day of sale.
‘ Notices for the sale of personal properly must be
giv. n in like manner 10 days previous to sale day.
Notices to the debtors and creditors of an estate
must also be punished 40 days.
Notice that application will be madeto the Court oi
Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must he
published for two months.
Citation* for letters of Administration Guardianship,
, must be published 3U days—for dismission from
Administration, monthly six months—for dismission
from Guardianship,40 days
Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage must hr published
monl.Uu for four months-for establishing lost papers,
for the full spore of three months—fax coliipellnigtltles
t rain Executors or administrators, where bond has beeu
iriven bv the deceased the full space of three months.
Publications will always he continued according to
• these,the legal requirements, unlessotherwnseordered.
Book and Job work, of all kinds,
PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED
AT THIS OFFICE.
ey by buying and selling Railroad bonds and oili
er property. But not as much as I .should iiave
been glad to have made, and as I intend to try
(o make in future, if I can do it honestly. 1 have
never dealt in the necessaries of life and never ex
pect to, but if by the exercise of a sound judgment,
I can purchase of Corporations or money dealers,
stocks or bonds or other property, and by parting
with them at the proper time, can sell them at pro
fit and make money by it. I expect to do it. And
as J consider it no body’s business, I am willing
for him who is icithout sin, or for him who would
not do the same thing, ifhe saw w here he could
doit honestly and make it pay, to east the first
stone. If God has blessed me with good judge
ment as to the value of property, and with forecast
enough to know when to buy and when to sell to
profit: I think my family entitled to the exercise
of that gift, and I hope by it, and other honest em
ployment, tf) be able to educate and give my chil
dren a reasonable advancement in lite, apd to have
something to meet proper demands lor the exer
cise of charity to the poor and the afflicted, pro
vided the i nemy dees not take it all frorq me If
they do.it will be when I can no longer resist; Rnd
if my life if spared. 1 shall still do all in my power
to provide for those dependent upon me.
You are authorized to make such use of this let
ter a3 you think proper.
Very respectfully,
JOSEPH-E* BROWN.
The Exchange of Prisoners.
The Charleston Courier ef T'hursday gives an
interesting account of the exchange of officers in
Charleston harbor, which we annex:
The exchange of pr isoners, according to ap
pointment, took place in the harbor VVeudesday
Major E A Nash, 4th Georgia Infantry.
Major L J Perkins, 5th Virginia Infantry.
Maj ir E J Sanders, Sanders' Infantiy Battal
ion.
5Tnjor G H Smith, 4th Georgia cavalry.
• Mr]or Thos Steel. 3d Kentucky cavalry.
Major P E Upshur, J3th Virginia cavalry.
Major. F F Warley, 2d South Carolina" Artille
ry-
Major Thomas B Webber, 2d Kentucky-
Major J M Wilson. 7th Louisiana.
First Lieut, and Aid O DuPree, Major General
Gardner's stafF.
Aid J A Jacquess, Major Genera! Gardner's
staff.
First Lieut. Aid P. G Jackson, Brig-Gen C
Anderson’s staff’.
List of Yankee Officers Errhanged.
they knew that not only the prevailing cunts I B ,e earth, for a space of thirty yards sqtiare torn
would be canted on th.eir side, but also that a war j au< i thrown into the air. Branch's battery of
waged to break up a free aud beneficent govern- Petersburg, and three companies of infantry be
longing to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second
South Carolina regiments, altogether one hundred
and eighteen men, who occupied the redoubt,
shared its fate; men and earth were tossed into
the air together. The four guns of Brandi’s bat
tery were buried iu the'ruins of. the redoubt.—
Where the redoubt had stood the explosiou left a
cavity thirty yards square. This cavity was from
merit upon such a mean issue would revolt all
statesmen, publicists anti thinkers of high mark
in every country who have the true sentiment of
national dignity and can appreciate the loftier and
purer springs ot human actions on the grand
scale. I he Tankee knew he might boldly claim
the good wishes of civilized communities, so long
as he could liyike it be believed that the cnly .
thought and care of the South was that they Dvcnry to .thirty feet deep,
might keep still on their plantations so many slave i Before the dust and smoke of the explosion had
hands, raising each year bales per hand. I eleared away, Burnside’s corps, who had been
It is possible that some of the crazy fanaticks of; lleld iu readiness, chatged through the breach, the
Boston may be deluded about this matter ; but the ' ne £ roe3 > n the vaui while the Yankee batteries ou
,p I statesmen or leading politicians of the United j town and played on our lines Our troops irame-
; States, the men who control public action^ were ^' a,e fy 0,1 either side of the breach were thrown
1 and are as well aware of tbo true issue as it is : * nt ° some confusion by the explosion, but soon
possible for men to be. Iu February, 1861, a di- ! rallied and closed up, and fought Burnside as
Between four aud five, o’clock Saturday morning j would be’more effectually secured by distributing
Grant sprung bis mine under one of our earth- ! the powder instead of putting it in bulk. In the
works, a mile and a half east of Petersburg. The 1 latter case the explosion resulted in a deep and
broad crater: in the former in a wide chasm —
W here the cartridges—his miniature magazine—
were not disconnected by packing, the tendency
ot the explosion was to fiml.vent at the first hole.
Hence he resorted to packing between ihe maga-
zines, or, as it is technically known, ‘tamping.' 1
I be mine was charged to-day The quantity
of powder used was six tons ! Pause and think
of it. Six tons. Twelve thousand pounds. Im
agine eight dry good boxes, (the magazines re
semble them iu size and slutpe) filled with pow
der, and yon will have an idea of the mine.
Biigadier Generals Seymour, Wes-els, Scam- plomatic agent qf the United States returning 1 c r °°'*y as though nothing had occurred. The
Lome from service, reported himself to the De*- 1 ^ an k c * e!i
mon, Slialler, Hickman. Colonels: T G Grover,
R Hawkins, W Hanistnon. J H, Leman. O II La
grange, W O Lee, R White H C Bolliuglie, H L
Brown, E L Dana, E Fardeil. Lieutenant Colo
nels: E S’Hays.N B Hunter, T N Higginbotham,
O C Joslyn, W E McMakin, D Miles, W C Max
well. J D Mayhew, S Mcifitt, E Alcott. J Potsley,
A F Rogers J H Burnham, C B Baldwin, XV G
Bartholimer WTCuok.CJ Dickerson, T J Fel-
made good their entrance only Ly force !
partment of .State in Washington. He there ! over whelming numbers, directed, unexpected-1 ot which there in no reasonable doubt. The bank
found one Black officiating as chief. With this j ly to ,l8 > upon this one point. Our troops ®ever 11
man, who chose for the conversation to express ’ * ou £* il; mor <t courageously They were at length
Southern sentiments, he talked about the approach- ■ * ,ea en slowly back, and the enemy, continuing
i ing troubles : and alluded to the matter of slave- i to P our 1,1 t l iro,1 ?l 1 the breach, occupied two o:
ry. Black interrupted him with these words j tbrce hundred yards of our works.
“Sir slavery is hut an accident in this Quarrel — ^ ^ ntne o’clock General Mahone attempted to
Critical Situation of the i-'inances.
The World, commenting'upon Secretary Fessen
den's negotiations with the New York banks for anoth
er loan qt fifty millions of dollars, says .-
I lie gist ot Mr. Fessenden's proposal to tin- bank* is,
that they shall furnish him a, leuti of fifty millions,
subject to his call as he may want it, between now
iin.l the tn-st ot September. For this loun he will give
them i 30 treasury Holes,.with a portion «f such other
securities us they may consent to take. This negotia-
tion may not be complete d in two or three days'- but
he disposition of the bucks is favorable to its success
ot course, in making the loan, desire information ami
assurances respecting the future operations of the
4 reasurv department; and it is the time required for
leaching a mutual understanding on this point that de
lays the closing of the negotiation. The future
condition of the money market, and the ability
ot the Government to flout a bonded loan, is
Voice from
, the point of slavery convenient, t/uv would tru »/ on eni - v * rom the entire line and beck through the
a Republican j other poults just the same " bo spoke Lawyer breach wilh heavy loss, and captured Brigadier
Black, with closed doors, in the Department of ^ en Bartlett, his staff’ and five hundred of his men.
and always shall be at heart a Republican and an i State. He approved our determination to resist l his “ 8sault occupied scarce half an hour. Bart-
Abolitionist. I wish to say a few words to you ; as the only course by which we could hope to con- I lett and .his men whet taken were huddied in the
torenoon outside of Fort Sumter, and nearly a- i democrats. It is simply to ask you to put up a ! ti:iue free citizens. But that did not prevent him e *cavatious made by the explosiou, aud with some
breast Battery Wagner. »i.„ i Peace man for Presid
'When a subscriber finds a cross mark on
h‘n paper he will know that his subscription kas
expired, or is about to expire, and must be renew
ed if lie wishes the paper continued.
13^ We do not send receipts to new subscri
bers. If they, receive the paper they may know I act ,i n; r as guard
About sevnn o’clock the
Yankee piiswners to be exchanged, including B:ig-
aditr Generals Wessels, Seymour, Shaller, Hick
man aud Scammons, were marched from their
quarters in Broad street to Chisolm’s
Mill Wliaif in charge of Capt. Gayer, Provost
Marshal, under escort of Capt Mobleys's company
lent. Let him also be a hard 1 from beint
that we have received the money
Major Stringfejlow, Captain Watwick and Fra-
li* Subscribers wishing their papers changed | 8 ^C‘ General Jones staff,aud a nu
from one post-office to Mother must state the I officers and c.v.llrans, were prese
name of the post-offieo irem which they wish it j
changed.
mber of other
Tux Folleclor* Rlnnk Krrript Rooks,
Will be furnished from this office for $10 per
quire, and $2 for binding. There will be^2 re
ceipts to a sheet or 288 to a quire. Collectors or
dering receipts will send a copy of the kind they j upper saloon of the steamer until past Fort Sum
! ter In going down the liver, the torpedoes and
j obstructions were admirably avoided by the skill-
with the boat for the purpose of receiving our offi
cers. Through the couitesy of Colonel Lay, offi
cer in command, and Capt: Gayer the representa
tive of the Press also enjoyed the opportunity of
being present witnessing the exchange.
The Jankee prisoners, about eight o'cl- ck em
barked on board the steamer Chesterfield on which
the white flag was hoisted, and proceeded down
the harbor: the prisoners being restricted to the
wish.
money man.. auJ fiercest fabricators ot
No man wished and prayed more earnestly than utter
I did for the success of Mr. Lincoln in 1
prevent him .
two months later, one of the foremost lie K T .° , troo P s _ ln front of them.
war measures (or our
UU1 With our driving the Yankees back through the
3tly than utter subjugation; nor from declaring, through** breach ended the battle, and with it all the hopes
860, and dozen State papers, as his successor and all his j ^ ^ rant a, “J llit * admiring nation on this
since then no man had more earnestly supported ; colleagues have continued to do. that the United movement ou the little town of Petersburg
him than myself, both by my voice and vote—no States were about to make a gigantic effort to "^ le ene my’s loss was strangely heavy in this
man has more bitterly bated and cursed the cop- wipe away the blot aud sin of slavery from' its ^ att i e ',. ^," r ,luni ,say they have filled up with
petheads, aud yet I shall certainly vote for your I escutcheon,
candidate, if lie is for Peace.
' I am beginning to be sick of, and frightened at,
this war. j have lost several near relations and
friends in it. I have others now in the argyies en
gaged in it, and I do not know how- soon I mfly
be forced into it myself. I see the money turning
into worthless bits ot paper, very hard to get, and.
when got, they will only buy at ruinous rates. 1
and for that alone the sword was dead Yankees r ail( l negroes the hole made by the
explosion. We have in our bauds one thousand
We have heard no estimate of their
have read victories in our papers for four years to govern the Southern States for their profit iu-t
which have almost always turned out to be defeats as Austria governs Veuctia, Russia governs Po-
I hear of hundreds of thousands of killed and land or England Ireland. iSInverv *1, Q ™
Atlanta, July 20th, 1864.
Tim:. Richard n. Clarke: •
Er/iv Sir: As a friend, you call my attention to
the fact that my political enemies in Southwest
ern Georgia, not content with aosaiiing my acts as
ful hand of Capt. Ferguson, who took the wheel
under his own immediate charge.
The enemy continued to liie upon Sumter, not
withstanding the approach of thestearoer with the
white fl ’g> until the iatter had got less than five
hundred yards of the fort.
The Chesterfield arrived at the appointed spot
wounded without any result, and for these reasons
I am sick of the war
Afid so it is with many of my Republican
friends, although few own it. I believ e that
many of them will secretly vote for peace, if a
peace ticket is in the field; but if the Democrats
nominate a war ticket, I and others will certainly
not vote for a change of office holders to conduct
h public officer, are descending. ] about nine o’clock, and dropped anchor. Soon af-
amd attacking my character for honesty; and that
scene of the assailants are stimulated to greater I
bitterness by my late' proclamation ordering them !
to the front.to defend the State and protect their ;
own homes. AA ith some, this is no doubt the J
greatest sin of my life. In an emergency like this, ;
when we must put forth ev^ry energy and call in
to requisition all the manhood oi the State to 1
check the advance of an enemy that threatens the j
destruction of all our property and all that is d> ar 1
to ns, 1 had hoped that even political animosity j
would have been buried for a time, but it seems
ter the Yaqkee flag of truce steamer Cnsmo’politan,
with colors- flying and a white flag at the fore,
came steaming up beautifully, and anchored im
mediately opposite the steamer Chesterfield. A
small boat was lowered from tlie former and an
officer sent in charge to escort Col. Lay to the
Yankee steamer. An interview, lasting about
half an hour, took place, during which tlie ex
change was satisfactorily arranged; aud the stea
mers placed side by side. A general recognition
on both sides took place
i I'he Yankee prisoners were the first exchanged,
that partizan raneef arm political uate «*•'« , nd took , ea ^ of •
sleep.
You say that it is insinuated in such manner as
to-nmouut to charges— _ , f
1st, That I am part owner in a large whisky dis
tillery in Lee county.
2d,'jliat I was, and pPrhaps now am, a partner
an Atlanta trading house which speculated large
ly iu the necessaries of life.
3d, That the money with which I purchased
lands in South western Georgia w as made by me in
some illegal manner, by virtue of my office as
Governor.
I reply: _
1st, I have no interest in a distillery in Lee
county or any other county or piacp,.and never
had in my life I net er n ’ 8tl ® iTnpvwr ! ft l ,ove them, the delight of our released veterans
iu my .ifr, in par tiers up . , i j fnew no bounds. Cheers succeeded as they pas-
bougnt and sold a gallon or; mady one cent by the., ^ ^ oId Moultrie J/ our
sa e oi wh.sky or o-ier spn-i i ■ 4 • I batteries on Sullivan’s Island getting the first hon-
2d. I am not now, and never have been a part-, or Jhe |n<tJ cheer8 of the ^ rris ons at the vari-
m*r inany trading louse in am , 6"*- ! fortifications as they were drawn up inline
speculation in the necessaries of life, or any otuer. r
matter or thing. I have not bought and sold, or
in any way speculated in any of the necessaries
of life, since tlx* war began. Nor have 1 sold even
the proceeds of my own farms to any cousid
our officers as their names were
| called, with many warm thanks for the kind treat
ment they ha'd received while prisoners in our
city.
The roll of our officers was noW called over by
; Major StringfVilow, and as the noble vett raus stop
ped aboard there was a general manifestation of
I joy. shaking of hands, and hearty congratulations.
The business of exchange was finished about 12
o'clock, tbe ropes were loosened, and the parties
took a respectful leave of each other. As the
steamers parted company the Yankees gave three
* cheeis, while their band struck up “ Home, sweet
! Home.” A hearty response was given fiom the
Chesterfield. After*the departure of the Yankee
steamer, with. the eight .of our flag once more
met with a hearty and enthusiastic response. A
hearty greeting was also given by the gallant tars
of our gunboats At tlie wharf in tbe city a dense
crowd had assembled, and as tlie steamer ap
proached the cheering be>;ame general,' lasting
several minutes.
Major-General Edwjyd Johnston was introduc
ed to the publie by Cap'aiu Gayer, when the Rev.
C. P. Gadsden, on the part oi the Ladies Relief
Association, welcomed him, in a few remarks, and
ers,
,1,.,' uiudl'eent mo k ,|*J R.ateniDK cheers. He uprMKd the (limit, of
erabl'e extent. bi*t 1 have given to the families of
soldiers, without money and without price, much
the larger poition of all the supplies 1 could spare,
and indeed all I could spare except what I have
let the Government have at its own price.
r»>« . . ‘tifl Tf-Io nnf A SSUC-IclllUH y V> rltUiUCU 11 lllly 111 it It, W I Clllill !vh, d
he thiid charge is very in e • .{ presented him with a beautiful wreath of flowe
or in what illegal manner by virtue of ^ |)f their own handg . As Gtm . Johns
handle or control a dollar of the public money
n,{ iy as it i s drawn from the Treasury by Lxecu-
tlV0 " arrant, under a legal appropriation. I he
person entitled to it, or the officer in whose favor
n is to be drawn, receives and receipts for the
Executive warrant, iu the Executive office.
He takes this warrant to the Comptroller Gen
eral s oliic.-, where it is registered, and with the
Comptroller's indorsement, he carries it to the
Treasury,, nd the money is then paid to the hol
der of tiie warrant, by the Treasurer. I neither
see nor handle it. Ail I do is to draw tbe warrant
upon tlie Treasury for it.
As the country has really nothing to do with my
private affairs, it is not my habit to speak of them
publicly, but. asrny enemies strive to excite preju
dice in the minds of honest, credulous people by
vague insinuations that I did not have money to
purchase southwestern lauds, you wiil excuse
himself aud brother officers for the kind reception
they had met. He said he had not been a priso
ner, long, but that he had been treated kindly du
ring the time he was in the enemy’s hands. He
tried hard not te be captured, but hereafter he
would try still harder.
Gen. Jeff. Thompson also came forward, and
made a brief but eloquent speech, which was en
thusiastically cheered.
List of Confalerate Officers.
Major General Edward Johnson.
Major General Frank Gardner
Brigadier General Geo. H. Stewart.
Brigadier Heneral J; J. Archer.
Brigadier General Jeff. Thompson.
Colonel Win M Barber, 27th North Carolina Io-
^Coionel James N Brown, 14th South Carolina
. me , VV1VMV
lor itnforming you how I happened' to have the Infantry
. , v I Colonel RH Carter, 1st Virginia Cavalry.
. At the commencement of the war I had a hand j Colonel B E Candice. 1 Oth Kentucky Rifles. »
some estate with a competent income, which I had Ctlonel Novoall Cobb, 5Uth Virginia Iufan
made by industry and energy in my profession try.
drawn.
lt.tvas a very impudent falsehood, but Las had P r,8 ° nera
its uses for our enemies. If John Doe won the 1 w ® andc( j- ....
suit against Richard Roe upon that suppositious 1 Dur whole loss in killed, wounded and missing
case it carried th%whole cause: and the whole i W1 ^ Dot exce . ed six hundred and fifty, gome of
cause was and is, the pretension and full deter- 0Ur men ’ Believed to have been blown up, are re-
mination of the Northern States to use their pre- ' P orted .^T prisoners taken at tbo close of the day’s
ponderance iu the Federal representation iu order °P erat ' 0l,s > t0 be in the enemy ’s hands.
, Official Accounts.
“An official despatch received at the War De
partment states that at 5 A. M., on Saturday, the
enemy sprung a mine under one of tlie salients
ou our fiont and opeued bis batteries upon our
lines aud the city of Petersburg. In the confu
sion caused by the explosion he got possession of
the salient, which was afterwards re-taken antF
the enemy driven back to his lines with loss.
“A later official telegram gives some interesting
particulars. When we drove the enemy from the
land or England Ireland. Slavery was the im
mediate occasion—carefully made so hy them
it was not the cause The Tariff which almost
brought about the disruption some years ago,
would have much more accurately represented]
though it did not c >ver or exhaust, the real cause
of quarrel. Tariffs would have shown in coi
umirt of figures the exact manner, and exact
amount, in which the predominant North prono
the war. If the war is to continue we prefer that j 8 ed to enrich itself by our industry, control th« - -
Republicans should Lave th6 management of H. ; development of ou; resources, and squeeze the- 8a we recovere( J the tour guus with which it
South like a sponge. Yet neither 1 wa ^ armed, captured twelve stauds: ot colors,
;ponge. Yet neither Tariffs nor
Slavery, nor both together, could ever have been
as in case of a change we would gain nothing, on
ly lose. _ v
I have written God's -truth in this matter. I
suppress my name only because I do not wish to
be harrassed by my friends, should you publish it.
J. S. T.
Cen. flood Increases bis Army.
The Atlanta correspondent of the Columbus En
quirer, says that Gen. Hoed is rapidly increcsiug
tlfc lighting men of his arm>:
Gen, Hood is putting guns into the Lands of ev
ery available man connected with the army. All
of the cooks have-been, armed aud returned to
tbelr respective commands, and the Degrees con
nected witg the army have been employed in that
capacity. Quartermasters and Commissaries have
been made to disgorge the many superfluous men
iu their departments;' surgeons 'also. The re
sult is the army has received a considerable rein
forcement. In Clayton’s division alone tbe num
ber of new men returned from the cooking detach
ments reached 380, which at this time is consider
ed a good regiment. The increase from the cooks
alone will reach 4,000 effective men.
But Gen Hood does not stop here. He has or
dered the arming of every artillerist, except from
No. 1 to 6; who.are absolutely necessary to han
dle a! pUoe.-frotn-tl.is sourcehn increase will be j ^ n .ki. which their father. J" i
obtained amounting to -near 3060 men- 1 must le j all( j iransmiued-lto tLem%h afl u^tre^ree"
say, however, that tw order converting arrtllerjr j of hi{?h names and great deed8 . wjfL a „ -
into infantry Caused consfflerablo fluttering a- | tive wealth of untameable manhood That in
mong the battery boys. True, many ot them take > heritance we mean to own while we live, and
the thing quite easy, perfectly willing to serve the i leave intact to those who are to come after us.-
'Jf nntrY , a j this critical juncture in any capacity i ; s our8 f rom t (j e centre of the earth up to the
that will aid in the overthrew of Sherman andlus j heavens, with all the minerals beneath-it and all
Hessians. . I the sky above it. None but Virginians shall
. l ( ‘ 13 °, n . r reader . s will at once perceive ma ke laws here ; no strangers shall impose taxes
that Gen Hood is determined »o leave nothing un- ; or ta ,iff 3 upon us for their profit, nor dare to dic-
donc that will subserve the great interest of the j tate t0 « 8 |,ow w-e shall rule our own households,
conn try. . We shall ally ourselves with neigh boring States
I am proud to say thousands of Georgians are I just s0 lol) s SU c-h alliance may be useful aud
responding to the last call of Gov. Brown It a honorable to us ; but let those allies infringe upon
seventy.four officers, including Brigadier General
Bartlett and staff, and eight hundred -aud fifty-
truly called the cause of the Secession and tha'’z: ‘ . j . ,
War. We refnso to accept for a cause anything- ? h Ve en ' ,Ste ? m , en . Upwards of bve hundred of
• .... j k . the enemy s dead are lying uuburied iu the
lower, meaner, smaller than that truly announced,
namely, the sovereign independence of our States.’
This, indeed, includes boih.these minor question*
« » n'.»7 Olliers jet K „v e , . n J Si s L. it i
liic.udes full power to regulate our trade for our' i i i
own profit, and also complete jurisdiction ovej > rTiS Tlf V '‘7 r ° CC vv
our own social and domesti: institutions • but it v\ Bichmond Light Infantry 14)ues :VV.
further involves all the nobler attribute’s of na 1 Lipscomb hilled; Robert R fed and J J. Ded-
tional, and even of indiviu.al life and character l mounded ; L. 1 lrnckht-art J
A community which once submits to be schooled, W : Sm,tU -?. nJ l J -Wilkinson, slightly wounded
dictated to, legislated for, by any other, soon
grows poor in spirit: it becomes at least incapa
ble of producing a high style of men : its very
soul withers within it: in it no genius, no art ’
can have its home : if they arise within Its bor-
deis they migrate to the dominant eountiy, and
seek there their career and their reward: its citi
zens become $ kind of half men, feel that they
have hardly a right to walk in the sun, take the
lowest seats at the world’s table, and there is no
| man to say, Friend, go up higher.
And tbe people of Virginia do not choose to ac-
1 cept that position for themselves and for their
! children. They choose rather to die. They own
trenches. Our loss slight
The press telegiams treating of this battle may
be found under our telegraphic head. Except the
includes full power to regulate our trader our ' cas " altie8 meut l oncd m . the telegrams referred
David Wright, of the Sixth'Virginia regiment,
formerly of this city, and J. E. Lawton were
killed. George M. Savage, cf the Otey battery,
was shot through the foot.
Gmnt sending troops to Washington.
A gentleman from the Northern Neck informs
us, that, on Thursday aud Fiiday, Urge numbers
of transports loaded with troops from Grant's army
passed up the 1‘otomac. The number of these
troops is put at twenty thousand.
[Riehmonfl Examiner.
to the last call of Gov. Brown If a
general engagement can be delayed one week lon
ger, and tin# enemy retain their present position.
Sherman and his army will be routed.
Sherman does not manifest a disposition to shell
Atlanta. For two days he has not thrown a shell
into the place. <
Large quantities of tobacco continue to be un
earthed and brought forth from its biding places,
in and around Atlanta, which Gen, Hood promptly
impresses for the use of the army. There is no
doubt but what the owners thought that Atlanta
would be evacuated aud tfieu they and their tobac
co Would fall iuto the embraces of theyankees.
.Mobile.—Our news from Mobile looks somewhat
better this morning. It seems that tlie enemy came
up the bay nearly to “Dog River Bur,” and .went
back, that the garrison of Fort Morgan were in fine
spirits, aud that everything in the city is behind the
breastworks. .
Mobile will not be tuken by tbe present expedition.
Farragut xrill not pass that “Dog River Bar.” It has
not enough water on it for the vessels to be brought by
Fort Morgan, and therefore I is iiif)|fitry uboye will be
required to do the balance of the work. That force
oti» sovereignty in any point, and the connection
ends.’ Wherever they touch our independence,
there we meet and repel them, be it in the matter
ot customs duties or in the matter of slavery, or
for three pence per pound on tea, or for the ninth
pait of a hair.
It is right to let foreign nations, and “those
whom it may concern,” understand this theory of
our independence: let them understand, that
though we are “not fighting for slavery,” yet we
will neither allow the Yankee nation, nor any
Luropean Government, nor a combination of all
the Powers of the earth, to dictate to us, or im
pose conditions upon us, or even advise us, about
slavery or any other of our -internal affairs—not
because that would diminish «ur interest in any
property, but becanse if touches our indepen
dence.—Richmond Examiner.
• The lankce Mine at Petersburg.
A correspondent of the New York Herald, at-
***"^*^ *** *4*— X «>1> ^ rmj> AAvpa. >ku« Jvjanbaa
the \aukee mining operations at Petersburg.
The work was conimej 8 M 0 n the#B5th of June
last, as previously stateofl** Such was the secresy
with wrhieh it was conducted that for a .long time
the object was unknown even to those at whoSe
side it was going on. ItTs true, that reports were
in circulatiouof amine; but nobody could speak mean* good galloping ground iu’65. Ail our batteries
cerfainly of the matter. So much doubt was i reInain in,1Gl ‘ as we them- The trenches can be
there, indeed, for a time it: was disbelieved that I tnu j ed , f i’ r nillc8 ’ They have fallen in, as might be ex-
any such undertaking was of, foot. One soldier CSSr °“ * nt ‘
in thn hrruelu-nrL-i! Im „L1.. „ » . .. . rt .
avoided only by r-ucli arrangements as will facilitate
leiig bonded loans. The banks, that is to sav, tlie
committee they have appointed to represent them,
"ill probably insist that the government ought to ease
the money market by further issues; and ns lenders
can generally dictate to a needy borrower, Mr. Fessen
den will doubtless find it expedient to comply ..with this
wish. The result will be temporary relief, purchased
by means which wiltstill further depreciate the public
credit.
We have advanced so far in a wrong direction that
nothing is likely to at rest the depreciation of govern
ment credit but such a change iu the military situation
as will foretoken the speedy close of the war. Con
traction of the currency, even then, must be gradual,
or the business of tlie country will go into general
uuhingemeut. But at present we have the wolf by
the eurs; we can neither hold him nor safely let him go.
We have gone so far in a false system that no financial
physician has courage to propose anything more than
palliatives. The consideration of remedies is reserved
till the return ot peace.
Si-bastopa! Eight Years alter tbe Siege.
Having lately returned from a fortnight’s visit to the
Crimea, it may possibly interest some of your readers
to hear liow we found Sebastopol and its neighborhood
looking iu 1863. One is at once struck with the deso
lation that prevails on each side of the harbot. There
are, indeed a few guns mounted ou Fort' Constantine;
and the Russian ensign waves over ft. but the other
forts on the North side are crumbling to pieces, aud
not a gun nor a soldier is visible uldtig the whole range
of these once formidable works. At the entrance of
the harbor are the few worm-eaten hulks lately raised
by Colonel Gowen, and off South Bay lies the Ad
miral’s steam yac-ht, whilst a few coasters are lading
with shot ami broken shell, the rclirjuioe Danaum of
1854—’56, at the furtiier extremity, aud these are the
representatives of the Russian fleet iu the Black Sea
in 1863. Landing at the quay, where now no Russian
official accosts the suspicious stranger, a walk of two
hundred yards leads to the hotel, kept by one M. Mit-
zel, formerly head waiter of the club-house, tlie ruins
of which are immediately adjoining.
Of all the British cemeteries we visited, ve scarcely
found one that had received any injury beyond the
unavoidable decay whcili eight Crimean winters must
bring with them. Around each enclosure, small or
large, low solid walls have .been built, and are kept iu
good repair. On Cathcart’s Hill, though the grass has
grown over many of the flat tomb-stones, we only no
ticed one headstone that had been injured. It was one
which marked tire grave of a Colonel of the 55th Reg
iment, aud on inquiry we tound that it was blown down
iu a gale last winter. Iu the adjoining cemeteries,
where some hundreds of our brave soldiers rest, it was
gratifying to see that even tharouud shot which eight
o{ nine yeqgs ugo some friendly hand placed as- a bor
der to his comrade's grave, remains undisturbed —
What had been said of Cathcart’s Hill applies equally-
to thegravesof the Ltgbt Division, amt, in fact, to ail
the large enclosures. Wild flowers spring up luxuriant
ly above them all, aud there is no appearance cfany
intrusion either of man or Least.
Gen. Pelissier’s headquarters and Lord Raglan’s
houses are inhabited by Taitars, who have taken
great pride in preserving eveiything that tells of their
departed glory.* The iiuts still surround Lord Raglan’s
quarters which once sheltered his staff; a small tablet
iu the room where lie died records the fact. Kedlkoi
and Balaclava, are us quiet as the grave, some few
small boats tying Idle iu the harbor, our quay rotting
to pieces, and our huts now occupied by returning
Tartars, whose only occupation seems to be fishing for
the treasure trove, tbe sad mementoes of the awfuigale
of November 14, 1854. A bag lull ot sovereigns was
fished up a few days before our arrival. The field of
Balaclava is now (lotted with vineyards, and is by no
Tiie Spanish are thinking of cutting a maritime
canal around the Rock of Gibralter, so as to supercede
the use of the Straits, and the French are taking up
,.... _ the project. Thei'e are no great engineering difficulties
is some of the same material Banks had up Red *-° encountered, aud the cost is estimated at twenty
— ■ -flllionsof dollars.
River.
That portiou of the dispatch which says that “the
enemy liax-e merely earned an outpost” is a mistake,
lie only passed an outpost but did not uarry'lt. As
soon as wo heard that tue people of Mobile hail deter
mined to defend their city, we took courage and at
once come to the conclusion that tbe city was safe.
Corn.—Corn in abundance may b6 Lad in and
around Montgomery at four dollars per bushel - —*
The pfcpera of that city report it dull at that price
even.
in the breastworks, by whose
shaft emerged, told his comrades, in the most sut"
prised manner, that “there was a lot of fellows
under him a doing something; lie knew that
there was, for he could hear ’em talk.”
To guard against indiscretion on the part of the
pickets, to prevent any meeting of our soldiers
with the Confederates, whereby the secret of the
mine might.be boastingly or imprudently disclosed
our pickets were ordered to tire continually.—
Hence the never-ending fusilade on the front of
the Ninth corps, so incomprehensible to the other
corps, and which was often referred to in news
paper paragraphs. The enemy, doubtless,, sus
pected at first that the undermining was going on;
bat when serveral weeks elapsed without any de
monstration, their suspicions began to vanish, es
pecially as their engineers thought the plan un
feasible.
The progress of the work was necessarily very
slow, and-it was not Until the 25th of July—just
one mouth fnom iuceptiun-ttbat it was completed
At the outset one of the most important points
was to ascertain tfTe exact distance and bearing
of the Confederate fort. A
The excavation was commenced in the side of
the hill where an exterior line of works runs.—
The tunnel, or, to use the techincal term, “gal
lery,” is about four and a .mlf feet high, nearly
as many feet vride-atthe bottom, and two.feet
wide at tbe top. The usual army pick was not
suited to the work, as its flukes ’were took broad
to permit their swinging in tbe tunuel. This dif
. , ..... „ are thickly covered with brush-
lde a ventilating f wood, though the batteries are easily discerned, and
the camp* are also well distinguished, though the grass
has grown over the paved streets that intersected the
lines. The Redan monument is in a disgraceful state ;
the inscription has beeu almost entirely obliterated.—
Some vandals have cut their names on it, and even
large pieces out of it, for keepsakes, and tlie wall-round
it is broken down iu several places Tbe Kedau itself
is uualtered iu general appearance, though gradually
crumbling into the ditch, and vineyards are quietly
spriDgiug up in its rear. Tlie Mahtkoff remains a mass
of ruin ; in fact, nothing has been done since the war
to alter the appearance of the town, save the rebuild
ing of a line of barracks near the docks, where the
present garrison, consisting of one battalliun, is quar-
tcred.
If possible, the desoiatton is more apparent on the
North than on the_ South side. You can traverse the
whole line of fortifications and meet with neither Bob
dier nor gun ; the ramparts are falling iuto their focse,
the walls have sunk, though the general appearance
is that of desertion rather than destruction. There are
said to be three thousand-inhabitants now in Sebasto
pol; we scarcely met thirty.—London Morning Post.
ter. „ - - - r . .
„ „ __ Grant at bay, than to receive supplies from l'euusyl
faculty was easily overcome by tiling down tbe vania and Maryland.—Petersburg Express,
Fat Maryland Cattle.—Not a few of the well fed,
tut cattle of Maryland, captured by General Karly’s
force, iiave readied Petersburg, aud our troops are
now enjoying the luxury oLxteai goad beef. It is said
to be the best seen in tbe§e parts since the Arly days
of the war, whenthe cattle lrpm tiie mountains of Wes
tern Virginia poured to tlie east. This army sends its
compliments to General Early, and hopes be will find
it convenient to “gobble up” a sufficiency of beeves,
sheep, hogs, fee.,to last them through the coming win-
Nothing would please them better, while keeping