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ggwwywMafiMgj! VOLUME XXXV.] MILLEDGEVItLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1S64. NUMBER 12. J}) UUHTOX, MSB ET, B ARNES & MOORE, Publishers and Proprietors. *. x j o« BOi'flnr#!v, ( SI. JIIHBET. ‘ <£<mfcbtntit Pinion 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 6 00 8 00 2 00 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