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Milledgeville, August :$]st, i«64.
Messrs. Eililors.—I have been desired to present
to the public, a statement of the “raid’ made on
mv prouertv by a portion of Gen. W heeler a
my property by a portion v.— - , ,
airy, on the 26th and 27th inst. I 0l
,be nope that it may ^‘iiist sup
the people, to their own proiec *h, r
if" . a „. —„ii qj «scortailien enemie.,. v*n
.posed n lends as well as a8C ”‘ <• . ...
II j I’lnmnnil J^gt thC llifitj WhllSt
-ilting in mv piazza *» my farm three miles and
an liaff from this place, on the direct road to Ma
con, a couple of horsemen rode up to my door
V.Utt | ** w X i | v #• • I•
j <-), s ired to purchase some old corn for a mill
tary force in chaige of 80(1 cattle, captured from
the confederate union,
(Corner of Hancock anti Wilkinson streets )
OPPOSITE TSSKCOL’KT BOISE.
*B$iCnTO*. .MSBET & CO., Statu Printtr*.
Tuesday Morning, September G, 1004.
l.i»t prnoi» whe have died at ‘Itrewn
Hospital” wince ila Cklnblishnu-nl, to l»t
of sept., inclusive.
All persons, in Baldwin county, indebted
to us are requested to call at our office ar.d make
payment.
The Front.
It is very difficult to get a clear view of the sit
uation at the Georgia front. Tl.o'fighting on the
Road near Jonesboro, on Wednesday and Thurs
day. did not result iL our favor, that much we
know. The enemy g t tlie Hail Road. aud cut
our Army in two. Late accounts place uur army
at or near Lovejoy's Station, 24 miles irom Atlanta
Gen. Hood is reported to have evacuated Atlrnta
and massed his forces at or near Lovejoy’s Station.
Of the particulars of the evacuation of Atlanta,
and the battles of W ednesday and 1 nursJay, we
nrv prill in ignorance. One thing is certaip—
Ilood must be reinforced, in a short time, irit is
expected, by the military powers that he, to pro
teet the only remaining line of communication be
tween the West and th* East. We are by no means
despondent; hut we aro very earnest, w hen we
say, that no effort.cot even the weakening of Lee's
Army, sbouhf he spared to defend the central line
of communication through the State. A few
weeks will determine the fate of Georgia. Lot
officials and citizens strip lor the work in band.—
The crisis is indeed upon us.
The Vnnkee Prisoner*.
We think the best thing our Government could d
touching the Yankee prisoners at Macon an
dersonvide, would be to parol
have expired, and send the
tire inanv good
.Un
til of them w-hose times
in beyond our lines. There
nsons for such a course of conduct,
which we may urge at another time.
The Situation.
Around Petersburg quiet lias prevailed
since
the defeat of the enemy on the Petersburg and
Weldon K K mi the 23th u!t- In Georgia th»*re
is a new movement being made by Sherman,
which is nothing more nor less than the possession
of the Macon and Western 11. If. below Atlanta,
far the purpose of cutting off Gen. Hood from his
base of supplies and compelling the evacuation of
Atlanta, Sherman's lines extend from Sandtown,
on toe Chattahoochee River, to a point almost
west of Jonesboro. His supplies are hauled troni
Vining's station, a point on the State Road a few
miles north of the Chattahoochee, lie is endeav
oring to do in Georgia precisely what Grant has
been trying to accomplish at Petersburg, viz: to
get and hold the important line of Rail Road
communication by which our Army is sustained.
rhe Yankees at Acworth. I stated that I had *ot
old corn enough to bread mv rragroes for more
than two weeks, and could not therefore sell any.
Finding that the cattle were near by—prompted
l by curiosity tif see them, I went, to the public
road in the rear of my house about two hundred
yards, i remained conversing with an office!
and the men for the space of an hour, until the
various gangs of cattle had passed on, when I re
tinned to my house, which had been left open by
me, I found it closed. A very faithful old negro
woman had closed it, in consequence, as she said,
of her seeing a soldier going through my rooms
Not suspecting anything, I did not discover that
my Watch, called a Hunter's Watch, with flat
gold case, until the next morning, was missing
Tr had been taken from the nail over the mantle
piece of my bed room, on which it l.nng always
when 1 had occasion to walk over my farm.
Just at dark as I had finished my supper, my
j negioes came in'froni a corn field lying on the
I road, where tin y had been pulling fodder, and
, said to me, that the soldiers-were in the held tear
ing down flu- corn. I went fhimediately to the
place, and found a detachment of meu busily en
gaged in gathering corn. I «poke to them with
great harshness, and characterized their conduct
as worse than Stoneman's, and demanded to know
j by what authority they entered my field, and
were plundering my property. They replied by
the authority of Lieut. Wells of Alabama, who
was in command of the rear, and whose pickets
were stationed on my laud for the night, some
two miles in the rear'of the cattle. I sought ont
this officer and enquired if it was true that bis
men were tearing down my corn by his authority 7
ffe replied, that it was. 1 demanded to know by
I what authority such a trespass on the rights of
i property was made, lie said by the authority of
j his superior officers.” lie said that in their long
■ route of 15 days, I was the only person who had
j made any complaint. Hired by what seemed to-
| be an intended reproach, I said I deeply regretted
j that it was so ; for, if true, it evinced a cowardly
1 submission on the part of the-people who ncqnies-
i ed in such lawlessness ol our Confederate sol-
I diery, as demonstrated clearly, that they wore not
; fit to enjoy the freedom for which the South is
! fighting. I made an appeal to his intelligence
and sense of right, and lie admitted that such
procedure was wrong, but he excused Inmsell
by alledging, that he was only obeying orders and
I the inn fur ns- custom of the .command. He gave
! me the name of Col. Gaines of Alabama, as com
manding the Brigade. It so happeued that the
Col. had gone oi; with the front of the command.
: I could not apply personally to him for redress.
; I however wrote him by Fridav’s (frail to Macon,
; Geo. Whilst probably engaged in writing to him,
tho’ it may have been "at a different hour cu that
' day, one of the soldiers of his command went 5n-
I to ray pasture, and stole front it, The very best
mule 1 owned, branded on the foreshoulder with
a very large II. On Saturday, I addressed the
Col. again, giving him a description of the mare
j mule thus stolen. It may be that Col Gaines has
; not received my Vetters. Ample time lias elapsed J
I tor me to have had a reply. 1 know nothing of
j Col. Gaines personally. He is spoken of as a
| gentleman. I am persuaded if he is the officer
1 lie is represented to be, he will diligently ferret
i out. the thieves who stole my wa'cb and mule,
j The descriptions given by me of my property, are
: full enough, for any one who wishes to See that
hi is done, li my Utters should nut be heeded, I
Marion Atkerson, August 23.
N. 1$. Bates, July*G. *
Jas T Buckner. August 31.
E M. dark Sept. 1.
Elisha B. Cape, August 29.
Ringold Commander, August 27.
J. K. Ellis. August 4.
Wm. Fusseli, August 29!
Wm Gaff, June 19.
Wm Grogan, June 22-
J. M. Green, August 3D.
J. M. Hutcherson, August 24.
Jno M. Jones, June22.
T. Judge, August 24.
A. A. Lanfurd. July 7.
J N. Meadows, July 2^-
Jno. McLeod. August 27.
*Jno. W. Robinson. Juno 28.
Owen Ramsey, August 16.
Aaron Rogers, August 22.
’Green B. Turner, August 18.
Reddick Thornton, August 27.
J A. Vaughn. June 26.
J. M. VVinq, August 2.
S II. Walker, August 6.
Mordecai W. Wood, August 23.
Deaths occurred since July’ 9th, took place
since the removal of the Hospital from Atlauta to
this city
The. whole number of patients admitted into-
Brown Hospital since June J3tb, when it was
opened, is-1,433.
COMMUNICATED.
For the Confederate Union.
A JJBEAM.
A night <>r two ago, I dreamed flint the war was-
ng
will address Maj. Geueial Wheeler. It is due to
this last named gallant officer to say that in his
General Orders of the 3rd May, 1804, which 1
have seen for the first time since I wrote to Col.
Gaines, such conduct as was authorized by the
immediate order of Lieutenant Wells, is strictly
prohibited. My corn was taken from my field
without any application having been made to me
for it, without any necessity assigned, without
any compensation paid or offered. Can any one
At the time we write, we have many- rumors trom | W Q DC jer how Commissaries grow rich upon small
the front, some unfavorable, which we hope will
be cleared up, advantageously for.our side, before
our paper is put to press.
salaries, when officers wearing swords, “com
mand” the pillage of Confederate cisizens. and
make out bills against the government for forage,
neither supplied nor paid for by them. Some
We have nothing to report from Mobile since four or five eases of plunder&c, L have heard of
the surrender of Fort Morgan. Wheeler has been j within the limits of this county. I skall not un-
at work in East Tennessee; capturing prisoners, dertake to make any statement of'the wrongs
sustained by others. I conclude by asking, “it
destroying bridges and public stores. We would . gudj if) t , u . coarsp ’> of tlie mounted soldiery
rather bear of him between Dalton and Chatta- [ 0 f t j ie Confederacy, permitted to straggle from the
in the vicinity of Vining’s Station j r0 ad in twos and threes, tearing down -fences,
nooga, or
where Sherman's supplies are collected.
“1 Ca!a Day In Atlanta.”
It sounds strange to ‘ears polite,” but it seems
to he tine, nevertheless, that Friday the 26th of
August was a gala day in Atlanta. The euemy
having abandoned his position on our right,
where he had been enabled to shell the city for
more than a month, and moved off on our left be
yond shelling distance of the city, men, women
and children thronged, the hitherto sileut thor
oughfares, and exchanged congratulations on the
blessed change in the situation. Cellars gave up
their occupants; basement stories were evacuated;
holes in the Rail Road cuts were suddenly left
alone in iheir glory, and Atlanta was herself once
more. We see it stated that one individual, who
had been burrowing in the earth for six weeks,
poked his head ont of a hole in the ground, and,
with consternation still depicted on his counte-
nace, inquired, “aft they all gone?" Bright but
brief was tlie happiness of the denizens of the
gate city, on the announcement that Sherman had
“cut stick,” and was i raving w ith all possible haste i
for tho other side of ti e river. The great flanker.
iL seems, had no idea of “giving it up so.” He
was only changing his base, and striking more
boldly than ever for the possession of the city.
How narrow tho space that divides our joys and
woes 7 The citizens of Atlanta, from the highest
pinnacle of joy, are suddenly thrust down to the
depths of despair.
The Outrages of Wheeler’s Vcn.
From a card in this paper, over the signature
of I. L. Harris, it will he seen that very little re
spect was paid to private property by a portion of
Wheeler’s men who passed through tins county,
two weeks since, en route to Macon. It is time
that officers should contiol their men, if they
would preserve their organizations from utter de-
moralization.
stealing nralcs and other property, and no author
ity exercised over them by their proper officers,
cau those in the rear of Gen Hood’s Army suffer
more lrom the raids of a malignant foe than from
the presence in our midst of those., wno, instead of
being our protectors are the worst of plunderers 7
I)o subordinate officers—those below the General-
in-Chief. respect any law, human or divine 7—
All ideas of private property'seem to be subverted
among military men of some armies aud their
subordinates and under-strappers, as their conduct
virtually asserts that the farmer is not the owner
of the small corn field he has plauted arid tilled
for the use of his family, and upon which he re
lies for his bread, but that it belongs to the sol
diery with which they are connected, who have
a right to take it at their discretion without re
compense or resistance.
It is palpable, I think, that if these officers had a
true sense of honor and duty, and would act up to
their requirements, and enforce discipline, without
which, soldiers may—will degenerate into bandits,
no such occasions as I have narrated, could occur
to put a stain on tho reputation of a Confederate
soldier. IVERSON L. HARRIS.
Cor. Brown's Proclamation.
We call attention to the Proclamation of Gov.
Brown, appointing Thursday 15th of September,
a day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer. Let
the day be observed, by all the People. We need
God's forgiveness and mercy.
A Peace Belligerent.
Mr. Harris of Maryland, was, perhaps, the
strongest peace man in the Chicago Convention ;
he knocked down a war man who called him a
traitor.
The Georgia Front.
The TTiieogo ’Nomination*—our I*olicy.
We give to-day the nominees of the .Chicago Con
vention, and n substance oft lie Platform adopted. We
believe, if the ticket is elected, peace will result. But
our policy is, to say nothing pro or con on the subject.
It is a matter with which we have uotliing-to do. If
the Southern press praise the nominees or platlonn
the War party at the North will use it against the
Peace I’aity. If we abuse the nominees of-the Chi
cago Convention, we exasperate and alienate those
who mav be our friends. Let the Northern people
inauage their cwn political eencc:ns. while we of the
South occupy the position of armed neutrality. We
regret to see some of our Georgia journals pitching in
tojhe nomination of McClellan and Pendleton. M c
■may get something out of their election -, we certainly
have nothing to expect from the election of Lincolti
or I runout, Ji/un» is the word.
On Wednesday evening at 3 o’clock Hardee’s
and Lee’s corps attacked the en*-iny in an en
trenched camp Rtid iu heavy force immediately in
front of Jonesboro
The fight conti ntu-d two hours, during which
we drove the enemy back and captured two lines
ot his entrenchments. But owing to a portion ol
our troops not coming to time, our line fell hack
and at. night occupied their original position.
It was reported by passengers yesterday, that
five colps of the enemy were in front of Jones
boro to which we opposed two.
As usual when there is important news from
Atlanta the telegraph is behjnd time, not aline
havingjbeen received from there up to a late hour
yesterday afternoon.
Gen. Patton Anderson, of Tennessee, and Gen.
Cummings of Georgia, are reported wounded.
[ Confederate 2nd.
SStcrninn’s Recruiting Agents in Gi-orgin,
In lieu of arivthiugwe might say on this subject, .we
adopt the following Eifitorial from the Richmond
Examiner, and invite the reader’s attention to it.
One of the surest methods of making the con
quest of a country impossible.next after defeating
the invading armies, is to make it a service of
extreme danger for all civil officers and employ
ees ot the kivaling power to come in the wake of
those armies aud attempt to exercise any function
or to take possession of any pretended conquest.
The Washington Government, for example, may
declare Ti-ud conquered ; but if it he as much as a
Yankees’s neck is worth to come in there and un
dertake to administer cilice under tint Govern
ment? or to purchase an estate “confiscated” by
that Government—if, in short. Yankee rule ex
tends exactly to the end of musket range, and not
an inch farther, then Tennessee is not conquered
after all. The navigation of the Mississippi is
opened; but what' signifies that, if captains,
crews and passengers are always in terror and
peril ot their lives 7 We read that-the‘Princess,’
splendid river steamer, was the other day tired
into by- a “masked battery” and completely rid
died, five persons killed and eleven wounded, and
the-captain having his head blown off as he cried
“no surrender This was right, wholesome and
prudent; let those “free navigators’’ learn by
frequent such warnings that there can be no free
or safe boating on that river without consent of
the States on its banks, and it matters little what
may be proclaimed at Washitigton.
Everv-gond man was gratified lately on reading
that a Yankee who had gone lo Louisiana and
taken possession of another man’s sugar planta
tion by authority of bis own Government, had
been brought back to New York a corpse, togeth
er with his family ol five, corpses too. .So perish
all invading thieves 1 There has heeu a good
deal of this kind of process of-ejectment put in
force against the new Yankee planters in Louisi
ana ; hot not near enough: we read in the last
Now York Tribune which has come to Richmond
this announcement in it.s Louisiana correspond
ence : “The crop of cotton will be so remunera
tive in this department that one lessee of a Gov
ernment plantation, formerly a newspaper corres
pondent, will realize a profit of one hundred thou
sand dollars this season.” We trust not: that
scoundrel, we sincerely hope, will realize nothing
but a house and crop laid in ashes and a bullet
through tlie brain, pour encourager les autres —
Every good Confederate in or near those parts,
who is not iu the regular army, ought to be adil
igent and conscientious “jayhawker.”
But there are none of the agents or employees'
of the Washington Government, prowling about
the Confederate States, who ought to be so care
fully watched for and so summarily put to death
as the recent mg agents, whom the Yankee States
are now sending iu here to entrap negroes, so as
to get credit for them as soldiers on their State
quotas. 'I hose recruiting agents are now actual
ly swarming over these Confederate States, no
doubt in various disguises, stealing negroes and
bribing the basersort of white men. It is true
these operations will not bring tlie enemy many
soldiers, and no good soldiers at all: hut Ibis
does not make the atrocious villainy of the pretend
ed recruiting one whit lers detestable, rr less
worthy of sudden and violent death. Think of
Jersey City having agents to recruit for it in South
Carolina! We read in a late New York paper
that “Art agent sent out by the authorities of
Jersey City to recruit in the rebel States, lrom
Beaufort writes to Mayor Cleveland, that recruit
ing agents are far more numerous than able bod
ied blacks desirous of going into service. The
price offered for recruits range from three hundred
to sfx hundred dollars.” And it is not only with
in the military lines of Yankeo armies that these
rascals are abroad. We find one Sporm, a Mass
achusetts recruiting agent in Sherman’s depart
ment, announcing his arrival to that officer, aud
Sherman’s most extraordinary reply. He informs
Sporm that of courke he will he furnished ‘with a
pass through the lines “into those States ; says
he need not establish recruiting depots in North
west Georgia, because all able-bodied men there,
whether white or black are already in one of the
two contending' armies ; but Sherman proceeds,
“I would suggest recruiting depots to be estab
lished at Macon and Columbus, Mississippi^, Sel
ma, Montgomery and Mobile, Alabama, and Co
lumbus, Milledgeville and Savannah, Georgia ”
It does not very clearly appear how those recruit-
I ing agents are expected to go work in these Con
federate towns they cannot recruit openly . they
can scarce expect to march their recruits ont of
tqwn, to the tune of Yankee Doodle and go with
them to Sherman : there can he no mistake about
it—those agents are to be negro thieves, using all
possible pretexts, names and disguises ; but well
supplied with.money and furnished with cunning
assistants who know the neighborhood. Howev
er, the thing is to be done, the above is what Gen
eral Sherman ‘ wohIi] suggest.” What we would
suggest, is that the man Sporm, and all such like
agents should, on detection, be shot like wild
beasts. Good and faithful negroes should bo set
to trap the scoundrels and deliver them over to
summary justice ; so that the quotas of Northern
States should be at least gathered here under dif
ficulties and not without h degree of dange#
It is a horrible thought tl^it there may be, in
all probability, thousands of these commissioned
negro thieves infesting every Confederate State
at this moment; not that we have any apprelien
over, ami Milledgeville was crowded with soldiers win
had just returned from the Army. Drums'were beat
ing, cannon filing, flags flying, and the streets were
alive with' women and children who had come out to
welcome the soldiers. Innumerable wagons weie
passing to and fro laden with provisions, and hundred
of negroes were moving hurriedly on bearing upon
their heads huge waiteis filled with every delicacy
tlie imagination could conceive.' Festoons of flowers
hung.upon every tree in the public streets, and in
Capitol Square. ID re an immense crowd had col
lected. Gov. Brown welcomed tlie soldiers in a
touchingly eloquent address. After he concluded, an
officer of one of the returned companies, replied. 1
e.mld not identify him, hut I remember every word
lie saidas vividly as though I had heard it a thousand
times, lie said.- ‘‘Citizens of Milledgeville, and
Baldwin Cou.itv : - In behalf of the battle scarred vett-
r.-rne who stand before you to-duy, I thank you for this
cordial welcome. Four years of unprecedented trials
in the field they- have borne without complaint, in
defence of liberty-and all else that could be dear to
man’s or woman s heart. Again ayd again I thank
you, all tiiuuk you, for this niauife.-tation of your
kindness. I hold in my hands the various lists of con
tributions which have been made in our behnlf, and in
aid of our families since the War began. I also possess
the names of all men who have been speculating upon
tlie hard necessities of the soldier’s family and the in.
digent poor. l.will repeat all the names, one by one,
on all these lists, and I beg your patience.” (Just
here there was a great, commotion in the crowd, and
many were taken with a sudden leaving.) After tlie
several lists were ail read over, the speaker proceeded.-
“I do not see upon any of these lists the name of Mr.
15 or Mr. C, or Mrs. D. I hold them enemies to our
redeemed country, and hereby brand them as traitors,
unworthy to enjoy for a dey the blessed atmosphere of
freedom, and deserving eternal execration. I discover
that the wealthy Mr. —— ami the rich Mrs.
The Chicago Convention!!
SfcLELLU XOHI.TATED FOR PRESIDES!'!
Pendleton 0f Ohio foe Vice President!
We have been favored, by Ct>!. C. A. Hardison
with a copy of the Telegraph of this morning, (3d)
froin which we gather the following facts:
By despatches from Richmond, of the 2nd, we
learn that General McClellan was nominated for
President by the Chicago Convention on the 1st
Ballot. He received 202 rotes. Seymour 23.—
Pendleton, of Ohio, was unanimously nomina
ted on the 2nd Ballot.
THE PLATFORM.
The following is the substance of the Platform :
1st Resolution.—The Democratic party in fu-
tuie as in the past, will adhere with unswerving
fidelity to the Union of the Constitution.
2nd.—Afteffour years of failure to restore the
Union by War, during which time the Constitu
tion has been violated in every part, justice, hu
manity, aDd the public welfare demand that efforts
should he made for a Convention of all the States,
• >r other peaceable means, to end the War at the
tarliest practicable moment,
Died, at Macon G a
Julia E. da-ghte, 7,t thTla'eCiffi
[li n, aged three v , ^ D * n d
and Sri
gone hr
Mrs Julia E. Huguen
months.. A happy little orphan'
meet her parents, who ] ov Ja i “rni Bfo
bright and beautiful gem taken r ™ A
casket and placed in that crown /V” 7 !
Savior’s blow. v ’ “'ch decks the
“She is gone, only C0T!p
Out of pain and into bli.s s
Out of sad aud s'infm
• Into perfect holiness. . ,le ss
Fnowy brows, no c>re 8 h„n . ,
Bright eyes, tears shall nev i- t * ,em:
Rosy lips, no time sho 11 f.j 6 *
Jesus calls her unto him;- e ^ eui '
IMed.—at her home in ColumW ^ ^
>0tb August Iftfi’. Mrs. MargaretV” 1 ’ °" ths
the seventy seventh year of her «g f . ° ZE3, AN, in
Born in King William county .
emigrated to Geotgia in 1817, resff , ln >787,
edgeville and vicinity 27 years.’she has ', n Mil1 *
erentful li>, in a hap’py dearh, it, the ;irr d «»
loved onety and in the Tull and glorious vis* her
brassed immortality. ’
3d. That the interference of Military authority
in Elections, is a shameful violation of the Con
stitution, and
have not given lo the cause as much as the poorest
contributor upon these various lists. I pronounce
them meaner, mere despicable than those who have
given nothing, because th ay pretended to help the sol
diers when their little souls were only induced to gives
few dollars Upkeep up appearances. Soldiers, you will
never forget your friends, yon are determined to re
member your’a and your Country’s enemies. Here is
Mr. an extortioner, I have often heard, who lias
grown’rich off of the tears of widows aud orphans, and
the groans of tlie friendless ami poor! Mark him ! take
care of him. lie reveled in plenty while you were
fighting, bleeding, suffering to save his property from
ruin; and your wives and little ones were starving
while he was growing rich out of their necessities and
mocking their misery. There i.-a future,thank God, and
time will make us even after all.”
Here the Speaker closed; aud as he exposed the
hsts to the gaze of the vast assembly, it seemed that
some of the names were in 1 tters As large as the doors
of the State House, and were surrounded with black
lines as wide as Wayne Street. I never saw such ex
citement iu these parts. Many men left town before
the vast crowd dispersed. Great feeling pervaded the
mass of people present.
SOMNUS.
repetition of such acts, in ap
proaching elections, will be hel l as revolutionary,
and resisted with all the means in our power, or
under ^ur control.
4 h. Denounces Lincoln’s usurpations of pow
er, and tlie crushing out the rights of the States
and the people.
5th- Denounces the administration severely for
refusing to exchange prisoners.
6th. Extends the sympathy of the Democratic
party to the soldiers in the Army, promising them
their regard aDd kindness.
Long of Ohio, opposed the nomination of Mc
Clellan. Harris of Maryland. 4id the same thing,
aud knocked down a New Y'ork man who called
him a traitor. Horatio Seymour addressed # the
Convention strongly in favor of McClellan’s elec
tion, assuring the people that all their rights
would be respected, if McClellan was elected.
Vallandingham moved to make McClellan’s
nomination unanimous, which was carried with
deafening applause. There was iio opposition to
Pendleton’s nomination, and only tour votes
were cast against the platform.
In the city of Raleigh, on the-lst instarf of
sumption, Mr. Wiley VY. Johnson, iu the 58th w
ul Ins age. w v
The deceased was a native of Wayne eotrrttvtli
State, but had resided some 37 years in Wake oUr,
He was au intelligent and woit(fer citizen. He ga!,' i
the most satisfactory evidence of bis preparation fnti
death, tie was buried with Masonic honors.
U§>“Mid(-dgeville and Macon. Ga., papers please i
copy. ’
Notice to payers of Tax in Kind,
P RODUCERS are hereby notified, that I
now prepared with blanks, &e. to receive
their assessment ot Tax in Kind for the county cf
Baldwin. My office will be at Masonic Ila!!.
You will come prepared to give in your retu/rj
for Wheat, Oats, sheaf Oats, Hay, Rye, mnj
Wool.
P. FAIR,
Assessor Tax in Kind for 3rd Hist
Milledgeville, August 27th, 1^64. ]q ;;t. '
iifillfdgciille Clothing Store,
Governor Brown.
On yesterdaj’ we h»d the pleasure of an intro
duction to this distinguished official aud states
man.
Although we have never been the champion of
Governor Brown, and, in fact, have done nothing
more than pay the just tribute that was due his
conduct as an official and policy as a statesman.
Yet we are firmly of the opinion that this Revolu
tion has furnished frw men of more decided abil
ity and merit than be. Amid the clamor and uproar
that have pervaded the public mind and official
circles of the country, during this mighty contest,
he is one of the few who has unyieldingly ad
hered to original principles, and who. notwith
standing the powerful opposition that nas been
arrayed against ^im, has contended snccesfully
with his mighty antagonist, and by the potency
of his reasoning has left a record for reference in
the future conflicts that must be fought for,the
great principle of State Rights.
Although his opposition to the Administration
lias, in some instances, been considered unfortu
nate aqd even hurtful to the common cause of the
country, yet it is doubtless best for all that some
leading spirit should ever warn the people to
keep a jealous eye upon the constituted authori
ties of the land—bo they ever so pure, noble and
just—in order to preclude possibility of encroach
ments, usurpation or departure from first princi
ples.
It was remarked by Mr. Jefferson, that “eter
nal vigilance was the price of liberty,” and it is
no less the case in these days of revolutionary
carnage, war and bloodshed, than in the mild
seasons of the spring time of peace. If Governor
Brown has at times crossed swords with the Con
federate authorities, it has been from honest con
victions of a duty he owed himself, his felfovv cit
izens and posterity.— Confederacy.
From the Savannah News.
From Atlanta—A New Movement.
The public mind, says the Macon Telegraph,
lias been much excited within the past lew days
by reports of the enemy's movements and specu
lations thereon. Sherman lias abandoned all his
earthworks around Atlauta, aud is said to have
massed his force at and near Saudtowu, on both
sides ot the river. Various hypotheses have
been started to tlie meaniug of this moment,
and some have interpreted it as preliminary to a
retreat So U may be, but not until the Federal
commander lias made an effort to defeat or crip
ple his antagonist. If he defeats, he can occupy
Atlanta. If he cripples, tie can re reat with
more security . but -if Sherman is defeated, his
case will be critical.
The more intelligent idea seems to be that Sher
man is preparing to swing loose of the Mate Road
altogether, and move in force for the occupation
of the Macon and Western Road, just as Grant
threw himself across the Weldon and Petersburg
road. A movement from Sandtown in force
across the railroad a little below Rough and
Ready, would give him the head waters of the
Flint and the Ocmulgee to supply his troops in a
thirsty land, and the march by the roads would
be about thirty miles.
I: is a bold movement, hut affairs have reached
that pass when “something must be done.” If
HOSPITAL
COMMITTEES.
Arranged by the Ladies Sep" 4th 1864, for on*
week, at Milledgeville.
each day.
Only Dinuer.to be servec
Tuesday, Ward No. 2
Friday, Ward No 2.
Mis. M. Boughtou,
Mis. Little,-
“ 8tetsou,
“ Clark,
“ N. C- Barnett,
“ Coombs,
Miss V. Doles.
Miss M. Little,
“ Sally Hawkins,
“ M Ringland,
“ Hannah,
“ Pinkie Williams,
Ward No. 3.
Ward No. 3.
Mrs. W. B. Tinsley,
Mrs.W elbom,
“ Iverson Harris,
“ Quiliiau,
“ Barnes,
“ bavnwell,
Miss Daniel,
Miss Caudler,
Ward No. 4.
Ward No. 4.
Mrs. I’olbird,
Mrs. Griffin,
•‘ Sam Brown,
“ McMahon.
“ Ellen Mathews,
“ Condon,
I Miss E. Stetson,
“ Stephens,
1 “ Martha Edwards,
“ W. Scott.
Ward No. 5
Miss L Edwards,
Mrs. Cair,
Ward No. 5. *
Miss F. WaitzfeldeJ,
Mrs. Kirkland.
“ S. Jarratt,
•‘ deGrafeuried,
Wednesday. Ward No
2. “ C. McCombs, .
Mrs. Alexander,
Miss Ann Edwards.
" Santord,
Saturday, It’unl No. 2.
“ Lewis.
Mis. \\ indsor,
“ Howard,
“ Maj. Miller,
,r Case,
“ Dr Jarratt,
Miss Sallie Flinn,
Mrs. Brantly.
Ward. No. 3.
“ Thomas Conn,
f Mrs. Jackson,
Miss Annie Jarratt.
*• M Lawar,
Ward No. 3.
“ Holmes,
Mrs, John Conn,
Miss Sallie Edwards.
*• Bradford,
Ward No. 4.
“ Monday;
Mrs. Dr. S. G. White,
“ M. Bayne,
“ Grieve,
Ward No. 4.
“ Herty,
Mrs. L. Waitzfelder,
“ Robinson,
“ Rose,
Miss M. Robinson,
“ Shea,
Mrs. Kentieid,
“ George Hass,
Ward No. 5.
Ward No 5.
Mrs. Shackleford,
Mrs. Martin Edwards.
Mrs. Harrison,
Mrs Singleton.
Miss Harrison,
Miss Micklejuhn.
“ U. Morphy,
Miss Bvnum.
Thursday, Ward No. 2
Monday. Ward No. 2.
Mrs. Hawkins,
Mrs. A. IL Kennan,
“ E D. Brown.
“ Erasmus Vaughn,
“ Waters.
“ Mac. Orme,
Mrs. Jessie Beall,
“ Staley,
Miss Mary Tinsley,
Miss Mary Orme,
“ Spalding,
“ Smetts,
Ward A'o. 3.
Ward No. 3.
Mrs. R. A. McCombs,
Mrs. Lewis Kennan,
“ Orme,Sr.
“ Guss Callaway,
Miss Davis.
*• Lindrum,
“ Talbird,
Miss 1[ Kennan.
.- Hard No. 4.
Ward Ao. 4.
Mrs. Carnes,
Mrs. Peter Williams,
“ Willie Wilburns,
*• H. Tinsley,
“ Trippe,
“ Dr. B. White,
“ -Mapp,
“ Supple,
Miss Lou, Holmes,
Miss Belle Green,
Miss M. Heity,
“ Roxie Green.
Ward No. 5.
Ward A'0. 5.
Mrs Cullens,
Mrs. Daggett,
“ Bivins:
Mrs. Jake Caraker,
Miss Lizzie Waitzfelder.Miss Yaugim,
“ Mary Edwards.
“ Fannie Edwards.
- By order of the.President.
1 *
MRS. J. B. TRIPPE.
T IIE Subscriber, having recently returned from
Atlanta to his old stand No. J Milledgeville
Hotel, w ith an extensive and varied assortment oi
ready made Clothing, consisting of Mens, Youths
and Boys Coats, Pants, and Vests, suitable for al
seasons, and a great variety of Over Coats, au,)
Prints, Cloth Cloaks, Silk, Lisle and Merino Vests
aud a great variety of Dress Trimmings, viz s;;' k
and Cotton Laces, Edgings and Fringes, Et,sU«
’and a variety of Fancy Buttons, which w ill be sold
on reasonable terms; call and see.
A. C. VAIL.
Milledgeville, Ang. 29 1864. j4
HEAD QURS. MEDICAL DIRECTOR.
I.tt Division, G. M.
bones, or j
ter the -3
t ideates i f P'l
Milledgeville, Ga.. August 28th, 1864. \
Special Order, No. 48.]
O fficial information being lodged at flip*
Head Quarters, th.-it sick men, sent from tfi.
front to Brown Hospital for treatment, insteadp;
reporting to the Hospital, go to their hones
elsew-here, where they remain long after
piration of their furloughs, upon the certifi
family Physicians, or upon the recommendation
of officers of Courts: It is therefore ordered
That all such delinquents do forthwith report it
said Hospital. Airangements are being'made,
by which all such cases will be reached, when
they will be taken by officers appointed h r sue;,
purpose, to their commands, to be dealt with 11
the Commanding General shall direct.
By order of Maj. Gen. G W. Smith, Com’d*.
HR CASEY,
Medical Director.
*
ESTRAY SALE.
WILL be sold on the first Tuesday Jn October :
* T next, within the usual hours of sale, in tie j
body,
sion of either Massachusetts r.r New Jersey swell- | Stfirman cau get tho road and hold it, Hood must
ing their ranks much by the operation ; yet, this ; evwbuate Atlanta as a matter of coarse. It Ilood
,-o —1 1— j- 1 takes Sherman on the wing it is an open field
fight, in which the latter has all tlie advantage of
uumbars. and in the movement to foil Sherman,
many an opportunity may offer for Sherman’s
tavorite flank tactics by which he might even
slip iuto Atlanta without any fight at all. Now
is the time tor all that is in bis brain to shine
A Very Foolish Lie.
We see a statement in some of the Georgia pa
pers said to be taken from a Yankee p; per, that a
Co nmissioner Lad reached \\ ushiugton City from
G orgia, asking on w hat terms Georgia can return
to the Union. The whole story is it fie from be
ginning to end.
We are authorized by Gov. Brown to s»y that
Great Fire in Americus—The Macon Tel
egraph has received the following letter from
Americus:
On Tuesday morning, 30th instant, about sun
set, occurred the most destructive conflagration
by far ever experienced in this place.
The fire originated in the large warehouse of
Messrs Price & Black, containing from.5,000 to
7,000 bags of cotton. In a few moments the
whole house was enveloped in flames. The fire
took a soutbernly course, consuming all thl build
ings on that block till it recahed the next cross
street. It then crossed over the street eastward
into that block of fine’brick buildings, consu
ming the entire block up to the public square, in
all, about twenty buildings.
Among the sufferers are Messrs. Price & Black,
R. S. Kendrick. Glenn & Stallings, D. W. Lewis,
idea is offensive f.nd exasperating,
we have no doubt, will be hurt-
We know that tlie style of WarfareS^^M snUs
Confederates best is open battle on afeir field
and they are too apt to conclude that so long a.s
we can defeat the Yankees in battle all is well ;
but We should not neglect the sneaking, under
hand methods of pushing their conquest, which
such an enemy is sure to keep in operation all tlie
time. While our armies, therefore, are gallantly
fronting the foe at everv point, those who remain
at home should take care of the prowling sort of
Yankees- No Yankee should lease a plantation
in Louisiana and live; no Yankee nor “loyal”
man should exercise any civil office in Kentucky,
or Tennessee, or Louisiana without daily and
nightly peril of his head; no steamboat., cap’ain
or passenger should go np or down the "free” Mis
sissippi without having made his last will; no
recruiting agent of a Yankee Mate should be-de
tected skulking about towns or plantations with
out being promptly tied up to the nearest tree.
forth bright and glowing. Now will come the
test of strategic ability, and now the question of
the Atlanta campaigu is to he settled in a few
hours. This week will probably tell the tale.
no Commissioner has been sent from Georgia to ; R W. Smith, Dr. Hardwick. Republican printing
the United States or to the Government of the ■‘,' ,nco ’ Po8t P®* 5 * 5 * City Drug Store, and many
tne Liniieu houses occupied as hospitals.
United States, upon the subject of peace, or upon I As soon as I can ascertain particulars I will
any other subject or business whatever. 1 write again, q, W. Hancock,
HT There is a strong current in favor of peace
in the North. The New York Herald, the News,
the Metripolitan Record, the Freeman’s Journal,
the AHiatiy Argus, the Chicago Times, the Cin
cinnati Enquirer, the Hartford Times, tlie Harris-
borg Patriot, the Columbus (Ohio) Crisis, the’
Journal of Commerce, the Concord (N. H.) Pa
triot, the Concord Standard, the New York World,
the New York Day Book, the Boston Courier-*-all
advocate peace.
Grant's Losses —A writer in the National In
telligencer of Washington, compotes Grant’s loi-
ses from the crossing ot the Rapidan to the explo
sion of the Petersburg mine at 78,2ffi' killed and
wounded. - The losses of Sheridan, Wilson, But
ler, Sigel and Hunter are not included in this es
timate, though it is admitted that they too “have
lost heavily.”
A Card of Thanks.
The officers and cadets of the Georgia Military
Institute beg leave to acknowledge most grateful
ly, the kind and generous attention of the ladies
of Midway aud Milledgeville to their 3ick. When
circumstances permitted removal they have been
carried to residences, where the tender care of a
Mother and Sister could not have been more
gentle or more efficient in providing for their
comfort.
We acknowledge the liberality of ourcitize ns in sup
plying luxuries to the few who remain in the hospital
teuts of this command ou the Capitol Square. Depen
dant on the limited camp supply for articles of food and
for the means of preparing it for the sick, this relief
has t.eeu exceedingly valuable and important to us.
W. S. R. HARDEMAN,
Surgeon of Capers’. Command.
town ot Monticello. • Jasper countv,” one red aud
white cow, horns sawed off, at points, nnder-ri
and crop in the left ear, and under ^-irpe tr^i
right ear, about ten or twelve years oljjt, snd n.-
ued at one hundred dollars r.
August 20th 1864.
IS. T. DIGBY, Dept. Sheris.
14 td>
GEORGIA, Mitchell county.
S IX MONTHS after date I will apply to
nary of said county for letters of disir
the Ori
y ot said county for letters of dismipcal fw.
the Administration of the estate of Dolly Oliver,
ceased. This February 3rd, 18C4.
B. B. KEATON
(Pd $G.) 411 6a
Administrator’s Sate.
be sold in the town of Camilla MifK
ell county, on the first Tuesday iti 8lP'
1 EMBER next, within the usual hours of silt
the following property belonging to the estatei
B P. Bostick, late of said county, deocasril.ie
wit: Rachel a woman about 40 years of fige-
Sold for distribution. Terms cash.
R. D. FAIRCLOTH, Adtn'r. .
June 18th. 1864. (Pd $8) Gids.
B
Administrator's Sale.
i\ Y IRTUE of an order of the Court. efOr;
nary of Pulaski county, will he sold on
first Tuesday iu September 1864, at thrC>T
House door, in said county, between the iq*
hours of sale. The tiact of land in said con;
whereon Matthew W Nutt resided at the litre
his death, containing 202A acres, more or lesi
joining lands of Dewitt Jlradshaw, Jarr.esBn '
shaw and J. W. H Horne, the same beirg
proved, sold for the benefit of the heirs airier-:
tors- Terms cash. July 5th J864
i (J- J. s ) GEORGE DUPREE, -Um -j
• i» ti
A PROCLAMATION.
By Joseph E. Brown,
Governor of Georgia.
The distracted condition of our country and
the calamities which have befallen us, are evidence
that our individual aud national transgressions
have provoked the displeasure ot Almighty God
who rifles the destinies of nations and states as
well as ot men. lie is using for our chastisement
our wicked but powerful enemy who has overrun
.a large portion of tlie territory of our own state,
as well as of the eoutederacy, and has laid waste
or greatly damaged our cities, towns, villages and
fields. God s word, however, is full of promise
that if we will turn from tho error of oui ways
and humble ourselves before Him, and implore
CITATION S,
GEORGIA Appling County.
W HEREAS, John W. Harris, appiis k
for letters of administration on the esttf
C. H. Middleton, late of said county dec.
All persons interested, will lake notice:®!*^ 1
their objections, if any by tbefiist MocuCri
September next, or letters will be ^ranted.
Witness my official signature, ”julv tbri ;
1»64-•'
Plot - J. LIGJTTSEY, Ord'r.4 ij
GEORGIA, Twiggs County,
"VirHEREAS, Mary F. Holder, lnvappli^'J
| ___ j *» letters of Administration, on the
His pardon for our sins as a people, and iu our Troy G. Holder late of said county deceased ,
gIXTY DAYS from date application will b«
made to the honorable Jhe Court of Ordinary
of Pulaski county, tor an order for leave to sail
all the land belonging to the estate of Sanj. W.
Holt, late of said county, deceased.
W. -W. HOLT, Trustee.
{Jawkinsville, Ga-, July 11, 1664. J 1 s 9 9t
aggregate capacity as a State, as well as in our J
private character as individuals, will acknowledge
Him as Lord ot Lords and King of Kings, he
will hear us iu Heaveu, his lotty dwelling place,
and answer us in peace.
In the .hope, therefore, in this time of great
public calamity, if our whole people will unite in
the name aud through the merits of 6ur Lord aud i
Saviour Jesus Christ, iu implying pardon aud
divine aid iu our great struggle, that God will
hear us, w ill give victory to our arms, arid by !
confounding the counsels of our enemies, and '
pausing terror and dismay iu their ranks, w ill en
able us to triumph over them, and to drive them
from the soil ot our beloved State, I issue this,
my Proclamation, setting apart THURSDAY, the
15th day of this present month, as a day ot fasting,
humiliation and prayer. Aud I request that a^i
secular employm.Le suspended ou that day,
aud that ail business houses and public offices be
closed, and that the entire people of-this State,
both male and female, do assemble at their respect
ive places of public worship, and with all their
hearts and all their souls, that they invoke the
favor and aid of Almighty God. And I especially
request the reverend clergy of all sects and de
nominations. to attend and lead in religious ex
ercises appropriate to the occasion. 1 also most
respectfully request that General J. B. Hood, and
the army under his command, aud all other Con
federate and Statq officers and soldiers upon the
soil of Georgia, unite with the people of. this
State in the appropriate observance of the day. for
the purposes above mentioned. Whilst our en
emies rely for success upon their superior num
bers and their great resources, if we will place
our trust in the God of Israel, and do our whole
duty towards him aud to each other, the day of
our deliverance will be near at hand.
Given under my hand and the Great Seal of
the State, at the Capitol in Milledgeville
this 5th day of September, 1864. °
[ ,52t l JOSEPH E. BROWN.
EF* Each paper in this State will insert ouce
in first issue,
These are therefore to cite and adirori'
parties interested lo be aqd appear at my t--1
or before the first Monday iu Septemberct-
file their objections. .1
Given under my hand and official sigL x"- :
iy„26th 18(54. J. E. McUONALJj,
GEORGIA, Pulaski County.
X A/ HEKEAS, Elizabeth C&dwell app ” ^
vv me for letters of Guardianship ot ; j
uors of Thomas Cad well, late of said cuiUJ-
censed.
These are therefore to cite and admonish* 2
sons interested, to file their objections, ifi». f5r
can, why letters of Guaidianship should 11 ’
granted the applicant in terms of the sti-.m’’
Given tinder my hand and official siruata«
August 1st, 1864.
II 5t JNO. J. SPARROW, Pk
GEORGIA, Berrien County.
I « ADTUA T 1) * 1 J .
3J
AK1 HA J. Parrish, applies to me fa
1TJ of Guardianship of the person 3«JP r( ’f ,r ,
Mary M. Connell,a minor heir of T. N.Coni«- -
ceased.
All persons take notice and file their otyX
•before me in terms of the law, otherwise
will issue.
Given under my hand in office. July^ »|
1
1864.
Pd
W. E. CONNLLJ-
>'
A GREEABLE to the last will
A of Jarrett Lvnch late of Jas
Executor’s Safe.
airitef'N
Jarrett LyBch late of Jasper
ceased, will be sold on the first Tuesdayj,r
TEMBER next, at the Court House doot 1 "^,
ticollo, the land and negrofs belonging
tate of said deceased, consisting of l** f ,4
dred and thirty acres of land and eleven’ .
Sold for a division amongst the heirs. 1 I
the day ot sale.
PLEASANT M COMPTON. ? £x r ‘|
GRIEF LYNCH. Jr., >
. July 12, 1864, btd