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Slate Rights & Confederate States' Rights THE CONFEDERATE UNION, ( Corner of Hancock and Wilkinson struts.) OPPOSITE TBECoi'BTnortt. «orcniO*. 5ISBET fe €0,, State Printers. Tuesday Morning, December 13,1864. Onr C«nditi«a. Gen. Shennenk late visit toMilledgevffl® pot na to » great deal of trouble and expense, bnt we are again at our post prepared to carry on our business as here tofore. Onr pocket book, however, has suffered ••rarely and looks very thin.as we hare put, nothing in it for three weeks, and have been taking out all the tim* to pay the expenses incident to moving away end moving back, and replacing such things as were stolen from our office doing our absence. W« hope those indebted to us trill take the hint and aet accord ingly. A Hspr/ol View of (be mUnntimn. The desponding amongst ns will find an article in our paper to day, copied from the N. Y.Aeies, which will revive their drooping apirits, if any thing cair We agree entirely with tha writer, in his review of the past, and bis opinion of the pres ent aspects of the enemy's invasion of our soil. The enemy has lost thousands of square miles territory,,within the last six or eight months, which cost him million# of treasure and rivers of blood to possess. True he haa devastated much of the territory he 1ms yielded; but does this not prove the folly of attempting to hold in subjec tion so vast a country as ours? Gen. Sherman’s grand campaign through Georgia, is a retreat from a position be could not hold any longer, on account of the movements of Generals Hood and Forrest in his rear. The only serious thing to (ear from his position on 1 he coast of Carolina, is, that he may destroy the vail roads passing through that State,by which communication i3 maintained be tween Gen. Lee’s Army and the granaries of the cotton States. But it is possible that Sherman may find a foe in hi.3pa:h that will not let him ex ecute his vandal plans against South Carolina. At any rate the situation is not half as b&d as noma w ould Lave it. The Confederacy is not gone because Georgia has felt the presence of tbeinvader, We hope the weak kneed man amongst us will take courage from the picture presented by a Northern 'Writer, and inatead of deploring the probable fall of his country, renew his vows, put on hia armor, and gird hia loins for the grandest and noblest work that ever engaged the hands or affeetions of a free people. milledgeville and Wairmtoa Railroad. We understand that this Railroad with one or two very slight exceptions, is graded all the way to Milledgeville The Road from Macon to Gor- non and from Gordon to Milledgeville. can be * repaired in a few days. Then if the iron from Milledgeville to Mayfield, on the Warrentou and Milledgeville Road could be laid, which is only about 31 miles, we should have a short and unin terrupted communication from Central Georgia and Alabama to Richmond. This route would be much shorter than either of the old routes if they were in good repair. But it is very doubtful whether either can be repaired this Winter; and if the one by the Central Railroad and Millen was repaired, it is very doubtful how long the enemy would permit them to remain in order. But the one through the Middle of the State, will, in all probability, remain unmolested for the balance of thia Winter at least. Under all these circumstan ces, would it not be great economy for the gov ernment to finish, that is, lay the iron on that small portion of the Warrenton and Milledgeville Railroad between Mayfield and Milledgeville ■ CXnnawRT and Stalea jVrgrar*. Many of the negroes taken from their owners by Sherman's Army wiU be picked up by oar soldiers and citizens. Women and children will be dropped by Sherman when they get to be tronblasometo him ; and others will run away from him when they find out that they are not treated as they expected. Many of onr citizens may recover their property, if our Military authorities will promptly advertise all the negroes falling into their hands, giving the name* of the negroea their owners, and their whereabouts. What ban been dene t A few weeks ago, Sherman had undisputed posses sion of one hundred and fifty miles of our territory, from Chattanooga to Griffin. If he escaped to the coast ef Carolina, he will not hold one foot of soil in Georgia. Has he lost, or gained 7 What thia or that maa may have lost is nothing. Georgia is Lee from the van dals. Whatbther Southern State is ? Osr City. If hasbees Iwo weeks since the Yankee Army left as, (to-day Friday) but the mournful relics of their preseuce arc fresh as when they swarmed iu our sheet*, and crowdedour residences and public square*. Many of our citizens who left the city at the approach of the enemy have returned, and familiar face* meet us at ev ery step; but a stillness almost Sabbath like pervades our business streets, and the blackened, sightless u aha of the Penitentiary, Arsenal, Magazine and Depot re- miud us constantly of the presence of the vandal hor des of Sherman. It is due to Sherman to say that most of the outrages committed by his men were per petrated in private residences where the owners, both male and female, had left the premises. Where our citizens remained in their houses night and day, we hear of but few acts of diabolism such as were commit ted in unoccupied buildings. The attention of the ene my was principally directed to poultiv, stock, provis ions of all kinds, hogs, harness, money and valuables. Negroes were treated very bad by their professed friends and libeinlors. They were robbed of money, clothing, blankets—every thingstealable. Indeed our negroes have cause to remember the enemy quite aa feelingly as their masters and mistresses. Many left us and followed the Yankee army. Some have returned and more will follow in the same direction ; but the loss of negroes in the section overrun by Sherman must be very gre.it. It is a little remarkable that those negroes left who were least expected to leave, and in most case* they were idle and vicious charac ters. It is a little^ingular, too, that thos^iegroes who took up with the Yankees were universally known to be most free, before the Yankees came. Negroes who had been managed as they should be, were content to stay with their masters, but those who had been per mitted to do as they pleased were the first to run away. Onr streets and public squares are filled with private papers and public documents. Even private corres pondence of a nature the most sacred, is blown to and fro by the wind and subject to the rude criticism of the most vulgar'and illiterate. The State House for many days haa been knee deep in papers. The build ing is much defaced. The windows on the side towards the magazine are all broken, and tho plastering injured. The fencing around the square is broken down, and many of the young trees iuthe square ruiued, the bark being bit off by the horses tied to them. Our chur ches were not respected. They, too, bear the impress of the unhallowed footstep of the foul invader. But bad as it is with us, we are truly thankful it is no worse. But few ladies or children were insulted or even mo lested in their houses. It might have been expected to be much worse, trom the known character of Sher man’s Army. No occupied residences were destroyed. Many feared that,the city would be burnt and were greatly relieved when assured that it would not be.— In a few weeks our public offices will be put in repair and the business appertaining to them be progressing as though Sherman had never been in a thousand miles of Milledgeville. The Bridge ever the Ocean. The fine bridge over the Oconee at this place, was destroyed by the rear guard of Sherman’s Ax' my. We learn that a temporary bridge is being constructed to pass orer wagons and troops. The work is in charge of Capt Winston of Virginia, and will be completed at an early day. This will be of great service to the government, as the road through here has become a highway for the trans portation of troops and supplies. Pretty deed. A friend tells us the following etcry. He wat travel ling from Albany to Savannah, about the 30th of November ult. He was baited by an old man, who asked him the news. Our friend told him all he knew; when tha venerable man asked him, with much con cern, about .Toe Brown. Our friend told him Joe Brown was all right. Oh, replied the old man, I’ am mighty sorry for Joe—mighty sorry for him. I have known him since he was t. boy, and drove an ox cart,and I have voted for him every time he run for Governor. I wae proud of Joe, but I am mighty sorry for him now What is the matter, now, old friend, was the reply Well, says tfca eld man, Joe has got in tronble at last:, I hear he has got the disability, and I am mighty fraid ‘twill be the death of him. Explanations were •nnecenary. i—♦— ■ The Eattlc in Teaaeawc. A severe engagement took place near Franklin, Tenn. on the 30th ult. between a portion of Gen. Hood’s Amy, and the enemy. Our accounts place our loss at 3,500, and the enemy’s at 10,000. Gen Pat Cle burne was killed, also three other Generals on our side. Northern accounts claim a victory, but say that Thom as’ army fell back to Nashville, some 18 miles Tha* looks like a Federal defeat. We may get further partic ulars before we go to press. Steele is said to have crossed the Mississippi to Memphis, with 15,000 Fed eral troops. If this be so, Arkansas is given up; but pen. Hood maybe checked in bis march to Rwhrille The duty of the hour. This section of our beloved State lias been swept as with a besom of destruction. Many of our citizens have their houses, lands, and their slaves lett them, but have been deprived of their stock to such an extent as to give them but a scanty forco to make a crop the coming year.— Others who bed laid in their supplies of provis ions for six and eight months, have been stripped of almost everything, having at Lest a few weeks’ supply left to them, Some tiro worse off than oth ers. At such a time, and in such an emergency it behooves every man who has a drop of the milk of human kindnes* running in his veins, to lend helping hand to his neighbor in distress. It will not do to turn coldly away from a brother, with the reply to his appeal, that you are as bad oft’as lie. Many are able to help others, and it is thfiir duty in this solemn hour of trial to do it.— No one expects, or ought to expect, to have the things ho was accustomed to enjoy before the desolator touched his substance, iu the same abnndance, or of the same description. But ot plain food all must have a little. And it ia the duty of every man and woman who can spare eith er bread or meat to sell or give it to their suffer ing fellow-citizens. Do not say that you have not enough to carry your own family through the year. If you can supply your own household for a few weeks, it is your duty to sparo tho excess to those who must suffer dtrry day of this winter unless broad and meat *be within their reach — There is abundance of provisions in the State yet untouched by our own or the enemy’s Armies.— The rich can go to a laud of plenty, and buy pro visions : the poor cannot. Yet the poori must have food. By the poor, we do not refer especial ly to that class who are generally included in the term, but to .all who have been accustomed to buy their supplies from day to day or week to week. That other sections of the State, more favored thr.n ours has been, will help us, in this hour of our sorest need, we are assured; but until the railroads caD be repaired and the trains are running as .usual, those who have provisions must help those who have none. If they will sell, all right: if they will give, all the better. Let us hear no muttering of discontent—no threat, no abuse of each other ; but let every one do what be can to mitigate tho afflictions that has bowed our heads into the dust, and almost broken our hearts. Let us sefr examples of economy, indus try, patience under suffering, one to another—let ns bo brothers as we walK through the fiery fur nace, and we shall come out purified, and all the better for onr chastening. Never have our people bad such an opportunity to give tlie world an as surance of their manhood. If we help one anoth er, God will help us all. For the Coufed6rate Union. Gen. A. K. Wright, as ex officio Governor. Messrs. Editors ; In assuming the powers of Gov ernor over the Eastern part, of the State by vir tue of his office as President of the State Senate. General Wright alleges the disability of Governor Brown to perform th9 duties of his office in that diyision of the State; claims, and exercises the right for himself to decide as to the fact of that disability, and proceeds upon the supposition that it is lawful for two or more Governors to rule in the State at one and the same time. A few words upon these assumptions in their order.. First. Did any disability attach to Gov. Brown? True, direct railroad communication was inter- upted between the two sections of the State—but at tbe time, when Genl. Wright made his assump. tion of power, Gov. Brown could have visited all the more important parts of the State with con siderable dispatch, had he thought proper. The same reasoning would show all of the old Gover nors of the State previous to the establishment of railroads, to have labored under disqualifying disabilities—an3 likewise the present and'al! fu ture ones in regard to those parts not convenient to such communication. And much mere so would President Davis be rendered unable to act as President, beyond the Mississippi River, and in various other parts of the country. Has any person claimed the right to divide the honors and powers of that high functionary ? Ignorance so profound, and audacity so bold, have not been found except in Georgia. The Constitution of the State provides that in case of the death, resignation, or disability of the Governor, the President of the Senate shall act. A disability, not great difficulty, or event, partial disability, is sufficient. And Genl. Wright ad mits the Governor's ability to discharge the du ties of his office over a portion of the State ; and so doing, ho condemns himself. A further con clusive proof of the non-existence of tho assum ed disability, .ia furnished by the facttli.it tbe Governor, even in so great’an emergency, actu ally did perform every duty required of him by the laws of the State or the demands of patriot ism. He repaired in person to Macon, a central and important point., and there, in union with liis illustrious associates, sustained by the bravo hearts and strong arms of a few aoldiers, drove back the legions of the invader, and ieducod his boasting to disappointment and mortification — in addition to which, his Excellency dispatched efficient and skillful staff officers to Augusta and other important points with all necessary powers and instructions for performing the duties of the occasion. Where was any disability or even par tial disability to be found ? The *writer thinks there was none. ' Perhaps a large porlion of the people, and even Gov. Brown, may-think like wise. Genl. Wright, and doubtless some few others, may think differently. In this conflict of opinion, who is to decide? Genl Wright claims and exercises the power of decision for him self, and thereupon goes to tbe extent of revoking the orders of the Governor, and threa'ens to ar rest his aids, if they attempt to enforce those ci ders. Does the history of constitutional govern ments furnish an example of usurpation so stupid and presumptnons? If such conduct did not on- pear so very ab-urd and contemptible on its face, it would be a mopt dangerous precedent and might lead in future to much civil strife. Ambition* Presidents of tho Senate, being vested with the •ole power of fixing some imaginary disability to the Governor might frequently by assuming.tha powers of Governor bring on the country war and ruin. In the absence of any legal provision on tho subject it would doubtless be the duty and the right of the General Assembly of the State to determine as to the question of a disability of the Governor, It is a question, p‘rhaps. not. fully settled whether or not the President of tho Senate can lawfully act as Governor without being sworn in as such. The safer course then would require it to be done. So thought the authorities and great men at Washington, when John Tyler succeeded Gen. Harrison. Tyler look the oath of office though he had previously .jtaken the oatli as Vice President and Prasident of the U, S. Senate — Gen. Wright from nil that appears seem* to have had no scruples on the subject, but went forward on bis high errand without any such preparation j In the last place the General's greatest error is | in assuming the Executive office to be divisible and capable of being exerciser] in part by ono man and in part by another. When was it ever contended that two or more Governors could rule over the same State at the. same time? What unity of purpose, energy of action and dispatch of bus iness conld there be in snch a case ; all of which are needful in the Executive at all times and pre. eminently so in time of war and invasion. The very atructure of the Government no less than the duties of tbe office refutes the proposition. CRITO. Milledgeville, G*., Dec. 8tb, 1864, ftherman’e Plans. The Now York Herald blows lustily over Sher man's grand march through Georgia. The Ed itor says, Milledgoville, Augusta, Columbia, Charleston and Wilmington will bo consecutive ly hit. He closes his boasting predictions with the following: 11 is not even probable that he will have to fight a battle; for through tho whole district that he ia to traverse the rebels have no force at all, and there is no able bodied population. lie has to make a march of three hundred miles through a pleasant country, that Lib army can live upon if neccessary, and he strikes and involves in a common capture the capitals of Georgia and South Carolina and Charleston. He will hold, therefore, those two States definitely and posU lively. And to gain this, what does he risk ?— Nothing. His immediate command is not risked in tbe least, nor can it be supposed that he risks the safety of Tennessee. Hood can do no harm. Hood, Forrest, Taylor, and all the South-western rebels together canuot muster more than fifty thousand men, and Thomas is undoubtedly able to defend tbe State from such a force. Georgia and South Carolina, the capital and the principal cities of those two States firmly held by Sherman, and what is there left of the so call ed Confederacy ? Not a single State. Richmond and Wilmington will be all that will be left of the great rebellion. 'How long will Willington, the only seaport of the Confederacy, remain in the hands of the rebels with Sherman only one blin ded aftd eighty miles from it, and that great squadron, that troubles the Richmond papers so much, battering at its defences fSherman’s march will also be equally decisive in the fate of Rich mond ; for if Lee, in view of this advance, does not suddenly divert a large forco to meet Sher man. he will in two months be hermetically seal ed in his capital, and if he does divert snch force his capital will fall under Grant’s persistent ef forts. Looked at in any light, Sherman’s move ment promises to bo a most decisive one, and there is every probability that it will be the de cisive operation of the war.” If Sherman bad not crossed the Savannah River before tbe lieavy rain of last Friday, he may find a lion in his path be did not expect; and will hardly be able to prosecute biff campaign any further this Winter, Correipondence of the Confederate Union. .lira, ff.yey Williams. Again. BV AX ACQUAINTANCE. j In tbe Confederate Union of the 14th inst. there was ; a communication, by a Confederate officer, ‘‘refuting,’’ as the Editor says, the article relating to Mrs. Lucy Williams ns Morgan’s betrayer.. If Lucy Williams did not betray Morgan, the press and its reporters have done her a great injury ; but she and her friends by t heir tardy vindications seem to be late in perceiving it! No one would be farther from wishing to injure the innocent than the writer, and the article alluded to would never have been penned had she doubted the guilt‘of the party; having seen it, again and again, without one contradiction, or any Editor seeming to doubt its truth ! Nevertheless, all of the article that purported to be original, in description of Mrs. Williams or others, she reaffirms to be true to the very letter. And since the publication of said article, she has had admission from other acquaintances, and even relatives of Lucy Wil liams that the description was correct throughout.— Then, is it possible that a Confederate officer can be so intimate with the wife of a man, whom ho should con sider his as his country’* enemy, as to learn her charac ter in a few months more accurately than those who have known her a* a girl and a woman for years past ? He is the first person the writer ha* ever known to associate “modesty or timidity” with the bold, unscru pulous manners of Lucy W’illiams ? His zealous and lengthy defonse of the Williams and the Rumbough families was entirely superfluous, as they had not been assailed. The writer did not design to reiterate the charge of the betrayal of the gallant dead, but to delineate the woman whom the press affirmed to have committed that dark deod of infamy. What Southern woman is there, who could have read of the revolting exhibition of the mangled corse of our noble -defender, amid cheers and huzzas, without feeling utter detestation for the creature of her own sex; and an acquaintance too, who had caused that cruel death and that brutal tri umph ? Then, if she had known that tlioee same wretches had reduced her nged parents from plenty almost to poverty, arousing them from the tranquil dignity of ease, so sweet to the old and weary, to st rug gle again in the rough turmoil of busy life, without the buoyant hope that sustains the young, would her de testation have been less f If sl»e had heard of a little' brother, whom she had taught to rend, and on whoso fair brow she had Imprinted a farewell kiss more than a year ago, being caught upon the highway, by those same wretches, and not only robbed and shot, but stamped beneath their vile, cowardly feet, his life pre served only by the mercy of God, would her detesta tion have been less! If she had known that a dear brother, who would have bared his manly bosom to any danger for her sake, and who had been his couu tr^’s faithful soldier from the beginning of this bloody struggle, was with Gen. Morgan when betrayed, and narrowly escaped with his life what would have been her destestation for the creature, who, with woman’* smiles, was leading on that band of incarnate de mons ? Such was the feelings that stirred the heart of the writer, and which the officer attributes to “pique I”— Such were the motives that he affirms to have been not “respectable” or “justifiable!” Milledgeville, G«. N*v. 16th, 1864, Caught. We understand that J. Hamilton Whitney, who figured so extensively about Milledgeville while the Yankees were here, is a prisoner in the jail at Augusta, having been captured near Waynesboro. ^Sunday night was the coldest weather of the winter. It was a bitter night for Sherman’s “sun- nv South” campaigners. The mercury feli so low we couldn't reach it from the bed. . The Lnwi, The adjournment of tiie Legislature was so sudden and unexpected, as well as the removal of the State archives from the city, that we have not been able to ascertain what laws were enacted at the lasj, session of the General Assembly. We understand that the Gov ernor will be in the ei‘y as soon as his duties will per mit, when we will publish a syuopsis of the acts of the General Assembly of the- late session. HU— PI IHerr from Ibe fight in Tennessee. The Telegraph of the 0th has reliable informa tion from ihe fight near Franklin, Tenn., between Hood’s and Thomas’ Armies No casualties are given except the following Generals, killed and wounded. Genls Cleburne, Stralil, Granberry Gist, .and John Adams, were killed. Generals John Brown, Canty, Mannigault, Quarles, Cock- erill and Scott wounded, and Gon. Gordon cap tured We captured 1,000 prisoners. The enemy claim to have capture d over a thousand of our men. From ail the lights before us, We can see no good resnit to either party front, this battle. It seems to have been a drawn fight. Where is .SSiernian ? It is reported that Sherman is making for the j Georgia Coast, and is on the west side of the Ogee- chee river. IVrijiil’s l‘ro<,-1 situation. We had heard something previously of Gener al A. R. Vi right assuming Executive powers for the eastern part of the State by- virtue of his office; but his prociamalion did not reach us until yester day. when it was brought by the Savannah papers. We judge trom the tone of the News, that this proceeding is regarded by Governor Brown and others as “unwarrantable and unlawful ” The foliow>ing is the proclamation: Augusta, Ga.Nov 21, 1864. I. His Excellency, Governor Joseph E. Brown, Governor and Commander-in-chief of the Militia oi the State, being cut off ttom communication with that portion of the State east of the Oconee river, by tire interposition of a hostile army', it be comes my duty as IVesideut of the Senate and ex- onicio Governor during the disability of the Gov ernor, to assume commanckof ail that part of the State thus left without the jurisdiction of the Gov ernor, and as the prompt and faithful 'execution of the recent act of the Legislature providing for a levy cn masse, of the arins-bearing people of the State is of vital importance, I do. therefore, issue this order revoking so much of the Governor’s proclamation as provides for the reporting of all the troops raised under it to Maj. Gen G. W. Smith, and do order that the men in all the coun ties east of the Oconee river (except such as may be already reported to Major General Wayne) re port, immediately to me at this place, when arms and equipments will bo issue by the proper offi- 1 cers. | II The Aids de-^amp in the district cast of j the Oconoo river will proceed 1 once to send j ort all men liable to service under the aforesaid i act. j III A Medical Board will he established at his place for tbe examination of all men, when fitness for tho service may be considered by the Aids-de- Camp as doubtful. IF. The emergency is such that the delay even of a single day will in no case be permitted—all must be sent forward at once A I?. Wright. President of the Senate and ex-officio Governor during the disability of Gov Brown _T!ie News of the 26 says: “We see that Gen Wright ha* carried his ‘assumacy’ to a pitch more unblushing than we ever dreamed a sane man would be guilty of. He has issued General order No.. 1, dated at ‘Headquarters Georgia Millitia, in which he establishes a camp .of instruction and ap points a commander charged with its organization He also appoints a chief quartermaster, an assis tant quartermaster for the forces assembled there, and an adjutant for ’those headquarters,’ and or dels that, they be ‘obeved and respected according ly.’ This‘General Order No 1’is signed hy Gen Wright, as ‘President of Senate, Commanding Militia. We ha' o again to say that those assump tions are unpareiieled M e iearn tnat Gcv. Brown is expected here to day or to morrow, and that he will propably go un to Augusta in a day or two If this be so ‘the ex officio, commanding militia,’ will learn the extent of his ‘disability ’ E^Gen. Joe. E. Johnston is inRichmond. FlF’Geo. D. Prentice ot the Louisville Journal is in Richmond, mi a visit to a son, a soldier in the Confed erate Army. Fjp’Gen. Beauregard was in Augusta, at ln*t ac counts. FsWGrov week. E3FGol. Toombs and lion, on Gen. G. W Smith’s stuff. mPDecatur, the strongest post on the Tennessee River, with the exception of Chattanooga, ha* been evacuated by the enemy. The Press and Gov Brown's Late Coll- 1’he following correspondence it, publis- ed in order to present to the Press of Georgia Gov. Brown’s de ci-don in regard to the State Press, under his late call. The tiist despatch was received from the Press of Columbus “Shall the Press of this city be suspended, an I its members report for duty at Macon/" The Governor s answer: “It is not mv intention to intei fere with the publication of any newspaper or public journal m Georgia No editor or other person actually necessary tor that purpose is re quired to report for militia duty ” JOSEPH E. BROWN. T/t? Grahamril'e Fight —The fight at Graham- vtlle was one of the most couipiete triumphs ot the war The enemy came against .us with fully five to our-two. A large portion of our lorces were raw, uudriileu militia, who had never seen a battle They waded into the work vigorously and heroi- ca ly, and covered themselves witlt honors tmmor tal Their praise is on the lips ot all When the fall fiistoiy of that battle is written, it will be shown to have been one of the most hotly contes ted, against, the most overwhelming odd-, and re sulting in tbe most complete triumph of any fight during this war —Savannah Aetcs Tlic t'ouuly Officer*.. We are now doing the advertising of county offi cers as cheap a* any paper iu the State. We shall be pleased to do the advertising of county officers, and re spectfully ask their patronage. We are now ready to execute Job Work, of all kinds, as cheap as it can be d<Jne anywhere else, and pledge ourselves to give sat isfaction. A'drerisaiug ami Job Work. All advertising done at this office, except with LOST 'BUOt.f. O NE of my negroes picked up a Bug-ry ,. n . enemy beymid the Oconee Bridge*’ 7 Tj can have it by proving property Bn j ' • f owner advertisement ^ ” ‘K for thi* B. B. deOfiA rpvynn-r Dec. 10th, 1854. VRIEd. — 27 tf. GEORGIA. Baldwin County. P URSUANT to an order »f Court of Culinary of said eoi Inr ' onn tfible >>e sold neforo the Court House don r ’ ville.on the first Tuesday in in J 'NUahv' i ? e ‘ within the legal bouts of s»fe. all j • longing to the estate of Louisa And.* SVt '‘ H * )e * of said county, deei-ased, consisting*** 011, :a ? e valuable uegroes of different ages 8 “ver,il j ■ male—also the plantation on which . Ie * at. the time of her death. Sold for iht ^ distributees and creditors • ‘ °f LUCY ANN GIBSON, Dec. 1. 1864. GEORGIA, Wilcox County. Ordinary's Office for said County, W HEREAS, Stephen Bowen applies fnrle't^ of Administration on the estate of Joh a Odum, late of said county. These are therefere to cite and admonish all per sons interested, to be and appear in my effice within the time prescribed by law, and file eb. jections, if any they have, or said letters will hi granted. Witness my hand officially. JAS, W. MASH BURN, Ord’y. Dec 13, 1864. * 27 5t. HEDQ’SMIETY IHV’S OF THE WEST? Macon, Ga., Nov 2l?th. 1864. > SrEciAi. Orders, » No —. \ All supernumary Officers of this Military Divis- persous with whom we have business transac- 1 j on no t otherwise assigned to duty, will report tions, must be paid for in^idvance No Job Work will be executed at this office unless the money is paid down when the work is ordered. This is posi tivc. vVe are authorized to announce the name of Alfkkd B. Mooue, as a candidate for Judge of the Inferior court of Baldwin county. Dec. 7th, 1864. 27 3t. F^We arc authorized to announce the names of B.B. deGraffemiea, Dr. G. V. Case, O. P. Bonner, Peter Fair & W. H. Scott, the present Judge* qf the Inferior court as candidates lor re-election. Dec. 7th, 1804. 37 3t. to Commandant of the Post, Maeon. Ga. By command of General Beauregard A. R CHISOLM. A. D. C and A A A.G. fc#~All papers in Military Division will publish three times a w eek for two weeks and send bill to Chief Quartermaster. A. R. C., A. D C. Nov. 30. Female Academy. milledgeville fg^liE Exercises of this Institution will be re- JL sumed Monday, 2nd of January, 186b. Tuition first quarter of ten weeks, $40 00 Fuel “ “ “ “ • Payable in advance. Ptoducers are expected to ray in provisions. JAS. 8. BUKRil.L, M D'C. 10, 1864 ctpab Brown was expected in. Savannah last Thomas Hardeman, are SvIIgOl A'O'iitF. rnilE Rev. S E Brooks, assisted by his wife, I will resume his School tin bo^s and girls on the first Monday in January, 186b. The first quarter of ten weeks, $46,00 Fuel first “ “ “ 5 00 Music on the piano 1st quar. of ten weeks, 50 GO Producers are expected to pay in provisions at current prices. Payments in all cases to be made iu advance. A few boadeis can be accommodated wilh the teacher by paying isi provisions Milledgeville, Dec. 10, 1861. 27 3t. O^Tt you wi-h to know the true from the fake friend, try him in affliction and suffering. (ffiP'Gen. A. li. Wright has been made a Major General. KFTne lieol and Fireet.de journal has been moved from Augusta, Ga. to Raleigh N. C. . ITirGen. Kilpatrick, commanding Sherman’s cav alry was wounded in a tight, near Waynesboro, Ga., with Gen. Wheeler. Atlanta, Rome, Marietta and Dalton arc in our possession. It is said there ts not aFederal soldier this eade of Chattanooga. ES*“We refer the reader to the card of J. I. Whita ker Esq. The Intelligencer will soon be published iu Atlanta, Ga. EdF* We publish to-day' Gen. Wright’s proclc know there was not a day or an hour that cour- ric-rs could not have passed from the west to the eastern part of the State, aud Gen. Wright’s or ders w ere ealeulatcd to embarrass and disorganize our military affairs. I.ntr Pajtvra. We are indebted to the courtesy of Mr Dempsey of the So. Express Company for Augusta papers of the 10th The Express Company is a trump, aud no mistake, and Dempsey is an ace. In tho letter of B. B. DeGraffjnried, Mayor of Milledgeville, to Colonel Ira It Foster, he returns thanks to the Colonel, to Mayor Collins and oth- i ers for the timely and generous contribution of 5,600 rations of .meal aud 18 beeves for the poor of Milledgoville. Not it wotd is said, about the Confederate authorities and the public would na turally suppose that they had nothing to do with tho gift. Now the fact of the matter ie, the 5,000 rations and 18 Beeves belong to the Confederate Government and were turned over by order of Gen Cobb to the Milledgeviilti poor and hauled to them in G vernment wagons Gen. Cobb, ap preciating the necessities of the people of Mill- edgevilie, touk the responsibility of turning over Government property lor their use and to him be longs the credit. We think the omission of his name in the letter of acknowledgement unjust and would mildly suggest that the Mayor of Mill- f-dgevilte not only acknowledge th^ corn but also the Cobb. [ Tct Sf Cunftd ] In this city on the 1st inst., after 17 days of painful suffering Mrs- Laura B. Renfroe daughter of Milburn and Amelia Turner. * The Atlanta Intelligencer. r jplIE undersigned Proprietor and Publisher of the 1 ATLANTA INTELLIGENCER embracing the first opportunity of announcing to tho pu die that ar rangements have been made by which, the publication of said Journal will be resumed at an early day in At lanta. His presses and material tor the publication of toe papw as well as for executing all contracts ia the Job Office attached thereto, being iu course-of trans portation to that city. N 15.—Papers in the State will confer a favor by publishing this notice ouee,calling attrition aud send bill to ttiisottice for payment. JARED I. WHITAKER, Proprietor. Dec. 2, 1SC4. 27 It EXUIIASUE A0SUE N0.--13* Richmond, Dec. 1.1864. 1. All Confederate officers and men who have been delivered by the Federal authorities at any- place prior to November 25th, 1864, are hereby declared to be ex changed. 2 Ail officers and men of the Vicksburg capture of July 4th, 1863, who reported at any parole camp, either East or West of the Mississippi River, at any lime prior to November 1st, 1864, are hereby declared to he exchanged. RO OULD, . AgentTof Exchange. December fi, 1S64. 26Ot A PROCLAMATION. . BY JOSEPH E. B t-) vVN, Governor op Georoia. STATE OK GEORGIA.) Executive Department, y Milledgeville, Nov. I9tri, 1864. ^ The whole people understand how imminent 'is the danger that threatens the state. Our cities are being burned, our fields laid waste, and our wives and children mercilessly driven from their homes by a powerful enemy. VVe must strike like men for freedom, or we must submit to subjuga tion Death is to be preferred to loss of liberty. All must rally to the field for the present emergency, or the State is overrun. I therefore by virtue of the authority vested in me by the statute of this State, hereby order n levy en masse of the whole free while male population residing or domiciled iu this State between sixteen (16J and fifty-five (55) years of age except such as are physically unable to bear arms, which phys icaT detect must be plain and indisputable, or they must be s.ent to camp for examination, and except those engaged in the Legislative or Judicial De partinents of the government, which are by the recent act of tho Legislature declared exempt from compulsory service. All others are absolutely required, and mem bers ol the Legislature *nd Judges are invited to report immediately to Major General G. VV. Smith at Macon, or wherever else in Georgia his camp may be, for .forty days service under arms, unless the emergency is sooner pas>ed. The statute declares that alh persons hereby called out shall be subject after this call to all the Confederate States, 11 be subject to the pains ami penalties of the crimes of desertion. Volunteer organizations formed into companies! battalions, regiments, brigades or divisions will be accepted for forty (40) days, if they even ap proximate to the numbers in each Organization which is requir- d by the Mill's laws •:> rids 8t«i whieh were in f-Tc-ep:ii r to th- .. All police companies tinmen n .nt i 3 for iiomt defence will report,.leaving at t, ate for Ltie time only those over 95 years oi age; and ail peisuns having Confederate details or exemptions, who, b > thp lan- decision of the Supreme Court of dins State, are held to be d&ble to State Militia service are bov.’ ' - ! >py tho call.of tlje Governor. All such ....using to report will be, arrested by the police force or by any Aid-de-Camp. or other officer of this State, and carried immediately to the front. The necessary employees of Railroads now actively engaged, and^ the necessary agents of the Express Company, a'nd telegraph operators are, from the necessity for their services in their present position, excused. AH ordained ministers of religion in charge of a Church or Synagogue are also excused. All RaHroad companies in this State will trans port all persons applying for transportation to the I tout, and in case any one refuses, its President., Superintendant, agents and employees will be im mediately sent to the front. All Aids ae-Camp and other State officers are.re quired to be active and vigilant in the execution of the orders contained in tfiis proclamation and all Confederate officers are respectfully invited to ai Slate officers iu their vicinity in sending forward all persons hereby ordered to the front. The enemy has penetrated almost to tbe centre of your State. If every Georgian able to bear arms would rally around hitn, he could never es cape, (8igned) JOSEPH E. BROWN, nov25-.lt Governoi, Administrator's Sale. B Y virtue of an order hum the Court of Ordi nary of Bulloch county will be sold on the first Tuesday in JANUARY next, before the Court i House door, in Statesborongh, Bulloch county, j eight hundred and forty-five acres of land, more ! or less, one tiaet containing three hundred acres | unimproved, bounded by laeds of M B Hen dricks and John Mercer ; and five hundred and i forty-five acres, more or less, except the widow’s I dower, it being the late residence of Seaborn Hen dricks, with Will and Agness, a man and woman. ; Sold for the benefit 01 the heirs and cteditors of ;the estate of Seaborn Hendricks. Terms on the day of saie MITCHELL B. HENDRICKS. Adrn’r SARAH HENDRICKS, Adm’rx. Nov 14. 1864. 26 tds. GEORGIA, Bulloch County. \\ y HEREA8. Jefferson G Williams, adminig. T T trator on the estate of Berryan W. Sutton, deceased, applies to me for letters of dismission from said administration. These are therefoie to cite and admonish all persons interested, to file their objections, if any they have, on or before the first Monday in June next, why said letters should not begranted. Given under my hand aud official signature, this 14th day of Nov 1864 26 m6m DAVID BEASLEY, Ord’y. Baker Sherijf Sale of an Fstray Male. WILL be sold- before the Court House in TT Newton, Baker county, Ga , between the usual hours of sale, on the first Tuesday it De cember next; one mouse colored Mare Mule, ahm.t sixteen (16) years old. Said mule sold as 11 Fs- trav. J. M. CALHOUN, Sheriff. Nov. 1st, 1864. . 26.it w Notice to Debtors and Creditors. \ LL persons indebted to the estate of Saruii Ivey . late of Jasper county dec’d „re requested to niuke immediate payment, and all persons having demands agaiust said estate, are required to present them in terms of the Law. This 27th Oct i86t. 23 yt ji h.h WM P. WHITE. Ex’r. GEORGIA..Pulaski county. THEREAs.lt II Harrell applies to me for letters of Administration on the estate of Jonn M Daniel, Jr . iate of said county, deceased. These are therefore to cite all persons interested, to be am) appear-at mv office within the time pre scribed by law. to show cause, if any they can. why letters of administration should not be grant- ed to B. II Harrell, on John M Daniel, Jr’s es tate. * Given under my hand and seal of office this Oct 27th, 1864. 23 fit JOHN FA IE. D. Ord’y. GEORGIA Bulloch county. ■ iyHEREA8. Talbert Little administrator on the * " estate ot V5 illiatn Little dtc.'d applies to me for letters of dismission from said administration. * 1 liese are therefore to cite and admonish, all person* interested to file their objections (if any they have) within-the time prescribed by law, otherwise said let ters will be granted to said applicant. Given under my hand and official signature this 20th day of Oct. 186J. 23 DAVID BEASLEY, Ord’y. GEORGIA, Appling County. t&JINI) days front date application will be made L-7 to the Court of Ordinary of said county, tor an order for leave to sell the land belonging to the estate ot C. H. Middleton, late of said coun ty, deceased, JOHN W. HARRIS, Adm’r. Oct. 3d, 1864. _ j l 21 9t s GEORGIA. Appling County, f IX I’Y days after date application will be made to the Court of Ordinary of said county, for an order for leave to sell a negro woman, belonging to the estate of John J. Courson, late of said county, deceased. NANCY D. COURSON, Adm’rx. Oct. 3d, 1864- j l 21 lit GEORGIA Berrien County V%/ HERE AS Nancy E Guldens applies tome * •* for letters of Guardianship on the person and property of the minor heir of John' W. Giddens deceased. And, Whereas, W. D. Griffin and Harriett Langdale applies to me for Letters of Adminis tration on tb^ estate of John K Langdale, dee d. Aud whereas, Jethro Hatten and Harrltt Reg ister applies to me for letters of administration on the estate of Reuben Register, deceased And whereas, Leyi J. Knight, and Nancy Clem ents applies to me for letters of administration on the estate of John F Clements, deceased. And whereas Caroline Golding applies to me for letters of administration on the estate of Joseph B. Golding dec’d. And whereas, John Studstill applies to me lor letters of administration on the estate of Riley Mathis dec’d. These are therefore to cite and admonish all ar sons interested to tie and appear in my office with in : he time prescribed by law, and file objections if imy they have why said letters should not be granted. Witness my hand officially, November 7rh I >64 L pd $30255t. ] W, E. CONNELL Ord’y. j ^ O months after date application will be i made, to the honorable Court of Ordinary of Jones county, for ieave to sell the land and a ne gro woman, belonging to the estate of James A Blow, deceased, tor the purpose of a division — Terms on the day of sale. WILLIAM BLOW. Er Sept. 23rd. 1861- jg FIFE* .HUNDRED POUNDS OF BORAX FOR SALE BY J. M. Nov. 21st. 1864. STANFORD, Sparta. G®- 26 a GEORGIA, Echols County, O N the first Monday in December Dext, fly Roberts will apply to the Court of Od „„ of said county, for letters of Administr^^. n ty, the estate of John L. Roberts, late of sd' c0 deceased. a U 1 hese are therefore to cite auJ rnffsaotsw ^ persons interested, to liie their w by they have, within the time P r ^% e / P ificant in said letters may not bo gr» nte I tUe a P p th » < 5| 1 ’ T. B. CLAVrOK. 0:l'J