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THE CONFEDERATE UNION,
(Corner of Hancock and Wilkin,onstreet,.)
OPPOSITE TIlBCOrBTHOl’SE.
Erosa thr Fronts.
We .re tenable to give D, reader any satisfac
tory account of Shei man's movements since he
arrived within a few nriics of .Savannah. A heavy
fight is gai-i to have occurred near Savannah, lart
Tuesday, in which the enemy was r<-puiseu 1
is reported that Sherman
W as making' for the
8«rG3T0:r, 1I8BET & CO., State Printers.
Tuesday Morning, December 20, 18G4.
Old ibc’i Jlf»«ngf.
We have read a synopsis of Lincoln’s last mes
sage to Congress. He is still for war. Here are
his views in substance.
The U. 8 are stronger to day than when the
War began. There can be no effort at negotiation
because Jeff Davis will accept nothing short of a
severance of the Union. The issue must be deci
ded by the sword. There can be peace when the
rebellions States will lay down their arms and coma
back into the Union. His amnosty proposition is
still open to all people of the South who are in a
condition to accept it. This is about the substance
of his message, touching the War.
Mr. Lincoln also recommends that slavery be
abolished in the United States, and says he will
not change or modify his Emancipation Proclama
tions. If any Southern man can see any security
for his property, to say nothing of his righfs and
liberties, in reconstruction, or reunion with the
Yankees, hi? intellect is totally eclipsed. If Sher
man will destroy our property, rob ns of what he
cannot destroy, and heap all manner of insults
upon helpless women and children, while we still
have power to strike him back blow for blow, then
whht must be our late when, disarmed and power
less, we plead as suppliants at the foot of the Con
queror? We cannot pause, hesitate, or go back.
We must, go on. We must be free, or we mi st be
slaves There is no half way house to step at.
Behind is fire and chains, before is the swore and
liberty. Onward is the word.
Georgia coast in the direction cf Genesis point
near the mouth of the Ogeechee, and had captured
I’ort McAllister. This is all we have heard up to
the hour of going to press. From Tennessee we
get only Northern accounts. Forrest is reported
to have crossed the Cumberland, and was oper
ating on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
If the river is not too high, Genl. Hood will cross,
and pass around Nashville, cuuting its rear com
munications. We get nothing from Virginia.
A raiding party, said to bo 1.000 strong, struck
the Montgomery and Mobile Railroad at Pollard.
A sufficient force had been sc-nt after the raiders.
Substitute for Blankets.
Now that there is great scarcity of blankets,
and indeed, covering of any sort, in the Country,
any substitute will be of great benefit. Wo have
been told by those who have tried it, that a few
newspapers pasted together and placed between
quilts or other covering, are almost equal in
warmth to blankets. Take six or eight newspa
pers, paste them together, and put on your beds.
We have not tried it, but we do know that they are
about the warmest thing over a man’s face in the
summer he can put on, and no doubt are equally
as good to prevent the escape of heat in the win
ter.
TSicbiuontl to fall.
The N. Y. Tribune has discovered that Rich
mond is a doomed city, this time, and no mistake;
that it is certain to fall before Christmas. The
p'en is this; the Yankees have inverted and manu
factured a gun that will throw shells 7 miles: With
these guns the Tribune says Richmond can be des
troyed in 48 hours As we are forewarned, we sup
pose Congress will take the hint and disband in
double quick time. As the Yankees have not been
able to destroy Charleston, at a distance of 4
miles, after pegging away for more than 500 days,
we suspect Richmond will stand it at 7 miles, for
more than ten days. The Tribune will have to
wait some time for the destruction of Richmond,
in spite of its immense long range guns.
Trouble*.
. These are days of trouble to every body, but es
pecially are they trying to such a business as ours.
With no railroad open to us, and no mails, except
semi-occasionally, wo find the greatest difficulty in
printing any sort of a paper. If we give our
readers but little news, or other matter of interest,
it is for the reason that we can do no better under
the circumstances. We understand that the Cen
tral Railroad is repaired nearly to Gordon, and it
is expected that the trains will be runuing from
Macon to Midway, 2 miles from Milledgeville, by
the 1 st of January. Until we are put in com
munication with the outside world, we beg the in
dulgence of our subscribers.
ladiritlnal Duly.
“Friend, tie thy camel, and then trust him to Allah.”
quoth Mohammed to his servant, hut it seems to me
that the democratic party aie disposed to take their
ease having n self complacent faith in results while
neglecting the proper means to secure the desired
«ni. , . .
Politicians are talking. I know, and a tew brave,
undaunted men—ail honored he their memories—are
already foremost in the van, speaking trumpet tnn-
gued by the mouth of the press, and standing boldly
forth in the cause of justice and the eternal truth ol
God; but the people are not yet in earnest; tlfe masses
are not vet working—not even thinking, only dumbly
feeling the dire effects of certain causes; and seeming
ignorant or indifferent to th" fact that these caw
still obtain with more dreadful consequences yet to
follow. Why is this 1
I look around in utter amazement to see men so
eagerly intent on the glittering baubles, the vain devi
ces of the present; seek.ng for gold, or position,or pre
ferment—self aggrandizement; forgetful of either the
stem realities of to-dav. or the errand destiny th»‘ is
hid iu tl.e lutuie. Oil,'ll this people, individually and
as a nation, would but cast away the besetting sin of
selfishness! Oh, that this people wpuld yet learn Un
true lesson of life—love of God and his holy truth, jus
tice and love! Oh, brothers, the time has come to
each and nil of us—the time to look into the heart of
things, ami prove them, holding fast to that only which
is good We have wept by the rivers on this Babylon
long enough we have talked long enough where our
words are but idle breath, “full el sound and fury,
■ignifviug nothing;'' the hour is come for action. On,
be in "earnest—not for wealth or power or fame—but
for life itself; for honor, that should be dearer than
life ; and tor country, that is dearer than all.—Ez.
1 he Situation.
The following report of operations on the Georgia
and South Carolina coast is taken from the Charleston
Courier:
The News.—Wc learn that the enemy made a
demonstration on Savannah Tuesday, and were re
pulsed. It is supposed to have beeu only a feeler, put
forth to ascertain our strength there. General Har
dee in a dispatch toGener 1 Beauregard, dated Sa
vannah, Tuesdav, December 13, reports everything
working well, and that iu Ins opinion the enemy were
endeavoring to reach the coast by way of Genesis
pointandFort McAlister.
Fort McAllister is reported well garrisoned and
well provisioned, and has be n ordered to hold
out to the la§t extremity. The enemy’s fleet off
tlr. Orr, «f Ssoih Caralinii. the
tion? Hud drtnilN.
On the loth inst., Hon. James L. Orr, of S. C- in
trodueed the following resolution, and accompanying
emarks. We copy frou*j;he Richmond Eiamin--r:
"Resolved, That the Committee on Military Affairs
be instructed to inquire whether the late order No. , •,
Adjutant and Inspector General s Depr-rtmeut, revo
king the details of all mei^between toe ages of eign
teen and forty-five, requires any modification by leg
islation to preserve the producing and industrial inter
ests of the country.
Mr. On- said that when the President’s message
was read he had called the attention of Senators near
him to the misunderstanding of the exemption Law*
by the President. Thf President says: “all telegraph
operators, workman in mines. professors, teacher.-, en
gineers, editors and employees of new-papers,journey
men printers, shoemakers, tauneis, blacksmiths, mil
lers, physicians, and the numerous other classes men
tioned in the laws, cannot, in the nature of things, b
either equally necessary in their several professions,
nor distributed throughout the country in such propor
tions that only the exact numbers required are tound in
each locality.
Mr. Orr then proceeded to snow that on tho 1/thoi
Febuary, 1864. when the military bill was passed, one
cluuse repealed all exemption■*, and a subsequent elaus**
named all those classes who should be exempted. Ol
Gov. Brakn and Gen. W right.
T ., e following correspondence settles the question
of “ who is Governor” m the eastern portion of the
Augusta. Ga , Nov. 24th, 1864.
To Hi* Excellency Joseph E Brovn, Macon, Ga :
Governor : —Finding that you had been cut off
rrom communication with too Eastern portion of the
State, upon consultation with the leading citizens and
jurists here, I determined to use the authority of assu
ming the command of all the militia east of the Oconee,
as President of the Senate, and have changed so much
•fyour Order as required all the Militia to report to
G-n- rai G. W. Smith, and have ordered all east of Oeo-
iec river, to report to me at this place. I also rdfceived a
am from Gen. Wayne, tnen at Gordon, asking
Special to tuo Memphis Appeal.
Headquarters A*my of Tennessee, Near Nash
ville, Dec 5, via Bartow, and Mobile. Dec JO.—
We pursued 8nd overtook the enemy at Franklin,
where he had that morning thrown up one line ot
breastworks and had commenced two others
The enemy evidently intended to hold perma
nently the line of Ir&nkiin and Murfressbcro’.
We attacked him in position about 4 o’clock
p. m., and successfully carried their two outer
lines.
At dark we had reached and stood upon the out
er edge ot their interior and last line of woiks,
where the fight continued until II o’clock.
rapidly as they come in. As yet very few have re
ported. Enclosed I send you a copy of my published
order 1 am very anxious to have you heie to take
command, and have only temporarily interfered to aid
vo” in your efforts to save the State. I think we will
be able to hold this place We have a considerable
force already here, and Gen. Bragg is on his way with
reinforcements. I have a dispatch from Gen. Wayne
this morning, he is at Oconee and wes fighting Kilpat-
ick all day yesterday We still hold the (>< •one©
all the many classes enumerated by the prseident only bridge. As soon as J can get a considerable body of
three, editors, physicians and ministers of the gospel. Aliiina organized, I wiil communicate further with you.
were exempted. Every blacksmith, every tanner, eve- and take spell action as you direct. Please let me
ry shoemaker in the country was niade liable to be
put into the military service, and in whatever case
they were kept outofthe army, it was done by the ac
tion of the President himself, through the Secretary ol
War. Tne President states that “numerous othei
classes” are exempt. Who are they ? Overseers and
agriculturists working over fifteen able bodied fieid
bauds were exempted on condition ot entering into
bonds to furnish certain supplies to the government —
This was the only class lit could think of. Did the
President desire to put ministers of religion into tl.e
artnv 1 Their mission was peace, and according to the
usage of all civilized nations they were exe npffrom
serving in war. If the President wanted the exemp
tion laws modified so as to put them iu the service, hr
had just as well say so as to enumerate tanuers, black
smiths, Sec.
Mr. Orr went on to show that, at least according
to his information, there were not loo many physicians,
apothecaries or railroad employees exempted. Speak-
ingoftlie latter clas.-, he asked if it was believed that
any system of detail could be hit upon which would be
less subjyf to abuse than the existing law. At present
railroads actively engaged in transputratio* were unh
allowed one exempt for every mile gf trftck, ami in
cases were the roads where in the lines of the enemy
only the President and superintendaiits were exempted
If this law was not enforced, the fault was willi tiie
conscript authorities. It appears to l<im t^at an attempt
was made by the President to throw blame upon Con
gress fornot"doing that winch it had done more than six
months ago. This was Hot just. Whether the laws
passed by Congress had been properly carried out
would appear when an answer should be leceived to
the enquiries contained in the resolution of the Senator
irotn Louisiana, (Mr. Sparrow) adopted some days
ago.
Mr. Orr then read extract* from tho military bill
relating to exemptions and details. When Congres re
pealed the exemption of ail these classes it was not
without the conviction that very many of the individ
uals of these classes were necessary to the interests
of the country ; and Congress, therefore, gave the au
thority- of detail to the Secretary of War. Under the
authority the Secretary of War had organized a sys
tern of details through the inafurnantality of the Con
script Bureuu. Mr. Orr then explained the -ystem,
catling attention to its apparent perfection in the mat
ters of caution and circumspection. Notwithstanding
that the Congress had contemplated that the Seeretaiy
of War should make the necessary details, we find iu
this recent Order 77, a sweeping-revocation of all de-
Nhrriuau gained no Trophies in millodge-
▼Ule.
Some of the croakers in our streets seem anx
ious to magnify Sherman’s exploits, and assert
that lie carried oil Horn MilledgeviP.e a largo
number of muskets, and a vast quantity of pow
der and fixed ammunition. We know from per
sonal observation, and from the best information,
that such vr&s not the fact. We are assured by
Capt. Cross of the Armory, that nearly all of the
muskets left in the State House were such as had
been condemned as unfit for use The enemy con
sidered them of no value, for they burned them
in the State House Square. All of the good pow
der was taken from the Magazine before the en
emy arrivecr. The writer of this article was in the
Magazine on Sunday evening, a few hours before
the enemy arrived, and was assured by the Super
intendent, that the good powder was all removed,
and but a small quantity of damaged powder re
mained. Some of this powder was left at the
Railroad for the other train which did not arrive,
and this powder was burned. There was consid
erable fixed ammunition belonging to the Confed
eracy in the Magazine, which, on account of the
non-arrival of the 2nd train ordered by the Gov
ernor, fell in the hands of the enemy; but it ap
pears that this ammunition did not fit their guns,
for they left many boxes of it in various places
uninjured and threw the balance into the Oconee,
a great part of which has since been taken ent
and the balls saved. Sherman did much damage
to individuals, and to the public buildings, but as
far as we can learn be carried off no trophies with
him.
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Savannah.
A report is prevalent in the city to-day, Monday,
that Savannah was surrendered, after hard fighting
for throe or four days, on Thursday last: that a large
number of our troops were captured. We give it for
wbat it is worth. It was brought by persons from
Augusta, passing through this place on Sunday.
Advertising and l«k Work.
All advertising done at this office, exccpt witb
persons with Whom we have business transac
tions. must bo paid for in advance. No Job Work
will be executed at this office uuless the money i*
paid down when the work is ordered. TAis i,
positive.
Ossabaw Sound had largely increased. Ariange- tails. He knew nothing of the effect ot this order in
inf-nts have been made which is confidently be other parts of the country, but. in Iris section, if persirt-
lieved will interfere very materially with Sher- ?d in,, it would be very d.s^ou^v^.volvi^ the
man’s progress toward tho coast, if they do not
check him altogether. Sherman has been disap
pointed in not being able to cross the Savannah
river into South Carolina and effect a a junction
with Foster’s forces at Pocotaligo or Coosawh’t
chie. He was therefore compelled to moVe down
along the Ogeechee. All was quiet along tiie line
of railroad yesterday.
Outrage? by Y'atilicc General*.
In the raid of Sherman through Georgia all of
the outrages were not perpetrated by private and
subordinate officers. Iu proportion to their num
her the officers of Ligh rank were as guilty of as
many acts of infamy as the scum comprising their
commands.
In the county of Burke. Gen. Kilpatrick stopped
at the house of an estimable lady and demanded
a dinner for himself and others. When the din
ner was ready the lady of the house was required
to sit by the fireside while Kilpatrick, with three
negro wenches, who were his traveling companions
took their dinners together, indulging during the
repast in the most familiar and indecent conver
sation.
The day after Kilpatrick dined at the house of
another lady of similar character, and when he
had finished his dinner, turned his hireling escort
loose upon the furniture and other contents of the
house, destroying with ttieir sabres the fine cut
lery, glass and China ware, Ac , &c*, &e., wind
ing up the scene by ordering the corn cribs and
other out buildings to be tired. A faithful servant
put it out, when one of the vandals threatened lo
shoot him; but at this moment the cry of “Whee
ler’s mon” caused the party to depart precipitate
ly, and thus the buildings and contents were sa
ved.
To leave nothing undone, to complete the infa
my of this Yankee General’s conduct—ho caused
ali the sugar of the lady whose hospitality b’e had
forced, to be tilled with sand as well as her jars of
sweet meats and preserves. Such was the con
duct of General Kilpatrick. We eau well under
stand what the lower officers and privates of such
a General would do. At the plantation of Gener
al Cobb, in Baldwin county, where General Sher
man mads his headquarters for thirty six hours,
everything was destroyed by hi? older, and bis
soldiers robbed the negroes of their shoes, blank
ets, clothing, knives and forks and cooking uten
sils. Negro women were thrown down and their
shoes taken off their feet, and their cabins pilfer
ed of everthing they could put their hands upon.
As none of his negroes could be induced to go oft’
with them, they stole a boy about twelve years
old and carried him in spite of the tears and en
treaties of the child and his mother. A widow la
dy, whose plantation joined Generals < obb'e, was
found guilty of being the nearest neighbor of this
notorious rebel, and stie was made to suffer lor it
Though a defenceless widow—advanced in years
and confined to her house by sickness, she was
robbed of all that Yankee rapacity could find and
then thetorch was applied to the balance, and iu
a few moments she and her dependents were de
prived of their last morsel of bread. This was at
Sherman’s temporary headquarters.
These iifcidents are mentioned because of the
connection of their leading Generals with them:
others far exceeding those iu enormity and brutal
ity by lesser officers and.privatcs could be enum
erated without number.
A Ilig Scare.
We find the following iu the Bristol (Tenn) Reg
ister:
We wero told by a gentleman who resides in
the vicinty of the scene of the late thrashing giv
en the Y’ankees by Gen. Breckinridge, that the
newspaper accounts do not half represent the ex
tent of the stampede.. Tiie road was literally
strewn with knapsacks, blankets, canteens, guns,
and,the score of articles of commerce and comfort
with whieh our atrocious foes are so bountifully
supplied. A well known minister who came over
the road remarked that he could almost ride on
blankets from the Plains to Knoxville lie also
stated that when the column wasstruck by Vaughu
and Duke, they were seized with a very moving
panic, and broke like quarter horses, sauce rjui
pent, was the French for the very Y’ankre senti
ment of “every man for himself, and the devil
take the hindmost." Col. John Brownlow tried
to rally the rabble, and very valiantly cried out—
“Halt and form; we can easily whip ’em if you’ll
only stop!”
“Whd gave that order?” screamed one of the
runners, who was then on good time.
“Col. Brownlow gave it,” was the response
which came above the roar of the retreat.
‘ Tell Col. Brownlow that every mother’s son
must take care of number one now; fur Breckin
ridge and alt hell is after us!” was the rerdy; and
away lumbered the whole concern—General, Col
onel, corporal and private, as if Old Harry was
after them sure enough.—That his Satanic majes
ty will get them soonor or later, is just as sure as
that our gallant Breckinridge, and his Lieuten
ants, Vaughn and Duke, gave them as good a
thrashing and as big a scare as any of the blue-
bellies ever got this side of the Mississippi.
On Friday evening after the stampede, Gen.
Vaughn took supper on Gen. Gillam’s mess chest
at Strawberry Plains. The chest was well stored
with coffee, sugar,salt, lard, candles, pepper, spi
ces and delicacies.'
E3P*Tke Montgomery Mail has the name of Col. M
Bulger at the head of its columns, for Governor of
Alabama,
loss of a great part of tiie crops in the lower arid uppe
part of the State. After six months of experiment the
Secretrry of War, instead of protecting, by judicious
detail* the industrial interests of the country, at one
fell swoop revoked every detail. He was aware tliat
the ranks must be filled, and favored its being done ;
but at the same time the supply of provisions must be
kept up. We all accepted the re-election of Lincoln
as offering a prospect of four more years of war, and it
became us to husband our resources, not only to supply
the army, but to provide for the families of soldiers.—
The soldier informed by letter that his family was suf
fering for food, would be much induced to desert. The
tendenevof our legislation was to put every man in the
army. This must not be carri* d so far as to destroy
tiie oountry. Every man should go into the army who
could be spared from the industrial pursuits ot the
country, but he regarded it as unfortunate that the Sec-
retaiyof War should have tlmught-it necessary, by one
stroke ofkispen.to revglce all details.
Referring again to the President’s message, Mr. Orr
said he did not know that it would be agreeable to the
Secretary of War to be called onto say who should
preach, and who should not ; who should edit
newspapers and who should not ; but with
out pretending to he the especial champion At
tiie press or pulpit he would say this power should
be entrusted to uo man. Congress had turned over ro
the Secretary of War all the classes except those that
it was not proper he should have power over, and if he
had a doubt as to the propriety of handing these over
to him, it had been dispelled by the Secretary s recent
action in revoking all details.
He asked that his resolution might goto th* Com
mittee. He hoped if they found it necessary they
would report a bill protecting the interests of the coun
try against the effects of th# Secrataiy’s sweeping
revocation of details.
Freedom of the Frcsn
A free press has ever been the terror of despots and
tyrants. A free government cannot exist without it;
and a despotiem canuotexist with it. Aware of its vital
importance for the preservation and continuance of lib
erty, ourancestors in penning the Constitution of the
United States, and our States in Montgomery iu fram
ing the Constitution of the Confederate States, put in
to their Constitutions the following clause :
“Congress shall make no law respecting an estab
lislnnent of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or of the
press: or the right of the people, peaceably to assem
ble and petition the Government for a redress of
grievances.”
Now, what is the meaning of the prohibition to Con
gress to pass any law “abridging the freedom of the
press ?”
The Czar or Russia and President, of the United
States abridge the freedom of the press, by seizing the
editors and their presses, and imprisoning the one or
confiscating the other.
The Emperiorof France abridges it by giving warn
ings, through censors of the press, of any offensive ar
ticle ; and after the third warning the press is seized.
“Abridge” according to the dictionary, means “to
make shorter in words”—“to “contract”-*-to diminish”
—“to deprive of ; to “cut off from.” Any one of these
things the Constitution prohibits Congress from passing
a law to effect. ,
President Davis, in bis late message to Congress,
proposes that Congress ehpllnass a law enabling him
not only to abridge, but to destroy the press. He may
not only “diminish,” “contract,” and ‘‘make shorter in
words” by taking away such a portion of the workmen
as will disable the press fioin printing extensively or
freely, but by taking away all the workmen, to destroy
the press altogether. Is it possible for any man, who
can put two ideas together, to doubt that such legisla
tion in Congress would be palpable, outrageous usur
pation ?
The public good—the plea of all tyranls—is urged
in support of this policy. Wl.at does the public of the
Confederate States gain by such legislation ? The
whole press of South Carolina does not employ more
than fifty men at the outside.
To put these men into the army, not one half of
whom, from the nature of their occupations can be of
any iise in it, is the benefit to bo obtained. On the
other hand, light is to be shut out from the.people, by
the destruction of a’free press ; and a base, venal fac
tory of lies, in behalf of the government, is to set np in
its stead.
If it be said, that exemptions of the editor? nnd nec
essary employees in the press, is “exceptional legish:-
tion”—we admit it. But this is the very thing the
Constitution has done. It has made an express exccp-
Weheld oar position during the night expee-
„ ting toreoew the tight in the morning, but unfor
ne to adopt this course, as he was cut off from you I j tunatelv, under cover of the darkness, about 12
iave established a camp here and am organizing them r o - clock ; the enemy retreated leaving his killed and
wounded oil the field
We were unable to nse onr artillery on account
of the presence of the women and children in the
town.
We massed about one hundred pieces of artil
lery that night to open on the enemy at daylight,
expecting the non combatants to have been gotteu
out before day.
We have lost an unusually large proportion if
officers.
G-ns Cleburne, Granbury, Adams, Strahl and
Gist were ki led
Gens- Brown, Quarles, Carter and Scott were
wounded ,
We have captured abont thirteen hundred pris
oners, and have picked up on the battle field about
six thousand stand of arms.
We have also captured a large number of col
ors.
W T e have also captured four locomotives and
trains, and are running the Tennessee and Ala
bama railroad.
Other trains ara cut off. which we hope soon to
have in "ur posession
About five thousand of the enemy are cut off at
M'irtreesboro’. »
The army is in fine health and excellent spirits,
and confident ot success.
I be^teople are delighted and enthusiastic at our
advance ISHAM G. HARRIS.
ar from you, and say wbetlieryou approve my course
The State stores and powder, wuich were sent to this
place have been sent oil to a place of greatei security.
I have the honor to be,
respectfully, <fec.
A K. WRIGHT.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. (
Macon, Ga , Dec 3. 186J. <,
Hon. A. R. Wright, President of the Senate of the
State of Georgia, Augusta.
On my return from a trip to Southwestern Georgia,
I find year letter of the 24ih ultimo.
As the “communication” between this place and
Augusta liutl not been destroyed, but the line on y
long!honed, bv way of Thomasville and Savannah,
whieh was kept open, and in daily use, as shown by
your proclamation of the 1st of November, and' your
older of the 22d, which both referred to my proclama
tion, dated the 1‘Jth ultimo, which was published iu
the Macon papers on the same day, showin" that my
proclamation and orders, published in this city, were
received in Augusta, the second day after they were
issued, i cannot admit thut the contingency, contem
plate i in the Constitution, had happened, which au-
ihoi i/.ed the President ot the Senate to assume and ex
ercise the functions of Governor
My proclamation published in this city, on the 19th
ofNovember, directed the Militia to report to Major
Gen. Smith. Yours dated at Augusta, the 2ist, declar
ed part of mine revoked; andWrdered all east of the
Oconee, to report to you at Augusta. This looked
more like disapprobation of my orders, than want of
knowledge of what they were, ot the means of com
municating with my headquarters.
My subsequent orders of tiie 25th of November,
which changed that part of my proclamation, which
required all to report to Major Gw. Smith, and estab
lished four camps ot organization in tire State were is
sued after lull consultation with- General Beauregard,
Lieut. Gen. Taylor, aud Major General Cobb, who
were nil present at the consultation in this city. These
orders were published with the full sanction and appro
val of Gen. Beauregard, who expressed tho opinion
that they provided ior the best disposition of the Mi-
iifia, that could, under the circumstances, be made for
the defence of the State, against the common enemy,
and against straggling bauds of robbers, scattered
over a large part of her territory, plundering and steal
ing, and doing more injury to defenceless citizens,
than any like number of the enemy.
As your orders conflict with both my proclamations,
and my orders issued with sanction above referred to,
I cannot approve them.
That portion ol the Militia able to endure the hard
ships ol the camp in trout ot the enemy are to be sent
forward irom the campo of organization established
•y ihy orders, to Major Gen. Smith, as fast ns possi
ble. Those not able to endure the hard service
are to be used tor the protection of property
against rubber bands, till further direction from Gen
eral Beauregard. You will send forward for Majoi
•General Smith ali you have organized, who are able
to do field service, and discontinue the camp at Au
gusta.
1 will be much obliged, if you will report the muster
rolls of those you have organized to these Headquar
ters.
I am, sir, very respectfully,
Y'our obedient servant,
JOSEPH E- BROWN.
Another Decision by the Tax Commissioner.
Hon. T.- Allen, commissioner of taxes, has made
another decision in regard to taxes, which especially
interests planters. Here it is:
Office Commissioner of Taxes, j
Richmond, Dec. 2,1861. \
Jos. D. Pope, Esq., State Collector, Columbia, S C.
Sir : Your letter, of iltii ultimo, was received some
davs ago, and submitted to the Secretary of the Treas
ury. 1 u my letter accompanying yours, I expressed my
views as follows, to wit: “1 have the honor to submit
a letter from Mr. Pope, and to ask your instructions —
My own opinion is that a farmer will have no right to
a credit upon an ad valorem tax upon his property in
one District, by the value ot the tithe produced on
another and separate plantation in another District,
Paragraph 1, Section 1, Act of 14th of June, says.-—
“From the tux on the value of property employed in
agriculture, shall be deducted the value of the tax in
kind derived therefrom.’ The value of the tax in kind
derived from plantation No. 1 may lawfully be credit
ed upon the amount of tax assessed upou that planta
tion und other property employed in its culture,because,
according to the language of the Act, it is derived
therefrom. But no part of it is derived from plantation
No. 2, and the other property employed on it, and no
part of it can be credited upon the ad valorem tax on
No. 1, and vice versa. Therefore to take the case put
by Mr Pope. A lias agricultural property in two Dis-
tricts, and lias made separate return in each District.
In one District, the tithe ruus very far over the ad
valorem tax, and in the other it falls short. In the first
case, he can receive no credit beyond five per cent
and consequently one cancels’the other, aud there will
be no ad valorem tax to pay iu that District. But in
the other, where the value of the tithe falls short.—
Mr. Pope thinks there should be a credit allowed for the
surplus tithe in the first tiamed District, I think not, and
I think it would be contrary to the intention of the law
to allow it. Therefore, in the second case, the'farmer
must pay a money tax upon the surplus, after dcdict-
ing the value of the tithe.”
The views are approved by the Secretary of the
Treasury, and I am directed by him to communicate
the same to you.
Verry respectfully,
Your ob't servant,
T. ALLEN, Commissioner.
. Supernumeraries.—I am told by an officer from
Richmond that there are low ten tinuisaud officers of
the Confederate States army denominated supernu
meraries They are everywhe e. Every railway
train is fi!i< d with them ; they hold sinecures in all our
towns and vilages ; they Hood the War Office with ap
plications for commands and promotion. Of all the
| supernumeraries Joseph E. Jotmston is most honored
j and respected. Mtgi still insist that he would have ac
complished all that Hood has achieved, without the
loss of a man, and without the loss of military, stores,
which cau ne vtr be replaced. Be this as it "may, his
retreats are mere wonderful than tiie advances of other
generals. Perhaps his life-long experience as a quar-
rnaster generated a degree of caution which render*
his prudence a monomania. Yet we know thaLwhen
he gives battle, headlong courage supplants all other
qualities', and lie fights like Ney or llassena. The
President, it is said, will recommend the enactment of
a law by which supernumeraries will be returned to
the ranks or discharged from the service. Their pay,
it there tie 10,000, amounts to more than $1,000,000 per
month, and their services are demanded by the exigen
cies of the hour. If such be the purpose of “the
, . President , why may not these 10,000 brave men orga.
tioual prohibition in behalf of the press. To carry out [uize a corps, even now, and tender the com-
the Constitution, the legislation with respect to the j maud to Gen. Johnston. The President would hnrd'y
press must ba “exceptional.” Power to legislate <m I interpose obstacles to prevent sqeb a consummation,
other matters is given to Congress, but all power to and at the close of the war it would be honor enough
legislate in any way “abridging the freedom of the j for any soldier to say that he belonged to the invinci-
pra*s,” is expressly prohibited to Congress. “Congress ble corps of Joseph E. Johnston. The privates, in
shall make no law “abridging tiie freedom of the : suc'i an organization, would occupy as enviable a
Can language be plainer or more conclusive ? j position as officers in other commands.
(Corr. Clarion,
From Mississippi —A correspondent writing
from Meridau, Miss., Nov. 13ih says:
This piace is being rapidly rebuilt When the
Y’ankees were here last February almost every
bouse in the town was burned. There were two
large hospital buildings—one of them near the
railroad depot, the other some half mile to the
north of the town. I am glad to see a never-give-
up spirit among the people here. They have al
ready three hotels iu the place; and the fourth in
process of erection They are small, of course,
though ample to accommodate the traveling pub
lie as well as they ivere previous to the occupation
of tne town by the Federals Dr J. W. C. Smith
deserves much credit for his industry and perse
verance in the rebuilding of the hospitals here.
He has, in the last three or four mouths, had a
number of buildings erected, sufficient to accom
modate several hundred patients As yet, Iris hos
pitals are used merely as receiving aud shipping
hospitals
The Mobile and Ohio railroad is being put in
better running by contrabands. It h s been real
ly dangerous to travel on it until recently.
MEMPhlS.
— tmmj » —
murder of Ann H«D.
Among the many barbarities perpetrated by
Sherman's army on aged, and most esteemed citi
zens, is that of Judge Asa Holt of this city. He
was at his plantation in Jefferson county, with his
.wife, when the enemy arrived there. Supposing
that he had money and other valuables convenient
to be appropriated as spoils, he was threatened
with being hung, and the operation partially per
formed to compel him to show what he might, or
might not have had. We have not learned the
particulars sufficiently to state them. The result
was that he was hang, aud is n<>w dead, and for
the purpose of exteuding confessions from him.—
He was probably over seventy years of age and
highly venerated by all as an exemplary Christian
and citizen —Jour Sf Mess.
Deserters Captured —For some time past the vi
cinity of McLaughlin’s Mill, between Marion and
Chattahoochee counties, has been infested by a no
torious band of deserters who heretofore have al
ways eluded the search of the officers Lieut J.
M. Simmons, the enrolling officer of Marion coun
ty. posted a guard of three men, Messrs. Crews,
Hollis and Taylor, on a bridge over Pine Knot
creek, to intercept from one side to the other the
passage of the deserters. Two of them a short
rime before day, as they attempted to pass, w*re
fired on by the guard. The ueserters fled.
Between daj light aud sunrise the guard at the
bridge heard a signal gun fired, and in a short
time this rascally band was seen advancing to the
attack When within some forty yards of Mr
• Requemore’s dwelling, near McLaughlin’s mill,
they opened fir . which was responded to by Lt
Simmons and his men. Tbrae out of the four de
serters were wounded,and the party repulsed. A
force was collected on Sunday, which commenced
the pursuit, arid on Monday the three wounded
deserters—S. F Bullard. C. G. Bullard nnd Wm.
Flowers, and two conscripts, A L Builard and
Jonas Flowers, were captured. The five men
have been delivered to the authorities in Colum
bus.— Columbus t>un.
Burning of Rome.
In addition to the property destroyed by the
Federals at Rome, Ga., belonging to Southe v ners,
their own. less was very heavy We find the fol
lowing account of the barniug in the correspon
dence of the N. Y. Tribune:
Owing to the great luck of railroad transporta
tion, Gen. Corse was obliged to destroy nearly a
million dollars worth of property, among which
was a few thousand dollar^ worth of condemned
and unserviceable Government stores. Nine reb
el guns captured at Rome by our troops, were
burnt, it being deemed unsafe to use them
One thousand bales of fine cotton, two flour
mills, two roiling mills, two tanneries, one saw
mill, an extensive foundry, several machines shops
together with the railroad depots and store houses,
four pontoon bridges, built by Gen Corse's pion
eer corps for use on the Coosa and Etowah rivers,
aud a substantial trestle bridge nearly completed
for use, destroyed. This treefle was constructed
by tne engineer corps, and I am told would have
cost fifty thousand dollars North
Recollecting the gross outrages wuich I alluded
to above as being perpetrated upon Col. Straight
by the “Romans,” our troops as soon as they learn
ed that the town was to be abandoned and a por
tion of it burned, resolved to lay Rome in Hshes
in revenge fur insults offered to our prisoner*
Gen. Corse, however, had taken precaution to
station gtiards throngh all parts of the city, with
orders to shoot down the first man caught tiring a
building without proper authority Stringent or
ders were also issued to arrest all citizens or sus
picious persons found on the streets after the con
flagration commencad.
iNEGRo woman a- Tu*
CHILDREN TO SELL, OR H r-
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press. _ „ ..
And when it is remembered, that our whole struggle in
a struggle for constitutional liberty—can language be
more imperative and solemn in its obligations ?—
Charleston Mercury.
Yankee Congressional Elections —The
Republicans have lost one member from Delaware
The New Y'ork Tribune, of the 12th says:
The Coppetheads in Pennsylvania are trying
hard to keep our soldier’s votes that will defeat
Coffroth and Dawson, but all will come out right
at Washington. Brooks, of this city, will probably
get the certificate, but his seat will be contested.
Humphrey, Raymond, Darling, Keteham, Gris
wold (war Democrats) and Conkling are clear
gains We-aJ»o gain Newell iu Nev/ Jersey. In
Ohio the soldiers’ vote elects Delano, giving us
seventeen of the nineteen members. So far we
have in Illinois ten members sure, and one dis
trict is still in doubt. This is a gain of five Iu
Michigan we defeat Baldwin in the 6th district;
a gain of one for us. In Wisconsin we have a
reported gain of two members. Missouri will
probably give a Union gain ot two tfiembcrs So
there is no doubt of a two-thirds vote for the Un
ion and emancipation in the nextH -use of Repre
sentatives, and something over M> spare—saving
nothing of Tennessee and Louisiana, which may
send up about a dozen Union members.
Fire and Self-Em nidation.
The Vineville Academy, a two story wooden
building, was discovered to be in flames about
half-past two o’clock on Sunday morning, and was
burned to its sills in the course of an hour there
after.
Some negroes, tenants of a neighboring kitchen,
say, late in the evening befoie, a drunken soldier
came in atiu cursing the dampness of the school-
house, took a fire brand with him, and made off,
swearing that lie would make a fire to dry up the
damp even if he burned up the d—d old Church
It is supposed he made up his fire very carelessly
in the second story of the building, and then sunk
into the sudden sleep of inebriation.during which
the brands rolled out and set the building in
flames. Stupefied alike by smoke and intoxica
tion, the ifnhappy man was burned as he lay. The
irons of his gun, his bones and his heart, still un-
c.onsumed, were found among the ashes and cin
ders and furnished certain evidence of his awful
fate. There is too much drinking among the sol
diery quartered around Macon, to say nothing
about civilians. Let all take a lesson from this
awful penalty for a single debauch —Tef. Sf. Con.
Tltr fall of Cleburne.
A nobler and a braver soldier never breathed the
atmosphere of the battle field than Major Gen.
Patrick Cleburne, who fell iu the figut of Harpetii
Creek
General Cleburn’s history, civil and military, is
too well known throughout the whole country to
need a biographical sketch at our hands IIS was an
Irishman by birth, and a Southerner by adoption.
He served when quite a youth in the British service
where he. had inculcated those soldiery qualities of
disciplit .ii-d training which have rendered him
distinguished in tlie present war. When he first
emigrated to this country he settled in Arkansas,
where he studied and practiced law, and in that
profession had previous to the struggle, formed a
partnership with the present Major Gen. T. C.
Hindman;
When the war cominenc-d, he enlisted as a pri
vate, was made Captain of his company, was after
wards elected Colonel of bis Regiment, and from
one grade to another gradually rose to the eminent
position he held at the time of his fall Among
ins contemporaries he was distinguished for sol
dierly qualities, and lorn correctness of judgment
in the council of war and upon the field of action
which gave bis opinion great weight and influ
ence. He endeared him&elf to bis devoted troops,
and was the admination aud respect of every sol
dier in the army, by attention to their general
welfare and by his gallant bearing .upon the field,
aud his cool, intrepid behavior in the hour of bat
tle. The country has not sustained a greater loss
since the death of the lamented Jackson. The
army of Tennessee mourns the loss of its right
arm man, which has twice saved us from disaster.
The Confederacy weeps over the heroic form of
her adopted sou.—Afont. Mail,
rifle 1o rent fo r ntJ . (
fear.
1 Propose to hire out for the
an extra likely negro WO m an withT’° r * e!|
dren; one, a girl, aged between t j Wo '’bli
the other, a boy, aged y ear „ 4 3’eat,,
and fine children. The wom» n - both leal hv
was raised in Charleston, 8. q about
No 1 washer and ironer, a eon ^ 18 strictly j
sew very well Her moral cA« ra< . /( , 0 ■ ’ 8,1,1 can
she is naturally inoustrious « * ts Somt, cr
the next y ar, to a careful tenant, t®' 8 " r 7! : ;,r
I now occupy within the corpora;,, m . res!l j’ :•(-,
iedgeville—about j of a mile from q'J'l 1 ,® ( .'* -’b
wards Midway. The dwelling ha^ , a P*<oi to.
and has attached 12 acres of land—a^ r °otrs,
with all necessary out buildings, hid- orc ar '^
subscriber at Milledgeville
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H. H. W f
Milledgeville, Dec. 17. 18?»4
GEORGIA Pulaski county.
WHEREAS Mrs Fannie K. Anderson w
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property of North Carolina and .Mary Mayo Aim. ..
minor children of John J. Anderson deceived.
These are therefore to cite and admonish ,r.\>.
interested to be and appear at my office, *,nm
the first Monday in February next nnd show 1
anv they can, why letters of Guardianship alien
be grauted, the said Fannie K. Ainierson in fen,,
the statute.
Given under my hand and the seal of office (his 1
dav ol December 1&64.
28 5t JOHN FADE, D. Ordv.
GEORGIA, Puiaski Cotlnty.
\\T 11EREAS, John W Asbell, Adm’r 0 i
V, George Wade, deceased, bas applied for
letters of dismission from said estate.
All persons interested Will tile their objectify
in ray office within the time prescribed by la*
(if any tuey can,) why letters of dismiss;,,,
should not be granted the applicant in terms of
the statute Given under my hind and seal tjij
Dec 17th. 1864,
28 mbtn JOHN J SPARROW, OnVy.
GEORGIA Pulaski county.
a x HEREAS, John H Anderson applies to in
\v for letteis of Administration on the estate
• f George Shivers late of this county d-ceasej,
These are to cite alj persons interested to be acj
appear at my office on or before the first MonJw
iu February next and file their objections it an',
they have, otherwise letters ot Administration ..
be granted the said John H. Anderson on George
Shiver’s estate. Given under my baud and seal of
office this Dec. 17th 1864.
28 5t. JOHN FALE, D. Ord’y.
WESTOYEK.
A Beautiful Residence am]
Plantation For Sale.
I NOW OFFER my Plantation, wi.
known as the late residence of Benjamin
S. Jordan, within five miles of Mind;;*,
ville, on the Eatonton Railroad, lined-
somely improved, fine dwelling with good
out houses, barn, stables./tc.. For sale. In trout of
the dwelling there is a beautiful FLOWER Y’ARD,
handsomely ornamented, nnd oneof the finest tid best
collections of plants aud flowers in Middle Georgia —
Also, a fine APPLE and PEACH OKCHAKO. The
tract contains 850 acres of good land, about 250 in the
woods. Furniture, stock, See., cau be had with tiie
place.
L. A. JORDAN
Milledgeville, Dec. 20th, 1864. 2 s it.
fiT We are authorized to announce thr names of
B. B. deGraft'enried, Dr. G. D. Case, 1 >. P. Banner,
Peter Fair &, W. H. Scott, the present J udges of the
Inferior court as candidates for re-election.
Dec. 7th, 1864. 37 3!.
Milledgeville Female Academy
'■’'HE Exercises of this Institution
JL sumed Monday, 2nd of January,
Tuition first quarter of ten weeks,
Fuel “ “
Payable in advance.
Producers are expected to pay in provisions.
JAS. S. BURR1LL, M D.,
Principal.
Dec. 10, 1864. 27 4t.
Nov. 21?t, 1864.
Sparta
Ga
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GEORGIA, Echols County. harp
O N the first Monday in December nexL; na ry
Roberts will apply to the Court of'A Qn on
of said county, for letters of Admini-.„ QUO ty,
the estate of John L. Roberts, late of
deceased. ■a all
These are therefore to cite 5* "f 0 „s, if an?
persons interested, to file the* V, b i a ’ Wi wb?
they have, within the time app ii c ani ii
said letters may not be i
terms of the law. d and officjal signature
Given under wf “
tb 265t t T - B - CLAYrON, Ori'J
CF* We are authorized to announce the came of
Alfred B. Moore, as a candidate for Judge of the
Inferior court of Baldwin comity.
Dec. 7th, 1361. 27 3t.
will be re-
1865.
$40 IW
. S-TtO
Si II00 L NOTICjG.
T HE Rev. S. E Brooks, assisted by his wife,
will resume his School fdr boys and girls on
the first Monday in January, I860.
The first quarter of ten weeks,’ $411,00
Fuel first “ “ “ o 00
Music on the piano 1st quar. of ten weeks, 50 00
Producers are expected to pay in provisions
at current prices. Paymeuts in all cases to be
made in advance.
A few boadeis can be accommodated with the
teacher by paying in provisions
Milledgeville, Dec. 10, 1864. 27 3U
EXCHANGE NOTICE NO.—13.
Richmond, Dec. 1.1S64.
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 All 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 time
prior to November 1st, 1864, are hereby declared to
be exchanged.
RO. OULP,
Agent of Exchange.
December 6,1864. Utot
LOST BUGGY.
O NE of my negroes picked up a Buggy left by the
enemy beyond the Oconee Bridge. Tfee owner
can have it by proving property and paying for tins
advertisement.
B. B, deGRAFFENKIED.
Dec. 10th, 18C4. 27 tf.
GEORGIA. Baldwin County.
P URSUANT to an order of tho honorable
Court of O/dinary of said county, there wiil
ne sold before the Court House door at Milledge
ville. on the first Tuesday in in JANUARY, 186).
within the legal hours of sale, all the slaveoJ*-
longing to the estate of Louisa AruU»r*on. ia' 15
of said county, deceased, consisting of severs,
valuable uegroes of different ages, male and fe -
male—also the plantation on which stie resid'd
at the time of her death. Sold for the benefit of
distributees and creditors. ,
LUCY ANN GIBSON, Adm’rx.
Dec. 1. 1864. 27 tds.
GEORGIA. Appling Comity.
S IXTY days after date application will he juaos
to the Court of Ordinary of said county, lor so
order for leave to sell a negro woman, belong?
to the estate of John J. Courson. late of
county, deceased.
NANCY D. COURSON, Adm’rx.
Oct. 3d, 1864. j l 21 9t
j'WO months after date application will b*
1 made to the honorable Court of Ordinary of
Jones county, for leave to sell the Jand and a'«-
gro woman, belonging to the estate of James A.
Blow, deceased, for the purpose of a division"
Terms on the day of sale.
WILLIAM BLOW. E*
Sept. 23rd. 1861’ 13 Ut
FIVE HUNDRED"^
jpOUNDS OF BORAX FOR SALE BY
J. M. STANFORD,
