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Newspaper Page TextVOLUME XXXV.] MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1864. NUMBER 29. BOlfGH TON, SISB ET,B ARNES & MUORE Publishers and Proprietors. i.y ■ io» , OCOIITON, II. NISBKT. | Editor*. Canfebtratt Inion I.pMM'i Weekly, in Corner of Hancock <> n “ u/poJ Con,, At $12 a year in Advance. ADVERTISING. y., \S=if.NT.—Three Dollars per square of ten . for each insertion. . fi ,es lte8 ,,f respect. Resolutions by Societies,(Obit 1 exceeding six lines.) Nominations l'or office, 1 , sr,w aD ications or Editorial notices for individual -barged as transient advertising. Legal advertising. she nfB sales, per levy of ten lines, or less, $5 00 j Mortgage fi fa sales, per square, i« <»0 I ollector’s Sales, per square, for Letters of Administration, .. »* “ Guardianship, h *'0 Letters of application for disrn’n. from Adm’n 8 00 u *• *• “ Guard’n 8 00 Anpl'i* forleav6 to sell laud and negroes, W.ice to Debtors and Creditors. Saies ot laud or negroes, per square, .. “ perishable property, 10 days, per sq. Estray Notices, 30 days, foreclosure of Mortgage, per square, LEGAL advertisements. Land and Negroes, by Administrators , Ex- rs or Guardians,are required by law to be ,cttl tirst Tuesday in the u GEORGIA, Jasper county. 1UTHEKEAS. the estate of Francis M. Kinaro. W i ate of said 1 'county, deceased, is unrepre sented. and therefore subject to waste. , rpj ietie ar e theiefcrt'e to cife and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of said de ceased, To be and appear at my office on the se cond Monday in January next, and take the ad ministration of said estate, or file their objection', if any they have, why the same shall not de volve upon the Clerk ot the Superior or Inferior Court of said county as - provided by law. Given under my hand officially, this 10th day Nov , 1864. 25 5t M. H. HUTCHISON, Ord’y. GEORGIA, Wilcox county. Air II ERE AS, G A. R. Mims applies for lef- f V ters of administration on the estate of Elias Mims of said county, deceased. These are therefore to cite and admonish all per- 80! s interested, to be and appear at my office within the time prescribed, by law, and file their objections, if any they have, or said letters will begranted. Witness iny hand officially. Nov. 3, 1864 25 fit J. W. MASII It URN. Ord’y. Tax fiiations 5 00 5 00 8 00 b JO 8 00 2 00 5 00 2 00 \\ ith ; between the hours \ tllllO I'JlvUUVU . rt house in thecouuty in which the property is v*""' 1 ., if these sales must be given in a public ga- ttelOdaya previous to the* day of sale. T, ..... {or the sale of personal. property must be xett N'otlC manner 10 days previous to sale day. V v ; mm.ike oa. au d credltors 0 fan estate GEORGIA, Bulloch county. To all whom it may concern. THEREAS Mitchell Lanierand Eliza Sumetlme applies to me for letters ot administration on the stated James Sudierline late ot said county deceas ed. These are to eite and admonish all persons concern ed to file their objections if any they have, in my office on or before the first Monday in January next, other wise said letters will be granted. Given under iny hand officially this 31st day ot Oc tober 18fi4. 25ot DAVID BEASLEY, Ord’y. GEORGIA. Jasper county. \\T 1IEREAS, Susan H. Daniel makes application to * ? me for letters of administration, with the will an nexed, on the estate oflsaac Daniel late of said county deceased. These are therefore to cite and admonish all persons concerned, to show cause if any they have, on or be- fore the second Monday in January next, why letters shall not issue to the applicant, in terms of the stat ute. _ . Given under my hand officially, this 8th day Nov. 1864. 25 5t M. H. HUTCHISON, Ord’y. ^ ... 1,^minished 40 days. r .i.J.nrdicatiou will be madeto the Court of the debtors . must be P ut ! N utire that appl „ , , x . Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Negro. . i* l lwd mouths. “ , . f . inters of Administration Guardianship, v' ’ uu'.'be published 3« days-for dismission from Vtuinitration, monthly six months-for dismission lr o,n Guardi.nahip.40 ‘Engage must be published inths—for establishing lest papers From the Advertiser and Register. Is Alabama worthy of her Heroic Bead. * ‘‘From the gray sire whose trembling hand, Can hardly buckle on his brand, To^he raw boy whose shaft and bow Are yet scarce terror to the crow: IJach valley, each sequestered glen Musters its li f tle horde of men. Still gathering as they pour along A voice more loud, a tide more strong, Till at the rendezvous they crowd, eliy hundreds prompt foj blows and blood. Lend me your ears, my countrymen’ and would that the resistless eloquence vf Pet.r the Hermit, were mine, to rouse you from your fatal lethargy to a just realization of the perils that begird us! To Alabama’s henchmen should the fiery cross be given: and as the sacred symbol fiies, well might the injunction ring throughout the. State; “Speed, Malise, speed! such cause of haste Thine active sinews never braced.’’ Shall it be said, that while a heroic band of the noblest troops that generals ever led, or nations b asted, after battling against fearful odds for six weary months of ceaseless strife, is still breast ing the waves of invasion along the front, shall history record that Alabamians, safe in the shel tered nooks of civil office, crouch in the dust and raise the craven cry of “peaco propositions!” Has the honor of our State fallen indeed so low, in the absence of her "bravest and best,” that- smooth-lipped brazen fronted treason rears her shameless visage in legislative halls, and insults the names of our gallant dead by reconstruction resolutions? “Honor- of Alabama! ^ “I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped foora their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult;’’ and it bad been well for the cause of the Confederacy, could another Cromwell have entered those desecrated halls, and scourg ed out the degenerate legislators who disgrace alike their constituency and the soil of the South. Peace propositions, or reconstruction resolutions, have not even the enigmatical subtlety of oracu lar whispers; they are susceptible of but one in terpretation, and couch their meaning in oharac ters that “he who runs may read”—submission, subjugation. Upon no other conditions have we a right to expect pease, from tiie uyuasty that reigns in Washington. What a spot of shame and virtuous indignation must have burned on the cheeks of scarred and veteran Alabamians in Lee’s ana Hood’s armies, when snatching a moment’s rest in bloody intrenchnoents and on trampled bat- Ktiles for foreclos r ih^full fyacc of three months—forcompe lmgtitlc. Executors or administrators, wnerc bond lias been ! , >,v the deceased. the full space of three months. "cations will always be continued accordingto ! GEORGIA Pulaski county. YV HE REAS, Vv’m. M. Anderson applies to me for TT permanent letters of administration on the estate ’ of Mary A. Mayo late of said county deceased. These are to cite all persons concerned to file their . . objections, if any they can, within the time prescribed ■ tlefields, they read that at the most critical, junc- i by law, why said letters should not be granted the ap- t ,, re 0 j the contest, when their gallant ranks were j plicant in terms of the statute. depleted by fearful carnage, and the heart of Given under my hand and seal of office, in Hawkins- ^ r . ive o! J o-enerals was allnost pierced by the foe— | ville this Nov. 8th, 1864. tbeir/ellow-citizens at home, their mis-Represen- 4t JOHN FALE, D. Ori w j tat;re8< who nev er shouldered a musket, or flashed ryuvo Months after date, application will be a sword in the national defense—instead of strain- r i made to the Court of Ordinary of Pulaski 1 ing eveiy nerve to recruit the army, to gird the th^c’theTegal requirements,unlessotherwiseordered. Book and Job work, of all kinds, PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECl I ED . AT T IS I H OFFS V K • If When a subscriber finds a cross mark on his paper he will know that his subscription has expired, or is about to expire, and must be renew- ,d if he wishes the paper continued.. We do not send receipts to new sub hers. If they receive the paper they may k •hat we have received the money. dianged subscri- 11 ow cy Snbucribers wishing their papers c. st-office to another must state the which they wish it reni one P° name of the post-office lrom changed. PEIUNO BROWN & CO., FORMERLY OF ATLANTA,.GA., HAVE LOCATED AT 272 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA., A ND offer their services to their customers and friends for the purchase and Sale of Rea! and Personal Estate, Produce, Stocks. Bonds, Dia monds and Merchandise of every description.— We deem it uunecessarj'to state that any busi ness entrusted to us will be attended to with lidel- M V L‘LICUTENSTADT, PF.BINO BROWN, 16 3ra] WM. tt BARNES. r^"Intelligencer,Confederacy ana Sav. Repub lican copy two weeks, and send bills to us at Au gusta. . Notice to Debtors and Creditors. * LL persons indebted to the estate of John Speights A late of Baldwin county deed are requested to make payment and those having demands against iiii deed are notified to present them in legal term within the time prescribed by law. „ . ARAMIN’TA SPEIG HTS, Ex lx. Oet. 29th. 1864. H - bt County, Georgia, at the first regular term after expiration ot two months from this notice, for leave to sell the land belonging to the estate of Alexander Coleman late of said County, deceased, for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said de ceased. HORTON HENDLY AdmT. Nov 6th 1164. 25 9t. GEORGIA Benia#County V S, HEREAS Nancy E Guldens applies tome V 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- j (ration on the estate of John R. Langdale, dec d. And whereas, Jethro Hatten and Harritt Reg ister applies to me for letters of administration on | the estate of Reuben Register, deceased And whereas, Levi J. Knight and Nancy Clem- ! euts applies to me for letters of administration on the estate of John F. Clements, deceased. And whereas Caroline Golding applies to me for i letters of administration on the estate of Joseph B. j Golding tlec’d. State for battle, and fan the flame of patriotic ardor were iguominiously offoriug reconstruction resolutions, and voting themselves increase. of pay! Did tidin.s so numbiug »nd disgraceful, wino- their way from the forum of Rome and Sparta, to the bleeding heroes who held their fron tiers? Oh that a Iloratius had risen in that cap ital at Montgomery and proclaimed as of old: “Ye every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late, And how can man die better • Then facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods!” From the blue waves of the Mediterranean rise spectres that mock such cowardice, and sepulchral voices three centuries old, hiss “shame upon such counsellors ” When Mustapha girdled St. Rimo and St. Angelo with fire, when the dewoted gar risons were emaciated with famine and disease, and spent with midnight conflicts—what example was bequeathed us? An attempt was made by the besiegers to cut away the palbades which An«l whereas, John Studstillapplies to me for letters closed the harbor at the foot of the fortress, and of administration on the estate of Riley Mathis dec’d These are. therefore to cite and admonish all tier- sons interested to be and appear in my office with in the time prescribed by law, and file objections if any thej 7 have why said letters should not be granted. Witness my hand officially, November 7th 1 -64 [pd $30255t.] W. E. CONNELL Ord’y. GEORGIA Pulaski county. IY, r HEREAS Mrs Fannie R. Anderson applies to » ? me for letters of Guardianship for the persons and property of.North Carolina and Mary Mayo Anderson minor children of John J. Anderson deceased. These are therefore to cite and admonish all persons interested to be and appeur at my office, on or before the first M instantly the Maltese swam to meet the attack carrying their swords between iheir teeth, and de feated the Turks To prevent tiie temptation to abandon the fort LaValetto broke down the bridge, even as Cortes burnt his ships, and in the dark est hour of trial when one man despairing of suc cess, insisted on accepting the terms of surrender, * he W as instantly hanged, to destroy the contagion of cowardice 7 How “invulnerable from their deg radation ’ seem the servile submissionists of this revolution when contrasted with that unconquera ble officer of St. Angelo, who. pointing to the deep ditch that surrounded the fortress, said to the messenger sent to demand a surrender: “Look, NOTICE. CJIXTY, days after date application will be O made to the Ordinary Court ol Wilkinson Coun ty. for leave to sell, a portion ot the real and person, a! estate of Williiam Lord Sen’r. dec d late of said County G. W. LORD Lx r. Not. 4th, 1864. pd M !):. ...... ..._naayin February next and show cause if there is all the room we can afford your mas- nay they can, why letters of Guardianship should not ter, but it is deep enough to bury him and his fol be granted, the said Fannie II. Anderson in terms of i 0V yers.” Is there no magnetism in heroism such as this? Breathes there a 8outhern man whose heart does not throb with noble emulation as he listens to the whispers of encouragement watted down the dusty GEORGIA, Pulaski County. aisles of history, from the nine thousand who held TTT ii ERE AS, John W. Asbell, Adm’r. of Malta against the mighty armaments and vast George Wade, deceased, has applied for power of the Ottoman Empire? The genius and letters of dismission from said estate. devotion ot La\ alette are not wanting in “ur All persons interested Will file their objections own commanders, but the unanimity and aesper. in my office within the time nrescribed by law. ate resolve of the Knights of 8t John find bu a (if any they can.) why letters of dismission feeble echo in the hearts ot our citizens cor should not be granted the applicant in terms of nearly four years our armies have sustained a con- the statute. Given under my hind and seal this test without parallel in the reakmg annals or the the statute. Givep under my hand and the seal of office this 17th day ol Decembty 1864. 28 5t JOHN FALE, D. Ordy. JOHN J SPARROW, Ord’y. B Administrator s Sa/c. Y virtue of an order fiom the Court of Ordi- nary of Bulloch county, will be sold on the first Tuesday in JANUARY next, belore the Court House door, in Statesborough, Bulloch county, eight hundred and forty-five acres of land, more or less, one tract containing three hundred acres unimproved, bounded by laeds oi M. B. i*en* dricks and John Mercer; and five hundred and forty-five acres, more or less, except the widow s dower, it being the late residence of Seaborn Hen dricks' with Will and Agness, a man and woman. Sold for the benefit oi the heirs and cieditors of the estate of Seaborn Hendricks. Terms on the ua) of j 1 a , 1 ®’ cHELL B HENDRICKS, Adm’r. SARAH HENDRICKS, Adm’rx. Dec. J7th, 1864, 28 ml5m GEORGIA Pulaski county. V t 11EREAS, John H Anderson applies to me \\ for letters of Administration on the estate ■ f George Shivers late of this county deceased. These are to cite all persons interested to-be and ,!*„ 7 ' 7 " ’ past, and performed prodigies ol valor surpassed by none which the epic muse has immortali zed. - “Whatever record leap to light, They never shall be shamed.” But countless conflicts have thinned the gall*ut recent assault made by Hood’s heroes upon Slier nfau’s lines—and in mocking neighborhood on the next column flaunts in exaggerated characters-the theatre bill for to-night; a “roaring iarce” is prom ised; “a crowded house” predicted. Is this a junc ture for ribaldry, buffoonery and coarse pauto mimo, when the bloodiest and grandest tragedy of modern or ancient days is. being enacted on the immortal fields of Virginia and Georgia? \ erily we seem to approach that depth of degradation so pithily portrayed by the historian of degenerate Athens: “the theatres werS crowded, while the camp was a desert.” Dramatic literature presents no parallel for ihe siege of Charleston, the battle of the Wilderness, or that admirable retreat, ("re plete with incidents of valor and sublime endur ance,J which justly enhances the fame of Gen. Johnson, and places him beside the Consul Fabius. But to witness these, inquires a musket, a stout heart, a soul worthy of th9 name of freeman, and these requisitions cannot be filled by the reg iments of skulkers who haunt the theatres at home. Should some curious traveler from trans-Atlantic or trans pacific lands, conversant with the nature of this war, and capable of realizing the significance of “sub jugation” make the tour ofthe Confederacy from Rich mond to Mobile, could bs believe that our existence as u nation hung trembling in the scale, and that the most critical juncture of the war had now arrived ? At eve ry railroad station lie is greeted by a regiment of able- bodied menwlioswarmouttoa.sk tidings'ot events that should- stir their stragnant blood to action, and the streets of every city are thronged with a brigade of “detailed men,’’ attachees and detacliees of every con ceivable office; while maimed soldiers still pale and gaunt from recent sickness and nnheab d wounds, are nobly pressing “to the front, to join my command be fore Hood crosses the Tennessee ” Laws have been passed and ordeis issued to force into service these degenerate sons of the South, these Confederates drones, who are alike deaf to the calls of honor and patriotism, to the reproaches and derision ol their coun trymen in the field ; “But the gingliug of the guinea helps the hurt that honor feels.” and avarice and cowardice whet the ingenuity that enables them to elude the enrolling officer, and crouch in tlie ignominious security behind this “exemption,” and that “detail,” and the convenient plea of some occnlt, “constitutional disability.” The necessity of promptly and adequately reinforcing our armies, is patent to the most obtuse; the central Government has exhausted its prerogatives in striving to replenish the shattered ranks, hut the strong arm of law seems unequal to the task. One method of success remains yet untried ; apply the lash of public scorn and detes tation to the shoulder of those unlionored by rifle or knapsack ; make them verily social Pariahs, jeer*d wherever they show their faces, refu *e them the recog nition and courtesies which one patriot and honest citizen-deserves from another, and by true manly con tempt, and the scorpion scourge'of female ridicule, drive them from the street corners where they essay to hold assize upon the campaigns and policy of our de voted generals. My countrymen and women, the cause for which we struggle, dem^pds urgent action, generous succor ; and after all we have endured shall we perish finally in the abyss of national demoraliza tion ? Thank God! the army is irreproachable, and the commanders pure and able; corruption dare not reur its crest within range of onr beacon fires, and should ruin ultiiuatelv overtake us, the demoralized masses at home must bear the odium The army of Georgia, though pressed back by over whelming numbers, and reduced by recent carnage, though reported “dispirited, defeated and dejected” by despondeuts who, instead of marching in its van, dare insult it from a distance, this noble army ot veterans buoyant with hope and invincible in their enthusiasm, led-by dauntless Hood, has just startled the nation l>y the boldness and rapidity of that brilliant anil masterly flank movement which promises the moat splendid fruitage of the war, and recalls the daring nud fell swoops of Napoleon. Shall a campaign so admirably inaugurated close in dire disaster for want pf those men who throng our towns and villages, and with con summate effrontery criticise Hood’s grand pr 7 gramme and speculate upou the “situation ?” Public opinion, once thoroughly aroused, is the most inexorable dicta tor that ever swayed the destinies of the race, and well might Curran exclaim : “Oh, dreadful Areopagus of tiie tea table ! IIow formidable thy inquests I bow tremendous thy condemnations !” Let the true men and women of the State wake to a correct appreciation of the perils that surround us, let them brand with in famy all able, healthy men under forty-five, who are shirking duty, now hiding in this office, and now in that ; let them frown down the reckless gaiety, the heartless,ill-timed frivolity of social circles, the mania for speculation, the despondency of the timid, the treacherous suggestions of the disaffected, and peace and prosperity will crown our struggles. To hang our hopes on the gossamer thread of a peace admieistiation at the North, is worse than madness, is imbecility; whether Liucole or McClellan be elected, matters little to us, for in either event only Confederate victories can compel a peace, and if our masses would but do their duty, the present campaign would eman cipate us forever. The letter of instructions from Grant to Sheridan, the proclamation of Sherman, the edict of Rosecrans faithfully adumbrate the future of subjuga ted States; not the proverbial atrocities ot Timour and Gengis Khan surpasses the horrors in store for Fed eral vassals. Is a recapitulation of enormities necessa ry to fire the enthusiasm of my countrymen ? The juncture is auspicious. Osage calls to Tennessee, and Rio Grande to James ; Price—grand old Seipio of the trans-Misaissippi—is beating back invasion to the gates of St. Louis ; Lee, (ublime in Christian faith, and com plete master of the art to which he lends new glory, fearlessly marshals his invincible legions, and confronts the savage hordes whose angry eyes glare at inex- pungabie Richmond; and the fate of Georgia, Ala bama and Mississippi now rests, under the blessing of Heaven, in the skillful palms ot Beauregard, whose talismanie name, like Magician's presto 1 1ms every where accomplished marvels of enthusiasm, valor and victory. Oh men of Alabama! when reinforcements are so urgently required, will you fold your arms, and perhaps lose forever by fatal supiueness the golden opportunity of crushing Sherman, redeeming Tennessee, and con quering an honorable pence ? One of Alabama’s bra vest and noblest sons, who sprang to the ranks of her glorious 4th regiment, and fought through the thunders ,■ ,i it a. l.-iii. f SC , nrlwk haa nrrtwfttl Ilia In the brave days of old. Then uoue was for a party, Then all were for the State, Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great ■’ The Romans were like brothers, In the brave days of old.” My countrymen of Alabama, do you properly esti mate the vast infiueuce which you wield, ana the disas trous results of its abuse ? Among our patriotic mat rons, are there any akin to the indomitable spirit of the wife of Asdrubal, who amid the ruin of Carthage de nounced her husband's cowardly surrender—refused to survive with him the honor of the city, and face the triumph of its conqueror.perished with her children iu the flameB of the citadel ? Would you contribute to the tri umph of our great cause,and the speedy advent of pence? Institute a vigorous reform in the demoralizing circles of society—combat corruption in all its protean phases, send forward your friends to strengthen Lee and Beauregard, teach the cravens lurkiug in home 1 e- treats that you scorn their pusillanimity and blush for their degeneracy, and above all, ns you hold our coun try and our soldier* dear, remember: “More things are wrought by prayer, Than this world dreams ot- Therefore let thy voice Rise like a fountain for them, night and day.’’ My sole aim is to exoitb those who have the welfare of their country at heart to unite their efforts in oppo sing the fatal tendency of these evils, while they are within the power of remedy ; nnd I may add the dos ing words of Montagu ; “Truth is ever unpalatable to those determined not to relinquish error, but can never give offence to the honest and well mending amongst my countrymen. For the pla.in dealing re monstrances of a friend differ as widely from the ran cor of an enemy, as the friendly probe ofthe physician from the dagger of the assassin.” ALABAMA. From the Charlotteville (Va ) Chronicle. The Confederate Story. We do candidly think that the defence which the South has made in this war, is one of the most remark able in history. The Dutch in the sixteenth century resisted a monarch who was 1,51)0 miles distant—anil that, not only before the days of railroads, but even before the days of turnpikes. The Frussians resisted the combined attacks} of Austria, Russia, France and Saxony for seven years , but part of the time they were helped by the English, and for the whole of it were led by the great Frederic, who not only commanded in the field, but was al-o the ruler in the State. For tnree years and a half the South has been assailed by the Nbrthon a scale that throws the contest iu the Neth- lands in the shade, and even transcended in magnitude other operations of the allies against Frederic The United States has called out in these four years a mil lion nnd a half of men, not a Persian rabble, but disci plined Anglo-Saxons. Its naval preparations have been commensurate with its levjes by land. Its tur- reted monsters, its iron-clads, its gunboats—backed by four hundred wooden ships-of-war—have blockaded ail our coasts, and petroled all our rivers. A few of the former have severed like a line of fort#, the entire Con federacy by tiie line of the Mississippi river. A few of them attending their main armies have on many occa sions served as so many moveable fortresses to re ceive these armies in the honr of defeat. The ability to wage war depends on the temper of the race, on population, and on wealth. In spirit we have found that our enemies were not deficient, as many ignorant persons among us at first assumed.— Their population was twenty four millions ; ours was eight millions ; for it was not the whole South that withstood them, Missouri. Kentucky, Maryland, one- third of Virginia, a part of Tennessee, joined their arms against ours. Ofthe eight millions (or less on our side) three millions were negro slaves, who could not bear arms, who were neutral, if not hostile, in feeling, and who abandoned our territory, when opportunity off ered, and of whom two hundred thousand are now in the Federal armies. In wealth, the preponderance in their favor was still greater. Their property amounted to $16,000,000,000 ; the property of the Southern Stales was less than f 1,000,000,000. We know that it was fashionable to tell u» that we were rich, and that they were poor- But our figures are from the census of 1860. We are not rich now, and we never ware rich. No purely agricultural people ever were rich. The ciphering"about the cotton crop—the twaddle about exports—were only some of the sophisms which used to be indulged in, and which did not make us rich any more than Mr. Memminger’s badly printed notes sup plied us with money. The North had within its limits great emporiums of wealth, like Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Balti more, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, Pittsburg, Buf falo, Newaik, Louisville, Albany,Detroit—the proper ty in Philadelphia alone equalling all the property in the State of Georgia. The whole country was alive with trains of railroad cars, canal boats, river steamers, coasting vessels, flouring mills, foundries, cotton fac tories, and workshops.pt every description—while its foreign commerce whitened the Atlantic, the South Pacific, the Mediterranean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Asian Seas. The South was a great forest—with three or four considerable towns and numerous petty villages and court houses, and straggling clearings con stituting the plantations. There were some railroads, but the business was small, and an occasional train only broke the silence of the forest through which they passed. There was no canal of importance. The highways were rude country roads, almost impassable. There was no sail or smoke-stack on the broad riv ers, save the Mississippi—which was then the common hignway for the two sections. The Potomac, the James, the York, the Roanoke, the Neuse, the Santee, the Savannah, the Alabama, were hardly broken by a ripple. There were no factories or workshops; no coast trade, no ships to foreign ports. It reauired no arithmetic to settle the relative wealth of the two sections. A few weeks travel sood estab lished the conclusions of the most careless obserVfcr. If, however, there were questions then, there can be none now. The South is wanting even the commouest agricultural products, although her cotton lands are planted in corn. Articles of apparel, the commonest utensils of every day life, luxuries, are still rare. The North is filled with corn, flour beef, pork, sugar, cotton and woolen fabrics, silks, hides, hardware, tea, coffee, spirits, furniture, equipages, horses, mules, cattle, sheep, paper, candles, glass ware, jewelry, fruits, books —all that we mean by wealth. With her great papu lation, with these immense resources, with ship loads of emigrants and arms and ordnance stores from abroad, she has put forth for more than three years her Nov. 14. 1864. 26 tds. jus interested to-be and ra;iks- teris 0 f thousands have joined the martyr appear at my office on or before the first Monday j {} iron g w ho. S e blood calls for vengeance from a in February nc-xt and file their objections it any Huudred battle fields, and now aery for “men! they have, otherwise letters ot Administration will i more men!” l iogs witli thrilling significance be gianted the said John H. Anderson ou George j t j iroog j 1 t ^ e ) a ad. • Will the nation turn a Shiver's estate. Giveu under my hand and seal of dea £ “„ r t0 t f, e a pp Pa l—"come over into Maeedo- uffiee this Dec. 17th 1864. j nia and help!” Shall Sherman pollute Georgia, and 28 5t. JOHN FALE, D. Ord’y. ■ Qiant Virginia soil, because tiie men at borne are ;—;— ■ " j too dastardly to arise and assist in expelling them? GEORGIA, Echols County. | yj ja || y,eo aud Bcauregaid bo Lit to struggle against vastly superior numbers, while a hundred thousand croakers and cravens are elnding the law that would send them to the re'eae—are sowiug seeds of discontent, and leading the masses to be lieve that, liuhr S/ieriJ Safe of an Fat ray Mule. WILL be sold before the Court House in W Newton, Baker county, Ga , between the usual hours of sale, on the first luesday De cember next; one mouse colored Mare Mule, about sixteen (JO) years old. Said mule sold as »n Es tray. . J. M. CALHOUN, She-ff Nov. 1st, 1864. 1.1'-/ IvYX X iX , DLUUID • O N the first Monday in December next, 1 harp ! Roberts will apply to the Court of Ordinary of said county, for letters of Administration on the estate of John L. Roberts, late of said county, deceased. These are. therefore to cite and admonish all persons interested, to file their objections, if any they tiave, wlrtilu the tlmo j,r^o^txi>eO uy taw, wtij sffid letters may not be granted the applicant in terms of the law. . Given under my hand and official signature, this Oct 20ih, 1864 26 fit Pd. $5 T. B. CLAY I ON, Ord J iff. 26 fit Notice to Debtors and Creditors. i GEOKIfTY, Appling County, i QIXTYoeys from date application will be made O to the Court of Ordinary of said county, tor i an order for leave to sell the land belonging to the estate of C. H. Middleton, late of said coun- nn persons indebtea to me ; , ^ lute of Jmper county dec’d are requested to make j immediate payment, aud all persons having demands wri eat ate are required to present them in terms* U 1(;Uw > lhis 27th Oct lftfii 2391 m.„ 4 WM.P- WHITE, Ex r. Oct. 3d, 1864. JOHN W. HARRIS, Adm’r j l 21 fft of the first battle of Manassas, one who has proved his strength against' our sparse population, our slen- conspicuous bravery on many a hard won neld writes mcan8 . an d our rude industrial coutrivauees. thus cheeringly from Hood’- r ,f ( aer means, ami . rr NOTICE. A T,P erson ' c Wing demands against the estate -ElofHm. Lord, Sen’r of Wilkinson County. present them to me for pavment aud any per- indebted to Restate will please make pay- immediately. G. W. LORD Ex’r Nov. 4th, JS64. pd $6. 24 6t. I Administrator's Safe. virtue of an order of the Court of ordinary of I’ierce county, will be sold on the first Tuesday in etniary 1865 at the Court house door in the town of " sekshear, between the legal hours ol sale, one lot, of 'and uoinbor 84 in the 5 90 district of originally Ware n"w Pierce county, sold as the property of Daniel J, J', u ’ n e lateofPierce county deceased forthe benefit of me heir* and creditors of said deceased, terms made fc now n ou the day of sale. v . JOHN STRICKLAND, Adm'r. November 8th !8*4. Pd.fS. tds. GEORGIA. Baldwin County. P URSUANT to an order of the honorable Court of Ordinary of said county, there will be sold before the Court House door at Milledge- ville. on the first Tuesday in in JANUARY, 1865, within the legal hours of sale, all the slaves be longing to the estate of Louisa Anderson, late of saiif county, deceased, consisting of several valuable negroes of different ages, male and te- l„ a ) s0 the plantation on which she resided at the time of her death. Sold for the benefit of distributees and creditors Dec- LUCY ANN GIBSON, Adni’rx. 1. 1864. 27 ” iubeln * ie v ■*» »*“> ““ nt? ' d ““ a NiNCY D. CODESON.A«m'rx Oct. 3d, 1864. ’ ^ ‘ “What miscarries shall be the general’s fau't rnoii£;n 4 ne pernmn iu tuo uliiiusi ur a man; And giddy censure will cry out— O, if he, er he, had borne the business.” Is, there no Blffirpar into which these national lepers can be driven? Or cau they not be brought to cry “unclean!” unclean!” and veil poisonous, loathsome features? Their ill-boding notes taint evi-rv breeze with: “We are constantly losing territory; our armies are dwindling and disheart ened, our resources are being exhausted, while those of the North are measureless.” Well might every crutch, an I empty sleeve, and gaping wound find eloquent tongues t shame such degeneracy. No calm observer or ordinary astuteness can scan the aspect of our affairs, and tail to discover the startling truth, that beyond the reflection of our camp fires, corruption and demoralization brood like an incubus upon the paople, numbing the energies and paralyzing the etfor s of Government. This stem and humiliating truth should neither be blink, d nor masked, but dragged before the tribunal.of public indignation, and dl - noan £f d in all its hideousness. Was that record but a h. - tDlic mvtb, which relates of ancient republics that their citizens pressed to the public treasury. b<ear ing- their little Imards of gold and silver to fill the depleted coffers, while their women eagerly con tributed their jewelry, precious though they wore, with clustering reminiscences of a thousand bv- g0 Hii said—God grant it may be slander’—that the Shylocks of the Confederacy cemrive .o re ceive the first intelligence of success or reveree our arms, systematically depreciate the currency, and coin the blood of their countrymen by spec e speculations. Glance over the journals of the day; upon one column stares a ghastly list of cas-. . uafities in the last fierce fight at Petersburg, or the | army, in anticipation of the issue of the present campaign : “Oh how my heart bounds with the glorious prospect ! Welcome cold, hunger, sleepless nights, and days of fatigue ! Wel come the sight of bloody fields, aud the rattle of mus ketry! Sweet will be any toil, and cheiful the en durance of any privations, if we can wreathe our brows with the laurels of victory and emancipate a State en slaved by an insolent and upstart race. A-e there no uieu left in Alabama to whom these heroic words cull like the blast of a bugle, to the scenes of strife and glory, to the mountains and valleys of Georgia, where Beauregard and Hood bear the oviflamme of vii tory ? It is said that the State militia have been properly en rolled and organized ; if so, why are they not crowd ing to the front ? Success in Georgia is surely the safest bulwark ’or Alabama, and an addition of twenty thousand troops wouldenable Beauregard to dictate his owu terms from the heights of Covington. Shull we perish with all the means of success within our grasp? Are we worthy H,_ . ......... r.e lir the.eotmiasrdon (if pos terity if we neglect the opportunity that I rovulenee offers’? The luster of military valor rivals the.deeds of Ciesur’s veteran legions, anil the prowess of Cyrus co horts .When one of the finest arinie’s ever panoplied in j . means, and onr We had no ships—wooden or iron; we had no gun boats to ascend her rivers, or to protect our own ; we had no arsenals to fabricate] cannon and small arms ; we haduo factories to weave our cotton and wool; we had no tanneries to prepare our leather ; we could not manufac ture, except by slow processes, shoes, gloves, hats, buttons, stockings, sewing thread, needles, puis, knives, canteens, wagons, caissons, ambulances, pon- toons, spttde3,p’ougliK, ammunition ; we liad no ineaneof pushing after our armies al! those necessaries and num- berleaa conveniences, which conduce so much to their health and efficiency. We did not even have medicines for our poor wounded soldiers—for those languishing with disease in the hospitals. When we came to a liver, we could not cross it; the cutting ot a single railroad has frequently necessitated a retreat of our The loss of a railroad engine has been seriously felt. We have preferred 2,500 beef cattle to 2,500 lankee prisoners. Our very tobacco has spoiled on our liand* for the want ofthe materials to preserve it. We have _-.; r ofn.-.1.00.- A jr man takes the bridle off his foeman’s horse before he wipes his blood stained sabre. Such is the great con test we have sustained. No grander military exhibition has ever been wit- tan troops. We have leaders able as i ^swffii—live* 1 ^or^“die?**Grecian triumph or Cartha we lack but the invincible troops he handled. In 1 , . #n dponl . jj a t av ian victory or Samarian ruin:— Leopold invaded Switzerland with twenty thousand , i. ian i,i orvor Caueassianeiile—uur record is eom- Anstrians to subjugate the ^8; blit sixt^hun- and will live withpos- ; ; peasants made a 1 l.ermopj ,:c v’ ( > v „mnle of gallantry that will awaken dred undisciplined Swiss ^ _ of Morgarten, and by the complete defeat of the ene my, laid the foundation of the Helvetio Confederation. To perpetuate their freedom, a law was enacted that ■whoever returned from battle alter a defeat, should forfeit his life at the hands of the executioner. * irm as her owu majestic mountains, the billows of oppres sion ebb alwuys from her peaceful borders, ana Ijel vetia’s beacon light of liberty, glittering from Alpine pinnacles, beckons us to emul ation, and prophesies suc cess. I rom tho Columbus Times. Rapid Stride* Teward* n Dtupolisn. The tpsk imposed on the Administration of de fending the liberties of the Confederacy demands all the energies of a great mind The people should be indulgent of errors committed and lend a hearty co operation to all the efforts of those in power which in any way tend to the nlaintenance of “Constitutional Liberty;” but this laet should never be lost sight of, that the source of power is iu the people, and that our rulers for the iimo being are but public servants, to whom political power is temporarily delegated. There is. there fore, one sacrifice which ought not to hie made, even to defend ourselves front tha threatened op- press'on of a foreign tyrant. We should never so far surrender onr powers into the hands of any’ public servant as to leave the restot ation of these powers dependent upon the volition of the polit ical agent to whom they have been temporarily delegated. Whenever we do this our liberty de pends not upon ourselves, but upon those who elected as our servants, have, by our want of watchfulness, become our masters. These propositions are so self-evident, that but four years since to have discussed them would have been to insult the understanding of a peo ple, educated as we have been, to guard vigilantly our personal rights; yet, in this short space of time, the plea of necessity has undone the teach ings of a life time, and hour by hour we see tho dearest rights of freemen surrendered without a struggle. The political vision is fixed in one di rection. We see nothing but the inroads of our foreign foe, and are insensible to the dangerous home legislation b} 7 which every guard and pro tection to the citizen is being swept away. As public journalists, we feel bound to point out to our readers the gradual absoiption of all power in the hands of the Government, and leave them to determine whether they will let the fntqre de pend upon the voluntary abandonmen^of these dangerous functions when the crisis no\v impend ing shall have passed away. We are led to these remarks by a bill to re-or- « anizo the army, which purposes to abolish the rovisional army and make the present forces ot the Confederate States the regular army, giving to the President the power of appointment and dismissal of every officer in tho present organiza tion This proposition fraught with danger, as we believe it to be, seems to have passed unmo lested by the press ot the country. We do not know how to account for this, unless it may be in fact that the Press is absorbed in contemplating the.blow aimd at its own freedom, that it has fail ed to warn the public of tin’s wholesale aggres sion upon individual and State rights. The danger to all republics has from time im- morial reposed iu a censorship of the Press and a large standing army. When these two elements of power are controlled by the government, it be comes all powerful. The eye cannot see except as its vision is directed by the Government and the tongue cannot speak except in such language as the Government dictates, and the baud cannot strike except against such for whom Government may direct it—no matter what usurpation it may be guilty of or what oppression it may commit, it is secure in the exercise of its powers, because there is no strength in the governed with which to resist, and all the rights of-the citizen carefully guarded by written constitutions and a Govern ment of cheeks aud balances cease ’to be rights which freemen maintain and become favors to be dispensed or withheld at the will of the Govern ment. Let Congress pass a bill leaving it to military discretion to detail the editors who shall conduct the press of the country, and though its columns criticise the action ot the Government, ami hu man nature has been studied to but little effect if the details were not soon confined to men whose pens would often prsise and never censure. The Government believing its policy the wisest that could be adopted, would at once remove any ed itor whose articles were calculated to weaken the Government in the affections of the people. In the course of time the press would become the de fender of any act of the Administration, end the people, hearing only its praise, would lose their liberties while resting under the fatal delusion that they were best maintained. But suppose the power of the press not yet abridged should be too strong for the Government, and this stfort to make the editors of the country dependent upon Executive favor, should fail; suppose its freedom unabridged, its vigilance unceasing, and its warn ings of approaching danger promulgated through its columns from one end of the Confederacy to the other! Of what avail would be its vigilance or warnings, if the entire arms-bearing popula tion of the country is enrolled in the regular ar my, under officers of the President’s appointment, subject to dismissal upon incurring the President’s censure. None, none, whatever. No one who has been in the army btit knows how powerless its material is for action except in its organizations, and how completely its organi zations are controlled by its officers. As at pres ent organized it is not under the control of the President, except for the legitimate purposes of its formation, because many of the officers are elective. Their power is not derived frpm the President; and even with those who are appoint ed, the army being provisional and temporary, they look beyond the present to its future dissolu tion, and feel that there is a responsibility event ually to a higher than Executive power. This leaves it as yet a thinking body, and not a mere machine to be directed by the Executive as it would become the moment it beaerne a regular army, and tho officers as well as the duration of office deoend up'on the Executive will, that mo ment as an organization it would esase to be the bulwark of Liberty and would become a great power to bo used as tho Executive might deter mine to be for the best interesis of the country. His mind, his ink, his ambition, would all have free play, and the end, whether Despotism or Freedom, would be in his hand, and not as the people willed it. All might turn out well, but delegation of all power by the people without the means of resum ing powers when abused, is a trust which ought never to be reposed by a free people in any man or set of men however pure and exalted their lives may have been, and therefore we feel, that we do no violence to the respect which we owe and feel for the President, nor to the confidence we have in his patriotism, when we urge upon Congress not to repeal the provisional organization and build upon it “the Army of the Confederate States,” embracing neatly the whole arms bearing population, converting the free people of j-his country into n great machine to be governed by engineers over whose appointment they have no control. terity, as an example of gallaDtry that win awafcen- admiration wherever the bloody Confederate story is breathed among men. A BRIEF (ITORE OF YANKEE BRU TALITY. Our readers will remember »e cold, rainy Monday .urn ren on that nigh r, a portion ofthe oonmned on the laud of Mr. Walter H. Alabama possesses thrice her area of territory, and j in Putnam county a cause aa pure and holy as that which fired a lell or 1 - • • ,,to v After the depar ture oTthrarmyTa Yike_ljr mulatto pri about^sev- which only the future can efface. Let her repudiate ( | ]e jT in( } treatment of the family at Mr. Mitchell’s the unworthy sons who covertly counsel submission, j H nse B j, e re l a ted her history in a few words : A Col- bnry the memory of reconstruction in the roar ofthe oa pj Cook, of some Pennsylvania regiment, had captur- impending conflict, and having thoroughly cauterized : ^ ^ ef f rpm i ier owner near Tullahoma, Tenn., more the cancerous spot upon her legislative body, r ® au ®* I t j. an twelve months ago, since which time he had lived her proud place in the gniaxy of States, who by tne ; ‘ . y g w ;f e When abandoned to her late, blessing of God, will transmit intact to future genera- j as * ,,,fpr ’ tion3 the blood-bought guerdon of the first revolution, liaise tiie sliont of Alabamians to the rescue . and ita 'cheering echoes mingled with p.cans of victory shall re sound from the banks of the-Ohio to the green shoies of the Chesapeake. “For Romans in Rome’s quarrel Spared neither land nor gold, Nor son nor wife, nor limb nor life, giving birth to the child of their illicit inter "rtabn*.. Col Cook, leftto“££5lKS! to perish, and is new with wroug on both arms, pursuing their work °f P , iveg a llthe honor white and blavk-winmng; for^ themse. ^ and glory that sedu^io , ro y race thnt eyer a, 3 . c... Women’s Hoi*es.—In early youth perhaps women said to themselves, “I shall be happy when I have a hnsband to love me best of all;” then, when the hus band was tod careless, “My child will comfort me then, through the mother’s watching and toil, “My child will repay me all when it grows up.” And at last, after the long jourrey of years has been traveled through, the mother’s heart is weighed down by a heavier burden, and her only hope is in Heaven. EXCHANGE NOTICE NO*—13. Richmond, Dec. 1,1864. 1. All Confederate officers and men who have been delivered by the Federal authorities at any ];h*cepnor to November 25th, 1864, are hereby declared to be ex- Ch 2.All d offieers and men of the Vicksburg capture of July 4th, 1863, who reported at any parole camp, either i or ’ West of the Mississippi River, at any time prior to November 1st, 1861, are hereby declared to L exchanged. JJ 0 . OULD, Agent of Exchange. December 6,1864. 2C6t T IWO months after date application will be made to the honorable Court of Ordinary of Jones county, for leave to sell the land and a ne 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. Ex. Sept. 23rd, 1864- * 8 91

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The Confederate union. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1862-1865, December 27, 1864, Image 1