The Confederate union. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1862-1865, February 07, 1865, Image 1

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VOLUME XXXV.] M1LLEDGEYILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1865. NUMBER 35. jtflAitir ) N T , SISBET, B ARNES &MUORE Publishers and Proprietors. «• BO««nT°5r,< MI JOS. il . NISBET. S £!)C Confcbcnttf Pinion r* published W' e * 1 .V’ l t "J!f' / wf/kinson S/s., Corner of jr^^c.) fopposite «- Af $12 a year in Advance. ADVERTISING. TavSSiEVT.—Five Dollars per square often lines for each insertion. , i nites of respect, Resolutions hy Societies,(Omt ;, s exceeding six lines.) Nominations for office, ' niuinieations or Eiitorial notices for individual b* neat.charg ftd as transient advertising. Legal Advertising. Sheriffs sales, per levy of ten lines, or less,$19 0" j “ Mortgage fi ta sales, per square, j Tax Collector’s Sales, per square, 1<> DO Dilations for Letters of Administration, 10 0(1. • • “ “ Guardianship, 10 00 Letters of application for dism’n.froin Adm'nlfi 00 j “ ' “ “ “ “ Guard’n 10 00 j Appl'n for leave to sell land and negroes, 10 00 ( Notice to Debtors and Creditors. I'd >0 j Sales oi land or negroes, per square, 16 00 j “ perishable property, 10 days, per sq. 4 00; Estray Notices, 30 days, 10 00 j Foreclosure of Mortgage, per square. 4 00 j LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sales of Land and Negroes, by Administrators, Ex ecutors or Guardians, are required by iaw tube held ! ciuiio- first Tuesday in the month ; between the hours j * jo ' u ,thd forenoon and three in the afi. rnoon, at the I 0 Mtrt house in thecouuty in Which the property ts j 8 S .uiojofthesesales must be given in a public ga- j Jett ,. pi .lays previonstothe day of sale rh,. r<u«ir of Salure. There's music in the rivulet, • And musie in the Hood ; And music in the waterfall, That echoes from the wood There’s music in the sunny grove, And music in the rain, Quick pattering on the forrest bough And all is bright again. There’s music on the upland slope, And music in the dell; The lowing herds,the bleating fold, Its pretty tinkling bell. There’s music in the joy of birds. And in the hum of bees ; And mu.-ie in tfie waving corn, Danced over by the breeze. There’s music in the ocean stream, When the foamy billows roar ; And min? when, rippling peacefully, It seems to trip ttie shore. There’s music in the stilly eve, And in the hush of night. And musie in the rising morn, And when the moon is bright. There’s music in the voice of love, And joy that others share; And in the voice of gratitude, Andin the voice of prayer. On me, O God '. Thy grace impart, To praise what thou hast given. Teach me to ponder what Thou ar', At early dawn and even— The music of a grateful heart, Is music heard in Heaven. CbarlfNlon, a Sarusnssa! f hundred—mainly women, old men and children—be tore us. A canvass, since made, shows that hall oi them had traveled from Macon, Atlanta, and even Cnattanooga. They were all uterlv destitute of blun- ; kets, stockings, or shoes, and among the seven linn- j dred were not fifty articles i:t the shape of pots or ket- tels, or other utensils for cooking, no axes, very few cov erings for many beads, and children wrapped in the only arfieles'nof worn in some form by the parents. We have no stockings—we imvc no children's cloth ing—ho needles or thread for the making up of articles —no cloth for shirts or petticoats. I he supply ol blankets is almost exhausted. Two hundred of the four taken out are sick through exposure and coflins go out each day to bury the dead. Is it necessary t«. say more to awaken the strongest telings of sympathy intheir behalf’ Hut before this reaches you, from three to five thousand more equally destitut will be laid open out hands. \V hat, in God’s name, shall we do with them ? IIow <dier them sttffi cient in the way of physical comfort, even to keep them from regretting their escape from slavery? [And this is the condition of the tew thousand blacks that have been liberated by ijiter nan. And ye> the North—in the face of this confession—-wonl.t set I fee the four million slaves of the South And for what !— To die from sheer starvation !—Ex ] Contributions of money to be sent to Joseph B Collins, Treasurer, No. 10 Wall street; of gooos and clothing to C. C. Edge, No. 1 Mercer street, New York. obtain her independence as sure os 1 lie sun would rise 1 >u the morrow ; that such was the silent but general concession of the Northern mind; and that the future of the Confederate States was just at this time, and in the approaching exigency of Northern conscription, brightened with a surer prospect than at.y termer situa tion of affairs had ex’er afforded. There are two parties iu the North, perhaps equally .intelligent, and each claiming to draw, their opinions "from Southern sources of infoi uia.ion, which differ ns to the real spirit of the South : one claiming .that it is resolute, and even in the last neeesrity desperate : and the other contending that iris being br< ken by reverses and will end in submission. One finds this question it) every circle iti the Ninth. Reliable information upon it is far more valuable to the Washington Government than maps of all the fortifications in the Confederate States. To convince the Noith of the spirit of the Southern people is more important than ha’f a dozen victories, for it is to convince them of the hopeless ness of the war and to put before their eyes the im mediate necessity of conscription. Il is the simple lesson of resolution which the South must learn. It is the lesson for all events. Win n there is no nccasiotiBar hope, then make it the season of desperation ; for this last quality is quite ns good to dissuade the Yankee from the war as Confidence It self. It will be easily inspired even in the worst ex- tremiiy the f tore can possibly liave'Jliy a simple ic consequences of subjugation. From the Richmond Examiner. Resiills of Tra Jfonthi* Observation Enemy's Count*;*. . . , , . .il t/ioiignts, and aspirations .V dices tor the sale of personal property mmdI bej pa8t a „J despot of'ati estate ! ers l’ rf) ce themselves for a given ;ii like manner 10 days previous to S dices to the debtors and creditors must also be punished 40 days. I X nee that application will be madeto the Court oi ; Or] nary for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must bi j •i ihiislied for ♦wo months. . _ . 1 ‘ < i’tout for letters of Administration Guardianship, \ .V , a ist b - published 30 days—for dismission from \1 niuistration, monthly six- months for dismission , Iro n Guardianship,40 days i Rules forioreclositre of Mortgage must bepublished m , ;/?,/y for four month*—for e a ttiblisl.ing los. papers, j f>r t h“'full spare of three months— forcompellingf ltlcs i Executors or administrators, where bond has been ; given by the deceased the full space of three months, i I’uhlications will always be continued necoi .liec to hese.tlie legal requirements,unlessuthcrwiseordered. practical regard of the It is possible that there are yet left some few delu ded persons in the South who do not rightly estimate those consequences. The writer has heard those eon- sequences too thoroughly discussed among tlie Yan kees, to leave any margin for skepticism on the subject, lie has witnessed soqie of theiiy. lie has seen Balti more, Ii. New Yotk there-is, properly speaking, no Secession party, nothing more than mere “Coperhead- When a Confederate obtains the opportunity of ob- I ism,” consulting purely portizan ei..:-, and not at all s'rvation in the North, and looks only on the "serface j dangerous, ami hence lliere is no necessity for any of things, he is powerfully and painfully struck’with j special programme of despotism there; but inllallt- the contrast they present to liis scanty and war ridden ! more th.-re is a real Secession ]>arty, and those who conutry. In some respects the contrast is appuling— j belong to it arc kept in a partial condition of subjtt- Ilesces their large cities choked with a superabun- | Ration. BalttinortT thrives, say the Northern papers; dance of able-bodied im-»ff lie visits military depots I it is overran and clattering with Yankee trade; hut bursting with war materia I: lie learns in Wall street j even in this gross prosperity the Southern Hyurputhi/.cr that, despite the expenditioesof the war. vast additions Inis no share, lie is marked, he is degraded even iu have been made to Yankee wealth in development of ! Ills busitiesi;, all employment is close to him, except „„ ... ., ,, , . ,. tninj-ral resources copper, iron and silver, al mg the j such as he may clioosd to take as the subordinate or Die cause ofNmth Carolina, and tb» cause ol j w!lofc . s ] ope ott i K . K .Uy mountains; he is told that i employee of the Yankee, the Conf* deiacy, as involved in the fight here petroleum alone will, in a few vears.be an article of j All ijoqtliern men iu Baltimore havefottiid « diserimi- riteds now oi ail tilings two essentials— courage. | export to the extent of one hundred and fifty millions of ! nation in all trades and employments against them, and tenacity— courage, to dare, to risk, to brave— , dollars, and that it has already f moled—much more «■> : and many of them have been compelled to retire from tetiagi; v to hold, to tight, to di. pute every inch, j than “codfish”—a distinct aristocracy in the North; j business. They tell you that life has become purpose There is a great cause, and a grand fight can be! he sees every where an almost riotous r.iHterialpieiitv; • less and intolerable to them, iiiey i-avp given up made here. But men and leaders must summon ! Il - *‘-w >'‘" k ’ ™". k "1 th wealth and extrava- I their business; they are pursued by spies; they are f . I jounce, everyday vomiting into nioadway and the | oujwpil i»y men who pick up* their Migntuat word; , , a pres “ hibyriutlis of Central I’ark a dizzy stieam of luxurious ! th> v live ia ft constant atmosphere of suspicion. You -Let them shn e r8 dissipation and an cuiile.-s procession of the Iriunips of loolt at these men and 3’ou see a biunk dejection in ndeniy. Let our lead I ‘Shoddy.’ Tiie Hist impression of siteli a contrast is I tlieir faces, u so:t of uielaitcholly devil uwy cure ex- Brutal Treatment of our prisoners. The New \ ork Daily News of the 3d inst, pub lishes the following extracts from a private letter written by a lady in high social position aud of un questionable loyalty to the Union: Chicago, III , Dec. *27,1864. * * The condition and suffering of the rebel prisoners at Rock island is a source of agony to every heart, not absolutily dead to the feelit g of common humanity, and the scantiest Christian mercy. There are from six to eight thoustaid ccn lined here. Many have faken the oath—an oarii — to save themselves front actual starvation The released prisoners, though liberated at diff-imt intervals of time, all tell the same story. '1 lie a!- lowanefc to each nian has been one small loaf of bread—it takes tbrre to make a pound—and a piece ot meat, two inches square, per titty. This was the rations! Lately it. bis been reduced. Think of its reduction! All the released ones say that no man can live on the rations given, an’ there are nun that enough to eet! Such Mdi ami Brethren: hat Shall we do to Be Saved. From tlie Brandon Republican.] This is the all absorbing question of the day. Everybody is asking it, but no one can answer it satisfactorily to himself or his neighbor. That the condition of affairs is perilous, and something must ho done, and that speedily, to save us from utter ruin and degradation, all agree. Our gallant ship of State, that lias so long hcroicaly battled against the tide o£ inva sion and fanaticism, appears to be nearing the rapids. Contusion reigns on deck, the compass is but of order, the rudder has been unshipped, the marines are drunk would do anything to gvt • with passion and excitement, tbe belstnmcn is the wrttclud, ravenous j are calling on the negro for aid, and tip every eneigy and must rouse themselves undertaking Let them of all liiiid' the pall of apprehension as to the future. Let that tiling take care of itself. Let them put it be- { hind them. Let them take care of the present, j The same tenacity and daring which has held Charleston and the Savannah line for four years, can hold Chai lesion now, if brought to bear upon the enieigency. The same tenacity, had it. been j used, could have held the line at Pocataiigo four wet l;s ago, when the Yankees were permittt d, | through mere want oi nerve to erect their batteries and break the road, have Li-lb tor many days the line at Coosawhat- chie, but lately so ingloriottsly abandoned. To be iptied, is to be* whipped. JN'o one can always great arid desperate [ that of immense endurance in the North, and the fling from their hearts j practical superiority cf war 'powerin men,material and prtssion. wot <ls fn litiaiice over tiie military means of the South. That is I interest in wluit they the impression which eeueralli coin<% Lack to us from i flying’visitors of the North, whoso observations cannot he otherwise than hasty and superficial. Yet it is of ; al! first impressions the most throughly; false. The shock of contrast is soon over to the Confeder ate whotemaitis in tlie North long enough to make a ' steady examination of the teal spirit ot the North in this war, and its relation to the apparent superabun- ! dance or resources in men and means. lie gets a new ; light when he penetrates the surface of things; and if j You never hear any eager or animated their lips; they have no appeal an condition of these poor starving creatures that ! ,J le cap t«in is niwn#]iiig'Vith ami throw- several dogs which have come t.-* tlie barracks with 1 • r , , H , ro ' Teams have fallen victims to their hunger, and they i 1I '*' vd^iddiikI tlie only men who can coil- arc trapping rats, and mice for food, actually to | trol ah(1 direct the crew. 'I he situation -ave life. Many of ^buu tire nearly naked, bare- . is indeed perilous, lint it is not yet too Into footed, bare baeded and without bed clothes: expos- j to 6aV o the ship. But to do so prompt ac- ed to ceasless torture from the chill and pittiless I .• - * -r . , . * „ B . winds of the upper Mississippi. Thus, naked and hungry, and in prison, enduring a wretchedness which no tongue can describe, no language tell, they suffer from day to day—each day their num ber growing less by death—death their only coin- j torter—Their only merciful visitor. Godin Heaven! Shall these things continue? Can we hope for success in ou£ cause? Will they seem to liavo drilled past hope; they look upon their iutuie ia black dis may, in with the sullen iudiftereuce of men who have no longer any object to accomplish or ambition to si rve, \i l.o have converted life to a n;i re existence.— And yet till this is but the Tain test shadow of “subjuga tion,” as it is designed to those now without the pule of the Union. The fate of Richmond, should tlie Yankee flag ever float over it, the writer is not left to imagine. lie has heard that fate already decided in every Yankee cir- BooU auul Job work, PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED A T THM The same tenacitv cmiid 1 ,k, re * s °" e Butli which he discovers more plainly \ cle of discussion, aud while for six days within the than any other in liis observations in the North, it fs ; lines of tiie enemy’s armies around Richmond, he has that the resources, which at first struck him so , obtaincl an expression of tiie designs of those who, strongly, are but to a little extent practically available more than the politicians, are to give law to the con fer the purpose of war. i quered. Is it possible that there may be some few It is necessary to come to facts to show this. Tiie tools here who immaginc that in Kicl/tnond, under tion is necessary. Let Joseph E John ston, the only man who can control ajul direct the crew, be reinstated in command; let Uaptaiu Davis return to his cabin and j order every able-bodied officer and passeu- j gcr, who havtf Leon lounging about on soft cushions, to go to the assistance of tho merciful and just God bless ai d prosper it. if such 1 over-worked and fatigued crew, place tho cruci jr.buniainty is prrcticea by our rulers? ^av 1 i • , ,r T) , J , we not, provoke h terrible and just chastisement at 1 ^ tlie hands Oilioueit lit • i^ee* Send His bands? Christian heart knowing the I the paymaster on deck with funds to pay facts can icel otherwise. the. ctew their wages, and promise the Many el»i,table persons, influenced by no «th- disheartened that if thev will return to er motives than common humanity and Christian t . , „ . . , duty, have sent supplies of clothing to these.| }’ al,( ‘ ’>'oik iaitliiully until the prisoners, but they Lave not been pemiitted to storm is over and tlie ship saved, they reach them. I have heard of sales of such cloth- shall he handsomely rewarded, and their " ing having been mf-le across the river at Daven- wivcs a!U j little ones shall beprotected and port.at very low prices. It is possible tl.at the j , ,. 1 authorities at Washington know of and approve ! caref * *° l * these things? '' We will not attempt to deceive our rea- A ' ' ' ----- wards them iium a'«.» .nm.u. A iv.|j .1 Midi IIJCIU me XUIIIll 1*11 * 1 , , tive thousand confined l.r-re, tvho have resolved to | ^Hgiitenirg, and toat the capture of our die rather than do so: Although they are wrong. ! sea hoard cities by the Clue my does not is there n t. a snblimo liuroistu In the adhersuce 1 injure our cause; neither do we wish to he of these men, ruuid bucli trials*, to a cause whirl* j w i „ , 1 • i* • i . «■ they believe to be right! ' j ] Ulders ‘°« (1 , as . liav 1 ,n S , relinquished all „ trj j hope of lina! triumph. >\ e have the men ainl the means to accomplish our indepen- , deuce, aud we only need men at tho head This is tho all-important, topic with us of affairs who have the nerve and capaei- now. Every one recognizes the fact that ty to direct and govern. There is uot less more men must go to the field, hut very j than one hundred thousand able-bodied few are able to find the men to scad there, men now holding little appointments in Our law makers at Richmond have al-j the various departments, whose v rningbt u win mu «ntempi iu deceive our rea- good many have taken the oath, spiting after- ders by telling them tbat, notwithstanding Is to Citi/.. Iis lliat they did so really to save ur J., te , cve ^ es , t },e sky is blight and i from starvation. I lcain that there are about . . , . . & How to increase tlie Arm: places body of men, can but do tlieir best. I?ut this tiring (» F F IFF oi beiiiir whipped without alight worthy of rim name, upon a metaphy sicttl or mathematical clacti- ” ~ j lation that you mav, or can, or should be whipped, nr When a subscriber finds a cross markon : pj-oxidcnce permi’ting, aud all other circuro- his paper he will know that his subscription has slal . C e.s favoring, is a soit of lighting that never expired, or is about to expire, and must be renew- gavci ) a t,rave man's honor yet, and can never ed if he wishes the paper continued. save the liberties of a people. subsori- Let those men and officers who don't want to know fight, who ;tr< disheartened or cowed let them go to j the rear, and be promptly ordered to the rear Let I in, ii who are not whipped and who have an-interest land a pride in the cause here, goto the front. ty e do not send receipts to new bers. If they receive the paper they may th.t we have received the money*. Subscribers wishing their papers ebangod from one post-office to an ,tfccr must stat, the name of the post-office irorn which they wish it changed. prevent it. 'I here is no ignominy in b.-iug fairly . .. .. ... ... o f . whipped, after a manly struggle A man, or a j writer was in the North during tho great excigeney of ( Yankee rule,they might go on in the old established j ready Stretched the law of conscription, | could just as.ably be filled by disabled sol- <r ! recruiting tlieir armies after Grant’s bulcheiy of the tontine of their lives, leaving politics alone. Never! nodnns ton for and oro nnm mw-rind to I j: _„,t i. ^ _■ _ . old Potomac veterans and tiie immense expenditure of Yankee life in last summer's campaign. The system of Yankee recruiting was then as Li saw it, dc’has.-d downright to the expedient of mreigu eiilistuicnts and ftu* more severe tnan Has ever yet rieen cntorceil tt|»on the arming of negroes. It is these means—scarcely' any portiou of the Southern people; for it is this city which is regarded as the headquarters of the rebellion, and it is here where the Northern grip is to- straugle ‘•ti eason.” It is certain.that no one could breathe in the atmos- he swallowed the oath of ortn. If lie saved his property Adm i n ist rotor's Sole. I JY virtue of an order of the Court "f -ordinary of I Pierce county, will besold on the-first Tuesday in Febuary ISlio at the Court house door in the town of Blackshear, between the legal hours <>l stile, orta I't of land nnmher 84 in the •“> ft!) district of originally Vi are now Pierce county, sold as the property of Daniel .1. Stone lat of Pierce county deceased tor the benefit < t the heirs and creditors of said deceased, terms made known on tlie day of sale. J O H N STR1CK L A ND, A dm r. November 8th 1864. I'd 83. ~o tds. ;rler anything more than these—which is to-day recruiting the armies of the enyny. The whole system of re cruiting has passed to this wretched shift • and bevoud the short life oi such a military expedient, tiie South liaa little or nothing to fear. It ts positively known to i phere of Richmond unless the writer, that Grant is now recruiting tibnosl cxclu- allegiance in its vilest form GEORGIA Pultt-ki county. f. lirilEREAS, I L Hiirrcll administrator a# Z. L 11 Davis deceased, has intide application to this Court, tor letters of dismission from said administra tion These are therefore to cite all persons interested to beand appear at my office.on or before the first Mon day in July next, and show cause it any they can, why said letters o. dismission should not granted the applicant in terms of the law. was delusion more false or fatelf It iifperfectly agreed j P erIia P s to o far, ami are now puzzled to j diers and men over conscript age, that iniong the Yankees that if Richmond should ever fall know what means to adopt that will fill • could be put in the field But as a geu- “•*' I .lepleled ranks. Our officers arc ruck- | oral Iking they are pet, of the admiuistra- trig their brains to supply the deficiency, j tion and friends and relations of men in and the press is daily making suggestions j position and power, and notwithstanding to the siyne end. It is the great question i the fact that they all voted to bring on •of the day. j this war, made loud professions of loyalty A writer iu the Mobile TVibune, who has j aud determination to fight until the last had experienced in tlie French army, pro- ■ man fell in the last ditch, and the fact that poses to fill up the existing regiments from subjugation is staring us iu the face, the different States as far as possible—begin- J government has made co move towards ning with the lowest numbers, by placing putting them in the field. These are the in their ranks all young men within the men who are now clamorous for arming conscript age regardless of any organiza- the negroes or for agreeing to gradual emancipation in order/jkfo induce foreign remain- nations to recognize us. We are opposed to . . to the j ing regiments, still preserving the lowest arming or setting the negroeB free as long tivc soidierp. It was patched up with iiifninniia frauds farthest corner of Yirtrinia lie would find the places of t l • i . i _ i .1 •_ i _ -i i j r f and ubeuid ‘coiiiiniiliilioiisritocoiiciliatctheoppositiim hitiisclf an< t Ids countrymen itsurpeii by tlie Yankee; I utimbers, and organize from the officers a as v e have this hundred thousand fat, in the ITcsidehtial election of lart November. In that 1 ami even ii lie saved himself from the jail by oaths ot i corps d'clite, Or legion of honor, preserving j sleek, lazy, “last ditch” men to recruit from; and if they do not sufficiently strengthen our army, and there is no way of getting deserters hack to tlieir post, then, rather than free tho negroes, con script two hundred thousand of them and divide them out among the deserters whose families arc in destitute circumstances, be’! Given under my hand and seal of office, in Hawkins- j wa| , s t0 } j.qj ti)em uoW without a struggle. W for a few days by that step, he would yet be given over to ultimate ruin, lie would find Richmond . .. — — ... pl ,. inundated with men who would be his masters in eve- , •Snip the trout line.or every cowed man. Give aud that in the force lately commanded by General rythiug; Yankees would keep the hotels, publish the | a chance t imen who teil fight for the old State Ilntlerlhcre was but one white corps 'newspapers, sell the dry goods and “notions.” He I —to strike a blow ior her . It is not asserting too much to snv that tiie North would be turned out of employ nent, unless he might j Let everything li oni Combahee to Charleston. ' 8 r,t this time practically more pinched for tlie wait ot get that of clerk or under-st rappel to some “go ahead" | and from Branchville to Charleston, be promptly anus-bearing men than is the Confederacy. The wri- j N>w Engiaudc^ wiio wanted cheap help. He would* stripp. d for the fight. Let all humanitarianism be *‘T ‘‘w 10 * ‘T” 1 ' 1 at ''Portionscr i tie itmiora - be kept under constant surveilleiice and at the mercy j t j on f 0 which they may at present belon i ...YT.j 1,, i „„ j _ i I liiiornmtion comes from a ireneial oluet.r m tiie I ot every en ? -mv woo might choose to tell a lie about* r „, , , , J i- i * .1 A t • r.. . 0 , * ‘ r ‘ l a Yankee armies around Kiclnnoi.«i, tl.at ih•• lialf-mi !i<*n j him to Ihe Yankee provost marshal. Lite would be* | be would consolidate all the ophet. 1 tup tlie Mate tor a death struggh j draft yieldedn«>t more than soventv five thousand < ftec- 1 come intolerable to him. From Richmond to the and let every officer and man strip his heart like wise of all weak longings and lookings backward j inch by melt let us tight the enemy: let us make , every track we make with life blood; and let us not yield that inch until fairly and forcibly beaten jfiomit. Let every creek ba a point of fight— j every marsh a battleground. It will not tie in I vain—it is vital.y important at this junc- tore. We can purrsh him five men tor one, at ! every -point. Time is gained—and the enemy is punished. There are brave men here, and there sre brave officers t<» lead them, if the right men are pjit to work It devolves upon tlie chit f Commander here to have no remorse now in this matter. Too much is at stake. Affections shod.d be buried; all hesi tation should bo merged into decision. Too long we have been fighting here around these old villa this January 2d, 18t>) 31 Jt JOHN FALE, D.Ord’y. GEORGIA, Berrien county. AV HERE AS, D. P. McDonald npplie M letters of administration on the estate of Ileurv Stokes late of said county dec’d. ay uuliesitatingly, to those in authority, there are brave men here who are prepared to make of ! Charleston a second Saragossa. We us* no fanet ! phrase. \J'e mean the exact thing. We mean *r I tight the country inch by inch to her out: side lines; and wo mean, then, fight it brick by brick to the foot of tbi old St, Michael's walls We say Ami A\ lierens Absalom Parrish A Tabltlia Parrish . , , ... . .. , ami, ii iieriiw, au a I to the commander here, there is the spirit herein app-ies to me for letters of administration on the t.-tate - ‘ of James Parrish late of said coui4y deceased. And, Whereas, Mary E. Parrish ^applies to me Wr lettem of administration de bonis non on the estate of Ezekiel Parrish late of said county deceased And, Whereas Neily Ann McCutehen applies to me fur letters of guardianship on the persons and property of the minor heirs of Robert McCutehen late of said county deceased. These are therefore to cite and admonish all pens Carolina to do tlie thing Let. them try us. Let him give its a fair manly chance to stand or fall Ime in b^talf of the cause and the State we love We want no Atlanta, no Savannah business here Let every non combatant in this city be compelled to leave it and seek shelter elsewhere in out churches and in every house in the State. Let Chailcstou be strictly a •military camp* The; pportunity is offered—let the commanding Gen that j e'ecliou the vote of all the Yankee armies around allegiance, repetitions of the old feudal “homage, | Richmond was eighteen thousand, that being the pro- anv otiier expedient of iufamv, he wilt'd find himself i portion of native born and naturalized citizens of the ' pushed to the wall aud regarded as au incumbrance and I United States in the combined hosts of Ulysses Grant i superfluity upon the eattfli. j ami Benjamin Franklin Butler. | The writer found more instruction than entertainment The difficulties of recruiting in the North are fast j in the talk of the Yankee aruiv about Richmond, as he I verging to the necessity oi an actual conscription. To had access to many of its officers, who spoke of the a great extent they must reach this dn ;tried dire eon- j war without reserve. And this talk was au unfailing elusion in the draft of next February. It is only neces- j ding doing ot what Yankee enterprise would do iu Yir- sary to apply then,variable law of supply and demand ginia after its subjugation. Virginians don't know to show what must be the difficulties in raising men, j Imw toe.diivale tlu.-soil; the Yankees Would give them when we see that New York city finds it necessary to a lesson : the oi l estates wotifd be cut up into 100 propose a municipal bounty of one thousand dollars, i acre farms to give every man a chance. .Some had which with the State nnd general Government bonn- j new met hods \>f raising tobacco, as they had seen it tTes, will swell the price of a single soldier to eighteen J done in Conneticnt Valley. Some thought the Valley The bloated metropolis of the North j of Virginia the most inviting country iu the world, anil and even i! he saved himself from the jail by oaths ot [ corps d’clite, or legion of honor, preserving their light to the same pay, emoluments and uniform as formerly. He would abol ish the conscript bureau and return its em ployees to the field, placing its duties in the hands of civil officers of the State, county or city. Such meft, knowing bet ter than perhaps any others, tho cormnun- httndred dollars, may be able to afford such a largess. But in the rural districts, in the counties and in the small corporations of the North, the system of bounties is already broken down. Counties in the State of New Yoik have been designated to the writer which had aheady expended, each, about a million and tt half dollars in buying hu man flesh ; ami others were named which had accu mulated. on account oftniiitary bounties alone, a debt exceeding the sum total of taxable ^ alue within their jurisdiction. It is under the pressure of the practical want of arms bearing men, and iu view of the iatal conclusion of art actual conscription, that the question come uppermost in the Northern mind liow has picked out their places to settle there after the war. This talk was not intended to be offensive; for it seem ed to be universally taken as matter of course that under Yankee rule, Virginia, by a very fair, logical conclusion, could be for nobody else but the Yankees, and that our former people were to be glad to sital the feet of New England civilization. But it is useless to expatiate, unless to those who.are wilfully blind,.the theme of subjugation. If the spirit of desperate resolution has not already been drawn from what is known of-the enemy’s warfare, it will not be easily provoked by any other arguments. That has be- j spirit once tally demonstrated to the North and the war long the ! is at anend. It is the only price of pence. There is ity in which they live, would make the provided they return to duty. In this best of conscript officers. way we believe the sinking ship may bo Propositions are also made b}' the same saved, the institution of slavery saved, writer, for the benefit of the soldier, and and our independence achieved. Recon- Sontli etin endure tLe necessities of the war. Tlie situ- i not a scintilla of hope for the South in any political j all. tree negroes a«id form them info seper- thcSHv pie question of endurance has entirely superseded all. movement, or any peace negotiation in tlie North.— .,* 0 rpo-impiits allowin'* thpm their own ! , other methods of the solution of the war. all former : it may bo subjugation under a disguise, or subpiga- ; £ ! ’ Y ° V i . i ! passed quest ions of foreign interferences, political revolutions i tion by steps, but it is subjugation at lost. The writer 0 inters up to a CC1 tain rank; toim OI Slaves i- ()n ^ ^ interested to file tlieir objections if any they have with- j oral make a fight here that will ring around the in the time prescribed by* law, why said letters should I WOJ .jj We wII j uot fail him. There arc men U"t be granted. , 1Q ., i Ic re to do it. H'e have made names historic be- Witness my band officially, January !Mh I *n->. - 33 5t 'pj g**o W.E CONNELL. Ord’v loie * »v e can do it.now. J .ot ns strip and entei I * I ! the arena for life or for ibath W’iil he stand by GEORGIA,Pulaski county. us*? —'Charleston Mercury, 19th HERE AS Win. J. F. iintnin applies to me for let W Condition of the Slnvci stolen by £Ricrinnn. Condition fff tlie ters of guardianship for the person and property of Daniel Waters. Xu esc are therefore to cite ail persons interested 1 . to be an aptiear at my office within the time prescribed 1 Tlie following shows the siirt’irin bv law, and show cause if any they can, why letters ! slaves that were ruy oft’ hy Sherman, ft is interesting of guardianship should uot issue the applicant iu terms j a* an evidence ot what tlie slaves o! the South have of the law • ! f?aitiecl by leaving their masters, by whom they were Given under mv hand and seal of office this Jan. 5 wcli fed and clothed, and running off to the Yankees; I860. 31 At JOHN J. SPARROAV. Ord’y. GENERAL SHERMAN’S KKKEDMEN. . I Good men and tromen of Uu: Xorth. GEORGIA, Pulaski County. , We eainesily appeal to you on behalf of the Ihnns- A\^HEKEAS, A M Fraser applies to me for , ands of suffering negroes whom General Sherman has letters of administration on the estate of j just impressed by his triumphant inarch through Geor- Mirv Sandlin, lato of said county, deceased -ii,..,... uu«r T .0 »..d P concerned, to be and appe ar At « y eminent an* liiu- mniity'ui th& i. at inn. Tliev have 0:1 cr before the br»t Monday in rebiuary next, arrived on the coast after long marchers anu severe •toar cause, if any* why said letter* snould not 1 privutions, weary famished, sun. and almost naked.— granted A. M. Fraser on Mary Maudlin s estate j Seven hundred ot these wretched people arrived at Given under my hand officially, this January | Beaufort Christmas night,!»_a state oj misery which 2 <ri, i*or>. 31 5t JOHN FALE, Lb Ord’y. would hare moved to pity a heart of stone, and these are but the advance of a Host no less destitute. The stores of the Government, already overtaxed to suppTy %large army, are not available to relieve their wants, aud unless the charity of the North comes spe- GEORGIA. Jasper county. \VttEUEAS Fleming Mobley makes application! dily to the rescue, they must die by hundreds from ex- ” to me for letters of administration,on the estate ensure and disease. L M( Michael late of said county deceased einm^u 16 therefore to cite and admonish al and (Pilarfh e ki n q re a an d creditors of aaid dee d, to be my office on the first Monday in March . fhnv cause if any they Itnve, why letters ■ •(! <ssue to the applicant, in terms of the .aw. Iv en under mv haiid officially, this orti, day of b 1865. 32 5t Jan ' ]^(** n ^^ r ^ a ‘ lC * officially, this orfl, M. H. HUTCHISON, Ord’y. GEORGIA, Pulaski County. YY’HEREAS, Nancy Desliazo and Joshua Her- rington, applies to me for letters of admin- 1 st 1 at ion on tbe est ate of Wm. Deahazo, late of R aid county, deceased. These are therefore to cite and admonish all Persons interested to show cause, if any they have, |>y the first Monday in February next, why said ktters should not be granted said applicants in lerms of the law. Given under my hand aud official signature, this J*htiary 2nd, 1865. 31 5t JOHN J. SPARROW, Ord’y. posure und disease. So extreme and entire is tlie destitution ot this peo ple that nothing which you can afford to give wid eoute amiss. Clothing is tlieir most pressing need, especially for women and children, who cannot wear the oust off garments ol soldiers Shoes and stockings, hats, sus penders, anil under-garmenla of all kinds are hardly less accessary 111 this climate than in the North.— Utensils, medicine, money—anything you have to spare—will find its use among this wretched people. The several Freedinen’s Aid Societies at the North are proper and sufficient channels for your ben .licence. We pray you, for the sake suffering humanity, let them be speedily nnd abundantly filled. Bcfus Saytos, Brigadier General, and Military Governor ot South Carolina. H. G. Judd, Superintendant of Freed men, Beaufort South Carolina. Jauuary 6,1865. Another “appeal’ for these “poor suffering crea tures” says; . The first intimation given metnat many 01 th- Freedmen would be brought hither troin S vaonah, cuine in the form of request from the General tlm; i would “call at ouce to plan the reception of seven hundred who would be at tbe wharfin an hour. Hits was Christmas day, and at 4, P. M., we had seven financial convulsions, .Vo., and is.'onli Northern me who discern the signs of the limes, the one practical j drawn from all parties in the % Nortli, which has carried test that isto determine the destiny of the South. Tlie! the war of the savage into our homes. It is ior the writer is fully assured tha. all intelligent men of the j South tv tesolve never to give up the couditioiiotiu- Norih, including even leading Black Republicans who I dependence, never to be deluded with that cheap have not hesitated to comfort themselves, are agreed J thing in Yankee lnstory—a paper guaranty. It is only that the North will never stand an actual conscription, | tie,-cssary.to show to convince tlie North that we are and that if the‘war is pushed to Hint point by untiag- j resolved to choose the last extremity in preference to ging lesolution. and unbroken endurance on ihe part j any submission. That rather than give .up the hope of j oul* iudependejice ; rather than cheat our dead <1 that ! for wbieii they died: ratlief than entitle ourselves to j the contempt of the world, the agonies of self-arcisa- that would make us better soldiers, lie would pay the soldier regularly and fur nish him with a catechism setting fort h* is duties and the penalty attached for their neglect; abolish the election to office, and let promotion he won only hy skill and he roism on the field; establish a roll of hon or, having different grades, and a medal he conferred for every grade'. As to the , parficularS) except that he fell in the fight negroes it is suggested that we conscnbe ; at Beach Landin | t near Fort Fisher, on of the capture. His remanins - - * e c 1 through Augusta on Monday officers up to a certain rank; form of slaves |.] m the way t0 Lig late b Lon - e in Lexington, strnctirtn is impossible and subjugation will he worse than death. DEATH OF COL.LOFTON. We regret to announce, says the Au gusta Chronicle of tho 25th nst., the death of Cel. John T. Lofton of the 6th Georgia Regiment. We have heard no has seep that in nu army, wlinse personnel ^iis In en | regularly organized cotps of pioneCl’S to lesolution. and unbroken emlu) oi tiie South, it is just there that it will break down by the weight ot an insufferable burden put upon one Jf the belligerents. Tne conclusion i. not an extruvugant In the South tiie conscription is doubtless iiu-1 tion, tiie repioofi.f the grave, the curses of post eiityw posed upon some few unwilling iiuliviiluuis ; bi.t in He North, with its inferior motive in the war, and its pc cUliar character..it is utterly impossible to execute a ciYiisciiption of a law upon a pe. pie who are wholly and absolutely opposed to it, win*, are not fighting un der any duetriue of paramount necessity, nnd who have already given the most abundant proofs that even the Yankee God of money is but little effective 111 enticing them to the. battle field. It is almost impossible to describe tbe dread with which the Northern people contemplate the slightest possibility of a conscription. Even tlie draft of last year, which only slightly threatened such a conclusion, was slimmed as the plague. H'nen it was thought that some of the ward quotas would be enforced iu Balti more, hundreds of persons left tlieir homes and faun- lie.-: there, fled for shelter to New York, aud for months i e'inained there in close concealment. Itis well known that tiiut city must be gingerly touched by tho au thorities of Lincoln , for it contains seventy thousand Irish, and what is more one hundred and fifty thousand people of the Catholic taitli, who constitute a pretty la ge seed of revolution, and who are considered to have made up their minds about the draft in the sum mer of 1803. Observations which the writer made iu the North with ceaseless industry mid under the stimulus of con stant curiosity, filled his piind with the broad and strong conviction that never was tilt* independence of the South more lirutly assured than ut this time, on the single condition that the spirit of tlie people and tln^ army does not break by some unworthy impatience,- or is deliberately broken down by insane persistence in folly on the part of Davis and liis out and on* toadies and encouragers. A Northern conscription i*the gen! to wftich the South must press, nnd which already it closely approaches A little endurance and it is won It is tbe vital question to all intelligent persons in the North how long our people will endure. They laugh at our expectations of pimticH.lj’evolu- tions or financial ruptures iu the North ; and they con tend that the time is past wheu we may expect to win our independence by any grand military coup, or force of military successes. Al! these calculations are lightly O' insolently regarded by Northern men. Tlieir real anxiety is the endurance on the part of the South. In a large intercourse with Northern politicians the writer found that their great curiosity was ns to the real spirit of die Sou til, and the questions of thinking men among .hem invariably went to the point of the proba ble term of Southern endurance. He saw the valve of this quality in Northern eyes. He became thoroughly convinced that by force of it alone tlie South would i e prepared !<> choose more suffering ven utter poverty, and chains, and exile ’1 tie Exenijil*. more Trials, and death. . 3,086 185 Mr Miles, cbt.irntan of tbe Military Commiitce. | itas reported the total number of exempts, under i the different clauses of the pres**-! law, on this j side of the Mississippi river, as follows: rbysicftl disability 61,16/ | State officers exempted by Goveruors 18,785 Ministers Insane asylum managers and nurses Editors and employees of newspapers Apothecaries Physicians Teachers and professors Under tlie fifteen negro clause Quakers, Dunkards, etc Mail contractors Railroad employees The number of exempts is much smaller than has been usually* supposed. Particularly is this the case as to State officers, for many have claim ed heretofore that the States of Georgia and North Carolina alette had each more than the total of States officers exempt. The press, too. exhibits an insignificant number. There are about fifty-five dailies now published east of the Mississippi, and fully that number of weeklies end mpthlies, which allows only about six men capable of service to each office. This showing should serve to stop the mouths of those, who are clamoring about the press to any extent furnishing bombproofs—Appeal. be commanded by white officers set aside ior light duty. Lastly—and it is asnggeslion that would work a great and desirable’ reform—lie wou]d enforce the articles of tear. He would have death without hope of pardon be tbe. penalty for all drunkenness at critical moments, in high position; for all fraud among disbursing officers as well as for desertion among privates. There is s<nvething practical in these views, we feel assured, and commend them tojhe attention of the wisdom of lltc na tion at Richmond, who appear to L-e puz zled what to do. Common sense will serve ns, if it can be brought into exercise. Appeal. A Falsehood.—It will be recollected — $21! that the abolition journals charged Capt 3D!) 3.718 1,557 3,645 893 ..479 4,982 The Brandon Republican says there are not less than 100,000 able bodied men now holding little appointments in the various departments, whose pluces could be just as ably filled by disabled soldiers and men over conscript age, that could be put in tbe field. Leon Smith, of our navy, with the killing of Capt. Wainwriglit. of the Harriett Laric, after her surrender in Galveston bay, in January, ISG2. A court rtcenfly order ed by Farragut to investigate the cause of the disaster, reported that the ‘‘Harriet Lane was carried by boarding from tho Bayou City, her commander summoned to surrender, which he refused, gallantly de fending himself with his revolver until kill ed.’, This official statement- effectually crushes the malicious charge against Capt. Smith. In his published letter that offi cer adds, “I assisted with my own hands to remove the corpse of Commander Wain- wright to the headquarters of Gen. Ma- gruder. * * * Although I had met and fought him as an enemy, I admired his undaunted courage and bravery, and, hence, paid every respect to his memory. I ordered the finest coffin that could be found, aud paid lor the same out of my owr^pii^ate purse. When will the Yan kees discover tbat falsehood and slander are sure to meet detection/ Cel Lofton was a lawyer of Cgle- ! thorpe county. On the breaking out of I the war he led to Virginia the fine com- ; pany known as the Gilmer Blues. After the brittle of Sharpsburg, he succeeded to the command of the 6th Regiment, ! vacated hy the fall of Col. Newton. He i has fought gallantly on almost every i battlefield in Maryland, the Carolinas and ! Florida. j Jic was a man of high spirit, cultivated i mind and genial manners. An ardent friend of the revolution, he felt bound to to face its dangers among the foremost, and his name is now added to the list of the costly sacrifices which Georgia has offered in this merciless war. Sprite action of the United States Senate on the Mexican question amounts to a distinct repulse of the government of Maximilian. The consular appropriation bill being under consideration, the follow ing action is reported: Air. Wade, of Ohio, moved to amend by inserting before the word Mexico, “The Republic of.” He said there were two Governments in Mexico, and he could recognize none but tbe Republic. We had nothing to do with the Empire. With this explanation the amendment was adopted and the bill passed. Wrinkle for the Ladies.—Tbe Paris milliners are making the very smallest shape of bonnets without curtains, inten ding them to be worn with the hair in a padded bow, falling on the neck at the back. These celebrities in the millinery line are endeavoring to reintroduce the mode of wearing the hair high on the head; their bonnets are also exceedingly small, but the crown is high, under which there is placed a curtain or bow with ends,