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JIILLEDfiE VILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, APRIL II, IS65.
iM IJBER 44.
I. uIT JNjNISliET, BARNES & MOORE
^a'olis’aors an'l Proprietors.
IIEADQARTEKS ARMIES CONKED. SI A I Eb, /
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General (Orders, l
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published Weekly, in MiUedgerllU,
of. HaJxk oni WiU-^' SU -
opposite Court ILtu e.)
At $12 a y ear In Advance.
advertising.
T „ .,v Five Djllars per square often
'.{oteach insertion.
“ , >f respeot, Resolutions by Societies,(Obit
veiling six lines.) Nominations for office,
i .or lie.itions or Editorial notices for inilivldual
.; ur^ei as transient advertising.
Legal Advertising.
m V s sales, per levy of ten lines, or less,$10 Oft
Mortgage fi fa sales, per square, 20 00
Collector’s Sales, per square, 10 00
. .Uons for Letters of Administration, 10 00
'«» “ “ Guardianship, 10 00
•ters of application for (.lisin’n.from Adm’nlG 00
.> “ •• *• “ Guard’ll 10 00
n for leave to sell land and negroes, 10 00
j to Debtors and Creditors. 12 10
„t land or negroes, per square, 16 00
perishable property, 10 days, per sq. 4 00
Notices, 30 days, 10 00
.-closure of Mortgage, per square, 4 t/0
LEGAL advertisements.
-.»f Land and Negroes;by Administrators, Ex-
„v or Guardians,are requiredby law t
lirst fuesilay iu the uiontl
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^nteriiiir upon the campaign about to open, the
_ f feels assured that the soldiers who
j I ve'so" h-'-g and so nobly borne the hardships and
! j„ M ,rers of tl7e war require no exhortation to respond
I to iliecall of iiono- and duty.
I vVitli the lib-Gy transmitted by their forefathers
they have inherited the spirit to defend it.
The choice between war and abject submission is
before them.
To such a proposal, brave men, with arms in their
hands, cau have but one answer.
They cannot barter manhood for peace, nor the light
of self-government for property.
lint justice to them requires a sterner admonition to
I those who have abandoned their comrades in the hour
of peril.
A last opportunity is offered hem to wipeout the dis
grace and escape the punishment of their crimes.
l!y authori y of the President of the Confederate
States, a partiXi is at uounced to such deserters and
men improperl^ibscnt as shall return to th^vommand.-
to which they belong within the aborts a! possible time,
not exceeding twenty days from the publication of this
order, at the headquarters of the Department in which
they may be.
Those who may be prevent d by interruption of
communication, may report within the time specified
to the nearest enrolling officer, or other officer ou duty
to be forwarded as soon ns practicable, and upon pre
senting a certificate from such officer showing com
pliance with this lcquireinent, will receive the pardon
hereby offered.
Those who have deserted to the service of the
enemy, or who have deserted after having been
once pardoned tor the same offense, and those who
shall desert or absent themselves without authori
ty after the publication of this order, are excluded
fiom its bem fils. Nor does the offer of pardon ex
tend to other offenses than desertion and absence
without permission.
By the same authority, it is also declared that j
no general amnesty will again he granted, and j
those who ri fuse to accept the pardon now offered,
or who shall hereafter desert or absent then.solves
•without leave, shall suffer such punishment as (lie
poul ts may impose, and no application lor clemen
cy will be entertained
Taking new resolution from the faith which our
MONTHLY CITAT IONS
GEORGIA, Bulloch County.
\ VT HEREAS. Jefferson G Williams, admiuis
? trator on the estate of Jlerryan W. Button
deceased, applies to me for letters of dismission
from said administration.
These are thereto! e to cite and admonish all
persons interested, to file their objections, if any
rliey have, on or before the first Monday in
June next, why said letters should not be granted.
Given under my hand and official signature,
this 14th day of Nov. 1861.
26 niGiu DAVID BEASLEY, Ord’y.
tJCGIJl Oil It UOUJU .V'luimn-tiuim «•»
>aniel ,f. Slone represents to this Court :n his
duly filed that lie has fully administered Daniel
GEORGIA, Pierce comity.
\ VHEREAS, John Strickland Administrator of
V Di
petition
J. Stone’s estut'
This is therefore to cite all persons concerned to
show car-se, if any they can, why said administrator
should not be discharged from the administration and
receive letters of dismission on the first Monday in
October next.
Witness my hai-d and official -signature, this March
6th I860. *
42 m6m (Pd $16.) II. W. GRADY, Ord’y.
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be held
between the hours
u and three in the afternoon, at the
• in thecouuty in which the property is j enemies intend for us, let every mau devote ail his
l. J energies to the common defense.
’ 'ic ga-*j Our resources, wisely and vigorously employed.
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,«f these sales moat be given in a publ
lays previous to the day of sale.
. fortiie sale of personal property must be
,i i0 manner It) days previous to sale day.
tn the debtors and creditors of an estate
r ,-i also be punished 4y days.
\ iU it application will he madeto the Court oi
i i \ v lor leave to sell Land or Negroes,must be
- t'.i'.i-ii-Al fur two months. ..
, 7- for letters of Administration Guardianship,
, Diib'isUed 31) days—for dismission from
.■nitration, monthly six months—tor dismission
■ , n (f i irdiansliip, 10 days
if Mortgage must be published
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are ample, and with a brave army, sustained by a
determined and united people, success, with God’s
assistance, can not be doubtful.
The advantages of the enemy will have hut
little value if we don't permit them to impair our
resolution. Let us, then oppose constancy to ad
versity, fortitude to suffering, and courage to dan
ger, with tire firm assurance that he who gave free,
doni to our fore fathers w ill bless the efforts of
their children to preserve it.
40 (it. II. E. LEE. General.
! heaixn® asbies of Time statrs. i
' x.-cut ors or a'dininistrators, where bond lias been I b ibrnary Tl, Lbo. $
.• the deceased, the full space olV.nee months. | General Orutrs, (
it ..ms will always be continued uccordirg’o
rcments,nnlcsso.iie; wiseordered.
il requir
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Job work* of ai! kimfcj
{ and NEATLY EXECUTED
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The discip ine and efficiency of the army hav#
been greatly impaired by men leaving tln-ir prop
er commands to join others, iu which they find
service more agreeable.
This practice, almost as in ju rious in its conse
quences as the crime of desertion, liy the Articles
of War exposes the offender to a similar punish
ment, and subjects the officer receiving him to
dismissal from the arin.v.
It is there fore declared that the provisions of
fired, or is about to expire, and must be renew-1 General Order No. 2 of tins date from army head-
if lie wishes tbe paper continued. j quarters apply to such men as have left their
, \ , nPW snhscri- ! proper commands and joined others without being
rr We do not send receipts to n^ su^cn P d< V^y will receive the pardon
If they receive the p p J ^ I promised in that order upon complying with its
\t we nave received tlie mon y. i C0Ilc jj t j 0ng? or su ff C r the consequences attached to
•tbJcribers w ishing their papers changed j neglecting it
The names ofsnch absentees will be forthwith
reported to-these headquarters by the officeis with
whom they arc serving, and immediate measures
taken to return them to their proper commands.
As scon as practicable an inspection will be
made and charges will be prefeired against those
who neglect to enforce this order. R.E. LEE.
4<) Gt General.
nr When a subscribe r finds n cross mark on
. uaper he*will know that his subscription has
one post-office to another must state tlie
of the post-office troin which they wish it
red.
GEORGIA, Wilcox Coutily.
Ordinary's Office said County.
\\T II ERE AS, the estate of Frederic Land is
) i unrepresented and no person lias applied
• r letters of administration.
la.’se are therefore to cite all persons concern-
that the administration will be vested in the
tk of the Superior Court* or some otlier tit and
.r-iir-r tierson. unless vaiid objections
(iivii under my hand officially, this 2ith day
• February, 1865. *
4-1 r,t .IAS. VV. MASIIBURN, Ord’y.
Confederate
Taxes.
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10 RGI A, Jones County. •
■unary's office said county, March 1*/, 1865.
iiUREAS,JohnJackson applies tome forad-
u :nistration ou estateof Lewis Jackson dec d.
1 -v .irefo cite an-1 admonish all persons concern-
.... I i, rested to file their objections in this office by
::,e first Monday in next mouth (April,) if any they
to the contrary. •
Given uu.leruiy hand officially, March 1st, 186-j.
ROLAND T ROSS. Ord’y.
(pd.) dll 5t ■
6 !1'»lit; I A, Pulaski county.
’-fill UK VS Andrew M. Eraser administration of
w Mary Sandlin dec'll, has made application for
"irs of dismission fr m said administration,
f ..... are to cite all persons interested, t«i file their
' ms, if any they can,oti or beforethe first Monday
> • !,.« next, otherwise letters of admission will
Ii.le ! tlie said Andrew M. Frazer iu tefms of the.
i, vcn under my hand and official signature, this Ctli
JOHN J.SPARROW; Ord’y.
I am requested to give notice that all who do not pay
their tax tor last year ia thirty days, will he dealt with
according toluw, viz: Taxes oil property, income, sala
ry. 10 per cent, profits, and !th qr, on gross sales for
year 1861.
Those who have not given in their income, salaiy and
10 per cent, profits for 1861, will trull on the Assessor
and make their returns and pav i*p.
ROII’T. MICKLE.JOHN, Assessor.
J. C. WHITAKER,.Collector.
42 4t 5'JthDist.
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(WO months, after date application will be
made to tlie Court of Ordinary of Baldwin
county to sell a nortion of the slaves belonging,
to the estate of Thomas II. Morris late of said
county, deceased
HARRIETT M. MORRIS, Adm’x.
Febaary, 14th lfc'Gft. (J. it.) 36 lit.
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GEORGIA, Twiggs County.
T the May term of ihe Court of Ordinary nf
said county, Mrs. Missouri A. Champion, Ad-
; ministrairix of Elias F- Champion dec’d. will ap-
i ply for leave to sell one negro man named Tom,
■ belonging to said estate.
J- E. MCDONALD Ord'y.
March fth, 1865. 40 9t.
GEORGIA, Pulaski county:
liniEREAS, James M Buchan, temporary
\\ adm'r on Joel Dunu's estate, has applied for
' -r.:.r;i»iit letters of administra'ion on said estate.
A .. i .oils intprested will be and appear at my of- j
:•> on or before the first monday iu April, next, j
i i show cause il any they can why said letters :
1 not be granted tlie applicant in terms of j i
v n under rav hand and official signature, this
I'.uchGth, 1805.
41 5t. JOHN J. SPARROW Grd’y.
GEORGIA. Twiggs County.
Court of Ordinary March term 1865. t
"7, appearing to the Court t hat by the death of -
i V.lias F. Champion late of said county dec d. \
-fates of Hartwell A Epps, Thomas P Epps,
Edward C. Epps are left without legal repre-
. vcs. it is therefore ordered that parties inin*
• -* hiq ly at the May term of this court to rep
GEORGIA, Twiggs, County.
A T the May term of the Court of Ordinary of
Twiggs County; A. 11. F. McWilliams, will
apply for letters of administration on the estate of
Jacob W. Collins late of said county dec’d.
Given tinder my hand and official signature at
Marion, this Match G'h, Ifc('•i.
40 5t J. E. MCDONALD Ord’y.
GEORGIA Pierce county.
7TIEIIEAS, Banner Thomas administrator of
Jatnes R. Thomas represents to the court in his
petition,, duly filed, that lie has fully administered
James U. Tlmums'gjestate.
Tiiis is therefore to cite all persons concerned to
show cause if any they can why said administrator
should not be discharged from the mhninishutioii^uid
receive letters of dismission on the first Monday in
April next.
Witness my baud and official signature this Sep’t,
Stli, 1864.
Pd.8.00 17 uiGm H. W. GRADY, Ord’y.
GEORGIA, Pierce County.
AITHEREAS, Benjamin Minshew, administra-
f ¥ tor of John Misnhew, represents to the
Court in his petition duly filed, that he has fully
administered John Minshevv’s jstato.
This is therefore to cite all persons concerned .
to show cause, if any they can, why said admin is- j
trator should not be discharged from his admini- j
istration and receive letters of dismission on the i
first Monday in April next.
Witness my hand and official signature, this I
Sept. 5th, 1-864. H. W. GRADY,
17 niGm Pd S8 Ordinary. j
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GEORGIA, Pierce County.
\\T HEREAS, John Waters, adminis'rafor. and ‘
. ¥f Ann Jane Minshew, administratrix of Abram '
Minshew, represents to tlie Court, in his petition
duly filed, that they have fully administered'
Abram Minshew’s estate.
This is therefore to cite all persons concerned, j
to show cause, if any they can, why said admiuis- |
trators should not he discharged from their ad- i
ministration and receive letters of dismission on '
tins first Monday in April next.
Witness my hand anil official signature, this :
Sept 5th, 1864. 11. W. GRADY,
17 ni6m Pd ^-8 Ordinary
GEORGIA, Pulaski County.
HEREAS, Lotfa - Cadwell, Administratiix
of Aiaiiin Cadweil, deceased, applies to
me for letters of dismission from said administra
tion.
These are therefore to cite and-admonish all
persons interest! d to tile their objection-,if any
they have, within the time presewb* d by law. why
letters of dismission should not. be granted the
said Lotta Cadweil, otherwise they will issue in
terms of the statute.
Given under my hand and official signature
thi3 the 5th day of September, 1864.
16 rn6m .JOHN J. SPARROW, Ord'y.
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GEORGIA, Pulaski County.
W HEREAS, Duncan C. Daniel* administra
tor of Paul Jones, deceased, applies to me
for letters dismission from said administration
This is to cite all persons interested, to file their
objections, if any they can, within the time pre
scribed by law, why letters of dismission should ,
not be granted the applicant in terms of the stat
ute.
Given under my hand and seal of office, this the
20th day of Oct,, 1864.
22 intiui JOHN FALli, I) Ord'y.*
GEORGIA, Berrien County.
TIL HEREAS. John Hesters, Administrator on
T ¥ the estate of Zachanah Ilesteis,- late of said
county, deceased, applies to me foi letters dis*
missory from said estate-
These are therefore to cite and admonish ail per
sons interested, to fiie their objections, if any'
they have, in my office within the time prescribed
by law, or said lettt rs wiil be granted.
Witness my hand officially, this Oct. 3rd, 1864.
21 m6m Pd W. E. CONNELL, Ord'y.
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DM. HALL
H AS REMOVED to the house recently occu
pied by Maj McIntosh.
Office in Confederate Union Building.
Miljedgevile March 16th, 1865. _ 41 tf.
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GEORGIA. Berrien County.
J HEREAS, Iiicks Ellis applies to me for lct-
ters of guardianship on the persons and pro
perty of the minor heirs ol William S. Ellis dec’d.
■l mu ui iv n,i... And whereas James Griffin applies to me for
J estates”i*n"default of which7tbe court J letters of guardianship on the persons and proper-
np-.-oint the Clerk of the Superior, or Infer-
r (. irt. r some otlier suitable person.
J E. MCDONALD Ord’y.
Marion,March 6ib, 1865. 4 4U;»t.
. G K- il;i; I \. Twiggs county
P. lrcissa Bn:
-•ii oi the estate of H
1 fliuiltjf . . .
\yiIKUKAS. Natcissa Hnw applies for anmixns-
Buss tiec’d of said
ty of the minor heirs of Mitehel M. Griffin dec’d
These are therefore to cite and admonish all per
sons interested to file their objections in iny .office
i within the time proscribed by law it any they have
why said letters should rot be granted.
Witness my hand officially this March bth 1865.
42fit. (pd. $20.) W. E. CONNELL,Ord’y.
1 k . In.-d and creditors of said deceased arc ad-
-.-it nt letters will issue at the .''.iny term nn*
- ;-ii l.ji.j , ti, r „ bo made. ,
Goci: under invimnd officially March JLt I860 .
J. E. MCDONALD, Ord y.
Baker oouuty.
VY HEUEAs, J. c. Screws has made application
n« f, )t i ettcr8 0 f guardiatiship of the per-
Pjapetty of John, James and Mary But-
7 7 r l '-‘» of j. c. Butler dec’d.
a/'pTr flf ar ' t0cite admonish all interested to
in Mj '■ r> ' 0 ® f e on or before the first Monday
GEORGIA, Junes county.
Ordinary's office of said rouiUy.
W HEREAS. Eliza W. C«.x applies tome for ad
ministration 011 the c*tatc of 1 huinas J. Cox do--
ceased.
These are to cite and admonish all persons concerned
to file their objections, if any they have to the contrary,
in this office on or by the first. Monday iu May next.
Given under my hand, officially, March 28, 1865.
43 fit. (I’d.) II. T. ROSS, Ord’y.
GEORGIA, Baker county.
W HEREAS, Josiuh Winchester lately died intes
tate, and it appears that there is no one torep-
' ^*<1 to show cause if any they have why 1 reie nt ffls estate, unless some suitable perium applies
t , '° of guardianship should not be granted for letters of administration upon said estate I shall
f e ^Pfiikant '’ UH,a,anhU1 P 8no,,,u b ,int the Clerk of the Inferior Court, or some other
GEORGIA, l’ulaski County.
TUEREAS, John W. Asbell, Adm'r. of
George Wade, deceased, has applied for
letters of dismission from said estate.
All persons interested Will file their objections
in my office ^within the time prescribed by law,
(if any ti.ey can.) why letters of dismission
should not be granted the applicant in terms of
the statute. Given under my li.nd and seal this
Dec. 17th, 1861,
28 niGm JOHN J. SPARROW, Ord’y.
GEORGIA, Twiggs county.
/HEREAS, John Faulk Executor of the last will
atnl testament of II L. Solomon deceased, has
fiied his petition to be dismissed.
All parties interested are hereby notified to file t! oir i
objections in my office by or before the first Monday in 1
August next.
Given under iny hand and official signature at Mu- j
rion, January !)th 1865.
' 33 mlim J.E. MCDONALD, Ord’y.
HEREAS, Frederick M. Guldens adm’r on the
estate of John W. Giddens late of said county ;
deceased, applies to me for letters of dismission from j
said estate.
These aro therefore to eite and admonish all persons I
interested, to he and appear in my office by (lie first I
Monday iu Juiv next to file their objections if any they
have, why sail! Letters should not be granted.
Witness iny hand officially, this January hth,1865.
331116m I’d |8. W. E. CONXELL Ord’y
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GEORGIA, Irwin county.
“VI/HERE AS, D. J. Fenn and .Sarah E. H. Mc-
ff Daniel, administrators on the estate of Wil,
ham McDaniel, deceased, has made application to
me for letters of dismission from said estate.
This is therefore to cite ail persons concerned, to
be and appear at iny office within the time, pre
scribed by law, and siioft cause, if any, why said
letters should not be granted the applicants.
Given upder my hand officially, this 28th day j
of Jan. i860.
37 1116m L. M. COLBERTH, Ord’y
“V apj^ant.
tl,i - ' ■ my hand and official signature
7??}'of March, 1865.
__ 1 W. W: JORDAN Ord’y.
YOTteu *' * >u ' a *ki county.'
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OTU’r 1 county.
‘ •' hi* hereby given to all pernors concerned
appffut the Clerk . ,
suitablepertw^administratorot said estate oh the first
M (/iveu *under "nv^iand, and official signature,this
20th ,luy irfMurch !865. ^ j ( ,i M ) AXi Ord’y,
GEGllGIA, Berrien County.
"1TTHEREAS, Josiali Parrish applies to ine^ for
YY letters of administration on the estate of
'? ’*‘ e month of December 1801, John. II
'"‘partedtiiis life intestate and no person has
. } ■ *1«t administration on said estate, and that in , . ,
;■ bielaw administration will be vested in the Jesse Hollingsworth Jr. deed. ,
11,8 Superior Court or some other fit and prop- These are to cite all persons interested tn and
U,lrt y days after the publication <;t tlu^ita- i appeiir in niy offico within the time preseriheil 4>y
u.-u" valid objection is made 10 his appoint- j , aw , Q (ihow cause if aliy they have why said let-
, Giv-u iii„u_ I, 1 a: .re tliin ters should not bo granted.
K . Ail, S y liaD ‘ a “ J , “ KnatUre ’ tL ' 8 Witr.es* my hand officially March 2!st 1865.
<" a JOHN FALE, D Ord’y. 43 5t- (pd ) D. P. LUKE D. Ord j.
GEORGIA, Jones County.
Ordinary's Ojjiet, said County, February Vith, 1865.
\S/HEREAS. E. C. Grier, Administrator of
v t Giles IL Griswold, deceased, applies tome
for letters dlsmissory from said estate.
This is therefore to cite all persons concerned,
to show cause, if any they have to the contrary,
by filing their objections iu this office ou ot by the
first Monday in September next.
Given under my band officially.
36ni6m (pd) ROLAND T. ROSS Ord’y.
GEORGIA, Twiggs County.
W HEREAS. John Cranford applies for letters
of administration on the estate of Iieuben J.
Roberts, deceased.
All persons interested are notified to file their
objections by the May term of this Court.
Witness my baud and official signature, March
6tli, 1865.
40 5t. J. E. MCDONALD Ord'y.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
\ LL. persons indebted to the estate of William
Walden, late of Wilcox County dee d. are
requested to make immediate payment and all
persons having demands against said estate, are
requested to present them iu tfrms of the law this
February 14th, 1865.
40 Ot. (t. w, m.) D. A■ McLEOD Adoi’r
For the Confederate Union.
ADDLPHC SSIGCESS,
Or the Slor, of a He-Copet!f.
liy Char!a Augustus Avlykus Albert Fit: Jnir.es
Smitht .4. B., A. M., Q. R. S., P. L. M. Y., F.
It. S.
(COPYRIGHT SECURED.)
CHAPTER J.
“Ob, Bully’’!—{Shakespeare.)
T was born in an early period of my existence
It was predicted at the tim^that I should be a* lit
erary character, because I was such a thoroughly
red child. Some envious persons sneeringly re
marked that all young babies were red; but their
observations were treated with such contempt,
that they soon withdrew. A venerable relative of
mine who had long desired a nephew was so de
lighted to find (upon inspection) that I was a boy,
that be sprang up, kicked his heels three times to
gether, and made use of the affecting quotation
from the Bard of Avon, which heads this chapter
“Gh, Bully!” My Irish nurse appreciating his
feelings, immediately burst-into tears, and begged
for a “little tcarther.’’ .
CHAPTER I (.
Her hair was bright red,
And so was ln r nose;
'She slept in a bed.
And she bad ten toes. (Moore, not Thomas )
At tlie lather early ago of 6ix months, 1 became
engaged tollie young lady ftom Ireland—‘that.
Sicate Gim of tbe Say,” as she called her country;
who did me tbe honor to give her personal etten
tion to such matters of my toilet as a young gen
tleman of my years required, especially to the pow
dering arrangements which nurses deem so nec
essary.
The earliest whisper in tho morning, and the
final lisp at d :wy eve, were declarations of affec
tion for this adorable modern Greek Venus. The
world did not understand me—it did not under
stand Iter; but what cared we, two souls absorbed
in each other—what cared we for a cold, cruel, cal
culating world—what did tbe world know of
Corel
Oli, Love, you're some pumpkins!!!
We lived and loved on, uncaring fur any save
each other Men passed us with heartless winks;
women in rustling silks swept by casting sneering
glances; but clasped to my Bridget’s ample bosom,
1 burled defiant scowls around, which changed to
sweetest smiles when I encountered the heavenly j
orbs of my own “darliut.” Need I tell you, gen- 1
lie reader,-that we had sworn to love each other
through ail time and eternity? When I fondled
her ruby* nose, or played.with her radiant “orybun”
tresses which hung m graceful dishi veiled masses
about her ciass.c head, I longed for the time when
the nose to which the head was appended, and the
body to which the head belonged, should be
‘•Mine, mine oul> !” (George Washington.)
Life was to me a heaven. I neither thought of,
nor cared for, the future. But the day of trial
came, when all my bright anticipations were blas
ted, and my 3-oung hopes wrecked. How well I
remember it! Though long years have passed
since then, it seems but as yesterday.
•It was a March morning. The air was damp
and chill, and the Sun with his Imperial head
bound in clouds seemed to be suffering from a head
ache. I had gone into the garden to pluck a fra
grant gourd blossom as® matutinal present for my
darling Bridget. I11 the far off distance I heard
the tinkling of bells, and the cows lowing, while
nearer a group of little negro children, dressed in
straw hats, were singing that beautiful song
taught them in Sunday -School—
f “I wants to be a Ingin!”
They didn’t have any benevolent Master to give
them apples and chestnuts, nor any kind hearted
Mistress to feed thegi with sugar cane, so they
were chawing corn bread.
I was just one year old. Life had been to me
very beautiful as a Male author, of my oten sex; has
very appropriately observed. Calmly I walked
along, smoking my morning cigar, thinking of ray
own Bridget, and building castles in the air. Sud
denly a servant came running violently towards
me, his eyes distended with horror. Il^uttered in
thick choking accents—“Miss Bridget—she gone!
she bin git married!—ter-ter-ter Mr. O'Flaherty!—
the gimpleman wat makes sassingers!!! I beard no
more—I caught a half sealed note from his hands
and read—
“Swate Pbyts Jaymes.—
-Doon’t judge me 2 hardly i am thee wyctim or
cyrcumstances i luv yer indade i doo i iuv yer
stil. Your owne
Bridget.
“Satburday.”—“p. s. n. b. yer wil finde ther j sp
in ther kup on ther n.antil payee dhrink it nu
think or me darliut.
p. s. no too. E( yer yer be taken ciek luk inter
her kloset fur tlier w'orrimifnge.
thyne intirely, Bridget.”
“Satburday.—I could read no more—my brain
reeled, I gasped, all was diin before me, I fell!!?
*»**#*•*#
Chapter i i l
‘•Revenge! Blood! Thunder!!! {By an unknown
she Poic.)
I awoke the shadow of my former self. I awoke
as-from a dream. I bad been ill, very ill. Some doc
tors said it was measles, some that it was whoop
ing cough, others had the hardihood, to assert
that the milk which I was in the habit of imbibing
had soured on my stomach. I turned with con
tempt from tbe ignorant, pedantic fools, I knew
that I had a Broken heart.
There is no medicine for a mind diseased, so I
threw physic to the cats (we hadn't any dogs) and
soon after I recovered my bodily health. But my
heart was broken, broken! broken'.'.'. Never again
could I love. After deep cogitation, I at length,
determined to bo revenged. “Ha!” I cried, “re-
renge, that's the word, it does me good to think on
it! Tbe whole sex shall suffer! I’ll spare none,
neither grandmothers nor maidens, noli nor poor,
authoress, nor wise women—all shall suffer for the
sin of their sister!” Thus was my young life
embittered by a cruel woman, and a soul ruined
by her caprices! And yet "even now I love that
woman, though so many years have fled since last
we met. It was only the other day that I indited
the following lines to her. Her worthless, heart
less husband having sent me word that he would
indite me if I presumed agaiu to a’ddrees bis wife.
I haven't written any more.
LINES
to
MRS. BRIDGET O’FLAHERTY.
BY
1’ITZ JAMES.
Ob, Mr*. Bridget O’Flaherty,
Once so plump aud hearty,
Now children a score
Flock round thy front door,
A red-headed, speckled lace party.
Oh, did they number full thirty.
With faces all daubed up and dirty,
I’d love you dear still,
Indeed and I will,
Darling, sweet Mrs.§0'F!aherty.
Don't I know you Mrs. O'Flaherty!
Of all creatures the most “party.”
You’re tired of Tat,
I'm certain of that.
So come to me Mrs. O'Fiaherty.
Is it of whiskey you’re l'ond, O'Flaherty ?
Then come to my home my hearty, #
And I'll give you a drink
That'll make your eyes wink—'
Come to me, Mrs. O'Flaherty/
But before you come, Mrs. O’Flaherty.
Leave at home (he infantry parly,
And we’ll make a fresh start.
Dilight of my heart—
Won't we, Mrs. O’Flaherty !#
(To be continued in our next.)
(To be concluded when finished.)
Correspondence between (iov. Broun
and the Secretary of War*
7
•, > EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, )
Macon, Ga., £
January 6, 1865. S
IlON. JAMES A. SEDDON,
Secretary of*War.
Sir— It becomes my duty to notice your /communi
cation of 13th December, which reached me a few
days .since.
After citing the acts of Congress of 28th February
and the 6th March 1861, conferring power upon the
President, to assume control of military operations in
the Stntes, and to call forth the militia, etc., you declare
that Congress in passing these acts did not exceed its
competency under the Constitution, and yi 11 then in
sist on a construction of these acts, which denies the
rigid reserved by tlie States to keep troops in time of
war, and which confers upon the President tiie power
to cull upon one State fur a class of her population
which are not subject, under any law of Congress, to
do military duty, and for which lie makes no similar
requisiton upon any other State.
The acts which you quote are not property suscepti
ble of any such Construction, as you are obliged to
place nuou them to make them serve your purpose.—
If they were, there could be no doubt upon the mind
of any lawyer who mijjerstands the rudiments of con-
Ltitutional law, that’ Congress had no power or
authority to pass them. No candid lawyer .will insist,
for a moment, that an act of Congress can take from
tlie States the right which they have plainly reserved
in the C nsifluiiou to kr,p Iroojts .111 time of war, or
that the Preside id has -any power or eon! ml over any
tioops which a State may su keep, or that lie can ju-t'y
and legally make requisition lor them,* or that he I,as
any legal or ju.-tgrounds of complaint if a State refuses
to turn them ovqr to him if he should transcend his
legal authority by making the requisition. ^Nor will
any lawyer insist that the President has any power
to make lvqusition fur militia which Congress 1ms not
mad.: provision for "organizing," or for men or boys
not subjeCt to militia duty under the laws of Congress.
As these acts of Congress could confer upon the Presi
dent no powers which are denied to him by the Con
stitution, and as his late requisition upon the Executive
■ot this State was in clear violation of uer reserved
rights under the Constitution, I am surprised that
you slioq^l attempt to justify this usurpation ofjuudele-
gatpd powers by a resort, to Constitutional action as
directory to the President to violate the rights of tlie
States.
In your former letter, you declared that my refusal
to fill this requisition of tho President, was analogous
in “ail particulars” to the conduct of the Govern!®
of Massachusetts and Connecticut iu the last war with
Great Britain, in refusing to fill the requisition made
upon them by the President of the United States.—
Iu my answer , I showed too conclusively for reply,
that the cases were not analogous in any particular.
Without attempting to make good your assertions, or
to controvert a single position in my argument, or to
trace the analogy in a single particular', you again
allude to the subject iu your last letter by saying : —
“In stating the parallel case of the conduct of the
refactory Governors of Massachusetts and Connecti
cut,” etc.. Now no one knew better than yourself that
the cases were iu m# degree parallel, and that you
could neither trace'tlie parallel lines nor point out tbe
analogy.
To uv-oiil a mistatement contained in your former
letter that “the judicial tribunals determined adversely
to the preteusions of these Governors,” you say you
were aware that the former (tlie Governor of Massa
chusetts) had the support of tlie Judges of tiiat State
and of the Legislatures of those States, etc.; and that
the authority of these support me in iny position.—
Here again, you are as incorrect as I have shown you
to be in almost every important statement which has
been made by you. There is nothing in the opinion
of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts
sustaining tlie Governor of that State, w lich gives the
slightest support to my position, or tli.it bus the least
bearing upon tiie controversy between us. What
were tiie points decided by that opinion of the Court!
They were substantially the following :
1st. That when the President made a requisition
upon the Governor of a State for the militia to repel
threatened invasion, it was the right of the Governor
to j udge whether the emergency existed. He decided
that it did not.
2d. That when the militia were called out under
a requisition from.the President no Federal officer but
organized in stnet accordance with the plain Ifii."
“t the ieqi'.:« .ion aud the acts of Congress on that
ject.
1 ou devote a grestei part of your letter to another
attempt to justify your bad faith to the Georgia tr6i*ps
called out under the President's requisition of lith
June, 1863. and to prove con rarytothe plain language
of the requisition, that they were called for duniu’ the
tear. You complain of what you cull my “gaililed ex
tracts,” and yon qnote.exteusivefvfrom the i t qusition,
but you ire particularly careful to so “garble”\011r
own extracts as not to quote tt.e essential paitut it
twice s'atc-din the letter,as I have already shown, that
tin y weie required only for six months. It was upon
this requisition, with the two Bids ot Congress, which
>ou sent with it as the guide for my conduct, that 1
promised co-operation with you in the organization.—
Tiie promise was redeemed both in letter and iu spirit,
and your call ihr eight thou-and men (uot Jive thousand
ns you now erroneously sir,te in your lust lettei) was
met with more than double the number required,
sub-
candor mid truth at least are expected of one oc
cupying your position, ic is painful to witness the shifts
to which you resort to do injustice to my State, and
to misrepresent the conduct of her Executive in a
matter where he more tiian doubly filled your requisi
tion.
I am now favored by you with a copy of a Gen
eral Order issued by Adjutant General Cooper,
weeks after the requisition was made, vt hicli 1 do
not recollect that 1 ever saw, tilt I receivid your
letter, and yon complain that I did not carry out
your views as expressed in that order I obey 110
orders from your Department; nor was this onler
furnished to ine when you made tbe requisition,
or during the organization of the troops with even
a request that I conform to it. I was asked by
you to organize tbe troops fn accordance with your
letter containing the requisition and the two acts
of Congress, of which you enclosed copies, for
six months service, with the pledges contained in
your letter, to which 1 referred in my last letter
that they should only bo called out for sudden
emergencies,etc. This is the whole case, and I
here dismiss this part of the subject with my re
grets that justice to myself and tbe large number
ot the citizens at my State who suffered unneces
sarily by your action, lias made it a duty for me to
expose your bad taitb aud the uiisstntemeuts
to which you have resorted to sustain an interpre
tation ot your requisition winch its plain language
unqestionable precludes.
By the expression in your letter thai: “It (the
unanimous voice of the Legislature of this State)
has but confirmed tbe opinion that the seeds of
baleful jealousies, suspicions and irritation that
have so industriously been scattered among them
(the people j have been wholly unproductive of the
traits anticipated,” I ain left to conclude that in
your disingenuous effort by insinuation to call in
question my motives in protesting against the
President's usurpation and abuses of power, you,
as is your habit, base your assertion upon an as
sumption of facts which do not exist. TbeLegis-
latuie of this State at the late session passed no
resolutions, and expressed no unanimous, voice,
upon any question connected with tbe conduct of
the Administration id which you are a member,
nor did they utter in its behaif any voice of appro
bation.
W bile the people of this State are true and loy'-
al to our cause, they are not unmindful of tbe gteut
priciples of l miatituiioiml Liberty and State Sov-
• n-iguty upon which w« entered into this struggle ,
and they will not hold gui.tless those ill power
who, while charged with the guardianship of tho
lib. rties id the people, have subverted and tram
pled personal liberty under foot, and disregarded
the rights of private property, and the judicial
sanctions by which, iu all liee governments, they
are protected.
The coidsc pursued by the Administration to
wards Georgia, in her late hour of extreme peril,
has shown so conclusively, a» to require no furth
er argument or illustration, tho wisdom of the re
servation made by the States, in the Constitution,
of the right to keep troops in time of war. Geor
gia has furnished over one hundred thousa d of her
gallant sons to the atmies of the Confederacy.
The great body of these men was organized into
regiments and battalions of infantry aud artillery,
which have been sustained by recruits from home,
from mouth to month, to the extent of our ability.
Those who survive of these regiments and battal
ions have become veterans in the service, who, if
permitted, would have returned to their State, and
rendered Sherman’s march across her territory and
the escape of his army alike impossible. I asked
that this be allowed, if assistance could not be oth
erwise afforded. It was denied us, and the State
has been passed over by a large army of the ene
my. Hundreds of miles of her railroads have
been for the present rendered useless. A broad
belt of her territory, uear^four hundred miles iu
length, has been devastaWd. Within this beit
most of the public property, including several
court houses w ith the public records, and a vast a-
mount of private property, including many dwell-
' ings, gin houses, much cotton, etc., have been des
troyed. Tbe city of Atlanta, with several of the
v illages of the State, have been burnt: the Capitol
has been occupied and desecrated by the enemy,
and Savannah, the seaport city of the State, is
now ia his possession. During the period of Sher
man’s march from Atlanta to Milledgeville, there
were not one thousand men of all the veteran infan
try regiments and battalions of Georgians, now in
Confederate sen ice, upon the soil of this State.
Nor did troops from other States fill their pla
ces.
Thus “abandoned to her fate " by the President,
Georgia's best reliance was her reserve militia and
State line, whom she had organized and still keeps,
r.s by the Consritutiou she has a right to - o. With
out them much more property must have been des-
the President tn person had the
them These were the positions
of Massachusetts, and the opinion of the Judges sns
tained him.
Neither of these questions hasjarison in this discus
sion. I have not denied the existence of the exigency,
but foresaw it and had the reserve militia iu the field
iu battle with tiieeiiemy mouths before'tlie President
seems to have seen it, at least mouths before lie
realized it to au extent to cause him to make tlie
requisition. #
1 have not raised the-question as to the right of a
Confederate officer, other than the President in person,
to command this militia so called out by me while in
service. Oh the contrary, I haft placed them under
the command of a Confederate General long be ford
the reqiisition was made- With these facts before you,
a little reflection cannot fail to show you how much
mistaken you are when you make Ihe assertion that
the decision of the Judges of the Supreme Court of
.Massachusetts, or of those two States sustain my
course or any position 1 have taken. As there is utilh-
er analogy nor parallel between the cases cited Ly
you and my own case, no decision sustaining the Gov
ernors in those cases can either sustain or condemn my
course upon an ent irely different state of facts aud eir-
cums'.aucil.
Rut you say the judicial opinions .of the Supreme
Court of New York and the Supreme Court of the
United States as rendered in the line of their duty,
afford no such support. As you have not shown how
the action of the Governors of Massachusetts and
Conneticut, or the correetne s of tlu-ir position could
have-come judicially before the Supreme Court of New
York, or the Supreme Court of the United States 1 und
as you have not been able to cite any case in whicn
tiie question of the conduct of those Governors was
ever before either ot said Courts, I am left to suppose
that you are,'as I have shown you to be 111 so many
instances, again unfortunate in your statement of fucts,
and that in attempting to sustain an erroneous state
ment in your other letter, you have added another to
former mistakes.
As au excuse for dismissing the subject without
further attempt to sustain your position, you remark
that Major General Cobb informs tbe Department that
lie lias made -a satisfactory adjustment of this diffi '
culty. While there has been perfect harmony between
General Cobb and myself in military matters from tlie
commencement of Sherman's advance upon Atlanta to
the present time, as there has been between Generals
Johnston, Hood, Beauregard and myself, there has
been no adjustment, whatever between me and Gen
eral Cobb, of what you are pleased to term “this diffi
culty. ” I had neither by word nor net done anything
to recognize the right of the President to make this
requisition, or to admit the obligation of the Govertior
to till it. I have stood iu reference to General Cobb
as I have towards you and the President upon the
reserved rights of the State, and have refused to re
linquish the control of the State over her reserved
militia, while she determines to keep them, or to
fill Ja requisition which the President had no right to
make, lam happy to find #iat upon reflection you
seem to see your error, and are prepaid! to accept tins
as a satisfactory adjustment ot a controversy which
you have unjust Tv provoked, and in which you cannot
sustain yourself upon any know 11 principle of reason in
law.
ight to command troyed and the city ef Macon, so important to the
of die Governor i State aud Confederacy, must have shaied the fate
of Atlanta and Savannah, while Augusta, with the
small Confederate force by which she was saved
divided with Macon, must also have fallen.
Tfiese troous whom Georgia fceeps have not on
ly acted with distinguished gallantry upon many
bloody battle-fields upon the soil of their ow;;
State, but they have, when an important service
could be rendered by them, marched into the in
terior of other States. The noble conduct of the
Troup County Militia in their march to Pollard
Alabama, to aid in the protection of the people and
property of.that State against tho devastations
of the enemy, aud the heroic valor displayed by
Maj. General G. W. Smith and part of bis come
manJ then with him at Honey Hill, in South Car-
lina, where he wen—with theGeorgii Militia, her
State Line and a small number of gallant Confed
erate troops ihost of whom were Geoigians—one
ol the most signal victories of the war in propo
tion to the number engaged, fully attest tbe cor
rectness of my assertion in their behalf.
Iu view of these facts, with the late bitter ex
perience of the people of this State fresh in his re
collection, the Georgia statesman must indeed be a
blind worshipper of tbe President, who would ad
vocate the policy of turning ovetr to h'is coRfrol, to
be carried out of the State at his bidding, old men
r.nd bojs not subject under the laws of Congress
to military service, and of a class not required by
him ot any other State.
I cannot close this communication without no
ticing certain expression in your letter, which are
not unfrequeutly used by persons in authority at
Richmond, such as “refractory Governors,” “loyal
States,' etc. Our people have become accustom
ed to these Imperial utterances from those who
wield the cential despotism at Washington, but
such expressions are so utterly at variance with
the principles upon which we entered info thi«
contest iu 1861, that it sounds harshly to onr ear*
to have the officers of a Government, which 1s <b*
agent'orrreature of tiie States, discussing the lay-,
alty oud disloyally of the soveieign States to their
central agent—tlie loyalty of the creator to the
cr! Aturc—which lives and moves and has Us being
only at the wiil of the States; aud to bear their
praise of the Governors of sovereign States for
their subsoi viency, or their denunciation of those
not subservient as “refractory.” It our liberties
are lost, t he tatHl result will not be properly charge
able to disloyal States or “refractory Governors,”
but it will grow out of the betrayal, by those high
in Confederate authority, of the sacred principles
ot the Constitution, which they have sworn to de
fend.
Had some officials labored as successfully for
tbe public good^s they have assiduously to con-
cemr.ite all power in]thu Confederate Government,
and to place tbe liberty and property of every cit
izen of the Confederacy subject to the caprice and
