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IJJJJJ \ >U HE XXXV.] 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, / ^ February } General (Orders, l 4 . ■* J ■* j: ii ro v. i II.NHitET. S S ftlnion IMC (K/JillCgCnbt o 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 Appl } jti fi-tra ^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. W 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. X X ,«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 [1 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 ii JO .- 1 (Ml* Job work* of ai! kimfcj { and NEATLY EXECUTED T :: O *•' FHF No 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. W 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. i (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. A' 1 .: 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 i 1— I 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. \V 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. w W 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. w 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 W 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.' X 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