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.THE QUTT-MH BANNER. * . iir&MIED EVERY FRIDAY. ‘ T-M, 0 / SU3SCKIPXION. IX ADTAXUR. For one year •,.... • • $3 00 For #ix months -.4 2 00 For three months ,% 1 00 Kor single coj>y 10 CLUB BATES FOB SUBSCRIPTION. For a club of live $12.50 For a club of ten $22.50 For a club of twenty $40.00 jos PRiniTirra. 5Ve have attached to newspaper cstabfish liu-nta complete Job Office. Hand-bills of all klnda? Programmes, Cards, Planks, Pamphlets, &9., executed in the best manner. ih. James li.’Mwdo.v OFFERS his services to the public generally as Collecting Attorney and Agent for the Sale of Peal Estate. Room, at the Publishing establishment of the -‘Quitman Banner,” over Culpepper, Creech Si Co's store. Quitman. Feb. 1, 1807. 1-ts JOHN O. MTAIJi. JAS. 11. lil NTKU, HUNTER & MeCAI.L, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, QUTM.V.N, GEO. January 2ft. 1807. I-ly SVM. A. LANK. AVM. 11. I.ENNKT. RENNET & LANE, Ufforncns nt Y;ifo aitb Solicitors IIV CIIANCKKY. QUIT MAX, BRrOKS COUNTY, GEORGIA. T»Y* Office at the Court House. February 1, 1867. ly LAW CARD. CAR EY wTsTYLES TTAVING RESUMED THE I‘HACTICE, will L receive and promptly attend to business. /H'T* Office at Quitman. Ga. March 24, 186&. 10-ts # William L. Evans, Attorney anb (founstlor :tt f afo, \V.VntSBORO’, GEORGIA, "ITfIEI. gilt l prompt attention to all business \ V entrusted to bis care in the Itninswick Circuit. tebl7-ly si T. KINbiSHERY, Jttornni anb (f ounstlor nt Jafo, QUITMAN, GEORGIA. (Office, in the Building next to J. S. Cummings.) Will practice in tin* Southern Circuit, in tire counties of Decatur in tin 1 South-western, Clinch in the Brunswick, and Hamilton, Madison and Jefferson in tie* Middle Circuit of Florida. January IS, 1867. ly FITCH & POPE, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, OFFICE ltd; BAY STREET, SAVANNAH GEO. Ilcxnr S. Fimr, J. J. Pore. V. S. Attorney. ■y-a- Special attention given to Cases ill Admi ralty and in Equity. July 13, IS6U. ly Dr. E. A. JEERS, QCITMAIT, GEO., EKSPECTFUU.Y asks tlie patronage of the i citizens of .Quitman and surrounding coun try. ' [jau2o-tf DEft- rISTRV I) u . D . L. IM C Iv s , nAVINCr located at Quitman, Geo., respect fully offers his services to the citizens of Quitman and surrounding country, in the prac tice of Denial Surgery. Oct.Vly U. VAX ( IMSMIS. X>ES3XT e X , I SIT, STOCKTON, NO. 13, A. & G. 11. R. .(Formerly Dvs. McDonald A 1 an Gieson, Macon,) IAESI’EUTFUI.EY offers his services to the v citizens of Clinch and surrounding coun ties. in all branches of the profession. Vi ; _ Will visit Quitman or any other point requested. references: J. D. P'initli. M. If Macon. Georgia. I apt. H. F. Moseley, Valdosta. Georgia. .1. G. Moore, Valdo-ta, Georgia. Dr. 11. Briggs and Mr. J. D.Charlton. Valdosla. Rev. O. 1.. Smith. D. D.. Echols county, Geo. ('apt. .1. Wells. Valdosta. Georgia. Capt. C. 0. Williams, Eowndor county, Geo. W. .1. Mabry, Valdosta, Georgia. March 1.1867, 5-ts W. E. BARNES, Watch Maker* and Jeweler, •QUITMAN, GEORGIA. \Vatehes and every dcncrip j tivm of repaired promptly jLTjll n atly and satisfactorily. _ pSSr He may be found at Mr. Finch's store. February 22, 1866. ly SAMUEL W, BROOKS, WHAREIIOIiSE & (OMMISSIOX MERCHANT, KEEP? constantly on hand a general assort ment of Family Groceries, Liquors, and various Other articles. Quitman, December 21, 1 86G. 43-ts DRV (.OOBS t\IJ I'ROVIMOAS. Is. AV. LEYERETT, HAVING purchased the stock of Dry Goods * and Graperies kept by M. Llukins, has inside considerable additions thereto and respect fully invites Mi La?ndS and the public generally to give him a call, as he is determined to sell as cheap sis any bouse in Quitman. He is located at the old .stand of Mr. llukins. January 4 1867. -°»ni m mallox! *• friersox. MALLON & FRIERSON, Booksellers mill Stationers, Savannah, Geo. Miscellaneous Book?. School /nfjfjrs Books, and School BeqnMtes&agpfz >’ of all kinds, kept constantly on hanc.v.ftaJa,-,V • : h ra.. Sunday Schools supplied at a liberal dis count. 350-Orders from the country solicited. February 22. 1807. lm II A PALMER. a- H. lIEPPISU. PALMER & BEPPiSH, . WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN' Hardware, Her, Lead. >!u .1. <bj -. u., |Hk.. .1: «•*- ;a mL : : % •- -. jj* i- IF. 1L FILDES, Editor. VOL. IT.. QUITMAN Carriage Repository A Sit- I mwm mm, 11. ILUTGE FT rpAKES pleasure in saying to the citizens of I Quitman and surrounding country that he has resumed his former position, as Manager of liis Carriage and Wagon Shop, and is now pre pared with workmen to furnish work at reasona blc prices, and to serve the people in his line to the best of his ability. lie has now likewise in sticcc»ofu] operation a fwi'ist •Hill, and will grind every Tuesday and Saturday forlhe public, and keep constantly on band a supply of Meal and Grits to sell, or by contract will I'ur- I nish such quantities as parties may need at their own houses. I In connection with his Carriage and Mill busi ness, he will soon be prepared to Plain Lumber , Furnish Moulding for any kind iff' work, make Sash, Doors or J Hinds, Carriage or Wagon Spokes, and do a variety of other arork. Parties wishing anything in his line, are re spectfully solicited to give him a share of their patronage. Terms, Cash. 11. PADGETT. Quitman, Geo., January 25, IBti7. ly 1). 11. Carroll* L Ui Harris. S. 11. Harris* D. B. CARROLL & CO., QUITMAN-,.., G A. m ■:-q mm" |tIHM?CiSHSTOM. In Barnes’ New Building, next door to Creec.li &. Wade. ! *M 7 E bare just opened a New and Splendid \ f .Stock ot FALL AND WINTER READY lIADF. fl.OTIliYd, Boots, Shots, Hats. Gaps, &c. Also, Flour, Salt. Coffee, Tobacco, and Family Groceries, generally. Crockery, Class, Tin and Wood ware: I Domestics, Yarns, etc., etc. ,p*T' The public generally aro respectfully in ! vitod to call and examine before purchasing clse { where. a\s we sell for cash, and at low prices, j we feel confident we cun offer extraordinary in i ducements. Ootl-Cni m ■±2 m w leu u a a, p'/m >• i ■ «*>■■£■/ I I QIITMAN, GKO. LEVIHETT, STABCIL Si HI n AYJXC formed a co partnership, hereby ; U notify the public that they xCli will conduct strictly a rT Family Wroceiy q Business, at the OLD STAND OF Mr. M. lIUKIXS, Where will In* kept on hand FRESH SUPPLIES u of every description of Graecries, consist ing in part of A® Flour, I ll L'otfrr. V Sugar, W Butter. • Lard. L'bcoso. In Potatoes, ° ni, :",:;,p. 51 And everything nec-ssary for Family Con- ml. sumption, which they will sell at Keasona- j [tj Ide prices for cash. , , TtH" Überul prices will be allowed in ; Hy cash or trade, for all kinds of Country Pro- j U ducc* . ■ Their present stock of Dry Goods, Clothing. Ac., will be sold at remarkable low figures. January 18, 1867. Urn Stock still Complete AT Till! GROOVEB¥ILLE STORE! B. F. LINTON 6l CO., BEALKKS IX General Merchandize, IS TIIK PLACE FOR BROOKS (01 MV FARMERS TO GET CHEAP GOODS* TT r E have now on hand a gcnf-ral assortment ▼ ♦ of everything usually to be found in a country store, consisting of Dress Goods. Domestics, Ladies* Hats. Ladies’ Shoes. Gets* Hats, 'Caps, Boots, Shoes, &c. We also offer a select stock ot Stores. Hardware, Crockery, Saddlery, Harness, Iron, Nails, &c. O-ro <3 cries, i * LIQUOUB, And a sjdendid lot of the celebrated mmma see mss. i We a»-t* determined u» sell as low as any one ‘ else in the conuty. Give ns a call and you Will i not go away dit satisfied. B. F. LINTON & CO. L Groorerville, Jan. 18, 1867. 13-ts HERE SHALL THE PRESS THE PEOPLE’S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWfiD BY FEAR AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN. QUITMAN, GEO., MAHCII 15, 1867. n E M O V A L. FAIjL. A Nd WINTER STO CSC. Culpeper, Creech & Tillman EESPEGTFUI.Iv notify tln-ir frirnds ami tlio 1 public generally, that they have removed to their New Brick Store, Adjoining the one previously occupied by them, and that they have on hand a ®Ol w Bairn (comprising everything generally kept in a Dry Goods Store. Also a very heavy stock of FAMILY GROCERIES HARDWARE, ETC. /’•#- They fender their sincere thanks tojheir friends for ihe patronage, so liberally extended, and solicit a continuance of the same. We arc prepared to scll at The Very Lowest Prices. Quitman, Oct. 5, 1800. 38-ts SO.fBETSIi.Ma GOOD! E. & T. AVEEA, (piiiiiisin, Georgia, -VroflFY the public Hint they J, 1 have njiuncil in tli.'ir miv f[Jjt !l J V building, a choice lot of Family and Fancy Groccrieß, Liquors, To-aMS&i-BlaiL Liioco, Segura, Ac. CONSISTING IN PART OF Flour, Coffee, Sugar, Rico, Cheese, Pick les, Can Fruits, Sardines, Worcester Sauce, Preserves, Peppnr.-Spicc, Crackers, French and Eng lish Mustard, Macaroni, Dried Apples, <fcc. Confectioneries: ’Jandies of every description ; Nuts of various kinds; Figs, Haisins. Ac.. Ac. \y.. Iso many other articles in the “Eating line" not to be met with everywhere. Give us a call, price our goods, and we feci sanguine you will purchase of us. We arc about to establish, in connexion with our store, a first class JB^.ESLESn.’Y', aving alread y secured the services of an expe lienced Baker, and will be ready in a few days, ri supply all demands in that line. toSeptember 21, 1866. 36-6 ill NOW READY! Till! subscriber has received and opened his FALL AND WINTER Stock of Goods, A? GRB3VEKVILLE. It is Largo, and comprises every article of .Mer chandize suited to the wants of the country. - Persons would do well to call and examine be fore purchasing elsewhere. The Ladies are invited to examine his stock of Dress Goods, consisting of the latest styles and various quali ties. Together with his usual assortmcnt of Ladies’, Misses’ and Men’s Ilats and Bonnets ; Ribbons, Flo webs, Wukvtiih, I’ixmks. Gi.ovks, LADIES' MISSES’ MEX AND ' 7/ILDJiEX'I DIDIS AND SHOES. Groceries, Hardware, CROCKERY, Saddles , Diddles, Girths , With many other articles too tedious to mention, which will he sold at the lowest market price. JOHN M. BAY.SOIL Gfddverville, Oct. 26, 1806. 13-tl 11. W. Mbeczb. E. C. Andeksox, Jk. Mercer \ Anderson, BANKERS AND C’ottmi ission Jflet’chauls Alice No. 10 Stoddard s Upper Range, Bay St., SAVANNAH, GEO. l.s r..V MASOE, COIN, « -M l IIIIEVI MONEY, AC. Will buy and sell Cotton and other Produce on commission. Also Stocks, Bonds and Securi ties generally--collect paper and make prompt remittances. Business solicited. July 13, 1866. ly BILLIAR D SALOON liOWLIRf. / LLEY FOR SALE! rpHE Lot. Building, Billiard Tables. Bowling 1. Alley. Bar, and all the apparatus, known as the ••Quitman Billiard Saloon,” will Ir.* dis ported of at private sale. Advantageous terms can be secured by an approved purchaser, if ear ly application be made. Apply to CAREY W. STYLES. Quilman. January L 1867. 10-ts General Siipcrintemleut’s Office, ATLANTIC A GULF RAILROAD Savannah, February 15, 1807. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE, To TAKE EFFECT SUNDAY, FeIIHL’AUV 1“t1I. MAIL TIl lIA WEST. Leave Savannah, B.JO r. m. Arrive at Thomasville 7.45 a. m. *• •• Live Oak 6. JO a. m. “ •* Jacksonville 12.40 p.m. « •• Tallahassee 3.291*. m. MAIL TRIIS EAST. Leave Tallahassee 10.15 a. m. “ Jacksonville, .. 2.10 p.m. “ Live Oak 8.00 p.m. “ Thomasville 645 p. si. Arrive at Savannah, 6 00 a. m. This train will not leave Savannah on Saturday night, nor Live Oak and Thomasville on Sunday night. There >vill also be an Accommodation Train between Thomasville and Station No. 9, (Tebeau villo,) leaving Thomasville at 8 a. m., on Mon days, Wednesdays and Fridays, and arriving at ThomasvlHc, 5.15 p, m., on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. 11. S. HAINES, Feb. 22 1 m General Superintendent. General Superintendent** Olltce, ATLANTIC AND GULF RAILROAD, Savannah, November 30, 1866. TiIRO V GII TICKETB• Thomasville to Quincy $lO 00 “ “ Tallahassee 9 00 ' “ Monticello 8 00 “ Madison 7 00 Quitman “ Madison C 50 Valdosta “ Madison 5 76 For the accommodation of passengers between the above .Stations, a passenger couch is attach ed to the freight train on the following days : Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Leaving Thomasville .7.15 a. m. w Quitman 10.10 a m. “ Valdosta 12.45 p.m. Arriving at No. 12. in time to connect with the through passenger train for Florida. On Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, leaving No. 12, on arrival of Passenger train from Flori da. and arriving as follows : At Valdosta 12.25 p. in. “ Quitman 2.33 p. lit. “Thomasville 5.15p.m. By taking this train, passengers to and from Florida will avoid any delay on the route. 47-ts 11. S. HAINES, Gen’l Supt. HENRY MEINHARD. ISAAC MEIN'HARD. Mein hard Pro’s & Cos. DEALERS IN Hoots, Shoes, Hats, (iciitlcineiiNFimiisliiugGoods, kc. No. 100 Biyan arid 72 St. Julian Sts., SA VANS All, GEORGIA. August 17, IB6o'. ly 80, FERST & CO., whoi.esai 4 k dealbrs is Wines, Liquors Ses'nrs Fancy Groceries, Tobttcco, 150 CONGRESS STREET, SAVANNAH, UNO. November 16, 1866,' 6m FRANCIS E. TIMMONS, A X D BRASS FOUNDER, MA XI K AC'Ti; If Kit OP STATIONARY ENGINES, SAW MILLS, Iron Fronts for Stores, &c., Sugar Mills, Sugar Hollers, Columns, and Gilders, Fipe», l’ulleys, Wheels, Railroad Wheels, and Machinery Castings of every description. firncur. attention paid to General Jobbing Machine Work. No. 170 renwick Street, Opposite the Water Tower, AUGIJHTvV, GEORGIA. j February 8, 3m ! Jno. W. Anderson, Ged. W. Anderson, Jr. j R. H. Anderson, A. H. Cole. Juo. W. Anderson’s Sons & Cos COTTQX FACTORS, i Jrorfeuirhing ititir Commission MERCHANT®. CORNER DRAYTON AND BRYAN STS., SAVANNAg, GEOIiGIA. November 16, 1866. 6m Bolshaw & Silva, WUOLKSALE AND RETAIL DKALKKS IX j CROCKERY, GLASSWARE, CUTLERY, KEROSENE LAMPS j House Furnishing Goods, &c., &C., &c. G 8 St. Julian and 101 Bryan Streets, (Next door to the cor. of Whittaker,) SA VANN AII GEORGIA. ' July 13, IS 6. ly SKstflliuteotis Seeing. [From the Macon Telejrrai>h ] The Chaise of Gen. Gordon's Divis ion al SpottsylraniaCourt House, May I'Jlli, ISO 1. On the 12th of May, 1801, near Spott sylvania Court House, Virginia, Briga dier General John B. Gordon, of Georgia, made a charge that was rewarded on the spot with promotion to a Major-General ship—a charge, like Desaix’s at Maren go, that changed the fortunes of the day, snatched the full blown wreath from the hands of Grant, and probably gave an other lease of life to the imperilled Con foderacy. Maji r-General Edward Johnson—with out fault, for always heroic, was hasten ing up cannon at the moment—was ut terly overwhelmed. Gordon, then a Biigadier, was in command of a Division, consisting of Johnson’s North Carolina, about 400 men of Terrill’s Virginia, and of Gordon's Ga. Brigade, now under the immediate command of the gallant Evans, of Ihe latter State. The Division was placed in reserve, some distance directly in rear of Major- General Johnson at the salient. Hear ing the sudden outburst of tiie trernen dous assault that stormed the sali< nt, with the quick military instinct never known to faltcfj to hesitate, or (we think) to err, Gen. Gordon first threw forward Johnson’s North Carolina Brigade in a direct line, which, of course, speedily met and engaged the flushed host of the victorious enemy. “Johnson’s men fought like lions,” saiil Gordon, (who is little chary of compliments unless richly mer ited,) and to them unquestionably be longs the credit of having first checked the enemy, in front, on this portion of the line. “They fought, like lions.” Such rvas tlie wont, ever of the soldiers of that noble State, from whose modest lips, after such deeds, was never hoard the faint whispers of commendation or self eulogy. The attack on the salient commenced about half past four o’clock, and this check was given os night was vanishing before Die gray dust of rising morn. Knowing tlie immense preponderance of tli Federal forces, General Gordon im mediately dispatched from his Georgia Brigade small detachments to open lire on the enemy’s line, to distract him, and thus impose upon him the deceptive ap pearance of far greater numbers than his command possessed. Many of these brave men were killed or captured; but Gen. Gordon, with .emphatic earnestness, had impressed upon them tec tremendous peril of the Viomcnt, the necessity of ex posure even to the extent of self-sacrifice, for the last moments of the Confederacy seeniedat hand. It was in this spirit of self war yrdorn, they opened lire with mos and fenniued fury upon the dense mato of ho Fedorals, now moving like son e b oad majestic river in its resist less co irse before them. Now transpir ed an incident that could find develop ment only under the quick stimulus and stupendous excitements of a mightybat tle; when the faculties and senses of the truly bravo, never overwhelmed, seem to gather preternatural energy and acute ness (corn the darkest frown of most ap palling dangers. An incident occurred which a Frenchman might pronounce an inspiration, whicli veterans would deem remarkable; but which the historian, in the calm analysis of philosophic medita tion, would probably designate a stroke of rare self-possession and military ge nius. The fogs and mists of morning hung in impenetrable darkness over the wilderness, and fortunate, perhaps, it may have been for Gordon and his skele ton Brigade that it was so; else the vast disparity of numbers, (present on the spot,) if known to the Fedorals, might have inspired the confidence which seems very strangely to have forsaken them at the most critical moment. The storm ot battle was all around him, hut with Die delicate intuition borrowed, perhaps, from the very extremity of the peril, he divined from the whixlling of the balls (he could not see) flying in all, even inoppo site directions-, ihat the mighty torrent had probably passed him, and was rolling in unresisted triumph far away to his right, inside the Confederate iiitrencli .ments. And.it was so. At the flash of this terrible conviction, Gordon wheeled and double-quicked his Georgia and Vir ginia brigades to meet the startling as pect of this overwhelming new danger. Making a quick circuit, witli a forest ->f pines in rear, he drew up his line in the enemy’s front. It was here he met Gen. Leo, and the scene, as painted by spectators, was thrilling and dramatic, borrowing unique interest and epic grandeur from the presence of General Lee upon the spot. “Lee looked,” said a gentleman who de scribed the spectacle to us, “like a mount ed Mars, the grandest man of the world.” Retaining the dignity and self-possession never known to have deserted him in any extremity, he still manifested visible •symptoms of Die awful responsibilities of the hour. And well he might. Gen. Grant, whose forte of generalship' is known to be the art of hurling succes sive masses of men upon any point, with grand, terrific, remorseless energy, had broken Lee’s lines, captured the salient with the heroic General Edward Johnson o.pfl nearly- 1-iw \i,lk_.lo Jiyiniull. And US ocean, swelling with sudden wrath, lilts high her ponderous waves, and hurling them with her own wild omnipotence, and bursts the barriers that line the shores of Holland, and with vast rolling torrents whelms and sweeps the wide plain with the resistless fury of triumph ant floods—thus did Grant pour his broad, massive columns through the wide breach, and thus was moving onward i with the conscious might and motnen | turn of triumphant, and apparently irre | sistahle power. It was an awful mo | merit; tire peril was extreme—the crisis j had come. Lee resolved to lead tlie charge, to re store the breach or perish in it. Just then General Gordon, elevating his voice that his whole command might hear, exclaim ed aloud, “This is no place for you, Gtn. Lee: go to the rear. Gen. Lee, I will [53.00 per Annum. NO'. 7. ead the charge. My men are Yirgi- Iniitns aid Georgians) they have never failed; they vvi 1 not fail— will ym, boys?” As the explosive shout, "Never, never!” burst t). in his lines, Gordon seized Lee’s bridle, and with an affectionate violence hurried the grand old Captain to the rear, hut net beyond the lire. Is there not a lire of the soul that sometimes mounts to aflame of phrenzv, almost divine, in the vrarriyr’s breast? Is there not a martial order that seems to transport him, as the whirvviinl wrapped the prophet above the sphere of humani ty, and endows him, or develops, for a time, latent energies of the immortal spirit, boundless capacities of immortal action, that sometimes flash out in sud den blaze along the truck of history with the splendor and sublimity of almost su perhuman achievements. As was Nel son at Trafalgar, Napoleon at Areole, so was (lonian at rtpottsylvauia, and his whole command, k lulling with sympa thetic flame, had struck hands with fate and bargained to sell their lives at the dearest possible price. At this moment, while Die noble response to Lis appeal, “Never, never!—go pi the rear, General Lee; g' to the rear,” yet rang in tones of thunder along his lines, Got don seized the colors, gave the electric "for ward 1” and led his liory columns on the enemy. As the tornado of tiro burst from the cloud of covered the plain, and illumined the dark morning’s mist with the quick flashing vellies of death, even Hancock’s veterans, whoso m-itul had been tried in the furnace of a hundred battles stood aghast for awhile, in impo tent astonishment. They rec veredsoon as such men would recover, and frfught with wonted courage. But Gordon’s men were possessed, tiic furies of ohl seemed to have descend in their midst, and breathed their will and sacred mad ness through their ranks. Without a second’s pause in one unbroken peal, bayonets flashed and musketry rolled. Os course this could not h-ing continue— stunned by Die violence of the blow res ting before the sudden shock the stag gered Fedorals give way. As the red bolt cleaves the mountain pine and hurls its shattered fragments to the base—as the dark rolling Mississippi in anger and. with fury strikes the astonished wave, and drives it far away into tiie bosom of the startled Gulf—thus sunk the tower ing Federal hope ; so recoiled and rolled back that sea of Federal bayonets before the impetuosity of this memorable and most bloody charge. They were driven over and beyond the Confederate in trenchments to some distance within theirown lines, and a broad lane of sick ening slaughter was the path' of their retreat. These tine brigades, under Gordon’s lead, had become celebrated for rapidity of movement in battle and this doubtless produced the erroneous impression that Gen. Lee had concentrated heavily upon them. “I never expected to see him alive’ again,” (*nid it specta or to us), “as 1 saw Gen Gordon at tlie head of his divis ion, dashing in furious charge upon Dio enemy f r they were fiftyto one and might bane slain every man of ns if they had known their strength. Never was the phrenzy of enthusiasm with which Gui don inspired his tiiciq and could hold them longer under tire than any man in t e a my.’] The language of a Confed erate officer more IWppily illustrated than by the terrible collision of this eventful day.] It was here we believe, the sol diers first gave Gen. Gordon the souliri quent of“Yuung Stonewall.” Their im aginations steeped in the dews of recent sorrow for the great warrior, could in vent no higher style of eulogy for their beloved young) General. In expressing the belief that this charge of Gen. Gor don’s may have changed Die fate of the day and saved the life of the Confeder acy the writer is only repeating the cm phatio declarations of many who were present on the spot and witnessed the turn in the tide of'battle in this perilous conflict and most desperate repulse. But even in the. presence of the possi bility that the contemporaneous enthusi asm of the day may have left a shade of illusion on our judgment we venture the assertion that the reader will search in vain the wide page of history for the ex ample of a single charge, more timely more opportune, than this of Gen. Gor don’s at Spot’sylvania—for one begun without information, wit Went orders and guided solely by tlie instincts oftho lead er, that bore more happy, rapid fruits of the most brilliant success; for one that called Avitli more imperious and instant exaction upon every capacity of gener alship a: and all the profound and fertile resources ot difficult and dangerous war ; for one more pregnant for the present or fraught for the future with momentous consequences. Such, Mr. Editor, rvas this great charge of Gen. Gordon at Spottsylvania on the twelfth of May, eighteen hundred amt sixty-four -an achievement that soars | above the level of ordinary tactics, as if j Fortune had purposely designed to tcacli and illustrate the truth that there is an element of"omnipotence in patriotism when the great principle, kindled with t’ e sacred fires ■ f passion mounts to its highest flame, and roaches Die giandeur of perfect development on the held of j bail 10. Who are Affected by Ihe Amend me nt. It is believed our people do not gener eratly understand who (are affected by the Constitutional Amendment and ex cluded from office and from the ballot box by the late 1 ill. The following persons ape excluded : Ist. All persons who, Before the war, : were members of Congress or officers of the United States and took an oath to I support the Constitution of the States, and afterwards engaged in the ribel -1 lion. 2 1. All persons who prir r to the war, were executive, legislative cr judicial officers of the State aud took the like oath and engaged in the reoellios. mm m mmmi JULY IX ADVLVCK. One square, (10 tines, (Ji’ Jess,) first, if 1 erfiot',’ $2.00; each Mliiwjjig liiscrfliin, 81.00. Wlicn iiaveHLefflcnts itro eoutiutuiji ft/r OM monlll or Inil’JOC. tlio olim-g* it-ill In- as Allows i- S: 2 'MuntlisL. 1 i i i 6 Months. o JUtjr.Uk:. ' 1 Smith. ■ N umber of Squares. 1 ~. is.-, mi sio on i- i.-, mi - in, 2 S oil 15 (111 | 25 lift !P> ft(j 3 j 12 0(1 18 0(1 j 35 HU 43 (111 4 | 16 00 24 011 40 Oft * 3<j ft(j 5 I 2ft 00 35 Oft 451111 .Hi] lit) (Col'innl 35 011 85 Oft 80-00 42(1 (Hi j I on no 80 no | bin mi 2nd oil Oliitmiry uoliees, Tributes of iicspeot, ainl njt articles »t a personal character,' charged for ill advcrtiHciiienls. i 1 For announcing CrtUiUdatfai fur office, $i9.00 , This embraces Oovernot's, members ot the Legislature, and jmlfei'ul oHl(*cln from a Judge of the Supreme Court dowlf to a Justice of Die peace, who at ah,fr time held the office and took the oatlt and afterwards engaged in the rebellion." Who, then, are not excluded? Ist. No ono is excluded because he held all office under the Confederate States iVnuf President down, if he does not fall WitlU in one of the excluded classes tiLoVb specified. The simple fact that he &nn a Confederate Senator or a Confetlefalo Gencial or that he took an oath to sttp-j port the Constitution of lilt! United States, does not exclude him. 2 No State or county officer is exclu ded on account of his having held the office and taken the oath and engaged in the rebellion if lie were not an cxpcii-’ tivo legislative or judicial officer themforo neither a lawyer, sheriff, clerk, tax col lector, receiver, county treasurer, coroner; surveyor, constable, or road coiiitniifaioli* oris excluded. Bd. As no man umh v twenty-one 3’Cgra? of age, when the war began, held any. such office as disqualified, and none of them took thu oath to support the Consti tution of the United States during tlio war, and as tlio war commenced nearly, six years ago, no man in Georgia (i ndel tweiity seven years of age can lie exclu ded. f , 4th. Militia officers arc not excluded; sth. The whole mass of our people who fall within mine of the cxeludea classes above mentioned are free i’roui 1 the disqualification and may vote atnf hold any office in the State, without re gard to the part they took in the war, Atlanta, . [The above facts have been prepared for the Era by one ofDicfiiiittegaJ minds’ in the South, and we accept its stale* meats us critically correct.— Ed. Era. Tlie Virliicoll’utirncf. in several articles, from time to time,' we have had occasion to compare tlio Hungarian struggle with Dio Soulhevu revolution, showing a singularly closo' analogy between them in rise, progress," defeat and subsequent horrors. Wo have not space to repeat what was Dins fre quently written, blit it is impossible to pursue this parallel and not be struck by its remarkable similarity. We can 1 only say that if the people of the .South' exhibit even a modicum of tlie resolution 1 shown by Hungary' in rejecting over tures of infamy, Die reward that lin.x' come to Hungary will infallibly coific to’ her. Glorious as Hungary was in the) day of battle, she surpassed oven her 1 heroic self in the day of disaster. She fought for Constitutional Riglils; she failed through foreign pressure,; she ivas’ worse than liru/adicrril ; she xvas confls-. cated; her women were even punished with stripes. The same appeals were made to her as have been persistently 1 offered b»us and the sarn'e bribes sedu lously put in her way. But she kept' her soul spotless and her garments white.' She folded her arms and—endured. For several years, this noble and patient Hungary was a spectacle fbr the gods. She exhausted even a Ilatnpbiirg, in the. end. The phantom of her lost liberty hovered over Sadowa and made Vienna 1 gloomy. The following cable dispatch 1 nJly concludes this story : Vienna, Feb. 21, 1807. The restoration of the. CirnAduHon of 1848 to Hungary, by the Emperor Francis’ Joreph, haa had the effect to remove the trou bles heretofore existing in that country: The people are now poet and contented. If the Austrian failed, so may the New, Englander, if the Hungarian triumphed' by absolute vis inertia ?, so muy the! Southerner. All honor to Francis Joseph’, who is wise at last. The very people who groaned beneath his iron ffiand can' afford to Mess it when it turns to flesh 1 find blood. —New Era. S“g“ The Tennessee Legislature has' adopted a resolution unanimously call ing upon tlio General Gove nment to' send troops to that Stale for the protec tion of the people. The voted for it, it is said, upon the ground that if the Government should respond 1 to the request Gov, Brownlovv wofild pots call out the Radical militia,(which they consider infinitely more objectionable Fred. Douglass does not claim, says a? Northern paper, social equality for the negro. In a late Lai to:' lie makes a 1 broad and well-founded distinction be tween the public and private rights of if citizen , Ei'mCiied Negro Xo.mimation iiv the' President.-—lt is rumored in Washing-' ton that the President will" nominate to' the Senate a negro for some ’ inportftpt' office. The rumor grows out of tlie fact' that a petition has been presented to tlio President asking him to appoint Fred.; Douglas .Commissioner of the Fi'oedmfen'T Bureau. A Virginia paper says in more than' one-half of the comities of Virginia the negroes outnumber Dio whites. They can command tho Legislature. The majority of the Legislature, under the Sherman' tiill, may tie negroes, Allowing fur the inti mice of property and intelligence, a" number of tho mc'iubcrs of the Legisla ture nvay be negroes. Starvation iN North Ai.araua,—A re cent number of th Mobile Tribune has a stirring article on the extreme destitu tion in North Alabama. It mentions sev eral cases of actual starvation, and 1 , has assurances that suffering is rapillly on’ | the increase. We are glad ,to sec tho ‘ announcement that the Southern Famine Belief Commission in New Vork liaVC [ made arian. enients to ship immediately fifty thousand bushels of corn, to be land ’ ed in equal parts, at CharleStoft, Savan nah and Mobile. “File right,” said all officer to his pany. “Bedad,”said an Irishman who stood near sharpening a saw, “It’s inn, j own property and I’ll be after doin’ as r 5 plaze Avid it.”