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Thomaston, Georgia,
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T. C. niIODES,
assistant editor.
Thoniaslon. (la., December, 14, 1801.
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time, Oct. 21st, 1861.
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T. C. Rhodes, our worthy Assistant,
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alone. G. A. Miller.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
In consequence of the following correspond
ence not reaching us until Trusday night last,
we are compelled to cut it short—selecting on
ly the important paragraphs. The mail arrange
ments are getting to he very had, and the mails I
irregular, from some unknown cause.
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Camplversn, near Savannah, Ga.. ) i
December, 3, 1861. f j
Dear Rhodes: About the time I last
wrote to you by Dr. Mendows, although
we had for some clays a local habitations j
we had no name as a Camp. A contro- i
versy too, was then progressing, as to
whether we should be known as the 4th or
6th regiment. These disputed points have
since been settled and the place we now
occupy (once known as Cherokee Hill) is
now baptised Camp Iverson, in honor of
ex-Senator Iverson ; and our regiment is
the 6th, instead of the 4th. These chan
ges and uncertainties as to regulations and
laws in relation to time, place and matter,
work injury to a regiment, and are the
fruitful mother of dissatisfaction.
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On Monday morning last a detachment j
of one Sergeant, one Corporal and twenty
three Privates, under Lieut. Brooks, of the
“Woodson Guards,” were ordered to guard j
the bridge, seven miles from heie, which j
spans the Savannah River. The squad re- j
turned on Saturday night and reported no
Yankees to be seen and no alarm, except
the breaking of a few hears through the
canebarkes. It was admitted on all hands
that the jolly Lieut, and his brave boys j
acquitted themselves with gallantry, and
of course were honorably discharged from j
further similar duty.
Cary K. Holt, aged 18 years, a private
of Capt. Ponder’s company, (Monroe Vol
unteers) died here in Camp of Measles on
the 29th ult. Cant. Ponder speaks of him
as an excellent soldier, and of good repu
tation, His remains were escorted to the j
Railroad with military music, and a de
tachment of the company, with reversed
arms, from there to be conveyed home.—
We are sorry to add another name to the
roll of our mortality. On Sunday, the Ist
Daniel D. Beverage, of Capt. Barkley’s
company, of the sth regiment, died of
Pneumonia. His remains was here depos
ited in his mother earth to the roll of the
muffled drum and volleys of musketry,
there So remain until the great reveille of
the resurrection morning. About one
third of our regiment are bow afflicted
with colds and measles and seldom hut
about onefouth appear in the oinks —their
time being occupied with otherklnties ami
attending to the sick. J. H. Pickanl is
I the only one of the u Woodson Guaids,
who has been discharged for sickness, hut ■
several have made application for furloughs
for the same cause. We hope to be able
to report a better bill of health from om
brave and good boys. Y\ e can only add
that every attention and medical skill will
he rendered the sick, hv our burgeons and
their friends here in camp.
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There is considerable dissatisfaction
here at present, in relation to a bill now i
before the Legislature which is said to
contemplate an unconditional transfer of
State troops to the Confederate service
! Such a bill would meet with the almost
unanimous caudemnation ot this regiment.
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lam tired of writing to-day and will
only add that the weather is now warm ,
and cloudy aft* r few mornings of frost, and |
j *
! change slightly a very common quotation,
1 December still lingers in the lap ot Sep
tember. We are all well and hoping
| those few lines will find you and your lead*
I ers enjoying the same” complaint,
we remain vours,
M.
Bronglii to Jail.
A man calling himself Bailey, hired a lioise
from the livery stable of the Messrs. Thompson
under the false pretence of going one or two j
miles in the country, last week, was brought to
this place, in irons, and lodged in the county
jail, to await his trial. Said Baby, has on an
artillery uniform —fine sham. V\ e ad\ise the j
public to watch these ‘‘roving sojers.” Said j
Bailey, after being advertised, was arrested in
Rome, Ga., where he had gone to meet a large
lot of stolen goods, which was shipped there ten
him. He sold the horse on his way to Rome,
but Messrs. Thompson has got the horse again, j
lie is a real thief and burglar.
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A schooner was siezed by one of the Lincoln
fleet on Saturday, in sight of one of our post.
The first Northern army ever sent to the
Southern States is now on or near the soil of
South Carolina* — Charleston Courier.
Communications.
Ertlcl?cville Correspondence.
MILLKDCf EVILLE, Dec., 9, 1861.
Dear Fuat : I think it due to y* nr
readers to know that the bili as published
in your last issue, entitled An Act to pre
vent monopolies and speculations, Ac., has
not become a law. It passed the Senate,
and in the House a substitute was offered, j
which after a sharp contest between thej
farming interest, and the speculative and j
monopoly interest, was passed. The Sen- j
ate declines to concur in the substitute or
amendment hv the House, and asks the
House to recede, and here the matter now
rests.
The suhs'itute passed by the House,
(Died no prices or per centum, but provides
in the first place, that any person bringing
or attempt to bring articles under a false
pretence of being an agent of the govern
ment, shall he guilty of a felony ; in the
second place, that anv person bringing up
and holding articles for the purpose of
monopolizing the trade, and raising prices, j
shall he guilty of a vniydt winner ; ard
thirdly, that anv person selling at un
reasonably high prices, shall 1 e guilty of
extortion ; and on convicti<m of either of
fence, shall he punished accordingly, as
pointed out in the bill. Its ultimate fate is
j ‘
1 doubtful.
But the great c mtest between the plan
i ting interest, or rather between the inter*
ost of the common people, and that of the
aristoeraev and hanking monopoly, has
j been decided in the House, in favor of the
j former, on Hook's bill for the relief of the |
| people, which authorizes the State to
buy one third of the cotton crop, at not
less than seven, nor more than ten cents,
according to quality. The great rmresiuy
and beneficial operations of this bill, in j
favor of* the masses, as is easilvseen, }
;he to p*event speculators and roan nfact nr- :
| m\s from putting cotton down to five cents
j hence it may not he wondered at, that
those classes which are accustomed to live
and e-row fat on the hard earnings of the
common people, should he arrayed in vio
lent opposition to this hill. No strategy
that human effort could bring to hear, was
; left untried for the defeat of this bill. It
| passed the House on Saturday evenirg by j
twenty majority ; tins morning a motion I
was made to reconsider, and aimed till T 2
o'clock. On taking the vote on the mo
tion to reconsider, the yeas and nays being i
called, the Assistant Chrk who kept, the
tally, reported the yeas 69, nays 67 ; Mr.
Blood worth, of Pike, staged to the Speak
| er that ihe count w s n t correct, and asked
i ihe i rincipal Clerk who hid called the
■ roll and noted the yeas and nays to count
the names on the roll. The Speaker hast
ily pronounced it a tie, ami after expressing
in a verv unbecoming manner, his spleni
tic opposition to the hill, announced ihe
| motion carried, to reconsider. The Prin
j cipal Clerk having carefully counted ihe
names on the roll, marked ?/, and //, re
spectively, announced that tin 1 vote stood,
veas 68, nays 70. The Clerk had previ
ously read over from the roll, as part of the j
record, the names of those who voted in ;
the affirmative, and those who voted in the |
negative, and no member had nbjec'ed his
record. It was now proposed that the
Clerk call the roll again, and each mem
ber state distinctly how he voted, in order
| to ascertain, certainly, the tine vote that
had been given. This proposition the
Speaker ruled to he coirect ; but the ene
mies of the bill desired to lake anew vote
and the Speaker ruled accordingly ; and on
taking another vote the yeas were 68 nays
70. so the bill was not reconsidered, but
immediately transmitted to the Senate,
and read the first time.
1 have merely given you a plain, unvar
i niched statement of facts, from which your
readers who have any knowledge of the
importance of a good pregid ynsr officer, may
easily see tin* reason why piesent L- g
islature is doing nothing. M.
P. S. Since writing tße above, the
House has takon up the bill to prevent
monopolies, A<‘., and refuses t o recede a i 1
returns it to the Senate. It is pret y well
setthd that the General Assembly will ad
journ next Saturday—Sunday being the
last dav of the 40. There will probabU
he more than one hundred bills not acted
| on.
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