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J KNOWLKii and 8. ROSE,
VjMTORS AM) PROPRIETORS.
Im orl;i ui.
DkPAKTMEnT O) Jl ‘TH’P t
KiihannJ. l'Jth D* l *!.
liMUiKUmw to Receiver* under the A<t
entitfeJ An A. t for the eq nest rutn m
.4 foe Estate# Property oral FlYert -of
Alien Eoemiis. and for the indemnity of
. itizeua of the Confederate iStaU’S, un>l
j.**r***iia aiding the saatt in the exusjiuj’
war ajram't the United Status. ”•—Ap
i .roved 3uth March, 1861.
I. The following person** are subject t<>
tbe operation of the law as Alien Enemies:
Ist. All citizens *f the Unit.**! State**,
except citizens or residents of Waw are.
Mar} laud, Kentucky or Mws*uri, or tbe
District of Columbia. or the 1 .-nitone* oi
New Mexico, Arizona, *r the Indian 1 er
ritOTV S* >Ulh of Kansas.
2d. All fiersoiis who have a domicil
within tbe States w ith which this Govera
tneut is at war, no matter wlielher they In*
citizen* or not : Thu> the subject* of (irout
Britain France or other neutral nations,
who have a domicil or are carrying on
bustnes* or traffic within the States at war
with this Confederacy, are Alien EilfBHP •
uuder the law.
3d. All such citizens *r residents of tin*
State* of Delaware. Maryland. Kentucky
r Missouri, and of the Territories of Xe\v
Mexico. Arizona and the Indian Territory
south of Kansas, and of the District of
Columbia, a.* shall **ouuuit actual hostilities
against the Confederate State*, or aid or
abet the United States in the existing war
against the Confederate State**.
11. Immediately after taking your oath
of office, you will take ps>*es*iou of all the
property of every nature and kind whatso
ever within your district belonging to alien
enemies as above defined.
111. You will forthwith apply to the
clerk of the court for writs of gami*hincnt
under the Bth section of the law. ami will
jiropound to the garnishees the interraga
tones of which a form is annexed. These
interrogatories you will propound to the
following persons, viz:
Ist. All Attorneys and Counsellorsprac
taring law within your District.
2d. The Presidents and Cashiers of all
Banks, and }>rinci}Hil administrative officers
of all Railroad and other corjMiration*
within your District.
3d. All Agents of foreign corporations,
insurance agents, commission merchants
engaged in foreign trade, agents of foreign
mercantile houses, dealers in Mils of ex
change. executors ami administrators of
estates. assigu*9ca and syndic* of insolvent
estate*, trustee*, ard general!} all person.*
who are known to do bu.uK-.*> as agent?
for other-
IV In the ill -1 week of each month you
w ill exhibit to the Judge, a statement show
ing the whole amount of money in your
hand- a* Receiver, and dep.> it the same
for safe keeping, in such bank or other
depository asiuuv 1m: selected lor that pur
pose by the Judge—-reserving only such
amount a* may I*c required for immediate
necessary expenditure in the discharge of
your duties as Heceivm
Y. You an* strictly prohibited from
making parroml use in any manner w hat
ever, or investing in any kind of property,
or loaning with or without interest, or ex
changing for other funds without leave of
the Court, any money or funds of any kind
received by you in your official cupacitv.
I. ou are prohibited from employing,
except at your own pervonal espeusc’ any
Attorney or Couiminr to aid you in the
discharge of your duties, other than the
District Attorney of the Ccnfederate States
for your District; and you are instructed
lo invoke his aid under the ftth section of
the law. in all matters of litigation that
mav arise under the law.
YU. You will take special cart- to avoid
the loss or deterioration of all persona!
property perishable in jt* nature, by ap
plying for the sale thereof under the pro
visions of the 12th section of the law.
VIII. You will keep un account. slew -
ing exactly all sums reeeived by you as
allowances of compensation under the fif
teenth section of the law, setting forth the
•late and amount of each receipt of such
sums; and as soon as the amount received
by you in any one year, idiall reach tbe
sum of five thousand dollars, you will pav
over to the Assistant Treasurer of the
Confederate States most convenient to your
domicil, all further sums allowed you as
compensation, taking duplicate receipts
therefor, oue to lie retained as a voucher
by yourself, and the other to lie forwarded
by mail to the Secretary of the Treasury.
IX. Whenever, in the discharge of your
duties, you discover that an attorney,
agent, former partner, trustee or other
person holding or controlling any property,
rights or credits of an Alien Enemy, has
wilfully failed to give you information of
the same, you will immediately report the
fact to the District’Attomey for your Dis
trict to the end that the guilty party may
be subjected to the pains and penalties
prescribed by the 3d section of the law.
J P Bf.njamx,
Attorney-General.
The following interrogatories to gar
nishee* have l*een prepared for your use.
together with an. tv annexed for the iufor
inati* in oi rtiv garm^hces.
1. Have you now, or hate you had in
your pi>*e-*ioii, or under your control
since the twenty fir t day of May last
(1*61) and if vea, at what time, any land
*r land*, tenement or tenement*, hcredita
incut or hereditaments, chattel or chattels,
right or rights, credit or credits withm the
Confederate States of America held,owned,
possessed or enjoyed for or by au Alien
Enemy; or in or to which any Alien Enc
my had, and when, since that time, any
right, title (ir interest, either directly or m
directly ?
2. It you answer any part of the fore
going interrogatory in the affirmative, then
set forth s|NN-ia)lv and jturticuluiiy a de
scription of mich pnHicrtr, right, title,
credit or interest, ami if you have dtfpused
of it in whole or iu part,*or of the profit or
reut or interest accruing therefrom, then
■state when you mad** such disjmeitioii. ami
to whom, ami where such property now is
■and by whom held f
3. Were you since the twenty-first dav
of Mnv, 1 HOI, and if yea, at what time,
•mlebted, cither directly or indirectly, to
any Alien Em*my rr Enemies ‘i il yea.
state tin* amount of *ik-1i imlcl*te*lin*ss. if
♦ *ne. ami of each if more than
on** Give the name r name* of liiecmi
itor or creditor*. im) the plu*e *r places of
residence, and state whctlo-r, or to what
extent. Wck d*l*t or debt* have been dis
charged. and also the time and mama*!’ of
rhe iTMohargr.
4. Do you know >f any la ml or lands,
Tenement or tenements, hereditament or
hereditaments, chattel or chattels, right or
right*, credit or credits within the (V*nfcd
frate rttne* of America, or any or
interest held. o vm*<l. possessed or enjoyed
directly or indirectly by or for oue <ir more
Alien EtieinU** since the twenty-tilst day
of May, 1861, or in or to which any one
or more Alien Enemies had since that time
any claim, title, or interest, direct or indi
rect? If yea. set forth specially and par
tieulurly what and where the property i*.
.usd the name and residence of the holder,
debtor trustee or atrent.
a. State all else that yon know which
may aid in carrying into full ‘ fleet the Se
j neutral inn Act <*i the -Moth August. 1861,
and state the -aine a* fully and particularly
ns if thereunto specially interrogated.
A. B„ Reeeiver.
XorK. —The garnishee in the foregoing
interrogatories is specially warned, that the
Sequestration Act makes it the duty of
each ami every citizen to give the informa
tion asked in said interrogatories.— [Act
of doth August. 1861, section 2.]
And if any attorney, agent, former part
ner. trustee or other person holding or con
trolling any property or interest therein of
or for any Alien Enemy shall fail speedily
to inform the Receiver of the same, and to
render him an account of such property or
interest, h* shall be guilty ol a nigh misde
meanor. and. iijm.ui conviction, shall Is* fined
in a *uui not exceeding five thousand dol
lars. and imprisoned not longer than six
months, and lie liable to pay liesides to the
Confederate States, double the value of the
property or interest of the Alien Enemies
*o held orsubject to lit* control.—[Sec. 3 ]
The Attorney (tenoral has also pre
serilied the following rule of practice for
the Courts by \ irtue of the authority vested
in him under the 19th section of the law:
RULE.
(i arnislkvs. to w hom written or printed
interrogatories are addressed, may make
appearance by filing written answ ers.sworn
to Imfore a Justice of the Peace or other
oMnjietent officer, unless specially ordered
by tiie Court to appear iu person.
From the Richmond Kxaniiaer.
In a few weeks the people of the Confed
erate States will chose a President, a Vice-
President, and members of the lower House
of Congress. The President and Vice-Presi
dent an* to hold office for six years. The
iiujiortance of the election cau not be over
estimated, and yet hardly as much attention
has been bestowed upon the matters as is
usually aceonled to the choice of a State
Legislature or county officers. Such want
of forethought is almost unaccountable. It
is most certainly altogether indefensible,
and, if persisted in, may lead to most mis
chievous result*. It is a duty we owe to the
public to speak out frankly upon this sub
ject, and this we mean to do without regald
to the private interests, convenience, or am
bition of auy man.
For the brat office the choice of the coun
try is for the present incumbent. We pre
fer him our.-elves, not merely because he
commands the popular confidence, but he
deserves it. He is a representative man of
die South and of the revolution, lie did
not accept the independence of his section
as an event he eould not stay or resist, after
having fought it as loug as he could On
the contrary, he worked for it unceasingly,
faithfully, at a time when the Southern fol
lowers of Douglas said the gallows was the
proper reward for his efforts. He has cour
age, jiatiiotisin, experience and wisdom. —
He has, in short, iu a large degree, the
qualities which go to make up a great man
and a good President. The popular esti
mate of him is even higher than our own.—
There is a general concurrence of opinion
that he mu>t be chosen President again.—
Here and then; a little cilque may uot like
it, hut they will uot venture on any apposi
tiou beyond now and then a foolish letter in
some third-rate newspaper.
Ordinarily the second officer is rarely the
subject of public discussion. If the health
of the President were firmly assured, it is
uot likely people would be much concerned
who should be Vice-President. But, unfor
tunately, tbe President's health has been se
riously impaired in bis long and arduous ca
dnous career of public service. With this
fact before us, the selection of a proper man
for the Vice-President upon the ticket is
just as important as that of the President
himself. If, perchance, the President were
to die, it is well to consider on what sort of
tnan his powers would descend.
Without undertaking tossy iu this article
who and what kind of a man should be
elected—without having at this moment a
decided preference for any particular indi
vidual—we are free to say that Mr. Alexan
der 11. Stephens is not, iu our judgement, a
proper man. His succession to the Presi
dential office we should regard as a great
public calamity, and we should be strongly
opposed to his election, eveu if his elevation
to the higher office was absolutely impossi
ble.
In the first place, who is Mr. Stephens
that he should rule over us t In what res
pect are his taieuts so transcendent, his vir
tues so eminent, that all the other statesmen
of the South are to be passed over to com
pass his ambition ? How does lie excel
Toombs, Cobb, Slidell, Lamar, Wigtall,
Greene, Walker, Chesnut, Boyce, Burton,
Craige, Avery, Mason, Hunter, Seddon,
Kloydy Boeock, and many others whom we
couid readily name ? Are his abilities so su
perior to any and *ll of these that we must
needs make a man our Chief Magistrate who
followed anti sustained Stephen Arnold
Douglas when he insulted the people of Vir
ginia by threatening hemp it they should
dare to resist the election of a Black Repub
lican President.
Fair play to the Border States demands
that they should have a place upon the tick
et, and while the first office has been gener
ally conceded to the Cotton States, it docs
not follow that for any motive of mere indi
vidual benefit and aggrandizement a mo
nopoly of the hading offices should be forced
npou the citizens of the Cotton States, con
trary to their own sentiments of justice,
liberality anti brotherhood. We do not pro
fess to sfieak by authority, hut we feel well
assured that if this Vice-Presidential office
were tendered to Howell or Thomas Cobh,
to Toombs or Slidell, the auswer would be
immediate that someone should be taken
from the Border States. But, if this con
sideration is to be disregarded, and the Cot
tou States are to furnish President, Vice-
President, and five-sixths of the Cabinet,
then we hold that there are plenty of true
and able men at the South whom it were an
outrage to pass over for Mr. Stephens.
To have Air. Stephens for our President
would be to make our revolution, logically
speaking, an absurdity. We resist an Abo
lition Government, we conspire, we risk the
baiter and we rebel, we become traitors to
Lincoln, but true to our home, our alters,
and our own honour, we are gloriously suc
cessful and seal the covenant of our liber
ties with the blood of the l*est and bravest
of the South ; and then, after all this, we
turn around aud elevate to our highest of- <
fico the man who did his lest to jtersuade
us to remain slaves to the North, to wear i
the Black Republican yoke, and who, when i
whipped out by Toombs, aud Cobb, and i
Bcnuing, and the.lameuted Bartow, and over- i
whelmed by tbe popular uprising of Georgia,
gave iu to what he had vainly endeavoured
to st>p, and not only consented to be a gen
tleman and a freeman, but is now actually
willing to reap the highest honours of our
successful revolt. Now, there is no logic,
no sense, no consistency in this. If is too
absurd to lx* thought ot. Once c< -iisumma
t< and. we should he the laughing stock of the
North, we should be sneered at secretly as a
race w ho never could emancipate themselves
from Yankee notions, ideas and practice*,
while wcshould he complimented iu their pu
per* for choosing one who was understood
to favour “re construction,” —“re-organiza-
tion,” —those convenient formulas for ex
pressing a renewal of the old bondage to the
foul corpse of a Northern Union.
Here we shall lie met by the cry of “pro
scription.'’ \\ e shall be asked do we mean
to proscribe all those who did not go for se
cession at the outset. Py no means. Many
of the latter are already in public service,
and some of them are eminently useful and
patriotic, apd thus may, perhaps, be fitly
employed in public stations. Put it does
not follow from these premises, by any
means, that Mr. Alex. 11. Stephens, quan
dom friend and ally of Stephen Arnold
Douglas, should Im* put in a position where
then* is even a chance of hi* Upcoming
President of the Confederate States for five
or six years. The South has done nothing
to deserve such an infliction.
If Mr. Stephens were a man whose entire
record were acceptable ; if he were not de
filed by recent political ties of such a nature
that, at least, they should teach him modes
ty ; if his views on public questions accor
ded entirely with the aims of the Southern
Confederacy; if, after using his best en
deavors to get Georgia out of an Abolition
Union, he bad, like Toombs, and Cobb, and
Bartow, sought a place in tbe tanks of our
soldiers, instead of attending to Presiden
tial schemes, —there would still remain one
radical objection which would make it our
duty to oppose his elevation. He is the pet,
the idol, the hope of every corrupt spoilsman
aud jobber in tbe South. F*r some reason,
best known to themselves, they think
“Aleck Stephens” the greatest man in the
country, and that when he mounts the pur
ple they will be all l ight. The circumstance
is a susoieious one. Lot it teach us caution.
We have inaugurated a pure and simple Re
publican Government. Let us keep it so
for two or tkiee terms at least. I.et tbe
Republic reach its majority before it aspires
to emulate those corruptions and profligacies
which belong to old and tried dynasties.
From tlie Columbus Enquirer.
Col. Chamber* Withdrawn.
The subjoined letter brings us an an
nouncement w hich rather surprise's us. We
received it with regret, as we desired a pop
ular vote upon the question of au indepen
dent, no-party candidate against a conven
tion nominee and a grasping aspirant for a
third term. This decision of Col. Chambers
leaves us without a candidate in the field, as
it is know n that we have objections to both the
remaining candidates, and we do not care
just now, to strike a nice balance between
“ a choice of evils.”
Col. Chambers left for Richmond before
hearing of the Milledgeville nomination and
the following letter was written from Air
ginia :
Richmond, Ya. Sept. 15, 1861.
]■'<iitor (WitnihuM Kmjurrtr:
Dear Sir —As you are aware, I consent
ed to the use of my name in connection with
the approaching Gudernatorial Election, at
the solicitation of a number of friends, and
from no desire on ray part to enter the lists
as a candidate for office. Subsequently, a
Convention representing a very respectable
jMirtion of the jieople of Georgia, have re
commended my friend the Hon. Eugenius
A. Nisbet, as a suitable person for the office
of Governor, and in that recommendation I
heartily concur, and should rejoice to see it
endorsed by the people.
With no disposition to exchange the
quiet of private life for the cares of a public
station, I am at this juncture of our public
affairs particularly disinclined to foment un
necessary differences among our jieople ; and
1 therefore ask the permission of my friends
who have drawu me from my retirement, to
withdraw my name altogether from the can
vass. In doing so, l tender my grateful ac
knowledgments to those who |have honored
me with an unsolicited expression of their
confidence.
Very respectfully,
JAS. M. CHAMBERS.
Haron County Superior Court.
At a meeting of the Bar during the ses
sion of the September term of Macon Superi
or Court, on motion of Win. Y. llansell,
Esq., his Houor, 0. A. Loehrane appointed
the following named gentlemen a Com mi tee
to report resolutions expressive of the fee
ling* of the members of tbe Bar and officers
of the Court in regard to the recent and
greatly lamented death of our distinguished
fellow-citizen and late Judge of the Macon
Circuit, the Hon. Henry G. Lamar, to wit:
Win. Y. Han.sell, Win. 11. Robinson, George
W. Fish and E. W Allen, Ksqrs. The
Committee, through their Chairman. Win.
Y. llansell, K>q., reported the following
resolutions, which were unanimously agreed
to:
Jfpsofrerfy That in the recent and lamented
death of the Hon. Henry G. Lamar, we
mourn the loss of a valued and distinguished
brother in the profession of the law —that
the Beneli lias lost one of its brightest orna
ments, and the country one of its most use
ful and patriotic citizens. In all the rela
tions of life Judge Lamar stood pre-eminent.
He was a devoted and affectionate husband
and father, a kind and indulgent master, and
most faithful friend. None knew him but
to love him, and those of us who knew him
longest and best, loved him most.
Jfesolved, That we most deeply condole
With our brothers of the Bar and our fellow
citizens generally in the great loss we have
all in common sustained in the death of our
friend and brother, and more especially do
we fender our heartfelt condolence aud sym
pathy to the atHicted family of Judge La
mar in this their saddest and severest be
reavement.
Resoi'tol, That these resolutions be enter
ed upon the minutes of the Court, and that
the Clerk be requested to forward a copy of
the same to the family of Judge Lamar.
RrsfJip.it, Also that we are gratified to
find in the dignified bearing and rapid dis
patch of business in our Court on the part of
his Honor O. A. Loehrane, that we have the
assurauce that he will discharge the dutiea
of the office with honor to himself and satis
faction to the Circuit.
ftemJmt, That, the proceedings of this
meeting be placed on the minutes of the
Court and published in the public gazettes.
A true extract from the minutes of Macon
Superior Court,September term, 1801.
JOHN AL GRIER, Clerk.
Cold Com fob t. —After reading the ac
counts of the battle of Alanussas, the London
‘times winds up a comment with the follow
ing advice to the Yankees : Yon have am
tahen i/fJiir vocation ; tin mil it an/ line,
even, as u matter of business, does not tiM-
S*cer. ,% I
MACON, GEORGIA:
IVnlnrsilav, S< |>(em!>*■ r 25, 1861.
FOR GOVERNOR,
EUGENIUS A. NISBET.
OF Illliß.
|.Jf“ We observe that Gov. Brow* is out iu a
long iiiiiiiifa-sto “letting forth his el.iims for re elec
tion. We have not s| a, ‘ e b* 1 ’ ‘ l *“ “ ur Gb*
week.
J-jp’ At a meeting of delegates from Burke mid
and Bulloch, held st Milieu on the 17th., Judge J
A. Shewmake, of Burke, was unanimously nomina
ted for Senator from the 17th District. In the loth
Col. D. A. Vasun. In the 1 Sth District, composed
of Sumter, Schley, and Macon, Hon. T. M. Furlow
has been nominated. Iu the 23r<l District, com
posed of Houston, Crawford and Taylor, Dr. E. J.
Mr-Gehee has been nominated.
We learn that S. P. Killen, Esq., runs in the
583rd as an independent candidate. All good and
competent men. The prospect now is that the
next Legislature will lie worthy of the old Empire
Slate, when such men as the Crawfords, Forsyth)
Jenkins, Hull, Stephens and others of like charac.
ter, filled and adorned its halls.
THERE IS DANGER
Tlut many voles will be cast for Gov. Brown
from mere force of habit. Avery large number
of tbe people have so long indulged in the shock
ingly bad habit of voting for nobody but a “dyed
in tbe wool deiuocint,” that it iu (cured that in spite
of the present cry of “no party,” they will vote
against Judge Nisiift from mere instinct. This
may be partially neutral zed, perhaps, by the fact
that of late years the Judge hiuiself has occasion
ally indulged in thin pernicious practice.
THS TABLEAU,
Gotten up by the young ladies of our city, in
of the soldiers’ relief fund, and which came off
at R dston’s Hall on lust Friday night, met with
the most flattering success. The house was
crowded, aud we learn that over two hundred dol
lars were realized as the result of the exhibition.
The juveniles performed their respective parts
most admirably, and deserve great praise for their
industry in presenting to our citizens an enter
tainment so innocent and agreeable, and withal .so
profitable to a good cause. God bless our patriot
ic little girls in their labors of love.
GENERAL APATHY.
Thousands of good men have been slam by the
masterly inactivity of ibis distinguished veiran.—
Let not the friends of Judge Nishkt imagine that
because so large a number of papeis are advocat
ing Ins claims, they have nothing to do. There
are thousands of voters in Georgia who will not
see ilie proceedings of the Milledgeville (Jonven
lion until after the electien. This was urged by
us as an objection to holding the Convention at so
late a day ; that the people would have no oppor
tunity to canvass the merits of the nominee
They have but one more week to work, and unless
they work mightily they will be defeated. Mark
it.
NEW PASSENGER DEPOT AT SAVANNAH.
This structure, which has long been wanted,
both for the credit and convenience of the Central
Railroad, has just been completed and is now in
use. It is probab’v Ihe largest and most complete
iu the Uuited or Confederate Stales. Its length
is 380 feet—width 68 feet—height of walls 23.
It contains three tracks—for the use of the Macon,
Augusta ami Charleston trains. All the necessary
parlours, private rooms, offices, &c. } are fitted up
in the best and most convenient manner. It is a
most creditable work to tbe Railroad and to the
skill and mechanical genius of Mr. ArufSTCS
Schwa mb, the Architect aud Engineer.
A GOOD LEiTER
We like much Col. Washington’s letter of
acceptance. Let those who are selected to repre
sent the people everywhere define their position
upon the important questions therein alluded to.
We learn that Col. Hill, who is a candidate for
this Senatorial District, and will make a most cap
ital member if elected, is also for retrenchment
and reform. We hope he will favor tbe people
with his views. Let candidates for all offices be
made to speak out or be elected to stay at home.
We should like to hear from Judge Xihhkt and
Gov. Drown upon this subject.
COL. CHAMBERS.
The reader will observe by the brief and patri
otic letter of this gentleman, that he retires from
the Gubernatorial candidacy. Without the least
disparagement to the worthy gentlemen whose
names are still before the people for that office, we
have no hesitation in saying that we believe Col.
C. to be the man for the times and the place. It
is time such men were dragged lroui retirement
and their administrative abilities j>ress,d into the
public service, ft is time the country should have
the services of new, patriotic men, whose modesty
and aversion to public life has exiled them hereto
fore from the councils ol the country to the detri
ment of its best interests. We do not believe auy
one profession and clique should monopolize all
the high political trusts, through caucuses and
conventions. Whilst we appreciate the generous
course of Col. Chambers, we much regret that the
first Executive of Georgia, under our new Consti
tution will uot be selected from the industrial
classes.
THE GUBERNATORIAL QUESTION
Is narrowed down to the respective claims and
merits of Hon. E. A. Xisiset and Gov. J. E.
Brown. For both of these distinguished gentle
men we entertain the most kindly feelings.
Whilst we have uot approved all the savings and
doings of our State Executive, we have conceded
to him official fidelity and a large measure of
success in the administration of our State affairs.
Were he now a candidate for the second term of
service, and could his re-election unite the people,
bv obliterating all party lines, we should interpose
no opposition. As, however, we see no good and
sufficient reason for setting aside an old and hon
ored custom, we are opposed to his re-election for
a third term, us likely to establish a uangerous
precedent, it is hardly necessary, therefore, for
us to say, that from a variety of considerations—
some of them weighty, and which the reader can
readily appreciate—the Messenger will give its
humble aid to the election of our esteemed and
distinguished townsman, Judge Kisnrr. Having
encouraged the candidacy of Col. Chambers, we
were bound by every principle and consideration
of honor to support him whilst he remained iu the
fi dd. This we did most gladly. He baviug with
drawn, the name of Judge Nisiikt is substituted
in his place.
COLLECTOR OF THE WAR TAX
Tito announcement that Judge Starnes
lias been appointed to collect this tax in
Georgia, will be read with surprise. We
had learned that Judge Cubaniss, who lives
in the centre <>t the State, had received the
appointment, and were very much in huj*.**
the government at Richmond was getting
out of the very bail and unjust tidbit of
appointing none but old democrats to office.
The erv of ‘ no party,’” thus far, is as the
‘'sounding brass and tinkling cymbal,” and
will estrange the people* from a government
they would gladly support with heartiness.
A farmer living in central Kentucky, a very
enthusiastic Southerner, raised a large flag ou his
premises last week, and the Maine evening his wife
presented him with a pine tee a pounder.
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECIION
An artii le upon t!ii.s subject from the Richmond
E\HQ.ii.>r, an influential and hide paper, will be
read with surprise and pain. It would have been
passed by without note or comment, or even re
publieation in our columns, but for the fact that a
similar spirit is occasionally manifested by presses
and individuals nearer home. More than one of
these have endeavored to eloud the prospeets of
Judge N'isiilt for Executive honors, by reminding
the public of his warm support of Doroi.as in the
last Presidential contest.
It is not our purpose or desire to enter into a
defence of the political record and course of eith
er Mr. \ishkt or Mr. Stephens, hut simply 10 en
ter our s'ern and earnest protest against all such
articles, as ill-timed and in bad taste. Especially
do such objections as relate to Mr. Stephens’ tar
diness in embarking in the cause of secession,
come with a bad grace from a State which is
scarcely out of the Union, and whose tardy and
vacillating course has contributed largely to tho
present unfortunate complications of the border
States with Lincoln’s despotism. Nor should our
Richmond contemporary, in referring to the claims
of the “ Border States,” forget that w hen the
present worthy incumbents of the two highest
offices in the Government were chosen, Georgia
was herself a border .State.
The intimation that Mr. Stephens is in favor of
re construction, we believe utterly unfounded.—
We do not know a solitary individual in Georgia
who favors this idea. Not out l Why then pa
rade it to the prejudice of those who were origi
nally co-operatiouists ? We know not what may
be Mr. Stephens’ views and wishes in reference to
the Vice Presidency. Were it not that we desire
to see all occasion for division anil strife avoided
by the election of Mr. Davis and himself to offices
which they have so satisfactorily filled, wc should
much prefer to see Mr. Stephens, in this stormy
crisis, ujum the floor of either the House or the
Seuate. His cool, clear and comprehensive mind
is much needed in the Representative department
of the Government and likewise in the Cabinet in
these trying times.
We had hoped that old things had passed away,
and that with anew government, anew and fra
terual spirit would pervade all classes of our peo
ple. If in this we are disappointed, our present
struggles and sacrifices will be worse thau profit
less.
The failure of Mr. Stephens to imitate Messrs.
Tooling and Conn, and hold at the same time two
important public trusts, is worthy of commenda
tion rather than censure. We have felt called
upon, as independent journalists, to say thus much
in vindication of one of Georgia’s cherished sons.
All hearts arid minds pre now nerved in the great
work of Southern Independence. Let them not
be paralyzed by recalling past differences and re
newing old contests. Above all things, let us
j” n ‘
repel at the very threshold, all sectional jealousy,
and know no Lord* r or centre in selecting our chief
; rulers, tun choose those most worthy and best
qualified.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
Hon. A. 11. Kenan has been unanimously recom
mended by the delegates from the Fourth Con
gressional District for re-election to the Confeder
ate Congress.
We find the above notice in several of our
exchanges, it is calculated to mislead the public
wind. It is not thus intended, of course. The
people of the Fourth Congressional District have
given no authoritative expression of their prefer
ences or wishes in regard to their Congressman.—
One or two counties may have done so, or a few
delegates of different counties may have recom
mended Col. Kenan, as above stated. truoh
recommendation will be treated, of course, with all
the respect it merits, but no one will hold it bind
ing upon the people of this District.
There are a large number of persons opposed
to a monopoly iu offices. Most of the present
Congressmen from Georgia have held two import
ant trusts at the same time —in some instances,
three. They seem determined to perpetuate this
system of official greed. We call upon the people
to rebuke it, sternly,promptly,or they will become
the silly dupes and victims of coirupt, selfish,
arrogant and grasping political traders and wire
workers. The people of many of the counties
now comprised in the Fourth District had no
voice in placing Mr. Kenan in Congress. At a
proper time, we presume, they will give expression
to their judgment, whether he shall be retained iu
that body.
REIGN OF TERROR IN BALTIMORE.
According to orders received from Washington,
from the highest Federal authorities, a considera
ble number of arrests were made in that city on the
night of the ] 3th inst. Among them were Geo.
W. Brown, the Mayor of the city, the editors of
the “Exchange” and™ South,” newspapers, their
files, correspondence, Ac., seized. Senator Lynch
and ten members of the Legislature, of the city
and county of Baltimore, suspected to be unsound
to the Lincoln Government—and all sent to Fort
McHenry. Among them, Ross Winans—probably
the wealthiest resident of the city. Other citi
zens were also arrested, and several escaped by
being absent, and numbers have left the city to
avoid it.
We have also just learned that the two IT. S. Sen
ators of the State, have since been arrested and
confined.
Also, at Louisville, Ky., Ex-Gov. Morehead,
Col. Dcrkktt and Wm. Barr were arrested on
the 18th inst., on the charge of corresponding
with the Confederates, and sent to Jeffersonville,
Indiana.
DOMESTIC COFFEE.
We have received the following recipe— to suit
the time* —from a friend of good taste in all mat
ters pertaining to the table, and it is well endorsed
by many others who have tried it in years past
| when coffee was cheap and plenty. Let no fair
friends turn up their noses at it, and pronounce it
“ horrid stuff,” till they have learned to earn
enough every day to invest in foreign coffee at
fifty cents a pound. Let them try it, without
prejudice, before judgment is rendered, and not
reject it because it don't rout much. Distance
and price often “lend enchantment to the view”
as well as taste, and to this has been sacrificed
many a wasted dollar. If the simple Youpon of
Cape Hatteras aud Tar River localities was re
transported from China, in packages covered with
Chinese figures, and such cabalistic words attached
as Chang-sha sou, tjuang-Tong and the like, it
would no doubt be very palatable aud popular, it
a good price were attached. Try the domestic
article and then let us hear from you.
“To make good coffee peel sweet potatoes,
aud slice them | to £ an inch in thickness, then
cut into strips about the same width ; then cut the
strips into squares so as to average the same size
as near as possible. Then dr>/ them in i/m nun
three days as you do fruit, be careful to take them
in at night aud spread them on a table to keep
them from spoiling. After tl*ey have been dried
three days in this manner, they can be put in a
bag and kept any length of titne.
“\V hen you wish to use them for coffee, roast
them as you would coffee; be careful not to burn
them, but roast them to a dark brown; anil grind
and use them as you would the coffee.
“ I atu using it daily, and Had it equal to the best
old Java. W. S. Jr.”
The Franklin Review states that Mrs. McFadden
residing in Williamson county, lias knit fifteen
pairs of socks for our volunteers already, and is
still engaged in kuilllug. If all tbe gentle sex
would evince this spirit of practical patriotism,
there will be no complaint of our soldiers being
btdlf the corain winter,
LEGISLATIVE NOMINATION
A meeting was held by ft portion of the
citizens of this county,* jw*terdny, at the
Court House. The votes*H*§t for tho can
didates for Representatives were—L. N.
Whittle, 47; Win. S. Holt, 28; (’lifford
Anderson, 24 —a few for J. J. Gresham
and J. H. 11. Washington. Five Delegates
were also appointed for the nomination of
a Senator for this district, at Forsyth, on
th* 28th inst.
A CARU.
The I.adie9 of the Soldiers’ Relief Society ot
Macon county, take this method of thanking the
citizens of the county for their timely and liberal
contributions of blankets, comforts and woolen
coverlets. The “ Wise Guards,” Capt. M. C. Mc-
Mullen, were the grateful recipients of about sixty
blankets, and we have only a few remaining. The
“Oglethorpe Guards,” Capt. Wm. L. A. Ellis, will
leave in a short time, and we need many blankets
for the company.
Thanks are tendered to those ladie9 who have
contributed socks, to Mrs. Hooks for several
pounds of wool, aud to the ladies, not members of
the Society, who have assisted us in making uni
forms, tents, Ac., and they are requested to send
in their names in order that they may be enrolled
as members of the Society. In about four weeks,
the Society at Oglethorpe, assisted by the auxiliary
Societies of Lebanon and Oak Grove, have made
over six hundred (600) pieces, including 16 tents.
The tents were made by the Oglethorpe ladies.
The “ Macon county Volunteers.” Capt. S. M.
Prothro, now in Virginia, must have winter cloth
ing, and the cloth used for uniforms for the “Wise
Guards”—having already proved worthless after
one weeks war — we need money and cloth at once,
and appeal to the people of Macon county to aid
us in our work. Is it necessary to write of Beth
el? can it be necessary to remind you, Georgians,
of Manassas Plains? where so many of our brave
brothers are sleeping—their hearts, for the first
time, until rilled by their country’s wrongs. Shall
we point you to the Hessians now at Hatteras, and
menacing our own coasts? Shall wc recall these
jto stir you up in this holy enuse ? No, no; you
must, you will, aid us! Some of our friends will
soon leave us—many have already gone—let us
cheer their hearts by working gladly aud constantly
for them, and words of gratitude and love, spoken
by bright camp fires, will testify the soldier’s
thanks for those who thus prove themselves the
soldier’s lriends. By order of
Mrs. SARAH G. nALL,
President S. R. S. Society of Macon Cos.
Miss Tallulah Hanskll, Sec’y.
Thp Macon county ladies are doing nobly.—
M ESSENCE K.
EUR THE JOURNAL ASJ> MESSENGER.
Tiie2£ttl District.
Messrs. Foitors: —l observe that Col. A. 11.
Speer announces himself, in the Telegraph of
Tuesday, as a candidate for this Senatorial Dis
trict. Tiiis is evidently done-under the appre
hension that there are none left in *be District
competent to appreciate the wants of the soldier
or possessing the ability to guard and secure his
interests. We concede great zeal, patriotism and
ability to Mr.Speer.but as we have such men as Poe,
Hill, Cabaniss, Whittle and others in the District,
whose sous are in the army, and who, therefore,
can appreciate their wants, perhaps the people wifi
be willing to forego the advantage of the Colonel’s
valuable services in the Seuate, especially when
they are so important in camp. Besides our new
State Constitution does not permit the holding of
two offices of profit at the same time—though I
admit this has been done by persons under the
Confederate Constitution, much to the dissatisfac
tion of THE PEOPLE.
P. S.—Perhaps Judge Cabaniss might be in
duced to relieve the painful anxiety of Col. Speer
on this subject.
[rOMMCNICATKD.J
Public lUectiDif.
The citizens of Bibb county are invited to meet
at the Court House in Macon, on Thursday next,
at 11 o’clock, A. M., to appoint delegates to the
Senatorial Convention, to be held at Forsyth, on
Saturday, 28th instant.
We observe, says the Augusta Sentinel, that in
different sections of the State the public are mov
ing in earnest to make the Senate of Georgia what
it ought to be, an honor to the State. Such men
as B. T. Harris of Hancock, R. W. Bonner of
Jones, D. J. Botbwell of Dooly, Gen. Cone of
Bulloch, Barnard Hill of Bibb, and Win. M. Brown
of Marion, are being brought forward for Senators.
Is it not high time that something was being done
in this, the ISth District? Cau not Richmond,
Glasscock or Jefferson furnish & worthy, capable,
respectable gentleman, for the position, who has
the confidence of the people, and reflect credit on
them ?
Tub Ex Secretary or War. —The Richmond
Examiner of Monday says that Hon. L. P. Walker
; would probably immediately leave for bis home in
Alabama. The Enquirer says that he will imme
diately be commissioned a Brigadier General in the
service of the Confederate States, having always
possessed an inclination for active duty in the field.
He was a General in the militia before he was
twenty-one years of age.
Bible Society Meeting.—A circular from the
I Augusta Bible Society informs us that they have
appointed, in Macon, on the 2*2d day of October
next, a meeting of delegates from all the Bible
Societies in the State to organize a Bible Society
ot the State of Georgia, and take steps lor the
formation of a Bible Society of tbe Confederate
States.
The Franklin (Teun.) Review says that the
young ladies of Tennessee female college, in that,
place, knit socks for the soldiers one hour in each
day. This is done at the suggestion of the es
teemed President, C. W. Callender, than whom,
the Review adds, there is not a more accomplished
gentleman and efficient educator in the Southern
Confederacy.
Cor.. John A. Washington. —News from General
Lee’s camp, says the Richmond Dixpateh, confirm
the Federal report of the death of this officer, who
was an aid to Gen. L. He was shot near the Fort
of Cheat Mountain. Col. W. was the owner of
Mount Vernon prior to the sale to the M. V. Asso
ciation.
The Grenada (Miss.) Motive, of the Ist inst.,
says that on Monday six hundred troops, on Tues
day five hundred, and on Wednesday six hundred’
from Texas, passed that place on the Central road,
en route to Virginia.
Cotton at Apalachicola. —The Apa
lachicola Time* of last week, in its yearly
cotton .statement, reports the stock on hand
in that port at 7,848 bales, but adds : “We
would remark that from prudential motives
the stock of cotton appearing in the above
statement has been removed to the interior,
where it will be secure against the vandal
ism of the I-incolnites. ,,
The Mobile Tribune of Thursday
learns that on Saturday last that ship Island
was evacuated by the Confederate troops,
and in a few hours afterwards a party from
the fleet lying outside went ashore and took
possession of it. The New Orleans papers
say an examination of the Island had been
wade by a corps of competent engine®* B
pronounced untenntble.
\ uni inn tl on of Col. Washington.
Macon, Oa., Sept. 19th. 1861.
Col. J. IT. it. Washington;
Dear Sir —Relieving it highly imjiortant
to the interest of Macon and the State at
large, that men he elected to serve in the
next Legislature who are well acquainted
with the financial condition and wants of
tho people, the undersigned would respect
fully request the use of your name as one
of the Representatives of Bibb county, in
tho next General Assembly, without tho
formality of a public nomination.
Very respectfully, your fellow-citizens,
W asiiington Poe,
G. Harrison,
Joshua Knowles,
D. W. Hammond,
\V. K. DeGraffenried,
William Holmes,
A. G. Bostick.
Macon, September 19th, 1861.
Gentianm —l am in receipt of your very
flattering note of this morning, requesting
my consent to run as a candidate for the
Representative branch of the next Legis
lature.
In your note you refer to the financial
condition of the Slate, and express the wish
that inen of experience should be sent to the
Legislature. I fully concur in that opinion.
If ever there was a time when every other
question should be merged in the question
of fitness for ollice, now is the time. If 1
have any qualifications, they are for the
management of financial affairs. I lie years
of my life have been devoted to their study,
and in that department, I think it likely, 1
could render the State some service.
For instance, the war must be prosecuted
vigorously. Our brave volunteers must be
maintained in the field; and I would favor
a general tax to be levied on all the coun
ties, and disbursed pro rata among the sev
eral counties in proportion to the number
of volunteers they may have sent to the
war. This would equalize the burdens of the
war, in which all have the same interest,
and relieve certain counties (GUl’s among
them) from the necessity of paying more
than their due proportion.
Again, I can see no propriety, w hile wo
are engaged in a life and death struggle
for national existence, in lining the pockets
of a few government officials with gold,
and at the same time reducing the people
to the severest straits for the necessary
means to sustain the existing order of
things, so dear to every Southern heart.
Retrenchment, therefore, is mv motto,
and so, I think it should be of every man
in the Confederacy.
I therefore accept the nomination, which
your partiality (rather personal, I think,
than otherwise) has tendered me, and if
elected, will pledge myself as far as in me
lies, to guard both the State Treasury and
the pockets of the people against all waste
ful expenditures and needless appropria
tions by the Legislature, and shall bend
my exertions in favor of a general reduc
tion of expenses in all the civil department#
in lioth the State and Confederate States
Governments.
I am, gentlemen, respectfully.
Your obedient servant,
J. 11. 11. WASHINGTON.
Messrs. Washington Poe, W. K. De
(tkaffenf.eid, A. G. Bostick and others.
Mas* Commercial and Financial Convention.
—We would respectfully call publie attention to
this Convention which meets in this citv on the
14th of October next, and urge the appointment
ot delegates at an early day by every city and
town in the Con federacy.
The movement is an important one, and it is
very desirable that there should be a full represen
tation.
Editors will afford valuable service to the cause
of Southern Commercial Judeper.deuce and Direct
Trade, by occasionally bunging tbe subject to the
notice of their readers.
Macon, Ga., September 13th, 18fil.
Soctiiern Planters’Convention.— The Planters
of the South will bear in mind that the Convention
which met in Macon on the 4th of July last, stands
adjourned to meet in the same place, on the 15th
day of October, to which meeting every State and
county, iu the Confederacy are invited to send
Delegates. The previous labors of this body have
bad much to do with shaping the action of Con
gress. Let the Planters everywhere therefore,
uke an interest in this Convention, which, be it
born.* in mind, is entirety distinct from the Con
mereiai and financial Convention, advertised to
mee* on the i4th of October COMMITTEE.
Will editors throughout tbe Soeth please bring
this subject <o the notice of their readers.
Heath of Col. Owes C. Pope.—“ Col. Owen
Clip on Prove, a : i and much respected citizen
Lids coau: v, ’ .-ays tke Sandersville Georgian,
“died of puruhos at his itsideuoe near Sanders
v lie, on Tuesday the 1 Oxli inst. He was born in
Roberson county, North Carolina, and served his
time ot seveu years at the printing business in
Fayetteville. He removed to this county in 1831.
For more than thirty years he had been connected
with the .Southern Recorder in various capacities.
He was a man of strong prejudices, but warm
attachments; and many were tbe charities dis
pensed by him, fulfilling the Scriptural injunction,
“let not thy right hand know what thy left hand
doeth.” He leaves a large family and numerous
friends to deplor ■ his loss. He was a warm friend,
a devoted husband and father, and a kind muster.
He was doing much for his country, and, had be
lived, would have greatly extended his services.—
His age was fifty years. May he rest in peace.”
We knew Mr. Pope well, as a most worthy and
useful citizen.
Heath of Mr. Wm. M. D’A.ntignac.— We learn
that a private dispatch was received yesterday,
says tha Augusta Sentinel of Thursday, announc
ing the death of Mr. Wm. M. D’Antignac, at Bai
ley’s Springs, Ala. Mr. D’s health has been in *
critical condition for some time past.
He was one of our most prominent and respect*
ed citizeus, and at tbe time of his death President
of the Insurance A Banking Company.
TeMiiiiifiitial to Col. Haiiß'iler.
The Proprietors and Employees engagni
in the Franklin Printing Office contributed
a purse of 8100 to Col. C. K. Hanleifcer ■
purcha.se a uniform, sword aud camp etjutp
ments with. This was a well deserved com
pliment with those with whom lie had been
associated, who knew him best, aud who de
sired to give some token of their appreciation
of him personally.
We hope he will be able to do his country
good service in his new field of labor, nU
return covered with honors.
Col. Simpson Fouche is suggested in
Southerner , as a candidate for Congr* - 10
the Roma District*