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EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.
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SUPERIOR COURTS.
JAN if AH} .//J).
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2d Monday, Cam,.Ml ,;j \ Joilduv h ‘‘^
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3d Monday, I - !•'- y ill ,’ ,
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if" # * Walker
1 1.1 ‘He lliursJav ulier, Piutee
\> ulker
Mi R < ’ll. S hr 1 KM 11 Kit.
'J Inn duv, I’ieiee ,Ist Moadav, Appling
1.1 Monday, Applinp r ClialiiHi.oi
PhattfM »{fit CheMikee
riierokeo (ou.nbia
PnwelH Pmvelft
(.'oluinbia fraw foul
Cdruw U.i and Madison
fwnmrtt Ala. 1011
.Madison Mmgan
.Marimi _>d Monday, Hulls,
Mm gau fuss
2d Monday, llulia PnlFeo
*: n * Elbert
V'?": Fnyufe
El Lei t f roe lie
1 a\elie fwiuuelt
J’likena
ickeiis W'ashinfjlon
Washington Webster
Wi-hsha' and Monday, CobLi
3d Monday, (’obbf ' Cullioun
falboiin
Jf a *l Ilart
{| :irt , Heaid
■•‘‘aid Macon
Macon Newton
Newton Talbot,
1 utnaut Ware
Talbot Hal loch
i utmill rhui sdity afler, Wlii’a
; ith Monday, Clinch
1 binsdavaft r.White * CbatUhoochee
r ndiiv alter, Pnltoeu .loltnson
4th Monday, Clinch j A , e
(Jhutlaboochee, Milton
Johnson Putnam
iff Kabun
Milton Twiggs
Putnam Wilkes
Kabun Thursday af.er,Habeishain
I wiggs Monday af- 1
~s ter the 4 tli - Echols
Thursday alter, Habersham Monday (
dth Thursday, Montgomery l
Monday af- ) r . , * | OtlOLhh.
ter 4th Mou )- or ° » **t & Mon. Carroll
day, j Effingham if(t MondttJf | Joi ,| y
APRIL. | ' Early
Ist & 2d Mon., Carroll Emanuel
Ist Monday, liooly ■ Franklin
Early j k’ulton
Emanuel Gilmer
Franklin Go'don
Fulton j Taylor
Cordon Warren
Pike Wilkinson
Taylor Pike
Warren Thursday after, Banks
Wilkinson 2d Monday, Fannin
Thursday after, Banks Hancock
2d Monday, Hancock, Harris
Harris Laurens
Laurens Mi Her
Miller Richmond
Richmond Sumter
Sumter hd Monday, Glynn
Tuesday after. Mclntosh llatulstm
3d MoucUiv, Glynn Henry
ilarialson j Jones
ilourv Murray
Jones Uy!e ; l\otpc J
Liberty Pulaski
Miiriav ! Stewart
Ogletlmipe Union
* Pulaski 1 Worth
Stewart i Thursday \ Monlfpmiery
Monday I Worth after, J Towns
ul'iu , i ' Hi van lth Monday, Wayne
4tli Mouduv , \\ avne Decatur
Decatur D.Kalb
DeKullt Houston
Houston .haper
Jasper l.meolu
Lincoln f'chiav
Seh'ey Tatn.ill
W hitiield Whittield
W tleox \\
' V ricWy alter. Tellair Friday after, Telfair
Camden famlen
Tbof. lav after, Du in i‘hur*dav altei, Dwin
.4. nd.iv “ L'enien Monday after, Churb..:i
f hail ton XiniMJIKR.
Moudav, Clayton 11 Monday, Leri ion
G diner V*? U \ n
Randolph Ltimgbam
Sciiveu haudolph
Epson Ser.veu
2d Monday Cuosisa t’pson
Chatham -? d Monday, i uo,.sa
Fannin Jeih-ison
Jefferson Miteliell
Mitchell Muscogee
Mnseo 'ce Monday, Bibb
3d Monday, Bibb * Baker
• j{. tl;er llnrke
Buike M u ’VV , ’ ul
Qiutimia Spalding
Spalding , i/'i' 1 '
Troup 4th Monday, Hade
Uniou lerrell
Tliui dav alter, Towns I huisday atter, Mclntosh
4th Monday. Dade Monday after, Colquitt
Terrell 'l° do Liberty
Last Monday, Colquitt Mon. after Liberty, liryan
JVXK. It EC KMB Eli.
Ist Monday, Dougherty l-t Monday, Dougherty
Lowndes Lowndes
£d Monday, Brooks .and Monday, Brooks
Clay Clay
3.1 Monday, Thomas 8d Monday, Thomas
*>!av hold three weeks, if necessary, at each term,
fJudge not required to draw Jurots tor two weeks;
and not obliged to hold two weeks’ Court in counties
of Cobb and Lumpkin.
The Fort Smith News says that Col. Me
Intonh’s forces passed through that place 011
the 3d, having with them a company of fine
negroes taken from Opotheyholo in the late
fight.
[From thn Richmond Dispatch. I
Pioposed CeiiAornliip.
We are *orry to learn that a project lias
Been introduced into Congress for establish
ing a military censorship of the press in the
.Southern States. f J he arguments by which
s<> pernicious a measure is supported are, of
course, the same that have been employed
by arbitrary {tower in it< resistance of liberal
principles through all ages. It seems that
these u. { iiiiieiits L;.v • I ( u sufficient for ac
complisliing the ptup* 1»i du-pofism in
the North—the same North svlu ie iret-dom
ot speech, of tlie jn ii, and of ih«* person art
alike overthrown, and the ('bid Justice
himself is a;- powerless to vindicate the liber
ties guaranteed by the ('(institution as a
child. It seems, too, that there are a few
in the South with whom these same argu
ments have prevailed.
It would insult the intelligence of the
Southern people to examine and to expose
them in detail. They an- too shallow and
flimsy to deserve such pains. The pretense
is that the press gives information of the
inovuinuntsi of our armies and the schemes
ot our (ieneials ; and that therefore, this
bulwark oi popular liberty, this terror to
evil doers, thi-> gorgoti dire to military mar
tinets and despots, must be put under the
collar, attd that the chain must be handed
t*> those very military officials Irom whom
the great 1 t corruptions and abuses, and tlm
greatest danger to liberty at this juncture,
are naturally to he appre! ieLu led. A\ hen all
authority, all power, and all control of the
persons and the treasure of the people are in
the hands of the military class, is this the
time to strike down tin; only protection the
people have bit against their authority, and
the only weapon ot a- unit they possess
ugiin-t the abu.es which ui<* so apt, sooner
or later, to creep into their transactions?
'I he public ear is already full of rumors
impeaching the frugality, if not the integri
ty, <d officers connected with military de
partments ot the (government. \\ e believe
that these rumors are in most of the cases
exaggerated, ami that a full knowledge of
tacts would show as upright an administra
tion of allairs as the history of any war af
ford • but much ot the integrity that marks
the conduct ot the war is due to the fact
that the people’s press is free and at liberty
to speak out on mere suspicion of peculation
or abuse.
1 lie only circumstance that has staggered
our belief in the purity prevailing in the
management of this war, is this recent
• Holt from the outside to prevail upon Con
grcs>, under the specious pretense of milita
ry ex) edieney, to establish a military cen
sorship of the press. To deny to the press
its right of speaking 011 army movements,
on the number of tioops in this and that
quarter, and on the st.rategetic policy or de
sign of the military authorities, is to strike
down at one blow its liberty to speak of ar
my a Hairs at all. The paticular time at
wh’cli this proposition is made constitutes
a very strong objection to the measure ; for
when the people arc beginning to inquire into
she numerous allegations of abuse that be
sot th eir ears, it is not meet to deprive them
of their mouth-piece and organ.
Hotter that the enemy should know all
our military movements and plans than that
the wholesome dread of exposure through the
public journals should cease to keep in the
paths of integrity and purity the business
agents of our armies. The South could
much better a fiord the loss of many battles
than a loss of confidence in the honesty of
her public servants, in a great struggle like
the present.
Osir lleait L Sad,
At reading the following, which we find
among the matter telegraphed from Wash
ington to the New York press :
“Washington, Jan. 9.—Win. T. Smith
son, the banker and broker arrested here
yesterday afternoon, by order of flic Govern
ment, on suspicion of communicating with
the Rebels, left in the same afternoon train
for Fort LaFaycttc. This is considered one
of the most important arrests which has
taken place since the commencement of the
rebellion/’
r ! he people of the whole South know Mr. i
Smithson, as one of the best men in the
world —particularly is he known among the j
Meil.odi sts in connection with his exertions j
to build up u Metropolian Southern Metho
dist. Church in \\ ashington. We know him
well. A truer man, and a truer Southerner
never lived ; and our great wonder is, that
he was allowed to remain there so long un
molested. Y hen many Southern people in
that, place were forsaking their all and com
ing to a land of liberty, to escape the irres
pon>ihle despotism of Lincoln, it was judged
best fur him to remain there to protect the
interest of the Southern .Methodist ('huwdi.
\\ e sincerely sympathise with this eminent
ly good man, and his interesting family; but
\ve have no doubt he rejoices in being ac
counted worthy to suffer in the cause of the
South, which we know lies so near his heart
—So it the n ('on(e<h racif.
Ta v.ihau and lte|M'i‘M‘iitation.
1 !. il Bigham, in the last Southern lle
corder, gives a table exhibiting the unequal
taxation and representation in Georgia.—
Tie Counties of Charlton, Colquitt, Dawson,
Echols, Fannin, Haralson, Irwin, Bierce,
Rabun, Towns, Enion, Wayne, White, Wil
cox, Bit-kens and Gilmer, pay a tax of *14,-
while Burke county pays alone a
tax ot SI E’2.»7,14. Coffee, Ware, Dade.
Telfair, Glascock, Miller and Appling a tax
of 1, while Richmond pays 23/240,-
<’>*, or $00,61 eeuts more than the 23 coun
ties pay a tax of 8111,91^.7.’*; the counties
of Chatham, Bibb, Burke, Muscogee, Rich
mond and Troup pay a tax of
or 515,41 less ; *26 counties have 8*.667 polls,
while the counties of Chatham, Bibb, Burke,
Muscogee, Richmond and Troup have 8,403
polls. Six counties pay as much tax sub
stantially as o 7 other counties, and though
not the most populous, vote as many polls us
26 other counties, and pay more than one
sixth of the whole tax of Georgia.— T>lt
tjraiJi.
Gen. Sterling Price has called for a
legion of Arkansians to rally under his stan
dard to beat back the ruthless invaders—the
legion to consist of two regiments of infant
ry, one regiment of cavalry and two batter
ies of artillery. This legion is to be under
the command of Gen. A. W. Jones.
From ihe Southern Fi-vicial Ua.or.
Messrs. Editors : —Bo pleased to ia-ert
in your papei ihe fidlowioc eopv us a publu
law passed at the late St don, and which
from having been led to h<T- ve from the
reading of the eapth-a O nK tha it v,*as a
A‘‘f was i. it out ot liiv Baiophlet of
the Public Laws.
1 would respectfully ask the publi hers .-i
all newspapers to whom 1 cut a copy ot my
Pamphlet, to iusrit in their c b ...n- tlu*
Act, with this note. H 11. \V ATE IIS.
All Act to relieve certain pci-ous fioo.
the pains and penalties of a judgment *d •!*
voice.
•Sec. 1. 7 he (frucrul <•/ Qtorjia
<io Lerthy nub t, That all persons who have
had a judgment of Divorce rendered agftiiW
them, shall have the light and privilege of
contracting marriage again after 1 lie hip < of
one year from the rendering of the final
judgment in the divorce ease.
Sec. *2. Repeals conflicting laws.
Assened to Dec. 12, 1801.
A Femai.e Soy os Horseback.—The
Washington correspondent of the New Vork
Post relates the following incident :
r
A horseman, clad in a sort of cavalry cos
tume, with a heavy overcoat and slouched
hat, had been noticed for sometime dashing
about the city in rather a suspicious manner.
At last the authorities felt themselves war
ranted in arresting him, ami accordingly,
one morning when trotting down Pennslva
niu avenue, he found himself suddenly sur
rounded by a hit- ot soldiers, and was curried
off to prison. But the funniest part was to
come. The investigation that fallowed re
sulted not only in the discovery of certain
papers, but also of the fact that the cavalier
was a woman. How long she had been at
the game it is impossible to guess.
(1 ratjtl’DK.—There isau old proverb which
warns us that the last person from whom we
should expect to receive a favor is the one
upon whom we have liberally bestowed fa
vors. And it is not unusual for persons to
experience a positive aversion towards those
who have done them great services, an aver
sion they struggle against—they‘ure asham
ed of—they despise t hemselves for entertain
ing—and yet are ever keenly' conscious of
feeling. Is not this very often the conse
quence of the manner in which the services
have been rendered ? Nothing so thoroughly
destroys the beauty of an act of kindness as
the desire for, or even the expectation of
gratitude. And yet nothing is more com
mon.
A sufferer from Asthma would record his
gratitude by sayiug to his fellow sufferers
that he has experienced an almost magical
relief from the following simple remedy, vi/ :
The leaves of the streinonimo (or James
town weed,) dried in the shade, saturated
with a pretty strong soUition of saltpetre,
and smoked so as to inhale deeply the fumes.
In order to inhale, till the mouth with the
smoke, then open the lips and draw in the
breath.
It may strangle at first if taken too freely,
but it will loosen the grip that seems to
spasm the breathing tubes, and bring up lie
phelm that settles in the bottom of the lungs
The leaves should be gathered before a heavy
frost causes them to drop. Try it and thank
God. — Southern Presbyterian.
Make a Beginning.—Remember in all
things that if you do not begin you will
never come to an eud. The first weed pulled
up in the garden, the first seed set in the
ground, the first shilling put in the savings
bank, and the first mile traveled in a jour
ney, are important things—they make a be
ginning, and thereby a hope, a promise, a
pledge, an assurance, that you are in earnest
with what you have undertaken. How
many a poor idle, erring, hesitating outcast
is now creeping and crawling his way through
the world who might have held up his head
and prospered, if, iustead of putting oflf Lis
resolutions of amendment and industry, he
had only made a beginning.
Smuggling to the North. —The follow
ing letter lrom the Surveyor of Evansville,
Inti., to the Journal, of that place, confirms
the report that considerable quantities of
cotton and sugar had been wagoned from
Clarksville, Tenn., to ports in the Ohio river
for shipment North :
Surveyor’s Office, )
Evansvill, lnd., Jan. 3 1852. j
Editors of the Journal :— Sir; En
quiries have been made touching the lawful
ness of importing sugar and cotton from the
disloyal to the loyal States, and I have been
informed that a few parcels of each of these
articles have quite recently made their ap
pearance upon the border of the Ohio river,
having been wagoned through the State of
Kentucky.
A little reflection will convince any loyal
citizen that such a trade is unlawful, and
that it cannot be permitted either in large
or small quantities. It should be constant
ly borne in mind that all intercourse with
the rebels for the purposes of t. ule i. strict
ly prohibited by our Government.
The Atlantic ports of the insurgent States
being under a close blockade, the rebels are
prevented from sending their pu lcM to a
foreign market ; but if they shall be permit
ted to send them inland to the Ohio river,
what shall hinder their being shipped to New
Vork and thence to Europe?
Such trade would afford them aid and
comfort, which uo loyal citizen would know
ingly give.
Respectfully.
A. L. Robinson, Surveyor.
While the Lincoln sailors were carrying
off a lot of old guns they found at Biloxi,
an Irish Jack tar among them, who v,a - t i
gering along under a load, tunmii to .some
of the “rebel” bystanders and remark A :
“ Vou see, boys, I’m about taking youi 1 .us
away from you for fear you’ll just be after
hurting yourselves with them.
Surplus of Bacon. —The Cincinnati Ga
zette estimates that there will he a surplus
of 89,000,000 of bacon in the northwest this
year should the rebel markets not be opened,
but if the latter event should take place the
hog crop would not supply the demand. It
is conjuctured that the Lincoln army will
consume 40,000,000 pounds durißg the year.
MACON. GEORGIA:
Wedaesitay, Jatmryi^
SURVEILLANCE OF THE PRESS.
\Ye j.uM: Ii ,i. our paper to-day an excellent ar
ts !«• ~*i th sut j t t frr.i.i the Richmond Det patch.
1 1 11 »«*■ paper* in tti.it city are to hr- credited it id
not -tran-e it... certain government official' and
speculator? siiuiiU desire to abridge alike the lit>
er ly of peech and the press.
DEATH OF EA-PREbIDENT TYLER.
hv ii 1 rrapti brings the sad intelligence oi' the
death ol this distinguished gentleman. This event
occurred at Richmond on Friday night last.
We Mull give next week a fuller notice of the
deceased.
LIKUT.J HI STUBBS,
Notwithstanding the announcement of his death
some time since, we were happy to sec in our
streets on vesterd.iv, in good health, lit* is on a
brief furlough and brings a good report of the
Central Elues.
PERMANENT CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT-
The permanent Government ot the Confederate
States sv ill be fully organized on the 22d day of
February next. The new Congress will meet on
the 13th, and the Presidential vote be canv.tsged
on the 22d.
DEATH OF AN OLD CITIZEN.
Amos Denton, Esq., died in Savannah, on the
loth inst., alter a short illness. He was in the
Confederate service, as a member and Quarter
master of the Bibb Cavalry, und among the oldest
members ol that corps. He also served ia it in
tF.e Creek war of ISU6. lie was fultilling the du
ties of a Magistrate of this city, which he had held
many years. He was yesterday interred in Rose
Hill Cemetery with Masonic honors by Macon
Lodge No. 5, of which he was for several years
the W. Master. Also the [.residing officer of the
other Masonic Bodies of the ctiy, and a Deputy
Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Georgia.—
His funeral was also attenJed by the Macon Vol
unteers.
WHAT OF THE NIGHT 1
In surveying the vast battle-field that spreads
out to our view—the immense armies which con
front each other in hostile array, and the magnifi
cent and stupendous preparations which have been
made on both sides, especially by the Federalists,
we are led to believe that unless the north is bereft
of all military sagacity, prowess and manhood, we
shall shortly feel, in good earnest the shock of such
a conflict as the world has never witnessed.—
Whilst we believe the South is able to meet the
onset., and has heretofore shown in every conflict
the superiority of her heroism, there is yet danger
of undervaluing the resources and prowess of the
arrogant invader. With proper vigilance, we have
no fears in regard to the final issue. Still, every
energy should be aroused, enlisted and ready lor
action. Tiie enemy has a footing in nearly every
State of our Confederacy. At what particular
[joint he will strike, or whether at several at the
same time, we shall know in a few' days.
“ WORTHY !!”
We have used this word, and inappropriate,
perhaps it may be to suit the proclivities or policy
of some “fast individuals, to whom a week looks al
most an age.” Yel we trust and hope that there
are sufficient of that class, that is, “the worthy,’
to properly estimate the cause in which It has been
used, and counterbalance the capital sought to be
secured by discarding it. Personal slurs even
front high municipal authority will be of no avail
in preventing the publication of facts the public
should know. The complaint in question, is not
that of a single citizen, but of all the residents of
what has been esteemed a respectable neighbor
hood, from the location of a “colony” of the vile,
worthless, abandoned and disorderly in their
midst.
The “colony” residences are partly on city prop
erty and partly in a neighboring building. There
a most disorderly scene was enacted a few nights
since under peculiar circumstances, disturbing the
neighborhood to a considerable distance with oaths
and language scarcely known except to that par
ticular class who used it. Also, about the same
time, a Ball, —in which the participants were
of mixed colours—and by such associations, even
our negioes become degraded as well as cor
rupted. As the ownership of this “ Colonial”
building is well known, it need not be stated
whose tenants the colonists arc. To speak of such
as soldiers' wires would put every honest soldier
or soldier’s wife to the blush by the association ;
also to be placed on the same level in receiving
the charities of a grateful public, with the most
abandoned harlot. Yet such seems to be the
doctrine inculcated by high authority. Thus the
public crib is thrown open, and the means contrib
uted by our tax [layers thrown away, where indi
viduals should be made to attend to the wants of
their responsibilities , both large and little.
Who the recipients of these charities are should
be better known, and public opinion would be apt
to curtail the list. The public property of the city
should be devoted to the benefit of the “worthy,”
and not of the vile, to the annoyance and discredit
of a respectable neighborhood.
Those aggiieved by this nuisance have been re
ferred to the law for redress. But with what con
fidence can they appeal to it when the case ha*
been prejudged already, before the public by its
administrative officer ?
This subject cannot be pursued with propriety
in the papers to certain particnlars } but the agita
tion may lead to its being inquired into and bet
ter known.
The special correspondent of the New York
Junes, under dale of Dec’r 21st, 1861, gives a
lengthy description of the diabolical outrage of
sinking, in the entrance of Charleston harbor, ves
sels filled with stone. The names of these old
hulks were: Archer, American, Courier, Rebecca,
Sims, Richmond, Kensington, Potomac, Maria The
resa, Robin Hood, Herald, Tenedas, Leonidas,
William Lee, Fortune, and Amazon—total 16.
They wen- piindpally from New Bedford, New
London, Providence, and Nantucket, and were
sunk in the channel, about two miles and a half
from shore, in three lines, “ checkerwise,” so that
that they will form a number of shoals, aud more
effectively barricade the entrance to the harbor.
Lieut. M. Dvvj.wll.— This gentleman, editor
aud proprietor of the “Courier,” after an absence
of nearly eight months, returned to Rome ou sick
furlough on Tuesday morning, says the Southerner.
He received a hearty welcome by all. By his gen
tlemanly bearing at home, and by bis heroic con
duct upon the battle field, he has greatly eodeared
himself to the people of this community.
MAYOR THOMSON.
In a brief notice of the supper prepared by the
good ladies of Macon, on New Year’s F.ve, we
stated that the pioceeds were to be “invested in
substantial provisions and other necessaries for
distribution to the worthy poor, and that this
| charily would be “gratefully appreciated by those
worthy to receive it.”
Tfiti simple statement ol facts, with no allusion
r.o any paiticuiar individual, excited, it seems, the
disapprobation of Mayor Thomson, who, officiously
aud e.> fra officially, took up the lance, and with
a zeal without knowledge or di-i retion, rushed in
decoionsly to the defence of the depraved and
vicious—thus presenting the sad and mortifying
spectacle of a high judicial dignitary, to
promote the public peai*e aud foster public morals,
as well as purdah vice and crime, exerting his in
tiiienoe to weaken those moral and legal restraints
which he is bound sacredly to regard, and those
safe guards so necessary to domestic and social
security and happiness.
If, as he rightly judges, “the question involved
deserves more thau a passing notice,” and he
“would be glad to see it discussed through some
public medium in order to ascertain what is light
in the premises”—why did not the Mayor approach
the subject in a spirit of candor and courtesy?—
Why deal in pointless sarcasms, offensive insinua
lions, and irrelevant clap-trap? Why did he not
answer our artie.le, instead of indulging iu wanton
and grtuitous personalities? Is such a course wor
ihy the Chief Magistrate ot our beautiful central
city ?
We said nothing about a “colony ot soldiers'
wives,” and hurl back upon him the unfeeling and
rude insinuation that any ot our gallant soldiers,
who are bating their “breast to the foe, ’ have
“m;i-worthy” companions, or that they belong to
the wretched and shameless class to which we
alluded. This the Mayor very well knows, but it
suited his [impose to try to make a different im'
pression. We leave the public to sit in judgment
upon his motives. So far from reflecting upon the
soldiers’ wives, we expressly stated that it was for
their benefit that we opposed an indiscriminate dis
tribution of public benefactions. That the reader
j may see how antirely gratuitously the Mayor has
| '■'ewercist and" himself on this occasion, we repub ,: ‘
j the concluding portion of our article ol lust wet
us follows:
Private contributions rest upon a difierent basis
and occupy a different relation from those of a
more public character. Individuals have undoubt
edly the right to do what they please with their
own. They may give to the worthy or unworthy
as best suits their views aud feelings. When, i
however, a fund is raised tor a specific object,
either by direct tax or voluntary contributions,
and that object is believed to be to assist indigent
j persons who are supposed to be “«**/ thy"— not to
j invite to our city the degraded and abandoned, by
: pensioning vagabondism and licentiousness—we
1 believe its ludisvriniina/e disbursement would
work a public and private wrong. Soldiers’ Relief I
; Societies, and other charitable associations, arc,
| organized for no such pernicious purposes. No
; one is so vile or abandoned as not to need pitv
and demand, at times, aid. But this class stand!
in quite :t different relation to society, and their
claims for assistance rest upon entirely different,
| grounds from those of the virtuous and unfortu
nate poor. To feed and clothe those who arc
reeking in vice and pollution, with no efforts for
self-subsistence or reformation, is offering a pre
mium to crime. Let it he understood that this is
the programme of Macon charity, and Heaven
pity the “worthy" and meritorious poor! The I
families of soldiers would be elbowed aside bv j
brazen-faced outcasts and imposters front every
den of infunty in the land, and our city become j
famed as the great central mart of vagrancy and !
crime.
We have felt it due to ourselves arid the cause '
of public morals, as independent journalists, to i
say this much in vindication of our course. We |
feel bound to notice official abuses ami infractions
of the public decency. We have no personal feel
ing or interest in the matter alien to those of our
fellow-citizens generally. We have sought no
controversy with the Mayor. In the proper dis
charge ot his official duties he shall have our hear
ty support iu the future as he has had in the past.
For a more full disclosure of the grievances
complained of last week, the reader is referred to ;
an article from the senior editor in another place.
Let the Mayor read it, “inwardly digest it,” and
then “pass along.” Reserving, however, his lec
tures for those who are laboring night and day to j
destroy the little “good that still exists in human !
nature,” by using every ingenious artifice and sub
tie expedient, to prostrate public virtue, hoping,
perhaps, that when their silly and infatuated dupes
arc plunged into the vortex of misery and crime,;
they will find in the plea of a weak will a ground
of acquittal at the Mayor’s tribunal, as well as a
passport to his charity. They can certainly be
dispensed with by those who have devoted a large
portion of their lives in ministrations to the afflict
ed and necessitous, at all seasons, without pecu
niary compensation, and labors for the moral ele- i
vation as well as physical comfort of all classes of
society.
PAY OF SOLDIERS
The Legislature of Tennessee has set a good :
example in the adoption of a resolution requesting 1
their representatives in Congress to endeavor to j
secure the passage of an act increasing the pay of
private soldiers to fifteen dollars per month. We
hail this as a move in the right direction. Why '
should there be such a wide difference in the com
pensation allowed to captains aud privates? True, i
our brave soldiers are not like the vast majority in
the ranks of the invaders, fighting for money ,
but it should be remembered that many, very ma
ny ot them are poor, having no means apart from
the pitiful sum of eleven dollars per month—less
than thirty cents per day—which is paid them.
By all means let them have at least half a dollar
per diem.
We entirely concur in the foregoing sentiments
from the Nashville (Christian Advocate , and hope
the Confederate Congress will speedily raise the
pay of privates and reduce the salaries of officers.
Men, all over the country —some of them, doubt
less, worthy and patriotic, with military talents,
but others destitute of every qualification, except
brazen assurance —have been trying to raise com
parties, battalion?, and even regiments, and in too
many instances have succeeded, at the expense of
the service. Many such, whose legitimate place is
in the rank?, are getting fine salaries whilst their
superiors in merit are serving a? privates for a
mere pittance. Let the pay of our army be'more
equalized.
Headquarters Bibb Cavalry, )
Savannah, Jan. 10, 1862.
At a meeting of the Bibb Cavalry held this day
to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation
of Capt. A. M. Lockett and intermediate vacancies,
the following officers were unanimously elected :
Captain—T. G. Holt, Jr.
Ist Lieut.—S. S. Dunlap.
2d Lieut.—A. L. Clinkscalea.
3d Lieut.—A. F. Hunter.
Letters and packages sent to members of the
company should be addressed to the care of Capt.
Holt, Bibb Cavalry, Savannah, Ga.
THE COTTON QUESTION.
The Mobile Advertiser and hr <'.
. //• '' * f Jiff ya .
Let our planting readers w,.;<q, t |
come quickly to a decision a 111011? t , , iriattP <
to put, at mu>r, more than fi a l[ th 1
land iu Cotton. Let this movement* '' ire * of
be general, and make a m,i s ,» by ii i sl
that will be beard in Europe. i t p, , u,,t i-i! tr
I that will keep up to respectable fi , ’ ‘ v ’ c '*Urv
the present crop when it get' i„ , n ( :,t P*" ■ot
| only course that will enable
of the staples oi provision «•**;• , 1 F r “*L :
to rates that can be hoi no in ji„. , ’ '
condition ot business and iiijj., (
We adhere io our opinion ti ut ' \ ,
j one fourth of the area ol the | lVl
planted in Colton, unless the Ltoc\;" 1 *
■ moved. 11 the wat continues *.:!), ■i •
and shoidii the war cease, ifi.t n.q lu>
planters; and the additional spa. e eiv.-i,
visions, lot ape, Ac , w ill he w ell L-it,.* '*
t hurl est ,w (Vafu-r.
We concur in sentiment enthelv with t
ricr, aud would urge upon out uumerou a
tural readers the policy suggested b\ that
There is at piesent no prospect of p,. U ( , at
before summer sets in, which will find u,,. t
or his factor with a full crop on liaiul; for*
. • >
in the present disunited condition of (he *,
ami the consequent embarrassments to
commerce, and a ncccssai ily darnin'-! , j
lion of imported fabiics, there will bo a
spending diminution in tho demand lor our
staple, until the channels ot trade become a
settled.
Ou this subject the Albany Patriot, juihl a ;i j
the very heart of the Cotton region < i
very properly >\ a :
“We regard it wise policy for rvery tutta
plant largely in grain, lliis will give us an ,
daot pi os i ... mat ket, and . ,
their independence. Another idea au^gent'
In nmintuumip our imtepeudenee a portion el
j people are on the battle field, the remainder are
home; and while tho soldier defends our cuu.v
! is our bottnden duty to supply his every neers... ,
| want. One enemy unprovided for, cannot 9ucre«i
--j fully compete against another who has all in
wants supplied. It we have that patriotism *
ought to belong to Southern men, we will look
wed to the matter, and guard this question * a
due ami proper consideration.”
To which w e add Ihe following from the Angina
1 Constitutionalist:
j “I he business of cotton planting will reci-iv? no
injury from greatly reduced production for i >
jr two. The first duty of the Southern putum
shaping his business, is to provide for the wan
his own people and couulry, and give only i!
plus ot his labor uud skill to the wants of La. ,
countries. Thus only can we lav the bu-.s ol ,
solid national power and prosperity. A mu u
without a navy is essentially weak and ii--l|..v - }
that cannot produce cheap and abundant food auj
clothing for its own people.
THE BURNSIDE EXPEDITION
Has excited considerable interest and specula
tion. Intelligence w hich has reached here durii.g
the last few days leads us to believe that it is in
tended to operate on the eoust of North Caioliua
and perhaps make a descent upon the rear ol Nor
folk by way ol Pamlico and Alberniatle Sounds.
This also seems to be the impression among tnili
tary authorities. Many, if not all, ol th* l vesst’h
are of very light draft, and calculated to run in
such streams as the Tar and Chowan rivers aud
the ialets coiuniunieating with Currituck, l’amliro
and Albermarle Sounds. Many think that tin jr
operations will be confined to the towns on tho
coast such as Ncwbern or Wilmington. The ves
sets ate said to he titled out with guns of the heav
iest calibre with regular and experienced gunneis
on board.
Notwithstanding this, says the Charleston Cou
rier, we have reason to believe that our fiiettdsiu
North Carolina are read* to meet them, and tint
the enemy will find at each att-p a succession!.
Sebastopol?. If their ultimate object be an atta.a
ou Norfolk by way of Elizabeth City, our forces
have only to choose their own position?, wher. i
few hours’ labor will render them impregnable.—
Elizabeth City is about fifty miles south of Norfolk
It is situated on the right bank of the I’usqiiota
river, about twenty miles from its mouth. Sma
vessels may a.-cend the river to Elizabeth Pitt
which communicate? with Norfolk by means of ti.?
Pasquotank lives and the Dismal Swamp Canal.-
Our readers will perceive by reference to tbe !*'.
of vessels published, that a number of canal bo
are mentioned.
The Norfolk Day Book of the 18:h instant,!
ferriug to the expedition and the probability of » ! -
attack upon Elizabeth City, says:
The Burnside expedition, it seems, wt
rettlly lilted out to make a demonstration uj>-
j on North Carolina—the point Idr which tin;
! are destined being Elizabeth City. W
rather think that we know more oi this n*ute
than they do, an.l as it is? now too \ate i'»r
them to profit by it, we will state that h.-i r
fiettimr to Elizabeth City they will
themselves back iwute; lor it is a hard i >-
to travel—so hard, indeed, that we ratle:
thiuk, as the Yankees are not used to -an:-
things, that they wont be able to stand ts
leaden hail which will lly around them,
The Wilmington Journal, of tho mn
date, says :
A letter received here this morning,d»f
Newborn, N. 0 , oil yesterday, the ITtb i
stunt, says that the steamer bad junt arm- ;
from the neighborhood of liafloras
.She reports J'ortj-threr Federal vested?, ■ *
classes, in at Cape Hatteras Inlet. The let
ter says that it is supposed the fleet ii citl r
bound for Roanoke Island or Newborn
\\ e will add that the letter i- from re?p
sible parties iu Newbern, to a respond
house here.
The above is fully confirmed by autu rity
which is bjyond doubt. There may be u
exaggeration in regard to the number of v- -
sels, but none as to the fact of a large m> TJ ‘
ber bein<f there —probably in th ■ neigld r*
hood of forty.
The Journal also adds the following p*’ 3 '
graph:
The news faoin Hatteras is startling "'
We know it to be trn \
CHARLESTON IMPROVEMF-VrS.
The Courier of yesterday, says'- “H» > -
to the Central I'ark—which meets*”- 1 E
favor and acceptance —a good opportunity •• ° w
afforded for preparing for the future
our.direct and importing trade by extending L*.
street to the river.”
Army Coheibmations. —The following *PP°‘ D ‘
ments of Brigadier Generals have been cod- •i
- Congress :
Henry Heath, of Virginia, to take rank
January 6th.
Johnson K. Duncan, of Louisiana, to ta»e
from January 7 th.
S. A. M. Wood, of Alabama, to take rtc*
January 7th,