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soiinull & HJcsscnget.
J. BOWLES and S. ROSE,
)RS IXI) PROPRIETORS.
Th<‘ v Citu Road—Tlie ISrid^o.
Wt ad the pleasure yesterday, of seeing
in m . vlaj. Howland, the Superin
ten ' the •State Road. From him, we
lea ' • m tlm 10th instant, the passage,
or <-h do line of the Hoad to (Jhatta
n ‘ dear to the Engines and Cars of
t! . ibe obstructions to which, in the
di o nos the bridges across the Chicka
n. v iug been removed by the erection
of Major Rowland has given his
pers. attention to the erection of these
bridg and has persevcringly labored to
have • ;> m finished, in order that passengers
and fi ’-i. -lits might be passed over the whole
line of ■ he State Road, without being divert
ed to th East Tennessee Road, a day longer
than was necessary. One of the bridges
across the Chickamauga is thoroughly com
pleted : the other in a condition to pass the
ears over without risk. At the last named
bridge, a froilhet occurred a day or two ago,
that had nearly destroyed it—the water here
rises in a heavy freshet some twenty feet,
and this was the case the other day, but
through the vigilance of the Superintendent
and his assistants, the bridge was saved, and
it will now be tiuished in a few days, when
freshets can do it no injury.
In Major Rowland, the State has an able
and efficient Superintendent of her great
Railroad. All that perserving industry,
vigilance, and ecouomy can do, to make his
administration a successful one, we can as
sure the people, will be forthcoming. There
are “no drones in his hive,” nor will he tol
erate any neglect of duty by those over lvhom
he exercises control. He is, however, fortu
nate in having about him those who have the
interest of the Road at heart, and who are
faithful to their trusts. —Atlanta Intdligen
cvr } IBt/t.
l atent from Cedar Keys.
Late last evening a passenger arrived from
Florida, who has furnished us with the fed
lowing particulars in relation to the opera
tions of (lie Federals at Cedar Keys. lie
reports that on Wednesday last, at about 10
o’clock in the forenoon, a vessel of the Fed
eral fleet came in sight and anchored off the
harbor About that time the schooner Staff,
which was ready for sea, commenced weigh
ing anchor. As soon as the Yankees discov
ered tiiis, they fired three shots at her, all cf
which fell short. The owner of the Stag
then ran her ashore and set her on fire, the
crew making their vseape. The few soldiers,
with a number of the ladies at Way Key,
attempted to make their escape in a flat and
to reach the railroad ; hut were unable to
rear h (he shore. The Yankees perceiving
their situation, sent out from the vessel three
boats, who captured the flat, and put the
men in irons. The men in the flat, some
fifteen in number, having no arms, no re
sistencc was made. The Yankees then went
to the schooner Ann Smith , lying at the
wharf, captured the captain, and attempted
to tow the schooner out, but finding they
could not succeed, they burnt her. The
schooner Faun;/ was run up Crystal river,
and succeeded in making her escape. The
Federals burnt the wharves at Cedar Keys,
with everything on them, including about
fifty bales of cotton and about oue hun
dred and fifty barrels of turpentine. The
captain of the schooner Ann Smith, and
some civilians who were captured, were re
leased, after two days’ imprisonment, on ta
king the oath not to bear arms against the
I inted States. The Yankees did not bom
bard the town, as has been reported, but
destroyed all the property within their reach.
It is that they were infoimed, in
reference to tlie property and unprotected
condition of the place, bv fishermen in the
neighborhood. —Savannah ics.
Frauds in the Treasury Department.
—We are aware of the recent occurrence of
some buhl frauds on the treasury, which
have been conveniently hushed up in that
department.. We have avoided any particu
lar statement of facts, as Mr. Meuuninger,
instead of bringing the matter to the exam
ination of the civil courts, where it would
have got to the public, adopted the expedient
of turning out all the clerks in one of the
rooms of the department, thereby confound
ing the innocent with the guilty, on account
of the former of whom were loth to make
the subject oue of publication in the news
papers.
In the matter, however of those frauds
there has been an amount of official careless
ness and negligence to which we not only
lcel free, but are constrained by public du
ty, to refer. It appears that the fraud con
sisted in the abstraction of whole sheets of
signed treasury notes. At one time one |
sheet was abstracted, and the fraud reported
to Air. Mennmnger. But a few days ago j
two sheets were abstracted. In both in
stances, occurring at differrent times, the
fraud was accomplished by the neglect in
tlie department to cut the sheets as they
passed from hand to hand. Each sheet
probably represented several thousand dol
lars, and was as.good as so much money,
and the practice of shuttling them from hand
to hand, and taking no account of them, af
fords not only an instance of the grossest
carelessness ever heard of in a government,
but actually offering a premium for the fraud
of clerks. What would be thought of not
counting coin in a mint; and vet it would
be less reckless than the omission to count
sheets of paper representing thousands of
dollars, any one ot which might be abstract
ed as easily as a single gold eagle from a
bean of coin. —Richmond Examiner.
Tli<* Mew Orleans Tigers.
The Centreville correspondence of the
Louisville Courier says:
Asa sequel to the execution of the two
“Tigers,” by order of court martial, I have
to record that yesterday morning, the bodies
of two officers of the «th Louisiana Kegiijient,
were found with their throats cut. They
were the officers of the day and officer of the
guard at the time of the commission of the
outrage by the “Tigers," aud were instru
mental in bringing them to punishment.
MACO: -11 iA :
VVi ilnesdav, Jaguar) 29, 1862.
ZW We publish on the first page an interesting
article from the CVtarlewton Courier. The reader
will do well to file it away for reference.
We are compelled to omit a communica
tion trom L pson, this week, for the reason that
it seems unfinished and the want of space. Will
the esteemed writer send the conclusion?
.y
Hon. G. T. Ward, the able member of the
Confederate Congress from Flosida has resigned
his seat in that body.
Zl&' Most cordially do we welcome “Mollie Myr
tle: ’ to our columns, and endorse her closing
sentiment in regard to the encouruginent of South
ern Literature and Southern Institutions. Both
shall have our hearty co-opeartiou and support*
£3*?“ By reference to the proceedings of the
city council it will be perceived that they refuse
to repeal the hog law and give these somewhat
important animals, at this time, tue freedom of
the city.
The news from Savannah is of rather an ex
citing character. Though Macon has sent off so
largely of her gallant sires and sons, there are a
goodly number still left, who, if necessary, will
rush to the defence of our sister city. As no one
knows what a day may bring forth, it is well for
every man who can bear arms to be ready at his
country’s call, to rally to its defence.
STATE ROAD.
We refer the reader to Col Rowland’s advertise
ment. From personal observation as well as the
testimony of others, we are happy to believe this
important interest is in safe hand*.
THE SUPREME COURT
Is now in session in this city—all the members
present, and quite a number of distinguished mem
bers of the bar.
LIEUT. J M. STUBBS.
We are informed that this gentleman is autho
rized to raise a battalion of light infantry for the
war, which w ill be equipped with Enfield Rifles,
and be permitted to serve probably either in Geor
gia or South Carolina. Mr. Sr funs is a gallant
officer and we wish him success in his patiiotic
efforts. The signs of the times indicate that the
services of every man may be needed.
learn that Mr. Marcus A. Win afield
died suddenly, on the 25th inst., near Norfolk, in
the camp of the Floyd Rifles, of which company
he was a member. He was aged about thirty-five
years, and several years a resident of this city.
His remains are sent to Madison (his native place)
for interment.
If the editor of the Telegraph will turn to
his files, commencing with the Presidential cam
paign of 1856, and follow them up to the present
time, he will see how little cause he has for self
gratulation and glorification. He certainly cannot
have forgotten the scene which occurred in his
own office and the deprecatory article w hich fol
lowed it. It is very possible his allusions to Cols.
Trippe, Wright and other “dark lantern” gentle
men may have escaped his memory. His course
towards lion. B. 11. Hill lias been particularly kind
and considerate. How complimentary to ihe per
sonal character of that pure patriot and Christian
gentleman was the intimation, that so intense was
his greed for office that he would buy his way to a
seat in tire U. S. Senate with his “wife’s silver
spoons!”
We repel the insinuation of the Telegraph that
we have assailed private character through the
Messenger, and challenge him to present the proof.
No one dislikes controversy more than ourselves,
but so loug as we occupy our present relations to
the public, we shall fearlessly discharge our duty
as public journalists, regardless alike of the sneers
of the Telegraph or the aspersions of its corres
pondents. Let that paper observe those amenities
and practice those courtesies which generally cha
racterize the editorial profession, and they will be
most gladly reciprocated by the Messenger.
Dr. Thomson, we regret to see, has worked
himself into quite a passion, and, for aught we
know or care, may have achieved, duiing its
paroxysm, in the held of personalities, a mo3t glo
rious victory. As we have no taste or skill for
such encounters, we have no ambition to share
his laurels or dim their lustre. If our articles
upon his official course , wore the aspect of too
much harshness, the public will bear mind that it
was provoked by wanton attacks upon the Messen
ger and its editors, who had uniformly treated
him with courtesy and kindness.
The intimation that the editors of the Messen
ger shrink from responsibility in any respect,
whatever, is entirely gratuitous. When we assail
private character, or suffer others to do it through
our columns, even under the head of “Advertise
ment,” we shall not interpose “cloth” as a shteld
against personal redress.
Equally gratuitous is the allegation that we wish
to suppress “truth,” or that our note to the editor
of the Telegraph bad any reference to the Doctor’s
communication or any particular individual. It
was marked “private,” and related to the general
conduct of that paper, for the last “six years,” to
wards one of the editors of the Messenger. When
the facts and circumstances of the case are made
known to the public—as they will be if necessary
—we have no fears relative to the verdict which
will be rendered by an enlightened public in re
gard to the propriety of our course. With this
brief statement, we dismiss the subject for the
present, and give our attention to other aud more
important matters.
GUN. ZOLLICOFFER,
ho so gallantly fell at the battle of Somerset,
was born in Maury county, Tenn., May 19th, ISI2.
lie served Ijr a few months iu a printing office,
and then undertook the conduct of a newspaper
at Paris, Tenn. lu 1534 he was editor and pub
lisher of the Columbian Observer , and iu 1835 was
elected State printer of Tennessee. Iu 1842, he
removed to Nashville and edited the Banner. In
1843 he was elected Comptroller of the State
Treasury and was re-elected in 1845 and 1547 ; in
1849 he was elected to the State Senate, aud in
1853 was eleeted Representative in the United
States Congress where he served several vears
with distinction. He was among the first Briga>
dier Generals commissioned by the Confederate
Government.
Editor's Convention. —lt is proposed to hold an
Editorial Convention at Atlanta about »he middle
of March, lor the purpose of making better ar
rangements for procuring telegraphic news from
all points that exist at present.
N'JTI E’'
Is a! ,we thirty, ss req are . . ..itmcr 10 ine ta«
’article from the Mayor, th.v appearad in the Tele
graph of the 27th inst. The subject will bear no
new phase that may be attempted to be given it;
is comprised in a very few facts. We have
said, and repeat it,"(however mortifying it may be
to admit it,) that city property has been devoted
to vile purposes, and become a nuisance to the
peace and discreditable to the character of a neigh
borhood. We have said to whom this is to be as
cribed, which has not, and cannot be denied. Also,
that other property in the vicinity is occupied in
the same manner, and under the same control, and
is slid more objectionable to the community in the
acts of some of its occupant*, nrnate uereiuiuic
excepted a few—about uie earn**, aud smallest
number that could have saved Sodoru from its
doom of fire and brimstone. Os such matters, the
neighboring citizens have a right to, and do com
plain. If our unemployed public property is to
coufer a benefit on any person, none would be
more worthy, or entitled to it than soldier’s wives
and families, and their cause we have been advo
eating from the commencement. Our columns
bear us aud the public testimony, notwithstanding
tie contrary is insinuated in such significant terms
as might bear me mteience of attempting to inau
gurate mobocracv, for our reproval, as we suppose,
for noticing abuses and nuisances.
The Mayor says of soldier’s wives, “are we to
take from their sides their sworn protectors, ar.d
then suffer them to be subjected to indignities at
which their honest natures shudder?” This is the
very class whose cause we have advocated, but
have said that theie were others who should not
rely on,the ladies’ benefactions for support, as
“their honest natures might shudder” by the con
tact, and that they should rely on individuals.
Our great offence with his Honor seems to have
been committed in writing a small paragraph re
specting the disposition of funds raised by the la
dies, to be distributed to the poor, in which we
incidentally introduced the word “worthy” a
woid, as we supposed, appreciated, aud its import
respected in all times and ages, by saint, sinner,
Jew, Gentile and savage—and for the first time,
to our surprise, have fouud it offensive to any one.
His attack made on it was officious and uncalled
tor, and the intention very evident—and such as
will never be sanctioned by a virtuous and* honest
public, whom we think have already passed their
verdict upon it. Where any “malignity” has been
exhibited on our part, we are unable to discover,
ami will excuse his Honor for using harsh terms,
when it is evident that he was ‘‘sorely perplexed”
to make out a case for the public eve. S.
THE CORNER STONE.
We find in this paper, of the 21st inst., under
the head of “ Gov. Brown and local Legislation,”
some very forcible strictures. Our excellent Brother
Bethune, takes the game law passed at the last
session of the legislature, forbidding the killing of
game in R chmond county, except at certain sea
sons of the year, as the basis of his remarks and
in illustration of the evils of local legislation. We
have complied with aid request and submitted
bis “account of a trial, which may take place iu
Richmond county next fall upon an indictment of a
m in for killing a partridge in September” to “oue
ot our most able jurists, aud safe and enlightened
legislators” for his opinion. He lias authorized
us to say that, after much reflection, and deep
ajul thorough cogitation, it is his deliberate opin
ion, that the editor ol the Corner Stone wag great
ly in default ol his duty in not adddressing his im
aginary speech to his friend, the Governor, before
tlie obnoxious bill received his sanction. If he
had enlightened Ilis Excellency, as he has the
Juris', with his able, chase, ornate and eloquent
speech, it would, no doubt, brought forth a veto,
lor it contains just such views, and so felicitously
expressed, as His Excellency usually indulges in
himself. A fellow feeling would have made them
irresistabie. We are inclined to favor the views
of our worthy contemporary, and think every man
should be permitted to kill game on his own lands
or fish in his own streams whenever he pleases.
As for the editor himself, our friend, the “Jurist,”
says he knows how utterly impossible it is to turn
an impracticable man fiom the error of his ways,
and he begs leave to decline making the effort, for
lex nemincm cogit ad impossibility
The same paper contains a very pungent article
upon the Confederate Congress—its proposition
to abridge the liberty of the press and its usurpa
tions geuetally.
RELIGIOUS PAPERS.
We welcome again to our table “ The Banner &
Baptist” published in Atlanta, and are also happy
to learn that the venerable Christian Index, tem
porarily suspended, will soon be revived in our
city.
FIRE IN ~AMERIC uiT
We regret to learn that the building occupied
by Mr. J. W. Wheatly as a large provision and
groeery store, and owned by our worthy friend,
Mr. James Stewart, of Americas, was entirely con
sumed by fire, with all its contents on Tuesday
mght of last week. The printing office of the
Sumter Republican , by Mr. C. W. Hancock,
who is now absent iu the army, the law books and
papers of Kent McKay 1 sq., and Ilills, also
Cook’s Deguerrean Rooms were in the same build
ing and destroyed. There was no insurance on
any of the property. We sympathise with the
sufferers, especially with our contemporary of the
Republican. We hope the friends of that paper
will come to its rescue. A slip will be issued until
re-establishe.!. The fire is supposed to be the
result of accident.
DRUNKENESS IN THE AEMY-
The Augusta Constitutionalist, Savannah Repub
lican and other influential journals are very prop
erly raising their voice of warning against the vice
of intemperance which now prevails largely in
portions of our army. The latter paper says:
If some check is not put upon it speedily, our
camps will be demoralized and utterly unfit for
the duties of the soldier. No wonder our bospit*
als are filled with patients suffering from pneumo
nia and other diseases resulting from exposure.—
Let those whose duty it is, set about at once and
effect a reformation. *
Speaking of the terrible disaster to our arms
ia the recent battle in Kentucky, the Nashville
Gazette says:
We fitmly believe that the investigations to be
made of the causes leading to this great disaster
to our arms will disclose the fact that Gen. Crit
tenden was at the time of the action in an almost
beastly state of intoxication and had been so, al
most incessantly, since the commencement of his
connection wit's the Confederate Army. We shall
feel some little astonishment if this investigation
does not also connect with Crittenden’s crime of
drunkenness, the greater sins of treason, treachery
and cowardice.
We hope that developments will show that this
judgmeut is too harsh and hasty. The whole
country should, ho#ever, be aroused upon this
subject.
THE DISASTROUS DEFEAT,
1 Os tbe forces under Gen. Crittenden, aud the
j toss of a large amount of munitions and army
subsistence, whilst it must be greatly deplored and
will somewhat embarrass army operations in that
section of tbe country, should by no means dispir
it our people. It would indeed be marvellous were
no reverses to happen to our armies. It is won
derful that so few have occurred. Let us nerve
ourselves up for the couihct which is likely to rage
lor awhile most fiercely.
GEN. ZOLLIOOFFER.
Most deeply do we deplore the death of this gal
lant soldier and sound atalesUidi —most sincerely
1 do we lament the defeat ot band. When
, the cause of the South wu- the scales
t in his native State, when he Union
which he so ardently lo- 1. defended
was irretrivably sunder*. all the weight
of his great influence into the balance to make
Tenuessee a unit in the pending struggle for a
new nationality. Tennessee mourns the untimely
but glorious end of her cherished son, and her
sisters will mingle their teats with hers over
his memory. On the reception of the melancholy
intelligence at Nashville, the Mayor addressed the
‘ iV.tOwiug message to the City Council:
Mator’s Office, City llall, )
January 23, 1662. )
To the Honorable City Council:
With a heart full of sadness, I announce to both
houses of the City Council, the death of oneot our
distinguished fellow citizens, General Felix K. Zol
lieoffer, who nobly fell iu tbe defence of his couu
try on the 19th inst., in an unequal engagement
with the enemy. His loss will send a thrill of sad
ness throughout the South, and the warm gushing
tears shed to his memory in this, the city of his
i residence, attests the estimation in which he was
held at home, and where he was best known.
A descendant of a noble Swiss, but born in a
neighboring county, always magnanimous, eliival
ric and brave—his name was a proverb of true
manliness ; early attracting the notice of his fellow
men. He was a printer, then an editor, then
Comptroller of the State Treasury, then a member
of Congress, and then a General in our Army, and
always the high-toned and intelligent. A feeling
of unusual sadness falls upon the heart, at the tid
ings of the loss of such a man. He was a brjjve
commander and true soldier. The city of Nashville
lost one of her jewels when Zollicofter fell! And
our people will mingle iheir tears, with the mem
bers of his family, in a loss which will be sensibly
felt by the whole Confederacy.
I make the official announcement for thepurpo.se
of recommending the Council, if his remains shall
be brought here, to attend his funeral in a body
and to take such action as they may deem proper.
Respectfully,
K. B. Cheatham, Mayor.
TEMPERANCE IN THE ARMY.
Wlii’st there is much wr.tten and said in regard
to the demoralization of our brave soldiery, in
camp, we are glad that efforts are made for their
moral safety as well as physical comfort. With
the approbation of Gen. Huger, the Sons of Tem
perance are zealously at work to protect the sol
diers of that gallant command from the masked
batteries of an invader more to be dreaded than
the Federalists. We also find the following Gen
eral Order from an old Florida friend, in the Talla
hassee Floridian. We hope those in authority
will, by every possible means, discourage and dis
countenance the twin vices :
The Ring of tiie Truk Metal.— Col. Dilworth,
Senior Colonel commanding at Fernandina, has
issued the following peremptory order, by which
those twin vices, drinking and gambling, are pro
hibited and banished from the Island of Amelia :
General Order, No. 25. )
Head-Quarter* , Avidia and Talbot Islands
Fort Clinch, December 30th, 1861. i
1. The use of intoxicating liquors among the
soldiers of this Post has beeoni' so deleterious to
the proper deeipline and good order of this Army,
that the commander of this Post deems it abso
lutely necessary, for the good of the public service,
to put an effective stop to this, the greatest curse
of the camp. While the necessaries of life cannot
be had, clothing and shoes cannot be procured at
any price, the Liquor \ ender still has an inex
haustible supply of this curse. While the soldier
is toiling to prepare the defences of this Post, the
vender of this evil moves not a hand to protect
his country, but is planning through this medium,
the means of obtaining the pittance of the volun
teer when pay day arrives. Thus the poison is
administered, di orde r ensues, the citizens are dis
turbed and disgusted, the soldier unfitted for duty,
demoralized, and his physical strength exhausted,
while the liquor vender is the first to exclaim
against the outrages perpetrated by a depraved
soldier. T herefore, the sale of liquors or ardent
spirits is forbidden on Amelia Island, or at or near
any ot the camps ot this Post, except upon the or
der ol the Senior Surgeon of this I’ust, for medical
.purposes.
2. Another evil of the camps is that of gambling.
Gamblers, the harpies of society, keep well posted
as to pay days, ami assemble at or near the camps
tor the purpose of replenishing their empty poekers
bom the pay ot the soldier. The victim is plied
with every means (liquor is most commonly used,)
to get him to the gaming table ; w hen once there
his pocket is emptied, when the sharper huuts an
other and another victim. The soldier then may
fight the battles of his country in rags and tatters,
while the gambler lives in ease and comfort on his
ill gotten gains.
Gambling and gaming of all kinds is therefore
forbidden on the Island of Amelia, or in or near
the camp3 of this Post. These two vices, the
commander of this Post is determined shall no
longer blight the camps of this Post.
3. Colonel Edward Hopkins will detail a sufficient
guard from the 4th Regiment and the companies
encamped in and near Fernandina, to be posted
around tbe city of Fernandina, and make it his es
pecial duty to enforce this order in and around the
city of Fernandina, and commanders of other
can'ps of this Post will see that this order is rigidly
enforced and carried out. By order of
WM. S. DILWORTH,
Colonel Commanding Post.
Tax Collectors.— As many inquiries are being
made for the reasons why the commissions of Tax
Collectors have been not been sent with the com
missions for other county officers, says the Federal
l nion , we are requested to state that an act passed
by the last General Assembly makes it the duty of
the Governor to withhold tbe commissions of all
tax collectors till 12th March next.
"A Startling Fact.— At the mass meeting last
evening in this city,” says the Charleston Courier
of Monday, “held in behalf of Colportage among
the Virginia soldiers, it was stated fifty thousand
soldiers in that State are destitute of a copy of
the New Testament. The Colportage Board, lo
cated in Richmond, is doing a sublime work in
supplying this destitution.”
What is the religious public in Georgia doing to
supply this fearful destitution ?
Commissioners.— The following named gentle
men have been appointed by the Confederate Dis
trict Judge, Commissioners to take acknowledg
ments of deeds, depositions, Ac.:
V iley Williams, of Columbus.
William T. Gould,, of Augusta.
William Hope Hull, of Athena.
James T. Nisbet, of Macon.
Col. M. Myers was also appointed Commissioner,
at the late term at Marietta.
“.floral Beautl-M from Hm Hrart ol Wo~
• mi*ii ;«r V<ii«* 8 (r*uii tkic «oti«lt ’’
Is the title ot a worn edited, an. -.*«> j i»c
published, by Dr. T. 5. Powell, Prof, in th* Atlan
ta Medical College. And, excepting an t ,*v on
woman by the editor, it will be entirely composed
of contributions from southern lady writers, n-n.
whom are some of our most brilliant and distin
guished female authors. Those who have read
Mrs. Gilman’s works w ill hail with delight any thing
emanating from her truly gifted pen; and the ad
mirers of “ Beulah,” that offspring of a powerful
mind, will be pleased to learn that Miss Evans has
prepared them & literary treat iu Moral Beauties;
so, also, has Miss Dupuy, the talented author of
the “Conspirator," and Madam Le Vert, and Mrs.
French, Bryan. Vaughan, Shindler, McLeod, and
a host of others; making iu ail a southern literary
constellation. The articles contributed are of every
description, and written iu every style, according
to the ability or fancy of each writer; poetry,
romance, history, and philosophy, from the sub
lime to grave, gay, pathetic and sentimental. It
abounds in pure, rich, and deep thought; and
sparkles with the scintilations of dazzling wit.—
We may confidently expect the work to compete, (
in excellence, with any that has been handed i
down to us from northern publishing houses;
while the price will be such as to secure it a wel- j
come in every southern home.
The object of its publication is laudable and
praiseworthy—the nett proceeds to be employed
by Dr. Powell in establishing a borne for invalid
ladies, in the city of Atlanta, for the proper treat
ment of the thousand and one diseases that female
flesh is heir to. Such an enterprise as this, deserves
the support of every southern heart. We need an
iustitution of this kind, and we must build it. We
need a literature, the South is too far behind other
nations in this respect, for we have cone, and we
must go to woik and make it, as we would any
thing else we need and the public demands; even,
then, it will fall back as a dead weight into the
stagnant waters from which it struggles to aiise,
unless it meets a helping hand from the people.—
It is useless to declare our independence unless
we arc willing to maintain it by encouraging do
mestic institutions and literature.
Mollie Mtrtlk.
[communicated.]
To Major Thompson.
Please state to the public what disposition has
been made of the two ware houses on the old
Macon aud Western Depot yards. If rented to
whom, and by whom, and for what amount. Some
of the tax payers complain that you make fi-h of
some and liesh of others. Messrs. Nogc and 110 l
lings worth had to rent (lie brick yard, under pro
posals, as the highest bidders, from the committee
on public property, after carrying the m alter tin o’
the Legislature. TAX PAY. R.
ANOTHER SOLDIER GONE.
We are pained to learn that Walter Scott Il.irJ
en, son of A. T. Harden, our Postim stor, died of
Camp Fever, at Richmond on Monday, the ]3tli
inst. lie was a lovely youth of some 13 years, a
favorite all who knew him, ad« sirable com
panion, an excellent soldier and a young man ot
tine promise ot future boih to his own
community and the com try at large. Bul he has
gone, another rich sacrifice upon tin* altar of our
country’» sacred cause. “Liie’tj fitiul fever ovei
he sleeps swe. tiv now.”
We join with the entire community in heart fi ll
sympathy with his bereaved parents, on account
ot this most sad and melancholy alii ctioli. Max
He who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb, be
their stay in this sad hour. llonie Fourier.
'V e knew Walter well, many years gone bv, as
a sabbath school scholar and lad ot good promise.
Sincerely do we sympathise with his worthy and
stricken parents.— Mess.
IMPORTANT.
A writer in the Mobile Advertiser, from Pen
sacola, gives tl«e following ‘‘‘‘intensely'' important
intelligence :
One of the great, and the greatest abominations
of the vermin species, that annoys the army at
tht3 place, is the ffi*a—the mill itudinous fl.-a.--
Matiy’s the night I have not sh-pt a w : nk, from tin
annoying visitations of the fleas. I have tiled
many tie vices to get rid of them, arid all failed but
one. 1 have found the secret out at last, aud fl
it is of vast, importance to the artnv, I hasten to
reveal if. Ihe infallible flea bane is vinegar.—
Rub your bodv well with vinegar, and the 11 *a will
cut your acquaintance as quick ns his elastic leg
will carry him off. I have ired it, and sptak from
experience.
RATHE* PUNGENT.
The Richmond Examiner says:
It is not the blockade that is making the tear so
hard, or the want of patriotic fire that is weaken
ing the enthusiasm of the country ; but it is the
extortioners who add to the distresses of the
times, pinch the poor and carry the painful realiza
tion of war home to every fireside
The extortioner, in a time of war, is not only
the spoiler of the poor, but the worst enemy of
his country. The conduct of Judas Iscariot squ . red
with the maxims of commerce; and so nisv every
villain plead, who sells the innocent blood and
cooliy betrays his country to sati-fv his gr* ed for
gold. However the government may nurse and
tolerate the extort’orier, and however he mav
hedge himself in the gain of oppressions and in
the pampered insolence of riches, there is a day
of retribution. He will be an outeu-t from the
new order of “society” that is fast ensuing in the
South, when the claims to all social consideration
will be the services and sacrifices of patriotism.—
He will then be marked with scorn and hunted
from the ease of his riches and the peace of his
mind, and will transmit the brand of his infamy
to his posterity.
“ Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needv,
even to make the poor of the land to fail; saying’,
when will the new moon be gone, that we may
sell corn; that we may buy the poor for silver
and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell
the refuse of tne wheat ? Shall not the land trem
ble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth
therein ? I will turn your feasting into mourning,
saith the Lord God, and your songs into lamenta
tions. ’ — Amos, ch. 8, vers. 4 to 10.
The following advertisement appears in a Cana
da paper:
“ VV aR ! war ! ! war !!! —To the Colored Popu
lation.— Ail the Colored Male Inhabitants of Dunn
ville and the surrounding country desirous of join
ing Her Majesty’s Roval Volunteer Militia, can do
so by calling at my othee, where the service roll is
now lying for signatures. Whea completed, the
company will be officered.
“3. Amsrkn, Capt. Com g Yol. R. C.
“Dunnvdle, Dec. 2)?, 1861.”
Tbe N. Y. Tribune remarks:
“ Wouldn’t it be 6trange to see these fugitives
from the blessings of slavery employed by Eng
land, the great Abolitionist power, in a war for
the establishment of Jeff. Davis’ negro despotism ?
’Tis a queer world.”
Another old Citizen Gone.—Dr. Hugh
Neisler, aged ninety, probably the oldest in
habitant of the county, died on the 13th.—
He was quiet and retired in his habits, aud
respected by all who knew him. .Thus one
by one are our old citizens dropping into the
grave, and exchanging the mortal for the
immortal and the “corruptible for the incor
ruptible.—Athens Banner , 227
For! Pn4j»«*ltt " "'S
LtlCuiy,
i j i’ * .‘ 1 veiti incut in ,j,
'r JV * C ; lU ' ,ui ,y . and re P”rt that l e
! -CD >f t.: ID my had entered th,.- * w
ofLitti, Tybee and had ZLj
north poition of Wilmington M 7
smon where they could readi],- T , t 0 ‘ *
passing up and down the n>er Ti • ?eßßel *
was brought by the Ida on h f ‘' 3 rt T r
from the fort, aud she bom .v foturn tn»
truth about her. Sure*! &,"'*• <*
at her ou her passage up, and aXI? **
ded iu some twenty feet of her i • F
i one, but breaking a portion ’of
about the boat by the coueussion > I ''
they be allowed to remain where th *
the navigation of the river may hoc
a3 closed to unarmed vessels
We saw two gentlemen last evenio
were hunting in a boat at the north . i
of \\ iiiuiugton when the Yankees matU ‘
appearance. They shelled the I>] ai
every direction, aud indicated bv their *
inents that they intended to effect a
!at Scriven’s plantation. Tb*» ‘
I ing to the city around the norm tuu *
mington was heavily piled some mml.
and it will be impossible for the V,
boats to pass uutil the obstructions >h\
\ been removed, which will prove no coy
| Should the enemy succeed in maim
his present position, communication V"
Fort Pulaski will be cut off', for the r .
before stated, though wo have the mean'
making their berth anything but a ( v .
table one. The fort is well supplied u
provisions and water, perhaps euougii ;
six months, and has little to fear from
t uc k.
j Upon the arrival of the Ida, i D f o , n! i ,-
was immediately communicated to th •
tary aud naval authorities, who took |. r , la * :
measures to meet the emergency. Tuf
uately, Com. TatnalFs little fleet w.,.
Thunderbolt, having been attracted by f,
warlike demonstrations of the cm;
\V arsaw Sound, and to remove his v*»- .
town was a matter of immediate and ;r,.
ing importance. We were at Thuivl.-rM:
when the ffeet turned their heads upstrou
and notwithstanding they had to i»a>- m i
neighborhood of the enemy, the U nnni !
was hopeful of getting through in sufVtv
All the vessels that went into Wars
Saturday afternoon, left early \ ‘-trr!:
morning, but eight of them returned iu t:.
afternoon.
It is but proper that wo should exh >rt on
people to the calm aud res date under i
circumstances that now surround th.m.-
We do not consult r the city in any imtn
ate danger if in all, and licnc,
can see no ground f« r alarm, whilst we 7
every reas .n to be diligent in our pn :...
lion to meet every emergency that nny :ir.
P. S. —Just as our country edition g
to press, we are gratified to 1 e übl*» t
nounco the safe arrival of the Com.ni*!
and his vessels. There were seven re.s.std»
at the north end of WiSmingt n. eng . and iu
efforts to remove the piling across the *n
nel.— >S(iv<innuh I\<publa an of y‘>[,nUr>.
The Ruinside Fleet.
The Richmond Uxamuirr, of Jan.?ltfi,
gives a lengthy account of the Uurnside ii
According to that account, the string!
I lie fleet is as follows :
Steamer Picket, (gunboat), with (1
Rurnside and staff on board, S mJ wli
steamers, 8 propellers, (gunboats) f> ti
batteries (in tow,) G ship--, (two oi ti.
hospital ships,) 4 barks, 2 brigs, I ■> -di
ers, 5 ships, I barge—total 53, which -
trout Annapolis. The 9 gunboats cti
38 guns. In addition to the above, a
of 12 or 1«) largo s zed schooners have !•
, chartered, to carry horses, provision*, <
nance, and baggage—s of these are li
; transports, 2 pontoon bridge side
siege train schooner, and 8 supply v-
The total number of guns distribute 1 ‘
the transport fleet is 45, not including tit
on the floating butteries, and all but and a
rifled. Adding to these Bulgier*s haft
and there is equivalent to 51 pieces of
artillery iu the expedition, and all
rifled.
The floating batteries carry Pi g ,; n. j ,
are protected by breastworks of 3 b ; 0
A signal corps of 22 Lieutenants and t
privates accompany the expedition. P
arc also two pontoon trains and a di\ -
hospital. The military force consists o‘
Massachusetts, 3 Connecticut, 3 New \ i
1 Pennsylvania, 1 New Jersey, 1 Nt
Hampshire, and 1 Rhode Is) .and iegituen!
and 1 Rhode Island battalion.
Bad, Blossom and Fruit. —A -genth n
handed us, yesterday, a sprig taken fr "•
myrtle orange tree in Greenville, that
ing, bearing buds, floweis, and fruit. £<-i:.
of the fruit on the tree was fully ri{ °,
some green. The buds and blos-oni-
the third crop of the season. This is, if
unparalleled, yet exceedingly rare, f r
month of January, even in our “£i u >
South.” — Ac it Orleans Picayune .
Cotton and Coffee. —We learn from t
who have tested the matter, that tae o
of Sea Island Cotton, parched and pr* f
as coffee, are fully iqual to the le-t M
coffee imported, and that the seeds of
upland prepared in the same way make
excellent coffee.— Columbia Guardian.
The New York llerald's Washington
patch says;
Champion Vaughan will be on Gee Jl
- staff, with the rank of Colonel P
is a South Carolinian, bat for many y
noted anti-slavery man. When Lane ***
confirmed a Rrigadier-General by the 7*-
ato, the other day, Vaughan sent a di'P a
to Leavenworth, in these words; “Lan :l
c nfirmed. Glory to God ! Let the rtP
hunt their holes V*
The Postmaster General lately wr
postmaster in Virginia that his office u:
be discontinued, iu consequence ol it' F ;
imity to another office, lhe postinu-'<J
plied, complainiug bitterly of the disc
U ance —not for the sake of the salary, wt”-
was 62 J cents a week—but on aeo ul !
the charge of proximi f y % “for,” sai lP •
never was guilty of proximity in m)
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Fire at Fort Gaines.— We regret to 7'
Fori Gaiues was tHited'wiih a destruni
Sm dav iiinht last, destrojin ' a ho'el
oilier buiidings. Ungin unknown.