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Journal & Messenger, i
j. KNOWLES ami 8. HOSE,
EDITORS iVl> PROITirCTORa.
V Proolnma i ion.
Kxeoutivk Department. i
Miiledgeville, F< b lltb, t
j o the Plo pm: or Georgia :
f hf*-outrageon- 1 u.-iurpaiiori* of power ami
aggressions up- >d our right*, committed by
the Federal Government. and the absolute
degradation r> which the Southern people
were exposed it the) submitted to the rule
of Mr. Lincoln, who was elevated to power
by the abolitiouists and protectionists ot the
North, compelled the State of Georgia, in
common with her other southern sisters,.to
withdraw from a Union in which the consti
tutional rights of her people were no longer
respected, and their lives and property no
longer secure. After the cession of the
Southern States and the establishment of
the Confederate States Government, the ty
rannical despotism which rules at Washing
ton waged a wicked and bloody war upon
the people of these States, because in the
exercise of one of the sacred rights of free
men, we threw off the yoke of bondage
attempted to be fastened upon us and our
posterity, and refused to be “hewers of wood
and drawers of water'’ for a haughty and in
solent people, who claimed the right to com
pel us to render obedience to their mandates.
In their attempt to subjugate us the
Northern troops have been permitted to dis
regard all the rules of civilized warfare
They have not only ytolen our property and
laid waste the country behind them, where
they have advanced within our territory,
run with fiendish malignity, thov have on
several occasions, in cold blood, "shot down
unarmed and unoffending women and chil
dren. Not only have they disregarded all the
dictates of humanity, but with sacrilegious
infidelity, they have even desecrated the al
tars of God, and have defiled, and polluted,
our churches and places of public W orship.
While tho troops in Ihe field have been
perpetrating these enormous wrongs, the
Lincoln cabinet lias in uniaiinu of the plain
cst principles of the constitution, suspended
the writ of hnhras corpus, and lias oidered
the seizure and imprisonment, of Southern
men, und Southern women, and of such as
as sympathize with us, lor nu indefinite pe
riod, without the verdicts of juries, the
judgments of courts, or the sentence of
courts martial. Some of the noblest and
truest sous and daughters of Georgia are in
cluded in the uumber, whose rights have
been thus wantonly outraged
iiut those outrages art* not confined to the l
cabinet. The Lincoln Gong reps has passed
laws confisaang a very largo portion of tho
property of the Southern people, and a bill
Ji now pending before that body, if it Ims
not already pased, to assess an exceedingly
burdensome tax against the lands of .•very
man in the South, to assist them t.> carry on
the War for our destruction ; and if tho tax
is not paid into their treasury after a short
period, the bill declares that all our lands
shall be confiscated, and taken from us, and
authorizes the President as fast as ho gains
possession of the country by force of arms,
to neize the lands, eject their Southern ow
ners Iron* them, and colonizo them with
'* ar*keen and Foreigners, who are to hold
them under the authority of* the United
States, and to take possession of our negroes
and compel them to cultivate the hinds ta
ken from us for the benefit of the Northern
Government. The object of this act, is the
geueral confiscation of all the lands of the
South, to the Lincoln < lovernmont. If con-
quered, we arc to be driven from them ; and
leave them to be occupied by our most dead
ly enemies. It is already the public boast
of one of the Northern Generals, who in also
a U. 8. Senator, that it is the settled policy
of the Government, to make the lands of
the sunny South, the homo of a colony of
Negroes, belonging to the North, under
masters and rulers appointed by that Gov
ernment. To accomplish this it is pro
posed to ami the negroes, and incite them to
destroy our wives and our children.
Not content with depriving us of all onr
lands, it is the known policy of that Govern
ment, to take the balance of our property,
to pay the debts which they have contracted
in preparation for our subjugation. This
debt already reaches nearly one thousand
'tn-nuuvi oj dollars. If then we are over
come, wo not only lose all the lands and all
the other property we possess ; but we must
i>e driven from the homos of onr ancestors,
and must, leave their graves, and the altars
which they have bequeathed to us, to be
trampled under loot by our insolent masters:
tti"l what I- still infinitely worse, we lose our
ci\il and religious UWrti.es, amt must trans
mit an heritage oi bondage to onr posterity.
Will Georgians ever submit to thsae out
rages It wo do, while there js a man in
the. Suite able to bear arms, a lady able to
work to clothe him, and a dollar with which
to support him in the field ; wo have degen
erated, and are unworthy our ancestors.—
Nay, more, we are unworthy the sacrifices
which have been nude foV our protection :
by the noble sous of our State, who on many
a battle field have lately poured out. their
Lie’s blood, a willing offering in illustration
of our character, and vindication of our cause.
ifut, my countrymen, if we would avert
the calamities to which l have alluded. *e
must awake from the slumbers oi iahso
my, uad thousands more frojn Georgia must
un oediately flv to arms.
The Lincoln Government now has over
half a million of men in the field, armed
accoutred and equipped* with all the outfits
accessary tor the sovliey. These troops are
enlisted for the t.ca,\ Most of them are be
coming well trained. That Government al
so has a large naval force, and bus the oou
irol of the seae around us. and of part of our
inland waters. Our ports are blockaded.—
The territory of almost every sGte in the
Confederacy, including the teriitorv of our
own Georgia, is now iuvaded by a heavy
threatening force. Soon the blow is to ho
mrickety with terrible furv on manva. bloody
hold, mt * * • !
To meet this vast force, we Lave a smaller ;
number- Os this number a large proportion
entered the service for a term which expires „
during tliQ ensuing spring. The enemy \
lor k- to this fact with great interest, and ex- -
poets to strike the decisive blow, when we .
m * weakened hv the discharge of more than j
half our entire army. This we must not j
permit, but without delay, we must much
Inure than fill the places of all, whose terms
expire, and who came l re-enlist. Our
troops now in the field have shown a noble j
self-sacrificing disposition,and 1 cannot doubt. ■
that every ouo of them who can possibly do ]
| will respond elrnei fulls to ihe.ir country e
i call in this* solemn hour ot trial, and prompt
ly re-enlist. for tin uu. After this ha* been
•lone, many more will still be needed, and
«c must n->i deceive-ourselves, by supposing
that those now in the field can do all that
is required.
With a view to meet the present emergen
cy, the President of the Confederate States
has made a requisition, upon the Governors
of the diffeienfc States, for such additional
force, to serve for three years or during thc\
v:ai\ as in his judgment is sufficient for the
present crisis.
In carrying out this wise policy he called
upon me your Governor, to furnish twelve
additional regiments, from Georgia for the
length of time above specified, by the 15th
of March if possible, I am requested to order
the troops into camps of instruction, and am
authorized by the Secretary of War to say,
that he will furnish them at the expense of
the Confederate States with “clothing equip
ments and arms” and that a bounty oi fifty
dollars will be paid to each volunteer pri
vate, so soon as the company is mustered
into service, and that transportation will be
furnished to each from his home to the place
of rendezvous. The law also authorizes the
volunteers to elect their own officers. In
compliance with the request of the Secreta
ry ot War ( will establish three camps of
instruction. One at camp McDonald seven
miles above Marietta outlie W. & A. It.
Road : one at. camp Stephens near Griffin ;
arid one at camp Davis thirty miles from Sa
vannah on the Central rail road. Under
this requisition from the President it be
comes my duty to cull upon rhe chivalrous sons
of the Lnpire State win* still remain at home,
to emulate iln> noble example of those who
have gone before them to the field, and to
contribute their part to sustain the high
character won for Georgia by the valor of
her troops it* every contest where they have
met their country’s the. In view of the
past, i cannot permit myself to entertain a
reasonable doubt, that the whole number re
quired will immediate!v it-spond as volun
teer.-;. Surely no true patriotic son of our
*State, when all tin* property he possesses,
his -life, and the liberties of' his posterity are
at stake, will wait to he forced into the
field fnj draft. Were Georgia’s sons capable
ol this, i cannot believe l hut the noble wo
uieu of the State, who have done so much
for the cause, would ever tolerate such de
linquency.
Should ] have the mortification to find
Peat, i am mistaken in this most reasonable
expectation. 1 shall immediately proceed to
detach or draft, such number from each regi
ment or independant battalion in this state,
-i- may bo necessary with the number who
may voluuteer, to make up the quota requir
ed from each Regiment or Independent bat
in lion. J The statute docs not require that the
draft be made by lot , but leaves the mode
of making the detachment or draft to the
discretion of the commander in chief.
Let it be remembered that no bounty is
paid to the soldier who has to be loreed by
a draft to defend his home, and that the
proper authority has the light to assign to
him the officers by whom he is to bo com
manded. The bounty and the elective fran
chise belong under the law, only to the brave
volunteer. That the question may be decid
ed without delay, and the required regiments
be raised immediately, either by the accep
tance of volunteers, or by detachment or
\ draff; ; the Adjutant and Inspector General,
under my direction, will proceed to issue
orders to the.commanding officer of each
Regiment, or Independent Battalion in this
►State, and if the regiment or battalion, is
not fully organized, then to the Senior offi
cer entitled to the command, informing him
of the number of men required from his
•command and directing him to call out the
-Regiment or Independent battallion, at the
Regimental or Battallion parade ground, cn
Tuesday the 4th day of March next, and
each and every man in Georgia liable to do
military duty, is hereby required to take no
tice and attend at the parade ground of the
Regiment or Independent Battallion to
whiieh he belongs on that day. When the
Regiment or Battallion is assembled the
Commanding officer will be required to call
tor such number of volunteers as are required
from his Gotnmand. If a sufficient number
do not respond to the call lie will be direct
ed to detach or draft the balance of the num
ber needed, taking down as drafted, first the
'names of all who ;ue subject to do Military
duty, who have been notified of the time
and place of such parade and are absent
from it, except for I’rovidontinl cause made
known at the time. The Commanding offi
cer will also receive from the Adjutant and
Inspector General, instructions as to the
■elass next, to he detached, in ease a sufficient
.number has not. been’offered, when this class
is exhausted.
Each Justice of the Peace iu each county
is. also hereby charged with the duty of at
tc uding the parade and reporting to the Com
manding officer the najmes of any persons in
i|j' district subject to do Military duty, who
if ’o not preseat.
Iho commanding officer will on that day
ot required tv> make out a complete roll of
-d: ihe names of persons under his command
.liable to do military duty, and forward a
*'Opy to the Adjutant and inspector Gener
ali's office. -
; 1 cannot close without repeating my ardent
hope, that a number of volunteers sufficient
to fill the entire requisition, will promptly
rrespond. This is required ro sustain the
[ honor of Georgia, her proud position as the
j Empire Btat*i, and the immortality of glory
falready won for her arms by the brilliant
Rfeeds, and heroic daring of her troops in the
[field.
Let. none be discouraged on account of
•our late reverses. . \\ e cannot, expect al
ways to be vi.etoriousi. We have had the
cheering evidences of the interposition
of Divine Providence jtu our favor: while
our arms have crowne A with succession of
Stories which find but few parallels in his-j
tore. True the enemy has the advantage o!!
us upon the waters, but before be can subju
gate us, bo must expose bis troops,, where
we cati meet them hand to hand, and dnvc
them back t by the vse of add stal m c/oar
avarices. Here his courage fails him, and j
here if is that our troops have shown a most
wonderful superiority, and a most remark-;
able heroism. Here thou let every Georgian
go forth, resolved to grapple with mm and
with that true courage that nerves the patri-:
ot.’s arm, here let ns force him to decide tin
contest. If we do this, and are ever mind
ful of the strength of that Almighty arm
upon whose assistance we should humbly
and confidently rely, we cannot tail io drive
tho invader from our genial territory back to
his frozen home.
In this hour of national peril, when our
danger is imminent, trusting in God, who
alone is able to give us victory, but who
will not assist ns, unless we humble our
selves in his presence, and exrnt all ttic
strength with which he has endowed us : I
warn you of the danger which surrounds
you, my countrymen, and as your Com
mander-in-chief, I exhort you to lay aside,
when necessary, every other employment,
and I now summon you immediately to
| arms. Strike before it is too late for your
liberties, vour families, your homes and your
altars. ' JOSEPH K. BROWN.
Caragralis from tlie Charleston Courier
of Mon«lny.
With deep regret we learn that Gen.
Beauregard is sick, in Nashville, of typhoid
fever or sore throat. We understand that
prayers were offered up in our several chur
ches yesterday, commending him to the Di
vine protection.
Major Thomas J. Starke, formerly of Ker
shaw District, is making Salt, on the coast
near Sr. Augustine, Fla., at the rate of six
bushels a day from six boilers.
Too much vigilance and promtness cannot
now he exhibited along the coast, especially
in strengthening the defences and communi
cations of all places defeneible, and in pre
paring lor removal of public stores and prop
erly from other places.—“ Officers to your
posts.”
Porter’s Mortar Fleet.—A gentleman
of high standing, writing from Savannah, to
u friend in this city, says—“l feel a strong
conviciton that Porter s Mortar Fleet is for
Fort Sumter. Look out and tell others.”
It the Mortar Fleet should come in our
waters, we doubt not that Fort Sumter will
give a better account of it, than even Fort
Donelson gave of tho enemy’s gunboats.
What we witnessed on Sunday in our
streets justifies us in repeating our statement
and request in favor of more rigor and strict
ness in granting furloughs. The occasion
demands tin* presence and services in camp
or forts, of all officers and privates who are
fit for duty.
If is reported with confidence that Briga
dier General John C. Pemberton has been
promoted a Major-General. He deserves it.
H. A. Gartrell, editor of the Rome, Geor
gia, Southerner i i* at the Charleston Hotel
on his wav to Virginia, to recevie and bring
home the remains of his lamented friend and
predecessor, George T. Stovall, who was one
of the gallant heroes and martyrs of Manassas.
Confederate Forces oil Roanoke
Island,
Iu the absence of all information from
our own side, we copy from the New York
Herald the following statement of our forces
on Roanoke Island during the late buttle.
It seems that the Georgia regiment in the
tight was the Twenty-fourth, Capt. McMillan,
and not the Third.
THF. REBEL GARRISON ON ROANOKE ISLAND.
General Officers.
Major General Hill, commanding.
Brigadier General Henry A. Wise.
Troops — Wise Ley ion.
Light artillery battery, Capt. Romer.
First regiment, Col. E. 8. Ewall.
Second regiment, Col. Frank Anderson.
Third regiment, Col. J. L. Davis.
Infantry battalion, Lieut. Col. Gibbs.
Infantry battalion, Lieut. Col. Patten.
Infantry battalion, Major Duffield.
Infantry battalion, Major Hansborough.
Georgia regiment, Colonel McMillan.
North Carolina regiment, Colonel
In all about 5,000 troops.
Flizabcfli City Burnt.
We understand that a portion of Burnsides’
piratical fleet made their appearance off
Elizabeth City at an early hour yesterday
morning, and commenced to shell the towfi.
The citizens, however, with a spirit of pat
riotism and self sacrifice, which cannot be
too highly applauded, applied the torches,
and in a half hour the entire town was one
vast sheet, of flame. This is the reception
that everywhere awaits the vandals who are
now desecrating onr soil.
p
Elizabeth City is the capital of Pasquo
tank county, N. C., on the right bank of the
Pasquotauk river, about twenty miles from
its mouth. It is 215 miles from Raleigh,
find 50 miles south of Norfolk, Ya. It is
one of the most considerable towns in the
Northeastern part of the State. Small vessels
ascend the liver to this place and it commu
nicates with Norfolk by the Dismal Swamp
canal. The population was about 3,000 and
it contained two banks, two or three news
paper offices, and several churches.
Wo regret to hear that there- was a large
quantity of government stores a: Elizabeth
City. These, of course, were consumed.—
Petersburg ( Yaf Express, Fel>.
Capitrf or Coasting Vessels.—A letter which
reached.this city on Saturday, from Santee, says
that several small vessels engaged in the Rice trade,
which were detained at or near Bull’s Bay, were
captured by the launches of Lincotn fleet, on Fri
day last, the enemy sinking or destroying both
vessels and cargo. One report stated that the
crew had escaped in their boats, but it is also said
that they were nearly all captured, and that some
ot' them were afterwards released. The vessels
lost are the schooner Theodore Stony, Patriot ,
Wanda ami sloop Fdinto. It is supposed that thev
were loaded with Rough Rice.— Chan. Courier.
Another fine gunboat was launched near
New Orleans ou Thursday of last week. She is
said to be immensely strong, and was built by
Messrs, Murray ft Fowler.
Frurn the Memphis (Term.) Avalanche, Feb. 11,
Movements of the Enemy*
A gentleman who was at Tennessee river bridge
on Sunday afternoon, at K o'clock, had a talk with
some of the Federal ollieers, and learned the fol
lowing facts :
There were captured at the fort oue General,
two Captains, two Lieutenants, ami a number ot
privates, making a total ol So. Twenty-two dead
bodies were counted in the fort. In the engage
ment one gun boat had a steam-pipe broken and
one man killed. The Federate have garrisoned the
fort, and three gun boats and one transport had
gone up the river in pursuit of our boats. The
: Federal cavalry say that they captured about 250
: Confederates at night in the vicinity of the fort.
There are about two hundred and fifty Federal
troops at the Tennessee river bridge, with a small
stnrn wheel transport boat, loading hides and such
other things as they can pick up. The bridge is
safe and in good Older. The troops were fine
looking, well clothed aien, from Southern Illinois.
On Sundav, a railroad man was caught by the
Federals and searched. Oh his person they found
nothing but a Time-table, which they returned,
saying that in two wee A* time they would have use
for him and his table besides.
The latest information from the Tennessee river
bridge via Paris, is, that the Federals had not
passed the bridge on their return from recounoi
tering up Tennessee river.
The Federals have abandoned Fort Henry, which
is inundated and caving in on both sides, and arc
now fortifying at Angelo, opposite Fort Henry.
There is scarcely any force at the Tennessee
river bridge, and it seems to us if it is the inten
tion of the “powers that be - ’ to cut off the return
of the Federal gunboats, and to capture them,
they will never have another more favorable op
portunity.
The Federal? have already promised to take the
Memphis and Ohio railroad in two weeks. They
already hold the bridge, which constitutes such a
powerful defence of all other roads in this section ;
and if it is the purpose to re capture it, and to
prevent the advance on Memphis by the Ohio
road, it is not the part of sound policy to wait till
the enemy i? ready before we make opposing de
monstrations here.
An affecting scone was witnessed in our streets
on yesterday. A procession of our oldest, most
eminent anil respected fellow-citizens, was seen
inarching to the drum and life, under a banner,
with an emblem of patriotism and an appeal for
volunteers. Before it proceeded far its numbers
enlarged from accessions pouring in on all hands,
until it became quite a formidable army.
The banner carried in front bore this inscrip
tion: Voi.t'NTKKR FOP. THK DEFENCE OF OUR IIoMKS;
Every Patriot to the Rescue; Volunteer now
or N ever! The procession, after moving through
several streets, paused in front of Berry’s Book
store, where, an immense audience having gather
ed, Hon. nudge Turner, Hon. N. S. Crown, Hon.
C. 11. Henry, and Hon. Andrew Ewing, delivered
thrilling and eloquent speeches, urging prompt and
energetic action for the defence of our city,
against any attack of the enemy.
According to the programme enunciated last
evening a meeting ot the citizens will be held at
the Court House, with the view of organizing a
Regiment for the protection of the city. We trust
there will be a large attendence. —Nashville TUnt
ner, 11/A.
Ruffianism Rampant in Richmond. —The Ex
aminer of Friday says :
The rowdyism now rife in this city has become
intolerable, and demands immediate suppression
with the high hand. Acts ot brutal violence, vul
gar ruffianism and gross indecency, are of momen
tary occurrence in our streets. The most orderly
citizen and the most delicate lady are exposed to
outrage and insult. No man’s life even is secure
in broad daylight on our most public thoroughfares.
To surround, knock down, bruise and maltreat,
has become the pastime of the ruffians that throng
our pavements. The evil must be suppressed, or
else society must surrender its authority to brute
violence. \\ e must, disorganize the social system,
resolve ourselves into savages, and prepare for
protection by the most effective weapons of self
defence, or else we must assert the power of the
law upon the persons of the ruffians and vagabonds
that infest our streets and alleys.
I-r k-a, Mississippi. —This place, to which the
\ ankees are reported to be advancing from the
Tennessee river, is situated on the Memphis and
Charleston Railroad, very near the boundary line
between Mississippi and Alabama, in the former
State. It is ( we believe, about forty miles from
Florence, and but a few miles from the Tennessee
river. It is also near the junction of the Mobile
arid Ohio, and Nashville and Alabama railroads,
with the Memphis and Chat lesion Railroad. We
are not certain that the Nashville and Alabama
road is completed, but we think it is. If it is,
then I-u k-a commands three very important roads,
and, it. is said, can be very easily fortified and de
fended. Our Generals, in that section of the coun
try will, doubtless, take prompt measures to rem
edy the evil which has been done.—A ugusta Con
stitutionalist.
Affairs in Georgia.—A gentleman from Geor
gia gives us the cheering information that the
people of his State have more provisions than they
have had at any period lor ten vears past; that
they have plenty of leather for making shoes, and
that Acre is a plenty of money in circulation for
the economical uses of life, fie could discover
no flinching among the people in regard to the
vigorous prosecution of the war; on the contrary,
they are more determined than ever to fight on
until the independence of the South i.s established.
It was not uncommon to see ladies and gentlemen
of wealth and respectability dressed in goods of
homo manufacture, and every household spimiino’-
wheel, reel and loom had been called into requs'i
tion. It was a rare thing to find a Indy unemploy
ed in some useful branch of clothing manufacture
—a good example for the ladies of this vicinitv to
follow.—JVWt t'ille Gazette.
Prisoners of War.— Four hundred and ninety
Federal prisoners passed through this city on yes
terday, en route from New Orleans, to North Caro
lina,to be exchanged. They go by the Georgia Rail
road to Augusta, and thence, we' learn, through to
Saulsbury, X. C. They looked much and
no doubt felt so, than they did some months’an- 0 ,
when they passed through here to New Orleans' 3
Rest and food have done some good to their ap
pearance at least.— Atlanta Intelligencer of Tknrs
da if.
Gen. Sam. Houston.—The Galveston Civilian
of the 27th ult., says:
A letter from Gen. Houston assures us that he is
convalescing slowly, and is on his feet again. The
old hero has had a severe time of it for several
months, but we hope ere long to see him out with
his energies much recuperated. He expresses the
liveliest hopes for the success of the good cause of
tue South, and has had his heart cheered often
amid his hours of sickness by the tidings of the
glorious victories of our gallant armies. °
From Charlotte, N. C.— Railway Accident.-
C.r-u-lott,', A. (~ Feb. 12.—A collision occurred
this morning on the North Carolina train The
down tram, wfth a party of soldiers under tur
loughs on board, was run into. Col. Judge, of the
Fourteenth Alabama Regimeut, was slightly wound
ed - B, : rvanc "* 8 hurt. F.°M. Williams
and S. M. Dean, ot the Third Georgia Regiment
received some severe injuries. ’
ihe last named had his foot amputated. All
the wounded are now doing well.
The highest General in our army, Samuel
Cooper, Adjutant General, is of Northern
birth. So is John Siidell, Minister to Eu
rope. So are Generals llipley, Pemberton,
W luting, Pike, Kuggles, French—all North
ern by birth. Again; Scott, Cocke, Fre
mont, Rates, Rlair, Crittenden, Stribbliug,
Drayton, and a host of others, Generals*
members ot Lincoln’s Cabinet, officers of
high grade in the army and navy, are South
erners by birth and education— yet are our
direct suewies,
MACON, GEORGIA:
Wednesday, February 19, 1862.
Two Volunteer Companies
WANTED FROM 8188 COUNTY.
THE Military Committee appointed
by the meeting of citizens to-day, adopt the
following rule of action :
We will accept the first two Companies
offered with full ranks and officered accor
ding to the Governor’s Proclamation, and
ready to go into camp at au early day.—
Any parties wishing to raise Companies will
report to T. li. Bloom or James A Nisbet,
on or before Friday evening, 21st inst.
By order of the Committee.
B. F. BOSS, Chua’n.
James A. Nisbet, See’y.
Macon, Ga. Feb. loth, 1802.
PUBLIC PRAYER MEETINGS
Will be held daily in the Baptist and Methodist
Churches of this city in behalf of our imperilled
country.
That the public may labor under no misap
prehension in regard to the communication signed
“ Fair Flay,” it may be proper to say that the
writer is a worthy and prominent member of the
same communion to which the Governor belongs.
A writer in the Southern Recorder sug
gests the name of Hod. H. V. Johnson in place of
Hon. Robt. Toombs, resigned. Gov. Johnson
would fill the place with credit to the State.
The plan adopted by the Military Commit
tee appointed by a meeting of the citizens of Bibb
county on Saturday last, we think eminently judi
cious and proper. This is no time for any kind of
aspiration?, or rivalries, or olfice-seeking, except in
subordination to patriotism.
The Augusta people are taking prudential
measures for protection against invasion. Very
right.
GOV. BROWN’S PROCLAMATION
Will be read with interest. In response to the
requisition made upon Georgia, it will be seen
Bibb county has taken prompt and liberal action.
Let other counties imitate her patriotic example
and Georgia will escape the stigma of a draft.
THE LAST WEEK
Has been an eventful one, aa will be seen by
reference to our news columns. What the future
is to reveal is only known to Him who numbers
our hairs and observes the falling sparrow. Let
every man do his whole duty and leave the results
to God.
SAVANNAH
Our hist advices from this cherished city are of
au encouraging character. The people were hour
ly expecting an attack, but considered the forces
and preparations adequate to the emergency.
SOLDIER’S TAX.
11. H. Howard, Ksq., the collector, will be found
at the store of Martin Hali, on Cherry-street, on
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of each week,
for receiving this tax. The amount is the same
as that paid lor the last State and County tax.
RE-ORGANIZE THE MILITIA.
( 01. J. M. Chambers, of Columbus, under this
caption, makes an earnest and timely appeal thro’
the Enquirer. We regret that our space will not
permit us to publish it this week. It shall appear
in our next iseue.
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX,
Under the auspices of Rev. S. Boykin, re-ap
peared on Wednesday last, much, doubtless, to
the giatification of its numerous patrons. Our
contemporary is evidently a man of more than
ordinary financial as well as mental resources to
launch his vessel amid the present gale. We wish
the Index a prosperous voyage.
TUB HEW CONGRESS
Met, we presume, on yesterday. Ou to day, the
votes for President and Vice President will be
counted, and on Saturday next, (22ud) the Presi
dent will be inaugurated. The Provisional Gov
ernment thus passes away after a brief, and we are
sorry to say, not very satisfactory existence. Let
every Christian patriot earnestly and devoutly pray
that the permanent Government may have a long
and beneficent rule, over a free and virtuous peo
pie. God save the new Republic!
LOOKOUT
For bills on the Rank of Whitfield, nnd indeed
tor bills of all other banks in a similar cat-e gory
that is, without, established reputatiou. Not
withstanding the President of that Bank glories
in the charitable cognomen of Fullilove, the good
people of Dalton have, very propei ly we think,
been so uncharitable as to hold him to bail, on a
criminal charge, so. $5,000. Let the people be
ware of wild cats and their worthless emissions.
RAIN! RAIN!!
It would seem that the “fountains of the great
deep were broken up and the windows of heaven
opened,” as in the days of Noah. We have had a
very long and dismal season for the last few days.
Os course the streams are all up, with a wide berth
for Federal gun-boats.
The Ocmulgee is very full, and was risidg rapid
ly when our paper went to press. From the quan
tity of drift-wood and other matter passing down
the water must be very high ou its tributary streams
above.
Present indications threaten a higher freshet
than we have had for some years. Although we
have no crops in the low grounds, at this time,
considerable stock may be lost unless cared for in
time.
FALSE ALARM.
The following, found on the Bulletin Board of
the Telegraph on Monday last, produced a sensa
tion far too nrm'eraal to be agreeable. It may do
very well in times of peace to play oflf pranks with
sensation telegrams, but when every heart is bur
dened, as at present, with the most painful solici
tude, a rnan must be destitute alike of feeling and
reflection who will perpetrate a cruel hoax :
Special Dispatch.
FOP.T DOXEXSONCAPTCRKD— NASHVILLE SURRENDERED.
Chattanooga, 17.—Fort Donelson has been tak
en. Gens. Pillow’s and Buckner’s coramauds are
prisoners. The enemy are marching on Nashville,
and that city has been surrendered.
Stop Making Whisky.— The War Department
has issued an order for the seizure of all corn in
the hands of distillers, or others, to be used for
making whisky. On last Saturday, some 8,000
bushels belonging to oo© distiller was seized in
Richmond,
The Provision) C “f iRESS -
Sta le 9 closes i„ letm "«'«« »( .he r
ent week. It i* i mn •» , x,s, eiiop »,,i
the body has performed its '7 MlO **t
not; for, having alw ,, *•’the '’
door?, ,ts officers and ruenib!! ? 4 *i' '
se»ors of its secretg. * a! on<? a-.
Thus speaks the Richmond D
pre?s and people of Richmond ' ! .
dark in regard to the doinp 0 f t J!' ‘ >pt
what must he said of those who k,
national metropolis? We do tr 2 T .
gress, which has been elected , '
| confide sufficiently iu the '7 '
j ,gm 0f lheir constituent, to
: doors, except When -
do not, we hope they W i|| ';’ D 1%
! stay at home. Tne people
the acts ot their servants, and i ! ’ »
questions involving their rights ■ ** * 1
extortion
The Griffin States a ,y 8: ffe ■
most reliable gentlemen, that there ’
engaged in buying up many of the v
lies of life, making such things high ‘
munity where these purchases sre Ptia
injury of the poor generally, andth e ,‘J °
j f * n,iließ especially. That when they >!
Iso much evil, their work is only halfd.v *V
| se,,d these purchases to the camp-, a L > -
them at exborbltant prices and enormts?, *
jto the poor soldiers, who are p r »v;'. '
j bodies, a living breastwork for the de:,- /
| country, and get the pitiful sum cf e | - *
| per niOQlh. Ye*, they are p,
very cormorants the liberty so badly
thus ungratefully wroning the brave moo. 'r! .
I aome idea of the truth, it is stated that %
huxaters are buying butter in the country Xl, '
ty-five cents a pound and selling it to the
near Savanuah for sixty cents per pOL j v
ever heard of such extortion in this country °
VICE IN HIGH PLACES
The Albany Patriot says; While the t ~0 .
mourning is all over the laud for loved ODM * i0
have perished in this war; while the wails of *ij.
ows aud orphans ascend from thousands of m,
prosperous and happy home circles; while >
maimed, the siok and the desolate soldiers- a; ,
within sight and hearing of our Confederate (V
to), licentiousness, debauchery, corruption and the
wildest extravagance, are said to characterise>
lives of public functionaries, hijk and lou \
the vices of that Sodom of iniquity, Wasliir.ru
are said to have found tneir way to Richno:
aud men, high in authority, fulminate fro.!. ,
courtesan’s chamber pathetic sppeais to the pan.
otic brave men, who have made such sacrifices
their home interests in the past twelve months, tu
continue them indefinitely, for the sake of couotrt
BREAD! BREAD!!
We again revert to this subject. With the eve- •
now passing around ns is it necessary to sav m.
to the planter in regard to tin character of : e
next crop? Read t-lie following from the Richu .i
Dispatch. Speak if g 0 f the fall of Roanodc J
says :
“ In this tide-water portion of the State there
are to-day 200,000 months to feed more than the
resident population, besides the immense number
of horses. In some counties the enemy hue
large armies, with their trains, which cons.ri.
everything within their reach. That portion u;
North Carolina composing about twelve coumit
aud producing mo9t of the grain used by the Fa
ern counties of Virginia, is now cut off from u? t s
the fall of Roanoke Island, and the possession i'
Pamlico Sound, bv Burnside’s fleet. The cm
sumption of grain in North Carolina for sh
was so great, also, that the press predict* : 1 ’
will be WORTH PER BUSHEL IN THE SUVMLF
less he distilleries are suppressed."
FIRST GEORGIA REGIMENT.
The Augusta Sentinel, of Saturday, «aj ff
are informed that a rumor prevails in the campc
the First Georgia, and is generally credited, r -
the Regiment is ordered to report at Mhcoo, 1 ■
on the 18th of March. Macon, it will bordten
bered, is the place where the Regiment wm bj
tered into service, iu April last. Hope the t
will take Augusta In their route.”
We trust this rumor w<ll prove true, and- i
our citizens will give those gallant tge.'i »bo i'-"-
first in the field ami who have
many perils and endured so many hardships
most hearty aud sumptuous welcome. L ■
“oxen aud fatlings be slain,” and the “oouqne' •
heroes” be greeted with a cordiality which
evince a proper appreciation of their mnu "
heroism.
THEIR SUFFERINGS
We have before alluded to the fearful h*rd*t
and sufferings endured by our brave soldi® ’
North Western Virginia. A corresponded - ’
Atlanta Confederacy, writing from the a' ■■
meut, near Romney, says :
We have suffered more on this trip than *-•
on the Laurel Hill retreat. We were out i
without tents or blankets, and scarcely
to eat, and were nine days coming from
Romney, about 50 miles. When we left U:
ter, we had sbout seven hundred men on
our Regiment; now about one hundred it L
This is the worst camping place we ever
the side of a mountain aud raining nearly
time. \\ e have just received orders to
guns and send all extra baggage to town,
pect wt will leave here soon. I think
back to Winchester in two weeks aud stay -'
of the winter.
CoLONBI. OF THE FIFTH GEORGIA — f
irom a Peusacola correspondent of the
Patriot , the following is the result of the •
election for Colonel of the Fifth Georgia E
vice Col. J. K. Jackson, promoted:
Capt. S. W. Maugham, (Griffin l ight
290.
Capt. C. A. Platt, (Clinch Rifles,) 218.
Major W. L. Salisbury, 51.
Sergeant Sleighton, (Cuthbert Rifles,) f-
£5F“Tbe Richmond Whig, of the 11th,
: that Hon. James Lyons has been elected a 'w
| sentative to Congress from Virginia, to sup; A
vacancy caused by the death of Hon. John!
Mr. Lyons has a majority of about 135 vot«- v
Hon. Wm. 11. Macfarland in Richmond.
The Athens Watchman reports the ■
j there of a company from Habersham county * r - I
with pikes. They were under command of 1
L. Stephens. The editor was told that aa
would be made to get up a battalion thus
The Nashville Gazette of Saturday last •
was currently rumored last evening that the *•
erals had seized several locomotives, a ntwflh* r
cara, and a large amount of commissary stores
Bowling Green yesterday. We cannot vouc'
the truth of the report.
has appointed Judge Swan,of
United States Supreme Court Judge, in the
of tbo late Judge McLean,