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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,