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I;fiuUflV\U MKHJTINCIS
,i t vi ISONS, KNIGHT TEMPLARS, ODD FEL
LOWS AND SONS OF TEMPERANCE,
tlKt.I) IN TIMC CITY OK MACON.
MASONS.
11 ~h'e oi Georgia for ISOd, October "Ist.
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UDD FELLOWS.
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i’IiOFESSION Ah € ARDS.
*V A*\DERSOJH,
attorneys at law,
JIAVOX, 4iA,
niUOriOK in the Counties of the Macon Circuit, and in
r lhe Counties of Sumter, Monroe aud Jones ; also In the
fcpul Courts at Savannah.
[**pr2l 'bo*!/]
< 2 U I Kltnl Si: A A.NSlilil,
ATTORN £YS AT LAW,
KNOXVILLE AND FORT VALLEY, UA.
ft P CULVFRUOUBE, F. A. ANSLEY,
Knoxville, Ga. Fort Valley, Ga.
O'-vW-'ftO-ly _
1.. IV. WHITTLE.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MACON, OF.ORCIA.
ifficKnext to OOiSCEKT HALL, over Payne’s Drug Btore
J»n. c, [D ly.]
THOMAS B. CABAS|M,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
For»ytll* &r£lm
14711 |. attend promptly to all business entrusted to his
W tare iif the Counties oi' Monroe, Bibb, Butts, Crawford,
ops, Pike, Spalding and Upson. [may QQJ
RKITfOVAI,.
|. i| |i,l, iis removed hir. Law to Oht.rry Rlr s‘ t
h. IJtuiVs of buUdihg Wow HA. Wise's funnbh
s lie will attend the Courts as heretofore.
Maeou, Oct. 1, IHCI. I>C _Z__
LAST CALL!
I’AKE NOTICE!
\\J F have turned over our Books, Notes and Accounts
Yy to VY. L. STARK, Esq ,at the store of Freeman &
K . .its, who is fully authorised to oolleut
Macon, June 5.1562. —ts
meucjianYtaiiMng!
E. WINSHIP
1S now prepared with a first class cutter, good Tatlors and
1 a LARGE SHOCK OF PIECE GOODS, to furnish any
thing in the
CLOTHING LINE
At short notice, and in the very best style. ( a P r 3
iHa<‘on, May 30th, 1801.
I m p |{ \K II 1.1.S Pikes Magnolia Whisky.
1 l 75 Barrels Hock opening Rum.
75 Barrels Phelps Rye Gin.
150 Boxes Tobacco—various grades.
115 Boxes Cigars.
SSO Barrels Flour.
100 Tierces Leaf hard.
16,000 H. Clear Sides.
10,000 H. Hams.
10,01*0 H. Shoulders.
15 Hhds. Molasses.
‘2O Barrels Syrup.
50 Sacks Rio Coffee.
75 Barrels Sugar.
10 Hhds. Sugar.
Fcr sale at reasonable prices for CASH, by
juneS ASHER AYRES.
GUANO, L/I fc
I t PJICI.N. Rhode’s I‘hospnme.
I vjlf Cut) Sacks MapesSuper-Phosphate of L.uie.
500 “ Reese’s Manipulated Guano.
150 bbls. American Guano.
150 ** Land Planter.
100 “ Lime.
gor sale atManufaeturer’s prices by
tebtW ' AYRJSB. |
I I u pbrt&ntN o Lice, j
i. rm in i:\preski ompany
I aie now running a tri-weekly day Express on tli« Ceu
trai Rail Road, leaving Macon on Tuesdays,Thursdays and
haturdays, at 10 o’clock, A. M. Freight received and for
warded to all stations ou the Road. Freight on goods to
be prepaid in every case. No advance on previous rates
m. c. McDonald, Agent.
If von, Ga, Sept, lllh, 1561.
PIANOS,
OF Ohickering A Son’s, Dunham’s and other celebrated
Makers ; warranted in tone, durability and liniah to be
List quality, arid sold at the very best rate, together with a
®t*e lot of
Guitars, Violins, Flalfs,
aiid Guitar Strings, Musical Boxes, Ac., Ac., by
uov It, K. J. JOHNSTON A OO’
McCallie & »J ones,
the recent fire, have located nearly opposite
° their old stand on Cotton Avenue, where they are pre
ferred to supply all customers with
Bacon, Lard, Flour, Corn, &c., &c.,
W QIYI oa A CALL ptfjr 9
RI'SINKSS CARDS.
“ US h011HM,.*.,., „ v.Hnkt-
HARUEMAN & SPARKS,
WAREHOUSE
AND
Commission Merchants.
MAOON, O A., t^^t
Will, eive prompt attention to the selling and storing
of Cotton, uml to the tilling of orders for plantation
aini family supplies. With many years experience and
with their best eilorts to sgrve their friends, they hope to
nave a continuance of the liberal patronage heretofore
extended to them. Liberal advances made when required.
August tOth 18d0. (ly.)
COATES & WOOLFOLK,
y| COTTON FACTORS. Sgj
Ware Jloiisp on Third
« e . I f« ' - } 9
VITII.I. continue to give prompt attention to business
Vs entrusted to tlieir care. Advances made on Cotton
la Fept. 25, 1861—ts
JOHN SCHOriKLI), JOBHCA SCAVKIKH)
fecliolield & Bro.,
FOUNDERS AND MACHINISTS
MAfON] iiBOKGIA,
WF. are prepared to Manufacture Steam
CIRCULAR BAW MILLS, MILL and GIN GLAR
ING, SUGAR MILLS,
BRASS AND IRON CASTINGS
Os every description IKON KA 11.1 NO ami VKK
ANDAftIh. Having the most complete assortment, of
Iron Railing In the State, which for elegance, neatness, du
rability and design, cannot be »ar|)assed, anti are suitable
for the fronts of Dwellings, Cemetery Lots, Public Squares,
Church >euciA and Ualconiea.
Person* desirous of purohaeiug SatHng* will do well to
give a call, as we arc determined to bfler an good bargains
as any Northern Establishment.
fW~ Specimens of our Work can he seen at Hose Hill
Cemetery, and at various private residences in this city,
jail 1-1&6I
IKOIST “WOEKS,
MACOiH, CiEORQIA.
r r. C. NIS B ET,
UYVNSt. removed his FOUNDRY AND MACHINF
WORKS to tiie line of the Rad Rogd near the Macon
A Western Shops, he is now prepared to manufacture all
kinds of
AJACIIINERY AND CASTINGS,
ALSO
Steam Engines & Boilers,
On terms as favorable as any Establishment either North or
South, (mar 13) T. C. NISBET.
D. C. HODGKINS &. SON,
DKALKAS IN AND MAN U PACXERKRS OF
GMCJKTIS r
a IFLES, 1
And Sporting
A KKW DOORS RKI.OWTHK
Jan. 1, 1860. ts
h\ ]l. HUUGHARi),
WATCHMAKER, JEWELLER, AND DEALER IN FANCY
WARES, DIAMONDS AND PRECIOUS STONES, IN
GF.NERAL, ARTICLKS OF V K RTU, AND M ÜBICAL
INSTRUMENTS, CUTLERY, FINEST IMPORT
ED AND AMERICAN WATCHES, TIME
PIECES, CLOCKS, CHRONOMETERS,
CHIROGRAPHIC IMPLEMENTS,
Ac., Ac.,
CheiTy St, Macon, Second door below the Telegraph
Printing House.
f IYHAhj IL Fl a. foY past favors reminds .
A. the public that all the most fashionable,
elegant and desirable goods in this liue will ff—/
continue to be found at this elegaut stand , t Jrßr\
in the greatest variety. * 1
No trouble to show Goods. feb 29-’CO-y
NEW FIRM.
L. I’. STRONG & SONS.
}■ ETYIB P.
n-4 derk hi'sgrdteful thanks
or the liberal patronage f \
wenty seven years.and re- j
ectfully announces that he jff\
a associated with him in / \
e further prosecution of
the business, his two sons,
EDGAR P. STRONG and sa£ v .-w
under the name, firm and ’
style of L. P. STRONG A
»6nß, and will continue ro
keep on hand and offer, a large and select assortment of
Booth, Shoos and JLc/itlier
of all kinds, and Findings for Country manufacturers. He
respectfully asks for the new firm, a continuance oi the lib
eral favor extended to the old.
Macon, January 2,1860. . 41-y
Gli.\ N ITK HALL
IWOI I.U respectfully inform my OLD FRIENDS and
PATRONS, that since the fire, I have obtained the Rooms
In the building NEXT ABOVE the “Granite Hall,” and over
the store of R. P. McEvoy and Messrs. Bostick A TANARUS.»»«•••,
where I have opened, and will be pic&scu to see my friends
and customers. an.l will ao my be«t for their comfort and
pleasure. Very Respectfully,
mayl BEN J. F. DENSE.
KROWxN’S HOTEL,
Opposite the Passenger House. Macon, Ga.
B y E. E. BROWN&SO N.
’ll FAI.S ready on the arrival of every Train. The
if I Proprietors will spare no pains 10 make their guests
comfortable. 60-y
TilE STIJ>BLEF IELD HOUSE*
j “ Like the Plicenix from its Ashes.”
mu AT large, new and elegant House, recently erected
A on the ruins of my old establishment, Mulberry street,
Macon, Ga., is now open lor the reception and accommUa
lio** of Boarders und transient guests.
| Ihe House has been newly furnished throughout, in the
Lest manner, and the Proprietor will endeavor to make it a
11UST C LASS HOTEL.
Its situation is eligible, a little below the Methodist and
opposite the Presbyterian Church, and near the Banks and
places of business.
Conceded with the House is a lari?e
Livery and bale Stable,
where Drovers and others can nnd accommodations for
their stock.
The patronage of his old friends and of tbe traveling
public generally, is respectfully solicited,
nov 5-ts M. STUBBLEFIELD.
Washington Ilall
IS STILL OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
BASSEENE, Proprietor.
i Ati%r>ra, Ga t I&6L
MACON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3. !*».
From the Richmond Dispatch, 26th.
From ihv Ruppaliaiiiiock Linen—
Ih** FHi*Mli( ul llt«* PUt lttf
haiioiittiiio |,i H Won*ide4
An officer from tbe fta|ipnhuniiock river
givps some bigbiy iuiportunt intelligence
from t»ur operations in that vicinity ° The
positions and movements of our airny need
not U* ui»mtinned ; but we can state that the
enemy is in full retreat aud closely pursued
by our troops. ()u Saturday morning heavy
aud eontiuued cannonading was beard at
Orange Court House up to tbe time that the
train left. At Stevensburg about 10 o’clock
A. M ~o n \\ ednesday, a party of our cavalry
Nogounturud a large body of Yankee e.., airy
and a i Jiisk skirmish %*«ned The *my
retired slowly aud iu good order, and were
pursued to within two miles of the Rappa
hannock, when a charge was made with
great gallautry by the Confederate horse
aud sixty odd of the Yankees were taken
prisoners. Ou Thursday a portion of our
troops were engaged with the enemy at Kil
ly’s mill and another portiou at or near Be
verley’s Ford, the artillery ou either side con
tending fur some hours late in the afternoon,
without, however, any material result as far
as known.
It was supposed that Pope had falleu
back as far as Warrenton, and would not
give battle this side of that point, if at all.
He abandoned a large uuinber of his woun
ded at Culpeper 0. H., estimated at not less
tnan two or three hundred. These men had
been wouuded iu the battle of Cedai Kuu
Mountain, ou the 9th of August, where the
Yankee prisoners confess to haviug been
thoroughly “used up” by old Stonewall.
A melancholy picture of desolation and
devastation is exhibited by the county of
t’ulpeper. An unbridled license has pre
vailed among the Yankee soldiery, l oof
leuding citizens have been impoverished in
a single day, their negroes all carried off.
their fencing destroyed, their sheep and
hogs anti cattle butchered, their grain en
tirely consumed, their horses all stolen. A
farmer, whose bouse Milroy made his head
quarters, had a magnificent field of corn,
from which he expected to realize 1,009
barrels. The Yankee General refused, in
insolent language, to spare his crop, gave
nis hirelings a carte hlanche to plunder.—
The result is that not five bushels can be
made from the fivld. In some instances
colts only a year old were forcibly carried
off, despite the entreaties of their owners,
and old hens with flocks of chickens have
been killed. Many a family has been ie.fr
in a condition upun absolute want
and starvation.
Our informant says that the seines of joy
ous delight manifested by the inhabitants!
at their deliverenee surpassed anything he I
ever witnessed. Ladies brought pails ot wa- !
ter on their heads to distribute among the j
worn and dust covered heroes of the South.
Old meu wept for joy. The girls waved
their handkerchiefs and cheered the army
from early in the morning till late in the
afternoon, aud praised God for their deliver
ance.
From passengers who came through from
Orange Court-house op sh? Qeutrftl train last
night we learn that a severe engagement
took place at the Rappahannock river, a few
miles below the railroad bridge, on Satur
day morning, commencing about sunrise
and continuing some four hours. The ene
my attempted to dispute the passage of our
troops across the river, and a heavy artillery ;
tight resulted, in which we lost about one J
hundred and fifty iu killed and wounded. — j
The loss of the enemy was believed to be
much greater. The troops engaged on the
part of the enemy were the army corps of
Gen. Burnside. The enemy were finally 1
driven back, aud our forces crossed the riv
er, capturing about four hundred prisoners.
A report was also brought by passengers '
that our cavalry had advanced as far north j
as Bristow Station, on the Orange and Alex
andria Bail road, within seven miles of Man
assas Junction, and that our troops had oc
cupied the town of Warrenton, but these
reports seem not to be well authenticated.—
It was further stated that our troops were
pursuing Burnside in the direction of Fred
ericksburg, aud that the main body of the
latter's army had reached that town as early
as Saturday night. Those familiar with the
distance between the two poiutswill at once
detect, the improbability us this statement.
To sum up the information as received by
us, we accept the conclusion that the Fed
eral forces have retreated iu the direct ion
of Washington and Fredericksburg; that
the fight of Saturday at Rappahannock river
was an effort to cover that retreat; that they
were defeated with the loss of prisoners sta
ted, aud that our army, having crossed
the river, is pursuing them northward. —
Any speculation as to when tbe foe will be
overtaken, or where the next fight will oc
cur, would be uselessly consuming space in
our columns.
YANKEES IN GLOUCESTER.
From gentlemen who arrived iu this city
yesterday from the lower end of King and
Queen county, we learn that a Yaukee
force of some three or four thousand landed at
1 Gloucester Point ou Saturday morning, and
took up the line of march in the direction
;of Fredericksburg. This force consisted of
infantry, cavalry and a battery of artillery.
The sudden and unexpected appearance of a
Yankee force in that locality, suggests an
inquiry as to the whereabouts of McClellan
aud the remnant of his army who left West
[ over in the early part of last week. It is
prettv certain that his army has never reach
,ed Fredericksburg. A gentleman who lives
lon the Rappahaunock river, and who left
‘fiis home on Friday wsure us
that no troops had passed up the riwr Gnee
Burnside’s corps. It is therefore not at all
improbable that the force lauded at Glou
cester Point ou Saturday is but the advance
guard ot the army that recvutly evacuated
the banks of James river.
SKIRMISH IN FREDERICK COUNTY
A skirmish occurred ou thv morning of
the 18th inst , in the neighborhood of Tav
lor’s Furnace, about Vl miles north of New
town, Frederick county, in which Capt. Hiu
ker, a gallant officer of the Virginia
cavalry-, was killed. Hearing that a baud
of Yankees were depredating iu that finali
ty and arresting loyal cityfceus, l atit. iGuK**t
started iu atrcinpanied by Limit
Gol. 1 uuk, who was in quest of conscripts
At daylight ou the naming of the 18th
they came upon the enemy and attempted
to dislodge them from a house and barn.—
tu the effort Col. Funk, Capt. Rinker, and
five uieu were cut off from the others of
the party. The skirmish lasted nearly a half
flour, during which Capt. lliuker fell.—-
Col. Funk exhibited that coolness which has
distinguished hint on former occasions as an
officer of the “Stouewall Brigade.” The
party succeeded iu capturing four traitors.
Our loss was two killed and one wounded,
and four horses. The enemy had eleven
killed and wounded, after which they fell
back to Winchester.
It is stated by parties who recently es
caped from Winchester, that there are now
iu that place about 1,800 Yankees, consist
ing of thre mouths rneH from New York
Ibis class of troops are all that now occupy
the lower part of the Valley. It is also
said that their treatment of the people is
better than that of their predecessors, aud
that they declare their intention to return
home as soon as their term of enlistment ex
piles.
ONE GJT pIEBPOINX’S SHERIFFS CAPTURED.
A private letter from Mt. Jackson, She
nandoah country x dated the 13th iust.,
states thai a noted Confederate scout with,
five associates, a few days previously, en
tered the enemy’s lines and captured the
sheriff of Berkely county, under the Pier
point dynasty. It is said this official had
in his possession some thirty thousand dol
lars that he had collected from the people of
that county.
AFFAIRS IN PRINCESS ANNE AND NORFOLK
COUNTY.
Advices from Pincess Anno and Norfolk
counties to the 6th inst,, say the negroes
rnnni»g oiT oreiy day. Dl the former
county at. least 2,000 had run off. Mr.
W in. Worden lost several, who carried ofi
their master’s carriage, and Mr. J. W.
Worden lost seven, who took his mules
1 with them, Mrs. L. Old lost, forty negroes.
Bome of the runaways, hearing that the
Yankees were shipping them from Virginia,
havt* returned to their masters.
From the Richmond Examiner, August 2Cth.
The Kt aeuation of Berkley.
Gentlemen arrived in Richmond yester
day who have been prisoners in McClellau’a
camp siuce the battle of Malvern Hill.—
From them, we have learned facts connected
with the evacuation, which will be news not
only to the public, but to our military au
thorities. \Y hile our pickets were guarding
Malvern Hill, Turkey Creek and the devi- j
ous ways of the White Oak Swamp, MeClel- !
lan’s large army had takeu up its line of j
march for the frans-Ohiekahominy ; and
when our corps of observation, attracted by |
the glare of the fires by which were being
destroyed such of the Yankee camp property
as could not be removed, visited Berkley ou '
Sunday uight the track of the “ small Na
poleon” was cold. With sixty thousand
men, two thousand runaway negroes and an
immense wagon train, he was quietly and
safely wending his way over the sandy roads
of the York Peninsula. His march was
leisurely, uninterrupted and unobserved. Ilis
extreme rear guard, the half dozen regi
ments to whom was entrusted the duties of
firing the abandoned property at Berkley,
whipping in the stragglers and destroying the
bridges in the rear of the army, has alone
ever been caught by our vigilant cavalry.
On Thursday, the fourteenth of August,
McClellan, to impede his pursuers, if any
there might be, had the bridge over Turkey
oreek, at the foot of Malvern Hill, des
troyed and caused the forest trees for the
space of a mile to be felled aud thrown across
the Charles City road. On Friday morning,
before daylight, tbe evacuation of “Harri
son’s Landing” begun in earnest, wagon
trains and contrabands moving first. That
night the transports, laden with the sick,
camp stores, &c., dropped quietly down the
river.
All day Friday, all that uight and the
next day the grand Yankee army was un
coiling itself and stretchiug away to the
eastward along the Charles City road. On
Saturday but two regiments were left on the
site of the late encampment. These mo
mentarily expected the irruption of our
troops, and held themselves in readiness for
a speedy departure. But time wore on with
out the appearance of even a Confederate
scout. The Yankees, in conversation with
our citizens on Sunday, expressed their sur
prise at the want of vigilance of the “ Re
bels”—and in the course of the evening,
there being still no signs of an attempt at
pursuit on the part of our troops, or any in
dications that they were aware that the ene
my was ou the move, they applied the torch
to' such property as had been prepared for
destruction, and in a very leisurely and dig
nified maimer withdrew from the “James Riv
er base.”
If QUF geuer%l& im %nxioua to got rid of
M-H 1«T; tu on any terms, aud were loth |
t .> throw any impediments in the way of his
departure, the manner in which they have
accomplished their end* in deserving of all
praise. If, on the contrary, it. was their ob
j« 1 1 to hem huu iuto the river, or, wpon his
venturing Iroui behiad his entrench menu,
to ih)mice upou aud destroy hU demoralized
legimeuts, there is not luuguage strong
enough to stigmatise their blind mismanage
ment.
Now that the \ aukecs have left their
James river encampment, it may be interest
ing to know how, during their six weeks’
occupation, they treated our citizens whose
persons and homes were embraced within
their lines. From all we have heard, they
deported themselves very much as did our
own troops ou the farms occupied by them
neat Richmond, (fur troops tore down the
fences, destroyed the crops and killed the
stock of our farmers ; aud so also did the
Yankees, ihe ouly difference betweu them
was that our troops, when remonstrated with
for their outrages, told the- complainants to
charge all damages to Jeff. Davis, whilst the
Yankees referred them to l ucle Sam.—
Where there were ladies in a house, McClel
lan posted a provost guard to protect the in
mates from actual violence. This provost
guard is composed entirely of regulars, who
entertained a thorough contempt for the vol
unteers, and collisions betweeu the two class
es are of every day occurrence.
Our informant represents the Y'ankee
army as far from recovered from the demor
alization consequent upon the repeated bloody
defeats before Richmond. Kvery day during
their occupation of Berkley there were from
twenty to a huudred arrests for mutiny aud
the utterance of seditious language. The
men avowed themselves tired of a war in
which, from the beginning, they have been
flattered with hopes of victory which alwavs
end in defeat and disaster. Ts is not likely
that McClellan, without a strong infusion of
fresh troops into its ranks, will ever ven
ture to lead this army into another battle.
As evidence of how thorough ho considered
the disaffection of his troops and their de
sire to desert, the last order read to them
before leaving Berkley stated in express
terms, that any soldier straggling so far be
hind as to miss three roll calls should be
I shot as a deserter. In consequence of this
! order, u uumber of his men, unable from
: weakness aud disease to keep up with his
i columns, have turned their faces this way
i and enmo i«L> oi i lines.
YVe are glad to be able to say that Mc
| Olellan put no further constraint, upon the
liberties of our citizens who were in his
' power than to forbid their passing beyond
, A»s lines. And when he took his departure,
’ left them without requiring any parole as to
their future conduct.
Special Correspondence of the Chicago Times.
Trouble wifli the Negroes in
Washington.
An Insurrection Apprehended.
Washington, August B. —There is rea
son to apprehend serious trouble from the
negroes that are now swarming in this dis
trict. Tens of thousands of these unfortu
nate beings have been enticed away from
kind masters and comfortable homes, and
are now here without any means of support
except the pittance doled out to them by the
government. This pittance is entirely in
adequate to provide them any of the com
forts of life aud barely suffices to keep them
alive. They live, if living it can be called,
in dirt, wretchedness and squalor : clothed
iu mere rags, covered with vermin, and till
ing the atmosphere with a most intolerable
stench. The money which the administra
tion pays to them to support them in idle
ness amounts iu the aggregate to an euor
moust sum per day, which the white people
of the country are taxed to pay. Most of
the negroes are as stupid as brutes, with not
a single idea except those relating to work,
eating and drinking. As they have none
of the first to do, they devote themselves ex
clusively to the two last. But there are
among them some men who have some de
gree of intelligence, whose ill regulated
minds and ungovernable passions lead them
to desire to play the part of Toussant L’Ou
verture.
These men have been petted and flattered
by leading abolitionists in Congress, who
have induced in their minds such ideas as
that all men are equal; that black men in
this country have equal rights with white
men ; that this war was brought about by
the abolitionists, the friends of the black
man, in order to liberate the colored people
of the South from slavery ; and that, when
that was done, the black man should have
the same political rights aud the same social
privileges as the white man. These honey
ed promises were greedily swallowed by
those to whom they were addressed ; and
they, in their turn, communicated them in
ruder language and even more g’owing col
ors. to all the blacks in general It is well
known how rapidly and how extensively
news of any kind travels among the negroes.
It was not long, therefore, before the sub
stance of the glittering prospects had been
held before the eyes ot ail the slaves in the
states of Maryland, A irginia, Kentucky,
Tennessee, Missouri and North Carolina.
Yet, of all the slaves in these States, very
few comparatively, were believed Ly them.
The most of them, to their be it said,
bad sense enough to know that they
were better oil where they are than they
could beat the North, and remained at borne.
But several thousand, nevertheless, were
caught by the alluring bait, and, escaping
from their masters, came here to W ashiug-
Vjn The thousand thav
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i'*und here tii«* negro paradise • n«> wurk and
P‘ cu, y *° Hus. when they began tv
puiir in by hundreds at a time, wheu it be
came difficult to feed them atul unable tu
make th« in work, they began u» murmur.~
I hey mm find that i U order to get then
bread they have got to work a great deal
banter thau they did at hotue Thu ha*
prodtoted among them a feeling of deep seat
ed discontent, which the few wily black tncu
spoken of shove and taken advantage ot
Ihe reoeut decision of the President u»t
to employ uegroes a# soldiers, but to use
then* a* laborers, has been seized hv the*.*
tneu as a lever, and they have u*«sl it with
tremendous eflect.
At the secret meetings of the leaders ot
the negroes, harangues have been made L»v
these men to make the blood run cold even
to hear of. It is described in rude but for
cible and expressive terms the promises that
had been made to them, by the leaders ot
the Republican party, of deliverance from
bondage aud of participation in all the ri^ht
and privileges of the whites and the shameful
manner iu which those promises hud been vie
lated. They then spoke of the President’s
decision, ami read it aloud from the New Vail.
I ribuue newspaper, iu order to give it greatei
eftect. “He is wiiliug,” said these ineendi
aries, “to work us to death ; but he will
uot let us have arms and uniforms and he
drilled as soldiers. \\ e are good enough t.»
be his slaves, but. not good enough to he bis
soldiers, lie don't want any ‘nigger’ sol
diers. Niggers 1 will you stand that?—
[Cries of “No ! no! we will fight!”] You
will fight ! Let me, see, when the tune
comes, whether you will fight !” This lan
guage was actually used their tnoetiugs
it the existence of this kind of feeling does
not lead to bloody results, it will be because
the negroes of Ameaica arc uot the same
beings aa the negroes of the West Indies
Letter from line Traitor Brown
low.
Editor of the Nashville Union.
Utica, New Tory, Aug. 7th, 18G2. 1
am pleased with the out-spoken ooursc of
your paper, aud with the well aimed blows
it gives the reßd leaders in this infernel re
bellion. I have intended for some time to
write you a communication for publication,
but I have not had the time, nor have I now
I Lave been speaking for four months to
crowded houses ranging at five hundred to
five thousand, and usually about t lt i.uui -
i am, therefore, rendering the Confederacy
all the service I can, by stirring up the
North to volunteer in force and crush out
this wicked rebellion l owe them a debt
of gratitude for their imprisoning me, sup
pressing the publication of my paper, seiz
iug upon my town property, aud driving my
wife and children out of their hell-born ('ori
federaey, upon thirty six hours notice
I have canvassed the entire North, and 1
have spoken to more than one hundred
thousand persons, taking great pains to learn
the actual condition of the Northern mind
There is a settled purpose on the part of th**
Northern people, and the loyal men of the
Northwest, to crush out the rebellion, at
any and every cost of men, monyand blood
The great body of the people of the loyal
States have vowed, and their decree ha>-
been ratified in heaven, that none hut the
banner of glory and beauty, known as the
“stars and stripes,’’ shall ever float over auv
State of the old United States They have
sworn that this country shall never know
but one government, aud that shall be the
government of the United States.
I have spoken in all the large towns on
the Hudson and through the Mohawk V al
ley to this city, and I am pleased to assure
you that the call of Governor Morgan, in
response to the President’s 300,000 demand
of volunteers, is responded to with alacrit),
and soon New York’s proportion of them
will be iu the field.
The recent order of a draft by the Presi
dent for 300,000 more meets with the en
thusiastic approval of old aud young in all
directions, and the only regrets I have heard
expressed are, that he had not ordered a
draft for half a million.
The men taken from the Northern and
the Midddle States are not even missed by
these States. Everything is prosperous;
crops are abundant; money is plenty ; and
the only evidence one sees of war, is in the
newspapers and the rattle of drum and fife
at recruiting stations. True, iron clad mou
sters are buildiag, and transports for war
purposes at various points, all going to show
that the government-is in earnest —terribly
in tarnetl.
1 have nothing to disguise, Mr. Editor, iu
regard to this internal rebellion, iam for
crushing it out, no matter what if cost. I
am for subjugation, coercion and extermina
tion, if these measures are necessary to put
down the rebellion, and sustain the govern
ment of the United States. I know the ori
gin of the rebellion, and 1 know the urgina
(ors; and nothing short of an old fashlDned
orthodox hell, that burns with fire and
brimstone, will reward them adequate»y for
their services !
This is the city where General Halieck
was boru, auci trom whence he started out
This is also where Rev. Joseph Cross used
to figure as an ultra Abolitionist This is
the contemptible scamp who preached the
sermon at Gallatin, in which he held up
“Brownlow Johnson, and Maynard” as trai
tors totheSouth 1 He is now a chaplain iu
the rebel army, lam procuring the doeu
meots, including his old letters, to show him
up iu his true hut infamous colors.
Yours, etc. W. O B*iWWU>W.
Ihk Bishop of Oxlord, Eug , baa directed pub
lie prayer* bi* diocese sot pe*e in ihi»e^vxtrr %