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EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.
The Lay of the Love-lorn Lass.
“Ye Local” is an übiquitous individual, there
fore it is not necessary for him to state thru pre
cise locality of the subjoined poetical conversation.
Sufficient to say that the parties are to him, and
Mrs. Snappington and her daughter will never
have occasion to accuse him of a “breach in divid
ing; their names :
I.
“My daughter, ’tis time that thou wert wed,
Fourteen summers are already over thy head,
i must find you a husband, it under the sun
The Conscript catchers have left ns one.
11.
“Dear mother, one husband will never do,
I hare bo much love, that I must have two
And I'll find for each, as you shall see,
More love than both can bring to rnc.
One husband shall carry a musket so bright,
And watch Uncle Jeff’s commissary stores by
night ’ . » ,i •
And when morning shines on the tall pine tree,
He shall find sweet welcome home with me.
The other a sailor bold shall be,
He shall fish all day in the Ogeeche,
And when evening brings his hour of rest,
He shall find repose on this faithful breast.”
111.
“There’s no chance, my child, of a double match,
For men are scarce, and hard to catch—
So I fear you must make one husband do,
And try to love him as well as two.”
—Atlanta Comrnonoxalth,
Vary important, if True.
From Mobil* advertiser A Register, Jan. i».
We learn, from a perfectly reliable source/’ that
the “Horse Marines,’ under the command of Gen.
Wheeler, after using up most of the Federal plun
der along our borders, have charged over the
blockading aquadron at Mobile and put out boldly
to sea, in seach of adventurers.
The General, at the head of a brigade of about,
five thousand cavalry, was spoken on the 21st,
about fifty miles from land, doubling the Florida
Cape. They were all in splendid health and spirits.
Each horse had tied to his tail a small skiff, laden
with grub for man and beast, and a due propor
tion of spiritual comfort, to guard against the
dampness of the swim.
The General picked up a few prizes in his pas
sage through the Gulf, but his object being to
proceed North as speedily as possible, for the pur
pose of clearing out the harbors of New York and
Boston, he could not afford to waste time ou small
game.
As this move will be quite a surprise, it is confi
dently expected that the person of Beast Butler
will be secured, and tied to one of the horse’s tails.
After burning up all the shipping in New York
and Boston harbors, robbing tho banks, hanging
Bennett, Greely, Charles King, Edward Everett,
and a sufficient number of such cattle, they will
then make a little raid on Washington City, and
ssir up the monkeys.
General Wheeler etatod to our informant that
some of his Texas Rangers, who were in advance,
had been so unfortunate as to lose their horses
from swordfish and shark wounds, and other cas
ualties, which made it necessary for them to ride
double for a day or two ; but they had the good
luck to get. iDto a shoal of porpoises, some oi which
they lassoed, and soon had under the saddle.—
They were a little hard-mouthed and addicted to
dipping under the water occasionly, at first, but
.soon became perfectly docile under the curb and
spur—performed most admirably, and became in
valuable for scouting parties, on account of their
grand speed in the water.
We shall watch the telegraph with intense anx
iety for the announcement ol General Wheeler’s
brigade in New York harbor. Wall street will
think the devil and all his imps have arrived-
Key West Trvth-Teller.
The Loiuioii Times and the Scriptural
View of Slavery.
Id the editorial of the London “Times,” com
menting on the share Messrs. Beecher, Cheever
Tying and others, have taken in this war, the fol
lowing paragraph occurs:
These gentlemen preach not for an infallible or
an established church, for no such church has yet
ventured to be as dogmatic and positive on this
point a* they are. They preach with the Bible in
their bands. In that book there is not one single
text that can be perverted to prove slavery unlaw
ful, though there is much which naturally tends to
its mitigatioa, its elevation, audits final extinction.
In the New Testament, we have an epistle written
l.y the man who represents the last revealed phase
and development of the Gospel, some by the hand
of a runaway slave, who had sought a.refuge with
the writer, to his lawful master, to the purport
that the master and his slave were to get on bet
ter and do their duty to one another more thorough
ly for the future. The same writer tells his recent
converts that if they are slaves they must make the
best of that condition, and not try to escape it at
least by any means contrary to the laws of the
country. The only possible' doubt about the ex
act meaning of his advice is, whether the slaves
are to refuse their liberty, even if it be offered,
or whether they are mearly to remain true to their
masters, even if chance presents the opportunity
Os escape.
The context, which says that a faithful and duti
ful ohristian slave becomes the freedtnan of bis
Heavenly Master, clearly proves that a slave who
refuses the offer ot freedom has a high scriptural
argument for his choice. If It be said that slavery
is at variance with the spirit of the Gospel, so al
so are a good many things which are not yet laid
under the ban of Abolition or threatened with the
“war power.” gumptious fare, purple and tine
linen wealth ecclesiastical titles, unmarried clergy
good eleiical incomes, and many other things, are
contrary to the spirit of the Gospel, or at least
can be proved so as easily as slavery. But the
Roman Catholics have just as much to say for any
one of their peculiar doctrines as the Abolitionists
have for their one article of a standing or falling
community. Whether the Confederates have done
right to throw off the Union is a distinct question
but they cannot have a better defence thau a proc
lamation ol' war to the knife a solumn invocation
of the “war power” against every slave owner
who still claims the duty of his slave.
Fatal Occurrence'*
It becomes our duty to announce a tragic
occurrence, which took place in this town
on last Saturday evening. A number of
persons were collected in and about Mr.
Ward,s grocery—and among them Mr. John
B. Hanson and Alferd Bowdoin, between
whorne there had been a previous difficulty.
Without going into particulars, or intima
ting any opinions as to the guilt or inno
cence of any concerned we will briefly state
what occourred. As Mr. Bowdoin was
walking off from the grocery, Hanson drew
a pistol and commenced tiring at him. lie
had fired twice, and was in the act of firing
the third time, when Bowdoin’s son who
was standing by struck him on the head
with a stick, and felled him to the ground,
ll is skull was fractured by the blow, and he
lingered untill four o,clock, the following
day, when he died. So far as we can learn,
no words had passed between Hanson, and
either of the Bowdoins on that occasion.
The attack by Hanson was sudden and un
expected by all present. — Educational (For
ftm) Journal.
The Yankees have installed tlift. widow of
old John Brown at Suffolk as inspector general of
all ladies passing the lines under flags of truce.—
This eld creature delights in subjecting Southern
hilU ti mr/ iptG its of indignity. j
flintier?* Rale in Hew Orleans.
The subjoined extracts from letters writteu by
residents of and refugees from New Orleans are
furnished by the New York. World. They unfold
an awful tale theft, robbery, prostitution and infa
my. Yet this evil incarnate, whose vile deeds
thus blacken the eventful history ol the present,
has received a vote of thanks from the abolition
Congress, and the Northern people heaping cour
tesies and honors upon him!
The following extract from a private letter from
an old resident of New Orleans shows the 9tate of
feeding iu that city :
Since I wrotqjpou last great changes have taken
place here. G™eral Banks quietly arrived and
superceded Butler, to his great astonishment and
that of every man, woman and child in New Or
leans. It was like a visit from the angel of peace
to this down-trodden, robbed and outlawed com
munity. I cannot describe to you the foil of these
vile cormorants from iheir feast ol plunder. They
fell as Satan and his crew from heaven, and their
confusion was as apparent as their former inso
lence and villainy were conspicuous. It would
take a small book to describe the scene that
look place between citizens who had been despoil
ed by Butler calling on Gea. Banks lor restitution.
Mr. Buckner, one of our cotton Princes and mil
liouaries was robbed by Gen. Butler of SIOO,OOO
iu blils receivable, sent him from Natchez. Gen
eral Butler said he could not find them when call
ed on to return them. $5,000 in cash was taken
from the same parties ; and he said he paid this
amount over to the government. Samuel Smith
& Cos. had $60,000 in specie takeu from their vaults
by Butler; $50,000 is in suit at Washingsou; the
rest was returned, less SI,BOO stolen. Gen. But
ler returned this amount in currency, thereby ta
king advantage of thirty-five per cent, on the gold.
Acrostics and poetry lampoouiug him were sent
to him in such quantities that General Banks had
to protect him by an order, Number 114, (seo New
Orleans papers.) One runs thus :
“Farewell! and if in hell there dwells
A demon such as thou,
Ihen, Satan, yield the scepter up—
Thy mission’* over now."
We are not bettered by the chauge, as Batiks
has uot disclosed his policy fully. But ho is a gen
tleman and a man of honor, and approachable by
our citizeus.
Mr. Davis, the President of the Bank of New
Orleans, was thrown into jail without a trial, and
in oue short month was released, after having
been told be was to be hung, and is now a raving
tnaniao. This is the foulest deed Butler has been
guilty of. Iu my next I will give all the newa that
transpires.
The following ic an extract from a letter receiv
ed iu Havanna, and forwarded to New York. It
ia followed by one to the World, written bp a re
fugee iu Now Y ork :
Os the lalae, prudent, and (raiterous operations
of this vile son of my native State, volumes might
be written. Quartermaster Makcy, of Boston, has
forwarded to the chief of the War Department,
some months since, sworn evideuce as to the spec
ulations of Gen. Butler from the Government of
the United States and Iroui loyal citizens ; and if
the iudietments are not quashed by the political
juggling ol the advisers of the President, there
can be no doubt as to the result of houest investi
gation. The Flag, published at Matamoias, says:
“A barque has just arrived consigned by the bank
er aud broker of Gen. Butler (his brother) to a
concern here which is loaded with superior barrel
pork (bearing the U. S. mark,) packed for the use
of the Federal army, which has been offered to
the Commissary of the Confederate States, to be
paid in gold or cotton. Treasury greenbacks re
fused, Ac., and 1 learn from reliable sources that
the pork was sold to the Confederate Commissary
and paid for with cotton. Os such ventures But
ler, the Federal Geueral, receives half the gains,
while the robbery is covered by consumption in
New Oilcans “to prevent starvation,” or by re
ported actual issue to troops. This traitor Gener
al has, through all his administration, been re
ceiving the lion’s share of net proceeds from pow
der, saltpetre, muskets, and other war materials
sold to Confederates, surreptitously sent out from
New Orleans by the lakes, &e., covered by permits
for provisions—dealing in the lifeblood of his own
soldiers. Os such things the military infamy i»
composed of the base coward, who betrays all—
true to none.
Yours, Ac., J. B. C.
New York, January 6.
To the Editor oi the World:
Mr. Editor: For the sake of justice and humani
ty keep the doings of Geueral Butler before the
people.
You started nobly ; don’t give up because But
ler is removed.
The article which you published some time since
were true, as hundreds of New Orleans people
can testify; but the half is not yet told. Go on
and lay before the people his course in New Or
leans. How be filled his pockets with money fraudu
lently obtained, and how he disgraced the cause
he pretended to espouse.
Tell the people here how he charged Dr. Camp
bell $1,700 for a pass to enter the Confederate
lines, and while he wa* gone ejected his wife
from her palatial home, that he might occupy it
himself, to all of which hundreds of New Orleans
men now here will not fear to testify, since their
property is no longer under his control.
Tell the people about his partnership with his
brother, and bow fie charged sl2 a hhd. freight
for sugar on his boats from the Lafouche to New
Orleans (when $1 used to be the price,) allowing
no coaipatiuou.
And tell, too, how he would permit none but
New England men to take goods into the interior
of the State to sell them.
For the sake ot justice expose Butler’s frauds.
If the people here knew one-hall of his doings
in New Orleans, be would be despised by every
decent man from Maiue, all through bis own
Massachusetts, to Wisconsin. So go on and “don’t
weary in well doing.”
A CONSTANT READER.
Ilx-Scnator Briglu o 7 Indian*.
The Inends of ex-Seuaior Bright, of Indiana,
have asked the use of bis name before the Legis
lature as a candidate to the United States Senate
from which be was expelled on a charge of dis
loyalty. Senator Bright leplies :
It it is the pleasure of our friends to offer uie
the uuexpired tana from which I was expelled, I
will accept it if tendered by a vote that approaches
unanimity; uot otherwise. My return to that
body would, in my judgment, be regarded by all
juat men as a signal rebuke to the foul conspira
tors who aided and abetted this assault upon the
freedom of speech and of action.
Mr. Bright then defines his position on tic ad
ministration and the war as follows:
It is enough to say that I then denied, as I do
now, the right of the Federal Government to at
tempt, by force of arms, the subjugation of a
soverign State. I repeat now what I have spoken
ou a former occasion—“l am opposed to the entire
coorsive policy of this weak and wicked adminis
tration.”
I have never believed that war was any remedy
for existing diSereuoea between the two sections.
As your agent in the councils of the country, I
was opposed to all legislative acts in aid to this
war; and if you were to offer me a scat in the
Senate again, if I should accept it, I would not
duiing ni} stay there contribute in any form to
the support or encouragement of the inhuman
crusade that those in power arc wageing, under
the late proclamation of the President ofThe Uni
ted States, against those who are “bone of mv
bone and flesh of my flesh.” On the contrary, I
am lor peace, peace. lam now, as I have been
from the hour this inhuman, uunaiural and anti
christian war was inaugurated, in favor of a ces
sation of hostilities, to the end that compromise
might again (as it has in times past) perform its
peaceful offices.
Personally , I am indifferent as to whether I am
chosen or not.
, The Senate of the l nited States has no attrac
tions for me now.
Not one of those I found on my entrance there
seventeen years ago, remains. They have been
swept away by the sirrocco breath of fanticism,
which culminated in the dismeinberraenf of this
once glorious Union. To my humble self has been
reserved he signal and distinguished honor of be
neadment at the hands of the political assassins of
lam feu spirit.
What the Yankee Soldiera Sity luidj
Think of tl»e War.
The Providence (R. I.) Post prints ex-,;
tracts from several letters written by soldiers !
now in the Army of the Potomac, which are j
very significant. One writer, who has been<
connected with the army almost from its or«j
ganization, anil who has never uttered a
word of complaint until now, writes:
“ Dear C- . I am sick of this war—so
«iok that I do not care upon what
is settled, J have seen thousands of men
lying mangled on fifteen or sixteen different
battle fields—all for nothing. Wives, sis
ters, mothers, and children, losing their
husbands, brothers, sous, and fathers—all
for nothing ! For here we have been figh
ting for over a year and a half and we have
not gained one point. \S e have jived and
are now living, on nine or ten crackers, a
piece of raw pork, and some miserable cop
iperas water, called coffee per day, all to fill the
pockets of a lot of thieves, who are trying
to make all they can out of the people and
the Government. The soldiers are all dis
couraged, and will not fight a? they would
1 once on the Peninsula. All we hear from
! Washington is the nigger, the nigger, the
j black, filthy niggor. One nigger is
, thought more of than twenty white men
, who have left home and all that is worth
living for to come and lay down their lives,
if need be, to save their couutrv, while the
leaders are doing their utmost to ruin~ik
jlt is not because we can’t boat the rebels,
!that the war is not over by this time; for
wc can beat them. But it is because the
I Government is too busy thinking of the n g
;ger to see that the men are where they ought
;to be when they aro wanted. You must
j uot set me down as a growler. I have gijod
I reason for growling. Almost every man
in this army thinks as I do. If Job Ind
served in the Array of the Potomac, ‘Ye
would havc-Biuned. and most fearfully too."
A little change has taken place in our
brigade since the last. Our brave old lea
der—Colonel Henry L BeuiiiDg—has re
cieved the reward of his merit in promotion
to a Brigadier Gcueraloy, and has left us to
take command of General Paul J. Semrnes’
brigade, who is now absent on furlough.
Every oue regrets his removal, because be
has been with these troops so faithfuly in
Iso many trying places since the last ■slim
mer campaign began. None has risen more
deservedly since this war begun, aud none
will stand fiirmer where he is put than “our
Colonel." lie is patriotic, honest, unpreten
diug aud bravo—the old rough veteran who
has followed him so many miles will tell
you this from his heart—do you want more
iu a man? Gen. Toombs has not takeu com
mand ; his wound is still unhealed. Col.
Hodges, of tho 17th Georgia, who has also
risen a, step, has charge of the brigade. The
boys are waiting patiently for Gen T. to
take hold again. The Government has not
yet seen proper to promote him, but we can
not see why. General T. has never shunned
the front, and his troops have lost enough
blood to have secured his promotion. But
we shall not question the wisdom of our
rulers who have stood so well before all the
difficulties which have assailed us. We
only hope Gen. Toombs may be able to look
over everything and not AY hin t
are honors when we are fighting fer our lib
erties?—the tiny ripple of tho rivulet to
the white capped ocean wave. But just
here, I remember that this long drawn sut
trifling letter may be boring somebody, and
will pause. Au revoir —Tout le Monde
Aiioiiker Great Fire.
We defer the publication of the Enquirer
a few hours, to give the particulars of an
other destructive tire, which broke out about
3 o,clock this morning, a few doors wost
of our office, on Randolph street, in the boot
store of Peter Bichler, from which it exten
ded to Brooks aud Chapman’s Drug Store,
on the corner of Broad and Randolph, streets;
thence (a north wind blowing) down the east
; side of Broad street to a drug store of Dr.
I R. A. Ware, with the consumption of which
Jit was finally arrested. The loss includes
| five large brick stores on Broad street, viz.
! the drug store of J. W. Brooks and Dr.
Were and three dry goods stores, with a por
tion of the goods in each of them; also four
brick buildings on Randolph street, occupied
as watchmakers’ and shoemakers’ shops Ac.,
with most of their contents. On this street
the jewelry establishments of Iv. Saylor and
Gr. Jordan, the boot aud shoeshops of Mes
i srs, Bichler and Pitts, the barber shop of
Win. Paine & Weems, the office of Dr. J.
| Fogle, dcutist, and two or three other up
| stairs rooms, were burnt.
A stiff wind was blowing, andnliefire was
j borne along by it with alarming rapidity.
■ Our firemen worked with their accustomed
energy, but unfortunately, by the time the
flames had reached the drug store of Mr.
Brooks, water had become scant, and confla
gration, attaining the turning point here,
raged down Broad str et until it encoun
tered a “dead wall” on the south'lfidc of
Dr. Ware’s drug 3fcore, where it was arrested.
It extended on Randolph street to within
two doors of our office, which was considered
in such imminent danger as ouc time as to
cause the removal of a portion of our mate
rial, and the consequent disarrangement of
the office to an extent that prevented the is
sue of our morning edition.
Our office and the two buildings next to
it on the west are all that is now left of the
brick row constituting the south side of
Randolph street between Broad and Ole
thoipe ; and ou Broad street the five hand
some store bouses from the drug store of
Mi. Brooks to that of Dr. \\ are inclusive
are nothing but a mass of charred and smo
king ruins the effect of two fires within a
fortnight. Columbus Enq. Feb. od
The Yankees are stealing from old Abe and
rummaging among his old effects—-no doubt of
finding his famous “Scotch cap and Military cloak.”
The Northern papers say that “so many depreda
tions have been committed in the green' room and
east room of the Executive mansion, that Mr.
Train, the chairman of the committee on public
buildings, moved to-day, in the House, an appro
priation for a watchman to guard these premises
rgainst the raids of unscrupulous violators. From
the statement made by Mr. Train it appears that
s.>me rich waistcoat patterns have been cut from
d&mastv curtains of the White House, and rich or
naments carried off, and that the character of the
people who inhabit Washington since the com
menoement of the war, is such that more vigii’tKe
Is necessary ia guarding property.”
Mr he EvpfrUig finlistmeiM* in the
■ Army oi the Potomac. •
A correspondent of the New Y ork W orld
thus writes from Burnside’s army about the
troops there, whose terms of enlistment are
soon 4o expire : •
•Officers a.nd soldiers who count the days,
and Weeks, and months, of their term ot ser
vice are aware of what, the peojle are not,
viz : that the whole army of COO,-
000 men which marched into the field at the
Outbreak of the rebellion, is, ou the average,
now od the last half of its term ot service,
and that at least fifty of its regiments (two
year’s menj will march homeward before
the first of next June.
We figure 800,000 men on paper; but
the morning report of the armies belie the
statement. v’* e speak of our brigades and
divisions and corps, and number their thou
sands by the number of regiments; but the
men to make them are not there. The only
place where 800,000 men can be found is
on the pay rolls. And the Government is
to-day paying more men out of the army,
in hospital, ou authorized or unauthorzed
leave of absence, and on special or unauthor
ized detached service, than it is men in the
ranks, doing regular duty. Half of every
regiment is paid on descriptive lists, pro
cured by men in hospitals and elsewhere,
from their company officers, and forwarded
to their paymasters.
Mure Despotism.
Gov. Brown has recently ordered a seizure
of the Eagle Manufacturing Mills at Col
umbus, for the second time. Some weeks
ago when a simular order was issued, the
mills proved to his satisfaction that they had
made and were then making extraordinary
sacrifices in behalf of the soldier, whereup
on he relented and passed oyer the property
of the company. But says the Columbus
Sun.
They continued to give as liberally as be
fore, to the Hospitals and to the indigent
families of our soldiers. Still the Govenor
did not appear entirely satisfied. He evi
dently wanted to do something that would
redown to the glory and honor of Joseph E.
Brown. He issued a second edict, author
izing the seizure of the Factory, and sent
au agent all the way from the loyal city of
Atlanta to execute it. The agent entered
our city and made known his bulsness a few
days since. The interview which ensued
between the Governor’s agent and the Su
perintendent of the Factory is said to have
been trnly refreshing. Ti e former inform
ed the latter that he had authority from the
Govenor to seize the Mills; also to “impress’’
the service of the operatives, clerks, salesmen
and even the Superintendent himself to
work the Factory! After satisfying him
self that the man was not insane, but merely
laboring under a strange mental delusion,
the superintendent succeeeded in convinc
ing him of the extreme folly of his master,
and the Factory wasnotseized. But the Gov
ernor’s agent succeeded in enjoining upon
him to sell all his fabries to the State, that
is to Governor Brown. What the Governor
proposes doing with the goods remains to
be seen it will at least give employment
as agents to some of his followers, in search
of “(government contracts” but will like
wise put a stop to any lather retailing by
the factories m Columbus, and speculators
will have things their own way, for a season
at least.
It there be any law or common honesty
left in Georgia, we hope it will be developed
when the Legislature meets again. This
whole system of seizure is an outrage; on
private rights and a coutempt of all law,
even though it may have been authorized
by our legislators. It would justify revo
lution were it undertaken under any other
pretext than aid for the soldier. We will
go as far as the next one to protect the sol
dier and his family in all rightful modes,
but this system of highway robbery on the
part ot the State is a disgrace to civilization
and a blot on our character. We hope the
representatives of the people when they
meet in April, will reconsider their action,
and remember that there are some things
which should be sacred, even in their eyes
Sa van na h Republican .
The Northern Money Market.
The money market is the true barometer
of Northern war hopes and prospects. The
money article of a late date of the New York
Herald has the following gloomy views :
Our recent military experience has set at
rest the subject of a loan. The banks have
already invested their whole capital in gov
ernment securities. The public are unwill
.iug to buy any more public bonds until they
see more 'clearly than Jhey do at present a
prospect of the suppression of the-rebellion.
And no other resource is now left to the
government but the issue of more legal ten
der notes. This policy ha3 been reluctantly
adopted by the Secretary of the Treasur}’,
whose hostility to further issues of paper is
manifested in his report and by practiced
finances, such as Messrs. Spaulding and
Hooper, of the Committee of Ways and
Means. But necessity has no law, and it is
now clear that government must either rely
upon fresh issues of paper or stop the war.
There is no middle course. Had our army
been crowned with succes—had we taken
Richmond and Vicksburg—bad our Gener
als succeeded in securing a million bales of
cotton to supply the market with an ade
quade amount of bills—in that case a loan
might readily have been negotiated, and a
step taken toward a return to sound princi
ples of finance. But the ill success which
has thus far attended our military enterpri
ses and the want of confidence which the
policy of the government has engendered in
the public mind, have rendered it utterly
impossible to negotiate a loan at the present
time on any terms. Fresh issues on paper
will, of course, involve great inconveniences.
\\ e shall witness au unparalleled inflation
and prices will advance, as if by magic,
beyond all previous experience and beyond
all reasonable expectation. The currency
will be largely depreciated, though its con
vertibility and the resources ot the North
will prevent its becoming absolutely worth
less. But, on the other hand, government
will obtain the means of carrying on the
war which it could net do by any other
means. * "
M A CON, GEORGIA:
Wednesday, February 11,1863.
The \VfiT her —is a very common subject for
conversation, and sometimes famishes a variety of
sufficient importance to be chronicled in the pass
ing events of the day. We have had such a one,
commencing on Wednesday night last, of coid,
snow and sleet, such as is seldom seen here. The
trees were well loaded with ice, and the ground
covered with snow, a little of which remained tiii
yesterday morning in places excluded from the
sun.
Several sleighs were seen in our streets, hastily
constructed by some of our fast citizens, who keep
up with the times, whatever they may be. The
weather has new become very pleasant and sgree
abie, and the general inclination is towrads garden
ing.
A Fine Swokd. —We have seer, a very nice ar
tide from the works of Mr. \\ ni- J Me Elroy, of
this city. It has a finish equal to anything the
country can produce.
THE WEEK.
We had no stirring events during several days
past, but the clouds of war are lowering, thick and
heavy in many directions. Vicksburg, Charleston
or Savannah, and our army in Tennessee, are
threatened with an overwheling force of the ene
my. Our army at Fredericksburg, and that of the
Federals are still in their positions. Another “on
for Richmond” seems only to be delayed for fa
vorable weather for the movement of their troops.
The Wheat Crop. —The Rome Southerner says
the wheat crop is very promising. An unusual
-quantity of land has been sown, and unles it should
be visited by some calamity hereafter, the crop
in this region will be immense.
We trust that ample arrangements will be made
for a large corn crop all over the State, as we now
have the evidence before us, that the large crop
in the South Western part of our State has been
its salvation, in the way of provisions both at
home and for the army.
Salt. —A lot of Virginia and Coast salt sold on
Tuesday, at auction, at 14A to 1C cents per pound.
LOOK OUT, SHOEMAKERS !
jj£§T’ Governor Vance, of North Carolina, has
commenced investigating the conduct of the shoe
manufacturers of that State, and in every case
where the provisions of the exemption law has
been disregarded, the offenders having failed to
confine their profits to seveney-five per cent., he
has caused the employers and all their workmen
to be conscripted. Three of the largest establish
ments in the State have been closed in eonse
qucnce of his proceedings, and all hands sent to
camps of instruction. The result is the great de
cline in the price of leather, when manufactured,
throughout the State.
ATTACK ON SAVANNAH OR CHARLESTON.
So far as the opinions of a letter writer to the
New York Times goes, we have soon to expect an
attack on oue of these cities. The letter is dated
at Port Royal, on the 21st January. There can
scarcely be a doubt with regard so this—the only
question is, which will be the first? Reports gen
erally indicate Savannah. The writer says •
On Thursday, Admiral Dupont, accompanied by
Fleet Captain Rogers and other members of his
Staff, paid a visit of consultation to Gen. Hunter,
at which General Truman Seymour assisted, and
at which the general ba*is of the future joint, land
and naval operations was agreed upon. Os course
I cannot- tel! anything certainly about the pro
gramme. I only know that amoDg outsiders there
is great doubt as to what part of the coast the
jo.nt expedition will head when leaving the
harbor—whether North to Charleston or °South
to Savannah. Some persons, professing to be
fully informed, say that Charleston is to be the
point of attack, and there are not a few who have
come to the conclusion that Savannah is to be the
first assaulted.. Judging from all the preparations
I can see, and the vast number and amount of
stores now being shipped to Fort Pulaski, my own
guess, jf I were at liberty to guess, would be that
Admiral Dupont and General Hunter are resolved
t.o do nothing rashly, but to make the first experi
ment upon the least, fortified city.
The letter goes into many details of their “iron
clads, Ac., which we have not room to copv.
Charleston dates of the yth say : Information
has been received here that a Heet of over seventy
vessels was in Port Royal harbor on Saturday
The fleet comprised fifty-two transports, fifreen
large war steamers and four or five iron clads.
Evidently some grand movement is at hand.
The Columbus Sun says a “Mystery was Ex
plained,” at the recent fire in that city. That
“Sugar had become very scarce. Consequently
the price had gone up enormously. Dealers con
stantly spoke of a probability, not very remote
that the supply would give out entirely, as “trans
portation’ had become impossible. Still the “si*d
ply ke Pt adequate to the demand. When the
hoghead3 ran low, fresh ones made their appear
ance. The “supply” remained “steady and firm ”
lhere was always, plenty on hand at the price
asked lor it. Railroad men said it had occasion
ally found its way out of the city of late but sel
dom into it. There was a strange mystery about
it. bteamboat men made similar statements.
Still the “supply” never gave out, although the
price continued to go up. The fire occurred, the
curtain was raised, the denouement appears and
the-mystery is solved. Broad street is literally
ull ol of huge bogheads well filled with what had
become so rare a luxury in our market. Where
did they come from ? Did they drop from the skie=
like the Manna of old ? Did they spring from the
earth or, can it be possible, that tbev emerged
from the quiet cellars and backrooms in arpreben’
Bion ot the destroying element ?”
This was something like the scarcity of salt in
Macon, till the pressing demand was about being
over for curing meat—then it became so plenty
that the smallest shop in the city had some to ped
dle out in the best way they could, and almost
daily decreasing in price till it was reduced to one
fourth or fifth its former rates.
A gentleman just from Holly Springs Miss.,
says that over one thousand negroes that had
been carried off by the Yankee treops, and have
ran away from the lankees and returned to their
houses and masters. They represent that their
treatment by the Yankees was horrible. They
weare badly clothed, worse fed, worked hard, and
suffeerd greatly from exposure to cold. They say
it this la \ ankee freedom, they do not want anv
ot it. *
Jersey.—The following resolution has
'»een offered in New Jersey Legislature: “That
New Jersey will not be responsible for any por
tion of the debt incurred for the emancipation of
negroes in Missouri or other States,”
Kentucky.—The Legislature have passed reso
lutions favoring an armistice.
The Louisville Journal, of the 2d inst., advo
cates the proposition of a conference beetween
the Kentucky and Northern Legislatures to see
what shaU be done.
McMinnville, l eb. B.—Col. Martin, of Morgan’s
brigade, with oue hundred raen, attacked Rey
nolds division yesterday, killing and wounding
twenty-five of the enemy, and burning a number
oi wagons loaded with provisions.
From Charle* t »
From the Mercury, 0 f the - 3 1
follo.lng in „ gwdtolbcsi
(i ester day froenoon paseo.-i in ~ " isr#
About one o’clock,® tele fr J.p I
announced that a strand for. ;
iron-clad had just hove°in
ordinary blockading vessels at™* T,e h
nzon was eleven. With a F , J g #l % -. r> ;
of the iron-clad could be ! | '
city wharves, and an endless v W
and conjectures in relation o{ : A
designs were scon afloat. ’ ' f
Meantime, another strange
pearanee in the offing. SJil r " J v
British steam frigate Cadmus " t
dispatches for the ~ tr-- ' I
Petrel, now .anchored in F*k. for I
o’clock, one of the bo..ts ot “*!'**- At .
the dispatches to the city .-
ant. ‘‘ u " ar f e J i Lh.
_ We have learned, from g 00( i 0,..l .
Cadmus brings intelligence •• - *
very formidable character •
operate against the city ot Oiu
the enemy is now neanv read TV
Mr. Robert Bunch, the British>o/ V *
to go aboard the Cadmus and »et
the least possible delay. We tt and ! ' 1
expects to leave on Saturday tl ex- I
From the Cadmus we have inform,, - ,
mysterious steamer off North (’h ar l! ’ - I
kee iron-cUd frigate X«r Iron'skiT.' *I
hardly cross the bar, as she U «ai j , j
toen feet watfr. Her object, for A
bably, is merely to protect the j :
another attack. The Ironsides it ; V ' '
from Broad River. The transport' ' '
ward irom Beaufort, N. C., are prolabV' ‘ I
Port Royal, the rendezvous for the 1 . I
the expedition.
In our naval successes last week th
had a foretaste of our strength
But the preparations for the atta -k . e "
were matured previously, and it' is
that our naval victory will either prevw, )ei " 7
pone it. It is well, however, that our IL* ‘
now complete, and (hat we are able t 0 h
first blow in the struggle to hold our *oo' ! 0
port. That blow, we trust, will '
defenders, on land and sea, to red. J•,
tivity and vigilance, aud to spare no n •
a bloody welcome to the assailants ’ 0 U I
Charleston.
The British frigate Cadmus brir:?;
that a most formidable naval and In
is about to attack Charleston, the mV,—
being now nearly complete.
The Cadmus brings orders for Mr Roht f, -
the British Consul, to go aboard and get
vana as soon as possible. He will leave oa
day next.
The Yankee land and naval forces are » (
at Port Royal, and it is supposed that their
are drawn chiefly from the North Carolina
The iron-clad Ironsides is still off tV, O *
morning, together with thirteen other ate .:: , <
It has been inferred by many, that the
the British Consul leaving Charleston 1 <in
sequence of its being about to he attacked bi
Federal forces. It is hardly probable that O o
a preliminary arrangement would have been r.
as to advise the English government of - re
tention, to have it send a ship to this counts
remove its Consul. The following farewell 1:
of Mr. Bunch to his friends in Charleston, W
no such indication. It is, nevertheless am:
scarcely to be doubted, that arraneomei::.-
mabing for a most formidable attack on that.
Britisii Const utk, )
Charleston, February 5,1863.,
Her Majesty’s Government having directed
to repair to England, I leave this Cor-live
charge of Her Majesty’s Vice Consul, Mr li
Pinckney Walker, who will assume the b.
Acting Consul.
All matters connected with the public serv
as well as all demands upon me in my iedird I
capacity, should any such exist, will U atu >
to by Mr. Walker.
In consequence of the brief interval which h;
necessarily elapsed between the receipt of mr • 9
structions and my departure, it has Lt-en jihysi
ly impossible for me to take ieaveof myctmer ■ |
lriends in Charles:on and in South Carolina . |
large, either personally or by letter. I entt: I
them to receive my farewell in this form and I
accept my assurances that I leave a comm maty 1
which I have spent nearly ten happy years, * j
the liveliest regret. In my owminune amd 1 t I
of my family I thank the people of .South Caro -i |
for many kindnesses and for much hospitality
best wishes w ill be with them wherever ourkuv
lot may be cast.
Robert Bi nch, Conaci
No Vessel Sunk, in the lute Engagement
Charleston, Feb. B.—Mr. Robert Bunch, . ' |
British Consul for this city, sailed y• sterday. -
the British war steamer Cadmus.
From the officers of that steamer we learn ti
the results of the late engagement are rauen •
substantial than was supposed. No Yankee te
was sunk.
Mercedeta is at Port Royal, whither she • j
towed in a disabled condition. The iinpre- - j
among her crew that she was sinking was ca -
by water rushing into the hold from her bu
which were perforated by shot.
The Yankee gunboats Quaker City and Key =
State were also struck and badly damaged. T'
were sevaral killed and wounded ou board esu
these vessels.
The New Ironsides is still off our bar. fit -
out to sea every morning, but returns ck ;f
every evening, to participate in any night etA
ment.
The impression prevails among the officer? 0!
blockading squadron that Savannah will bead -
ed before Charleston.
The Yankees confess that the iron cladMor- *
was much injured during the late enr»!p
Genesis Point. During the latter par! 0! :
fight her turret refused to work.
Ail Opinion of a Republicait* l ' 1 * 11
Federal Army.
The following extract is from a ie ‘ ’■
written near Falmouth, Va., by a me*
ber of one of the regiments raised in *■ '
The writer has been known for several
in the village of Woonsocket, Massacbast
as an active Republican :
“ Had I known as much of the m
ment of things six months ago as I G '
now, fifty yoke of oxen could not have ir
me"out here. It is all a political bur' r
and got up to make offices for lazy oe
seekers. I wish the leaders were as far fl
other side of purgatory as they are this
It has turned out to be an abolition war.
ninety nine soldiers out of a hundrt'- A
that if the abolitionists are going to car,*
the war, they will have to get anew
They say they came out here to fight for
Union, and not for a pack of niggers.
niggers are lazy and dirty; they will nr
steal; and they are saucy where tu.y -"
to be. If a soldier touches an
ger, he will get court-martialed and i
month’s pay. A nigger is thougnt
by the government than the soldier , * ,t
They get as much, or more to eat. ge
much pay, and don’t have to fight ,
curse on such things ! I hope
will turn up that will settle this war.
got whipped at Fredericksburg, ana
get whipped “every time we fight in -‘t
ia ! I don’t think the North is right.-
more than the South.”