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J. KNOWLES and S. BOSE,
EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS
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Transportation leedod. %
A correspondent of the Rome Courier
: “There are over one hundred thousand
bushels of corn sacked and stoied away in
Albany alone, in close and often damp
i *>ma, vw Licit must soon l>e ruined, unless
sunned aud dried, or shipped and used.-
Planters through the country arc holding
corn in the same dangerous condition—all
fir the want of transportation. There rnu-t
be bctil management somewhere. 1 applied
not long since to an agent on the 8. W. R.
11., to know how long it would probably lie,
before 1 could get off coru l had purchased
for a friend, fa planter, not a speculator,) in
your section. The agent replied to me tl.at
ho did not know, that they, (the railroad,)
then had several trains of coru standing on
the track in Atlanta, which they could not
g“t unloaded, and so long ag the road *as
ttiua impeded in its woik, it was impossible
to say when, or how, much corn could be
shipped.
The people here were urged to plant corn
last year, they did so—-they are now urged
again to plant corn, plant corn, all of which
is well. Vet whilst they see their produce
ruining on their premises, or wasting with
■peed, iii their warehouses, for v a it of ship
ment, knowing at the same time that their
friends in distant parts of the State are suf
fering for the want of it, it could not be ex
pected that thwy would be much encouraged
to bend their energies to the production of
provisions, seeing them thus disposed of,
and I am fearful they will prefer a less per
ishable production, it be, in the present con
dition of our country, less patriotic to do so.
Only give them transportation, take away
their produce-, and though it rot in heaps,
yet if it rot not under their own eyes, my
word fur it, this part of Southwestern Geor
gia will do her part to support our people
at home, and our armies iu the held.
“Rut if the bread they have so patrioti
cally prepared must become astenoh in their
own nostrils, blame them not if they, for
the future, prevent a repetition of the same.
I am no planter, yet I know their feelings
—allow me to say too I am no speculator,
not? even a trader, aud have only that inter
est in this matter common to every man iu
our common country."
Propositions lot- ilia Ariiibtice-
IVrniiiMlo Wood.
1 nder this heading the “Herald’' pub
lishes the following:
To the Editor of the Evening Post:
At a meeting held at Stamford, Conn.,
ou Tuesday evening Inst, 1 said that propo
rtions for an armistice, or peace, had been
submitted to tin- President on tin; 12 th of
December last,, which, had they been accept
ed, would have terminated this war by the
Ist of April, upon a basis satisfactory to the
people North and South. In re I erring to
this statement you ask :
“Who made these propositions for an
armistice or peace, the adoptiou of which
Mr. Wood pretends to believe would have
settled the matter by All Fools' da)’ ? If so,
how does Mr. Wood know anything about
them ? Has he bean iu secret correspondence
with the eiitiny ? Or were they made by
the auti-war men here ? If so, who author
ized them ? and what are the terms of the
propositions from which Mr. Wood hopes
so much ? If they are honorable to the na
tion, if they are such as patriotic Americans
ought to favor, why not make them public
at once.”
To which 1 say in reply, that the state
ment referred to by me was made deliberate
ly with a full and personal knowledge of
the factaf and that i am constrained from
the publicity of them only by the request
of one of the principal officers of the Gov
ernment. When this interdiction shall be
withdrawn 1 will cheerfully gratify your
curiosity.
Very respectfully,
March 11,1863. Frf.nando Wood.
RrVtal Murder. —W. 8. Granville, late
Clerk of the Supreme Court of Missouri, aud
a gentleman of the strictest veracity, iu a
letter to the Southern Crisis, gives the fol
lowing account of the murder of Joshua
Chilton, State Senator from Shannon coun
ty, Missouri:
Senator Chilton, with two nephews and
another young man of his neighborhood,
was taken prisoners by a company of Fede
rals some time last September, while at his
home in Shannon county, Missouri, attend
ing to his own domestic affairs. The four
prisoners were taken to Holla, the county
seat of Phelps comity, Mo., aud one of the
military posts of the enemy ; but, from some
cau»e, were neither released nor retained at
Kolia, but were taken by their captors to a
certain place in the vicinity of Salem, Dent
county, where they were all deliberately
shot, except one of the nephews, who, at the
moment when immediate death stared him
iu the face, mauaged to make his escape, aud
hastened with the melancholy tidings of the
fate of his comrades to their frieuds and
families at home. The blood-thirsty mon
sters, after perpetrating this diabolical act,
as if to make (heir crime more hideous, if
possible, cut off the bead of Senator Chil
ton. hoisted it. upon a pole planted by the
roadside, and there left it—“a warning," as
they were afterwards heard to say, “to all
rebels and traitors.” The bodies of these
unfortunate meu were subsequently recover
ed by friends and interred.
The Sheriff of Oregon county, and many
other citizens, were murdered in a similar
manner about the same time and subse
quently.
Officers Resigned.— The Owensboro’
(Ky.) Mouitor ?*ays that Colonel Shsruks
and most of the officers of the Bth Kentucky
cavalry have resigned their commissions in
the service. No cause is known beyond
the general one of dissatisfaction with the
abolition war programme. '*
The Yankees must not lose their shank*
or they Will be iu * bad way in the next
•Hull ftua affair Iron *ufc* and thank* are
iutti lklt( Miiiksw,
Dr North’s Treatment in a Yankee
Prison—A Faithful N euro. — Camp near
EredrrirJctburg, Feb: 8, 186-1. —Dr. North,
of Georgia, has just joined Anderson’s Geor
gia brigade, as A distant Surgeon This
ba« just returned from acompul
gory visit to Washington, he having been
captured at Warrenton, Va He was car
ried to the capitol prison, together with a
negro boy belonging to him On their ar
rival iu the presence of the brute VS ood,
keeper of the prison, the negro was imforra
ed by the scoundrel that he wa« free and
ind could do whatever he wished; he was
his own man.
The negro positively refused to quit his
master, and continued his refusal, until ex
asperated, the brute ordered Dr. North to
make bis negro qui, him. On his refusal,
he and his boy’were placed iu a dark dun
geon and kept the e for near twenty four
hours. Wood expressed with tnauy oatbn
his determination t j keep them there for a
month, but desisted wbeu our captive offi
cers threatened tl at when they arrived iu
Richmond they would lay this matter before
President Davis, and have the lex talwni*
applied. The boy clung to bis master’s
skirts utid came back to Dixie well satisfied
with having escaped the clutches ot the
Abolitionists. 1 mention this incident as
it is not without its lesson. Atlanta Con
federacy.
Our privateers are injuring the North iu
more ways than one. Taut month British
steamers have carried from Bau Francisco to
Europe six aud a quarter millions of gold,
whilst durum the miiic time from the same
port (here has arrived in New York mriy
$250,000 of the precious metal.
It would do a hard-money man good, says
the Detroit Advertiser, to go to Canada.—
The curreoey consists alnost exclusively of
Auiuiean silver Silver abounds every
where. Kveryl>ody is loaded with it, aud
every body tries to get rid of it as people do
ot doubtful fuuds. The taxes are paid in
silver and the collectors take it by the bush
el. The city treasurer of Toronto has a half
a tou of it. The merchants have bags of it
iu their safes. The banks won’t receive it.
The Great Western Railway has issued
priuted notice* tl.at only live percent, of
silver will be received for fare or freight.—
Only thiuk of a couutry where you cannot
pay your fare on the cars iu silver coin ! At
Toronto, London aud elsewhere, business
men and firms have united in a gcueral res
olution to receive silver only at a discount
of five per cent, for Canada bank paper.—
This of course, applies to American silver,
as the Canadian and English coinage is a
legal tender.
Connecticut. — The Richmond Enquirer
say« ;
The Democrats of this State had a con
vention, and adopted very savage resolutions
against Lincoln's Administration. The res
olutions denounce nearly every act of the
Ruling powers as unconstitutional,and whilp
denying the right of secession, admit that a
Union of force is mischievous absurdity.—
They also impart vitality to their resolutions
by nominating for Gov err. o*, Thomas H.
Seymour —the only New England man that
we have heard of, who, from the beginning,
has been steadfast and outspoken against the
Lincoln tyranny. Even in the midst of the
reign of Terror, he quailed not—and proved
himself worthy of a better nativity and a
better habitation than be possesses.
The important point is, nan he be elected?
The New York World impresses the convic
tion that ho will be ; and adds that New
Hampshire, also, will elect a Governor of
the same politics. The election in both
Strtes come off early in April.
Tiik Fort Jackson Mutineers.—Ry
the following paragraph, from the Vicksburg
Whig of the 7th, it appears that justice has
overtaken some of these traitors.
'lhree of the Fort Jackson mutineers were
shot here yesterday. Their names were;
Sergent \Y. H. Brown, Company D, Ist.
Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artiltry, and
Dennis Kean aud Thomas Graham, of Cos.
B, same regiment. These men mutinied at
Fort Jackson cn,the night of the 27th of
April last and weut over to the enemy’s ves
sels, giving them of course,[information as
to our strength, condition, &.c. At the fight
of Bayou des Allcmands, some time after
wards, they were taken prisoners and brought
here to be exchanged as members of a Ver
mont regiment. They were immediately
recognized by the regiment to which they
original)* belonged, and lodged in jail.—
Their fate, though bird, was nevertheless
just, and we trust it will have a salutary
effect throughout, our army here.
Atrocities ou Lincoln’s Officials.—
The Christiau Observer publishes the ap
pended extract of a letter from a clergyman
iu the country, dated Feb. 2lst, lSt>3 ;
“I returned yesterday from Stafford, where
I had been called to attend a funeral. I
was within a mile or two of the Yankee
lines, it is the impression that a portion Os
their army is leaviug this region. Their
destination is not knowu. 1 have buried in
this region thijec females of the highest so
cial position, whose deaths have been caused
by Yankee atrocities. They were all in
that biuatiou which usualiy excites our
tendered sympathies. The last one that I
buried was the wife of a phyriti-an, whose
husband was arrested while attending a very
sick patient, and kept from bis family four
teen days. When he was absent, some r of
the Yankees, with satauie maliguity, came
to his wife and told her that they had shot
her husband. The shock which this falae
intelligence produced was more than her
delicate frame eould bear, and she sauk un
der it. I could tell you much more, but in
order to get this oft’ I must close.”
The Yankee Prisoners. —Some twelve
hundred of the blue bellies captured by Van
Dorn reached this city yesterday, most, of
whom were sent on iu the afternoon to Vir
ginia. Auother batch will probably be here
this morning. We learn from parties who
visted them that the Indianians mostly ex
pressed themselves determined to fight no
more for “the nigger,” while the Wi*consin
men were particularly fierce in their devo
tion to t( the government.''— £nc*vilU Peg
tittr, Uth.
[A portion of the following w»s omitted on the
first side printed.]
Tl*** l.oi*g Ar«.
0, • wonderful stream is the river Time,
As it runs through ibe realm of tear-q
With a faultless ry thru, and a musical rhyme,
And a broader sweep and a surge sublime,
As it blends in the ocean of years!
How the winters are drifting like flakes of snow,
And the aummers like birds between,
And the years in the sheaf, how they come and
they go,
On the rivers breast, with its ebb and now,
As it glides in the shadow and sheen ’.
There's a magical Isle up the river of Tim*-, „
Where the softest of airs are playing ;
There’s a rloud ,,, V! sky and a tropical clime,
And a song as sweet as a vesper cV.xjre,
And the Jiiot-s wUh the ro-Jt-s are straying.
\nd the name of this Isle ie the Long Ago,
And we bury our treasures there —
There are browg of beaut) and bosorr.s of snow,
There are heaps of dust— but we loved them so!
There are trinkets, «ad tresses of hair.
There are fragments of song that nobody sings,
And a part of an infants prayer:
There’s a lute unswept, and a harp without atringa,
There are broker, vows, and pieces of rings,
And the garments that she used to wear:
There are hands that are waved when the fairy
shore,
liy the mirage is lifted is air,
And we sometimes hear thro’ the turbulent roar,
Sweet voices heard iu the day* gone before.
When the wind down the river is fair.
0! remembered for aye be that blessed Isle,
All the day of life till night;
When the evening glows with its beautiful smile,
And our eyes are closing in slumbers awhile,
May the greenwood of soul be in sight L
A lie CruMlilug of the Rebellion.
It is amusing to look hack a little aud see what
the Yankees said about the crushing out of the
rebellion at its commencement. The lirat iamplc
is (rom the Sen York Times, edited by that re
markable military genius, Raymond. Says the
Times:
“Lot ub make quick work of it. The ‘rebellion,’
up on>e people designate it, is yet an uuborn tad
pole. Let us not fall into the delusion, noted by
llaUtin, mistaking a ‘local commotion’ for a revo
lutioH. A strong, active ‘pull altogether’ will do
our work effectually in thirty days. Wc have on
ly to send & column of twenty-live thousand men
actors the Potomac to Richmond, and burn out
the rats there; another column of tweuty five
thousand to Cairo, seizing the cotton ports of the
Mississippi; ami retaining the remaiuiug twenty
five thousand, included iu Mr. Lincoln’s call for
75,000 men, at Washington, not because there it
auy need for them there, but because we do not
require their aervicea claewherf.’’
Rare military genius!
But the Tribune, (Greely’s paper,) ever ready,
ever willing to take a hand in any bragging or
bullying, united with the Times in this wise:
“We do not regard the Southern revolt as any.
thing more or let* than the natural recourse ot all
mean-spirited and defeated tyrannies to rule or
ruiu making, of course, a wide distinction between
the will and the power , for the hanging ot traitors
is suie to begin before one month ia over. The
nations of Europe may rent assured that Jeff. Davis
& Cos. will be swinging from tho battlements at
Washington at least by the 4th of July. We spit
upou a later and long deferred justice.”
Philosopher Oreelay has somewhat changed bis
tune. Indeed, as the war progresses, the air waa i
changed to suit, circumstances. For example, after j
the much anticipated 4th of July, we find Greeley
speaking in such terms as these :
“We were somewhat deceived in our general
estimate of the strength of the rebels. We are
now assured that they are better equipped than
we had at first supposed. But <uiM a rapid and
decided advance on Richmond would settle the
whole matter.”
In the outaer., the New York Herald it will be
remembered, was strongly Southern. It spoke
different!) and sensibly. Here is Bennett’s reply
to the Times’ article above quoted :
“The ‘little villian’ (Raymond of the Times) has
turned General. He makes out • noble campaign.
It will be rved, however, that he studiously
avoids anything more than generalities, as well he
may, lor within thirty days, we now tell him and
his whole gang of ruffians there will be heard such
& howl as was nevei dreamed of. The South can
not be run over with 76,000 men. Two hundred
thousand cannot more t\ju reach Richmond.”
But listen to what Feeney, of the Philadelphia
Press, said:
“No man of sense can for a moment doubt that
this much-ado about no hing will end in a month.
With such a man as Cameron iu the War Depart
ment, such another as Mr. Lincoln over the civil,
and such Generals as we have, led by the ‘hero of
an hundred battles.’ we are simply invincible.—
The rebels—a mere band of ragamuffins—will fly
like chaff before the wind on our approach.”
The Western Yankees were as violent as the
Northern or Eastern. Asa specimen of the ‘big
talk’ of the Wett we select a paragraph from the
Chicago Tribune. Its editor was simple enough
to believe that “Illinois could whip the whore
South by herself.” That paper said :
“Let the East get out of the way—this is a war
of the West We can fight the battle, aud suc
cessfully, within two or ihree monthseat farthest.
Illinois can whip the SoHth herself. We iuaist on
the matter being turned over to us.”
The Cincinnati Commercial, in commenting on'
the claims if the West, remarked that the “West
ought to be made the vanguard of the war,” aud
proceeded:
“We arc akin by trade and geography with
Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri aud in senti
ment to who noble Union patriots, who have a
majority of three to one in ail these Slatea. An
Ohio army would be received with joy in Nashville,
aud be welcomed in a speech of congratulation by
Andrew Johnson. Crittenden and Frank Blair
arc keeping Kentucky and Missouri all right. The
rebellion will be crushed out before the assem
blage of Congress—no doubt of it."
Not a Y ankee paper at that time bad the remot
est idea of the conflict—not one that rose to the
emergencies of the occasion. All were filled with
pat ion, rant, and bombast. From the Chief Ex
ecutive dowu to the lowest auhalteru, the raging
idea of “wiping out the South,” “an easy con
quest,” and so on, went roaring, like a prairie on
tire, from right to left, from left to right, consum
ing all before it. Even now they are not full*
undeceived, but we do not despair of bringing
them to their senses by a few more lessons. ;
From the Bar.— Between eight and nine o’clo’k
last evening very heavy firing was heard out at sea.
Some twenty Stc or thirty hearty guns were dis
charged. A telegraphic despatch from Fort Sum
ter stated that the blockadera were firing off Maf
fit Charnel, on what waa supposed to be a vessel j
endeavouring to run in through the blockade.—
At a ’ate hour last Dight we were informed that
a steamer had run in, and anchored safely inside,
which, no doubt, was the cause of the firing no
ticed above. —[Charleston Courier of the is tk.
Yesterday morning early the steamer Calypso
waa at her wharf in Charleston, making four steam
ers which have arrived at that port from Nassau
■iince Suuday last, with valuable cargoes of mer
•handise. Notwithstanding the blockade onr sis
ler city is at present in the enjoyment of a larger
direct foreign trade than she ever bad before.—
Four steamers in as many days looks like business
Atlanta, March ‘23.—Letters from Tul
lahotna induce the belief that the enemy
are not falling b&ck, but advancing to turn
)ur right. Gen. Johnston is there. Our
army is in line condition. It is reported
that Gen. Bragg has been erdertd to Rich
mond.
[From the Lake City Columbian.]
FiKht at JnrkMin 111**.
Gen. Fineean having proceeded, a# #t*t*d in our
Uat, in the direction of the enemy a* Jacksonrille,
with all the available troop* thal conld be collect
ed together for the emergency, and learning that
they had landed a force of negro eoldier« com
manded by white officer#, who were endeavoring,
under cover of their gunboats to fortify the place
*o ae to render it eecure against attack, determin
ed to engage theta before their object could be ac
compHabed.
He therefore, on the loth instant, marched up
on them, so disposing his forces as to enter the
city simultaneously at different po»nts, and tints
succeeded in engaging them at or near Dimmin
nia’s and in the vicinity of the Jud#on House at
the #Ame time. After a sharp con rest for a few
rounds, our patient boy# diterroined to bring the
black scoundrels to closer quarters, and charged
io double quick upon them, when the eowardlv
ruffians took to their heels and tied lor aalety on
board of their gunboats and transports, which
were lying at the wharves, entirely abandoning
the city io our victorious troops. Gen. Hnegen
having no means at this command to make a suc
cessful attack upon their vessels, then retired with
his forces to a convenient camping ground beyond
the reach of such missiles as may be thrown from
the gunboats. As aoon as our trtopa had with
drawn from the city and the Yankees could make
their arrangements tor the purpose, they com
menced throwing shells in the direction our troops
had taken, and continued to amuse themselves in
that way for about au hour. Our loss wa« only
one man, (Dr. Meredith,) and three hyrse* killed.
The enemy’s loss is ascertained to he one officer
and from ten to fifteen negroes killed.
LaTFR FROM JACKSONVILLE.
On Tuesday morning a detachment of Georgians
approached Jacksonville and had a sharp skirmish
with the enemy in the suburbs, in which they ful
ly sustained the reputation of their gallant State
tor daring and enterprise.
About half past three o’clock the enemy's artil
lery commenced a cross fire from their entrench
ments upon a portion of Major Brevard’s Battal
lion, 150 strong, who nobly maintained their posi
tion under this heavy fire of giape, canister and
shell for nearly two hours. At 5 o'clock a courier
from Capt. Westcott announced that the enemy
had appeared in force and were flanking them.—
To counteract this movement the Major ordered
his coramaud to fall back about one hundred and
fifty yards, and there await the approach of the
enemy’s forces. These soou appeared, between
400 and 500 strong, consisting of white and black
infantry and marines, coming up the Railroad.
They opened upon our forces with four pi ices
of artillery which they brought with them on the
Road, aud posted themselves about one hundred
yards distant. At this range our boys opened up
on them with BU2h accuracy that, though protect
ed by cover of the woods, they could not with
stand it, and in leas than an hour they were glad
to retreat baca under their heavy guna.
The enemy’s loss must have been large ; but un
der cover of their heavy artillery iu their entrench
ments and gunboats, the Major commanding see
ing that hia object was fully and successfully ac
complished, deemed it unnecessary to risk the
livea of his gallant little command under the heavy
cross fire of their fortifications. All accounts how»
ever, they were severely punished, as
at. every tire of our Rangers the scream of their
wounded men were heard above the din.
Relieve the Distressed*
On yesterday a scene oecured in our streets
which moved the sympathies of our soul". A num
ber ot ladies perhaps a dozen, composed of wivea
and daughters of aoldiers families, who represen
ted themeelvea and their families to have been de
prived of anything to eat iu the last few days, save a
portion of corn bread, were seen perambulating
our streets until they came up to a Provision Store
on White Hall street. They all entered it, being
preceded by a tall lady on whose countenance res
ted care and determination. She aaked the mer
eband the price of bacon, lie replied, atating
that it was §l. 10 per pound. She remonstrated
with him, as to the impossibility of females in their
condition paying such prices lor this necessary of
life, He remained inexorable in his demaud,
this tall lady proceeded to draw from her bosom
a long Davy repeater, and at the same tune order
ed the other? in the crowd to help themselves to
what they liked, which they did accordingly, giv
ing preferancc to the bacon, until they had taken
as we learn, something like S2OO worth. They
went out, on being questioned by some gentlemen
as to what they mta it, they related their suffering j
condition of which we have already spoken.
Seeing what was going on, and feeling a deep j
?ympathvjf< r these ladies, a number of gentlemen,
of very moderate means, who, themselves, have '
families to support, set to work to raise a sub- j
scripiion in their behalf. Iu a short they raised \
a small sum, and appointed a committee, consist
ing of Messrs. Wiu. G. Supple T. Brown, and J- \
H. Patillo, from Maj. Cunningham’s Clothnig De
partment, to take care of it. This Committee 1
has placed that fund, not being able to find the
parties who took the bacon, they having disper
sed, in the hands of the Editors of the Intelligen- !
cer, to bestow it upon them, or such objects of
charity, and at the same time requesting him to
to invite others to come up in aid of this good
work.— Front the Atlanta Intel. March 19/A.
The N. Y. Herald of the 12th says the people
of the loyal States are not in a frame of mind to
tolerate the repetition in 1863 of the blunder* and
military disasters of 1861 and 1862. Military suc
cess is imperiously demanded, and the one- thing
needful to eave the administration aud the country
from shipwreck.
Liucoln considers the raid at Fairfax Court
Houae a serious matter, so far as horses are con
cerned. He says he can make a Brigadier Gen
eral in five minutes, but it i? not so easy to replace
oue handled and ten horses.
European dates to the 26th are received. The
American war caused an excitement, in the House
of Lords. Earl Russell alluded to the question of
rccognation ot the Southern Confederacy. He re
quested Lord Strathef.t to postpone until the 2d
instant, his motion which he had given notice of,
for the presentation of copies of all dispatchtg
from Mr. Masson to Her Majesty’s Government,
and the claim of the Soutnern Confederacy to be
acknowledged as an independant power by Great
Brit&ip, to which request Lord Strathedt acceded
laconically.
The steamship Australasian, from Liverpool,
vrith dates to the Ist inst, haa arrived. Seward’s
dispatch, rejecting the French proposal for medi
ation, provokes criticism in the London Journals.
The Times says it is quite consistent with ail Se
ward has written upon the question, and that he is
either preteinaturally right or incomprehensibly
wrong. The Post (Palmerston’s organ) declares
that, emanating as this document doe 9 from the
Federal Cabinet, tia truly incredible that that body
should have sunk so low as to endorse as its own,
in the face of the world, so-nmeh arrant falsehood
and absurd nonsense. The Morning Star consid
er? the document unanswerable.
The Paris Pays treats the matter indifferently.
The London correspondent of the Manchester
Guardian says that the Confederate loan has been
all freely taken on the continent, and that Eng
land will have no more of it than it can get from
foreign natione.
The roiiaii insurrection was exciting great at
tention in the Cabinets of the leading Powers.
The Ru?sian3 were defeated by the Poles after
an engagement which lasted five hours, at Thai
agor? The town was reduced to ruins.
Too Old for Conscription. —At one of
the hotels m Richmond recently, & soldier
took his seat at the table, tore open a roil,
applied some butter to it and tasted it.—-
Then with serious phiz he addressed the
butter as follows ; “Look here, my friend,
the enrolling officer will never get you, be
cause you are too old for conscription.”
The remark produced a roar of laughter all
Aiotmd the truthful speaker.
MACON, GEORGIA:
WHiiiPsdaj, March 25, 1863.
JOURNAL AND MFBSENGEB
To Jay commence# the forty-first volume ol the
Jor&SAi. ajwO MrsscNOKß, and with it bet little to
cheer us in our course during this unnatural con
test. While we da not despond of being able to
survive the crisis, unlike many other#, ouc.iutere*ts
have sadly suffered by the war. Having no tact
or desire for speculation, and no government pa
tronage, we have endeavored to pursue oor usual
course, and labor at the usual price? We have
been fleeced on every hand, In everything that it
is our lot to want to carry on our bnsioaes. We
will mention but one item, which is that of paper.
This baa been constantly advancing on us, and
within the past week another turn has been given
to the screw by an increase of one dollar on the
ream.
We have announced that we should increase
the price of subscription at this time from two
fifty to three dollars per year. But this will be as
a drop in the bucket, iu proportion to what we
I pay on every thing we use. Advertising remains
i as heretofore.
New subscription* mu«t be accompanied by the
! cash,and we must again urge it upon old subscriber?
! of the days of long credits to close their account*.
1 We cannot, afford to pay lor paper at present
price* for their gratification
CLOSING OF MAILS—MACON P 0
Mails for Muccogee Railroad, Columbus, Mont
gomery and the West, st 4.50 P. M.
Savacn&h, Augusta, Charleston, and all North
ern points, at 6 P. M.
Albany, Fort Gaine* and Eufaula, at 7 P. M.
Atlanta and the Macon and Western Railroad,
at 7.30 A. M.
All mails on Sunday close at 12 m.
Office Hours. — Sunday — Open from 9 to 10
A. M. On other days— from BA.M. to 1 P. M.—
2 30 to 4 30, and 6 to 7 P. M.
CONVENTION OF THS WEEKLY PRESS-
The suggestion was first made that it should
meet in this city on the 2#th of this month. Ti e
Milledgeville papers mako a further suggestion,
that in consequence of the Legislature being in
session in that place, that it meet there on Thurs
day, the 2nd April. The suggestion is a proper
one, for the reason given, and altogether accepta
ble to us.
CONFEDERATE DEPOSITORY
The Confederate Government haa very properly
located a Depository of public funds in this city,
and appointed Win. B. Johnston, Esq. as the
Agent or Public Depositary. By hia advertise
ment iu this paper, it will be seen that he will in
vest Treasury notes or bills of a certain date in
Bonds bearing eight per cent, till the 22nd April,
and after that date in aeven per cent. Bonds.—
Thia will afford an opportunity to invest surplus
funds so a? to draw interest, aud at the Bame time
to be convenient aa a circulating itedium. Gov
ernment dues can also be paid into ffiia Depository, j
SAVANNAH AND CHARIFSTON.
Every thiug is now quiet about those doomed
citie9. But it is understood in “ Northern Circles’’ j
that one or the other is to be attached at the next
high tides. Charleston, it is gene’ally conceded, j
will first have the honor of a “ Miltary reception” I
from the enemy.
FIRST GEORGIA REGULARS
This veteran Corpe left here la*, week for Chat
tahoochee, Florida. Troopa are n motion in that
State, who«»e destination is supposed to be to pay
a visit to united population now sojourning at,
Jacksonville. If so, it may soon be expected to
see wool flyipg in that quarter.
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CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR
Tbe only gentlemen we have beard named, and
who have been suggested in the papers, are Gen.
A. Wright, Gen. Toombs, Gen. A. H. Colquitt,
Col. James Gardner and Hon. John Billups, of
Athens. We trust, by a convention or some other
means a candidate will be brought .forward that
will be acceptable to all, and that there will be no
opposition. Nothing but evil could grow out of a
political contest at this time, and there is every
possible reason why it should be avoided. Our
election laws are now smeh that it would carry
strife into the camps and create discord at. home
and place a particular set of men in the position to
claim the spoils from the successful party. The
old political leaven should be buried, and that be
yond the probability of resurrection. But such,
we are aware are not the sentiments of all. There
are aa greedy speculation < on the result of this
election as there has been on the necessary means
to feed and clothe the naked and hungry of the
community. Let them be disappointed by having
but one candidate, and that one above the ap
proach of spoils-men and demagogues,
* ELECTION IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The Republicans have a majority in both Houaes
of the Legislature. One Democrat and three Re
publicans are elected to Congress. Three candi
dates ran for the offiee of Governor, designated as
Republican, Democrat and War Democrat. No
one having a majority of all the votes cast, there
is no election by the people. The “Democrat”
has the largest number of votes.
ISF* During the session of the Legislature
a special train will run between Gordou and
Milledgeville. Leave Gordon 8.50 a.m. Ar
rive at Milledgeville 12 20 a. m. Leave Mil
ledgeville 1.30 am. Arrive at Gordon 3.00
a. m.
[COMMCSICATKD.']
Newt Candidate for Governor.
I see that two candidates are suggested by cor
respondents of the Telegraph for Governor-Gens.
A. R. Wright and A. H. Colquitt. It seems that
General a are to be the only subject! considered in
tbe line of promotion for civil offices. Is there no
civilian now equally or better aaited for that sta
tion ’ lah all make no suggestion at this time,
but would presume that as suitable a candidate
! COJ ld be found out of the army as in it. The
editor of the Telegraph commits himself in favor
of one of those narnsd in his paper, in this wiae:
‘We lijte Colquitt the better by a heap.” Will he
define the quantity or measure of a “heap ” as
applicable to a candidate for Governor, that* the
friends of Gen. Wright may know the amount (or
quantity, may be,; of hia preference between the
two* Q
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%£T The Legislature convenes in Milledgeville
; to day.
Briso in tocr Catfish.—Only one dollar and
fifty cents i« asked in our streets for the slim meat
atriog of tbe smallest specimens of tbe Mnd Fuss
faisiiy. Tery cheap for snob a laxury.
EDITORIAL CORRBPONDINCF
Oxford, Ga., March 2u,
This is one. of the most dismal 7 ’
this proverbially, most dismal weather**' *
then its advent was so sudden t} v
reurs in rural life, were taken all k , <
compelled, like Cincinnati, to l m -
tinently the plow in the furrow 4
temporary audience to a genial ; > t^‘ Ts
thus suddenly precipitated from
| heat to freezing point, is a damper '
; cultural pursuits and hopes B ti n
doubtless all for the beat. At as» rr , /*
i the moment, we must U cultii ate’ pbilci
“Farrawork” is behind in thi# 5> c{ T ’
the weather has been quite vtnircp * r< 7
preparing land. Few have planted r ,
! . . . , r “ 1 H! t
any extent; none have plauted eot;^ r
to forestall Gov. Brown and the legist
who it i3 hoped, will devise, in their w A
some plan to secure the largest prs,-
amount of food to the largest numW
present year. Corn and stock raisitg * 7
imperative necessity as well as duty 0 f
I rimes. The question which overshad -
others is, not how can I make money
how preserve “life and liberty and the r
suits of happiness” for myself andchtlT,
By-thc way, have you read the scath:.,
sermon of the Rev. I>r. Joseph Stiles
the “Speculator” ? I send you an Wrir - -
Os course it is not personal to am oue
your vicinity, and therefore will give n:
fence. By speculator, I presume the lean
and eloquent Doctor means the man
creates a scarcity in the community that L*
may prey upon its necessities. Vcrilv. ?u
."hall have their reward.
The war still drags its alow and blood?
| length. Events of the past few days ioc,
cate a most unhappy fate for Florida, which
Southern Georgia may also share unit*??
timely measures are adopted to prevent »■:
monstrous a consummation as converting
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*hat “land of flowers” into a Pandemonium
of black spirits and grey. There i» no doubt
but Lincoln designs our oid and cherished
home shall be devoted to African coloniia
j tion, after the manner of St. Domingo.—
Georgia is vitally in this move
iuent, let her legislature look after it.
At the Court now in session in this couo
ty, two negroes were convicted of capital
offence#, after an impartial aud fair trial
and sentenced to be hung on the 15th of
May. One, a railroad hand, belonging to a
gentleman iu Greensboro, killed a fellow
laborer, by cleaving his head with au axr
The other negro belonged to Maj. J. M
Harralson, of this county. Many will re
collect that more than ago iu the
neighborhood of what is termed the “Brick
Store,” the new and beautiful Methodiit
< burch was burned, and afeo about that
time the new and elegant. Mansion of Mr.
Hinton, wa9 also laid iu ashes with ail or
most of its contents ; the family barely cs
caping with their lives. At different time*
bince, other burnings or attempt humiD.i
have occurred, all involved in pauful my
tery,and producing in that pleasant ?omroc
nity a sad feeling of insecurity. Not long
ago ihe gin house of Mr. Harralson wa3 O®L-
Mimed, with a considerable amount of cotton
Suspicion fell upon one of his negroes, wL
finally confessed the crinae, and that he was
ulso the author of the other mysterious fires
According to hia own confession, he is one
of the most hardenecr villians that ever
(-courged a neighborhood. He received thr
announcement of his conviction and the io
pressive and pious advice and sentence- or
the Court with the utmost impudence as
unconcern—gazing defiantly into the few A
the Judge, without the least change of cou&
tenance, as he discoursed to him of the awl
nature of his crimes and the fearful punish
rnenfc that awaited him without speedy re
pentance. A similar stoicism was maniff' •
ed by the other culprit. It would set®
there are some incendiaries in Macon, whicr
ueed Judge Floyd’s antidote for such cb*’’
acters. Too much vigilance cannot fc« eI
ercised, as the country teems with despers f
iren, white and black.
The wheat crop looks quite promising ‘ s
upper Georgia. As an element of nation*-
strength and safety/•a plenteous bar«‘ l
should not be overlooked in the petitions
those who assemble mxt week, according l
the proclamation of our worthy Preside
to invoke the Divine blessing upon »&*'
bleeding and imperilled country.
J. K
*Tbis will be published next week.
Shot. —The. Raleigh Register say* :
are indebted to the Proprietor of tbePct< : ‘
burg Shot Tower for a bag of bird shot. *•
is as good an article as was ever turned oif
of Baltimore, or any other shot tower,
some other kind friend will send us a "
ter of powder, it is more than probalN ’>
we shall ere long have a very nicj; "
pie, particularly if we receive a prw ut '
flour and butter for the pastry.
Fredericksburg Sufferers.— The lo -
mond Examiner's Fredericksburg corrfl c
pondent reports witnessing with hi ß 0
•yes a lady raised iu affluence, with
child, and only a dog as an attemfent, wa .,.
ing twelve miles through almost iiup?-"
mud and mire to get something to
Starvation i.# imminet with roan)
sufferers. A lady refugee was sent bae*
subscription to Winchester, because
waa unable to earn her vituals aud
How could she when
8900 a year rent for a third »tory roo&
oßtboird?