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journal ft Messenger. J. KNOWLES and S. BOSE, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS ' \m -nmrr~ 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. - 1 4> 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 __ %£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 j 6 *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?