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11Y S. ROSE & CO.
TERMS OF
.SUBSCRIPTION & ADVERTISING.
According .0 the “'j, “!U«dg.-
Proprietor* of Hie W e the prices from
ville in April last, the following ar
the first June : |4 00
r.i e of subscription, or less > Hrst
AB»**TI»MO-100 *or.«». or ten im , * i S0
r U E o?L q tDt4iT*'iNS‘tHtlons'for letters of Adminl*-
tr.ulon by Administrator*, Executors, #
A ior Dismission from Administratorship.. 6 <'«
ltlon for Dismission from Guardianship....... 00
Mention for leave to sell hand or Negroes f, 00
Wouc6 to find creditors * * * *
Silas of personal or perishable property, (per square
of ten fnes) ••••••.••■ A
, . , Sheriff’s bevy, of ten lines or leas •< 0
v Mortgage sale, of ten lines or less u 0
. ! e. them -nts by Bheriffs exceed!®* ten lin.-« to
l ch . • ain proportion ••
i rsclosat’e of Mortgage and other Motitnlii adrer
t, .ement*, per squaie of ten lines ...... ‘ ou
i iblishing lost papers, per square of ten lines BJJ
v , ,a, , U ; ir , advertising his wife (in advance) 10 00
Satire of Candidates, Editorial notices for individual
benefit, and Obituary notices over ten lines, charged the
r . a , transient advertising.
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rftOFESSI O.NAL CARDS.
Cl'tVlittllitt'SE & ANSLlvlt
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
knqxvillk and fort valiey, «a.
r and . r'i VF MiOUSF, T A. ANSLF.Y,
Knoxville, Ga. Fort vTallc ‘ y >
net fU-’CG-Ty
£. s. WHITTLE,
attorney AT LAW f
MACON, GEORGIA.
DFrIOE next to CONCERT HALL,over Payne’s Drn£ Store
jau. fi, [4l-ly.]
THOMAS It. CABA Hiss,
ATTORNEY at law,
Foraytli, CSrfX'm
T a . j ..tend promptly to all but Inoss entrusted to his
W tl in theCountlesof Monroe,Bibb, Halts, Crawford,
„ s jqice, Spalding and Upson. L'^Y-L__—-
REMOVAL.
r > Ilf (.1 his removed his Law Office to Cherry street
£>, stairs of building next below B. A. Wise s furnish
, , Ho will attend the Courts as heretofore.
Macon, Oct. 1,1'861. oct9 ts
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HOTE LS.
(TRANTTE^EGCxiir
I,I) respectfully Inform my OLD FRIENDS and
[i VTIIONS, that ince the fire, 1 have obtained the Rooms
i, building NEXT ABOVE the “Granite Hull,” and over
(!:•« store of it. P. McKvoy and Mea*rs. Bostick & Lamar,
w ; , i ), aV e opened, an.! will be pleased to see my triends
an.l . 1 '.Olliers, and will do my best for their comfort and
tihraure Very Respectfully,
,‘"ay 1 BKSJ. F. DENSE.
BROWN HOUSE, -
Opposite the Passenger Depot,
Maeon, Ga.
fj’llK undersigned take charge of this establishment
I >«»•„„, B wf , wateo .
rOITITIIBBLEFIELi) 'HOUSE
“ Like the Pliamix from it» Ashes.”
[llll lT large, new and elegant House, recently erected
.L on the ruins.of my old establishment, Mulberry street,
Macon, Oa., Is now open for the reception and accomnida
tlon of Boarders and transient guests.
rite House has beeu newly furnished throughout, in tin
It-;; manner, and the Proprietor will endeavor to make it a
FIRST CLASS HOTEL.
Iti situation Is eligible, a little below the Math odist and
Opposite the Presoyterlau Church, and near the Banks and
places of business.
Connected with the House is a large
Livery and Bale Stable,
where Drovers and others can find accommodations foi
their stock
The patronage of his old friends and of the traveling
public generally, is respectfully solicited.
Dovh-tf M. STUBBLEFIELD.
Washington Hall
IS STILL OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
SASSEENE, Proprietor.
Atlanta, flu., 1881.
VALUABLE PLAN TATI 0 N
roll SALK.
f | 111 I' rubncribor offers for sale his desirable plantation
L -it uate.i in the 15th district of Sumt<*r county,and aboui
14 miles from Anierlous. It contains Eighteen Hundretl
acres,seven hundred of which is cleared, and in a good
stale ofeultivation It Is undoubtedly as good a plantation
u : there is in Sumter county. A good dwelling house,negro
houses,gin and screw, and all other necessary out buildings
on the premises, and plenty of water. It adjoins 'he rich
lands of T. M. Furlow,W. T. Adams, and others. The place
may he seen at any time.
P isons wishing to purchase wiH either call on me a the
plantation, or address me at Americus, Sumter county
Georgia.
aeo 26 40—ts A. J, SCRUTCHIN,
C ARIIART & BECT.
(LATE OF NSW TOȣ,)
liave returned to this place, whore they
will be pleased to see their Friends. - All
communications promptly attended to,
He?* Store in Ralston’s Rock Building, rn
Third Street.
JAS. D. CART!ART,
WM. B. CARHART.
Macon, March 18,1861.
* B. AMO6S. JDAS’t. LIGOJSt. «. H. LEFK.
AMOSS, LiCON & CO.
WHOJ.ESALE
idiocEßs & mmm mmm,
WHITEHALL ST., ATLANTA, GA.
AV AUNTS
1 00 000 b *’*HELS or CORN,
fT.mG PhJ 25000 bushels of MEAL, to till orders
mi r '-' Ke f Georgia, Sacks furnished to order wheD
accompanied by the money.
REr aS i?i T ,D PEAS, GROUND PEAS, BACON, LARD,
uni A» A T RUP ’ TOBACCO, IRON, LE ATHEE, Ll*
s i„ n _ 1 •’ * c •»received and sold on commission. Con
-onments respectfully solicited. feb 11-6m*
~
POR OBTAINING PAY
F,) K deceased solders.
FOR SALE AT THE
JOHINAL AND MESSENGER OFFICE.
LAST CALL!
take notice:
W®* have turned over our Books, N«tea and Accounts
10 W. L. STARK, Esq., at the store of Freeman A
R ' ,6 *rti 1 who is fully authorised to collect them.
„ JNO, N, KEW * CO.
"•«•*» Jw»
BUSINESS CARDS.
TROS. ri AHBKMiS,«R. O. G.BFALB:
HARDEMAN & SPARKS,
WARE-HOUSE
AND
Commission Merchants.
MACON. OA.,
WILL give prompt attention to the selling and storing
of Cotton, and to the filling of orders for plantation
rnrt family supplies. With many years experience and
vith their best efforts to serve their friends, they hope to
have a continuance of the libera) patronage heretofore
extended to them. Liberal advances made when required.
August loth 1860. (ly.)
COATES & WOOLFOLK,
iy COTTON FACTORS. gg|
Ware* House on Tliir«t Street.
WILL continue to give prompt attention to business
entrusted to their care. Advances made on Cotton
in Store. Sept. 25, IS61 —ts
D, cT HODGKINS &. SON,
r.EALEBS IM AND KANuFACTERCRS OF
anws,
aT¥L ?BTOLB '
&n£ BaortiiigApparatiis>^p^^p^^^^^^^^
OFSTSST OKSORIFTIOB,
4. FEW DOORS BELOW TB£
Macon, Ga.
Jan. 1,1866. ts
IRON WORKS,
MACON, GEORGIA.
T. C. rv ISBE TANARUS,
HAVNIft removed his FOUNDRY AND MACHINE
WORKS to the line of the Rail Road near the Macon
it Western Shops, he is now prepared to manufacture ali
kinds of
MACHINERY AND CASTINGS,
ALSO
Steam Engines & Boilers,
On terms as favorable as any Establishment either North or
South. (mar 13) T. C. NISBET.
JOHN SOHOFIELD, JOSHUA SCHOFIKLP
feciiofielcl & .1 sto.,
FOUNDERS AND MACHINISTS
MACON, GEORGIA.
WE are prepared to Manufacture Steam Engines,
CIRCULAR SAW MILLS, MILL and GIN GEAR
ING, SUGAR MILLS,
BRASS A ND IRON CASTINGS
Os every description 1 IIO.N ltd 1 1.1N fi a iml VEI£»
ANB»VIIN. II aving the most complete aaeortment of
Iron Railing in the State, which for elegance, neatness,du
rability and design, cannot be surpassed, and are suitable
for th lr-.iit. Ai r 'eiiiii r ;SV Cen.. I.l y i.'.is, caouv
Church Fences and Balconies.
Persons desirous of purchasing Railings will do well to
give a call, as determined to offer as good bargains
as any Northern Establishment.
Specimens of our Work can be seen at Rose Hill
Cemetery, and at various private residences in this city,
jan 1-1861
Drugs anti Medicines
AT ELLIS’ DRUG STORE,
Corner Ulterry Street and rollon Avenue.
JUST received, a fresh supply of Drugs and Medicines,
Pei fuuiery, Paints and Varnish Brushes, Superior C<>*i
Oil, Cam phone, Alcohol and Potash, Jayne’s, Ayres’,
Wright's, Moffat's, and Strong’s Pills ; Hembcddt’s Extract
>f iluchu, Sanford’s Liver Invigorator, Mrs. Winslow’s
Soothing Syrup, Degrath’s Electric Oil, Mustang Liniment
Indian Cholagogue, Jayne’s, McLean’s, and Fahnestock’s
Vermifuge; Seizer Aperient and Citrate of Magnesia, war
ranted genuine.
june 20 18-’6O W. P. ELLIS, Agent.
Change of Programme.
W. J. ftfl’EL&OY & GO.
HAVE removed to the New Building on 4th street
near the Guard House. We continue to manufacture
(words, Sabres, Bowie Knives, Spurs, and general brass
work, Farmers’ Tools, Ac.
ALSO FOR SALK,
Tin and. Japan Ware.
Sale Room up-stair3 on second floor.
We will be pleased to see our friends and customers, and
serve them so far as we can.
W. J. McELKOY, .
june IS A. RFYBiOLDS.
THE GEORGIA ACADEMY
FO R TH E B LIN D.
The n ext term of this Institution commences on the
first day of September. Blind persons and such as,
for want of sufficient sight, cannot be educated in the ordi
nary schools, of good health any sound mind, between the
s.ges of 8 and 25, are proper subjects to become pupils.—
The indigent of this State are received free of charge for
board and tuition. Toe course of instruction embraces ail
the branches of a common English Education, with music
md some branches of handicraft* The Institution is well
supplied with ail the facilities of Instruction and with ample
accomodations for a large school Information in regard
to the existence of blind' youths in this State is earnestly
solicited and also applications for their admission to the
Institution. Address W. I>. WILLIAMS,
c e p to —ts Principal, Macon, Ga.
STARCHMANUFACTORT,
LYNCHBURG, VA.
lIIIE subscribers have established, and have now in
. successful operation, a
Starch. Manufactory,
in the city of Lvnchbnrg, where they are now manufactur
ing a fine article of PURE WHITE STARCH, and are pre
pared to fill orders for any quantity. We are determined
o manufacture a superior article, having every facility
tnd good material, and sell to wholesale dealers at a price
which will enable them to realize a hands me profit. We
iarnestly solicit the patronage of the Southern and Western
States, as we shall keep a large supply constantly on hand,
and ready for shipping. Cash orders respectfully solicited,
and promptly attended to.
1 H ' WJ. BETTERTON & CO., *
feb 4-Gm* Lynchburg, Va.
Millincri)! MiHinenil!
PARIS STYLES
Via. TNTmv Orleans.
SPRING OF 1801.
Mrs. HOWLAND
HAS opened a fine assortment of the newest Tarls
Styles of
Ladies’ Hats and Millinery Hoods,
Os recent and Direct Importation to New Orleans.
Her customers and others are invited to call, anil she is
satisfied that they will be pleased.
rwr* Milliners from a distance can be accommodated
with PATTERN HATS and any »tyls Qt MILLINERY
GOOD# *pr 9
MACON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10,1863.
From the Mobile Advertiser and Register, Maj -oth
filter from Jark^uh,
FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.
Jackson, May, 24, 18C3.
Gen. Johnston, Humphrey Marshall, and
Gov. Pettus arrived here yesterday. Os
Juhustuii's movements but little is
He is constantly on the move, and turns up
almost any where and any time. Great ac
tivity prevails.
Slowly we receive scattering particulars
of affairs at Vicksburg, and 1 rejoice to say
that they are not so bad as first represented.
On Mouday the Federals commeueed feel
ing the weakest, nud mo9t vulnerable point
of the Vicksburg works—and on Thursday
morning, at 10 o’clock advanced to the as
sault in a rather cate and ridiculous manner.
They advanced their flags close to the works,
with their negro troops in front, and lay
down. Brown’s gallant Missourians never
fired a shot. The other regiments then
marched up, and the whole assaulting col
umn, forlorn hope and all, marched within
easy musket range.
At the word “Forward, Charge,” they re
ceived our fire, shattering and decimating
their ranks frightfully. They rallied, closed
up, and stood to it lor thirty minutes, when
they broke and fled. They were rallied to
the charge four successive times, and met
with the same storm of iron hail and leaden
rain. The whole field wa c - litera ly covered
for one mile with their dead and wounded,
where they were still lying on Thursday un
buried, and without any attention. What a
field of slaughter, suffering, and anguish !
V bat cruelty in Grant! His dead and wound
ed soldiers were left alone where they fell—
the dead to rot—the wounded to suffei and
die under the very nose of the enemy. How
cruel and beastly to put the negro, whom he
had seduced from their happy homes, and
under the delusion of freedom and liberty,
or by force, induced to become soldiers, and
then put them in front of the battle, to be
mericilessly shot down by their former mas
ters and proprietors, and then leave, them in
the first hour of trial to rot, as so many
beasts.
wince Tuesday, from all I can learn, the
enemy has contented himself with shelling,
cannonading and sharpshooting, and tl y
occasionally succeed in picking oil’som* i
our men. As the firing is at long rang ?,
Pemberton does uot reply.
On Tuesday morning Lieut. Col Prow a,
of rhe 20 Mississippi mounted iuLoirt ~
cterlrfiirtc Pfc.xj 1 ;! T
taking four hundred Federals and about
fifty runaway negroes. Not a gun was fired
and “nobody hurt.” The sick and wound
ed were paroled; the well were brought here
and sent East. Among them were some
half-dozen Captains and Lieutenants. The
negroes have been brought here and put to
work on the fortifications.
Yesterday in the neighborhood of Ray
mond, two Lincoln thieves were captured
with the spoils oil them, consisting oi six or
seven thousand dollars in gold and silver, a
lot of gold and silver watches, and any quan
tity of ladies jewelry.
The enemy is reported landing the forces
of Gen. Curtis at Snyder’s Bluff. Grant
has moved his army well up North of the
Railroad, but few troops being below or in
the vicinity of Grand Gulf, which is no long
er his base of operations.
T regret to say that.-every report from
Vicksburg tells an ugly story about some
Georgia Regiments in the battle of 4 Baker’s
Creek. They are said to have showed the
white feather, and ran at the first fire. This
won’t do for Georgia. The leport comes
from so many reliable sources, that I believe
it to be true. It was their first battle—they
were fighting Grant’s best troops, and they
were in a hot place. CLINT.
LETTER FROM JACKSON.
Jackson, May 27, 18G3.
The news from Vicksburg is cheering, and
affairs are wearing a more hopeful and con
fident face. The Federals have made seven
desperate assaults upon our works, and have
been each time repuUcd with immense
slaughter. All accounts represent that it
has no equal in the war. The Federal offi
cers are said to have represented to their
men that Richmond had been captured by
Hooker, and that the only remaining rebel
stronghold was the city of Vicksburg, before
which they were drawn up in battle array,
and that by determination and boldness in
their charge they might take the place and
at once end the war. The troops did as they
were commanded; their charges were not
only stubborn but desperate, hence the im
mense hills of Yankee dead that now cover
the face of the earth, awaitiug sepultre, aud
and poisoning the atmosphere by the horrid
stench of their thousands of carcassess. Our
officers estimate the enemy’s loss from ten
to twenty-five thousandin killed and wound
ed. A North Carolina Federal deserter
came iji last night, and tells the same story,
and says that Grant’s loss is estimated in
camp at from 10 to 30,000 men.
The wideness of the margin in the est:
mates will give you a faint idea of the pun
ishuaent that the enemy has received, aL
iof the immense strength of Vieksbuq., an i
the heroism of its defenders. Our own lo
is very small, hardly 200. So much fm
good entrenchments,
From the Yazoo 1 can learn but very lit
tie, aud from that little I draw a eight of
relief. The enemy went up the river as far
as Yazoo City, and committed a good many
peculations. Commodore Brown sunk four
boats in the river: which sufficiently obstrue-
ted it to prevent the enemy going auv far
ther up. The navy yard wa«s burnt.
Last year we had some gunboats in the ri
ver but a few i tderal boats started up on a
iecoonuisance, when the Confederate officers
became alarmi a, and blow them up. Noth
j ing but misfortune has attended our naval
| efforts in that garter, and I am glad they
ai»j done with.
From Heleua, Arkansas, our information
ii meagre. All western men fully believe
that the place has been taken by Marma-
Juke or Price’a army. It is said that he
hung a negro regiment, both officers and
men. The number hung is said to be 348
?T stated on the authority of Memphis pa
(v'rs, that no bouts had been up for five days
end it was generally believed that the place
had been taken.
Charpentier’s battery marched through
the city to-day, and attracted a good deal
ot attention. The men looked well, and are
iu a fiue state of discipline.
I regret that the people in Mobile should
have tound fault with ruy dispatches. My
means of information are not as good as I
wish them, and if my dispatches contain un
wholesome news, I cannot, help it. I have
bluited out the truth, and if, in so doing,
l have gotten upon anybody’s corns, they
| • :i.uat take care of them the best way posai
; ble.
| V icksburg waa given up here for several
I Jays, aud the news that came in was sicken
mg and paiuful. Oir army after its defeat
at Baker’s Creek, was -very much disheart
ened, but being successful in repulsing the
enemy iu their assaults on \ icksbsrg, eonfi
dense is restored, and a fine morale prevails.
: The garrison of Vicksburg is yet beseiged
; from the river and the north, and Banks is
said to have crossed his army at Bayou Sara,
I and is marching on Natches. The enemy
has been terribly punished, but not driven
away.
Giant sent iu a flag of truce yesterday.—
I I learn that its object refers to the treatment
.ot the sick and wounded. Maj: McKnigkt
Gen. Boring’s A. A. G., left this morning
with au answer. CLINT.
tk
Shotting of Gen. Van Dorn.
Dr. Peters, who shot General Van Dorn
at Spring Hill, has succeeded in making his
way into the enemy’s lines, and at last ac
counts was in Nashville, The following
statemeni ..Me .y him was published iu the
Nashvill ‘.bspaieii, or the 13th of May ;
Tiie reported killing of General Van Dorn
■ v ! . •' h :
■•urrea in his quarters at Spring Ilill on the
morning of the 7th inst. Dr. Peters has
arrived m this city, and from him we learn
that the cause of the difficulty which result
el in the death of Van Dorn was an inter
view held thirty hours previous to the kill
ing, is which the latter agreed, on his honor,
to give Di Peters a written statement the
next day setting foith four distinct facts.—
Dr. Peters said to him that upon the fulfill
ment of Lis promise, he would spare his life
to bis wifo and children, although Van Dorn
smi he cared nothing for his own wifo.—
The next day Dr. Peters was sick and did
not call on Van Dorn until the second day,
(Thursday morning about eight,) when he
demanded of \ an Doin a compliance with
his promise, which he seemed not inclined
to do. Dr. Peters then said that he would
give him half an hour in which to comply,
and distinctly notified him that, in case of
failure, his life should be the forfeit. He
then walked up into the village. On his re
turn A an Dorn read to him what he had
written. The first clause fully complied
with his promise, the second was an entire
misrepresentation, and the other two ack
nowledgements he refused to make. Dr.
Peters then denounced him for his bad faith,
when Van Dorn cursed him for a “cowardly
dog,” and ordered him to leave the room or
he would kick him out. Dr. Peters then
drew his pistol and the ball taking ef
fect in the left side of the head, and produ
cing instant death.
Dr. Peters picked up the statement Van
Dorn had prepared, and has preserved it as
circumstantial evidence of preceding events,
cud, mounting his horse, rode off. Avoid
ing the pickets at Hurt’s, he crossed Duck
river aud arrived at when he
learned that Gen. Polk, to whom he had in
tended surrendering himself, had issued an
order for his arrest. The next morning he
left for Winchester, disguised, and passing
through Gainsboro’ and Galla*iD, arrived at
this place Monday evening.
Dr. Peters says it is not true that he de
tected \aa Dorn in a criminal act with his
wile. He refuses to reveal the history of
the thirty hours previous to the tragedy, and
will only do so in a court of justice, in the
justification of the course he felt it his duty
to pursue.
Dr. Peters was for a number of years a
distinguished practioner of medicine in
West Tennessee, and was a member of tbe
Senate of this State one or two sessious.—
present residence is in Mississippi, where
he is regarded as a wealthy planter.
Important Rumors from Canada. —
The Quebec Chronicle says that news has
reached city that fifteen regiments were
ordered i uom England in consequence
"f the A: JT. m Ambassador having noti
fied tho Jhi -d, h Government that in case
the iroii itLd: , n rv building in English ship
yards for the Chinese, were allowed to de
part, he would consider it equivalent to a
declaration of war. Canadian journals also
say that nine vessels left England for Cana
da loaded with arms, ammunition and indi
te ry stores, six for Quebec and three for
Montreal.
The JLoiirtoii Time* on liie Situa
tion of America.
A leading article in the London Time*
of the 2d ulfc. says :
There can hardly be a citizen of the Fede
eral States who will not feel bitter envy and
a tingle of self-reproach as he reads the ad
dress of the Southern President ou the suc
cess of the Confederate arms. The language
of the address is familiar to the history, and
still more to the imagination of the Ameri
can. All the topics arose which that na
tion has latterly claimed for its own. A
people suddenly thrown on its defence, and
though unprovided with ships, arras, pow
der, and even food, hurling back in disor
der and disgrace tfeets and armies on iUc
scale of Xerxe3 or a Darius multiplying its
hosts by rapidity of movement; strengthen
ing its unprovisiored fortresses by concealing
their weaknesses; sacrificing gain, comfort,
and every other consideratin to patriotism
—this is the particular portraiture of great
ness on which the American citizen fondly
gazes and sees his own image.
He panted and pined for at ieast one
more occasion in which the earnest of his
budding glory, given ninety years ago, might
be more largely realized on the grand socle
of modern warfare. The eastern horizon
was one day to be blackened with enormous
navies, hurling bolt and raieg tire into Now
fork and other Atlantic cities. Armies
were to efiect a landing Rnd push their wav
into the interior, spreading terror and deso
lation. But the ships wore to be shattered,
foundered and shipwrecked ; the armies were
to perish or capitulate, and, after the lapse
of Dears, the foe was to find himself reduced
to sullen inactivity, two proud to make
peace, too exhausted to persevere. Every
battle field of the Old World was to be
eclipsed by the more severely tried and more
successful heroism of the Mew. There was a
time when we, on this side, sometimes smiled
at these dreams, Greece would never transfer
itself to the Potomac, or the Rappahannock
became a classic stream. But this has come
to pass, and these visions have been fulfilled.
The parts, however, are not as expected.—
It is the American himself—the American
of the boastful, prosperous, teeming North
—who is the furious multitudinous but dis
com fitted invader.
He is himself repelled, shattered, and
prostrated. It is from him, not for him,
that all this glory has beeu won. In this
famous, world-wide story, which will he told
for all age,- h« ia sm.v»g(* invader, uu.-li-
Cd tO ttie ground, UmMcu uuvlu i’uot, or
driven into outer darkness.
What, then, is to be done ? We are now
an old people; we have gone through many
vicissitudes, and we have the wisdom which
comes by experience. But even a brief
and narrow experience may tell the North
ern States what to do in this matter. Any
man, however good, great, may have to
make the best of a disaster; perhaps to es
cape obloquy where he hoped for fame.—
This is a case of bankruptcy—a bankruptcy
of ambition, expectation, and fame. The
United »Statea are not to be the very great,
very united, very powerful, very glorious,
very free; very wealthly, very unencumber
ed people that they expected to be* They
are to be rather more like the rest of the
world. It is uo such very great hardships,
in fact, though great enough, no doubt, to
people who but the other day were clumiog
half this globe.
We of the Old World have seen four or
five pretensions to universal empire atterly
confounded, even after they had acquired
some probability and prescription. 80 we
think it only natural the experiment, should
be tried in the New World aud should fail.
But when the worst has come to the worst,
then arises the occasion for a wisdom which
is only second to that which shows itself in
prosperity. It. is something to lose every
thing but honor. It is something to save
one’s life in a shipwreck. It is something
to give your credttors five shillings in the
pound. It is something if your son turns
out au ordinary gentleman when you ex
pected him to be an Archbishop or a Lord
Chancellor. We moderns say that “half a
loaf is better than no bread/’ but one of the
oldest “saw«” in the world is on the folly
of a man who does not know much
more the half is than the whole. The
Americans have only to do what everybody
has to do some time or other —what accor
ding to history, all nations have had to do
—wind what, according to the theology, the
human raee has to do—try for the second
best when the first is gone.
The United States know how much Eng
land gave up last century, and how little
she has really lost by it. France is an ex
tensive, prosperous, glorious and most for
midable empire, but she has failed in sever
al attempts at universal empire, and now
occupies less territory than she did a thous
and years ago, or at the beginning of this
century. She is not the better for Algeria;
Russia is not the happier or stronger for
Poland; and Austria for her footing in
Italy. England has refunded many con
quests when she found the cost of holding
them. If the Americans are too high mind
ed to be advised by us, perhaps they will
take a lessou or two from our history, which
happens to be most to the point when it is
their history as well as ours. We have been
quite as proud of the United States and have
fouud them quite as useful since they ceased
to be our own. We have all come to the
conclusiou that they had a right to be in
dependent, and it was best they should be.
Nor can we escape the inference that the
Federals will one day come to the same con
clusion with regard tp the Southern Stat*»
VOLUME XLI-NO. 12.
Fro ti London Po«t (G«T>tcment orpin) Apr'i 2r
Flic Defeat nt Charleston.
The particulars of the engagement at CL •-
lestoo, which have reached us by the Can -
da, place it beyond a doubt the Federal fl c <*£
has sustained a decisive defeat. N*>t ou y
have the fort-* commanding the entrance
c harleston not been taken, but anv future
attempt to reduce them has beeu definite !y
abaudoued. Ou the day succeeding the
engagement a council of war was held by
the Federal commanders, when they unani
mously decided that it was useless to r. low
the attack. Shortly afterwards the fieri re
tired to Port Royal; and, according r>> th,
latest intelligence, it was in contemplation
oor| d Admiral Dupent with Li., li r.
clads to the Mississippi, to seek at Port
Hudson or \ icksburg the success which wa:
denied to him at Fort Sumter. So termia
ates the great uaval expedition which, at an
almost fabulous cost, was dispatched by the
Federal Government for the reductiou of
South Caroliua. Once again has au atteiap
tion tbe part of the Northern forces to -*‘uo
one of the most important cities in the South
ern Contederacy resulted in signal aud lyuc
ble defeat.
If Admiral Dupont failed to force a piss
age up to the quays of Charleston, it i
tainly was not owing to the want ts au f
ficient fleet. Never, perhaps in the anc,. s
of naval warfare did anyadrnr.l uncc -
take the reduction of a town win it:- c •
eriog defences with more terrible and n
- irresistible engines of v :>.r than
those which, on the 7th of Aprd, wire m »
shnlled outside her bar ofi'Charleston barb- .
Ironclad ships of war are thecreatiuu of the
past three years, and never until the pi. . \.t
month have they beeu employed in na a!
operations on what may be regarded
large scale. A year since we Lad the mgi
handed fight between the Merrimac and tin-
Monitor, and during the past few month:,
the merits of ironclad gunboats of small
size have been tested on the Mississippi.-
The advance of nine ironclads to the att:u 1.
of the heavily armed fortifications command
iug the entrance to charleston harbor, mu
however, be considered as opening anew
era in naval history. Every one of the e
vessels was first class of its kind, and tin v
were constructed for the special purpose o
reducing the strongest fortifications and pass
ing uuscathcd under the heaviest firo. The
lesults of the recent engagement may con
sequently be accepted as fairly testing the
vain* of ironclad gunboats when oppot- >1 to
fixed batteries, and their capability • i u
taining a heavy and well directed fire
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The loss of the Keokuk will not precepti
biy diminish the strength of the Northern
navy, and the injuries received by the otl -i
vessels wiil doubtlea speedily be rej>;- -i
but henceforth the Federal Govern men
must abandon 1 11 hopes of reducing C har
leston. This is surdy one to be added to
the many bitter pills the North huv«* of 1?
been obliged to swallow. Twice the num
ber of ironclads would not bavo iff.ctcd a
different result. The point may uow bo
considered as settled that even at a long
range forts can inflict more damage on -hi;
however protected they may be by arnn i
than ships can upon forts.
A System of Apprenticeship .\ecileti
Among other things of reformation in our
new order of things, there is no subject
which should receivo more especial attention
than the inauguration of some healthful r>s*
tem of apprenticeship. If we are to be tru
ly independent we must educate and tram
mechanics from the youths of the country
and this education and training can never
be efficient aud attain excellence UDdcr the
present loose system of apprenticeship which
prevails at the South. There ougnt to bo
established certain terms of apprentices!* p
sufficient to make those learning trades in;,
terg of their various arts, instead of turning
them out upon the world jackleg worknitL
who know nothing of what they pr.,fh»s.
In our own business, that of prim v,
do not find one good printer in five f
who travel as masters of the art Most <
them have acquired an inkliug <»» n i/!
I into the business by working a eti ■ wl
: aud then starting out, in defiance o; al’ i
! ligations to their preceptois u:id »Lh r or
best interest, as journeymen—imigini:i.’
| that, as soon as they cau aet up from tour t.
five thousand emi of reprint tbattbey ar com
petent workmen, and miiot, therefore, in ius
tice to themselves, command the wages and :c
proficients in the art. We have been r*a
ly annoyed by such workman. In ali can
dor, we believe that the old English rule of
demanding pay for learning boys the prin
tor’s trade, instead of paying them foi thcii
indifferent services, is a good one, and would
be the means of turning out a better ami
more intelligent class es printers.
We have given our own trade as an illu
tration of the imperfection of the mechanic
arts at the South as imparted under the
loose and very objectionable system prevr.il
ing among us* It wou.d be to the general
welfare not only of mechanics themselves,
but to the country, if such a sy*tcm of ap
prenticeship were enforced by special acts
of our Legislature as would make it legally
obligatory ou the part of masters and ap
prentices’ to serve a sufficient number of
years as -would ensure proficiency and ex
pertness in the various ai ts and trade u
by the youths of the country.
"We throw out these brief bints with the
hope that ablet pens than ours may take up
the subject and do fuller justice to it than
we are capable of bestowing —Layrc y«
Reporter.