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(Skorgia jourti .... # illcs®cngar. 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. . | t , g tllllWr ~. l || i mfiii ir *- - 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 _ . . ---- ; 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 TO»£,) 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 * ****** 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.