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Journal Rtii) MitmtmtK,
BY S. ROSE & CO.
v 'TJBjR.ji'vCS OJP
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Lineral arrangement made \y;ith county officers, Drug
gists, Auctioneers, Merchants, and ethers, who may wish
to make limited contracts.
IS?* Letters addressed to g. ROSE A CO.
16 GOT LAR JIKETffI GS ”
of masons, knight templars, odd fel
lows AND SONS OF TEMPERANCE,
HELD IN TUB CITT OF MACON.
MASONS.
Grand Lodge of Georgia for IS6B, October 28th.
Macon Lodge, No. C, first and third Monday nights in
each month.
Constantine Chapter, No. 4, second Monday night In each
month
Washington Council, No. 6, fourth Monday night in each
moT.th.
St. Omar’s Encampment, Knights Templar, No. 2, Meet
ings every first Tuesday'*!ght in each month.
ODD FELLOWS.
Grand Lodge, first Wednesday in June.
Grand Encampment, Tuesday previous.
Franklin Lodge, No. 2, every Thursday evening.
United Brothers, No. 5, every Tuesday evening.
Macon Union Encampment, No. 2, second and fourth
Monday evenings in each month. - .
SOAS OF TKM PER ACNE.
Grand Division, fourth Wednesday in October, annually.
1 i«iirn« ra«tmnriii-*iie—pßha<ai3i#e T-iurv.
JP ROFESSJONAL CARDS.
CCJLVERHOESE A ANSLBJf,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
KNOXVILLE AND FORT VALLEY GV.
G. P. CULVERIIOUSE, F. A. ANSLEY,
Knoxville, Ga. Fort Valiey, Ga.
oet 81-’6»-ly
L. N. WHITTLE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MACON, GEORGIA.
jfFIOE next to OONCEHir HALL,over Paync’e Drug Store
)«. 6, [4l-ly.] ‘
THOMAS B. CAB A MISS,
ATTORNEY. AT LAW,
For«ytli, Oa.
ITT! 1.1. attend promptly to all business entrusted te his
\V care in theCountiesof Monroe, Bibb, Butts, Crawford,
nes, Pike, Spalding and Upson. [may 12
HEISOVAL.
T> 111 li t. has removed his Law Office to Cherry street
I >, nn stairs of building next below B. A. Wise s furnish
in« itore. He will attend the Courts as heretofore.
Macon, Oet. 1.1361. 0 L
Hotels.
(4 raniteliall.
JWoi LD respectfully inform my OLD FRIENDS and
p \xroN3, that since tbe fire, I have obtained the Rooms
In the building NEXT ABOVE the “Granite Hall,” and over
the store of R. P. McEvoy and Messrs. Bostick & Lamar,
where I have opened, and will be pleased to see my friends
and customers, and will do my best for theit comfort and
Pleasure. Very Respectfully,
1 ,™y 1 BENJ. F. DSNBE.
BROWN HOUSE,
Opposite the Passenger Depot,
Macon, Ga.
rg>HK undersigned take charge of this establishment
A „ t ,r £." ,he 1,1 N<,TClllber 'oloßßE B. WELSH b CO.
Til E STUBBLEFIELD JIOUSE
“ Like tho Phoenix from its Ashes.”
TH AT large, new and elegant House, recently erected
on the ruins of my old establishment, Mulberry btreet,
Macon, (la., is now open for the reception and aacomuida
tion of Boarders and transient guests.
The House has been newly furnished throughout, in the
best manner, and the Proprietor will endeavor to make it a
FIUIT CLASS HOTEL.
Its situation is eligible, a little below the Methodist and
opposite the Presbyterian Church, and near the Banks and
places of business.
Connected with the House Is a large
Livery and bale Stable,
where Droverj and others can find accommodations for
their stock.
The patronage of his old friends and of tbs traveling
public generally, is respectfully solicited,
nov 5-ts M. STUBBLEFIELD.
Washington 11 ni l
IS STILL OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
SASSEE NE, Proprietor.
Atlanta , fia., IH6I.
Y ALU ABLE P LAN TAT ION
FOIL SALE.
TIIK subscriber offers for sale his desiraVde plantation
situated iu the 15th district oi Sumter county, and about
14 miles from Americus. It contains Eighteen Hundred
acres, seven hundred of which is cleared, and in a good
state of cultivation It is undoubtedly as good a plantation
as there is in Sumter county. A good dwelling house,negro
bouses,gin and screw, and all other necessary out buildings
on the premises,and plenty of water. It adjoins the rich
lands of T. M. Furlow, W. T. Adams, and others. The place
toay be seen at any time.
Persons wishing to purchase will either call on me a the
plantation, or address me at Americus, Sumter county
Georgia.
dec 40-ts A. J. 80RUTCHIN.
forlallT
FIVE BILLIARD TABLES.
P<H’R of which are new, two years old, “Phelan’s lat
ent improved pattern,” with the best of “combination”
cushions—ALL WARRANTED, without a scratch or blem
•®b, togetuer with cues, racks, two setts Balls for each,
*lth a beautiful four armed gas, suspension pipes for each,
®°Qpiete enure. Apply to WM. M. DAVIDSON,
Savannah, Ga
OF* Atlanta Inlelligenser and Columbus publish cne
•*< and tend bills to laran&afc Morning News.
2?.iw
BUSINESS, cards.
."fios. HARDEMAN-gw
* 0.0. spark:
HARDEIHAfi & SPARKS,
WARE-HOUSE
AND
Commission Merchants.
MACON. GA., pH
WILL give prompt attention to the selling ahd storing
of Cotton, and to the filling of orders for plantation
and family supplies. With many years experience* end
with their best efforts to serve their friends, they hope to
have a continuance of the liberal patronage heretofors
TSI uS]Bio. L ' hera ' adVanCei mi ' i ( 'iy.) en K “ ai "' :d -
COATES cu WOCLFOLK,
M COTTON FACTORS.
Ware Blouse on Third Street.
WBI.I. continue to give prompt attention to business
entrusted to their care. Advances made on Cotton
in Store. Sept. 25, 1861—ts
D. C. HODGKINS & SON,
DEALERS IN AND MANUFACTERKR3 OF
C3r XT 3XT <E3 ,
ur les, *
PISTOLS,
FISHING
TACKLES.
Ar..d Sporting
OP BVKBY DESCRIPTION,
A FEW DOORS BELOW THU '»
Daniel' House, KSslWflll,
Macon, G.a.
Jan. 1,1360. ts
IRON WORKS,
MACON, GEOHGIA.
T. C. NIBB ET 9
HAVNIG removed his FOUNDRY AND MACHINE
WORKS to the line of the Rail Road near the Macon
& Western Shops, he is now prepared to manufacture all
kinds of
MACHINERY AND CASTINGS,
ALSO
Steam Engines & Boilers,
Ou terms as favorable as any Establishment either North or
South. (mar 18) T. g. NISBET.
JOHN SCHOFIELD, JOSHDA SCHOFIELD
fecliofleld & JBuo.,
FOUNDERS AND MACHINISTS
MACON, GEORGIA.
WE are prepared to Manufacture fitcu.ni Engines,
CIRCULAR SAW MILLS, MILL and GIN GEAR
ING, SUGAR MILLS,
BRASS AND IRON CASTINGS
Os every description IK ON HAILING andVEII"
A N OAI-IX. Having the most aomplete assortment of
Iron Railing in the State, which for elegance, neatness,du
rability and design, cannot be surpassed, and are suitable
“TSY ,tu irunts i>v\ enings, vjeiudifry Lets, Public Squares,
Church Fences and Balconies.
Persons desirous of purchasing Railings will do well to
give a call, as we are determined to offer as good bargains
as any Northern Establishment.
ggjg" Specimens of our Work can be seen at Rose Hill
Cemetery, and at various private residences in this city,
jan 1-1861
Drugw and >leclieine^
AT ELLIS’ DRUG STORE,
Conies* Cherry Street and Cotton Avenue.
JUST received, a fresh supply of Drugs and Medicines,
Perfumery, Paints and Varnish Brushes, Superior Coal
Oil, Camphene, Alcohol and Potash, Jayne’s, Ayres’.
W right’s, Moffat’s, and Strong’s Pills ; Hemboldt’s Extract
of Buchu, Sanford’s Liver Invigorator, Mrs. Winslow’s
Soothing Syrup, DegratiA Electric Oil, Mustang Liniment.
Indian Chotagogue. Jayne’s, McLean’s, and Faluiestock’s
Vermifuge; Selzer Aperient and Citrate of Magnesia, war
ranted genuine.
june 20 l!5-’60 W. S. ELLIS, Agent.
Chaiigo of Programme,
W. J. M’ELROY &. GO.
HAVE removed to the New Building on 4th street
near the Guard House. We continue to manufacture
Swords, Sabres, Bowie Knives, Spurs, and general brass
work, Farmers’ Tools, Ac.
ALSO FOR gAL*,
Tin tmd Japan Ware.
Sale Room up-stairs on Becond floor.
We will be pleased to see our friends and customers, and
serve them so far as we can.
W. J. McKLROY,
jane IS A. REYNOLDS.
THE GEOKGIA ACADEMY
F O R TH E B LIN D.
fJIHE next term of this Institution commences on the
X 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
ages of 8 and 25, are proper subjects to become pupils.—
The indigent of this State are received free of charge for
board and tuition. The course of instruction emViraees all
the branches of a common English Education, with music
snd some branches of handicraft* The Institution is well
supplied with all the facilities of instruction and witli ample
accomodations for a large school. Information in regard
to the existence of blind youths in this State is earnestly
solicited and also applications their admission to the
Institution. Address W. D. WILLIAMS,
S epl0—ts Principal, Macon, Ga.
ST A ItClf MAN UF ACTOR Y,
LYNCHBURG, VA.
r|HIE subscribers have established, and have now In
JL successful operation, a
Starch Manufactory,
in the eity of Lynchburg, 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
to manufacture a superior article, having every facility
and good material, and sell to wholesale dealers at a price
which will enable them to realise a hands me profit. We
earnestly 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,
a„d promptly attend,d to. w } BETTERTON * CO.,
feb 4-Cm* Lynchburg, Va.
Millincrt)! Millinen)!!
PARIS •Hf STYLES
N r ia. TNT ew Orleans.
SPRING O F 1801.
Mrs. HOWLAND
HAS opened a fine assortment of the newest Paris
Styles of
Ladies’ Hats and Millinery Hoods,
Os recent and Direct Importation to New Orleans.
Her customers and others are invited to call, and she is
satisfied that they will be pleased.
cay Milliners from a distance can be accommodated
with PATTSRN. HATS and any style of MILLIHERY
3001)1. apr 3
MACON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY l, 18G3.
[From tha Richmond Whig]
G*c? Ewell.
Early in the war, when a company of
Yankee cavalry, headed by a renegade Vir
ginian, dashed at night into Fairfax Court
House, a singular scene oceured. The gal
uit Marr was killed, and his men begau to
give back befure the cavalry. At that mo
ment a gentlemen rushed out of a house,
called on Marr’s men to stand firm, and,
Mith the aid of Ex Governor, now Gen
Smith rallied them. This gentleman was
scantily attired having indeed, but oue gar
ment on his person-, and he was unarmed,
i bus defenceless, he stood in the middle of
'tie street while the balls were filling thick
and fast around him defied the Yankees,
and rained down upon them a torrent of
imprecation such as were never heard before
lAls .Y his intrepidity struck more
terror into their craven souls than all the
bullets of our infantry. They fled, and the
much-enraged gentleman went quietly to
bed His name was Ewell,
A hen next heard from, this gentleman
wrs commanding a brigade of Beauregard’s
army at Manassas.
Aftei the battle of iVlanassa 5 *, wo heard
of Ewell s modesty aud unselfishness.—
When the commission of Major General
was tendered him, he hesitated many days
to accept it, saying that Jubal Early was a
fitter man than himself to receive it. Eire,
inti epidity, modesty, were his characteristics]
his capacity was yet to be tested. This was
fully developed iu Jackson’s great campaign
in the V ally, where he was assigned to the
most arduous and important and daring
worthy of iho indomitable Stonewall him
self. The glorious victory at Cross Keys
was won by Ewell alone; Jackson, if we
mistake not, taking no part in it.
In the battles around Richmond he took
a prominent part. At Cedar - Run, Bristoe
Station and Manassas No. 2, he fought like
a lion. At Manassas he was so severely
wounded that his leg had to be amputated
an operation always dangerous, but par
ticularly so in the case of a man like Ewell
whose health was not robust. But his ada
maqtine will Irumphed over the dangers in
cident to a feeble constitution, and brought
him once more to the field, maimed, indeed,
but willing as ever to peril tiis life iu behalf
of the cause. lie always expresssd his de
terminatiou to rejoin the army afc the earliest
moment, not because he loved warfare e J
its own sake, but because b« ti. -Aey jsh
an.;.,, we nave been assured, wa. JU 5,
owu IjIEgUCgC. ,j
Ewell had reported for duty before Jack
son fell at ChaDcellorsvillo. The loss of
that great Chieftrin,his expressed preference
for Ewell as his successor and the general
desire of the soldiers to have him back again,
left the War Department no choice but to
promote him. He was made Lieutenant
General. Lee show ed bis confidence in him
by placing him in the van of the great for
ward movement now being executed, and he
in turn showed his unshaken appreciation of
Early by assigning to him the task, of storm
ing Winchester. How well reposed the
confidence of both was, Hie telegraph des
patches attest. Ewell, Early and Johnston
—three Virginians, all of whom have been
severely wounded—have taken up the Val
ley campaigu where the hero that sleeps at
Lexington left it. Their achievements at
\\ inchester give promise that they will car
ry it on in Stonewall Jackson’s tvay. But
let it not be forgotten that these Virginians
ow*e the “valor”—that is General Lee’s own
word—of troops from other States besides
the Old Dominion.
The victories at Winchester and Rerry
ville have paid in part for the lost limb of
the fierce General there commanding. We
may consider that the account, to the extent
of the smallest pedal digit has been satisfac
torily audited. The remainder of the debt
will, we trust be adjusted by sirniler instal
ments. It is sa'd that an artificial leg, or
dered some months ago, awaits General
Ewell’s arrival iu the city of Philadelphia;
aud that the object of the forward movement
of Lee’s army is to obtain the same.
Tall Figuring.—An ingenious friend of
ours, highly gifted in the science of colla
ting statistics, sends us tho following from
his place of seclusion in the country.
“We have multitudinous rumors up here
from Vicksburg. I figured up aafew of
them recently, and the result was that Grant
had lost 365,000 killed, 1,823,000 wounded,
aDd two million prisoners, since he cum
menced his attacks upon the Hill city, and
that he still had a tremendous army left! —
Most of the rumors are implicit}’ believed
by the people hereabouts. lam somewhat
skeptical, although I have no doubt Grant
will be driven away from Vicksburg. The
story of the capture of sixteen hundred of
the enemy’s gunboats at Port Hudson was
rather staggering—was not universally cred
ited—but the report of the taking of jive
hundred at Vicksburg, crews, armameut
and all, went down like hot cakes with fresh
butter. —Mobile Tribune.
Important from Southwest.
The President on Monday received* from
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston a telegram an
nouncing that Major General Richard Tay
lor, commanding a division under General
Kirby Smith, had taken possession of Mil
liken’s Bend. The dispatch does not men
tion any battle as occuring, and therefore
we presume the Vankees evacuated the place
without a fight. Milliken’s Bend is a strong
position commanding the Mississippi river,
twenty-five miles above T icksburg. It be
ing in our possession, effectually cuts off
Grant's supplies.
From the Richmond Dispatch of the 231
MillikeuN Bend in our Possession.
Ariru I '*, ea ?> DC ? | ou g°r be any doubt that
Milliken 3 Bend is ia possession of our for
ces. It was taken by Gen. Taylor, forming
a part of Gen. Kirby Smith’s force. The
Ti rCC (jeD l * T - ylcr uui «bered 8,000 men.
in esc tacts have been communicated to the
1 resident officially by a dispatch (telegraph
ic) from Geu. Johnston. fc 1
It is impossible to over-estimate the val
ue of this capture. Milliken’s, liend com
pieteiy commands the channel of the river
wh ? u the water is low, as it is at present,
tbc P art y possession of it can,
iiuch a stage oi water, absolutely stop
the passage of all and every kind of craft
boiird either up or down the river.—
As ail the provisions for Grant’s army come
10111 a bove, it will at once be seen that this
conquest must pr- ve fatal to the enterprise
agamrt Vicksburg. Soldiers must eat if
they he expected to light, and if they can
get nothing to cut they must fall back. As
tar us we can see, Grant caunot sustain his
army without the free use of the Mississippi.
In the meantime. Smith having possession
! 111 cu s -' ni t has a free passage to
Johnston whenever the litter may call for
Ills assistance aud_can pass over Price, who
i& at the head ot 1 <,OOO men.
A e have heard muuy and great fears ex
pressed for the fate of Vicksburg; some
i.jvt - urn gone so far as to say that it must
taU Siionufc the interposition of a miracle.
v v e nevei believed it, simply because we
were well acquainted with the strength of
thf position, and did not imagine that it
ewo couid be carried, provided only it were
defended by a resolute governor. Such a
man has been found in General Pemberton,
who we believe has at least, satisfied the
most skeptical of his loyalty and bravery,
from the river Vicksburg has had nothing
to lear. She is built on a high hill, and
the guns of the fieet have to bo aimed
| f S ucli an that the shells pass over
| her, or explode in the air. There is no ob-
J joct of more thorough contempt to the Vicks
; burgers than the mendacious braggart Pur
ter, who has been filing at her for a month
I and i life lo *. Jet killed a mao. On the land
country is peculiarly susccp
Fgini i 3 II iY edv It is broken into a wild
.s bad enough, hills, sometimes
r around valleys ; sometimes
ort time since he oid^’-P 0 abrupt nmcinices,
.. . , , j.J euuugu to swaiiow a
3 lines, and woujtf' fieaolutel defended
thaftm and re £ arded as impregnable,
* , -' v . , >*• ‘Cumstance, and the courage
°I °tl,, we have constantly put our
faith.' Uv
things, at last, appeal to be on the point
of taking a favorable change. Milliken’s
Bend being in our possession, an end is put
to all recruiting from above. The waters
are rapidly falling, and in a week or two
will be at the lowest. Johnston has a pow
erful army, and his capacity for increasing
it is greatly enlarged by the conquest of Kir
by Smith. The toils are slowly, but it ap
pears to us, surely being drawn around
Grant. Already sickness to an alarming
extent is said to prevail in his army, who
are forced to drink the water of the Big
.Black, redolent with pestilence and death.
Wc do not wish to excite hopes that may
never be realized 3 but for our own part—
without asking auybody to share in the con
fidence which we fed—we are firmly per
suaded that the time is not far distant when
that \ankec army will either be taken en
tire, or be compelled to make a disastrous
retreat from the position it now occupies.—
Apparently, Gen. Johnston has been sl#w 3
but he has had to organize an asmy in the
face of the enemy, to supply it with the
munitions of war, arid to encounter other
unheard of difficulties. He has surmounted
them all, and now that the water is down
we may excct to hear from him in a way
that shall silence his detractors forever.
The advantage which will accrue to our
cause from the repulse of Grant and the sal
vation of Vicksburg, are prodigious. AVe
shall have made the enemy fail iu the opera
tions of a whole campaign. We shall have
preserved a point which they consider of
more importance than any other. We shall
have secured the trans Mississippi States. — j
We shall be iu a condition to roll back the !
war upon the Yankee States, in co-operation 1
with Lee ; s army on the Potomac. These j
are a few, and but a few, of the least im
portant results. Perhaps the whole North
west, finding themselves as far off from se
curing the navigation of the Mississippi as
ever, may become tired of the war, and ei
ther force a peace or secede from the Yan
kees.
Great Salt Mine.—lt appears from
scientific investigations that the salt deposit i
at New Iberia, Louisiana, is of the most ex
tensive and wonderful description. Accord
ing to recent Yankee accounts its vastness
and purity is unequalled on the Globe. —
One penny-a-liner says:
“Imagine, if you can, the granite quarry of
Massachusetts, or the markle quarry of A er
mont, to be solid despositsof pure, rich salt, ;
clean and transparent as so much clear white j
ice, in some solid, inexhaustible mass, un
derlying the earth, and you then acquire an
imperfect idea of the vastness of this salt
formation.”
The Dixon Murder.—The Hustinga
Court at Richmond, before wbom the preli
minary trial of Forde for the murder of Rob
ert, E. Dixon, has been pending, has unani
mously refused to admit the prisoner to bail,
and decided to recommend him for further
trial before the Criminal Court in September.
Ulili’oy’fl lit-ifcti in Winchester.
The reign of Milroy in Winchester, Va
wuieh has rivalled iu brutality and robbery
that ot Butler in New New Orleans, is now
over. A letter trom a lady who was sent
by him within our lines, gives some idea ©f
the littleness and cruelty of the Yankee
General in \\ inchester, and we make some
extracts from it ;
Gen. Miiroy and his Yankee tribe still
have possession, and, as you know, have
had for six months. 1 did not leave with
my husband when our army left, for it was
winter, and my health not good, and l did
not fancy moviug around from place to pin e
as 1 should have had to do if 1 left home,
particularly in winter. But as soon as
pleasant weather come 1 wanted to leave,
but could not imagine how to get “over the
lines. Every day our enemies were be
coming harder aDd harder for us. There is
only one prayer in Winchester, and that is,
“Oh, God, bow long, how long!” breathed
from hearts filled with suffering and misery.
God only kuows what the people of VYin
chester*have had to bear aud suffer from
those fiends iu human shape.
The town is full of hospitals. They have
Taylor’s Hotel, York House, Union Hotel, j
and when I left were turning the people
out of their homes to make hospitals of
them. l)r. 11. Buiwin aud Air. Singleton
were turned out the day before I° C amc
•away. The soldiers have been camped
about in town all wiuter, and such a
dirty place you never saw. j fie church
opposite was taken tor a stable, and we had
the horses quartered all around us.
Iho typhoid fever has at least become sc
bad that it has grown to an epidemic, and
there is scarcely a family in town but have
two or more, and in some cases the whole
family is down, and just dependent upou
their neighbors for help. All the servants
have gone, and the people have just been
worked and worried to death. A great
mauy deaths have taken place— as many as
eig.jt funerals a week among the town peo
ple, which, in a little place like that, you
known is something. * * *
The Yankees will not allow the people to
buy anything without taking the oath, and
we would rather starve than do that. We
could get nothing either one way or the oth
er, and just had to live on bread and some
times had butter. They would not allow us
to buy a bone of meat Jo Jh#KeV' ,n flnfe ‘iff'
wards inchester the i ankees once sur
rounded with six hundred of their men about
fifty of ours, and did not kill one—all es
caped. Old Milroy was rising mad, swore
terribly, called tjje officer who had com
mand and said, “Why is that six hundred
Yankees having one hundred relels surround
ed, let them all escape P } The officer said,
“all I can say is the rebels fought with da r
ing bravery and the Yankees like cowards.”
They put the officer under arrest for forty
days. Milroy never goes out. He had his
wife aud four children—ugly little red head
ed things-—with him. They had Airs. Lo
gan’s line house. You heard, 1 suppose,
they sent Mrs. L. and family over the lines.
They took possession of the house and every
thing in it. Instead of coming up the Val
ley to fight, the men they stopped in Win
chester aud fought the women and children.
The women were firm and faithful ; never
would give up one step. When Milroy\s
wife first came she had one little truni:, aud
when she left she had jive very large, ones—
carried, off everything she could Ly her
hands on.
They say they will not leave a negro in
town when they leave. They had an old
darkey under arrest because he would not
work aud said he was “secesh.” They put
him in the guard-house and kept him for
three days on water. The fourth day the
officer went and said, “Are youseccsh yet''”
The faithful old fellow, clapping his hands,
said, “Bless de Lord, Massa, I is secesh
yet.” They then took him up to the Gen
eral’s and put very large iron balls to his
legs, and set him to splitting wood. Broth
er Alex, went by and saw him. It happen
ed that the officer who was guarding him
was the same who had searched our house
and arrested brother. He was cursing the
poor old negro dreadfully, said he ought to
have a ball on bis neck and one on both
arms. The old fellow went on splitting,
saying all the time, “Bless de Lord, Alassa,
any where jou can put it. Y r ou can kill de
body, but you can’t kill de s »ul, and when
dat gets to heaven it will be secesh yet.”
Brother called to the officer and said, “Hal
loa, Grant, is that what you call freedom V*
Mother and John Godfrey A1 were standing
on the steps laughing and talking. Just at
the moment some little children were laugh
ing and making fun of the Yankees, Gen.
Clussra passed by and thought mother and
John were laughing at him with the chil
dren, and took them both up to the head
quarters, where they were kept for several
hours. So you see we were not allowed even
to laugh.
A lady went to Gen. Alilroy and asked
for a pass to go over the lines. He said, “I
will give you a pass to go to hell.” She
told him she did not know his lines extend
ed that far 3 she had often heard it, but now
had it from his own lips.
They would not allow the sutlers to sell
a thing except to the soldier3. ihe town is
just full of Yankee women, who act as if
they owned everything in it. I hey just go
to the fiuest houses and order furnished
rooms for them. Oh ! but it is dreadful. —
The people are not allowed to move one
step out of town —cannot get a mouthful of
fresh air. No wonder there is such suffer
ing, licknew, and death. There are very
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u-w Lnion people in town and thess are ;U
commonest kind
u,4e aei which brought Butler *
Career to iu end.
I h* idea has more or less prevailed
Butler was removed from his command t n
neing too free in the theft and personal a.
piopriation ol the property of the Con fed \
ate citizens of that, place and Louisiana.—
Ihcie uever was a greater mistake, if
thief hail given a fair share, even, 'of hit
booty to his own Government, be could let.,
remained in the Crescent City until the
Confederate army ejected him* there Von..
out his Massachusetts poekeis gaped ],»!
more money than lie could wring «at yf th*
Southerner, and his attemps to satisfy th
Gods of the \ aukeos brought him to gupt
He commenced fleecing British sublet*
and the protest of Lord Lyons finished hi,s
career. A correspondent writing from Mo
bile, who is recently from New Orleans, and
i> s a A irgiuian aud registered” onemv of
the Lnited States, semis us the facts of tbr
case as follows:
The immediate cause of the recall of the
uow celebrated iankoe General was the
seizing of all the property aud money iu thu
most extensive wholesale and retail apotku
eary store in New Orleans, valued at several
hundred thousand dollars 3 and this ginq ly
upon suspicion that the owuer of this pr >-
peity had a participation in running tnschiu
es (quiuine) into the Confederate States.
Happily for the people of New Orleans, the
owner of this large property proved to !»»
an English man and an alien by the name us
cyme. Butler at once sent Air. S, me aud
his chief clerk, au alien also, to Fort Pick
ens, and for two, months their limbs were
graced with ball and chain. Meantime the
stock of medicines were takeu from tha store
but whether sold aud the proceeds in ‘‘the
Brute s” pocket, or in wimt way squandered,
this deponent knoweth not. The rascals
not only took all the money and securities,
(Confederate bonds, &c.,) but they, having
possession of the books and bills made out
for collection, cooly attempted to collect tha
outstanding debts. At this stage of thu
business Lord Lyons stepped in, and requir
ed the release of Air. Svrno and Ids clerk ;
the former now being at liberty ia New Or
leans, and toe latter here 3 and from the lut
ter some of the facts iu the case were ebtaiu-
Yrit j f qVw rftie.u.t
iug about 350 pages foolscap, and so soon
as the work is complete there can be no
doubt that the AVushington Government
will be required to pay not only the value
of the stock, but damage, (in all probability
half a million of dollars,) for breaking up
the buisiness of a prosperous Louse ; an i
above all, Butler, the iufam&ua, will be called
upon to fork over the cash which it ia said
he took unto himself.
The writer was in New Orleans during
the whole reign of Butler, aud was a spec
tator of many of hi3 acts of tyraDy and ir fa
my He solemnly believes that this, the
meanest, worst ot maffitind, is fully sens*-
bio of his own infamy and glories in it
Review of ts*«* f ainpaigti again**
Vif‘k*bu i-fc.
The enemy landed seventy-five thousand
strong at Grand Gulf on tho 27th of Apiil
and was attacked by Generals Bowen
Gregg’s, and Tracy’s brigades, who fell bs k
after resistance. The enemy then
advanced in the direction of Jackson. Oui
forces fought them on tho 12th and 13th
of Alay at Clinton and Mississippi Springs
The enemy occupied Jackson on the 14th,
sacked the place, and evacuated it on the
lfith. On the ‘i2d Gen. Pemberton gave
battle at Baker’s Creek. liis forces fell
back, and the attack was renewed on the
23d at Big JSlack Bridge. They were again
forced to retire, losing a number of gun?.—-
On the 24th Grant laid seige to A’icksburg,
and on the 29th made au assault on tha
works, and was repulsed every time wills
immense slaughter. On the 30th of Ala ,
he renewed the assault, with the same suc
cess. On the 31st his troops refused to re
new the assault, and the idea of Liking the
place by storm was abandoned. lie is now
ditching, and by seieges arid parallels La
opened fire, but without doing any damage
so far 1 Our loss in the series of attacks I*.
about six thousand. Grant’s present fore®
does not exceed sixty thoasaud, notwith
standing heavy reinforcements have rent-bed
him. Numbers have been swept off by sick
ness and desertion. No fears are felt with
regard to the subsisting of our garrisou.—
The following is a statement of the daily ra
tions now i»sucd . “Oue quarter pound of
bacon, half pound of beef, five-eights qaart
of meal, besides an allowance es peas, rice,
sugar, and molasses. ’’
The Meanest Yet.—A friend who re
turned a few days ago from Jackson., in
forms us that while there the father of a lit
tle girl scarcely eight years of age assured
him that the plundering wretchea who lata
ly occupied that city, had stripped from the
little innocent’s finger a gold ring, the pres
ent of her dead mother.
In the performance of this act of revolt
ing atrocity, the wretches were rude enough
to maim the tender hand they outraged, be
sides addressing to the little girl remark* of
the vilest obscenity. AA T ill justice eier over
take our hellish enemy ?—Selma Dispatch
The Spoils in Winchester. —On the
16th our men at AAJnchester were engaged
in unloading about 200 wag >ns, ail loaded
with captured army stores, sutlers’ goods,
&». A very large quantity of aaunumitioa
vu saptured i®