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ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1868.
THE F&ESIDEffrS ADDRESS.
The Telegraph communicates an address
to tne country from President Davis, on the
evacuation ot Richmond, which is well
conceived and admirable in tone and
spirit
Nothing of a despondent or depressing
character is manifested, and although the
President regrets the necessity, it is evident
that he feels that the abandonment of the
Capital is proper, and that it will lead to
good results.
He declares an unconquerable determina
tion to win our independence, and if our
•whole people will but exercise the same
spirit, and act upon it, all will yot go well
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
As the synopsis of the President’s last
special Message, as reportedly*telegraph,
was not full and satisfactory, we publish it
to-day as we find it in our exchanges. This
document has not, in our opinion, as many
supposed it would, had the effect to depress
the people and the army, but has been re
ceived as a strong and earnest expression
on the part of the President of what, in his
judgment, the exigencies of the times de
mand at the hands of Congress, the army,
and the people at home.
THE EVACUATION OF RICHMOND.
On yesterday the telegraph announced to
us an event which for some time many have
been looking for, the evacuation of Rich
mond. We doubt not that almost every
true Southron will feel a momentary de
pression of spirits, when first he hears that
the Capital of the Confederacy, has been
left open to an enemy that it seemed was
not able to take it When we reflect how
much precious blood has been spilled, how
many noble lives have been given up, in de
fence of that noble old city on the banka of
the James, we can but regret that the ne*
cessities of our situation required its aban
donment. It is a humiliating thought that
the vandal foe, who has so persistently
striven for its eonquest for nearly four years,
should at last have the gratification of oc
cupying it with his mercenary hordes. It
will be humiliating to our pride to hear of
the joy that will fill the breasts of our heart
less foes throughout the wide domain of ab-
olitiondom, when they receive the news
that Richmond is in the possession of tlif
Yankee army.
Putting aside considerations of this kind,
we can but hope that the giving up of this
world renowned stronghold, will result in
achievements that will bring joy and glad
ness to our hearts, greatly counter-balancing
the slight and momentary depression which
its evacuation has occasioned. By this
movement, the noblest and most gallant
army that ever was marshalled, is liberated
trom the duty of watching and guarding
the approaches to the city, and will be free
to strike whenever and wherever its blows
can be most effective in beating back and
destroying the enemy. The war will doubt
less assume an entirely new phase ; and we
look lor achievements that will thrill the
world by their brilliancy, and teach the
proud and presumptuous northman that he
was entirely ignorant of the noble resolu
tion that animates the breasts cf Southern
patriots when he supposed us conquered
and ready to accept of peace upon any
terms he might dictate.
Let all now come up to the full require
menls of the duty they owe their country—
let each absentee from the ranks, who is
able to do so, hasten back to his command
and let the people at home, many of whom
have been despondent and gloomy, exercise
a more cheerful and hopeful spirit, and with
the blessing of God aiding and assisting our
gallant legions and brave veterans, many
moons will not wax and wane until we hope
to be able to announce the glad notes of
glorious and decisive victories accorded to
our aims.
GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION.
Some of our cotemporaries are agitating
questions connected with the next election
for Governor, and correspondents seem to
be particularly zealous in urging the claims
of their favorites. We have not said any
thing in reference to this matter, neither have
we admitted into our columns any commu
meat ions on this subject. We have thought,
and still think, that the agitation cf this
matter, at the present time, is premature
unwise, and calculated to do injury without
any prospect of good to arise from it.
It is premature because the day of elec
tion is distant six months, and it is impossi
ble to determine now what the necessities of
the State may require a few months hence.
In addition to these considerations, there are
questions now engaging the public at snrion
of far greater importance to the pec pie of
Georgia than can be the election of their
chief executive officer. TMir interests as a
free and independent people are now seri
ously imperilled, and the laboi, and thought
and eSort requisite to work out a prosperous
solution of the difficulties that now environ
the Confederate States, are sufficient to ab
sorb the attention of the whole people; and
we think it is unwise, and calculated to work
irreparable injury, to throw in anything ir
relevant to the vital straggle jagpr going on,
that would in any degree have a tendency
to distract the public mind or divert the
public attention from the main issue now
on trial, and that is whether we shall have
a State to elect a Governor for. The inter
ests now so seriously imperilled are, in our
opinion, too sacred to have their success
jeopardized by tfee introduction of any mat
ter not legitimately connected with, or con
ducive to, the promotion of the main de
sign.
These interests are of vital importance,
and in their defence and maintenance, there
should be s union of hearts and of hands t
harmony of effort and concert of action
should now character?, i our every move
ment, and anything calculated to breed dis
cord or produce distraction among our peo
ple, should be banished, iy common con
sent, from our consideration.
Soma of our exchanges^ but more partic
ularly their correspondents, seem to have
taken it for granted that Governor Brown
will again be a candidate, and then, appa
rently losing sight of that harmony which
all agree is so essential to a people situated
as ours are, they proceed to denounce him
with a bitterness little calculated to pro
duce that harmonious action that should
characterizs us in the selection of our Chief
Magistrate. We have not seen anything
that satisfies us that Governor Brown will
be a candidate for re-election; and until he,
or his friends, with his consent, place him
advo-
m3 of
in that position, we suggest thai
cates of others can present the’
their favorites as effectually and with better
hope of success, without making war, cruel
aud vindictive, upon the motives and prin
ciples of the present Executive.
Ia this connection, we hope the press of
the country will pardon us for making a
suggestion.
In the United States, from which we hope
we are forever separated, it is well known
that political controversies were, and are,
conducted in such a scurrilous manner,that,
taking the testimony of the press as evi
dence, the representatives of their different
political organizations would be considered
the most consummate scoundrels, and un
punished villains that ever disgraced any
country.
Now as we have thrown off that Govern
ment,and hope thus to get rid ot many evils
under which we labored, let us, as conduc
tors of the Southern Press, avoid this blot
upon its fair escutcheon aud great draw
back upon its usefulness.
Let our controversies be conducted in &
manly and dignified manner, and never let
the press degenerate into a common sewer
through which vituperation and slander
will be poured out upon the country.
PEACE RUMORS.
Several times since Lincoln announced to
our Commissioners the only terms upon
which he would agree to a cessation of
hostilities, that of laying down our arms
and unconditionally submitting to his au
thority, it has been announced that steps
were being taken to bring about a peace.
First, it was said, that General Singleton
had gone to Richmond to renew proposi
tions for a settlement.
This humbug had its day, and had scarce
ly died away, when the New York papers
published that Lincoln had visited Grant's
headquarters, and that a council of Notablea
was being held, which, it was thought,
would result in an arrangement for a mili
tary convention to settle all matters in dis
pute between the contending sections; and
they even went so far as to say that
prominent military and civil functionaries
had expressed the opinion that peace
Would be concluded by the 1st of May. —
Our enemies doubtless have two objects
which they hope to accomplish by the pro*
xaulgation of such rumors. They have for
months been industriously engaged in try
ing to convince their people that we are
about exhausted, and that it will be impose
sible for us to continue the contest much
longer, and that consequently an enlistment
in their service would be but for a short
time, and that a glorious opportunity is af
forded to reap what their people consider
glory without being subjected to the priva>
tions, the hardships and the dangers usually
attendant upon military service. In this
way they hope to hoodwink their own peo-
ple, and to fill up their ranks without being
compelled to resort to the drsii, which they
have reason to believe might meet with
great opposition, if not decided resistance,
unless a prevailing sentiment can be mantx
factured that the service oalled for will be
light and only required for a short time.
In addition to inspiriting and encourag
ing their own people in this way, they hope
to counteract the effect of the storm of
Southern indignation which they must
know would be induced by the announoe-
ment of Lincoln’s only terms of settlement
and to cause us to relax our efforts in the
prosecution of the war.
They know that as a people we have sub
mitted to, and are still enduring, hardships
and privations that but few people have ev
er been subjected to; and being incapable
from their base and sordid natures, of de
termining what sacrifices a noble, brave,
aad high-spirited people will make rather
than yield all that makes life desirable,
they seem to have corns to the conclusion
that a large, if not a controlling element, of
our population is ardentiy desiring peace
on any terms.
Little do they know of the pulsations of
the true Southern heart, or of the uncon
quered and defiant spirit of Southern free
men, when they suppose that the people of
the land that gave birth to Washington,
Jefferson, Marion, Jackson, and a long list
cf worthy names whose deeds have illumi
nated the brightest pages of American his
tory, can, without a resistance such as this
world has never witnessed, surrender the
principles for which they contend, (upon
the successful maintenance of which de
pends the cause of civil and religious liber
ty,) to the control of a people so regardless
of all right, as this'war has shown the peo
ple of the United States to ba
We should let all such rumors, coming
from our enemies, pass us as the idle wind;
they should not receive a momentary lodg
ment in our minds, or exert the slightest in
fluence upon our conduct. The only hono
rable peace that is attainable by us will
arise from the overwhelming defeat of the
armies of Grant aud Sherman. This is a
consummation most ardentiy desired, most
fervently prayed for, and, in cur opinion,
all that is necessary to accomplish it, is fcf
our whole people to will it.
and the ignorant and prejudiced mercenary
from other lands, of whom they have so
many in their armies, but witness the undy
ing resolutiooLof our armies, backed and
sustained by the united determination of our
whole people, tQSucceed in the contest, or
perish in the defence of the principles of
civil and religious liberty for which we con
tend, and then we shall behold their grand
armies melting away, and our day of delive
rance will be drawing nigh.
THE EVACUATION OF RICHMOND.
We have waited patiently to hear mors of
the evacuation of the Confederate Capital,
than what the meagre telegraphic dispatch
gave to us nearly a week ago, but thus far
we have waited in vain. We only know,
or have been informed, that it was evacu>
ated—evacuated in haste, leaving behind
glorious Old Virginia's archives, with dis
order, outrage, aud mob-law prevailing—
evacuated, because the lines of Lee’s brave
army at Petersburg had been broken after
severe fighting, and not, at the time, by a
voluntary movement on the part of our no
ble General-in-Chief, but from compulsion.
If this be true, then how much better it
would have been had the evacuation taken
place long since ? How much better would
it have been to have saved Atlanta, though
Richmond had fallen, ere Sherman^had
made it a City of Ruins? But this some
of our cotemporaries will be apt to‘'call
croaking. Let them do so! We are not cf
the croaking tnbe—never have, and never
will be so. Disasters, come they ever so
fast, only nerve us to renewed efforts, and
strengthen the indomitable will in us never
to give up the conflict—never to submit to
Yankee rule. Aad yet, we would not be
fit for the position of a public journalist, if
we did not as well condemn the bad policy
of our rulers—of our leaders—as to com
mend that which was wise and good. Say
not, “refer not to the past.” By the errors
of the past, we must learn wisdom, that it
may govern in the future; and we trust,
that now all our cities on* the Atlantic
coast, save Mobile, have gone into the pos
session of the enemy, and Lee and our gal
lant armies foot-loose from their defence,
we may indulge in the glorious hope that
animates us of a future successful struggle,
of victory after victory achieved, until our
independence be won 1
But to the condition of Richmond, what
must it be ? Given up to the enemy after
its gallant defence, what will he do with it ?
Will it share the fate of Atlanta and of
Columbia ? Will it, has it, become a pile of
ruins, or what is worse, will it share the
fate of Savannah and Charleston ? Will its
women and children—its noble matrons and
beautiful maidens—be guarded by negro
troops, and taunted by Yankee officials ?
Will they be subjected to the mortification,
the deep humiliation of witnessing the Yan
kee oath taken by any of Virginia’s recreant
sons who may remain in the city, or have
tarried there, to herd and consort with the
enemy, as has been the case in Savannah,
and in Charleston, and in other cities the
South ? God save Virginia’s noble matrons
and maidens now in Riohmond so humilia
ting a scene!
That the Capital of the proud and glori
ous old commonwealth, the Mother of
States, which has borne so noble a part in
the past few years’ straggle, should now be
in the hands of the enemy, or at any time
should have been, is truly a source of morti
fication, We are, however, not humiliated
by it. Neither are we despondent at it.
Long since we thought its evacuation nec
essary to our success. It has come at last
and we feel that the fight is but just begun
Let no one despond over it! Our souls
have not yet been tried in this struggle for
independence. The time however has come
ia which to try them. “He who now dal
lies is a dastard.” The man who now fal
ters is, or will be, a submission?at. He is as
much Lincoln’s own, as though he were in
Lincoln’s service, and the dominions of
that bloody tyrant should be his
present abiding place. Let him go to where
his heart already is 1 It is only upon her
true sons the South has now to rely. These
are yet in number, in strength, in heart and
soul, sufficient for the contest. As the gal
lant “Harry” at the siege of Harfleur said
when the numbers of the French overawed
his cousin Westmoreland, and caused him to
wish for more men from England ere the
fight began, (( wish not for one man more—
rather proclaina.it throughout our host that
he who hath no stomach for the fight, may
straight depart”—so say we. Let all such
depart, and the “fewer left of us, the greater
share of honor” when the victory be won
Though Richmond be lo3t, let our people be
hopeful and determined, for “allis not lost.
Honor and armies, and courage and strength
are yet preserved “to free our souls from
bondage” degrading in Us very contempla
tion.
TELEGRAPHIC
REPORTS OP THE PRESS ASSOCIATION.
Entered according to Act of Congress !n the year 1S63
by J. 8. Thrabhbb, in the Clerk’s Office or the Distri:
Court of the Confederate States for the Northern Sis
triet of Georgia.
The Columbus Times handsomely
and promptly corrects the rumor which it
published that “Governor Brown authorized
the loading of the “Comet" on private ao
oountv to take cotton to Savaamh. We
expected no less from a journal, which how
ever it may differ with Governor Brown, or
any other adversary, has always been high-
toned and honorable in its opposition.
Let the craven-hearted
we Yankee*
The Macon Telegraph & Confederate
says that two Confederate Hospitals of that
city, the Ocmulgee and Floyd House Hos
pitals, are ordered to Charlotte, North Car
olina.
There is a sign in this tate ourll nan
mies will not be apt to fall back far beyond
their present positions, in the direction of
South Carolina.
GEORGIA, Claytos Comer:
0 months after dato application will ba mada to
Ttoe Court rtf Ordinary of said county for leave to
sell all the nsgroea belonging to the estate of Col. Tboi.
Allen, deceased. April 10th. US >5.
[CADI TH03. S. ALLEN, Adm’r.
Printer’s fee $16. spill- wto
Evacuation of Richmond.
Danville, April 4.—The evacuation of
Richmond commenced on Sunday after
noon. President Davis and his Cabinet ar
rived here on Monday. Very few persons
were able to leave except Government of
ficers, in consequence ot the suddenness ot
the movement.
The enemy broke through Lee’s lines
on Saturi ay night near Petersburg, after
several day’s hard fighting, and made it nec
essary for him to withdraw so as to uncover
the Capital.
The position of our army now is unknown.
No telegraph beyond the Junction.
The Richmond Arsenal has been removed.
The valuables of the Banks in Richmond
were brought away, and the specie belong
ing to the Government was also brought off.
The last passengers report a great mob in
the city, burning of mills and warehouses,
and plundering stores. This was done by
foreigners and low classes.
The rolling stock of the Richmond and
Danville railroad all saved.
The enemy had not occupied the city at
lest accounts.
The President will probably remain here
for the present.
All the Richmond newspapers were left
in the city.
Gov. Smith went towards Lynchburg.*
The archives of the State Government were
left behind.
Augusta, April 3.—Capt. Vernon Lock,
of theprivatier Retribution, is in prison at
Nassau.
Col. Woodford has been removed from
the command of Charleston, and Col. Guer-
ry, ot New Yoik, appointed. Woodford
issued a parting puff to himself, and con
gratulations to the negroes, expressing h ?c
love and glorification that they nsti become
freemen after long loyalty and suffering.
The Savannah Republican of the 31st
March announces many societies organized
in England and rendering material assistance
for the benefit of the freemen in the South.
The garrison at Savannah is being in
creased by recruits, mostly new men, trom
Maine, who act very harshly to parties pass
ing to and from the City.
Senatobia, March 23.—Northern papers
of the 22d are received, but contain little of
interest.
The New York Tribune’s Army oi the
Potomac correspondent says all goes to show
that we will have a shout but severe cam
paign, In a few days a series of contests
will begin between two great armies, that
will cause profound excitement throughout
the country.
The Metropolitan Record of the 18th
says: That intervention is inevitable, we
think there can be little doubt in the minds
of the most skeptical. The indications that
it is not only certain, but close at hand, are
constantly increasing day by day. Every
mail that comes to us from Europe affords
the strongest testimony on the subject; and
the news from .Mexico is of such a positive
character that it cannot be contradicted.—
The Imperial Government has been recog
nized by all the leading powers of Europe,
and it is reported that France has called up
on the administration at Washington for
similar action on their part. Also, Mexico
has a threatening attitude towards the
North, and announced, through the second
personage in the Empire, the commander-
in-Chief, her intention to recognize the Con
federate States. She has done more, she
has returned to the United States Consul at
Mazatlan his papers, and thus put a termi*
nation to official intercourse with the Wash
ington Government.
The matter, however, has not ended here,
or certain parties in Mexico have been
warned against expressing their sympathies
with the cause of the North, and one man
has been sent to prison for stating his belief
that the Southern Confederacy would be
overthrown. So far as her action can be
foreshadowing her policy, Mexico has cer
tainly left us no chance for doubt as to the
course she intends to pursue between the
United and the Confederate States.
The Chicago Times says the first reports
of Sheridan's annihilation of Early were
somewhat tempered in their efleets by the
knowledge that nothing in Sheridan’s career
is more common than annihilation cf Early,
and nothing more common in Early’s career
than to be annihilated by Sheridan, there
fore the public did not greariy re joice over
the first intimations of the capture of Early’s
army, Early’s guns and Early himself,
knowing that precisely the same thing oc
curred on a dozen different occasions last
summer, after which Early took the field
with a larger army and more guns than
ever.
Danville, April 5th.—The President is
sued an address this morning to the people,
He says the General-in-Chief found it nec
essary to make such movements of troops
as to uncover the Capital. It would be un
wise to conceal the moral aud material in
jury to our cause resulting from the occu
pationjof the Capital by the enemy ; it is
equally unwise and unworthy of us to al
low our own energies to falter, our efforts
to become relaxed under reverses, however
calamitous. For many months the finest
army in the Confederacy, under the com
mand of a leader whose presence inspired
equal confidence in the troops and people,
has been greatly trammelled by the neces
sity of keeping constant watch ov er the ap
proach to the Capital, and has been forced
to forego more than one opportunity for
promising enterprises.
It is for us, my countrymen, to show, by
our bearing under reverses, how worthy has
been the self-denial of those who, less favor
ed than us, have been able to endure misfor
tunes with fortitude, and to encounter dan
ger with courage. We have now entered
upon a new phase of the struggle. Relieved
from the necessity of guarding particular
points, our army will be free to move from
point to point, and whip the enemy in detail
far from his base. Let us but will it, and
we are free. Animated by that confidence
in your spirit and fortitude, which nevei
yet failed me, I announce to you, fellow
(ajjhtrymen, that it is my purpose to main
tain your cause with my whole heart and
soul, and that I will never consent to aban
don to the enemy one foot of the soil of any
one of the States of the Confederacy.
That noble State whose ancient 'renown
has been eclipsed by her still more glorious
recent history, and whose bosom has
been bared to receive the main shocks
of this war, whose sons and daughters have
exhibited heroism so sublime as to render
her illustrious in all time to come, Virgin
ia, with the .help of the people, and by ihe
blessings of Providence, shall be held and
defended, and no peace ever be made with
the infamous invaders of her homes by the
sacrifice of any of her rights or territory.
If by sngeajprity of numbers we shall
ever be compelled to abandon or to with
draw from her liner, or those of any other
border State, again and again will we re
turn, until tiWFbaffled and exhausted enemy
shall abandon in despair his endless and
impossible task of making slaves of people
resolved to be free,
Let ns thca not despond, my countrymen,
but relying on the never failing mercy, and
the protecting care of our God, let us meet
the foe with iresk defiance, with unconquer
ed and unconquerable hearts.
European Jiew*.
Augusta, April 6 —Stoneman was at
Mossy Creek on the IS.h of -March with
4000 cavalry. His distination supposed to
be Salisbury, N. C. Parties direct trom
Knoxville, report his arrival there from
Chattanooga and assert that it is his purpose
to move into North Carotins or to Lynch-:
burg, as necessity envelopes.
The Observatory of Roue, the organ o[
Pope Pius JX, denies that any plan oi
reconciliation has - been projected to im
prove the existing matter between the Pope
and Emperor Maximillian in religious af
fairs. thePaimali Gazette states that Em
peror Napoleon will leave Mexico to her
destiny soon, as the French troops return
A legislative address Irora France to Na
poleon, approves the Emperor’s foreign
policy. Hopes are expressed for the con
solidation ot the Mexicao^Sinpire; aud how
ever serious be the qutstions.they are still to
be settled. The Emperor Maximillian will be
ah’e to decide them by prompt and energetic
action, b ranee will learn irom the test it
mony that her soldiers will soon return to
their country, aud that. Maximillian reigus
over the people, sheltered henceforth under
their own baimer.
The Emperor Napoleon says that the war
shall seen be closed. Iu an address he says
peace will be the policy in the future; let us
work in concert to render plentiful this last
ing peace.
An English naval cfllcer, accused of hav
ing aided the rebel privateer Rappahannock,
was plr.ced on hall pay, ~nd as unworthy
the Queen’s confidence in active service.—
Very significant of the contemptible policy
of Engiand.
The old established bank oi Spooner,
Wood, & Co.,at Birmingham, has suspend
ed payment; liabilities estimated at one
million pounds sterling.
Consols closed iu London, ou the 11th ot
March, at 88^.
The Liverpool cotton market is very
dull.
Augus’a, April 8.—Charleston dates of
the latest exhioit that General..Gilmer has
issued aa order prohibiting all purchases of
cotton, or claims thereto, by any other than
the United States Agents ia Savannah and
Charleston.
The United Slates Tax Commissioners
announce themselves ready lo receive taxes
in these cities and dlslricts. JEh r.-ous who
wish to recover any captured animals ard
vehicles, must take the oath, and swear that
they have been loyal during ihe war to the
United States Government.
Parties bringing goods into Charleston
must register, or they will be subject to the
penalty of confiscation. All buildings, lands
and tenements owned by persons who have
failed to comply with Lincoln’s prociama
tion of December cth, 1864, and who are
absent, from the city, are taken possession
of by the agent of the Treasury Department
and claimed as abandoned property. All
occupants must report to the Registry office,
and all rents paid to the United States
Agent. ^
The steamer Massachusetts has sailed from
Charleston for Philadelphia. It struck a
torpedo in the Charleston channel, but it
did not explode.
Advices from North Carolina say there is
very little sickness prevailing, aud the woun
ded weii cared for at Raleigh and other
points, and are improving rapidly.
The Yankees remain quiet and undemon
strative. Their outposts extend along the
Neuse from eighteen to twenty miles west
of Goldsboro, making their line of fortifica
tions strong around Goldsboro.
Sherman is soon expected back from a
conference at Grant’s headquarters, when
an active campaign is anticipated.
The utmost confidence exists among our
troops that we will be successful against the
strategy and battles of Sherman’s army.
Danville, April 9.—Gen. Lee has moved
to the vicinity of Farmville, followed by
Grant, and fighting daily. There was
heavy fighting on Thursday, but no partic
ulars.—The enemy have established their
hospitals at the Junction, where a large
number of their wounded are. Their loss
was very heavy in the Thursdoy’s fight.
They are not approaching this way ou our
line.
The Richmond and Danville railroad
communication is siill open to Keysville.
A wounded soldier who escaped from
the enemy, says a courier from the army
brings news that the New York Herald
y^s that the Emperor Napoleon recognized
tms Government on the 5th of March.
For the Intelllgenoer.
the CITY IN ruins.
BY J. R- BARRIO J.
Augusta, April 10.—Stoneman burned
Eagle Factory, in Iredell coumy Virginia,
on Thursday, March 30th.
r: Five thousand Yankees occupied Salem,
Va. April 1st. It.is supposed their design is
to reach Danville, Greensboro, or to lodge
on the railroad between the two places.
One Yankee regiment was in Kernsiown
Valley, Va.
Northern papers state that the expedition
which failed at Natural Bridge Florida, was
intended to release thiee thousand prison
ers at Thomasville, Ga.
General Thomas’ official report states
that from the 7th of September to January
20lh last, five end a halt months, he captur
ed the amount of 13.189 prisoners, including
seven Generals, 1000 other officers, 72 pieces
of artillery; received over 2,000 deserters,
a large amount of valuable ammunition, and
other war material captured. The Yankee
loss under ten thousand.
Brownlow, Governor elect of Tennea
see, lately received twenty five thousand
dollars from two Secessionists in Knox
ville, for malicious treatment in 1862.
Commenting on the verdict, in his paper,
he says, the villains take all they have given
their effects. The Union men they nave
crippled and impoverished, and let them be
slain, and after slain, damned with other
savage anathemas.
The New York Times of the 221 de
nounces the language with scathing com
ments.
On March 7th, ia the.House of Commons.,
London, Sir. J. Pakington said, in appoint
ing Mr. Ried, in whose present State expe
rience and efficiency as Chief Constructor,
they were trifling with the interests of Eng
land when-they allowed great skill and ex
perience to quit her service at a time when
war might brake out any moment, and they
might be compelled to send a fleet across
the Atlantic at the shortest possible notice,
The Right Rev, A. Paster, Bishop of the
Episcopal Church, diocese of Pennsylvania,
has gone to California on account of ill
health.
A regular Po3t Office has been established
in the army for persona writing, if they ad
dress properly the name, company, regiment,
and brigade, and mark, Johnsfon’s army.
Letters and papers mailed from Richmond
and points in North Carolina, have arrived
with old dates.
The Southern Express Company arrived
from points North yesterday, the 9th, and
brought Richmond dates and papers of the
29th March, and Raleigh, to April 1st, and
Chrrlotte to the 4th.
Ye Prophet-bards, who in the elder time,
On ruins vast discoursed in thought sublime,
Where Glory’s footsteps pressed the hallowed mold,
And genii of tbeir fallen grandeur told,
Thy spirit lend, companion of this hour,
And give my verse the secret of your power;
My muse restore the vigor of its youth,
And touch my lips with sacred words of truth;
Nor Fancy ask a glowing hue to grace,
The picture I would here untinted trace.
No Thebes my theme nor Babylon my shrine
A fancy tale to paint, no task of mine ,
With Greece my story, and my moral Romt
Far rather I o’er classic realms would roam
To days when lofty rose the height, of mind
And war revived the glory of mankind;
In Vain seeks memory In each by-gone age
V tyre like this on the historic page,
And in each curse that scourged a fallen race,
How few like this have left so black a trace.
Attila once o’er yielding nations ixod.
The feigned avenger of a wrathful God,
And Sylla, who a cruel name to win,
Shed blood as in atonement for each s’.u,
Yet like the mist dissolve their baser crimes,
Before the deeds enacted in our times,
As if mad Jove still held his wrath iu store,
On this doomed spot in lava-streams to pour;
Even when proud Greece submission gave the yoke,
And fell a victim to the Scythian stroke,
Though paher swarmed like bees the conquering horde,
Alaric stifejietcherished name adored;
And Sylla in his triumphs weary grown,
Bared not deface the immemorial stone,
The crushed Athenian bowed liis haughty head,
Yet bade his foe still reverence the dead ;
And if you still would to some other field,
A darker picture than the present yield.
Come go with me an hour to view the sight,
Yelled in the curtaitis of Cimmerian sight-
’Tls morn: the sun-light on these crumbling walls,
Still bright from heaven in sinless radiance falls
The moaning winds impatient in their haste,
Sigh like the dirges on a Lybian waste,
A voice as from a thousand tongues of woe,
Steals o’er the scene in accents soft and low,
As memories of a year ago return,
Fresh in the heart like living coals to burn—
Sad thoughts of hours when commerce prospered here,
And peace and plenty gave each household cheer.
Lo, now, the hum of busy life Is still,
And silence seems to startle with a thrill;
The scene ia changed—a city of the dead,
Whose epitaph on every stone is read;
Forms here and there like ghosts flit through the street
So silent that they seem on phantom feet,
As If the spirits of the past, they rose,
To tell the living of their burled woes :
From every pile goes up a mournful wall,
Each mouldering wall fraught with a w.oful tale,
As if each heart o’erburdened with its care,
An utterance found in language of despair,
A3 if each home whoso ashes strew the plain,
Its fate proclaimed in melancholy strain;
Nor these complete the horror of the scene,
A darker page than this is still unseen,
Remorseless as a fiery fiend of Hell,
Let misery its own tale of ^jtguish teil,
And widows, orphans, forth in penury drH an,
The sequel write in words Inspired of Heaven.
Up from each ruined altar yet shall rise,
A soul of vengeance changeless as the skies,
When every brick shall tell a tale of wrong,
And each dark column still the theme prolong;
Fired with Its fate and burning with Us zeal,
Our country shall the kindling story feel,
And frotmeach broken column shall aspire
The spirit of a new and fresh desire :
Already wakens in the patriot-breast
A purpose equal to the trying test,
And farther widened is each wave of flame,
That parts us from their vile unholy aim.
Long as a freeman’s blood shall course our veins,
That blood shall blush to wear their hated chains;
And oft when gathered round the evening fire,
The aged matron and the trembling sire,
The story shall the-infant ear rehearse
And thrill Its senses like a tale or v.-r-e;
And he whose heart in battle never swerves,
Though lightnings flash along his Iron nerves,
And he who stands a bulwark of the State,
Shall oft with zeal each bloody scene i elate,
Their thoughts drawn as from a funeral ;s c -\
Will fill the soul with heaven-descending die.
If there be those who would unite agair T
The broken fragments of the olden chain,
Such bid here pause, and here a lesson learn,
They dare not in their callous bosoms spurn;
If there be one who could this prospect vlew
Then to his country’s banner provo untrue,
Let woman’s wrath on such a creature dwelt,
Like the true wife oi faithless Asdrubel,
When from each house with sense of fleeing shame.
The Carthaginian fled before the flame,
As flushed with pride, the Roman at bis heel,
Bade him the peril of his presence fee'.,
Yet she, brave woman, bade the coward go,’’
Who thus deserted to her country’s fo j,
And casting then her oflspring in the lire,
Than bear his name, she bade them there expire.
As mountain-peaks by nature built on high,
Their summits pillow on the azure sky,
The limit fix of each diverging race,
And iron bars between their union place,
So from these ruins shall new barriers rise,
Their very apex reaching to the skies,
And like a wail of granite they shall stand,
To mark the boundary of our Southern land.
Thy doom, Atlanta, In the classic tongue,
Wiil be by many wandering minstrels sung
When Time shall o’er the present draw a veil.
And Truth and Justice in the world prevail;
Our country’s annals shall the story knew,
Tby draught of Marah in Its numbers flow:
As on a tablet, here the pen shall trace,
The fiendish’instincts of a hated race;
The poet to the future in bis verse,
The memory of each secret wrong rehearse.
Yon spire that glitters In the morning sun
Shall tell of deeds by servile minions done
When nature shuddered such an act to name
And blushed to witness their unblushing shame
There shall go forth from thee a tale of wrong
Through all the world in burning words of son" ’
And everywhere shall thy remembered wee
Bid the true heart with indignation glow ’
For God shall yet avenge tiie cursed deed
And bid the guilty for his mercy plead. ’
Not to the Indian in his savage hate.
His soul by instinct taught with blood to sate
Nor the barbarian whose untutored
Is deaf alike to virtue, sex and age,
The heart for deeds to thus pollute his name,
As his whose acts these mouldering walls proclaim.
False to his country—to HU God untrue, '
In faith an Infidel—a worse than Jew.
His glory thus to low degrade the mud.
And basely sink the standard of mankind. -
Atlanta, Ap.M 1st, 1865.
T hs LEGAL ADVERTISING OF the ORDINARY
of Meriwether County, will be contiousHu the To-
teiligencer. j. yy. B ANNING
aplS-d2t*w2fc Ordinary.
Greenville, Ga., April 8ih, 1S65.
GEORGIA^ Fayette County :
W HEREAS, Thomas J. Edmondson has made appli
cation to be appointed Guardian ot the persons
and property of Martha, Analiza and Uxor Oofleid m -
nors under fourteen years of age, residents of sru
county.
This is therefore to cite and admonish ail persons c „n-
cerned to be and appeal at the term of the Court of
Ordinary to be held next after thj expiration of tlrriy
days Trom the first publication of thb notice, aud si ow
cause, If any they can, why said E imond. on should not
be intrusted with the guardianship of the persons *nd
property cf said minors.
Given under my hand and official signature, April 4th
1S55. EDWARD CONN JR, Ordn’y.
Printer’s fee |10. api7-w83d
GEORGIA, FATBTT2 Coc.vr y.
TO THE HEIRS AND DISTRIBUTEES OF L. B CLARK LATE OF
FAYETTB COUKTY DECEASED.
Y OU are ratified that as Executor of said deceased,
I shall apply (four mouths afte the commencement
efthis publication, the same being published twice a
month for four months) to the Court of Ordinary of sal .
county to appoint three or more free holders agreeable
to the statutes ia such case, made and provided to dis
tribute amongst the lawful distributees file estate of said
deceased, in my hands as Executor. April 4,1S65.
JaMJSS BAILEY, Executor.
[EC] H. V. CLARK, Executrix,
Printer’s the $40 ap,7-»2tam?4m