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ATXjAISTTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 19, 1865. OUR “GATE CITY.” The influences that made the “Gate City” cl’ the South—Atlanta—what it was pre vious to its abandonment by Sherman in ruins, is actively at work again, and will, in course of time, restore it to its former im portance and prosperity. These are rail road enterprises, the health of its location, the salubrity of its atmosphere, and the good cool water with which the city, in ev ery quarter of it, is blessed. The Railroads are now just resuming their business at this point, travel and freight being daily thrown into and from it, as in days of yore, by two at least of the enterprising companies that have heretofore contributed so largely to the building up, and prosperity of old At lanta. A third, the Georgia Railroad, will soon make its connection at a point between Lithonia and Covington, and then, from hence to Augusta, the travel and freight cars will uninterruptedly and swiftly pass, promoting in a great degree, those prosper ous commercial relations that heretofore ex isted between the two cities, and all along the line of this important railway enter prise. Nor will our city, even at present, lose all the advantages she heretofore en joyed through the existence in active ope ration of the State, or Western & Atlantic Railroad. Many miles of this road have been left untouched by the enemy and is, we are advised, in good running order; and though a large portion of it has been de stroyed by a vandal foe, still time and ener gy will restore the broken link, and Atlanta is destined yet to enjoy all the benefits here tofore conferred^rpon it by this magnificent enterpriz 3 of our State. As it is, the wagon trade of Cherokee Georgia must come to At lanta, as no other point of commerce in up per Georgia can afford to compete with it lor that trade. The running through from Augusta to this point, of the cars of the Georgia Rail road, we are also pleased to know will permit the return here of a large number of our old citizens, who are now impatiently biding that event, to occupy, some their old homes, and some to seek new ones. This event will open too, fo Atlanta, what she now mostly needs, and what the Macon and West Point roads have already done, the opportunity of procuring lumber, with which to repair, and to recon struct dwellings and storehouses; And thus will our “Gate City” rise from the ashes to which it was consigned by a ferocious and brutal foe. At present, all is life, and ener gy, and enterprise, in our midst. No clcud shadows the faces of our people. Despon dency and gloom have given place to cheer fulness and resolution. Onward seems to be the motto of our people, and onward we feel confident, will be the progress of the “Ga*e City” of the South. “I AM SIR ORACLE.” When Senator Hill—“Our Ben” of “Know Nothing" times—speaks, he does so as “Sir Oracle," and all must bow, with reverence, in his, and in the judgment of his benighted admirers, to his arrogant assumptions. For tunately, there Is some good sense and seme political virtue still iu the people to preserve at least a majority of them from being led into error by this prominent politician, whose meandering ways remind us forcibly of the couplet applied to the wily Van Bu- ren, in days past, to wit: it were hard to tell— “Whether the snake that made the track, Were going North, or travelling back.” So with Senator Hill. He mounts his “Pe gasus," soars aloft upon it with imaginative sublimity,and indulges in fligktsof fancy well calculated to deceive his unwary followers, butwliick make no impression uponeither the intelligent hearer or impartial reader. Iu truth, Senator Hill, in his addresses to the people, cannot, it seems, forget he is not ad dressing a petty jury whom, for a handsome fee, it becomes his supposed duty, “to make the worse appear the better reason.” Re» cently, this/Senator has appeared frequently m the press and before the people, “riding” in his essays, letters, and harangues, “a high horse.” Governor Brown, in most of these, has been his theme. Indeed, for eight years past, “ Our Ben" has been after the Gover nor. In ' this respect, he has exhibited a - most wonderful endurance. How he has survived the struggle, the drafts made upon his imagination and intellectual attain ments, is absolutely astonishing to all who have witnessed the sad effects of disap pointed ambition—the mortifying results of disappointed political revenge. The errors into which the persevering, indulgence of such feeling^ have led this Senator from Georgia, j^re innumerable. Only recently, at LaGrange, in one of his “fancy flights,” while disclaiming any “allusion" to the Governor's “motives," he thu3 artfully drew u picture of “treason’s way bill.” “First, zsa 7 ; then disappointment; then dissatisfaction; then complaining; then criti cising; then scheming to change leaders; then prophesying failure; then wishes feilnr®; then treason." An “ower true’’ picture we admit, it prop erly or truthfu’ly applied. If the Senator designed to apply it to Governor Brown, or any portion of it, he has been very unfortu nate indeed. Bat how the leading features of the picture may apply to h in self, we shall proceed to show : - First, “Zeal:" No one will deny to^%i- ator Hill, the possession of this quality in the highest degree. He exhibited it ei’er so largely when he was the opponent in 1S57 of “Joe Brown” for Governor, nor did defeat on that memorable occasion, abate it in the •least. Like the “shirt of Nestor” it still sticks fast to him. Second, “DisappointmentMr. Hill met with this early in his political life. Defeated in his aspirations after Congressional honors, he soon thereafter became, Third, “Dissatisfied : Dissatisfied at every- thing, and at everybody, he was all over Georgia, upon the stump here, and upon the | “EXCHAGE OF COTTON FOR PRIME FENCES stump there, and was found, * I , fourth, “ComplainingComplaining at Governor Brown; complaining at the con duct of the State Government; complaining at the doctrine of secession, and, Fifth, “Criticising” : Criticising men, and criticising measures! Before the people and through the Press, no public man in Gedrgia has indulged more m political criticism. He has almost reduced lrs powers in this respret to what Sterne termed, “the card of criti cism,” and of which that author says “of all the cants in this canting .world, though the cant of hypocrisy may be the worst, the cant of criticism is tkemost tormenting.” We have felt often the truth of that author’s sentiment. Not only we, but the people of Georgia, have been severely tormented with the critiC'.s.ng propensities of this remorse less man. Sixth, “Scheming to change leaders" : This has been JVXr. Hih’s worJc, for years past in Georgia. Nor will he quit it. He is as busy at it nomps he was long years ago, and wiil continue so to be, we apprehend, till breath leaves his l*ody. So far, Mr. Hill’s picture, the reader will perceive, when applied to himself, is admir ably drawn, reminding us most forcibly of the adage that some men “judge others by themselves.” We will cot charge him with “prophesying failure,” but if he were to do so we would ^not believe him, for he has proved a false prophet so often, we could place no confidence now in his predictions; nor will we charge him with £w.s7iing fail ure; nor with its consequence, “treason" This would be slander, of which we are In capable. So much for Senator Hill, the “Sir Oracle" ol Georgia, who can see no virtue in po litical opponents, and who is as remorseless in his assaults upofi taem, as be is vain glorious in all tlftt relates to himself; who is as anxious to impair public confidence in, as he is unfair in his assaults upon Gov ernor Brown. So let him be! AN EXCELLENT LETTER. Wc take great pleasure in transferring from the Constitutionalist to our columns, the following most excellent and consider ate letter of the Confederate Chief Commis sary for Georgia, Major R. J. Mose3, or. the subjects embraced therein, to wit: the granting of permits by Confederate Commis saries (or Quartermasters) to transport by- railroad, private freight, and impressments of private property. This sensible and pa triotic officer states truly that he has no power conferred upon him, by reason of his official position, to grant or to refuse per mits to cilizins to'transport over the rail- ads of this State, family, or, we presume, any other supplies ; and he knows “of no law which gives to the Chief Commissary, or any of his subordinate?, any right to con trol the railroad transportation, unless pri vate freight is being carried in preference to government freight, and thin it is a question to be settled with railroad officers, and not with private citizens.” His views, too, upon the subject of impressments are equally clear and ju3t, conforming, we believe, strictly to the uniform policy of Col. Whitaker, our Stale Commissary General, in the pursu ance of which the latter, we think, has rare ly, if ever, failed to secure supplies which he needed for State purposes. Had all oik. er officers of the Confederacy been govern ed by the rule of action adopted by the two officers to whom we have referred, as laid down in the following letter, much of the bickering, and disaffection, that has prevail ed iu Georgia, on the part of citizens who have suffered by the arbitrary exercise of an opposite policy, would have been avoided, and a better temper would have prevailed towards Confederate Commissaries and Quartermasters on the part of our produc ing citizens, than we regret to say has pre vailed for two years past. The appeal embraced in Major Moses’ letter for food necessary* to keep cur armies in the field, we trust, wiil be promptly and generously responded to. by ail who have even the smallest surplus: A LETTER FROM THE CHIEF COM MISSARY. - Office Chief Commissary, } Augusta, Ga., April 3, 1S65. )' Editors Constitutionalist: Having been applied to for 'permits to allow shipments of family supplies on rail roads leading so ibis point, these permits I have refused for the simple reason that I have no power to permit a thing over which I have no particle of authority. To grant the permit wou ! d. imply the right to pro hibit. I know of no law which gives to the Chief Commissary or any of his subordinate officers any right io control the railroad transportation, unless private freight is be ing carried in preference to government freight, and then it is a question to be set tled witk-ihe railroad officers, and not with private citizens. The only right which I have not common to ever}' eiiiz :n is to im press when I cannot purchase at market rates the supplies necessary for the army, and from this power “family supplies” are expressly excepted. It is my desire that officers under me shall exercise the' powers granted by law to en able them to feed the army, and at the same time carefully to avoid any interfer ence with the rights of the citizens not es sentially necessary to the discharge ot their duties, and clearly delegated to them by the laws ot the laud. While I shall endeavor to avoid impressment whenever it can be avoided, it is proper that I should state to the people of Georgia that there is at this time a distressing pressure upon our armies for the food necessary to sustain life, and I earnestly appeal to all good citizens to bring forward their surplus and sell it to the Com^ missaries throughout the State. These sup plies will be paid for ni certificates of in debtedness receivable lor taxes.— This is all we have to pay with. . With out food an organized army cannot be kept together—without an organized army our country mu9t be overrun by the enemy and plundeied by gueiriiias. To avoid this, self-interest (ignoring patriotism altogether) ought to induce the people to feed an army sacrificing so much for the maintenance of public liberty. My officers are instructed to collect supplies as rapidly as possible, that I may have them forwarded to the armies of Tennessee and North Virginia. Should any part of the people fail to sell their surplus voluntarily, impressments will have to be made. 1 make no appeal beyond a plain statement ol theJacts, which to all good cit izens are eloquent enough. ‘Would that they were less so Respectfully, R. J. MOSES, Major. Chief Commissary State of Georgia. SIT1ES.’ We invite the attention of our readers to an article in another column, headed as above, which appeared recently in the Co- 1 embus limes. The views embraced and set forth in the article, demand the serious con sideration of both our Confederate and State authorities. For prime necessities, and for military and other stores, the Confede rate Government has long since resorted to running cotton through the blockade, and so have North Carolina and Georgia. It is idle to suppose that this cotton, in reaching Nassau or any other foreign port, was be yond the reach of our mortal foes. For one penny per pound in advance of the Liver pool market, even at that point, the North ern maaufuctuier and speculator can, at any time, procure whatever limited supply there may be in that market, aDd he who suppo ses they do net avail themselves both at Nassau and that market of the privilege of purchasirg the cotton and tobacco that have been run through the blcckade, mistakes very much the enterprise of Qgr vandal foes.— Now, however, a change has come over the Confederacy in this respect. Our .seaports have all gone into the possession of the en emy. There is no more running the blockade with cotton or tobacco by sea, and no more opportunity of procuring military stores or even the prime necessities of life through that channel. Of these prime necessities, Salt is indispensable and must be had at any cost. Thus fir, Georgia, through the indomitable perseverance and energy of t he Slate’s agents at Saltville, Messrs. Seago, Palmer & Co., lias been well supplied on State account with this prime ar ticle of health as well as of life. Now, however, as these enterprising agents, after having sustained a loss ot over $200,000, on private account, and by the recent move meals of the enemy, cf still - further heavy losses, aud as they are cut off from their sources of supply at the Virginia Salt Work; we ask how is Georgia to procure i Salt, or other prime necessities ? Our people must weigh well this question. They must calmly and dispassionately do so, divesting themselves of all prejudice in its considera tion. Trading cotton with the enemy on private account, we are as much opposed to as any one can be, for evils of great magni tude will surely attend such a privilege. But on Government account, Confederate and State, it will have to be done, or we shall be without salt for the people and ' our ar mies, and other prime necessities of life-and of war. These the Yankees will gladly ex chaf^e with us for cotton, and for the lafr ter, they will not hesitate to let us have the former. We have, too, been reliably in formed, that our Confederate Congress, pre vious to its late adjournment, passed a bill authorizing the States to conduct this trade with the enemy, giving cotton, Jobacco, Ac. lor Uiq prime necessities of life. This was wise in that body. Indeed, Congrest'fore saw its absolute necessity, and therefore authorized it. Let us now not be misunderstood in pre<» seniing this subject to on^readers. Georgfo* needs Salt and other prime necessities, and she must have them. For cotton, Georgia can procure them. She has the cotton, or can procure it. _ To run the sea blockade with it now, is impossible. To procure sup plies with it now from Europe is impossible. Shall she suffer her people to perish, and her brave men in the field to suffer far more than the^ have hitherto done, for prime necessities, when with her cotton which is every day subject to be burned, she can procure what she absolute ly needs and must have to prosecute suc cessfully her war with Yankeedom ? We say, no! The State should proceed at once to use her cotton for the porposes, and those only, indicated. Private speculation should not., however, be tolerated for a mo ment, in such a procedure. What may, if it shall, in pursuance of the policy suggested in the article we copy from the limes, be done, should be confined .strictly to Stale and not individual action. That there will result from this, accruing benefits to the people and our armies, we do not entertain, a doubt. Frequent accounts reach ,us of the de struction cf cotton. Had we not better have that which Georgia can command, or its value, converted into salt, iron, cotton cards,, agricultural implements, medicines, &c.„ which our people need much worse than the Yankees need our cotton, than to let it lie ! in the warehouses in the few cities remain ing in cur possession, or under the -gin houses on our plantations, subject possibly 1o the same fate? We think so ! THE GUBERNATORIAL QUESTION. Commenting upon an editorial article of ours relative to the too early agitation of the question as ‘to who shall be our next Governor, the “Recorder” at‘ Milledgeville says: “The Atlanta Intelligencer of the 6tb, contains an editorial condemning the agita tion of the question as to who shall be°our next Governor. It would have been well enough to have deferred it a month or two later had, pot Governor Brown forced its consideration on the people while their en tire attention and thoughts were engrossed with the unnatural war now waged against us by the North. It was Gov. Browm—he, himself —who wilfully came out with an in flammatory rues =age. denouncing the Presi dent and Confederate authorities in un measured terms. A “State Convention,” “State Rights,” were his great panaceas for conquering peace—whipping the fight— that, too, when we were denied by the~ene- my any rights whatever. Still, it is now thought premature to take steps to secure a Governor will co-operate with the Confederate authorilie-.! Strange reason ing to us.” What appears “strange 1 reasoning" to the fast metropolitan journal that perpetrated the foregoing delectable paragraph, we are pleased to sec, has met the approval of most of its compeers ot the press of this State in opposition to Governor Brown. But we are not surprised at any opinion ad vanced by a journal so consistent in echoing the views of its favored leader, the Hon. B. H. Hill, who only a day or two before had poured his political “leprous distilments" into the ears of its editors. Hence we account for 1 its assumption of _ a position—in its reference to what it says Governor Brown did—which places it in the attitude of maintaining that “two wrongs make a right** But we mus\ forgive our cotempo- rarks their vagaries; and in order to show them that we bear no malice, to the extent of the circulation of this journal, we make public their appeal to those of their friends “who endorse" Senator Hill’s “position, to see to it that his Railroad fare is paid" while travelling over the State making speeches— a very timely suggestion, for to lose time is bad enough without the loss cf the Senator’s money. We wonder our friends of the Recorder did not go farther and suggest that the hotel expenses of the honorable Senator be paid also. • LINCOLN’S TERMS FOR PEACE. We can hardly realize the idea that among intelligent men in the South, ary honest difference can exist, in regard to what the despot, Lincoln, means, in order that peace may be restored to both North and Soutlf, and yet, we have seen and heard indie itions, that such a difference of opin ion does exist, though we feel unpressed, that, among intelligent and patriotic men,it cannot be an honest one. From Lincoln himsei r ; from the tone of the administration papers, North and Weal; from reliable in telligence coming from our own people who have been in Yankee prisons, some of whom have had favorable opportunities of ascer taining Northern sentiment during, their months and years of prison life; not the shadow of a doubt, it seems to us, can rest upon the mind of any honts^, intelligent Southern mas, that absolute submission to the North, or Lincoln’s will, whatever that may be, on the part of the South, is the only condition now presented, upon which the war waged for our subjugation shall cease. Here are “Lincoln’s terms”—his THE ALBANY PATBIOT EDITOR. We are requested by J. W. Fears, Esq., whose name stands at the head of the col umns of the Albany Patriot as editor, and who is its proprietor, to say in our columns, that he does not superintend the publica tion of the paper; that he does not write its editorials, and is utterly opposed to its course in abusing Gov. Brown, and will have it stopped. We clip the foregoing singular announce ment from the Southern Confederacy of the I5ih instant. It affiims that the advertised Editor of a paper, who is also its Proprietor, does not superintend its publication, nor write its editorials, and is utterly opposed to what has been written for and published in Jus (non paper, and which, a9 its Editor, he alone is responsible for. Verily the posi- lien is a singular one for any Editor to occu py, and the sooner Mr. Fears assumes a dif ferent one, the more creditable it will be to himself and to the “Albany Journal.” RECOGNITION RUMORS. We are tired of recognition rumors, and trust wc shall hear no more of them through our telegraphic dispatcher, unless they come iu less questionable shape than they do.— Recemly the telegraphic operator told us that a wounded soldier, we believe, had seen a New York paper, iu which there appear ed an announcement that Loui3 Napoleon had, on the part of the French Empire, re cognized the Confederacy as one ofthe na tions of the earth ; and on yesterday,we were told that Havana datt s of the 221 Ultimo say that the Emperor Maximillian will re cognize, immediately, the Southern Confed eracy, and also open to us the port of Tam pico, or some qtfier port, irto which Mr Mallory’s little though gallant navy, may cinytheir prizes for acjudic ition and sale- This is all very good, if it be true; but as recognition means to all appearances, fight iDg Yankeedom, we incline tenaciously and stubbornly to the opinion,long sinceexpress- only terms—terms prescribed by him in the edjhfct the day is still far distant when either LATEST FROM IHE SELMA AND MONT GOMERY KAIDiKG PARTY. Oa Sunday night intelliger.ee resrhed this city that “the Federals were at Wtst Point 2.000 strong, and near Columbus i u force. Report says the Fort art West P l)Ult and all in it were captured.” Also, ihat it was thcugkt the enemy would march “in full force upon Columbus.” A later dispatch, ri ccivec. here ■ u yuter- day morning, about 10 o’c’eck, says that she enemy were then “within seven miles< tT.;. Grange.” Veibal aeCvUnls given by passengers on the West Point train which r- ached here yesterday atternoon, state that i he defence made at West Point by the few troops at that point against the Yai kee raiders, was a most gallant one. We are without pnr- ticulara as to the result. In our judgment, the enemy will diverge from LnGrange— perhaps from Newman, to Griffiu or Barnesville, so as to cut. if com munication by' railroad to Mccon; e'r per haps to Thomastou, so as to cut off commu nication wiih Macon and Columbus; but we are not sufficiently advised as to, wi.fi any certainty, point out their course. They may advance upon this city. Later Still.—We have; intelligence that. :he enemy did not advance upon LaGrange, but fell back to Wist Point, probab’y be yond that place. arrogance and tyranny ot his nrlure, and in tSe hour of his supposed final triumph over the South. Ho who does not see and real jzc this truth, is blind, and oblivious to what stares the world in the face, and to what is proclaimed iu tones grating to jus tice and humanity, from the White House in Washington, and from the Cap tol at the other end of that modern Sodom. Let if, therefore, come from whatever quarter it may, we deny most emphatically that any other terms, than absolute and unqualified submission to Lincoln’s will, as the condv tion for peace, is offered to the South! And while we do so, we cannot tefraia from ill expression of an honest indignation at any attempt being made, l>y individuals or the press, to make a contrary impression upon the weak need, the irresolute, or the igno rant among us. We look upon ali such at tempts as iorestaling the devotion of our cause, when the time shall be propitiate for making terms with the enemy. - And what does submission to Lincoln’s will; submission to his clemency meau ? Has any' Southern man failed to consider it well ? Has he failed with the lights before him, to look to the darJc future which the ccnscquecc38 of submission would entail up on the South, its sons and its daughters? If he has not, it is time that he should. It means degradation morally and politically. It means the surrender of liberty, property, honor, life—the surrender of manhood— from freemen to become serfs of the hardest, taskmasters history delineates in its pages. Iu such an event, Southern men and South ern matrons would truly become “hewers of wood and drawers of water” to Northern tyranny and Northern cupidity. Northern avarice would eat up the produce of even ottr labor, and Northern hate would, iq a thousand ways, crush the spirit it * had sub dued. In such an event, it would be “cru cifixion of the soul” indeed ! Reader, look for no mercy when subjuga tion comes! We tell you now, listen not to those who thjpugh the press, or upon the highway, present any other picture of the !iSouth's fate in a state of subjugation, or in the acceptance of Lincoln’s terms for peace. The acceptance of the latter is sub mission. Better any fate thau that! DEATH OF GEN. A. P. HILL. * la tike death of this gallant officer, the Confederate army has lost another brave and patriotic leader, and the South another devoted son. One by one, like leaves in au- tumD, fall the heroes who, in the early days of the war.won laurels which encircled their browns till death ended their last battle with their country’s foes; and among them none fell more gloriously than the noble son of the “North State” with harness on and his face fronting the foe. No one of the brave chiefs who have thus fallen, have rendered more patriotic and disinterested setv ce than the one whose death we now lament. A noble gentleman, a* gallant soldier, his loss will be seriously felt in the army, and in the State whose people he ever cheered with his counsels; and whose sons, by his knightly example, and ckivalric bearing, he ever stimulated .to persevere in our struggle tor independence. Long wilL his brilliant ca reer and bis memory live in the S a'e lhat gave him birth, and in- the hearts of a gfate- ful people. A martyr to • liberty, he now sleeps the sleep of death, “with his martial cloak around him,” to be wept for,honored, and sung, by all who can appreciate patrio tism and heroism stimulated into action by an ardent love of country, and which were happily blended in the person of the lament ed, fallen hire. Peace to his ashes ! Honor to his .memory! DECLARED EXCHANGED. Conftrierate" officers and privates who were delivered from Yankee prisons in November* and December at Charleston, by Exchange Notice, No. 14, dated at Rich mond, are declared exchanged, by Commis sioner Oa!d. AU interested will govern themselves accordingly by reporting forthwith if they have not already done so, to their respective commands. The telegraphic dispatch embracing this notice, we published on yesterday, but as this may have escaped the observation of the parties interested, we now call attention to it. Napoleon or Msximillian, or any other for eign potentate or power, will venture to risk, in the act of our recognition, a fight with Lincol’ndom; and as for cold blooded John Bull, nothing can be expected from that quarter, his brother Jonathan being ev idently a terror to the Russell ministry, the lord of that name too. though not the pre mier, befog the chief adviser of Victorias policy, and as fearful of befog involved in war, as he is pertinacious in his acts of in justice to the Confederates States. If our people, however, be firm and determined, and persevere in their efforts to win their independence, we can tell them of a power that ere long, from the force of circumstan ces, will recognize the Confederate States as an independent nation, or rather an inde pendent Confederacy ot States. That power is the one which has overtasked itself finan cially and physically in its efforts to subjugate us. Long since, but for its foreign legions, drawn trom the scum of continental Europe, and its negro troc-pa, it would have been forced to abandon a contest it has so ruth lessly provoked. How long it can stand* the financial drain this has made upon the national purse, of what is’ left of “ Uncle Sam," is now a question becoming exces sively troublesome to cot only the so called United States, but to all Europe, and will daily become more so, until She collapse, pre dieted so often recently in Wall Street ahd upon the fl or ot Congress, comes, as it surely will, if our armies be kept in the field, and their wants cared for. If our peo pie, we repeat, will only do their duty and manfully pereevere in their struggle for in dependence, though the enemy hold our cities, still our broad territory, sav'e in par ticular and limited localities, will remain free t)f his presence and from sheer exhaus tion he must abandon the effort to subjugate tjjie South. These are our opinions, in which we have an abiding confidence, and which we trust will stimulate our people to renewed efiort in the contest before them, and which mus: result either in the attain ment of liberty, or we shall be reduced to the most abject slavery. Between the two results, who can feel willing to cease strug gling for the former, and to accept the lat ter ? He must have lost all the manhood of his nature, who can hesitate for a moment which to choose. PAINFUL AND DISGBAC - FUL l ainful avd disgraceful rep.-ns reach ug, connected with the fall of Montgomery into the ecemj’a hands. Gallant ( ffieers—at:d especially one o! them who, on many a b l'- tle-tfold, has covered himself wi'h glory, bearing now, 'on, upon his person, many a rnaik made by the vandal foe when daringly con’rontfog them—are represented to have been so overcome by King Alcohol, that they weie incapable of discharging the responsi ble duties devolving upon them in that uy- fog emergency. Is it { os-ible that ibis can be so—that gallant gentlemen eutrus ed «i:h important commands and the defence of such a p >st as Montgomery, c< it'd, in the hour of danger, so far forget the emise, the city, aud the country, they were hound to defend, as to become inebriates, to lose their reason and p >\ver of ac tion ? Among all the other di-graceful circumstarces counecled with the enemy’s raid up n 51 mtgomery as reported to us— efptcially the conduct of the A’ab .ma mi litia—the report of inebriate command; is is the most mortify fog. We itud that it. is not true. We trust il the mil tia o! our sis ter Slate did refuse to give to the gallant Forrest the aid he had ihe right to e.vpec ; that if they did uwt rally to Ids. or to the standard of seme olhtr Tiommam’; fo order to save their capital aud fo defend their homes; that the t ffieers to whom so much was enlrusted by the Ctonl't derate Govern ment. did prove equal to the emergency, and lhat the mortifying reports which have reached us in regard to their condition in the hour ctf tria 1 , arc not true. If, however, they aie true, then let Mr. Dcivis say, to him or to them, to the guilty party, be be whom he may, as did “Othello" ! o 1 Co- <> ’ »i*-. ce- forth “be no officer of mu -. ’ fo « ;> ,n, ul state of suspense, we awaii, what we trust will prove a contradiction of these report?. < THE EVACUATION OF MON;GOMERY. We have been advised by a reliable gen tleman that Montgomery was evacuated by order of Gen. Taylor. If so, the current re ports which have obtained wide eiicolaiioD, so reflective upon the gallant officer, Gen. D. W. Adams, who had command of the forces there, are without foundation, as we frost and believe all others are. THE MILITIA ORDER ED. OUT. It will be seen in our columns that Gov ernor Brown has ordered out the militia of the State. They are to report to Columbus, which we have good reason to believe is now threatened with capture by the enemy. We trust in sufficient force they will, fi om the adj acent counties assemble at that point to repel the raiding party lhat threatens to enter our State, at least at that point, and if so repelled, we have confidence it will not be permitted to pass over any section ot Georgia without being met by a force suffi cient to drive it back or to capture it. At the time we write, reports reach .us which we refrain, until at a later hour in the day, referring to, and to which we will refer in another article. — i — > It will afford much pleasure to ali Louisianians to know that General Wm. H. Peck and Col. J. O. Nixon, both of that State—the foimer distinguished for his ser vices and by his gallantry ever since the commencement of the war; and the lat».er— formerly of the New Orleans Crescent—as well for gallant., conduct, as for the endu rance of a nearly two years - captivity in Yankeedom; passed through this city on their way West on Sunday lH9t,in fine health and spiri's. Since the fort going was put in type and locked up in our form, we notice that the gentlemen referred to have returned to our city, ihe movements of the enemy in the di rection of West Point having forced them to do so, CAPITULATION OF GEN. LEE. Nashville papers state lhat Gsd: Lee cap itulated with, and surrendered bis army to Gen. Grant on the 9.h instant. We place no confidence in these statements ; viewing them as base fabrications of an unscrupu lous foe. AUTHENIIC FROM RICHMOND. Gentlemen who left Richmond subsequent to the evacuation, have reached this city and furnished us with some interesting par ticulars of this sad event. All of them con cur in the statement that there was no dis order attending the affair, and that all of the reports concerning mobs and other out rageous proceedings are unfounded. At daybreak on Monday, the 3J, the ar* senals, commissary and quartermaster de partments, Tredegar iron works, both rail road bridges, Mayo’s toot bridge and other public buildings were set on fire and de stroyed. The burning of these valuable structures caused a great conflagration, which, however, did not extend to any pri vate building, Haxall’s immense flouring mill being the only piece of private property burned. A gentleman who left the ciiy at 9) o’clcck Monday morning says that the ene my entered the city about 7 o’clock but that when he was on the corner of Main and Ninth he saw nothing of them. In leaving town he observed a body ot Yankee caval ry passing out Clay street toward the line ot fortifications. Continuing up the north bank ot the James river for twenty miles, he crossed and struck the last train on the Danviile road. The battle which resulted in the evacua tion, extended some twenty miles, and c n- sisted of a fierce assault at several poius. At one place the enemy stormed our strong de fences seven times, aud were repulsed w th immense slaughter. The line commenced on the left of Petersburg, fronting to our ex treme right, which was defend'd by Gen. Pickett’s division without breastworks At this place they overlapped Gen. L^-e’s lints, and here the contest was bloody in the tx- treme. There was no finer body ot troops than Pickett’s division,, and they covered themselves with glory by their conduct. The Secretary ot the Treasury was suc cessful in removing all his valuables, as were most of the public officers. We are glad to learn that the spirit of the army was unbroken throughout the sc.eie ordeal, aud there was nothing like a t out or panic.— Constitutionalist 15 th. BROIJSHT Til JAIL. A SMALL, chanky, black compEc ed Boy, who ssys his name is NKo, sb )ut 80 years of age and be longs to Capt. Walker Racchff of Ba-tunora The o wner is nqiestpdto c me forward, prove property, and take him away, otherwise he wJi be sold for Jail fees, expen ses, Ac. B. N. MI JuIPoED, . Dept, bher if and Jailor. Atlanta, Ga, i pal 16, Ise5-w3m LOST OR MISL AID. T WO Oertifi sates of Jthn W. Dancan, Depositary at Atlanta,payable to John Cook, both dated March 10 h. IS54—od8 for $TOO, No. . Tneoiher for $10o, bo. . Notice is hereby given that at app’icaticn will be made f-.rrenewal of the tame. April 12, IS.5. IQ S N] JOHN CC OK. Frlnter’a fee $30 apU6-wSt LOST OR MISLAID. T HE Ceit'flofcte of JobnW. Dancan, Depositary at Alia ts, payable to L O. D. Cook, dat-t.d March 10 lb64. No. . Notice is hereby giyen that an ap; li- cation will be made for renewal of the same. April lii, 1855. (QRNl L O. D. COOK. Printer’s fee |30, aplie-*Cv