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Wednesday Marning, iprii 11, I sf 'l,
' "jieurt* and tie'l'anfedetacy.
.- „ :i„ TE R ;hcc the telef raph Brought us
th#t ,. plertfiant bit of news from the \ unkee
* body, or the r^resenfaun*
Congre . • „] v Tvissad ft re olntion
branch of it, unanimously pajst
to the elTccHhat the ejtabUslniwiit ol a mom
arc by upon the ruins of republicanism in
lloxicb, by a foreign power, would not here
coCQ\zc„\ by the United Statc-s. This action,
Thurlow Weed tbinkß, "will throw NapoU»»
and Maximilian into the arms ol the rebels.
Thnrlow has forgotten, perhaps, that it m one
thing 4oi the Yankees toj>aas resolutions and
nuite a different thing to execute them. Ttjm-
L seems to have forgotten, also, that* is
no t in accordance with the prescribed et ;4 uette
that foreign nations should be mtroaiteea to
the Yankee House of Representatives.
The cu3tora is to present them to the I-resi
dent and Senate, and Mr. Lincoln, doubtless,
will reserve the question of making the ac
quaintance of Maximilian, to be determined
by future contingencies. But, apart from this,
we regard Mr. Weed's fears as premature, if
not groundless. Maximilian, if indeed, he
does so much, will give us nothing more than
the squint of recognition. We arc in no con
dition to aid him, were his course toward ns
to involve him in trouble with the
nor, were be so inclined, is he in any condi
tion to offer us assistance until the founda
tions of his throne are securely and perma
nently placed.
ilis true policy will be to conciliate every
body at least until this consummation is
reached . It is un ordination of Providence,
as we believe, that this nation shall work out
its independence with its own “ brawn and
brain.” God lias determined we shall be
grateful 'for freedom to no King save Him,
who rules in the avmier of Heaven, and rea
son-even human reason —commands ns not
to murmur or repine at the decree.
The Richmond Enquirer says that Com
mander Wm. L. Maury, of the Confederate
steamer Georgia, arrived in the Advance on
Friday, the Ist iust. Commander Maury re
turns for a brief visit to his family. He says
that Yankee commerce is very much dimin
ished. Their vessels have, very many oftheny
been transferred to other •governments, and
sail under other colors than the Hag of the
United States.
We fear that this diminution is ihofo ap
parent than real. The transters are merely
formal, and many a genuine Yankee ship, be
longing to Yankee owners, sails imder a for
eign register. This is done to escape such
people as Sernmes, Maury and Maffil. It may
taken little hard swearing, but that seems to
make little difference.
*
The Danish Iron- Claus Under Fire. —
The European papers contain an account of
the repulse of the Danish turretted iron-clad
Rolf Krade by the Prussian land batteries at
Eekernforde ijn the 17th of February. She
was built at Glasgow, Scotland ; efie is cov
ered with four and a half inch iron plate3, is
of twelve tons burthen, draws sixteen feet wa
ter, and has two turret. 3 mi mi polar*, carrying
four four sixty-eight pounder guns. Aper
tures at the top of the lowers admit lightsand
♦air; mechanical arrangements allow of the
■hip being lowered until her deck is only a
few iuches above the surface. An officer who
wae on board during the action says,
We passed Ifolneas without replying to tbo
fire of the battery stationed there, and took
up the position which had been designated.
Hero we anchored, with our broadside to
wards two fixed batteries and one movable,
field battci'y, which opened upon us a mur
derous fire with round shot, conical shell,
and shrapnel. A tongue of land ‘prevented
our seeing the bridge we had been ordered to
destroy. The enemy fired very well. His
fixed batteries were masked, and it is there
fore impossible to say how much d-image we
did him but I sent a couple of shells at a
rifled gun that rained conical shot upon us
from the heights, and when sheering off bom
barded a mill and a house.
We returned to Sonderborg. after being en
gaged an hour and a half. The Rolf lvrake
■tood the trial well- She was hulled sixty
six times, each shot being of itself'sufficient
to sink a wooden ship. Too towers were hit
several times; sixteen shots wont through the
funnel, one through the steam-pipe, two
through the foremast, one through the main
mast, two through the mizzcn, and hom.als.ty
to seventy through the bulwavl small boats,
sails and rigging. The deck is torn up in
many places, the tackle much cut, the three
boats riddled ; every vulnerable point was hit,
and I should 111 o to have seen any part of the
deck where a man could have been stationed
without certainty of death. Wo calculated that
about fivo thousand pounds of iron was ex
pended up oft' us, and you may suppose that
we contributed our share. _ The noise was
deafening, produced as much hy our own fire
as the missiles of the enemy, whose shell?
flew in all directions. One, which burst di
rectly over the tower in which I was r t a? loiied,
sent in a show or of pieces, which ret fire to
two mat rcdamaged ray frontispiece,
giazed my leg smashed my trlefeope, and
penetrated a coat lyiny % my aide in#i half
dozen plae.-- iam still deaf of r*n.“ ear from
the din—nthvrwiae not trmrh hnrf. One
raau in each tower was also slightly vroun led
and curiously pnouvh. each in the left cheek ’
The Danish batteries are armed with French {
rifled guns
' '
Com. Wm. L. MAtiii\ We If.tl the
pleasure, on yosLevday tnovuiug, 01 meeting
Commander Win, L Maury, ot the S.
steam* r “Georgia.” ,
Captain Mauiy arrived in the Oonfedor
acy ou Friday last by lho iteamer “Ad
vanee.” Six month ago lie left his home
and friends in the South iVjjr the scene of
his operations against the -hipping of the
enemy on the high ..
He returns 1o the Confodoracy fora
brief period on a visit to his family in the
Stutli. Captain M. says that the Yankee
commerce is very much diminished. Their
vessels have, very many of them, been
transferred to other governments, and sail
under other colors than the flag of the
United States. — Eichmonc] Enquiry. 6 th.
Congress Ta^ci:r.r:r, with So weev.—Al d
ishishing slavery by Congrev *oual enactment is
more riaicaloua than fulminating a bull against
the comet. Slavery can be legally abolished in
no such manner. The only legal v. -y to id ••u.h
»lavep-is amend the ConstitHiion, as we long
<S2S£,wtS4Sh»Wi*‘“ rc * T
re»n.M»n™ t„ thear„u„l « A “‘
tom rode when he wos lump bv tlm hair, if he ever
imagined such a stnpid piece of k-gi,lotion would
ever find a permanent place upon the national re
cord.— iV, Y. Herald, •
Miscegeiiallou,
H7/..7 it meant —Remarkable Gonfemon of a
Republican Journal.
The reader nuist.Sear in mind, whoit read
ing the.article below, that, it is the language, ,
not of a “Copperhead'’ journal, but of a thor
ough, out and out Republican journal —an
open, voluntary confession of a paper that has
never faltered in its support and devotion to
the principles of that party, and that has done
a3 touch in advocacy of the Lincoln adminis
tration and the encouragement ot this wm
ns any other paper in the whole North. z*on j
that it sees ruin and degradation and a level
with the negroStaririgit in its face, it is forced
to confess (and a very humiliating confession
it is for a Republican , paper) that the only j
quarter to which the country can now look to
be saved is the Democrotic'party But let no
ono fall to read this'article—let it be circula
ted in every Southern paper far and wide—let
it be read, if necessary, to our army. . If there
is a man in the whole South that can read
this confession below without firing his heart
and causing a feeling of shame that we should
ever have lived with 3ueh a people, then he
must be dead indeed to every sense of honor,
pride and virtue:
[From the New York Times.3
WHA.T ABF VF COMING TO ?
* * A rage for marrying hla< k
people has lately taken possession of the Re
publican party. The Radicals have carried
everything before them, and if things go on at
their present rate it is "feared that, in three
months, every white man who is not connect
ed by marriage with a colored family will be
“read out’” of the party. The gusto with i
which the abolitionists go into the insane
movement is something at ifhce disgusting
and alarming. We shrink from putting on
paper the stories which reach us as to the
prevalence of this evil. We will only say
that there will very soon be hardly a family j
in the city belonging to the Republican per- j
suasion which will not be glorying in the pos
session of a negro son-in-law. It is said, we
know not with what truth, that the Union
League Club has fitted up a night bell at Its
door, and keeps a black minister on the prem
ises who marries all couples of different col
ors at any hour of the day or night. Soon
we may expect to hear of duels being fought
about some black washerwoman, and crowds
of white men thronging the basements of
those families who have colored servants in
their houses for the purpose of soliciting the
honor (?) of their hands.
It is with great reluctance that we speak
out our minds in this matter. But we have
no hesitation in staying that if we had" at the
outset conceived it possible, that hostility of
slavery would ever have led to wholesale in
termarriage with negroes, the Republican
party should never have received any counte
nance or support from this journal. We owe
it to ourselves and to posterity to say that the
thing has taken us by surprise. It never en
tered our head. We now sec and confess our
error and deplore it.
The question which now naturally suggests
itself to every right-minded white man and
woman is where is this thing to end ? What
is to be done to stop this unnatural and detes
table movement ? For it is as plain as a pike
staff that if il continues-there will be.soon no
whites left in this once great and prosperous
country. We shall all be mulattoes. and be
afflicted with all the peculiar-ites, both mental
and physical, of that unhappy race.
The signs of this great and terrible change
already begin to make themselves manifest in
our streets; for the most careless observer
who walks down Broadway can hardly fail to
observe the appearance on a vast number ol
faces of the well known brownish tinge. Let
that iinge once become general, and then
farewell, a long farewell, to all our whiteness.
There is but one quarter- and we are not
ashamed to own it in which, in our opinion,
we can look tor either help or comfort at this
crisis, and that .is to the great, old, truly
national Democratic party. It has. its faults;
nobody has been forced to call attention to
them oftener than we; bnt.it has never yet
proved false to its race, and we are satisfied
that whatever can be done now will be done
it. to x-r^ >gLO33Vc jjuiitj cn our f>iooct T
From Floriila==i!totlies' Ifsut~
fe.«*,e Steamer Blewn lip.
We take the following extracts from letters
received at the Morning News office, dated
Bivouac, near Cedar Creek, E, F., j
April 4, 1864, J
On Saturday-, the enemy,- both cavalry and
infantry, advanced on our line of pickets, and
after a brisk skirmish retired. What loss
they sustained (if any) .cannot be ascertained.
Some must have been hurt, as they approach
ed to within efie hundred and fifty yards of
.our men, and a quantity of blood was seen on
the ground. t
Cam? Finegau, April 4, loU4.
Last Monday night our company was on
picket duty within the enemy’s lines.. It was
expected that the enemy would advance and
drive in our pickets. It rained all night, and
when morning broke we were drenched with
rain, and returned tq our horses, about one
mile distant. As soon as we had built a good
fire to dh'-our clothes, a courier came in and
reported that the Yankees were across .Cedar
Creek We were soon mounted and ready to
make the attack, and before we could gel in
line,of battle the Yankees reiijpd, Last week
three Yankee deserters came into our ’lines,
who report that the reason why so many of
tiie enemy are deserting, is in consequence of
Yankees placing negro officers over the white
troops, and making them drill too much in
the hot sun. Yesterday afternoon the Yan
kees attacked our pickets. They were about
1,500 strong, and after a Skirmish of about
two hours, the enemy retired. We lost one
horse, and several men slightly wounded.
ThYenevny s loss is no! known. It is sup
posed that they made this attack in order to
find out our strength, before they made a gen
eral attack. A negro, who belongs to a lady
in Jacksonville, deserted from the enemy a
few days since, and came into our lines. He
reports that he heard the officers of his com
mand ray that it was the intention of the
Yankee* so make a simultaneous attack on
our fore.-'’ at all point: during the latter part
of April.
A torpedo was placed a few days since in
the ?t John o liter, and yesterday a Yankee
steadier, leaded with arms and ammunition
for two regiments., while passing up, ran upon
it, when it exploded. It blew the steamer to
fragment*, and nearly all on board perished.
The wreck of the. ;tearner now lines the bank
of the St. .Johns, and the bodies of her dead
arc .fatly wash da ’hot e.— S,ii’uHHah A < .vs, 11.
AxOTHFR Dk»l iuN BY THE COM3I IS—
signer of Texas. —Hon, Thompson
Allen, conuhisaianer of Texas has made
another decision in regard to certain
; provision* of the 'fax Act,. This time
lie r-ayn something about assessment of
1 Bank shares. Bank stock holders can
; now fee what they havegot to do, apd cai
| enlate what they have got to pay on
that property* Here is what the
coaimi.jsioner says:
I have been asked to Mate my authori
ty for saying, in the iustnietionp of Ist
of March, that Bank shares, &o , shall
be assessed upon the basis of their mar
ket value on the 17th day of‘February
Im* 1 Section 9of the act declares “that
the taxes on property laid for the year
IM. Idi tll be assessed as on the day of
the paw-age of the act. Ac The day of
; the passage of the act is the 17th day of
Febinatjy 1864; therefore, by the ex
press |terms of the law, the asessment
mu f be made as on that day—that is, as
it -would have been made on that day had
it been practicable actually to have (lone
i so. To assess shares as ou that day, they
my t be assessed upon the owner, or per-
I sen liable to the tax, owning or controling
them on that day, and at the market val
ue of the same in the neighborhood
where assessed, in such currency as was
in general use, there, Ac.; at the time of
assessment. That time have shown, is
declared by the law to be the 17th day of
February, 1864;
The Conspiracy in Kentucky,—
The last Northern papers brought a
vague notice of a conspiracy on foot in
Kentucky to # throw the State into the arms
of the Confederates. The Louisville
Journal.says:
Tt. is said that the headquarters of the
conspirators is at Monticello, in Wayne
county* that they have been correspond
ing with Longs!reet, they are believed to
have established a central committee in
every county to organize for co-operating
with the Confederate forces whenever we
are invaded, and the conspiracy was dis
covered through the siezure of mail let
ters addressed to its leaders by Kentucky
members of tire Confederate Congress.
All this may be true, or a part or it may
be not W e doubt not that there is some
foundation for the statement rumor. All
know how intensely and passionately anx
ious the many Confederates in Ken
tucky are for the triumph of the rebellion
within her limits. All know that their
whole thoughts, feelings, hopes, yearnings
aspirations, are for her annexation, no
matter by what means, to the rebel Con
federacy. No doubt they are to a great
extent, organized, having district commit
tees, county committees and city commit
tees sworn to secresy, moving to and fro
in'eoats of air, and putting everything,
so far as they can, in readiness for a gen
eral insurrection whenever formidable
rebel forces shall make their appearance
amoiiQ- us.
o
Our State has within her bosom spies,
conspirators of the rebellion, men who are
incomparably more dangerous to the
Federal Hnion than the rebels in the
rebel Confederacy and whenever any of
them especially and members of the secret
rebel committees, can be identified, the
utmost punishment, authorized by law
should be inflicted upon them.
The Boston Journal says: Boys made
their appearance in Philadelphia on Sat
urday with bundles of green mint, the first
of the season, and the air was sufficiently
balmly to give the editors pleasant antic
ipations of spring lamb and mint, sauce.
It must be conosling to the Yankee na
val officers at Charleston, to know that the
fellows at home are living upon sheep
meat, while they have lived for nearly a
year on an iron clad ram !
Vanity of Earthly Fame. — Thack
eray related the following incident, which
occurred during his visit to St. Louis a
few years since. lie was dining at the
hotel, when he heard on£ Irish waiter say
to another: s
“Do you know who that is?”
“No,” was the answer.
• “That,” said the other, “is the celebra
ted Thackeray!”
“ What’s he done?”
“D—d if I know.”—>S7, Louis Union.
The Markets remain almost entirely an
changed. . Many mereh «»>*■" «..™*Ahrue to
rake the old currency at, the rate of three
for two, with the exception of fives, which
are held on the same footing with the new
currency, A few merchants oiler slight
inducements in favor of the new currency.
The markets have not, had sufficient op
portunity as yet to recover from the re
tarding effects of the recent rains which
kept many articles of necessity away. It
is confidently expected that in a few days
thin os will lie more plentiful and prices
more inclined to fall. Already, under the
influence of the new currency, prices have
taken rapid Strides downward in several
leading Southern States. Corn is selling
in Atlanta, for example, for seven dollars
in the new currency; Flour, one hundred
dollars; Irish potatoes, fourteen; sweet fif
teen; corn meal, seven; peas, fifteen; mo
lasses, fourteen to fifteen; rice, new, thirty
five cents; old, twenty; bacon, two dollars
and seventy-five cents; lard the same; su
gar three and a half to four dollars. It is
time some like steps w r ere taken by the
merchants of Richmond, which, unlike
Atlanta, is almost entirely free from the
presence of an army.
We observe also that in Montgomery,
Alabama, bacon and lard have fallen to
$L> 2f> a pound, and in Mobile six dollars
is the emu-nt price for corn, when a few
Jays ago it was twelve, and fodder, which
was twenty and upwards, sells now at, $5
per cwt.
On ye sterday we regret to say, the spec
ulators of this city exhibited a most cru
elly avaricious disposition. At an auc
tion sale, sugar was run up to 39 a pound,
molasses to ssl, and several other neces
sary articles were advanced in similar pro
portion. This practice of producing petty
panics at the auctions, should be frowned
down by a i t respectable persons, merchants
or citizens, and whenever exorbitant bid
ding is attempted, the party or clique giiil
ty of it should be hissed, if not kicked
out of the house. —EicJmiond Enquirer,
Zth. ‘
—♦
Mrs. Senator Douglas is tilling a twelve
hundred dollar clerkship in the Treasury
Department at Washington. This is stated
positively by a Washington correspon
dent.
wrm t tm
Fifty Germans arrived lately in Poland,
Maine, direct from “fatherland," having been
hired to come to this country and enlist on
the quota of Boston. Fifteen hundred of
these German ■ have been engaged to enlist on
the quota of Boston, and a detachment is ex
peeled hereafter by every Steamer.
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The “isms" seem to be thiiving in the
North. Among the 10. lures announced in the
New York papers is. “Hell ; Its History and
Destiny. Re\ G. T. Flanders will deliver a
discourse on this subject. Subject
in Hell."
The FiKi i or Carving oi t “New States.’*—
Congress Li p:*. sed enabling acts permitting the
Terri tori c of Nevada. Colorado and Nebraska to
enter tin l nion. Ea t Tennessee will coma- next
—perhaps beicre. This will rffhke four new States
prepared to enter the field for the next grand Pre
sidential four mile race, and the rebellion not yet
subdued.
A movement is on foot, and from present appear
ances it is likely to succeed, to manufacture a.new
State out of that portion of Tennessee called V'aM
Tennc-s see. This busines«*is a scandalous one, and
should not be tolerated. Keep the old States as
they .Wt, except where imperative necessity de
mands a change. When the rebellion is over the
State pow called West Virginia should be restored
o the Old P jpttinicn.— X. Y. Herald,
TELEGRAPHIC.
Reports of the Press Association.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year
two, by J. S, Thbasheb, in the Clerk’s office of
the District Court of the Confederate States for
the-Northern District of Georgia. .
Dalt7>n, April 12.—Miss Mary E. Walker, As
sistant Surgeon of the 152d Ohio Regt., was cap
tured by our pickets and brought here yesterday.
She is quite sprightly, converses fluently; says
she only wished to deliver letters to pickets and
had no idea of being arrested.
It is reported on good authority that Grierson
attacked Forrest, near Summerville, on the 6th
inst., and was handsomely repulsed.
Howard relieves Granger of the command of the
4th Army Corps. Schofield takes command of the
23rd.
Richmond, April 13.—The Petersbur Express
this morning learns that the Yankee frigate Min
nesota lying in Hampton Roads was damaged by a
torpedo one night last week.
The Baltimore American of the 9th has been re
ceived here.
A dispatch from Fort Smith states that Gen.
Steele has driven the Confederates from Arkadel
phia and is advancing on General Price’s main
army.
The Yankee Senate adopted a joint resolution
proposing an amendment to the Constitution pro
hibiting slavery by a vote of 37 to 6.
Chief Justice Taney has resumed his seaton the
bench of the Supreme Court.
A Parrott gun at Cumming’s Point which has
been discharged nearly 5000 times bursted re
cently. ‘
The closing quotation of gold in New York, 1695.
The flood iu James river is subsiding but it is
raining again to-night.
Song of the First Kentucky Regiment.
Air : —The Captain with his Whitkert.”
In the sunny month of May,
We left our native land,
For we would not bend our spirits
To a Tyrant’s stern command,
And wo went to old. Yirgima
When our hearts were sad and sore,
But we’ll shed our blood for freedom,
As our fathers did before.
Chords * Oh, we march, march, march,
To the music of the drum,
- We are driven forth in exile,
From our old Kentucky Home.
When first the Southern flag unfurled,
Its folds upon the air,
Its stars had hardly glittered
When Kentucky’s sons were there ;
And they swore a solemn oath
As they sternly gathered round,
They could only live as freemen
On the “dark and bloody ground.” '
Chorus : Ob, march, march, etc.
They have branded us as felons
By their stern, despotic laws,
And doomed us to a prison,
When we fight for freedom’s cause,
But we care not for their prisons—■
We’ll proudly meet our doom,
If we only drive the Hessians
From our “Old Kentucky Home.”
Chorus : Oh, we inarch march, etc.
Ye brave soldiers of the South,
You soon shall see the day,
When the daughters of Kentucky
Will cheer you on your way,
When her sons will rise in might,
Unfettered and unbound,
And drive the Tyrant’s minions
From “dark and bloody ground.”
Ohrous: Oh, wo march, march, etc.
With Buckner as our leader
And Morgan in the .a™.
We'ii plant tlie Flag of Freedom
In our fair and happy Land ;
We’ll drive the Tyrant's minions
To the Ohio’s beaming flood,
And dye its waves in crimson
With coward Northern blood. -
Chorus: Oh, we march, march, etc.
No (lark stain upon her honor,
No doubt upon her truth,
She’ll take her place among the stare
That cluster in the South,
Then her proud old motto
Will be “welcome to you all,"
For “united we will stand,"
But “divided we will fall.”
Chorus: Oh, we march march, etc.
»—«• — t —fa
Terrible Calamity at Sheffield.
[From the London Times, March 15.]
At a little before midnight on Friday last,
one of those terrific disasters to which nearly
all the great towns in the north of England
are more or les3 exposed, happened at Shef
field. The great reservoir of the Sheffield
Water Company—a reservoir nearly one hun
dred acres in extent, and which held more
than a million cubic feet of water, suddenly
burst its embankment and swept with the
fury of another Deluge down the narrow
gorge formed by the Loxley and Stannington
Hills into Sheffield itself. Almost befora
warning could he given the volume of wateer
began rushing headlong down the valley,
sweeping farms and houses, forges and facto
ries, like chaff before it. Never, probably,
has an accident of the same kind occurred so
ruinous in its wholesale destruction of prop
erty, so lamentably fatal in the loss of human
life. Whatever ithe sudden and tremendous
flood could reach it seems to have destroyed,
and, calculating only by the number of houses
swept away and the number ol persons miss
ing who were known to have heen in them on
that fatal /right, there is every reason to fear
that the lives sacrificed by this awful calam
ity .will not be less than two hundred, if they
do not unfortunately, exceed even that num
ber. _of the damage done to property it is
inrpossible at this early date to torni even a
conjecture. The devastation in tins respect
is unparalleled. A large, populous and thriv
ing district lias been almost obliterated from
the earth, scarce more than traces of the
houses and factories that once stood there are
now remaining. The Don, owing to the late
heavy rains, wais unusually high, and the ad
ditional water thrown into it has laid hun
dreds of acres under water, and inflicted in
calculable injury to the growing crops.- Os
the destructive character of the flood there
were abundant evidences on every hand.—
Timber in large quantities, bed-pOsts, feather
beds, tables, clocks, and various kinds of
household furniture passed down, and several
carcases of cattle also.
It is now estimated that the loss of life will
exceed two hundred and fifty, and that the
value of property destroyed, exceeds half a
million.
THE DEAD.
[From the Sheffield Telegraph, March 14.]
From the large quantity of trees and brush
wood brought dowu the river, the victims,
who were for the most part drowned while
escaping from their beds, are found bruised,
and quite nude, if nude those may be called
who have received, instead of the night dresses
the drift wood has removed, a thin clothing of
clay. Some of the dead have %n expression
of fierce energy upon their faces, and their
last act is expressed as well as words could
express it by the expression of the face and
the attitude of (he arms. In one. the teeth
are clenched, and the right arm thrown for
ward as if striking at something ; in others,
both arms are thrown forward in a swimming
attitude, and have so stiffened. In many cases
the living have died in their beds without leav-
sign to Bhow that the water had waked
them, or that they had consciously passed
from th|"sleep of life to the long, long sleep
of death; Several of those found have been
a3 much killed as drowned, for one has a bro
ken arm and another has a broken leg, and
some are so bruised and mangled as to indi
cate that they had first been crushed under
the wreck of their houses and (ben washed
out when the torrent imparted* motion to the
wreck, or else that they had been caught be
tween drifted trees and beams.
CITY MATTERS.
T. J. JACKSON, Local Editor, j
Notice to Patrons.
After this date we shall be compelled to make
a deduction of 33 1-3 per cent, from Confederate
notes of the old issues above $5. Hundreds not
taken. Persons having business with this office
will bear this in mind.
March 26th, 1864. j
Liberal Very. —The call made for sacred mu* •
sic for Church use, in the Times, and published in
ail the city papers, has been responded to in a '
spirit of liberality that deserves notice. We have j
just had a grand summing up and find tno result i
to be absolutely nothing—nary book. We return
hearty thanks for such a manifestation of over
whelming liberality. It deeply affects ns—inas
much as it evinces a rare appreciation ol good
works.
Now the call never would Jiave been made if
the books could have been purchased. Wc are
satisfied that there are many musical in the
community that are sub-eTving no useful purpose.
Bring them forward and we propose to buy, bor
row, beg or steal according to circumstances, —
“Lutes of Zion,” “CarminaSacras,”“Boston Acad
emy,” or “Sabbath Bell” thankfully received.—
The difficulty to be to get enough of any one
kind to answer the purpose of instructing a da l '
in sacred music.
The Atlanta Press.-Wb are-sorry to learn the
suspension of our Atlanta contemporaries in con
sequence of a strike among the printer-:. It would
seem from what we can learu that’ the demand op
the printers by which they required a rise of 50
per cent, on their wages, was- an unreasonable one
and one which the press of Atlanta was not aide
to sustain. We cannot speak advisedly on the
matter, however, as we know nothing ol the cost
of living aud other expenses in that city. There
is one thing that seems certain, and that is that
the fate of the Atlanta press will be the fate of the
Southern press if matters get much worse, or a
cheaper system of labor cannot be devised. There
are comparatively few Southern journals that are
even now self-sustaining. The difficulties in the
way af procuring printers will doubtless force upon
publishers the neeessit}’ of employing girls and
boys to do the work heretofore done by men. We
sincerely sympathize with our Atlanta contempo
raries, and regret -the necessity which compels
even the temporary suspension of their journal.-,
as we have been long - accustomed to look upon
them as among the ablest and best conducted pa
pers in the Confederacy.
Petty & Sawyers. —We take pleasure in call
ing attention to the advertisement of this firm
who aye engaged extensively in the purchase and
sale of gold, silver, hank notes, treasury notes, ex
change, stocks, &e. Parlies in this section inte
rested in such a business, will do well to read the
advertisement attentively, and enlrust this firm
with their business.
Personal. —We were pleased to take by the
hand yesterday our old friend, Capt. R. B. Lock
hart, who visits home 1 on furlough. L. is i
gallant fellow, having served his country m several
trying and honorable positions since the breaking
out of the war; first, we believe, with the City Light
Guards, next as Lieutenant and Captain of the
Columbus Minute Boys, and latterly as aid on the
staff of Gen. Longstreet. He has proved himself
equal to ever.) emergency which the fortunes of
war have thrown around him, and we have no
doubt will sustain himself amid all others which
may arise. We wish him a happy respite from
the perplexities and hardships of camp life, and
abundant success and laurels in the future.
Lee Mallory’s Panorama op Confederate
Generals.— lt will be seen that this work of art
will be on exhibition at Temperance Hall this and
to-morrow evening. We cannot speak from per
sonal knowledge, but presume the series of illus
trations will be replete with interest to our people.
irftsi
The Militia.—lt will be seen by special notice
elsewhere, that Capt. Wallace has ordered all per
sons between the ages of 17 and 18 and 45 and 50
in the 3d Congressional District, to rendezvous in
thi3 city on the IGtria for the purpose of organising
into companies. The call is made in pursuance of
an order from Major Harris, Commandant Con
scripts for the State of Georgia.
Something Useful. —We called to see our friend
McDonald yesterday at Triangle Corner, whom
we found to be driving not only a profitable busi
ness for himself, but one of great utility to the
Government and public in the manufacture of cur
ry combs, horse brushes, whitewash brushes, &c.,
<fec. Mac served his country faithfully in the
field until disqualified by affliction, and he now
serves it, while also serving himself, in a mnnr.cr
calculated to confer as much good possibly as if
in the field.
•
Important Work. —We are indebted to
Messrs. Evans*& Cogswell, Columbia. S. <’
for a copy of a work entitled, “General Or
ders from the Adjutant and Inspector Gen, . -
al's Office. Confederate .States Army, printed
on excellent paper, clearly and m the neatest
style. 11 has been prepared from hit.. of
Headquarterts Department of South t an.lii,
Georgia and Florida, with full Indexes, it is
endorsed by Thomas Jordan, Brigadier Gen
eral and Chief of Beauregard’s Staff, a m- ■
bracing the orders of 1862 and IBC3, tomuher
with such decisions of the War Department
could be collected, touching matters of gen r
al concern to the service, and recent special |
regulations of the Ordnance Bureau. There
will also he found, appended certain orders of
the presertt (1864) series not embraced in the
index, which are of- immediate importance to
the army.” It must proven desideratum to
the Officers of the Ariuy'nnd Govornm, nt ~and
all others who desire such information.
The Rebellion not to be Crvsiieu bv “Mere
Weight.” —The New York Herald in an article
on the new calls of Lincoln for troops, says :
We ought to crush the Confederacy by mere
weight. But it is not the lust time* that our ar
mies have doubled those of the enemy in force,
and we have seen that it is futile to place a blio.t
reliance on numbers. Seven hundred thou- ,nd
men in six armies, operating on different line-, at
different times, will he wasted in detail against i w.<
hundred thousand concentrated under an aetiv.
General. Every great war shows this over and
over again, and above all, oar own war show; u
It is as simple as that two and two make four:
yet it is from a neglect of this very simple prim-i
pie that we have hitherto failed, so desfr.y life
rebel armies. Organization is neee ary, men un
necessary, amt material is necessary : but concen
tration and concerted action are more necessary
than all. Enough meu have been assembled at
Washington city, under the orders of the Pre.d
dent, to have gone to Richmond over every amo 0
man in the Confederacy ; but instead of concen
trating there a sufficient force for the purpo'c, th. t
great strength has been diasipafed in u : elc . ef
forts all along the Atlanta coast. We have hsd
Hatteras expeditions and Big
Island and Florida campaigns; Port Royal has |
heen taken, and Fort Pulaski, and there have been
sieges of Charleston, and ail to no purpose, -eteept
to murder men : and all this effort, with the effort ,
wasted in the Shenandoah valley, added to even ■
the very worst of our advances against Richmond, ;
must have taken that city. All the effort made in .
the Ewt has failed for want cf concentration. J
'I re Last ( HAXri: 01’] fun \Y\ r.— Now lha
■ rant is in llio place of power, it i;*the couiltry’t
Uu.y to So stain him in it. heart and soul. Aroun*
this great leader the country must rally, withsh and
last umn and (hr last dollar, to end the war at®
oih c m, it we do not end u now we never eon. —
). //<-,:< (//. .
TEMPERANCE HALL
*
life, Jackson,
Hood,
?lorgan, Bragg,
Joe Johnston, At.
HUMffTSiBIW;
• OR.
Ail Hour with Confederate keuerais.
PICTORIAL, HISTORICAL, BIOGRAPHICAL.
Oil Exhibition at Temperance Hall,
On Wednesday and Thursday Evenings,
April tilth and 1 ssh.
Tbe otlx Series of
Lee Mallory’s .
WAR II.U S ITi VMOY* ’
CONSISTING OF :
[ LX.UMENATED Portrait* of the Confederate
a crenei ai- and prominent men and wo
men oi the W ar. Taken from life by Herr Van Ness
and exhibited larger than life size by the
i&ioreoscopticon,
AXD A POWERFUL CALCIUM LIGHT,
An intimate and complete appratus made in Europe
expressly lor the purpose.
' »»n thin evening a selection from a large list of
Which the following form a part:
h e ®>. Jack? uii, Wheeler,
1100-.i, JStuart,. Longstreet,
Lweli, Pillow, .MctVillough.
Pemberton, Price, Morgan A Staff,
Lovell, Buckner, - Colquitt,
Bill. Breckinridge, Rosser,
n ileox, Hindman, Kemper,
Cordon, Lawton, Rhodes.
Anderson, doc Johnston, Beauregard,
Hamilton, Col>b,
\\ Cox,- . Cheat ham,
«v<\, «fcc„ <fct\
\\ e would particular attention to t he fact that
these portraits arc tropi life, being;
STEREOSCOPIC PHOTOGRAPHS,
taken from original negatives in the galleries of
’Richmond and the South, which should be sufficient
guarantee that the? as ting impression|made by them
will be as faithful as a personal introduction to the
distinguished individuals themselves. Accompa
nying the oxliibition.of each portrait will bo given a
short
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH,
introducing the principal events by which the sub
ject may have become distinguished,
Correct sac similes in Photograph of the Generals,
can be obtained at, the box office, between the hours
• oi 12 and 2 j>. m., and at the Hall on the evening of
the exhibition arid at Pease's Rook store.
Admission ?2, with the usual half price tickets.
Attentive-Ushers will be,' in attendance, and who
will preserve order.
.Secure seat for Ladies.
Box office open from 12 to 2 p. in.
Appropriate music will be in attendance.
Untire change in programme each night.
Doors open aiT o’clock, Exhibition to commence
at 8 precisely,
apt 13 2t
, itm i M«UK.
•Id aiul 47, N.orth Water Street,
MOBILE. AL ASiAM A.
Brokers and Bankers,
DEALERS IN
<3O ED,
SILVER,
HANK iWOTEs,
STOCKS and .BONDS,
STATE TREASURY IYOT’ES.
sTEßunrct,
HAYAM,
NASSAU,
AMD DOMESTIC EXCI2AY6E.
Also,
Stocks in all the different Steamers,
Sloops and Schooners engaged in run*>
nrng the blockade.
jmqnet received ayw
PAID OUT ON DEPOSIT.
TV e buy and sell on our own account
or on commission.
All letters and enquiries prompt
ly answered,
tipi 13 worn
WAITED.
1“ WANT to hire one hundred NEGRO Laborers.
Ten Mule Teams, 4 or 0 mules each, and ten
Ycl <- of Oxen to get and haul Timber for the Rail
road Bridge, over the Tombigbee river, near De
liiOpoli-.
I also want to employ fifteen Carpenterswhite
men or negroes for the same work.
t 1 will pay liberal in i. and furnish rations “and
quarters for the men.
Address me at Demopeli?, Ala., care of Mai. M.
'•i. ,riwether, Kng’r Corps.
, W. P. BARKER,
Ag’t for A. L. Maxwell.
apl 1 llv.&vrlni
• Leal her Wauled.
i 1 ; A thou.,and pounds of Good Harness or Sole
.A -Lcjtiirr (to bended for making Factory Card
i Ij.ihiu:--). Well stuffed Harness Leather in much
pi -lynt and, for.which tin highest market price will
be paid.
I'm ..in having .titter of ilie above articlesfor sale
will please address me] giving quantity and price.
1. C. PLANT,
aplli-i - Macon. Ga.
WA^TFI).
i GENTLEMAN with a small family is desirou-
A <>( securing board m some private family. Can,
fii,., i* -} l hi- own room and any number of house ser
vanr-that may bede-ired. Anyone who can ae~
commodate him will apply at
aid BUt* TIHS OFFICE.
Foa* Judge o!M*t'ohate.
We are authorized to announce GEORGE If.
WADDELL, (the present incumbent) for re-election
to the office of Probate Judge of Russell county,
Ala. Election 1.-t Monday in May.
aid 9tde
Aii scohee R.ui.koao Com can y, f
Loll übps, Ga., April ytb, lS'A.t
The holder-of general stock in tin.- Mu secret Rail
road Company are hereby notified that the five per
cent tax levieil by the law parsed bv the Confeder
ate ('oagrc ,li'.h February, IStA, will be given in
and paid by thr Company on their iff,-ok,
By order .>f E,.ard of Director*.
J. vl. BIYIXS,
Secretary ami Treasurer.
apl f’> Iw.
Savannah Republican ami AuginU < On-utution-
Dlirt. will e’published the ab«r«raj»e week and
forward briir to thi- office
*r«’ aiwl Satiiilers’
, |'ll II -TNDBKAICN ED having commenced the
* uianiifa i lire nt the abov »• naun and .uu,les m thi--
rill prer aied I** fill orders tor the sun***.
Off -, on fnrle- treet, alt V-w d.—i above C.
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Reference -Maj. F. W. Dll lari-." A/ •
Mobile Reg,, -ior, Mirsi- dppinu and Augusta Con- -
stitutionalist, please copy offs month and send ouW
to this office,
mar 30 ts