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Tiwrsday Morning, April 14. ISfil.
[COMMUNICATED.]
Sov. Brown’s Message—Habeas Corpus Cou*
tinned.
2. We proceed in the second place to en
quire, what Congress has done f Arid, instead '
of the terrible thing indicated by/Gov Brown:
and Mr. Vice President, we are grossly mista
ken, if it doe3 not appear that its action lias
been mo3t conservative ot liberty— and ex
tremely well guarded! On the 15th day of
February, 1864, the President approved the'
Act ot Congress, which suspends “the privilege
of the writ of habeas corpus in certain cassis.
This suspension applies 11 only to the of
persona arrested or detained by order of the
President, Secretary of War, or the general
officer commanding the Trans - "Miesi®?ipjii_
Military Department, by ihe authority and un
der the control of the President: '. The Congress
declares its ‘'purpose” to be, “in the passage
of this act to provide more effectually for the.
public safety,” a,nil that the suspension, shall
apply to “the following cases and no others. ”
We cannot better state the cases to which the
■uspension applies than in the, words of, the
act itself. It applies in cases:
“ First —Of treason, or treasonable efforts
or combinations to subvert the government of,
the Confederate States.
Second —Of conspiracies to overthrow the
government, or conspiracies to resist the law
ful authorities of the Confederate States.
Third-— Of combining to assist the enemy,
or of communicating intelligence to the ene
my, or giving him aid and comfort.
Fourth —Os conspiracies, preparations and
attempts to incite servile insurrection.
Fifth—Of desertions or encouraging deset-"
tions, or harboring deserters, and of attempts
to avoid military service; Provided, that in
cases of palpable wrong find oppression by
any subordinate officer, upon any party who
does not legally owe military service, his su
perior officer shall grant prompt relief to the
oppressed party, and the subordinate shall be
dismissed from office.
Sixth-—Us spies and other emisaariec of the
enemy.
Seventh—Of holding correspondence or in
tercourse with the enemy, without necessity,
and without the permission of the Confederate
States.
Eighth—Of unlawful trading with the ene
my, and other offences against the lav»of the
Confederate States, enacted to promote their
•uccess in the war.
Ninth—Of conspiracies, or attempts to-libe
rate prisoners of war held by the Confederate
States.
Tenth— Of conspiracies, or attempts or pre
parations to aid the enemy.
Eleventh— Of persons advising or inciting
others to abandon the Confederate cause, or
to resist the Confederate States, or to adhere
to the enemy.
Twelfth —Of unlawfully burning, destroy
ing or injuring, or attempting to burn, destroy
or injure, any bridgfc, or railroad, or telegraph
ic line of communication, .or other property,
with the intent of aiding the enemy.
Thirteenth— Of treasonable designs to im
pair the military power of the government,:
by destroying, or attempting to destroy, ihe
vessels or arum or munitions of mar, or arse
nals, foundries, workshops or other property
of the Confederate States.”
Does not each case here specified directly
involve the “public safety”? What remains
then to make the su mansion constitutional?
Governor Brown and Mr. Stephens say that
the arrests shall be made upon sworn charges
and upon rog\ilo.i- namiMTß, an 4f fci.tw hhv **
case of “ search warrants”! that there shall,
be a jury trial, and in “ dtit,process.of law”! We
reply that neither the Constitution nor the law
has reference to defined crimes alone and to their
punishment in ordinary times and by “due pro
cess of law.” The purpose is to provide for
“the public safety,” in a time of “invasion,’'
and that traitors, conspirators, deserters from
the army, insurrectionists, spies, emissaries,
bridge burners, destructives —secret plotting
enemies of the Confederacy and its cause may
be arrested and defeated. As to all these the
writ of habeas corpus is suspended. It will be
observed that the act says not a . word about
the form of proceeding. This it is, which in the
eyes of the Governor and Mr. Stephens con
•titutes the unconstitutionality of the Act,
and this is not the act at all. The writ i3 sim
ply suspended a3 to certain obnoxious and
dangerous characters and the President left
to pursue a legal and proper course in enforcing
the act. Is ttiere anything in his antece
dents—in his past professions or practice, to
justify the ungenerous assumption that he will
proceed contrary to the Constitution ?■ If he
should do this he would do it undn his official
obligations and responsibilities, and neither
the Congress nor till people have any fears
that he will attempt to do it Whatever
“warrants” or “oaths” are necessary, under the
Constitution and the wiil doabtless be
employed. The courts are open and will settle
the questions which may arise under the act
consistently with “liberty, :: and would have
done it all the same if the noist r.rfado at
Milledgeville hath never tahrti plsec'
Will the President transcend the ample
powers vested in him and play the tyrant ?
The Governor and Vice President seem to
think so. If such is his disposition and in
tention he can do so as eilectuaily, without:
this act, as with it. Nobody credits the im
putation upon the Chief Magistrate of the
Confederacy. lie has neither disposition, in
terest, nor temptation to such a crime \relhe
has, Ut no time, exhibited any such desire!
Then why all this waste of wordy patriotism?
Why this cacaethts scribsndi et lvqt:cndif The *.
Message of the Governor is boldly ' faci.otts-d
the speech of the Vice President cunningly so.
It will astonish the people to learn; after all
the excitement which Ims boon produced,on
this subject, that the act of suspension pro
vides no penalties whatever, against even the
traitors and emissaries, spies and enemies, upon
Whom it is to operate, for a limited time orgy!
The President cannot touch life or limb, tooth
or nail—no not even a haw oftH'ke'ad, of the
vilest traitor! It is provided by the act itself
that he shall cause every case of -arrest or deten
tion to be investigated hy “proper officers in
order that they may be discharged if improp
erly detained,” or, if not discharged that they
•hall “be SPEEDILY .TRIED IN LIT
COIJRSf. OT LAW I Such is cue- (dear
••nse of the 2d section of thr? act as -follows
rt ffw EC ‘ r d '- Tlle President shall cause prop.er
*o arreetP<t n n eSt l gftte llle Casos aii Pe rs<Ul3
mar be dir det 2 in ?f in ord « *it they
course ol law. 3 14 *-he due :
couatiaue in foi 'm&it*
i ys after the next meeting of Congress” i a
M»y ; unless it ehy.ll be foolishly repealed to
gratify the morbid zeal of the factionists ; and
we trust that we are to be spared any such
exhibition ©!'time-serving and weakness on
the part of Congress. Tt has; acted bravely
and well. Let it defy' mere factious- clamor
and go forward wisely and earnestly to * eo«-
latt a lit perfect the admirable 'system of
measures adopted Such is tbchope uncPex
pectations of the r«C“ people.
During these “ninety days after,
John Mtnorßotts maybe arrested, Holden, of
Xw-th Carolina, may be arrgjstc-d what tUen (
case will be fnVeiuffatcd by “prep* j
■er officers/und -if it should be found that the
arrest is improper or the detention improper,
ihe criminal will be either ‘ discharged or
sent on to the Courts t,o “abide a dpe cqurse
of law. ' 2d. If it should, however, be found
by.these ‘‘proper officers/’’that the arrest and
detention are proper, the officer who has the
person in charge, will for these aint-ty days,
reply to any writs of habeas corfitis— -by his
“certificate under oath” “thaf*such person is
detained bv him as a'prisoner' for someone
or more “of the causes 'hereinbefore .weaned,
under the authority aforesaid.”
Before the moat obnoxious person can be
imprisoned tinder this Act of suspension, Ist,
“the President must authorize it!” 2d, “Proper
officers” must investigate thecas?. Then a man
may be confined for “ ninety days after the
next meeting of Congress. ;
To carry this Act into effect the President j
ha3 caused the Adjutant and Inspector Gen
eral Cooper to publish, under date of 10th J
March, the very day that Covet nor Brown de- 1
livered his message to the Extra Session of !
the Georgia Legislature, and nix days before
Mr. Stephens delivered his speech, General
Orders No. 31, by which we be able to
I see in what manner the Act of suspension is to
|be enforced—how far its enforcement will im
peril “liberty”—what sort ofa- “Despot”'this
is we have got to rule over us!
These orders provide for the appointment
by the War Department of Commissioners for
■each Military District ter investigate cases of
"arrest or detention Tty “any military authority,
for any cause Specified With In the above recited
Act;” And ‘to secure the ends, of liberty as
far as they may be consistent.with “the pub
lic safety,” these orders farther provide, that
“information of all such arrests will he given
"to the Commissioner charged with the inves
tigation, “as soon qx practicable after they are
mad?, arid he shall proceed to investigate the
same. It is obvious that these orders will
operate io restrain.military license and in favor
of qnd not to harraas good citizens or
imperii their, persons.
The orders farther provide that “Ji, upon
.examination, a reasonable and probable cause
for detention does- not- appear, the Commis
sioner shall “certify the fact to the General or
other officer in command; whowill immediately
j discharge the prisoner from arrest , But if a
j reasonable and jjrobable cause does appear,
i the Commissioner will forthwith transmit to
“the War Depart merit” a copy of-the evidence
taken in the"case,- with his opinion thereon,
'for invtfuetions, and meanwhile the- prisoner
shall remain, in 'custody.
It is further provided Ili.it in all eases of
desertion from the array; of “attempts to avoid
military service” &c., &c,7 “In which ajferson
under arrest Shall apply to any Court or offi
cer for a writ of .habeas corpus, it. will be the
duty of the officer having ..the •command or
' custody of mirH-'or.esA*. -4- -XT'-' * y :x
won all the relevant facts-, for vnstrycho.is
as to the proper answer to be made to such
Writ, and in the meantime to retain the custo
dy and control of such person under this or
.dey, a copy of which will be communicated to
the. officer or Court issuing the writ, as afford
ing the- reason why tme should' be given to
■ make a more complete returnl‘ ' ' •
• It will thus be seen that the War Depart
ment. under the direction of the President,
will do all in its power to conform to the re
quirements of any Court or -Judicial officer,
compatible with the public safety; and it is
only “'When the requisite time cannot be ob
tained'"’ that if is made the duty of the officer
holding'' a person under arrest “to make a
special return, in writing, and under oath, that
the body of such person so detained by him,
is detained by the authority of the Secretary
qf War, and that he declines , under and by vir
tue of his authority and the Act of Congress
aforesaid, to produce the body of such person
or to make further appearance or-return to
the said writ.'! ■
' Suc'h are jhe provisions of this' “degpojie”
Act of .Congress, and. the Military Orders un
der. it issued by Adjutant General Cooper
under the 'direction' of the Preside tit,
which it wii'l be seen—
-Ist. That it operates .only upon cU enemies
id' the Confederacy
2d. That it is most guardeu. ia all its prot w
jona which might be perverted to the destruc
tion ef-fbe personal liberty of the citizen
3d- That iris very temporary ia Its dura
tion.
I :■ • ..
; 4tli That it interposes a supems.ory power
ju the person-of the District fbammissioncr
over mili; ary discretion
.. 6tb- That it secures the inarsudiate release
O! the prisoner ;n case of hia improper detesi-.
tion
6th. That it irr all rases which
admif of it ‘•a .« r>s cdy trial in due prom of
law.’.
And nuaiiy, t !iat it irs a- little subject to abupp.
as any such Act corjtld be.
This, then,; is what Congress fas done.—
Couldii.have done iocs.and bcoa true to its
great mission f
The feet thn<" if is* subjert. tG abuse L- ,?i ! dr.
-gin'ent at all All human institution's—
even ihose which nr.t Divine—are subject to
th a grossest ab uses. The very -scripture,* are
perverted by the Devil and he invests him
self with the rq'ctiaaqe of “an Angel, cflighi, '
x n order to deceive and betray.
% 'Mr:' Stephens desert'd* to argue tea question.
‘by producing imaginary fed possible- casts.of
hardship which might arise ! Such a course
of argument does not become a great and dig
nified man in an exalted station If we
adopt iliis"coarse.of argument we should de
molish any form, qv aim*.msuiauosi of human
Governmer.l in an hour. Jhere are cases of
hardship-’ and exceptional evils enough to dis
credit the church of God itself. 'So domestic
reiauon.wfiuldsustain itself against this sort ofj
logid What ! shall that paternal relation I
continue to disgrace the world, which subjects ;
a poor helpless child do blows and every spe
cies pf bad ireatiaeiu from a selfish father ?
Andean it be tolerated in an “age of chiv
a!r’>*' (hat “lovely woman’ - . shall be bound to
a lord—compollea to .live ,ia same
to bear him children and en
dure his persecutions ? Look around the
world; wjiat suffering exists in humast society !
what abuses prevail in human govdtnn*e«ts 1‘
What corruptions defile the church of Christ !§
Alas, for all the institutions and relations of
men— let them perish as with a flood! And
habeas cor pas itself could not survive! Is it
to bethought of, that a miserable jailor shall j
have it in his power to make a false return— j
lo..pmjuxa.lwmse]imml defeat, dhe sacred, tcrit,
amTincareerate and starve a helpless, inno.
cent man or woman? Poof t; -Mr.'PS.rikei!’'
.Paox.Alr-Oaies! .........
Seriously this is mere p.ctit fogging , on th®
part of Mr. Stephens, Mr. “Parker” and Mr.
“ Oats” may suffer for the want of habeas
corpus. . The ‘-‘public safety 7 may be fatally
imperilled iJL.it shall not be suspended. Let
us try to take care; of both, “Mr. Oates'’ and j
the Confederacy. Consider our peril. The
habeas corpus is suspended. Now, let us sup- j
pose that the President intends to make the
an sponsion an instrument of aggression upon
the public, liberties, lie must be very corrupt
and doliberntely forswear himself. Then the.
Secretary of War, mnsl be a vile tool and per
jured slave ,ot this bad President. Then, they
must have a . bust co-adjutor in the Commis
sioner, who is to investigate the case of ar
rest or detention. Besides these, a militavy
officer is to be found subservient to their
wishes and ready to arrest an innocent man
and swear a false return. And all these men
must concur in this infamy and commit it in
the face of ihe world, with hundreds of wit
nesses —for the purpose of imprisoning a man
for 'ninety days more or less, when he shall be
set at liberty with every inducement to expose
the enormity and every means to excile the
indignation of the country. And this must
be done, nor only without a rational motive, but
j contrary to every to a direct-
I ly bpposite course of conduct.
Habeas corptts is invaluable as a bulwark of
Liberty. Ms temporary suspension for war
purposes, will not impair that ?ahie
‘•public safety'’ demands it, as we shall pres
ently show We-cannot afford to al low trai
tors and conspirators fog©free among us now,
( In times of peace, the escape of horse thieves
and other criminals, through the operation of
habeas corpus , may be submitted to, (in spite
of Mr. Stphens argument to the contrary) for
The greater security of liberty. We know a
legal gentle men, who, during six years of ac
tive’ law practice in Georgia, Was much en
gaged in the criminal courts, and never failed
j in a single, instance to release a prisoner on- ' fut
: teas corpus. His liberty speeches before the
Inferior Courts, were elaborate. IhrHling, re
sistless. S'neh speeches are not uncommon
in Georgia. The Vice President has all the
benefit of this sort of practice, and his speech
in MilledgeviUc is a moderately good speci
men of the "efforts of the habeas corpus Law
yers in Georgia. It is hardly so eloquent, hut
its argument about the restrictions upon the
powtrof suspension,"derived from the taw of
search warrants. And “the clueppocess of laic
is a fair sample of the ingenuity of the Bar,
4cvcloped by fiv© Xtst Prius -practice in the
Courts of this State, especially in the Inferior
Courts and the ease of-‘Mr. Oates” is posi
tively excruciating.
The old Lady lay in her bed :
’T'was “ Day/’ hat she would not arise.
Her husband —the weaver —’tis said.
Heard her sorrowful cries,
He ran to her side in amaze.
• What. nits thee, my Judith ?” he screamed.
“I never saw thee befpre in ‘such ways.’” ■
“0, Judith, what is it j ou' ve dreamed
“Dreamed ! Robin?” she mournfully .sobbed,
“ , “lhave not been dreaming at all!
“I thought not of Will, whom they robbed,
“And buried behind the dark wall.
“Thy shuttle lhat fell on the bed,
"If a baby I’d had, asleep,
. “It had struck its dear little head !
“I thinh of it, Robin, and weep ! -
• u 'Tis xruel to laugh while I cry.
“Thabkiij/, I know, is not here ,
“ ! Ti3 no fault of mine 1 then why
.“Willyou laugh? boo-oozhao — p, dear!”
AU HE. VOIR.
It is every day becoming more appar
ent, says the Whig/, that the wisest policy
for Congress to adopt, in regard to the
currency when it meets again, is to de
clare, promptly, that the five dollar notes
now In circulat ion shall he relieved of the
prospective tax of 33f per cent,, and that
the Secetary of the Treasury shall have
no authority to issue new currency except
in change for the old remaining unfunded
at the rate of $2 for The amount
of cuyency afloat, if all the old notes
were converted into new issue, would not
fall short of $400,000,000, from which
the taxes not. provided for hy four per
cent certificates, must he deducted.
The remainder would leave' in circulation
an amount sufficient to justify the offer
every month of thirty to fifty millions of
guarantied six per cent, bonds (exempt
from taxation) until the close of the war,
whereby to raise the neecoosary funds
to meet the appropriations of Congress,
We earnestly pray that-this mode of rais
ing revenues yiu conjunction with taxa
tion) may be resorted to in future, instead
of expaii, ion of the currency '.by a forth >
ee* issue oi Treasury notes.-
Sor ! KCI'.X {LaKI>S VO BE I\4RCEI.T.EI> OCT TO Nt 1 -
Oho. Doi.oif.H3. —Last, week* there wasj presented in
the Northern .Congress the petition es citizens
of Brooklyn amt .Vew York, asking that ‘‘the
lands of the rebeta may be r onfl-eated and divided
into parcels of one hundred and sixty acres for dis
tribution among soldiers and loyal men.’ 1 In the
Honse of Repre on+Atires Mr. Julian, of Indiana,
has introduced a bill from the committee on Public
Lands, extending the principals of the Homestead
act to persons in the naval ar.u military service on
“confiscated and forfeited land? of rebels.’* The
A'ew York Herald, speaking of the bill sirs. *‘in
plain terms it is intended by this measure to divide
the forfeited estates of rebels among our colored
ea.icrs and scldieri.” In speaking in the support of
the bill Mr. Julian said:
; xiiis hr. ibeen Lwtly styled Ii he slaveholder’s re
bellion, We have taken measures for the ehastise
( meet of traitors by. confiscation of their lands under
the rights ot way jor traitors the comtitutiGn ha~’
i ceased to exi~t. Vv e should deal with them as a
i conquered people, simply under the laws of war
, untrammeled by the constitution. It was a war of
• subjugation, pui uiumph is not near at hand aa
j some supposed The rebels win resist to the death
! and we must employ all our weapons to suppress
i them He must take away the fee simple of the
< lands frgm the rebels, and totally confiscate it: and
: he was r.dviwd that the President is prepared to aid
them in saob a measure. Should Congress and the
i courts stand in the wav, the wrath of the people wiil
. consume those who fail to execute the national will
The estates divided into farms would attract the i
settlement of loyal men and soldiers. 1
A Nashville eorraspondeudent of the Philadelphia
Inquirer says There will be no fighting in Virginia
this summer, but by strategic movements in Ea-t
Tennessee and other points Lee will bejmanreuvred
outof thabtai*. Hw -impression is that Eastern
North Carolina will be the battle ground. Virginia
wouM doiibttes? f>e given' up before the cotton
states. Iho vitality of the Confederacy does not
exist m the old dominion, but the necessaries ofilife
grow there and the abandonment of the grain and
provisions of Virgisia wdhld sound the death kbcii
•ftheßebflg,
SBiI'ORAFHia. (
Entered according to act of Congress in the year
1863, by J. S, Timasher, in the Clerk’s office of
the District Court of the Confederate States for
the Northern District of Georgia.
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Dalton, April 13th.—Nashville April 10th.
—Considerable excitement at Memphis, in
consequence of tire - pickets having been driven
at (xerniantown, wvhreh was .believed tb be
a feint of Torrest to enable him to get the
Southwest train, containing the plunder
en at Paducah.
Washington, 9th.—Colfax offered a resolu
tion proposing the expulsion of Long, of Ohio,
for the sentiments uttered yesterday favoring
the recognition of the Southern Confederacy.
St. Louis. Btli.—lt is reported that several
naval officers were captured by the Confeder
ates on Red River, whilst confiscating cotton.
New York, Bth.—The famous 300-pounder
Parrott gun at Cummings’ Point has exploded,
after being fired 4,015 times.
Dalton, 13th..—General Wheeler attacked
a small fofcp of the enemy’s cavalry at day
light this morning near Burton, killed several
and captured thirty-five and one lieutenant,
| together with horses, pistols', carbines, etc.
Richmond, April 13th.—The collision be-,
j tween a party of citizens and another of sol
i diers at Charleston, Illinois, was greatly exag
gerated. A letter in the Chicago Time* ?ays
j there were not more than thirty men on eith
| ther side engaged, and after the affray the
citizens went home, atyi there was no subse
quent assemblage of “copperheads” in the vi
cinity.
Nothing new here to-day.
Hamilton's Crossjxo, 13th. —A force of
Yankees estimated at 100 came to Falmouth
to-day, capturing two wagons, A skirmish
j ensued between the Yankees, and Capt. Saw
yer's, pray ost guard and a party from Cobb’s
j Georgia Legion. The Yankees, after remain
j ing one hour/ retired, going up Warrenton
i Roads.
Escape of Rf.bel Prisoners from
Camp Douglas.-— The Chicago Tribute
says: 5 J / ; _ , ,
On the night of tins 22d nit, twelve
rebel prisoners made their escape from
White Oak Prison* Camp Douglas, and
have not- yet been* retaken. They were
confined in the second story of the prison,
next room to a guard, and made use of
the same holes in the floor above and lie
low that the rebels escaped through du
ring Cot DeLand’s stay at dflmp. Their
manner of concealing their work was
most ingenious. While part of them
were at work filing off nail heads, so that
the floor might be raised; the others sang
loudly, rattling chains and otherwise
engaged the attention of the guard in
such a manner that not the slightest
suspicion of their proceeding ever en
tered the minds of those over them.
Reaching the ground, they burrowed
their way in a zig zag direction under
the fence, depositing the dirt in an old
sink, of the existence of wEioi. cfui. Strung
wno ignorant. They commenced to pre
pare for their escape nearly six weeks
ago. At, the.time of their leaving, twen
ty-five of the, rebels were in the prison,
and why only twelve chose to escape is a.
mystery. .
The day before the escape of the
prisoners two rebels were discovered dig
ging a tunnel under the new barracks,
just erected, in the southeast portion of
the grounds. Os course they were put
into prison. And a lucky change it was
for them, as they were among the miss
ing next morning.
[Prom tbe Southern Recorder.]
Arresting on Oatb.
Gov. Brown is very tenacious of the
constitutional right ofjthe citizen to be free
from arrest or seizure, except upon oath
or affirmation describing the offence, and
a warrant duly issued. The orders of the
President, or Secretary of War, for the
arrest of any individual without process
of law (the mandate of a judicial tribunal)
would be a gross violation of constitution
al liberty, deserving Legislative rebuke;
and of course the Governor has at no time
infringed this sacred right. In his late
message he is particularly hostile to the
President, in anticipation that some wrong
may be.committed without “due process
of law.”
J'fow, let us turn to the antecedents of
Gov. Brown in this very matter of causing
arrests without oath, and without warrant,
save his own Executive order. So far
back as January If, 1858, he issued a
proclamation, stating that “official infor
ms Bon had- been -‘received 0 of a murder
in Jones county, and he offered a reward
ofßloo for the arrest of a party commit
ting it, and his delivery to the Sheriff.
The following language of Gov. Brown
is exactly in point:
“ And I do moreover charge and require
all officers in this State, eiyil and military
to be vigilant in endeavoring to appre
hend the said Whitby, in order that he
may be brought to trial for the offence
with which he stands charged.”
What kind of information had been
i transmitted to the Governor, whether it
was the Coroner’s Inquest, or an affidavit
of some person, or the mere statement of
the Sheriff, does not appear, but whatever
it was, the Governor issued his warrant
for the apprehension of the flying party,
and commanded some 5000 officers in the
State i/tQ be vigilant in endeavoring to ap- j
prehend” the refugee. This common!
practice is an effectual answer to the new
fangled distinctions and refinements urged
by the Governor more from malice we
j fear than from any solid principle in res
j gard to “due process of law” on which he
. dwells so vehemently.
The practical effects of these Executive
proclamations, is to procure the arrest of
the accused parties; and we know it to* be
the custom to lodge parties in jail, on no
other authority, and with the jailors receipt
for the reward to be paid by Executive
warrant on the State Treasury. This very
thiug has been done by Gov. Brown and ,
all his predecessors, without any question
of its constitutionality having been raised.
The President under the suspension of the
habeas corpus, wilT always have “informa
tion” on which to predicate his order yf
arrest, as Gov. Brown had when he de
prived divers citizens of Georgja of their
liberty, ag we have ; i
CITY MATTERS.
T. J. JACKSON, Local Editor.
A Card.
Mr. W. H. Thomas. Agent of the Bible
Society, profoundly thankful for the very liberal
lonations received in the City of Columbus, and
being obliged to leave without calling upon many’
who would doubtless bo glad to aid in forwarding
fhejirinting of the Bible for soldiers, informs the
citizens that Mr. Wilcox or Mr.dipping, will receive
any further donations and forwaidthosamc to Hon.
fi.,A*stisbet*. Hon. L. N. Whittle, Rev. E._ W. War
ren, and ReV. J. W r . Burke, who constitute the Ex
ecutive Committee, at Macon.
April lb 1864 —4t
PltE33 Notice;-—The. Augusta. Constitutionalist
and Savannah Republican will find an advertise
ment in our columns to copy in reference to the
Muscogee Railroad.
Death of a Goon Boy. —-We arc pained to re
cord the death of Master F. S. Adams, son of Da-
vid Adams, Esq., of this city, which sad event
occurred at Tuscaloosa, Ala.., a few days past. \\ o
learn that the disease which terminated his mor
tal existence was an affection of the brain apd
spine.
Many of onr citizens will remember Fred as n
youth of fine promise, of excellent mind and man
ners, of pure morals and rare .amiability of di-posj
tion. His death will fall as a heavy blow upon
his bereaved parents who looked forward to bi
future with uncommon pride and hope, and the
community, too, will miss him, as he belonged to
a class that is, unfortunately, bn I small, in our
cities, in this fast and immoral age. We lay
leave to commingle our sympathies with tin- .he
reaved, and trust they may be enabled t.O draw
consolation front the Infinite Source of all gbqd, n
well as from the reflection that they have loh a
son of whom they could justly h-<-1 proud, and whe
would have proved an ornament to society.
Five Dollar Bills.—Some misapprehension
exists in the community in regard to exthahging
five dollar bills, for new currency—many supipo
sing that such change can be effected.at par We
are authorized to say that these bills Will he sub
ject to the same discount as theyqns, twenties arct
fifties, as Congress has made, no other provisions
for their funding. The fivtY Witt, however he'
good in the payment ol all government dues up to
the 30th Juno, and no patriot or honest man ha'-
any right to depreciate them prior to that time.
There are many sharpers,and "skunks” in every
community who will doubtless attempt to discount
or shave them evep, now, but holders, rhould ion't
an their passage at full value.
The Weather.—What a glorious and inex
haustible theme is the weather for people of small
mdntal calibre and lew ideas ! A friend suggests
that, in bis opinion, we can now safely icoord the
advent of Spring. We are almost afraid to do o
a,s we have proved false prophet 30 often, but we
cannot refrain from expressing our admiration of
the very agreeable change wrought, during the
past few days. We trrtst that vegetation will Aow
“spread” itself, and that in a short time tve shall
have something in market to ent.
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Confederate Generals.—Don’t forget the
grand art exhibition at Temperance Hall to-night:
consisting of illuminated illustrations’ol''Confede
rate Generals, and other historical representation.*
The occasion will doubtless be one . r ii7tJ»-.-si fn
all Who mav attend.
Sffe advertisement of Wm. P. Darker, vylm wants
to employ machinists, laborers, mechanics, wagons
and teams, etc,, to work on the railroad bridge
across the Tombigbee river, near Demopoli?, Ala.
Leather.—l. C. Plant, of Macon, Ga., wants a
few thousand pounds of good barn.ess or. sole leath
er, for the manufacture of factory card oluUdhg.
for which he proposes to pay the highest market
Those having this article for sale should give him
a call.
A Fair.—The ladies of our city intend to give
a Fair next Wednesday (tbe'UUth of,April)... Like
everything the noble ladies of our city undertake
it will prove a success. The proceeds of the Fair
will be devoted to the aid of our soldiers. The
originators earnestly appeal to their sifters of the
community to furnish articles, both fancy and
substantial, and request them to be left at the store
of Messrs. Sammis & R-ooney, by the moi ning of
Wednesday next.
. Columbus can boast of the most lovely and lov -
able women in the Confederacy : for never was
there a time when our soldiers were needy, but the
ladies devised some scheme for their relief, rind no
matter what they undertake, they know not such
a word as fail. Then let ail lend a helping hand,
and the evening of the Fair will be the night of
the season. Tbe money received will be appli- .l
to the benefit of our army, on the . .tidier-’ of which
too many and too great benefits cannot )>e con
ferred.—Sun.
, For the Times, {
A 9(otlk«r in Heaven
The following lines were suggested from hem
ing a little friend say. while dying, tW*his «ohV.u>.. :
mother, “Mama, won’t you l_v my nv liter in
Heaven
Watchers beside a dying ehildj
On whom with tender love he soiled
Heard words of softest mpsi.’ lew
In broken tones of utterance flow
Telling of faith all pure and bright
Which filled bis soul with heavenly light.
' “I too, would go Mamma and he
With'SissVj'hnd the angels »ee,
I too would go but you wiii
To love me in my happy home,.
And I will pray to Cod that, He
Will let you .'trill my mo the be,"
Ob, mother* from a dying bed
More precious word.- were never ji l 1
Words full of roving truth, with power
To comfort in- that -darkest hour.
Teaching thee their cbjl.l shall he
Thy child thro’ all eternity !
Mother! that sweeten name on earth,
Hallowed for aye, by Jesus’ birth—
The purest love to mortals known,
The tie pur Master deigned to own—
The bond nor sin nor time can shake—
The love, Heath has no power .to break-
Love cannot die ; from Heaven it came.
And thou shalt find it there the same,
Unbroken still, that wondrous tie
That links theo i n strange unitv —
Unbroken • Heath bift make it ritret* '
Forevershalt thou endure.
“Mother,” thy darlifigs called thee her*—
‘-Muther, they'll ever c-laitn thee thfre—
Even with the angels while they roam,
Longing tor thee to Mesa rhe-.r h .:,,. .
One Only ueed Heaven cannot fill,
Thou must be there, sweet mother, still
And tho* life’s journey long may -.eeui
And thou the toad may’sf weary deem.
Thy children’s voices from ou high.
Luring thee on,'fuust check thy sigh,
Cheering thy path till earth is done
And Heaven and happiness are wend
Mr-TAKtI—A f&alenie-ttV fe going Uic
founds ot some ot the papers in Georgia
to the effiaefcfhat a homicide lately occur
ed nr the Lunatic Asyftmi at Milledgo
''iL-. homicide as ailedged
ha* oc.mrctl at the Asrlnhrfit Milledge
yiiie. Wo learri that a homicide did oc
cur a short time since at, the Lunatic
Asylum; at Columbia,.South Carolina, :4»-
particukua td’which are the same.
i('oii fed ft -(ltd Cmo ti.
Goon News rin'.M rni: TiMNS-Mmsmsmu —The
-llobLle Tribune, jays ..
Froni a gent lonian who has’ just rot ft it, od from the
TrandrMisfds.'dpiw Depart, itieui,
vroicarn thw following, important news ervhc&rnkv
attain* in that pan of the country.
foroLSoL, I G, u - Sherman, with his
IO i- l' s,! had burned to Vicksburg
! irn " w 1U two Due ooluniii
WUU up kvd Liver,. to attack Alexandria. The
utlun culiuuo « cm. up the Ouatehi. a Hivov to At
tack Harrisonburg. They were met bv Gene* and
rncc, who whipped them badly—.-aid to be \ \\’ ,
terloo defeat.
Cur informant also confirms the report of a bittio
bavinjT occurred on Bayou Toehc between General
Lsuaks and Gen. Dick lay lor, and the defeat of the
loaner as .was posted u-few days a tot.
% 4 l>or.tiou ot par-foaaagwontuiaßdeii by Gen. Ro-v
had attacked Major Meßce at Yazoo- City and
dt\ven him from the city and the river witWeat
loss Both arqnow in our possession. The Yankee
gunboa ts liavmgovacuated the river. Gen Hani
-urn (bonfwlcrate) lmeswept the Mississippi lino from
M uterproof, La., to the month of the Red River
capturing- all the leased plantations, provisions Ac
tor a diriauc-o of about thirty utiles from thtvrive’i
line. 1
fhi;3 a very ox cl lent news, and from what wc hear
may ho Considered substantially reliable.
I'di i’luUlßkaocliee,
The stcanier Indian, Captain Fiy, will leave for
tho aboveand lnteriuediaiclandings this 11101 nin.
(Thursday) at 10 o’clock.
C ox.sUiM.ts FEJfcMi A G. R. Pi.—April J4th. Maj.
Alien, Mai N , H r . .Smith, Capt. Cothran, £L’api
(/ox. Roberts & Cos. J, D. Carter, T. S. Tu* a le,
R. F. Harris, W. P. Tinner, J. yuin, Brannon, Til
linghurst.
TEMP3SE.AIT3E HALL
IfooilVfiOii ,
Afoi e gast ?
Joe Joliip>iiori,4{,
lillUl! HUH;
OR,
Air 11$iii’ with Confederate Generals*
PKTORIjII, HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHItAL
Oil Exhibition at Temperance Rail,
Uti U cil nrsda) and Thursday Ereuingx,
|i»k‘i3 S7sg|« Ri^il
—♦— 4
Tile STIjl siei-io.a oi
Lee Mallory's
«I It 11,1,l S ri( V| |o]\S»
CONSISTING OP:
j LLt T ATI!NATTID Portraits of the Confederate
l Gcjioiiil ..burtesmen and prominent men and wo
men of the War. Taken from life brl terr Van Ness
and. exhibited larger than life size by the
gStereoscopticon,
AM) A POWERFUL UALCYUAI LIGHT,
Ao inlri.iatc and complete appratusmadeia Europe
-Cxpre :ly for the purpose. ' ~
-On liiis oviiiiiijfc a,selection from a large list of
winch tho following form a part:
Lee, Jackson, - Wheeler,
Hood, Stuart, Longstreet,
Dwell, . . _J*iliow, McCullough,
J ember I on, Price, Morgan A Stall',
Liuvell, Buckner, Colquitt,
Hjll. . Breckinridge, lio3ser,
\ulcox, Hihdiuan, Kemper,
Cordon, Lawton, Rhodes.
Anderson, doe Johnston, Beauregard
Hampton, Cobb, Brag»
Wright, .Cox, Cheatham,
&c„ &c.,. Ac.
M e would call particular attention to the fact that
these portraits are from life, being
STEREOSCOPIC PHOTOGRAPHS,
h iUed fc th , e,iMtl,lg nnpression|made by them
will be as faithful as a personal introduction to th*
diaingutshed individuals themselves. Accompa
nying the exhibition of each portrait will be gi “n a
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH,
*wcu-u.«
Correct fac.similes in Photograph of the Generals.
bg obtained at the box office, between the hours
ot 1_ and p. m v and at the Hall on the evening of
t he exhibition and at Pease's Hook store.
on wit & half price tickets.
Attentive Pshers will be; in attendance, and who
will preserve order,
ftk Secure seat for Ladies.
Box ofliee open from 1 2 to 2u. m.
Appropriate music will be ip attendance.
Entire change in programme each night.
Poors open at i o clock, Exhibition to commence
at ts precisely.
api k; 2t “ " '•
W! iITEO.
J W iK’'f to hire qne hundred NEGRO Laborers.
1 fen Moil's reams, V or fl mules each, and ten
1 uke of Oxefl to get and haul Tirnbet for the hail
n.ad Bridge, over tbe Tombigbee river, near De
mopohs.
1 aUy iiWt, to employ fifteen Carpenter 3 ,‘white
in on or negr'.e- sot the same work.
L will pay liberal prices and furnish ration-'and
uuuiters tortile men.
.\ uttre.vs me at DymupuiLs, Ala., care of Maj. M
V.eiiiwethgr, Epg'i Ciupb
W. P. BARKER,
, • Ag’t tor A. L. Maxwell,
api lddlwAwlm
Lealliri* UkTiited,
\ i£ V. t huremnd ponnds of Good Harness or Sale
i» irnghber (to beused for making Factory Card
tl-.siin.. v', cil stalled II a me.--- Leather is much
in -j.-iicd; b.r Which the highest market price will
be paid,
> < ; ...n: hf«\iDg* either of the above articles for sale
wiii please nddr-. -- me. -giving quantity and price. „
- $ ? - ,* c - 1. O. PLANT,
apl 13 20 - - - Macon, Ga/
WAwx'm ”
\ GENTi. EM AN with a small family is desirou:
p of te.ruring board in tome private family. Car,
furmch his own room and any number of house rer
vnnia that may be desired. - Any. oho who can ac
! comm-wafe him will apply at
•M-i io i* ... .THIS. OFFICE.
s op Jiidft of Probate.
We arc afrthoiizc-d to ar.rionncc GEOP.GE II
WADDELL,(the t rc'erd incuml.AtJf..r re-election
•to the office o* Probate Judge of Ru -ell -om,ty,
Ala. Elect .on Ist Monday in May,
j apl 9 tde
MvSCofelfE kAIPEOAD COitPAST, l
! _ G?a., April dtfc, 1864./
i xc 3 holders of general stock in the.-Muscogee Rail
| i"3ad Company are hereby notified, that tho five fer
j.eent tax-levied by the law passed by the Confedcr
• ate Congress, 17-h. February, 136-t, will be giver in
: andjpaid by this Company on their stock,
! i tsy order ofßoard of Director'.
J-.iU. BIVIJS'v.
Secretary and Treasurer.
aiLo Iw.
Savannah Republican and Au§u -a ,t-oftstitution
| ah (, wiii j 1&; epubiid.t-d the above one week and
j forward bilk t. this office
j «■•<* Saddlers’
t 'THU UK fi];K3IfiNKD having ciimmenceu- the
1 marfufricTcfe of the above named article in this
(ii . are prepared to fill orders for the same.
: Office on Angle street, aj tew door.-- above C. S.
- Hospital: RAimiSCNMIFDi Lk jfc CO,
itoterenoe—Mas?F• W. Dillaßd, *
.Mobile Hegt-der, Mbsissippiap and. Augusta Con.--
stnutionaTist, please copy one mouth and send bills
to this office-. * - .
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