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Wednesday Menung. April ?0.
From CHArrAKOo ft A^F E »Kax, Ebt.matk
Ctott^Or
.YJ,/r of (he D'-tb, publish** a letter tiom a
Yankee ‘ Scout" which says : “I have just
returned from Dixie’s fair land, whence I
have been on a wmit.' I did not visit Dalton,
bai 1 learned from a rebel citizen who lately
visited Johnston's Headquarters, to see bis,
son, that the rebels in our front number one
hundred and forty regiments, including in
try. cavalry and artillery. This citizen esti
mated Johnston’s numerical strength at six y
thousand, and declared that he intended to
assume the offonriv* in a very few weeks. ,t e
stated that, the rebel soldiers were highly
elated with the idea of unrestrained conquest.
Tho rebel officers have induced the privates to
believe that ther Will be able to invade Ken
tuckv
This citizen was in high spirits and talked
freely to me supposing me to be a Texan
Ranger.” Os course, the above is nothing
but secesh “gassing.” still it behooves the
Federal authorities to be on the alert. The
rebels are campellcd to do something ; starv
ation stares them in the face. May they not
become desperate and attempts invasion ?
Unheard or Honesty. —A friend informs
us. says the Brandon Republican, that a gen
tleman, against whom he holds a note for a
small amount of borrowed money, came to
him a few days since and remarked that he
wa« fioxiou* to pay the note, but that the
money ho borrowed was gold, that be could
not now get the gold to pay him, and he
would not ask him to take the depreciated
currency, but he had plenty ot good bacon
which he would sell him at ten cents per
pound, ju*t what it was selling for when he
borrowed thp money. As the Yankees took
all our friend’s meat, of course he will accept
the liberal oiler. Such instances of honesty
are extremely rare iu t hese degenerate times,
and we cannot refrain from giving the gentle
man’s name. It was Thomas P. White, Esq.,
of this county.
Southern Qenes als.
Description by .cm Engiisimian —d'csuient
Davis and Secretary Benjamin.
One ot the latest works on the war is
entitled ‘/Three months in the Southern
States —by Lieut Col Freemantle, Cold
stream Guards.” It has just been pub"
lislied in England, and tho New York
Daily News makes the following extracts
from the book:
GENERAL MAGRUDEE,
whom he met in Texas, “is a fine soldier
like man, of about fifty-five, with broad
shoulders, florid complexion, and bright
eyes. He wears his whiskers and mus
taches in the English fashion, and was
dressed in the Confederate gray uniform.
He is a Virginian, and a great talker.-
The general spoke of the puritans with
intense disgust, but was by no means rav»
enous against individual Yankees. He
spoke favorably of McClellan, whom he
knew to be a gentleman, clever and per
sonally brave, though he might lack mo*
ral courage to face responsibility." Hook
er had been in hi3 regiment, and was “es
sentially a mean man and a liar.” The
writer represents Gen. Magruder as pos
sessing fine social qualities, and as a great
gallant among the ladies.
GEN. IORBY SMITH;
is described to be “about thirty eight
years old; and he owes his rapid rise to
the place of lieutenant general to the for
tunate fact of his having fallen, just at
the nick of time, upon the Yankee flank,
a t tho fiut battle of Manassas. He is a
remarkably active man, and of very agree
able manners; he wears big spectacles and
black beard. He said McClellan might
probably have destroyed the Southern
army with the greatest ease during the
first winter, and without running much
risk to himself, as the Southerners were
so much elated by their easy triumph at
Manassas that their army had dwindled
away.”
GENERAL HEBERT
is a good looking Creole. He was a West
Pointer, and served in tho old army, but
afterwards became a wealthy sugar planter.
He used to hold MagruderN place as Com
wamler-in Qhiefin Texas, but he has now
been shelved at Monroe, La., where he
expects to be taken prisoner any day.—
He is extremely down on England for
not recognizing the South. Gen. Hebert
is tho only man of education I met in the
whole of my travels who spoke disagreea
bly about England in this respect. Most
people say they thipk we are quite right
-to keep out of it as long as we can; but
other* think we are missing a splendid op- j
port unity of “smashing the Yankees” with
whom we must have a row, sooner or later.
GFN rIRAL JOSEPH K. JOHNSTON,
n appearance, is rather below the middle
height, spare, soldier like, and well set.
up; his features are good, and he has late
ly taken to wear a* grayish beard. He is
a Virginian by birth, and 57 years old.—
He talks in a caltn, deliberate, and eon ti
de nt manner; to me he was extremely af
fable. but he certainly posseesea the power
oi keeping people at a distance when he
ehoosgs, and his officers evidently stand
in great awe of him. He has undoubted'
!y acquired the entire confidence of all the
officers and soldiers under him. Many of
the officers told me they did not consider
him inferior to Lee or any one else. Gen.
Johnston is a well read man, and agreea
ble to converse with. He told me that he
considered Marlborough a greater general
than Wellington. All Americans have
an intense admiration for Napoleon; and
they seldom scruple to express their regret
that he was beaten at Waterloo.
Remarking upon the extreme preva
lence ot military titles, Gen. Johnston
3aid: “You must be astonished tofipd how
fond all Americans are of titles, though
they are republicans, and as they can't j
get. any other sort they all take military |
ones.” While seated around the camp I
five an officer remarked to me, “I can as- ;
enre you, colonel, that nine men out of ;
teu in the boufch would sooner become
subjects of Queen Victoria than return to
the Lnion ” “Nineout of ten!” said
Gen, Johnston, “mnetysnine out of a hun
• "i
dred; I consider that lew people in the j
world can be more fortunate in their gov-j
eminent than the .British colonics of,-
North America.” Gen Johnston told me
that the principal evils a Confederate gen- j
eral had to contend against, consisted in :
the difficulty of making combinations, j
owing to the uncertainty about the time
which the troops would take to march a
certain distance, on account ol their strag
gling propensities. He told me he hau
been wounded ten times. Speaking o
Stonewall Jackson, he said that althoug i
he did not possess any great qualifications
as a strategist, and was perhaps untit toi
the independent command of a large army,
yet he was gifted with wonderful courage
and determination, and a perfect faith in
Providence that he was destined to destroy
the enemy. He was much indebted to
Gen. Ewell in the campaigns m the V lr
giuia valley, and was fortunate in com
mantling the flower of the Virginia troops
and being opposed to the most incapable
Federal commanders, such as Fremont
and Banks.”
ABOUT STONEWALL JACKSON.
Tn Mobile, (fen Slaughter, who was a
comrade of Stonewall Jackson in the old
army, related many anecdotes about him.
It appears that previous to the liar he was
almost a monomniae about his health.-
When he left the United States army he
was under the impression that one of liis
legs was getting shorter than the other;.
and afterwards his idea was that he only
perspired on one side, and that it was only
necessary to keep fche arm and leg of the
other side in constant motion in order to
preserve the circulation, but it seems that
after the war broke out he never made
any allusion to his health. Gen. Slaughter
declared that on the night after the terri
ble repulse of Burnside’s ariny at Frede
ricksburg, Stonewall Jackson made the
following suggestion: “I am of the opin
ion that we ought to attack the enemy at
once; and in order to avoid the confusion
and mistakes so common in a night attack
I recommend that we should strip our
selves perfectly naked.”
LIEUT. GEN. W- J. HARDEE,
received me with kindness and hospitably.
He is a soldier looking broad shouldered
and tall. He looks rather like a French
officer, and is a Georgian by birth. He
bears the repetition of being a thorough
soldier, and distinguished himself at Shi
loh and Murfreesboro. He is a widower,
and has the character of being a great ad
mirer of the fair sex.
LT. GEN. LEONIDAS POLK
is a good looking, gentleman-llke man
with all the manners ’and affability of a
“grand seignior.” He is fifty years old-,
tall, upright, and looks more like a soldier
than a clergyman. ITo is very rich and,
owns, I am told, seven hundred negroes.
He is much beloved by bis soldiers on ac
count of his great personal courage and
agreeable manners. lie told mo he was
educated at West Point, and was at that
institution-with President Davis, the two
Johnstons, Lee, Magruder, etc.,atnd that
after serving a short time in the artillery
! he had entered the church.
GEN. BRAXTON BRAGG.
I called on General Bragg, the com
mander-in-cheif. This officer is, in ap
pearance, the least prepossessing of the
Confederate generals. He is very thin;
he stoops, and has a sickly, cadavoruos,
haggard look, rather plain- features,
bushy, black eyebrows which unite in
tuft ou the top of his nose, and a stubby,
iron-gray beard—but his eyes are bright
and pleasing. He has the reputation of
being a strict disciplinarian, and shooting
freely for insubordination. I understand
he is unpopular on this account, and also
by reason of his occasional acerbity of
manner.
THE BATTLES OF SHILOH AND MURFREES
BORO.
General Cheatham, who was in the bat
tles of Belmont, Shiloh and Murfreesboro,
is described as “a rough looking man,”
but with the reputation of a great fighter.
It is said that he does all the swearing ne
cessary in his corps, and which General
Pope’s clerical character incapacitates him
from doing. The battles of Shiloh and
Murfreesboro were explained to me by
Gen Polk. He claimed that the Confede
rates had only 80,000 troops at Murfrees
boro, including Breekonridge’s division,
which was not engaged I he" first day. He
put down the Confederate loss at 10,000
and the Federal# at "nineteen thousand.
With regard to the battle of Shiloh, he
said that Beauregard’s order to retire was
most unfortunate, as the gunboats were
doing no real harm, and if the Con fed e-
rates had held on nothing could have
saved the Federal army from capture or
destruction. The misfortune of Albert
Sidney Johnson’s death together with
the fact of Beam eganl's illness, and his
not being present particular* spot
were the causes of this battles not being a
complete and crashing victory/'
GENERAL BEAUREGARD
is h man of middle height, about 47 years of
age. He would bo very youthful in appear-:
anec were it not for Ihe color of his hair,
which i3 ranch greyer than his earlier photo
graphs represent. Some persons account for
the sudden manner in which his hair turned
grey by allusion to his cares and anxieties
during the past two years ; but the real and
less romantic reason is to bp found in the rig
idity of the Yankee blockade, which interrupts
the arrival of articles of toilet. He has a long
straight nose, handsome brown eyes, and a
dark moustache without whiskers, and he is
extremely polite. He is a New Orleans creole.
and French is iris native language. He spoke
•to me of the inevitable necessity, sooner or
later, of a war between the Northern States
and (great Britain, and lie remarked that if
England would join the South at once, the
Southern armies, relieved ot the present
blockade and enormous Yankee pressure,
would be able to march right into the North
ern States, and by occupying their principal
cities would give the Yankees so much em
ployment that they would be unable to spare,
many men for Canada. He acknowledged
that in Mississippi Gen. Grant had displayed
uncommon vigor, and met with considerable
success, considering that be had no great
military capacity.
He regarded the question of iron-clads vs. i
forts as settled, especially when the fire from
the latter is plunging, if the other monitors
had approached as close as the Keokuk they
would have met the same fate. He his
official orders both from the Government and
the city council were that he was to allow
Charleston to he laid in ashes sooner than
surrender it: the Confederates being unani
mous in their determination that whatever i
happened the capital of South Carolina should
never have to submit to the fate of New Or- j
leans. Bat he did not, however, anticipate !
any such alternative.
HON. J. P. BENJAMIN.
He 13 a stoat dapper little man ; evidently
of Hebrew extraction, a nd of undoubted talent.
He ia a Louisiftfciauj and wp-s Senator for t^at
Statejn the United States Congress, and I be- !
neve he is accounted a. very clever lawyer and j
' a br'UKbi orator. He told me that he had j
filled the onerous post of Secretary of Mar ;
, ‘ me first seven months of the secession,
t lYan easilv believe that he found it no j
rinecure We conversed for a long time about
’the orioin of secession, which he indignantly
denied was brought about, as the Yankees
hv the interested machinations of indi
viduals. " He declared that, for the last ten
years, the Southern statesmen had openly de-
I clared in Congress what would take place;
| but the Northerners never would believe they
were in earnest, and had often replied by the
I taunt, “The South was so bound to, and de
' pendent on, the North, that she couldn’t be
; kicked oat of the Union.”
He taid that.the Southern armies had al
ways been immensely outnumbered in all
their battles, and that until recently Gen. Lee
could never muster more than sixty thousand
effective men.
Mr. Benjamin told me that his property had
lately been confiscated in New Orleans, and
that his two sisters had been turned, neck and j
crop, into the streets there, with only one
trunk, which they had been forced to carry
themselves. Every one was afraid to give
them shelter, except an Englishwoman, who
protected them until they could get out of the
city.
Talking of the just admiration which the
English newspapers accorded to Stonewall
Jackson, he expressed, however, his astonish
ment that they should have praised so highly
his strategetic skill in outmauoeuvering Pope
at Manassas, and Hooker at Chancellorsville,
totally ignoring that in both cages the move
ments were planned and ordered by General
Lee, for whom (Mr. Benjamin said) Jackson
had the most “childlike reverence.”
Mr. Benjamin complained of Mr. Russell of
the %'imes for holding him up to fame as a
“gambler”—a story which he understood Mr.
Russell had learned from Mr. Charles Sumner
at Washington. But even supposing that this
was really the case, Mr. Benjamin was of opin
ion that suck, a revelation of his private life
was in extremely bad taste, after Mr. Russell
had partaken ofhis (Mr. Benjamin’s) hospitai
fcy at Montgomery.
PRESIDENT DAVIS.
Mr. Jefferson Davis struck me as looking
older than I expected. He is only fifty-six,
but his face is emaciated and much wrinkled.
He is nearly six feet high, but is extremely
thin, and stoops a little. His features are
good, especially his eye, which is very bright
end full of life and humor. I was afterwards
told he had lost the sight of his left eye from
a recent illness. He wore a linen coat and
gray trousers, and he looked what he evident
ly is, a well bred gentleman. Nothing can
exceed the charm ofhis manner, which is sim
ple easy, and most faoinating. He conversed
with me for a long while, and agreed with
Benjamin that the Yankees did not really in
tend to go to war with England if she recog
nized the South ; and he said that, when the
inevitable crash came—and that sensation
was an accomplished fact—the State of Maine
would probably try to join Canada, as most
of the intelligent people in that State have a
horror of being “under the thumb of Massa
chusetts.'’ He added, that Maine was inhab
ited by a hardy, thrifty, sea-faring population,
with different ideas to the people in the other
-New England States. When I-spoke to him
of tho wretched scenes I had witnessed in his
own State (Mississippi,) and of the miserable,
almost desperate situation in which I had
found so many unfortunate womeu, who had
been left behind by their male relations, and
when I alluded iu admiration to the quiet,
calm, uncomplainihg manner in which they
bore their suffering and their grief, lie said,
witli much feeling, thut he always considered
silent despair the most painful description of
misery to witness, in the same way that he
thought mute insanity was the most awful
form of madness.
ITe confirmed the truth of my remarks, that
a Confederate general is either considered an
Admirable Critchton by the Boldiers, or else
abused as everything bad; and he added, the
misfortune was that it is absolutely neoessary,
in order to insure success, that a general must
obtain and preserve this popularity and influ
ence with his met), who were however, gen
erally very willing (o accord their confidence
to any officer deserving it.
With regard to the blaek-flag-and-uo-quar
ter agitation, he said people would talk a
grea t-deal, and even go into action determined
to give no quarter, “but,” he added, “I have
yet to hear of Confederate soldiers putting
men to death who have thrown down their
arras and held up their hands.”
He told me that Lord Russell confessed that
the impatial carrying out of their nuetrality
laws had pressed hard upon the South; and
Mr. Davis asserted that the pressure might
have been equalized, and yet retained its im
partiality, if Great Britain, instead of closing
her ports, had opened them to the prizes of
both parties; but I answered that perhaps
this might be overdoing it a little on the other
side.
When I took my leave about 9 o’clock, the
President asked me to call upon him again,—
I don’t think it is possible for one to have an
interview with him without going away most
favorably impressed by his agreeable, unas
suming manners, and by the charm of his
conversation. While walking home, Mr. Ben
jamin told rue that Mr. Davis’ military in
stincts still predominated, and that his eager
wish was to have joined the army instead of
being elected President.
During my travels, many people have re
marked to me that Jefferson Davis seems in a
peculiar manner adapted for his office. His
military education at West Point rendered
him intimately acquainted with the higher
officers of the army; and his post of Secreta
ry of War under the old Government brought
officers of all ranks under his immediate per
sonal knowledge and supervision. No man
could have formed a more accurate estimate
of their respective merits. This is one of the
reasons which gave the Confederates such an
immense start in the way of generals; for,
having turned his opinion in regard to ap
pointing an officer, Mr. Davis is always most
determined to carry out hi3 intention in spite
every obstacle. His services in the Mexi
can war gave him the prestige of a briUe man
and a good soldier. His services as a states
man pointed him out as the only man who. by
Ins unflinching determination and adminis
trative talent, was able to control the popular
will. People speak of any misfortune hap
pening to him as an irreparable evil, too dread
ful to contemplate.
LIEUT. GEN. LONGBTEEF.T
is an Alabamian; a thick set, determined looking
man, 43 years. He was an infantry major in the
old army, and now commands the first corps d’
armee. He is never far from Gen. Lee, who relies
very much upon his judgment. By the soldiers
he is invariably spoken of as the lighter in
the whole army.” While speaking of entering up
on tlie enemy’s soil, he said to me that although it
might be fair in just retaliation to apply the torch
yet that so doing would demoralize the army and
ruin it -now excellent discipline. Private property
is, therefore, to be respected. Gen. Lougstreet is
generally a particularly taciturn man, but this
evening he and I hud a long talk about Texas,
where Jre had been quartered when in the old ar
my, in lhe course of his conversation he said
that Meade was an honorable man, but not ho bald
perhaps as Hooker.
GEN. LEE. j
Gen/Lee is, almost without exception, the hand
somest man of his age I ever saw. He is iifty
aix years old. tall broad shouldered very well made
well set up-thorough soldier in appearance; and
his manor? are most courteous and full of dignity.
He is a perfect gentleman in every respec t. I im
agine no man ha? so few enemies, or if so univer
sally esteemed. Throughout the South, all agree
in pronouncing him to be as near perfection as a
man can be. He has nonejof the small vices such
a~ drinking, chewing or swearing, and
hi> bitterest enemy never accused him of any of the
grater ones. He generally wears a well worn long
gray picket, a high black bat, and bine trowsers
tucked into his Wellington boots. I never saw
him carry arms; and the only mark of his millilary
rank are the three starts on his collar. He rides a
handsome home, whic-h is extremely well groom
ed. He feinselfis very neat in his dress and per
son, and in the most arduous march he always looks !
smart and dean.
In the old army he was jjways considered one !
of the best officer?; and at the outbroke of these j
trotblf* he W&6 lieutenant colonel the jnd c&v* j
thy. He was a rich mas, bat his fin© estate was |
one of the first to Dali into the enemy's hands I :
believe he has never slept in a house since he has j
commanded the V irginia army, and he invariably
declines all offers of hospitality, for fear the per
son offering it may afterward get into trouble for
having sheltered the rebel general. The relations
between him and Longsrtreet are quite touching
—they are almost always together. Longstreet’s
corps complais’of this some times, as they seldom
get a chance of detached service, which falls to the
lot of Ewell.
It is impossible to please Longstreat more than
by praising Lee. I beleve these two generals to
be as littlo ambitious and as C thoroughly n nselfish
assanymen in the world. Both long for asuccessful
termination of the war, in order that they may re
tire into obscurity. Stonewall Jackson (until his
death the third in command of their army) was
just such another simple-minded servant oi'giu?
country. It is understood that Gen. Lee is a re
ligious man, though not so demonstrative in that
respect as Jackson; and, unlike his late brother in
arms, he is a member of the Church of England.
His only faults, solar as I can learn, arise from
his excessive amiability.
TEL SOR AP Hie.
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Reports of the Press Association.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year
1860, by J. S, Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office of
the District Court of the Confederate States for
the Northern District of Georgia.
Dalton, April 10. —There was a general re
view of the entire army here to-day, bv Gen-
Johnston, and notwithstanding the coldness
of the weather, it was largely attended, and
the affair passed off finely. v )
The enemy is quite active in front, and stir
ring times are looked for by all,
Lynchrurg, 19.—A Yankee spy under an
assumed name of Sterling King, but believed
to be a comrade of Dr. Kaezelain, who was cap
tured at Rappahannock, has been arrested at
Marion, Va., and recognized by returned pris
onees from Camp Douglas, as a Yankee de
tective from Chicago. When arrested, he rep
resented himself as the Colonel of the 2d Vir
ginia Confederate cavalry.
Gold has fallen in New York, to 171 £in
consequence of rumors put afloat by Chase
that the Government would offer a large
amount of sterling bills, rnd sell bonds for the
future \yauts of the Government for the most
they would bring.
The Paris correspondent of the New York
Times, says one the vessels built at Bordanx,
for the Rebel service in the Black Water, has
has gone back.
Nothing later from Norfolk, Portsmouth, or
the Peninsula.
Mobile 19.-—Warren Adams, a courier from
the trans-Mississippi, reports that on the 9th,
Banks courier to • Franklin, was captured.
Banks says “hasten up—l am surrounded by
'he rebel cavalry.'’
The Red River has suddenly fallen. Some
forty transports and gun boats caught above
the raft and cannot get . out before the water
rises. '
Richmond, April 19. —The. Baltimore Ga
zette of the 16th has been received. On Wed
nesday Bufford, with a Confederate force, de
manded the surrender of Fort Halleck at Col
umbus, Ky.,and allowed arespiteof five hours
for the removal of women and children, the
latter to be sent to Cairo. In the meanwhile
fWo steamers arrived at Columbus from the
lotrer Mississippi, with 3,000 volunteers on
their way home on furloughs. These were
landed and it was believed would enable the
commandant of Fort Halleck to make good
his defence, fighting during the entire day.
Result unknown. The Confederates occupied
Paducah again on the 15th, Col. Hicks, com
manding the Post Fort, being summoned to
surrender, declined to accede to the demand.
A Yankee captured at Fort Pillow says two
flags of truce demanding - the surrender were
sent but not received at 3 o’clock. The reb
els poured into the fort compelling a surren
der. The incarnate fiends commenced an
indiscriminate slaughter of whites and blacks.
Out of a garrison of 600, only 290 remained
alive.
New Orleans advices to the 9tli reported
the sinking of the rebel ram Tennessee via
Mobile Bay was unfounded.
A disastrous fire occurred at New Orleans
on the Bth, destroying ware houses, etc. Lo
cation not stated.
The Bee says the French occupied Mata
gorda without opposition.
Confederate Sympathisers in Canada—
Their Movements.— The Detriot Tribune, in
speaking of the Confederate sympathisers in
Canada, says they have already become adaa
gerous element to contend with, and speaks
ot their late movements as follows:
The number of secession refugees, from thj
North and South, now in Canada,- is several
thousand, who, when consolidated and organ
ized, would constitute a very effective fighting
force, were it not that the scarcity of aims in
Canada, forms a serious obstacle to their
proper equipping. The exportation of arms
from the United States is prohibited by the
existing military regulations, and accordingly
a wholesale system of smuggling is carried
into Cauda. The common method of avoid
ing the vigilence of the officers on both sides
of the river is by concealing the arms in a
i herring box with several layers of herring.—
j As there is no duty on this fish, and a per
| eeptible perfume generally indicates its pres
ence, an apparent laboring man, with a lier
j ring box, freighted with fishes and weapons,
j easily crossed without molestation. Many
| revolvers are brought for this purpose, of re
i turned soldiers, and eventually find their way
i into the hands of those who were and are the
deadliest enemies of their original owners.—
An occasional musket or gun is also conveyed
across by someone claiming merely to be on
a brief hunting trip for pleasure. These wea
ponp are then distributed among trusty men,
and they go in squads to the east—few at a t
time, so as not to attract attention. By vari- j
ous routes and means they cross into the Uni- j
ted States, generally choosing some epot on ‘
the eastern frontier, where a less vigilant
watch is kept then in this section. Once in
our boundary lines, they quietly rendezvous
at different stations in Southern Illinois and
Indiana, where associations are now and have
been forming to eo-operate with them.
j The designs of their movements is in the
| ensuing spring to open ‘'fire in the rear” by
raising the standard of armed disaffection in
those sections, and rhus distracting tke atten
tion and dividing the strength of our armies
in the front. In fact, advices from that sec
tion already report the commencement of
guerrilla hostilities by Confederate outlaws
and desperadoes,
Wc understand says the South Caro
linean that anew steamer, belonging to
the Lamar company, has just entered a
Confederate port from Nassau.
Steamer Marianna, Capt. Vax Veohten, will,
leave far Chattahoochee and Bainbridge Thursday
morning, at 9 o’clock.
April 20,1|64.
CITY MATTERS
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T. J. JACKSON, Local JEtiHor
For fl)al!aiioo«he<. a .
The steamer Jaeksim, Fry M;t ster, w i.li 1 e :va t'.-r
the above ami all intornioiji-o ' lae.lbi Thur.-ii'/
morning at 9 o'clock.
Con Liver On..—Any one haying iui iir. . ,io
will confer a special thv.ur «»*» a sick man by leav
ing it at this office. A liberal price w-til. !•? pA.-i
for the same.
- -
Remember the Ladies' Pair fttaigbi. All friend*
of the poor families pi die nbsenf soldier.-! are ex
ported to be present and lend a helpi ;.; h-n\d Uii:’
evening at the hall over Samniic i RooncyV.
See advertisement .or Mr. L. . Wriglu, who
succeeds Mr. Robinette in the man utkrtnve of can
dles, corner of Broad 'and Warren £ there, Colum
bus, Ga. Mr. V. also 'deals in ; -r t . ,<vie , .-ounfry
produce, .fee. Give him a. .-all,
Si NtuuKS.—O. it. Stamford advert i re- a num
ber of articles that will be found useful, t; i" 0 liim
a call at No. 88 Broad Street.
An Interesting Letter.— We nrepoxuutud by
a friend to copy the following lengthy extrsot from
a private letter written to a lady in this -it y, by'
her nephew, a young officer in the army of Flori
da. The letter is dated “Headquarters 19fa Oj,,
Camp Milton, Florida, April loth. 1864, ' and
though not intended for publication, tl will be
found replete with interest—containing air floe
manjnwholesome truths, from .vhieh the man and
women of the South may d.wiyp profit. It will be
found especially refreshing to those termed •'skulk
ers and cowards
I aui so glad, dear Auntie, to find you writing
so cheerfully. You seem entirely to have over
come your despondency of a few month l ago. I
am glad to see it, and wish every man, woman and
child in our Confederacy could fed just us you do
in regard to our affairs. You have no idea bow
. discouraging it is to a soldier to find when ho goes
home those dear friends for whom ’:o is undergo
ing - all tbo privations and dangers of ho-,. de
spondent and without confidence in th. ability of
our eountay to sustain it.-df in this great struggle,
I tell you, Auntie, if the feeling that pervaded
three months ago among the people at home had
found a lodgment in the army nothing could have
prevented our utter demolition. But thank? to a
kind and mc-reit'ul Providence that feeling could
find no soil in our noble army lit which it could
flourish, and that at home it fell on stony ground
aud is fast being rooted out. The cheering news
comes from every quarter that opr friends at home
are awaking to a. sense of duty, and that the tires of
’6l are again being kindled and ar« again burning
more brightly than ever. The next lour months
will tell a tale for wu.Vor woo for our devoted loud.
Now is. the crisis of nor affairs Victor, will
bring back to our homes, our country, the fugitive
who took her flight as the first gun wo? tired on
noble old .Spinier. She will spread her -uawy
wings above us and breathe upon us her .cugraut
breath es love and iJmriiy ; but on the other Land
defeat will bring upon us unnumbered woe- of
such prodigious proportion? a* we have never
dreatued, Who can for a moment underbake ihe
herculean task of picturing to our mind- iho deep
degradation into which we shall bo piubgod If we
are conquered. The mhid of theNtronged man
will sicken at the contemplation of it. But if we
will do our duty—if every man will come to hi?
post aud do his dutj thi* fliro calamity ten neve r
befal ns. Not only the men are c*: led upon, but
the ladie.o too. You have a duty to perform, and
one in which I believe the ladies of our land have
ever been found ready when • duty calls, will be
equal to the emergency. That duty is to drive
from your presence the cowardly skulkers who in
fest every hospital and hotel from the Potomac to
the Mississippi. If these then were driven to their
posts it would add thousands to our army and re
lieve our country from a most depressing inctsblis.
Such men at home do nothing but croak and com
plain and by their sage remarks in regard to our
comlition and prospects frighten many who are so
foolish as to believe them. While* here they could
be placed in "position to stop a-bullet that perhaps
otherwise would kill a better man. The attention
these fellou'a, (I can’t call them men) receive from
the ladies at home js one of the greatest curses to
our army. Oh ! that the ladies would drive them
from them. Shun them a;= they would an adder
Remind them them that stars and bars were never
made to glitter in the parlor, but to lend on
the battle-field. The coming one is in my opinion
to be the hardest fought campaign of the war.-
The enemy realize how vital to their cause victory
"will be, and will put forth his every effort to gain
it. Already his vandal hordes are being eolleet<*d
on the Rappahannock for another “On-to-Kick
mond.” We sec how disastrous defeat would be
to us, and the whole army is more determined to
conquer or die than ever before.
I never saw the troops in finer spirits than now.
They all submit most cheerfully to the recent act
of Congress retaining them in service. Would that
some of our disappointed demagogues at home
could be inspired with a single spark of patriot ism
from the altar of our soldier s hearts. 1 mean Joe
Brown and his faction-breeding followers. Though
we have before us a most desperate campaign, and
perhaps thousands of us arc to fall in the noble
struggle ; yet, I feel the most perfect confidence
as to its result. “The God of battles h for os, Hie.i*
who can be against us.”
It may lie that I will fall. .What mb’ r d,-, v ih
can man die? If so, dear Vonii-. you .ffi&il all
have the consolation of knowing that 1 fall at rnv
post.
A Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Times says: “Gen Grant i • now
here, and does not deny the failure of
Sherman's expedition through Hiredssip
pi. He is decidedly opposed to she con
cealment of facts in eases of this kind,
which he regards as childish and weak
in the last degree, and says that m iuturc !
so far as his influence extends, the coun- !
try and the relatives of the slain will not :
be deceived and kept in the dark when
ever we are so unfortunate‘as to meet
a reverse.”
_
Who Shat.li Havc Tmc Prizv 1 - .vrs
once a meeting of the flowers, pud tL-. ;y«ho*
to award a prize to the one pronoun-.*.' the u ■-t
beautiful. “Who shall have the prize?” Mil l the
rose stalking forward with the <v>nscioa«fir*??' if
beauty. “Who shall have, the pri?* s " said the
other flowers,advancing.eSr-1? filled with conscious
pride, and each imagining that it would be herself,
“I will take a peep at these beautios,” thought the
violet p.3 she lay in iic-r humble bed, not prezera
ing to attend tho meeting; “I will -se tb-m
they pass.” -but as she raised her lovely hea lto
peep out of her hiding plaoe she was fo’en hr the
judge who pronounced her the most beautiful bo
cruse tho most modest.
JLm. St. WHIGHT,
successor to robixett * co„
Corner of Broad and Streets. Colt ■<bn*, Ga.,
MANUFACTUKa:: OF
Snperior Candies and Lara Oil,
ANO UEALER IX
GENERAL COUNTRY PRCsMJSE,
ASNABTTRGS, Sheetings, Yarns, etc., exchanged
\J for Bacon, Lara, Potatoes, eto.
>Tallow a lid Beeswax Wa«led.
It is hoped that the liberal Jourse which w.il be
adopted will secure a generous patronage.
MriUo--lm
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A GJ iJ;.,.; .
ITMg-'i Jiirli. fie .
fe j ” Lt>r df \L.y.' ■ s.
Tk'L OAND.SO.q2 .
•M TTEUL'S.,
Gi. - CS’ BE- - , l' I.INKX Cvi.i, \
ball jewing Tijiri; ViV"
LOT Or’ A -SOUTF.D jp- roTfi."
r.vy. rob dv.r, snot v\m>« v; .-
V OUT PEN E f it !’\y Pvg
AkilT'for thes® nr.J other v-TiSb*, fivij. ■
mi Ifiivi. 'NmVfitf;. 1 ', 1 } s«r-
Si/hldULiLh ihil !,
j i\ if iui lOUbi.'UU ,0!' the ~.-f <l| J. .
ate t'nugVcr *.,itud uL-.. f. , -
by the legidatTite <>_:' deor.gbi'. g'ooi;- - «.{
(b>n to the dtock of ibe “(50.-iyiu \ Amu* . r N , ,'
fe «re uovt open «• ibo .-twee of 1. i;.
Bbn-m, in M«r-on, Gc., aim *«•> wi, ;• subreriiiUens
are invited.
The Statu Charter la « lib. ml .a - - ard tl son.
federate Government onery t- affor i \ei \ 1 ,
in its power, in the way of io, S ex.-ba,.. .
to further the object* of the «' :.:p ( u .
The Book* of Bwbscriptir*n will i-o G
Monday, the 2.>t« instant, u.nls - *s -i.*ok I ,
sbonei - taken.
Capital $1 J'fiu.Oiifi : Shares each.
L. N. VTHIT . LK
Vs. B. JOHNSTON
T. 11. BLOOM.
Corumi?,«foneip, Macon, i t.
B-.mks will remain open for fen day-.
Subscriptions received by J. M. Bivins, Ac•*.<
at his offic ein Columbus, G-.
apl IS fd
Aiotice to salfe r*.
1 am authorized by the (jovernm' tit
TO exchange
SUSAR AND OSNABUROS m
Bacon
for supplying the Army.
JNG...I. Mr.KENDREE. ’
apl 1& 2tu A^-rsf
City ! Vii y Taifv !
j MAY ’no found ior « few U:,> sct the -:o> ■ - }j
.1 ■Widdlebrook, where jpailios d hi
call and make rouvrua of property taxed o 4 \
M. M. .Voore;
apl-16 2\v . '-oyi
A GOOD FIELD-HAND for fho balance of rhi«
x\. year. Apply ai
apl 16 if THIS OFl’lfK.
Vinegar, Vinegar.
BY the b»ml or single gallon, «• rs• j r.
Tin Measures and empty Osoubui •?
o/11. SI AM'-Oik/'.V Cos
apl 16 Iw
SpeciaS er<e.
Headquarters Georgia -JG.-.vrvi
Macon, Jm ii 1 i, 3 St>i.
General Order?, No. 4.
I. Companies couir*osin»; .in*:* Re=ervo Force ,
Georgia as soon as organized aid he Enrolling llca-i
quarters of each Congressional District, will ham
diateiy rendezvous at the following points, with .1
view to their organization into regiments and ! ,i
ades. Those companies organized at Marem, t.vj
umbna, -llbany ancl Griffin, will rendezvous »i* Ma
con, and report directly to. these Hoadquartf-r.?.—
Those organized at Atlanta, Car tors ville, Athens
and Gainesville, will rendezvous at Atlanta, anl
report to Brig. General. L. J. Gartreil TJiosef-’-
ganized at SavaAiu’ii and Augusta, will rendezvous
nt Savannah, and report to Brig. Gon. 11, R. JacL
ieor,. '
11. Companies organized aud which have not re
ported at the Headquarters of the District l’nroil
•ng officers will report direct h and immedietr
points indicated., according to the respective Cos.
greasiomil Districts in- which they have been organ
ized.
111. TraßspnTtioa will"he furnished by Post Qua;
termastcrs.oiijon the application Jof cvtamaii-lin. -
officers of companies, and every facility will be ex
tended to expedite the removal of the c-.unj-.iic
points indiented as the early'organizatioi <fi cii.
force is deemed of. great importance.
IV. Orders and instructions for the election 1 tue
Field Officers, as required by law, will bo io-u-ffi ia
due time, ’
By command of
Maj. Guv. HOWELL COBB,
R. J. Hallett, a. a. q.
April 15—d6t,
pew k s.m»r
45 ami 47, North Water Street,
ALABAMA,
Brokers and Bankers,
* ’ DEALERS IN
CwOfgD,
BAi\K JVOTKH,
STOCKS atsd
STATE TREASURY IffOTES
HAYA^A,
VASSAL,
j AID DOMESTIC E'AlTla.\^s:.
| Stocks in all the Uifl’srent Steal:
j Sloops ami Sebooueva engaged in run
• rting the blockade. -' - :
mW&Y RKfrJYDD AX®
fAiO OUT 0 N DEPOSIT.
We buy Hud M on our own account
or on oormnifwion.
All letters and enquiries promj.'t
ly answered,
api 1J Worn
WANsTEB.
[W ANT to hire one hundred NffOß*') 1 . t s
top Mule- Teams, 4 or g u,nl<H c.-ch ■
haul Timber i.-.' ;i,.- j- i
ror.u Bridge, over the Toiabfg ™ lit er ... •
propolis.
f. ais.i want to employ fitteen Chrpente l ;, v
men or_negiv.es for the same v.. ~ I-.
I will pay liberal prices and furnish r - < •:>-
Ciuarters for tfco men..
Address me at Demopoiiv. Ala., earc of'-Maj. '
Meiawnufct, bng'r Corps.
W R, barker, .
apl 13 (Bw&wlxa
For *>i Frofo-ife.
We are authorized to <>'EU R<Ji >•
W AJjItKLL.(tho presentiucun* ij| u c b' 1 'l
to the office of Probate Juch Bu- «and
Ala. election Ist Monday in -' X
apl 9 tde
Shoewiafeer*’ ***& SsHldltr*'
TOOIiS,
; *|'ITE UNDERSIGNED having common . ! tS«
. f jnauuth'-'tnro of tiie above nauiod art .ohs ii tt-ir
! citv, are prepared m fill Orders for the
? Office on Anglo Street, a • few ffimr.- «:■■■•■ • C $•
Hospital. HAftlflSON BKUI.PL . u.«.
Reference—M&i, F. W. Dili uu>.
Mobi.lc Register, Mississippi,'.. and vim is €oi{-
stitutior.anrt, please copy one mouth un i .end bibs
mar 40 ts