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Saturday .Morning, May 7, 1864.
Ike Bill Opened. '
Aa our readers have been led to anticipate,
the great straggle between the opposing ar
mies in Northern Virginia bag commenced.
The harnessed chivalry of the South again
meets the mail-clad Northman in deadly con
flict, on the classic plains of the “Old Domin
ion,” thrice consecrated to victory. The
bloody drama opens auspiciously. The close
of Thursday’s found the Confederates
victorious. But the issue :iad*oot been dec*- j
ded. On yesterday morning, doubtless, the j
battle-bugle again proclaimed a renewal of j
the carnage. The fact that th® fords at which j
the enemy crossed were left unguarded, as- j
sures us that Gen. Lee was ready to meet him, j
and felt able to whip him in an open fight, j
Indeed this task is already halt accomplished,
for at least that proportion of the Yankee
army shared the illiortune of the day. With
regard to. Gen. Lee’s strength there is a varie
ty oi opinions.
Perhaps it would be safe to say that there
are employed in the indirect and immediate j
defence of Richmond cn effective force of i
100,000 men. Ot" this numb©:, in view of s
threatened movements bom other quarters, it
is probable tout Gen. Lee could no*, concen
trate against the "Army of the Potomac,” lei
by Grant, more than 70,000. The Yankee
Generals, doubtless, wields a force consider
ably superior to this in point ot numbers, but
vastly luterior to it in ail other respects. He
will hurl his hired legions in vain against the
solid adamant ot your hern valor.
Governor Brown’s Extra Session.
No. 4.
How the amendments of the Constitution
are made to qualify the clause which gives
Congress the power to suspend the writ of
habeas corpus , 1 cannot understand ; but as
the Governor and his supporters seem to con
sider them omnipotent, we must give’them a
grave consideration. And here f would re
peat what I said about their views of the na
ture of the power to suspend, given to Con
gress in the ninth article, viz : That since the
Constitution was framed, no man ever discov
ered the remotest connection between that
clause and the amendments, until it was dis
covered by the Goverrior. In the debate in
the Virginia Legislature upon the far-famed
Resolutions of 1798, the opposers of the alien
and sedition laws, contended that they were
unconstitutional, as right in the face and
teeth of these very amendments. The sup
porters of the laws (cme or more) in answer to
the argument that they empowered the Presi
dent to seize men at pleasure without war
rant, and imprison and transport them with
out trial, instanced some cases where all this
might be done ; and among the rest this : that
in case of'suspension of the writ of habeas
corpus it might all be constitutionally done
(except transporting ) Now the amendment
prohibiting “unreasonable seizures," &c., was
proposed by Virginia, and admitted into the
Constitution almost in her very language. In
the Legislature of 1798, there were men who
were in the Convention that proposed the
amendment, and there was probably not one
who was not perfectly familiar with the end
and object of the amendment. In that body
a man stands up and asserts, that upon sus
pension of the writ of habeas corpus, it would
be constitutional to arrest without warrant
and imprison without, trial, and no man pres
ent denied the assertion—no man said “our
own amendment would forbid that just as it
forbids the President now to do such things.’’
But*l believe some of them did say the eases'
were veiy different. Sixty-tin eg years after
wards Governor Brown discovers that the
amendment not only forbids such acts on the
part of the President, but makes the suspen
sion itself unconstitutional! 1 believe that
the principles of the Virginia resolutions were
sound, and that the alien and sedition laws
were unconstitutional; but as I am no Solon,
it may be well to state, that those resolutions
met with no support from any State in the
Union but Kentucky. Six States repudiated
them expressly, and I believe that they all
maintained the constitutionality of the alien
and sedition laws. And as Mr. Stephens in
18 tO renounced the doctrines of those resolu
tions, the reasonable presumption is, that
thenceforward to 1864 he sided with the dis
senting States, in their views of the alien and
sedition laws. If they were constitutional, the
act of suspension was a magna charta. Those
were passed in a time of peace—this in a time
of war. Those clothed the President with
tremendous power—this clothes him with no
power at all. But to return—when the Con
stitution was under advisement, in the Mary
land Convention, a committee was appointed
to draft amendments to be submitted to Con-
gress. They did so, accompanying their re
ported amendments with explanations. Among
the rest, was one substantially the same as
that of Virginia, which we have just been
considering. Hear them upon it : “This
amendment was considered indispensable by
many of the committee : for Congress having
the power of laying excises , (the horror of a
free people.! by which our dwelling houses,
those castles considered so sacred by the Eng
lish law, will be laid open to the insolence
and oppression of office, there could be no
constitutional check provided tiiat would
prove so effectual a safeguard to our citizens.
General warrants, too, the great engine by
which power may destroy those individuals
who resist usurpation, are also hereby forbid
den to those magistrates (not Congressmen.)
who are to administer the general government.
“An excise, is tax upon home productions,
which excisemen were wont to search out with
over-vigilance: and general warrants, were
warrants issued in general terms authorizing
officers to apprehend all persons suspected of
offences, without naming or describing any
persons whatsoever.” (3 Story. Com . 749.)
These are the evils intended to be remedied by
the lourth nmeneftnent. and they are both em
braced in it just as they are in the explanation
of the committee.* Why did they not add,
“And it will restrict the power of Congress to
suspend the writ of habeas corpus/' 1 The 4th,
stu ' r>t -B amendments and the habeas
clause.', nnd many other clause? of the Con
stitutin'..! are little else than transcripts
| from the English laws. No judge in England
J ever discovered any conflict or discrepancy
! be! ween them. Blacks! one, Jpcaking of those
whi m secure the personal liberty of the sub
ject, says: “To bereave a man of life, or by.
violence, to confiscate his estate .w ithout accu
sation or t rial, would be so gross apd'notori
ous an act of despotism, as must at once con
voy the alarm of tyranny throughout the whole
kingdom ; but confinement of hi3 person by
public, a less striking, and therefore a mote
ernor go hand and hand, ands go With them.
But here they part, and l go with the Judge.
Blacksfone continues: And fyet sometimes
wHKf. the Stat* is in r eal i>angeh ; e\Cn
this may be a necessary measure. But the
happiness of our constitution is, that it is not
left to the executive power to determine when
ihe danger of the Stale ia so great as to ren
der this measure expedient ; for it is the par
liament Oily, o: legislative power, that when
ever it sees proper can authorize the crown?
by suspending the habeas corpus act fora short
and limited time to imprison suspected persons
without giving any reason for so doing.
{Strike out ‘•parliament” and insert “Congress. ’’
strikeout “crown” and insert “Pi esich ot. and
you have Governor Brown's mmplaints and
Bluckstonc’s answer to tiien - -ehoc.se between
them. The learned Judge, you perceive, con
sidered it an ample security against the abuse
of ibis power tha’’, it was confined.to Parlia
ment, un irresponsible body compared wiib
our Congress.
But Parliament may suspend the writ at
pleasure —Congress, only in two cases, ueither
of which was likely to occur once in fifty years.
One ot them has occurred for the first time ia
seventyfour years;and now when the State of the
country justifies the exercise of the power, and
Congress does exercise it—Congress that can
pass no law which will not press as heavily
upon them as q.pon the humblest individual
in the country, Congress itself is held up to
the eyes of the world as a conspirator with
the President to trample the liberties of the
people under foot, and this act is appealed to
ia proof-of it! And this, too, by the author
ities of a State in the perils of death, likely to
have nothing left her in a halt year but the
name of a State, the chains of slavery and the
pains of the Inquisition! May God save us,
first from our enemies, and then from ourselves.
The sth amendment is invoked as controlling
the habeas clause of the Constitution, the most
unfortunate selection that the Governor could
possibly have made'for his purpose. It pro
nounces sentence of condemnation upon him
and sentence of refutation upon his back
ers. It provides that “no person shall be de
prived of life, liberty or property withoutdue
process qf law.” This provision / know he
has violated. It provides also that “private
property shall not be taken for public use
without just compensation.” This, everybody
knows he has violated. A merchant, a very
large dealer in Charleston, had purchased
500 sacks of salt in Georgia, at six dollars a
sack, had them put on the cars, and just as
they were about moving to Charleston, the
Governor seized them, paid the owner about
half what they cost, and distributed them to
the people of Georgia upon his owq terms
The merchant declared to me (for I happened
to be staying with him at the time) that h e
bought the salt for the accommodation of his
customers, and not to speculate upon them;
and I have no doubt of the truth of the state
ment. But grant that he was upon a scheme
of speculation, it was speculation upon the
people of South Carolina, not of Georgia.—
There was no process of law here—no taking
for public U3es. no just compensation. Sup
pose au untitled individual had committed this
offence, what name would the Judge-Governor
give it ? But let us return to the amendment:
Tiie first part of it, is in these words : “No i
person shall be held to answer for a capital or j
otherwise infamous crime, unless on a present- j
meat or indictment of a grand jury, except in j
cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in j
the militia, when in actual service in time of war ;
or public danger." In such cases then, and j
under such circumstances, a man may be
seized, arraigned, tried and condemned to ]
death, without indictment, or even the present- ;
men! of a grand jury. And all this maybe;
done not only in time of war, but in times ot j
“public danger.” Who is to exercise these j
powers ? The President. Who is to decide 1
when the public danger calls for the exercise
of them ? The President. This is one of the j
amendments w hich the Vice President tells us, i
i
coming last into the Constitution controls all
before it, like the codicil of a will (!) It
clothes the President directly and expressly
with the power to do that very thing, which
as a consequence of the suspension act, the
Vice President says makes that act unconsti
tutional ! Not that the consequence mustttec
essarihj follow, but that it may follow.
And he quotes from this article two and a half
lines to show that in a time of war, invasion and
public danger, the President cannot arrest a man,
but by due process of law ; that is, wiihout first
making an affidavit of the charge against him,
and procuring a warrant of some Judge holding
himself responsible to a writ of habeas corpus
from another—carrying the prisoner before his
superior (quoad hoc) with the cause of his deten
tion, and bowing to bis judgment as to whether
the man in custody shall be held to .bail, dis
| charged or remanded to custody'! This is the
amendment which the Vice President tells us mod
ifies (rather abrogates) the habeas corpus clause
of the Constitution, and forbids Congress to sus
pend the writ, even to enable the President to
deal summarily with deserters, traitors, spies, and
j incendiaries, because, if power be given
to him for this purpose, he may use it to arrest
I anybody and everybody. And to support thes e
; views the Vice President adduces an article from
; the same Constitution, which invests the Presi
j deut directly with powers a thousand times more
dangerous ! I must be far gone iu my dotage, or
i a dismal eclipse has come over some of the bright
| cst intellects of the land, if at this early stage Os
our political history, ne have to leant the old time
worn lesson, that power is not be withheld be
\ cause it may be abused ; let us fight until wa
gain our liberty, and then repudiate all govern
ment. The truth is, that the amendment instead
i of clashing with the habeas clause, harmonizes
with imperfectly—instead of weakening it, strength
ens it powerfully. And here I might close my ar
gument upon the act of suspension with my thanks
to Mr. Stephens for his new rule of construction,
and his reference to the fifth amendment in eon
i firmation of it. But iu courtesy to Gov. Brown,
| I must dwell on it a little longer. He does no
tice the part of it upon which I have just com
meuted, and after quoting from it the passage
, that I have quoted, he thus proceeds: “But even
here Ci’ w r •>(, tin: li:asCt>mmauder-in
chief ia n«»t a'.’; a.-* his powers and dimes in
.ordering arroct- of i> rsons in the ’ r *‘' at) d na ‘
vui force.', or i die militia when in actual-er
vieo, are clearly deiiirci by mo i .cs aud artic.es
of war provided by Congress. .Now here he ad
mits that a power conferred by way ot exception,
; ie a n power—that this clause gives! tiie
President authority to arrest without warrant—
that Congress may leave it intact, or define it by
rules aud articles of war—that they may do this
by an implied only, (for there is no express
power given them to do it)—and that they are
trust-worthy depositaries of the power.
By these admissions the Governor puts the torch
to the "Georgia Platform” and reduces it to ashes.
It was well that it should be destoyed by its own
architect; and better that it- have been de
stroyed before it was quite completed. The crafts
man did not put up the main pillar under it; and
that left it such a rickety affair that it would hold
nobody but Jeff Davis, and it was too full of
splinters for them to occupy it, so nobody could
occupy it. I excuse them with all my heart.—
They didn’t like the plan Si the work from the
first, they were there upon short allowance, they
were hurried most furiously by the Architect aad
Head Workmen—(hreatened with another extra
session if they did not put up the framework im
mediately—got into confusion, broke down, and
wouldn’t or couldn’t fiuish the underpinning.*—
Who blames them ? Not the first nfan that I have
seou.
I did intend to bestow a few remarks on Mr.
Stephens’new mode of construing a Constitution,
viz.: by the age of its articles, and its likeness to
a will ; hut after what 1 havo said, this cannot be
nevesssary. I dismiss it therefore with this sin
gle remark. A Constitution is more like a deed
than a will : aud in that instrument if discrepan
cies be found between the first and last part, the
first prevails and the last gives way. So that if he
has any use for the infants, he had better keep
them as far from the old folks as possible.
A. B’. Longstrket.
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The Orders inn Subjugated Dis
trict—an Official Picture of
Life Under the Enemy.
A friend has placed in our possession a
copy of the New Regims, a daily paper
published in Norfolk, Va., the official
journal of the department. In its columns
we find # about sixty orders on different sub
jects, and. we copy several of them. There
seems to be nothing too low for that dirty
dog Butler, or bis even dirtier Provost
Marshal, to meddle with, The first of
the official orders we copy explain :
HOW THE BEAST MTSSED GETTING THE
BANK DEPOSITS.
Headquarters 18th Army Corps, 7
Department of Va. and North Carolina, >
Fortress Monroe, Va., Feb. 18th, 1864. )
Special Orders, No. 49.
VI. W. H. W. Hodges having been
Cashier of the Merchants’ and Meehan*
ics’ Savings Bank of Portsmouth, in which
were deposited the savings of the widows
and orphans of the laborers of that city
and having, as such Cashier, been faiths
less to his trust, and having sent away in
to the Confederacy the funds belonging to
the bank, and having been called upon by
the Bank Commission and examined re
garding the affairs of that bank, and being
asked concerning it and c declining to an
swer, and afterwards being brought be
fore the commanding General, and being
by him duly cautioned as $p the conse
quences of declining to answer, and put
ting at contempt the authority of the Unis
ted States, but still refused to answer as
to the means and manner by which, and
men by whom said funds wpre absti acted
and lost to the depositors, and so refusing |
to answer.
It is ordered that he be confined at hard
labor at Fort Hatteras, on Hatteras Is
land, upon the coast of North Carolina,
upon bread and water, with a twenty-four
pound ball attached to his leg by a chain
not more than six feet long, until he an*
ewers the questions, and that he stand
committed to the guard house until he is ,
removed on board the transport to be con-j
veyed to Fort Hatteras in execution of this |
order.
Bv command of Major Gen. Butler.
R S. Davis, A. A. G.
Headquarters 10th Army Corps,!
Department of Va. Carolina,
Fortress Monroe, Va, Feb. 18, 1864 j j
Special Orders, 49.
VII. Geo. M. Baine, senior of that
name, late cashier of the Portsmouth Sas j
vings Fnnd Society, and formerly a min
ister of the Gospel, having had in his i
charge over forty-three thousand dollars ;
of the funds of said society, which funds j
have been sent to Richmond, being duly
invqired of by the Bank Commission in- ;
vestigating the affairs of said Savings
Bank as to the persons by whom, and the 1
means by said funds were with
drawn from the Bank, and the laborers,
widows, and orpl: ns, depositors therein,
defrauded of the same, in vialation of his
duty, and showing contempt for authority
by refusing to disclose his accomplices
in the fraud, and saying he “proposed to
suffer for them, and would not answer for
fear of implicating” the other robbers of
this Bank, was called before the Com
manding General, and fully and duly cau
tioned by him as to the consequedces of
declining to answer, and putting at con
tempt the authority of the United States
and after full deliberation the said Geo.
M. Baine, the senior of that name, still
refusing to answer the question put to
him in behalf, or to disclose his accom
plices and no where putting it upon the
ground that it might criminate himself:
It is ordered , That he be confined at
hard labor at Fort Hatteras, on Hatteras
Island, on the coast of North Carolina,
until he does answer th 6 questions con
cerning the robbery of the funds of the,
said Bank. . .
No fnrther punishment is put upon
him in consideration of his age-
The said George M. Baine will stand
committed to he gnard house untill he
is removed hn board the transport ship
to be conveyed to Fori Hatteras. in the
execution of this order.
By command of Maj. Gen. Butler.
R. S. Davis, A. A. G.
The Marianna (Fla.; News says, that
twelve deserters arrived there on Sunday.
They were sent from the west side of the
Choctawhatehee river, by detachments
of Col. Holland's regiment of cavalry.
Col. Holland is doing valuable service for
the Confederacy in that section.
■ Some Indiana soldiers on a scout in
! the mountains of Georgia, came upon a
house occupied only by an old wom
an. “Well old lady, what are you ?
seeesh V said the leader. “Xu” said she.
“What then ?” “Baptist,” she said
promptly, *; t ol always was.”
TELSGIUFHIvi.
Reports of the Press Association.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year
1868, by :J. S. Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office of
the District Court of the Confederate States for
th© Northern District of Georgia.
Stirring Sews from Virginia!
Great Battle Resumed!
2,000 YANKEES CAPTURED I !
No Particulars Yet Received.
Our Torpedoes Doing Service t
DESTRUCTION OF A GUNBOAT
Price’s Victory Confirmed l !
Enemy Disastrously Whipped 2
Everything Quiet at Dalton
Destructive Fire in Macon.
Richmond, May 6. —Fighting between Lee and
Grant was resumed this morning.
Several telegrams received from the front rep
resent the news as cheering.
2000 prisoners were captured yesterday.
The train on the York River R. R. returned this
morning, after proceeding to Meadow Station, in
consequence of a report that our troops were fall
ing back, the Yankees having crossed the Chicka
hominy south of Bottom’s Bridge.
Steamer Schultz with Yankee prisoners for City
Point was turned back by the enemy this morn
ing.
It is reported that additional transport with
troops came up the river to-day.
Quite a large force landed on the south side of
the river opposite City Point.
No uneasiness is felt in official quarters at the
aspect of affairs.
A Yankee gunboat in James river was blown up
this afternoon.
Meridian, May 6.— lnformation from Trans-
Mississippi confirm the report of the battle between
Price and Steele, in which the Confederates gained
a complete victory. •.
Steele fs said to have lost an entire wagon train.
Nothing further from the fight in Eastern Lou
isiana.
The cars will resume their regular trips to Bran
don Sunday.
Richmond, May 6.— Both Houses of Congress
held short sessions to-day.
In the Senate, ,Wigfall introduced resolutions
defining the powers of the Confederate States Gov
ernment. Made the order of the day for Monday
next.
Senate adj ourned till Monday.
The House adopted a resolution for the appoint
ment of a committee to enquire into the expediency
of employing stenographic reporters.
Dalton, May 6. —Enemy have been almost at a
stand still to-day.
They are repairing both railroads as they ad
vance, and have a chain of pickets in front which
renders ii impossible to learn what is going on in
side the enemy’s pickets.
At two o’clock Gen. Johnston issued an order
granting pardon to all persons under arrest except
those for plundering and pilfering.
Demopolis, May 6.— Toformation from Missis
sippi states that the enemy with 10,000 infantry,
two batteries of artillery and 250 cavalry, all under
command ofGen. McArthur, were advancing to
wards Yazoo city, and encamped night before last
within eight miles of Mechanicsburg.
: Special Dispatch to the Columbus Times.)
Field near Orange C. H,. May sth, via.
Orange C. H.. May 6th.— Editor Times:—An
other severe battle has closed to-night, j
Killed in 31st Ga. Capt. J. T. Johnson, Capt. j
Miller, Lt. Bradley. Sevg'ts li. D. Miller, W.
T. Huckaby and J. M. Potsdale. Forty-six j
wounded. - • C.
Private Dispatch.
We arc permitted to publish the following
private dispatch, which was received in this
city yesterday:
Gokdonsville, May 6th, 1864.
Jas. Collier, care of T. P. Collier :
The casualties in Cos. A. 4th Ga. Reg’t are
Ca.pt. J. 11. Weeks and J. S. Parker, killed,
and E. L. Oailier, S. S. Smith, S. S. Baldwin,
J. Corley. John Adams. Z. B. Maxwell, woun
ded. Z. B. Maxwell.
Macon, Ga., May G. —A disastrous fire occurred
in East Macon, to-day, burning two large cotton
warehouses, ami several ot£er buildings and about
5000 jbales of cotton. A 3mall amount was Gov
ernment cotton.
The Quartermaster General.—
Whatever may have been the merits of
the controversy in regard to Col. Myers,
the recent Quartermaster General, we
think there can be no doubt that his suc
cessor has shown himself eminently qual
ified for the position. There is, per
haps, no position in the country involvs
ing more responsibility, requiring .greater
energy, more sleepless vigilance, or a
clearer intelligence. The absence of eith
er of these qualities would produce con
fusion in the service, and arouse imme
diate and emphatic complaint. Yet we
are confident that there never was a time
when our armies, so far as this Depart
ment is concerned, were better supplied
and when there was more satisfaction with
its workings exhibited by the press and
the public. We cannot but attribute
these results to the efforts of the head of
Department; and we see no good reason
why he should not get the credit for them
which he deserves.— Rich. Whig..
Three of the principal hatters of Rich
mond—Messrs. Dooly, Weisiger and
Thompson—announce a reduction of ten
per cent, upon the present price of hats,
when paid in new currency. This is
coming down in the right direction in
the articles of appearal, for the head.
We trust the good example will not be
lost upon the clothiers and bootmakers,
but that price will continue to descend
until they are more reasonable from top
to toh.
— »
Burnside's Command.—Burnside is repre
sented to be on his way “to the front.’' A
Washington dispatch of the 2oth. says :
Major Geucral Burnside's neaps this after
noon passed down Fourteenth street, in the
presence of Presid&nt Lincoln and Burnside.
Thousands of persons congregated about
Wiliiard’s hotel and on the street.
! and the troops were enthusiastically
received. As the colored brigade passed,
their fine marching and orderly bearing elic
; ited the highest praise, aud they were loudly
1 cheered. The troops all presented a magnifi
cent appearance add were in good health and
spirits. Business was quite suspended for the
; time, and citizens generally crowded the side
walks to view the spectacle. Much enthusi
asm was manifested—men cheering and i : --.
, raving their handkerchiefs
CITY MATT BBS.
T. J. JACKSON, ....LOCAL EDITOR.
* Funeral Notice*
The friends and acquaintances of Walter C.
Wright and family are invited to attend his fu
neral this morning at 10 o’clock, from the residence
of Wright, Esq., at the upper end of Broad
street. may 7.
For Chattahoochee*
The steamer Jackson, Fry Master, will leave for
the above and all intermediate landings. Sunday
morning at 9 o’clock.
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Publish the News.—Persons receiving pri
vate dispatches, reporting casualties in the
battle now progressing in Yirainia, will con
fer a favor upon us, and upon their friends
generally, by handing them in to us for publi
cation at the earliest practicable moment.
Capt. J T. Johnson.
A special dispatch in this morning’s Times,
announces the death of this noble soldier and
estimable gentleman. He fell at the battle
near Orange C. H. s ou the 6th instant. He
joined the Columbus Guards as a private at
the first of the war, and remained with this
command until elected first Lieutenant in a
company raised by Capt. (now Major) R. T.
Pride of this county, when he was relieved
from duty in the “Guards” and took his posi
tion in his company, which was attached to
the 31st Georgia Regiment. He was appoint
ed Adjutant of this Regiment in April, 1862,
still holding his rank in the line, and in this
position, acted his part gallantly in a number
of the most important battles in Virginia and
Gettysburg.
On the promotion of Capt. Pride, he be
came Captain of his company, though he
still held the position of Adjutant—his ser
vices being invaluable to Col. 0. A. Evans.
Well do we remember his grief over the fall
of a younger brother at Fredericksburg, be
longing to the same Regiment. W.ell do we
remember the character he bore in the army
for good soldiery qualities and cool, deter
mined bravery. His Regiment, without flat
tery, may be called one of Me banner regi
ments of this war, and he was prominent
among its noblest spirits. In calculating the
casualties of war, we can only wonder that
he survived twenty other battles and skirm
ishes, in which he acted his part so Well; and
while we shed a tear of grateful sympathy
with his parents and relations over hisjglorious
death, we would recollect that life does not
consist in the number of heart-throbs, but in
the number of noble deeds, and judging his
by this standard, he has lived much longer
than fills to the lot of the vast majority Os
mankind, and died where a chivalic soldier
covets death, if it must come—in imperishable
battle. m
Sudden Death.— Mr. Walter 0. Wright, for
many years a resident of Columbus, died sud
denly yesterday morning.
Five Dollar Bills.— The Muscogee Rail
road has determined to discount five dollar
bills from and after this date.
A gentleman who arrived in this city
this morning, direct from Jackson, Term.,
reports Gen. Forrest at Jackson, en route
for Okalona.
The railroad from Tupelo to Corinth is
completed over half the route.
Col. Reed is at Jackson, and is recov
ering rapidly. He received three wounds, j
Gen. Forrest says if it had not been for j
his wounds, he would have been the first j
man to enter Fort Pillow.
Tiie City onCliarlcsloii.
The City of Charleston stands, day by
day, an exemplification of Yankee warfare, j
The shells which are thrown into it daily, ;
are not sent to conquer or take the city. ;
That our foes have long since despaired
of accomplishing. The are thrown sim
ply to destroy so much private property. '
The aim of their cannon is chiefly at St. i
Michael’s Church; but that grand old i
structure stands thus far uninjured by ;
their fiendish efforts. It is the city gen- ’
eraily, consisting of the houses of private j
individuals, they are striving to destroy.
Now, if there is any one principle held
sacred in civilized warfare, it is that all
private property is exempt from destruc- j
tion. It may be used by armies; and
doubtless is often abused. It may beta- :
ken, like horses or wagons, when necessa«
ry to the safety of invaders; but the delib
erate and wanton destruction of the prop
erty of private citizens, is sheer barbarity,
which it was supposed that Christian civ- i
ilization had long since banished from the I
World.
The alleged justification of our Yankee
foes is— that Charleston has been the
cradle of secession—in other words, that
her people are their most determined foes.
We admit it; but does not all war imply
hostility between the contending parties?
The more or less of hostility, is no ground
for discrimination in practicing the usa
ges of civilized warfare. The law of %var
implies that all the citizens of the one
country are the enemies of the other. It
can do no more. It then lays down, what
enemies thus arrayed against each other
may do, in carrying on their hostilities.—
Those who are actually in arms—the sols
diery—may be attacked, and be taken
prisoners, or be slain.' But as soon as they
lay down their arms, they cannot be slain.
All other unarmed citizens, especially
women and children, are exempt from vi*
olence. So the public property of the en
emy may be destroyed, or private property,
where it is used to afford advantages to
the enemy, but the destruction of private
property, merely because it belongs to an
enemy who is hated, leads to unversal de
vastation, which is the warfare of savages.
We call to mind the nature cf the war
our ememies are waging against us, not
with the least hope ofchangiug their mode
of warfare, but that all men may mark our
relative positions. If we do not mistake
the portents of the times, the barbarous
warfare they have, from the commence
ment of hostilities, been waging against
us, is about to be entered on also by the
Confederate States. Duty, self-preserva
tion. humanity itself, requires that we
should arrest their mode of warfare by
practicing it upon our enemies, or give
up the contest. To give up the contest
is to sacrifice the world’s last hope of free
Government, and to make ourselves the
slaves of slaves.
Be tier be,
•'•vVhere the extinguished Spartans still are tree.
In their proud charnel of Thermopyls:,
Than tnosd.ier in such ashos.’
The Senate of the New York Legist
ture has refused to sanction a bill to pa?
the English bond-holders of the State in
c<*in. The Toronto (Canada) Leader
says of this:
This is a flagrant outrage. It J, a
rect act of repudiation. What, i n t j 1( T
name of common senae. are “greenbacks”*
to the English bond holders of the State ?
They did not, in purchasing the bonds
agree’to take their interest in a depreoia.
ted currency. Even the Fedora! Gov<
eminent requires that coin shall be naitA
at the custome houses ! To ask BricLh*
bond- holders to take irredeemable paper
now at a discount of some forty per cent
is one of the most outrageous things
have heard of for some time.
The city authorities of Montgomery*"
Ala., have donated $15,000 towards sup.
plying citizens with beef. The Advertis
er thinks fish can be had cheaper.
Notice.
Muscogee .Railroad Company, )
Columbus, Ga., May 6, 1864. j
On and after this instant Confederate Treasury
Notes of the denomination of Five Dollars will lie.
received only at a discount of 331 per cent..
J M Bit INS, Treas.
may 7—lw
The Douglas Ambulance €orp»
Solicit contributions from the citizens of CoL
umlius, of lint, old linen, bandages, soap, wine*,
liquors,jiickles, preserves, provisions, or any other
articles usually necessary for tbe -ick and wounded
on the battle field.
Seud to Goodrich Sc Cos., to be packed immedi
ately. H. L. GOODRICH,
Pres. B. R. C.
may 3 ts Columbus, Ga.
Hotice.
The ladies of Columbus and surrounding
country are respectully requested to send
to the store of Messrs, Ligon Si Brooks,
all the linen and cotton cloths that they can
spare suitable for bandages.
Last year, I made an appeal to the
of Columbus for bandages, to which thev res
ponded promptly,—l hope they will all inter
est themselves and do as much for the cause
at this call as they did last year.
A. C. GRANT,
Agent for Hospital, Marietta Ga.
Columbus, Ga., May 4th, 1864.
Will the city papers please copy the above
for the cause of our common country ?
A. C. G.
“STOVE TIOULIHSHN."
HPWQ Stove Moulders can get employment at
A good wages, by application to
HARRISON, BEDELL & CO.
* Columbus, Ga.
Augusta Constitutionalist, and Mississippian,
copy one month aud send bills to this office,
may 6 i m
Augusta Sheeting lor Corn.
I WILL EXCHANGE
1 M YARDS OF AUGUSTA SHEETING
FOR
O\E BITSHEL OF CORA,
J. F. WINTER, President
may 6 3t Rock Island Paper Mills.
~ SSOO REWARD!
I WILL pay a reward of Five Hundred Dollars tor
the apprehension of, with proof to convict, the
person or persons who on the nii?ht of the 28th inst.,
stole a 7 inch RUBBER BELT from the Foundry
connected with these Works.
J.IT. WARNER,
may 2-3 t Chief Eng. C. S. N
HANDS WANTED.
| IBERAL hire will be paid for five or ten hands
id by the month or day.
tnay')-d2\v GREJENWOOD & Git A Y.
SSTTC
FIVE BOXES CHOKE SICJAR
for sale by GOODRICH & CO.
mayo-lw
Wanted*
' | 0 hire for the balance of the year, a good cook,
washer aud ironer, for a small family ten miles
in tho country, A liberal price will be paid
Apply to E. J. PJNCKARD A £\).
may 4.1 w*
Oranges, Oranges*.!
.4 FEW hundred Florida Oranges for -:L a;
A 149 Broad Street, by
;Dn. C. H. JONE-.
may 4 3t
emeULAR.
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, »
Quartermaster General’s Office, r
Richmond, April 23, 1861. )
All Officers and Agents of this Department are
hereby notified that in order to introduce proper
uniformity and system in connection with the con
tracts executed with the Factories on Government
account, and to increase thereby the yield thereof,
Major G. W. Cunningham, Quartermaster, hereto
fore in charge of the Depot at Atlanta, Georgia, is
entrusted, exclusively, with’the duty of contracting
in behalf of this Department, with the Factories in
the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
Florida, and Mississippi.
lie will respond to requisitions for material, made
upon him by Officers in charge of Depots for the
manufacture of clothing.
A. R. LAWTON,
may 3 lm Quartermaster General.
AUCTION SALES.
By Ellis, Livingston A t o
Jk.t Private Sale.
5 Bales Cotton Yarns.
from No. 8 to 12, by the Bale only.
100 Reams Superior Note Paper.
may 3 4t
GREAT SOITHEKHmimt
Principal Office, Macon, Ga.
STOCKHOLDERS are hereby notified that the
Confederate Tax, levi 4 by the Act of Congress,
dated 17th February, l-'4. on the Shares of Stock,
will be paid by the Company.
Stockholders are fnrther notified thnt their Annual
meeting will beheld at this office on Thursday, the
2d day of June next, when Directors for the ensu
ing year will be elected. C. DAY, Sec’y.
may 2-3 t
HEADQUARTERS POST.
Columbus, Ga, April 2L 18:4. >
GENERAL ORDERS, I
No. 10. >
11. Officers, Government Contractors, and a!i ouf?
persons having control of, or in their employ. 6 ■'
tached soldiers or detailed enrolled men, are hereby
informed that such soldiers and men are subjeeb
with reference to furloughs, in every particular, tv
the same rules, regulations and restrictions, as sol
diers in the field, and all applications for furlough*
over 4S hours by detached soldiers or detailed en
rolled men, should be made in the prescribed fora
to be found in the Army Regulations, and forwarded
by their immediate officers, through these Ilea l
quarters, for the approval of the General Command
ing t h e Military District of Georgia. Detached or
detailed men '.earing their work in violatiion of till*
order, will have their details revoked.
HI. All men between the ages of seventeen and n.
5v years employed in Government shop? or by Gov
ernment Contractors, should, in every instance be
enrolled. By order of
COL. ROBERTSON
Chas. Wood, A. A. G. apriH#