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i W. WARRES, - - - Editor.
Saturday Mornin?. May M. ISG4,
Maj. R. J. Moses.— Our citizens will remember
that Maj. R. J. Mose-e will address them to-night
■it Hall. Haring served in the Ar
my of Virginia eiace the war began, he is familiar
with many things that will be intensely interest
ing to those who have friend? and relation! in
that army at this interesting juncture of affairs.
Major Moses has a peerless intellect and is a forci
ble and eloquent speaker. We shall expect to aee
the Hall crowded to it? utmost capacity with both
sexes.
Governor Browns Ixtra Session.
No. 0.
THE CTJBBEIiCy BILL AND SECRET SESSION.
Common prudence demanded that Mes-i • ,
Brown & Company should have suspended
their censure: of the currency bill, until they
saw how it worked ; and common justice de-
manded that they should have suggested a
better, before finding fault with this, No
more difficult problem was ever presented to
a legislative assembly, than the reform of our
currency. It wa3 on the verge of utter worth- ;
iessness, and that, too, at the very darkest j
hour of the war. Everybody agreed that i
something’taust be done to appreciate it; but
what that something should be, nobody could
tell. All agreed, to be .sure, that a reduction
was necessary r but. as to how that reduction
was to ire effected, there were almost as many
opinions a there weyc men who expressed
opinions, My plan was a very simple one, and
one which I supposed would remove half the
currency without enapoverishing the owners
of the remaining half, a dime. Money, being
to a considerable extent like air in a receiver,
which still fill the vessel, no matter how
much you exhaust it; I judged that a tax of
fifty per cent, upon the Confederate notes in
circulation, while it would withdraw half of
them, would enhance the value of the remain -
der to at least an equality with the whole.
Indeed, I thought it likely that the reduced
currency would overreach the whole in value:
m which event, the tax-payer would.actually
gain by the tax. But a difficulty presented
itself to my plan—which, to me, was insuper
able, viz money holders would be under the
strongest temptation to make false returns- of
their money in hand ; for all that they emild
hide from taxation, would increase in value,
in the ratio of the amount what
ever that might be; and there would be no
possibility of detecting the fraud, if one chose
to practice it From this difficulty I was en
tirely relieved by an article from the
general JBetbune, published in one of the pa
pers of this place.- Ilis suggestion was, that
the tax collectors be furnished with a Confed
erate seal or stamp—that they should demand
the production of all the notes in the hands of
each tax-payer, from which he should ab
stract the Government dues, and stamp
balance—stamped notes alone, to be current
after pay day. It will be seen at a glance,
that it would be as equitable in its opera
tion as a tax can be, masterly, in that
it makes it the interest of the tax-payer
to be honest in his returns, and admirable for
its simplicity. Some have said the stamps
might be counterfeited. Impossible, until
after they had performed their office; and after
that they would not be worth counterfeiting.
The Government would not let the devise of
the stamp be known, until it was made known
by its use. Hut to return from this degres
sion—
Had my plan—or more properly. General
Bethune’s—been adopted, it would have taken
out of the pockets of the people, at a single
sweep, one-half their money, and as not one
in a hundred understand how taking from
them half their money can leave them as rich
or even richer than they were before, what
a fine field would have been opened to Gover
nor Brown, for exciting the people against the
Confederate Government! “Why tax money
so much higher than any other property?' 1 he
might have cried. "The Government issues
its bills, in which it promises to pay so much;
and when ‘the people’ take them upon the
faith of this promise, down comes the Gov
ernment upon them, and snatches away from
them one half their cash under the name of
taxation ! It is nothing more nor less than a
species of legal robbery, tic., &c. This case
will serve to illustrate to Governor Brown’s
‘people (for he "cernc to regard them .ill as
hi? foster-children',) how much easier it is 10
find fatal with measures, than to rectify them,
or suggest better. Instead of adopting our
plan, however, the Government determined to
change the form of its obligation to pay these
notes, and to postpone the payment from a
time when 'z was impossible to pay them, to a
time when it might he possible to pay them,
allowing, a£ at all i-uterest upon them ad intt
nrti. And here the two }’o formers get ;t little at
odds. Mr Ffcpbens plays the catile-fisli, ami
raises such n cloud around him, that it i? ini
possible to tell exactly where he is upon this
question , while Governor Brown plays Ahe
torpedo, and discharge? all his benumbing
fluid upon the bill, with fatal iutmiL lie
call.'; it repudiation, and pays that “Corfgres?
took the precaution to discuss the measure iu
secret session, so that, the individual act of
the rcpfe'cuo.Ulye, could not reach bis con
stituents.«»nd none'could lie annoyed during
its consideration, by the murmurs of public
disapprobation being echoed back into the
Legislative Hall. And to make assurance
doubly sure. they fixed the day for the assem
bling of their successors, at a time too late to
remedy the evil, or afford adequate redfess of
the wrong." Pender that language well,
reader and tell me what you thiuk of it as
uttered by the Governor of one State, against
■he Representatives of eleven States?—Rep
resentntivA who'v integrity never wa£ ques
tioned nniit Yhe gutting forth of Governor
Brown'- raise hie?-breeding Me?sage. Does
any n:;r rY-n thb most servile follower of
ui-.sr:.. rAown & Stephens, when he turns his,,
c « tj iroca his leaders, to his own inward, hon
est convictions, believe that the Congress of
the Confederate States was capable of such
conduct, ns that language imputes to them ?
it becomes the more unpardonable, not to say
revolting when it is considered, that bad they
discussed the bill with open doorg, the enemy
would have taken courage from our pecuniary
embarrassments, and the clamors of the Press
at home, would likely have left us with no bill
at all. in that event. Confederate money
would this day have been near about worth
nothing at oil. Had Congress, therefore, actu
ally repudiated, they would only have followed
the example of *’ 4 the people"- who were repu
diating the3C notes as fast as they could. But
what is the fact? The people, whom Gover-
I nor Brown represents as so much injured by
I the Currency Bill, —the people, whose indig
nant gafce he would have us believe f'ongrc> c
was alraid to face, while the bill wits in pro
gress. The people, from whose eyes, be tells .
us the body closeted themselves, in their work
of ‘evil" and “wrong,” that each individual rep- i
resentative might elude his feiowu responsi
. bllity to his constituents— the people, acqm
lescein the bill with marvelous unanimity.
And this too in spite of the alarm-bells sound- j
ed in Milledgeville
! From the text above quoted, the Governor
reads us a homily upon secret sessions gener
ally. Retells ns “theyarebecomingablighting
cars© to the nation.” That “they are used as
a convenient mode of covering' up from the
people, such acts or expressions of their
representatives, as will not bear investiga
tion in the light of day. ’ Here is another
specimen of the Governor’s courtesy and char
ity—two, of many. Does he fem ember that
the country is at war ? That the war is ex
clusively under the management of Congress
and the President? That the deliberations
of the former, are mainly confined 10 this all
absorbing subject ? And that to expose their
counsels upon it, would be little less danger
ous to the republic, than for General Lee to
expose all his plans of attack and defence to
the enemy ? Did ho oyer road the secret
journals of the first national Government that
we ever had of onr own making ? Surely not,
or he never could have permitted himself so to
speak of the authors of secret sessions in time
lof war. Maligning them, he defames the an
i cestry through whom he derive?, his blood.
! and to whom he owes his liberty. They held
I secret, sessions through seven long years; but
■ nobody. I believe, ever pronounced them a
I curse, or a cover-shame.
I have now proved that there is not a sound
principle of public interest in the Governors
Message, or the Vice President a speech—not
one. That their doctrines, if possible, arc less
objectionable than the time place and man
. ner of their delivery. There is a little metier
which I tailed to notice in its proper place,
and with it T will clflse this article (my last
but ene.) The Governor says,’ “1 am aware
of no instance in which the- BriiisU King has
ordered the arrest of any person in civil life
&c„ or in which lie has suspended or attemp
ted to suspend the privileges of ihe writ of
habeas corpus, since the Sill of Rights and
act of settlement passed, ia 1698. To attempt
this in 1864, would cause the reigning Queen
no less price than her crown. As the reader
has sen, the power of suspending the writ,
does not belong to the King, but to Parlia
ment; and the Editor of the Golumbns Times,
has referred the Governor to night instances
in which Parliament has suspended !he writ,
since 1689 ; to these he might have added one
more. Thus it appears, that practically, le
gally,'logically, and historically, the Governor
is ever at fault. And yet he is endorsed
throughout by the Vice President of the Con
federate States, by a disfingimihed Judge of a
Supremo Court, by a majority of the Legisla
ture of Georgia, and by many Presses and dis
tinguished personages, of lhi3 and other States,
These are things of ill omen ; nsvertheieos,
if rightly managed by the people, they may
be, and I trust will be, overruled to the per
manent stability and glory of the Republic.
A. B. LONGSTREET,
From “the Flank.”
INTERESTING ITEMS FROM ROME
We clip the following items of war in
terest from the Rome Courier of Tues
day :
A Sl'vrmuh near Re&aca*
We hear from passengers on the train
that the Yankee cavalry advanced to with
in four miles of Resaea Monday morning,
where they were repulsed by our infantry.
It was probably the same force that was
reported at. Villanow Sunday evening,
trying to get in Johnson’s rear. They
will have to iry again—-our troops are
wide awake.
.4 ISToi'e at tin. s Direction.
The enemy are reported advancing in
this direction, on the road that leads across
Taylor's Ridge to Yillanow. It is said
that on Sunday evening their camp ex
tended from the lO£ of the mountain ro
the foot on this side: This is probably an
effort to pas' Johnston’s left flank, and it.
may be their intention u. get to his rear
by a shorter route Ilian by coming by
Rome.
Fit rthf /■ Far tic ; iia
The Tanks crossed at Ship’s Gap, in j
Taylor’s Ridge, and arrived at Villanow
Sunday if ter noon, They seiu a scouting
party to wiihmg four miles of Subligna,
where they arrested Lieut, Adkins, of the
Home Guards, and two citizen,s. The
force was cavalry only, and they seem to j
have made a halt at Villanow. Villauw
is fifteen miles from Dalton, ten miles
from Resaea, twelve Lorn Tunnel Hill,
and thirty from Rome.
.4 Ffnr.k Mo i ement■
An officer wlio left Dalton Monday,
says Hooker’s Division is trying to flank
our left in the direction of Rome, but the
intentions of the enemy are known and
provided for.—Officers report the troops
in the. highest spirits, and anxious for the
fight No straggling.
LJi attooga Cun aUj Ae <c 6 ,
The 6th Georgia cavalry, and 100 of
the Ist, went on a scout to Chattooga and
Walker county last Saturday. They seat
parties to Lafayette, vicinity of Blue-Bird
Gap, Neel's Gap, and to Aline. No Yan* j
kees found at any of these places on Sun**
day, but a party of some two hundred
were at McConnell's Mill at three o’clock
P M Saturday, but left three or four
hour" before our troops got into that vis
einity, Some nine or ten independent
scouts, m- scouts from some other com
mand, pitched into them and are reported
i to have captured a wagon from them,
i Mr. Nelson ‘Allman died in Chattanoo
ga, on Sunday, the Ist instant, of Bipthe-.
I ria
If will be remembered that the Federal3
carried him off some four weeks since
From Buzzard Roost Gap .
The Courier’s correspondent writing on
k says the enamy made a general
advance along the roads leading to Dalton,
driving in out cavalry, and halting in line
of battle two miles this side of our fors
mei* picket lines. All ol our forces were
immediately ordered into position and
now occupy a line distant about two miles
from the enemy, and advanced a mile from
oar entrenched lines along the rocky
ridge held by ns first February.
Strength <>/the Enemy.
The forces of the enemy are estimated
at from 60 to 70,000 men, moving in
throe colums, under command of Thomas,
Hooker and Howard. He is advancing
slowly and with extreme caution, builds
ing bridges, cutting roads, etc., as he pro
gresses. He has evidently concluded to
give up the idea of attempting to flank
our army, preferring to “clean up as he
goes,” and fearing a counter flank move
ment on our part.
On the Alert.
Although some skirmishing and earn*
nonading is now going on at intervals, it
is generally thought that the battle will
not come off until to-morrow or next day.
Our cavalry captured several prisoners
yesterday, including two or three negro
soldiers.
Gen Johnston is on the alert, and no
doubt is watching the enemy closely ; our
flanks are strongly protected, rein for cr-.
ments are arriving, and thus far “all is
well,”
TELEGRAPHXq.
Reports of the Press Association.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year
1863, by J. S, Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office of
the District Court of tho Confederate Stales for
tho Northern District of Georgia.
Dkmopolis, May 13.—A dispatch to-day from
Col. Scott, via Summit, confirms Trans-Mississip
pi dispatches.
ft says that Taylor has Banks hemmed in at
Alexandria, with a battery 2ff miles below there,
cutting off all communication by the way of Bed
River.
It is reported that Bolignac’s infantry has cap
tured the transport Emma with a valuable cargo
of commissary stores ami one hundred prisoners.-
The City Belle was also captured, with the 120th
Ohio onboard, killing Col. Mudd, C'ol Bassett of
the Corps d’Afrique, Col. Ogles and one Lieut.
Colonel.
On the 201.1i thoy clipped the Warner, also a
gunboat, and took from (hem 21 pieces of artil
lerv, including eight 32 pounder Parrotts. ~
Their crews were sent to Shreveport.
Gen. Smith bad a light with the enemy at
•Tonkin’s Ford, and we captured several hundred
prisoners, many small arm*, a pontoon bridge, and
all their trains.
We lost Gen, Scurry and Col. Griutswooil,
killed : and Gens. Waul Randall and Clarke
wounded.
Mobile, May 18.—A dispatch to headquarters
from Oak Springs, says :
Tlic New Orleans Era of the 9th quotes gold 2
for 1 and still rising.
All knowledge of Banks is ignored.
Steele is reported to be at Little Rock; Marma
duke between Little Rock and Pine Bluff, shelling
the latter place,
[ Special to the Atlanta Confederacy.]
Another Repuhe.
Dalton, May 11.— Tue enemy charge-dour
position ai Mill Creek Gap this rnofhing be
fore day. Our troops reserved their fire un
til the enemy advanced very near, and repul
sed them vath immense slaughter.
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Fiom the
[Special to the Mobile Register.l
Grenada, May 9.—A courier from Price’s
headquarters states that Steele surrendered
with nine thousand men to Price at Camden,
Arkansas, on the 28th ult.
Our forces were on both sides of Red river,
and had driven the pickets in at Alexandria
several times.
The Federal force at Alexandria is estima
ted at 35,000.
The ‘Rebel’ force is very r-trong under Kir
by Smith, Mftgruder, Price and Taylor.
The Memphis P.ulletin, of the 6th, says the
steamer White Clond arrived Saturday morn
ing from Red river.
She reports a flag of truce sent in the day
she left, demanding the surrender of the Fed
eral troops at Alexandria, with what results
is not known. •
Signs op thr Times. —The blasphemous saying
imputed to President Lincoln, that “he believed
God Almighty Jwas about to lurn secessionist"—
seems likely, in his sense, to be verified. Certainly
no one can observe the late striking successes' of
our army, and fail to perceive the finger of God in
our behalf. Beginning with the defence of
Charleston (the one great success to our arms,
amidst the disasters which befel our cause, during
the last summer and fall), to our late victories iu
Florida, North Condiua and Louisiana, the Giver
of all victory seems to have rebuked our foes.—
In the revolution of 1770, the victory of Fort
Moultrie, in the Bay of Charleston, was the first
signal of rebound, amidst the deepest depression
of our cause, which carried us on to successful in
dependence. May we not hope, that history is
about to repeat itself: and that again in this glo
rious Bay, the Gonfalon of victory lifted here, will
pass on from battle field to battle field, until it
waves over us an acknowledged power amongst
the nations of the world i' Here, the grand move
ment for independence of Yankee domination be
gan. Here, when this righteous cause was most
depressed, rose up' the courage und endurance
which rebuked despair, and fired anew the grand
spirit of a deathless resistance to our foes. line,
even amidst the ruins with which our foes have
crowned our city—in silence and desolation sits
enthroned the spirit of our newborn Confederacy,
suffering but patient, calm but defiant, grand and
unconquerable. From the crumbling walls of Fort
Sumter the voice of hope has gone to the utmost
limits of the Confederacy, and finds an echo in the
triumphant shout of victory which passes from
State to Mute, as our Yankee foes go down be
neath our arms. May we not humbly trust that
the Omnipotent Disposer of the destinies of na
tions, is triumphantly carrying us, through the
Red Sea of blood, with which it has pleased Him
to baptize our cause ; and that buffeting a few
more waves, the happy shores of peace and inde
pendence will be ours.
The blasphemous Buffoon, who began the war,
seems fearful of the fate which awaits him. Now
ordering the levy of conscripts, and then rescinding
the order—now forcing negroes into his ranks,
and then leaving them behind—now threatening
States with a levy for troops, and then begging
them to rend them—he present? the spectacle of
an agiture.l and desperate combatant in a despe
rate cause,— Mercury.
The following documents fully explain
themselves. The conduct of the subaltern
officers mentioned i? worthy of emulation and
cannot be too highly commended :
Hkadqrs Gibson .- Brigade, >
May dth, 1804. /
General Orders )
No 28. X
The Brigadier General commanding an
nounces to his command, that the subaltern
officers of the I3th La. Volunteers, Lie at. Col.
F.L Campbell, commanding, have resolved
to carry muskets in the impending battle. Th is
noble act of patriotism, crowns the gallant
Regiment whc-Se ranks have been thinned on
so many field?, with a reputation that reflects
honor upon the Brigade, and the State to
which it belongs.
By command of R. L. GIBSON,
Brigadier General.
Htqh H- Bejn, A. A. G,
CITY MATTERS.
T. J. JACKSON, LOCAL EDITOR.
Funeral Notice.
The friends and acquaintance? of Mr. and Mrs.
Wm. 11. Harris are requested to attend the funeral
of the former from hi? residence this afternoon at
4 o’clock]
— •
Death of Another Old Citizen. — W e re
gret to learn the death of Mr. William H.
Harris, an old citizen and honorable and up
right man, which occurred in tui3 city yester
day afternoon at 6 o clock. Mr. Harris was,
at the tithe of his death, our worthy city
Sexton, which oflice he had filled lov over a
year past, with great fidelity, and to the en
tire satisfaction of the whole community.. By
his nrbanity oi manners, his firm, honest, in
tegrity, his unwavering, 3trict Christian de
portment, he had justly earned an enviable
place in the good will of our people, and we
feel assured that many will partake of our
sincere regret at his removal from us in the
meridian of his useful life. lie leaves & wife
and several children, together with many rel
atives and friends to deplore his loss. A good
man has fallen, and a void created in society
and the church.
A Strawberry Srrnik.—-We understand that
it is the purpose of that noble and patriotic asao
ation of ladies—" The Ladies Soldiers’ Aid Soci
ety"—a society whose good works have amounted
to wonders—to get up a Strawberry supper on
next Wednesday evening for benevolent purposes,
and we are requested to solicit contributions from
those who raise these berries for this laudable ob
ject. Now those who can save a gallon or so for
this purpose will confer a favor on the ladies of
the Society, and contribute to a good cause. We
feel a confidence that this is going to be a hand
some affair —in fact, we almost know it, and if we
can borrow enough money to buy a supper from
the Indies, we shall begin right off to wliet our ap
petite. Let everybody else do likewise.
"Sr, Kia> In." —The “rapid" young gentleman
alluded to in our columns a day or two since, who
claimed to be a son of Dr. Cloud of Montgomery,
we learn worked his pegs well enough while in
Columbus to lighten the pockets of several of our
citizens of a portion of their contents. Under
false representations lie obtained from one rather
credulous individual the sum of two hundred
dollars; from another a little less credulous, fifty :
and from another with blit a small portion of this
element in his composition, twenty. How many
others he "bled," and how deeply,.we have not
learned. Oh, the gullibility of masculinity, thou
art wonderful!
When a youth comes in such a questionable
guise and with such doubtful authority, we would
advise our citizens to demand his papers, and in
vestigate more fully his claims. This youth has
certainly proved himself an adept in the art. of
deception.
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Dead. —We see by an obituary that, another of
our children friends is no more. Another pretty
bud is withered—-another flower blooms in Para
dise. We knew little Mary Mary McCarty well
and loved her much, and believe her to have been
,a>hild of unusual promise. Put all that’s bright
must fade- -the brightest oft the soonest: so has
this gentle flower paled before the arch destroyer
death. She sleeps to awaken no more t ill she blast
of the archangel shall call hc-r to life. May her
slumbers be peaceful and undisturbed. The memo
ory ot her short but lovely life remains a treasure
to those who loved her. Gone as gently as melts
the light of day, ere yet the morning dews were
exhaled by the rising sun.
Friction Matches. —S. D. Thom & Cos. give
notice that they have at last discovered the secret
of making a good article of matches. Let those
in want test the article for themselves. The same
firm is prepared to furnish a good quality of
blacking.
Locai. Defence. —The attention of Govern
ment employees and detailed soldiers at this post,
is invited to special orders No. 1, from. Maj. Hum
phreys, Com'dt. Post, in reference to organiza
tions for local defence. Such organizations will
be required to elect officers on Monday next, in
accordance with the usual method in such cases
made and provided. J
See advertisement of the Jailor of Fulton conn
tv. lie lias several negroes in custody.
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Mr. Fischaehcr advertises a lot of No. 1 Java
coffee. All lovors of the article in its unadultera
te <1 ?Lifc should give him a call.
Rtrawrerriks.—This delicious fruit is becom
ing plentiful in our market at $3 per quart. How
Local editors and printers are to eat them at those
prices is 1 a question we would like to see into. —
Who wAnts to gain immortality on a small scale
by imitating the conduct es our little charmer.
Lizzie, last Saturday ? Don't all speak at once.
A gentleman who left the vicinity of Natchez,
Mississippi, a week or so ago, informs us that the
Yankees there had given up Steele as gone. It
was also the common talk in official circles that
Hanks had lost 15,000 men, instead of 1,000, as
reported in the Yankee papers. Traders, sutlers
and other hangers-on to the camp <Jf the enemy,
including the Yankee preachers, the miscegena
tional school inarms, and agents for the cultiva
tion of Abandoned plantations were making tbeir
arrangepicnt? to transfer the scene of iheir ope
rations farther North. Banks lias profited by the
oxperieiieo he. got under the flagellation of Stone
wall Jackson, and is really proving abetter com
missary in the West than he - did in Northern Vir
ginia. Nearly all the stores, wagons,, artillery,
mule?, horses, Jo., of the entire Yankee army in
the Trans-Mississippi Department have already
fallen into our bands. Steele is literally used up,
and the debris of Bank’s army was, from last ad
vices, shut up in Alexandria, with his transports
driven tack. He, too, from present indications,
will have to follow the example of the unfortunate
Steele. The exodus of th« Yankee locust? from
the great Valley of the Mississippi cannot be de
layed. much longer.— Missis* ippian, 11?A.
Thf Scjuptcres Travestied. —There was a
time when we could, and did, enjoy a travesty
upon Script me language; but the kiud criticism
of a friend showed its impropriety in light so
strong that, long since, such a thing ha? a sacri
ligious aspect in our eyes. It is, therefore, with
pain that we behold in a respectable weekly paper
of our State the most miserable attempts to imi
tate the language of scripture—such as are calcu
lated to bring that style into contempt. We hope,
therefore, that the brother who is connected with
the journal referred to will put a cessation to such
abominable attempt? at wit,— Christian Index.
The Mexican Quest roN.-The London
Times of the 21st ult., attributes a slight
rally in the Confederate loan and a reac*
tion on the Paris Bourse to the open de%
fiance of France on the Mexican question
by the House of Representatives at Wash*
ington The Times- thinks, however, fbe
action on the part of the House will be
ignored or retracted.
It would not be at all surprising if the j
supposition of the Times should be real-j
ized. The resolution to which it refers j
was passed unanimously in the House, 1
but the New York Tribunes Washington
correspondent says it “still sleeps in “the
Senate s committee on Foreign Relations,
which it is permitted to do for reasons of
State policy.
OBITUARY.
Died, on the 10th of May, 1864, of Consumption,
Maky E. second eldest daughter of J. and K. T. •
McCarty, aged 11 years, 8 months and 26 days.
When we are called upon to witness the death of i
one so young and tender, one so full of hope and j
promise, with a bright and sunny future before tror,
the pain of parting with such is intensified to a de
gree almost insupportable, but the/atari beyond the I
grave robs Death of its icy sting, and the mourn
ing ones are made to rejoice at the mercy of Gml
who culled from the flowers of 5/ay this fragile lily
to bloom above, for Mary is at rest.
From her infancy she evinced the most gentle do
cility, and piety, her painful and lingering illness
she bore .with unwavering fortitude and patience;
wasltruly remarkable in one so young. tier la-t
moments were assuaged byhersoulV immortal faith.
Father. mother, brothel's and sisters, she thought oi
all. and to each left precious words of love and
heavenly admonition. Wccp not mother ! for your
little pet, the has gone to join her noblo soldier
brother, whose last words were of love lor you, who
died as she died, in the bosom of his blessed Mother
Church. He with Mary will pray for you and fa
therlto receive eternal rest. Happy are they who
die In the Lord. _ A. FRIEND,
XDXZEID,
At the llospilal at Jonesboro. Ga., oiuhe6thinst.,
of typhoid pneumonia, Wm. A. Huxley, of Com
pany “E,” 2d Rt%. Ga.. State Troops, in the 34th
year of his age. He was the only surviving son of
A. Hunley, Esq., of Harris county.
may 14 d&wl t*
Headquarters Post, )
Columbus, Ga.. May 13, 1861. \
Special Orders, No. l.j
Incompliance with instructions from the lion.
Secretary of War, all Government employees at this
Post, whether detailed from the army or from the
Conscript Bureau, are hereby ordered and directed
to meet at their respective places of work, and or
ganize themselvcsvnto companies for local defence.
They will elect their officers from among their
own number. Detailed men from the army may be
elected as such officers, and will be commissioned
accordingly, dependent however upon the continu
ance of their detail.
The organizations and elections will take place on
Monday the 16th inst., and be superintended in ihe
usual way of elect ing Confederate officer?, and re
turns made to these llerdquartors.
By order of
Mu'} . HUMPU/?EYS.
( has. Wood, A. A. G.
may 14 3t
Jailor’* Notice,
\ NEGRO man, dark complexion, by the name of
John, says he belongs to Frank Parish, of Butts
county.
A negro boy by the name ofMicholl, of dark com
plexion, says he belongs to Wm. Foster, of Nash
ville, Tcnn.
An old negro man by the name of John, says he
belong? to Alq. Thompson, of Hinds county, Missis
sippi.
A negro man by the namo of Bob. say? he belongs
to Thos. Cogwell, of Commerce county, Miss,, of
dark complexion.
A negro man John,'says he belongs to Henry Venn
of Yazoo City, Miss.
A negro man Paul, says he belongs to Joseph Ug,
of Savannah, Ga,
A negro man, says bis name is Albert, and belongs
to Mr. Lindt of Forth Carolina, oi dark complex
ion. B. N. WIFF ICR FOR D.
Dept. Sheriff,
ma.y,l4 dtf of Fulton county, Ge,
LOST,
SOMEWHER Eon the streets of the city, a cold
WATCH CHAIN without a hook. and the ring
that attached the chain to t lie watch either lost or
torn in two. Tho "finder will be liberally rewarded
by I caving it at Til LS OFF 1 1 '£
may 14 2t
Confederate States Arsenal. )
Columbus, Ga., May 13, 1364. J
The following men have deserted from this Arse-,
nal, viz:
David Wolfson, age, 22 years; height., f> feet V
inches; hair, black ; eyes, black: complexion,dark.
J. S. Harrison, age. 32 years: height. 6 feet 8
inches; hair,dark; eyes, grey; complexion, dark.
S. Schligslmiclh, age, 2d years; height, * feet 8 1-2
inches; hair, brown; eyes, blue; complexion, fair,
F.C. HUMPHREYS,
may 14 4t Maj. Coirid/r Arsenal.
ERICTIOJY MATHtCES!
r l' HE Columbus, Ga., Friction Match Company,
have again resumed operations, and will, in a
lew days, be prepared to supply them in quantity,—
they also make a superior article of Blacking, which
can be supplied in quantity.
Dealers and others wishing to purchase, can ap
ply to Messrs. Livingston & Cos., or Messrs. Hull k
Duck, who will be kept constantly supplied.
B. D, THOM & CO.,
Manufacturers.
N. B.—lt having cost me about $5,000 in the pad
eighteen months, above receipts, to learn how to
make good matches, the public can nowrelv on get
ting a superior article. S. D. THO M.
Columbus, May 14,1864’dtf
Headquarters Conscription, {
State of Georgia, Macon, May TO, 1864, )
General Orders, No. 36.
The following extract from General Orders, No.
45, A Sc I. G., current series, is published for the di
rection of District Enrolling Officers, who will govern
themselves accordingly.
By order of
WM, M. BROWNE.
Colonel and Commandant of Conscripts,
P. Looney, Lieut, and Adjutant,
Ad.j’nt k Inspector Gf.n’ls Office, 1
Richmond, May 2*l. 180-1. )
[Extract.]
General Orders, No. 45.
'V- *■ $ sfc *
VII. The Bureau of Conscription will proceed at
once to organize into Companies and cause to be
mustered into service,’the reserve forces in the sev
eral States, enrolled in pursuance of General Orders
No. .03, Mdj't and Inspector General's office, current
series. For this purpose District Enrolling Officers
are authorized to act as mustering ami inspecting
officers. They will superintend the election of
company officers, and forward the muster rolls, cer
tified by them, with tho certificates of election to
the Commandant of Conscripts fur tho State in
which such companies may be organized, tube turn
ed over to the General commanding the K.• owe
Forces.
• ' *
By order.
[Signed] S. COOPER.
Adjutant and Inspector General.
may 13 3t
Java CoiTft*.
OF superior quality, for sale by
if. FI HACK!;!!.
* may 13m.
For Sale,
200 gals; pure re-boiled Engli.-b Linseed Oil,
1 bid. Demur Varnish.
1-2 bid! Gopal Varnish,
1 2 bid. Resin Varnish, .
1 bid. Spis. Turpentine,
2 bbls Lampblack.
Prussian Blue in Oil,
Litherage, India Rubber and a lot of Superior
Oil Cloth.
Osoaburgs to Exchange for Corn, Bacon >•, i
Lard. Apply sum.
J. N. BARNETT a C>
may 13 3t
Iron Wire.
WE have a small lot of-IRON WIRE ft.r .-ale
H JEFFERSON & HAM 1 LToN,
may 12 3t
Foum
A bunch of small KEYS, which the owner can *et
by applying at this office, de . ribing the same
and pay mg tor this advertisement
may 12 ts
notice {
WANTED at the C. 8. Arsenal, i olumbu c;*
Feather ami Hides;
in large nr small quantities, for which the market
price will be paid. Parties shipping such to the un
dersigned will be insured against seizure by oflicer
or agent? of other branches of the Government.
F. C. HUMPHREY?,
may 11 ts Ma,j. Coir.dg. Ar-onn I
SHEETING, SHEETING!
BEST ARTICLE
4-Quarter Augusta Sheeting,
FOR SALE BY THE BOLT.
AT ROCK ISLAND PAPER MILLS OFFICE,
may 12 6t
Ad j’t and Inspector Genicrai.s Oktice, >
Rkhiuinr.ri, May 25. 1664 j
General Orders. N<>. 15.
VII. The Bureau of Con^iiption will proceed at
once to organize into companies, and isu* to be
mustered into service, the resu ve force \ h the sev
eral States, enrolled in pursuance of General Orders
No. 33, Adjutant and Inspector General'? Office,
current series. For this purpose, dHiiet enrolling
officers are authorized to act a' mustering and in
speeting officers. They «i;J snporimed t>«e elec
tion of company officer-, and Ibnvnid the muster
roll certified by them, w iiii ihg certificates ,»f elec
tion, to tho cormnanuant oi"Conscript? for the ??tate
in which such e« mpanic: may he organized, to be
by him turned over to the General Commanding the
Reserve Forces,
VIII. Upon receiving the muster rolls, the Gen
eral commanding the re-erve force? wiit
ders placing in commission and upon duty the offi
cers named in the certificates, if competent, re
serving copies, will forward the original rolls, with
certified copies of their orders enclosed to this Bu
reau for file. If there be reason to doubt the com
potency of an officer elect, his qualification- and fit
ness for commission will be inqffHred into end repor
ted upon by a Board 1o be convened by the General
commanding in acordance with General Orders No.
39, Adjutant and Inspector General’s office, series
of 1862.
By order
Signed.] S. COOPER.
Adjutant and Inspector General,
Headquarters GtoiufjA Reserve, ?
Macon, May 10, 1864.}
General Orders, No. S.
I. In compliance with the foregoing extracts from
General Orders No. 45, Adjutant and Inspector
General's Office, orders placing the officers elected
in the lie-servo Corps in commission, will be- issued
from these 1 i eadquarters as soon a? the muster rolls,
and certificates of election are, received. In the
meantime the officers elected in companies and reg
ion-ms, assigned to and put upon duty, will pro
ceed to discharge the duties of the respective ofiices
to which they have been eleetc-d.
11. The elections which have been held undw
General Orders No. a from I hesc] Headquarters, will
be forwarded to tho Department at Richmond; but
all elections hereafter, must be hold in compliance
with the direclions in the foregoing extracts,
Ilf, Boards for examining into the competency
of officers elected in this command, will be organ
ized indue time, and oi fivers commanding regiment*
are enjoined to report promptly, alt eases, which
may occur in theii respective command-', icqiiiring
the action of such Boards.
By command of
Maj. Gen. HOWELL COBB, sf
Commanding Georgia Reserve,
Lamar Cork,
Ma or and A‘ A. G.
may 13 6t
TtAOSJS !
t iiATTAHOOCBEE. CoriiSE,
l Ol.fMlil S, liElHiliV.
flUti. Race? over the above Course v?ih »••>«-
l o'-n.-c on Tm ?<t:.y, 2tth inst., and continue
live days.
First day Stake for 2 year olds, mils beats,
>otm on trance — bal f forfeit.
Second Day—Stake for three ve.ir old, mile
heals. Ssin) entrance —half forfeit.
Third day—Purse race ot ssuil, two Mtlo
heats.
Fourth day—Stake for 3 year olds, two ailo
eats,ssoo entrance — half forfeit.
Fifth day Post Make, SI,OOO entrance, half for
feit, three milt heat?.
In the Post Stake three good horses wilt start,
and perhaps lour.
C. S. A P. W. PRYOR,
may 11 ff Proprietor?.
“5 tove noi lmehs.”
Ha WO Stove Moulders can get employment «
X good wages, by application to
HARRISON, BEDELL A CO.
Columbus, Ga.
Augusta Constitutionalist, and Mississippian,
copy one month and send bills to this offic§.
may 6 Im
AUCTION SALES.
My Ellis, f.iviiifrston & Cos.
ADmiSTkATOrS SALE.
(I s SATI’EDAY. Hthof May, at 11 0.c10.-k, w»
' r will sell m Iront oi our store,
Bureaus, Chairs, Tables,
Looking Glass, Books,
Dining Room Safe, Lounge,
Borl Steads, Horse Collars,
Tm and Crockery Ware,
22 Specie Jarr., Bottles,
Empty Barrels, Tubs, Bucket*,
Cooking Stove,
2 Bottles Cod Liver Oil—with many
other articles too numerous to mention,
o boxes Choice Sugar,
32 Sacks Salt,
A Good Buggy and Harness,
may 12 s2rt
By Cl Si*,
VEIN DENIABLE STOCK (IF HARDWARE,
At AEiction.
Cl N lIK L."DAA 1 vuli May, util o’clock, we will
' ' ( Isi ill;- store, formerly occupied bv Van Mar
co-. the > otire L.ck of Hardware in said store, eoi
t.racing j largevari -I vof first class good.?, purchased
by one of our best hardware merchants, suituble
for
f Mtf J S.\TER!j MACHINISTS,
Pbn'TEKS, and others
-iSLlsafo*
Lot Fine Gun powder. Upper Leather,
50 Hose l ine tlhcwing Tr.hacco,
Englvdi t ’ofirmfidcs, •
s*“ f in,- Show Ease?, ke.
iiniv 13 id 823 50
By Ctli*, A Cos
l \N TF i’SDA V, 17til May, at 10 o'clock, we will
sell in front of our store, lor account of partis?
vriio are compelled to sell.
I! Boxes C hoice Sugar,
44 Sacks .Salt,
S bhi.x < hoicc Lard,
:t bbls Apalachicola Fish,
is Boxes Tobacco,
Lot Mitlcht-, Blacking. Clothing, Bhoes, Ac.
may 71 -j>lo
By i-illi*, liivingxton & Cos.
( b N Uib May, at 11 o’clock, wewiilaeil
-J in front oj •■ur' tuif'..
1 Sett Parlor Chairs,
1 i; cut her Bed,
1 Jiood Carpet,
2'Sett Double Harness,
2 Fine Bhot Gnus,
may 13 id s 5 go
By Rolette, Liinhoia, A Cos
Exeeators sate oi Household and Ritehen
fur oil ure.
\ITILL be ..i t on Friday, the 20th day of May
V V in fron tof onr auction room, r,t lc I-? o’clock,
all the IIO!\ EHOLD and KITCHEN Turniturs
of the late Mr?, Lucinda Salisbury, consisting in
part of
Bureaus. Wardrobes, Bed SieatU,
Mattra-ues, Chairs, Tables, Crockery
Ware,
Silver and Plated Spoons, Knives and*
Forks, <Ve
One Cooking Stove and Furniture,
One Cow and Calf, Sow and Pigs,
5 .Shares Mobile k Girard R. R. Stock,
1 80 acre Land Warrant,
W. L. SALISBURY,
may 9td $59 £ Executor.
