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WU instate ®tas.
.1. W. WARREN, - - - Editor.
Saturday Morning, June 18, 1864.
‘..Several exchanges have actually or inci
dentally adopted “South-land” as a convenient
cOinmou designation for the territory of the
Confederate States. That we need a territo
rial designation more convenient and manage-
IvTia in verse and speech for common use, than
thi officii and political title, “Confederate
States of America,” is admitted by all and is
but a continuance of the want felt under the
United States, to supply which many sugges
tions have been made. We repeatedly
invoked consideration to this mattei, and
believe wc may claim for the Courier the firs
nrooosilion of “South-land,” which has been
adopted at least by the author of a prize Song
]a We ‘shalta pleased, however, to receive
„o“n, an/proposal, 0f..,
or correspondents who can offer . name bet
ter in all respects and considerations.
1,1 1 [Charleston Courier.
We fully concur with the Charleston Corn
ier, in the sentiments expressed in the above
extract; but we object to the name suggested.
Indeed, we think that the national appellative
should be reserved, until our independence
shall be secured. That being made sure, the
Couriers own State should have the honor of
giving a name to the Confederacy, and ‘‘Pal
metto” would be the name that we would
suggest. But while the country is smarting
under the consequences of the revolution
which she has initiated, she stands where
Mosps stood, when troubles gathered upon
the people whom he led out of bondage: the
special object of blame for no fault of hers.
We trust that the same spirit moved both, and
that like rewards will be vouchsafed to both.
But while thousands of our countrymen in
tribulation, are sighing for flesh-pots of Yan
kccdorn, it is no time to propose honors to the
heroic State. Nor is it altogether certain as
yet that we shall gain our independence ; and
if we must fall, let us not gladden the hearts
of the Yankees by falling under that name.
The best name that we could select at this
time would be “Washingtonia.” Then if we
fall, let the Yankees take to themselves the
glory of having conquered a people, fighting
under the name of the man who gave them
independence, and for the principles which
they asserted, he espoused, and the whole
country agonized to establish through seven
'bloody jrears. #
Joint Resolution
Declaring the dispositions, principles and pur
poses of the Confederate States in relation to
the existing war ivith the United States.
Whereas, it is due to the great cause
of humanity and civilization, and especially
to the heroic sacrifices of their gallant army
in the field, that no means, consistent with a
proper self-respect and the approved usages
of nations, should be omitted by the Confed
erates States to enlighten the public opinion
of the world with regard to the true character
of the struggle in which they are eng%ged,
and the dispositions, principles and purposes
by which they are actuated; therefore.
Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate
States of America, That the following manifes
to be issued in their name and by their author
ity, and that the President be requested to
cause copies thereof to be transmitted to our
commissioners abroad to the end that she
same may be laid before foreigu Govern
ments.
Manifesto of the Congress of the Confederate
States of America relative to the existing tear
with the United States.
The Congress of the Confederate States of
America acknowledging, their responsibility
to the opinion of the civilized world, to the
great law of Christian philanthropy, and to
the Supreme Ruler of the universe, for the
part they have been compelled to bear in tbe
sad spectacle of war and carnage which this
•ontinent has, for the last three years, exhib
ited to the eyes of afflicted humanity, deems
the present a fitting occasion to declare the
principles, the sentiments and the purposes
by which they have been and are still actu
ated.
They have ever deeply deplored the neces
sity which constrained them to take up arms
in defence of their rights and of the free in
stitutions derived from their ancestors ; and
there is nothing they more ardently desire
than peace, whenever their enemy, by ceasing
from the unhallowed war waged upon them,
shall permit them to .enjoy in peace the shel
tering protection of those hereditary rights
and of those cherished institutions. The se
ries of successes with which it has pleased
Almighty God, in so signal a manner, to bless
our arms on almost every point of our invaded
bordeis since the opening of the present cam
paign, enables us to profess this desire of
peace in the interests of civilization and hu
manity without danger of having our motives
misinterpreted, or of the declaration ascribed
to any unmanly sentiment or any distrust of
our ability fully to maintain our cause. The
repeated and disastrous checks, foreshadow
ing ultimate discomfitthre, which their gigan*
tic army, directed against the capital of the
Confederacy, has already met with, are but a
continuation of the same providential success
for us. We do not refer these successes in
any spirit of vain boasting, but in humble ac
knowledgment of that Almighty protection
which has vouchsafed and granted them.
The world must now see that eight millions
of people, inhabiting so extensive a territory,
with such varied resources and such numer
ous facilities for defences as the benignant
bounty of nature has bestowed upon us, and
animated with one spirit to encounter every
privation and sacrifice of ease, of health, of
property, of life itself, rather than be degraded
form the condition of free and independent
States into which they were born, can never
be conquered. Will not our adversaries them
selves begin to feel that humanity has bled
long enough ; that tears and blood and treas-
ure enough have been expended in a bootless
undertaking, covering their land, no less than
ours,'with a pall of mourning, and exposing
tlrtm far more than ourselves to the catastro- j
phe of financial exhaustion and bankruptcy,
not to speak of the loss of their liberties by the
despotism engendered in an aggressive war,
upon the liberties ot another and kindred
people ’ Will they be willing, by a longer
perserverance in a wanton and hopeless con-
test, to make this continent, which they so
long boasted to be the chosen abode of liberty
and self-government, of peace and a higher
civilization, the theatre of the most causeless
and prodigal effusion or blood which the
world has ever seen, of a virtual relapse into
the barbarisms of the ruder ages, and of the
destruction of constitutional freedom by the
lawlessness of usurped power?
These are questions which our adversaries
will decide tor themselves. V*'e desire to
stand acquitted before the tribunal ot the
world, ns well as in the eyes of Omniscient
Justice, of any responsibility for the origin or
prolongation of a, war as contrary to the spir
it of the age as to the traditions and acknowl
edged maxims of the political system of Amer
ica. ;
-V**,* continent, whatever opinion may have
F*7*}" and olacwhere, it has ever been held and-ac
, r i “ e parties that Government,-to be
lawful, must he lounded on the consent of the
governed. We were forced to disaolve our federal
connection with our former associates by their ag
gressions on the fundamental principles of our
compact of union with them; and in doing so we
exercise a right consecrated in tho great charter
•f American liberty—the right ot a * r ® e P eo P le »
when a government proves destructive of the ends
for which it was established, to recur to original
j principles a.d te institute new guards for their se
curity. The separate independence of the States,
as sovereign and co-equal members of the 1 ederal
Union, had never boon surrendered, and the pre
tension of applying to independent communities,
so constituted and organized, the ordinary ru.es ot
coercion, and reducing rebellious subjects to ooe
dience, was a solecism in terms, as well as an out
rage on the principles of law.
The war made upon the Confederate States was,
therefore, wholly one of aggression. On our side,
it has been strictly defensive. Born
the descendants of a gallant ancestry, ded
option but to stand up in defence of vio i ate d
firesides, of eur desecrated altar jb.. _ reßcr i p tive
liberties and birthright, and of P. P
institutions which guard andpretoet
have not interfered, nor do we wish, may
ner whatever, to interfere with h . q hostility
and prosperity of the Sdates *rr y ' of their
against us, or with the freest a* ve P uoliev
destinies in any form of action, or
they mav think proper to adopt fer themselves.
AlUwe ask. is alike immunity for ourselves, and
to be left in the undisturbed enjoyment of those
inalienable rights of “life, liberty, and the pmsmi
of happiness,” which our common ancestors de
dared to be tho equal heritage of all the parties to
the soeial compact. , ~
Let them forbear aggressions upon us, and me
war is at an end. If there be questions which re
quire adjustment by negotiation, we have ever
been willing and are still willing to enter into com
munication with our adversaries in a spirit ot
peace, of equity, and manly frankness. Stron 1
iiiatieo of our c&uscj iu tho
the persuasion ot tne jusuco ui vu* j
gallant devotion of our citizen-soldiers, and of the
whole body of our people, and above all in the
gracious protection of Heaven, we are not afraid
to avow a sincere desire for peace on terms consis
tent with our honor and the permanent security of
our rights, and an earnest aspiration to see the
world once more restored to tho benificent pursuits
of industry and of mutual intercourse and ex
changes, so essential to its well-being, and which
have been so gravely interrupted by the existence
of this unnatural war in America.
But if our adversaries, or those whom they have
placed in authority, deaf to the voice of reason
and justice, steeled against the dictates of both
prudence and humanity by the presumptuous and
delusive confidence in their own numbers, or those
of their black and foreign mercenaries, shall de
termine upon an indefinite prolongation of the
contest, upon them be the responsibility of a de
cision so ruinous to themselves, and so injurious to
the interests and repose of mankind. .
For ourselves, wo have no fear of tho result.
The wildest pictures eve'r drawn of a disordered
imagination comes short of the extravagance
which could dream of the. conquest of eight mill
ions of people, resolved with one mind “to die
freemen rather than live slaves,” and forewarned
by the savage and exterminating spirit in w hich
this war has been waged upon them, and by the
mad avowals of its patrons and supporters, of the
worse than Egyptian bondage that awaits them in
tho event of thuir subjugation.
With these declarations of our dispositions, our
principles, and our purposes, we commit our cause
to the enlightened judgment of the world, to the
sober reflection of our adversaries themselves, and
to the solemn and righteous arbitrament of
Hoaven.
Latest from Europe.
THE LATE BATTLES IN VIRGINIA.
Opinions of the British Press—They Generally
Favor the Confederate Cause.
have received at this office, says tho
Petersburg Express, 13th, very late and in
teresting European news.* The British opin
ion of ths great struggle in Virginia, will be
ascertained upon a perusal of the following
extracts :
lord palmkrston’s report of the pctsition
OF THE ARMIES.
In the House of Commons on the 27th of
May, Mr. Hilliburton asked the noble lord at
the head of the government whether he had
received any intelligence confirming the ru
mored defeat of the Federals by Gen. Lee.
Lord Palmerston —The latest intelligence
that I have seen in the papers to-day, was up
to, I think, the 16th. At that time no fresh
action had taken place between the armies.
They were looking at each other. I have not
seen the more recent accounts to which the
honorable member refers.
Sir W. Frazer asked whether tho Admiralty
had any additional intelligence.
Lord C. Paget —No.
ENCOURAGING FROM THE THUNDERER.
[From the London Times, May 28th.]
* * * The actual capture of Richmond,
even if that triumph should crown Grant’s
despsrate enterprise, will not bring the North
a step nearer to the restoration of the Union
or the conquest of the South. The saying of
President Davis that the war could be pro
longed for twenty years, even in the State of
Virginia, after Richmond had fallen, will be
in everybody’s recollection, and if Grant ever
reaches that city he may find that his tool
and resolute adversary, after exacting the ut
most obtainable price for it in blood and
slaughter will leave the position in his hands
with no greater value in it than attached to
the Wilderness after it had served its time and
the fighting was done. After what has now
been divulged of the plans and recorded of the
operations of the contending armies we can
estimate witli little difficulty the prospects of
the campaign. It is litterally a question of
military arithmetic. Putting aside for the
moment the value of the prize and the im
portance or unimportance of the result, we
have only to calculate whether Lee, with the
resources at his command, can, by the process
which he is so effectually employing, exhaust
the resources of Grant before he reaches
Richmond, or whether, on the contrary, in the
common consumption of life, Grant can out-
last Lee. If Grant possess strength enough to
continue to attack as he has attacked, it is
clear that in the end he will arrive, in some
plight or other, before the defences of Rich
mond, and, if he can still maintain the same
rate of expenditure, will some day enter the
city. He, himself writes Secretary* Stanton :
“I propose to fight it out on this line, if it
takes all summer,” and he has shown by his
conduct that we may take him at his word.
If, however, his cool, resolute and skillful ad
versary, should be strong enough to continue
up to the walls of the capital, the tactics
which he has hitherto employed, and if he can
make Grant pay at the current rate for every
mile of ground, it may be a question whether
the resources or endurance of the federals
themselves will prove as inexhaustible as the
obstinacy of their General. At present we j
can only see that this dreadful game has been I
played by both parties through twelve days
of battle and carnage, without surrender on
either side. We have heard what Grant na&
been doing, and he himself does lull justice, in
his curt, but truthful dispatches, to the un
conquerable heroism of his adversary. It is
the rudest and most savage issue of the war—
who can stand the most killing? It is more
than ever difficut to predict the result ot a
contest of endurance, but the advantages ol
; ground, position and intelligence, arc with the
Confederates, and Washington has more than
once been in greater danger ot capture than
we believe Richmond to be now.
WHAT THE WHIGS AND GOVERNMENT MEN THINK
OF THE YANKEE TKICMPKS.
TFrom the London Post (Cabinet Organ) May
L 28th.]
If the North really-consider the battle in
Virginia a victory, I! can only be because they
have been so accusiPitVA ti Jo be disgracefully
beaten in that quarter by fepn. Lee. that they
look upon anything shot t of utter and disas
trous defeat as. n triumph. Upon r he same
principle, it Js ju-esuravd that shot: id Grant
be ultimately dri^^- back and routed, they
will not takt-rit to heart, having become
so habituated to failure, that they regard it as
the normal and natural order ot things. Any- i
thing s hoti.Qi" repulse and the narrowest pos- i
sible esb»pe from complete destruction for the
Grand Army of the Potomac, in its - ; oti to :
Richmond" exploits, will indeed be agreeable
3Umri?° for the Feuerals— almost as street a
surprise as the unexpected oaptu.e o, :»tc.i
mond would be lor the South. It would be a
novelty in its way. perfectly original and un
ique The latest telegrams from the North,
i which we print to-day. tend to show that if
the Federals succeed in fighting a drawn bat
tle which, for them, is virtually equivalent to
a defeat, they may think themselves fortunate.
Both the flank and the direct attempts to
reach Richmond, have thus far signally fail
ed. The pretended retreat of Gen. Lee, and
his “pursuit” by Grant, previously asserted by
the Federals, are now expresely contradicted
by them.
******
It is a great mistake to estimate the merits
of a cause by the ability and preseverance with
which it is conducted. The Thug will track
his unconscious victim for days and weeks, or
even months, through cold and hunger, and a
thousand difficulties to strangle him at last—
not for gain, not for the smallest fraction of
any tangible good to be got for himself by it,
but simply to fulfill what he considers his du
ty to the sanguinary dfvinity he worships. So
in the Northern armies, there is r no doubt,
besides mercenaries, many a grim fanatic,
laboring under the'delusion that he is fighting
“the battles of the Lord,” in a crusade against
slavery—many a political enthusiast, who
is ready with the best and most disinterested
intentions, to offer up six millions of South
erners on the bloody shrine of “the Union as
it was.” But after all the truth is, that the
North do not fight so well as the South.
[From the London Herald, (Derby Organ) May
27th, 1864.]
WHAT THE BRITISH ARISTOCRACY THINK.
If the American quarrel is to be decided by
the ordeal of battle, it can hardly be said to
be in a fair way of receiving any distinct solu
tion at present. Though some fifty thousand
men at least have been killed and wounded in
a week, mail after mail which brings us news
from the battle fields in Virginia represents
the result of this fighting as still indecisive.
The circumstances are such as to suggest to us
a very precise balance of advantages on either
side—enough, indeed, to make us doubtful
as to the issue of events. On the one side the
power of almost overwhelming numbers, with
a ferocious energy which has not been parall
eled in the former history of the war —on the
other side the perfection of scientific strategy ,
with an equal determination to conquer or die.
As the battle between Greeks and Trojans,
where the Father of the gods considered it
such a perfect match that he urged upon his
fellow banqueters the propriety of not inter
fering on either side, so -as to spoil the game,
this great match between the Federal and the
Confederate, seems so even that the very ex
pression of sympathy for either, from the far
off spectators of the combat, has something of
unfairness in it. We will do Gen. Grant the
justice to say that he has made the most di
rect, and perhaps the most skillful attack that
has yet been levelled at the Southern capital.
It must be confessed, however, that all previ
ous attacks have been miserable failures ; and
it is not improbable that this will turn out to
be the completest failure of all, for the very
reason that it has approached nearest to a
success.
On the morning of the 13th May, the Feder
als found that the enemy had disappeared
from their front, and the latest accounts leave
them following slowly and painfully through
thick mud that offers a serious impedi
ment to the transport of artillery. Time will
show the object of the Southern General in
this movement. He may wish to prevent his
right flank from being turned by an advance
along the Fredericksburg railroad. He may
find the position on the Po creek too favorable
to the Federal artillery and too far from his
supplies. The advance of Butler along James
river may have made him anxious about the
safety of Richmond. He may wish to draw
the Federal army into the heart of a difficult
country, some ten miles futher South of its
base of operations, that he may be the better
enabled to surround it and complete its de
struction. The position of Grant is now per
ilous in an extreme degree. He has gone bo
far that he has no longer an opportunity of
escape in case of danger. There is, to all ap
pearance, but one alternative left to him—he
musteither drive Lee from his front, or be him
self annihilated.
[From the London Telegraph, May 27.]
GRANT MUST GO FORWARD.
As long, indeed, as Grant moves onward,
so long will New York believe in him. But
suppose he calls a halt—suppose that his crip
pled forces are held for more than a few days
in check before some other rifle pits and breast
works stronger than those at Spottsyh ania ?
To measure the probable re-action, wt must
remember that au almost bloodless victory
was hoped for, and that the same journal
which records these sanguinary struggles, very
recently expressed its opinion that the cam
paign would result “in the rebel evacuation of
the city, and Lee’s retreat into North Carolina
without a battle, in order to save his army.”—
That dream,-at any rate, has been dispelled;
and on the first indication of evil fortune,
New York, suddenly recovering from an ex
citement that is almost madness, will confess
that twenty miles of Virginia soil may have
been dearly won at the price of
men for every mile.
[From the Manchester Examiner, May 28.]
THE FEELING IN MANCHESTER.
* * * A survey of these diffi
culties will enable us to understand the con
siderations which General Lee must take into
account in determining the tactics of the cam
paign. A retreat to Richmond "would simplify
the situation, and seem to afford him so many
advantages—if that is the word to use where
everything looks disadvantageous—that we
shall not be surprised to hear of his marching
thither at once. He is menaced with an ava
lanche of disaster, and if he should avert it
from crushing him it will be next to a miracle
of energy and skill. In coolness, infertility
of resources, in promptness of decision, and,
above all, in unflinching resplution, Grant has
immeasurably distanced his predecessors. —
The federal soldiers have fought as they never
fought before on the soil of Virginia, than
which, perhaps, no tribute to their prowess
could be higher.
It is simple truth to say, that tho Confederates
have astonished the world by their heroism. It Q** s
been a revelation of Southern character which
their antecedents led but few to anticipate, and
which, even from those who most severely c >n
demn the cause for which they have taken up
arms, must command all the respect which the
highest military qualities can inspire.
OPINION IN LIVERPOOL.
(From the Liverpool Mercury, May 27'.)
« * * General Grant will have to* follow
them, dragging all his supplies over broken roads
and through swollen streams. All the circumstan
ces of these desperate battles give one a high re
spect for ihe bra very both of the Federal and Con
federate armies; but all the generalship appears
to be on the side of the Confederates. Gen. Lee
seems to have the power of compelling Gen. Grant
to fight him in the positions most favorable for an
invading army. It is doubtful whether the fede
rals have been able to use their splendid artillery
in any of the recent battles, while the Confede
rates have been able to. make much use of theirs.
A Prophecy About to be Fulfilled. —The
Atlanta Confederacy says:
It is a weather prophecy with the French that,
if the Bth day of June fall on a and’
that particular Wednesday should be'* ; a '"-day of
rain, each succeeding day for a period of forty
shaii also be a day of showers. The Sth of
the present dismal June did come in on a Wednes
day. Each su -feeding twenty-four hours up to
the present writing has had its one or bait dozen
show- rs. The ,Ta:':e skies are still om i-t, with
anything bat a fair prospect of a cess . ini, and
the French idea may hold good here in our West
ern land, to the discomfiture <>f Sherman and his
teamsters, and to the disgust of all untented sol
diers. The roads are in terrible condition, with
their accumulation of finished el ay and water.
Gen. Seymour’s predictions concerning the Par
rott shells may perhaps fail in distance. With the
brut intentions possible the |makeis and timers of
these implements of ••union” may not succeed in
tin owing their fraternal arguments and appeals
for reconsrructior to the distance of six and a h.tif
miles. To give the Yankee prisoners the her it
of the and üb' ar.d better opportunities of observa
tion. thev h mid be distributed so that some may
be well within hat range and all close up to
Ouarier, lit.'.-.
Geh. Grant's army ward robe” is said to consist
of a held glass, a briar-wood pipe, a fvoth brush and
corkscrew.
gBLBgRAPHIO;,
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 the Confederate States for
tho Northern District of Georgia.
Latest from Virginia.
Enemy Repulsed at Petersburg.
Latest from the Georgia Front.
Sherman Again Driven Bark.
&C>t &C»t &c.
Petersburg, June 17.—The assault on Battery
16 last evening was handsomely repulsed by Bush
rod Johnson’s division, and about 450 prisoners
captured belonging to Hancock’s corps. They
state that Gen. Barton was mortally wounded.
Our forces" met with a slight reverse at the
same point this morning, but an assault at the
same place at 3 o’clock this afternoon was re
pulsed.
It is believed that the enemy have a heavy
force massed in front of Petersburg.
Col. Page, Wise’s Brigade, killed this morning;
Capt. Fred Carter, Richmond Blues, wounded
Wednesday night, died to-day ; Col. Randolph
Thomasson, mortally wounded in the same fight,
doing well; Lieut. Col. Wise, severely wounded,
improving.
Three Miles West op Marietta, June 17.
The enemy made an attack in three lines of battle
on our extreme left near Lost Mountain and wore
received with terrific volleys of artillery and mus
ketry.
They were driven backwards and our forces
strewed the ground with dead and wounded of the
enemy.
Mhe fight occurred at 2p. m: Full accounts
not yet received.
The enemy cannonade our works in the centre
of our lines furiously.
Both lines remain substantially the same as
yesterday.
The enemy continue foitifying. They attempt
cd'to shell our Signal Corps on Ivennessaw Moun
tain but they could not reach the top of the moun
tain.
Clinton, La., June 17.—Wednesday morning
at daylight, Col. Scott’s batteries attacked and
drove off gunboats 53 and tho Bragg, at Como
Landing and Radeliffe’s Ferry. The engagement
lasted four hours, when the gunboat Lafayette
cameup and S<?ptt withdrew.
Last night the engagement was renewed and
the Bragg was towed off with thirty shot through
her. jfj
There is much moving of Yankee transports up
and down the river between Port Hudson and New
Orleans.
Meridian, June IS.—The latest reports from
the Mississippi river state that Marmaduke has
gone towards Little Rock. A. J. Smith landed
troops below Marmaduke and was about to flank
him when he withdrew taking all his booty and
stores with him.
Marmaduke has injured a great many of the
enemy’s vessels in the river.
The small pox is very bad in the Yankee
camps at Vicksburg and is spreading among the
citizens.
Gold in Vicksburg, 207.
Another Massacre Probable.— We clip the
following item from the news column of the N. Y.
Herald of the 3d. We hope our authorities will
look closely to the matter and demand an eye for
an eye:
General Butler has issued an order that the Rebel
prisoners captured by General Wild in his recent
engagements on James river, and sent to Fortress
Monroe, shall be returned to Gen. Wild’s headquar
ters, to be dealt with in some fashion not made
known. The order is interpreted to moan some re
taliation for the shooting of colored troops captured
from General Wild.
Missouri Congressmen. —The following are
the newly elected Congressmen from Missouri:
First District—Thomas I^Suead.
Second District—N. L. Norton-
Third District—John B. Clark.
Fourth District—A. H. Conrow.
Fifth District—George G. Vest.
Sixth District—Peter L. Wilkes.
Seventh District—Robert A. Hatcher.
From the Richmond Enquirer.
Th* following spicy and characteristic poetical
epistle, from the versatile pen of “Asa Hartz,” was
recently.receivcd by flag of truce, by Judge Robert
Ould, Commissioner for the exchange of prisoners,
and is sent us, to be preserved in “glorious page di
urnal.” “Asa” has been a prisoner of war for nearly
a year, and no wonder he is getting tired of “rusti
cating on Johnson’s Island.” His case deserves the
attention of the authorities. It won’t do to let such
a “trump” “go up the spout
Block 1, Room 12, ]
Johnson’s Island, Ohio, r
April 26, 1864. j
Dear Uncle Bob,
I fear your head
H h aSVS$ tie »;?»!!■ “I- I "''
And ask if you can bring about
Some certain moans to get me out t
Hav’nt y( u got a led ral Aiaje
Vmr resting in some Dixie cage.
Who see his loving maria,
Or visit once again his farm, >(
Or gaze upon his garden sass,
Or see once more his bright eyed ,ass .
Ilav’nt you one of these, isay,
Whom you would hue to swap away,
For me, a man of vim—of parts
Swap him, in short, tor Asa Hart a T
I’ve been here, now, almost a year,
And sigh for liberty, so dear!
I’ve tried by every means I knew
To bid this Isle a fond adieu;
Du«* holes, scaled walls, .parsed through the gate,
With Yankee cap upon my pate.
\r.d when I went out on the ice,
And thought I’d got away so nic-c,
l met a blue’coat in any route,
WhCtiuickly m adorn*.; lace about ;
March’d me, wads diabolic grin, _
Back to the gate, and turned me mj
I’ve swallowed strange,
That bad a wbnjßToout exenange;
Grew fat with joy, and lean with sorrow,
Was'“up” to-day and’ down to-morrow .
Implored, with earnestness of soul,
To be released upon parole!
Wrote Ben. F. B. a spicy letter.
And told him he could not do oettcr
Than let me out for thirty days,
• I read his answer in amaze ! _
He said that "things” were mix and up, now.
In such a way, he knew not how,
The favor that I asked about,
Gould well be granted. Had no douot,
That "things” would soon be so arranged,
That all of us would be exchanged,
That ended it. I wrote to I rentice,
Who several times nad kindly lent his
! Purse and name to those whom chance^
: And "pomp and glorious circumstance,
| Jla.d Sent to rusticate a while, „
F Within the “pns on Jonnson s Isle,
r Well) George D. wrote to Gen. Terry,
i Commandant here—a good man, very—
’ And told hjm if he'd iet me out,
For thirty days, or thereabout,
i He’d take line down into Kentucky—
j See that I did nt cut in> -ucs> ,
i Would go my ail m any sum
i That, when they wanted uie—/ and come .
I Gen .-Terry wrote him pack. ,
1 That he must walk the beaten track. .
"I really thought,” said he, you knew it.
That Staunton, and he alone, can do it.
! Thus ended that plan. I've no doubt,
That I'm almost "gone up the spout.
Uni ess you can devise some mean-,
To give me change of air ami scenes.
By special swap.
Now, uncle Bob.p
Be patent with me 1 Bo nqf too *. *
Me of the hope I fondly euemsii. s.
Do not leave me here to peri- i. .
I've shuttled. cut tne cards, and dynut.
Have played my bower, otsyo.-s is teit,
More than the loss of fi-tny lucre.) •
P',. u . c ~iK y in? hand—save me the euchre!
And when your latest breath departs,,
You’ll die bewailed by Asc Horn !
p. 5
. When you. in answeriug this, shall write.
Address me—“ Major Geo. McKnight, ,
Pris. of war’” Be cautious, very.
And add ou—"care ofGen’l Terry. '
CITY MATTERS.
T. J. JACKSON,.....*. LOCAL EDITOR.
Divine Services
Are held at Temperance Hall on evey Sunday at
10 a, m., and Bp. m. Seats all free.
Bivine Service.
Rev. Dr. Gutheim, late of New Orleans, will preah
Sermons at the Synagogue this (Saturday) and Sun
day at 10 a. m.
Douglas Amfciilamce Corps
Columbus, June 16th, 1864.
At a meeting held this day the following resolu
tion was adopted:
That' the thanks of the Committee are due, and
hereby tendered to the President and Directers of
the Muscogee Railroad Company, for their kind
ness in gratuitously furnishing them with a car,
for their use in their recent trip to Marietta and
baek, also to the other Railroad Companies, on route,
for their assistancelin enabling them tolavoid delay.
H. L. GOODRICH,
President.
C. G. Holmes, Sec’y.
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Capt. Cropp.— The telegraph on Thursday af
ternoon brought the sad intelligence that this gal
lant officer was mortally wounded and had fallen
into the hands of the enemy at Petersburg. This
is sad news to his many friends in this part of the
country. It will be recollected that at the break
ing out of the war he commanded a splendid com
pany raised at Apalachicola, which we believe,
was attached to the 6th Florida. Th*t regiment
was at first stationed at Pensacola, and Captain
Cropp was a participant in the famous and gal
lant night assault on Santa Rosa. also par
ticipated in the battle of Shiloh, in which he was
seriously wounded, and after the expiration of the
term of service of tho 6th Florida, he assisted in
the formation of Capt. Moise’s Cavalry Rangers,
in which he was chosen 2d Lieutenant. This com
pany attached to the 7th Confederate cavalry,
rendered efficient services in North Carolina and
Virginia. Some months since he was appointed
to a captaincy in this regiment, which position ho
held at the time Os the unfortunate occurrence
which has probably terminated his life. All tes
timony unites in pronouncing Capt. Cropp, an
honorable and much respected gentleman and a
brave and chivalrous officer.
A Veteran Campaigner. —We paid a vis’t
yesterday to the Government gun-repairing shop,
under tho superintendence of Maj. llarding, and
through his politeness and that of Mr. Dillon,
were shown through the shop. Among other cu
riosities in the way of ancient and antiquated fire
arms, we saw a London Tower musket made in the
year 1762, which, though of course affected by the
ravages of time, and in the old style, is still in a
good state of preservation. An hundred and two
years old! What an age for a gun, and what an
eventful tale it could unfold were it gifted with
the power of speech ? It has doubtless killed its
man—probably many—in its day. It doubtless
fought through the Revolution, commencing in
1776; whether ia favor of or against American
liberty we cannot, tell. It next probably took part
in some of the Indian wars ; then in the war of
1812 ; then in the Indian war of 1836 and ’37 ;
thoff in thß Mexican war of 1845 and ’46, and
lastly, perhaps, has borne a part in the present
revolution. We feol a veneration for ancient
things, and right gladly would we the his
tory of this venerable gun. We feel confident it
would be a bistory replete with interest. A relic
of Washington’s days, how sacred! —those days
that tried men’s souls. It has come down through
the long line of American statesmen; has lived to
see the formation and dissolution of the great
American republic; and while its founders and
statesmen lie mouldering in common dust, and the
Government of their labors and eloquence has van
ished like “the baseless fabric ©f a vision,” tbe
old gun still survives, and still has tho gift of ut
terance, and the power to make itself felt.
Maj. Harding informs us that it is his purpose
to put this dilapidated fusilee in the best state of
repair of which it is susceptible, and proservo it as
a memorial of things that were.
Murder. —We learn that John Croghan was
murdered Thursday night in this city by Richard
Moore. Croghan was a policeman. The Coro
ner’s verdict was that the case was one of volun
tary murder. Moore is now in jail.
The Wheat Crop. —Considerable apprehension
is felt regarding the wheat crop in this section
owing to the continued prevalence of the rainy
season. We hear of some cases where farmers
have cut their wheat, shocked it in tho field, and
now after a week’s rain upon it in this situation
the grains arc beginning to sprout. We trust such
cases are few, us at this time, when so much de
pendence is felt i# tbe crop, as well as every other
article of food tbe soil can produce, it would be a
serious drawback to our people to lose their wheat*
Melons. —We have it from authority (ordina
rily not very” reliable) that there were yesterday
in this market, a couple ot small water-melons lor
sale, at the moderate sum of $3 each. We hail
this as good nows and trust soon to see the mar
ket stocked with this delicious and healthy melon.
We fear, however, that this rainy season will se
riously damafs the prospect of a fin© crop.
♦ —♦
Distinguished Arrival.— We stop the press
to announce that the first musquito of the season
made his appearance in this city
night. That he is the forciunuci of a long race o
this musical insect, there can be little doubt.
The London Quarterly contains a most interes
ting article on t&q Excavations at Pompeii, worth
the attention of all who aro capable of taking
pleasure in information which throws light on
the domestic life of the greatest' nation that ever
ruled on earth— thqt is to say of all who do Eot
think that a copy of the Times contains m*>re wis
dom than tlie whole ot Thucydides. It notices a
valuable discovery made by the present guardian
of the buried city —that it is possible, by pouring
plaster into the cavities where the volcanic mud
ha? suffocated and buried the inhabitants of Pom
peii. tc obtain an exact model of the form, feat
ures ar,d?4n#?-of tbe sufferers, as they were at the
time oAiWljyiestrucUon. In this manner some
interesTuV^i jfur-es, andfome curious details as to
the secrets of tvVomjHnsjJi lady’s toilet, have been
procured. At is a surpiiso to find t,ie goiment
which was held peculiar to thefceltic barbarians—
so peculiar that it gave a name which distinguished
-Transalpine Gaul (braccata) fr m Cisalpine (to-
w< rn by the women es an Italian city tiior
nuahlv and. completely Roman.
Siege of Charleston —Th ■■■? JL, ,-H-ed o;>d
Forty -Second D ty. —The enemy's boats. were un
u-ua’ly busy Tu sd-ay keeping irp communication
between 'he vessels inside be ir amt the ■nocka
ders. It is believed that General Foster nas as
sumed command of the Yankee dep.iruncpr. F is
ter has t..e i\nuia. ion of being uii active and en
terpri-ing commander. and w.U try As hand at
getting,up some expedition inland.
The enemy fired some five shots from Ba'tery
iregg at F rt tiunuer in the foroi.o >n, and six
shots at the city. Some few shots were exchanged
between Battery Gregg and Sullivan a I*,aim »at
torie?, and also with the James' Island butter.es. —
A large ir.-tusp >rt came in from 'he South ■» Mon
day, “auJ, we earn, land and a largo number of
troops ou the South end of Folly Island. '
Tbe enemy were s ;il shelling the city at the
hour of closing our repart. — Courier, 1 5th.
[Special Correspondence Memphis Appeal.]
From the Front-
In the Field, June 15, 1864.
Notwithstanding the great activity mani
fested by the enemy yesterday, they arc com
paratively quiet to-day. Shelling alono-
Walker’s and Cheatham's lines, is kept up
ularly, but slowly, and with little effect to us.
The position occupied by General Bate, on
Pine mountain, where Gen. Polk met hu’ua
timely end, was shelled yesterday furiously
and accurately throughout the day.
The skirmishers of Tyler’s brigade were at
tacked by a line of the enemy’s, almost equal
to a line of battle, and one part forced back.
Major Kindrick, of the 37th Georgia regiment
was desperately, and it feared mortally, woun
ded ; also fifteen or twenty of the same regi
ment wonnded.
The 4th Georgia sharpshooters were order
ed to the support of Major Kindrick’s line, and
succeeded in re-establishing it, with the loss
ot tour or five wounded.
Pine mountain is an abrupt ridge, some three
fourths of a mile long, unconnected with anv
other hill, and situated in front of our main
line of battle. Bate’s gallant division was
thrown from the extreme left of army at Dallas,
after turning the enemy’s right, to our ex
treme right, and has occupied this isolated
position, unconnected with any other line,
ever since, (eight days) until last night, when
it was quietly withdrawn within our works.
This command it seems was stationed on
Pine mountain as a force of observatiun, and
to engage the attention of the enemy until our
main lines should be established/ The de
sired object being accomplished, the command
was removed, not, however, without inflicting,
at different times, severe loss upon the enemy.
Their double lines of skirmishers were in every
instance except the one mentioned, repulsed
easily, and at that point their temporary ad
vantage wrested from them.
This division, composed of the flower of
Kentucky, Georgia and Florida, and com
manded by the untiring, brave and dashing
Bate, has won new. laurels in four distinct
engagements since leaving Dalton. It has
marched as far, skirmished as much, fought
more, and suffered, in proportion to its num
bers, far more severely than any other divis
ion in the army. It has accomplished the first
and only achievement of the kind that has
occurred during the campaign, that I am
aware of—it forced the enemy from a strongly
fortified line in front of our left near Dallas,
and occupied two miles of his works. Had
this occurred in Virginia, it would have im
mortalized to fame the gallant major-general
and brave officers and men under him for
gaining so signal a victory, HARVEY.
From the Richmond Enquirer, 13th'
From tlie Talley.
Early yesterday morning rumor reported the cap
ture'of Lexington by the enemy under Crook and
Averill. As the same rumor had onco before gone
the rounds, not much credit was given it, but lit be
ing afterwards confirmed by official intelligence, the
question was at last settled. The enemy’s forces
were reported to be about sixteen thousand strong,
and consisted mainly es cavalry, with a dozen pieces
ofartillery. They advanced byjtwo roads, leading
from Staunton, and formed a junction several mile3
north east of Lexington, where they arrived on Sat
urday morning. It is believed that they burned the
Institute. From Lexington it was supposed that
they would proceed to Lynchburg, about forty miles
distant.
Lexington is 146 miles west of .Richmond. is the
capital of Rockbridge couni y, and is situated on the
west bank of North River, a branch qfthe Jame 3.
It contains a neat court house, a jail, four or five
ehurches, of various denominations, the Virginia
Military Institute, the Ann Smith Female Seminary,
Washington College, about twenty stores, two week
ly newspapers, and about twolthousand inhabitants.
Washington College was originally established as an
academy in 1776, under the name of Liberty Hall.—
In 1776 it received its first regular (fndpwment from
George Washington, and from that time took the
name of the Washington Academy, and by an act
of the Virginia Legislature, in 1812, was changtd to
Washington College. It has a fine library, consist
ing of 6.200 volumes. One hundred shares of the
James River and Kenawah Canal Company, left by
Washington to found this College, yields annually
$2,500. The Virginia Military Institute, which i*>
supposed to have been burned, was built on the plan
orfhe U. S. Military Academy at West Point. It
was a handsome structure, and enjoyed, as a milita
ry institute, a fine reputation.
The advance of the enemy upon Lexington wa>
resisted by Gen. McCausland, but his forces were
entirely inadequate for tne purpose of seriously
checking it.
McCausland, outnumbered and flanked on both
sides, fell back to Balcony, with the Falls Cadets.
A portion of Averill’s .forces i§ reported, Jin well
informed quarters, to have diverged from the Lex
infiton stage road, at Fairfield, and crossed the
Blue iZidge into Nelson county. Here they are
said to have made a descent upon the Lynchburg
and Charlottesville railroad at Tye river bridge
(twenty four miles from Lynchburg), where they
burned the bridge and committed other excesses.—
It wa3 supposed that they would make a feint upon
Lynchburg, cross the James and pitch upon the
High Bridge over the Appomattaox, destroy it, and
complete the detour by going on, in Kautz’s tracks,
to Butler’s department. .
This supposition, however, is provisional. The
demonstration on Lynchburg may not be a feint,
but if foiled, the High Bridge may be the point ot
attack as an alternative. Yesterday evening offi
cial information had been received that the enemy
had in the morning burned Arrington depot, and
passed on to Amherst Court House, which is only
twelve miles from Lynchburg. Their force is be
lieved to be eight or ten thiusand strong, and is
said to be under the immediate command of Gen.
Crook.
Later —Information received last night states
that the enemy had arrived within six miles ot
Lynchburg.
FUNERAL NOTICE.
The friends and acquaintances of Mr. and
Mrs. F. C. Johnson are invited to attend the
funeral of their infant daughter, Joanna Lou
isa, from their residence on Mclntosh street,
THIS (Saturday) AFTERNOON, at half-past
five o’clock.
* MARRIED.
At the residence of the bride’s uncle, by Rev. T.
H. Stout, on the evening of the 14th inst., Capt. J.
Berrien Oliver, of this city, to Miss Bella, daugh
ter of the late Hon. A. C. S. Alexander, of Early
county, Ga.
Lost.
A N INDIA RUBBER OVERCOAT between the
A. Post Office'and Muscogee Depot, on the at ter -
neon of 17th June. The finder will please leave it
at the Times Office. R. J. MOsLd.
je 18 3t
By Ihllis, Livingston & Cos
AT PRIVATE SALE.
OXE CASE MOIRXHG PRIM'S,
* JUST RECEIVED,
je 17 2t $4
By LlSis,
To Refugees, Lawyers, Doctors and Other*
r rHE HOUSE AND LOT situated at Crawfor
A Ala., formerly owned by Judge Tate, is now tor
sale at a reduced price. House has five well fine
large rooms, good >ut houses, good vineyards, fine
young orchards of desirable fruit, 116 acres land at
tached, with fine well and spring of water. Those
who want a comfortable and healthy place in a good
neighbohood, will do well to apply soon Other
land radjoining can be bought at reasonable rates.
junelT 5t # S2O
Government Transportation Works, i
• 6'oluubus, Ga., June 16, 1864. ‘
I have Osaaburgs, Augusta Sheetings and Augus
ta Spun Yarn, some numbers as high as 12, which I
desire to exchange‘on equitable terms for
and Meal. THO§. JOHNSON.
jelTlm Special Ag’t Q. M. Dept.
WAITED!
Muscogee Railroad Otfi'k. ’ 1
Columbus, G»., June loth, Idii...
U’ANTED ago and BOILER MAKER orBI.A K
SMITH. Apply to
W. L. CLARK
je 17 2w Superintendent Muscogee R. .:
Chasige ot
AN and after Sunday, June; 19th. tne {ran. - on
■ • the >iusco£et* Railroad will run as *o*l A'
\> VSSKNGER TRAIN :
Leave Columbus * V ?. M.
Arrive at Ma.-ou •* go A. .')
; <?.>ve Macon - in P. if.
\--:v» at Cdiimh-us i lA P V.
FREIGHT TRAIN:
Leave Columbus 5 Oi) A. M
Arrive at Columbus 4 55 A. if
W. L. CLARK.
mar It? ts Supt. Muscogee R, F.