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J. W. WiKHi;\, - - - K^ltor.
COLUMBUS:
Wednesday Morning, November!, 18G4.
Cnlcnlations of the Enemy.
General Grant has declared his .belief, iua
letter that has been made public, that the
Confederacy is at its last gasp; that the stock
of fighting material has been entirely exhaus
ted ; that to compose the army which is now
facing hi* on tlielioes from Petersburg to Rich
mond the Confederacy h»d her** compelled to
rob tie orach- and'"t b J : •* wu fotces,
on the o her band, are in tne Highest stale of
preservation and efficiency : that iua very
little -inn; 1 j can pm an extinguisher upon
tile war fl <d these staiciuuuts bet-n submit
ted to a people enprtDle ot ifaeoning. says the
Richmond Whig, many fl ings in them might
have seemed incuiis'pfetn with the exisfing
fact**. f«>r instn.n-e. if f!i<» rebels were so
ne f(\ e.; ban*- J. v>;.• r.Ji-. . nib bold at
bay ih; poe -oil and fully organized
and equipped >n.y of General Grant?—
If the material *.d ibt rabid army oim
sis ed oulv yf ol ildren too ydtiug to bear
arms, by wbat influence had they been* ena
bled to repel a’l the at ticks tlitif had b. . u
made upon them? If the demolition oft is
force was a thing bu easy of Hccomplishmt
<i 11 -i the capture of Richmond was tbe ov- r ,
throw of the rebellion, why did not General i
Gran' proceed at once to gratify the earnest
wi-i, of every iitukee heart? Af*ove all, had
ti,i public been eiiher curious or critical; they
might have asked if it was not in badtatMe for
Grant, above ail other men, to make ;>«ch de
clarations with regard to an enemy whom lie
had been unable to conquer, at the head of
ah army t.uly one.eighth smaller than that
with whi it Bonaparte invaded Russia—wbpm
he had never met in the field but to be beaten
by them- from whom lie had been unable to
conquer; one foot of the ground they had de
fended—ami who still, to all appearances, de
fied him a.- confidently and as fearlessly as
they had dime six months before ? Rut there
was none disposed to dispute liis word, or to
doubt.his predictions. All were eager to see
the rebellion crushed in reality as it had often
been on paper, and men do not like to raise a
conflict between their hopes and their doubts, if
they can possibly avoid it. They believed,
because they were determined to believe, that
we were entirely exhausted of men, and it is
upon that calculation that they are now pros
ecuting the war.
That these calculations are false, and will
lead to the most disastrous consequences (o
the Yankees who make them, is sufficiently
clear. Even now, we are enabled to face
them everywhere, with equal advantages. At
no point are they superior to u«. And yet, if
we may trust the researches of Senator Hill,
of Georgia, we have not more than one-third
of the men between 18 and 43, now in the
service. Were all the stragglers and fur
loughed men at their posts, we should he able
to drive Grant into the river, before the lapse
of another month. Why these men are not
sent to tbe front, is a question which we are
not prepared to answer. But we are assured
that, in future, means far more energetic than
any heretofore used, will be applied lo bring
them up to the mark, f’here is no danger of
being conquered for want of men to defend
our cause. Os that the Yankees may be as
sured.
The Press ami Congress.
We have heard certain outgivings by gentlemen
who profess to know, and they predict that the
Congress to meet on the 7th of next mouth, have
hostile intentions against the press of the country.
All we have to say on this subject is, that if thoy
are ready for the conflict, so are we. If the fight
is to begin at all, the srmner the better. We only
now sound tbo alarm, that the knights of the
quill may not be taken unwares and off their
guard.
The newspaper iu America is so common a thing,
is so cheap and so accessible, that its importance
has never been fully appreciated, and' we fear
never will be until some tyrant arises to restrict
it of its fair and noble proportions,and have in
each city a censor to whom everything shall be
presented hofore publication. The liberty of the
Press is not the liberty desired by the wanton de
bauchco, the liberty (as they call it) of outraging
society, defaming the good by association, and
setting at <iotiance all laws, human and divine.
This is not liberty, but anarchy. Anything un
restricted in its action, either by positive enact
ment or social regulation, is anarchy. True liber
ty is the right to do right and not the right to
do wrong. And the editor who makes his columns
the channel for inculcating false sentiment or
opinions, to tho detriment of the country and so
ciety, and prostitutes hfs priveteges in a time of
peace to flooding the land with immorality and
abuse, and in a time of war, to such a course Ss
would indicate his intention to desert the cause at
the first opportunity, should be silenced and de
barred the use of an organ to propogate error. It;
would be no infrigoment of the rights es the Press
but rather a sustaining of it. The true liberty
of the Press is good faith, both to the laws of the
land and to the requirements of society.
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“Williamsburg, Dec. 20, 1776.
••Yaue«nuot eoncoive how our cause fuffers for
want of a constant and speedy conveyance of au
thentic intelligence from State to State. I hope tho
late resolutions of Congress respecting the Posts
would have remedied this inconvenience, but un
happily it has not been carried tnto execution.
Tho tories propagate what lies they please to invent
and it is often long before we can contradict them.
Seldom before they have made a bad impression
somewhere. Many people here were greatly
alarmed at the letters which, it is said, yon [and
Col. Harrison wrote by the Post, (I have not yet
teen them) and seem to think all is lost. But I
am ture your letters, and I suppose Colonel Har
rison's could never convey such, an idea. For
the loss es every tewn in America must* be but a
small loss compared to all. Some people, I fear,
wish all was lost.”
Our fathers had the right view of this. The ;
Press, with the mail facilities still left u», are
tho sturdy, sentiaols to deny and write down not
only the lies propagated by tories, but to sound
the alarm of danger, aud to encourage confidence
and hope in the gloomy homes.
Although printer’s ink has made more-politicians
and ephemeral great men than brains, wo yet trust
iu the good judgment of the sensible men of Con
grossto do justice to the Press of the Confederacy.
[Augusta Constitutionalist.
The Brooklyn, which lately arrived at the Bos
ton navy yard from Mobile, it is stated has fifty
nine*ehots iu her sides : seventy-three in ether
parts, and twelve hundred pounds of shot and
Shell buried in her decks.
A gentleman just out from Kentucky states
that the Y'ankees concede that Price has re
ceived 35,000 reinforcements is Missouri.
fonrvpoiMPnec Between Generals Tot* ’find
Grant,
RSLATIVK TU TUi TEKAT ME N T Oi NEGRO SOL
DIERS, ANP THE RETALIATORY MEAS- .
I RES OF GEN. BUTLER.
Hpq'ns Army Northern Virginia, l
October 191b,'1861. j
Lieut. Gen. U. S. Grant,
Commanding U. S. Armies:
Ginebal : In accordance with instructions
from the Hon. Secretary of War of the Con
federate States, I have the honor to call your
attention to the subject of two communications
recently addressed by Major General B. F. But
ler, an officer under your command, to the
Hon. Robert Child. Commissioner for the Ex
change of Prisoners.
For the better understanding of the matter,
1 enclose I’opies of the communications.
You will perceive by one of them that the
writer has placed a number of officers and
men, belonging to tbe Confederate service,
prisoners o: war captured by the United States
forces, at labor in the canal at Dutch Gap, in
retaliation, .8 is alleged, tor a like number of
Federal colored soldiers, prisoners of war in
our bauds, yybo are said to have been put to
work on our fortifications.
The evidence of this fact is found in the
iiuiuuvit.s of two deserters from our service.
Tiie other leiter refers to a copy of a notice
i ued by a Confederate officer commanding
a camp near Richmond, calling upon the own
ers to come forward and establish their claims
to certain negroes ju the custody of that, offi
cer.
The writer of the letter proceeds to slate
that some of the negroes mentioned in the no
tine are believed to be soldiers of tbe United j
States army captured in arms, and that, upon j
ttiat belief, he ha 6 ordered to such manual
labor as be deems most fitting to meet the |
exigency an equivalent number of prisoners I
of war held by the United States, and an j
nounces that he will continue to order to la
bor captives in war to a number equal to that
of all tbe United States soldiers who he has
reason to believe are held to service or labor
by the Confederate forces, until he shall be
notified that the alleged practice on the part
of the Confederate authorities has ceased.
Before stating the facts with reference to
the particular negroes alluded to. I beg to ex
plain the policy pursued by the Confederate
Government towards this class of persons,
when captured by its so ce3.
All negroes in the*military or naval service
of the United States, taken by us, who are not
identified as the property of citzeos or resi*.
dents of any of the Confederate States, arc
regarded as prisoners of war, being held to be
proper subjects of exchange, as I recently had
the honor to inform you.
No labor is exacted from such prisoners by
tbe Confederate authorities.
Negroes who owe service or labor to citi
zens or residents of the Confederate States,
and who, through compulsion, persuasion, or
of their own accord, leave their owners, and
are placed in the military or naval service of
the United States, occupy a different position.
The right to the service or labor of negro
slaves, in the Confederate States,, is ihe same
now a? when those States were members of
the Federal Union.
The constitutional relations and obligations
of the Confederate Government to the owners
of this species of properly, are ihe same as
those so frequently anil so long recognized as
appertaining to the Government of the United
States, with reference to the same class of
persons, by virtue of its organic law.
From the earliest period of the indepen
dence of the American States, it has been
held that one of the duties incumbent upon
the several common governments under which
they have, from time to time, been associated,
was the return to tbeir lawful owners, of
slaves'recaptured from the public enemy. It
has been uniformly held that the capture or
abduction of a slave, does not impair the right
of the owner to sit'd! slave, but that the right
attaches to him immediately upon recapture.
Such was the practice of the American
States during their struggle for independence.
The Government under which they were ttien
associated restored to the owners slaves ab
ducted hy the British forces and subsequently
recaptured by the American armies.
In the war ot 1812 with Great Britain, the
course pursued by tbe United States Governs
merit was the same, and it recognized the
right ot the owner to slaves recaptured from
the enemy. Both the Continental and United
States Governments, in fact, denied that the
abduction of slaves sas a belligerent right,
and the latter power insisted upon, and ulti
mately secured by treaty, pecuniary indem
nity from the British Government for slaves
taken by its forces duriDg the war of 1812.
And it is supposed that a negro belonging
to a citizen of a §tate in which slavery is re
cognized, and which is regarded as one of the
United States, weie to escape into the Confed
erate States, or be captured or abducted by
their armies, the legal right of the owner to
reclaim him would be as clear now as in 1812,
the Constitution of the United States being
unchanged in that particular, and that instru
ment having been interpreted in the judicial
decisions, .legislative and diplomatic acts and
correspondence of the United States, as im
posing upon that government the duty of pro
tectiug, in all cases coming within the scope
of its authority, the owners of sla\es as well
as of any other kind of property recognized
as such by the several States.
The Confederate Government, bound by the
same constitutional obligations, considers, as
that of the United States did, that the capture
or abduction of a negro slave does not pre
clude the lawful owner from reclaiming him
yfhen captured, and I am instructed to say
that ail slaves when properly identified as be
longing to citizens vf'&ny of the Oon ederate
States, or to persons enjoying the protection
of their laws, will be restored, like Other re
captured private property, to those etmiled
:o them.
endeavored to explain the general
of the Confederate Government with
■Hard to this subject, I beg leave to state the
concerning the particular transactions
IMerred to in the enclosed communications.
■Tim negroes recently captured by our forces
sent to Richmond with other Federal
After their arriv il it was discov
|Hd that a number of them ,vere slaves be-
to citizens or residents of some of the
IBnfederate States, and of this class fiftv-
Hie. as I learn, were sent, with other negroes,
Mwork on the fortifications around Richmond
until their owners should appear and claim
them. As soon as I was informed of the fact,
less than two days afterwards, not wishing to
employ them here, I ordered them to be sent
to the interior.
By a misapprehension of the engineer offi
cer, in charge, they were transferred to our
lines south of James river, but when apprized
of the error, I repeated the order ft r their re
moval. If any negroes were included among
this number, who were not identified as the
slaves of citizens or residents of some of tbe
Confederate States, they were so included
without the knowledge or authority of the
War Department, as already explained, and
the mistake, when discovered, would have
been corrected.
It only remains for me to say, that negroes
employed upon, our fortifications are not al
lowed to be placed where they will be exposed
to tire and there is no foundation lor any
statement to the contrary.
The author of the communications referred
to has considered himself justified (by the re
port of two deserters, who do not allege that
the negroes in question were exposed to any
danger,) in placing our prisoners at laber in
the canal at Dutch Gap. under the fire of our
batteries.
In vieww»f the explanation of the practice
of the Confederate Government above given
and of the statement of facts 1 have made, I
have now. in accordance with iuy instructions,
j respectfully to inquire whether tbe course
• pursued towards our prisoners, as set f° r th in
, the accompanying letters, has your sanction
i and whether it will be maintained
Very respectfully,
« Your obedient servant.
1 (Signed) . R. E. LEE, General.
Headq’rs Arv;es or the UvrrED States. >
October 20, 180f. \
Gen. K. b. Lee. C. S. A., Commanding Army
of Northern Virginia:
General — Understanding, from your letter
, of the 19th, that the colored prisoners who
were employee at work in the trenches near
Fort Gilmer have been withdrawn, I have di
rected the withdrawal of the Confederate
prisoners employed in the Dutch Gap canal.
; I shall always regret the necessity for retalia»
ting for wrongs done our soldiers ; but re
gard it my duty to protect all persons received
into tbe army of the United States, regardless
of color or nationality. When acknowledged
soldiers of the Government are captured, they
must be treated as prisoners of war, or such
treatment as they receive w ill be inflicted up
on an equal number of prisoners held by Us.
I have nothing to do with the discussion
of the slavery question, therefore decline an
swering the arguments adduced to show’ the
right to return to former owners such negroes
a3 are captured from our army. In answer
to the question at tbe conclusion of your let
ter, I have to state, that all prisoners of war
falling into my hands shall receive the kind
est possible treatment, consistent with secur
ing them, m I have good authority tor
believing'any number of our men are being
treated otherwise Then, painful as it may
be to me, I shall inflict like treatment on an
equal numbe of Confederate prisoners.
Hoping th"t it may never become my duty
to order retaiiatiation upon any man, held as
a prisoner of war, «
T have the honor to be,
, Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant.
U S. GRANT, Lieut. Gen'l.
Lain* from Europe.
Father Point, Oet. 2-!,— The steamship Bel
gian, from Liverpool, oa the ISth, via Queenstown
on.the 14th instant, arrived here at 10:30 o’clock
this morning. Her dates are five days later than
thus* already received.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Commercial afi'airs continued to be the princi
pal topic of discussion. The depression in com
mercial circles shows no diminution, and business,
especial!" >n cotton, is almost at a dead lock,
and prices eonti .ue to fall.
The additional failures which have taken place
include Louis Speltz, a large cotton dealer in Liv
erpool, with liabilities amounting to £820,000 ;
Messrs. Hime, Milnes & Cos., cotton brokers in
Liverpool, with considerable liabilities and Messrs.
Bendine Jfc Cos., merchants in London, whose liabili
ties are small.
TheTitqes Paris correspondent says : “Uneasiness
in commercial circles has beeu increased by a
statement which appeared in the papers that the
demand for gold at the Bank of France is increas
ing, and that 6,000,000 t were withdrawn during
the last two days of the week. Commercial failures
are likewise spoken of.”
The demand for discount at 'he Bank of England
en the 12th instant, showed great subsidence, and
there was consequently more steadiness in the
funds. The minimum rate of tbe bankwas 9 per
cent.
The half-monthly settlement in the Confederate
loan exhibits a Strang® anomaly, the price in Lon
don being 55, in Manchester 50, while at Liver
pool, owing to the extent of adverse speculations,
it has rebounded to 64.
Tho London Times has an editorial on the ad
dress. Yvith three hundred thousand signatures,
recently sent to Governor Seymour from England,
entreating the North to make peace with the
South.
The Times says: “In three weeks more than
three thousand good people have given their
names to an address entreating tho Federate to
let the Confederates alone and part ic peace.
Nearly half of tho signatures are Irish, obtained
through the influence of the Roman Catholic priest
hood. There is nothing new in tho address, nor
need there be, for all that Yvas Yvaated was to ex
press the uatural feelings of almost every English
man at the successive stages of this jniserable
affair.”
The Times says the address signed by these
three hundred thousand gentlemen can effect just
nothing, and thinks the only possible solution
of the question is continued war. America has
commenced the fiery ordeai of war which settled
Europe on its present basis, and terrible as is tbe
process, the Times cannot doubt that America will
be the he'ter for it in the end.
The Times says : The Lord Chancellor and the
Commissioners who will be appointed by Her
Majesty, assemble in the House of Lords on
Thursday next, the 13th, for the purpose of pro
roguing Parliament until November 11th. There
seems to b* misapprehension in the public mind,
and erroneous statements have appeared in several
papers in reference to the duration of the preiont
Parliament.
It was “begun and hidden on the 21st of May,
1359,” and will not legally expire until tho close
of the next year. According to the usual practice
the dissolution will take place next spring, and
the new Parliament assembles in November fol
lowing, for a short time, and then adjourns to
February or March for the transaction of general
business.
The Times, in a leader on the intelligence of
the Arabia, says :
At this moment all the Northern accounts must
bo received very cautiously ; every incident in the
field is, if possible, made to serve the purpose of
the Government party in the Presidential election,
and if the brightest account is believed for a few
hours the object is gained.
FRANCE.
The Patrie says that Russia has given its adhe
sion to the French policy on tho Roman ques
tion.
The Paris Bourse was dull aud lower on the
12th ins*ant, and tbe Rentes closed at 65 francs
15 centimes.
La France says that the insurrection in Algeria
is spreading, aud that the natives there appear to
be obeying a summons to a holy war.
AUSTRIA.
The reports of a Ministerial crisis are consid
ered premature, but it is believed that Count Rech
berg will tender his resignation on account of com
plications in the foreign policy.
THE DANISH QUESTION.
At the Paris Conference a compromise is said
to have been effected on the financial question.—
Minor questions were also advanced, and there
only remains now tho drtiwing up of the Treaty of
Pea'Ad
The Paris correspondent of the London Times
says that there am govi "rounds for believing that
representations have been maud Vienna and
Berlin, by England and France, with rssnect to
the unwarrantable pretensions of tbe Austrian 9-ad
Prussian Plenipotentiaries, ou account of the
blockade during tho war, and a Paris paper
professes to know that concessions have been made
to the Dunes in tbe Conference, and that a larger
portion of North Schleswig than expected will be
incorporated with Jutland.
PRUSSIA.
A meeting between the King of Prussia and
the Emperor of Russia was about te take place at
Darm^nit.
TURKEY.
A financial crisis is reported at Constantinople.
Interest had been raised to 14 per cent., and
money was not obtainable at that.
NEW ZEALAND.
It is officially announced that tbe New Zealand
ers have unconditionally submitted to the Queen’s
authority, and placed their lands at the Gover
nor’s disposal. They were permitted to return to
their lands, a small portion of which only will be
forfeited.
LATEST, via LIVERPOOL.
Liverpool, Oct. IS, p. in.—Captain Semmes, ac
companied by eight officers of the Alabama, and
one hundred men, has left this city, te be trans
ferred, with guns, <fcc., to the steamer Ranger, re
cently lying at Madeira.
Tho following are the latest despatches received
by her:
London, Oct. 14.—There is a better tone in
the money market and funds are firmer, but the
heaviness in commercial circles continues.
The frigate Niagara had arrived off Shoreham,
with the Spanisli ste..mer seized uuder suspicion
of being a blockade runner
The ship Southern Rights, of Maine, was cap
tured on August 22d, by the Confederate steamer
Florida, and released under bonds.
BRAZIL.
The Brazil end llio Plata Mail says :
Owing to the war in America, several wealthy
Southern planters purp»r« settling in this country.
Some hare already arrived and several more are
on their way. Dos gentleman from South Caro
lina is expected to arrive here with a capital of
| 250,090 patacoas. All these parties intend to lo
; cate in Santa Fe. In a few years time the lands
I in that province will be worth as much, if net more,
i than those of Buenos Ayres. • '
Sl*?:?** wf Miarlftilo:;.
touts Hcndued and Sevenv-Eh;ijvn Day
During the twenty-four hour* that have
| elapsed since our last report, Battery Gregg
has fired 81 shells at the city.
The enemy’s teams are still busily engaged
i' ailing ammunition to Battery Wagner and
Cuminings’ Point.
Ou Thursday, our police had information
that a small boat, freighted with “contra
bands,'? would start on an illegal expedition
that evening about seven o’clock, from the
foot of Hasel street. Acting on this informa
tion. Lieutenant Caldwell with a file of his
men, with muskets, stationed themselves on
the wharf, and at the appointed starting hour
seven negroes arrived singly. When about to
embark the order to arrest them was given,
and some of course fled. Lieutenant Cald
well ordered the police to fire on the fleeing
negroes but in the dark, and confusion of the
moment, they fired in the direction of the
Lieutenant, who at the time had one of the
negroes in charge, Lieutenant Caldwell had
a very narrow escape, one ball passed through
his great coat at the waist, another wounding
him slightly in the right knee. This unfortu -
nate occurrence gave ample time to most of
the intended voyagers to escape, and only two
were arrested and taken to the guard house.
The statement of the two arrested is to the
effect that they were engaged during the day
by three white men to ferry them over to
Mount Pleasant, but the secrecy with which
the matter was arranged, the non-appearance
of any white man as passenger, the muffled
oars, etc., led to the conclusion that the boat
was destined for another quarter.— Ch. Mercii.
nj, '2oth.
Fiiuit Norfolk.— Sutler's late order is driv
ing hundreds of refugees from Norfolk and
Portsmouth. One of them, who has just
reached our lines, gives us a horrible account
of the brutal tyranny which now characterizes
the government of these two unfortunate ci
ties. Every department of business is con
trolled or conducted by Yankee squatters.
Some of these had vessels loaded with goods
for the Richmond market, at the'time Grant
sprang his mine at Petersburg, believing, from
representations made to them Ivy officers con
nected with the Army of the Potomac, that
“the Capital of Rebeldom” was bound to fall.
The sequel showed that they paid dearly for
what they deemed reliable contraband infor
mation—and, instead of reaping the fruits of
the first monopoly at Richmond were forced
for some time afterwards to sell cheap goods
in the overstocked Norfolk market.— Richmond
Whig.
Capture of a Yankee Steamer.— The fast,
first class U. S. steamer Ike Davis, 424 tons
burthen, left her anchorage off the bar at the
mouth of Rio Grande on the 21st iust. at
o’clock p. m., with a crew of 32 persons, in
cluding 10 contrabands, and five passengers.
At 7 o’clock, p. m. the vessel had changed
hands, the crew becoming prisoners and
the passengers taking charge of the vessel.
The head and front of this bold and
successful exploit was a choice spirit from
New Orleans. The sailing master, after the
change in owner*hip, was our Galveston
friend, while another participant hails from
Old Brazoria. The vessel and passengers were
brought safely into Texas waters.
The steamer is represented as very fast,
making seventeen knots, an hour easy. She
wag formerly the “Habanepo,’’ and ran be
tween Havana and Matanzas, in opposition to
the railroad between those cities.
We are informed that the officers and crew
of the captured steamer reachedthis place
by last night's Ta p road train. —Galveston
A ' en-s.
Northwestern Virginia. —We have ac
counts of a great change having taken place
in that portion of Virginia West of the Alle
ghany Mountains. A great number of re
cruits are joining the Confederate army, and
many of the citizens, heretofore considered
friends of the Union, are giving aid to our
cause. They have had enough of Yankee
rulers.— Petersburg Republican.
Speech of Mr. Pendleton.
Mr. George H. Pendleton, the Democratic
candidate for Vice President, was serenaded
Monday night, at the New York Hotel. New
York, by the McClellan Legion, an association
composed of former soldiers of the Army of
the Potomac. A large number of persons
haviifg assembled, Mr. Pendleton was intro
duced by the Hon. John Van Buren. and spoke
as follows:
I thank you for this manifestation of kind
feeling toward myself. I am the more grate
ful for it as it comes from men who have stood
in the fore fiont of danger and perilled their
lives for their country. (Loud cheers.) I
accept it as an evidence of your confidence
in, and of your sympathy with my devotion to
the Union and the constitution. (Three
cheers for George H. Pendleton.) * *
I was born in Ohio. I have lived all my
life in the Northwest. I know the sentiment
of the people. I sympathize entirely with it.
They are attached by every tie of affection and
interest to this Union. (Loud cheering.)—
Unlike New York, they have never kuown an
other government; they never existed as a
political community before this government
was formed, and tbeir hearts cling to this gov
ernment with indescribable tenacity.
Unlike you, they are an inland people, chiefly
devoted to agriculture. As an integral and
controling portions of the Union they have
prestige and power—they fear from disunion
isolation from the world, and the loss of that
prestige and power. Cheer3. Their interest re
quires that they should have speedy and easv
communicationwith the ocean, and this they
intend to have, both by the Gulf of Mexico
aud the city of New York, by conciliation in
peace if they can, by all the force and power
which a teeming population and a fruitful
soil give them if they must. (Loud cheers.)
They believe that the first step towards main
taining the Union is the election of General Mc-
Clellan. (Great cheering.) They believe that
the restoration of the democratic party to power
will produce union. (Cheers.) They believe
the policy of this administration towards both the
Southern and Northern States is fatal to the
Union. (“That’s so.”) Gen. McClellan, in his
Harrison Landing letter, said: “Neither confisca
tion of property, nor political execution of per
sons, nor territorial organization of States, nor the
forcible abolition of slavery, should for one mo
ment be thought of.” [Cheers.] In his letter of
acceptance he said : “The Union was originally
formed by the exercise of a spirit of conciliation
and compromise. To restore and preserve it iu
a like spirit must prevail in the councils of the
country and in the hearts of the people.” (Cheers.)
The Democratic party is pledged to an unswerv
ing fidelity te the Union under the Constitution.
(Cheers.) It is pledged to “the restoration of
peace on the basis of the Federal Union of the
States. (Loud applause.) We believe—nay, we
know —that if this party shall be restored to
power —if this policy shall prevail—the Union
shall be restored; State after State will return to
us, and the echoes of our rdjoicings will come
down to us from the vaults of Heaven itself, in
token that Deity approves that statesmanship
which tempers all its policy with moderation and
justice and conciliation. [Cheers.] When next j
meet you I hope we may have already entered on
that work. Again, gentlemen, I thank you for
your attention and wish you good-night. (Loud
and long cheers followed the speech.)
“Good Lick.’? — A lady and gentleman in
Liverpool, England, were disturbed in their
slumbers recently by the noise of a move un
der the bed. The lady expressed alarm, but
her somewhat sleepy caro sposo said, “Oh, it
is only one of the dogs and putting hia
hands down by the side of the bed, he called,
“Lion, Lion,” and his hand being licked, after
a moment the pair were satisfied, and they
soon slumbered agdin peacefully. In the
morning they found that all their money and
jewelry had disappeared, and it was clear
that the lick had been a dernier resort of an
ingenius biped under the bed.
The negroes of Chicago have published a
protest against the exclusion of their children
from the public schools of that eitf.
THE CITT.
T i. JACKSON LOCAL KDITOE
Sales To-Dat.—The reader will find by leak
ing over our advertising columns that Rosette,
Lawhon A Cos., will hav® an extensive sale of val
uable property to day. Look over the articles to
bo sold and be sum to attend the salo if you wish
to secare bargain?.
Auction Sales. —Tho following prices wore ob
tained at Ellis A Co’s auction yesterday —
One fine gold watch, $1,200 : ono do., $225 ; eno
do., $550 ; one do., $450 ; one do., S3SO : one
Wheeler and Wilson's sewing machine, $2lO eno
negro boy, 20 years old, $3,030 0ne negro man,
30 years eld, $2,500 ; one negro man, about 35
years old, $3,660 : 320 acres land with improve
ments, near Salem, Ala.. $5,550 ;• one pair mules,
$2,200 : one do,, $l,lOO ; one good sorrel horse,
SI,SOO : six boxes sugar (good article) $5 to $5,25 ;
salt, 05 to 75 cents : one rockaway and harness,
$1,006 : whiskey, $37; and other articles in pro
portion.
Sergt. R. T. Gray.—A letter from this officer
to his wife in this city, dated at Camp Chase, Ohio,
Oetobor 2d. 1864, contains the information that he
is well, though slightly dispirited, and in want
of winter clothing. He is living in hope? of an
early exchange, and we earnestly trust ihe poor
fellow may md be doomed to disappointment. The
prospect of spending the long, cheerless winter in
a Yankee prison is anything but encouraging to
a Confederate soldier. It will be a pleasure to Mr.
Gray’s friends to learn that he still lives, though
so unfortunately circumstanced, as it was feared
some time ago that he had fallen into the hands of
the enemy mortally ivounded. The letter above
mentioned contains no other news of importance
— •
From the 20th Georgia Regiment.
Headquarters 20th Georgia Regiment,
October 23d, 1864.
Editor lntclliyciicer:
Sir: You will please publish the enclosed com
munication froinCapt. Mims. This loss occurred in
about four hundred yards of Fort Harrison. After
a double quick of two miles we lacked about this
distance of reaching the Fort, when the Federate
entered it, and a few militia and others retired.—
From our position we opened fire on the enetny, but
in a few minutes all the troops between this regi
ment and the Fort, being enfiladed, gave way, and
the YAnkees came sweeping down on our right and
rear, and succeeded in capturing the following list,
and a few killed and wounded, (a list of which have
heretofore been published by the press.) We retir
ed hastily to tho next line, atd with about 200 men
repulsed an attack of the 10th and 18th army corps,
with a loss, as estimated by their own correspond"
ents, of 300 men. Our loss iu this lastTiffair was re
makably small. In my regiment one officer and one
man killed, and two officers and one man wounded.
This Yvas the most complete triumph I have wit
nessed since the war, when we compare losses.
I am, very sincerely, your friei and,
E. M SEAGO,
Lieut. Col. commanding.
City Point, Va., Oct. 2,1864.
Commanding Officer 20th Georgia Regiment, Ben- i
ning's Brigade, Field's Division. A. N. V.
Sir: Lieuts, R’chards and Adams, now commis
sioned officers: Privates, Cos. A, 20th Ga., J Rad
cliffe; Cos B, Joe Fuller, S Robinson, Arm
strong; Cos C, Pilcher, Mulligan: Cos D. J
J Blalock, W M Blalock, McGraw; Cos E, Sergt
Jno Henry Williams, privates Bufford, §cott; Cos if,
Nerat Graham ; Cos G, corporal Williams, privates
McDonald, Wilson, Thompson, Belcher; (Jo I, cor
poral Crenshaw, privates Jarret, Jones, Thomas,
Tass, Hale; Go K. Pittman and Sellars, all were
captured on the 29th September. Mulligan was
wounded in the jaw, but not seriously. The rest
all well.
Please have this list published, so that our friends
may. know that we are safe. These are all that
Yvere captured from ourßegiuient on tho 29th Sept.
Respectfully your obedient servant,
C. B. MIMS,
Capt, Cos. I, 20th Georgia Regiment.
ft'otice.
Parties desiring to send Letters or Packages to
their friends in Pemberton’s Cavalry can do so by
leaving them at J. ENNIS & CO’S Store before
the Bth instant, Cooked provisions wilßnot be re
ceived. H. A. CHAPMAN,
no 2 6t
Wanted
TO HIKE by the month a GOOD COOK for
Head Quarter Mess.
LEON VON ZINKEN.
nov 2 3t Colonel.
&W Sun and Enquirer please copy.
Gorenifiient Sheep for Exchange.
Qi ;A HEAD SHEEP will be exchanged for Bacon
G 'O or Beef. The Sheep rated at $2 00, Bacon
10c., Beef 2c. gross per pound. The Beef to be de
livered alive. Apply to
J. A. TYLER.
Columbus, Nov. 2,1864—ts
AUCTION S ALES.
By Rosette, Lawhon & Cos.
Sugar, Salt and Whisky!
-A.T T^TJCTXOIsr.
VUE will sell on Wednesday, November 2d. at 11
m o’clock, in front of our Auction Room—
-8 Boxes New Orleans Sugar ;
1 Barrel New Orleans Sugar :
4 Sacks New Orleans Sugar;
25 Barrels Salt;
5 Barrels Whisky ;
oe 29.4 t
By Rosette, Lawhon & Cos.
WE will sell on Wednesday, November, 2d, at 11
i ? o’clock, in front of our Auction Room —
SOF A S ;
r ITETE<i-TETE :
OITE REIiODEOIV!
WARDROBES, -IAT RACKS;
SEWING MACHINES;
SPOOL THREAD;
' TABLES; BEDSTEADS;
O Jk. Xjb JF" SIS.IBTS’
MARBLE TOP CENTRE TABLE.
oc 29 4t
By Bosette, Lawhon A Cos,;
FALL AND WINTER CLOTHING! •
jL 3Lt AuotSon l
IX*E will sell on Wednesday, November 2d, at 11
o’clock,, in front of our Auction Room —
Gents. Cass, and Cloth Coats;
do. do. - - Pants ?
do. Silk, Cass, and Cass. Ycsls, j
oc 29 4t
B¥ ROSETTE, LAWHON & CO. i
Administnitoi’N Sale!
AGREEABLE to an order of the Ordinary of Mus
cogee eounty, will be sold on Wednesday, 2d
November next, at 11 oe’clock, in front of our Auc
tion Room,
Six IKTogpfoojs*
belonging to the estate of John N. Burch, dec’d.
1 NEGRO WOMAN, Martha and her
two children.
1 NEGRO BOY, Edward.
1 “ WOMAN, Mary Arm.
GEO. P. SNIDER, Adm’r.
Rosette, Lawhon & Cos., Auet'r*.
,er>24 ltd Jt wtd
FOR SAFE.
i PLANTATION of Pine land containing 40#
fl acres—l6o acresh fresh cleared land, situated in j
a first class neighborhood, two miles.from Yallula
and 2}-2 miles from the M & G Railroad. Fine well J
water and very healthy. Apply to Dr. Sam Powers, .
Depot Agent, at Silver Run. Supplies and farm j
utensils caa be parokased on tbe place,
uov 1 st* i
TELEGRAPHIC.
j REPORTS or THU FRSSS ASSOCIATION.
in?, to , act of Congress in the year
! Jgphte ’5 n 1 rasher, in tho Clerk’s office of
, Hi vl fv, 0 * .°f Confederate States for
the Northern District of Georgia.
Mobile, Nov. Ist.—A special to the Adver-
I user, dated Senatobia, Oct. Blst, says 8h
j Louis papers of the 26th had been received.
Price is reported to be twenty miles south of
! Kansas City fightiDg, and material loss oa
j both sides amount to no groat consequence.
It is supposed that the main body of Price 1 *
| army has not yet been engaged.
I The St. Republican says that but little re!i
--1 ance can be placed in anything coming from
' Blount and Lane of interest.
\ A special to the Democrat, dated Warrens
burg, 21st, says Price is making his way
through to Kansas, and Smith is following.—
The latest news places him beyond the State
line with ihe the plunder of twenty counties,
causing much mantweriug.
} Pleasanton is reported to be waking up the
Federals. He lost 300 at Kansas City, and
' claims 500 prisoners.
j Wilmington, Ist. — The Journal has received
Bermuda advices of the 12th and 19th ,
containing the trial and release ol Acti g
Master J. C. Braine, of the Confederate State:;
Navy, aud associates, for the burning of ths
steamer Roanoke. They were released oaths
12th and set at liberty, tbe charges against
them haviug been withdrawn by the Attorney
: General.
Richmond, Nov. Ist. The Washington
; Chronicle of the 30th, has been received. A
St. Louis telegram of the 29th, says : Late ac
counts put Price near Carthage still sked.t t
dling. with our cavalry in full pursuit.
Pleasanton was slightly wounded by a fall
from his horse.
A dispatch from St. Joseph says that Biil
Anderson and seven of his men were killea on
j the 27tb.
Gov. Bradford issued a proclamation a:t
--j nouncing the adoption of the new Free Sta’o
I Constitution.
The Maryland Court of Appeals affirmed tho
decision of J. T. * Martin refusing to grant a
m andamus to retain soldiers' vote.
A telegram from Knoxville says Vaughan’s
command was routed at Morristown on the
28tb, ny General Giliian, with a loss of 167
prisoners and 6 guns. McCluney's battery
was captured entire.
The rebel killed and wounded were left *».i
.the field.
A telegram from Louisville on the 29th says
lan attack on PaducahJby Forrest is expected.
| All business suspended and good- renroved
i to a piacc of safety.
The proceeding!* in case of the Vermont
! raiders has been transferred to Montreal and
’"the prisoners remanded to that place.
; Great excitement was produced in the Uui
j ted States by the alledged discovery of elec
| tion frauds in the N. Y. State Agency. Sey
; mour hs sent three commissioners to Wash
ington to investigate the charges. Gold 219.
! Richmond, Nov. Ist.—European advices to
i the 2Cth. Political news unimportant. Corn
j mercialfailures continue. 20 Liverpool firms
have flailed. The Duke of Newcastle is dead.
A commercial panic had occurred at Rio
jde Janerio. Four banks had suspended.
Consols closed ou the 20th at 88] for monov.
Petersburg, Nov. I.— All quiet* Negroes
are coming in every day to act as drivers and
I laborers. The wagons mentioned by Grant
j as being captured near Burgess’ mill were pri
i vate, not Government property. Their con
j tents were left on the roadside. They we .-a
j used to haul off the wounded and dead.
No Middle Ground.
The St. Lc uis Democrat, the Abolition organ ia
Mtesc uri, heads an article “No Truce with Slave
ry,’’and procaeds to define the Abolition purpose
as follows:
Tho rebels <lo not offer to resume allegiance pro
vided that slavery bo allowed the status it had be
fore the war. They make no offer of the kind.—
They never will make such an offer in good faith.
1 Therefore the question whether such an offer should
be accepted or rejected has no practical pertinen
cy—certainly not at, present. The inquiry, “What
shall we do wi h Slavery?” must be either under
the condition of rebellion or under that of submis
sion. These are the only conceivable conditions
under which the question can have practical import
ance. Pending the rebellion, wc have a right to use
the means effective for its destruction, and the ex
j termination of slavery is a large part of such means.
Pending the rebellion, we have absolutely the right
to destroy it finally forever, which cannot be done
without annihilating slavery. The war right to
terminate a system of atrocity in order to conquer
the success of a just cause is indubitable. It is a#
clearly the right of the party of that cause to deter
mine what shall constitute its genuine and endur
ing success, and to refuse to stop short of such su i
cess.
It is simply impossible that the rebels shall a
good faith propose to return to the Union, with
slavery as it was. The Union means abolition. The
insurgents cannot sincerely accept abolition and in
sist upon useless guarnties to slavery. For the con
stitutional gu ranties to slavery are useless. They
do not preclude its destructiou by an amendment of
the constitution, Submission to the Union, as it
was therefore mean-acquiescence in the ultimate
destruction of slavery, of else such submission is
hollow and false. The truth is, the Southern politi
dans have for many years been opposed to the Union
as it existed, and have boon struggling to revolu
tionize it, by establishing such au interpretation of
the constitution as should virtually amount to an
amendment of that instrument in tbeir favor. Fail
ing in this, they are in rebellion. Whenever now
they shall resume allegianee to the Union, they
will first have made up their minds to part with
slavery.
So long as they cherished this as an institution - >
be perpetuated, so long they must be averse to re
■ sumo a relation ensuring its destruction. If they
shall ever come to profess a willingness, to return
with slavery to the U nion, it can only be in the hop*
of having the constitution amended in they behalf,
or of securing for it an interpretation equivalent,
if possible, to such amendment. A pro-slavery re
bel can never cSase to ba at heart a rebel to the
Union, till one or the other of the two things hap
pens. Jf he ceases to feel bound in interest to slave
ry, he can then sincerely accept the Union, Ori;
tae Union shall have slavery incorporated into it ca
its corner stone, he can then ceas? rebellion. It i;
demonstrable that it is impossible to make the
abandonment of slavery a separate and distinct sine
quo, non i —aparl from general submiss : ou —to peace
and Union. Such submission includes such aband -
onment as necessarily part of such submission.
By ESI is, Eivmgstofii & €o«
L4LUABIE STORETmSE AND LOT
AT .oATTOTIOISr I .
AN TUESDAY, Bth of November, at 10 Yao’c-loc-a
V we will sell in front of our Auction Alooin,
Tiie Valuable Store, No, 127.
Broad Street, Three Doors below Hill & Dawson’s
old corr er. The Lot is 22 feet front and 147 feet 10
inches deep—Store 114 feet deep—with privile - >
the Alley.
—ALSO —
The following very desirable Stocks;
138 Shares Florida Home Insurance Cos.,
S2O per Share paid in.
100 Shares Eufaula Home Insurance Cos.,
per Share paid in.
50 Shares Georgia Insurance Company,
$25 per Share paid in.
500 Shares Southern lasuranee Company,
Savannah, Bringham, President, .f: per
Share paid in.
5 Shares Importing and Exporting
Company Stock oi Georgia, Lamar, i’.c.st.,
sl,ooo*per Share paid in.
50 Shares “Great Southern Insui tnee
Company,” S2O per Share paid in.
5 Shares Bank ot* Colnmbus Stook,
SIOO per Share paid in.
oc 28 lOt $l3O
