Georgia Historic Newspapers

    DAILY TIMES.
W. WARREN, - - - Editor.
OOLUMBUtS:
Wednesday Morning, November 23, 1864.
liberty of the Press.
The Palladium was a statue of the goddess
Pallas said to have been dropped from the
skies on the Trojan territory, and on ite pres
ervation depended the safety of the city of
Troy. The word palladium from this legend
obtained peculiar significance and implies
something that affords effectual defence, pro
tection and safety. Her.ce, vre sty with much
force that bur constitution is the palladium of
our liberties. This instrument contains great
civil, political and religious rights which are
the growth of twenty cent«neß. The leading
truths enunciated therein have been wrung
from the grasp of power during the long
nights of superacitiou and oppression, and
hecatombs of precious victims have been of
fered iii in every century to establish and
maintain them. Enshrined within it, as in a
casket, are the habeas corpus and trial by jury,
while the liberty of the pres3 stands on the
outside in the first of the ten original amend
ments like a sentinel with a flaming sword to
sound alarm at the first approach of danger,
to guard it from encroachments and confine
it within its lawful bounds Our forefathers
seemed to have given it a position on the out
side of the body of the instrument bj design
to suggest its high and holy mission as guar
dian and protector.
Civil and religious liberty stalked blindly
about the cmrth until the first newspaper was
published in manuscript in Venice, by order
of the Doge, “to keep the republic informed of
the events of the war with the Turks;” then
and there Liberty met with a companion and
advocate—a guide and a counsellor—which
took her by the hand and kissed it, clothed
her in robes of light and crowned her with
immortal honors as they marched together up
the highway of nations. There has been no
fonder alliance in wedded love than that which
Journalism and Liberty have maintained since
the former was set free. In the polite reign
of Queen Elizabeth newspapers were ordered
to be printed “to encourage her subjects upon
the threatened invasion of the Spanish Arma
da,” and though the dawn of Euglish liberty
dated much further back, it is undeniable that
the seventeenth century gave form and spirit
to the dark grey shadows thrown out in ad
vance of her rising in her full-robed splendor,
and that the freedom of the press, commenc
ing in the reign of Elizabeth and receiving
its crowning argument in the defense of the
Areopagitica of Milton, soon broke the shack
les that had so long bound the Rights of per
sons and of things, and in the spirit of a new
born convert heralded the liberty so lately
won for itself, to all mankind.
The “splendor of diction and irresistable
force of the reasoning” in that speech of
Milton for the liberty of unlicensed printing,
was far in advance of his age and has left
little additional to be said by succeeding age3.
“Who knows not,” he exclaims, “that truth
is strong!” “Next to the Almighty, she needs
no policy, no strategems, no licensing to make
her victorious.”
“Though all the winds of doctrine were let
loose upon the earth, so truth be in the field
we injure her to misdoubt her strength. Let
her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew
truth put to the worse in a free and open en
counter ?”
Thomas Jefferson copied this thought when
he said that “Error ceases to be dangerous
when truth is left free to combat it.” And
Solon was inspired with a kindred sentiment
when be required that no man should remain
neutral on occasions of public distentions, but
speak out freely, giving as his reason that,
good men honestly differing in opinion would
align themselves on both sides of every ques
tion, and, after full and fair discussion, arrive
at truth and adopt .it, and having compro
mised their differences, would have sufficient
influence over the bad men of their respective
parlies to suppress violence and strife.
Blackstone says that, “Every freemau has
an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he
pleases before the public ; to forbid this is to
destroy the freedom of the press.”
These high authorities, supported by the
combined wisdom of twenty centuries, should
impress us with the great importance of a free
press, and urge us to frown down every at
tempt to make it subservient or servile.
Let it be as free as “air and light,” controll
ing it when licentious, libellous or treason
able, according to well known rules of the
common law and constitutions, State and
Federal.
We looked with solicitude on the action of
the last Congress in its attempts to strike
down the independence and efficiency of the
Press, but congratulate our country and our
cause on their return to reason. Our pres
ent Congress has renewed the warfare, and we
wish that every paper in the Confederacy
could suspend for one month to convince our
people of its power and importance. All inter
meddling with great fundamental principles
of Liberty betrays a want ot a generous con
fidence in the people, and a supposed weak
ness in the Government—as much to be
precated, in the management of a nation—as
a family. Away with this interference with
the freedom of the press, and turn it over to
the laws, or what we believe to be better, an
enlightened public opinion. Public opinion
is .of modern growth and is a creation of the
Press, and yet the creature has complete con
trol of its creator. Formed, by digesting the
arguments on both sides ot all subjects dis
cussed through the Press, its conclusions are
well defined, and arbitrary when lefined, so
that the Press which has so recently formed
it, is forced to conform to it, or be placed un
der the ban of public condemnation. There
are few abuses x of the liberty of the press du
ring this war which have not been speedily
corrected by public opinion. Giving infor
mation of the numbers and movements of our
troops at the first of the war, is an instance
where an abuse was so effectually remedied,
that no respectable journal would dare violate
public opinion in this regard.
No Press can withstand the withering scorn
of public opinion and live to do great injury.
Before the liberty of the press was estab
lished, there was no enlightened public opin
ion, and the world was governed by ecclias
tics and crafty leaders. In the decline of the
Homan republic, Croesus fed the poor of Rome
*’o obtain their vAt until bis immense wealth
was consumed, whom.they then abandoned to
hear the winning speeches of Pompey, and as
soon abandoned him to gaze upon the milita
ry spleudors of Ceasar, at whose feet they
humbly kissed the rod and laid down their
liberties forever. If they had beea in posses
sion of the smallest journal in our country',
what different results might have happened ?
If we should be deprived of our newspapers—
which Cowper describes as the“‘map of busy
life,” visiting each man’s hearth and home
like a familiar friend, discussing “the claims
and qualifications of public men and officers
fearlessly through their columns, canvassing
legislation, condemning obliquity of conduct
and character, extolling virtuous actions, pub
lishing falsehoods that they may be refuted,
appealing to public sympathy in behalf of
injured worth or obscure merit, invoking
frowns upon fraud and falsehood, vice and
villainy, causing statesmen to quail under
their reproof, and enabling a nation, to speak
through the n as with one voice”—or if we
throw such restrictions around the press as to
make it servile to the Government, like the
Moniteurto the first Napoleon, we may achieve
our independence, but, loose our liberties, ua.
der the lead of some artful military chief who
may hereafter be thrown to the surface.
We have Trans-Mississippi papers of the
10th ult., says the Clarion, but they contain
very little intelligence of importance. It was
reported Steele had almost completed his
preparatiohs for an extensive move from Lit
tle Rock. His destination is supposed to be
Missouri, though some feared he would move
south again. Gen. Wharton’s corp3of cavalry
and the infantry divisions of Gens. Poiignac
and Walker have moved up to Mouticello,
Arkansas.
In the Yankee army there are fifteen Major
Generals, twelve Brigadier and nine acting
Brigadier Generals who are members of the
Catholic Church. The Major Generals are
Itoseerans, Gillmore, Meade, Ord, Sheridan,
Foster, Stoneman, Shields, Sickles, Stanley,
Newton, Pleasanton, Richardson, Carr and
Hunt.
A despatch from Toronto, Canada, dated the
18th ult., says that startling developments in re
gard to the secret treasonable doings of the body
of “Fenian Brotherhood” were being made in that
city. Secreted arms had been found and the lead
ers in the conspiracy were being arrested. There
was existing a painful feeling of insecurity in con
sequence of these disclosures.
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The quartermaster, commissary, ordnance and
medical departments in Virginia have been
cleared of able-bodied men except
and they are being gradually relieved by ne
groes.
It is estimated that there is $25,000,000 of
specie held within the Confederate States, in the
vaults of banks and brokers, and of private hoard
ers, and which for sustaining the currency and
credit of tho government is and has been perfectly
useless.
Aaron Hudson and Oliver Henning, two
aged men, wore foully murdered last week
three miles from Natchez. They were citizens
of Brookhaven, Miss. No clue has been ob
tained to the perpetrators of the bloody deed.
In a late letter to the Governor of South Caro
lina, Secretary Trenholm says that the Confed
eracy is creating no foreign debt, the cotton
exported under the commercial regulations of
the last Congress, paying for all purchases
abroad.
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The manager of the Mercantile Bank, London,
committed suicide recently from undue excite
ment in regard to the affairs of the bank, which
are reported uot to be in a confused state.
The banking establishments of Vicksburg have
been closed by order from the General Treasury
Agent, Colonel William P. Mellen, who decides
that under the law of Congress such institutions
are not permitted in insurrectionary States.
It is said that the Rothschild, for whom August
Belmont is agent in America, have one hundred
millions of dollars invested in the Southern Confed
eracy. _ _
It is stated, with much positiveness, by the
Washington letter writers, that immediately
after the Presidential election, Mr. Staunton
is to go upon the bench of the Supreme
Court; and Mr. Blair, late Postmaster Gene
ral, is to have charge of the War Department
portfolio.
The Confederacy has made vast expendi
tures for the developments of its iron and
nitre establishments, and is now reaping the
rich harvest of the investment in the abundant
yield of iron for all war purposes, and in an
ample supply of the very best powder in the
world.
What Sherman Says op our Soldiers. —The
Countryman, of the 15th, publishes a letter from
Rev. Geo. N. Mac Donnell, reporting the sub
stance of a conversation he had with a very intel
ligent ladj, a friend of his, who had been exiled
from Atlanta under Sherman’s edict. The lady
had an interview with General Sherman before
she left Atlanta, in which he paid a just and
well merited tribute to the valor of our arms.—
We copy from Mr. Mac Donnell’s letter :
He (Sherman) remarked that it would be no
disgrace to us if we were finally subjugated—as
we certainly would be—as we had fought against
four or five times our number with a degree of
valor which bad excised the admiration of the
world ; and that the United States government
would gain no honor or credit if they succeeded
in their purposes, as they had thus far failed, with
five men in the field to our one.
He regarded the southern soldiers as the bravest
in the world, and admitted that in a fair field fight
we could whip them two to one ; hat he claimed
for himself and his compeers the credit of pos
sessing more strategic ability than our generals
“You can beat us in fighting, madam,” said he,
“but we can out manoeuvre you ; your generals
do not work half enough; we work day and
night j and spars no labor nor pains to carry out
our plans.” J
Referring to his evacuation of the trenches
around the city, he asked the lady if they did not
ah think he was retreating : and when she replied
that soma did think so, he laughed heartily at
the idea, and remarked, “I played Hood a cute
Yankee trick that time, didn’t I ? He thought I
was running away, but he soon had to pull up
stakes and run himself?”
The Christian Religion in the United
States a Dead Failure. —lt would be no diffi
cult matter to show that the practice of the Chris
tian religion on the North American continent has
degenerated and deteriorated through the unwor
thinoss of the ministers of that religion : that its
vital spirit has been gradually waning during the
lust generation ; that a nation, once renowned as
confessors and also as martyrs, and who elected
to endure exile and privation that they might
keep their faith intact, have as a body either sunk
into skepticism, or retained of religion only its
features, its forms, and simulacra; and that active
and earnest Christianity has become practically a
failure amongst twenty-two millions of people
who contemn its charitable and merciful doctrines,
and have for four years abandoned themselves,
wnh scarcely a dissenting voice, meeting remon
strances with curses, and with no stronger apol
ogy than that political dominion is superior to the
gospel, to an unbridled lust for rapine and slaugh
ter,—Sala in the London Tel.
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The Field with which Lincoln Commences
Mis New Term.
The Dispatch sayts the second term of Abra
ham Lincoln does not commence with that fa
vorable military situation which he would de
sire, and yet the picture is a valuable one, for
it is the reflection of that which will be pre
sented at the beginning of his third term, four
years hence, except that the woods will be
filled with more graves, and there will be more
“United States National Cemetaries” scattered
over the land. His next reign, too, will be
little different from his last. The Yankees
will have the same senseless proclamations ;
the same grand preparations, to end in defeat;
and the same list of “little jokes,” interspersed
here and there with wholsale orders for more
coffins for those same voters who deposited
their ballots on Tuesday for “Lincoln and
Johnson.” The New York World has an edi
torial on the results of the last campaign con
trasting its expectations and its results. It
says :
ii is clear that the campaign against Rich
mond, begun on the 7th of May and continued
through «!x months, has ended in failure. If
General Graut dared not hazard a battle last
Friday in a position of his own choosing in
front of the enemy’s works, he will not run
the risk of attacking them in their works. It
is plain, then, that he cannot take Petersburg
—which thote works* defend—much less Rich
mond.
However it may be with other military
judges, Gen. Grant, has been disappointed.
When he set out on “is campaign by the over
land route, he expected to encounter and de
feat Gen. Lee on the way, and then, by vigor
ous pursuit, follow Lee’s shattered army into
Richmond. His check, on the third day, con
vinced him tha r . the campaign would be lon
ger than he had anticipated, but it did not ,
daunt him. “I shall fight it through on this
line, if it takes all summer,” was his reso
lute language to the War Department. It
shows that he had no expectation that the
campaign could, in any event, outlast the sum
mer. But winter approaches and Richmond
is not taken. The movement last Thursday,
proves that it cannot be taken this year. It is,
therefore, entirely safe to say that, whatever
other military judges may have thought, Gen.
Grant ha3 been disappointed.
Mr. Lineolp is reported to have said, that
after the battle of tue Wilderness any other
general in the army would have retreated.
Whether retreat at that point of the campaign
would have beea wise, depends upon whether
the array could have been employed, during
the summer and autumn, to better advantage
than in its actual operations. This is a ques
tion for military men which we cannot pre
sume to decide. 'What is certain is, that the
enormous losses, since incurred, have produced
no solid advantage.
The operations .in Western Virginia and the
Shenandoah Valley must be estimated as a
part of General Grant’s campaign. Those
operations, considered as a whole, do not re
lieve the campaign of its general aspect of
failure. Os the three successive commanders
—Sigel, Hunter, and Sheridan—the two first
are admitted failures ; the admission consist
ing in the fact that they were discarded after
defeat. Sheridan has won an enviable repu
tation ; but it must be borne in mind that,
with reference to the ensemble of the campaign,
his operations are defensive. Why is he in
the Valley at all ? Only because Lee, “be
sides” defending Richmond against Grant, has
troops to spare to menace Washington in that
direction.
The rebels had full possession of the Valley
during the harvest season ; and its annual
crops are the only military advantage it can
yield them Their outposts for the defence of
Richmond, on the northwest, are Gordonsville
and Lynchburg; but there is no expectalion
of capturing • those places. Gen. Sheridan’s
success is only success in defensive operations.
Even his last battle was brought on by an at
attaca of the enemy, which came near being
successful. It is plain that the rebellion can
never be subdued by defensive operations.—
With the South, successful defence is event
ual independence. But, on our side, success
ful defence, and nothing more, is complete
failure.
In the heaviest campaign of ihe present year
we have been successful only in defence ; so
far as Gen. Grant’s campaign was offensive,
it has accomplished none of its proposed ob
jects.
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A Volcano in Labor.
For several days about the middle of the pres
ent month, the valley of the San Jose, in Costa
Rica, was visited by mysterious showers of ashes.
The phenomenon is thus explained by the Paceta
Official :
The ashes continued falling during three days
and three nights in the valley of San Jose, excit
ing much alarm in the minds of the inhabitants.
The Governor of Cartage was induced to send a
commission of mountain travelers, to inspect the
volcano which had been emitting for several days
columns of dense smoke. On tho 27th the com
mission started from Cartage, and on the 29th
reached the f arm of San Martin, where the ashes
lay one foot thick on the ground, increasing in
depth as they reached the lagoon, where they en
camped, at the foot of the volcano. During the
night they were alarmed by the constant subter
raneous noises which proceeded from the bowels
of the earth, and sounding like the detonations of
angry surges on a rock bound barrier.
On the 30th they ascended to the summit of the
volcano. A mass of smoke was rising twice the
height of that which was seen during the last
eruption in February. Its color was between
black and green, and was mixed with huge vol
umes of blue flame, accompanied with violent tre
mors of the earth and deep rumbling sounds.
After the smoke and flame had been vomited out,
one wide crater was seen, almost round and deep
as the veritable portals of tartarus, with the inter
nal walls of a yellowish and black hue, as if lined
with a varnish of resinous compound. From the
profound depths of the crater a pestiferous odor
ascended, and the rumbling sounds at each mo
ment became more alarming.
The mountaineers noted that San Carlos, the
north peak of the crater, had entirely disappeared
into the abyss. The mountain, a very large one,
is entirely covered with the ashes to the depth of
three feet, and the country around for nine miles
from the mountain is also covered with the ashes.
On the east side of the volcano, and about five
hundred yards from the crater, a stream has ap
peared, whose waters are extremely acid, perhaps
containing sulphuric acid. On "the north-east
side, toward the sources of the river Tortugaro,
all vegetation has been destroyed for many
leagues. The mountaineers declare that at each
step the earth seemed to rock to and fro under
them, and that the heavy torrents of cold rain
the want of fire, and other difficulties, did not per
mit them to remain on the summit longer than
four hours.
Northern Democracy.—A Truthful Pic
ture. C. Chaucey Burr, Esq., a Democrat of
distinction at the North, in a recent speech at
Bergen, N. J., thus draws the portrait of the
present Northern Democracy. He is speaking
of Lincoln’s abolition “collar,’’ and those who
wear it:
The so-called Democratic party has ignom
inously worn that collar for three years. It
has performed the service of ts dog, and hung
about the blood of the shambles. But there
is no democratic party. There is a Democra
cy, but it is, at the present moment, without
a party. It has no organization. There is
an anti-Lincoln partv, with which the De
mocracy is just now, and, as I think, wisely
acting. But it is not a democraiie party. It
has neither the principles, the intelligence, the
honor nor the pluck of the old Democratic
party. Its face is covered with the blood of
the people, and its arms are full of the bones
of the dead.
A despatch from Baltimore dated the 7th inst., j
says :
Mrs. Thomas Hatchings, one of our most fash
ionable ladies, was arrested to-day, charged with 1
being the chief of a party of ladies who got vp a
splendid sabre as a present for the rebel Colonel 1
Harry Gilmore. The sabre, with the presentation
address, a rebel mail and other things, were cap
tured from the party despatched to ran the block
ade to deliver them. They are now at Colonel
Wooley s office, and Mrs. Hutchings is in prison.
The matter creates intense sensation and promises
rich developments. Others are likely to be ar
rested high in secession circles.
[From ihe Macon Intelligencer.]
Gor. Brown’s Houuc Burnt by the Vandals.
We learn from a reliable source that Gov
ernor Brown's residence in Canton, Cherokee
county, embracing his commodious dwelling
hobse, kitchen, outhouses, etc., together with
his office building, were all burnt to the ground
by the vandal foe a few days ago. The offi
cer in command of the vandals who were sent
to execute the work they so ruthlessly and
successfully performed, allowed the family
who were living on the premises at the time,
only fifteen minutes to remove the furniture ?
from the house, and all that was not removed
within that time was devoured by the flames.
The same party burnt the court house, jail,
academy, both the hotels, and about two thirds
of the best dwelling and business houses in
Canton.
A force of some three or four thousand of
the vandals were within a mile or two of the |
town, while some seventy of the band were
sent into the town under an officer with or
ders to burn the house of Governor Brown,
the public buildings and the houses of all
who have been prominent Southern men.
We hope the day of just retribution will I
soon come. That the policy of the enemy in '
the Valley of Virginia is to be carried out in
upper Georgia, to-wit, an indiscriminate de
struction of private properly, we have no
doubt. Indeed we have not a doubt now that
it will be Sherman’s policy in his present ad
vance movement. We look for nothing les3
than that the torch wil] be applied to every
village, (own or city, through which his array
shall pass. Be it so. The vengeance js as
mean as it is demoniac which they have taken
ot the governor, and the county site of Cher
okee. In its re-enaction elsewhere in the
State—in Atlanta, and perhaps in Griffin,
Macon, Milledgeville, should the chief of van
dals, Sherman, possess these cities, there will
only be that display of brutality which has j
hitherto characterized that chieftain. Let our !
people, then, do all they can to repel his ad
vance. Georgia has now, to look only to her ;
own resources for protection. We, at least, j
have no expectation of receiving any help from
any other qu.rter. Let Georgians then rally j
to the rescue, or the State may be made deso- !
late in many quarters! It never can be sub- j
dued ! No, never, never!
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Hon. W. R. W. Cobb was killed a few days i
since in North Alabama by the accidental
discharge-of one of his own pistols. He has
for some time past been consorting with the
Yankees, and was not long since in Nashville. )
His Yankee friends had presented him a pair j
of pistols which he wore upon his person.— |
One of them dropped to the ground and went |
off, the ball penetrating his bowels and com- 1
iog out at his back, causing death. Mr. Cobb I
was for a good many years a member of the J
United States Congress, and since the separa
tion has been a member of the Confederate '
Congress. His loyalty was impeached at the !
last session of Congress and an investigation i
ordered. No facts, however, were elicited of
sufficient importance to justify his expulsion
and the case was laid over until the pres
ent session. Since the last session he has
spent much of his time in the United States,
and it is believed that his condemnation would
have been certain if he had ventured to con
front the charges which would have been
brought against him at Richmond. Though
a man of moderate abilities, he was a shrewd
and adroit politician, and succeeded in win
ning the confidence of his immediate constit
uents to an extent that nothing could shake,
and in his various contests he defeated some
of the ablest men Alabama has produced.
[Chattanooga Rebel.
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Another One op Lincoln’s Jokes. —A cor
respondent of the Richmond Examiner, writ
ing from Washington City, the 2d inst., relates
the following .
It is said that a few nights since a party of
Lincoln’s friends during a social call, interro
gatively expressed the hope that the war was
progressing to his satisfaction. “Ah,” said
Lincoln, “I don’t know sir; my condition re
minds me of the story of one of our Illinois
country schoolmasters, who gave one of his
pupils the third chapter of Daniel as a read
ing lesson. The boy began, but when he
came to the names of Shadrack, Meshack and
Abednego they were unpronounceable The
master required the boy to proceed, but he
failed again. He tried flogging ; but still it
was no go. Relenting, he told the boy to pass
that chapter and read the preceding one.
Brightening up, the little fellow got on famous
ly until he reached the last verse, when, paus
ing with a look of dismay, he closed the book,
saying, “ It's no use , sir; here are them three
rascally fellows again;" and thus, said the
great joker to his friends, “am I situated, gen
tlemen, in regard to these rebel Generals.”
Yankee Deserters. —Among a large batch
of Yankee deserters who arrived in Richmond
on Tuesday, to avail themselves of the advan
tages afforded by “Order No. 65,” was a Ist
lieutenant in a New York regiment attached
to Sheridan’s army in the Valley. The said
lieutenant is a flue looking officer, quite in
telligent, and claims to have deserted in con
sequence of disgust caused by the brutal con
duct of Sheridan and bis sattellites.
Yankee desertion is becoming quite a busi
ness now, and each day augments the num
bers who come into our lines. Upwards of
three thousand have been received and for
warded to their homes since the promulgation
of the order above referred to, about three
months since.— Petersburg Express.
Eclipses. —The Confederate States Alma
nac advertises four eclipses for the next year.
Two of the sun and two of the moon.
The first will ba of the moon—evening of
April 10, and visible throughout the Confed
erate States.
The second will be of the sun, April 25, at
8:44 A. M., and ot interest to South Amer*
icans and mariners in the South Pacific ocean,
but of no concern to us, being invisible here.
The third will be of the moou, on the even
ing of the 4th of October, and only partially
visible in the eastern Confederate States.
The fourth will be a great and singular
eclipse of the sun, on the morning of the 19th
of October, at which time friend Clark prom
ises us all a benefit “free gratis for nothing,”
always provided we live till then, the weath
er is fair, and we get up in time—say by
7:10 A. M., at which time it will begin at Gre
nada. This eclipse will last about three hours
and ten minutes, and prove altogether one of
the most remarkable and interesting phenom
ena of the year—perhaps of the century.
The Power of the Press. —“Give me but
the liberty of the Press,” said Sheridan in the
British House of Commons in 1810. “Give
me but the liberty of the Press, and I will give
to the Minister a venal House of Peers—l will
give him a corrupt and servile House of Com
raons —I will give him the full swing of the
patronage of office —I will give him the whole
host of ministerial influence—l will give him
all the power that place can confer upon him
to buy up submission Hnd overawe resistance ;
and yet, armed with the liberty of the Press,
I will go forth undismayed to meet him; I
will attack with that mightier engine the
mighty fabric he has raised ; I will shake
down corruption from its height, and bury it
beneath the ruin of the abuse it wa3 meant to
shelter.”
After several days of feverish excitement
Macon has become comparatively quiet again.
We presume the nervous and faint-hearted
have escaped to places of greater fancied se
curity, which will account for the quieting
down of the public pulse.
If the people of Georgia do not come” down
upon Sherman like wolves on a sheeplold,
they are unworthy of themselves. Fight him
in the front, fight him on the flank, fight him
in the rear. Remove everything valuable
from his path and throw every obstruction in
his way.— Macon Telegraph.
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In our paper of last evening we urged the
propriety at once of closing all the liquor
shops. Since we are happy to learn
from Mayor Collins that this very necessary
step has been taken. In such a time as this
the public mind is sufficiently excited without
resorting to the stimulus of whiskey.
T 3EE E CITY.
T. J. JACKSON LOCAL EDITOR.
Georgians, To the Rescue!
All persons who are liable to service under
the recent call of Governor Brown, are re
quested to meet at Council Chamber, Engine
Room No. 3, at 9 o’clock this morning to form
a Company, and all other Companies, either
organized or in process of organization, are
requested to unite to form a battalion.
(Signed) F. G. Wilkins,
R. L. Bass,
F. M. Jeter,
W i A. Bedell,
J. W. Warren,
M. Barringer,
J. D. Johnson,
F. S. Chapman.
Maj. J. M. Hotlel.
Cold Weather.—Yesterday was as cold a day as
we generally have in these parts. Ice was plentiful
all day and a stiff norther prevailed, which made
fires and thick clothing agreeable friends.
Rally. —The readers attention is specially invited
to the notice of Col. Thornton, tho Governor’s Aid,
calling on all persons between the ages of 16 and 55
not excepted in the Governor's proclamation, to or
ganize at once tc assist in repelling the present in
vasion of Georgia. No time is to be lost.
Theatre. —A very fair house was on hand Mon
day night, at the re-opening Os Temperance Hall,
notwithstanding the disagreeable weather and al
most impassable condition of the streets. The
number of ladies present was not very large, but
more than could have been expected under the
circumstances, and was a very flattering proof of
the high esteem in which the present lessee and
his worthy corps are held by the fair.
Os the Lady of the Lake there can be but very
little said in commendation. In the scene of the
killing of the false guide in the second act, we
thought it decidedly a sort of theatrical butohery
en double entendre.
Jessie Clarke excelled herself in Poor PUlicod
dy, and we are of tho opinion that we never saw
her play with more freedom, grace and naivete'.
She received several handsome plaudits from the
au lienee both at her debut and during the
play. Hamilton, Harry Crisp and Miss Cecilia
were.also greeted with vary lively expressions of
the public favor.
We were sorry to see the guards so very negli
gent in the discharge of their duties in allowing
scapegraces of boys to keep up such an uproar to
the great annoyance of the ladies and the more
orderly portion of the audience. We hope to see
a reform instituted in this matter.
See the splendid bill for to-night —Lucille
and Rough Diamond.
[From the Savannah News.]
A Most Ruinous Proposition".— When the slave
holding States resumed their sovereignty—withdrew
from the old Union, a step which was in a great
measure brought about by the unnecessary agita
tion of the question of slavery and the negroes
generally—we did hope the unpleasant and need
less discussion of this subject was over, and that it
would be permitted to rest —to lie still forever and
be heard no more in this lattitude. Our people have
long been convinced that the enslavement of the
negro is every way right and just. Slavery is the
normal condition of the ra o —the one that God Al
mighty has exactly fitted them for, and therefore
the one He intended them to occupy. The negro is
fit only to be a slave—to be cared for, and do the
bidding of a master. He cannot take care of him
self; he is invariably a low specimen of the animal
creation —lazy, without forecast, invention or ener
gy, having no self-reliance or ambition to be useful,
or improve his condition or future prospects The
free negro among civilized people is a pest. The
most elevated, respectable and useful specimens of
the free black in the world is found in the slave
holding States of America, and tnis is owing solely
to his contact with slavery, and his being forced to
a great extent to adopt the habits of the slave. The
enslavement of the negro is Iright and just to the
negro himself, and is the greatest blessing to him
that earth can bestow. To free the negro now held
in slavery would be the greatest wrong we cc uld in
flict upon them—the most heartless cruelty and out
rage-such as never was visited upon a race of peo
ple through all the history of the cruel ties of man
kind.
Slavery neither debases nor degrades tho negro,
but it improves and betters his condition and his race.
It educates and christianizes him to a degree that
nothing else can. It alone can lift him above the
bestialty in which he always lived in his native state
and in which he always will live if left to himself.
It is his highest and only civilization.
These being acknowledged facts, and we being
separated from Northern agitators and infermed
dlers, wo did expect our people to let the whole ne
gro question rest, the proper relations between the i
two races being settled and fixed forever. J
Having consoled ourselves with this view, we I
are really mortified to find a few of our people ag
itating the negro question in anew shape—pro
posing to make soldiers of them to fight the bat
tles of liberty with us, and to compensate them 4
for this by giving them their freedom. We are
not only deeply mortified, but are astonished be
yond expression. A more crazy idea or a more
suicidal policy never entered the brain of, or was
proposed by any except a New England fanatic.
It is a virtual concession of everything the aboli
tionists ever claimed, and a repudiation of every
position we ever took in defence of the rectitude
of slavery. It is a most dangerous doctrine, and
proposed in a most insidious guise. If adopted by
our government, it will be a fatal blow at the in
stitution from which it will never recover. It
will seal its doom, and abolition will be the cer
tain result.
Then imagine how wretched will be ou.r condi
tion with four millions of free negroes among us ;
all our slaves freed and left on our hands ! To
free them and remove them is almost as impossi
! ble as to reverse the diurnal motion of the earth,
j Tho North don’t want them, and would not have
i them, and if it did they could not get there. Such
j an imigration never took place on earth, and
! never will; and if they could go there, and the
North desires them, it would be merciful and
humble to lay the last one of them in their pover
ty to that cold and inhospitable clime. They
cannot be sent to Africa or colonised elsewhere.
We doubt if the entire shipping of the United
States and the Confederate States combined could
carry them off as fast as they are born, let alone
carrying away the whole race. To send them
away, no matter where, is utterly impossible: The
negro, whether slave or free, must remain among
us. We shrink back with horror at the thought
if they are to be freed. Only one thought could
approximate it in evil, and that is subjugation by
the Yankees. Nothing on earth could be worse,
i if as bad.
Then the negro being unfit to be free, and it
being wrong to free him, is unfit to make a sol
dier of, and it is wrong to attempt it. The negro
is destitute of the intellect, the patriotic emotions,
the greatness of soul, so essential to make a sol
dier. He has none of the love of country, ambi
tion, and other ennobling traits, which cause men
to sacrifice all their earthly possessions and cheer
fully give up life in their defense.
Those alone who possess these traits are fit to
be free, or worthy of the privileges and blessings
which freedom brings; and such alone can make
good soldiers, or effectually fight the battles of
liberty. A race that can be enslaved or be con
tented, cheerful and happy in a state of slavery,
as the negroes are, can never be ,converted into
good soldiers. Surely those who talk of putting
our negroes into the ranks, know the real nature
of the negro race—the stuff they are made of —or
of the great truths in which slavery finds justifi
cation. It the negro is fit to be made a soldier of,
he is fit, and ought to be free, and it is wrong to
enslave him, or hold him a day longer in slavery.
The proposition to put the negro in the army,
strikes a fatal blow at the root of the institution
of slavery, and if carried out, will effectually de
stroy the foundation upon which the whole super
structure rests. Better that we had long since
yielded to the teachings of the abolitionists, and
yielded up the institution without the unparalleled
effusion of blood and expenditure of treasure of
this war.
Judge Taney’s Will. —Jadge Taney’s will
was admitted to probate in Baltimore on Fri
day. It is dated April 28, 1859. He appoints
J. Mason Onmpoell, David M. Perine and
Richard T. Allison executors and trustees un
der the will of all his property of every de
scription, together with the money that may
become due on his life insurances in Balti
more and New York, for the use of his five
daughters, one unmarried, and four married ,
and ti eir descrudnuts, <fec.
Cairns Hospital. >
Nov. 2lst, 1804. /
Wanted.
THREE GALLONS MILK ( er 'lay. delivered at
the Hospital. BYRD C. DALLIS,
nov 21—lw Clerk -
Sun copy lw i
A PROCLA.TI ATS © \
BY
JOSEPH E. BROWN,
GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA.
STATE OF GEORGIA, )
LxEcunvK Department. -
Milledgeville, Nov.llf9 f 1864. j
The whole j» ople understand how imminent is
the danger that threatens tho State. Our cities are
being burned, our fields laid waste, and our wives
and children mercilessly driven from their homes
by a powerful enemy' We must strike like men f, •
freedom or we must submit to subjugation.
Death is to be preferred to loss of liberty. A
must rally to tho field for the present omergeney or
the State is overrun,
I therefore by virtue of the authority vested ,
me by the statute of this State, hereby order a levy /
en massee of the whole free whito male population
residing or domiciled in this State between sixteen
(16) and fifty-five years of age, except such as are
physically unable to bear arms, which physical de
fect must be plain and indisputable, or they must
be sent to camp for examination, and except those
engaged in tho Legislature or Judicial Departments
of tho govronment, which are by the recent act of
the;Legislature declared exempt from compulsory
service.
All others are absolutely required, and member
of the Legislature and Judges are invited to report
immediately to Major Genoral G. A Smith, at Ma
con, or wherever else in Georgia his camp may be
for forty (40) days service under arms, unless the
emergency is sooner passed.
The statute declares that all persons hereby called
out shall be subject after this call to all the rules
and articles of war of the Confederate States, and on
failure to report, shall be subject to the pains and
penalties of the crime of desertion.
Volunteer organizations formed into companies
battalions, regiments, brigades or divisions will bo
accepted for (40) forty days, if they even approxi
mate to the numbers in each orgaization which is
required by the militia laws of this State which were
in force prior to the late act.
All police companies formed in counties for homo
defence will report, leaving at home for the time,
only those over 55 years of age; and all personshav
ing Confederate details or exemptions, who, by the
late decision of the Supreme Court of this State, are
held to be liable to State militia service and bound
to obey the call of the Governor.
All such refusing to report will bo arrested by the
police force or by any Aid-do- Oamp, or other officer
of this State,; and carried immediately to the front.
The necessary employees of Railroads now actively
engaged, and tbe necessary agents of the Express
Company, and tolegraph operators are from the ne
cessity for their services in their present position,
excused.
All ordained ministers of religion in charge
CTiurch or Sjnagoguo arc also excused.
All Railroad companies in this State will trai» -
port all persons applying lor transportation to the
Front, and in case any ono refuses, its President.
Superintendent, [agents and employees will bo im
mediately sent to the front.
All Aides-de-Camp and other State officers are
required to be active and vigilant in the execution
of the orders contained in this proclamation, and all
Confederate officers are respectfully invited to aid
State officers in their vicinity in sending forward all
‘ persons hereby ordered to the front.
The enemy has penetrated almost to the centro ot
your State. If every Georgian able to bear arms
would rally around him, he could never escape.
(Signed) JOSEPH E. BROWN,
Governor.
Each paper in the State will publish the
above Proclamation. nov 22 It.
THEATRE 2
WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23d.
Sir E. L. Bulwer’3 play ol LIFE, LOVE and
WAR, a thrilling incident and intense effect,
entitled
LUCILLE!
THE STORY OF A HEART!
Act Ist, Love—The Blind Man and his Betrothed.
ct 2d, Ambition —The Republican and his Ch’-
mera.
Act 3d, Retribution —The Soldier and his Recom
pense.
BALLAD by Miss Maggie Marshal:
With the glorious Comedy of
Hougli diamond
nov23-lt
Independent Columbus Guards.
Appear at the Company Parade Ground on Thurs
day mornirg, the 2ith inst., at ten o’clock, a. m. A
full and prompt attendance of the Company is or
dered. J. A. URQUHART, Capt.
Allen, O. S. [nov 23 td
UNION SPRINGS PROPERTY
FOR sale:
HOUSE and LOT, the lot contains one acre, the
house is a good framed building with four rooms,
out houses, etc. A great bargain can be had if im
mediate application is made,
nov 23 3t* J. W. WELBCRX.
FOOD.
A T the Theatre on Monday evening, a GOLD
a TOOTH-PICK, which the owner can _ have by
applying at this office and paying for this adver
tisement. nov 23 It
AUCTION SALES
Dy Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
\U T E will sell on Thursday, 24th November, r
VV 11 o’clock, in front of our store
One Pair Extra fine Carriage Hor
young and well broke to Harness.
8 Likely Mules.
100 Sacks Salt.
5 Sacks Sugar.
Carriages, Buggies,
Fnrniture, Stationery.
Clothing, etc., etc.
nov 22 td $lB
BLOCKADE GOODS
BY LATE ARRIVALS.
By James H. Taylor.
On Wednesday, Dec. 6, at 9 o’clock.
WILL be sold at my Store, corner of Broad ar.
Campbell streets,
A large assortment of
Foreign and Domestic Good>.
4®* Particulars in a future advertisement.
Conditions Cash. nov2l-eodtfJ
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, ]
War Department, Ordnance Bureau,
Richmond, Nov. 11, 18b4.)
All officers on Ordnance duty are required
by General Orders, No. 70, Adj’t. Sc I. G. Office
Ang. 29, 1864, to report without delay to the Cbic'
of Ordnance, Richmond, by letter, stating
First. —Their rank.
Second. —Date cf commission (or appointing
giving date from which their rank takes effect.
Third. —Arm of service.
Fourth. —State to which they belong.
Fifth. —Date of assignment to Ordnance duty.
Sixth. —The authority by which assigned, furniril
ing date, and ifpossible, copy of order of ass gnrner
to which will be added.
Seventh. —Present duty, and order of assignmes
Officers of the Regular Army will report both the
regular and provisional commissions, or appoint
ments, conferring temporary rank.
Failure on the part of officers on Ordnance dun
to report immediately as above, will be treated
a delinquency. J. GORGAS,
lfqv 22eod4w Ghief of Ordnance.
FOR” SALE.
OIX Boxes of New Orleans Sugar, Shingle Xa: -
and Nails of all sizes, at reduced, price*, f< -
3ale at J. U. MULFORD’S old stand,
nov 22 6t.