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^.sidious and Delusory,”
srhiar this head, the Macon Tele
graph copies two paragraphs, touch
ing Savannah, from the Chronicle &;
Sentinel, as follows ;
“ Gen. Sherman continues his mod
erate treatment towards the inhabi
tants. The rights ot the citizens are
respected, and protected. Every out
rage of the sojldimrs, or infringe
ment upon good order, is promptly
punished.’*.
“ Sherman has several times, we
are told, openly said that neither he,
nor his army, are fighting to abolish
slavery. His leading officers have
expressed the same opinion. The
soldiers also openly say, that if they
thought that they were fighting for
the negroes, they wouid lay down
their arms at once. From the tone of
their conversation, our informant was
led to infer, that, if the war should
cease, at ouce, those w-ho held negro
property, would remain in undisturbed
possession of the same.”
After giving his readers the two
foregoing paragraphs, the editor of
the Telegraph goes on to say that
£>herman is endeavoring to deceive
tlie people of Georgia, and Savannah,
with the illusory idea that they will,
tinder Lincoln’s reign, be kindly
treated, aud be allowed to hold their
ffiave property.
Is brother Flash certain that the
effort to deceive, 16 on the part, of
Sherman] We, ourself, do not be
lieve it. Let our cotemporary rest
assured that it is the yankee paper
in Augusta that is endeavoring to de
ceive the people of Georgia. Morse
is more to be dreaded than Sherman,
A secret foe is more dangerous than
an open enemy.
“The Constitutional Union, publish
ed in Washington.City, says :
iPray God that the histoiy of this
horrible war may never be written.
The world will shudder at it, and
whenever the word infamy is spoken,
it will surely be coupleff with the name
of Butler and Sherman,* ”
=P=7hree Yankee Papers In Georgia.
There are now published three
yankee papers in Georgia—two in
Savannah—the (yankee) Republican,
and the “ Loyal Georgian ’’-—and one
in Augusta—the Chronicle & Senti
nel.
The two in Savannah do no harm,
because they are not permitted to cir
culate through our mails. The one
in Augusta is sapping the foundations
of our government, by skillful dema-
goguism, because our authorities
have too much regard for the “ free
dom of the press,” to suppress it.
Won’t Morse have a fine time, when
his brothers get to Augusta ]
“Which is It?”
“ We had clipped, from an exchange
paper, a paragraph quoted from The
Countryman, wherein brother Turner,
after due notice of his late foreign
guests, from the United States, and
Europe, adds ;
‘ Some Specimens of African gen
tlemen, of indigenous growth (ho
mo niger) also acted conspicuous parts
in the drama which has been played
on the old plantation for a week
past.’
The next moment, we find the
same paragraph in another paper, on
ly it reads :
* Some specimens of African gen
tlemen of indigenous growth (home
nigger) also acted conspicuous parts/
&c.
We are ia so complete a quandary,
as to which version should he follow
ed, that we shall he under the neces
sity of suspending the rest of the
paragraph, until we oan lay our hand
upon the original document. ‘ Homo
niger,’ and ‘ home nigger,’ are so
equally appropriate to the subject,
that we are unable to choose between
them.”
We copy the foregoing from the
Mobile Register, aud assure our friend
that we had it homo niger—but some
of our rural cotemporaries, not blessed
with the benefits cf a classical educa
tion, got it home nigger. Well, they
didn’t know any better.
“Gen. Ira R. Foster. Q. M. Gen. of
Georgia, is on his way to Richmond,
with a large supply of shoes, and
blankets for Georgia soldiers iu the
field. This will he good qews to the
soldiers, au4 their friends, whft al»
ready owe much to the energy ami
forecast of Geq, Foster.”
The So-called Citizens’ Mbet-
ing in Savannah.—Our readers are
referred to another column, in this
paper, for a sight of the proceedings
of the so-called citizeus’ meeting in
Savannah—a gieeting composed of
seventeen weak-kneed individuals,
headed by the mayor of that city, and
to which we adverted in our issue of
yesterday. Since then, we have re
ceived the detailed proceedings, which
we publish today, aud will now only
notice one proposition embraced in
them. It is that which inpudently,
and insultingly directs that a copy of
the proceedings be transmited to the
city of Atlanta. Atlanta, which has
felt the fury of Sherman’s wrath!
Atlanta, which has been polluted
with the foul presence of fiends, in
human shape, who recognized no law,
human, or divine—who desecrated
the last resting places of the dead—-
who committed atrocities, savages
would have recoiled at—who -made a
ten pen alley of, and rioted in a church
dedicated to God—and who fired the
city, leaving it a vast pile of smoking
ruins—who robbed our citizens, and
drove them from their homes—is At
lanta not insulted, when a copy of the
proceedings of such a meeting is di«
rooted to be sent to her ] When it
reaches the authorities here, we know
of but one mode of disposing the
treacherous, the base ‘proeeedings/
With fire let them be consumed, hut
not with fire kindled by mortal hands
—let it be with fire drawn from Heav-,
en ! It will not be the first time, in
Georgiy, that such fire has been in*
yoked, to illnstrate public indignation,
Let Atlanta express hers in a similar
manner, when the base document*
with the propositions it embraces,
shall reach what is left of the blight
ed city, and of its once prosperous in*
habitants !—Intelligencer.
A correspondent in the army writes,
that the many idle rumors afloat in
the country, about demoralization of
Hood’s command, are false, and should
not be credited. ‘Left the people at
home/ he say*, ‘only remain firm,
and steadfast, for I assure them that
a few months of rest, so much needed,
will restore proper tone to the army
of Tennessee. Their deeds, next
spring, will show that it is not yet
whipped, and never oan be.—Macon
Telegraph 23rd.
“ Major General IXx has asked to
be relieved of his command. He has.
probably become tired of acting as
Stanton’s mouth-piece, for the prop*-*
gation of lying war-bulletins.”