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MACON, FRIDAY, 3 O'CLOCK B. M., OCTOBER 11, 1861.
Volume XXXVI.—No. 3
Views of tbo Ohio Conservatives.
We make the follow ing extracts from an nr
lirlr in the Columbus (Ohio) Crisis of the 26th
ulL Thft Crisis is conducted by Samuel Meda-
ry, who was for more than twenti years the
editor of the Coluiuhus Statesman, and a dis
tinguished leader of the Democratic party of
Ohio. The articles in the Crisis doubtless ex’
press the views of the “conservative” men of
Ohio:
We have up to this time been incredulous as
to she Confederates ever meaning to attack
Washington. The Southern people may have
d, sired it, hut those who control military and
civil matters South, certainly knew that they
couM make more out of the summer catnpa gn
by drawing all the forces of the North to that
point, than by any other course. Time, with
them, was everything; and have they, not
gained it, and at the same time literally over
run the Southwest.
The Western Viagitiia campaign is still more
fruitless. It has been little else to either party
tlian a conquest of mountains and deep valleys,
from which both armies must retreat cn the
approach of winter, and that is now close upon
Now where are we? We have scarcely the
courage to tell our readers where wc are. Had
the money and lime been spent in sending aid
to Gen. Lyon, that have been spent in a hum
bug flotilla, Uen. Lyon would now be in pos
session of Fort Smith, holding all Missouri,
Kansas, and the whole Indian country ir check
instead of in his grave in Connecticut Now
all is for the present lost, and Kentucky likely
to give us as much as we want to do for a few
week*.
Less than two hundred thousand men can
not now do what twenty-five thousand might
hive done two months ago. As much .as we
hive objected to the manner in which this war
was brought upon us , and as great as was our
desire Jo see the whole power, patriotism and
intellect ol tine country put in motion to test,
first, a peaceable solution of our most sad na
tional troubles; yet, so far as was necessary,
»nd to the extent to which we may be forccc
into it, (and wo should have persisted in being
on the side of “being forced") wo desire it con
ducted ao as to be creditable to our army and
honorable to our people, for we have a reputa
tion to preserve as well ns.acquire, and at the
time time a country to save.
"If, as reported, Buckner and his forces are
it Owensborough, Kv., they are in a position
most threatening to the lower counties of Indi
ana, and should they not uu driven out, can
control the navigation of the Ohio river.—
Unensborough is the capital of Daviss couuty,
and lies not far from half way between Paducah
and Louisville. Rockport, the nearest impor
tant town on the Indiana shore is but nine miles
distant. Tiie present is no time for delay.'
The enemy is at our very doors!”
Both the North and the South have passed
laws to confiscate the property of each other.
The very thing of all others in the way of war
treasures they should never have done; for
* hat ever may he the end of this most unfortu
nate conflict,* thoso eoniication acts will leave
the lengest scores to settle, unless the war ends
| in the utter exterminatien of one party or the
ether, which few believe or few desire shall be
the result, and which foreign nation evidently
will not permit if both parties here should at
tempt such a dosing up of the sorrowful scene.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
■ SENATORS ELECT.
1st District—Geo. A. Gordon.
2nd
44
S. M. Varnadoe.
3d
H. A. Fort
4th
44
A. J. BessenL
7th
J. L. Seward.
8th
9th
44
Swearecgen.
S. S. Stafford.
10th
44
D. A. Vason.
11th
•44
Oliver P. Anthony'.
12th
S. B. Walton.
13th
44
T. M. Furlow.
-ICth
44
J. B. Wright
17th
44
J. A. Shcwmake.
18th
44
Wm. Gibson.
19th
44
Miles W. Lewis.
20th
**
i>. T. Harris.
21st
44
Gen. D. N. Smith.
22nd
44
Dr. f 1. A. Winn.
23d
44
S. D. Killeu.
24th
44
Wm. M. Brown.
25th
44
J. B. Kendall.
26th
44
H. Moore.
27th
44
John Billups.
28th
44
T. P. Saffold.
29th
44
L. M* Hill.
30th
44
Rev. J. 11. Echols.
G2d
44
Weir Boyd.
84th
44
S. F. Alexander.
35th
44
• A. J. Hansel!.
SGth
37th
44
S— Gaston.
W. P. Beasley.
44
39th
44
H. P. Bell.
41st
*4
James Simmons.
42nd
41
D. R. Mitchell.
43d
44
Jackson.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
A Virginia gentlemen, who had recently vis
ited Washington City, gives the following items
lo tbu Petersburg Express :
Our informant is of opinion that thero are now
in Washington, on the south bank of the Poto
mac 'in Gen. Banks' command, at Baltimore,
Annapolis, Ac., about 120,000 Yankee troops.
The greater portion of these are at Washington
and across tho Potomac. The health of Gen.
Scott is said to be very infirm. His attacks of
gout, which used to hie at intervals, are now of
almost constant occurrence, and the infirm oc
togenarian rarely ever sits up without pain.—
flis business is all conducted through agents,
lie occupying a recumbent position on a lounge
in Lis office. It is the opinion of CoL Hamilton
tnd others, that the sands of life in the old
General's glass are fast ebbing out.
A colonel, who is an Aid of Gen. McClellan,
called to see some ladies in Washington on W ed-
nesday night, to whom our informant was in-
trod uced. The colonel was asked by one of the
jeung ladies, where ha bad been all day. Over
the river, he replied. Upon being asked if
thero was any news, he said that there had been
some brisk firing, but that nobody on the Fed
eral side was hurt He stated further, that a
company of Washington New Orleans Artillery
fired into a batch of woods where Gen. McClel
lan and many of his escort were standing. The
first two shots were iu a direct line, but fell
about ten yards beyond the group. The third
foil about five yards short, when Gen. McClel
lan ordered an* immediate change of position,
remarking that the fourth would in all proba
bility fall midway between the first and third,
in which event serious consequences might en
sue. This officer said further, that Gen. Mc
Clellan gave it as his opinion, that the New
Orleans Washington Battalion was probably
the finest body of Artillerists in tho world.—
The General said that he had at first supposed
that the praises which had been lavishes upon
these soldiers were not deserved, but since he
had assumed command of tho “Grand Army,”
and had witnessed tho movement and opera'
tions of the Washingtonians, his belief was that
ther were fully endued to all that could be said
in their praise.
The soldiers in Washington are an immoral
brutal, drunken sot of mercenaries, wholly un
principled and not to be relied upon when the
tog of war shall come. It is owing to this fact
it is thought, that McClellan refuses to give the
Confederates battle. At present, it is said,
about Washington, that he nas no idea of at
tempting a march to Richmond by way of Mun
Mn’s Util or Fairfax Court Ilousa
The people in Washington lire in hourly
<lrc«J of an attack, and but few entertain the
pinion that the Confederates will be repulsed,
•f they ever do commence tho fight.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Burke—Reynolds, Gresham.
Bibb—J. II. R. Washington, L. N. Whittle.
Bryan-— Vanbrackel.
Baldwin—L. H. Briscoe.
Baker—Win. D. Williams.
Butts—J. McCord.
Brooks—Ci. L. Smith.
Chatham—Thomas JL Norwood, Richard T.
Gibson.
Columbia—R. S. Neal, Dr. W. A. Martin.
Clarke— Jackson, Adams
Clayton—J. B. Key.
Cobb — W. B. Green, G. N. Lester.
Coweta—Kirby, Brown.
Charlton—O. R. MegilL
Campbell—Cantrell, Bullard.
Chattahoo:hec—C. G. Kaiford.
Columbia—R. S. Neal, W. A. Martin.
Crawford—Jacob Lowe.
Catoosa—J. J. Trammell.
Colquitt any.
Clinch Tomlinson.
Carroll—A. T. Burke, T. Duke.
Dawson Heard.
Dougherty— L. L. Barbour.
DeKalb Candler.
Dooly—II M. Key.
Decatur— ——— Dickinson,. Powoll.
Effingham—Thomas R. Hines.
Emanuel Overstreet
Elbert—R. Hester.
Early Hightower.
Echols— — ■ Johnson.
Fayette Favor.
Fulton—»'. J. Thrasher, C. A. Pitta.
Floyd—G S. Black, Z. B. Hargrove.
Glascock—Allen Kelley.
Greene Carlton, Jernigan.
Gordon—James Freeman, Barker.
Hudson.
- Lane.
Jones.
Glynn—Arthur E. Cochran.
Gwinnett-: McAfee, —
Hancock—C. W. Dubose, —
Heard—IL H. Jackson.
Hall Blake.
Harris—I’lynn Hargett,
Habcrsha-n—J. H Wyly.
Houston—Rice, Ezzcll.
Jasper Burney.
Jefferson Carswell.
Johnson 1 — Snell.
Jones—Benj. Barron.
Lincoln—J. M. Dill.
Liberty—Jno. B. Mallard.
Lee—W. A. Jones.
Lowndes—Wm. D. Howell.
Laurens—R. Robinson.
Lumpkin—J. J. Finley.
McIntosh—James M. Owens.
Muscogee—J. A. L. Lee, A. J. Robinson.
Monroe—E. G. Cabames, E. Dumas.
Milton—J. W. Nesbitt.
Mitchell Bacon.
Merriwet'ier—J. J. Hussey, Jas. A. Render.
Macon—W. II. Felton.
Newton — White,. Zackary.
Mudison Bird.
Marion — Buskin.
Vrom the Christian Index.
An Incident of Manassas.
Lieut Ed. Hull, the son of the Hon. Aibu-
ry Hull, of Athens, was struck senseless by
the concussion of a fragment of shell which
tore away his Cartridge box and belt without
actually inflicting a wound. Aa the enemy
passed be revived,and being asked by a hostile
Captain if he was wounded, be replied, “I think
not,” tbo’he was unable to rise. The Lin-
oolnite run his hand over the body of the ap
parently helpless man and, discovering no
wound advised him to remain where he was
until aid could be sent to him; but Lieut Hull
finding himself recovering, rose and began to
convey water from the stream near by to the
numerous wounded around him. This he
did until night with much pain to himself; aud
hilo he was so engaged, a man on horsebaok
requested a drink, “No,” says Lieut. Hull. “I
am carrying this water to those who cannot
walk, you can walk, and ysu may go to the
braneh'and help yourself.”
T* his suprise some one told him he was
speaking 4o President Davis; and then he insis
ted upon thePresideat’s drinking the water in
his canteen.
Afterwards when walking the street* of
Richmond, as he was recovering, for be en
dured a long and painful spell of illness,‘he
was met by Pres. Davis, who smilingly recog
nized him and asked to what Regiment he be
longed,
“To the Eighth Ga., Regiment”
“To belong te that Regiment is glory
enough,” was the gallant President’s reply.
While carrying water to the wounded,
Lieut. Hull found Capt J. F. Cooper seated
near Bull Run stream pouring' water on his
knee, and was the first to cut open bis pants
and examine the wound that resulted so fatal
ly. Capt Cooper did not think himself dan
gerously wounded.
Cotton in OTanr lcster.
A Richmond correspondent of the Mercury
his obtained a glimpse of s late N. York Times
which has a letter from an American \o Man
chester, dated 14th September:
“The writer shows how entirely the world is
dependent on the South for cotton. Here is
his lugubrious conclusion: ‘ What I Lave writ
ten has been in sorrow, only alleviated by the
hope that, after all, we shall soon hike Ameri
can cotton as heretofore; that the Giiat Rebel
lion will be shortly quelled, and comL rec re
adjusted to the channels of peace. l\«set hve
ne sympathy for my country ; the
opinion and influence is placed in
against us. The most liberal alii
but six months' supply of cotton in _
A great cloud of impending woe hangs
city P "
BATTLE OF THE GAULEY.
A correspondent of the Mobile Register from
tho top of Big Newell, Sept. 16, writes as fol
lows; I
I have read the Northern telegraphic ac-1 tion of Directors, with the following result:
.""gsy&grgiiktem .to- T "
Tn* “Police School or Litiraturi,” jtutx.—
The special local “police man,” of the Nashville
Banner, launches oif thus:
Hooper Strain, a warrior bold, on leave of ab
sence to recruit hia health, drank half adozfn bot
tles of Swain’s Panacea, and foil upon the pave
ment to all appearances defunct. When the guard
arrived, the sympathizing friends had “give him
up, and were singing his requism, the last verse
of which was omitted and we accordingly print it,
as follows:
Stiff are the -.v-rilo: - • mnsclaa,
Will ho excitable bile:
Dry is tbe epidermis,
A vein no longer bleeds.
And the commifttift vermis
Upon tbe warrior feeds.
_ Wc condense the rema nder of this case before
bis Honor, whose judgment was that Mr. Swain
should hammer stone in the workhouse for eight
days—or, as expressed by the master hand of the
reporter—that he “should study geology in the
rockological department of corporation industry
for one day—and a week"
Au ;usta and ItXacon Railroad Convention.
The Augusta and Mtcon Railroad Conven
tion assembled in this city yesterday.
The President, John P. King, was in the
Chair, and Mr. Milo Olin, the Secretary, at his
post
The roll being called, 9,145 shares were
found to be represented.
Tho President presented his report The
Treasurer’s and Engineer’s reports were also
read. The reports will all, doubtles, be pub
lished shortly.
I The Convention then proceeded to tbe elec-
tccu pieces, of artillery, when the truth is, we
only had 1750 men and six pieces of artillery,
four pieces ot -which only were actively in the
fight all the time. These were of the Guy
Buttery from Goochland county, and were
managed with great bravery and consummate
ski’l. The same account states the loss of tbe
enemy to have been about 120 in killed and
wounded, when the truth is that we have from
a dozen different sources— from their own men
and friends—that it wait not less than from
six to nine hundred. Indeed, reliable men
who have passed through their cam|i, put it
down at a much higher figure. Certain it is,
that if they lost but the number stated by
them they must bave been consummate cow
ards to permit themselves to be driven back
four time* with their guns silenced. They
state, .further, that they silenced two of our
of our guns, and only two of their shots touched | ££ b b J‘ Ldi, 1 fo Jr JLt
our earthworks. They never killed a man anu
John P. Kina. B._H. Warren, R. H. May,
Gardiner, M. li. Wellborn, S. D. Heard, M. S.
Thomson, T. M. Turner, J. D. Smith,-D. C.
Campbell.
Toe Convention then adjourned.
[ Constitutionalist.
FROM PENSACOLA.
A letter to the Mobile Advertiser, dated Pen
sacola, Sept 25, says: .
Within the last forty-eight hours a large
uumber of Federal tents have been pitched on
the island for the accommodation of fresh troops
it is thought, from the recently arrived vessels
and steamers. AH these movements were un
der the cloud of nigtit, for the purpose of de'
ceplion. Their tents are now visible for seve
ral miles along the island and shore. They
take good care not to “ drive stakes ” on this
side.
Murray—
Morgan—
• McCamy.
- Lemond.
Oglethorpe—Urial Smith, Stevens.
Polaski—B. N. Mitchell.
Pike—X. S. M. Bloodworth.
Polk- Denver.
Putnam— —— Lawson,
Pierce— ’9erry Henderson.
Quitman— E. O. Ellington.
Richmond—G. T. Barnes, Wm. Schley.
Randolph—Oliver P. Bell.
Scnven— Gross.
Sumter—W. J. Reese, J. W. C. Horne.
Spaulding—James Lavender, G. W. Grant
Stewart—S. B. Walton, Thomas R. Scott
Thomas—Peter Love, B. B. Moore.
Talbot Spain, • Mulkey.
Terrell—Daniel Lawhom.
Troup—B.H. Bighatn, N. L. Atkinson.
Twiggs Slappy.
Upson—Jorl Mathews.
Warren—Elias Lazenby.
Ware—L. W. II. Pitman.
Whitfield— Thomas, Underwood.
Wilkinson—R. J. Cochran.
Walton—Whitehead, Haygood.
Wilkes—Wm. D. Walton
Washington—J. S. Hook, W. -Irwin.
Worth Henderson,
HOME-MADE QUININE.
Tho Columbia Democrat has the follow*
An individual calling himself Frisbce, and a
supposed Northern spy, who escaped from the
i»il at Fernandina, a few weeks since, and was
subsequently arrested and brought to Savannah
Tuesday, hand cuffed at the jail and taken to
we steamer St Marys, on which boat he was
shipped for hia old quarters at Fernandina.
mg:
Wc were yesterday shown by Mr. Dance,
sample of home-made quinine. We call
it quinine from its having the qualities of
that alkaloid, and not that it was actually
made from the Peruvian bark tree, quin
quina. It is made from a tree found com-
mon in our forests. In its taste it has the
same long, lingering, bitter sensation, that
quinine leaves. And as a medicine it is said
to be fully equal to, if not superior to quinine.
Some of our planters are using it with suc
cess. As our informant expressed himself,
it slays the chills every time.*’
We have a sample of this new article at
our office, and those fon I of sweeet things
arc welcome to a taste at any time.
AVc suspect it is prickly ash bark, the
only sort of bark we know of more bitter
than quinine. Once tasting ought to be
enough to cure any cose of the chills and
fever that ever makes in appearance. If
the medicine is what it is represented, it is
worth millions to tbo discoverer.—Houston
(Texas) Telegraph. . '
The Cheat Eastebs Disabled.—Tbeoflicers
of the steam-hip Per i l, arrived at New York,
make tho following report of the injuries just
sustained by tbe Great Eastern:
On the 16lh inst., at 10.50 a. m.. lat. 51 19,
Ion. 14 10, passed the British steam-hip Great
Eastern, returning to port, with loss of both
sido wheels, all her boats (except one) on thq
port side, bulwarks stove, and ship roiling
heavy. The rudder was also damagod. * . I
only wounded seven. This they must have
known before they sent out their lying tele
gram, because there was not a grave or « drop
of blood to be found inside our lines. They
frankly adroit that our fire upon them was per
fectly “terrific,” and it certainly was. They
admit that Colonel Lytell, in his charge upon
our guns with his Irish regiment, was shot from
his horse and hiS men repulsed. They admit,
also, that Colonel Lowe was killed in another
charge, and that, finally, Col. McCook, with
his Gvnuan brigade, was repulsed. This is all
so, and shows not only ti*at our fire was “ter
rific,” but that their loss was equally “terrific,”
or they the greatest cowards that ever trod a
step to the sound of martial music.
On Wednesday and Thursday last, Rosen
cnuis built new boats and threw some 5,000 of
his men across to this 'side of Gauley, his pur
pose doubtless to form a junction with Gen.
Cox’s forces, which will come up fifteen miles
from Gauley Bridge. They will give him a
column of about 10,000 men, with which to fourth—the wholo belonging or supposed to
march upon us at tins point. About 4,000 of | K | 0n gj 0 citizens of the Stale now controlled by
kce force bad landed on the main land, about
twelve miles distant from Fort Pickens, and
were busily engaged in throwing up earth
works. Some arc of the opinion that the naval
expedition, of which we have heard so much
• >f late, is destined for Pensacola. We shall
soon see.
Confiscation in New Youk a Losing Gaxe.
The New York Herald of September 25th,
in its money article makes this significant State-
“It would be well for the Secretary of State
and Secretary of the Treasury to have an occas
slonal interchange of views, as the recent pro
ceedings of the one are seriously interferring
with the policy of the other. Within the pist
few days the agents of the Secretary of the
State have been constantly running up and down
Wall street tn choseof Southern money. Th-.-y
have seized $10,00. in one place, $5,000 in
another, $20,000 in a third, a box of papers in
one bank, a roll of notes in another, a bundle oi
bonds in another, a trunk of valuables ir a
this number are now encamped at “Alderson’s,
twcluc miles distant, and the smoke from their
camp fires is plainly visible from our tents this
evening.
A SIGNIFICANT ADMISSION.
The Herald makes tho following irrepressi
ble admission in regard to the poverty of tbe
recruiting business; but lays tbe account at the
door of the Abolitionists. It says:
It is painful to praccive to what extent, in
the villages and. interior towns of New York,
New England, and the West, the recruiting of
fices of the Federal army have become forsaken,
in consequence of tbe intrigues and machina
tions of secession sympathizers and abolition
mal-contents. In larger cities like this metro
poh's, Boston, and Philadelphia, their cflbrts are
neutralized; but, in portions of the North where
the poison can be sown with less observation,
an incalculable amount of harm is being done,
to which it behooves the Government to pay
immediate attention. The leaders of the politi-
sal intrigue, carried on in the name of the old
Democratic party, do not hesitate to avojr their
intention of so acting that they may be able to
lay claim to Southern gratitude, whenever the
war is ended. The newspaper associates of the
Tribune, on the contrary, hope to turn the hos-
tilics that have commenced into a war for ne
gro (-mancipation, and on the broad ground of
nigger worshipping abolition to overthrow and
supplant Mr. Lincoln and his Administration.
Meanwhile they strive to render him obnoxious,
and to frustrate the completion of his well laid,
patriotic schemes for. the restoration of the in
tegrity of the Republic.
SINKING OF A STRAXER IN THE POTOVAC.
Tbe steamer sunk by our battery on tbe Po
tomac a few days ago was the Planet The
Fedends-maintain that she sunk by colliding
with the Delcwarc. The Sun gives the follow
ing aooount from one of the officers:
The steamer Planet, Capt Henry Wilson,
left Washington on Wednesday, Fept 25th, at
12 M., and proceeded down tho i’otomac river.
When opposite Occoquan point she was fired
at from a battery erected on said point; twelve
shot were tired at her, five of which crossed
her deck, two immediately forward of the pilot
house, and three between the foremast and
mainmast, none of which took effect. We es
caped their shot only to meet with a worse fate,
for at 7i P. M., when below Cedar Point, wo
were run into by the steamer Delaware, Cap
tain Cannon, and sunk in ten minutes after the
.collision. Th.i Planet had a light on her bow
and another at her mast head, and was setting
the side lights when th« Delaware came in con
tact, with us, and cut us naariy in twain. All
lhands were knocked down by the blow, and
one man, who was on tho top of the pilot-house
setting the side lights, was knocked off, and
fell a distance of 15 feet to the lower deck, es
caping, however, with only a sprained ankle.
Col. Uenning’s Regiment.
The number of Col. Bcnning’a Regime nt has
been changed from the l'Jth to the 17th. which
>ve .-nate for the benefit of friends and Tola-
tives holding coir pcndence with members of
it . -
tho rebels. • The consequences of these confis
cations are a gain to the United States of per
haps $50,000 or $60,000 and a loss of several
millions to the city .of New York; for the mo
meat it became known that Mr. Seward's
agents were on the track of ihe Southern mon
ey every bank and banker, made baste to remit
all he had to Europe for safety—rightly deem
ing his duty to his client paramount to every
other consideration. Tho consequence of this
sudden transmission of money to Europe has
been a considerable reduction of the bank de
posits here—a rise in exchange to within $ per
cent of the specie—and a general disturbance
of the money market which, with ot v er causes
has reduced the popular suberiptions to the na
tional loan of fifty per cent. It may be very
right and proper, perhaps, to despoil the
Southerners who, relying upon our honor, sent
us their money to keep, when they could not
trust the rebel governments which had usurped
authority over them; but surely it is a fatal
error to gratify patriotic zeal in this way, when
the effort convulses our money market, disturbs
the foreigh exchanges and checks subscriptions
to the popular loan.
Impossibility of Getting Ricruits for tub
Yankee Armt. — Recruiting is dead at tha
North. So great is the difficulty of getting
men to enlist that any body who brings 25 re
cruits is offered a captaincy, and those who ob
tain smaller squads are entitled to rank in pro
portion. But tho Yankees don’t want to im
molate themselves, either in the capacity of of
ficer or private. The New York Times, in a
piteous jeremiad on this subject; says:
The recruiting returns are most unsatisfac
tory- There has not been such a lack of busi
ness during any period within the past five
years. The difficulty is to get men of any kind.
The standard of height has been lowered, and
the next step will probably be the suspension
of the regulation prohibiting tbe enlistment nf
married men. Apparently there was nothing
dime at Boston and Philadelphia, and no de
tachments arrived from those cities during the
week, nor yet from Boston or Buffalo. \
CAPTURE OF THE FANNY:
A correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle
gives the subjoined account, dated Oct. 4, at
Elizabeth City, N.‘ O.:
And first of all: on yesterday, 49 prisoners
from Hatteras were placed on a barge in froi^t
of tbe camp, who, the night liefore, had been
taken by an expedition' commanded by Colonel
Wright, and composed of the Dawson Grays,
Athens Guards and Wilkinson Rifles. The
command were on board the steamers Raleigh,
Curlew and Junaluska, a part of Com. Lynch’s
squadron. These steamers were armed with
cannon. On Tuesday last, at p. m., the
whistles sounded, tho “tribands” of the Confed
erate States kissed the rising breeze, and off the
little army and navy went—Commodore Lynch
commanding all the steamers.
In two hours and a half the deep-mouthed
dogs of .war let loose, told us in the camp the
work was going on. Presently, quicker and
quicker came the booming thunder, and soon
several together, and then at regular intervals;
and thus it was, until the*white flag went up
on board the steamer Fanny, a part of the U.
S. N. off Hatteras, and she was ours.
She made all tbe resistance she could, but
was taken. Armed with two pieces (one a rifled
cannon) and those 49 men (one a contraband of
war in uniform), she was carrying immense
anny 6tores in the 14th Indiana Regiment,
then establishing a camp about 20 miles from
ours.
Yesterday the captured Fanny was unloaded
and before now has, in all probability, done us
good service. For as we came away, the can
non, at 5 P. M., when we were 15 miles off, ap
prised us that the fleet and army were again in
motion.
The Fanny’s cargo is very valuable, probably
worth S70,000 or $80,000. One item is 1,000
army overcoats.
The prisoners are detachments from- various
companies at Hatteras, and were commanded
by Captain Hart, of the 14tb Indiana regiment:
Twelve of them are from the New York 9th
regiment, and were acting as artillery-men.
They are safe, in good hands, and treated as
prisoners of war. Lieut. Harris, of the Home
Guards, had them in charge when wo ltft, and
all hands on tho barge were debirous to find all
the comforts its open decks afforded, in tbe
bright sunshine.
ITEMS FROM NORTHERN PAPERS
Gen. Freemont is to be tried at St Louis.—
General Wool will preside at tho sittings of the
Court Martiah Wool’s absencairomJ?£
Gen. James Shields declines the Brigadier
Generalship tendered by Lincoln.
The Washington Star says that McClellan
will make an advance on Manassas shortly,
Tho Massachusetts Republican Convention
have nominated the present incumbent; An
drew, for reelection as Governor.
Sumner has delvered himself of another foul
tirade against the South, in which be favored
instant emancipation as tbe best Federal poli
cy.
The Wisconsin Democratic Convention no
minated B. Ferguson for Governor, Itesolu
tions were passed endorsing the war policy.
The Potomac is still unobstructed, and ves
sels are passing up.
It is reported that Andrew Johnson has been
surrounded in Bath county, Kentucky, by the
Confederates.
Henry May has arrived at Fort Lafayette.—
The defeat at Lexington, Missouri, causes a
depressing effect in the Morth. The Tribune
fears that Missouri is lost
Delegates to the Commercial Convention
At a meeting of the Savannah Chamber of
Commerce, held on the 5th last., the following
gentlemen were appointed by the Vice Presi
dent, to represent the city at the Commercial
Convention, to be held in Macon on the 14th.
Octavus Cohen,
N. A Hardee,
Wm. Duncan,
J. 15 Gathe,
Carl Epping,
G. W: Garmany,
Jno. Stoddard,
Wm. Hunter,
Geo. L. Cope,
J. L. Villalonga,
Wm. II. -Tison,
E. A. Soullard,
A. Minis, •
H. Muller,
W. N. Habersham,
Henry Brigham,
Wm. Battersby,
Jno. Cunningham,
Isaac Cohen,
Another Deserter from Pickens.—Another
Deserter from Fort Pickens came over last night
aud was taken to tho Yard this morning, says
the Pensacola Observer, 5th. He says on the
night of the burning of the “Judah” we kille:
four and wounded nine of the Federal party.—
lie reports seventeen hundred men on tho Is
land, and two hundred and fifty on the sick
list. Wc did not learn how he effected his es
cape, and have to stop tlie press to give this
meagreaccount
J5?“A Washington dispatch says - It is as
certained that Gen. Patterson’s campaign in
Virginia cost the Government #10,000,000.—
The sole result was the capture of twenty-eight
fugitive slaves, nearly at. of whomc were retur
ned to their masters.
Distinguished Arrivals.—Hon. John C.
Breckinridge, Hon. Wm. Preston, and Hon.
Humphrey Marshall, of Kentucky arrived in
this city on Sunday by the way of East Ten
nessee, and departed for Bowling Green yester
day —XashviUe Union & American.
The steamer St. Johns, on her last trip to
Florida; was chased by a small steamer of the
blockading squadron, off Cumberland Island.
The.St. Johns ran in South of Amelia Island,
and thus eluded her pursuer.
The Louisville Journal removed to Indi-
ska.—-The Memphis Avalanche learns the fol
lowing from a gentleman just from Louisville:
The office of the Louisville Journal ha* been
moved to Jeffersonville* Prentice preferring to
be upon the “safe sido” of the Ohio.
It seems that those connected with the Louis
ville Journal office have made a ‘good thing’ of
jt in supporting Lineoln. It is generally known
in Louisville that Henderson and Osborne (of
the Journal) had a contract for supplies, upon
which they made a large sum of money. Pren
tice’s special “fee” was a “mule contract,” from
FTomfoift CuilAio Wkex.v
A Discrepancy.
Between, the Constitution phd tho pro
posed time of inaugurating the Permanent
Government of the Confederat e States,
there is a discrepancy.
When thejState of South Carolina se
ceded, on the 20th day of December,
1860, her Convention submitted to "the
other seceding States a proposition for a
“provisional government,’’ with a proviso
that such government shonld “cease and
determine in two years from the first of
July next or when a permanent govern
ment shall have been organized.’’ Jour
nal Geo. Con., p. 305. Iu furtherance of
the same object, the Convention of Ala.
bama invited the other Southern Slates
to meet with her “in Convention, on the
4th day of Feb., 1861.’’ p. 311. In ac
cordance witlf these invitations, the Geor
gia Convention elected ten delegates to
represent the State in the Montgomery
Convention, and in the grant of powers to
them it was expressly provided that the
provisional government should uot “ex
tend beyond the period of twelve months
from tbe time it goes into operation*”
91.
The Montgomery Convention very
soon agreed upon a provisional constitu
tion, under which President Davis was
inaugurated on the 18th of February.-
According, therefore, to the limitation of
the Georgia Convention, the existence of
the provisional government would expire,
so far as this State is concerned, on the
18lb February, 1862. But as th‘e Mont
gomery Convention desired to inaugurate
the permanent government on Wasbiug
ton’s birth-day, the Georgia Convention
“resolved that the delegates of this State
to the, Convention at Montgomery be au-
tlie'provisional government until the 22d
day of February, 1862, with a view to
the inauguration of the permanent gov
ernment on that day.” P. 397. And
furthermore, a law of Congress has been
prepared for the inauguration oh the day
proposed. On the 22d of February, 1862,
and every/six years thereafter; therefore
the President will" be inaugurated.
But in the Constitution it is provided
(Acts, Sec. 1, Clause 3,) that ip case of
failure to elect the President by the elec
toral colleges, the House of Representa
tives shall elect one of the three highest
and “if the House of Representatives
shall not choose a President, whenever
the right of choice shall devolve upon
them, before the fourth of March next
following, then the Vice President shall
act as President, as in the case of the
death or the constitutional disability of
the President.”
It appears, therefore, that while the
time for the inauguration of the Presi
dent is fixed on the 22d of February, tbe
privilege of the House of Representatives
in electing the' President is extended to
the fourth of March. And as the Vice
President is not empowered to act as
President until the latter day, there may
happen an interregnum in the Presidential
office for the ten days intervening.
Such a contingency, it is true, may not
happen for a century, or may never hap
pen, but it is a defect in the Constitution
to allow sucli a contingency to be possi
ble. The instrument ought at once to be
so amended as to remove the defect.
The clause of the constitution in which
the provision referred to is found, is a lit-
teral transcript from the United States
Constitution, only substituting the word
“Confederate” for “United.”
Probably the discrepancy occurred
from considering the inauguration of the
permanent government and the second
Article of the • constitution at different
times. When tho Convention was in svs
sion in Savannah, I called the attention of
a distingaised member of Congress to the
subject, and he confessed that it was an
oversight. 1 have not seen the matter
noticed, and I take this method of inviting
public attention to it.
N. M. CRAWFORD.
Mercer University, Sept. 27, 1861.
THE FLAG OF FLORIDA.
. The following is a description of the flag
recently adopted by the State of Florida :
The one half of the flag next to tha-staff
is dark blue ; the other half has alternately
one red, one white, one red stripe. Each
stripe (three in tril) of equal width, and
perpendicular to the staff. .[The stripes are
which hevlcared the snug little sum of $80,000. I the same as the Confederate stripes, only
To show how much “principle” there was in they form one half the flag.] On the blue
this concern, we are informed positively that at ground, and occupying somewhat more
one time the Seeess.on.sts had purchased the ^ one! . h alf ofit, is an elliptical band (the
Journal for a stipulated sum, but tho hastening . r -
of events prevenud the transfer. a *'* of the ell P se , IU the proportion of fifteen
to thirteen, tho longitud nal axis parallel
LINCOLN’S BLOCKADE. . with the flag staff) bearing superiorly, “In
The following is important, if true. God is our Trust;” interiorly, “Florida”
The Raleigh Register of the 5th instant says —making, as it were, a frame for the shield:
PLANS OF TIIE E^EMY. f'
The New Orleuus Delta, by'some unex
plained proces, has.got a copy of Harper’s
•Weekly of a very foti dale, from which it
extracts the following article j
Wc Relieve we inuy say the plan oi tho
autumn and winter campaign has been de
termined, and that the’Teading generals are
apprised of the parts they are to play in it.
It involves operations of so extensive a
character as to be without parallel in histo
ry, and to be morally certain of effecting
their object-the suppression of the rebeliiou
before next spring.
The plan presumes that the rebels will
remain inactive at their present post*.—
.Should Gen. Beauregard attack Washing-,
ton, a change in the programme might bo
the result, as it is confidently anticipated
that he would meet with an overwhelming
defeat, which would probably pr< cipitate
matters. Again, should Gen. Johnston un
dertake an aggressive movement against
Cairo, the Mississippi expedition might pro
ceed to work more speedily than is now in*
tended. It is not believed, however, - that
either of these contingencies will occur. At
Washington as at Cairo, an attacking force
would fight at such an enormous disadvant
age that it is not supposed the experienced
leaders of the rebel army would wantonly
run the risk of a forward movement.
Assuming, then, thiit the rebels pursue
the wisest course, and wait to be at tcketl
in their entrenchments, we have rea.s, n to
believe that, in ihe first or second week of
October, the campaign will bes'.mqltai.i <>us-
ly commenced on tne east co 1st, in the vi
cinity of Fortress Monroe, at Man s-
Harper’s Ferry, in Kentucky, on the. Mies
sisippi, and the westarn portion ot Mi - iurL
We believe that three naval exp. (lit na
arc being fitted out in New Engl-md nd
New.\ork. The camps at He: pst-ad pn®
Scarsdale are to furnish men lor twp of them:
the third will recruit lo.OOtt voluot.* r.s .n
New England. We presume we-sdi dl not
be far wrong if we predict that these e - se
ditions will be commanded by G ns. Buts
ler, Burnside and Lander.' Two of th» - m
ing the attention of the < nemy from die line
ol the Potomac—one, for irrs' .nco, m iy P.
fret a landing at or hear Fori Royal, S. O.,
while the other, reinforced by the g rf?son
et Fort Pickens may reopen tin. - ex. ell at
harbor of Pensacola to tbe cot timer. - oftbe
world. It is likely that the third will con«i
sist of at least 10,000 men and will be com
manded by Gen. Burnside, will operate in
the Chesapeake, landing so as one hand to
flank the rebel army on the Potomac, while
dn the other to take Norfolk (n the rear, ia
-case the rebels should fall hack to Munas-
Ali of these expeditions will hi- prg-
that the two British vessels which landed at In the centre of the elipse is a single stroiig
Beaufort, North Carolina, while the Yankee live oak tree. Beyond it, is seen the Gulf
blockading vessels were somewhere else, took | t) f Mexico, with sailing vessels in the dis-
on cargoes for Liverpool. When thoy were | t a nce. In front of, and near the front of
~ ield Artillery. Be-
C- tains I . vo,lu ulc ij u “» u “ u "Sting against the bole
remonstrated, but without avail. They sent J °f the oak, is seen a stand of six colors
for the British Consul at Charlerton, who cams I the Confederate and Slate flags to the front.
The Blodget Flying Artillery.—The Rich
mond Examiner of Monday says:
We had the pleasure of taking a brief glance
at the ‘‘Independent Battery” front Georgia,
during its rapid passage down Main street yes
terday afternoon, en route for Fairfax Court
House. Thisfine batteiy consists of four teu-
pounder steel rifled guns and two twelve-poun- ^
der howitzers. The horses, carriages anil cais-1 j n person, and urged upon - them in the name | Tothe left ofthe field piece are four muskets
on cargoes for Liverpool. When thoy were lance . In fronl o} ; an( ]
ready to sad, the blockadmg vessels were back the oak j, a ic , Cl . pf Fu
at the posts assigned them, and refused to al- . ,‘ , , ..
low the British Wftssls egress. The Captains - v ° n , d the , Z? D > a,ld restir
sons were in admirable order, and the cannon
eers seemed to be of as “good metal,” as their
bright pieces. We feel assured that the_“In-
dependent Battery” will yet “make a noise in
the world."
Some five or six thousand hogs from Ken
tucky. were driven through Nashville on AYcd-
nesJay. They come to Tennessoe for tha im
provement of their physical condition.
Messrs. Geo. W. Williams <k.Co., of Charles
ton, arc about to engage in tha manufacture of
salt. .*
of his Government that, as they found no im• *:, c kt-d. To the right, and near, balJs piled,
pedimftnt in entering the harbor of Beaufort, an( j a
* ' * This
they had a right to depart unmolested,
was also unavailing.
Tho C'li sul then proceeded to Wellington,
and has 1 ml the case heiure Lord Lyons. The
Register do*s not know but believes a portion
of ths British squadron has been ordered to
'l'na War Tax in Kentucky.—In tho Ken
tucky House of Representatives on - .ku 17th
ult., the Judiciary Committee reported against
submitting the qusstion - of paying the war tax
to a vote «f the people, on tho ground that Ken-
Bcaufort to give tho Vessels a convoy on their! tucky should pay it without a vote, and tbe ro
ll one ward voyage. |
Our own opinion is, and has been, that the
blockade cannot be long maintained.—Atlanta
Confederacy.
port was sufUinftd.
Gen. Wise is lying critically ill in Richmond,
Virginia.
vided with ample artillery,ml the landing
will be effected under c»vi-r of heavy naval
batteries. Ships, ateauvr*, gunboats and
launches are, we believo, being actively
prepared for the service.
Simultaneously with the departure of these
expeditions, we look fora forward movement
on the part of Gen. Bunks. A glance at the
map will show how General McClellan will
cooperate with him. . If the enemy will re
sist him in force, McClellan will naturally
attack Manassas at once. If he moves on
without opposition, the attack will be defer
red until he is in a position to take pert in
by flanking the enemy.. We have an
intimation that simultaneously with Gen.
Ranks’ movement, General Sickles will
cross the Potomac sotne twenty miles below
Washington, with a view to gain a position
between Manassas and Richmond. These
details, however, nre of course, as yet uns
determined • and the intimation is merely a
shrewd guess. The mnft point—that Man
assas will be threatened on three sides sim
ultaneously, while a column under Gen.
Burnside advances to cut off the retreat of
enemy—may be regarded as pretty
certain.
Meanwhile, further west,Gen. Anderson
may be expected by the 10th October to
have raised such an army of Kentuckians
and East TennesseeansastokecpTennessae
effectually in check, and to co-operate effi
ciently with Gsn. Fremont, who, by that
time, will probably have mustered an army
sufficient to beat the rebels in the neighbor-,
hood of Springfield Missouri, -and to man a
powerful expedition for the descent of the
Mississippi.
We do not leok for naval operations of
the first importance- on tho Mississippi.—
Ibe fortified points on that river will nat
urally be assailed by land. Corps d’armee
will converge upon them from either shore,
and reduce them as Hatteras was reduced,
or, when the thing is practicable, with the
bayonet. The gunboats will be useful as
auxiliaries, and the river will prove valua^
ble for the transportation of supplies. But
the fighting in the West will be done on
land. If the campaign in that region is to
keep pace with that in tho East, the rebel
forces under Price, or McCulloch, or who
ever has succeeded them, which are now in
possession of Springfield, Missouri, -and the
vicinity, must be defeated -and driven into
Arkansas or scattered altogether, before
October 15. Whether this can he achieved
depends upon considerations which are only
known lo Major'General Fremont.
Thus, if our information be correct, the
battle will have begun along the whole line,
from the Atlantic to Kansas, -by the-middle
of October, and at least two points on the
coast will be either in possession of or under
bombardment by our forces. It is believed
that the whole force will not be less than
350,000 men, exclusive of reserves and
Home Guavds in Kentucky, Maryland and
Missouri; so that at every poir. - . ritwtod
we shall probably outnumber the enemy.
It ia not reasonable to believe that' the
rebel troops from tbe Gnlfdtateswill remain
patiently under arms in Virginia, while
their homes are being assailed front the
North. .
The First Congre- sional District ef Flor
ida, has now four candidates in the Held,
viz; Hon. James D. Dawkins, Hon. Phillip
D. ii, Gen. J. M. G. Commander and Ex-
Gov. James E. Broome.
A meeting held in Nashville, on Saturday
last, for the purpose of raising means to
carry cn a war, was addressed by Gov.
Foote,Dr. McFerrin and Hon. Andrew Ew
ing, and was adjourned to Monday evening.
The Patriot says the meeting promised the
most pleasing results, one gentleman sub
scribing $25,000, and others smaller sums.
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