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FRIDAY MORNING, DEC. 20, 1861.
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Tho Planters* Insurance* Trust and Loan
Company.
We would call the attention of. the planters,
merchants and business men of<! J *f ra 'fy to the
charter granted at the late session of the Legis
lature for the incorporation of this company.
It will be seen that the principal office is to be
located in this city, and that it offers great
inducements for the investment of capital.
It is known that Gen. Dull' Green, through
whose influence and exertions this valuable
charter was obtained, has devoted much time
THEXINCOLN CONGRESS.
All signs, we think, point unmistakably to
the triumphant sway of the most lawless and
infuriated abolition radicalism in the Lincoln
Congress this winter, unless checked by some
external developments—the defeat ef McClel- an( j s tudy to the subject of finance and politi
lan, for example, or any very serious disaster
to the Lincoln' army. If their grand army
should be once more signally discomfltted on
the Potomac or in Kentucky we believe it
would hold the Congress, as well as the
Lincoln army, in pretty effectual check;—
but this aside, it is pretty evident the radi
cal wing is now and will be uppermost
The Cabinet is said to be equally divided,
and the President is a mere nose of wax,
without committing himself to any course in
particular.- His message is a simple tender of
himself to Congress to sanction whatever they
agree to. It is known that the radical Repub
licans not only have a majority but indeed they
represent the only concerted Opinion in that
body. All the others have no definite policy
and
diner'58 va.lously as they number men. There
is thcnYiterally no organized opposition to the
Black Republicans. No these considerations
may be added the fact, that any embarassments
which the radical Republicans, may have de
tected last summer in the condition of Marys
land, Kentucky and Missouri are now remov
ed. The first is tied up and cannot resist, and
whatever portion of the other two remains free
is already in revolt No considerations in re
gard to these States remain to restrain the ac
tion of the incendiaries, and well, therefore,
may the Kentucky Unionists howL
THE FIRE IN CHARLESTON.
The Charleston Mercury gives a catalogue of
the number« of the premises desolated in the
late awful conflagration. Counting these oyer,
we make huudrid and ninety; but some of
the numbers represent manufacturing and oth
er Establishments, which embraced several
valuable buildings in each, and the out-houses
connected with the dwclings would, we sup
pose, count as many as, or more than, the
numbers of the premises. Taking these into
consideration, we suppose that the whole num
ber of buildings consumed was somewhere be
tween ten and fifteen hundred—a terrible de
struction certainly.
THE GEORGIA TWELFTH AGAIN.
The 12ib Georgia again desputes laurels
with the glorious 8th and is, in fact, one g’ori
ous battle ahead of it. Before going to press
we hope to receive particulars of the gallant
fight on Valley Mountain, where 1200 Confcd
erate troops,composed mainly of the 12th Geor-
gia Regiment, repulsed five thousand-Federals,
after a contest of seven hours' duration 1 We
understand a private despatch has been received
by his family from Lt. Colonel Conner, an
nouncing thefight and victory and the gratify
ing intelligence that he is unhurt The follow -
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cal economy, He is now in this city for the
purpose of organizing the company, and re
quests us to invite such of our capitalists,
planters, merchants and business men who wish
to understand more in detail the provisions and
purposes of the charter, to meet him this eve
ning at seven o’clock at the parlor of the Lanier
House. We hope.that there will be a general
attendance.
Mebckr University.—It will be seen by the
advertised announcement that the University
opens on the 22d of next month.
FROM SAVANNAH.
We see nothing in the papers about our dear
little seaport, which Lincoln is threatening to
chcke with greasy Ktnnea. ^^friftpdfrom there
and that a large number which had rendezvous
ed there have sailed away. The movements, of
the enemy seem to indicate a change of pur
pose, or, at least, unsettled purposes, in refer
ence to stopping up the port, and it is suspect
ed that orders have been received from Wash
ington countermanding the movement Is it
possible that th'e Lincolnites have become
ashamed or afraid of the proceding ? or are
they hesitating between the projects of taking
the port, or of stopping it up V
We hear street rumors that they have arres
ted a spy in Savannah—detected in correspon
dence with the Lincoln Government We sus
pect there are some there, as well as elsewhere
in the South.
Salty!—A friend told us yesterday morning
that he met a countryman going out of town
with a peck of salt, which he said he had paid
two dollahs for, and could not get it at any of
the stores for less. Whoever seizes that salt
will get his fingers burned, for certain.
But is it not araaz ng that there should be a
lack of salt, with so much sea water as there is
about the coast of the Southern Confederacy?
We are confident an investment of three or
four thousand dollars, well managed, should
turn out thirty bushels of salt per day.
The effect of the salt seizures has resulted
just as we supposed it would. It has thrown
the article out of market No merchant will
deal in it, and instead of ten dollars per sack,
it will be up to forty dollars, unless some
guaranty is obtained against unlawful spolition.
The Demand for Our Commissioners!^
We had just written out some speculations
upon the probable action of the British Gov
ernment in the Trent case, when the glorious
news reached us, putting an end to all doubt
The English government, supported by France,
has peremptorily demanded the surrender of
our Ministers and their suite in England by the
Lincoln government! The despatch says that
Europe is in a blaze of indignation at the act
of arrest
The question now remaining is, will the Lin
coln government take the back track and hand
them over ? How can they ? Nr government
in our day was ever called upon to swallow so
bitter a pill! The House of Representatives
have just publicly thanked Wilkes for the very
act, and a cabinet report has not only sanction
ed the act, but intimated that England has rea
son to bless her stars that the vessel itself was
not seized, and the next time she may rest
certain of condign punishment!
Now how can the Lincoln Government come
down from that lofty perch—liberate the rebel
commissioners and humbly escort them to Eng
land on the demand of that power. If they do
it, they arc lost with their own party 1
The Black Republicans now hate England
with a. perfect hatred. When old Giddings, the
ti n gol!m>ugh r flie°^?ortheim 1 States,
and cursing John Bull half an hour, wound up
up by declaring if England wanted a fight let
her come on, ho gave vent to the Black Repub
lican inind on this subject They look upon
Great Britain as having betrayed them into
this folly and then deserted and turned against
them. British abolition and Exeter Hall hound
ed them on to the South, and then turns tail
upon them the moment they have ruined their
great Republic. No wonder they hate the
British; and now to swallow all their boasts
and brags and send back these Commissioners
at their own expense, is too mnch of a humilia
tion. We hardly believe they will consent to
it, even in the face of certain war ; and if it is
done, then they are as completely demoralized
and disgraced at home as ever party was.
The whole question, it will be seen, rests
now on the shoulders of the administration.—
If they have a tithe of the fight in them which
the Lincoln papers have claimed, they will be
in a European war in the course of three weeks,
and the result will be open ports and a speedy
termination of all our troubles. Heaven send
them a plenty of backbone just now.
X ngland and tho Lincoln Government.
The tide^o£ British indignation came boom
ing upon us day before yesterday with all thj
volume and power of a western river in “a
Fresh.” The despatches published yesterday
brought joy and exultation to thousands of our
readers. They saw in them the certainty of at
least some punishment to the Lincoln Govern
ment for tho unjustifiable war into which they
have plunged the South. They recognized the
sharpness of the alternative presented—abject
humiliation, or waj—and the acceptance of
either they knew wcjild inflict no small injury
upon the Lincoln gojeroraent None, however
sanguine, anticipate! so vigorous a proceedure
from England, and jl will he disposed to look
behind the afront f<4 at least a partial solution.
We may then infer hat the news of the Trent
outrage, came at a imo when the Commercial
and Manufacture g glasses were beginning to
feel the indispensable necessity of opening
trade with the Soui—when all classes were
beginning to see thijt cotton must be had, and
the British ministry were beginning to feel that
in the persistent avofrals of neutrality and the
obst : nato recognition of the blockade and the
right to make it, they had involved themselves
in a serious dilemma, alike embarrassing to the
country, and injurious to themselves. Fur-
-niure, WO iu>-Kan$i fiiirjy flganmo iW
Lincoln’s Message in Kentucky.
DAMPER TO THE UNION CAUSE.
Prospect of the Border glare States ICebel-
i»»K-
From the Memphis Appeal, Dee. 10.
We have received -by our ‘.‘sub marine ex
press” the Louisville Journal, of the 6th inst.
which is one day later from the North than we
have before had.
.The following editorial leader, oil Lincoln’s I country.
lence at such a juncture the blood of the noblest
government the world has seen would not rest
on the heads of a fanatical executive and his
harebrained counsellors alone.
W e have spoken oponly and plainly on this
subject because we feel that the great hope of
the country lios ,in fully recognizing the ac-
I tual peril and in resolutely grappling with it.—
i Our sense of the actual peril is most deep and' thefollowin
vivid. If we suppressed or disguised it we
j should be false to ourselves, and false to our
We. know not how.it may be, with
Correspondence ofthe Telegraph,
To the Noble Grand Officers and Memlert of
Anderson Jjodge, No. 24,1. O. 0. F:
The undersigned committee, appointed to
Lake into consideration the death of our late
brother, Daniel II. Mason, beg leave to submit
message, is so remarkable an article, that we
SENTIMENTS IN ENGLAND.
Extracts from recent English papers indicate
a rapid concentration of public opinion there
in favor of acknowledging Southern indepen
dence, and at the same time & growing hostili
ty to the Lincoln Government The paragraph
quoted from the London Herald shows-that
ing is the composition of the 12th tioorgia Reg < til ' 8 remark is applicable to almost the entire
j mcnt . j English press—was a month ago, and we have
The Twelfth Georgia Regiment—the pr.'nci
pal actors in the fight on our side—is com
manded by Col. Johnson; Conner, Lieut Colo
nel and Smead Major. It is, or was when it
was formed, composed of the following compa
nies:
Marion Guards, Marion county, Blanford
Captain.
Davis Rifles, Macon county, Captain McMil
lan.
Davis Guards, Dooly county. Captain Brown.
Jones Volunteers, Jones county, Captain
Pitts.
Muckalee Volunteers, Sumter county, Cap
tain Hawkins.
Lowndes Volunteers, Lowndes county, Cap
tain Patterson.
Calhoun Rifles, Calhoun county, Captain
Furlow.
Central City Blues, Bibb county, Captain
Rogers.
Putnam Light Infantry, Putnam county,
Captain Davis. "
Muscogee Rifles, Muscogee county, Captain
Scott.
BATTLE IMMINENT.
It will ba seen by our telegrams that a bat
tic is again considered imminent on the Poto
mac. We have no doubt, in fact, that it is
steadily approaching at the snail’s pace of Me
Clellan’s advance. The Southern papers gen
erally' do not seem to apprehend a fight there
this winter, but it is bound to come, and that
it will come before long, is probable, because
the foes are now separated by a distance of not
more than four to six miles. After all their
preparations and immense army, the Lincoln
ites are under a moral necessity to fight The
whole world would set up a howl of derision at
them; if they did not fight; and not to fight
would be just as bad as a defeat—if not worse,
as a voluntary acknowledgment of imbecility.
We may therefor* look for a fight on the Poto
mac soon, and prepare ourselves for a long and
bloody one. They win fortify up to a cannon
shot of our. lines, and the storming of their en
trenchments will probably be a costiy opera
tion.
A late number of the Cincinnati Enquirer
boasts that the Confederates have deceived
themselves in tiieir straiegetic dispositions
both in Kentucky and Virginia. He says Rich
mond will be assaulted but not by Manassas,
and the campaign on Memphis will bo under
taken not by the way of the Mississippi, but by
the Tennessee river. He is a wise man, bat
mistaken, in our opinion.
AN AWFUL WARNING.
in the recent terrible disaster to Charleston,
it seems to us there is a valuable lesson to
both Charleston and Savannah, which in one
particular are similarly conditioned. Both
towns are sandwiched throughout with little
old trifling wooden buildings—shanties—built
originally of undressed lumber, aiid not worth
twenty dollars apiece. These tinder boxes are
wedged in between costly brick and stone edi
fices, apparently on purpose to bum them up,
and feed a- general conflagration, such as has
recently visited the good old city of Charles
ton, and destroyed the monuments of her pros
perity and grandeur. A stranger perambulat
ing either of these plaees is astonished to see
all their principal streets and some of then-
choicest building lots disfigured by these un
sightly shanties, and in one who has seen
Charleston, particularly where the streets aro
narrower and there are fewer trees to obstruct
the sweep of a fire, can fail to notice that a
general conflagration at any time Only awaits
a favorable conjunction of circumstances.
Is there no way to deliver costly edifices
from tho jeopardy ofsuch worthless neighbors?
II there is not, then there is po justification in
building them. A man might as well erect a
palaeo over the crater of Vesuvius 1 It is ab
surd that the beauty of an elegant city should
no doubt is still more so note. But let us fall
into no errors on this score. England cares
not a button for either party fn the way of sym
pathy or affection; and for the Confederate
States particulai'.y she entertains no feeling
but antipathy! She is, or would have been,
governed wholly by views ofher own interests,
had she not been irritated hy the waspish, in
tolerant and impertinent tone of the Lincoln
press. This has, in & measure, offset her strong
prejudices against the South and Restored the
equilibrium. The whole question, therefore,
with England is simply one of trade and how
soon to revive it. So long as the mighty pre
parations, naval and military, of the Lincoln
govemine- t held out a fair chance for the res
toration of peace and trade by conquest and
subjugation, the British press was quiet But
up to our latest English dates, six weeks of fair
fighting time had elapsed from the time North
era papers had pronounced themselves all rea
dy for the great forward movement—an : not
a thing done! The news of the outrage upon
the Trent reached them after two months ot
tho fighting time had sped by unimproved, and
winter was just setting in. It will be recollect
ed that from tho very commencement of the
war, or at least so soon as it was ascertained
that the South could not be over-run in ninety
days, the entire Lincoln press have united in
holding out the time from the beginning of
frost to the 1st of January as the great crisis
in the struggle. They could not operate in the
summer months. The original plan of Gen.
Scott contemplated no forward movements till
October—the advance on Bull' Run being a
mere sop to popular clamor. But so soon as
frost set in they would show the South the'pow
er of the North to wipe her out or drive her in
to submission. The British press have prudent
ly waited the fulfilment of these threats and
the opening of the cotton ports and trade by
Northern arms. But every week’s intelligence
from America has been more and more discou
raging. Every day of Northern inaction with
tiieir immense armies has been another confes
sion of imbecility, and, at last, that crowning
act of audacity—the stoppage of the Trent on
the high seas and the arrest of her passengers,
lias gone to the English ears at a moment when
all expectation of .elief from the Lincoln arine
has vanished into hopelessness. The extracts
we have published show that theUritish press
were getting into excellent hmnor for the re
ception and discussion of the achicvqpicnt of
Wilkes, and we shall be mistaken if a few days
more do not bring us some as angry growling
as was ever stirred up in a menagerie. We con'
less to a great curiosity to read what the Eng
lish press has to say about it.
• A Strong Friend.—A correspondent in Ma
con county writes:—‘‘My subscription to your
dailv is about out Here are two dollars to
keep it on—the last money I have. Have no
meat hut can’t do without the paper—will live
on bread and water and read the daily news.
Send me a receipt so that I may know when
my time is out, and if my old hen has good
luck in hatching, the chickens will bring
enough to.renew again.” The old Telegraph
has one friend, for certain.
THE COTTON MARKET.
The Cotton operations in Macon thus far
have been so light and unsatisfactory, that we
have omitted all regular reports, and have not
the slighest desire to tempt anybody to sell
who can honorably avoid it. We spent a lew
moments among dealers yesterday, to ascertain
whether the recent English news had produced
any effect None is yet perceptible, except it
may be on the littlo offered. The buyers also
THE VALLEY MOUNTAIN FIGHT.
It will have been noticed by the despatches
in our lost issue, that a double victory is claim
ed in this fight On the one side a despatch
to Cincinnati says jhe Federal loss was thirty.
and the Confederate loss 20O, not including
thirty prisoners of war. The rebels set fire to
their camp and retreated to Staunton, while
the Federalists, equally disgusted with the fight
and locality, “left the field in good order.," as
they always do. They have never done other
wise, for although a somewhat hasty, and dis
orderly retreat was confessed to at Manassas
and Leesburg in the hurry of the first accounts,
it was subsequently ascertained that they left
those fields “in good order." It would, in
fact, be discreditable to the well known neat
ness and methodical character of the Federals
to admit that they left any thing behind them
in bad order.
On.the other hand, despatches from our side
y xnat the Confederate loss in killed was
twenty and wounded ninety-seven, and estimate
the Hessian killed and wounded at 600. They
say that thirty-two of the Yankee killed were
buried by our troops on the field, and this tact
illustrates the wonderful courage and compos
ure of our people, who, before they set fire to
their own camp and retreated to Staunton (ac
cording to the Northern account), found time
not only to look after their wounded and bury
their own dead, hut to collect and bury the
corpses of the enemy. It.illustrates also their
wonderful regard to the claims of humanity
and the decencies of life, that they should have
been so careful to bury their dead enemies in a
wilderness camp, which they were in such a
hurry to leave, as to burn their camp equipage.
Furthermore, the Northern account illustrates
the wonderful power of Northern eyes. On
the retreat themselves, “in good order,” they
were yet able to see where the rebels went to,
although remaining behind long ehough to
make these necessary arrangements.
We apprehend, when all the facts come to
light, it will he found that the Valley Mountain
'fight has been a terrible and sanguinary strug
gle against great odds and ending in a. Bull
Run repulse.
One would think thc'Northem people would
tire out with the lies imposed upon them, and
clamor for truth, even though mortifying and
painful. But they are a manufacturing people
—they appear to delight in fabrications gener
ally.
WHAT MAY Be’lOOKED FOR
Unless Lincolmlom decides that discretio n
is. the better part of valor, and concludes to
propitiate the British lion with humble-pie, we
may look for active hostilities in a month or
less. England moves with great dispatch in
these matters, and will be ready to strike long
before we know that war has been declared.—
Her first blow will probably be at the hlockad
ing squadron, if any of them should be left off
our ports; but she will probably find none.
The moment the Lincoln administration see a
war-with England impending, they will begin
the work of obstructing our ports and inlets
with their “stun fleet,” in good earnest Fired
with a double spite against the Confederates
and against Great Britain, their first impulse
will be to destroy, if possible, all the perspec
tive trade intercourse between the countries,
and embarrass to the utmost the shipment of
cotton. To ruin the Southern harbors will be
her great labor and study—and for the reroain-
.der, her plan of operations will be materially
modified. All her military foree will probably
be withdrawn from the Southern coast, except
it may be from the forts of Key West and the
Tortugas—the latter of which she will be par
ticularly loth to abandon, but would find it
hard to hold. Pensacola, Port Royal and Hat-
teras we believe would be evacuated in a hur
ry, and we may rest assured England would
not close the war with Tortugas in the hands
of the North. The South relieved of the mari
time operations of her enemy, we venture to
say would soon bring her to terms on land.
IMPORTANT FROM KENTUCKY.
It will be seen that we have news by tele-
{jram that the Hessian force has at length cross
ed Green River, and an early fight is looked
for. It is believed that tho Federal foree be
tween Louisville and Green River is near a hun
dred thousand men. Bowling Green, the Head
quarters of the Confederate force in Kentucky,
is not more than ten or twelve miles distant
are few and slow. Tho top of the market is 71, from Green River, and thus it is probable that
be manv-1 by inch huts, and still more absurd ( and little demand at that. Cotton is coining in the pickets of the hostile forces in Kentucky
that its safety should be placed in continual ; and warehouses are fast filling up. We
hazard by old rotten one story wooden bufiC- ; , strong , )0pcs lhat th(J 0) - a u . w weeks
ingsof no value in themselves—pestilential :ti ,
time of sickness, and ever exposing the city to j will enable us to report a much more favorable
the ravages of conflagration. i stato of things.
^ Kentucky
are not farther apart than on the Potomac.—
Witli all the rumors of an early engagement
on tlie Potomac, it is very possible that a great
fight in Kenp ky will be first on the tapis.
a goou uc«i\jf irritation and oftence had been
created by the foolish course of the Lincoln
press—their swaggering, insolent and bullying
tone—the threats of taking Canada—the con
fiscation of British vesjels for alledged violation
of tho blockade. Thi-t reluctance to sharpen
t ie issue was overcome by considerations of
the improbability of ev;r reestablishing a satis
factory trade with thi North under a protec
tive system rivetted upon her by a mere sec
tional domination—the palpabie certainty that
her schemes of Southern conquest must fail—
the national disgust of intelligent and polished
statesmen for so rude, vulgar and beastly a
government—the evident fact that the whole
Northern Republic was going to ruin and to
seed in every aspect of the case.
All tnese considerations and perhaps many
others probably combined to induce the Eng
lish government to demand not only a prompt
redress, but to dictate it in a shape most humili
ating—that the Lincoln govei nment should not
only return the captives, but transport them
to the place of their original destination.
Thus we see that in the character of the
British action on this subject*we may with
much plausibility infer motives highly favora
ble to a speedy reopening of our trade, and a
consequent relief from many of the serious em
barrassments of this war.
.Whether the Lincoln government will com
ply with the conditions of peace demanded by
Great Britain, remains now to be seen. We
shall probably know enough to form an opin'
ion on this subject in a few days. At present
the whole Northern press, and we presume,
nine-teuths of the politicians are committed to
the act. The Lincoln House of Representa
tives has endorsed it fully. But what is still
more unfavorable to a concession, is the lan
guage adopted by the Secretary of the Navy in
his recent annual report, emanating from a
Cabinet officer and bearing the implied en
dorsement of the President himself In this
report after endorsing fully the arrest, the Sec
retary adds: “and if a too generous, forbear
ance was exhibited by uim in not capturing
the vessel, which had these gentlemen on
board, it may in view of the special circum
stances and ofits patriotic motives, be excused;
but it must by no means be permitted to con
stitute a precedent hereafter lor the treatment
of any case of a similar infraction of neutral
obligations by foreign vessels engaged in com
merce or the carrying trade."
Such a declaration so made must add fuel to
fire when it reaches England. On the whole,
it must be assumed that the Lincoln party has
fully, and very gratuitously, tied themselves
firmly to this proceeding, and such a retreat os
England now demands will be one of the most
humiliating retrogressions ever exacted of any
respectable nation. We believe the Lincolnites
will not make it.
EXCITED.
Some of our readers were excited over the
ioreign news yesterday. One read just as he
jumped out of bed and says he found difficulty
in dressing—cut himself shaving—got his pan
taloons on hind side before—buttoned them , to
his vest and failed to cross his suspenders.-
Talked loudly and incurred a reprimand for
waking the baby. Another tale is told upon a
patron of ours, who,' when things go to suit
him, gives vent to his pleasure by sending aloft
a light Confederate flag from a particularly tall
flag-staff on the top of his house. He was up
in time to burn candles, and sending out for
the paper, read it till big tear drops of gratifi
cation rolled down his cheeks. At last rous
ing as if he bad forgotten something, he called
out to his servants—“ (Jtesar, Lewis, Jack,
hoist up that flag this mipute.”
GLAD TIDINGS FROM EUROPE.
The news from Europe contained in our tele
graphic columns this i torning, will send a
thrill of joy. throughout iur new Confederacy.
It gives a definite promis > of the speedy end of
the war, which, under g eat disadvantages, we
are waging against a cr tel and unscrupulous
foe. The career of Yanl ee prosperity and in
solence, is fast drawing o a close. Those pow
erful pleaders, Cotton aqjl Tobacco, have con
victed Commodore Wilk s of a grievous outrage
and France and England roll up their pious eyes
and cry aloud for vengianco. The Thunderer
tells us that the South' is to he received into
the Family of nations; [that the sham blockade
is to be broken up, ar.d that New York, PhiN
adelphia and Boston, will soon have to drain a
chalice, fir more Litter jhan that which they
have held to the lips of Charleston, Savannah
and New Orleans. Jus, and timely will be the
retribution 1
It is the unanimous sentiment of our people,
that, if a sqadron from Europe will but neutra
lize, for a time, tho disadvantage under which
we fight, of being absolutely without a navy, w e
shall, uurselves, be ablest onco to end tho war
upon the land. And it iis to this most desira
ble consummation of oqr bloody struggle for
Independence, that the ; signs of to-day seem
plainly to point.—fihas. ^Mercury.
Cotton Seed for Hogs.—-The Athens “Ban
ner” says that an intelligent and successful far
mer in the country has been feeding his hogs
on cotton seed for twelve tnonths, and now has
as good or perhaps a better stock of hogs, than
he erer bad before. His m«de of preparing the
fc>od is so boil the seed until they become soft,
aiad then let stand 36 hours, when they arc rea-
dy for use.
If the popular idea Jhat eating cotton seed
will kill hogs, be correct; it would seem that
the above named treatment deprives the seed
of the hurtful properties,
A CHEERFUL SIGHT.
Yesterday our streets were jammed with carts
and wagons loaded with corn, wheat, peas, Irish
potatoes, sweet potatoes, cabbage, apples, dried
fruit, turnips, chickens, eggs, butter, Christmas
gobblers, and in fact every thing that is neces
sary for good living.
Prices from wagons—Wheat $1 60 to 1 65 ;
Corn 75 to 80c.; Peas 80c.; Chickens 17 to 20a;
Eggs 16 to 18c.
All ye lean, hungry folks,who need Salting,
dry up your tears. The country is full of
provision's, and ia two weeks pork will be abun
dant, in our judgment, at 10 cts., which is an
extravagant price for it, all things considered.-
Atlanta Confederacy.
transfer it in full to our columns:
We arc sorry to he constrained to acknowl
edge that the President’s message ia on the
point of chief solicitude to the conservative men
of the country by no means satisfactory. Nay,
the message is on this point-deplorably unsat
isfactory. We make the confession frankly,
because it is true, and because it behooves the
loyal men of the country not only to face the
truth confessed but firmly to grapple with it
instantly.
The point to which we refer Is of course the
future policy of the administration with respect
to slavery. Concerning this point in its prin
cipal aspect the message contains the following
passage: . |
“Also, obeying the dictates of prudence, as
well as the obligations of taw, instead oftrans
ccnding I have adhered to the act of Congress
to confiscate property used for insurrectionary
purposes. If a new law upon the same sub
ject shall be proposed, its propriety will be duv
Lv considurud. , Tho Union mnat Isa ptoaotvoW,
ananence all desirable means must be. employ
ed. We should not be in haste to determine
what radical and extreme measures which may
reach the loyal, as well as the disloyal, are in
dispensable.” „
It is impossible to look upon this as anything
more or less than the expressioaof an- indirect
and unmanly concurrence in the policy asser
ted recently by Col. Cochrane and approved
by Secretary Cameron to the mortification and
shame of every loyal man in Kentucky. The
passage is lacking in propriety as wofully as in
statesmanship. The manner is as -bad as the
others, but we confess the effect produce in us
by the mournful repulse and panic of Bull Run
was elation compared with the feeling we ex-
perieneed on reading the passage of ttie mes
sage which forms the text of these remarks.—
'Unless the President is speedily braced up by
the conservative sentiment of the nation there
HKi’ORT.
At the call of big country, our late brother.
Daniel H. Mason, with a promptness which k
characteristic of the true patriot, went to iu
rescue, by enlisting as a soldier in the ranks of
the P. V., to defend its soil and the indepen
dence of the people against the vandal-hordes
of the North, who threaten the desecration o!
the one and the submission of the other, and
with the glorious Eighth Gem gia Regiment,
is serious danger that although the rebellion be shared the toils, hardships and deprivations in!
put down tlie nation will be extinguished.
AN ACT
To authorize the Justices of tho Inferior Courts
of the Several Counties of this State, from
• time to time, in their discretion, to levy such
extra taxes, as they may deem necessary, to
equip Volunteer or other Soldiers from their
respective Counties, and to provide for the
indigent families of. Soldiers:, To authorize
the collection of the same, and to legalize
their previous action in the premises ; and for
other purposes.
Section 1st The "General Assembly of the
State of Georgia do enact; That the Justices
wtarnnswot Courts «.f tho aovorol Counties
of this State, are authorized from time to time,
to levy such extra 'taxes as they may think ne
cessary to equip such Volunteer or other Sol
diers as have gone, or may go, from their res
pective Counties, and to provide the neccessary
support and main tainancc for such indigent fam
ilies of soldiers as may be resident in their res
pective Counties, and such indigent soldiers as
may return home wounded or disabled.
Section 2d. Tho said Justices may have all
such taxes collected, either by the regular tax
collectors of their respective Counties, or by
such other person or persons as they may think
matter. Both are deeply unworthy. The Pres-'.best, and may take such bond, and fix such
ident, without boldly assuming the responsi
bility of recommending such a confiscation law
as the anti-slavery'zealots demand, encourages
them to go forward and enact their law; and
without openly approving the policy of emanci
pation, he gives the partisans of the policy to
understand tiiat in the end they will not be dis
appointed.
In short the clear import of the passage of
the message is that not only the President not
no’- irreconsilably uostile to radical counsels,
but that he entertains them kindly and even me
diates their adoption. The passage is virtually a
hint to Congress that, if that body will take the
responsibility of authorizing or.ot recommend
ing extreme measures, the President will prob
ably take the responsibility of approving them
and carrying them out. And the several bills
and resolutions proposing extreme measures
which have been already introduced into one or
the other house with overpO wing manifestations
of favor, show that Congress will not be slow
to act upon-this hint. Congress is apparently
bent on such action. We thus have before us
the startling fact that, within a few days or
weeks, tiie President will be called upon to de
cide for or against the adoption of measuies
which the conservative inen ot the country deem
utterly fatal to the re-establishment of our gov
ernment, -and which he will consider with a
bias favorable to their adoption. This is the
plain truth, deny it who may, and the relation
of this truth marks tlie real turning point in the
present momentous struggle. Now, of all
others, is the critical hour of American nation
ality.
What is to be done ? There js but one thing
to be done-? The adoption of the extreme meas
ures contemplated must be prevented or the
nation is swallowed up. Of; this we do not feel
a shadow of doubt. But how can the adoption
of the measures be prevented ? There appear
to us to be three modes in either of which the
all important prevention may be attained. 1.
The prosperity tf our arms and of our cause
generally in a degree that win put all pretext
whatever for a resort to extreme measures out
of the question. 2. Tho awakening of the con
servative sentiment and enlightened loyalty of
the country, and the bringing of both to bear
on the President with a force which he cannot,
as ah honest and rational man, withstand- 3.
The resolution of the cominander-in-chiefin the
field and of his principal associates in command
to surrender their swords rather than link them
with the infamy ot such measures. The first
of these three modes is for the most part be
yond the reach of the people. We have faith
in it, but it should not be relied on blindly.—
The last mode is our Last hope. When every
thing else fails this must save us. If it does
not, we are irretrievably lost as a nation. This
mode, though hardly beyond the reach of the
people, is still not directly "within their influ-,
ence. The second mode is especially the peo-
pie’s own, and through the mode we invoke the
people to pour their awakened energies with a
spirit of lofty resolve that will not be put down
or put aside. Here is the sphere wherein the
loyal masses of our people in the crisis of the
nation’s fete can work effectually for the nation
al preservation. We call them to the sublime
task.
The task can be performed successfully. Let
it be performed at every cost of the energy and
of sacrifice. We would have the General As
sembly in Kentucky inaugurate the imperative
work, by at once protesting in loyal terms, but
explicity and emphatically against the adoption
of the measures in contemplation! Let this be
done; and let the example be follow ed as promp-
ly as possible by Missouri and Delaware and
Western Virginia and every other Southern
community, whether large or small, that still
owns the banner of our country. Furthermore,
let these solemn protestations be carried to
Washington by delegations of the most eminent
and influential citizens Of the respective com
munities, and be urged upon the President with
all the weight of exalted character and intelli
gence seconded by the' power of personal pres
ence. Let the loyal men of the South rise up
as one man, and tell the President he knows not
what he does. Nor must tho loyal men ofthe
North sit inactive. Let the enlightened journal
ists and speakers of the North set forth in a
strong light the facts, first, that slavery is not
the cause but the mere pretext ot the rebellion,
and, secondly, that the policy, of emancipation,
if adopted by the administration, would render
the bare physical suppression of the rebellion
compensation, as they may think proper, for
the collection of the same.
And be it further enacted, That the Coun
ties of Monroe, Burke, Pickens, Wayne, Cher
okee, Taylor, Fayette, Clinch, Dawson, Lump
kin, Echols, Upson, Spalding, Campbell, For
syth, DeKalb, Macon, Wilkes, Warren, White,
Ware, Rabun, Chattooga, Decatur, Charlton,
Berrien, Coffee, Paulding, Bryan, Appling
Crawford, Fannin, Telfair, Emanuel, Clarke,
Banks, Schley, Worth, Muscogee, Wilcox,
Butts, McIntosh, Brooks, Newton, Gilmer, Ir
win, Montgomery, Laurens, Murray, Dooly,
Clayton, Pierce, Wilkinson and Gwinnett, "be
excepted from the operations of the first and
second sections of this act, and that in said
........ Counties during the present war, the
Justices of the Inferior Courts, of . said
Counties, shall have the authority assess an
nually, on the amount of the Stale tax of said
Counties, such tax, as may be recommended by
a majority of the Grand Jurors of said Counties
at the Spring Terms of the Superior Courts, for
the purpose of raising funds to equip soldiers for
the service of the State and Confederate States,
and to support, such of their families as aro in
digent during their term of service; to be col
lected as other County taxes in said Counties,
and all taxes levied in said Counties the present
year for the same purposes are hereby, legali
zed and rnado valid, and in the event there be
no Court at the Spring Term in any of the
Counties thus excepted,then Justices of the In
ferior Courts in said Counties shall proceed to
assess such taxes as may be absolutely neces
sary for the purposes aforesaid. And that the
Counties of Coweta—Tattnall and Whitfield,
be excepted from all the provisions of the act.
Sec. 3d. All taxes heretofore levied, or any
contracts entered into, or money procured,
whether by bond or otherwise, or by sale of
Rail Road or other Stocks by the Inferior
Courts or ibe Justices thereof, or by other per
sons with the sanction of the Inferior Court,
and all orders passed, or which may be passed
by any of said Courts, equalizing said tax
among the tax payers lor the purpose afore
said, are hereby ratified, and made legal, and
the same authorized to be collected under this
Act
Sec. 4th. All Tax Collectors or other person
or persons, who shall be, or who have been ap
pointed by the Justices of the Inferior Courts
of any County in this State to collect any tax
which has been or which may be levied under
this act, shall be liable to all the remedies and
liabilities to which tax Collectors are now lia
ble by law, for any violation or failure of duty
under this act, or for failing to pay over on de
mand, any money or other thing which may be
collected by him or them, under the same.
Sec. 5th. The Inferior Courts of the several
Counties are authorized to use and apply any
County funds except Academy and Poor and
Common School funds, in their respective coun
ties, to the purposes aforesaid, hut all applica
tions of any funds .heretofore made in any
county are hereby made legal and valid.
Sec. 6th. In any county where the Inferior
Court may so order, the amount of tax levied
for the support and- clothing of soldiers’ fami
lies, may be paid in such articles and in such
proportions as may be necessary for the sup
port of the families, the value of which arti
cles shall bo fixed by such assessors as may
be appointed by said Inferior Court, and in
such manner as said Inferior Court may think
best •
J5ec. 7th. That in all cases where the taxes
are paid under this act, in produce, the same
shall be delivered by the said taxpayer at such
plat e or places as the said Inferior Court may
direct
Sec. 8th. The Inferior Court shall have kept
a digest of the taxes already raised and dis
bursed, or hereafter to bo raised, and tho use
and disbursement of all funds raised or hereaf
ter to be raised by taxation, which digest shall
be kept by the Clerk ol the Inferior Court for
the inspection of the citizens of the county ;
and said Courts may make all such arrange
ments as they think best to carry out this sec
tion.
Sec. 9th. The assessment of State taxes,
made next previous to each particular levy of
tax by the Inferior Court, shall be adopted as
the basis of the kind and value of property in
such levy as they uiay at any time order in
pursuance of the provisions of this act
Sec. 10th. Whenever any funds tuthorized
cident to camp life, until, upon the plains of
Manassas, he met the enemy, and, bravely and
gallantly armed with the-panoply of truth and
right, fought the battle of freedom and imlc
per.dence. consecrating the soil -of Manassas
with a patriot’s blood. But it was not the lot
of our brother to die upon the bloody field of
strife. Although wounded twice in the great
struggle, he was permitted to see the enemies
of his country fly in confusion and dismay, and
to hear the triumphal shouts of victory come
welling up from the thousands of comrades who
were participants in that great drama, as Well
as the rejoicings and exultations of a gratclu!
people, ns they came from every mountain tad
valley throughput the Southern Con'ederacy.
Our brother, whose death we mourn, having
passed the ordeal of the great battle, shedding
a patriot’s blood, was spared, only to fait a
victim to that awiul scourge, the camp fever.—
Away from home, among strangers, with pur-
adventure no kind and sympathizing broth.-rs
to comfort him in his struggle in battling with
his last enemy, he died.
Thus, again has our circle been invaded l>v
our common foe, and marked as his victim an
honest man, a true Odd Fellow, a brother well
beloved by alL
In our bereavement we are again reminded
of our mortality—of the importance of a pre
paration to meet that great event which must
soon gather us all in the same icy grasp, which
has clasped our lamented brother.
While we mourn the death of our brother,
and that he died- where, peradvonture, the kind
hands of his brothers could not administer to
h!s wants or mitigate his sufferings, we are
glad to know that around his dying couch tin-
soldier and patriot friends stood, and gave
whatever aid and comfort could be bestowed.
As a token of our respect for the memory ef
our late brother, we beg leave to submit tin-
following resolutions:
Resolved, That in the death of our late bro
ther, Daniel 11. Mason " our Fraternity has to *
mourn the loss of one of its brightest jewels;
one who fully comprehended and appreciated
the grand and noble principles of our Order-
exhibiting in his intercourse with his brotheri
and the world the fundamental principles ot
cur organization.
Resolved, That, as an evidence of our respeei
for the memory of our brother, the Lodge be
draped in mourning and the members wear tlw
usual badge of mourning for the space of thirty
days, and that the Secretary reserve a leaf on
the Book of Minutes to be appropriated tothe
record of his name and the manner of his death.
Resolved. That the Secretary furnish a copy
of these proceeding to the relatives of our la
mented brother.
P. F. D. SCARBOROUGH)
J. H. OAKLEY, [ Conn
JACOB MORRIS, j
APPROPRIATION FOR CHARLESTON.
The Governor, on Saturday sent the follow
ing Message to the Legislature:
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, >
Milledgevillr, Ga., Dec. 24th, 1801. j
7b the General Assembly :
I have learned with painful regret that a large
portion of the city of Charleston, in our noble
sister State, is destroyed by -fire. This is a cal
amity which is not confined to South Carolim,
but is common to us all. The individual suf
fering resulting from it must be very great.—
Large numbers of the poor of that noble city,
are deprived of all they possessed, and arc lelt
without home or shelter, while others of largir
means have been reduced to poverty in a sin
gle day. This misfortune has befallen them at
a time when they are threatened by sea ami
land by a powerful and relentless enemy.
No doubt the Legislature of their own State
will do all in their power for the relief of tlie
sufferers, but with the other heavy burdens
now pressing upon south Carolina in common
with her southern sisters, I think it proper tint
each should consider the calamity as a common
one, and that each should do something tortile
relief of the sufferers. Humanity combines
with fraternal relations in making this our du
ty. Had the calamity beiallen Savannah or any
other city of Georgia, I doubt not our sister
State would have been the first to come to the
assistance of the sufferers. I recommend that
an appropriation of one hundred thousand dol
lars or such other sum as you may deem pro
per be immediately made, and placed at tlie dis
posal of the Governor of South Carolina for th*»
relief of the suffering poor of the city of Char
leston, whose misfortune has been produced by
the conflagration.—JOSEPH E. BROWN.
The Message does honer to the Governor, and
the Legislature we are happy to say promptly
passed the appropriation hill. We are proud
to see old Georgia coming up so munificently,
at a time like this, to the help of her afflicted
sister.
before. The people say they have been mislead
. _ to be raised by any of the provisions of this by their leaders in regard to the policy of the
more difficult infinitely, while it would make' act i shall go through the hands- of the Treas- Northern Government. They cannot be sold to
the re-establishment of tlie ''overnment wholly urer an Y county of this State, it shall not Abolitiondom. Bradley county is going to
impossible,
Let them point out the transparent foily
which lies at tlie bottom of this cry for extreme
measures, and hold up to view the immeasure-
able folly and enormity of the cry itself. Let
the finer intelligence and nobler impulses ofthe
Northern masses be awakened into triumphant
action by just and determined and universal ap
peals ; and let the better views and sentiments
that come of this awakening find.timely expres
sion in public meetings, in pri rate letters, in J la 7\ ana P a « s 01 lav . _ — — .
petitions in delegations popular and official, and a ‘he and the same ore hereby repealed,
in every other practicable form. In a word, let (.oignca) WARREN AKIN,
the conservative men of the North rise also as -Speaker of the House of Representatives,
one man, and unite with the loyal men of the
South in protesting against the destructive and
monstrous policy toward which the administra
tion is drifting night and day. Let tho virtue
and enlightenment of the whole loyal past of
the Union lift up their mingled voices in one
loud and lofty and prolonged demand for mod-
be lawful for such Treasurer to charge-or re
ceive any commission or compensation for re
ceiving or paying out such funds.
Sec. 11th. That the tax collectors, or other
persons appointed to collect the tax in accord
ance with the provisions of this act, be author
ized to proceed in oases of default in the same
manner as is now provided by the laws of this
State for the collection of the general tax.
Sec. 12th. Be it further enacted. That all
laws and parts of laws militating against this
erate counsels in the administration. Such
demand, so put forth, tho President could not
withstand He would not attempt to withstand
it Ho would fiail it ns the strong and all sus
taining echo of his own bett r but feeble pur- i ^ following- -
We call on tho loyal men of the country to
begin this work forthwith and to prosecute it
without flagging until t'necnd is secured. Not
a day should be lost The longer the work is
deferrea the harder will be its accomplishment, j
If deferred long its accomplishment may be- !
come unattainable. It is now plain to every I
candid observer that the President must either |
break with the extremo meD of his party or !
-u. Oarhingtox,
Clerk House of Representatives.
(Signed) JOHN BILLUPS,
President of the Senate.
Jas. M. Mobley,
Secretary of the Senate.
Assented to November 29th, 1861.
JOSEPH E. BROWN, Governor.
REPEAL OF TIIE SALT EDICT.
The Savamiali papers of yesterday contain
Central Railroad Oefice, >
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 17th, 1861. f
The following despatch was received from
tlie Governor last night at 11 o’clock, by the
Superintendent of this Road, in replv to an
inquiry: ■
“Gko. W. Adams, Superintendent:
“Ship any quantity of salt which may be of
fered to any point in the State for any citizen
Jo: “ ~
lias <riven
publican party
in regard to tiieir character and purposes titan
wc had years aco.
sacrifice the country to their fanatical measures. | °^ l ' le State. Jos. E. Brown.”
One or the other is inevitable. This message We infer, of course, that the foregoing is in
shows that the President is not disposed to break tended to lift the prohibition upon salt dealing !
with the extreme men of hisparty. He wants, i in general. If the Governor permits salt to- Still L fward.—It will he delightful to pork
perhaps, both the sagacity and the nerve. Some- i paM from hand to hand in anv quantity, we I P ackers to !jani that Salt went up in thi# city,
thing he certainly wants. Whatever it may 1 -, • , * 1 , ! on yesterday, to tho snug little price of
be, the firm, full, healthful, assuring, overrul- | aic bound to suppose he intends to protect U m ant f ^ js per sack, and some dealers hold at s20.
ing # voiceof the people will supply it. Let that j the hands of holders, and permit it to be Even at this price buyers say it is ditiicu’t to
voice be heard. It it should be hushed in si-* bought and sold under the ordinary conditions. 1 obtain.—Atlanta Coniineniceulth*
f
EFFECT OF LINCOLN’S MESSAGE.
POISON WORKING.
The Knoxville Register of the 13th says that
I lincoln’s late Message is producing the hap
piest effect in East Tennessee. That paper
says: -*i*5N*' ~
A gentleman who is fully informed and en
tirely reliable, writes us from Bradley county,
that on the 12th Inst., “since the Message of
Lincoln has reached that county, scarcely a
Union man can be found—all declare them
selves for the South. One or two hundred of
them have joined the Southern army in the last
forty-eight hours. There isa much betterfeel
ing than has ever prevailed in the community
furnish a regiment tor the Confederate army.
Dr. Thompson will go into the regiment, and
many more prominent Union men since reading
Lincoln’s Message, have declared themselves
strongly for the South. Wm. Hancock, form
erly a Union man; is now raising a company
for the Bradley Regiment. The other compa
nies in progress for this regiment are, Capk IV.
II. Camp’s, (a Southern Rights man,) Captain
Frank Triplet's |(late Unionist,) Judge Chip;
] man’s (late Union,) and Jas. Perrine’s, (laic
Union.”)
In Kentucky, too, the message is working.
Tho Nashville Union, of Sunday last, says:
Even many of those who havo girded on the
armor of war to do battle, as they believed, for
tho preservation of tho Union, have thrown
I down their arms and obstinately refuse to fight
in a cause so savage and inhuman. It is stated
that there is a whole regiment 71010 confined in
the Medical College of Louisvillefor mutiny,
in consequence of the late message of Lincoln
Th ; s is encouraging; but what views of Black
Republicanism such people must entertain is *
mystery to us. Lincoln’s message commits
him to nothing unless, it may be, to carry out
the views of Congress, whereas two years be
fore he was elected President, lie solemnly de
clared that “the country could not remain half
slave and half free.” Except in the matter of
currying out tiieir own declarations by force
and arms, neither Lincoln nor tlie Black hc-
f further light