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MACON, FBIDAY, 3 O’CLOCK, P. M., JANUARY 17. 1862.
A GOOD LONG REPRIEVE.
Herald of the 8d says a “decisive blow”
struck against the rebels before the end
Iril. That’s four months off nearly, and
I longest grace the Federals have yet given
lelves. That “decisive blow” has been
|med for tunes, time and a half a time,
ne months of the war have nearly elapsed 1
ut'iing done. For the past three months
Ijournments have rarely exceeded a week
fortnight, but now comes a grace length-
(to.four months. How long will the world
ppon such a war as this »
! (■ rease—The Nashville Union announ-
t rk dull at ten cents, the government ful
filled for the year, and a great deal more
Jeft than anybody expected. A slippery
us for speculators, and several may be
led to slide.
|iiks of Army Chamois.—The editor of
Smith Evening News says he has been
private letter from Richmond, which
ftrong assurance that Gen. Sterling Price
appointed Major General in command
department of Arkansas and Missouri;
e>i. .McCulloch will be assigned to the
fomd of a division of cavalry in Vi ginia,
i),at t’ol. McIntosh will receii e an appoint-
brigadier generalship.
MON ARIES MURDERED IN CHINA.
* J. B. Taylor, Corresponding Secretary
^Southern Baptist Mission Board, has re-
£l information through a flag of truce, that
Holmes, of Yijtfcinia, UHaSliurilered at
Mis-
unate villag
ponds I
with the bodiej
while the roadd
t hole p
Jty and
roceeding
lirutaliT
and
' corp-
with
the insur-
[jiat
AIR BREADTH ’SCAPES,
world of thrilling adventures and
breadth ’scapes” by field and flood, will
icir way in story when this diabolical
all have dragged its slow, bloody and
ns length across the scene of aption and
gned to the past. They will be, as
Ich say “ower true tales,” too —for
an imaginable personal hazard
been encountered by our gallant
the Quincy (Florida) Dispatch an
notice of the arrival of Capt. John E.
ot the steamer Sloat, which, it will
llected, was captured by the Federal
liner Mohawk, in Apalachicola Bay,
ue last summer. Capt. Edwards was
prisoner to New York, and thered'sguis-
[ a sailor, with the assistance of a friend,
aged to escape on board a British vessel
for Nassau, as one of her crew. AtNas-
[found the Ella Warley (Isabel,) and
board of her to Charleston—success
aiming the blockade some time last
i IRGLNIA LEGISLATURE,
firoceedings-of tho Virginia Legisla-
^notice in the Senate that a resolution
Mr. Douglass, affirming and adopt-
golves of the Georgia Legislature,
ation of the Confederate States
States, is and ought to be fi-
was unanimously agreed
submitted u communica-
| ir Brown, of Georgia, acccm-
ttortion Bill," passed by the
Governor Letcher warmly
> the attention of the Leg
nousand copies of Governor Letcher’s
setting forth the grievances
npelfed the people of the South todis-
■ connection with the Federal Union,
id to be jointed.
Tanning and Boot and Shoe'
Company, in Isle ot Wight
ras incorporated.
NO STOW4C.
t insensible to the second getier-
of our friend in tho lovely city af
io less than » barrel of Oysters from
d Golf herself—Queen of the
ier# she is kissed by the bright
ptlachiliota. Ah, to Stow away
* saiflrgenerous bivalves is a
engagement worthy an Alderman
-d Mayor himself. Thanks,‘generous
ay the world itself prove an Oyster
be opened, not as the great poet
■y the sword, but gently disclosing
t treasures and most luscious juices,
insinuating influences of your own kind
genial character.
ft
i PRICE.
I We rejoice to se$.that the gallant Sterling
rice has probably been appointed Major Gen-
^Lal in the Confederate service and placed in full
^B'liiiiiuaml of all the forces in A Wandas and Mis-
No longer hampered ami embarassed
i:css purposes and well supplied with men
II^Bid provisions, Sterling Price, we venture to
. Will nuke Missouri a hot place lor the Fed
g^Ktl trvops and Kansas Jayhawkers.
W “DIRT EATING.”
r The ppers are amusing themselves by re-
publishing from all the leading Lincoln jour-
| pals, thaerribld oaths they swore that Mason
and SUtU never should be surrendered to
lain—no neVer—never—never ! not
he ocean were tinged with Northern
ire are the Herald, the World, the.
Tribune, the Boston Courier, the
the Philadelphia Ledger, and the
the Baltimore American, all declared
y as thej could, that conic weal, or
war or peace, such an indignity
d, would or should be submitted to.
y all thought better ol it and took the
act. Doubtless, like Master Seward,
not posted nhemselves fully upon the
precedents bearing on the case 1 We
ibe pleased to read their explanations.
THE NORTHERN NEWS.
' Clouds are lowering fearfully around Lin-
colndom, and we are confident every week will
see them thicken rapidly till the storm bursts.
Although the Northern Banks are all in a atate
of suspension, yet they have refused in Phila
delphia, Cincinnati and at Louisville to re
ceive the demand notes of the Lincoln Treasu
ry on deposit, and the"New York hankers have
all turned the cold shoulder to Secretary Chase's
intimations that more money must be had.
The Herald, ol the 9th, (see despatches) says
that the Treasury will be without a cent in an
other week, and denounces Wall street of a
conspiracy to deleat the plans of the Govern
ment. • The same authority says that a House
Committee has been raised to report a bill to
raise/our hundred millions by direct taxation,
a project desperate enough to illustrate the des
peration of the Cincolnttes,
It ia, of course, impossible to raise any such
sum by direct taxation. The attempt to raise
it, or the half of it, in that way, would pro
duce universal revolt The tax would amount
to an average ol ubeut one hundred and thirty
<iollars to each Northern voter, not five out of
six probably having any taxable property at
all. The proposition is a piece of mere folly
and madness, and yet it seems to us that any
other propo'ition to raise a sum in the North
adequute to meet her war expenses, will be
open to the same objection.
The cry is raised against Wall street and the
banks, and it is not impossible that they may
yet fall victim- 1 to the popular war fury they
have been so instrumental in evoking. Nobody
did more to elect Lincoln and push him into a
war upon the South than Wall street and her
banks. But it is a fact plain enough, never-
tliat the New York bankers and brok-
cannot supply the funds lor this war. It
entire means in three
loan has proved a fail-
t to furnishing any sum comroen-
puhlic wants. That loan has been
in market five months, and they have realized
from it abouT forty millions of dollars—a sum
which would not carry ontli - war three weeks.
Where, then, is the money to come from ?—
There is but one eourse which the Lincoln gov
ernment can adopt, and that is an un.imited
issue of Treasury notes—or (if they create a
bank) of bank notes based on the security of
the spread eagle. We will not under’ake to
say what amount of such bills the Lincoln
government can float without ruinous depreci
ation, but at the*preseut rate of expenditure
the limit must soon be reached. The time can
not be far distant when they will be compelled
to cease their war of invasion from sheer ina
bility to meet the expenses.
But, as these pecuniary difficulties multiply,
all others will rapidly follow in their train. It
is money which has kept the «ar party afloat
so long, and it will be bankruptcy which Will
rend it in pieces and crush it with revolution
ary violence. When Cameron’s 700,000 cla
mor for their pay and their demands are" met
by depreciated shin plasters, they wfll^ra rude
and violent partizans to keep in order, and so
the whole herd who are now iV.tening on the
spoils of tlie Treasury, will be a herd possess
ed when they find it empty. The year of grace
1862 will see stirring times in Lincoln om.
GEORGIA AND VIRGINIA.
The Georgia Resolutions upon the finality of
the dissolution of the Federal Union were sent
to the Legislature of Virginia on the 6th insk,
accompanied by a special message from Gov.
Letcher of considerable length and marked cha
racter and abi ity. In this message Governor
Letcher reviews the course of the Lincoln gov
ernment since the war began, aad shows how
completely it has violated every guaranty oQ
personal liberty and political right ip the Con
stitution, and then citing the Declaration of In
dependence. most felicitously convicts Lincoln
of every crime against liberty urged by the
Fathers of the Revolution against George III.
He urges the Virginia Legislature to reaffirm
the Georgia Resolutions—Jo ileufaxe that Vir
ginia will, in no event, entertain any proposi
tion for a restoration or reconstruction of a
Union which has been perverted into an in
strument of such crimes and wrongs.
I A~NEGLECTED*ANNI VERS ARY.
(Hie. hundred and thirty yqprs ago, to-day,
Gen. Oglethorpe landed in Georgia. Why itis-
that the people of this State never had State
pride enough to celebrate it, we cannot divine.
After the eloquent and stirring appeals in that
behalf, of Charles Wallace Howard, of Bartow
county, it does appear strange that Georgians
should pass by the day in silence.
The British bark Express, of Hull, for
New Orleans, loaded with 6,600 bags of coffee,
arrived in New York on the 2d inat. as a prize <
having been captured by tlie Federal sloop-of-
war Vincennes.
— -- - —
^ < ‘~ Copperas, almost pure, lias been dis
covered by O. D. Sledge, F.sq , on hi* planta
tion near Huntsvilie, Ala.
RT The saltpetre cave near Kingston
Bartow couyty, is now being worked by a com
panv. Furnaces, with capacity for twelve ket
tles, will soon be prepared, and twenty-five
men employed. li is es’imated that they will
K able to turn out one tho'usand pounds per
■l*y, sufficient to make 1800 or 1400 pounds of
powder.
THE NEWS.
We have stirring reports amoDg our tele
grams, but the reader should recollect that they
are mere rumors, though they come from the
enemy who are not supposed to be over-anx
ious to start and disseminate unwelcome ru
mors against themselves. If there be no foun
dation for them, we may well argue that the
Federals are beginning to sink into that condi
tion of despondency over their own prospects,
in which they are ready to credii almost any
thing against themselves, and this is the case.
From the Augusta Constitutionalist.
LETTERS FROM REV. MR CRUMLY.
Richmond, Dec. 18th, 1861.
Ma. J. M. NswbT: Dear Sir: Knowing
that you feel a deep interest in the Georgia
Hospitals, in this city, I have long purposed to
give you some facts and incidents connected
with them. The reasons for this delay have
been as follows:
First—the suffering and death around me
have hitherto claimed all my time, and taxed
all ray strength, leaving me scarcely, if any
time, to devote to letter writing. A day of in-
disposit’on now affords the long wished for op-
we believe, with a good many thinking men in portu’flity. Again, I have watched to seo or
the North. It seems to us that despondency
and discouragement is fast taking hold of the
Northern mind, and substantial aud daily in
creasing reasons exist why it should do so.—
The war, we believe, is beginning to Jizsle—and
if the Confederacy be recognized and Seward
undertakes his promised hostilities against the
“recognizing powers,” we may look for it to
go out suddenly, with a pop!
A BULL FROM SANDERS.
Every now and then George N. Sayders
learn, as much of the condition and arrange
ment of the Hospitals, as would enable me to
form a correct estimate of their workings, and
of their value to the sick.
We are using as hospitals, three tobacco fac
tories, which are large, three or four story
buildings, affording very good accommodations
for hospital purposes. They are well ventilated,
and are furnished with water and gas; The
beds, or bunks, are very conveniently arranged,
each having a foot board that may serve either
as a table, writing desk, or a small medicine
stand.
The beds are comfortable, with clean sheets
comes forth with an imperial pronunciamento, 1 and pillow-cases,.and a plentiful supply of warm
in a style more grandiloquent than ever yet i coloring, lhe coverlets and quilts are from
- • , lr Georgia homes, and remind the sick soldiers so
was attained by a Mexican revolutionist If ' inuc h of the mother, or wife, or sweetheart,
Sanders would only push his claims, we have
no doubt be could get a permanent place as
Mexican pronunciamento writer, or concoctor suaded to believe that the dear-loved ones are
whose fair hands made them, or whose anxious
liberality supplied them, that he is almost per
of Vermillion edicts to his celestial majesty.—
We never saw or heard of a man who could
come up to him in the way of a political swell.
The last performance of Sanders, who had
previously been quiet for some months, is dat
ed at Nashville, the 8lh, and is an appeal to this oepartment, 1 could cite you to
.... . , ’ . . , instances of heroism and virtue, thi
the \V estern democrats to get ready lo" revolu
tion, ample opportunities for which will occur,
as George thinks, by the middle of next sum
mer. He conjures them to form clubs, prevent
enlistments and contributions to the Federal
army, and elect some of their members to every
municipal, State and Federal office. Sanders
themselves nigh at hand. The food is good,
and abundant. The Surgeons and Assistant
Surgeons are able men in their profession, and
labor with a will and devotion wcrfQlty of the
noble cause in which they are Engaged. The
nurses are untiring and self-sacri Being. In
sublime
. that appear
almost superhuman. Among the female nurses,
are those who have daily moved around the
couch of tlie fevered invalid, as ministering
angels of mercy and love.
1 have visited many hospitals in Richmond,
but have found none so well arranged, and so
well managed as the Georgia Hospitals. It is,
1 tuust confess, gratifying to my State pride
appeals to Western cupidity by a show of pri- j (hat I am able to say, with truth, thus much
for the hospitals in Richmond, under the man
agement and fostering care of the Georgia Re
lief and Hospital Association.
It is with gratitude and with a thrill of joy
that 1 am able to record a fact so full of com
fort to every anxious son and daughter of
Georgia. It should be known to Georgians at
borne that the hospitals here are visited by
our representatives in the Confederate Congress,
and especially by Mr. Vice President Stephens,
who is a constant visitor, and whose tender
and sympathizing voice has so often fallen on
the ear and cheered the heart of many a poor
soldier. Nor are our gentle countrywomen,
whom the fortunes ol war have called to reside
for a time in this city, unfrequent visitors to
these scenes of sickness and death. Mrs. Gen
eral Toombs, Mrs. J. A. Jones, of Columbus,
and Mrs. Captain Harris, of Marietta, often
visit and comfort tbe sick soldier by their
presence and cheering words of sympathy.—
Often too have they met with us in the hospi
tals, and joined with us in our pray rs and in
the worship of a common Father. Such is the
piety and such the patriotism of our Georgia
women.
I am afraid, my dear Newby, that you may
ces current for Western provisions in Nashville
and New Orleans. Sanders’ .document, if
couched in reasonable style, would be well
enough, but tbe polio’ of directing the atten
tion of the Lincoln iJperiuiient in this way to
the growing dissatisfaction in the West may
♦ell be doubted.
Contributions to the Confederate Army.
J. R Jones, of the Passport office at Rich
mond, states as his opinion that the Contribu
tions in clothing, stores etc., sent during the
last three months to the Confederate army can
not fall short of three million of dollars. The
subjoined list compi ises exclusively the dona
tions made to the army of the Potomac : North
Carolina, f325,41; Alabama, $317,600 ; Mis
sissippi, $272,670; Georgia, $244,884; South
Carolina, $187,266; Texas, $87,800; Louisi
ana, $61,950 ; Virginia, $48,070; Tennessee,
$17,000; Florida, $2,350 ; Arkansas, $950.
PERMANENT CONFEDERATE GOVERN
MENT.
Tlie permanent Government of the Confeder
ate States will be organized fully on the $2d day
of February next. The new Lbngress will meet
on the 18th, and the Presidential vote be can
vassed on the lVth. The President will be in
auguraled on tlie 22d
Nine months of the war, dating from the sur
render offort Sumter, expired yesterday. We
flatter ourselves that more than halt of it has
“gone glimmering 'inongst the- things that
were.” . *
Poor Sambo Among the Yankees.
A negro belonging to Mr. Chapman had the
good luck to esoape from the Hessians at Port
Royal and reach his master in Savannah last
Friday. *He describes the treatment of the un
fortunate servants injthe hand* of the North
ern troops, at Port Royal, as hard in the ex
treme. They are forced- to labor on the en
trenchments from gray dawn till dark, unre
mittingly, and are then confined under guard
at night Mr. Chapman’s servant managed to
escape at night—slipped by the pickets in the
darknean, anWjfut off from the island fn a bat-
teau. He says the negroes he left behind are j en, but who, instead of giving, ingloriously shut
in a melancholy condition—sick enough of 1 up thciy bowels bf compassion against every cry
of distress that came from Georgians’ sick and
wqunded soldiers at the seat of war l 1 envy
not then- feelings. Having borne no-part in the
While the whole Confederacy is feeling the burdens and in the sacrifices, they havenoshare
in.the honors and in the rewards.
The Steamer which has arrived at New Or
leans, is the Black Joker, freighted chiefly With
powder for the Confederate Government This
is reliable.
England Must Have Cotton.—The Cork
Repot ter of December 13 says :
It is stated that Earl Russell had assured a
deputation which had waited on him, that ar
rangements had besn made for the exportation
month of February next
Ghatcitocs Advsktisxment.—The State of
Georgia has gone into the salt business in Ma
con. The warehouse is the store of Chas. U
Freeman A Co., ar.d the salt^s offered in quan
tities of half a bushel or less, at the rate of two
dollars and fifty cents a bushel. The patron
age of the public is respectfully solicited to
new beginner in the trade.
Mikabile Dictu!—A correspondent of the
Atlanta Confederacy writing from Alabama,
states that a female ine in his section recent
ly brought forth four fine puppies—head, ears,
and claws all resembling the canine species.
enterprise sought to be accomplished, so emi
nently entitle him. The Federal Government
has, day after day, poured his legions of Hes
sian soldiery into St. Louis from Illinois, Indi
ana, and other Northwestern States, and thus
’ grow weary ol my theme; hut I have iipihing sqcceeeded in concentrating a powerful and
?j eri> else to Wi ite about. lam lost, absorbed) n the 1 *;;*oiL.ea army in Missouri,more than
subject. 1 see nothing else, I hear nothing else.
THE WAR IN MISSOURI.
The Memphis Appeal has advices direct from
Gen. Price’s lamp up to December 21. From
a long and interesting article in the Appeal con
cerning the situation of affairs in Missouri, we
extract the following:
Gen. Price was, at last accounts, still on the
south bank of the Osage river, and had crossed
that stream, as represented a week or ten days
ago. His army does not number over 12,000
or 15,000 strong; and the St Louis papers
even represent it as being reduced to 8,000,
which,however, is a gross exaggeration of facts.
His situation is thus some 80 miles from Lex
ington, the point he desires to reach, and about
40 from Sedalia, where Gen. Pope is stationed
with about 10,000 men, with the view of inter
cepting his progress farther north.
Gen. Price’s stirring proclamation had been
responded to with great alacrity, but insupera
ble difficulties are experienced by recruits
f etting to his headquarters, owing to theatric
nd despotic surveillance kept over tUc mov ‘
meats of Southern sympathizers by tbe Fi
al military authorities. Tbe enemy have
unbroken line of police guard stationed al
the southwestern branch of the Pacific ”*ilw
from St Louis to Sedalia, and thence to
Kansas border, the wbject of which is to cut off
communication between North and South Mis
souri, and prevent, as far as possible, any con
cert of action between the loyalists of the two
sections. A similar military system has been
established along the other railways and up
the Missoni i river, and the object of the enemy
thus virtually accomplished. Were it not-for
this hindrance, our informants say that Gen.
Price’s full requisition for fifty thousand men
ould be speedily filled, as the disposition in
Northern Missouri to rush to his standard is as
universal as it is irrepressible The late affair
at Lexington, where a camp of fifteen hundred
loyalists was broken up bv a detachmen
Hessians, sent out by Gen, Pope, sern
the difficulties under which the ind'
Price must labor until be can gather s
force to move north to -ome point on the
souri river, and in this manner break the con
tinuity of tlie Federal lines, and re-establish
communication with the northern counti
Our informants allege that the entire
forc-u^H^niri will no(4kll short of.for.
OOn thoug^jb^ifioO®- \
many this vu" \
branc.e Ot' Me
railway b^^H^^^uwuis and Sedalia?
about 8,00i^^Wn of the Missouri river,
sides this, there are same 4,000 Jayhaw
Kansas, under Hunter. At presen
robably less than 7,000
t Louis.
These estinij
near true as
a little startling to tJ
pie. Yet the trut"
agreeable to ui
present
for the j
of this coi
been left a
odds he is
out that
eminent to
succesa,
By Electric Teleg
FROM VIRGINIA.
Richmond, Jan. 9th, 1|
The Lynchburg Republican has intel|
from Winchester to the 7th. There ha
some little skirmishing, and but only a ft?
casualties. The Confederates burnt the bridg
over Capon River, destroyed Dam Number Six
on the Chesapeake Canal and the bridges on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and tnen re
turned in the direcl
Confederates lost
On Monday, i
Romney, the Con
attacked by aboi
of Winchester. The
dition about 2 < g ( ^
miles below
small force were
ankees. We lost
four killed, a few”prisoners, two can-
baggage wagons. The enemy
e property of several SoiUiuijwers
We captured in one ol our ex
cannon and $30,00faor $40,000
ng and military stores.
Camp Alleghany, on thei^Ui,
attack has been made on that
caipfk, or on Mpnterey. The enemy after liom-
mitting depredations at Huntersville, double
quicked away in Bull Run style.
There was heavy firing last night at Acquia
Creek. The Yankee vessels engaged the bat
teries. Nobody hurt on our side. Nothing
j known of tbe damage done to the Pi
The Greenbrier raid, it is now conci
by a Yankee plundering party, wh
was-
-k off
lis re-
for Texas.
10th.—Northern papers, of the
that the French frigate Catina is in
ar.d an English trigate at An-
peo-
and dis
and under
is worse than criminal
ae public functionaries
al it. Gen. Price has
if through the fearful
ortted to ccmfront, with-
m the Confederate Gov-
to iffiiclHiia present energy pad past
coupled W0t the magnitude of the
By day and by night the sights which I see,
aud the sounds which I hear, are present with
me. Oftep havel passed alone at midnight
from tlMg^ppth scene of some noble soldier to
find the 4/ty without all buried in sleep and in
darkness, save the hospital lights, that never
expire, looking like beacon torches at the
entrar ee of the valley of the shadow of death,
and throwing a dim and sombre light on the
untried pathway of the discharged soldier, as
he is starting out on his long march for etemi
ty. Since 1 entered upon the field of labor,' 1
have gathered up many incidents of interest,
which 1 purpose to give you from time to lime.
I must now close; hut 1 cannot do so( with
out first giving full expression to the emotions
of toy heart. - Every Georgian who has con
tributed to the hospital fund would rejoice could
be but so* what these eyes have seen. Witfi
what si/eet satisfaction, with what self coi$pia-
oency, with what inward joy, with thankful
ness, and with what emotions of gratitude,
would he view the relief, the comfort, the good,
aad the Blessings, that have flowed from his
liberality and benevolence!
On the other hand, with what chagrin, with
what mortification, and. witfi-what sell condem
nation, must ti.ey look on, who could have giv
Northern bosses.
ARMS! ARMS
scarcity of small arms, and many regiments are
i'll camps waiting (hem, is it not true that every
regiment now in service or which has been in
service for any length of time holds a large
surplus of small arms left by deceased or dis
charged privatesUnless we are very errone
ously informed, there are many thousands of
such derilect arms in tbe Confederate States,
which might be gathered up and put to service.
STOPPING THE SUPPLIES. .
Our laRt news is, that those tremendous depos
itories of filthy lucre and black republicanism,
the New York banks, have shut up their vaults
nd refuse to take any more government loan I
That is bard on Chase, but he can take his re
venge by hounding thcr mob upon them.
Vaults can be opened without keys, sometimes,
and the subterraneans knowf how to do it
SMALL POX AT PORT ROYAL.
Itisrepcrted by a friend just from Savannah
that the Snail pox is among the Hessians at
Port Royal, and raging with considerable .vio
lence. .If this be true, the in^jders have '-be
come, for the first time, formidable. Our peo
ple will dread their small pox more than their
bullets. Every surgeon in our army should
gee to it that the troops under his care are well
vaccinated.
LARGE YIELlTOF COTTON.
The Griffin Confederate States is iafortned by
Mr. John Stilwel), of that eaunty, that he has
picked and weighed, from five and a half acrea
of upland, without manure, ten thousand and'
ninety-eight pounds .of cotton in the seed, or a
of cotton from the Southern States during thei , Ter }' small fraction less than two thousand
— ■ pounds per acre. This is a very large yield of
cotton and proves what good land and skillful
culture will effect
Scarcity of Paper.—Ojir Memphis readers
form we believe, but a very limited idea of the
great Scarcity of paper in the Confederacy. The
N. 0. Delta prints now on m&nilia paper, whose
color is like that of the freshly cut wood of a
Faber pencil. The Charleston Courier, once a
mammoth sheet, is now dwindling to a less size
than the Nashville Union and American ; and
m Nashville itself, every paper has been forced
to reduce its size.—Memphis Argus.
The editor ol the Houston (Texas) Telegraph
boasts of green peas and potatoes from his own
garden, December, 26th.
I will give you a sketch of the burial place,
Ac., of our soldiers in a future number.
God bless you, and the many who are labor
ing for the good of our nohje and suffering sons
of Georgia. Youra truly,
lW. M. Crumley.
THE BLOCKADE OF THE POTOMAC.
The NewjYork Hepdd preaches “patience”
with the biockade of the Potomac, from which
Washington is daily suffering. The Herald is
very ingenious in its words of comfort, and
says:
While the rebels are boasting that our only
direct water comm unication with oar national-
capital is under a blockade which no vessel can
pass, except rrj a very dark night, or by special
permission of the Confederate batteries, the
question is still agitated this side of Washing
ton, why is it that, with two hundred and fifty
thousand men encamped along the BStomac,
and with any quantity of war ships and gun
boats at Fortress Monroe, Annapolis and other
convenient naval stations, this rebel blockade
of the Ijjptomac is'still permitted to exist In
this connection we a'Te asked what is the loss
entailed daily upon our treasury by this block
ade, in the matter of the overland transporta
tion of army supplies to which we are thus
reduced?
Ip reply we can only conjecture that the
plans of General McClellan do not en^irace- any
little piecemeal operations, such as would re
sult from any detached attemps to break up
this rebel blockj^a. We might silence and
remove a rebel Battery to-day only to find it
replaced to morrow. Or, to hold this position,
-that the other, against all contingencies, we
should require a large force at every point from
which the rebels might be dislodged, and thus
our whole army of the Potomac might be frit
tered away into detachments divided irora each
other by almost impassable ravines and inter
secting streams and creeks, and subject at any
time to be cut up in detail by a movement of
the enemy from open approaches of the inte
rior. Tbe only effective way to break up this
rebel blockade of the Potomac is to dislodge
the army of Beauregard from his position in
front of Washington. With its expulsion this
blockade will cease to exist. Let us be.p^tient,
yet a little longer. Rome was not built * it* df
day.
Gov. Shorter, of Alabama, has notified the
Secretary of War to send no more prisoners to
Tuscaloosa as the accommodations are ex-
•hausted.
four times as large s that of Gen. Price.
Against such overwhelming numbers, the
unequalled courage, zeal and devotion of the
latter, and the superior generalship and strate
gy of their gallant commander, can avail but
little. They must needs force their way fa< tber
North, where men will spring up into organiz
ed legions like the dragon’s teeth, sowed by the
band of Cadmus, artned and equipped for the
tight To secure this end, Gen. Price should
have had the co-operation of Gen. McCulloch’s
command, now in winter quarters in North Ar
kansas, as it is generally understood, was his
expressed desire. Six or seven thousand men,
as well drilled and equipped as they, would ex
ercise a moral influence over the new recruits
daily flocking to GeA. Price's standard, com
mensurate with the material aid which it is
presumable they would render with their bay
onets. The qommander of the Missouri forces,
from what we can learn, has no idea of going
into winter quarters, to jet his troops perish of
disease and enpui, more destructive than the
sword, until forced by the absolute rigor of the
season. He designs pushing forward to where
a loyal people, crushed by the iron heel of mil
itary power, will rise en masse to greet his com
ing w illume asclaim.
With these facts before them, the Richmond
authorities can use their own judgment as to
whether or not the the rebuisite aid should be
offered Gsn. Price before it is too late, or’wheth
er he will be allowed to struggle on bis hard
career, up^ided by anything more 'substantial
than the Sympathy of the Confederate Govern
ment Shall he buffet with the rude storm of
war, and hear its rigorous brunt, while a com
rade, almost within sound of the. cannon’s roar,
ingloriously retires to his winter quarters, to
let the ill-earned laurels of Oak Hill fade and
wither upon his brow f
THE AUSTRALASIAN.
The following despatch from'the New York
Uerald-of the 7th, gives the particulars in re
gard to the Australaaian, supposed to have
been wrecked:
Gasfe Bay, Jan. 4.—The screw steamer
Australasian, supposed to be wrecked on the
shores of this bay, sailed from Liverpool for
Canada, with troops, Ac., December 13. She
passefr"Cape Race Dec. 23.
An English paper informs us that the Aus
tralasian had on board 47 officers and 1,085
men—namely, 4thr Brigade Royal Artillery.—
The Australasian had also on board four men
&f the Army Hospital Train, two horses, Bix
Armstrong field guns,, nine tons of ammuni
tion for the ordnance, and 600,000 rounds of
Enfield ball cartridges, Ac.
The destination of the Australasian was the
mouth of the St. Lawrence,with instructions to
steam up to the tsiand ot Bio or the Riviere du
Loup, and land the troops and stores at which
ever point is dccessibie. Should the prevalence
oT ice prevent $ither point being reached, the
vessel was to make for Halifax, Nova Scotia, or
St. Johns, N. B., according to the judgment of
the authorities out there.
Gaspe Bay, where the traces of wreck have
been seen, is in the Gulf ot St Lawrence, near
the southern side of the entrance to the river
St Lawrence.
North Carolina Iro.' —The Fayetteville
Observer-has seen the tirsi: consuppent of a
lot of pig iron from that amazing!^rich prop
erty Ore Hill, on Deep river, in Chatham
county. it came down the railroad, 1,800
tons, for one of the foundries in Wilmington.
The property is ea ned and worked by a Chat
ham company, for which Hugh W. Dixon is
agent- Mr. D. writes that they are now mak
ing 16 tons per wpek, and will be able to make
more than double that quantity and improve
the quantity in a few weeks after getting in their
“hot blast.”—Mountain Eagle.
ve been adopted by the Lin-
g an exchange of the
privateer Jeff Davis, for Fede
ral prisoners. *
The Bohemian has arrived at New York
with Liverpool dates to the 27th ult. Cotton
was advancing. Safes of three iiays|*31,(M)0
bales. Stock on hand 558,090 bales. ?
•Two French fleets, one for Mexico, the other
for America, are about sailing from Liverpool.
It is reported that an English frigate is cruis
ing off Gibraltar, searching for Federal priva
teers.
The officers of the French frigate Catina
were at Norfolk yesterday, and are expected to
reach Richmond to-night The Catina brings
despatches to the British Consul at Chailes-
ton.
It is believed that the Australasian has been
wrecked. She had on board oue thousand Eng
lish soldiers.
Utah—the land of tlie Mormons—is asking
for admission into Lincoldom as a Yankee State.
A large portion of the Burnside Expedition
left Hampton Roa Is, yesterday, bound South.
Congress was in secret session to-day. Noth
ing publicly communicated of its tiansactiona
The belief gains strength that £he Tariff will
soon be suspended during the war. Itis un
derstood that President Davis favors the poli
cy of free trade. Conversations of well inform
ed citizens to-night lead to the belief that the
tariff will be repealed hi a few days.
Nothing of interest from.the camps.
The case of the Confederate States vs. Wolf
to sequestrate debts due to Elkers A Bio., of
Mobile, was decided to-day. The Judge dis
missed the case, virtually declaring that Elkers
was not not an alien enemy.
Mobile, 10th.—On Monday last, a French
man of war approached Ship Island under a
neutral flag, for the purpose of transacting
some business with the French Consul at New
Orleans, and was fired into by the Federal fleet.
She was somewhat crippled, but did not re
turn the ftro. The Yankees •' apologised, but
the Captain refused to accept the apology. He
came to Bay St Louis with his boat, and tele
graphed to New Orleans.
On Monday, nearly thirty Federal vessels
were at Ship Island. After this affair, all left
but five, and they are very quiet.
IMPORTANT FROM THE Nlj^H
jfcClellan Rejiort&l Worse—Pressure
change P%isoners-~-Neu> War Rumors
Washington—Recognition of tho Confes
* racy Exj'ecipl—Important Despatches onf
Way—l'ressure for hn Advance of the Fet
ral At my—-Cabinet liiesention*, Ac.
Richmond, Jan. 12.—Lewis Pryor, a dealer ,
in Norfolk, ha* received the Bhili
quirer, of tbw*
news: t
The . ' :«r says, that M
Counts, was worse.
A resolution was intrude
York Legialatare at APmn^
questing the Lincoln Cabinet?
system for the mutual exchange !
It was hinted in diplomatic circle^
ington, on the 9th, that a war with
was ineritcble ! and the very next
may bring the reconniti-m of the Confederate
States.
Reports were current on Pennsylvania Ave
nue that most important despatches are com
ing by tbe steamer Canada, and government
has received their purport telegraphically.
A heavy pressure from the North has been
brought to bear on the Federal administration
in regard to the inactive state of the army on
tlie Potomac. There are more rumors to-day
of dissentions in the Cabinet
Information from Annapolis the 9th, says
that another Expedition is to fit out there im
mediately after the departure of the Burnside's
fleet
It is stated that another steamer has arrived
with despatches to Lord Lyons.
Troasury notes were selling in New York at
four per cent discount
Burnside’s Expedition, composed of thirty-
five vessels, went to sea to-day (12th) from
Hampton Roads, sailing South.
‘hot blast”—Mountain Eagle.
Shoe Pegging Machine.—We learn that Mr.
Charles Knowlton, a very worthy and enter
prising young man, residing in Talbotton, has
invented a machine for manufacturing shoe
pegs, of assorted sizes. The machine is said to
be so successful that he is now ready to receive
orders for any quantity almost—Columbus
Sun-
LATE NORTHERN NEWS.
The Hawks and Xaineolnocracy in a Stew.
Richmond, 11th.—Mr. Zacharie of New Or
leans, has been released by the Lincoln Gov
ernment.
A passenger just arrived reports the arrival
of three gun boats and three large transports
with 4000 troops, at Fortress Monroe today
from Annapolis. Great activity prevails' at
Fortress Monroe. - v
The Norfolk Day Book has received the New
York Herald of the 9th.
The Herald says that a committee has been
appointed in tbe Federal House to report a bill
for raising four hundred millions by direct tax
ation.
There is an upward movement in gold.
sterling Exchange has gone up to 115.
The New York Herald says that Wall street
has conspired to defeat the plans of the govern
ment The Lincoln Treasury will be without
a cent iq another week. The Philadelphia
banks refuse to take the treasury notes. The
public begin to cry “down with the banks” and
to call for a national currency.
The Canada reached Halifax on the 8th inst
with more troops and artillery, and nine hum
dred tons of munitions. The Hibernia is to
follow her with mor^jroops.
The London Times stands aghast in contem
plating the tremendous and magnificent vege
tation of tho Yankee debt
Prussia has addressed a communication’ to
her Minister at Washington oondamming the
arrest of Mason and Slidell.
Washington, 8th.—Great activity prevails
at head quarters.
Gen. Zeigle of Missouri has tendered his res
ignation.
The above items ars taken from the Norfolk
Day Book.
THE BLOCKADE OF THE POTOMAC.
Richmond, 12th.—It has been officially’ com
municated to the War Department that the
large steamship Pensacola, from Washington,
with a heavy armament, passed the Evansport
batteries at daylight this morning. The bat
teries d : - ‘targed fifteen or twenty shots at her.
The Pensacola passed Acqnia Creek about 8
o’clock this morning, in charge of two gun
boats. It v is believed that tho Pensacola was
damaged by t'-a Evansport batteries.
NEW ORLEANS ITEMS.
New ( ai. 11th.—Capt. Clone, of the
French despa o.. teamer Milan, arrived here
yesterday fro u off Ship Ship I Hand, a bearer
of despatches to the French Consul.
The rcn. dns ot Col. Lubbock arrived this
morning, and were escorted this afternoon to
the Railroad depot, en route fpr"Texas.
* GOING BACK JO FRANCE.
New Orleans, 12th.-—The resident French
men of this city held a meeting yesterday, and
tdoptrd the following resolution:
Reeoised; That with the consent of tho French
Consul, and tlie approval of Secretary Seward, ’
we will send delegafa^fcy the French steamer
Milan, to Havana, frp-charter three vessels,
which will come and take to France such sub
jects of lhal Government as may desire to go
away in the present disturbed state of this
country.
Richmond, Jan. 11.—A gentleman from New
York ways it is generally believed in the North
that the Burnside expedition is destined for
James River, Rappahannock River, o • Norfolk.
There is a financial panic at the jrtli. The
Federal Government is embarrassed, ’and the
people generally are realizing the troubfes ir.
store for them.
At Albany’, on the-night of the 6th, resolu
tions aoere offered in s Legislative caucus, invit
ing to seatsiill persons wh.i favored a vigorous
prosecution of the war, Ac. The resolution was
lost—yeas 16, nays 62. Henry J. Raymond,
Editor of the New York Times, opposed the re
solution in a forcible speech. Mr. Raymond
was subsequently nominated for Speaker, which
circumstance is regarded as indicative that the
peace party is in the ascendant. .
The “several thousand bales” of sea island
cotton reported to have been landed north from
Hilton Head and other points, turn out to be
sand bags, filled with ubgipned cotton, and
weighing from eight, to twelve pounds, each !
btr. Yallandigham, of Ohio, said ima recent
speech in the House, that the very’ mJinent Ma
son and Slidell steppe^imfl®fcfc.de<5 of a Brit
ish man of-war, i
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