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Correspondence oftke Telegraph.
Sumpter Co., Ga., Feb., 21st, 1862.
VoL Clisby : Dear Sir:—I wish to make e
■■i» ikr .Hlliii* Uu ucapaata*. proposition to the planters of Georgia, and I
Mhtor Telegraph.-1 he time has come when <j 0 having advised with many who are dis-
thc entire military force ol the Confederacy tinguished as cotton growers in this section,
should bo organized and drilled for immediate it j s furthermore in harmony with a similar
I, nder the present militia system there movement in the west. The reasons are so ob-
much delay in getting soldiers to the T j ous that it were an insult to the patriotism
•After the Governor or President makes a
and intelligence of my countrymen to make an
ten must be collected into companies, of- | argumen t to justify the propriety of the
elected, and the companies must set »e
time m a camp of instruction before they
marched to the field of action. Too
much time is lost >y such a system.
1 would suggest that the available military
force ol the Slate he formed immediately into
companies, and that they elect their officers,
> shall be required to drill their companies
east ttrice each treek. The companies should
t such officers as are qualified to lead them
hie battle field and to attend to their wants
le camp. Young tnen should not be put in
luand of companies, because they have
luated at some literary institution aid en-
pt some other advantages above their fel-
Prudent and self-possessed men, who
iiprchend and duly appreciate the great inte-
we have at stake, and who know how to
blue the endearments of home and sympathise
lililhe wounded and sick soldier, in the camp
it the field, are the men who should be en
led with the lives of gallant patriots strug-
Jg in the cause of freedom,
jic tyranny of officers in our army has
greater dissatisfaction to our soldiers
1 all other causes combined. Men elected
ure proposed, not to mention the hackneyed
phrase, “this is a time lor deeds not words.”
The press has teemed with patriotic appeals,
which, thank God, have not fallen on stony
ground, and our young men are marshalling
for the war, our wealthy men are opening their
purses. The wives and children of our noble
volunteers are looked after and provided for,
and will be to the end of this contest for free
dom. But this does not fill the measure of
earnestness, which is to be the test argument
with an enemy, whose measure of sincerity is
that of dollars and cents, and also with the
outside world who are at their own commercial
injury, looking at this civil war in America, as
a bear fight, not satisfied in their political* con*
jecturings, whether it would be for the best,
just yet, to interfere.
Rut to the proposition, it is this: That in
every county let the planters hold a meeting,
and determine not to plant more than four
acres of cotton to the hand as a maximum,
and as much less as each in his disci etion mav
think fit, and if any one is so selfish as to trans
gress this rule, let the surplus be confiscated
military office too soon forget that the vol- to the use of the soldiers from said county,
rs under them are gentlemen and patriots There are a few men in every county so
ng for common lights and common inte* essentially selfish and unpatriotic, that they
The officers who would wantonly mis- J intend to plant heavily and speculate on the
bill nas been introduced in Congress authoriz-
t or carelessly neglect his command, or 1 blood of their countrymen, on the shadow of mg the City goverr.tfffln ft’iSsue small notes.
ANOTHER COMPANY ACCEPTED.
We are informed the Military Committee of
this county have accepted the “Whittle
Guards,” of Rutland district, who presented a
roll of fifty-two men. This is the second vol
unteer company raising in this county in res
ponse to the Governor’s proclamation. The
Gresham Rifles, Capt Rogers, now number 70
men, and thus it will be seen that 122 of the
129 required, are already made up in these two
companies. Their ranks will probably be filled
now in a few days. We want to turn out two
strong cqmpanies.
Flint River Factorv.—It will be seen that
the Flint River factory has reduced the price
of Osnaburgs to eighteen cents. Papers in the
State please notice.
Claoaiaraiiea af ('a a federate Seaatara.
The following was the result of the drawing
on Friday last for the terms of the Confederate
Senators:
a team. 4 years.
Clay, Ala., Maxwell. Fla.,
Jobnaoo. Ark., Semmes, La ,
Bakir, Fla., Brown, Mian.
Toombs, 6a., Peyton, Mo.,
Dortach, N. C.,
Barnwell, S. C.,
Henry, Tenn.,
Wig fall, Texas,
Preston, Va.
Simms, Ky.,
Phelan, Miss.,
Clark, Mo.,
Davis, N. C.,
C years.
Yancey, Ala..
Mitchel, Ark.,
ltiU, Qa..
Burnett, Ky.,
Sparrow, La.,
Orr, S. C„
Haines, Tenn.,
Oldham, Texas,
Hunter, Va. »
J3gf“We hear it stated that the French Con
sul at New Orleans has received sealed des
patches from his government, which he has
forwarded to Richingnd, and the contents of
which are not known.
£gf"Coin is so scarce in Washington that a
part of it, deserves the eternal execration | a hope that the war may end, the blockade be
Mankind. Many have neglected to provide raised, and they will make '.heir Jack, while
| Ihe sick and wounded—neglected to give • they know that if all the planters, yeg a foufth
their parents and friends information of the of the planters were like-mini ed, it would ruin
condition of their sons and husbands in the our government. This fact acts like' lead on
army—they have compelled many to do duty i those around them—bears down patriotism and
i» hen not able—they have exposed their men | country ; yea every noble impulse of the soul,
unnecessarily—they have punished severely Mammon, not country ; Lucre not patriotism,
for slight causes, and treat'd them harshly [ is glorified.
without provocation. Thousands of letters What would be the effect of the adoption of
from the army testify to the harsh tieatment 1 this proposition ? It would generalize opr con-
ot unprincipled and unfeeling officers. It is fidence in ourselves and government, strength-
time we were correcting an evii that will prove en the confidence ef our soldiers now in the
more detrimental to onr cause than the shrewd- field, in the cause of independence, and in the
ness ii nd valor ol our foes. - consideration of their countrymen at home—
Companies should be particular in selecting assure them of the amplitude of the prov-,
their ollicars, and the mjliMMMk^ild be orgam- ision provided, not only lor the support of
oen may test t dear ones at home, but their own support.— j
ictualservice. It would encourage our Generals, our civil
I e ready and military commission, immeasurably above
everything else, and it would be an argument
suggestions j deep and earnest to the Yankees and to the
called to the world that this contest for freedom is deeply
Wilbi' ks. rooted in the h*v *'s of the people of the South;
that an earnestness as profound as life and as
zed into companies,
their officers before
The companie
a few days, whe
’1 respectfully s-u
the soldiers
eld.
•Fort Valley,
COTTON
Your correspo
of his class, is all
City goverr.i
not exceeding $100,000, redeemable in United
States Treasury notes.
ft>N. •
like many
i corn. He
thinks me a speculato^Vit you know Mr.
Clisby, that wliat little money I have' is devo
ted to the war, and not a dollar to speculation.
-Speculation and speculators are my aversion.
But pr.ty, who feed and gi.es employment to
these cormorants. I answer, the farmers who
raise cotton and are always short of provisions.
Let the farmers raise meat, corn, potatoes,
wheat, lard, and other necessariea in abundance,
the speculators are floored,
ibbin” says he has had to give one dollar
n cents for corn—what a catastrophe!
ubbin you
devout as death, pervades the people, the so it,
and like the Samnites, those that stay at home
only make provision for those who go to war.
pi*" The Wisconsin Legislature having o«|t
klown the prices for publishing tax lists and
other legal advertisements, propose to throw a
sop to the printers by exempting th.eir materi
als, to the amount of $1,000, from forced sale.
gentleman at Tuscola, Ill., was re
cently knocked down, by a flying goose. The
goose was instantly killed, and the man 'lay
insensible for three days.
MUNIFICENT DONATION.
In the iollowing donation of twenty-nine
blankets, the young ladies of Wesleyan Fe
male College have actually denuded their own
beds, for the comfort of thu volunteers.* This
munificent and self sacrificing tender made un
der their instructions by the President of the
College, to the Military Committee, is accepted
with proiound gratitude, and admiration of the
patriotic spirit in which it is made—a spirit
Come, my countrymen, in this our hour of which will warm the hearts and the courage
trial, let us not droop and wax faint, hut take
courage, fill our cribs and barns, and stock
yards, and for a season let our gins rust.
Mr. Editor, if this proposition seems good I
hope all the press will copy, and let the people
in every county and in every Slate come to the
heip of liberty against our foul oppressors.
S. W. Georgia. *
President Davis’ Inaugural,
Delivered IX Richmond, Feh. 22nd, 1862.
Fellow-Citizens :—On this, the birth day of
the man most identified with the establishment
of American Independence, and beneath the
monument erected to commemorate his heroic
virtues and those of his compatriots, we have
assembled to usher into existence the perma
nent Government of the Confederate States.—
Through this instrumentality, under the favor
of Divine Providence, we hope to perpetuate
the principles of our Revolutionary fathers.—
The day, the memory and the purpose seem fit
ly associated.
It is with mingled feelings of humility and
pride that I appeal to take, in tire presence ol
the people and before high Heaven, the oath
prescribed as a qualification for the exalted
station to which the unanimous* voice of the
people has called me. Deeply sensible, of all
that is implied by this manifestation o( the peo
ple’s confidence, I am yet more profoundly im
pressed by the vast responsibility of the office,
and humbly feel my own unworthiness.
In return for their kindness, I can only offer
assurances of the gratitude with which it is re
ceived, and can but pledge a zealous devotion
of every faculty to the service of those who
have chosen me as their Chief Magistrate.
When a long course of class legislation, di
rected not to tire general welfare, but to the ag
grandizement of the Northern section of • the
Union, culminated in a warfare on the domes
tic institutions of the Southern States—when
the dogmas of a sectionalparty, substituted for
the provisions of the constitutional compact,
threatened to destroy the sovereign rights of
the States, six of those States, withdrawing
from the Union, confederated together, to ex
ercise the right and perforin the duty of institu*
, ting a government which would better secure
the liberties, for the preservation of which that
| Union was established.
Whatever of hope some may have entertain
ed that a returning sense of justice would re
move the danger with which odfl* rights were
threatened, and render it possible to preserve
the Union of the Constitution, must have been
dispelled by the malignity and barbarity of the
Northern States in the prosecution of the exis
ting war. The confidence of the most hope
ful among us must have been destroyed by the
disregard they have recently exhibited for all
the time honored bulwarks of civil and religious
liberty. Bastiles filled with prisoners, arrested
without civil process, or indictment duly found;
the writ of habeas corpus suspended by Execu
tive mandate; a State Legislature controlled
by the imprisonment of members whose avow
ed pi inciples suggested to the Federal Execu
tive that there might he another added to the
list of seceded States ; elections held under
threats of a military power ; civil officers;
peaceful citizens, and gentle woman incarcera
ted for opinion’s sake, proclaimed the incapaci
ty of our late associates to administer a govern
ment as free, liberal and humane as that estab
lished for our common use.
* For proof of the sincerity of our purpose to
maintain our ancient institutions, we may point
to the Constitution of the Confederacy and the
laws enacted under it, as well as to the fact that
through all the necessities of an unequal strug
gle, there has been no act on our part to impair
[From the Memphis Daily Appeal.]
FIGHT OR PERISH!
The recent disasters to our arms, and more
particularly the fall of Fort Donelson and the
surrender of Nashville, must inaugurate a new
mode of warfare on the paTt of the Govern-
will have to raise on that ment and the people of the Confederate States.
I blanket.
As the New Orleans Delta forcibly says, the
deplorable inaction and loss of vigor which
have characterized the operation of our armies
for several months past must give way for more
' energetic aggression and ferocious hostilities.
! The marvelous credulity of our high otlicials
| as to the brief duration of the war— the declin-
fear. But what a commentary on
corn is the substratum of all good
mg, and yet what a scarcity of it in the
And, here, too, in our sunny South,
'i could so easily be made an Egypt
ubbin” says bacon is worth thirty cents a ing resource s and earnestness of the enemy,
id —yes, and it will go to a dollar!—more j and that disastrous infatuation of foreign in-
||V he
l> f ‘
I tfies,
that if the cotton mania continues, it can-
, be had at any price. What a beautiful
things! Hogs can be raised as easy as
j and God knows the latter are easily
sell, and worthless dogs swarm through the
1 devouring our substance. And yet, we
short of bacon, short of hogs, and of cve-
; to eat Now, “Nubbin,” how are you
misands of others to support your ne-
You can’t get bacon from the West or
ky, or the greater part of Tennessee.
Ben will you leed on? Cotton seed c-ke,
will be your all. If you and your
-uld take advice, I would say, open
r crib, leed your stock high, push your pigs
make meat next fall. Prepare to sub-
, beef f ir bacon—raise every possible
will leed man and beast, and then
^corn over your best, broad acres, with
■ hand. This, “Nubbin^” is your in-
^but wliat is your duty? ’I answer, to
supper] the army. You may
and negroes are my own, and I’ll
what 1 please. Sir, I deny it. Your
and negroes are not your own in that
i the present state of affairs, hut belong
“country. Your highest duty and my*
jr, is to raise abundant supplies to
he army and the families of soldiers,
i of God, I intend, “Nubbin,’’ to dc
can to raise supplies for the army. Will
do likewise? I don’t doubt your patrioi-
i and believe you will. If we don’t, “Nub-
1 say, our soldiers should lay down
[arms. Why should our people insanely
Kotton? The blockade is upon us, fixed
atened for an indefinite length of time,
lotion by foreign States is dead, it it
r had any vitality. And now my dear corn
^let me sum up the reasons why you and
neighbors had better not. plant much cot-
The crop now on hand will be amply
'll to supply the world until the crop of
gomes in.
The blockade will stimulate the
cotton in all parts of the world where
je raised, and consequently, there is
Bgcr of a glut in tire markets.
During our war every possible sub-
le lor cotton will l-e used, and mills in Eu-
run on short time.
[ Fourth. Because the South can and will get
1 blanket.
tervention, have inflicted upon our cause severe
disasters. They may prove blessings, if they
produce their proper effects, of arousing our
people to the true revolutionary fervor and en
ergy.
In this we may learn, even from the enemy,
who, in a cause of unprovoked aggression and
invasion, has not been discouraged by still
more serious disasters and rebuffs.
Our people have not yet regarded with suffi
cient seriousness the cause lor which they are
fighting. No people were ever engaged in a
more serious struggle. It is emphatically a
combat (or life or death. It differs from most
of the modern revolutionary struggles where
mere political rights and changes of govern
ment were involved. Of this character was
the revolution of 1776. That was a struggle |
for the exclusive right of governing ourselves, j Donelson gained by 80,000 Yankees over about
against a -mild, wise, and, in the main, well, 25,000 Confederates, after a battle of three
intentioned mother country. So of the other
of our volunteers more than the blankets will
warm their bodies:
Mrs. E. J. Stevens, 1 blanket,
Mrs. M. E. Heard, 1 blanket,
M&s Sallie Gilmer, j
Miss Mattie Gilmer, [5 blankets and 1
Miss Theodosia Everett, j comfort
Miss Judie Robison, J
Miss Dollie Leonard, 1 blanket,
Miss Olive Stevens, 1 blanket,
Miss Ginnie Dozier,
Miss Stella Dozier,
Miss Emmett Hay, I blanket,
Miss ZetelU Marshall, 1 blanket,
M iss Carrie Searcy, 1 blanket,
Miss Lucy Pettus, 1 blanket,
Miss Beck Bryan, 1 blanket.
Miss Mollie Blackshear, 1 blanket.
Miss Anna Shewmake,
Miss Mollie Shewmake,
Miss Mollie Garner, (. .. .
Miss Mollie Chambliss, f 1 blank,t ’
Miss Jennie Turnbull, 1 blanket,.
Miss Carrie Turnbull, 1 blanket,
Miss Fannie Hammond;-1 blanket,
Miss Anna Blackman, 1 blanket,
Mias Hennie Waters, 2 blankets,
Miss Carrie Hamiter, 1 blanket.
Miss Mary Bates, 1 blanket,
Miss Willie Bellamy, 1 blanket,
Miss Susie Persons, 1 blankets,
Miss Cornelia Allen, 1 comfort,
Miss Sallie Rice, 1 comfort,
Miss Octavia Hammond, 1 shawl.
Miss Mary Bowman, 1 shawl,
Miss Eva Ilarriss, 1 blanket
A I>i»pal<- a» IS whs ia EuiiilrZ ikr Cre
dit ol Ibr Yuntor Victory nl Fort Don-
<1.011. *
The New York Tribune has the following
paragraph in relation to the late victory at Fort
much money for the crop on hand, as it will howling wilderness.
ft* • f > . f . ... Wo miwf ll pntfi’
revolutions of modern times, the failure of
which, how disastrous soever in a political sense,
would have left even the subjugated in the
possession of their rights of persoh and of pro
perty. But the war we are now waging is one
in which, if we fail, we lose not only our
political freedom and rights, but our pro
perty, our honor, and our whole social organi
zation.
The annihilation of our armies, the devasta
tion of the country, the conflagration of our
cities, the destitution of every description of
national interest will be small injuries compar
ed with that which the final victory of the Yan
kees must inflict on the South. Let all doubt
as to their purpose to inflict this incalculable
injury be discarded by every. Southern mind.
The beneficial institution upon which the South
has been built up and through which it has
contributed so greatly to the wealth of the
world, can never survive the conquest of these
Slates by the Northern vandals. How-divided
soever they may have been on this question
before the war, and in its first stages, they are
united now. The President and all their chiefs
proclaim the forfeiture of all the property of
the rebels, and in these States there are none
but rebels. The chiefs of their invading armies
have these instructions to carry out this poli
cy. They have thus far done so. Their suc
cess, whether achieved by armies or by our
subjugation, will leave our beautiful South «
"wo, if much of a crop is planted this year,
fifth. And finally, and triumphantly, that
a independence, commercially and politically,
the South, and its wealth, progress and pros
perity. depend upon ra sing supplies with
which to leed its people, and we cannot live on
cotton: poundethroned king, tho’ he be, with
out a aceptr^r crown. Calhoun.
Editor Telegraph.—lYe have been request
ed to hand you for publication, the following
extract from a letter written by an intelligent
young lady of Chattahoochee county, to a rel
ative near this city. The patriotic efforts of
onr city ladies arc often and appropriately
made known to the public through the col
umns of your valuable paper—let not the no
less effectual good works of the rural fair go
altggether unheralded. Let the gallant young
men of the South, who have volunteered in de
fence of their country, read and be inspired
w ith fresh courage when they learn the animus
of the “girls they left behind.’’
“We have all become very economical here
since hard limes made its appearance. Father
has put on Kersey pants, and mother, J
and 1 have just made us some Confederate
Stills—finished them yes tori lay. How do you
reckon we will look with our stripes 1 I was
down m Stewart, last week, and there were
eight new hm/uxpun dresses at Church on Sun
We must, therefore, fight or perish—fight
to the last man and ihe !::s: B un. Lei us study
and imitate the uevotion and self-sacrifice of
the only people of modern times who have
been involved in a revolutionary struggle simi
lar to our own. We refer to that of the Greeks
in 1820. Those gallant people fought for the>r
religion, their lives and those of their families.
The brutal Turk left them no alternative but
victory or death. No prisoners were taken.
No captured cities were left standing. The
lovely isles of Greece were swept with fire and
sword, and pyramids of skulls marked the
sites of once flourishing towns. These awful
consequences of defeat nerved the valor of the
Greeks to deeds of immortal heroism. But
eight hundred thousand of them held at bay
and inflicted many a terrible disaster and dis
grace upon the arms of a j owerful nation of
thirty millions of people.
For five years this merciless war was main
tained, until the whole country was a mass of
smoking ruins. At last the sympathies of the
Chris.ian world were aroused in behalf of so
gallant end devoted a people, and a timely inti
mation of the great powers of Europe saved
Greece from the alternative whic hher heroism
had determined to accept, in preference to sub
mission. Fortunately we need no such inter
vention, but we do need a like devotion and
spirit of self-sacrifice. Tha issues between us
and our barbarous foe are to he serious ; the
consequences of a defeat must -he equally dis
astrous; the shame, the ignominy and the deg
radation of Yankee rule over this brave and
enlightened people, would be even more crush
days, in which their (the Yankees) loss was
about five to one:
The plan of the operations which have been
crowned by victory in Kentucky and Tennes
see was Gen. Halleck’s. It did not originate
in. this city. Formed in the West, and on the
ground, it was submitted by Gen. Ilalleck to
the President, and was approved and author
ized by the President To Mr. Lincoln, who
took the responsibility of ordering the move
ments which have crushed the rebellion in the
West, and to Secretary Stanton, the honor and
credit of them wholly belong.
On the same day (he following appeared
in the Washington letter of the New York
Times :
Gen. McClellan sat by the telegraph opera
tor at his headquarters, Sunday; Gen. Bueli
did the same at Louisville and General Ilalleck
personal liberty or the lreedom of speech, of j? ul ,
thought or of the press. The courts have been - lxed 0l
open; the'judicial functions fully executed,
and every right of the peaceful citizen main
tained as securely as if a war of invasion had
not disturbed ttie land.
The people of the States now confederated
became convinced that the Government of the
United States had fallen into the hands of a
sectional majority who would pervert that most
sacred of all trusts to the destruction of the
rights which it was pledged to protect They
believed that to remain longer in the Union
would subject them to a continuance of a dis
paraging discrimination, submission to which
would be inconsistent with their welfare, and
intolerable to a proud people. They therefore
determined to sever its bonds, and estabPsh a
new Confederacy for themselves. [Cheers.]
The experiment instituted by our rveolution-
ary fathers of a voluntary union of sovereign
States for purposes specified in a solemn com
pact, had been perverted by those, who, feeling
power and forgetting right, .were determined to
respect no law but their own will. The gov
ernment had ceased to answer the end for which
it was ordained and established. To save Our
selves iroma revolution, w hich in its silent but
rapid progress was about to place us under the
despotism of numbers, and to presen e in spirit
as well as in form a system of government we
believed to he peculiarly fined to our condition
and full of promise for mankind, we determined
to make a new association composed ot States
homogeneous in interest, in policy and in feel
ing. [Cheer*, j
True to our traditions of peace and our love
of justice, we sent commissioners to tho Uni
ted States to propose a a fair and amicable set
tlement of all questions of public debt or pro
perty which might be in dispute. But the gov
ernment at Washington defiying our right to
self government, refused even to listen to any
proposals for a. peaceful separation. Nothing
was then left to us but to prepare for war.—
[Cheers.]
The first year in our history has been the
most eventful in the annal^ ot this continent
A new government has been established, and its
machinery put in operation, over an area ex
ceeding 700,000 square miles. The great prin
ciples upon which we have been wdling to haz
ard every thing that is dear to man, have made
conquests for us which could never have been
achieved by the sword. Our Confederacy has
grown from six to thirteen States; and Mary
land, already united to us by hallowed memo
ries, and material interests, will, I believe,when
able to speak with unstifled voice, connect her
destiny with the South. [Great applause.]—
Our people have rallied with unexampled una
nimity to the support ol the great principles of
constitutional government, with firm resolve
to perpetuate by arms the rights which they
could not peacefully secure. A million of raen,
it is estimated, are now standing in hostile ar-
lt Is a satisfaction that we have maintaine-i
the war by our unaided exertions. We have
neither asked nor received assistance from any
quarter. Yet the interest involved is not whol
ly our own. The world at large is concerned
in opening our markets to its commerce. When
the independence of the Confederate States is
recognized by the nations of the earth, and we
arc free to follow our interests and inclinations
by cultivating foreign trade, the Southern States
will otter to manufacturing nations the most
favorable markets which ever invited their qpm-
meroe. Cotton, sugar, rice, tobacco, provisions,
timber and naval stores will furnish attractive
exchanges. Nor would the constancy of these
supplies be likely to be disturbed by war. Our
Confederate strength will be too great to tempt
aggression, and never was there-* people whose
interests and principles committed them so
fully to a peaceful policy as those of the Con
federate States. By the character of their pro-
, ductions they are too deeply interested in for
eign commerce wantonly to disturb it. War
of conquest they cannot wnge, because the
Constitution of their Confederacy admits of no
coerced' association. Civil war there cannot
be between States held together by their voli
tion only. This rule of voluntary association,
which cannot fail to be conservative, by secur
ing just and impartial government at home,
does not diminish the security of the obligations
by which the yonfedesate States may be bound
to foreign nations. In proof of this it is to be
remembered, that at the first moment of as
serting their right of secession, these States
proposed a settlement on the basis of a com
mon liability for the obligations of the General
Government.
Fellow-citizens: After the struggles of ages
had consecrated the right of the Englishman to
Constitutional Representative Government, our
colonial ancestors were lorceJ to vindicate thaj
bnfl^rigjit by an appeal to arms. Su
crowned their efforts, and they provided
mhir posterity, a peaceful remedy agnins
ture aggression.
The tyrany of an unbridled majority,
most odious, and least responsible form of des
potism, hag dented us both the right and the
remedy. Therefore, we are in arms to renew
such sacrifices as our fathers made to the holy
cause of Constitutional liberty. At the dark
est hour of ourfstruggle the Provisional gives
place to the Permanent Government After a
series of successes and victories, which cover
ed our arms with glory, we have recently met
with serious disasters. But in the heart of a
people resolved to be free, these disasters tend
but to stimulate to increased resistance.
To show ourselves worthy of the inheritance
bequeathed to us by the’ patriots of the Revo
lution, we must emulate that heroic devotion
which made reverse to them but the crucible
in which their patriotism was refined. [Ap
plause. J
With confidence in the wisdom and vir
those who will ghare with me the respon*
tv, and aid me in the conduct of public affairs;
securely relying on the patriotism and courage
of the people, of which the present war
furnished so many examples, I deeply feelth
weig^^M the responsibilities 1 now, wit
ieo^^^^Edcnce, am about to assume;
e inadequacy of human power t
to sustain, my hope is reverent!
i whose favor is ever vou '
to the caul^ which is just With humb
itude ar ^(adoration, acknowledging
dence voh has so visibly protect
federacy during its brief, but even
to Thee, Oh God! I trustingly com
and prayerfully invoke Thy bless'
country and its causa
[Continued and enthusiastic cheering.)
earnestness of the
his purpose to dedicate himself
the country. We have nevj
doubt either of the purity
our President, or his eminent
place assigned him. May
iho second Washington, w
the house of Northern hot
Gen. J. C. Breckin
was not in the engagement at Donelsol
are attached to the command pf Gen.
Johnston.
pTThe Confederate Senate has
in it, which they expect to keep for si
f-a;'' There are 05 Federal vessels off
Island Federals are landing on Britton Isl
and the Chandeleurs Creek.
From the Richmond Dispatch.
NORTHERN CONSERVATIVE COUNSELS.
It really seems very unreasonable to a great
many Northern people that the South will not
lie still and permitju>rsc-lf to be governed in
the way that th^HMsees best It is conser
vative souls wl^Ttmikthus, some of them hon
est and candid in that opinion. It is true that
illard Fillmore, the most conservative of all
iervfttors, once declared that if the South
lect a sectional candidate over the North
rth was trying to do over the South,
would resist the degradation, and
.udience if he was right; to which
^.idcd with a unanimous yell of affir
mation. But, now that the South is doing ex
actly what they would have done themselves,
they think better of il Perhaps their consis
tency may be reconciled by the fact that the
North could have left the Union without hur
ting anybody but herself, and therefore might
properly be permitted to resist even to dissolu
tion any attempt of the South to control the
country by a sectional organization, whereas
the South could not leave without bringing the
North to bankruptcy. Northern ^bullion i s
innocent, because it could hurt no
self, Southern
magnitude,
From tbe Memphis Appeal.
FIGHT ON—FIGHT EVER!
.. St.lo-S -nd. .h. circuit being ..dc bun,- j -*£«*} 2t“ “T?
plete between the three, they conversed unin
terruptedly lor hours on the pending battle ft
Fort Donelson, and made all the orders and
dispositions of forces to perfect the victory
and pursue the broken enemy. The battle was
fought, we may say, almost under the eye of
General McClellan. So remarkable an achieve
ment has seldom adorned science.
THE SAFETY OF EAST TENNESSEE.
The Knoxville Register, of the 19th inst,
concludes an article deprecatory of alarms and
sudden panics among the people, as follows:
East Tennessee to day, is safer than any por
tion of the Southern Confederacy, yet when
troops from the South and from the Old Do
minion are crowding the railways leading into
East Tennessee, when before another sun rises
and setts, Gen. Bragg will take charge of the
armies being concentrated here, when the
roads are such that a month must elapse be
fore an army could make even an unresisted
march to Knoxville, notwithstanding all this,
because a mob frightened out ot their wits
come howling into this city, divers old women
have fits, and ye Gods! what shall be said of
these denominated men ? The terrified should
be shipped to New England, where the doc
trine of non-resistance is fulminated by crazed
enthusiasts from a thousand pulpits.
day. Homespun is becoming quite the style mg and debasing than that of the Turk over
and some of the ladies say they don’t intend
to wear anything else until the war is ended.
Fathers, husbands and brothers have to endure
hardships for the sake of loved ones at home.
Every exertion should be made to lighten their
hurdsna—il promote their comfort. ***
the Greek. Let us then emulate the valor and
devotion of that gallant race, and make this war
of independence as illustrious as that which
excited the enthusiasm of the whole world.
ew- Gen. Beauregard left Corinth on the
19th in a special train, for Qolumbus.
Col. Lomax Enlisted as a Private. —We
saw- it stated the other day that Tennant Lo
max, Colonel of one of the Alabama Regi
ments, now stationed in Virginia had enlisted
as a private. That is the spirit that ought to
show itself in all of them. We hear from all
quarters the cry that twelve month’s men now
in the army must enlist for the war, and we
have no doubt that most of them will do it.—
Their services are likely to be needed and they i all its common traditions of glory, of sacrifice,
are worth a great deal more now to the coun- and of blood, will be the bend of harmony and
try than any new recruits can possibly be. enduring affection amongst the people, produc-
Let the officers set the example—it will have | ing unity in policy, fraternity in sentiment and
great influence with the men, let every officer 'joint effort in war.
from Colonel down enlist as privates—take | Nor have the material sacrifices of the past
sands of miles; battles have been fought; sei
ges have been conducted, and although the
contest is not ended, and the tide for the mo
ment is against us, the final result in our favor
is not doubtful.
The period is near at hand when our foes
must sink under the immense load ufdebt which
they have incurred; a debt which in their ef-
| fort to subjugate us has already attained such
( fearful dimensions as will subject them to bur
thens which must continue to oppress them
; for generations to come.
We too have had our trials and difficulties.
That we are to escape them in future is not to
be hoped. It was to be expected when we en
tered jpon this war that it would expose our
people to sacrifices, and cost them much, both
of money and blood. But we knew the value
of the object for which we struggled, and un
derstood the nature of the war in which we
were engaged. Nothing could be so bad as
failure, and any sacrifice would be cheap as
the price of success in such a contest. [Cheers.]
But the picture has its lights as well as its
shadows. This great strife has awakened in
the people the highest emotions and qualities
of the human soul. It is cultivating feelings
of patriotism, virtue and courage. Instances
of self-sacrifice, and of generous devotion to
the noble cause for which we are contending,
are rife throughout the land. Never has a
people evinced a more determined spirit than
that now animating men, women and children
in every part of the country. .Upon the first
call the men tty to arms, and wiveirand moth
ers send their husbands and sons to battle,
without a murmur of regret.
It was, perhaps, in the ordination of Provi
dence that we were to be taught the value ot
our liberties by the price which we pay for
them.
The recollections of this great contest, with
their chances for their re-election—no man
ought to be elected who will not do this.—
There is not a regiment, battalion or company
ol twelve month’s men in which there are not
many as capable of commanding as those now
in office ; if those in office are worthy, they can
be re-elected, and no man ought to be put in
office who is not Willing now to serve and fight
in gay capacity.—Corner Stone.
year been made without some corresponding
benefits. If the acquiescence of foreign n&-
tions in a pretended blockade has deprived us
of our commerce with them, it is fast making
us a self-supporting and an independent people.
The blockade, if effectual and permanent, could
only serve to divert our industry from tbe
production of articles for export, and employ
it in supplying commodities for domestic use.
In carrying on this war for the future—and
it should be waged a full century if the enemy
so desire it—we must evidently atop maneu
vering with the spade and betake ourselves to
to the use qf the bayonet. Earthworks and
ditches are functus ofiicio, and the era has
now come for fighting—hard, bpld and offen
sive fighting in the field. We have the mate
rial. better than any that ever went to compose
the finest armies of Europe. The Old Guard
of Bonaparte or the Tenth Legion of Ctesar
was not made of sterner stuff than the natural
and dauntless warriors who inhabit these
Southern States. They are not to be intimida
ted by disaster, nor thrown into a chicken-
hearted despondency by defeat. What is need
ed now is for our comniandere to imitate Fabi-
us less and Napoleon more. We like the spirit
of Gen. Pillow, as displayed in his speech at
Nashville, on night before last There is some
thing invinciblefltnd eminently Southern in his
bold thought that we will light the enemy
wherever we can find him—fight him in the
woods, and, if necessary, fall back and fight
■him every inch of the way to the Gulf Coast
This sentiment has the ring of the true fiietal
about it, and well reflects the feeling and fixed
determination of the people who compose the
States of this Confederacy.
To talk about capitulation and to discuss any
Other terms of peace than the recognition ot
our independence, even at this trying hour, is
sheer treason, as base as it is cowardly. We
have entered this conflict to achieve and main
tain our liberties, and we can well say with
Patrick Henry, when the American heart grew
faint in the same holy work, less than a centu
ry ago : “/£ is too late note to retire from the
contest. Thkrbisno Retreat but in Chaiss
and Slavery!” The worst that we can come to
in continuing the war is death—an end far
more desirable to the jiatriot than a life of deg
radation and servitude beneath the rule of an
infamous race of tyrants. What remains for
us to do is to brace ourselves, and take courage
like men. Our watchword must be “victory
or death!”
As a brjve people, emulating the many ex
amples that are furnished us in history, we
must be willing to suffer without despondency
everything that has been endured by others
who hare in past times carved out their liber
ties through carnage and slaughter, And bap
tised them in human blood. Our country may
be laid waste, our fields desolated, our cities
swallowed up by conflagrations, and our inhab
itants put to the sword; but let us endure all
this before laying down our arms, and com
ing again under the dominion of the hell born
dynasty of Abraham Lincoln, with all of its
iniquitous abominations.
But the picture is not so gloomy as one’s
imagination is at first liable to draw. The
disasters that have crowded upon us for the
last few days have a tendency to encourage the
.enemy in his design of conquest and make him
reckless of expenditure, and, in this way, pro
tract the war longer than we at first expected.
Even should we be compelled to abandon the
whole of Tennessee and establish our military
lines along the northern boundary of the cot
ton States, the war will have just commenced
in earnest. An army of three hundred thous
and men, such as we now have in the field, led
by men Tike Davis, Beauregard, Johnson, Jack-
son, Pillow, Lee, Bragg and others, can keep
up this fight ten years longer, and, if necessa
ry, they will do so.
The States of the Confederacy are already
aroused, and fully appreciate the obstacles to
be encountered and surmounted by them.—
The Cotton States have called over forty thous
end fresh troops into the field,’ and are now
pouring-their invincible legions toward the
frontier for our defense. Virginia is moving,
and the old North State is fully up to the
emergency. To-day Governor Harris issues
his proclamation calling Tennesseeans to the
rescue, in the full might and pride of their
strength. Let them come forth with rifle in
hand from every hill and dale, determined like
their valiant leader to “do or die’’ in the south
ern cause. There is no time for vain delays
and inaction. We must put forth our whole
strength and drive the Northern Huns irom
our soil. Tennesseeans! if you desire to pre
serve your well earned reputation of other days
as the Volunteer State, come now to the call
of your country in the hour of her trial and
tribulation.
“He who dallies is a dastard.
He who doubts is damned!”
[Gy “’the Rebels left nothing at Bowling
Green except a few old wagons.” Such is the
admission of the enemy according to the reports
through tile Northern papers. This gives us
the comfortable assurance that the Confederate
forces liave the material for a successful stand
at Nashville, to which place they have fallen
back.
All
was by fish-
internal improvements by
neral Government, national banks, ex-
i of foreign vessels from the coasting
to be fleeced of her last dollar for the
of Northerp commerce and manufac-
but still '.he South had enough to live
plain, comfortable way, and that con
dition, neither very rich nor very poor, is well
known to be the happiest and most virtuous in
the world. As to abolitionism, when the vast
Northern majority elected a President on an
anti-slavery platform, they meant nothing by it
they were only desciving the people to get in
to power, which has been a conceded privilege
of politicians Irom the first invention of Repub
licanism.. In regard to Lincoln’s proclamation
for seventy-five thousand men, this they assue
us, would not have led to any serious results,
if the rebel leaders had obeyed its directions
and dispersed to their respective homes.—
Whereas instead ol dispersing, like reasonable
men, they made new recruits, and compelled
the Government to call out a levy of Yankee-
dom, en masse, to bring them back to their sen
ses and their allegiance. Even now, all that
they ask is, having burned a good many of our
homes, and murdered a considerable number of
our people, that we should lay down our arms
renew our fealty to the gloipus Union, and—
trade with them as before. We may keep t!
nigger, and even be permitted to elect our own
State Governments, which Mr. Lincoln, how
ever, has instreuted us, bear the same relati on
to the Federal Government that counties do to
i State, ^provided we will continue to culti
vate our soil for the aggrandizement ot the
North, and trade entirely with that interesting
people, being content ourselves with the mode
rate wages of hoard and clothing, which is all
that we need, and which will best promote hap
piness and morality. .
There is no doubt that there are men in the
North who consider these highly reasonable
propositions and are not only surprised but
grieved that their “Southern brethren” should
not so legard them. But tb- re is no account
ing for tastes. There has always been a class
of abstractionists and iinpracticalHes among
mfnkind, both in the Church andjn the State,
embracing a noble army -of martyrs in the
cause of conscience and of freedom, who prefer
the sacrifice of all that is dear on earth to. the
surrender of honor, virtue, and independence.
The Egyptian fleshpots were more comfortable
than the horiois ol the desert; but as often as
the Israelites murmured for them in the wilder
ness, tho chastening hand of the Almighty
taught them that the highest government of
man is that which is born of trials and tribula
tions. The same conservative counsels, which
really see no reason in incurring bloodshed and
poverty rather than lie still within the folds of
an anaconda, w-ho, if we will only lie still, will
not crush us till he is ready, might have been
urged with tenfold force against Gen. Wash
ington and the other heroes and sages of the
Revolution. Why give up the comforts, peace,
and protection of a colonial condition, for the
purpose of escaping a miserable tax which no
one weuld have felt, or of vindicating the ab
straction that the colonies had a right to he
represented in the body which imposed the
taxes—a right which they had themselves re
linquished in accepting their charters under the
British Crown, and which none of Great Bri
tain’s other -colon’es undertook to set up ?—
Why, for a questionable principle, expose
themselves to the power of the mightiest Em
pire under the sun—to poverty, the prison, and
the scaffold—to civil war among themselves
and to the cruelties of the savages at their
doors? Yet they boldly dared all, cheerfully
endured all, for seven years, rather than sub
mit to a Government which was the embodi
ment of freedom and justice in comparison with
that of the North ; which never plundered the
people of their property nor threatened to
abolish it; which, instead of draining them
yearly of all the profits of their industry, was
itself at vast, expense in raising fleets and ar
mies for their protection. Degenerate, indeed,
must be the descendants of such an ancestry,
if, for the sake of being permitted to eat and
drink enough for its wants, they permit every
civil and political right they inherited from
their ancestors, and which even the King of
Great Britain did not dare to meddle with, to
be torn from them by a brutal despot at Wssh-
ingtoa
brifl
were*
road, abd
was also
us two orf
twenty or tl^|PT5ight aiitt
that were at the time on the othe?
bridges. About four miles this si3
freesboro’, the bridge over Rook
while a passenger train bound South was!
ing it, instantly killing Lieut. Col. Johnsb
brother of Senator Johnston, of Ark.,J
wounding sc .eral passengers, some of
quite severely. The escape of any of the'
ser.gers in the first two cars, which were pre-'
cipitated in the river and nearly demolished,
was indeed, m raculous.—Atlanta Confederacy J
PIKES.
The Richmond Dispatch remarks as follows:
Fifty thousand men, armed with the “bowie-,
knife pike,” and disciplined to tho manoeuvres]
of an army, would, in addition to the troops
demanded by the President, be decisive of this
war. Every man might not have the courage
to rely upon this primitive weapon, but volun
teers could be obtained to enroll themselves in
this, as a corps of honor. A determination,
thus to place our whole military population in
the field, and make the land bristle with pikes,
if not with bayonets, would give confidence to
many a doubting and anxious heart.
The invention of gunpowder, to be employed
in the open field is not, after all, an invention
so decisive of the result of battles. The vete
ran legions of Ciusar, rushing to hand-to-hand
conflict, with the short Roman sword, would
be as formidable nowon the battle field as they
were when tluy overcame all opposing forces.
“Hermes” the Richmond correspondent of
utions ’ the Charleston Mercury, relates the following
incident:
A battalion of French Zoqaves, at the battle
of Solfcrino, rushed upon an entire division of
Austrians, powerfully entrenched. Grape was
poured into the Zouaves—they made no reply,
fired not a shot—but, leaping the ditches and
walls, with their bayonets alone, whipped, hor
ribly, nearly 20,000 men. The panic of tho
poor Austrians, many of them boys, is describ
ed as terrible beyond the power of language to
convey.
CAUTION.
The Macon Telegraph says: “ with what
foundation it knows not,” that it is generally
believed “that all the reports emanating from
Chattanooga of the surrender of Nashville, are
bacon reports—gotten up by the Union men
of that section to sell their bacon.”
On yesterday we were shown a telegraphic
dispatch direct from Nashville, advising that
•bacon be held at 30 cents; and yet when we
endeavored to have a dispatch transmitted to
Nashville, we were advised at the office that it
could be sent only to Chattanooga from this
point, there being no connection through to
Nashville. Bacon appears now to be King ;
Cotton has abdicated.—Atlanta Intelligencer,
26tA in-
A letter from Earl Russell to the Admiralty,
prohibiting 'he use of British ports to either of
tire Aracrii i lielligerents, is. published. At
the port uijs sr.u, and other ports where ves
sels are ilriv u ky stress of weather, provisions
may basupp; -d. .but only in such quantity, of
course, • in * sufficient for the vessel tq the
nearest port n . own country; no second sup
ply is U> be allowed to the same vessel in the
same port within a period of three months.
The Ex: my.—We have no news in relation
to the movements of the Yankees in this neigh
borhood of any interest. Some twenty of thq
enemy’s vessels are still off Skidaway, and two
or three are off Tybee. It was discovered on
yesterday that the Federals had erected a small
battery on the south 3ide of the river, some
four or five miles below Fort Jackson. The
extent of the battery is not known, and we
question if they will be allowed to continue
their work on it many more days.—Sav. News.
Coiniucrtinl Intelligence.
MACON MARKET.
times Daily Teleobai'H, )
February 36th, 1861. |
Business—Business has been Yerj active during the
week, and there has been an increased demand for
goods. The difficulty of transporting Sugar and Molas
ses from Memphie l 'Bcnnessoe to this city, has caused
these articles to advahes. Whiskey ia also advancing.
GROCERIES.
Bacon—None in market. The last sale was 20.000
lbs. at 28c.
Lari>— 23c. in bhls.; 26c. in kegs; 30c. - laik Advan
cing.
Flour—Superfine #5.to ; Family (5.71X^(0 00. Stiff.
Candles—Star, 60c.; Hard Pressed, 35@40c.; Sperm
65c.; Patent Sperm, Transparent, 75c. fl B>.
Coffee—Rio and Cuba, S5c $ I>. -.
Rice—1®4>tfc. # lb. Advancing.
Sugar—New Orleans, Biown, 7M(i>10c. ^ lb: White
U&lSc.
Molasses—No Cuba in market. New Orleans is firm
with upward tendency at 70c<575c $ gallon.
Snuff—Maccaboy 50c* $ lb; Scotch, 35c.
Whiskey—Common bran<ls^(2,25 flgallon.
Starch—20c. @ 25c V lb. * * '
Soap—Bar Soap, 30c. V lb. Stock small
Soda—Snper-Carlxjnate, 5:’c. F tb.
Salt—(16<&(1S ft Sack.
Pork—Sells from 15c.@18c. F lb.
Beef—Fiesk Tennessee 2,<@15c. F & ; Dried Ten
nessee, 20c. F lb.
Ml tton—Dried Tennessee Mntton 20c. F *>.
GRAIN.
Wheat—$1,60 F bnshel.
Corn—(1,20.
Corn Meal—(1,1>@(1,2T>.
Oats—(1 F bushel.
Rye—(2 F
Barley—(2 F bnshel. •
Peas—(1.23 F “
Sacks not included.
OILS.
Oils—Tanner's (1 50®$1,73 \t gallon ; Cotton ,Seed,
(2,35®$3,75 F gallon ; >perm ^
U AI
Steel—Cast, 50@75c.
Iron—Refined,
Nail Roa
Nails—Cat,
Nails, 50c.; Sti
Copper—Boll
What a Knapsa'ck should Contain.—The
official regulations in Louisiana enumerate as
follows : One blanket, one' shirt, one under
shirt, One pair of drawers, three pairs of socks,
one pair ol shoes, one towel, one tin cup, one
tin pan or plate, one knife and fork, one cake
of soap, one handkerchief, a piece of oil cloth
to use under the blanket, and nothing else. No
token of friendship, no daguerreotypes, no
books, are allowed. But we don’t suppose
there would be any objection to a hair brush, a
ccmb, a tooth brush, a box of blacking, a shoe
biush, a little looking glass, and scissors, with
thread needles and pins. We suppose
ladies will be called upon to pack the
sacks of their volunteering friends. Let thi
mak a note of the above.—Memphis Appeal.
££F~Captains Aderhold and Smith, of
36th Georgia Regiment, request us to say
they have been ordered to report to Gen. Bi
immediately at Mobile, and persons will add:
them accordingly at Mobile, Ala.