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and cw
nil
ry four ol
enty fire
force and
Tnn.e rifle. 3. Its
is effective—being
to get out of
s lock of the
4. That this
ard a bayonet
'ade to weigh not exceeding
'units at the outside. 5. That
enished alter exhaustion with not
ouble than a common rifle can
supply ot powder, balls and
lopped loose into their respec
hich are all opened by turn-
screw. The barrel receives its
a single movement ot a* lever, and
1e gu~n is capped in the act of cocking.
We say without hesitation, it is the greatest
ood ! g Un on earth—a weapon which must be ten i
\adei bly effective on the battle field, and equally
rder to convenient for sporting purposos. Any where
preparation, it is not till April else such an invention would make its paten-
seriously to prepare for getting tee’s and manufacturer’s fortune. Colt’s wea-
he field. The Conscription bill 1 pons are not to be compared with it %ucmier.t
ths too late. Everything we do is j Hut here the inventor finds it difficult, if not
We build gunboats just enough too I impossible, to command the means to go into
the enemy to destroy them upon ! the production ot those weapons.
MACON a*BRUNSWICK HAIL ROAD.
We are gratitieij in being able to announce
avo readily sunk the wood-: t | ia t the Macon A Brunswick Railftiad Cotnpan
threatening that proud city : | iavc concluded an arrangement with Mess
destruction; but we must he Nightingale, Huger A Co., for grading their en
tire line ol Road from the point to which
g of the vigor which should character-, now completed, to the point of junction
c in danger every-moment of seeming-1 jjj,, Albany A Gulf li til Road. The coi
8 destruction, has been seen in a sin-1 made while it places the construction
le government or people. Me are] Koad beyond contingency, and within
oo slow all the time, and when | ^ r j e j time, is certainly not more advant
ies, wonder at the superior ac - t0 t ; ie com pany than to the contractors, who
emy, who, after all, are almost are w -. a lLli\ proprietors upon the seaboard, but
hes as we are. Nothing like vigor j have beei
h, been displayed on either side.— t a tes, and'
^English or French to deal with, w jthout
I have whipped us twice over before j w bile a
The campaigns of the Yankees
characterized by shocking imbecili- n j s
Re we ourselves have displayed some- t, or i
| worse. We would bet now even on 300,
ainst the whole 000,000 Federal army,
<Wij
STATE RIC.H I S AND STATE PRIDE
Some years ago, in a discussion in the House
shops the Other day, we found various J of Representatives upon State Rights, . North-
era member of Congress said “He thanked
ecessily ihe TI other of Invention.
wn in the Southwestern Rail Road Ma-
W
1 completion o!
ct to see the Yanks whipped as much a( i van(e . N
pect to see sun-light to-morrow. But compete ]j n
h have speed as well as bottom.
NOT SUBJUGATED.
ufaclures in progess, born with much labor
of the necessitous condition of the country.
We found armorers at work making swords
a great many of which, of various patterns,
have been lorged and polished in these shops.
The artillery sword, a large number of which
they are making for the government, is in truth
a most beautiful weapon of classical shape,
short and heavy, with brass mountings and
ban lie. The pattern of the sword was design
ed by Mr. Elfe, the ingenius Master Machinist,
and has been highly approved by the govern
ment. Besides these, swords for all the other
branches ol service have been made in large
numbers, as also a great many pikes. Much
trouble was experienced, many experiments
made, and a long time consumed in acquiring
the art of tempering these blades; but they
have it now in perfection, and are carrying on
the business of manufacturing tools of all kinds
for their road. They were making a lot ol au
gurs at the time of our visit, *nd informed us
that the superintendents ol repairs reported
th ir-domestic augurs* worth in point of dura
bility and effectiveness, double as much as the
old Northern tools, which were got up cheaply
and of inferior steel. Lastly, the Master Ma
chinist, after much study and experiment, had
succeeded in making the composition for cru
cibles to he used in melting brass, all the for-
ucibles having been exhausted. As the
aware, the principal component of
^crucibles is black lead, the brass requir
ing so gieat a heat to fuse it, that no metal
can f° r a melting pot Thus it is, that
velope the enterprise and ingenu-
lf the war endures two or
ger we shall know a good deal
o now ! Who doubts that ?
K ORLEANS ELEPHANT.
nts there was a touch of the lu-
f tlie melancholy condition of New
Orleans. The Lincoln Commodore writes the
Mayor to surrender the city and pull down the
secession Hag. The Mayor answers that the
city is defenceless, come and take it. He can
not fight, nor he cannot pull down the Hags,
rc is not a man in the city base enough to
ik..n cud Sines, -it is wonderful wi at each- Correspondence of the Telegraph.
ling the French and English papers set up f r
God there was not a single ‘sovereign and in
dependent State’ North ol the Potomac. There
was nothing ol the kin 1 .known North of that
River.” The remark was true, so far as relates
to that inspiring State pride which is so uni
versal and lolty a sentiment in the South. The
Northern people, tracing all their vveaith end
prosperity directly to the action and influence
of the Federal government, have long since
ceased to regard their State governments as
anything more than mere subordinate institu
tions for the preservation of local order, or for
effecting specific objects of personal and pub
lic advantage through the Federal government.
The presence, power, patronage and wealth of
the Federal government have always been vis
ible before their eyes in a magnitude of devel
opment which has overshadowed and made
comparatively contemptible the feebler exhibi
tions of the States ?
In the South, on the other hand, through
1 by-gone yean, the Federal government, in re-
! spect to its material power, was a mere myth
to the vast majority of the people. They saw
no greater development of it than a cross road
post office, and as for looking to it as a source
of personal emolument or private protection,
about iron clad ships of war, since the affair at
Hampton. The English papers ciaim I fiat they
have really hut one vessel-of-war—the French
another—the Lincolnites one and the Confede
rates the same. The Royal Sovereign and the
Duse of Wellington, three deckers of over
3000 tons each, have already been taken to the
dock yards to be razeed and converted into
iron clad batteries upon the principle of the
Merrimac.
Cool.—The following incident is related of
a young Confederate soldier, wounded at Cor
inth. A lad of fifteen or sixteen was so badly
wounded that his leg had to be taken oft—
When he had recovered from the effects of the
chloroform, he was asked how he felt! “Feel, ’
said he, “first-rate! That old 1> g has bothered
me ever since 1 was horn. I’ve had it broken
twice, and laid in bed six months with a sprain
cd knee. Its been ad—d unlucky eg, any
how ; but now I'll have a wooden but, and the
Yankees may shoot at that all day.”
BATTLE IMMINENT AT CORINTH.
So says P. W. A., the correspondent of the
Savannah Republican, in a despatch dated at
Corinth, the 29th ult. The enemy was advan
cing—skirmishes occurring daily, and on Mon
day a heavy skirmish took place at Monterey,
By Electric ’ ele&rapt
therefore, that a battle may even now be in
progress, or it may have already taken place.
The Republican estimates our force at 55,000
to 60,000, and that of the enemy a; 75,000 to
80,000. We would like to compromise upon
those figures, but believe the Northern force is
at least a hundred thousand. We lave strong
faith, however, with all the odds that he will
be defeated.
no such idea ever entered into their heads.— ten miles from the river. It is quite possible,
They have read and heard of it, only, as a very
dangerous instrumentality'threatening evil.—
Every sensible, perceptible and beneficial func
tion of government to them appertained whol
ly to the State. Is it any wonder, then, that
the people should in fact as well as in political
theory, hold their allegiance due to the State,
and the State and all its emblems of authority
and dignity should hold the same position in
their respect and affection, which the Northern
people assign to the Federal government and
the Stars and Stripes.
But it is a curious coincidence, if nothing
more, in connection w th these widely opposite
conditions of the people ol the two sections,
that while every Southern State should posse-s
a name by which their people are proud to be
identified, not more than two or three of the
Northern States can possibly identify their peo
ple bv a single word. We have our Maryland
ers, our Virginians, Carolinians, Georgians,
disluflWBKe emblem ol Confederate Sovjreign-
tv. If Farragut wishes the Hags down he must 1 Floridians, Alabamians, Tennesseeans, Ren
nie and haul them down. But Farragut is
send a lorcc on shore for that purpose,
and Brunswick, it i?
terprise so soon as the in:
(ugh the mind cannot well escape the j off the shoulders ol our people.
Hi* inllucnce of the long scales of disas- We arc also pleased to state that the trains
ch have befallen the Confederate cause, on this road recommence station)
not yet reacJptilJUai 'lw>0t5”fcYlcfgies of , ln j during the week w ill leach Buzzard Roost
The enemy have again. We will send the Marion package by-
today’s train, and hope to forward all the
packages, as of yoie, during the week.
fiple resolved to be Iree,
r/nM.',,/ u- into a bad plight, that is true ;
Cut our condition, in respect to relative means
of self-defence, is far better than that of our
Fathers during the greater part of the revolu-
SPARKLINU WINE.
Messrs. Greer A Lake are the sole agents
tionary war—than that of Prussia during her for Adams’ (not of Edeii-fame) pure Catawba
seven years’ struggle under the great Frederick, Wine, the pure juice of the grape. Though
or of Spain when her territory was overrun by not Chian or Samian wine, it is better, for it
the great Napoleon. AN e are beginning to get cheers, hut does not inebriate. We acknowl-
into that condition in which the whole European edge the reception of a bottle, which, upon be-
press have conceded the real difficulties of con- ing handed to a friend for inspection, was re-
tuckians, Mississippians, Texans, Louisianians,
&c., Ac. But how will you call the Maintacs,
ther lia^nd ashaincd to shell a town ] *he New Hampshirians, the Massachusetters,
the Connecticultians, Michiganders, lllinoisy-
ans, Wisconsinners, Kansassies, Ac.? There
are, in fact, but very few names of Northern
States which >«• used to designate a people,
or oy wmen a people would consent t» he de-
signated. This might have been an accident
with the old States, but not with the new.—
They did not hold themselves a people in the
political sense of the term, and therefore made
no provision for a name.
quest and subjugation would just begin. They
conceded that our towns must fall and our arm
ies must be whipped by superior numbers; hut
yet they did not see the possibility of occupy
ing so extensive a country so as to hold it in
the nulK of buriowii.-t'unu fctfci/ comma. htU
.the enemy in force has contributed to establish
our ability to cope with him at odds. Furth
ermore, we shall seon have a force in the field,
very little, if any, inferior to his own in point
turned to us with this comment:
Wine—bring wine !
Let tbeciyptal benkt-r il.ime and *hiue.
Humming o'er with the d-ntug. t divine
Not iroru ilit* Kkinc--
Not ft am field* of Burgundian vine,
But Attain*' Fure Catawba Wine !!
iue u, c.c
“wretched grammar” ol Secretary Waters* re
ply to the application of the Macon committee
for martial law, to suppress the sale of liquors
in Macon. It is due to the Secretary lo state
of numbers, and while we are embarrassed and that the single gramatical blunder in his letter
annoyed by his occupation of our territory, it as published was committed not by him, hut
is equally true that the same fact increases his by the compositor who put it in type. The
difficulties, and divides and practically dimin- original, which we still have, is conect in Uitt
particular.
offers no resistance. And so matters
stand—the Confederate flag still Ilyin
the town and the guns of the Lincoln sh
war <tarj
—The secret of M. Mercier’
id is at length fully expl;
iu it^f^^^^teville Transcript. It was a
sionVr theWrlamation ofajacknile, borrowed
some time ago of M. Sartiges by Mr. Jeff. Da
vis, while the latter was in the Senate of the
United States. Mr. Davis, after using the knife
in paring his nails, put it into his breeches pock
et, in a tit of absence of mind, and the unexpec
ted outbreak of hostilities and blockade, had
hitherto prevented restitution. The Cocknevs-
ville Transcript indulges iu a good humored
laugh at the expense of the Richmond papers
who have raised such ail awful wonderment
about tl e “objects of this French mission,”
and well says that the Yankee prints were right
when they stated it was merely lo close up
French accounts and connections with the
i Southern Confederacy. Nothing indeed ever
era hut the unreturned j xknile, which it was
understood had been kept carefully shut and
oiled, in a box of cotton, by the prudent house
wifery ol Mrs. Davis. The mind of the count
of Sar'iges is now more composed. .This sub
ject will hereafter receive full ventillation
through the Richmond Examiner.
From the Savannah ltepublican.
The Enemy at New Orleans.
Interesting CerresponUenee be
tween Mayor Monroe and the
t'rilcral Commander.
Richmond, April 29th.—The following cor
respondence took place between the Federal
Commander, Captain Farragut, and Mayor
Monroe, of New Orleans, on the demand for a
surrender of the city : •
DEMAND or COM. FARRAGUT.
United States Flag Siiif IIsktfokd, /
Off New Orleans, April 20ih, 1 362. 1
To Llix Excellency the Mayor
of the City of Xeic Orleant :
Sir;—Upon my arrival before your city I
Another Nubdtitulc for C’olIVi*.
Editor Telegraph.—As 1 see numerous “sub
stitutes for coffee,” given to the public through
the press, w'U you permit me to add some to
the stock of knowledge on that subject My
“substitute” has the advantage of years of ex
perience, and has proved itself in several case;
within my knowledge a certain cure tor dys
pepsia, vertigo, and similar diseases of th:
stomach and nerves. The substitute commends
itself, too, by its cheapness and the readiness
with which it can he prepared.
About five minutes before breakfast is to be
served, take a clean pitcher—it must be thor
oughly clean—and fill it either from spring,
pump or hydrant, as the case maybe, wit i
clear, fresh, cool water ; place it on the table
or sideboard, as may be convenient. Have for
each person a clean glass tumbler—any kin!
of glass, pressed or cut, plain or fancy, will an
swer, hut it must be thoroughly clean, if
glass cannot be had, tin cups or China will an
swer, but glass is much to be preferred. When
breakfast is served, pour the water from the
pitcher into the tumblers, and let each one pa--
take freely of it during the meal as if it were
coffee. In a week the.substitute will be pre
ferred to coflee, or even to tea, and it will thin
be discovered that coffee and tea are not indis>
pensable to cofhfort or life, but that the use >f
clear, fresh, unadulterated water is better. La
boring men will find this an admirable substi
tute for coffee, tea or spirits, and if u Utile
over fatigued, half an hour or an hour earlier to
bed, will prove the best remedy. The substi
tute, moreover,does away with the use o! sugar.
From years of trial I have no hesitation in
jironouneing it the most economical, readiest
prepared and most healthy substitute for cof
fee. I like a cup ol good real “Mocha” or old
“Government Java”—and even of good Rio—
as well as any one; but if 1 can’t get the real
thing, I like next to it, and it is decidedly more
heallhy-v-a sparkling glass of pure water.
Y’ours, Georgia.
[Special Dispatch to the Mobile Advertiser.]
Corinth, April 26.—Dispatches just received
lrom Tuscumbia convey the intelligence that
Col. Scott, of the Louisiana Cavalry, with the
two companies of Captains Cormon and Camp
bell, drove out a regiment of It e enemy’s in
fantry from that place. In the fight several of
the enemy were killed and wounded, and forty
prisoners taken.
In retreating the enemy burned their stores
ol provision supplies, etc. They were pursued
by the Confederates, but with what final result
is not yet known.
Western papers of dates to the 19lh instant
have been received at this point. They state
that the prisoners captured at Island 111 have
been sent to Wisconsin, except Gen. Makall
had the honor to send to your Honor Captain and others, who have been sent to Fort War-
Hailey, of the United States Navy, and second ren.
• * ' *- J A 1 The N. Y. Herald's Washington dispatches
in command ol the expedition, to demand ol
city
ive of I _
CaDt. IJailev renorted i It was also probable that Congress would take
sell
you Ahe smrender of the city of New Orleans of the 17th states that there are strong indica-
io me. as the representative of the Government | tions of another change in the Lincoln Cabinet.
of the United, Suites,
the result ol his
THE STAMPEDE AT BRIDGEPORT.
Mr. Cowles, who returned to Macon lrom
Chattanooga yesterday, gives a deplorable ac
count of the Confederate stmpede at Bridge-
result of his interview with yoursell and
the military authorities. It must occur to your
Honor that it is no! within the province of a
naval oliicer to assume the duties o:' a military J
commandant. I come here to reduce New Or- \
action to modify the censorship of the press.
Proposals had been issued by the Lincoln
Navy Department for the construction of more
gunboats for the* Mississippi and Gulf service.
The Herald reports that the Confederate stea
leans in obedience to the laws of, and to vindi- i mcr Nashville, with her iitiuc changed to ihe
FORT MACON SURRENDERED.
Wilmington, N. C., 29t’n. - Fort Macon sur
rendered conditionally on Sunday last. A por
tion of the garrison arrived here at twelve-
o’clock last night It is reported that Col.
.White saved all the public papers. The offi
cers were allowed their side arms. Will give
you the particulars as soon as we can gather
them. Seven Confederates are reported killed
and a number wounded. Journal.
More xUbont Fort Mueou.
Wilmington, N. C., 29th.—Fort Macon sur
rendered on Friday, the 25th, and not on Sun
day, after a bombardment from the land batte
ries of ten and a hall hours. The batteries were
planted behind heavy sand banks. The breach
ing battery was 1100 feet < islant; the lnortats
1100, and entirely concealed from Ihe fort—
The garrison were allowed the honors of war,
the officers retaining their side arms, and all
paroled. Seven Confederates were killed and
eighteen wounded, two of them mortally. Fed
eral loss not known. Col. White and 150 ■»
Ins commend arrived oil’ the bar yesterday af
ternoon, on board the Federal gunboat Chippe
wa, and were transierrcd to the river, under a
flag of truce, and reached here as stated in a
former despatch. The others were sent up the
Sound from the fo^t. Journal.
FROM VIRGINIA.
Richmond, 29th.—Timothy Webster, a spy,
convicted by a Court Martial, was hung to-dav,
at Camp Lee, near this city.
Sixteen Yankee soldiers, captured bv Jack-
soil’s command, and eight Unionists, arrived
here this evening from the Valley.
NORTHERN ITEMS.
Norfolk., 29th.—The New York Heraldand
Philadelphia Enquirer, ot the 28th, have been
received. Lincoln was received on the 26th
with all the honors ol crowned heads on board
the frigate Gassandie, at Washington, Count
Mercier present.
A negro from Portsmouth carried the Per
tersburg Express of the 27th to Geu. Wool,
containing the capture of New Orleans.
Chicago papers, of the 27th, state that Beau
regard is evacuating Corinth and is going to
Mutnphi-C Buell and Beauregard effected an
arrangement for the exchange of prisoners.
Bombastes Furioso Boiler is preparing to
advance on New Orleans.
The.Federal General, Charles F. Smith, is
dead from accident. *
THE FORT PULASKI PRISONERS.
Savannah, 30th.—Letters’ received here to
day from the Fort Pulaski prisoners, state that
they are in Fort Columbus, on Governor’s Is
land, New Yolk havbor. All are well and they
say that they are kindly treated by the Fede
ral s,
cate the offended mqjesty of the Government of
the United States. The rights ol persons and
property shall be secured. 1 therefore demand
of you, as its representative, the unqualified
surrender ol the city, ami that the emblem of
sovereignty of the United States be hoisted
over the City Hall, Mint and Custom House by
port, by which a most important gateway to meridian this day; all flags and other emblems
Georgia was opened tn the enetny, and the pos- of sovereignty other than those of the l nited
It is stated that while at Winchester,
“PROVIDENCE IS AGAINST US ”
We regret to hear some use this expression
in reference lo our recent reverses. Northern
ishes his forces.
Times of discouragement, like the present,!
try and discipline a people—test their courage, V aV*Gcn. •• Stonewall” Jacksoh attended the! J ournmLs have said lh * 1 the Lord was on the
patience, endurance, fortitude and patriotism: j * ....
—hold them up to themselves, their children
atiTl the world, as a people of bold and manly
virtues, lit’ for freedom an 1 self-government, or
an effeminate and feeble race unworthy of res
pect. Now, then, is the time to show our-1
selves men.
DISTILLATION OF PEACH BRANDY.
The Republican censures the determination
of Gov. Brown not to permit the distillation of
Peach Brandy this year, and finds in it a ludi
crous inconsistency with his refusal to inter
fere by martial law for the suppression of the
liquor traffic in Macon. Without entertaining
union prayer meetings held there, and led in
prayer several times. Would that we had
more Generals of that stamp.
The Confederate Hospital in XIKacon,
The Confederate Government has established
a hospital for sick soldiers in this city. Not
withstanding a large number of sick soldiers
were sent here with a notice of a few hours,
our energetic Mayor, nssi-ted by the Hospital
Committee, and the whole souied and untiring
ladies of our city, succeeded in making their
quarters at the Floyd House (the hospital) as
comfortable as possible. Too much praise can
not be awarded the noble and ceaseless efforts
bles of alHiction that he may consume
of their nature and purify the gold. He scourg-
elh those who transgress, and set at naught
bis comm&rdments. Chastisements are in
flicted for good. To save the father he some
time takes the son. Our recent reverses are
but the scourges of bis wrath lor our national
and individual sins. One of our first sins is
want of faith. We place too much confidence
in our Generals, our chivalry, our invincible
It | Doughty, of Augusta, the Surgeon in charge, courage, and expect too muck from Foreign
Powers, everything else but a firm reliance up-
tho question of consistency, we think the good I of the ladies, who labored both day and night,
sense and patriotism of the Slate will sustain | lor the comfort and relief of the suffering,
the Governor in suppressing entirely the man-1 Blessings rest upon their head ! Dr. W. II.
ufacture of ardent spirits during this war.
would be a piece of absolute cruelty to society f laboring diligently to systematise the bospi
and to our army to permit the country to be t»l. and has arranged it in different wards. A
deluged with acrid and poisonous liquors at j skilful and energetic physician, we have no
such a time as this, when the temptation to i fears but that the hospital will be conducted
manufacture would hardly be greater than the right. \s yet there have been very few deaths,
material and means of doing it. The stock ol I although many serious cases of pneumonia.
side of the largest cannon. All these expres
sions are decidedly reprehensible. Unite crea
tures as we are, should not attempt to pene
trate the designs of the Infinite.
session ol all our rich mineral deposits of coal,
iron and saltpetre placed in imminent danger.
A guard of about 200 men had been placed
by General Leadbetter on the western end of
the bridges at Bridgeport. These bridges are
two in number, resting for their inner termini
upon an island in the middle of the river, and
' : »'/K' ’i'(iM.'lAy‘tii-'f’iVrti'aVWMlIlgtli'WV.'frw
ral Leadbetter at Chattanooga, that the enemy
was advancing and had driven in the pickets
of the guard stationed at the bridges. Accord
ingly, General L. started for the scene of ac- j
tion with a special train, taking with him rein
forcements to the number of 300 men.
Soon after his arrivakthe enemy approached,
to the number, as was supposed, ol ten to tif-1
teen hundred, and opened fire upon our men. j
An instant stampede followed, in which Genc-
eral Leadbetter led better than anybody else, j
according to the account we have received. | th “ ught pro^VTo" uke oJtTf“re^rd fw‘the
He took to the cars he h:ul brought up with ! lives of women and children ivho still crowd
him, put out and never stopped till he reached this great metropolis, Gen. Lovell has cvacua-
Chattanooga. All the officers, with one excep- * ud with his troops and restored to me the
(Stales to be removed from all Ihe ptblic build
ings by that hour. I particularly request you
will exercise your authority to quell disturb
ances, restore order, and call upon all good
people of New Orleans to return to their voca
tions at once, and I particularly demand that
no person be molested in their person or pro
perty for professing sentiments of loyalty to
their government. I shall speedilyand severe-
tiilt such’ outrages as were wiflVedS^d' ^iSleri'lSJ'
l>y armed men tiring upon helpless women and
children for giving expression to their pleasure
at witnessing the old flig.
I am, very rtispectfullv,
Your obedient servant,
(Signed,) D. G. Farragut,
Flag Officer Western Gulf Squadron.
ANSWER OK MAYOR MONROE.
Mayoralty oe New Orleans, )
City Hall April 26th, 1862. f
To Flag Officer I). Q. Farragut,
U. S. Flag Ship Hartford:
Sir ;—In pursuance of a resolution which he
! administration of its government and the cus-
... - . , , , . , . ! tQ dy of its honor. I have, in Council with the
The men followed in double q tick, throwing city f ather s, considered the demand you made
tion, so far as we have learned, did the same.
J. L. Wragg, had cleared from Nassau for St.
John's, N. B., under British colors.
Skirmishing in front of our lines here at Cor
inth is still kept up.
Beauregard’s address.
The following address to the people of the
Mississippi Valley hasjn.st been issued by Gen.
Beauregard :
“The casualties of war have opened the Mis
sissippi river to our enemies. The time, there
fore, has come to test the earnestness ofa'l clas
ses, and 1 call on patriotic planters owning cot
ton within reach of the .enemy, to apply the
torch to it without delay or hesitation.
G. T. Beauregard.
Fort Pillow is situated eighty-five miles
above Memphis, and is said to be one of the
Tennessee side. It is fortified bv twenty guns
—six rifled cannon, 32-pounders, thirteen
smooth bore, same size, a;id one 11-inch col-
umbiad. The channel of the river is within
one hundred yards of the guns, and no boats
of however light draft, can pass, (say one wri
ting from the place,)-at a greater distance.—
A deep ditch, rampart and fine military road
extend lrom the river front on the right, to the
river front on the led, in the form of a horse
shoe, on the brow of the highest hills,'fully
mounted with heavy guns at the salient angles
-some idea of the extent of which may be for
med by the fact that it wouid require 20,000
men, formed in line of battle, to cover its cir
cuit. In the rear, outside the ramparts, the
woods are not only cut, but stripped of all limbs
for orver five hundred yards—and is again
further strengthened by an almost impassable
morass, which stretches inward and upward of
the river as far as the eye can reach.
“Ills ways are inscrutable and past finding
out.” Ue tries his chosen ones in the cruci- away their arms and accoutrements as they ! of me yesterday, qf an unconditional snrren- A Yankee Life Preserver. A gentleman ex-
the dross ran . But a Captain Cain remained behind, | der of the city, coupled with the requisition to l,] 1 ■
liquors is now running low.and in a little time \
will all be gone. Why should we permit it to
JA8. R. BUTTS CAPTURED.
IV e are sflrry to see from the annexed pnra-
be renewed ? Is there a single good reason why - grmphi j. r. ldsq., an enterprising citi-
it/hould be permitted 2en of Mmcon ,,as been captured by the enc-
He left Macon some three weeks ago, to
CONFISCATED.
my.
The Lincoln House of Representatives have make arrangements to manufacture salt on the
passed a confiscation bill for the benefit gf the Gulf coast of Florida
rebvls. It forfeits the property of all holding Captured.—We have been told that Mr.
office
all
newspapers.
iswirt. iviiviin ana; j'lujiui t_y Ul ail IIUIUIII^ w —" v IUIU mill. r.
See under the Confederate government—of ^ alnes ^ Mutts, of Macon, Georgia, accompa-
I in the military servic!, and of all rebel, “1"“? 'TuT' "T" b ° J '«
.. j . | left at. Marks lor Shell Point a lew days ago
If they whip us out, it is pretty
days ago
n an open boat, and was captured by a boat
certain there will be a good deal of property in i from the blockading vessel off St. Marks. We
I.have not learned any particulars respecting
the capture. — Tallahaxeee Floridian, 26.
the market %t less than cost.
NEW ORLEANS.
It will be seen from the telegrams that New
(irleans is, by last accounts, not exactly sur
rendered, but, so near as we can understand it,
CHARLESTON.
The Charleston Mercury wull calls upon the
people of that city, if they intend to defend
chattering with the Yankee commodore about the place, to be up and doing, and to put two
the terms.
thousand negroes at the dispo»al of Gen. Rip
ley. WJiy not add as many white men ? We
presume it must be evident, about this time
T21 ■m «• “J »>»» o-ta, u
BAD REASONING.
rill have to scatter his forces now . , , , , . , .
-real extent of the territory | ^fended *t got to be a good
e fall of New Orleans, ' “impregnable.” Impregnable f
(nirod by the
on the Great Ruler of Events.
“Faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen.” By faith, the
Israelites, after forty years wandering in the
wilderness, reached the Promised Land, while
the doubting died by the way.
Another cardinal sin is the profanity, intem
perance and Sabbath breaking of our people,
in camp and out of it, so prevalent now. Pray
ing Generals arc always the best; -ditto sol
diers. We are proud to see that Stonewall
Jackson and Gen. Beauregard are true Chris
tians. How can wc expect success while these
evils are not abandoned ?
Faith in God, and earnest and vigorous ac
tion, should characterize us as a people. It may
turn out, in the sequel, that these reverses will
prove “blessings in disguise.”*
“Ye have forgotten the exhortation which
speaketh unto you as unto children ; my son,
despise not thou the chastening of the Lord,
nor faint v.'hen rebuked of Him ; for whom
the Lord loveth he chafteneth, and scourgeth
every son whom he receiveth.
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof
all ai e partakers, then are ye bastards and not
sons.” Let us have Faith and Works.
approached the eastern bri
ll to shelter himself from the
there, whittling shavings from the timber, kin
dge and crept under f 10 ' st , t, ‘ e °f United States on the pub ' f rom a Federal officer who was k
the enemv’s fire audio edltl0e 1 3 and ha “' down the flag that still late battle. It is an excellent s
’mm th. timber’kin 1 “1: I *“>k« ingenuity, and admirably
It becomes my duty to transmit you an answer.
bited to us yesterday, a steel lined vest, taken
killed in the
specimen of
admirably adapted for
the purpose intended—a bullet, sword, or bay-
died a lire with some matches he happened to which is the uriversal sentiment of my con- 1 onct-proof protection to the upper portion *of
have in his pocket, and never left his position 1 ,h * n l j , ,
till the structure was too far in flames to be
saved.
Meantime, when Gen. Leadbetter had arrived
in Chatfanooga, a Gen. Reynolds and a Major . 0
from Virginia (name not recollected), took the d “P la 3 red ,n si S ht ° f iL lam no military man, causing but a slight
A and possess no authority beyond that of exe harmless. lie was aft
train and ran back to BridireDorL ineetinr nunv cuting the municipal laws of the city of New : j n the head. —
stituents, no less than promptings of my own
heart, dictated to me on this sad and solemn
occasion.
The city is without means of defence, and ut-
the body iu battle. Although of considerable
weight, paddedjsprings reaching over the shoul-
, ders cause it to sit easy upon the person, and
it does not in the least impede the movements
terly destitute of force and material that might J 0 I the wearer. A ball had struck the plate on
enable it to resist the overpowering armament the right breast of its owner during the battle
REIN’ UP YOUR SPIRITS.
•Some of our friends look blue—discouraged
—long-faced, but by the grace of Heaven they
will probably live to see more bad fortune than
deal more than
fortifications do
ill also have to abandon the plan ’ not stop the Yankees a day—in fact they are
fct ariniet.^ ^c^atnnoU^ee just the kind the ^ ankees like to take. The j t ias ye t been apparent, and live also to see the
unite ours and march tnitb * S ’ tbu w *'°* e s J' steln ol furls and batte- - Confederate cause triumphant at last. It will
Besides, how ridi r ' es * s an u B er failure against modem guns on j l, e two or three months yet before we can get
ur forces up and down i ’-team batteries. If it is possible to defend an adequate force in the field, and before King
ee Cumberland, Red | anything, will not Charleston give us an illus- j Sunshine onens his nowerful batteries in our
th no Gun Boats and \ ( ra tion
it the enemy. No, leave
jdJiitC'Elephanl” the
W' will give summer hat, made of the straw of the short ' n *' de °f fortune, andduring the winter
' leaved pine, by Miss Shaw,of Monticello, Ga,
' j who is manufacturing a good many of them.
!t is a nice, durable hat, but we who have ac
cess to the long-leaved pine will find it a bet
ter material. * •
tfj
best w;
him ti ouble
our armies be c
1 aliens.—Federal Un
Well anJ good.* W
in the army a long
^leerlully yield to ill
contemporary. Nevemii
the Confederate Generals dlT^adhere to a sys
tern of concentration
bis forces for the purpo;
country, we shall be a g >od deal surprised.— j Buell is not dead at least it is not the
Driving tacks with a sledge hammer will he l^tice, in this part of the country, for dead
j Sunshine opens his powciful batteries,in our
{ behalf in good earnest. Sometime about next
Pine Straw Hats.—We have a very nice August or September we expect to see a turn
in the tide of fortune, andduring
the Lincolnites will make peace. If all this
don’t happen we shall be disappointed.
Where the Old Man is to be Found.—At
the Gayoso yesterday a gentleman entered in-
to conversation with a Missouri soldier. He
„ „ . ,, asked him to what regiment he belonged. “To
Gen. Buell not Dead - n some part of to- the old manV - was ^ , «who is the
day’s paper a statement will lie noticed that old man ?” “Gen.
when the enemy scatters 1 General Beauregard received# letter from Gen. ^ was then inquired,
-pose of overrunning tbe j Buell, on the 19th. We infer from this fact coo’ 1 k , no "_ *J‘ ere
nadom compared with it
men to be writing letters.
, ply ’
Price.” “Where is he ?"
The soldier answered, “I
train and ran back to Bridgeport, meeting many
stragglers on the way, and gathered the arms
and accoutrements which had been thrown
aside. They collected some four or five hun
dred muskets, and a corresponding number ol
knap.-acks, cartridge boxes, blankets, Ac., and
finding tbe briuge burnt, the Confederate force
aH dispersed, and no immediate likelihood of
the enemy’s crossing, returned to Chattanooga
with what they had saved.
The only loss of life in this “brilliant affair”
was said to have been occasioned by a novel
experiment in gunnery. Some of our men had
rigged two pieces of artillery upon a hand car,
and in the act of letting it down the grade to
wards the bridge, the concern became unman
ageable, ran off’ the track, killed two Confede
rate soldiers, and severely wounded two
more.
The stragglers were daily coming in, and
say they ran because the officers all ran, and
left nobody to take command.
Gen. Reynolds was by last accounts trying
to get up a volunteer force to defend the passes
this side of the bridge, which, it is said, could
be easily defended by a small force. Mayor
Smith, of Chattanooga, had been telegraphing
about in the vain hope of arousing the atten
tion of the Confederate officers in that region
to the importance of defending it.
We tell this story as it was told to us, by
one who had the amplest opportunities of get
ting at the truth. It is a record of shame, un
less our informant was altogether misled in the
facts. We learned by private telegram yester
day that the enemy have now possession of
both sides of the river at Bridgeport.
OUR BELEAGURED CAPITAL.
The enemy is pressing on with vast and
splendidly appointed armies to the capture of
Richmond. McClellan has promised to his
people the speedy fall of the rebel Capital, and
the North now regards the event as a foregone
conclusion. What military measures have
been taken by our Generals to avert so great
a calamity, it behooves us not to say; but we
may mention that General Lee, Gen. Johnston
and Gen. Randolph, the Secretary of War, con-
indentation and falling
afterwards killed by a ball
The vest was numbered 18,383,
Orleans. It would be presumptuous in me to showing that thousands of Hie enemy are pro-
teinpt to lead an army to the field, if I had vided with similar articles. We are advised,
one at command, and I know still less how to ' * '
surrender an undefended place, held at this
time at the mercy of your gunners and your
mortars. To surrender such a place were an
idle, unmeaning ceremony. The city is yours
by power of brutal force, not by my choice or
the consent of its inhabitants. It is lor you
to determine what will bo the fate that awaits
us here.
As to hoisting any (lag other than the flag of
our own adoption ami allegiance, let me say to
you, that the man lives not in our midst whose
hand and heart would not be palsied at the
mere throught of such an act; nor could I find
in my entire constituency so wretched, despe-
also, that one Of the prisoners captured was
found to have one of them on, which fact leads
us to suggest that hereafter all captives be ex
amined.
'Ihe utility of these articles was made mani
fest by one of our own troops on the battle field
Discoverirtfe a lallen enemy close to him, he re
moved the mail-vest and applied it for the pro
tection of his own person. A few moments af-
terwaid tie was struck full in the left breast by
a ball lrom the enemy's ranks. He was un
manned, of course—th* invention being all the
designers intended.—Memphis Appeal.
The Wheat Crops.—We are glad to hear
rate a renegade as would dare to profane with 1 from a gentleman of Quitman county that the
his neighborhood have wonder-
his hand the sacred emblem of our aspirations, wheat crops in
Sir, you have manifested gentiments which ’ fully improved
he is now, hut I shall know ; cur in the confident belief that we shall cer-
where to find h;m when a battle occurs, for he . tuiuly beat tbe invading armies in Virginia, and
•will be there, just where the bullets fly thick- that Richmond cannot betaken. We have
est and the Yankees run Qie hardest.—Mem
phis Appeal, 20th.
would become one engaged in a better cause
than that to which you have devoted your
sword. I doubt not but that they spring "from
a noble, though deluded nature, and I know
how to appreciate the emotions which inspired
them. You will have a gallant people to ad
minister during your occupation of this city—
a people sensitive t^all that can in tlie least af
feet their dignity and self-respect Pray, Sir,
do not fail to regard their susceptibilities. The
obligation which I shall assume in their names
shall be religiously complied with. You may
truct their honor, though you might not count
on their submission to unmerited wrong.
In conclusion, 1 beg you to understand that
the people of New Orleans, while unable to re
sist your force, do not aliow themselves to be
insulted by the interference of auch as have ren
dered themselves' odious and contemptible by
dastardly desertion of our cause in the mighty
struggle in which we are engagod or such as
days. He informs us that fields lately badly
affected with the rust, and which farmers ex
pected soon to be destroyed by it, have recov
ered astonishingly, and now promise a good
harvest. This is a very encouraging report,
and 1t relates to large fields, the loss of which
would have been deplorable at this time. We
trust that a similar improvement has been ob
served elsewhere, or very soon will be, and
that the danger of blight to the wheat crop,
lately reported as so alarming, Inay be escaped.
Columbus Enquirer.
Ungenerous and Cowardly.—The officers
and crew of the schooner Beauregard, from
Charleston, captured by the Federals, were
conveyed in chains to Key West On the pas
sage they were fed with felon’s fare, compelled
to remain in a recumbent position with chains
on their hands and feet during the day and at
night were confined jn a bread locker about six
might remind them too painfully that they arc i feet square. The lour officers we treated with
the conquered, and you the conquerors. Peace | special roughness. They were assailed with
and order may be preserved without resort to the most offensive epithets, and annoyed by ev-
measures which I could not at this moment
prevent Y’our occupying the city does not
transfer their allegiance from the government
of their choice to one which they have deliber
ately repudiated, and that they yield simply
the obedience which the conqueror is entitled
to extort from the conquered. Respectlully.
(Signed) John F. Monroe, Mayor.
Reported Killing of a Yankee General.—
ery means at the command of their brutal en
emies. .
Since they have been at Key West they have
been in rigorous durance, fed on the coarsest
food, and watched day and night by heartless
and base fellows, who take a fiendish delight
in aggravating the miseries of their condition.
Deatit of Judge Gkeen.—Our city is again
called upon to mourn the loss of one of its
The Norfolk “Day Book” states that it is cur- prominent citizens. Hon. G. J. Green is
rently reported in that city that General Reno, more! He breathed his last at his residence in
who commanded the party of Federals in their ; this city, on the 21st inst.
raid on the, South Mills, was killed, and th'at Judge Green was a prominent member of the
Col. Hawkins was wounded in the arm. The bar, has formerly presided as Judge of theSu-
that Richmond cannot betaken. We have | report is Said to be from one of the Federal perior Courts in the Flint Circuit; and at the
this encouraging statement from high authori-J prisoners brought up to Norfolk Tuesday morn* time ol his death was the acting Ordinary of
ty.—Cluts. Mercury. J \ng.—Hichmohd Enquirer. 1 Spalding county.—Orijffin Union, 25th.
From the Georgia Weekly.
NO PEACH BRANDY.
By the letter we publish below, it will be
seen that Gov. Brown is down on Peach Bran
dy, as well as on other kinds of liquors :
Executive Departmfnt, )
Milledgrille, April Hth, 1862 \
D. C. Gresham, Esq.
Sir:—In reply lo your letter of the 8th
inst., I am instructed by the Governor to say
that the distilling of peaches into brandy will
not be allowed in this State the present year.
If the lormer Proclamation did not reaeti this
subject, a future one will. I write this in the
absence ol the Governor, hut this is the deci
sion I am -urc lie has come to.
Very respectfully,
11. II. Waters,
S.-c. Ex Dep’t.
The lloynI Vatnilr »f Kaglnad.
From England, since the death of the prince
consort, arc heard rumors which may be taken
as possible shadows of coming events. Tbe
queen is subject to fits of depression, which at
times render it impossible to approach her. It
is well known thut tha Prince of Wales gives
little promise ol filling up the void created by
the decease of his father. His tastes arc of a
low order, and whenever left to bis own devi
ces he is fond of herding with parties utterly
unworthy of him. He is morbidly susceptible
of flattery of a gross kind, and his amours are
more or less of a vulgar character.
Shortly before the death of the prince con
sort it is well known that he visited Cambridge,
but it is not generally known that the conver
sations with tbe Prince of Bales at Maddanly
were of s:o unsatisfactory a nature as to give
him the most serious anxiety. On hi» return
to Windsor he brooded over what bail passe I
to that degree that his physician remonstrated;
and only a short time before liis death he said
to the Princess Alice that the answers he re
ceived from her brother were of a character so
low, so depraved and vitiated, that he feared
all the pains he had bestow ed on his education
would be found to be worse than useless.
It appears there is some woman in town who
exercises great influence over him, and once or
twice the prince stole away from Maddanly un
known to Gen. Bruce, his tutor, to see her.
Upon one occasion he was found out, but not
until the train had departed, when a telegram
was dispatched to Windsor, and the prince
was somewhat surprised to find at the station
waiting for him, one of the royal carriages with
Sir George Gray in attendance to escort him to
the paterfamilias.
The Princess Royal, too, who married the
crown prince of Prussia, has, it appears, been
nnited to a man of dissolute character. Some
time ago her royal highness was said to have
sprained her ankle, when the truth was that
her husband in one of his drunken fits had
kicked her ijown some steps. The Princess
Alice, after her marria-.-e, will live at Frogmore
and as she is supposed to have inherited the
talents and disposition of her father, in a great
degree, she will be a real comfort to the queen.
But it is in the order of human events that a *
turn should occur in the tide of life.
The queen has beeen so remarkably blessed,
her happiness so continuous, her feelings so
untried, that a change seemed inevitable.
Troublous .times are looming in the distance
for her tnd the country she reigns over. Lord
Palmerston is not to be disturbed, I hear, so
long as his health permits him to wield’the
power he holds, so conservatives are pledged
to support him in. any party struggle; but
death or disease may incapacitate limgk> mor
row, and then, with the occupant of thWhrone
in such tribulation, trials of no ordinary nature
may begin.—Paris Correspondmce Xe<r York
Ueraltl.
“3ccesh" Crinoline in Clarksville.
Notwithstanding the presence of the Lincoln
soldiery in Clarksville, they have been unable
to squeece out the patriotism of the ladies of
that city. A correspondent writes us as fol
lows :
Seeesh girls in Clarksville, Tenn, are con
quered but r.ot subdured; lor they have, lidit
under the very noses of their Yankee oppres
sors, fonned themselves into a bona tide com
pany, wellurilled, which they call,-very appro
priately, and doubtless in derision of the well,
known feats of said oppressors, “The Rebel
Masked Battery.” They appear on the street
frequently in complete Confederate uniform,
which consists of rather a short grey dress,
blue stripes do an the sides, coat sleeves, blue
cutis, tight waists, with blue lappels, standing
collars, secession cravats, and the whole pro
fusely trimmed with gold lace and brass but
tons, ad infinitum. Turned^’ up black hats
with a long black feather in front, with a gold
star and white buckskin gauntlets, complete
the dress; deadly pistol and dagger; there are
about seventy-five in the company. The Fed -
erals are on the qui vice to find out where the
young ladies drill, but that they manage to
conceal with woman’s usual strategy. Hurrah
for the Clarksville girls. #
We suggest that the Feds at Clarksville had
“Better let the girts alone.'’
MemphtSfAppeal.