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MACON, FRIDAY, 3 O’CLOCK,
MAY
1862.
GEORGIA AND TIIE CONSCRIPTION.
Wo publish to-day, from an eminent and
highly re.-pected source, the argument in sup
port of the Governor’s course upon the Con
scription Act It is the misfortune of this dis
cussion all round that it js too late. The peo
ple'of Georgia, by their trusted rep resen tat ices
in Congress, were heard upon this question
pro and eon before the bill passed. It is now
a law, and ali the newspaper or popular argu
mentation in Christendom cannot save a collis
ion between Georgia and the Confederate
States, unless the Confederate Govurnn ent
shall direct its enrolling officers to make in
exception in the case of Georgia—disregard
the statute itself, and omit to enroll the e.c-
ernpts ordered by the Governor, there is bound
to be a conflict of force between the two gov
ernments. It the exempts refuse to be enrolled
or refuse duty they are liable to punishment
us deserters. If the enrolling power attem i.-
to inflict the penalty, he will be arrested and
held to punishment by the Governor; and
there, you observe is, at once, as sharp and as
threatening a collision as any Lincolnilc might
desire to see. Nothing can prevent it units-!
the President shall, for the sake of peace, di
rect the partial suspension of the act in respect
to Georgia; but how ho has any power to do
that, is beyond our comprehension. He, too
is sworn to execute the laws—he, too, must
be considered to have constitutional scruples,
and we must contess we do not see the way
clearly out of this muss. It is a bad spot of
eirtli, you may depend; and if a sharp collis
ion arises between the States and the Govern
ment in the first-year of the Confederacy, what
sensible man in the world can predicate any -
thing else of the new Republic than that is in-
deed a farce, w ith no more elements of dura
bility about it that a sewing society or a de
bating club. ^
As we have said, it is too latg, for the nrgu
merit; nqr have we space to go into it. Geor
gia s whole proof of unconstitutionality rests
upon the assumption that the Conscripts and
volunteers in the Confederate service are the
"militia" within the true meaning of the term
in the Constitution ' Now how will he prove
that! Militia, liom the Latin miles, (asol
dier,) and so defined in the Dictionaries, means
u member of an organised body. We there
fore understand the provisions of tl
lion in respect to the rhilitia to reier distinct
ly to that organisation in the States, and so the
Dictionaries understand it—see Webster. Now ,
when men aro taken out of that organization
by draft, conscription or volunteering, rtorgan- j t hy with this gallant and suffering corps, and
ized and tui q.-d over for the service of the Con- the afflicted families and friends of the honored
CONTRABANDS IN THE FIELD.
The New York Times, of the 1st instant,
announces that arrangements are now in pro
gress to reliea e the 1 nion armies from the sum
mer heat and malaria of the Southern Atlantic
and Gulf shores, by substituting in their place
enrolled and armed contrabands, who are to
maintain order iu the Southern cities and guard
the Yankee strongholds on the coast A large
forco is organizing for this object at Port Roy
al, and the Times exults upon the retribution
which will thus lie wreaked upon the traitor
ous Carolinians. New Orleans, Mobile and all
the other coast cities are to be kept in order in
this way, as the Times asserts and believes.—
The matter, he says, is engaging the serious
consideration of the Lineoln government.
1 his is a matter whieh will also engage the
serious consideration of our government and
people. If this insane policy he adopted, the
South will hold as notification that all the rules
and usages of civilized warfare are to be d : s-
carded, and wdkact accordingly. ,
Oiqt.M.—We have been shown a specimen of
opium, pronounced by physicians equal to the
imported, made from the common poppy. The
)uad is gashed in several places, and the exu
dation forms the opium.
fc#“The Infantry Regiments at Griffin have
been allowed to go home on a furlough of twen
ty-five days.
THE 12T1I GEORGIA REGIMENT.
Private Page, of the Muckalee fluards, ar
rived here Friday night with tfie bodies of
Captains Furlow, McMillan and Dawson, and
Lieutenants Massey, Turpin and Woodwaid,
killed in the battle of McDowell. We are in
debted to him through the kindness of Mr.
Harman, of this city, who took the pains to
copy it, for a list of killed and wounded of the
regiment at that fight, and give it below. It is
a v ost melancholy as well as most honorable
record of a corps which will always he known
as the fighting 12th, and which in this, its
third regular pitched battle with the enemy,
led the van and literally bore-the brunt of the
struggle. If the entire loss of Jackson’s force
in tins engageineiTt was only forty killed and
two hundred wounded, as reported by des
patches from the field, we see that, of this num
Constitu- her, the 12th Georgia lost thirty ttilled and 152
wounded, comprehending in their single regi-
: ment three quarters of the sum total of the
j Confederate loss ! This is an extraordinary
j showing All hearts at home bleed in sympa-
federacy, are they “militia !" Who under
stands them to be so ? Do they not thus, sep ;
arated from the “militia” whose organization
still remains—reorganized independently and
turned over to 11 o Confederacy, become a part
of the "army" within the meaning of the term
in •!.«, "— -T
if la," with conflicting organizations?
Rufthe whole argument of Georgia is con
structed upon the assumption that the volun
teers, conscripts and drafted men in the Con
federate service are still "militia," and if they
are u d, then the Conscription Act cannot he
tortured into conflict with any provision of the
Constitution.
Now the practical question arises are alti
constructive Constitutional difficulties of thisl
character to be pushed to the point of rupturej
and disorganization ? Is every functionary ir
the Confederate government to set up his ow
independent idea upon every .question and pu.-l
it to the point of revolulion ? If so, farewel
order and government. We had all better takl
to the woods at once. Is there to be nothing'
of compromise for tie common good ? Then
tlure'11 he no common good at all. You can
not gel a verdict from a petit jury. Rut the
otlicers, you say, are under oath. Is the jury
under oadi. No jury yet w-as ever fully
agreed in all particulars as to law or evidence.
A full agreement is impossible until God shall
make all men in the same exact mould. Rut
in the nature of things juries must compromise,
though under oath, and so there must be com
promises in every department of government
and society, or chaos wdl come again. Nothing
can be done without a disposition to agree.
Is any reflecting and unprejudiced man pre
pared to say that the withholding of a lew mi
ll a otlicers is an object worthy a collision with
the Confederate government at such a time as
this ? If the act lie indeed a trespass upon the
rights and dignity of the State and people, then
why stop with the officers—why not intervene
for the men also ? Whoever saw a militia
company in Georgia where at least one half
of the privates were not as good or better men
and better soldiers than the officer* ?• Why
surrender the ktrnal in a controversy and stick
le for the shell f *
A Xlogimont of Partisan Rangers.
We call spidal attention to the advertise
ment of Col. Joel It. Griffin, for companies to
fill out his regiment of Partisan Rangers. He
offers excellent inducements. Col. Griffin is
well known as a military officer, having com
manded at one time the Macon Guards, and be
ing latterly the captain of the Governor's
Guards, Ga. Regiment- As an evidence of
his reputation, we clip the following from the
Norfolk Day Rook ol the 3d insUm:
Oi'K Second Mokoas.—Captain Griffin, of
the Third Georgia Regiment—whose valiant
deeds at Sawyer's Lane will long be remember
ed—arrived in this city on -Saturday en route
for Richmond.
We learn with pleasure that the object df the
Captain’s visit to Richmond is for tin* purpose
of obtaining permission from the Secretary of
War to rai.-e a company of “Rangers.”
We have heard much of Capt. Griffin at a
dashing, bold and brave man, a man for the
times, and a man that the times require. We
hope therefore thqt iio may succeed in his er
rand, and feci assured that should the company
be formed Capt. Griffin and his men wilPprove
ot great service to the cause in which we are
er. gaged.
Vexatious.—The abduction of that Steam
boat from Charleston js ono of the most uiorti-
Tying and vexatious things wliich ha*, occurred
during the war.* Pray will our officers never
learn vigilance ?
dead ; hut all feel that the regiment has im
mortalized itself—has shed new lustre upon the
hiigbt escutcheon of Georgia, end has set a
glorious example to Georgia volunteers, which
will be emulated to the end of time :
List of Silled and Wounded) 12th Gooriria
Killed.—Company A—-Capt. Dawson, Lieut. haa becn aM don and we
Turpin, T. McLain, Allen Kay, m. II. Grice, *
STERLING PRICE.
The correspondent of the Savannah Repub
lican says ho heard an unusual cheering a short
time ago in a camp near him, and found it to
be occasioned by the return of General Price
with the rear-guard of his army, after an ab
sence of ten or twelve days. His men were
uproarious for joy at seeing him again. Like
all favorites, it seems lie is known among his
men by soubriquets more expressive than re
spectful. They call him “Dad” and “the Old
Tycoon.” The correspondent describes Gen.
Price as a man titty-five or fifty-sfx years old,
six feet high, two hundred pounds weight,
with gtey hair, a round beaming face, full of
kindness and intelligence, frank and hearty in
his manners, and entirely devoid of all pre
tence, swell or military hauteur and stateli
ness. He says:
Ilalleck sent n message to Gen. Price a short
time since, by a gentleman who was passing
the lines. “Tell Gen. Price,” he said, “that he
had the advantage of me in Missouri, for he
knew the country better than I did ; but 1 have
got him now where I want him, and expect to
capture him and whip his army soon.” “When
you go back,” was Price’s reply, “say to Gen.
Halleck that he has not men enough in his
army to capture me. And as to whipping my
boys, tell him he may select 100 of the best
men in his whole army, and 1 will take the
same number of mine as they coinc and with
out distinction. He shall lead his 100 men, and
I’ll lead mine ; and we wdl go into an open
Held to fight it out; and the fate of the South
ern Confederacy shall dppend upon the result
Tell him that, will you ?"
Rut a still more characteristic anecdote of
Price came to our ears yesterday. Shortly af
ter he had joined the army at Corinth, Gen.
Beauregard conducted him round t'ie lines of
the camp and with a good deal of pride exhib
ited and explained the strength of his fortifica
tions. “What do you think of these works,
General Price ?” “Why, General,” answered
Price, “to tell you the truth, I never saw but
two of the kind before, and that was after our
hoys had taken them.”
KEEP COOL.
The disposition among newspaper controver
sialists to use hard names and acrimonious
phrases, is about as common as the controver
sies themselves. Our correspondent, “John
Hampden,” is usually direct and unceremoni
ous in this particular, and thereupon his illus
trious compeer “Sidney" responds in equal ill-
teinper. Rut abuse and denunciation are not
argument, and go for nothing valuable with in
telligent readers. Indeci. they steel the mind
against conviction—excite prejudice and defeat
life very object sought to be accomplished by
the writers. In considering the alleged un
constitutionality of the Conscription Act, it is
by no nuans necessary to assume or to intimate
that the Governor or any body else who asserts
it, is moved by any factious or unpatriotic pur
pose whatever: it will he quite sufficient to
kely to l>e mischievous in its operation. This,
Jas. Kitchens.
Wounded.—Lieut S. G. Pryor, slightly;
Jos. Market, slightly; Sergeant Cbas. S. Dar
by, Sergeant Hiram Crittenden, Thomas J.
Stewart, Henry Ranfoid, O. Selam, leg; Joe.
Sne lgrove, Simmons, S* Y. Allen, Joseph
Batt>, W. Ratts, Jos. Thomas, arm.
COMPANY B, JONKS VOLUNTEERS.
Killed.—Private J. Jackson.
Wounded—Sergeant Crittenden, Corporal
Renftoe, W. M. Green, seriously ; A. Bennett,
seriously; Thos. Rrantly, seriously; James
Mason, seriously; — W hid by, seriously; —
Gibson, seriously ; — May, slightly ; John
Stewart, arm ; James Massingale, head ; Thos.
Childs, head; W. Newby, arm.
COMPANY C, OAYIS RIFLES.
Killed.—Capt. John D. McMillan, Sergeant
R. R , Corporal J. W. ilarroli, W. A. McCarty,
A. II. Y. Hand, W. A. Rrombeloe.
Wounded.—Corporal W. F. Dukes, supposed
mortally; K. D. Weslbcrrv, severely; I>. J.
Schley, severely ; W . II. Lyttle, D. J. Cock,
lighilv; T. W. Brown, slightly ; J. I. Tavlor,
slightly; W. J. Wood, slightly; Thos. Payne,
slightly ; C. J. McDaniel, s ightly; John
Lythe,* slightly ; F. T. Jones, slightly ; J. J.
F.iisterland, slightly ; D. 11. Killibrew.
COMPANY D, CALHOUN RIFLES.
Killed Capt. W. L. Furlow, Lieut. Wood-
aid. Win. II HL
Wounded.—Serg’t Seth Divis, Peter Brown,
C A Mills, N Coleman, M C Rines, O W Cobb,
Thomas Little, F, A Lewis, severely; J W
Lewis, slightly; T J Perry, in leg; J T B Jones,
in shoulder ; J McMath, in hip ; R D Lang,
slightly ; J 0 Johnson, in arm; M C McCail,
s'ightly ; Martin Bass, slightly; E Eubanks, in
chin ; J C CulbrMh, in side; W R Lee, slight
ly ; T J Jackson, in leg ; John Rogers, in
bhouldcr; George N. While, in head; and 9
others in company D.
COMPANY G.—CAPT. DAVIS.
Killed.—C R Reid, E S Davis, E M Williams.
Wounded—Capain Davis, wounded in thigh
severely; Lieut Etheridge, severely; Lieut
Marshall, slightly ; Serg’t Bachelor, severely ;
R H Jenkins, slightly ; Corporal Marshall,
severely ; II R Richardson, slightly ; A Gorley,
severely; J II Bell, severely ; TJ Pearson, se
verely ; W W outfi -r, ivortsl'y ; T C Dismuke,
severely ; S H Thomas, slightly ; J Parker, se
verely ; S Bachelor, severely; 1 J Stubbs, se
verely; J C Ad mis, severely; James Bell,
slightly ; John Little, slightly ; J Dunham,
slightly ; A Walker, slightly.
CAPT. SCOTT’S, COMPANY E, NONE RILLED.
Wounded.—Sergeant Thornton, leg; — Ro
land, side; — Harris, leg; L. Taylor, shoulder;
R. Colton, through both jaws.
CAPT. brown’s, C IMPANY F.
Killed. Collins.
Wounded.—Sergeant Perry, thigh ; Corporal
Britf, arm ; Corporal Webb, side; — Vann-
dow, atjn ; G. Wade, both ar/ns and side; P.
N. Hamilton, hand ; L. Goodwin, severely in
head ; K. J. W alson, hand: B. F. HoUges,
neck ; — Adams, hand.
CAPT. J. o. RODGERS, CC-MPANY
Killed.—Sergeant A. E. Sherwood, W. L.
C. Rogers, Joseph Wilder, William Head, Lt
Massey.
Wounded. Glover, slightly; J. Puckett,
slightly ; — Bulloch, severely ; — Cavenaugh
COMPANY L
Killed.—Capt Patterson, Lieut Goldwire,
— Wilson, —Strickland.
Wounded,—Lieut Briggs, thigh; Sergeant
Zeiglfcr, slight; Corporals Miller and D. -L.
Money, arms; Corporals Renn and J. F.
Trippe, leg ; — Hall, leg ; Fletcher and Cope
land, side; — Parkefand A. Green, thigh ; —
Shannon, back; — Hobbs, back; Stephen*,
leg; Harrell, severe; J. M. Gemy, hand; —
hope correspondents will let the subject pass,
one in which controversy is likely, in the
future, to do no goofr The Governor, we sup
pose, is satisfied he is right, and on the other
hand, is the plain letter of the law. We can
only hope that in the progress of events, some
thing may turn up to mitigate or prevent a col
lision between the State ami Confederate Gov
ernments, which at present appears to he im
minent and inevitable. With a foreign war of
such dimensions and portentous aspect on our
hands, we have no heart for domestic broils of
any kind. Patriotic men, at such a time, can
have but one single purpose—to unite and con
centrate all elements in one harmonious strug
gle for self-defence.
Stonewall Jackson.—A report is copied
from the Lynchburg Republican, which at
tracted our notice several days ago, to the ef
fect that Gen. Jackson had succeeded in cap
turing the entire army of Milrty. We should
have copied it at the time, but for the fact that
no telegrams from Richmond, (with the advar-
tage of nearly throe days later date,) confirm
ed the story, and we were reluctantly forced
then, as now, into utter incredulity.
ATLANTA.
Martial law has been established in Atlanta,
and Col. G. W. Lee, of Wright’s Legion, ap
pointed commanding officer. On Saturday 12
barrels of liquors were emptied into Marietta
street by the soldiers, belonging to the Messrs.
Kile, of that city, for a violation of law in sell
ing liquor to the soldiers. Passports are re
quired, and persons visiting the city had bet
ter call at once on Col. Lee. Persons applying
for ticketa, who are unkmAvn to the ticket
agent, have to present vouchers. Smoking is
not allowed near where the government stores
are kept The military authorities are excr
cising much vigilance in tlw discharge of their
duty. Martial law operates well there.
A DEMDEiiATtM.~Mes-r.-. E. J. Johnston & kroner, arm; - Dougherty, jaw
Co. had on exhibition yesterday, a new and
unique specimen of a water jug, made in South
Carolina. It is porous, and keeps the water
t ool and delicious. In the absence of ice, this
article will prove beneficial, and we are not
sure but that they are far preferable to^he ice.
capt. blandford a company.
Kilted.—Wm. Hutchinson, D. L. Murray.
Cap- Blandford, left arm amputated.
Woundeil,—Sergeant John Park, severely,
left aria ; Jas. Covington, right lung;-A. N.
Mathews, aim.
True account—1&2 killed and wounded.
FROM CORINTH.
With at least forty thousand more men, and
infinitely better means and appliances than
the Confederates, Ilalleck, it seems, is approach
ing the Confederate camp, at Corinth, as he
woull a formidable fortress, entrenching and
mounting heavy seige guns as he slowly bur-
rows his way. This is a silent but forcible
testimonial to the valor and efficiency of our
troops at Shiloh, and tells us more loudly than
words, that they like no such kind of fighting,
and will have no more of it, if heaps of dirt
and long-range cannon can possibly be intro
duced as substitutes.
It remains to be seen how the genius and
valor of the Confederate leaders will meet this
mole-like advance. In cannon, we suppose the
Yanks will have the advantage by almost any
disparity in number and perhaps two miles in
distance; while, if these difficulties were sur
mounted, it is improbahlo that powder enough
could be collected in the * Confederate States to
decide such a tight, at the rate ol expenditure
which the Federals have adopted in their boot,
bardinents. The alternatives remain of a re
treat or storming the Federal lints, or there
may well be others of which we know noth
ing. The result will hardly be developed for i
fortnight to come.
“ FULLER’S SOAP.”
Under this caption, the Church Intelligencer,
Raleigh, N. C., publishes extracts from i! Ser
mon delivered in September last, at Newark,
New Jersey, by Rev. E. J. Stearns, a native of
Maryland. He is a minister of the Episcopal
Church. For this sermon he was compelled
to fly and take refuge in Maryland. It is a lu
cid exposition of Northern character :
God forbid that I should preach to you, on
an occasion like this, against another people’s
sins ! It is such preaching that has brought
us to this pass. The war we are involved in
is God’s judgment upon such preaching. It is
not the preaching of the gospel; its spirit is of
the bottomless pit. God forbid that I should
join hands with such preaching, or have any
symyathy with it We are gathered together
not to proclaim another people’s sins, hut to
confess our own. And they are not far toseeK.
Ihe first is Pharisaism—“Beware of the lea
ven of the Pharisees.” This is the crying sin
ol the North, and it is one which has been
-rowing on us for years, until we have become
not only tinctured, but saturated with it Par
ticularly is this the case with the ministers of
some ol the leading denominations. I speak of
them as a body; there are no exceptions.—
l’hiaty years ag j they preached about the sins
ol^the heathen. How ?. In sorrow, not in an
ger! Why ? To move their people to pity the
nations perishing for lack of vision, and 'send
them the light of the glorious gospel of the
blessed God. And noble was the response to
their appeal, and noble were the results. Now,
they preach against the sins of the South.—
llow, in anger, not in sorrow. Why ? To move
the people to hatred against their brethren. I
am not bearing false witness against my neigh
bor. I speak that I do know, and testify that
I have seen. Their sermons l ave been given
to the world by the daily and weekly press;
scattered to the four winds by papers that
count their readers by tons of thousands, some
ol them by hundreds of thousands. I have
read these sermons by scores, and they fully
bear aid out in my assertion. Charity itself
can say nothing else of their language than
that it is not only calculated, but intended to
set the North and South by the ears ; to exas
perate the one, and add to the selfishness of
the other. These men are not fools ; they know
well that Pharisaism, though it has made con
verts to itself, never yet made a convert to
Christianity. And yet they continue, year af
ter year, to flaunt their owu righteousness and
their neighbor's sins in the face of the cumtnu
mty, till now you can scarcely meet a North
ern man who does not cooly assume the supe-
aiority of the North over the South in every
thing that is “true,” and “honest,” and “just,”
and “pure,” and “lovely,” and of “good re
port.” I myself have metwith more than one,
or two, or three, such instances in this eongre-
tion ; instances, not of a feeling of personal
superiority, hut of a most comfortable con
sciousness of belonging to a very superior com
munity. Why even your children are full of
it, and running over with it To me, who know
both parties of the country thoroughly, who
know that, while each has its virtue, each its
faults, nine tenths of all the infidelity, nine-
tenths of all the divorces, nine-tenths of all the
bribery of electors and legislators, is at the
North All this would he provocative of a smile
were it not for the terrible calamity it has
the South only, tb:U thi.s~l%ii&‘iiNrire;i > .!. 1, ' nue '
tested itself: it sticks out (its a homely phrase,
but I know of no other that will express th(f
truth so forcibly) in our bearing as a nation to
ward other nations, in which, though the South
has heretolore had its share, yet the Noith has
been held mainly responsible, to the extent
even on the part of those nations, of turning
the word “Yankee” from a provincial into a na
tional appellation.
At the breaking out of our present difficul
ties, we were on the verge of a war with Peru.
Who believes that for such a cause we should
have gone to such an exttnt if it had been
France, or even Spain ? Who believes that
if Mexico had been our Northern neighbor,
instead of England, we should have consented
to a compromise boundary line from the Rocky
Mountains to the Pacific, or that having after*
wards Dikcn possesion of a disputed island, we
should, at her instance, have withdrawn from
it the greater part of our forces, and to await
further negotiations. And these aro but spe
cimens. Our “offense is rank.” It has “made
us to stink” in the nostrils of the nations, and
now, that the day of our retribution is upon
us, very naturally they laugh at our calamity,
and mock when our fear cornetb.
Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which
is hypqcrisy. * * * *
• And as it was in the time of our Lord, so is
it ir. our day : if Pharisaism and hypocrisy
went together then, they go together now.
1 have already spoken of our Pharisaism;
now for a few instances of our hypocrisy.
A merchant ship of ours took license to dig
guano from the temporary revolutionary au
thority of a petty port in Peru, and was seized
by the legitimate government for violating its
revenue laws ; whereupon we demanded re
dress for the seizure, and threatened war in
case of refusal, thus recognizing as de Jaeto a
government that extended only over a mere
corner of the country, and so ephemeral that it
lasted, if 1 recollect aright, but a few days ;
and yet when England and France recognized
merely as a belligerent the Confederate States,
embracing nearly one third of the whole num
ber, and in most of which there had not been
for months previous, and wire not likely to be
for months to come, any courts of law or effi
ccrs of justice, of the United States, to execute
its behests, we cried out with most virtuous
indignation against the recognition as an out
rage upon our nationality.
We denied the right of a nation to blockade
its own ports, when it was the king of Naples
that was to exercise it; but when it is we that
are to exercise it, oh, then it is quite another
matter.
In the war of the Revolution, our privateers
swarmed upon the ocean, proving themselves
a very important and effective agency in the
acquisition of our independence, and from that
time down to the beginning of the present war,
we have recognized privateering as a legitimate
mode of warfare, having, not five years ago,
deliberately refused to consent to its abolition,
except upon terms, the acceptance of which
would reheYe us of all further need of it; but
nyw, forsooth, it is pira-y, and we threaten to
hang at the yard arm those who are taken in it
Soon after the breaking out of the war, t
leading Northern journal, whose editor was in
the confidence of the government, recommend
ed the stirring up of a negro insurrection, and
there were plenty to approve the recommenda
tion ; now it is reported that the South has
taken into its service a regiment of Indians—
not the wild Indians of the forest, but the civ
ilized Indians of the Indian Territory—and we
cry out against it as an act of barbarism.
An officer of the United States marches into
an enemy’s city, in time of war, enters a pub
lic house, goes up to the roof] and strikes down
a flag that the landlord has put upon it; as he
comes down the stairs, the landlord, against
overwhelmingodds, and at the certainty of los
ing his own life, waylays and kills him, and
that is assassination. A negro is taken pris
oner, with others, by a privateer; watching his
opportunity he steals upon the officers and
kills them in their sleep, andthat is heroism.
For months, we have been most vehemently
asseverating that the war we are waging is not
waged against the social system of the South,
and have been most virtuously indignant at the
and Journals; now, a General of our own,
proclaims freedom to the slaves of “rebels”
nine tenths of the whole number—and we en
dorse the proclamation, and cry out against the
l’rcsident for modifying it. • -
For years past, we have been reproached
with our responsibility for Southern slavery,
and we have declared that we wished the Souih
would withdraw from the Union, but there
was no such good news ; that she couldn’t fc-e
kicked out I, my sell, have heard this language
from scores oi respectable Northern men ; for
respectable men don’t always use respectable
language. Now that she lakes us at our word
and relieves us of our responsibility in the
way of our own choice, and the only possible
way, we won't be relieved of it.
For years, we have been f witting the South
with being a bill of expense to us—so we have
facetiously termed it—fur her post offices, cus
tom houses, etc. The stomach, l believe, is a
biil of expense *o the hands and causes them
a good deal of hard work. Now that she is
ready to shoulder the burden, or rather, has
Reason why the Virginia vi from a
The Richmond Enquirer of trican i
the following statement, which ? argmnt
ered satisfactory: erican n
lt had been determined that
after the evacuation of Norfolk, s?. L
brought into the James. Commodore’ ,
kter commander, was requested by Gen Huger
to protect him on the water side while he re
mained in Norfolk, with the promise that twen
ty hours notice of the time of tho intended
evacuation should be given. The .Virginia ac
cordingly lay at Sewell’s Point. The tnacheiv
ol Byers, who carrie ) over the Confederate
tug-boat A. C. White to the enemy, revealed
also thesiismantled condition of Norfolk, and
precipitated the coming of Wool’s troops and
the departure of ours. The evacuation was
thus effected not only without the promised
notice to Commodore *Tatnall, but he was not
aware of it until it was completed. An officer
who was sent from the ship to Norfolk to com
municate with Gen. Huger, nnrrowrl^WSjVli
shouldered it, we saddle ourselves with anoth- I & Commodora TVtn^n *L* nds * . , ,. ,
ItSrdT w “ b “ ,y -•“>*; “
tlW-r )( p nri(l OLllt-r V al........t l.
or and member of the bar, then aiultiplie-
zen, addressing a meeting of bis f» improvd
took exception to one of the wa(^j ncs 0 f
hour, “The Union, the Consti no f eari
enforcement ot the laws." La, i moel
made, he said, to be enforced agaapjq’ n ,
nity, but only against exception . we
transgressors. This sentiment v. U-.,
a few weeks after, by 106,000 Nortben?
men. Now, this same Governor is first among
the foremost to enforce them at the cannon’s
mouth, and the 106,000 say amen.
Destkoyiso Cotton in the Southwest.—The
be lighM he is
twent^o pu
* Satiates iu
Corinth correspondent of the Republican aav/rf- n c ,,
May 12th: Km.
tor and other iion-clads,) and attempt to
“;York River—the other was to carry out
pose of entering the James,
latter still seemed most eligible, and was
ined upon. Meanwhile, difficulties had
osed. The treachery of Ryers had caused
e enemy to send gunboats up the James the
same day. They *, ere also fully aware of the
intentions of-tl>“. Virginia. arJ nfOu^wed to ob
struct th*cled amf lettered, put ot1
The p beaten with more stripes, »!nia should
aught from
• own dof Jstic
Federal Opinion of Gen. Price.—It is rela
ted of some of the prisoners confined at Camp
Oglethorpe, that they have expressed the fol
lowing opinion of*Gen. Sterling Price : “He
is a great General. He never fights until he J alleged) studied and persistent misrepresenta-
gets ready, and he is always ready." tions o( our purposes by Southern Generals
\\ e have the most gratifying intelligence from
the Mississippi, Red, Arkansas, White and St.
Francis livers. It is reported that the pla;>' J. v(ti _tR-;o reti
ers on the Mississippi, for twenty mik presence of a
fro.n the river, have destroyed'aH'fF '-acorn- I . one
and that the planters on its trftu’ia. ! tae *f | Ffti-i
named are following their patriotic example.—|
TP Occupation of the Father of Waters, there-
fotv!*w111 bring the enemy but little profit. He
bas^ipened the greatest cotton port in the
wQj-j Jl, and yet he gets no cotton. This is not
a’J ril -be people in the great valley of the Mis-
I d ippi have planted very little cotton —but
Iu-ie more than enough for their i
purposes.
From New Orleans.—The Mobile Advertiser
has dates to tho 8th, but nothing important.—
The Federals had destroyed one span of the
bridge at Pass Manshac, on the New Orleans
and Jackson Railroad. Sixty deaths have oc
curred among their troops. In general, their
course towards the citizens had been character
ized by circumspection and courtesy. The
correspondent says:
I was much surprised in the appearance of
the Yankee soldiers; I had expected to sea
them laughing and rejoicing; instead of which
I found them a vary sad and dejected looking
set of men, and don’t remember seeing a smile
on the countenance of one. They seem to have
no spirit, and to be fearing death or disease all
jthe tune. i__
We are permitted to publish the following
extract from a private letter received in this
city:
Roeweli, Ga., May 1C, 1862.
I The Pickery at the New Factory was burnt
or! o’clock this morning. Without a
doubt, it was set on fire by Yankee hands or
Yankee money—as there is never a fire or light
in tho room in which the fire broke out, and no
machinery in that room. A match must have
been worked in among the cotton bags. The
calamity is a very serious one for the opera
tives, who are thrown out of employment by
it; for, although the Factory itself, within
twelve feet of tho Pickery house, is uninjured,
yet tho Pickery being destroyed, the Factory
must stop, except so far as the old Factory is
able to supply the deficiency,'which will he but
partial.—Augusta Constitutionalist.
The recent exploit upon the State Road
should satisfy our people that the utmost vigi
lance is necessary for the protection of all pri
vate and public property important to the
prosecution of the war. We learn verbally, in
this case, that the incendiary was detected in
the person ot one of the operatives.
NORTHERN MENDACITY.
The Richmond Dispatch says the whole
Northern press just now is a “freshet of lies”
about the recent fight- in Virginia. The Whig
gives a sample brick as follows :
We have been politely afforded an opportu
nity of looking over the New York Herald of
the 9th and 10th. They arc premium speci
mens of extravagant mendacity. As a speci
men to begin with, we give the following tele,
gram from a high officer of tin- Regular Army
of the United States :
DESPATCH FROM (JEN. MARCV TO DR MARCY.
Williasisbcro, May 8, 1862.
Dr. E. E. Marey :
General McClellan, on the fiih inst, had a
most decisive victory.
Only about thirty thousand of our tropes
irere engaged against. fifty thousand of the best
\rebel troops.
Our men fought most, val antly, and used the
bayonet freely, which the rebels could not
gland. They fought well until they felt the
cold steel, when they took to their heels and
ran like hounds, leaving their dead, wounded
and sick upon our hands.
Joe Johnston lod them in person.
They have lost several of their best officers.
R. B. Marcy.
Each separate sentence in this despatch, ex
cept perhaps the last, is a separate falsehood,
and some of them arc “whoppers." Instead
of Gen. McClellan’s gaining a victory, he gain
ed a repulse, which he has himself confessed
was on the Verge of becoming a second Manas
sas rout Instead of his thirty thousand hire
lings being met by' fifty thousand Confederate
troops, they were met by eight thousand. In
stead of the Yankees using the bayonet, they
fled before it “Joe Johnston” did not lead
our troops. So much for the veracity ol even
the West Point Yankees. The statements we
make are upon unquestionable authority.
Mobile, 15th.—The special correspondent
of the Mobile Advertiser, in a despatch dated
Corinth, May 14th, says :
I have yet no general engagement to report,
though the position of affairs is sucti that one
mav bfc'brought on at any moment.
We have had considerable Skirmishing for
some days past, without any important result
The Confederate scouts captured one hundred
and fifty beeves belonging to the onerny to
day. We have also captured seventy prisoners
near Paris. . ’
New York papers, spirited over the line, con
tain European accounts to the 27th ult The
London Times considers the check of the Fed
erals at Shiloh as equivalent to a Conlederate
victory. • B
The steamer Tubal Cain had left Liverpool
for Nassau with a heavy cargo of arms and
ammunition.
The Times sees nothing in reserve for the
negroes but slavery, extermination or expul
sion from the South.
Alread’s paper will soon appear in London
to advocate the Confederate cause.
hor escape
should make
Condition of things
that the westerly
__ water in the river,
ando|H9P|^HFTowness of the tide, that they
coura not unJmake to carry the vessel up the
James. Why they reserved this communica
tion to such an hour needs explanation.
Tho condition of the ship was now such as
to render the other courge at first entertained,
as an alternative, a simple folly. Nothing re
mained in the judgment of the commander but
to destroy her.
At two o’clock on Saturday night, she was
run ashore near Craney Island, and the crew
Commenced debarking in two small boats. At
three they were all on land, and commenced
their march to Suffolk. On leaving they fired
the Virginia. At five she blew up with a tre
mendous explosion. The crew bent their
course towards Suffolk, twenty two miles dis
tant, which point they reached at one o’clock
on Sunday afternoon. They there took train
for Petersburg, whence some of them have ar
rived in our city.
The Virginia was provisioned for one month;
and but for the bourse induced by tho pilots,
might have remained longer afloat, and taken
the chances of escaping or hewing her way
through the enemy’s fleet But tile offer to
take her up the James if the draught were re
duced to eighteen feet, caused the virtual ili—
ol the water rendered it impossible to bring
her up with the dispatch requisite under the
circumstances, the escape of her crew from the
fast inclosing lines of the enemy, who were al-,
ready at Pigs Point, allowed no waste of tim.
in her destruction.
tion
gima:
• The General Assembly of t
having resolved that the. (
shall by defended to the last extrej
defence is in accordance with thq
President ol tho Confederate Stat
declared that whatever destructiv
property of State or individuals
mittedhtudhAwnu imni&d.juff
Rlj ii wove «’ ^
Executive, Therefore 1 do
officers who are out of servil
and all others who may be i
defending the Capital of this Statu
ble this evening at the City Hall, at)
and proceed forthwith to organize mto
Prompt and efficient action is absq and
saiy. We have a gallant army
on whom we fully and confiding in the
no effort should be spared wh r comme J
buto to the noble object
Virginia must not be surrenders.
must rally to the rescue. (MOl
Given under my hand and sea#
monwealth, at Richmond thi j
May, 1862, and in the 8611c,
Common weal tb.
[Signed] Jon:. Let
In accordance with this proclamation^
•assemblage met at City Hall. A
prevailed. Brief «uWresse*_JJ£T(ynad cail
Letcher and Mayor Hayio, in which bej
ed they would never surrender the
announcement was received with loq
ing, and resolutions were adopted
ganization of regiments of volunteers repull
the city.
The latest reports from the river stai t
tlie Monitor and Galena were steaming
the river.
THE STEAMER PLANTER.
Our community was intensely agitated Tues
day morning by the intelligence that the steam
er Planter, for the last twelve months or more
employed both in State and Confederate ser
vice, had been taken possession of by her color
ed crew, steamed up and boldly run out to the
blockaders. Tho news at first was not credit
ed ; and it was not until, by the aid of glasses,
she was discovered lying between two Federal
frigates, that all doubt on the subject was dis
pelled. A great variety of rumors and surmi
ses were circulated in reference to the parties
concerned, and the number of fugitives o:»
board the steamer. The most authentic par
ticulars that we could gather are as follows. -
Between 3 aud 4 o'clock, Tuesday morning,
the steamer left Southern Wharf, having, it is
supposed, on board five negroes, namely, three
engineers, one pilot, and a deck hand. Upon
leaving the wharf the usual wharf signal was
given by those on board, and the usual private
signals given when passing Fort Sumter. The
officer 6f the watch at the latter post was call
ed, as usual, but observing the signal and sup
posing all right, allowed her to proceed. She
ran immediately gut to the blockading vessels.
The Planter had on’board four large guns
destined for one of our new fortifications, and
were as follows : one rifled forty-two pounder,
lately put in splendid condition at the Foundry
of Eason k Brothers, and said to be a splendid
piece; two eight-inch Oolumbiads, ami one
thirty-two pounder. In addition to these, she
had on board her own armament, which con
sisted ol one thirty-two pounder and one twen
ty-four pounder, making six guns in all taken
out to tho fleet.
The Planter was a new high pressure steam
er, belonging to Captain John Ferguson. She
was regarded as one of the fastest boats in the
harbor, and very valuable for river Service, but
unfit for sea work. Three of the negroes who
left also belonged to Captain Ferguson, one to
Mrs. Michel, and one to Mrs. McKee.
There are rumors of others having gone, who
were missing from the city yesterday, but for
information on this point we suppose we must
await the next arrival ot Northern news lrom
Port Royal.
The Planter was observed alongside of the
fleet yesterday afternoon, and from appearancea
it was supposed that one of the I ederal gun
boats was engaged in removing the arms from
her deck. Such afe the material facts so far
as we have been able to gather them in rela
tion to this extraordinary occurrence.
Cfuis. Courier.
How “Contrabands” Fare in New \okk,
—A New York letter says:
A “real live contraband” was discovered,
half starved, in an alley this morning, endeav
oring to make a breakfast on sonu»garbage ly
ing in ft box on the sidewalk. Upon being in
terrogated, he said he was from Loudoun coun
ty, "Va., and that he had been induced to leave
his hotqe by a Massachusetts soldier, who told
him he would have plenty to eat and wear and
nothing to do when he goyNorth. The soldier
put him on the train for Philadelphia, and when
he reached the latter place some kind “friend”
told him te “follow the railroad track” and he
would reach New York or Boston, where he
would be looked after. The “ dark” arrived
here on Sunday night, completely fagged out.
He called upon some of his free “colored breth
ren” and asked for food and lodging, but they
indignantly refused to have anything to do with
him, and he was forced to sleep out of doors
and eat whatever he could pick up in tho gut
ters. The darkey is quite a young fellow—
about twenty yeiirs of age—and gives his name
as Bill Anderson. He was owned by a gentle
man named Wilcox, who resided in Baltimore,
and says he was always well fed and kindly
treated by his master. The “contraband ’ has
keen taken care of by a benevolent gentleman,
who has eft gaged him as a Servant. He is very
indignant at the soldier who induced him to
In consequence of the pressure upon the I
egraph lines Thursday night, the following i
not received at this office :
FROM* RICHMOND.
Repulse of the Terrible Iron Clad Gunboats—
The Galena Fired—Retreat of the Remain
der— Our Men in High Spirits.
Richmond, May 15.—The following intelli
gence is posted on the bulletins of the newspa
per offices of this city: “This morning about
8 o’clock, several Federal gunboats, two of
them supposed to be the Monitor and Galena,
epeni d lire upon our batteries at Wilton, at a
distance of about five hundred yards. The en-
eiuv fired with crest raniditv and violerc-e-•»
Galena, and the other gunboats have retired
down the t iver.
“Our los. is four killed and eight wounded.
The Galena as on fire when she retired. Our
troops are iu nigh spirits and confident of suc
cess.”
l.n r i. ‘’orinlh aud Richmond.
Mobj'.k, lO.i The special correspondent of
tho Mobile Advertiser at Corinth di spatche s ah
follows:
Cokistu, May loth.—The Missouri Repub
lican corf tains particulars of the capture of
New Orleans, and editorially considers i tie
Coni' derate cause *gone with the loss of that
place.
A despatch from Nashville to the Republi
can (St. Louis) says that Morgan had a narrow
escape at Carthage, northeast of Nashville, on
the Cumberland river. lie escaped across the
riv^r with twenty men—his remaining lorco,
180 men, being made prisoners.
On the 8th instant, 150 sick and wounded
Federals of Halleck’s army were shipped from
Pittsburg Landing to St Louis!
The Missouri river had fallen two feet in the
last twenty-four hours.
The London Times of the 23d ultimo says
that the battle of Shiloh had given grounds
for more apprehensions than hope in the
North.
Nothing new in the warlike n—vements of
the enemy this evening at Corinth. Ilalleck
still persisting in his threatened advanc- —
Sixty-one paroled prisoners sent off t. j.
The escort which accompanied them found the
Federal pickets within four miles of Corinth.
Richmond, 16th.—The city remains very
quiet to day. Business suspended in accord
ance with the President’s Fast Day proclama
tion. The Federal gunboats have gone down
James river below City Point.
Richmond, 17th.—Mrs. J. McCord Vernon
died in this city, to-day, alter a hrief illness. ^
She had taken an active part in the movement
to build an iron gunboat, and was Correspond
ing Secretary of the Ladies’ De'enco Associa
tion. [Mrs. Vernon was a native of Georgia ;
at one time she published a magazine in New
Orleans, and had acquired the reputation of be
ing a woman of genius and 1 i'entry ability, j
FROM THE WEST.
Mobile, 19th.—A special despatch to the
Mobile Advertiser, from Corinth, 18th, says
that Capt Avery, of the Georgia Dragoons, ,
successfully penetrated the Federal lines two
nights since, and discovered that the whole
Federal army was moving from the river upon
our position, fortifying as they advance, and
bringing siege guns of immense size. A con
siderable movement was made by the enemy
on our right last night .
One of Col. J. II. Morgan’s men, who arriv
ed last night, reports that Morgan lost 20 kill- #
ed sind wounded, and 40 prisoners, &t the tignt
at Lebanon, Tenn. Morgan’s force killed (TO
Federals and captured 140, but were compelled
to retire, as a heavy Federal lorce wjs Near r yj l
-i- .1 Morgan’s
coming up to attack them,
men aro coming
. DR. C. B. GAMBLE.
We are sorry to learn that our fellow citizen.
Dr. C. B. Gamble, was taken prisoner in the
Monday’s battle at Shiloh. He might have es
caped, had he consulted his own personal safe
ty but acting from, a noble sense of duty, he
remained with his wounded, and was captured
along with them when the hospitals were taken
by the enemy. For sometime his fate was some
what uncertain, hut we have the satisfaction ot
knowing that he is well and has permission
from the enemy to return to our »n«y, at any
moment, but he prefers remaining with our
5SS^ , 5gg»= p —' SBSE W-
cases daily transpiring in this city. 1
