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MACON, FRIDAY, 3 O’CLOCK, P. M, OCTOBER 24,1302.
Yolume XXX V11.—X (>. 4
THE CORN COMBINATION.
Wc are informed that at a meeting of the
Twiggs county planters, day before yesterday,
at Marion, the subject of the combination to
raise the price of Corn was taken up., but found
no friend or advocate in the meeting. We arc
glad old Twiggs has turned the back of her
ham) and the sole of her foot on that idea.
J-j;.’* The light begins to dawn in the West
It will be seen by reference to our telegraphic
column that our forces has given the enemy
in Kentucky a terrible thrashing.
MODERATING.
When the gauntlet of vindictive and unspar
ing war was lit st thrown to the South by the
gn at New York war meeting of April, i861,
the speakers at that meeting declared that
nothing should save the hated race of the South
(rum entire destruction. They had passed the
last boundary of human pity, and hencefor
ward nothing remained fur t lein hut the coil
and the knife. Greeley, however, in bis next
day's* paper said the North might pardon us, if
wo would come down on our knees at once,
with halters round our necks, and beg for mer-
cv. (We hope, one of these days, when this
war has blown out its horrid rage, somebody
will reproduce the proceedings of that meeting
and the contemporaneous com incuts of the
New York press, tor the edification of the
world.) We allude to it now, merely to say
that it has pleased Horace Greeley, in his sov
ereign power and mercy to relax the rigor of
his ong nal demand. He is willing to take
less. He will dispense with the rope and pros
tration, ai
the slimy embrace i
tor w tin Wit a wrd
oouie. All we liavi
Colne. The
uttered, cf ci
not out of a
.o come, ot
Mr. Greeley
e us hack again to
feral boa constrtc
if we will only
IS that we will
more,
welcome us
upon our coining, but lie even holds out the
idea that a e can take the highest seats at the
Federal tabic, and get any bill of fare we may
choose to ask lor. Think, of that 1 He says
we could havegot securities in IStil, although
every mtuili r of the dominant parly in Con'
gress refused them—although the whole party,
from Wilson to Lincoln, would give us no bet
ter security than Wilson’s heel on the South
ern neck. Ah, you precious black republican
villains, why do yotl talk reason now, except
you begin to despair of accomplishing your
netaiious schemes by force? Ihe New York
Tribune says:—
Whenever the Rebels really desire a peace
as we think they very soon will if they do
not already they have but to notify the Gov
ernment ibat they are ready to return to loyal
ty, and to that end have abrogated ill ordi-»
nances, acts, and oaths of allegiance mconsis
lent therewith. President Lincoln would there
upon l'eel warranted, we doubt not, in issuing
a Proclamation of Amnesty, inviting the States
lately in rebellion to elect members of Con
gress as it no rebellion bad existed. I be Re
bels wouid need no Iurlber assurance ot immu
nity ; their friend.-t ot the Yallandigham per-
suasion would guarantee them a practical as-
tendency in the House, if tint in the Senate
also, an.I thus shield them from all serious
Harm. And, it lliev should choose to have a
Convention to revise the Federal Constitution,
we have no d- ubt that this wou d be easy of
attainment, though we should prefer to have
110 stipulations on the subject. They might
have bud one without objection in 16>G 1 ; they
can have one without stipulation 111 1868. Rut
true and sufficient basis of immediate peace is
•*l'be Constitution as it is.” Man can devise
no belter.
ON STRAGGLERS.
Some days ago, our friend Kenan vented his
honest and patriotic indignation on stragglers
from the army ; hut the people have little idea
what a vast evil this is, aud the necessity for
those stringent measures—that iron rule—for
which Bragg has been severely attacked in the
Confederate Congress—a rule which does not
operate against good and faithful soldiers, but
is designed for their protection—to prevent
them from being sacriticed, and the reputation
and character of the army destroyed by the
unprincipled and unworthy. From the private
letters we have heard read, the amount of
skulking in the army, 111 times of danger, is
much greater than our people are aware. Gen.
Lee is believed to have declared that if the
stragglers from his army had been in their
place at Sharpshurg, he should have ruined
McClellan. When we read in letters, of 00m
panics reduced to less than a dozen men upon
the opening of a tight, and swelled in a few
days thereafter to thirty or forty—when we
read, as we olten do after a light, that in spite
of the great losses in killed and wounded, the
army is “stronger than it was before"—we see
how a double duty and exposure are devolved
upon the heroes w ho go into the fight and how
much more than mere numbers they count
when they fall. They are the reliable men,
while many go through a campaign, but arc
evepmissing when the tug of war comes. We
see the necessity of stringent measures of di
cipltnc—we see that they are not dictated by
the mere love of arbitrary power, but demand
ed for the protection of the good soldier ard
♦he safety of the army.
THE NEYVS.
The news in yesterday’s and to day’s issue is
lively. It seems to justify a strong confidence
that Gen. Bragg has achieved a great victory
over the Federal hosts in Kentucky, although
the dispatches, in general, have been to some
xtent contradictory aud unsatisfactory. One
thing is clear, however, that under the general
influence of the news from Kentucky gold in
New Y'ork went up five cents in two days—13th
and U’.h. The last is our latest date from Goth
am- -the 14in at noon. We look with much
eagerness for turthernews from our side, but if
Bragg is, as represented, in vigorous pursuit of
the enemy, it may he a week before we get the
linale. Oh lor one of those grand Napoleonic
victories, wtncli totally annihilated the enemy.
That would count. But we suppose the day ol
such achievements is passed.
What shall we say of the New York demon
stration and John Van Buren’s speech ? It
would have been applauded in Macon, and is
the first peace demonstration since the begin-
F. P. Holcombe, Esqr.—We are pained to
learn that Mr. Holcombe committed suici.t*; at
his plantation, in Macon County,' last Sunday
by blowing out his brains. We learn that at
noon last Sunday Mr. Holcombe called from the
doorofhis house upon a servant and while the
latter and Mr. Holcombe’s overseer were ap
proaching the house in answer to the summons
they heard the report of a pistol, and upon en
tering the house found Mr. H. in the agonies of
death. Mr. Holcombe was widely known in
Georgia, principally as an eminent civil engi
neer, in which capacity he projected the South
western Railroad, and at the time of his death,
was engaged on the Savannah and Gulf Road.
He was a native of Delaware, a man of energy
and business talents—highly esteemed bx^U
who knew him and had accumulated a large
fortune in a comparatively short space of time.
He was a widower and without children. Va
rious conjectures have been made as to the
cause of the act which terminated his life, but
from some occurrences of a recent date, which
have come to our knowledge, we have not the
shadow of a doubt that he was insane.
Connecticut Election.—As the teturns from
the town elections in Connecticut come in they
continue to exhibit large democratic gains.—
Thus far the vote shows that forty six have
gone democratic, twenty eight republican and
fourteen fusion. Last year sixty-four of the
same towns went republican ami twenty four
democratic.
The Lavergne Prisoners Exchanged.—The
prisoner^ captured by the Federals in their
late raid on Lavergne, have all been exchang
ed, with the exception of Lieut. Col. Harry
Maury, of the 3‘2d Alabama, who is still too
sick to be moved. As soon as he is strong
enough, we understand, he will he allowed to
rejoin his regiment, which is at present at Mur
freesboro.
The returned prisoners are lavish in their
praises of the Southern people of Nashville,
particularly the ladies, who greeted them with
cheers as they were marched- through the
streets, and many, when the column would
halt, would rush out of their homes and throw
their arms around the necks of the poor fel
lows and give them every token of their admi
ration and. sympathy in the cause in which
they ^ captured. God bless their dear
Juruly sympathise wi‘h them in their
pres? i^J^osition. . We still hope to hear of
their early riddance of the fin in their midst
At the same time we cannot but express
thankfulness that they have not a Butler to
try his way of repressing such demonstrations,
however tyrannical their ruler may otherwise
he.
The boys say they were not allowed to
spend a cent of money in Nashville, hut what
ever they wanted was freely given by the citi
zens and merchants. The latter saying they
were perfectly willing to take Confederate mon
ey from any good Southern man except a
prisoner of war, from whom they would take
nothing. What a commentary on some of the
Shy locks throughout the Confederacy.—Chat
tanooga Rebel.
Wendell Philips gives the following
opinion of the President’s emancipation proc
lamation :
“God demands justice; the President otters
to compromise by giving the Lord a note pay
able in ninety days, provided that bis efforts to
suppress the rebellion do not succeed in spite
of Providence within that time. Endorse the
note who please-; we have bait enough of fede
ral paper currency, and will have nothing to do
with it.”
By Electric Telegraph
SPECIAL DISPATCH.
Charlottesville, Oct. 16.—The train run
off the track last night and killed seven and
wounded 125 persons. Lieut. H. F. Solomons,
James M. Rannal and several others are
wounded. Dr. E. C. Clare.
Sockdolager from John Van Harm!
Indications toward Peace
NORTHERN FINANCES.
The Philadelphia Ledger of the 16th is in
the dumps over tin- inflation of prices, and
says:—
No change or lull can he expected until the
causes which stimulate the advance in prices
are removed. The creation of paper money
still goes on, and of the hundreds of millions,
locai and national, nut a.sixpence has been paid
or cancelled. On the other hand, a visitor to
the stock arena in the neighboring city of New
Y’ork almost daily sees a thousand people
standing in a rain storm, (legging for paper
money as a favor, without which their daily
business halts. All the copper-plate printers
in the North, working night and day, Sunday
.. . -. . . . included, cannot at all satisfy the demand for
It will put Lincon to his j r mone y^ from five cent stamps to $ 1,0-id
ning of the war
mettle—it will compel him to bastile Prince ! n 0 ‘ les . Turning to Washington, »e see that
John or quit the business of bmstiling. It is 1 the war expenses are two millions, more or less
tin; answer hack of tho New York democracy per day, in paper money, in sonic form, ail
_ .. ... , . , , helping to inflate market val
to Cassius Clay s menace that they ought to be | „, lt
hung. Such a speech may imply a conscious
ness of strength, or the uesperation ol hopeless
Weakness- we cannot say which; hut strong
It is believed
that paper money lias not fully shown its in
flating power—it has hardly commenced. It
is shown partially in a lew stocks, but who
sees it in breadstuff's, pork or the hundred ar-
or weak, it is the evident purpose of the demo- ticles of farm frodaev entering ui’o dully con-
, , , , , | sumption ? A high tarn) h is advanced prices
of leading articles—tea, eulfee, liquors, -fcc.-
orats to make a hand-to-hand tight, and xx
may expect a signal result one way or the
other.
A BOLD GUARANTEE.
The New Y’ork Tribune in its exhortation to
GEN. BRAGG'S PROCLAMATION.
This is decidedly the proclamation of this
of proclamations, and wo only regret that
the Richmond Dispatch, ol the 14th, from
which paper it is copied, did not give it entire.
It is a model in style and conception. It meets
all the necessities of the c-isc, and cannot, in
our judgment, fail of having a beneficial etto t
upon the people, of the West. Backed by the
late victory which we hope has enured to Gen.
Bragg’s army, it will address itself alike to the
good sense and the apprehension of the V\ est,
and though followed by no immediate |M>litical
demonstrations, will tell strongly in subduing
the war feeling in that section.
COMITY BETWEEN THE STATES.
Now is the time, if ever, when the Slates and
the people of the South should be knit together
in the bonds of brotherhood, and strong mu
tual affection, overlooking State lines—willing
to share a common fate and despising to mo
nopolise exclusively the advantage of peculiar
blessings. II this cannot he the spirit now,
when will it ever he? If the pressure of the
war— the common danger and the certainty of
a common fate—cannot make us feel in heart
like one people, when shall we ever feel so?—
These reflections t-ccur to us on reading the
proclamation of Gov. Letcher, of Virginia,
made j^narsuanee of the recent salt legislation
of the General Assembly of that State. The
Governor prohibits the transportation of all salt
from that State, except to till contracts made
with the Confederate and State Governments,
and sat s even these will he annulled if the peo
ple ol Virginia shall otherwise tail to get salt
enough to satisfy them. This is a kind of le
gislation which we despise. It may be aptly
typified by a greedy cur snarling and growling
in solitary gluttony over his hone. 11 it car
ries out the Y’irgtnia idea of “ State indepen
dence," then wc suggest at once a fitting device
for a Confederate seal, and dispense with the
“pro aris ct foejs.” Let it represent a stable
wii'n thirteen windows and thirteen dogs inside
gnawing thirteen bones, or one each. The
stable will represent the Confederacy—the dogs
the States, ti eir occupation, their mode of
“pursuing happiness,” and the windows the
ready chance for secession when tired ol their
quarters.
peace says :
And, if they, the South, should choose to
have a Convention to revise the Federal Con
stitution, we have no doubt that this would
he easy ol attainment, though we should pre-
ter to have no stipulations on the subject.—
They might have had one without objection
in 1861 ; they can have one without stipu
lation in 1863. But the true and sufficient
basis of immediate peace is “The Constitution
as it is.” Man can devise no lietter.
The statement that we could have had any
guaranty; is so palpable a falsehood as hardly to
require contradiction. Not only did 'he black
republicans vote in a solid phalanx against any
proposition for compromise, hut it was a point
of pride with them that not even a conciliatory
word should lie spoken by any member of their
party. Tlieir idea undoubtedly was to push
the South out of the Union—to test what they
considered the absurd experiment of secession,
in order that in its defeat the South and their
friends might as a political party in the Union
be thereafter buried beyond political resurrec
tion. That was the reason, why, iu all the
foolhardy belief that the South either would
not dare go out of the Union, or if she did,
would he easily driven back again, the black
republicans not only refused all compromise to
the last, hut by taunts and insults strove still
further to infuriate the Sooth. So much for
what we were offered. YVliar --•»» int. • 1 now
to be found in the i. u.'ik* as it is," when
it cannot insure an innocent citizen one night's
sleep on his own lied, uninterrupted by Lin
coln's catchpoles ?
THE NORTHERN ELECTIONS.
and a scarcity of cotton lias put up cotton
goods, but the great expense to tie caused oy.
excessive paper money has jet, in a great
measure, to come. Stocks have commenced to
rise, but they a,e still far below what they
S"ld lor in gdhl in 1855 and 1856, upon less
earnings, am? the tO]> is still far away, as will
be seen if the war expenses do not stop, and
paper money be reduced.
FROM THE ARMY.
YYe have no new movements to report in the
army of General Lee, no news ol interest being
brought down by the cars yesterday evening.
YVe learn that the Yankees cut some fantas
tic tricks in Middleburg and Aldie, during last
week. On YVednesday last two of our wagons
were loaded with bacon at Middleburg, and
just as they were about to start for our arm} - ,
seventeen Y ankee cavalrymen rode into the
place and took quiet possession of the wagons
and their contents, and drove them down the
mail. It is thought that information concer
ning the bacon was given the enemy by some
traitor to our cause.
On the following day a party of about seven
teen of the enemy entered Aldie, which is about
fourteen miles from Middleburg, Loudoun
county, where they were met by a detachment
of Captain Ball's Cavalry, seventeen in number,
commanded by Lieut. Geo. Mccns, when a skir
mish took place, in which the gallant Lieuten
ant was shot through the head and instantly
killeiL One of his men was ulso killed. The
Y’ankees lost a Lieutenant and one private.—
Upon seeing their Lieutenant fall, they tied
precipitately. A fifth man was found dead in
the woods, hut no one knew anything of him.—
He wore » ring with the name “Russell” en
graved on it.
On Tuesday a larger party of the hirelings
advanced upon Aldie e$ily in the morning,and
remained there until about noon, when they
s'arted off, about 150 going towards Middles
burg, and halting within half a mile of the place
while ths balance moved up the Snickersville
road, and cross.si over to Mid.llehiu.-g and re
joined their companions. After rftrrying a
short while they returned to their camp. Doubt
less these thieving parties were in search of
forage and provisions; and it would lx; well (or
our general to look alter them.
Rich. Enquirer.
FROM KENTUCKY.
Chattanooga, October 16.—The Louisville
Journal of Saturday the lltli instant, just res
ceived at Murfreesboro’, says, that three Gen
erals, Jackson, Terrill and YVebsterSs killed on
the Federal side. General P. Joartt of Lexing
ton and Major YY. P. Campbell of Louisville,
are also killed. Rosseau and Curran Pope of
Louisville are wounded. The Journal is very
indignant on some of their Generals, but yet
claims to have whipped Bragg.
Knoxville, 16th.—The tight in Kentucky
has been confirmed by the arrival of two cour
iers, who state that the tight commenced at
Perryville, in Boyle county, Monday morning,
sixth inst.
Gen. Hardee commanding the left. General
Buckner the centre, Generals Marshall and
Morgan the right.
The result of the first days fight was that
Gen. Hardee captured fifteen hundred prison
ers, with very heavy slaughter to the enemy.
The fight was renewed on Tuesday with still
greater loss to the enemy.
Hardee captured four thousand prisoners.—
Marshall and Morgan capturing three thousand
and two hundred prisoners.
The enemy were driven hack twelve miles
with tremendous slaughther.
ORur loss in the whole engagement very
smad.
We are not posted as to who was in com
mand of the Y'ankee forces, except Gen. Thom
as who encountered Gen. Hardee.
We captured lorty pieces of cannon, jtvi
The following extract from Col Palmers’
letter dated 14th received last night from Gap,
says: Wounded soldiers are here from the
battle of Perryville. A Captain of a Tennessee
Regiment says it was reported that on Tuesday
and Wednesday Bragg and Hardee fought the
enemy at Perryville, and drove them back ten
miles, taking about two thousand prisoners,
and killing and wounding about fifteen hun
dred.
The next day Wither’s Division engaged the
enemy and captured nine thousand prisoners,
and on Friday Kirby Smith engaged them on
their right and beat them hack, capturing five
hundred prisoners and killing General Jackson
and capturing General Thomas Crittenden,
says that the enemy had seventy-live thousand
men opposed to Gen. Bragg. Our army was
concentrated a*. Camp Dick Robinson.
Mobile, 16th—via Holly Springs, 16th.—
The Cincinnati Commercial, of the 11th, says
Bragg has whipped Buell, driven him across
the Kentucky river, and is in hot pursuit.
The opposition appear to have made a strong one ; yet it is out of such enterprises that great
results olten spring. 1 he otticers have unhoun-
BROWN HOUSE.
We learn that ibis establishment has been
leased by Messrs. George B Welsh A Co., who
will take possession the first of uexl month.
Mr. Weis i is very favorably known to the pub
lic in a long connection with the lanier House,
in «hicli his uniform courtesy’ and attentive-
lies- to the »ants of the travelling public have
bt‘i‘D virj (niih|iiciiou8. In new position j
we have iio doubt the Brown House will mam
demonstration in both Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Yallandigham has been detested by a special
and gigantic effort, for he was peculiarly odi
ous to the Lincoln party ; but still the oppo
sition will gain on their last ticket The Lin
coln party have carried both States, in all proh
ability, by le-s than the majority ol democratic
voters in the army, anil the triumph in neither
is such as to inspire them with much confi
dence in the future, or to exercise a depressing
effect upon the New Y’ork election. The re
sult is, however, different from what we antic
ipated. Under the extraordinary issues pre
sented to the Northern people, we were led to
look for marked changes in the vote—most
probably an overwhelming abolition triumph,
or, if not that, as signal a defeat Instead
of this, however, we have pretty much the same
old party division—men voting, as usual, just
as if nothing more were involved than in any
of the old elections under the Constitution.
This is strange, but so it is.
P. S.—Since the above was in type, we have
received news to the effect that the democrats
have carried the States ol Ohio and Indiana.
See telegraphic column.
HOPE SO.
The Savannah Republican says that Con
gress, bi fore it adjourned, threw the chain flag
and the seal, both of them, overboard. We
hope so, and now let them drop the subject.
Both are evidently not in their vocation.
— ■ -—
Akmt Worm in Doot.r.—A correspondent
From the Atlanta Conlederarjr.
Hakrodsbcrg, Kv., Oct. 7, 1862.
Gen. Bragg’s Headquarters, and the various
armies under his command are now just con
centrated in this vicinity. On the march from
Bardstown the enemy pressed pretty closely
on our rear, and several sharp skirmishes have
resulted.
At Bardstown, Col. Wharton with a force of
Texas Rangers, finding himself cut off by four
Federal regiments, rode at hall speed for four
miles, and found his foe drawn up to receive
him. With barely a moment to blow his horses
he gave the order to charge- The result was
one of the most brilliant dashes of the war,
and was complimented as such in orders. He
routed the Yankees, pursued them a mile, kill
ed 50, and took 43 prisoners.
At Springfield, 18 miles this side, the enemy
was again severely punished. Our cavalry
were drawn up in a line as (or a charge upon a
mass of Federals, with a couple of field pieces
masked behind them. Our horses broke to the
right and left, and the two pieces opened with
terrible effect on the enemy and put them to
flight
These are the precursers to a great battle,
which every one feels to be imminent. The en
emy is advancing in force from the direction of
Frankfort and Bardstown. 11 is to be presumed
that he comes prepared to light and drive us
out of Kentucky. If so, he will be given bat
tle as soon as- he is ready for it, if not before.
We are in a position where wc must fight eith
er to advance or retrograde. No one dreams of
returning, and yet all feel as if our ships were
burned behind us, and we have no rear. This
whole movement was a bold, if not a desperate
tain a character, as a comfortably lmetelric, un
surpassed by any in Georgia. Yfle bespeak for
him a cordial reception as niioo host at
Brown’s.
.1,0.0
writing from Byrouville, in Dooly county, says:
the army worm is eating up everything but
corn and cane. The oak trees are entirely
stripped ol their foiiage.
- ik --—nuu oue
mbhIbhi
ded confidence in the fighting qualities of this
army. 1 believe we shall beat Buell iu what
ever force he may come.
Kentucky has not yet risen. A few thous
and have taken up arms. Mure are enlisting
and talking about it. A successful battle might
make a diffi rence. I must confess I have not
much lailh. The men with noble exceptions
look indifferent or cowed. There is large room
for speculation on the causes that have pro
duced this state of things. But the only con
clusion to be reached is damaging to the spirit
of a people once renowned for courage and
love of independence. It may be doubted
whether in their darkest hours of oppression,
Hungary or Poland, would have tailed to rush
to arms under the encouragement and cover of
such an army as Gen. Bragg has brought ta
offer freedom to this people.
Before this reaches you, perhaps through
Federal sources, you will have heard of Gen.
Bragg’s first battle in Kentucky. The army
is amply piovided with commissary stores, and
ammunition is superabundant. ’Ilie last has
been greatly augmented since the army cauie
here, at Federal expense.
We have no news from home. W’eknow not
who of our brothers and sons have fallen tor
our country in Maryland and Virginia. No
news here from Price, Van Dorn or Breckin
ridge. We had hoped to hear their guns and
victorious tramp south of us before now.
Press.
tiiiiiN
Sharpshooters.—It is announced that no
person shall be mustered into the service of the
United States as a member of the corps of
Sharpshooters, unless he shall produce the cer
tificate of some person duly authorized by the
Governor of the State in which the company is
raised, that he has in five consecutive shots, at
two hundred yards at rest, made a string not
over twenty-five inches, or the same string off
liar at one hundred yards, the certificates to
be Written on the target: 0 *- test.
»» u6u is fi.iu ft fl.OV.
THE CASE OF REV. MR. BENEDICT.
Rev. Judson D. Benedict was recently ar
rested at Aurora, N. Y\, on charge of having, in
a sermon, used language tending to discourage
enlistments. He was taken to Buffalo, and
confined in jail. An application was ma le by
his friends to Judge Hall, of the U. S. District
Court, for a writ ol habeas1 corpus. The appli
cation was allowed, the writ served On the U.
S. Marshal, and the prisoner brought into
court. No person appearing against Mr. Ben-
ediel, the court ordered his discharge from cus
tody. As soon as he had been set at liberty,
and whilst still in the court room, a Deputy U.
S. Marshal rearrested him. Mr. B. demanded
the authority for this proceeding. He said he
did not propose to resist the arrest, but wished
to know by whose orders he was seized. The
reply was, “ lie will shorn you the authority
rehen ire yet you where we want you." He was
hurried down the stairs and to a carriage in
waiting. A large crowd gathered about the
carriage, and much feeling was exhibited, but
no attempt was made to rescue the prisoner.
The carriage was driven off, Marshal Chase on
the box with the driver, and the prisoner in
side with ollicers Tyler and Stevens. It was
supposed that he would he conveyed to Fort
Niagara.
Before these proceedings took place, a large
number ol prominent citizens of Aurora, inclu
ding men ot all parties, had made affidavit that
they heard the sermon which caused the first
arrest, and that there was nothing in it calcula
ted in the least to discourage enlistments or
weaken the confidence of the people in the gov
ernment.
The cause of the rearrest of Mr. Benedict, as
stated by the U. S. Marshal to a reporter of
the Courier, was not that he had been guilty
of any crime, but that his friends had been so
judicious as to seek his release by legal means.
Chicago Times, 26th.
Ta llir IMaulcra of VlidUIr and Nratb-tVnt-
rrn Ororgia.
Executive IIkao-Muakters, )
Marietta, Ga., Oct. VI, 1862. j
et 3iOM RICHMOND.
Richmond, 16th.—New Y’ork Herald of the
14th has been received.
The 1st page is filled with the account of an
immense gathering of the Democracy at Cooper
Institute.
Horace F. Clarke, Horatio Seymour, John
Y’anBureikUtnd Kicltard O. Gorman, were the
speakers of the occasion.
Resolutions were adopted in favor of the
further prosecution of the war, but insisting on
the fulfillment by the administration of pledge,
that war is not waged in any spirit of oppres
sion or for the purpose of overthrowing estab
ed institutions of the States.
A dispatch from Gen. Boyl, from Louisville,
states that Gens. Bragg and Cheatham were
killed in the battle of Wednesday, near Bards
town. The Union forces held the field.
Later news from Europe unimportant.
The Scientific Congress of Europe, lately in
session at Brussels, has forwarded a peace ad
dress to Lincoln.
In New Y’ork stocks advanced two to three
per cent Gold rose to 130. Exchange 140
to 143$.
The Democracy Awakening!
GRE.IT nEETING IN NEW VOKK.
Richmond, Va., Oct 17.—At the Democrat
ic meeting in New Y’ork John Y r an Buren pro-
nouncedf'the Republican Administration the
most contemptible government on the face of
the earth ! His plan was that McClellan should
move on to Richmond—that then a Convention
should be called and our Southern brethren
invited to it The Constitution should then
he altered so that all should hereafter live in
peace; and if the South would not stay he
would say to their wayward sisters, “Depart
in Peace /” The Democracy should not lose
time in talking, and if people called them trai
to A, just knock them down and go to the polls.
He had been told that the Southern people
would not live, and. In his judgment ought not
to live, under abolition swav, and’fce would not
live with them if they would.
The Northern accounts from Kentucky are
meagre and indefinite. The Tribune denies
that Buell was victorious and insinuates that
he is either a fool or a traitor.
Richmond, 17.—The Baltimore American of
Tuesday afternoon reports an advance of three
per cent, on fi New York in the forenoon,
the opening price being 133.
KVAt’l. AT10N 1 iF tiOEWTO. W
Hoi.lv Springs, Miss., Oct. 17.—A ge
man who arrived to-day Iroui Cormtb, say*ail
enemy have evacuated Corinth, nd Boll
Tenu., is l>eing evacuted.
NORTHERN NEWS.
Richmond. Oct. 18.—The New Y’ork Hiu
of the 15th has been received by the Enquii
It contains a dispatch dated Louisville the 14tlf1
which says the rebels art retreating froml
Camp Dick Robinson to Lancaster, and that)
Buell is in close pursuit. Another disrate 1
says the Federal forces occupy Lexingto.„<ij
which the rebels had evacuate! on the 13th.
Thirty counties in Pennsylvania give ibid
Republican State ticket 4,00" majority, h, alii
Republican victory throughout the State ‘-’Jl'M
been gamed. Pendleton and Long, DemocriT
are elected in the First and Second Districts.
In Ohio Valandigham was defeated by Gel
Shenck.
The Newark*city election resulted in a Dejj
mocratic triumph.
Gold in New York 133 to 138£. Exchanger ]
147$. Cotton 62c. Produce excited and sol.
generally at higher prices. S
Two days later advices from Europe have^
been received.
The Paris papers revive the recognition
question.
It is rumored that the steamer 290 has de
Stroyed ten American W halers ofl' the YYestet
Mobile, Oct 17.—A special dispatch to the
Register and Advertiser, dated Holly Springs,
16th, says that Lieut. Gen. Pemberton has as
sumed the command of that department
Our burial party of 300, sent to Corinth, was
seized and retained as prisoners.
The Cincinnati papers of the 11th are filled
with accounts of a great battle between Gens-
Bragg and Buell. The tenor of their accounts
is that Buell is badly defeated and -driven
across the Kentucky river ; also, that BKgg is
pursuing vigorously.
300 Confederate paroled prisoners arrived
here I Holly Springs) this morning.
Islands.
Stock of American Cotton on hand in
erpool 17,000 bales.
From information in my possession of an official
liaracter, I am satisfied that the defences around
Savannah, are not yet completed. They will be
very strong when completed; and it is believed
by military men, that with five hundred additional
laborers, we can be ready for the enemy in thirty
days. General Mercer informs me that he lacks
tills number, and appeals to me to assist him in
procuring them.
If the enemy should take Savannah, it would he
made a sale place of refuge lor all slaves who may
attempt to leave their masters and go to the enemy
this winter; and the planters of this State must
lose a much larger number of slaves than are uow
required to complete all necessary preparations for
her defence. Again, it has been the boast of the
people of this State, that a hostile enemy has oc
cupied no part of the soil of Georgia of practical
value to them. It is a point of pride with them
to take the city, aud of both pride and duty with
us to hold it. I cannot doubt that every patriotic
Georgian is ready to make any sacrifice neceasary
to defend the city, as long as one brick remains
upon another. Let her property and her noble
citizens never share the fate of New Orleans, but
let her emulate the example of Vicksburg, which
has been defended, while it has made a name in
history as lasting as the history of the war itself.
I therefore appeal to each Planter in the portion
of the State above mentioned, which, from its lo
cation aud its large number of slaves, is most
deeply interested, to tender to General Mercer,
immediately, one-tenth of all his working hands.
He will accept only the number needed; but as
prompt action is necessary, 1 trust live thousand,
in place ol live hundred, will he tendered in ten
days. Ue only wishes them loi thirty, and will
pay for the use of them reasonable and just com
pensation. Were no compensation ottered, I can
not doubt the labor would he promptly furnished
to finish a workko important, and so nearly com
pleted. Let the proper authorities in each coun
ty, and especially the most wealthy planters, hav
ing the largest number of slaves, address General
Mercer, at Savannah, without delay, aud make tile
teuder. I order no impressment of your proper
ty, but appeal, in an emergency, to your liberality
and your patriotism, aud know I shall not appeal
in vain.
I am, very respectfully, Ac.,
JOSEPH Jk BROWN.
FOREIGN NEYVS.
Augusta, Oct 16th.—The Richmond Dis
patch of the 14th, instant, lias foreign dates to
the 2$lh ultimo.
The ship America, from Bombay, with near
ly eight thousand bales of Cotton on hoard, was
abandoned at sea.
The London Shipping Gazette says the Con
federate Steamer 290 has destroy -d 5 Federal
Merchant vessels, at sea.
Liverpool, Sept 26.—Cotton has rallied one
and a half penny, but is still one penny lower
thuu previous quotations.
Liverpool, Sept 27.—The tendency of the
market is still upward with a slight advance on
all American qualities.
FROM THE NORTH.
Northern papers of the 11th, contains a dis
patch dated Louisville, Oct 10th, which says
that in the late battle at Perryville the Federal
Generals Jackson, Terrell, Webster and Lyttlo
was killed.
One despatch says the military exigencies
require the suppression ol details.
In New Y’ork, on the 10th, Gold closed at
125§. Exchange at 141 to 141$.
FROM THE WEST.
Chattanooga, 17th. —The Chattanooga Reb
el has the following dispatch, dated Lavergne,
17th, all uncertainty :
I believe the Y’ankees are leaving Nashville.
In addition to the above, I am satisfied
something is going on.
Letters from Bragg’s army, and our friends
in Nashville and Springfield, states that Buell’s
army is the worst whipped and badly cut up
army of the war.
There is no doubt but we have gained a glori
ous victory.
Mobile, 17th.—A special dispatch to the
Advertiser A Register, dated Senatohio, 17th,
says that dispatches of the 12th, from Indian
apolis, to the Chicago Times, say that intense
excitement prevails there; caused by a dispatch
from Gen. Boyl, saying Bragg was in Buell’s
rear, marching on Louisville. He urges Gov.
Morton to send him reinforcements, he having
hot two thousand men at Louisville.
The impression prevails at Louisville that
Buell has been badly whipped. The excite
ment in the city is intense.
The Cincinnati Commercial of the 13th insfi
claims a victory, but despatches are very con-
littimr.
FROM KENTUCKY.
Hakkodsbukq, Kv., 10th Oct., via Knoxville
Tenn., 17th, and Mobile, Ala., 18th.—(Special
Dispatch to the Mobile Advertiser A Register)
Bragg’s first Kentucky pitched battle occurred
at Perrysville, ten miles hence.
The enemy had been following him from
Bardstown in force, and also threatened Frank
fort. Wither’s Division was sent forward to
support Kirby Smith, while the Divisions of
Cheatham, Buckner and Anderson were coun
ter marched to give battle to the enemy’s force
near us.
Our line of battle was right and left of the
Turnpike, and commanding the only accessible
route.
The fight opened with artillery at six o’clock
in the morning. Gen. Bragg and staff reached
the ground about nine o’clock, and at one o’clock
they showed a disposition to attack our right-
Our right under Cheatham and Buckner await
ed the advance of the enemy. At three o’clck
P. M., they came on in splendid order, and Gen.
Bragg ordered an advance of the whole line to
close quarters.
For an hour and a half the enemy maintain
ed his ground bravely in the face of a murder
ous fire of artillery and musketry. Our troops
fought like heroes until the enemy began to 1*1-
ter, and then with a shout our boys moved for
ward and drove them three or four miles entire
ly off the field.
Meantime an attempt on our'left had been
repulsed. We captured twenty one pieces of
artillery and five or six hundred prisoners.—
For want of horses only eight pieces were
brought away.
Re-urns are not in, but our casualties are es
timated at fifteen hundred. YVe append a list
of those ascertained so far.
With one more division the enemy would
have been destroyed. Night put an end to the
pursuit. The enemy’s loss is believed to be
more than double ours. Among them Gen.
James Jackson certainly killed, Gen. Critten
den reported killed. Buell commanded, and
wc have prisoners from five divisons, number
ing at least thirty thousand men.
YY’e tought only twelve thousand. Our army
is in the highest spirits.
At Frankfort the matter soon ended. The
netny under McCook fled before Kirby Smith.
lY ithrrs cut off their rear and took seven hund
red prisoners and fourteen wagons.
Anothu: Rattle is at hand. Bragg’s depots
being mciu.ce l he at once withdrew his army
to protect them.
The enc; 1 sent a flag of truce for permis
sion to hurt their dead at day light next morn
ing. In ll.e . liemoon fight not even one Y’an-
kee Surgeon was on the field. Their wounded
were all left. Onr wounded were removed on
the night of the battle.
Uen. Polk had a narrow escape. At dusk
he left his Staff and rode to stop the fire, as he
thought, of a Confederate Regiment on our
troops. He seized the Colonel by the shoul
der and demanded, “why do you tire on your
friends ?” The Colonel replied that he did not
know that he was firing upon his friends*—
“Who are you?” “Colonel of the 23d Indi
ana,” he replied. Gen. Polk, thereupon again
shook the Yankee Colonel roughly, and ordered
hun to cease firing, snd before the Yankee
found out who his interrogator was the Gene
ral put spurs to his horse and got away.
Gen. Bragg says he has the best troops in the
world. 2000 Kentuckians have taken arms and
more are organizing.
Gen. McGuire’s army has arrived.
Killed, Lieut Col. Patterson, 1st Tennessee,
Lieut Col. Evans of the Texas Hangers, Maj.
W. Pruyn, Commissary, Capt Cartwright of
Georgia, VYm. S. May of Gen. Claiburne's Staff.
[The foregoing is the blindest despatch ever
sent to us and we have only done our best
with it j
FURTHER NORTHERN NEWS.
Richmond, Oct 19.—The Baltimore AmtJ
can, of Thursday afternoon, says that the
test returns from Ohio and Indiana indicate’’
that the democrats have probably’ carried 1
States.
In Ohio, they claim 10,000 majority, and 13
out ot lit membejjl^in Congress. In the pres
ent delegation they have 6 members.
In Pennsylvania twelve Lnion and seven
Democrats are elected, and live districts not
heard from.
- The Episcopal Convention have adopted by
a large vote the Resolution of the Committee
of nine.
A rebel force stopped the steamer Hazel Dell
at (Jassyvfile on the Ohio river, on the 14th
inst, and took the mails, negroes and a quan
tity of goods.
FROM KENTUCKY.
Near C .c Breceenhidge, nine miles from
Danville, Kentucky, Oct. 12th via Knoxville
Oct 17th.—f.Miecial dispatch to Mobile Adver-
,: ser.) 15,<Ktti it our troops fought 45,000 at
Perryville. on 1 . 8th. Our liess between tv\o
d, the enemy’s loss between
sand. YYe captured eleven
hundred prisoners. Our
■ eld. Early next morning
tlag of truce to bury their
dead. The ti-’hting was terrible.
The same way Kirby Smith defeated Crit
tenden between Lawrenceburg and Solvira,
capturing 740 prisoners.
and three hoi
four and fix
guns and 1 *11.
troops slept on th
the enemy sen’
The Killed and Wounded at Corinth.
Teredo via Mobile, Oct 17.—A paroled Con
federate soldier just arrived here from luka,
says our wounded iu the battle of Corinth have
all been sent to that place, and are uow well
cared for. lie says there are 70) in all. Thinks
our wounded in the whole of the tight will not
reach more than 1,500, and the Federals say
there were 300 killed of our men. Several Fed
erals told him they had over 3,000 wounded,
and could not tell how many killed. The Cor
inth Yankees say eur men fought more like dev
ils than men, and also admit a total route in
Kentucky by Bragg’s forces. The Yankees
also say that Nashville will soon have to he re-
LATER FROM KENTUCKY.
Chattanooga, Oct 18.—From an officer who
left Bragg’s army on Friday nigl t, 1 learn that
our loss in the battle near Perryville is compu
tet! at thirty-five hundred, while that of the
enemy is stated at twenty thousand. Most of
the latter are Drisouers—among whom four
hundred had been paroled at Munfordsville.
He says our army is now concentrated at
Camp Dick Robinson, in Gerard county, and
that Buell’s army extends from Danville to
Bardstown, and is in a greatly demoralized con
dition.
YVe had no Generals killed. Col. McLean,
of Georgia, was wounded, Col. Patterson, of the
First Tennessee, killed. Another bat '» may
be looked for.
Chattanooga, Oct- 17.—The Louisvil e Jour
nal of the 13th was received to-day. It says
nothing of Y’ankee loss in Kentucky, mid b
little in any way about the battle.’ It couca.
a despatch from Bardstown, datid the 11th,
stating that Col. Scott, of the Louisiana Caval
ry, was a prisoner there, and wounded.
FROM THE NORTH.
Fredericksburg, Y’a., Oct. 19th.—North
ern dates received here announce that the De
mocrats have carried Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Indiana. The Republicans have carried Iowa.
In Pennsylvania 13 Democrats and 11 Republi
cans are elected to Congress. In Ohio 12 De
mocrats and 5 Republicans, three districts not
heard from. In the last Congress Ohio had 12
Republicans and 8 Democrats. In Indiana 8 De
mocrats and three Republicans—last Congress
8 Republicans and 3 Democrats. Tn Iowa all
the old ticket is re-elected to Congress. The
State ticket gone Republican by 10,000 majo
rity. The Democratic majority on the State
ticket in Pennsylvania is 10,000. In Ohio 23.-
000. In Indiana, 8,000. In Indiana, Colfax,
Dunn and Juhan (Blacks) arc defeated. In
Ohio, Gurtley, Republican, Pendleton and Cox
are re elected. In Pennsylvania, Grow, Speak
er of the present Lincoln House, is defeated.—
Thad. Stevens is re-elected.
Gen. Hancock occupied Charlestown, Va.,
on Thursday evening, after an artillery duel of
two hours. Our pickets retired to a hill this
side. The enemy lost one killed and eight
wounded. YVe lost Capt. Smith, of the Rich
mond Artillery, an! eight wounded. 200 of
our Antietam wounded were captured. Mc
Clellan spent Thursday night at Charlestown,
but returned to Washington.
Gold in New Y’ork at the first board to- day
(New York date not named by the despatch)
182$.
Nothing satisfactory from Kentucky. No
victory claimed. They say Bragg is leaving
the State. The Federals have occupied Lex
ington.
bH^UlLAn’ , W > °l!i>aAuu uvuuiy uioveu
* any such emancipation promise to the negro. 1 theirs, with the House of Representatives, al- 1 their stock to Perry county.
YOUNG PRENTICE NOT DEAD.
The Knoxville Register of the 15th, instant,
says:
Our telegraphic accounts a few days since
both Northern and Southern, ha! it, that a son
of Geo. D. Prentice, who was in Captain Mor
gan’s company at the tight at Augusta, wa-
inortally wounded. YY’e are happy to learn
since, from a Major in the Paymaster’s depart
ment of Gen. Bragg's army, that Courtiand
Prentice, the eldest son ot the editor of the >
Louisville Journal, was only slightly wounded,
and is now supposed to be out of dauger.— c
Should his life be lost, however, there is many,
» gallant Kentuckian who will terribly avcm<>‘
. - j n. .... ««ujn vs. s»iq aieicner.—
Amount of tax $17 and costs,
sep IS GKO. 1>. LAW RENCE, Maretml.
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