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'>AY MORNING, NOV. 7, 1863.
a cj>kth.—Under this head the reader
interesting communication from
^?®Cooper, in our paper to-day.
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iNATORIAL ELECTION,
tutorial olection for this District takes
ay. Although there is no opposi-
h'rust the voters will go to the polls
^ a complimentary vote for Colonel
^cwakd, it seems, heraled the emanci—
•oclamation with a circular to his ior-
sters, which is evidently an appeal for
ime—another extension of his subju-
ibligations. See a copy of his circular
'.ttother place. He again sees rapidly wan-
/proportions in the rebel lion—detects in the
i*ty symptons of exhaustion, and in the
^ _ic developments ol Nort
lie developments ol Northera military
ir, a speedy conquest of the rebellion.—
lope Seward’s vaticinations will turn out
ey did belore, for his last one, particular-
aided a glorious career of success to our
He had hardly published the rebellion
. mally crushed, before his army was pitch
neck and heels out of Virginia, and the light
our camp tires shed a lurid glare over the
ets of Washington. It is at least manifest
i this circular that Mr. Seward felt as far
as last September, some uneasiness about
foreign aspects of the question. It is, in
ct, a petition for non-interference a little
die longer—first, because we are just ready
* striko a military blow which will determine
le controversy, and next we have resolved up-
01 the destruction of slavery. As Seward’s
’omatic efforts seem to be fruitful only of
chief to his own cause, it is a happy circum-
ce that he seems disposed to be industri-
shville.—A person lately in Nashville in-
us that it is fortified with great strength.
■ entrenchments completely encompass
ity, and, within it, every street is barri-
4 ed with cotton, and the c-ipitol is surround
ed by a stockade. Rapid movements were go
ing on among our troops looking to an early
attack of the city, but it must be regarded as
a very hazardous enterprise.
Quiet Still.
-There is nothing new to-
dayT unless it be some private indications that
our army upon the Potomac is making a retro
grade movement, which may or may not be re
liable. The newspapers contain nothing.—
Would they could pass the entire winter in
that interesting condition.
THE OTHER SIDE.
A correspondent of the Richmond Enquirer, at
the request of Rev. R. J. Graves, who has just re
turned from a six week’s sojourn in the North,
writes that paper, contradicting all the statements
in regard to an anti-war feeling in the North. Hr.
Graves was in New York three weeks, in daily con
verse with bankers, merchants, politicians, lawyers
and all the organs of popular opinion. He says
the North and West are now in a condition of ex
traordinary prosperity—growing rich faster than
ever before, and ail the talk of a weariness of the
war in those sections is utterly groundless. The
idea, too, of restoring the “Union as it was” is
generally abandoned ; but the great purpose of es
tablishing one government over the whole territo
ry within the late United States, is stronger than
ever. What sort ot a government, they are quite
indiAvreut te—but they prefer any other to a re
public. They only wish a strong government—
one able to crush out all opposition ; and they do
not believe a republic strong enough. As to
crushing out this rebellion they have neither doubts
nor fears. They have not yet begun to bring the
power of the North to bear upon it, but this win
ter they mean we shall learn something of their
ability to destroy us, and by their immense armies
and emancipation schemes put the knife to the
throat of every man, woman and child, if the re
bellion holds out.
Mr. Graves has evidently been among the black
est of the Black Republicans.
A DULL ELECTION.
The polls were not opened yesterday until
after dinner. At four o’clock fifty-nine votes
had been deposited, and we suppose about a
hundred were actually cast It is dull work
electing a candidate without opposition, and
had to persua le the suffragan that there is any
special use in voting. Ool. Pinckard is Sena
tor nem eon.
The elections in the North we suppose were
hardly as quiet
THE EUROPEAN NEWS.
Mr. Gladstone’s and Sir John Pakington’s
Speeches upon recognition, with the coinnonts
of the English press thereon—the New York
Express’s report of the diplomatic aspect of the
question, and sundry other matters highly in
trusting, will be found in the present number
of the Teiegiaph. We comilieui them to the
tention of the reader.
The great feature, the speech of Mr. Glads
tone, the Chancellor ol the British Exchecquer,
at a popular assemblage in New Castle, justly,
it appears to us, attracts much notice. In the
first place ho is the talking member of the Cab
inet and exhibits a marked change in his tone
since his last public inaniieslation about six
months ago, in which he insisted so strongly
upon regolute and persistent neautrality.
Secon .iy, th£re is manifest throughout his
speech i diplomatic color and purpose. It is
wonderfully conciliatory towards the North, at
the very moment he declares the nationality ol
the South a fixed fact and separation as certain
as any future event can possibly be. 11% con
doles with the North in the most affectionate
and sympathetic manner, and lightens her load
of mortification, by declaring that, however
much she may take it to heart, as the first one
she has ever been called on to endure, yet
other nations are used to such disagreeabilities
and have learned to bear them with equamm
ity. All this seems u tered with a purpose,
and is so accepted by the English press, or at
least the leading representatives of that press.
They treat it much as a semi official announce
inent of a change in government policy, or of a
new step which it is important should be plac
ed in a conciliatory light as possible.
Sir John Pakington, the first Lord of the
Admirably under Earl Derby’s administration,
and a fitting representative of the Louis, re.
spends the next day in a speech, in a which he
gives the foregoing interpretation to Mr. Glad
stone’s remarks and cordially endorses them
with that construction.
On the whole, then, we mau^bnclude that
a new step in English diplomacy was at least
in serious consideration, when the Australian
left, and that the report of the New York Ex
press was not without some foundation in fact.
The Richmond Examiner, of the 1st instant,
says:
It is known that the statement made in a
Northern journal of certain movements on the
part of European powers prefatory to the re
cognition of the Confederacy, has been receiv
ed in official quarters here with almost the
same sensation and confidence with which it
has been hailed on the corners of the streets.
11 is true that in times past there have been
some examples of official credulity in Rich
mond scarcely less ignorant or rii iculous than
that of ordinary newsmongers; and it does
not follow, of course, that because a statement
of fact is believed to be true or thougnt to be
probable in the Departments, it is any the more
entitled to intelligent belief. But in the pres
ent instance we are persuaded that facts already
in possession ol the Government have prepared
it for ttie announcement of our recognition at
an early day, and have obtained for the North
ern rumor referred to an importance in ofbeial
estimation which otherwise it would not have
had.
W e may safely say that a number of facts
have been ascertained hevong all reasonable
doubt by this government. These are that Eng
1 ilia and Prance were probably on the point
ol recognizing us at the time of the unexpected
fall ol New Orleans; that Fiance could not act
without the co-operation ot England ; but that
tl.e French Government had given express and
repeated assurances that our recognition would
not be dela) ed if we obtained succt sses in Vir
ginia and the West sufficiently inporiant to
overshadow the great disaster at New Orleans.
This is reliable, and is, ofitself. quite sufficient
to prepare the public mind lor some new de
velopment just about this time on the subject
of European recognition.
Let us therefore avoid attaching too much
importance to any of these rumors, whatever
present foundation there may apparently be
lor them. Any little change id the aspect of
the war may suffice to check ail movements
for recognition; and the movemeuts for medi
ation, if initiated, may tall stillborn upon any
important Federal success in the war. So, also,
much time must elapse in negotiation, if any
mediation is attempted, and meanwhile the
war crowds us more Merely than ever. If
government and people, therefore, repose any
confidence in these rumors and statements,
they should nerve us to the highest activity
and vigilance so that any possible chance of
foreign good offices looking to the termination
of this struggle, may not be spoiled by some
signal Federal success, which shall satisfy
these governments that the chances of the Con
federates arc much more doubtful than they
now them think to be. Mediation or no media-
SPF.OULATION AND EXTORTION, 1
Are the great enemies of the Confederate
cause. The ruge to rnu up prices is going to
ruin us if anything does. It Ls impossible to
over-rate the degree of uncertainty, insecurity
and alarm felt, ny the masses of the people
from this cause alone. The fact that every
thing, corn, fodder and newspapers excepted,
have within the past year run up from three
to twenty and thirty prices, opens the gloom
iest prospect for the future. Where is this
thing to end ? If it has traveled thus far, what
is to hinder its going twice, three times, five
times or twenty times as far in the next
year? Who then can we live? who can do
business, unless he happens to be among the
infamous crew of harpies who boast of making
their thousands out of the universal scarcity
and distress ? What then is before us if things
go on only for six months, in the future, as
they have gone for six or eight months past?
Plainly ruin! We see little chance of escape
from this conclusion, and there i- some comfort
in the thought that the money makers who
will have brought on the catastophe will at
least perish with the rest. They have been
carefully investing their unholy gains in real
estate, stoc.-ts, Ac., hut the Lincolnites will find
them out, and universal confiscation w ill pro
bably reduce everybody to the same level of
penury.
The Legislature of Alabama, we see, is try
ing to devise some statutory remedies for this
ruinous abuse, but we frankly confess a be
lief that the evil is beyond the reach alike of
law and public opinion. The unholy thurst
for money-making seems to render men deaf
alike to the voice of public opinion—the calls
of patriotism and a regard even for their own
preservation and safety against the common
foe. Everything that has been said or done, so
far, to prevent or to remedy the mischief soems
only to aggravate it. Every passing day' and
hour add to prices, and increases the difficul
ties of living.
It is plain that this, and not the Yankee ar
mies, is the real problem of Southern independ
ence, liberty and security. If, as but seems
too probable, our people prefer heaping up
gains in Treasury notes, to their own ell-pre
servation from a cruel, licentious, rapacious and
remorseless foe, the great God himself will
must say to such a people “THY MON
PERISH WITH THE !! God is not going to
work miracles in our behalf; and if we choose
to prey upon each other, instead of standing
by, a.-^^ing, and encouraging each other to
withstand the common enemy, we must abide
the awful consequences. Then shall repen
tance come—but loo late. Let us he subjuga
ted in this struggle and we may envy the vie
tims ot Asiatic dcs|iotisni, for we and our chil
dren must forever endure their oppession, with
out even their measure of security. Heaven
pity us, unless we wake up to some sense, rea
son and duty upou this subject I
ACCIDENT IN THE JACKSON ARTIL
LERY.
Lieut Masscnburg, in a letter dated at Mur-
freesburo’ the 80th ult, tells of a painful acci
dent in the Jackson *. ‘illery, as follows:
Wc had a dreadful accident this afternoon
while on drill. Major Graves, the Chief of Ar
tillery, was drilling us, and my section was
making * wheel at a gallop, when the aiumuni-
tion'chesl of my right piece exploded, and the
nearest driver, Mr. Speight, of Houston county,
was struck with a ball from a canister (I think),
it entered in the rear of the right thigh and
passed entirely through, striking the saddle.—
The bone was broken about three inches from
the joint, and is a very serious wound. It is
ptobable that the leg will be amputated, and
highly probable that he will die. It is a mir
acle that more were not injured—every horse
ran away, scattering in every direction. I was
in a gallop on the left of the piece, and at the
first explosion my horse jumped quickly and
started on a run ; but for that I think I should
have been killed.
It is difficult to say what caused the explo
sion, but we think it was caused by friction, as
there was loose powder in the box, and the am
munition was badly packed. I don’t think
such an accident will ever occur with us again,
as this will make us more careful in packing.
The wounded man is a good soldier, and a valu
able man. He has lost a brother by death
hilo we were at Chattanooga.
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N#Y
STATS LEGISLATURE.
The Georgia islature meets to-morrow.—
The number oi members who have passed
through town indicates there will be a pretty
full attendance on the first day. The subjects
demanding Legislative attention do not seem to
us very numerous or generally pressing, and
yet no doubt the calenders will be crowded with
hills and resolutions before a fortnight has ex
pired. Among the things which are to tie done is
the election of a Senator to fill Gen. Toomb’s
vacancy ; and among others which we think
ought to be done, and which are really impor
tant,is some action for the supply of a uniform
small-change currency from the Treasury De
partment, and the suppression of all illegal cur
rency issues. The Courts, too, are urging upon
the Gen. Assembly the suppression by law of
the liquor traffic, at least, for the present. Eve
ry Grand Jury in the M .con Circuit has pre
sented this topic and earnestly entreated Leg
islative prohibition. We hope the Legislature
will prohibit it during the remainder of the war
and until the people and the soldiery shall have
again regularly settled down to cultivate the
arts of peace. We may t afoly anticipate much
crime and public disorder, if our returning sol
diers, after the privations and vigors of the
camp, are exposed to the temtat'ons to convivi
ality which have heretofore met them in all
our towns cities and cross roads.
As to the Senatorial election, whatever pre
ference we have had heretofore be expressed
with candor; but this preference rests not so
much upon the desire to see a particular man
sent to the Senate, as to see the place ably filled
by a patriotic, large minded, large hearted man
—above the feelings and the tricks of the dem
agogue—a man personally qualified to wield
the influence Georgia should exercise in the
Confederate Senate, aud to wield it patriotical
ly—independently and wisely. We dont wish
to see a man elected either to support or to op
pose the Administration of Mr. Davis, although
it is w lispered that there is to be an effort to
elect a professedly anti administration man.—
W T e object to a man tethered either way by pre
judices or obligations ; and hope the Legisla
ture will not sutler itself to be made an instru
ment in any such business. There is no sense
in,or excuse for,the formation ot political parties
or cabals at this time. Send an able man and
let him he footloose to follow the dictates of his
own judgement.
Finally we hope that, lor once, their will be
peace and harmony between the two co ordi
nate branches -if the State Government—the
General Assembly and the Governor.
lion—recognition or no recognition—our own
hands must still do the work of our own deliv
trance from Federal subjugation and tyranny.
GEN. BRAGG.
A Tennessee correspondent of the Republi
can is Tery severe upon Gen. Bragg and expo
ses at length the alleged blunders by which the
campaign in Tennessee and Kentucky has been
lost. Meanwhile, however, Gen. Bragg has
been returned to Ids command with an en
dorsement at Richmond, and we are therefore
bound to suppose that he has satisfied the ad
ministration that he is not in fault. We are
unable to lorrn an intelligent opinion about the
matter. In the first place, we have few of the
tacts, and in the next, lack the capacity to pass
a judgement upon them. One thing, however,
we do feel, and that is a grievous disappoint
ment at the result of all our military opera
tions in Tennessee and Kentucky.
The ‘2nd Battalion are reported with their
Brigade at Upperville, thirty or forty miles
Phantom Guns— An Orful Warning!
Last Monday noon a number of reputable
persons assured us that they distinctly heard
heavy cannonading, apparently in a South
easterly direction from Macon. It was heard by
so many independent witnesses, living far apart,
that we might be puzzled to account for the
phenomenon. A practical turn to the matter,
however, urn be given by assuming it as a mon
ition to us to obstruct the rivers and shut out
soun is that may be followed by shells and shot.
We will not say that this was a supernatural
admonition ; and if we did say so, it would not
make it so. It is of no particular interest
where the sounds came from, so they did not
and do not come from Yankee gunboats ; but
it will be safe to assume that wherever four or
five feet of water can be carried, there is at
least some danger of hearing Yankee guns in
good earnest during the approaching winter
and spring. Why, then, not seize the present
very low stage of water as a tilting opportuni
ty to add to the obstructions of the shoals a
few feet, so as to obviate all danger.
Why should planters in the vicinity ol these
streams needlessly incur this danger and wait
the action of government for their own defence,
when by gathering their laborers together they
could pile rocks upon obstructions already ex
isting and so make a shoal impassable,during a
high stage of water. The Flint and the Ocmul
gee ought to be so obstructed at once. What
is to hinder our friends at Bainbridge Irom
receiving an unpleasant call from the Federals
if the latter succeed in getting up the Apalach
icola f Let us recollect the very peculiar mo
tives the abolitionists have this winter to pene
trate far inland, even for the purpose of mere
temporary occupation. We believe, too, the
Ocmulgee ought to be obstructed, and now is
the time to do this business. Apparently ex
cessive precaution looks ridiculous till danger
comes, and then the want of it looks more re-
diculous stilL Planters who neglect a few days'
work now and perhaps find themselves ruined
in consequence will feel foolish as well as angry.
We may look confidently this season for as
much mischief to be done or attempted by gun
boats of all sizes and patterns as any sane man
believes them capable of doing or attempting.
P. S.—It may be es well, perhaps, to make
a clean breast of the matter, and add that the
The Appointment of God. Hooker.
The practical supercession oi McClellan in
the command of the Army of the Potomac sug
gested to us yesterday that it might have been
done in response to the alleged demands of the
Black Republican Governors. Since writing
that paragraph we see the following from a
Cincinnati correspondent of the New York
herald of the 8th, in which, detailing the pro
jet of the new Convention it is distinctly said
that McClellan shad t>e superseded by Hooker.
We append the revelations of the correspond
ent, with the single suggestion that the substi
tution of McClellan by Hooker, even under his
bloody programme of death and confiscation
will be very agreeable to the Sou'h.
In order to bear directly upon Mr. Lincoln
this pressure of official influence, they are to
assemble in Washington within ten days, at a
conference which is to lie attended bv all the
Governors of the loyal States, except Governor
Morgan, o New York, who will not join in
with them, and then present the following de
mands to President Lirfcoln ;
1. The removal of Major General McClellan
from the command of the Army of the Potomac,
and the appointment of Major General Joseph
Hooker to that position.
2. The supplauting of Gen. Buell by some
more energetic General; and
3. The vigorous prosecution of the war, the
immediate advance of the army of the Potomac,
the enforcement of the confiscation act, and,
finally, the recognition ot the war as a rebellion,
and the treatment of rebels in nuns as tr .itors,
and not as ordinary belligerents.
If the President declines to accede to these
propositions, and neglects to carry them out,
the Governors will refuse to furnish any more
troops to the arm)', and will, n is rumored, at
tempt to place some one in a position where the
President’s authority will not be needed to tf-
ect the object desired
In plain language, it is rumored that a mili
tary dictator will be appointed to tarry on the
war vigorously and successfully I do not en
dorse the truth of this last rumor; but I am
nclincd to place faith in it myself. I am quite
sanstied oft he correoim-ss of the statement that
no more troops will It-given until such changes
as the Governors desire in the commands of the
Eastern and Western anu.es are effected
1 understand that 1 iovernors Morton, of In
diana, and Yates, of Illinois, went to Louisville
yesterday to gatiur facts bearing upon Buell
and Ins campaign, and his conduct i i the same,
which they propose to lay before tho Cotiven
tion and the Piesident, to show tlio necessity
of his removal.
Having obtained these facts, they will pro
ceed to day to Columbus, where tney will be
joined by tiovernor Todd, and then push on
East to Washington. Governor Curtin will join
the party at Harrisburg, and Governors Kirk
wood, of Iowa, Blair, of Michigan, ami other
Western Governors, will proceed by another
route to Washington, where they expect to find
the Eastern Executives. Gov. Morgan, it is
understood, will not unite with them, as he de
sires to sustain Honest Abraham in his present
policy.
The Convention may be postponed ay some
contingency that may arise, but 1 have reason
to believe that it will take place at an early day
next week.
Some ot the Northern papers have treated
this information as a canard, but the Herald
gravely discusses it in a long editorial, in which
it says:
If this news should turn out not to be true
hereafter, it is no proof that it was not true
when it was Hist announced. If the cotiven
tion should not be held, it will oniy be because
the piemalure publication of the programme
shall have disconcerted the plans of the con
spirators. Their object at Providence and Al
toona, and the objects which they contemplate
at Washington, are the same. Their design is
to put Mr. Lincoln under their feet, virually
aud practically nullify the Federal au.bority,
and to act as indepennently as the Southern
rebels.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN AUGUSTA.
In the absence of our Augusta exchanges we
are indebt d to a gentleman who came through
on last nights’ train for the following particu
lars, in addition to the paragraph by telegram
which we published yesterday.
The fire originated in the warehouse of M.
P. Stovall, Esq, corner of Jackson and Greene
sreets,and communicated to the block of a large
s-o ehuuse and livery stable adjoining. One
Of the storehouses was occupied by Mr. Ed
mondson, as a produce and commission store,
who 1- st a lar ;e portion of his stock. Some of
the stores wt-re filled with cotton and other
produce, nearly all of which were destroyed.—
Between 5,000 and 6,000 bales of cotton was
co- suiued, Mr. >tovall saving only his books
and office papers.
Messrs. Byrd & Cri z, occupants of the liv
ery stable, lust about $l,5no worth of fodder
and several vehicles—the hitter gentleman ost
all his furniture, which was removed and alter-
wards consumed. The property belohged to
Rev. Mr. H irrisou and R. H. Gardner, Esq.,
aud was partially insured. The value of the
property destroyed was estimated at over half
a million of dollars. The cotton belonged to
various parties, whose names had not been
made public. The tire was supposed to be the
. ork ol an incendiary, and suspicion rested
upon certain parties, lor whom Ur- authorities
were on the look out. It was the heaviest con
flagration that has occurred in Augusta in many
years, and will, we presume, fall rather n.avilv
on the Insurance Offices. Our informant did
not know what offices share the loss.
Prom the Atlanta Intell gencer.
A JE*it iy Letter from Senator Lewis*
Cartersville, Ga., Nov. 1, 1862.
Editors/ Atlanta Intelligencer :
Sir:—-The great anxiety and distress now
pervading the public mind, in reference to a
supply of salt, has been simply the result of a
want of prudent forecast and industry. Had
the op erations now going on at Saltvi’lle, Vir
ginia, been put into requisition six months
sooner, this distress could easily have been
avoided. From a letter received by me ih-s
evening, of date of 29th October, from Salt-
ville, t! >e writer says that “the Governor (of
Georgia) has at least twenty five car loads await
ing shipment.” This is owing te the motive
power of the roads, and rolling stock, being
nearly all engaged in the transportation of
troops,. This will be Over in a few days, and
the S tate Road can, and will, I doubt not, send
train s through to the works, .and bring the salt
A supply will be delayed, deferred, hut unless
the enemy get possession of the works, (a very
improbable event,) salt will be coming, by the
tram, after a short time, to Georgia. I am,
myself, a steadfast believer in the doctrine of
“perseverance,” not only as applying to the fu
ture, but also to the present state. I have no
sort of sympathy with the family of croakers,
ruinists, and starvationists generally. I am
here to watch, pray, work, and (if need be,)
fight my way to the goal of my destiny. I
shall not starve, nor shall my lainily, if work
can prevent it; and in this course I am too
much engaged, either to give or receive lectures
on starvation and ruin. I shall not be ruined,
neither hero nor hereafter, if I discharge my
duty to God and man. This much as a text.
Whit follows ?
Our next great trouble, (after the salt
trouble,) will be the want of Bar Iron. Four
States of the Confederacy don't make a pound,
and the whole of them together are not mak
ing nor cannot make, with all the appliances
they now have, iron enough for war purposes,
saying nothing about agricultural, and the
thousand other purposes into which it must
enter, to sustain civilization itself. We jnust
have iron—have it soon, and have it in Bki-ge
quantities. Much must be made to enaSle us
to make our next crop ; it is so, whethA- be
lieved or not believed, and our people wiAtd do
better to “look it in the face,” than v,nosing
themselves about foreign recognition. 1 4nsh
myself, that I could never hear tho word re
cognition again on this side of the grave, or un
til it is accomplished. Men of Georgia, watch,
pray, arid work out your own deliverance—
your own independence 1 What will be your
condition when you cannot get s. plow made,
an axe, bar, or hoe blade ? And that time is
close ; t hand, as things are now going. The
assertion is broad, euipfiaiic, and just as true
as either, and 1 will sign my name under the
declaration, and shall only be solicitous that it
shall do good let it be. received as it may. In
a hundi\d days, the whole face of this fearful
picture can bo changed by labor and capital.
We have both. The great vein ot Iron Ore
running from Alabama to Tennessee, through
Nurlh-W e.-tern Georgia, >s sufficient, if work
ed, to supply the wants of the civilized world
tor an indefinite time. If we don’t use it, it is
our own fault. The primitive way of making
bar iron, to wit—directly from the ore by the
Catalan forge which differs but little, from a
“blacksmith’s” fire, is our resource now.
A lorge of this kind, with two fires, costs
hut little more work than the building of a
good saw mill, aud iron thus made, is good
enougn, and especially so when made from the
gray ore, with which Lumpkin, Pickens, Gil
mer, Gordon, Bartow and Cherokee counties
abound. Two localities are peculariiarly adapt
ed, within my knowledge, to making forge iron,
to wit: on “Talking Rock Creek,” in Pickens,
MONEY MAKING.
must send my Boy to the N<nth on a Spec
ulation—7 am not making enough Money /”
Richmond, Oct 30th, 1862.
Editor Telegraph :—Tho above quoted sen
tence was almost the first that greeted me on
my reaching Richmond yesterday. When you
and your readers reflect upon the sacrifices
that havebeen 'made of life, liberty and proper
ty, of the many mourning families and deso
lated homes; of the bereaved and suffering
communities made tributary to the cause of
Virginia and Richmond’s dlscnthralraent from
Abolition rule and tyranny—you will feel as
indignant as I did at the utterance of such a
laattoroUH and unfeeling seuriaient. “I must
send my Isoy to the lyirth on a speculation!"
I must see d my boy to traffic with those very
men who have aided to surround Richmond
with the dead bodies of Georgiansand patriots
from other States, fallen in vindication of the
rights, the honor and tho interests of an op
pressed people—long the victims of Northern
cupidity, extortion and spoliations! “I must
mak t more money” out of a speculation with
those whose present traffic is in the best bloqd
of tb.e South. Is Richmond in combination with
the North, to make a rich harvest of money out
of tl ie sufferings, deprivations and death of the
noble sons of the South? Is there an under
standing l>y which Richmond “speculates” up
on tile tears and sufferings of Georgia mothers,
fathers, wives and children ? ls there no duty
obligatory upon Richmond, but that of “mak
ing more money” out of this cruel and heart
rending war ? These are pertinent and natu
ral questions that suggest themselves to the in
dignant hearer of sucb unfeel.ng, unpatriotic
sentiments. Yet, such sentiments a- I am
commenting on meet with very little reprehen
sion in this blood-baptised capital of a persecu
ted and invaded republic, and the man who
manifests astonishment and disgust at them is
ridiculed as a simpleton, unacquainted with the
fundamental laws of social action !
1 see, too, by the Dispatch, of this morning,
that the Confederate authorites here propose,
to seize, to the use of the Government, the State
Road of Georgia, in defiance of the execu
tive authority of that-State. Upon the sub
ject of Whiskey distillation, and transpor
tation over the State Rail Road, Gover
nor Brown is right, and I trust he will
resist to the last extremity any interfer
ence with his prerogative as Chief Magistrate
of a sovereign State—a State whose sons have
,-anguined with their blood every b itile field
of tins revolution.
I trust, further, that tho iniquities of a Rich
mond oligarchy will be visited in retribution
upon that city of so many unappreciated sacri
fices, and that it will be made a permanent is
sue with the surviving soldiers of this war, to
transfer the capital of the Southern Confeder
acy to a point where traffic with the North is
not es tee in ad of paramount interest to a salva
tion of the South. I wish to God every- Geor
gia soldier was at home, where he could meet
with a just appreciation of his services, ana
render efficient aid to those who will not think
of “speculation” in conjunction with devastion,
carnage and death. Many a Georgia wife and
mother is to-day mourning the absence of dear
ones shrouded in the soil of Virginia, and the
idea that the authors of grief are the coniplot
ters in speculation with Richmond shylocks,
cannot fail to add coals of tire to tin ir sorrow.
This town is fast becoming a Sodom, from
By Electric Teiegr.^
FROM VIRGINIA.
Richmond, Nov. 3d.—Passengers repo
skirmish in Culpeper yesterday morning &
eighty Yankees captured.
Fredericksburg, Nov. 3d—Persons from Ma
rylund to day say that Halleck is sent to the
. west and McClellan is again General in Chief
I and' to remain in Washington. Hooker takes
t McClellan’s place. .
and “Amaca.ola,” in Lumpkin comities. ' These | wh ,'® h a11 B °^ “ en a,,d ' , hould flee ’
are two bold mountain streams, having a sue- | “ wou,d de « an •▼• n P«6 an ^ ! -
b I It is rumored here, (but I think without pro
per warrant,) that the 53d Georgia, has been
ordered to Weldon, N. C. Doubtless there
FACTORY BURNED.
The Houston Factory owned by Messrs.
Tooke & Cooper, was burned down yesterday
morning. The Wool, Cotton, and what little
they had manufactured, was saved.
Rosuixg the Temple or Justice.—A strong
illustration of the extent to which rascality is
rampant in Richmond, occurred the otiier dav.
The Recorder had a number of parties up as
receivers of stolen goods, ana, during the exam
ination, trunks and boxes belonging to them
were brought into the Court Room for exami
nation. Court being hungry, djoumed pen
ding the trial,for a few minutes to refresh,when
another hand of thieves broke in and stole all
the goods.
A True Man.—Alex. C. Morton, formerly
editor of the New York National Democrat,
PLANTING COTTON WILL BE DEATH TO
THE CONFEDERACY.
No mathematical axiom is more true. If the
people of the Confederate States are ready to
wear the collar of King Abraham the first, they
have only to follow the example set by some
men in Georgia last Spring. How was it pos
sible for those men who planted large crops of
cotton last Spring to know positively that their
countrymen had notdone likewise? And suppose
every planter had been influenced by the same
selfish and unpatriotic motives which intiuenc
ed a few men in Georgia and other States, what
would be our condition to-day ? The reader
has perhaps hoard of the distress and starva
tion in Cherokee, Ga., for want of bread and
meat, and yet, such a corn crop never was made
as has blessed the labors of the husbandman
the past Summer. If then the bad example of
one or two leading men in Georgia and other
Stales, had been imitated by the planters gen
erally, starvation would now be wide spread,
and the army demoralized. But, notwithstand
ing the abundance of corn made this year by
the sagacity, patriotism and unselfishness of
good men, yet t ie price of corn is ruling at
$1 50 in many parts of the State, and will be
$2 or $3 next summer. What will be the re
sult if a large, or even a half crop of cotton is
p.anted ? Cotton will be a drug in the market
Every farmer’s gin house is now packed with
t—the warehouses in the city are crammed with
it; and even the merchants’ store rooms in the
towns and villages throughout the country,
every available sp re is filled with cotton bags.
If much cotton is made next year, 5 cents a
pound will be a high price for it, because no
body can use it or send it abroad. The cotton
cannot be housed or packed—it must lie in the
field, subject to all the injuries of exposure.
But the greatest evil which will result, if
fanners and planters put much of their land in
cotton, will be the demoralization of the armies.
The men who are fighting the country’s bat
tles, are poor men, with rare exceptions No
mau will dispute this. Poor men when they
go to the war, leave poor wives and children at
home, to gain such a scanty subsistence as
hard work, industry and a protecting Provi
dence shall provide. These soldiers' wives and
their sons and daughters go out into the fields
and tend the’little crops of corn and peas. If
sickness comes they must neglect the crop.—
They can buy no shoes in win ter, and darely
get clothing to put upon their backs. Hun
dreds and hundreds of such families can be
found in every State in this Confederacy. Now
let mere be a scarcity of corn, with consequent
high prices. These poor families cannot get it.
The wife writes to her husband in the army
that she is starving. The soldier hears that
the planters have made cotton instead of corn,
thereby helping to starve hin wife and little
ones. The soldier becomes disgusted. He
carts not to fight when the men for whom he
is shedding hn; blood, are starving his wife and
children. Now let this condition of things be
come general in the country; then what f The
soldiers will come home, and ought to come;
for it is a mac's first duty to see that his wile
and children are provided for, before he thinks
of his country. And when they see that those
who have brought all the trouble on them are
m-u who have not been tuihUQg tile battle fit
cession ol fills for many miles, and in the im
mediate vicinity of large beds of gray ore, and
an almost unbroken forest of timber lor coal.—
Twelve good hands properly directed, wouid
build a forge of two tires in ninety days, from
the stump, and (the land excepted) tilteen hun
dred dollars would foot up the monied cost. It
wouid be a good specula! ion, and especially so,
as a good deal of sweat would have to be mixed
up with it. Northwestern Georgia ought, in
my judgment, to build one hundred Catalan
forges in the next 120 days from to day.—
I’wenty could be put on “ Amacalola,” twenty
on “Talking Rock," and tile bilance of the 100
on the various mountain streams running
through the counties named. And, finally,
suppose the war should come t.o a close speedi
ly, then the properties would be worth their
cost, and if judiciously built, and in good lo
calities, much more than their cost, for with a
small capital, more money cau be made clear,
according to amount of capital, than in making
iron in any other way.
At uiy earliest leisure, I shall resume this
subject, and connect with it the manufacture
of steel, an article of prime necessity, the want
of which we are already beginning to feel.—
With salt and iron plentiful, and a Fabian
Washington war policy, we sliall achieve our
independence after a while.
Very respectfully,
JOHN W. LEWIS.
ThtCtufidirntn in Prnnafiraaia.
The army correspondent of the Mobile Ad
vertiser & Register says :—
They did not pay for the horses they took,
becaus: those animals are a part of the milita
ry strength of the community. But with this
exception they did not take any article of pri
v ite property without paying for it, and they
did not enter any private house. Still less did
they offer insults to any female. They spent
a whole night and part of a day in the town of
Cliambersburg, after it had been surrendered
to them, and when it was completely at their
mercy. Tho soldiers slept on the ground, cn
the sidewalks, or under sheds. Not one of
them went into a private house. We are glt.d
to see this enconium, won from the enemy,
upon our gallant, chivalrous troops. Verily,
Pope acted very differently in Virginia 1 Ilis
command plundered private houses indiscrimi
nately, whether belonging to Union men or
not. In many cases ladies were insulted by
Pope’s soldiers, and were too often made vic
tims of outrages too brutal to mention. The
Confederates had power to act in the same
manner in Pennsylvania, but that innate chiv
alry which was born with them would permit
no such conduct as that exhibited by the van
dals in Virginia.
The negro question in Illinois is agitating
the State to a great degree. Meetings have
been held at Pittsfield, Pike county, and Broad-
ville, Logan county, in which the people pro
test against the Federal infraction of the State
constitution. The people of the Filth Judical
District have decided that persons with negro
blood cannot be employed as teachers in the
public schools.
Kentucky—tue Reign or Terror Inaugur
ated.—We are advised by a Lieutenant, just
lrom Glasgow, Ky., that three Southerners
are known to have been murdered by the Abo
litionists since our annv passed through that
place. Fifteen other Southerners have mys
teriously disappeared. All people who have
manifested any predilection to the Confederacy
are greatly alarmed. The reign of terror must
now be inaugurated throughout Kentucky.—
It is all well perhaps. If Kentuckians would
not take up aims aud aid us in the expulsion
of the invaders, while eur army occupied the
State, they may now be driven from their
homes, and forced to fight for principles and
opinions which they verbally professed to en
tertain. Such were not the purposes of our
leaders in planning and executing the late
campaign, but Kentuckians, by their practical
illustration of non-committal pUriots, have
brought these calamities on their own heads.
There are wise fools in East Tennossee, who
declare for a like policy. Our authorities can
not now endure it.—Knoxville Register.
Financiering on a Large Scale.—As an
evidence ol the faith and stability which the
Southern people have in Government securi
ties, we would state that a day or two ago a
Georgian went into the Treasury Department
and purshased the nice little sum of one mil
lion dollars ol eight per cent, bonds.—Dispatch
October ‘tilth.
Smuggling acrossitue Border.—The Rich-
will shortly be a change in the disposition of
the Virginia troops, and 1 devoutly hope those
from Georgia may be permitted to return to
their own State. They are neither properly
appreciated nor cared for, here.
No apprehensions seem to be entertained at
this point, of a formidable attack from the cne
my. With the actual sufferers of Virginia, I
deeply sympathize ; but the extortioners, spec
ulators and tyrants of Richmond, l utterly ab
hor. Let the Capitol be moved from hence,
and better results will follow our struggle for
independence. Yours, Ac.,
Burr.
TALKING TO THE POINT.
A very Peremptory Call for Ziabur on tho
Coast Defences.
Gov. Brown has issued the following circular
which will be conceded to be very outs spoken
and to the point, but not more so than the
occasion calls for:
Executive Department, )
Milledgeville, Nov. 1st, 1862. j
To the planters of Georgia:
* Since my late appeal to some of you, lam
informed by Brigadier General Mercer, com
manding at Savannah, that but few hands have
been tendered. When the impressments made
by General fiercer some weeks since, were loud
ly complained of, it was generally raid, that
while the planters objected to the principle of
impressment, they would promptly furnish all
the labor needed, if an appeal were made to
them. I am informed that General Mercer
now has ample authority to make impressment.
If, then, a sufficient supply of labor is not ten
dered within ten days from this date, he will
resort immediately to that means of procuring
it, with my full sanction, and I doubt not, with
the sanction of the General Assembly.
Alter you have been repeatedly' notified of
the absolute necessity for more labor to com
plete the fortifications, adjudged by the milita
ry authorities in command, to be indispensable
to the defense of the key to tlie State, will you
delay action till you are compelled to contri
bute means for the protection not only of all
your slaves, but of your homes, your firesides,
and your altars ?
I will not believe (hat there was a want of
sincerity in your professions of liberality and
patriotism, when many of you threatened resis
tance to impressment upon principle, and not
because you were unwilling to aid the cause
with your means.
I renew the call for negroes to complete the
fortifications around Savannah, and trust that
every planter in Georgia will respond by a
prompt tender of one fifth of all his working
men.
As stated in my former appeal, the Genoral
in command will only accept the number ac
tually needed. Joseuu E. Br^wn.
WHAT NOW?
The Savannah Republican of yesterday talks
like an oracle. We hope something good is
coming. Hear him :
Military Movements.—We have reason to
believe that the government has aga'n put the
machinery of war in motion, and in the right
direction. We cannot, of course, be more ex
plicit, but suffice it to say that movements arc
on fool which, properly conducted, will thwart
all the cherished plans of the enemy and secure
his signal overthrow at every i>oint to which
they are directed. We ahalt probably bear
something of results at an early day.
Thus far in the war we have anticipated all
the plans of the Abolitionists, and wo are glad
to see that our energetic President and Gen
erals are abating nothing of their vigilance.
INSTANCE OF REAL CHIVALRY.
The following is a cop? of a note which
we received from Gen. H. S. Briggs, of this
State, and which tells its own story. We take
pleasure in recording an instance in which the
horrors of war are softened by an act of genu
ine courtesy, and kindness:—Boston Journal.
“Heado’rs Palmetto Sharpshooters,
Col. II. S. Briggs, Col. URA Regiment Mas
sachusetts Volunteers :
Colonel :—Having obtained from one of
my men a medallion containing, I presume, the
likenesses ol your family, I return the same.—
The medallion was found in your camp, in
which my regiment slept the night after the
battle of Saturday, the 31st of May. Though
willing to meet you ever in the field while act-
a foe to my country, I do not war
FROM THE WEST.
Holly Springs, 3d.—Scouts from the vicin
ity of Corinth represent that the enetny has
been Urgely reinforced, is fortifying, entrench
ing, and making every preparation to hold the
place. Three thousand Yanks are at Jack3on,
Tenn., and twenty-one regiments at Bolivar,
with interminable lines of fortifications.
Moiiild, Nov. 4th.—A special to the Adverti
ser and Register dated Guntown, the 3d says
that scouts from above report the enemy rein
forcing heavily at Corinth, strengthening their
fortifications, moving buildings from Burnsville
and getting large quantities of lumber from the
neighboring mills.
Mobile, Ala., Nov. 4, 1862.—A special dis
patch to the Mobile Tribune, dated Grenada
the 3<1, says the Memphis Bulletin of the 1st
has been received. The Liverpool Journal of
of the 21st says that Mr. Gladstone's speech
has convinced nearly everybody that Lord Pal
mersion, who is at the head of the Government,
is about to recognize the Confederacy. It is
said that a memorial signed by twenty-one
member* of the Chamber of Commerce is to he
presented to that body, urging them to send a
deputation to- the ministers requesting her
Majesty’s advisers to recommend the recogni
tion of the Confederate .biates at once. That,
it is the opinion of the memorialists there is
no ca.ll for deiay. The Chancellor of the Ex-
ohtq air has emphatically announced in public
that Jeff. Davis has not oniy a great
army and a small navy, but a nek tyjtjion. Mr.
Ghiddone avoids active intervention. Sir John
Paki lgton asserts that the time has arrived
when Her SfgeHlg.’s_GoYerlament, in conjunc
tion with other
mediation
Equa
several
The
(so reads the
leleg-am) says that, two of the highest class
houses have received telegrams from Head
Quarters in London that the British and French
Governments lost no time in announcing that
they are resolved on a policy of perfect neutrnl-
ity.
Army movements unimportant. Thirty per
sons have been ordered to leave Memphis on
account of an attack by the Guerrillas on Fed«
eral steamboats.
GREAT FIRE IN AUGUSTA.
Augusta, Nov. 5th—A fire here last night de-
stsoyed Stovall’s Cotton Ware House and sta
bles, 6(100 bales of Cotton and some produce,,
•fee. Loss over half a million dollars.
FROM THE WEST.
Chattanooga, 'Ienn., Nov. 5th.—Colonel..
Roddy surprised a Federal catnp of six hundr ed
at Cherokee on the 2d, killed three. Our loss
one killed and two missing. The entmy tied
to Corinth.
An accident occurred on the East Tenn.. &
Georgia Road last night killing seventeen sol
diers and wounding fifty. Cause- break ing axle
ot one of the cars.
ef
FROM VIRGINIA.
Richmond, 5th.—There is nothing of impor
tance from Northern Virginia.
An immense Republican meeting was held
in New York City last week. Wadsworth the
Republican candidate lor Governor, made a
flaming speech in favor of the subjugation ol
the South.
Ihe Board of Councilman in New York ht re
passed an ordinance authorizing the issue
shinplasters to the amount of three millions
dollars.
The New York Times reiterates assertions
that Gen. Edward Price, son of Gen. Sterling
Price, has taken the oath of allegiance to the
Federal Government and reported to General
Curtis at St. Louis.
Jackson, Miss., (via Mobile) Nov. 5, 1862 —
Shortily after 8 o’clock this P. M., tho build
ing used as a catridge manufactory having a
large amount of powder stored in it, ex
ploded with a fearful concussion. Of its oc
cupants, boys, girls and young ladies, not one
escaped.
In the confusion and excitement it is impos
sible to learn the number, certainly not less
than thirty, and may far over reach that num
ber. Cause of explosion unknown.
FROM FLORIDA.
Augusta, 6th.—The Savannah Republican-
of this morning learns through private letters,,
that the abolitionist ware bombarding Tampa
Bay, Florida, on the 3d. Our forces were con
fident of their ability to hold out.
FROM THE WEST.
Mobile, 6th.—[Special despatch to the Ad
vertiser & Register.] Holly Springs, 5th.—
Tho enemy have advanced in force to Latimige,
Tennessee, and are repotted advanc%B»n this,
place.
Jackson’s cavalry had a skirmish to day at
Lamar. It is probable the enemy will give us
battle, as they are about to make a strenuous
effort to open the Mississippi river.
-v and force under MeClernard will be sup
ported on land by Grant, and on the river by
a gunboat flotilla. The prospect of recogni
tion is hurrying them.
[LaGrange is on the Memphis & Charleston
Road, about thirty miles Northeast of Holly
Springs.]
Another Convert from Lincolnism.—The
Cleveland (Tenn.) Banner publishes a commu
nication from the Rev. J. B. Dobson, in which
he renounces his allegiance to the Did Union,
and concludes by saying: “I an» not for a
Union that proposes to strike down the insti
tutions of the South, take away her oonstitu
tional rights, and wantonly subjugate he. citi
zens. In view of Mr. Lincoln’s late proclama
tion, and other developments, I am constrained
to say to my old friends, that I am now a
Southern man in heart, sympathy and purpose;
and I invite them to read the proclamation, and
it is confidently believed that they will arrive
at a similar conclusion.”
Yankee Pictorials.—The Richmond corres
pondent of the Charleston Mercury says :
Harper’s Weekly and Leslie’s Illustrated of
to-day came by flag of truce yesterday —
Leslie’s comic cut represents us in Richmond
in a state of starvation, and chuckling over one
of Mr. Davis’ timely fast days. Harper is
“down upon” tho Seymour Party. Three fig
ures with dough-faces, or rather dough-beads,
are represented with banners marked, “Tb«
Union provided,” “The Union tp,’*’ -Tl
cut reurejjeu^ 2 ok
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t, on the basis of
n tending sections,
the non-success of
immedi-
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