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Newspaper Page TextA:. ■ cAm • ' JJTHUI M " NORTHERN PAPERS. 1 VV e arc indebted to Mr. J. R. Butts for Nor- «!. papers up to the 7th instant, but all the f lints of great interest they contain hare been anticipated by the telegrams which reach to ihc 11th o( the present month. Wo have had ima only to glance at these papers, but notice Kit the New York Times of the Cth is pc>» ctly jubilant over two brilliant Federal vie- ,ries we have not heard of in this remote , r t of the world. The word “victory” in ■ rsof startling size crowns captions half a \ n long in two places on the first page of .per. The first victory was won at Mur* to’ which he announces is in possession f( the Federal army, while Bragg is in full flight, broken up and demolished. Roscncrnns HWKts his loss at lOOftkillcd and 5500 woun* rtjflt Vicksburg is also, according to the Tim'S in the hyalaat- iiw JriwIL.al PhilUtiwnq circumstances of immense prestige and ; v rr. It is strange that the New York prints .. iinuse themselves so long and persistent- , in falsification. One might think they would tire of it after so long a time, and feed glutted appetites now and then with a taste of truth just for a change and the j. issure of novelty. Besides these two great v ,, ries a little victory is reported in Western ■jy-ssee where Forrest wag defeated by a ■•as turned Sullivan, and “lost fourteen hund- j ;,i killed and wounded, besides prisoners an ! cannon.” In short,the New York Times of January sixth, is in a blaze of glory. n rERFLUOUS Admonition.—The Chronicle \ c. unel has an article under the head of ■•Si . Your Rsgs,” which is going the rounds it tbe papers, and is intended for the benefit (pa|nT makers. The truth is, down this we not only save our rags, but we wear v.: . until there’s little or nothing left. The r"u i’.e with the paper makers begins with a H-ircity of fabrics. Give us a plenty of loth and the people will soon part with their And this is the case now the world ROWS IN THE LINCOLN CONGRESS, trhen the last seceder bid a final adieu to th - il ills of the Northern Congress, alter twen •ii-.o years of almost uninterrupted conten and strife, which for three or four years \i .iis had embittered to such a degree as jiicntlv to check the ordinary operations of ■ _;u\ eminent, the Northern papers congrat- icil themselves, that at lcastonc benefit was •red. There would be an end of bitter con- ion and disorder. With the representation ; d to the “tree Slates” alone, none ol those . r'ul squabbles, growing out of tl»e“bar- . -n ot slavery" would hereafter sully tbe fair i d' the Federal House of Representatives, r. tglc Senatorial dignity down in the filth 'personal stews and broils. fii« Northern -prwplretip, however, liave been :>Ueiri this as in all other vaticinations. From lie iir>t day of the Lincoln Congress to the at time, the complaint has been universal ■at ail public business has been remorselessly icnliced to the most disgraceful parly and ,-rs..nal brawls. The Northern Congress is of a bear garden than ever, even with the ; out and the pro.slavery party gone.— if i. a oarto blanche to work their own will >a the South so fur as legislation can do it, -y quarrel, tight and traduce each other by the month, to the neglect of every public inter- —give the lie across the Chambers, about as ificn vs a good morning, and for the first time a history have hail a regular boul. of fisticuffs I in the Cabinet. I In short,they have disclosed to the world, it not to themselves, (for none arc so blind as hose who will not see) where the responsibtl- 1 .ty lor the thirty years of discord ending in fna] disruption, justly rests. If tlioy cannot he at peace among thcmsolves, having every - i thing their own way, how could they live in 1 puce with a great section having peculiar in- I sit it ions and local interests different from their [ m, which they hated, but which we were iiiiged to defend. The probabilities indeed, art that the slavery question, in the North, *as of vast benefit to that section, in furnish ing a sluice or safety-valve, through which the discordant interests and selfish and bad passions of tho people could find escape, with out injury to their own section. Cut off from this i ourcc of escapement and relief, by the practical independence of the South,like beasts ol prey they now turn upon and rend each other, and actually make much more disgrace ful exhibitions of themselves, than when they I 1 could assault and wound a common enemy, As every man of sagacity saw in the grad- ’ otliy increasing bitterness of the two sections “» the tloor of Congress a certainty that sooner or inter tbe quarrel roust culminate in a fight —so it is iqually certain that these hostile and infuriated beasts of prey who now snarl and snap at each other in the Yankee Congress will come at last to the point of civil war; and if they progress at the rale they have been go ing on, will reach that crisis before very long. SALT OPERATIONS IN CHARLESTON. The Charleston correspondent of the Mobile Register has the following upon the recent salt operations in Charleston: Speaking of speculators reminds me of the terrible tumble which nas taken place here within tin: last two or three weeks in the price of the important article of salt. The heavy character of the decline should bo a warning to those who are bolding on to other needed articles, with the hope of producing a fictitious scarcity. A month ago Liverpool salt in this market brought $210 per sack; three days ago, at one of the large cargo sales, which had as seuibled bidders from every portion of the Con federacy, a large lot of Liverpool Salt was put up. With some difficulty, tbe auctioneer ob tained a single bid at $75 per sack. Tho bidder, finding himself tho only bidder, contented himself with taking five sacks, the minimum quantity allowed by the terms of the sale. The remainder of the salt then went off in small quantities, at, the successive and con ■tanfiy decreasing bids of sixty fivo, sixty and fifty dollars, and finally at less than forty dol lars per sack. I need not add that this ama> xing fall woke up a good many «t ho bad been dabbling, shrewdly, as they supposed, in this treacherous ami uncertain merchandize.— the truo cause of the decline is of courso to ^found in the extensive ar.dsuccesslul opera- hh'tw of the salt makers on this coast, whose is legion, and who, by active competi* )*-, have brought down the price of salt a 1 ‘ lll « more rapidly than it was inflated, in the instance, by speculators. . "TheNew York Herald characterizes the late 6 *-‘‘tle ofVicksburg “another Frederickburg affair, MEMORANDA IN REGARD TO CONFED ERATE WOUNDED AT WASHINGTON, Taken at request of parties by Jas. R. Butts, in Washington, on the 4th and 5th of Janu- »iy instant, and published for information of fnends: • Charles E. Underwood, Co. D, 81st Georgia, in Douglas hospital, left leg amputated-get- Ung along finely, kindly treated. Address B. K. Underwood, Taylor county, Ga. G. H. Guger, Co. D, COth Ga., in same hos pital, wounded in right leg and shoulder, doing ne y. Think I will he about in a month.— Address, Win. Guger, Dalton, Ga. Benjamin Hickman, Co. F, i3th Ga , wound ed in chest, getting along poorly. Kindly treated at Douglas hospital. Address Mrs. Amanda Hickman, Coldwater P. O., Elbert county, Ga. S <T to Mrs. Hickman. prepare herseii for tne worst— pnysician thinks ho can not recover. »;— __ Lieut J. M. Payne, Co. K., 19th Ga. wound healed. Clothing Inrnished—removed from hospital and sent to Old Capitol prison. Ad dress B. F. Payne, Coosa, Ga. Private J. B. Samples, removed from hospi tal and also sent to saine prison. Address Ja cob Samples, Franklin, Heard Co. Ga. J. M. Grant, formerly from Flat Rock P O. Henry County, Ga., belonged to a Louisiana regiment In Douglas hospital, wounded at Fair Oaks, left leg carried away and amputa ted below the knee; also received a ball in the right hip. Nearly recovered, and expects to be on crutches in a few days. Son oi J. W. Grant of Henry county. Major Pettigrew, of Waynuville, AVayne co. wounded in a charge at Fredericksburg; died on the 30tu at the Patent Office Hospital. Mr. J. R. Butts has a copy of his wilL John Buckhalter and Jackson Collins, 61st Georgia Regiment, wounded at Fredericksburg, are at Alexandria, both doing well. Capt John Underwood, Co. B., 4th Geo., killed at the battle of Antielam, was buried by Dr. J. L. G. Otis, of Norwich, Conn. He plac ed a board with his name on it to mark his grave. In case his family wish to remove his remains South, Dr. O. will at any time assist them. Dr. O. is now at the Douglas hospital wounded. Richard L mcaster, Co. E., 14th Tennessee, at the Douglas hospital, wounded in the arm. doing well. W. S. Herndon, Co. E., 14th Tennessee, wounded in the left arm—nearfy well. Cousin George was killed at Bull Run. GOV. SEYMOUR’S MESSAGE Appears to have raised a bowl of denunciation among the Lincoln -press, but it proposes to do nothing more than what all the Black Repub licans agreed to by resolution unanimously adopted by the Lincoln Congress eavly in 1861. It has not a startling; feature about it. It simp ly insists that, the Constitutional rights of the Northern citizen should (»e respected, while Hie war Mmuhi w -ni. r o.— l., pose of reestablishing the Union, an object which never can he abandoned. Seymour’s nova) idea of carrying on the war in a conciliatory manner floats through the whole synopsis of tbe document It is a grand discovery, but how to be reduced to practice is a puzzle, unless he will drop poiioiied balls and shoot us with sugar plums. Less exas peration might have existed in lire South had the Federals observed the rules of honorable warlare and spired our nou-coiL batauts and property from outrage and destruction. But still, the giant wrong and insult to a free peo- would have reinai >.cd—that without a sha dow of right and in defiance of the fundamen tal principles of our government, they have Co.ne among us with force, and come to compel our submission to a foreign yoke. To talk of “conciliation” while this attempt is persisted in, is an insult to our self respect and common sense. If a man is to be driven train bis own premises by violence, it makes no great odds whether lie is addressed in peremptory lan guage or in the politest terms of a French danc ing master. The great outrage is in the act, and conciliation is impossible until it is aban doned. It is in the essence ol a stupendous outrage upon right and justice like ibis, th-. 1 <h«‘ un-ms and process should events.l-y j.s a level with the end proposed. We have seen how the Lincolnites solemnly resolved to carry on this war, and how they have done it. So Sey mour with his conciliatory plan, if be had charge of matters would soon be plundering, house-burning, murdering and raping with the wotst of them. There are such brain figments in romances as polite, humane, elegant and ac complishcd pirates and brigands, but they are not to be found out of the books. Evil doers sink to a level with their busi ness, and the business of Southern subjugation carried on directly by even such men as Sey mour and Vallandigham would soon sink into the atrocious brigandism which now character izjs it The people of the South inherited from their ancestry a right to a government of their own choice and all the other rights of free men. The attempt to rob them of these by force of arms is a monster crime which over shadows all others—and the lesser atrocities follow naturally in its train. The man who counsels the use or continuance of force for this object is obliged to father all the horrid consequences which result from the proposi tion. Conciliatory robbery—conciliatory mur der—conciliatory house burning—these would be strange terms; but how much less so ard conciliatory attempts to compel a free peoplo measure Consoles us for the mishap. The read- . . ■*r has lost nothing. Tho aiie of our edition ' n re ^ ercnw > to the public services ana me neavyUx we anreompe,,™ * upon press and engine, give us littlo time for n — 1 ’ - - 1 *• repairs, but we can usually shield our readers from loss of tho paper if any breakage hap pens in daylight If it comes after dark, we are without remedy. But as generally our machine arrangements are in good repairs just now, we trust and beljve such accidents will be few and far between. MACON, FRIDAY, 3 O’CLOCK, JANUARY 23,1863 Volume XXXVII.—No. 17 Accident and Apology—Friday night, just as the inneY form had gone to press for the first edition, tho Engineer had the misfortune to discover a material lesion in his machine which proved fatal to publication that night Repairs might have been made to save a part of our mails,.if we could have had access to machinists or shops—-but the former had gone home lor the night and the latter wero closed. Nothing therefore remained but to wait for the morning and repair during the day. In con sequence of this unfortunate accident, wo send out our paper with tho outside of Saturday, but.with such additional news as we could gather lor the inside form. This, however, is small in amount and unimportant in charac ter. There is no news going just now and papers are without interest, and this in some to yield up their all, their priceless political rights and submit to that most detestable despotism—tho domination of a foreign de mocracy ? Central Train.—The Central train due yesterday (Saturday) at nine in the morning, had not arrived at six at night. Some mis hap was feared in tho road. Southern AVounded in Washington.—Mr. Butts has handed us the following paragraph from a late number of the AVashington Com monweallh: Transferred from Hospital to the Old Capitol Piuson.—The following rebel prison ers, who have been under treatment in the hospitols of the city, having recovered, were yesterday committed to thfe Old Capitol: S. M. Payne, company K, Nineteenth Georgia; Aa ron Fulbright, company I, Nineteenth Geor gia ; Sergeant H. A. Holland, Nineteenth Geor gia; S. M. Jones, company E Fourteenth Ten nessee; AVm. J. Miller, company F, Thirty- first Georgia. Gold AYrather.—The weather faired off frim tbe storm of Thursday with a cold north wester. Friday morning we had a bit of snow, and by night it was as cold as it often gets to be in Macon—the ground frozen hard. On Saturday it continued quite cool, and this (Saturday) night we have the promise of a pretty solid freeze again. Accident on the Central Railroad.—AVe learn just before going to press that the train due here at 9 a. m. yesterday run off the track —at what point we did not ascertain—killing two persons,—the baggage master anil express agent The train arrived at half past nine last night No other particulars. Tbe Late Gen. T. R. R. Cobb.—The New York Observer, referring to the late Confederate Gen eral Cobb, of Georgia, who was killed at Freder icksburg, says: Mr. Cobb was an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and an autive member of ecclesiastical bodies, n distinguished author and contributor to the religious periodical literature of the country. His religious communications have appeared in this paper, and we esteemed him as an able and excel lent Christian gentleman and author. AVhen Mr. Lincoln was elected to the Presiden cy, we made special exertions to set before the people, especially our readers in the South, the duty of yielding patriotic and constitutional obe dience to the Government whomsoever administer ed, and we further insisted that resistance to the Government would be rebellion Mr. Cobb was the first to resent this doctrine, and to insist upon the right and duty of the South to take immediate measures to deliver its people from the Govern ment of the United States. AVhen we see such men as Cobb anil Hill, and Preston and Jackson, all of them distinguished for their intelligent Christian characters, all of them are more and more persuaded that our people have not yet appreciated.the task they have undertaken in the subjugation of tbe South. ££f~The leading members of the New York Chamber o: Commerce are out in a card pro testing against tho use of thei^ rooms, or the name of the organization to which theybelong, to welcome Beast Butler to New York. It ap pears that a private committee, self-appointed, undertook the proposed reception. Tiro Situation.—The train from Tullahoma bad not arrived last night op to the hour that we went to press. It has been raining here heavily for the past twelve horns. .If the rains have been as abundant through tbe middle portions of the State, the ad vance of Uosencrans, if he really contemplates au advance, will be materially interfered with. We have no dbubt the streams up there are much swo- len, and that Duck River, our preposed line of ope rations, is by this time, probably, out of its banks. We have no telegraph of importance from other points.—[Chat. Rebel, 16. WRECK OF A FEDERAL TRANSPORT. AVilmibaton, Jan. 15.—A Federal steamer, supposed to be a transport, went ashore off AVrigbLsvillc Sound, nine miles hence, at six o’clock on yesterday evening. She was a total Wreck. Heavy weather at sea. AVind South—stormy. THE YANKEES REPULSED AT VICKS- BURO—WHAT THBY SAY OF IT. In tho matter of Vicksburg the Yankess con fess to a defeat, and their joy over the vic- t«wy (I) first claimed by them has been turned into mourning. The New York Herald says: ~Tbe news of the repulse of General Sher man’s- army at Vicksburg produces a very de pressing sensation in this city. Our dispatches say that it is thought he “could maintain his position,” but this is not very suggestive of success; for we remember that “it was thought,” last September, that Gen. Miles would hold his position at Harper’s Ferry. AVe think that the details of this bloody re pulse of our army at Vicksburg sho ws very clearly that it was the result of another budg et of blunders at AVashington. W hy were not the gunboats of Farragut and Porter in the Vicksburg fight ? Where were the land forces of General Banks and the army of General Grant ? But Sherman ought not to have made a premature attack, ne ought to have waited till the combination was complete. Tho skill, courage and endurance of Sherman and his troops hare failed in their first approaches at Vicksburg because of some radical mistake in the combinations of the AVar Office. The grcatestblunder of the administration from the beginning has been a too contemptible opin ion of the strength and strategy of tho rebels in- every important movement against them.— Hardly second, however, to this fundamental mistake is the policy which appears to govern the AVar Department of holding and guarding every section of the country captured train the rebels, instead of following up their armios.— But wo can tell the Government that under this system of territorial occupation and pro tection against guerrillas we can never bring this war to a successful issue. , The New York World smarting under the reverse, says: Vicksburg must bo taken, and that soon; for if wo cannot capture this stronghold with the enormous armies and material of war at the West, then is this great conflict a useless one. 11 is not atall improbable that the decisive battle of tho war may yet be fought at or near Vicks burg. At last accounts Southern troops from all quarters were flocking to that vicinity, and the next time it is attacked no doubt but that an army of OTcr 100,000 men will dispute its pos> session with the Union forces. General Banks will have as much as he can do for some time to come to reduce Port Hudson and the other Southern strongholds between that point and Vicksburg. From last accounts at New Or leans it did not seem likely that he would be able to operate against Port Hudson before tbe 10th inst BUTLER IN NEW YORE. His Reception—Protest of the Chamber of Commerce against the me of tlcir names— Address of the Committee of Reception to Gen. Butler. General Butler and staff mriveil in New York on the 8th. On hisarriTal he was driv en with his staff to tho Fifth 4vcnue Hotel.— In the evening the committjfee ot reception waited on Gen. Butler at tha Fifth Avenue Hotel, for the purpose of making arrange-? ments for a public reception or dinner. They were received by Butler in one of the parlors privately, and presented the following address to him: New York, Jan. 6. To Major General Benj. F. Butler, United States Army: Dear Sir—At a meeting of the citizens of this city held in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, on the morning of the 1st inst., for the pur-y ' pose of expressing the sense of this corthe angel of peaco to this down trodden, ices rJuifti-r* p 'ft 'njid outlawed community. I cannot BEAST BtJTLER’S RULE IN NEW OR- I LEANS. r ork “World” publishes several :orrespondents in New Orleans, i will in some slight degree indi- charactcr of the atrocious despo- icd by Butler in Now Orleans.— ontinues: iment can afford to screen such a >m the full light of day, and both the nation and the voice of hu- nd the fullest, fairest and most estigation into this black page of The -following extract from a from an old resident of New Or- ;he state of feeling in that city: >te you last great changes have lere. Gen. Banks quietly arrived ed Butler, to his great astonish ment,and that of every man, woman and child in New Orleans. - It. was like a visit from rob- _ cannot de- WVjy ‘ the f*J> ' ,r ,1 ’ "I cormorants _ „ — | . , i icasrwr-piunder. I s.. Resolved, lhat the loyal patriotism, indom- -is crew fell from Heaven, .^nd their itable energy, and great administrative' ability shown by Major General Benjamin F. Butler in the various commands held by him m the service of the country,' and especially in his civil and military administration of the duties pertaining to his command of the Department of the Gulf, eminently entitle him to an ex pression of approbation on the part of the citizens of New York. In furtherance oi the views thus expressed, it was also resolved that, in addition to sucli action as may be taken by our municipal au thorities in extending to you the iospitalities of this city, a public dinner be tendered to you by the citizens, and the undersigned were appointed a committee to communicate with you upon the subject We have now the honor to apprise yon of the action thus taken, and to ask that you will meet with our citizens at a public dinnbr at such time, to be appointed by you, os may be consistent with your official duties and your personal convenience. In conveying to yo« this invitation, intended as a tribute of personal respect and esteem, j»e are well assured lb-1 it will nut lie tho less aiveptable to you as marked by a still higher siguif ounce.— The citizens of New. York, watching tbe events ef the war with a degree of vigilance and anxicsv pro portioned to the vast interests and influences which converge toward and radiate from this great com mercial centre, have recognized in the courfc pur sued by you, in the service and support of the gov ernment, the principles which they deem mfen es sential and indispensable to its triumph. They share with you in the conviction that there As no middle and neutral ground between loyality. and treason; that traitors against the Govcn.iu- nt for feit all rights of protection and of property ;nthat those who persist in armed rebellion, or aid ig less openly, but not less effectively, must bf ,put down and kept down by the strong hand of jjpwer and by the use of all rightful means, and i ; it to far as may be the sufferings of the poor and tfle misguided, caused by the rebellion, should beSrjii- teii upon the authors of their calamities. We bive seen with approbation that in applying these pHn- ciples amidst the pecular difficulties and emfat- rassmsnts incident to your administration in your recent cammand, you have the sagacity to dc'vir* the will to execute, and the courage to enforon'il- measures they demanded, and we rejoice at th success which has vindicated the wisdom anil th justice of your official course. In thus congratx lating you upon these results, we believe that w ly desire the speedy restoration of its full integrity and power, and we trust that yc will be able to afford us the opportunity or.inti changing with you, iu the manner proposeflL t' patriotic sympathies and hopes which beloi% this sacred cause. a' . We are, General, with high respect, your frffibis and obedient servants, F N Morg i, Charles King, HG White, B H McCurdy, Ohas Gould, Hiram Barney, G. AV Blunt, Seth B Hunt, Wm A Butler, K Nye, Jno Blunt, of Brooklan, John Wadswortl Francis G Shaw, Chas Butler, R J Throne, Edwin Hintern, Peter Cooper, Russell Sturgi9, C H Marshall, Hamilton Blake. Cutler replied that he was going to setts imniedirtcly for a few days, and on he would render his answer. The matter,! will be held in obeyance until that time. A leveo was then held in one of the parlors, tid a number of the guests of the hotel and oth rs were introduci d to him. Among the ladies pi s- ent was Mrs. General Barks. Gen. Bytlcr ci i- versed fr. ly with those who called. The leading members of the Chamber of Com merce of New York are out in a card protesang against the use of their name or organization to which they belong to welcome Geneni Butler to New York. They wish it understood that it has nothing to do with the reception. They are doubt less too well acquinted with the opertions of But ler & Brother to have anything to do with that disreputable firm. The following is their protest: New York/ January 7j 1863. To the Secretary of the Ne* York Chamber of Commerce: Sir—Observing a notice it the papers of a meet ing to-day at the rooms of the Chamber of Com merce of a committee of gentleman who are charged, how wc know no* but certainly not by tbe chamber, with the,, proposed public reception of General Butler, wo take this occasion, which, however, has not been the first which has been presented, to protest, as ^embers of the Chamber, against the use of its rooms for any purpose oth er than such as are connected with the objects for which it was organized and chartered. Hoping that this profct which is alone intend ed for tho promotion cf harmony in the Chamber, aud to subserve its real interests, may have duo effect. AVe remain your obedient servants, (Signed.) a ravipg npniaa ^ This i Butler has Sen gudly of. give all ‘the news {flat trai James Brown, Stewait Brown, James M Brown, W Butler Duncan, AVatts Sherman, J T Agnew, James Galletin, R Withers, Royal Phelps, Sami B Rabcock, Jos Gailliard, Fletcher Westray. Wilmington, Jan. 14,—All is quiet here. It is believed that the enemy's fleet nnd land lorccs have left Ncwbern and Fort Macon, their destination being probably, Goldsboro’ and Wilmington simultaneously. Non-combatants have been requested to leave tho towa. The Stock Gambling Mania.—Tho special correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer, writing from New York, Jan. 9, says: The stock gambling mania shows little or no let up. The crowd at both Boards this morning was quite as dense and as excited as yesterday. Among the crowd are many peo ple whose faces are not often visible in Wall Street. Every man that can beg or borrow a hundred dollars takes it to a banker with in structions that he “operate for arise,” but to sell out “quick,” as'soon as a few per cent are realized, for even the wpst credulous has an inward conviction that a sweeping reaction is in reserve, and what is more,there ia no telling ho tv soon it may come. The country all round kboutjis being drawn into the vortex, and the eftpk of the telegraph all day told of orders to brokers from people hundreds of miles away. The brokers them selves must be making fortunts i6 the way of commissions. Parties who were only “lame ducks” a few weeks ago are nra flush—jubi- lantand happy. As might be expected, under these circumstance^ the price produce and general merchandise, sympathizing with the inflation and the upward tendency of gold and sterling exchange, are also stiffen* 1 — A special to the New York Tiiies says: “It appears that the paymaster dcpartirint is able to procure only about $800,000 pci day for soldiers wages, while tho demand is $1,000,000. This fact is owing to the inability of the manufacturers to supply the Government currency, andaccouutsfor the injury dono the soldier." — *♦ t. — Gen. Joe Johnston has issued % general or der offering a full pardon to all uiuuittjorizod absen tees from the Departments of Tennestae, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, provided, $iey rzturn to their commands by tho *20th inst. v _ -aion was apparent as their former inso mice and villainy were conspicuous It would i take a small booK to describe fflp scenes that 'took place between citizens who had been de spoiled by Butler calling oa Gen. Banks for restitution. t Mr. Buckner, one of our cotton princes and millionaires, was robbed by Gen. Butler of $100,000 in bills receivable, sent him from Naichez. G en. Butler said he could not find them when called on to,return them. $5,000 in cash was taken from .the same parties ; he said he paid jthis amount over to the Govern ment. r Samnel Smith'S: Co. had $60,000 in specie taken from their vaults by Butler ;— $50,000 is in suit at Washington; the rest was returned, legs $1,800 stolen. Gen. Butler returned this amount iu currency, thereby ta king advantage of thirty-five per cent on the gold. * Accrostics and poetry lampooning him were sent tp him in such quantities that Gen. Banks had to protect him b” an order, No. 114 (see New Orleans papers.) One verse runs thus: ■‘Farewell l and If In hell there dwells T men such as thou, Thy missIou'S'over'now.”* We*re not yet bettered by the change, as Banks has not disclosed his policy fully. But he is a gentleman and a man of honor, and appr&chable by our citizens. Mr. Davis, the President of the Bank of New Orleans, was thrown into jail without a trial and in one short month was released, after ha ving been toh I Hq was to be hung, and is now a raving npniaa This is the toulest deed In my next I will transpires. Pr«m the ChatUu«voga Rebel loth. ^?HE SIT0AJ ION. On the night before last, . 9 we are reliably in formed, Gen. Wharton sent back to the rear a par ty of prisoner! taken by Mnlrigiido ef Cavalry be fore Murfrc'-boro, with a ij8te to Gen. Bragg, in forming him, that the advance of the enemy upon our position'is an ossurcd^lact, that they have marched out in force nnd that diey were camped ten miles this side of Murfreesboro’ on Monday night. We are not altogether prepared to believe this movement as any thing more^i]^ ji feint on Dart of Bosencrans, although it if*j,prove a ' advance. If so, he will lUyl n^jjqrt of dif- getting a fight out of “our l>jjj information received inclines tV ■oeencranshas not sent away any of . on the contrary has been reinforces, uusily engaged in reconstructing tlirrSaf rebuilding bridges between Nashvillouori boro. Mtt lo A dispatch of an official charact<v has been re ceived in this city stating that fGcn. Wheeler has just accomplished a gallant faf. Having made a complete circuit of Rosccran%army and gotten in his rear, he attacked with success the bridge-build ing corps on Mill Creek, uine miles this side of Nashville. They had just «umpieted their work. After a brisk fire Gen. AVIA ’ ur coptured the whole party, destroyed the bridjK, one engine, two cars, all the tools, and retunSwl'afely and soundly. Van Dorn with a largp body of cavalry has cross ed into AVcst Tenn^cc, and is doubtless before this “waking snake# in that direction to a sense of their “ lituationJtf THE STANTQK. AND HALLECK FISTICUFF. We lea:- -Jirom undoubted authority that a regu lar set-to between the Secretary of AVar and the Geiieral-kJShief of the United forces took placa at the War Department in AVashington in regular Ucenan aqd Sayers’ style. The (leneral-in-chicf having made an offensive demon*:; ution towards tho Secetary, that redoubt- able functionary i&unutroa iun -*—i, —n cd at the head of the General-in-chief, who, duck ing and dodging, escaped the Dlow, and immedi&i - ly closed in upon the Secretary. Here ended the iifst round—time, lcsS than one minute. The General-in-Chief having quickly closed in upon the Secretary and cut off retreat by a skillful me- nteuvre at his shirt collar, immediately began now/- xmj at tho eyes of the War Department, anu was about thrusting in a finger to its full length when Lincoln cried foul and threw down the sponge, which was immediately applied to quenhing the claret-flow from the nose of the Secretary of Wart —Richmond Enquirer, 13M. THE BATTLE OF MURFREESBORO’. As the enemy’s reports of the late great battle of Murfreesboro’ come to hand, the ex-i tent of Gen. Bragg’s victory becomes more apparent AJ1 tho boastful dispatches that Roscncrans mav yrrite can never recapture the prisoners, anus and artillery carried off by Gen. Bragg, nor rebuild the wagons burnt by Morgan and SVheqler. These substantial evi dences of victory attest how well tho gallant Bragg aoconipii*iu d tho work, and prove that though compelled to yieldpthe battlefield, he did so at his own time, anil in the perfeot or der ofn General who, for his own good reasons prefers restingh 1 ^>exhausted troops to risk ing the frazovd ofanother day’s battle. The battle of Murfreesboro’, both to General and to men, deserves to bo ranked among tho great battles that have sh i their lustre over the Confederate Stales. If it was not as success-, ful as we desired, it was nevertheless far more destructive to the enemy than it at first ap peared, and lias' put on end to all. advance of Rosencranz, if it does not resuit in compelling hiift to seek safety nearer his btso at Nash ville. This victory is by far the most complete won by our arms in the Southwest AVe do not re gard the falling back of Gen. Bragg as detract ing the least from the glory of our arms or tho importance of our victory. It is impossible to form a judgment upon this victory, excopt upon the statement of Gen. Bragg and the reports of the enemy.— But fiom a comparison of these sources of in formation, notwithstanding tho letters of Ro- •sencranz to Halleck, and Halleck to Rosen- manz, tho facts are fully made out that the enemy will bo ruined by one more such victo- :imas that claimed by them at Murfreesboro.’ —r Jtfi-Iutwnd Examiner, 13. By Llectric Telegraph Ita: .vIIOMA,Tknn., January 14.—A member of Rosikr.ms’ staff, in a telegram to the Louisville Jouiaft describes Murfreesboro’ as the greatest buttle iA modern times. He states that their bat- teries wtro massed at one time into a park of one hundffifcanuon. The carnage ho describes as unknown.iq history. He|also estimates their force at taventy thousand, and ours at eighty thousand. Forty Lincolnit j Generals and Colonels were kill ed and as manyTiore wounded. Gen. WheelMfe Cavalry has again gained tho enemy’s rear, aniqiyiug their army, destroying sup plies, &C. —'Generals Bra] both gone to Riel by tho Government. ,nd E. Kirby Smith have id, probably ordered there FROM CHARLESTON. Charleston, 15.—Another steatner from Nassau with a valuable assorted cargo has ar rived safely at a Confederate port Captain AVinthrop and three brother offi cers, late of the British army, reached the South by a late arrival and ofier their services to the Confederacy. Nassau dates to the 11th received. Six swift steamers for Southern ports with assorted car goes had arrived: Steamer Nina from George town, steamers Gladiator, Dauro, Thistle, Ca- lypso, Douglass, and Nicholas, from Liverpool, arrived on the 5th and 7th insts. Brig Tana, of St Johns, barque Iris, ship Lefee from Boston, and a schooner with cargoes of ootton ard rice, are reported wrecked. The schooners 1 —uHTiAy, fl«!fi and * Rrite wwt ready to sail. Whiting has been removed from the U. S. Consulate upon the complaint of the Governor of Nassau, for indignities to British officials. A Mr. Doty is his successor. Henry Mullings, a Charleston pilot, fell overboard from the steamer Autriceand was drowned on the 28th ult The schooners Pride and Julia had also ar rived. CONGRESSIONAL. Ricohond, January 16.— In the Senate the death ot Senator Preston was announced by Hunter, and eulogies by Hunter, Clay, Henry, Semmcs and VVigtalL Tho Virginia Assembly are wrangling over the vacant Scnatorship. A number of ballots have been taken Without any result, The lagt ballot stood Rives 81, Allen 28, Russell 22, and Floyd 22. Allen stands the best cliauce. Richmond, January 15th.—A Cairo dispatch of the 11th states that the entire Federal force ut Vicksburg has rcembarked onboard their transports by order of General McClemand. They were closely pressed by the Rebel ad vance. The Federal loss is six hundred killed, one thousand five hundred wounded, and one thousand missing. The Guerrillas burned the steamer Musselman twelve miles above Mem phis. The Washington.Chronicle of the 12th an> nounces the capture of the Harriet Lane, the surrender of the garrison at Galveston and the destruction of Westfcldt. The Oh mnander, AVainwnght and Lieut Zimmerman, was blowR up aboard. Gov. Blair in his message to tho Michigan Legislature endorses the emancipation procla mation, anil says «e shall no longer respect the claims of white traitors to compel black loyalists to aid them in destroying the Gov ernment- _ •me new York correspondent ol the Boston Journal states that a new expedition is on hand at that part. A secresy and dispatch is the watchwords. Tbe Herald of the I2th says Farragut is about to take Fort Hudson. The Tribune of the 13th quotes gold at 142. FROM THE NORTH. Richmond, Jan. 17.—The Herald of the 14th says 300,000 nine months troops go out of ser vice in May. Stephens introduced a bill in the Yankee Congress to employ 150,000 negroes to sup ply the place of the two years and nine months men. The Herald says Rosencrans is falling back to get nearer his base of supplies. The Philadelphia Inquirer says Rosencranz will fight Bragg at Tullahoma. Rosencranz has been reinforced with 20,000 men. The Inquirer says the defeat at Murfreesboro’ only determined Rosencranz upon a new point of attack. 71 ’RWl TTWO V* - - -- XP JUarlestoa harbor containing a Confederate Major bearer of dispatches to Europe. Resolutions were introduced in the Legisla ture of New Jersey lately proposing an ar mistice of six months, and a national Conven tion at Lexington, Ky., to adjust the difficul ties between tiro t wo sections, which was made the order for tue 22d January. . The Herald says a few days will find #the army of the Potomac again in motion in ano ther attempt to reach Richmond. Northern journals treat the capture of the Harriet Lane as a matter of serious conse quence, andrexpress a dread she will soon be depredating on Yankee commerce on the high seas. La France says after the battle of Freder icksburg, Lincoln had a long interview with the French minister and peace' party, and thinks this betokens a desire for conciliation. Gen. Bragg’s Yankee prisoners, captured at Murfreesboro’, have arrived and will be exchang ed as soon as possible. It is reported that a large number of Federal naval of Seers, including Capt. John Rogers, have resigned in consequence of Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation. Richmond, JaD. 16.—The Baltimore Sun of the ISth contains an official dispatch from Curtis to Halleck, announcing the repulse of the Confederates at Springfield, Mo. The town was much injured. Gen. Brown lost an arm. Loss on both sides was small. The St Louis Dispatch, of the 12th, states that the Confederates attacked the Federal forces at Hartsvillo on Saturday, and the fight ing continued until sundown. Ten Eyck mado a speech in the Yankee Sen- nalo on the 12tb, on the demoralized condition of tho Federal army, saying ho would not be surprised if Lee should visit AVashington and give us an invitation to leavo before tho 4th of March. The Federal dispatches from Vicksburg state that at a council of war hold on board a transport, it was decided in view of the rapid reinforcement of tho Confederates, not to re new the atttack on Vicksburg. Gov. Robinson, of Kentucky, recommends that tho State reject Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation, and protests against any inter ference with her State poli«y as unwarranted by the Constitution. The Chicago Times rather justifies the pro clamation* of President Davis against Butler, and demands that he be brought to trial and punishment. , CONGRESSIONAL. Richmond, Jan. 16.—In the House Baldwin, of Va., introduced a resolution instructing the Com mittee of Wa^s and Means, to inquire into the ex - pedicncy of reporting a tax bill, raising during the present year one hundred andtwelve million dollars fix, to be proportioned among|tho several States at the rate of one million dollars to every Repre sent stive in the House. A resolution calling on the Committee of Ways and Means to inquire into the expediency of call ing upon the several States to enter into a joint guarantee to accept such stock or bonds as may be^hcreafter issued—adopted. Also, a bill to fund the currency. Setting forth schemes for funding the public debt by reducing the rates of interest gradually, for one year, on all bonds now circulating, so that all interest will cease by December next— Baldwin made an able financial speech of two hours. YIRomiA LHaiaiiATUiuc. RiCMOND,Jan. 16.—The Virginia Legislature consumed the day in discussing the merits of the candidates for Senator and balloting nine ballots to-day, with no election yet The last ballot stood Russell 48, Caperton 47, Floyd 38, Allen 15, and a number of scattering votes. Necessary to a choice 76. The contest will probably narrow down to Russell & Caperton. Richond, Jan 17.—Wilmington, 17.—Six teen prisoners of the steamer Columbia’s crew arrived in town this evening under charge of a guard from Goldsboro. To night it is re ported the Columbia has been burnt by our troops. Two blockaders off tho bar to-night. All quiet along the lines. Richmond, Jan. 17.—After a contest of four days, the A'irginia Assembly, on joint ballot, elected Allen T. Caperton, old Whig of ^Mon roe, Confederate Senator vice AVm. Ballard Presion, deceased. He was taken up as the FROM~T£NNESSEE. Chattanooga, January 19th.—Wheeler has captured four : ansports freighted with valu able stores fo 'tosencrantz’s army, and 400 prisoners, at H eth Shoals, on the Cumber land .A "unix pursuing our cavalry, was also captured ai -'astroyed. One transport was bonded so ed for transportation of prisoners, wlr- • 'isroled; the other trans ports were b- u- 'i their cargoes. FROM • .aGG’S ARMY. Richmond, J. ,rory 18.—A dispatch to the Richmond Exam aer dated Tullahoma, Janua ry 17 th, says: The enemy now occupy Readyville, between Murfreesboro and McMinnville, with two bri gades. The forces at Murfreesboro occupy their original positions. The enemy has been reinforced only by eight thousand troops. The official report of Rosencrantz ignores the battle of the 31st, and is utterly false in stat es timt ho a*ooa hack General Hardee from McMinnville; and equally false in' reference to his loss. Richmond, Jan. 12.—The Lynchburg Re publican says the enemy has made another raid into Grecnbriar county, where they com mitted a number of depredations. They ven tured within a mile of Lewisburg, where they hurried barns containing horses, provender, &c, and fired dwellings, but the timely arri val of Edgar’s battalion checked their opera tions. They burned the barn, dwelling and granary of Austin Huntley, sheriffof the coun ty, turned his family out •’core and held them under guard until their, dwelling was consum ed. - ~ » Advices irom tho Valley state that the Fed erals are stripping the country of horse3,st0ck and provisions. The emancipation proclama tion is also executed. It is reported that tho Yankees are making preparations to attempt a passage of the Rap pahannock, and there are indicstions of a re- burg;- it is not improbable. Hhowever, these movements are believed to cover opera tions in North Carolina. Charleston, Jan. 18th;—A vessel, supposed to be the steamer Huntress, laden with 400 bales of cotton, in attempting to run the block ade, was burned off the mouth of the Swash channel, last night Five guns were fired at her by the blockaders from the mouth of Ship channel about fifteen minutes after she was dis covered Mobile, 18th.—The Advertiser !c, Register has the following from Tullahoma, dated Jan. 17th: General L. Buckner:—Gen. AYheeler with a portion of his cavalry, after burning the rail road bridge in the enemy’s rear, pushed for Cumberland river, where he intercepted and captured four large transports, destroyed three with all the supplies, and bonded one to carry off 400 paroled prisoners. Being hotly pursued by a gunboat, he attacked, captured and destroyed her with her armament WASHINGTON AND NEW ORLEANS TELE GRAPH COMPANY. At an adjourned meeting of the Stockholders of the above Company, held in the city of Augusta, Ga., on January 14th, 1863, on motion Elam Alex ander, Esq., was called to the Chair, and James Tait was appointed Secretary. The following gentlemen were present: Elam Al- ander, 0. C. Butler, R.R. Cuyler, James Reid, W. B. Johnston, John Van Horn, Wm. Tanner, and C. P. Culver, who represented by proxy and in person 1379 shares. On motion of R. R. Cuyler, Esq. Resolved, That the Directors be requested to employ the services of Judge John A. Campbell or other legal gentleman at Richmond, as counsel of this Company to pro tect its interests. On motion. Resolved, That this meeting do now adjourn, to meet snbject to the call of the Chair man upon twenty days’ notice, to be published at Montgomery, Savannah, Augusta, Charleston and Mobile. ELAM ALEXANDER, CFrn. James Tait, Sec’y. The Enemy Acknowledge a Great Defeat at Vicksburg,—Tho New York World, thus speaks editorially of the recent attempt of the Yankees to capture Vicksburg: Vicksburg has witnessed another and this time very severe Union defeat An army of forty thousand men, assisted by a formidable fleet of war vessels,after a week’s terrible fight ing, have failed to take this stronghold. The failure, too, seems to bo a bad one. \V‘e have certainly lost five thousand men and many val uable officers, and the rest of the troops were at last accounts again on board the transport^ in no condition to renew the engagement

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Weekly Georgia telegraph. (Macon [Ga.]) 1858-1869, January 23, 1863, Image 1