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^—^Ljj. Walker predicts female
tf 1 *' , O flicc-liolding in tliis countiy
* m eXt tcn years, and that the South,
^d off in this great reform
, r
, i,tier from Niagara to a Richmond
jf A1 .•Junes M. Mason has arrived in
rf^thbis family. I hear that Mr.
Cjd* Wuet l, a true lover of his grand
’‘^“aiul an open admirer of her war
T o the (Jcorsia Pres*.
y t lje announcement in this col-
I f ^, C Jtponement ot the Cotton Plan-
I f ££2on, hy the Vice President, till
t gT H SEPTEMBER,
J, .Itention to the fact
‘ xr ArocsTA.—The citizens oi Au-
V"* r ,itating the construction of a levee
1C kee p the floods out of the city.
1 fijk '„er of surprise that, after so many
** * iml such heavy losses by high wn-
^siwple protection has not long since
*■’^i It ought not to be considered
table question-
, v yaaic affair occurred at Lexington,
* - the 24th instant A young man
, Fills, from Griffin, Ga., who went on
I - purpose of entering the Military In-
IT had* difficulty with a man nan
"' ' and in the course of the affray drew a
: Jand shot Lucas twice, it is thought
Kulif wounding him. Ellis was immed-
y'r arrested and imprisoned.
, . lon pinntcra’Coi*vcntion~Po8t-
poncmcnt.
satisfactory reasons, the Vice-President
, ‘ '(tenained to postpone the meeting ot
**Cotton Planters’ Convention of Georgia,
' f . the 15th of August, to the Cth of Sicr-
' ' oar brethren ot the Georgia press
make a note of the change, and also
that *n effort will be made with the
' -.,d Companies to reduce the fare to
tjTCbarles O'Connor, the principal coun
-Mr. Davis, arrived at Fortress Monroe
^dir morning, rather suddenly, not ac-
yc-aaied by any person, on the steamer Gen.
from Baltimore. At an early hour he
j,-r«ded into the Fortress, and remained all
iria close consultation with his client—
i precise nature ofhis visit is unknown, ex-
that the recent report of the Judiciary
| anittceto Congress has seemed to make
iwm rather anxious concerning his prospec-
irt chances of a release, or a speedy trial, or
ittal when tried. ,
6:te Us Yocr Reason.—The New York
commenting on the proposition to
a»ke Gorgey, the Hungarian General, Com-
aiader-in-Chief of the Austrian army, says,
We would have to suffer many defeats be
ta our people would think of Gen. R. E.
Let as a leader of our armies.”
Well, why ? Do you doubt Gen. Lee’s ca
pacity! You cannot, for yon know you have
not his equal Do you believe or fear that he
would betray the trust? Will any man in
America east such a reflection on Robt. E.
Lee? Then, why would you be willing to
suffer many defeats before appointing such a
tun to lead the armies.
The Cum ax ok Political Villiany.—We
published some days ago an abstract of the
report of Mr. Rodger*, of New Jersey, the
liuority of the Committee of Congress to
investigate the charge against Jefferson Da-
cf complicity in the assaaination of Mr.
Lincoln. The document entire has come to
I had. and wc devote all the spare room on
1 « first page to a portion, the remainder to
bt given to-morrow.
The conduct of the Committee, as exposed
• this report, for cold-blooded revenge, un
king petjnry, and diabolical villainy, is
viihout example in the history of civilized
utions. As remarks a contempory, we hope
rctjbody in America will read it, and no
de outside, for the American name and
uincter have never received so foul a blot.
N’ewBcsixebs Firms.—The attention ot
chants and planters is invited to the card
Atom. Brigham, Holst & Co., Commission
-1 Forwarding Merchants, Savannah. The
-wr member ot the firm is an old and much
*wcted merchant of Savannah; Mr. Holst,
* been long the efficient Book-keeper ofhis
-■a. and in the remaining partner, we have
- f nllant defender of Fort Pulaski, and Col,
•'•heFirst Georgia, Charles II. Olmstead.—
organized, the firm is a strong one in a
t^nl u well as a pecuniary point of view,
** commend it as in all respects worthy
^public confidence.
^e are also pleased to present to our read-
ftit Charleston firm of W. T. Burge & Co.,
'Outers and Jobbers of Foreign and Do-
Dry Goods. Besides the principal,
-■t tunes of J. R. Boylston, of the late firm
Cnne, Boylston & Co., and Mr. J. M.
•‘•‘wley, of Johnston, Crews & Brawloy, form
'Orient guarantee of the stability and
ari r!rr of the house. Wc rejoice to ace
^ old business men of Charleston reviving
*•“ their prostration by the war, and bespeak
; taem a new career of prosperity.
Refused to’give HIM UP.
*ownlow’s Whig of last week saya: “Gov.
®tins of Ga., recently made a requisition on
y Bmwnlow for the person of a gallant
J,"”*' officer at Nashville, the nephew of
,"' Burnside, upon a charge of stealing cot-
" The Governor refused to surrender him
^ Georgia rebels speak of it as an out-
ln 'l threaten to carry the case before
t “? f President. When it becomes necessary
Governor of Tennessee will lay the cor-
^udence l«fore the country, which will
^-oicate his action fully, and justify the re-
- The President can turn aside, if be
Proper, and serve his rebel friends by
s W*end*x of a gallant - Federal officer,
,_ : i« Governor Tennessee will not grat-
h " r’lolignant spirit of rclieldom by any
-'Offender. All that is wanting in Geor
^ , -ioprieon or hang a Federal officer or
^ w , is to get him before a Georgia jury,
jJ?*d with an offense.”
a . u that the constitutional obliga-
Tennessee and the comity of the
^ are set aside by the ruffian ly Governor
‘nnessee. He openly harbours and pro-
^ l£ ves who have fled from other States,
a P re kxt which he knows to be ut-
•g * j A Federal officer would have ns
impartial a trial in Georgia as he
k “Tennessee or the District ot Colum-
® uc h conduct w
' e Will
BOOK NOTICE.
The ArosTi.Es; by Ernest Renan, Membre
lTnstitutc; author of the “Life of Jesus
etc.; translated from the French. Carle
ton. Publisher, 413, Broadwnv, N. Y 353
pp. From J. W. Burke. & Co.
This is a very remarkable book. It resem
bios, in many particulars, Eccc Homo. The
author, a French Philosopher, is beyond
question nn able man, and has bestow
cd upon his work an immense amount of la
bor. The style is fine—very fine—clear, vig
orous and finished. The reader is deliglied
with the beautiful descriptions of natural
scenery, sketches of character, and amiable
benevolent sentiments which abound in it. It
is worth reading, alone for the information
rare and curious, which it furnishes. For
these things we commend it. There is a re
verse to this picture, which must needs revolt
the Christian reader. Let him who has been
taught to believe in the Divinely inspired
teachings of the Apostles, rest assured that
he will find upon almost every page, some
thing to conflict with his convictions, and to
shock his religious sensibilities. It is the
work of aa able man, dealing with inspira
tion from a merely human stand-point, and
pronouncing upon the character and doc
trines . of the Apostles, according to the
maxims of human experience, and the con
clusions of human philosophy. It is a mag
nificent, yet courtly sneer at the evangelical
faith of the Christian world. That the author
seems to approve, and prefer above others, the
religion of Jesus Christ, is true; but it is ne
cessarily to be inferred, that he views it alone
in the light ot a system of morals. It is
amusing to note with what reliant complacen
cy he assaults some of the fundamental truths
of oiir holy religion.
The resurrection of the Saviour, for exam
ple, he treats as a fanatical hallucination.—
Mary Magdalena, who loved much, because
much had been forgiven, was the first to as
sert and to propagate, the delusion of a risen
Saviour. He represents her love as intense,
obsorbing her very nature and o’ermastering
her intellect. “Only Mary,” he says, “loved
enough to pass the bounds of nature,'and re
vive the shade of the perfect [master—the
glory of the resurrection belongs to Mary of
Magdalea. After Jesus, it is Mary, who has
done most for the foundation of Chistianity.
The shadow created by the delicate sensibil
ity of Magdalene, wanders still on the earth.
Queen and patroness of idealists, Magdalene
knew, better than any one, how to assert her
dream, and impose ou every one the vision of
her passionate soul. “He lias risen,” has been
tlie'basis of the faith ot humanity. “Away,”
he exclaims, J“impotent reason! apply no
cold analysis to this chef de omtre ot idealism
and love. If wisdom refuses to console this
poor liumanfrace, betrayed by late, let folly
attempt the enterprise.” Is this the honest
commentary of a doubting believer, or is it
the infidel irony of a French philosopher ?—
At beat, the sweet and sublimely simple testi
mony of Mary to the fact of the resurrection,
is represented as “the shadow created hy the
delicate sensibility” of a woman—a dream—
a chef de autre of idealism and love.
The Apostles, Peter James and John, and
all the rest, he represents as “mean, (in con
dition) narrow, ignorant and prejudiced.”—
They too, he thinks; were overwhelmed with
\loee for their Master, and when told the tale
of the Resurrection, caught readily the con
tagion of fanaticism, and dreamed, or imag
ined, that they had seen and conversed with
the risen Redeemer. So dreamed the disci
ples who walked with Him to Emmaus, and
so dreamed the five hundred who saw Him
before His ascension. It was all a dream—
an illusion of weak minds and love—engen
dered sensibility. Such craving affection is
nearly as great a miracle as the Resurrection
itself. Paul he characterizes, even after his
conversion, as a stem, proud, bold, anti-so
cial, able man; yet, strange to tell, he ac
counts for the testimony of Paul, as to his
conversion, upon the same principle. Paul,
os he journeyed to Damascus, was violently
excited. He burned with rage against the
poor Naaareenes; but as he thought of their
meek endurance, and of the wisdom and gen
tleness of their Master, relentings came. In
the violent conflict of conscience, prido and
rage, Paul grew sick. The clouds gathered
from the mountains, thunder rattled in his
ears, and lightnings’^!ashedjin his eyes, he
fell to the earth. Thus prostrated, he imag
ined that he heard the voice of God, saying
to him, “Soul, Saul, why pcrsecutest thou
me ?” Ho arose and was led to the city, be
ing blind, as the author intimates, from in-
flamation of the eyes. And this, is the solu
tion of the miracle of the conversion of St.
Paul! In the same way he accounts for the
miraculous descent of the Spirit on the day
of Pentecost. It must be confessed that all
this is a most lame and impotent conclusion
The philosophic mountain labors, and a mouse
is brought forth.
We have no space for further comment-^
Genius and learning now a days are enlist
ed in the service of disguised infidelity.—
Christianity should look well to her defenses.
Under cover of an implied alliance, her ene
mies are striving to undermine her founda
tions.
e hope our Exccu-
„ .fficial relations
jij. tateof Tonnt-seo so long as Brown-
c °nt mue to disgrace her gubernato-
* Ui P* n< l all friendlv
THE COAST RAILROAD LINE, NORTH.
We learn arrangements have recently been
entered into between the Wilmington & Man
chester Railroad, of North Carolina, and the
South Carolina Railroad, and the Georgia
Railroad, by which through passenger trains
will be run daily, between Wilmington, N. C.,
and Atlanta, Ga. Passengers, baggage and
mails will lie carried daily without being dis
turbed or changed between these points. The
most luxurious sleeping-cars, built expressly
for this line, will be in these trains. The
cars are both day and night cars. The pas
senger need not change his place from Atlan
ta to Wilmington, and has no trouble about
baggage, or transfers; and, further, has a
most luxurious bed to sleep on in the sleep
ing-cars. Through passengers can get on
these cars at Augusta or any other point on
the route. The arrangements commence in
August.
Wo hope this effort on the part of these
companies to add to the comfort of the trav
eling public by this arrangement will result
in a fair share of patronage to the line. The
connections of this line are sure and reliable,
the said companies having lately added the
best and most improved rolling-stock to their
equipment.
Passengers going North and taking this
route, and also going up the Chesapeake
Bny, do not lose any night’s rest from Atlan
ta to New York, and even Boston.
The Louisiana Radical Conven
tion.
The object of this vile Convention of con
spirators was unblusbingly avowed by a Rad
ical Congressman from Massachusetts at a
late caucus of his party. At a caucus of
Congress on the 15th ult.,
Mr. BoafwdL of Massachusetts said, he
thought it very desirable that Congress should
continue in session for other reasons than
those, which had been suggested. He would
mention one. A distinguished gentleman
from the South was in town, from whom he
had learned that the Louisiana Convetion
would meet on the 30th for the revision of
the State Constitution, and that amendments
would he adopted disfranchising the rebel
and enfranchising the loyal inhabitants, with
out .distinction of color. If Congress should
be in session when this Constitution should
be adopted it could, in accordance with the
precedent established in the Rhodo Island
case, accept it, and thus give it validity as
the Constitution of the State. In the Rhode
Island case, the Supreme Court decided that
it was for Congress to decide which was the
constitutional government of any State in
which it existed. If Congress should not be
in session, a long time must elapse before ac
tion could be taken; the new government of
this State might fail to get a foothold, and
the country would experience a very serious
calamity.”
The purpose and designs of these men are
not only avowed, but an adjournment of
Congress was proposed in order that their
vile work should receive the official sanction
of Congress.
The purpose of the Radicals, it will be per
ceived, was to make the action of the enter
ing wedge for the disfranchisement of all
Southern men who are not Wardels and Un
derwoods, and to enfranchise the negroes.—
Fortunately the mine exploded after the ad
journment of Congress, and the fcul conspir
acy has been crushed by the order of Andrew
Johnson, which we published on yester
day.
PRISONERS OF WAR, FEDERAL AND CON
FEDERATE.
“In reply to a resolution of the House of
Representative,” says the Washington Union
of Tuesday, “ calling upon the Secretary o
War for the number of prisoners, of either
side held and that died during the war, he
makes the following report: Number of
Union prisoners South, 260,940; number of
Rebel prisoners North, 200,000; number of
Union prisoners died, 22,576; number of Rebel
prisoners died, 26,436.” Commenting upon
this statement, which in view of its source
may be regarded, as official, the Petersburg
Index says:
After all the “barbarities” of Andersonville,
and Salisbury, after all the hired peijury with
which Wirtz was murdered; with all the un
bounded appliances for health, comfort and
cure which tne humane, Christian, enlighten
ed and civilized North possessed; with all the
utterly infamous character of Washington
official testimony where “rebels are concern
ed; with every motive for; with constant
practice of, and unblushing notoriety in,
falsifying records to suit their case, what are
the facts'
Out of 261,000 Union prisoners, 22,500
died. Out of 200,000 Confederate prisoners,
26,500 died. The Union prisoners exceeded
the Confederate prisoners 61,000; yet the
deaths of Union prisoners fell below those of
Confederate prisoners six thousand.
Two “Yankee” prisoners died out of over
twenty-three ia Southern pens. Two “rebel”
prisoners died out of every fifteen in North
ern pens.
The Great Johnson Wigwam.—The
Johnson Club of Philadelphia have pitched
their wigwam at the intersection of Twenti
eth street and Girard avenue. The builder
has at work a large force of carpenters, and
the building will be cempleted in ten days.—
The Convention will assemble on the 14th.—
^description of the building is thus given in
the News:
Its outside dimensions are one hundred and
sixty-five feet It will be constructed of
boards, and will be used as a hall for mass-
meetings during tho coming campaign. The
interior will consist of a vestibule, nn amphi
theatre, two galleries and four ante-rooms.—
Into the vestibule a door twelve feet wide
will open from Girard avenue. A door of
equal size will lead to the amphitheatre and
lower gallery, and a private entrance will
open into the ladies’ gallery above. The
ante rooms will be used for committee purpo
ses. At the head of the building will be
placed the speaker’s desk, and on either side
the tables of the reporters. The amphitheatre
will be seventy feet by one hundred and for-
S . From it the galleries will rise in nearly
e name manner as the seats in the square for
the 4th of July celebration. The capacity of
the building will be over ten thousand peo
ple. The largest audience ever seen in the
Academy of Music could be seated in one
wing of the immense galleries. The stand
ing room upon the floor will accommodate
three thousand, while there will be seats for
seven thousand. The galleries will be sup-
lorted by iron pillars sixteen feet apart.—
These will be hung with evergreens and fes
tooned with flowers during the sessions of the
Convention.
Pictures for Yankee Slanderers.—
The agents of the Freedmen’s Bureau, in the
absence of legitimate business, having turned
their attention to photographing the backs of
negro women, we trust, says the Richmond
Times, they will turnish us with photographs:
First Of the estimable Christian gentleman
of Boston, Massachusetts, who whipped his
son to death because he refused to say bis
prayers.
Second. Of the agent of the Freedmen’s
Bureau, in North Carolina, who stole the ra
tions and old clothes intended for the poor
negroes.
Third. Of the “chaplain” connected with
the Bureau who tied up bis sable jiarishion-
ers by the thumbs because they would not
pay their taxes.
Fourth. Of the model “Union” member of
Congress from Arkansas, (General Gantt,)
who has just been arrested in Baltimore for
ravishing bis sister-in-law, a child twelve
years of age.
Fifth. A gallery of photographs ot the
seventy or eighty black proteges of the Bu
reau, who, the-last New York Police Gazette
informs us, have committed acts of such hor
rible and brutal violence all over the free
States that it has become unsafe for a woman
to leave her house without an armed protec
tor.
Here is a splendid field for the noble ar
tists who have recently made such a pretty
picture for Harper’s Weekly out of “Mrs.
Abraham’s” girl.
Fillibustering against Maximilian.
The New York Times gives some good ad
vice to that hot-headed people who are in
dined to make war on the Mexican Emperor.
It says:
If anybody should at any time ei tertain
the idea of getting up fillibustering expedit
ions against Maximilian, tkey had better
understand beforehand what would be the
nature of the work necessary forauccesi—even
if the Government were not to interfete at all
in their operations. Exnedition such ts those
of former days—like that ot Walker fa Nica
ragua, or that of Lopez in Cuba—would not
amount to anything at all in this casr. The
thirty thousand European troops (to ary noth
ing whatever of the native Impi ria(ists) in
Maximilian's service could not be beiten by a
few thousand loosely organized filibusters,
or destroyed in a single campaign • fortified
places like Yera Cruz, Puebla and tie City of
Mexico could not be reduced in a vr.ck, or in
any other way than through a regilar siege
by a heavy force; and a country sc large as
Mexico, with so many well-garrisomd points,
would require systematic and pnperly di
rected military movements upon a hrgi scale
to be of any avail. In fact, to effect a * /thing
at all against Maximilian, a veil-organ
ized force would be required, at hast 50,000
strong—so organized, as to operate either in
corps or in a mass, and so coramsided as to
give full effect to their strength. They would
need to take with them scigo trans, as well
as light artillery, cavalry horses an! supplies.
They would have to establish draots, and
would have to make provision for beiDg
constantly reinforced. In fet noth
ing less than a large and well-apponted army
could do anything in Mexico, bit play the
ridiculous. Neither need tho filibusters ex
pect, or at least they would not g t, much in
the way of effective aid from the lative Mex
icans. 'Republicans they may be,but fit sol
diers for the kind of work before them they
are not For guerrilla warfare, orminor ope
rations on the front or on the flanb of an ar
my, they are admirable; but for systematic,
disciplined, continuous fightingJtn mass
against a regular army, such as thi - ^"Max
imilian's service, they have never shertrn their
capacity. It is hardly worth while for Gen,
Lew. Wallace or any other General to talk
about driving Maximilian out with a few
thousand American troops.
The Health of Savannah.
We cheerfully give place to the folowing
communication from the Health Physcian of
Savannah, in reference to the reports of epi
demic diseases in that city:
Capt. A. F. Butler, C. R. R, Auguita:
Dear Sir: If such reports as the one cir
culated, that cholera and yellow fever exist
ed as an epidemic in Savannah, did 10 harm,
they would be exceedingly amusing, but
when the interest of a city is at stake, :t does
away with the joke. The report b unjust
and unfounded, and shows the importance of
reliable information before circulating reports
calculated to do injury to a comminty. On
Saturday, the 23th of July, a negro pilot of a
Florida steamer, arrived in Savainah, and
died tlmt evening, and the po>t nortein ex
animation decided it a case of chdcra. This
case was brought here. One ladf is said to
have died of sporadic yellow fever, some
week or ten days since. Sincr the above
cases, none others have occurred. The health
ofthe city, previous to the casesand since, is
remarkably good, as the weekly report show.
In short, I deny that any epidenic has exist
ed this summer, or that there is ray disease of
an epidemic character in the city. I will also
state that the Medical Society of Savannah
have determined to report deaths without
concealing their true cause, si that in case
any disease of an epidemic ctaracten should
make its appearance, the comnunity at large
will know the facts.
J. T. McFariund, M. D.,
Health Physician city of Savannah.
Civil "War Imminent in JIissourl—The
St Louis Dispatch, of the 27th ultimo, says
We have received information from Kansas
from sources that do not peimit us to doubt
the statement, that the “Jiyhawkers” and
“Red Legs” of that State are organizing to
invad^this State, to prevent citizens f
registering as voters, and to aid in carrying
the November election for their friends—the
Radicals.
We had reason for suspecting that such a
scheme as this was meditated several weeks
ago for Li> utenant-Gorernor Smith,
eech at St Joseph, openly intimated it—
e are glad to learn that steps are being ta
ken to bring the matter before the attention
of the President, and to ask him to prevent
the threatened invasion of our State. The
present Governor of Missouri, instead of pre
venting it, would perhaps, be glad to encour
age it
One thing is certain, such an interruption
would provoke a terrible retribution. The
people of Missouri are in no mood to see
their brethren of the border counties made
the victims of another Jayhawker invasion,
and they will assuredly not sit idle while the
scenes of 1863-4, in Jtckson and Cass coun
ties. are repeated. Let the Governor of Kan
sas keep his Red Legs at borne.
Tiie First Balk.—The first bale of cotton
of the present crop, so far as wc have heard,
is thus alluded to in the Albany Patriot of
the 4th instant. “We understand there was
bale of new cotton brought to our market
yesterday. It will be shipped to Macon this
morning, no immediate sale being found for
here.”
The bale of cotton referred to above, iffrom
the plantation of P. W. Jones, Dougherty
county, and was received in this city by
Hardeman & Sparks Saturday last. It has
The Legislature of Tenneiisec has not been sold. ^
granted a charter for a college for colored j a Good Per Cent.—The capital stock of
people, to be known as the “Central Tennes- the Atlantic Cable is about $6,000,000, and
ec Methodist Epiaeopal College." A site has i at (h e rate charged for despatches it is enpa-
•ccn secured on the summit at College Ilill, |,j c 0 t doing a yearly business of over $4,000,-
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at Nashville, adjoining the Military Academy,
A very handsome college building is soon to
be erected. The college proposes to furnish
a general and theological education.
000, and with but a very trilling expens
The more they charge though the sooner shall
wc have a competing line and get rid ot the
monopoly.
The President hts appointed and the
Senate has confirmed the following gentlemen
os Commissioners on the part of the United
States to the French Exposition: Louis Agas
siz, of Massachusetts; Samiel B. Ruggles, of
New York; John E. Richison, of New York;
William Glade, of Ohio; James H. Browne,
of Blinois; J. P. Lesley, of Pennsylvania;
John P. Kennedy, of 3Iaryland ; Henry Fail
ing, of Oregon; J, Lawrence Smith, of Ken
tucky ; Henry J. Aligny, of Michigan.
It is worthy of remark that, of all these ap
pointees, not one is taken from the States that
recently belonged to the Southern Confedera
cy, the government of Eentucky having al
ways remained in the hards of the Unionists.
The Southern people miy justly inquire;
why does the President persist in making
these discriminations, in opposition to his oft
proclaimed sentiments and avowed policy ?
Look at it as you may, it is a tribute to the
sentiments and policy of the Radicals, and he
can never expect to inakcheadway against n
party whom he thus opeily, to some extent,
endorses.
Death of Johi Ross.
John Ross, the well known chief of the
Cherokee nation, died in this city yesterday
evening.
Mr. Ross, for more than a third of a centu
ry, exercised a powerful and controlling Jn-
tluence, not only over his own people, but
upon ail the liorder tribes. He was a man of
great political sagacity, which is shown in
the fact that lie so long maintained the ascen
dency as chief of his nation, to which place
he was elected every fonr years, a place
which he filled when the Cherokee people
went from their old home into Arkansas, in
1835. He married a lady, we believe, in Del
aware, and leaves a numerous family connec
tion.
Mr. Ross was the representative of the “full
blood” portion of the nation, and that being
the controlling element of the nation, his as
cendency was always secure. He was a man
of intelligence, conversed well, boro himself
with dignity, and used a pen handsomely
and with force. He was a politician of in
tense ambition, loved power, and his oppo
nents accused him of unscrupulousness in se
curing his purposes.
IVhen the war opened he embarked with
the South, carrying with him the moot ofthe
full-bloods oi his nation; but subsequently lie
changed front, and was afterwards with the
Union.
He could rot have been much less than
seventy-five years of age at the time of his
death.—Nat. Intelligencer, 2nd inti.
“Government and Laws of tiie United
States. By Wedgwood.
Macon subscribers to the above work can
obtain their copies by calling at this office.
Resaca, Aug. 2d, 1866.
Editors Macon Telegraph :
Dear Sir: Will you do us the kindness to pub
lish the enclosed list, and request the various pa
pers of the State to do the same ?
We owe you many thaDks for the urgent and
patriotic remarks, by which you drew attention to
our appeal. Macon has the honor of being the
first contributor to our memorial fund.
Very respectfully,
Mart J. Green, President,
“Memorial Association of Resaca.
LIST OF CONFEDERATE DEAD ON THE BATTLE
FIELD OF RESACA, GA.
GEORGIA.
II G Collins, co A, 4th Ga Bat.
One unknown, 8th Ga Bat.
Wm A Cn ing, co G, 19th Ga reg.
J Bix, co E, 34th Ga reg.
Capt Morgan, 36th Ga reg.
Rufus Bray, 40th Ga reg.
— Steadman, 40th Ga reg.
— Estis, 40th Ga reg.
B B Ayres, 42d Gs reg.
J B, 42d Ga reg.
J Jones, 42d Ga reg.
A C Haines, 43d Ga reg.
J B Youngblood, 43d Ga reg.
J H Martin, 43d Ga reg.
J Mathews, co B, 47th Ga reg.
J Williamson, co I, 52d Ga reg,
Arnold Gates, 52d Ua reg.
One unknown, 56th Ga reg.
ALABAMA.
Col F R Beck, Alabama.
J R Morvan, I6th Ala reg.
W T Smith, 18tk Ala reg.
G H Henderson, 18th Ala reg.
R l) Harp, 18th Ala reg.
RDBarp, coF, 19th Ala reg.
Wm M Palmer, co C,3Ist Ala reg.
D F Stoltcr, 2nd LL, co C, 32d Ala reg.
S Lone, co II, 32d, Ala reg.
J Dixon, co F, 32d Ala reg.
W P H Gordon, 2d Lt., co B, 36th Ala reg.
John Shelton, co B, 3Gth Ala reg.
M Shelterfield, 36tU Ala reg.
James M Elliot, co D, 41st Ala reg.
D G Barneard, co B, 42d Ala reg.
David Parkmau, (or Bookman) coD, 54th Ala re:
S A Butterworth, co H, 58th Ala reg.
J W Williams, co H, 63d Ala reg.
D bery, co F, Ala reg.
SUPPOSED TO BE ALABAMIANS.
!SC
and J F M.
ss reg.
MISSISSIPPI.
A J Jaquors, 4th Miss reg.
Lt LM Clark, co G, 8th Miss
Lt Watts, 10th Miss reg.
J L Williams, co E, 10th Miss reg.
— Reed, 10th Miss reg.
John Andrews, co B, 14th Miss reg.
Jake Branan, co D, 14th Miss reg.
Wm S Parkham, 15th Miss reg.
Lt J S Reed, 24th Miss teg.
HL Mayoc, 29th Miss reg.
J J Russel, 30th Miss reg.
W J Keenim, co H, Soth Miss reg.
W W McGill, co B, 37th Miss reg.
R Baynes, co B, 37th Miss reg.
Isaac Land, co B, 87th Miss reg.
Serg’t S G Gilmore, 39th Miss reg.
Two unknown.
TENNESSEE.
John McAfee, Co F, 1st Reg’t
Lt Dunham, 3rd Reg’t.
W J Jackson, 3rd Reg’t Car.
J Gambele, 3rd Reg’t.
J Cambell, 3rd Regt.
Capt D O Purjcar, 8th Regt.
Capt John.8 B’rown, Co E, 8th Regt.
Lt D E Tally, 8th BcgL
Lt J O Call, mb Regt
John Ingles, Co D, 8th Regt
Jacob LTpshut, Co 6, 8th Regt.
J W Rulhers, Co C, 8th Regt
W D Bryant, Co G, 9th Regt Car.
O D T Roberts, Co E, 9th Regt Cav.
A Theston, Co E. 15th (or 28th) Regt
T 8 Mordy, 19th Regt.
J II Savage, 20th Re^t
J S Paimento, 27th Ref;
J SI Smith, 27th Re
T Jourdon, Co D, 29th Regt.
S , 32d Regt
J H Wardy, 32d Regt
G Sockton, Co G, 32d Regt
Lt R H Calhoun, Co F, 33d Regt
J R P Benton. Co D, 41st Regt.
N B Brown, 47th Regt, Vaughn’s Brig.
Amos Nation, 154th Regt.
Thomas McHenry, Forest’s Cav, died of disease in
1803.
*egt
KENTUCKY.
Howard.
1st Lieutenant, unknown
LOUISIANA.
Corp S T Russell, 5th co, Washington Art’y, N 0
J H Simmons, Stevens’ Batt’y, N O.
J D ugherty, co A, 4th La Batt’y
FLORIDA.
Sergt Wm Wright, co G, 3d regt.
TEXAS.
Wm Boyd, co A, 18th regt
state unknown.
B Parker, C S A, F D > Alfred Grangir,
Bethune, W Graham.
In addition to the above 175 unmarked graves
h»T© been, discovered.
The “Ladies’ Memorial Association of Resaca,”
would feel much indebted to the friends and
comrades of these soldiers, if they would des
cribo the locality where any one of them is bu
ried, so that it may be identified. By this means
some graves may bo marked in our Cemetery,
that would otherwise be classed in that mourn
ful number—unknown.
The Association proposes collecting the bodies
of all the Confederate soldiers, who fell at the bat
tle of Resaca, and having them interred in one
spot consecrated to their use.
All who desire to remove the remains, of their
friends to their own homes, will please inform the
society, and they will not be disturbed.
Address-
Miss Mart J. Green,
Pr’sd’t Mem. Ass’n, Resaca.
The Philadelphia Convention.—
Letter from Judge Clarke,
of Georgia.
Wc find the following correspondence in a
late i9snc of the N. Y. Daily News:
Broadway N. Y., July S3, 1806.
To the Editor N. Y. News:
I herewith send you an extract from a let
ter of R. H. Clarke, an old line Democrat of
Georgia, bom in the State, an original seces
sionist, honored by the State, representing
her in the Legislature, in both brunches, an
elector (for Pierce) in 1852, and who is now,
and has been for the last three years, Judge
of the Southwestern Circuit in that State. If
you deem it proper you are welcome to it.
C.
Milledoeville, Georgia, July 17, 1866.
* * * "We Southerners must have no
choice, but must submit to the terms of the
victors. It is manifest, however, that if the
Constitution our forefathers made is pre
served. or if there shall be left to us a vestige
of civil liberty, it must depend upon the
union of the men of the “so-called Confeder
ate States,” with the Conservative men of
all sorts at the North. There must be a new
party, based upon the sole principle of oppo
sition to the Radicals, and adherence to the
reconstruction policy of the Preseident, You
know I am an “old line Democrat,” and still
have a respect for the old “party,” and affec
tion for its principles, but it is not now the
party that answers the exigencies of
the times, and must be abandoned lor
new and effective organization. The
Northern Democracy, by adhering to their
old party organization, have already depri
ved themselves of the means of doing good,
and it is to be hoped they will not continue
to adhere to such a folly, but coalesce under
a new name with anybody and everybody,
who will give, if but only the “widow's
mite,” toward preserving the blessings of lib
erty, not only to the subjugated South, but
to the people of the victorious North. En
tertaining these views I favor any move that
tends to produce unity of action among the
supporters of the President, as the only means
of defeating the vile and Jacobinical purpo
ses ot such fanatics as Tliad. Stevens, Fred.
Douglass, Anne Dickinson and Charles Sum
ner. * * *
Truly Your*.
RicnARD II. Clark.
STRu ssell of the Lontlon Times says that
in the Austrian army the big drums are drawn
on carts by dogs: “The drum is put on a
sort of go-cart, with shafts and a pair of
wheels, and as Pompey trots along the drum-
m« beats the sheepskin.”
JST"The Raleigh Sentinel says the indica
tions are that the people of North Carolina
will reject the now Constitution adopted bv
the late Convention.
Our Bonds in Europe.—Those who as
serted that the German war would be the
means of sending back to this country great
volumes of the Five-twenty bonds that were
held in Germany, were mistaken. The limit
ed amounts sent back have been far more
than counterbalanced by the new demands
for supplies from this side, and, instead of
falling in value since the opening of the war,
they have appreciated. Government agents
in Europe also report that the new calls are
mostly for permanent investments, and that
the small buyers regard them as at once the
safest and most profitable mode of investing
their surplus means. There is also a pros
pect of a large market being opened up in
France, before long, and it only needs that
our bonds be entered upon the Paris Bourae,
to effect this. The Atlantic telegraph will
not only equalize prices on both sides, but it
will be a grand agent for inducing enquiry
for our bonds in England and throughout
Europe. It will familiarize the people with
the country, its affairs, its condition, its re
sources, and its prospects. "We will be near
er to them, and they will apprehend more
clearly the unequalled opportunities which
this country presents for the investment
of money. It would not be astonishing, if
within a year, Europe should attempt to in
crease her present supply of our bonds to a
thousand millions of dollars, at an advance
of tea or fifteen per cent, upon [existing
prices.— N. Y. Times.
Mass Meeting of Irishmen»-Tlie Radicals
Rejected.
"Washington, August 1,
In pursuance of a call declaring that some
steps are necessary to be taken in view of the
unscrupulous efforts which the leaders of the
Radical party are making to entice the Irish
citizens of the United States lrom the path of
duty in the present crisis, the Irishmen of the
District of Columbia feeling it to be a duty
which they cannot neglect, assembled in
grand mass meeting at Grover’s Theatre last
night to repudiate tho unnatural alliance so
treacherously sought, and to proclaim their
unswerving adherence to the restoration pol
icy of President Johnson. The theatre was
filled to overflowing, and enthusiasm manifes
ted was very great.
Representative Hogan, of St Louis, ad
dressed the meeting in a severe arraignment
of the Radicals in and out of Congress, de
claring that no Irishman could give his ad
herence to a party whose leaders were in the
Puritan interest, and whose principles were
those of the Puritans. He defended Presi
dent Johnson's proclamation on the Canadian
invasion, on the ground that he was bound
to enforce the neutrality laws by hi3 oath of
office, and that those law3 ought to be modi
fied or repealed. Mr. Hogan was followed by
several speakers, and the meeting was kept up
until a late hour. Resolutions were passed
cordially indorsing the administration.
The United States, England and the
Atlantic Telegraph.—The New York Com
mercial notices the nice messages between the
Queen, the President and other parties, in
order to ask:
“How long, in case of war between Eng
land and this country, would American dis
patches be tolerated on the submarine wires ?
Great Britain would at once take armed pos
session of both shore ends and we would
busy ourselves with disputing that possession,
or in grappling after the cable in mid-ocean,
in order to sever the link that kept the moth
er country in hourly communication with her
colonies. So, if Great Britain were at war
with any other nation, that belligerent would
deem it a duty to destroy the iron cord which
contributed to the wealth and power of Eng
land. As soon would her commerce be allow
ed to go unchecked upon the sea. as this great
business tie be allowed to go unchecked. No
evidence is necessary to show the utter worth
lessness of international declarations, when a
presumed national interest is involved.
Our eloquent friend Hon. S. M. Ar-
neil, liad the distinguished honor of bearing
the official copy of the resolution of our Leg
islature ratifying the Constitutional amend
ment to "Washington—vote in the House fifty-
six, and two Johnsonites present and refusiug
to vote. Total 58.—Nashville Press & Times.
Even such palpable mendacity as this
will not help yon. The vote, as reported in
the House proceedings, and as reported by
Governor Brownlow himself in his despatch
to Washington, was 43 to 11, making in all
54, the two Johnson men in another room be
ing lugged in to make out the quorum of 66.
Finding this would not pas3 muster, the
Press & Times intents two more votes than
were actually cast, so as to make it appear
that 56 votes were given, exclusive of the
two prisoners. What is the country coming
to?
« * ©
Gen. Sheridan on the New Orleans Riot.
Philadelphia, Friday, Aug. 3.—A special
despatch from Washington to the Ledger
says: Gen. Sheridan, in a despatch from
New Orleans to Gen. Grant received to-day,
states that the late riot in that city was not
the effect of a hastily congregated mob as has
been represented, but was the result of a pre
concerted ami prearranged plot ot the rehcri
to slaughter the leading Union men of the
State, and that there is evidence that the plan
was concerted weeks ago. Sheridan also
gives it as his opinion that it is but the com
mencement of the rebel plan to rid Louisiana
of Union men. Officers from the Southwest
say there are only about 1,200 United States
troops serving in Louisiana.
Matrimonial.—We are a little tardy in an
announcement of the good fortune which has
recently fallen to the lot of our esteemed
friend Walsli, ot the Associated Press. Cupid
appears to have serious designs on the fourth
estate ot our city, and is beguiling one after
another of its members to bowers hymenial.
May Heaven's choicest blessings crowd the
pathway of our excellent friend and his ac
complished bride.
While witnessing the happy event, we were
reminded that there is still work tor the little
god in the ranks of the city fraternity, more
than one of whose members still Blome in the
bleak low grounds of single cussedness.
E5T*Mr. Bonner pays $35,000 for Pocahon
tas, it is stated, the largest price ever paid tor
horse in this country.
53gF”Tlie Emperor of Austria is suffering
from a severe attack of the blues—the Prus
sian blues.
It is expected the New York Acad-
my of Music will be finished in time for the
regular winter season.
Committed on Tn;: Charge of Murder.—
A negro boy, named John Jolly, was arrest
ed last week, charged with the murder of
Charles II. Tibbs, whose death we noticed
two weeks ago.—Dalton Qecrgian, 8</.
_S?“The University of Wisconsin owns
nearly $750,000 worth of property. It has
over $400,000, besides the Agricultural Col
lege grant. That, at $1.25 an acre, amounts
to $300,000.
Loves Egos.—A gentleman living in this
county, by the name of Sol. Nettles, some 50
ears old, and not a large man, ate seventy-
three raw eggs in town last Saturday. lie
contracted with a family grocery merchant
for as many eggs as he could suck, agreeing
to pay 25 cents for the meal. He ate all the
merchant liad and said “he would like a few
more,” but yet he did not wish to trouble the
merchant to go out and get them.—Dome
(.Ga.) Courier.
CltoJera in St. L.oui*.
St. Louts, Aug. 6.—Some twenty cases of
cholera has been reported to the board of
health since Saturday, mainly persons from
the South. Several deaths have occurred.—
The general sanitary condition of the city is
unusually good, and no serious apprehensions
are feared that the disease will become an
epidemic.
The Real Head or the Prmstan Ar
my—The Royal Commanders.
Military Correspondence of tho London Times.
Brunn, July 14, 1866.
Gen. Von Moltke has retired to his quar
ters, and is closeted with his maps, making
new plans for the further progress of the
oampaign, and for the occupation of Vienna.
This skillful strategist, who has been made
the chief director ot the movements by which
the Prussian armies, starting from different
points, were collected at the necessary hour
on the battle field of Koniggratz, has never,
except at that battle, appeared in the front of
the armies. Some distance in the rear, sit
ting calmly at his desk, he has traced on the
map the course of his troops, and, by means
of the field telegraph, has f ashed his orders
to the different Generals in more immediate
command with such skill and foresight that
not a movement has failed, and every combi
nation has been made st exactly the right
moment. A quick, light-blue eye, a high fore
head, and a well-set figure, mark him as an
intellectual and energetic man, but, though
quick in action, he is so prudentin discourse,
and so guarded in his speech, that from this
quality and his wide knowledge of European
languages he is known in the army as the
man who is silent in seven tongues. Careful
and laborious, he has worked out with his
own hands,’ and himself calculated almost ev
ery detail of the operations in which he has
taken Europe by surprise from the lightning
rapidity of his strokes and the tremendous
consequences of his dispositions, before which
the A”strian army has withered away almost
before it was gathered together, and which
have won for him from his countrymen the
title of the first strategist in Europe^
But though Gen. Von Moltke has in so
short a time deservedly obtained such a high
reputation in Prussia, the soldiers and officers
ofthe two armies think almost as highly of
the Princes who have carried out so ably tbe
plans wliicb were formed by tbe Chief of the
Royal'Staffi Prince Frederick Charles, with
all the dash and fire of a cavalry officer, can
equally well lead his columns to pursue the
broken enemy, and direct with patience his
infantry and artillery in an attack against a
firm and steady line; but liis qualities as a
General do not shine out more in the exciting
duties of tbe battle-field than they do in tbo
more tedious and laborious work which is
necessary for the comfort of his soldiers in
quarters or on the line of march. He has a
singular power of making his troops care lit
tle for fatigue and hardship; on the line of
march he is always with them, and often, from
his knowledge of how to deal with his men,
can, by a few happy words, close up the strag
gling ranks of a weary battalion and send the
men forward cheering loudly. In the bivouac
often, in person, he inspects the rations and
hears the applications ot the men for favors
or indulgences, and few apply in vain to their
Commander-in-Chief. He has both the con
fidence and love of his troops, who regard
him as a skillful leader and powerful friend.
The Crown Prince has, by three victories
in three successive days, established bis title
to being considered a General. In tbe sec
ond army he is looked upon with the same
affection and confidence as Prince Frederick
Charles 13 in the first. By the men of Silesia
he is particularly beloved, for be command
ed a regiment at Breslau, and became well
known then to the whole province. Careless
of trouble, overanxious for the welfare ofhis
troops, be visits, personally, billets and hos
pitals, and takes the most kindly interest in
every individual soldier. But in the hour of
need he does not spare his troops, for his af
fection for them springs from a sense of duty
and from no mere desire of popularity. Thci
march from Mileton to Koniggratz, and the
attack on the Austrian right in that battle
which crushed Marshal Bencdek’s army and
has, perhaps, shaken the Austrian dynasty,
say more for his energy in action than could
be written in any words.
With such leaders and so well led, with a
better arm than their enemies ; with every,
mechanical contrivance which modem science
can suggest, adapted to aid the operations of
the army, it is little wonder that the stout
hearted'and long-enduring Prussian soldiers
have proved victorious on every occasion on
which they have gone into action.
THE KINO OF PRUSSIA ON THE BATTLE-FIELD.
A letter from Hohenenauth, dated July 9,
contains the following portraiture of the
KiDg of Prussia in the field:
Roused at midnight and informed of the
probable intention of Benedek to attack tbo
First Army at Sadowa, the second being at
Keinginbof, and, as was supposed, too far
distant to come to its assistance, His Majesty
was engaged from that hour until 5 A. 51. in
sending off dispatches to the Crown Prince
and Gen. Herwarth Von Bittenfield, and in
holding council with the Chief of the Gener
al Staff. At 5 the King drove to Sadowa,
mounted his horse at 8, and remained unin
terruptedly on horseback until 8:30 in tbe
evening, without ceasing to bestow tbe most
eager attention upon tbe progress of the
fight. At 1 o'clock, when a slight pause
took place, and a short time before the
Crown Prince had reached the field, the
King asked his suite whether any of them
had anything to eat. A groom furnished a
little wine, one of the officers a bit of sausage,
and a soldier some bread, witb which His
Majesty seemed perfectly satisfied. Much
about this hour the King had a narrow es
cape of being captured by a squadron ot
Austrian cuirassiers. At tbe village of Pos-
nitz, on the left wing, was posted an infantry
brigade between the first and second divisions
of which His Majesty had taken up his posi
tion. Hard by an encounter took place be
tween Austrian and Prussian cavalry, passing
into a hand-to-hand fight alter the charge,
and out of tbe melee ultimately dashed a troop
of Austrian cuirassiers bearing down in the
confusion directly upon the spot occupied by
His Majesty. One of the aide-de-camps
rushed to bring up the cavalry of the escort,
but the Austrians, either disordered by tbe
grenades falling among them from their own
guns, or finding they liad got into the midst
of the Prussian infantry, turned back, swept
round the left wing of the first division, and
disappeared. The King had not moved from
the place, and in fact hardly thought the mat
ter worthy of a glance, his whole attention
being directed upon the progress of tbe bat
tle. At the beginning of the fight below tbe
hill the King had come under the fire of the
enemy’s grenades, attracted probably by his
numerous suite; but no one ventured to re
quest him not to expose himself so greatly ;
the suite, however, drew back as far as possi
ble in order to present a less conspicuous mark
for the enemy’s fire. Later, however, at Lis-
sa, where his majesty in person ordered the
advance of the enemy in pursuit, and again
came under heavy fire, Count Bismarck wa3
compelled to urge upon the King the necessi
ty of not exposing himself incautiously to tho
well-aimed fire of the Austrian guns.
ids? 1 '” The published report that negroe
have been kill napped on the coast of Florida
and sold to Cuba is denied at the Navy De
partment. In consequence of the reports the
Department directed Commodore Winslow,
commanding the Gulf Squadron, to make a
thorough investigation ot the matter, and he
reports that the statements are without the
slightest foundation.
The Mountain Signal is informed by
reliable citizens of Fannin county, that Jonas
Chastain. Thos. T. Carter and Abner Orion,
were shot by some unknown parties. Mr.
Chastain was shot on the 19th of this month
in the shoulder, inflicting a serious wound.—
Mr. Carter was shot in the arm and shoulder
on the 20th inst. Mr. Orion was shot through
his clothes, not inflicting any damages.
fWA European despatch over the Atlan
tic cable says: “It is quite probable that a
Congress of the great European powers will
be called to meet in Furis at October, to set
tle the preliminaries for a more perfect peace
in Europe.”
ST The Ja panese Government has issued
a circular, dated May 28, giving subjects per
mission to go beyond the sea.- for the purpose
of learning any art or science, or for purposes
of trade, when the application h properly
made.