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from the Savannah News.
The Review mf lh« S«*l« Tr»»p»l
The review of the State troops, now in
service near Savannah, by Governor
Brown, on Saturday, was one of the most
gratifying and impressive military specta
cles we have ever beheld in Georgia —im
posing by its numbers, and gratifyiug to
every Georgian because it was a demon
stration of the military power of our glo
rious old State. None could behold the
compact columns of these well drilled, well
disciplined ami well armed regiments and
not feel that Georgia has nothing to fear
from the enemy while she can furnish her
full quota of troops to the Confederacy and
at the same time keep such an army in
the field for the protection of her own
soil.
After the review, which took place on
South Broad street, and in which the Gov
ernor was accompanied by Adjutant and
Inspector General Wayne and staff, and
Major General Jackson and staff, tlie reg
iments were formed in solid mass in front
of the Poland House and Johnson Square,
where they were addressed by Iiis Excel
lency, the Governor, from the balcony ot
the hotel.
GOVERNOR BROWN'S ADDRESS TO THE
STATE TROOPS.
Officers and Soldiers :
I have paid an informal visit to the field
of your operations since I arrived in the
city, and hope to be able, before I
leave, to give your works a more thorough
inspection. 1 had heard that you had
done much, but I was not prepared for all
I have seen ; indeed, candor compels me
to say that my heart has swelled with
emotions of pride and gratitude, while I
have been engaged in the examination of
the fortifications erected by your labor,
and while I have witnessed your profici
ency in all that constitutes .the soldier.
31 any intelligent and patriotic citizens of
Georgia doubted the propriety of such a
State organization os that to which you
belong, and severely criticised my action
for calling into the field the State troops.
A large portion of our legislators were so
unfavorably impressed with the idea of
maintaining a separate army, that tliej
were willing to be rid of it upon almost
any terms. Satisfied that the interest and
the safety of the State required that the
organization be kept in the field, I stood
by it, with an unalterable determination,
maintain it against every assault. Re
sults haVe, I trust, convinced all, of the
propriety of my course, while your own
acts have sufficiently vindicated your own
character as soldiers. For five months the
enemy with a heavy force have lain with
in a few miles of the city of Savannah, and
their ambition and avarice have alike
burned for entrance. Why have they not
entered the city ? Was it because they
feared the gallant and heroic bands of
Confederate troops with their batteries,
which lay between them and the city, who
would doubtless have fought with terrible
desperation upon the soil of tbeir own
State, but whose number was inadequate
to so great a task? No; it was not this
alone, but it was their fear to encounter the
compact columns of State troops who have
stood around the city like bulwarks of
stout hearts and strong arms, invincible
before you bad completed your fortifica
tions, but now almost invulnerable. You
stand here to-day and invite a land attack,
without stopping to inquire the weight of
the attacking column or the nature of its
equipments. Y’ou have borne the hard
ships, fatigues and privations of camp life
like soldiers and like men. But you have
a rich reward in your own knowledge of
the fact, that your presence here has inspi
red the in- aders with awe, and saved Sa
vannah from falling as Nashville did, an
easy prey to the enemy. In the name of
the people of Georgia, I sincerely thank
you!
While you have nobly performed the
woik assigned you, I beg you to remember
that the whole is not yet accomplished.—
True, your term of service is tear its ex
piration, and you sigh to meet the loved
ones you left at home, but you must not
forget that thq enemy is not yet conquer
ed, and the city is not yet safe without
vour presence ; and that so long as the en
emy’s flag waves over the soil of your
State, you have no homes which you can
call your own, and no loved ones whom
you can secure- If you turn your backs
upon the enemy, be will march over the
entrenchments which you have made, and
occupy Savannah, which is the key to
your State, ami will give him command
of other important inland points. Will
you permit this ? 1 think, I know, you
never will.
The enemy having overrun very impor
tant portions of the Confederacy, and hav
ing in the field an army of tremendous
strength, whose watchword is subjugation
and conjiscation, your country calls on ev
ery patriot to lift high his hand, and swear
that he will never lay down his arms till,
by death or victory, he shall have been
delivered from the enslaving power of the
invader. You have showed yourselves
able and willing to bear arms. You have
passed through the usual camp diseases,
and are in a fine state of drill and discip
line. Consequently, one of you is able to
do almost as much service as two new re
cruits, who are yet to be trained and in
ured to camp life 1 therefore invite you
to show' your patriotism and you devotion
to the cause by re eiilisting in the service of
the State, for an additional term of tw o
years and six months unless sooyer dis
charged. a trust the war may not last
that long, and if it docs, that the Confed
eracy may, at a future day', be able to
put in the field a sufficient force for our
defence. Rut your re-enlistment should
be for a term which will enable the State
to rely upon you, while she needs your ser
vice.
This places you beyond the reach of a
draft for Confederate service, and makes
you the nucleus of an army of Georgians
upon whom the State may depend in any
emergency. Should you disband and re
turn to you homes, you will be subject to
draft for Confederate service during the
war, upon the very next requisition, which
may be in a very short time. Or, if the
late recommendation of the President
should be carried out by Congress, those of
you who are over eighteeu and under thir
ty five will be the subjects of conscription,
after the French system, and will be forced
into the field without the right to elect of
ficers, or to demand that you be even con
sulted.
I may here state that I anticipate no
difficulty in filling up the ranks, of the
State array, hut in accepting men for State
service, I feel it my duty to give each and
every one of you the preference, as you
were the first to 6tep forward and volun
teer to serve the State, when she called
for troops for her defence. As you and 1
have passed through some tribulation to
gether, I now propose that we continue
to stand together, by our common coun
try, and especially by our beloved Geor
gia.
As I am not able to extend ray voice
so that all may bear my remarks. I pro
pose that the substance of them be read at
a convenient time at the head of each reg-
iment wnicli cannot hear, and that everv
man in the regiment who is willing to re
enlist in the service of the State, be then
requested to step three paces to the front,
and that the names of all who volunteer
be immediately taken down, after which a
re-organization of the companies, battal
ions and regiments will be had if desired,
ana a re-election of officers as directed by
Uw. (This will give a chance to reward
met it at the ballot box after the aspirant
lias passed the test of several month’s ser
vice in presence of those whom he aspires
to command. No one should object when
his claims to promotion are measured by
his own acts. When the organizations
ire thus completed, the new commissions
will probably' be withheld till the end of
your present term of service* In that
event you will, in the meantime, serve un
der your present officers, till the expira
tion of your present term.
Should any- whole regiment, battalion
or company volunteer, and express such
desire, it will be accepted as a w hole with
out ic organization, and a abort time
will be given to increase its numbers by re
cruit*.
I shall allow one week to each company,
battalion or regiment to decide the ques
tion of re-enlistment before I accept other
troops to fill any of your places.
Each volunteer, who desires it, will re
ceive a furlough of 20 to 30 days, with
transportation, so far as he travels by rail
road, going to and returning from his home.
The furloughs to be so arranged that no
more than one regiment will be absent at
the same time, without the special permis
sion oftbe Commander-in-Chief.
I shall retain the guns now in your hands
and in the possession of the State, and
such as she may import for the use of the
State Troops, and hope to be able to give
better arms to those who have been arm
ed with inferior weapons. I have import
ed 3,400 Enfield Rifles, which have been
taken possession of by Confederate officers,
it is said, by mistake, which the Secretary
of War has promised to replace with others
as good.
It is a source of much regret that the
Legislature of the State did not authorize
me to offer you a bounty to remain in her
service. My* opinion is, however, that the
next Legislature will remedy the delect.
Should the State service be discontinued
before the end of the war, and should you
then enter the Confederate service, the
time which you have served the State will
be. deducted from the three years for which
Confederate troops enter, and you will
then be entitled to the bounty, if you have
not, i-a the meantime, received it from the
State. Should the next Legislature au
thorize the employment of the State troops
tor the war, there can be no doubt they
will direct that the bounty bo paid. So
that, in any event, you are in no dangei
of losing it if you continue in service.
I am satisfied that the enemy will not
retain a heavy force on our coast during
the hottest months of summer, and 1 think
it highly probable that an attempted inva
sion of the upper part of our State, may
call loudly for your services in that direc
tion. Besides, I am of opinion that, it
would be injustice to those of you who are
accustomed to the climate of Middle and
Upper Georgia, to-keep you on the coast
during the hottest part of summer, unless
the necessity is most imperative. I shall
do all in my power consistent with the ne
cessities of the public service, to protect
you against unreasonable detention in a
sickly summer climate. I may also add
that i hope to be able to make provision to
furnish you plentiful supplies-of whole
some food. It is said the supply of pro
visions may be insufficient to afford full ra
tions to all the troops in the service this
summer. W hen the State troops are put
upon short allowance, it shall be when I
have not the power to procure supplies.—
Every effort shall be made to secure plen
ty*. Active agents now have this matter
in special charge.
In this dark hour of peril, when the Con
federate Government has not the means to
defend all its parts—when its armies have
met with disaster, and when part of its
territory, includinga portion of the soil of
Georgia, has been overrun by* the inva
ders, our people naturally look with anx
iety to the State troops to assist in their
protection. Will you afford this protec
tion, or will you, because your six months’
term lias expired, at the moment when you
can be of most service, turn your backs
upon the enemy and return to you homes,
to enjoy inglorious retirement, when your
wives and children, your lives and your
liberties are all threatened with destruc
tion ? 1 think I know you will never lay
down your arms and leave the field while
the flag of the enemy floats over the soil
of Georgia, and not only insults her dig
nity’ and her sovereignty, but threatens
the subjugation, and even the extermina
tion of her neople.
While you have saved the city by y r our
presence and preparation, you have had
none of the glory with which you will be
covered when you have met and repulsed
the enemy in deadly conflict. If I address
a single Georgian who. after months of
service, is willing to retire without havingl
exchanged a single shot with the. enemy’, 1
specially* invite him to remain in the rear
when the volunteers step three paces to
the front, and let him beware, lest it be
said of him, in this time of danger—
The fearful man who tires and faints,
And acts the soldier’s part no more,
Submits to thraldom and restraint,
And leaves his offspring insecure.
Georgia troops have met the enemy on
the battle-field, and have won for her a
name as undying as history’s page, and
woe le to the Georgian who shall turn
back in the hour of trial, and permit her
proud banner to trail in the dust.
As y*oitr Commander-in-Chief, I call up
on you, in the name of the people of out-
glorious old State, to stand by her colors
and strike for your lives and your liber
ties, y’our wives and your children, your
hearth-stones and your altars!
At the conclusion of the Governor’s pa
triotic and forcible address, a loud call
was made from the ranks for Gen. Jack-
son, who responded in a brief but spiiit-
stirring speech, in which he alluded in
feeling terms to the important service ren
dered and the arduous labor which had
beoti performed within the few months past
by the troops under Ids command, in pla
cing the land defences of the city in a po
sition to give security’ to our people and
defy’the assaults of the enemy. As thc-ir
commander, lie was proud of them; as a
Georgian, he was grateful to them. Com
plimenting them for their soldier like dis
cipline and subordination, and for their
patriotic devotion to their country’s cause,
lie appealed to them to accept the invita
tion of the Governor, and preserve their
State organization.
General Jackson’s fervid and eloquent
appeal elicited a cordial response from
many of the troops, and from the spirit
which seemed to animate them, we arc en
couraged to»believe that only those who
may be prevented by circumstances of ex
treme necessity will relnso to re-enlist on
the expiration of their present term of ser
vice. We sincerely* hope that a majority
of the men will continue iu the service, as
after our past experiences we should regard
the disbanding of our forces, at a time
of such peril, and when the Confederate
government is relying upon their aid, a se
rious calamity.
Forward!
The hero of fhis war says the Wilming
ton Journal— the man who will win for him
self the highest fame and do the most essen
tial service to his country is that Confed
erate General, who will first assume the
offensive—take the first successful step
forward, first teach our armies to advance,
not to retreat—to regain what has been
lost, not await the attack upon what is
still left to us. The man and the move
ment will both soon appear. Yea, we j
trust that we may say*, the men and the
movements. It is, of vital importance
that this should be done this summer-yea,
within the next three months, lest Euro
pean intervention should overtake us with
an attempt to patch up a peace upon the
basis of each party retaining all the terri
tory occupied by it? armies at that partic
ular time. Such a thing is certainly a
mong the probabilities.
iCciilurkinn* at
Six months ago. you professed loyalty
to the South, and war to the knife, against
the North. You then boasted a long line
of noble Southern ancestry ; that the bones
of your fathers lay mingling with the soil
of every Southern State ; that you were,
bound by every tie of interest, affection
and consanguinity to the South ; that your
State, from its geographical position, be
longed to the South, and that with the
South she would go, if there were virtue
in your true hearts and stalwart arrqs.—
In short, that every honest instinct of nti-
manity prompted you to side with the
South in the controversy about to be sub
mitted to the arbitrament of the sword.—
At that time, when tho North threatened
to precipitate her armed legions like an
avalanche upon your fair fields and fertile
valleys, you were ready’ to meet them
upon the banks of the Ohio river with
the sword in one hand and the torch in the
other, to dispute every inch of their pas
sage. Y ou were ready to seize the proud
banner of the Commonwealth, covered all
over with gloiy, to elevate it, to plant it
upon the loftiest summit in your borders,
and gather around it tho noble hearts of
her gallant sons, to perish, if need be, in
its defence. Then the proud spirit of the
Commonwealth, in her purest and better
days spoke through your lips- Y ou armed
y’ourselves with shot-guns, Bowie-knives
and revolvers. The world was led to
believe that y ou were iu earnest, by your
loud professions and hostile preparations
for the conflict which all knew to be in
evitable. The enemy are in your bor
ders—syour brethren are in the field—and
where are. you wordy warriors, while the
keen weapons are clashing in sharp con
flict? No blast upon your bugle-born
encourages those who are laying down
their lives in your quarrel. Notwithstand
ing all the glorious recollections of the past
and your vaunted courage, you remain at
home, silent and inactive spectators of the
mightiest revolution that ever convulsed
the civilized world—a revolution in which
all that is dear to the freemen of the
South is involved in irreparable ruin, it
unsuccessful. Every* safe-guard of your
constitutional freedom lias been broken
down—your every civil right has been
swept away* by repeated infractions of
every clause of your Constitution. Your
freedom is trampled jn the dust beneath
the armed heel of the oppressor. Your
citizens are transported in manacles and
chains to Northern Penitentiaries, ar.d y*ou,
like dumb cattle, await in turn the same
| fate. Others are forced into the army to
j fight against us. Taxes are levied upon
! you to defray the expenses of this iniqtv-
1 tous war, waged against your brethren in
the South, and you pay them. Y’our gold
is weighed against our lives. Y’our prop
erty* is threatened with confiscation. Y’our
wives, your daug’nt ers and sisters, are
subjected to the insolence of an infuriated
Northern soldiery. Awed by the majesty
of military power, trembling for your lives
and property, you dare not be free.—
Great is your long suffering and forbear
ance. AVill yon submit forever, or strike
in some wild hour and tell the world what
brave men will dare?
In Eastern Kentucky', fifteen hundred
of your brethren have sworn to be free, or
nobly perish in the attempt. 'I heir solemn
oatli has acendedto heaven. Angels have
registered it there—cut off from the land
that bore them, almost betrayed by the
land they found. During the past winter,
this litle band of exiled patriots have endu
red more hardships, privations and expos
ures. than any* other army* in the same
period, in the service of the Confederate
States. They have scaled tho mountains,
forded rivers and creeks in the dead of
winter, at times scantily clad, often with
out shoes. Their pathway* through the
wilderness might have been traced by
their bloodstained tracks. They have
met the enemy successfully upon every
battle-field, and some of their brave com
rades have found upon those fields of
carnage, a bed of death and of glory.-—
This little army* has hovered around your
borders—and for what ? Not for this part
of Kentucky*—for it, from its geographical
position, and from the character of its pop
ulation, would have been controlled by
the destiny of the interior. It has been
that you might fly to them and escape
from your accursed thraldom. They have
invited you, and still invite you. All
things are ready. They will give you
arms and ammunition. Will you not
come?. Perhaps you arc deterred by*
their hard fate. Dark and gloomy as has
been their path in the mountains, no
matter how terrible have been the trials
which have gathered over them in the
darkest hour, their condition has been
preferable to yours. They tread their
mother earth with step as firm and free
as that of the bounding deer. They are
free. Y ou are not free. Y’our condition
is worse than that of the African slave.—
You have been free, and the sweets of li-
bery must still linger upon your lips.—
The negro was horn a slave, and does not
long for freedom. Burning shame will
stamp its seal upon your brow; and when
you travel abroad, you will blush to hear
the story of your dishonor, as it falls from
the lips of the sneering stranger. The
mark of Cain will be upon you. and men
will konw and shun you. Men of Ken
tucky*, was it for this that the blood of your
fathers flowed free as the waters of a
gushing fountain, until your soil was
baptized with the melancholy title of
“The Dark and Bloody* Ground?” Was
it for this, that the bones of Kentucky*’s
gallant sons lie bleaching upon every bat
tle field of the Republic, of which she was
once a proud member? Lover never
wooed bride as freedom now woos you.
yet you laugh her to scorn, bow down and
kiss the rod of your oppressor. Are you
degenerate sons of an illustrious ancestry ?
Does the blood of that ancestry no longer
How in your veins ? Is the rich, blood-
bought legacy* received from your fathers
to be transmitted untarnished and unim
paired to posterity, to be forfeited ? If
so, you will have an awful account to ren
der, and your names, once the synonym of
noble deeds of gallant daring, will be a by
word of scorn and reproach. I cannot be
lieve it. God forbid that the history of
my native State should be written in one
word, and that word Infamy f
Kentuckians, if you mean to be free, you
must fight. There is no alternative but
chains and slavery. Now by your fathers’
graves, now by your children’s cradles.be
men, or be forever slaves ! Burst your
bonds. Be free. Banish for a time the
endearments of home. No longer fold
your arms in silent and complacent apathy*.
Enter the ranks where fame, honor and
glory await you. Draw your blades upon
the side of constitutional liberty—upon the
side of the South. Then, when the con
flict is over, when the battle is fought and
the victory won, return to your homes.
Venerable age, trembling beneath the
weight of years, joyous youth, with spark
ling eyes, will alike bid you welcome—the
welkin will ring with welcome, thrice
welcome, to the returned volunteer !
A Kentuckian not at Home.
fWritten expressive for the South Confederacy, j j ter and ravage some of out* territory. The
The silver Grey«* j Empire State cannot hope for exemptiou.
Toe Duties of those who remain at home. \ Let ns look this danger in the face. W hat
. . , ,. ! then?—Why, we must do as our fathers
I he writer has passed his h t.eth year. * di|1 wben lho lki tish and tories were
Chrome disease has added to the deb.li.> ^ - st tllem . We must fight it
caused by lapse of years. He belong»,. s j. . out> Tliere is
i i i infuse into the public mind, the principle
bare the hardships , . - , , , ,
I j, 1 I that our cause is quite independent of lem-
try is repelling a wicked and causeless in- i.
vasiou. We cannot
of the camp; our sous are doin
because we cannot fight, are we therefore . j ^ ^ ^ d)te thcend V vl,ich is cor
to be useless! l y no means. Wc have ^ ^ acllievme iit of our inde-
or.r duties to perform, and they* aic essen
tial duties—essential to the army and the
State. Let us look at them* It is often
a great help to us to contemplate a sum
mary of even familiar duties. VY hat can
we do to help on the great work of our
country’s freedom?
What Farmers can do.
If we are farmers, tliere is much that
we can do. Enough has been said of the
incivism of making cotton, and the neces
sity of raising grain. In this connection
take a friend’s caution. YVe have a
rainy winter—we shall probably* bavo a
dry* summer: Therefore make your no-
groes put their ploughs deeper into the
ground than you have over done before.
Remember the statement or that sagacious
farmer in Middle Georgia, who saiil that
he always ‘•buried rain enough in March
to do him until June.” If we have good
seasons and our crops are well worked, we
shall probably make bread enough for our
use. Besides potatoes, we should plant
every acre of our corn land in peas. As
we shall have little or no cotton to pick our
negroes can pick peas. Of these our sol
diers arc very fond, and no food is more
heathful for them.
How to in a he Syrup and Hay.
It is probably that we shall^avo difficul
ty in getting a supply of molasses next
winter. It will be prudent then to plant
a good deal of the Chinese sugar cane for
| syrup, which is all that it is good for. Or-
1 dinariiy, it is better to buy the New Or-
! leans molasses—now we must take the next
I best thing that we can get.
We shall be in want of Hay i YVe have
few meadows. We must use the best sub-
j stitute, and that is corn, sowed 3 feet apart
I once worked, and then cut and cured. Our
! cavalry and artillery horses have suffered
! more from want of fodder than corn. It
! everv farmer would sow a few acres in
i corn, there would be no deficiency* in hay*
i or fodder. If Georgia becomes the scene of
war next winter, the soundness of this ad-
; vice will then be felt.
How to Raise Hogs.
YY'liat shall we do for meat? IIow can
| wc increase the quantity* of it? The pres
ent price of bacon is alarming. YVe shall
1 probably get neither beef nor pork from
! Tennessee. The slaughter of beef cattle
has been enormous. The stock of hogs
jin the.State is very small. The prospect
of a scarcity of meat for our army
should cause serious anxiety not only for
; this year, but for the future years of the
long a struggle that is before^us. Not a
i ewe lamb—not a lieifer calf should be kill-
j ed. YVe must increase our bread in stock
j of all kinds jn view of the future.
YVe can make up for deficiency in the
| number of bogs at present, by adopting
j the proper plan in legard to those we have,
jin January‘last, the writer killed hogs
! which weighed 350 pounds at one year old.
1 Pigs brought forth in April may* be made
! to become good bacon hogs in the follow
j ing January. Let them bo put into a
I small woods lot with running water in it,
! and fed fully with cooked meal until the
| harvest fields are open. YY’hen these are
1 exhausted, let them be brought back into
I their lot and be again fully fed until the
j pea field are open, and afterwards fed with
! corn to harden the meat. It is astonish
ing to see the quantity of bacon which a
few pigs thus treated will produce. In or
dinary times these suggestion would seem
insignificant to large planters or farmers.
But they* are certainly not insignficant
now. If we cannot fight ourselves, the
next best thing that we can do is to pro
vide hearty food for those who can. YVe
are not considering profit or loss. YY’e
want meat. Our army cannot be kept up
without it. The plan suggested is proba
bly the best method of supplying it. YY’hen
you next look over your stock hogs, neigh
hors, remember “>i!ver Grey’s!’ sugges
tions, and if you find any sharp-nosed,
slab—glided ones among them, begin to
fatten them that you may* help feed the
brave boys who are fighting for you. If the
farmers and planters will push their young
hogs as rapidly as prudence will allow,
we shall have meat enough. If they do
not, then God held the sufferings poor.
Not Merc Money making— The issue.
In short, so far the farm or plantation
is concerned, let it he our object to in
crease the amount “something to eat and
to wear.” As patriots we have nothing to
do with money making until this war
ends.
After a support of our families every
thing that we do, should have a reference
to the success of our aims. Apart from
patriotism, the interests involved are suffi
cient to render the advised course sound
economy. It would be better to sacrifice
even half of our estates than to lose the
whole of them, which loss will occur if our
pendence.
Hole to Deal with Extortioners.
YVe rnav also do good by giving a just
turn to public opinion in regard to exces
sive speculation or extortion. -1 liis extor
tion. This evil caitnot be reached by leg
islation, which only aggravates it. It can
he reached by public opinion. The man
who is new guilty of extortions is hot
gentleman, should not associate with nim.
Our newspapers condemn extortion—our
ministers preach against it—our rulers
makes laws against it y*et the extortioner
is received into our houses, is courteously
met in the street, and is, altogether treated
as we treat, those who are denying them
selves for their country. This is wron
Let the extortioner be received with grave
displeasure. Let him be avoided, and let
him see that he is avoided. Let him see
that his family must suffer for his rapacty.
Let him feel that his name will he branded
with public infamy. Upon this subject
our years entitle us to speak. Let
speak so plainly and continuously that
the extortioner will he placed upon the
same level with the burglar, and be avoid
ed by decent men.
Criticising Public affairs and Public Men.
YVe may be useful likewise, in establish
ing a sound opinion on as to public affairs
and public men. Querulous complaints
are unjustifiable, but not more so than
blind acquiescence, in public measures.
YVe have a future as well as a present.
YY’e arc shaping both the destiny* and the
character of a nation. The precedents
now established will be of great loree here
after. The principles and practices of
our public men should be closely scanned.
—They are our servants. YY’e should
know if they* are acting in accordance with
our wishes. Iiow can we know this it
their acts are concealed by the darkness of
secret session ?
Unhappily, there has been much of
which we cannot approve in the conduct
of our public officers. The offenses have
been rather those of omission than com
mission. YY’e knew the North was making
gigantic preparations. YY’e remained idle.
Qur reverses have been the consequence of
the idelness. YY’ho is to blame? YY’e
ought to know, and the offender should re
ceive our stern disapproval.
Look to tic Future.
YY’hen peace is declared, it does not fol
low that, internal peace is to be. the result.
Remember the condition of things after
the Revolutionary war. How much grea
ter will be the danger when this huge ar
my is disbanded ? YY’ill it quietly* disband ?
Will there not he found ambitious, shining
and popular leaders whose interest it will
be that it should not disband ? These and
similar apprehensions should cause us to
determine to know everything which is
done by* our public servants. Dangerous
precedents have already* been set. Sol
diers have assisted to make the laws by
which soldiers are to be governed. Even
now it is proposed to overlook tlie State
governments, to order out troops by* con
scription, without the intervention of the
State Executive. All these, and similar
acts should be closely* .scrutinized, and
when they are wrong they* should be con
demned. * YY’e have treated this whole
subject of Congressional action too gin
gerly. In our fear least the enemy should
suppose our country* to be divided, we
have given too broad an approval of all
public measures. An earnest, manly and
fearless scrutiny of public men, and meas
ures will be attended with much good. If
tliere be any who fear it, let them give
place to those who do not fear it. YY liile,
therefore, discourage capatious fault-find
ing. let us encourage the most watchful
vigilence over the conduct of officials, and
the honest expressions of disapprobation is
deserved.
The. Wickedness of our Soldiers.
In another particular we may* do good
service to our cause- YVe may* assist to
diminish the flagrant wickedness of our
soldiers. If this be not checked, in a few
years our country* will be thoroughly de
moralized, and be in a condition, as sad
as that of Revolutionary France. It has
been the lot of the writer to see something
of the soldiers of our countries. It pains
him to sav that lie has not seen in any
other an approximation to the wickedness
which is unblnshingly exhibited by large
bodies of our soldiers. Let any one trav
el in a railroad car with a body* of our
troops—let him hear their oaths, their ob
scenity; let him observe their indifference
o the presence of ladies, and as a Geor
gian lie will be pained beyond measure.
In no other country ^vould such things be
tolerated. Yet they aic borne in silence.
Is it asked what can be done ? YY’e can
render it a source of incessant compliment
to the officers of the army. YY’e can in-
enemies triumph. Our property will be s i st that a guard with proper powers be re-
confiscated. It is not a pleasant thought
to contemplate a self complacent Yankee
comfortably seated at the fireside around
which we have raised our children, and
with which the pleasant remembrances of
our live are connected.—Y et, sure as the
shining of the sun, this picture will become
real life, if our enemies are victorious
This alternative is not sufficiently consid
ered. Look at it steadily*. Understand
it fully. Consider what confiscation means.
Think of you wife and children driven
from their homes; houseless and homeless.
YVhere arc they to go to, with the deep
sea on the. South and the enemy on the
North, and on every hand/ lie who ful
ly comprehends tlio peiil of these nearest
and dearest to him, will be stimulated to
renewed exertion. The old men will be
come young again. ’The blood will flow
with unaccustomed vigor in his veins. The
infirm limbs will become strong again.
Exert good Influences at home.
Beyond those industrial pursuits, there
are social influences of a beneficial charac
ter which we may* 'exert. Unless we
have lost position by misconduct, our age
gives us a certain degree of influence in
the community in which wc live. YY’e
have much to do with the formation of pub
lic opinion, and opinion is not less potent
for good or evil in time our brave troops
sutler for food and clothing, of war, than
of peace. YY’e are in need of a sound pub
lic opinion now. YY’c are a people of ex
tremes. Under the lead of men who
ought to have known better, the South
was induced to believe that war would not
follow the disruption of the Federal Gov
ernment.—YVar did cotne, a few victories
created the opinion that wc were invinci
ble, even with the force then in the field.
Recent disasters have carried us to the
other extreme, and if these disasters
should be repeated, it is to be feared that
a state of despondency will follow. Let
it be-our part to show that there is and
can be, no real cause for despondency.
Federal successes have not yet been as
great as any reasonable man might have
expected from the Legining. The war is
coming nearer to us daily. They will en-
quested to travel in every passenger car
while our troops are so constantly in mo
tion. Every offender against public peace
and public decency should bejvrrested and
lodged in tlie nearest jail for trial. It is
sacrilege to speak of our cause being Heav
en-approved when its soldiers are guilty* of
such flagrant impiety. Gov. Brown has,
with proper firmness, done much for the
prevention of drunkenness, the evil we are
considering must be corrected by an indig
nant public sentiment.
Take Special care of the Children.
In still another form we may exert an
useful influence. By endeavoring, so far
as possible, to keep up the established
usage of a well ordered society, especially
in relation to children. Our boys are in
danger of forming habits of license and in
subordination which will soon place them
beyond control. They are already aping
the vices of the soldier. The institutions
of the Sabbath—the Sabbath School, the
sanctuary—should be diligently obsorved.
Unless certain evil tendencies are checked,
the next generation of inen will exhibit a
fearful declension from even our present
standard of morality*.
Men who ought to go into the Army.
Public sentiment has not yet viewed
with a sufficiently stern frown, the able
bodied men of some degree of intelligence
and fortune, who are taking no part in the
public defence. There are thousands of
such in the State. Our privates are mostly
very young jnen or poor men. The class
referred to will not serve without office.
It is true that the associations of a private
in some of our companies would be disa
greeable to men of education and refine
ment. But there are companies compo
sed almost wholly of educated and virtn-
ous men. These need recruits.—There
is, therefore, no apology for an able bod
ied man whose family can be left in toler
able comfort who does not enter the se r :
vice of his country in some form. Georgia
needs the service of every one of her sons.
Her language is, “He who but ^plters, it;
no sone of mine.” Such men—and there
are such men in every community—shoul (l (
be held up to contempt. It is the duty of
the aged to see that they receive their de
serts.
Closing Remarks.
Bat these remarks already exhibit the
garulity of age, and must be tflosed.
There are other ways in which the aged
ar.d infirm may be of public use, but they
cannot now be pointed ont. Let tlie ear
and the eye be open for opportunities of
advancing the welfare of otrr beloved coun
try. Then each one of us may help for-
w; ml th is glorious struggle, although he
may be a SILVER GREY-.
From ,the Atlanta Confederacy.
The-TI©»: During Ffal Yfl!
The Newspaper fraternity owe a heavy
debt of gratitude to that “gallant partisan
leader,” Captain John II. Ylorgan, of Ken
tucky. for furnishing them during the past
few months, such abundant material for
the most spicy paragraphs and interesting
articles, by his many dashing exploits
against the Y’ankees.—He is incessantly
on the move, appearing suddenly and un
expectedly at one point, and within tlie
next twenty-four hours quite as suddenly
and unexpectedly at some other place more
than a hundred miles distant. He is a
perfect terror to the Yankees and has in
spired tliern with greater fear than all the
army of Gen. Johnston besides. His last
•feat we are just apprised of by a gentle
man direct from Louisville, and is the
most daring and successful we . have yet
recorded.
On Sunday, the 16tli inst, Capt. Mor
gan, with forty of his men, suddenly ap
peared at Gallatin, Tenn., 28 miles the
other side of Nashville. After catching all
tho Union men in the place and confining
tliemin a guard house, Capt. Morgan dress
ed in a Federal uniform, prosceded to the
telegraph office at the Railroad Depot, a
short distance from the town. Entering the
office, the following conversation took
place between Capt. Morgan and the tele
graph operator, a blustering fellow :
Oapt. Morgan. — “Good day. sir / What
news have you ?”
Operator.--“Nothing, sir, except it is
reported that that d—d rebel, Oapt. John
-Morgan is this side of tlie Cumberland
with some of his cavalry. I wish I could
get a sight of the d—d rascal. I’d make a
hole through him larger than he would
find p’easant.”
YY’hile thus speaking, the operator drew
a fine navy revolver and flourished it as if
to satisfy his visitor how desperately would
use the instrument in case he should meet
with the famous rebel Captain.
“Do you know who I am!” quietly re
marked Captain Ylorgain, continuing the
convc'sation.
"I have not that pleasure,” remarked
the operator.
“Well, I am Capt. Ylorgan,” responded
that gentleman.
At these words the operators cheek’s
blanched, his knees shook, the revolver
dropped from his hands, and he sunk to the
floor. He literally “wilted.”
After the frightened individual had re
covered himseif sufficiently, Capt. Ylor
gan required him to telegraph some mes
sages to Louisville, among others, one to
Prentice ot the Journal, politely offering
to act as his escort on his proposed visit to
Nashville. Then taking the operator
with him as a prisoner, Capt. Ylorgan with
his men awaited the arrival of the train
from Bowling Green for Nashville.
In due time the train came thundering
in, Capt. Ylorgan at once seized, it, and
taking five Federal officers who were pas
sengers and the engineer of the train
prisoners he burned to cinders all of the
cars with their contents, and then filling
the locomotive with turpentine, shut down
all the valves and started it towards Nash
ville.
Before it had run eight hundred yards,
the accumulation of steam caused it to ex
plode, shivering it into a thousand atoms.
Captain Morgan then started Southward
with his prffioners and made his way
safely to the Confederate camp.
The Bridge over Barren River beyond
Bowling Green, has not yet been rebuilt,
and the Federals had only one locomotive
and one train of cars, with which to do all
their business between Bowling Green and
Nashville. The serious damage inflicted
upon tho Federals by this dashing exploit
may be appreciated from this fact.
An Interesting Incident.—YY’e have been
informed that an incident, of recent occur
rence, which affording a pleasing illustra
tion of the steadiness and nerve of our men
under the most embarrassing circumstan
ces. The day before the enemy opened fire
on Island No 10 1 of our men died. Thein-
nterment was ordered for the next day, and
his company was detailed to perform the
last melancholy duties towards their depart
ed comrade. While engaged in this duty the
enemy opened fire on the party, although,
by the usages of the war, they should,
at such a moment have been exempt from
attack. Nevertheless, the Federals threw
a number of shells among the burial par
ty, but without dispersing them or even
disturbing the consummation of the solemn
ceremony. Not a man moved, although
thirteen shells were thrown, many of
which burst in dangerous proximity to the
little party standing around the dead sol
dier’s grave. The ceremonies were brought
to a conclusion without unseemly haste,
and the company then returned to their
quarters, fortunately without having suf
fered from the enemy’s fire. This inci
dent, as we have remarked, reflects great
credit on the steadiness and courage of
our men,— N. O• Delta.
Prepare for a Dry Summer.—It is more
than probable that a very dry summer will
succeed the heavy rains and freshets of
the past winter. It is therefore most im
portant that every prudential measure
should be adopted in arranging fer the
crops, with a view to meet this more than
probable contingency. Planters should
select lands best adapted to drouth, and
plant at different times, so as not to risk
all upon the chances of one dry spell
Then let them, in preparing for their crops,
plow very deep ! and let tho after culture
consist of a constant and shallow stirring
of the surface—keeping the ground mellow
and open, and allowing no grass or weeds
those robbers of moisture—to get the least
foothold among the cultivated plants.
Thus, and thus only, so far as human
skill can avail, may the fatal effects of
drouth be prevented. The result must be
left to Him “who giveth to increase,” but
who has also ordained that only by labor
and skill properly directed, must be win
his food and raiment from the earth.—Sou.
Cultivator.
From the Southern Confederacy. .
“TENNESSEE TRAITORS.”
Much has been said and written of late
concerning the clandestine cotton specu
lation by traitorous East Tennesseeans.
That much of it is true, we have no sort of
doubt. This sort of game has been going on
for months, and there is at this time, more
cotton stored away in EaBt Tennessee
than has been during any one year for the
past twenty. Bat it is known, also, that
Tennesseeans are not alone in this nefa
rious business. A few traitorous Georgi
ans hav6 a finger in the pie; also, many of
them have cooperated with the East Ten
nessee speculators by selling them cotton
when they knew it was to be shipped to
certain points on the East Tennessee Sc
Virginia and the East Ten. Railroad, to
await the arrival, of Lincoln’s army when
it would be immediately transmitted to
r - authority, that Genti
ans have formed partnerships with Ten
nesseans, and have bought „ p and shipped
cott on to the line of East Tennessee roads
lor t he purpose of selling it to the Yankees,
should they succeed in getting iut „ t!)i
country. Now that the plot has been dis
covered, and further shipments on the
State-Road prohibited, a spasmodic effort
is being made to cast the odium wholly
upon Tennesseans. Let justice be done
to all; let the truth be known, and let not
the Georgia tories attempt to make a scape
goat of their brother tories of East Ten
nessee, when both are alike culpable. \
toryisatory.be it known, whether h 0
breathes the mountain atmosphere in East
Tennessee, or sniffs the balmy breeze of
the gallant Empire State. NEP03.
Bennett and Greeley.—Bennett of the
New York Herald, and Greely, of the Tri
bune, keep up a. vigorous fire upon each
other; but they are both such iron clad
reprobates that no damage is inflicted or
received. 1 he following we take from tlm
Herald: .
Poor Greeley Playing Jacobin.—Poor,
silly old Greeley cries out for a traitor
weeps salt tears fora traitor, howls like
a hyena for a traitor, shouts for all the uni
verse to bring him a traitor. What does
he want with a traitor ? Why, Greeley
wants to be blood-thirsty. He wants to
be a little Robespierre He wants to ban**
a traitor with his own hands. Let him
come down to our office, and we'll give
him a shilling to buy a rope—since tL e
Tribune is so poor—and then lie may hang
himself to the nearest lamp post, and thus
at once satisfy his desire to hang a
traitor, and greatly gratify the loyal pah-
lie.
Caught at f^asl.
The notorious David Fry, of this conn-
ty, the Lincoln marauder and chief bridge
burner, has at last been caught, and is
safely confined in a private cell in the
Knoxville jail. He and nineteen others
were taken on Monday of last week in Lee
county, Va., some twenty miles from
Cumberland Gap. They were trying to
make their escape to the Lincoln army in
Kentucky. They were escorted to Knox
ville. w here they are safely lodged in
jail to await their trial.
Iu capturing these marauders five of
their band were killed, two or three sup
posed to be fatally wounded, and twenty
maae their escape. Names not known of the
killed.
Fry is a mau of very ordinary intellect,
and always lias been looked upon as a
worthless, low down fellow. How it is
that he could lead off and do so much mis
chief, and escape so long, has been a mys
tery to every honest man. He is consid
erably gray, but lie has colored his whis
kers and hair black, and wore an old
slouched hat drawn over bis face in order
to deceive those who knew him.—Green-
rtlle, (Tenn.,) Banner, 2d.
Georgia made Looms.—A few days
since we saw in operation in the Athens
Factory some looms that were put up in
this place. YY’e were informed by the
Agent that they would operate equally as
well as tho Northern loom. There are
twelve of them already running, and thir
teen others will soon be put in operation.
They were put up by the Athens Steaifi
Company. This is another step towards
Southera independence-—Athens Banner.
BYT AUTHORITY.
ACTS AND KESOI.TTIONS
of the Fifth Session of the
PROVISIONAL CONGRESS
of the
CONFEDERATE STATES.
1861
[No. 372 ]
AN ACT to amend an Act supplimental to an Act
to establish the Judicial Courts of the Confed
erate States of America, approved May twen
ty-first. eighteen hundred anrd sixty-one.
Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate
j States of America do enact, That the first section
of the above, entitled Act be, and the same
: is hereby repealed; and to the end that the causes
j mentioned in said first section of the Act to
j which this Act is an amendment may be brought
j to trial without unnecessary expense and delay, it
! shall he lawful for the judges of the several Dis-
| trict Courts to interchange with each other tern-
i porarily, and the judge whose interest in or connec-
’ tion with the causes aforesaid pending in the Dis
trict Court in which he presides, renders him in
competent to try such causes, shall request such
interchange with thejudge of an adjoining dis
trict, and thejudge so requested shall, withoutde-
lay enter upon such interchange; and the acts and
decisions of judges so presiding by interchange
with each other shall be as vallid as if done and
performed in the districts for which they were
severally appointed.
Sec. 2. The judges so presiding by interchange
as aforesaid, shall cause it to be entered in the
records of the Courts in which they so preside-d
that such interchange has been made according to
this Act.
Approved Jan. 29, 1862.
[No. 373. |
AN ACT to amend an act entitled “an Aei to prtV
vide for the public defence.” approved March
sixth eighteen hundred and sixty-ons.
Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate
States of America do enact. That the Act entitled
“An Act to provide for the public defence,” ap
proved sixth March, eighteen hundred and sixty-
one be and he is hereby so amended that tlie pro
visions of the iii i niiit*'if rTiiin of said Act, liatiting
the term fof<fliich the militia may be called into
service to e period riot exceeding six months,
shall not apply to men drafted into service by the
several States, and famished by said States to the
President for service for three years or during tho
war iu response to requisitions made upon sai'-
States according to law.
Approved, Jan'y 29, 1862.
[No. 378.]
AN ACT supplemental to an Act entitled “an Art
providing for the granting of bounty and fur
loughs to privates and non-commissioued offi
cers in the provisional army.”
Tho congress of the Confederate States of Ameri
ca do enact. That the provisions of the above en
titled act, so far as the same are applicable to re
enlistment oftvvelve months volunteers, be. and
the same is hereby exteudedto troops, now in the*
service of any State for a term not less than ihrt-e
months, who may ro-enlist in the service of to
Confederate States, according to provisions of said
act, for a term which added to their present term
of service may amount to three yeais.
Approved February 3, 1862.
[No. 382.]
AN ACT supplementary to an Act entitled “an
Act to amend an Act entitled “an Act to raise
additional forc9 to serve during the war »
for other purposes, approved May eighth, ebf
teen hundred-and sixty-one.”
Section 1. The Congress of the ConfeuM*
States of America do enact, lhat the
section of the above recited Act, requiring
election of field and company officers by regime
and companies, shall net apply £
battalions and regiments raised under tb «
section of said Act; but the officers »Pl»" l g ol J
the President to raise such companies, t
and ssaiaaettts shall be the officers of
and the commissions of such officers, gra
the president, shall when their respective
mauds are fully organised, be absolute.
Approved Feb. 3, 1862.
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